Stratfor's a joke, but the powers that be take them seriously. That makes them a serious threat. Wikileaks, exposing this joke, helps to diffuse that threat. This is not complicated.
That's exactly what they want. They want to drown out legitimate debate. When the people involved in that debate revolt, they get to bring down the hammer on them. And then they get to smear their political enemies as lawless.
This is exactly what we saw them do with OWS last fall. But this time the muting is literal, instead of using a media blitz to drown out the real message with confused ones.
we have probably the most polarized elections in recent history coming.
No we don't. We have a corporatist versus a corporatist. If there were going to be a polarized election, we'd actually have to have candidates with, you know, different policies.
the reason you have expensive fuel is your own fault. You elect governments that keep the price artificially high in order to discourage cars and shovel people into mass transit
Ah, then we should repeal gas taxes, encourage cars, and shoot demand through the roof. That will reduce gas prices, right?
Setting up Linux to print to any decent office printer is usually a very simple affair: just find the printer, then select the manufacturer and model from the huge lists provided by CUPS, and off you go.
Unless it doesn't. My HP LaserJet 1300n hasn't printed in weeks. I did all that, got the printer installed in CUPS and printed a test page. It got an error building the PDF. Try to print from any other application, including lp, and it sits there 'processing' indefinitely. Doesn't even throw an error I can track down.
The GPs comment was just about the kindest thing he could say. If English is your second language, then articles will be hard for you. That's OK, there was no scorn in the GP post. It was purely informational, and useful.
The alternative is to let ESL speakers use articles incorrectly forever. I don't think that's very kind at all.
At some point a privileged operation more than likely has to take place.
Why? Chances are the printer is hooked up via the network port or the USB port. I can access network services without root access. And I can plug in other USB devices and use them without root.
Why should he have to do that? Why isn't it sufficient to add the user to the 'lp' group? There's no reason that printing should require root access at all.
Sure you're corrupt. You've been subjected to decades of baseless anti-drug propaganda. There are no arguments for cannabis prohibition that are both well meaning and well informed. None. They simply don't exist. I note that you fail to make one here.
If things like reason and science had any weight in our society, Cannabis would have been decriminalized on the recommendation of the LaGuardia committee almost 70 years ago. This is proof that what's wrong with the US isn't just restricted to the decade since 9/11. It's a deep systemic problem that will require deep systemic solutions.
clang is on the roadmap for several BSDs and now is default on Minix.
It will be nice if people start to realize that their code needs to compile on things other than GCC. These days you can't even compile a lot of software if you have a different version of GCC than the author did.
9/11 was not the turning point you make it out to bee. Long before 9/11 the American people tolerated the government imprisoning people for asserting control over their own biochemistry. How can there be freedom left to lose when you're not even sovereign over your own body and mind?
If we had a functioning system, explain to me the war on drug users. The only way to explain the legal situation around Cannabis is corruption, and it's the same kind of corruption that we're rife with today. Law enforcement (Anslinger) teaming up with industry and media (Hearst) to fear monger the public into supporting policies that don't benefit anyone except the powerful.
No, if we ever had a functioning system Cannabis prohibition would have been recognized as the atrocity it is decades ago.
This is about sight lines. The problem it's trying to solve is backing up over someone who's too short & too close to be seen over the back of the car even if you *do* look in the mirror.
I have an easier solution to this problem. If you're that short, and behind a running vehicle, get out of the way!
No, a handful of drone strikes in Libya and Somalia don't count.
I think if a drone struck your home, you might have a different opinion on whether that's an act of war. Although, Libya would be a rather minor transgression, if he hadn't violated the War Powers Act by staying there past the deadline.
He did end the war in Iraq and is ending the war in Afghanistan.
Yeah, he ended the Iraq War on the exact date Bush set, and was trying to stay longer. If you're happy that the Iraq war is over, you can thank the Iraqis for kicking us out. Obama had nothing to do with it.
I'll believe that Obama is ending the Afghanistan war when the Afghanistan war actually ends. He could have left when he killed OBL. I don't know what he's waiting for, but it's unlikely it will ever come. Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. Cut and run at the first opportunity is the only reasonable option.
Yes, BHO killed OBL, but he's also killed american citizens. Even juveniles. I'm far more frightened of living in an America where the president can have citizens assassinated with no oversight or detained without habeas corpus than I am of living in the same world as OBL.
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Stratfor's a joke, but the powers that be take them seriously. That makes them a serious threat. Wikileaks, exposing this joke, helps to diffuse that threat. This is not complicated.
One man's "work together" is another mans "conspire to deprive civil liberties under color of law".
The laws for when and under what circumstances police may issue a dispersal order vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction
The First Amendment right to assembly does not vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.
The rule of law doesn't work when individuals get to decide what applies to them on a whim.
The rule of law doesn't work when the authorities use the law to quash dissent either.
"They" are authoritarians. And yes, ridding ourselves of authoritarians would solve a great many of our problems.
