I live near camp pendleton, and nearly EVERY marine I talk to is strongly anti-government. Sure they are currently government pawns in meaningless oil wars abroad, but I doubt very strongly any of them would serve against US citizens. Maybe it's different at the marine bases in other parts of the country, but here in San Diego, that scenario is completely impossible.
This is just ONE aspect of the problems facing this country. The government is in fact trying to limit arms ownership, and also currently makes it nearly impossible for individuals to start businesses, as they cater almost exclusively to large corporations. With subsequent corporate control of media, travel, food, housing, banking, and a rapidly deteriorating education, I think the case for armed rebellion is clearly made.
I agree however that moving out of the country might currently be the easier plan. I was looking at Sweden and Denmark. I'd have to the learn the language though, and also, by not storming the castle, I feel I may be shirking my civic duty as a huge fan of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
And why are they not marching on Washington to protect the constitution? If they bring the M16s, I'll be right there with the bullhorn, stretchers, and snacks. Unless they want to teach me how to use an M16.
Let me be the first pirate to say, I think we should go ahead and begin killing G8 leaders. Until there is real democracy with actual counted votes, and a real free media not run by the corporations who have also corrupted all of our western "democracies", this pirate is armed, downloading whatever the fuck he wants, and if you didn't get the message loud enough: FUCK YOU.
I'm going to sign this message in caps, in the style of John Hancock:
Install, and set to default to open PDF. Best PDF viewer in existence. Handily and summarily DOMINATES any Adobe product, in every way imaginable, and very obviously, even for the lay person.
A web browser should not try to be everything. It should just properly render html, css, etc..
Break A Record == Press == People Hearing About It == More Browser Market Share == Death of MS.
I mean, = is a little strong to suggest that all of what you stated is inherently true, though you are probably correct, it is not completely accurate.
Well, Steve just walked in and told me to download it and evaluate the competition. What with the slashdotting, and heavy weight of chairs in this cubicle, my life might actually be in jeopardy.
PLENTY of people have an old Win XP OEM disk that would legally give them the right to have a XP VM on their Linux distro. I in fact do not know one person over 10 years old that doesn't own SOME kind of Windows license from a previous computer purchase.
I'm sure there is something restricting in the latest Eulas, but LOTS of people bought a machine that came with XP, ME, 2000, or 98.... For those people, having a Windows VM that matched their license should be legit.
I'm still waiting for a Linux distro that can take all of my computers within range of my hotspot and turn them into a beowulf cluster with shared file storage automagically. Thanks in advance.
Just because Civilization 2 doesn't run well under Wine doesn't mean that you HAVE to have 20 applications including virtualbox running all day. I mean some of us have real jobs, like gold mining in WOW.
We know why we invaded Iraq though, we are fighting "terrorism" there, so we don't have to HERE.
God knows we don't want constitutionalist terrorists actually implementing actual democracy willy nilly on THIS continent!!! Think how much cheaper mochas would be and how much money I would lose on my Starbucks stock!
Um, if his kids are going to college and don't have a computer, they will have a SERIOUS DISADVANTAGE. It's 2008... For higher education a laptop is pretty much necessary at this point. I might even argue it's benefits make it nearly essential in high school. I mean, unless you are planning on learning how to survive in 1950 or something.
The sooner they realize that and give up, the better off they are going to be. Further, how many people are going to buy a DVR (Digital Video RECORDER) that doesn't actually RECORD? Isn't that like, I don't know, THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT?!?!? I build my own DVRs anyway, and I certainly would never build that feature in.
I completely agree with your stance. By forcing people ethically and morally committed to freedom, and data freedom in particular, you are ensuring that you will be replaced as a hard ware manufacturer by another company that gets it.
DRM: Sponsored heartily by every company virtually guaranteed to become a company that "Doesn't Really Matter" in the near future.
Maybe we could have some rules that made more sense if our government wasn't secretly detaining people all over the world illegally.
I mean, the situation is clearly fucked up from the get go.
I heard from a returning marine that on occasion they would just take a "detainee" out into the middle of the Atlantic and toss him overboard to avoid paperwork.
I mean, where do you want to begin fixing the fascism that we are living under?
Slashdot Mirror
I live near camp pendleton, and nearly EVERY marine I talk to is strongly anti-government. Sure they are currently government pawns in meaningless oil wars abroad, but I doubt very strongly any of them would serve against US citizens. Maybe it's different at the marine bases in other parts of the country, but here in San Diego, that scenario is completely impossible.
This is just ONE aspect of the problems facing this country. The government is in fact trying to limit arms ownership, and also currently makes it nearly impossible for individuals to start businesses, as they cater almost exclusively to large corporations. With subsequent corporate control of media, travel, food, housing, banking, and a rapidly deteriorating education, I think the case for armed rebellion is clearly made.
I agree however that moving out of the country might currently be the easier plan. I was looking at Sweden and Denmark. I'd have to the learn the language though, and also, by not storming the castle, I feel I may be shirking my civic duty as a huge fan of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.
