It's too bad, but people get attacked all the time. However, when a leader gets attacked then we need to shut down the Internet. Pretty arrogant and self-centered. I'm glad the Internet is pretty free, but it's only a matter of time until politicians invent an excuse to control it. I'm sure it will be for the children, or to stop some possible terrorist scenario. Then it'll creep out from there.
I second SplashID. I like how there are clients for PC, Mac, iPhone, and Palm OS. That keeps our family covered. KeePass is cool and I use it up at work, but not when I'm syncing apps with multiple devices.
Exactly. The State of California had their own stem cell research going on during the federal funding ban.
It would be nice if I had a line item veto on my IRS 1040. That way I could go in and veto items that I found morally objectionable. It would nice if I didn't have to fund elements of a government that go against my beliefs. Oh well... they've got the guns.
I have a Season Pass on my DirecTiVo and for some reason it did not automatically start recording American Gladiators like it was supposed to. Luckily, I was watching TV at the time and saw that it was not recording and pressed the record button. Then TiVo started recording, but I missed the first few minutes of the show.
I looked through the history to see why my Season Pass didn't fire and there was no info. It just didn't automatically record. Maybe this had something to do with it? Anyone else have issues with their TiVo for DirecTV?
Okay, so the advertisers are tracking you using a non-personally identifiable cookie. What about the government? They are wiretapping your home phone and your wireless phone without adequate 4th amendment protections. To top it all off Congress is trying to give immunity to those who violated your Constitutional Fourth Amendment rights.
People are pissed off because Amazon knows you want a roll of toilet paper, but don't care when the government might be spying on you? Get a clue and get your priorities straight.
Oh, I do give a shit about a few thousand soldiers killed, and the thirty thousand plus wounded, and the families of those soldiers. Those soldiers were sent over to do their duty. It is absolutely 100% our responsibility as citizens to make sure that our government sends soldiers out in a responsible manner. We do that through the election of our representatives in the House, the Senate, and the President of the United States.
Those soldiers are our friends, our fathers, our sisters and our children. It is of the utmost importance that we respect their lives and the lives of the country that they invade when sending them into battle. War should not be a knee-jerk reaction, but a last resort. Feel free to read up on the Just War Doctrine. That is my doctrine. That is Ron Paul's doctrine. I do not support the Bush Doctrine or any other doctrine of pre-emption.
I see what you're saying. However, with the Catholic Church and I would suspect most if not all Christian Churches life begins the moment the sperm passes through the egg and the DNA changes.
Anything that harms that new cell is determined to be interfering with a new person, a new life. Be it stem cell research on embryos or in-vitro fertilization. So it's not that the church is against science, but for life even in its most vulnerable and faceless moments.
Think of a snowflake. Each one is unique. Each one will never be created again. Like a snowflake a new embryo with it's current combinations of DNA will never be created again in a natural manner. So that is respected and put above any gains that might come with experimenting on humans even in their embryonic state.
Even when science determines how to create life from whatever building blocks are chosen those building blocks didn't come out of thin air. So I think their is plenty of domain left for the church to hang on to, and I don't think they are trying to put up a "firewall" on science. At least not in this case:)
Here is some knee jerk reactionism for ya. Our country was attacked by a terrorist group on September 11, 2001. We use this as a reason to pre-emptively invade Iraq who had nothing to do with 9/11. Who had no weapons of mass destruction, and posed no imminent threat to the United States. Iraq cannot invade us. Iraq's Air Force could not run missions on our land. So you might say... yeah, but hindsight is 20/20. True, but those are the dangers of pre-emption.
We performed a pre-emptive strike on a foreign land without the backing of an international coalition and without just cause. We have thrown tens of millions of lives into chaos because of it. All because of what I would call a knee jerk reaction to 9/11. Now we are feeling the financial pain of an irresponsible guns and butter plan. We are feeling the political effects of jumping in like cowboys with guns a blazin' into Iraq. Our borders are less safe, our military is run down, and our irresponsible foreign policy has created more terrorists than Al Qaeda ever will.
