Oh, yeah? You don't watch a lot of news, do ya? There are dozens of places where the city council wanted a bowling alley instead of some people's homes; homes that had been there since 1947, as I recall. Eminent Domain was about tearing down houses ONLY for installing infrastructure, but these cases are still before the courts. The favorite of mine is where the Conservatives have petitioned the local government to tear down the house of a Supreme Court Judge who made it possible, to install a museum (which would pay more) called "Liberty House". (You should be able to Google that for the details.)
There are a couple of guys in Seattle/Tacoma as I recall that were fined over $100,000 because they supported a _policy_ and not a _politician_ on the air; they lost their jobs, the last I'd heard.
There have been encroachments upon Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...the Patriot Act gets all the Press because George Bush asked for it, and George Soros hates him. (That's also why Rosie O'Donnell thinks "Fire doesn't melt steel!" and 9/11 was an inside job.) She should see Popular Mechanics this month.
Roe Vs Wade was decided for the entire population to mean "Abortion is Free" when the Constitution says nothing of the kind. And, in a long and storied history, when things aren't mentioned in the Constitution, the states get to decide for themselves. This is wrong.
McCain/Feingold: it stamps out political talk when we need it the most: 60 days before the election. This is *clearly* prohibition of free (and political) speech, in violation of the First Amendment. [Which, for all the talking heads out there, does NOT mean anyone can say anything and get away with it, but rather than no one will be *jailed* for it.]
Imminent Domain: A mayor or other local government body can now take YOUR home so that a fatcat (who will be paying more taxes than you) can put up his home. This is also very wrong.
So why is everyone jumping *only* on the Patriot Act, in a time of war?
Because most of the UN is made up, not of noble scholars and thoughtful people...they're the kind of people who took control of a small nation in the middle of the night from their cousins, kill their own civilians for fun and bully the nation next door to get more resources, once they realize they've squandered their own. See also Chavez; taking the farms from the white owners left a lot of land to work, and at gunpoint it gets worked quite poorly, lowering the amount of food for the populace.
America after World War Two was magnanimous; we had freed a billion people, almost completely for free (the Brits had a lend-lease thing going on) then we started pumping in millions for all the cities we'd just blown up: we realize, at the state level, that we need the other nations...but we don't need to conquer the other nations.
America has never said it wants to attack, change the government and own another nation; we don't want more territory- we just want wars there to stop. It's maddening when we take part in a distant war (think Bosnia) where we bombed the Christians and worked for the Muslims, and then come home. But we're not about expansion-for-expansion's sake, many/most of the UN members cannot make such a claim.
The president of Iran for example has spoken many times of using a nuke to wipe Israel off the planet (in direct violation of UN law) so many times, we're pretty sure he means it. So...what do you think he'd do if he had one? And after that job was done, he'd bully the neighbors.
We used the atomics at a very, very early stage; we were in the largest war, ever, working against time with the Germans who were close to getting it first. But notice: in 60 years or so, we've never used it in anger. As a nation whose leaders are accountable to the people, it makes it very hard for a madman to rise to the ranks and do the deed. (And notice Regan didn't; he was trying to scare the Russians, and the best way to do that is to tell the Liberals something scary, since the friend-of-my-enemy is a Liberal. The Kremlin was behind the No Nukes Movement...I know what I'm talking about, here.)
It's just so surreal, though; knowing the good we've done, the 40,000 men who died to clear France for example, the play-by-the-rules military that we have, and there's a world of bloggers trying to convince us *WE* are the enemy. George Soros is definately getting his money's worth. I just hope there are History books that can be written, to store the history of the greatest propoganda posed by man.
You make it sound like only Republicans waste money- oh, no- not by a long shot. Remember the huge flood, I think it was 1996, which flooded thousands of families and farms along the Mississippi River? Carol Mosley-Braun D-CA, demanded that each and every one of her constituents needed $100 each for "grooming" before she would sign the bill. I don't know where this money went...and that's a big part of the problem...but this is insane.
So was the space station. Thanks to your hero, it was launched at an attitude more favorable to the Russians, giving them the catbird seat; American shuttle launches require more fuel and time to get there. But in a 'don't rock the boat' administration, he was trying to make everyone his friend.
The key point here is that, as a Conservative since 1980, I'm no happier with my guys than you are with your pseudo-anti-war, pseudo-anti-racism, "one more vote against the Republicans and it all gets better" people. To be precise, both side suck.
There's not one member of the cast of clowns on either side that's presidential timber, only wannabes. There's not a Regan on our side, nor a Truman on yours. So let's do something that'll fix it all: term limits. No more than 20 years in any elected post, ever. It will simplify it all. Robert Byrd is about to celebrate his 59th year in Congress; the founding fathers didn't see it as a life, just a short term-or-two and go back to the man's original business.
But now the business is being run by people who *only* know the law and how to get elected...which is why Hippa, SBO, The Patriot Act, and just about every other piece of legislation is pure Vertigo. They'll do whatever it takes to get re-elected, even if that means giving technical assistance to the other superpowers. Why should Hillary dictate hospital business? She's never been a nurse. At least Bush was a small part of the energy business when he wrote the energy policy, but that's not much help.
So push term limits; get the whole elected class out on the streets, and let's await the firy return of the space station.
Remember the Train Job? They were enroute to Paradiso...with MALware, to steal a crate of pascaline-D to keep the miners healthy...and wound up taking the load back to the sheriff.
God, I miss that show. But a day with this kinda pun? Enjoyable.
