But now the republicans are in power. And they're tough on crime, boy. Better watch out.
If Texas is a model for the way the rest of the country will go, prison rape instances will be up 90%, as will executions and spurious parole denials, and prison labor profits going to politicians buddies who own the "privatized" prisons.
I'm just wondering how populous and influential his brother's state of Florida will be when George W. Oilman ignores the environment, global warming, and the polar caps melt? Perhaps they'll give fish voting rights then?
(IIRC, the highest elevation in Florida is something like 200 ft above sea level).
oh, I suspect a LOT of us ARE voting, and writing letters to congresscritters, etc. (I know I am).
But when the first thing that the president elect "junior" does, is hold an economic meeting with the heads of the 30 largest corporations in the US, you kind of wonder if he's all for this "for the people, by the people" thing.
When do I get a meeting with mister dubya to tell him about the bones I'd like to be thrown?
oh yeah, don't forget that when you turn off your TV, and open a book, you're being a sucker punk ass bitch for the multinational oligopoly that is the publishing industry.
Soon, all books will be electronic, pay-per-read on proprietary devices only.
Republicans are not likely to listen to Hollywood.
Hollywood=evil, child-corrupting, exploiting, anti-christian corporate juggernaut from hell.
Hollywood had it's ear in the white house for 8 years. It's all over for them.
Watch the bloodletting as Republicans enact all kinds of silly censorship regulations, and eliminate all funding for public broadcasting.
(exception to my generalization: REAGAN was the greatest friend Hollywood ever had - when he deregulated the industry, he single-handedly helped them build the Death Star they have today)
But I believe it will only be supported for apps written to the BSD or Cocoa subsystems. I may be wrong about Carbon, but I think Carbon apps will be funneled to one CPU, and I'm pretty certain Classic (the majority) apps will be single CPU only.
So, not only do we have to wait for OS X to come out, but we have to wait for the major vendors to release native ports of their apps. If I'm right about Carbon, that will be quite a while. I don't think Adobe, for one, has ANY plans to rewrite Photoshop in Cocoa (although Apple could make that somewhat attractive by ressurecting the OpenStep for Windows thingie - then Adobe could port to Cocoa, and recompiled binaries would run on OS X and NT, and rumor has/d it that there was an OpenStep runtime for SPARC/Solaris as well - ah, fantasyland. . . )
For nearly 3 decades now, the computer consumer has been accustomed to ever increasing speeds, for stable or declining prices. Anyone remember spending five grand on a 4khz 8086 with 4 megs of RAM?
Then, 6 months later, the machine would be obsolete, as a machine twice as fast was out for probably four and a half.
Maddening. 3 years later, it was compelling to get a new machine, maybe still 5 grand, but we wer talking about significant gains; 66 khz.
The problem with Apple is, nobody's buying new machines. I'm not buying a new machine, because my Beige G3 at 300 MHz, with 192 megs of RAM on a 66MHz bus, though I'd like it to be faster and more responsive, I'm not willing to blow $3500 on a machine that's barely twice as fast. I spent $1500 on this G3, two years ago, twice as fast for twice the money? After 2 years? Blow me.
I would pay that kind of money for a dual 600 with a 200 MHz bus. But this 133MHz bus ride is bullcrap. Apple's hardware technology is behind the curve. Don't tell me I don't need a faster machine. When it comes down to it, I don't need ANY machine. I need food, air, and shelter. What I WANT is a machine that's faster. One that can run the latest bloated eye-candy at least as quicly as the 2 year old machine ran it's OS.
Apple has to either significantly lower it's prices, or improve it's hardware advances. That's all.
Personally, I think this announcement has only one purpose. It is to generate sales of the older discount hardware to fix Apple's inventory problems. Frankly, the older discounted machines are far more attractive than the vapor they're announcing today - and I believe that's by design. As soon as the inventory of the older machines is eliminated, Apple will announce upgraded models (this is EXACTLY the Yikes plan, rehashed), with the 200 MHz buses, perhaps faster CPUs, perhaps not, but they'll stress MP more than single CPU. My guess is that Apple would really rather sell single processor machines, as the profit margin is higher. - but in order to appeal with single processor machines they need higher MHz-age.
