This implies that it is OK for the US to do a lot of bad things, as long as it for the (so called) greater good.
No. How did you read it that way?
The US commits some crimes, but they aren't that bad. Other countries commit much worse crimes, often as policy instead of exception, and no one cares. That's hypocrisy.
But if France tries to oppose these bad things they turn in to a even bigger evil.
What bad things has America done that France has opposed? The war? That's not a bad thing. And France is just looking out for it's own oil contracts. They have serious financial ties to old Iraq that they'd lose in a new Iraq.
I think you can add to that a psychological need of France's to be the leader of Europe and popular anti-Americanism (or anti-perceived US unilateralism/hegemony/empire) that always trumps anti-anything else.
You live somewhere in the middle of the US? Right next to Canada.
Maybe a farmer or work in a union shop? College student. Computer Science.
You think the the 9/11 terrorists were Iragi and/or Afghani? Mostly Soudi. I was one of first to get people on that.
You're not worried about N Korea, because you figure George Bush will get them next? I am worried about N. Korea and I don't trust Bush. Voted Gore in election, McCain in primary.
"Around these parts"... ? Fucking inbred How about playful with language./insert something about assuming
Add to that, it's the only country in the world that has been officially found guilty of international terrorism in the world court.... Of course, the US is so damn weasily that they don't even acknoledge the world court!
I know the US has done a lot of bad things. I've read Chomsky and Zinn and listened to communists speak.
But really, develop some perspective. The US the only country being found guilty! It smells of something other than innocent impartiality and pure want of justice. That's overlooking Hitler to get some low-grade mugger.
It doesn't speak well for the world court and gives the US very good reason to doubt it.
No, that doesn't really prove anything. That's one decision. When I'm thinking about the balance of lies told, the malace involved, (and really) the regularity, I think Rush comes out worse.
Bill is the guy with his hand in the cookie jar saying: "I wasn't taking one. Really. Um, my doctor told me to -- for my health." It's kind of funny, kind of innocent (not totally, but), and mostly harmless.
Rush is the guy saying lies like: "Susy isn't as nice as she seems. She's actually been planning on killing her mother. And kids, don't go to school. That's where they harvest the body parts." It's someone's nasty invention; for what purpose? To spread hostility? To entertain? And there's always a new one on schedule. I think this is worse. You don't have to agree.
And I seem to remember that there were suspicions or rumors of his addiction before he came forward. Might not be true. Don't know for sure.
While weed doesn't help any [real] ailment (except maybe worsen one), Rush was addicted to pain killers. A highly addicting pain killer. What Clinton did was for no other cause than for enjoyment. While he should have cleaned himself up before he was caught, he didn't.
That's a very good point. I must agree.
Plus, Rush is a much more upstanding man than either Clintons.
You had me, but then, right here -- you lost me. Rush doesn't stand a chance against a simple lying cheater.
"how can they label Bush as a known weasel, thus indicating his "war on terrorism" is at least in great part a sham, and still bash the french?"
Simple:
The war is a good idea, but for human rights -- not any threat Saddam may or may not have been to us. And anything Bush made up or got wrong doesn't change that.
The French, taking an annoyingly self-gratifying position, opposed the whole war just because they opposed Bush. Around these parts, that's called asshat.
McBride is technically correct, although misleading. According to Perens (via the second link in the slashdot blurb) "It is included in code copyrighed by AT&T and released as Open Source under the BSD license by Caldera, the company that now calls itself SCO."
To sum up, the code in question is owned by SCO, but using said code in Linux is permissable under the license terms by which the code was released. The "crime" here was that the SGI developer stripped the copyright notice.
That would only be the case if they didn't find earlier examples of the code elsewhere, right? I seem to remember that this was AT&T code, then BSD/SCO code. Which should they cite for copyright?
Yes, I'm replying to myself. Here's something a little more in depth.
Sound quality: It sucks. The drums sound like cardboard boxes and the cymbols are trash-can lids, the bass is nonexistant and where is that second guitar?
