Actually, if you take the time to read Dean's platform, you'll find he's got quite a sound fiscal policy, and knows that he will have to tighten the pursestrings to get us back on a balanced budget. Can he win with a platform that might call on Americans to *gasp* sacrifice? Will be interesting to see.
And I don't know what point you were trying to make, nor your political leanings, but wouldn't you charecterize Bush as doing exactly what you decry? He's spent our hard earned tax dollars to give a tax cut to his cronies, and then turned around and started an expensive war that we'll all be bankrolling for years to come.
Well no shit. But at the same time he gives back huge sums to the wealthiest of the wealthy, and drives us further into recession, and wrecks what was once a balanced budget, he's asking those of us actually paying taxes to bankroll the war he got us in so he could help the same wealthy buddies he just gave a handout to.
Man, what a sentence =D
Paying taxes is the price you pay to be a part of our society. Why everyone gets in a huff about it just seems silly to me. Many of my coworkers say they vote Republican because they want lower taxes. My (silent) question to them: Don't you give a fuck about the legacy - our country, our world, our oceans, our sky - you leave for your kids?
As you can see, I have strong opinions of my own, that probably don't align with yours, but what the hey =)
Yup, but at least those laws maintained some semblence of standing up to the Consitution. And it was a continuation of the policies every administration has had on the War on Drugs(R). Although I'm curious... While I'm aware Clinton raised the budget for the WoD more than any previous administration, are you referring perhaps to any laws that passed under his watch?
Not offended, parent was a troll. And yea, as an American I have to wonder the same thing myself.
Funny how murder is acceptable somehow when it is a cluster bomblet blowing up some A-rab kid... Yea, war is a bitch, but you would think people would at least find it difficult to rationalize it.
Whoever modded this troll is a turd. Isn't everyone on/. aware of our aversion to Flash by now? Oh yea, we're all (mostly) Windows weenies =D. Hint to the Windows users: Flash player on Linux sucks.
I recently setup a file server at home, in an old AT tower case. I just bought some of those hard drive coolers from a random website - 7 bucks a piece I think - and hooked those up. The drives are all in 5 1/4 inch bays, and I used those mounting brackets that come with most hard drives to hook them up. Fans are going to make your server noisy though, so that has to be taken into consideration. In my case, the 24 port rackmount switch makes more noise than anything, so I didn't mind =). 3 160GB drives + linux + EVMS == 320GB of RAID 5 volume managed lovin'
Actually, as the linked article points out, touch screens have a higher rate of error compared to punch cards and optical scans. They linked to a study that showed this, but I'm too lazy to.
Journyx Timesheet is a nice, lightweight product, and we just rolled it out at my company. An OSS plus is that it is written in Python, although I believe it is compiled. It is webbased, and uses anything you can hook up via ODBC for the back end. We run it on a beefy desktop and it is responsive enough for 70-some users. Not affiliated, just a satisfied customer and all that jazz.
Granted, a couple years ago we were a startup, and we still kind of are, but I still wear a lot of hats.
My official role in IT is 'Linux Administrator', but I admin Windows, Linux, and Solaris boxes, as well as making sure anything that plugs in is working (has included the coffee machine at times =P).
At one point I was also working for marketing as an 'Application Analyst', which basically meant researching and deploying software on our wireless network (as well as just being marketing's bitch).
Then I was just IT again. And now I also work for our engineering department doing systems integration. Our product is a wireless networking product, so my knowledge of IP and networking in general is quite useful.
We're about 75 employees, nothin huge, so I guess it is to be expected that we all do work outside our job description. Our IT needs are fairly low, and limited mostly to putting out fires, due in no small part to the software and general network design we have in place. Everything pretty much just works. So while my other jobs affect my IT work, it isn't too big a deal.
The mainstream Democrats are a bunch of pussies, who worry more about catching political flak than justice.
And I call bullshit on your claim. Follow the money. Katherine Harris was a shill for the GOP, and the company she hired to purge the rolls of "felons" did a piss poor job. Or more accurately, did a great job of purging the rolls of Democratic voters.
