Here in Texas we have no state tax and we can be in contests. So there!
Actually this poster is partially incorrect. There is one major prohibition on contests -- an alcohol-related sweepstakes ban. That meant that Texans could not enter the contest a while back where Guinness was giving away a genuine Irish pub:-<
But then again, you _live_ in Texas. That would count as cruel and unusual punishment.
Ouch! The truth hurts...
Conservatism in action, I like to call it. Texans are deathly afraid of an income tax, and use a convoluted and inquitable system of local property taxes to pay for stuff like public schools.
Consequently, Texas is in the bottom 10% nationwide in many statistics (like paying school teachers).
Houston is choking with auto traffic and the air here is approaching (and freqently surpassing) LA's poor air quality, yet rail transit still is not a reality here.
Conservatives don't care because taxes are low here. Many Texans wouldn't mind paying a little more in taxes for a better quality of life but we are prevented from doing so by the conservative White rednecks in charge here.
P.S. re: the alcohol-sweepstakes ban, it is the Bible-belt conservatives who treat citizens like children in Texas. If godless liberals like me were in charge we would treat citizens like adults... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
(New York
City has about 4 million people alone not including Upstate)
Actually, you are off by a factor of two. (NY Times, free registration required, yadda, yadda...) -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
You know there is a statistical correspondence between higher education and liberal political views.
Yes, it's inversely proportional.
Yup. That George W. Bush sure is a regular Albert Einstein. Other Republican geniuses include: Jesse "the Unreconstructed Racist" Helms and Trent "the Suave Redneck" Lott.
My personal favorite conservative genius is Houston-area Representative Tom "the Arrogant Asshole" DeLay, who is against mass transit for Houston (the largest city in the U.S. with a bus-only mass transit system) even though such a system would cut car traffic and clean up the air.
His district is composed White-majority bedroom communities containing many residents who commute to work in Houston, yet this genius keeps denying Houston money for a rail system even though his constituents would directly benefit from a light rail system.
Real smart, huh? But lets not forget the real geniuses here, the voters who keep returning him to office and subjecting the rest of the country to this fool... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I can restrict all sorts of access in an NT/2000 workstation and bring about the same result. Heck, I can control it in the hardware
so that they only save to a network drive and there entire harddrive remains the same; no fuss, no muss.
Until the network goes down; big fuss and big muss...
1. The more users = more developers you have working on a platform thus the weaker your average developer will be.
Wrong. Assuming that programming skills follow a standard distribution curve, then you would have a lot more average programmers than really good or really bad programmers. While it it true that you will have more BAD programmers, you will also have many more GOOD programmers but the huge majority will be AVERAGE programmers.
Hint: take a Statistics 101 course... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Are you saying that if I release some BSD or public domain code, someone can come and take the rights to
that code away from me, close up the source, and continue to distribute the binaries as closed source?
Why would you release any software as public domain or under the BSD license unless you did NOT care what the end-user did with it? And if you DID care about what the end-user was doing with your code, why not use the GPL to make sure that any changes the end-user made (and distributed) would be opened up? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Interested only in making sure that no one is allowed to do what you do
NOT want, like some kind of over-controlling parent.
Why not? The software is their child after all, the result of their their labor. The programmers are free to use the license they want, and you are free to use or not use their software.
I don't see the problem unless you want to use their software the way the original programmers do not want you to. In that case feel free to reverse-engineer and write your own version of the software and use the license you want, just don't hassle the original programmers just because you don't like the license they chose... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Tell us, oh Software Master, where is your wondrous public domain software located? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Can't people just understand that we're all people, regardless of heritage, gender, religion, politics, etc?
You must be White.
White Europeans enslaved Black Africans and killed Native Americans because they thought them to be sub-human. As as result, the descendants of the White Europeans have the lion's share of the money and property in this country.
Once we minorities get reparations from the descendants from the Whites that fucked over our ancestors then maybe we could compromise.
For now "compromise" is impossible as long as Whites insist that everyone be "colorblind", which is really code for minorities to ignore their heritage and act White (white as in the absence of color when you mix paint, not all colors as in light)... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
"Estados Unidos" or "United States" is usually used to refer to the U.S.A., so USians is just a valid as any of the labels that you listed... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
That's because Apple is not trying to maintain an illegal monopoly like M$... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Although most of us here dont' approve of Microsoft's business practices (and its true they can seem almost evil at times) you
CANNOT forget OR deny that they DO make some good pieces of software
Yep, that Micro$oft Works 2.0 sure kicks major ass!!! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
The goverment dictating policy directly to a business at all levels is Fascism...Communists would provide the service and dictate to you the service the
state provided you. Both systems suck.
Capitalism is where big business dictates to government what policies are, which sucks even more.
Why? Because when the government proposes having higher levels arsenic in the water and smog in the air to appease big business even though the average person wants cleaner air and water... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Re:But the File Manager/Interface is also key...
