I agree with your message, but I do not agree with your sig. I was going to mod, but I decided to reply.
You are absolutely right that politics is, for the most part, not about real issues. Things like SBVFT and Bush's (non-existant) Alabama National Guard record are supposedly character issues. But they're from 30-40 years ago. Why is the validity of Kerry's purple hearts an issue, but the fact that Bush was on coke as recently as 1991 (See Kitty Kelley's new book) not an issue?
Kerry is trying as hard as he can to focus on important issues, but the media, and the (lazy and/or uninformed) American voter are bored by issues. They would much rather just believe what they hear, regardless of the source. Which is why you've got Cheney saying a vote for Kerry is a green-light for terrorist attacks, or Bush saying that a $422 B deficit proves his tax cuts are stimulating the economy, because the deficit was originally predicted to be $480 B. It completely avoids the real issues, and is even misleading, but people buy it because it's easier to take it at face value than to actually think about who's saying it and what their motivations are. Anyway, that's about enough for today.
Oh, the reason I take exception to your sig... normally, I would agree with you, a viable third-party candidate would be wonderful. Honestly, I would much prefer we had a multi-party system like Canada or the UK. But this year, aside from the fact that Nader has been accepting all kinds of support from republicans... every vote that is taken away from Kerry will help Bush be re-elected, and there will be zero positive change in the next four years.
So the article says. But why on earth would they program it to make up numbers, instead of it saying "ERROR MACHINE WAS NOT RESET". Why would they program it to MAKE UP RESULTS if it knows it cannot display the correct ones? Not to me a conspiracy theorist, but this almost sounds like a coverup/excuse for bad programming...
From Gamespy: First revealed in January of this year, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is all set to hit the PS2 in October 19th (potential delays excluded) here in the U.S. and later in 2005 on PC and Xbox.
OMFG it's late but I couldn't resist playing with this thing. Hmmm...
Bill Gates gave Bush $2000. Couldn't find anything on Jobs, Allen, McBride, Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson.
Searching for Bush shows George HW, Barbara, and Jeb all chipped in $2000. Donations from random "Bushes" seems to be skewed towards Bush. Searching for Kerry shows every "Kerry" contributed to Kerry.
What other interesting names can be discovered in here?
What, like kozmo.com? Delivering movies and snacks was a good idea, in theory...but apparently not a sustainable business model. I knew bad things were coming when they started delivering Rolexes and other rediculously expensive things...
"Greece is full of phony internet cafes, opened by operators of banned gambling halls," Yiannis Gousakis, another internet cafe owner, told AFP.
"These guys earn so much, that even when police catch them and confiscate their PCs, they can pay the fines and buy new material with just a single day's proceedings," Gusakis added.
He is talking about people who run illegal computerized gambling, which is what the law targeted in the first place.
I would assume that with a distributed p2p scheme like edonkey, they'd only be able to tell if you're sharing it. I suppose they could sniff searches, but I kinda doubt they do. But it's pointless either way, everyone who wants the code to do something malicious already has it.
No way am I going to respond to these guys. I'm sure they sent out thousands of warnings, no need to draw attention to myself. Whoops, I posted it to Slashdot. Good thing I don't use my ISP email...
When the news of the leak broke, I jumped on edonkey and downloaded it. Got this email via my ISP a couple days later, I've since deleted the code (it's not that interesting to me anyway. Bunch of BSD code in there tho...)
Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052 14 Feb 2004 18:45:44 GMT URGENT/IMMEDIATE ATTENTION REQUIRED VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Re: NOTICE OF POTENTIAL UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTION OF MICROSOFT SOURCE CODE AT: [my IP address] Date of Infringement: Detail below.
Dear [my ISP]: We have received information that one of your users as identified above by the SITE/URL [my IP address] may have engaged in the unlawful distribution of Microsoft's source code for Windows 2000, and/or Windows NT4, by distributing and offering for download these source code files via a peer-to-peer network. Since you own this IP address, we request that you take appropriate action against the account holder under your Abuse Policy/Terms of Service Agreement. We also kindly request that you forward this notice promptly to the user of the IP address listed above at the time and date stated.
