For every child who dies in this manner, there are dozens who die on the streets from malnutrition and lack of medicine. Sweatshops, no matter how distasteful to us, are the first step toward alleviating their suffering.
Poor Kathy Lee Gifford. Who would have thought that she was a saint and not a sinner... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
My alternatives are either a. wages that allow people who are producing for international markets to also act as consumers in those markets, or b. that the resources of land, labor, and energy be dedicated to local markets, so that they can afford to buy the goods they produce and sell them within their communities.
I don't see how the solution to the excesses of capitalism is MORE capitalism...
Mexico is a good example of this: certain regions have kept artisan industry (not crafts, but things like household goods, dental equipment, small mechanical goods) thriving, and these regions have less real poverty than maquiladora regions.
In typical internet fashion, a few vocal geeks incited...
Please do me the courtesy of assuming I can think for myself. Dismissing everybody with a certain kind of opinion out of hand is bigoted, illogical, and
(worst of all) lazy.
Whoa, hold on there cowboy. Did I say that "fm6 incited..."? The internet I was referring to includes millions of vocal geeks who are not fm6.
Misreading a post that is supposed to be a humorous comment on human behavior as a personal attack and responding by calling someone "bigoted" is even more intellectually lazy than the behavior you decry... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Flat mode is cool, but that means you have to download a huge webpage with lots of comments even if you only end up reading one or two comments. With NNTP you can review the headers and read the interesting sounding ones, so if you only read a few messages you only download the few messages you do read... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Flamebait my ass! Once again I seem to the the only one who gets the joke... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I much prefer the way Usenet is heading now, where you have to be at least a little savvy before you even find out about the Usenet.
Maybe NNTP will make a comeback -- IMHO it is way better than those web boards that make you click on each and every message to read a thread. I'd much rather hit the space bar to jump to the next message instead of having to reach over to the mouse to click the on the link to the next message... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
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With such a clearly demonstrated lack of understanding, listening to them on a technology issue would be like listening to Clinton on honesty
Or George W. Bush on just about any topic under the sun... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
[Wayne County Sheriff Robert Ficano]
"These free services can be a haven for child pornographers."
and
[State Rep. Bob Brown, D-Dearborn Heights]
"It's not fair for these perverts to be able to push their pornography under the cloak of Internet anonymity," Brown said. "This has nothing to do with free speech, but everything to do with giving law enforcement the tools they need to do their job in the information age."
Apparently the perverts are smarter than the cops, of course the solution it to drastically reduce the citizens' rights. I guess no one has thought of hiring smarter cops and leaving our constitutional rights alone... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
When the feds come knocking on your
door it is nice to be able to give them a number so they get off your back.
After a properly obtained search warrant has been served to you and examined by your attorney? Or does all it take for you to roll over is for the feds to ask you nicely? -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Well, part of it's the usual religious bullshit. But a lot of people have legitimate concerns about how they can use GIF files or GIF software without paying
royalties.
If they are software developers then yes, one cannot write code using the GIF standard without paying Unisys royalties; however, if end-users use software that has paid royalties (i.e., PhotoShop or PaintShop Pro) to generate their GIFs then they are covered and don't have to pay any royalties.
In typical internet fashion, a few vocal geeks incited the masses of well-meaning but misguided activist geeks to rise up and throw off the shackles binding them to a big, bad corporation. Meanwhile the unwashed masses that have taken over the internet said "Ho Hum" and continued downloading their mp3s and p0rn... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
I said that people need to take personal responsibility when excersing their right to free speech, to be
sure that it doesn't infringe unfairly upon anyones one fundamental right of the US Constitution: To allow citizens: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
If putting up bonsaikitten.com makes the admin of bonsaikitten happy, then your attempts at getting the government to censor his website are violating his rights. Or are you trying to tell us that web surfers have the right to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" but website operators don't?
Also, why is it that the website operators have to exercise responsibility and the web surfers don't?
If the protestors had exercised personal responsiblity then we would have never heard of bonasikitten.com.
If the protestors had frowned and move on, then how many web surfers would have heard of and visited this website? A few thousand? Getting it noticed by Wired and Slashdot only increased bonsaikitten.com's profile, which means that lots more people got to see what the animal rights fools were trying to supress in the first place...
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Don't you remember that old civics class lesson about how rights come with responsibility? Then quit whining and take responsibility for deluding people
Shouldn't the people who take offense have the responsibility to check for themselves that they are being trolled by a satirical website? Or is it the government's responsibility to protect them from -- GOD FORBID -- humor?
And you are mistaken about the whining that is going on. The ones who are trying to shut down a LEGAL website are the ones that are the true whiners... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
One would think that the FBI would be working with INTERPOL to find out the identity of those Italian idiots who sent him the illegal DEATH THREATS instead of trying shut down his legal website... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Pay it Forward seemed to move you because it kills a child in the last 5 minutes
And the ending of another movie I haven't seen yet is ruined by another thoughtless idiot!
