it is to expensive. When you convert Australian dollars to US dollars it is just too much to justify.
Goodness knows how expensive it must be for Brazillan's or Mexicans or Pakistanis! I wonder how much there readership fell when they went subscription? You can't sell ads if you aint got enough readers...
I've missed the great political articles on Salon for a long time now. But the music died when the $$$ subscription started.
So we really need to have a hyper-hyper-technological fighter plane, to replace the super-hyper-technological fight plane in order to bomb a mud brick house and a couple of oxen in the third world.
...or maybe we just need new toys to play with and to pump some money into the military-industrial complex...
ofcourse the son whose father and mother were killed when our hyper-hyper-technological plane fired a missile from 100km away, will be rather upset and might well want to wreak revenge in a few years... oh, sorry I'll try not think logically.
USA USA USA USA USA... mmmm, mindless patriotism *drool*
The Psuedo-Libertarianism described is better labelled as "Anarcho-Capitalism". They wish to keep the institution of private property while dispensing with the state. Of course this is a wildly unstable proposition as the State is needed to protect the private ownership of property (unless you consider the corporate armies of dystopian sci fi realistic).
True Libertarianism or Anarchism dispenses with both Private Property and the State.
In the words of Mikhail Bakunin:
"... freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice... Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality"
Thus both Capitalist and Communist/Fascist systems fail in the eyes of a true Libertarians.
More realistic Libertarians/Anarchists such as Chomsky prefer the thesis that that hierarchical authority must be justified and that when institutions of authority cammpt nejustified, they should be dismantled.
This is not a blanket rejection of all institutions and authority, but certainly demands more than George W's bullshit: "you are either with us or against us!"
Aircraft have to beat aerodynamic drag also, which I guess they do by flying where the air is thinner. But aircraft also generate extra drag with their wings for lift. A mag lev train wouldn't have this added drag. So a little jet engine should power it along nicely.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved George W Bush"
and imagine the bandwidth freed up during the Million-Geek-March.
A million geeks, all acting like a great big magnet for chicks. They don't stand a chance. They'll be overcome and have to strip off and start dancing in the streets!:)
But seriously: good idea. I've read enough posts about the relative merits of email, petitions, faxing, letters, hand writen letters, letters with cheques. Nothing says it quite like getting off your butt and marching on the Capitol building!
Time to stand up and be counted.
...and if they don't listen the we raze it to the ground!
I can see all those kids at home watching the Grammies, and then this old codger tells them they can download 6000 songs for free! Talk about planting a thought in their heads!
They'll be straight off to bug Dad for an internet connection!
It was a well known fact that Dubya was setting huge records for the amount of campaign donations he was sending. It was bandied about as if it was a good thing that he was backed by so much money! Yet he still got elected (well actually he didn't, but got close enough to slide into office).
Now if the American public are so sick of money politics? Why did they vote for him? He was not an outstanding candidate, at times he struggles with the English language.
Either American's must like money politics, or they are fooled by the glossy ads and B.S. sound bites?
Or perhaps the 50%+ who don't vote do so for a reason?
Either way I don't have much faith in the system changing from within.
I used to LOVE Salon's political coverage. But I simply can't afford their subscription. It is ok for people in the USA. But if you live in a country with a poor exchange rate - Australia, Argentina, Russia, et al the "reasonable subscription fee" quickly becomes enormous.
Salon is a left wing, intellectual news service with numerous articles written to create greater awareness of the world's poor or abused and the great injustices. Yet Salon's stupid subscription service will almost guarantee their audience is US rich upper class centric. Goodbye students, goodbye rest of the world. Salon is only for rich American's, even though we pay lip service to all the world's causes - you won't hear about it because you're too poor!
I emailed them suggesting they have several levels of subsciption, based on your country of origin or income level (yes a few people would exploit it, but more would gain from it) - but I just got the usual corporate excuses from yet another sell out web site.
Somedays it seems I'm just on this earth to reach into my pocket and pay for everything, bar the air I breath. Aren't we more than just walking talking sources of money?
How much money do you need Taco? Remember, when you die you can't take it with you. What you can leave behind is your imprint on history and humanity. Do you want your imprint to be "sold out, got fat and rich" or "refused to sell out and provided a wonderful service to the tech community and free/open source software movement"?
Maybe it is too late and the corporate whores in their suits and sensible haircuts are pulling your strings...
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it is to expensive. When you convert Australian dollars to US dollars it is just too much to justify.
Goodness knows how expensive it must be for Brazillan's or Mexicans or Pakistanis! I wonder how much there readership fell when they went subscription? You can't sell ads if you aint got enough readers...
I've missed the great political articles on Salon for a long time now. But the music died when the $$$ subscription started.
"...we gave it up for a pinball machine in the lounge."
I suspect the robots will be treated more humanely than those 'evil refugees'.
I've heard they've started building the warm oil baths already!
Is this just a Rocket or is it a GNU/Rocket?
Churchill expressed it more eloquently:
"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. but it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning"
- Churchill Nov 10, 1942
Does Open Office do footnotes? The only reason I write stuff from uni on my win partition is MS Word's footnotes - which are very good.
I'm interested to know whether Google has ever been sucessfully cracked? (errrm, perhaps this is sensitive info)
How often do you detect cracking attempts?
If this occurs what do you do about it?
