The logic that "if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about" was shot down in the Third Reich.
(*sigh* - and previous to that, during the Spanish Inquisition, and after that, in the Red Scare, etc. etc. ad nauseum).
Whether or not you're doing something illegal all depends on what law was bought by some company last session - whether or not what you're doing is immoral depends on whether some crackpot religious leader took his Xanax. And it doesn't even have to have anything to do with whether you've done anything wrong - if it can be made to LOOK wrong, and if you can't PROVE it wasn't you're still screwed.
It's all about power and control. If you give it away, they'll be happy to take it, and you deserve what you get.
Who is "they"? The thousands of tribal elders who conviened at the Loya Jirga two months ago and unanimously nominated Karzai for president - who the fuck did you think I was talking about. I know damn well the average person in Afghanistan doesn't have a vote. It's not a democracy there - this is their traditional form of governance, and I don't have a problem with it, I don't think we need to cram democracy down anyone's throats, do you? Lest we be accused of cultural imperialism. - it's certainly not a dictatorship.
Have you ever trained a dog? (insanely stupid example follows. ..)
We're not talking about an individual dog, here. We're talking about an incredibly ethnically diverse, fragmented, traumatized, and poor population here.
Fuck, has Saddam Hussein sat on command for us? After 10 years of getting swatted on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper? No, he has the balls to stand up to the pressure the international community has agreed to place upon him. Sure, his people suffer. What money he DOES get ahold of, he uses for gold plated bricks for his presidential palaces instead of food for his malnurished children, then he turns around and blames the sanctions. "Bow wow! I'm shitting on the rug because you keep hitting me with that rolled up newspaper. It's not my fault. I don't control my behavior, you do. Give me some good doggie treats or I'm gonna chew up your shoes too!"
You state this argument as if people were animals that respond only to operant conditioning, and do not think for themselves, or act on strong personal conviction. This is a population that has not only been thinking for themselves, but the average Joe is usually an experienced fighter with an AK-47 under his bed, and has been used to fighting wars from liberation of his country to fending off bandits to inter-tribal conflicts for the past 30 years. They sure as hell think and fight for themselves - I don't believe for one minute that if there were people unhappy with the, as you put it, "US-friendly government" - they'd have it forcibly removed. In fact, there's already a great deal of conflict in that direction, partially by Taliban supporters who liked the old system better and partially by tribal warlords who want to become something a bit more than that, or who liked the old system where the government turned a blind eye while they robbed people at will.
Of course, those that are going along with the current government may be happy about getting US or IMF money, may be happy that we helped them kick out the Taliban, may be happy that their women can walk down the street unafraid of being beaten when a stray breeze blows the hem of their burqua up 3" and exposes their sexy ankles. Maybe they're happy that they're free to start a business selling books or renting videos. Maybe they're happy at the prospect of law and order after 30 years of tribal warlords firing rockets into densely populated cities. Is there anything wrong with that? Tell me, because I don't see it. Does that mean that we're brainwashing them? Controlling them like puppets on strings? Oh gosh, we MUST be, because we're the evil US and never do anything unless it's specifically directed at controlling our client-states, protecting our interests, and above all, stealing money from the poor, which is what we like best.
No, you and the majority of the public have been resting for far too long. Turn off the television and open your eyes and ears to the rest of the world. Read about U.S. foreign policy. Investigate the actions of your elected officials. If you want to sleep through life, that is your choice, but don't whine when I won't lie down for the slaughter with you.
Ah yes, the alleged "hidden agenda" "great conspiracy theory" deal. I assume that the Bilderburg group is all behind this, in league with the Zionists, that the mainstream press is all lies because they're controlled by a tiny 9 separate, competing (but secretly colluding) corporations, and that underground sources are SOOOOO hard to find that I'm just a poor deluded doggie that sits for treats like all the good US citizens and puppet government regimes across the earth.
So fuck you. I do read independent news sources, I do research the actions of my "elected" officials, and they're not perfect, nor is our system of government, and I know when I'm being lied to, and I know I'm being lied to a lot. But the things you're saying, as I said before, are just as far from the truth as what comes out of Jar Jar Bush's mouth, they're the same tired anti-West propaganda that's been coming out of the Soviet Union, North Korea, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Nation of Islam, and every other bunch of sour apples for the past 40-50 years. They can't get a leg-up in competition, so they make up this bullshit story about how people can't make their own decisions and how everyone is controlled by money, and are poor opressed slaves by some evil conspiracy or imperialist hegemony. Bah!
