Like the Labour Party, which imposes pre-vetted "New Labour" candidates approved by Central Office, and forces locally chosen Labour candidates to run as independents? And even tried to do it in the high profile London mayoral election?
As opposed to the UK government, whose Prime Minister lies to everyone in order to get the country involved in said war, and still gets re-elected after his lies have been documented?
and does it all while putting every citizen and their children so deep in debt they will probably never get out.
Oh, well, you've got me there, the US economy has definitely been mismanaged worse than the UK.
Perhaps if you watched Bowling for Columbine with the criticisms of that page in mind, you'd see how ridiculous most of them are. The whole overblown thing about "misrepresenting" the Denver NRA meeting is just laughable, especially if you read the full transcript of the smug speech from Heston. (Which, incidentally, Moore has on his web site.)
No, my arrangement works even without LiveJournal or anything like it. If everyone I know on LJ left LJ and moved to a setup like mine, I'd be very happy. They could all run on different ISPs, and everything would work.
People who use LJ as a feed reader won't get locked posts in the feed. People who use another feed reader may or may not get the locked post, it depends on how the feed reader works.
No, I'm not depending on LJ at all. People who choose to continue to use LJ as their feed reader and OpenID provider are depending on it, but if LJ vanished tomorrow everything on my site would continue to work--people could still log in, post comments, subscribe to my postings, etc.
What if you need to work in Swedish and Japanese documents? Oh wait, only English matters. [...]
I guess disabled people shouldn't be using computers then?
You know that the Mac Plus supported Swedish and Japanese, right? You know that it also ran Apple's accessibility add-ons? It even had screen readers available.
Oh sure, LJ's a good service for a good price... Right up until your entire journal gets deleted because you posted a picture of your wife breastfeeding. Or a troll keeps posting your medical details and they refuse to do anything. Or your journal is deleted because you repost some info from someone's public web site.
LJ Abuse team has been abusive for ages. This is merely the latest installment. But sure, continue to pay them, so long as you're not personally involved.
Not so much, actually. I moved from LiveJournal after being abused by the abuse team. With WordPress and OpenID, LJ users can log in on my site with their LJ accounts to comment. I can have friends-locked postings. They can get e-mail notifications or subscribe to threads via Atom. I can subscribe to their journals and read them in Google Reader, and log in and comment on their journals with my WordPress system's OpenID.
Feh, LJ users love to whine, but they won't actually do anything. The Abuse team has been abusive for years, but only a handful of people have upped and left. (I'm one of them.)
IBM still has an internal desktop Linux image. At various points it has been based on SuSE and RedHat, I'm not sure what it's based on right now as I run Kubuntu.
I dont see how fark suddenly has this reputation for being media savvy. They were the biggest supporters of the Iraq war, linking to all these right wing op-ed pieces supporting and casting a blind eye to any naysayers (if not outright calling them cowards).
Damn, where are my mod points?
The endless pro-war crap was sickening. Then there was a thread of jokes about killing Iraqis. I posted a photo that had been on the front page of the newspapers (even in the US), showing an injured Iraqi child, to try and point out the reality they were joking about. Result: I got banned.
Fark is not insightful. Fark is not a free speech zone; it's heavily censored by anonymous moderators with no accountability, which is always a recipe for abuse. No, Fark is simply a way for Drew to make money out of content supplied by other people, and it sounds as though this book is exactly the same.
(I still read it for the links, but via a scraper which turns it into headline plus link to story, bypassing the discussion threads and the rest of the site entirely.)
I work for IBM. I run Linux. I contribute to open source projects in accordance with IBM guidelines. So I think I'm pretty informed on the topic.
As far as I know, IBM does not distribute Linux, ever. As an IBM employee, I'm not even allowed to give you a free copy of Debian. IBM's position is that customers who want Linux should purchase it from SuSE or RedHat, or download it themselves.