Thanks
So Disney can use Linux to create the movies, but if we use deCSS to watch a DVD on Linux computer we are comitting a crime...
somehow that doesn't seem right.
I think your father's view is pretty sad. time=money is too simplistic
Seems that you initially calculated in terms of the satisfaction you personally gained from the coding and your beneficial contribution to others.
If you started to charge, then it would no longer be a hobby and become a job, and you'd feel obligated to code even when you didn't feel like it.
Not everything has to be framed in money. Indeed most things that people do for joy (sport, hobbies) cost (a lot of) money.
If it were as simple as TIME=MONEY then we'd all work 14 hours a day everyday.
Boomshanka man
So we really need to have a hyper-hyper-technological fighter plane, to replace the super-hyper-technological fight plane in order to bomb a mud brick house and a couple of oxen in the third world.
... mmmm, mindless patriotism *drool*
...or maybe we just need new toys to play with and to pump some money into the military-industrial complex...
ofcourse the son whose father and mother were killed when our hyper-hyper-technological plane fired a missile from 100km away, will be rather upset and might well want to wreak revenge in a few years... oh, sorry I'll try not think logically.
USA USA USA USA USA
The Psuedo-Libertarianism described is better labelled as "Anarcho-Capitalism". They wish to keep the institution of private property while dispensing with the state. Of course this is a wildly unstable proposition as the State is needed to protect the private ownership of property (unless you consider the corporate armies of dystopian sci fi realistic).
True Libertarianism or Anarchism dispenses with both Private Property and the State.
In the words of Mikhail Bakunin:
"... freedom without Socialism is privilege and injustice... Socialism without freedom is slavery and brutality"
Thus both Capitalist and Communist/Fascist systems fail in the eyes of a true Libertarians.
More realistic Libertarians/Anarchists such as Chomsky prefer the thesis that that hierarchical authority must be justified and that when institutions of authority cammpt nejustified, they should be dismantled.
This is not a blanket rejection of all institutions and authority, but certainly demands more than George W's bullshit: "you are either with us or against us!"
a great read... but I don't feel any safer.
Aircraft have to beat aerodynamic drag also, which I guess they do by flying where the air is thinner. But aircraft also generate extra drag with their wings for lift. A mag lev train wouldn't have this added drag. So a little jet engine should power it along nicely.
;)
Of course a ground effect vehicle would be way cooler
preach it brother!
Where is your .sig quote from?
Do you have a link full speech?
LOL!
I'm waiting for the new pornMAC with the case which holds a tub of vasoline and a tissue box.
fucking TV generation.
"Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved George W Bush"
-with apologies to Orwell.
Ahhh thankyou, finally an equation to explain Brittany Spears . . . and America in general
"It's drinking the water!!!!" hehehehehe
and imagine the bandwidth freed up during the Million-Geek-March.
:)
A million geeks, all acting like a great big magnet for chicks. They don't stand a chance. They'll be overcome and have to strip off and start dancing in the streets!
But seriously: good idea. I've read enough posts about the relative merits of email, petitions, faxing, letters, hand writen letters, letters with cheques. Nothing says it quite like getting off your butt and marching on the Capitol building!
Time to stand up and be counted.
...and if they don't listen the we raze it to the ground!
Don't they mean the "Computers are Bad, Disney is Terrific, Politicians are Arseholes" Bill?
hehe, I've seen that .avi
They sure didn't have much trouble filming her!
I can see all those kids at home watching the Grammies, and then this old codger tells them they can download 6000 songs for free! Talk about planting a thought in their heads!
They'll be straight off to bug Dad for an internet connection!
It was a well known fact that Dubya was setting huge records for the amount of campaign donations he was sending. It was bandied about as if it was a good thing that he was backed by so much money! Yet he still got elected (well actually he didn't, but got close enough to slide into office).
Now if the American public are so sick of money politics? Why did they vote for him? He was not an outstanding candidate, at times he struggles with the English language.
Either American's must like money politics, or they are fooled by the glossy ads and B.S. sound bites?
Or perhaps the 50%+ who don't vote do so for a reason?
Either way I don't have much faith in the system changing from within.
I used to LOVE Salon's political coverage. But I simply can't afford their subscription. It is ok for people in the USA. But if you live in a country with a poor exchange rate - Australia, Argentina, Russia, et al the "reasonable subscription fee" quickly becomes enormous.
Salon is a left wing, intellectual news service with numerous articles written to create greater awareness of the world's poor or abused and the great injustices. Yet Salon's stupid subscription service will almost guarantee their audience is US rich upper class centric. Goodbye students, goodbye rest of the world. Salon is only for rich American's, even though we pay lip service to all the world's causes - you won't hear about it because you're too poor!
I emailed them suggesting they have several levels of subsciption, based on your country of origin or income level (yes a few people would exploit it, but more would gain from it) - but I just got the usual corporate excuses from yet another sell out web site.
Somedays it seems I'm just on this earth to reach into my pocket and pay for everything, bar the air I breath. Aren't we more than just walking talking sources of money?
How much money do you need Taco? Remember, when you die you can't take it with you. What you can leave behind is your imprint on history and humanity. Do you want your imprint to be "sold out, got fat and rich" or "refused to sell out and provided a wonderful service to the tech community and free/open source software movement"?
Maybe it is too late and the corporate whores in their suits and sensible haircuts are pulling your strings...
Time to move to Kuro5hin?