Two sides of the same corrupt political machine that WILL NOT allow the existence of a viable third party!
Outside of third world banana republics and Communist dictatorships this kind of political repression and manipulation is unknown.
Vote for a THIRD party! Not the incestuous and utterly ridiculous "Two Party System" that only fools the elderly (80+) and the worlds stupidest electorate!
If I make changes to code I very rarely release them to anybody, and then only if I'm collaborating with a developer (then compliance and code inclusion is theirs to decide).
M$, Lets make it harder for users to gain any benefit from the purchase of our already nearly unusable product "Windblows Vista", how should we go about that?
Engineering Staff, We'll have it call home for authentication! we already know that doesn't work!
Back in the 70's I had to pass one for a job I was applying for, I couldn't pass the test questions due to an irregular heartbeat high blood pressure and (at that time) overweight.
If I can illustrate the kinds of test questions that were asked. Do you drink (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer. Are you male (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer. Is it daytime (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer.
Any technology that cannot tell if a fat male drunk is awake in the daytime ain't worth a damn!
Time Travel? Starships, I don't need no stinking starships! No, I've already arrived, yes I'm still home! Your Thursday is my Wednesday, No Wait! Wherever I go, then I am.
Eventually we'll have enough of this (at least some of us will) and the answer to the order will be (you want my DNA?) what's it worth to ya? how many dead will it take to convince you (the gummermint) that forcing people to give up their identities (in this case DNA) under some made up excuse leading up to outright dictatorship (we're almost there folks) is a very bad idea!
If it gets out of hand the gummermint could always invoke "the garden plot" and detonate one of the many nuclear devices hidden under major American cities (at lease ones that were major in the 1950's).
Oh wait, my aluminum foil hat is coming loose, I think I'll go hide in a packing crate in the woods and scan the sky for black helicopters in whisper mode piloted be men in black wearing Janet Reno masks. (The preceding paragraph was included to prevent the aforementioned "men in black" to kick down my door and send me on a free tour of certain third world countries while blindfolded).
Let's implant all politicians with little cyanide filled devices that can be remotely detonated if they propose anything that abrogates freedom or denies us our constitutional rights.
Lemmie tell ya, I am an "old" person and I know enough old people to tell you that no device in ID10t proof, a friend of mine called me in a blithering panic because his mouse didn't move, after to trying to calm him down for a few minutes I asked him if he had been pulling on any of the wires behind his computer, he said no, I asked him to look in the back for anything hanging loose. sure enough the mouse wire was un plugged.
Senile little gremlins come out of the woodwork and unplug mouse cables at night.
Wait! the rest of the (developing) world will have caught up with us long before 2057, in fact in many ways some of the so-called "developing" countries already are. They too will be saddled with tremendous debt, massive post-industrial unemployment, the ever increasing need for stricter social control, aging/crumbling infrastructure, an overburdened educational system, overpopulation, bureaucratic gridlock, endless little "insurgencies" and "terrorism" as those who were run over by the progress train lash out at the general population. And let's not forget that nature itself is going to be a BIG factor in what happens during the next five decades, crazy weather, rising shorelines, truly unbelievable massive storms that will make Katrina seem like a rainstorm, making recovery impossible. Record high temperatures up to 140f and oceans too hot to support life. Massive methane releases from the ocean floor further exacerbating the greenhouse effect, a worldwide "Anaerobic shift" (the collapse of the oxygen cycle atmosphere) due to a die off of photosynthetic life in the oceans and on land.
In the next 50 years "space exploration" will hardly register on the worlds radar screen!
Yeah, sure but if you could demand that the money being extorted via the university's library fees could go to helping disadvantaged students with tuition and materials would you still be pissed at the $48.00 charge?
Ahhh, grasshopper only in secret, ancient and deadly but enlightened art of "FUNG-GOOL" can we ever hope to de-feet da Shaolin munks in dey own crib yo!
Raiding pension funds, getting outrageous "bonuses", cutting worker salaries, firing Americans to hire foreigners, gutting healthcare, "letting people go" on the eve or retirement, "downsizing" and generally making America a really lousy place to be a worker!