Accordingly, this "black box" voting scares the shit out of me.
In Florida, though, stupidity wasn't the only factor. Thousands of legitimate, predominantly black, voters were turned away from polls. Of course, shortly thereafter, we were being told we should all unite in support of our new king^W president. And shortly thereafter that 9/11 happened, and we all forgot about that election shit.
I made a previous post about it, but I feel this deserves reiterating: Voting systems are a perfect example of why open source is vital to keeping us free.
Then again... I see this almost as a copout. If government is to be truely transparent, if the encryption scheme is truely unbreakable, then the machine's code should be open source and subject to public scrutiny.
Of course, there is always a large gap between my ideals and reality =D. This just happens to be one instance where I can see how RMS has it right in ways.
Yea, and we could refer to it as "State's Rights", and (neo)conservatives could pay lip service to it!
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Do you pay for health insurance at all? Did your rates go up yet again this year? Then care to tell me how the government can do worse?
The system Dean has proposed is basically the same as the system that covers government employees, and from what he says, the system they implemented at Vermont is cheaper than the equivelent coverage from a private company.
It is easy to blow off universal health care when you have it. My (single) mom often didn't have insurance when I was growing up. Spend a night with an inner ear infection because you can't afford to go to the doctor then tell me the worst thing you can imagine is the goverment spending a couple of your tax dollars giving a poor kid medical care.
Well as an example: A coworker and I discuss the sorry state of politics in this country often, and often he lamented that his parents and relatives in general were oblivious to what Bush & Co were up to. But just recently his mom sent him a story about a man who lived near them, who got questioned by the FBI after someone spotted him reading something "subversive" in a coffeeshop. It was an email his father had sent him, titled "Weapons of Mass Stupidity" or something similar. I seemed to recall having a similar email forwarded to me. Well this scared the hell out of his mom, since my friend had sent the same article to her!
In this case, it was the fact that someone local to their area was directly affected by inane legislation and the general climate of fear in this country, and how close to home it hit.
I'm fortunate in that my mom is a child of the 60s to begin with, so my passion for the truth I just inherited from her. I don't have as much trouble showing her the light =D.
While my comment was obviously inflammatory - and I find it just as absurd it got modded up - I was just blown away by the parent's assumption that any government policy can't have too much bite because bureaucracy will keep it reigned in. People blew off Ashcroft's detractors as alarmist, but look at the state of civil rights in the US now.
The fact that very few politicians voiced an opposition or even a word of caution is just another example of the sorry state of politics these days. Everyone is so worried about being demonized in the press that they dare not say a word, until the tide of public opinion sways of course.
While I'm well aware that the Republicans aren't the only ones to push inane national security initiatives, I'm just as apt to think that people who vote straight Republican don't give a second thought to the effect they have. And now we've ended up with a bunch of crazed right-wind loonies ruling the GOP and the country. That is dangerous for freedom, but I don't think anyone cares anymore.
As cynical as I am, it's not as dismal as it seems. I find once I find something that strikes the right chord with a friend or family member, they get it, and what's more they tend to be very indignant because it was right under their noses.
I resent Christians who think that I have to live the same life they do, and feel pity for the hole in their lives that they have to fill with religion. Hate isn't the right word.
Right, and Dems are the ones who are "deficit spenders". I bet they stop using that line come next election.
Cocksuckers.
I really want to start qualifying everyone who comes into my office for support with "do you vote straight ticket Republican? Then get the fuck out of here."
Um, arent there explicit exceptions in the comments of the GNU C libraries for exactly this reason? That was the way I understood it, from what a former coworker told me.
Downloading from p2p and buying CDs aren't mutually exclusive. It may be illegal to download a track you don't own, but if you buy the CD later are you absolved? Either way, you're a criminal.
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Actually, if you take the time to read Dean's platform, you'll find he's got quite a sound fiscal policy, and knows that he will have to tighten the pursestrings to get us back on a balanced budget. Can he win with a platform that might call on Americans to *gasp* sacrifice? Will be interesting to see.
