No, America would have all the manpower needed, if we ended most welfare. Children 18 and under should be fed, as well as children 18 - ~25 who are attending college, and so should the elderly. Let's empty our prison cells, our ghetto projects, and everyplace else we are warehousing deadbeat do-nothing bums, and put them to work.
Yeah, the idea is HIGHLY unpopular - but I say that people who produce nothing, should consume nothing. All able bodied persons who are not otherwise gainfully employed can start pollinating the strawberries, peaches, apples, and all the other crops that we enjoy. Let me emphasize - ALL able bodied people. And, that will include a lot of people that we have classified as "handicapped". It doesn't take a mental giant to do a few hours of menial labor out in the field each week, nor does it take a lot of stamina.
Maybe we can reduce the number of tons of fat that Americans are carrying around with them at the same time!
And, what exactly is ChromeOS? I haven't fooled with it in a couple months - but the last time I looked, ChromeOS was just a highly customized Cloud Linux.
Google may or may not be working on their own kernel, but to date, there is no indication that they are.
So, the premise that Google is moving to Mac and Linux still stands, no matter how much ChromeOS may figure into the equation.
Somehow, I find it terribly hard to believe that cell phones are responsible for the GLOBAL decline in bee populations and bee productivity. The same problems are being witnessed in developed countries, as well as undeveloped.
If you were to do a search on my posts about cell phones, you would quickly learn that I don't much like them, and I am also suspicious of health hazards that are little understood at this time. But, anyone who is even trying to be rational will recognize that bees dying off in backwoods areas with little or no cell phone service can't be blamed on cell phones.
If cell phones were to blame, we would be seeing huge dye-offs in Florida, New Jersey, California -but states like Montana and Idaho would be virtually unaffected.
As far as I can determine, that is not the case at all.
I thought we were talking about working exploits. Things that work. Of course there are thousands of exploits. They are found, they are fixed, they are forgotten. Unlike Windows. Having an exploit doesn't get you into a box, after all.
Whatever. You guys keep trotting out the tired argument that it's all about market share. Linux' market share keeps growing, but the malware market share for Linux remains near zero.
Always, the market share argument. And, it's more than half bullshit.
There are little geeky dweebs living in their mother's basements all over this world, who would LOVE TO HAVE BRAGGING RIGHTS. Just being known as "The guy who reliable hacked Linux" would be a wet dream come true for them.
And, they haven't done it yet.
Yeah, market share. But, real hackers aren't interested in low hurdles, they are looking at the pole vault.
Take your market share argument, roll it up and smoke it. That'a about all it's good for.
Morally disgusting? I don't know. Here in the US, our ancestors started shooting at Englishmen who were just enforcing the law, collecting exorbitant taxes. Morally disgusting? Maybe it IS time for some Englishmen to start offing those corrupt bastards for imposing what amounts to exorbitant taxes. Call it a "sin tax". If you enjoy it, you've got to pay for it, over and over and over and . . .
I agree - let's not kid ourselves. Irrationally designed copyright laws that protect 50 year old music is simply WRONG. Ditto with much of the rest of copyright and patent law today.
That said - the UK's law almost LOOKS fair. None of that idiocy from Murdoch's crowd down under - "Three strikes and you're out, and we don't even have to tell you about it!" In fact, if the copyright laws were structured rationally, I could get onboard with what I see at first glance.
The only real problem I have with UK's law is, a government agency has no business collecting data on it's citizens, then making that data available to corporate bigshots. In effect, the government is taking sides in civil litigation far in advance of any litigation taking place.
Even with highly overclockable AMD's, you have to search for the production code, then determine which week it was produced. There may be one single week, or a run of two to four weeks, but you have to narrow it down to one of those good periods. One week, you get a near lemon that won't overclock 5% - the following week, you get an "OH MY GOD THAT'S FUCKING FAST! CHECK THE TEMPERATURE!" chip. Even among the known good overclockers, stability becomes an issue. Week 32 will run super fast, but will only stay up and stable for a week or so at a time, while week 47 will run the same speed forever.
Now, I'm pulling numbers out of my ass, but you get the idea here. If you're serious about overclocking, you have to hit the forums, and find out what other people are doing. Then, when you've identified a chip that does what you want, you start searching for it. But, be prepared to pay a premium.
Personally, I shop for a fairly good overclocker - I have two Opterons that are known to run at ~3GHZ and be stable. But, they are rated at 2 Ghz and 2.2 Ghz. I bumped them up a conservative 5% using the soft-menu or EZ-menu or whatever in the motherboard BIOS. Why, you ask? Well, I figure that I've got a good, super quality chip known to run for years under extreme abuse. They should last ME damned near forever!!
