And what would you have it as? Everyone is provided with a uniform level of health care, irregardless of how much they produce? Who shall pay in place of those who cannot?
You cannot claim a right to violate a right. Theft from those who can produce, to provide for those who cannot, so as that they can receive medical care, is morally unjustifiable.
Given that I'm writing this on a laptop with 512MB of RAM at the moment, I'd like to point out that the future is now in regards to having a gig of RAM in laptops... and, really, it's economically feasible, as well.
As one who has a mother and other various family members as cancer survivors, I'm quite aware, yes. Before I did begin to partake, I actually took it upon myself to find the arcturial tables and calculate what the hell I was getting into, precisely.
I found it an acceptable risk, if kept to an extreme minimum... it's the only real vice I allow myself, other than that of spending endless hours on computers and thusly keeping bizarre sleeping patterns.;-) I haven't played computer games in forever, however, save for the occasional MUX. If I do become addicted... yes, that will be a problem. I'm not going to deny that--it would be quite stupid and pointless to do so. I know well the kind of gambling I'm doing here.
We all make decisions. Sometimes we make bad ones. I determined its weight through the statistics and other research, and, as should be evident, I managed to balance it out to my liking.
It's amusing that you specifically refer to it as a habit... for that's precisely what I think of it. I don't drink, partake in other recreational chemicals--I've tried, to the average smallish experimentational amount, and, for some bizarre reason, all I want to do in that particular inebriated state is talk about physics--anymore.
Nobody deserves it? Perhaps, yes. I know that I'm not going to go crying and bemoaning the choices I made. I sincerely appreciate your feelings on the matter and concern, and I do hope I'm right, and that all is well, and that medicine advances, and all that good rot. However, if that path and I come together, then I will take it as best I'm able, and not "what-if" my way into malaise and self-hate. I don't need to hate myself in that situation, I merely need to recognize where responsibilities lie.
As the Irish say, what's done is done, and can't be undone.
I smoke infrequently, as well... cigars and cigarillos are the poison of choice. I haven't smoked for weeks now, and I don't feel a thing, and never have. I smoke merely because I enjoy the taste and scent, not to get some kind of fix. Oddly enough, I seem to be alone in my family at this... my father has smoked since he was 14, and he really should have quit years ago. He's tried, and tried hard, but it's just too much for him to do, apparently.
Whenever it comes up in conversation or whatnot that I smoke, around friends who don't know, they invariably say: "Oh, you smoke? That's so disgusting and expensive... you're going to kill yourself, too." I suppress the urge to roll my eyes--yes, like all that information about the evils of tobacco has managed to totally miss me, living in one of the largest American cities--and attempt to say that it's not a problem, and that the level I smoke at is not sufficient to stain my teeth or cause other cosmetic damage. As with you, they roll their own eyes, and doubt in a rather irritating fashion.
Some people do have addictive body chemistry, and, according to a friend of mine who's a doctor, it's rather common to see that passed congenitally. I missed the bullet, it seems... just as I missed the bullet with bad eyesight: damned near everyone else in my family--even one of my brothers, who's only 15--is either legally blind or close to it without their glasses, but I've never needed any and have normal vision.
I think that it's a damned good thing to seem to have--the quality of resistance. In any case, if I did actually start feeling cravings and wanting to smoke too frequently, I would quit. I've not had to do that yet... as I said, sometimes I go weeks without smoking anything and I don't even notice it.
And, I would say that Night Goat isn't off-topic. We're talking about addictions here, anyways, and this just goes to show that what's good for the goose may not be good for the gander... or insert your own cliched expression here.
Since I'm running at the mouth here, I'll conclude with another little aphoristic phrase: everything in moderation.
Linuxworld 'have' this? Jesus. I hope that the submitter doesn't speak English natively, because that's a pretty grievious error. Just another example of how Slashdot's average user IQ is inversely proportional to amount of folks in the user base.
Now, onto the article. I'm glad that the spirit of 'just following orders' carries on into the present. What kind of person would think it legal to do such a thing? And if IBM did tell him that it was legal, it seems a little unfair to subject him to community service, because he was doing so under false pretenses.
