There are reports on Twitter that the rightwing Free Republic website has crashed because of celebratory messages about the shooting from its contributors. It's hard to confirm this, but I couldn't get to the site about 10 minutes ago.
I have very weird flexible joints and can bend my fingers back to my wrist. I can also clap one-handed. I don't do it often because people find it disconcerting. My bother-in-law studied to be a Zen Buddhist priest and I did it for him once. He roared with laughter. A very Zen response.
But then again, our bed is in the attic with our home office. I do own a 1999 Saturn, but I rarely drive it as we live in Chicagoland. Bikes and the RTA can take care of most of our transport needs.We also have a bike trailer, backpacks and a little red wagon for shopping trips.
I was skeptical that NetSol would be that blatant so I ran a Whois of eatshitnetworksolutions.com at good old NetSol. 10 seconds later I headed over to PairNic which is where we normally register domains and ran a Whois through Pairnic. Sure enough the domain was unavailable.
Hello People: I code websites on an Intel iMac hooked up to a cheap GEM monitor I picked up from TigerDirect. I can run Mac X on the iMac and have Parallels running Windows or Linux so I can see what sites-in-progress look like in IE or Konquerer.
When I'm not checking sites in Windows or Linux on the GEM monitor, I can put NeoOffice, BBEdit or Photoshop files on the GEM monitor while I have the backend admin of Joomla, ZenCart, ClickCart Pro or Expression Engine open on the iMac.
Two monitors also comes in handy when I'm preparing web video and audio with various programs.
OK...I also keep my favorite iTunes Shoutcast Jazz stations on the GEM monitor also so I can listen to music while working.
I have to admit that having 3 monitors would be even cooler. I wonder if an iMac will support three monitors. Hmmm...I do have an extra USB port with nothing in it.
I find that here in the USA, many leftwing groups use FOSS, but are strangely silent about advocating its use or understanding how FOSS has evolved as a social movement. As a longtime socialist and FOSS user/advocate I find this strange and disconcerting.
We do a fair amount of work for the labor movement: graphic design, satirical cartoons, illustration,and websites. FOSS is barely on its radar. I explained FOSS to a District Council President and her take was that it sounded like socialism and solidarity, two ideas she was strongly in favor of. Local union websites tend to be static sites built in MS Frontpage with very little in the way of interactivity.
That is starting to change. The Service Employees International Union has done some interesting work with Drupal. We're slowly introducing Joomla to the unions we work with.
We are also working with a feminist-oriented women in technology group and have introduced them to Joomla with positive results. They had heard of Drupal, but knew very little about it.
When we try to explain FOSS to Left groups and social advocacy organizations we use the example of how the Howard Dean campaign was able to use Drupal to quickly build websites around the country. That gets their attention.
I'd like to see some real reporting and analysis of the FOSS movement from a leftwing perspective. It's weird to see the "progressive" movement so behind the technological times.
Cuba is in the midst of change now and hopefully on its way to a more open more democratic society. I was in Cuba in 1974 as a member of the Venceramos Brigade. I didn't cut sugar cane, I dug foundations for houses. I was impressed by Cuba's schools, healthcare and relatively safe city streets. I was less impressed with the system of government. Too many rules. Too much repression.
Of course Yanqui imperialism in the form of the trade embargo and our CIA's addiction to terrorist attacks didn't help the cause of democracy in Cuba.
Cuba now is a much different place. The economy isn't doing as well as it did in the 1970's, but there seems to be an opening for a more democratic form of socialism. I would love to see that, but that should be up to the Cuban people, not a Yanqui like me...and especially not a Yanqui like George W. Bush.
Free Software encourages open collaboration and communication--- things that could only benefit the political changes now happening in Cuba. The Cuban Revolution is stuck in the past and its time to move forward
I can't wait until the companeros y companeras en Cuba discover the wonders of a software project like CivicSpace/Drupal. If projects like that can help revive our own moribund American Revolution, just think what a tool it could be to revive the ideals of the Cuban Revolution.
Hello: I once owned an ancient Motorola StarMax( a Macinitosh clone). It was upgraded with a G-3 processor and actually worked pretty well as my son's computer except it would periodically just go completely dead. No startup. Nada.
