Also remember (and yes, I DO have an anti-mormon bias after being under their thumb for so long) that the Mormon "church" all but tells its members outright that to vote Democratic is a sin. Recall that state Republicans have actually stated this directly (Rep Jim Hansen, the antienvironment superMo): that voting Democratic is essentially the same as voting against the LDS...and the Mo's, by and large, go along with this! They accept it as they accept so much else. They will NOT vote in a Democrat to replace Hatch.
Actually, there is one way and one way only that such could happen, but it means wrecking Utah: continued huge growth (and sprawl and pollution and tension on the poor water situation) with an influx of "outsiders" from California and the like, most of whom (that arrive) are Democrats or progressives of various stripes. Salt Lake City, the only Democratic stronghold, such as it is, in the entire state would need to grow, grow, grow until the local population of progressives was enough to outpace the too-high birthrate of the Mo's (highest birthrate in the country goes to Mo's and Utah due to their goofy belief system). THEN they might manage to actually put a Democrat or even Independent in the seat. But before that happened, expect some redistricting to take place to ensure a large rural representation in the Salt Lake district to dilute the progressives out with VERY conservative rural Mo's.
Very steep hill to climb. The church and state are so tightly welded together in Utah that it is virtually impossible to get any Democrat into a national office seat from there because the LDS and Republicans are one and the same in Utah.
Simply put forth a non-divisive candidate that isn't a hard-right wing-nut. Simple. And the Republicans are just as "bad" as the Demos as you seem to think. Bush has gotten too many of his crazy judges through (just not the dangerous ones that hate women, hate church-state separation, etc). The Demos are doing the right thing by preventing the crazies from getting in. They are doing their job of NOT consenting. The Repubs, when in power, simply did the functional same thing as a filibuster by preventing any of Clintons picks from getting anywhere. It is the SAME thing.
Pa-leeze. Utah belongs to Mormons. Mormons love Hatch, the super-Moron, err, MORMON. They will vote for him because he is a Mormon, he believes in spirit babies (mormon bullcrap), celestial brides (mormon bullcrap), that he will get his own planet when he dies (really, this is more mormon bullcrap). Since he believes this tripe hook, line, and sinker, and helps maintain the complete mixing of church and state in Utah, he will be voted into office again. The ONLY way he could be defeated is for him to come out against the cult of Mormonism. Wont happen, thus he will be re-elected until he chooses to quit.
The best Utah can do is a Democrat mayor for Salt Lake City and a few Democratic Reps in the House from Salt Lake - the only stronghold for Democrats in that otherwise Republican (absolute 100% single party) state. It is a total waste of time for non-Republicans to vote in any Senatorial or Presidential election because it is a foregone conclusion that the state will go hard-core-right-wing-pro-church/state-blending-ant i-women's-rights Republican.
Or...how about his desire to totally destroy the judicial selection process by eliminating the ability to filibuster insane or stupid judicial choices. Of course, under Clinton, this was a fine and dandy thing to do - prevent or filibuster judicial picks, but come up with the criminal idiot Bush and a Republican Congress, and now he wants to destroy one of the most important jobs of the Senate.
Eh? If some worm/virus planted a Celine Dion song on my computer, I would prefer that the system be destroyed via the Hatch method, please. The system would be totally ruined anyway.
You could link your 2000/XP box to a linux firewall and set iptables to drop any and all traffic concerning certain M$ spyware/snooping/DRM crap. Prevent media player from sending anything to M$ to get around that snooping/IP police force nonsense they add.
Block the ports that M$ tries to use, block offensive traffic. Screw the EULA.
Nice try. If the company doesn't have a problem with it (they didn't) then it isn't a problem, isn't ripping off the company, isn't doing anything wrong.
Bleeding the company dry in legal fees doesn't really do any good. The workers of SCO are not responsible for this idiocy and they are the ones to get screwed. The CEO and board of directors are making out pretty good, cashing in on their peaking stocks as a bailout bid for themselves. IBM should sue each one of them individually, not SCO itself. They should have their ill-gotten gains removed so that in the end, they are actually in worse shape than when they started. SCO as a company can die and hopefully the employees will make out OK but it is the leadership that I wish to see crushed and anihilated.
Don't blow the M$ association out of the water just yet. Though it is perhaps unlikely that M$ schemed with SCO to get this whole thing rolling, I DO believe that M$ is simply taking tactical advantage of the situation. The looney suite by SCO presented itself, so why not through a little, tiny bit of money at a convenient FUD source to extend its weak little legs a bit more. Afterall, it can't hurt and could likely help.
