FTFA: "Every time I wonder whether I can ultimately vote for Obama in November, given all of his political cave-ins, McCain does something new to make sure I have to."
Thanks for propping up the good ol' two-party system there with your thinking, ma'am. Seriously, there are other bloody candidates out there, and if you don't think you should vote for Obama or McCain, then vote for one of them! It really gets tiring listening to the thinking exhibited by most people, which locks us into the hellhole of a political party system we have.
I believe I speak for all of us when I say, "OWNED!"
Hopefully, no one will listen to him any more if he gets the disgrace of permanent disbarment. Some crazies might, but with that kind of mark on his record, I can't imagine any mainstream press would touch him.
Not to sound dickish, but without knowing my personal views, my voting history, my persepctive on how government should and should not function, my opinions on how far a government should go to protect (or control) my preference and reasons cannot be so easily summarized.
I'm just saying that this is such a crucial issue, that at least in my opinion, if you'd vote for someone who supported this damnable bill, you can't really have any standards at all that you hold a representative to. What Obama approved is on the order of voting in favor of killing people he doesn't like, it's that bad.
I haven't seen that he's proven "the law applies when it's convenient", at least, not yet.
No? I certainly think it qualifies as that when people break the law, and just because the President said it's ok, they get a free pass for it. I mean, come on. If Bush walked up to me and told me to go rape someone, that doesn't make it ok, why should that logic be ok here? If we don't enforce the consequences of the law, just because someone thinks the law didn't apply, the rule of law in our country means nothing.
I was going to vote for Obama. I probably still will.
How the hell can you say that!? I understand, and agree with, what you say about not agreeing with every decision your candidate of choice makes. This isn't just any decision, though! This isn't spending $2 billion on highway upgrades when you thought only $1 billion should have spent! Obama betrayed the very rule of law that keeps our nation afloat (to say nothing of the privacy issues!), and you are still going to vote for him?
If you'll vote for a traitor like Obama, you'd vote for anyone at this point. Obama very clearly demonstrated today that as far as he's concerned, the law applies when it's convenient. Well, fuck that. With a policy like that, he should never be entrusted with any position of importance. EVER.
The biggest surprise to me is that Obama didn't even have the modicum of sense required to abstain. McCain did, and we all know he supports immunity. Why didn't it occur to Obama that, even if he couldn't vote nay, voting yea is going to turn off all but his most die-hard supporters?
I am appalled to see such an idiotic piece of legislation pass. Does the rule of law mean NOTHING in our country any more? I may as well tell CmdrTaco that it's ok to shoot his neighbor, and then get him immunity just because I said so. Shame on you, senators. Shame on each and every one of you who voted for this godforsaken bill.
Seriously, fuck it. I don't know what the point is any more. Our government not only has a complete lack of respect for the rights of the American citizen, but also a lack of respect for OUR OWN GODDAMNED LAWS. Why should you and I act any differently than them? What, other than the point of a gun, is supposed to keep us from ignoring laws just because we feel like it?
Senators who voted against the bill, I applaud you, but your valiant efforts were for naught. There are 69 traitors in our Senate, rendering you impotent.
Free/open source software will eliminate that business model given enough time, just as the automobile eliminated the horse and buggy.
It's hardly the same at all, although it may happen. The automobile eliminated the horse and buggy because it was clearly a superior method of travel. Open source isn't a clearly superior software methodology, it's just different. If it were truly superior, every open source project would be better than its closed counterpart, but that isn't the case at all. Will open source replace the current model? Maybe, but it won't be due to clear superiority.
Steve asks the question, how can this help my client!
Uh-huh. So... why does Apple persist in doing so many things detrimental to their clients then (bundling crappy mice, stubbornly insisting on PowerPC architecture for way too long, making their computers harder to service, the list could go on...)? I'd say it's because Steve wants to do things his way, and if anyone else doesn't like it, fuck 'em... whether it's better for the client or not.
Don't be pedantic. In common, everyday usage (i.e.: when people aren't being nit-picky about minor things), "Linux" refers to an OS built on the Linux kernel, as well as the kernel itself. His usage was just fine.
FYI, the new discussion format is not mandatory. You can change it in your preferences. I think the new discussion format is still a bloody unusable mess, even now, so I have the old system on (and will until they fix D2, or take the option away... probably gonna be the latter at the rate we're going).
Why do we restrict your freedom to drive at 140 mph down a crowded inner city street?
To protect others freedom to walk around without getting killed.
The difference is that lack of access to the source code is not actually harmful. Sometimes, restriction of freedom is necessary, as you point out. The GPL, however, restricts freedom for no reason except to try to cram RMS' ideals down people's throats, and that ain't cool.
And despite this, I still wouldn't have a problem with that behavior if the GPL didn't claim to be "free". I could live with the lack of freedom in the GPL, it's the hypocrisy that irritates me.
