This subject came up a while back on the
usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written. Someone
eventually did the math and showed that for several
African countries, if they could buy the drugs
AT COST and devoted their whole medical
services budget to doing so, they could treat only a small
percentage of their AIDS patients with
modern western anti-AIDS drugs.
Actually, the Clinton Administration has
seen massive "consolidation" in the
oil and gas business, which I suspect has led
to the situation we're in now with regard to oil
prices, which has been a major contributing factor
(albeit ignored by analysts on all sides, the
stupids!) to the energy crisis in California. When
oil prices go up, and you mainly produce with
fossil fuel, the electricity prices go up.
Actually, I thought we had the antitrust action
against IBM to thank for a lot of the way PC's
are constructed (hack, spit) and the rise in
power of Microsoft (hack, spit) because they
were contracted to make the OS, and IBM couldn't
do it in-house.
It was antitrust action that gave us M$ to begin with.
So evidently you do think the government
should have the ability to fund abortions with
my tax money on my behalf, regardless of whether
I believe in them or not? The most ironic thing
about that position is that you're going to claim
that it's the "pro-choice" one. If you believe in
abortion, go out and pay for them yourself.
Hmm. MacOS is fairly fast on my iBook, which is
slower than a Cube. I suspect this is a troll.
I'll give you a strong hint, about making it faster, though:
install ppc-linux. It's faster than MacOS 9.
It appears that MacOS is hardwired for one
mouse button, but if you look closely at the applications,
you'll find stuff like shift-click, control-click,
etc., especially with the cad app that's my primary
MacOS app.
As the owner of an ibook that I have set up
to dual-boot Debian PowerPC and MacOS 9, I'd have
to say that my machine is really really neat, but
I still wish it had two more mouse buttons. I have
a cheap Kensington mouse, almost set up right with
XF4, and hope to have a trackball in the near future,
although they're more expensive.
OK, so technically it may not be communist.
However, it is the system of government every
group of self-described communists has ever
established once they got into power; just because
it doesn't match your rosy scenario doesn't mean
the rest of us have to believe it.
You predict that the government will stop the
censorship because of the benefits involved. You
seem to be forgetting that the government there
doesn't care about the benefits of China, but of
the benefits of their government, and that unrestricted
internet access doesn't benefit the party.
I can only say, if MS is always successful at
what they put their minds to, then they must have
been putting their minds towards creating extremely
lousy software designed with the single purpose of
pissing me off.
Yes, sometimes they do attract
bright people... but they appear to not really do
anything with them. They have the guy who made the
Newton, but they have yet to make anything like the
Newton. They're too constricted by their own concepts of backwards compatibility to really innovate.
I'm pretty sure military spending is the lowest
portion of the federal budget it's been since WWII
ended. If you want to blame someone for the
money spent on the military, blame Clinton. He
didn't want to spend the money to keep them up to
speed in the maintenance dept, but boy, he sure
couldn't resist pissing away a couple billion dollars
of cruise missiles to distract people from his
affairs, and he sure relied on the military to deploy in
support of his cause of the week.
Now let's watch as Bush closes down
NASA when he fails to understand what they are
trying to do.
Ad hominen attacks on Bush aside, if Triana
is what we get out of a smart administration, then
by God we need a stupid one in the White House.
Bush Sr. gave us DC-X when he was in office; once Clinton got in, they basically screwed up the funding so bad (refusing to allocate funds Congress had passed; Clinton's main use of the Line Item Veto was on the $ 10 million operations budget for DC-X, when there is billions of dollars of unnecessary pork in NASA)
that the maintenance team was dispersed to the four winds twice, and eventually during one test flight the craft crashed due to improper maintenance; Clinton et al (including this site's alleged genius darling, Al Gore) to give the contract for the follow-up to LockMart, which has spent 1000 million dollars and not only isn't any closer to testing their vehicle when the program started, but currently isn't showing any signs of wanting the vehicle to succeed: apparently they believe that it's enough to make sure that they got the contract and denied federal funding for someone else to build a cheap launcher.
Ten times as much money, and they won't even get to the point of launching it to see if it'll crash. Yeah, right.
Hemos, if you expect us to be impressed by Clinton saying, after he's royally screwed things up, as he goes out of office, that a budget increace is needed, when he spent the last eight cutting NASA's budget and making sure what they did get wasn't spent very well, is the height of hypocricy.
All the liberals are now talking about the
severe blow that "states rights" has taken in this
ruling; really, though, is it a blow to states
rights when different brances of a state's
government are in conflict with each other?
Although seeing the liberals suddenly
pretend to care about states' rights is funny,
I have to admit.
OK, off the top of my head, one problem I
have with global warming evidence such as this is
that most of the northern hemisphere is still
much cooler than it has been in historical times,
such as when the Romans were growing grapes in
Scotland, and when the Norse settled in Greenland
(before being wiped out or assimilated with the
Eskimos, depending on which theory you believe).
