The US was designed as a -republic- so that the states could retain a high level of autonomy. Over the years the federal government has usurped more and more of this autonomy.
The factions/fractions of which you speak are likely the 2 party system, and that exists independently now of any states rights. The powers in both parties pander to a few hot button (but ultimately of little importance) issues to please their base, while steadily ruining this country for their own greed and the greed of those with money (IE big corps).
Various Commodores (VIC-20, C64 and C28) -- Friends
TI-99/4a -- Friends
I learend some assembly on the Apples but not much. I was always more of a hardware hacker. I could rewire, jury rig, and repair like no ones business. I could get a cranky tape drive or out of speed floppy back in line.
In middle school we had a small lab of apple 2's, I had class right before lunch. Being largely a hick school, most people went to computer class for games or to slack off. Consequently the hardware was frequently abused. We had several machines that would not read commercially produced floppies, but would read ones they wrote. I did some testing and discovered that they would not read other computers discs or vice versa. My puny brain said the drive is working, it is not at fault, what could cause this.. I serripitously popped a case and saw the trim pots on the drive controller. Then one day I stayed through lunch. The teacher left, I created a small test file on a known good machine, popped the case of a bad one, and started adjusting the pot, fully clockwise then by quarter turns till I found the butter zone. I did not know about the internal timing marks in the drive. Right as I got the file to read, the teacher came back and saw me inside the computer. She flipped, thought I was destroying equipment. Once she calmed down, screaming for me to go to the principal, I explained that I fixed it. She was in disbeliefr, and was not sure it was one of the broken ones to start. So I offered to repeat my feat, which I did. Instead of suspension, I got a letter of thanks (with a reprimand for not getting permission--which I never would have received), and they then sent me around all the schools repairing Apple ]['s that would not read discs and were acting as paperweights. God knows they had to get Oregon Trail and Carmen San Diego back up for the hicks.
After that I took a short hiatus. Then at the end of high school I got a 486 sx 25. I did not do much programming, but I learned dbase and quattro pro (and a bit later wolf 3d). I then went to community college in 1993, we were supposedly the first in the country (community college that is) to be on the internet. The first computers connected were donated NeXT workstations. 68040 @ 25mhz IIRC. I started learning unix, CSH, TCSH, and SH scripting, as well as helping to administer our first web server (on a NeXT cube), gopher server, and irc server.
During the day I was working in the labs, helping studnts, at night I was playing with early versions of slackware or hosting Doom LAN parties in the lab, until the governor mandated no games on state PC's except for learning purposes.
My first attempt at web design for my own personal site still resides in the wayback machine. It is so ugly I am not going to link to it.
The statistic driving legislators is that 80 to 90 percent is waste and bound to be trashed. This stat, unsubstantiated of course, comes courtesy of Greenpeace.
I am all for environmental protections. I am pretty doggone liberal, but greenpeace makes your most extreme tinfoil hat wearing slashdot neck beard look normal.
The extra server provisioning is to record all those cameras and mics. In all seriousness I won't be buying one, but you -can- tape over a camera or remove power when not in use.
It is about the erosion of rights and the use of technology to increasingly monitor people. Including you. Very much of interest to many people here. If you are not interested, do not read it.
The shame of it is, that Raub may get money from his suit. Then the whole case will quietly disappear, the media won't give it time, why because they have no qualms against a government that lets them buy laws and pursue false copyright claims. It is decidedly not in the medias interest to be overly critical of the government to the point that the populace becomes concerned.
So, the erosion of rights and the police nanny state will continue as it has been.
Please all-powerful government, do everything you can. Ass-rape me, incarcerate my neighbors, whatever it takes. Just protect me from the Indian, the commie, immigrant Latino, drug dealer, the brown guy that prays five times a day, the guy with shampoo at the airport, the four year old girl scared of the scanners, the crazy veteran, sharks, and lightning strikes.
By all means do not protect me from the transfer of wealth and jobs and power to fewer and fewer. I do not care of this country becomes a shell of rich elite surrounding a poor, ignorant populace. As long as I have TMZ and the lottery and reality TV, I will be a-ok.
