He seems to imply that marriages/social arrangements between people are separate from government; even they pre-date government.
If he really believed in social liberty and freedom, he would not describe himself as a cultural or social conservative, which is also translated as "authoritarian". If the lives and actions of people are their own business, why does he care who has sex with whom or how marriage is defined?
You've made a logic leap here. Being socially conservative does not imply authoritarianism.
You can hold positions which would be considered socially-conservative (against gay marriage, against abortion, against drug use), and not use the power of the gun to force people into your morality.
His position on the issue is one of states' rights versus a federal power grab. Vermont may decide to legally recognize unions between men and toaster ovens....the question is whether Alabama is forced to recognize that union under full faith and credit. It seems the general legal consensus (yes, I've studied this, and wrote a paper on it in college....I have a degree in Government), is that yes, all marriage licenses must be honored. Despite what John Edwards claimed in the debate, Alabama would have to litigate the case when NetBSD Luser decides to divorce his toaster, after he's moved to Alabama.
Ideally, the answer is to get government out of the marriage business altogether. Since that's not at all practical, the federal government has to take steps to clarify the issue. I'm more comfortable with the issue being resolved in the Congress than in the courts.
I had a beta version of 2.0 running on an AlphaServer 4100 (4x400Alpha/2.5GB ram)a couple of months back (before my biz partner traded the furnace for a PowerMac).
Ran just fine, including full SMP support. Didn't note any real performance difference between FreeBSD 4 and NetBSD.
But the NetBSD tree is still supported, and FreeBSD has dropped Alpha support. It's probably a good thing, too, seeing as how I could never get 5.1 or 5.2 to install on that machine.
In a way, NetBSD is closest to being desktop-ready out-of-the-box, seeing as how they include X as a part of the base system.
That said, I think NetBSD has a few problems on the desktop.
1. People ignore NetBSD. Probably about 90% of the world is x86, and FreeBSD seems to rule the roost for x86 BSD. Although I really like NetBSD, I often grab for my FBSD mini-iso on x86 before NetBSD. Other BSD users show up in the form of the "OMG Sekure!" crowd, who gravitate to OpenBSD. So, the platforms left are non-x86, and many of those have commercial Unix that's easy to get, if not free to use. (think Solaris on Sparc) When people do decide to try NetBSD, it's because they've got a toaster they want to use for something small. 2. Desktop nicities. Things like accelerated X and Java take more work under NetBSD. 3. Notebook support. NetBSD's tends to lag behind.
The only thing I wish I could do in evolution is have just the email client, I don't use any of that other shit.
You note the addition of NNTP support? WHY!?
There's already a very good gnome news reader -- it's called Pan. Is it that difficult to just have evolution call the mime handler for news:// ?
Having one big swiss army knife of a program appeals to Windows users. But windows is a distant third on my list of interfaces (I use OSX and Gnome on top of whatever more), and I kind of appreciate small, well-designed applications that work well together.
And the coolest feature of the >286, v86 mode, is notably absent in the 64-bit features.
And it still only has fifteen IRQ's, which are taken up by certain things.
And it still will boot MS-DOS.
And that is really sad, when you think about it.
AMD had an opportunity to make a modern workstation that ran 32-bit x86 code quickly, and they blew it. The annoyances of x86 are there, with an inferior 64-bit implementation tacked atop.
I like that I can right-click on ads in FireFox to block or un-block them.
Right click? What's that?:-p/me glances over at the iBook...yep, one big button.
I started using Camino when I got back into the mac world (10.1 days), after being utterly unimpressed with Mozilla, and hating the carbonlib ugliness that is IE.
I used it pretty much regularly until 10.3 came out, when I switched to Safari.
Firefox still is an abortion on the mac, although it's better than the old builds of Mozilla were. And I seem to have this problem with mouse-gestures and the trackpad, and haven't been able to figure out how to turn them off. Camino, OTOH, does damn near everything that Firefox does, and looks like it belongs on OSX.
Sure. There are plenty. And they're privately-held. The stock market boom of the 1990's made getting that IPO done job number one for up-and-coming business-types. It really started to spin out-of-control with Netscape.
But there are those of us who own IT businesses, who steadfastly refuse to live by the rules the stock market demands. I will gladly trade high profit for product quality, employee satisfaction, and customer support. But Wall Street would have none of that.
I often will take work for lower than my standard rate when there's a lull in business.
Why?
Because if I'm not full at standard rate, I'm charging too much.
I don't do an 80% job just because I'm charging 80%.
The inverse is sometimes also true. If I feel like I've got too much work, or, I want more non-work time, rates go up.
