They have flag-burning sessions there pretty much everyday.
Can you provide even a shred of evidence to back up this garbage? I've been to Mexico several times. Never lived there but have spent some time there, not just the border towns but also Mexico City, Guymas, Puebla, some other places. Never once have seen an American flag torched. Never once even saw an anti-American demonstration. I did once see a man at a conference voice some anti-US government (not anti-American) sentiment based on US support of Mexico's war in Chiapas. He was an American. He was angrily attacked (verbally, not physically) by Mexicans in the audience who voiced support both for Mexico and for American support of Mexico. I don't pretend the incident was representative, but it certainly suggests there is more complexity to the average Mexican's opinion of America than your flag-burning comment suggests.
You have the right to have the opinion that the US's forced annexation of Mexican land is just, but your opinion is a minority opinion, and one that is extremely disrespectful of both Mexican people and Chicanos on this side of the border. It is the equivalent of telling people on Slashdot that programmers who write GPL code are a bunch of losers who can't write code people would want to pay for.
That's a weak analogy, though it might appeal to some in the slashdot crowd. A more accurate one is that it is like telling Jews that it was perfectly just for the Nazis to steal Jewish property, businesses, homes, etc., and to sell lampshades and soaps made from the bodies of massacred Jews. After all, what was that other than "spoils of war"?
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That's ridiculous. You'll be much better off if you post to slashdot asking for advice.
Well, not really a cure, but this works for me pretty consistently. I do yoga, try to do it regularly, things are always better all over my body if I am doing it regularly. For keyboard/mouse pains a particular pose is the trick. You bend over from the waist. Like this. Now put your hands under your bare feet, with the toes at your wrists. Let your feet press your body weight into your carpal tunnel. You can pull up a bit, straightening your back like you're going to stand, creating more pressure massaging the carpal tunnel. Do this every day for a minute or so for best results. Another good one is to get on hands and knees, and instead of having your palms on the floor, bend your wrists so the back of your hands are on the floor. It's awkward but it's another good way to massage that part of your wrists and hands. It's a good counterpose for the pressure you put on that part of your body during keyboard work. And doing this regularly may be a pain, but I am sure it beats the shit out of wrist surgery.
how does owning a gun help you protect your rights? Do you really expect to wave it at your elected officials when you disapprove of their policies? The idea of gun-toting patriots saving America from its government is romantic hogwash. Americans like guns because they're fun to shoot and because they make us feel more powerful, not because we're going to brandish them at John Ashcroft. Sometimes they make an important symbolic statement - as when the Black Panthers marched into the state capitol armed like a commando unit - but the government has the means to crush any real armed resistance.
I have been using fink and love it, but I've been wary of installing X11, and most of the packages want it there, even when it is not necessary (e.g. ghostscript-nox). I like aqua and I really don't want to mess with window managers again (it's one thing I don't miss about linux.... choice and flexibility are great in theory but in practice I don't have time or energy to fiddle with textfiles I barely understand just to get my terminals to fit on my screen), so I've just laid off installing it at all. Am I just being silly? Does everyone install it, whether you use it or not?
yeah really. I don't complain about this shit usually but what is this if not a free ad? Not only that, but an ad for a relatively local and insignificant sales event of obsolete hardware. What's next? In other slashdot news, the McDaniel family is having a yard sale. The McDaniels have owned Macs since 1984. This is a good place to find an old Mac Plus or Apple's original "Superdrive." And apparently they will have at least two complete copies of HyperCard 2.2 for sale, with manuals! yeesh.
That's exactly my point. You obfuscate the issues and resort to name-calling based on purported ideological similarities. Present specific instances of closed-mindedness, power hunger, insincerity, or totalitarianism if you know of any; otherwise it is just an ad hominem argument.
the Talinban/militant anti-abortion/Students for Democratic Society sect of the anti-gun movement.
Taliban, militant anti-abortionists, SDS, and the anti-gun movement have little if anything in common; attempts to lump them together for the purposes of argument only serve to obfuscate the issues.
I'm not that interested in MMM's position on some other book that has been discredited - their arguments in the essay mentioned in my post seem credible on their face. And it's hardly relevant to the argument, but I'm sorry to hear the gun-toting sisters got in a fight with the middle aged moms, but the whole thing seems silly to me. I'm going to check the p2p networks for videos....
