The point is that you say, "Look at the facts," then incorrectly state that space men have died only in shuttle disasters. Three men died in Apollo 1 (a non-shuttle craft) one in Soyuz 1 and three in Soyuz 11 (both Russian non-shuttle craft).
Next time make sure the 'facts' you are spouting are correct.
With the source code closed, it's possible that one of the programmers might find a security flaw in the system. Now, in an ideal world that person might announce that flaw to the world, and a patch would be implemented immediately.
But what if that person chose to exploit that flaw instead?
If voting systems' code are closed source, there needs to be a discussion made of what efforts are taking place to prevent one of the coders from tampering with the results through flaws in the code.
He's saying that the number of bugs is not equal to the number of bug reports. This is because lots were duplicates of already reported bugs, or not-reproducible bugs, etc.
Therefore, while 200,000 bugs have been reported, that many bugs do not actually exist.
I installed Mandrake 9.0 a couple of weeks ago; here is my take:
Installation was a breeze for me. I used 'Expert mode' and had no difficulty with my Logitech Cordless wheel mouse, though I did have to select it manually; it detected as an unwheeled mouse, as I recall. Like the reviewer, I also experienced a failure in the auto-update feature of the installation, though in my case that was due to incorrect network settings I had specified. Had I set those correctly, I probably would have been able to auto-update during install, but I can't say for sure. As for partitioning, I would have liked the ability to type in a number for the partition size instead of moving a slider. The slider wouldn't give me exactly what I wanted.
I have had no trouble with slowness on my single 500 MHz Celery, so I know not of what the reviewer complains. I do know my machine is running faster with Mandrake 9 than it was on Redhat 7.3. All of the applications I have run have worked perfectly, with the occasional exception of Mozilla, but I've upped that to the 1.2alpha, so I expect a few glitches.
Personally, I like the default KDE look; different strokes for different folks, I guess, but to me, improving the 'prettiness' of the GUI is not an issue. Usability, certainly, and the usability is fine. The reviewer just seems to have something against KDE.
With my previous install, (RH 7.3), I had significant slowdowns at times, and plenty of application crashes at random times. For me, Mandrake 9.0 has been nothing but great.
Re:Socialism is all that works for information
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Want Freedom?
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Without public schools, police, government, etc we'd have complete chaos because the people in this country arent intelligent enough, arent responsible enough, and they arent mature enough to successfully govern themselves.
That is a typical elitist approach to government. The basic premise of the government is that it is one of the people. Your argument against capitalism doesn't even make sense. Capitalism and socialism are economic systems, while the government services you cite are not economic in nature. Governments exist to provide at least a few basic services, among which are protection from invasion and law enforcement, for which the military and police are required. Using these entities as a "proof" that government is socialist is absurd; by your argument every government is socialist in nature. (Which, I suppose, was your intention all along).
Capitalism if it was pure, it could work if it were 100 percent fair capitalism, this means capitalism without globalism, this means forcing companies to raise the minimum wage they pay their workers along with the amount of money the company brings in, meaning dynamic salary which increases when companies do good and decreases when they do bad, equal salary for everyone in the company this means the CEO shouldnt make billions and everyone else thousands unless the CEO actually is working the hardest and has been working there the longest.
I don't know where you get this at all. Actually, I do; this is pure Marxist philosophy where Labor = Profit = Worth. No amount of work on a mud pie is going to increase its value. You would certainly refuse to pay $100 for a mud pie that I worked on for 20 hours, and you would certainly complain if you, as, let's say, a computer technician, made the same wage as the unskilled laborer handing out flyers on the street corner. There is more demand for higher skills, which makes them more valuable. If not, why bother going to get an education? You'll be making the same as everybody else anyway.
Your run-on sentence even contradicts itself in the middle: equal salary for everyone in the company...unless the CEO is actually working the hardest. Well, duh. The people who work harder and who are in demand are worth more. That's capitalism.
Enron and Worldcom situations should not be tolerated at all
Here I agree completely. I am all for minimal government involvement in business, but law enforcement should be ever present, which, in this case, means prosecution of fraud.
