Nor consider that other people enjoy gambling and consider it you know part of "life liberty and pursuit of happiness". All that dumb stuff. Personally I don't gamble with my money, I don't enjoy it. But it's totally hyopcritical to allow gambling in AC and Vegas and every state's lottery and Powerball and then arrest a guy who's providing a service to people who want it.
I'd say it's pretty obvious where they're coming from. Slashdot's really going to hell. This is a sample from just their front page:
"The images are slowly coalescing out of the smoke of the progressive anti-war campfires, the bonfires in New Jersey, where our Constitution and Ann Coulter's latest book are being consumed by the current purveyors of charitable lock-step liberalism, and from the super heated mind of Howard Dean, the showman extraordinaire and carpet gnawing Democratic spokesman deluxe."
"Once again, the gay marriage issue has come before the Senate. And with no surprise, Senators motioned to strike down a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. What a sad state the Senate has become! It should have been a no-brainer to stand up in the defense of marriage! "
'As the price of gasoline and the myriad products that utilize petroleum in their manufacture rises, Americans are going to ask why the Congress has resisted accessing the billions of barrels' worth of oil and natural gas in our offshore continental shelf. "
"It's so darned funny and I am such a naïf. I thought it would take a day or two for the left to begin to down play the death of Zarqawi, one of the premier death dealers on the planet today, and a guy responsible for a litany of murder and mayhem among our troops--OUR TROOPS. You know, the guys everybody pledges to support even though the liberal cognoscenti and the progressive Nomenklatura all hate the war."
"Great rivers of destiny are churning just below the Electoral dam.
It looks like the stage is being set for the next round of heartbreak for the Democrats, their quest for 15 seats in the House and their need to overthrow the Republicans in that charnel house of the Senate, should this, their greatest of all electoral endeavors, not pan out."
As far as I know (not being a rabid Apple historian) when they started with the Apple I they DID in fact do the whole thing themselves, right? So what Jobs and Woz must've wanted while starting up in a garage was just the chips. They didn't expect to be handed the thing on a platter by some big existing company. Quite a difference.
Speaking as someone who has to implement any number of crazy last-minute apps before processing millions of documents, the last thing I want to worry about is conflicting credentials and other security bullshit. Now obviously "Domain Administrator" is a pretty extreme example, but I recently had a half dozen critical machines down because some do-gooder idiot renamed the Administrator account and didn't give me the new password OR account name. ARRRRRGHH
These machines might as well be in a vault in the Bank Of England. There's a point where it's stupid.
Just my $0.02, and because bartenders blank out when you say that to 'em.
I addressed that in my post that you were too pissed to actually read. Bad news gets priority. There's a lot of it. Yes, I understand things like "x out of y". Do you understand that at least half the US population didn't want to do this? HALF. How's that "x out of y"?
Are you denying that your generals and the envoy are talking about civil war?
Here's FOX, if you only believe the Republican news: "Gunmen in camouflage grab as many as 50 security company workers; cops find 24 bodies".
"the gruesome discoveries followed a surge of sectarian violence unleashed by the Feb. 22 bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine in the central city of Samarra and reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques and clerics."
"A former brigadier in Saddam's army was shot and killed in west Baghdad, police said. Gunmen also attacked the convoy of Interior Ministry Undersecretary Hekmet Moussa in west Baghdad, killing two bodyguards and injuring two others, police said. Moussa was not in the convoy.
A bomb exploded at the Basra headquarters of Iraq's South Oil Co., causing minor damage but no casualties. Crude production and exports were not affected, said Jabar Luaibi, the company's director general.
Also Wednesday, an Iraqi civilian was killed in a collision with a U.S. Bradley Fighting vehicle after failing to heed warnings to stop, the military said.
The death of the U.S. soldier that was reported Wednesday brought to at least 2,302 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the beginning of the war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians."
AP: "Maj. Gen. Mubdar Hatim Hazya al-Duleimi, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Iraqi Army, was fatally shot by a sniper on Monday afternoon while driving in western Baghdad, according to American and Iraqi officials."
