Just what I was thinking. As a matter of fact, I seem to remember that Gore and Lieberman were the ones who made a tremendous issue of cleaning up movies, and I dare say those two could be considered Republican at all.
I beg to differ with the point that the election was usurped by partisan courts. Obviously since you feel it was usurped, you also feel that Gore was the rightful winner. Well, if any court was partisan, it was the Florida supreme court, which voted in Gore's favor at every turn.
The US supreme court's 5-4 decision can't be considered "blatantly partisan" unless you consider a few landmark decisions, most notably the Miranda decision, also 5-4, "blatantly partisan."
If you're looking for something partisan, look no farther than Canada. The Prime Minister recently called early elections to win a new term, and quell the rising popularity of a rival party.
IANAL, but if things here go against AOL (to be very presumptuous) since they supposedly helped to create gnutella, then what about all of the GPL'd code out there. Say someone uses parts of the Linux kernel to do something that a major corporation or group of corporations doesn't like. Could Linus or AC or any of the other kernel hackers be held responsible in a similar manner? Is that idea even feasible, or does the GPL offer some sort of protection? Obviously I am doing a tremendous amount of extrapolation here, so maybe this isn't even an issue. Just curious.
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that Judge Kaplan *can't* rule whether or not the DMCA is constitutional or not. I believe that power is reserved for the US Supreme Court.
You must remember that Rosa Parks stayed on that bus. The situation isn't an exact parrallel, but Rosa Parks changed things from the inside. As other posts have pointed out, this person needs to stay with the company, and fight for his principles from the inside. That is he only way a change will be made. And if that means losing this battle to win a greater one in the future, then I think it is the right choice.
The leaders of the bus boycott would have made no progress if the bus systems did not first learn to depend on those black riders as a source of revenue. Often, the system must be defeated from the inside.
I wholeheartedly agree that one should act on ones principles, in fact not enough of our leaders today do that. However, I would use tremendous caution when comparing this particular situation to the M. L. King protests or Mandela'a fight against the apartheid (sp?).
I do see your point that oftentimes things have to start out small, on an individual basis. We have to remember though that living on principle can be very, very painful and often takes a tremendous amount of sacrifice (King and Mandela are again great examples of that), so we must be careful to choose are battles. No war was ever won by hitting the enemy at every turn.
So I guess the question becomes, does this individual case offer enough benefits to outweigh the sacrifices?
CNN tends to be slanted a good bit to the left, so if they could report about anything that would make the GOP or the police who were protecting them at the convention look bad, CNN certainly would.
Why is it that corporate America continues to discriminate against people with six fingers? From the pictures I could clearly make out divets for four fingers and a thumb. I doubt Apple will be releasing a six-fingered version. What gall! Now where's Jon Katz when you need him?
Seriously though, I have heard that the gene for six fingers is dominant. Anyone know if that's true?
? lars? i think your lying. prove it that 1.4 million metallica songs were downloaded.. and only 1 unsigned artist mp3 was downloaded in the span of 48 hrs..
and you don't have to worry about me downloading your music.. cause your the devil
The fact of the matter is that the arguements do hold water. I'll agree that there will always be fringe cases, statistical anomolies (sp). However, evidence points to the fact Washington's high crime rate can be in some sense attributed to the strict gun control there.
In the state of Virginia, in areas surrounding Washington DC, where gun control is much less restrictive, the crime rate is drastically lower. Of course there are always other factors involved, we must attribute the lower crime rates at least in part to the difference in gun control.
Say that, for whatever reason, this "ordinary criminal" wants to rob a house. If he is in the area, is he more likely to rob a house in Virginia, where there is a chance the homeowner may have a gun, or is he more likely to take the short trip to DC, where he can be almost certain that the homeowner will not have a gun?
Everyone doesn't have to own guns, but everyone should have the right to own guns, because that chance of gun ownership acts as a deterent to crime.
