Government should stay out of peoples love-lives!
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marriage didn't start to 'be an issue' (or rather, -divorce- didn't start to be an issue) until the government took over all marriage licensing in order to protect its tax revenue.
before the 30's (i think the marriage act was passed during the depression..) marriage was something pretty much for two people to share, with whatever 'registered minister' they chose, for record-keeping.
but now, marriages have an impact on the governments tax revenues. this is the only -real- reason behind why the gov't is perpetually screwing with peoples relationships.. its got nothing to do with gay/anti-gay, that is just the media front to keep the argument unsolved.. and thus, the government perpetually ensnared in the issue.
if people, either way, just say "whatever, i don't give a fuck if you're gay-married or straight-married, just as long as you're not registered with your fascist dictatorship government", then the issue would go away.. its only because people are ignorant to the fact that this is *ONLY* about tax revenue, that they get all snarled up in the straw-man issues being promoted as part of an agenda of obfuscation.
repeal the laws which government -any- say whatsoever over marriage, and while your'e at it, get rid of your criminal income tax laws, and the U.S. might have a chance in the 21st Century.. right now, however, too many fake arguments are being proferred in order to keep the real fires burning while everyone is chasing embers...
In a more sober vein, there probably aren't many people here who know much about DragonFlyBSD or are interested in the low-level technologies that Matt's focused on. .
I've worked with Matt Dillon, I use a Mac (powerbooks rule!), and I'm very interested in DragonFly.. but only out of curiosity, mostly, right now.. I figure he needs at least another 6 months or so before it starts to get really interesting..
what i wish for in a distro is one that totally eschews the whole idea of having a 'package manager' for anything, and instead is a 100% Free/Open Source-friendly install.
Such that/usr/src contains all the unpacked/untarred/make config'ed trees for all binaries installed on the system, including the kernel, including the bintools, etc.
A *FULL SOURCE distro* that doesn't enforce its own package religion would be a wonderful thing indeed. I remember in the days of Yggdrasil, one could install the 'build directories' into a live running system as well, and those dirs would contain the actual build products for the running bins.
anyone know of such a distro, short of "Roll your own"?
My point is: DON'T GIVE YOUR LIFE TO A VIDEO GAME.
You are nothing more than a robot rat, a simple freakin' number, trapped in a cage made of pixels.
Video Game companies *WANT* you to be trapped in their world, forever playing.. its their profit, and *YOUR LOSS*. Yes, damn right, they *WANT YOU TO WASTE YOUR LIFE AWAY WITH THEIR PRODUCT*.
the internet was -never- free, nor -ever- safe from big brother. its pretty ludicrous that we're 'fighting for the Net', when in fact it was the 'net info apparat which gave Big Brother the leg-up it needed in the first place...
the big question is this.. who knows if NSA hasn't hacked our compilers with certain decoder-friendly higher-frequency 'signatures' which can be used to see what a computer is doing, remotely, from.. oh.. say.. geosynchronous orbit.. ?
every computer in existence is prime target for a 'highly sensitive orbiting equipment platform' or two (interferometry) thats been launched 'in the name of NSA^H^H^Hnational security' in the last 15 years or so..
now *that* is some tin-foil the EFF should be un-rolling, yo. seriously. its legit.
i mean, it is true that different linux audio solutions are rarely every truly friendly with each other, but i don't know if i'd brandn sonos as 'not linux friendly'.
.. even better because it runs Linux, works very well with your existing PC/network archives, and even gives "Apples Design Co." a run for their money or two..
