Personally, I'd rather have an elbow fungus when there is straightforward code to crank out, because I might fall asleep and drive off the road. It's when there's a hairy problem to solve that I need to focus, concentrate, and comprehend the path traced by each follicle in solitude.
Quite true. But a fair number of criticisms attack the falsification of evidence which is pandemic in the field. "Icons of Evolution" is quite an illuminating read. Fact is, both sides of the debate are full of ideologues more committed to their preconceptions than to the discovery of truth or the humility to admit that they don't know. Pseudoscience and fallacy, sometimes outright intellectual dishonesty, although we generally make the charitable assumption of folly instead, pervade any highly charged controversy. Which conditions are no less true now that the religion of scientific materialism holds the social and academic high ground than they were before Nietzsche, Marx, Frank and Weishaupt, when corrupt churchmen held that strategic advantage.
If SeaDour's description is anything but misleading, this looks like a massive undertaking in propagandizing pseudoscience. I wish these fundamentalist ideologues weren't so well-heeled, because the consequences of their PR are terrible. Indoctrinated ignorance is very difficult to dislodge.
"I will yeild the floor to the Senator from Qualcomm."
Umm, no. He's lining his pockets by betraying the interests of his constituents and indeed of the human species in order to promote his patron. Said constituents were fools to vote for him, fooled by money from Qualcomm.
I've been doing distributed development since 1992. I advise using IRC as the primary means of coordination. You can use Yahoo Messenger chat rooms for free voip meetings, but you'd probably be better off running your own Asterisk server and using SIP phone hardware, since every software voice system I've ever seen sucks. CVS is the old work horse, but subversion is what has traction now, so there's little point in clinging to CVS.
You need a server somewhere. If you are a collection of real-live software developers, probably every last one of you has at least one server online, so it seems odd that you would be looking for a commercial service that gets to own your "closed" source code. If you actually can't use one of your members' server installations for some reason, just rent a dedicated host and configure these things. None of them are terribly difficult to setup or manage. Any compentent linux admin, given a debian root prompt, could have them all up and running in a matter of an hour or so.
> The comission of a felony shows a gross indifference to the rights of others
Nonsense. Prisons are full to overflowing with people who went there in order to support the rights of others to control their own thoughts through the use of the chemical supplements of their choice.
Aren't most felons unlicensed drug salesmen? Wouldn't that mean that they commited crimes *for the sake of* law-abiding citizens, rather than against them?
Interestingly, Saddam Hussein has announced his intention to run for the Presidency of Iraq in the next election. Votes will be counted by the interim government. He's widely expected to win a plurality.
As opposed to Uranium which is difficult to isotopically separate, essentially all Pu is usable in an implosion device, so simple chemical separation suffices. It is a bit trickier to detonate plutonium, because of the precise timing requirements for the compression charges, but the upside is that it's a lot easier to go thermonuclear, if you've got the tritium.
They select content. That is an editorial policy. They exclude minority content in favor of the multinational news conglomerates, and thus represent the opinions and editorial policies thereof.
> that Linux server could be way more insecure because it's allowing Telnet
"Could be", perhaps, but it's ludicrous to think that anyone would actually be running a telnet server in 2004. Your Windows desktop "could be" running a telnet server as well. But it's "probably" running a spam zombie net instead.
Don't believe me? Spend a day in a razor-wire-enclosed "free speech zone". Spend a few hours looking at the birth defects of children born (or miscarried) in the DU-contaminated cities of southern Iraq. Enjoy being anally raped, pistol-whipped and suffocated at Abu Ghraib, or spend a few years of your life held without trial in an open-air cage in Cuba.
Just remember, if you piss off the President, you can be killed as an enemy combatant, whether you are a U.S. citizen or not, no matter where you are.
The rule of law is a pretense, and a cover for the commission of crimes of almost unimaginable scope and malignance.
> By harboring UBL after 9/11 the Taliban was complicit in an act of war.
False. The government of Afghanistan offered to extradite bin Laden to any nation with a commensurate system of justice (essentially, a shari'a jurisdiction), upon the presentation of evidence of a crime. The U.S. refused to present any evidence, or to accept extradition to a neutral third country for execution of justice.
> Perhaps you think the U.S. should have entered into peace talks with Mullah Omar?
The U.S. did enter into talks with the government of Afghanistan before 9/11, in which they told the Taliban leadership that they could cut a deal on a Unocal pipeline to the Caspian oil reserves, or we would bomb them back to the stone age. They refused. We bombed.
