Rich people don't get to be rich by wasting money. Ah, so true. But there are tons of people who may have rode their coat-tails: 1. Wives, ex-wives 2. Children 3. Fortunate business associates, who do not share that skill set
Unless we're talking about a millionaire recluse, his wealth may have enriched a large number of idiots!
Honestly, I think unless medically necessary, circumcising a child of any gender should be illegal. Perhaps you are not aware, but this would outlaw Judaism among other religions.
Why be such an extremist?
I take it you haven't seen the common botch jobs on circumcision? Have you?
Isn't it enough to publicize your objection to routine (non-religious and non-medical) male circumcision so that parents can decide on their own? What could possibly motivate you to ban it outright?
Ummm... doesn't the NATO security shield, left since the last time the U.S. and U.K. had to invade Europe, make up the "prepare for war" part of the European peace? And isn't the free security it provides the continent the main reason that we get to hear these over-protected adolescent political ideas coming from there.
I'm all for the E.U. economic (and military) bonds obviating the need for a large U.S. force there, but let's not confuse cause and effect.
I'm not sure if I feel sorry for these people or myself. These people will be dead in 30-40 years so not see the worse of it, I on the other hand have another 50-60 if I keep myself in a good condition. If the current models are correct I should exprience quite extreme weather by the time I get old enough for a brisk cold to be quite risky for my heatlh..
If the current models are NOT correct, I hope you are man enough to admit you were wrong. It's a very rare quality in these sorts of doomsday-believing groups. When the world mysteriously fails to end, the big day is always rescheduled.
Hey guess what pal, when someone makes something for free, they are not necessarily going to stay motivated to keep fixing the problems you find in it, after the point that it works for them and all their friends.
I hate to break it to everyone, but ESR's old formulation of hacker "gift-culture" motivations BREAK DOWN right at the point of this essay -- when interacting with people outside the culture.
Why dont open source programmers stay motivated to meet the needs of people unlike them? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING PAID. These people will not in turn make great software for the hackers, or even likely learn their names or offer them any respect. They will just bitch, and then use other software. No reward is offered.
That was one of the most insightful comments on mass-distribution of political opinion that I've ever heard anywhere, never mind Slashdot...
Also very apropos to last Tues. nights elections, which has spawned a power struggle in the Democrat party to decide whether to try to bring their increasingly leftist base to the center, or to bring their centrist leadership left.
The distribution of extreme beliefs among populations and reflections back on widely held beliefs should definitely be studied.
Same here. Like they say about philosophy majors, they are not in search of truth but rather of argument. OS X is the thing for now, anyone who has used it knows this.
My G3 iBook is the most reliable & most fun to use computer I've ever owned. And I use Win2K on my desktop, with Netware & Linux servers on the back-end. I have very few complaints about OS X (save for some performance issues which I'm sure will be fixed with 10.2 - you realize OS X hasn't even been out two years??) and eagerly look forward to buying more software for it simply because the experience is That Good. I realize now that I have nothing to complain about; I didn't like Windows or Linux, so I set out to find a better solution. I found it.
End of story.
I thought "If it means the death of factory-made shit like you cram down our throats every day, I'm going to start downloading files now.... and not even listen to them! Ha ha ha! You mean I won't be able to hear Nelly Furtado if I steal her music? PROMISE???!!!!"
This is unfair. She is a really incredibly good, self-writing, self-arranging young musician, i think one of the best and most credible and emotionally communicative musicians in all of what could be called hip-hop. Honestly, what the hell is so bad about having her on the radio? Just change the station!
Since Canada isn't ruled by arrogant fuckwits like you, the rest of the world doesn't hate Canada like they do the US, so no one's going to be flying planes into Canadian buildings.
5 bucks says it happens one day, because Canada exists financially, militarily, and culturally with the western world. I think it's a very safe bet.
NO, the US is attacking them. Someone committed a crime, not and act of war, and the US is responding by making war.
its always wrong.
Ah hah. Fuck you and your "not an act of war". I pray that when islamic terrorism begins on Canadian soil you will survive but lose your family to their justified "committing of a crime".
"Slaughter of Muslims in Israel"? Do you know any of Israel's history? Every major land grab of Arab nations' lands was in response to a war ON ALL SIDES from every arab nation dedicated to killing off the jews. Just because in this case Israel won does not make them automatically more guilty than their enemies.
