>>>Move along citizen or "you'll be in BIG trouble!"
Just because a cop orders you to do something, does not mean you have to comply:
"Open your trunk!" No. "Let us in your house!" No. "Stop camcording me!" No. "Let me search your bags and stick my hand on your breast!" No.
Learn to say no to unconstitutional orders from the jackbooted officers. And if the cops lose control and beat you, well you just won a multi-million dollar lottery. Celebrate.
1) This new interface sucks. First my classic, text-only settings have disappeared which slows donw loading a LOT. Second the Menus and "reply" buttons do not appear on Mozilla Seamonkey or Opera. I have to set the "mask as internet explorer" flag to trick slashdot into believing Mozilla/Opera are IE. Bogus.
2) Back to topic:
I suspect the monopolies like Verizon, Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Time-warner, and so forth can easily afford the extra burden. Who the unfunded mandates will hurt are small time companies like Mom&Pop ISP or Glendive Montana ISP.
And where the heck if the plain text format option? I want paragraphs, not one giant runon sentence. (sigh) Insert break; insert break; insert bold; insert break.... feels like I've taken a step back to the old pre-windows word processors where you needed to use codes to format. Bogus squared.
If the US had a true class system where people were divided into Commoners and Nobles, then the social mobility would be ZERO. The fact people do move up (and down) indicates we are not a class-based society. You don't have to be a commoner forever, and being on top doesn't guarantee you a future place beside the king. Many are born rich and die poor, or middle class.
We don't have a class-based society. We have a society where your future is not determined simply because you were born to a Janitor, and must become a janitor yourself.
>>>you goddamn fucktard.....You fucking liar. That statement, right there, is a utter fucking lie...I thought a little incivility was called for for such a moronic asshat.
Oh how cute! Little Johnny learned to curse like daddy! (pats on head) That's a good boy. Now run along and play. Someday you'll grow-up to be an adult and learn such juvenile behavior is likely to get you fired from a job, and be completely non-persuasive. For example: I didn't bother to read your message, because I don't talk to juveniles. It's a big like talking to jackasses (donkeys).
>>>When Mozilla discontinued the Mozilla browser (codename: seamonkey), and the Mozilla Foundation picked it up
Dear Harry(toilet)Squatter:
If you're going to correct somebody, maybe you should check your facts FIRST before opening your mouth and showing everyone you know nothing. Even a quick search of wikipedia would have led you down the correct path. Your comment simply isn't correct. When the Mozilla Browser Suite was dropped ("The 1.7.x line will be the last set of Seamonkey products released and maintained by the Mozilla Foundation"), it was picked-up by the community calling themselves the Seamonkey Council. So my original statement was correct as stated:
"When Mozilla discontinued the Mozilla browser (codename: seamonkey), and the open source community picked it up, everything turned out a-okay."
>>>You left out a shit ton of other countries. In real terms, we're about 31st on the list.
Since the European countries have voluntarily demoted themselves to "member states" they no longer count. The new country thus formed is comparable to a United States of Europe - i.e. the European Union which I included in my list.
I also left out any other country which is so small, that the US State of Alaska is bigger than them. Like to like. I only listed countries that spanned all or most of a continent, for the same reason you compare yellow apples to red apples, not oranges or grapes or peanuts.
I was only looking at CONTINENT SIZED FEDERATIONS. Comparing a nation like the US (or Canada or Australia) which spans everything from oceans, to Piedmont, to forests larger than Benelux, to deserts to mountains to beaches..... against tiny countries that you can drive across in a single day...... makes no logical sense.
So if we eliminate all the countries that are smaller than one single US state (like california or texas), you get: Mbit/s 1 12.9 Russian Federation 2 10.7 USA 3 10.5 EU 4 10.4 Canada 5 9.1 Australia 6 8.7 UAE 7 4.9 Brazil 8 4.4 China 9 3.8 Mexico
Or if you prefer to look on a state-by-state basis, well most US States are faster than many whole countries. The world's fastest average may be Korea, but the second fastest lies in Delaware and Washington (tied).
>>>The Matrix was a cult movie with a strong plot and some thought-provoking themes
Matrix 2 and 3 had thought-provoking themes too. If you don't believe me, just fast-forward past the action scenes you dislike and focus on the storyline.
I don't know why people hate Matrix 2/3 so much. Other than being one half hour too long, I thought it was a fine science-based fiction, as good as any of the classic novels (I Robot, Foundation, 2001, Ender's Game).
>>>Obama is a socialist, an evil plant of the far-left set out to destroy all American values, but then they turn right around and accusing him of being in the pocket of big business without the least bit of irony. The guy is a centrist and he's clearly positioning himself to work with the Republican Congress
You're both wrong. Looks like a Mussolini-style fascist/corporatist to me. i.e. Trying to meld government/business into a single whole piece of cooperative effort.