No tax? Theres always going to be a tax because people always have to pool their money together to pay for say military forces or hospitals, however by making paying the tax a choice such as a donation you could still have pure capitalism while increasing freedom.
I agree with the necessity of taxation as well. Making the tax optional is an interesting idea, but doomed to failure because too many will exploit the system. However, taxation for military and law enforcement do not make the system socialist because they are not economic in nature; they are part of the basic function of government.
Not a stupid question at all. The answers are...no, and nothing. Critics will argue that the kids who do not participate will 'feel bad' or something like that, but participation is entirely voluntary.
In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses (in general) do not recite the pledge, because they object to the idea of pledging to a secular government. Pretty much the opposite of the current objection. Some think the gov't is being too religious, others that it is too secular.
Now, the big question is: If we are offending both groups, which one do we cater to?
Before you jump on the "bash the incompetent gov't" wagon, check your facts. Iran was a solid American ally in the late 70s, when the US sold them many warplanes, including ~75 F-14 Tomcats. Very advanced stuff for the time.
Then there was a revolution. Iran's standing government was overthrown, and replaced by one that was hostile to the US. A hostile administration in possession of all that advanced technology is hardly a good situation, but not really the US government's fault. "Oh, we should have seen the Iranian revolution coming. Oops!" Get real.
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
I agree. It is not the government's job to protect me from myself. It is their job to protect me from other people (and other people from me).
This is where it gets tricky, because is the government here wanting to protect you from yourself or from the sometimes sloppy roller coaster manufacturers and designers? The government does that sort of protecting all the time; the whole idea behind the Consumer Product Safety Commission is to protect people from the oversights of the big corporations.
That said, the situation here is probably not as simple as we would think.
I decided that the most likely explanation was that the little sculpture of M&Ms was not actually rotating, but instead the spacecraft and all of its occupants were rotating around them.
Which makes sense, since the entire movie revolved around M&Ms...
Re:Aren't we Boycotting Hollywood?
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It never fails to piss me off when this same reaction to any movie-related story is continually modded up.
The community here agrees about a lot of things, but we're not of one soul, of one mind. The people preaching the boycott are probably not the same people going out to see these movies.
Give us some credit for individuality, and get off your high horse while you're at it.
This is like asking what number would have hit a dart player who missed.
I dunno... I once saw an 8 come down off the board and start beating the crap out of a dart player who missed his shot entirely. The dude was slightly drunk, too, so the 8 was really trashing him before the rest of us got them apart. Of course, the 17 is pretty irritable too -- I wouldn't be surprised if one of them ever gave somebody a smack in the head.
Neither. The offending item in question is the section on the right hand of the page under 'Advertisement'. Sometimes it loads as a box of links that look like news. Sometimes it loads as something else that is obviously an ad. Reload the page a few times and you'll get it.
(I posted this down below, but nobody seems to have noticed yet.)
The offending item in question is the section on the right hand of the page under 'Advertisement'. Sometimes it loads as a box of links that look like news. Sometimes it loads as something else that is obviously an ad. Reload the page a few times and you'll get it.
I suppose what I have to say almost goes without saying, but I know so many programmers who neglect it, I will say it anyway. There are two things you have to know when going back into old code.
1) Know what you are doing.
2) Know what the code does.
Both are expedited by good documentation. This is so important, it deserves to be written thusly:
DOCUMENTATION!
Write everything down. If the code is not commented, figure out what it does and write it down. When you add a line or a module, write down what it is supposed to do. Declarations? Write those down too. Document everything so that you can figure everything out, both now and down the road when you decide to fix something else.
This is the voice of experience. I have had to reverse-engineer my own code 6 months after I wrote it because I failed to document anything. Learn from my mistake.
Except that this seems to be providing a patch, not the entirety of the translated work. In which case, only those who have purchased the full version will have the translation. Without the original work, the patch is just a useless file.
So, an even better analogy would be a reading translator that would read the Harry Potter book to you in German. Copyright violation? No. Fair use? Definitely.
