As a libertarian myself, I feel the need to forestall an argument that some of my fellow libertarians might make: that such laws cannot be justly applied to the telecommunications market; that they are an improper restraint on legitimate trade, or free speech; etc. The fact of the matter is that the telecoms system as we know it is a construct of government regulation. Its "privatized" structure is merely a corporatized extension of national governments, like the old colonial "Companies" (think "British East India Company", etc.) which enriches investors whilst furthering government policy.
Aw, godawfulshit, cut the crap, will ya?
You libertarian types are in reality crypto-anarchist who only yearn for the prehistoric times where who had the biggest stick had his way.
If Humanity has decided to regroup under sovereign states, it is because it gives a much better life than the dog-eat-dog jungle you're promoting.
Why don't you crawl back into that swamp you came from? At least, you won't be soiling our gene pool.
(Reposted, account some dope moderating it as "troll")
"But this is infringing on our rights of corporate free speech", whines Verizon. Free speech? Possible first amendment violation? Come on, why the hell did we sell this country to the highest bidder? How the heck can a CORPORATION have rights to do anything other than exist for the good of the consumers it serves.
And think about all the spies jailed, who had their first amendment right to tell US secrets to other countries!!!
As a libertarian myself, I feel the need to forestall an argument that some of my fellow libertarians might make: that such laws cannot be justly applied to the telecommunications market; that they are an improper restraint on legitimate trade, or free speech; etc. The fact of the matter is that the telecoms system as we know it is a construct of government regulation. Its "privatized" structure is merely a corporatized extension of national governments, like the old colonial "Companies" (think "British East India Company", etc.) which enriches investors whilst furthering government policy.
Aw, godawfulshit, cut the crap, will ya?
You libertarian types are in reality crypto-anarchist who only yearn for the prehistoric times where who had the biggest stick had his way.
If Humanity has decided to regroup under sovereign states, it is because it gives a much better life than the dog-eat-dog jungle you're promoting.
Why don't you crawl back into that swamp you came from? At least, you won't be soiling our gene pool.
TO start following some of these yahoos around with a camera, and report their every move. See how they like it.
1:00 had lunch ...
6:00 went to girlfreind, see attached picture with her street address and bra size.
6:15- 8:35 freaky circus sex, see film from clandestine video hidden in tree.
Unfortunately, that would be a gross violation of privacy, and therefore illegal...
Just wardial sex lines (not the 1-900 ones, but rather those who ask you to enter your credit card number) during the night. That oughta overload their databases.
I'm really curious to know how many users still use pine?
I use PINE when I'm away or pissed at Eudora; I have a linux box on ADSL with masquarade, and I access my mail through IMAP and Eudora. Doing so enables me to ssh into my box from away, and not only read my e-mail, but also have access to all my mail folders and whatnot.
Besides, PINE is invaluable to debug mail problems for a given user while working on the server...
Let me ask you a question: do you shop? Do you buy, say, groceries? At all? And how do you suppose they got to the store? On a tram?
That's the store's problem, not mine.
Right by the end of the street where I live is a public market, on each side of which are two (2) railroad yards (one for two of the 4 or 5 that come here) precisely for reefers to carry food into the market. And what do you know, when I walk to/from work along one of the tracks, half the time I meet the little train that brings cars to the market and the flour mill and whatnot other industries.
Needless to say, last time I got into a car was, oh, roughly two months ago.
If W2000 is so fast and efficient why can't I run it on a P133 with 24MB of RAM like I can Linux?
If you want to be taken seriously, you have to compare like with like. For example, compare Windows 2000's hardware requirements to that of the complete KDE 2.
If Microsoft made Linux, you would need to load the complete KDE 2 system just to do a job that would only need a P133 with 24MB...
Actually M$ did a fairly good job at copying Unix when they made mess-DOS. It got directories in V 2.0, and I know that 3.3 has pipes, redirection, and such (don't know since which version, 3.3 is the earliest I've used).
Can someone explain to me how a single-tasking (excuse for an) OS can have pipes???
Or which part of "put-in-a-temp-file-then-send-it-to-the-second-pro gram" don't you understand????
The Seattle Monorail has been a long, long politically charged struggle. I've voted for it three times so far. One of the early problems that the Monorail faced was a tremendous amount of opposition from the people with big money that wanted to build an enourmously expensive and unworkable rail system here in Seattle. The "Sound Transit" (they renamed themselves because people came to hate them as "Regional Transit Authority") people were apparently receiving big lobby money from rail industry groups that wanted a fat contract, and they didn't seem to really care what would or wouldn't work for Seattle. It was too obvious even to the corrupt, however, that the rail system absolutely couldn't be done for any reasonable amount of money, and it's been in a perpetual state of falling over dead and being resurrected for the past 8 years or so.
This is bullshit. The very concept of the monorail is bullshit by itself. The sheer size and bulkyness of switches means that they are vastly more costlier than equivalent birail switches. Therefore, the given network will necessarly have FEWER switches and will be far less flexible; so when one train will be disabled, the whole system will grind down to a halt, instead of peacefully running around it.
