I thought the guy's responses were informative, and entertaining. It's really silly how some people go out of thier way to point out how somebody else is being insulting or rude. I thought it was pretty damn funny. It seemed to me that you could take what he was saying in many different ways. You just chose to take it in a way that was insulting. Maybe you need to reread it a little less carefully, get a sense of humor and a hide. He's not an HR representative, though you might expect him to be. He's not a salesman, and isn't obligated to entrance users with his charisma. He's a dude that has spent 5 years of hise life redoing a bunch of peoples crappy code. What kind of personality would you expect from a person who is willing to do that? He has better things to do that to cater to what you appreciate... Why don't you appreciate him a little more by assuming that he means well, especially since he is the one that is giving YOU the software.
In a word: He has no obligation to you, no matter how hard you try to rationalize that he does. He isn't charging you for software, he isn't forcing you to listen, he isn't infringing on your on any aspect of your reality... unless you let him.
Yeah, I dig it. But what are you scared of? I mean what has he ever done besides the way he words things to show that he isn't intelligent on this subject? The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world. Gore followed through in eight years as vice-president; back then, the mockery was for talking about some nonsense called "an information superhighway".
1) In March 1986... Gore sponsored the Supercomputer Network Study Act to link the nation's supercomputers into a single system.
This was his vision: "Libraries, rural schools, minority institutions and vocational education programs will have access to the same national resources -- databases, supercomputers, accelerators -- as more affluent and better-known institutions."
2) in 1989 introduced another bill directed that the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had created the forerunner of the Internet, "shall ensure that unclassified computer technology research is readily available to American industry."
..."establish a high-capacity national research and education computer network."
In testimony to a House committee, Gore said: "I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network... will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses."
In 1991, Gore reintroduced his bill to provide funding for development of a national computer network. He said: "Today, most students using computer networks are studying science and engineering, but there are more and more applications in other fields, too. Economists, historians and literature majors are all discovering the power of networking. In the future, I think we will see computers and networks used to teach every subject from kindergarten through grade school."
3) As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship.
When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. Gore provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven operation.
Yes Bush doesn't know squat about the internet. And quite frankly, I'm very glad he doesn't. In this case ignorance on his part can be bliss on mine. the more the govt stays out of our lives the better off we will be.
This sounds great and romantic and all, but if the government had "stayed out" of the internet, it's quite possible there wouldn't be one in the first place!
Here is an example of what Bush has said about the Internet.
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."--Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
And...
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"--Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
So statements like these make you feel safe that he won't be intelligent enough to make any bad changes. But a person such as Gore that shows a real vision, interest and compassion for the internet is to dangerous? And that's the logic you are basing your decision on? I'm getting very scared for the state of America...
Dude, you are misinformed. Gore DID do a lot in the creation of the internet as we know it today. Not on the technical end, but on the political end. Sure he didn't elaborate on the sentence he was saying in that interview, but if you read the whole paragraph you can see that he didn't mean "He created the internet".
Here is what he said:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Granted that sounds a little pompous, but have ever said anything and it didn't come out right? Sure you have. Now take a look at the stupid things that Bush has said. Now even if those were taken out of context, they would still be idiotic.
Well I guess that's a good reason to vote for him... If you want a puppet for a President. I have this very sneaking suspicion that Bush DID NOT write those replies. And if he did, they were edited to all hell. I for one don't want a president who is just one of those people that post to newsgroups saying "Yeah, me too." Or "If you give me enough money and it's not obviously a bad thing, I'll support it."
That's all the Reagan administration was, and we know how well that worked. PFFT!
Not because I like him... only because he has surrounded himself with *other people* who seem to know what they are doing, and Bush seems like the kind of person who can listen to other people.
Yeah, like SATAN! Geez, you are a sheep aren't you.
The main thing we'll have to suffer through is the wealth of terrible humor which inevitably ensue from his complete lack of skill with the English language. He may be intelligent, I don't know, but I really don't want some guy who says such stupid shit at every turn as a model for the rest of the world to gauge American's collective intelligence.
