or dying. For politics to die, you have to take away the causes of such a system. Namely government and disagreements. Does anyone else see these things leaving us in the near future? I thought not.
I personally think mr. katz is off his fucking rocker to say politics is about at its end. You, dear sir, have just made the same idiotic mistake that every other technophile in the world has made: Believing that the net/technology is the end all be all of existance. You don't specifically state this, but it's in your tone. Your soliloquy about politics is bathed in terms like "The digital age."
This has been said before and it will be said again...and although you can disagree about the specific aspects of it, the fundamental point remains the same. The internet will not solve the problems of the children of etheopia. What makes us think it will solve the problems of politics or of the high cost of oil, or of any of the million other problems that plague us in a REAL fashion?
Sell your stock now...cause the only thing people are going to become less and less interested in is the "digital age" when they realize that it hasn't solved any of their problems. At least those corrupt politicians we constantly slander are trying.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I'd just like to say. I'm an international terrorists and i am VERY dissappointed in the US government for this whole carnivore deal.
First off, i feel that my right to send plain-text email to my friends (such as mkhadafi@libya.com or carlos_the_jackal@internationalterrorism.co.uk) have been infringed by this "carnivore" program. Being that we have absolutely no other means of secure communications, like a phone session or even speaking face to face, my particular terrorist cell has been using email for quite some time now.
Another problem that arizes with this email snooping stuff is our new-found inability to transfer bomb making instructions to one another. Obviously there is no other way to find out about how to make bombs, or even a nuclear weapon....it must be done by email.
I guess i am angry, but i must congratulate the US...with carnivore it is obvious that the FBI has successfully eliminated any possibility of my compatriates and I actively engaging in anti-US terrorism.
damn.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i just think it's kinda sad the way things are going now-a-days.
Does anyone else think gui's like Explorer.exe, GNOME, and KDE are starting to look like something you'd find next to an E-Z Bake Oven at KayBee toys?
Sure, i want color in my GUI...but c'mon people, bright red, blue, yellow, and white isn't a color scheme...it's a frickin' circus. (i know they're changeable, but the defaults are whack)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
the "do-everything" button was an abstraction. you should have realized that.
i've read many of your comments, and agree with quite a few of them, but your views on what a package management system should be able to do for the user are off the wall for reasons already expressed by myself and others.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i think M$ makes an operating system that you might like to check out.
The fundamental problem is this. I see half of linux users bitching that they want it all (these are mostly new-school linux users that i've seen) and i see another half that want's nothing more than a kernel and a keyboard.
What we need to find is a common middle-ground. I really don't want to see linux turn into an OS where you click the do-everything button and all of the sudden you're set to do whatever it is that you wanted. That doesn't promote intelligence about the OS you're using. Yes, computers are tools, but if absolute automation is the way of the future, the users are going to become a slightly different kind of tool;-)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i'd like to make a little note in the defense of RPM's. I like 'em. I don't use 'em much, maybe thats why i find RPM so appealing.
When you're installing an application for linux, i am of the opinion that it's best to do it from source. The idea of pre-compiled binaries just doesn't sit well with me for quite a number of reasons. Foremost, i don't like the idea that i'm using a binary build on someone else's box. And i certainly don't like the fact that i don't have the source sitting in front of me to hack, if i'm bored, or to just peer into, etc. (pls no posts on src.rpm)
RPM's, i feel, are great for the little utils. Miscellaneous files that i need for x without wanting to download and compile those binaries on my own. I just download an RPM and whabam! it's installed. Dependency problems? --nodeps. Won't install for some other reason? --force.
Maybe there are issues to be addressed if you want RPM to become your standard installer for absolutely everything. Yes, Forest Gump needs something more powerful. My question is simply why argue about RPM or apt when you've got source?
It's like arguing whether you'd like to buy a pinto or a ugo when you can get a porsche for free. (some assembly required;-)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Please explain why no major political candidate supports legalization
Not quite as signifigant a majority of the population thinks marijuana should be legalized (ironically, alot of cops do). But the most substantial reason: Marijuana isn't taxable enough. It's too easy to grow a good crop of weed on your own. The government can't tax that.
Secondly, if marijuana is legalized, the states that repeal its prohibition are basically going to have to admit that they screwed the pooch on those same laws back in the 30's and 40's - last time i checked...governmental agencies don't like admiting they're fuckups.
Oh, and one more thing....the federal government pretty much gets final say on this one. It's been shown that, if you legalize weed (e.g. california for medical purposes) Uncle Sam will take away your state's federal funding for those pesky things like, you know, roads and schools.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
if you're trying to imply that you work for M$, then i'm happy for you. You're paid well and you at least work for the richest company in the world.
If not (probably the case) - then let me tell you, i knew several people that worked in Redmond. They all have good intentions...but intentions are like fuckin' a chick with the clap. You feel good at present, but six months down the road you realize you got fucked.