There is a considerable argument to be made that gun control is to blame for an increase in violence in Britain.
How is that? Did they just outlaw guns right before the crime went up? Didn't think so. Check out Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order for a more accurate, if dated, account of the dynamics of crime in the UK. Like in the US I suspect, it has a lot more to do with media and economics than with the presence or absence of firearms.
Here where I live, there have been several recent home invasion robberies and frequent car jackings. I am from L.A. originally and know what it's like to be in a gang zone. So yeah, my neighborhood is that dangerous and I have felt the need to be armed, 'just in case'.
Where do you live? I live in L.A., have for 8 years, I'm fortunate enough to have a modest income, but hardly wealthy or even that well-off, and I've never felt the need to be armed, even in the poorest neighborhood I lived in. Random car jackings and such do occur but hardly often enough to worry about, unless you live in serious gang territory, and even in gang-infested neighborhoods most conflict is about beef rather than random. It's people who know each other; gangbangers shooting each other. Yes, it's true, far too many innocents get caught in the crossfire, but in those situations the presence of more guns would hardly prevent anything. (Gang warfare seems a strong argument against the thesis that guns deter violence; gang members tend to know the people they usually kill and they are well aware that they are usually armed to the teeth).
Anyway, if you are anywhere above the poverty line, and you're truly that scared of carjackings, you should be able to afford to live in a neighborhood that is less like the wild West. There's always a chance some random violent crime can happen, but it seems obsessive to be so scared of something that unlikely that you're willing to risk your own and your family's safety on the off chance that you might deter it with your concealed weapon.
(For the record, if anyone cares: I do support gun ownership, but I don't think it has any significant effect on the crime rate either way. I like shooting guns because they're fun and exciting; they give you a feeling of power. I'm not so scared of criminals that I feel the need to carry one, and I refuse to elevate my enjoyment of guns to the status of a political commitment or ideology.)
The author has been criticized for what appear to be serious research flaws. I haven't read the book so I haven't formed an opinion yet, but I did find this article about Lott pretty interesting. Yes the source is biased, but what is interesting to me is they cite folks like Gary Kleck, who if anything is biased in the other direction, as discrediting Lott's findings, and the critiques are pretty specific. I suppose I'm always a little skeptical of stories of sudden political conversion; I guess it rubs me the wrong way in the same manner as people who suddenly "find Jesus" and expect me to as well.
These are probably the people who are using their work accounts for non-work related purposes.
Or, perhaps, their work-related purposes include having their email address posted publicly to a web page or newsgroup. Or perhaps their email addresses are just easier for the spambots to guess.
Although they are mostly illegal, foreign interests do contribute to US political campaigns, usually through intermediaries. Sometimes this is CIA money being filtered through other countries to hide it, but there are foreign interests who have a stake in US elections and try to influence the outcome. Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon's influence on both Bush presidencies is well documented. And let's not forget that foreigners can influence US policy even more directly through US companies -- for example when wealthy Kuwaiti exiles paid American PR firm Hill & Knowlton 11 million USD to (successfully) convince the American public that the Kuwaiti emirate was worth fighting and dying for, effectively dragging this nation into a war that was not in our interests, at the behest of a foreign power. (The Saudis were more forthright; when asked by journalists if they would defend the holy land against Saddam Hussein, they said, why bother, when the Americans, their "white slaves," would do it for them.)
kewl! Now all we need is a good OS X native recording application. I still boot to OS 9 to use Coaster because nothing else delivers a good basic recorder with automatic recording that doesn't suck.
The second amendment is very much under attack. I may not bear arms at all in the municipality in which I live
Where is that, fucking London? I live in a "liberal" state and I'm pretty sure you could practically pack a surface to air missile and walk down the street without fear (if you're white that is). But what specific threat to the 2nd amendment do you see, besides the fact that you can't pack heat in Vermont or wherever the hell you're talking about? And even in most of those places, less than a week of paperwork and you can have a fucking arsenal in a glass case in your living room.
Look, I support gun ownership and I am pro-2nd amendment, but I am far more worried about losing my right to speak my mind or my right to keep to myself than I am of losing my right to stockpile automatic weapons.