Now, on the article, it's an innovative solution to the problem. It gives the employees flexibility, and the ability to rack up money if they don't mind working undesirable shifts.
You're making too much of it, really. It's the same exact audio in two channels.
In the case of an ISDN link, you have two digital circuits. The modem is capable of doing stereo by devoting a circuit to each channel. Doing this gives you roughly FM-Radio quality audio. If you combine the two circuits, you get very high quality mono -- near CD quality, but you get that output on both the left and the right channels.
Self-proclaimed audiophiles also tend to be asshats. I work in radio. We had a remote studio for awhile that was connected via an ISDN link. There was an advertiser who was touring the studios....he starts going off about how he loves audio gear and that he has a good ear and can pick things out that many people miss. He commented that the remote studio link had very nice stereo. To which I replied,
"It's dual channel mono."
He didn't believe me until I showed him the encoder unit, and showed the same audio with stereo Vu meters.
I like the sound of old radios. They're not real great to blast or anything....don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade my 6" sub for anything, but there is something fun about listening to a distant AM signal at night on a glowing tube radio.
Yes, I know. I watched the Vietnam lovefest that was the DNC.
You know that Bush is a dishonorable soldier who deserted his post, deserted his post sir, a dishonorable and cowardly act.
No, all I know is he was given an honorable discharge after five years service in the Air National Guard. That's the historical record. I understand that you don't like that, but calling names isn't going to make it any less so.
His oponent is a decorated veteran, awarded three purple hearts so the GOP just has to bring him down.
Because he brought it up. The animosity towards John Kerry is mostly rooted in his betrayal of his comrades following the war. Implying that every single one of them committed war crimes doesn't win you many friends.
W. wants to run on his strength as leader even though he read my pet goat on 9-11.
Non-sequitor. I hope you're paying Michael Moore royalties on that, as he seems to be the source for most of your information.
You are dishonorable sir, your candidate is dishonorable sir, and caught in a lie sir, a dishonorable lie.
Thank you. I appreciate being called names. It shows that you have absolutely no argument to make. I'm waiting for the obligatory reference to Hitler.
Oh and by the way the Navy has denied having made any decision concerning the GOP attempt to start any investigation of any medals awarded to Kerry.
Citation of that? Link?
Where is Bin Laden Sir? Where is Al Zawahiri? Not in Iraq.
Hunkered down in rat holes in fear for their lives, just like Saddam was. The entire terrorist world is in shambles and it's George Bush's doing. Now they've got even more to fear with the might of the Russian military after them too. The masterminds of terror will be executed -- there is no other way to deal with them. What's JK's position on execution of terrorists today? I can never get a firm grasp on that one.
I really couldn't care less whether the documents are fake (which the preponderance of evidence seems to show). The point is that it doesn't matter anymore. This election is not about Vietnam, yet that's all Kerry can seem to talk about.
But if it's going to be about Vietnam, because that's where Kerry's people are going to put it, then so be it. Questions about Kerry's service are par for the course. And his own stories do not match up. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Fact: Lehman didn't write nor authorize Kerry's amended award. Here's the article.
Fact: The Department of the Navy is investigating whether Kerry wore an inappropriate device on his Sliver Star. This is a separate issue from the Swift Vets, brought by a different group. Here's the Press Release. The mere accusation of wearing an inappropriate device led Adm. Boorda to commit suicide. It's not a light matter.
Of course the motive for this is not hard to see, they think that if they can muddy the waters then people will become confused about which one went to Vietnam and was awarded three purple hearts and which went AWOL from the national guard and lied about it afterwards.
And as I said, it doesn't make a difference to me. I'm not going to accuse Bush of being AWOL. I'm not going to criticize what Kerry did in Vietnam. I'm not going to look to see if his wounds were self-inflicted. It doesn't matter.
Your leader is caught in a lie sir, a dirty dishonorable lie.
Keep repeating it, maybe it'll stick. More likely, you'll sound like a narrow-minded fool.
I don't care. I don't support Bush because of what he did thirty years ago. Why would I support Kerry for what he did thirty years ago?
I voted against Bush in 2000, and my support for him now is based solely on what he's done in office. Kerry, on the other hand, has no principles. And his voting record shows him to be on the wrong side of history time and again. Voted against many weapons systems. Voted against Gulf War I. Supported a nuclear freeze. Supported the Sandinistas. I could go on and on.
Your "leader" has been caught in a lie sir, a dishonorable lie.
Like wearing a "V" device on a Sliver Star, when those have never been awarded/authorized?