Of course, M$ could end up with egg all over its face if the suite is summarily tossed out on its ass by the courts. In such a case, M$ looks stupid, SCO quietly and quickly dies a whimpering death, and the march of linux moves on, perhaps with even more force.
I just wish the pregame dilly-dallying would end and we could just get SCO and IBM in court and get the fists flying. I expect a first round knockout (by IBM against SCO) but still wish to see the fight.
Though I would love for IBM to fight this out to the end (winning, of course), the problem is it keeps the FUD flying, which is SCOs intent (as well as getting bought out). I would now simply like to see IBM buy them and outright fire the entire management staff, from CEO down - WITHOUT ANY GOLDEN PARACHUTES.
Give SCO leaders what they want, with a twist. They get bought out but they make nothing on the deal as they are left totally bereft of big money for stepping aside for new management. Hopefully, IBM would be able to find gainful employment for the software engineers, etc, who are presumably innocents caught in the madness of their leadership.
This was NOT a troll. It is fact. Stone, cold, fact. The Bush hydrogen power proposal depends almost exclusively on petroleum and big oil. That is a fact. His proposal does absolutely nothing (nada) to reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East or anywhere else. It is simply a means of perpetuating oil dependency indefinitely. Check on the facts yourself. Troll my @ss.
You are wrong on this. If you look into what Bush has actually indicated support for wrt hydrogen power, it relies almost exclusively on...OIL. That's right, the setup the Bush favors is the production of hydrogen from petroleum. He hasn't suggested ANYTHING that would in any way adversely impact his buds in the oil bi-ness. He has put forth a scheme to help keep us dependent on oil until every last drop has been pumped from the ground.
Bush's hydrogen policy isn't a positive in any sense. Not only does it require Exxon/Mobile, etc, to sustain it, it does continual damage to the environment: he gets to ensure that environmental degredation continues from oil spills and drilling in more and more wilderness areas (Yee-Haw!), ensures that the Middle East continues to figure prominantly in our foreign policy calculations (also ensures continued terrorism - a boon for homeland security and invading more countries), and it promises to damage the ozone. You can't beat that with a stick! You get to screw the people and the environment at the same time that you get to keep oil companies at the top of the food chain.
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Though it may be hard to do, if you are giving a timeline from birth to now, to keep your B-day out of it, it IS illegal for an employer/prospective employer to ask:
Your age, sex, marital status, religious affiliation, and probably a few other things I am forgetting. Only for positions in which it REALLY matters and is specifically allowed, can any questions about the above be asked.
When you apply for a position, do not give DOB, marital status, etc. It is irrelevant and illegal to ask for it. As I did say, it can be hard to disguise some information about potential age if you give a full time-line from high-school through college and it indicates a graduation date (from university) of 1990 or some such. If at all possible, avoid providing this information.
Years ago, back when the kernel was being updated nearly every other week rather than once every few months (2.0/2.2 time frame), I would always download the very latest kernel and compile that. Coincidentally, I was also learning Linux at the time, so I didn't mind spending time on stuff like that...
Same here. I used to download and build kernels up the yingyang as each new update/version/subversion came out. That was when it took a bit longer (or at least the same amount of time) to build a kernel as compared to KDE. Now the kernel builds fast and KDE takes for-freakin-ever...if you manage to meet all the dependencies... In any case, I only upgrade kernels on my personal system if security is improved, a feature that I really want (almost even need) has been added, or as in this case with 2.4.21, something really painful has been addressed...slow IDE i/o. I'll upgrade to this kernel and build it as usual (with all the nice grsecurity patches).
They're not scared. The reason they are weak and ineffective can be summed up in one word: Bush. The Bushies don't believe it is possible for a monopoly to be bad. They, in fact, believe that ANYTHING a company does, regardless, is A-OK so long as it makes money for CEOs and other rich folk. Anything that threatens money, no matter how ill-begotten that money is, is to be viewed as bad.
The DOJ can't and wont do squat because it is unthinkable to the Bush Admin to do ANYTHING against ANY company if it can, in any possible way, avoid doing anything. It's almost genetic and beyond the control of Bush and the Republicans.
and have EVERYONE leave their computers on 24/7. MOST people turn off the computer when they are done using it, and rightly so. To leave it running is waste of electricity. For a wireless, always on, network to work in the way described, people would, by and large, need to leave their system up and running all the time.
