I dunno about you, but I'd trade my blackberry for a hot backstabbing chinese girl. Seems alright to me. If she was his wife, he'd have lost everything except for 40 dollars a week in lunch money. And then it would really get bad.
Even among pirates stealing somebody else's cracks without credit is a nuking offense. These guys have truly reached the ultimate level of complete gayness in both worlds now. The least they could do is own up to it- but no, these french fruitloops just lock the forums and hope nobody can read in the future.
I don't like the ACLU- at all. Their communist roots and goals are not even close to being in line with me or this country. But they are occasionally right by accident, as it is in this case.
Monitoring/invading/eavesdropping/stalking without a warrant is pretty much what separates us from the socialist toilets, dictatorships, and European countries of the world. It is completely illegal. No matter how much the executive branch wishes the Constitution didn't exist, it does- and it is the Supreme Law of the land.
The FISA bill has no check or balance. It observes no warrant or oversight by another branch of government. It is completely illegal. It is in fact laws like the above that inspired our founders to overthrow the government, and start a new one.
Well, at this point, most of you are upset about being considered less of a person than a corporation. And you should be. After all, would you have gotten eternal immunity for hacking into 100 million peoples lives?
There is a problem with a government passing laws that knowingly obfuscate and contradict the US Constitution. That problem is that they are not our government anymore.
We are coming very close to having a revolution and overthrowing this corporately owned government. I am personally more than tired of it. It has been done before. It will be done again.
Government lust for power. That is what they do. The agreement that all states signed locks them away so they cannot do what they are now doing. Instead of adhering to the law, they ignore it at their leisure.
Domestic spying, search and seizure, all without a warrant or a care in the world. At this point it will only take a few years or so before we burn their asses to the ground.
They are not protecting the individual or their property. That is the primary goal and purpose of government. That is it. It is not to protect an amoral more of a person than a person corporation. Corporations used to exist at the behest of the community. Now, they are world-wide and above the control of governments- but not People.
In the end, I think it will fall to us to remove this lot. I'm sorry guys, but it's getting very close to R Day. Take care.
New Zealand isn't America, so their brilliant understanding of free speech may be words you can only utter to yourself for all I know. But, what I do know is that an American cannot be tried in New Zealand for an American web site. Who knows. Who cares. For some reason, this guy wanted to roll in the dirt with these kiwi idiots without thinking it through. Let's see what happens.
Maybe you folks on slashdot have a 30 second attention span, or maybe most of you just haven't been paying attention. Maybe you were born yesterday.. if that's the case, then the comments make sense.
Nasa and the UK/AU have been building ships to destroy an asteroid since 1998. Anyone recall this at all? Did you not see this on the BBC/Space.com/anything at all. Is every day a new one for you?
Why would this be do you think? Why would Nasa keep sending up ships to destroy near Earth asteroids. It's not like they have alot of money to begin with. Hmmm, is it to extract metals from nearby rocks at $100,000 per hour? No.. let's see. Do they want to starve the children in asscrackistan or baliachiland? No? Well then, let's think real freakin hard.
An asteroid is going to hit this planet you morons. They have known this for 10 years. Right before the time those 2 comedic asteroid movies mysteriously started filming redundantly.
Nasa and the government are concerned with survival. That is it. The research BS is to keep you entertained and all you foreigners waiting around like gerbils in a jar. Don't start believing in fairy tales now. Listen to the astronauts that actually worked there.
But this is just one piece of what's coming ladies. Don't worry about somebody 3000 miles away. Worry about yourself.
I think Metallicok can happily go the way of the LP and the CD.
Everyone and their mother remembers Metallica testifying before Congress- that their customers were in fact the enemy. Let's help them understand that arresting children for file-sharing/listening to music comes with a price.
Now that they finally realize that they are morons and can make more money from file sharing, they change their tune. I find that amoral on all levels.
Metallicok- you are true douchebags. I hope you choke on your dying DRM'd CD sales. Go eat a dick.
Even though you will be modded down by moderators "friendly to slashdot readers", I though I would say that I agree with you. The military manipulates military media... Wow. You don't say. Impressive deductive reasoning you dumbass.
