OK, Apple sells a 500MHz G3 iMac for $800 today. Sure, this is marginally more expensive than that $550 board you just mentioned, but that board is lacking:
- a case
-a monitor
-RAM
-Speakers
-Mac OS X or Mac OS 9
-CD-ROM
-Hard Drive
-Keyboard and Mouse
It's not clear if it's missing an AGP video card, too, so I won't mention it.
There's zero chance that you can get all of those things for less than the $250 difference in price. So, why would anyone in their right mind buy one of these boards to run Mac OS X?
And of course you have the right to advocate killing Americans. Just don't complain when someone advocates killing you. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...
The decision has been stayed by the judge who issued it because it was going to be appealed to the full 9th Circuit anyway. And it's highly likely that the decision will be overturned. It's more or less nonsense. Hearing the word "God" does not violate your right to be an athiest. The complaint was that this athiest's daughter was being subjected to religion because she had to hear (doesn't have to SAY, the Supreme Court ruled that in 1943) the pledge with the phrase "under God." This was against her beliefs, and it was coercive because the teacher was leading the class in saying it.
Well, what about other religious beliefs? Jehovah's Witnesses consider pledging aliegance in general to be against their religion. Should the pledge be banned in its entirely because it offends them? And while I don't want to draw a parallel between atheism and bigotry, how about people who don't believe in "Liberty and Justice for all"? Like white supremicists or people who want to keep women uneducated, barefoot, and pregnant? Can we pull that clause as well because we might be teaching tolerance to the children of bigots? Sorry, but it's a stupid decision from a court that has a history of stupid decisions. 84% of the rulings in the 9th Circuit get overturned, many of them unanamously.
But the important thing is that this discussion doesn't happen at the point of a gun. It happens in court rooms, in public. That's why the US isn't a police state.
As for your other comments, look, it's clear that you believe that the Chinese are stupid sub-humans who are incapable of taking care of themselves unless they have an opressive government. I think they're human beings who should be free, like Americans. Let's just say we agree to disagree.
And Argentina didn't have a failing of democracy, it had a failing of bad economic policy. But you probably don't want to discuss that here and I don't know if you have the background to debate it cogently.
You're full of crap. Please point out ANY examples that support your claim of Arabs who speak out against the US government being locked up. Hell, the FBI director just gave a speech in front of an Arab organization that has been highly critical of the government. He thanked the Arab community for its help in fighting terrorism. In case you were wondering, no one was locked up afterwards.
And if you are an Irish American who is scheming to help terrorists kill Americans and destroy America, then I hope you are locked up as an enemy combatant. If you're not, then you won't be.
The FBI has tried to get records of book purchases. Book stores said no. Guess what happened to the book seller? Nothing. In fact, the courts have told the FBI they can't get those records. America, land of the free, wins again.
But please keep trying. You are making it very easy for me to prove my point.
The Chinese don't need a repressive police state to keep the people fed. In fact, if the Chinese government stopped wasting so much money on being an opressive police state, feeding people would be far easier. The Chinese leadership would rather people starve than they lose any amount of power.
As for the death threats that the guy in Sacramento got, you're right, it does speak volumes. There are nearly 300 million Americans. If 99.99% of them were completely sane people, understanding and accepting of other points of view, there would still be 3,000 people who would want to kill him. How many death threats did he get? I bet it's less than 3,000, and there are a lot more crazy, intollerant people in the US than my absurdly generous estimate above.
What's more important to note is that no GOVERNMENT figure issued a death threat, despite the fact that you couldn't find a public figure who agreed with this guy.
So yeah, the fact that one guy in Sacramento can get judges to agree to remove God from a patriotic pledge during a time of war does speak volumes about the US. It says "America is still the land of the free."
Posting a message in china saying that chinese do not have a large degree of personal freedom isnt a big deal. (If you go on to say thats bad, then it would be)
Apparently, you think it's bad. Go ahead and say so in China. You just said so in that awful police state America. Or are you only a brave fighter for liberty when you know that nothing's at stake and your complaint is a hollow one?
The type of extreme reaction provoked from you demonstrates very well the self-censorship im talking about:
What self-censorship? I don't think the US is a police state, or even close to a police state. You, on the other hand, do think so, and just said so on a server hosted in the US. Has the government stopped you from saying so? No. Ergo, not censored by the US government. Amazing, that in the US there's not only no self-censorship, there's no government censorship, either. You're just another crank who hates America for some ill-defined reason.
Veiled threat, or subconscious slip?