Not true. Nobody who knows anything about computers shops at Best Buy for most hardware. Some is reasonably priced (when they have deals on flash drives, for example, prices are good), and for software they're about the same as anywhere else (unless you want an OEM version). For a lot of their hardware, they are overpriced, though, but sometimes you have no choice (I had to buy a network card from them once... since I had no working network card, I couldn't get one online and had to rely on a regular store).
Sweeping generalizations are rarely true, and this is no exception.
I don't know, I consider Ender's Game to be by far his weakest book in that universe. Then again, I'm very fond of the rather "preachy" (as you put it) style of book, I consider the philosophical aspects as making it far more engaging. Certainly it's not something you can issue a blanket recommendation against, the OP's kids may enjoy that style of writing.
While it may well end up being what you want to avoid in the end (who knows, there are 3 books left to go, so anything could happen), so far, George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is what you're looking for. I also recommend Joe Lawson's The Calm Before the Storm. It's been a while since I read it, but I recall that it was free of the plot mechanics you mention. Again, though, it's only the first book, so things could change.
What a ridiculous leap of logic. The fact that that clause is in there doesn't mean they have the power to force you to agree to it. Lots of contracts have ridiculous statements in them. You know what you do if you don't like said statements? Don't sign the contract.
It's plain and simple.. if you don't hold large property owners to the same constitutional standards as the governments whose power they equal, you have ushered feudalism in through the back door.
Bull-fucking-shit. The problem with feudalism was that the lords had so much leverage, and were so few, that they could set whatever terms they wanted, and people had to take them. That isn't the case with landlords today. One crazy landlord can decide that he doesn't want rap music played in his house, and that's his right (and loss), because 99 other sane landlords recognize that, whatever their opinions of rap music, the business from that renter is far more important.
just require users to install Firefox until MSIE is no longer broken and useless.
Grats, you just pissed off a significant portion of your users, who will now bear a grudge against you for ages (if they bother coming back at all). Now, you're perfectly welcome to stupidly alienate a bunch of users on your own sites, but don't be surprised if other people actually value their users.
My Klingon reading ability is nonexistent... I'm guessing that's how to write the Klingon insult "Your mother has a smooth forehead" (which I can pronounce, but not write)?
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FTFA: "Every time I wonder whether I can ultimately vote for Obama in November, given all of his political cave-ins, McCain does something new to make sure I have to."
Thanks for propping up the good ol' two-party system there with your thinking, ma'am. Seriously, there are other bloody candidates out there, and if you don't think you should vote for Obama or McCain, then vote for one of them! It really gets tiring listening to the thinking exhibited by most people, which locks us into the hellhole of a political party system we have.
Change starts with you, and all that.
This law will ensure that no one from Louisiana will ever receive a real education.
Yes, of course, because learning about the origins of the universe is the ONLY aspect of a real education, AT ALL.
Get real. I'm not saying I like this law any more than you, but you can still get an excellent education even if one aspect of it is shite.
I believe I speak for all of us when I say, "OWNED!"
Hopefully, no one will listen to him any more if he gets the disgrace of permanent disbarment. Some crazies might, but with that kind of mark on his record, I can't imagine any mainstream press would touch him.
Not to sound dickish, but without knowing my personal views, my voting history, my persepctive on how government should and should not function, my opinions on how far a government should go to protect (or control) my preference and reasons cannot be so easily summarized.
I'm just saying that this is such a crucial issue, that at least in my opinion, if you'd vote for someone who supported this damnable bill, you can't really have any standards at all that you hold a representative to. What Obama approved is on the order of voting in favor of killing people he doesn't like, it's that bad.
I haven't seen that he's proven "the law applies when it's convenient", at least, not yet.
No? I certainly think it qualifies as that when people break the law, and just because the President said it's ok, they get a free pass for it. I mean, come on. If Bush walked up to me and told me to go rape someone, that doesn't make it ok, why should that logic be ok here? If we don't enforce the consequences of the law, just because someone thinks the law didn't apply, the rule of law in our country means nothing.
I was going to vote for Obama. I probably still will.
How the hell can you say that!? I understand, and agree with, what you say about not agreeing with every decision your candidate of choice makes. This isn't just any decision, though! This isn't spending $2 billion on highway upgrades when you thought only $1 billion should have spent! Obama betrayed the very rule of law that keeps our nation afloat (to say nothing of the privacy issues!), and you are still going to vote for him?
If you'll vote for a traitor like Obama, you'd vote for anyone at this point. Obama very clearly demonstrated today that as far as he's concerned, the law applies when it's convenient. Well, fuck that. With a policy like that, he should never be entrusted with any position of importance. EVER.
The biggest surprise to me is that Obama didn't even have the modicum of sense required to abstain. McCain did, and we all know he supports immunity. Why didn't it occur to Obama that, even if he couldn't vote nay, voting yea is going to turn off all but his most die-hard supporters?
I am appalled to see such an idiotic piece of legislation pass. Does the rule of law mean NOTHING in our country any more? I may as well tell CmdrTaco that it's ok to shoot his neighbor, and then get him immunity just because I said so. Shame on you, senators. Shame on each and every one of you who voted for this godforsaken bill.
