Did I say Bin Laden's demands were reasonable? No, as a matter of fact, I didn't. However, Bin Laden would get a lot LESS support for his unreasonable demands (and therefore many fewer footsoldiers) if, when we acted on the world stage, we actually lived up to the rhetoric the american public is spoonfed on a regular basis.
Just because there are real terrorists out there, and they did us real harm, doesn't mean that what Bush is doing right now isn't still witch hunting. He (along with his Attorney General, among others) is taking a national tragedy and cynically turning it into an excuse to gut the little bits of the bill of rights left. Oh, except for the right to bear arms. And probably they won't leave much of that around unless you meet a strict wasp pedigree.... And also using it as an excuse to justify any international aggression they might happen to want too. Afghanistan, protecting Bin Laden, was a legimate target. Iraq, who, if they really were this huge threat would have attacked us long ago, is not.
I think the comparison to Germany is quite appropriate. Instead of actually talking about the real reasons such deranged terrorists are targeting us (among other things, the fact that we let dictators and multinationals run roughshod over the rights of the poor of other countries without doing anything to help achieve real justice, and in many cases with active complicity in the crimes), our boy George spends all of his time waxing eloquent about how they're evil and jealous of our success. Talk about no sense of reality.
Does that mean I think the terrorists were justified? Hell fucking no. Does it mean that I think there are real reasons that they use to justify their unjustifiable actions, reasons which we could actually do something about? Hell yes. And I'm really angry to see our President have his head so far up his ass as to appoint a convicted felon to attack MY privacy in the name of his witch hunt.
Good. It's about time that real media started paying attention to this. Want to scare yourself silly? Check out the details of what Poindexter is working on at http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ (see link in my sig).
You get the government you deserve. Enjoy the lack of privacy and power abuses ushered in by the new completely controlled regime. (Just FYI I'd be saying the same thing if it were a completely Democratic federal government).
Stallman is pushing this thing because its modular and relies on the Mach microkernel and the Flux OSKit library, in stark contrast to Linux's monolithic kernel design.
Uh huh. The Linux kernel has been very modular (though not at the level of Mach) for quite some time.
It's also worth noting that Mach was tried in the marketplace as well...where is it today? "monolithic" kernels with modular drivers are quite a bit more common out there.
Given the common whining rhetoric complaining that they don't get enough credit for providing most of the "unix" utilities in Linux (while they do deserve credit, whining about it is not the answer), you'd think they'd be in a bigger hurry to do it themselves and do it "right". After all, Linus took what they claimed to want to do all those years ago, and did it himself in a lot less time and a lot more successfully (at least so far). That's not a ringing endorsement of the gnu/fsf ideology....
The ruling on the MS case is not a primary reason to lose faith in the Supreme Court. Things like their ruling in Bush V Gore (or was it Gore V Bush? I forget), and all the interesting political bs documented as going on in Closed Chambers by Ed Lazarus are all much more damning than that. For the record, while Ed documents thoroughly the inconsistencies of the alleged "strict constructionists" on the court, the liberals are just as much at fault, so don't construe me as having a particular agenda.
Let's see; all the parties involved would be under a gag order.... At this point if all they say is "no comment", that basically confirms the premise. You really don't think that there's any chance that everyone involved has been leaned on and threatened with legal action to get them to go along?
I don't say it's the most likely possibility, but I think it's naive and bordering on stupid to presume it's impossible.
You seem to forget that the communists are no longer in direct control in Russia. And obviously they were not successful in sustaining big brother in any sense.
I suspect we are a lot more likely to see that approach succeed here. Comparisons to a regime that mostly died 13 years ago are irrelevant.
If you can't tell (by being big brother) how much money anyone is making, and therefore how much taxes they owe, there's hardly any chance that you'll be able to tell what anyone is thinking and whether or not it conforms to Big Brother's Standards of Conduct. Money is easier to track than brainwaves and purchasing patterns.
What are you thinking? You're talking about kernel hacking here, a practice dominated by geeks who have nothing better to do than stare deeply into the eyes of the OS and think of ways to make it better. You think they have had time (in the aggregate) to learn the normal social lessons about whining?
And before someone bashes me here, I'm not a linux kernel geek, but you wouldn't be able to tell it from my bookshelf. The stuff interests me more than I think is healthy.:-)
1) maintaining a vaccuum would be pretty difficult and expensive.
2) maintaining a vaccuum could conceivably be dangerous.
3) most right-of-ways for such a huge undertaking are probably already claimed by other projects in any major metro. Yah, I know eminent domain & all that, but that'll end up in court forever.
