but what is most needed is a simple distro designed to play Flash games, surf da intarweb, and watch Youtube. I could load that on my friends "kid PCs" and save having to Ghost them so often.
What you're describing is called "Ubuntu" and it's been around for awhile now.
My son's netbook came with Vista "starter" edition and after the built-in system restore function hosed the system (this is what you get when you try to save 10 bucks by buying a laptop from a fourth-rate Chinese manufacturer) my only realistic choice was to load Linux on it. He is perfectly happy with it now, as all he did was play flash games on it and Flash (finally) works just as well on Linux as it does on Windows.
The problem with Linux comes it on when you want to do anything beyond browse the net and look at youtube videos.
With my wife constantly calling me and the long conversations I have with my Dad, at first I was afraid that 500 minutes would not be enough, but part of their plan is unlimited mobile to mobile and it applies to ANY mobile phone; even those from other carriers and it applies to incoming calls from mobiles.
This month I used about 41 minutes of my 500.
If the majority of people you talk to are on mobiles in the U.S., then I would look at Sprint.
Their data network seems to be a little less robust than Verizon or At&Ts, but for the first time ever I have 3G in my rural area and can steam Pandora/Slacker on my way to work - something I could never dream of with T-Mobile and the EDGE/GPRS connections they provide outside of dense urban areas.
Now I'm just hoping Sprint doesn't collapse as a result of the merger.
The only people that support replacing all taxes with consumption taxes are wealthy members of the investor class who would have their tax burdens virtually eliminated by consumption only taxes and misinformed people who don't understand that they would be fucked by such a scheme.
I use Clonezilla for a lab I have that is dual boot Windows/Linux. On those machines, Ghost doesn't support ext4 (forces sector by sector copy, which takes FOREVER on a 150GB partition even if your zero the free space), nor does it copy GRUB properly.
. I have never seen a study, but it would be interesting to know how many repeat offenders there are in Maricopa county compared to say, LA county in California or Bronx county in New York. It's just speculation on my part, but I would imagine the percentage of repeat offender is much less in Maricopa county.
Comparing recidivism rates between Maricopa country and other areas of the country wouldn't provide any useful information on the effectiveness of Arpiao's policies. What you would want is a comparison of recidivism rates in the same area before and after the policies were put into place.
Luckily for you such a study was done, and according to it Sheriff Joe's tent prisons have done nothing to reduce recidivism.
If you really want a comparison of Maricopa county with other locales, here is an interesting one:
"New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, for example, collectively housed more than 61,000 inmates per day last year. From 2004 through November of this year, these same county jails had a combined 43 prison-conditions lawsuits filed against them in federal courts.
In the very same three-year time frame, despite housing a mere 9,200 prisoners per day, Sheriff Arpaio was the target of a staggering 2,150 lawsuits in U.S. District Court and hundreds more in Maricopa County courts."
I have neighbors like this in the semi-affluent neighborhood that I live in. Rednecks with cushy state prison jobs. They've got a ridiculous amount of "toys" in their driveway.
But of course they rent their house. I'm guessing they used their previous house as an ATM and walked away from the mortgage.
as well as millions of illegal votes (which are still counted)
Absolute nonsense.
services provided to illegals
A drop in the bucket, and easily offset by the payroll and consumption taxes paid by illegal immigrants.
which drains our coffers while ensuring those same people pay nothing back into those coffers.
Tell that that to the social security administration, who estimates payroll tax contributions from undocumented workers have made up a estimated 5-10% of the social security trust fund - a fund which they will never ever receive from.
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but what is most needed is a simple distro designed to play Flash games, surf da intarweb, and watch Youtube. I could load that on my friends "kid PCs" and save having to Ghost them so often.
What you're describing is called "Ubuntu" and it's been around for awhile now.
My son's netbook came with Vista "starter" edition and after the built-in system restore function hosed the system (this is what you get when you try to save 10 bucks by buying a laptop from a fourth-rate Chinese manufacturer) my only realistic choice was to load Linux on it. He is perfectly happy with it now, as all he did was play flash games on it and Flash (finally) works just as well on Linux as it does on Windows.
The problem with Linux comes it on when you want to do anything beyond browse the net and look at youtube videos.
Ford GM and Chrysler all share supply chains. Letting GM and Chrysler fail would have crippled those chains, devastating Ford in the process.
Under your utopian vision, the American auto industry would probably consist of, The Big "0" today.
If there was a market for vials of mercury that people wanted to dump into waterways, would you support that?
Based on past posts of his that I've read, I'm pretty sure he would.
Change the subject?
I demonstrated quite succinctly that they could have raised taxes
Raising taxes and/or cutting spending during an economic depression is bad policy.
The fact that you are unware of that further cements your status as a moron.
Have a nice day, moron.
It also doesn't support any hardware nor software from this century.
FreeBSD's hardware support is about on par, or a little bit better than Debian Stable.
The decades-old argument in favour of BSD is that it's more secure than Linux.
There are more/better arguments than that. Security has never been why I've preferred FreeBSD to Linux.
it still causes me far fewer headaches than the handful of BSD boxes I occasionally have to support.
