Well, really, when (if) RHAT or IBM scores the stays in their countersuits, RHAT is going to double in price... it is going to get alot of "Linux is Safe Technology(TM)" press.
im all for new installments of games on the latest consoles, but FZero? I hated that game.. Nintendo has to enourage third parties to build games that 'break-out' and catch attention. People are *NOT* going to buy nintendo's consoles just because they can REPLAY all the same games w/ better graphics.
We need surprise, we need diversity... I loath the idea of buying a Sony or MS console, I had MUCH hope i could buy Yet Another Nintendo console and be happy, but I look at the diversity of games @ my local Rogers Video store and see more 'interesting' or 'eye-catchers' on ps2...
I *havnt* forgotten the Sony "we'll block them at the console, block them at the router, block them..." comment from a few years ago.
Whats that i hear? The rush of brick/mortar compaines *rushing* out to patent every trivial aspect of their buisness in order to prevent others from "stealing their IP".
America has finaly started down the slippery slope... the one where entrenched and unreasonable Plutocrats rebuild the economy with rules that raise the barrier to entry so high that none can assault their position.
So, what now? Will the local cement-driveway-pourers patent their forming method? Will whitecastle patent the shape of their hamburgers (square) or the holes? What NONSENSE will become a government-protected monopoly in the USA?
I hope all you Slashdotters are paying attention to the Democrat Candidate's race. Only Kucinich and Gephardt have said they'd pull out of the WTO -- pulling out of the WTO keep the Corporate Whores from further utilizing WIPO as their favourable-IP-legislation body. Want to end the Corporate homesteading of Ideas? Vote the right way!
I thought anyone with a few bucks and a few days could do that kinda thing no problem? Why would a bunch of retired NASA guys be wasting there time with this? Geeze, a self-directed, small plane capable of flying the atlantic is *sooo simple*. one could even be built to carry reasonable payload of some kind if one wished.
i was not meaning to be funny - and you are absolutely correct. McDonalds, Barney, Pokemon all children's public discourse is really a shill to extort them... its mass-market approved child exploitation, and encouraged/condoned by free-market capitalists.
Its sad, it seems that no one has their own imagination these days. Instead of *creating* a mascot of their own, this team could only come up with stealing a character, who's sole purpose is to sell toys.
How about Cary the Coder -- the skinny geek... or Compile Kile a dapper, leather jacket cool-dude? or Jimmy the Bug a vile insect of software-flaws..?
instead they cant break out of the mass conscienceness, and decided that BobTheBuilder is there own... sad. sad. sad.
I say F Bob The Builder, Barney and Pokemon... thiere sole purpose is to convert your children into passive consumers, to sell them stuff, keep that crap out of your lives.
Why would they possibly do otherwise? They're a *company*, not a *charity*.
Yes, and for all that is right in the universe a For Profit Entity cannot CANNOT be excused with playing fast and loose with reality. The REALITY is that a Lab would be an entity who's purpose would be unbiased analysis, simple pursuit of truth.
For MS to declare thier new f'ing PR department a "LAB" serves only one purpose, to co-opt the ideals associated with the Scientific Method, thereby polluting its original notion.
DO NOT reply with "MS never said this was a research institute or unbiased lab, it is not important. MS's motivation is to play the linguists game... propaganda pure and simple.
If MS wants to build a new FUD/PR department they cannot simply chooose to call it anything they'd like under the guise that their propaganda is removed from honest discourse just because they are a "company". I say sucks to you nsample.... and sucks to you MS... you stinking liars.
Why would they possibly do otherwise? They're a *company*, not a *charity*.
Yes, and for all that is right in the universe a For Profit Entity cannot CANNOT be excused with playing fast and loose with reality. The REALITY is that a Lab would be an entity who's purpose would be unbiased analysis, simple pursuit of truth.
For MS to declare thier new f'ing PR department a "LAB" serves only one purpose, to co-opt the ideals associated with the Scientific Method, thereby polluting its original notion.
DO NOT reply with "MS never said this was a research institute or unbiased lab, it is not important. MS's motivation is to play the linguists game... propaganda pure and simple.
