Is that a challenge? You think it would actually take 1 million years to do ourselves in vs. 2000? You're on! Now where did I put that dictator's hat and portable nuke? I've got a trip to take!
If they were machines, that would mean that the machines took over the world and more of the AIs (not the loving guys) would still be around to provide a history of the world. David would not be so special in that case, so I think they were aliens.
No, since the last election, the Republicans have made it a point that we will no longer be the policemen of the world, causing a lot of distress to the countries helping to patrol Kosovo, Bosnia, Korea, and more.
As for people with a record of serious offenses patrolling our streets, as soon as the media gets wind of it, protests are up, the jury box is filled and the guilty are put away. No problem there.
No assumption. It was either 1) they explode in pent up anger, or 2) they peacefully ease on into something else, implying there was no anger and things were hunky dory because they patiently saw a future on the horizon that they wanted.
Chinese in droves are moving to Falung Gong because they obviously want something else that their society is not giving them. They are moving on something, but it may not be something that we can identify like "defeating hundreds of tanks" until it comes to pass. Pretty much like everything since the early 1990s now that the CIA has been useless to predict where things were going.
So our sins excuse the sins of others? I don't think so. That slope is slippery the whole way down to hell.
If I have the ability to point out that someone is doing something wrong, I don't give a damn where I live...I'll freaking point it out because it is damn wrong! I agree with you on a couple of the items you linked to, but like most conspiracy morons you think that every time someone in the goverment breathes, it's because of you. One life is still a precious one life, but somehow I don't think that the things I mentioned are on the same scale as what you've linked to. And wrong is wrong, so while you decry the above things, I can't imagine why you aren't also decrying the things I brought up unless you have a beef with America just because it is America.
We've had reports of racial profiling in the USA, female inmates raped by corrections officers, peaceful black immigrants beaten and shot for getting their wallet out, high school students shooting each other, Japanese fishing boats destroyed by American subs, bombing the Chinese embassy, government politicians having affairs with interns, a mother drowning her five children one by one...damn where do I stop?
Nobody is forcing Nike or Hasbro to use overseas labor. Perhaps there is a reason companies use cheap labor. Study economic development before you open your shithole. If you want to do something about it, don't buy items made overseas and write to your elected officials. I'm sure they'll do all they can when they're not busy screwing interns, smoking pot or getting C's in Yale. Peace, nigga!
My God, where do you get the idea that a few nutty American individuals acting against the mores of our society equals the crazy machinations of the Chinese government? Everything you mentioned has been found to be wrong by the American people and everything the Chinese are doing is OK by their government because they have a mind that their people are nothing but ants to be stomped on when they get the whim to do it. Thank God we can at least complain about these things instead of fearing in a corner that we'll be taken behind the shed to have a bolt put through our skull and charged for the slug.
Sorry, but ideology that treats people like ants cannot be defended. I'm fairly certain that were you on the receiving end of one of those skinnings, you'd be crying out for some of my ideology.
So, is there anything anyone can think of that is worse that the Chinese are not already doing, or have we finally hit the end of the road in human barbarism when speaking of Communist China? Just wondering if there are any surprises left in the future for the news agencies to report or if they will go out of business now that there is nothing shocking left.
So you consign an entire people to an eternity of crappy existence for them and their posterity for your "honour"? How noble of you. I am beginning to see exactly what your damage is. This was just more of the same "we know what's better for you" jockeying around of peoples that went on in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Africa, the Middle East, the Western US, Australis, and Asia. Didn't the "honourable" British start the first concentration camps in Africa?
As I discussed with someone on a recent trip to India, the world will one day be Indian and Chinese, because they are not afraid to starve a little. We reproduce less, because it is more convenient to have that larger house, the vcrs, satellite dishes, and more cars, and don't have to worry about some of them dying of disease or starvation. Keep in mind that these people are reproducing at a much faster rate than you are, despite their attempts to curb it, so within a few hundred years your decendants will be eating lo mein along with that "honour" after they overrun their borders.