Music: Sometimes (usual for metallica) the drumming is some sort of duet between drums/vocals or drums/guitar. Other times it seems like there are "lead drums" playing the melody and a guitar supplying the beat. It's something from bizarro world.
The songs are structured simply: make a few different parts, repeat with no variation one or two times, done. The whole album goes by like this.
Mission: They wanted to "get back to their roots" but in the process turned their backs on the way they used to do things. In the end it sounds much more like "abrasive re-load" instead of "modern ride the lightning/master of puppets".
Also, I think (I guess) that they wanted to distance themselves from the current crop of NuMetal. If that's what they were going for, it didn't work. Instead they've copied the younger artists that the metal fans wanted them to fight with a good album.
No, we hate metallica because they had great songwriting with rapid time signature changes, good lyrics, and intensity. Now it's just downtuned and baritone guitars, slap base, strict 4/4, artificial anger, and lyrics by a five year old.
In my case, I keep MP3's of singles I like and I buy albums if worthy. I delete the songs I don't like and I usually use P2P to sample music, not to replace CD's.
I have a friend though, with a slightly different outlook on it, who's got about 25Gig of MP3's of newer music that he doesn't have CD's for. In his mind it's in limbo; good enough to have, not enough to buy. But he does buy albums -- AC/DC, old Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, etc. He just never buys the newer stuff. It's not worth it.
I watched part of the MTV music video awards and never felt so out of touch with the music industry which any marketer will tell you is death. Lots of the new popular music completely misses the target for me and I am sure much of the music buying public.
That's exactly how I felt. I've been totally out-of-step with the music being pushed for the last few years. I was thinking, maybe I just got old. Then I realized, I'm just 22 right now...
This looks like a step backwards compared to Mac OS X, RedHat's Bluecurve, or early screen shots of longhorn.
I guess that depends on what you think of OSX, Bluecurve and Longhorn.:)
Seriously though, I think interfaces have just been getting worse. (Ex: OSX, WinXP.) Someone really needs to cull the eye candy from the default setup and instead go back to ease of use.
when I switched to ME my startup time went from a couple of minutes to 40-something seconds so I was instantly pleased
Oh, God!! If it took a couple minutes to boot 95/98 then there is seriously sumething wrong with your setup. I have a PII-350 here running '95 and it boots in about 25 secs, though it did take some tweaking. Most should boot at around 45 secs, I think.
for some reason people act like ME is a million times worse than 98/95 and it's just pathetic
95/98 was so bad that maybe it isn't that much worse...;-> ME has some real bad memory leaks. Depending on how you use it, you can run out of memory in 5 minutes to a few days. Do you shut your computer off every day or leave it on? And that's on top of some numurous and annoying glitches. These problems are real.
The slowness is not caused by network transparency!
But it is caused by it's buffering model (or lack thereof) and pixel-level rendering, right? A more fundimental change might be needed./trying to remember what I read about this...
My apologies if I got something wrong. I don't have a laptop with XP over the summer. It's just my home PC with Win95 right now.
But a look at these and tell me they aren't the opposite of every attempt to make Windows clean, efficient and easily usable. Screenshot 1 Screenshot 2
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Yes, leader of Europe == opposite of America.
You made this connection how?
PS. Wake the fuck up.
Can I accuse you of pulling a straw man out of your ass?--or is it cliche?
This implies that it is OK for the US to do a lot of bad things, as long as it for the (so called) greater good.
No. How did you read it that way?
The US commits some crimes, but they aren't that bad. Other countries commit much worse crimes, often as policy instead of exception, and no one cares. That's hypocrisy.
But if France tries to oppose these bad things they turn in to a even bigger evil.
What bad things has America done that France has opposed? The war? That's not a bad thing. And France is just looking out for it's own oil contracts. They have serious financial ties to old Iraq that they'd lose in a new Iraq.
An anonymous respose to my post pointed one good example of the ACLU defending the 2nd amendment. I'm sure there are more.
