In your nightmare, presumably OBL is still at large?
The current administration has completely eliminated the supposed Republican superiority in foreign policy. W was a draft dodger like Quayle, only he didn't fulfill his National Guard committment. He's a nitwit. Powell is pretty weak - remember, he opposed the Gulf War and was instrumental in prematurely ending it. Rice is not up on the Middle East, which is a leeeeetle bit important now. Top to bottom, poseurs.
I have to disagree- there is a reasonable level of patching one can expect admins to do. Microsoft itself, with it's competitive advantage in hiring technical staff (Windows admins consider it cool to work there), it's insider perspective on its products, did not protect the Windows Update site from Code Red. The patch was available on the site itself, but hadn't been applied.
"The United States has managed to keep the K.K.K. in check with no effort whatsoever. I fail to see the difference with Nazis."
This is a distorted view of official U.S. actions/attitudes towards the KKK. It's true that for some time there was no effort whatsoever, but that's because lynching blacks and Jews was considered appropriate. When things changed, the KKK got the crap beaten out of them with civil and criminal penalties and had to reform under different auspices. When an organization is branded criminal in the U.S., it is as banned as nazi parties are in Germany. I don't think it would be wise to appear on the Aryan Nations, the Order, or other such mailing lists.
An organization that sees the deaths of 50 million and figures it wasn't enough, and which currently foments violence up to and including arson and murder, is properly the subject of government repression even if the organization has some political goals. I would say "especially when" the organization has political goals. Neo-nazis may field candidates, but that does not give them cover for being thugs. If the Crips/Bloods stood for office, should the police leave them alone?
A purely political organization that pursued its ends solely through the approved democratic forms should be allowed to proceed. But that's not what we're talking about.
Balmer called the GPL a cancer for intellectual property. What is oughtright theft? Cardiac arrest?
That arguement was a load of crap anyway - as many have posted, the GPL *PROTECTS* authors' IP rights in ways you don't get from BSD-style licenses. Don't like the terms? DON'T USE THE CODE. Exactly the same calculation with MS Eulas. The BSD license allows more or less unfettered code-poaching, which is what authors who use that license prefer. Cool, either way.
Economics 101 It's just the right-wing mirror of sociology. If you have contempt for one, the criticisms apply for the other. If you like numerology, major in econ.
It's got the same academic rigor as astrology, without the predictive success.
Seriously - not trolling/flaming here. Science is based on experiment, and falsifiability. To the extent that there have been experiments in economic development, the orthadox theory subscribed to by the world bank has been an abject failure. What has worked for economically successful states has been flakey economic policies. The Asian Tigers had amazing success for a couple of generations (slowed for a while now), while Latin America, following the World Bank, has had essentially none.
Yeah - the Sloan school is to produce pointy haired bosses whose job it is to read incredibly shallow tech industry publications and leap onto every bandwagon headed for a ditch. (disclaimer - I applied to MIT's B-school - very dumb idea. The admissions process did me a favor)
Now, since it is MIT, that does alter the probability of tech illiteracy vs. bad faith goon. I think it's about 50-50.
THe guy does IT. The IT perspective is bureaucratic. Spending money protects budgets, going with the herd is a reflex, and buying shrink-wrap tangible things is inside the comfort zone. You can buy distros, you can purchase service contracts, but they won't have the same marketing gloss that MS products have. So we're outside the comfort zone of the conformist-leaning bureaucrat. So I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and conclude he's an idiot, not a prostitute.
By long-standing common law precedent, if you cross your fingers while you click, you don't have to abide by the terms. If you feel like going the extra mile, you can tell the dialogue box in person that you don't accept some or all of the provisions.
Kinda funny how a fascist, ugly*,bullying ignoramus like Rush Limbaugh gets away with his cowardly "unguested confrontation" approach and actually influences politics and someone with a clue like Hightower, who is as anti-fascist as they come, gets called a fascist.
Truth is - Walmart would be right at home with the Nazis. They pulled a t-shirt from the shelves on the grounds that it was offensive. It's message: "Someday a woman will be president." They will introduce a line of chadors soon, I expect.
*fair game ever since he attacked the Clinton's teenage daughter on the grounds of personal appearance - people who live in glass houses should not detonate bombs in their living room.
Speed of light ("3.0 x 10^8 m/s Not just a good idea, it's the law!") that the photons from an object 450 million light years away started...450 million years ago.
