So, you like using generalizations and applying them to whole groups. In that case, since most stupid people vote Democratic, that proves Democrats are Stupid people. Or Most Handicapped people. Or most black people, or most women or....
Large parts don't make up the whole. Nor do they represent the other parts that don't. So, indeed, you've proven my point. It was nothing more than a bigoted response having nothing to do with the SCIENTIFIC arguments for or against Vaccinations.
Next up, Abortions. Now that it is SCIENTIFICALLY proven that Abortions INCREASE the risk of cancer, I wonder if you'll bring the Bible thumpers as a means to dismiss this evidence....
Okay, I'm feeding the trolls. I know I'm not supposed to, but I wish I had mod points instead.
"We have to remember there is a large sub-culture in the US/Canada and Europe who still think that evolution is a myth, and the world was created 6,000 years ago."
What the HELL does this have to do with Vaccinations? I know plenty of Atheist who don't like vaccinations either, because they don't trust the science that is performed for profit. This has NOTHING to do with Evolution or Bible believers, but is a snide comment. Hope you're happy in your smugness.
Danger is everywhere. Yet we live in a Nanny State because so many people do things without thinking, and are involved in things that they really don't comprehend the dangers that surround them. We live in a society that tries to protect the dumb from their stupidity, and the rest of us from the idiots we know everyone else are.
The problem is, we don't let nature fix the problems anymore, but blame shift everthing away from where it actually belongs. We all know the lawsuits that have created this Caution Label society, and we've seen these warnings that have us bemused beyond belief.
It is now to the point that everything comes with a long list of warning labels to not do something stupid while using a product that is semi dangerous, and should be recognized as that by default. Hot things burn, sharp things cut, electric things don't like water, power tools are dangerous. There should be no warning labels needed for these things, and if 99% of the people can use something responsibly, the 1% that can't or won't shouldn't be able to sue because they are stupid.
The false sense of security arises from the idea that we should be safe, and society should protect us from our stupidity. I'm sorry, no amount of protection can stop stupidity. I say this having been stupid in times past, but I don't expect society to cover my own stupidity.
Unix lost the war because of pricing and lack unified desktop environment. Linux is winning the long war by taking the best of Unix, offering it free (beer and speech) and having usable desktop GUI (Gnome/KDE).
Unix lost a war it could have won, Linux is winning the war for Unix like OSes, along with Apple for the BSDs.
Monopolies are only temporary. I'm not so sure that having a monopoly is a bad thing, long term. In the short term perhaps it make things difficult, but that only opens to door for new opportunities. Before you mod me flamebait, wait.
Let us look at the result of breaking Big Oil (aka Standard Oil) apart, from today's perspective. We have Iran, Iraq and general instability in the middle east. We have global warming (or so they say). We have cities built for cars, and not pedestrian or mass transit. We have a built in dependency upon a dwindling natural resource.
What if I suggest that all of these problem wouldn't be a problem, or wouldn't be as much a problem as it is today, had we let natural course of the monopoly take place. What if I told you that today, we could have a robust renuewable energy platform (alcohol / biodiesel) and better mass transit (electric) but we don't because we broke up Big Oil to get a nice low price fuel.
What if I told you that we have Linux today as a viable alternative to Windows because of the Monopoly of Microsoft. Meaning that part of the reason for Linux's success can be placed upon Microsoft, and its monopoly.
You see, the nature of the free (uninhibited) commerce is that the market is much like the Net is today, it will route around inefficiencies, and actually weed them out. Monopolies are artificial inefficiency, and eventually will be corrected by the marketplace. We just don't tend to be patient enough.
I'm a firm believer in the law of unintended consequences.
LDAP isn't the same as what AD provides. Not by a long shot. The fact that many organizations use AD to provide LDAP services shows that while LDAP is nice, it's a pain to tie divergent systems together.
And LDAP is only part of what AD provides. What AD provides is a integrated management system. LDAP doesn't really do that.
Oh, and such a system would be quite "sexy", it's also very difficult to pull off. However, the most enjoyable things in my life were the things that took the most effort.
There's a difference between nailing the cheap floosy at the local dive, and meaningful long term relationship built on a strong foundation. If you've never had the latter, and only the former, you'll never know what I'm talking about.
