Sorry, pal, If you are worried about someone else's hunger, Then YOU feed him instead of stealing MY TV. The problem is you want the moral credit for feeding somebody, but you are too cheap to pay for it, So you want to stick me with the bill. Socialism is nothing more than part-time slavery.
>Well, gee. So making Raymond pay some extra taxes on his precious income is equivalent to murdering 10.5 million innocent people? Really. What an interesting notion. Equivalent? no but similar. Taxes are collected by the threat of armed force. When you refuse to pay them men with guns will show up to collect the taxes at the point of a gun. If you try to defend yourself they will kill you. I guess the only differance is some socialists can be bribed, others can't
How do most customers react to buggy software? They buy Brand X'es DooDad 2.0. It crashes several times a day, locks up the PC, and runs slow as hell. They spend a year downloading patches, that sometimes work, finding workarounds, and ignoring some of the bugs. Brand X ships DooDad 3.0. Do they tell them where they can stick it? NO, They send them 50 bucks for the upgrade! Buggy software will last as long as there is a market for it.
I agree. It's time for a new term. It worked for other groups. When the term "Negro" went too far in seprating blacks from other Americans Cival Rights activists substituted Black or African-American for it. When "Homosexual" no longer presented the image that Gay rights leaders wanted to portray, they introduced "Gay" It's a lot easier to introduce a new term than to change the perception of an old term.
I'm a Geek, and proud of it. what I've noticed about most of us geeks isn't a lack of personal skills as much as not wanting to waste my time on pointless smalltalk.In the past I have tutored people, Served as a Campaign Manager for a policital canidate, Worked as Republican Party Precent captian, Served on the county Party execitive comitee, Made public Speaches, and rarely left a pickup bar alone. I've even sold very expensive classic cars for a time. All hallmarks of good social skills. However I found most of it totally boring. Conversations with so called normal people tend to stray off subject. I found I prefer talking to other geeks. They stay on subject, and rarely jabber about things they know nothing about. Austic? Hell no! I'd call it being antisocial by choice. I like Sgt. Joe Friday's Tag line from the old Dragnet Show, "Just the facts ma'mm". If being normal means I have to dress like everybody else, act like everybody else, and worst of all think like everybody else, then to Hell with being Normal. I'm better than normal, I'm a Class A geek!
The idea for Linux Lite is a good start, But it dosen't go far enough. I have installed Redhat, Mandrake, and Caldera. They all have too many choices for a newbe. Look at it this way, Do you want to install #*&^9SE? How can you decide if you don't have the slighest idea what it is? I would like to see a distro aimed at users of the Redmond OS. Call it the Windows Upgrade Linux distro. WUL for short. WUL could go into the Winreg and pull out all the data for installed hardware,(No Probing needed). Look in Netscape and/or IE for Bookmarks/favorites and transfer them to the Netscape in Linux. Transfer saved Mail from Outlook/Eudora/Messanger to a default mail reader. Transfer internet settings to the Linux install.Move wallpaper to linux and even have the selected wallpaper come up. Maybe even a theme converter to change those Plus! themes to whatever window manager was the default install.In short make WUL like upgrading(?) from Win95 to Win98. Insert CD click mouse. Reboot, and you have a new OS with all your old settings.This would give Linux Newbes a secure working Linux box, Then they would have the most important tool of all to learn Linux. They could graduate to a better distro after they learn from WUL.
One other benifit of the USG going open source is it would break the Microsoft monopoly a lot faster than the antitrust trial. A year and we are still waiting for the decesion. When it finally comes then we can wait for the appeals. If the USG had started a switch to Linux and Free BSD instead of going to court by now MS would have a much smaller market share, and there would be a lot more software ported to the open source OSes, which would have resulted in many non Goverment changeovers
Just click on the results of the last few/. polls to get an idea of what kind of election returns you can expect from internet voting. When you don't care who wins it's easy to toss your vote away for a joke choice by clicking that mouse. Very few of these people will drive to the polls and wait in line for a chance to cast a vote because they think it's a good joke.
Please explain why forcing someone to join a union isn't raw use of power for your ends. Since you think it's ok for the goverment to force people to do whatever a majority of Congress agrees on, I assume we won't hear you whine when you are forced to do something you disagree with.
I would like to suggest a simpler system. Review past modarators actions and pick those who have the best record, Mostly postive, No signs of bias, etc. Offer these people a chance to become permanant modarators, With only negative points. They wouldn't lose thier chance to become regular modarators also. Give them unlimited negative points and let them kill the trolls. Any signs of bias or misuse would result in loss of modarator status. Then the regular modarators could do thier job without wasting points on idiots.