I had the same problem you have. Basically, I did ftp to one of netscape's servers (if you can get via ftp from behind your firewall), ftp4.netscape.com. The directory you need to grab the files from is
/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR1/windows/win32/xpi/
However, you can't access the directory itself. You can only grab individual files. In order to get the file names, I ran the install program, which gives me a file name when it attempts the download. Then I just pulled that file from netscape's server. After you get the file, just do run the setup again, and it will give you the next file. I just did the typical setup, and needed the following files:
When you get the correct files, the setup program then will not attempt to download them, but will just go ahead and so the install. Oh, I'd assume that the.xpi files need to be in the same directory as the setup program.
Taxes on Internet purchases are simply wrong. I certainly hope that whatever candidate is elected realizes this and places a premenant ban on them. It's great that we're helping children in schools, but the fact of the matter is that the federal government shouldn't be regulating public schools. Ammendment 10 of the US Constitution gives all rights which are not explicitly given to the federal government to the states. That means the states regulate public schools. The federal government shouldn't. History has proven that less taxes improve the economy. If and when the US economy does start to slump, a tax free Internet may just help out.
On the issue of protecting children from the Internet, I'm not too familiar with the Child Online Protection Act, but I would like to know how it will be enforced. I guess a strategy like the ones the states used against big tobbacco could an option.
This whole idea scares me though. I may not like pornography on the Internet, but no extent of government regulation is going to stop children from seeing it. Parental control and family values are the only sure answer.
As much as I don't want to say this, maybe we should elect a candidate who can be an example of moral living, of those family values. Maybe issues aren't of the utmost importance.
On ending the Cold War, let's not forget that a certain American, a president named Ronald, played just a *small* role in accomplishing that feat. A role much more important than that of Gorbachev, I'd venture to say.
Indeed, hate crimes are horrible, and those who commit them deserve punishment. Are these hate crimes infringments of freedom? Yes. Is taking away a citizens right to kill another human being an infringement of freedom? Yes. Common sense tells that in order to have order, we need to give up freedoms. Things would be nice if everyone always did the right thing, and we could live in an anarchy peaceably. However the idea that this kind of utopia could ever be possible is simply naive.
Our responsibility as US citizens is to hold these debates and to decide what freedoms we will give up to secure the safety of our fellow citizens.
I disagree totallly with Jon Katz. I happened to see BWP on Sunday at 5:25 pm. This is usually not a peak time for movie going, but the large theater I was in was nearly sold out. This, combined with all that I had heard about the film, really got my hopes up.
Boy, was I disappointed. Frankly, I think the movie was horrible. I don't want to bash the film makers, they did a great job with only $50,000. I must say that I'm no film maker myself. This movie simply didn't appeal to me.
First of, it simply wasn't scary. I saw The Haunting early, and loved it. That movie got my heart racing. BWP didn't. I know that the camera work wasn't supposed to be perfect, but it just made me sick. Lastly, I think the use of a certain four letter word was so frequent that it became obvious there was no written script. Improv is good, but too much is too much.
I have run into many people that loved the movie, and I'm happy that it has been so successful without spending millions. I just didn't like it.
I'd be happy to see MS and AOL duke it out just as long as they want. Let them tear each other apart. However, this MS plan to gain control of the Internet access market could indirectly hurt Linux.
I happen to work for a small, local ISP. It is amazing how many inexperinced users choose IE over Netscape, simply because it's on their desktop. Some customers complain about our access rate (which is about $15 per month). If Windows came prepackaged with a $9.95 per month, or even free Internet access service, you'd better believe that local ISPs will be in big trouble.
If a MS-only access service becomes the norm, it will be extremely tough to get users to migrate to Linux. I can (hopefully not) forsee a time when non-proprietary ISPs will exist only in major population areas. You can bet that MS will see this as an opportunity to kill Linux. By running ISPs out of business, then only supporting Windows for Internet connections, MS will be cutting into the heart of Linux. The OS grew up, and now thrives on the Internet. Without acces in many areas, Linux could be tremendously hurt.
Don't underestimate the power of something that's free, or nearly free. I (and I'll bet many others as well) came to Linux initially because it is free.
We never had this problem with AOL, because at $20 a month, local ISPs can offer a better price. How do you under sell a free service? Linux community, beware.
