We should be defending the country not bailing out rich airline companies that we dont REALLY need.
Air travel is not something which needs to be bailed out, its not something we need for survival, i can see if it was for medicine, or to test our water for bio attacks but air planes? just take a train or car or bus.
Ok just because the anthrax they tried on us now didnt work, doesnt mean they wont try again.
They tried for years to bomb the world trade until they got it right.
We have more than anthrax to worry about, stuff like small pox would be unstopable, and then you have problems with custom made bio weapons that iraq and the soviets have both which terrorists have access to.
Then what about nuclear suitcase bombs? We have to worry about those too.
200 billion was enough when we didnt have terrorists all over the world targetting us like they are now. But now we should raise this budget to 400 billion.
Which means we need to raise taxes.
You are right, we dont have control of where the taxes go and we will never have control over this.
What we can control is how much money we give them, Raising taxes at this time i believe would be good because we know for a fact more money is going to defense now, because all the house, senate and people who decide where they money goes are actually worried.
If we pay more for taxes it gives them more money to work with.
Dont give me this "you can pay more money if you want" because you know no one ever does this. Not in this world. People have to be forced to pay more. Perhaps we should change the way budgeting works so its a direct vote on where money goes, but they wouldnt allow this.
We have to do something to secure the country right now, raising taxes is the only hope we have really. Its a risk, but what choices do we have? This terrorist situation should not be taken lightly.
The government keeps saying they need more money to defend the country, they need more money to buy better tools to secure us.
How are they going to get this money without raising taxes? Please think about that and then tell me raising taxes is bad.
If we dont raise taxes, then while the economy might be slightly better, terrorists will have a field day (like they are having right now) because we wont have ANY defense.
We currently dont have enough medicine, we dont have any nuclear defenses at all, none. Our airports are defended but wheres this money coming from exactly? The NSA doesnt have enough money for intelligence purposes. The CIA doesnt have enough money. The military doesnt have enough money.
I say instead of changing our laws, what we should do is raise taxes temperarly. I myself would be happy to pay double a 10% increase in taxes for 5 years knowing that this country will be safe!
The choice is all yours, if you want the country to be safe, you have to give the money needed to protect it.
The purchases arent going to rise, forget about that.
Think security, how are we going to survive a biological or nuclear attack with absolutely no defense?
Who is going to build this defense? The government? With what money? Oh they'll just take it from somewhere else without raising taxes, say goodbye to social security, healthcare and anything else which is important.
We are in the middle of a war, The first thing we should be doing is securing our country.
Wheres our bomb shelters? Wheres our medicine for anthrax and bio weapons? We have absolutely no defense at all, NONE, and Bush with his 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut now feels like a fool because the Economy has gotten worse, We are not at war, and because of these tax cuts, we dont have nearly as much money as we actually need.
What to do now? Raise taxes. Theres no better option.
Raising Taxes would allow the government to fund some of these tech companies.
Raising taxes would allow the government to completely secure our country, meaning bomb shelters, medicines, gas masks, whatever we need.
If we lower taxes now, how exactly would it help the economy?
While i dont like the idea of taxing the internet, at this time given the current situation it actually sounds like a good idea.
Taxes may not boost the economy, but right now we are at war, and we depend on our government to protect us, paying more taxes = better protection.
So I'd be willing to pay more taxes, and i hope they can reverse this 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut and raise taxes so we can pay for this war, our military, our so called homeland defense, our special ops, our programs to aid people who get caught in disasters of terrorism, construction of defensive structures which can survive any sort of nuclear attack or biological attack.
We need to do this first, then we can rebuild our economy.
People who complain about speed have off balanced systems.
You run an extremely powerful fancy GUI on a Pentium 4 1ghz on an IDE slow harddrive?!?!?!?!?!
No, you use SCSI!! or IDE raid, or SCSI raid.
AND AND AND, you make sure that you compile it yourself, NO BINARY.