SOME of us do this, particularly a SUBSET of broadband users. In any case, to ignore the power consumption issue required on an individual level, there would have to be some encryption used - otherwise, I am not interested in passing my phone and computer traffic through everyone else's computer for them to sniff. My phonecalls are MY phonecalls (private). My email and web serfing is private (to a certain extent...particularly if I am using an anonymizer or JAP (java anonymous proxy)). I most assuredly do NOT want EVERY clown with a computer to have access to my data traffic.
Give me a set of nice, centralized points of access across the country, on microwave towers, with the mesh network stuff in areas where the tower APs can't reach and I could see that. You would STILL need someone to pay somewhere for access to the internet on wire because you are not going to be browsing overseas websites on a mesh network. There's that pesky Atlantic and Pacific ocean to contend with.
I don't give a rat-f*ck what you do with my corpse. I'll be DEAD and couldn't possibly give a damn one way or another. I wouldn't be laying there in my body screaming silently into the nothingness of death, "Leave my stinking, rotting, putrid corpse alone! I'm still using it!"
In any case, since I will be cremated, there wont be much corpse/remains to study...although, if the norm was for people to be cremated, I would opt to NOT be cremated to help ensure that future paleontologists and archaeologists have some remains to study.
First of all...who the hell sends in warranty cards? It is for setting yourself up for junk mail. Second, what's the point of buying the card in the first place and then filling out that your OS is linux when it is not usable in linux in the first place? "I bought this neato wireless card that doesn't work with linux! Ain't it cool?"
Really, you think people are going to buy the device in the first place and fill out a warranty card and state that they are using linux? They will state that they are using windoze because it is the only thing the device will work with in the first place. What is more likely is that people wont read the box, will assume it will work with linux, will buy it, look for drivers, find that they do not in any way, shape, or form exist, take the device back and get their money back. No warranty card will make it to the mailbox.
that there are now officially no drivers for ANY 802.11g devices out there for linux. Now we can officially be ignored and spat upon by all the device manufacturers inspite of our growing numbers, homeuser and corporate user alike.
I developed repetitive stress disorder/carpel tunnel disorder while working on my prelims during my PhD training. It came entirely from having to practically live in front of a computer manipulating a mouse hour after hour, day after day. The problem continues today so that I have to be careful about how I use my computer and for how long.
My wife has also developed similar problems, only her's are more severe than mine...but for her is was not just the mouse/computer interface - it was a combination of that plus her work with a particular microscope. She no longer uses the microscope (different work now) but the computer/mouse causes her problems and makes it worse.
I have colleagues who suffer the same problems due entirely to their computer/mouse work. Claiming that computers/mouses are not a significant problem wrt RSD/CTS is a load of hooey.
It is utterly beyond me why anyone should think it necessary to provide your real name (or mine, or anyone else's) in any forum of this type. Internet anonymity is particularly important given the sheer volume of idiots, juveniles, tards, psychos, and immature pole smokers that inhabit it.
To those demanding the true identity of anyone on slashdot or similar forum...respond in kind FIRST: present your real name, address, phone number, and to make stalking you easier, please provide your daily schedule, place of employment, office number, etc.
It matters. Tax dollars wont be fed into a convicted monopolist company. The government should not be paying criminal organizations for anything.
All government document formats under OSS will be future-proof. No more closed format documents that requires citizens to purchase specific software from a specific company. It is not OK for the government to directly or indirectly force people to buy any particular item from any particular vendor. As an extension of this, the documents of government belong to the people, ultimately, and they must be in a format that the people can access regardless of the fortunes or misfortunes of "the market". M$ has a finite lifetime. It will not always be there just as its document format is itself not stable even between OS releases. That version to version instability is simply added to the inherent instability in the lifetime of M$ (or any other corporation, for that matter). There are no permanent companies...but government and its decisions and records must strive to stand above the instability and finite lifespans of companies and vendors.
It matters because the government should not be beholden to any entity outside the people themselves. No company can be allowed to hold anything over it in any way. By cutting off dependency upon any single corporation and going with a document format standard that will be available to anyone for virtual perpetuity (OSS is this by nature) it improves governance and the historic record.
You people are funny, in a sick way. Damn the income tax and seek something else? How about a national sales tax? BUT THAT WOULD INCREASE THE COST OF EVERYTHING! Bad, bad, bad.