Ah... what the fuck are you talking about? Cable connections in Redhat are easy as pie. Just use the netboot.img on your boot disk if you're nabbing it via ftp/http/etc.
Although you're forced to use DHCP, apparently, it shouldn't be a problem at all. RH has made things pretty easy.
And, on a side note... SuSE, as far as I know, has not broken the GPL, in any way. I've never heard of this, and I'm sure that the hordes of zealots on Slashdot would be more than willing to contribute to a fund to prosecute them into a smoking crater, if they did.
Sigh. It's so saddening to see such an ignorant attitude in a person. The last time I saw one, of this type, was when I had a conversation with a district attorney, and he said that he thought that people should receive mandatory minimums of, at the very least, 20 years in prison for marijuana possesion. He said that he quite frankly didn't care if it it is the only thing that works effectively for glaucoma, or for nausea treatment for life-critical medications.
So, here's my link--Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, the best defense I've seen yet as to why all controlled substances should be legalized, for the sake of all. And you should also see how his fight to try to increase the freedom of Americans ended--in his death, due to persecution by the DEA--he was not allowed to smoke marijuana, to allieviate the aforementioned nausea so he could ingest and keep down his AIDS medication.
And considering that you complain that his links are inaccurate... you totally and utterly fail to cite any sources, whatsoever. "Steady rise of alcholism [sic] among young drinkers"? What about all drinkers? Just because college students seem to be getting into binge-drinking a bit more recently, doesn't mean that we're going to be a "nation of alcholics [sic]."
As someone who believes that productive force is what brings everything together, I take some serious issues with what you are saying.
The site which you have linked to says nothing informative--it is speech, yes, but in both that and your post, you offer absolutely no arguments against greed, other than, basically, "it's bad!" You cite nothing, you say nothing. I ask you: what is more important than creating, and why? Isn't money merely a marker to show how well you accomplish at succeeding in life in the productive sense, a true objective value?
Sigh. I figure that someone will haul out the Rand sooner or later, if this is actually responded to.
You know, it'd be nice if this horribly formatted and full-of-umlauts submission were, well.. formatted. It's quite sad that/. has to post its spam, to fill up space, now. I'm just waiting for Jon Katz to dispense his April Fool's story... and curious as to what he could possibly parody.
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Personally, I use Merzbow to scare small children.
And what would you have it as? Everyone is provided with a uniform level of health care, irregardless of how much they produce? Who shall pay in place of those who cannot?
You cannot claim a right to violate a right. Theft from those who can produce, to provide for those who cannot, so as that they can receive medical care, is morally unjustifiable.
20th birthday? Beers after work?
;-)
What, are you trying to get him arrested?
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=909/ddj9875l/9875l. htm
Given that I'm writing this on a laptop with 512MB of RAM at the moment, I'd like to point out that the future is now in regards to having a gig of RAM in laptops... and, really, it's economically feasible, as well.
My god, an intelligent Slashdot poster...
Quick, grab the cattle prods and get it into the cage! This deserves to go to a zoo... a good zoo, anyways. We'll leave Katz in the tiger pit.
Actually, if I recall correctly, it's two continents. And neither of them are called America.
As one who has a mother and other various family members as cancer survivors, I'm quite aware, yes. Before I did begin to partake, I actually took it upon myself to find the arcturial tables and calculate what the hell I was getting into, precisely.
;-) I haven't played computer games in forever, however, save for the occasional MUX. If I do become addicted... yes, that will be a problem. I'm not going to deny that--it would be quite stupid and pointless to do so. I know well the kind of gambling I'm doing here.
I found it an acceptable risk, if kept to an extreme minimum... it's the only real vice I allow myself, other than that of spending endless hours on computers and thusly keeping bizarre sleeping patterns.
We all make decisions. Sometimes we make bad ones. I determined its weight through the statistics and other research, and, as should be evident, I managed to balance it out to my liking.
It's amusing that you specifically refer to it as a habit... for that's precisely what I think of it. I don't drink, partake in other recreational chemicals--I've tried, to the average smallish experimentational amount, and, for some bizarre reason, all I want to do in that particular inebriated state is talk about physics--anymore.