Well - maybe not that long, but at least until the next ice age.;^)
So - tell me. Have you really explored the possibilities of Linux? Pretty much everything is customizable. I mean, you get to choose which desktop environment to use, or even whether you're going to install a desktop environment. People who are disgusted with eye candy and nonsense really ought to give a bit of serious thought to exploring Linux.
Hey, there are still people who won't upgrade from Win98. "It's the best operating system EVAH!" Seriously, you can find one of them if you look hard enough. Kick over some rocks near your local nuthouse. We deal with one of them on our home forum all the time.
Thank you Mr. Anonymous Coward. AC utters some amazingly inane bullshit from time to time, but this time, AC couldn't be more insightful. Corporations have no rights, period. It is insanity to imagine that they can hold rights. Stockholders have rights, the company does not. Officers and employees of a company have rights, the company can not. Only pretentious fools arguing in court can assert otherwise.
Yes, you are perfectly correct. An operating system that doesn't hold the hands of the incompetent will never earn any market share. Kinda like manual transmissions - if it can't do all the work for the mindless zombie, it won't sell.
You need to familiarize yourself with Grub2 and the Grub2 boot disk. All that you had to do was to reinstall Grub2. Please, let me draw your attention to the fact that I said Grub2, and I did not say Grub. There is a difference. Beginning with Karmic, Ubuntu uses Grub2. No need to nuke an installation because you put the boot loader in the wrong place.
I upgraded, using the Alternative install CD. There were a couple hiccups - the biggest of which is that my Slickness Black theme is somewhat borked. I don't need or want a "colorful" desktop, since I'm colorblind. Purple? That's my very last choice of a color scheme - can't tell purple from violet from lavender, or any other blue-red blend. But, the system works fine. I was surprised that the upgrade downloaded a few hundred meg of data during upgrade, despite the fact that the CD image was mounted, but, ehhh. A few hours (on my extremely slow DSL) and it was over.
So, install a brown theme, you dipstick. You need not even be a guru. System > preference > appearance > get more themes online If that is to difficult for you, then you're not even running a Linux distro, you're just a troll.
"As a consumer, and owner of several Apple products,"
I see a hint of hypocrisy here. You complain that they are to powerful, but you support them with your hard earned cash money. If they are bad, why do you give them money?
BTW - I've taught my kid properly. He bought a USED iPod, and immediately jailbroke the damned thing. He uses it as he wishes. He sent no money to Apple, and he got exactly what he wanted, and uses it in exactly the way he wishes. At this point in time, I believe he is aiming at an Android next. Of course, he has more plans than money, so he may or may not have an Android in his future.;^)
Well, since we are all way off topic anyway - my brother in law always bragged about his welding skills. He SAID he could weld a cat's ass to a pine board. The man never demonstrated that ability, but I pictured the scene in my mind every time I heard him bragging. I never got beyond the part where he might choose to attach his leads to a semi-conductive cat or a non-conductive pine board. Either he's just another dumb redneck, or he's a HELL OF A LOT smarter than I am!;^)
Ahhh - but, what kind of car is it? At the time that I was told whatever it is that I can't recall, big carbureted V-8 engines were the norm. Today, smaller engines, electronic ignition, fuel injection - yeah, I imagine some of them save fuel. But, I wouldn't recommend it indiscriminately. As Humeister already asks, how much extra are you going to spend on wear and tear on the starter system?
Facts and figures as they relate to various makes and models of cars would be interesting.
I had the same thought - he's probably not saving fuel by turning off the ignition at a stop light. But, I didn't want to commit to actually TELLING HIM that he's wasting fuel. Just maybe, some manufacturer has come up with a more fuel efficient method of restarting a hot engine or something.
But, yes, in most vehicles, it is going to take more fuel to restart the engine than to just wait for the traffic light. Someone told me once what the break-even point was, but I don't really remember. 3 minutes? Maybe a bit less. It probably varies for different size engines, and different idle speeds - in fact, it's probably different between automatic and manual vehicles.
Personally, I'm not about to turn off an engine unless I KNOW that I'm stuck for 5 minutes or more.
I see nothing wrong with his claim. I never toyed with that particular idea, but I toyed with similar ideas. How about if the traffic light sent a radio signal to automatically make your car stop, to prevent you running a red light? That was my idea in 5th grade. And, it's been more than 40 years ago that I was in elementary school!