If you store or use your customer's data for ANY purpose other than the basic requirements of supplying logistics for THE TRANSACTION (provision of goods in exchange for money) - then you must keep that data private, and never use it for ANY other purpose.
Unless the customer specifically opts in to other programs like marketing research or whatever.
If you create a program where you sell an address list to another party, then the customer should be entitled to a share of the profits, be it.05 cents or whatever. Credit their account or something.
My e250 has TWO independent power supplies and power cords.
Guy'd have to trip over BOTH cords to take down my system (but PG&E can still do it quite nicely - no UPS - it's a test system anyway, nuthin mission critical going on here.)
It's a really nice system, but for $20k, you'd think I'd get a frikkin floppy drive. What is this, the biggest iMac ever made? Wait, it's headless, that can't be an iMac.
Number one.
You have the right, not to be killed. Murder is a crime. Unless it is done, by a police man. Or an aristocrat (*cough* OJ), know your rights.
Number two.
You have the right, to food money. Provided of course, you don't mind a little, investigation, humiliation, and if you cross your fingers, rehabilitation. Know these rights. These are your rights!
And number three.
You have the right to free speech. That is, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.
Know your rights. These are your rights.
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Right to Bear Arms (most states have gun registration, gun cards, several cities curtail or prohibit gun ownership, or handgun ownership, I believe we have federal laws requiring background checks prior to purchase, many kinds of guns are banned, including "high capacity magazines" containing more than 10 rounds, (define high capacity), many types of auto loading rifles because they are civilian versions of military weapons, or replicas. Many new laws are currently being drafted requiring locks, or even electronic or biometric identification devices which prevent the gun from being fired by a non owner)
Right of Free Speech (yeah, go ahead and register an internet site called www.intelfiredmebecauseimover40.com, see how many high-priced corporate lawyers and conservative pro-business judges feel about your right to free speech)
Right to Record stuff on ReplayTV (for now, wait until the new hard drives come out that prevent you from recording certain things)
Right to download p0rn (um, ANY porn? kiddie porn? hey, you don't live in Tennesee, do you? Just wait until Bush Jr. and his buddies get ahold of Congress for four years, we'll probably see laws against downloading pictures of women without veils by the time they're through (oblique reference to the ultra-conservative taliban of Afganistan)
Corporations ARE evil - they are run by a system of rules and behavior that puts money-making at the top of the priority list, regardless of any other ethical, moral, or humanistic values. "fiduciary responsibility" is just another way of saying "I don't get paid to listen to my conscience" which sounds remarkably like the rationalizations used by pimps and gangsters. Immortal, faceless, immoral, soulless beings, worshiping at the altar of Mammon sounds pretty evil to me.
Just because Nazi Germany was bad, and Czarist and Communist Russia was bad, and most of Central and Southern Africa, and North Korea, or Communist China are bad, and all pretty terrible examples when compared against the US, doesn't mean that the US is good.
YES! Vote Libertarian! Because I can take care of myself! The government does NOT owe me the protection of a standing Army, or local police. The government shouldn't have a right to stop any company from dumping whatever filth they want to on their own property. (never mind seepage into the water table).
Except in anarchy, there's a line that's gotta be drawn somewhere. That Libertarians accept a line somewhere, makes them hypocrites. That Republicans and Democrats haven't realized that the line has moved WAY too far the other way, makes them idiots.
what you're going to hear here is a lot of opinions. Freedom is, and always has been a relative term (to anyone but an anarchist).
However, will I say that it's bad in America?
No. Not yet. Several changes have been made that set the stage for some potential very bad things to happen in the future. Many of these changes are reversible, and many of them are clearly unconstitutional.