I agree with the squeaky wheel law. I hear people shout about this, that, or the other all day and watch them as they're the first to get burned out of a job. Product does in fact come first. Security, or a sustainable product, comes second. The only time CEO's will shell out 1 million for packet shapers or firewalls are when they are failing their PCI or HIPAA audit. And barely at that. Security then is an afterthought, and always too late. You will have to get cracked wide open and then publicly humiliated in most sectors before any actual security measures are put in place. That's just life run by short-selling quick buck chasing dumbass MBA's.
Where doesn't matter for tech's, unless you are bucking for a Director or VP position. Middle management isn't high profile and doesn't need to adhere to a background in MIT. And the where in IT stops mattering after 10-15 years. I have even removed my college from my current CV entirely. It's of no use. After you've accomplished something, nobody cares what school you went to. That isn't what you're selling. So school slike Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech or MIT an the life are what I'd be aiming at. Some liberal arts colleges like Berkeley are excellent in tech too though, but you said yours wasn't so I'm assuming it's not that school.
So as far as your question goes, does it matter where you go to school. Yes, find a place that you can learn. If I had a choice between a tech oriented school and a liberal arts school, and knew that I wanted in computing/programming, then I would choose the tech school. You are paying these people to teach you so you can feed yourself. You can find women at any school. You can find liberal BS at any school. You cannot find good practical classes at any school. People who've been there done that don't grow on trees, and those are the people you NEED to learn from. It's not optional to understand reality in IT. Either it's a 1 or a 0. So find a school that can provide you with the tools to hit the ground without going splat.
One more thing. You will regret going to a pure liberal arts college after your 4 years are up. And you will regret it at your first job interview. Just a word of warning. Good luck.
I would think that Russia, China, Pakistan, and wow, just pick a country- overseeing ICANN would be pretty much insane. Even the UN in their current configuration would be prone to make entire countries disappear without much thought. While the US has made mistakes I'm sure, it's better that than an Isamic(Kill all Jews) republic or a Communist(Oh, was that called Tibet?) nation. In an insane world, the USA is the most sane option. And don't get started on how Finland, Sweden, or some other cute Eurospherian nation could do it. They have to back it with a military that can match those other countries stated above.
I wish there was a better way at this point, just to be distribute the load. But I'm not seeing it. No, I'd rather the US protect my domain names than some great firewall of China derivative.
7 million isn't alot for a datacenter with a supercomputer housing a novel architecture. They'll need infiniband or gig fiber, and other high end equipment. That in itself will take 2 million at least. I dunno. Maybe they'll do a low-rent google and call it unique.
If a muslim is educated, you will notice that they shy away from half of what they are supposed to believe in. If you wait long enough, eventually they either become Christian and realize how fucked up they are- or they become agnostic, and forget the whole thing. But most of the people in the world are stupid, and that includes muslims. Many of which haven't discovered jack shit since their inception. The number zero. The end. Thank you... dumbass.
These people are the Scientologists of 800 years ago. A arab general started a religion so he could kill more Christians and Jews and take their land. He beheaded 700 Jews personally. He stuck his dick and a 9 year old girl and watched her bleed. And he killed all those who opposed him, like any good Klingon- including his family. He made the sick lame, and the lame blind. He made the sand-niggers the dumbest motherfuckers on Earth, just as they are now. Muslims are not from Jersusalem. The Jews are. Yet the muslims own it. Bethlehem is also owned by Muslims, yet Jesus was born there. Why is this? Because they are fucking Nazis that need to be killed. It's that simple.
In short, there's no live and let live with roaches. God will not violate free will. But these scumbags think they can impose this on others. Muslims are the enemy of all humanity. I'm hoping to join the new Crusade soon so I can burn their countries to ash. Thank you for your time. Have a nice day.
I think this is the stupidest big brother idea I've ever heard. If you can detect gamma, it's already too late. And they shield nuclear material. Even monkeys know rad's kill. Wow. Homey needs to grep some common sense.
The World Bank and IMF loan these countries money, which is then paid out to contractors specified by the WTO. These contractors then give a piece to local officials and do nothing. Where you now have a 3rd world country with a 4 Billion dollar loan at 30% with nothing to show for it. Which means that they borrow another 4 Billion to actually do the work they paid for the first time, and the cycle continues. Unless Bill Gates controls the world bank, he's going to have to find another hobby. You can't save the poor on this planet. The rich own them.
