There are several other reasons why English dominates the globe.
1) We're the clean-up crew. Every time there is UN intervention anywhere in the world, the US is the main blunt force instrument of choice. This introduces people to our language and culture. Until China or India starts funding such missions and sending their soldiers out there, the US has a great platform to build on. If you want to deal with the "peace" keepers, you'd better know English.
2) While English may not be the biggest PRIMARY language in the universe, it is the most widely used SECONDARY language in the world. Which is easier? Getting 800M Mandarin Chinese users (about 1/2 of which already know English) to use English? Or making ~5 Billion people learn Mandarin?
3) Just like in Aviation, English is suited to the web. It is easy to learn and in fact is usually already taught at most schools (except those in Los Angeles of course...)
4) Most Americans do not learn a second language well enough to ask where the bathroom is, much less do technical work in it. Many of them have enough problems learning English! And I'm not talking about the native Spanish speakers on the Left Coast, I'm talking about Billy Bob, Jimmy Joe, etc. etc. that you find in most of small town America.
If you're looking to surf the web while cooking, why not just buy a bunch of used Xterminals from a local college and put them on a home network? Serve the X sessions from your Linux box and you're good to go.
First: We could do worse with a First Advisor of GH than of Bill Clinton. (Look Al, if you use the FATTER cigars...)
Second: It may be constitutionally weak (although if it is, why are the press trying to blame everything that has ever happened in Texas on GWB? From press reports, he not only controls the entire gov't of Texas, but also all the corps in Texas), but it is also a VERY large state bordering on a foreign nation. What experience did Billary have? Governor of Arkansas, who managed to make an already bad school system worse!
Third: Multi-term senator = Career Politician. Not what our founding fathers had in mind.
Fourth: Gore is a pathalogic liar. Don't believe me? Read this page detailing his downright idiotic lies, taken from actual speeches and interviews. Plus, if he's so intelligent, he's obviously lying about being the "Common Man" that he always runs as. After all, if you believe the Dem's own statistics, most Americans CAN'T read because Republicans don't throw enough money at failing public schools!
Fifth: Not even close. The credit for the budget surplus goes to where it should. The people of the United States have created a whole new section of the economy using technology. For this they are taxed repeatedly by Washington. The Republicans refused to spend insane amounts of money on waste, such as Hillary's Nation Health Care Program. This caused a budget surplus.
Sixth: How 'bout a president who lies repeatedly to the American people? How 'bout one so stupid as to lie about things that are easily checked? I invented the Internet. I found Love Canal. I'm the inspiration for the movie Love Story! I co-sponsored the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform even though I had left the Senate before Feingold was elected! I was shot at in Vietnam! (I guess Champagne corks must count!) Bah.
As for the sex thing, I agree. Had he taken the bimbo to his quarters, or taken her to a motel, or did her in a limo in the garage, that would be fine. What he did however, was have sexual relations (and then lie about it) in the Oral Office! I don't know what business you're in, but where I work, if I did that with an intern of my company in a company office while on company time (perhaps talking on the phone to a Senator or a Governor?), I'd be drawing unemployment right after it happened. Actually, I wouldn't since I would have been fired for cause. Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others... The Dem's think that they can do this stuff, get caught, and then just go on with their life. WRONG! In this world, we have consequences for our actions, or at least we should. The louse SHOULD have been fired. That's what would have happened to any manager at a major corporation that did such a thing. The disgraceful thing isn't that he did it. The disgraceful thing is that he did it, lied about it, subourned perjury, lied under oath, etc. etc.
At least Bush has been forthcoming about his accomplishments and his failings. Also, I have a lot of respect for someone that would strap on a fighter jet whether they went up to fight or went up for a lark. Those things are dangerous! Strapping on a fighter jet was probably FAR more dangerous than AlGore's experiences in Vietnam. As the photographer assigned to ferry him around put it: 'He requested that "Gore not get into situations that were dangerous,'" said Leo, who did what he could to carry out Cooper's directive. He described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where 'I could have worn a tuxedo.'"(Newsweek, 12/6/99)
Let's quit patting this scoundrel on the back and get on with the process of electing a real person to the presidency, George W. Bush!
