Screw all this crap, man! I'm going back to the barter system and avoiding money and taxes altogether. Anybody farmers out there on slashdot? Wanna trade some chickens and vegetables for some IT work? Anyone? Bueller?
A farmer on Slashdot can likely do his/her own IT work.
can you exlpain how you have diffrent tax rates in ONE zip code ????
The postal service and Zip codes don't have anything to do with county lines and city lines. Zip codes are an arbitrary grouping of addresses with no relation to governmental alignments.
My address is a perfect example, my zip code has me in one town that is in one county, my phone number has me in another town in a different county, and my street address is actually located in a THIRD county. Each county and township can enact their own local option sales tax (at least in Iowa they can).
This complicates looking up my address on mapping web-sites, some have my address in it's postal town, others put it in it's telephone town. Also fun to look up my phone number in a phone book, you have to look in a different town than the postal address is in.
The same French that are coming down hard on Open source P2P are using other open source projects to save %10 in their tax department, nice way to give back to the movement guys.
James Shoemaker
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Prior to 1984, there was one telephone company. The bell. Mother bell. Ma Bell. Whatever you like. It was so huge and spanned so many products and etc, that many people didn't know where one part began and another ended. They kept telephone and data circuit prices real high, so the DOJ's decision to make a bunch of little bells (baby bells) was to make it easier for others to compete and hopefully bring the prices down.
There were other telephone companies, my family happened to be customers of a "wonderful" company called Continental Telephone. The service provided by AT&T was so far ahead of Continental that it wasn't even funny. We had to change our phone number to get touch tone service because the switch we were on could only do dial phones (this was in 1977). We even had a party line when we first moved there in 1975.
I had the issue in the 2.2 kernel era. I even replaced the drive I was capturing to before I realized that the problem was the file system. That really soured me on reiser. I am glad it seems to be gone for you.
If I ever leave ext3 for my video raid I will likely go to xfs, it seems best suited to streaming large files.
Last time I used Reiser I had to reformat back to ext. The starving problem basically made the kernel freeze when flushing buffers during large streaming writes. Is the Large writes starve reads issue gone yet? When I say large I am referring to streaming 12 gig (hour of DV) in a continuous write.
Did the linked article render as poorly for other readers? After the first page the left margin was out of the border of the window so the text was cut off.
Deal with it... anti abortion == pro life. One is just a politically correct version of the other (because nobody ever wanted to be called 'anti' anything). Equally the other side of the argument prefer pro abortion to anti life...
Don't you mean Pro-Choice? They avoid the Abortion word as well with their label. It isn't the anti/pro that they are avoiding, it is the word abortion.
Actually my first linux install was helped by my OS/2 install and each following linux install has been helped by the previous install (into different partitions for just that purpose).
Run another IP network on a private IP range on the network and have your DHCP server give an address in the private range to any machine blacklisted (keep your lease time short). Set the gateway address on the private net to a linux box with a firewall rule that sends all web traffic sent to it (transparent proxy style) to a page on itself that says that the user is infected and downloads of the tools to fix the problem.
I can't think of a store on my area that DOESN"T use these things.
I wasn't referring to finding a store without the anti-theft things, but to one that doesn't have them set so high that they false.
Personally I live in a small town and only see those things if I drive into the city. Sort of nice to live somewhere people trust each other.
I know of people who would spend serious money for AOL's subscriber list, they are a telemarketer's dream: 1: they have either a valid checking account or a credit card.
If only. I don't care about underlying architechture, but just shipping KDE with a gnome-like theme would make the linux desktop so much less confusing for new users. Power users will retheme it anyway, so it shouldn't matter to them.
Depends on your phone company, but local calls in the US are free up to about 12 miles away. Beyond that it's a toll call (intra LATA) that costs as much as long distance. You'd better have a good list of local exchanges programmed into your gateway or you'll get a big surprise on your phone bill.
12 miles? Distance has nothing to do with it. Basically there are random areas that can call each other without toll charges. I can call people as far as 50 miles from my house without toll charges, but I can't call my own post office because it is served by another phone company.
Also, intra LATA calls cost me twice what long distance is. I can call my sister-in-law in LA for less than my parents that live 45 minutes from my house.
