Maybe if you did... youd spread a little love and people wouldnt get beaten for answering their phone in a theater - yes, its annoying, but does it REALLY deserve a beating?
Interpreting the Commerce Clause, which I am well aware of, in such a manner is a gross exaggeration of what was intended.
Like the way Republicans fail to understand "A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
someone will ALWAYS see something as "not in the community interest". Mob rule (sometimes referred to as "Democracy) dictates that the minority will be squelched, their desires subsumed "for the greater good". Trouble is, who gets to determine what's for the greater good? You? Me? My aunt? The homeless guy on the street?
Economic policy does not a complete State make. Please take this survey to understand that economic policy and social policy are on different scales. It is completely possible (and my personal preference) to have incredible personal freedoms (the idea embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights/Freedoms) and Democratically Controlled (influenced) Economies (socialism/communism).
wealth, enlightenment, and prosperity
With sufficiently narrow definitions of those terms you *may* be correct - some others (myself) feel America is a failure. Pollution, Poverty, Violence, Ignorance, Selfishness, Greed, Consumerism, Disenfranchisment, Inhuman would be some of the (off the top of my head) descriptions I would make of Today's USA.
Being told (by those who benefit) from the definition of success does not create it... this is a very big issue - America is an unsustainable mess, and history will certainly prove it a failure.
This whole "COMMUNITY INTEREST" thing sounds a great deal like something that Marx and Lenin would've loved. It's called Socialism, it's been tried, and it doesn't work.
HA! We woke up this morning thinking that Worldcom wasnt a Great Big Lie and that Capitalism Worked -- tell that to the 17000 (and the rest (85000?)) when WC goes titsup.com) unemployed and the rest whose lives will be crushed by investments in WC.
Capitalism will prove to not work -- see Enron, WorldCom, Andersen, ??? -- then see Marx and Lenin;)
What? Do you think that the Corporate Media is going to start calling a spade a spade? If they reporter tries to submit "WorldCom Execs Comit $3.8BFraud - Is Corporate America a Complete House of Cards?" or somesuch, their boss' would get a call right quick from someone who Golfs with those criminals.
Its self-censorship (direct censorship?) in the age of Corporate Media.
Take a look at the Corporate Relationships between the Rest of the World and the Media companies...
Chances are that money was never in the door, and profits were inflated to trick the public into thinking things were okay. Granted this is fraudulent and deceptive, but its probably not how you describe it: a case of a few people stealing to enrich themselves.
No, in both Cases (Enron / Worldcom) these filthy Plutocrats did not simply embezzle millions. What they did was lie and cheat, using the whole business as a machine not to make Widgets but to create wealth on Wallstreet (and in their pockets bc they are almost all compensated via massive stock options).
So what we have here is rich executives hiding the truth in order to ride the whole thing to the next big payout for themselves, with no consideration for the small stock holders (they will have cashed out) or the Institutional holders (and MFunds), Fuck the Employees and the Suppliers -- hide the reality of the business as long as possible in order to get enough money out of the Stock Markets.
Isnt compensation via Stock a virtual guarantee of conflict of interest and insider trading? I mean Christ, only the truly perverted, greedy, slimy scum rises above low-level management in Corporate America -- its like holding AA meetings in a Beer Store -- these jackals promote one another on their LACK of moral fibre, then congratulate (and enrich) one another for being unscrupulous.
It depends on either enslaving the young to pay for pensions or decreasing benefits to sub-poverty levels. There's really no other option.
How about an Estate Tax that withdraws the 'fat' that the previous generation didnt pay in Taxes (and SocialSecurity Benefits(as they should have, or they should have properly prepared for their OWN retirement)).
When the exec's compensation is based (mostly) on stock options (and stock price) is it any wonder they lie/cheat and steal during their time only to protect the 'paper wealth' of the company; and how it looks to Wallstreet?
I wonder just how much more of USA corporate giants arent doing this exact same thing...
But it is not what creates a product or a solution that businesses have to deploy.
I hope the dark irony of that statement doesnt escape this audience. The fact is GNU/Linux was created exactly BECAUSE of this concept. Sad, Ransom Doesnt Get It.... or he thinks we are all stupid.
This is a Good Thing. Ive enjoyed playing w/ WinAmp AVS in the past, and thought it would be fun to run at a party via a DLP projector, trouble is that if you want to change the Image you have to drop down out of a fullscreen, to your windows desktop and make the changes -- for all to see.
