But for those of you who are still in the US fighting it out, it is not only your right, but your DUTY to vote for who you think is RIGHT, not for who you think is the lesser of two evils.
This is the only way that democracy can work. Once the participants start voting for people they don't agree with, trying to second-guess the rest of the voters, we end up with a situation where most people want an anti-war president but their parties put up pro-war candidates. Vote for what you believe in, not what you think you're going to get.
This is actually factually incorrect. You can't jump to the moon merely by wanting to. I'm sorry, but the rest of your post is thrown into sharp doubt by this foolish statement.
I also prefer books to magazines because of ads. Fuck ads, they're a drain on my time and energy. Some people like them, fine, sell ads to the people that like them. There are plenty of magazines that operate on precisely that principle. Leave the rest of us alone. And if I ever catch one of the fuckers that stuffs my mailbox with ads for cheap meat at the local grocery store or leaves fliers for chinese restaurants attached to my doorknob I'm going to pound the fucker and make him eat them.
The article is unclear. The last couple of paragraphs leave the distinct impression that the problem is that SAP don't provide patches to Linux vendors (in this case Red Hat) in time. There's no reason why Red Hat's Satellite server couldn't be rolling out the patches to affected machines as needed if they were supplied in time. Either the problem is with SAP or with Red Hat not taking patches from SAP quickly enough.
Whichever it is this article is unsatifsying because it doesn't explain the issue clearly.
Just today I saw KDE goes wild on an SLES9SP2 system and nearly freeze it - the same fucking thing that used to happen back in 2000. Five years past by and not much has changed.
And you didn't learn from that and decide to run your systems using command line tools? What the hell sort of sysadmin are you?
Each time I thank the screeners, and I am quite enthusiastic about being searched. When the search is done, I thank the screeners again,
I hope that you manage to actually orgasm during the experience? If not then I for one would be suspicious of your commitment to keeping the world safe from terrorism; you should also consider a cock-ring (make sure to get a metal one as that'll definitely set off the alarm) in order to ensure that you stay hard during the process and reassure the screeners that you really do like it.
Thanks for your insightful post.
"And yet, with CCTV footage we've caught the people who tried to blow up more trains on July 21"
Ya reckon? I didn't know they'd been tried yet and I certainly haven't seen the evidence. All I've seen are reports from the same people that lied and lied again when they said that De Menezes was 1)wearing a bulky jacket; 2) had wires hanging out of his belt; 3)ran away from the police; 4) was an illegal immigrant.
If you believe _anything_ the INsecurity forces are telling you then you're a bigger fool than they are.
Only to people that are largely ignorant of the realities of Greek society or are sublimely indifferent to the suffering of fellow humans. The number of slaves held by the Greeks was proportionately larger than those held by current Saudis. Greek democracy is as much a farce as US democracy. The Greeks were worse though.
And if so he should count himself lucky that he didn't get shot in the head while being held down. I'm sure that he himself will admit and understand that this sort of thing has to happen for the greater good? After all who wants a repeat of the terrible events of whichever terrorist incident you're having as an excuse for stripping civil liberties today. THEY MUST NOT WIN!
It's extremely rare that stable democracies war on each other
What the fuck does that mean? What statistics do you support it with once you define it. Which societies live up to a definition of "democracy"? I haven't seen one yet.
Sure wasn't the slaves owned by those gosh-darned Greek democrats. Sure wasn't the metics (equivalent of H1-B visa holders) that couldn't vote. Greek "democracy" ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Or perhaps the US is not reporting their unemployment statistics accurately in order to look better?;)
One interesting thing in the tables at the end of the link is that in the EU women are reported as 10% unemployment rate and the USA it's circa 5%. Whereas for men it's 7.5% and 5.5% respectively. I wonder are women in the USA that are homemakers less likely to report themselves as "unemployed"?
Most importantly of all it should be noted that neither set of figures contains information about the huge number of "illegals" in the USA or the "sin papieres" in the EU.
So anyone trying to compare the two would do well to be skeptical of both accounts.
If you want to pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (in one of three flavours ) then you'll get full support and a long, steady release cycle.
