Hmmmm. Are you Canadian, Tom? Not being sarcastic, really, I'm asking an honest question.
It SOUNDS LIKE you are trying to apply US law to a Canadian case. Not being Canadian, I'm not sure how things work up there in a criminal case. Fact is, I'm not *real* sure about the US. I heard recently that Florida can have non-capital criminal courts with only SIX jurors. Never did check it out - it's just filed away as a curiosity that I should check out.
Whether you're Canadian or not, I agree in principal - if the cops can't prove their case against the man, then they've really stepped on their dicks!
Of course, they MIGHT be able to prove their case, too. From TFA, "Because the individuals allegedly targeted are Calgary police officers, the investigation was handled by the RCMP, working with a special prosecutor." So, the city cops called in the feds to handle the case. They may very well have their ducks all in a row. I didn't see a link to the website - a person MIGHT be able to judge this story a little better if he could read the allegations, and the story behind them.
I presume you have citations for your little rant? I've never actually looked at a "permit". Is there a place that asks your race, religion, nationality, or anything of that sort? Or, can just ANYONE walk into a gun store, and fill out whatever paperwork the state requires, and walk out with a gun?
In Arkansas, anyone at all can walk into the store and literally walk out ten minutes later, carrying their choice of rifle or shotgun. I haven't bought a handgun in years, I think there is a state mandated waiting period. Or maybe not. This isn't New York, or Washington D.C. after all. Assuming that our gun stores actually require paperwork, an ID, and a waiting period - do they even ASK about your religious and other affiliations? I don't think so. Go ahead, prove me wrong.
The creator didn't give me anything though. He daydreamed a new way of manipulating some pixels around the screen, and I borrowed his idea. He didn't miss it while I borrowed it, 'cause it was still right there on his machine, where he left it. Now, if the creator had knocked on my door, and handed a USB to me with his software on it, I might have offered him a cup of coffee or something.
Hey, code writers! Free coffee for the first twenty writers to show up at my door with code for me to test!!
Nothing wrong with stretching analogies. I'm waiting for some kid to climb through the fence, drown in the pool, so that his parents sue you for 'leventy zillion dollars for not properly securing the dangerous hole in the ground on YOUR property!
Don't worry asshole. I don't use your software. I just download it, examine it, test drive it, think about how it might be improved, think about how it can be exploited, write a new trojan to take advantage of your shitty code, then throw away your stupid rip off that passes for "coding". When I actually want to USE something, I go to the Debian repositories.
Now, stop your bitching, bitch.
I'll echo the comment about getting a more modern machine. My 6 year old Opteron had no problems with dancing balls. I paused a second, looking for dancing boobs, but the computer didn't even blink. FFS, get a modern computer - today they run in multiple GIGAhertz. Ditch that 133 mhz machine. And, add some frigging MEMORY!! Yeah, there really is a use for more than 640k of memory. And, finally, upgrade to a real operating system and a real browser. Dump Windows 95 and IE4. FFS, get with the times!
I think, sir, that you miss at least part of the equation. I'm sure - in fact, almost certain - that a lot of "proprietary" software never flies. Whether it be a freelancer, a one man shop, or even a small business, some of their ideas just never do pan out. They develop, and develop, and develop, and finally the wife, boss, partner, or whoever asks why they don't just give up. And, they do. I suspect that some rather large shops end up doing the same. Who knows what Google and/or Microsoft have just tossed, because they couldn't figure out how to make it work, or because they couldn't monetize it, or some other project got better sales representation at the decision maker's meetings?
Sourceforge at least documents abandoned projects, and provides them to anyone with an interest. Proprietary, on the other hand, are just lost when they are abandoned!
Ditto, on the five years part. I bought an Opteron, intending to run 64 bit. I was still relying on Windows an awful lot, but WinXP 64 bit just didn't want to use my hardware properly. I downloaded the (then) most current Suse Linux, and everything "just worked". THAT was when I just dumped Windows.
I installed Adobe's 64 bit test or alpha plugin quite a long while ago now - and it worked, sometimes. I'm ready to test drive this one!
I used the number that I last saw on a speed test. When I log into the modem, it says "Speed(Down/Up): 477 / 222 Kbps" What I'm actually paying for is something like 360, but I could never get that speed, so they turned it up on their end to give me the speed I was paying for. Since then, some of the POTS problems have been solved, so I now get very nearly what the modem advertises.