I am alive. I wish upon myself alternate states of consciousness. I am sympathetic to others freedom and only wish I was granted the same. My memory is grand and filled with japanese vistas. When I am out and the owls catch me like a cat to feed to the natives and the wooden sprites clown me into submission. I will make my way to the kings room. O what sublime fortune that I may tempt stone to writhe though without life. Sweet calcitrant death you furrow a moon that I followed at first. Weekends and mornings of excess. Empty bottles scattered among toxic swollen atmosphere. How can you defend my freedom and make my decisions for me in the same breath? I am weak and common, but I me.
It's annoying when people say stuff about how premium gas is a scam. My car requires it or I'll get ping
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Why was this modded to insightful? Any UNIX machine wouldn't have a mail client that automatically runs executables attached to email. On a default install for most UNIX what mail clients do you have? pine, elm, maybe mutt? In each of these files you could have to go out of your way to save the file, chmod it, the run it.
Anyway, since when is Microsofts intranet not invisible to the internet?
Go out and get yourself an hosted account that meets your requirements. I don't use my ISP's email for daily stuff anyway. Mainly because it changes every 6 months when I get a new ISP... and I don't want to have to recirculate my new email everytime.
I think we ought to have character education in our schools. I know that doesn't directly talk about Hollywood, but it does reinforce the values you're teaching. I'd greatly expand character education funding, so that public schools will teach children values, values which have stood the test of time.
Does this scare anyone else? How can the government decide what character they should instill in children? There is no way you could draw a line to say what is good character, and what is bad character. I certainly don't character taught to my children based on popular vote. Besides, if I ever have children I'm not going to teach them values, or morals based on a predefined dogma. I'm going to teach them ethics which are based on views that they as people have developed themselves through learning naturally what is right and wrong. I can't believe that someone who seems to have such strong beliefs that the government shouldn't control peoples lives, would have the gaul to tell me that my children should be taught by the government how to behave on such a fundamental, personal level.
One of the guys at my job when he was hired requested that an addendum be added to his sign on aggreement (he was perm) that if there was any pager duty his wage would be renegotiated. At the time, his job didn't require a pager. A few months later, his boss said "We need you to carry a pager". He responded "You need to look at my contract, my wage needs to be renegotiated." The boss got a little angry I believe and sure enough when he looked at the workers contract, there it was. The nasty addendum he had forgotten. Long story short, he didn't have to carry a pager.
Mankind can outlive only if it settles on another planet, let the almost completely gelaehmte scientist its listeners with the conception of its new book " The of university verses in a groove-brightly "
Yo, Neil Turok, Let's kick it!
Haw king Baby, Haw king Baby
All right stop, the cosmos and listen
Hawking is back with my brand new invention
Blackhole grabs a hold of me tightly
Then I bend the path of a photon both daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo -- I don't know
Turn on the particle accelerator and I'll glow
Thru the event horizon I rock a whitehole like a vandal
Watch myself enter the blackhole as I eat a bagel
You go Hawking, you got mad rhymes. Go Hawking, it's your birthday, it's your birthday!
A recent study showed that students who graduate from the DARE program are more liklely to use drugs than kids who don't. We just need, as a culture, to face the fact that drugs are interesting, and no amount of "drugs are bad m'kay" is going to change that.
That is true, but there is a more obvious reason why the DARE program kids are more likely to take drugs. It's because it teaches you how to! Before telling you that drugs are bad, a typical DARE session includes: Where to get drugs. How to tell if drugs are bad. Interesting (and sometimes tempting) descriptions of what these drugs do. What they look like, and what they smell like. They even bring in an "exhibit" with real examples of how they are packaged. They then show stupid movies with idiot actors that almost make you think that taking drugs would make you cool (since you aren't like the damn fools on the video). Or give you examples of famous media and literary figures who were drug "victims" (what would make someone more interested in trying opium for example than telling them Edgar Allen Poe, or Coleridge was highly influenced by these altered states. Pick a rock star?). My tripped out adolescent mind never even realized I would need drugs to achieve these interesting states until I was bombarded with these technical sessions.
That combined with the fact that 95 percent of the people I knew who tried them didn't aquire a serious habit, or ill effects. It's just too interesting an experiment to miss out on:-).
By the way...This is off topic...I don't like Atlanta all that much.
