No, liberals (note that I did not say Democrats) were also consistently against the wars and excessive military spending.
Neat trick right there. Sure, if you exclude everyone with a vote from your made up definition of "liberal," and turn it into a club of one, then yes, all one of you were consistently against the war. So fucking what. Who'd you vote for?
I did, and I was indicating my agreement. I was also fairly intoxicated on Saturday night and, in the light of Sunday morning, could obviously have arranged my reply to better indicate that. It does kind of sound like I'm arguing with someone who isn't there, huh? Sorry 'bout that.
So what? It's not like anyone's losing any money in that case, because the money wasn't there in the first place. Those that wouldn't have bought it wouldn't have bought it.
I don't see how this is any different from making copies of cassette tapes when I was 10. That was also rampant at the time, everyone did it, they even put out specially designed tape decks that would play through the cassette at double speed specifically so you could make copies of it without having to sit there all day. And yet the record labels are still making music today.
God, I can't believe I'm about to comment on this. I am almost entirely unfamiliar with Lady Gaga and wouldn't know any of her songs if you sat me down and played them for me. That's just not the universe I live in.
However, it was your comparison to Marilyn Manson that got me thinking. I am not a Manson fan by any means, I don't like his music, I don't like his image, I don't like him. But! I can step back from that enough to realize that the music that he's performing isn't really his art. His image and the ways that he manipulates it and the ways that he manipulates public opinion around him are his art. And in that sense, he is an absolute unquestionable success. Eminem too, although obviously his music is part of his art and he takes it seriously (or maybe I just like him more), just looking at his musical achievements doesn't really tell the story.
From the little (very very little) I know of Lady Gaga, maybe she's up to the same sort of thing.
Once again, they are ripping off ideas from Apple.
I wish people would stop saying that. Microsoft and Apple before them are jacking this idea straight from the free desktop, where we've had it for fifteen years.
Uh huh. Next time you get slapped with 100+ mph straightline winds, drop me a line and let me know you're getting on. Tornadoes get all the press out here because they're photogenic, but let me tell you, you'd rather have a tornado because it might miss you.
Happened here (central Minnesota) in the late 90s ('96? '98? damn I'm getting old). Completely leveled my hometown of Monticello MN. Tore it down. I was ten miles west of town milking a cow. I stayed with the cows even though the barn was losing pieces of itself. I figured if anything's gonna be good to hang onto, it's gonna be a cow. I was 17. And I was right about hanging on to the cow, too.
If that happened in SoCal, San Diego would land in Arizona. Maybe because you build for different conditions out there. Or maybe because you are bitches.
The question is whether people like having Mono installed on their system, and the answer is no.
No it's not.
Yeah, I think it is. And I don't think it's about free software activists. It's about whether or not Ubuntu needs to include the Mono framework on the install CD. just to run a couple of (admittedly perfectly fine, but also perfectly replaceable) applications like F-Spot and Tomboy. Replace them with Shotwell and Gnotes (or whatever that program's called) and maybe you've just saved enough space to put the GIMP back in. Would that be worth it? I think so.
while windows will run on pretty much any hardware.
A modern version of Windows? Because I've got a P3 file server sitting in my closet running Arch Linux that thinks you're full of shit.
MS is having problems selling upgrades.
Yeah, that'll happen when your second rate OS costs north of $200. Of course no one wants to buy that crap.
When Linux is usable by joe user, I'll take it seriously.
Man, you're a laugh a minute. I sell Linux computers. To Joe User and his mom. I provide a fairly stock Ubuntu configuration for most folks, and a fully set up Arch Linux/KDE 4 config for the more adventurous. I sell these things to yoga instructors, retired grandmas, flight attendants, undergrads, and nurses. If they read your comment they would laugh at you. Congratulations. You've been outgeeked by an 88 year old woman.
You certainly have a choice in what you eat (and what you wear, to a much lesser extent), probably now more than ever before in recent memory. How much you exploit or abuse the labor that produces your food, the animals that provide it, and the land it's grown on is in your hands. To be fair, financial constraints do dictate these choices to some extent and one of the most-heard (and most fair) criticisms of the sustainable food movement is that it's priced in such a way as to make it a luxury that the exploited classes themselves cannot afford.
Clothes ditto, to a lesser extent. However, unlike food, used clothes are everywhere. I personally have purchased maybe one "actually really new" article of clothing in this calendar year, and I've bought almost an entire new wardrobe this year. And I'm looking damn sharp too, thank you. And unlike some sustainable food, this is something that everyone can afford to do.
Electronics... gah. I know. I wrestle with this. I sell PCs and I know that I personally contribute to all kinds of terrible regimes and labor practices, and it's kept me up nights. And it doesn't look much better when you start to break it down:
Precious metals: Exploitative mining practices, mostly in African nations. Rapes the land.
Boards and the manufacturing process in general: Real bad. Pacific Rim sweatshop labor. 12 year old girls. Environmental catastrophe. Sending money overseas to regimes that are not our friends.
Assembly: Mostly ditto the above, but here you do have some more options. There are several makes that do assembly in the states and pay their workers a living wage. A few of them are even union shops if that sort of thing matters to you. Ditto on peripherals.