It's interesting to notice that scads of bloggers are attacking the billionaire; in America, it's thousands of bloggers, inspired by a billionaire, doing much harm: George Soros. I've never seen so many people convinced that we're the bad guy, using science that doesn't stand up to scrutiny, for fabulous conspriacy theories, challenging reason.
Much hate has been fostered by this man, treason, too...all because he doesn't like George Bush, for all I can tell. In a poll yesterday, MoveOn.org fielded a poll asking who they'd rather have as president, Mamoud or George; 46 percent picked the one with deathcamps for his homosexuals (and other undesirables), teams of people watching women's fashion and stoning them for their indescretions, and so on.
It's a very potent propoganda that makes these people angry enough to ignore several important "human rights violations" and vote for the madman.
The lesson? Money can change a lot of people's minds- even to madness, since "A lie repeated often enough, becomes truth". I wonder if *this* billionaire will go that route, or just hire a brigade of lawyers and go back to the party?
Another Nanny-state directive. I'm not sure which is worse, the people in IT complaining about working indoors, making in many cases several times the rest of the world, or Califonian "do gooders" trying to muck it up.
I was part of that world, IT, back before my Mom had a stroke and a fall; she's just getting over a heart-valve replacement, and I've been here almost seven years. There are no Linux jobs here, everything's still being done on Bill's toy, so an MCSE allows one to work for burger-money, but they can work anywhere. Me, I work in a Japanese resturant, mopping floors, washing dishes, and praying I make it to the end of the shift. It's real work; when it's done, I can tell. Sure, I'd rather be setting up a supercomputer in Chicago, but family comes first.
At every opportunity, TheFed wants to step in, over their limits, and control us. What's scary is that a huge chunk of people think it's a good idea.
THINK: When was the last time the government came in and _solved_ a problem? When was the last time it ever did anything with effeciency? With paranoia about missing documents and personal privacy unloading everywhere, HOW ON EARTH CAN ANYONE TRUST THE GOVERNMENT TO DO MORE than it already is?
(And you guys in IT cryin' about long hours...grab a mop and meet me at the sushi bar.)
Linux, unlike the SCO you sell today has come a tremendous way since 1989 when I first used SCO for my work. In fact, you had several year's lead on Linux, with a solid product, and a complicated X server (and just about everything else overcomplicated) but it ran solid...on certain motherboards.
Today, Linux has gone from an idea to an open-source monster. People developed on -it- because they loved the chance to claim part of it as their own- to develop without paying $1,100 plus the cost of the OS (until recently) to get the development system. (See my ~1996 email to that effect...) and so they developed, blossomed, and grew, while the change of management at SCO put the thing into solid ice. You stayed with 8-bit displays, cheasy graphics that "weren't worth your investment" and "didn't have a business need" and the Linux guys did it, anyway.
Remember "Steven"? Remember "Simpsons"? They were attempts for open-source people to inject some brevity into your product, even if you didn't condone it, you could have allowed it to happen. Remember u386mon? This would tell you how close you were to shutting down the entire operation and rebuilding the tables in the middle of the day...you didn't write it. And you wouldn't pay for the programmers who would change the way those tables would grow and manage themselves. But your customers did; I was the man on the spot when it shut down out of the blue, because some stupid table had overflowed.
You walked away from the product; you followed your 'business sense' that had nothing to do with software, grass-roots development, or any of the new things in business. And I even told you so in 1996. Who's laughing now?
No, not me- I'm busy fiddling with my 1-wire connected sensors, figuring out the best timing for better ventilation. Meanwhile I'm listening to David Benoit playing something sweet from an Ogg Vorbis file NFSed from a central server. (All Linux) And I just might play some more UT/Civilization or watch a movie later, all of which I couldn't DO on SCO, thanks to your strict adherence to 'widget centered' business school tactics that have no place in software.
I'm sorry your life sucks; you started with a powerhouse product but you wouldn't let it grow- always looking for the inside lock on profits. Your Unix/Xenix was a nice place to learn about Unix; I'm sorry it spent 25 years or so locked in amber and didn't grow up. But on the flip side, you should feel right at home on Linux. Your customers will, too, now that they can get X, productivity and all sorts of new powers from being a modern Unix.
Buy a shirt factory, sell aluminum can stock, be a stock broker...just don't come back to the OS market, you haven't the knack for it.
The point is, just like all politicians, he stayed on stage, fumbling for an answer to his question, even though Kerry has been in the shoes of the ravaged man for decades. The Left looks to these people to be 'enlightened', but obviously, they're not.
If they were, one word from Kerry could have stopped the security force in it's tracks. The diatribe was about how this is typical.
Now we can have a *company* to manage our mail. They're so good about security, companies are. And we're going to elect them to do our mail, voting with our money?
How about a revamp of the email system? I've not heard any good, serious ones. And they all start with "But we'll only be able to talk to part of the crowd, with this change..."
(That's how it starts, but with a multi-homed email server...)
Then you might have missed the part where, despite his cries for mercy (being the decades-old protester that Kerry is) he merely kept on prattling while this guy was being given the business. His message is important; the rough handling of a peon, is not.
Kerry is a man with no ideas. I seriously don't know why anyone would trust him with the simplest of tasks, much less take him seriously in a presidential bid.
"The Christmas of 1968 in DaNang is burned into my memory..." while in his book, Winter Soldier, he clearly didn't MAKE IT to DaNang for Christmas. That is, if you can FIND a copy- he's legally yanked all the copies off the shelf before the election. The guy's a professional boob. And the problem is that a great number of these people are either running our government, or trying to. Bob Dole, anyone? "WhichaWay" McCain? You see what I mean.
