the mod never counted in the first place. I checked before posting. Not only did it not count, but it cost me one mod point. It was to my benefit to reclaim the point by posting.
don't blame me. I modded it funny, but it said it was already at it's moderation limit or something. So now it is stuck as "informative" because no one can fix it via moderation.
The things listed by the grandparent all have one thing in common. They all gave the federal government more power.
Placing the blame solely on GWB isn't valid because the problem isn't the abuse of power.. it's the power to abuse. Blame needs to be asserted on the principles that centralized those powers. If anything, for the sole reason of warning future generations. Don't you see? The US Constitution is one such warning that we are increasingly ignoring. The founding fathers were warning us of the dangers of a powerful government.
Blame the principles that have either ignored or misinterpreted that warning.
At least that is how I interpreted the grandparent.
Chinese use central planning, we no worship market as god.
quote from the CIA factbook on China:
In late 1978 the Chinese leadership began moving the economy from a sluggish, inefficient, Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented system. Whereas the system operates within a political framework of strict Communist control, the economic influence of non-state organizations and individual citizens has been steadily increasing. The authorities switched to a system of household and village responsibility in agriculture in place of the old collectivization, increased the authority of local officials and plant managers in industry, permitted a wide variety of small-scale enterprises in services and light manufacturing, and opened the economy to increased foreign trade and investment. The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978.
If the government ceased to exist, copyright also wouldn't exist. The state has facilitated to Microsoft, via copyright, a monopoly over the information that MSFT creates. Bill wouldn't be nearly as rich if copyright didn't exist.
IMO, this is how things would work if copyright didn't exist. eg. you create a work and release it to the public. Then you ask for people to fund your next work. Information that hasn't been created yet has intrinsic value that can be bartered for.
It's like contract programming. You get paid for creating information, not owning it.
UNIX/GNU uses pipe(2) for piping.. (suprise). It doesn't care what the data is. So no, unix isn't limited to piping strings. You could pipe something like XML objects if you wanted object oriented piping.
On a side note, I do think stdio needs a new interface. IMO we need to be able to pipe via a namespace rather than just stdin/stdout/stderr. Imagine mounting your program somewhere on the filesystem/netport and exporting an I/O namespace on to the filesystem.
It might be relevant to note that at one time the Houston Linux User Group held their meetings at Microcenter. I think they are currently at the nearby HAL-PC building. I wonder if they had anything to do with this..
Hula: Hula is a calendar and mail server. We want to build a real web-based calendar: to make it trivially easy to publish a calendar, to invite anyone with an email address to an an appointment and process their RSVPs, to get to your calendar via HTML or RSS or with an instant messenger or with SMS.
It's an actively developed open-source derivative of Novell's NetMail
which model of the P-series were you using? Everything before the P5000 series used the transmeta chips. fujitsu switched to pentium M for the P5000. I've never heard of a P3000, but I know the P2000's used transmeta.
the government has the "right" to take your property
except for land held in Allodial title. ie. "Allodial title is inalienable, in that it cannot be taken by any operation of law for any reason whatsoever."
though from the same entry... "as the Fifth Amendment to the Bill of Rights clearly gives goverments the right to take property for public use if appropriate compensation is given."
most private property in the US is not held in true allodial title, though I've been told that Texas has allodial land available. Most land in the US was allodial title (eg. after the revolutionary war). The government has assumed ownership of the land via unknowing contract:
"Allodial title cannot not be taken away against the will of the owner (title holder) as the owner is sovereign over the allodial property. However, an allodial owner can contractually give up allodial ownership.." "many freeholders exercised that right by exchanging with municipalities the right to taxation for benefits from sharing resources with their neighbors. This practice was adopted in large scale during the Great Depression.."
Larry mentions the lack of enforceable government in wikipedia. This seems like a good time to mention the website I'm working on: debatepoint.com. It could represent the judicial branch of such a government. I would consider the source code of the website its constitution. The computer isn't going to become corrupt unless there is something wrong with the code. Administrators should vow not to bypass the code in order to modify the data.
I had bad results trying to enable traffic control (/sbin/tc) on a linux firewall (NAT). The most effective solution that I found was to limit the bandwidth usage from the client side.. find a torrent client that lets you cap it's bandwidth.
Of course, maybe tc didn't work well for me because my firewall is a P90 with 32MB memory.
I'm certainly no vocabularianist, but what does 'mercurialism' mean? For some reason I'm getting vibes of 'mercantalism', and google confirms with a 'Did you mean: mercantilism?' link.
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the mod never counted in the first place. I checked before posting. Not only did it not count, but it cost me one mod point. It was to my benefit to reclaim the point by posting.
don't blame me. I modded it funny, but it said it was already at it's moderation limit or something. So now it is stuck as "informative" because no one can fix it via moderation.
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looks like the video link is gone.
I found more info at wikinews with links to videos.
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'teach evolution instead of creationism'
currently dead even at 50%
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It's a really simple principle. Power corrupts.
The things listed by the grandparent all have one thing in common.
They all gave the federal government more power.
Placing the blame solely on GWB isn't valid because the problem isn't the abuse of power.. it's the power to abuse. Blame needs to be asserted on the principles that centralized those powers. If anything, for the sole reason of warning future generations. Don't you see? The US Constitution is one such warning that we are increasingly ignoring. The founding fathers were warning us of the dangers of a powerful government.