You're right. And, you're wrong. In my opinion, anyway.
Copyright really shouldn't be done away with. A REASONABLE copyright law is a desirable thing. And, a REASONABLE copyright law might very well be respected, by people like myself, at least. The question is, "What is a reasonable copyright law?"
It certainly isn't a conglomeration of bullshit laws that grant eternal rights to anything and everything that a few ultra-wealthy corporations can snap up for a couple dollars. I want to return to the days when copyrights were good for ~15 years, and I want to see renewals of copyrights cost astronomical amounts of money. I mean, if extending the copyright for a song is lucrative, then the big-money people won't mind paying 10 million dollars per copyrighted title when they expire.
The whole concept of public domain is being corrupted before our eyes. And, for the most part, people are totally clueless. Almost everything that SHOULD HAVE fallen into public domain in the past 20 years has been pre-empted by that "wealthies 2% of the population". It's completely wrong - immoral, unethical, and wrong.
No, you err. People will find new ways to get their coveted content, WITHOUT paying Corporate America for the privilege. I actually took note of something early today. My sons have far more pirated material than I do, most all of which was retrieved via "sneakernet". If/when it becomes to hazardous to download stuff via the intartubes, people everywhere will start using sneakernet. But, in reality, there are already several softwares out there working to circumvent the efforts of *iaa - like BitBlinder. Have you ever looked at the darknet? It will grow in popularity if more traditional forms of file sharing gets to hot.
US big media will only "light up" the less tech savvy, and/or the stupid.
I can't get excited over software piracy, when half the nations in the world are actively trying to encroach on their citizen'z proper rights and liberties. They need to shove ACTA as far up their rear orifices as humanly possible, then shove a little more. Every single idiot who is onboard with these violations of human rights should be retroactively aborted. That starts with my own president, Mr. Obama.
20 million illegal alien invaders from Mexico and South and Central America would disagree with you. Our government works so very hard to virtually strip search everyone coming by ship or by plane, but those little brown men march across our borders day and night to set up shop. But, no one worries about ECONOMIC terrorism being waged against the lowly working men and women of America.
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No, America would have all the manpower needed, if we ended most welfare. Children 18 and under should be fed, as well as children 18 - ~25 who are attending college, and so should the elderly. Let's empty our prison cells, our ghetto projects, and everyplace else we are warehousing deadbeat do-nothing bums, and put them to work.
Yeah, the idea is HIGHLY unpopular - but I say that people who produce nothing, should consume nothing. All able bodied persons who are not otherwise gainfully employed can start pollinating the strawberries, peaches, apples, and all the other crops that we enjoy. Let me emphasize - ALL able bodied people. And, that will include a lot of people that we have classified as "handicapped". It doesn't take a mental giant to do a few hours of menial labor out in the field each week, nor does it take a lot of stamina.
Maybe we can reduce the number of tons of fat that Americans are carrying around with them at the same time!
And, what exactly is ChromeOS? I haven't fooled with it in a couple months - but the last time I looked, ChromeOS was just a highly customized Cloud Linux.
Google may or may not be working on their own kernel, but to date, there is no indication that they are.
So, the premise that Google is moving to Mac and Linux still stands, no matter how much ChromeOS may figure into the equation.
Study, yes. Jumping to conclusion, no.
Somehow, I find it terribly hard to believe that cell phones are responsible for the GLOBAL decline in bee populations and bee productivity. The same problems are being witnessed in developed countries, as well as undeveloped.
If you were to do a search on my posts about cell phones, you would quickly learn that I don't much like them, and I am also suspicious of health hazards that are little understood at this time. But, anyone who is even trying to be rational will recognize that bees dying off in backwoods areas with little or no cell phone service can't be blamed on cell phones.
If cell phones were to blame, we would be seeing huge dye-offs in Florida, New Jersey, California -but states like Montana and Idaho would be virtually unaffected.
As far as I can determine, that is not the case at all.
I thought we were talking about working exploits. Things that work. Of course there are thousands of exploits. They are found, they are fixed, they are forgotten. Unlike Windows. Having an exploit doesn't get you into a box, after all.
Whatever. You guys keep trotting out the tired argument that it's all about market share. Linux' market share keeps growing, but the malware market share for Linux remains near zero.
Always, the market share argument. And, it's more than half bullshit.
There are little geeky dweebs living in their mother's basements all over this world, who would LOVE TO HAVE BRAGGING RIGHTS. Just being known as "The guy who reliable hacked Linux" would be a wet dream come true for them.