True, but I know about this poster's Dad based on what he posted - his Dad wants to use email and the web, and doesn't know the difference between windows and red hat. Do you think his Dad is going to switch back to Windows so he can spend time on MUDs?
Besides, I don't agree that there are no mud clients for unix. Here are a few, and of course there's always emacs.
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Can you provide even a shred of evidence to back up this garbage? I've been to Mexico several times. Never lived there but have spent some time there, not just the border towns but also Mexico City, Guymas, Puebla, some other places. Never once have seen an American flag torched. Never once even saw an anti-American demonstration. I did once see a man at a conference voice some anti-US government (not anti-American) sentiment based on US support of Mexico's war in Chiapas. He was an American. He was angrily attacked (verbally, not physically) by Mexicans in the audience who voiced support both for Mexico and for American support of Mexico. I don't pretend the incident was representative, but it certainly suggests there is more complexity to the average Mexican's opinion of America than your flag-burning comment suggests.
That's a weak analogy, though it might appeal to some in the slashdot crowd. A more accurate one is that it is like telling Jews that it was perfectly just for the Nazis to steal Jewish property, businesses, homes, etc., and to sell lampshades and soaps made from the bodies of massacred Jews. After all, what was that other than "spoils of war"?
That's ridiculous. You'll be much better off if you post to slashdot asking for advice.
But, stay tuned to apple; the iToilet is coming soon!
Well, not really a cure, but this works for me pretty consistently. I do yoga, try to do it regularly, things are always better all over my body if I am doing it regularly. For keyboard/mouse pains a particular pose is the trick. You bend over from the waist. Like this. Now put your hands under your bare feet, with the toes at your wrists. Let your feet press your body weight into your carpal tunnel. You can pull up a bit, straightening your back like you're going to stand, creating more pressure massaging the carpal tunnel. Do this every day for a minute or so for best results. Another good one is to get on hands and knees, and instead of having your palms on the floor, bend your wrists so the back of your hands are on the floor. It's awkward but it's another good way to massage that part of your wrists and hands. It's a good counterpose for the pressure you put on that part of your body during keyboard work. And doing this regularly may be a pain, but I am sure it beats the shit out of wrist surgery.
If it doesn't help Ellen Feiss with her homework, I don't care.
how does owning a gun help you protect your rights? Do you really expect to wave it at your elected officials when you disapprove of their policies? The idea of gun-toting patriots saving America from its government is romantic hogwash. Americans like guns because they're fun to shoot and because they make us feel more powerful, not because we're going to brandish them at John Ashcroft. Sometimes they make an important symbolic statement - as when the Black Panthers marched into the state capitol armed like a commando unit - but the government has the means to crush any real armed resistance.
I have been using fink and love it, but I've been wary of installing X11, and most of the packages want it there, even when it is not necessary (e.g. ghostscript-nox). I like aqua and I really don't want to mess with window managers again (it's one thing I don't miss about linux.... choice and flexibility are great in theory but in practice I don't have time or energy to fiddle with textfiles I barely understand just to get my terminals to fit on my screen), so I've just laid off installing it at all. Am I just being silly? Does everyone install it, whether you use it or not?
yeah really. I don't complain about this shit usually but what is this if not a free ad? Not only that, but an ad for a relatively local and insignificant sales event of obsolete hardware. What's next? In other slashdot news, the McDaniel family is having a yard sale. The McDaniels have owned Macs since 1984. This is a good place to find an old Mac Plus or Apple's original "Superdrive." And apparently they will have at least two complete copies of HyperCard 2.2 for sale, with manuals! yeesh.
That's exactly my point. You obfuscate the issues and resort to name-calling based on purported ideological similarities. Present specific instances of closed-mindedness, power hunger, insincerity, or totalitarianism if you know of any; otherwise it is just an ad hominem argument.
Taliban, militant anti-abortionists, SDS, and the anti-gun movement have little if anything in common; attempts to lump them together for the purposes of argument only serve to obfuscate the issues.
I'm not that interested in MMM's position on some other book that has been discredited - their arguments in the essay mentioned in my post seem credible on their face. And it's hardly relevant to the argument, but I'm sorry to hear the gun-toting sisters got in a fight with the middle aged moms, but the whole thing seems silly to me. I'm going to check the p2p networks for videos....
