There's a great book about this, focusing on the NASA admin. who had to make it happen, both down the chain and maintaining Congress's attention up the chain. I've read it and highly recommend it:
I agree with you mainly--it seems nearly impossible to isolate any large agent in this interconnected economy--but you should remember that the main purpose of boycotts nowadays is to draw attention to the cause, both from the offending company and from the public. This can still be accomplished without following the dollars to every terminus. In fact, more focus on a particular product or set of products may serve to draw attention, at least in the case of the public, better than a broader campaign. Gandhi wasn't about to put the British occupiers out of business, and neither could he exist without interacting with them at some level, but he still made powerful statements by spinning his own cloth and making his own salt.
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Re:doctors won't really help in these cases either
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Have you considered the Peace Corps?
The only problem with that is that you're officially under the thumb of the U.S. State Department, which can lead to some real ethical frustrations.
To appeal to a wider audience lets start having the option of having circular, triangular, morphing windows.
Yeah, for all of those people with circular, triangular, morphing monitors. Seriously, if that's what you want, just drop some acid or something--probably improves the color schemes as well.:)
If the numbering isn't broke don't try to break it.
True. I would add that if the stable kernel isn't broke, don't try to break it, even though that's what Linus has come dangerously close to doing--he should have started 2.5 months ago (or perhaps even better, delayed 2.4 until he was happy enough with it not to mess with it so much). In the end, no real harm done, but silly nonetheless. Debian looks pretty smart lately for being late adopters of new kernels.
(Push a Republican far enough, he's a Libertarian.)
No, actually a Republican is what you get if you push a Libertarian far enough. Push a Republican far enough, and you get a militia member (or worse, a Fox News commentator).
only time you need to reboot is if you upgrade your kernel. With FreeBSD, you usually need to reboot after a non-trivial upgrade, since userspace and kernel are tightly coupled.
Incorrect. I'm not sure why you would update userspace without updating the kernel in the first place, but such an update would not require a reboot.
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You're correct about some things. The airline bailout is a glaring recent example of Big Business getting money for nothing from taxpayers. (Note that the airlines still laid off thousands of workers for whom aid would have been, in the words of House Majority Leader Dick Armey, "not . . . commensurate with the American spirit.")
Big Business will always fail with no government intervention, eventually. 10 smaller companies in a co-op situation will always do better in the long run if they have the competitive edge and no sanctions to hurt them or subsidies to help the Big Business competition.
You assume many things here that don't fit real situations, such as no barriers to entry in the market. Generally it's not difficult for a monopoly or oligopoly to keep prices low enough to take away the incentive of potential competitors while still getting significant "monopoly rents" from consumers paying more than would be Pareto efficient. So your coop would not come into existence. And not to point out the obvious, but MS didn't need government intervention to become what they are, even if the Bush administration would now like to help them stay what they are.
You also seem to believe that (a) Government is controlled by Big Business interests and (b) those interests are against free trade. It's not hard to agree with (a) (if you ever get the chance, look at the agenda for a GOP or Democratic National Convention!), although corporations are certainly not the only ones. Regarding (b), while you will find industries such as steel and agriculture that want protectionism, most corporations profit more from free trade as it is being implemented.
Just like everything else, there are good ways to approach globalization and bad ways, and unfortunately, the way the world is doing it now disregards the poor, the environment, democracy, and even sound economic theory. Read what recent economics Nobel Prize winner and former World Bank president Joseph Stiglitz had to say to The Observer about the neo-imperialist policies of the IMF, World Bank, and (of course) the WTO. And think before you mod up posts like the parent post!
With reproduction added to the mix, it can be argued that 3 of 4 of these benchmarks are covered. Whose to say that the fourth, evolution, wouldn't follow naturally?
Using that logic, FreeBSD should be developing itself by now, since it's been able to replicate itself from source for years (make world).:-)
While I admit that it seems bizarre, it supports my theory that after nearly all of us are wiped out the upcoming terrible nuclear war, the world will be rebuilt using the information stored in Google's cache. And what could be more important to that world than Google itself?
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True dat. Particularly with this issue, there's no one who doesn't have an axe to grind. Read what The Economist has to say, since they do provide more information than [insert major news souce here], and then check out William Greider's piece in The Nation. What you shouldn't ignore is that there are major points of conflict between democracy and what is called globalization. How these conflicts are resolved affects us all and thus deserves our careful thought.
Fox news has more hot news chicks than all the other news networks combined.
Well, it's about time someone had something nice to say about FOX News! I really can't comment myself--in times like these, Democracy Now! is where I turn my ear. But maybe we can chalk that up to a difference in target demographics. Even if she were on TV rather than radio, I doubt of her listeners would be encouraged to think that way about Amy Goodman.