We've had reports of fur coats made out of dogs in China, inmate organ harvesting, the peaceful Falung Gong being arrested in droves, students in China being slaughtered, American planes being knocked out of the sky over international airspace, and now skin harvesting of prison inmates. If the atrocities that nation is so far responsible for doing to its own citizens haven't made us shift production of Barbie dolls and Nikes to some other less cheaper part of the world by now, we Americans are a lot more cold blooded worshippers of money than we believe. How many of us Americans would be willing to give up all our little comfortable gadgets or even risk semiconductor prodcution on the island of Taiwan for a statistic as large as 1 billion unfortunate people.
Our European allies such as France cannot even stomach the sight of starving out Saddam Hussein or Fidel Castro before they give up without a gunshot, so what would happen when you multiply that by 100 to get rid of the Chinese Communists? Maybe that was Milosovich's problem...he hadn't negotiated a contract with Kenner or Keds for guaranteed cheap labor!
This is the sort of thing that getting into the WTO will change. The Chinese will bind themselves into the world economy and begin to rely more on the freedom of trade. Should they violate other countries' rules, they merely challenge it, boycott their products, and strangle their economy until they finally revolt.
Communist China's undoing will be economic, just like the Soviet Union's. The question is, will it be with a whimper as they continue to slide up towards capitalism (!= democracy) or will it explode as a bloody revolt when The People's pent up anger is released? The great Russian transition into capitalism is far from over and could still exploded into a scene with Putin's head on a stick and a dictatorship of a few years before settling into something stable (reference South America). The Chinese transition may be something different altogether.
We now have the technology to aggregate bills into one unit, like we can with smartcards, credit cards, ibuttons, and other fobs. In the past it was necessary to have individual bills because there was no way to authenticate things without permanently marking them. Now things are much more flexible, so continuing to authenticate individual bills is no step forward.
What this does do is give the ability to track the huge black market of cash that supposedly flows unchecked in the background, and is believed to be very important in shoring up the regular economies. I'm not sure that tracking this is the best thing, since it is "gravy" in a way and people will begin to rely on it as a constant once it is quantified.
Surely these people would know that we have to move away from the paper bills and go towards things like the wearable Crypto Ibuttons which would be easier to track and harder to lose.
I don't think this will lend Microsoft anything more than what it is already going to get. The whole Windows corporate world is buzzing with this.NET stuff, and if no one is there to keep tabs on Microsoft's progress, then they will be able to squeeze us with more products that *must* be bought. By releasing a free version, Microsoft will know they cannot get us that way. If it wasn't for Samba, Windows users would probably be buying CIFS access licenses for...oh, wait, those of us not using Samba for domain controllers are already buying Client Access Licenses.
To let Microsoft slide at this level will be to let them know we have a limit and gives them time to get ahead.
What is the difference if I block the spam myself, or we as a community decide to let a central group of people make up the list? Does it suddenly become bad because the people in question have decided to unite their decision making about who to block instead of individually each deciding on their own, inefficiently repeating the same steps of those decisions over and over for each person who considers the spam? I don't have time to track who is all doing spamming and when they have decided to stop. Maybe I have decided that one mailing from hoochie@yowzabeaver.com was enough and I never want to hear from them again, even if they switch from selling porn videos to marketing fruit juices. We delegate this sort of decision making all the time, and I don't think that being aware of spamming plus letting people dedicated to stopping the spam decide who gets blocked is tantamount to censorship of some sort of nazi networking.
We basically have ORBS and MAPS as a solution that lets the bad apples get blocked and if some good apples are getting caught in that same web, then maybe they should reconsider their tactics. I don't feel that I have to go and reorganize my way of communicating through email because a bunch of advertisers can't keep the hell away from my email address. They have freedom of speech by use of their web sites, but they do not have the right to come into my living room and shout it at me, so they should not be doing this to me, either.
How many times a day do I have to receive mailings about a new money making scheme that obviously doesn't work, penis enlargements, some dim bulb selling toner cartridges, or some completely unrealistic diet program before I'm allowed to keep them from flooding my mailbox every day. Is there anyone actually out there that looks forward to dozens of those mailings filling their mailbox?
They expect to produce something in the next six months that will eclipse the Netscape browser as a star product? I don't see this happening, so we might as well count the browser as dead. On the other hand, I don't see this impacting their enterprise server business in any way, which I find to be a great product.
What are the possibilities of having the Mozilla code branch at some point, should Netscape decide to no longer support this? Or do they own whatever it is that Mozilla is putting out these days? It would be a shame for all the current effort to go to waste if Netscape were to change their mood?
