Presidential Candidates:
With the media and public acknowlidging the failures of the "War on Drugs" what do you
plan to do with this war if you reach the Whitehouse?
Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
I have read many above questioning porting NetBSD for the Dreamcast. If nothing else, would the developers 'selfish intrests' in an excellent computer science exercise justify their actions?
This is how we work the black list idea. Here's the plan:
1. Ask hardware companies for needed info.
2. Create black list accordingly.
3. Create a press release along the lines of "X company is now fully supporting linux for their products. Unfortunatley, N company has turned it's nose to the Linux community."
4. Publish the press release.
5. Load http://quote.yahoo.com or http://www.CNNfn.com and watch!
With all this linux hype the bad companies (non-open-source in this case) will really suffer. Stallman, RMS.. are you reading this?
With the shooting in Littleton, it seems clear to everyone that there is a problem; what that problem is exactly isn't being addressed. The media is focusing on the law suits being filed against movie and video game companies, the type of students the kids were, and what they can do to stop the violence. Based on several poles I have seen; most people believe that violence in games, music, and movies are affecting the children. While I don't think children who are not mature enough to handle the subjects in said medias, I think there's a bigger problem if people being exposed to this sort of thing can't seperate real violence and what they see on tv. Even though some people don't want to admit it, sex and violence have been around a lot longer than said video games. The entertainment industry is not the problem, the problem lies with the education and maturing of young kids. The shooters have all been 'outsiders'. Is this such a surprise? People being put down and shut out of the high school social scene are the ones to snap. High School was horrible for me. The school administration doesn't like the smart kids who question the 'Because I said so' policies. The other students don't seem to like the kids who think for themselves and won't go along with everyone else. What happens to these kids who don't fit in and make life easy for everyone? They are shoved down and many sit there and brude. I'm not going to say the school society creates the violent people, but they do tend to ignore them or make them worst. Of all the kids that have faced the pain of being different, few have acted out, but no one looks at all the outcasts until one does. When something like this happens, people suddenly realize that life can be horrible and unfair. Obviously they want to prevent it from ever happening again, but people want to eliminate the sources of the problems, not face them. Most news progrmas have commented on the shooters playing Doom(TM) or some similar game. Their answer, ban doom, cut off the internet, stop violent movies. Until they prove with out a doubt that these things cause 100% harm and do not help people in anyway I will disagree with this. These games, movies, and the internet are most people's outlets. We don't have to face violence in a real sense because there is an outlet for anger, fustration, and social needs. The world doesn't need to shut out the outsiders. The problem isn't a them vs us situation where the jocks are the good guys and the losers are the bad guys. People need to face the world and think about humanity. Being picked on shouldn't be a 'part of growing up', but those mature enough to realize this aren't the one in a position to pick on people. Life isn't fair, but a little human compation for both sides would go along way. An ending note on Littleton. I do not hate the shooters, but I do hate what they did. It was wrong. Hopefully we won't have another shooting before students realize everyone's humanl but it probably won't happen...
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Presidential Candidates:
With the media and public acknowledging the failures of the "War on Drugs" what do you
plan to do with this "war" if you reach the White house?
Presidential Candidates: With the media and public acknowlidging the failures of the "War on Drugs" what do you plan to do with this war if you reach the Whitehouse?
In OpenBSD I would recommend `rm -r -f -P
RM(1):
-P
Overwrite regular files before deleting them. Files are overwritten three times, first with the byte pattern 0xff, then 0x00, and then 0xff again, before they are deleted.
I have read many above questioning porting NetBSD for the Dreamcast. If nothing else, would the developers 'selfish intrests' in an excellent computer science exercise justify their actions?
Quit the bitching!
Kyle Gibbons
This is how we work the black list idea. Here's the plan:
1. Ask hardware companies for needed info.
2. Create black list accordingly.
3. Create a press release along the lines of
"X company is now fully supporting linux
for their products. Unfortunatley, N
company has turned it's nose to the Linux
community."
4. Publish the press release.
5. Load http://quote.yahoo.com or http://www.CNNfn.com and watch!
With all this linux hype the bad companies (non-open-source in this case) will really suffer.
Stallman, RMS.. are you reading this?
I disagree. Deja is *the* site to go for the-word-on-the-street info about retail products.
I always deja before I buy.
With the shooting in Littleton, it seems clear to everyone that there is a problem; what that problem is exactly isn't being addressed. The media is focusing on the law suits being filed against movie and video game companies, the type of students the kids were, and what they can do to stop the violence.
Based on several poles I have seen; most people believe that violence in games, music, and movies are affecting the children. While I don't think children who are not mature enough to handle the subjects in said medias, I think there's a bigger problem if people being exposed to this sort of thing can't seperate real violence and what they see on tv. Even though some people don't want to admit it, sex and violence have been around a lot longer than said video games. The entertainment industry is not the problem, the problem lies with the education and maturing of young kids.
The shooters have all been 'outsiders'. Is this such a surprise? People being put down and shut out of the high school social scene are the ones to snap. High School was horrible for me. The school administration doesn't like the smart kids who question the 'Because I said so' policies. The other students don't seem to like the kids who think for themselves and won't go along with everyone else. What happens to these kids who don't fit in and make life easy for everyone? They are shoved down and many sit there and brude. I'm not going to say the school society creates the violent people, but they do tend to ignore them or make them worst. Of all the kids that have faced the pain of being different, few have acted out, but no one looks at all the outcasts until one does.
When something like this happens, people suddenly realize that life can be horrible and unfair. Obviously they want to prevent it from ever happening again, but people want to eliminate the sources of the problems, not face them. Most news progrmas have commented on the shooters playing Doom(TM) or some similar game. Their answer, ban doom, cut off the internet, stop violent movies. Until they prove with out a doubt that these things cause 100% harm and do not help people in anyway I will disagree with this. These games, movies, and the internet are most people's outlets. We don't have to face violence in a real sense because there is an outlet for anger, fustration, and social needs.
The world doesn't need to shut out the outsiders. The problem isn't a them vs us situation where the jocks are the good guys and the losers are the bad guys. People need to face the world and think about humanity. Being picked on shouldn't be a 'part of growing up', but those mature enough to realize this aren't the one in a position to pick on people. Life isn't fair, but a little human compation for both sides would go along way. An ending note on Littleton. I do not hate the shooters, but I do hate what they did. It was wrong. Hopefully we won't have another shooting before students realize everyone's humanl but it probably won't happen...
-Kag