Personally, i find all these "desktop environments" are too heavy for older computers...
You said you would prefer a lightweight window manager anyway, a sentiment I think I second, but if anyone reading this thinks "Oh drat, I wanted to run KDE on my slow box," try KDE on top of Blackbox. Rumor has it performance is faster than with the default kwin on such machines.
Asbestos is good for things like paper fires which burn at 400-500 degrees. At the temprature the main fire was buring at asbestos, steel, and concret melts and vaporize.
Exactly, and that's why the real R&D money should be going towards making paper-based jet fuel a reality. I, for one, have already donated 10 of my best reams to my local Red Cross chapter. Get involved and make a difference!
I've spent the last couple of days trying to build snapshot 638 (it definitely is not a build that you can just kick off). I'd just like to know which is the most recent source.
Check out the OpenOffice community page, especially the diagram showing builds and releases of OO and SO. If I'm reading it right, this beta should be based on the same code that went into OO build 638c, branched from the main source around a month ago.
By the way, I know this has no relevance to someone who is actually compiling the code on *nix, but build 638 has been pretty nifty for me on Win98.
Yeah, but that's the other license, not the BSD license he wrote it under. Of course, knowing Sauron, it's probably some sort of trick to win our trust until he's powerful enough to destroy us.
The people who think in terms of sales and users as the driving force behind free software are very interested in killing off the BSD family.
Interesting point. Think of well-known free *NIX distributions. Now think of who doesn't fit into the above category (hint: publicly traded companies do, or they cease to exist). Off the top of my head, here's my list (in no particular order):
Debian
Slackware
FreeBSD
NetBSD
OpenBSD
The irony for the majority of the above projects is that, despite the dangerous fact that they use that "not-RMS's-favorite(TM)" license, they and their loved ones have not (yet) had terrible things happen to them at the hands of bloodthirsty capitalists.
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There's a great book about this, focusing on the NASA admin. who had to make it happen, both down the chain and maintaining Congress's attention up the chain. I've read it and highly recommend it:
http://www.amazon.com/Powering-Apollo-James-Webb-History/dp/0801862051
I agree with you mainly--it seems nearly impossible to isolate any large agent in this interconnected economy--but you should remember that the main purpose of boycotts nowadays is to draw attention to the cause, both from the offending company and from the public. This can still be accomplished without following the dollars to every terminus. In fact, more focus on a particular product or set of products may serve to draw attention, at least in the case of the public, better than a broader campaign. Gandhi wasn't about to put the British occupiers out of business, and neither could he exist without interacting with them at some level, but he still made powerful statements by spinning his own cloth and making his own salt.
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Have you considered the Peace Corps?
The only problem with that is that you're officially under the thumb of the U.S. State Department, which can lead to some real ethical frustrations.
LOL. You have to wonder how the people whose attention spans aren't up to ST:TMP standards could ever sit through 2001
To appeal to a wider audience lets start having the option of having circular, triangular, morphing windows.
Yeah, for all of those people with circular, triangular, morphing monitors. Seriously, if that's what you want, just drop some acid or something--probably improves the color schemes as well. :)
If the numbering isn't broke don't try to break it.
True. I would add that if the stable kernel isn't broke, don't try to break it, even though that's what Linus has come dangerously close to doing--he should have started 2.5 months ago (or perhaps even better, delayed 2.4 until he was happy enough with it not to mess with it so much). In the end, no real harm done, but silly nonetheless. Debian looks pretty smart lately for being late adopters of new kernels.
(Push a Republican far enough, he's a Libertarian.)
No, actually a Republican is what you get if you push a Libertarian far enough. Push a Republican far enough, and you get a militia member (or worse, a Fox News commentator).
Please karmawhore with your own material if you have to.
Amen. And I didn't think it was a very good analogy the first time I read it, either.
only time you need to reboot is if you upgrade your kernel. With FreeBSD, you usually need to reboot after a non-trivial upgrade, since userspace and kernel are tightly coupled.
Incorrect. I'm not sure why you would update userspace without updating the kernel in the first place, but such an update would not require a reboot.
You're correct about some things. The airline bailout is a glaring recent example of Big Business getting money for nothing from taxpayers. (Note that the airlines still laid off thousands of workers for whom aid would have been, in the words of House Majority Leader Dick Armey, "not . . . commensurate with the American spirit.")
Big Business will always fail with no government intervention, eventually. 10 smaller companies in a co-op situation will always do better in the long run if they have the competitive edge and no sanctions to hurt them or subsidies to help the Big Business competition.
