People in the Western world are conditioned to believe that with a little applied brain power, they can be anything they want.
I was told in school, "If you can dream it, you can do it." So right now, I'm getting ready to go down to Los Angeles Lakers training camp, and put a schoolin' on Shaq and Kobe. PJ will bring me on with a multi-million dollar contract, and the Laker girls will look at me dreamily.
Ever been to an amusement park? Like Six Flags? And remember the "car rides"? The ones where you get in the car, and it just goes around a track, and there is a rail in the middle to make sure you go a certain way? And the kids love it, but the adults, who know what real driving is, only enjoy it because their kids are having a good time.
Well, being an average computer user in a Microsoft world is like driving one of those "cars".
Are you people never satisfied? You complain about how narrow minded people are, and when they change thier stance so that it aligns with yours, you complain that they change their stance. I can understand the distrust. However, blasting people that join your side doesn't do much to help your cause
Absolutely. He is a useful idiot, but as long as he's our useful idiot, he's, well, useful.
From the Wired Article: Froomkin was talking about additional eavesdropping and surveillance powers requested by the Bush administration, which the Senate and the House overwhelmingly voted for last week. That bill is called the USA Act.
Dang, you think they should have named it something a little less Orwellian, such as the "I Love America!" act? Or maybe the "Radical Defense of Liberty Act"?
And didn't each and every one of the hijackers present valid ID?
The One Sure Thing is that terrorists and many other criminals will have all their papers in order. Disorganized people like me will be in trouble. So it's about controlling and tracking people, not preventing anything.
This whole bombing thing has exposed many myths, if you are willing to look. For example: "the Department of Defense is all about Defending America." Well, folks, it _isn't_, because we had to create a Department of Homeland Defense. Apparently, homeland defense doesn't fall in the jurisdiction of the DoD. Incidentally, it used to be called the War Department.
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Yes, I think it is good that those organizations that people do not choose to support with their wallets are weeded out. If they didn't ask for money in the first place and financial pressures catch up, perhaps they should have planned. If they plan but nobody wants what they are selling, they shouldn't be around anyway
Maybe they could link to some p0rn sites and get an NEA grant.
You're surprised that Linus doesn't care [google.com] about something??
I laughed when I realized that I generally don't care to read Linus interviews, because they're just not all that compelling reads. That's why I didn't know. And you know what? I really don't care.
The thing is that there is an incredible difference between Torvalds and Stallman. Torvalds told us he isn't a big thinker. Stallman is. Insert Stallman in the above conversation he would definitely give the big thinkers something to argue about.
But Stallman would have been a more interesting interview (although he probably wouldn't say anything most of us hadn't already heard). So, if you're OSNews, and you do an interview, who do you pick? LT: "I don't really care; I don't know; I don't look". RMS: Passion and fire about GPL and GNU and liberty and source code and on and on. OSNews picked Linus, a rather prosaic interview. Not that that's bad, though. I already know what rms would have said, anyway. What Linus said was new to me.
Now that has GOT to hurt. The guy that tons of geeks look up to (rightly or wrongly), has just said that he doesn't really give a rats ass about what one of the Big Names keeps going on about.... Definately not what anyone in a philosophical debate wants to hear - people loving your idea is great, people loathing your idea is still something you can work with, but disregard? Ouch
That's because he can't be bothered with the GNU/Linux vs. Linux war. He's preoccupied with a Vi vs. Emacs war with a Transmeta colleague right now.
I sincerely and fulsomely appreciate your threat to try to influence my vote. Show me the money. I assure you I will do everything in my power to curry favor with corporate interests while appearing to please you. I hope to God that you will vote for me, if for no other reason than I am the incumbent. Thank you very much.
Dang, FatRatBastard, you are being downright subsersive by advocating the free market! I mean, don't we all know that central planning and socialism are the wave of the future? And that companies like Microsoft prove that the free market doesn't always work? And that some elite government bureaucrat, whose favorite color is gray, should reign in the folly of those stupid unwashed mass of users?
