As you smoke that crack pipe, explaining your 12yearold self to not smoke the crack pipe, go remind 3DRealms that Project Managment Courses in college are a Good Thing(TM).
What part of general-purpose do people not understand? I didn't say Linux wasn't modular. I implied that Linux's flexibility comes at a cost of disk usage AND I am speaking in the scope that the average commercial-retail distribution of Linux comes with drivers that will not be used. Hence, there is reason for companies to research monolithic operating system/environments that have a more marginal footprint with features that aren't exaggerated marketing hype. Yes, multi-tasking was received by the world as marketing hype; slandered by Microsoft Windows 3.x. HINT: my gzipped linux kernel image is about 1.75MegaBytes, not including the modules outside of it and pre-built with only a couple platform dependant drivers that I require to boot (serial.o, tulip.o, framebuffer, ncr???.o;scsi). When was the last time someone checked RedHat 8.0's linux kernel footprint? Compare that average footprint with Debian's, SuSE's, SlackWare's, Mandrake's, Lindows', then eCos, then RTLinux, then finally compare that footprint (overhead) with another operating system kernel's footprint such as QNX/BeOS/PalmOS/Plan9/or_what_have_we.
Please forgive me for not responding sooner, someone on my subnet or perhaps a slashdot bug, has triggered slashdot to make me wait 24hours to post a reply.
Until Linux gets chopped-up and more logicall sorted, the Linux kernel will keep growing. Think of all the drivers people are downloading and will never use.
Last time I checked, Linux may not be desirable in handhelds because the kernel is growing, growing, growing and the new features don't realy put a dent in the desire for such computing that needs to be small and quick on the sleep and resume modes. Much of Linux' embedded features are added by special-interest companies and may or may not be free. This supposed fact proves IBM is looking for a beginning product that has all these features already built. We know Microsoft does the same: looking for startups with an interesting merit, buy them out, embrace, and extend. Or IBM is trying to keep the world competing by investing with other companies. It makes sense; in other related news, Linux wouldn't be any good without a competitor to compare it with. Now we can compare Linux with PalmOS, whatever else IBM may choose, and perhaps that is why so many operation-specific operating systems have spuriously appeared these last 5 years...trying to fill the gap Linux can't always fill, yet still every advancment is complimentary to eachother unless the destructivness of the patent system invades...
They are trying to tax bits of information that have already been purchased(aka contracted) and secured. If this tax is activated, it would be equally true that after I buy my groceries I am taxed as eating a separate meal with every spork-full serving of food that I insert into my mouth.
What living bipedal organisms would ask for the government to put taxes on services rendered, that have already been taxed?
Obviously, we are not dealing with living bipedal organisms...
This is also an issue of TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. What services are offered for paying such a "tax", why do they not recognize the contractual relationship as this "tax" being formed as an "optional" service, and who recognizes that the internet is composed of private communications networks that can't legally be taxed?
This "tax" is a violation all the way, up and down, my Constitution; me being a sovereign State.
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act. 2. A group of conspirators. 3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action. 4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
I don't remember "conspiracy" being applied under any of these elements other than a stretch of element 1. Anyone else notice this? And what is dictionary.com smoking on the definition/element 3: "...accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action"? That's like me clubbing-to-death my immediate relative and receiving inheritance as defined in "the will". How is that illegal when it is obvious she died of *natural* causes? Fractured skulles are natural, no?
Those of us that have use of DRI's accelerated openGL on computer platforms other than X86 will finally receive possibilities! But wait, the Tenebrae project maintainers stated they will only be builing Tenebrae version 2 for nVidia graphics accelerators. Back to the darkage... ATI Radeon was the only graphics accelerator with reasonable DRI support. The initial Tenebrae, with its Quake1 support, will work fine. Yet, looks as if the rest of us may need to wait for ID Software to release the Quake3 engine under the GPL, just to receive capability of support on the higher computing and rendering platforms that are superior to X86 (/shameless plug).
Remember 6 years ago when ATI was just another company marketing driver promises that never happened? Does anyone remember the ATI RAGE line of products? ATI Rage ATI Rage II ATI Rage II+DVD ATI 3D Rage ATI 3D Rage Pro ATI 3D Pro Turbo ATI 3D Pro Turbo + PC2TV ATI NimbleCannuxFuckfest
Don't receive this as flamebait...i'm watering my pink flamingos as I dictate this to my garden gnome...
Now that ATI is king of the hill, we will see nothing but crappy products from now on. Why? Because ATI has clearly scaled the Radeon to the maximum potential and we will now hear all kinds of product releases with exaggerated features masked under marketing hype and the same stretch-marked graphics technology...for a whole 'nother product lifecycle because nVidia its only competitor is having difficulty competing on *feature-biproduct-waste*. Why do we need unnecessary framerate and why haven't we seen any awesome low-power full-featured graphics chipsets? Speaking of HIGH-power, nVidia is obviously meeting the ceiling of their design too; the technology scales by power usage: pump-up the power, sell it as an *advanced* product.
A real innovation would be somthing as low-power and with clever drivers (PowerVR's Kyro2) that yields highest performance (ATI's Radeon) with most precision (nVidia's GeForceFX). Yes, here comes 3DLabs' VPU...Oh, and look...3DLabs continues its legacy as the cadillac of graphics accelerators by-their graphics accelerator weighing as much and is equal in length to: a CADILLAC!
The world has no shame...give me efficient power usage or give me death. Just because some of us are on a nuclear reactor doesn't mean we need to operate at full capacity of the nuclear reactor.
Pretty much everybody who has ever pressed the line of tax protest that you describe, has done time for it. I think it was irresponsible of you not to mention that detail.
Yes, you are true. You must also recognize the scope of "doing time" for "violating" so-called "Internal Revenue Code" that you did not contractually agree to. When people are searched and seized by unlawful agents, YOU ALL MUST RECOGNIZE THESE UNLAWFUL AGENTS ARE "PERPETUATING AN UNLAWFULLY IMPLIED STATE OF WAR" AND... IT IS UPTO YOU AND THE STATES UNITED WITH YOU TO OPPOSE THIS EVIL ENTITY!
I know many people thrown in jail. Many who are not "citizens of the United States", neither "United States Citizens", neither "United States citizens", neither "Federal Persons". The "United States" (LLC, irresponsible federal corporation at large) maintanes a State of War and opposed whoever that lawfully does not submit to their pagan authorities.