Seriously, fuck it. I don't know what the point is any more. Our government not only has a complete lack of respect for the rights of the American citizen, but also a lack of respect for OUR OWN GODDAMNED LAWS. Why should you and I act any differently than them? What, other than the point of a gun, is supposed to keep us from ignoring laws just because we feel like it?
Senators who voted against the bill, I applaud you, but your valiant efforts were for naught. There are 69 traitors in our Senate, rendering you impotent.
Thank fdisk. I was already planning my ritual suicide, having given up all hope for the world.
"Linux" refers to an OS built on the Linux kernel...
Huh, look at that! I already said what it refers to. Would've saved you a ton of trouble if you'd read that.
"Social Cloudcasting"
Please tell me you're making that up. Surely it must be a joke, right?
I don't think I've ever seen someone with a higher userid than mine making a point about how low their userid is. At least mine is 5 digits. ;)
You must be new here.
Free/open source software will eliminate that business model given enough time, just as the automobile eliminated the horse and buggy.
It's hardly the same at all, although it may happen. The automobile eliminated the horse and buggy because it was clearly a superior method of travel. Open source isn't a clearly superior software methodology, it's just different. If it were truly superior, every open source project would be better than its closed counterpart, but that isn't the case at all. Will open source replace the current model? Maybe, but it won't be due to clear superiority.
Steve asks the question, how can this help my client!
Uh-huh. So... why does Apple persist in doing so many things detrimental to their clients then (bundling crappy mice, stubbornly insisting on PowerPC architecture for way too long, making their computers harder to service, the list could go on...)? I'd say it's because Steve wants to do things his way, and if anyone else doesn't like it, fuck 'em... whether it's better for the client or not.
Don't be pedantic. In common, everyday usage (i.e.: when people aren't being nit-picky about minor things), "Linux" refers to an OS built on the Linux kernel, as well as the kernel itself. His usage was just fine.
FYI, the new discussion format is not mandatory. You can change it in your preferences. I think the new discussion format is still a bloody unusable mess, even now, so I have the old system on (and will until they fix D2, or take the option away... probably gonna be the latter at the rate we're going).
Why do we restrict your freedom to drive at 140 mph down a crowded inner city street?
To protect others freedom to walk around without getting killed.
The difference is that lack of access to the source code is not actually harmful. Sometimes, restriction of freedom is necessary, as you point out. The GPL, however, restricts freedom for no reason except to try to cram RMS' ideals down people's throats, and that ain't cool.
And despite this, I still wouldn't have a problem with that behavior if the GPL didn't claim to be "free". I could live with the lack of freedom in the GPL, it's the hypocrisy that irritates me.
Not true. Nobody who knows anything about computers shops at Best Buy for most hardware. Some is reasonably priced (when they have deals on flash drives, for example, prices are good), and for software they're about the same as anywhere else (unless you want an OEM version). For a lot of their hardware, they are overpriced, though, but sometimes you have no choice (I had to buy a network card from them once... since I had no working network card, I couldn't get one online and had to rely on a regular store).
Sweeping generalizations are rarely true, and this is no exception.
I was responding to my parent, not the OP. Kids shouldn't be reading ASOIAF, I agree.
I don't know, I consider Ender's Game to be by far his weakest book in that universe. Then again, I'm very fond of the rather "preachy" (as you put it) style of book, I consider the philosophical aspects as making it far more engaging. Certainly it's not something you can issue a blanket recommendation against, the OP's kids may enjoy that style of writing.
While it may well end up being what you want to avoid in the end (who knows, there are 3 books left to go, so anything could happen), so far, George RR Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire is what you're looking for. I also recommend Joe Lawson's The Calm Before the Storm. It's been a while since I read it, but I recall that it was free of the plot mechanics you mention. Again, though, it's only the first book, so things could change.
What a ridiculous leap of logic. The fact that that clause is in there doesn't mean they have the power to force you to agree to it. Lots of contracts have ridiculous statements in them. You know what you do if you don't like said statements? Don't sign the contract.
It's plain and simple.. if you don't hold large property owners to the same constitutional standards as the governments whose power they equal, you have ushered feudalism in through the back door.
Bull-fucking-shit. The problem with feudalism was that the lords had so much leverage, and were so few, that they could set whatever terms they wanted, and people had to take them. That isn't the case with landlords today. One crazy landlord can decide that he doesn't want rap music played in his house, and that's his right (and loss), because 99 other sane landlords recognize that, whatever their opinions of rap music, the business from that renter is far more important.
just require users to install Firefox until MSIE is no longer broken and useless.
Grats, you just pissed off a significant portion of your users, who will now bear a grudge against you for ages (if they bother coming back at all). Now, you're perfectly welcome to stupidly alienate a bunch of users on your own sites, but don't be surprised if other people actually value their users.
I agree! The more people that speak Polish, the less people I'll have to educate on how to pronounce my Polish last name! ;)
My Klingon reading ability is nonexistent... I'm guessing that's how to write the Klingon insult "Your mother has a smooth forehead" (which I can pronounce, but not write)?