The bottom line on electronics is that you cannot buy an American made computer, and even if you could, the raw materials are coming from some pretty terrible places. I try to do the best I can not just for myself, but for my customers. "Made In America" sells pretty well, and lots of folks are willing to pony up an extra fifty bucks for it.
To summarize: You have choices. Most of them are not perfect, some are better than others. If you throw up your hands and say "I can't make a difference," then it's not evil exploitative corporations taking away your choices. It's you.
Certainly those in power are the "exploiters in chief," but you (and I) enable and endorse that exploitation every day with every dollar we spend.
Just because I buy a product from an exploititive company, particularly when that's the only option, doesn't make me an exploiter.
I would like to hear a more thorough defense of that position. Please note that I'm not trying to dismiss you out of hand, nor am I trying to be at all holier-than-thou. Far from it. But I'm not convinced.
I suspected as much! I am smarter than a nine year old, therefore I am too smart for a Mac! Thank you for confirming my suspicion, I knew it had to be something like that.
I couldn't disagree more. When I'm forced to use my gf's Mac for anything (by which I mean anything) I am utterly lost. In fairness, her Mac is the first real exposure to OS X I ever had, but we've been together for four years. I've been swearing at her computer for that entire time.
Of course, she'd doubtless say the same thing about KDE, which is what I use.
You want the Cars' first album? Put it in the search bar, grab the files, drag to iPod.
Assuming your tags are correct. Often they're not, and then you're screwed, because Apple in their infinite wisdom chooses not to even offer viewing by files as a fallback.
Me? I would go to the folder called "Cars" and then select the first folder. And then be done. Now before you say "only if you've spent a month organizing your directory structure and naming conventions," yes, you're right. And it was a massive pain in the ass, let me tell you. But the same is true of any database-dependent system. You've either got to spend ages fixing all your tags up or just live with a shitty, non-functional database.
It's neither better nor worse, it's just different. But needlessly different, so in that sense, yes, it's a little worse.
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We in the UK pay for the BBC willingly
That's funny, I thought you paid for the Beeb because it's part of your taxes.
You're damn right it wasn't. We built the internet. Those guys just bought in.
The Clinton administration bombed the shit out of Iraq for years. Did they also "not believe in it?"
No, liberals (note that I did not say Democrats) were also consistently against the wars and excessive military spending.
Neat trick right there. Sure, if you exclude everyone with a vote from your made up definition of "liberal," and turn it into a club of one, then yes, all one of you were consistently against the war. So fucking what. Who'd you vote for?
Yeah, just China and North Korea and Thailand and Pakistan and...
I did, and I was indicating my agreement. I was also fairly intoxicated on Saturday night and, in the light of Sunday morning, could obviously have arranged my reply to better indicate that. It does kind of sound like I'm arguing with someone who isn't there, huh? Sorry 'bout that.
Chances are, some people also will not.
So what? It's not like anyone's losing any money in that case, because the money wasn't there in the first place. Those that wouldn't have bought it wouldn't have bought it.
I don't see how this is any different from making copies of cassette tapes when I was 10. That was also rampant at the time, everyone did it, they even put out specially designed tape decks that would play through the cassette at double speed specifically so you could make copies of it without having to sit there all day. And yet the record labels are still making music today.
God, I can't believe I'm about to comment on this. I am almost entirely unfamiliar with Lady Gaga and wouldn't know any of her songs if you sat me down and played them for me. That's just not the universe I live in.
However, it was your comparison to Marilyn Manson that got me thinking. I am not a Manson fan by any means, I don't like his music, I don't like his image, I don't like him. But! I can step back from that enough to realize that the music that he's performing isn't really his art. His image and the ways that he manipulates it and the ways that he manipulates public opinion around him are his art. And in that sense, he is an absolute unquestionable success. Eminem too, although obviously his music is part of his art and he takes it seriously (or maybe I just like him more), just looking at his musical achievements doesn't really tell the story.
From the little (very very little) I know of Lady Gaga, maybe she's up to the same sort of thing.
Once again, they are ripping off ideas from Apple.
I wish people would stop saying that. Microsoft and Apple before them are jacking this idea straight from the free desktop, where we've had it for fifteen years.
Like it or not, people evidently love to hate.
Fixed that.
Chuck D.
Uh huh. Next time you get slapped with 100+ mph straightline winds, drop me a line and let me know you're getting on. Tornadoes get all the press out here because they're photogenic, but let me tell you, you'd rather have a tornado because it might miss you.
Happened here (central Minnesota) in the late 90s ('96? '98? damn I'm getting old). Completely leveled my hometown of Monticello MN. Tore it down. I was ten miles west of town milking a cow. I stayed with the cows even though the barn was losing pieces of itself. I figured if anything's gonna be good to hang onto, it's gonna be a cow. I was 17. And I was right about hanging on to the cow, too.
If that happened in SoCal, San Diego would land in Arizona. Maybe because you build for different conditions out there. Or maybe because you are bitches.