"'ve been close to heroin addicts and alcoholics; they're both sad but not to the same degree. Any truth in what you claimed boils down to alcohol being consumed by far more people than other drugs and when using both alcohol is usually used more often. If you remove pot from the question even more so. Compare alcohol to pot and I may agree with you although I don't like pot."
When was the last time that a junkie on heroin got behind the wheel of a car and killed people? How many times has a drunk done the same?
"Without religion the death, destruction, etc. would have happened anyway in most cases, except where its structure misled people into valuing their own morality/judgment/ethics too highly. If a ruler desires to go to war they will find a way to do it, and I suspect religions are often expedient to the cause. That doesn't make religion the cause."
Tell the victims of the Holocaust the Inquisition the "conversion of the native Americans" etc, about weather or not the presence or absence of religion played a part in their nightmare.
Hey! I deeply resent the implication that I am not a direct linear descendant of a clod of dirt that had life breathed into it by a bronze age semitic deity!
But which one? Yahweh? Baal? El? Lilith? Pazuzu? Rodney Dangerfield?
The "new" economics (vastly simplified version) I hand you a piece of paper we both agree that it has an arbitrary value of (for the sake of argument) $.0003, I hand it to you and we both agree that it has increased in value to $.006 and we continue this charade until somebody notices that nothing has actually been created but by then we both are millionaires and no longer care.
Drinks on the beach in Bimini anyone?
The American economy lives by taking in it's own laundry, the stock market is a fraud, the ridiculous increase in real estate values are a fraud, just like the Tech "bubble" that we all know so well was a fraud (a well documented fraud).
Sooner or later the chickens will come home, but by then the coop will have burned down and all the corn will have been sold to China and other countries that actually DO make something. Then the chickens will have to draw straws to see who gets eaten first (by the Chinese, the Indians, Etc).
I seem to remember some PhD windbag pontificating in a very (don't you dare question me) tone that there really isn't that much more to learn and that the fundamental knowledge base for theoretical physics has been laid to rest. I really wanted to scream, foam and spew at him but I didn't.
Let's not break our arms patting ourselves on the back, we really don't know shit!
Yes, I did it and no I will not comply! It will be a source of satisfaction to me that as a prisoner of your police state that I shall be costing you and your masters a fortune in housing and medical cost$$, yes all the medical procedures that I as an average American am routinely denied I will be getting as a ward (prisoner) of the state (My attorney will be contacting the ACLU)!
"Chimpy", I like that, I've been calling him "Boner" (due to his membership in Skull & Bones and his penchant for idiocy) or "The little weasel" due to his obvious cowardice during the Vietnam war and his willingness to kill thousands rather than admit a mistake!
The only reason they are mouthing about "P2P" is that they've heard about it on the evening news, the American news media isn't about reporting anything of consequence, it's about "buzzwords" like "the internet", "terror" and now "P2P" and "mortgage meltdown" and soon (when the talking heads notice it) "web20". The simple fact that I have to watch foreign news broadcasts to find out whats really going on in the world is pretty damn sad, a good deal of time on "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" is dedicated to fluff about some kid in the Midwest who can stand on his head and spit wooden nickels .;-)..
In Windows if something pisses you off, you bitch about it and if you bitch loud enough and if enough other people bitch about the same thing, then in several months or a year (maybe) MS will fix it.
In Linux if something pisses you off, you can fix it yourself or contact the developer directly and talk about (or collaborate on) a fix!
Linux good Windows bad
Wash in river, beat on rock, dry in sun, make clean!
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Two sides of the same corrupt political machine that WILL NOT allow the existence of a viable third party!
Outside of third world banana republics and Communist dictatorships this kind of political repression and manipulation is unknown.
Vote for a THIRD party! Not the incestuous and utterly ridiculous "Two Party System" that only fools the elderly (80+) and the worlds stupidest electorate!
As I ignored GPLv2
And the Apache and BSD license!
I ignore ALL licenses.
If I make changes to code I very rarely release them to anybody, and then only if I'm collaborating with a developer (then compliance and code inclusion is theirs to decide).
