Actually, we are not at war. Only Congress can
declare war. Congress declined to declare war
when requested by the Bush administration. As a
result, the current bombing campaign is a criminal
action, and George W Bush is a mass-murderer, just
like his predecessor, William J Clinton.
.
The media were reporting for a while that bin Laden
publically accepted command responsibility for for
the September 11th attacks. I can't find the State
of the Ummah video that supposedly substantiates
this report, however, and since the CIA manages CNNs
editorial policy, I'm not willing to accept the
report without direct, verifiable references.
If the report is accurate, then since bin Laden was
at the time the acting minister of defense of
Afghanistan, a declaration of war on Afghanistan is
just, as an act of self-defense. The September
11th attacks were, in this case, an act of undeclared
war.
However, the current campaign is in direct
violation of the Constitution and laws of the
United States. The Constitution requires an
act of Congress to enter into war. The Congress
of the United States declined to declare war
when the Bush administration requested it.
Therefore, the current bombing campaign is
just an act of mass-murder, and the president
of the United States is a mass-murderer,
arguably guilty of genocide, just like his
predecessor, William Jefferson Clinton.
...submit a fucking patch, dickwad.
Sheesh. Some people's kids!
Re:Who cares? Give it away and ignore them!
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You're not alone. I want to produce goods.
I don't care to play games with lawyers.
"Intellectual property" is a ludicrous oxymoron.
Pretending otherwise just makes you a liar.
ACE is great if you don't care about bloat, and
you are willing to conform all of your code to
the set of patterns chosen by the ACE authors.
But it is so rife with interlocking patterns that
it is very difficult to subset ACE in practice.
Don't open that door unless you've got room for
the whole damn elephant.
If you don't care about bloat, use ACE. I don't think it does serial port I/O however. If you do
care about bloat, use win32-pthreads for threading.
The socket API is pretty much portable. Write a
couple of tiny wrapper functions to smooth over
serial port I/O.
But you really don't want your GUI and application
logic to use the same thread model. Put the
application in another process, and communicate
over sockets. (Not performance sensistive, so
there's no good reason not to make it network-
transparent.) Don't let QT dictate the threading
of your application.
There's nothing unfair about this application of the
DMCA, but it's stupid and offensive for Sony to
threaten their best customers with legal action
for enthusiastically supporting and enhancing
the value of their products. I will be boycotting
all Sony products, divesting all Sony-related securities, and encouraging every one of my acquaintance to do likewise. If you piss on your
customers, they don't come back.
Hitler took a supermajority in the 1929 plebescite.
The German people voted him chancellor. The
fact that he was previously appointed does not
change the fact that he was democratically
selected by the voting public.
This is an excellent and salient article, but it
makes a foolhardy leap between its descriptive
factual basis and its prescriptive conclusion.
In any community with low mean intelligence there
will be a number of individuals with exceptional
intelligence, and providing the means for those
individuals to exploit their productive capacity
is much more important than is similarly equipping
those who live in a priviledged community, because
those exceptional individuals residing in a
disadvantaged community will support a very large
number of less capable individuals in their
community. Mere productivity is in fact
non-productive, if the produce is not distributed.
By making the capable individuals in a
disadvantaged community as productive as possible,
one improves the proximity of the product to the
site of greatest need.
Machine guns are not illegal. They just require a license.
It's funny though, that the people who most strongly advocate personal liberty often create the conditions for its removal by the state. In the case of file sharing systems, the largest threat to the ability to freely share files comes from the desire to share them in violation of law -- the biggest threat to your freedom to be found here is not the law, but the law breakers.
One thing you seem to overlook is that supressing the lawful freedoms of American citizens will inevitably cause domestic terrorism, as those who care about the fate of their posterity take up arms to resist the lawless totalitarianism that is encroaching.
You don't grok "grok". To grok is to have
intimate existential knowledge. When you grok
something, you can reason about it unconsciously.
We don't use "grok" to cover arrogance. We
use it to *express* our arrogance and our contempt
for the ignorant.
Illustrious Baron Harkonen today decreed that
all citizens will be equiped with remote-controlled
heart-plugs. This will make us all safe, because
only the loving Baron will have the transmitter,
and he will only use it to protect us.
I will continue to boycott, and militate strongly
against adobe until they pay reparations to
Skylarov and his family for they damages they
have caused.
We brought Etoys.com down. Adobe is harder,
but we can at least cost them a few billion
dollars.
> Screw the rest of you - 'were saving ourselves!'
It is in the interests of all of the people of the world that the U.S. should not be induced to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike. The most effective means of reducing the probable impact of U.S. retaliatory nuclear strikes is to prevent the detonation of nuclear devices in U.S. territory. The most effective means of preventing such detonations is the destruction of such devices prior to delivery.
I see. If you can think of some prejudicial
insult to the source, then you are free to
disbelieve anything from that source, regardless
of whether it is true or false. I'll have to
remember that. I'm sure it will come in handy
when I'm trying to decieve myself in the future.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, we are not at war. Only Congress can
declare war. Congress declined to declare war
when requested by the Bush administration. As a
result, the current bombing campaign is a criminal
action, and George W Bush is a mass-murderer, just
like his predecessor, William J Clinton.
.