Fishbowl, the fact that separates us from animals is our ability to recognize laws and make covenants with eachother as well as deities, both pagan and deity. The IRS both abuses and uses the institutions that recognize "Contract Law" for its advantage to conceal its Waring on us as either justified or legal (in a sense of reliance of "ignorance" on the general public).
When the agents come to you, you can either 1)do your best to avoid them, 2)submit to them and accept whatever marks they give you, 3)submit to them and expose their evil, 4)recognize their corruptness/evil and out-right oppose them based on well-defined criteria thus recognizing their State of War and attempt to destroy them.
I choose element "1" and element "4". It was nice knowing you...life is short.
[It isn't writing to the Boot Sector. It's righting to Sector 33 of the boot sector.]
Do you have shit between your ears, or are your ears coated with shit?
The beginning of the boot sector is what gets run first. TurboTax thinks it can use a part of the boot sector regardless of the chance the "bootloader program" may need ALL of the boot sector.
TurboTax is not classified as being a program that must directly access the bootsector in any way, shape, or form.
TurboTax's only forseable purpose is automate the filing of taxes. TurboTax must have made an agreement with the end-user, by implied contract, that it may do such a thing as modifying the boot sector or perhaps declares that it reserves its right of doing whatever it wants on your harddrive.
You TurboTax end-users have two options...
1) Uninstall TurboTax and return it to the origin of purchase or to the makers of TurboTax, thus receiving gratification and possibly no receivance of refund, 2) Uninstall TurboTax, skewer, burn, crush, package, and send the property back to the makers of TurboTax (recognizing it is their property, not yours, unlike GPL'd software), and use a GPL'd Application that may or may not agree with the perceived standpoint of the IRS and may actually be more constitutional.
You are not a "Taxpayer" until you contract with the IRS using the 1040(!).
If you do not file a 1040(!), you are not violating law.
If you do not file a 1040(!), you risk unwaranted searches and seizures from agents acting Fiduciary for the IRS or illegally acting Fiduciary for you.
When you DON'T grant someone the privilege of unwaranted searches and seizures, they are perpetuating an unlawfully impied State of War; yes, you know what you *should* do: violat their laws against keeping and bearing guns and blow them to smitherines!
By the blood of the cross of Jesus Christ, you have been, as parable, "rending unto caezar". The only difference now and 2003.3 years ago is you are being forced at gun-point to pay, use, and breath with Federal Reserve Notes (these are not money, they are promise-notes of banks to pay and there is no gold in the federal reserve!) and you have not receive representation by the "taxation" expressed or implied.
The IRS will not forgive you of not paying your taxes.
BECAUSE IT IS NOT THEIRS TO FORGIVE, THEY ARE STEALING IT!
The IRS wants to collect "Income Tax" from a "Taxpayer". The process to act in persona as a "Taxpayer", you need to first be elligible as a "Federal Person" and you must submit the contract to declare yourself a "Taxpayer" and also grant the IRS Fiduciary controll of your Trust with the United States corporation; using some form of the 1040 contract.
Is this legal? Yes, you contracted it. Is it legal for the IRS to propose the 1040(?) onto you? NO, it is not legal; they ask the organization, who contracted your persona, to propose the 1040(?) onto you. If you are a citizen of the United States, then you may be automatically signed-up because as a 14th ammedment citizen, your rights are contractual. If you are a State (ie one of the few remaining States that are united on principle and honor: united States), then you reserve your unalienable right to make coventants (contracts) with whomever you choose and the IRS is quite optional.
Who am I? I am a sovereign State and I recognize that the IRS is a division of the United States (LLC, irresponsible federal corporation at large).
Where will you receive in-depth propoganda, evidence, and insightful demonstration on the status of you and the United States LLC? Goto http://chansen.tzo.com. The United States is a communist organization attempting to subjugate you, me, and the rest of the world into converting everyone's status and "personage" to a Reversionary Beneficiary Grantor Cestui est que Trust. What does that mean in common english terms? It means your labor, your time, your influence, is owned by someone else, what property that is yours is granted to you and reversioned back to the owner of you (a master) upon your death/cease of existance; you are indirectly defines as chattel property.
I would like to congratulate you upon your attempt to interpret the implicated evidence you received as applicable to the understanding of verbal (oral), written, and implied (unwritten/unseen/implied) contracts. I do not know who implied these definitions of contracts that you have submitted, yet I will correct you where you may have incorrectly perceived by concept of your receival of their implications...
Implied contracts: That kind of contract wherein the physical acts, rather than spoken or written words, result in the parties mutual agreement to be bound to each other.
Let me be first to advise you that implied contracts, by definition, are LEGALLY BINDING whithout the parties in agreemant(s) understanding or comprehension of the terms/conditions of the said implied contract. Here in the States, some State Governments, not to be confused with States (States are of a people and not the government thereof), may or may not allow implied contracts due to their ability to construe law. Many years ago, the term "Ozium" was used to reference an unseen contract: implied contract. Now, you will rarely see such terminology because the people working against us have burried such words in pretence. However, regardless of the legality of useage of implied contracts, it affects all States by their founding, beyond, and are inexorably recognized and applied internationally (mostly against us).
I *should* not give any example of an implied contract because it is out of reason; they are self-explanatory in our daily existance as we associate our daily actions and agreements we impose on eachother. My merry existance on "Slashdot.org" as "AnonymousCowheard" _implies_ I have accepted the terms-of-use contract that I was presented by slashdot.org's administators or owners; it is not misleading, it is a pain in the ass for people that lack the perception to comprehend the contracts adhesive to their living status (self). Another example would be of you or I contracting the Flu virus while we are sleaping: obviously our bodies agreed to let the Flu virus affect our bodies, we know it is the Flu virus and our bodies accepted its entry and we start hurling our food. As a general rule of implied contracts; the contract must have been presented to your agent before it was implied: implied contracts are presumably bearable by those of us that recognize their useage. Such as those of us that are citizens of the United States, State Citizens, or rarely United States Citizens due to our agreement of law: representative republics tend to be simpler for those of us that need a more competent "representative" to interpret laws while others are sovereign and retain their sovereignty by their retained explicate erudition via representing or comptetently granting fiduciary representation to someone else (voting) or truthfully retaining their sovereignty by acting upon their persona of prescribed foreign policies. The inability to perceive evidence of an implied contract is dismissable in court because of the plaintiff's lack of competancy or breach of a granted agent to AGREE to the contacts that are subjective to you. Sadly, I must give you an example: A laptop computer is purchased and it is bundled with software. You didn't ask for the software, yet by using the software you have implied acceptance of the licenses (contracts!) that the said patented software has registered!