For a currency to be useful it has to be trusted. Unfortunately it would appear that after a certain critical mass is reached the people using it also want the other people using it to be trust able. Not easy to do whilst remaining anonymous.
CBS Studios Inc. claims to hold the copyright on LCARS. Google was sent a DMCA letter to remove the Android app called tricorder [8] since its use of the LCARS interface was un-licenced. The application was later re-uploaded under a different title, but it was removed again.
Your original comment was written with the implicit indication that you would accept is, at least in theory if open source.
Regardless, I still disagree, if it is mandated, it does not matter if the source is open. It has the force of law, and if you are found to be circumventing, your freedom can be just as curtailed as by using it and being found to be doing something illegal or impolitic.
You are willing to allow it if it is open source? You are willing to trade freedom and privacy for FOSS?
May I ask why? If it is because you have the technical know-how to remove or disable it if the source is available that is a self-centered and elitist view.
What about people who do not have this ability? In this view the techno-crati and the rich and powerful have nothing to fear as they can sidestep the loss of freedom.
The plebes however still get stepped on, more and more. This is the antithesis of what FOSS should be about. It is about enabling freedom and openness, not sociopathy.
Seriously, there are legal methods of tracking people, and privacy protections for a reason. Throwing them all away for the guise of 'safety' NEVER works. Would you like to be 'followed' because of a political or religious belief of yours, or your skin color, or sexual orientation? Open up for one, open up for all.
All you do is lose rights and privacy. You may gain a sense of safety, but not real safety.
Lets start with procreation. Having kids can be harmful. You may not be prepared and have m the child. Worse yet,said child my grow up an addict or rapist or terrorist or murderer. Having kids can harm the economy. Having kids can harm the environment. So lets mandate reversible birth control and license procreation.
Yeah. Good luck hijacking an airliner with a reinforced,secure cockpit door. And quite possibly armed air marshals. The solutions are NOT in the restrictions of freedoms. Those can always be ignored or bypassed.
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The factions/fractions of which you speak are likely the 2 party system, and that exists independently now of any states rights. The powers in both parties pander to a few hot button (but ultimately of little importance) issues to please their base, while steadily ruining this country for their own greed and the greed of those with money (IE big corps).
I learend some assembly on the Apples but not much. I was always more of a hardware hacker. I could rewire, jury rig, and repair like no ones business. I could get a cranky tape drive or out of speed floppy back in line.
In middle school we had a small lab of apple 2's, I had class right before lunch. Being largely a hick school, most people went to computer class for games or to slack off. Consequently the hardware was frequently abused. We had several machines that would not read commercially produced floppies, but would read ones they wrote. I did some testing and discovered that they would not read other computers discs or vice versa. My puny brain said the drive is working, it is not at fault, what could cause this.. I serripitously popped a case and saw the trim pots on the drive controller. Then one day I stayed through lunch. The teacher left, I created a small test file on a known good machine, popped the case of a bad one, and started adjusting the pot, fully clockwise then by quarter turns till I found the butter zone. I did not know about the internal timing marks in the drive. Right as I got the file to read, the teacher came back and saw me inside the computer. She flipped, thought I was destroying equipment. Once she calmed down, screaming for me to go to the principal, I explained that I fixed it. She was in disbeliefr, and was not sure it was one of the broken ones to start. So I offered to repeat my feat, which I did. Instead of suspension, I got a letter of thanks (with a reprimand for not getting permission--which I never would have received), and they then sent me around all the schools repairing Apple ]['s that would not read discs and were acting as paperweights. God knows they had to get Oregon Trail and Carmen San Diego back up for the hicks.
After that I took a short hiatus. Then at the end of high school I got a 486 sx 25. I did not do much programming, but I learned dbase and quattro pro (and a bit later wolf 3d). I then went to community college in 1993, we were supposedly the first in the country (community college that is) to be on the internet. The first computers connected were donated NeXT workstations. 68040 @ 25mhz IIRC. I started learning unix, CSH, TCSH, and SH scripting, as well as helping to administer our first web server (on a NeXT cube), gopher server, and irc server.
During the day I was working in the labs, helping studnts, at night I was playing with early versions of slackware or hosting Doom LAN parties in the lab, until the governor mandated no games on state PC's except for learning purposes.