There's a lot of wiggle room in estimating the distances. I was told by the daughter of two astronomers that they commonly use 10 as an approximation for pi, because that's pretty close for many purposes. And it's easier to do the math.
[IANAA] I think the issue is density, not size/amount of matter.
If you are wondering if we're headed for heat death or a big crunch, as I understand it there is not enough observed matter that gravity will slow and eventually reverse the expansion of the universe. If you have a bigger universe, with proportionally no more stuff in it, then you don't change that result.
There apparently is a fair amount of unobserved matter that may change the predicted outcome.
Look - the MS *UPDATE* site where one goes for patches to prevent things like Nimda was *itself* borked by Code Red. That suggests that the admin overhead of IIS is beyond the corp with the most cash, the most product knowledge, and intangible recruiting advantages for tech talent. What chance has the rest of the world got?
They report on the Shrub planting a tree in a patently offensive attempt to appear pro-environment, and do not report on the wildly pro-polluter policies he's put in place since becoming Governor of Texas.
They do virtually no labor reporting.
They gave Ken Starr a free pass for 8 years. They are giving Kenny-boy Lay a free pass now. They are an active participant in Pentagon public relations and have been since the Panama invasion.
I think the war in Afghanistan is the right thing for civilization. But reporting on it uncritically (civilian casualties, etc) is not.
The ratio of right-wing interviewees to moderates is somewhere around 2 or 3 to 1, the ratio of right-wing to left wing is 20 -30 to 1.
Is this a troll? What MS and the SPA etc demand is PROOF OF PURCHASE. Let's say that a school has a donated Gateway. Gateway has not sold a pc without a bundled windows license since before the last elected president took office. Doesn't matter - the schools have to show the license.
Total horseshit. And it puts schools in a position of refusing donations and ripping out existing boxen to comply with this unreasonable standard.
I don't agree at all. School should not be the most expedient means of preparing their charges for the workforce.
Even if school is actually just to turn out a legion of docile sheep ready to submit to their supervisors (which does seem likely), do you actually think that someone who can use KDE is going to have more than 2 minutes of trouble figuring out winwhatever? The GUI changed from 95 to 98 to NT 4.0 to ME to XP. That doesn't seem to be a huge problem. And kids have less fear of tech than grownups, so a different UI is less stressful.
I salute your perception. I haven't read much Kipling, but I understand his point of view originates with love of the Empire. And while his thinking bears the burden of concepts like "the White Man's Burden", he can still write a line like, "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!" Now, it may be that he was making what he considered a generous gesture when we allegedly more enlightened types would not consider it remarkable that a non-European might be a better man. Still, the line resonates for me.
There are some similar elements in Mark Twain's treatment of african americans, and the then-common term he used for them, but I feel he accorded them a remarkable amount of dignity and sympathy. He was powerfully prejudiced as a man of his times (and ours) is bound to be, but he certainly stretched himself. I think by the end of his life he hated all humankind more or less equally.
I found Episode 1 to be a racist throwback. It's not just the infantilism of the non-Europeans, or the grasping, greedy hook-nosed fellow that owned Annikan. I agree you can have bad guys that aren't white. The problem is to represent good guys that aren't white, too, and still fully competent. And not just as tokens who get to take a bullet so the white guy can live.
Basically, what he's saying is that the main flaw with GPL is that it's not costing someone a lot of money. Which is precisely the beef Luddites had with the machines that made cheaper goods and depressed their wages.
Smart guy, cataclysmically stupid argument. Money not wasted on software will be spent on other, more productive investments. Someone pointed out in a previous/. discussion that the money doesn't just disappear - it goes to other things, generating income multiples and tax revenues. Gates just doesn't get to be part of it. That's another lovely point in favor of the GPL.
She also appears nekkid in a cabana with another guy. Not frontal, but altogether. It's a sad scene- guy is premature, nervous as hell, and bails immediately.
It's a great bookstore. A "destination retail establishment" worth making room in an itinerary for. I go back whenever I am in Denver.
The committment to free speech is very strong there.
Customer service is great, too. We used to field all sorts of queries like, "I'm looking for that lemon colored book..." "You mean the lime-colored one on Bipolar Disorder and color-blindness?"
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In your nightmare, presumably OBL is still at large?
The current administration has completely eliminated the supposed Republican superiority in foreign policy. W was a draft dodger like Quayle, only he didn't fulfill his National Guard committment. He's a nitwit. Powell is pretty weak - remember, he opposed the Gulf War and was instrumental in prematurely ending it. Rice is not up on the Middle East, which is a leeeeetle bit important now. Top to bottom, poseurs.