If ICANN wants to be free of regulation, they are fooling themselves. The UN is the touchstone of "unregulated" organizations, and look at how corrupt and pointless that turned out. China/Iran heading the human rights commission. WTF. ICANN will have a master. They just need plausible deniability as to who pulls the strings. The US can arrange that. Russia can arrange that. China can arrange that. And Koffi Annan and his 2 Billion Dollar confiscating son can arrange that. The ICANN is currently in the best position that they can be in, considering the alternatives.
What would be best is that a new organization is founded that ICANN hands the reigns to. This organization would have no direct ties to the USA or any country. But on the back end, it would be US controlled. The only way the US will let Vladimir Putin make a country disappear is by bombing them out of existence. They have to go through the US to get their domain deleted, which is damned inconvenient I know, but too bad.
The US is the check and balance to a world of complete fuckups. Europeans have their delusions of military adequacy, when Russia and China could wipe them out in a week. The 3rd world countries use machetes to elect a President. This is a world-wide infrastructure concern. Show me a group, state, country, or union that is more stable and fair than the USA, and I'd be interested in hearing it. Whichever one of you can defend the infrastructure of the internet against the likes of China/Russia, be my guest. But you're all piss and vinegar. And if China/Russia starting their own internet naming would happen even if they had control. So don't get your panties in a bunch. That was their thought from the beginning. ICANN is just to stupid to understand this. ICANN should be scrapped and remade without the obvious US control- but that is it.
Anyone else getting a kick watching Mac people try to upgrade an OS? hehe.. Like watching a fish out of water. Apple should just have you send your computers back to them when there's a package upgrade. It would save all of us from dealing with your "Globe not spinning" debugging.
If Bush were censoring anything on the internet, you retards wouldn't be posting this now. Pull your head out of your ass. You still have Governor's in your state, where in Russia they just up and fucking vanished.
Water's wet, the skies blue, and Putin is a commi piece of shit. And how that affects you clueless democrybabies is that they are arming non-Demoractic states with nuclear weapons.
The server was flooded when I first found out about the album so I downloaded aka "pirated" it elsewhere.
The 10 hours later, when the thing wasn't getting slammed I bought it for the same price as you'd pay on itunes. You can't steal information, and in this case especially. You either have it or you don't. So, make it convenient with ample bandwidth, and other venues won't be easier to use.
I called resource capitalism. Information brokers should understand that in a free market you compete with others. While it's true more than 2x the people pirated the album, it's also true that these same people purchased it. And one of those people is me.
The next logical step would be for the RIAA to sue the electrical companies, and then of course, the air that allows pirates to breathe. This insanity has got to stop.
Even if it's expensive now, it doesn't matter. Prices fall, but the technology solves that last problem for modern computers. The hard drive is no longer the bottleneck with this cards. They'll start selling in 2008 at 30/gig. So $2400 for 80GB's. That's the techie skim market they're looking at hitting, and not the server market. I'm sure at the middle of 2008 their prices will become more sane. 2 Mirrored SAS drives on your hp linux server may reach a grand on a bad day. Not a long way off really. I think this tech is very smart/helpful.
You made a good post and some good points about what you think is true. You are wrong on all but one point. In reality, being intelligent doesn't mean you have no common sense. The two are not mutually exclusive in highly functioning successful or soon to be successful people. In fact, they can't be. You cannot get anywhere in life without common sense. You may make it past the first job interview, but after the first month on the job the manager will start trying to find a way to cut you loose.
There is nothing wrong with generalizing. There are patterns in all things. A pattern is made up of details. Details are made up structure. Structure is made, in nature, by the most stable configuration. Being broad scoped about a group of gazelle or people or plants or planets is possible because it's true. Don't be a wimp about it.
As has been said by other folks here, there are no economic ties for Libertarians. There are intellectual ties though. You cannot be an idiot and be a Libertarian. The two are mutually exclusive. You have to know your past and present to understand what our founders, like Thomas Jefferson, found out in personal experience and blood.
Economies that are open, where the fittest survive, cannot be destroyed. It is the most efficient and stable form of exchange. Economies that are founded on favoritism and giving to the poor or rich or people with blond hair, will fail. Economies that are stable are essential to the mystical and holy group that you call society. Societies have no rights. Societies have no privileges. Societies are not the foundation of the individual. Society is an effect to the cause of the individual. Communism, Nazism, Islamicism, Dictatorships, Democracies, etc. are all forms of society. The difference between all of these societies are defined by what Rights of the individual are validated and which are not. The Right to speech, representative government, and ownership of property are what separates all of the above.
