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| 2003/9/13 [Politics/Domestic/California] UID:10179 Activity:low |
9/12 California to give free college to illegals
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/981662/posts
\_ This is nothing next to the mass voter fraud that's going to
occur with the driver's license bill. Remember the Motor Voter
law? That means every illegal will get voter registration papers
BY LAW when they get their driver's license from the DMV. Once
you've got those papers, there's no further check stopping an
illegal alien from voting in both CA and Federal elections. When
the pendulum swings back, the backlash to destroying the value and
meaning of citizenship is going to knock your socks off.
\_ Until the early/mid 90's, illegals *had* drivers licenses,
and your cataclysmic apocalyptic destruction of all that is
good and conservative didn't happen.
\_ not that I necessarily agree with PP, but the motor-voter
law didn't exist when illegals had drivers licenses.
\_ Hope you are right... somehow I'm not so sure. |
| 2003/9/13 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:10180 Activity:nil |
9/12 http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1041212,00.html This is pretty messed up. Do you think the US soldiers were duped into firing at the police? \_ What we need to do is require that every Iraqi citizen carry a loaded firearm. That's the magic way to end all violence! \_ Pretty much, yes, it is. \_ Yes, because everyone who has a gun would act responsibly, and people with issues would never escalate them to "hey, I'll just shoot the ho, just to let her know" since they'd be required to always carry a gun. |
| 2003/9/13 [Computer/HW/CPU, Computer/HW/Drives] UID:10181 Activity:nil |
9/12 Really cute case mods. http://csua.org/u/4av |
| 2003/9/13 [Finance/Investment] UID:10182 Activity:nil 50%like:29537 |
9/12 http://www.cnn.com/offbeat/gallery/content2.html $200 GWBush currency |
| 2003/9/13-15 [Computer/SW/Security] UID:10183 Activity:nil |
9/13 Which online photo sharing websites do you guys prefer?
\_ shutterfly. -tom
\_ http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/~login
\_ snapfish.
\_ Decide what you need. Here's the service summary on the 3 major
sites:
snapfish: uses Kodak paper and machines, lowest prices, but
ships from east coast so it takes a little longer
to get prints sent here, maybe an extra 2-3 days.
ofoto: owned by kodak but uses fuji equipment, etc. slightly
more expensive but you'll get your pics a day or two
sooner because they're printing locally,
shutterfly: same idea as ofoto except they're still a dotcom
and dont have large company backing them so they
have to charge more and they could go under and
take your pictures with them at any time. i
believe they use a variety of smaller development
firms, thus the higher prices since they don't get
the same kind of bulk rates snapfish and ofoto can.
If you're not printing and only want the free online storage
and the ability to share, it doesn't really matter. Bits are
bits, yes?
\_ ofoto requires your visitors to log on to view your
pictures, so it does really matter. -tom
\_ if they didn't then deep linking directly to photos
would allow rampant abuse of storage and bandwidth for
non-customer uses. It isn't 1998 anymore. They need
to control costs and make profit or die.
\_ that is easy enough to prevent without making someone
need to have an account. Just check the referal.
\_ See my comment about 1998. If they can get you to
sign up, you're more likely to continue using the
service. If you won't signup, what do they need
you for anyway?
\_ I'm just pointing out that your first argument
was flawed. As to the second, well, there are
two options I can go with that don't require
a visitor to sign in. All other things being
equal guess which choice is better?
\_ We have a different idea of what constitutes
abuse. To me if you're not a paying customer
or bringing in other paying customers yet
you're sucking bandwidth and storage, you're
useless to the company. True, it's only
really abuse if they allow it to happen and
in this case they're not. Additionally,
they're taking steps to try to get more
paying customers which is a good thing for
any business. We're splitting hairs at this
point. Since the accounts are free, it's
all pretty much the same in that regard.
There's probably a csuamotd/csuamotd account
on all three already. :-)
\_ no, because if I'm using the service I'm
also probably paying for prints and the
like. The point is by making people
need to log in to see my pictures I'm
going to go with one of the other two
and when I want to get prints I'll
get them from the company where I've
put my photos. Bandwidth and storage is
still pretty damn cheap compared to other
costs and it is pretty easy to catch the
serious abuses. (Say just give every
use a dl/day limit). |
| 2003/9/13 [Science/GlobalWarming] UID:10184 Activity:nil 71%like:10188 |
9/13 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3106488.stm I love this. There is no incentive for Iran to cooperate. As even if nothing was found, it would get invaded anyway. |
| 2003/9/13-15 [Consumer/TV] UID:10185 Activity:nil |
9/13 Anybody here have hacked dish networks? The motd archives suggest
there are people who have hacked directv. I've been searching around
and it does seem like there's more info on hacking directv than
dish network. Any info you have would be nice. thanks.
\_ most of the information out there have a blind guy feeling up
an elephant feel. http://www.m24c.net/Information/Howto.htm
seems somewhat up to date and not too misleading as a place to
start. if you're lazy about building your own hw (as i was),
http://www.dishtesting.com is trustworthy.
start. |
| 2003/9/13-15 [Uncategorized] UID:10186 Activity:nil |
9/13 Are CS courses at Cal still overcrowded? I would like to take
a couple of courses that I didn't take during my stay at Cal
(e.g., cs186, cs169). |
| 2003/9/13 [Recreation/Dating, Recreation/Pets] UID:29537 Activity:nil 50%like:10182 |
9/12 http://www.cnn.com/offbeat/gallery/content2.html |