Now you know how to dispute contracts. They are of an organized administrative jurisprudence, within an institution that has been defined in uniform commercial code, and only applicable should you/persona/company acts upon such code as law. This draws a conclusion on certain *commercial* corporations: Microsoft and Norton are commercial for-profit organizations, while GNU is a commercial non-profit organization that accepts "donations" much as would a church only accepts "donations" yet will upon-demand compensate the employees for their time.
Microsoft and Norton: avoid them, their contracts/end-user-license-agreements disallow ownership of your computer software and grant various non-commercial organizations (cough*United States LLC*cough*illegal*) jurisdiction to infringe upon your "rights" (if you accepted the United States Constitution beyond the 13th ammendment, then you are a slave...re-organize yourself/check-out the Constitution of 1867, as recorded by the Colorado Territory States' Court Archives of the Recorder, as the last and ONLY LEGALLY RATIFIED constitution).
As for my status, I am sovereign...I have not agreed or accepted any contract and I have intentionaly placed contracts upon organizations as they tried to do unto me, just so I may retain my sovereignty and help prevent the religious persecution within this back-country I know as America. Yes, by use of Slashdot, and generaly the acceptance of contracts of the Telephone company and Internet Service Providers, you may think I have expressed or possibly *implied* acceptance of all sorts of contracts and have supposedly granted jurisdiction of some foreign regulative body to the United States' owner of unownable magnetic and RF radiation: Federal Communications' Commission, as well as the FBI and CIA and the IRS; yet I am sovereign and affirm that I am much more intelligent than they and will anticipate their every encroachment on my freedoms as did the T1000 upon the T100 in Terminator 2 (cough*never mind the ending*cough). To operate in daily life and retain my sovereignty is difficult because of all these adhesive contracts, yet I am sentient and especialy competent in this premise and know the laws I must honor as well as their credibility.
Returning to an expression of a state of ontopicn and general informative: this article's dispute of the implied contract of the End-User-License-Agreements perpetuated by Norton; they are consentual: by using the software, its USER has agreed to be bound by the elements of Norton's subjective contracts. Yes, this is controversial; there is a difference between someone who INSTALLS and someone who is USING the software. The INSTALLER acted on your behalf, known as FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP, and INSTALLED software that you would be bound by the terms of its useage should you use it (it is considered in-use while not active). Don't use/run the software, if you disagree: uninstall it immediatly as if it were the plague! The status of such End-User-License-Agreements are initialization to the future presentment of such being an implied contract. Yes, read those contracts if you consider yourself an honerable person or individual! Yes, Linux is all about about freedom from AGREEABLY oppressive organizations (United States LLC included)! Yes, get rid of that Microsoft stuff and use somthing licensed under the Gnu Public License becaus the "GPL" is all about freedom! GNU and its GPL is verry kind, fair, respectable, honerable, and LEGAL! The GPL doesn't grant any regulation to any organization, so in effect even it may be difficult to assure its compliance other than GPL::VOLUNTARY FREEDOM. Every peice of software must receive your validation for its install for you to comprehend the subordination against you by the many merciless and disgusting organizations; you are considered chattel property to some organizations.
Good luck!
To quote a great Libertarian: When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
Territories/Countries in the colder climates of North America and other cold areas, often their commercial businesses/markets sell batteries rated at more cranking amps. Reason being is it is more difficult to "start" a car in cold weather, so they just sell better batteries. This is one good reason to live in Winnipeg; I bet they sell GREAT! car batteries.
*just trying to recover some happy faces that didn't agree with my troll*
Of'course it is a nice and ripe 64 degrees Fahrenheit here in California, while Whinipeg is way down there.:(
Hurts to be in Winnipeg right now. Enjoy the comfort and ease a Bus offers! I've rode in busses before and they have desirable features for people who can't or simply choose not to ride a bicycle in the cold. I've always rode bikes no matter what wheather; use chains (i'm trolling again), wear comfy layered clothing (in a blizzard too), bring a thermos of hot chocolate milk (ha, I'm dreaming).
Please forgive me of my obvious troll. I suppose Canadians can't recognise humor when they see it!:) Forgive me again!
*ducks and runs for cover from the yellow snowballs*
You'll save ~ $30 per month by not taking the bus. Use a bicycle of some kind; I do! I am not profiling anyone, but I must say that my literacy does have a tremendous impact on my physical limitations; computer work just lets your body become weaker by the month. Not only that, the chicks don't dig a guy that is overly-skinny or morbidly obese. Using a bicycle to get to your day job or university/school is much more healthy: you train the parts of the body the females/chicks/women are attracted to as well as improve your ability to pounce and beat the living fuck out of the jocks that harass and defame us nobel geeks for choosing a life-cycle that tends to lack physical and material stature. Now before anyone flames me on sounding irrational, yes it took me some time to become accustomed to my over-use of bicycles. My job is related to metallurgy, physics and chemistry; I will not tell you where, I'd like to remain somwhat unknown/anonymous on slashdot. I ride to my day job one way at 36 miles, a 2.5 hour ride, and I ride all the way back when I'm done. I've even dis-liked the legacy design of bicycles that I engineered and welded my own bicycle so it is built for speed and stability in the common case of jumping curbs or hitting excessive pot-holes in the road.
I'm a geek, I ride a bike, and I'm a naturally-born sentient sovereign individual that accepts and agrees, expressed or implied, to my unalienable right to non-restricted travel. I'm quite common upon my declaration because I have engineered a homebrew implementation of a 11-horsepower lawn-mower engine and custom manual transmission on the rear of my cruiser-bike/kart and some United States employees attempt to cite me for any regulation I was not contracted because I do not accept "traveling" as a privilege by "Driver's License."
You are supposed to exploit your resources to the fullest! Pick any laundromat durring the hours of 11:00pm and 3:00am, bring 5 lbs of slugs (fake quarters), and brew to your heart's content!
Can you imagine...A BEOwulf cluster of brew......should complete all your brewing work in little time. I have a friend that works for a cattle rancher and they visit all the beer breweries early in the morning to get free grain after the brewers are done with it. Apparently, the brewers soak the grain in hot water to remove the starch and this is what they use to supplement/make their brand of fresh beer. Free grain means a nice free/hot breakfast (add sugar and cream) as well as a free meal for your cattle...and boy, they collect thousands of pounds of grain! You wouldn't imagine how much beer people demand to warrant such a high volume of grain!
