I hate sprawl. I hate highways. I hate parking lots. I hate lung cancer. I hate traffic deaths. I hate habitat loss. I hate steel-mills. I hate high taxes.
If an electric car can be built to reduce those *real* concerns I wont give a fuck what it looks like. Not cars that will prevent them from getting laid for the next 5-7 years.
Oh, btw, if you think a car will keep you from having relationships with the opposite sex, A) your sleeping with the wrong people and B) you have a worthless view of yourself... YOU ARE NOT THE CAR YOU DRIVE.
I call BS. Apple has, for quite a while, been given a reprieve-of-assault by MS. In order to keep the DoJ from sniffing there way, MS has been SMART ENOUGH to not crush Apple. Hell, they even make the Apple a 'viable' platform by porting Office/IE. Further, MS has (presently/in-past?) INVESTED IN APPLE. To those who will say 'it wasnt much' or 'they were nonvoting shares' thats not the point -- its a signal to the marketplace and investors "MS promises to not crush Apple'.
It never ceases to amaze me why Apple fanatics feel that their success in such tough times isnt so obviously enabled by their virtual non-aggression pact with MS.
MS Executive: "Were non monopolists, here, look, you can buy an Apple!"
If MS wanted, they could bankrupt Apple in 18months by declaring their market as a target, withdrawing Office/all-other-ms software, and tweaking this and that to cease network interoperation.
the fact that they havnt ALSO destroyed apple shouldnt be a sign that Apple is a success, just that they are a usefull foil in the marketplace.
On one hand, he is able to glean the evidence simply because something *WAS* there. But that's just the problem: It was in the past, but it has been editted out and substituted
you could argue (maybe not legally) that those the 'changes' never actually were. The process of creating a document is complete when it is made public. Isnt it like reading someone's mind and holding them accountable for 'crimes' he didnt commit? Just because the idea was typed, doesnt mean it was 'real', it was part of a flow of consciousness.... lost in the ether, the idea/intent was never actually formed.
This technology could easily make it possible for soldiers to carry very heavy armor that could possibly protect them from most all small arms fire and possibly even some heavy fire
EXCELLENT! Now, OUR soldiers will be able to kill more of the Evil Enemy(TM)! YEAH! WHAAT A TERRIFIC DEVELOPMENT! Lets buy more!
This technology could easily make it possible for soldiers to carry very heavy armor that could possibly protect them from most all small arms fire and possibly even some heavy fire
While, thank $DIETY allowing them to mercilessly slaughter the Enemy(TM). Thank $DIETY. Boy, what an excellent development -- more, better, faster ways to KILL PEOPLE! YEEAH!
Worry no more as you march around protesting the cause of the day
There are so many causes because there is so much injustice. Sorry pal, this isnt funny, its +1 Compassion-less. Should social-justice advocates give up because the challenge is too great? Simply because side-line selfishness-advocates (like yourself) snipe with witless barbs like "hippy" and "cause whore" and such? Some people actually WANT a better, more just, more peacefull world. Protesting in public is a way to actualize that goal... undermining that action with stupidity like yours only serves those who want to Make the World Suck, m'kay? So, think a little before you propagate this hollow meme, it has a purpose... and its not a good one.
Um, you mean CITIZENS right? As long as you Americans consider your community one giant marketplace, where your relationships with "power" are feudal ones -- as Consumers -- you people are fucking doomed. I am absolutely agast that people frame this as a cosumer/market issue -- Microsoft is BREAKING the LAW. Justice is not being served because of your Plutocratic government... you should be VERY VERY worried. This is not even remotely close to being the tip of the iceburg, and people are absolutely blase... how sad... terribly sad.
In case you didnt know, what's good for Microsoft is not necessarily good for your community... being outraged at Microsoft is a pretty impotent effort I must say, but if you dont acknowledge it as a symptom of a much bigger, and much much more dire problem (absolute and total capitalist subversion of your democracy) than your country is in very real trouble. And so are the rest of us.