I have to agree with you there, I moved here 8 months ago and I hate it. The Atlanta "scene" is all but content free. Buckhead is supposed to be the big party sector of Atlanta and what is it, like 4 square blocks of restaraunts and a bar? Pretty laughable... Usually there would be other cultures represented besides the Rap Gangsta one, but not here, it's just a flat rap hell hole. It also seems to have no culture, it's just this redneck town that was a train station hub so it's got more rednecks than most redneck towns, and it's cheap and virgin so companies build here. Okay, it's pretty big, and it's a telecom hub, but that doesn't make a city cool... It just doesn't have that spark in the air like LA, NY or DC.
I moved hear from DC, and I'm eager to move back. I'm a person of a literary background, and least in DC there was a semblance of a community to be a part of in that sense. There is more to life than shaking booty.
1) Write an init script that kicks off when the machine goes down to clean up files in/tmp, and archive those that are needed (as an admin I wouldn't suggest that my users keep stuff in/tmp anyway, but...)
2) Set resource limits on the amount of space that can be used on/tmp.
If your admins didn't immediately think of those things (or somethign similar), they need to go back to admin school.:-)
"Truly anonymous targeted ads are a Good Thing, as long as they are (let's repeat that) truly anonymous."
I agree, I actually buy stuff after seeing advertisements sometimes. Isn't what they are for?! I would appreciate advertisements that were "anonymously" directed towards me. That way I can cut the feminine hygiene commercials and ramp up the ads informing me of a new exhaust system for my car, or a bitchin' deal on a harddrive at my local computer store.
I would see that as an added value to watching TV because companies might actually advertise based on what I like, instead of just blindly flailing about with this general information about products normally only 10 percent of the 10 percent of people who are actually watching, may need.
No sh!t, seems like such a bunch of conspiracy theorists like the Slashdot crew would be a little more careful about which information they post in a quasi-journalistic forum such as this. Especially considering that the information on this site reaches most of the technically inclined population some way or another. Considering Slashdot would be the perfect forum to distribute false information, I think it would be in proper form if they verfied there sources *before* they post content. To optimize the amount of verified information that reaches the masses of people, who will believe anything they are told, by what they consider to be a reliable source.
That's just me though, I don't want to be a pawn of the element which trickles this sort of information thru supposedly reliable sources to get everyone to believe it.::looks around suspiciously::
You know how you see those "updates" at the bottom of stories. A better solution to help maximize the amount of correct information posted might be to have that update system done internally before it was dissiminated. Heck, you might even want to take some classes on Journalism, er read a book about it or something to improve your technique. No offense...
I'm sure the power/price ratio isn't too good, besides it's not backwards compatible. All this speculation about new forms of power are never going to come to fruition anyway, the oil companies and the car manufacturers have to much at stake... The best bet is to push for ethyl alcohol powered combustions engines. It breaks down into h20 and co2, that's not clean enough for yall!? Besides the day I give up my loud ass, fuel guzzling Camaro SS for a whirring battery powered car, will the be the same day you'll be able to get nitrogen to liquid form in Hades.
Another benefit of using ethyl alchohol is that you can create it from plant fermentation which is a renewable resource.
You don't even need a hard drive, you could just boot an initrd image, and load AOL directly from that. You wouldn't even need the system utilities like cp and ls, just the C library, linux kernel and AOL. It's scary, but it's a good idea:
They send you a bootable CD, you pop it in and AOL comes up, you login... after a couple days using thier ASP based services, say throw in a SpreadSheet, WordProcessor, blah blah, all the usual AOL services. Then you give them an option in a couple days. "Would you like to use AOL permanently?". Then give them a button that says Okay on it, and it formats there harddrive and installs linux/AOL on it. MUHAHAHAHA!
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I thought the guy's responses were informative, and entertaining. It's really silly how some people go out of thier way to point out how somebody else is being insulting or rude. I thought it was pretty damn funny. It seemed to me that you could take what he was saying in many different ways. You just chose to take it in a way that was insulting. Maybe you need to reread it a little less carefully, get a sense of humor and a hide. He's not an HR representative, though you might expect him to be. He's not a salesman, and isn't obligated to entrance users with his charisma. He's a dude that has spent 5 years of hise life redoing a bunch of peoples crappy code. What kind of personality would you expect from a person who is willing to do that? He has better things to do that to cater to what you appreciate... Why don't you appreciate him a little more by assuming that he means well, especially since he is the one that is giving YOU the software.
In a word: He has no obligation to you, no matter how hard you try to rationalize that he does. He isn't charging you for software, he isn't forcing you to listen, he isn't infringing on your on any aspect of your reality... unless you let him.
