Wasn't intended to be a troll. I thought it was kinda tongue in cheek myself. Maybe I should have hinted at that, but I figured the Rossane Bar comment would have made that obvious.
Question: why does Joe Blow deserve the rich person's money?
I can tell you why the "rich" man deserves his own money, he earned it.
I will assume you have heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."
By just giving things to folks we only allow them to remain dependent on the institution of welfare within the government. When the rich man buys his yatch productive people are going to be employed to build that yatch. Buys a multimillion dollar home on lake michigan productive people are employed to make the house. Now lets look at what happens when the government steps in and takes the rich man's money. Non producing people are employed to tax the rich man, that money is used to pay unproductive people in society to eat.
Now, here's the test. Which produces wealth continually and which reduces the amount of wealth in the society?
I am not absolutely positive, but I believe they were on the "B" Ark, not "C". You'll have to double check ofcourse, but since I am not at home I do not have my HHGTTG with me.:-(
What a damnable system where you pay taxes on what you spend! We should only tax people who make more than I do. Cause they are rich and I am not. We should tax successful people. Make it more difficult to allow successful people to create businesses which they can hire people to work in. If they are rich or make more money than I do they must have done something illegal.
You seemed to get a couple negative responses to you post. Myself, I want to chime in behind you and say good job.
Last spring my wife and I bought Win2k as our last microsoft purchase. At home we currently run linux for the majority of our time. My wife maintains the church bulletin and has been using office 97 until recently, now she isusing OO.org.
We also game on a regular basis, from EverQuest (up until last spring) and WCIII (until they busted FreeCraft, right before we were going to buy the espansion), and a number of other games.
When Bioware finally had NWN hit the street for linux we made the purchase within a month. Again, a month after the SoU expansion for NWN came out, we had that also from tuxgames. As the next expansion nears we'll probably pre-order it from tuxgames also. To us, supporting the linux gaming market is important, especially since we will not be buying another MS operating system, so once 2k isn't supported anymore we will not be able to play games on windows.
Game support isn't the only thing that needs to be supported though. Hardware also needs to have advocates behind it. We also make sure when we purchase new video cards that they are from companies that support linux, especially the ones that are just beginning support. As such our last two video cards have been ATI, and when we have crash bugs, we let them know. If the support is lagging, we let them know. We go to the feedback sites. ATI's drivers had lagged quite badly since last november when their initial support for the >7500 cards came out. We hit their linux drivers page every day. We used their issues page when XFree86 bumped to 4.3 from 4.2 because their drivers no longer worked.
My point is in full agreement with yours. Only through advocacy is linux gaming going to arrive. Sure, the games we play in linux may not have the fastest FPS, but they play well enough. Enough to make sure server logs show "linux" in them. We purchase linux games, we do not pirate them cause we can, we make sure that the companies supporting linux hardware and software get our dollars.
As you can see, I typically don't use the.mc files. Granted I don't think I have looked at my sendmail setup for quite a while now other than updates. Guess tonight I'll be looking at it again though.;-/
I actually find the.m4 files that make the.cf file more difficult to edit. Atleast with the.cf file you have a near complete documenation in the bat book. The.m4 doesn't seem to have a complete listing of options anywhere that I can find.
That and if you do wind up hand modifying the.cf at any point, you can't use the.m4 anyways.
OO.org was based on StarOffice. However, StarOffice is now OO.org with touch ups I believe.
Similar to how Mozilla was Netscape from when Netscape was opened. Now Mozilla is the base source tree and Netscape uses images from the Mozilla tree w/ updates.
Actually, the reason you can point to more cases where OSS software is good is because that is the software you use. You know what, it is commodity software.
Word processors, operating systems, web browsers, even web servers and databases, and the like are commodity. You would be hard pressed to find a useful machine without atleast one or two of the above on someone's desk.
However, the software that I get paid to develop at my current and previous jobs is not commodity software. At my last job we developed software for specialized integrated test systems (fancy name for testing stuff while trying to break them). There are very few companies in the market for what we did, and as such to stay ahead of the competition we kept our systems closed. If we were to do the development in an OSS fashion our competition would easily be able to copy our work and put us out of business.
