So I didn't have a slashdot account since like 1999 and we get
"The common perception among Slashdotters is that while Bill Gates may cause us some professional difficulties, he makes up for it with an exemplary philanthropic record."
is this really true, say it aint' so. But I've seen the MS brownshirts on slashdot. on IRC channels dedicated to hackerts, etc....
back in the day being a geek almost exclusively mean being free/open source friendly from one angle or another, what happened?
Its been over 15 years of/. covering the same repeated drama over copyright legislation with the MPAA/RIAA smash fly with hammer and screw what breaks mentality. Its not new, and its not stopped, and its really put a damper on my enthusiasim for most copyright claimaints. Then there is microsoft, and all these years of running linux and (mostly) free software.
Everytime I hear "Copyright" I think hindering innovation and exploitation. My desire to see any pirates pursued at this point is nill.
flamebait is when its an honest but flamboyant opinion. e.g. I hate macs/linux/microsoft because.
A troll almost never believes the opinion he spews. Its a set up. its from the fishing term when you slowly motor a boat down the river with the line out, looking to agitate some fishies into biting your line.
A flamebaiter generally seeks to engage and fight the flamewar he starts. I troll pulls the pin, runs, mostly for the humor if it all. Trolling is considered a dark form of humor, its satire and farce packed into performance art combined with a joke which is always at someone's expense.
you can and always can hire a doctor without insurance.
There expensive, confusing, opaque proccess. Better luck not getting ripped off buying drugs on a street corner. There are no fixed prices for anything. You can't call and ask, comparison shop, etc... They just bill you, and thats it. Insurance companies as part of the fee have the financial muscelle to keep things "reasonable".
Most people have no idea how the system works. They think they are OK, and SOMETHING will protect them, until they get sick and get fucked up the ass by either docs or insurance companies.
There are somethings like scripts which work best on the command line. it allows power users and experts to navigate a system quicker, and execute any command at any time. a real command line also doubles as a scripting platform, like bash or ksh. While a modern GUI based operating system should have all features available via point and click, it should also feature a command line with scripting capability for the experts and power users.
Then we have remote access, with servers, not haivng a GUI saves CPU time, and makes managing multiple connections to multiple servers easier and far more effecient.
"iOS doesn't offer a CLI"
but there is a xterm + bash + gnu utils ports and people DO use it once they've jailbroken their phones. Apple doesn't exactly cater to the type who'd care about a CLI anyway. I don't think android comes with CLIs stock.
The only embedded OS that came with a CLI I can think of is maemo on the nokia n900. But that wasn't an "everybody" phone, but a niche phone for geeks and hackers(you know the experts and power users who like the CLI). The geeks and hackers are numerically few, but they are by far the most productive users, writing apps, submitting buxfixes, testing the limits of the OS, etc...
The same retards have been saying the command line is obsolete for the last 20 years and they've all been wrong, then and now. It will be obsolete only once keybords are. It will be obsolete when computers are programmed without typed code.
from the article: Wiretap applications in California, New York, and New Jersey accounted for 62% of all applications approved by state judges.
seriously what the fuck is wrong with these three states keep on re-appearing on lists as "most unfree fascist shitholes" from various sources time and time again
see thats the problem with insurance. Its about making money. Combine with "health", the healthcare systems is not designed to help you, but rob from you where you are least able to defend yourself.
We need a healthcare system designed to do just that. provide "Health Care", beneficial towards inviduals, which is beneficial towards the nation as a whole to make sure we get the care we NEED when we NEED it. Not to rip us off when fall down.
"No. It's not pretty much like car insurance. You can choose not to drive, use public transportation or hired private transportation. In fact, many aspects of government action are in this direction.
You cannot choose not to have health problems."
you can always choose not to receive care for your health problems. Which is about as practical as not driving, or for the average joe, hiring private transportation. public transportation reliably covers mabey 10% of the US in any sense it'd be helpful for daily activies.
Driving should be a right, but its a privlege. The government is keen to prevent any new rights.
I counter your silly arguments and stereotypes with something about you being a dumb yuppie fucktard who lives in a gated community, only to visit well lit destinations with hordes of police ready to clear the streets of anyone giving you a dirty look by the most brutal methods available, as not to dirty your high-born upbringing with such common trash.
great, someone who thinks the freedom and democracy we are spreading by force around the globe is something more than a tounge and cheek talking point is now reduced to being a "hysteric"
that and we have microsoftie brownshirts and other assorted stooges posting on slashdot now. Along with spamvertising stories and other crap.
the reason there is an individual mandate is because if there wasn't, then people would buy only when they are sick, thus raising the cost and premiums. The only customers would be the ones costing the insurance companies more money than they are spending on premimums, with no healthy people to balance things out.
