The purpose of this organization is to mobilize civilians in the effort of "homeland security". In other words they will act exactly like the brownshirts in nazi germany.
"As it is, we haven't seriously dented the resources of our planet, just dug around a little at the choice bits on the surface."
I don't know where you got this bit of information but even if it was true we are just now starting. remember the human population is growing at a pretty geometric rate. The amount of natural resources used last year probably equal the amount used for the first ten thousand years of human existance.
Having said that I just read today that the native American forest is down to 5%. Over 95% of the forested land in America is gone and turned into farms and shopping malls. I would say that is a pretty significant number (aside from the fact that it hasn't eliminated hunger or starvation from the US let alone the rest of the world).
"The "war on drugs" does not have a clearly defined enemy"
The war on drugs has the exact same enemy as the war on terrorism. That being you and your freedoms. These so called wars are very useful in scaring the public to give up hard won liberties not to mention all kinds of neat money laundering schemes to siphon taxpayers money.
"Are you ready for perpetual war?"
We have been in a state of perpetual war for ages now. Can you think of a 5 year period in the US history where we were not killing some people some place on the planet? I can't. Wether covert or overt, hot or cold, we have been in a state of continual war since vietnam. We need an enemy to make ourselves feel better and killing becomes addictive after a while. Like mass murderers who can not stay away from killing every few years we get the itch so bad we have to drop some bombs on somebody.
It really amazes me how much orwell got it right. America seems to have really embraced his ideas. A continuing war, shifting enemies, contant surveilance, non stop bombardment of propaganda, a safe and cuddly big brother and of course doublespeak.
When bush started up the brownshirts (I mean the USA Freedom Corps) I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
It's double plus good to spy on your neighbors during the war of infinite justice against the axis of evil so join the USA Freedom Corps today!.
If I didn't know better I would have sworn Orwell was the speech writer.
"the guy who purjured himself, obstructed justice, and disgraced the Presidency".
Yes he did kinda. When asked in court did you ever skick your cock insie the pussy of this girl he had the nerve the lie!. And then the republicans who were obsessed with his cock and the whereabouts of his cock at all times kept pressing the issue. They held hearings about when and where Bill Clintons cock did what. Ann Coulter (a very influential republican) talked about the size and shape of Bill Clintons cock on television.
What I always wondered was why were the republicans so obsessed with his cock in the first place. I mean why do you care who he fucked, when, where and such. If I remember correctly before they asked him weather he stuck his cock inside Monica there was a long discussion about wethere it counted if his cock went into her mouth or if the pussy was more important.
Maybe you can answer that question for me. Why do you care so much about Bill Clinton's cock?
"haven't had a single problem using XP-compliant-drivers"
This is one of the biggest shortcomings of windows XP. There are so few compliant drivers and hardware that it really limits your choice of computers. Linux supports just about everything under the sun with very nice stability. It's simply not as finicky as XP.
As for stability overall yea it's much like 2K. It's pretty stable if you don't overwork it and you keep re-installing it every six to eight months. W2K really degraded over time for me I suspect XP is much the same.
Mainly because clustering a database is only good for benchmarks. Not all data is available to all clients in a cluster like the ones that the benchmark measures. If you recall TPC originally rejected the cluster benchmark and did not publish it. After considerable pressure from MS they basically created a category for it.
To make it easy to understand a cluster benchmark is like a world record with an asterix behind it. It's not really legitemate.
Aggregate function on non numeric fields (Even first or last) views with orders or group bys, regular expression searching, a decent stored procedure language, domains, point in time recovery, collation defined at the field level.
Ok those were the first ones that poped into my head. Postgres actually has a much richer feature set then ms-sql and interbase supports domains very nicely as well as column level collation.
Oh yea a couple of more things are very important too like being available on more then one platform, native php/perl/python drivers. I guess they are finally slapping together a JDBC driver I wonder if it will actually work.
You are right. Only a nuclear bomb dropped on redmond could stop MS right now and I am not too sure about that.
MS just has too much power, money, political clout etc. They pretty much can do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they want. Even the DOJ is afraid to punish them when they break the law.
All I know is my own experience and the ones of my friends and co-workers. They all agree. W2K is more stable then 98 but it degrades over time. This is espeically true if you actually use your computer for development but ti also seems to apply to office workers too.
I bet there are more people my experiences then yours. Windows degrades over time you'll never be able to convince me otherwise because it contradicts my direct experience. I for one don't think I'll upgrade to XP seems like a waste of money.
2K (and I presume XP) are only stable for a few months. Then they degrade like all windows.