Same with where I am working now. Our field is relatively small in the banking industry. It is software that a very few home users or other types of businesses would need, but the ones that need it need it desperately. So again, OSS would not fill this niche as there is simpley not a large enough community to sustain it.
Another field that OSS does not compete well in is games. Game engines may work as OSS, as there are a number of games that use OSS engines. However, the specialization and content of games does not lend itself well to the OSS. For roleplaying games you do not want to create content to scratch your itch of wanting to play an RPG, since you know the whole storyline in advance. 3d shooters may work, but content oriented games will probably fail in the OSS market.
No, I doubt folks would stop registering typo-domains. I would wish folks would realize how scummy they are if they require lying (or at a bare minimum misdirecting) someone just to get a hit on their page.
Interesting, isn't it? Getting ready for face recognition?
Immigration is still a privilidge. As far as submitting your photo, this is not a big deal. It would be foolish to let just anyone in and screening is an important part.
I see no problem making sure folks coming in come in legally and such.
I do see the "Funny", but this kind of stuff bugs me as much as spammers. It pisses me off when someone has a porn site with a typo-domain. I think it hurts the credibility of folks online for not wanting an.xxx domain. If you have to trick folks to find your page, maybe there is a reason for folks disliking your product.
As I don't know the area specifically you are refering to, I do know sections of the highway near where I live that especially during rush hour should be less than 50mph.
The highway goes directly through the city, and as such has many ramps on and off, some even on the left side. So, yes, there are highways where lower speeds would make sense.
Though, I do agree there are many highways where higher than 70mph would be nice.
Geesh, up until your crack at the Republicans, I was in full agreement with your post.
I think that we allow folks to immigrate to the states and work here. Live here. Bring their families here. Become citizens. Pay taxes. Get an education. Enjoy life here. All those things and many more is what makes America great.
Immigrants are immigrants usually for a single generation, often shorter than that since they can become citizens. Then they are part of us. Then they have to worry about the next batch of immigrants taking their jobs! Crazy huh?
Maybe you ought to ask yourself why there are so many immigrants in the US. There just might be a reason. We are not an exclusive club like many EU contries. We are the people, born here and immigrated here.
When the USS Reagan launched a short while ago I was reading some of the commentary and stories in the news. One was from one of his aides (I forget who exactly). He told the story of how when Reagan was at one of the Olymic games events and how he watched all the athletes enter. His comment to paraphrase was this:
The Chineese entered will all the Chinese looking folks, the Mexicans entered with all their Mexican looking folks, the african nations all entered with their african looking folks. But you know what brought the most joy, was that the Americans came in looking like all the world, white, black, short and tall, but all of them were Americans.
How so many people in our country claim that the republicans are the racist bunch is beyond me. If there was ever a group of people that truly would ignore skin color, gender, or such, the republicans are truly the political party who does not care who you are, but are all inclusive.
Do you also encourage your children to play in the streets?
There are many places I think speed limits should be dropped a few mph. The problem is that these were country roads at one point, but sprawl has reached these places, yet the speed limits have not dropped accordingly.
Ofcourse YMMV (pun intended), but speed laws are usually there for a reason. Obey them, but work within the system to change them. It usually doesn't take much to talk to your township/city to get them changed.
Btw, you were obviously not one of the 4000 folks in Italy or 11000 people in France that died from your ever so wonderful social welfare programs that protected your senior citizens last month?
Oh, I agree. There are no sources of energy that do not require a certain amount of trade off.
My point to the post above it was that they fellow didn't think that windmills or tidal had an effect on their surrounding areas, but they do actaully.
Many of the folks here think that solar or other so called renewable energy sources are magic that will take care of us in all situations. They are far from that, and their environmental impact is quite often more than conventional coal plants.
Now, my wife and I are purchasing land that we are planning on building on next spring. We have looked into a whole bunch of things for energy efficiency and generation. Biomass simpley does not create enough energy (or fuel) to be useful for us and requires a large amount of biomass to maintain. Solar is not terribley wonderful in the overcast great lakes region, especially in the winter! Wind is an option that we are looking seriously at as we will have plenty of land to work with and it is currently field.
On the efficiency side of things we are currently looking into heat pumps, unfortuneately we are unable to find much information about their effectiveness in our area. Ofcourse there is the obvious working on putting trees in for a windbreak and lining the house and windows up for the best usage of sunlight (yeah right) for heating in the winter.