Aren't we also at the maximum of the
400 year solar cycle, BTW?
Well, I noticed the previous poster made a comment
that one of the first rules of hacking is to not
reinvent the wheel. I also noticed that Miguel de
Icaza was going on about the importance of Code
Reuse. But it hit me: isn't this exactly what
Helix has done? From the description, it sounds to
me like all the Helixcode installer does is already
present in the Debian package management system
(which I'd like to see spread to every OS on the
planet, including Windows, but that's improbable.)
You know, I sometimes wonder if what this
guy was doing was meant to provide a response.
No matter how innocuous the stuff in the bag
was, I kinda wonder about someone who walks around
in a military surplus load-bearing harness
and then gets agitated when the police start
asking questions.
OTOH, he did feel strongly enough about the
Temple to throw the moneychangers out... and
he did believe that people should at least
proletsyze in public, which he also
did a lot of himself.
No, I don't really feel that way; I think Bush
has problems, but less from my point of view than
Gore. The Shrub does seem somewhat different than
his Dad to me, which is why I'll probably vote
for him. (I didn't like Bush Sr. that much).
And Bush has been governor of one of
the nation's more populous states... one which
seems to have its act together much more than
mine. (I'm from Louisiana, and travel to Texas
often).
The statement that Bush Jr. would be bad because
it would be the start of a Political Dynasty
is a little off base, IMHO. Checking the net
very quickly (google is your friend:-), I find
that John Adams and John Quincy Adams were father
and son, and William Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
were grandfather and grandson. James Madison and
Zachary Taylor were second cousins, and of course
there's the Roosevelts. None of these families,
as far as I know, dominate politics today.
I miss the old slashdot too. Does anyone know
of a URL? I know the URL of Katz/Naderite "Anti-
Corporatist-Fascist-Pig"dot is slashdot.org these
days... but that wasn't what I was looking for.
I'm semi-libertarian, and somewhat religious;
part of the problem is that on Slashdot you see
a gross overrepresentation of the people from all over the political spectrum who
think freedom of religion means people should only
practice it in the comfort of their closet at
home.
Gee, didn't Taco vote for the guy who
wrote the last library censorware bill to
get passed by Congress during the Michigan
Primary, because he Wasn't Bush?
It sort-of puts the whole thing in perspective
for me...
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This subject came up a while back on the usenet newsgroup rec.arts.sf.written. Someone eventually did the math and showed that for several African countries, if they could buy the drugs AT COST and devoted their whole medical services budget to doing so, they could treat only a small percentage of their AIDS patients with modern western anti-AIDS drugs.
Actually, the Clinton Administration has seen massive "consolidation" in the oil and gas business, which I suspect has led to the situation we're in now with regard to oil prices, which has been a major contributing factor (albeit ignored by analysts on all sides, the stupids!) to the energy crisis in California. When oil prices go up, and you mainly produce with fossil fuel, the electricity prices go up.
Actually, I thought we had the antitrust action against IBM to thank for a lot of the way PC's are constructed (hack, spit) and the rise in power of Microsoft (hack, spit) because they were contracted to make the OS, and IBM couldn't do it in-house.
It was antitrust action that gave us M$ to begin with.
So evidently you do think the government should have the ability to fund abortions with my tax money on my behalf, regardless of whether I believe in them or not? The most ironic thing about that position is that you're going to claim that it's the "pro-choice" one. If you believe in abortion, go out and pay for them yourself.
You don't understand. This is liberaldot. Restrictions on freedom by socialist european countries don't really exist in their worldview.
I miss the old slashdot, before Jon Katz came along, and decided it was meant as a vehicle for spreading democrat political consiousness.
Hmm. MacOS is fairly fast on my iBook, which is slower than a Cube. I suspect this is a troll. I'll give you a strong hint, about making it faster, though: install ppc-linux. It's faster than MacOS 9.
It appears that MacOS is hardwired for one mouse button, but if you look closely at the applications, you'll find stuff like shift-click, control-click, etc., especially with the cad app that's my primary MacOS app.
I want three buttons.
As the owner of an ibook that I have set up to dual-boot Debian PowerPC and MacOS 9, I'd have to say that my machine is really really neat, but I still wish it had two more mouse buttons. I have a cheap Kensington mouse, almost set up right with XF4, and hope to have a trackball in the near future, although they're more expensive.
OK, so technically it may not be communist. However, it is the system of government every group of self-described communists has ever established once they got into power; just because it doesn't match your rosy scenario doesn't mean the rest of us have to believe it.
You predict that the government will stop the censorship because of the benefits involved. You seem to be forgetting that the government there doesn't care about the benefits of China, but of the benefits of their government, and that unrestricted internet access doesn't benefit the party.
Given that, nothing else matters.