With an election comming up, a lot of politicans are posting web sites. When ever you see one, make sure they know that they owe 5k$ to unisys, and that you will report them. Once they start getting bit, then maybe Congress will kill all the absurd software patents.
Bismark, The founder of the modern wellfare state, Said "The Purpose of Wellfare is to buy some peoples votes with other peoples money." Look at all the votes that money has bought. A lot of politicans would have to get a real job if it wasn't for wellfare votes.
After visiting Asia, Africa, And Mexico, I fully realize how much poverty there is in the third world. Do you realize that the main reason for it is corrupt goverments? It dosen't matter how much money you send because at least 95% will never reach the people you feel so sorry for. But go ahead sucker, send as much of YOUR money as you want to. Just keep your hands out of MY pocket.
They couldn't post the reasonable E-mail. How bad would they look if they put up 500 variations of "Excuse me but Linux would have worked much better if you set it up this way....." Mindcraft is trying to regain thier credibility. Posting the reasonable responses would have destroyed it. The crap was all that was left.
Oh, you get a choice, But AT&T dosen't? Your defination of choice seems to consist of "I'll force other people to do what I want" The only way real choice can exist is EVERYBODY has a choice! Portland should have given AOL and Prodigy the choice of stringing a new cable system or shutting up. When you grant the goverment the power to demand what will be carried, so you can have a choice, you are also granting them the power to say what will NOT be carried, Robbing you of your choice. Go ahead give them the power to regulate the content of the Web, But don't start whining when they start limiting your choice. IMHO both of these choices suck. I can get what AT&T offers or I can get what a bunch of politicans allow AT&T to offer. End the local monopoly, allow any body to run a new cable net, then you will have a real choice.
The mass of the black hole will be less than the mass of the parent star. A small part of the mass will be converted to energy in the supernova event (Remember E=Mc2). A far larger portion will be blown into space. Only the core will become a Black hole. Stellar fusion only produces elements with an atomic number of 26 or lower.(Iron) All elements more massive than iron are formed in supernovae events. Gold for example is the ashes of a supernova event.
I see zero chance of this idea being implemented as written. It will be warped out of shape in congress. "Expert Witnesses" will be called in to testify. Most of them will be from comerical software companies, M$ more than anybody else. I assure you that a percent of profits will be the first thing dropped. Nor will Free software get a free ride. In the end the Software Regulation Board will follow the Golden Rule, "Those who have the gold, Rule".
If a certain software company, with very deeppockets, gave a lot of money to the next president, and key members of congress for next years election what would happen? How hard would they be checked out? My guess would be just a few face saving fines that they can afford. How hard would thier compitition be hit? Crippling fines! Want an example? Windows 9.X crashes regurally, so M$ gets a 10 million Dollar fine. M$ pays it out of petty cash. Gnome crashes sometimes. They only get a million Dollar fine. Do you think they can come up with that kind of money? How does the public react to this ? You will never get past "But Microsoft was fined 10 times as much money"
It will work better. I was a radar tech in the Navy, and the SPS-49 radar uses a water cooled klystron. Pure water has very low conducivity. We had no problems even though the klystron is powered at 40 KV. Corrision wouldn't cause any problems because water dosen't cause the problem, electrolyss caused by impurities is the cause of corrision. The drawback is keeping the water pure. You have to perform daily checks for water purity and have extra water on hand for changes. A far simpler way to keep any air cooled device working is to keep it clean. We used air filters and cleaned the filters once a week. The inside of the equipment was cleaned once a month. We also kept the equipment in air conditioned rooms, with the temp set below 70. You could get some dryer vent hose from the hardware store and duct air from the vent directally to the air intake on your PC.
AOL's main concern is how many subscribers they have so they can say "your ad will be seen by 18 million subscribers!" The number two concern is keeping them on AOL, looking at ads. If a AOL user screws up your Web page, then the rest of the AOL users can't leave AOL to go there. If they screw up usenet maybe the other users will go back to an AOL forum where they can see those ads. AOL thinks only of thier responsibility to advertisers. AOL thinks of any site that isn't on AOL as costing them money. The only way AOL will reform is when thier practices start costing them users. Untill then they will do whats best for AOL and to hell with the rest of the Internet.
I missed my chance to get rich by selling drugs, and now theres just too much competion. But if I can get the leftwingers to outlaw guns, I can get filthy rich by becomming a gun runner! Come on, outlaw guns! All the other criminals will still want guns. All the people who are afraid of criminals will still want guns. What a market! Best of all, I won't have to worry about legal gun dealers driving down the price. (OK I don't really want to be a gun runner, But you can bet there are a lot of criminals out there who will become gun runners.)