My work machine locks up once a day and my home machine was locking up several times a week till I re-installed it clean. It's OK now for a few more months although mozilla still is able to grab 100% of the CPU causing me to give the three finger salute.
Paul was wrong so that means every environmentalist is wrong too!.
Republicans as usual are confused. The price of a natural resource is a measure of extraction and not total quantity. Let me give you an example.
Let's say that Dubya got himself declared king of US. Let's also presume that after reading something Reagan said he believed that trees cause pollution and ordered all trees in the US cut down. Wood products would flood the market and the price of wood fall to nothing right?.
A republican would look at the price of trees and conclude that there were now infinate number of trees in the world because they are free!. A republican would compare the price of trees ten years ago and today and conclude that the amount of trees on the planet was increasing at alarming rates and that we should immediately burn down forests so as to curb deflation of wood prices.
The price of copper, wood, oil, coal etc measure the rate at which we are extracting them from the planet. Unfortunately the planet is not replenishing them at the same rate.
So Mr. Know it all tell me which one of the following items are there more of in the world then there were 200 years ago?
1) Trees.
2) Coal.
3) Oil.
4) Clean drinkable water.
5) Clean air.
6) Open land.
7) None of the above.
This is a simple intelligence test that any fifth grader can pass but no republican can.
They do have their own party. It's called the republican party. The president was hand picked by Bill Gates and the AG used to consult for MS. In fact I think Ashcroft's daughter is emplyed by MS right now no doubt as a highly paid consultant.
Why do you think the DOJ rolled over as soon as Bush took office?
Liberterians actually think they can rely on a.cop to protect their houses. I guess it never occurs to them the people who can't afford to pay cops will be raped daily and forced into slavery (or perhaps they want that who knows).
Oddly enough they still believe this is possible despite the fact it has never been accomplished anywhere on the planet at any time. Even the most primitive tribes have governments.
Not you nor friedman nor any other "free market" thinker has ever stopped to grok the most obvious hole in all capitalism theories. That being.
The economy is nothing more then turning the natural resources of the planet into money. It takes either manufacturing or labor to generate money. In the former case some material is dug out of the earth and turned into a widget in the latter case material is harvested and turned into widgets, food, energy to feed and grow your crop of humans to toil for you and to consume your goods.
Economies will keep growing at the expense of natural resources. Some resources are replinishable (but not at the rate they are being consumed today), some are recylable (but not at the rate that they are being consumed today) and most are simply used up.
In the time of Adam Smith he thought there were infinite amount of coal, trees, clean water, clean air, arable soil, etc. It never occured to him that the farmer who cut the trees to build his house, cart, and plow did not replant them. Nor did it occur to him that the farmers progeny would do the same for eternity.
"Is Sun willing to risk the company on being a Microsoft competitor"
it would be irresponsible to shareholders to "risk the company" on any single product or technology. that's why MS continues to make and market xbox, office, sql server etc while saying they are "betting the company" on.NET. Of course I need not mention the hundreds of companies they either own outright or have a huge stake in.
If MS was betting the company on.NET they would immediately sell every subsidiery and stop selling all software that was not written in.NET and stop selling all hardware. Not very likely nobody is foolish enough to bet their company on just one product.
"the taking away of guns or limiting their ownership being contradictory to the existence of the militia"
The constitution cleary states the following.
1) Guns are neccasary in order to form militias.
2) Militias ought to be "well Regulated".
If your argument is that everybody ought to have guns thereby becoming a militia then you have to subject yourself to being "well regulated". I don't think you can have this both ways.
" I am a troll for Truth, Justice and the American Way."
Bullshit. You are a troll for Microsoft. All it takes to prove that is to go look at your page read some of your old posts.
I don't know why any rational human being would go around advertising, defending, advocating for a corporation if they are not being paid to so. Either you are irrational, delusional or simply being paid (one way or another) to astroturf here on slashdot. You don't see me going around telling everyone I know how great the 7-11, RCA, Disney or any other corporation is. So I guess I just don't see why anybody would spend their time sitting here telling everybody what a great corporation MS is. I guess some people never grow up. When I was in high school it was ford and chevy for the guys in the shop and nike and addidas for the jocks. I guess you have graduated to Microsoft congratulations!. I am sure Bill Gates will personally congratulate you .
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"There is more forest in the United States now than there was in 1800."
Does anybody actually believe that?
The purpose of this organization is to mobilize civilians in the effort of "homeland security". In other words they will act exactly like the brownshirts in nazi germany.
"As it is, we haven't seriously dented the resources of our planet, just dug around a little at the choice bits on the surface."
