Democratic underground is a shill site for Dems who are too cowardly to defend our fundamental right to have ALL our votes counted just like Gore didn't have the guts to do.
The Dems are so afraid of rocking the boat that they are willing to throw the passengers over board to keep the boat stable. Note it was the Libertarians and Greens that challenged the suspicious vote results in Ohio (far different from initial polling) on behalf of the lame ass Dems who couldn't be bothered to defend themselves even over their own loss.
And people wonder why I'm DISGUSTED at BOTH the Dems and Repigagains and their toady followers like democratic "underground."
Good someone is defending our second amendment INDIVIDUAL right to bear arms. And I say this as a left Green, a left Green however who believes we should defend ALL the bill of rights. Frankly at this point the freedom denying Dems annoy me just as much as the freedom denying Reps. Please count all the votes, make the data available to anyone to be peer reviewed, and don't eviscerate our bill of rights. Is that so much to ask of our politicians? Didn't they take an oath of office vowing to defend the constitution?
XMilkProject said: "...and it's also fair to say that most of the 4% of OSX users are in very non-technical fields, and far less likely to be capable of the technical mischief"
On the contrary it's Windows that is not up the task of running in highly technical areas. The University of Virginia built the currently 20th fastest supper computer in the world out of essentially stock Mac Xserves see: http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/basic
How many Windows boxes are on the top 500 list, hint, zero because Windows is not a supper computer class operating system. The BSD based Darwin is a real Unix, it can run XII and in fact G5 powermacs are used in genetics research as a full fledged workstation, despite being a consumer "desktop" computer etc.
My crappy old 900 hmz ibook has 40 gigs and I have to hook up a 120 gig firewire drive to it just to hold my mp3s and various digital video caputures, thousands of pictures and graphics, etc. So the answer is I would "tap out" 30 gigs instantly and you can add another 30 gig on top of that. Anything short of 80 gigs is really pretty laughable by todays standards, talk about years from now when we'll see hd (or blu ray) dvds, 5 channel 24 bit music, etc, etc.
This is a good list. But you left out Windows users run Internet Explorer 90% of the time which has active x which installs spyware automatically.
Mac users rarely run I.E. as it was last updated at version 5 and I.E. isn't even available on Linux unless you are a masochist and run it under wine.
In addition to the reasons stated in the parent post, the lack of I.E. makes a BIG difference in the amount of potential spyware on Mac or Linux boxes.
I KNOW it's not possible, if it was we might see less of this crap. Posted from a dual G5 Mac, if you want to mod me down for being a "fan boi," so be it..
I'm NOT switching to Opera until there is an easy to install ad blocking plugin like Firefox has for OS X. I don't have hours to mess with config files, and TOR is buggy and unreliable on OS X. I'll do just fine with Firefox. Camino and Safari, thanks.
That movie made me cry. We've gone over the edge and lost our basic civil liberties. I mourn for our constitution and bill of rights. Some of us will fight a police state... If you camafoged cops think you can round us all up like cattle with your snarling dogs it's not going to go down like that.
Here's a terrifying possibility. What if the bill allows for snooping on ANY e-mail whose packets have passed through Canada? The U.S. could then have joint fishing expeditions along the lines of the NSA echelon program.
This is one of the most idiotic ideas I have ever heard. The phenotypes of Lions and Elephants are adapted to the environments where they evolved. We have enough trouble with Kudzu, Scotch Broom, escaped Piranas, etc to know that flora and fauna out of it's native habitat is trouble. Are they thinking about the long term consequences of this at all?
You should be aware that there are many anti-stateists who are against both U.S. and U.N. interventions, whether they are anarchists on the left or Libertarians on the right. The Libertarian antiwar.com is a good example of this point of view. Pat Buchanan would be an example of another person who believes the U.S. should be a small republic and not an empire. Although I consider myself to be a left activist I would vote for Buchanan over the Iraq war supporting and Iran and Syria threatening Hilary Clinton any day of the week. In summary do not assume that those who criticize U.S. foreign policy support the U.N.!
It doesn't matter to me WHERE it's deployed as long as politicians start addressing the problem of fuel scarcity, instead of just spouting the same old, same old economics arguments in a vacum that lead to more more short term focus on fossil fuel inefficent solutions like jets and cars.
All the economic arguments ASSUME that oil is going to last forever, yet clearly that is not the case with a finite resource. In fact there is some evidence that we are near or at peak oil now. This not just speculation from wild eyed tree huggers, Republican congressman Roscoe Bartlett gave this excellent presentation on peak oil before the congress March 14th 2005:
Unless we stop listening to economists who obsess with price and start planning a fuel efficent infrastructure change like high speed trains trains like Europe is already doing we are going to be in real trouble in the next 10-15 years. We have to do this now because the infrastructure will take years to build. Waiting for the price signal for building this infrastructure after peak oil will be too late. For the price of one year of Bush's war for oil in Iraq we could build a lot of train infrastructure.
