I bring a laptop to school every day. I don't know what a metal detector would do to my laptop and I don't want to know. If my school had a metal detector and armed guards, and actually took it seriously, my school entry procedure would be as follows.
Get to school
Wait in line to go through metal detector
Get to metal detector, take off backpack.
Remove laptop case from backpack
Hand laptop case to armed guard
Watch armed guard search laptop case for weapons, as I don't trust the armed guard to not screw up my laptop.
Find all keys/tools/loose coinage/etc I'm carrying.
Place keys/tools/loose coinage/etc in plastic bin
Answer questions about why I'm carrying a set of screwdrivers
Walk through metal detector.
Listen to alarm go off
Walk back through metal detector to try to figure out what set off alarm
Relize that belt buckle is partly metal.
Remove belt
Walk through metal detector again.
Re-assemble myself (Actually 3-4 steps, but...)
Get to class late
Get assigned detention for being late to class.
The only solution would be for me to get to school 20-30 minutes early every day, and if that's not restricting my freedoms....
Any case of a wide spread, automated system to catigorize people into "acceptable" and "dangerous" is a Bad Thing(tm).
I don't care how it works, or what it outputs, I just don't want people's answer to a set of questions to result in a psycological profile that will affect their lives and follow them for an indefinate length of time!
I'm actually sure that, in some cases, school *is* the source of the problem. I know that right now, my single greatest source of violent tendancies is my hatred of the illogical slavery that is the public school system.
Even the people who *will* set off a neuclear bomb in DC in the next three days have their rights until they've actually committed a crime and have been found guilty of that crime.
You underesitmate the amount of time it takes to teach someone how to wright. Why waste your time emluating smearing a dye on ground up trees when you could design a truely usefull interface?
There is no section of the US constitution that gives congress the ability to deligate law making. Congress may pass laws, congress may not create another body with the power to pass laws.
If congress had to actually look at every rule/regulation and argue about it etc... we'd have less laws/regulations --- that would be a Good Thing(tm).
Right, and no-one needs faster than a 2400cps modem, I mean - who would want to transfer anything but text?
The system was designed to give everyone their own IP, nor was it designed as an 'end user service' like television, radio, newspapers, etc...
Right now, due to the use of IPv4 and it's address distribution problems, most desktop PC software assumes that you have a dynamic IP. This prevents all kinds of neat functionality in software, like immediate e-mail delivery, and requires all kinds of systems to be implemented as client-server-client instead of peer-peer connections (example: ICQ, MS-Net Meeting, etc), which is a waste of valuble resources on the part of the service provider, and a waste of bandwidth for the whole 'net.
Just because people are used to a nasty kludge doesn't mean that they can't take advantage of the benifiets of not needing that kludge any more.
Also, all the advantages of Dynamic IPs can be gotten through dynamic IP'd proxy servers. Just set up your computer to route all it's IP traffic through the proxy... which will use a different IP for each request. So, instead of having to disconnect and reconnect to get a new IP, you can just hit "reload" in your browser! (Or reconnect in your IRC client, whatever)
As for terms of service agreement, I refuse to agree to anything that resticts what apps I can run on my PC --- And I'll encourage everyone I know to do the same!
I have yet to see a creationist review of *anything* that did not assume that the bible was the absolute truth... and then use the contents of the bible to argue their point.
I haven't seen any evidence at all that would tend to support creationism that doesn't assume the existance of a god.
Recursive logic just doesn't work. If you could show any evidence (On the 'net... URLs would be nice) that tends to support creationism without the usage of self-referencing logic or not-backed-up asumptions -- that would be nice.
And then he has to figure out complicated stuff like "Licence Agreements", what directory he wants to install it in, what section of the "Start" menu it should go in, etc...
With Linux, he just has to download the RPM, install it with GNORPM, and then run it from the pretty menu item.
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Dynamic IP addresses are a nasty kludge that IPv6 hopes to fix.
Static IPs are a *feature* not a bug.
How would you like it if every time you wanted to send or recive (postal) mail, you had to go to the post office and register an address - which you then lost after a week or so?