(Opinions mine, not IBM's. This is not an official statement of policy, just what I understand to be the case.)
You're missing the point. The VMware system is *cleaner*, hardware-wise, than any real world system is going to be. It removes the excuse of "it's flaky hardware causing the problems". Aunt Tillie's system is going to crash more, not less.
What you're missing is that evolution doesn't care about the individual, only the species.
In our early history, tribes that were altruistic would have had a survival advantage--the injured or sick would have been cared for by others, even though it didn't benefit the carers. They would often have recovered and gone on to father descendants, or at least care for the kids while the parents were off hunter-gathering.
Meanwhile, the Ayn Rand tribe would have left the sick and injured to die, reducing their tribe's size and its genetic diversity (and hence their adaptability) as well as possibly losing the benefit of those who might have recovered if cared for. This would have damaged the tribe's survival chances relative to the altruistic tribe.
So it makes perfect evolutionary sense that we are wired to help others of our species at our own personal expense. It's exactly what I'd expect given natural selection; in fact, my first reaction to the summary was "What, this is news?"
AppleWorks doesn't even run reliably these days. After an OS update it took to crashing when I opened documents. I eventually managed to extract my data, but I'm not putting anything new in it.
Is it really fair to count CO2 per capita when comparing countries where one still has a significant percentage of their population that are still mostly subsidence farmers? And have the lifespan and quality of life that hasn't changed much for the last thousand years?
It's about as fair as expecting both countries to sign up to reduce their CO2 emissions by the same amount, which is what some people were proposing as a straw man whose unacceptability would let the US off the hook.
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Like the UK government, which has banned protests in parts of London unless you have a license for your free speech?
Like the UK government, which is an enthusiastic participant in ECHELON, runs GCHQ, and used to spy on the National Council for Civil Liberties, CND, and other "subversive" organizations?
Like the Labour Party, which imposes pre-vetted "New Labour" candidates approved by Central Office, and forces locally chosen Labour candidates to run as independents? And even tried to do it in the high profile London mayoral election?
Like the UK government, which has lists of prohibited organizations and the people believed to have joined them?
As opposed to the UK government, which puts people in prison indefinitely without charge?
As opposed to the UK government, whose Prime Minister lies to everyone in order to get the country involved in said war, and still gets re-elected after his lies have been documented?
Oh, well, you've got me there, the US economy has definitely been mismanaged worse than the UK.
Perhaps if you watched Bowling for Columbine with the criticisms of that page in mind, you'd see how ridiculous most of them are. The whole overblown thing about "misrepresenting" the Denver NRA meeting is just laughable, especially if you read the full transcript of the smug speech from Heston. (Which, incidentally, Moore has on his web site.)
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See also http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/8/12/171427/60
No overclocking, and the host Linux doesn't crash, so how can bad memory be the problem? Also, I've run a full hardware diagnostic on the laptop.
Please, step out of the world of denial and admit that Windows still crashes because of Microsoft's poor code quality.
No, my arrangement works even without LiveJournal or anything like it. If everyone I know on LJ left LJ and moved to a setup like mine, I'd be very happy. They could all run on different ISPs, and everything would work.
People who use LJ as a feed reader won't get locked posts in the feed. People who use another feed reader may or may not get the locked post, it depends on how the feed reader works.
"Hey, how do we know you don't have secret instructions from Al Qaeda in that hidden volume?"
There, now it has.
No, I'm not depending on LJ at all. People who choose to continue to use LJ as their feed reader and OpenID provider are depending on it, but if LJ vanished tomorrow everything on my site would continue to work--people could still log in, post comments, subscribe to my postings, etc.
You know that the Mac Plus supported Swedish and Japanese, right? You know that it also ran Apple's accessibility add-ons? It even had screen readers available.
Yes. LJ pulls in my Atom feed, and they friend the feed.
No, you misunderstand.
I run Linux on a ThinkPad. I have a trackball with 4 buttons, all of which work. I use ctrl-click in preference to right-click.
