You know, you could have just said "The intention was to state that the people behind www.es5.com are anti-semitic. No claims were being made about the racial attitudes of Hollywood."
Resorting to name calling, profanity and threats of violence only serves to discredit you and your statements. The person to whom you are writing will not perceive you as dangerous, nor will they consider your statements to be worthy of consideration. You will not get them to think or pay attention. Instead, you will be written off as a vulgar, unimaginative and potentially violent individual.
Conducting oneself with civility and maturity does a lot to convey your message.
I think the tobacco and liquor comparison has a few flaws.
I think Drunk Driving laws are a better frame of reference. These ships are flying over your land and mine, over cities, parks and everything else, or they will be in the near future.
It sound like the government has taken a very reasonable approach in the matter. They're going to let people risk their lives in these things after full disclosure, and if the ships prove dangerous to the people on the ground, they'll step in and start regulating.
It looks like if the companies building these crafts keep the masses on Planet Earth in mind, they'll be able to operate without much restriction.
In other words, as long as they only kill the people who've been warned they might get killed, and smash the property they've designated for crashing, they can do what they want.
Besides, liquor isn't all that bad. It's believed to reduce the risk of heard disease and help with concentration among other things, in reasonable quantities. Reasonable being defined as one or two glasses of wine with dinner.
Given the sync problems and other assorted Palm related issues (Don;t get me started on the lack of a wireless card for the T2) I'd say this will be a disaster.
They can barely get their own software to run. Even if they just toss their GUI on Linux, it still won't work, because based on the recent products I've seen, they don;t have the technical expertise to pull off such a project.
Apple has skilled, competent developers.
Palm has just enough talent to get the next half-assed hack out the door.
Palm + Linux = Suck, and probably a boatload of GPL violations while we're at it.
I'm unfortunate enough to own a T2, and I can tell you it's the last PALM device I'll ever own.
Let's see, sync problems on 80% of my sync attempts, freezes and there's the whole "We're not going to let anyone develop a wireless card for it because it would eat into sales of the more expensive models" mess which REALLY pissed me off.
I hate to say it, but I'll probably get a Windows powered or Blackberry device for my next hand held. Heaven knows I won't get a Palm.
What does Iraq's former government have to do with what we've already lost in the US?
I didn't say anything about the war in Iraq. I was talking about what Bush has done to our civil liberties and to human rights overall. Most of the complaints I have are about stunts he pulled BEFORE invading Iraq.
What makes you think that the war in Iraq justifies things like The Patriot Act? Would you also have excused Stalin's execution of 20 million of his own people if you learned he built a couple orphanages on on the site of some razed villages?
I just don't understand the conviction many people have that all of Bush's acts are excused by 9/11 or the war in Iraq.
A bad leader is a bad leader, even if he occasionally stumbles into doing something good now and then.
Look at all the ammo Bush and predecessors have given to repressive governments all around the world.
You mean like authorizing torture and thinking of ways to circumvent the Geneva Convention with imaginative and legally unstable word games?
Or getting the UN to declare that the citizens of a country that's occupied by another country can't resist violently?
Or what about providing a template for holding "elections" that are quickly and easily handed over to the "right" person regardless of who the citizens actually voted for?
Oh, Wait! I know, its his outline for stripping away civil liberties and rights, allowing any republic to quickly become a fascist police state with just a couple of quick bills.want Stalin would have cried with joy over the Patriot Act.
All those who DON'T mention God, the RIGHT, Conservative, Gay Killing God, will be banned.
Those who mention this Allah guy, or any of that pagan crap will be declared enemy combatants as they should be and shipped off to be interrogated.
Free Speech and Civil Rights on the other hand, well only terrorists want those, because God fearing Christian Americans don't have anything to fear from the government. Quite the opposite, they know it's the Righteous Hand of God, reaching out to protect the faithful.
Only Terrorists want privacy and civil rights, so they can hide their plans to kill Americans!
Replacement for the screen saver::start_here
wget -m http://www.artofsense.com/english/
rm -rf www.artofsense.com goto start_here
Of course, I'm one of thos freaks who has Cygwin installed on his work W2K box, so the above is a Windows Batch file for people who have cygwin installed.
www.artofsense.com is the only one still responding
Exactly. If the mortgage guys don't like the packets coming from our screensavers, why haven't they sent us any opt-out requests?
By continuing to send SPAM, they have opted in to this program!