It seems the point of the clause is to prevent people from being able to say "I can transplant this browser/whatever into Windows to replace explorer across the system". Is that reasonable? Tough call. I don't really think so, but....
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Did I say Bin Laden's demands were reasonable? No, as a matter of fact, I didn't. However, Bin Laden would get a lot LESS support for his unreasonable demands (and therefore many fewer footsoldiers) if, when we acted on the world stage, we actually lived up to the rhetoric the american public is spoonfed on a regular basis.
I think the comparison to Germany is quite appropriate. Instead of actually talking about the real reasons such deranged terrorists are targeting us (among other things, the fact that we let dictators and multinationals run roughshod over the rights of the poor of other countries without doing anything to help achieve real justice, and in many cases with active complicity in the crimes), our boy George spends all of his time waxing eloquent about how they're evil and jealous of our success. Talk about no sense of reality.
Does that mean I think the terrorists were justified? Hell fucking no. Does it mean that I think there are real reasons that they use to justify their unjustifiable actions, reasons which we could actually do something about? Hell yes. And I'm really angry to see our President have his head so far up his ass as to appoint a convicted felon to attack MY privacy in the name of his witch hunt.
Haven't you heard of the Patriot Act?
Good. It's about time that real media started paying attention to this. Want to scare yourself silly? Check out the details of what Poindexter is working on at http://www.darpa.mil/iao/ (see link in my sig).
You get the government you deserve. Enjoy the lack of privacy and power abuses ushered in by the new completely controlled regime. (Just FYI I'd be saying the same thing if it were a completely Democratic federal government).
Ah, another republican apologist.
That's not a tiny niche market?
Uh huh. The Linux kernel has been very modular (though not at the level of Mach) for quite some time.
It's also worth noting that Mach was tried in the marketplace as well...where is it today? "monolithic" kernels with modular drivers are quite a bit more common out there.
Given the common whining rhetoric complaining that they don't get enough credit for providing most of the "unix" utilities in Linux (while they do deserve credit, whining about it is not the answer), you'd think they'd be in a bigger hurry to do it themselves and do it "right". After all, Linus took what they claimed to want to do all those years ago, and did it himself in a lot less time and a lot more successfully (at least so far). That's not a ringing endorsement of the gnu/fsf ideology....
Ah. Sure would. As far as I know, China isn't having troubles collecting taxes :-). And obviously twas my failure to read "china" that started it.
The ruling on the MS case is not a primary reason to lose faith in the Supreme Court. Things like their ruling in Bush V Gore (or was it Gore V Bush? I forget), and all the interesting political bs documented as going on in Closed Chambers by Ed Lazarus are all much more damning than that. For the record, while Ed documents thoroughly the inconsistencies of the alleged "strict constructionists" on the court, the liberals are just as much at fault, so don't construe me as having a particular agenda.
I don't say it's the most likely possibility, but I think it's naive and bordering on stupid to presume it's impossible.
I suspect we are a lot more likely to see that approach succeed here. Comparisons to a regime that mostly died 13 years ago are irrelevant.
If you can't tell (by being big brother) how much money anyone is making, and therefore how much taxes they owe, there's hardly any chance that you'll be able to tell what anyone is thinking and whether or not it conforms to Big Brother's Standards of Conduct. Money is easier to track than brainwaves and purchasing patterns.
And before someone bashes me here, I'm not a linux kernel geek, but you wouldn't be able to tell it from my bookshelf. The stuff interests me more than I think is healthy. :-)
Right. They aren't organized enough to COLLECT TAXES, you really expect me to believe they're organized enough to be big brother?
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2) maintaining a vaccuum could conceivably be dangerous.
3) most right-of-ways for such a huge undertaking are probably already claimed by other projects in any major metro. Yah, I know eminent domain & all that, but that'll end up in court forever.
At least they all have real stories not "we'll give you a better summary as soon as we can read up on this."
and you are sure of this how?
Completely leaving windows off is not providing non-MS middleware that changes the interface. it's simply replacing the OS, which is not middleware.
It seems the point of the clause is to prevent people from being able to say "I can transplant this browser/whatever into Windows to replace explorer across the system". Is that reasonable? Tough call. I don't really think so, but....
Who cares? Trillian and other clients already make interoperability a practical reality. They need to get over it.
My bad. Somewhere I forgot I was logged into NYT. Beat me now.
it's even simpler than that. You don't need the ex, en, ei values. And it doesn't care what partner is set to: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/01/sports/otherspor ts/01RACI.html?partner=YOMAMA works just fine. Brilliant coding, I must say.