See, now I think you're a troll. Because I am clearly referring to what will happen when you are oh-so-brave and protest that China is a police state when you are actually in China.
The only thing I'm threatening is the brainwashing that you've obviously received. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm able to crack through it.
Tell you what: why don't you find a message board in China and you can post a similar screed about China. How long do you think you will have to live? A day? A few years in a "reeducation" prison?
I promise that I'll send flowers to your next of kin.
I love listening to people post anti-American screeds on a server located in America, claiming that America is the land of censorship.
Using crime to make yourself heard makes one a "terrorist", as per U.S tradition,
No, it doesn't, you putz.
No one called Martin Luther King, Jr. a terrorist. That's because he didn't attack and/or kill civilians while fighting for civil rights.
This is something that left-wing, anti-American pinheads purposely obfuscate: TERRORISTS ARE TERRORISTS BECAUSE THEY INTENTIONALLY ATTACK CIVILIANS TO ADVANCE A POLITICAL AGENDA.
Bullshit all you want to wiggle around this definition, but it's true.
No flame, but you should realize that the 500MHz iBook is slow with OS X because it has a tiny L2 cache (256K) and a 66MHz bus to main memory. The 100MHz memory bus on later models (and the 512K of L2 cache) really help performance.
Apple has been shipping ATI hardware acceleration in OS X since 10.0. 10.1.5 added support for some of the ancient ATI cards. 10.2 adds hardware accelerated scrolling support for ATI and NVidia cards, in addition to Quartz Extreme for Radeon/GeForce cards (it's not a VRAM issue as much as it is support for textures that aren't a power of two in a dimension).
-jon
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I just did a web search and found out that the policy may have been changed recently, when a Saudi astronaut flew on the Space Shuttle. But the chief Mufti (religious judge) of Saudi Arabia, Sheikh Abd el-Rahman bin-Baz, issued a fatwa (religious ruling) in 1979 declaring that the sun orbits the earth and that the earth is flat. As Saudi Arabia is a theocratic monarchy, what the religious courts say, goes. They recently banned Pokemon because they thought it was a Jewish conspiracy (a six-pointed star appears on one of the cards).
If you don't believe me, do a web search for "SHEIKH BIN BAZ flat earth" or "Saudi Arabia Pokemon" for more Saudi wackiness.
I don't know if you've noticed, but crazy rantings about Jewish control of the media (or business or the government or precious bodily fluids) are now the providence of the new home of hate for Jews, the left wing.
As for "fair and balanced" headlines, care to count the number of headlines in left-leaning newspapers that called Jenin a "massacre?" When the inconvenient facts were demonstrated, nary a peep of correction was heard.
You're fooling yourself if you think there's less bias in left-wing newspapers. The difference is that you probably agree with the left-wing bias, so it doesn't seem biased to you at all.
Sullivan is a Republican because, well, read his site. Or his books. Or the issues of The New Republic that he edited.
The short answer is that he believes that the Republican party is the party of personal freedom. I think he's a bit too willing to overlook the elements of his party that are against personal freedom, but Sullivan believes that they're on the way out. So do most of the Neo-Cons.
Michael Bloomberg is as much a Republican conservative as I am a platypus.
He ran as a Republican because the Democratic ticket was crowded.
The only reason Guliani beat Dinkins is that Dinkins threw away the Jewish vote in NYC by deciding to watch a tennis match rather than stop an anti-Jewish riot in Brookyln.
Guliani isn't exactly a conservative Republican, aside from his law and order stance.
See, you've reduced the Right Wing to just the stereotypes that ObviousGuy was talking about. How do you handle someone like Andrew Sullivan? He's gay, HIV-positive, against the War on Drugs, Catholic, and Republican. I read his blog at www.andrewsullivan.com daily.
Changing foreign policy to suit madmen was tried in 1936. It just gave the madman more time to build up his army.
When your enemy is ranting about the loss of Spain in 1492, the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in 1919, and the presence of US troops in a country that invited them in to protect them from another lunatic, you've got to figure that there isn't much reasoning with him.
I know you'd like to believe that we're dealing with rational people, but we aren't.
-jon
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The Golden Gate (SF -> Marin) survived Loma Prieta just fine. It was the Bay Bridge (SF -> Oakland) that fell to pieces.
After Loma Prieta, you might think that building an earthquake-proof replacement might be a high priority. Nope. Work on replacing the Bay Bridge was delayed for years while people argued about making a pretty bridge that passed over just the right scenic spots. Seriously. The world is far sicker than you can ever imagine.
