So let me get this straight. Because Gorbachev sent him a glowing letter, I'm supposed to be impressed? He was the guy in charge when the Soviet Union collapsed in on itself right?
One other thing, from the webpage:
Socialism as it was Always Meant to Be by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel A popular, descriptive account of parecon.
The idea is to sniff the infected computer, not it's connected network. Works wonders even on switched LANS. Once you're running local, the net infrastructure is meaningless.
People who legitimately have a need should recieve it. Perhaps the concept of "need" should be redefined. Again, the elderly, infirm, or very young should recieve all the help we can provide. Especially the young as they have a real chance to be a productive member of society.
As far as getting "doped up", I have no sympathy. That was a bad choice and is where personal accountability should come into play. Someone making one mistake should be helped. People who repeatedly return to the same lifestyle have made a choice to destroy themselves.
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time (if I understand your meaning) and getting ripped off are within the domain of the Justice system. That is another discussion though.
As far as the unemployed are concerned, I have no problem giving them assistance as long as they're working for it.
I am not intersted in abolishing all social programs. I am interested in applying some common sense to the distribution of existing funds and bringing some sanity to an increasingly corrupt system.
If I am classified as selfish because I prefer to care for my family and friends with the money that I rightfully earned then so be it. I volunteer my time and make charitable donations when possible. The government has no place telling me that I'm not doing enough.
For openers, I have paid more in taxes in the last two years than I ever recieved in benefits or pay serving my country. I would say that I have paid back Uncle Same probably 4 times over.
As far as the budget is concerned, according to Budget Explorer, the US National Budget for 2005 is expected to pay out 41% of all funds to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Social Security Administration alone. Only 18% is earmarked for National Defense and military pensions.
Tell me we aren't already a welfare state. Perhaps you should take a peak at the budget yourself sometime.
I agree with you that "weed-smokers" should not be in jail. In fact I believe that the best thing any American president could do is to decriminalize marijuana and some other classifications of "illicit" drugs. The problem is our approach to these problems not the amount of taxes we raise. Some of these things cannot be solved by throwing more money at them. Prohibition didn't work, neither will the war on drugs.
Granted, the issue is not as simplistic as that, but you get the idea. Keep my money in my pocket and leave the prisons for the rapists, murderers, and other violent felons.
Frankly, I fully expected to get flamed to ashes. A rational response was welcome.
Guess you touched a nerve. When I see myself paying enough in taxes to more then put 2 families of four over the poverty line, I (rightfully) come to the conclusion that enough is enough. Perhaps the real solution though is a reallocation of the taxes already collected instead of raising the rates yet again.
I am so sick and tired of people saying that, because I am successful, I need to be taxed ridiculously to carry people who aren't (more than a third of my income at last count). What the hell happened to personal accountability?
I grew up inside the city of Detroit on the low side of the economic chain. My prospects getting a high-paying job handed to me or a college education as an entitlement were exactly zero. You know what I did? I joined the military at 17, got myself educated, Got a job at 22 making 16K a year, worked my ass off for over a decade and MADE SOMETHING OF MYSELF.
You are now telling me that I have a social responsibility to "share" the fruits of my hard labor with some dumbass who made the poor decision to throw their life away on drugs or being too irresponsible?
Now I agree that people who need healthcare and the elderly and very young need assistance. However, these able-bodied societal leeches that suck down money from those of us that are middle class can rot AFAIC. Lock them up and throw away the key. If they are illegal deport them. Quit acting like being stupid and irresponsible is some kind of disease.
Want a safer society? Quit coddling our youth and giving them the idea that success will be handed to them. Teach them that you can only get ahead by trying your best and that there will always be someone out there better then you. Motivate them to reach their potential and not expect the government or anyone else to take care of them.
The only way to improve society is to make human beings independent of the political structures that are likely to hold them down. Anyone who says differently has a hidden agenda.
Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? Perhaps you need to revisit your history.
These attacks, although unnecessary in hindsight, were precipitated by Axis agression. Even rational people will turn the other cheeck for only so long.
I guess after Guernica, Rotterdam, London, Pearl Harbor, the Rape of Manchuris, Bataan, the Siege of Leningrad, the Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Malmedy, and countless other Axis atrocities, perhaps it is understandable that those three Allied attacks occurred. Regrettable, but warfare is insane.
Personal accountability. People on death row knew the consequences before they did whatever they did (I am assuming guilt through conviction). The unborn don't really have a choice in the matter.
I don't really have a position on abortion as, being a male, I won't ever need to make that choice. It seems to me though that the "life begins at birth" argument is spurious. If you wait nine months, that mass of tissue WILL be a human being.
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Check out the new spiral ones in Home Depot or Lowes. They satisfy all three of your requirements. and fit in a standard incandescent light bulb socket.
I replaced every light bulb in my house with these. They are more expensive up front but they last forever (4 years and counting) and my electric bill has dropped by about 40%.
Perhaps the reason that the "...vast, vast majority of Open Source users and developers *ARE NOT* gamers..." is because the general quality of Open Source games relative to commercial products blows.