However () the courts have shown quite clearly with the election debacle, that they are not above political bias. The courts are the ones who decide on a law's constitutionality. Also, the relative cluelessness of politicians who passed these laws, coupled with a recent and strong conservative shift in our government, all seem to point to the notion that the constitutionality of these laws will not be challenged, moreover, new laws are likely to be made, even worse than the ones that are already on the books, especially with the calls for globalization, which put the requirements of the global economy and businesses above the requirements of the people - it sure looks like things are going to get real bad soon.
All of this was brought to you by the corrupt campaign financing codes of the United States election system, and of course billions of dollars of bribes ^H^H^H^H^H^H contributions from the richest corporations and 5% of the population.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. I blame the morons who didn't vote for McCain in the primaries. (especially the idiots in Michigan who believed that bullshit "McCain is for breast cancer" propaganda that Bush's rich Christian whacko buddies telephoned out on their soft-money dime) Without campaign finance reform, it will be business as usual, no matter which party holds sway. We are fucked, fucked, fucked, until that changes.
We know it's made of stainless steel, not stone therefore it's not a monolith.
Which begs the question - who assembled it? IIRC, welding stainless steel requires some special equipment - TIG welder, instead of your typical arc welder or oxy-aceteline setup. Okay, I guess you can pick up a TIG welder at Ace hardware. . .
yes, but think of all the money the defense contractors will make in the meantime - and the economic boom that will ensue!
(well, that, and cheap oil that George W.'s buddies will get to drill out of the prisine Alaskan wilderness).
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But now the republicans are in power. And they're tough on crime, boy. Better watch out.
If Texas is a model for the way the rest of the country will go, prison rape instances will be up 90%, as will executions and spurious parole denials, and prison labor profits going to politicians buddies who own the "privatized" prisons.
I'm just wondering how populous and influential his brother's state of Florida will be when George W. Oilman ignores the environment, global warming, and the polar caps melt? Perhaps they'll give fish voting rights then?
(IIRC, the highest elevation in Florida is something like 200 ft above sea level).
oh, I suspect a LOT of us ARE voting, and writing letters to congresscritters, etc. (I know I am).
But when the first thing that the president elect "junior" does, is hold an economic meeting with the heads of the 30 largest corporations in the US, you kind of wonder if he's all for this "for the people, by the people" thing.
When do I get a meeting with mister dubya to tell him about the bones I'd like to be thrown?
oh yeah, don't forget that when you turn off your TV, and open a book, you're being a sucker punk ass bitch for the multinational oligopoly that is the publishing industry.
Soon, all books will be electronic, pay-per-read on proprietary devices only.
Republicans are not likely to listen to Hollywood.
Hollywood=evil, child-corrupting, exploiting, anti-christian corporate juggernaut from hell.
Hollywood had it's ear in the white house for 8 years. It's all over for them.
Watch the bloodletting as Republicans enact all kinds of silly censorship regulations, and eliminate all funding for public broadcasting.
(exception to my generalization: REAGAN was the greatest friend Hollywood ever had - when he deregulated the industry, he single-handedly helped them build the Death Star they have today)
whatever. I don't even do PPV anyway. I rent. I avoid pro wrestling and boxing.
But when they make my anime PPV, then I'll be pissed.
you may say "yahoo!"
You cannot say (capital "Y">"Yahoo!".
consider yourself warned.
-Yahoo! corp. legal copyright enforcement team.
If SJ is truly paying attention to the power users now, "more stuff, less fluff" then why in hell did they do that stupid fucking punk-ass dock?
Yes, OS X does support SMP,
But I believe it will only be supported for apps written to the BSD or Cocoa subsystems. I may be wrong about Carbon, but I think Carbon apps will be funneled to one CPU, and I'm pretty certain Classic (the majority) apps will be single CPU only.
So, not only do we have to wait for OS X to come out, but we have to wait for the major vendors to release native ports of their apps. If I'm right about Carbon, that will be quite a while. I don't think Adobe, for one, has ANY plans to rewrite Photoshop in Cocoa (although Apple could make that somewhat attractive by ressurecting the OpenStep for Windows thingie - then Adobe could port to Cocoa, and recompiled binaries would run on OS X and NT, and rumor has/d it that there was an OpenStep runtime for SPARC/Solaris as well - ah, fantasyland. . . )
Here's the problem, and it's a big problem:
For nearly 3 decades now, the computer consumer has been accustomed to ever increasing speeds, for stable or declining prices. Anyone remember spending five grand on a 4khz 8086 with 4 megs of RAM?