Building software to Unix specifications (POSIX) offers the software to retain its portability, but the games you and many are talking about were designed not to be portable. Most games are built to be platform-specific with no ability for the end-user to migrate them to another platform. Gaming companies know they can make more money by letting the platform obsolete itself and then make the game new to sell on the next platform. Although companies that offer a platform that retains portability with previous platforms will have good profit and retain its end-users verry well.
Enter Unix; the platform is but an obscure puzzle peice that is omnipotent and fits every puzzle ever made. Enter GPL; software *can* be made portable.
Thanks to the GPL, OpenOffice is platform independant.
Dictionary.com's definition of terrorism: The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
I think Dictionary.com is being inspired (terrorized?) by politician to change the definition of terrorism to somthing that a politician would say. Look at the elements of "terrorism", that Dictionary.com provided, and look at the gaping holes they couldn't close-up.
My definition of terrorism:
To inspire fear.
Dictionary.com's definition(s?) of terror: 1. Intense, overpowering fear 2. One that instills intense fear 3. The ability to instill intense fear 4. Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes. 5. Informal. An annoying or intolerable pest
It appears Dictionary.com is being influenced by Politics to evolve the definition of "Terrorism" and "Terror" to be resolved within the realms of "for military or political purposes" and not as a generalized usage by demonstration. Hence, I am a terrorist because of my political motivations? Non-sense, I am a terrorist relative to the statment of whoever has received and bear witness my actions. TRUE: I am a terrorist to cockroaches because I used RAID in the server room. TRUE: I am a terrorist to grocery stores because I exhibit a secret desire to secretly squeeze (damage) every loaf of bread I see.
Confirm this with me, will yuh? And don't terrorize the moderators on slashdot... (you know you want to...do it NOW!):)
RMS' GPL is not absolute freedom. It is a verry goodly and honerable license that establishes a freedom for the sole software's devloper/owner to release the software to the world without risk of liability.
The companies that don't release software under the GPL often establish their own release of liability which may or may not be honest. In respects of freedom, the GPL is honest: it does not construe words or confuse people that do not understand the premise of the license.
The GPL, as do all licenses, establishes a contract that disallows elements of conduct that may arise of usage of the GPL software. The GPL is not freedom. If you want freedom, then you get everything with it, including risk of being held liable for a software not operating to someone else's standards as expressed or implied by the creation or intent of the software.
The GPL simply establishes the pre-tense of freedom whereas the software is provided, here it is, nobody is held liable for its use or misuse or expressed or implied merchantability of fitness, and then establishes the methods of how the software may be modified and distributed.
Freedom has no conditions, the GPL establishes fairness for interfacing with freedom; people can't see the implications because (to my objectionable judgment) they are unable to look beyond the worthless Federal Reserve Notes because they are placed into a position to depend on Federal Reserve Notes.
To be honest on what free software is...it has no name, unknown origin, unknown developer, and of which no known origin of propagation: retaining all your freedoms to apply the subjective software to any dispute of law. The GPL simply supports the patent of software by its owner, retaining the tradmark, releasing liability from the owner, retaining owner's merit of being the original sole developer, and provides a honest ruleset for the owner of the software to grant a freedom by contract to the usage of the software.
In essence, software without a license is free software, not software released under the GPL. Free software is simply PASSED-ALONG and is unknown and nobody claims ownership of it and as well anyone can claim ownership of it and all the liability it may conjure.
In a perfect world, you can buy your apples, dissect, modify, study, document, and eat them. In a slave world, you can buy apples and may only eat them blind-folded.
Companies that muster a profit on selling software will only recognized EVERYONE as a criminal that only buys software to STEAL it to other people who didn't pay for it. Sure, all the companies want to give their work away for free, but they want to be compensated for their hard work so they can fund future development. The GPL does not recognize future development, it establishes software on verry goodly and honerable conditions of a freedom with limitations on the application of freedom that may or may not impede the release of software intended to be free.
I somehwat disagree with your implied notion that all vandals are childish. In a more constitutional world, we would recognize that any act of damage caused by someone intentionaly is a perpetuated STATE OF WAR. I don't know what your political, corporate, or government affiliation, yet on my "Constitution" I recognize that anyone that violates my unalienable rights is in-fact acting in a way that suggests a STATE OF WAR. Now let me get to my point... People who attempt to break into other computers with malicious intent are known today as crackers; in a way, yes they are waring with everyone. There is another cracker group that has emerged, yet they have made their acts of war legal through manipulation of politics; this organization is known as the RIAA and they have legally justified their destruction of other computers at their freedom. Who is more childish: unorganized crackers or the RIAA? Neither... outside recognition of a law, both of these groups are maintaining a STATE OF WAR. To my understanding, children are naturally destructive and not aware of any wrong-doing on their part. Crackers and RIAA are in a world of their own and know what they are doing.
Of'course, I could pass you the same bong I was breathing from...but then you'ld be as intelligent as me.:)
The name sticks: RedHat Certified Engineer! The name is savily between cultures...not a whitehat, not a blackhat; we are RedHat! The ceritification delves its applicants into traditional Unix integration: RedHat Certified Engineer! It isn't a training program that holds you by the mouse and walks you through a well-lit room: RedHat Certified Engineer!
Whoever those lucky-bastards in that small town are, they better have a good Trekkar fanclub because if they don't then there is no reason for them to brag!
Now when I'm at a local mall payphone holding my data aquisition and abstraction terminal, people would not need to ask what I'm doing: "hey, by the looks of that badge on this trekkar cadet's uniform, he must be one of those far-out RHCE's that is here to re-allign the building's energy-field matrix to a more optimum dispertion."
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As you smoke that crack pipe, explaining your 12yearold self to not smoke the crack pipe, go remind 3DRealms that Project Managment Courses in college are a Good Thing(TM).
What part of general-purpose do people not understand? I didn't say Linux wasn't modular. I implied that Linux's flexibility comes at a cost of disk usage AND I am speaking in the scope that the average commercial-retail distribution of Linux comes with drivers that will not be used. Hence, there is reason for companies to research monolithic operating system/environments that have a more marginal footprint with features that aren't exaggerated marketing hype. Yes, multi-tasking was received by the world as marketing hype; slandered by Microsoft Windows 3.x. HINT: my gzipped linux kernel image is about 1.75MegaBytes, not including the modules outside of it and pre-built with only a couple platform dependant drivers that I require to boot (serial.o, tulip.o, framebuffer, ncr???.o;scsi). When was the last time someone checked RedHat 8.0's linux kernel footprint? Compare that average footprint with Debian's, SuSE's, SlackWare's, Mandrake's, Lindows', then eCos, then RTLinux, then finally compare that footprint (overhead) with another operating system kernel's footprint such as QNX/BeOS/PalmOS/Plan9/or_what_have_we.
