you're statements are facetious. If your comment isn't modded down as flamebait and/or offtopic, then someone made a mistake.
I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
yes, because most people consider an MCSE to be better than a PSE or a CCNP. That's the way it is on the street, is it? I'll take a free software zealot over you any day, at least they know what they're talking about, even if their opinions are far left.
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cuddlingTrading Spaces == cuddling and Trading Spaces
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Try choosing Slashdot over cuddlingTrading Spaces on TLC. Brother, that's a world of hurt.
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haha. you say that like i'm the only one.
maybe i'm just paranoid.
again, stop looking at me.
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no, i really had to; otherwise it wouldn't have been funny.
really, i do have a girlfriend. stop looking at me like that.
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The other day with a friend about which type of dice hurt the worst to step on. we decided that, while a d4 was bad (the worst if you step straight down hard), that a d8 was really the worst because it rolled with your foot.
My girlfriend immediately said, "oh my god, i'm dating a nerd."
My mother always said, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. So i'll just say you're wrong, and while symantics aren't important enough to engage in a flame war, they are important; their importance is at the very heart of the name issue.
It's official, we're lazy bastards... it's really doubtful they [lazy bastards] have much of a clue about what is going on around the world.
That's just patently untrue. Lots of lazy people watch hours of news every day. There is no law against laziness, and most of the lazy people i know are very intelligent.
Let's not get caught up in this protestant work ethic driven "idle hands are the devils playthings" moralizing. So, people are lazy. That doesn't mean that they should be discouraged from participating in government because of their personality.
Banks, ecommerce, website authentication... it's used every day; it's certainly secure enough for democracy.
The only other arguments against voting over the net is that, (1) it's defacto gerrymandering because poor people don't have computers and tend to vote for democratic candidates over Republicans; and (2) There's no independently audit-able paper trail. I'm sure (2) could be solved with some thought.
This is why you set up stations at public libraries and other government funded institutions open to the public. You can vote in public, or you can vote for home
So, then, we were in Iraq because of the human rights violations?
Silly me, i thought we were there to find weapons of mass destruction. That's what we were told, i believe. If that's why we were there, why didn't we let the weapons inspectors continue with their jobs? I would think that, being weapons inspectors, they would have found weapons if they were there... what's that you say, they didn't find any? Well, there weren't any there, were there.
Face facts, we were there for oil & revenge.
Maybe, just maybe if our politicians started relating the real motivations instead of those statistically shown to generate the most support, then we could rely on those politicians to make decisions about deploying troops for reasons other than national defense or defense of our allies. until that day, i for one will hope that the US will show more concern for the governments of other nations. How can we trust that the decisions of our elected officials are ethical (dare i suggest that they should also be moral) when they lie to us?
Also, perl will never solve the worlds problems; try python.
you are a moron to equate oposition of the war to a disbelief in the improved quality of life for the iraqi people. we opposed the war because we didn't believe that there were weapons of mass destruction. We opposed the war because, like it or not, we live in a world that has become an international community; the US cannot just sachey into another country with a declaration of war in our left, a big middle finger to the UN in our right, and an eye on the corporate dollar if we expect to truly do the world good.
in short, you are a moron, and as such you should not post on slashdot. or reproduce.
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Knowledge, like information, is not power, it is nothing more than content. true, content is
used as a type of leverage in our very brutish way, but once upon a time so were sticks, which of course doesn't mean there are weapons lying all over the ground, it means that anything can be used for any purpose, but the purpose it's used for in one instance does not define the object.
2)
"Information wants to be free" is a metaphor that is used to describe it's nature... it's endlessly replicable, so why not embrace that aspect of it, to the benefit of society. of course information has no wants, but information is defined by society (not the individual, who may create information but cannot define it), and society may have some wants for information, which is as fundamental a situation as "information wanting to be free", if such could exist.
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With the recent release of MacOS X, we see at least a willingness in the market to embrace at least part of open source. We also see the opposite, more restriction of media & software, by others in the business (ex: Gates' statement about "renting" software in a recent speech)
my question: how do you see business's embracing open source in the future? i.e., will companies stick to the service/support niche, or perhaps branch out?
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you're statements are facetious. If your comment isn't modded down as flamebait and/or offtopic, then someone made a mistake.
I am what most people would consider a highly trained technical professional. Unlike most people who spout off at this site, I have the certificates to prove this, and furthermore they're issued by the biggest software company in existence.
yes, because most people consider an MCSE to be better than a PSE or a CCNP. That's the way it is on the street, is it? I'll take a free software zealot over you any day, at least they know what they're talking about, even if their opinions are far left.