Like getting three different citations written for the same award, the last of which was signed with an autopen unbeknownst to the signer (John Lehman)? (And the Dept. of Navy has opened an investigation into this one)
Like requesting discharge after returning from Vietnam in 1969, and not actually receiving discharge until 1978?
Like waxing poetic about being in Cambodia during Christmas 1968 when Nixon had sent him there? (Kerry's campaign has admitted he wasn't in Cambodia now, and uh, Nixon wasn't president until Jan. 69)
See, this is the main problem with the Kerry campaign. What did or didn't happen in Vietnam is totally irrelevant to what's going on today. Looking at the date, it's 2004, not 1974. Get over Vietnam, already, and focus on what they've done in their respective offices. Bush has never criticized Kerry's service, but the DNC (and Kerry himself) have no qualms about crticizing Bush's. Why is that?
Because Kerry has nothing to run on other than Vietnam. And the Democrats nominated him because they were afraid of Howard Dean. They're in a sorry state of affairs, and anything they can do to prop up their dud of a candidate they'll try.
He's admitted that he's a Kerry supporter, but it doesn't affect his presentation of the data.
I do question the use of some of the polls, because you have three basic polling types that get used: adults, registered voters, and likely voters.
While there's been a swing away from adults and registered voters (those polls lean heavily towards democrats), some of the polls he puts up do use those criteria.
He goes strictly upon newest poll gets posted. I'd prefer that a poll of likely voters have more weight than a poll of registered voters taken a day later.
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Did you actually bother to read the "rant?"
He seems to imply that marriages/social arrangements between people are separate from government; even they pre-date government.
If he really believed in social liberty and freedom, he would not describe himself as a cultural or social conservative, which is also translated as "authoritarian". If the lives and actions of people are their own business, why does he care who has sex with whom or how marriage is defined?
You've made a logic leap here. Being socially conservative does not imply authoritarianism.
You can hold positions which would be considered socially-conservative (against gay marriage, against abortion, against drug use), and not use the power of the gun to force people into your morality.
His position on the issue is one of states' rights versus a federal power grab. Vermont may decide to legally recognize unions between men and toaster ovens....the question is whether Alabama is forced to recognize that union under full faith and credit. It seems the general legal consensus (yes, I've studied this, and wrote a paper on it in college....I have a degree in Government), is that yes, all marriage licenses must be honored. Despite what John Edwards claimed in the debate, Alabama would have to litigate the case when NetBSD Luser decides to divorce his toaster, after he's moved to Alabama.
Ideally, the answer is to get government out of the marriage business altogether. Since that's not at all practical, the federal government has to take steps to clarify the issue. I'm more comfortable with the issue being resolved in the Congress than in the courts.
I had a beta version of 2.0 running on an AlphaServer 4100 (4x400Alpha/2.5GB ram)a couple of months back (before my biz partner traded the furnace for a PowerMac).
Ran just fine, including full SMP support. Didn't note any real performance difference between FreeBSD 4 and NetBSD.
But the NetBSD tree is still supported, and FreeBSD has dropped Alpha support. It's probably a good thing, too, seeing as how I could never get 5.1 or 5.2 to install on that machine.
In a way, NetBSD is closest to being desktop-ready out-of-the-box, seeing as how they include X as a part of the base system.
That said, I think NetBSD has a few problems on the desktop.
1. People ignore NetBSD. Probably about 90% of the world is x86, and FreeBSD seems to rule the roost for x86 BSD. Although I really like NetBSD, I often grab for my FBSD mini-iso on x86 before NetBSD. Other BSD users show up in the form of the "OMG Sekure!" crowd, who gravitate to OpenBSD. So, the platforms left are non-x86, and many of those have commercial Unix that's easy to get, if not free to use. (think Solaris on Sparc) When people do decide to try NetBSD, it's because they've got a toaster they want to use for something small.
2. Desktop nicities. Things like accelerated X and Java take more work under NetBSD.
3. Notebook support. NetBSD's tends to lag behind.
Note the price....they're all used from $50! I want the record, but not that much!
His new CD, Has Been comes out on Tuesday. Here is a review.
I'm still looking for a copy of Transformed Man if anyone knows where to get one.....
Just read access, and you have to use your own ISP's server for outbound SMTP?
The only thing I wish I could do in evolution is have just the email client, I don't use any of that other shit.
You note the addition of NNTP support? WHY!?
There's already a very good gnome news reader -- it's called Pan. Is it that difficult to just have evolution call the mime handler for news:// ?
Having one big swiss army knife of a program appeals to Windows users. But windows is a distant third on my list of interfaces (I use OSX and Gnome on top of whatever more), and I kind of appreciate small, well-designed applications that work well together.
