I get a real kick out of the Coors Light commercials. "Because America likes cold beer," or some such is their slogan. I'd rather have Kid Rock on again surrounded by scantily clad hot chicks.
Anyway, they something to the effect of "Competitor beer is heat pasturized, Coors Light is cold-brewed." Yeah. And Coors is also heat pasturized. If they didn't pasturize their beers, more Americans that drink the putrid stuff would have the worst gas...
Now, I'm not saying that unpasturized stuff sucks. In fact, some of my favorite beer is unpasturized and unfiltered. Yeast in the bottom of the bottle and everything. I'm just ranting about Coor's lying through omission.
Technically, every malt beverage out there is a beer. It is made from malted barley, turned into wort, which is fermented. After the point of fermentation and drainage, it is considered a beer.
Hops and whatnot are used to flavor the beer, but even that Smirnoff Ice is a beer, as is the hooch, the Doc Otis, and the Mike's. The Jack Daniels mixed drinks are not, though, because they are a mix of juice & jack.
From the raspberry lambic bottle sitting in front of me: "Lindemans Framboise is a lambic made from local barley, unmalted wheat, and wild yeast. After spontaneous fermentation the lambic is aged in oak. Raspberries are added, creating a secondary fermentation and yielding an ale of exceptional flavor and complexity."
I'm sorry, but no. It's not the yeast that makes it taste like raspberries, um, it's the raspberries that make it taste like raspberries.
That's only IF you want full optimization. If you don't, you'll be running a system like Mandrake, only installing new software and updates will be much simpler.
I tend to believe that this is because conservatives don't really want equality of opportunity (as seen with their implicit endorsement of the "good ol' boy" system that rich people enjoy).
That isn't the purpose of those breaks at all. The theory is trickle-down, and it works in theory. As it is, the money that finds its way into the hands of the rich ends up in their money-market / bank / wal-street accounts. This means that the money has gone back into the economy.
Anyways, it can be argued conversely as well. One could say that the liberals don't really want equality of opportunity, because they coddle the poor. If you give the poor money on a regular basis, you pretty much ensure that they won't have the drive to become more than poor, and you also ensure that you have their vote in the upcoming election. The poor don't really get any richer, but their opinion of the liberals is that much better. It's a form of oppression, but it is effective for the liberals.
Lastly, I've believed that the definitions of liberal, libertarian, conservative, and socialist can be explained by their tight/loose views in two categories.
Liberals favor increased (tight) government and relaxed (loose) social values. Liberals love to govern more than just interstate issues, and also almost encourage a non-religious lifestyle.
Conservatives favor relaxed (loose) government and increased (tight) social values. People have to take responsibility for themselves and their communities, and the Church goes hand in hand with it. Of course, they like the long plaid skirts and button-down shirts.
Socialists favor big government and tight social control. Everyone has their needs taken care of by the government, but there are also strict rules about how people should act, and so on. They believe in strict control over business, or perhaps abolishing a free market altogether. The government ensures that everyone has a job, has rights within their job, and everyone has oppurtunities. There is a lot of government involvement here.
Libertarians are the original Liberals. Little government control/involvement, and little control on social values. The extremists are the ones that get the most voice, it seems... If they were in control, though, things would be rather chaotic. Free market, free enterprise, free competition, the right to control things through monopoly, etc. are valued by the libertarians. Also valued are mohawks, leather pants, nose rings, gays, straights, bis,... whatever.
Looking at how Bush has been lazzai-faire towards the Microsoft thing, and also how he's tried to cut back on Government involvement, he's been fairly conservative. Foriegn policy is a function of social belief, if there's a disagreement, the conservative ideal is to try to enforce what you think is right. The liberal way is to try to accept the way of life of other people, etc.
Of course, if you have a liberal in office, the likelihood of terrorist attacks would likely increase, and not from a Chainey viewpoint. For some reason, Liberals (especially Kerry) seem to think that the arabs in the middle-east will change their minds about us if we do a bunch of summits. They seem to forget that we've been having summits on and off for a long time already. They hate us for how relaxed our country's values are, they hate us for our commercial success, they are jealous of our freedom, etc. etc. etc. They aren't going to change any time soon, and if we let them, they will attempt another attack.