And I don't know what point you were trying to make, nor your political leanings, but wouldn't you charecterize Bush as doing exactly what you decry? He's spent our hard earned tax dollars to give a tax cut to his cronies, and then turned around and started an expensive war that we'll all be bankrolling for years to come.
Well no shit. But at the same time he gives back huge sums to the wealthiest of the wealthy, and drives us further into recession, and wrecks what was once a balanced budget, he's asking those of us actually paying taxes to bankroll the war he got us in so he could help the same wealthy buddies he just gave a handout to.
Man, what a sentence =D
Paying taxes is the price you pay to be a part of our society. Why everyone gets in a huff about it just seems silly to me. Many of my coworkers say they vote Republican because they want lower taxes. My (silent) question to them: Don't you give a fuck about the legacy - our country, our world, our oceans, our sky - you leave for your kids?
As you can see, I have strong opinions of my own, that probably don't align with yours, but what the hey =)
Yup, but at least those laws maintained some semblence of standing up to the Consitution. And it was a continuation of the policies every administration has had on the War on Drugs(R). Although I'm curious... While I'm aware Clinton raised the budget for the WoD more than any previous administration, are you referring perhaps to any laws that passed under his watch?
Not offended, parent was a troll. And yea, as an American I have to wonder the same thing myself.
Funny how murder is acceptable somehow when it is a cluster bomblet blowing up some A-rab kid... Yea, war is a bitch, but you would think people would at least find it difficult to rationalize it.
Whoever modded this troll is a turd. Isn't everyone on /. aware of our aversion to Flash by now? Oh yea, we're all (mostly) Windows weenies =D. Hint to the Windows users: Flash player on Linux sucks.
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I recently setup a file server at home, in an old AT tower case. I just bought some of those hard drive coolers from a random website - 7 bucks a piece I think - and hooked those up. The drives are all in 5 1/4 inch bays, and I used those mounting brackets that come with most hard drives to hook them up. Fans are going to make your server noisy though, so that has to be taken into consideration. In my case, the 24 port rackmount switch makes more noise than anything, so I didn't mind =). 3 160GB drives + linux + EVMS == 320GB of RAID 5 volume managed lovin'
Actually, as the linked article points out, touch screens have a higher rate of error compared to punch cards and optical scans. They linked to a study that showed this, but I'm too lazy to.
Journyx Timesheet is a nice, lightweight product, and we just rolled it out at my company. An OSS plus is that it is written in Python, although I believe it is compiled. It is webbased, and uses anything you can hook up via ODBC for the back end. We run it on a beefy desktop and it is responsive enough for 70-some users. Not affiliated, just a satisfied customer and all that jazz.
Granted, a couple years ago we were a startup, and we still kind of are, but I still wear a lot of hats.
My official role in IT is 'Linux Administrator', but I admin Windows, Linux, and Solaris boxes, as well as making sure anything that plugs in is working (has included the coffee machine at times =P).
At one point I was also working for marketing as an 'Application Analyst', which basically meant researching and deploying software on our wireless network (as well as just being marketing's bitch).
Then I was just IT again. And now I also work for our engineering department doing systems integration. Our product is a wireless networking product, so my knowledge of IP and networking in general is quite useful.
We're about 75 employees, nothin huge, so I guess it is to be expected that we all do work outside our job description. Our IT needs are fairly low, and limited mostly to putting out fires, due in no small part to the software and general network design we have in place. Everything pretty much just works. So while my other jobs affect my IT work, it isn't too big a deal.
The mainstream Democrats are a bunch of pussies, who worry more about catching political flak than justice.
And I call bullshit on your claim. Follow the money. Katherine Harris was a shill for the GOP, and the company she hired to purge the rolls of "felons" did a piss poor job. Or more accurately, did a great job of purging the rolls of Democratic voters.
Accordingly, this "black box" voting scares the shit out of me.
What is to delegitimize? No election took place.
