Yep, sorry, meant the Civil Rights Act. I mentioned nothing about wanting one party over another. The point I was _trying_ to make is that anyone who really pulls for one party over the other is an ignorant jackass. It is much easier, and honest, to be against one or both. For what it's worth, LBJ did say upon signing the Civil Rights Act that the Democrats had effectively lost the South. And you know what? He was right. The Dems who fought the Act were correct politically. Totally wrong morally. If you think that I came across as pro Democrat, man did I fuck up.
Jesus fucking christ. Democrats and Republicans meant totally different things back then. Democrats were big business, the South, etc.. Shortly after the above, the Democratic Party split, with the conservative Democrats hooking up with the conservative Republicans and forming pretty much what the Republican party is today. You know the one that fought the Civil Rights Amendment? Talk about not knowing history, you sound like some fucking Tea Bagger.
To try to blame stuff on a particular party from 100+ years ago is just wrong. Neither party means what it did back then. Did you know that Conservative Christians and Progressives worked together to pass Prohibition? Interesting, but not really relevant to current debate.
You know, drilling off the coast isn't in itself bad, except maybe from an aesthetic standpoint and that is very subjective. I know that through the 4 decades or so that I have lived in California, the offshore rigs have caused less tar to wash up on the beach and the structures themselves act like little reefs, bringing lots of wildlife around.
But the fact that they are feeding both our SUV addiction and the environmental impacts of using oil pisses me off on a daily basis. Less people, greener energy. Other than that, the earth is fucked.
More and more, as a teacher now, I realize how true this is. People look to schools to fix the problems of society, but that's not the job. Working in an urban area of Los Angeles county, I realize how broken the social structure is and get a little depressed out of people who don't see it bitching about schools.
The talk is always about how private schools will save the system. This is just an argument for the elitists. Give me a private school that takes the "problem" kids and they aren't allowed to kick them out. Then we can have a rational discussion about the good or bad of schools.
But why the fuck would Sun reimplement Linux? If they have binary compatibility with Linux base binaries, what the hell is their problem. I'm thinking about switching my box to OpenSolaris. Have been thinking that for awhile. The only stop, and the same one I had with FreeBSD several years ago, is the license. Yes, I like the code to be free. Yes I have given weeks of my life to GPL'd code. I really don't see what the problem is.
I make my living doing non-code things. It always seems to me that scriptkiddy people are the only ones who are so adamant about the license. Truly skilled make good livings in companies working on systems that it wouldn't make any sense to GPL. No one else would use it. In other words, highly customized code.
I try to only work with code that I have the chance to look at and improve. Then send to my friends, as well as upstream.
In the seventies I was a kid living on Okinawa. We would see Blackbirds just about every day at recess. My Dad drove me over to the air base one day when a typhoon was coming and we watched several take off before the storm hit. Very cool memories. I couldn't tell you how many times I would sit in class and the windows would flex from sonic booms. Of course, at the time the plane didn't even officially exist.
Oh yeah, and every year or two some of the SR-71 pilots would come to our elementary in their spacesuits and talk about their job. Nice memories.
I heard that the climate changed between then and now. That is part of the reason the early viking settlements on Greenland ended up going kaplooie after a short hundred, or couple hundred years.
Why don't I look it up, you may ask. Well, I'm drunk and lazy.
I found it very interesting that most of the Liberal Arts people did better than us Math people in Statistics. I think that the liberal arts training helps that type of reasoning more. I also found when I started "real" work that most of the Unix guru people were Liberal Arts people. We're talking several decades ago by this point as I head toward retirement. Maybe it has changed now. The one thing that I do notice is that across the board, new graduates can't write for shit and generally seem to have crappier educations out of Uni than they used to.
Why was c o c k filtered in the first but not the second? Unless it was d i c k. And then, why was that filtered?
Anyway, back on topic... I'm sure most of the people reading your post, and mine, would be happy to pay what you paid in taxes. It pretty much makes the point that you were arguing against.
It's kind of like my MD and PhD cousin bitchin' about public education. Even though he went to public schools, even Berkely, before going to MIT and Harvard. I know Harvard is private. But nothing like showing ignorance.
Wow! Comparing using ROMs with murdering someone. You either are really fucked up or just were too lazy to come up with an appropriate comparison. Maybe using unlicensed ROMs with going 40mpg in a 35mph zone?
1700's?? I don't think women were allowed to be literate openly back then. The first woman poet I can think of is Emily Dickonson (sp?). Anyway, I liked her stuff. Maybe because I'm a little autistic and lonerish.
Sony used to have good shit. Not top of the line, but I wouldn't mind spending a little more for Sony if I was buying a CD player or whatever. Then it seemed that their quality control really went downhill. It appears that right after NAFTA passed, Sony quickly set up factories in Mexico. And quality went to hell. I stopped buying Sony years before the root kit deal. And everyone who says Sony music has nothing to do with Sony the company are just Sony fanboys who need to go away.
