I don't quite get why people are vegan. Who wants to give up cheese and steak? I respect it as a personally valid lifestyle decision and moral stance, however. This is a lot like that, IMHO.
No, Debian voted by general resolution to keep some non-free crap in the kernel. The non-free blobs which can be legally distributed but are not free software were moved to non-free were they can be installed if desired. Of course there's a lot of stuff in the vanilla kernel that can't be legally distributed by anyone.
They have all that mono tainted stuff. I don't know if Gnusense has gotten rid of that or not.
Uncontacted peoples are peoples who, either by choice or chance, live without significant contact with the larger civilizations of the world.
Recent usage favors the term "isolated" rather than "uncontacted" as few peoples have remained totally uncontacted by modern civilization, but a number have chosen to make contact either exceedingly difficult or dangerous. Many indigenous rights activists call for such groups to be left alone in respect of their right to self-determination.
The lenders weren't selling securities. They were selling lots of mortgages to Wall Street firms which were packaging them into securities. To make the initial mortgages they were leveraged, sometimes at rates of 10:1 or higher. They were borrowing all the money they were lending out and then selling the mortgages to pay off the loans. When stuff started to take a nosedive, the people high on the foodchain stopped buying the high-risk mortgages, leaving the the little guys stuck with bad mortgages and no way to pay off their debt.
How about trying to educate people rather than designing to the lowest common denominator? The cult of usability has overtaken the Linux desktop to such a degree that console aps are the only usable ones left.
I switched to linux ten years ago because I was tired of windows treating me like I'm stupid. Now the *nix desktop is succumbing to the same insulting disease.
Azureus is the only client I'll use. I hate software that thinks it knows better than me how to use it.
Right now I'm using a hammer to prop open a window. Does the fact that the hammer can be used for something other than driving nails mean that it has poor usability?
all you anarchists who think you're conservative crack me up.
Read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine. For at least the last half of the 20th century conservatives have pursued an Authoritarian state which hires out as much of the labor as it can. The state and industry become merged in their opression of the common folk. It has nothing to do with individual liberties.
The democrats are now definitely more libertarian than any Republicans other than Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan. You'll note that it's been a long time since Democrats made gun control a major platform plank, for example.
And now FF is wanting to work on integrating more with gnome. That means the already inadequate preferences will likely be stripped down until it's as useless as epiphany.
A lot of my family is from Oak Ridge TN, where the nuclear payload for the atomic bombs dropped in WWII was fabricated there is now a national lab.
It's common knowledge that frogs are a problem for the feds around there. That's amphibians, not the French.
Here's the problem. Frogs live in the ponds by the cooling towers. The frogs are radioactive. The frogs jump out on the road and get squished. There are then lots of radioactive tires rolling in and out of town. The multi-million doallar system purchased to keep people from sneaking radioactive material out of the area is therefore useless.
Why the hell is the water in the coolant ponds radioactive? Isn't that a bad sign? Nobody cares, they are all used to it by now. The thing with the frogs sure is funny though.
Think about it. If he's been there for 20 years and never heard him say that kind of thing, isn't it logical to assume that he didn't say that kind of thing a whole lot?
Look at when he said it. It was right after 9/11. Everybody was saying crazy shit for a few weeks after 9/11. People were seriously proposing that airline passengers be required to fly in hospital gowns. Pat Robertson was blaming the whole thing on the gays. I was ready to join the marines.
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I don't quite get why people are vegan. Who wants to give up cheese and steak? I respect it as a personally valid lifestyle decision and moral stance, however. This is a lot like that, IMHO.
No, Debian voted by general resolution to keep some non-free crap in the kernel. The non-free blobs which can be legally distributed but are not free software were moved to non-free were they can be installed if desired. Of course there's a lot of stuff in the vanilla kernel that can't be legally distributed by anyone.
They have all that mono tainted stuff. I don't know if Gnusense has gotten rid of that or not.
The G in Gnome stands for GNU.
The term "uncontacted" is falling into disuse in some circles. Most just live in extreme isolation and avoid contact with the outside world.
Of those who have no contact, they likely have contact with other tribes who do. I bet they all know we're out here.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_tribes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncontacted_tribes
"contamination" is quite literal. Think diseases.
to place restrictions on private industry
The lenders weren't selling securities. They were selling lots of mortgages to Wall Street firms which were packaging them into securities. To make the initial mortgages they were leveraged, sometimes at rates of 10:1 or higher. They were borrowing all the money they were lending out and then selling the mortgages to pay off the loans. When stuff started to take a nosedive, the people high on the foodchain stopped buying the high-risk mortgages, leaving the the little guys stuck with bad mortgages and no way to pay off their debt.
That was really good.
If you're talking several gigs of data, put it on an encrypted drive and FedEx it. Send the password or key via encrypted email.
No, but a Gnome developer might tell you that the screwdriver has bad UI design for letting you do that.
ask Bob
Slackware isn't different from other distros. Other distros are different from slackware.
slackware:linux::Rolling Stones:Rock&Roll
Check out WebGUI
http://www.plainblack.com/webgui
How about trying to educate people rather than designing to the lowest common denominator? The cult of usability has overtaken the Linux desktop to such a degree that console aps are the only usable ones left.
I switched to linux ten years ago because I was tired of windows treating me like I'm stupid. Now the *nix desktop is succumbing to the same insulting disease.
Azureus is the only client I'll use. I hate software that thinks it knows better than me how to use it.
Right now I'm using a hammer to prop open a window. Does the fact that the hammer can be used for something other than driving nails mean that it has poor usability?
all you anarchists who think you're conservative crack me up.
Read Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine. For at least the last half of the 20th century conservatives have pursued an Authoritarian state which hires out as much of the labor as it can. The state and industry become merged in their opression of the common folk. It has nothing to do with individual liberties.
The democrats are now definitely more libertarian than any Republicans other than Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan. You'll note that it's been a long time since Democrats made gun control a major platform plank, for example.
Gannett is buying up the local weeklies and turning them into local flavors of USA Today.
Media consolidation is the culprit here, not any new technology.
And now FF is wanting to work on integrating more with gnome. That means the already inadequate preferences will likely be stripped down until it's as useless as epiphany.
If a white guy had said most of the same stuff in The Nation, nobody would have batted an eye.
The whole point of this is to to conflate Obama with the media stereotype of an angry black man, just like has been done with Jackson and Sharpton.
A lot of my family is from Oak Ridge TN, where the nuclear payload for the atomic bombs dropped in WWII was fabricated there is now a national lab.
It's common knowledge that frogs are a problem for the feds around there. That's amphibians, not the French.
Here's the problem. Frogs live in the ponds by the cooling towers. The frogs are radioactive. The frogs jump out on the road and get squished. There are then lots of radioactive tires rolling in and out of town. The multi-million doallar system purchased to keep people from sneaking radioactive material out of the area is therefore useless.
Why the hell is the water in the coolant ponds radioactive? Isn't that a bad sign? Nobody cares, they are all used to it by now. The thing with the frogs sure is funny though.
Plus, nobody has proposed socialized medicine. Even Kucinich (who I voted for) drew the line before making Doctors government employees.
read the whole sermon.
A lot of what you've heard him say was stuff he said quoting someone else. Those video clips take stuff so far out of context it's disgusting.
Think about it. If he's been there for 20 years and never heard him say that kind of thing, isn't it logical to assume that he didn't say that kind of thing a whole lot?
Look at when he said it. It was right after 9/11. Everybody was saying crazy shit for a few weeks after 9/11. People were seriously proposing that airline passengers be required to fly in hospital gowns. Pat Robertson was blaming the whole thing on the gays. I was ready to join the marines.