> I can think of a few: > o Standards and interoperability > o Fair access > o Monopoly prevention
I can think of a few reasons the government shouldn't regulate these industries. Funny thing is, they're the same reasons you give in favor.
Standards and interoperability: The market will decide, by weight of demand, what technology will best serve the most people, and at the least cost. Everybody might not get an OC-192, but broadband will eventually make it to everyone.
Fair access: I don't know what you mean here. Fair access, as in all people from all social strata may access the internet? It's that way *now*, if you can pay the price of admission (which is getting lower every single day).
Monopoly prevention: Kinda like the phone companies, which are a government-enforced monopoly? I can't, for instance, have a different carrier than SWBell for my land-based phone lines (and DSL) because SWBell has the phone franchise from the government here. As a result, I pay $75/mo. for my land line. Competition in this arena would undoubtedly make this charge go way, way down.
But then that would necessitate that *I*, who already *have* DSL, would have to pay higher taxes in addition to my DSL charges, etc.
Besides, the FCC has no authority to do such a thing. It's simply not in their charter. I'm glad of it, too, because I already pay quite enough in taxes, thank you very much.
--Corey
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Indeed. The DoJ is an EXECUTIVE BRANCH department, under the auspices of the "Pres", and acting under his authority. If anything, DoJ is another check-and-balance against Congress and the Courts.
Good to see someone who knows a little about Civics (in the classical sense, not this pablum they're teaching kids today).
Laws do not define what behavior is acceptible, only that which is not.
For instance, it doesn't say that it's legal to *not* kill someone, only that it's illegal to do so.
Government, nor anyone else (save the parents and, if the child/family is religious, whatever scriptures document that religion), have any place in telling anyone what is 'right'. Only what is 'wrong'.
It is that misconception, one made by nearly everyone living, that turns people into sheep.
If you're interested in an OS that will scream on a SPARC, try OpenBSD. A friend of mine installed RH6 on an LX and was amazed at the dog-slowness of the system. We installed OpenBSD, and the system was snappy as hell.
NOP is shorthand for "no op", or a meaningless, place-holder operation, one which changes no state in the running machine except the program counter (or what's called the instruction pointer on the PC).
> Of course, most lefties are too busy working to change the world, and don't have the money to > hire armies to do it for them.:-b
I don't think this is an issue of left or right. Mainly because this is a tactic used by both sides of that particular coin (the one with the head of Stalin on one side and the head of Hitler on the other - Communism and Fascism - left-wing and right-wing dictatorships).
Funny that "liberal" used to mean roughly what "libertarian" means now. Now "liberal" is a short form of "liberal application of government". I doubt you'll see any conservatives supporting this measure by this school and, if there are any, they're in one of two camps: either they're lazy bastards too complacent to stand up and fight for their liberty, or they're sheep deserving of slaughter.
Oh, yeah. Don't mind all those interruptions for begging. Every time I've tuned in a PBS channel in the last couple months, it's been "watch 5 minutes, listen to 5 minutes of whining and patting ourselves on the back because we're so great and nobody wants to give us money".
That, too, is gratuitous.
I don't tune in PBS any more because of that. I have it set to skip over.
> port all of their code to UDI and let us use it in our proprietary operating systems!
And that would be a bad thing? I, for one, am encouraged by the UDI spec. Until such time as an "open-source" driver becomes available for a device that has a binary-only driver, I can use that driver and hence that device in the UDI environment of my OS-of-the-day.
The only thing I found limiting about the UDI spec is the lack of flexibility in configuring instances of a given driver, and the fact that they made no provision for on-the-fly configuration of various driver settings.
> Are we talking about the money per month on clothes statistic!? Think about it... if we > believe that $2400 a month is spent on black children for clothes, that adds up to $28,800 a > year AFTER TAX! This is simply not realistic.... gimme a break! Not even mentioning > that most families have more than one child.
The statistic was for $2400/year. That's not unrealistic, considering that the favorite shoes costs $300/pair, a jacket costs $400, and all the other tripe.
Christ... when I got my first pair of Air Jordans (at $110 - and that was DAMNED expensive), I about creamed my jeans. I got them because to buy one pair of shoes every couple of years (they LASTED A LONG TIME) was cheaper than to buy a pair a month from Wal-Mart and have them fall apart.
I wore them out, and gave them a proper ceremonial cremation after their life was ended. They were good shoes.
If these PPC boards are widely used, and Darwin is ported over, then a couple of things could happen.
1) MacOS X (the GUI and stuff above Darwin) will be somehow keyed to work only on Apple platforms. This can likely be subverted, and if it is:
2) Further development of Darwin is closed-source. Darwin and the MacOS will become proprietary. Future versions of Darwin will run only on Apple platforms and, most likely, binary formats, APIs, and the like will change to ensure that the folks still hacking on the older versions of Darwin are at an evolutionary dead-end.