And what congressional district do we need to raze to the ground?
And why are they not marching on Washington to protect the constitution? If they bring the M16s, I'll be right there with the bullhorn, stretchers, and snacks. Unless they want to teach me how to use an M16.
You mean giant oil corporations own our "democracy" and dictate all policy?!?!, NO WAY!
Wake me up when the corporations bring:
JFK
RFK
The Constitution
The Bill of Rights
Freedom of the Press
Democracy
back to life. Until then I'm going to deep freeze myself until society readvances to the point of sanity.
Let me be the first pirate to say, I think we should go ahead and begin killing G8 leaders. Until there is real democracy with actual counted votes, and a real free media not run by the corporations who have also corrupted all of our western "democracies", this pirate is armed, downloading whatever the fuck he wants, and if you didn't get the message loud enough: FUCK YOU.
I'm going to sign this message in caps, in the style of John Hancock:
RHY
I don't really know why, but it is MUCH faster at downloading torrents than any of the native Linux clients I've tried.
I have a much better solution:
Go to:
portableapps.com
Download:
SumatraPDF
Install, and set to default to open PDF. Best PDF viewer in existence. Handily and summarily DOMINATES any Adobe product, in every way imaginable, and very obviously, even for the lay person.
A web browser should not try to be everything. It should just properly render html, css, etc..
Anything else is bloat and unnecessary.
In Scotland you have to give up your first born child, just for a FF 3.0 d/l.... You don't WANT to know the price of a hamburger!!
"Is this..... What day is it?"
"Get a JOB, SIR!"
Yes, IN THEORY. It'd have been truer like this:
Break A Record == Press == People Hearing About It == More Browser Market Share == Death of MS.
I mean, = is a little strong to suggest that all of what you stated is inherently true, though you are probably correct, it is not completely accurate.
Well, Steve just walked in and told me to download it and evaluate the competition. What with the slashdotting, and heavy weight of chairs in this cubicle, my life might actually be in jeopardy.
On the same day! Every website I visit daily is completely slashdotted! This is like a geek perfect storm!
I'm downloading both..... As soon as I find mirrors that are still alive.
Make sure to visit portableapps.com and get a copy of SumatraPDF, arguably the best PDF viewer I've ever used.
:)
Oh, and yes, it works well under wine....
PLENTY of people have an old Win XP OEM disk that would legally give them the right to have a XP VM on their Linux distro. I in fact do not know one person over 10 years old that doesn't own SOME kind of Windows license from a previous computer purchase.
I'm sure there is something restricting in the latest Eulas, but LOTS of people bought a machine that came with XP, ME, 2000, or 98.... For those people, having a Windows VM that matched their license should be legit.
It is REALLY good that utorrent 1.5 works so well under wine, because none of the Linux torrent programs are even remotely as good.
I'm still waiting for a Linux distro that can take all of my computers within range of my hotspot and turn them into a beowulf cluster with shared file storage automagically. Thanks in advance.
Just because Civilization 2 doesn't run well under Wine doesn't mean that you HAVE to have 20 applications including virtualbox running all day. I mean some of us have real jobs, like gold mining in WOW.
We know why we invaded Iraq though, we are fighting "terrorism" there, so we don't have to HERE.
God knows we don't want constitutionalist terrorists actually implementing actual democracy willy nilly on THIS continent!!! Think how much cheaper mochas would be and how much money I would lose on my Starbucks stock!
Um, if his kids are going to college and don't have a computer, they will have a SERIOUS DISADVANTAGE. It's 2008... For higher education a laptop is pretty much necessary at this point. I might even argue it's benefits make it nearly essential in high school. I mean, unless you are planning on learning how to survive in 1950 or something.
The sooner they realize that and give up, the better off they are going to be. Further, how many people are going to buy a DVR (Digital Video RECORDER) that doesn't actually RECORD? Isn't that like, I don't know, THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT?!?!? I build my own DVRs anyway, and I certainly would never build that feature in.
I completely agree with your stance. By forcing people ethically and morally committed to freedom, and data freedom in particular, you are ensuring that you will be replaced as a hard ware manufacturer by another company that gets it.
DRM: Sponsored heartily by every company virtually guaranteed to become a company that "Doesn't Really Matter" in the near future.
Maybe we could have some rules that made more sense if our government wasn't secretly detaining people all over the world illegally.
I mean, the situation is clearly fucked up from the get go.
I heard from a returning marine that on occasion they would just take a "detainee" out into the middle of the Atlantic and toss him overboard to avoid paperwork.
I mean, where do you want to begin fixing the fascism that we are living under?
Do you know who killed JFK?
Thanks in Advance.
This is certainly good news, but when do we get real elections where our votes are counted?
Thanks in Advance, Supreme Court!
Well, McCaine said he would hire Cheney, so.... FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!! Wait, I think I'm suddenly very, very alone. LOL