You make an excellent point. At one time I was really gung-ho about the "upgrade process", when I was using Red Hat 4.2-7.3 and I'd happily run the update install overnight.
Later, I found that if I properly managed my partitions, it was much faster to re-install and then integrate my user accounts/data with the new install.
Lest that smell increase, it should be pointed out that the Waco debacle was inherited from GHWBush's administration. Feb '93 was pretty damn early in Clinton's first term.
Feb 93 was the initial raid. The involvement of the military didn't take place for at least a month and the fatal raid took place in April, under Janet Reno, the AG appointed by Bill Clinton.
That does not excuse it from being a debacle and a tragedy, just that it was a bad situation well before it became worse.
Bush 41 can take his share of the blame for Ruby Ridge, but very little of Waco was his fault.
The President of the US has been able to ignore inconvienent laws for quite some time.
The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions."
Bill Clinton was quite able to ignore Posse Comitatus in order to enforce his will.
Despite what a few whiners around here say, Redhat supports the community and takes on people who attack it. They have built tremendous good will.
Red Hat burned nearly as much good will as they currently have remaining.
Red Hat's high price of entry makes them less important to the rank and file in the OSS world than they used to me.
I was a Red Hat user from 4.2-7.3, and since I am not interested in sparking oh yet another distro jihad, I'm not going to go into what my current distro of choice is. That whole "Let the community be our Beta testers while we sell the mature product to the important people in "Enterprise" " mindset has lost Red Hat a lot of the good will that they built up in the time before.
These cost too much. A typical Home user would not like to pay tens of thousands of dollars for XP Corp (and most companies cannot just hand these out).
Diamonds are vastly overpriced. It's common knowledge that diamonds are not as rare as the price they command would indicate. The former USSR was known to have vaults of diamonds to back up their currency the way that the US has gold. All it would have taken was for them to start selling their diamond reserves in exchange for US dollars and diamonds would be as valuable as scrap iron.
12. Counterfeit Auto Parts -- See #2 (shop at trustworthy retailers if you're concerned).
Being tricked into buying a counterfeit network card is likely to only result in the loss of some productivity. Being tricked into buying a counterfeit Universal joint can cause a 50 car pileup.
Yes it's an Internet provider, but it's also a content provider, a portal provider, and many other things.
AOL as a content provider is a sure loser. If you were trying to get to the largest possible audience with your product (TV show, music, etc...) would you go with a provider that has such a miniscule user base and lock out the rest?
A small percentage of whom are intending to get violent? A small percentage of whom aren't intending to get violent but sure aren't going to stand around watching when it does kick off? Sorry, your doorman know all those people?
If you've caused trouble in the past, you don't get in. If the doorman doesn't recognize you, one of the regulars will and they will alert the doorman to your presence.
As for learning to defend yourself, please. You defend yourself against a heavily drunk idiot and his 18 mates. Enjoy the hospital stay, because a lot will happen in the 2 minutes before a dozen burly doormen come and save you.
Let me explain. I carry a firearm and stay aware of my surroundings. If I'm drinking at the bar, I don't have it on me, but I park close enough. Keeping a polite, but firm attitude will get you far.
If you think you can somehow magically pop the steroid pill, study martial arts, and beat any thug who gets into your way, you will realize the problem you've got when his 15 other buddies show up.
I carry a firearm and I stay aware of my surroundings.
I haven't had a physical altercation in over a decade. Being prepared is the best way to avoid violent encounters.
So, exactly what's the difference of having an even more efficient system?
Maybe it's cultural. You honestly don't get why fingerprinting freaks people out?
Learn to defend yourself you little pussy and they government won't have to do it for you.
But seriously, the bars that I occasionally visit will ban troublemakers. How do they manage? Because when you go into a place they get to see your face and know what you look like.
It's good to have more choices for consumers on the market. Every new idea that Apple introduces to the market will inspire others to make more of their own and that will result in a richer marketplace and provide us with more choices.
There weren't as many MP3 players on the market before the iPod. Apple made everyone else step up their game and add new features and reduce their prices.
I'm not going to buy one, but thanks for giving us more choices Apple.
Reagan was not a great president, and all the great things being said about him today, and all the love, is a bunch of revisionist bs.
He won reelection by a larger margin than he won his first election. He was was easily getting as much love in 1984 as he was in 2004.
My contention is that mainstream America ignored the 1984 commercial in the 80s.
The same mainstream America that you demeaned because of their love and support for Ronald Reagan?
You might as well give up, as I am not conceding either of the points.