Them's fightin' words.:) I don't feel a religous passion about it, but I do feel somewhat strongly about it. Strong enough that it made me change back. Not a big deal. I'm not telling the BSD people to become GPL people or anything. I think that the GPL goes further in helping the world (a little grand, but you get the idea) than the BSD license does.
And you're right, it's not my code. I'm barely a coder. I do enjoy poking around other peoples code on rainy weekends. And yes, much of the software on my box is published under something other than the GPL. So be it.
Much cleaner filesystem. I REALLY liked the way the system is laid out.
It was very nice to have one system, not wonder how *.deb is different from *.rpm or *.tgz, or really how to get one to play CLEANLY with my systems packaging system.
Con of *BSD:
Did not seem to have the same number of packages as GNU/Linux
OK, now I haven't run *BSD for about 4 years. On a purely gut level, I REALLY prefer the GNU license to frickin' BSD. But that was/is the only real reason I stick with GNU/Linux. I would much prefer to switch to some GNU/* which was as tight as FreeBSD was. But I do feel that strongly about the license.
If you don't have a lot of time, don't switch. If you want to play, pick one, install it. Buy a book on *nix. Learn the command line, get comfortable with vi, get comfortable editing config files and restarting/starting/stopping services. Once you are comfortable with one, you can switch to the other with little effort. The differences are more in the feel of the system. As you will probably hear from other posts.
You are just being an asshat. Linux works. So does everything else, really. My grandma uses Windows. I don't care. All she does is email, print some crap out and type up things.
I could easily set up her system with linux which could do what she wants. I may soon as it has recently started to slow down due to all the windows crap that get installed when she surfs around. But if she really just wants the same thing, I will try a little more to clean it out or just re-install. Not that big of a deal. She is 89 years old, for what that's worth.
To sit back and say that this would be anything other than a good thing is just ridiculous. Crawl back into whatever the fuck hole you crawled out of. Your obvious ignorance of the useability of a modern Gnu/Linux system is so glaring I can't really focus on anything else you are writing.
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Yep, sorry, meant the Civil Rights Act. I mentioned nothing about wanting one party over another. The point I was _trying_ to make is that anyone who really pulls for one party over the other is an ignorant jackass. It is much easier, and honest, to be against one or both. For what it's worth, LBJ did say upon signing the Civil Rights Act that the Democrats had effectively lost the South. And you know what? He was right. The Dems who fought the Act were correct politically. Totally wrong morally. If you think that I came across as pro Democrat, man did I fuck up.
Jesus fucking christ. Democrats and Republicans meant totally different things back then. Democrats were big business, the South, etc.. Shortly after the above, the Democratic Party split, with the conservative Democrats hooking up with the conservative Republicans and forming pretty much what the Republican party is today. You know the one that fought the Civil Rights Amendment? Talk about not knowing history, you sound like some fucking Tea Bagger.
To try to blame stuff on a particular party from 100+ years ago is just wrong. Neither party means what it did back then. Did you know that Conservative Christians and Progressives worked together to pass Prohibition? Interesting, but not really relevant to current debate.
Thanks for the link. Very interesting indeed.
Last I read the oceans produced about 80% of the oxygen in the atmosphere.
You know, drilling off the coast isn't in itself bad, except maybe from an aesthetic standpoint and that is very subjective. I know that through the 4 decades or so that I have lived in California, the offshore rigs have caused less tar to wash up on the beach and the structures themselves act like little reefs, bringing lots of wildlife around.
But the fact that they are feeding both our SUV addiction and the environmental impacts of using oil pisses me off on a daily basis. Less people, greener energy. Other than that, the earth is fucked.
More and more, as a teacher now, I realize how true this is. People look to schools to fix the problems of society, but that's not the job. Working in an urban area of Los Angeles county, I realize how broken the social structure is and get a little depressed out of people who don't see it bitching about schools.
The talk is always about how private schools will save the system. This is just an argument for the elitists. Give me a private school that takes the "problem" kids and they aren't allowed to kick them out. Then we can have a rational discussion about the good or bad of schools.
But why the fuck would Sun reimplement Linux? If they have binary compatibility with Linux base binaries, what the hell is their problem. I'm thinking about switching my box to OpenSolaris. Have been thinking that for awhile. The only stop, and the same one I had with FreeBSD several years ago, is the license. Yes, I like the code to be free. Yes I have given weeks of my life to GPL'd code. I really don't see what the problem is.
I make my living doing non-code things. It always seems to me that scriptkiddy people are the only ones who are so adamant about the license. Truly skilled make good livings in companies working on systems that it wouldn't make any sense to GPL. No one else would use it. In other words, highly customized code.
