Ha! You ARE kiddeez, yet! You should have seen the blatant LIES they shoved at us in the 60's about the evils of drugs, ever seen the movie "Reefer Madness"? Well, the anti-drug propaganda in the 60's was not far removed from that. "Just Say No" was the epitome of sophistication by comparison. Forty years ago it was all about "smoke the evil marijuana and you will kill your parents after the first puff!", or take acid and you'd be in an insane asylum for the rest of your life. "...anti-drug propaganda in schools is as bad now as it ever has been." Right... On yer bike!
"sometimes it's better to be pretty than smart." is one quote from a post, and "Microsoft spends millions on UI" is another quote from another post. I say that MacOS X is both pretty AND smart, and MS spends MINUTES copying its GUI from Apple, always has been the case.
In the darkest 1950s Cold War hysteria, when U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wi., was demanding that Congress toss aside the Constitution in order to hunt down the agents of his "red menace," a move was made by the Republican attorney general of the United States to expand the the use of information gathered through wiretapping in cases of espionage and sabotage. The proposal required Senate approval, which seemed assured as the shadow of McCarthyism hung heavy over the Capitol.
One senator, Wayne Morse, a Republican senator from the state of Oregon, stood alone in opposition to increased use of wiretaps on the phone lines of those suspected of subversion. Wiretapping phones was, Morse said, "a police state tactic." When the attorney general pressed his case before the Senate, Morse countered that, "I am shocked that an attorney general of the United States should believe Gestapo methods are needed in detecting Gestapo elements."
At every turn, and at considerable political cost, the Oregon senator fought the wiretapping plan. And his relentless defense of the right to privacy paid off. As Morse's biographer, Mason Drukman, recalls, "the bill ultimately died in the Judiciary Committee, one of the few measures of its kind to fail during the McCarthy era."
Morse's battle against the wiretapping scheme was recalled this week when, in an equally hysterical moment, the Senate was again asked to massively increase the ability of a Republican attorney general to wiretap phones -- and, now, Internet communications. Again, one senator stood up to the rush to rip of the Constitution.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's courageous moves to challenge the most irresponsible and unnecessary components of Attorney General John Ashcroft's "anti-terrorism" agenda won him few friends in the Senate. The Wisconsin Democrat broke not just with Republicans but with the overwhelming majority of fellow Senate Democrats -- who were willing to sacrifice fundamental rights on the altar of Ashcroft's ambition.
Ashcroft and his Senate allies have been promoting a grab bag of police-state proposals that will do little to reduce the threat of terrorism, while doing much to increase the threat to civil liberties. In addition to seeking permission to conduct "roving wiretaps," the Ashcroft proposal was written to permit greatly expanded computer surveillance, and to permit government agents to secretly search private homes.
Sure, that does make sense, IF you buy the lie about needing a nat'l ID in the first place, which I do not. Think for a minute... What sort of gov't/society is associated with the phrase, usually uttered in a curt and demanding tone, "papers, please"? Eh?
Benjamin Franklin said it BEST (I paraphrase here): he who would relinquish some of his liberties in the name of protecting freedom deserves NEITHER. And, NEVER think that "it can't happen here"... are you so naive as to believe that one morning Jews in Germany woke up to find their country changed completely? What happened in Germany did NOT happen overnight.
Benjamin Franklin once said, and I am paraphrasing here, that anyone who would give up any of his civil liberties in the defense of freedom deserves NEITHER. And another well-known commie pinko subversive by the name of Thomas Jefferson once said, and again I paraphrase, that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance against those who would take our freedoms away.
Sign O' The Times... ClearChannel is a tragically disgraceful company with troglodytic management and they treat their employees like slaves and worse... ClearChannel is gobbling up radio stations like they were Cheetos...You Could Look It Up... just another reason to BOYCOTT any radio station owned by ClearChannel.
much as i enjoy using Macs, Moto is unreliable, they have had trouble ramping up in the past and i expect nothing to be different now... a trail of broken promises
"I wonder how long it would have taken Hitler to conquer the world if Slashdot editors were in charge." Now THERE'S a rational remark if I ever heard one. You have a brain, use it, if only for your own sake. Thomas Jefferson said "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance". Now more than ever that statement has currency, vigilance in every sense of the word, and not least vigilance in protecting our civil liberties... should we give up our liberties piecemeal, we have already lost the battle to these unspeakably evil terrorists.