.. in a nice little portable that runs at 2ghz or so..
there's still *PLENTY* of room in the G4, folks. 64-bit computing is fine and all, but you only need 64-bit if you need it, and very few people actually really do.
i love my current pbg4 setup (17"/2G RAM/100G HD/OSX+linux dualboot) and i have to say i'm extremely happy to have a 'workstation-class' laptop, finally, after 20 years. 2gigs of RAM, nice fancy graphics, y'know.. it wasn't so long ago that this was a 'SGI or Sun[Dec,Alpha*etc] -only' kind of spec.
a *loooooooooooooooot* of good software can still run just fine, on 32-bit CPU's like the G4 (Altivec is lovely, thanks!), with a lot of RAM, in a tight package like the pb's lovely flatness/completeness represents.
someone, please, show me a laptop thats as nice and comfy and 'lifestyle'-integrating as a powerbook, with a processor in it other than x86-blah, and i'll switch. but until then, there just isn't anything on the market as hacking-friendly as the pbg4's are..
and while i say "2gigs is still a lot, buckwheat" yes.. i've been saying 'x'-k is 'a lot' since 6k was a 'lot', so i think i'm qualified to have an opinion at least.. i've spent an awful lot of money on RAM in my lifetime, and i'm not still using all of it, darn it..
just, Apple, Mr. Jobs, please.. give us a dual-proc G4 powerbook in the next release, at least, same lovely form-factor, maybe better batteries, try to ignore the "always have more"-zealots, pay some attention to us 'just have refined goodity that is -not- x86'-dudes, like you always do:
my current computer is a powerbook, my next computer will probably be a powerbook, my last one was as well, so there you go...
[tho i'm definitely -not- an apple zealot! os9, ack-spit blech! pre-G4 hardware, raooulpH! spit!]
.. you know, that one thing Americans are terrible at, the rest of the world has no time for, and we all want more/less of depending on our economic means.
give rice farmer #23823829 a $100PC that'll teach him to read, write, manage his water and grain supplies, and you'll have a whole bunch of new industry happening in his neighborhood within a very short period of time..
it should come as no surprise that so-called 'educated middle-class people' couldn't figure out what the hell a foreign farmer might do with a $100 PC, but it sure irks me that so far, all I've seen is "run Office" or "will it be fast enough to play games?"..
d'uh. computers are far, far, far more productive than the average consumerican can even fathom, let alone realize..
the truth has been so badly mischaracterized to us, maybe something this crazy is not so crazy after all and it could be in the realm of possibility.
yeah. thats really the point. we've had the psycho-disorder american fascist dictatorship which everyone said "was just a nutjob conspiracy theory", so i say "bring on the aliens", baby..
of course, i wouldn't expect them to be happy with us, or peaceful. but i do expect us to kick their asses and eventually make peace.
and when that happens, you can be for damned sure i'm gonna save my moolah for a starbucks franchise on their planet, heh heh...
.. that their successful marketing campaign was so well done, that they were able to take the numbers from their sales systems and negotiate better terms with their suppliers.
really, apple is how you sell computers, when you're not doing it the county-fair-beigebox-hunt way..
looks like sky, ol' boy, has brought the boingo boots back to earthlink.
how weird it is to see him blathering on about wireless, duh. point a. but then, 'wireless in asia'... umm.. yeah, sky, the US is behind. point b. asia rocks the techno ass, dude.
i truly hope SK-earthlink has some decent manufacturing principles in its portfolio, anyway, and not just pretty-logo's screen-printed on things.
if you want to give americans a boost in the techno pants, give them their own, american-made-cheap, hardware... and put your formidable blowhard marketing skills behind it.
trust me, your economy needs it, wormy boy... this 'making squillions on service' game is for pants. you're getting trounced.
combine two of americas' grand passions into one, and make it a) illegal for cops not to be on film, and b) illegal for so-called 'media companies' not to participate in/carry these public cop feeds as part of their license of the spectrum...
oh wait, thats already happened, never mind. its not really a problem. amen.
It's not a surprise that they weren't able to do it.