I havent had any speed problems with nautilus at all. Sure its not as fast as blackbox, but its certainly useable on my SCSI based drive, and i'm on a 400mhz pentium.
Its slow because you use a IDE harddrive you dummy
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If you want speed, use SCSI, better yet SCSI raid.
Nautilus runs as fast as Windows does in IDE mode when running on SCSI.
In order for something to lose, something must beat it. The loser must lose something, The winner must be the last man standing.
However Linux cant lose because Linux is not a product. Linux is a technology. Saying Linux will lose to Microsoft, Is like saying Math will lose to Taco Bell.
So lets set the record straight, Linux is a TECHNOLOGY, and a TECHNOLOGY cannot "Lose" or "Win"
A technology is either useful, or its not.
Linux has been proven useful for the server market. Linux is not yet useful for the Desktop market.
Because Linux is a technology, Unless everyone plans to use Microsoft OS now and forever on every computer created until the end of time. Linux has a damn good chance of being useful to the desktop.
Why? Because Linux is a technology, as computer technology changes, the needs for Linux will become more and more great. As Linux enhances, the usefulness of Linux will become more and more clear to the average user. As Linux becomes easier to use and works with more hardware, The people will begin to accept Linux more and more.
Unlike Apple, and Microsoft, Linux is not a companies product, Linux from redhat goes down, Linux mandrake pops up, Mandrake goes down, Slackware pops up, then debian, the list will go on FOREVER because Linux is a technology.
Example? Napster. Napster was stopped sure. But Napster technology simply advanced and now its at the point where its unstopable.
The more people try to stop Linux, the more faster Linux will be enhanced, and the faster Linux will be accepted.
Just like killing Napster made Gnutella and Morpheus and Aimster and Freenet pop up, If Microsoft beats Linux on the desktop this round, round two Linux will be back again under another company, and another and another until the industry accepts Linux as the industry was FORCED to accept peer to peer.
Linux is going to take over, if its not in the next 5 years, then in the next 10 years, but its going to happen, because technology cannot be stopped.
Microsoft cannot keep ahead of Linux forever, Linux is catching up in EVERY area, and its only a matter of time before Linux is better than Windows at everything, even playing games.
When this time comes (and yes it will come)
Windows will fade and Linux will become the new standard.
And when this happens, if Microsoft doesnt try to make Linux illegal, Microsoft will attempt to create their own version of Linux in the same way the RIAA is creating their own peer to peer.
As things have gone right for the open source free software community,the free net community should be just fine.
Things have to be setup in a way which promotes freedom, which does NOT allow a company to monopolize, and keeps the power in the hands of US and not companies.
Meaning we must keep this seperate from the internet, and keep it from becomming comercial.
I think its a good idea.
When things become comercial, then all the benifits of this community based shared internet access go down the drain.
I believe if this thing ran via the freenet protocal, it would be revolutionary for communications purposes,
or maybe not the freenet protocal, but it needs a protcal which cannot be censored or stopped by big business in the same way the GPL cannot be stopped by microsoft.
Because believe me, ISPs will fight this. be prepared to face AOL.
Next week when Microsoft is hacked again this time with absolutely no warning, no way of figuring out how the hack may have taken place, and no way for anyone to secure their machine from it. We all just have to trust Microsoft??!
I dont think so.
Hackers are going to hack, blueprints? Hackers CREATE blueprints and some website displaying what hackers already know isnt going to change that. Displaying the information protects people who dont know what hackers know.
When AOL comes with Mozilla instead of IE.
When ICQ.com Recommends MOzilla and not IE.
When Winamp is embeded or intergrated into MOzilla.
When AOL IM is intergrated into MOzilla.
When ICQ is intergrated into MOzilla.
When Mozilla is packed with computers as AOL is.
When AOL sends out CDs saying "install mozilla"
When Mozilla is recommmended by Slashdot.
When Mozilla is 100 percent compliant to all standards including IEs broken ones.
When Mozilla is turned into a AOL package which includes Netscape, AOLIM, ICQ, Winamp, all in one.