Then, 6 months later, the machine would be obsolete, as a machine twice as fast was out for probably four and a half.
Maddening. 3 years later, it was compelling to get a new machine, maybe still 5 grand, but we wer talking about significant gains; 66 khz.
The problem with Apple is, nobody's buying new machines. I'm not buying a new machine, because my Beige G3 at 300 MHz, with 192 megs of RAM on a 66MHz bus, though I'd like it to be faster and more responsive, I'm not willing to blow $3500 on a machine that's barely twice as fast. I spent $1500 on this G3, two years ago, twice as fast for twice the money? After 2 years? Blow me.
I would pay that kind of money for a dual 600 with a 200 MHz bus. But this 133MHz bus ride is bullcrap. Apple's hardware technology is behind the curve. Don't tell me I don't need a faster machine. When it comes down to it, I don't need ANY machine. I need food, air, and shelter. What I WANT is a machine that's faster. One that can run the latest bloated eye-candy at least as quicly as the 2 year old machine ran it's OS.
Apple has to either significantly lower it's prices, or improve it's hardware advances. That's all.
Personally, I think this announcement has only one purpose. It is to generate sales of the older discount hardware to fix Apple's inventory problems. Frankly, the older discounted machines are far more attractive than the vapor they're announcing today - and I believe that's by design. As soon as the inventory of the older machines is eliminated, Apple will announce upgraded models (this is EXACTLY the Yikes plan, rehashed), with the 200 MHz buses, perhaps faster CPUs, perhaps not, but they'll stress MP more than single CPU. My guess is that Apple would really rather sell single processor machines, as the profit margin is higher. - but in order to appeal with single processor machines they need higher MHz-age.
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.05 cents or whatever. Credit their account or something.
If you store or use your customer's data for ANY purpose other than the basic requirements of supplying logistics for THE TRANSACTION (provision of goods in exchange for money) - then you must keep that data private, and never use it for ANY other purpose.
Unless the customer specifically opts in to other programs like marketing research or whatever.
If you create a program where you sell an address list to another party, then the customer should be entitled to a share of the profits, be it
There's often a lot of salesguy handholding. The sales cycles for new customers often exceed 12 months for the e10k. (e10k ships with Veritas - free).
My e250 has TWO independent power supplies and power cords.
Guy'd have to trip over BOTH cords to take down my system (but PG&E can still do it quite nicely - no UPS - it's a test system anyway, nuthin mission critical going on here.)
It's a really nice system, but for $20k, you'd think I'd get a frikkin floppy drive. What is this, the biggest iMac ever made? Wait, it's headless, that can't be an iMac.
that my tax dollars are going to feed these spammers and clothe them (in prison uniforms) and heat their cells, etc.
I think we ought to at least recoup the costs.
How many of you out there would pay for membership to the site:
"Live webcam: hot teenage spammer jailbirds getting their asses raped day and night."
sounds like a winner to me.
Know your rights.
These are your rights.
Number one.
You have the right, not to be killed. Murder is a crime. Unless it is done, by a police man. Or an aristocrat (*cough* OJ), know your rights.
Number two.
You have the right, to food money. Provided of course, you don't mind a little, investigation, humiliation, and if you cross your fingers, rehabilitation. Know these rights. These are your rights!
And number three.
You have the right to free speech. That is, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it.
Know your rights. These are your rights.