And you thought high water pants and pocket protectors were a fashion don't. What use is a cell phone built into a jacket? Who wears their jacket ALL the time?
Poverty doesn't tend to be a vicious circle, welfare is. It's called Bread and Circuses and lead to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Once the people realized they could vote themselves unlimited food and entertainment, the whole republic went down hill.
As a note, my grandfather worked in a coal mine all his life and made no money. My father went into the military and got into factory work afterwards. Now I get paid about what he did to sit and a computer and help morons with Win98. I'd say we worked our way out of poverty. Or rather, we would have if the Government would just stop picking our pockets.
Need money? Need a job? Need a career? Go back and get your GED and head for the local recruiters office. Oh, wait, you want it NOW. OK, sit on welfare for a while, and while you're collecting that check, get into the drug/pimp business. Join a gang, cause lots of Fortune 500 companies look for that on your resume. Then whine and say you can't get out of poverty.
Welfare was never intended to continually subsidize whole generations of people. Unfortunately, once they realize that they don't have to WORK to get money, it's REAL easy to fall into that trap.
Read the book The Losers by David Eddings. You may start to understand a little bit more about the welfare cycle and why we need to break it.
Had I wrote something similar, say about Jessie Jackson, and written the old blackie king, and said that I hoped someone had the decency to shoot you before you vote for AlGore, I'd be in hot water, wouldn't I? Isn't it amazing how we can shit on whitie all we want and no one gets riled up? We can even advocate killing someone because they MIGHT be a Republican who would vote for Bush, and we're AOK. But let a white guy say something about a black man and suddenly he's a racist.
*sigh* This again bears me out. I'm not a racist. I hate everyone equally.
Remember that these are the people that gave us The Art of War. They are not idiots, just Communists. You're right, the way to beat them is to surprise them, but not by saying "Surprise! We don't HAVE an army anymore."
Most soldiers don't need to think, only act. The Generals in China are the elite, not only of the armed forces, but of the country. They are well trained and informed. These are not your average grunts. Plus, as Hitler found out when he went after Russia, enough warm bodies can win a war.
If we were in war with China, they could afford to lose 4 to 1 and STILL win the bloody war. And since their people are all military trained and ours are not, they could probably win out at 10 to 1.
Aside from what everyone else pointed out to be wrong with the situation, there's the fact that the cops told reporters he was being arrested because he had LSD on him.
My friends met me at the curb. One said that he had summoned the television cameras. After waiting for me to calm down, he explained that a reporter had asked him what I was being arrested for. She nodded knowingly -- "Word on the Street" was that I had acid on me. For the first time in a week, my friend was speechless, stunned by the simple stupidity. "Where the FUCK did you hear that?" he finally blurted. She told him that a cop had told her. I still can't fucking believe it. I hope you understand that it took me several days before I could write the last few sections. At least my friends in Baltimore saw me on the news.
And that is called HERESAY in a Court of Law. Perhaps the cop was talking about the guy in orange? Or some other freak they picked up earlier? If the cop didn't say it directly to you or your friend, while pointing to you and saying "THAT GUY RIGHT THERE," I don't know if I would believe it. Also, perhaps some of his friends picked up earlier had acid on them, so it was assumed that he may possible be carrying as well.
Ummm... Jimmy, it's a Democratic town and a Democrat Mayor. YOU are missing something. This is not the same situation as walking down a street in NYC wearing fatigues and webgear and getting stopped. This is a potential riot situation.
Would you want me stopped in YOUR hometown if I was dressed like that and slouching down the street toward you? Perhaps accompanied by some people that you had seen yelling and screaming earlier?
Ahhh unreasonable detention at the whim of the police. Good point.
Actually, a VERY good point. He was stopped and questioned as a suspicious character. Perhaps a person matching his description was seen with a bunch of people that were planning to start a protest? Perhaps that protest was supposed to get ugly with violence? Perhaps one of his "buddies" cracked and said he was there? It would be REAL nice to get both sides of the story before we automatically assume the cops were jackbooted thugs.
And being 'lippy' and annoying and having no respect for authority or this cop was illegal how?