Next time put [SPOILER] in the subject line so that people can make an informed decision on whether or not to read the post in question... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
They really must be putting something very bad in the water lately...
Nah, it is probably the extra-strong crack that is floating around the D.C. area... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Clean up your fucking grammar, learn how to make multiple sentances out of that fucked-up run on shit you just posted, further learn how to make
paragraphs out of those sentances, and eventually, you might be easy to read.
You do know it is spelled sentences?:-> -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
my point was that if it looks real, then it is legitimately the
subject of an investigation into cruelty
Taking your argument to the next level, since many of the shootings and murders depicted on TV shows and movies shot by the Hollywood studios sure do look real, then by your "logic" the FBI/state cops/local cops should have legitimate reasons to investigate them for murder!!! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
if bonsaikitty.com is ilegal it's because of a bill that Clinton passed.
You mean that a Republican-controlled Congress passed and President Clinton signed into law...
You'd be suprised how many republicans I know that the only place they get their news is Rush Limbaugh, the same goes for democrats, many get all their news from democratic sources ONLY.
What Democratic sources? You list Rush Limburger by name because he is everyone's favorite right-wing crank Just once I would like someone to list the LIBERAL news sources so that I can go read them! -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
It seems that real
geeks don't mind what you believe so long as you believe it for the right reasons.
But believing implies faith, and as an atheist I don't believe in anything so by definition I have no faith. Your statement excludes atheists and should probably should have said "geeks don't mind what you believe or do not believe...".
It always cracks me up when religionists tell me that atheism is my faith, because that it is what I "believe" in. It try to tell them "No, I don't believe so I have no faith" but if it gives their small minds some measure of comfort to believe that atheism is my "faith" I won't waste time arguing with them.
Anyway, believing in something for the "right reasons" is a slippery slope. I'm sure Adolf Hitler (who was a religionist) thought he was killing Jews/Gays/Gypsies/etc. for the "right reasons".
(A geek would probably find sheep-like following of religion just as
exasperating as sheep-like atheism.)
There is no such thing as "sheep-like" atheism. First of all, there are no large masses of atheists (in numbers, we more like sheepdogs than sheep). Secondly, there are no atheist prophets advocating atheism to the masses of those who believe in "God" (the term sheep fits here). Thirdly, you don't have to join an organization of like-minded individuals (a herd of sheep) when you become an atheist.
Becoming an atheist is an individual decision. Having atheist parents does not guarantee atheist children, just like having religionist parents will not guarantee the children will believe in "God".
I believe that Karl Marx's quote "religion is the opiate of the masses" is true. I did not say "that statement is true, therefore I am an atheist" which would be sheep-like behavior. Instead I became an atheist and then said "I am an atheist so that statement is true." It is a pretty subtle distinction...
The geek community is a wonderful thing.
Yes it is, but geeks must be careful not to slip into unconscious stereotypes which are really only the substitution of one prejudice for another. -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
This seems to be the one factor that holds all Linux users into one group. They hate Microsoft...
And Apple, and Sun, etc. Basically anyone who tries to lock us into proprietary hardware or software...
The belief that my code will become unavailable because someone else is using it.
Nope. It is the belief that someone can use your code without feeling any need to give back to you (or the world at large) any changes they have made to the code provided they are distributing binaries.
If you use the code internally don't distribute binaries then you don't have to release the source to your changes, so it really isn't about others using the code.
Frankly I don't see any problem unless you are a commerical software development house. If you are a commerical software house wouldn't it would be better to write your own code or use BSD-licensed code rather than mess with GPL'ed code?
The GPL works great for smaller, open-source projects because the point of many of those projects to to release code. If you don't care if others don't release any changes to your code, then stick to the BSD license... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
While red baiting was very popular in the forties and fifties we as a society have luckily gotten past bit of ugliness.
Nah, red baiting is still here. It is just that now they call us "LIBERAL" instead of commie pinko... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Most minorities who are in jail for drug convictions got caught for something.
Drug violations?
in general, minority community standards seem to make it more acceptable, or at least a more regular practice to use drugs in places that are out in the open...
So the pigs should come into MY neighborhood and bust heads just because I want to smoke a joint on my front porch (which IS private property regardless of whether or not the porch is visible from the street)...
in communities that are more heavily policed due to generally higher crime rates (i.e. the barrios and ghettos you referred to).
If drugs are illegal then by using them we break the law. If anecodotal evidence says that more minorities are using drugs then by extension the minority crime rate is higher. That is a function of drugs being illegal not drugs being used more by minorities.
This is purely logical...
I think a cheer for you just went up at Odin's Lounge...