IE did this, Netscape did not, so IE won.
Mozilla now has support from AOL, and its a complete product, and a better product than IE, only a matter of time.
Call it bloat all you want, but no one likes a light weight browser, if people did they wouldnt use AOL and IE the two most bloated browsers on the planet earth.
As far as Mozilla taking IEs marketshare, its simple, AOL stops packing IE in and starts packing MOzilla, they start advertising Mozilla on ICQ.com, MOzilla on AOL.com, RealNetworks advertises MOzilla on Realplayer, Time Warner does favorable reviews on MOzilla and uses only MOzilla, MOzilla is given away free with people using cable modems, MOzilla is packed into every machine that AOL is packed into.
all of the sudden MOzilla has equal marketshare to windows.
The reason IE won is because Mozilla wasnt complete, now it is, so the battle is about to begin.
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We should be defending the country not bailing out rich airline companies that we dont REALLY need.
Air travel is not something which needs to be bailed out, its not something we need for survival, i can see if it was for medicine, or to test our water for bio attacks but air planes? just take a train or car or bus.
Ok just because the anthrax they tried on us now didnt work, doesnt mean they wont try again.
They tried for years to bomb the world trade until they got it right.
We have more than anthrax to worry about, stuff like small pox would be unstopable, and then you have problems with custom made bio weapons that iraq and the soviets have both which terrorists have access to.
Then what about nuclear suitcase bombs? We have to worry about those too.
200 billion was enough when we didnt have terrorists all over the world targetting us like they are now. But now we should raise this budget to 400 billion.
Which means we need to raise taxes.
You are right, we dont have control of where the taxes go and we will never have control over this.
What we can control is how much money we give them, Raising taxes at this time i believe would be good because we know for a fact more money is going to defense now, because all the house, senate and people who decide where they money goes are actually worried.
If we pay more for taxes it gives them more money to work with.
Dont give me this "you can pay more money if you want" because you know no one ever does this. Not in this world. People have to be forced to pay more. Perhaps we should change the way budgeting works so its a direct vote on where money goes, but they wouldnt allow this.
We have to do something to secure the country right now, raising taxes is the only hope we have really. Its a risk, but what choices do we have? This terrorist situation should not be taken lightly.
We are under constant attack by terrorists.
The government keeps saying they need more money to defend the country, they need more money to buy better tools to secure us.
How are they going to get this money without raising taxes? Please think about that and then tell me raising taxes is bad.
If we dont raise taxes, then while the economy might be slightly better, terrorists will have a field day (like they are having right now) because we wont have ANY defense.
We currently dont have enough medicine, we dont have any nuclear defenses at all, none. Our airports are defended but wheres this money coming from exactly? The NSA doesnt have enough money for intelligence purposes. The CIA doesnt have enough money. The military doesnt have enough money.
I say instead of changing our laws, what we should do is raise taxes temperarly. I myself would be happy to pay double a 10% increase in taxes for 5 years knowing that this country will be safe!
The choice is all yours, if you want the country to be safe, you have to give the money needed to protect it.
The purchases arent going to rise, forget about that.
Think security, how are we going to survive a biological or nuclear attack with absolutely no defense?
Who is going to build this defense? The government? With what money? Oh they'll just take it from somewhere else without raising taxes, say goodbye to social security, healthcare and anything else which is important.
You have a point i dont want to pay for some airline companies.
But some companies should have government funding. How else will we secure our country?]
We need government funded medicines to cure bio weapons, this makes buying them cheaper for us if we need them.
We need government funded safe structures in case of nucelar attack, or bio attacks which simply have no cure for.
We need to have more military troops in the USA, more security.
This isnt an excuse at all in some cases, It matters where the money goes.
Do you not agree that we need more security in this country?
I actually think this is the time to raise taxes.
We are in the middle of a war, The first thing we should be doing is securing our country.
Wheres our bomb shelters? Wheres our medicine for anthrax and bio weapons? We have absolutely no defense at all, NONE, and Bush with his 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut now feels like a fool because the Economy has gotten worse, We are not at war, and because of these tax cuts, we dont have nearly as much money as we actually need.