The USA is a powerful nation at present. It has a vast military. And if these entrenched corporate intersts are not challenged -- not even a little -- they will become increasingly (can they be more than they are already?) bold. Think Iraq was a profit-driven war for oil? Most people do.... but again, think of what your present government is capable of. Imagine the injustice it is capable of.
If this corrpution is not challenged, it will only become more difficult to unseat.
Such obviously illegal practices, not prosecuted by the USA's DoJ should tell any and all who are watching that, without a doubt, 100% certainty, that in the USA money makes the rules -- you might as well burn your ballots people, things are going to get MUCH worse before they get better.
This is typical Anti-social behaviour by a Corporation. Please watch this movie to learn more about what we are enduring w/r/t these entities... and why it should stop.
As for your solution, your missing two things; Preferential or InstantRunOff or some other voting method capable of producing a concensus amoungst voters (FPTP sucks my ass) and some element of Proportional Representation in one of your houses (a new one?).
Welcome to the Adhominium attack. Dont mention this person's assertion, disregard it by branding him a nut. This way, you can safely skirt the discussion.
Just because he is crazy doesnt mean they arent after him. Further, his concerns about a technology being introduced into what was formerly SimplePaperMoney *should* be a concern... or atleast discussed.
Why have Americans taken to calling themselves Consumers? Your real power lies in Law, that law is written by CITIZENS. If your preceding citizens hadnt written some pretty keen laws, you current "Consumers" would be out $13.xx.
I cant stand it when people call me, or anyone else a f'ing consumer. Its goddamn offensive.
What exactly is a "Rogue Weapon"? Get down off your high-horse, the USA posessing WMD IS EXACTLY THE SAME DAMN THING! . Any nation with a WMD program is a rogue nation, the USA has bio, nuke and chem weapons... why cant everyone else?
And you're right, Bush would probably break one if it was there because he's mean and evil and he breaks little kids candy bars
No, Hes a fucking fascist, who has invaded two nations -- threatened more -- and you are a jingo tool.
And Security. Dropping someones' closed drivers in your kernel means you cannot do an effective audit. You can *never* be certain you've not bee backdoored.
Would Intel do this? maybe, maybe-not. But no one expected it from Borland's interbase
Well, OSS is not a religion. But remember RMS started GNU because of just this -- closed source printer drivers.
What Intel is doing is doubly bad:
1) They are releasing a Closed Driver, killing future development, growth and porting of support to future systems.
2) Really only doing this to spite Lin--s. They are doing this to STOP Lin--s' open-source driver development.... probably not because they want to. Why couldnt they have been forthcoming "we are working on a driver. we intend to release it first qtr 2004. we are making it closed." Why keep the FreeSoftware universe in the dark..? Because they want to hold all the marbles, withholding information is dishonesty. Plain and simple. If you want to be 'trusted', keep no secrets.
This thread is speaks alot about global warming, and so does your SUV comment. But it is not the only issue with our wastefull, Consumer-driven industrial, oil-powered society.
Our stupidity is driving plants and animals into extinction. We are producting chemicals that the planet has never seen -- and its having dire consequences. We are producting ecosystem-overwhelming levels of things of all sorts, from anti-biotics in women's milk, hormones in cow's milk lowering the age of women's puberty, teflon showing up in humans, etc etc etc. We are conducting an experiment ON OURSELVES. We have no idea the lasting consequences of all this.
We are right to be concerned with Global Warming, but friends, dammit, its just a symptom of a much bigger problem.
One related issue I believe is urban design. People are no longer required to leave their homes for an arcade experience. GOING To the Arcade for the 'marginally better' experience CERTAINLY isnt worth driving your car across the city (a long trip) just on a 'whim'. North Americans spend alot of time in their cars navigating our sprawling communities -- this encourages 'cocooning', people building their own private domains for all things. People just cannot be bothered to leave their homes and navigate the stinking, expensive, unsafe, endless roadways to get to the aracde.
If our urban spaces were designed more wisely, an arcade would be 'closer' and more accessible. The benefit of social interaction (with strangers, neighbours and friends) would be more easily realized... not to mention access to all the best games.