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You really don't understand how backwards these people are. In Saudi Arabia, it is official policy that THE WORLD IS FLAT. I kid you not.
We've known the world is a sphere for at least 2,500 years. The Greeks had figured this out long before Islam was even invented. We've known about evolution for a couple of hundred years.
And the one state (Kansas) where "Creation Science" nearly became part of the curriculum had virtually the entire school board voted out in the next election, and good science restored.
...just as the Europeans are isolationist in the war on terror, doing the bare minimum (the US was not completely isolationist before December 7, 1941. It had the Lend-Lease act before Pearl Harbor, and had lengthened the draft only months earlier) until they get hit hard by Muslim terrorists.
The French are particularly stupid. When bin Laden is ranting and raving about how the French and the British carved up the Ottoman Empire, do they think that his band of lunatics might, just might, want to attack the French and the British? The British understand this (at least its government does, excepting spouses). The French don't.
I guess the French figure that as long as they let Muslims attack Jews at will, this will serve as a release valve. How gallant.
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Good. You don't like the capitalist solution to this? Fine, we'll use the Communist solution, as implemented by every Communist society in the world.
I'll order you to go to the remote place to sit there 24/7, just in case something goes wrong. If you say no, I'll shoot you.
Happier? Or did you expect the gun to be pointed at someone else?
Slashdot Mirror
I call it a wash.
-jon
- a case
-a monitor
-RAM
-Speakers
-Mac OS X or Mac OS 9
-CD-ROM
-Hard Drive
-Keyboard and Mouse
It's not clear if it's missing an AGP video card, too, so I won't mention it.
There's zero chance that you can get all of those things for less than the $250 difference in price. So, why would anyone in their right mind buy one of these boards to run Mac OS X?
-jon
And of course you have the right to advocate killing Americans. Just don't complain when someone advocates killing you. Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander...
-jon
Well, what about other religious beliefs? Jehovah's Witnesses consider pledging aliegance in general to be against their religion. Should the pledge be banned in its entirely because it offends them? And while I don't want to draw a parallel between atheism and bigotry, how about people who don't believe in "Liberty and Justice for all"? Like white supremicists or people who want to keep women uneducated, barefoot, and pregnant? Can we pull that clause as well because we might be teaching tolerance to the children of bigots? Sorry, but it's a stupid decision from a court that has a history of stupid decisions. 84% of the rulings in the 9th Circuit get overturned, many of them unanamously.
But the important thing is that this discussion doesn't happen at the point of a gun. It happens in court rooms, in public. That's why the US isn't a police state.
As for your other comments, look, it's clear that you believe that the Chinese are stupid sub-humans who are incapable of taking care of themselves unless they have an opressive government. I think they're human beings who should be free, like Americans. Let's just say we agree to disagree.
And Argentina didn't have a failing of democracy, it had a failing of bad economic policy. But you probably don't want to discuss that here and I don't know if you have the background to debate it cogently.
-jon
And if you are an Irish American who is scheming to help terrorists kill Americans and destroy America, then I hope you are locked up as an enemy combatant. If you're not, then you won't be.
The FBI has tried to get records of book purchases. Book stores said no. Guess what happened to the book seller? Nothing. In fact, the courts have told the FBI they can't get those records. America, land of the free, wins again.
But please keep trying. You are making it very easy for me to prove my point.
-jon
As for the death threats that the guy in Sacramento got, you're right, it does speak volumes. There are nearly 300 million Americans. If 99.99% of them were completely sane people, understanding and accepting of other points of view, there would still be 3,000 people who would want to kill him. How many death threats did he get? I bet it's less than 3,000, and there are a lot more crazy, intollerant people in the US than my absurdly generous estimate above.
What's more important to note is that no GOVERNMENT figure issued a death threat, despite the fact that you couldn't find a public figure who agreed with this guy.
So yeah, the fact that one guy in Sacramento can get judges to agree to remove God from a patriotic pledge during a time of war does speak volumes about the US. It says "America is still the land of the free."
-jon
Apparently, you think it's bad. Go ahead and say so in China. You just said so in that awful police state America. Or are you only a brave fighter for liberty when you know that nothing's at stake and your complaint is a hollow one?
The type of extreme reaction provoked from you demonstrates very well the self-censorship im talking about:
What self-censorship? I don't think the US is a police state, or even close to a police state. You, on the other hand, do think so, and just said so on a server hosted in the US. Has the government stopped you from saying so? No. Ergo, not censored by the US government. Amazing, that in the US there's not only no self-censorship, there's no government censorship, either. You're just another crank who hates America for some ill-defined reason.