I have a 91 240 sedan. Just passed emissions today - w00t! Ugly fucking thing though.
(and, of course your Volvo sales guy is going to tell you that. Why else would you pay $50k for a car instead of going down to the Ford dealer and paying $30k for essentially the same thing?)
No, a boot is the rubber thingie that goes on your CV joint to keep dirt from getting in, and to keep you from determining on a casual inspection, whether the CV joint is worn and in need of replacement.
You could remotely view and operate the instruments and controls of another car - but only if it's not running Windows.
You could add-on extra motors anywhere they'll fit, and the car will go faster.
The driver is expected to manually advance ignition timing as engine speed changes - but savvy drivers will automate this with a cron-fired script.
The driver is expected to manually set the fuel-air mixture ratio, but again, savvy drivers will automate this with a script which can respond to different driving conditions, allowing them to dynamically select things like: "emissions testing", "racetrack", "stop-n-go".
Same with valve timing, gear ratios, cooling-system overhead, etc.
The license plate and VIN# can be altered with a simple text editor.
Skinnable dashboard; W00T!
Can be configured to drive on Microsoft (TM) roads, but the roadsigns and surface are periodically changed, so the car must be continually upgraded to keep up with this change.
The engine does not need to be shut down, in fact, Linux-Car drivers will proudly share the number of days, weeks, months, years, etc. they've run their engine continuously.
You'll be able to change your battery, or alternator, brakes, clutch, and exterior sheetmetal, not only while the engine is running, but while you're driving down the road.
Poor babies. If they had a backbone, they'd tell us to take our money and shove it. That's a far cry from "installing a US-friendly government" - and smacks of the typical anti-US propaganda we've been hearing since the 60's. Give it a rest.
Exactly how did we do that? Did we somehow magically brainwash the thousands of tribal elders at the Loya Jigra into choosing Karzai? Fuck you very much for your FUD. The leaders of Afghanistan chose this government. As opposed to the last government, which was chosen at the barrel of a gun, financed by the Pakistani secret service and Pakistani militant muslim leaders.
There IS an implementation of RDesktop for OS X to connect to Windows Terminal Server. I don't think it's commonly known or available - but it's a simple port of the BSD version. MUCH faster than any VNC implementation I've tried.
Sorry Apple, I get disk space, home page, and email from my ISP bundled with my broadband access. And that works with windows (not just 2k, but 95/98 as well).
So what's so compelling about iTools that I should pay $100 a year?
Nothing.
Sure, it's your server, you can charge for access if you want. And I'm free to not be your customer if I don't want. Have a nice life.
My anecdotal evidence is that beachball sightings are much more common with G3 than G4 computers, and much more likely if you have less than 512MB of RAM.
this is exactly why I upgraded my Beige G3 with a 500MHz G4 and 1 gig of RAM. Like magic! No more spinny beach ball!
I'm running OS X on a Beige G3, and frankly, it's not a cakewalk.
There are ROM issues (support of slave IDE drives, 2d acceleration on the built-in video subsystem, selection of boot devices, etc.) I've spent a few bucks upgrading it, including a firewire card, a gig of RAM, 500MHz G4 CPU, ATI Rage 128 card, and a DVD burner.
There *IS* a planned obsolescence scheme at work here - my perfectly working external firewire DVD burner is not supported by iDVD. Even though it's the same damn exact model Apple supports as an internal IDE DVD burner on it's high-end models.
Also, Wacom refuses to release an OS X driver for their ADB tablets.
So while I can be semi smug that I'm running the latest OS on 5 year old hardware. (actually, I have my kids running OS X on upgraded 9600's) - I can't be completely smug, not because the old hardware isn't good enough - but because it's been obsoleted - in a totally obnoxious way. I'm not so sure I hold much of a grudge about ADB becoming obsolete - in fact, I think it's actually an Apple problem - they pretty much are giving ADB the boot with OS X. But the DVD thing is a hard coded limitation set by the marketing department. There's no sound engineering reason why iDVD can't support my external firewire burner.
