Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected, democratic-socialist president of Chile, was assassinated in a CIA-backed coup which resulted in the establishment of the Pinochet dictatorship. This is well-documented. Also, according to recently declassified CIA papers, we have tried (and failed) several times to kill Fidel Castro.
That's ridiculous. Just because I paid for something once doesn't mean I want to pay for another thing. Plus, lots of people (not including me) have pirated copies of Windows. I paid for mine, but I have no problem understanding cheapskatedness. How many people do you know who pay for something when they don't have to?
This is really too bad. Easter eggs are so much fun. I remember the "peter peter cheater wimp" one in A-Train, that gave you $10^6, and the well-known Shift-F-U-N-D one in SimCity.
Even if Slashdot readers like you and me never trusted TRUSTe, I'm sure a lot of lusers did, and it's not fair to them. Also, think about the point of an auditing organization: not to get lots of companies to sign up, but to do a meaningful job. If consumers insist on being protected by a trustworthy organization, then the money will be there, and the businesses will sign up. A few companies would sign up, going for Ben 'n Jerry's-style responsibility, and no doubt they would be financially rewarded.
It's like radio or TV. You think that they make Futurama or whatever show for you, but they make it for the advertisers. You're just there so they'll have someone to advertise to.
Also, Echelon is perfectly legal, because it's not _US_ that's doing the spying, it's the English who are spying and telling us the results.
Don't be ridiculous. If some activity is ilegal for the government to engage in, it is also illegal for it to use data produced by somebody else doing the espionage. Besides, in this case, we're involved, too.
Of course you're right. There are conspircay nuts who think that everything is best explained by a conspircay involving aliens and the FBI, but there are also legitimate conspiracies. I might point out the the Second Constitutional Convention was a conspiracy. The delegates, as I'm sure you all remember from US History, had been charged with revising the Articles of Confederation, which were flawed and inadequate, but instead they wrote the Constitution in secret and presented it as a fait accompli. That was a conspiracy by any definition. Just because it was a good thing in many people's view doesn't mean it was a conspiracy. I'm sure that there were lots of people in the CIA who thought it was for the good of mankind that they were overthrowing and murdering Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected socialist president of Chile, whom they replaced with Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Conspiracies are real, and some have good consequences, and some don't. In general, I think that the majority are not good, and that the way to protect ourselves is to insist on accountability and legality.
I like the themes idea, but it would involve lots more CGI forks for Rob & Co. It'd be pretty heavy on the servers. This really is a disgusting color scheme. The brown's not so bad, but that yellowy color is nauseating.
I know that. I'm not a retard. I, i turn, a reading your comment in Netscape with MS Georgia, which is a nice screen font, even though I hate MS just as much as everyone else. WP8 still doesn't support TTF. Furthermore, you can't install more Type 1 fonts, even if you have them, unless you buy the registered version.
My biggest complaint about WP8 for Linux was always that it won't support TrueType fonts. Yes, I know about ttf2pt1, but it would never compile for me.
I have an Epson Stylus Color 800 as well, and I love it. It prints well on plain paper, and beautifully on expensive glossy paper. If you run Red Hat, you'll have to download a new copy of Ghostscript that contains the filters, but other than that initial annoyance, it should be pretty easy to use.
XMMS plugins, as far as I know, are used for two things. One is to modify the program so that it can read certain formats. Ice/shoutcast, VQF,.wav,.mod,.mid,.ram are examples (the lst three don't exist yet AFAIK, but there's no reason they couldn't. The other (and more interesting, in my opinion) is to make pretty pictures. XMMS already has one called Blur Scope, and there are some others, which mostly reqire OpenGL. Winamp has some awesome ones.
This is great. Winamp has so many cool plugins, and although I love XMMS, I often wish it had some better eye candy. I wonder if there's any way Winamp plugins could be used through winelib?
Making anything emovable makes it more expensive. You have to figure out how to make it clean and easy to replace, and how to not let the user screw anything up, as well as cleverly fit the port thingy into the case. I would guess that the expensive part of these machines would be the hard disks, not the codec chips or the amps. Therefore, it would probably be cheaper to buy a new one than to buy an upgradeable one, and then buy more disks later on.
Good ideas, but I'd like to add one thing to what you mentioned about the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court gets to decide when to grant a writ of certiorari (permission to appear). In general, they do this when there's a legally interesting point to consider. As far as I can tell, the only thing about the MS case that's potentially interesting is their assertion that the government has no business regulating them because it doesn't understand what's up with computers. So the Supremes would have to agree with MS that that's a possibility. I don't really think it is, but as always, IANAL and I could be wrong.
RMS is rigt on when he talks about the purpose of the Constitution's provision for the enrichment of authors and inventors. The point is to enrich the public by enriching the inventors -- using money as an inducement to create. The public's good s the important thing. If Disney doesn't have the right to make bucks off Mickey anymore, tough luck.
The idea that the blobs in the Martian rock were life has been discredited, principally because they are too small. Although they look like bacteria, they are many thousands of times too small to be lifeforms.
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Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected, democratic-socialist president of Chile, was assassinated in a CIA-backed coup which resulted in the establishment of the Pinochet dictatorship. This is well-documented. Also, according to recently declassified CIA papers, we have tried (and failed) several times to kill Fidel Castro.