Veiled threat, or subconscious slip?
See, now I think you're a troll. Because I am clearly referring to what will happen when you are oh-so-brave and protest that China is a police state when you are actually in China.
The only thing I'm threatening is the brainwashing that you've obviously received. Unfortunately, I don't think I'm able to crack through it.
-jon
I promise that I'll send flowers to your next of kin.
I love listening to people post anti-American screeds on a server located in America, claiming that America is the land of censorship.
-jon
No, it doesn't, you putz.
No one called Martin Luther King, Jr. a terrorist. That's because he didn't attack and/or kill civilians while fighting for civil rights.
This is something that left-wing, anti-American pinheads purposely obfuscate: TERRORISTS ARE TERRORISTS BECAUSE THEY INTENTIONALLY ATTACK CIVILIANS TO ADVANCE A POLITICAL AGENDA.
Bullshit all you want to wiggle around this definition, but it's true.
-jon
All the idjits who whine about "1984" in the US aren't paying attention to the country where there's a good chance of it really happening.
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Apple has been shipping ATI hardware acceleration in OS X since 10.0. 10.1.5 added support for some of the ancient ATI cards. 10.2 adds hardware accelerated scrolling support for ATI and NVidia cards, in addition to Quartz Extreme for Radeon/GeForce cards (it's not a VRAM issue as much as it is support for textures that aren't a power of two in a dimension).
-jon
If you don't believe me, do a web search for "SHEIKH BIN BAZ flat earth" or "Saudi Arabia Pokemon" for more Saudi wackiness.
-jon
As for "fair and balanced" headlines, care to count the number of headlines in left-leaning newspapers that called Jenin a "massacre?" When the inconvenient facts were demonstrated, nary a peep of correction was heard.
You're fooling yourself if you think there's less bias in left-wing newspapers. The difference is that you probably agree with the left-wing bias, so it doesn't seem biased to you at all.
-jon
The short answer is that he believes that the Republican party is the party of personal freedom. I think he's a bit too willing to overlook the elements of his party that are against personal freedom, but Sullivan believes that they're on the way out. So do most of the Neo-Cons.
-jon
How did Jewish enter into this? And what does that say about you?
-jon
Blacks couldn't use the same water fountains as whites, much less the same entrance to buildings.
Being publically gay was a death sentence.
Yeah, I'd say that we're FAR more to the right than we were 60 years ago.
-jon
He ran as a Republican because the Democratic ticket was crowded.
The only reason Guliani beat Dinkins is that Dinkins threw away the Jewish vote in NYC by deciding to watch a tennis match rather than stop an anti-Jewish riot in Brookyln.
Guliani isn't exactly a conservative Republican, aside from his law and order stance.
-jon
Makes your little head explode, doesn't it?
-jon
When your enemy is ranting about the loss of Spain in 1492, the breakup of the Ottoman Empire in 1919, and the presence of US troops in a country that invited them in to protect them from another lunatic, you've got to figure that there isn't much reasoning with him.
I know you'd like to believe that we're dealing with rational people, but we aren't.
-jon
After Loma Prieta, you might think that building an earthquake-proof replacement might be a high priority. Nope. Work on replacing the Bay Bridge was delayed for years while people argued about making a pretty bridge that passed over just the right scenic spots. Seriously. The world is far sicker than you can ever imagine.
-jon
We've known the world is a sphere for at least 2,500 years. The Greeks had figured this out long before Islam was even invented. We've known about evolution for a couple of hundred years.
And the one state (Kansas) where "Creation Science" nearly became part of the curriculum had virtually the entire school board voted out in the next election, and good science restored.
-jon
The French are particularly stupid. When bin Laden is ranting and raving about how the French and the British carved up the Ottoman Empire, do they think that his band of lunatics might, just might, want to attack the French and the British? The British understand this (at least its government does, excepting spouses). The French don't.
I guess the French figure that as long as they let Muslims attack Jews at will, this will serve as a release valve. How gallant.
-jon
I'll order you to go to the remote place to sit there 24/7, just in case something goes wrong. If you say no, I'll shoot you.
Happier? Or did you expect the gun to be pointed at someone else?
-jon
- Micro$oft sux!
- Micro$oft is like, you know, Big Brother!
- Micro$oft can't innovate like Linux!
- My computer will tell my wife/mom/minister/government that I look at pr0n!
- Bill Gates is going to read my email!
-jon