Oh, of course! That's why we have some of the highest per capita social welfare spending in the world, some of the toughest environmental regulations, highest corporate taxes, and highest income taxes! That's why corporations are fleeing the US; they can operate in a much more cut-throat fashion in socialist nirvanas like Canada and Ireland. How could I not have seen that!?
You're absolutely correct. Much better to be in the land of the free and home of the brave where regulatory capture is far more reliable (where cash into the right pockets can get you anything and damned near nothing can stop you, especially fscking whistleblowers trying to enforce the law of the land), and if it isn't you can tie the bastards up in court until they die of old age.
I am well aware that my freedom comes partly from people who volunteer to go to strange and unpleasant places, meet new people, and get shot at by them.
How? You don't actually believe that, do you? If so, why? How are people in foreign strange and unpleasant places possibly going to affect your freedoms? Ie., how did (specifically) Afghanistan's Taliban affect any US citizen's freedoms? By harbouring bin Laden? Last I heard, Muhammad Attah (the ringleader) spent the previous few years in Europe before 9/11. Why not invade Germany or Great Britain?
The US today is any tyrant's wet dream. It wasn't foreigners who did that to you. It's a self-inflicted injury.
Would you please just piss off? Haven't you yet noticed that both "Liberal" nanny-staters AND "Conservative" Don't Tread On Me! types BOTH have their hands in the cookie jar (your wallet), and have done so for a *long time*?
How you idiots can *still* be banging that librul vs. conservative drum after all we've seen for the last two centuries just amazes me.
Invent the holodeck, that's the only way everyone can have anything.
Idiot. That buggy piece of crap damned near destroyed the ship almost every time it was used. They should've spaced the twit who came up with the idea before they had a chance to implement it..
You don't even say what the fuck your company does or even what industry you're in...
That shouldn't much matter. What the employees are engaged in and what they do might be useful information. If you can surf the web on Windows, you can do it with any OS, but if these are engineers needing Matlab or Autocad, or graphic artists needing Photoshop, it may be an uphill struggle doomed to fail miserably.
I can understand trying to wall off Windows from what you can, but with non-Windows you just make sure you only enable services that you want. Use good passwords, lock it down so only what you want running can run, and don't listen to the script kiddies knocking on your door. Crank up the stereo.
I assume your box hangs off a router of some sort? It's probably all you need for a firewall.
And if the Media did, how would they portray that person? Would they describe them as a legitimate revolutionary, or as a freedom-hating terrorist?
Both, one after the other, dependent upon who won.
Besides, who knows what would happen after we started shooting politicians? I'm not sure it' a good idea.
It'll be a really bad idea for those who try it. No, I think mass armed insurrection is the only way to go. The well ordered militia will just have to gear up and go down to the statehouses and take them over. Bon chance.
I'd like to teach the world to sing In perfect harmony. I'd like to hold it in my arms And keep it company.
"Sunshine, lollypops and rainbows..."
Why are we still fighting crap like this? "Those guys..." are not people we associate with willingly, yes? So who's letting them get away with this? Somebody shoot the fsckers already! It's self-defence!
Agreed arresting them would be the just thing to do. But like all of the actions from that period their orders originated from the highest levels of the executive...
That thing in the Constitution about rising up and revolting... Does that include shooting your politicians? You'd think that would be a good place to start. Is anybody doing anything about that?
If it's obvious they were assaulting people without cause, why haven't they been arrested...
Why were they hired? Who hired them, who managed them, who laid down their ground rules? Who did their performance appraisals? Who signed their cheques?
Those people can always find flunkies to do the work (need money feed family|patriotism|...). Go after "Those people."
Your grammar and spelling belie your ethnic claim.