With Sprawl just getting to the arcade is a chore.
That AngleGrinder Man is an ass. The automobile is a menace. It pollutes. Causes sprawl. Is both personally and publicly VERY VERY expensive. Dangerous. Smelly. And encourages poor health.
London has every Right to want to make selfish auto-drivers play by the rules. The Auto is NOT the be-all-end-all public-policy device that needs satisfying.
Because I advocate sustainability, I ride my bike. I am damn tired of my Municipal, Provincial and Federal Taxes being spent to bandage up crash victims, insure the public against this menace, watch the best agricultural land get run over by big-box consumer-depots, animals and plants get paved under, water bespoiled, and on and on all because some asshat thinks its his right to scream 100 km/h through my residential neighbourhood and park on the sidewalk.
If there is any hope, the public is going to have to adjust its perspective/tolerance of the Auto and its destructive culture.
If fucking tired of it, and this AngleGrinder Man is an ignorant fucking tool... By the way. I work for one of the Big Three NorthAmerican AutoCo's.
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
The USA is neither Great nor Good. IT is a backwards mess of puritanical morality, rampant violence, consumerism, and shallow, selfish ignoramuses. IT is also a warmongering empire.
damn yankee jingo, get your shit straight, your head out of your ass and some fucking perspective. Do you know you've been occupying Puerto Rico for over 100 years?
"Iraq has tonnes of ready-to-deploy WMD. No doubt. You will see, we must go now. If we dont, these filthy heathens will attack us. Anyone who disagrees is a terrorist spreading lies, lies, lies interested in exposing America to danger."
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I hate how Electric Cars look
I hate sprawl. I hate highways. I hate parking lots. I hate lung cancer. I hate traffic deaths. I hate habitat loss. I hate steel-mills. I hate high taxes.
If an electric car can be built to reduce those *real* concerns I wont give a fuck what it looks like.
Not cars that will prevent them from getting laid for the next 5-7 years.
Oh, btw, if you think a car will keep you from having relationships with the opposite sex, A) your sleeping with the wrong people and B) you have a worthless view of yourself... YOU ARE NOT THE CAR YOU DRIVE.
I call BS. Apple has, for quite a while, been given a reprieve-of-assault by MS. In order to keep the DoJ from sniffing there way, MS has been SMART ENOUGH to not crush Apple. Hell, they even make the Apple a 'viable' platform by porting Office/IE. Further, MS has (presently/in-past?) INVESTED IN APPLE. To those who will say 'it wasnt much' or 'they were nonvoting shares' thats not the point -- its a signal to the marketplace and investors "MS promises to not crush Apple'.
It never ceases to amaze me why Apple fanatics feel that their success in such tough times isnt so obviously enabled by their virtual non-aggression pact with MS.
MS Executive: "Were non monopolists, here, look, you can buy an Apple!"
If MS wanted, they could bankrupt Apple in 18months by declaring their market as a target, withdrawing Office/all-other-ms software, and tweaking this and that to cease network interoperation.
the fact that they havnt ALSO destroyed apple shouldnt be a sign that Apple is a success, just that they are a usefull foil in the marketplace.
Especially if accidentally passed.
Huh? This information is NOT contained in the document "by accident". It is a clearly intended by their use of this feature in MSOffice. Clearly.
VERY interesting idea.
On one hand, he is able to glean the evidence simply because something *WAS* there. But that's just the problem: It was in the past, but it has been editted out and substituted
you could argue (maybe not legally) that those the 'changes' never actually were. The process of creating a document is complete when it is made public. Isnt it like reading someone's mind and holding them accountable for 'crimes' he didnt commit? Just because the idea was typed, doesnt mean it was 'real', it was part of a flow of consciousness.... lost in the ether, the idea/intent was never actually formed.
This technology could easily make it possible for soldiers to carry very heavy armor that could possibly protect them from most all small arms fire and possibly even some heavy fire
EXCELLENT! Now, OUR soldiers will be able to kill more of the Evil Enemy(TM)! YEAH! WHAAT A TERRIFIC DEVELOPMENT! Lets buy more!