So when you make everyone buy health insurance the company has money from the healthy people to pay for the sick people. Technology is not a factor. Its like running a casino.
that was my point. I was being fececious on the original comment about how this new device is merely a carberator. Surely they made much needed improvements before they went from injecting engines with air, that sometimes worked, to doing it to a living breathing thing.
If the same people who believe that creationism is a drop in replacement for science were also the ones objecting to unobstructed consumption, manufacture and/or sale of oil/gas products, and the global warming theory
However its generally, but not always the more scientificly aware people who come out against fossil fuel usage as a whole, and global warming. There has really yet to be a good scientific study against global warming other than soley industry funded research.(like a bunch of scared CEOs desperately trying to keep stock prices from tanking in a panic)
<quote>have you stopped driving your car yet</quote>
This argument is a fallicy, our society is set up around automobile usage, and it'd be difficult if not impossible in most places to continue your life without an automobile. A better argument would be why aren't people buying more efficeint cars. Many are, but I still see a steady parade of people communiting to office buildings in SUVs. The worst part, is since they consume more fuel, they increase demand driving prices up.
same jobs they used to give to high school grads in previous generations, who they ask for colllege simply because there are so many college grads they can.
Its the same people who don't really do anything important in college fill these jobs, and college is just an expensive finnishing school. The fact they wind up pushing people who earned a degree ending in an "S" around is a travesty. Its the same bunch of dickheads complaining that OTHER people aren't working hard enough.
This might be the waterloo for copyright enforcement, and outrageous demands by the DOJ worldwide. Think about it. Since an NZ court threw out American charges, other allied countries get the nuts to do the same. The government might have to resort to *gasp* diplomacy, or even trying to respect the rights of citizens to maintain credibility.
I think after this ruling, next time a country might be more skeptical when the US serves a warrant. There might even be just cause for blowing off the US DoJ in allied countries.
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So I didn't have a slashdot account since like 1999 and we get
"The common perception among Slashdotters is that while Bill Gates may cause us some professional difficulties, he makes up for it with an exemplary philanthropic record."
is this really true, say it aint' so. But I've seen the MS brownshirts on slashdot. on IRC channels dedicated to hackerts, etc....
back in the day being a geek almost exclusively mean being free/open source friendly from one angle or another, what happened?
oh but it shows that you do.
The world is run by scam artists, huslter, and muscelle bound thugs.
Bill Gates did a good job of making sure the third world got computers, if only if they ran windows.
India for example, and now they are stealing our jobs. I wonder for who's profit?
No Doubt this was all a ploy to collect royalties from any extra-terrestrials we find.
Its just a flesh wound.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
sssh, all they are going to do is get rid of some shiesty advertisers, and won't affect anything. Its really fine by me
Shiesty advertisers are in the same catagory as spam.
p2p is people sharing. Let them go after the rip off artists
Its been over 15 years of /. covering the same repeated drama over copyright legislation with the MPAA/RIAA smash fly with hammer and screw what breaks mentality. Its not new, and its not stopped, and its really put a damper on my enthusiasim for most copyright claimaints. Then there is microsoft, and all these years of running linux and (mostly) free software.
Everytime I hear "Copyright" I think hindering innovation and exploitation. My desire to see any pirates pursued at this point is nill.
flamebait is when its an honest but flamboyant opinion. e.g. I hate macs/linux/microsoft because.
A troll almost never believes the opinion he spews. Its a set up. its from the fishing term when you slowly motor a boat down the river with the line out, looking to agitate some fishies into biting your line.
A flamebaiter generally seeks to engage and fight the flamewar he starts. I troll pulls the pin, runs, mostly for the humor if it all. Trolling is considered a dark form of humor, its satire and farce packed into performance art combined with a joke which is always at someone's expense.
you can and always can hire a doctor without insurance.
There expensive, confusing, opaque proccess. Better luck not getting ripped off buying drugs on a street corner. There are no fixed prices for anything. You can't call and ask, comparison shop, etc... They just bill you, and thats it. Insurance companies as part of the fee have the financial muscelle to keep things "reasonable".
Most people have no idea how the system works. They think they are OK, and SOMETHING will protect them, until they get sick and get fucked up the ass by either docs or insurance companies.
There are somethings like scripts which work best on the command line. it allows power users and experts to navigate a system quicker, and execute any command at any time. a real command line also doubles as a scripting platform, like bash or ksh. While a modern GUI based operating system should have all features available via point and click, it should also feature a command line with scripting capability for the experts and power users.
Then we have remote access, with servers, not haivng a GUI saves CPU time, and makes managing multiple connections to multiple servers easier and far more effecient.
"iOS doesn't offer a CLI"
but there is a xterm + bash + gnu utils ports and people DO use it once they've jailbroken their phones. Apple doesn't exactly cater to the type who'd care about a CLI anyway. I don't think android comes with CLIs stock.