Now that this runs w/ XMMS, what I (assume we can now do) is run the WinAmp Plugins in fullscreen, on a seperate Virtual Desktop and apply the changes to it. Have the DLP projector project only the fullscreen VisPlugin's output and use the other desktop to make the changes -- no crappy 'behind-the-curtains' revelations for the party guests who would otherwise enjoy the output as a sort-of real-time-art-poster that reacts to the music....
But I 'spose someone will tell me i could have already done this...
What gets me in this is that while I agree Haider is an idiot the communists in Europe are just as big idiots. So if you ban Haider, ban the communists, fair is fair. And remember that Stalin was just as gruesome as Hitler.
Stalin was a fascist. Marxist-Leninist Communism requires very real, participatory(sp?) 'bottom-up ' Democracy (find out what a "soviet" is..)
Saying Communism is bad because Stalin was a madman does not make sense, its a non-sequitor of the highest order. I could just as well say Democracy doesnt work because the Italians loved -- and elected -- everyone's real favorite fascist (and my sidestepping Godwin;) ).
Is a Rightist, think-tank - they also think taxes should be abolished and Democracy replaced by Market Capitalism...
Listen, The US spends more money on arms then the rest of the planet combined - it is not a 'defender' of anything -telling americans that the rest of the planet "demands US comes and helps" is a PR pile of stink-shit that helps mask the overwhelming offensive nature of your domestic military.
That bullshit is for ignorant Americans, not for the citizens of the 70odd nations who have had USians do battle in their nations since WWII.
The USA is a rogue nation run by Plutocrats with an incredibly apathetic and ignorant populace... and they have an incredibly massive military too boot - just the kind of thing that will lead us to WWIII... under what conditions im not sure, but as long as the hawks run your country, and the citizens are so brazen and aggressive its only a matter of time.
Citizens of Democratic countries the world over need to start demanding a change to this, when bullies also have big sticks someone is going to get whacked. Id like to see a standing UN army replace any 'domestic peacekeepers'. Any army on foriegn soil should be considered an aggressor and should be condemned by the World Public. The US cannot keep trapsing around the globe killing at will and telling their domestic popluation 'we were invited to keep the peace' - this bullshit lead to thousands (from *MANY* nations, not just Americans) that ended up dead in the attack on the WTC.
Only an utter moron wouldn't buy something at a Walmart if it were all of: cheaper, equivalent or better quality, and in a store at a convenient location
I dont make my decisions based on the parameters defined by Capitalists. The fact that Walmart doesnt support local economies, exploits vendors, employees and manufacturer's workers prevents me from considering those other factors. I would go without or shop somewhere else.
only a complete fucking moron blindly accepts the role of consumer and accepts the pre-defined 'important' issues as definded by Capitalist "Economics".
A person of conscience will broaden the proposition and analyse it in total, a MORON cannot see beyond the LowLowLowPrices.
Are you willing to admit you would rather be an accomplice to WalMart's transgressions because it is more convenient and cheaper for you?
As for 90% of sales, how long will the growth for walmart's present Big-Bomb-Mega-Superstore, how long until their growth levels off and Walmart starts to buy up chains in other market segments and competitiors? I dont think you understand how big a force WalMart is, and how big they are about to become...
You are exactly the kind of self-centred, ignorant boob that makes middle-america look like assholes.
Walmart is notorious for its slave-labour abuse, employee abuse - it runs willy-nilly in the business of producers and dictates their business TOO THEM, their censorship is All Too Real. If an RIAA(whore) wants to have a CD on the shelf at WalMart, they better not release the 'next-big' CD with something offensive to WalMart - they might find all their stuff in the back-racks, or off the shelves altogether... sheesh, give your head a shake.
Walmart is a monster in the marketplace causing irreparable damage to the real freedom people have in the market. How long will it be until WalMart has raised the bar on the retail business so far no one can even CHALLENGE them? For God's sakes, Windows is an ABUSIVE and OBVIOUS monopoly and there is not even the political will in America to fix that! WalMart is a much BIGGER company already, and its not even scratching the surface on the whole and total domination it is embarking on...