Depends on how exactly he approached the matter. Had he said something like, "I'm sorry officer, could you tell me what exactly you're stopping me for? Perhaps I should have a lawyer present?" I would have to say the cops would be wrong. If he said, "Hey PIG! You can't search me without a fucking warrant. I'll get you for false imprisonment and police brutality. HEY MAN, CALL MY LAWYER AND A NEWS CREW HERE!" then yes, he deserves to be removed. I believe the charge would be something like creating a public disturbance.
Yes, all people with dissenting opinions who were very (resonably) angry were quickly 'apprehended' to thwart the possibility of a 'violent outburst'. We wouldnt want anyone to 'stir up trouble'.
This is flat out wrong. There were several protests that were not authorized. They did not have proper permits, and in fact hadn't even FILED for them. And yet the police allowed at least one march to go ahead. In fact, they closed down one of the busiest streets in town and protected the protestors from traffic and other issues. They did this because these people were peaceful and not intending to start any form of violence.
There is a difference between legal protest and illegal protest. A legal protest does not incite violence. A legal protest gets a proper permit so that the city can prepare for it (ie: Provide those policemen that stop traffic and protect the protestors).
Let's be fair here. Everyone that's screaming is doing so because it was a bunch of long haired men and short haired women that were out protesting their favorite bitch of the day that were stopped. Had the KKK showed up in Philly and tried to do a protest march, you would have all been screaming for the cops to bust some heads. Had the Pro-Life crowd showed up and threatened to cause violent interruption to the proceedings, you'd want them in jail until at LEAST the next decade. Yet when it's one of YOUR guys... Well, that's a different story because he's protesting something YOU believe in.
Frankly, I think that from the article written above these officers showed great restraint and handled the situation in a most appropriate manner. Had the person merely responded that they chose not to be searched, that the web gear carried pens, pencils, and granola bars, and that they didn't see a need to show their ID, and done so in a polite manner, I'd say the police had handled it wrongly. Instead they violated the first rule of apprehending someone by not cuffing them in the wagon. For both the officers sake and the suspects sake, it is standard procedure to cuff ALL individuals placed in temporary custody. Yet these officers allowed the person to get into the vehicle without cuffing them. They asked politely if this person was getting enough air, and if the air was cool enough. They then released the suspect, probably after calling in and observing him for a few minutes.
I hope that the next time this asswipe calls for a police officer to help him out they don't bother showing up. These people that hate all police until they need them really burn me up. Maybe one day they'll understand WHY the police are the way the are. Hopefully BEFORE some punk blows their brains out.
My last distro came with 4 CD's, Install, Source RPMS, Documentation, and Applications. That makes the cost of each CD $50/4=$12.50. Also included in that are 90 days of Tech Support. And I can download it if I wish (which I did for 6.2) and burn the ISO onto my own $.25 CD. I'm not really paying for the media and content for a RH CD, I'm paying for support.
If we include support as ~50% of the cost, that brings each CD down to $6.25. So, $.25 for burning the media, $1 for the box, $1 for the printed manual. That brings us down to ~$5/CD.
I'm sorry, I don't consider breast beating by the so-called "press" to be the real deal. After all, everyone knows that the police are pigs, so let's just say they're out pepper spraying everyone in sight and stuffing them all in jail for a million years. Bah. Out Demons of Stupidity!
I'm not so sure about that. It all depends on the performance you get on one of those 41,500 machines. IF performance is decent, this could end up saving the large (read: AOL-type) ISP's quite a bit of money. Virtual Servers running Linux that all run on one very large box. At 145,000, it would be a lot less expensive in money, power, and space than 40,000+ 1U rackmount units.
Apparently, according to a cow-orker, Gov. Tom Ridge (R-PA) has signed into law a bill that will make it illegal to send spam to businesses (and I believe consumers) in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Anyone have any news on that?
What I don't get (and this is NOT a troll!) is why the knee jerk reaction to every bad law is "It's the Republican's fault!" WTF? Last I knew, it was the Dem's in Hollywood's pocket, the people that brought you RIAA and MPIAA and all the other AA's that are out there, as well as the DeCSS lawsuit.
