Here is the all-in-one post to sum up all the others:
1) Bush is evil
2) Microsoft is evil
3) Gore would have been just as evil
4) Clinton was/was not evil
5) Bush 1 was evil
6) Ashcroft is evil
7) Bill Gates is truly absolutely evil
8) Corporations are evil
9) Government is evil
10) The American People are Evil [tm]
11) We at Slashdot are somehow pro-government anti-liberty libertarians, more or less.
Don't you mean the Cuban War for Independence [historyofcuba.com]? Or do ya think the English call it the "Revolutionary War" too?;-)
The whole "Cuban War for Independence" was a fiasco for....the Filipinos. We helped Cuba, all moralistic and all, throw off the Spanish yoke. The Filipinos thought, "now's our chance to throw off the yoke, too!" We suppressed their independence movement, to the tune of 200,000 dead Filipinos. Our real goal was commercial agitation for opening the markets to China--we had hit the western frontier limit, and people were afraid that without new expanding markets, the US economy would flatten and stagnate. And a key element in the China market was the availability of coaling stations for sailing ships. The Philippines were unfortunately an optimal location. So was Hawaii, whose monarchy we subverted and overthrew.
Please explain how is is guilty of doing work in another country where this activity isn't illegal? When did the US's jurisdiction become international.
It really started in 1898, with the Spanish-American war, when we began acting as the world's Most Righteous, Holy, and Benevolent Policeman.
the most basic part of this is trying to prosecute someone for doing something that was legal in his own country.
The USA does not own or run Russia. So why are we trying to enforce our laws there?
This would logically lead to the question: so why did we bomb Yugoslavia, exactly?
People turn to internet radio to avoid the homogeneous crap that they're stuck with from "old school" radio stations. I don't want to have to choose between the latest mass-produced alternative and pop crap, I want to be able to hear, say, reggae, or ska, or funk, or whatever other type of music, out of the billions out there, that I can't hear on the rregular radio because it has become so streamlined that it must appeal to the lowest common denominator.
People tend to forget that in the USA, the government (aka FCC) holds a monopoly on radio and TV broadcasting. You pay to enter the privileged club of people who can broadcast. So, to recoup your "investment", you must suck up to the advertisers, and funk & ska & reggae just ain't gonna pull the advertisers' interest. You just don't see lots of stations with a wide variety of formats popping up. It's a highly-controlled environment.
I remember a dorm radio station at college--they just set up a station in one of the rooms, limited to 100 yards radius or so (FCC regs), and kept it going round-the-clock. They played whatever CDs they could get a hold of--begged, borrowed, donated, whatever.
The Roman Empire was much larger and powerful. It lasted a lot longer than the US, had more land, and more of the worlds population at that time. If you are talking about sheer power over their enemies, the Roman and British empire both had way more power. For hundreds of years the British and Roman armies/navies remained undefeated. The US cannot claim to that.
Not yet. But starting with bold moves in Virginia, Cuba, the Phillipines, Grenada, Haiti, Somalia, and Yugoslavia, we are well on our way! Only Iraq stands before us!! Then we will crush you!!! Then, we will conquer the world for your own good, and make smoking ILLEGAL! Bwahahahahah!!
I've had the same thing happen. When I was lucky enough to connect (I'd re-dial about 15 times to connect), it'd be, at best, at 14400 bps. I called the ISP about it--they could connect nicely from their service center. I e-mailed Qwest and they replied that it would cost $$ to do a line check. I _called_ Qwest, and they said they'd check something and call me back "tomorrow". They never called me back, but two days later, everything was fine!
I like freedom too, but this is a bit of a stretch. People have rights, including their own freedom. Software does not have its own freedom, it is a tool used by people. Controlling software is like controlling your own car or your own bank account. It won't do anything by itself. It needs someone to use it. This is not even in the same conversation as slavery!
However, liberty is an inalienable right, meaning you can't legitimately sell yourself into slavery, because the purchaser is in violation of human rights, so it's a bogus transaction.
The question: are there inalienable rights in the software world? Do you bind yourself somehow with someone else's license in a way that violates inalienable rights? Even if you do it willingly, it's illegitimate, because the binder is in violation.
The 16-ton weight would be cool, too, except that it's so big, it'll flatten your entire cube (including you).
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The knowledge that a vast array of EuroCrats is looking out for me, the poor lowly consumer, is conforting.
You don't realize that in the USA, the losers and witless and clueless tend to get the jobs in the government. Anyone who is bright and talented will get stifled.
Finally, capitalists are always happy to make consumers happy--that's how they make money. The ones who don't usually go bankrupt (if they don't have a government-sponsored monopoly). The consumer's happiness is their goal. If the consumer is a moron and thinks buying a pack of cigarettes will make him happy, well that's his own problem.