If MS wants to build a new FUD/PR department they cannot simply chooose to call it anything they'd like under the guise that their propaganda is removed from honest discourse just because they are a "company". I say sucks to you nsample.... and sucks to you MS... you stinking liars.
CLIPPY: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet realize your importance. You have only begun to discover you power. Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength, we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
Martin Taylor: I'll never join you!
CLIPPY: If you only knew the power of the dark side. Obi-Wan never told you what happened to your father.
Martin Taylor: He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
CLIPPY: No. I am your father.
Martin Taylor: No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!
CLIPPY: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
BS. Money buys access and mindshare. The public can *only* vote for who has access. Want proof? Ross f'ing Perot... who was the last Independant to get such success? Nader was the last '3rd' party candidate.. but didnt get as many votes as Perot.
Two legs better! BS - everyone knows "Four legs good, two legs bbbaaaddd"
I've always had it explained that fascism is a political philosophy and capitalism is an economic system. The Nazis were socialist (German National Social Worker's Party), not capitalists
the Nazis were Fascists, State Capialists, see above.
After (before as well) WWI there was a real Communist surge in Germany. The Capitalist classes, the Plutocratic bourgoise actually helped bring the Nazis to power. They aligned themselves with these ultra-right group in order to protect thier interests from the the (percieved) "threat" from the Communists.
bottom line: It was the Rich who put the Nazis in power.
Who is this "we" of which you speak? GNU/Linux users are not violating anyone's copyright. The GPL, the license does not encourage or facilitate copyright violation...
In most places, gas taxes pay for the bulk of highway maintenance fees
Sprawl is not just highways, its the extra costs that the city incurs building additional infrastructure of all stripes, increased fire/police/ambulance service areas, public lighting, etc etc. Developers dont pay for this forever(!).
Why is it that the average "big box" store wants $1.09 for a partiular item, and the local place wants $1.99? That's almost *DOUBLE* the price.
I find that on average, the local retail place is about 50% more expensive than a place like Target. I'd have to get a really big raise in order to afford them.
If you could *not* own a car, and walk to the grocer/fishmonger/butcher, do you think that $1 would matter? Besides, the price differences have to do with volume, and now that you shop at walmart/target/corporate-chain, none of the local retailers can touch the prices.
Again, this says nothing of the diversity of product in the marketplace (speciality shops with great product), local employment for your neighbours, sustainability, health, etc etc.
Bottom Line: Corporate retail chains destroy a once vibrant retail universe, and encourage expensive/unhealthy(in many resepcts) sprawl.
and they encourage urban sprawl with this 'big-box-bs'. highways to outside of town to guy a bag of groceries? no f'ing way, you car drivers can start to *pay* for this idiocy. Im tired of my tax dollars going to build highways so *WALMART* can plop a massive, local-retail-destroying mega-shop on inexpensive land...
Do you see that your tax dollars go to enable Sprawl which in turn makes helps walmart mark "low prices"... "low prices" indeed.
this says nothing of pollution and habitat loss...
ive never spent a dime at walmart, and it *does* make me a better person.
countries as an act of job-creating altruism back in the 1980s
BS BS BS. The jobs left (and are leaving) not out of good will, but because of CAPITALISM.. you know, the most efficient (cheapest) manner of production wins.
The Rich Plutocrats who rule the USA dont care about the USA, they are rich citizens of the world, able to buy themselves into living *anywhere*... the Ken Lays, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Bush Family -- WHOMEVER -- all protray themselves (happily) as "great and proud americans" because YOU YANKS are so blinded by Jingoism that you dont see their irresponsible and selfish actions as being clearly against the good of YOUR OWN COMMUNITY (remember all those jobs are gone...)