How is that? Did they just outlaw guns right before the crime went up? Didn't think so. Check out Policing the Crisis: Mugging, the State and Law and Order for a more accurate, if dated, account of the dynamics of crime in the UK. Like in the US I suspect, it has a lot more to do with media and economics than with the presence or absence of firearms.
Where do you live? I live in L.A., have for 8 years, I'm fortunate enough to have a modest income, but hardly wealthy or even that well-off, and I've never felt the need to be armed, even in the poorest neighborhood I lived in. Random car jackings and such do occur but hardly often enough to worry about, unless you live in serious gang territory, and even in gang-infested neighborhoods most conflict is about beef rather than random. It's people who know each other; gangbangers shooting each other. Yes, it's true, far too many innocents get caught in the crossfire, but in those situations the presence of more guns would hardly prevent anything. (Gang warfare seems a strong argument against the thesis that guns deter violence; gang members tend to know the people they usually kill and they are well aware that they are usually armed to the teeth).
Anyway, if you are anywhere above the poverty line, and you're truly that scared of carjackings, you should be able to afford to live in a neighborhood that is less like the wild West. There's always a chance some random violent crime can happen, but it seems obsessive to be so scared of something that unlikely that you're willing to risk your own and your family's safety on the off chance that you might deter it with your concealed weapon.
(For the record, if anyone cares: I do support gun ownership, but I don't think it has any significant effect on the crime rate either way. I like shooting guns because they're fun and exciting; they give you a feeling of power. I'm not so scared of criminals that I feel the need to carry one, and I refuse to elevate my enjoyment of guns to the status of a political commitment or ideology.)
The author has been criticized for what appear to be serious research flaws. I haven't read the book so I haven't formed an opinion yet, but I did find this article about Lott pretty interesting. Yes the source is biased, but what is interesting to me is they cite folks like Gary Kleck, who if anything is biased in the other direction, as discrediting Lott's findings, and the critiques are pretty specific. I suppose I'm always a little skeptical of stories of sudden political conversion; I guess it rubs me the wrong way in the same manner as people who suddenly "find Jesus" and expect me to as well.
Guns don't kill people. The government does.
He said "remove one of the ingredients." He didn't say which one. :)
Or, perhaps, their work-related purposes include having their email address posted publicly to a web page or newsgroup. Or perhaps their email addresses are just easier for the spambots to guess.
Although they are mostly illegal, foreign interests do contribute to US political campaigns, usually through intermediaries. Sometimes this is CIA money being filtered through other countries to hide it, but there are foreign interests who have a stake in US elections and try to influence the outcome. Korean cult leader Sun Myung Moon's influence on both Bush presidencies is well documented. And let's not forget that foreigners can influence US policy even more directly through US companies -- for example when wealthy Kuwaiti exiles paid American PR firm Hill & Knowlton 11 million USD to (successfully) convince the American public that the Kuwaiti emirate was worth fighting and dying for, effectively dragging this nation into a war that was not in our interests, at the behest of a foreign power. (The Saudis were more forthright; when asked by journalists if they would defend the holy land against Saddam Hussein, they said, why bother, when the Americans, their "white slaves," would do it for them.)
kewl! Now all we need is a good OS X native recording application. I still boot to OS 9 to use Coaster because nothing else delivers a good basic recorder with automatic recording that doesn't suck.
Huh? There are legitimate sites in .cx?
Oh come on. We all know that it goes to 11 because it's louder than 10.
Are we discussing mathematics here, or psychology, or philosophy?
Where is that, fucking London? I live in a "liberal" state and I'm pretty sure you could practically pack a surface to air missile and walk down the street without fear (if you're white that is). But what specific threat to the 2nd amendment do you see, besides the fact that you can't pack heat in Vermont or wherever the hell you're talking about? And even in most of those places, less than a week of paperwork and you can have a fucking arsenal in a glass case in your living room.
Look, I support gun ownership and I am pro-2nd amendment, but I am far more worried about losing my right to speak my mind or my right to keep to myself than I am of losing my right to stockpile automatic weapons.
Sorry, your post didn't come through - all that came through was your sig. Please repost.
Besides, I don't agree that there are no mud clients for unix. Here are a few, and of course there's always emacs.