I have to disagree- there is a reasonable level of patching one can expect admins to do. Microsoft itself, with it's competitive advantage in hiring technical staff (Windows admins consider it cool to work there), it's insider perspective on its products, did not protect the Windows Update site from Code Red. The patch was available on the site itself, but hadn't been applied.
What chance have the rest of us got?
"The United States has managed to keep the K.K.K. in check with no effort whatsoever. I fail to see the difference with Nazis."
This is a distorted view of official U.S. actions/attitudes towards the KKK. It's true that for some time there was no effort whatsoever, but that's because lynching blacks and Jews was considered appropriate. When things changed, the KKK got the crap beaten out of them with civil and criminal penalties and had to reform under different auspices. When an organization is branded criminal in the U.S., it is as banned as nazi parties are in Germany. I don't think it would be wise to appear on the Aryan Nations, the Order, or other such mailing lists.
An organization that sees the deaths of 50 million and figures it wasn't enough, and which currently foments violence up to and including arson and murder, is properly the subject of government repression even if the organization has some political goals. I would say "especially when" the organization has political goals. Neo-nazis may field candidates, but that does not give them cover for being thugs. If the Crips/Bloods stood for office, should the police leave them alone?
A purely political organization that pursued its ends solely through the approved democratic forms should be allowed to proceed. But that's not what we're talking about.
Balmer called the GPL a cancer for intellectual property. What is oughtright theft? Cardiac arrest?
That arguement was a load of crap anyway - as many have posted, the GPL *PROTECTS* authors' IP rights in ways you don't get from BSD-style licenses. Don't like the terms? DON'T USE THE CODE. Exactly the same calculation with MS Eulas. The BSD license allows more or less unfettered code-poaching, which is what authors who use that license prefer. Cool, either way.
Economics 101 It's just the right-wing mirror of sociology. If you have contempt for one, the criticisms apply for the other. If you like numerology, major in econ.
It's got the same academic rigor as astrology, without the predictive success.
Seriously - not trolling/flaming here. Science is based on experiment, and falsifiability. To the extent that there have been experiments in economic development, the orthadox theory subscribed to by the world bank has been an abject failure. What has worked for economically successful states has been flakey economic policies. The Asian Tigers had amazing success for a couple of generations (slowed for a while now), while Latin America, following the World Bank, has had essentially none.
Yeah - the Sloan school is to produce pointy haired bosses whose job it is to read incredibly shallow tech industry publications and leap onto every bandwagon headed for a ditch. (disclaimer - I applied to MIT's B-school - very dumb idea. The admissions process did me a favor)
Now, since it is MIT, that does alter the probability of tech illiteracy vs. bad faith goon. I think it's about 50-50.
THe guy does IT. The IT perspective is bureaucratic. Spending money protects budgets, going with the herd is a reflex, and buying shrink-wrap tangible things is inside the comfort zone. You can buy distros, you can purchase service contracts, but they won't have the same marketing gloss that MS products have. So we're outside the comfort zone of the conformist-leaning bureaucrat. So I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, and conclude he's an idiot, not a prostitute.
Moderators on crack? This is on topic.
And it's an excellent self-affirming strategy, to boot.
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By long-standing common law precedent, if you cross your fingers while you click, you don't have to abide by the terms. If you feel like going the extra mile, you can tell the dialogue box in person that you don't accept some or all of the provisions.
Kinda funny how a fascist, ugly*,bullying ignoramus like Rush Limbaugh gets away with his cowardly "unguested confrontation" approach and actually influences politics and someone with a clue like Hightower, who is as anti-fascist as they come, gets called a fascist.
Truth is - Walmart would be right at home with the Nazis. They pulled a t-shirt from the shelves on the grounds that it was offensive. It's message: "Someday a woman will be president." They will introduce a line of chadors soon, I expect.
*fair game ever since he attacked the Clinton's teenage daughter on the grounds of personal appearance - people who live in glass houses should not detonate bombs in their living room.
I salute you - covering the bills and especially child support. Gotta honor that.
OC kinda sucks, though. Like Cleveland without all that annoyingly affordable housing...
So I have something to be thankful to MS for.
These things are FAAAAR away.
Speed of light ("3.0 x 10^8 m/s
Not just a good idea, it's the law!") that the photons from an object 450 million light years away started...450 million years ago.
