It's a bit more than 1.3%. The wars, etc. go into that bucket
Perhaps I was being unclear. The wars are not part of actual national defense. As in, defending the fifty states from outside attackers. Real, honest to goodness defense.
My assertion is that the amount of money actually spent on defending the United States of America is a small fraction of the military budget. But they gussy the whole thing up as "defense spending" because people are fooled by simple semantic tricks.
Think of all the energy it costs to run 12 minutes of credits on thousands of screens around the world. This is just one more example of how Hollywood secretly hates the planet (locking up streaming rights being the most glaring example).
I like the 30's-60's movies with 1 minute of credits before the show began, and then a fine The End when it was over.
Which is mostly what we have. Look at all the entitlement programs, zoning laws, income taxes, etc.
If you want to be truly "free", go live on an island by yourself.
No longer a valid option, all the land is claimed.
There's always going to be some give and take within a society.
Of course. And people have had stable societies with fair community interactions for centuries without strong central governments telling them what to do (Iceland, for instance, before the Catholic Church took over).
The problem is that wealthy people will always be able to twist the government to their liking. Wealth is power, and power begets more power. We have to abolish both wealth and government if we are to be free.
Why do you figure one isn't sufficient? All huge amounts of wealth rely on government functions to acquire it.
Yes, eventually, society does need to use force to enforce its laws.
Oh, so then it's not bullshit, as you just asserted.
It's a last resort, but it must exist otherwise no laws would have any weight. That's the drawback of being physical creatures.
Natural laws always have weight. By Copyright isn't one of them.
But the only alternative is to have absolutely no laws at all. Only a crazy person would want that.
Only a crazy person would be willing to sacrifice half a billion people per century (the combined death total of wars and domicide in the 20th century) to have mechanisms in place to make things like copyright possible.
Systems with simple rules develop wonderful self-regulation features and emergent order. The question isn't one of regulation, but whether societal retribution is worth those levels of human sacrifice.
parody sites like Peanutweeter now getting shut down by twitchy lawyers
Lawyers can't do squat except write some fancy papers. The implied threat of violence from the government is what shut down Peanutweeter.
I suggest going to buy stuff from James Hance now, before he gets put out of business too. I'll feel especially sorry for his daughter when that happens.
I guess I don't notice them. There's an optional thing you can install to force KDE font preferences onto GTK apps, if you want the consistency. I don't think I've installed that on a new machine in a while though.
You are kidding, right? Wireless connections are inherently portable and therefore transient, they are not always available. This is in fact the whole point of a wireless connection, that it is NOT always on.
No, the point is that you don't need a wire. You do realize that some people have their entire homes/offices setup with wireless as they don't need to run wires and wireless is fast enough for then, right?
Perhaps you only use laptops with wireless connections, but your use case does not describe the broader market.
As a Firefox user who's children love Flash games, that's a/sine qua non/.
What doesn't work for you? My daughter plays flash games on my home PC, which is Fedora 14 w/ KDE 4.6 and Firefox. I use the leigh123linux repo for Flash updates.
Defense spending (which is where the money comes from for paying for those wars...) is at 25%
Don't play their semantics game. Defense spending is at perhaps 1.3%. Military adventures and corporate welfare for "defense industry" contractors are at 23.7%.
Martial arts training helps both with close-quarters surprise attacks and with disarming a knife-wielding opponent. It takes years to get good enough to feel like you can handle that kind of situation, though, so 'really hard' is still a good description.
Anybody have recommendations for the best way to learn Git?
And before you say, "just install it and use it", which I will, I'd like to learn from others' insights and mistakes, be it a book, web tutorial, class, etc. to save some time in the learning process.
Right. Investing in a tablet for your kid to bring in the car (or the house, or the doctor's office, or the train, etc. etc. etc.) might not be a bad idea. But to build it into a car, especially the most brittle part of a car - that's just a malinvestment.
But, hey, I know people who have paid $900 a piece for dual built-in DVD players. I got my kids $100 no-name 7" video players from NewEgg, and those have been sufficient and they work everywhere.
Now, if this technology gets to the point where it's very cheap, then perhaps that's a different story.
Well, I'm not making that up - I heard it on a radio program (NPR?) from an African development guy who said these volunteer work vacations were really hosing up local African economies. It's not just your two weeks - there is somebody booked after you, and somebody booked after him. And there are several such people in a given week.
I found it surprising, but I have no better information.
I can see why NT4-era services might not be worth their effort today, but I think the bigger story here is that they didn't ship Samba 3, which I'm assuming is due to GPLv3.
Whether that's a win or loss depends on what your goals are.
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It's a bit more than 1.3%. The wars, etc. go into that bucket
Perhaps I was being unclear. The wars are not part of actual national defense. As in, defending the fifty states from outside attackers. Real, honest to goodness defense.
My assertion is that the amount of money actually spent on defending the United States of America is a small fraction of the military budget. But they gussy the whole thing up as "defense spending" because people are fooled by simple semantic tricks.
Consume this with your RSS reader.
And those credits are ridiculousness incarnate.