While it is an option for us to plan a home around efficiency and energy generation, it is not something everyone can do. On a small scale a wind turbine is a wonderful idea, and the impact on the area around it is minor. However, the impact of a large scale operation would be noticable in the local area. These are the things too many slashdoters are forgetting.
Wind has a certain amount of energy within it. If we tap this energy with a windmill, or even a whole windmill farm, we are removing a certain amount of energy from that wind. Somewhere else in the world that wind's energy is not going to be used now. What was that wind's energy used for down the road? Possibley in a mountain area to helped keep trees of the mountain. Possibley the wind helped the migration of birds on their flight south in the winter or north in the spring?
You can claim that we are just taking a little bit of energy from the wind, which you may be right. Individually each car only puts out a little emmissions. There is also the issue of local wildlife being displaced from the wind farms because of noise and the birds that are killed from the blades onthe turbines.
I could give examples of problems with each energy source, but either you get the point now or you do not. The point being that every source of energy you are breaking the "natural" pattern of things. What we need to do is evaluate if breaking this pattern is worth it.
While striving for a perfect and clean solution is a good idea, I think there will be several pit stops along the way. We have gone from steam from burning wood, then coal, then oil, nuke, and I am sure many more stops along the way. Each time we either find a more efficient or useful energy source or clean energy source.
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Wasn't intended to be a troll. I thought it was kinda tongue in cheek myself. Maybe I should have hinted at that, but I figured the Rossane Bar comment would have made that obvious.
I saw the part about not going to jail and that the UK doesn't have the same laws against cruel and unusual punishment, but 5000 pounds!
I mean, that like having Rossanne Bar sit on you or something. Could anyone live through that?
Oh, nevermind, pounds in UK are currency. My bad, that's right, you guys use metric too, don't you... Carry on, nothing to see here.
And you dare call yourself Zaphod. :-P
Question: why does Joe Blow deserve the rich person's money?
I can tell you why the "rich" man deserves his own money, he earned it.
I will assume you have heard the saying, "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, teach him to fish and he will eat for a lifetime."
By just giving things to folks we only allow them to remain dependent on the institution of welfare within the government. When the rich man buys his yatch productive people are going to be employed to build that yatch. Buys a multimillion dollar home on lake michigan productive people are employed to make the house. Now lets look at what happens when the government steps in and takes the rich man's money. Non producing people are employed to tax the rich man, that money is used to pay unproductive people in society to eat.
Now, here's the test. Which produces wealth continually and which reduces the amount of wealth in the society?
I am not absolutely positive, but I believe they were on the "B" Ark, not "C". You'll have to double check ofcourse, but since I am not at home I do not have my HHGTTG with me. :-(
I should have my towel around here though...
What a damnable system where you pay taxes on what you spend! We should only tax people who make more than I do. Cause they are rich and I am not. We should tax successful people. Make it more difficult to allow successful people to create businesses which they can hire people to work in. If they are rich or make more money than I do they must have done something illegal.
Idiot.
Farenheit 451 + Brave New World + 1984 + Matrix
It was entertaining enough.
You seemed to get a couple negative responses to you post. Myself, I want to chime in behind you and say good job.
Last spring my wife and I bought Win2k as our last microsoft purchase. At home we currently run linux for the majority of our time. My wife maintains the church bulletin and has been using office 97 until recently, now she isusing OO.org.
We also game on a regular basis, from EverQuest (up until last spring) and WCIII (until they busted FreeCraft, right before we were going to buy the espansion), and a number of other games.
When Bioware finally had NWN hit the street for linux we made the purchase within a month. Again, a month after the SoU expansion for NWN came out, we had that also from tuxgames. As the next expansion nears we'll probably pre-order it from tuxgames also. To us, supporting the linux gaming market is important, especially since we will not be buying another MS operating system, so once 2k isn't supported anymore we will not be able to play games on windows.