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Sorry, pal, If you are worried about someone else's hunger, Then YOU feed him instead of stealing MY TV. The problem is you want the moral credit for feeding somebody, but you are too cheap to pay for it, So you want to stick me with the bill. Socialism is nothing more than part-time slavery.
>Well, gee. So making Raymond pay some extra taxes on his precious income is equivalent to murdering 10.5 million innocent people? Really. What an interesting notion. Equivalent? no but similar. Taxes are collected by the threat of armed force. When you refuse to pay them men with guns will show up to collect the taxes at the point of a gun. If you try to defend yourself they will kill you. I guess the only differance is some socialists can be bribed, others can't
How do most customers react to buggy software? They buy Brand X'es DooDad 2.0. It crashes several times a day, locks up the PC, and runs slow as hell. They spend a year downloading patches, that sometimes work, finding workarounds, and ignoring some of the bugs. Brand X ships DooDad 3.0. Do they tell them where they can stick it? NO, They send them 50 bucks for the upgrade! Buggy software will last as long as there is a market for it.
I agree. It's time for a new term. It worked for other groups. When the term "Negro" went too far in seprating blacks from other Americans Cival Rights activists substituted Black or African-American for it. When "Homosexual" no longer presented the image that Gay rights leaders wanted to portray, they introduced "Gay" It's a lot easier to introduce a new term than to change the perception of an old term.
I'm a Geek, and proud of it. what I've noticed about most of us geeks isn't a lack of personal skills as much as not wanting to waste my time on pointless smalltalk.In the past I have tutored people, Served as a Campaign Manager for a policital canidate, Worked as Republican Party Precent captian, Served on the county Party execitive comitee, Made public Speaches, and rarely left a pickup bar alone. I've even sold very expensive classic cars for a time. All hallmarks of good social skills. However I found most of it totally boring. Conversations with so called normal people tend to stray off subject. I found I prefer talking to other geeks. They stay on subject, and rarely jabber about things they know nothing about. Austic? Hell no! I'd call it being antisocial by choice. I like Sgt. Joe Friday's Tag line from the old Dragnet Show, "Just the facts ma'mm". If being normal means I have to dress like everybody else, act like everybody else, and worst of all think like everybody else, then to Hell with being Normal. I'm better than normal, I'm a Class A geek!
The idea for Linux Lite is a good start, But it dosen't go far enough. I have installed Redhat, Mandrake, and Caldera. They all have too many choices for a newbe. Look at it this way, Do you want to install #*&^9SE? How can you decide if you don't have the slighest idea what it is? I would like to see a distro aimed at users of the Redmond OS. Call it the Windows Upgrade Linux distro. WUL for short. WUL could go into the Winreg and pull out all the data for installed hardware,(No Probing needed). Look in Netscape and/or IE for Bookmarks/favorites and transfer them to the Netscape in Linux. Transfer saved Mail from Outlook/Eudora/Messanger to a default mail reader. Transfer internet settings to the Linux install.Move wallpaper to linux and even have the selected wallpaper come up. Maybe even a theme converter to change those Plus! themes to whatever window manager was the default install.In short make WUL like upgrading(?) from Win95 to Win98. Insert CD click mouse. Reboot, and you have a new OS with all your old settings.This would give Linux Newbes a secure working Linux box, Then they would have the most important tool of all to learn Linux. They could graduate to a better distro after they learn from WUL.
One other benifit of the USG going open source is it would break the Microsoft monopoly a lot faster than the antitrust trial. A year and we are still waiting for the decesion. When it finally comes then we can wait for the appeals. If the USG had started a switch to Linux and Free BSD instead of going to court by now MS would have a much smaller market share, and there would be a lot more software ported to the open source OSes, which would have resulted in many non Goverment changeovers
In 1865 the 13th admendment outlawed forcing someone to work for you. If you don't like the job all you have to do is say 2 words,"I Quit"
Just click on the results of the last few /. polls to get an idea of what kind of election returns you can expect from internet voting. When you don't care who wins it's easy to toss your vote away for a joke choice by clicking that mouse. Very few of these people will drive to the polls and wait in line for a chance to cast a vote because they think it's a good joke.
Please explain why forcing someone to join a union isn't raw use of power for your ends. Since you think it's ok for the goverment to force people to do whatever a majority of Congress agrees on, I assume we won't hear you whine when you are forced to do something you disagree with.
I would like to suggest a simpler system. Review past modarators actions and pick those who have the best record, Mostly postive, No signs of bias, etc. Offer these people a chance to become permanant modarators, With only negative points. They wouldn't lose thier chance to become regular modarators also. Give them unlimited negative points and let them kill the trolls. Any signs of bias or misuse would result in loss of modarator status. Then the regular modarators could do thier job without wasting points on idiots.