These people are good at one thing: getting elected. How could we think they're any good at running a single hospital, much less an entire nation's healthcare, when they don't *know* what nurses do, even. Hillary, for example, spent a day in a hospital "learning just what it is nurses do." John Edwards, though, is good a suing them!
I'm not making this up; this stupidity is rampant in American politics. We need term limits. 20 years lifetime for any elected position, in any combination.
Or, we'll keep having stupid laws and repressive federal laws, and geezers like Byrd fumbling with papers and spouting his dementia. "pretty...pretty...pretty". I wouldn't trust him to hold a DOOR for me, much less run a state or country....yet, he keeps getting elected.
Why then, when we distrust the government so much ($600 toilet seats, security breaches, etc) why would we knowingly hand over what might be our last freedoms for health care?
You mean someone as 'enlightened' and 'caring' as John "I went to Vietnam" Kerry actually used strong-arm tactics on someone from the crowd? How can that be?
It can be because, these guys are what you fear with the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy". These are the same people claiming not to be racist, yet organize a demostration where they throw Oreos at Maryland Senator running, there. A _black_ candidate.
They claim to not be racist, yet apportion money just for blacks, because they're black.
They claim to be enlightened, but they charge more taxes on the people from whom we get the most jobs...middle and upper class business owners.
They claim to have knowledge of the right way to fairness, yet the universal payer plan for healthcare is nothing more than an thinly-veiled way to control your life from Washington, DC. And what happens when they get it? **THEY** decide what you eat, **THEY** decide wether you need exercise, or to have children.
Guys, you're backing the wrong team. Universal Healthcare, for instance, is a nightmare to it's payers. And it's the most expensive addition to the nanny state we could ever envision.
When they say it's "Free", they mean someone else pays. That'd be you. If, because your employer has been taxed into bankruptcy, you have a job with which to pay YOUR taxes.
Open your eyes; we really, really, REALLY need term limits, and to restrict the growth and intrusion of the fed at all costs...or YOU just might be one of these guys, trying to recite the original Constitution at such an event.
Think I'm crazy? Right now CO2 has been declared a pollutant. Immenent Domain is now being used to take people's houses for higher taxes. Free speech no longer covers the six months before an election. And all over the place people are outlawing trans-fats.
The best way would be to tame the PURE VERTIGO that comes out of this paper. It's so one-sided it's obscene. Why do some papers think it important to sell to only one half of the populace?
I had to leave out parts, partly because this was second hand information, partly because it's probably not widely known. I don't know what kind of explosion, and the candidates were four hearty individuals that thought $4,000 a hour was a bargain; it wasn't.
As to the Christian viewpoint, I was reinforcing the fact that we're called to not do things exactly like this; not because of some tree-hugging fringe group, but our original edict. Secular folks go either way, but as Christians, we're supposed to know better.
And yeah, I know, "All religions are alike" and "more wars have been cause by religion than anything else" and all the other lies, but if you want to follow this further, drop me a line at Brian@Fahrlander.net.
From the Children's Television Workshop, who has told all of us that "We're SPECIAL" all our childhood, only to find at employment-time that we're not.:>
It's all part of the same chaos that's underway these days. Things are going to get really nasty before long. When sex is an anytime-thing, means nothing to the relationship, and can be seen all the time, it loses it's joy...leaving the person empty. (Just one example)
The current move is to destroy ALL traditions. That way, a future generation won't have any family 'tools' to fall back on, when the shit hits the fan. So no more dinners at home, no more family-planning helped out by Mom and Dad, no more respecting Mom and Dad, so the children will get into all kinds of trouble, and more likely die before finding his way to Christ.
Yeah, I know...I'm a Christian and there's those who can't abide the term, much less the reality...but I'm not talking to you (and won't be participating in the coming flamewar).
But those that don't know better are well on their way to knowing misery of unsurpassed proportions. The human was designed; has a designer; has operating characteristics. Using yours in a way outside this design is what's called "evil" as it deviates from the path that'll lead you to actual happiness, not momentary pleasure. That's all this "God Thing" is about.
Some will listen, learn their place and be happy, most will bitch moan and wonder why their life sucks, with a growing hatred that makes them YEARN for death. Life is easy; countering those who choose against it, that's the hard part.
Self-esteem used to be earned; now it's given like so many carbon-offsets. But that doesn't work, though it's pretty good at driving people crazy...
OK, the poster is *surprised* that embedded hardware (without the benefit of a decade's internet use, like DNS/DHCP) could be hacked and allow access to the LAN from the wireless?
You're kidding me.
Are there really *THIS* many people who think wireless is as secure as ethernet? This is one of the reasons I'm not building any wireless into my trailer. Do people have to be notified about the insecurity in wireless?
Oh, yeah...Microsoft is part of the sale; of course, they do. Carry on.
A friend's boyfriend was a bigtime toxic waste guy. I can't believe his life.
They had a job (I don't recall knowing where) where a group of four people were paid $4,000 AN HOUR to clean it up. The door to some kind of concrete bunker was dubious; they tunnelled instead underneath to get a good look inside with a periscope.
When they got to see it, they saw the craziest sight; the waste had turned the concrete to 'jello'. Think of it; something that can take one of the most useful and simple building compounds, a structural member of any storage facility, and reduce it to similarly-toxic psuedo-puddle. They thought the girl was going to live, missing only hair and the ability to have children, but like the men who died in an explosion, and another who got exposed, she died, too.
Can you imagine having a job where you *know* the candidates will die a horrible death, without a war or other up-front kind of activity?