Would you bigots please go get a room? (0) infidel/home/keeling_ uname -a Linux infidel 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 05:01:58 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux (0) infidel/home/keeling_ apropos bsd bsd-from (1) - print names of those who have sent mail bsd-mailx (1) - send and receive mail bsd-write (1) - send a message to another user bsd_signal (3) - signal handling with BSD semantics File::Glob (3perl) - Perl extension for BSD glob routine finite (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions finitef (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions finitel (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions isinff (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions isinfl (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions isnanf (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions isnanl (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions perlfreebsd (1) - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems perlopenbsd (1) - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems re_comp (3) - BSD regex functions re_exec (3) - BSD regex functions sigblock (3) - BSD signal API siggetmask (3) - BSD signal API sigmask (3) - BSD signal API sigsetmask (3) - BSD signal API sigvec (3) - BSD signal API tetris-bsd (6) - the game of tetris wait3 (2) - wait for process to change state, BSD style wait4 (2) - wait for process to change state, BSD style
Linux was intended to be sloppy happy about communicating with anything any way it wanted to since someone first offered Linus networking code.
In the UK that would be fine as they also use the same region as the rest of EU (2). Now, if a buddy from US sent one, then that could cause a problem.
I've been on the net since ca. '90, and I have acquaintances from South Africa through South America through Eastern Europe and we buy each other "Seasonal Gifts"... and they can't play what I bought with cash and sent them (and vice versa)? Highway robbery! What are there, ca. 180 - 200 countries out there, and we can't talk to each other in the 21st Century, why? I want heads on pikes.
In the UK that would be fine as they also use the same region as the rest of EU (2). Now, if a buddy from US sent one...
Finally, someone who can read.:-) Hi.
Yeah, see I've got this bud currently across the pond don't ya know, and I get all this BBC, GDR, Kiev burned... in my physical mailbox (!!!) and a dvd player <might> play it (dependent upon moi).
You've an optimistic view. Bravo. In my experience, 99.9% of your hopes and dreams will be dashed on the rocks of some or other special interest/regulation/user pay fee structure, but we'll all be dead soon, so who cares, really? You only live once. Make sure once is enough.
Ever heard of Debbie Brill? Six time world champion women's high jump, co-creator of the "Fosbury Flop", the style now used by all world class high jumpers. She still holds the over fifty women's world title, so she's still doin' it. She's from Mission, BC.
Yes, it will, and it should. Will, in the sense that some will, and maybe more eventually will. If it gains traction, it's a new standard. Those using it in the meantime won't mind the wait. It's kind of like Linux vs. Windows 3.1: "Jump, or... !@#$ yeah, jump!" for those who could tell the difference between the two. Canada went SI by gov't fiat, and it was a good thing (as much as it hurts to admit it). I don't much use it, but I know that SI makes a !@#$ of a lot easier calculations than that monstrosity, The Imperial System, with its arcane pints, quarts, inches, feet, furlongs, acre,...
Time ought to be easy to calculate. Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours per day, twenty-eight to thirty-one days per month,... Gaahhd! That mess needs cleaning up. It's as silly as Latin still being used in law, Greek in math, etc. Reboot and speak a common tongue! Don't listen to those old farts mumbling about tradition. They're just trying to keep new people out of their bailliwick.
I've not read the article, btw, but the proposal in the summary is appealing. Sell it to the kids as *easier*. They'll go for that.
Slashdot Mirror
... wake me up when Obama starts going around assassinating dissenters with polonium ...
Ptheh. They have drones to take care of that nowadays. Polonium is so passe. Besides, poison is traditionally a female's weapon. Take that Putin.
Oh, of course! That's why we have some of the highest per capita social welfare spending in the world, some of the toughest environmental regulations, highest corporate taxes, and highest income taxes! That's why corporations are fleeing the US; they can operate in a much more cut-throat fashion in socialist nirvanas like Canada and Ireland. How could I not have seen that!?
You're absolutely correct. Much better to be in the land of the free and home of the brave where regulatory capture is far more reliable (where cash into the right pockets can get you anything and damned near nothing can stop you, especially fscking whistleblowers trying to enforce the law of the land), and if it isn't you can tie the bastards up in court until they die of old age.
Look up the old saw, "Rose colored glasses."