(no, i never have...sorry to extinguish your next flame)
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I think Mr. Touretzky has some interesting points. The most important of which is the Amphetamine Anti-Proliferation act.
Whether you're for or against drugs, you have to recognize that the government is starting to over-step it's bounds where freedom of speech is concerned. It's become sort of a "well, we're all for freedom of speech, just not this type of speech" type of thing
There are serious issues here. We cannot allow agencies, or people, or organizations, or judges to out-law some form of speech simply because it is distasteful or even slightly dangerous (in the non-physical form: excluding libel and slander, which are crimes that are alot harder to commit than one would think). This is exactly the type of thing we must prevent in order to secure our more "traditional" freedoms.
I won't go so far to say that code is definitely a form of speech. Personally, i feel that falls under reverse-engineering arguments. But if it's concievable that the government can take away our right to express ourselves in any way, simply because it's unpopular - then they're one step closer to taking away everything else.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Never doubt the power of government(s) making something illegal.
Exactly. Just like Marijuana is illegal, as are "bongs." And we know nobody uses those right....right?
There's only one thing more powerful than big business - and that's the will of the people. When the public is divided, politicians can do whatever they want. In this case, i think we all know where the public stands (the vast majority, at least) - all the corporate money in the world won't save a politician once he's been voted out of office.
FluX After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Slashdot Mirror
i guess Michael Dell, Linus Torvalds, and Bill Gates are among the many violating this new treaty?
right?
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
or dying. For politics to die, you have to take away the causes of such a system. Namely government and disagreements. Does anyone else see these things leaving us in the near future? I thought not.
I personally think mr. katz is off his fucking rocker to say politics is about at its end. You, dear sir, have just made the same idiotic mistake that every other technophile in the world has made: Believing that the net/technology is the end all be all of existance. You don't specifically state this, but it's in your tone. Your soliloquy about politics is bathed in terms like "The digital age."
This has been said before and it will be said again...and although you can disagree about the specific aspects of it, the fundamental point remains the same. The internet will not solve the problems of the children of etheopia. What makes us think it will solve the problems of politics or of the high cost of oil, or of any of the million other problems that plague us in a REAL fashion?
Sell your stock now...cause the only thing people are going to become less and less interested in is the "digital age" when they realize that it hasn't solved any of their problems. At least those corrupt politicians we constantly slander are trying.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i think the reference may have been to that leeto neeto helicopter they had in goldeneye?
bah...tim prolly just screwed the pooch on this one.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you'll have to pardon me. Being that i'm an international terrorist, i have many terrorist friends. It's hard to get them all straight sometimes.
now that you're done flaming me for some trivial and disasociated fact. shut the fuck up.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
actually....carlos the jackal is^H^H was a real terrorist. as i remember, he was killed in turkey or italy...somewhere therabouts.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
best snow on earth my ass
*cough*vail*cough*
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I'd just like to say. I'm an international terrorists and i am VERY dissappointed in the US government for this whole carnivore deal.
First off, i feel that my right to send plain-text email to my friends (such as mkhadafi@libya.com or carlos_the_jackal@internationalterrorism.co.uk) have been infringed by this "carnivore" program. Being that we have absolutely no other means of secure communications, like a phone session or even speaking face to face, my particular terrorist cell has been using email for quite some time now.
Another problem that arizes with this email snooping stuff is our new-found inability to transfer bomb making instructions to one another. Obviously there is no other way to find out about how to make bombs, or even a nuclear weapon....it must be done by email.
I guess i am angry, but i must congratulate the US...with carnivore it is obvious that the FBI has successfully eliminated any possibility of my compatriates and I actively engaging in anti-US terrorism.
damn.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i just think it's kinda sad the way things are going now-a-days.
Does anyone else think gui's like Explorer.exe, GNOME, and KDE are starting to look like something you'd find next to an E-Z Bake Oven at KayBee toys?
Sure, i want color in my GUI...but c'mon people, bright red, blue, yellow, and white isn't a color scheme...it's a frickin' circus. (i know they're changeable, but the defaults are whack)
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
idunno - but snickers would be "offtopic"
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
the milky way "technically" has a milk chocolate core with chewy nougat and peanuts.
scientists have triangulated it's ooey gooey goodness using several rats and a nougascope.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
allright, fuck it. i'll marry him
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Al Gore maybe?
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
the "do-everything" button was an abstraction. you should have realized that.
i've read many of your comments, and agree with quite a few of them, but your views on what a package management system should be able to do for the user are off the wall for reasons already expressed by myself and others.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
You can't do any of these things now because the information's not there, and the infrastructure's not there.
Oh, it's there...just not with a package management system. So the question becomes, why are you after that functionality in an RPM?
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i think M$ makes an operating system that you might like to check out.