The better question is, if a by-product you're making can 'melt' or otherwise destroy concrete, making it impossible to store, how can you continue to make it?...the candidate for the only allowable "world law" I can think of...but still barely worth a world law. (As if the UN could be trusted to shine one's shoes...)
There's crazy stuff hiding under there; it's our Christian role to care for the Earth- woe to us because we don't. I'm no tree-hugger by a long shot, but in this we're failing our job. I suspect a great deal of it is Cold-War-Era efforts to produce whatever necessary to attenuate our mutual fears.
Step one: Release something with an unbreakable code! They won't steal from us!
Step two: A 14 year old disabled kid in Sri-Lanka has not only broke the code, but optimized it's use.
Step three: A new, unbreakable code is installed.
Step four: A homeless man in Montreal breaks the code while sipping coffee.
Step five: Never, ever, EVER under any circumstances consider there to be breakable codes, and go back to step one.
Really, not Linux friendly, not cheap, and trying to limit their customer base....why not buy the competition? All you'd loose is the "cool", and that doesn't pay the bills...
If "THE kilogram" is changing it's weight/density/frebosity, then isn't the _need_ for an exact kilogram lessened? If you can detect such slight changes and call them authorative, why not make a dozen of them identical, and pass'em around the nations?
"This is George Washington's hammer. Sure, it's had 12 new heads and 9 new handles, but it's *still* his hammer.":>
I don't know if you've noticed, but our friends at the Storm BOTNet are already years ahead of you; with 50,000,000 computers (or more) to direct towards such a problem, you can have supercomputing evil TODAY!
"The media didn't try to "demonify" each and everything the Bush Administration did. Let's not get into the fact that it was the Bush Administration that put out "news releases" advocating their views using a TV news format, that it was the Bush Administration that paid conservative columnists for their supports, or that the Bush Administration planted "journalist" Jeff Gannon (not his real name) into white house press conferences to lob sympathetically slanted questions. Let's ignore how the media hounded Clinton (remember that accusations that his administration's vandalism of the White House on the way out that the Bushies never materialized documentation of). There is no liberal media bias in the US."
Yeah...Bush promoted ONE article and he's a diabolical madman. Remember when the Dow beat 10,000? Sure- all three broadcast media jumped on it: Clinton was president. Since then we've beat 11,000, 12,000 and 13,000. Just ONE news source reported breaking 13,000, and it wasn't a top story. There already *IS* a censorship in America: it's a liberal press. Nothing else explains this.
"# Karl Rove (Note the K) is a slimeball. Rove lied to federal investigators about a "bug" being planted in his office while he was running campaigns for Bush in Texas. He ran a smear campaign against McCain the republican primaries. From the outing of undercover CIA operatives to the firing of US prosecutors and the imprisonment of Democratic governors he has overstepped the law in order to accomplish political partisan gains."
First, this is the first I've ever heard about any bugs. And let's not repeat the DNC line about "outting" a "covert" operative. She hadn't been "covert" in half a decade; they were keeping no secrets about her identity, and it was a journalist that "outed" her, not Karl.
Be that as it may, this boob goes to see about Saddam's purchase of Uranium, says there was none, and then we see The New York Times story, May 22, 2004 about 8+ tons of uranium being hauled through the streets, and what an ass Bush is, for letting them drag it through the streets. (it was safer than having a plane shot down...)
This is a smoke screen. Another case where nothing happened (and since, no charges pending Libby, other than the 'process' crime) Worse yet, this propoganda ran for YEARS after the procesecutor knew who revealed her in under two weeks.
As to Delay, let's see those charges: it's been several years that he's been out of office, and yet there are no real charges being pursued. This procecutor has a habit of attacking Republicans. No real "caught on tape" here...see also the Duke Rape Case.:/
So how about Democrat William Jefferson of Louisiana, caught with $90,000 of FBI-marked money in his fridge. Why's HE still working? Because it'll take a "woman" to clean out the Congress; Pellozi is what we got instead.
The main problem is so many people walking around with hate. Media furnaces spew the stuff in all directions. It's magnified by several other factors that are meant to keep us off our footing and edgy. You have to watch a lot of news, not just the daily, for the reality. And way too many people are voting that invest only minutes into the research.
But how can anyone think, after the century of good we've done the world, that we're the bad guys, now? It's not us that fill trenches with 400,000 citizens; that was Saddam. We're not the ones keeping the Africans in malaria, that's the EU and primarily the French, who make mosquito nets. For this, we lose 300,000 a year- kids, women, old people...such a waste. All because they don't accept DDT for the safe answer to mosquitos that it is. (Now that we're not treating it's use like "flour" or "water" or other innoculous stuff.
We freed millions last century; we'll do it again this time, if it's needed. But no thanks for that, everyone just hates us, and that's ok. They don't have to love us; if they did, it'd be a sure sign they'd be sticking us with a knife.
Loose change guys? No. I'm a Conservative that's voted the same way (even against my party!) since I first voted for Regan. In the Republican party, there's room for discontent; think the woman almost appointed to the Surpreme Court. Think: the way the party changed in their permissiveness towards illegal immigration. In the democrats, there's no debate; there's not even any hard questions when they 'debate'.
Those guys are afraid of coherant thought; that's why they fear debating on the Fox News Channel. And if they're afraid of the media...how're they going to stand up to the bad guys?