The slut in a tight outfit may look sexy, but I can assure you that it only looks that way. If you really thought about it, a cheesy slut is actually gross.
I reject the notion that a calendar app ala Exchange/Outlook is not sexy.
There are TWO things that OS needs to do, and that is one, the other is a Universal Directory Service that isn't a pain in the rear and is supported by everyone.
When Open Source completes the foundation for both, and obviously tying both together, then it can start to compete with the likes of MS. While I don't particularly like Active Directory, it has useful features for managing just about everthing in a Corporate Windows Environment, which makes Windows almost usable.
What I'd like to see is a consortium of UNIX companies (Sun), Linux Companies (IBM, Novell) and Apple get together and build a foundation for a complete, open, extensible and cross platform Directory Service that can rival Microsoft's version. The closest I've seen to this is all using Microsoft's Active Directory as the backend, and using what little compatability there is to function with other Open Source setups.
If done right, it would rewrite how we do just about everything on inter-connected networks and data.
"hey show 30% fuel savings, but oil prices have gone up a lot recently, so it might well be closer to 50% now."
I'm not sure where you get the 50% from, because 30% fuel savings, say from 1000 gals to 700 gals will always be the same result. Now the 30% fuel savings can be leveraged by fuel cost savings, but that is also going to be only 30%, but the actual difference in absolute $ will increase, but that is not a percentage of anything.
So, 30% is 30% unless they can make bigger kites that can operate on higher wind speeds, then you might get your 50%.
I would suggest that the current "limits" on copyrighted material doesn't fit the Constitutional definition of "limited". Would a "limit" of 200 years still be a "limit", how about 300, 400 or even 500 years?
If I were an enterprising young lawyer, I'd argue that once the congress extended the limits from their original standard, are in fact not limits what-so-ever. If we set limits so high that they no longer appear to be limits (you can only earn 1 trillion dollars per year), that they in fact are not limits.
Additionally, when the so-called limits stop the promotion of "the Progress of Science, and useful Arts", it no longer serves its purpose and again, is unconstitutional.
I wouldn't argue with Patents and Copyrights anymore, I'd deal with the Constitutionality of the existing laws.
Regarding Happy Birthday song... Happy Birthday was written by Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893. The version as we know it was copyrighted in 1935 by the Summy Company as an arrangement by Preston Ware Orem, and is scheduled to expire in 2030 in the USA. The original "Good Morning to All" is public domain, as is the music.
My suggestion is to use my Bastardized version in public; "Hippy Bathday to Ewe" and let the lawyers figure that one out. Please feel free to use my version, especially for GNU parties.
In case your version of news hasn't covered it, there isn't much of a "war" actually going on. In fact, large portions of Iraq are extremely peaceful. I'm sick and tired of people, even those that support operations in Iraq, calling it a "war".
Right now, it is an occupation by invitation of the Iraqi government. While I'm not a big fan of this occupation, things do seem to be settling down, something you're not going to see on CSPAN, CBS and CNN, anytime soon.
And besides, the whole (R) wars bad, (D) wars good (or visa versa) theology is mind numbing. And yes, it borders upon religious (on both sides).
DNC lists only solve half the problem. It doesn't solve the other half. The other half is making the proposition of calling more expensive. Not the phone bills, but in terms of Human Resources.
I call it DDoS... Distributed Denial of Sales. If I can waste their precious time, and be entertained at the same time, why not?
Slashdot Mirror
So, you like using generalizations and applying them to whole groups. In that case, since most stupid people vote Democratic, that proves Democrats are Stupid people. Or Most Handicapped people. Or most black people, or most women or ....
....
Large parts don't make up the whole. Nor do they represent the other parts that don't. So, indeed, you've proven my point. It was nothing more than a bigoted response having nothing to do with the SCIENTIFIC arguments for or against Vaccinations.
Next up, Abortions. Now that it is SCIENTIFICALLY proven that Abortions INCREASE the risk of cancer, I wonder if you'll bring the Bible thumpers as a means to dismiss this evidence
http://www.newsmax.com/health/breast_cancer_abortion/2007/11/07/47415.html
Because we all know that it is just "fear mongering" on the part of fundimentalist churchians.