Of course, Bush's method of bombing and killing isn't really a great solution either. I look at it as a rather unsolvable situation at the moment, and it can only change with the changing of the viewpoint of future generations on both sides. Perhaps they won't hate us so much in the future, and perhaps we won't be so arrogant as to think that we can change them. It sorta sucks
At the moment, my fridge is stocked with Sam Adam's Octoberfest...
The main reason for this is that most "imports" are brewed on American soil, under license from foriegn breweries. This is essentially the same thing that the Guinness brewery does, as it is the sole producer of Anheiser-Busch products in Europe. Ironically, the drink of choice amongst kids in Ireland at the moment is Bud Ice.
Don't bother drinking imports in the US, there are plenty of excellent beers brewed locally. Check out Bell's in Michigan, they make an excellent Red Lager, a superb double-cream stout, and a few others. Other notables are the obvious, Samuel Adams, Goose Island, and Berghoff. I include Berghoff because they make a great dark. It's also cheaper than most of those "expensive" beers. Colorado is also the home of a couple none-huge breweries that produce a quality brew.
If you want good imports, stick with Paulaner, Tetley's (goodness is debatable), and Stella Artois. I've had a few cases of skunky Newcastle, the clear bottles don't help the cause. American brewed "imports" are also decent, Warsteiner, Harp, Bass, and Guinness.
What is all of this talk about a geek tax? If you want Gentoo, just use a LiveCD to install it. It's not going to be fully compiled and whatever for your machine, but you'll get the same configuration out of it, the same slick desktop.
If you want it all to be customized from there, just set your gcc flags, recompile glibc, recompile gcc, then recompile glibc again. After that, things will be recompiled as you update.
One of the reasons why we are the fastest growing party in America is because we participate in presidential elections.
A single-person party that suckers another person into joining has a 100% growth rate. How about that being the reason why the Green party is the "fastest growing party in America."
There's two different types of republicans. There are the big corporate buffoons, like the ones in the White House, then there are the more independant ones. Don't confuse or label Bush as a representative for the whole party.
As a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is sinful. I also believe that unborn children are living humans, and killing them because they are inconvenient is wrong.
If I were in government, though, I wouldn't do anything to prevent homosexuality. It is a part of our government that the Church should not have a strong influence over it. I would probably try to get the verbage changed, if anything, because I believe that "Marriage" is a religious institution, as opposed to a "Union," which is a bit more of a legal one. The government shouldn't have any control over who can be in a union with whom, I just find the usage of "marriage" and the power of the government to grant it to people troubling.
Killing babies, though... man. That's a moral issue, not a religious one. Even the most vocal proponent of "choice," which is just a euphamism for "death," Mrs. Roe is now wishing that she hadn't had an abortion. Not only is it mindless killing, it is also a psychological burden to most would-have-been mothers.
Until a president has the balls to say that doctors, hospitals and parms are EXTORTING the American public and make laws to stop them it will not change.
That's incorrect. The biggest expense that a doctor has is malpractice insurance. This expense is so large, that their prices are necessarily high. Most doctors end up taking home a small percentage of the revenue.
Malpractice insurance is a result of the greedy Americans who file for damages. There are those who have legitimate cases, and they ought to be rewarded, but there are a ton of frivolous malpractice suits as well. Health costs come down to the greedy American looking for a big payoff with minimum work.
The other reason why expenses are so high is the barrier to entry into the market. Many patents on pharmaceuticals run out by the time the company has met federal requirements. This seriously reduces the amount of profit that the company can gain off of their work before knock-off pharm companies start producing the same medicine.
If the FDA eased off on the drug regulations, and maybe let the patent law for medicines change, then medical costs would be reduced. Things always get more expensive when the 800 pound gorilla of American government decides to get involved.
One republican does not a party make. Everything that happened under Ryan was dispicable, especially his letting condemned murderers out of prison.
The dems in Chicago are by far the most corrupt pieces of political poo on this Earth. We can go scandal for scandal, and you wouldn't stand a chance. How about paying truckers to sleep in parking lots? How about giving contracts to friends and family, instead of choosing the best option for the people? How about Millenium Park? Miggs? The Wrigley Field fiasco? (chunks have been falling there since the 60's. Daily only now decided to start bitching about it. I guess it has something to do with the comparative success of the Cubs vs. the Sox) Then there's the blacktop scandal as well.