Think of all the energy it costs to run 12 minutes of credits on thousands of screens around the world. This is just one more example of how Hollywood secretly hates the planet (locking up streaming rights being the most glaring example).
I like the 30's-60's movies with 1 minute of credits before the show began, and then a fine The End when it was over.
Pulling the pin on the hand grenade will help US interests how?
By removing the hand grenade as a tool of negotiation. If you survive the blast, that's darn handy.
Tyranny of the mob.
Which is mostly what we have. Look at all the entitlement programs, zoning laws, income taxes, etc.
If you want to be truly "free", go live on an island by yourself.
No longer a valid option, all the land is claimed.
There's always going to be some give and take within a society.
Of course. And people have had stable societies with fair community interactions for centuries without strong central governments telling them what to do (Iceland, for instance, before the Catholic Church took over).
The problem is that wealthy people will always be able to twist the government to their liking. Wealth is power, and power begets more power. We have to abolish both wealth and government if we are to be free.
Why do you figure one isn't sufficient? All huge amounts of wealth rely on government functions to acquire it.
Typical anarchist bullshit.
Oh?
Yes, eventually, society does need to use force to enforce its laws.
Oh, so then it's not bullshit, as you just asserted.
It's a last resort, but it must exist otherwise no laws would have any weight. That's the drawback of being physical creatures.
Natural laws always have weight. By Copyright isn't one of them.
But the only alternative is to have absolutely no laws at all. Only a crazy person would want that.
Only a crazy person would be willing to sacrifice half a billion people per century (the combined death total of wars and domicide in the 20th century) to have mechanisms in place to make things like copyright possible.
Systems with simple rules develop wonderful self-regulation features and emergent order. The question isn't one of regulation, but whether societal retribution is worth those levels of human sacrifice.
Violence? Really, now?
Of course:
Have a look at this video for a step-by-step exposition.
parody sites like Peanutweeter now getting shut down by twitchy lawyers
Lawyers can't do squat except write some fancy papers. The implied threat of violence from the government is what shut down Peanutweeter.
I suggest going to buy stuff from James Hance now, before he gets put out of business too. I'll feel especially sorry for his daughter when that happens.
I guess I don't notice them. There's an optional thing you can install to force KDE font preferences onto GTK apps, if you want the consistency. I don't think I've installed that on a new machine in a while though.
You are kidding, right? Wireless connections are inherently portable and therefore transient, they are not always available. This is in fact the whole point of a wireless connection, that it is NOT always on.
No, the point is that you don't need a wire. You do realize that some people have their entire homes/offices setup with wireless as they don't need to run wires and wireless is fast enough for then, right?
Perhaps you only use laptops with wireless connections, but your use case does not describe the broader market.
As a Firefox user who's children love Flash games, that's a /sine qua non/.
What doesn't work for you? My daughter plays flash games on my home PC, which is Fedora 14 w/ KDE 4.6 and Firefox. I use the leigh123linux repo for Flash updates.
Thanks, Hal! Much appreciated.
Defense spending (which is where the money comes from for paying for those wars...) is at 25%
Don't play their semantics game. Defense spending is at perhaps 1.3%. Military adventures and corporate welfare for "defense industry" contractors are at 23.7%.
Most people don't have a problem with the 1.3%.
+1 one on the reference. Six of us understood.
Martial arts training helps both with close-quarters surprise attacks and with disarming a knife-wielding opponent. It takes years to get good enough to feel like you can handle that kind of situation, though, so 'really hard' is still a good description.
Anybody have recommendations for the best way to learn Git?
And before you say, "just install it and use it", which I will, I'd like to learn from others' insights and mistakes, be it a book, web tutorial, class, etc. to save some time in the learning process.
I find it baffling that, in this day and age, one can still read news articles using the imperial system. About space travel, of all things.
Eh, I know a subset of four human languages, a couple dozen* computer languages, and two measurement systems.
I find that makes things easier for me, not harder.
* oh, the agony of a base-12 approximation!
Right. Investing in a tablet for your kid to bring in the car (or the house, or the doctor's office, or the train, etc. etc. etc.) might not be a bad idea. But to build it into a car, especially the most brittle part of a car - that's just a malinvestment.
But, hey, I know people who have paid $900 a piece for dual built-in DVD players. I got my kids $100 no-name 7" video players from NewEgg, and those have been sufficient and they work everywhere.
Now, if this technology gets to the point where it's very cheap, then perhaps that's a different story.
kill it with pointy sticks and burn the corpse with fire.
hey, get out of my head, seifried.
It's worse than that - TFS is broken English and not even proofread.
Unemployment is closer to 25%.
Citation provided.
excellent idea - thanks!
Well, I'm not making that up - I heard it on a radio program (NPR?) from an African development guy who said these volunteer work vacations were really hosing up local African economies. It's not just your two weeks - there is somebody booked after you, and somebody booked after him. And there are several such people in a given week.
I found it surprising, but I have no better information.
I can see why NT4-era services might not be worth their effort today, but I think the bigger story here is that they didn't ship Samba 3, which I'm assuming is due to GPLv3.
Whether that's a win or loss depends on what your goals are.