It can't be anyworse than Atlanta, it's like a freaking demilitarized zone in some places around here.
Yeah, I dig it. But what are you scared of? I mean what has he ever done besides the way he words things to show that he isn't intelligent on this subject? The Vice President deserves credit for his early recognition of the value of high speed computing and communication and for his long-term and consistent articulation of the potential value of the Internet to American citizens and industry and, indeed, to the rest of the world. Gore followed through in eight years as vice-president; back then, the mockery was for talking about some nonsense called "an information superhighway".
... Gore sponsored the Supercomputer Network Study Act to link the nation's supercomputers into a single system.
..."establish a high-capacity national research and education computer network."
In testimony to a House committee, Gore said: "I genuinely believe that the creation of this nationwide network ... will create an environment where work stations are common in homes and even small businesses."
1) In March 1986
This was his vision: "Libraries, rural schools, minority institutions and vocational education programs will have access to the same national resources -- databases, supercomputers, accelerators -- as more affluent and better-known institutions."
2) in 1989 introduced another bill directed that the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, which had created the forerunner of the Internet, "shall ensure that unclassified computer technology research is readily available to American industry."
In 1991, Gore reintroduced his bill to provide funding for development of a national computer network. He said: "Today, most students using computer networks are studying science and engineering, but there are more and more applications in other fields, too. Economists, historians and literature majors are all discovering the power of networking. In the future, I think we will see computers and networks used to teach every subject from kindergarten through grade school."
3) As far back as the 1970s Congressman Gore promoted the idea of high speed telecommunications as an engine for both economic growth and the improvement of our educational system. He was the first elected official to grasp the potential of computer communications to have a broader impact than just improving the conduct of science and scholarship.
When the Internet was still in the early stages of its deployment, Congressman Gore provided intellectual leadership by helping create the vision of the potential benefits of high speed computing and communication. Gore provided much-needed political support for the speedy privatization of the Internet when the time arrived for it to become a commercially-driven operation.
Yes Bush doesn't know squat about the internet. And quite frankly, I'm very glad he doesn't. In this case ignorance on his part can be bliss on mine. the more the govt stays out of our lives the better off we will be.
This sounds great and romantic and all, but if the government had "stayed out" of the internet, it's quite possible there wouldn't be one in the first place!
Here is an example of what Bush has said about the Internet.
"It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet."--Arlington Heights, Ill., Oct. 24, 2000
And...
"Will the highways on the Internet become more few?"--Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
So statements like these make you feel safe that he won't be intelligent enough to make any bad changes. But a person such as Gore that shows a real vision, interest and compassion for the internet is to dangerous? And that's the logic you are basing your decision on? I'm getting very scared for the state of America...
Dude, you are misinformed. Gore DID do a lot in the creation of the internet as we know it today. Not on the technical end, but on the political end. Sure he didn't elaborate on the sentence he was saying in that interview, but if you read the whole paragraph you can see that he didn't mean "He created the internet".
Here is what he said:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
Granted that sounds a little pompous, but have ever said anything and it didn't come out right? Sure you have. Now take a look at the stupid things that Bush has said. Now even if those were taken out of context, they would still be idiotic.
Well I guess that's a good reason to vote for him... If you want a puppet for a President. I have this very sneaking suspicion that Bush DID NOT write those replies. And if he did, they were edited to all hell. I for one don't want a president who is just one of those people that post to newsgroups saying "Yeah, me too." Or "If you give me enough money and it's not obviously a bad thing, I'll support it."
That's all the Reagan administration was, and we know how well that worked. PFFT!
Not because I like him... only because he has surrounded himself with *other people* who seem to know what they are doing, and Bush seems like the kind of person who can listen to other people.
Yeah, like SATAN! Geez, you are a sheep aren't you.
The main thing we'll have to suffer through is the wealth of terrible humor which inevitably ensue from his complete lack of skill with the English language. He may be intelligent, I don't know, but I really don't want some guy who says such stupid shit at every turn as a model for the rest of the world to gauge American's collective intelligence.
Eh, true. But if it weren't for those people that are scammed there probably wouldn't be enough demand for it that I would have gas for my car...