Here's an article from The Economist about Asian Pirates--the real kinds. I don't see any mention of software in the article, though. They seem to be going after Big Iron.
Think about the timing: starting in the late 60's, courtesy in young people in the US started going downhill, and it's continued to decline since, spreading into older age groups. What could have caused it?
Perhaps the idea that "we mustn't be hypocrites, be yourself, let it all hang out" which means you dump all manners overboard. Good manners aren't hypocrisy... Also, self-control was tossed out. The whole idea of just "express yourself" is a joke--Klebold and Harris were just "expressing themselves". What we need is some serious self-control and manners.
Without the fundamental moral background of the Ten Commandments (not the ten suggestions), the Golden Rule, and the Sermon on the Mount, I think the question is "why would we expect anything but total self-centered behavior"?
One wonders what would have happened if Harris and Klebold had seen "You shall not kill" a few times at school? Not saying we should do it (I don't even have the ten commandments on the wall at home), but it's just a thought...
Seems like we in the US are looking for a social system that makes everything good, everything is done right, but we don't have to be good ourselves. No society survives without designating and applying some standards. Our standard seems to be "anything goes" and we are suprised when people really go for it.
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The article is kinda interesting, it talks about how New Mexico's attorney general is all on Microsoft's side now against the remaining states. It's amazing that after years of abusing its power, Microsoft is just gonna walk over this
New Mexico throwing in the towel is really nothing different than from what all the states do in the face of Central State Power all the time: sell out.
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Oh yea forgot to say that you NEED management buy in. That is very key to a successful XP shop. Also when you set up time to work with your partner you need to treat it like a meeting and put your phone on DND and don't read any email that comes in and not hopping over to/. to read the latest. It is very surprising on how much coding you get done.
If I can't hop over to/. to read the latest, I'll never get _anything_ done. I would get distracted, and shaky.
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in the USA is Astounding and Colossal. As evidenced by such statements: "Just how should one charge for information, especially when the worth of such information is subjective? " Well, hello, there is no central organization that sets some mythical objective "worth" of anything (trying to do that will mis-price and mis-produce everything, as communist economies have proven). The free market does that. What individuals are willing to pay for something is what something is worth--it doesn't matter how much time and energy and expertise you've pumped into the product. If no one wants it, it's worthless on the market. And if nobody is willing to pay for Slashdot, sorry CmdrTaco, you're site just isn't _worth_ a whole lot. Dare you find out?
So all those Beanie Babies you bought, thinking that they'll be worth $25K in 20 years, because the _Ty Beanie Baby Collector's Book_ said so, well you got suckered. In 20 years, I think many people will flood the market with 20-year old stuffed toys, making them essentially worthless. Just try to take them to the Antique Road Show...
The best books I've read on Economics are Ludwig von Mises' _Human Action_ and Murray Rothbard's _Man, Economy, and State_. Economics is not a science (sorry all you economists trying to make it "scientific") with a bunch of equations, it's the study of basic human actions (choices, decisions).
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It depends on how the State defines "wrong". In the US, it is/was pretty liberal. With an all-powerful, all-seeing state, the definition of "wrong" gets pretty tight (ref. _1984_, USSR, any dictatorship). Even thinking the wrong things can get you into trouble. Wait, that sounds like the US...
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In case you're not familiar with the feature, Opera has gesture support. For instance, to reload a document, just hold down the right mouse button, and move the mouse up then down. Or, to go back a page, hold down the right mouse button and click the left mouse button ("forward" is just the reverse: hold down the left mouse button and click the right mouse button).
Is there a bug in Bugzilla for reading my mind? Because I think I'd like Mozilla to read my mind about what I want to do.
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Here is the all-in-one post to sum up all the others:
1) Bush is evil
2) Microsoft is evil
3) Gore would have been just as evil
4) Clinton was/was not evil
5) Bush 1 was evil
6) Ashcroft is evil
7) Bill Gates is truly absolutely evil
8) Corporations are evil
9) Government is evil
10) The American People are Evil [tm]
11) We at Slashdot are somehow pro-government anti-liberty libertarians, more or less.
Bob is noticeable by his absence.
The key is to format the code so it looks like an ASCII figure of a bug. The viewer, if he is hip, will appreciate the irony.
The whole "Cuban War for Independence" was a fiasco for....the Filipinos. We helped Cuba, all moralistic and all, throw off the Spanish yoke. The Filipinos thought, "now's our chance to throw off the yoke, too!" We suppressed their independence movement, to the tune of 200,000 dead Filipinos. Our real goal was commercial agitation for opening the markets to China--we had hit the western frontier limit, and people were afraid that without new expanding markets, the US economy would flatten and stagnate. And a key element in the China market was the availability of coaling stations for sailing ships. The Philippines were unfortunately an optimal location. So was Hawaii, whose monarchy we subverted and overthrew.