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Oh, yeah? You don't watch a lot of news, do ya? There are dozens of places where the city council wanted a bowling alley instead of some people's homes; homes that had been there since 1947, as I recall. Eminent Domain was about tearing down houses ONLY for installing infrastructure, but these cases are still before the courts. The favorite of mine is where the Conservatives have petitioned the local government to tear down the house of a Supreme Court Judge who made it possible, to install a museum (which would pay more) called "Liberty House". (You should be able to Google that for the details.) There are a couple of guys in Seattle/Tacoma as I recall that were fined over $100,000 because they supported a _policy_ and not a _politician_ on the air; they lost their jobs, the last I'd heard. There have been encroachments upon Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness...the Patriot Act gets all the Press because George Bush asked for it, and George Soros hates him. (That's also why Rosie O'Donnell thinks "Fire doesn't melt steel!" and 9/11 was an inside job.) She should see Popular Mechanics this month.
Roe Vs Wade was decided for the entire population to mean "Abortion is Free" when the Constitution says nothing of the kind. And, in a long and storied history, when things aren't mentioned in the Constitution, the states get to decide for themselves. This is wrong.
McCain/Feingold: it stamps out political talk when we need it the most: 60 days before the election. This is *clearly* prohibition of free (and political) speech, in violation of the First Amendment. [Which, for all the talking heads out there, does NOT mean anyone can say anything and get away with it, but rather than no one will be *jailed* for it.]
Imminent Domain: A mayor or other local government body can now take YOUR home so that a fatcat (who will be paying more taxes than you) can put up his home. This is also very wrong.
So why is everyone jumping *only* on the Patriot Act, in a time of war?
Because most of the UN is made up, not of noble scholars and thoughtful people...they're the kind of people who took control of a small nation in the middle of the night from their cousins, kill their own civilians for fun and bully the nation next door to get more resources, once they realize they've squandered their own. See also Chavez; taking the farms from the white owners left a lot of land to work, and at gunpoint it gets worked quite poorly, lowering the amount of food for the populace.
America after World War Two was magnanimous; we had freed a billion people, almost completely for free (the Brits had a lend-lease thing going on) then we started pumping in millions for all the cities we'd just blown up: we realize, at the state level, that we need the other nations...but we don't need to conquer the other nations.
America has never said it wants to attack, change the government and own another nation; we don't want more territory- we just want wars there to stop. It's maddening when we take part in a distant war (think Bosnia) where we bombed the Christians and worked for the Muslims, and then come home. But we're not about expansion-for-expansion's sake, many/most of the UN members cannot make such a claim.
The president of Iran for example has spoken many times of using a nuke to wipe Israel off the planet (in direct violation of UN law) so many times, we're pretty sure he means it. So...what do you think he'd do if he had one? And after that job was done, he'd bully the neighbors.
We used the atomics at a very, very early stage; we were in the largest war, ever, working against time with the Germans who were close to getting it first. But notice: in 60 years or so, we've never used it in anger. As a nation whose leaders are accountable to the people, it makes it very hard for a madman to rise to the ranks and do the deed. (And notice Regan didn't; he was trying to scare the Russians, and the best way to do that is to tell the Liberals something scary, since the friend-of-my-enemy is a Liberal. The Kremlin was behind the No Nukes Movement...I know what I'm talking about, here.)
It's just so surreal, though; knowing the good we've done, the 40,000 men who died to clear France for example, the play-by-the-rules military that we have, and there's a world of bloggers trying to convince us *WE* are the enemy. George Soros is definately getting his money's worth. I just hope there are History books that can be written, to store the history of the greatest propoganda posed by man.
You make it sound like only Republicans waste money- oh, no- not by a long shot. Remember the huge flood, I think it was 1996, which flooded thousands of families and farms along the Mississippi River? Carol Mosley-Braun D-CA, demanded that each and every one of her constituents needed $100 each for "grooming" before she would sign the bill. I don't know where this money went...and that's a big part of the problem...but this is insane.
So was the space station. Thanks to your hero, it was launched at an attitude more favorable to the Russians, giving them the catbird seat; American shuttle launches require more fuel and time to get there. But in a 'don't rock the boat' administration, he was trying to make everyone his friend.
The key point here is that, as a Conservative since 1980, I'm no happier with my guys than you are with your pseudo-anti-war, pseudo-anti-racism, "one more vote against the Republicans and it all gets better" people. To be precise, both side suck.
There's not one member of the cast of clowns on either side that's presidential timber, only wannabes. There's not a Regan on our side, nor a Truman on yours. So let's do something that'll fix it all: term limits. No more than 20 years in any elected post, ever. It will simplify it all. Robert Byrd is about to celebrate his 59th year in Congress; the founding fathers didn't see it as a life, just a short term-or-two and go back to the man's original business.
But now the business is being run by people who *only* know the law and how to get elected...which is why Hippa, SBO, The Patriot Act, and just about every other piece of legislation is pure Vertigo. They'll do whatever it takes to get re-elected, even if that means giving technical assistance to the other superpowers. Why should Hillary dictate hospital business? She's never been a nurse. At least Bush was a small part of the energy business when he wrote the energy policy, but that's not much help.
So push term limits; get the whole elected class out on the streets, and let's await the firy return of the space station.
Remember the Train Job? They were enroute to Paradiso...with MALware, to steal a crate of pascaline-D to keep the miners healthy...and wound up taking the load back to the sheriff.
God, I miss that show. But a day with this kinda pun? Enjoyable.
It's interesting to notice that scads of bloggers are attacking the billionaire; in America, it's thousands of bloggers, inspired by a billionaire, doing much harm: George Soros. I've never seen so many people convinced that we're the bad guy, using science that doesn't stand up to scrutiny, for fabulous conspriacy theories, challenging reason.
Much hate has been fostered by this man, treason, too...all because he doesn't like George Bush, for all I can tell. In a poll yesterday, MoveOn.org fielded a poll asking who they'd rather have as president, Mamoud or George; 46 percent picked the one with deathcamps for his homosexuals (and other undesirables), teams of people watching women's fashion and stoning them for their indescretions, and so on.