If after all these years you believe in something called the "Microsoft Community Promise," you are a sucker.
The question is whether people like having Mono installed on their system, and the answer is no.
No it's not.
Yeah, I think it is. And I don't think it's about free software activists. It's about whether or not Ubuntu needs to include the Mono framework on the install CD. just to run a couple of (admittedly perfectly fine, but also perfectly replaceable) applications like F-Spot and Tomboy. Replace them with Shotwell and Gnotes (or whatever that program's called) and maybe you've just saved enough space to put the GIMP back in. Would that be worth it? I think so.
while windows will run on pretty much any hardware.
A modern version of Windows? Because I've got a P3 file server sitting in my closet running Arch Linux that thinks you're full of shit.
MS is having problems selling upgrades.
Yeah, that'll happen when your second rate OS costs north of $200. Of course no one wants to buy that crap.
When Linux is usable by joe user, I'll take it seriously.
Man, you're a laugh a minute. I sell Linux computers. To Joe User and his mom. I provide a fairly stock Ubuntu configuration for most folks, and a fully set up Arch Linux/KDE 4 config for the more adventurous. I sell these things to yoga instructors, retired grandmas, flight attendants, undergrads, and nurses. If they read your comment they would laugh at you. Congratulations. You've been outgeeked by an 88 year old woman.
You certainly have a choice in what you eat (and what you wear, to a much lesser extent), probably now more than ever before in recent memory. How much you exploit or abuse the labor that produces your food, the animals that provide it, and the land it's grown on is in your hands. To be fair, financial constraints do dictate these choices to some extent and one of the most-heard (and most fair) criticisms of the sustainable food movement is that it's priced in such a way as to make it a luxury that the exploited classes themselves cannot afford.
Clothes ditto, to a lesser extent. However, unlike food, used clothes are everywhere. I personally have purchased maybe one "actually really new" article of clothing in this calendar year, and I've bought almost an entire new wardrobe this year. And I'm looking damn sharp too, thank you. And unlike some sustainable food, this is something that everyone can afford to do.
Electronics... gah. I know. I wrestle with this. I sell PCs and I know that I personally contribute to all kinds of terrible regimes and labor practices, and it's kept me up nights. And it doesn't look much better when you start to break it down:
Precious metals: Exploitative mining practices, mostly in African nations. Rapes the land.
Boards and the manufacturing process in general: Real bad. Pacific Rim sweatshop labor. 12 year old girls. Environmental catastrophe. Sending money overseas to regimes that are not our friends.
Assembly: Mostly ditto the above, but here you do have some more options. There are several makes that do assembly in the states and pay their workers a living wage. A few of them are even union shops if that sort of thing matters to you. Ditto on peripherals.
The bottom line on electronics is that you cannot buy an American made computer, and even if you could, the raw materials are coming from some pretty terrible places. I try to do the best I can not just for myself, but for my customers. "Made In America" sells pretty well, and lots of folks are willing to pony up an extra fifty bucks for it.
To summarize: You have choices. Most of them are not perfect, some are better than others. If you throw up your hands and say "I can't make a difference," then it's not evil exploitative corporations taking away your choices. It's you.
Is it not that lack of evidence one was at the murder scene is indeed evidence one is not guilty?
Exactly. Not guilty. Which is not the same as innocent. Not even close.
All revolutions are violent.
Dang, I'd mod you up if I hadn't commented already. That's spot on.
Certainly those in power are the "exploiters in chief," but you (and I) enable and endorse that exploitation every day with every dollar we spend.
Just because I buy a product from an exploititive company, particularly when that's the only option, doesn't make me an exploiter.
I would like to hear a more thorough defense of that position. Please note that I'm not trying to dismiss you out of hand, nor am I trying to be at all holier-than-thou. Far from it. But I'm not convinced.
Where's the Emacs for Android?
Ah, but now you're asking for a specific, legacy app
Legacy, shmegacy.
I suspected as much! I am smarter than a nine year old, therefore I am too smart for a Mac! Thank you for confirming my suspicion, I knew it had to be something like that.
The apple gui/desktop is superior to kde
I couldn't disagree more. When I'm forced to use my gf's Mac for anything (by which I mean anything) I am utterly lost. In fairness, her Mac is the first real exposure to OS X I ever had, but we've been together for four years. I've been swearing at her computer for that entire time.
Of course, she'd doubtless say the same thing about KDE, which is what I use.
Here's to paragraph breaks. I don't even know what the hell you just said.
You want the Cars' first album? Put it in the search bar, grab the files, drag to iPod.
Assuming your tags are correct. Often they're not, and then you're screwed, because Apple in their infinite wisdom chooses not to even offer viewing by files as a fallback.
Me? I would go to the folder called "Cars" and then select the first folder. And then be done. Now before you say "only if you've spent a month organizing your directory structure and naming conventions," yes, you're right. And it was a massive pain in the ass, let me tell you. But the same is true of any database-dependent system. You've either got to spend ages fixing all your tags up or just live with a shitty, non-functional database.
It's neither better nor worse, it's just different. But needlessly different, so in that sense, yes, it's a little worse.