What to do now? Raise taxes. Theres no better option.
Raising Taxes would allow the government to fund some of these tech companies.
Raising taxes would allow the government to completely secure our country, meaning bomb shelters, medicines, gas masks, whatever we need.
If we lower taxes now, how exactly would it help the economy?
While i dont like the idea of taxing the internet, at this time given the current situation it actually sounds like a good idea.
Taxes may not boost the economy, but right now we are at war, and we depend on our government to protect us, paying more taxes = better protection.
So I'd be willing to pay more taxes, and i hope they can reverse this 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut and raise taxes so we can pay for this war, our military, our so called homeland defense, our special ops, our programs to aid people who get caught in disasters of terrorism, construction of defensive structures which can survive any sort of nuclear attack or biological attack.
We need to do this first, then we can rebuild our economy.
The average user who just checks their email and surfs the web has no need for a good machine.
Thats why these new computers arent selling.
Force them to buy new machines, computer sales pick up and we have jobs again!
Windows XP is even slower than nautilus!!!
Nautilus is faster hands down.
I have windowsXP and nautilus on my computer, 400mhz pentium, SCSI drive, 256 megs of ram.
Nautilus runs much faster than XP, Gnome runs faster, Enlightenment runs faster in fact windowsXP is the slowest OS i've ever used in my life.
Nautilus is competiting against XP.
Let people who want a good file manager upgrade their hardware, isnt that the point of buying new hardware? to run the most powerful software?
I use 1.03 but still you are talking about 1.0!!!!
Geez use the version released in the past 6 months
Get SCSI raid and have 64 megs of ram and it runs fast.
People who complain about speed have off balanced systems.
You run an extremely powerful fancy GUI on a Pentium 4 1ghz on an IDE slow harddrive?!?!?!?!?!
No, you use SCSI!! or IDE raid, or SCSI raid.
AND AND AND, you make sure that you compile it yourself, NO BINARY.
I havent had any speed problems with nautilus at all. Sure its not as fast as blackbox, but its certainly useable on my SCSI based drive, and i'm on a 400mhz pentium.
If you want speed, use SCSI, better yet SCSI raid.
Nautilus runs as fast as Windows does in IDE mode when running on SCSI.
In order for something to lose, something must beat it. The loser must lose something, The winner must be the last man standing.
However Linux cant lose because Linux is not a product. Linux is a technology. Saying Linux will lose to Microsoft, Is like saying Math will lose to Taco Bell.
So lets set the record straight, Linux is a TECHNOLOGY, and a TECHNOLOGY cannot "Lose" or "Win"
A technology is either useful, or its not.
Linux has been proven useful for the server market. Linux is not yet useful for the Desktop market.
Because Linux is a technology, Unless everyone plans to use Microsoft OS now and forever on every computer created until the end of time. Linux has a damn good chance of being useful to the desktop.
Why? Because Linux is a technology, as computer technology changes, the needs for Linux will become more and more great. As Linux enhances, the usefulness of Linux will become more and more clear to the average user. As Linux becomes easier to use and works with more hardware, The people will begin to accept Linux more and more.
Unlike Apple, and Microsoft, Linux is not a companies product, Linux from redhat goes down, Linux mandrake pops up, Mandrake goes down, Slackware pops up, then debian, the list will go on FOREVER because Linux is a technology.
Example? Napster. Napster was stopped sure. But Napster technology simply advanced and now its at the point where its unstopable.
The more people try to stop Linux, the more faster Linux will be enhanced, and the faster Linux will be accepted.
Just like killing Napster made Gnutella and Morpheus and Aimster and Freenet pop up, If Microsoft beats Linux on the desktop this round, round two Linux will be back again under another company, and another and another until the industry accepts Linux as the industry was FORCED to accept peer to peer.
Linux is going to take over, if its not in the next 5 years, then in the next 10 years, but its going to happen, because technology cannot be stopped.