What we really need is people using the existing scripting languages for a purpose. Maybe write something innovative. That, or they could help paint sidewalks red from a great height.
It fills the role of helping the folks that wrote this keep off the street. I mean, what else were they going to do with their computer, actually write productive code for an original idea, instead of inventing the wheel for the jillionth time? I didn't think so.
Umm...maybe so I can get this post out from Troll status, the problem was that the browser was set to manual proxy without any settings when it installed. Maybe "direct connection" would be a more sensible setting to have for a default?
Outlook 98 has had patches to keep unwanted scripts and exes from running and accessing resources like the address book for some time now, not to mention Outlook 2000. What exactly makes you think you're on the peak of the security elite?
Yes, my system with MS stuff runs right stable and so do all the systems I have administration over. Netscape on all platforms stinks on ice, as quite a few of these posts will tell you. What else is happening differently on your planet?
I'm a regular IE/Outlook user who could never stand Netscape because it was so crashy. All I need is PGP support to make me try it out for an extended period of time and possibly switch. The Mozilla folks have impressively kept up to date with tackling major bugs, which is much more than I can say Netscape ever did. Adding some sort of autoupdate feature would make upgrades a snap. With Netscape bowing out of the browser business, I've going to need a replacement that is crossplatform and anything that picks up where our corporate standard Netscape left off is a bonus in our shop.
It's finished downloading, so now to check to see how fast it is.
You complain that Linux stinks like a skunk for everyday people, but then recommend other free UNIXes? The whole idea of UNIX is anathema to everyday people! Most people are really just looking for something to hold their hand while they use their computer and Windows dummifies that experience for them as required. Linux and friends are following suit with every Windows-like feature they add.
The question is, is that a bad thing? Can the folks used to hacking into the guts deal with systems that look pretty and work right? If Windows wasn't quite as buggy (Win2k is so much closer to this) would people use it more, or would they refuse on the grounds that they don't like Bill and his licensing?
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I couldn't believe tht Teddy Ruxpin survived his disappearance in the 90s only to make it 2000 years into the future!
I don't think the batteries actually lasted that long. The Super-AIs did something Highly Advanced (TM) to revive him and Teddy.
Is that a challenge? You think it would actually take 1 million years to do ourselves in vs. 2000? You're on! Now where did I put that dictator's hat and portable nuke? I've got a trip to take!
If they were machines, that would mean that the machines took over the world and more of the AIs (not the loving guys) would still be around to provide a history of the world. David would not be so special in that case, so I think they were aliens.
No, since the last election, the Republicans have made it a point that we will no longer be the policemen of the world, causing a lot of distress to the countries helping to patrol Kosovo, Bosnia, Korea, and more.
As for people with a record of serious offenses patrolling our streets, as soon as the media gets wind of it, protests are up, the jury box is filled and the guilty are put away. No problem there.
No assumption. It was either 1) they explode in pent up anger, or 2) they peacefully ease on into something else, implying there was no anger and things were hunky dory because they patiently saw a future on the horizon that they wanted.
Chinese in droves are moving to Falung Gong because they obviously want something else that their society is not giving them. They are moving on something, but it may not be something that we can identify like "defeating hundreds of tanks" until it comes to pass. Pretty much like everything since the early 1990s now that the CIA has been useless to predict where things were going.
So our sins excuse the sins of others? I don't think so. That slope is slippery the whole way down to hell.
If I have the ability to point out that someone is doing something wrong, I don't give a damn where I live...I'll freaking point it out because it is damn wrong! I agree with you on a couple of the items you linked to, but like most conspiracy morons you think that every time someone in the goverment breathes, it's because of you. One life is still a precious one life, but somehow I don't think that the things I mentioned are on the same scale as what you've linked to. And wrong is wrong, so while you decry the above things, I can't imagine why you aren't also decrying the things I brought up unless you have a beef with America just because it is America.
We've had reports of racial profiling in the USA, female inmates raped by corrections officers, peaceful black immigrants beaten and shot for getting their wallet out, high school students shooting each other, Japanese fishing boats destroyed by American subs, bombing the Chinese embassy, government politicians having affairs with interns, a mother drowning her five children one by one...damn where do I stop?