Reading your post, I can feel even safer since I realized that if you do the math (83,000 * 526,316,000) there is only a 1 in 43,684,200,000,000 that it will hit us in both 2037 and 2044.
One problem with your logic, if it hits us in 2037 there isn't much chance of NASA re-launching it so it can hit us again in 2044, and if they did find all the pieces and relaunch it they would probably have some sort of conversion problem and miss the earth.
Libertarians also are in favor if removing the limited-liability nature of corporations. You can go after corporate officer's personal property in civil lawsuits in addition to corporate property. executives can't loot a company and let it go bankrupt in a libertarian society because they are also personally responsible for their coporation's actions. Stockholder's personal assets would also be voulnerable.
Actually both Dish and DTV have satellites in orbit that they aren't using that they referr to as in-orbit spares. To allow for just such an emergency.
You're not married to someone who wants to repaint all the rooms in the house, are you? You should see all the names for subtle shades of the same color. I said, "Tan would be fine." She asks, "Would you like Taupe or English Tan." I said, "Just circle the color on the swatches. I'll probably be the one to have to pick it up anyway. I'll just pick the cans by number."
I get you there, the exterior of my house is 8244D (and what a lovely shade of 8244D it is).
If it is rechargable I have never recharged it. I just put it in the camera and have never connected any charger unless the USB charges it, and I haven't left it connected to USB long enough to recharge at the current that USB can provide.
Then don't use the LCD to frame the picture, just to get a quick view of it to decide if it is worth keeping, I use that mode on my kodak and am still on the original battery after almost a year of shooting.
Hey, if the government doesn't trash the economy and the rights of individuals in order to protect an outdated and relatively small sector of the business community, what good are they?
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Screw all this crap, man! I'm going back to the barter system and avoiding money and taxes altogether. Anybody farmers out there on slashdot? Wanna trade some chickens and vegetables for some IT work? Anyone? Bueller?
A farmer on Slashdot can likely do his/her own IT work.
can you exlpain how you have diffrent tax rates in ONE zip code ????
The postal service and Zip codes don't have anything to do with county lines and city lines. Zip codes are an arbitrary grouping of addresses with no relation to governmental alignments.
My address is a perfect example, my zip code has me in one town that is in one county, my phone number has me in another town in a different county, and my street address is actually located in a THIRD county. Each county and township can enact their own local option sales tax (at least in Iowa they can).
This complicates looking up my address on mapping web-sites, some have my address in it's postal town, others put it in it's telephone town. Also fun to look up my phone number in a phone book, you have to look in a different town than the postal address is in.
James
The same French that are coming down hard on Open source P2P are using other open source projects to save %10 in their tax department, nice way to give back to the movement guys.
James Shoemaker
Prior to 1984, there was one telephone company. The bell. Mother bell. Ma Bell. Whatever you like. It was so huge and spanned so many products and etc, that many people didn't know where one part began and another ended. They kept telephone and data circuit prices real high, so the DOJ's decision to make a bunch of little bells (baby bells) was to make it easier for others to compete and hopefully bring the prices down.
There were other telephone companies, my family happened to be customers of a "wonderful" company called Continental Telephone. The service provided by AT&T was so far ahead of Continental that it wasn't even funny. We had to change our phone number to get touch tone service because the switch we were on could only do dial phones (this was in 1977). We even had a party line when we first moved there in 1975.
James
I had the issue in the 2.2 kernel era. I even replaced the drive I was capturing to before I realized that the problem was the file system. That really soured me on reiser. I am glad it seems to be gone for you.
If I ever leave ext3 for my video raid I will likely go to xfs, it seems best suited to streaming large files.
James
Last time I used Reiser I had to reformat back to ext. The starving problem basically made the kernel freeze when flushing buffers during large streaming writes. Is the Large writes starve reads issue gone yet? When I say large I am referring to streaming 12 gig (hour of DV) in a continuous write.
James
Did the linked article render as poorly for other readers? After the first page the left margin was out of the border of the window so the text was cut off.
Deal with it... anti abortion == pro life. One is just a politically correct version of the other (because nobody ever wanted to be called 'anti' anything). Equally the other side of the argument prefer pro abortion to anti life...