Please forgive me for not responding sooner, someone on my subnet or perhaps a slashdot bug, has triggered slashdot to make me wait 24hours to post a reply.
Until Linux gets chopped-up and more logicall sorted, the Linux kernel will keep growing. Think of all the drivers people are downloading and will never use.
Last time I checked, Linux may not be desirable in handhelds because the kernel is growing, growing, growing and the new features don't realy put a dent in the desire for such computing that needs to be small and quick on the sleep and resume modes. Much of Linux' embedded features are added by special-interest companies and may or may not be free. This supposed fact proves IBM is looking for a beginning product that has all these features already built. We know Microsoft does the same: looking for startups with an interesting merit, buy them out, embrace, and extend. Or IBM is trying to keep the world competing by investing with other companies. It makes sense; in other related news, Linux wouldn't be any good without a competitor to compare it with. Now we can compare Linux with PalmOS, whatever else IBM may choose, and perhaps that is why so many operation-specific operating systems have spuriously appeared these last 5 years...trying to fill the gap Linux can't always fill, yet still every advancment is complimentary to eachother unless the destructivness of the patent system invades...
Entrepreneur: QuickTime is the latest business machine that lets you go back in time and correct all the bad business decisions you made.
Boss Hog: We need to go back and dump sugar in them Duke Brothers' gas tank. Get onto it, Rosco!
IBM HINT: There is no QuickTime...
They are trying to tax bits of information that have already been purchased(aka contracted) and secured. If this tax is activated, it would be equally true that after I buy my groceries I am taxed as eating a separate meal with every spork-full serving of food that I insert into my mouth.
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What living bipedal organisms would ask for the government to put taxes on services rendered, that have already been taxed?
Obviously, we are not dealing with living bipedal organisms...
This is also an issue of TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION. What services are offered for paying such a "tax", why do they not recognize the contractual relationship as this "tax" being formed as an "optional" service, and who recognizes that the internet is composed of private communications networks that can't legally be taxed?
This "tax" is a violation all the way, up and down, my Constitution; me being a sovereign State.
I need the karma. :p
Dictionary.com's conspiracy:
1. An agreement to perform together an illegal, wrongful, or subversive act.
2. A group of conspirators.
3. Law. An agreement between two or more persons to commit a crime or accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action.
4. A joining or acting together, as if by sinister design: a conspiracy of wind and tide that devastated coastal areas.
I don't remember "conspiracy" being applied under any of these elements other than a stretch of element 1. Anyone else notice this? And what is dictionary.com smoking on the definition/element 3: "...accomplish a legal purpose through illegal action"? That's like me clubbing-to-death my immediate relative and receiving inheritance as defined in "the will". How is that illegal when it is obvious she died of *natural* causes? Fractured skulles are natural, no?
I was intending to target this post or was it a slashdot bug?
Those of us that have use of DRI's accelerated openGL on computer platforms other than X86 will finally receive possibilities! But wait, the Tenebrae project maintainers stated they will only be builing Tenebrae version 2 for nVidia graphics accelerators. Back to the darkage... ATI Radeon was the only graphics accelerator with reasonable DRI support. The initial Tenebrae, with its Quake1 support, will work fine. Yet, looks as if the rest of us may need to wait for ID Software to release the Quake3 engine under the GPL, just to receive capability of support on the higher computing and rendering platforms that are superior to X86 (/shameless plug).
Remember 6 years ago when ATI was just another company marketing driver promises that never happened? Does anyone remember the ATI RAGE line of products?
ATI Rage
ATI Rage II
ATI Rage II+DVD
ATI 3D Rage
ATI 3D Rage Pro
ATI 3D Pro Turbo
ATI 3D Pro Turbo + PC2TV
ATI NimbleCannuxFuckfest
Don't receive this as flamebait...i'm watering my pink flamingos as I dictate this to my garden gnome...
Now that ATI is king of the hill, we will see nothing but crappy products from now on. Why? Because ATI has clearly scaled the Radeon to the maximum potential and we will now hear all kinds of product releases with exaggerated features masked under marketing hype and the same stretch-marked graphics technology...for a whole 'nother product lifecycle because nVidia its only competitor is having difficulty competing on *feature-biproduct-waste*. Why do we need unnecessary framerate and why haven't we seen any awesome low-power full-featured graphics chipsets? Speaking of HIGH-power, nVidia is obviously meeting the ceiling of their design too; the technology scales by power usage: pump-up the power, sell it as an *advanced* product.
A real innovation would be somthing as low-power and with clever drivers (PowerVR's Kyro2) that yields highest performance (ATI's Radeon) with most precision (nVidia's GeForceFX). Yes, here comes 3DLabs' VPU...Oh, and look...3DLabs continues its legacy as the cadillac of graphics accelerators by-their graphics accelerator weighing as much and is equal in length to: a CADILLAC!
The world has no shame...give me efficient power usage or give me death. Just because some of us are on a nuclear reactor doesn't mean we need to operate at full capacity of the nuclear reactor.
Pretty much everybody who has ever pressed the line of tax protest that you describe, has done time for it. I think it was irresponsible of you not to mention that detail.
... IT IS UPTO YOU AND THE STATES UNITED WITH YOU TO OPPOSE THIS EVIL ENTITY!
Yes, you are true. You must also recognize the scope of "doing time" for "violating" so-called "Internal Revenue Code" that you did not contractually agree to. When people are searched and seized by unlawful agents, YOU ALL MUST RECOGNIZE THESE UNLAWFUL AGENTS ARE "PERPETUATING AN UNLAWFULLY IMPLIED STATE OF WAR" AND
I know many people thrown in jail. Many who are not "citizens of the United States", neither "United States Citizens", neither "United States citizens", neither "Federal Persons". The "United States" (LLC, irresponsible federal corporation at large) maintanes a State of War and opposed whoever that lawfully does not submit to their pagan authorities.