I try to only work with code that I have the chance to look at and improve. Then send to my friends, as well as upstream.
Wow, hadn't thought of that in a long time. Thanks. That was cool
And be yet someone else that I'd end up supporting in prison. Sigh.
In the seventies I was a kid living on Okinawa. We would see Blackbirds just about every day at recess. My Dad drove me over to the air base one day when a typhoon was coming and we watched several take off before the storm hit. Very cool memories. I couldn't tell you how many times I would sit in class and the windows would flex from sonic booms. Of course, at the time the plane didn't even officially exist.
Oh yeah, and every year or two some of the SR-71 pilots would come to our elementary in their spacesuits and talk about their job. Nice memories.
I heard that the climate changed between then and now. That is part of the reason the early viking settlements on Greenland ended up going kaplooie after a short hundred, or couple hundred years.
Why don't I look it up, you may ask. Well, I'm drunk and lazy.
I found it very interesting that most of the Liberal Arts people did better than us Math people in Statistics. I think that the liberal arts training helps that type of reasoning more. I also found when I started "real" work that most of the Unix guru people were Liberal Arts people. We're talking several decades ago by this point as I head toward retirement. Maybe it has changed now. The one thing that I do notice is that across the board, new graduates can't write for shit and generally seem to have crappier educations out of Uni than they used to.
hole? The parent made me think of a hippy catalog when I was a kid.
Says someone showing their absolute ignorance of capitalism in the U.S..
And so the age old mind puzzle is put to rest.
Why was c o c k filtered in the first but not the second? Unless it was d i c k. And then, why was that filtered?
Anyway, back on topic... I'm sure most of the people reading your post, and mine, would be happy to pay what you paid in taxes. It pretty much makes the point that you were arguing against.
It's kind of like my MD and PhD cousin bitchin' about public education. Even though he went to public schools, even Berkely, before going to MIT and Harvard. I know Harvard is private. But nothing like showing ignorance.
Wow! Comparing using ROMs with murdering someone. You either are really fucked up or just were too lazy to come up with an appropriate comparison. Maybe using unlicensed ROMs with going 40mpg in a 35mph zone?
1700's?? I don't think women were allowed to be literate openly back then. The first woman poet I can think of is Emily Dickonson (sp?). Anyway, I liked her stuff. Maybe because I'm a little autistic and lonerish.
Sony used to have good shit. Not top of the line, but I wouldn't mind spending a little more for Sony if I was buying a CD player or whatever. Then it seemed that their quality control really went downhill. It appears that right after NAFTA passed, Sony quickly set up factories in Mexico. And quality went to hell. I stopped buying Sony years before the root kit deal. And everyone who says Sony music has nothing to do with Sony the company are just Sony fanboys who need to go away.
Damn, I read this, reached forward hit F1 (my shortcut for a terminal) and typed w.
Of course, no one wanted to publish Walt Whitman either. He had to go do it himself. I guess that doesn't count though...
I am not so bigoted as that.
:) I don't feel a religous passion about it, but I do feel somewhat strongly about it. Strong enough that it made me change back. Not a big deal. I'm not telling the BSD people to become GPL people or anything. I think that the GPL goes further in helping the world (a little grand, but you get the idea) than the BSD license does.
Them's fightin' words.
And you're right, it's not my code. I'm barely a coder. I do enjoy poking around other peoples code on rainy weekends. And yes, much of the software on my box is published under something other than the GPL. So be it.
Pros of *BSD:
Con of *BSD:
OK, now I haven't run *BSD for about 4 years. On a purely gut level, I REALLY prefer the GNU license to frickin' BSD. But that was/is the only real reason I stick with GNU/Linux. I would much prefer to switch to some GNU/* which was as tight as FreeBSD was. But I do feel that strongly about the license.
If you don't have a lot of time, don't switch. If you want to play, pick one, install it. Buy a book on *nix. Learn the command line, get comfortable with vi, get comfortable editing config files and restarting/starting/stopping services. Once you are comfortable with one, you can switch to the other with little effort. The differences are more in the feel of the system. As you will probably hear from other posts.
You are just being an asshat. Linux works. So does everything else, really. My grandma uses Windows. I don't care. All she does is email, print some crap out and type up things.
I could easily set up her system with linux which could do what she wants. I may soon as it has recently started to slow down due to all the windows crap that get installed when she surfs around. But if she really just wants the same thing, I will try a little more to clean it out or just re-install. Not that big of a deal. She is 89 years old, for what that's worth.
To sit back and say that this would be anything other than a good thing is just ridiculous. Crawl back into whatever the fuck hole you crawled out of. Your obvious ignorance of the useability of a modern Gnu/Linux system is so glaring I can't really focus on anything else you are writing.