Yeah, the Republican's brought us the War on Drugs. So what? Yeah, they wanted the death penalty. SO WHAT? (Name me a single criminal that committed a crime AFTER his execution! I don't think you can, can you?)
Oh, but wait, they're all RICH Texan Oilmen... See, it's OK to say that because you're not talking about RICH Tennessee Oilmen, who made their millions through Occidental Petroleum in shady deals.
The Dem's sell out just as regularly as everyone else. As for the Wrong Reverend Jesse Jackson, maybe when he gets off his duff and starts talking about the slavery and exploitation going on in Sudan, I'll give him a pat on the back. Until then, he gets nothing. He sure can dummy up quick when opening his mouth goes against the party line, can't he?
Carnivore is being pushed by the Clinton (Democratic) FBI. They also fought long and hard against encryption, and only gave up when even THEIR thick skulls figured out it wasn't a battle they could win.
If you want to protest, do it at the DNC convention. Isn't it kind of funny that the Republicans are holding their convention at the City of Brotherly Love while the Dem's are holding theirs in LA. Which one is that again? Sodom or Gomorrah? Although I personally wouldn't have minded an invite to the Playboy Mansion for the Dem. fundraiser... Not that you would see AlGore and the rest there... They'll take the money, but they don't want to be SEEN socializing with "those types" of people.
Bah... What a waste... I just KNOW this will be mod'd down. After all, it's a diatribe against everything I'm against. Following the crowd instead of following the issues.
--- They're certainly no longer a 'common carrier' once they've started applying filters.... ---
My phone company allows me to filter my phone calls by forcing people to disclose their phone number when they call me. I can further inform the phone company that I do not wish to receive phone calls from a certain number. They then filter these calls, and the other side gets a busy signal or other indication that I do not wish to receive calls from them. Is my phone company still a common carrier even though they block some phone calls from some phone numbers?
Since when do FBI agents have the power to issue subpoenas? That's what judges are for.
When it's a criminal offense, you need to get the cops involved. A denial of service attack qualifies. Therefore, we contact the authorities and report a crime in progress.
True, it's annoying. But when their security department refuses to start logging or doing anything at all on their end to help us get to the heart of the problem until they get a subpeona... They get one.
But instead of IE, they should have Applications, Business Operating Systems, and Consumer Operating Systems. This would put pressure on the NT group to open up certain internals (ala Microsoft's Kerberos 5 extensions) to everyone. If Millenium, 2000 Pro, and 2000 Server can't talk together, then they will HAVE to open the code so that they can get them speaking. And in the process, maybe we can actually get some competition started by allowing Linux and the other Un*x variables to get in on the act.
The only "incompatibility" involved is that non-MS software can't take advantage of the data in the field, and MS clients don't work without it.
OK, I'm not sure if I read this right, but if MS clients cannot work without this data field, would that not mean that it is "incompatible" with other implementations of the software?
"We're going to extend the SMTP standard to accept a special field, and the client side of our software won't work without it..." The SERVER is compliant, the WORKSTATION is NON-compliant, correct? Thus forcing people that want something akin to real security to utilize a W2K server if they want to run W2K desktops.
If this is incorrect, and they are not forcing the client machine to get that extra data field, then this argument isn't relevant at all. If it IS correct, then they are breaking the spirit of intercompatibility, and are rightly being attacked.
Besides, there's no functional difference between this and ratting out that goth kid in gym to the principal, except that someone is making a buck off of it.
I'm sorry, but there IS a difference. The difference is simple: The principal knows who ratted the kid out. This way, if it is proven unfounded, and the child continues to make allegations that prove false, the principal can now take action agains the accuser.
We NEED to be able to see who's crying wolf. With anonymous reporting, there is no way to tell "Johnny made 37 calls to the hotline and none of the tips panned out at all... Turns out he was just ticked off at the kid for getting an A and ruining the grade curve." By making it anonymous, we open it to abuse.
911 is a far different story. Not only do they know where you are calling from, it is a crime to make a false 911 call. Unfortunately, there is no crime involved with anonymously reporting someone to this program. *sigh* This is one of the few cases where I wish Big Brother really were watching.
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There are several other reasons why English dominates the globe.