What I hate about you is your MORAL EQUIVALENCY - Israel wrestling with a difficult domestic unrest is morally equivalent to South African apartheid. Israel's remarkably democratic government is equivalent to any arab muslim dictatorship. Any act of war by America is equivalent to slaughter of innocent civilians by definition.
I say, fuck you. I hope it's your family next when they get biological weapons. Then we'll see whether you think war is justified.
If you wanted them to hand over bin laden you would have shown them the evidence.
I know you're a troll, but this shows a common misunderstanding of national security intelligence concerns that needs to be addressed. The Taliban are in league with the enemy. Showing them "evidence" would reveal how and where and when we are watching them and their allies conduct terrorist activities, which would give our enemies a heads up on how to avoid detection and cover their tracks. It's not like the Taliban are neutral.
...but it just worries me that there is yet antoher possible weakness in the kernel and that the NSA is the one putting it there.
You are not being reasonable. They are providing peer-reviewed well-architected security enhancements that fix almost all the hugest problems in operational security that Unix has ALWAYS had. Eventually, we will all use some version of these new ideas, because as you may have noticed, dividing processes into root/user just leads to root exploit after root exploit.
This is all GPL'd and not terribly obfuscated. I really think that you need to get these anxious feelings under control.
If it's "illegal" for a PRIVATE CITIZEN to write frigging buttons and frames that just LOOK like some corporations' product then maybe what this country needs is a good old fashioned REVOLUTION.
Buddy, take it easy. This country may need many diverse things, but what we DON'T need right now are more disaffected assholes crying revolution, of all things, because Apple wants to NOT go out of business like every other tech company.
Just relax. It will be ok, I promise. If you *really* want to make themes for free, you can innovate and invent your own damn theme that isn't a copy of a large coporation's primary product differentiator.
Virus writers aren't the brightest bunch of people.
It is easier to attack IIS which is preinstalled on their sparkly new downloaded copy of 2K than Apache on linux - both of which need an IQ point or two to use and understand.
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Hilarious!
> On Wednesday 06, 01:41 PM, SoupGuru said
> me too.
me too!
1. Wives, ex-wives
2. Children
3. Fortunate business associates, who do not share that skill set
Unless we're talking about a millionaire recluse, his wealth may have enriched a large number of idiots!
Ummm... doesn't the NATO security shield, left since the last time the U.S. and U.K. had to invade Europe, make up the "prepare for war" part of the European peace? And isn't the free security it provides the continent the main reason that we get to hear these over-protected adolescent political ideas coming from there.
I'm all for the E.U. economic (and military) bonds obviating the need for a large U.S. force there, but let's not confuse cause and effect.
Not mine.
I'm not sure if I feel sorry for these people or myself. These people will be dead in 30-40 years so not see the worse of it, I on the other hand have another 50-60 if I keep myself in a good condition. If the current models are correct I should exprience quite extreme weather by the time I get old enough for a brisk cold to be quite risky for my heatlh..
If the current models are NOT correct, I hope you are man enough to admit you were wrong. It's a very rare quality in these sorts of doomsday-believing groups. When the world mysteriously fails to end, the big day is always rescheduled.
Hey guess what pal, when someone makes something for free, they are not necessarily going to stay motivated to keep fixing the problems you find in it, after the point that it works for them and all their friends.
I hate to break it to everyone, but ESR's old formulation of hacker "gift-culture" motivations BREAK DOWN right at the point of this essay -- when interacting with people outside the culture.
Why dont open source programmers stay motivated to meet the needs of people unlike them? BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GETTING PAID. These people will not in turn make great software for the hackers, or even likely learn their names or offer them any respect. They will just bitch, and then use other software. No reward is offered.
Duh
Hell they blew up 5 buildings in NY last month alone!
Not. Not everything fits a moral equivalence, PC-ified worldview so snugly, sorry.
nt
MOD PARENT UP
That was one of the most insightful comments
on mass-distribution of political opinion that
I've ever heard anywhere, never mind Slashdot...
Also very apropos to last Tues. nights elections,
which has spawned a power struggle in the Democrat
party to decide whether to try to bring their
increasingly leftist base to the center, or to bring their centrist leadership left.