Game support isn't the only thing that needs to be supported though. Hardware also needs to have advocates behind it. We also make sure when we purchase new video cards that they are from companies that support linux, especially the ones that are just beginning support. As such our last two video cards have been ATI, and when we have crash bugs, we let them know. If the support is lagging, we let them know. We go to the feedback sites. ATI's drivers had lagged quite badly since last november when their initial support for the >7500 cards came out. We hit their linux drivers page every day. We used their issues page when XFree86 bumped to 4.3 from 4.2 because their drivers no longer worked.
My point is in full agreement with yours. Only through advocacy is linux gaming going to arrive. Sure, the games we play in linux may not have the fastest FPS, but they play well enough. Enough to make sure server logs show "linux" in them. We purchase linux games, we do not pirate them cause we can, we make sure that the companies supporting linux hardware and software get our dollars.
My bad... you are right, .mc files.
.mc files. Granted I don't think I have looked at my sendmail setup for quite a while now other than updates. Guess tonight I'll be looking at it again though. ;-/
As you can see, I typically don't use the
I actually find the .m4 files that make the .cf file more difficult to edit. Atleast with the .cf file you have a near complete documenation in the bat book. The .m4 doesn't seem to have a complete listing of options anywhere that I can find.
.cf at any point, you can't use the .m4 anyways.
That and if you do wind up hand modifying the
Hmmm, I am not so sure.
OO.org was based on StarOffice. However, StarOffice is now OO.org with touch ups I believe.
Similar to how Mozilla was Netscape from when Netscape was opened. Now Mozilla is the base source tree and Netscape uses images from the Mozilla tree w/ updates.
Bah, when I was a kid, we had to use Borland C++ 3.0. And we liked it.
And when I was an embryo we had to use punch cards, and we liked it!
You young'ins ain't got it tough, you and your new fangled gui's and champange and happy-naked-pagan-dances...
Actually, the reason you can point to more cases where OSS software is good is because that is the software you use. You know what, it is commodity software.
Word processors, operating systems, web browsers, even web servers and databases, and the like are commodity. You would be hard pressed to find a useful machine without atleast one or two of the above on someone's desk.
However, the software that I get paid to develop at my current and previous jobs is not commodity software. At my last job we developed software for specialized integrated test systems (fancy name for testing stuff while trying to break them). There are very few companies in the market for what we did, and as such to stay ahead of the competition we kept our systems closed. If we were to do the development in an OSS fashion our competition would easily be able to copy our work and put us out of business.
Same with where I am working now. Our field is relatively small in the banking industry. It is software that a very few home users or other types of businesses would need, but the ones that need it need it desperately. So again, OSS would not fill this niche as there is simpley not a large enough community to sustain it.
Another field that OSS does not compete well in is games. Game engines may work as OSS, as there are a number of games that use OSS engines. However, the specialization and content of games does not lend itself well to the OSS. For roleplaying games you do not want to create content to scratch your itch of wanting to play an RPG, since you know the whole storyline in advance. 3d shooters may work, but content oriented games will probably fail in the OSS market.
No, I doubt folks would stop registering typo-domains. I would wish folks would realize how scummy they are if they require lying (or at a bare minimum misdirecting) someone just to get a hit on their page.
Interesting, isn't it? Getting ready for face recognition?
Immigration is still a privilidge. As far as submitting your photo, this is not a big deal. It would be foolish to let just anyone in and screening is an important part.
I see no problem making sure folks coming in come in legally and such.
I do see the "Funny", but this kind of stuff bugs me as much as spammers. It pisses me off when someone has a porn site with a typo-domain. I think it hurts the credibility of folks online for not wanting an .xxx domain. If you have to trick folks to find your page, maybe there is a reason for folks disliking your product.
If you head to a sports store in the fishing section you can find some lead weights. Melt a couple down and try that for extra weight.
Make sure you don't melt your mouse in the process though.
As I don't know the area specifically you are refering to, I do know sections of the highway near where I live that especially during rush hour should be less than 50mph.
The highway goes directly through the city, and as such has many ramps on and off, some even on the left side. So, yes, there are highways where lower speeds would make sense.
Though, I do agree there are many highways where higher than 70mph would be nice.
Geesh, up until your crack at the Republicans, I was in full agreement with your post.
I think that we allow folks to immigrate to the states and work here. Live here. Bring their families here. Become citizens. Pay taxes. Get an education. Enjoy life here. All those things and many more is what makes America great.