I can only say, if MS is always successful at what they put their minds to, then they must have been putting their minds towards creating extremely lousy software designed with the single purpose of pissing me off.
Yes, sometimes they do attract bright people... but they appear to not really do anything with them. They have the guy who made the Newton, but they have yet to make anything like the Newton. They're too constricted by their own concepts of backwards compatibility to really innovate.
I'm pretty sure military spending is the lowest portion of the federal budget it's been since WWII ended. If you want to blame someone for the money spent on the military, blame Clinton. He didn't want to spend the money to keep them up to speed in the maintenance dept, but boy, he sure couldn't resist pissing away a couple billion dollars of cruise missiles to distract people from his affairs, and he sure relied on the military to deploy in support of his cause of the week.
Ad hominen attacks on Bush aside, if Triana is what we get out of a smart administration, then by God we need a stupid one in the White House.
Bush Sr. gave us DC-X when he was in office; once Clinton got in, they basically screwed up the funding so bad (refusing to allocate funds Congress had passed; Clinton's main use of the Line Item Veto was on the $ 10 million operations budget for DC-X, when there is billions of dollars of unnecessary pork in NASA) that the maintenance team was dispersed to the four winds twice, and eventually during one test flight the craft crashed due to improper maintenance; Clinton et al (including this site's alleged genius darling, Al Gore) to give the contract for the follow-up to LockMart, which has spent 1000 million dollars and not only isn't any closer to testing their vehicle when the program started, but currently isn't showing any signs of wanting the vehicle to succeed: apparently they believe that it's enough to make sure that they got the contract and denied federal funding for someone else to build a cheap launcher.
Ten times as much money, and they won't even get to the point of launching it to see if it'll crash. Yeah, right.
Hemos, if you expect us to be impressed by Clinton saying, after he's royally screwed things up, as he goes out of office, that a budget increace is needed, when he spent the last eight cutting NASA's budget and making sure what they did get wasn't spent very well, is the height of hypocricy.
Linux distributions have one basic problem: Too many notes! Until they have less notes, it won't be ready for the mainstream.
"So, Gnome, what are we going to do tonight?"
"Same thing we do every night, Pinky, try to take over the kernel!"
All the liberals are now talking about the severe blow that "states rights" has taken in this ruling; really, though, is it a blow to states rights when different brances of a state's government are in conflict with each other?
Although seeing the liberals suddenly pretend to care about states' rights is funny, I have to admit.
OK, off the top of my head, one problem I have with global warming evidence such as this is that most of the northern hemisphere is still much cooler than it has been in historical times, such as when the Romans were growing grapes in Scotland, and when the Norse settled in Greenland (before being wiped out or assimilated with the Eskimos, depending on which theory you believe).
Aren't we also at the maximum of the 400 year solar cycle, BTW?
Well, I noticed the previous poster made a comment that one of the first rules of hacking is to not reinvent the wheel. I also noticed that Miguel de Icaza was going on about the importance of Code Reuse. But it hit me: isn't this exactly what Helix has done? From the description, it sounds to me like all the Helixcode installer does is already present in the Debian package management system (which I'd like to see spread to every OS on the planet, including Windows, but that's improbable.)
You know, I sometimes wonder if what this guy was doing was meant to provide a response. No matter how innocuous the stuff in the bag was, I kinda wonder about someone who walks around in a military surplus load-bearing harness and then gets agitated when the police start asking questions.
OTOH, he did feel strongly enough about the Temple to throw the moneychangers out... and he did believe that people should at least proletsyze in public, which he also did a lot of himself.
No, I don't really feel that way; I think Bush has problems, but less from my point of view than Gore. The Shrub does seem somewhat different than his Dad to me, which is why I'll probably vote for him. (I didn't like Bush Sr. that much). And Bush has been governor of one of the nation's more populous states... one which seems to have its act together much more than mine. (I'm from Louisiana, and travel to Texas often).
The statement that Bush Jr. would be bad because it would be the start of a Political Dynasty is a little off base, IMHO. Checking the net very quickly (google is your friend :-), I find
that John Adams and John Quincy Adams were father
and son, and William Harrison and Benjamin Harrison
were grandfather and grandson. James Madison and
Zachary Taylor were second cousins, and of course
there's the Roosevelts. None of these families,
as far as I know, dominate politics today.
I miss the old slashdot too. Does anyone know of a URL? I know the URL of Katz/Naderite "Anti- Corporatist-Fascist-Pig"dot is slashdot.org these days... but that wasn't what I was looking for.
I'm semi-libertarian, and somewhat religious; part of the problem is that on Slashdot you see a gross overrepresentation of the people from all over the political spectrum who think freedom of religion means people should only practice it in the comfort of their closet at home.
Gee, didn't Taco vote for the guy who wrote the last library censorware bill to get passed by Congress during the Michigan Primary, because he Wasn't Bush?
It sort-of puts the whole thing in perspective for me...