Funny - it looks like the ISP's home page has changed. http://whti.net/dsl.php
Basic 128 KB Up / 384 KB Down $39.00
Enhanced 256 KB Up / 768 KB Down $54.00
Deluxe 384 KB Up / 1.0 MB Down $90.00
Believe me, those are NOT the speeds and prices that were up on that page when we signed up three years ago. That 128/384 package is the one we signed on for, and it cost a couple dollars more than the "enhanced" package costs NOW. Before someone posts that my numbers don't add up - you have to have a basic telephone service before you can even request the DSL. Last time I looked at the bill, basic telephone with no long distance was 14 bucks.
I need to call the IT guy, or the service rep, or whichever title he's wearing these days.;)
Hell, I'm not even an admin worthy of the position - and I can do as you say. Crap - some ditzy female was playing one of the kids for a fool - I knew she was a worthless tramp, but you don't just tell your kids that, because they will HATE YOU FOREVER for interfering in their personal love lives.
Well - she used a computer at my house to read some personal emails and such stuff. Dad just forwarded all the dirt, complete with account passwords, to the son via a "proxy".
The female disappeared from the son's life faster than pizza on football night.
No, I don't condone spying on people - but bitches don't count, LOL
Not surprised at dialup profits at all. Dialup is still cheap - I can get it for ten bucks per month. While others are bragging about $2/Mb broadband, I'm paying $75 for a DSL line at 444kps - on a good day, I can reach download speeds of 50K
$75 for less than a Mb just doesn't seem real cost effective to me. The only reason I pay it is, there are 5 computer users in the house, and a dial up line just doesn't work.
You seem to think that illegal aliens are only doing menial labor jobs. That is not so. Here in Arkansas, more than 70% of unskilled labor jobs are held by immigrants (both legal and illegal) more than 50% of semi-skilled labor is held by immigrants, and they are at about 20% of skilled labor.
While liberals like to call my attitude toward illegal aliens "bigoted", you display your own bigotry in assuming that all those illegals are illiterate, ignorant, and uneducated. Some are, but that is not the universal condition!
Adding 20 million people (roughly 6% of the total population) to the labor pool in a single generation does indeed depress wages - for EVERYONE. Yes, even for an elitest like yourself. You are selling your elite services to more elitests whose income depends on the population. Even if all your clients are lawyers, doctors, and other professionals - those people's income depends on the less educated people coming to them for services.
Depressing THEIR wages affects the income of the professionals.
Ever heard the saying, "No man is an island"?
This is why the illegal aliens have become such a problem. Many people fail to understand that there IS a problem, while many more just don't care.
Nothing is ever your own business once you've shared it with even one other person. Haven't you paid ANY attention to security classes? Geeeesh. I'll bet one good cup of home brewed coffee that Linux wasn't even the first person to know that he had become a citizen. Whoever it was that rubber stamped his final bit of paperwork probably tweeted it to half the world BEFORE he told Linus.
Ever owned a CB radio? How about a ten meter radio? There are "channels" clearly marked on every box - but few of them actually have the frequencies marked. Cheaper transmitters tell you nothing about frequency. When you "upgrade" to a better radio, such as a Ranger, you get a frequency counter beside the channel selector. Yes, there are several frequencies in between channels. An ultracheap radio (or a radio in poor condition) can and will "bleed" across frequencies. But, with high quality equipment, you can crowd a dozen different conversations between any two channels, and none will interfere with each other.
Also, commercial stations generally use a LOT of power, in an attempt to reach a wider audience. Reducing power stops a lot of that "bleeding" over onto other channels. Hooking a 1600 watt kicker up to even a high quality ham radio ensures that the signal bleeds across a wide spectrum.
Add upper and lower sidebands, and FM, and you get a LOT of potential out of them.
Television is little different. In fact - there are frequencies in the ham radio bands reserved for video. They have the very same characteristics that all the other radio frequencies have.
I can put that television in yet another perspective for you. With the exception of a few shows, I HATED television. I would rather go to my room with a book, or outside (with or without the book) or to the basement to tinker on whatever I could find to tear apart and rebuild. To me, the television was usually a blaring distraction from the important things in life!
Still is, now that I think about it . . . .
Oh - the exceptions? Lost in Space. Star Trek. For a short while, Saturday Night Live. Way back in the mists of my memory, I remember being amused by saturday morning cartoons, but by the time I was in junior high school, those cartoons were just breakfast cereal advertisements for the most part.