NO... this call to vigilance in protecting the civil liberties of the citizens of the USA is totally patriotic, PERIOD. Rather, your rant is driven by raw emotion and not by thoughtfulness.
I received the email from egghead.com informing me of the issue and the opportunity to opt out of having my info sold over to Fry's... THE OPT OUT DID NOT WORK, I received email notification that the opt out email failed to reach its specified destination, and therefore my choice to opt out was not registered. There is an 800 number that may or may not work, it was listed at egghead's opt out webpage...
QT has not even so much as flinched or hiccupped much less crashed my Macs in so damn long I can not recall the last time it caused me any grief... It is as troublefree a piece of software as I can think of... But go ahead, parade your lack of ability to make your OS work with you instead of against you, it's amusing.
"...rather like college students in dorms or off-campus housing quietly setting up home networks off one cable line, instead of doing the honest thing and letting the ISP know what they're up to." Hmm, yes, well... being far past the college age myself, I have DSL and a router and more than one computer in my home, need I say more? OK, I will: though the ToS posted at my ISP's website *somewhat* clearly states it is acceptable to setup a home network that shares my DSL connection, I have not been forthcoming at all with my ISP (btw, it's earthlink) in this regard... they are not advised by me that there are four computers sharing that DSL connection in my home. I say fuck 'em, it's none of their damn business...
and whoever posted the comment to which i am responding is obviously a semi-literate troglodyte that has the greatest difficulty discerning his anal orifice from a hole in the ground... have a nice goddamn day.
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Ha! You ARE kiddeez, yet! You should have seen the blatant LIES they shoved at us in the 60's about the evils of drugs, ever seen the movie "Reefer Madness"? Well, the anti-drug propaganda in the 60's was not far removed from that. "Just Say No" was the epitome of sophistication by comparison. Forty years ago it was all about "smoke the evil marijuana and you will kill your parents after the first puff!", or take acid and you'd be in an insane asylum for the rest of your life. "...anti-drug propaganda in schools is as bad now as it ever has been." Right... On yer bike!
"sometimes it's better to be pretty than smart." is one quote from a post, and "Microsoft spends millions on UI" is another quote from another post. I say that MacOS X is both pretty AND smart, and MS spends MINUTES copying its GUI from Apple, always has been the case.
In the darkest 1950s Cold War hysteria, when U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy, R-Wi., was demanding that Congress toss aside the Constitution in order to hunt down the agents of his "red menace," a move was made by the Republican attorney general of the United States to expand the the use of information gathered through wiretapping in cases of espionage and sabotage. The proposal required Senate approval, which seemed assured as the shadow of McCarthyism hung heavy over the Capitol.
One senator, Wayne Morse, a Republican senator from the state of Oregon, stood alone in opposition to increased use of wiretaps on the phone lines of those suspected of subversion. Wiretapping phones was, Morse said, "a police state tactic." When the attorney general pressed his case before the Senate, Morse countered that, "I am shocked that an attorney general of the United States should believe Gestapo methods are needed in detecting Gestapo elements."
At every turn, and at considerable political cost, the Oregon senator fought the wiretapping plan. And his relentless defense of the right to privacy paid off. As Morse's biographer, Mason Drukman, recalls, "the bill ultimately died in the Judiciary Committee, one of the few measures of its kind to fail during the McCarthy era."
Morse's battle against the wiretapping scheme was recalled this week when, in an equally hysterical moment, the Senate was again asked to massively increase the ability of a Republican attorney general to wiretap phones -- and, now, Internet communications. Again, one senator stood up to the rush to rip of the Constitution.
U.S. Sen. Russ Feingold's courageous moves to challenge the most irresponsible and unnecessary components of Attorney General John Ashcroft's "anti-terrorism" agenda won him few friends in the Senate. The Wisconsin Democrat broke not just with Republicans but with the overwhelming majority of fellow Senate Democrats -- who were willing to sacrifice fundamental rights on the altar of Ashcroft's ambition.
