I would be deeply concenred to be classed as anything other than a libertarian because I believe very stringlky that the state has little or o place in my private life and the goal should be for the _reduction_ in power of the state as our societies expand and we become more civilised.
Au contraire. Individual savageness increases when there is no powerful State to curb it back in. A great civilization is one where no one has to fear being assaulted (physically or economically) by someone else.
With a less powerful State to check that no one gets abused, the more powerful get more and more power until all the power resides in a very small numper of persons.
To illustrate my point, have you noticed how 50% of the U.S. wealth is concentrated in, perhaps, 1% of the population?
What's next, mandatory lobotomies to bring the rest of the world into line with their ridiculous regime? Sadly, that wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Why do you think the American public school system has been gutted for? So the common people are automatically lobotomized into accepting whatever bullshit the bourgeois throw at them, whilst the bourgeois send their offspring to expensive private schools that dispense education of a good enough quality to enable the kids to become bourgeois themselves.
What happenned to the "equal opportunity" in front of life americans used to enjoy a mere 50 years ago?
Truly, a society has become decadent when the social position is but a matter of where one's parent are standing.
We also grow large quantities of wheat in Western Canada. However, we are forced to ship it to Eastern Canada first (Canadian Wheat Board). Then we get to buy it back at higher prices. If a farmer tries to circumvent this procedure they are thrown in jail.
Good! Those farmers are just a bunch of rednecks anyways.
If they want an all-out war, they become fair-game. We, the music bootleggers (I do not hide the fact that most of my music collection has been bootlegged (copied, that is), but LEGALLY) are far more numerous than the record companies.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO DESTROY THAT INDUSTRY!!!
Let's destroy those fuckers, just to show them that WE ARE MORE POWERFUL IN OUR NUMBERS than them.
(Reposted, account some stuck-up asshole moderating it to "flamebait").
If they want an all-out war, they become fair-game. We, the music bootleggers (I do not hide the fact that most of my music collection has been bootlegged (copied, that is), but LEGALLY) are far more numerous than the record companies.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO DESTROY THAT INDUSTRY!!!
Let's destroy those fuckers, just to show them that WE ARE MORE POWERFUL IN OUR NUMBERS than them.
I am still running WordStar to type up my billing invoices, although I admit it is WordStar 4 rather than the original 1982 vintage PC-DOS WordStar. By the way, the Borland IDE's (Delphi, etc) were pretty WordStar compatible for the longest time, but I haven't checked lately if they still recognize all the ^KB, ^KK, and all that.
How about JOE, an open-source editor I use on Linux???
In theory, the free-market means that people are free to buy as well as are free to sell what they feel is the best solution to a given problem, be it feeding one's livestock, grooming one's prune trees or insuring against meteorites.
Of course, it goes without saying that free choice is only possible when there is a genuine possibility of learning beforehand all the characteristics (good or bad) of any given product.
However, when it comes to software, it seems that the bourgeois involved in making closed-source software are going to extreme lengths to prevent a fair and free discussion of their products, for example by prohibiting "unauthorized" reviews of their products.
So, it is only fair to say that the closed-source software industry has a less than stellar record towards insuring the free-flow of information that's vitally necessary to a free-market (and this is doubly ironic in the light that this industry is involved in the movement of information).
The purpose of the State and of the Government are to insure a level playing field in all sectors of society, and it does so by curbing abuses by certain sectors of the society. Mandating the evaluation of open-source software as opposed to closed-source is one example of such action.
So, whenever a pro-open-source initiative is proposed, it is merely a sign of the Government/State doing it's proper job, as it should.
Sheeesh. More than 20 years ago, Steve Ciarcia in his Byte Magazine "Circuit Cellar" column described how to make such a system with an oscilloscope, three DACs and a photodiode on the spinning mirror.