Nobody deserves it? Perhaps, yes. I know that I'm not going to go crying and bemoaning the choices I made. I sincerely appreciate your feelings on the matter and concern, and I do hope I'm right, and that all is well, and that medicine advances, and all that good rot. However, if that path and I come together, then I will take it as best I'm able, and not "what-if" my way into malaise and self-hate. I don't need to hate myself in that situation, I merely need to recognize where responsibilities lie.
As the Irish say, what's done is done, and can't be undone.
Ah, kindred spirits!
I smoke infrequently, as well... cigars and cigarillos are the poison of choice. I haven't smoked for weeks now, and I don't feel a thing, and never have. I smoke merely because I enjoy the taste and scent, not to get some kind of fix. Oddly enough, I seem to be alone in my family at this... my father has smoked since he was 14, and he really should have quit years ago. He's tried, and tried hard, but it's just too much for him to do, apparently.
Whenever it comes up in conversation or whatnot that I smoke, around friends who don't know, they invariably say: "Oh, you smoke? That's so disgusting and expensive... you're going to kill yourself, too." I suppress the urge to roll my eyes--yes, like all that information about the evils of tobacco has managed to totally miss me, living in one of the largest American cities--and attempt to say that it's not a problem, and that the level I smoke at is not sufficient to stain my teeth or cause other cosmetic damage. As with you, they roll their own eyes, and doubt in a rather irritating fashion.
Some people do have addictive body chemistry, and, according to a friend of mine who's a doctor, it's rather common to see that passed congenitally. I missed the bullet, it seems... just as I missed the bullet with bad eyesight: damned near everyone else in my family--even one of my brothers, who's only 15--is either legally blind or close to it without their glasses, but I've never needed any and have normal vision.
I think that it's a damned good thing to seem to have--the quality of resistance. In any case, if I did actually start feeling cravings and wanting to smoke too frequently, I would quit. I've not had to do that yet... as I said, sometimes I go weeks without smoking anything and I don't even notice it.
And, I would say that Night Goat isn't off-topic. We're talking about addictions here, anyways, and this just goes to show that what's good for the goose may not be good for the gander... or insert your own cliched expression here.
Since I'm running at the mouth here, I'll conclude with another little aphoristic phrase: everything in moderation.
How are gun rights irrational? Better watch what you say around here, or ESR will get ya. ;-)
Now, onto the article. I'm glad that the spirit of 'just following orders' carries on into the present. What kind of person would think it legal to do such a thing? And if IBM did tell him that it was legal, it seems a little unfair to subject him to community service, because he was doing so under false pretenses.
Although you're forced to use DHCP, apparently, it shouldn't be a problem at all. RH has made things pretty easy.
And, on a side note... SuSE, as far as I know, has not broken the GPL, in any way. I've never heard of this, and I'm sure that the hordes of zealots on Slashdot would be more than willing to contribute to a fund to prosecute them into a smoking crater, if they did.
So, here's my link--Ain't Nobody's Business If You Do, the best defense I've seen yet as to why all controlled substances should be legalized, for the sake of all. And you should also see how his fight to try to increase the freedom of Americans ended--in his death, due to persecution by the DEA--he was not allowed to smoke marijuana, to allieviate the aforementioned nausea so he could ingest and keep down his AIDS medication.
And considering that you complain that his links are inaccurate... you totally and utterly fail to cite any sources, whatsoever. "Steady rise of alcholism [sic] among young drinkers"? What about all drinkers? Just because college students seem to be getting into binge-drinking a bit more recently, doesn't mean that we're going to be a "nation of alcholics [sic]."
The site which you have linked to says nothing informative--it is speech, yes, but in both that and your post, you offer absolutely no arguments against greed, other than, basically, "it's bad!" You cite nothing, you say nothing. I ask you: what is more important than creating, and why? Isn't money merely a marker to show how well you accomplish at succeeding in life in the productive sense, a true objective value?
Sigh. I figure that someone will haul out the Rand sooner or later, if this is actually responded to.
You know, it'd be nice if this horribly formatted and full-of-umlauts submission were, well.. formatted. It's quite sad that /. has to post its spam, to fill up space, now. I'm just waiting for Jon Katz to dispense his April Fool's story... and curious as to what he could possibly parody.