Government is not society. Government is a method to mediate disputes between individuals, to print a common currency, and to uphold the Rights of the individual. Laws concerning government are made to grant them the privilege of acting on that behalf. Laws are made to contain governments, not enable them in all things but what is in law. To understand why this is, you can see the founding of the United States as a quick clue. And you can read the entire history of the human race for another clue. This is natural law. Governments must be vigilantly contained or it will no longer recognize you as the human that you are- but as an object that you aren't.
It is the Right of people to be poor, rich, crippled, healthy, living, dead, stupid, intelligent. It is not the privilege of government or your mythical "society" entity to make up for those discrepancies. That is also natural law. You cannot violate it without dire consequences(see social security/medicare/welfare). It is up to the individual to give what he can to help those less fortunate. That is the most efficient way of distributing wealth. Let people care for each other- because people will when given the chance. People are good. People can be trusted to do the right thing in general. People can give the poor 100% of the money that they wish to. Government can be trusted to give the poor half of the 100% you gave the government.
Libertarianism is literally a liberal understanding politically speaking. It is the opposite of the US political system at this point in history. A century ago, the liberals were the Republicans and the Democrats were the conservatives. They have since changed what they are through media. Conservatives are people that want the government to fulfill all their needs and desires(aka Federalism). Liberals want people to do as they will and keep government confined to the laws in the agreed upon Constitution(aka a Republic). In reality, today, the Republicans are the Liberals and the Democrats are the Conserv
The first issue is that he is asking you to do his job. So you can add him to your workload equation. Secondly, the entire company's productivity is that productivity of an admin. So if your company makes 500 million a year, divide that number by the number of admin's running that infrastructure and keeping the pace. If the phb has an issue with that calculation, have every admin leave for 3 months and see how much the company makes for that quarter.
Why is this ranked as flamebait? The chinamen says that America sold the equipment to monitor their citizens(Verichip). Why isn't he upset that China is killing every child after the first one? They are communist. He should be happy if the the government can track his every move and exterminate his children. Blaming America because they won't fight for their rights as human beings isn't America's fault. They are cattle. Let them burn.
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I dunno about you, but I'd trade my blackberry for a hot backstabbing chinese girl. Seems alright to me. If she was his wife, he'd have lost everything except for 40 dollars a week in lunch money. And then it would really get bad.
Even among pirates stealing somebody else's cracks without credit is a nuking offense. These guys have truly reached the ultimate level of complete gayness in both worlds now. The least they could do is own up to it- but no, these french fruitloops just lock the forums and hope nobody can read in the future.
I don't like the ACLU- at all. Their communist roots and goals are not even close to being in line with me or this country. But they are occasionally right by accident, as it is in this case.
Monitoring/invading/eavesdropping/stalking without a warrant is pretty much what separates us from the socialist toilets, dictatorships, and European countries of the world. It is completely illegal. No matter how much the executive branch wishes the Constitution didn't exist, it does- and it is the Supreme Law of the land.
The FISA bill has no check or balance. It observes no warrant or oversight by another branch of government. It is completely illegal. It is in fact laws like the above that inspired our founders to overthrow the government, and start a new one.
Well, at this point, most of you are upset about being considered less of a person than a corporation. And you should be. After all, would you have gotten eternal immunity for hacking into 100 million peoples lives?
There is a problem with a government passing laws that knowingly obfuscate and contradict the US Constitution. That problem is that they are not our government anymore.
We are coming very close to having a revolution and overthrowing this corporately owned government. I am personally more than tired of it. It has been done before. It will be done again.
Government lust for power. That is what they do. The agreement that all states signed locks them away so they cannot do what they are now doing. Instead of adhering to the law, they ignore it at their leisure.
Domestic spying, search and seizure, all without a warrant or a care in the world. At this point it will only take a few years or so before we burn their asses to the ground.
They are not protecting the individual or their property. That is the primary goal and purpose of government. That is it. It is not to protect an amoral more of a person than a person corporation. Corporations used to exist at the behest of the community. Now, they are world-wide and above the control of governments- but not People.
In the end, I think it will fall to us to remove this lot. I'm sorry guys, but it's getting very close to R Day. Take care.
New Zealand isn't America, so their brilliant understanding of free speech may be words you can only utter to yourself for all I know. But, what I do know is that an American cannot be tried in New Zealand for an American web site. Who knows. Who cares. For some reason, this guy wanted to roll in the dirt with these kiwi idiots without thinking it through. Let's see what happens.