That's exactly what they want. They want to drown out legitimate debate. When the people involved in that debate revolt, they get to bring down the hammer on them. And then they get to smear their political enemies as lawless.
This is exactly what we saw them do with OWS last fall. But this time the muting is literal, instead of using a media blitz to drown out the real message with confused ones.
we have probably the most polarized elections in recent history coming.
No we don't. We have a corporatist versus a corporatist. If there were going to be a polarized election, we'd actually have to have candidates with, you know, different policies.
the reason you have expensive fuel is your own fault. You elect governments that keep the price artificially high in order to discourage cars and shovel people into mass transit
Ah, then we should repeal gas taxes, encourage cars, and shoot demand through the roof. That will reduce gas prices, right?
the hard reality is that fossil fuels are not going away soon, thanks to technological advances such as "fracking"
The hard reality is that dumping more CO2 into the atmosphere will cook us all.
dump the swap, you don't need it
I tried this on my laptop with a gig of ram. I started losing X to the oom killer once in a while.
Setting up Linux to print to any decent office printer is usually a very simple affair: just find the printer, then select the manufacturer and model from the huge lists provided by CUPS, and off you go.
Unless it doesn't. My HP LaserJet 1300n hasn't printed in weeks. I did all that, got the printer installed in CUPS and printed a test page. It got an error building the PDF. Try to print from any other application, including lp, and it sits there 'processing' indefinitely. Doesn't even throw an error I can track down.
The GPs comment was just about the kindest thing he could say. If English is your second language, then articles will be hard for you. That's OK, there was no scorn in the GP post. It was purely informational, and useful.
The alternative is to let ESL speakers use articles incorrectly forever. I don't think that's very kind at all.
At some point a privileged operation more than likely has to take place.
Why? Chances are the printer is hooked up via the network port or the USB port. I can access network services without root access. And I can plug in other USB devices and use them without root.
So, is there a reason not to use uClibc and BusyBox on a desktop distro?
Why should he have to do that? Why isn't it sufficient to add the user to the 'lp' group? There's no reason that printing should require root access at all.
Sure you're corrupt. You've been subjected to decades of baseless anti-drug propaganda. There are no arguments for cannabis prohibition that are both well meaning and well informed. None. They simply don't exist. I note that you fail to make one here.
If things like reason and science had any weight in our society, Cannabis would have been decriminalized on the recommendation of the LaGuardia committee almost 70 years ago. This is proof that what's wrong with the US isn't just restricted to the decade since 9/11. It's a deep systemic problem that will require deep systemic solutions.
clang is on the roadmap for several BSDs and now is default on Minix.
It will be nice if people start to realize that their code needs to compile on things other than GCC. These days you can't even compile a lot of software if you have a different version of GCC than the author did.
9/11 was not the turning point you make it out to bee. Long before 9/11 the American people tolerated the government imprisoning people for asserting control over their own biochemistry. How can there be freedom left to lose when you're not even sovereign over your own body and mind?
If we had a functioning system, explain to me the war on drug users. The only way to explain the legal situation around Cannabis is corruption, and it's the same kind of corruption that we're rife with today. Law enforcement (Anslinger) teaming up with industry and media (Hearst) to fear monger the public into supporting policies that don't benefit anyone except the powerful.
No, if we ever had a functioning system Cannabis prohibition would have been recognized as the atrocity it is decades ago.
I can't see the child behind my rear wheel, but his parent can. If he's too negligent to look, make him pay for the camera.
I'll think of the children when their parents pay for it.
Amplitude and frequency are orthogonal. Changing the frequency of sampling does nothing to the amplitude.
This is about sight lines. The problem it's trying to solve is backing up over someone who's too short & too close to be seen over the back of the car even if you *do* look in the mirror.
I have an easier solution to this problem. If you're that short, and behind a running vehicle, get out of the way!
Just because it was shot in widescreen doesn't mean it was directed to look good in widescreen.
Sorry, I haven't seen that show so I missed the reference. I've heard that show is good.
It's not.
No, a handful of drone strikes in Libya and Somalia don't count.
I think if a drone struck your home, you might have a different opinion on whether that's an act of war. Although, Libya would be a rather minor transgression, if he hadn't violated the War Powers Act by staying there past the deadline.
He did end the war in Iraq and is ending the war in Afghanistan.
Yeah, he ended the Iraq War on the exact date Bush set, and was trying to stay longer. If you're happy that the Iraq war is over, you can thank the Iraqis for kicking us out. Obama had nothing to do with it.
I'll believe that Obama is ending the Afghanistan war when the Afghanistan war actually ends. He could have left when he killed OBL. I don't know what he's waiting for, but it's unlikely it will ever come. Afghanistan is the graveyard of empires. Cut and run at the first opportunity is the only reasonable option.
Yes, BHO killed OBL, but he's also killed american citizens. Even juveniles. I'm far more frightened of living in an America where the president can have citizens assassinated with no oversight or detained without habeas corpus than I am of living in the same world as OBL.
Reality conflicts with your apologetics.