I don't know where you got this bit of information but even if it was true we are just now starting. remember the human population is growing at a pretty geometric rate. The amount of natural resources used last year probably equal the amount used for the first ten thousand years of human existance.
Having said that I just read today that the native American forest is down to 5%. Over 95% of the forested land in America is gone and turned into farms and shopping malls. I would say that is a pretty significant number (aside from the fact that it hasn't eliminated hunger or starvation from the US let alone the rest of the world).
"The "war on drugs" does not have a clearly defined enemy"
The war on drugs has the exact same enemy as the war on terrorism. That being you and your freedoms. These so called wars are very useful in scaring the public to give up hard won liberties not to mention all kinds of neat money laundering schemes to siphon taxpayers money.
"Are you ready for perpetual war?"
We have been in a state of perpetual war for ages now. Can you think of a 5 year period in the US history where we were not killing some people some place on the planet? I can't. Wether covert or overt, hot or cold, we have been in a state of continual war since vietnam. We need an enemy to make ourselves feel better and killing becomes addictive after a while. Like mass murderers who can not stay away from killing every few years we get the itch so bad we have to drop some bombs on somebody.
Not really off topic I guess.
It really amazes me how much orwell got it right. America seems to have really embraced his ideas. A continuing war, shifting enemies, contant surveilance, non stop bombardment of propaganda, a safe and cuddly big brother and of course doublespeak.
When bush started up the brownshirts (I mean the USA Freedom Corps) I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
It's double plus good to spy on your neighbors during the war of infinite justice against the axis of evil so join the USA Freedom Corps today!.
If I didn't know better I would have sworn Orwell was the speech writer.
"the guy who purjured himself, obstructed justice, and disgraced the Presidency".
Yes he did kinda. When asked in court did you ever skick your cock insie the pussy of this girl he had the nerve the lie!. And then the republicans who were obsessed with his cock and the whereabouts of his cock at all times kept pressing the issue. They held hearings about when and where Bill Clintons cock did what. Ann Coulter (a very influential republican) talked about the size and shape of Bill Clintons cock on television.
What I always wondered was why were the republicans so obsessed with his cock in the first place. I mean why do you care who he fucked, when, where and such. If I remember correctly before they asked him weather he stuck his cock inside Monica there was a long discussion about wethere it counted if his cock went into her mouth or if the pussy was more important.
Maybe you can answer that question for me. Why do you care so much about Bill Clinton's cock?
"haven't had a single problem using XP-compliant-drivers"
This is one of the biggest shortcomings of windows XP. There are so few compliant drivers and hardware that it really limits your choice of computers. Linux supports just about everything under the sun with very nice stability. It's simply not as finicky as XP.
As for stability overall yea it's much like 2K. It's pretty stable if you don't overwork it and you keep re-installing it every six to eight months. W2K really degraded over time for me I suspect XP is much the same.
" greedy bastard as bill gates is"
Agreed. Bill gates may be the greediest, most evil person on the planet but ellison is close. Bin Laden is third probably (well maybe second).
Mainly because clustering a database is only good for benchmarks. Not all data is available to all clients in a cluster like the ones that the benchmark measures. If you recall TPC originally rejected the cluster benchmark and did not publish it. After considerable pressure from MS they basically created a category for it.
To make it easy to understand a cluster benchmark is like a world record with an asterix behind it. It's not really legitemate.
Aggregate function on non numeric fields (Even first or last) views with orders or group bys, regular expression searching, a decent stored procedure language, domains, point in time recovery, collation defined at the field level.
Ok those were the first ones that poped into my head. Postgres actually has a much richer feature set then ms-sql and interbase supports domains very nicely as well as column level collation.
Oh yea a couple of more things are very important too like being available on more then one platform, native php/perl/python drivers. I guess they are finally slapping together a JDBC driver I wonder if it will actually work.
You are right. Only a nuclear bomb dropped on redmond could stop MS right now and I am not too sure about that.
MS just has too much power, money, political clout etc. They pretty much can do whatever they want, whenever they want, to whomever they want. Even the DOJ is afraid to punish them when they break the law.
All I know is my own experience and the ones of my friends and co-workers. They all agree. W2K is more stable then 98 but it degrades over time. This is espeically true if you actually use your computer for development but ti also seems to apply to office workers too.
I bet there are more people my experiences then yours. Windows degrades over time you'll never be able to convince me otherwise because it contradicts my direct experience. I for one don't think I'll upgrade to XP seems like a waste of money.
2K (and I presume XP) are only stable for a few months. Then they degrade like all windows.
