1) About 12,000 people died due to London's "Death Fog" of 1952.
2) The term "Smog" was coined much later than 1952, and most all reference materials refer to the 1952 incident as a "Death" or "Killer" fog.
3) The factories and buses were not an "enemy"--they did not "plan" an attack. Indeed, it was the common practice of burning cheap, soft coal (later outlawed) for warmth in the unusually cold winter that exacerbated the death count. Once again, no premeditative enemy.
To somehow compare a plague, which often takes many months to run its cycle, to the high, rapid death counts of 911 and the "Death Fog" does not seem an appropriate example at all.
Something like a condom or shield over comms coming into the USA or going out...and MORE freedom under the shield (USUS) communications.
Please let there be some tattered shred of freedom to hang onto...it's terrible about 911 but there have been worse death counts in history with no enemy to fight...the "Death Fog" in London (1952?) comes to mind.
why not just decide what the music's value is, post portions of the concerts to get people hooked, then let people pay with paypal donations...when the donations and pledges reach the posted amount , release the music.
this person has it right...imagine every contributor to a project adding a restriction forbidding their particular peeve...something like mozilla or open office could end up with hundreds of lines of restrictions -- "thou shalt not eat tuna", "thou shalt not eat at mcdonalds", "thou shalt not buy products at walmart".
The whole thing, to me, boils down to the following:
1) Federal laws, people's right to choice, etc. clearly violated--not just once, but many, many times.
2) USA justice dept. and judicial branch too corrupt/clueless to understand how it happened and how to fix it.
3) Federal gov't and MS have "buddy deal" to make MS the USA standard, and let the rest of the world choose between Linux or MS, much the way they choose between Metric and English units. (I hope Linux ends up being the international equivalent of Metric units--successful).
So, is it legal for a state government to declare itself "Microsoft Free", now that they are a convicted criminal organization? Why don't the "solaris seven" use this option, and rather than fight the biased judicial and federal justice dept., that is, just declare themselves microsoft free, as far as state government purchases, and let people use whatever they choose, but urge them to choose freedom?
It seems fairly obvious to me that we will soon see the politicians shrilly supporting the US "corporate welfare for microsoft program" as they did the use of british units in the seventies--even though the rest of the world was switching to metric right in front of them.
That will be a sick sight indeed..a bunch of fat ass senators screaming about america, god, the flag, apple pie and microsoft. Sickening, but it will probably come to that.
I'd hate to see people getting killed or the economy damaged just so the NSA can claim to be "hip and with it" on the wireless side of things.
SECRET information might not be as dangerous a loss as the higher level stuff, still, going wireless, to me anyway, means broadcasting...and sniffing...and recording...and analyzing...lots different from copper or fiber in a shielded, isolated, locked down environment.
Thanks to the criminality of Microsoft, and the ineptitude of (now) all three branches of the US government in dealing with that criminality, as well as the current "Welfare for Microsoft" campaign being levied by the US government ("Microsoft Everywhere"), all you can say is "I don't blame them a bit".
This was an extremely competent technology company, one that set many standards for innovation and openness.
Now they are a mere shadow of their former slf, primarily due to criminality of another company, one receiving aid and encouragement by a government that is supposed to foster the free market and competition for the good of it's citizens.
Shame on the US gov't for their toothless mediocrity. Go get 'em, Sun.
I'm not so sure. It's disappointing to see so many people complaining about "MS bashing". Personally, I think it's great!
1) Exercising free speech, just like when windows people bash "everything else". 2) MS is a convicted federal criminal organization. 3) If anyone else did the things Bill Gates ordered done, they would be in prison right now. (I'm talking about various broken contracts and license agreements with novell, ibm, stac, DOJ).
The MS situation reminds me of what I've read of the various gang leaders of the 1920's--vicious criminals, etc..but the general public held them in awe, primarily due to their power and wealth, but also for the flamboyance and rhetoric displayed the gang leaders in the face of an increasingingly prosecutorial environment.
Then, as now, the government was not held in particularly high esteem...high taxes, prohibition, corruption.
In times like this, criminals are often held up as "the good guys".
i tried to find a way to move my mozilla mail and adress book from mozilla to evolution (now the default mail app in redhat 8.0) and could not find a way to do it.
most of the websites about migrating to evolution discuss windows/outlook, or windows/mozilla, not linux/mozilla.
I guess since it's open source I should get off my ass and write a conversion script?
I can't prove it, but it looks to me like the trial was a hoax.