You don't have to. It doesn't matter if you concede or not. I have proved your arguments to be fallacious, twice. The purpose of this exchange isn't for you to convert me or for me to convert you, it is for the benefit of those who weren't born yet or old enough to remember the events as they happened.
http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/reagan.htm l - Cowboys and Idiots - The Reagan Years. Voter turn out/popularity were not bone of contention. Painting the guy as some great president on the other hand was.
Some Angelfire post is a truly authoritative source.
Mainstream American gives a rats ass about the Cannes Film Festival.
So you want it both ways now?
Let me refresh your memory. You said...
They really arent the smartest peanuts in the turd.
So, the dumb peanuts in the turd don't care about Cannes or read past the first page of the New York Times.
I was 15 when this Ad aired. I recall zero buzz around it. The media ignored. The masses ignored it. The geeky afterskewl computer club i belonged to ignored it. You might be one of the 2 people who saw and paid attention to this spot.
Yeah, Reaganomics were just great. Have to love inflation. The war on drugs. The iran-contra. affair. Aliens. Psychics. His civil rights history was just awesome. middle america voted in bush too. They really arent the smartest peanuts in the turd. Clinton was a warm welcome from the insanity of the previous 12 years.
Yeah, 49% of the vote versus 49 States is such a close comparison.
Hell, Kerry, the loser in 2004 took more votes(numbers, not percentage) than did Clinon in 1996. Talk about revisionist history. Like I said, I didn't like the man but middle America loved him.
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You make an excellent point. At one time I was really gung-ho about the "upgrade process", when I was using Red Hat 4.2-7.3 and I'd happily run the update install overnight.
Later, I found that if I properly managed my partitions, it was much faster to re-install and then integrate my user accounts/data with the new install.
LK
Lest that smell increase, it should be pointed out that the Waco debacle was inherited from GHWBush's administration. Feb '93 was pretty damn early in Clinton's first term.
Feb 93 was the initial raid. The involvement of the military didn't take place for at least a month and the fatal raid took place in April, under Janet Reno, the AG appointed by Bill Clinton.
That does not excuse it from being a debacle and a tragedy, just that it was a bad situation well before it became worse.
Bush 41 can take his share of the blame for Ruby Ridge, but very little of Waco was his fault.
LK
The President of the US has been able to ignore inconvienent laws for quite some time.
The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions."
Bill Clinton was quite able to ignore Posse Comitatus in order to enforce his will.
LK
Despite what a few whiners around here say, Redhat supports the community and takes on people who attack it. They have built tremendous good will.
Red Hat burned nearly as much good will as they currently have remaining.
Red Hat's high price of entry makes them less important to the rank and file in the OSS world than they used to me.
I was a Red Hat user from 4.2-7.3, and since I am not interested in sparking oh yet another distro jihad, I'm not going to go into what my current distro of choice is. That whole "Let the community be our Beta testers while we sell the mature product to the important people in "Enterprise" " mindset has lost Red Hat a lot of the good will that they built up in the time before.
LK
Necessity is the mother of invention.
If Microsoft hadn't been so assholeish about it, no one would have needed to circumvent their "protections".
LK
These cost too much. A typical Home user would not like to pay tens of thousands of dollars for XP Corp (and most companies cannot just hand these out).
You apparently missed my point.
LK
'm starting to think they just don't have the human resources needed to do real Linux software development like kernel programing...
I'm sure that they do, but it wouldn't benefit their business model.
LK
Remember, there is no such thing as the Linux operating system. Linux is just the kernel, and the various distributions based on it are all different.
Your name contains "R", "M", and "S"...In order no less...
I wonder where that rant came from.
LK
Diamonds are vastly overpriced. It's common knowledge that diamonds are not as rare as the price they command would indicate. The former USSR was known to have vaults of diamonds to back up their currency the way that the US has gold. All it would have taken was for them to start selling their diamond reserves in exchange for US dollars and diamonds would be as valuable as scrap iron.
LK
What's wrong with XP Corp and a valid VLK?
12. Counterfeit Auto Parts -- See #2 (shop at trustworthy retailers if you're concerned).
Being tricked into buying a counterfeit network card is likely to only result in the loss of some productivity. Being tricked into buying a counterfeit Universal joint can cause a 50 car pileup.
LK
God gave you 1 brain and we gave you 37.
LK
Yes it's an Internet provider, but it's also a content provider, a portal provider, and many other things.
AOL as a content provider is a sure loser. If you were trying to get to the largest possible audience with your product (TV show, music, etc...) would you go with a provider that has such a miniscule user base and lock out the rest?