I could also go into the fact that if people find out that you voted republican, they seem to have a good success rate, you lose your garbage service. Oh, I know that it's not how it's "supposed" to be, but the unions make it that way.
Face it. Daily and his cronies have iron-fisted control over Chicagoan politics. The unions make sure that votes go his way, and the democrat way. It's always been this way with the Daily family. I wouldn't be surprised if they have mob connections either. People love Daily, though. He keeps the streets clean of garbage, and makes sure that the snow plows are out on time. As if this makes a mayor.
There is nothing dirtier than Chicagoan politics. To deny it just furthers that corruption.
It doesn't really matter what policy Illinois has. It's the home of the democratic machine. It's where Obama comes from. Even if the state had a real republican vote, enough dead people would vote democrat to change that result.
It's strange, though. About 85% of the land area of Illinois contains primarily republicans, but it's really just the vote of Chicago that matters.
It's more like the women are a bit more uptight, and the men are more aggressive in the "checking out" area. If a woman checks out a man, it makes it all that much easier for him.:-)
M F Sorry, you are S.O.L. Can't beat her up, legal system won't help. Just try to get the tapes/data erased and kick her out. Of course, if she's kinky enough, maybe there should be a change in strategy.
How many guys would actually give a crap if a chick were spying on them? C'mon. If it's there, and remains there, it means that she likes looking at your butt or your dong. If she's not nasty, why not try to get a piece of that ass?
If she is nasty, well... consider your usage of the bathroom as a charity case.
The most important guy is named "Abu," and he doesn't really speak English.
I heard that the Republican party used this guy to develop their "vault," or whatever, where they keep clones of Abu clothed in white armor. Naturally, the republicans don't speak Abu's language, so they used their secret weapon "W" to make monkey sounds at him.
Next thing you know, the Democrats are going to be outsourcing software to the Republicans to work on.
The quality of the games isn't the selling point anymore. It is the graphical quality. The games that ran on a 1 MB video card were not hardware accelerated. They had flat pixies that were painted on to the screen, and faked a three-dimensional environment. Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom are examples of this, they required more CPU than graphics power.
This changed around the time that 3DFX, Glide, and OpenGL were becoming popular in games. The moment that this happened, the memory requirements went up, as did the visual eyecandy. I had no problem enjoying Tie Fighter, for instance. It wasn't 3-D accelerated (it even came on floppy disks). Now, I play a game like Freespace, and it's just an amazing experience. It's far more immersive than Tie Fighter ever was. Of course, it has steeper requirements for the hardware.
The games haven't become more inefficient. If you want to call denser, more detailed textures and models "Bloat," go ahead. You're probably the type that really has a ball playing Tetris for the four hundredth time. For the rest of us, who have almost come to expect a complete immersive environment, the requirements are fair. We're willing to pay the price.
The ones who chug out the games that run on the hardware we have are judged by the same standards too. If the game is pretty, but not fun, it flops. If the game is pretty and fun, it gets rave reviews. If the game is un-pretty, but fun, it is expected that it comes out for free. CS Anyone?
nVidia discarded FX because no one adopted it. For standard DirectX/OpenGL, it was decent, but compared to ATI's solution, it was teh SUX0r5. If FX was explicitly programmed for, however, it r0x0red the house.
That's not as bad as Cook County, Illinois. There, depending on the 'burb, a townhouse will run for $400K. The inner city (loop area) commands prices in the millions.
Then again, everything in Chicago is rediculous. The mayor spends millions on his buddies, the rest of the people gripe, but can't seem to vote him out. Too many dead people vote for the guy.
Where did I say he was right? The original queston was whether or not he gave substantial reasons why he thought svn was flawed. I just reiterated, in short, his reasons.
Don't shoot the messenger. Using any of the three, cvs, svn, or arch, would be an improvement over M$-$$
He stated a few advantages that arch has over svn. Lessee....
Branching software: svn makes this a function of copying the entire tree. arch, it seems, just keeps the deltas for these branches.
Hardware requirements: Lord said that svn requires beefy equipment, arch is lightweight.
