Seriously. Was that an acceptance speech, or a notice of surrender? Where was all the confidence, charm and charisma that got him elected? Christ, he didn't even have a song!
All I heard for 20 minutes was him lowering expectations of all the shit he lied^H^H^H^H promised to get himself elected.
No, he's not going to do any of those things in the first week, month, or most likely even first year he's in office
Ever. Read it again. Ever.
He is not a "walk across the aisle" guy. He'll endorse all the Democratic big spending, big government programs to feed the illegals, the poor, and may even give the homeless a brand new car on the real taxpayers dollar. [hint: sarcasm/humor, but largely true]
In 4 years (maybe even in 2), his high starting approval rating will have dwindled; we will still be in Iraq, the dollar will still mean nothing, and our taxes (which just were guaranteed to go up to support the 700b payout) will not have dropped, the RIAA will own your ass, the Patriot Act will mean nothing next to the changes those nasty little 'restrictive' clauses in the US Constitution have undergone. Remember Ayres? Remember Wright? That was true.
The shit Bush & Co. has done will take far longer to unravel, but he can start the process.
Um... the Dems (surprisingly) wanted deregulation of those crappy loans. The house/senate was a Dem majority. Bush only fought a dipshit war to protect his buddies at Halliburton and Exxon, and didn't meet any of the goals of said dipshit war. He is largely not-at-fault for watching the Wall Street meltdown imho. I would concede that by his appointment choices, W is still on the hook for hiring friends instead of smart people.
Quit being so damned bitter and actually start helping your fellow countrymen instead of being an asshole because your guy didn't win.
Fuck my Countrymen. They are largely media/entertainment FUD-gobbling idiots. Many of them walked into the booth and said, "Oh shit! There are 10 other names on the ballot for President".
I wouldn't waste the time to piss on those dolts if they were on fire.
a) when he voted in favor of the largest payout in US history? this was an across the board tax on every tax-paying American. So he voted to increase taxes with 400 pages of "sweeteners" to turn around reduce them in a year?
b) when REAL questions were asked, his campaign "locked out" certain media? There are heat::kitchen and Obama::cover-up references here somewhere.
c) he "wrote a letter" no one has ever seen or commented on? Well hell, that's effective post-mortem leadership isn't it? We'll hear from him in 2 years that he "wrote a letter" to OBL asking him to please stop making the US cry.
His REAL platform is a joke (IMHO), and unfortunately a majority of American voters were looking for entertainment instead of issues and pressing questions. They hype pre-debates wasn't issues, it was "who is going to start the mudfest" first.
Disclaimer: The 2 party system is an epic_fail. There needs to be a way to put REALLY smart people in position of power, and not just slick talking, heavily funded snake-oil salesmen. I won't vote for either; I think I'll write-in my Father.
This is REALLY just another sad day for Americans.
f I go around trying to solve all of the world's ills, I will accomplish nothing. However if I concentrate my effort close to home, I may accomplish something.
+1 dead-on-the-money
I can't even begin to imagine what a small percentage of what we are spending in Iraq could accomplish here at home, if applied responsibly.
Although I can't recall any reasonable reference that would indicate money would be spent in the first place, I have a sneaking suspicion we may find out, to an excess, when Overlord Obama starts up the free-for-all gravy train next year.
I disagree with his platform in that he promises to spend (spread the wealth) my money on the lazy and stupid like a typical bleeding heart Democrat, however, I sincerely hope he does not spend abroad. That would be a huge improvement.
Beatles music is not very intricate, elegant, or difficult to play (even LH bass). I think game devs would enjoy a better market response for the following titles.
- DOOM IV: Beatles Reunite! - MS Flight Simulator Lynyrd Skynyrd bonus pack - Leisure Suit Larry: Return of Neverland - Wiifit: The McDonalds super-size me edition
Also, I'm not seeing where I have been rude or irrational in this thread, and I'm sorry if you've felt yelled at.
You haven't been rude or irrational. I'm not upset. The quote I inferred the ranty-arm-flapping from is this:
Saying "Oh, everything and everyone is corrupt and it's unfixable oh noes!" is worse than useless.
The mental picture "ohnoes!" has a story that I associate. I've said that in the past on purpose, complete with arm flapping along with something about stoleded megahurtz.