Don't you mean Pro-Choice? They avoid the Abortion word as well with their label. It isn't the anti/pro that they are avoiding, it is the word abortion.
Cheaper alternative: kites. Also more fun, IMHO. And consider making the boats.
Not necessarily cheaper, I have kites that cost quite a bit more than my RC car.
James
When I installed windows 2K to run turbo-tax I needed to use my linux install to download the drivers to get it to work.
James
Actually my first linux install was helped by my OS/2 install and each following linux install has been helped by the previous install (into different partitions for just that purpose).
James
Run another IP network on a private IP range on the network and have your DHCP server give an address in the private range to any machine blacklisted (keep your lease time short). Set the gateway address on the private net to a linux box with a firewall rule that sends all web traffic sent to it (transparent proxy style) to a page on itself that says that the user is infected and downloads of the tools to fix the problem.
James
I can't think of a store on my area that DOESN"T use these things.
I wasn't referring to finding a store without the anti-theft things, but to one that doesn't have them set so high that they false.
Personally I live in a small town and only see those things if I drive into the city. Sort of nice to live somewhere people trust each other.
James
If shopping at this store is such a hassle, why do you continue to give them your money? Just shop somewhere else.
James
Number of members: Millions
Value: Debatable
I know of people who would spend serious money for AOL's subscriber list, they are a telemarketer's dream:
1: they have either a valid checking account or a credit card.
James
Hmmm.. Most people I've talked to hate them both and install something else (XFce, WindowMaker, Fluxbox, IceWM, Enlightenment, etc.)
Aren't those window managers? KDE and Gnome are desktop environments. Personally I avoid desktop environments and stick with FVWM.
Many/all of the window managers you list will run quite happily as the window manager of a desktop environment.
James
If only. I don't care about underlying architechture, but just shipping KDE with a gnome-like theme would make the linux desktop so much less confusing for new users. Power users will retheme it anyway, so it shouldn't matter to them.
Depends on your phone company, but local calls in the US are free up to about 12 miles away. Beyond that it's a toll call (intra LATA) that costs as much as long distance. You'd better have a good list of local exchanges programmed into your gateway or you'll get a big surprise on your phone bill.
12 miles? Distance has nothing to do with it. Basically there are random areas that can call each other without toll charges. I can call people as far as 50 miles from my house without toll charges, but I can't call my own post office because it is served by another phone company.
Also, intra LATA calls cost me twice what long distance is. I can call my sister-in-law in LA for less than my parents that live 45 minutes from my house.
James
Reading your post, I can feel even safer since I realized that if you do the math (83,000 * 526,316,000) there is only a 1 in 43,684,200,000,000 that it will hit us in both 2037 and 2044.
One problem with your logic, if it hits us in 2037 there isn't much chance of NASA re-launching it so it can hit us again in 2044, and if they did find all the pieces and relaunch it they would probably have some sort of conversion problem and miss the earth.
James
Libertarians also are in favor if removing the limited-liability nature of corporations. You can go after corporate officer's personal property in civil lawsuits in addition to corporate property. executives can't loot a company and let it go bankrupt in a libertarian society because they are also personally responsible for their coporation's actions. Stockholder's personal assets would also be voulnerable.
James
Actually both Dish and DTV have satellites in orbit that they aren't using that they referr to as in-orbit spares. To allow for just such an emergency.
You're not married to someone who wants to repaint all the rooms in the house, are you? You should see all the names for subtle shades of the same color. I said, "Tan would be fine." She asks, "Would you like Taupe or English Tan." I said, "Just circle the color on the swatches. I'll probably be the one to have to pick it up anyway. I'll just pick the cans by number."
I get you there, the exterior of my house is 8244D (and what a lovely shade of 8244D it is).
James
If it is rechargable I have never recharged it. I just put it in the camera and have never connected any charger unless the USB charges it, and I haven't left it connected to USB long enough to recharge at the current that USB can provide.
James
Then don't use the LCD to frame the picture, just to get a quick view of it to decide if it is worth keeping, I use that mode on my kodak and am still on the original battery after almost a year of shooting.
James
Hey, if the government doesn't trash the economy and the rights of individuals in order to protect an outdated and relatively small sector of the business community, what good are they?
That is why they are attacking PC's.