WHERE DOES IT SAY THEY *WEREN'T ABLE TO DO IT*????
it doesn't. the goal is, end of 2005.
this 'story' is really a case of a reporter having had the story written for him before he even starts his word processor.. lets get some "BIG PLAYER" (IBM) and "FOMENT CONTROVERSY" by looking at their "OLD PR" and bringing it into the 'HEADLINES' again...
the news is: IBM has converted thousands of its desktops to Linux. it is still doing that.
well, what if all disk media were suddenly wiped out, what if? what if?
seriously though, thats the point of having a 'public, exposed, exchangeable' class of data, as well as 'capabilities'. the point is, your scenario is solved, by active use of capabilities to prevent this occurring. the 'user' simply ensures it, plain and simple, the choice is theirs: did they lock their data up in their private account, thoughts bound to the ether to be taken with them, or did they 'expose what they wanted to expose to whom they wanted to expose it', through the use of advanced operating systems/behavioural-enforcement methods as are being proposed.
speaking of which, and perhaps providing insight into the answer to your question, to curb the 'general habit of people' to packrat data away that they should be properly sharing (or assigning 'rights' to, whatever), such capabilities are enforced by the operating system.
it will be interesting to see some interface paradigms for the 'connected to living human', versus 'public, connected to citizen #200030203, deceased' scenario, anyway...
*sigh* "Computers of Tomorrow".. sometimes, you just can't stop thinking about them, eh...;)
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marriage didn't start to 'be an issue' (or rather, -divorce- didn't start to be an issue) until the government took over all marriage licensing in order to protect its tax revenue.
..) marriage was something pretty much for two people to share, with whatever 'registered minister' they chose, for record-keeping.
.. its got nothing to do with gay/anti-gay, that is just the media front to keep the argument unsolved .. and thus, the government perpetually ensnared in the issue.
.. its only because people are ignorant to the fact that this is *ONLY* about tax revenue, that they get all snarled up in the straw-man issues being promoted as part of an agenda of obfuscation.
.. right now, however, too many fake arguments are being proferred in order to keep the real fires burning while everyone is chasing embers ...
before the 30's (i think the marriage act was passed during the depression
but now, marriages have an impact on the governments tax revenues. this is the only -real- reason behind why the gov't is perpetually screwing with peoples relationships
if people, either way, just say "whatever, i don't give a fuck if you're gay-married or straight-married, just as long as you're not registered with your fascist dictatorship government", then the issue would go away
repeal the laws which government -any- say whatsoever over marriage, and while your'e at it, get rid of your criminal income tax laws, and the U.S. might have a chance in the 21st Century
Sigh, if this were being done for evil government/military(oh no, be afraid!) purposes why would they publish in nature!!?
wow, you have so much to learn about propaganda.
i suggest you get off your fat consumercian ass and read a book or two.
here's one you might want to start with...
hint: the nature magazine article is a shim.
In a more sober vein, there probably aren't many people here who know much about DragonFlyBSD or are interested in the low-level technologies that Matt's focused on. .
.. but only out of curiosity, mostly, right now .. I figure he needs at least another 6 months or so before it starts to get really interesting ..
I've worked with Matt Dillon, I use a Mac (powerbooks rule!), and I'm very interested in DragonFly
.. it may just be for his own personal use .. he may not release it to the wild, under any terms ..
or, to put it your way "who cares if you have herpes if you're a wanker, anyway?"
I'm sure they could probably use it somehow ...
Slackware comes with full source, no bogus package religion to cower in front of, source for bins is on the disk?
what i wish for in a distro is one that totally eschews the whole idea of having a 'package manager' for anything, and instead is a 100% Free/Open Source-friendly install.
/usr/src contains all the unpacked/untarred/make config'ed trees for all binaries installed on the system, including the kernel, including the bintools, etc.
Such that
A *FULL SOURCE distro* that doesn't enforce its own package religion would be a wonderful thing indeed. I remember in the days of Yggdrasil, one could install the 'build directories' into a live running system as well, and those dirs would contain the actual build products for the running bins.
anyone know of such a distro, short of "Roll your own"?
.. i've looked everywhere, and that LiveCD has disappeared from the mirrors ..