I think this is an absolutely a great idea. I'm sure there were many more interesting e-mails. Is there any chance that Bruce will answer a couple of others? By the way, thanks for your insights Bruce!
How will I ever live through another trip to Cedar Point? There's the Raptor, possibly the most thrilling rollercoaster ever invented, the Mantis, which nearly made me black out, the Magnum, which is so much fun to ride on a windy day, and of course the (two) greatest wooden rollercoaster(s) ever built, the Gemini.
Let's not forget how huge the Power Tower seems now, at only *cough* 240 feet tall.
Do rollercoasters make use of computers for safety/administraion/maintenance? If so, the Millenium Force should be running Linux, or some derivative of it. I can't imagine being on the coaster when a M$ product decides to crash.
It seems to me that you are not helping make slashdot any better with that post. After reading it I can pretty much agree with you. That last line especially convinces me. Yes, that parody page didn't live up to my expectations, but if you're not willing to post at least constructive criticism, please go start your own "news for nerds" site.
As far as slashdot being dead, I have to contend that you're just plain wrong.
About midnight eastern time last night, I learned that the ATI Rage Pro LT chipset, which comes standard in the laptop I recieve from my college, is not fully supported by XFree86. I had two options, spend $150 on a commercial software from Xi Graphics, or live with console only.
After reading the devasting information, I followed a link from this page to a thread on Ask Slashdot. The first post, from theMissingLink, had a link to this page, where I found multiple ways to get XFree86 up and running on my laptop.
Those who only complain without offering solutions may be trying to kill it, but no, slashdot is not dead. It won't be dead any time soon.
Slashdot Mirror
Just what I was thinking. As a matter of fact, I seem to remember that Gore and Lieberman were the ones who made a tremendous issue of cleaning up movies, and I dare say those two could be considered Republican at all.
Just deal with cheaters like they did in the old West, shoot them under the table.
Oh wait, that won't work...
I beg to differ with the point that the election was usurped by partisan courts. Obviously since you feel it was usurped, you also feel that Gore was the rightful winner. Well, if any court was partisan, it was the Florida supreme court, which voted in Gore's favor at every turn.
The US supreme court's 5-4 decision can't be considered "blatantly partisan" unless you consider a few landmark decisions, most notably the Miranda decision, also 5-4, "blatantly partisan."
If you're looking for something partisan, look no farther than Canada. The Prime Minister recently called early elections to win a new term, and quell the rising popularity of a rival party.
Josh
IANAL, but if things here go against AOL (to be very presumptuous) since they supposedly helped to create gnutella, then what about all of the GPL'd code out there. Say someone uses parts of the Linux kernel to do something that a major corporation or group of corporations doesn't like. Could Linus or AC or any of the other kernel hackers be held responsible in a similar manner? Is that idea even feasible, or does the GPL offer some sort of protection? Obviously I am doing a tremendous amount of extrapolation here, so maybe this isn't even an issue. Just curious.
Josh
IANAL, but I'm pretty sure that Judge Kaplan *can't* rule whether or not the DMCA is constitutional or not. I believe that power is reserved for the US Supreme Court.
Josh
You must remember that Rosa Parks stayed on that bus. The situation isn't an exact parrallel, but Rosa Parks changed things from the inside. As other posts have pointed out, this person needs to stay with the company, and fight for his principles from the inside. That is he only way a change will be made. And if that means losing this battle to win a greater one in the future, then I think it is the right choice.
The leaders of the bus boycott would have made no progress if the bus systems did not first learn to depend on those black riders as a source of revenue. Often, the system must be defeated from the inside.
Josh
I wholeheartedly agree that one should act on ones principles, in fact not enough of our leaders today do that. However, I would use tremendous caution when comparing this particular situation to the M. L. King protests or Mandela'a fight against the apartheid (sp?).
I do see your point that oftentimes things have to start out small, on an individual basis. We have to remember though that living on principle can be very, very painful and often takes a tremendous amount of sacrifice (King and Mandela are again great examples of that), so we must be careful to choose are battles. No war was ever won by hitting the enemy at every turn.