1) We're the clean-up crew. Every time there is UN intervention anywhere in the world, the US is the main blunt force instrument of choice. This introduces people to our language and culture. Until China or India starts funding such missions and sending their soldiers out there, the US has a great platform to build on. If you want to deal with the "peace" keepers, you'd better know English.
2) While English may not be the biggest PRIMARY language in the universe, it is the most widely used SECONDARY language in the world. Which is easier? Getting 800M Mandarin Chinese users (about 1/2 of which already know English) to use English? Or making ~5 Billion people learn Mandarin?
3) Just like in Aviation, English is suited to the web. It is easy to learn and in fact is usually already taught at most schools (except those in Los Angeles of course...)
4) Most Americans do not learn a second language well enough to ask where the bathroom is, much less do technical work in it. Many of them have enough problems learning English! And I'm not talking about the native Spanish speakers on the Left Coast, I'm talking about Billy Bob, Jimmy Joe, etc. etc. that you find in most of small town America.
If you're looking to surf the web while cooking, why not just buy a bunch of used Xterminals from a local college and put them on a home network? Serve the X sessions from your Linux box and you're good to go.
First: We could do worse with a First Advisor of GH than of Bill Clinton. (Look Al, if you use the FATTER cigars...)
Second: It may be constitutionally weak (although if it is, why are the press trying to blame everything that has ever happened in Texas on GWB? From press reports, he not only controls the entire gov't of Texas, but also all the corps in Texas), but it is also a VERY large state bordering on a foreign nation. What experience did Billary have? Governor of Arkansas, who managed to make an already bad school system worse!
Third: Multi-term senator = Career Politician. Not what our founding fathers had in mind.
Fourth: Gore is a pathalogic liar. Don't believe me? Read this page detailing his downright idiotic lies, taken from actual speeches and interviews. Plus, if he's so intelligent, he's obviously lying about being the "Common Man" that he always runs as. After all, if you believe the Dem's own statistics, most Americans CAN'T read because Republicans don't throw enough money at failing public schools!
Fifth: Not even close. The credit for the budget surplus goes to where it should. The people of the United States have created a whole new section of the economy using technology. For this they are taxed repeatedly by Washington. The Republicans refused to spend insane amounts of money on waste, such as Hillary's Nation Health Care Program. This caused a budget surplus.
Sixth: How 'bout a president who lies repeatedly to the American people? How 'bout one so stupid as to lie about things that are easily checked? I invented the Internet. I found Love Canal. I'm the inspiration for the movie Love Story! I co-sponsored the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform even though I had left the Senate before Feingold was elected! I was shot at in Vietnam! (I guess Champagne corks must count!) Bah.
As for the sex thing, I agree. Had he taken the bimbo to his quarters, or taken her to a motel, or did her in a limo in the garage, that would be fine. What he did however, was have sexual relations (and then lie about it) in the Oral Office! I don't know what business you're in, but where I work, if I did that with an intern of my company in a company office while on company time (perhaps talking on the phone to a Senator or a Governor?), I'd be drawing unemployment right after it happened. Actually, I wouldn't since I would have been fired for cause. Everyone is equal, but some are more equal than others... The Dem's think that they can do this stuff, get caught, and then just go on with their life. WRONG! In this world, we have consequences for our actions, or at least we should. The louse SHOULD have been fired. That's what would have happened to any manager at a major corporation that did such a thing. The disgraceful thing isn't that he did it. The disgraceful thing is that he did it, lied about it, subourned perjury, lied under oath, etc. etc.
At least Bush has been forthcoming about his accomplishments and his failings. Also, I have a lot of respect for someone that would strap on a fighter jet whether they went up to fight or went up for a lark. Those things are dangerous! Strapping on a fighter jet was probably FAR more dangerous than AlGore's experiences in Vietnam. As the photographer assigned to ferry him around put it:
'He requested that "Gore not get into situations that were dangerous,'" said Leo, who did what he could to carry out Cooper's directive. He described his half-dozen or so trips into the field with Gore as situations where 'I could have worn a tuxedo.'"(Newsweek, 12/6/99)
Let's quit patting this scoundrel on the back and get on with the process of electing a real person to the presidency, George W. Bush!