Couldn't help but notice that you feel somewhat... dissatisfied with the current versions of Debian Lignux. I tried installing it a while back, and encountered a ton of problems in dependencies (dselect is a REAL BITCH) and the like.
I tried RedHat, and couldn't stand that (it is the antithesis of proper, clean Unix design). FreeBSD was somewhat cleaner, but still had install problems. It also had "it worked fine yesterday, but it's hopelessly broken today, and I changed *NOTHING*" problems and is, therefore, not a product I care to run.
I tried OpenBSD, and stuck. It is tight, clean, consistent, and secure. Everything just *works*, and works *well*.
> And I think Communism is the furthest thing from Pure Darwinism.
Really? Then we should be moving more toward Social Darwinism. Communism has been shown to be a failure. The idea that "it failed the last time because that group of thugs did it wrong - our group of thugs knows better" is perverse. We in the U.S. are headed toward a police-state the likes of which has not been seen since 1930s/40s Germany. Our rights are being taken away day-by-day, and the majority of people are either ignorant or are welcoming it! We are becoming statist - Communism and Fascism are only two sides of the same coin.
I say let's go for total Darwinism! And I'm NOT kidding!
Maybe instead of standing around like a bunch of sheep, scoffing at us "lucky Americans" who complain a lot about our taxes, you should start complaining about your taxes, too.
There's absolutely no reason on God's earth that anyone, anywhere should pay half their income or more in taxes. You work for the money, so you ought to be able to spend it how you see fit!
For the religious, consider this: God himself only requires 10% of your income.
For the not-so-religious: if you didn't pay so many taxes, you could afford more $4/liter gasoline, and you could drive a nicer car. You could afford to pay your own health insurance, dental insurance, admission to art museums, and all that good jazz. Or, you could use public transit (one of the only good things government does, the others being national defense and helping to fund education) and not go to any museums, don't buy a lot, and retire early.
For goodness sake, though, don't deride us for being activists (well, some of us - a lot of us would like to be just like you, letting the government bend us over and rip every last penny out of our pockets without saying a single word), become activists yourself!
My family helped me buy my first computer. Not a government program. Most of my family was poor then (the ones that helped me -- me, too), and most are poor now. But, now even some of the poor ones are scraping together enough money to go out and buy cheap PCs. I help them out as I can, too. That's how you get online.
I'm already paying taxes on my phone bill so that the poor can access the internet. If it had been a voluntary thing, I'd say, "sure, no problem... might help some other poor slob find a brighter future". But it's not. It's being forced away from me by the government - if I want phone service, I must pay this tax. That bites me.
I'm not a stingy person, but I'd rather give freely than be coerced into giving by some government power.
I see this article as a plea to black political leadership to try to extract money from the government (MY dollars, YOUR dollars!) to buy all black people a computer.
Well, that's a bunch of bullshit. En toto, I pay probably close to 50% of my income to the government for taxes and fees of one form or another. The interstate highways in this state are in horrible condition. Use those dollars to fix my roads before you go out spending money needlessly on stuff that should be taken care of by the individual, anyway!
I want a cute widdle baby foobar. They sound positively charming, especially the part about the foobar with the big brain wandering off to an isolated place with his foobarish mate.
The coelecanth (I assume that's what you're blathering about) was assumed extinct. It was proven that it was not. But, there were no direct lines of descent from that fish to another line of fishes. Nothing that you could point to to say, "ah, here we see natural selection at work - the coelecanth was superceded by this other fish, because this other fish was better suited to this environment, blah blah blah". Now that I think a bit more about it, you've just detracted from the evolutionists position.
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> I can think of a few:
> o Standards and interoperability
> o Fair access
> o Monopoly prevention
I can think of a few reasons the government shouldn't regulate these industries. Funny thing is, they're the same reasons you give in favor.
Standards and interoperability:
The market will decide, by weight of demand, what technology will best serve the most people, and at the least cost. Everybody might not get an OC-192, but broadband will eventually make it to everyone.
Fair access:
I don't know what you mean here. Fair access, as in all people from all social strata may access the internet? It's that way *now*, if you can pay the price of admission (which is getting lower every single day).
Monopoly prevention:
Kinda like the phone companies, which are a government-enforced monopoly? I can't, for instance, have a different carrier than SWBell for my land-based phone lines (and DSL) because SWBell has the phone franchise from the government here. As a result, I pay $75/mo. for my land line. Competition in this arena would undoubtedly make this charge go way, way down.