There was a ruling that speach over the internet was equivilent to written speach... I believe the case was "Reno vs. the ACLU" - Therefore if you made a copy of the PGP book avalibable as a computer file....
You can run windowmaker normally, just set up another session type "WindowMaker" that executes "wmaker" instead of "gnome-session" --- read the documentation for GDM, and look around in your/etc/X11/xdm and/etc/X11/gdm directories.
They arm themselves with programs like B.O. and kick down your security measures any time of the day or night.
When BO becomes a program that can bypass security, I'll get scared.
They confiscate your data and refuse to give it back even though you've done nothing to them.
You have a chance to do something about this - you can protect your data. If the government trys to screw with you (or any part of the government), they can do it out in the open, and if you try to stop them you'll be resisting arrest.
Shouldn't you be out on a ledge somewhere? You've really been watching too many movies.
And sometimes, only the parinoid survive...
I think what people like you fail to realize is that the gov't is not a single entity working for a single goal. It's made up of individuals...
Indeviduals with their own agenda, and the power of the entire USA backing them if they decide to screw with us...
The conspiracies you see around every corner are not likely to stay secret long, nor to be as wide spread as you think, in a system like ours.
They don't have to stay secret, and they don't have to be widespread... all they have to do is be effective for 1 day and not interfeared with to screw up the life of one more person...
If you want to learn a lot - Slackware; If you just want to do it and have it work and be easy to deal with - Red Hat; If you want to play tetris during the install and then watch KDE crash - COL; If you don't care how hard the install is but want a zillion packages - SuSE; If you want a zillion, slightly outdated packages - Debian;
My experiances with COL have all been bad. It screws up all kinds of things, and crashes almost as much as Windows 3.1 running MSWord 2000 though Win32s.
People shouldn't be required to obey rules/laws/etc that they cannot understand.
The government recognizes that only patent lawyers have the least chance of understanding patents.
Therefore, anyone who is not a patent lawyer should be allowed to ignore patents.
One of the basic principles of a fair set of laws is that everyone can know and understand what laws they are supposed to follow. If people cannot know/understand fully the current body of law, the body of law should be simplified until everyone can understand and follow it. This includes things with the force of law, like patents.
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I bring a laptop to school every day. I don't know what a metal detector would do to my laptop and I don't want to know. If my school had a metal detector and armed guards, and actually took it seriously, my school entry procedure would be as follows.
The only solution would be for me to get to school 20-30 minutes early every day, and if that's not restricting my freedoms....
Any case of a wide spread, automated system to catigorize people into "acceptable" and "dangerous" is a Bad Thing(tm).
I don't care how it works, or what it outputs, I just don't want people's answer to a set of questions to result in a psycological profile that will affect their lives and follow them for an indefinate length of time!
Why boycot M:tg because of TV adds? If it weren't a Magic add it'd be an add for something significantly more lame.
What? Students have rights?
I doubt that even one public school in america realizes that...
I'm actually sure that, in some cases, school *is* the source of the problem. I know that right now, my single greatest source of violent tendancies is my hatred of the illogical slavery that is the public school system.
Even the people who *will* set off a neuclear bomb in DC in the next three days have their rights until they've actually committed a crime and have been found guilty of that crime.
You underesitmate the amount of time it takes to teach someone how to wright. Why waste your time emluating smearing a dye on ground up trees when you could design a truely usefull interface?
There is no section of the US constitution that gives congress the ability to deligate law making. Congress may pass laws, congress may not create another body with the power to pass laws.
If congress had to actually look at every rule/regulation and argue about it etc... we'd have less laws/regulations --- that would be a Good Thing(tm).
Right, and no-one needs faster than a 2400cps modem, I mean - who would want to transfer anything but text?
The system was designed to give everyone their own IP, nor was it designed as an 'end user service' like television, radio, newspapers, etc...
Right now, due to the use of IPv4 and it's address distribution problems, most desktop PC software assumes that you have a dynamic IP. This prevents all kinds of neat functionality in software, like immediate e-mail delivery, and requires all kinds of systems to be implemented as client-server-client instead of peer-peer connections (example: ICQ, MS-Net Meeting, etc), which is a waste of valuble resources on the part of the service provider, and a waste of bandwidth for the whole 'net.