If you post which part of Dr. Paul's platform you disagree with I may be able to tell ya where he is coming from. Unlike other politicians my answer will not involve an opinion poll, but will most likely involve history and the Constitution.
For real. I have nothing to say about the other candidates. There is only one true conservative running in the race. The conservative who was one of four congressman who backed Ronald Reagan himself when he was running for President. And we're not supposed to discuss him? I don't think so taco. I'll discuss Ron Paul and his ideas all I want on this thread.
1. Call your Senator to let them know your opinion. 2. Find out how your Senator voted. (http://govtrack.us is an *excellent* resource with custom RSS feeds and everything) 3. When re-election comes around weigh in how your Senator voted with your opinion at re-election time. 4. Vote them out if they don't measure up.
If we don't tell our reps our opinions then they cannot be blamed for not listening to them. Pretty simple. That is why we vote and why we participate in our Democracy.
Oh, if you want to take it one step further, support the causes and candidates that are most important to you with time and money. You don't have to give alot of time or alot of money. Just give something to help your cause. Every little bit counts. That is why I give to the EFF and to Ron Paul.
"Why shouldn't you be allowed to vote? Because youve proven to society that you make bad descisions."
I believe all Americans should be allowed to vote at all times. No taxation without representation. The major reason I'm against not allowing felons to vote is because the government could simply make more crimes felonies, and thus remove more people from the voting process. Don't like it? Too bad you can't vote. In addition, by taking people out of the process you create a second society that does not feel like it is a part of the process and I believe this is destructive.
What about the black guy who got the book thrown at him and has a felony on his record vs the white guy who was caught with the same amount of cocaine and received a much lighter sentence? Check out this statistic, "1.4 million African American men, or 13 percent of the black adult male population, are disenfranchised, reflecting a rate of disenfranchisement that is seven times the national average. More than one-third (36 percent) of the total disenfranchised population are black men."Human Rights Watch. Do you think this 13% is going to try and make their neighborhood a better neighborhood. Do you think they care about their community? Why would they? They don't have a political voice. They don't have a voice in their home town. They are disenfranchised. We don't need that kind of America. We need an America that comes together and recognizes that when you are out of prison you have paid your debt to society.
In addition, I know *plenty* of people who vote who make poor decisions, or that make their decision on their candidate based on poor criteria. What about those who voted for JFK because he was handsome? Or Bill Clinton because he wore boxers and could play the sax? What about the people that do zero research and vote straight Republican or straight Democrat every election because they are programmed to do so? Because their husband / wife told them to? Because they "don't have the time to do a few hours of research", but do have the time to know everything about Britney Spears. Do have the time to keep up with untold amounts of hours watching sports on all days of the week in HD. How does this contribute to a better democracy?
Democracies are founded on giving their people the right to vote. It is our responsibility as citizens to take that right very seriously and to use that right to make our country the best that it can be. That right should never ever be taken away.
Thanks for the numbers. Let's put that in terms of how much we spend in Iraq. According to the Congressional Budget Office, often called the nation's top accountant, we're spending about $9 billion a month (pre "surge" numbers). To date we have put in $533 billion dollars into Iraq. I know some damn big numbers. My eye balls are popping out of my head right now.
So... let's say the Space Shuttle and the ISS has cost us $50 billion dollars over the last 20-years. Shit let's say it's $100 billion dollars. Now do that Austin Powers thing with your pinkie. I know you want to do it. So how many months in Iraq is that?.... 11... haha! Eleven months in Iraq equals 20-years of manned space flight spanning four U.S. Presidencies and creating a mother fscking space station that orbits around the planet Earth from scratch. Whoa! That is a helluva comparison.
Hey Guys, I'm really sorry about the incorrect link. I was talking to some friends about an upcoming camping trip and pasted the wrong link above. I should have used the preview button.. bah! In the interest of full disclosure, I am in no way affiliated with the people in my original link.