MS was clearly guilty, so how could the US and Microsoft come up with a way to stretch the penalty phase out four years or so, thus giving MS time to come out with a unix-like replacement and the US government time to make it their "standard"?
Easy enough. Just make the verdict easy to throw out on appeal...Judge yaps his mouth off to reporters, knowing he would guarantee a lengthy appeal by doing so.
End result: Facts hold up, and the penalty is postponed due to Judge's verbosity to the press. This guy has, what, 30 years under his belt in law? He knew the exact ramifications of his actions.
This dog & pony show was planned for public consumption, while MS and the US gov could make the MS product a US standard.
The motorcyclists in Europe have been hit hard by the ticketing machines, or so I've heard.
Not only do they have limits by age and displacement, now this big brother stuff...cameras mounted in trees, etc.
From what I've heard, some people are wearing masks and sneaking up to the cams and wrenching them...black spray paint over the lens or a strategic hammer blow, etc.
can someone familiar with these distros respond the the following?
Suse pro has: 1) neat firewall tool, services, user, nis/yp management tools. 2) samba and nfs are trivial on it (exports/imports). 3) Oracle, DB2 (from what I've heard, not seen) are easily installed--some kind of scripting thing makes them easy to install. 4) Possible to make a local "up2date"-style server so not all the local machines need to log into, or have accounts on, red hat network. 5) Suse pro appears to cost much less than RH pro.
If any of this is false, please correct me. I only saw it from a distance, or heard from heresay. How do the distros compare regarding these features?
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i thought bill gates did that.
interpol or some such needs to stop this group of fanatics.
i don't know a hell of a lot about cloning, but from what little i know the child is destined to live a short, painful, terrifying life.
it's a crime that these monsters are allowed to continue their insane work.
I disagree with your comment in it's entirety.
1) About 12,000 people died due to London's "Death Fog" of 1952.
2) The term "Smog" was coined much later than 1952, and most all reference materials refer to the 1952 incident as a "Death" or "Killer" fog.
3) The factories and buses were not an "enemy"--they did not "plan" an attack. Indeed, it was the common practice of burning cheap, soft coal (later outlawed) for warmth in the unusually cold winter that exacerbated the death count. Once again, no premeditative enemy.
To somehow compare a plague, which often takes many months to run its cycle, to the high, rapid death counts of 911 and the "Death Fog" does not seem an appropriate example at all.
Something like a condom or shield over comms coming into the USA or going out...and MORE freedom under the shield (USUS) communications.
Please let there be some tattered shred of freedom to hang onto...it's terrible about 911 but there have been worse death counts in history with no enemy to fight...the "Death Fog" in London (1952?) comes to mind.
Lewis carried an air rifle on the 1803-1806 expedition. .31 cal, 700-900 lbs. per sq. inch.
three reasons to say no:
1) The ugly gui.
2) the high price.
3) the people who like it eat at McDonalds.
why not just decide what the music's value is, post portions of the concerts to get people hooked, then let people pay with paypal donations...when the donations and pledges reach the posted amount , release the music.
...to make money. like their thriving satellite business.
...and while doing so explain how to hide data, make friendly header files, properly expose data, in C.
three cdroasting, file serving machines, 3 years, almost zero downtime (excepting upgrades). Running 24/7. No nasty EULAs to reviews. Priceless.
this person has it right...imagine every contributor to a project adding a restriction forbidding their particular peeve...something like mozilla or open office could end up with hundreds of lines of restrictions -- "thou shalt not eat tuna", "thou shalt not eat at mcdonalds", "thou shalt not buy products at walmart".
A ridiculous precedent.
The whole thing, to me, boils down to the following:
/clueless to understand how it happened and how to fix it.
1) Federal laws, people's right to choice, etc. clearly violated--not just once, but many, many times.
2) USA justice dept. and judicial branch too corrupt
3) Federal gov't and MS have "buddy deal" to make MS the USA standard, and let the rest of the world choose between Linux or MS, much the way they choose between Metric and English units. (I hope Linux ends up being the international equivalent of Metric units--successful).
So, is it legal for a state government to declare itself "Microsoft Free", now that they are a convicted criminal organization? Why don't the "solaris seven" use this option, and rather than fight the biased judicial and federal justice dept., that is, just declare themselves microsoft free, as far as state government purchases, and let people use whatever they choose, but urge them to choose freedom?