Oh sure, LJ's a good service for a good price... Right up until your entire journal gets deleted because you posted a picture of your wife breastfeeding. Or a troll keeps posting your medical details and they refuse to do anything. Or your journal is deleted because you repost some info from someone's public web site.
LJ Abuse team has been abusive for ages. This is merely the latest installment. But sure, continue to pay them, so long as you're not personally involved.
Not so much, actually. I moved from LiveJournal after being abused by the abuse team. With WordPress and OpenID, LJ users can log in on my site with their LJ accounts to comment. I can have friends-locked postings. They can get e-mail notifications or subscribe to threads via Atom. I can subscribe to their journals and read them in Google Reader, and log in and comment on their journals with my WordPress system's OpenID.
Feh, LJ users love to whine, but they won't actually do anything. The Abuse team has been abusive for years, but only a handful of people have upped and left. (I'm one of them.)
In that case, how come I use control-click on Linux?
IBM still has an internal desktop Linux image. At various points it has been based on SuSE and RedHat, I'm not sure what it's based on right now as I run Kubuntu.
You know the rules: cheap, small, powerful -- pick any two.
It was never a bastion of free speech. (Speaking as one of the people banned by an anonymous mod before you started using the site.)
Damn, where are my mod points?
The endless pro-war crap was sickening. Then there was a thread of jokes about killing Iraqis. I posted a photo that had been on the front page of the newspapers (even in the US), showing an injured Iraqi child, to try and point out the reality they were joking about. Result: I got banned.
Fark is not insightful. Fark is not a free speech zone; it's heavily censored by anonymous moderators with no accountability, which is always a recipe for abuse. No, Fark is simply a way for Drew to make money out of content supplied by other people, and it sounds as though this book is exactly the same.
(I still read it for the links, but via a scraper which turns it into headline plus link to story, bypassing the discussion threads and the rest of the site entirely.)
Nokia N800, folding Bluetooth keyboard.
I work for IBM. I run Linux. I contribute to open source projects in accordance with IBM guidelines. So I think I'm pretty informed on the topic.
As far as I know, IBM does not distribute Linux, ever. As an IBM employee, I'm not even allowed to give you a free copy of Debian. IBM's position is that customers who want Linux should purchase it from SuSE or RedHat, or download it themselves.
(Opinions mine, not IBM's. This is not an official statement of policy, just what I understand to be the case.)
You're missing the point. The VMware system is *cleaner*, hardware-wise, than any real world system is going to be. It removes the excuse of "it's flaky hardware causing the problems". Aunt Tillie's system is going to crash more, not less.
What you're missing is that evolution doesn't care about the individual, only the species.
In our early history, tribes that were altruistic would have had a survival advantage--the injured or sick would have been cared for by others, even though it didn't benefit the carers. They would often have recovered and gone on to father descendants, or at least care for the kids while the parents were off hunter-gathering.
Meanwhile, the Ayn Rand tribe would have left the sick and injured to die, reducing their tribe's size and its genetic diversity (and hence their adaptability) as well as possibly losing the benefit of those who might have recovered if cared for. This would have damaged the tribe's survival chances relative to the altruistic tribe.
So it makes perfect evolutionary sense that we are wired to help others of our species at our own personal expense. It's exactly what I'd expect given natural selection; in fact, my first reaction to the summary was "What, this is news?"
AppleWorks doesn't even run reliably these days. After an OS update it took to crashing when I opened documents. I eventually managed to extract my data, but I'm not putting anything new in it.
I got a BSOD from XP running under VMware. And from the error message, it had nothing to do with drivers.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/meta404/249814560/
BSODs are not a "thing of the past" like Microsoft would like people to believe.
It's about as fair as expecting both countries to sign up to reduce their CO2 emissions by the same amount, which is what some people were proposing as a straw man whose unacceptability would let the US off the hook.