And you thought high water pants and pocket protectors were a fashion don't. What use is a cell phone built into a jacket? Who wears their jacket ALL the time?
Poverty doesn't tend to be a vicious circle, welfare is. It's called Bread and Circuses and lead to the downfall of the Roman Empire. Once the people realized they could vote themselves unlimited food and entertainment, the whole republic went down hill.
As a note, my grandfather worked in a coal mine all his life and made no money. My father went into the military and got into factory work afterwards. Now I get paid about what he did to sit and a computer and help morons with Win98. I'd say we worked our way out of poverty. Or rather, we would have if the Government would just stop picking our pockets.
Need money? Need a job? Need a career? Go back and get your GED and head for the local recruiters office. Oh, wait, you want it NOW. OK, sit on welfare for a while, and while you're collecting that check, get into the drug/pimp business. Join a gang, cause lots of Fortune 500 companies look for that on your resume. Then whine and say you can't get out of poverty.
Welfare was never intended to continually subsidize whole generations of people. Unfortunately, once they realize that they don't have to WORK to get money, it's REAL easy to fall into that trap.
Read the book The Losers by David Eddings. You may start to understand a little bit more about the welfare cycle and why we need to break it.
Hi Racist!
Had I wrote something similar, say about Jessie Jackson, and written the old blackie king, and said that I hoped someone had the decency to shoot you before you vote for AlGore, I'd be in hot water, wouldn't I? Isn't it amazing how we can shit on whitie all we want and no one gets riled up? We can even advocate killing someone because they MIGHT be a Republican who would vote for Bush, and we're AOK. But let a white guy say something about a black man and suddenly he's a racist.
*sigh* This again bears me out. I'm not a racist. I hate everyone equally.
Remember that these are the people that gave us The Art of War. They are not idiots, just Communists. You're right, the way to beat them is to surprise them, but not by saying "Surprise! We don't HAVE an army anymore."
Most soldiers don't need to think, only act. The Generals in China are the elite, not only of the armed forces, but of the country. They are well trained and informed. These are not your average grunts. Plus, as Hitler found out when he went after Russia, enough warm bodies can win a war.
If we were in war with China, they could afford to lose 4 to 1 and STILL win the bloody war. And since their people are all military trained and ours are not, they could probably win out at 10 to 1.
Aside from what everyone else pointed out to be wrong with the situation, there's the fact that the cops told reporters he was being arrested because he had LSD on him.
My friends met me at the curb. One said that he had summoned the television cameras. After waiting for me to calm down, he explained that a reporter had asked him what I was being arrested for. She nodded knowingly -- "Word on the Street" was that I had acid on me. For the first time in a week, my friend was speechless, stunned by the simple stupidity. "Where the FUCK did you hear that?" he finally blurted. She told him that a cop had told her. I still can't fucking believe it. I hope you understand that it took me several days before I could write the last few sections. At least my friends in Baltimore saw me on the news.
And that is called HERESAY in a Court of Law. Perhaps the cop was talking about the guy in orange? Or some other freak they picked up earlier? If the cop didn't say it directly to you or your friend, while pointing to you and saying "THAT GUY RIGHT THERE," I don't know if I would believe it. Also, perhaps some of his friends picked up earlier had acid on them, so it was assumed that he may possible be carrying as well.
Ummm... Jimmy, it's a Democratic town and a Democrat Mayor. YOU are missing something. This is not the same situation as walking down a street in NYC wearing fatigues and webgear and getting stopped. This is a potential riot situation.
Would you want me stopped in YOUR hometown if I was dressed like that and slouching down the street toward you? Perhaps accompanied by some people that you had seen yelling and screaming earlier?
Ahhh unreasonable detention at the whim of the police. Good point.
Actually, a VERY good point. He was stopped and questioned as a suspicious character. Perhaps a person matching his description was seen with a bunch of people that were planning to start a protest? Perhaps that protest was supposed to get ugly with violence? Perhaps one of his "buddies" cracked and said he was there? It would be REAL nice to get both sides of the story before we automatically assume the cops were jackbooted thugs.
And being 'lippy' and annoying and having no respect for authority or this cop was illegal how?