I'll echo that you are wrong. Osama, whatever else he may or may not be, is a pretty smart guy. He hit us precisely where he did BECAUSE he anticipated the kind of damage that it caused. Remember - this was not the first attempt to destroy the WTC. The first attempt was a dismal failure, the second a spectacular success. The strike at the Pentagon seems a rather serious miscalculation on his part - the White House would have had a much greater psychological impact. Of course - that great an impact may well have precipitated a real crusade against Islam. General war against Mecca, Teheran, and all the other power centers in Islam.
Of course, Osama may have realized that destroying the White House WOULD have the result that I say it would, and he didn't want to cause that.
But, rest assured, he had a pretty good idea what the WTC would cost us.
Nope. Just a chihuahua. I used to have a really nice dog, but he got old and died. A big old German Shephard, used to babysit the kittens while the mama cat went hunting something to eat. Man, I sure miss the old boy. But, the wife has this silly chihuahua. If one of us is home, and anything at all comes onto the property, the silly thing barks like a big dog. However, if no one is home, he will run into the closet and burrow under the boxes and shoes to hide. It could be a damned CRICKET, and he'll go hide.
The ONLY reason I ever consented to getting the ugly creature, is that many people claim that a chihuahua in the house helps asthmatics. I only offer a tiny little bit of empirical data - the wife hasn't had to buy an inhaler since we got him!;^)
Readability looks kinda cool. I could almost get to like it. Except - I don't much like anything that MIGHT track where I've been, and what I've read. Geez. Here I am, involved in the overthrow of the worlds ten biggest governments, and I want to be TRACKED????
Alright, I exaggerate. It's only the world's 5 largest governments, with a couple little puppet states thrown in - but still . . .
Ditto what DarthDavid said. That is the most horrid excuse for a webpage I've seen in some time. Actually, I don't know if it rendered properly or not. Surely no one with electrical activity in their skulls could have INTENDED that page to look that way?
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Hmmmm. Are you Canadian, Tom? Not being sarcastic, really, I'm asking an honest question. It SOUNDS LIKE you are trying to apply US law to a Canadian case. Not being Canadian, I'm not sure how things work up there in a criminal case. Fact is, I'm not *real* sure about the US. I heard recently that Florida can have non-capital criminal courts with only SIX jurors. Never did check it out - it's just filed away as a curiosity that I should check out. Whether you're Canadian or not, I agree in principal - if the cops can't prove their case against the man, then they've really stepped on their dicks! Of course, they MIGHT be able to prove their case, too. From TFA, "Because the individuals allegedly targeted are Calgary police officers, the investigation was handled by the RCMP, working with a special prosecutor." So, the city cops called in the feds to handle the case. They may very well have their ducks all in a row. I didn't see a link to the website - a person MIGHT be able to judge this story a little better if he could read the allegations, and the story behind them.
I presume you have citations for your little rant? I've never actually looked at a "permit". Is there a place that asks your race, religion, nationality, or anything of that sort? Or, can just ANYONE walk into a gun store, and fill out whatever paperwork the state requires, and walk out with a gun? In Arkansas, anyone at all can walk into the store and literally walk out ten minutes later, carrying their choice of rifle or shotgun. I haven't bought a handgun in years, I think there is a state mandated waiting period. Or maybe not. This isn't New York, or Washington D.C. after all. Assuming that our gun stores actually require paperwork, an ID, and a waiting period - do they even ASK about your religious and other affiliations? I don't think so. Go ahead, prove me wrong.
The creator didn't give me anything though. He daydreamed a new way of manipulating some pixels around the screen, and I borrowed his idea. He didn't miss it while I borrowed it, 'cause it was still right there on his machine, where he left it. Now, if the creator had knocked on my door, and handed a USB to me with his software on it, I might have offered him a cup of coffee or something. Hey, code writers! Free coffee for the first twenty writers to show up at my door with code for me to test!!
Nothing wrong with stretching analogies. I'm waiting for some kid to climb through the fence, drown in the pool, so that his parents sue you for 'leventy zillion dollars for not properly securing the dangerous hole in the ground on YOUR property!
Don't worry asshole. I don't use your software. I just download it, examine it, test drive it, think about how it might be improved, think about how it can be exploited, write a new trojan to take advantage of your shitty code, then throw away your stupid rip off that passes for "coding". When I actually want to USE something, I go to the Debian repositories. Now, stop your bitching, bitch.
"Can anyone tell me why 99% of /. users are total assclowns?"
I, for one, don't clown around.
Myspace, all over the web! Imagine it! I'm ready to emmigrate. Is there a flight to the moon soon?