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looking at the evidence that organizations like Gartner have collected, you are definitely in the minority on 2K stability.
And I suppose IT managers have never LIED about Win2K stability/uptime to Gartner to justify their decision to spend all that money on what many feel is an unnecessary upgrade in the first place? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
As a matter of fact I think Slashdot needs a "Zesty" moderation. That way a good troll will be moderated as "Zesty times two":-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
It is only (humanist) scientists who disagree with the Bible; real science has not and does not contradict the Bible.
I especially like the "science" in the part where Indiana Jones discovers the Ark of the Covenant and uses it to kick the Nazi's ass... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
The value for them is that you can't very well pirate a service, and if you stop paying they cut you off.
In theory you are right, but with other services ways to circumvent the system exist. Think cable theft -- many times all you need is to connect the wire to your neighbor's connection and watch free cable.
Granted, it would be harder to pirate a software service but imagine the problems if your company's activation code got stolen and publicized on the internet. M$ would claim your company owed them money and would cut your company off in a second, whether or not you had an important deadlines or not... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
it's always bugged me to see "Black Helicopter" used as a
synonym for crazy..
Not crazy, but paranoid. You can be crazy without being paranoid. You can also be paranoid without being crazy, but it sure helps!:-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
BECOMING?!? Slashdot has always been a right-wing forum.
If you want proof look the number of White Power posts you find here. LIBERAL is considered an insult around here... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
No, but as a conservative I don't like the government mandating "politically correct thought".
ROTFL!!!! You conservatives sure crack me up!!!
Teacher: Now class, repeat after me. I pledge allegiance to the United States of America...
Student: (who is a Jehovah's Witness so he sits silently)
Teacher: Now Juan, why don't you get up and join us in our Pledge of Allegiance? Are you a communist or something?
You say you are against the government mandating PC. Are you against the the government forcing students to say the Pledge of Allegiance? If not then you are a hypocrite... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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Conservatism in action, I like to call it. Texans are deathly afraid of an income tax, and use a convoluted and inquitable system of local property taxes to pay for stuff like public schools. Consequently, Texas is in the bottom 10% nationwide in many statistics (like paying school teachers).
Houston is choking with auto traffic and the air here is approaching (and freqently surpassing) LA's poor air quality, yet rail transit still is not a reality here. Conservatives don't care because taxes are low here. Many Texans wouldn't mind paying a little more in taxes for a better quality of life but we are prevented from doing so by the conservative White rednecks in charge here.
P.S. re: the alcohol-sweepstakes ban, it is the Bible-belt conservatives who treat citizens like children in Texas. If godless liberals like me were in charge we would treat citizens like adults...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
My personal favorite conservative genius is Houston-area Representative Tom "the Arrogant Asshole" DeLay, who is against mass transit for Houston (the largest city in the U.S. with a bus-only mass transit system) even though such a system would cut car traffic and clean up the air.
His district is composed White-majority bedroom communities containing many residents who commute to work in Houston, yet this genius keeps denying Houston money for a rail system even though his constituents would directly benefit from a light rail system.
Real smart, huh? But lets not forget the real geniuses here, the voters who keep returning him to office and subjecting the rest of the country to this fool...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Hint: take a Statistics 101 course...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I don't see the problem unless you want to use their software the way the original programmers do not want you to. In that case feel free to reverse-engineer and write your own version of the software and use the license you want, just don't hassle the original programmers just because you don't like the license they chose...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Tell us, oh Software Master, where is your wondrous public domain software located?
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
White Europeans enslaved Black Africans and killed Native Americans because they thought them to be sub-human. As as result, the descendants of the White Europeans have the lion's share of the money and property in this country.
Once we minorities get reparations from the descendants from the Whites that fucked over our ancestors then maybe we could compromise.
For now "compromise" is impossible as long as Whites insist that everyone be "colorblind", which is really code for minorities to ignore their heritage and act White (white as in the absence of color when you mix paint, not all colors as in light)...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Why? Because when the government proposes having higher levels arsenic in the water and smog in the air to appease big business even though the average person wants cleaner air and water...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
As a matter of fact I think Slashdot needs a "Zesty" moderation. That way a good troll will be moderated as "Zesty times two"
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This one is pretty cool too: All your OS are belong to Bill
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
A "Redundant" third post. Is this some sort of Slashdot record?
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Granted, it would be harder to pirate a software service but imagine the problems if your company's activation code got stolen and publicized on the internet. M$ would claim your company owed them money and would cut your company off in a second, whether or not you had an important deadlines or not...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
If you want proof look the number of White Power posts you find here. LIBERAL is considered an insult around here...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Besides, no one is fucking with your "freedom of association" rights. You can always join the Ku Klux Klan and move to Idaho.
Pendejo...
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You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!