It's been said before and I'll say it again and again until OSS developers understand it:
ENTERTAINMENT SELLS PLATFORMS.
If you want wide adoption of Linux or any other truly open source platform. You MUST MUST MUST get joe six-pack to buy into it and most people don't care about computers for anything other than entertainment. Once this happens, then businesses will begin to adopt OSS on the desktop because their users will already be familiar and their training costs will be lower.
All this BS about who can and can't have certain software because of this or that restriction, the GP (general public) not only doesn't care they don't even want to care. If a Linux platform is created that allows end users to:
1. Listen to CDs 2. Get on the Internet. 3. Watch video clips. 4. Do their personal finances. 5. Capture and email pictures to Grandma 6. Capture and work with video. 7. Sync their iPods, IPaqs, Palm, or *insert other device here* 8. Play Games they are familiar with (FPS, RPG, MMORPGs, RTS, "the Sims" *shudder*) 8. Play games with 3D acceleration
out of the box with no hassles, THEN the GP will buy it and not until. Once the GP buys into it then your pool of available talent increases dramatically and companies will invest in improvement. And not only that, if it is compelling, the public will PAY for it (Profit!). If given the choice of a yearly/monthly subscription rate or being able to tar/rpm/apt/etc to install software, the average public will pay every time if its quick and painless.
Now some distros have been doing a good job. I just installed Mandrake 10 for the first time and they almost have it right. I love OSS and am reasonably familiar with how the major environments work, but even I have my limit. It should not take me 30-60 minutes post installation to get most of the features I've listed above.
Ah well, I'll continue to use Fedora on my servers and Mandrake as my desktop until someone gets it right.
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This is just going to feed the Right Wing's crap about the liberal press.
Not that there's any justification for that in this case....
So let me get this straight. Because Gorbachev sent him a glowing letter, I'm supposed to be impressed? He was the guy in charge when the Soviet Union collapsed in on itself right?
One other thing, from the webpage:
Socialism as it was Always Meant to Be
by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel
A popular, descriptive account of parecon.
Uh, no thank you.
Nor the Egyptians, Greeks, Mongols, Spaniards, English, French, Chinese, Russians (Stalin), etc.
Computerization was never the prerequisite for effieciency. It facilitates it but, unfortunately, hatred and ignorance have no boundaries.
Why do I half expect to hear one day soon:
IBM: Linus, I am your father!
(Queue Imperial March)
Parrot hit it on the head. That's what I meant.
:)
See what happens when you post before you think?
Strange that it was the Democrats that tried to have him removed from the ballot....
http://www.katv.com/news/stories/0904/173778.html
Darl: I feel happy... I feel happy.
[whop]
IBM: Ah, thanks very much.
Judge: Not at all. See you on Thursday.
He didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...
The idea is to sniff the infected computer, not it's connected network. Works wonders even on switched LANS. Once you're running local, the net infrastructure is meaningless.
It's not. It's unpossible.
That is NOT what I am promoting.
People who legitimately have a need should recieve it. Perhaps the concept of "need" should be redefined. Again, the elderly, infirm, or very young should recieve all the help we can provide. Especially the young as they have a real chance to be a productive member of society.
As far as getting "doped up", I have no sympathy. That was a bad choice and is where personal accountability should come into play. Someone making one mistake should be helped. People who repeatedly return to the same lifestyle have made a choice to destroy themselves.
Being in the wrong place at the wrong time (if I understand your meaning) and getting ripped off are within the domain of the Justice system. That is another discussion though.
As far as the unemployed are concerned, I have no problem giving them assistance as long as they're working for it.
I am not intersted in abolishing all social programs. I am interested in applying some common sense to the distribution of existing funds and bringing some sanity to an increasingly corrupt system.
If I am classified as selfish because I prefer to care for my family and friends with the money that I rightfully earned then so be it. I volunteer my time and make charitable donations when possible. The government has no place telling me that I'm not doing enough.
For openers, I have paid more in taxes in the last two years than I ever recieved in benefits or pay serving my country. I would say that I have paid back Uncle Same probably 4 times over.
As far as the budget is concerned, according to Budget Explorer, the US National Budget for 2005 is expected to pay out 41% of all funds to Medicare, Medicaid, and the Social Security Administration alone. Only 18% is earmarked for National Defense and military pensions.
Tell me we aren't already a welfare state. Perhaps you should take a peak at the budget yourself sometime.
Here goes my Republican membership card too.
I agree with you that "weed-smokers" should not be in jail. In fact I believe that the best thing any American president could do is to decriminalize marijuana and some other classifications of "illicit" drugs. The problem is our approach to these problems not the amount of taxes we raise. Some of these things cannot be solved by throwing more money at them. Prohibition didn't work, neither will the war on drugs.
Granted, the issue is not as simplistic as that, but you get the idea. Keep my money in my pocket and leave the prisons for the rapists, murderers, and other violent felons.
Yeah, about 30 seconds of American Idol or Paris Hilton makes me feel like I have been lobotomized. Thank god for http://www.historychannel.com/ and http://www.comedycentral.com/.
:)
By the way, love your beer
*sigh*
Fair enough.