Fishbowl, the fact that separates us from animals is our ability to recognize laws and make covenants with eachother as well as deities, both pagan and deity. The IRS both abuses and uses the institutions that recognize "Contract Law" for its advantage to conceal its Waring on us as either justified or legal (in a sense of reliance of "ignorance" on the general public).
When the agents come to you, you can either 1)do your best to avoid them, 2)submit to them and accept whatever marks they give you, 3)submit to them and expose their evil, 4)recognize their corruptness/evil and out-right oppose them based on well-defined criteria thus recognizing their State of War and attempt to destroy them.
I choose element "1" and element "4". It was nice knowing you...life is short.
[It isn't writing to the Boot Sector. It's righting to Sector 33 of the boot sector.]
Do you have shit between your ears, or are your ears coated with shit?
The beginning of the boot sector is what gets run first. TurboTax thinks it can use a part of the boot sector regardless of the chance the "bootloader program" may need ALL of the boot sector.
TurboTax is not classified as being a program that must directly access the bootsector in any way, shape, or form.
TurboTax's only forseable purpose is automate the filing of taxes. TurboTax must have made an agreement with the end-user, by implied contract, that it may do such a thing as modifying the boot sector or perhaps declares that it reserves its right of doing whatever it wants on your harddrive.
You TurboTax end-users have two options...
1) Uninstall TurboTax and return it to the origin of purchase or to the makers of TurboTax, thus receiving gratification and possibly no receivance of refund,
2) Uninstall TurboTax, skewer, burn, crush, package, and send the property back to the makers of TurboTax (recognizing it is their property, not yours, unlike GPL'd software), and use a GPL'd Application that may or may not agree with the perceived standpoint of the IRS and may actually be more constitutional.
Enjoy!
Federal Taxation is optional; it is contractual.
You are not a "Taxpayer" until you contract with the IRS using the 1040(!).
If you do not file a 1040(!), you are not violating law.
If you do not file a 1040(!), you risk unwaranted searches and seizures from agents acting Fiduciary for the IRS or illegally acting Fiduciary for you.
When you DON'T grant someone the privilege of unwaranted searches and seizures, they are perpetuating an unlawfully impied State of War; yes, you know what you *should* do: violat their laws against keeping and bearing guns and blow them to smitherines!
By the blood of the cross of Jesus Christ, you have been, as parable, "rending unto caezar". The only difference now and 2003.3 years ago is you are being forced at gun-point to pay, use, and breath with Federal Reserve Notes (these are not money, they are promise-notes of banks to pay and there is no gold in the federal reserve!) and you have not receive representation by the "taxation" expressed or implied.
What is the IRS? http://chansen.tzo.com
The IRS will not forgive you of not paying your taxes.
BECAUSE IT IS NOT THEIRS TO FORGIVE, THEY ARE STEALING IT!
The IRS wants to collect "Income Tax" from a "Taxpayer". The process to act in persona as a "Taxpayer", you need to first be elligible as a "Federal Person" and you must submit the contract to declare yourself a "Taxpayer" and also grant the IRS Fiduciary controll of your Trust with the United States corporation; using some form of the 1040 contract.
Is this legal? Yes, you contracted it. Is it legal for the IRS to propose the 1040(?) onto you? NO, it is not legal; they ask the organization, who contracted your persona, to propose the 1040(?) onto you. If you are a citizen of the United States, then you may be automatically signed-up because as a 14th ammedment citizen, your rights are contractual. If you are a State (ie one of the few remaining States that are united on principle and honor: united States), then you reserve your unalienable right to make coventants (contracts) with whomever you choose and the IRS is quite optional.
Who am I? I am a sovereign State and I recognize that the IRS is a division of the United States (LLC, irresponsible federal corporation at large).
Where will you receive in-depth propoganda, evidence, and insightful demonstration on the status of you and the United States LLC? Goto http://chansen.tzo.com. The United States is a communist organization attempting to subjugate you, me, and the rest of the world into converting everyone's status and "personage" to a Reversionary Beneficiary Grantor Cestui est que Trust. What does that mean in common english terms? It means your labor, your time, your influence, is owned by someone else, what property that is yours is granted to you and reversioned back to the owner of you (a master) upon your death/cease of existance; you are indirectly defines as chattel property.
susan_otter,
I would like to congratulate you upon your attempt to interpret the implicated evidence you received as applicable to the understanding of verbal (oral), written, and implied (unwritten/unseen/implied) contracts. I do not know who implied these definitions of contracts that you have submitted, yet I will correct you where you may have incorrectly perceived by concept of your receival of their implications...
Implied contracts:
That kind of contract wherein the physical acts, rather than spoken or written words, result in the parties mutual agreement to be bound to each other.
Let me be first to advise you that implied contracts, by definition, are LEGALLY BINDING whithout the parties in agreemant(s) understanding or comprehension of the terms/conditions of the said implied contract. Here in the States, some State Governments, not to be confused with States (States are of a people and not the government thereof), may or may not allow implied contracts due to their ability to construe law. Many years ago, the term "Ozium" was used to reference an unseen contract: implied contract. Now, you will rarely see such terminology because the people working against us have burried such words in pretence. However, regardless of the legality of useage of implied contracts, it affects all States by their founding, beyond, and are inexorably recognized and applied internationally (mostly against us).
I *should* not give any example of an implied contract because it is out of reason; they are self-explanatory in our daily existance as we associate our daily actions and agreements we impose on eachother. My merry existance on "Slashdot.org" as "AnonymousCowheard" _implies_ I have accepted the terms-of-use contract that I was presented by slashdot.org's administators or owners; it is not misleading, it is a pain in the ass for people that lack the perception to comprehend the contracts adhesive to their living status (self). Another example would be of you or I contracting the Flu virus while we are sleaping: obviously our bodies agreed to let the Flu virus affect our bodies, we know it is the Flu virus and our bodies accepted its entry and we start hurling our food. As a general rule of implied contracts; the contract must have been presented to your agent before it was implied: implied contracts are presumably bearable by those of us that recognize their useage. Such as those of us that are citizens of the United States, State Citizens, or rarely United States Citizens due to our agreement of law: representative republics tend to be simpler for those of us that need a more competent "representative" to interpret laws while others are sovereign and retain their sovereignty by their retained explicate erudition via representing or comptetently granting fiduciary representation to someone else (voting) or truthfully retaining their sovereignty by acting upon their persona of prescribed foreign policies. The inability to perceive evidence of an implied contract is dismissable in court because of the plaintiff's lack of competancy or breach of a granted agent to AGREE to the contacts that are subjective to you. Sadly, I must give you an example:
A laptop computer is purchased and it is bundled with software. You didn't ask for the software, yet by using the software you have implied acceptance of the licenses (contracts!) that the said patented software has registered!
