Yes, abolishing the war on drugs is an important goal of the LP. And Bush et al. are morally bankrupt not because they did drugs, but because they lie about doing them, or think their "youthful indiscretions" should be overlooked while others' should be punished. Hypocrisy is the ultimate form or moral bankruptcy.
Interestingly enough, your perception is reinforced by this page which correlates scores on the World's Smallest Political Quiz with presidential candidate choice. All highly unscientific, but interesting nonetheless.
Unfortunately, as James Madison explains in the Federalist Papers, factions (parties) are inevitable in a system where the government redistributes private goods (converted to public goods via the tax system). Madison's solution was to pit faction against faction by separating power, and by limiting the powers of government.
If I recall correctly, in 1998 a fairly popular Libertarian (who had led the campaign against the stadium tax in San Diego) tried to win county-wide office. So the LP in San Diego is getting serious (and, CA has been a leading battleground for the LP).
Unfortunately, so far most of the Libertarians holding major office had to team up with Republicans to get in (Ron Paul, the state rep. in Vermont). Hopefully that'll change as we get more money and people continue to realize how intellectually and morally bankrupt the Republicans and Democrats are (featuring former drug users as leading candidates supporting the War on Freedom).
Indonesia is an example of crony capitalism, a concept highly orthogonal (i.e has nothing to do with) to libertarianism. Under Sukarno and Suharto, the only people with any freedom were the president and his cronies. That's hardly what anyone would call "libertarian."
The author misses the point in that we're not talking about self-regulation; Microsoft instead faces market regulation. MS has competitors in the freemail business, and will lose customers from Hotmail because of its security issues.
If MS had a natural monopoly in freemail (like if Hotmail had a patent on the concept), I'd agree that self-regulation is insufficient. But in this case, the loss of customers and ad revenue for Hotmail, not to mention loss of MS credibility, will hurt them more than a few lawsuits from disgruntled parties.
I think this applies to the open source commercial distributions (Red Hat, for example) but doesn't make much sense in the context of, say, Debian, which also has a variety of vendors selling CDs from $2 to $50.
Debian has an official CD image set, which distributors can use, or distributors can roll their own. My Debian discs, for example, are self-rolled with the same scripts Debian uses. The Official discs buy you the guarantee that they've been tested by the CD team (as opposed to by the distributor and whoever he can scrounge up), but since anyone can burn them it's not like the RH situation.
Your price usually doesn't buy any support directly (though many vendors have donation policies), nor does it support any R&D or anything (except if you buy from a developer who uses the money to compensate for his expenses). If you buy Dale Scheetz's book, or the new book by Goernzen and Othman, you get the dead trees too, but Debian (at least until now) has been a mainly "disc-only" operation. The latter came with the wrong CD attached (you can get a replacement from the publisher though).
So, an official CD doesn't always buy you much; it really depends on the distribution.
Of course, Macrovision (I and II) has been cracked too. Get yourself a Sima Color Corrector and use the S-Video out on your DVD player (or newer video card... you can use composite too, but the resulting quality is rather poor), and you're set.
At least some of you want is available at CQ's Campaigns and Elections site. Their "rate your rep" feature does a good job, though a bigger cross-section of votes would be nice.
The fundamental problem here is that someone has to make the decision for every child in a school (or a class) how they're going to be taught about evolution and creationism, and the people who have to deal with the consequences of that decision (parents and their children) aren't the ones making it.
School choice (which is what John has the ability to provide, unlike many other parents) is the only fair solution to this problem. Parents who want their kids to be taught that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh can send their kids to Jerry Falwell's Tellytubby-Free Academy, and parents who want their kids to learn that Chuck Darwin came up with this idea of evolution while sunning himself off the coast of South America can send their kids to Bill Nye's School of Scientific Thought.
Yes, boys and girls, the President had decided we need additional laws that make things illegal that already are illegal. Wow. I'm impressed. How warped can you get?
Next thing he'll be saying we need laws to make it illegal to kill homosexuals because we already have laws that make it illegal to kill homosexuals. Oh yeah, he's already said that. Never mind.
Great, now we don't just have to worry about aliens invading the Earth, we also have to worry about alien teenage losers launching DoS attacks against us and RBLing SETI.
The real problem with the ratings is that video cassettes, pay-per-view, and DVDs have (in order) rendered them effectively obsolete. Any 18 year old can walk into any video store and rent any movie (from G to NC-17 and beyond) and exhibit it to any minor. So the movie theaters are the gatekeeper protecting an effectively obsolete system.