Always getting sued by someone. I wonder how Microsoft can claim the patent when Tivo was first with the DVR capability. Also: Why did microsoft wait almost 15 years to bring this complaint? Why the delay Borgified Bill.
Before we start shouting "doom and gloom", let's look at the actual numbers for average download speed: Mbit/s 1 12.9 Russian Federation 2 10.7 USA 3 10.5 EU 4 10.4 Canada 5 9.1 Australia 6 8.7 UAE 7 4.9 Brazil 8 4.4 China 9 3.8 Mexico
The US Census Bureau bureau designates the entire Boston-to-Richmond I95 corridor as "urban" due to the population density along the route, with just a small gap between DC and Richmond that they expect to fill-in soon. Statisticians have even invented a name for the feature: Megalopolis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
>>>I bet you can find more people like my Uncle and Aunt in Ohio who own a farm. They have dial up internet. That is all they want.
Precisely. I have both dialup and DSL, with a max speed of 0.8 Mbit/s. I CHOOSE that slow speed because that's all I want or need, and it saves me money ($15/month) versus the faster 5+ plan. Before we start shouting "doom and gloom", let's look at the actual numbers for average download speed:
Mbit/s 1 12.9 Russian Federation 2 10.7 USA 3 10.5 EU 4 10.4 Canada 5 9.1 Australia 6 8.7 UAE 7 4.9 Brazil 8 4.4 China 9 3.8 Mexico
When Mozilla discontinued the Mozilla browser (codename: seamonkey), and the open source community picked it up, everything turned out a-okay. Seamonkey is a nice solid browser/email/newsgroups/composer application. I suspect Oracle's decision to "close" OpenOffice will spur a similar level of development for LibreOffice. In the long term it will all work out.
So: If I install LO work, how well will it work with DOC files? All my coworkers are using Word 2003 and I don't want to cause any disruption by sending them funky files.
- 90% of the US income tax is still paid by the top 10%. i.e. 3% of the burden per million wealthy persons. - The remaining 10% is spread-out over the other ~270 million..... or less than 0.04% per million taxpayers. - Source: irs.gov
Now I'm certainly not a defender of rich people (I hate corporations and CEOs) but to say the rich/upper middle class are not paying their burden is an untruth. They are being taxed approximately 80 times the rate as the rest of the americans. If the top 10% fled the country, the government budget would collapse.
>>>And eventually we have just the upper and lower classes.
Sounds like the Roman Empire, circa 400 AD. The middle classes were forced to sell their land to the wealthy, and in exchange they were allowed to continue living/working the land. It didn't start as a class system but did eventually evolve into one (feudalism), where the wealthy owned the workers.
If we did, you would be born a commoner and spend the rest of your life there, never able to rise to the level of Bill Gates or Barak Obama or one of their assistant managers. Those jobs would be reserved for the nobles while you would be stuck in the factory/office as a laborer.
I think you're too pessimistic. The "Do Not Call" list was effective in stopping telemarketers, even though they are not required to obey that list if they are outside the US. This "Do Not Track" header could be similarly effective.
>>>Mozilla's Firefox, a popular browser company,
Don't forget Mozilla Netscape, Mozilla Seamonkey (firefox/thunderbird/composer merged), and Mozilla Camino for Macs..... also popular browser "companies".;-)
>>>I'm inclined to think that the third-party service is the real issue.
Yep. Basically the same thing that led Broadcast Networks to block GoogleTV from seeing their shows on hulu and other sources. They want to control when/how you see the content they own.
The difference is that Nagano Shoten was broadcasting outside of Japan, so it was also copyright infringement AND violation of export restrictions.
I would miss-out on great shows like Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Xena, Buffy, Angel, X-Files, Supernatural, Farscape, Stargate, Haven, BSG, and Caprica..... just to name a few. The end of television would be sad.
The artists' desire to get paid for their labor is "bullshit"? Really? How many hours do you give to your boss for free? You don't give free hours to your boss? Well that's bullshit too. /end sarcasm
I don't mine online Hulu ads. It's not as if you're forced to watch them (open another browser window, read another chapter of your book, go potty, whatever). Just as we did with broadcast tv.
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>>>Move along citizen or "you'll be in BIG trouble!"
Just because a cop orders you to do something, does not mean you have to comply:
"Open your trunk!"
No.
"Let us in your house!"
No.
"Stop camcording me!"
No.
"Let me search your bags and stick my hand on your breast!"
No.