Although we disagree in outlook, and philosophy to an extent, its been an enjoyable, thought-provoking discussion from my point of view.
just claimed that any review that is internal to the police force is worthless.
I am in favor of civilian review. I am in favor of harsher penalties for those who break the same laws they are tasked with enforcing.
This is part of the problem: people who have experience with some members of a group making sweeping generalizations.
If I would only see a police officer driving normally, it would go a long way towards changing my mind. However if the simplest of traffic laws are not important enough to be adhered to or enforced there really is no evidence to suggest that other laws are either.
I do respect your opinion, but I don't consider my choice to be terribly moonbat-ish. I have a lack of faith in the system, a lack of trust for the relatively unsupervised and unaccountable officers, and a very little voice in changing that. My only recourse is open distrust.
That is close to your comment a post or two ago, but without the 'flapping my arms, yelling at the rocks' slant I inferred from that comment.
My point is that the "Thin Blue Line" mentality you are talking about is not universal or inherent to police or police work. It is a problem WHERE IT EXISTS.
Where else does it matter as much? Don't say government, because I don't trust them either. Those two aside, where else does it matter?
Acknowledging the possibility and existence of corruption is good. Saying "Oh, everything and everyone is corrupt and it's unfixable oh noes!" is worse than useless.
I don't think I said that. I said I didn't trust a single one of them, and I thought that there should be a better review. I do not think IAD is worth the time.
Hint: Both my parent work(ed) for a police department. I do have some insight into 'how things work', and I don't buy your utopian 'not all of them are bad/corrupt/silent' for a minute.
Free parking, ripped up tickets, or not bothering to even stop known 'on the job' and sometimes extending that privilege to families is an everyday occurrence. Not all that are -really- corrupt fall into that category.
The purpose of a software company is to make money, and if this is by selling ads in the OS, well, guess what? Making a stable OS is *not* Microsoft's job, making money is. If you want to opt out of this crap, DON'T BUY IT.
Somewhat off-topic and I don't want to troll, but the opt-out is your wallet. Stay with XP or do yourself a favor and switch to Linux or Mac, but just avoid vista or 7.
While 'don't buy it' is clearly a viable answer, I think my main point is that the user should choose or not choose these kinds of features at the app layer.
Yes, MS is in business to make money. Thats not the issue.
The actual implementation of this was to turn over drivers to the hardware vendors, so it's not technically MS marketing. You all DID read TFA, yes?;)
The example was about printer cartridges. The framework for ADVERTISEMENT is being put into the OS (registry). Advertisement being one example of what the framework provides.
Aside from the obvious what-ifs like - What if joe-toolbar overwrites it with its own ads/fluff? - What if virus-du-jour put an executable behind that newly created malicious link?
But... what if these hardware vendors 'provide' linux drivers with similar drivel? Oh ho ho... different problem, yes?
Allowing the marketing droids into what should simply be OS->hardware interface code is a Bad Idea(tm) in my mind no matter what OS we are talking about.
This is a reductionist argument that comes out of the fact that abuses of police power are news, and "Policeman does his job" isn't.
Which 'abuse of power' was not covered up well enough? Which policeman 'did his job' was covered up successfully?
By definition, the good cops WILL NOT. They cease being the good cops, there.
The good cops may not cover by directly blowing the whistle (har!), however simply not saying anything is the same thing, no? THAT is the basis of the thin blue line.
And this ignores the existence of internal affairs, whose whole purpose is to maintain accountability and reduce corruption.
Cops monitoring cops? Yeah right. Civilians need to monitor cops.
The view of the police as solely an evil or oppressive force is massively reductionist, and at least as naive as the view of them as being solely capable of good actions.
YMMV, your opinion may be different, but I choose not to trust a single one of them. If their own won't say anything because of their 'on the job' brotherhood', how am I supposed to know which one is good or bad?
Better a few guilty men go free on a technicality than allow officers to become a law unto themselves.
The largest US gang has a well documentedrecord that would seem to indicate your statement is out of date.
As another everyday example, here's a big surprise, no?
I'm not intending to troll/flamebait here, but MY perception is there is very little accountability for the 'on the job' crew in blue amongst themselves. It is also my perspective that there is very little integrity once one subscribes to the original meaning of the thin blue line.