Of course, a system that gives Pulp Fiction, Lone Star, The Sweet Hereafter and Shakespeare in Love (four of my favorite movies) the exact same rating (R) is so laughably absurd that it deserves to be undermined. I wouldn't trade R for the strict age limits imposed in most of the world's nanny-states, but clearly R needs some subdivision or content flagging. I think we all know what a G or PG movie will have in it (and I suspect we all know what a XXX movie will have in it:-). What we need to be able to know is what an R movie is. And the current ratings don't tell us that. All R says is "somebody's breast is onscreen too long, someone says the f-word more than once, and/or there aren't any penetration shots." Thanks Jack Valenti, that's a big help...
People who are interested in low-power radio, the positive effects these stations have on communities, and the current corporate welfare system that leads to their being shut down, should check out this article from Reason; another article appears in the current (August/September) issue.
Indeed, but neither will happen, because politicians want to be seen as "doing something" about problems; if they passed better and fewer laws, they would be perceived as "doing nothing." Far better to engage in writing frivolous, pointless laws that have marginal effects on reality and/or won't achieve their stated goals.
I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but a parliamentary select committee in Britain has about the same ability to affect what the government decides to do as a small gnat. Yes, they can be annoying, but they can't rewrite legislation in any meaningful sense. It's nothing like the same thing as the U.S. House Commerce Committee telling the bureaucracy/NSA to go take a hike.
So much for the argument that "key escrow" would be subject to warrants... this is clear evidence that the U.S. government, and Clinton administration in particular, never had any intention of obeying the laws passed by Congress (never mind the Constitution).
Communism, as a political philosophy, only has to do with restricting your freedom to make money (the whole "ownership of the means of production" thing). Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism isn't communism, it's "democratic centralism," a philosophy (if you can call it that) that says that those at the center (the centralism part) chosen in some way to reflect the will of the people (the democratic part) can pretty much eliminate freedom at their own discretion.
It's much closer to the philosophy of Singapore than pure Marxism; the only difference is that they have diametrically opposed positions on the value of capitalism. Needless to say, the former was qualitatively more right (they're here, the Soviets aren't, and the Chinese are doing what Singapore does, just more oppresively).
I can't help but feel that Compaq is making a big mistake by adopting RPM for Tru64... of course, the irony here (unlike the VHS/Beta thing) is that both alternatives are equally cheap to license, so choosing the technically superior solution should be a no-brainer.
RMS's ideas about a "software tax" are definitely socialistic; they certainly aren't libertarian/classic liberalism.
Also, libertarianism is hardly a far-right (or far-left) philosophy. Indeed it was probably the predominant philosophy in America before New Deal-Great Society socialism took over.
Lying is a deliberate disregard of the truth; i.e. you know what the truth is, and you say something else. CNN and the BBC have not lied. At worst, they have reported things that are not true that they have no independent ability to refute (and, no, a Serbian-censored media pool is not "independent").
Examples of lying: showing a bus (probably full of Serbian militia) that was attacked by god-knows-who (the KLA, most likely, using small-arms fire) and claiming it was hit by a missile (never mind that no missile ever invented would hit a bus, blow out the windows, but leave its structure completely intact). "There is no ethnic cleansing in Kosovo." Sure, whatever... let's see what Brent Sadler would turn up if he wasn't followed around by Serbian minders 24/7.
Remember the infamous bunker in Iraq? "Innocent civilians"? Hardly. Try senior Ba'ath Party officials and their relatives---ordinary Iraqis didn't get air raid shelters: in Saddam's eyes, they were disposable.
I'm not sure I'd go as far as the Libertarian Party does (in a press release that hasn't shown up on their web site yet), but I do wonder why anyone's surprised that the two main places that breed this antisocial behavior (prisons and schools) are both places that concentrate large numbers of people somewhere they don't want to be.
As someone else already alluded, people definitely need to be re-educated about X servers... if there's no XF86_Weirdass_Gfx_Card, try vesafb and XF86_FBDev. The eventual goal is to get all of the acceleration working via the FBDev server (which will be nice, since 80% of the server binary is identical on most gfx cards).
Huh? Did you read the article? Red Hat is the reason for the bandwith, not the reason the machine can handle the bandwidth.