Then you yanks go down and BUY BUY at walmart, who imports EVERYTHING from abroad to get you "low low prices". Those low low prices are at a cost of a sustainable, local economy...
what you dont see (just yet) is that the "liberals" you blame for this altruism of off-shore manufacturing has been CONDEMNED by the left ALL ALONG. The Capitalists amoung you are *telling* you that foreigners want these jobs, sending these jobs are helping these other economies, and we want free-trade deals to help these other nations is *a fucking lie*. If the 250 million working americans are interested in seeing the USA drop like a stone in water, as the longest to fall in the looming Race To The Bottom... you BETTER start to realize that unfettered Capitalism is at fault. That the economy must be steared and directed by law.. labour law, environmental law, incentives, disincentives, tarrifs, taxes, subsidy etc etc etc... if you DONT start to direct the economy, those rich bastards will suck the USA dry and move on to some other host.
the real tragedy is that the USA, long an 'advocate' of free-market capitalism WONT DO THAT because the masses believe that this Free Market Capitalism is *good for them*... in the 21st century, you'll begin to realize that whats good for GM is not necessarily good for the USA.
This (#4) is probably the best suggestion. Typical lawnmowers are 2cycle gas. they pollute an INCREDIBLE amount. Driving actually causes less pollution than mowing (like 100times less on the basis of time (your crusing @ 80km/hr or mowing 1hr).
If you cant see your way to get a reelmower, then please at least switch to an electric..
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Well, really, when (if) RHAT or IBM scores the stays in their countersuits, RHAT is going to double in price... it is going to get alot of "Linux is Safe Technology(TM)" press.
great, FZero -- AGAIN.
im all for new installments of games on the latest consoles, but FZero? I hated that game.. Nintendo has to enourage third parties to build games that 'break-out' and catch attention. People are *NOT* going to buy nintendo's consoles just because they can REPLAY all the same games w/ better graphics.
We need surprise, we need diversity... I loath the idea of buying a Sony or MS console, I had MUCH hope i could buy Yet Another Nintendo console and be happy, but I look at the diversity of games @ my local Rogers Video store and see more 'interesting' or 'eye-catchers' on ps2...
I *havnt* forgotten the Sony "we'll block them at the console, block them at the router, block them..." comment from a few years ago.
Whats that i hear? The rush of brick/mortar compaines *rushing* out to patent every trivial aspect of their buisness in order to prevent others from "stealing their IP".
America has finaly started down the slippery slope... the one where entrenched and unreasonable Plutocrats rebuild the economy with rules that raise the barrier to entry so high that none can assault their position.
So, what now? Will the local cement-driveway-pourers patent their forming method? Will whitecastle patent the shape of their hamburgers (square) or the holes? What NONSENSE will become a government-protected monopoly in the USA?
I hope all you Slashdotters are paying attention to the Democrat Candidate's race. Only Kucinich and Gephardt have said they'd pull out of the WTO -- pulling out of the WTO keep the Corporate Whores from further utilizing WIPO as their favourable-IP-legislation body. Want to end the Corporate homesteading of Ideas? Vote the right way!
I thought anyone with a few bucks and a few days could do that kinda thing no problem? Why would a bunch of retired NASA guys be wasting there time with this? Geeze, a self-directed, small plane capable of flying the atlantic is *sooo simple*. one could even be built to carry reasonable payload of some kind if one wished.
I thought anyone with a few bucks and a few days could do that kinda thing no problem? Why would a bunch of retired NASA guys be wasting there time with this? Geeze, a self-directed, small plane capable of flying the atlantic is *sooo simple*. one could even be built to carry reasonable payload of some kind if one wished.
i was not meaning to be funny - and you are absolutely correct. McDonalds, Barney, Pokemon all children's public discourse is really a shill to extort them... its mass-market approved child exploitation, and encouraged/condoned by free-market capitalists.
Its sad, it seems that no one has their own imagination these days. Instead of *creating* a mascot of their own, this team could only come up with stealing a character, who's sole purpose is to sell toys.
How about Cary the Coder -- the skinny geek... or Compile Kile a dapper, leather jacket cool-dude? or Jimmy the Bug a vile insect of software-flaws..?
instead they cant break out of the mass conscienceness, and decided that BobTheBuilder is there own... sad. sad. sad.