What you are all saying is that you want everything for nothing. You want streets maintained, defense maintained, health protected, basic health care protection, student loans at low interest, educational grants, high-tech basic research, but you don't want to have to pay for any of it because taxes are bad. Wrong.
Taxes are necessary and have been in place since there first formed a government/society in antiquity. There are simply some things that are REQUIRED for cohesion and the greater good of the collective society and it requires a collective sacrifice in the form of taxation.
It would be destabilizing to have poor and hungry people clogging the streets, having to rely solely on donations and charity. You would be certain to destroy your own society in such a situation. This sort of crap is what caused the labor movement and anti-trust laws, pollution laws, all sorts of legislation for various specific rights, progressive taxation, welfare, social security, etc, etc, after the HUGE abuses of the late 18th, early 19th century. This is the sort of nastiness that caused the Russian Revolution and the French Revolution. People will NOT tolerate a huge disparity in wealth and healthcare and the like. They simply wont.
Proper taxation for services alleviates this problem. Also, since the US Constitution specifically says that Congress has the power to levy and collect taxes, and doesn't specify a limit to what the tax rate can be, there is no validity to wailing against taxation in any case as being "unConstitutional" or in some way against the law. By the Constitution, the US government is entitled to an unspecified amount of all US citizen incomes in the form of taxes in order to provide the basic services and support required for the greater good and stability of society.
Too many of you seem to look at the world of Charles Dickens with its horrific abuse and exploitation by the rich of the lessor classes and think, "That's only right, afterall, their RICH and money=right/good." The more the disparity, the better and more stabilizing. Wrong. The more the disparity, the closer to violence and destabilization you get. Tip it too far and you will bring your society crashing down. Taxes, properly and progressively levied, help prevent this. Basic services and safety nets are a REQUIREMENT of a stable and moral society. They require common sacrifice in accordance to what you can afford. The Constitution (and similar documents from every other modern nation) gives government the express right to tax. Hence, it is legal and correct. Whining about it is merely greed and lack of regard for your fellow citizen/human talking.
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Also remember (and yes, I DO have an anti-mormon bias after being under their thumb for so long) that the Mormon "church" all but tells its members outright that to vote Democratic is a sin. Recall that state Republicans have actually stated this directly (Rep Jim Hansen, the antienvironment superMo): that voting Democratic is essentially the same as voting against the LDS...and the Mo's, by and large, go along with this! They accept it as they accept so much else. They will NOT vote in a Democrat to replace Hatch.
Actually, there is one way and one way only that such could happen, but it means wrecking Utah: continued huge growth (and sprawl and pollution and tension on the poor water situation) with an influx of "outsiders" from California and the like, most of whom (that arrive) are Democrats or progressives of various stripes. Salt Lake City, the only Democratic stronghold, such as it is, in the entire state would need to grow, grow, grow until the local population of progressives was enough to outpace the too-high birthrate of the Mo's (highest birthrate in the country goes to Mo's and Utah due to their goofy belief system). THEN they might manage to actually put a Democrat or even Independent in the seat. But before that happened, expect some redistricting to take place to ensure a large rural representation in the Salt Lake district to dilute the progressives out with VERY conservative rural Mo's.
Very steep hill to climb. The church and state are so tightly welded together in Utah that it is virtually impossible to get any Democrat into a national office seat from there because the LDS and Republicans are one and the same in Utah.
Simply put forth a non-divisive candidate that isn't a hard-right wing-nut. Simple. And the Republicans are just as "bad" as the Demos as you seem to think. Bush has gotten too many of his crazy judges through (just not the dangerous ones that hate women, hate church-state separation, etc). The Demos are doing the right thing by preventing the crazies from getting in. They are doing their job of NOT consenting. The Repubs, when in power, simply did the functional same thing as a filibuster by preventing any of Clintons picks from getting anywhere. It is the SAME thing.
Pa-leeze. Utah belongs to Mormons. Mormons love Hatch, the super-Moron, err, MORMON. They will vote for him because he is a Mormon, he believes in spirit babies (mormon bullcrap), celestial brides (mormon bullcrap), that he will get his own planet when he dies (really, this is more mormon bullcrap). Since he believes this tripe hook, line, and sinker, and helps maintain the complete mixing of church and state in Utah, he will be voted into office again. The ONLY way he could be defeated is for him to come out against the cult of Mormonism. Wont happen, thus he will be re-elected until he chooses to quit.