I feel the same way about Linux. Linuxisms always come out to bite me in the ass.
I like Theo, he's a good shit, but I don't care for his project. I'd rather see his great skills put to use on improving Linux.
Now your post makes much more sense. Your entire opinion of "BSD" is based solely on OpenBSD.
Android is derived from GPL software.
Only the kernel that Android runs on top of is GPL. The rest of Android is under a less restrictive ASL 2.0 license.
Foreign aid makes up around 1.5% of the U.S. federal budget.
Lets have a right to kill baby that would have been born naturally in another week (and then killing it would be murder, not "a choice").
So are you citing this extreme viewpoint held by almost no one to make your ideological opponents look bad, or to rationalize your own viewpoint?
Of course, I had to reset up my wallpaper and reinstall my apps
Titanium backup is your friend. Pay the $5 bucks for the pro version. It's worth it.
I pay plenty of federal income tax, plus I pay property taxes and of course consumption taxes.
Fuck you.
For various reasons (one being the impending AT&T merger) I recently switched from T-Mobile to Sprint.
They have plans that give you 500 minutes with unlimited text and data for 69.99 (59.99 + 10.00 smart phone addon).
You have to sign up with this (not really) secret method to get the plan for 59.99...
http://mcguireslaw.com/2008/07/16/psst-have-you-heard-about-everything-plus/
With my wife constantly calling me and the long conversations I have with my Dad, at first I was afraid that 500 minutes would not be enough, but part of their plan is unlimited mobile to mobile and it applies to ANY mobile phone; even those from other carriers and it applies to incoming calls from mobiles.
This month I used about 41 minutes of my 500.
If the majority of people you talk to are on mobiles in the U.S., then I would look at Sprint.
Their data network seems to be a little less robust than Verizon or At&Ts, but for the first time ever I have 3G in my rural area and can steam Pandora/Slacker on my way to work - something I could never dream of with T-Mobile and the EDGE/GPRS connections they provide outside of dense urban areas.
Now I'm just hoping Sprint doesn't collapse as a result of the merger.
The only people that support replacing all taxes with consumption taxes are wealthy members of the investor class who would have their tax burdens virtually eliminated by consumption only taxes and misinformed people who don't understand that they would be fucked by such a scheme.
Which category do you belong to?
Yeah I was speaking from experience.
I use Clonezilla for a lab I have that is dual boot Windows/Linux. On those machines, Ghost doesn't support ext4 (forces sector by sector copy, which takes FOREVER on a 150GB partition even if your zero the free space), nor does it copy GRUB properly.
+1
Ghost is great for Windows only.
Add an ext4 partition and/or GRUB and it all goes to hell.
They are expensive. The vast majority of IT shops do not have test environments because of the cost.
Good luck operating your system with just the kernel.
. I have never seen a study, but it would be interesting to know how many repeat offenders there are in Maricopa county compared to say, LA county in California or Bronx county in New York. It's just speculation on my part, but I would imagine the percentage of repeat offender is much less in Maricopa county.
Comparing recidivism rates between Maricopa country and other areas of the country wouldn't provide any useful information on the effectiveness of Arpiao's policies. What you would want is a comparison of recidivism rates in the same area before and after the policies were put into place.
Luckily for you such a study was done, and according to it Sheriff Joe's tent prisons have done nothing to reduce recidivism.
source
If you really want a comparison of Maricopa county with other locales, here is an interesting one:
"New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, and Houston, for example, collectively housed more than 61,000 inmates per day last year. From 2004 through November of this year, these same county jails had a combined 43 prison-conditions lawsuits filed against them in federal courts.
In the very same three-year time frame, despite housing a mere 9,200 prisoners per day, Sheriff Arpaio was the target of a staggering 2,150 lawsuits in U.S. District Court and hundreds more in Maricopa County courts."
SOURCE
+1 The truth
I have neighbors like this in the semi-affluent neighborhood that I live in. Rednecks with cushy state prison jobs. They've got a ridiculous amount of "toys" in their driveway.
But of course they rent their house. I'm guessing they used their previous house as an ATM and walked away from the mortgage.
Absolute ignorance. Its well documented fact.
Then provide the documentation please.
as well as millions of illegal votes (which are still counted)
Absolute nonsense.
services provided to illegals
A drop in the bucket, and easily offset by the payroll and consumption taxes paid by illegal immigrants.
which drains our coffers while ensuring those same people pay nothing back into those coffers.
Tell that that to the social security administration, who estimates payroll tax contributions from undocumented workers have made up a estimated 5-10% of the social security trust fund - a fund which they will never ever receive from.
As a society, we've already made the decision that humans deserve health care in some form.
The private sector may be good at producing health care as a product, but it has a dismal track record of efficiently delivering it to all people.
Does anyone else remember the days when slashdot readers were technical?
Nope. Been around since ~1997 too. Perhaps technical discussions went on here some time before that?
And based on the replies you've gotten, maybe I read wrong?
I read somewhere else that GPUs are better at raw number crunching that general purpose CPUs, which makes them more efficient at cracking passwords.
...that which cannot be reliably provided by the private sector.
Like health care.