With an election comming up, a lot of politicans are posting web sites. When ever you see one, make sure they know that they owe 5k$ to unisys, and that you will report them. Once they start getting bit, then maybe Congress will kill all the absurd software patents.
Bismark, The founder of the modern wellfare state, Said "The Purpose of Wellfare is to buy some peoples votes with other peoples money." Look at all the votes that money has bought. A lot of politicans would have to get a real job if it wasn't for wellfare votes.
After visiting Asia, Africa, And Mexico, I fully realize how much poverty there is in the third world. Do you realize that the main reason for it is corrupt goverments? It dosen't matter how much money you send because at least 95% will never reach the people you feel so sorry for. But go ahead sucker, send as much of YOUR money as you want to. Just keep your hands out of MY pocket.
They couldn't post the reasonable E-mail. How bad would they look if they put up 500 variations of "Excuse me but Linux would have worked much better if you set it up this way ....." Mindcraft is trying to regain thier credibility. Posting the reasonable responses would have destroyed it. The crap was all that was left.
Oh, you get a choice, But AT&T dosen't? Your defination of choice seems to consist of "I'll force other people to do what I want" The only way real choice can exist is EVERYBODY has a choice! Portland should have given AOL and Prodigy the choice of stringing a new cable system or shutting up. When you grant the goverment the power to demand what will be carried, so you can have a choice, you are also granting them the power to say what will NOT be carried, Robbing you of your choice. Go ahead give them the power to regulate the content of the Web, But don't start whining when they start limiting your choice. IMHO both of these choices suck. I can get what AT&T offers or I can get what a bunch of politicans allow AT&T to offer. End the local monopoly, allow any body to run a new cable net, then you will have a real choice.
The mass of the black hole will be less than the mass of the parent star. A small part of the mass will be converted to energy in the supernova event (Remember E=Mc2). A far larger portion will be blown into space. Only the core will become a Black hole. Stellar fusion only produces elements with an atomic number of 26 or lower.(Iron) All elements more massive than iron are formed in supernovae events. Gold for example is the ashes of a supernova event.
Tranlation= "I Am a asshole"
I see zero chance of this idea being implemented as written. It will be warped out of shape in congress. "Expert Witnesses" will be called in to testify. Most of them will be from comerical software companies, M$ more than anybody else. I assure you that a percent of profits will be the first thing dropped. Nor will Free software get a free ride. In the end the Software Regulation Board will follow the Golden Rule, "Those who have the gold, Rule".
If a certain software company, with very deeppockets, gave a lot of money to the next president, and key members of congress for next years election what would happen? How hard would they be checked out? My guess would be just a few face saving fines that they can afford. How hard would thier compitition be hit? Crippling fines! Want an example? Windows 9.X crashes regurally, so M$ gets a 10 million Dollar fine. M$ pays it out of petty cash. Gnome crashes sometimes. They only get a million Dollar fine. Do you think they can come up with that kind of money? How does the public react to this ? You will never get past "But Microsoft was fined 10 times as much money"
It will work better. I was a radar tech in the Navy, and the SPS-49 radar uses a water cooled klystron. Pure water has very low conducivity. We had no problems even though the klystron is powered at 40 KV. Corrision wouldn't cause any problems because water dosen't cause the problem, electrolyss caused by impurities is the cause of corrision. The drawback is keeping the water pure. You have to perform daily checks for water purity and have extra water on hand for changes. A far simpler way to keep any air cooled device working is to keep it clean. We used air filters and cleaned the filters once a week. The inside of the equipment was cleaned once a month. We also kept the equipment in air conditioned rooms, with the temp set below 70. You could get some dryer vent hose from the hardware store and duct air from the vent directally to the air intake on your PC.
AOL's main concern is how many subscribers they have so they can say "your ad will be seen by 18 million subscribers!" The number two concern is keeping them on AOL, looking at ads. If a AOL user screws up your Web page, then the rest of the AOL users can't leave AOL to go there. If they screw up usenet maybe the other users will go back to an AOL forum where they can see those ads. AOL thinks only of thier responsibility to advertisers. AOL thinks of any site that isn't on AOL as costing them money. The only way AOL will reform is when thier practices start costing them users. Untill then they will do whats best for AOL and to hell with the rest of the Internet.
I missed my chance to get rich by selling drugs, and now theres just too much competion. But if I can get the leftwingers to outlaw guns, I can get filthy rich by becomming a gun runner! Come on, outlaw guns! All the other criminals will still want guns. All the people who are afraid of criminals will still want guns. What a market! Best of all, I won't have to worry about legal gun dealers driving down the price. (OK I don't really want to be a gun runner, But you can bet there are a lot of criminals out there who will become gun runners.)