Ashcroft and his Senate allies have been promoting a grab bag of police-state proposals that will do little to reduce the threat of terrorism, while doing much to increase the threat to civil liberties. In addition to seeking permission to conduct "roving wiretaps," the Ashcroft proposal was written to permit greatly expanded computer surveillance, and to permit government agents to secretly search private homes.
read more: http://www.thenation.com/thebeat/
Sure, that does make sense, IF you buy the lie about needing a nat'l ID in the first place, which I do not. Think for a minute... What sort of gov't/society is associated with the phrase, usually uttered in a curt and demanding tone, "papers, please"? Eh?
Odd, my dog has a friend named Allah...
Benjamin Franklin said it BEST (I paraphrase here): he who would relinquish some of his liberties in the name of protecting freedom deserves NEITHER. And, NEVER think that "it can't happen here"... are you so naive as to believe that one morning Jews in Germany woke up to find their country changed completely? What happened in Germany did NOT happen overnight.
Benjamin Franklin once said, and I am paraphrasing here, that anyone who would give up any of his civil liberties in the defense of freedom deserves NEITHER. And another well-known commie pinko subversive by the name of Thomas Jefferson once said, and again I paraphrase, that the price of liberty is eternal vigilance against those who would take our freedoms away.
I got the last one. Sorry. They are all gone now and will be for many years to come.
Space as in "beer", or space as in "between your ears"?
to whom, etc: eat shit and die horribly, thanks.
You forgot to say that what is good for MS is good for the country and EVERY man, woman, and child. (sarcasm, ok?)
Sign O' The Times... ClearChannel is a tragically disgraceful company with troglodytic management and they treat their employees like slaves and worse... ClearChannel is gobbling up radio stations like they were Cheetos...You Could Look It Up... just another reason to BOYCOTT any radio station owned by ClearChannel.
much as i enjoy using Macs, Moto is unreliable, they have had trouble ramping up in the past and i expect nothing to be different now... a trail of broken promises
"I wonder how long it would have taken Hitler to conquer the world if Slashdot editors were in charge." Now THERE'S a rational remark if I ever heard one. You have a brain, use it, if only for your own sake. Thomas Jefferson said "the price of liberty is eternal vigilance". Now more than ever that statement has currency, vigilance in every sense of the word, and not least vigilance in protecting our civil liberties... should we give up our liberties piecemeal, we have already lost the battle to these unspeakably evil terrorists.
NO... this call to vigilance in protecting the civil liberties of the citizens of the USA is totally patriotic, PERIOD. Rather, your rant is driven by raw emotion and not by thoughtfulness.
I received the email from egghead.com informing me of the issue and the opportunity to opt out of having my info sold over to Fry's... THE OPT OUT DID NOT WORK, I received email notification that the opt out email failed to reach its specified destination, and therefore my choice to opt out was not registered. There is an 800 number that may or may not work, it was listed at egghead's opt out webpage...
QT has not even so much as flinched or hiccupped much less crashed my Macs in so damn long I can not recall the last time it caused me any grief... It is as troublefree a piece of software as I can think of... But go ahead, parade your lack of ability to make your OS work with you instead of against you, it's amusing.
"...rather like college students in dorms or off-campus housing quietly setting up home networks off one cable line, instead of doing the honest thing and letting the ISP know what they're up to." Hmm, yes, well... being far past the college age myself, I have DSL and a router and more than one computer in my home, need I say more? OK, I will: though the ToS posted at my ISP's website *somewhat* clearly states it is acceptable to setup a home network that shares my DSL connection, I have not been forthcoming at all with my ISP (btw, it's earthlink) in this regard... they are not advised by me that there are four computers sharing that DSL connection in my home. I say fuck 'em, it's none of their damn business...
Michael Coyle of ResExcellence.com says YDL (yellowdoglinux) is nice... check his site for more info on this matter...
never trust a person who reads comic books, and never trust a person who has no vices...
Stop this goddamned nightmare brave new world merry-go-round... I want to get off...
ONE BUTTON MICE? we are talking laptops here, moron... i guess that fact escaped you.
and whoever posted the comment to which i am responding is obviously a semi-literate troglodyte that has the greatest difficulty discerning his anal orifice from a hole in the ground... have a nice goddamn day.
you are a despicable liar and FUDster, now, crawl back under your damn rock and STAY THERE. thanks.
extra features? not. TiPowerBook has the best feature set at the pricepoint it is going for , PERIOD. AND IT PLAYS DVD's dammit