Speed: svn is slower than arch.
Now, I don't really care which one is better or not. I'm forced to use SourceSafe at the place that I work. Branch in SourceSafe sucks. It's like making a hamburger by killing the cow, butchering the beef, grinding it, patting it into balls, squishing the balls, and frying them up. Then you have to grow the wheat...
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Well, where I live, I can buy beer just about anywhere. Oh wait! I'm 24. I don't care if they card me.
Besides, you have your own problems if you can't find someone old enough to buy for you.
I get a real kick out of the Coors Light commercials. "Because America likes cold beer," or some such is their slogan. I'd rather have Kid Rock on again surrounded by scantily clad hot chicks.
Anyway, they something to the effect of "Competitor beer is heat pasturized, Coors Light is cold-brewed." Yeah. And Coors is also heat pasturized . If they didn't pasturize their beers, more Americans that drink the putrid stuff would have the worst gas...
Now, I'm not saying that unpasturized stuff sucks. In fact, some of my favorite beer is unpasturized and unfiltered. Yeast in the bottom of the bottle and everything. I'm just ranting about Coor's lying through omission.
Technically, every malt beverage out there is a beer. It is made from malted barley, turned into wort, which is fermented. After the point of fermentation and drainage, it is considered a beer.
Hops and whatnot are used to flavor the beer, but even that Smirnoff Ice is a beer, as is the hooch, the Doc Otis, and the Mike's. The Jack Daniels mixed drinks are not, though, because they are a mix of juice & jack.
From the raspberry lambic bottle sitting in front of me: "Lindemans Framboise is a lambic made from local barley, unmalted wheat, and wild yeast. After spontaneous fermentation the lambic is aged in oak. Raspberries are added, creating a secondary fermentation and yielding an ale of exceptional flavor and complexity."
I'm sorry, but no. It's not the yeast that makes it taste like raspberries, um, it's the raspberries that make it taste like raspberries.
That's only IF you want full optimization. If you don't, you'll be running a system like Mandrake, only installing new software and updates will be much simpler.
I tend to believe that this is because conservatives don't really want equality of opportunity (as seen with their implicit endorsement of the "good ol' boy" system that rich people enjoy).
That isn't the purpose of those breaks at all. The theory is trickle-down, and it works in theory. As it is, the money that finds its way into the hands of the rich ends up in their money-market / bank / wal-street accounts. This means that the money has gone back into the economy.
Anyways, it can be argued conversely as well. One could say that the liberals don't really want equality of opportunity, because they coddle the poor. If you give the poor money on a regular basis, you pretty much ensure that they won't have the drive to become more than poor, and you also ensure that you have their vote in the upcoming election. The poor don't really get any richer, but their opinion of the liberals is that much better. It's a form of oppression, but it is effective for the liberals.
Lastly, I've believed that the definitions of liberal, libertarian, conservative, and socialist can be explained by their tight/loose views in two categories.
Looking at how Bush has been lazzai-faire towards the Microsoft thing, and also how he's tried to cut back on Government involvement, he's been fairly conservative. Foriegn policy is a function of social belief, if there's a disagreement, the conservative ideal is to try to enforce what you think is right. The liberal way is to try to accept the way of life of other people, etc.
Of course, if you have a liberal in office, the likelihood of terrorist attacks would likely increase, and not from a Chainey viewpoint. For some reason, Liberals (especially Kerry) seem to think that the arabs in the middle-east will change their minds about us if we do a bunch of summits. They seem to forget that we've been having summits on and off for a long time already. They hate us for how relaxed our country's values are, they hate us for our commercial success, they are jealous of our freedom, etc. etc. etc. They aren't going to change any time soon, and if we let them, they will attempt another attack.
Of course, Bush's method of bombing and killing isn't really a great solution either. I look at it as a rather unsolvable situation at the moment, and it can only change with the changing of the viewpoint of future generations on both sides. Perhaps they won't hate us so much in the future, and perhaps we won't be so arrogant as to think that we can change them. It sorta sucks
At the moment, my fridge is stocked with Sam Adam's Octoberfest...
The main reason for this is that most "imports" are brewed on American soil, under license from foriegn breweries. This is essentially the same thing that the Guinness brewery does, as it is the sole producer of Anheiser-Busch products in Europe. Ironically, the drink of choice amongst kids in Ireland at the moment is Bud Ice.