> Saddam's regime murdered 400,000+ of his fellow citizens...
Do you mean to include Bill Clinton under the rubric of "Saddam's regime"? Because the UN estimated that 500,000 Iraqis died as a result of the sanctions which the UN imposed under the domination of the Clinton administration.
> violated the sovereignty of neighbors Iran
At the behest of the U.S. government. I have no specific knowledge of the origins of the Iran-Iraq war, so I won't comment until/unless I have opportunity to study the issue, but I do know that the U.S. was supporting Iraq in that conflict.
> and Kuwait
Kuwait was violating Iraqi sovereignty by slant-drilling Iraqi oil reserves. That was an act of war.
Kuwait is in fact historically contiguous with southern Iraq. The British carved up the map of the Middle East after World War I, and the borders are a crime against humanity, depriving the Kurds of any protection from the depredations of the Turks, and creating conditions that have lead to the genocide of the Palestinians.
> I think the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint.
The U.S. will show more restraint after it's major cities are nuked. You can't make war on 1 billion muslims without consequences. You can't murder 500,000 people without God intervening to extract justice.
Essentially, the only effective way for a population to defend itself against its leadership is assassination. Democracy worked fairly well when the vote was restricted to the competent, but those days are long gone. Now, it's all up to the guy with the moral courage to remove the evil at the top.
Google News long since shed the "don't be evil" baggage in favor of full-on satanic glee, with their editorial policy. Right now they are pushing for invasion of Iran and Syria, which is about as evil as you can get.
The SCOTUS has repeatedly found that the right to anonymity is protected under the 1st amendment. The law would be unconstitutional if it were not limited to applying conditional penalties to other (criminal) acts.
Slashdot Mirror
and look up the spelling of arrogance while you're at it.
i don't have to be a jeenius to know i are one.
Personally, I'd rather have an elbow fungus when there is straightforward code to crank out, because I might fall asleep and drive off the road. It's when there's a hairy problem to solve that I need to focus, concentrate, and comprehend the path traced by each follicle in solitude.
Did you come yet?
Well, maybe she's a screamer.
Not my business, I guess.
I'd really like to get 2nd Post! into the presidential race.
Quite true. But a fair number of criticisms attack the falsification of evidence which is pandemic in the field. "Icons of Evolution" is quite an illuminating read. Fact is, both sides of the debate are full of ideologues more committed to their preconceptions than to the discovery of truth or the humility to admit that they don't know. Pseudoscience and
fallacy, sometimes outright intellectual dishonesty, although we generally make the charitable assumption of folly instead, pervade any highly charged controversy. Which conditions are no less true now that the religion of scientific materialism holds the social and academic high ground than they were before Nietzsche, Marx, Frank and Weishaupt, when corrupt churchmen held that strategic advantage.
If SeaDour's description is anything but misleading, this looks like a massive undertaking in propagandizing pseudoscience.
I wish these fundamentalist ideologues weren't so well-heeled, because the consequences of their PR are terrible. Indoctrinated ignorance is very difficult to dislodge.
Great. We've Gained another groaning grump
who gives us guff.
"I will yeild the floor to the Senator from Qualcomm."
Umm, no. He's lining his pockets by betraying the interests of his constituents and indeed of the human species in order to promote his patron. Said constituents were fools to vote for him, fooled by money from Qualcomm.
I've been doing distributed development since 1992. I advise using IRC as the primary means of coordination. You can use Yahoo Messenger chat rooms for free voip meetings, but you'd probably be better off running your own Asterisk server and using SIP phone hardware, since every software voice system I've ever seen sucks. CVS is the old work horse, but subversion is what has traction now, so there's little point in clinging to CVS.
You need a server somewhere. If you are a collection of real-live software developers, probably every last one of you has at least one server online, so it seems odd that you would be looking for a commercial service that gets to own your "closed" source code.
If you actually can't use one of your members' server installations for some reason, just rent a dedicated host and configure these things. None of them are terribly difficult to setup or manage. Any compentent linux admin, given a debian root prompt, could have them all up and running in a matter of an hour or so.
In many states felons have the right to vote, period. I don't know of any states which place polling stations inside penitentiaries, however.
> The comission of a felony shows a gross indifference to the rights of others
Nonsense. Prisons are full to overflowing with people who went there in order to support the rights of others to control their own thoughts through the use of the chemical supplements of their choice.