My point is: DON'T GIVE YOUR LIFE TO A VIDEO GAME.
You are nothing more than a robot rat, a simple freakin' number, trapped in a cage made of pixels.
Video Game companies *WANT* you to be trapped in their world, forever playing.. its their profit, and *YOUR LOSS*. Yes, damn right, they *WANT YOU TO WASTE YOUR LIFE AWAY WITH THEIR PRODUCT*.
the internet was -never- free, nor -ever- safe from big brother. its pretty ludicrous that we're 'fighting for the Net', when in fact it was the 'net info apparat which gave Big Brother the leg-up it needed in the first place
the big question is this
every computer in existence is prime target for a 'highly sensitive orbiting equipment platform' or two (interferometry) thats been launched 'in the name of NSA^H^H^Hnational security' in the last 15 years or so
now *that* is some tin-foil the EFF should be un-rolling, yo. seriously. its legit.
.. i just have to say, i can't believe its come to this. online protests, because of 'balance issues'?
...
..
what the hell people. 'rights to protest'? ITS A GAME FOR FREAKS SAKE!!! YOU PEOPLE SHOULD BE LIVING LIVES, NOT 'PROTESTING' OVER VIDEO GAMES!!
"oh no, we have a right, everyone has a right, as consumers, to 'enjoy' themselves..." its a trap, i say, a TOTAL WASTE OF YOUR TIME!
the fat lazy game-addicted people are trapped worse than the cows they eat, coz nobody gonna pay for they're fatty corpse when they're gone
sheesh, what a waste of good life. and i say that, lovingly, as an old War2 hack
i mean, it is true that different linux audio solutions are rarely every truly friendly with each other, but i don't know if i'd brandn sonos as 'not linux friendly'.
thats what its running, isn't it?
.. even better because it runs Linux, works very well with your existing PC/network archives, and even gives "Apples Design Co." a run for their money or two ..
fair point about the x86 register usage, but did you know that the OSX ABI doesn't use all the PPC's registers properly either?
.. Motorola 68k..
thats right kids, we're still using an ABI thats 'register compatible' with Nextstep, which means
.. in a nice little portable that runs at 2ghz or so ..
.. it wasn't so long ago that this was a 'SGI or Sun[Dec,Alpha*etc] -only' kind of spec.
..
.. i've been saying 'x'-k is 'a lot' since 6k was a 'lot', so i think i'm qualified to have an opinion at least.. i've spent an awful lot of money on RAM in my lifetime, and i'm not still using all of it, darn it ..
.. give us a dual-proc G4 powerbook in the next release, at least, same lovely form-factor, maybe better batteries, try to ignore the "always have more"-zealots, pay some attention to us 'just have refined goodity that is -not- x86'-dudes, like you always do:
...
there's still *PLENTY* of room in the G4, folks. 64-bit computing is fine and all, but you only need 64-bit if you need it, and very few people actually really do.
i love my current pbg4 setup (17"/2G RAM/100G HD/OSX+linux dualboot) and i have to say i'm extremely happy to have a 'workstation-class' laptop, finally, after 20 years. 2gigs of RAM, nice fancy graphics, y'know
a *loooooooooooooooot* of good software can still run just fine, on 32-bit CPU's like the G4 (Altivec is lovely, thanks!), with a lot of RAM, in a tight package like the pb's lovely flatness/completeness represents.
someone, please, show me a laptop thats as nice and comfy and 'lifestyle'-integrating as a powerbook, with a processor in it other than x86-blah, and i'll switch. but until then, there just isn't anything on the market as hacking-friendly as the pbg4's are
and while i say "2gigs is still a lot, buckwheat" yes
just, Apple, Mr. Jobs, please
my current computer is a powerbook, my next computer will probably be a powerbook, my last one was as well, so there you go
[tho i'm definitely -not- an apple zealot! os9, ack-spit blech! pre-G4 hardware, raooulpH! spit!]