The best Utah can do is a Democrat mayor for Salt Lake City and a few Democratic Reps in the House from Salt Lake - the only stronghold for Democrats in that otherwise Republican (absolute 100% single party) state. It is a total waste of time for non-Republicans to vote in any Senatorial or Presidential election because it is a foregone conclusion that the state will go hard-core-right-wing-pro-church/state-blending-ant i-women's-rights Republican.
Or...how about his desire to totally destroy the judicial selection process by eliminating the ability to filibuster insane or stupid judicial choices. Of course, under Clinton, this was a fine and dandy thing to do - prevent or filibuster judicial picks, but come up with the criminal idiot Bush and a Republican Congress, and now he wants to destroy one of the most important jobs of the Senate.
Hatch, like Bush, is a dangerous idiot.
Eh? If some worm/virus planted a Celine Dion song on my computer, I would prefer that the system be destroyed via the Hatch method, please. The system would be totally ruined anyway.
You could link your 2000/XP box to a linux firewall and set iptables to drop any and all traffic concerning certain M$ spyware/snooping/DRM crap. Prevent media player from sending anything to M$ to get around that snooping/IP police force nonsense they add.
Block the ports that M$ tries to use, block offensive traffic. Screw the EULA.
Nice try. If the company doesn't have a problem with it (they didn't) then it isn't a problem, isn't ripping off the company, isn't doing anything wrong.
By definition. Get it?
before SCO starts making claims that Plan9 is also violating SCO's intellectual rights.
Bleeding the company dry in legal fees doesn't really do any good. The workers of SCO are not responsible for this idiocy and they are the ones to get screwed. The CEO and board of directors are making out pretty good, cashing in on their peaking stocks as a bailout bid for themselves. IBM should sue each one of them individually, not SCO itself. They should have their ill-gotten gains removed so that in the end, they are actually in worse shape than when they started. SCO as a company can die and hopefully the employees will make out OK but it is the leadership that I wish to see crushed and anihilated.
Make them bleed.
Don't blow the M$ association out of the water just yet. Though it is perhaps unlikely that M$ schemed with SCO to get this whole thing rolling, I DO believe that M$ is simply taking tactical advantage of the situation. The looney suite by SCO presented itself, so why not through a little, tiny bit of money at a convenient FUD source to extend its weak little legs a bit more. Afterall, it can't hurt and could likely help.
Of course, M$ could end up with egg all over its face if the suite is summarily tossed out on its ass by the courts. In such a case, M$ looks stupid, SCO quietly and quickly dies a whimpering death, and the march of linux moves on, perhaps with even more force.
I just wish the pregame dilly-dallying would end and we could just get SCO and IBM in court and get the fists flying. I expect a first round knockout (by IBM against SCO) but still wish to see the fight.
Though I would love for IBM to fight this out to the end (winning, of course), the problem is it keeps the FUD flying, which is SCOs intent (as well as getting bought out). I would now simply like to see IBM buy them and outright fire the entire management staff, from CEO down - WITHOUT ANY GOLDEN PARACHUTES.
Give SCO leaders what they want, with a twist. They get bought out but they make nothing on the deal as they are left totally bereft of big money for stepping aside for new management. Hopefully, IBM would be able to find gainful employment for the software engineers, etc, who are presumably innocents caught in the madness of their leadership.
This was NOT a troll. It is fact. Stone, cold, fact. The Bush hydrogen power proposal depends almost exclusively on petroleum and big oil. That is a fact. His proposal does absolutely nothing (nada) to reduce dependence on oil from the Middle East or anywhere else. It is simply a means of perpetuating oil dependency indefinitely. Check on the facts yourself. Troll my @ss.
You are wrong on this. If you look into what Bush has actually indicated support for wrt hydrogen power, it relies almost exclusively on...OIL. That's right, the setup the Bush favors is the production of hydrogen from petroleum. He hasn't suggested ANYTHING that would in any way adversely impact his buds in the oil bi-ness. He has put forth a scheme to help keep us dependent on oil until every last drop has been pumped from the ground.
Bush's hydrogen policy isn't a positive in any sense. Not only does it require Exxon/Mobile, etc, to sustain it, it does continual damage to the environment: he gets to ensure that environmental degredation continues from oil spills and drilling in more and more wilderness areas (Yee-Haw!), ensures that the Middle East continues to figure prominantly in our foreign policy calculations (also ensures continued terrorism - a boon for homeland security and invading more countries), and it promises to damage the ozone. You can't beat that with a stick! You get to screw the people and the environment at the same time that you get to keep oil companies at the top of the food chain.