Blame the principles that have either ignored or misinterpreted that warning.
At least that is how I interpreted the grandparent.
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$ uname -a
Linux mars 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 #1 Fri Jan 28 04:06:48 CST 2005 i686 AMD Duron(tm) processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
$ for x in
> ldd $x | grep libz
> done
libz.so.1 =>
libz.so.1 =>
libz.so.1 =>
libz.so.1 =>
libz.so.1 =>
libz.so.1 =>
libz.so.1 =>
$ ldd
not a dynamic executable
so.. of the programs that I could think of that link to zlib, only firefox doesn't link dynamically by default.
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Chinese use central planning, we no worship market as god.
quote from the CIA factbook on China:
In late 1978 the Chinese leadership began moving the economy from a sluggish, inefficient, Soviet-style centrally planned economy to a more market-oriented system. Whereas the system operates within a political framework of strict Communist control, the economic influence of non-state organizations and individual citizens has been steadily increasing. The authorities switched to a system of household and village responsibility in agriculture in place of the old collectivization, increased the authority of local officials and plant managers in industry, permitted a wide variety of small-scale enterprises in services and light manufacturing, and opened the economy to increased foreign trade and investment. The result has been a quadrupling of GDP since 1978.
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A while back I ran into this micro-atx form factor motherboard which uses PowerPC:
PegasosPPC
If you run linux, I imagine you could make the transition easily..
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How exactly was Gates given state support?
If the government ceased to exist, copyright also wouldn't exist. The state has facilitated to Microsoft, via copyright, a monopoly over the information that MSFT creates. Bill wouldn't be nearly as rich if copyright didn't exist.
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Someone should upload all the images from the the degree confluence project to get them started.
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IMO, this is how things would work if copyright didn't exist. eg. you create a work and release it to the public. Then you ask for people to fund your next work. Information that hasn't been created yet has intrinsic value that can be bartered for.
It's like contract programming. You get paid for creating information, not owning it.
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All the others use strings for piping.
UNIX/GNU uses pipe(2) for piping.. (suprise). It doesn't care what the data is. So no, unix isn't limited to piping strings. You could pipe something like XML objects if you wanted object oriented piping.
On a side note, I do think stdio needs a new interface. IMO we need to be able to pipe via a namespace rather than just stdin/stdout/stderr. Imagine mounting your program somewhere on the filesystem/netport and exporting an I/O namespace on to the filesystem.
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It might be relevant to note that at one time the Houston Linux User Group held their meetings at Microcenter. I think they are currently at the nearby HAL-PC building. I wonder if they had anything to do with this..
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Hula: Hula is a calendar and mail server. We want to build a real web-based calendar: to make it trivially easy to publish a calendar, to invite anyone with an email address to an an appointment and process their RSVPs, to get to your calendar via HTML or RSS or with an instant messenger or with SMS.
It's an actively developed open-source derivative of Novell's NetMail
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which model of the P-series were you using? Everything before the P5000 series used the transmeta chips. fujitsu switched to pentium M for the P5000.
I've never heard of a P3000, but I know the P2000's used transmeta.
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the government has the "right" to take your property
except for land held in Allodial title. ie. "Allodial title is inalienable, in that it cannot be taken by any operation of law for any reason whatsoever."
though from the same entry... "as the Fifth Amendment to the Bill of Rights clearly gives goverments the right to take property for public use if appropriate compensation is given."
most private property in the US is not held in true allodial title, though I've been told that Texas has allodial land available. Most land in the US was allodial title (eg. after the revolutionary war). The government has assumed ownership of the land via unknowing contract:
"Allodial title cannot not be taken away against the will of the owner (title holder) as the owner is sovereign over the allodial property. However, an allodial owner can contractually give up allodial ownership.." "many freeholders exercised that right by exchanging with municipalities the right to taxation for benefits from sharing resources with their neighbors. This practice was adopted in large scale during the Great Depression.."
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it is already under the GPL:
http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/debatepoint
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Larry mentions the lack of enforceable government in wikipedia. This seems like a good time to mention the website I'm working on: debatepoint.com. It could represent the judicial branch of such a government. I would consider the source code of the website its constitution. The computer isn't going to become corrupt unless there is something wrong with the code. Administrators should vow not to bypass the code in order to modify the data.
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Michael Jackson was trying to tell us he's "bad" way back in the 80's...
It's not his fault no one believed him.
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Edwards Airforce Base is in California..
The image the grand-parent linked to is in Nevada..
maps.google.com of the real EAB
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I had bad results trying to enable traffic control (/sbin/tc) on a linux firewall (NAT). The most effective solution that I found was to limit the bandwidth usage from the client side.. find a torrent client that lets you cap it's bandwidth.
Of course, maybe tc didn't work well for me because my firewall is a P90 with 32MB memory.
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sig as follows.
I'm certainly no vocabularianist, but what does 'mercurialism' mean? For some reason I'm getting vibes of 'mercantalism', and google confirms with a 'Did you mean: mercantilism?' link.
anyone?
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There is no God
you can debate it here, or just moderate other's arguments.
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The problem isn't the abuse of power, it's the power to abuse.
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