Yeah planes are so secure, why no one would ever fly one off course into a giant skyscaper full of people, starting an international war without end. Oh wait...
And the gas will last forever, just keep telling yourself that after you pay 50 to fill up the tank on your SUV, the gas will last forever, there is no global warming, the gas will last forever... Say a mindless chant often enough and you don't have to think about reality, just ask a Hare Krishna or George Bush.
I thought that too. The tone seemed sarcastic. However, if he was serious then he is very stupid.
Risking contaminating the gene pool of Maple trees with leaves that don't fall could have devastating ecological effects. It could reduce the survival and reproductive effectiveness of wild maples if it out-crossed thus drastically changing the food chain and species composition of effected eco-systems.
This seems to be a general problem with GM people don't think of the consequences of what would happen if they outcross into wild populations. It does also seem to reflect the attitude of the average sububanite who is willing to risk any possible damage to the earth to keep their yard neat. Frankly it disgusts me.
The neighborhood watch angle bothered me as well. I used to canvass (door to door fund-raising protected as a first amendment right in numerous court cases) for Greenpeace back in the 80s and had neighborhood watch called on me frequently. All neighborhood watch does is single out people who look different for harassment. The idea of a bunch of busy bodies having a global neighborhood watch makes my skin crawl. What I think makes the net so worthwhile is that it encourages the expression of diverse viewpoints. Surveillance tends to make people afraid of expressing diverse viewpoints, it doesn't matter whether it's conducted in the private or public sector. Can't we find a better use for cheap digital camcorders like personal movies as opposed to domestic surveillance? I have seen Stephenson express this point of view before in Wired which is a disappointment to me because I thought Snow Crash and the Diamond age were thoughtful books
I guess Grex got slashdoted this morning. I have been logging onto Grex daily since March 1993. IMO it has the best discussions in cyberspace period. You can still get Unix/Linux advice there from Marcus Watts (among other gurus) in the jellyware conference. Plus free Sun OS. unix shell etc (though it's nice to become a member for 6/month) to support their services.
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Democratic underground is a shill site for Dems who are too cowardly to defend our fundamental right to have ALL our votes counted just like Gore didn't have the guts to do. The Dems are so afraid of rocking the boat that they are willing to throw the passengers over board to keep the boat stable. Note it was the Libertarians and Greens that challenged the suspicious vote results in Ohio (far different from initial polling) on behalf of the lame ass Dems who couldn't be bothered to defend themselves even over their own loss. And people wonder why I'm DISGUSTED at BOTH the Dems and Repigagains and their toady followers like democratic "underground."
Good someone is defending our second amendment INDIVIDUAL right to bear arms. And I say this as a left Green, a left Green however who believes we should defend ALL the bill of rights. Frankly at this point the freedom denying Dems annoy me just as much as the freedom denying Reps. Please count all the votes, make the data available to anyone to be peer reviewed, and don't eviscerate our bill of rights. Is that so much to ask of our politicians? Didn't they take an oath of office vowing to defend the constitution?
Whops that's "super computer" and X11. See what using m.s. word spell check will get you?
XMilkProject said: "...and it's also fair to say that most of the 4% of OSX users are in very non-technical fields, and far less likely to be capable of the technical mischief"
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On the contrary it's Windows that is not up the task of running in highly technical areas. The University of Virginia built the currently 20th fastest supper computer in the world out of essentially stock Mac Xserves see: http://www.top500.org/lists/2005/11/basic
How many Windows boxes are on the top 500 list, hint, zero because Windows is not a supper computer class operating system. The BSD based Darwin is a real Unix, it can run XII and in fact G5 powermacs are used in genetics research as a full fledged workstation, despite being a consumer "desktop" computer etc.
See for example: http://www.bio-itworld.com/products/041604_finch.
http://www.macobserver.com/article/2004/01/13.4.s
Microsoft does make a decent word processor I wrote this in word, that's about as "technical" as I'd like to get with M$ software.
Please do some research before you just spout off a troll M'K?
My crappy old 900 hmz ibook has 40 gigs and I have to hook up a 120 gig firewire drive to it just to hold my mp3s and various digital video caputures, thousands of pictures and graphics, etc. So the answer is I would "tap out" 30 gigs instantly and you can add another 30 gig on top of that. Anything short of 80 gigs is really pretty laughable by todays standards, talk about years from now when we'll see hd (or blu ray) dvds, 5 channel 24 bit music, etc, etc.
This is a good list. But you left out Windows users run Internet Explorer 90% of the time which has active x which installs spyware automatically. Mac users rarely run I.E. as it was last updated at version 5 and I.E. isn't even available on Linux unless you are a masochist and run it under wine. In addition to the reasons stated in the parent post, the lack of I.E. makes a BIG difference in the amount of potential spyware on Mac or Linux boxes.
1. Buy Apple Stock
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2. Generate Media Hype
3. Profit!
Not that I'm complaining seeing as my family has Apple stock.