This is so blatantly illegal and unconstitutional for Verizon. I can't wait to sue their asses into bankruptcy. This is gonna be fun.
Maybe you folks on slashdot have a 30 second attention span, or maybe most of you just haven't been paying attention. Maybe you were born yesterday.. if that's the case, then the comments make sense.
Nasa and the UK/AU have been building ships to destroy an asteroid since 1998. Anyone recall this at all? Did you not see this on the BBC/Space.com/anything at all. Is every day a new one for you?
Why would this be do you think? Why would Nasa keep sending up ships to destroy near Earth asteroids. It's not like they have alot of money to begin with. Hmmm, is it to extract metals from nearby rocks at $100,000 per hour? No.. let's see. Do they want to starve the children in asscrackistan or baliachiland? No? Well then, let's think real freakin hard.
An asteroid is going to hit this planet you morons. They have known this for 10 years. Right before the time those 2 comedic asteroid movies mysteriously started filming redundantly.
Nasa and the government are concerned with survival. That is it. The research BS is to keep you entertained and all you foreigners waiting around like gerbils in a jar. Don't start believing in fairy tales now. Listen to the astronauts that actually worked there.
But this is just one piece of what's coming ladies. Don't worry about somebody 3000 miles away. Worry about yourself.
I think Metallicok can happily go the way of the LP and the CD.
Everyone and their mother remembers Metallica testifying before Congress- that their customers were in fact the enemy. Let's help them understand that arresting children for file-sharing/listening to music comes with a price.
Now that they finally realize that they are morons and can make more money from file sharing, they change their tune. I find that amoral on all levels.
Metallicok- you are true douchebags. I hope you choke on your dying DRM'd CD sales. Go eat a dick.
Even though you will be modded down by moderators "friendly to slashdot readers", I though I would say that I agree with you. The military manipulates military media... Wow. You don't say. Impressive deductive reasoning you dumbass.
I agree with the squeaky wheel law. I hear people shout about this, that, or the other all day and watch them as they're the first to get burned out of a job. Product does in fact come first. Security, or a sustainable product, comes second. The only time CEO's will shell out 1 million for packet shapers or firewalls are when they are failing their PCI or HIPAA audit. And barely at that. Security then is an afterthought, and always too late. You will have to get cracked wide open and then publicly humiliated in most sectors before any actual security measures are put in place. That's just life run by short-selling quick buck chasing dumbass MBA's.
Where doesn't matter for tech's, unless you are bucking for a Director or VP position. Middle management isn't high profile and doesn't need to adhere to a background in MIT. And the where in IT stops mattering after 10-15 years. I have even removed my college from my current CV entirely. It's of no use. After you've accomplished something, nobody cares what school you went to. That isn't what you're selling. So school slike Virginia Tech or Georgia Tech or MIT an the life are what I'd be aiming at. Some liberal arts colleges like Berkeley are excellent in tech too though, but you said yours wasn't so I'm assuming it's not that school.
So as far as your question goes, does it matter where you go to school. Yes, find a place that you can learn. If I had a choice between a tech oriented school and a liberal arts school, and knew that I wanted in computing/programming, then I would choose the tech school. You are paying these people to teach you so you can feed yourself. You can find women at any school. You can find liberal BS at any school. You cannot find good practical classes at any school. People who've been there done that don't grow on trees, and those are the people you NEED to learn from. It's not optional to understand reality in IT. Either it's a 1 or a 0. So find a school that can provide you with the tools to hit the ground without going splat.
One more thing. You will regret going to a pure liberal arts college after your 4 years are up. And you will regret it at your first job interview. Just a word of warning. Good luck.
I would think that Russia, China, Pakistan, and wow, just pick a country- overseeing ICANN would be pretty much insane. Even the UN in their current configuration would be prone to make entire countries disappear without much thought. While the US has made mistakes I'm sure, it's better that than an Isamic(Kill all Jews) republic or a Communist(Oh, was that called Tibet?) nation. In an insane world, the USA is the most sane option. And don't get started on how Finland, Sweden, or some other cute Eurospherian nation could do it. They have to back it with a military that can match those other countries stated above.
I wish there was a better way at this point, just to be distribute the load. But I'm not seeing it. No, I'd rather the US protect my domain names than some great firewall of China derivative.