--Corey
But then that would necessitate that *I*, who already *have* DSL, would have to pay higher taxes in addition to my DSL charges, etc.
Besides, the FCC has no authority to do such a thing. It's simply not in their charter. I'm glad of it, too, because I already pay quite enough in taxes, thank you very much.
--Corey
Indeed. The DoJ is an EXECUTIVE BRANCH department, under the auspices of the "Pres", and acting under his authority. If anything, DoJ is another check-and-balance against Congress and the Courts.
Good to see someone who knows a little about Civics (in the classical sense, not this pablum they're teaching kids today).
--Corey
You are half right.
Laws do not define what behavior is acceptible, only that which is not.
For instance, it doesn't say that it's legal to *not* kill someone, only that it's illegal to do so.
Government, nor anyone else (save the parents and, if the child/family is religious, whatever scriptures document that religion), have any place in telling anyone what is 'right'. Only what is 'wrong'.
It is that misconception, one made by nearly everyone living, that turns people into sheep.
--Corey
French is a dead language, one whose speakers stubbornly refuse to admit it, and one whose primary nation tightly controls it.
Plus, all those frogs like those nifty blue berets.
So... ribbit?
--Corey
Oh, dear. Now I can just see all the SlashGeeks floundering about looking for a neat way to follow up on this thread.
--Corey
If you're interested in an OS that will scream on a SPARC, try OpenBSD. A friend of mine installed RH6 on an LX and was amazed at the dog-slowness of the system. We installed OpenBSD, and the system was snappy as hell.
Good stuff.
--Corey
NOP is shorthand for "no op", or a meaningless, place-holder operation, one which changes no state in the running machine except the program counter (or what's called the instruction pointer on the PC).
--Corey
> Of course, most lefties are too busy working to change the world, and don't have the money to :-b
> hire armies to do it for them.
I don't think this is an issue of left or right. Mainly because this is a tactic used by both sides of that particular coin (the one with the head of Stalin on one side and the head of Hitler on the other - Communism and Fascism - left-wing and right-wing dictatorships).
Funny that "liberal" used to mean roughly what "libertarian" means now. Now "liberal" is a short form of "liberal application of government". I doubt you'll see any conservatives supporting this measure by this school and, if there are any, they're in one of two camps: either they're lazy bastards too complacent to stand up and fight for their liberty, or they're sheep deserving of slaughter.
Bah. I want to form my own nation.
--Corey
Hey, that's brilliant!
... JNQOS ... JunkOS!
Joe's New Quantum OS
I love it!
--Corey
I think God has a claim to Prior Art for this one.
--Corey
Oh, yeah. Don't mind all those interruptions for begging. Every time I've tuned in a PBS channel in the last couple months, it's been "watch 5 minutes, listen to 5 minutes of whining and patting ourselves on the back because we're so great and nobody wants to give us money".
That, too, is gratuitous.
I don't tune in PBS any more because of that. I have it set to skip over.
--Corey
> port all of their code to UDI and let us use it in our proprietary operating systems!
And that would be a bad thing? I, for one, am encouraged by the UDI spec. Until such time as an "open-source" driver becomes available for a device that has a binary-only driver, I can use that driver and hence that device in the UDI environment of my OS-of-the-day.
The only thing I found limiting about the UDI spec is the lack of flexibility in configuring instances of a given driver, and the fact that they made no provision for on-the-fly configuration of various driver settings.
Maybe UDI-1.1
--Corey
> Are we talking about the money per month on clothes statistic!? Think about it... if we
> believe that $2400 a month is spent on black children for clothes, that adds up to $28,800 a
> year AFTER TAX! This is simply not realistic.... gimme a break! Not even mentioning
> that most families have more than one child.
The statistic was for $2400/year. That's not unrealistic, considering that the favorite shoes costs $300/pair, a jacket costs $400, and all the other tripe.
Christ... when I got my first pair of Air Jordans (at $110 - and that was DAMNED expensive), I about creamed my jeans. I got them because to buy one pair of shoes every couple of years (they LASTED A LONG TIME) was cheaper than to buy a pair a month from Wal-Mart and have them fall apart.
I wore them out, and gave them a proper ceremonial cremation after their life was ended. They were good shoes.
--Corey
You've forgotten the Jobs factor.
If these PPC boards are widely used, and Darwin is ported over, then a couple of things could happen.
1) MacOS X (the GUI and stuff above Darwin) will be somehow keyed to work only on Apple platforms. This can likely be subverted, and if it is:
2) Further development of Darwin is closed-source. Darwin and the MacOS will become proprietary. Future versions of Darwin will run only on Apple platforms and, most likely, binary formats, APIs, and the like will change to ensure that the folks still hacking on the older versions of Darwin are at an evolutionary dead-end.