This technology could easily make it possible for soldiers to carry very heavy armor that could possibly protect them from most all small arms fire and possibly even some heavy fire
While, thank $DIETY allowing them to mercilessly slaughter the Enemy(TM). Thank $DIETY. Boy, what an excellent development -- more, better, faster ways to KILL PEOPLE! YEEAH!
Worry no more as you march around protesting the cause of the day
There are so many causes because there is so much injustice. Sorry pal, this isnt funny, its +1 Compassion-less.
Should social-justice advocates give up because the challenge is too great? Simply because side-line selfishness-advocates (like yourself) snipe with witless barbs like "hippy" and "cause whore" and such? Some people actually WANT a better, more just, more peacefull world. Protesting in public is a way to actualize that goal... undermining that action with stupidity like yours only serves those who want to Make the World Suck, m'kay? So, think a little before you propagate this hollow meme, it has a purpose... and its not a good one.
who win aren't the consumers
Um, you mean CITIZENS right? As long as you Americans consider your community one giant marketplace, where your relationships with "power" are feudal ones -- as Consumers -- you people are fucking doomed. I am absolutely agast that people frame this as a cosumer/market issue -- Microsoft is BREAKING the LAW. Justice is not being served because of your Plutocratic government... you should be VERY VERY worried. This is not even remotely close to being the tip of the iceburg, and people are absolutely blase... how sad... terribly sad.
In case you didnt know, what's good for Microsoft is not necessarily good for your community... being outraged at Microsoft is a pretty impotent effort I must say, but if you dont acknowledge it as a symptom of a much bigger, and much much more dire problem (absolute and total capitalist subversion of your democracy) than your country is in very real trouble. And so are the rest of us.
The USA is a powerful nation at present. It has a vast military. And if these entrenched corporate intersts are not challenged -- not even a little -- they will become increasingly (can they be more than they are already?) bold. Think Iraq was a profit-driven war for oil? Most people do.... but again, think of what your present government is capable of. Imagine the injustice it is capable of.
If this corrpution is not challenged, it will only become more difficult to unseat.
Such obviously illegal practices, not prosecuted by the USA's DoJ should tell any and all who are watching that, without a doubt, 100% certainty, that in the USA money makes the rules -- you might as well burn your ballots people, things are going to get MUCH worse before they get better.
This is typical Anti-social behaviour by a Corporation. Please watch this movie to learn more about what we are enduring w/r/t these entities... and why it should stop.
...you forgot war.
As for your solution, your missing two things; Preferential or InstantRunOff or some other voting method capable of producing a concensus amoungst voters (FPTP sucks my ass) and some element of Proportional Representation in one of your houses (a new one?).
Welcome to the Adhominium attack. Dont mention this person's assertion, disregard it by branding him a nut. This way, you can safely skirt the discussion.
Just because he is crazy doesnt mean they arent after him. Further, his concerns about a technology being introduced into what was formerly SimplePaperMoney *should* be a concern... or atleast discussed.
This AMX multimedia server true AV-nerd quality equipment... but insanly expensive.
Score 1 for the consumer!
Why have Americans taken to calling themselves Consumers? Your real power lies in Law, that law is written by CITIZENS. If your preceding citizens hadnt written some pretty keen laws, you current "Consumers" would be out $13.xx.
I cant stand it when people call me, or anyone else a f'ing consumer. Its goddamn offensive.
its the BLOW DRYERS.
What exactly is a "Rogue Weapon"? Get down off your high-horse, the USA posessing WMD IS EXACTLY THE SAME DAMN THING! . Any nation with a WMD program is a rogue nation, the USA has bio, nuke and chem weapons... why cant everyone else?
And you're right, Bush would probably break one if it was there because he's mean and evil and he breaks little kids candy bars
No, Hes a fucking fascist, who has invaded two nations -- threatened more -- and you are a jingo tool.
And Security. Dropping someones' closed drivers in your kernel means you cannot do an effective audit. You can *never* be certain you've not bee backdoored.