One day I smacked it in frustration and poof, you could start it up again, chime and all. I guess it had a loose connection somewhere, but after checking out its innards I could never pinpoint where it was.
So when it "died" a swift sharp smack would always "resurrect" it.
One of the most important civilizing influences in society is the labor movement. Much of the best social legislation that has been passed in this country either originated with the labor movement or had its support: Social Security, Medicare, abolition of child labor,workplace health and safety standards, anti-discrimination laws etc. etc.etc.
For tech workers to stand aside and let others carry the burden of maintaining a civilized society is unconscionable. For all of its weaknesses and policy mistakes, the US labor movement is one of the few places where the ideas of racial and gender equality are preached and even practiced more often than many people realize. It is where people of many economic levels come together to solve common problems.
Our labor movement has been battered and weakened and its own poor policy choices were certainly a major factor in this.
This is all the more reason for the largely unorganized tech workers to join up. We can bring some fresh perspectives to a movement in desperate need of them.
We can decide what kind of organizations we want and on what basis we affiliate. There a lot of diversity in the labor movement.
I'm a member of the National Writers Union for example. Writers are a bunch of independent minded individualists who often work alone and in isolation. Yet, several thousand of us have discovered that by networking together, we can share knowledge and help find the strength to resist the demands of an increasingly brutal publishing industry. My partner is a member of the Graphic Artists Guild and she has found the same kind of help there.
It would be foolish for tech workers to rely on the forms of labor organization that were born out of the struggles of the 19th century, the New Deal period or the 1960's. Life goes on. Times change. We need labor organizations suitable for a 21st century global economy.
It would also be foolish for us not to ally with other working people to push for legislation that benefits all of us while constantly reminding employers that we are human beings and we demand to be treated as such.
I've been associated with the labor movement in various ways since the 1960's and I'm well aware of its many problems. Becoming a part of it does not offer any guarantees. We live in a tough competitive market economy and you can win as well as lose as an individual or part of a group.
I hope tech workers can see through the FUD that is being spread here about the US labor movement. Join in and lets get the job done of creating a better America in a better world.
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They call it the graveyard shift for a reason, ya know.
There are reports on Twitter that the rightwing Free Republic website has crashed because of celebratory messages about the shooting from its contributors. It's hard to confirm this, but I couldn't get to the site about 10 minutes ago.
I have very weird flexible joints and can bend my fingers back to my wrist. I can also clap one-handed. I don't do it often because people find it disconcerting. My bother-in-law studied to be a Zen Buddhist priest and I did it for him once. He roared with laughter. A very Zen response.
But then again, our bed is in the attic with our home office. I do own a 1999 Saturn, but I rarely drive it as we live in Chicagoland. Bikes and the RTA can take care of most of our transport needs.We also have a bike trailer, backpacks and a little red wagon for shopping trips.
I was skeptical that NetSol would be that blatant so I ran a Whois of eatshitnetworksolutions.com at good old NetSol. 10 seconds later I headed over to PairNic which is where we normally register domains and ran a Whois through Pairnic. Sure enough the domain was unavailable.
Slashdotters unite and Slashdot NetSol Now!
Hello People: I code websites on an Intel iMac hooked up to a cheap GEM monitor I picked up from TigerDirect. I can run Mac X on the iMac and have Parallels running Windows or Linux so I can see what sites-in-progress look like in IE or Konquerer.
When I'm not checking sites in Windows or Linux on the GEM monitor, I can put NeoOffice, BBEdit or Photoshop files on the GEM monitor while I have the backend admin of Joomla, ZenCart, ClickCart Pro or Expression Engine open on the iMac.
Two monitors also comes in handy when I'm preparing web video and audio with various programs.
OK...I also keep my favorite iTunes Shoutcast Jazz stations on the GEM monitor also so I can listen to music while working.
I have to admit that having 3 monitors would be even cooler. I wonder if an iMac will support three monitors. Hmmm...I do have an extra USB port with nothing in it.
I find that here in the USA, many leftwing groups use FOSS, but are strangely silent about advocating its use or understanding how FOSS has evolved as a social movement. As a longtime socialist and FOSS user/advocate I find this strange and disconcerting.