In Florida, though, stupidity wasn't the only factor. Thousands of legitimate, predominantly black, voters were turned away from polls. Of course, shortly thereafter, we were being told we should all unite in support of our new king^W president. And shortly thereafter that 9/11 happened, and we all forgot about that election shit.
I made a previous post about it, but I feel this deserves reiterating: Voting systems are a perfect example of why open source is vital to keeping us free.
WiFiPods!?! Sign me up!
Then again... I see this almost as a copout. If government is to be truely transparent, if the encryption scheme is truely unbreakable, then the machine's code should be open source and subject to public scrutiny.
Of course, there is always a large gap between my ideals and reality =D. This just happens to be one instance where I can see how RMS has it right in ways.
Yea, and we could refer to it as "State's Rights", and (neo)conservatives could pay lip service to it!
Do you pay for health insurance at all? Did your rates go up yet again this year? Then care to tell me how the government can do worse?
The system Dean has proposed is basically the same as the system that covers government employees, and from what he says, the system they implemented at Vermont is cheaper than the equivelent coverage from a private company.
It is easy to blow off universal health care when you have it. My (single) mom often didn't have insurance when I was growing up. Spend a night with an inner ear infection because you can't afford to go to the doctor then tell me the worst thing you can imagine is the goverment spending a couple of your tax dollars giving a poor kid medical care.
Well as an example: A coworker and I discuss the sorry state of politics in this country often, and often he lamented that his parents and relatives in general were oblivious to what Bush & Co were up to. But just recently his mom sent him a story about a man who lived near them, who got questioned by the FBI after someone spotted him reading something "subversive" in a coffeeshop. It was an email his father had sent him, titled "Weapons of Mass Stupidity" or something similar. I seemed to recall having a similar email forwarded to me. Well this scared the hell out of his mom, since my friend had sent the same article to her!
In this case, it was the fact that someone local to their area was directly affected by inane legislation and the general climate of fear in this country, and how close to home it hit.
I'm fortunate in that my mom is a child of the 60s to begin with, so my passion for the truth I just inherited from her. I don't have as much trouble showing her the light =D.
While my comment was obviously inflammatory - and I find it just as absurd it got modded up - I was just blown away by the parent's assumption that any government policy can't have too much bite because bureaucracy will keep it reigned in. People blew off Ashcroft's detractors as alarmist, but look at the state of civil rights in the US now.
The fact that very few politicians voiced an opposition or even a word of caution is just another example of the sorry state of politics these days. Everyone is so worried about being demonized in the press that they dare not say a word, until the tide of public opinion sways of course.
While I'm well aware that the Republicans aren't the only ones to push inane national security initiatives, I'm just as apt to think that people who vote straight Republican don't give a second thought to the effect they have. And now we've ended up with a bunch of crazed right-wind loonies ruling the GOP and the country. That is dangerous for freedom, but I don't think anyone cares anymore.
As cynical as I am, it's not as dismal as it seems. I find once I find something that strikes the right chord with a friend or family member, they get it, and what's more they tend to be very indignant because it was right under their noses.
Right, unless it involves "suspected terrorists", then you don't even need a warrent.
Thanks for Ashcroft, asshat. You obviously vote Republican.
I resent Christians who think that I have to live the same life they do, and feel pity for the hole in their lives that they have to fill with religion. Hate isn't the right word.
Cultural, like being American? After all, America was found guilty of committing terrorist acts in Nicaragua.
So YOU stop being a dope, dumbass. Extremism can happen in any culture, just ask the folks in Oklahoma if you don't believe me.
Right, and Dems are the ones who are "deficit spenders". I bet they stop using that line come next election.
Cocksuckers.
I really want to start qualifying everyone who comes into my office for support with "do you vote straight ticket Republican? Then get the fuck out of here."
Um, arent there explicit exceptions in the comments of the GNU C libraries for exactly this reason? That was the way I understood it, from what a former coworker told me.
Downloading from p2p and buying CDs aren't mutually exclusive. It may be illegal to download a track you don't own, but if you buy the CD later are you absolved? Either way, you're a criminal.