So I guess the question becomes, does this individual case offer enough benefits to outweigh the sacrifices?
Josh
CNN tends to be slanted a good bit to the left, so if they could report about anything that would make the GOP or the police who were protecting them at the convention look bad, CNN certainly would.
Josh
Why is it that corporate America continues to discriminate against people with six fingers? From the pictures I could clearly make out divets for four fingers and a thumb. I doubt Apple will be releasing a six-fingered version. What gall! Now where's Jon Katz when you need him?
Seriously though, I have heard that the gene for six fingers is dominant. Anyone know if that's true?
Josh
?
lars? i think your lying.
prove it that 1.4 million metallica songs were downloaded.. and only 1 unsigned artist mp3 was downloaded in the span of 48 hrs..
and you don't have to worry about me downloading your music.. cause your the devil
The fact of the matter is that the arguements do hold water. I'll agree that there will always be fringe cases, statistical anomolies (sp). However, evidence points to the fact Washington's high crime rate can be in some sense attributed to the strict gun control there.
In the state of Virginia, in areas surrounding Washington DC, where gun control is much less restrictive, the crime rate is drastically lower. Of course there are always other factors involved, we must attribute the lower crime rates at least in part to the difference in gun control.
Say that, for whatever reason, this "ordinary criminal" wants to rob a house. If he is in the area, is he more likely to rob a house in Virginia, where there is a chance the homeowner may have a gun, or is he more likely to take the short trip to DC, where he can be almost certain that the homeowner will not have a gun?
Everyone doesn't have to own guns, but everyone should have the right to own guns, because that chance of gun ownership acts as a deterent to crime.
Josh
I had the same problem you have. Basically, I did ftp to one of netscape's servers (if you can get via ftp from behind your firewall), ftp4.netscape.com. The directory you need to grab the files from is
.xpi files need to be in the same directory as the setup program.
/pub/netscape6/english/6_PR1/windows/win32/xpi/
However, you can't access the directory itself. You can only grab individual files. In order to get the file names, I ran the install program, which gives me a file name when it attempts the download. Then I just pulled that file from netscape's server. After you get the file, just do run the setup again, and it will give you the next file. I just did the typical setup, and needed the following files:
browser.xpi
core.xpi
flash.xpi
mail.xpi
nim.xpi
psm.xpi
spellchecker.xpi
When you get the correct files, the setup program then will not attempt to download them, but will just go ahead and so the install. Oh, I'd assume that the
Josh
Taxes on Internet purchases are simply wrong. I certainly hope that whatever candidate is elected realizes this and places a premenant ban on them. It's great that we're helping children in schools, but the fact of the matter is that the federal government shouldn't be regulating public schools. Ammendment 10 of the US Constitution gives all rights which are not explicitly given to the federal government to the states. That means the states regulate public schools. The federal government shouldn't. History has proven that less taxes improve the economy. If and when the US economy does start to slump, a tax free Internet may just help out.
On the issue of protecting children from the Internet, I'm not too familiar with the Child Online Protection Act, but I would like to know how it will be enforced. I guess a strategy like the ones the states used against big tobbacco could an option.
This whole idea scares me though. I may not like pornography on the Internet, but no extent of government regulation is going to stop children from seeing it. Parental control and family values are the only sure answer.
As much as I don't want to say this, maybe we should elect a candidate who can be an example of moral living, of those family values. Maybe issues aren't of the utmost importance.
Josh
On ending the Cold War, let's not forget that a certain American, a president named Ronald, played just a *small* role in accomplishing that feat. A role much more important than that of Gorbachev, I'd venture to say.
Josh
Indeed, hate crimes are horrible, and those who commit them deserve punishment. Are these hate crimes infringments of freedom? Yes. Is taking away a citizens right to kill another human being an infringement of freedom? Yes. Common sense tells that in order to have order, we need to give up freedoms. Things would be nice if everyone always did the right thing, and we could live in an anarchy peaceably. However the idea that this kind of utopia could ever be possible is simply naive.
Our responsibility as US citizens is to hold these debates and to decide what freedoms we will give up to secure the safety of our fellow citizens.