It's a very potent propoganda that makes these people angry enough to ignore several important "human rights violations" and vote for the madman.
The lesson? Money can change a lot of people's minds- even to madness, since "A lie repeated often enough, becomes truth". I wonder if *this* billionaire will go that route, or just hire a brigade of lawyers and go back to the party?
Another Nanny-state directive. I'm not sure which is worse, the people in IT complaining about working indoors, making in many cases several times the rest of the world, or Califonian "do gooders" trying to muck it up.
I was part of that world, IT, back before my Mom had a stroke and a fall; she's just getting over a heart-valve replacement, and I've been here almost seven years. There are no Linux jobs here, everything's still being done on Bill's toy, so an MCSE allows one to work for burger-money, but they can work anywhere. Me, I work in a Japanese resturant, mopping floors, washing dishes, and praying I make it to the end of the shift. It's real work; when it's done, I can tell. Sure, I'd rather be setting up a supercomputer in Chicago, but family comes first.
At every opportunity, TheFed wants to step in, over their limits, and control us. What's scary is that a huge chunk of people think it's a good idea.
THINK: When was the last time the government came in and _solved_ a problem? When was the last time it ever did anything with effeciency? With paranoia about missing documents and personal privacy unloading everywhere, HOW ON EARTH CAN ANYONE TRUST THE GOVERNMENT TO DO MORE than it already is?
(And you guys in IT cryin' about long hours...grab a mop and meet me at the sushi bar.)
Linux, unlike the SCO you sell today has come a tremendous way since 1989 when I first used SCO for my work. In fact, you had several year's lead on Linux, with a solid product, and a complicated X server (and just about everything else overcomplicated) but it ran solid...on certain motherboards.
Today, Linux has gone from an idea to an open-source monster. People developed on -it- because they loved the chance to claim part of it as their own- to develop without paying $1,100 plus the cost of the OS (until recently) to get the development system. (See my ~1996 email to that effect...) and so they developed, blossomed, and grew, while the change of management at SCO put the thing into solid ice. You stayed with 8-bit displays, cheasy graphics that "weren't worth your investment" and "didn't have a business need" and the Linux guys did it, anyway.
Remember "Steven"? Remember "Simpsons"? They were attempts for open-source people to inject some brevity into your product, even if you didn't condone it, you could have allowed it to happen. Remember u386mon? This would tell you how close you were to shutting down the entire operation and rebuilding the tables in the middle of the day...you didn't write it. And you wouldn't pay for the programmers who would change the way those tables would grow and manage themselves. But your customers did; I was the man on the spot when it shut down out of the blue, because some stupid table had overflowed.
You walked away from the product; you followed your 'business sense' that had nothing to do with software, grass-roots development, or any of the new things in business. And I even told you so in 1996. Who's laughing now?
No, not me- I'm busy fiddling with my 1-wire connected sensors, figuring out the best timing for better ventilation. Meanwhile I'm listening to David Benoit playing something sweet from an Ogg Vorbis file NFSed from a central server. (All Linux) And I just might play some more UT/Civilization or watch a movie later, all of which I couldn't DO on SCO, thanks to your strict adherence to 'widget centered' business school tactics that have no place in software.
I'm sorry your life sucks; you started with a powerhouse product but you wouldn't let it grow- always looking for the inside lock on profits. Your Unix/Xenix was a nice place to learn about Unix; I'm sorry it spent 25 years or so locked in amber and didn't grow up. But on the flip side, you should feel right at home on Linux. Your customers will, too, now that they can get X, productivity and all sorts of new powers from being a modern Unix.
Buy a shirt factory, sell aluminum can stock, be a stock broker...just don't come back to the OS market, you haven't the knack for it.
I'm sure they won't get a blue screen of death... :>
(And I'd love to get 1/10th the service call.)
The point is, just like all politicians, he stayed on stage, fumbling for an answer to his question, even though Kerry has been in the shoes of the ravaged man for decades. The Left looks to these people to be 'enlightened', but obviously, they're not.
If they were, one word from Kerry could have stopped the security force in it's tracks. The diatribe was about how this is typical.
Now we can have a *company* to manage our mail. They're so good about security, companies are. And we're going to elect them to do our mail, voting with our money?
How about a revamp of the email system? I've not heard any good, serious ones. And they all start with "But we'll only be able to talk to part of the crowd, with this change..."
(That's how it starts, but with a multi-homed email server...)
Then you might have missed the part where, despite his cries for mercy (being the decades-old protester that Kerry is) he merely kept on prattling while this guy was being given the business. His message is important; the rough handling of a peon, is not.
Kerry is a man with no ideas. I seriously don't know why anyone would trust him with the simplest of tasks, much less take him seriously in a presidential bid.
"The Christmas of 1968 in DaNang is burned into my memory..." while in his book, Winter Soldier, he clearly didn't MAKE IT to DaNang for Christmas. That is, if you can FIND a copy- he's legally yanked all the copies off the shelf before the election. The guy's a professional boob. And the problem is that a great number of these people are either running our government, or trying to. Bob Dole, anyone? "WhichaWay" McCain? You see what I mean.
These people are good at one thing: getting elected. How could we think they're any good at running a single hospital, much less an entire nation's healthcare, when they don't *know* what nurses do, even. Hillary, for example, spent a day in a hospital "learning just what it is nurses do." John Edwards, though, is good a suing them!