Now you know how to dispute contracts. They are of an organized administrative jurisprudence, within an institution that has been defined in uniform commercial code, and only applicable should you/persona/company acts upon such code as law. This draws a conclusion on certain *commercial* corporations: Microsoft and Norton are commercial for-profit organizations, while GNU is a commercial non-profit organization that accepts "donations" much as would a church only accepts "donations" yet will upon-demand compensate the employees for their time.
Microsoft and Norton: avoid them, their contracts/end-user-license-agreements disallow ownership of your computer software and grant various non-commercial organizations (cough*United States LLC*cough*illegal*) jurisdiction to infringe upon your "rights" (if you accepted the United States Constitution beyond the 13th ammendment, then you are a slave...re-organize yourself/check-out the Constitution of 1867, as recorded by the Colorado Territory States' Court Archives of the Recorder, as the last and ONLY LEGALLY RATIFIED constitution).
As for my status, I am sovereign...I have not agreed or accepted any contract and I have intentionaly placed contracts upon organizations as they tried to do unto me, just so I may retain my sovereignty and help prevent the religious persecution within this back-country I know as America. Yes, by use of Slashdot, and generaly the acceptance of contracts of the Telephone company and Internet Service Providers, you may think I have expressed or possibly *implied* acceptance of all sorts of contracts and have supposedly granted jurisdiction of some foreign regulative body to the United States' owner of unownable magnetic and RF radiation: Federal Communications' Commission, as well as the FBI and CIA and the IRS; yet I am sovereign and affirm that I am much more intelligent than they and will anticipate their every encroachment on my freedoms as did the T1000 upon the T100 in Terminator 2 (cough*never mind the ending*cough). To operate in daily life and retain my sovereignty is difficult because of all these adhesive contracts, yet I am sentient and especialy competent in this premise and know the laws I must honor as well as their credibility.
Returning to an expression of a state of ontopicn and general informative: this article's dispute of the implied contract of the End-User-License-Agreements perpetuated by Norton; they are consentual: by using the software, its USER has agreed to be bound by the elements of Norton's subjective contracts. Yes, this is controversial; there is a difference between someone who INSTALLS and someone who is USING the software. The INSTALLER acted on your behalf, known as FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIP, and INSTALLED software that you would be bound by the terms of its useage should you use it (it is considered in-use while not active). Don't use/run the software, if you disagree: uninstall it immediatly as if it were the plague! The status of such End-User-License-Agreements are initialization to the future presentment of such being an implied contract. Yes, read those contracts if you consider yourself an honerable person or individual! Yes, Linux is all about about freedom from AGREEABLY oppressive organizations (United States LLC included)! Yes, get rid of that Microsoft stuff and use somthing licensed under the Gnu Public License becaus the "GPL" is all about freedom! GNU and its GPL is verry kind, fair, respectable, honerable, and LEGAL! The GPL doesn't grant any regulation to any organization, so in effect even it may be difficult to assure its compliance other than GPL::VOLUNTARY FREEDOM. Every peice of software must receive your validation for its install for you to comprehend the subordination against you by the many merciless and disgusting organizations; you are considered chattel property to some organizations.
Good luck!
To quote a great Libertarian:
When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs.
When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent.
When they took the second amendment, I said nothing because I don't own a gun.
Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.
Tim Freeman tsf@cs.cmu.edu
Fact:
Territories/Countries in the colder climates of North America and other cold areas, often their commercial businesses/markets sell batteries rated at more cranking amps. Reason being is it is more difficult to "start" a car in cold weather, so they just sell better batteries. This is one good reason to live in Winnipeg; I bet they sell GREAT! car batteries.
*just trying to recover some happy faces that didn't agree with my troll*
So you live in Winnipeg, eh?
Still want to defend Winnipeg, eh?
Well Guffah! Look at this! These people in the Winnipeg Bicycle Cafe sure as cold hell aren't complaining about the cold!
It is Winnipeg we are talking about.
:(
:) Forgive me again!
I was trolling.
Of'course it is a nice and ripe 64 degrees Fahrenheit here in California, while Whinipeg is way down there.
Hurts to be in Winnipeg right now. Enjoy the comfort and ease a Bus offers! I've rode in busses before and they have desirable features for people who can't or simply choose not to ride a bicycle in the cold. I've always rode bikes no matter what wheather; use chains (i'm trolling again), wear comfy layered clothing (in a blizzard too), bring a thermos of hot chocolate milk (ha, I'm dreaming).
Please forgive me of my obvious troll. I suppose Canadians can't recognise humor when they see it!
*ducks and runs for cover from the yellow snowballs*
You'll save ~ $30 per month by not taking the bus. Use a bicycle of some kind; I do! I am not profiling anyone, but I must say that my literacy does have a tremendous impact on my physical limitations; computer work just lets your body become weaker by the month. Not only that, the chicks don't dig a guy that is overly-skinny or morbidly obese. Using a bicycle to get to your day job or university/school is much more healthy: you train the parts of the body the females/chicks/women are attracted to as well as improve your ability to pounce and beat the living fuck out of the jocks that harass and defame us nobel geeks for choosing a life-cycle that tends to lack physical and material stature. Now before anyone flames me on sounding irrational, yes it took me some time to become accustomed to my over-use of bicycles. My job is related to metallurgy, physics and chemistry; I will not tell you where, I'd like to remain somwhat unknown/anonymous on slashdot. I ride to my day job one way at 36 miles, a 2.5 hour ride, and I ride all the way back when I'm done. I've even dis-liked the legacy design of bicycles that I engineered and welded my own bicycle so it is built for speed and stability in the common case of jumping curbs or hitting excessive pot-holes in the road.
I'm a geek, I ride a bike, and I'm a naturally-born sentient sovereign individual that accepts and agrees, expressed or implied, to my unalienable right to non-restricted travel. I'm quite common upon my declaration because I have engineered a homebrew implementation of a 11-horsepower lawn-mower engine and custom manual transmission on the rear of my cruiser-bike/kart and some United States employees attempt to cite me for any regulation I was not contracted because I do not accept "traveling" as a privilege by "Driver's License."
'nuff said.
What kind of man are you???