Just because people are used to a nasty kludge doesn't mean that they can't take advantage of the benifiets of not needing that kludge any more.
Also, all the advantages of Dynamic IPs can be gotten through dynamic IP'd proxy servers. Just set up your computer to route all it's IP traffic through the proxy... which will use a different IP for each request. So, instead of having to disconnect and reconnect to get a new IP, you can just hit "reload" in your browser! (Or reconnect in your IRC client, whatever)
As for terms of service agreement, I refuse to agree to anything that resticts what apps I can run on my PC --- And I'll encourage everyone I know to do the same!
I have yet to see a creationist review of *anything* that did not assume that the bible was the absolute truth... and then use the contents of the bible to argue their point.
I haven't seen any evidence at all that would tend to support creationism that doesn't assume the existance of a god.
Recursive logic just doesn't work. If you could show any evidence (On the 'net... URLs would be nice) that tends to support creationism without the usage of self-referencing logic or not-backed-up asumptions -- that would be nice.
And then he has to figure out complicated stuff like "Licence Agreements", what directory he wants to install it in, what section of the "Start" menu it should go in, etc...
With Linux, he just has to download the RPM, install it with GNORPM, and then run it from the pretty menu item.
especially if that power can be used against me!
Dynamic IP addresses are a nasty kludge that IPv6 hopes to fix.
Static IPs are a *feature* not a bug.
How would you like it if every time you wanted to send or recive (postal) mail, you had to go to the post office and register an address - which you then lost after a week or so?
Dynamic IP addresses are a nasty kludge that IPv6 hopes to fix.
Static IPs are a *feature* not a bug.
There was a ruling that speach over the internet was equivilent to written speach... I believe the case was "Reno vs. the ACLU" - Therefore if you made a copy of the PGP book avalibable as a computer file....
Why should I have to go to all that trouble when KDE does it all by default?
And you just can't tell me that you can set up a UI just as simple as FVWM using MSWindows.
If you can prove all the pieces to be incorrect, then the whole must be incorrect... yes?
We don't need it, any of it.
Contract law and intellectual property law are both just kludges that now hurt society more than they ever helped it... time to get rid of them
I agree -- you do have to eliminate most of those. Probably be a good thing...
Have you ever heard of AnarchoCapitolism... that's something we could go a long way twards without hurting anything
You can run windowmaker normally, just set up another session type "WindowMaker" that executes "wmaker" instead of "gnome-session" --- read the documentation for GDM, and look around in your /etc/X11/xdm and /etc/X11/gdm directories.
When BO becomes a program that can bypass security, I'll get scared.
You have a chance to do something about this - you can protect your data. If the government trys to screw with you (or any part of the government), they can do it out in the open, and if you try to stop them you'll be resisting arrest.
And sometimes, only the parinoid survive...
Indeviduals with their own agenda, and the power of the entire USA backing them if they decide to screw with us...
They don't have to stay secret, and they don't have to be widespread... all they have to do is be effective for 1 day and not interfeared with to screw up the life of one more person...
I agree - SuSE is sweet once you get it working, but getting it working though YaST is a challenging task at best.
If you want to learn a lot - Slackware; If you just want to do it and have it work and be easy to deal with - Red Hat; If you want to play tetris during the install and then watch KDE crash - COL; If you don't care how hard the install is but want a zillion packages - SuSE; If you want a zillion, slightly outdated packages - Debian;
My experiances with COL have all been bad. It screws up all kinds of things, and crashes almost as much as Windows 3.1 running MSWord 2000 though Win32s.
What apps exactly doesn't Linux have?
The only thing I miss from not booting into Windows is Blizzard Games! (The other thing is sound editing utilities, but I don't do that)
People shouldn't be required to obey rules/laws/etc that they cannot understand.
The government recognizes that only patent lawyers have the least chance of understanding patents.
Therefore, anyone who is not a patent lawyer should be allowed to ignore patents.
One of the basic principles of a fair set of laws is that everyone can know and understand what laws they are supposed to follow. If people cannot know/understand fully the current body of law, the body of law should be simplified until everyone can understand and follow it. This includes things with the force of law, like patents.