-----------
Right to Bear Arms (most states have gun registration, gun cards, several cities curtail or prohibit gun ownership, or handgun ownership, I believe we have federal laws requiring background checks prior to purchase, many kinds of guns are banned, including "high capacity magazines" containing more than 10 rounds, (define high capacity), many types of auto loading rifles because they are civilian versions of military weapons, or replicas. Many new laws are currently being drafted requiring locks, or even electronic or biometric identification devices which prevent the gun from being fired by a non owner)
Right of Free Speech (yeah, go ahead and register an internet site called www.intelfiredmebecauseimover40.com, see how many high-priced corporate lawyers and conservative pro-business judges feel about your right to free speech)
Right to Record stuff on ReplayTV (for now, wait until the new hard drives come out that prevent you from recording certain things)
Right to download p0rn (um, ANY porn? kiddie porn? hey, you don't live in Tennesee, do you? Just wait until Bush Jr. and his buddies get ahold of Congress for four years, we'll probably see laws against downloading pictures of women without veils by the time they're through (oblique reference to the ultra-conservative taliban of Afganistan)
Corporations ARE evil - they are run by a system of rules and behavior that puts money-making at the top of the priority list, regardless of any other ethical, moral, or humanistic values. "fiduciary responsibility" is just another way of saying "I don't get paid to listen to my conscience" which sounds remarkably like the rationalizations used by pimps and gangsters. Immortal, faceless, immoral, soulless beings, worshiping at the altar of Mammon sounds pretty evil to me.
Just because Nazi Germany was bad, and Czarist and Communist Russia was bad, and most of Central and Southern Africa, and North Korea, or Communist China are bad, and all pretty terrible examples when compared against the US, doesn't mean that the US is good.
correct.
GREEN grass roots.
YES! Vote Libertarian! Because I can take care of myself! The government does NOT owe me the protection of a standing Army, or local police. The government shouldn't have a right to stop any company from dumping whatever filth they want to on their own property. (never mind seepage into the water table).
Except in anarchy, there's a line that's gotta be drawn somewhere. That Libertarians accept a line somewhere, makes them hypocrites. That Republicans and Democrats haven't realized that the line has moved WAY too far the other way, makes them idiots.
humanitarian reasons?
Dude, it's called propaganda. You don't HAVE to believe everything CNN tells you.
what you're going to hear here is a lot of opinions. Freedom is, and always has been a relative term (to anyone but an anarchist).
However, will I say that it's bad in America?
No. Not yet. Several changes have been made that set the stage for some potential very bad things to happen in the future. Many of these changes are reversible, and many of them are clearly unconstitutional.
However () the courts have shown quite clearly with the election debacle, that they are not above political bias. The courts are the ones who decide on a law's constitutionality. Also, the relative cluelessness of politicians who passed these laws, coupled with a recent and strong conservative shift in our government, all seem to point to the notion that the constitutionality of these laws will not be challenged, moreover, new laws are likely to be made, even worse than the ones that are already on the books, especially with the calls for globalization, which put the requirements of the global economy and businesses above the requirements of the people - it sure looks like things are going to get real bad soon.
All of this was brought to you by the corrupt campaign financing codes of the United States election system, and of course billions of dollars of bribes ^H^H^H^H^H^H contributions from the richest corporations and 5% of the population.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. I blame the morons who didn't vote for McCain in the primaries. (especially the idiots in Michigan who believed that bullshit "McCain is for breast cancer" propaganda that Bush's rich Christian whacko buddies telephoned out on their soft-money dime) Without campaign finance reform, it will be business as usual, no matter which party holds sway. We are fucked, fucked, fucked, until that changes.
heh, Also Sprach Zarathrusta sounds like the name of a highbrow porno flick.
"lith" is latin for stone.
We know it's made of stainless steel, not stone therefore it's not a monolith.
Which begs the question - who assembled it? IIRC, welding stainless steel requires some special equipment - TIG welder, instead of your typical arc welder or oxy-aceteline setup. Okay, I guess you can pick up a TIG welder at Ace hardware. . .
. . . unless you're in a Keanu Reeves movie
yes, but think of all the money the defense contractors will make in the meantime - and the economic boom that will ensue!
(well, that, and cheap oil that George W.'s buddies will get to drill out of the prisine Alaskan wilderness).
I assume a scottsman invented the inflatable sheep too?
(sorry, it had to be said).
All the vintage aircooled VWs would still be running just fine too. Some of the hopped-up ones would eat the TR-6 for breakfast.