After you extract these files, you then find that each of these XML documents contains so much info that it makes them nearly impossible to be read by humans! (No VI or EMACS, sorry)
You must be a Vi luser, because Emacs can handle _anthing_! Whoops, wrong thread, I'm looking for the Vi vs. Emacs flamefest, can anyone help me out?
So, "the war on some drugs" is partially responsible for "the war on some terrorism and some supporters of terrorism". Evidently the US understands irony better than anyone else
As I said in my first post about it:
"It's all part of Anarcho-tyranny. This is the method of governance by which the State (everyone bow down now!) allows a certain amount of mayhem to go on, cracks down in general on liberty, and in the end the State (bow down!) has more power and more control, but the mayhem just keeps on."
Essentially, in some ares, there is anarchy (say, inner cities), aka "mayhem".
So closing down all the privacy sites does nothing to hinder the Bad Guys(TM), it just bugs the ordinary guy.
So what else is new? It's all part of Anarcho-tyranny. This is the method of governance by which the State (everyone bow down now!) allows a certain amount of mayhem to go on, cracks down in general on liberty, and in the end the State (bow down!) has more power and more control, but the mayhem just keeps on. Repeat after me: "war on drugs".
My money says it's all because of the September 11 attacks. From being a "cool" thing, companies offering anonymity services seem to be less cool in the eyes of the unwashed masses.
Face it, it's a seething cauldron of terrorist plotting! Well, probably is. OK, could be. Make that: probably isn't but is a convenient devil whom we can slay in the name of (holy cause of the day).
It's just a shame he didn't change his name to Micro Soft.
Speaking of Microsoft, there should be a class action lawsuit by everyone named "Bob" against Microsoft, for trying to appropriate the name, and throw in a defamation suit, too.
Has there been ANY decision that the Bush administration has made that hasn't come down on that corporate side of things? Individual rights and the environment are not only taking a back seat, but they're back there in the trunk, locked up tight. The next 3 years are going to seem like a really long time, people...
Folks, time to stop thinking: Republicans = Pro Business, and Democrats = Pro Government, and start thinking: Those in Power = Global Multinational Corporatism. It's going on now, it was going on during Clinton, etc.
Fundamental to the American philosophy is that the United States was born from the chaos of feudal, tyrannical European governments. That governments (by nature) are predisposed to tyranny and that we must be ever vigilant to insure our Great Experiment never falls to it
In an Orwellian twist, "Great Experiment" is what we used to call "Massive Government".
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I was told in school, "If you can dream it, you can do it." So right now, I'm getting ready to go down to Los Angeles Lakers training camp, and put a schoolin' on Shaq and Kobe. PJ will bring me on with a multi-million dollar contract, and the Laker girls will look at me dreamily.
Instead of arguing and whining and picking during an association meeting, we could just duke it out on the network, in Quake Arena or something.
Ever been to an amusement park? Like Six Flags? And remember the "car rides"? The ones where you get in the car, and it just goes around a track, and there is a rail in the middle to make sure you go a certain way? And the kids love it, but the adults, who know what real driving is, only enjoy it because their kids are having a good time.
Well, being an average computer user in a Microsoft world is like driving one of those "cars".
Absolutely. He is a useful idiot, but as long as he's our useful idiot, he's, well, useful.
Oh, so that's where rms got that...
Dang, you think they should have named it something a little less Orwellian, such as the "I Love America!" act? Or maybe the "Radical Defense of Liberty Act"?
No they don't. I don't face the challenge of building a large War Chest for the Re-Election.
Maybe it converts the userid/pwd to Word document format.
The One Sure Thing is that terrorists and many other criminals will have all their papers in order. Disorganized people like me will be in trouble. So it's about controlling and tracking people, not preventing anything.