Depends on how exactly he approached the matter. Had he said something like, "I'm sorry officer, could you tell me what exactly you're stopping me for? Perhaps I should have a lawyer present?" I would have to say the cops would be wrong. If he said, "Hey PIG! You can't search me without a fucking warrant. I'll get you for false imprisonment and police brutality. HEY MAN, CALL MY LAWYER AND A NEWS CREW HERE!" then yes, he deserves to be removed. I believe the charge would be something like creating a public disturbance.
Yes, all people with dissenting opinions who were very (resonably) angry were quickly 'apprehended' to thwart the possibility of a 'violent outburst'. We wouldnt want anyone to 'stir up trouble'.
This is flat out wrong. There were several protests that were not authorized. They did not have proper permits, and in fact hadn't even FILED for them. And yet the police allowed at least one march to go ahead. In fact, they closed down one of the busiest streets in town and protected the protestors from traffic and other issues. They did this because these people were peaceful and not intending to start any form of violence.
There is a difference between legal protest and illegal protest. A legal protest does not incite violence. A legal protest gets a proper permit so that the city can prepare for it (ie: Provide those policemen that stop traffic and protect the protestors).
Let's be fair here. Everyone that's screaming is doing so because it was a bunch of long haired men and short haired women that were out protesting their favorite bitch of the day that were stopped. Had the KKK showed up in Philly and tried to do a protest march, you would have all been screaming for the cops to bust some heads. Had the Pro-Life crowd showed up and threatened to cause violent interruption to the proceedings, you'd want them in jail until at LEAST the next decade. Yet when it's one of YOUR guys... Well, that's a different story because he's protesting something YOU believe in.
Frankly, I think that from the article written above these officers showed great restraint and handled the situation in a most appropriate manner. Had the person merely responded that they chose not to be searched, that the web gear carried pens, pencils, and granola bars, and that they didn't see a need to show their ID, and done so in a polite manner, I'd say the police had handled it wrongly. Instead they violated the first rule of apprehending someone by not cuffing them in the wagon. For both the officers sake and the suspects sake, it is standard procedure to cuff ALL individuals placed in temporary custody. Yet these officers allowed the person to get into the vehicle without cuffing them. They asked politely if this person was getting enough air, and if the air was cool enough. They then released the suspect, probably after calling in and observing him for a few minutes.
I hope that the next time this asswipe calls for a police officer to help him out they don't bother showing up. These people that hate all police until they need them really burn me up. Maybe one day they'll understand WHY the police are the way the are. Hopefully BEFORE some punk blows their brains out.
the $50 purchase of the RedHat CD
My last distro came with 4 CD's, Install, Source RPMS, Documentation, and Applications. That makes the cost of each CD $50/4=$12.50. Also included in that are 90 days of Tech Support. And I can download it if I wish (which I did for 6.2) and burn the ISO onto my own $.25 CD. I'm not really paying for the media and content for a RH CD, I'm paying for support.
If we include support as ~50% of the cost, that brings each CD down to $6.25. So, $.25 for burning the media, $1 for the box, $1 for the printed manual. That brings us down to ~$5/CD.
I'm sorry, I don't consider breast beating by the so-called "press" to be the real deal. After all, everyone knows that the police are pigs, so let's just say they're out pepper spraying everyone in sight and stuffing them all in jail for a million years. Bah. Out Demons of Stupidity!
I'm not so sure about that. It all depends on the performance you get on one of those 41,500 machines. IF performance is decent, this could end up saving the large (read: AOL-type) ISP's quite a bit of money. Virtual Servers running Linux that all run on one very large box. At 145,000, it would be a lot less expensive in money, power, and space than 40,000+ 1U rackmount units.
Apparently, according to a cow-orker, Gov. Tom Ridge (R-PA) has signed into law a bill that will make it illegal to send spam to businesses (and I believe consumers) in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Anyone have any news on that?
What I don't get (and this is NOT a troll!) is why the knee jerk reaction to every bad law is "It's the Republican's fault!" WTF? Last I knew, it was the Dem's in Hollywood's pocket, the people that brought you RIAA and MPIAA and all the other AA's that are out there, as well as the DeCSS lawsuit.