M$, Lets make it harder for users to gain any benefit from the purchase of our already nearly unusable product "Windblows Vista", how should we go about that?
Engineering Staff, We'll have it call home for authentication! we already know that doesn't work!
Leth thuppily them with dithco ballth and showtuneth, then we can watth Richard Thimmonth tapeth and wear pathtelth!
Back in the 70's I had to pass one for a job I was applying for, I couldn't pass the test questions due to an irregular heartbeat high blood pressure and (at that time) overweight.
If I can illustrate the kinds of test questions that were asked. Do you drink (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer. Are you male (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer. Is it daytime (yes) Bzzt, wrong answer.
Any technology that cannot tell if a fat male drunk is awake in the daytime ain't worth a damn!
No, I didn't get the job.
Time Travel?
Starships, I don't need no stinking starships!
No, I've already arrived, yes I'm still home!
Your Thursday is my Wednesday, No Wait!
Wherever I go, then I am.
Eventually we'll have enough of this (at least some of us will) and the answer to the order will be (you want my DNA?) what's it worth to ya? how many dead will it take to convince you (the gummermint) that forcing people to give up their identities (in this case DNA) under some made up excuse leading up to outright dictatorship (we're almost there folks) is a very bad idea!
If it gets out of hand the gummermint could always invoke "the garden plot" and detonate one of the many nuclear devices hidden under major American cities (at lease ones that were major in the 1950's).
Oh wait, my aluminum foil hat is coming loose, I think I'll go hide in a packing crate in the woods and scan the sky for black helicopters in whisper mode piloted be men in black wearing Janet Reno masks. (The preceding paragraph was included to prevent the aforementioned "men in black" to kick down my door and send me on a free tour of certain third world countries while blindfolded).
Let's implant all politicians with little cyanide filled devices that can be remotely detonated if they propose anything that abrogates freedom or denies us our constitutional rights.
Lemmie tell ya, I am an "old" person and I know enough old people to tell you that no device in ID10t proof, a friend of mine called me in a blithering panic because his mouse didn't move, after to trying to calm him down for a few minutes I asked him if he had been pulling on any of the wires behind his computer, he said no, I asked him to look in the back for anything hanging loose. sure enough the mouse wire was un plugged.
Senile little gremlins come out of the woodwork and unplug mouse cables at night.
"From the USA: Nothing"
Wait! the rest of the (developing) world will have caught up with us long before 2057, in fact in many ways some of the so-called "developing" countries already are. They too will be saddled with tremendous debt, massive post-industrial unemployment, the ever increasing need for stricter social control, aging/crumbling infrastructure, an overburdened educational system, overpopulation, bureaucratic gridlock, endless little "insurgencies" and "terrorism" as those who were run over by the progress train lash out at the general population. And let's not forget that nature itself is going to be a BIG factor in what happens during the next five decades, crazy weather, rising shorelines, truly unbelievable massive storms that will make Katrina seem like a rainstorm, making recovery impossible. Record high temperatures up to 140f and oceans too hot to support life. Massive methane releases from the ocean floor further exacerbating the greenhouse effect, a worldwide "Anaerobic shift" (the collapse of the oxygen cycle atmosphere) due to a die off of photosynthetic life in the oceans and on land.
In the next 50 years "space exploration" will hardly register on the worlds radar screen!
Yeah, sure but if you could demand that the money being extorted via the university's library fees could go to helping disadvantaged students with tuition and materials would you still be pissed at the $48.00 charge?
Ahhh, grasshopper only in secret, ancient and deadly but enlightened art of "FUNG-GOOL" can we ever hope to de-feet da Shaolin munks in dey own crib yo!
Raiding pension funds, getting outrageous "bonuses", cutting worker salaries, firing Americans to hire foreigners, gutting healthcare, "letting people go" on the eve or retirement, "downsizing" and generally making America a really lousy place to be a worker!
What the Dali Lama should say On behalf of Buddhist people everywhere.
I hereby forbid any Chinese bureaucrat anywhere to reincarnate under any circumstances!