We do a fair amount of work for the labor movement: graphic design, satirical cartoons, illustration,and websites. FOSS is barely on its radar. I explained FOSS to a District Council President and her take was that it sounded like socialism and solidarity, two ideas she was strongly in favor of. Local union websites tend to be static sites built in MS Frontpage with very little in the way of interactivity.
That is starting to change. The Service Employees International Union has done some interesting work with Drupal. We're slowly introducing Joomla to the unions we work with.
We are also working with a feminist-oriented women in technology group and have introduced them to Joomla with positive results. They had heard of Drupal, but knew very little about it.
When we try to explain FOSS to Left groups and social advocacy organizations we use the example of how the Howard Dean campaign was able to use Drupal to quickly build websites around the country. That gets their attention.
I'd like to see some real reporting and analysis of the FOSS movement from a leftwing perspective. It's weird to see the "progressive" movement so behind the technological times.
Cuba is in the midst of change now and hopefully on its way to a more open more democratic society. I was in Cuba in 1974 as a member of the Venceramos Brigade. I didn't cut sugar cane, I dug foundations for houses. I was impressed by Cuba's schools, healthcare and relatively safe city streets. I was less impressed with the system of government. Too many rules. Too much repression.
Of course Yanqui imperialism in the form of the trade embargo and our CIA's addiction to terrorist attacks didn't help the cause of democracy in Cuba.
Cuba now is a much different place. The economy isn't doing as well as it did in the 1970's, but there seems to be an opening for a more democratic form of socialism. I would love to see that, but that should be up to the Cuban people, not a Yanqui like me...and especially not a Yanqui like George W. Bush.
Free Software encourages open collaboration and communication--- things that could only benefit the political changes now happening in Cuba. The Cuban Revolution is stuck in the past and its time to move forward
I can't wait until the companeros y companeras en Cuba discover the wonders of a software project like CivicSpace/Drupal. If projects like that can help revive our own moribund American Revolution, just think what a tool it could be to revive the ideals of the Cuban Revolution.
Hello: I once owned an ancient Motorola StarMax( a Macinitosh clone). It was upgraded with a G-3 processor and actually worked pretty well as my son's computer except it would periodically just go completely dead. No startup. Nada.
One day I smacked it in frustration and poof, you could start it up again, chime and all. I guess it had a loose connection somewhere, but after checking out its innards I could never pinpoint where it was.
So when it "died" a swift sharp smack would always "resurrect" it.
Go figure...
One of the most important civilizing influences in society is the labor movement. Much of the best social legislation that has been passed in this country either originated with the labor movement or had its support: Social Security, Medicare, abolition of child labor,workplace health and safety standards, anti-discrimination laws etc. etc.etc.
For tech workers to stand aside and let others carry the burden of maintaining a civilized society is unconscionable. For all of its weaknesses and policy mistakes, the US labor movement is one of the few places where the ideas of racial and gender equality are preached and even practiced more often than many people realize. It is where people of many economic levels come together to solve common problems.
Our labor movement has been battered and weakened and its own poor policy choices were certainly a major factor in this.
This is all the more reason for the largely unorganized tech workers to join up. We can bring some fresh perspectives to a movement in desperate need of them.
We can decide what kind of organizations we want and on what basis we affiliate. There a lot of diversity in the labor movement.
I'm a member of the National Writers Union for example. Writers are a bunch of independent minded individualists who often work alone and in isolation. Yet, several thousand of us have discovered that by networking together, we can share knowledge and help find the strength to resist the demands of an increasingly brutal publishing industry. My partner is a member of the Graphic Artists Guild and she has found the same kind of help there.
It would be foolish for tech workers to rely on the forms of labor organization that were born out of the struggles of the 19th century, the New Deal period or the 1960's. Life goes on. Times change. We need labor organizations suitable for a 21st century global economy.
It would also be foolish for us not to ally with other working people to push for legislation that benefits all of us while constantly reminding employers that we are human beings and we demand to be treated as such.
I've been associated with the labor movement in various ways since the 1960's and I'm well aware of its many problems. Becoming a part of it does not offer any guarantees. We live in a tough competitive market economy and you can win as well as lose as an individual or part of a group.
I hope tech workers can see through the FUD that is being spread here about the US labor movement. Join in and lets get the job done of creating a better America in a better world.