"In the deadliest attack of the day, a car bomb exploded in a marketplace in Baquba, just north of the capital, killing 7 people, including 2 young girls, and wounding 23, including 5 children, Diyala Province officials and hospital workers in Baquba said. The attack was one of at least seven on Monday involving car bombs."
NY Times, heathen commie paper: "The top U.S. envoy to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday saying the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that ousted President Saddam Hussein opened a ''Pandora's box'' of ethnic and sectarian tensions. Khalilzad said the ``potential is there'' for an all-out Iraqi civil war."
Guess the special envoy wouldn't know what's going on huh?
How many more of these would you like? There are thousands. How many times has Dick Cheney said "they're on the run, it's petering out?" It clearly isn't.
Obviously people who live there have to go out, when they're not under DAYLIGHT curfew and NO VEHICLES are allowed on the streets. You think that's good news? I am sure there a bunch of schools and whatnot being built, fine, good, lovely. Wish my tax money was paying for MY local schools to be built.
Yes, there are millions who didn't murder each other today. But there's always tomorrow.
No reasonable sentient person is going to read this MINOR list of RECENT mayhem and say "things are looking good."
There are also religious lunatics (Fred Phelps) protesting military funerals with the slogans "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
I say to you again, if you believe that any sane US citizen thinks our forces are anything other than honorable, you need to consider who is making you think that and what the gain from you thinking that, because it's patently false.
We respectfully suggest though that ultimately the decision to deploy you is one for the nation, and the military is not the Republican military, it is the US military. It's done in our name, with our money. We have a responsibility as citizens to evaluate the situation, and we do the best we can. This is not easy with so many partisan outlets on both sides, but the govt. has again and again and again said it's better, it's better, it's better and it DOESN'T LOOK MUCH BETTER.
And by the way, we could have REALLY used more of you guys in the Katrina mess.
Believe it or not, liberal or not, the general public doesn't think our troops are the bad guys, and given the stresses involved would give you all the slack in the world anyway. I'm very concerned that a lot of things I've heard from servicemen seem to indicate they feel we're the enemy. Considering this is one area where you guys have all the skills and experience, that's pretty scary.
As far as slanted reporting goes, apparently every bit of info we got going into the war was slanted towards war, and it's hard to not report things blowing up. That's no different from domestic reporting. "Good kid wins science award" is covered in the local school paper, not the large press. "Chemical plant blows up" IS covered.
If the countryside isn't safe enough for the reporters to get out of the Green Zone, how would they know about the good stuff? If it's not safe enough to go out, how good can it be?
An Iraqi general just got blown up going to the airport, and the military has made it clear they're putting out disinformation... "psy-ops"... I understand they may feel they need to, but how are we supposed to know the difference?
What's disrespectful about calling someone Mister? Calling him "Shrub" is disrespectful, calling him "Mr. Bush" is hardly a "liberal NY Times" offense.
For instance, here's Bill O'Reilly at Fox News referring to him as such. Just another moonbat liberal, that O'Reilly!
I don't see any reference to aliens when searching their site. Surely probability-wise if not evolution then we were cloned by visiting creatures. After all, we know how to do some space travel, we know how to do some cloning, eventually we'll be capable of it ourselves. Then we'll be God on some poor dumb moon somewhere.
That's OK with you though, right? Wouldn't ruffle any feathers at the Discovery Institute?
Be honest, they may not be young-earthers, but the Discovery Institute was created by an old lawyer to promote the Christian God as creator of the Universe. That's a fact.
I have a few copies on the shelf but my advice is to concentrate on OSX.
If you do have to try it do it on an older x86 box. It was difficult enough to get it installed on real hardware. You can get copies on eBay for like $10.
I ran it in an industrial setting where we needed real multitasking and stability (this was in 1990-93) and also as a debugging environment for DOS programs. It beat the hell out of Windows for stability and performance, but the learning curve was steep.
Stick with OSX and do something nice for all those new Mac users.
Chris Smith (R-NJ) is usually busy crafting legislation to gag 3rd world countries re. abortion services in family planning clinics.
