Because I can not fathom a situation in which a rational, intelligent, well informed human being would not bash Bush every chance they get.
Perhaps it's that rational, intelligence and being well informed will grant an opportunity to challenge legitimate issues without resorting to baseless "bush bashing"?
Why is it that when you appose an absurdly baseless conclusion about Bush you're instantly labeled something such as a "republitard"? You know, there are other non-mainstream parties in this country that can pull the stick out for a moment and side with reason from time to time. As for Clinton, I liked the guy.
My x30 was shipped with wm2k3se, maybe i bought mine later? version 4.21.1088 (build 14260.2.0.2) according to the about screen. i bought it in february '05 (and have returned it twice so far for malfunctions btw.)
"When redhat 7.1/7.2 etc came out, you could count on several years of software updates for the included packages. Not now - you're lucky to get 6 months out of fedora. And if you need support for Fedora Core1 at this point, the answer is "Upgrade to FC3 or FC4"."
I'm replying to you using Fedora Core 1, which BTW is still updating software every day just fine.
"nothing has ever come close to XP in regards to device drivers"
I beg to differ. A friend recently purchased a Sony notebook, which naturally had Windows XP installed first. A clean install was done, after which the following needed to be installed/configured (we won't even mention the hours of updates):
- DVD software - Office software - Wireless network card - CD burning software
These where later installed and working fine under Windows XP. Sometime last week he decided to give Fedora a try. We downloaded the ISOs burned them and installed Linux on his notebook. In the end after a clean install all we needed to do was install the MadWiFi driver for his network card.
In fact, the same with my personal desktop system. Fedora found and configured everything, right down to those things like dvd drives and cd burners. The only thing I needed to install was my WiFi card, something XP won't detect on it's own anyway. I'd run through an install of a recent Linux distro again before making these claims. It's been my experience that side by side Linux is easier and faster to install than Windows XP.
You've not used Windows Mobile 2003 SE (the latest from Microsoft's mobile line) yet have you? I've formatted and reinstalled more times than I can count. Not many are going to find this an attractive feature of their new cell phone/mp3 player.
I totally agree. A tax funded debate should be non-partisan, and these debates are not. The Libertarians, Greens and Independents ought to have every right to be present at a tax funded "non-partisan" debate, not allowing them in is very wrong in my opinion. I fully supported their position and their act, which lead to their arrest. They knew that their act would get them arrested, and even posted the possible outcome to their website prior to their action. My point is, your statement was unfair in the context used. It was not "the administration" that did this. It's the product of a larger problem with our election process not caused by any one single party, administration or person. Let's say for example they did this same thing while Clinton was running for reelection, would it have been any different? Nope.
Now, I may be labeled Troll/Flamebait for this... It's wonderful to see some, however few, realizing the bigger picture. The loss of freedoms to the American people certainly crosses party lines over the course of decades, and I'm not going to let Bush take sole credit. Republicans and Democrats are responsible for the slow deterioration of our freedoms, furthermore *we the people* are also responsible out of our own inaction. Our society *is* becoming more Orwellian, and has been moving that direction for some time. This is not new. In fact it was expected to come by our founding fathers.
I'm kind of getting a bit scared here.
I think you win the understatement of the year award, or at least get runner up. I've got another few decades in my life, I wonder what liberties I'll have left?
9. Arresting opposing party candidates weeks before the election (Clark & Badnarik)
Do you mean Michael Badnarik and David Cobb? To be fair you might want to mention that they crossed a police line knowing that doing this would get them arrested.
I guess "Flamebait" is used as a form of disagreement now on Slashdot? Whatever happened to open ideas? I don't believe I'm flaming anyone here, simply expressing an opinion. Tyranny of the majority I guess... Poor moderation aside, I thank you for your well thought out reply.
Claiming that a teenager sharing a copyrighted work prematurely is a greater injustice is simply irresponsible.
I'm not, it's not. I agree with you in that is lesser of a crime to fileshare than say rape someone. Punishments for certain crimes mentioned in other posts (racketeering, rape, murder) should all be looked at again. We should contact our representatives, or put out petitions to give these types of offenders their due justice. My feeling is moving forward we should place punishments on crimes that are reflective of the crime, not look at current lax laws to base them on however. Three years *maximum* does not seem too harsh for a person sharing a movie, game or cd prior to it's release date, because down the line it hurts more than just some big cooperation. At the very least it stops the system we have now of the MPAA and RIAA threatening to sue an individual for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, forcing someone to settle out of court on the corporations terms, and gives a more reasonable just punishment.