"'ve been close to heroin addicts and alcoholics; they're both sad but not to the same degree. Any truth in what you claimed boils down to alcohol being consumed by far more people than other drugs and when using both alcohol is usually used more often. If you remove pot from the question even more so. Compare alcohol to pot and I may agree with you although I don't like pot."
When was the last time that a junkie on heroin got behind the wheel of a car and killed people?
How many times has a drunk done the same?
"Without religion the death, destruction, etc. would have happened anyway in most cases, except where its structure misled people into valuing their own morality/judgment/ethics too highly. If a ruler desires to go to war they will find a way to do it, and I suspect religions are often expedient to the cause. That doesn't make religion the cause."
Tell the victims of the Holocaust the Inquisition the "conversion of the native Americans" etc, about weather or not the presence or absence of religion played a part in their nightmare.
Hey! I deeply resent the implication that I am not a direct linear descendant of a clod of dirt that had life breathed into it by a bronze age semitic deity!
But which one?
Yahweh?
Baal?
El?
Lilith?
Pazuzu?
Rodney Dangerfield?
It's more constructive to keep kids away from military recruiters than porn.
Alcohol causes thousands of times the chaos and heartache than all drugs put together!
Religion has been responsible for more evil (death, destruction, torture, hate, misery) than porn will/can if it continues for one million years.
The "new" economics (vastly simplified version) I hand you a piece of paper we both agree that it has an arbitrary value of (for the sake of argument) $.0003, I hand it to you and we both agree that it has increased in value to $.006 and we continue this charade until somebody notices that nothing has actually been created but by then we both are millionaires and no longer care.
Drinks on the beach in Bimini anyone?
The American economy lives by taking in it's own laundry, the stock market is a fraud, the ridiculous increase in real estate values are a fraud, just like the Tech "bubble" that we all know so well was a fraud (a well documented fraud).
Sooner or later the chickens will come home, but by then the coop will have burned down and all the corn will have been sold to China and other countries that actually DO make something. Then the chickens will have to draw straws to see who gets eaten first (by the Chinese, the Indians, Etc).
I seem to remember some PhD windbag pontificating in a very (don't you dare question me) tone that there really isn't that much more to learn and that the fundamental knowledge base for theoretical physics has been laid to rest. I really wanted to scream, foam and spew at him but I didn't.
Let's not break our arms patting ourselves on the back, we really don't know shit!
Yes, I did it and no I will not comply!
It will be a source of satisfaction to me that as a prisoner of your police state that I shall be costing you and your masters a fortune in housing and medical cost$$, yes all the medical procedures that I as an average American am routinely denied I will be getting as a ward (prisoner) of the state (My attorney will be contacting the ACLU)!
I need the following
Fill in the blanks
Cost to the taxpayer
Could be millions!
"Chimpy", I like that, I've been calling him "Boner" (due to his membership in Skull & Bones and his penchant for idiocy) or "The little weasel" due to his obvious cowardice during the Vietnam war and his willingness to kill thousands rather than admit a mistake!
The only reason they are mouthing about "P2P" is that they've heard about it on the evening news, the American news media isn't about reporting anything of consequence, it's about "buzzwords" like "the internet", "terror" and now "P2P" and "mortgage meltdown" and soon (when the talking heads notice it) "web20". The simple fact that I have to watch foreign news broadcasts to find out whats really going on in the world is pretty damn sad, a good deal of time on "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric" is dedicated to fluff about some kid in the Midwest who can stand on his head and spit wooden nickels . ;-)..
45nm!! good Lord does (can) the general public even begin to imagine the scale of these things, I'm just amazed at how small these things are getting!
Thank (whomsoever) for competition!
P.S. My Fav is AMD
In Windows if something pisses you off, you bitch about it and if you bitch loud enough and if enough other people bitch about the same thing, then in several months or a year (maybe) MS will fix it.
In Linux if something pisses you off, you can fix it yourself or contact the developer directly and talk about (or collaborate on) a fix!
Linux good
Windows bad
Wash in river, beat on rock, dry in sun, make clean!
Greedy fuckers, Psycho greedy fuckers!
I don't (won't) buy anything that appears in ad banners, pop-ups, spam or scrolling java "floaters".