I'm not making this up; this stupidity is rampant in American politics. We need term limits. 20 years lifetime for any elected position, in any combination.
Or, we'll keep having stupid laws and repressive federal laws, and geezers like Byrd fumbling with papers and spouting his dementia. "pretty...pretty...pretty". I wouldn't trust him to hold a DOOR for me, much less run a state or country....yet, he keeps getting elected.
Why then, when we distrust the government so much ($600 toilet seats, security breaches, etc) why would we knowingly hand over what might be our last freedoms for health care?
Wake up!
You mean someone as 'enlightened' and 'caring' as John "I went to Vietnam" Kerry actually used strong-arm tactics on someone from the crowd? How can that be?
It can be because, these guys are what you fear with the "Vast Right Wing Conspiracy". These are the same people claiming not to be racist, yet organize a demostration where they throw Oreos at Maryland Senator running, there. A _black_ candidate.
They claim to not be racist, yet apportion money just for blacks, because they're black.
They claim to be enlightened, but they charge more taxes on the people from whom we get the most jobs...middle and upper class business owners.
They claim to have knowledge of the right way to fairness, yet the universal payer plan for healthcare is nothing more than an thinly-veiled way to control your life from Washington, DC. And what happens when they get it? **THEY** decide what you eat, **THEY** decide wether you need exercise, or to have children.
Guys, you're backing the wrong team. Universal Healthcare, for instance, is a nightmare to it's payers. And it's the most expensive addition to the nanny state we could ever envision.
When they say it's "Free", they mean someone else pays. That'd be you. If, because your employer has been taxed into bankruptcy, you have a job with which to pay YOUR taxes.
Open your eyes; we really, really, REALLY need term limits, and to restrict the growth and intrusion of the fed at all costs...or YOU just might be one of these guys, trying to recite the original Constitution at such an event.
Think I'm crazy? Right now CO2 has been declared a pollutant. Immenent Domain is now being used to take people's houses for higher taxes. Free speech no longer covers the six months before an election. And all over the place people are outlawing trans-fats.
Wake up!
The best way would be to tame the PURE VERTIGO that comes out of this paper. It's so one-sided it's obscene. Why do some papers think it important to sell to only one half of the populace?
I had to leave out parts, partly because this was second hand information, partly because it's probably not widely known. I don't know what kind of explosion, and the candidates were four hearty individuals that thought $4,000 a hour was a bargain; it wasn't.
As to the Christian viewpoint, I was reinforcing the fact that we're called to not do things exactly like this; not because of some tree-hugging fringe group, but our original edict. Secular folks go either way, but as Christians, we're supposed to know better.
And yeah, I know, "All religions are alike" and "more wars have been cause by religion than anything else" and all the other lies, but if you want to follow this further, drop me a line at Brian@Fahrlander.net.
From the Children's Television Workshop, who has told all of us that "We're SPECIAL" all our childhood, only to find at employment-time that we're not. :>
It's all part of the same chaos that's underway these days. Things are going to get really nasty before long. When sex is an anytime-thing, means nothing to the relationship, and can be seen all the time, it loses it's joy...leaving the person empty. (Just one example)
The current move is to destroy ALL traditions. That way, a future generation won't have any family 'tools' to fall back on, when the shit hits the fan. So no more dinners at home, no more family-planning helped out by Mom and Dad, no more respecting Mom and Dad, so the children will get into all kinds of trouble, and more likely die before finding his way to Christ.
Yeah, I know...I'm a Christian and there's those who can't abide the term, much less the reality...but I'm not talking to you (and won't be participating in the coming flamewar).
But those that don't know better are well on their way to knowing misery of unsurpassed proportions. The human was designed; has a designer; has operating characteristics. Using yours in a way outside this design is what's called "evil" as it deviates from the path that'll lead you to actual happiness, not momentary pleasure. That's all this "God Thing" is about.
Some will listen, learn their place and be happy, most will bitch moan and wonder why their life sucks, with a growing hatred that makes them YEARN for death. Life is easy; countering those who choose against it, that's the hard part.
Self-esteem used to be earned; now it's given like so many carbon-offsets. But that doesn't work, though it's pretty good at driving people crazy...
OK, the poster is *surprised* that embedded hardware (without the benefit of a decade's internet use, like DNS/DHCP) could be hacked and allow access to the LAN from the wireless?
You're kidding me.
Are there really *THIS* many people who think wireless is as secure as ethernet? This is one of the reasons I'm not building any wireless into my trailer. Do people have to be notified about the insecurity in wireless?
Oh, yeah...Microsoft is part of the sale; of course, they do. Carry on.
A friend's boyfriend was a bigtime toxic waste guy. I can't believe his life.
...the candidate for the only allowable "world law" I can think of...but still barely worth a world law. (As if the UN could be trusted to shine one's shoes...)
They had a job (I don't recall knowing where) where a group of four people were paid $4,000 AN HOUR to clean it up. The door to some kind of concrete bunker was dubious; they tunnelled instead underneath to get a good look inside with a periscope.
When they got to see it, they saw the craziest sight; the waste had turned the concrete to 'jello'. Think of it; something that can take one of the most useful and simple building compounds, a structural member of any storage facility, and reduce it to similarly-toxic psuedo-puddle. They thought the girl was going to live, missing only hair and the ability to have children, but like the men who died in an explosion, and another who got exposed, she died, too.
Can you imagine having a job where you *know* the candidates will die a horrible death, without a war or other up-front kind of activity?
The better question is, if a by-product you're making can 'melt' or otherwise destroy concrete, making it impossible to store, how can you continue to make it?