Learn to say no to unconstitutional orders from the jackbooted officers. And if the cops lose control and beat you, well you just won a multi-million dollar lottery. Celebrate.
1) This new interface sucks. First my classic, text-only settings have disappeared which slows donw loading a LOT. Second the Menus and "reply" buttons do not appear on Mozilla Seamonkey or Opera. I have to set the "mask as internet explorer" flag to trick slashdot into believing Mozilla/Opera are IE. Bogus.
2) Back to topic:
I suspect the monopolies like Verizon, Comcast, Cox, Cablevision, Time-warner, and so forth can easily afford the extra burden. Who the unfunded mandates will hurt are small time companies like Mom&Pop ISP or Glendive Montana ISP.
And where the heck if the plain text format option? I want paragraphs, not one giant runon sentence. (sigh) Insert break; insert break; insert bold; insert break.... feels like I've taken a step back to the old pre-windows word processors where you needed to use codes to format. Bogus squared.
It's amazing how many missed the point.
If the US had a true class system where people were divided into Commoners and Nobles, then the social mobility would be ZERO. The fact people do move up (and down) indicates we are not a class-based society. You don't have to be a commoner forever, and being on top doesn't guarantee you a future place beside the king. Many are born rich and die poor, or middle class.
We don't have a class-based society. We have a society where your future is not determined simply because you were born to a Janitor, and must become a janitor yourself.
>>>you goddamn fucktard.....You fucking liar. That statement, right there, is a utter fucking lie...I thought a little incivility was called for for such a moronic asshat.
Oh how cute!
Little Johnny learned to curse like daddy!
(pats on head) That's a good boy. Now run along and play. Someday you'll grow-up to be an adult and learn such juvenile behavior is likely to get you fired from a job, and be completely non-persuasive. For example: I didn't bother to read your message, because I don't talk to juveniles. It's a big like talking to jackasses (donkeys).
>>>When Mozilla discontinued the Mozilla browser (codename: seamonkey), and the Mozilla Foundation picked it up
Dear Harry(toilet)Squatter:
If you're going to correct somebody, maybe you should check your facts FIRST before opening your mouth and showing everyone you know nothing. Even a quick search of wikipedia would have led you down the correct path. Your comment simply isn't correct. When the Mozilla Browser Suite was dropped ("The 1.7.x line will be the last set of Seamonkey products released and maintained by the Mozilla Foundation"), it was picked-up by the community calling themselves the Seamonkey Council. So my original statement was correct as stated:
"When Mozilla discontinued the Mozilla browser (codename: seamonkey), and the open source community picked it up, everything turned out a-okay."
>>>You left out a shit ton of other countries. In real terms, we're about 31st on the list.
Since the European countries have voluntarily demoted themselves to "member states" they no longer count. The new country thus formed is comparable to a United States of Europe - i.e. the European Union which I included in my list.
I also left out any other country which is so small, that the US State of Alaska is bigger than them. Like to like. I only listed countries that spanned all or most of a continent, for the same reason you compare yellow apples to red apples, not oranges or grapes or peanuts.
I was only looking at CONTINENT SIZED FEDERATIONS. Comparing a nation like the US (or Canada or Australia) which spans everything from oceans, to Piedmont, to forests larger than Benelux, to deserts to mountains to beaches..... against tiny countries that you can drive across in a single day...... makes no logical sense.
So if we eliminate all the countries that are smaller than one single US state (like california or texas), you get:
Mbit/s
1 12.9 Russian Federation
2 10.7 USA
3 10.5 EU
4 10.4 Canada
5 9.1 Australia
6 8.7 UAE
7 4.9 Brazil
8 4.4 China
9 3.8 Mexico
Or if you prefer to look on a state-by-state basis, well most US States are faster than many whole countries. The world's fastest average may be Korea, but the second fastest lies in Delaware and Washington (tied).
>>>The Matrix was a cult movie with a strong plot and some thought-provoking themes
Matrix 2 and 3 had thought-provoking themes too. If you don't believe me, just fast-forward past the action scenes you dislike and focus on the storyline.
I don't know why people hate Matrix 2/3 so much.
Other than being one half hour too long, I thought it was a fine science-based fiction, as good as any of the classic novels (I Robot, Foundation, 2001, Ender's Game).
>>>Obama is a socialist, an evil plant of the far-left set out to destroy all American values, but then they turn right around and accusing him of being in the pocket of big business without the least bit of irony. The guy is a centrist and he's clearly positioning himself to work with the Republican Congress
You're both wrong.
Looks like a Mussolini-style fascist/corporatist to me.
i.e. Trying to meld government/business into a single whole piece of cooperative effort.
Always getting sued by someone.