I can agree that perhaps I'm being too utopian in hoping that some of our other laws will be evaluated again with more adequate punishments.
entertainment industry attempting to milk more dollars from an economy which isn't doing very well. Better yet, they're doing it through our elected officials. That sounds just as criminal to me.
Let me say this: You're absolutely correct. I'm behind this bill, but opposed to the way these corporations have pushed it upon our elected officials and even more opposed to the way our elected officials are so accommodating for these corporations. This does seem criminal, thank you for pointing that out, but it does not negate our responsibility to protect corporations operating within the U.S.. It would seem that there is a greater problem of officials working for corporations (there has been for some time). How do you Slashdot folks think we can correct this?
Our President lies to us about weapons of mass destruction and drags us into an unjust war that has cost thousands of Americn lives, but I'm the felon.
I hate to be the clue patrol here, but if you bootleg copyrighted works it's a felony and you should go to jail. Why? Because it's illegal. When did it become your constitutional right to commit crimes because you don't like what someone else did? or because someone else did something illegal? Timothy McVeigh did not like what the government was doing, was it ok to do what he did?
Because they can't distribute that new boyband CD? It's one thing to make a copy of a CD for your MP3 player... it's another to bootleg a copyrighted work and distribute it over your high-speed campus internet connection.
Broken or lax existing laws is no excuse for lawlessness under new ones. Furthermore, you imply that fraud to a cooperation does not hurt people, while failing to realize what damages an employer has a direct impact on the employees. Sure the MPAA and RIAA overstate their losses as do the video game publishers, there's no doubt however that bootlegging does cause a fair amount of financial damage. These fiscal damages do hurt their bottom line and eventually trickles down to the employee (read: people). Can someone please tell me what's the problem with a maximum sentence of 3 years for someone actively sharing a copyrighted work prior to its public release? In all honestly, I'd push for 5 years.
The point is not to detain a person without trial, the point is to have the ability to collect information from an enemy combatant without the enemy finding out what you know. Once you take someone to trial all the information you've gained from them goes public though court documents. Once that happens you've lost valuable information that could help win a war. Let's say for example all those prisoners the US collected information from in WW2 where put on "fair trial" instead of being held in camps and questioned. What would have happened? Guess what? Hitler suddenly knows his weaknesses through court documents, he suddenly knows we found a way to break their codes and that we know the where abouts of the Nazi military for the next 6 months. What happens if you need to supply confidential information to secure a guilty verdict? Would you prefer closed "fair trials" held by the military as an alternative? or continue to live in a naive world where everyone must be treated fair under any conditions, including military combatants, as if they where caught stealing a candy bar? Personally, I feel the government has the responsibility to hold prisoners of war without trial and without charges for the duration of the war to get whatever they can out of them to help end a war as suddenly as possible. If charges of abuse are brought up afterwards let the abusers have their day in court and I hope they rot in prison for their brutal crimes.
I agree, mostly. The majority of religions do not even address the issue of life outside of earth however. I'll agree the majority of congregations believe they where the only ones created by thier respective god(s), and will likely fight you on the idea to their death... I for one welcome our new frozen martian overlords.
He wrote the program as a proof-of-concept that P2P apps are really easy to write, don't have to be complicated, and thus banning them (a la the INDUCE Act) is pointless and silly."
Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to defend legitimate P2P apps. Though using the uncomplicated process of building a P2P app as justification for not banning them (or as a basis for argument) is in itself silly however. Pipe bombs are easy to make and rifles can easily be modified to be automatic, should they not be illegal simply because someone can make them easily in their homes?
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Because I can not fathom a situation in which a rational, intelligent, well informed human being would not bash Bush every chance they get.
Perhaps it's that rational, intelligence and being well informed will grant an opportunity to challenge legitimate issues without resorting to baseless "bush bashing"?
Why is it that when you appose an absurdly baseless conclusion about Bush you're instantly labeled something such as a "republitard"? You know, there are other non-mainstream parties in this country that can pull the stick out for a moment and side with reason from time to time. As for Clinton, I liked the guy.
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"...loves terrorists like all democrats"
You got me there
You give Bush far too much credit. That or you're just filled with enough rage that you'll subscribe to any conspiracy theroy involving Bush.