...should complete all your brewing work in little time. I have a friend that works for a cattle rancher and they visit all the beer breweries early in the morning to get free grain after the brewers are done with it. Apparently, the brewers soak the grain in hot water to remove the starch and this is what they use to supplement/make their brand of fresh beer. Free grain means a nice free/hot breakfast (add sugar and cream) as well as a free meal for your cattle...and boy, they collect thousands of pounds of grain! You wouldn't imagine how much beer people demand to warrant such a high volume of grain!
You are supposed to exploit your resources to the fullest! Pick any laundromat durring the hours of 11:00pm and 3:00am, bring 5 lbs of slugs (fake quarters), and brew to your heart's content!
Can you imagine...A BEOwulf cluster of brew...
Building software to Unix specifications (POSIX) offers the software to retain its portability, but the games you and many are talking about were designed not to be portable. Most games are built to be platform-specific with no ability for the end-user to migrate them to another platform. Gaming companies know they can make more money by letting the platform obsolete itself and then make the game new to sell on the next platform. Although companies that offer a platform that retains portability with previous platforms will have good profit and retain its end-users verry well.
Enter Unix; the platform is but an obscure puzzle peice that is omnipotent and fits every puzzle ever made.
Enter GPL; software *can* be made portable.
Thanks to the GPL, OpenOffice is platform independant.
Dictionary.com's definition of terrorism:
:)
The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.
I think Dictionary.com is being inspired (terrorized?) by politician to change the definition of terrorism to somthing that a politician would say. Look at the elements of "terrorism", that Dictionary.com provided, and look at the gaping holes they couldn't close-up.
My definition of terrorism:
To inspire fear.
Dictionary.com's definition(s?) of terror:
1. Intense, overpowering fear
2. One that instills intense fear
3. The ability to instill intense fear
4. Violence committed or threatened by a group to intimidate or coerce a population, as for military or political purposes.
5. Informal. An annoying or intolerable pest
It appears Dictionary.com is being influenced by Politics to evolve the definition of "Terrorism" and "Terror" to be resolved within the realms of "for military or political purposes" and not as a generalized usage by demonstration. Hence, I am a terrorist because of my political motivations? Non-sense, I am a terrorist relative to the statment of whoever has received and bear witness my actions. TRUE: I am a terrorist to cockroaches because I used RAID in the server room. TRUE: I am a terrorist to grocery stores because I exhibit a secret desire to secretly squeeze (damage) every loaf of bread I see.
Confirm this with me, will yuh? And don't terrorize the moderators on slashdot... (you know you want to...do it NOW!)
RMS' GPL is not absolute freedom. It is a verry goodly and honerable license that establishes a freedom for the sole software's devloper/owner to release the software to the world without risk of liability.
The companies that don't release software under the GPL often establish their own release of liability which may or may not be honest. In respects of freedom, the GPL is honest: it does not construe words or confuse people that do not understand the premise of the license.
The GPL, as do all licenses, establishes a contract that disallows elements of conduct that may arise of usage of the GPL software. The GPL is not freedom. If you want freedom, then you get everything with it, including risk of being held liable for a software not operating to someone else's standards as expressed or implied by the creation or intent of the software.
The GPL simply establishes the pre-tense of freedom whereas the software is provided, here it is, nobody is held liable for its use or misuse or expressed or implied merchantability of fitness, and then establishes the methods of how the software may be modified and distributed.
Freedom has no conditions, the GPL establishes fairness for interfacing with freedom; people can't see the implications because (to my objectionable judgment) they are unable to look beyond the worthless Federal Reserve Notes because they are placed into a position to depend on Federal Reserve Notes.
To be honest on what free software is...it has no name, unknown origin, unknown developer, and of which no known origin of propagation: retaining all your freedoms to apply the subjective software to any dispute of law. The GPL simply supports the patent of software by its owner, retaining the tradmark, releasing liability from the owner, retaining owner's merit of being the original sole developer, and provides a honest ruleset for the owner of the software to grant a freedom by contract to the usage of the software.
In essence, software without a license is free software, not software released under the GPL. Free software is simply PASSED-ALONG and is unknown and nobody claims ownership of it and as well anyone can claim ownership of it and all the liability it may conjure.
In a perfect world, you can buy your apples, dissect, modify, study, document, and eat them. In a slave world, you can buy apples and may only eat them blind-folded.
Companies that muster a profit on selling software will only recognized EVERYONE as a criminal that only buys software to STEAL it to other people who didn't pay for it. Sure, all the companies want to give their work away for free, but they want to be compensated for their hard work so they can fund future development. The GPL does not recognize future development, it establishes software on verry goodly and honerable conditions of a freedom with limitations on the application of freedom that may or may not impede the release of software intended to be free.
rgmoore,
:)
I somehwat disagree with your implied notion that all vandals are childish. In a more constitutional world, we would recognize that any act of damage caused by someone intentionaly is a perpetuated STATE OF WAR. I don't know what your political, corporate, or government affiliation, yet on my "Constitution" I recognize that anyone that violates my unalienable rights is in-fact acting in a way that suggests a STATE OF WAR. Now let me get to my point... People who attempt to break into other computers with malicious intent are known today as crackers; in a way, yes they are waring with everyone. There is another cracker group that has emerged, yet they have made their acts of war legal through manipulation of politics; this organization is known as the RIAA and they have legally justified their destruction of other computers at their freedom. Who is more childish: unorganized crackers or the RIAA? Neither... outside recognition of a law, both of these groups are maintaining a STATE OF WAR. To my understanding, children are naturally destructive and not aware of any wrong-doing on their part. Crackers and RIAA are in a world of their own and know what they are doing.
Of'course, I could pass you the same bong I was breathing from...but then you'ld be as intelligent as me.
The name sticks: RedHat Certified Engineer!
The name is savily between cultures...not a whitehat, not a blackhat; we are RedHat!
The ceritification delves its applicants into traditional Unix integration: RedHat Certified Engineer!
It isn't a training program that holds you by the mouse and walks you through a well-lit room: RedHat Certified Engineer!
Whoever those lucky-bastards in that small town are, they better have a good Trekkar fanclub because if they don't then there is no reason for them to brag!
Now when I'm at a local mall payphone holding my data aquisition and abstraction terminal, people would not need to ask what I'm doing: "hey, by the looks of that badge on this trekkar cadet's uniform, he must be one of those far-out RHCE's that is here to re-allign the building's energy-field matrix to a more optimum dispertion."