To his credit he *has* been a strong supporter of veterans health care and the like, for which he was kicked off the committee chair because he wanted more money than the other Republicans wanted to give. Apparently they're big on allocating money to send the guys into harm's way but want to minimize the health care costs when the vets come back broken.
I hadn't read Wired for years, and then got a free subscription for something or other. I find the articles almost completely useless and written with such an extreme San Francisco liberal slant that even a commie pinko hippie like me objects. Now THAT takes some doing.
I mean, gee, it's not like they have to test it on a huge number of platforms or anything right? Much better to rapidly fix the bug and then break a bunch of running code, bringing large businesses down to their knees.
Yes, the bug puts their customers at risk, but detailing the exploit for everyone to see REALLY DOES HELP THE BAD GUYS. Otherwise they have to figure it out for themselves, which is quite a bit harder.
But they didn't take my submission. Possibly because I also mentioned that shutting down the blog as they did might drive the assholes to poison all the other blogs as well. Which are already fairly nasty.
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Nor consider that other people enjoy gambling and consider it you know part of "life liberty and pursuit of happiness". All that dumb stuff. Personally I don't gamble with my money, I don't enjoy it. But it's totally hyopcritical to allow gambling in AC and Vegas and every state's lottery and Powerball and then arrest a guy who's providing a service to people who want it.
Nobody has a gun to their head, m'kay?
I'd say it's pretty obvious where they're coming from. Slashdot's really going to hell. This is a sample from just their front page:
"The images are slowly coalescing out of the smoke of the progressive anti-war campfires, the bonfires in New Jersey, where our Constitution and Ann Coulter's latest book are being consumed by the current purveyors of charitable lock-step liberalism, and from the super heated mind of Howard Dean, the showman extraordinaire and carpet gnawing Democratic spokesman deluxe."
"Once again, the gay marriage issue has come before the Senate. And with no surprise, Senators motioned to strike down a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. What a sad state the Senate has become! It should have been a no-brainer to stand up in the defense of marriage! "
'As the price of gasoline and the myriad products that utilize petroleum in their manufacture rises, Americans are going to ask why the Congress has resisted accessing the billions of barrels' worth of oil and natural gas in our offshore continental shelf. "
"It's so darned funny and I am such a naïf. I thought it would take a day or two for the left to begin to down play the death of Zarqawi, one of the premier death dealers on the planet today, and a guy responsible for a litany of murder and mayhem among our troops--OUR TROOPS. You know, the guys everybody pledges to support even though the liberal cognoscenti and the progressive Nomenklatura all hate the war."
"Great rivers of destiny are churning just below the Electoral dam.
It looks like the stage is being set for the next round of heartbreak for the Democrats, their quest for 15 seats in the House and their need to overthrow the Republicans in that charnel house of the Senate, should this, their greatest of all electoral endeavors, not pan out."
As far as I know (not being a rabid Apple historian) when they started with the Apple I they DID in fact do the whole thing themselves, right? So what Jobs and Woz must've wanted while starting up in a garage was just the chips. They didn't expect to be handed the thing on a platter by some big existing company. Quite a difference.
My neighbor likes it, he has the 5Mbps version. (He's cheap.)
I have Comcast and it's about 4Mbps so if you need the extra speed it should be good. The thing that turns me off is:
a) I hate Verizon and
B) he said it took like three days to hook it up. And he's a programmer who works from home. Go figure.
Say it's not so! There's no replacement for Rev. Stang. I just got ordained about a month ago. Best $30 I ever spent.
Think I'll take the afternoon off.
A couple of years ago I brought the data mining crap up with the guys at the bar, and they all did the "If you didn't do anything wrong" bit.
They they got on the phone to their coke dealers and made some sports bets.
Duh.
...when you're talking to a 22 yr old 6' party girl about her DUI and refer to it as "actually having some value in her life".
That's what when I knew I had jumped the shark. I'm much better now.
Pass the bong.
Pretty much what I expected, so I passed on the first go-round.
They're cool, they're not Microsoft, but they're not immune from all the normal shit that happens in new product manufacturing and deployment.