Please mode up, this is very important information!
I KNOW it's not possible, if it was we might see less of this crap. Posted from a dual G5 Mac, if you want to mod me down for being a "fan boi," so be it..
I'm NOT switching to Opera until there is an easy to install ad blocking plugin like Firefox has for OS X. I don't have hours to mess with config files, and TOR is buggy and unreliable on OS X. I'll do just fine with Firefox. Camino and Safari, thanks.
That movie made me cry. We've gone over the edge and lost our basic civil liberties. I mourn for our constitution and bill of rights. Some of us will fight a police state... If you camafoged cops think you can round us all up like cattle with your snarling dogs it's not going to go down like that.
Fight the power!!!!!!!
Here's a terrifying possibility. What if the bill allows for snooping on ANY e-mail whose packets have passed through Canada? The U.S. could then have joint fishing expeditions along the lines of the NSA echelon program.
This is one of the most idiotic ideas I have ever heard. The phenotypes of Lions and Elephants are adapted to the environments where they evolved. We have enough trouble with Kudzu, Scotch Broom, escaped Piranas, etc to know that flora and fauna out of it's native habitat is trouble. Are they thinking about the long term consequences of this at all?
You should be aware that there are many anti-stateists who are against both U.S. and U.N. interventions, whether they are anarchists on the left or Libertarians on the right. The Libertarian antiwar.com is a good example of this point of view. Pat Buchanan would be an example of another person who believes the U.S. should be a small republic and not an empire. Although I consider myself to be a left activist I would vote for Buchanan over the Iraq war supporting and Iran and Syria threatening Hilary Clinton any day of the week. In summary do not assume that those who criticize U.S. foreign policy support the U.N.!
It doesn't matter to me WHERE it's deployed as long as politicians start addressing the problem of fuel scarcity, instead of just spouting the same old, same old economics arguments in a vacum that lead to more more short term focus on fossil fuel inefficent solutions like jets and cars.
All the economic arguments ASSUME that oil is going to last forever, yet clearly that is not the case with a finite resource. In fact there is some evidence that we are near or at peak oil now. This not just speculation from wild eyed tree huggers, Republican congressman Roscoe Bartlett gave this excellent presentation on peak oil before the congress March 14th 2005:
http://www.energybulletin.net/4733.html
and video & PDF
http://www.energybulletin.net/5080.html
Unless we stop listening to economists who obsess with price and start planning a fuel efficent infrastructure change like high speed trains trains like Europe is already doing we are going to be in real trouble in the next 10-15 years. We have to do this now because the infrastructure will take years to build. Waiting for the price signal for building this infrastructure after peak oil will be too late. For the price of one year of Bush's war for oil in Iraq we could build a lot of train infrastructure.
Yeah planes are so secure, why no one would ever fly one off course into a giant skyscaper full of people, starting an international war without end.
Oh wait...
And the gas will last forever, just keep telling yourself that after you pay 50 to fill up the tank on your SUV, the gas will last forever, there is no global warming, the gas will last forever... Say a mindless chant often enough and you don't have to think about reality, just ask a Hare Krishna or George Bush.
...would we be the British Commonwealth of the Americas?
I thought that too. The tone seemed sarcastic. However, if he was serious then he is very stupid.
Risking contaminating the gene pool of Maple trees with leaves that don't fall could have devastating ecological effects. It could reduce the survival and reproductive effectiveness of wild maples if it out-crossed thus drastically changing the food chain and species composition of effected eco-systems.
This seems to be a general problem with GM people don't think of the consequences of what would happen if they outcross into wild populations.
It does also seem to reflect the attitude of the average sububanite who is willing to risk any possible damage to the earth to keep their yard neat. Frankly it disgusts me.
The neighborhood watch angle bothered me as well. I used to canvass (door to door fund-raising protected as a first amendment right in numerous court cases) for Greenpeace back in the 80s and had neighborhood watch called on me frequently. All neighborhood watch does is single out people who look different for harassment. The idea of a bunch of busy bodies having a global neighborhood watch makes my skin crawl. What I think makes the net so worthwhile is that it encourages the expression of diverse viewpoints. Surveillance tends to make people afraid of expressing diverse viewpoints, it doesn't matter whether it's conducted in the private or public sector. Can't we find a better use for cheap digital camcorders like personal movies as opposed to domestic surveillance? I have seen Stephenson express this point of view before in Wired which is a disappointment to me because I thought Snow Crash and the Diamond age were thoughtful books
I guess Grex got slashdoted this morning. I have been logging onto Grex daily since March 1993. IMO it has the best discussions in cyberspace period. You can still get Unix/Linux advice there from Marcus Watts (among other gurus) in the jellyware conference. Plus free Sun OS. unix shell etc (though it's nice to become a member for 6/month) to support their services.
Thank you for mentioning this. I was going to do the same thing. Yes bianary computing would be impossible without zero as would algebra, calc., etc.