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20 Lawmakers Want to Kill Your Television
Macki writes "As previously mentioned, the Broadcast Flag is back before congress. There are 20 law makers currently supporting the bill. The insane thing about it is the fact that no one supports the bill except a handful of entertainment companies. Probably not even the employees of the entertainment companies. It's bad enough they want to break our televisions, but the way that they are subverting democracy is just astounding. Danny O'Brien at the EFF has done a spectacular job deconstructingthe MPAA/RIAA's efforts to ramrod this through, and more importantly, the motivations of the members of congress who are helping them."
Linux is *not* user friendly, and until it is linux will stay with >1% marketshare.
/tmp or the installer will dump core. After the installer is done, edit /etc/X11/XF86Config and add a section called "GL" and put "driver nv" in it. Make sure you have the latest version of X and Linux kernel 2.6 or else X will segfault when you start. OK, run the Quake 3 installer and make sure you set the proper group and setuid permissions on quake3.bin. If you want sound, look here [link to another obscure web site], which is a short HOWTO on how to get sound in Quake 3. That's all there is to it!"
Take installation. Linux zealots are now saying "oh installing is so easy, just do apt-get install package or emerge package": Yes, because typing in "apt-get" or "emerge" makes so much more sense to new users than double-clicking an icon that says "setup".
Linux zealots are far too forgiving when judging the difficultly of Linux configuration issues and far too harsh when judging the difficulty of Windows configuration issues. Example comments:
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Linux?"
Zealot: "Oh that's easy! If you have Redhat, you have to download quake_3_rh_8_i686_010203_glibc.bin, then do chmod +x on the file. Then you have to su to root, make sure you type export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 but ONLY if you have that latest libc6 installed. If you don't, don't set that environment variable or the installer will dump core. Before you run the installer, make sure you have the GL drivers for X installed. Get them at [some obscure web address], chmod +x the binary, then run it, but make sure you have at least 10MB free in
User: "How do I get Quake 3 to run in Windows?"
Zealot: "Oh God, I had to install Quake 3 in Windoze for some lamer friend of mine! God, what a fucking mess! I put in the CD and it took about 3 minutes to copy everything, and then I had to reboot the fucking computer! Jesus Christ! What a retarded operating system!"
So, I guess the point I'm trying to make is that what seems easy and natural to Linux geeks is definitely not what regular people consider easy and natural. Hence, the preference towards Windows.
This won't contribute a thing to this discussion.
In fact, it's a knee jerk response on my part. I admit it.
But, I gotta say it.
What a bunch of Jerks!
Thank you!
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Sure, well there is.. umm.. oh but there is.. well um.. no. I cannot think of anyone on the planet who does not have some agenda. Including me. (see my sig line!)
Cogito Ergo Sum
It's ironic that you would equate the the Great Emancipation with abortion, seeing as how the spirit of the latter is the opposite of the former (that is, treating someone as something less than a person).
The Constitution clearly states that you are not a U.S. Citizen until you are born. Therefore, fetuses have never had rights under the United States Constitution (if you subscribe to a "strict constructionalist" point of view as held by many conservatives who happen to also be supporters of banning abortion).
Do their heads explode when their strict ideologies collide with such force?
It's ironic that you would equate the the Great Emancipation with abortion, seeing as how the spirit of the latter is the opposite of the former (that is, treating someone as something less than a person).
Not necessarily. If you happen to not believe that abortion is always murder, there is no ironic juxtaposition here: the legalisation of abortion represents a crucial moment for the emancipation of women, just as the Great Emancipation was a crucial moment for the emancipation of black slaves.
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27 years without tv. Just don't put a broadcast
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Of all the scumbags in the Senate, you picked Barbara Boxer to parody as hypocritical? How about Bill Frist (R-TN), the Senate Majority Leader (ie. "in charge of the Senate")? Frist is about to be indicted for insider trading $millions of his family's healthcare stock, as part of his preparation to run for president in 2008. All while forcing rulebreaking votes to pump $BILLIONS of corporate welfare into drug companies, inefficient anticonsumer "privatized" healthcare, and many other votes and party decrees that block cost effective healthcare development and consumption. In other words, robbing us to keep us sick, then dumping his own shares when even those scams couldn't prop up his family business. All while violating a "blind trust" that's supposed to prevent his even knowing which shares he owns, let alone direct his conflicted interests to make a fortune off our misfortune. And Frist is just the biggest kingpin - he's not even the biggest scumbag.
So you pick on Boxer. I'm calling you out as a fox in the henhouse, wearing chicken feathers and crowing a chicken alarm to lock you in with your prey.
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The trouble with your argument is that babies are aborted at all stages of fetal development. The zygote implants in the mother's uterus about one week after conception. The growing child becomes is a fully-formed embryo by the end of the first month. This child is growing and will continue to grow unless something goes wrong, or someone interferes.
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