:-)
So thank you, automotive inept, for your kind gesture of thanks
emg
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Proud gas guzzling 1998 Chevrolet Camaro SS owner
I am alive. I wish upon myself alternate states of consciousness. I am sympathetic to others freedom and only wish I was granted the same. My memory is grand and filled with japanese vistas. When I am out and the owls catch me like a cat to feed to the natives and the wooden sprites clown me into submission. I will make my way to the kings room. O what sublime fortune that I may tempt stone to writhe though without life. Sweet calcitrant death you furrow a moon that I followed at first. Weekends and mornings of excess. Empty bottles scattered among toxic swollen atmosphere. How can you defend my freedom and make my decisions for me in the same breath? I am weak and common, but I me.
It's annoying when people say stuff about how premium gas is a scam. My car requires it or I'll get ping
Why was this modded to insightful? Any UNIX machine wouldn't have a mail client that automatically runs executables attached to email. On a default install for most UNIX what mail clients do you have? pine, elm, maybe mutt? In each of these files you could have to go out of your way to save the file, chmod it, the run it. Anyway, since when is Microsofts intranet not invisible to the internet?
I think he was using that wry wit those crazy socialists tend to have... chill out bro :-)
Go out and get yourself an hosted account that meets your requirements. I don't use my ISP's email for daily stuff anyway. Mainly because it changes every 6 months when I get a new ISP... and I don't want to have to recirculate my new email everytime.
So teach them at an early age not to lie? Where is the marketing staff for the next century going to come from?!
Bush says:
I think we ought to have character education in our schools. I know that doesn't directly talk about Hollywood, but it does reinforce the values you're teaching. I'd greatly expand character education funding, so that public schools will teach children values, values which have stood the test of time.
Does this scare anyone else? How can the government decide what character they should instill in children? There is no way you could draw a line to say what is good character, and what is bad character. I certainly don't character taught to my children based on popular vote. Besides, if I ever have children I'm not going to teach them values, or morals based on a predefined dogma. I'm going to teach them ethics which are based on views that they as people have developed themselves through learning naturally what is right and wrong. I can't believe that someone who seems to have such strong beliefs that the government shouldn't control peoples lives, would have the gaul to tell me that my children should be taught by the government how to behave on such a fundamental, personal level.
One of the guys at my job when he was hired requested that an addendum be added to his sign on aggreement (he was perm) that if there was any pager duty his wage would be renegotiated. At the time, his job didn't require a pager. A few months later, his boss said "We need you to carry a pager". He responded "You need to look at my contract, my wage needs to be renegotiated." The boss got a little angry I believe and sure enough when he looked at the workers contract, there it was. The nasty addendum he had forgotten. Long story short, he didn't have to carry a pager.
I thought that was a cool idea.
From the translation on babelfish:
Mankind can outlive only if it settles on another planet, let the almost completely gelaehmte scientist its listeners with the conception of its new book " The of university verses in a groove-brightly "
Yo, Neil Turok, Let's kick it!
Haw king Baby, Haw king Baby
All right stop, the cosmos and listen
Hawking is back with my brand new invention
Blackhole grabs a hold of me tightly
Then I bend the path of a photon both daily and nightly
Will it ever stop? Yo -- I don't know
Turn on the particle accelerator and I'll glow
Thru the event horizon I rock a whitehole like a vandal
Watch myself enter the blackhole as I eat a bagel
You go Hawking, you got mad rhymes. Go Hawking, it's your birthday, it's your birthday!
ShizzAM!
A recent study showed that students who graduate from the DARE program are more liklely to use drugs than kids who don't. We just need, as a culture, to face the fact that drugs are interesting, and no amount of "drugs are bad m'kay" is going to change that.
:-).
That is true, but there is a more obvious reason why the DARE program kids are more likely to take drugs. It's because it teaches you how to! Before telling you that drugs are bad, a typical DARE session includes: Where to get drugs. How to tell if drugs are bad. Interesting (and sometimes tempting) descriptions of what these drugs do. What they look like, and what they smell like. They even bring in an "exhibit" with real examples of how they are packaged. They then show stupid movies with idiot actors that almost make you think that taking drugs would make you cool (since you aren't like the damn fools on the video). Or give you examples of famous media and literary figures who were drug "victims" (what would make someone more interested in trying opium for example than telling them Edgar Allen Poe, or Coleridge was highly influenced by these altered states. Pick a rock star?). My tripped out adolescent mind never even realized I would need drugs to achieve these interesting states until I was bombarded with these technical sessions.
