Yes, the democrats have taken over the GOP, by moving steadily to the right for the past 30 years. Todays Democrat party is very much like the Republican party of 30 years ago. Obama is a conservative somewhere between Reagan and Nixon.
The GOP was never a party of small government, non-interventionism, and individual rights. Reagan raised taxes 11 times during his presidency. Who started the War on Drugs? Nixon coined the term, Reagan made it policy. Nixon, pre-presidency, was a hawk on Vietnam. Hell, the "Reagan Doctrine" was explicitly interventionist!
How is it that you can get the basic facts of our political history so utterly wrong, and still be 100% correct when you say this:
So as far as I am concerned, it is either Ron Paul or a big-government-pro-war-bread-and-circuses president. It does not matter whether his name will be Obama, Romney or Gingrich.
All SFLC has to do is get some patches into the kernel. Then they can sue for violation of the GPL on Linux directly, instead of using Busybox as an excuse.
The big difference is that their custom code that they would want to keep private would most likely be linked into Busybox
Do you know what Busybox is? It's your typical Unix shell environment. Do you really think Sony is developing a top secret version of 'dmesg' that they can't open source without damaging their business model? Seriously, what's the use case for a custom version of Busybox? Can you come up with one plausible idea?
If Sony wants to use Busybox with their own custom code without making their own custom code GPL, they can just compile their code as a stand alone app just like every other proprietary software house. It's that simple.
The more childish response to anybody complaining about using GPL software in a commercial environment is "if you don't like it, write your own software".
Why is that childish? Isn't that the appropriate response to anyone who doesn't like the terms of any software license?
Well, that is exactly what Sony want to do. What amazes me is how long it took for anyone to do this.
Why would they bother? What's the business case for investing developer time in this project? What does Sony lose by using stock Busybox and putting the tarball on FTP?
To them, that life was better than what they have now. The only way that is possible is if they focus on only the good parts, and completely forget the bad parts.
Unless life in totalitarian capitalist Russia is worse than life in totalitarian communist Russia. Russia was clearly more democratic under Gorbechev than under Putin, for what it's worth.
So let's fight back. It would be fairly easy to whip up a similar list for authoritarians. Authoritarians have killed more people throughout history than terrorists. It's time to declare War on Authoritarianism.
I'm TAing for a large freshman class right now. The number of students who think it's appropriate to carry on extended conversations during lecture, at almost normal volume, is absurd.
Kick them out. Make sure the lecture material is online so they can learn it on their own time, and not waste yours and their classmates.
All the law enforcement in the world won't stop a bit of piracy. Look at what 40 years of the War on Drug Users has gotten us. It's still easier for a kid to get a joint than a beer. Does anyone think a war on piracy would be any more effective?
Really mcgrew? You seem like the kind of guy who can spot mythology when you see it. I'm disappointed.
I mean, those rules you mentioned are good rules. There's nothing wrong with following them. But do you really need to dress them up in ancient middle eastern mythology? If they're good rules they should stand on their own merits, not because some sandy twat from 2000 years ago said so.
Genetic screening already happens on parents with their first child who have decent pre-natal care.
Good. Now lets offer this to everyone, free of charge.
Remember from your middle school genetics that even if both parents are carriers, the child only has a 1/4 chance of developing the disease.
But, there's a 75% chance that they'll be a carrier, who may pass that gene on to someone else who will pass it on to someone else and so on until someone forgets to check and gives their kid a disease. You're responsible for that because you could have stopped it.
What you do with this information is a different matter.
I assume you mean something like HTML or such. But I also suspect this does not apply to something like a word processor document, where you likely use Word or something similar?
He's talking about LaTeX. It's both a word processor document AND code. And it's better than Word in every way except the steepness of the learning curve.
Who said anything about mandating tests? We need to encourage the responsible members of society to behave responsibly by subsidizing good behavior. I would absolutely reject any call to make any sort of genetic testing mandatory.
The USA economy has enough parias as it is, please don't make it worse by adding gene testing as a discriminator.
That's a problem with the US economy, not with the responsibility each and every one of us has to not pass on harmful traits. The fact that the US economy is in conflict with that responsibility only shows how broken it truly is.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that is well characterised. Remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We'd prevent more deaths if we attempted to remove the defective allele from the gene pool than trying to cure it after the fact.
What we need is a place where prospective breeders can go and test themselves for known problematic alleles. We need a place where people who have problematic alleles can go and have their potential offspring tested, and select against the defective alleles. We need these services, and we should provide them for free because of the high cost in both money and suffering of these genetic diseases.
If you get more FPS on Linux than Windows, that's usually because some cycle eating feature in the Windows driver is not present in the Linux driver. Whether "feature incomplete but faster" is the same as "better" is a subjective question.
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Right. Today's Republican party has more in common with the John Birch society that was shunned by the Republican establishement for decades.
Yes, the democrats have taken over the GOP, by moving steadily to the right for the past 30 years. Todays Democrat party is very much like the Republican party of 30 years ago. Obama is a conservative somewhere between Reagan and Nixon.