When walmart is has a monopoly on retail (laugh now...just wait) where they are responsible for 90% of all retail sales in the USA, and they alone can deliver products to the marketplace (because they have exclusivity arrangements with other mega-corps) you'll be singing a different tune about "loyal customer" and "freedom-loving-American" bullshit...
You idiots cant see beyond your self-serving myopia long enough to give a shit about the big picture - its almost laughable how you can be a 'loyal customer' of a mega-corp that couldn't give two-shits about you or anyone-else; they've demonstrated they Dont Care a million times - but you morons keep shoving $$$ in the bank for them....
Bush is trying to streamline the H1B visa process so the big companies can bring in even more foreign workers
whahh whaaah, them stinky foreign people are talking all the good jobs...
Tell me, where does your family come from..? Because if your not Native NorthAmerican, you dont belong here (and some would say even the natives that the europeans slaughtered were not the 'original peoples' - they were foreigners)
so, with that in mind, which Rightist party are you a memeber of?
The Government must choose software to maximize national security and minimize government expenditure
I believe should read: "The Government must choose software to maximize the welfare of its citizens, of concern is software security as it relates to national security, and minimize government expenditure"
Relating to Mr. David Skoll's quote: "Well, some large commercial entities like HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Sun are quite willing to use, produce and/or distribute GPL'd software." (Dave: Thanks for RPPPoE!)
He might also like to mention MS's own SFU*and Interix
Have a gander at that little GPL sidebar..
* MS's Shut the Fuck Up... "Netscape eng are weenies wit" at its best)
3) stay on topic Why is this important? It sounds exactly the opposite of what a grade 4 student should be doing.. should grade4 students be trained to be Drones?
I got a very eerie feeling when i read your comment.
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And personally I DON'T CARE about your GF
Maybe if you did... youd spread a little love and people wouldnt get beaten for answering their phone in a theater - yes, its annoying, but does it REALLY deserve a beating?
Interpreting the Commerce Clause, which I am well aware of, in such a manner is a gross exaggeration of what was intended.
Like the way Republicans fail to understand " A well-regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
someone will ALWAYS see something as "not in the community interest". Mob rule (sometimes referred to as "Democracy) dictates that the minority will be squelched, their desires subsumed "for the greater good". Trouble is, who gets to determine what's for the greater good? You? Me? My aunt? The homeless guy on the street?
Economic policy does not a complete State make. Please take this survey to understand that economic policy and social policy are on different scales. It is completely possible (and my personal preference) to have incredible personal freedoms (the idea embodied in the Canadian Charter of Rights/Freedoms) and Democratically Controlled (influenced) Economies (socialism/communism).
wealth, enlightenment, and prosperity
With sufficiently narrow definitions of those terms you *may* be correct - some others (myself) feel America is a failure. Pollution, Poverty, Violence, Ignorance, Selfishness, Greed, Consumerism, Disenfranchisment, Inhuman would be some of the (off the top of my head) descriptions I would make of Today's USA.
Being told (by those who benefit) from the definition of success does not create it... this is a very big issue - America is an unsustainable mess, and history will certainly prove it a failure.
This whole "COMMUNITY INTEREST" thing sounds a great deal like something that Marx and Lenin would've loved. It's called Socialism, it's been tried, and it doesn't work.
;)
HA! We woke up this morning thinking that Worldcom wasnt a Great Big Lie and that Capitalism Worked -- tell that to the 17000 (and the rest (85000?)) when WC goes titsup.com) unemployed and the rest whose lives will be crushed by investments in WC.
Capitalism will prove to not work -- see Enron, WorldCom, Andersen, ??? -- then see Marx and Lenin
What? Do you think that the Corporate Media is going to start calling a spade a spade? If they reporter tries to submit "WorldCom Execs Comit $3.8BFraud - Is Corporate America a Complete House of Cards?" or somesuch, their boss' would get a call right quick from someone who Golfs with those criminals.
Its self-censorship (direct censorship?) in the age of Corporate Media.
Take a look at the Corporate Relationships between the Rest of the World and the Media companies...
Chances are that money was never in the door, and profits were inflated to trick the public into thinking things were okay. Granted this is fraudulent and deceptive, but its probably not how you describe it: a case of a few people stealing to enrich themselves.
No, in both Cases (Enron / Worldcom) these filthy Plutocrats did not simply embezzle millions. What they did was lie and cheat, using the whole business as a machine not to make Widgets but to create wealth on Wallstreet (and in their pockets bc they are almost all compensated via massive stock options).