Don't forget the inflation tax. Everyone pays that one, but the poor get screwed by it the most. Your home, your car, your savings, your retirement... it all gets eaten away by the Fed and their inflation. The poor get screwed the most because most of the time their wages don't keep up with inflation, and that keeps them poor.
Now I see what you mean by Randian. At first I was a bit taken back by some of the ideas put forth by Ron Paul. However, after looking into them a bit further I like what I see. For example, Ron Paul does not like how the Federal Reserve (a group of unelected bankers) can control our entire economy. This seems reasonable and is backed by the philosophy of Nobel Prize winning Economist Milton Friedman. Here is a quote from the article:
"Friedman was the leading proponent of the monetarist school of economic thought. He maintained that there is a close and stable link between inflation and the money supply, mainly that the phenomenon of inflation is to be regulated by controlling the amount of money poured into the national economy by the Federal Reserve Bank; he rejected the use of fiscal policy as a tool of demand management; and he held that the government's role in the guidance of the economy should be severely restricted."
There are many other points why I like Ron Paul such as his non-interventionist foreign policy position. I'm a little tired of the US being the police force of the world, and then not paying for things we need in our country like roads, bridges (cough), and education. I'm a little tired of us invading countries at the whim of a President. Isn't congress supposed to declare war? What happened there?
My main issue with all other politicians is that I think our country seriously needs to get back to the Constitution and I don't feel like anyone else cares about it. With passage of the Patriot Act, domestic surveillance on Americans, and political corruption through lobbying groups I've just had enough. I hope Ron Paul wins and I hope he cleans house.
Okay, I'm a grown up. I'm 30 now. I like Ron Paul and I have voted in every presidential election since I was 18. So how about you mention why you don't like Ron Paul? Yes I know, my sig... I do want to know your reasons though.
It's a well known fact that graphics drivers are not running all that well under Vista these days. Microsoft changed the driver model and so it's taking a little while for everyone learn the model. Check out the article on Tom's Hardware.
Windows Vista is Windows 2003 with a new GUI... Windows 2003 is Windows XP with a new GUI... Windows XP is Windows 200 with a new GUI... Windows 2000 is Windows NT4 with a new GUI... Windows NT4 is just Windows 95 GUI + Windows NT 3.51...
Uhh.. come up with a new story and read other technical sites besides Slashdot. Windows Vista has a helluva lot of new features in the OS besides the GUI. Some examples that come to mind.
Prioritization of I/O not just CPU usage in tasks.
Love it or hate it the UAC.
ReadyBoost
Memory for certain processes is randomized to prevent direct access by malware.
There are many more, but thats just off the top of my head. I guess you could argue that a couple of my bullet points fall under security model, but hey at least I went into more detail. Now go off and use Google to find something interesting to post.
True, but I can think of alot better ways to continue my education than to spend $2,500 on a license for Mathematica. For that price, I could go to community college for a semester.
I switched to TaxCut for the same reason and haven't looked back. I filed on Monday the 16th around 8 PM and no problems. Next year I'll do it earlier...
Like the illusion that law enforcement could have helped keep you safe in New Orleans when Katrina hit. Like the illusion that the government is the solution to all of your problems. Like the illusion that someone else will protect you every time when the shit hits the fan. If I had the choice to have a gun in a truly violent situation I would like to have that choice rather than sit around waiting to get shot. Maybe I would have the wherewithal, maybe I wouldn't (unlikely), but at least I would have the choice to defend my life.
Granted, guns aren't the only solution to protecting yourself, but they are a good part of it. Another good solution to have is pepper spray. Much less lethal, easier to use, and pretty damn effective.
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It's too bad, but people get attacked all the time. However, when a leader gets attacked then we need to shut down the Internet. Pretty arrogant and self-centered. I'm glad the Internet is pretty free, but it's only a matter of time until politicians invent an excuse to control it. I'm sure it will be for the children, or to stop some possible terrorist scenario. Then it'll creep out from there.