Yeah, the Republican's brought us the War on Drugs. So what? Yeah, they wanted the death penalty. SO WHAT? (Name me a single criminal that committed a crime AFTER his execution! I don't think you can, can you?)
Oh, but wait, they're all RICH Texan Oilmen... See, it's OK to say that because you're not talking about RICH Tennessee Oilmen, who made their millions through Occidental Petroleum in shady deals.
The Dem's sell out just as regularly as everyone else. As for the Wrong Reverend Jesse Jackson, maybe when he gets off his duff and starts talking about the slavery and exploitation going on in Sudan, I'll give him a pat on the back. Until then, he gets nothing. He sure can dummy up quick when opening his mouth goes against the party line, can't he?
Carnivore is being pushed by the Clinton (Democratic) FBI. They also fought long and hard against encryption, and only gave up when even THEIR thick skulls figured out it wasn't a battle they could win.
If you want to protest, do it at the DNC convention. Isn't it kind of funny that the Republicans are holding their convention at the City of Brotherly Love while the Dem's are holding theirs in LA. Which one is that again? Sodom or Gomorrah? Although I personally wouldn't have minded an invite to the Playboy Mansion for the Dem. fundraiser... Not that you would see AlGore and the rest there... They'll take the money, but they don't want to be SEEN socializing with "those types" of people.
Bah... What a waste... I just KNOW this will be mod'd down. After all, it's a diatribe against everything I'm against. Following the crowd instead of following the issues.
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They're certainly no longer a 'common carrier' once they've started applying filters....
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My phone company allows me to filter my phone calls by forcing people to disclose their phone number when they call me. I can further inform the phone company that I do not wish to receive phone calls from a certain number. They then filter these calls, and the other side gets a busy signal or other indication that I do not wish to receive calls from them. Is my phone company still a common carrier even though they block some phone calls from some phone numbers?
Since when do FBI agents have the power to issue subpoenas? That's what judges are for.
When it's a criminal offense, you need to get the cops involved. A denial of service attack qualifies. Therefore, we contact the authorities and report a crime in progress.
True, it's annoying. But when their security department refuses to start logging or doing anything at all on their end to help us get to the heart of the problem until they get a subpeona... They get one.
But instead of IE, they should have Applications, Business Operating Systems, and Consumer Operating Systems. This would put pressure on the NT group to open up certain internals (ala Microsoft's Kerberos 5 extensions) to everyone. If Millenium, 2000 Pro, and 2000 Server can't talk together, then they will HAVE to open the code so that they can get them speaking. And in the process, maybe we can actually get some competition started by allowing Linux and the other Un*x variables to get in on the act.
The only "incompatibility" involved is that non-MS software can't take advantage of the data in the field, and MS clients don't work without it.
OK, I'm not sure if I read this right, but if MS clients cannot work without this data field, would that not mean that it is "incompatible" with other implementations of the software?
"We're going to extend the SMTP standard to accept a special field, and the client side of our software won't work without it..." The SERVER is compliant, the WORKSTATION is NON-compliant, correct? Thus forcing people that want something akin to real security to utilize a W2K server if they want to run W2K desktops.
If this is incorrect, and they are not forcing the client machine to get that extra data field, then this argument isn't relevant at all. If it IS correct, then they are breaking the spirit of intercompatibility, and are rightly being attacked.
Besides, there's no functional difference between this and ratting out that goth kid in gym to the principal, except that someone is making a buck off of it.
I'm sorry, but there IS a difference. The difference is simple: The principal knows who ratted the kid out. This way, if it is proven unfounded, and the child continues to make allegations that prove false, the principal can now take action agains the accuser.
We NEED to be able to see who's crying wolf. With anonymous reporting, there is no way to tell "Johnny made 37 calls to the hotline and none of the tips panned out at all... Turns out he was just ticked off at the kid for getting an A and ruining the grade curve." By making it anonymous, we open it to abuse.
911 is a far different story. Not only do they know where you are calling from, it is a crime to make a false 911 call. Unfortunately, there is no crime involved with anonymously reporting someone to this program. *sigh* This is one of the few cases where I wish Big Brother really were watching.