The GOP was never a party of small government, non-interventionism, and individual rights. Reagan raised taxes 11 times during his presidency. Who started the War on Drugs? Nixon coined the term, Reagan made it policy. Nixon, pre-presidency, was a hawk on Vietnam. Hell, the "Reagan Doctrine" was explicitly interventionist!
How is it that you can get the basic facts of our political history so utterly wrong, and still be 100% correct when you say this:
All SFLC has to do is get some patches into the kernel. Then they can sue for violation of the GPL on Linux directly, instead of using Busybox as an excuse.
The big difference is that their custom code that they would want to keep private would most likely be linked into Busybox
Do you know what Busybox is? It's your typical Unix shell environment. Do you really think Sony is developing a top secret version of 'dmesg' that they can't open source without damaging their business model? Seriously, what's the use case for a custom version of Busybox? Can you come up with one plausible idea?
If Sony wants to use Busybox with their own custom code without making their own custom code GPL, they can just compile their code as a stand alone app just like every other proprietary software house. It's that simple.
The more childish response to anybody complaining about using GPL software in a commercial environment is "if you don't like it, write your own software".
Why is that childish? Isn't that the appropriate response to anyone who doesn't like the terms of any software license?
Well, that is exactly what Sony want to do. What amazes me is how long it took for anyone to do this.
Why would they bother? What's the business case for investing developer time in this project? What does Sony lose by using stock Busybox and putting the tarball on FTP?
Dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is a naturally occuring endogenous neurotransmitter that is also a Schedule I drug.
The best way to teach out kids that bullying is bad is to stop doing it ourselves
Exactly. How can we expect our kids not to bully, when the United States is the world's biggest bully?
To them, that life was better than what they have now. The only way that is possible is if they focus on only the good parts, and completely forget the bad parts.
Unless life in totalitarian capitalist Russia is worse than life in totalitarian communist Russia. Russia was clearly more democratic under Gorbechev than under Putin, for what it's worth.
So let's fight back. It would be fairly easy to whip up a similar list for authoritarians. Authoritarians have killed more people throughout history than terrorists. It's time to declare War on Authoritarianism.
It's not an error in logic. Eric Schmidt knows exactly what he's arguing for.
So it's white light.
Did you consider mentioning this to the professor?
I'm TAing for a large freshman class right now. The number of students who think it's appropriate to carry on extended conversations during lecture, at almost normal volume, is absurd.
Kick them out. Make sure the lecture material is online so they can learn it on their own time, and not waste yours and their classmates.
Thanks Grover.
The President has already signed it and is claiming the Senate doesn't need to ratify it because "executive agreement" is all you need.
So, when do we impeach Obama for violating his oath to uphold the Constitution?
What wavelength is dark grey light?
All the law enforcement in the world won't stop a bit of piracy. Look at what 40 years of the War on Drug Users has gotten us. It's still easier for a kid to get a joint than a beer. Does anyone think a war on piracy would be any more effective?
What does this have to do with the imprisonment of search engine operators?
Someone should sue them for copying.
Really mcgrew? You seem like the kind of guy who can spot mythology when you see it. I'm disappointed.
I mean, those rules you mentioned are good rules. There's nothing wrong with following them. But do you really need to dress them up in ancient middle eastern mythology? If they're good rules they should stand on their own merits, not because some sandy twat from 2000 years ago said so.
So that's where crabby patties come from.
Genetic screening already happens on parents with their first child who have decent pre-natal care.
Good. Now lets offer this to everyone, free of charge.
Remember from your middle school genetics that even if both parents are carriers, the child only has a 1/4 chance of developing the disease.
But, there's a 75% chance that they'll be a carrier, who may pass that gene on to someone else who will pass it on to someone else and so on until someone forgets to check and gives their kid a disease. You're responsible for that because you could have stopped it.
What you do with this information is a different matter.
Abort obviously.
I assume you mean something like HTML or such. But I also suspect this does not apply to something like a word processor document, where you likely use Word or something similar?
He's talking about LaTeX. It's both a word processor document AND code. And it's better than Word in every way except the steepness of the learning curve.
mandate yet another test.
Who said anything about mandating tests? We need to encourage the responsible members of society to behave responsibly by subsidizing good behavior. I would absolutely reject any call to make any sort of genetic testing mandatory.
The USA economy has enough parias as it is, please don't make it worse by adding gene testing as a discriminator.
That's a problem with the US economy, not with the responsibility each and every one of us has to not pass on harmful traits. The fact that the US economy is in conflict with that responsibility only shows how broken it truly is.
Cystic Fibrosis is a genetic disease that is well characterised. Remember, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We'd prevent more deaths if we attempted to remove the defective allele from the gene pool than trying to cure it after the fact.
What we need is a place where prospective breeders can go and test themselves for known problematic alleles. We need a place where people who have problematic alleles can go and have their potential offspring tested, and select against the defective alleles. We need these services, and we should provide them for free because of the high cost in both money and suffering of these genetic diseases.
If you get more FPS on Linux than Windows, that's usually because some cycle eating feature in the Windows driver is not present in the Linux driver. Whether "feature incomplete but faster" is the same as "better" is a subjective question.