...although it may have unfortunate statistical results in your mind. I would counter that if the people in those ghettos weren't shooting each other all the time, the cops wouldn't be riding around looking for people to arrest in those neighborhoods
Those are not "statistical results" they are people. And I have lived in the barrio for over three years and have to see "people shooting each other all the time".
Methinks you have watched "Boyz in the Hood" one too many times...
The vast majority of Americans don't care about your skin color, but rather about your behavior.
Ahhh... so it is our behavior, not our skin color that is keeping us down! Yet we have never had a Black or Hispanic President even though we have been in the U.S. since the beginning (actually Hispanics were here in Texas 350 years before you Whites showed up).
Why? Is it because counter to your protestations, you DO care about our skin color?
Leave the casual users alone...
Minorities are then not "casual users", huh? I think you meant to say "White users"... -- You think being a MIB is all voodoo mind control? You should see the paperwork!
Without context, conservative and liberal are almost always the wrong words to use in any conversation that demands thought.
Well, my original post was about the Fourth Amendment. The post dealt with how easily some judges give out search warrants.
A liberal judge will rule against the cops more often than a conservative judge will. If a cop lies about probable cause, then he will have a harder time persuading a liberal judge than a conservative judge that he actually has probable cause, mainly because the conservative judge is more willing to believe said cop on the strength of his word than the liberal judge would.
So in the context of my original post, conservative was EXACTLY the right word to use...
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Windows 2000 does not crash that much, and usually it is the result of some poor user input.
It is up to the PROGRAMMER to ensure that user input is validated and that error-handling code can deal with bad user input...
...that is not my idea of good QA'd software.
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Misreading a post that is supposed to be a humorous comment on human behavior as a personal attack and responding by calling someone "bigoted" is even more intellectually lazy than the behavior you decry...
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Flamebait my ass! Once again I seem to the the only one who gets the joke...
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In typical internet fashion, a few vocal geeks incited the masses of well-meaning but misguided activist geeks to rise up and throw off the shackles binding them to a big, bad corporation. Meanwhile the unwashed masses that have taken over the internet said "Ho Hum" and continued downloading their mp3s and p0rn...
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Also, why is it that the website operators have to exercise responsibility and the web surfers don't? If the protestors had exercised personal responsiblity then we would have never heard of bonasikitten.com.
If the protestors had frowned and move on, then how many web surfers would have heard of and visited this website? A few thousand? Getting it noticed by Wired and Slashdot only increased bonsaikitten.com's profile, which means that lots more people got to see what the animal rights fools were trying to supress in the first place...
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And you are mistaken about the whining that is going on. The ones who are trying to shut down a LEGAL website are the ones that are the true whiners...
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Next time put [SPOILER] in the subject line so that people can make an informed decision on whether or not to read the post in question...
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It always cracks me up when religionists tell me that atheism is my faith, because that it is what I "believe" in. It try to tell them "No, I don't believe so I have no faith" but if it gives their small minds some measure of comfort to believe that atheism is my "faith" I won't waste time arguing with them.
Anyway, believing in something for the "right reasons" is a slippery slope. I'm sure Adolf Hitler (who was a religionist) thought he was killing Jews/Gays/Gypsies/etc. for the "right reasons". There is no such thing as "sheep-like" atheism. First of all, there are no large masses of atheists (in numbers, we more like sheepdogs than sheep). Secondly, there are no atheist prophets advocating atheism to the masses of those who believe in "God" (the term sheep fits here). Thirdly, you don't have to join an organization of like-minded individuals (a herd of sheep) when you become an atheist.
Becoming an atheist is an individual decision. Having atheist parents does not guarantee atheist children, just like having religionist parents will not guarantee the children will believe in "God".
I believe that Karl Marx's quote "religion is the opiate of the masses" is true. I did not say "that statement is true, therefore I am an atheist" which would be sheep-like behavior. Instead I became an atheist and then said "I am an atheist so that statement is true." It is a pretty subtle distinction... Yes it is, but geeks must be careful not to slip into unconscious stereotypes which are really only the substitution of one prejudice for another.
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If you use the code internally don't distribute binaries then you don't have to release the source to your changes, so it really isn't about others using the code.
Frankly I don't see any problem unless you are a commerical software development house. If you are a commerical software house wouldn't it would be better to write your own code or use BSD-licensed code rather than mess with GPL'ed code?
The GPL works great for smaller, open-source projects because the point of many of those projects to to release code. If you don't care if others don't release any changes to your code, then stick to the BSD license.
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Why? Is it because counter to your protestations, you DO care about our skin color? Minorities are then not "casual users", huh? I think you meant to say "White users"...
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A liberal judge will rule against the cops more often than a conservative judge will. If a cop lies about probable cause, then he will have a harder time persuading a liberal judge than a conservative judge that he actually has probable cause, mainly because the conservative judge is more willing to believe said cop on the strength of his word than the liberal judge would.
So in the context of my original post, conservative was EXACTLY the right word to use...
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