So what we have here is rich executives hiding the truth in order to ride the whole thing to the next big payout for themselves, with no consideration for the small stock holders (they will have cashed out) or the Institutional holders (and MFunds), Fuck the Employees and the Suppliers -- hide the reality of the business as long as possible in order to get enough money out of the Stock Markets.
Isnt compensation via Stock a virtual guarantee of conflict of interest and insider trading? I mean Christ, only the truly perverted, greedy, slimy scum rises above low-level management in Corporate America -- its like holding AA meetings in a Beer Store -- these jackals promote one another on their LACK of moral fibre, then congratulate (and enrich) one another for being unscrupulous.
It depends on either enslaving the young to pay for pensions or decreasing benefits to sub-poverty levels. There's really no other option.
How about an Estate Tax that withdraws the 'fat' that the previous generation didnt pay in Taxes (and SocialSecurity Benefits(as they should have, or they should have properly prepared for their OWN retirement)).
When the exec's compensation is based (mostly) on stock options (and stock price) is it any wonder they lie/cheat and steal during their time only to protect the 'paper wealth' of the company; and how it looks to Wallstreet?
I wonder just how much more of USA corporate giants arent doing this exact same thing...
But it is not what creates a product or a solution that businesses have to deploy.
I hope the dark irony of that statement doesnt escape this audience. The fact is GNU/Linux was created exactly BECAUSE of this concept. Sad, Ransom Doesnt Get It.... or he thinks we are all stupid.
This is a Good Thing. Ive enjoyed playing w/ WinAmp AVS in the past, and thought it would be fun to run at a party via a DLP projector, trouble is that if you want to change the Image you have to drop down out of a fullscreen, to your windows desktop and make the changes -- for all to see.
Now that this runs w/ XMMS, what I (assume we can now do) is run the WinAmp Plugins in fullscreen, on a seperate Virtual Desktop and apply the changes to it. Have the DLP projector project only the fullscreen VisPlugin's output and use the other desktop to make the changes -- no crappy 'behind-the-curtains' revelations for the party guests who would otherwise enjoy the output as a sort-of real-time-art-poster that reacts to the music....
But I 'spose someone will tell me i could have already done this...
What gets me in this is that while I agree Haider is an idiot the communists in Europe are just as big idiots. So if you ban Haider, ban the communists, fair is fair. And remember that Stalin was just as gruesome as Hitler.
;) ) .
Stalin was a fascist. Marxist-Leninist Communism requires very real, participatory(sp?) 'bottom-up
' Democracy (find out what a "soviet" is..)
Saying Communism is bad because Stalin was a madman does not make sense, its a non-sequitor of the highest order. I could just as well say Democracy doesnt work because the Italians loved -- and elected -- everyone's real favorite fascist (and my sidestepping Godwin
The C.D. Howe Institute.
Is a Rightist, think-tank - they also think taxes should be abolished and Democracy replaced by Market Capitalism...
Listen, The US spends more money on arms then the rest of the planet combined - it is not a 'defender' of anything -telling americans that the rest of the planet "demands US comes and helps" is a PR pile of stink-shit that helps mask the overwhelming offensive nature of your domestic military.
That bullshit is for ignorant Americans, not for the citizens of the 70odd nations who have had USians do battle in their nations since WWII.
The USA is a rogue nation run by Plutocrats with an incredibly apathetic and ignorant populace... and they have an incredibly massive military too boot - just the kind of thing that will lead us to WWIII... under what conditions im not sure, but as long as the hawks run your country, and the citizens are so brazen and aggressive its only a matter of time.
Citizens of Democratic countries the world over need to start demanding a change to this, when bullies also have big sticks someone is going to get whacked. Id like to see a standing UN army replace any 'domestic peacekeepers'. Any army on foriegn soil should be considered an aggressor and should be condemned by the World Public. The US cannot keep trapsing around the globe killing at will and telling their domestic popluation 'we were invited to keep the peace' - this bullshit lead to thousands (from *MANY* nations, not just Americans) that ended up dead in the attack on the WTC.
s/definded/defined; s/competitiors/competitors
Only an utter moron wouldn't buy something at a Walmart if it were all of: cheaper, equivalent or better quality, and in a store at a convenient location
I dont make my decisions based on the parameters defined by Capitalists. The fact that Walmart doesnt support local economies, exploits vendors, employees and manufacturer's workers prevents me from considering those other factors. I would go without or shop somewhere else.
only a complete fucking moron blindly accepts the role of consumer and accepts the pre-defined 'important' issues as definded by Capitalist "Economics".