Though it may be hard to do, if you are giving a timeline from birth to now, to keep your B-day out of it, it IS illegal for an employer/prospective employer to ask:
Your age, sex, marital status, religious affiliation, and probably a few other things I am forgetting. Only for positions in which it REALLY matters and is specifically allowed, can any questions about the above be asked.
When you apply for a position, do not give DOB, marital status, etc. It is irrelevant and illegal to ask for it. As I did say, it can be hard to disguise some information about potential age if you give a full time-line from high-school through college and it indicates a graduation date (from university) of 1990 or some such. If at all possible, avoid providing this information.
Years ago, back when the kernel was being updated nearly every other week rather than once every few months (2.0/2.2 time frame), I would always download the very latest kernel and compile that. Coincidentally, I was also learning Linux at the time, so I didn't mind spending time on stuff like that...
Same here. I used to download and build kernels up the yingyang as each new update/version/subversion came out. That was when it took a bit longer (or at least the same amount of time) to build a kernel as compared to KDE. Now the kernel builds fast and KDE takes for-freakin-ever...if you manage to meet all the dependencies... In any case, I only upgrade kernels on my personal system if security is improved, a feature that I really want (almost even need) has been added, or as in this case with 2.4.21, something really painful has been addressed...slow IDE i/o. I'll upgrade to this kernel and build it as usual (with all the nice grsecurity patches).
They're not scared. The reason they are weak and ineffective can be summed up in one word: Bush. The Bushies don't believe it is possible for a monopoly to be bad. They, in fact, believe that ANYTHING a company does, regardless, is A-OK so long as it makes money for CEOs and other rich folk. Anything that threatens money, no matter how ill-begotten that money is, is to be viewed as bad.
The DOJ can't and wont do squat because it is unthinkable to the Bush Admin to do ANYTHING against ANY company if it can, in any possible way, avoid doing anything. It's almost genetic and beyond the control of Bush and the Republicans.
Bah. I read them and thought that the books Mars and its sequel Return to Mars
was far more believable and interesting. I THINK they were written by Bova but at this moment cannot swear on it.and have EVERYONE leave their computers on 24/7. MOST people turn off the computer when they are done using it, and rightly so. To leave it running is waste of electricity. For a wireless, always on, network to work in the way described, people would, by and large, need to leave their system up and running all the time.
SOME of us do this, particularly a SUBSET of broadband users. In any case, to ignore the power consumption issue required on an individual level, there would have to be some encryption used - otherwise, I am not interested in passing my phone and computer traffic through everyone else's computer for them to sniff. My phonecalls are MY phonecalls (private). My email and web serfing is private (to a certain extent...particularly if I am using an anonymizer or JAP (java anonymous proxy)). I most assuredly do NOT want EVERY clown with a computer to have access to my data traffic.
Give me a set of nice, centralized points of access across the country, on microwave towers, with the mesh network stuff in areas where the tower APs can't reach and I could see that. You would STILL need someone to pay somewhere for access to the internet on wire because you are not going to be browsing overseas websites on a mesh network. There's that pesky Atlantic and Pacific ocean to contend with.
I don't give a rat-f*ck what you do with my corpse. I'll be DEAD and couldn't possibly give a damn one way or another. I wouldn't be laying there in my body screaming silently into the nothingness of death, "Leave my stinking, rotting, putrid corpse alone! I'm still using it!"
In any case, since I will be cremated, there wont be much corpse/remains to study...although, if the norm was for people to be cremated, I would opt to NOT be cremated to help ensure that future paleontologists and archaeologists have some remains to study.
First of all...who the hell sends in warranty cards? It is for setting yourself up for junk mail. Second, what's the point of buying the card in the first place and then filling out that your OS is linux when it is not usable in linux in the first place? "I bought this neato wireless card that doesn't work with linux! Ain't it cool?"
Really, you think people are going to buy the device in the first place and fill out a warranty card and state that they are using linux? They will state that they are using windoze because it is the only thing the device will work with in the first place. What is more likely is that people wont read the box, will assume it will work with linux, will buy it, look for drivers, find that they do not in any way, shape, or form exist, take the device back and get their money back. No warranty card will make it to the mailbox.
that there are now officially no drivers for ANY 802.11g devices out there for linux. Now we can officially be ignored and spat upon by all the device manufacturers inspite of our growing numbers, homeuser and corporate user alike.