> committed crimes against law-abiding citizens
Aren't most felons unlicensed drug salesmen?
Wouldn't that mean that they commited crimes *for the sake of* law-abiding citizens, rather than against them?
Interestingly, Saddam Hussein has announced his intention to run for the Presidency of Iraq in the next election. Votes will be counted by the interim government. He's widely expected to win a plurality.
Um. Last time I benchmarked, dspam whooped Spamassassin's pink bottom. I think you are unfair to dspam.
Do not infer that dspam is today a superior
product. My last comparison test was almost
a year ago.
As opposed to Uranium which is difficult to isotopically separate, essentially all Pu is
usable in an implosion device, so simple chemical
separation suffices. It is a bit trickier to
detonate plutonium, because of the precise timing
requirements for the compression charges, but the
upside is that it's a lot easier to go thermonuclear,
if you've got the tritium.
I drink water fairly well, and that's carbon-free.
http://news.google.com.
They select content. That is an editorial policy.
They exclude minority content in favor of the multinational news conglomerates, and thus represent the opinions and editorial policies thereof.
By proclaiming yourself to be a vendor of tin-foil
hats, you just destroyed your credibility.
> that Linux server could be way more insecure because it's allowing Telnet
"Could be", perhaps, but it's ludicrous to think
that anyone would actually be running a telnet
server in 2004. Your Windows desktop "could be"
running a telnet server as well. But it's "probably"
running a spam zombie net instead.
The U.S. is a brutal despotic regime.
Don't believe me? Spend a day in a razor-wire-enclosed "free speech zone".
Spend a few hours looking at the birth
defects of children born (or miscarried)
in the DU-contaminated cities of southern
Iraq. Enjoy being anally raped, pistol-whipped
and suffocated at Abu Ghraib, or spend a few
years of your life held without trial in an
open-air cage in Cuba.
Just remember, if you piss off the President,
you can be killed as an enemy combatant, whether
you are a U.S. citizen or not, no matter where
you are.
The rule of law is a pretense, and a cover for
the commission of crimes of almost unimaginable
scope and malignance.
> By harboring UBL after 9/11 the Taliban was complicit in an act of war.
False. The government of Afghanistan offered
to extradite bin Laden to any nation with a
commensurate system of justice (essentially,
a shari'a jurisdiction), upon the presentation
of evidence of a crime. The U.S. refused to
present any evidence, or to accept extradition
to a neutral third country for execution of justice.
> Perhaps you think the U.S. should have entered into peace talks with Mullah Omar?
The U.S. did enter into talks with the government of Afghanistan before 9/11, in which they told the
Taliban leadership that they could cut a deal on a Unocal pipeline to the Caspian oil reserves, or we would bomb them back to the stone age. They refused. We bombed.
> Saddam's regime murdered 400,000+ of his fellow citizens...
Do you mean to include Bill Clinton under the rubric of "Saddam's regime"? Because the UN estimated that 500,000 Iraqis died as a result of the sanctions which the UN imposed under the domination of the Clinton administration.
> violated the sovereignty of neighbors Iran
At the behest of the U.S. government. I have no specific knowledge of the origins of the Iran-Iraq war, so I won't comment until/unless I have opportunity to study the issue, but I do know that the U.S. was supporting Iraq in that conflict.
> and Kuwait
Kuwait was violating Iraqi sovereignty by slant-drilling Iraqi oil reserves. That was an
act of war.
Kuwait is in fact historically contiguous with southern Iraq. The British carved up the map of the Middle East after World War I, and the borders
are a crime against humanity, depriving the Kurds of any protection from the depredations of the Turks, and creating conditions that have lead to the genocide of the Palestinians.
> I think the U.S. has shown remarkable restraint.
The U.S. will show more restraint after it's major cities are nuked. You can't make war on 1 billion muslims without consequences. You can't murder 500,000 people without God intervening to extract justice.
I don't think hell is a western invention either.
Essentially, the only effective way for a population to defend itself against its leadership is assassination. Democracy worked fairly well when the vote was restricted to the competent, but those days are long gone. Now, it's all up to the guy with the moral courage to remove the evil at the top.
Google News long since shed the "don't be evil" baggage in favor of full-on satanic glee, with their editorial policy. Right now they are pushing
for invasion of Iran and Syria, which is about as evil as you can get.
The SCOTUS has repeatedly found that the right to anonymity is protected under the 1st amendment.
The law would be unconstitutional if it were not limited to applying conditional penalties to other
(criminal) acts.