If you want a completely no-cost OS then you can use Red Hat Fedora. It has a quick release cycle, lots of exciting add on packages maintained by the community in the Extras repositories and a very aggressive incorporation of new features.
Don't go confusing RHEL and RH Fedora.
Unlike SuSE, Red Hat has always been scrupulous about releasing under the GPL all their code for the distro (with the exception of the build-system). They've never had proprietary tools like YaST. I'm glad to see that SuSE is now fuly embracing the path of openness. Hopefully it will mean that there'll be real competition between two fully Free distros with nothing distinguishing them except technical merit.
As in doing something clever with a tool (the tool being Google in this case). All previous diatribes are directed against the perceived misuse of "hacking".
I agree. The BBC report seems confusing and explains the after effect of speciation (distinct wing markings) as the cause of speciation and as being useful because it prevents hybridisation.
But prior to divergence it wouldn't be hybridisation.
I suspect it's just poor wording on the reporter's part and the full story is something like:
There are butterflies of different species present in the same area. In order to prevent hybridisation they select mates on the basis of wing pattern. Some members of a species develop an abnormal wing-pattern. Although they _could_ breed with other members of the species, the inbuilt preference for mating with similarly-striped partners means they only mate with each other. This isolation of their genetic pool leads to an accumulation of mutations which make it impossible to breed with their ex-species. Now they are a new species.
(Also, I though hybridisation could be useful when there wasn't enough genetic variability in the parent populations.)
Red Hat doesn't care if their distribution runs on anything other than x86 so they can target making an X11 install that looks pretty
Quick! Someone tell that David Woodhouse guy that's been spending so much time getting Fedora Core 4 to work on PPCs that "Professor UNIX" doesn't know about his efforts because he's never installed Red Hat and doesn't know what he's talking about. Someone better mention it to Red Hat too because they're under the misunderstanding that they support x86, Itanium2, AMD64/EM64T, IBM POWER, IBM zSeries and IBM S/390.
Asserting that there are "leaders" of the "community" who are crackpots without providing specific evidence
Calling Pamela Jones "vituperative"
Promoting a paranoid theory of Microsoft orchestrating this to make "us" (who the hell is the us?) look bad
I could go on but it's not worth it. Dvorak is just trying to do exactly what he says O'Hara should be commended for: getting readership by stirring up controversy. He's ambulance chasing. His article is contentless crap. The only thing worth reading concerning GNU/Linux is source code and technical articles. That excludes most things written by Dvorak.
At last we have a nice concrete example of a large corporation admitting that they're going to spread their propaganda through blogs. It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that I was reading an article about how blogging was the new trusted, untainted source of information as compared to magazine articles. Hmmm, I said to myself, that doesn't seem very believable.
Looks like journalists for traditional print-media might get a second chance after all as being some sort of independent voice.
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How do you "measure" a haplotype?
This is actually factually incorrect. You can't jump to the moon merely by wanting to. I'm sorry, but the rest of your post is thrown into sharp doubt by this foolish statement.
I also prefer books to magazines because of ads. Fuck ads, they're a drain on my time and energy. Some people like them, fine, sell ads to the people that like them. There are plenty of magazines that operate on precisely that principle. Leave the rest of us alone. And if I ever catch one of the fuckers that stuffs my mailbox with ads for cheap meat at the local grocery store or leaves fliers for chinese restaurants attached to my doorknob I'm going to pound the fucker and make him eat them.
I can't read what's in front of me. Apologies.
The article is unclear. The last couple of paragraphs leave the distinct impression that the problem is that SAP don't provide patches to Linux vendors (in this case Red Hat) in time. There's no reason why Red Hat's Satellite server couldn't be rolling out the patches to affected machines as needed if they were supplied in time. Either the problem is with SAP or with Red Hat not taking patches from SAP quickly enough.
Whichever it is this article is unsatifsying because it doesn't explain the issue clearly.
"And yet, with CCTV footage we've caught the people who tried to blow up more trains on July 21"
Ya reckon? I didn't know they'd been tried yet and I certainly haven't seen the evidence. All I've seen are reports from the same people that lied and lied again when they said that De Menezes was 1)wearing a bulky jacket; 2) had wires hanging out of his belt; 3)ran away from the police; 4) was an illegal immigrant.