The media were reporting for a while that bin Laden
publically accepted command responsibility for for
the September 11th attacks. I can't find the State
of the Ummah video that supposedly substantiates
this report, however, and since the CIA manages CNNs
editorial policy, I'm not willing to accept the
report without direct, verifiable references.
If the report is accurate, then since bin Laden was
at the time the acting minister of defense of
Afghanistan, a declaration of war on Afghanistan is
just, as an act of self-defense. The September
11th attacks were, in this case, an act of undeclared
war.
However, the current campaign is in direct
violation of the Constitution and laws of the
United States. The Constitution requires an
act of Congress to enter into war. The Congress
of the United States declined to declare war
when the Bush administration requested it.
Therefore, the current bombing campaign is
just an act of mass-murder, and the president
of the United States is a mass-murderer,
arguably guilty of genocide, just like his
predecessor, William Jefferson Clinton.
If we could add more detailed features to this grid, it could become a useful summary.
...submit a fucking patch, dickwad.
Sheesh. Some people's kids!
You're not alone. I want to produce goods.
I don't care to play games with lawyers.
"Intellectual property" is a ludicrous oxymoron.
Pretending otherwise just makes you a liar.
And their roadmap for COM included COM on Solaris
and AIX. Hehehehehe. There's one born every minute.
This is one good argument for Java: It handles
serial I/O portably.
ACE is great if you don't care about bloat, and
you are willing to conform all of your code to
the set of patterns chosen by the ACE authors.
But it is so rife with interlocking patterns that
it is very difficult to subset ACE in practice.
Don't open that door unless you've got room for
the whole damn elephant.
This is so utterly wrong, in factual terms that
the mind boggles to consider a soul so reckless
in it's disregard for truth.
If you don't care about bloat, use ACE. I don't think it does serial port I/O however. If you do
care about bloat, use win32-pthreads for threading.
The socket API is pretty much portable. Write a
couple of tiny wrapper functions to smooth over
serial port I/O.
But you really don't want your GUI and application
logic to use the same thread model. Put the
application in another process, and communicate
over sockets. (Not performance sensistive, so
there's no good reason not to make it network-
transparent.) Don't let QT dictate the threading
of your application.
If you want a stable performant cost-effective
platform with 64-bit addressing, you should be
looking at SPARCv9. Duh.
There's nothing unfair about this application of the
DMCA, but it's stupid and offensive for Sony to
threaten their best customers with legal action
for enthusiastically supporting and enhancing
the value of their products. I will be boycotting
all Sony products, divesting all Sony-related securities, and encouraging every one of my acquaintance to do likewise. If you piss on your
customers, they don't come back.
Hitler took a supermajority in the 1929 plebescite.
The German people voted him chancellor. The
fact that he was previously appointed does not
change the fact that he was democratically
selected by the voting public.
This is an excellent and salient article, but it
makes a foolhardy leap between its descriptive
factual basis and its prescriptive conclusion.
In any community with low mean intelligence there
will be a number of individuals with exceptional
intelligence, and providing the means for those
individuals to exploit their productive capacity
is much more important than is similarly equipping
those who live in a priviledged community, because
those exceptional individuals residing in a
disadvantaged community will support a very large
number of less capable individuals in their
community. Mere productivity is in fact
non-productive, if the produce is not distributed.
By making the capable individuals in a
disadvantaged community as productive as possible,
one improves the proximity of the product to the
site of greatest need.
My interpretation of the meanin of the term
S.P.A.M.
Machine guns are not illegal. They just require a license.
It's funny though, that the people who most strongly advocate personal liberty often create the conditions for its removal by the state. In the case of file sharing systems, the largest threat to the ability to freely share files comes from the desire to share them in violation of law -- the biggest threat to your freedom to be found here is not the law, but the law breakers.
One thing you seem to overlook is that supressing the lawful freedoms of American citizens will inevitably cause domestic terrorism, as those who care about the fate of their posterity take up arms to resist the lawless totalitarianism that is encroaching.
But it only takes 1 stream to serve the
whole internet, using swarmcast.
You don't grok "grok". To grok is to have
intimate existential knowledge. When you grok
something, you can reason about it unconsciously.
We don't use "grok" to cover arrogance. We
use it to *express* our arrogance and our contempt
for the ignorant.
Illustrious Baron Harkonen today decreed that
all citizens will be equiped with remote-controlled
heart-plugs. This will make us all safe, because
only the loving Baron will have the transmitter,
and he will only use it to protect us.
You can operate a video server for thousands of customers over a single SDSL line using Swarmcast.
It is bizarre that Skylarov should be prosecuted
under the DMCA, since he did not violate it.
I will continue to boycott, and militate strongly
against adobe until they pay reparations to
Skylarov and his family for they damages they
have caused.
We brought Etoys.com down. Adobe is harder,
but we can at least cost them a few billion
dollars.
> Screw the rest of you - 'were saving ourselves!'
It is in the interests of all of the people of the world that the U.S. should not be induced to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike. The most effective means of reducing the probable impact of U.S. retaliatory nuclear strikes is to prevent the detonation of nuclear devices in U.S. territory. The most effective means of preventing such detonations is the destruction of such devices prior to delivery.
I see. If you can think of some prejudicial
insult to the source, then you are free to
disbelieve anything from that source, regardless
of whether it is true or false. I'll have to
remember that. I'm sure it will come in handy
when I'm trying to decieve myself in the future.