It's a mod.
cuddling Trading Spaces == cuddling and Trading Spaces
Try choosing Slashdot over cuddling Trading Spaces on TLC. Brother, that's a world of hurt.
haha. you say that like i'm the only one.
maybe i'm just paranoid.
again, stop looking at me.
no, i really had to; otherwise it wouldn't have been funny.
really, i do have a girlfriend. stop looking at me like that.
The other day with a friend about which type of dice hurt the worst to step on. we decided that, while a d4 was bad (the worst if you step straight down hard), that a d8 was really the worst because it rolled with your foot.
My girlfriend immediately said, "oh my god, i'm dating a nerd."
Thank you D&D.
My mother always said, if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. So i'll just say you're wrong, and while symantics aren't important enough to engage in a flame war, they are important; their importance is at the very heart of the name issue.
call your AOL customer service hotline. OR, you can talk to Al Gore, i'm sure that he's invented a better interweb.
It's official, we're lazy bastards... it's really doubtful they [lazy bastards] have much of a clue about what is going on around the world.
That's just patently untrue. Lots of lazy people watch hours of news every day. There is no law against laziness, and most of the lazy people i know are very intelligent.
Let's not get caught up in this protestant work ethic driven "idle hands are the devils playthings" moralizing. So, people are lazy. That doesn't mean that they should be discouraged from participating in government because of their personality.
Banks, ecommerce, website authentication... it's used every day; it's certainly secure enough for democracy.
The only other arguments against voting over the net is that, (1) it's defacto gerrymandering because poor people don't have computers and tend to vote for democratic candidates over Republicans; and (2) There's no independently audit-able paper trail. I'm sure (2) could be solved with some thought.
This is why you set up stations at public libraries and other government funded institutions open to the public. You can vote in public, or you can vote for home
So, then, we were in Iraq because of the human rights violations?
Silly me, i thought we were there to find weapons of mass destruction. That's what we were told, i believe. If that's why we were there, why didn't we let the weapons inspectors continue with their jobs? I would think that, being weapons inspectors, they would have found weapons if they were there... what's that you say, they didn't find any? Well, there weren't any there, were there.
Face facts, we were there for oil & revenge.
Maybe, just maybe if our politicians started relating the real motivations instead of those statistically shown to generate the most support, then we could rely on those politicians to make decisions about deploying troops for reasons other than national defense or defense of our allies. until that day, i for one will hope that the US will show more concern for the governments of other nations. How can we trust that the decisions of our elected officials are ethical (dare i suggest that they should also be moral) when they lie to us?
Also, perl will never solve the worlds problems; try python.
you are a moron to equate oposition of the war to a disbelief in the improved quality of life for the iraqi people. we opposed the war because we didn't believe that there were weapons of mass destruction. We opposed the war because, like it or not, we live in a world that has become an international community; the US cannot just sachey into another country with a declaration of war in our left, a big middle finger to the UN in our right, and an eye on the corporate dollar if we expect to truly do the world good.
in short, you are a moron, and as such you should not post on slashdot. or reproduce.
devil mascot = freebsd
blowfish mascot = openbsd
huh?
this post is not bright
but at least a creative
request for flaimbait
fair perhaps, but moronic. how are they distinguishing them (apart from the actual data in the files). naming schemes like
MeTaLlIcA-u n f o r g i v e n 2 (ILLEGAL COPY).mp3
right... that's gotta be entrapment.
joel archer, you are a retard.
1)
Knowledge, like information, is not power, it is nothing more than content. true, content is
used as a type of leverage in our very brutish way, but once upon a time so were sticks, which of course doesn't mean there are weapons lying all over the ground, it means that anything can be used for any purpose, but the purpose it's used for in one instance does not define the object.
2)
"Information wants to be free" is a metaphor that is used to describe it's nature... it's endlessly replicable, so why not embrace that aspect of it, to the benefit of society. of course information has no wants, but information is defined by society (not the individual, who may create information but cannot define it), and society may have some wants for information, which is as fundamental a situation as "information wanting to be free", if such could exist.
With the recent release of MacOS X, we see at least a willingness in the market to embrace at least part of open source. We also see the opposite, more restriction of media & software, by others in the business (ex: Gates' statement about "renting" software in a recent speech)
my question: how do you see business's embracing open source in the future? i.e., will companies stick to the service/support niche, or perhaps branch out?