Best of all - you have complete, unfettered, and unreviewable discretion in what is and is not considered to be a pandering and/or erotic advertisement. In fact, you can declare a dry goods catalog to be such if you wish
When I was a kid, I spent a few weeks vacation at an aunt's where I didn't have access to my father's pr0n. So I eventually resorted to masturbating looking at clothing catalogues - especially the bathing-suit sections...
I guess that's the reason a chick in spandex turns me on much more than a naked one...
Mirroring is not backup. If you want to do backup with disks, treat them like tape. Tar up the files, put them on the disks. Reuse disks over time, just like tapes. For backup, the only difference between a disk and a tape is that with a disk it can be really fast to skip to a specific file or archive.
At work, we have a **HUGE** Macintrash server. It is backed-up with Retrospect to a DAT tape jukebox. But Retrospect supports backing via FTP.
I think that when the DAT conks out, it's gonna be replaced by a huge RAID linux box...
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With a less powerful State to check that no one gets abused, the more powerful get more and more power until all the power resides in a very small numper of persons.
To illustrate my point, have you noticed how 50% of the U.S. wealth is concentrated in, perhaps, 1% of the population?
What happenned to the "equal opportunity" in front of life americans used to enjoy a mere 50 years ago?
Truly, a society has become decadent when the social position is but a matter of where one's parent are standing.
WE HAVE THE POWER TO DESTROY THAT INDUSTRY!!!
Let's destroy those fuckers, just to show them that WE ARE MORE POWERFUL IN OUR NUMBERS than them.
(Reposted, account some stuck-up asshole moderating it to "flamebait").
WE HAVE THE POWER TO DESTROY THAT INDUSTRY!!!
Let's destroy those fuckers, just to show them that WE ARE MORE POWERFUL IN OUR NUMBERS than them.
Last week, I posted right here the fucking code that crashes it, and two assholes moderators moderated it into "reduntant".
Bail-out: releasing the engine brakes but keeping the train brakes on (they are braked separately).
Put it in the 8: full throttle. Throttles (normally) have 8 notches, plus "Idle".
5 pounds of brake: trainline braking effort is measured by the number of pounds you decrease the air pressure (no pressure = full emergency braking).
Isolate a traction motor: remove the power from 1 axle, because the motor is damaged.
Ground relay: protection device against short-circuits.
Is that, typically like any Amtrak train, it ran a few hours late...
And, most importantly, can you do a 14L with it???
Lemme guess: you're italian, no?
Since many spam (or appears to) comes from AOL, all they have to do is disconnect themselves from themselves...
Just use plain old twisted-pair Ethernet...
Of course, it goes without saying that free choice is only possible when there is a genuine possibility of learning beforehand all the characteristics (good or bad) of any given product.
However, when it comes to software, it seems that the bourgeois involved in making closed-source software are going to extreme lengths to prevent a fair and free discussion of their products, for example by prohibiting "unauthorized" reviews of their products.
So, it is only fair to say that the closed-source software industry has a less than stellar record towards insuring the free-flow of information that's vitally necessary to a free-market (and this is doubly ironic in the light that this industry is involved in the movement of information).
The purpose of the State and of the Government are to insure a level playing field in all sectors of society, and it does so by curbing abuses by certain sectors of the society. Mandating the evaluation of open-source software as opposed to closed-source is one example of such action.
So, whenever a pro-open-source initiative is proposed, it is merely a sign of the Government/State doing it's proper job, as it should.
Sheeesh. More than 20 years ago, Steve Ciarcia in his Byte Magazine "Circuit Cellar" column described how to make such a system with an oscilloscope, three DACs and a photodiode on the spinning mirror.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station-wagon filled with DVDs!!!
What? No trains? Just ask for more!!!
I guess that's the reason a chick in spandex turns me on much more than a naked one...
The following only applies when applied to Internet Exploder.
<html>
<form>
<input type crash>
</form>
</html>
All other browsers will find it lame.
The following only applies when applied to Internet Exploder.
All other browsers will find it lame.
I think that when the DAT conks out, it's gonna be replaced by a huge RAID linux box...