;-)
The fundamental problem is this. I see half of linux users bitching that they want it all (these are mostly new-school linux users that i've seen) and i see another half that want's nothing more than a kernel and a keyboard.
What we need to find is a common middle-ground. I really don't want to see linux turn into an OS where you click the do-everything button and all of the sudden you're set to do whatever it is that you wanted. That doesn't promote intelligence about the OS you're using. Yes, computers are tools, but if absolute automation is the way of the future, the users are going to become a slightly different kind of tool
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
i'd like to make a little note in the defense of RPM's. I like 'em. I don't use 'em much, maybe thats why i find RPM so appealing.
;-)
When you're installing an application for linux, i am of the opinion that it's best to do it from source. The idea of pre-compiled binaries just doesn't sit well with me for quite a number of reasons. Foremost, i don't like the idea that i'm using a binary build on someone else's box. And i certainly don't like the fact that i don't have the source sitting in front of me to hack, if i'm bored, or to just peer into, etc. (pls no posts on src.rpm)
RPM's, i feel, are great for the little utils. Miscellaneous files that i need for x without wanting to download and compile those binaries on my own. I just download an RPM and whabam! it's installed. Dependency problems? --nodeps. Won't install for some other reason? --force.
Maybe there are issues to be addressed if you want RPM to become your standard installer for absolutely everything. Yes, Forest Gump needs something more powerful. My question is simply why argue about RPM or apt when you've got source?
It's like arguing whether you'd like to buy a pinto or a ugo when you can get a porsche for free. (some assembly required
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
aw, come on man...all the cool kids are gettin' their degrees from the University of Oklahoma at Portland.
My only question is why a post like that was moderated up to 3. Is this the day the teddy-bears have their picnic or something?
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Please explain why no major political candidate supports legalization
Not quite as signifigant a majority of the population thinks marijuana should be legalized (ironically, alot of cops do). But the most substantial reason: Marijuana isn't taxable enough. It's too easy to grow a good crop of weed on your own. The government can't tax that.
Secondly, if marijuana is legalized, the states that repeal its prohibition are basically going to have to admit that they screwed the pooch on those same laws back in the 30's and 40's - last time i checked...governmental agencies don't like admiting they're fuckups.
Oh, and one more thing....the federal government pretty much gets final say on this one. It's been shown that, if you legalize weed (e.g. california for medical purposes) Uncle Sam will take away your state's federal funding for those pesky things like, you know, roads and schools.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
sorry, i don't do OOP (well, not C++ at least).
if you're trying to imply that you work for M$, then i'm happy for you. You're paid well and you at least work for the richest company in the world.
If not (probably the case) - then let me tell you, i knew several people that worked in Redmond. They all have good intentions...but intentions are like fuckin' a chick with the clap. You feel good at present, but six months down the road you realize you got fucked.
(no, i never have...sorry to extinguish your next flame)
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
you have never seen bongs sold. you've seen "water pipes" sold...
;-)
a rose by any other name
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
I think Mr. Touretzky has some interesting points. The most important of which is the Amphetamine Anti-Proliferation act.
Whether you're for or against drugs, you have to recognize that the government is starting to over-step it's bounds where freedom of speech is concerned. It's become sort of a "well, we're all for freedom of speech, just not this type of speech" type of thing
There are serious issues here. We cannot allow agencies, or people, or organizations, or judges to out-law some form of speech simply because it is distasteful or even slightly dangerous (in the non-physical form: excluding libel and slander, which are crimes that are alot harder to commit than one would think). This is exactly the type of thing we must prevent in order to secure our more "traditional" freedoms.
I won't go so far to say that code is definitely a form of speech. Personally, i feel that falls under reverse-engineering arguments. But if it's concievable that the government can take away our right to express ourselves in any way, simply because it's unpopular - then they're one step closer to taking away everything else.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
$20 says that, when all is said and done, Microsoft's version of IPV6 will be ever-so-slightly incompatible with the standard implimentations.
"Gee paw...i can't get to this website running FreeBSD anymore...it must be a crappy OS"
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Never doubt the power of government(s) making something illegal.
Exactly. Just like Marijuana is illegal, as are "bongs." And we know nobody uses those right....right?
There's only one thing more powerful than big business - and that's the will of the people. When the public is divided, politicians can do whatever they want. In this case, i think we all know where the public stands (the vast majority, at least) - all the corporate money in the world won't save a politician once he's been voted out of office.
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
Wow - they're banning all devices related to mp3's???
does this include sound cards, speakers, hard drives, RAM (which is evil because it loads mp3's partially into memory before playing them)??
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network
seems to me this comes down to an question of "Is Amazon a bunch of greedy assholes or bumbling idiots"
Personally, either anwer makes me want to stay as far away as possible. *cough* firestone *cough*
FluX
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its deevolution into the shiny things network