I logged in to their free webmail using my regular AIM userid (it's 2GB btw), no pounding in the ass yet... though I'm sure it's coming soon...
My x30 was shipped with wm2k3se, maybe i bought mine later? version 4.21.1088 (build 14260.2.0.2) according to the about screen. i bought it in february '05 (and have returned it twice so far for malfunctions btw.)
FC3 did udev too... which BTW creates a lot of problems if you run VMWare.
"When redhat 7.1/7.2 etc came out, you could count on several years of software updates for the included packages. Not now - you're lucky to get 6 months out of fedora. And if you need support for Fedora Core1 at this point, the answer is "Upgrade to FC3 or FC4"."
I'm replying to you using Fedora Core 1, which BTW is still updating software every day just fine.
"nothing has ever come close to XP in regards to device drivers"
I beg to differ. A friend recently purchased a Sony notebook, which naturally had Windows XP installed first. A clean install was done, after which the following needed to be installed/configured (we won't even mention the hours of updates):
- DVD software
- Office software
- Wireless network card
- CD burning software
These where later installed and working fine under Windows XP. Sometime last week he decided to give Fedora a try. We downloaded the ISOs burned them and installed Linux on his notebook. In the end after a clean install all we needed to do was install the MadWiFi driver for his network card.
In fact, the same with my personal desktop system. Fedora found and configured everything, right down to those things like dvd drives and cd burners. The only thing I needed to install was my WiFi card, something XP won't detect on it's own anyway. I'd run through an install of a recent Linux distro again before making these claims. It's been my experience that side by side Linux is easier and faster to install than Windows XP.
Use a Metal Halide light, control the ph level, user good soil and water when needed and you'll get three batches sans cold ocean water.
Using the "One Column" Layout "View" option of Pocket IE this displays fine. In fact it looks great on my PDA.
You've not used Windows Mobile 2003 SE (the latest from Microsoft's mobile line) yet have you? I've formatted and reinstalled more times than I can count. Not many are going to find this an attractive feature of their new cell phone/mp3 player.
I totally agree. A tax funded debate should be non-partisan, and these debates are not. The Libertarians, Greens and Independents ought to have every right to be present at a tax funded "non-partisan" debate, not allowing them in is very wrong in my opinion. I fully supported their position and their act, which lead to their arrest. They knew that their act would get them arrested, and even posted the possible outcome to their website prior to their action. My point is, your statement was unfair in the context used. It was not "the administration" that did this. It's the product of a larger problem with our election process not caused by any one single party, administration or person. Let's say for example they did this same thing while Clinton was running for reelection, would it have been any different? Nope.
Now, I may be labeled Troll/Flamebait for this... It's wonderful to see some, however few, realizing the bigger picture. The loss of freedoms to the American people certainly crosses party lines over the course of decades, and I'm not going to let Bush take sole credit. Republicans and Democrats are responsible for the slow deterioration of our freedoms, furthermore *we the people* are also responsible out of our own inaction. Our society *is* becoming more Orwellian, and has been moving that direction for some time. This is not new. In fact it was expected to come by our founding fathers.
I'm kind of getting a bit scared here.
I think you win the understatement of the year award, or at least get runner up. I've got another few decades in my life, I wonder what liberties I'll have left?
Hell, Bush has done things a helluva lot worse than Clinton ever did, and he's getting away with it without a second glance by the media.
You and I must have different brand media, I see Bush getting second, third and fourth glances by the media on my TV set and Newspaper.
9. Arresting opposing party candidates weeks before the election (Clark & Badnarik)
Do you mean Michael Badnarik and David Cobb? To be fair you might want to mention that they crossed a police line knowing that doing this would get them arrested.
You've got a point, 3 years is a long time for little Johnny down the street who's got himself into trouble filesharing for the first time.
I guess "Flamebait" is used as a form of disagreement now on Slashdot? Whatever happened to open ideas? I don't believe I'm flaming anyone here, simply expressing an opinion. Tyranny of the majority I guess... Poor moderation aside, I thank you for your well thought out reply.
Claiming that a teenager sharing a copyrighted work prematurely is a greater injustice is simply irresponsible.