I did pop for an Intel mini, no problems with that so far. Actually it's pretty awesome.
Exactly right, it was originally intended to recover $$$ salted away in mob compounds on Long Island.
Now they'll use it against kids opening a lemonade stand if they feel like it.
Speaking as someone who has to implement any number of crazy last-minute apps before processing millions of documents, the last thing I want to worry about is conflicting credentials and other security bullshit. Now obviously "Domain Administrator" is a pretty extreme example, but I recently had a half dozen critical machines down because some do-gooder idiot renamed the Administrator account and didn't give me the new password OR account name. ARRRRRGHH
These machines might as well be in a vault in the Bank Of England. There's a point where it's stupid.
Just my $0.02, and because bartenders blank out when you say that to 'em.
I addressed that in my post that you were too pissed to actually read. Bad news gets priority. There's a lot of it. Yes, I understand things like "x out of y". Do you understand that at least half the US population didn't want to do this? HALF. How's that "x out of y"?
Are you denying that your generals and the envoy are talking about civil war?
Here's FOX, if you only believe the Republican news:
"Gunmen in camouflage grab as many as 50 security company workers; cops find 24 bodies".
"the gruesome discoveries followed a surge of sectarian violence unleashed by the Feb. 22 bombing of a sacred Shiite shrine in the central city of Samarra and reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques and clerics."
"A former brigadier in Saddam's army was shot and killed in west Baghdad, police said. Gunmen also attacked the convoy of Interior Ministry Undersecretary Hekmet Moussa in west Baghdad, killing two bodyguards and injuring two others, police said. Moussa was not in the convoy.
A bomb exploded at the Basra headquarters of Iraq's South Oil Co., causing minor damage but no casualties. Crude production and exports were not affected, said Jabar Luaibi, the company's director general.
Also Wednesday, an Iraqi civilian was killed in a collision with a U.S. Bradley Fighting vehicle after failing to heed warnings to stop, the military said.
The death of the U.S. soldier that was reported Wednesday brought to at least 2,302 the number of U.S. military members who have died since the beginning of the war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians."
AP:
"Maj. Gen. Mubdar Hatim Hazya al-Duleimi, the commander of the Sixth Division of the Iraqi Army, was fatally shot by a sniper on Monday afternoon while driving in western Baghdad, according to American and Iraqi officials."
"In the deadliest attack of the day, a car bomb exploded in a marketplace in Baquba, just north of the capital, killing 7 people, including 2 young girls, and wounding 23, including 5 children, Diyala Province officials and hospital workers in Baquba said. The attack was one of at least seven on Monday involving car bombs."
NY Times, heathen commie paper:
"The top U.S. envoy to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, was quoted in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday saying the U.S.-led invasion in 2003 that ousted President Saddam Hussein opened a ''Pandora's box'' of ethnic and sectarian tensions. Khalilzad said the ``potential is there'' for an all-out Iraqi civil war."
Guess the special envoy wouldn't know what's going on huh?
How many more of these would you like? There are thousands. How many times has Dick Cheney said "they're on the run, it's petering out?" It clearly isn't.
Obviously people who live there have to go out, when they're not under DAYLIGHT curfew and NO VEHICLES are allowed on the streets. You think that's good news? I am sure there a bunch of schools and whatnot being built, fine, good, lovely. Wish my tax money was paying for MY local schools to be built.
Yes, there are millions who didn't murder each other today. But there's always tomorrow.
No reasonable sentient person is going to read this MINOR list of RECENT mayhem and say "things are looking good."
Burn any DVD's with it? I'm curious as to how long it takes to groove up a full disc.
How do you like it? Mine's coming Thursday, gotta be faster than my 12" Powerbook at 1Ghz!
There are also religious lunatics (Fred Phelps) protesting military funerals with the slogans "Thank God for IED's" and "Thank God for Dead Soldiers."
I say to you again, if you believe that any sane US citizen thinks our forces are anything other than honorable, you need to consider who is making you think that and what the gain from you thinking that, because it's patently false.