And, they haven't done it yet.
Yeah, market share. But, real hackers aren't interested in low hurdles, they are looking at the pole vault.
Take your market share argument, roll it up and smoke it. That'a about all it's good for.
Morally disgusting? I don't know. Here in the US, our ancestors started shooting at Englishmen who were just enforcing the law, collecting exorbitant taxes. Morally disgusting? Maybe it IS time for some Englishmen to start offing those corrupt bastards for imposing what amounts to exorbitant taxes. Call it a "sin tax". If you enjoy it, you've got to pay for it, over and over and over and . . .
I agree - let's not kid ourselves. Irrationally designed copyright laws that protect 50 year old music is simply WRONG. Ditto with much of the rest of copyright and patent law today.
That said - the UK's law almost LOOKS fair. None of that idiocy from Murdoch's crowd down under - "Three strikes and you're out, and we don't even have to tell you about it!" In fact, if the copyright laws were structured rationally, I could get onboard with what I see at first glance.
The only real problem I have with UK's law is, a government agency has no business collecting data on it's citizens, then making that data available to corporate bigshots. In effect, the government is taking sides in civil litigation far in advance of any litigation taking place.
"Ultimate Web Cleaner Deluxe Plus!"
Does it run on Debian? I'd really like to clean my webs. Can you give me a link? ;^)
Even with highly overclockable AMD's, you have to search for the production code, then determine which week it was produced. There may be one single week, or a run of two to four weeks, but you have to narrow it down to one of those good periods. One week, you get a near lemon that won't overclock 5% - the following week, you get an "OH MY GOD THAT'S FUCKING FAST! CHECK THE TEMPERATURE!" chip. Even among the known good overclockers, stability becomes an issue. Week 32 will run super fast, but will only stay up and stable for a week or so at a time, while week 47 will run the same speed forever.
Now, I'm pulling numbers out of my ass, but you get the idea here. If you're serious about overclocking, you have to hit the forums, and find out what other people are doing. Then, when you've identified a chip that does what you want, you start searching for it. But, be prepared to pay a premium.
Personally, I shop for a fairly good overclocker - I have two Opterons that are known to run at ~3GHZ and be stable. But, they are rated at 2 Ghz and 2.2 Ghz. I bumped them up a conservative 5% using the soft-menu or EZ-menu or whatever in the motherboard BIOS. Why, you ask? Well, I figure that I've got a good, super quality chip known to run for years under extreme abuse. They should last ME damned near forever!!
Well - maybe not that long, but at least until the next ice age. ;^)
So - tell me. Have you really explored the possibilities of Linux? Pretty much everything is customizable. I mean, you get to choose which desktop environment to use, or even whether you're going to install a desktop environment. People who are disgusted with eye candy and nonsense really ought to give a bit of serious thought to exploring Linux.
Hey, there are still people who won't upgrade from Win98. "It's the best operating system EVAH!" Seriously, you can find one of them if you look hard enough. Kick over some rocks near your local nuthouse. We deal with one of them on our home forum all the time.
Thank you Mr. Anonymous Coward. AC utters some amazingly inane bullshit from time to time, but this time, AC couldn't be more insightful. Corporations have no rights, period. It is insanity to imagine that they can hold rights. Stockholders have rights, the company does not. Officers and employees of a company have rights, the company can not. Only pretentious fools arguing in court can assert otherwise.
Yes, you are perfectly correct. An operating system that doesn't hold the hands of the incompetent will never earn any market share. Kinda like manual transmissions - if it can't do all the work for the mindless zombie, it won't sell.
You need to familiarize yourself with Grub2 and the Grub2 boot disk. All that you had to do was to reinstall Grub2. Please, let me draw your attention to the fact that I said Grub2, and I did not say Grub. There is a difference. Beginning with Karmic, Ubuntu uses Grub2. No need to nuke an installation because you put the boot loader in the wrong place.
I upgraded, using the Alternative install CD. There were a couple hiccups - the biggest of which is that my Slickness Black theme is somewhat borked. I don't need or want a "colorful" desktop, since I'm colorblind. Purple? That's my very last choice of a color scheme - can't tell purple from violet from lavender, or any other blue-red blend. But, the system works fine. I was surprised that the upgrade downloaded a few hundred meg of data during upgrade, despite the fact that the CD image was mounted, but, ehhh. A few hours (on my extremely slow DSL) and it was over.