There's crazy stuff hiding under there; it's our Christian role to care for the Earth- woe to us because we don't. I'm no tree-hugger by a long shot, but in this we're failing our job. I suspect a great deal of it is Cold-War-Era efforts to produce whatever necessary to attenuate our mutual fears.
Same battle, different hill...
Step one: Release something with an unbreakable code! They won't steal from us!
Step two: A 14 year old disabled kid in Sri-Lanka has not only broke the code, but optimized it's use.
Step three: A new, unbreakable code is installed.
Step four: A homeless man in Montreal breaks the code while sipping coffee.
Step five: Never, ever, EVER under any circumstances consider there to be breakable codes, and go back to step one.
Really, not Linux friendly, not cheap, and trying to limit their customer base....why not buy the competition? All you'd loose is the "cool", and that doesn't pay the bills...
...opensource the code on your way down the drain! :>
(Talk about one small step for man, one giant stumble for penguin-kind...the stuff has to be run on "certified" motherboards, FCOL...)
If "THE kilogram" is changing it's weight/density/frebosity, then isn't the _need_ for an exact kilogram lessened? If you can detect such slight changes and call them authorative, why not make a dozen of them identical, and pass'em around the nations?
:>
"This is George Washington's hammer. Sure, it's had 12 new heads and 9 new handles, but it's *still* his hammer."
What's a kilogram between friends, anyway?
I don't know if you've noticed, but our friends at the Storm BOTNet are already years ahead of you; with 50,000,000 computers (or more) to direct towards such a problem, you can have supercomputing evil TODAY!
I wish I was joking.
Real simple:
1. Microsoft and it's 1,000,000 virus problems.
2. Very breakable WEP encryption.
3. Compromise means downtime, money and time lost.
HELL NO, it's not the end of the Ethernet!
How is it all the people asking such stupid questions always have the airtime? Obviously he didn't bother to check with his sysadmin...
"The media didn't try to "demonify" each and everything the Bush Administration did. Let's not get into the fact that it was the Bush Administration that put out "news releases" advocating their views using a TV news format, that it was the Bush Administration that paid conservative columnists for their supports, or that the Bush Administration planted "journalist" Jeff Gannon (not his real name) into white house press conferences to lob sympathetically slanted questions. Let's ignore how the media hounded Clinton (remember that accusations that his administration's vandalism of the White House on the way out that the Bushies never materialized documentation of). There is no liberal media bias in the US."
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Yeah...Bush promoted ONE article and he's a diabolical madman. Remember when the Dow beat 10,000? Sure- all three broadcast media jumped on it: Clinton was president. Since then we've beat 11,000, 12,000 and 13,000. Just ONE news source reported breaking 13,000, and it wasn't a top story. There already *IS* a censorship in America: it's a liberal press. Nothing else explains this.
"# Karl Rove (Note the K) is a slimeball. Rove lied to federal investigators about a "bug" being planted in his office while he was running campaigns for Bush in Texas. He ran a smear campaign against McCain the republican primaries. From the outing of undercover CIA operatives to the firing of US prosecutors and the imprisonment of Democratic governors he has overstepped the law in order to accomplish political partisan gains."
First, this is the first I've ever heard about any bugs. And let's not repeat the DNC line about "outting" a "covert" operative. She hadn't been "covert" in half a decade; they were keeping no secrets about her identity, and it was a journalist that "outed" her, not Karl.
Be that as it may, this boob goes to see about Saddam's purchase of Uranium, says there was none, and then we see The New York Times story, May 22, 2004 about 8+ tons of uranium being hauled through the streets, and what an ass Bush is, for letting them drag it through the streets. (it was safer than having a plane shot down...)
This is a smoke screen. Another case where nothing happened (and since, no charges pending Libby, other than the 'process' crime) Worse yet, this propoganda ran for YEARS after the procesecutor knew who revealed her in under two weeks.
As to Delay, let's see those charges: it's been several years that he's been out of office, and yet there are no real charges being pursued. This procecutor has a habit of attacking Republicans. No real "caught on tape" here...see also the Duke Rape Case.
So how about Democrat William Jefferson of Louisiana, caught with $90,000 of FBI-marked money in his fridge. Why's HE still working? Because it'll take a "woman" to clean out the Congress; Pellozi is what we got instead.
The main problem is so many people walking around with hate. Media furnaces spew the stuff in all directions. It's magnified by several other factors that are meant to keep us off our footing and edgy. You have to watch a lot of news, not just the daily, for the reality. And way too many people are voting that invest only minutes into the research.
But how can anyone think, after the century of good we've done the world, that we're the bad guys, now? It's not us that fill trenches with 400,000 citizens; that was Saddam. We're not the ones keeping the Africans in malaria, that's the EU and primarily the French, who make mosquito nets. For this, we lose 300,000 a year- kids, women, old people...such a waste. All because they don't accept DDT for the safe answer to mosquitos that it is. (Now that we're not treating it's use like "flour" or "water" or other innoculous stuff.
We freed millions last century; we'll do it again this time, if it's needed. But no thanks for that, everyone just hates us, and that's ok. They don't have to love us; if they did, it'd be a sure sign they'd be sticking us with a knife.
Loose change guys? No. I'm a Conservative that's voted the same way (even against my party!) since I first voted for Regan. In the Republican party, there's room for discontent; think the woman almost appointed to the Surpreme Court. Think: the way the party changed in their permissiveness towards illegal immigration. In the democrats, there's no debate; there's not even any hard questions when they 'debate'.
Those guys are afraid of coherant thought; that's why they fear debating on the Fox News Channel. And if they're afraid of the media...how're they going to stand up to the bad guys?