This whole bombing thing has exposed many myths, if you are willing to look. For example: "the Department of Defense is all about Defending America." Well, folks, it _isn't_, because we had to create a Department of Homeland Defense. Apparently, homeland defense doesn't fall in the jurisdiction of the DoD. Incidentally, it used to be called the War Department.
Maybe they could link to some p0rn sites and get an NEA grant.
I laughed when I realized that I generally don't care to read Linus interviews, because they're just not all that compelling reads. That's why I didn't know. And you know what? I really don't care.
The thing is that there is an incredible difference between Torvalds and Stallman. Torvalds told us he isn't a big thinker. Stallman is. Insert Stallman in the above conversation he would definitely give the big thinkers something to argue about.
But Stallman would have been a more interesting interview (although he probably wouldn't say anything most of us hadn't already heard). So, if you're OSNews, and you do an interview, who do you pick? LT: "I don't really care; I don't know; I don't look". RMS: Passion and fire about GPL and GNU and liberty and source code and on and on. OSNews picked Linus, a rather prosaic interview. Not that that's bad, though. I already know what rms would have said, anyway. What Linus said was new to me.
Now that has GOT to hurt. The guy that tons of geeks look up to (rightly or wrongly), has just said that he doesn't really give a rats ass about what one of the Big Names keeps going on about.... Definately not what anyone in a philosophical debate wants to hear - people loving your idea is great, people loathing your idea is still something you can work with, but disregard? Ouch
That's because he can't be bothered with the GNU/Linux vs. Linux war. He's preoccupied with a Vi vs. Emacs war with a Transmeta colleague right now.
Senator Bond Mind-read:
Dear My Name,
I sincerely and fulsomely appreciate your threat to try to influence my vote. Show me the money. I assure you I will do everything in my power to curry favor with corporate interests while appearing to please you. I hope to God that you will vote for me, if for no other reason than I am the incumbent. Thank you very much.
Every Company Rule #2 see Rule 1
These rules are OK, but you forgot #3:
Leverage the coercive power of government to impede/obstruct competitors and enforce your own success.
Dang, FatRatBastard, you are being downright subsersive by advocating the free market! I mean, don't we all know that central planning and socialism are the wave of the future? And that companies like Microsoft prove that the free market doesn't always work? And that some elite government bureaucrat, whose favorite color is gray, should reign in the folly of those stupid unwashed mass of users?
Oceania == UK. Heh, I guess the Brits thought _1984_ was a good idea, not a dystopia.
Don't forget to play the lottery, you proles!
You must be a Vi luser, because Emacs can handle _anthing_! Whoops, wrong thread, I'm looking for the Vi vs. Emacs flamefest, can anyone help me out?
As I said in my first post about it:
"It's all part of Anarcho-tyranny. This is the method of governance by which the State (everyone bow down now!) allows a certain amount of mayhem to go on, cracks down in general on liberty, and in the end the State (bow down!) has more power and more control, but the mayhem just keeps on."
Essentially, in some ares, there is anarchy (say, inner cities), aka "mayhem".
So what else is new? It's all part of Anarcho-tyranny. This is the method of governance by which the State (everyone bow down now!) allows a certain amount of mayhem to go on, cracks down in general on liberty, and in the end the State (bow down!) has more power and more control, but the mayhem just keeps on. Repeat after me: "war on drugs".
Face it, it's a seething cauldron of terrorist plotting! Well, probably is. OK, could be. Make that: probably isn't but is a convenient devil whom we can slay in the name of (holy cause of the day).
Speaking of Microsoft, there should be a class action lawsuit by everyone named "Bob" against Microsoft, for trying to appropriate the name, and throw in a defamation suit, too.
Folks, time to stop thinking: Republicans = Pro Business, and Democrats = Pro Government, and start thinking: Those in Power = Global Multinational Corporatism. It's going on now, it was going on during Clinton, etc.
No, we'll hang him, shoot him, draw and quarter him, torture him to death, then give him a fair trial, then we'll execute him by slow electrocution.
In an Orwellian twist, "Great Experiment" is what we used to call "Massive Government".