7 million isn't alot for a datacenter with a supercomputer housing a novel architecture. They'll need infiniband or gig fiber, and other high end equipment. That in itself will take 2 million at least. I dunno. Maybe they'll do a low-rent google and call it unique.
If a muslim is educated, you will notice that they shy away from half of what they are supposed to believe in. If you wait long enough, eventually they either become Christian and realize how fucked up they are- or they become agnostic, and forget the whole thing. But most of the people in the world are stupid, and that includes muslims. Many of which haven't discovered jack shit since their inception. The number zero. The end. Thank you ... dumbass.
These people are the Scientologists of 800 years ago. A arab general started a religion so he could kill more Christians and Jews and take their land. He beheaded 700 Jews personally. He stuck his dick and a 9 year old girl and watched her bleed. And he killed all those who opposed him, like any good Klingon- including his family. He made the sick lame, and the lame blind. He made the sand-niggers the dumbest motherfuckers on Earth, just as they are now. Muslims are not from Jersusalem. The Jews are. Yet the muslims own it. Bethlehem is also owned by Muslims, yet Jesus was born there. Why is this? Because they are fucking Nazis that need to be killed. It's that simple.
In short, there's no live and let live with roaches. God will not violate free will. But these scumbags think they can impose this on others. Muslims are the enemy of all humanity. I'm hoping to join the new Crusade soon so I can burn their countries to ash. Thank you for your time. Have a nice day.
I think this is the stupidest big brother idea I've ever heard. If you can detect gamma, it's already too late. And they shield nuclear material. Even monkeys know rad's kill. Wow. Homey needs to grep some common sense.
The World Bank and IMF loan these countries money, which is then paid out to contractors specified by the WTO. These contractors then give a piece to local officials and do nothing. Where you now have a 3rd world country with a 4 Billion dollar loan at 30% with nothing to show for it. Which means that they borrow another 4 Billion to actually do the work they paid for the first time, and the cycle continues. Unless Bill Gates controls the world bank, he's going to have to find another hobby. You can't save the poor on this planet. The rich own them.
If ICANN wants to be free of regulation, they are fooling themselves. The UN is the touchstone of "unregulated" organizations, and look at how corrupt and pointless that turned out. China/Iran heading the human rights commission. WTF. ICANN will have a master. They just need plausible deniability as to who pulls the strings. The US can arrange that. Russia can arrange that. China can arrange that. And Koffi Annan and his 2 Billion Dollar confiscating son can arrange that. The ICANN is currently in the best position that they can be in, considering the alternatives.
What would be best is that a new organization is founded that ICANN hands the reigns to. This organization would have no direct ties to the USA or any country. But on the back end, it would be US controlled. The only way the US will let Vladimir Putin make a country disappear is by bombing them out of existence. They have to go through the US to get their domain deleted, which is damned inconvenient I know, but too bad.
The US is the check and balance to a world of complete fuckups. Europeans have their delusions of military adequacy, when Russia and China could wipe them out in a week. The 3rd world countries use machetes to elect a President. This is a world-wide infrastructure concern. Show me a group, state, country, or union that is more stable and fair than the USA, and I'd be interested in hearing it. Whichever one of you can defend the infrastructure of the internet against the likes of China/Russia, be my guest. But you're all piss and vinegar. And if China/Russia starting their own internet naming would happen even if they had control. So don't get your panties in a bunch. That was their thought from the beginning. ICANN is just to stupid to understand this. ICANN should be scrapped and remade without the obvious US control- but that is it.
Anyone else getting a kick watching Mac people try to upgrade an OS? hehe.. Like watching a fish out of water. Apple should just have you send your computers back to them when there's a package upgrade. It would save all of us from dealing with your "Globe not spinning" debugging.
If Bush were censoring anything on the internet, you retards wouldn't be posting this now. Pull your head out of your ass. You still have Governor's in your state, where in Russia they just up and fucking vanished.
Water's wet, the skies blue, and Putin is a commi piece of shit. And how that affects you clueless democrybabies is that they are arming non-Demoractic states with nuclear weapons.
The server was flooded when I first found out about the album so I downloaded aka "pirated" it elsewhere.
The 10 hours later, when the thing wasn't getting slammed I bought it for the same price as you'd pay on itunes. You can't steal information, and in this case especially. You either have it or you don't. So, make it convenient with ample bandwidth, and other venues won't be easier to use.