My work machine locks up once a day and my home machine was locking up several times a week till I re-installed it clean. It's OK now for a few more months although mozilla still is able to grab 100% of the CPU causing me to give the three finger salute.
That's what I like. A clean and crisp refutation. I am awed by your intellectual capabilities.
Ah yes more republican thinking at work I see.
Paul was wrong so that means every environmentalist is wrong too!.
Republicans as usual are confused. The price of a natural resource is a measure of extraction and not total quantity. Let me give you an example.
Let's say that Dubya got himself declared king of US. Let's also presume that after reading something Reagan said he believed that trees cause pollution and ordered all trees in the US cut down. Wood products would flood the market and the price of wood fall to nothing right?.
A republican would look at the price of trees and conclude that there were now infinate number of trees in the world because they are free!. A republican would compare the price of trees ten years ago and today and conclude that the amount of trees on the planet was increasing at alarming rates and that we should immediately burn down forests so as to curb deflation of wood prices.
The price of copper, wood, oil, coal etc measure the rate at which we are extracting them from the planet. Unfortunately the planet is not replenishing them at the same rate.
So Mr. Know it all tell me which one of the following items are there more of in the world then there were 200 years ago?
1) Trees.
2) Coal.
3) Oil.
4) Clean drinkable water.
5) Clean air.
6) Open land.
7) None of the above.
This is a simple intelligence test that any fifth grader can pass but no republican can.
Ah another well researched and oh so clever response from the resident Microsoft troll.
They do have their own party. It's called the republican party. The president was hand picked by Bill Gates and the AG used to consult for MS. In fact I think Ashcroft's daughter is emplyed by MS right now no doubt as a highly paid consultant.
Why do you think the DOJ rolled over as soon as Bush took office?
"Kissinger did some really interesting work in ending that war."
Kissinger also did an awful lot of really evil shit. Have you read the book by Christopher Hitchens?
Liberterians actually think they can rely on a .cop to protect their houses. I guess it never occurs to them the people who can't afford to pay cops will be raped daily and forced into slavery (or perhaps they want that who knows).
Oddly enough they still believe this is possible despite the fact it has never been accomplished anywhere on the planet at any time. Even the most primitive tribes have governments.
Not you nor friedman nor any other "free market" thinker has ever stopped to grok the most obvious hole in all capitalism theories. That being.
The economy is nothing more then turning the natural resources of the planet into money. It takes either manufacturing or labor to generate money. In the former case some material is dug out of the earth and turned into a widget in the latter case material is harvested and turned into widgets, food, energy to feed and grow your crop of humans to toil for you and to consume your goods.
Economies will keep growing at the expense of natural resources. Some resources are replinishable (but not at the rate they are being consumed today), some are recylable (but not at the rate that they are being consumed today) and most are simply used up.
In the time of Adam Smith he thought there were infinite amount of coal, trees, clean water, clean air, arable soil, etc. It never occured to him that the farmer who cut the trees to build his house, cart, and plow did not replant them. Nor did it occur to him that the farmers progeny would do the same for eternity.
"Is Sun willing to risk the company on being a Microsoft competitor"
.NET. Of course I need not mention the hundreds of companies they either own outright or have a huge stake in.
.NET they would immediately sell every subsidiery and stop selling all software that was not written in .NET and stop selling all hardware. Not very likely nobody is foolish enough to bet their company on just one product.
it would be irresponsible to shareholders to "risk the company" on any single product or technology. that's why MS continues to make and market xbox, office, sql server etc while saying they are "betting the company" on
If MS was betting the company on
has he ever voted outside of his party (republican) lines?
"the taking away of guns or limiting their ownership being contradictory to the existence of the militia"
The constitution cleary states the following.
1) Guns are neccasary in order to form militias.
2) Militias ought to be "well Regulated".
If your argument is that everybody ought to have guns thereby becoming a militia then you have to subject yourself to being "well regulated". I don't think you can have this both ways.
" I am a troll for Truth, Justice and the American Way."
Bullshit. You are a troll for Microsoft. All it takes to prove that is to go look at your page read some of your old posts.
I don't know why any rational human being would go around advertising, defending, advocating for a corporation if they are not being paid to so. Either you are irrational, delusional or simply being paid (one way or another) to astroturf here on slashdot. You don't see me going around telling everyone I know how great the 7-11, RCA, Disney or any other corporation is. So I guess I just don't see why anybody would spend their time sitting here telling everybody what a great corporation MS is. I guess some people never grow up. When I was in high school it was ford and chevy for the guys in the shop and nike and addidas for the jocks. I guess you have graduated to Microsoft congratulations!. I am sure Bill Gates will personally congratulate you .