It seems fairly obvious to me that we will soon see the politicians shrilly supporting the US "corporate welfare for microsoft program" as they did the use of british units in the seventies--even though the rest of the world was switching to metric right in front of them.
That will be a sick sight indeed..a bunch of fat ass senators screaming about america, god, the flag, apple pie and microsoft. Sickening, but it will probably come to that.
The first hit is always free.
I'd hate to see people getting killed or the economy damaged just so the NSA can claim to be "hip and with it" on the wireless side of things.
SECRET information might not be as dangerous a loss as the higher level stuff, still, going wireless, to me anyway, means broadcasting...and sniffing...and recording...and analyzing...lots different from copper or fiber in a shielded, isolated, locked down environment.
Thanks to the criminality of Microsoft, and the ineptitude of (now) all three branches of the US government in dealing with that criminality, as well as the current "Welfare for Microsoft" campaign being levied by the US government ("Microsoft Everywhere"), all you can say is "I don't blame them a bit".
This was an extremely competent technology company, one that set many standards for innovation and openness.
Now they are a mere shadow of their former slf, primarily due to criminality of another company, one receiving aid and encouragement by a government that is supposed to foster the free market and competition for the good of it's citizens.
Shame on the US gov't for their toothless mediocrity. Go get 'em, Sun.
I'm not so sure. It's disappointing to see so many people complaining about "MS bashing". Personally, I think it's great!
1) Exercising free speech, just like when windows people bash "everything else".
2) MS is a convicted federal criminal organization.
3) If anyone else did the things Bill Gates ordered done, they would be in prison right now. (I'm talking about various broken contracts and license agreements with novell, ibm, stac, DOJ).
The MS situation reminds me of what I've read of the various gang leaders of the 1920's--vicious criminals, etc..but the general public held them in awe, primarily due to their power and wealth, but also for the flamboyance and rhetoric displayed the gang leaders in the face of an increasingingly prosecutorial environment.
Then, as now, the government was not held in particularly high esteem...high taxes, prohibition, corruption.
In times like this, criminals are often held up as "the good guys".
i tried to find a way to move my mozilla mail and adress book from mozilla to evolution (now the default mail app in redhat 8.0) and could not find a way to do it.
most of the websites about migrating to evolution discuss windows/outlook, or windows/mozilla, not linux/mozilla.
I guess since it's open source I should get off my ass and write a conversion script?
I can't prove it, but it looks to me like the trial was a hoax.
MS was clearly guilty, so how could the US and Microsoft come up with a way to stretch the penalty phase out four years or so, thus giving MS time to come out with a unix-like replacement and the US government time to make it their "standard"?
Easy enough. Just make the verdict easy to throw out on appeal...Judge yaps his mouth off to reporters, knowing he would guarantee a lengthy appeal by doing so.
End result: Facts hold up, and the penalty is postponed due to Judge's verbosity to the press. This guy has, what, 30 years under his belt in law? He knew the exact ramifications of his actions.
This dog & pony show was planned for public consumption, while MS and the US gov could make the MS product a US standard.
Claiming they do not have to disclose is a joke. The IRS, for example, can demand a full disclosure of all their books.
Depending on their status they may or may not need to disclose cartain information to the public.
Statements like this do not make for good public relations. Someone needs to have a talk with this guy.
Just apply and interview at the NSA for a phat civil service job. Let them pay to patent it.
The motorcyclists in Europe have been hit hard by the ticketing machines, or so I've heard.
Not only do they have limits by age and displacement, now this big brother stuff...cameras mounted in trees, etc.
From what I've heard, some people are wearing masks and sneaking up to the cams and wrenching them...black spray paint over the lens or a strategic hammer blow, etc.
i had lasik eye surgery several months ago, and now I can dee great no com-plaints hereQ
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can someone familiar with these distros respond the the following?
Suse pro has:
1) neat firewall tool, services, user, nis/yp management tools.
2) samba and nfs are trivial on it (exports/imports).
3) Oracle, DB2 (from what I've heard, not seen) are easily installed--some kind of scripting thing makes them easy to install.
4) Possible to make a local "up2date"-style server so not all the local machines need to log into, or have accounts on, red hat network.
5) Suse pro appears to cost much less than RH pro.
If any of this is false, please correct me. I only saw it from a distance, or heard from heresay. How do the distros compare regarding these features?
Linux Expo, 2002; refering to the HP/Compaq merger:
"...it's like watching two slow-moving garbage trucks in a head-on collision..."
...posts a "goatse.cx" link gets shot.