Mod this up. I distinctly remember sitting in front of the television watching the beginning of the high-gas-prices hearing and seeing Ted Stevens threatening to throw people out if they continued insisting on putting the executives under oath. It was one of the very few things I've seen on TV that made me sick to my stomach.
"consumers" whatever the fuck they are. [...] Maybe some sort of cow?
Close. A favorite passage of mine from William Gibson (by way of boingboing):
[...] a "consumer," what William Gibson memorably described as "something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth... no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote."
Offtopic, but just FYI, the term is "evolution", not "Darwinism". "Darwinism" was a term spun into existence by creationists in an attempt to tie evolution in with creationism as an ideology (hence the -ism) linked to a man instead of an established set of observations under the hit-on-the-head-with-a-shovel idea that if you can bring it down to your level, you can marginalize the "ideology".
Sorry for the screed, I just cringe every time I see someone use "Darwinism" in a non-ironic context.
Porn sites in the US will smell the java and move abroad, then sell their services from there (and pay tax there). Some bum on Aruba beach will become the figurehead CEO and business continues as usual.
And then the long arm of something similar to ACTA will "encourage" them to adopt the same "decency" standards, just as it will have done with copyright infringement as an extension of counterfeiting.
I read a lot. What I want is the hardback/paperback to come with a free download of the eBook.
This is exactly what I want. I sent identical emails to B&N and Amazon outlining this same situation, and explaining that I would buy vastly larger quantities of books (and an e-reader!) if I were offered a free (or $1 or $2) copy of the e-book along with it. From B&N, I got a form letter back telling me they didn't appraise the value of rare and out-of-print books (seriously, did you even read it, guys?), but Amazon was kind enough to at least read my email and inform me that they do not (and do not currently plan to) offer any such deal.
Such is life in the pay-per-medium and pay-per-use future of content consumption.
Have they fixed the maddening inability of plasma-widget-network-manager to connect to a hidden wireless ESSID? Maybe this is just a Kubuntu problem, but since 9.04 (7 months ago) the KDE network manager has had issues off and on connecting to non-visible ESSIDs, even after explicitly giving it the name. It's especially frustrating because GNOME's network manager has no such issue, so it's not a driver problem.
You can get 64-bit flash by installing ubuntu-restricted-extras. However, from what I've seen, it's not true 64-bit, just 32-bit that runs in a wrapper called npviewer.bin that consumes 100% of your CPU until you close it, and even then it will occasionally continue to consume 100% of your CPU. It mostly works, though.
What I've never been able to get my mind around is how Audigy sound cards frequently work out of the box in Ubuntu (for output and input), but I've never once been able to successfully capture external audio on a motherboard's onboard chipset (VIA VT1708S). Without a sound card slot available (long story) it's infuriating to have to boot into Windows every time I want to record external audio.
Yes. However, it mounts an ext3 drive as ext2, so you don't have journaling. Incredibly useful for fetching data off ext2/3 partitions when you don't feel like burning a livecd.
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Mod this up. I distinctly remember sitting in front of the television watching the beginning of the high-gas-prices hearing and seeing Ted Stevens threatening to throw people out if they continued insisting on putting the executives under oath. It was one of the very few things I've seen on TV that made me sick to my stomach.
"consumers" whatever the fuck they are. [...] Maybe some sort of cow?
Close. A favorite passage of mine from William Gibson (by way of boingboing):
[...] a "consumer," what William Gibson memorably described as "something the size of a baby hippo, the color of a week-old boiled potato, that lives by itself, in the dark, in a double-wide on the outskirts of Topeka. It's covered with eyes and it sweats constantly. The sweat runs into those eyes and makes them sting. It has no mouth... no genitals, and can only express its mute extremes of murderous rage and infantile desire by changing the channels on a universal remote."
the costs these levies are intended to cover will increase exponentially.
Exponentially? Really? Why wouldn't it increase proportionally, or like a step function?
Er, that's "spun by", not "spun into existence by".
Offtopic, but just FYI, the term is "evolution", not "Darwinism". "Darwinism" was a term spun into existence by creationists in an attempt to tie evolution in with creationism as an ideology (hence the -ism) linked to a man instead of an established set of observations under the hit-on-the-head-with-a-shovel idea that if you can bring it down to your level, you can marginalize the "ideology". Sorry for the screed, I just cringe every time I see someone use "Darwinism" in a non-ironic context.
a classic rock band comprised solely of astronauts
It is either "composed solely of astronauts" or "comprising solely astronauts". "Comprised" means "composed of".
Porn sites in the US will smell the java and move abroad, then sell their services from there (and pay tax there). Some bum on Aruba beach will become the figurehead CEO and business continues as usual.
And then the long arm of something similar to ACTA will "encourage" them to adopt the same "decency" standards, just as it will have done with copyright infringement as an extension of counterfeiting.
I read a lot. What I want is the hardback/paperback to come with a free download of the eBook.
This is exactly what I want. I sent identical emails to B&N and Amazon outlining this same situation, and explaining that I would buy vastly larger quantities of books (and an e-reader!) if I were offered a free (or $1 or $2) copy of the e-book along with it. From B&N, I got a form letter back telling me they didn't appraise the value of rare and out-of-print books (seriously, did you even read it, guys?), but Amazon was kind enough to at least read my email and inform me that they do not (and do not currently plan to) offer any such deal. Such is life in the pay-per-medium and pay-per-use future of content consumption.
Absolutely. Plus if the security lapse is big enough, everyone will be able to review the scans!
Have they fixed the maddening inability of plasma-widget-network-manager to connect to a hidden wireless ESSID? Maybe this is just a Kubuntu problem, but since 9.04 (7 months ago) the KDE network manager has had issues off and on connecting to non-visible ESSIDs, even after explicitly giving it the name. It's especially frustrating because GNOME's network manager has no such issue, so it's not a driver problem.
You can get 64-bit flash by installing ubuntu-restricted-extras. However, from what I've seen, it's not true 64-bit, just 32-bit that runs in a wrapper called npviewer.bin that consumes 100% of your CPU until you close it, and even then it will occasionally continue to consume 100% of your CPU. It mostly works, though.
What I've never been able to get my mind around is how Audigy sound cards frequently work out of the box in Ubuntu (for output and input), but I've never once been able to successfully capture external audio on a motherboard's onboard chipset (VIA VT1708S). Without a sound card slot available (long story) it's infuriating to have to boot into Windows every time I want to record external audio.
Yes. However, it mounts an ext3 drive as ext2, so you don't have journaling. Incredibly useful for fetching data off ext2/3 partitions when you don't feel like burning a livecd.