Yeah, but if any of this stuff was built into Windows wouldn't the same people on this thread be whining about how Microsoft is abusing its monopoly power to shove software no one wants down peoples throats and to drive competitors out of business ?
That's bullshit and you know it.
Being able to synch your iPaq to Windows via Bluetooth is cool. Having to pay Microsoft on a per-byte basis when you do it, while it sends personal data to the mothership, and your crypto key to the NSA, and notices of detected copyright infringement to the RIAA and MPAA is not. I'm not saying that that's how your iPaq synch is implemented - but this *is* the spirit and intent of Hailstorm, and pretty much Microsoft's whole internet strategy. People are RIGHT to question this, and resist having it implemented as a sole solution. Your observation that we're all a bunch of microsoft-slamming whiners here on/. just paints you as an astroturfing suck-up.
Yes, but when does "being influenced by a treasured book" become "brainwashing - won't someone PLEASE think about the children" ? When it's someone else being "controlled" that you don't like.
why we need to crack down on "Cyber Terrorists"? I thought it was the regular, box-cutter-weilding, gun-toting, bomb-making kind that were giving us problems lately
IMHO it's the suit-wearing book-cooking insider-trading politician-bribing type of terrorist who has done FAR more harm to the US than those silly inconsequential ragheads. Stocks have plummetted far lower, and stayed down far longer due to "accounting fraud worries" than they ever were from Sept 11.
No, the ideal manufacturing scenario is casting everything with no machining (extra step, waste products, expensive equipment requiring skilled operators, and periodic replacement bits, which are also very expensive).
If everything could just be cast - perfectly, then, well metal things would be as cheap as plastic.
I readily admit that if everyone used this tool, the free Internet would die
Um, the internet thrived for years before the advent of advertising. When (not if) the ad-supported portion of the internet dies, I don't think I'll miss it that much.
Suspension of the Tatra was not torsion bar. I can't tell if the Tatra's engine is water-cooled or air-cooled (big difference in design) - but Porsche developed the original flat-four back in 1910 or so - for aircraft application. Many different engines were tried for the KdFWagen, including a radial-five.
And, I find it almost unbelievable that you claim that the major cause of women not advancing in society is *the individual attitudes of women*, exclusively.
Did I say that?
it's the feminists fault because the woman hasn't accepted the natural order of things, and in fact she'd feel a lot better, feel less shame for not being a power-broker, if she accepted the fact that she's naturally more submissive.
I *know* I did not say that at all.
My argument was: The assertion of the original question (sic "aren't your books sexist?") is wrong and presumptuous, and sure, feminism is fine and dandy, but there has to be room for acceptance of individual people who LIKE the traditional roles - who are comfortable with them. Both men AND women. At the other extreme - anti-feminism, or traditionalism - there has historically been no room for those who reject the traditional roles either - and feminism was created to counter that - but the extremists on either side don't accept a middle ground. It is this rejection of any middle ground which is what oppresses people. In the traditionalist society, "strong" women (and "weak" men) are oppressed. In the feminist society, "strong" men and "weak" women are oppressed.
The original question, while I'm sure was not from an extremist - represented an extremist view - in essence: "You're a terrible author and a backwards cave man for depicting women in submissive weak roles, and getting raped as children - don't you realize you're promiting these evil practices and that women will never advance with neandethals like you writing books and brainwashing our youth?"
(Btw, why are finding a man and going to college mutually exclusive in your terms?
I didn't mean to paint them as mutually exclusives. They're two extremes of a range I did not want to cover. OF course there are many states and paths between these extremes, I was trying to be as brief as possible. In fact, my wife is a "stay at home mom" (and a homeschooler), and I met her in college.
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Insightful? At what? Trolling? Being sarcastic?
The logic that "if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have anything to worry about" was shot down in the Third Reich.
(*sigh* - and previous to that, during the Spanish Inquisition, and after that, in the Red Scare, etc. etc. ad nauseum).
Whether or not you're doing something illegal all depends on what law was bought by some company last session - whether or not what you're doing is immoral depends on whether some crackpot religious leader took his Xanax. And it doesn't even have to have anything to do with whether you've done anything wrong - if it can be made to LOOK wrong, and if you can't PROVE it wasn't you're still screwed.