Although I do agree that the article should have mentioned that wcarchive is a FreeBSD box. Since nobody else serves that sort of bandwidth, it's hard to see if Linux would be able to keep up (but it's certainly an experiment worth trying).
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Yes, abolishing the war on drugs is an important goal of the LP. And Bush et al. are morally bankrupt not because they did drugs, but because they lie about doing them, or think their "youthful indiscretions" should be overlooked while others' should be punished. Hypocrisy is the ultimate form or moral bankruptcy.
Interestingly enough, your perception is reinforced by this page which correlates scores on the World's Smallest Political Quiz with presidential candidate choice. All highly unscientific, but interesting nonetheless.
Unfortunately, as James Madison explains in the Federalist Papers, factions (parties) are inevitable in a system where the government redistributes private goods (converted to public goods via the tax system). Madison's solution was to pit faction against faction by separating power, and by limiting the powers of government.
If I recall correctly, in 1998 a fairly popular Libertarian (who had led the campaign against the stadium tax in San Diego) tried to win county-wide office. So the LP in San Diego is getting serious (and, CA has been a leading battleground for the LP).
Unfortunately, so far most of the Libertarians holding major office had to team up with Republicans to get in (Ron Paul, the state rep. in Vermont). Hopefully that'll change as we get more money and people continue to realize how intellectually and morally bankrupt the Republicans and Democrats are (featuring former drug users as leading candidates supporting the War on Freedom).
Indonesia is an example of crony capitalism, a concept highly orthogonal (i.e has nothing to do with) to libertarianism. Under Sukarno and Suharto, the only people with any freedom were the president and his cronies. That's hardly what anyone would call "libertarian."
The author misses the point in that we're not talking about self-regulation; Microsoft instead faces market regulation. MS has competitors in the freemail business, and will lose customers from Hotmail because of its security issues.
If MS had a natural monopoly in freemail (like if Hotmail had a patent on the concept), I'd agree that self-regulation is insufficient. But in this case, the loss of customers and ad revenue for Hotmail, not to mention loss of MS credibility, will hurt them more than a few lawsuits from disgruntled parties.
I think this applies to the open source commercial distributions (Red Hat, for example) but doesn't make much sense in the context of, say, Debian, which also has a variety of vendors selling CDs from $2 to $50.
Debian has an official CD image set, which distributors can use, or distributors can roll their own. My Debian discs, for example, are self-rolled with the same scripts Debian uses. The Official discs buy you the guarantee that they've been tested by the CD team (as opposed to by the distributor and whoever he can scrounge up), but since anyone can burn them it's not like the RH situation.
Your price usually doesn't buy any support directly (though many vendors have donation policies), nor does it support any R&D or anything (except if you buy from a developer who uses the money to compensate for his expenses). If you buy Dale Scheetz's book, or the new book by Goernzen and Othman, you get the dead trees too, but Debian (at least until now) has been a mainly "disc-only" operation. The latter came with the wrong CD attached (you can get a replacement from the publisher though).
So, an official CD doesn't always buy you much; it really depends on the distribution.
Of course, Macrovision (I and II) has been cracked too. Get yourself a Sima Color Corrector and use the S-Video out on your DVD player (or newer video card... you can use composite too, but the resulting quality is rather poor), and you're set.
Not that I'm advocating DVD piracy or anything...
At least some of you want is available at CQ's Campaigns and Elections site. Their "rate your rep" feature does a good job, though a bigger cross-section of votes would be nice.
The fundamental problem here is that someone has to make the decision for every child in a school (or a class) how they're going to be taught about evolution and creationism, and the people who have to deal with the consequences of that decision (parents and their children) aren't the ones making it.
School choice (which is what John has the ability to provide, unlike many other parents) is the only fair solution to this problem. Parents who want their kids to be taught that God created the world in 6 days and rested on the seventh can send their kids to Jerry Falwell's Tellytubby-Free Academy, and parents who want their kids to learn that Chuck Darwin came up with this idea of evolution while sunning himself off the coast of South America can send their kids to Bill Nye's School of Scientific Thought.
Yes, boys and girls, the President had decided we need additional laws that make things illegal that already are illegal. Wow. I'm impressed. How warped can you get?
Next thing he'll be saying we need laws to make it illegal to kill homosexuals because we already have laws that make it illegal to kill homosexuals. Oh yeah, he's already said that. Never mind.
Great, now we don't just have to worry about aliens invading the Earth, we also have to worry about alien teenage losers launching DoS attacks against us and RBLing SETI.