My first attempt at web design for my own personal site still resides in the wayback machine. It is so ugly I am not going to link to it.
The rest is history.
For an irc sky net please.
Getting popcorn for the upcoming comment battle.
I am all for environmental protections. I am pretty doggone liberal, but greenpeace makes your most extreme tinfoil hat wearing slashdot neck beard look normal.
The extra server provisioning is to record all those cameras and mics. In all seriousness I won't be buying one, but you -can- tape over a camera or remove power when not in use.
John Brennan says there are tons of things companies can do to help spy on the populace^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H terrorists.
It is about the erosion of rights and the use of technology to increasingly monitor people. Including you. Very much of interest to many people here. If you are not interested, do not read it.
So, the erosion of rights and the police nanny state will continue as it has been.
Please all-powerful government, do everything you can. Ass-rape me, incarcerate my neighbors, whatever it takes. Just protect me from the Indian, the commie, immigrant Latino, drug dealer, the brown guy that prays five times a day, the guy with shampoo at the airport, the four year old girl scared of the scanners, the crazy veteran, sharks, and lightning strikes.
By all means do not protect me from the transfer of wealth and jobs and power to fewer and fewer. I do not care of this country becomes a shell of rich elite surrounding a poor, ignorant populace. As long as I have TMZ and the lottery and reality TV, I will be a-ok.
For a currency to be useful it has to be trusted. Unfortunately it would appear that after a certain critical mass is reached the people using it also want the other people using it to be trust able. Not easy to do whilst remaining anonymous.
CBS Studios Inc. claims to hold the copyright on LCARS. Google was sent a DMCA letter to remove the Android app called tricorder [8] since its use of the LCARS interface was un-licenced. The application was later re-uploaded under a different title, but it was removed again.
1. Print single shot gun 2. Use single shot to steal better gun 3. ??????? 4. REVOLUTION
Oh, whoops I thought it said 'Bacon' mountain. Curse you Intel and your false meaty product names.
Your original comment was written with the implicit indication that you would accept is, at least in theory if open source.
Regardless, I still disagree, if it is mandated, it does not matter if the source is open. It has the force of law, and if you are found to be circumventing, your freedom can be just as curtailed as by using it and being found to be doing something illegal or impolitic.
Otherwise I have to oppose the idea entirely.
You are willing to allow it if it is open source? You are willing to trade freedom and privacy for FOSS?
May I ask why? If it is because you have the technical know-how to remove or disable it if the source is available that is a self-centered and elitist view.
What about people who do not have this ability? In this view the techno-crati and the rich and powerful have nothing to fear as they can sidestep the loss of freedom.
The plebes however still get stepped on, more and more. This is the antithesis of what FOSS should be about. It is about enabling freedom and openness, not sociopathy.
Thanks y'all. I just shot Raisin Bran out of my nose. Approximately .35 servings worth. There may still be a raisin in my sinus cavity.
No, the devil put dinosaurs here.
My gut tells me not to eat tacos with honey Diablo habenero sauce anymore. I don't listen either.
Neil you killed Pluto. Fuck you.
Couldn't resist. The door to the barn was wide open. No harm intended though.
Apparently your e-peen is already small enough to fit on die.
Seriously, there are legal methods of tracking people, and privacy protections for a reason. Throwing them all away for the guise of 'safety' NEVER works.
Would you like to be 'followed' because of a political or religious belief of yours, or your skin color, or sexual orientation? Open up for one, open up for all.
All you do is lose rights and privacy. You may gain a sense of safety, but not real safety.
The blame lies with the apathetic idiots who elect the politicians (or sit by idly as freedom and prosperity erode). FTFY
Lets start with procreation. Having kids can be harmful. You may not be prepared and have m the child. Worse yet,said child my grow up an addict or rapist or terrorist or murderer. Having kids can harm the economy. Having kids can harm the environment. So lets mandate reversible birth control and license procreation.
Yeah. Good luck hijacking an airliner with a reinforced,secure cockpit door. And quite possibly armed air marshals. The solutions are NOT in the restrictions of freedoms. Those can always be ignored or bypassed.