It's all about power and control. If you give it away, they'll be happy to take it, and you deserve what you get.
Who is "they"?
The thousands of tribal elders who conviened at the Loya Jirga two months ago and unanimously nominated Karzai for president - who the fuck did you think I was talking about. I know damn well the average person in Afghanistan doesn't have a vote. It's not a democracy there - this is their traditional form of governance, and I don't have a problem with it, I don't think we need to cram democracy down anyone's throats, do you? Lest we be accused of cultural imperialism. - it's certainly not a dictatorship.
Have you ever trained a dog?
(insanely stupid example follows. .
We're not talking about an individual dog, here. We're talking about an incredibly ethnically diverse, fragmented, traumatized, and poor population here.
Fuck, has Saddam Hussein sat on command for us? After 10 years of getting swatted on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper? No, he has the balls to stand up to the pressure the international community has agreed to place upon him. Sure, his people suffer. What money he DOES get ahold of, he uses for gold plated bricks for his presidential palaces instead of food for his malnurished children, then he turns around and blames the sanctions.
"Bow wow! I'm shitting on the rug because you keep hitting me with that rolled up newspaper. It's not my fault. I don't control my behavior, you do. Give me some good doggie treats or I'm gonna chew up your shoes too!"
You state this argument as if people were animals that respond only to operant conditioning, and do not think for themselves, or act on strong personal conviction.
This is a population that has not only been thinking for themselves, but the average Joe is usually an experienced fighter with an AK-47 under his bed, and has been used to fighting wars from liberation of his country to fending off bandits to inter-tribal conflicts for the past 30 years. They sure as hell think and fight for themselves - I don't believe for one minute that if there were people unhappy with the, as you put it, "US-friendly government" - they'd have it forcibly removed. In fact, there's already a great deal of conflict in that direction, partially by Taliban supporters who liked the old system better and partially by tribal warlords who want to become something a bit more than that, or who liked the old system where the government turned a blind eye while they robbed people at will.
Of course, those that are going along with the current government may be happy about getting US or IMF money, may be happy that we helped them kick out the Taliban, may be happy that their women can walk down the street unafraid of being beaten when a stray breeze blows the hem of their burqua up 3" and exposes their sexy ankles. Maybe they're happy that they're free to start a business selling books or renting videos. Maybe they're happy at the prospect of law and order after 30 years of tribal warlords firing rockets into densely populated cities. Is there anything wrong with that? Tell me, because I don't see it. Does that mean that we're brainwashing them? Controlling them like puppets on strings? Oh gosh, we MUST be, because we're the evil US and never do anything unless it's specifically directed at controlling our client-states, protecting our interests, and above all, stealing money from the poor, which is what we like best.
No, you and the majority of the public have been resting for far too long. Turn off the television and open your eyes and ears to the rest of the world. Read about U.S. foreign policy. Investigate the actions of your elected officials. If you want to sleep through life, that is your choice, but don't whine when I won't lie down for the slaughter with you.
Ah yes, the alleged "hidden agenda" "great conspiracy theory" deal. I assume that the Bilderburg group is all behind this, in league with the Zionists, that the mainstream press is all lies because they're controlled by a tiny 9 separate, competing (but secretly colluding) corporations, and that underground sources are SOOOOO hard to find that I'm just a poor deluded doggie that sits for treats like all the good US citizens and puppet government regimes across the earth.
So fuck you. I do read independent news sources, I do research the actions of my "elected" officials, and they're not perfect, nor is our system of government, and I know when I'm being lied to, and I know I'm being lied to a lot. But the things you're saying, as I said before, are just as far from the truth as what comes out of Jar Jar Bush's mouth, they're the same tired anti-West propaganda that's been coming out of the Soviet Union, North Korea, Iraq, Palestine, Libya, Syria, Nation of Islam, and every other bunch of sour apples for the past 40-50 years. They can't get a leg-up in competition, so they make up this bullshit story about how people can't make their own decisions and how everyone is controlled by money, and are poor opressed slaves by some evil conspiracy or imperialist hegemony. Bah!
I have a 91 240 sedan. Just passed emissions today - w00t!
Ugly fucking thing though.