The main character looks like a strangely blue-eyed Gordon Liddy.
OK, perhaps Bush isn't responsible for mismanagement of a floundering game company, but it stings nonetheless.
You have it right. But there are many people who believe that the future of their financial position depends upon the actions of some politician.
If someone honestly believes that, he will never be successful, because success is a function of external circumstance.
Oh well.
And a PowerPC has what, 32, on a G3?
And the coolest feature of the >286, v86 mode, is notably absent in the 64-bit features.
And it still only has fifteen IRQ's, which are taken up by certain things.
And it still will boot MS-DOS.
And that is really sad, when you think about it.
AMD had an opportunity to make a modern workstation that ran 32-bit x86 code quickly, and they blew it. The annoyances of x86 are there, with an inferior 64-bit implementation tacked atop.
I like that I can right-click on ads in FireFox to block or un-block them.
:-p /me glances over at the iBook...yep, one big button.
Right click? What's that?
I started using Camino when I got back into the mac world (10.1 days), after being utterly unimpressed with Mozilla, and hating the carbonlib ugliness that is IE.
I used it pretty much regularly until 10.3 came out, when I switched to Safari.
Firefox still is an abortion on the mac, although it's better than the old builds of Mozilla were. And I seem to have this problem with mouse-gestures and the trackpad, and haven't been able to figure out how to turn them off. Camino, OTOH, does damn near everything that Firefox does, and looks like it belongs on OSX.
Sure. There are plenty. And they're privately-held. The stock market boom of the 1990's made getting that IPO done job number one for up-and-coming business-types. It really started to spin out-of-control with Netscape.
But there are those of us who own IT businesses, who steadfastly refuse to live by the rules the stock market demands. I will gladly trade high profit for product quality, employee satisfaction, and customer support. But Wall Street would have none of that.
More likely, it'd be the USS Grasp, or its sister ship, the USS Grapple.
Bullshit.
I often will take work for lower than my standard rate when there's a lull in business.
Why?
Because if I'm not full at standard rate, I'm charging too much.
I don't do an 80% job just because I'm charging 80%.
The inverse is sometimes also true. If I feel like I've got too much work, or, I want more non-work time, rates go up.
Now, on the article, it's an innovative solution to the problem. It gives the employees flexibility, and the ability to rack up money if they don't mind working undesirable shifts.
AOL for OSX uses a gecko-based thing, as does (or did for awhile) the Win32 Compuserve client.
IE on OSX is pretty much dead.
You're making too much of it, really. It's the same exact audio in two channels.
In the case of an ISDN link, you have two digital circuits. The modem is capable of doing stereo by devoting a circuit to each channel. Doing this gives you roughly FM-Radio quality audio. If you combine the two circuits, you get very high quality mono -- near CD quality, but you get that output on both the left and the right channels.
Ahh....you're one of *those* kind of sales gerbils. :-p
Nono, it was a friendly conversation. I wasn't trying to show him up or anything. Just correcting a mistake he'd made.
But he's a great example of know-it-alls who try hard to justify overspending on home and car stereo equipment.
Self-proclaimed audiophiles also tend to be asshats. I work in radio. We had a remote studio for awhile that was connected via an ISDN link. There was an advertiser who was touring the studios....he starts going off about how he loves audio gear and that he has a good ear and can pick things out that many people miss. He commented that the remote studio link had very nice stereo. To which I replied,
"It's dual channel mono."
He didn't believe me until I showed him the encoder unit, and showed the same audio with stereo Vu meters.
I like the sound of old radios. They're not real great to blast or anything....don't get me wrong, I wouldn't trade my 6" sub for anything, but there is something fun about listening to a distant AM signal at night on a glowing tube radio.
Yep. This is called an error in parallelism. Singular subject, plural pronoun.
That is the whole strategy.
Yes, I know. I watched the Vietnam lovefest that was the DNC.
You know that Bush is a dishonorable soldier who deserted his post, deserted his post sir, a dishonorable and cowardly act.
No, all I know is he was given an honorable discharge after five years service in the Air National Guard. That's the historical record. I understand that you don't like that, but calling names isn't going to make it any less so.
His oponent is a decorated veteran, awarded three purple hearts so the GOP just has to bring him down.
Because he brought it up. The animosity towards John Kerry is mostly rooted in his betrayal of his comrades following the war. Implying that every single one of them committed war crimes doesn't win you many friends.
W. wants to run on his strength as leader even though he read my pet goat on 9-11.
Non-sequitor. I hope you're paying Michael Moore royalties on that, as he seems to be the source for most of your information.