It really started in 1898, with the Spanish-American war, when we began acting as the world's Most Righteous, Holy, and Benevolent Policeman.
The USA does not own or run Russia. So why are we trying to enforce our laws there?
This would logically lead to the question: so why did we bomb Yugoslavia, exactly?
People tend to forget that in the USA, the government (aka FCC) holds a monopoly on radio and TV broadcasting. You pay to enter the privileged club of people who can broadcast. So, to recoup your "investment", you must suck up to the advertisers, and funk & ska & reggae just ain't gonna pull the advertisers' interest. You just don't see lots of stations with a wide variety of formats popping up. It's a highly-controlled environment.
I remember a dorm radio station at college--they just set up a station in one of the rooms, limited to 100 yards radius or so (FCC regs), and kept it going round-the-clock. They played whatever CDs they could get a hold of--begged, borrowed, donated, whatever.
Not yet. But starting with bold moves in Virginia, Cuba, the Phillipines, Grenada, Haiti, Somalia, and Yugoslavia, we are well on our way! Only Iraq stands before us!! Then we will crush you!!! Then, we will conquer the world for your own good, and make smoking ILLEGAL! Bwahahahahah!!
Only for legal advice.
I am not a lawyer, but I play one on Slashdot...
Slim Pickens with an absolute certainty.
We'll see if they purge Dennis Ritchie's complier/login backdoor.
I've had the same thing happen. When I was lucky enough to connect (I'd re-dial about 15 times to connect), it'd be, at best, at 14400 bps. I called the ISP about it--they could connect nicely from their service center. I e-mailed Qwest and they replied that it would cost $$ to do a line check. I _called_ Qwest, and they said they'd check something and call me back "tomorrow". They never called me back, but two days later, everything was fine!
However, liberty is an inalienable right, meaning you can't legitimately sell yourself into slavery, because the purchaser is in violation of human rights, so it's a bogus transaction.
The question: are there inalienable rights in the software world? Do you bind yourself somehow with someone else's license in a way that violates inalienable rights? Even if you do it willingly, it's illegitimate, because the binder is in violation.
The 16-ton weight would be cool, too, except that it's so big, it'll flatten your entire cube (including you).
You don't realize that in the USA, the losers and witless and clueless tend to get the jobs in the government. Anyone who is bright and talented will get stifled.
Finally, capitalists are always happy to make consumers happy--that's how they make money. The ones who don't usually go bankrupt (if they don't have a government-sponsored monopoly). The consumer's happiness is their goal. If the consumer is a moron and thinks buying a pack of cigarettes will make him happy, well that's his own problem.
Here.
So are you saying that Russia's corrupt legal system keeps them down, and our corrupt legal system keeps us up? Must be that Protestant work ethic!
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Thanks for clearing that up for me. I no longer wonder.
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Perhaps the idea that "we mustn't be hypocrites, be yourself, let it all hang out" which means you dump all manners overboard. Good manners aren't hypocrisy... Also, self-control was tossed out. The whole idea of just "express yourself" is a joke--Klebold and Harris were just "expressing themselves". What we need is some serious self-control and manners.
Without the fundamental moral background of the Ten Commandments (not the ten suggestions), the Golden Rule, and the Sermon on the Mount, I think the question is "why would we expect anything but total self-centered behavior"?
One wonders what would have happened if Harris and Klebold had seen "You shall not kill" a few times at school? Not saying we should do it (I don't even have the ten commandments on the wall at home), but it's just a thought...
Seems like we in the US are looking for a social system that makes everything good, everything is done right, but we don't have to be good ourselves. No society survives without designating and applying some standards. Our standard seems to be "anything goes" and we are suprised when people really go for it.
--
New Mexico throwing in the towel is really nothing different than from what all the states do in the face of Central State Power all the time: sell out.
--
If I can't hop over to /. to read the latest, I'll never get _anything_ done. I would get distracted, and shaky.
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So all those Beanie Babies you bought, thinking that they'll be worth $25K in 20 years, because the _Ty Beanie Baby Collector's Book_ said so, well you got suckered. In 20 years, I think many people will flood the market with 20-year old stuffed toys, making them essentially worthless. Just try to take them to the Antique Road Show...
The best books I've read on Economics are Ludwig von Mises' _Human Action_ and Murray Rothbard's _Man, Economy, and State_. Economics is not a science (sorry all you economists trying to make it "scientific") with a bunch of equations, it's the study of basic human actions (choices, decisions).
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It depends on how the State defines "wrong". In the US, it is/was pretty liberal. With an all-powerful, all-seeing state, the definition of "wrong" gets pretty tight (ref. _1984_, USSR, any dictatorship). Even thinking the wrong things can get you into trouble. Wait, that sounds like the US...
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Is there a bug in Bugzilla for reading my mind? Because I think I'd like Mozilla to read my mind about what I want to do.
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