Frankly, I fully expected to get flamed to ashes. A rational response was welcome.
Guess you touched a nerve. When I see myself paying enough in taxes to more then put 2 families of four over the poverty line, I (rightfully) come to the conclusion that enough is enough. Perhaps the real solution though is a reallocation of the taxes already collected instead of raising the rates yet again.
If only I were in charge....
Oh god, here goes my Karma.
I am so sick and tired of people saying that, because I am successful, I need to be taxed ridiculously to carry people who aren't (more than a third of my income at last count). What the hell happened to personal accountability?
I grew up inside the city of Detroit on the low side of the economic chain. My prospects getting a high-paying job handed to me or a college education as an entitlement were exactly zero. You know what I did? I joined the military at 17, got myself educated, Got a job at 22 making 16K a year, worked my ass off for over a decade and MADE SOMETHING OF MYSELF.
You are now telling me that I have a social responsibility to "share" the fruits of my hard labor with some dumbass who made the poor decision to throw their life away on drugs or being too irresponsible?
Now I agree that people who need healthcare and the elderly and very young need assistance. However, these able-bodied societal leeches that suck down money from those of us that are middle class can rot AFAIC. Lock them up and throw away the key. If they are illegal deport them. Quit acting like being stupid and irresponsible is some kind of disease.
Want a safer society? Quit coddling our youth and giving them the idea that success will be handed to them. Teach them that you can only get ahead by trying your best and that there will always be someone out there better then you. Motivate them to reach their potential and not expect the government or anyone else to take care of them.
The only way to improve society is to make human beings independent of the political structures that are likely to hold them down. Anyone who says differently has a hidden agenda.
Strange, it was working a few minutes ago. Tried a few times in the last minute or so and it's a little spotty.
/. compatible.
Guess Coral is still working on being
http://www.ultimatesecurehome.com.nyud.net:8090/se cure_home.htm
Dresden, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki? Perhaps you need to revisit your history.
These attacks, although unnecessary in hindsight, were precipitated by Axis agression. Even rational people will turn the other cheeck for only so long.
I guess after Guernica, Rotterdam, London, Pearl Harbor, the Rape of Manchuris, Bataan, the Siege of Leningrad, the Liquidation of the Warsaw Ghetto, Malmedy, and countless other Axis atrocities, perhaps it is understandable that those three Allied attacks occurred. Regrettable, but warfare is insane.
Lighten up. Even Jesus had a sense of humor.
WWJLA? (What would Jesus Laugh At?)
Hipocrisy? No.
Personal accountability. People on death row knew the consequences before they did whatever they did (I am assuming guilt through conviction). The unborn don't really have a choice in the matter.
I don't really have a position on abortion as, being a male, I won't ever need to make that choice. It seems to me though that the "life begins at birth" argument is spurious. If you wait nine months, that mass of tissue WILL be a human being.
Strange issue.
It's only the /. effect we assure you. Please forward any further inquiries along with your street address and SSN to the mangement at siteadmin@notagovermentagency.langley.gov
Thank you
Check out the new spiral ones in Home Depot or Lowes. They satisfy all three of your requirements. and fit in a standard incandescent light bulb socket.
I replaced every light bulb in my house with these. They are more expensive up front but they last forever (4 years and counting) and my electric bill has dropped by about 40%.
DEFINITELY worthwhile.
Perhaps the reason that the "...vast, vast majority of Open Source users and developers *ARE NOT* gamers..." is because the general quality of Open Source games relative to commercial products blows.
It's been said before and I'll say it again and again until OSS developers understand it:
ENTERTAINMENT SELLS PLATFORMS.
If you want wide adoption of Linux or any other truly open source platform. You MUST MUST MUST get joe six-pack to buy into it and most people don't care about computers for anything other than entertainment. Once this happens, then businesses will begin to adopt OSS on the desktop because their users will already be familiar and their training costs will be lower.
All this BS about who can and can't have certain software because of this or that restriction, the GP (general public) not only doesn't care they don't even want to care. If a Linux platform is created that allows end users to:
1. Listen to CDs
2. Get on the Internet.
3. Watch video clips.
4. Do their personal finances.
5. Capture and email pictures to Grandma
6. Capture and work with video.
7. Sync their iPods, IPaqs, Palm, or *insert other device here*
8. Play Games they are familiar with (FPS, RPG, MMORPGs, RTS, "the Sims" *shudder*)
8. Play games with 3D acceleration
out of the box with no hassles, THEN the GP will buy it and not until. Once the GP buys into it then your pool of available talent increases dramatically and companies will invest in improvement. And not only that, if it is compelling, the public will PAY for it (Profit!). If given the choice of a yearly/monthly subscription rate or being able to tar/rpm/apt/etc to install software, the average public will pay every time if its quick and painless.
Now some distros have been doing a good job. I just installed Mandrake 10 for the first time and they almost have it right. I love OSS and am reasonably familiar with how the major environments work, but even I have my limit. It should not take me 30-60 minutes post installation to get most of the features I've listed above.
Ah well, I'll continue to use Fedora on my servers and Mandrake as my desktop until someone gets it right.
Look at that Karma burn!!