So, install a brown theme, you dipstick. You need not even be a guru. System > preference > appearance > get more themes online If that is to difficult for you, then you're not even running a Linux distro, you're just a troll.
"As a consumer, and owner of several Apple products,"
I see a hint of hypocrisy here. You complain that they are to powerful, but you support them with your hard earned cash money. If they are bad, why do you give them money?
BTW - I've taught my kid properly. He bought a USED iPod, and immediately jailbroke the damned thing. He uses it as he wishes. He sent no money to Apple, and he got exactly what he wanted, and uses it in exactly the way he wishes. At this point in time, I believe he is aiming at an Android next. Of course, he has more plans than money, so he may or may not have an Android in his future. ;^)
Well, since we are all way off topic anyway - my brother in law always bragged about his welding skills. He SAID he could weld a cat's ass to a pine board. The man never demonstrated that ability, but I pictured the scene in my mind every time I heard him bragging. I never got beyond the part where he might choose to attach his leads to a semi-conductive cat or a non-conductive pine board. Either he's just another dumb redneck, or he's a HELL OF A LOT smarter than I am! ;^)
Ahhh - but, what kind of car is it? At the time that I was told whatever it is that I can't recall, big carbureted V-8 engines were the norm. Today, smaller engines, electronic ignition, fuel injection - yeah, I imagine some of them save fuel. But, I wouldn't recommend it indiscriminately. As Humeister already asks, how much extra are you going to spend on wear and tear on the starter system?
Facts and figures as they relate to various makes and models of cars would be interesting.
I had the same thought - he's probably not saving fuel by turning off the ignition at a stop light. But, I didn't want to commit to actually TELLING HIM that he's wasting fuel. Just maybe, some manufacturer has come up with a more fuel efficient method of restarting a hot engine or something.
But, yes, in most vehicles, it is going to take more fuel to restart the engine than to just wait for the traffic light. Someone told me once what the break-even point was, but I don't really remember. 3 minutes? Maybe a bit less. It probably varies for different size engines, and different idle speeds - in fact, it's probably different between automatic and manual vehicles.
Personally, I'm not about to turn off an engine unless I KNOW that I'm stuck for 5 minutes or more.
I see nothing wrong with his claim. I never toyed with that particular idea, but I toyed with similar ideas. How about if the traffic light sent a radio signal to automatically make your car stop, to prevent you running a red light? That was my idea in 5th grade. And, it's been more than 40 years ago that I was in elementary school!
You're right. And, you're wrong. In my opinion, anyway.
Copyright really shouldn't be done away with. A REASONABLE copyright law is a desirable thing. And, a REASONABLE copyright law might very well be respected, by people like myself, at least. The question is, "What is a reasonable copyright law?"
It certainly isn't a conglomeration of bullshit laws that grant eternal rights to anything and everything that a few ultra-wealthy corporations can snap up for a couple dollars. I want to return to the days when copyrights were good for ~15 years, and I want to see renewals of copyrights cost astronomical amounts of money. I mean, if extending the copyright for a song is lucrative, then the big-money people won't mind paying 10 million dollars per copyrighted title when they expire.
The whole concept of public domain is being corrupted before our eyes. And, for the most part, people are totally clueless. Almost everything that SHOULD HAVE fallen into public domain in the past 20 years has been pre-empted by that "wealthies 2% of the population". It's completely wrong - immoral, unethical, and wrong.
No, you err. People will find new ways to get their coveted content, WITHOUT paying Corporate America for the privilege. I actually took note of something early today. My sons have far more pirated material than I do, most all of which was retrieved via "sneakernet". If/when it becomes to hazardous to download stuff via the intartubes, people everywhere will start using sneakernet. But, in reality, there are already several softwares out there working to circumvent the efforts of *iaa - like BitBlinder. Have you ever looked at the darknet? It will grow in popularity if more traditional forms of file sharing gets to hot.
US big media will only "light up" the less tech savvy, and/or the stupid.
I can't get excited over software piracy, when half the nations in the world are actively trying to encroach on their citizen'z proper rights and liberties. They need to shove ACTA as far up their rear orifices as humanly possible, then shove a little more. Every single idiot who is onboard with these violations of human rights should be retroactively aborted. That starts with my own president, Mr. Obama.
20 million illegal alien invaders from Mexico and South and Central America would disagree with you. Our government works so very hard to virtually strip search everyone coming by ship or by plane, but those little brown men march across our borders day and night to set up shop. But, no one worries about ECONOMIC terrorism being waged against the lowly working men and women of America.