Josh
I disagree totallly with Jon Katz. I happened to see BWP on Sunday at 5:25 pm. This is usually not a peak time for movie going, but the large theater I was in was nearly sold out. This, combined with all that I had heard about the film, really got my hopes up.
Boy, was I disappointed. Frankly, I think the movie was horrible. I don't want to bash the film makers, they did a great job with only $50,000. I must say that I'm no film maker myself. This movie simply didn't appeal to me.
First of, it simply wasn't scary. I saw The Haunting early, and loved it. That movie got my heart racing. BWP didn't. I know that the camera work wasn't supposed to be perfect, but it just made me sick. Lastly, I think the use of a certain four letter word was so frequent that it became obvious there was no written script. Improv is good, but too much is too much.
I have run into many people that loved the movie, and I'm happy that it has been so successful without spending millions. I just didn't like it.
Josh
I sure wich I had some moderator points. That is positively hilarious.
How about www.kde.org vs. www.gnome.org?
Or www.vim.org vs. http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs.html (is that really vi vs. Emacs?).
Anyway, that was a great post!
Josh
I'd be happy to see MS and AOL duke it out just as long as they want. Let them tear each other apart. However, this MS plan to gain control of the Internet access market could indirectly hurt Linux.
I happen to work for a small, local ISP. It is amazing how many inexperinced users choose IE over Netscape, simply because it's on their desktop. Some customers complain about our access rate (which is about $15 per month). If Windows came prepackaged with a $9.95 per month, or even free Internet access service, you'd better believe that local ISPs will be in big trouble.
If a MS-only access service becomes the norm, it will be extremely tough to get users to migrate to Linux. I can (hopefully not) forsee a time when non-proprietary ISPs will exist only in major population areas. You can bet that MS will see this as an opportunity to kill Linux. By running ISPs out of business, then only supporting Windows for Internet connections, MS will be cutting into the heart of Linux. The OS grew up, and now thrives on the Internet. Without acces in many areas, Linux could be tremendously hurt.
Don't underestimate the power of something that's free, or nearly free. I (and I'll bet many others as well) came to Linux initially because it is free.
We never had this problem with AOL, because at $20 a month, local ISPs can offer a better price. How do you under sell a free service? Linux community, beware.
Josh
I think this is an absolutely a great idea. I'm sure there were many more interesting e-mails. Is there any chance that Bruce will answer a couple of others? By the way, thanks for your insights Bruce!
Josh
How will I ever live through another trip to Cedar Point? There's the Raptor, possibly the most thrilling rollercoaster ever invented, the Mantis, which nearly made me black out, the Magnum, which is so much fun to ride on a windy day, and of course the (two) greatest wooden rollercoaster(s) ever built, the Gemini.
Let's not forget how huge the Power Tower seems now, at only *cough* 240 feet tall.
Do rollercoasters make use of computers for safety/administraion/maintenance? If so, the Millenium Force should be running Linux, or some derivative of it. I can't imagine being on the coaster when a M$ product decides to crash.
Josh
It seems to me that you are not helping make slashdot any better with that post. After reading it I can pretty much agree with you. That last line especially convinces me. Yes, that parody page didn't live up to my expectations, but if you're not willing to post at least constructive criticism, please go start your own "news for nerds" site.
As far as slashdot being dead, I have to contend that you're just plain wrong.
About midnight eastern time last night, I learned that the ATI Rage Pro LT chipset, which comes standard in the laptop I recieve from my college, is not fully supported by XFree86. I had two options, spend $150 on a commercial software from Xi Graphics, or live with console only.
After reading the devasting information, I followed a link from this page to a thread on Ask Slashdot. The first post, from theMissingLink, had a link to this page, where I found multiple ways to get XFree86 up and running on my laptop.
Those who only complain without offering solutions may be trying to kill it, but no, slashdot is not dead. It won't be dead any time soon.
"Capital letters are a good thing." -- anonymous
Sure, maybe Google will end up with a banner add or two. But who has to see them. If you really want to get work done, Lynx is the way to go.
Josh