You are dishonorable sir, your candidate is dishonorable sir, and caught in a lie sir, a dishonorable lie.
Thank you. I appreciate being called names. It shows that you have absolutely no argument to make. I'm waiting for the obligatory reference to Hitler.
Oh and by the way the Navy has denied having made any decision concerning the GOP attempt to start any investigation of any medals awarded to Kerry.
Citation of that? Link?
Where is Bin Laden Sir? Where is Al Zawahiri? Not in Iraq.
Hunkered down in rat holes in fear for their lives, just like Saddam was. The entire terrorist world is in shambles and it's George Bush's doing. Now they've got even more to fear with the might of the Russian military after them too. The masterminds of terror will be executed -- there is no other way to deal with them. What's JK's position on execution of terrorists today? I can never get a firm grasp on that one.
I really couldn't care less whether the documents are fake (which the preponderance of evidence seems to show). The point is that it doesn't matter anymore. This election is not about Vietnam, yet that's all Kerry can seem to talk about.
But if it's going to be about Vietnam, because that's where Kerry's people are going to put it, then so be it. Questions about Kerry's service are par for the course. And his own stories do not match up. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.
Fact: Lehman didn't write nor authorize Kerry's amended award. Here's the article.
Fact: The Department of the Navy is investigating whether Kerry wore an inappropriate device on his Sliver Star. This is a separate issue from the Swift Vets, brought by a different group. Here's the Press Release. The mere accusation of wearing an inappropriate device led Adm. Boorda to commit suicide. It's not a light matter.
Of course the motive for this is not hard to see, they think that if they can muddy the waters then people will become confused about which one went to Vietnam and was awarded three purple hearts and which went AWOL from the national guard and lied about it afterwards.
And as I said, it doesn't make a difference to me. I'm not going to accuse Bush of being AWOL. I'm not going to criticize what Kerry did in Vietnam. I'm not going to look to see if his wounds were self-inflicted. It doesn't matter.
Your leader is caught in a lie sir, a dirty dishonorable lie.
Keep repeating it, maybe it'll stick. More likely, you'll sound like a narrow-minded fool.
I don't care. I don't support Bush because of what he did thirty years ago. Why would I support Kerry for what he did thirty years ago?
I voted against Bush in 2000, and my support for him now is based solely on what he's done in office. Kerry, on the other hand, has no principles. And his voting record shows him to be on the wrong side of history time and again. Voted against many weapons systems. Voted against Gulf War I. Supported a nuclear freeze. Supported the Sandinistas. I could go on and on.
I use one nearly every day at work. :-) IBM Selectric III.
Unfortunately, it only does monospace (10 or 12pt), so I can't try and reproduce the document.
We use the typewriter to make labels for audio carts and cassettes. It's just faster than futzing with getting the laser printer to do it.
Your "leader" has been caught in a lie sir, a dishonorable lie.
Like wearing a "V" device on a Sliver Star, when those have never been awarded/authorized?
Like getting three different citations written for the same award, the last of which was signed with an autopen unbeknownst to the signer (John Lehman)? (And the Dept. of Navy has opened an investigation into this one)
Like requesting discharge after returning from Vietnam in 1969, and not actually receiving discharge until 1978?
Like waxing poetic about being in Cambodia during Christmas 1968 when Nixon had sent him there? (Kerry's campaign has admitted he wasn't in Cambodia now, and uh, Nixon wasn't president until Jan. 69)
See, this is the main problem with the Kerry campaign. What did or didn't happen in Vietnam is totally irrelevant to what's going on today. Looking at the date, it's 2004, not 1974. Get over Vietnam, already, and focus on what they've done in their respective offices. Bush has never criticized Kerry's service, but the DNC (and Kerry himself) have no qualms about crticizing Bush's. Why is that?
Because Kerry has nothing to run on other than Vietnam. And the Democrats nominated him because they were afraid of Howard Dean. They're in a sorry state of affairs, and anything they can do to prop up their dud of a candidate they'll try.
The DNC has been spending a ton of money on TV ads in Virginia. No dem has carried VA since Johnson.
I'd vote for Alabama. They need to spend some time explaining Kerry's nuanced positions to the boys down there.
He's admitted that he's a Kerry supporter, but it doesn't affect his presentation of the data.
I do question the use of some of the polls, because you have three basic polling types that get used: adults, registered voters, and likely voters.
While there's been a swing away from adults and registered voters (those polls lean heavily towards democrats), some of the polls he puts up do use those criteria.
He goes strictly upon newest poll gets posted. I'd prefer that a poll of likely voters have more weight than a poll of registered voters taken a day later.