The only embedded OS that came with a CLI I can think of is maemo on the nokia n900. But that wasn't an "everybody" phone, but a niche phone for geeks and hackers(you know the experts and power users who like the CLI). The geeks and hackers are numerically few, but they are by far the most productive users, writing apps, submitting buxfixes, testing the limits of the OS, etc...
The same retards have been saying the command line is obsolete for the last 20 years and they've all been wrong, then and now. It will be obsolete only once keybords are. It will be obsolete when computers are programmed without typed code.
from the article:
Wiretap applications in California, New York, and New Jersey accounted for 62% of all applications approved by state judges.
seriously what the fuck is wrong with these three states keep on re-appearing on lists as "most unfree fascist shitholes" from various sources time and time again
the so called "left" supported it because the democrats set out a big campaign to make them feel it was integral to their being.
Politics in the US has almost devolved into "gang warfare".
see thats the problem with insurance. Its about making money. Combine with "health", the healthcare systems is not designed to help you, but rob from you where you are least able to defend yourself.
We need a healthcare system designed to do just that. provide "Health Care", beneficial towards inviduals, which is beneficial towards the nation as a whole to make sure we get the care we NEED when we NEED it. Not to rip us off when fall down.
the resistance is almost soley to the "invidual mandate" which was a republican idea from the 1990s
irony?
"No. It's not pretty much like car insurance. You can choose not to drive, use public transportation or hired private transportation. In fact, many aspects of government action are in this direction.
You cannot choose not to have health problems."
you can always choose not to receive care for your health problems. Which is about as practical as not driving, or for the average joe, hiring private transportation. public transportation reliably covers mabey 10% of the US in any sense it'd be helpful for daily activies.
Driving should be a right, but its a privlege. The government is keen to prevent any new rights.
who says anthing about this so called "right".
I counter your silly arguments and stereotypes with something about you being a dumb yuppie fucktard who lives in a gated community, only to visit well lit destinations with hordes of police ready to clear the streets of anyone giving you a dirty look by the most brutal methods available, as not to dirty your high-born upbringing with such common trash.
great, someone who thinks the freedom and democracy we are spreading by force around the globe is something more than a tounge and cheek talking point is now reduced to being a "hysteric"
that and we have microsoftie brownshirts and other assorted stooges posting on slashdot now. Along with spamvertising stories and other crap.
what does that have to do with technology again?
the reason there is an individual mandate is because if there wasn't, then people would buy only when they are sick, thus raising the cost and premiums. The only customers would be the ones costing the insurance companies more money than they are spending on premimums, with no healthy people to balance things out.
So when you make everyone buy health insurance the company has money from the healthy people to pay for the sick people. Technology is not a factor. Its like running a casino.
that was my point. I was being fececious on the original comment about how this new device is merely a carberator. Surely they made much needed improvements before they went from injecting engines with air, that sometimes worked, to doing it to a living breathing thing.
If the same people who believe that creationism is a drop in replacement for science were also the ones objecting to unobstructed consumption, manufacture and/or sale of oil/gas products, and the global warming theory
However its generally, but not always the more scientificly aware people who come out against fossil fuel usage as a whole, and global warming. There has really yet to be a good scientific study against global warming other than soley industry funded research.(like a bunch of scared CEOs desperately trying to keep stock prices from tanking in a panic)
<quote>have you stopped driving your car yet</quote>
This argument is a fallicy, our society is set up around automobile usage, and it'd be difficult if not impossible in most places to continue your life without an automobile. A better argument would be why aren't people buying more efficeint cars. Many are, but I still see a steady parade of people communiting to office buildings in SUVs. The worst part, is since they consume more fuel, they increase demand driving prices up.
typical HR goon. Do they even take math in college?
same jobs they used to give to high school grads in previous generations, who they ask for colllege simply because there are so many college grads they can.
Its the same people who don't really do anything important in college fill these jobs, and college is just an expensive finnishing school. The fact they wind up pushing people who earned a degree ending in an "S" around is a travesty. Its the same bunch of dickheads complaining that OTHER people aren't working hard enough.
because its unreasonable, thats why!
Just like the woman who sued McDonalds for $16 million and won for a spilled cup of hot coffee.
Or mabey we should start executing shoplifters and given their entirety of personal possesions to the stores. That would show them!
Still far less of a criminal than thoose pursuing him.
If he's a criminal, we are all criminals.
This might be the waterloo for copyright enforcement, and outrageous demands by the DOJ worldwide. Think about it. Since an NZ court threw out American charges, other allied countries get the nuts to do the same. The government might have to resort to *gasp* diplomacy, or even trying to respect the rights of citizens to maintain credibility.
I think after this ruling, next time a country might be more skeptical when the US serves a warrant. There might even be just cause for blowing off the US DoJ in allied countries.