Okay, I'm feeding the trolls. I know I'm not supposed to, but I wish I had mod points instead.
"We have to remember there is a large sub-culture in the US/Canada and Europe who still think that evolution is a myth, and the world was created 6,000 years ago."
What the HELL does this have to do with Vaccinations? I know plenty of Atheist who don't like vaccinations either, because they don't trust the science that is performed for profit. This has NOTHING to do with Evolution or Bible believers, but is a snide comment. Hope you're happy in your smugness.
I have a simple question .....
Do you trust Pharmaceutical Companies to give you all the information you need to make an intelligent decision?
Personally, I don't trust any of them.
Danger is everywhere. Yet we live in a Nanny State because so many people do things without thinking, and are involved in things that they really don't comprehend the dangers that surround them. We live in a society that tries to protect the dumb from their stupidity, and the rest of us from the idiots we know everyone else are.
The problem is, we don't let nature fix the problems anymore, but blame shift everthing away from where it actually belongs. We all know the lawsuits that have created this Caution Label society, and we've seen these warnings that have us bemused beyond belief.
It is now to the point that everything comes with a long list of warning labels to not do something stupid while using a product that is semi dangerous, and should be recognized as that by default. Hot things burn, sharp things cut, electric things don't like water, power tools are dangerous. There should be no warning labels needed for these things, and if 99% of the people can use something responsibly, the 1% that can't or won't shouldn't be able to sue because they are stupid.
The false sense of security arises from the idea that we should be safe, and society should protect us from our stupidity. I'm sorry, no amount of protection can stop stupidity. I say this having been stupid in times past, but I don't expect society to cover my own stupidity.
Resembles Butterfly ... No disassemble, Number 5 Alive
My dog has two cell phones, thank you very much.
Hardly threatening, since you can't even match the Ante, let alone the small blind.
Unix == Linux
Unix lost the war because of pricing and lack unified desktop environment. Linux is winning the long war by taking the best of Unix, offering it free (beer and speech) and having usable desktop GUI (Gnome/KDE).
Unix lost a war it could have won, Linux is winning the war for Unix like OSes, along with Apple for the BSDs.
"a hadrosaur's backside was about 25 percent larger than previously thought."
So, its a J-Lo-asaur ?
Or perhaps a Bodonkadonkasaur?
Monopolies are only temporary. I'm not so sure that having a monopoly is a bad thing, long term. In the short term perhaps it make things difficult, but that only opens to door for new opportunities. Before you mod me flamebait, wait.
Let us look at the result of breaking Big Oil (aka Standard Oil) apart, from today's perspective. We have Iran, Iraq and general instability in the middle east. We have global warming (or so they say). We have cities built for cars, and not pedestrian or mass transit. We have a built in dependency upon a dwindling natural resource.
What if I suggest that all of these problem wouldn't be a problem, or wouldn't be as much a problem as it is today, had we let natural course of the monopoly take place. What if I told you that today, we could have a robust renuewable energy platform (alcohol / biodiesel) and better mass transit (electric) but we don't because we broke up Big Oil to get a nice low price fuel.
What if I told you that we have Linux today as a viable alternative to Windows because of the Monopoly of Microsoft. Meaning that part of the reason for Linux's success can be placed upon Microsoft, and its monopoly.
You see, the nature of the free (uninhibited) commerce is that the market is much like the Net is today, it will route around inefficiencies, and actually weed them out. Monopolies are artificial inefficiency, and eventually will be corrected by the marketplace. We just don't tend to be patient enough.
I'm a firm believer in the law of unintended consequences.
"So, unless you're a minority, pregnant/a woman, handicapped, over 50, or in the military...you're pretty much screwed."
.... Young White Males.
You know, there's an easier way to say this
This from a nick of "SmallFurryCreature" ....
LDAP isn't the same as what AD provides. Not by a long shot. The fact that many organizations use AD to provide LDAP services shows that while LDAP is nice, it's a pain to tie divergent systems together.
And LDAP is only part of what AD provides. What AD provides is a integrated management system. LDAP doesn't really do that.
Oh, and such a system would be quite "sexy", it's also very difficult to pull off. However, the most enjoyable things in my life were the things that took the most effort.