Too bad you posted AC. Insightful post by my account.
Has anyone looked the the business models this product (and it is a product) looks to strengthen with moderate adoption of its partners?
How about "targeted advertising" for starters. not only does it provide DRM, but you can get ads as well either while you wait for your download to complete, or as part of the super-secret-encrypted-file itself!
In spite of the open source (which is probably just a bone to throw at/.ers and the like) the entire point of the company/product is to reinforce the record companies requirements first.
we need an angry mob to find these car warranty robo-caller bitches and give them hell.
Yaknow... I used to get a few these calls per week. One of the OP states that they laugh at you if you mention the DNC, or ask to be removed from their call list which is my experience as well.
I have not been called since I asked for extended warranty on my '72 Dodge Dart. Seems they realized I was going to be a dick, and stopped calling.
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Well then... learned something new today. Thanks. I usually just used 'w' or 'who'. Neat trick.
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How to find sendmail version from command line /usr/lib/sendmail -v -d0.1 /dev/null
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Undocumented Solaris 10 jumpstart trick if your custom finish scripts bomb out, and you want to restart without reboot:
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On Solaris 9 and earlier /tmp/.jumpstart
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Map a process to a port(s)
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Who still runs fingerd?
Fuck you, you cock sucking hippy ass moderator.
THIS is a troll, THAT was not.
Who says you can't push a subjective agenda with mod points?
/* karma be damned */
Sounds like you've been watching Fox "News".
Seriously. Was that an acceptance speech, or a notice of surrender? Where was all the confidence, charm and charisma that got him elected? Christ, he didn't even have a song!
All I heard for 20 minutes was him lowering expectations of all the shit he lied^H^H^H^H promised to get himself elected.
No, he's not going to do any of those things in the first week, month, or most likely even first year he's in office
Ever. Read it again. Ever.
He is not a "walk across the aisle" guy. He'll endorse all the Democratic big spending, big government programs to feed the illegals, the poor, and may even give the homeless a brand new car on the real taxpayers dollar. [hint: sarcasm/humor, but largely true]
In 4 years (maybe even in 2), his high starting approval rating will have dwindled; we will still be in Iraq, the dollar will still mean nothing, and our taxes (which just were guaranteed to go up to support the 700b payout) will not have dropped, the RIAA will own your ass, the Patriot Act will mean nothing next to the changes those nasty little 'restrictive' clauses in the US Constitution have undergone. Remember Ayres? Remember Wright? That was true.
The shit Bush & Co. has done will take far longer to unravel, but he can start the process.
Um... the Dems (surprisingly) wanted deregulation of those crappy loans. The house/senate was a Dem majority. Bush only fought a dipshit war to protect his buddies at Halliburton and Exxon, and didn't meet any of the goals of said dipshit war. He is largely not-at-fault for watching the Wall Street meltdown imho. I would concede that by his appointment choices, W is still on the hook for hiring friends instead of smart people.
Quit being so damned bitter and actually start helping your fellow countrymen instead of being an asshole because your guy didn't win.
Fuck my Countrymen. They are largely media/entertainment FUD-gobbling idiots. Many of them walked into the booth and said, "Oh shit! There are 10 other names on the ballot for President".
I wouldn't waste the time to piss on those dolts if they were on fire.
but on a REAL platform?
Honestly... what did he REALLY tell you when:
a) when he voted in favor of the largest payout in US history? this was an across the board tax on every tax-paying American. So he voted to increase taxes with 400 pages of "sweeteners" to turn around reduce them in a year?
b) when REAL questions were asked, his campaign "locked out" certain media? There are heat::kitchen and Obama::cover-up references here somewhere.
c) he "wrote a letter" no one has ever seen or commented on? Well hell, that's effective post-mortem leadership isn't it? We'll hear from him in 2 years that he "wrote a letter" to OBL asking him to please stop making the US cry.
His REAL platform is a joke (IMHO), and unfortunately a majority of American voters were looking for entertainment instead of issues and pressing questions. They hype pre-debates wasn't issues, it was "who is going to start the mudfest" first.