I'll echo the comment about getting a more modern machine. My 6 year old Opteron had no problems with dancing balls. I paused a second, looking for dancing boobs, but the computer didn't even blink. FFS, get a modern computer - today they run in multiple GIGAhertz. Ditch that 133 mhz machine. And, add some frigging MEMORY!! Yeah, there really is a use for more than 640k of memory. And, finally, upgrade to a real operating system and a real browser. Dump Windows 95 and IE4. FFS, get with the times!
I think, sir, that you miss at least part of the equation. I'm sure - in fact, almost certain - that a lot of "proprietary" software never flies. Whether it be a freelancer, a one man shop, or even a small business, some of their ideas just never do pan out. They develop, and develop, and develop, and finally the wife, boss, partner, or whoever asks why they don't just give up. And, they do. I suspect that some rather large shops end up doing the same. Who knows what Google and/or Microsoft have just tossed, because they couldn't figure out how to make it work, or because they couldn't monetize it, or some other project got better sales representation at the decision maker's meetings? Sourceforge at least documents abandoned projects, and provides them to anyone with an interest. Proprietary, on the other hand, are just lost when they are abandoned!
Ditto, on the five years part. I bought an Opteron, intending to run 64 bit. I was still relying on Windows an awful lot, but WinXP 64 bit just didn't want to use my hardware properly. I downloaded the (then) most current Suse Linux, and everything "just worked". THAT was when I just dumped Windows. I installed Adobe's 64 bit test or alpha plugin quite a long while ago now - and it worked, sometimes. I'm ready to test drive this one!
I used the number that I last saw on a speed test. When I log into the modem, it says "Speed(Down/Up): 477 / 222 Kbps" What I'm actually paying for is something like 360, but I could never get that speed, so they turned it up on their end to give me the speed I was paying for. Since then, some of the POTS problems have been solved, so I now get very nearly what the modem advertises. Funny - it looks like the ISP's home page has changed. http://whti.net/dsl.php Basic 128 KB Up / 384 KB Down $39.00 Enhanced 256 KB Up / 768 KB Down $54.00 Deluxe 384 KB Up / 1.0 MB Down $90.00 Believe me, those are NOT the speeds and prices that were up on that page when we signed up three years ago. That 128/384 package is the one we signed on for, and it cost a couple dollars more than the "enhanced" package costs NOW. Before someone posts that my numbers don't add up - you have to have a basic telephone service before you can even request the DSL. Last time I looked at the bill, basic telephone with no long distance was 14 bucks. I need to call the IT guy, or the service rep, or whichever title he's wearing these days. ;)
Hell, I'm not even an admin worthy of the position - and I can do as you say. Crap - some ditzy female was playing one of the kids for a fool - I knew she was a worthless tramp, but you don't just tell your kids that, because they will HATE YOU FOREVER for interfering in their personal love lives. Well - she used a computer at my house to read some personal emails and such stuff. Dad just forwarded all the dirt, complete with account passwords, to the son via a "proxy". The female disappeared from the son's life faster than pizza on football night. No, I don't condone spying on people - but bitches don't count, LOL
Not surprised at dialup profits at all. Dialup is still cheap - I can get it for ten bucks per month. While others are bragging about $2/Mb broadband, I'm paying $75 for a DSL line at 444kps - on a good day, I can reach download speeds of 50K $75 for less than a Mb just doesn't seem real cost effective to me. The only reason I pay it is, there are 5 computer users in the house, and a dial up line just doesn't work.
You seem to think that illegal aliens are only doing menial labor jobs. That is not so. Here in Arkansas, more than 70% of unskilled labor jobs are held by immigrants (both legal and illegal) more than 50% of semi-skilled labor is held by immigrants, and they are at about 20% of skilled labor. While liberals like to call my attitude toward illegal aliens "bigoted", you display your own bigotry in assuming that all those illegals are illiterate, ignorant, and uneducated. Some are, but that is not the universal condition! Adding 20 million people (roughly 6% of the total population) to the labor pool in a single generation does indeed depress wages - for EVERYONE. Yes, even for an elitest like yourself. You are selling your elite services to more elitests whose income depends on the population. Even if all your clients are lawyers, doctors, and other professionals - those people's income depends on the less educated people coming to them for services. Depressing THEIR wages affects the income of the professionals. Ever heard the saying, "No man is an island"? This is why the illegal aliens have become such a problem. Many people fail to understand that there IS a problem, while many more just don't care.