To the user at [my IP address]: The unauthorized copying and distribution of Microsoft's protected source code is a violation of both civil and criminal copyright and trade secret laws. If you have downloaded and are making the source code available for downloading by others, you are violating Microsoft's rights, and could be subject to severe civil and criminal penalties. Microsoft demands that you immediately (1) cease making Microsoft's source code available or otherwise distributing it, (2) destroy any and all copies you may have in your possession, and (3) provide us any and all information about how you came into possession of this code. Microsoft takes these issues very seriously, and will pursue legal action against individuals who take part in the proliferation of it source code. We look forward to your prompt cooperation. Should you need to contact me, I can be reached at the address above or at someguy@microsoft.com. Very truly yours,
Initial Infringement Timestamp: 14 Feb 2004 05:01:23 GMT Recent Infringement Timestamp: 14 Feb 2004 05:01:23 GMT
Problem is you may have forgotten and then you could really break something.
Hence, the diff output showing the difference between old and new. But you're right, it's the crappiest part of Gentoo, and it's a mistake everyone makes once (myself included). I think they're working on a better solution to this...
The main web pages, run by Computing & Communications certainly do follow set standards. However, the site from the article is hosted on the Department of Oceanograpy's own server, and they are free to do as they see fit. Surely you agree that web standards are not one-size-fits-all. But hey, I see that your website hasn't been updated in 18 months, so maybe web design isn't so hot these days anyway.
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The newest releases of gaim don't make it into the stable category, as they are somewhat buggy. If you want cutting edge:
emerge/usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.71.ebuild
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Re:Tommy Chong deserves to rot under the jail
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Deadbeat???? Motherfucker! I'm a full-time college student, as well as a full-time IT worker. OH MY GOD! POT SMOKERS HAVE NORMAL LIVES JUST LIKE YOU!!!
Ashcroft's DOJ was 100% responsible for "Operation Pipe Dreams" which put a 65-year-old man in jail for selling some glass (which has other "legitimate" uses). Fuck it, I'm moving to Canada.
Bah, still openoffice-1.1_rc3 as the latest. Compiling.....compiling....man this takes forever!!!
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Christ...are you making a bad joke, or are you delusional???
Guess what, friend? I smoke pot, as do MILLIONS of other Americans. It's sad if you decide right/wrong based not on ethics and morals, but on what lawmakers tell you. Chong wasn't imprisoned for any sort of marijuana-related offense; he was imprisioned for selling glass water pipes. Thank you John Ashcroft.
The more I think about it, the more I think you must be making a terrible joke...or are you really this naive??
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You are correct, DAldredge is mistaken. I was gonna mod him up, but I decided to discuss instead. Stop the hate, child!
Hey, don't badmouth pico like that. Republicans are notepad.exe users.
I agree with your message, but I do not agree with your sig. I was going to mod, but I decided to reply.
You are absolutely right that politics is, for the most part, not about real issues. Things like SBVFT and Bush's (non-existant) Alabama National Guard record are supposedly character issues. But they're from 30-40 years ago. Why is the validity of Kerry's purple hearts an issue, but the fact that Bush was on coke as recently as 1991 (See Kitty Kelley's new book) not an issue?
Kerry is trying as hard as he can to focus on important issues, but the media, and the (lazy and/or uninformed) American voter are bored by issues. They would much rather just believe what they hear, regardless of the source. Which is why you've got Cheney saying a vote for Kerry is a green-light for terrorist attacks, or Bush saying that a $422 B deficit proves his tax cuts are stimulating the economy, because the deficit was originally predicted to be $480 B. It completely avoids the real issues, and is even misleading, but people buy it because it's easier to take it at face value than to actually think about who's saying it and what their motivations are. Anyway, that's about enough for today.
Oh, the reason I take exception to your sig... normally, I would agree with you, a viable third-party candidate would be wonderful. Honestly, I would much prefer we had a multi-party system like Canada or the UK. But this year, aside from the fact that Nader has been accepting all kinds of support from republicans... every vote that is taken away from Kerry will help Bush be re-elected, and there will be zero positive change in the next four years.