Disclaimer: The 2 party system is an epic_fail. There needs to be a way to put REALLY smart people in position of power, and not just slick talking, heavily funded snake-oil salesmen. I won't vote for either; I think I'll write-in my Father.
This is REALLY just another sad day for Americans.
You need to put on your historical relativity goggles.
Point. I hadn't considered that, but yesterday's technology/methods don't usually pop my mind first.
And I'd love to see you play the sitar.
If I had time/inclination, I bet I could. This doesn't look terribly different. Sounds pretty bad though. ;)
The ending of the war shouldn't be decided by one career general...
A general who will be out of a job, when its over.
f I go around trying to solve all of the world's ills, I will accomplish nothing. However if I concentrate my effort close to home, I may accomplish something.
+1 dead-on-the-money
I can't even begin to imagine what a small percentage of what we are spending in Iraq could accomplish here at home, if applied responsibly.
Although I can't recall any reasonable reference that would indicate money would be spent in the first place, I have a sneaking suspicion we may find out, to an excess, when Overlord Obama starts up the free-for-all gravy train next year.
I disagree with his platform in that he promises to spend (spread the wealth) my money on the lazy and stupid like a typical bleeding heart Democrat, however, I sincerely hope he does not spend abroad. That would be a huge improvement.
Beatles music is not very intricate, elegant, or difficult to play (even LH bass). I think game devs would enjoy a better market response for the following titles.
- DOOM IV: Beatles Reunite!
- MS Flight Simulator Lynyrd Skynyrd bonus pack
- Leisure Suit Larry: Return of Neverland
- Wiifit: The McDonalds super-size me edition
Then again alcohol could quiet the kids well enough as well.
Benadryl and duct tape. ::nods::
Also, I'm not seeing where I have been rude or irrational in this thread, and I'm sorry if you've felt yelled at.
You haven't been rude or irrational. I'm not upset. The quote I inferred the ranty-arm-flapping from is this:
Saying "Oh, everything and everyone is corrupt and it's unfixable oh noes!" is worse than useless.
The mental picture "ohnoes!" has a story that I associate. I've said that in the past on purpose, complete with arm flapping along with something about stoleded megahurtz.
Although we disagree in outlook, and philosophy to an extent, its been an enjoyable, thought-provoking discussion from my point of view.
just claimed that any review that is internal to the police force is worthless.
I am in favor of civilian review. I am in favor of harsher penalties for those who break the same laws they are tasked with enforcing.
This is part of the problem: people who have experience with some members of a group making sweeping generalizations.
If I would only see a police officer driving normally, it would go a long way towards changing my mind. However if the simplest of traffic laws are not important enough to be adhered to or enforced there really is no evidence to suggest that other laws are either.
I do respect your opinion, but I don't consider my choice to be terribly moonbat-ish. I have a lack of faith in the system, a lack of trust for the relatively unsupervised and unaccountable officers, and a very little voice in changing that. My only recourse is open distrust.
That is close to your comment a post or two ago, but without the 'flapping my arms, yelling at the rocks' slant I inferred from that comment.
My point is that the "Thin Blue Line" mentality you are talking about is not universal or inherent to police or police work. It is a problem WHERE IT EXISTS.
Where else does it matter as much? Don't say government, because I don't trust them either. Those two aside, where else does it matter?
Acknowledging the possibility and existence of corruption is good. Saying "Oh, everything and everyone is corrupt and it's unfixable oh noes!" is worse than useless.
I don't think I said that. I said I didn't trust a single one of them, and I thought that there should be a better review. I do not think IAD is worth the time.
Hint: Both my parent work(ed) for a police department. I do have some insight into 'how things work', and I don't buy your utopian 'not all of them are bad/corrupt/silent' for a minute.
Free parking, ripped up tickets, or not bothering to even stop known 'on the job' and sometimes extending that privilege to families is an everyday occurrence. Not all that are -really- corrupt fall into that category.
The purpose of a software company is to make money, and if this is by selling ads in the OS, well, guess what?
Making a stable OS is *not* Microsoft's job, making money is. If you want to opt out of this crap, DON'T BUY IT.
Somewhat off-topic and I don't want to troll, but the opt-out is your wallet. Stay with XP or do yourself a favor and switch to Linux or Mac, but just avoid vista or 7.