We respectfully suggest though that ultimately the decision to deploy you is one for the nation, and the military is not the Republican military, it is the US military. It's done in our name, with our money. We have a responsibility as citizens to evaluate the situation, and we do the best we can. This is not easy with so many partisan outlets on both sides, but the govt. has again and again and again said it's better, it's better, it's better and it DOESN'T LOOK MUCH BETTER.
And by the way, we could have REALLY used more of you guys in the Katrina mess.
Believe it or not, liberal or not, the general public doesn't think our troops are the bad guys, and given the stresses involved would give you all the slack in the world anyway. I'm very concerned that a lot of things I've heard from servicemen seem to indicate they feel we're the enemy. Considering this is one area where you guys have all the skills and experience, that's pretty scary.
As far as slanted reporting goes, apparently every bit of info we got going into the war was slanted towards war, and it's hard to not report things blowing up. That's no different from domestic reporting. "Good kid wins science award" is covered in the local school paper, not the large press. "Chemical plant blows up" IS covered.
If the countryside isn't safe enough for the reporters to get out of the Green Zone, how would they know about the good stuff? If it's not safe enough to go out, how good can it be?
An Iraqi general just got blown up going to the airport, and the military has made it clear they're putting out disinformation... "psy-ops"... I understand they may feel they need to, but how are we supposed to know the difference?
What's disrespectful about calling someone Mister? Calling him "Shrub" is disrespectful, calling him "Mr. Bush" is hardly a "liberal NY Times" offense.
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For instance, here's Bill O'Reilly at Fox News referring to him as such. Just another moonbat liberal, that O'Reilly!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180837,00.htm
I don't see any reference to aliens when searching their site. Surely probability-wise if not evolution then we were cloned by visiting creatures. After all, we know how to do some space travel, we know how to do some cloning, eventually we'll be capable of it ourselves. Then we'll be God on some poor dumb moon somewhere.
That's OK with you though, right? Wouldn't ruffle any feathers at the Discovery Institute?
Be honest, they may not be young-earthers, but the Discovery Institute was created by an old lawyer to promote the Christian God as creator of the Universe. That's a fact.
Sheesh. Wonder if I can stop payment on my credit cards and blame THEM.
Glad I have that option turned off!
It's inevitable though that there will be a major OSX infection, so it's time for Mac users to get more conscious of this stuff.
Oh, and more $$$ for the anti-virus guys I guess.
I have a few copies on the shelf but my advice is to concentrate on OSX.
If you do have to try it do it on an older x86 box. It was difficult enough to get it installed on real hardware. You can get copies on eBay for like $10.
I ran it in an industrial setting where we needed real multitasking and stability (this was in 1990-93) and also as a debugging environment for DOS programs. It beat the hell out of Windows for stability and performance, but the learning curve was steep.
Stick with OSX and do something nice for all those new Mac users.
Chris Smith (R-NJ) is usually busy crafting legislation to gag 3rd world countries re. abortion services in family planning clinics.
To his credit he *has* been a strong supporter of veterans health care and the like, for which he was kicked off the committee chair because he wanted more money than the other Republicans wanted to give. Apparently they're big on allocating money to send the guys into harm's way but want to minimize the health care costs when the vets come back broken.
Interesting, seems the need to re-create a character due to legal IP restrictions led to a huge entertainnment empire.
I hadn't read Wired for years, and then got a free subscription for something or other. I find the articles almost completely useless and written with such an extreme San Francisco liberal slant that even a commie pinko hippie like me objects. Now THAT takes some doing.
I mean, gee, it's not like they have to test it on a huge number of platforms or anything right? Much better to rapidly fix the bug and then break a bunch of running code, bringing large businesses down to their knees.
Yes, the bug puts their customers at risk, but detailing the exploit for everyone to see REALLY DOES HELP THE BAD GUYS. Otherwise they have to figure it out for themselves, which is quite a bit harder.
But they didn't take my submission. Possibly because I also mentioned that shutting down the blog as they did might drive the assholes to poison all the other blogs as well. Which are already fairly nasty.