Don't bother drinking imports in the US, there are plenty of excellent beers brewed locally. Check out Bell's in Michigan, they make an excellent Red Lager, a superb double-cream stout, and a few others. Other notables are the obvious, Samuel Adams, Goose Island, and Berghoff. I include Berghoff because they make a great dark. It's also cheaper than most of those "expensive" beers. Colorado is also the home of a couple none-huge breweries that produce a quality brew.
If you want good imports, stick with Paulaner, Tetley's (goodness is debatable), and Stella Artois. I've had a few cases of skunky Newcastle, the clear bottles don't help the cause. American brewed "imports" are also decent, Warsteiner, Harp, Bass, and Guinness.
What is all of this talk about a geek tax? If you want Gentoo, just use a LiveCD to install it. It's not going to be fully compiled and whatever for your machine, but you'll get the same configuration out of it, the same slick desktop.
If you want it all to be customized from there, just set your gcc flags, recompile glibc, recompile gcc, then recompile glibc again. After that, things will be recompiled as you update.
One of the reasons why we are the fastest growing party in America is because we participate in presidential elections.
A single-person party that suckers another person into joining has a 100% growth rate. How about that being the reason why the Green party is the "fastest growing party in America."
There's two different types of republicans. There are the big corporate buffoons, like the ones in the White House, then there are the more independant ones. Don't confuse or label Bush as a representative for the whole party.
As a Christian, I believe that homosexuality is sinful. I also believe that unborn children are living humans, and killing them because they are inconvenient is wrong.
If I were in government, though, I wouldn't do anything to prevent homosexuality. It is a part of our government that the Church should not have a strong influence over it. I would probably try to get the verbage changed, if anything, because I believe that "Marriage" is a religious institution, as opposed to a "Union," which is a bit more of a legal one. The government shouldn't have any control over who can be in a union with whom, I just find the usage of "marriage" and the power of the government to grant it to people troubling.
Killing babies, though... man. That's a moral issue, not a religious one. Even the most vocal proponent of "choice," which is just a euphamism for "death," Mrs. Roe is now wishing that she hadn't had an abortion. Not only is it mindless killing, it is also a psychological burden to most would-have-been mothers.
Until a president has the balls to say that doctors, hospitals and parms are EXTORTING the American public and make laws to stop them it will not change.
That's incorrect. The biggest expense that a doctor has is malpractice insurance. This expense is so large, that their prices are necessarily high. Most doctors end up taking home a small percentage of the revenue.
Malpractice insurance is a result of the greedy Americans who file for damages. There are those who have legitimate cases, and they ought to be rewarded, but there are a ton of frivolous malpractice suits as well. Health costs come down to the greedy American looking for a big payoff with minimum work.
The other reason why expenses are so high is the barrier to entry into the market. Many patents on pharmaceuticals run out by the time the company has met federal requirements. This seriously reduces the amount of profit that the company can gain off of their work before knock-off pharm companies start producing the same medicine.
If the FDA eased off on the drug regulations, and maybe let the patent law for medicines change, then medical costs would be reduced. Things always get more expensive when the 800 pound gorilla of American government decides to get involved.
One republican does not a party make. Everything that happened under Ryan was dispicable, especially his letting condemned murderers out of prison.
The dems in Chicago are by far the most corrupt pieces of political poo on this Earth. We can go scandal for scandal, and you wouldn't stand a chance. How about paying truckers to sleep in parking lots? How about giving contracts to friends and family, instead of choosing the best option for the people? How about Millenium Park? Miggs? The Wrigley Field fiasco? (chunks have been falling there since the 60's. Daily only now decided to start bitching about it. I guess it has something to do with the comparative success of the Cubs vs. the Sox) Then there's the blacktop scandal as well.
I could also go into the fact that if people find out that you voted republican, they seem to have a good success rate, you lose your garbage service. Oh, I know that it's not how it's "supposed" to be, but the unions make it that way.