--Corey
Hi,
Couldn't help but notice that you feel somewhat... dissatisfied with the current versions of Debian Lignux. I tried installing it a while back, and encountered a ton of problems in dependencies (dselect is a REAL BITCH) and the like.
I tried RedHat, and couldn't stand that (it is the antithesis of proper, clean Unix design). FreeBSD was somewhat cleaner, but still had install problems. It also had "it worked fine yesterday, but it's hopelessly broken today, and I changed *NOTHING*" problems and is, therefore, not a product I care to run.
I tried OpenBSD, and stuck. It is tight, clean, consistent, and secure. Everything just *works*, and works *well*.
Give it a try: OpenBSD
--Corey
> And I think Communism is the furthest thing from Pure Darwinism.
Really? Then we should be moving more toward Social Darwinism. Communism has been shown to be a failure. The idea that "it failed the last time because that group of thugs did it wrong - our group of thugs knows better" is perverse. We in the U.S. are headed toward a police-state the likes of which has not been seen since 1930s/40s Germany. Our rights are being taken away day-by-day, and the majority of people are either ignorant or are welcoming it! We are becoming statist - Communism and Fascism are only two sides of the same coin.
I say let's go for total Darwinism! And I'm NOT kidding!
> Please think before you press "submit".
I would urge you to do the same.
--Corey
Maybe instead of standing around like a bunch of sheep, scoffing at us "lucky Americans" who complain a lot about our taxes, you should start complaining about your taxes, too.
There's absolutely no reason on God's earth that anyone, anywhere should pay half their income or more in taxes. You work for the money, so you ought to be able to spend it how you see fit!
For the religious, consider this: God himself only requires 10% of your income.
For the not-so-religious: if you didn't pay so many taxes, you could afford more $4/liter gasoline, and you could drive a nicer car. You could afford to pay your own health insurance, dental insurance, admission to art museums, and all that good jazz. Or, you could use public transit (one of the only good things government does, the others being national defense and helping to fund education) and not go to any museums, don't buy a lot, and retire early.
For goodness sake, though, don't deride us for being activists (well, some of us - a lot of us would like to be just like you, letting the government bend us over and rip every last penny out of our pockets without saying a single word), become activists yourself!
--Corey
My family helped me buy my first computer. Not a government program. Most of my family was poor then (the ones that helped me -- me, too), and most are poor now. But, now even some of the poor ones are scraping together enough money to go out and buy cheap PCs. I help them out as I can, too. That's how you get online.
I'm already paying taxes on my phone bill so that the poor can access the internet. If it had been a voluntary thing, I'd say, "sure, no problem... might help some other poor slob find a brighter future". But it's not. It's being forced away from me by the government - if I want phone service, I must pay this tax. That bites me.
I'm not a stingy person, but I'd rather give freely than be coerced into giving by some government power.
I see this article as a plea to black political leadership to try to extract money from the government (MY dollars, YOUR dollars!) to buy all black people a computer.
Well, that's a bunch of bullshit. En toto, I pay probably close to 50% of my income to the government for taxes and fees of one form or another. The interstate highways in this state are in horrible condition. Use those dollars to fix my roads before you go out spending money needlessly on stuff that should be taken care of by the individual, anyway!
Aggravated,
--Corey
/dev/wd0s2a:
/mnt/usr2 - seems pretty lame to me.
Winchester Disk 0 (your first IDE disk)
Slice 2 (your second "PC" partition)
Partition a (the first BSD partition in
the BSD disk slice)
It's not really that tough.
Though I have to wonder what you've got mounted
on
--Corey
SCSI
'nuff said.
--Corey
Oops, that's already been evolved.
Now, bow down to the awesome power of my sphincter-regulated quantum ramjet! I am your daddy now!
MUAHAHAHAHAH!!!
--Corey
I want a cute widdle baby foobar. They sound positively charming, especially the part about the foobar with the big brain wandering off to an isolated place with his foobarish mate.
Awww... *snif* touching, ain't it?
I want a baby foobar, dammit!
--Corey
> All I know is that I don't have to come up with scienctific theories to write code... :)
:-)
But the fundamental logical constructs are the same!
--Corey
What does that have to do with anything?
The coelecanth (I assume that's what you're blathering about) was assumed extinct. It was proven that it was not. But, there were no direct lines of descent from that fish to another line of fishes. Nothing that you could point to to say, "ah, here we see natural selection at work - the coelecanth was superceded by this other fish, because this other fish was better suited to this environment, blah blah blah". Now that I think a bit more about it, you've just detracted from the evolutionists position.
--Corey