JOhn
I second SplashID. I like how there are clients for PC, Mac, iPhone, and Palm OS. That keeps our family covered. KeePass is cool and I use it up at work, but not when I'm syncing apps with multiple devices.
JOhn
Exactly. The State of California had their own stem cell research going on during the federal funding ban.
It would be nice if I had a line item veto on my IRS 1040. That way I could go in and veto items that I found morally objectionable. It would nice if I didn't have to fund elements of a government that go against my beliefs. Oh well... they've got the guns.
JOhn
Sounds like you need the "1 at-a-time plan" where you can rent up to two DVDs a month... for $5...
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I have a Season Pass on my DirecTiVo and for some reason it did not automatically start recording American Gladiators like it was supposed to. Luckily, I was watching TV at the time and saw that it was not recording and pressed the record button. Then TiVo started recording, but I missed the first few minutes of the show.
I looked through the history to see why my Season Pass didn't fire and there was no info. It just didn't automatically record. Maybe this had something to do with it? Anyone else have issues with their TiVo for DirecTV?
JOhn
Okay, so the advertisers are tracking you using a non-personally identifiable cookie. What about the government? They are wiretapping your home phone and your wireless phone without adequate 4th amendment protections. To top it all off Congress is trying to give immunity to those who violated your Constitutional Fourth Amendment rights.
People are pissed off because Amazon knows you want a roll of toilet paper, but don't care when the government might be spying on you? Get a clue and get your priorities straight.
http://www.stopthespying.org/
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/myth-facts-about-retroactive-immunity-and-attorneys
http://del.icio.us/milican/domestic+surveillance
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Oh, I do give a shit about a few thousand soldiers killed, and the thirty thousand plus wounded, and the families of those soldiers. Those soldiers were sent over to do their duty. It is absolutely 100% our responsibility as citizens to make sure that our government sends soldiers out in a responsible manner. We do that through the election of our representatives in the House, the Senate, and the President of the United States.
Those soldiers are our friends, our fathers, our sisters and our children. It is of the utmost importance that we respect their lives and the lives of the country that they invade when sending them into battle. War should not be a knee-jerk reaction, but a last resort. Feel free to read up on the Just War Doctrine. That is my doctrine. That is Ron Paul's doctrine. I do not support the Bush Doctrine or any other doctrine of pre-emption.
JOhn
I see what you're saying. However, with the Catholic Church and I would suspect most if not all Christian Churches life begins the moment the sperm passes through the egg and the DNA changes.
:)
Anything that harms that new cell is determined to be interfering with a new person, a new life. Be it stem cell research on embryos or in-vitro fertilization. So it's not that the church is against science, but for life even in its most vulnerable and faceless moments.
Think of a snowflake. Each one is unique. Each one will never be created again. Like a snowflake a new embryo with it's current combinations of DNA will never be created again in a natural manner. So that is respected and put above any gains that might come with experimenting on humans even in their embryonic state.
Even when science determines how to create life from whatever building blocks are chosen those building blocks didn't come out of thin air. So I think their is plenty of domain left for the church to hang on to, and I don't think they are trying to put up a "firewall" on science. At least not in this case
JOhn
Here is some knee jerk reactionism for ya. Our country was attacked by a terrorist group on September 11, 2001. We use this as a reason to pre-emptively invade Iraq who had nothing to do with 9/11. Who had no weapons of mass destruction, and posed no imminent threat to the United States. Iraq cannot invade us. Iraq's Air Force could not run missions on our land. So you might say... yeah, but hindsight is 20/20. True, but those are the dangers of pre-emption.