So the article says. But why on earth would they program it to make up numbers, instead of it saying "ERROR MACHINE WAS NOT RESET". Why would they program it to MAKE UP RESULTS if it knows it cannot display the correct ones? Not to me a conspiracy theorist, but this almost sounds like a coverup/excuse for bad programming...
http://ps2.gamespy.com/playstation-2/grand-theft-a uto-san-andreas/523232p1.html
From Gamespy:
First revealed in January of this year, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas is all set to hit the PS2 in October 19th (potential delays excluded) here in the U.S. and later in 2005 on PC and Xbox.
Someone's working on it...
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another bumper sticker:
"When Clinton lied, no one died."
OMFG it's late but I couldn't resist playing with this thing. Hmmm...
Bill Gates gave Bush $2000.
Couldn't find anything on Jobs, Allen, McBride, Schwarzenegger, Mel Gibson.
Searching for Bush shows George HW, Barbara, and Jeb all chipped in $2000. Donations from random "Bushes" seems to be skewed towards Bush. Searching for Kerry shows every "Kerry" contributed to Kerry.
What other interesting names can be discovered in here?
Just a little Seattle thing. The Times seems to like sticking in good words about local companies.
What, like kozmo.com? Delivering movies and snacks was a good idea, in theory...but apparently not a sustainable business model. I knew bad things were coming when they started delivering Rolexes and other rediculously expensive things...
He is talking about people who run illegal computerized gambling, which is what the law targeted in the first place.
I would assume that with a distributed p2p scheme like edonkey, they'd only be able to tell if you're sharing it. I suppose they could sniff searches, but I kinda doubt they do. But it's pointless either way, everyone who wants the code to do something malicious already has it.
No way am I going to respond to these guys. I'm sure they sent out thousands of warnings, no need to draw attention to myself. Whoops, I posted it to Slashdot. Good thing I don't use my ISP email...
Problem is you may have forgotten and then you could really break something.
Hence, the diff output showing the difference between old and new. But you're right, it's the crappiest part of Gentoo, and it's a mistake everyone makes once (myself included). I think they're working on a better solution to this...
more like "After years of not having a feasible way of paying for digital music, because the RIAA fears the future..."
The main web pages, run by Computing & Communications certainly do follow set standards. However, the site from the article is hosted on the Department of Oceanograpy's own server, and they are free to do as they see fit. Surely you agree that web standards are not one-size-fits-all. But hey, I see that your website hasn't been updated in 18 months, so maybe web design isn't so hot these days anyway.
The newest releases of gaim don't make it into the stable category, as they are somewhat buggy. If you want cutting edge:
/usr/portage/net-im/gaim/gaim-0.71.ebuild
emerge
apt-get dist-upgrade
ha it's more typing than emerge -u world!
Maybe you should read the article.
...with their next bandwidth bill:
/dev/null http://download.es5.com/es5us.exe
$ wget -O
Deadbeat???? Motherfucker! I'm a full-time college student, as well as a full-time IT worker. OH MY GOD! POT SMOKERS HAVE NORMAL LIVES JUST LIKE YOU!!!
Ashcroft's DOJ was 100% responsible for "Operation Pipe Dreams" which put a 65-year-old man in jail for selling some glass (which has other "legitimate" uses). Fuck it, I'm moving to Canada.
Chone was hit by "Operation Pipe Dreams" run by Ashcroft's own AGO. Try using google.
Bah, still openoffice-1.1_rc3 as the latest. Compiling.....compiling....man this takes forever!!!
Christ...are you making a bad joke, or are you delusional???
Guess what, friend? I smoke pot, as do MILLIONS of other Americans. It's sad if you decide right/wrong based not on ethics and morals, but on what lawmakers tell you. Chong wasn't imprisoned for any sort of marijuana-related offense; he was imprisioned for selling glass water pipes. Thank you John Ashcroft.
The more I think about it, the more I think you must be making a terrible joke...or are you really this naive??