(and, of course your Volvo sales guy is going to tell you that. Why else would you pay $50k for a car instead of going down to the Ford dealer and paying $30k for essentially the same thing?)
No, a boot is the rubber thingie that goes on your CV joint to keep dirt from getting in, and to keep you from determining on a casual inspection, whether the CV joint is worn and in need of replacement.
More: "if the car ran Linux"
You could remotely view and operate the instruments and controls of another car - but only if it's not running Windows.
You could add-on extra motors anywhere they'll fit, and the car will go faster.
The driver is expected to manually advance ignition timing as engine speed changes - but savvy drivers will automate this with a cron-fired script.
The driver is expected to manually set the fuel-air mixture ratio, but again, savvy drivers will automate this with a script which can respond to different driving conditions, allowing them to dynamically select things like: "emissions testing", "racetrack", "stop-n-go".
Same with valve timing, gear ratios, cooling-system overhead, etc.
The license plate and VIN# can be altered with a simple text editor.
Skinnable dashboard; W00T!
Can be configured to drive on Microsoft (TM) roads, but the roadsigns and surface are periodically changed, so the car must be continually upgraded to keep up with this change.
The engine does not need to be shut down, in fact, Linux-Car drivers will proudly share the number of days, weeks, months, years, etc. they've run their engine continuously.
You'll be able to change your battery, or alternator, brakes, clutch, and exterior sheetmetal, not only while the engine is running, but while you're driving down the road.
Poor babies.
If they had a backbone, they'd tell us to take our money and shove it. That's a far cry from "installing a US-friendly government" - and smacks of the typical anti-US propaganda we've been hearing since the 60's. Give it a rest.
Now that we've installed a U.S.-friendly regime
Exactly how did we do that? Did we somehow magically brainwash the thousands of tribal elders at the Loya Jigra into choosing Karzai? Fuck you very much for your FUD. The leaders of Afghanistan chose this government. As opposed to the last government, which was chosen at the barrel of a gun, financed by the Pakistani secret service and Pakistani militant muslim leaders.
Call up and bitch. I'm sure they'll cut you some slack.
Personally, I refuse to pay for 10.2 because my hardware is not supported by the new Quartz speedup (requires an AGP graphics card, mine's PCI).
There IS an implementation of RDesktop for OS X to connect to Windows Terminal Server. I don't think it's commonly known or available - but it's a simple port of the BSD version. MUCH faster than any VNC implementation I've tried.
Try google.
Sorry Apple, I get disk space, home page, and email from my ISP bundled with my broadband access. And that works with windows (not just 2k, but 95/98 as well).
So what's so compelling about iTools that I should pay $100 a year?
Nothing.
Sure, it's your server, you can charge for access if you want. And I'm free to not be your customer if I don't want. Have a nice life.
My anecdotal evidence is that beachball sightings are much more common with G3 than G4 computers, and much more likely if you have less than 512MB of RAM.
this is exactly why I upgraded my Beige G3 with a 500MHz G4 and 1 gig of RAM. Like magic! No more spinny beach ball!
I'm running OS X on a Beige G3, and frankly, it's not a cakewalk.
There are ROM issues (support of slave IDE drives, 2d acceleration on the built-in video subsystem, selection of boot devices, etc.)
I've spent a few bucks upgrading it, including a firewire card, a gig of RAM, 500MHz G4 CPU, ATI Rage 128 card, and a DVD burner.
There *IS* a planned obsolescence scheme at work here - my perfectly working external firewire DVD burner is not supported by iDVD. Even though it's the same damn exact model Apple supports as an internal IDE DVD burner on it's high-end models.
Also, Wacom refuses to release an OS X driver for their ADB tablets.
So while I can be semi smug that I'm running the latest OS on 5 year old hardware. (actually, I have my kids running OS X on upgraded 9600's) - I can't be completely smug, not because the old hardware isn't good enough - but because it's been obsoleted - in a totally obnoxious way. I'm not so sure I hold much of a grudge about ADB becoming obsolete - in fact, I think it's actually an Apple problem - they pretty much are giving ADB the boot with OS X. But the DVD thing is a hard coded limitation set by the marketing department. There's no sound engineering reason why iDVD can't support my external firewire burner.