And it's my perception (totally unverified) that the NRA, defending one amendment, is just as big or bigger than the ACLU, defending the rest.
I'd guess (I'm guessing about everything here) that it's just the best use of resources to do so.
I say "around these parts" just once and all-of-a-goshdarned-sudden, I have TWO accusations of being inbred!
It's phrases like these that tell you everything about a man. When I discovered them, I fell in love--I could judge something with a glance.
I think you can add to that a psychological need of France's to be the leader of Europe and popular anti-Americanism (or anti-perceived US unilateralism/hegemony/empire) that always trumps anti-anything else.
You live somewhere in the middle of the US?
... ? Fucking inbred /insert something about assuming
Right next to Canada.
Maybe a farmer or work in a union shop?
College student. Computer Science.
You think the the 9/11 terrorists were Iragi and/or Afghani?
Mostly Soudi. I was one of first to get people on that.
You're not worried about N Korea, because you figure George Bush will get them next?
I am worried about N. Korea and I don't trust Bush. Voted Gore in election, McCain in primary.
"Around these parts"
How about playful with language.
Add to that, it's the only country in the world that has been officially found guilty of international terrorism in the world court. ...
Of course, the US is so damn weasily that they don't even acknoledge the world court!
I know the US has done a lot of bad things. I've read Chomsky and Zinn and listened to communists speak.
But really, develop some perspective. The US the only country being found guilty! It smells of something other than innocent impartiality and pure want of justice. That's overlooking Hitler to get some low-grade mugger.
It doesn't speak well for the world court and gives the US very good reason to doubt it.
That right there goes to prove the...
No, that doesn't really prove anything. That's one decision. When I'm thinking about the balance of lies told, the malace involved, (and really) the regularity, I think Rush comes out worse.
Bill is the guy with his hand in the cookie jar saying: "I wasn't taking one. Really. Um, my doctor told me to -- for my health."
It's kind of funny, kind of innocent (not totally, but), and mostly harmless.
Rush is the guy saying lies like: "Susy isn't as nice as she seems. She's actually been planning on killing her mother. And kids, don't go to school. That's where they harvest the body parts."
It's someone's nasty invention; for what purpose? To spread hostility? To entertain? And there's always a new one on schedule. I think this is worse. You don't have to agree.
And I seem to remember that there were suspicions or rumors of his addiction before he came forward. Might not be true. Don't know for sure.
P.S. I thought this was really funny. Check out If Bill Clinton were an addict, here's how Rush might spin it.
If the NRA didn't exist, I suppose they'd take it up. But since the NRA does exist and holds HUGE weight and power, what's the point?
That's what I've always said about Democrats: at least they're tax & spend. ;)
While weed doesn't help any [real] ailment (except maybe worsen one), Rush was addicted to pain killers. A highly addicting pain killer. What Clinton did was for no other cause than for enjoyment. While he should have cleaned himself up before he was caught, he didn't.
That's a very good point. I must agree.
Plus, Rush is a much more upstanding man than either Clintons.
You had me, but then, right here -- you lost me. Rush doesn't stand a chance against a simple lying cheater.
Wow. A survey with results from both the liberal side and conservative side...
'must be that liberal hypocrisy.
Yeah.
"how can they label Bush as a known weasel, thus indicating his "war on terrorism" is at least in great part a sham, and still bash the french?"
Simple:
The war is a good idea, but for human rights -- not any threat Saddam may or may not have been to us. And anything Bush made up or got wrong doesn't change that.
The French, taking an annoyingly self-gratifying position, opposed the whole war just because they opposed Bush. Around these parts, that's called asshat.
...and that upgraded Russian technology came from stolen German technology.
Much of which came from American hobbyists. Of course, at each stage, things improved.
Just my Sound Blaster 16 ISA card.
McBride is technically correct, although misleading. According to Perens (via the second link in the slashdot blurb) "It is included in code copyrighed by AT&T and released as Open Source under the BSD license by Caldera, the company that now calls itself SCO."