Face it. Daily and his cronies have iron-fisted control over Chicagoan politics. The unions make sure that votes go his way, and the democrat way. It's always been this way with the Daily family. I wouldn't be surprised if they have mob connections either. People love Daily, though. He keeps the streets clean of garbage, and makes sure that the snow plows are out on time. As if this makes a mayor.
There is nothing dirtier than Chicagoan politics. To deny it just furthers that corruption.
Well, if you hadn't been sucking face...
It doesn't really matter what policy Illinois has. It's the home of the democratic machine. It's where Obama comes from. Even if the state had a real republican vote, enough dead people would vote democrat to change that result.
It's strange, though. About 85% of the land area of Illinois contains primarily republicans, but it's really just the vote of Chicago that matters.
It's more like the women are a bit more uptight, and the men are more aggressive in the "checking out" area. If a woman checks out a man, it makes it all that much easier for him. :-)
M F Sorry, you are S.O.L. Can't beat her up, legal system won't help. Just try to get the tapes/data erased and kick her out. Of course, if she's kinky enough, maybe there should be a change in strategy.
How many guys would actually give a crap if a chick were spying on them? C'mon. If it's there, and remains there, it means that she likes looking at your butt or your dong. If she's not nasty, why not try to get a piece of that ass?
If she is nasty, well... consider your usage of the bathroom as a charity case.
The most important guy is named "Abu," and he doesn't really speak English.
I heard that the Republican party used this guy to develop their "vault," or whatever, where they keep clones of Abu clothed in white armor. Naturally, the republicans don't speak Abu's language, so they used their secret weapon "W" to make monkey sounds at him.
Next thing you know, the Democrats are going to be outsourcing software to the Republicans to work on.
Who in their right mind would trust a politician?
Less efficient? No.
The quality of the games isn't the selling point anymore. It is the graphical quality. The games that ran on a 1 MB video card were not hardware accelerated. They had flat pixies that were painted on to the screen, and faked a three-dimensional environment. Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom are examples of this, they required more CPU than graphics power.
This changed around the time that 3DFX, Glide, and OpenGL were becoming popular in games. The moment that this happened, the memory requirements went up, as did the visual eyecandy. I had no problem enjoying Tie Fighter, for instance. It wasn't 3-D accelerated (it even came on floppy disks). Now, I play a game like Freespace, and it's just an amazing experience. It's far more immersive than Tie Fighter ever was. Of course, it has steeper requirements for the hardware.
The games haven't become more inefficient. If you want to call denser, more detailed textures and models "Bloat," go ahead. You're probably the type that really has a ball playing Tetris for the four hundredth time. For the rest of us, who have almost come to expect a complete immersive environment, the requirements are fair. We're willing to pay the price.
The ones who chug out the games that run on the hardware we have are judged by the same standards too. If the game is pretty, but not fun, it flops. If the game is pretty and fun, it gets rave reviews. If the game is un-pretty, but fun, it is expected that it comes out for free. CS Anyone?
nVidia discarded FX because no one adopted it. For standard DirectX/OpenGL, it was decent, but compared to ATI's solution, it was teh SUX0r5. If FX was explicitly programmed for, however, it r0x0red the house.
That's not as bad as Cook County, Illinois. There, depending on the 'burb, a townhouse will run for $400K. The inner city (loop area) commands prices in the millions.
Then again, everything in Chicago is rediculous. The mayor spends millions on his buddies, the rest of the people gripe, but can't seem to vote him out. Too many dead people vote for the guy.
Where did I say he was right? The original queston was whether or not he gave substantial reasons why he thought svn was flawed. I just reiterated, in short, his reasons.
Don't shoot the messenger. Using any of the three, cvs, svn, or arch, would be an improvement over M$-$$
I RTFA...
He stated a few advantages that arch has over svn. Lessee....
Branching software: svn makes this a function of copying the entire tree. arch, it seems, just keeps the deltas for these branches.
Hardware requirements: Lord said that svn requires beefy equipment, arch is lightweight.
Speed: svn is slower than arch.
Now, I don't really care which one is better or not. I'm forced to use SourceSafe at the place that I work. Branch in SourceSafe sucks. It's like making a hamburger by killing the cow, butchering the beef, grinding it, patting it into balls, squishing the balls, and frying them up. Then you have to grow the wheat...
Pardon my french. That's fucken hilarious. What a dumbass company.