Yeah, but if any of this stuff was built into Windows wouldn't the same people on this thread be whining about how Microsoft is abusing its monopoly power to shove software no one wants down peoples throats and to drive competitors out of business ?
/. just paints you as an astroturfing suck-up.
That's bullshit and you know it.
Being able to synch your iPaq to Windows via Bluetooth is cool. Having to pay Microsoft on a per-byte basis when you do it, while it sends personal data to the mothership, and your crypto key to the NSA, and notices of detected copyright infringement to the RIAA and MPAA is not.
I'm not saying that that's how your iPaq synch is implemented - but this *is* the spirit and intent of Hailstorm, and pretty much Microsoft's whole internet strategy. People are RIGHT to question this, and resist having it implemented as a sole solution. Your observation that we're all a bunch of microsoft-slamming whiners here on
The consequence of worrying less about the crap means that there's gonna be more crap you didn't worry about in the end product.
NWN sucks.
They promised that it would be so close to actually playing D&D, you could smell the BO.
But I was expecting being able to endlessly argue rules-interpretations with the computer. This, it did not allow. I was disappointed.
Yes, but when does "being influenced by a treasured book" become "brainwashing - won't someone PLEASE think about the children" ? When it's someone else being "controlled" that you don't like.
why we need to crack down on "Cyber Terrorists"? I thought it was the regular, box-cutter-weilding, gun-toting, bomb-making kind that were giving us problems lately
IMHO it's the suit-wearing book-cooking insider-trading politician-bribing type of terrorist who has done FAR more harm to the US than those silly inconsequential ragheads. Stocks have plummetted far lower, and stayed down far longer due to "accounting fraud worries" than they ever were from Sept 11.
No, the ideal manufacturing scenario is casting everything with no machining (extra step, waste products, expensive equipment requiring skilled operators, and periodic replacement bits, which are also very expensive).
If everything could just be cast - perfectly, then, well metal things would be as cheap as plastic.
I readily admit that if everyone used this tool, the free Internet would die
Um, the internet thrived for years before the advent of advertising. When (not if) the ad-supported portion of the internet dies, I don't think I'll miss it that much.
I don't need them to tell me when I want something. When I want something, I'll go onto the internet, dial-up google, and look for it.
Suspension of the Tatra was not torsion bar.
I can't tell if the Tatra's engine is water-cooled or air-cooled (big difference in design) - but Porsche developed the original flat-four back in 1910 or so - for aircraft application. Many different engines were tried for the KdFWagen, including a radial-five.
And, I find it almost unbelievable that you claim that the major cause of women not advancing in society is *the individual attitudes of women*, exclusively.
Did I say that?
it's the feminists fault because the woman hasn't accepted the natural order of things, and in fact she'd feel a lot better, feel less shame for not being a power-broker, if she accepted the fact that she's naturally more submissive.
I *know* I did not say that at all.
My argument was:
The assertion of the original question (sic "aren't your books sexist?") is wrong and presumptuous, and sure, feminism is fine and dandy, but there has to be room for acceptance of individual people who LIKE the traditional roles - who are comfortable with them. Both men AND women.
At the other extreme - anti-feminism, or traditionalism - there has historically been no room for those who reject the traditional roles either - and feminism was created to counter that - but the extremists on either side don't accept a middle ground. It is this rejection of any middle ground which is what oppresses people. In the traditionalist society, "strong" women (and "weak" men) are oppressed. In the feminist society, "strong" men and "weak" women are oppressed.
The original question, while I'm sure was not from an extremist - represented an extremist view - in essence: "You're a terrible author and a backwards cave man for depicting women in submissive weak roles, and getting raped as children - don't you realize you're promiting these evil practices and that women will never advance with neandethals like you writing books and brainwashing our youth?"
(Btw, why are finding a man and going to college mutually exclusive in your terms?
I didn't mean to paint them as mutually exclusives. They're two extremes of a range I did not want to cover. OF course there are many states and paths between these extremes, I was trying to be as brief as possible. In fact, my wife is a "stay at home mom" (and a homeschooler), and I met her in college.
Name me three women you'd elect as President.
:)
I was going to say Martha Stewart, but after this stock scandal - I don't think she's any better than Bush.
Maybe if Cicciolina was a US Citizen, I'd vote for her for President.