That combined with the fact that 95 percent of the people I knew who tried them didn't aquire a serious habit, or ill effects. It's just too interesting an experiment to miss out on
By the way...This is off topic...I don't like Atlanta all that much.
I have to agree with you there, I moved here 8 months ago and I hate it. The Atlanta "scene" is all but content free. Buckhead is supposed to be the big party sector of Atlanta and what is it, like 4 square blocks of restaraunts and a bar? Pretty laughable... Usually there would be other cultures represented besides the Rap Gangsta one, but not here, it's just a flat rap hell hole. It also seems to have no culture, it's just this redneck town that was a train station hub so it's got more rednecks than most redneck towns, and it's cheap and virgin so companies build here. Okay, it's pretty big, and it's a telecom hub, but that doesn't make a city cool... It just doesn't have that spark in the air like LA, NY or DC.
I moved hear from DC, and I'm eager to move back. I'm a person of a literary background, and least in DC there was a semblance of a community to be a part of in that sense. There is more to life than shaking booty.
I'll stop now...
1) Write an init script that kicks off when the machine goes down to clean up files in /tmp, and archive those that are needed (as an admin I wouldn't suggest that my users keep stuff in /tmp anyway, but...)
2) Set resource limits on the amount of space that can be used on /tmp.
:-)
If your admins didn't immediately think of those things (or somethign similar), they need to go back to admin school.
"Truly anonymous targeted ads are a Good Thing, as long as they are (let's repeat that) truly anonymous."
I agree, I actually buy stuff after seeing advertisements sometimes. Isn't what they are for?! I would appreciate advertisements that were "anonymously" directed towards me. That way I can cut the feminine hygiene commercials and ramp up the ads informing me of a new exhaust system for my car, or a bitchin' deal on a harddrive at my local computer store.
I would see that as an added value to watching TV because companies might actually advertise based on what I like, instead of just blindly flailing about with this general information about products normally only 10 percent of the 10 percent of people who are actually watching, may need.
Hm
No sh!t, seems like such a bunch of conspiracy theorists like the Slashdot crew would be a little more careful about which information they post in a quasi-journalistic forum such as this. Especially considering that the information on this site reaches most of the technically inclined population some way or another. Considering Slashdot would be the perfect forum to distribute false information, I think it would be in proper form if they verfied there sources *before* they post content. To optimize the amount of verified information that reaches the masses of people, who will believe anything they are told, by what they consider to be a reliable source.
::looks around suspiciously::
That's just me though, I don't want to be a pawn of the element which trickles this sort of information thru supposedly reliable sources to get everyone to believe it.
You know how you see those "updates" at the bottom of stories. A better solution to help maximize the amount of correct information posted might be to have that update system done internally before it was dissiminated. Heck, you might even want to take some classes on Journalism, er read a book about it or something to improve your technique. No offense...
It's in the last line:
"Even if you don't read this EULA, you must abide by all of the above before using our product.
I'm sure the power/price ratio isn't too good, besides it's not backwards compatible. All this speculation about new forms of power are never going to come to fruition anyway, the oil companies and the car manufacturers have to much at stake... The best bet is to push for ethyl alcohol powered combustions engines. It breaks down into h20 and co2, that's not clean enough for yall!? Besides the day I give up my loud ass, fuel guzzling Camaro SS for a whirring battery powered car, will the be the same day you'll be able to get nitrogen to liquid form in Hades.
Another benefit of using ethyl alchohol is that you can create it from plant fermentation which is a renewable resource.
Remember "Everything in UNIX is a file". So, in truth it is just a file manager.
But I get your point
You don't even need a hard drive, you could just boot an initrd image, and load AOL directly from that. You wouldn't even need the system utilities like cp and ls, just the C library, linux kernel and AOL. It's scary, but it's a good idea:
They send you a bootable CD, you pop it in and AOL comes up, you login... after a couple days using thier ASP based services, say throw in a SpreadSheet, WordProcessor, blah blah, all the usual AOL services. Then you give them an option in a couple days. "Would you like to use AOL permanently?". Then give them a button that says Okay on it, and it formats there harddrive and installs linux/AOL on it. MUHAHAHAHA!