The act of sending SPAM is an opt-in request for this handy, distributed, load testing system!
Any time they want to opt out, all they have to do is stop sending SPAM, and their opt-out request will be processed within X business days!
How very handy!
I wonder if Lycos would be willing to sell this handy load testing system without requiring you to first send SPAM? I know I'd like to have the new firewall and load balancers stress tested before putting them into production.
It's kind of unfair to restrict this free load testing to established bulk mailers.
Linus can manage an open source development organization without the traditional management hierarchy that is managed by Ballmer/Gates and all the rest of 'em.
I'd argue that all Balmer and Gates do is manage that "traditional management hierarchy" and they would consider the kind of interaction that Torvalds is so good at to be beneath them. They'd consider it working with "Grunts" or "Underlings"
This is, in my eyes, a significant sigh of Linux riding the wave of new technology and ideas, while Balmer and his ilk are more interested in maintaining the status quo than in evolving.
The candle manufactures are attacking light bulbs as best they can.
Of course, all bets are off when The Shrub's new IP Czar takes control, public domain is abolished and quoting becomes a "Terrorist Act" that gets you declared an "Enemy Combatant"
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You know, you could have just said "The intention was to state that the people behind www.es5.com are anti-semitic. No claims were being made about the racial attitudes of Hollywood."
Resorting to name calling, profanity and threats of violence only serves to discredit you and your statements. The person to whom you are writing will not perceive you as dangerous, nor will they consider your statements to be worthy of consideration. You will not get them to think or pay attention. Instead, you will be written off as a vulgar, unimaginative and potentially violent individual.
Conducting oneself with civility and maturity does a lot to convey your message.
Well, that would prevent it from becoming a problem and killing people, if it's killed at the outset.
We wouldn't have automobile accidents if Henry Ford and his competitors had been regulated into oblivion.
I think the tobacco and liquor comparison has a few flaws.
I think Drunk Driving laws are a better frame of reference. These ships are flying over your land and mine, over cities, parks and everything else, or they will be in the near future.
It sound like the government has taken a very reasonable approach in the matter. They're going to let people risk their lives in these things after full disclosure, and if the ships prove dangerous to the people on the ground, they'll step in and start regulating.
It looks like if the companies building these crafts keep the masses on Planet Earth in mind, they'll be able to operate without much restriction.
In other words, as long as they only kill the people who've been warned they might get killed, and smash the property they've designated for crashing, they can do what they want.
Besides, liquor isn't all that bad. It's believed to reduce the risk of heard disease and help with concentration among other things, in reasonable quantities. Reasonable being defined as one or two glasses of wine with dinner.
This is like the US banning a game for referring to an independent Iraq.
Spybot and Adaware are the blue guys.
All the rest are shades of red
So on top of everything else, the OS is running a lot of code optimized for an older, slower processor.
Grand.
But MAC has competent programmers.
Given the sync problems and other assorted Palm related issues (Don;t get me started on the lack of a wireless card for the T2) I'd say this will be a disaster.
They can barely get their own software to run. Even if they just toss their GUI on Linux, it still won't work, because based on the recent products I've seen, they don;t have the technical expertise to pull off such a project.
Apple has skilled, competent developers.
Palm has just enough talent to get the next half-assed hack out the door.
Palm + Linux = Suck, and probably a boatload of GPL violations while we're at it.
Palm is nearing the end of the line.
I'm unfortunate enough to own a T2, and I can tell you it's the last PALM device I'll ever own.
Let's see, sync problems on 80% of my sync attempts, freezes and there's the whole "We're not going to let anyone develop a wireless card for it because it would eat into sales of the more expensive models" mess which REALLY pissed me off.
I hate to say it, but I'll probably get a Windows powered or Blackberry device for my next hand held. Heaven knows I won't get a Palm.
More likely to give you a paper cut.
If not on paper, won't do anything during a power outage.
Can't cook or help you do laundry.
Can't go to plays with you without making you look like a noob.
Didn't you ever see Cherry 2000?
You got the order all wrong.
Hologram Porn will come first.
Military use of Holograms MIGHT be first, but it's unlikely.
What does Iraq's former government have to do with what we've already lost in the US?
I didn't say anything about the war in Iraq. I was talking about what Bush has done to our civil liberties and to human rights overall. Most of the complaints I have are about stunts he pulled BEFORE invading Iraq.