That's ridiculous. Just because I paid for something once doesn't mean I want to pay for another thing. Plus, lots of people (not including me) have pirated copies of Windows. I paid for mine, but I have no problem understanding cheapskatedness. How many people do you know who pay for something when they don't have to?
Actually, it's not true that only the site that created them can access them. Some are that way, and some aren't. Check the Netscape options.
This is really too bad. Easter eggs are so much fun. I remember the "peter peter cheater wimp" one in A-Train, that gave you $10^6, and the well-known Shift-F-U-N-D one in SimCity.
Whoops, the plans to eventually open source it are still on, I accidentally editted an old version of the page.
He changed his mind. If he plans to OSS it, I don't know why he doesn't do it from the start.
Actually, records are mastered on metal, made in reverse-image in lacquer, and then pressed in vinyl.
The CD master has a gold substrate instead of the normal aluminum one.
Even if Slashdot readers like you and me never trusted TRUSTe, I'm sure a lot of lusers did, and it's not fair to them. Also, think about the point of an auditing organization: not to get lots of companies to sign up, but to do a meaningful job. If consumers insist on being protected by a trustworthy organization, then the money will be there, and the businesses will sign up. A few companies would sign up, going for Ben 'n Jerry's-style responsibility, and no doubt they would be financially rewarded.
It's like radio or TV. You think that they make Futurama or whatever show for you, but they make it for the advertisers. You're just there so they'll have someone to advertise to.
Don't be ridiculous. If some activity is ilegal for the government to engage in, it is also illegal for it to use data produced by somebody else doing the espionage. Besides, in this case, we're involved, too.
Of course you're right. There are conspircay nuts who think that everything is best explained by a conspircay involving aliens and the FBI, but there are also legitimate conspiracies. I might point out the the Second Constitutional Convention was a conspiracy. The delegates, as I'm sure you all remember from US History, had been charged with revising the Articles of Confederation, which were flawed and inadequate, but instead they wrote the Constitution in secret and presented it as a fait accompli. That was a conspiracy by any definition. Just because it was a good thing in many people's view doesn't mean it was a conspiracy. I'm sure that there were lots of people in the CIA who thought it was for the good of mankind that they were overthrowing and murdering Salvador Allende, the democratically-elected socialist president of Chile, whom they replaced with Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Conspiracies are real, and some have good consequences, and some don't. In general, I think that the majority are not good, and that the way to protect ourselves is to insist on accountability and legality.
I like the themes idea, but it would involve lots more CGI forks for Rob & Co. It'd be pretty heavy on the servers. This really is a disgusting color scheme. The brown's not so bad, but that yellowy color is nauseating.
I know that. I'm not a retard. I, i turn, a reading your comment in Netscape with MS Georgia, which is a nice screen font, even though I hate MS just as much as everyone else. WP8 still doesn't support TTF. Furthermore, you can't install more Type 1 fonts, even if you have them, unless you buy the registered version.
My biggest complaint about WP8 for Linux was always that it won't support TrueType fonts. Yes, I know about ttf2pt1, but it would never compile for me.
I think you mean cut the mustard. Cutting the cheese is quite different. :-)
I should never have said anything, huh?
I have an Epson Stylus Color 800 as well, and I love it. It prints well on plain paper, and beautifully on expensive glossy paper. If you run Red Hat, you'll have to download a new copy of Ghostscript that contains the filters, but other than that initial annoyance, it should be pretty easy to use.
Actually, a MIDI plugin does exist. Sorry. I meant to say MOD and RAM don't exist.
XMMS plugins, as far as I know, are used for two things. One is to modify the program so that it can read certain formats. Ice/shoutcast, VQF, .wav, .mod, .mid, .ram are examples (the lst three don't exist yet AFAIK, but there's no reason they couldn't. The other (and more interesting, in my opinion) is to make pretty pictures. XMMS already has one called Blur Scope, and there are some others, which mostly reqire OpenGL. Winamp has some awesome ones.
This is great. Winamp has so many cool plugins, and although I love XMMS, I often wish it had some better eye candy. I wonder if there's any way Winamp plugins could be used through winelib?
Making anything emovable makes it more expensive. You have to figure out how to make it clean and easy to replace, and how to not let the user screw anything up, as well as cleverly fit the port thingy into the case. I would guess that the expensive part of these machines would be the hard disks, not the codec chips or the amps. Therefore, it would probably be cheaper to buy a new one than to buy an upgradeable one, and then buy more disks later on.
Good ideas, but I'd like to add one thing to what you mentioned about the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court gets to decide when to grant a writ of certiorari (permission to appear). In general, they do this when there's a legally interesting point to consider. As far as I can tell, the only thing about the MS case that's potentially interesting is their assertion that the government has no business regulating them because it doesn't understand what's up with computers. So the Supremes would have to agree with MS that that's a possibility. I don't really think it is, but as always, IANAL and I could be wrong.
RMS is rigt on when he talks about the purpose of the Constitution's provision for the enrichment of authors and inventors. The point is to enrich the public by enriching the inventors -- using money as an inducement to create. The public's good s the important thing. If Disney doesn't have the right to make bucks off Mickey anymore, tough luck.
I thought I heard about this when thew first PIIIs came out.
The idea that the blobs in the Martian rock were life has been discredited, principally because they are too small. Although they look like bacteria, they are many thousands of times too small to be lifeforms.