I say F Bob The Builder, Barney and Pokemon... thiere sole purpose is to convert your children into passive consumers, to sell them stuff, keep that crap out of your lives.
Why would they possibly do otherwise? They're a *company*, not a *charity*.
Yes, and for all that is right in the universe a For Profit Entity cannot CANNOT be excused with playing fast and loose with reality. The REALITY is that a Lab would be an entity who's purpose would be unbiased analysis, simple pursuit of truth.
For MS to declare thier new f'ing PR department a "LAB" serves only one purpose, to co-opt the ideals associated with the Scientific Method, thereby polluting its original notion.
DO NOT reply with "MS never said this was a research institute or unbiased lab, it is not important. MS's motivation is to play the linguists game... propaganda pure and simple.
If MS wants to build a new FUD/PR department they cannot simply chooose to call it anything they'd like under the guise that their propaganda is removed from honest discourse just because they are a "company". I say sucks to you nsample.... and sucks to you MS... you stinking liars.
Remember, In SCO $699 owns LICENSE!
1) $699 License
2) ???
3) PROFIT!
Pour hot $699 down Natalie Portman's SCO!
others?
Why would they possibly do otherwise? They're a *company*, not a *charity*.
Yes, and for all that is right in the universe a For Profit Entity cannot CANNOT be excused with playing fast and loose with reality. The REALITY is that a Lab would be an entity who's purpose would be unbiased analysis, simple pursuit of truth.
For MS to declare thier new f'ing PR department a "LAB" serves only one purpose, to co-opt the ideals associated with the Scientific Method, thereby polluting its original notion.
DO NOT reply with "MS never said this was a research institute or unbiased lab, it is not important. MS's motivation is to play the linguists game... propaganda pure and simple.
If MS wants to build a new FUD/PR department they cannot simply chooose to call it anything they'd like under the guise that their propaganda is removed from honest discourse just because they are a "company". I say sucks to you nsample.... and sucks to you MS... you stinking liars.
CLIPPY: There is no escape. Don't make me destroy you. You do not yet
realize your importance. You have only begun to discover you power.
Join me and I will complete your training. With our combined strength,
we can end this destructive conflict and bring order to the galaxy.
Martin Taylor: I'll never join you!
CLIPPY: If you only knew the power of the dark side. Obi-Wan never told
you what happened to your father.
Martin Taylor: He told me enough! He told me you killed him.
CLIPPY: No. I am your father.
Martin Taylor: No. No. That's not true! That's impossible!
CLIPPY: Search your feelings. You know it to be true.
Martin Taylor: No! No! No!
Money follows votes; it does not buy votes.
BS. Money buys access and mindshare. The public can *only* vote for who has access. Want proof? Ross f'ing Perot... who was the last Independant to get such success? Nader was the last '3rd' party candidate.. but didnt get as many votes as Perot.
Two legs better!
BS - everyone knows "Four legs good, two legs bbbaaaddd"
Which means it's not a Linux application, it's a Windows application that runs in an emulator. So what?
WINE is not an emulator. It is an implementation of the libraries that Windows software rely upon -- but open and portable.
again, i repeat, WINE is *not* an emulator.
I've always had it explained that fascism is a political philosophy and capitalism is an economic system. The Nazis were socialist (German National Social Worker's Party), not capitalists
the Nazis were Fascists, State Capialists, see above.
After (before as well) WWI there was a real Communist surge in Germany. The Capitalist classes, the Plutocratic bourgoise actually helped bring the Nazis to power. They aligned themselves with these ultra-right group in order to protect thier interests from the the (percieved) "threat" from the Communists.
bottom line: It was the Rich who put the Nazis in power.
Who is this "we" of which you speak? GNU/Linux users are not violating anyone's copyright. The GPL, the license does not encourage or facilitate copyright violation...