While 'don't buy it' is clearly a viable answer, I think my main point is that the user should choose or not choose these kinds of features at the app layer.
Yes, MS is in business to make money. Thats not the issue.
The actual implementation of this was to turn over drivers to the hardware vendors, so it's not technically MS marketing. You all DID read TFA, yes? ;)
The example was about printer cartridges. The framework for ADVERTISEMENT is being put into the OS (registry). Advertisement being one example of what the framework provides.
Aside from the obvious what-ifs like
- What if joe-toolbar overwrites it with its own ads/fluff?
- What if virus-du-jour put an executable behind that newly created malicious link?
But... what if these hardware vendors 'provide' linux drivers with similar drivel? Oh ho ho... different problem, yes?
Allowing the marketing droids into what should simply be OS->hardware interface code is a Bad Idea(tm) in my mind no matter what OS we are talking about.
This is a reductionist argument that comes out of the fact that abuses of police power are news, and "Policeman does his job" isn't.
Which 'abuse of power' was not covered up well enough?
Which policeman 'did his job' was covered up successfully?
By definition, the good cops WILL NOT. They cease being the good cops, there.
The good cops may not cover by directly blowing the whistle (har!), however simply not saying anything is the same thing, no? THAT is the basis of the thin blue line.
And this ignores the existence of internal affairs, whose whole purpose is to maintain accountability and reduce corruption.
Cops monitoring cops? Yeah right. Civilians need to monitor cops.
The view of the police as solely an evil or oppressive force is massively reductionist, and at least as naive as the view of them as being solely capable of good actions.
YMMV, your opinion may be different, but I choose not to trust a single one of them. If their own won't say anything because of their 'on the job' brotherhood', how am I supposed to know which one is good or bad?
From TFA:
A printer manufacturer, for example, might include a direct link to buy new ink cartridges for that specific printer from their website
The purpose of an OS is to provide a stable, secure framework for which to run applications.
The purpose of a device driver is to provide stable, and secure interface between hardware and the OS.
Marketing fluff does not belong in an OS, or a device driver. I surely hope there is an opt-out for this tripe.
Better a few guilty men go free on a technicality than allow officers to become a law unto themselves.
The largest US gang has a well documented record that would seem to indicate your statement is out of date.
As another everyday example, here's a big surprise, no?
I'm not intending to troll/flamebait here, but MY perception is there is very little accountability for the 'on the job' crew in blue amongst themselves. It is also my perspective that there is very little integrity once one subscribes to the original meaning of the thin blue line.
"Yes, that is a problem, and we are working on it".
(bye bye karma)
I guess if I had to pick I would pick some real scary people to send up to Mars first like say Randy Ayres or Reverend Write.
Wrong direction. These two should be shot into the Sun.
Too bad you posted AC. Insightful post by my account.
Has anyone looked the the business models this product (and it is a product) looks to strengthen with moderate adoption of its partners?
How about "targeted advertising" for starters. not only does it provide DRM, but you can get ads as well either while you wait for your download to complete, or as part of the super-secret-encrypted-file itself!
In spite of the open source (which is probably just a bone to throw at /.ers and the like) the entire point of the company/product is to reinforce the record companies requirements first.
It made my blacklist rather quickly.
P.S. How did you indent your code on Slashdot?
Click reply to his post, then click "quote parent" to see.
Why? They don't have lawyers?
I think the parent is inferring that you would be shot in the face instead, based on the alleged violent nature of this club.
From TFS:
"ranging from murder and robbery to extortion, money laundering, gun trafficking and drug dealing."
Disclaimer: If there was a WHOOSH-zone that I got caught in, then tell Auntie Em I be home for dinner when I wake up.
we need an angry mob to find these car warranty robo-caller bitches and give them hell.
Yaknow ... I used to get a few these calls per week. One of the OP states that they laugh at you if you mention the DNC, or ask to be removed from their call list which is my experience as well.
I have not been called since I asked for extended warranty on my '72 Dodge Dart. Seems they realized I was going to be a dick, and stopped calling.
YMMV.
and changing your phone number is a relatively minor thing to do to end this.
How many people do you tell that to? Surely if the spoofed address/phone number is offline, the TMers will choose another.
Solve the problem, don't shift the problem.