If you believe _anything_ the INsecurity forces are telling you then you're a bigger fool than they are.
Only to people that are largely ignorant of the realities of Greek society or are sublimely indifferent to the suffering of fellow humans. The number of slaves held by the Greeks was proportionately larger than those held by current Saudis. Greek democracy is as much a farce as US democracy. The Greeks were worse though.
And if so he should count himself lucky that he didn't get shot in the head while being held down. I'm sure that he himself will admit and understand that this sort of thing has to happen for the greater good? After all who wants a repeat of the terrible events of whichever terrorist incident you're having as an excuse for stripping civil liberties today. THEY MUST NOT WIN!
Sure wasn't the slaves owned by those gosh-darned Greek democrats. Sure wasn't the metics (equivalent of H1-B visa holders) that couldn't vote. Greek "democracy" ain't all it's cracked up to be.
Or perhaps the US is not reporting their unemployment statistics accurately in order to look better? ;)
One interesting thing in the tables at the end of the link is that in the EU women are reported as 10% unemployment rate and the USA it's circa 5%. Whereas for men it's 7.5% and 5.5% respectively. I wonder are women in the USA that are homemakers less likely to report themselves as "unemployed"?
Most importantly of all it should be noted that neither set of figures contains information about the huge number of "illegals" in the USA or the "sin papieres" in the EU.
So anyone trying to compare the two would do well to be skeptical of both accounts.
SuSE's ISOs contain material which is not GPL'ed. I suggest you grep the licenses for the contents of one of the Professional ISOs.
There's a marked difference between Red Hat's adhering to the line of _only_ providing Free Software and SuSE's inclusion of non-Free material.
... but in case someone is confused by your post:
If you want to pay for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (in one of three flavours ) then you'll get full support and a long, steady release cycle.
If you want a completely no-cost OS then you can use Red Hat Fedora. It has a quick release cycle, lots of exciting add on packages maintained by the community in the Extras repositories and a very aggressive incorporation of new features.
Don't go confusing RHEL and RH Fedora.
Unlike SuSE, Red Hat has always been scrupulous about releasing under the GPL all their code for the distro (with the exception of the build-system). They've never had proprietary tools like YaST. I'm glad to see that SuSE is now fuly embracing the path of openness. Hopefully it will mean that there'll be real competition between two fully Free distros with nothing distinguishing them except technical merit.
As in doing something clever with a tool (the tool being Google in this case). All previous diatribes are directed against the perceived misuse of "hacking".
I agree. The BBC report seems confusing and explains the after effect of speciation (distinct wing markings) as the cause of speciation and as being useful because it prevents hybridisation.
But prior to divergence it wouldn't be hybridisation.
I suspect it's just poor wording on the reporter's part and the full story is something like:
There are butterflies of different species present in the same area. In order to prevent hybridisation they select mates on the basis of wing pattern. Some members of a species develop an abnormal wing-pattern. Although they _could_ breed with other members of the species, the inbuilt preference for mating with similarly-striped partners means they only mate with each other. This isolation of their genetic pool leads to an accumulation of mutations which make it impossible to breed with their ex-species. Now they are a new species.
(Also, I though hybridisation could be useful when there wasn't enough genetic variability in the parent populations.)
Privacy for the rest of us.
The only benefit of openness comes with elected officials, government appointees, government contracts, campaign financing etc being available to us.
Everyone else deserves privacy.
I could go on but it's not worth it. Dvorak is just trying to do exactly what he says O'Hara should be commended for: getting readership by stirring up controversy. He's ambulance chasing. His article is contentless crap. The only thing worth reading concerning GNU/Linux is source code and technical articles. That excludes most things written by Dvorak.
FirefoXXX
At last we have a nice concrete example of a large corporation admitting that they're going to spread their propaganda through blogs. It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that I was reading an article about how blogging was the new trusted, untainted source of information as compared to magazine articles. Hmmm, I said to myself, that doesn't seem very believable. Looks like journalists for traditional print-media might get a second chance after all as being some sort of independent voice.