There's a lot of wiggle room in estimating the distances. I was told by the daughter of two astronomers that they commonly use 10 as an approximation for pi, because that's pretty close for many purposes. And it's easier to do the math.
[IANAA] I think the issue is density, not size/amount of matter.
If you are wondering if we're headed for heat death or a big crunch, as I understand it there is not enough observed matter that gravity will slow and eventually reverse the expansion of the universe. If you have a bigger universe, with proportionally no more stuff in it, then you don't change that result.
There apparently is a fair amount of unobserved matter that may change the predicted outcome.
"Wish you were here!"
Look - the MS *UPDATE* site where one goes for patches to prevent things like Nimda was *itself* borked by Code Red. That suggests that the admin overhead of IIS is beyond the corp with the most cash, the most product knowledge, and intangible recruiting advantages for tech talent. What chance has the rest of the world got?
Notorious MS toadies the Gartner Group agreed.
They report on the Shrub planting a tree in a patently offensive attempt to appear pro-environment, and do not report on the wildly pro-polluter policies he's put in place since becoming Governor of Texas.
They do virtually no labor reporting.
They gave Ken Starr a free pass for 8 years. They are giving Kenny-boy Lay a free pass now. They are an active participant in Pentagon public relations and have been since the Panama invasion.
I think the war in Afghanistan is the right thing for civilization. But reporting on it uncritically (civilian casualties, etc) is not.
The ratio of right-wing interviewees to moderates is somewhere around 2 or 3 to 1, the ratio of right-wing to left wing is 20 -30 to 1.
Also, apparently hostile forces would periodically disrupt missions.
Mod this up!
You appear to be whining about an insufficiently rightward bias. CNN is right of center, FOX is right of loony-tunes.
Is this a troll? What MS and the SPA etc demand is PROOF OF PURCHASE. Let's say that a school has a donated Gateway. Gateway has not sold a pc without a bundled windows license since before the last elected president took office. Doesn't matter - the schools have to show the license.
Total horseshit. And it puts schools in a position of refusing donations and ripping out existing boxen to comply with this unreasonable standard.
I don't agree at all. School should not be the most expedient means of preparing their charges for the workforce.
Even if school is actually just to turn out a legion of docile sheep ready to submit to their supervisors (which does seem likely), do you actually think that someone who can use KDE is going to have more than 2 minutes of trouble figuring out winwhatever? The GUI changed from 95 to 98 to NT 4.0 to ME to XP. That doesn't seem to be a huge problem. And kids have less fear of tech than grownups, so a different UI is less stressful.
I salute your perception. I haven't read much Kipling, but I understand his point of view originates with love of the Empire. And while his thinking bears the burden of concepts like "the White Man's Burden", he can still write a line like, "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din!" Now, it may be that he was making what he considered a generous gesture when we allegedly more enlightened types would not consider it remarkable that a non-European might be a better man. Still, the line resonates for me.
There are some similar elements in Mark Twain's treatment of african americans, and the then-common term he used for them, but I feel he accorded them a remarkable amount of dignity and sympathy. He was powerfully prejudiced as a man of his times (and ours) is bound to be, but he certainly stretched himself. I think by the end of his life he hated all humankind more or less equally.
I found Episode 1 to be a racist throwback. It's not just the infantilism of the non-Europeans, or the grasping, greedy hook-nosed fellow that owned Annikan. I agree you can have bad guys that aren't white. The problem is to represent good guys that aren't white, too, and still fully competent. And not just as tokens who get to take a bullet so the white guy can live.
Basically, what he's saying is that the main flaw with GPL is that it's not costing someone a lot of money. Which is precisely the beef Luddites had with the machines that made cheaper goods and depressed their wages.
/. discussion that the money doesn't just disappear - it goes to other things, generating income multiples and tax revenues. Gates just doesn't get to be part of it. That's another lovely point in favor of the GPL.
Smart guy, cataclysmically stupid argument. Money not wasted on software will be spent on other, more productive investments. Someone pointed out in a previous
She also appears nekkid in a cabana with another guy. Not frontal, but altogether. It's a sad scene- guy is premature, nervous as hell, and bails immediately.
Oww!
Ow!
Ow!
It's a great bookstore. A "destination retail establishment" worth making room in an itinerary for. I go back whenever I am in Denver.
The committment to free speech is very strong there.
Customer service is great, too. We used to field all sorts of queries like, "I'm looking for that lemon colored book..." "You mean the lime-colored one on Bipolar Disorder and color-blindness?"
"That's it!"
"2nd floor, medical/psychology section."