We performed a pre-emptive strike on a foreign land without the backing of an international coalition and without just cause. We have thrown tens of millions of lives into chaos because of it. All because of what I would call a knee jerk reaction to 9/11. Now we are feeling the financial pain of an irresponsible guns and butter plan. We are feeling the political effects of jumping in like cowboys with guns a blazin' into Iraq. Our borders are less safe, our military is run down, and our irresponsible foreign policy has created more terrorists than Al Qaeda ever will.
If you post which part of Dr. Paul's platform you disagree with I may be able to tell ya where he is coming from. Unlike other politicians my answer will not involve an opinion poll, but will most likely involve history and the Constitution.
JOhn
For real. I have nothing to say about the other candidates. There is only one true conservative running in the race. The conservative who was one of four congressman who backed Ronald Reagan himself when he was running for President. And we're not supposed to discuss him? I don't think so taco. I'll discuss Ron Paul and his ideas all I want on this thread.
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The issue is not the baby, but the method.
JOhn
Here are the steps:
1. Call your Senator to let them know your opinion.
2. Find out how your Senator voted. (http://govtrack.us is an *excellent* resource with custom RSS feeds and everything)
3. When re-election comes around weigh in how your Senator voted with your opinion at re-election time.
4. Vote them out if they don't measure up.
If we don't tell our reps our opinions then they cannot be blamed for not listening to them. Pretty simple. That is why we vote and why we participate in our Democracy.
Oh, if you want to take it one step further, support the causes and candidates that are most important to you with time and money. You don't have to give alot of time or alot of money. Just give something to help your cause. Every little bit counts. That is why I give to the EFF and to Ron Paul.
JOhn
"Why shouldn't you be allowed to vote? Because youve proven to society that you make bad descisions."
I believe all Americans should be allowed to vote at all times. No taxation without representation. The major reason I'm against not allowing felons to vote is because the government could simply make more crimes felonies, and thus remove more people from the voting process. Don't like it? Too bad you can't vote. In addition, by taking people out of the process you create a second society that does not feel like it is a part of the process and I believe this is destructive.
What about the black guy who got the book thrown at him and has a felony on his record vs the white guy who was caught with the same amount of cocaine and received a much lighter sentence? Check out this statistic, "1.4 million African American men, or 13 percent of the black adult male population, are disenfranchised, reflecting a rate of disenfranchisement that is seven times the national average. More than one-third (36 percent) of the total disenfranchised population are black men." Human Rights Watch. Do you think this 13% is going to try and make their neighborhood a better neighborhood. Do you think they care about their community? Why would they? They don't have a political voice. They don't have a voice in their home town. They are disenfranchised. We don't need that kind of America. We need an America that comes together and recognizes that when you are out of prison you have paid your debt to society.
In addition, I know *plenty* of people who vote who make poor decisions, or that make their decision on their candidate based on poor criteria. What about those who voted for JFK because he was handsome? Or Bill Clinton because he wore boxers and could play the sax? What about the people that do zero research and vote straight Republican or straight Democrat every election because they are programmed to do so? Because their husband / wife told them to? Because they "don't have the time to do a few hours of research", but do have the time to know everything about Britney Spears. Do have the time to keep up with untold amounts of hours watching sports on all days of the week in HD. How does this contribute to a better democracy?
Democracies are founded on giving their people the right to vote. It is our responsibility as citizens to take that right very seriously and to use that right to make our country the best that it can be. That right should never ever be taken away.
JOhn
Thanks for the numbers. Let's put that in terms of how much we spend in Iraq. According to the Congressional Budget Office, often called the nation's top accountant, we're spending about $9 billion a month (pre "surge" numbers). To date we have put in $533 billion dollars into Iraq. I know some damn big numbers. My eye balls are popping out of my head right now.
So... let's say the Space Shuttle and the ISS has cost us $50 billion dollars over the last 20-years. Shit let's say it's $100 billion dollars. Now do that Austin Powers thing with your pinkie. I know you want to do it. So how many months in Iraq is that?.... 11... haha! Eleven months in Iraq equals 20-years of manned space flight spanning four U.S. Presidencies and creating a mother fscking space station that orbits around the planet Earth from scratch. Whoa! That is a helluva comparison.