Nobody is forcing Nike or Hasbro to use overseas labor. Perhaps there is a reason companies use cheap labor. Study economic development before you open your shithole. If you want to do something about it, don't buy items made overseas and write to your elected officials. I'm sure they'll do all they can when they're not busy screwing interns, smoking pot or getting C's in Yale. Peace, nigga!
My God, where do you get the idea that a few nutty American individuals acting against the mores of our society equals the crazy machinations of the Chinese government? Everything you mentioned has been found to be wrong by the American people and everything the Chinese are doing is OK by their government because they have a mind that their people are nothing but ants to be stomped on when they get the whim to do it. Thank God we can at least complain about these things instead of fearing in a corner that we'll be taken behind the shed to have a bolt put through our skull and charged for the slug.
Sorry, but ideology that treats people like ants cannot be defended. I'm fairly certain that were you on the receiving end of one of those skinnings, you'd be crying out for some of my ideology.
So, is there anything anyone can think of that is worse that the Chinese are not already doing, or have we finally hit the end of the road in human barbarism when speaking of Communist China? Just wondering if there are any surprises left in the future for the news agencies to report or if they will go out of business now that there is nothing shocking left.
You assume most people are out to take people's works as their own. That reflects on you.
So you consign an entire people to an eternity of crappy existence for them and their posterity for your "honour"? How noble of you. I am beginning to see exactly what your damage is. This was just more of the same "we know what's better for you" jockeying around of peoples that went on in the 19th and early 20th centuries in Africa, the Middle East, the Western US, Australis, and Asia. Didn't the "honourable" British start the first concentration camps in Africa?
As I discussed with someone on a recent trip to India, the world will one day be Indian and Chinese, because they are not afraid to starve a little. We reproduce less, because it is more convenient to have that larger house, the vcrs, satellite dishes, and more cars, and don't have to worry about some of them dying of disease or starvation. Keep in mind that these people are reproducing at a much faster rate than you are, despite their attempts to curb it, so within a few hundred years your decendants will be eating lo mein along with that "honour" after they overrun their borders.
We've had reports of fur coats made out of dogs in China, inmate organ harvesting, the peaceful Falung Gong being arrested in droves, students in China being slaughtered, American planes being knocked out of the sky over international airspace, and now skin harvesting of prison inmates. If the atrocities that nation is so far responsible for doing to its own citizens haven't made us shift production of Barbie dolls and Nikes to some other less cheaper part of the world by now, we Americans are a lot more cold blooded worshippers of money than we believe. How many of us Americans would be willing to give up all our little comfortable gadgets or even risk semiconductor prodcution on the island of Taiwan for a statistic as large as 1 billion unfortunate people.
Our European allies such as France cannot even stomach the sight of starving out Saddam Hussein or Fidel Castro before they give up without a gunshot, so what would happen when you multiply that by 100 to get rid of the Chinese Communists? Maybe that was Milosovich's problem...he hadn't negotiated a contract with Kenner or Keds for guaranteed cheap labor!
This is the sort of thing that getting into the WTO will change. The Chinese will bind themselves into the world economy and begin to rely more on the freedom of trade. Should they violate other countries' rules, they merely challenge it, boycott their products, and strangle their economy until they finally revolt.
Communist China's undoing will be economic, just like the Soviet Union's. The question is, will it be with a whimper as they continue to slide up towards capitalism (!= democracy) or will it explode as a bloody revolt when The People's pent up anger is released? The great Russian transition into capitalism is far from over and could still exploded into a scene with Putin's head on a stick and a dictatorship of a few years before settling into something stable (reference South America). The Chinese transition may be something different altogether.
We now have the technology to aggregate bills into one unit, like we can with smartcards, credit cards, ibuttons, and other fobs. In the past it was necessary to have individual bills because there was no way to authenticate things without permanently marking them. Now things are much more flexible, so continuing to authenticate individual bills is no step forward.
What this does do is give the ability to track the huge black market of cash that supposedly flows unchecked in the background, and is believed to be very important in shoring up the regular economies. I'm not sure that tracking this is the best thing, since it is "gravy" in a way and people will begin to rely on it as a constant once it is quantified.
Surely these people would know that we have to move away from the paper bills and go towards things like the wearable Crypto Ibuttons which would be easier to track and harder to lose.