Besides, birail vehicles and tracks are already built in standard types in large quantities, so this is a big factor to keep costs down in comparison to the huge custom-made job that stupid monorail will prove to be. And at $1.2 billion for a 14 mile line, that's $86 million a mile. Compare this to $14 million a mile for a light rail system!!!
I'm afraid that the taxpayers just got goatsee.cxed!!!
Screw that-- the only legitimate use for state money is stuff that benefits EVERYONE, and the roads will grow the economy quite a lot. Spend it on the roads FIRST. Then spend it on education (but raise tuitions, damnit. World class college should not be virtually free.) And then if you have money left over spend it on extra health care.
A true stupid moronic bigoted yankee post, if I ever saw one!!!
Roads do not benefit everyone; they only benefit motorists (that is, those who own cars). Public transit, on the other hand, benefit everyone, especially motorists, either if they leave their car and take transit, or simply by REMOVING CARS FROM THE STREET by providing an alternative.
Actually, in France (hardly a parangon of private enterprise), a lot of (interstate-like) highways ARE private companies, charge a (huge) toll, and rack-in quite big profits...
I've heard many arguments that the distances needed to be covered did not lend itself to high speed trains. Especially in California where frequent earthquakes occur, wouldn't it be better to simply work on a new air-based transportation?
The air transportation system is currently at the brink of collapse. Huge private airlines are being propped-up by huge government subsidies, and yet, are unable to meet the demand. Europe has clearly demonstrated that frequent fast trains can do a far better job than airlines. And air transport is vastly more expensive to operate than low-tech trains. Add to the fact that many people are scared shitless of flying, and the added security requirement, courtesy of Oussama, are adding so much in terms of delays that the attractiveness of flying has decreased to the point that a slightly longer train journey is now quite a viable option.
Besides, railroads are so much a part of the background american psyche that only the most die-hard unamerican would be for air transport (this must be why Oussama - the penultimate anti-american - has crashed planes instead of trains).
The car's the big one. I imagine all companies making high-end sports cars compete like mad to be the Bond Car, because that's the most obvious bit of 007 kit. An Aston Martin, a Shaguar, a BMW... wonderful, just as long as it isn't one of those hideous plastic cars he had in the Eighties.
Or worse, those American Motors cars he had in The Man With the Golden Gun... It sure made you miss the Aston Martins...
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Yup, Tintin in Lebanon was one of the best Tintin spoofs I ever saw.
Tintin is not more French than L'Il Abner is British...
It ain't, buddy. There are many more things in life besides economics.
And I'm glad not to know too much about economics, because those who do are total assholes.
What was the cause of the fire anyway?
You libertarian types are in reality crypto-anarchist who only yearn for the prehistoric times where who had the biggest stick had his way.
If Humanity has decided to regroup under sovereign states, it is because it gives a much better life than the dog-eat-dog jungle you're promoting.
Why don't you crawl back into that swamp you came from? At least, you won't be soiling our gene pool.
(Reposted, account some dope moderating it as "troll")
You libertarian types are in reality crypto-anarchist who only yearn for the prehistoric times where who had the biggest stick had his way.
If Humanity has decided to regroup under sovereign states, it is because it gives a much better life than the dog-eat-dog jungle you're promoting.
Why don't you crawl back into that swamp you came from? At least, you won't be soiling our gene pool.
Just wardial sex lines (not the 1-900 ones, but rather those who ask you to enter your credit card number) during the night. That oughta overload their databases.
Goody!!! A 888 toll-free number. Meesathinks he'll get an earful of dirty MP3s on his answering machine...
Besides, PINE is invaluable to debug mail problems for a given user while working on the server...
Right by the end of the street where I live is a public market, on each side of which are two (2) railroad yards (one for two of the 4 or 5 that come here) precisely for reefers to carry food into the market. And what do you know, when I walk to/from work along one of the tracks, half the time I meet the little train that brings cars to the market and the flour mill and whatnot other industries.
Needless to say, last time I got into a car was, oh, roughly two months ago.
Or which part of "put-in-a-temp-file-then-send-it-to-the-second-pro gram" don't you understand????
Besides, birail vehicles and tracks are already built in standard types in large quantities, so this is a big factor to keep costs down in comparison to the huge custom-made job that stupid monorail will prove to be. And at $1.2 billion for a 14 mile line, that's $86 million a mile. Compare this to $14 million a mile for a light rail system!!!
I'm afraid that the taxpayers just got goatsee.cxed!!!
Roads do not benefit everyone; they only benefit motorists (that is, those who own cars). Public transit, on the other hand, benefit everyone, especially motorists, either if they leave their car and take transit, or simply by REMOVING CARS FROM THE STREET by providing an alternative.
Besides, railroads are so much a part of the background american psyche that only the most die-hard unamerican would be for air transport (this must be why Oussama - the penultimate anti-american - has crashed planes instead of trains).
I guess that was the last Bill Gates contribution to AIDS in India...
Shaking, not stirring.
Will this be the proper IIS neutering tool???