To sum up, the code in question is owned by SCO, but using said code in Linux is permissable under the license terms by which the code was released. The "crime" here was that the SGI developer stripped the copyright notice.
That would only be the case if they didn't find earlier examples of the code elsewhere, right? I seem to remember that this was AT&T code, then BSD/SCO code. Which should they cite for copyright?
Agreed. But are you arguing that ESR shouldn't inform the proper authorities about the crime he knows has been committed?
He doesn't know who it was, so how is he going to inform any authorities?
Yes, I'm replying to myself. Here's something a little more in depth.
Sound quality: It sucks. The drums sound like cardboard boxes and the cymbols are trash-can lids, the bass is nonexistant and where is that second guitar?
Music: Sometimes (usual for metallica) the drumming is some sort of duet between drums/vocals or drums/guitar. Other times it seems like there are "lead drums" playing the melody and a guitar supplying the beat. It's something from bizarro world.
The songs are structured simply: make a few different parts, repeat with no variation one or two times, done. The whole album goes by like this.
Mission: They wanted to "get back to their roots" but in the process turned their backs on the way they used to do things. In the end it sounds much more like "abrasive re-load" instead of "modern ride the lightning/master of puppets".
Also, I think (I guess) that they wanted to distance themselves from the current crop of NuMetal. If that's what they were going for, it didn't work. Instead they've copied the younger artists that the metal fans wanted them to fight with a good album.
No, we hate metallica because they had great songwriting with rapid time signature changes, good lyrics, and intensity. Now it's just downtuned and baritone guitars, slap base, strict 4/4, artificial anger, and lyrics by a five year old.
In my case, I keep MP3's of singles I like and I buy albums if worthy. I delete the songs I don't like and I usually use P2P to sample music, not to replace CD's.
I have a friend though, with a slightly different outlook on it, who's got about 25Gig of MP3's of newer music that he doesn't have CD's for. In his mind it's in limbo; good enough to have, not enough to buy. But he does buy albums -- AC/DC, old Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, etc. He just never buys the newer stuff. It's not worth it.
I watched part of the MTV music video awards and never felt so out of touch with the music industry which any marketer will tell you is death. Lots of the new popular music completely misses the target for me and I am sure much of the music buying public.
That's exactly how I felt. I've been totally out-of-step with the music being pushed for the last few years. I was thinking, maybe I just got old. Then I realized, I'm just 22 right now...
This looks like a step backwards compared to Mac OS X, RedHat's Bluecurve, or early screen shots of longhorn.
:)
I guess that depends on what you think of OSX, Bluecurve and Longhorn.
Seriously though, I think interfaces have just been getting worse. (Ex: OSX, WinXP.) Someone really needs to cull the eye candy from the default setup and instead go back to ease of use.
when I switched to ME my startup time went from a couple of minutes to 40-something seconds so I was instantly pleased
;-> ME has some real bad memory leaks. Depending on how you use it, you can run out of memory in 5 minutes to a few days. Do you shut your computer off every day or leave it on? And that's on top of some numurous and annoying glitches. These problems are real.
Oh, God!! If it took a couple minutes to boot 95/98 then there is seriously sumething wrong with your setup. I have a PII-350 here running '95 and it boots in about 25 secs, though it did take some tweaking. Most should boot at around 45 secs, I think.
for some reason people act like ME is a million times worse than 98/95 and it's just pathetic
95/98 was so bad that maybe it isn't that much worse...
The slowness is not caused by network transparency!
/trying to remember what I read about this...
But it is caused by it's buffering model (or lack thereof) and pixel-level rendering, right? A more fundimental change might be needed.
My apologies if I got something wrong. I don't have a laptop with XP over the summer. It's just my home PC with Win95 right now.
But a look at these and tell me they aren't the opposite of every attempt to make Windows clean, efficient and easily usable.
Screenshot 1
Screenshot 2