Actually, whenever my friends come to me complaining of the latest virus infection, I make it a point to recommend Pine for Windows. See, these people use Outlook only for e-mail, and don't ever bother with the bells and whistles Outlook has. Granted, the user's needs will vary, but for these people, Pine is comparable to Outlook, and, bonus, it helps stop the spread of e-mail viruses.
Good point about stupid users, but I have to trot out the usual counter: If you are not running as 'root', the damage you can do, accidentally, intentionally, or otherwise, is limited. In Windows 9X, you are always 'root'. Damage potential is therefore unlimited. Not so under *nix. Nevertheless, "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." I digress.
Now I am off to find a replacement for ICQ. [Grumble]
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It's worse than you think: given the short download time, that's the equivalent of over 27 cd-burners of Pac-Man!
Next time make sure the 'facts' you are spouting are correct.
With the source code closed, it's possible that one of the programmers might find a security flaw in the system. Now, in an ideal world that person might announce that flaw to the world, and a patch would be implemented immediately.
But what if that person chose to exploit that flaw instead?
If voting systems' code are closed source, there needs to be a discussion made of what efforts are taking place to prevent one of the coders from tampering with the results through flaws in the code.
Therefore, while 200,000 bugs have been reported, that many bugs do not actually exist.
Got it?
I installed Mandrake 9.0 a couple of weeks ago; here is my take:
Installation was a breeze for me. I used 'Expert mode' and had no difficulty with my Logitech Cordless wheel mouse, though I did have to select it manually; it detected as an unwheeled mouse, as I recall. Like the reviewer, I also experienced a failure in the auto-update feature of the installation, though in my case that was due to incorrect network settings I had specified. Had I set those correctly, I probably would have been able to auto-update during install, but I can't say for sure. As for partitioning, I would have liked the ability to type in a number for the partition size instead of moving a slider. The slider wouldn't give me exactly what I wanted.
I have had no trouble with slowness on my single 500 MHz Celery, so I know not of what the reviewer complains. I do know my machine is running faster with Mandrake 9 than it was on Redhat 7.3. All of the applications I have run have worked perfectly, with the occasional exception of Mozilla, but I've upped that to the 1.2alpha, so I expect a few glitches.
Personally, I like the default KDE look; different strokes for different folks, I guess, but to me, improving the 'prettiness' of the GUI is not an issue. Usability, certainly, and the usability is fine. The reviewer just seems to have something against KDE.
With my previous install, (RH 7.3), I had significant slowdowns at times, and plenty of application crashes at random times. For me, Mandrake 9.0 has been nothing but great.
That is a typical elitist approach to government. The basic premise of the government is that it is one of the people. Your argument against capitalism doesn't even make sense. Capitalism and socialism are economic systems, while the government services you cite are not economic in nature. Governments exist to provide at least a few basic services, among which are protection from invasion and law enforcement, for which the military and police are required. Using these entities as a "proof" that government is socialist is absurd; by your argument every government is socialist in nature. (Which, I suppose, was your intention all along).
Capitalism if it was pure, it could work if it were 100 percent fair capitalism, this means capitalism without globalism, this means forcing companies to raise the minimum wage they pay their workers along with the amount of money the company brings in, meaning dynamic salary which increases when companies do good and decreases when they do bad, equal salary for everyone in the company this means the CEO shouldnt make billions and everyone else thousands unless the CEO actually is working the hardest and has been working there the longest.
I don't know where you get this at all. Actually, I do; this is pure Marxist philosophy where Labor = Profit = Worth. No amount of work on a mud pie is going to increase its value. You would certainly refuse to pay $100 for a mud pie that I worked on for 20 hours, and you would certainly complain if you, as, let's say, a computer technician, made the same wage as the unskilled laborer handing out flyers on the street corner. There is more demand for higher skills, which makes them more valuable. If not, why bother going to get an education? You'll be making the same as everybody else anyway.
Your run-on sentence even contradicts itself in the middle: equal salary for everyone in the company...unless the CEO is actually working the hardest. Well, duh. The people who work harder and who are in demand are worth more. That's capitalism.