There's a difference between nailing the cheap floosy at the local dive, and meaningful long term relationship built on a strong foundation. If you've never had the latter, and only the former, you'll never know what I'm talking about.
The slut in a tight outfit may look sexy, but I can assure you that it only looks that way. If you really thought about it, a cheesy slut is actually gross.
I reject the notion that a calendar app ala Exchange/Outlook is not sexy.
There are TWO things that OS needs to do, and that is one, the other is a Universal Directory Service that isn't a pain in the rear and is supported by everyone.
When Open Source completes the foundation for both, and obviously tying both together, then it can start to compete with the likes of MS. While I don't particularly like Active Directory, it has useful features for managing just about everthing in a Corporate Windows Environment, which makes Windows almost usable.
What I'd like to see is a consortium of UNIX companies (Sun), Linux Companies (IBM, Novell) and Apple get together and build a foundation for a complete, open, extensible and cross platform Directory Service that can rival Microsoft's version. The closest I've seen to this is all using Microsoft's Active Directory as the backend, and using what little compatability there is to function with other Open Source setups.
If done right, it would rewrite how we do just about everything on inter-connected networks and data.
I've seen propaganda for the Antarctic. See this link!
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Tux.png/180px-Tux.png
Perhaps you missed this ....
:-D
"but the actual difference in absolute $ will increase, but that is not a percentage of anything."
http://www.ratocsystems.com/english/products/FR1SX.html
Ask Google, Google give answer. Google knows all. Is "Google" the name of the FSM?
Or better yet, what kind of football field?
Soccer (aka Football everywhere but the US)
American Football
Canadian Football
Australian Rules Football
"hey show 30% fuel savings, but oil prices have gone up a lot recently, so it might well be closer to 50% now."
I'm not sure where you get the 50% from, because 30% fuel savings, say from 1000 gals to 700 gals will always be the same result. Now the 30% fuel savings can be leveraged by fuel cost savings, but that is also going to be only 30%, but the actual difference in absolute $ will increase, but that is not a percentage of anything.
So, 30% is 30% unless they can make bigger kites that can operate on higher wind speeds, then you might get your 50%.
I would suggest that the current "limits" on copyrighted material doesn't fit the Constitutional definition of "limited". Would a "limit" of 200 years still be a "limit", how about 300, 400 or even 500 years?
... Happy Birthday was written by Patty Hill and Mildred J. Hill in 1893. The version as we know it was copyrighted in 1935 by the Summy Company as an arrangement by Preston Ware Orem, and is scheduled to expire in 2030 in the USA. The original "Good Morning to All" is public domain, as is the music.
If I were an enterprising young lawyer, I'd argue that once the congress extended the limits from their original standard, are in fact not limits what-so-ever. If we set limits so high that they no longer appear to be limits (you can only earn 1 trillion dollars per year), that they in fact are not limits.
Additionally, when the so-called limits stop the promotion of "the Progress of Science, and useful Arts", it no longer serves its purpose and again, is unconstitutional.
I wouldn't argue with Patents and Copyrights anymore, I'd deal with the Constitutionality of the existing laws.
Regarding Happy Birthday song
See the wiki at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You for more details.
My suggestion is to use my Bastardized version in public; "Hippy Bathday to Ewe" and let the lawyers figure that one out. Please feel free to use my version, especially for GNU parties.
"I for one sincerely hope it is"
...
Okay, I don't get this version of the Slashdot Meme. Can anyone clue me? It just seems like its missing something
In case your version of news hasn't covered it, there isn't much of a "war" actually going on. In fact, large portions of Iraq are extremely peaceful. I'm sick and tired of people, even those that support operations in Iraq, calling it a "war".
Right now, it is an occupation by invitation of the Iraqi government. While I'm not a big fan of this occupation, things do seem to be settling down, something you're not going to see on CSPAN, CBS and CNN, anytime soon.
And besides, the whole (R) wars bad, (D) wars good (or visa versa) theology is mind numbing. And yes, it borders upon religious (on both sides).
DNC lists only solve half the problem. It doesn't solve the other half. The other half is making the proposition of calling more expensive. Not the phone bills, but in terms of Human Resources.
... Distributed Denial of Sales. If I can waste their precious time, and be entertained at the same time, why not?
I call it DDoS
So a "Blue Screen" would really mean death?