Would Intel do this? maybe, maybe-not. But no one expected it from Borland's interbase
is this paranoid? maybe, maybe-not....
Well, OSS is not a religion. But remember RMS started GNU because of just this -- closed source printer drivers.
What Intel is doing is doubly bad:
1) They are releasing a Closed Driver, killing future development, growth and porting of support to future systems.
2) Really only doing this to spite Lin--s. They are doing this to STOP Lin--s' open-source driver development.... probably not because they want to. Why couldnt they have been forthcoming "we are working on a driver. we intend to release it first qtr 2004. we are making it closed." Why keep the FreeSoftware universe in the dark..? Because they want to hold all the marbles, withholding information is dishonesty. Plain and simple. If you want to be 'trusted', keep no secrets.
This thread is speaks alot about global warming, and so does your SUV comment. But it is not the only issue with our wastefull, Consumer-driven industrial, oil-powered society.
Our stupidity is driving plants and animals into extinction. We are producting chemicals that the planet has never seen -- and its having dire consequences. We are producting ecosystem-overwhelming levels of things of all sorts, from anti-biotics in women's milk, hormones in cow's milk lowering the age of women's puberty, teflon showing up in humans, etc etc etc. We are conducting an experiment ON OURSELVES. We have no idea the lasting consequences of all this.
We are right to be concerned with Global Warming, but friends, dammit, its just a symptom of a much bigger problem.
One related issue I believe is urban design. People are no longer required to leave their homes for an arcade experience. GOING To the Arcade for the 'marginally better' experience CERTAINLY isnt worth driving your car across the city (a long trip) just on a 'whim'. North Americans spend alot of time in their cars navigating our sprawling communities -- this encourages 'cocooning', people building their own private domains for all things. People just cannot be bothered to leave their homes and navigate the stinking, expensive, unsafe, endless roadways to get to the aracde.
If our urban spaces were designed more wisely, an arcade would be 'closer' and more accessible. The benefit of social interaction (with strangers, neighbours and friends) would be more easily realized... not to mention access to all the best games.
With Sprawl just getting to the arcade is a chore.
And that's not the only natural-born superhero.
That AngleGrinder Man is an ass. The automobile is a menace. It pollutes. Causes sprawl. Is both personally and publicly VERY VERY expensive. Dangerous. Smelly. And encourages poor health.
London has every Right to want to make selfish auto-drivers play by the rules. The Auto is NOT the be-all-end-all public-policy device that needs satisfying.
Because I advocate sustainability, I ride my bike. I am damn tired of my Municipal, Provincial and Federal Taxes being spent to bandage up crash victims, insure the public against this menace, watch the best agricultural land get run over by big-box consumer-depots, animals and plants get paved under, water bespoiled, and on and on all because some asshat thinks its his right to scream 100 km/h through my residential neighbourhood and park on the sidewalk.
If there is any hope, the public is going to have to adjust its perspective/tolerance of the Auto and its destructive culture.
If fucking tired of it, and this AngleGrinder Man is an ignorant fucking tool... By the way. I work for one of the Big Three NorthAmerican AutoCo's.
Hm, well, Ian would be two syllables and pronounced "ee" as in Bee and "n" as in Sudden.
It would probably be "deb-ee-n"
No..?
America is great because America is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.
The USA is neither Great nor Good. IT is a backwards mess of puritanical morality, rampant violence, consumerism, and shallow, selfish ignoramuses. IT is also a warmongering empire.
damn yankee jingo, get your shit straight, your head out of your ass and some fucking perspective. Do you know you've been occupying Puerto Rico for over 100 years?
Xandros
Being developed in leaps and bounds -- check it out.
im paraphrasing. your not suggesting that this WASNT his exact message? Do you have a memory or has the Dept. of Newspeak gotten to you?
"Iraq has tonnes of ready-to-deploy WMD. No doubt. You will see, we must go now. If we dont, these filthy heathens will attack us. Anyone who disagrees is a terrorist spreading lies, lies, lies interested in exposing America to danger."