You assume many things here that don't fit real situations, such as no barriers to entry in the market. Generally it's not difficult for a monopoly or oligopoly to keep prices low enough to take away the incentive of potential competitors while still getting significant "monopoly rents" from consumers paying more than would be Pareto efficient. So your coop would not come into existence. And not to point out the obvious, but MS didn't need government intervention to become what they are, even if the Bush administration would now like to help them stay what they are.
You also seem to believe that (a) Government is controlled by Big Business interests and (b) those interests are against free trade. It's not hard to agree with (a) (if you ever get the chance, look at the agenda for a GOP or Democratic National Convention!), although corporations are certainly not the only ones. Regarding (b), while you will find industries such as steel and agriculture that want protectionism, most corporations profit more from free trade as it is being implemented.
Just like everything else, there are good ways to approach globalization and bad ways, and unfortunately, the way the world is doing it now disregards the poor, the environment, democracy, and even sound economic theory. Read what recent economics Nobel Prize winner and former World Bank president Joseph Stiglitz had to say to The Observer about the neo-imperialist policies of the IMF, World Bank, and (of course) the WTO. And think before you mod up posts like the parent post!
With reproduction added to the mix, it can be argued that 3 of 4 of these benchmarks are covered. Whose to say that the fourth, evolution, wouldn't follow naturally?
Using that logic, FreeBSD should be developing itself by now, since it's been able to replicate itself from source for years (make world). :-)
While I admit that it seems bizarre, it supports my theory that after nearly all of us are wiped out the upcoming terrible nuclear war, the world will be rebuilt using the information stored in Google's cache. And what could be more important to that world than Google itself?
Oh yeah, the link: The Right and US Trade Law: Invalidating the 20th Century
True dat. Particularly with this issue, there's no one who doesn't have an axe to grind. Read what The Economist has to say, since they do provide more information than [insert major news souce here], and then check out William Greider's piece in The Nation. What you shouldn't ignore is that there are major points of conflict between democracy and what is called globalization. How these conflicts are resolved affects us all and thus deserves our careful thought.
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Well, that explains my self-esteem problem.
Nothing wrong with links, but you simply have to try w3m. It's also a pager.
Fox news has more hot news chicks than all the other news networks combined.
Well, it's about time someone had something nice to say about FOX News! I really can't comment myself--in times like these, Democracy Now! is where I turn my ear. But maybe we can chalk that up to a difference in target demographics. Even if she were on TV rather than radio, I doubt of her listeners would be encouraged to think that way about Amy Goodman.
Personally, i find all these "desktop environments" are too heavy for older computers...
You said you would prefer a lightweight window manager anyway, a sentiment I think I second, but if anyone reading this thinks "Oh drat, I wanted to run KDE on my slow box," try KDE on top of Blackbox. Rumor has it performance is faster than with the default kwin on such machines.
Asbestos is good for things like paper fires which burn at 400-500 degrees. At the temprature the main fire was buring at asbestos, steel, and concret melts and vaporize.
Exactly, and that's why the real R&D money should be going towards making paper-based jet fuel a reality. I, for one, have already donated 10 of my best reams to my local Red Cross chapter. Get involved and make a difference!
I've spent the last couple of days trying to build snapshot 638 (it definitely is not a build that you can just kick off). I'd just like to know which is the most recent source.
Check out the OpenOffice community page, especially the diagram showing builds and releases of OO and SO. If I'm reading it right, this beta should be based on the same code that went into OO build 638c, branched from the main source around a month ago.
By the way, I know this has no relevance to someone who is actually compiling the code on *nix, but build 638 has been pretty nifty for me on Win98.
Read my post again. Now is it pro-BSD or anti-BSD? I think this may help.
One license to rule them all, eh?
Yeah, but that's the other license, not the BSD license he wrote it under. Of course, knowing Sauron, it's probably some sort of trick to win our trust until he's powerful enough to destroy us.
The people who think in terms of sales and users as the driving force behind free software are very interested in killing off the BSD family.
Interesting point. Think of well-known free *NIX distributions. Now think of who doesn't fit into the above category (hint: publicly traded companies do, or they cease to exist). Off the top of my head, here's my list (in no particular order):
The irony for the majority of the above projects is that, despite the dangerous fact that they use that "not-RMS's-favorite(TM)" license, they and their loved ones have not (yet) had terrible things happen to them at the hands of bloodthirsty capitalists.
Point taken, to some extent, but for FreeBSD, there's pkg_update .
From FreeBSD-4.3 release notes:
When sound modules are built, one can now load all the drivers and infrastructure by "kldload snd".
They are all klds (modules) now. Good news for you, perhaps?