LK
It's been shown time and time again that in the US, places where people can legally possess the means of self defense are safer.
In places where it's illegal, only those who have already planned other crimes are going to be carrying.
LK
I hadn't realised you meant we ought to break the law and carry illegal firearms for self-defense.
Actually, I meant that since you are changing the law, you should change it in a contructive manner.
LK
Why?
Because the Democrats sobbed like little bitches with skinned knees that the Butterfly Ballots used in Florida were too difficult to understand.
So, they got what they wanted. A voting process that was easier to understand but impossible to verify.
LK
A small percentage of whom are intending to get violent? A small percentage of whom aren't intending to get violent but sure aren't going to stand around watching when it does kick off? Sorry, your doorman know all those people?
If you've caused trouble in the past, you don't get in. If the doorman doesn't recognize you, one of the regulars will and they will alert the doorman to your presence.
As for learning to defend yourself, please. You defend yourself against a heavily drunk idiot and his 18 mates. Enjoy the hospital stay, because a lot will happen in the 2 minutes before a dozen burly doormen come and save you.
Let me explain. I carry a firearm and stay aware of my surroundings. If I'm drinking at the bar, I don't have it on me, but I park close enough. Keeping a polite, but firm attitude will get you far.
LK
If you think you can somehow magically pop the steroid pill, study martial arts, and beat any thug who gets into your way, you will realize the problem you've got when his 15 other buddies show up.
I carry a firearm and I stay aware of my surroundings.
I haven't had a physical altercation in over a decade. Being prepared is the best way to avoid violent encounters.
So, exactly what's the difference of having an even more efficient system?
Maybe it's cultural. You honestly don't get why fingerprinting freaks people out?
LK
Learn to defend yourself you little pussy and they government won't have to do it for you.
But seriously, the bars that I occasionally visit will ban troublemakers. How do they manage? Because when you go into a place they get to see your face and know what you look like.
LK
It's good to have more choices for consumers on the market. Every new idea that Apple introduces to the market will inspire others to make more of their own and that will result in a richer marketplace and provide us with more choices.
There weren't as many MP3 players on the market before the iPod. Apple made everyone else step up their game and add new features and reduce their prices.
I'm not going to buy one, but thanks for giving us more choices Apple.
LK
I've never seen Second Life's bush.
LK
Reagan was not a great president, and all the great things being said about him today, and all the love, is a bunch of revisionist bs.
He won reelection by a larger margin than he won his first election. He was was easily getting as much love in 1984 as he was in 2004.
My contention is that mainstream America ignored the 1984 commercial in the 80s.
The same mainstream America that you demeaned because of their love and support for Ronald Reagan?
You might as well give up, as I am not conceding either of the points.
You don't have to. It doesn't matter if you concede or not. I have proved your arguments to be fallacious, twice. The purpose of this exchange isn't for you to convert me or for me to convert you, it is for the benefit of those who weren't born yet or old enough to remember the events as they happened.
LK
My favorite British comedy reference is...
How's that for a slice of fried gold?
LK
http://www.angelfire.com/co/COMMONSENSE/reagan.htm l - Cowboys and Idiots - The Reagan Years. Voter turn out/popularity were not bone of contention. Painting the guy as some great president on the other hand was.
Some Angelfire post is a truly authoritative source.
Mainstream American gives a rats ass about the Cannes Film Festival.
So you want it both ways now?
Let me refresh your memory. You said...
They really arent the smartest peanuts in the turd.
So, the dumb peanuts in the turd don't care about Cannes or read past the first page of the New York Times.
LK
I was 15 when this Ad aired. I recall zero buzz around it. The media ignored. The masses ignored it. The geeky afterskewl computer club i belonged to ignored it. You might be one of the 2 people who saw and paid attention to this spot.
I guess that the New York Times and the Cannes Film Festival are two bit outfits that don't matter.
Yeah, Reaganomics were just great. Have to love inflation. The war on drugs. The iran-contra. affair. Aliens. Psychics. His civil rights history was just awesome. middle america voted in bush too. They really arent the smartest peanuts in the turd. Clinton was a warm welcome from the insanity of the previous 12 years.
Yeah, 49% of the vote versus 49 States is such a close comparison.
Reagan took 58.8% of the popular vote while the next highest candidate was 40.6%.
Clinton took 49.2% in his second election.
George W. Bush took 50.7% in his second election.
Hell, Kerry, the loser in 2004 took more votes(numbers, not percentage) than did Clinon in 1996. Talk about revisionist history. Like I said, I didn't like the man but middle America loved him.
LK