I wonder how Microsoft can claim the patent when Tivo was first with the DVR capability. Also: Why did microsoft wait almost 15 years to bring this complaint? Why the delay Borgified Bill.
>>>inevitable decline of a failing empire.
Before we start shouting "doom and gloom", let's look at the actual numbers for average download speed:
Mbit/s
1 12.9 Russian Federation
2 10.7 USA
3 10.5 EU
4 10.4 Canada
5 9.1 Australia
6 8.7 UAE
7 4.9 Brazil
8 4.4 China
9 3.8 Mexico
The US Census Bureau bureau designates the entire Boston-to-Richmond I95 corridor as "urban" due to the population density along the route, with just a small gap between DC and Richmond that they expect to fill-in soon. Statisticians have even invented a name for the feature: Megalopolis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_megalopolis
>>>I bet you can find more people like my Uncle and Aunt in Ohio who own a farm. They have dial up internet. That is all they want.
Precisely. I have both dialup and DSL, with a max speed of 0.8 Mbit/s. I CHOOSE that slow speed because that's all I want or need, and it saves me money ($15/month) versus the faster 5+ plan. Before we start shouting "doom and gloom", let's look at the actual numbers for average download speed:
Mbit/s
1 12.9 Russian Federation
2 10.7 USA
3 10.5 EU
4 10.4 Canada
5 9.1 Australia
6 8.7 UAE
7 4.9 Brazil
8 4.4 China
9 3.8 Mexico
When Mozilla discontinued the Mozilla browser (codename: seamonkey), and the open source community picked it up, everything turned out a-okay. Seamonkey is a nice solid browser/email/newsgroups/composer application. I suspect Oracle's decision to "close" OpenOffice will spur a similar level of development for LibreOffice. In the long term it will all work out.
So: If I install LO work, how well will it work with DOC files? All my coworkers are using Word 2003 and I don't want to cause any disruption by sending them funky files.
Wealth envy. Let's look at the stats:
- 90% of the US income tax is still paid by the top 10%. i.e. 3% of the burden per million wealthy persons.
- The remaining 10% is spread-out over the other ~270 million..... or less than 0.04% per million taxpayers.
- Source: irs.gov
Now I'm certainly not a defender of rich people (I hate corporations and CEOs) but to say the rich/upper middle class are not paying their burden is an untruth. They are being taxed approximately 80 times the rate as the rest of the americans. If the top 10% fled the country, the government budget would collapse.
>>>And eventually we have just the upper and lower classes.
Sounds like the Roman Empire, circa 400 AD. The middle classes were forced to sell their land to the wealthy, and in exchange they were allowed to continue living/working the land. It didn't start as a class system but did eventually evolve into one (feudalism), where the wealthy owned the workers.
We don't have a class (aka caste) system.
If we did, you would be born a commoner and spend the rest of your life there, never able to rise to the level of Bill Gates or Barak Obama or one of their assistant managers. Those jobs would be reserved for the nobles while you would be stuck in the factory/office as a laborer.
I think you're too pessimistic. The "Do Not Call" list was effective in stopping telemarketers, even though they are not required to obey that list if they are outside the US. This "Do Not Track" header could be similarly effective.
>>>Mozilla's Firefox, a popular browser company,
Don't forget Mozilla Netscape, Mozilla Seamonkey (firefox/thunderbird/composer merged), and Mozilla Camino for Macs..... also popular browser "companies". ;-)
>>>I'm inclined to think that the third-party service is the real issue.
Yep. Basically the same thing that led Broadcast Networks to block GoogleTV from seeing their shows on hulu and other sources. They want to control when/how you see the content they own.
The difference is that Nagano Shoten was broadcasting outside of Japan, so it was also copyright infringement AND violation of export restrictions.
Really?
I would miss-out on great shows like Star Trek: DS9, Babylon 5, Xena, Buffy, Angel, X-Files, Supernatural, Farscape, Stargate, Haven, BSG, and Caprica..... just to name a few. The end of television would be sad.
A slight exaggeration. Japan's "amazing" speed is only 18.5 Mbit/s average. This compares with the U.S. average of 10.5* and EU average of 9.5 Mbit/s.
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* US was once 8.5 Mbit/s, so speeds have increased over the last two years.
The artists' desire to get paid for their labor is "bullshit"? Really? How many hours do you give to your boss for free?
/end sarcasm
You don't give free hours to your boss?
Well that's bullshit too.
I don't mine online Hulu ads. It's not as if you're forced to watch them (open another browser window, read another chapter of your book, go potty, whatever). Just as we did with broadcast tv.
They have a right to control EXPORT of the content to other countries, which is what this ruling forbids. Read the frakkin' article
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