God - it sounds COMPLICATED to immigrate to the United States! I think I'll just stay right here in Arkansas. It can't be worth the bother.
Nothing is ever your own business once you've shared it with even one other person. Haven't you paid ANY attention to security classes? Geeeesh. I'll bet one good cup of home brewed coffee that Linux wasn't even the first person to know that he had become a citizen. Whoever it was that rubber stamped his final bit of paperwork probably tweeted it to half the world BEFORE he told Linus.
And, some people say that slashdot is a complete waste of time!
Ever owned a CB radio? How about a ten meter radio? There are "channels" clearly marked on every box - but few of them actually have the frequencies marked. Cheaper transmitters tell you nothing about frequency. When you "upgrade" to a better radio, such as a Ranger, you get a frequency counter beside the channel selector. Yes, there are several frequencies in between channels. An ultracheap radio (or a radio in poor condition) can and will "bleed" across frequencies. But, with high quality equipment, you can crowd a dozen different conversations between any two channels, and none will interfere with each other. Also, commercial stations generally use a LOT of power, in an attempt to reach a wider audience. Reducing power stops a lot of that "bleeding" over onto other channels. Hooking a 1600 watt kicker up to even a high quality ham radio ensures that the signal bleeds across a wide spectrum. Add upper and lower sidebands, and FM, and you get a LOT of potential out of them. Television is little different. In fact - there are frequencies in the ham radio bands reserved for video. They have the very same characteristics that all the other radio frequencies have.
I can put that television in yet another perspective for you. With the exception of a few shows, I HATED television. I would rather go to my room with a book, or outside (with or without the book) or to the basement to tinker on whatever I could find to tear apart and rebuild. To me, the television was usually a blaring distraction from the important things in life! Still is, now that I think about it . . . . Oh - the exceptions? Lost in Space. Star Trek. For a short while, Saturday Night Live. Way back in the mists of my memory, I remember being amused by saturday morning cartoons, but by the time I was in junior high school, those cartoons were just breakfast cereal advertisements for the most part.
I'll echo that you are wrong. Osama, whatever else he may or may not be, is a pretty smart guy. He hit us precisely where he did BECAUSE he anticipated the kind of damage that it caused. Remember - this was not the first attempt to destroy the WTC. The first attempt was a dismal failure, the second a spectacular success. The strike at the Pentagon seems a rather serious miscalculation on his part - the White House would have had a much greater psychological impact. Of course - that great an impact may well have precipitated a real crusade against Islam. General war against Mecca, Teheran, and all the other power centers in Islam. Of course, Osama may have realized that destroying the White House WOULD have the result that I say it would, and he didn't want to cause that. But, rest assured, he had a pretty good idea what the WTC would cost us.
Nope. Just a chihuahua. I used to have a really nice dog, but he got old and died. A big old German Shephard, used to babysit the kittens while the mama cat went hunting something to eat. Man, I sure miss the old boy. But, the wife has this silly chihuahua. If one of us is home, and anything at all comes onto the property, the silly thing barks like a big dog. However, if no one is home, he will run into the closet and burrow under the boxes and shoes to hide. It could be a damned CRICKET, and he'll go hide. The ONLY reason I ever consented to getting the ugly creature, is that many people claim that a chihuahua in the house helps asthmatics. I only offer a tiny little bit of empirical data - the wife hasn't had to buy an inhaler since we got him! ;^)
Nahhh, I'm in the states, but like Aerthling says - owning a couple dozen weapons doesn't make a guy a gun nut. REAL gun nuts look like this, http://www.gossip-boy.com/images/talonunsubcollinsville_zjp3.jpg
Midori and Chromium both get 100 on Acid3. Actually, Midori has been doing it for well over a year - Chromium achieved that little feat only with the latest release. I'm embarrassed that Firefox still can't do it. http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/FF4_Acid3.png http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/Chromium6_Acid3.png http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/Midori_Acid3.png While you're there, grab a can of spray, http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc226/Runaway1956/1235591380112.jpg
Readability looks kinda cool. I could almost get to like it. Except - I don't much like anything that MIGHT track where I've been, and what I've read. Geez. Here I am, involved in the overthrow of the worlds ten biggest governments, and I want to be TRACKED???? Alright, I exaggerate. It's only the world's 5 largest governments, with a couple little puppet states thrown in - but still . . .
Ditto what DarthDavid said. That is the most horrid excuse for a webpage I've seen in some time. Actually, I don't know if it rendered properly or not. Surely no one with electrical activity in their skulls could have INTENDED that page to look that way?