Immigrants are immigrants usually for a single generation, often shorter than that since they can become citizens. Then they are part of us. Then they have to worry about the next batch of immigrants taking their jobs! Crazy huh?
Maybe you ought to ask yourself why there are so many immigrants in the US. There just might be a reason. We are not an exclusive club like many EU contries. We are the people, born here and immigrated here.
When the USS Reagan launched a short while ago I was reading some of the commentary and stories in the news. One was from one of his aides (I forget who exactly). He told the story of how when Reagan was at one of the Olymic games events and how he watched all the athletes enter. His comment to paraphrase was this:
The Chineese entered will all the Chinese looking folks, the Mexicans entered with all their Mexican looking folks, the african nations all entered with their african looking folks. But you know what brought the most joy, was that the Americans came in looking like all the world, white, black, short and tall, but all of them were Americans.
How so many people in our country claim that the republicans are the racist bunch is beyond me. If there was ever a group of people that truly would ignore skin color, gender, or such, the republicans are truly the political party who does not care who you are, but are all inclusive.
SCOTUS also tries to legislate from the bench on a reasonable basis too. They are hardly a non-political organization.
Our form of government is designed to have checks and balances. When one branch gets out of hand, it is up to the other two to fix the problem.
Do you also encourage your children to play in the streets?
There are many places I think speed limits should be dropped a few mph. The problem is that these were country roads at one point, but sprawl has reached these places, yet the speed limits have not dropped accordingly.
Ofcourse YMMV (pun intended), but speed laws are usually there for a reason. Obey them, but work within the system to change them. It usually doesn't take much to talk to your township/city to get them changed.
Yeap, social welfare.
Btw, you were obviously not one of the 4000 folks in Italy or 11000 people in France that died from your ever so wonderful social welfare programs that protected your senior citizens last month?
Oh, I agree. There are no sources of energy that do not require a certain amount of trade off.
My point to the post above it was that they fellow didn't think that windmills or tidal had an effect on their surrounding areas, but they do actaully.
Many of the folks here think that solar or other so called renewable energy sources are magic that will take care of us in all situations. They are far from that, and their environmental impact is quite often more than conventional coal plants.
Now, my wife and I are purchasing land that we are planning on building on next spring. We have looked into a whole bunch of things for energy efficiency and generation. Biomass simpley does not create enough energy (or fuel) to be useful for us and requires a large amount of biomass to maintain. Solar is not terribley wonderful in the overcast great lakes region, especially in the winter! Wind is an option that we are looking seriously at as we will have plenty of land to work with and it is currently field.
On the efficiency side of things we are currently looking into heat pumps, unfortuneately we are unable to find much information about their effectiveness in our area. Ofcourse there is the obvious working on putting trees in for a windbreak and lining the house and windows up for the best usage of sunlight (yeah right) for heating in the winter.
While it is an option for us to plan a home around efficiency and energy generation, it is not something everyone can do. On a small scale a wind turbine is a wonderful idea, and the impact on the area around it is minor. However, the impact of a large scale operation would be noticable in the local area. These are the things too many slashdoters are forgetting.
I see I am not the only one with the Monty Python calendar this year. :-)
Try a holistic view.
Remember the butterly that flapped its wings?
Wind has a certain amount of energy within it. If we tap this energy with a windmill, or even a whole windmill farm, we are removing a certain amount of energy from that wind. Somewhere else in the world that wind's energy is not going to be used now. What was that wind's energy used for down the road? Possibley in a mountain area to helped keep trees of the mountain. Possibley the wind helped the migration of birds on their flight south in the winter or north in the spring?
You can claim that we are just taking a little bit of energy from the wind, which you may be right. Individually each car only puts out a little emmissions. There is also the issue of local wildlife being displaced from the wind farms because of noise and the birds that are killed from the blades onthe turbines.
I could give examples of problems with each energy source, but either you get the point now or you do not. The point being that every source of energy you are breaking the "natural" pattern of things. What we need to do is evaluate if breaking this pattern is worth it.
While striving for a perfect and clean solution is a good idea, I think there will be several pit stops along the way. We have gone from steam from burning wood, then coal, then oil, nuke, and I am sure many more stops along the way. Each time we either find a more efficient or useful energy source or clean energy source.