A person of conscience will broaden the proposition and analyse it in total, a MORON cannot see beyond the LowLowLowPrices.
Are you willing to admit you would rather be an accomplice to WalMart's transgressions because it is more convenient and cheaper for you?
As for 90% of sales, how long will the growth for walmart's present Big-Bomb-Mega-Superstore, how long until their growth levels off and Walmart starts to buy up chains in other market segments and competitiors? I dont think you understand how big a force WalMart is, and how big they are about to become...
but they'll continue to hate success until they finally perish.
Walmart as "success" is *VERY* telling of how warped you (and those who shop at and have no issues of conscience) at walmart.
Christ, what a fucked-up, greedy selfcentered and base world you must live in.
Brian~
You are exactly the kind of self-centred, ignorant boob that makes middle-america look like assholes.
Walmart is notorious for its slave-labour abuse, employee abuse - it runs willy-nilly in the business of producers and dictates their business TOO THEM, their censorship is All Too Real. If an RIAA(whore) wants to have a CD on the shelf at WalMart, they better not release the 'next-big' CD with something offensive to WalMart - they might find all their stuff in the back-racks, or off the shelves altogether... sheesh, give your head a shake.
Walmart is a monster in the marketplace causing irreparable damage to the real freedom people have in the market. How long will it be until WalMart has raised the bar on the retail business so far no one can even CHALLENGE them? For God's sakes, Windows is an ABUSIVE and OBVIOUS monopoly and there is not even the political will in America to fix that! WalMart is a much BIGGER company already, and its not even scratching the surface on the whole and total domination it is embarking on...
When walmart is has a monopoly on retail (laugh now...just wait) where they are responsible for 90% of all retail sales in the USA, and they alone can deliver products to the marketplace (because they have exclusivity arrangements with other mega-corps) you'll be singing a different tune about "loyal customer" and "freedom-loving-American" bullshit...
You idiots cant see beyond your self-serving myopia long enough to give a shit about the big picture - its almost laughable how you can be a 'loyal customer' of a mega-corp that couldn't give two-shits about you or anyone-else; they've demonstrated they Dont Care a million times - but you morons keep shoving $$$ in the bank for them....
Real Fucking Smart
Bush is trying to streamline the H1B visa process so the big companies can bring in even more foreign workers
whahh whaaah, them stinky foreign people are talking all the good jobs...
Tell me, where does your family come from..? Because if your not Native NorthAmerican, you dont belong here (and some would say even the natives that the europeans slaughtered were not the 'original peoples' - they were foreigners)
so, with that in mind, which Rightist party are you a memeber of?
for those of you who dont know walmart..
..a bunch more links...
Walmar Watch
Reclaim Democracy
I dont shop @ Walmart. You shouldnt either.
...well, I guess I was a little behind. I ran a BBS on a C64 @ 300baud...
Though, I was in wonder of the Wildcat BBSs running on 486s at the time...
The Government must choose software to maximize national security and minimize government expenditure
I believe should read: "The Government must choose software to maximize the welfare of its citizens, of concern is software security as it relates to national security, and minimize government expenditure"
Atdi's easter egg -- is there something wrong going on here?
Relating to Mr. David Skoll's quote: "Well, some large commercial entities like HP/Compaq, IBM, Dell and Sun are quite willing to use, produce and/or distribute GPL'd software." (Dave: Thanks for RPPPoE!)
He might also like to mention MS's own SFU*and Interix
Have a gander at that little GPL sidebar..
* MS's Shut the Fuck Up... "Netscape eng are weenies wit" at its best)
If something like 9/11 gets by the system
Who says it did?
1) organize thoughts
2) cover an entire agenda
3) stay on topic
Why is this important? It sounds exactly the opposite of what a grade 4 student should be doing.. should grade4 students be trained to be Drones?
I got a very eerie feeling when i read your comment.
See this post i made to the last sony article.
Anyone interested in an open, co-operative robotics platform please see that post instead.