give rice farmer #23823829 a $100PC that'll teach him to read, write, manage his water and grain supplies, and you'll have a whole bunch of new industry happening in his neighborhood within a very short period of time
it should come as no surprise that so-called 'educated middle-class people' couldn't figure out what the hell a foreign farmer might do with a $100 PC, but it sure irks me that so far, all I've seen is "run Office" or "will it be fast enough to play games?"
d'uh. computers are far, far, far more productive than the average consumerican can even fathom, let alone realize
Pretty conceited of you to extend the adjunct on cynicism through evaluative assessment of his criticism ..
the truth has been so badly mischaracterized to us, maybe something this crazy is not so crazy after all and it could be in the realm of possibility.
...
yeah. thats really the point. we've had the psycho-disorder american fascist dictatorship which everyone said "was just a nutjob conspiracy theory", so i say "bring on the aliens", baby..
of course, i wouldn't expect them to be happy with us, or peaceful. but i do expect us to kick their asses and eventually make peace.
and when that happens, you can be for damned sure i'm gonna save my moolah for a starbucks franchise on their planet, heh heh
.. more cheesy 80's cyberjunk predictions come to fruition.
... Space Aliens!!!
cars, with computer viruses. man.
wait, i know whats next, don't tell me, don't tell me
.. that their successful marketing campaign was so well done, that they were able to take the numbers from their sales systems and negotiate better terms with their suppliers.
..
really, apple is how you sell computers, when you're not doing it the county-fair-beigebox-hunt way
looks like sky, ol' boy, has brought the boingo boots back to earthlink.
how weird it is to see him blathering on about wireless, duh. point a. but then, 'wireless in asia'... umm.. yeah, sky, the US is behind. point b. asia rocks the techno ass, dude.
i truly hope SK-earthlink has some decent manufacturing principles in its portfolio, anyway, and not just pretty-logo's screen-printed on things.
if you want to give americans a boost in the techno pants, give them their own, american-made-cheap, hardware
trust me, your economy needs it, wormy boy
combine two of americas' grand passions into one, and make it a) illegal for cops not to be on film, and b) illegal for so-called 'media companies' not to participate in/carry these public cop feeds as part of their license of the spectrum
oh wait, thats already happened, never mind. its not really a problem. amen.
It's not a surprise that they weren't able to do it.
.. lets get some "BIG PLAYER" (IBM) and "FOMENT CONTROVERSY" by looking at their "OLD PR" and bringing it into the 'HEADLINES' again ...
WHERE DOES IT SAY THEY *WEREN'T ABLE TO DO IT*????
it doesn't. the goal is, end of 2005.
this 'story' is really a case of a reporter having had the story written for him before he even starts his word processor
the news is: IBM has converted thousands of its desktops to Linux. it is still doing that.
well, what if all disk media were suddenly wiped out, what if? what if?
...
.. sometimes, you just can't stop thinking about them, eh ... ;)
seriously though, thats the point of having a 'public, exposed, exchangeable' class of data, as well as 'capabilities'. the point is, your scenario is solved, by active use of capabilities to prevent this occurring. the 'user' simply ensures it, plain and simple, the choice is theirs: did they lock their data up in their private account, thoughts bound to the ether to be taken with them, or did they 'expose what they wanted to expose to whom they wanted to expose it', through the use of advanced operating systems/behavioural-enforcement methods as are being proposed.
speaking of which, and perhaps providing insight into the answer to your question, to curb the 'general habit of people' to packrat data away that they should be properly sharing (or assigning 'rights' to, whatever), such capabilities are enforced by the operating system.
it will be interesting to see some interface paradigms for the 'connected to living human', versus 'public, connected to citizen #200030203, deceased' scenario, anyway
*sigh* "Computers of Tomorrow"
Stand back fools and don't quote me. You'd better believe I'll protect my rights!
Not on my derivative works, you won't!!