The distribution of extreme beliefs among
populations and reflections back on widely
held beliefs should definitely be studied.
Yeah, amen to that, but look at us...
reading slashdot, posting about this poor bastard...
Same here. Like they say about philosophy majors, they are not in search of truth but rather of argument. OS X is the thing for now, anyone who has used it knows this.
My G3 iBook is the most reliable & most fun to use computer I've ever owned. And I use Win2K on my desktop, with Netware & Linux servers on the back-end. I have very few complaints about OS X (save for some performance issues which I'm sure will be fixed with 10.2 - you realize OS X hasn't even been out two years??) and eagerly look forward to buying more software for it simply because the experience is That Good. I realize now that I have nothing to complain about; I didn't like Windows or Linux, so I set out to find a better solution. I found it. End of story.
Yeah, it is. How you like them apples?
I thought "If it means the death of factory-made shit like you cram down our throats every day, I'm going to start downloading files now.... and not even listen to them! Ha ha ha! You mean I won't be able to hear Nelly Furtado if I steal her music? PROMISE???!!!!"
This is unfair. She is a really incredibly good, self-writing, self-arranging young musician, i think one of the best and most credible and emotionally communicative musicians in all of what could be called hip-hop. Honestly, what the hell is so bad about having her on the radio? Just change the station!
Marc
Since Canada isn't ruled by arrogant fuckwits like you, the rest of the world doesn't hate Canada like they do the US, so no one's going to be flying planes into Canadian buildings.
5 bucks says it happens one day, because Canada exists financially, militarily, and culturally with the western world. I think it's a very safe bet.
NO, the US is attacking them. Someone committed a crime, not and act of war, and the US is responding by making war.
its always wrong.
Ah hah. Fuck you and your "not an act of war". I pray that when islamic terrorism begins on Canadian soil you will survive but lose your family to their justified "committing of a crime".
"Slaughter of Muslims in Israel"? Do you know any of Israel's history? Every major land grab of Arab nations' lands was in response to a war ON ALL SIDES from every arab nation dedicated to killing off the jews. Just because in this case Israel won does not make them automatically more guilty than their enemies.
What I hate about you is your MORAL EQUIVALENCY - Israel wrestling with a difficult domestic unrest is morally equivalent to South African apartheid. Israel's remarkably democratic government is equivalent to any arab muslim dictatorship. Any act of war by America is equivalent to slaughter of innocent civilians by definition.
I say, fuck you. I hope it's your family next when they get biological weapons. Then we'll see whether you think war is justified.
Please mod parent up to 5 so it is visible at top level
If you wanted them to hand over bin laden you would have shown them the evidence.
I know you're a troll, but this shows a common misunderstanding of national security intelligence concerns that needs to be addressed. The Taliban are in league with the enemy. Showing them "evidence" would reveal how and where and when we are watching them and their allies conduct terrorist activities, which would give our enemies a heads up on how to avoid detection and cover their tracks. It's not like the Taliban are neutral.
good comment!
...but it just worries me that there is yet antoher possible weakness in the kernel and that the NSA is the one putting it there.
You are not being reasonable. They are providing peer-reviewed well-architected security enhancements that fix almost all the hugest problems in operational security that Unix has ALWAYS had. Eventually, we will all use some version of these new ideas, because as you may have noticed, dividing processes into root/user just leads to root exploit after root exploit.
This is all GPL'd and not terribly obfuscated. I really think that you need to get these anxious feelings under control.
Marc
If it's "illegal" for a PRIVATE CITIZEN to write frigging buttons and frames that just LOOK like some corporations' product then maybe what this country needs is a good old fashioned REVOLUTION.
Buddy, take it easy. This country may need many diverse things, but what we DON'T need right now are more disaffected assholes crying revolution, of all things, because Apple wants to NOT go out of business like every other tech company.
Just relax. It will be ok, I promise. If you *really* want to make themes for free, you can innovate and invent your own damn theme that isn't a copy of a large coporation's primary product differentiator.
Virus writers aren't the brightest bunch of people.
It is easier to attack IIS which is preinstalled on their sparkly new downloaded copy of 2K than Apache on linux - both of which need an IQ point or two to use and understand.
Why pretend that virus writers are stupid?
but all the support for it's been compiled out of every bit of software on your system? Recompile everything?
Idiot.