What are you talking about?
well, really "Communism" does work. Communism is a Democratically controlled economy. ask a Social Democrat... they are in office all over the planet.
and as weapons against terrorism.
s -here) weapons against Communism!
are you sure you didnt really mean (insert-suspensfull-"Duh-Dunnnn"-sound-from-movie
In most places, gas taxes pay for the bulk of highway maintenance fees
Sprawl is not just highways, its the extra costs that the city incurs building additional infrastructure of all stripes, increased fire/police/ambulance service areas, public lighting, etc etc. Developers dont pay for this forever(!).
Why is it that the average "big box" store wants $1.09 for a partiular item, and the local place wants $1.99? That's almost *DOUBLE* the price.
I find that on average, the local retail place is about 50% more expensive than a place like Target. I'd have to get a really big raise in order to afford them.
If you could *not* own a car, and walk to the grocer/fishmonger/butcher, do you think that $1 would matter? Besides, the price differences have to do with volume, and now that you shop at walmart/target/corporate-chain, none of the local retailers can touch the prices.
Again, this says nothing of the diversity of product in the marketplace (speciality shops with great product), local employment for your neighbours, sustainability, health, etc etc.
Bottom Line: Corporate retail chains destroy a once vibrant retail universe, and encourage expensive/unhealthy(in many resepcts) sprawl.
controlled economy my ass
there you go, blinded by 100 years of propaganda. Communism != Fascism. Capitalism != (Freedom || Democracy)
Well, i very fondly remember this particular space vampire pant suit... VERY fondly remember it.. hmmm...erin gray...
ive had my rubber extension cordset (75ft) for 18-20 yrs now..
and they encourage urban sprawl with this 'big-box-bs'. highways to outside of town to guy a bag of groceries? no f'ing way, you car drivers can start to *pay* for this idiocy. Im tired of my tax dollars going to build highways so *WALMART* can plop a massive, local-retail-destroying mega-shop on inexpensive land...
Do you see that your tax dollars go to enable Sprawl which in turn makes helps walmart mark "low prices"... "low prices" indeed.
this says nothing of pollution and habitat loss...
ive never spent a dime at walmart, and it *does* make me a better person.
countries as an act of job-creating altruism back in the 1980s
BS BS BS. The jobs left (and are leaving) not out of good will, but because of CAPITALISM.. you know, the most efficient (cheapest) manner of production wins.
The Rich Plutocrats who rule the USA dont care about the USA, they are rich citizens of the world, able to buy themselves into living *anywhere*... the Ken Lays, Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Bush Family -- WHOMEVER -- all protray themselves (happily) as "great and proud americans" because YOU YANKS are so blinded by Jingoism that you dont see their irresponsible and selfish actions as being clearly against the good of YOUR OWN COMMUNITY (remember all those jobs are gone...)
Then you yanks go down and BUY BUY at walmart, who imports EVERYTHING from abroad to get you "low low prices". Those low low prices are at a cost of a sustainable, local economy...
what you dont see (just yet) is that the "liberals" you blame for this altruism of off-shore manufacturing has been CONDEMNED by the left ALL ALONG. The Capitalists amoung you are *telling* you that foreigners want these jobs, sending these jobs are helping these other economies, and we want free-trade deals to help these other nations is *a fucking lie*. If the 250 million working americans are interested in seeing the USA drop like a stone in water, as the longest to fall in the looming Race To The Bottom... you BETTER start to realize that unfettered Capitalism is at fault. That the economy must be steared and directed by law.. labour law, environmental law, incentives, disincentives, tarrifs, taxes, subsidy etc etc etc... if you DONT start to direct the economy, those rich bastards will suck the USA dry and move on to some other host.
the real tragedy is that the USA, long an 'advocate' of free-market capitalism WONT DO THAT because the masses believe that this Free Market Capitalism is *good for them*... in the 21st century, you'll begin to realize that whats good for GM is not necessarily good for the USA.
welcome to reality.
This (#4) is probably the best suggestion. Typical lawnmowers are 2cycle gas. they pollute an INCREDIBLE amount. Driving actually causes less pollution than mowing (like 100times less on the basis of time (your crusing @ 80km/hr or mowing 1hr).
If you cant see your way to get a reelmower, then please at least switch to an electric..
I agree. BUT I also recommend to use rechargable battts.