JOhn
Anyway here are some inflation tax related links:
An excellent by the numbers view of how inflation has affected the dollar since the birth of the United States of America.
In this article Dr. Ron Paul talks about how inflation hurts the middle class and the poor.
Don't forget the inflation tax. Everyone pays that one, but the poor get screwed by it the most. Your home, your car, your savings, your retirement... it all gets eaten away by the Fed and their inflation. The poor get screwed the most because most of the time their wages don't keep up with inflation, and that keeps them poor.
JOhn
Now I see what you mean by Randian. At first I was a bit taken back by some of the ideas put forth by Ron Paul. However, after looking into them a bit further I like what I see. For example, Ron Paul does not like how the Federal Reserve (a group of unelected bankers) can control our entire economy. This seems reasonable and is backed by the philosophy of Nobel Prize winning Economist Milton Friedman. Here is a quote from the article:
"Friedman was the leading proponent of the monetarist school of economic thought. He maintained that there is a close and stable link between inflation and the money supply, mainly that the phenomenon of inflation is to be regulated by controlling the amount of money poured into the national economy by the Federal Reserve Bank; he rejected the use of fiscal policy as a tool of demand management; and he held that the government's role in the guidance of the economy should be severely restricted."
There are many other points why I like Ron Paul such as his non-interventionist foreign policy position. I'm a little tired of the US being the police force of the world, and then not paying for things we need in our country like roads, bridges (cough), and education. I'm a little tired of us invading countries at the whim of a President. Isn't congress supposed to declare war? What happened there?
My main issue with all other politicians is that I think our country seriously needs to get back to the Constitution and I don't feel like anyone else cares about it. With passage of the Patriot Act, domestic surveillance on Americans, and political corruption through lobbying groups I've just had enough. I hope Ron Paul wins and I hope he cleans house.
JOhn
Okay, I'm a grown up. I'm 30 now. I like Ron Paul and I have voted in every presidential election since I was 18. So how about you mention why you don't like Ron Paul? Yes I know, my sig... I do want to know your reasons though.
JOhn
It's a well known fact that graphics drivers are not running all that well under Vista these days. Microsoft changed the driver model and so it's taking a little while for everyone learn the model. Check out the article on Tom's Hardware.
JOhn
Uhh.. come up with a new story and read other technical sites besides Slashdot. Windows Vista has a helluva lot of new features in the OS besides the GUI. Some examples that come to mind.
- Prioritization of I/O not just CPU usage in tasks.
- Love it or hate it the UAC.
- ReadyBoost
- Memory for certain processes is randomized to prevent direct access by malware.
There are many more, but thats just off the top of my head. I guess you could argue that a couple of my bullet points fall under security model, but hey at least I went into more detail. Now go off and use Google to find something interesting to post.JOhn
True, but I can think of alot better ways to continue my education than to spend $2,500 on a license for Mathematica. For that price, I could go to community college for a semester.
JOhn
So did you vote in the 2000 election? How about the 2004 election?
JOhn
I switched to TaxCut for the same reason and haven't looked back. I filed on Monday the 16th around 8 PM and no problems. Next year I'll do it earlier...
JOhn
Like the illusion that law enforcement could have helped keep you safe in New Orleans when Katrina hit. Like the illusion that the government is the solution to all of your problems. Like the illusion that someone else will protect you every time when the shit hits the fan. If I had the choice to have a gun in a truly violent situation I would like to have that choice rather than sit around waiting to get shot. Maybe I would have the wherewithal, maybe I wouldn't (unlikely), but at least I would have the choice to defend my life.
Granted, guns aren't the only solution to protecting yourself, but they are a good part of it. Another good solution to have is pepper spray. Much less lethal, easier to use, and pretty damn effective.
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If what he says is true he probably knows more about the subject then you do, or the parent he replied to.
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