MTA
Why is the MTA's budget each year referred to as a "doomsday" budget?
They vote on it every year, and every year it's approved, and every year
they get subsidised by the tax payers and toll payers. So why is it a
"doomsday" budget? They're not going out of business, although it sure
seems their worker's union would like to see that happen given their
demands.
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Don't they have better things to do?
It has come to my attention that Congress, in their infinite wisdom, has
decided to write legislation against television commercial
advertisements having a louder perceived volume than the actual
programming.
While I do sometimes find this annoying, do we really need an act of
congress to outlaw this? Shouldn't our representatives be doing
something better with their time, like repealing hundreds of laws that
hinder the free market economy and trample the Constitutionally
guaranteed rights of the citizens?
Of course not, that would threaten their power.
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The DNC Hates Unix Users Pt 2
Looking through this script,
it appears that DNC is relying on Microsoft's Silverlight plugin.
Currently, this browser plugin is supported for a limited selection of
browsers on a limited selection of operating systems. A relatively
complete list of supported platforms can be found here.
Knowing full well how limited the support for this technology, the DNC
still decided this was the best solution.
I hope the RNC will use technologies that are more cross-platform than
this. Currently the video available at their site is based on Flash.
While Flash support is a bit shaky outside of Windows and Mac OS, it is
supported in Unix.
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The DNC Hates Unix Users
Just confirming the Slashdot story
(http://news.slashdot.org/news/08/08/25/229210.shtml):
We're sorry, but the Democratic Convention video web site isn't compatible with your operating system and/or browser. Please try again on a computer with the following:
Compatible operating systems:
Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista, or a Mac with Tiger (OS 10.4) or Leopard (OS 10.5).
Compatible browsers:
Internet Explorer (version 6 or later), Firefox (version 2), or, if you are on a Mac, Safari (version 3.1) also works.
My User Agent string is currently "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US;
rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070527 Firefox/2.0.0.3"
So not only does the Vice Presidential nominee want to expand the powers
of the DMCA, the entire party wants to prevent Unix users from obtaining
information.
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