I called resource capitalism. Information brokers should understand that in a free market you compete with others. While it's true more than 2x the people pirated the album, it's also true that these same people purchased it. And one of those people is me.
The next logical step would be for the RIAA to sue the electrical companies, and then of course, the air that allows pirates to breathe. This insanity has got to stop.
Even if it's expensive now, it doesn't matter. Prices fall, but the technology solves that last problem for modern computers. The hard drive is no longer the bottleneck with this cards. They'll start selling in 2008 at 30/gig. So $2400 for 80GB's. That's the techie skim market they're looking at hitting, and not the server market. I'm sure at the middle of 2008 their prices will become more sane. 2 Mirrored SAS drives on your hp linux server may reach a grand on a bad day. Not a long way off really. I think this tech is very smart/helpful.
You made a good post and some good points about what you think is true. You are wrong on all but one point. In reality, being intelligent doesn't mean you have no common sense. The two are not mutually exclusive in highly functioning successful or soon to be successful people. In fact, they can't be. You cannot get anywhere in life without common sense. You may make it past the first job interview, but after the first month on the job the manager will start trying to find a way to cut you loose.
There is nothing wrong with generalizing. There are patterns in all things. A pattern is made up of details. Details are made up structure. Structure is made, in nature, by the most stable configuration. Being broad scoped about a group of gazelle or people or plants or planets is possible because it's true. Don't be a wimp about it.
As has been said by other folks here, there are no economic ties for Libertarians. There are intellectual ties though. You cannot be an idiot and be a Libertarian. The two are mutually exclusive. You have to know your past and present to understand what our founders, like Thomas Jefferson, found out in personal experience and blood.
Economies that are open, where the fittest survive, cannot be destroyed. It is the most efficient and stable form of exchange. Economies that are founded on favoritism and giving to the poor or rich or people with blond hair, will fail. Economies that are stable are essential to the mystical and holy group that you call society. Societies have no rights. Societies have no privileges. Societies are not the foundation of the individual. Society is an effect to the cause of the individual. Communism, Nazism, Islamicism, Dictatorships, Democracies, etc. are all forms of society. The difference between all of these societies are defined by what Rights of the individual are validated and which are not. The Right to speech, representative government, and ownership of property are what separates all of the above.
Government is not society. Government is a method to mediate disputes between individuals, to print a common currency, and to uphold the Rights of the individual. Laws concerning government are made to grant them the privilege of acting on that behalf. Laws are made to contain governments, not enable them in all things but what is in law. To understand why this is, you can see the founding of the United States as a quick clue. And you can read the entire history of the human race for another clue. This is natural law. Governments must be vigilantly contained or it will no longer recognize you as the human that you are- but as an object that you aren't.
It is the Right of people to be poor, rich, crippled, healthy, living, dead, stupid, intelligent. It is not the privilege of government or your mythical "society" entity to make up for those discrepancies. That is also natural law. You cannot violate it without dire consequences(see social security/medicare/welfare). It is up to the individual to give what he can to help those less fortunate. That is the most efficient way of distributing wealth. Let people care for each other- because people will when given the chance. People are good. People can be trusted to do the right thing in general. People can give the poor 100% of the money that they wish to. Government can be trusted to give the poor half of the 100% you gave the government.
Libertarianism is literally a liberal understanding politically speaking. It is the opposite of the US political system at this point in history. A century ago, the liberals were the Republicans and the Democrats were the conservatives. They have since changed what they are through media. Conservatives are people that want the government to fulfill all their needs and desires(aka Federalism). Liberals want people to do as they will and keep government confined to the laws in the agreed upon Constitution(aka a Republic). In reality, today, the Republicans are the Liberals and the Democrats are the Conserv
The first issue is that he is asking you to do his job. So you can add him to your workload equation. Secondly, the entire company's productivity is that productivity of an admin. So if your company makes 500 million a year, divide that number by the number of admin's running that infrastructure and keeping the pace. If the phb has an issue with that calculation, have every admin leave for 3 months and see how much the company makes for that quarter.
Why is this ranked as flamebait? The chinamen says that America sold the equipment to monitor their citizens(Verichip). Why isn't he upset that China is killing every child after the first one? They are communist. He should be happy if the the government can track his every move and exterminate his children. Blaming America because they won't fight for their rights as human beings isn't America's fault. They are cattle. Let them burn.