I am well aware that my freedom comes partly from people who volunteer to go to strange and unpleasant places, meet new people, and get shot at by them.
How? You don't actually believe that, do you? If so, why? How are people in foreign strange and unpleasant places possibly going to affect your freedoms? Ie., how did (specifically) Afghanistan's Taliban affect any US citizen's freedoms? By harbouring bin Laden? Last I heard, Muhammad Attah (the ringleader) spent the previous few years in Europe before 9/11. Why not invade Germany or Great Britain?
The US today is any tyrant's wet dream. It wasn't foreigners who did that to you. It's a self-inflicted injury.
Liberals will be furious at your claim...
Would you please just piss off? Haven't you yet noticed that both "Liberal" nanny-staters AND "Conservative" Don't Tread On Me! types BOTH have their hands in the cookie jar (your wallet), and have done so for a *long time*?
How you idiots can *still* be banging that librul vs. conservative drum after all we've seen for the last two centuries just amazes me.
Sure, but nobody actually falls for it, do they? You know, free will and all that?
Invent the holodeck, that's the only way everyone can have anything.
Idiot. That buggy piece of crap damned near destroyed the ship almost every time it was used. They should've spaced the twit who came up with the idea before they had a chance to implement it..
You don't even say what the fuck your company does or even what industry you're in ...
That shouldn't much matter. What the employees are engaged in and what they do might be useful information. If you can surf the web on Windows, you can do it with any OS, but if these are engineers needing Matlab or Autocad, or graphic artists needing Photoshop, it may be an uphill struggle doomed to fail miserably.
Well, I have some residual trust in the good in people.
Yet at the same time you accuse $omeone else of blackmail. What a confused person you are.
Never had a Linux computer hacked that I noticed. (have had Windows boxes hacked to the point they'd hardly run.)
If this box was supplying connectivity to a LAN of Windows boxes, that would be a different thing. That isn't the case here.
... you just make sure you only enable services that you want.
I block my email program from making any network connection other than imap/smtp.
Is there an echo in here?
I can understand trying to wall off Windows from what you can, but with non-Windows you just make sure you only enable services that you want. Use good passwords, lock it down so only what you want running can run, and don't listen to the script kiddies knocking on your door. Crank up the stereo.
I assume your box hangs off a router of some sort? It's probably all you need for a firewall.
I currently have five moderator points ("Use 'em or lose 'em."). I think I'll use 'em to down-mod the very article/submission.
-5 Flamebait.
And if the Media did, how would they portray that person? Would they describe them as a legitimate revolutionary, or as a freedom-hating terrorist?
Both, one after the other, dependent upon who won.
Besides, who knows what would happen after we started shooting politicians? I'm not sure it' a good idea.
It'll be a really bad idea for those who try it. No, I think mass armed insurrection is the only way to go. The well ordered militia will just have to gear up and go down to the statehouses and take them over. Bon chance.
I'd like to teach the world to sing
In perfect harmony.
I'd like to hold it in my arms
And keep it company.
"Sunshine, lollypops and ..."
rainbows
Why are we still fighting crap like this? "Those guys ..." are not people we associate with willingly, yes? So who's letting them get away with this? Somebody shoot the fsckers already! It's self-defence!
Agreed arresting them would be the just thing to do. But like all of the actions from that period their orders originated from the highest levels of the executive ...
That thing in the Constitution about rising up and revolting ... Does that include shooting your politicians? You'd think that would be a good place to start. Is anybody doing anything about that?
If it's obvious they were assaulting people without cause, why haven't they been arrested ...
Why were they hired? Who hired them, who managed them, who laid down their ground rules? Who did their performance appraisals? Who signed their cheques?
Those people can always find flunkies to do the work (need money feed family|patriotism|...). Go after "Those people."
...
Not really. it kind of has some BSD relations.
Your grammar and spelling belie your ethnic claim.
Would you bigots please go get a room?