Enron and Worldcom situations should not be tolerated at all
Here I agree completely. I am all for minimal government involvement in business, but law enforcement should be ever present, which, in this case, means prosecution of fraud.
No tax? Theres always going to be a tax because people always have to pool their money together to pay for say military forces or hospitals, however by making paying the tax a choice such as a donation you could still have pure capitalism while increasing freedom.
I agree with the necessity of taxation as well. Making the tax optional is an interesting idea, but doomed to failure because too many will exploit the system. However, taxation for military and law enforcement do not make the system socialist because they are not economic in nature; they are part of the basic function of government.
If You Don't Like the Way I Drive, Get Off the Sidewalk
This is a more accurate representation of spammers' attitudes.
I was going to ask if you were referring to Vacuum Diagrams by Stephen Baxter. It had that and the sun-killing creatures too.
For me the funniest part was the ad that came up next to the article...for MinutePass prepaid phone cards.
In fact, Jehovah's Witnesses (in general) do not recite the pledge, because they object to the idea of pledging to a secular government. Pretty much the opposite of the current objection. Some think the gov't is being too religious, others that it is too secular.
Now, the big question is: If we are offending both groups, which one do we cater to?
It's the same thing. The password is the key used to encrypt the data.
Then there was a revolution. Iran's standing government was overthrown, and replaced by one that was hostile to the US. A hostile administration in possession of all that advanced technology is hardly a good situation, but not really the US government's fault. "Oh, we should have seen the Iranian revolution coming. Oops!" Get real.
No kidding. I mean, what about Y10K? Right now, computers can only handle four-digit years.
It became necessary to destroy the content in order to save it.
Article III - Section 3
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
This is where it gets tricky, because is the government here wanting to protect you from yourself or from the sometimes sloppy roller coaster manufacturers and designers? The government does that sort of protecting all the time; the whole idea behind the Consumer Product Safety Commission is to protect people from the oversights of the big corporations.
That said, the situation here is probably not as simple as we would think.
Which makes sense, since the entire movie revolved around M&Ms...
It never fails to piss me off when this same reaction to any movie-related story is continually modded up. The community here agrees about a lot of things, but we're not of one soul, of one mind. The people preaching the boycott are probably not the same people going out to see these movies. Give us some credit for individuality, and get off your high horse while you're at it.
I dunno... I once saw an 8 come down off the board and start beating the crap out of a dart player who missed his shot entirely. The dude was slightly drunk, too, so the 8 was really trashing him before the rest of us got them apart. Of course, the 17 is pretty irritable too -- I wouldn't be surprised if one of them ever gave somebody a smack in the head.
At my school, we had two chess teams: Regular, and tackle.
Neither. The offending item in question is the section on the right hand of the page under 'Advertisement'. Sometimes it loads as a box of links that look like news. Sometimes it loads as something else that is obviously an ad. Reload the page a few times and you'll get it. (I posted this down below, but nobody seems to have noticed yet.)
The offending item in question is the section on the right hand of the page under 'Advertisement'. Sometimes it loads as a box of links that look like news. Sometimes it loads as something else that is obviously an ad. Reload the page a few times and you'll get it.
1) Know what you are doing. 2) Know what the code does.
Both are expedited by good documentation. This is so important, it deserves to be written thusly:
DOCUMENTATION!
Write everything down. If the code is not commented, figure out what it does and write it down. When you add a line or a module, write down what it is supposed to do. Declarations? Write those down too. Document everything so that you can figure everything out, both now and down the road when you decide to fix something else.
This is the voice of experience. I have had to reverse-engineer my own code 6 months after I wrote it because I failed to document anything. Learn from my mistake.
So, an even better analogy would be a reading translator that would read the Harry Potter book to you in German. Copyright violation? No. Fair use? Definitely.
Good point about stupid users, but I have to trot out the usual counter: If you are not running as 'root', the damage you can do, accidentally, intentionally, or otherwise, is limited. In Windows 9X, you are always 'root'. Damage potential is therefore unlimited. Not so under *nix. Nevertheless, "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." I digress.
Now I am off to find a replacement for ICQ. [Grumble]