What makes you think that the war in Iraq justifies things like The Patriot Act? Would you also have excused Stalin's execution of 20 million of his own people if you learned he built a couple orphanages on on the site of some razed villages?
I just don't understand the conviction many people have that all of Bush's acts are excused by 9/11 or the war in Iraq.
A bad leader is a bad leader, even if he occasionally stumbles into doing something good now and then.
Well, at least their governments will appreciate it.
And when you get down to it, that's all the other governments really care about anyway.
Corporations only get to have a say because they have so much MONEY.
"It's all in your point of view"
- Some old Jedi, as told to George Lucas
since airport security people are, shall we say, incompetent.
Hey!
A friend of mine used to work in airport security.
He says they got a whole 15 minutes of training on their first day, and some of the staff even knew how to use the x-ray equipment!
Of course he left for a higher paying job.privacy and civil rights, becwant You can only go so far on $20k a year.
Look at all the ammo Bush and predecessors have given to repressive governments all around the world.
You mean like authorizing torture and thinking of ways to circumvent the Geneva Convention with imaginative and legally unstable word games?
Or getting the UN to declare that the citizens of a country that's occupied by another country can't resist violently?
Or what about providing a template for holding "elections" that are quickly and easily handed over to the "right" person regardless of who the citizens actually voted for?
Oh, Wait! I know, its his outline for stripping away civil liberties and rights, allowing any republic to quickly become a fascist police state with just a couple of quick bills.want Stalin would have cried with joy over the Patriot Act.
Ban those who mention God?
Heavens no!
Don't you listen to Father Bush?
All those who DON'T mention God, the RIGHT, Conservative, Gay Killing God, will be banned.
Those who mention this Allah guy, or any of that pagan crap will be declared enemy combatants as they should be and shipped off to be interrogated.
Free Speech and Civil Rights on the other hand, well only terrorists want those, because God fearing Christian Americans don't have anything to fear from the government. Quite the opposite, they know it's the Righteous Hand of God, reaching out to protect the faithful.
Only Terrorists want privacy and civil rights, so they can hide their plans to kill Americans!
Hey, it's a SIG that goes after one of my pet peeves, what's not to like?
Incredible.
You found a site that will give me a reason to use IE, at least for that single page.
Now, how to get this working in Mozilla / Firebird....
All they have to do to opt out is stop sending SPAM!
Each SPAM is a fresh opt-in request!
How cool is that?
Should have hit "preview" first, then I would have
known to set the type to CODE on the post.
:start_here
wget -m http://www.artofsense.com/english/
rm -rf www.artofsense.com
goto start_here
Replacement for the screen saver: :start_here
wget -m http://www.artofsense.com/english/
rm -rf www.artofsense.com
goto start_here
Of course, I'm one of thos freaks who has Cygwin installed on his work W2K box, so the above is a Windows Batch file for people who have cygwin installed.
www.artofsense.com is the only one still responding
Exactly. If the mortgage guys don't like the packets coming from our screensavers, why haven't they sent us any opt-out requests?
By continuing to send SPAM, they have opted in to this program!
The act of sending SPAM is an opt-in request for this handy, distributed, load testing system!
Any time they want to opt out, all they have to do is stop sending SPAM, and their opt-out request will be processed within X business days!
How very handy!
I wonder if Lycos would be willing to sell this handy load testing system without requiring you to first send SPAM? I know I'd like to have the new firewall and load balancers stress tested before putting them into production.
It's kind of unfair to restrict this free load testing to established bulk mailers.
Linus can manage an open source development organization without the traditional management hierarchy that is managed by Ballmer/Gates and all the rest of 'em.
I'd argue that all Balmer and Gates do is manage that "traditional management hierarchy" and they would consider the kind of interaction that Torvalds is so good at to be beneath them. They'd consider it working with "Grunts" or "Underlings"
This is, in my eyes, a significant sigh of Linux riding the wave of new technology and ideas, while Balmer and his ilk are more interested in maintaining the status quo than in evolving.
The candle manufactures are attacking light bulbs as best they can.
For now, quoting is still fair use.
Of course, all bets are off when The Shrub's new IP Czar takes control, public domain is abolished and quoting becomes a "Terrorist Act" that gets you declared an "Enemy Combatant"
So you get a burned hand.
/.ers, takes us right back to the "exploding" cell phone damaging your sex life.
Which, for most