Of course, a system that gives Pulp Fiction, Lone Star, The Sweet Hereafter and Shakespeare in Love (four of my favorite movies) the exact same rating (R) is so laughably absurd that it deserves to be undermined. I wouldn't trade R for the strict age limits imposed in most of the world's nanny-states, but clearly R needs some subdivision or content flagging. I think we all know what a G or PG movie will have in it (and I suspect we all know what a XXX movie will have in it
People who are interested in low-power radio, the positive effects these stations have on communities, and the current corporate welfare system that leads to their being shut down, should check out this article from Reason; another article appears in the current (August/September) issue.
Both of these would be Good Things, imo.
Indeed, but neither will happen, because politicians want to be seen as "doing something" about problems; if they passed better and fewer laws, they would be perceived as "doing nothing." Far better to engage in writing frivolous, pointless laws that have marginal effects on reality and/or won't achieve their stated goals.
I hate to burst anyone's bubble, but a parliamentary select committee in Britain has about the same ability to affect what the government decides to do as a small gnat. Yes, they can be annoying, but they can't rewrite legislation in any meaningful sense. It's nothing like the same thing as the U.S. House Commerce Committee telling the bureaucracy/NSA to go take a hike.
So much for the argument that "key escrow" would be subject to warrants... this is clear evidence that the U.S. government, and Clinton administration in particular, never had any intention of obeying the laws passed by Congress (never mind the Constitution).
Communism, as a political philosophy, only has to do with restricting your freedom to make money (the whole "ownership of the means of production" thing). Marxism-Leninism-Stalinism isn't communism, it's "democratic centralism," a philosophy (if you can call it that) that says that those at the center (the centralism part) chosen in some way to reflect the will of the people (the democratic part) can pretty much eliminate freedom at their own discretion.
It's much closer to the philosophy of Singapore than pure Marxism; the only difference is that they have diametrically opposed positions on the value of capitalism. Needless to say, the former was qualitatively more right (they're here, the Soviets aren't, and the Chinese are doing what Singapore does, just more oppresively).
Um... there already is a slashbox... try the LinuxHQ one.
I can't help but feel that Compaq is making a big mistake by adopting RPM for Tru64... of course, the irony here (unlike the VHS/Beta thing) is that both alternatives are equally cheap to license, so choosing the technically superior solution should be a no-brainer.
RMS's ideas about a "software tax" are definitely socialistic; they certainly aren't libertarian/classic liberalism.
Also, libertarianism is hardly a far-right (or far-left) philosophy. Indeed it was probably the predominant philosophy in America before New Deal-Great Society socialism took over.
Lying is a deliberate disregard of the truth; i.e. you know what the truth is, and you say something else. CNN and the BBC have not lied. At worst, they have reported things that are not true that they have no independent ability to refute (and, no, a Serbian-censored media pool is not "independent").
Examples of lying: showing a bus (probably full of Serbian militia) that was attacked by god-knows-who (the KLA, most likely, using small-arms fire) and claiming it was hit by a missile (never mind that no missile ever invented would hit a bus, blow out the windows, but leave its structure completely intact). "There is no ethnic cleansing in Kosovo." Sure, whatever... let's see what Brent Sadler would turn up if he wasn't followed around by Serbian minders 24/7.
Remember the infamous bunker in Iraq? "Innocent civilians"? Hardly. Try senior Ba'ath Party officials and their relatives---ordinary Iraqis didn't get air raid shelters: in Saddam's eyes, they were disposable.
I'm not sure I'd go as far as the Libertarian Party does (in a press release that hasn't shown up on their web site yet), but I do wonder why anyone's surprised that the two main places that breed this antisocial behavior (prisons and schools) are both places that concentrate large numbers of people somewhere they don't want to be.
As someone else already alluded, people definitely need to be re-educated about X servers... if there's no XF86_Weirdass_Gfx_Card, try vesafb and XF86_FBDev. The eventual goal is to get all of the acceleration working via the FBDev server (which will be nice, since 80% of the server binary is identical on most gfx cards).
Huh? Did you read the article? Red Hat is the reason for the bandwith, not the reason the machine can handle the bandwidth.
Although I do agree that the article should have mentioned that wcarchive is a FreeBSD box. Since nobody else serves that sort of bandwidth, it's hard to see if Linux would be able to keep up (but it's certainly an experiment worth trying).