I developed repetitive stress disorder/carpel tunnel disorder while working on my prelims during my PhD training. It came entirely from having to practically live in front of a computer manipulating a mouse hour after hour, day after day. The problem continues today so that I have to be careful about how I use my computer and for how long.
My wife has also developed similar problems, only her's are more severe than mine...but for her is was not just the mouse/computer interface - it was a combination of that plus her work with a particular microscope. She no longer uses the microscope (different work now) but the computer/mouse causes her problems and makes it worse.
I have colleagues who suffer the same problems due entirely to their computer/mouse work. Claiming that computers/mouses are not a significant problem wrt RSD/CTS is a load of hooey.
It is utterly beyond me why anyone should think it necessary to provide your real name (or mine, or anyone else's) in any forum of this type. Internet anonymity is particularly important given the sheer volume of idiots, juveniles, tards, psychos, and immature pole smokers that inhabit it.
To those demanding the true identity of anyone on slashdot or similar forum...respond in kind FIRST: present your real name, address, phone number, and to make stalking you easier, please provide your daily schedule, place of employment, office number, etc.
It matters. Tax dollars wont be fed into a convicted monopolist company. The government should not be paying criminal organizations for anything.
All government document formats under OSS will be future-proof. No more closed format documents that requires citizens to purchase specific software from a specific company. It is not OK for the government to directly or indirectly force people to buy any particular item from any particular vendor. As an extension of this, the documents of government belong to the people, ultimately, and they must be in a format that the people can access regardless of the fortunes or misfortunes of "the market". M$ has a finite lifetime. It will not always be there just as its document format is itself not stable even between OS releases. That version to version instability is simply added to the inherent instability in the lifetime of M$ (or any other corporation, for that matter). There are no permanent companies...but government and its decisions and records must strive to stand above the instability and finite lifespans of companies and vendors.
It matters because the government should not be beholden to any entity outside the people themselves. No company can be allowed to hold anything over it in any way. By cutting off dependency upon any single corporation and going with a document format standard that will be available to anyone for virtual perpetuity (OSS is this by nature) it improves governance and the historic record.
You people are funny, in a sick way. Damn the income tax and seek something else? How about a national sales tax? BUT THAT WOULD INCREASE THE COST OF EVERYTHING! Bad, bad, bad.
What you are all saying is that you want everything for nothing. You want streets maintained, defense maintained, health protected, basic health care protection, student loans at low interest, educational grants, high-tech basic research, but you don't want to have to pay for any of it because taxes are bad. Wrong.
Taxes are necessary and have been in place since there first formed a government/society in antiquity. There are simply some things that are REQUIRED for cohesion and the greater good of the collective society and it requires a collective sacrifice in the form of taxation.
It would be destabilizing to have poor and hungry people clogging the streets, having to rely solely on donations and charity. You would be certain to destroy your own society in such a situation. This sort of crap is what caused the labor movement and anti-trust laws, pollution laws, all sorts of legislation for various specific rights, progressive taxation, welfare, social security, etc, etc, after the HUGE abuses of the late 18th, early 19th century. This is the sort of nastiness that caused the Russian Revolution and the French Revolution. People will NOT tolerate a huge disparity in wealth and healthcare and the like. They simply wont.
Proper taxation for services alleviates this problem. Also, since the US Constitution specifically says that Congress has the power to levy and collect taxes, and doesn't specify a limit to what the tax rate can be, there is no validity to wailing against taxation in any case as being "unConstitutional" or in some way against the law. By the Constitution, the US government is entitled to an unspecified amount of all US citizen incomes in the form of taxes in order to provide the basic services and support required for the greater good and stability of society.
Too many of you seem to look at the world of Charles Dickens with its horrific abuse and exploitation by the rich of the lessor classes and think, "That's only right, afterall, their RICH and money=right/good." The more the disparity, the better and more stabilizing. Wrong. The more the disparity, the closer to violence and destabilization you get. Tip it too far and you will bring your society crashing down. Taxes, properly and progressively levied, help prevent this. Basic services and safety nets are a REQUIREMENT of a stable and moral society. They require common sacrifice in accordance to what you can afford. The Constitution (and similar documents from every other modern nation) gives government the express right to tax. Hence, it is legal and correct. Whining about it is merely greed and lack of regard for your fellow citizen/human talking.