Microsoft cannot keep ahead of Linux forever, Linux is catching up in EVERY area, and its only a matter of time before Linux is better than Windows at everything, even playing games.
When this time comes (and yes it will come)
Windows will fade and Linux will become the new standard.
And when this happens, if Microsoft doesnt try to make Linux illegal, Microsoft will attempt to create their own version of Linux in the same way the RIAA is creating their own peer to peer.
Wait and see.
Duh, it should be annonymous
One which cannot be stopped.
One which doesnt allow them to know you are part of the network.
One which stops them from accessing the network without becoming a part of it.
And one which is completely annonymous so they dont knwo who to attack, then just use saftey in numbers.
We should have it setup in an annonymous way.
Freenet protocal is one option for an annnonymous internet.
People can take the freenet code and work with that, perhaps modify it alittle bit, but it will work.
In order for this to work, Censorship must be completely impossibe.
Everyone must be annonymous to stop Censorship.
The public internet, perhaps shouldnt be annonymous but private internets are private for a reason. So people could share information in private.
As things have gone right for the open source free software community,the free net community should be just fine.
Things have to be setup in a way which promotes freedom, which does NOT allow a company to monopolize, and keeps the power in the hands of US and not companies.
Meaning we must keep this seperate from the internet, and keep it from becomming comercial.
I think its a good idea.
When things become comercial, then all the benifits of this community based shared internet access go down the drain.
I believe if this thing ran via the freenet protocal, it would be revolutionary for communications purposes,
or maybe not the freenet protocal, but it needs a protcal which cannot be censored or stopped by big business in the same way the GPL cannot be stopped by microsoft.
Because believe me, ISPs will fight this. be prepared to face AOL.
Stop providing the blueprints? ok.
Next week when Microsoft is hacked again this time with absolutely no warning, no way of figuring out how the hack may have taken place, and no way for anyone to secure their machine from it. We all just have to trust Microsoft??!
I dont think so.
Hackers are going to hack, blueprints? Hackers CREATE blueprints and some website displaying what hackers already know isnt going to change that. Displaying the information protects people who dont know what hackers know.
Nasa is a waste of money most of the time.
Why study space when we dont even understand earth yet?
Not just that
why go into space, when we arent prepared for the possibility of meeting aliens in space?
I'd pay a monthly donation for the CODE.
once the code is made, its made, and its mine.
When AOL comes with Mozilla instead of IE.
When ICQ.com Recommends MOzilla and not IE.
When Winamp is embeded or intergrated into MOzilla.
When AOL IM is intergrated into MOzilla.
When ICQ is intergrated into MOzilla.
When Mozilla is packed with computers as AOL is.
When AOL sends out CDs saying "install mozilla"
When Mozilla is recommmended by Slashdot.
When Mozilla is 100 percent compliant to all standards including IEs broken ones.
When Mozilla is turned into a AOL package which includes Netscape, AOLIM, ICQ, Winamp, all in one.
IE did this, Netscape did not, so IE won.
Mozilla now has support from AOL, and its a complete product, and a better product than IE, only a matter of time.
Why use IE??????? because its bloated too!
Opera isnt bloated but people want the POWER.
Call it bloat all you want, but no one likes a light weight browser, if people did they wouldnt use AOL and IE the two most bloated browsers on the planet earth.
As far as Mozilla taking IEs marketshare, its simple, AOL stops packing IE in and starts packing MOzilla, they start advertising Mozilla on ICQ.com, MOzilla on AOL.com, RealNetworks advertises MOzilla on Realplayer, Time Warner does favorable reviews on MOzilla and uses only MOzilla, MOzilla is given away free with people using cable modems, MOzilla is packed into every machine that AOL is packed into.
all of the sudden MOzilla has equal marketshare to windows.
The reason IE won is because Mozilla wasnt complete, now it is, so the battle is about to begin.
How would this stop freenet?
If theres no maintnance, what happens to us? Its our jobs to maintain computers.