/home/keeling_ uname -a /home/keeling_ apropos bsd
(0) infidel
Linux infidel 3.1.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 10 05:01:58 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux
(0) infidel
bsd-from (1) - print names of those who have sent mail
bsd-mailx (1) - send and receive mail
bsd-write (1) - send a message to another user
bsd_signal (3) - signal handling with BSD semantics
File::Glob (3perl) - Perl extension for BSD glob routine
finite (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
finitef (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
finitel (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isinff (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isinfl (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isnanf (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
isnanl (3) - BSD floating-point classification functions
perlfreebsd (1) - Perl version 5 on FreeBSD systems
perlopenbsd (1) - Perl version 5 on OpenBSD systems
re_comp (3) - BSD regex functions
re_exec (3) - BSD regex functions
sigblock (3) - BSD signal API
siggetmask (3) - BSD signal API
sigmask (3) - BSD signal API
sigsetmask (3) - BSD signal API
sigvec (3) - BSD signal API
tetris-bsd (6) - the game of tetris
wait3 (2) - wait for process to change state, BSD style
wait4 (2) - wait for process to change state, BSD style
Linux was intended to be sloppy happy about communicating with anything any way it wanted to since someone first offered Linus networking code.
In the UK that would be fine as they also use the same region as the rest of EU (2). Now, if a buddy from US sent one, then that could cause a problem.
I've been on the net since ca. '90, and I have acquaintances from South Africa through South America through Eastern Europe and we buy each other "Seasonal Gifts" ... and they can't play what I bought with cash and sent them (and vice versa)? Highway robbery! What are there, ca. 180 - 200 countries out there, and we can't talk to each other in the 21st Century, why? I want heads on pikes.
In the UK that would be fine as they also use the same region as the rest of EU (2). Now, if a buddy from US sent one ...
Finally, someone who can read. :-) Hi.
Yeah, see I've got this bud currently across the pond don't ya know, and I get all this BBC, GDR, Kiev burned ... in my physical mailbox (!!!) and a dvd player <might> play it (dependent upon moi).
I have no friends in the EU...no one would ever send me anything...
I feel for you. <crickets>
Fill in the blanks in any way it may please you. So, what do you think about goldfish?
We all have our good and our bad sides.
You've an optimistic view. Bravo. In my experience, 99.9% of your hopes and dreams will be dashed on the rocks of some or other special interest/regulation/user pay fee structure, but we'll all be dead soon, so who cares, really? You only live once. Make sure once is enough.
Offside, what is clinical depression, really?
I've never had a problem watching a DVD on a Mac.
What happens when a buddy from EU sends you a disk of EU region code?
Hahaha disregard that, I ...
Ever heard of Debbie Brill? Six time world champion women's high jump, co-creator of the "Fosbury Flop", the style now used by all world class high jumpers. She still holds the over fifty women's world title, so she's still doin' it. She's from Mission, BC.
Always liked that girl.
This will never happen.
Yes, it will, and it should. Will, in the sense that some will, and maybe more eventually will. If it gains traction, it's a new standard. Those using it in the meantime won't mind the wait. It's kind of like Linux vs. Windows 3.1: "Jump, or ... !@#$ yeah, jump!" for those who could tell the difference between the two. Canada went SI by gov't fiat, and it was a good thing (as much as it hurts to admit it). I don't much use it, but I know that SI makes a !@#$ of a lot easier calculations than that monstrosity, The Imperial System, with its arcane pints, quarts, inches, feet, furlongs, acre, ...
Time ought to be easy to calculate. Sixty seconds in a minute, sixty minutes to an hour, twenty-four hours per day, twenty-eight to thirty-one days per month, ... Gaahhd! That mess needs cleaning up. It's as silly as Latin still being used in law, Greek in math, etc. Reboot and speak a common tongue! Don't listen to those old farts mumbling about tradition. They're just trying to keep new people out of their bailliwick.
I've not read the article, btw, but the proposal in the summary is appealing. Sell it to the kids as *easier*. They'll go for that.
If he had just ignored it people would probably have forgotten about it already.
Ah, geez man! You gave away the secret! Why're you helping Erdogan?!? Why do you hate the Turkish people?!?