I don't think this will lend Microsoft anything more than what it is already going to get. The whole Windows corporate world is buzzing with this .NET stuff, and if no one is there to keep tabs on Microsoft's progress, then they will be able to squeeze us with more products that *must* be bought. By releasing a free version, Microsoft will know they cannot get us that way. If it wasn't for Samba, Windows users would probably be buying CIFS access licenses for...oh, wait, those of us not using Samba for domain controllers are already buying Client Access Licenses.
To let Microsoft slide at this level will be to let them know we have a limit and gives them time to get ahead.
What is the difference if I block the spam myself, or we as a community decide to let a central group of people make up the list? Does it suddenly become bad because the people in question have decided to unite their decision making about who to block instead of individually each deciding on their own, inefficiently repeating the same steps of those decisions over and over for each person who considers the spam? I don't have time to track who is all doing spamming and when they have decided to stop. Maybe I have decided that one mailing from hoochie@yowzabeaver.com was enough and I never want to hear from them again, even if they switch from selling porn videos to marketing fruit juices. We delegate this sort of decision making all the time, and I don't think that being aware of spamming plus letting people dedicated to stopping the spam decide who gets blocked is tantamount to censorship of some sort of nazi networking.
We basically have ORBS and MAPS as a solution that lets the bad apples get blocked and if some good apples are getting caught in that same web, then maybe they should reconsider their tactics. I don't feel that I have to go and reorganize my way of communicating through email because a bunch of advertisers can't keep the hell away from my email address. They have freedom of speech by use of their web sites, but they do not have the right to come into my living room and shout it at me, so they should not be doing this to me, either.
How many times a day do I have to receive mailings about a new money making scheme that obviously doesn't work, penis enlargements, some dim bulb selling toner cartridges, or some completely unrealistic diet program before I'm allowed to keep them from flooding my mailbox every day. Is there anyone actually out there that looks forward to dozens of those mailings filling their mailbox?
They expect to produce something in the next six months that will eclipse the Netscape browser as a star product? I don't see this happening, so we might as well count the browser as dead. On the other hand, I don't see this impacting their enterprise server business in any way, which I find to be a great product.
What are the possibilities of having the Mozilla code branch at some point, should Netscape decide to no longer support this? Or do they own whatever it is that Mozilla is putting out these days? It would be a shame for all the current effort to go to waste if Netscape were to change their mood?
What we really need is people using the existing scripting languages for a purpose. Maybe write something innovative. That, or they could help paint sidewalks red from a great height.
It fills the role of helping the folks that wrote this keep off the street. I mean, what else were they going to do with their computer, actually write productive code for an original idea, instead of inventing the wheel for the jillionth time? I didn't think so.
Umm...maybe so I can get this post out from Troll status, the problem was that the browser was set to manual proxy without any settings when it installed. Maybe "direct connection" would be a more sensible setting to have for a default?
Outlook 98 has had patches to keep unwanted scripts and exes from running and accessing resources like the address book for some time now, not to mention Outlook 2000. What exactly makes you think you're on the peak of the security elite?
Yes, my system with MS stuff runs right stable and so do all the systems I have administration over. Netscape on all platforms stinks on ice, as quite a few of these posts will tell you. What else is happening differently on your planet?
I'm a regular IE/Outlook user who could never stand Netscape because it was so crashy. All I need is PGP support to make me try it out for an extended period of time and possibly switch. The Mozilla folks have impressively kept up to date with tackling major bugs, which is much more than I can say Netscape ever did. Adding some sort of autoupdate feature would make upgrades a snap. With Netscape bowing out of the browser business, I've going to need a replacement that is crossplatform and anything that picks up where our corporate standard Netscape left off is a bonus in our shop.
It's finished downloading, so now to check to see how fast it is.
You complain that Linux stinks like a skunk for everyday people, but then recommend other free UNIXes? The whole idea of UNIX is anathema to everyday people! Most people are really just looking for something to hold their hand while they use their computer and Windows dummifies that experience for them as required. Linux and friends are following suit with every Windows-like feature they add.
The question is, is that a bad thing? Can the folks used to hacking into the guts deal with systems that look pretty and work right? If Windows wasn't quite as buggy (Win2k is so much closer to this) would people use it more, or would they refuse on the grounds that they don't like Bill and his licensing?