I'm not, it's not. I agree with you in that is lesser of a crime to fileshare than say rape someone. Punishments for certain crimes mentioned in other posts (racketeering, rape, murder) should all be looked at again. We should contact our representatives, or put out petitions to give these types of offenders their due justice. My feeling is moving forward we should place punishments on crimes that are reflective of the crime, not look at current lax laws to base them on however. Three years *maximum* does not seem too harsh for a person sharing a movie, game or cd prior to it's release date, because down the line it hurts more than just some big cooperation. At the very least it stops the system we have now of the MPAA and RIAA threatening to sue an individual for hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, forcing someone to settle out of court on the corporations terms, and gives a more reasonable just punishment.
I can agree that perhaps I'm being too utopian in hoping that some of our other laws will be evaluated again with more adequate punishments.
entertainment industry attempting to milk more dollars from an economy which isn't doing very well. Better yet, they're doing it through our elected officials. That sounds just as criminal to me.
Let me say this: You're absolutely correct. I'm behind this bill, but opposed to the way these corporations have pushed it upon our elected officials and even more opposed to the way our elected officials are so accommodating for these corporations. This does seem criminal, thank you for pointing that out, but it does not negate our responsibility to protect corporations operating within the U.S.. It would seem that there is a greater problem of officials working for corporations (there has been for some time). How do you Slashdot folks think we can correct this?
Our President lies to us about weapons of mass destruction and drags us into an unjust war that has cost thousands of Americn lives, but I'm the felon.
I hate to be the clue patrol here, but if you bootleg copyrighted works it's a felony and you should go to jail. Why? Because it's illegal. When did it become your constitutional right to commit crimes because you don't like what someone else did? or because someone else did something illegal? Timothy McVeigh did not like what the government was doing, was it ok to do what he did?
Future generations will revile us for it.
Because they can't distribute that new boyband CD? It's one thing to make a copy of a CD for your MP3 player... it's another to bootleg a copyrighted work and distribute it over your high-speed campus internet connection.
Broken or lax existing laws is no excuse for lawlessness under new ones. Furthermore, you imply that fraud to a cooperation does not hurt people, while failing to realize what damages an employer has a direct impact on the employees. Sure the MPAA and RIAA overstate their losses as do the video game publishers, there's no doubt however that bootlegging does cause a fair amount of financial damage. These fiscal damages do hurt their bottom line and eventually trickles down to the employee (read: people). Can someone please tell me what's the problem with a maximum sentence of 3 years for someone actively sharing a copyrighted work prior to its public release? In all honestly, I'd push for 5 years.
You're absolutly correct... Time is of no concern to God, and God has no meaning or concern for time. The Bible explains this many times.
"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day [is] with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day." (2 Peter 3:8)
These first seven days could have been seven billion years our time... any fundie saying otherwise really needs to go over their sunday school notes.
The point is not to detain a person without trial, the point is to have the ability to collect information from an enemy combatant without the enemy finding out what you know. Once you take someone to trial all the information you've gained from them goes public though court documents. Once that happens you've lost valuable information that could help win a war. Let's say for example all those prisoners the US collected information from in WW2 where put on "fair trial" instead of being held in camps and questioned. What would have happened? Guess what? Hitler suddenly knows his weaknesses through court documents, he suddenly knows we found a way to break their codes and that we know the where abouts of the Nazi military for the next 6 months. What happens if you need to supply confidential information to secure a guilty verdict? Would you prefer closed "fair trials" held by the military as an alternative? or continue to live in a naive world where everyone must be treated fair under any conditions, including military combatants, as if they where caught stealing a candy bar? Personally, I feel the government has the responsibility to hold prisoners of war without trial and without charges for the duration of the war to get whatever they can out of them to help end a war as suddenly as possible. If charges of abuse are brought up afterwards let the abusers have their day in court and I hope they rot in prison for their brutal crimes.
I agree, mostly. The majority of religions do not even address the issue of life outside of earth however. I'll agree the majority of congregations believe they where the only ones created by thier respective god(s), and will likely fight you on the idea to their death... I for one welcome our new frozen martian overlords.
He wrote the program as a proof-of-concept that P2P apps are really easy to write, don't have to be complicated, and thus banning them (a la the INDUCE Act) is pointless and silly."
Don't get me wrong, I'll be the first to defend legitimate P2P apps. Though using the uncomplicated process of building a P2P app as justification for not banning them (or as a basis for argument) is in itself silly however. Pipe bombs are easy to make and rifles can easily be modified to be automatic, should they not be illegal simply because someone can make them easily in their homes?
How is talking on a phone any more or less annoying than talking to a person sitting next to you?