Keep firmly in mind that we still have over ten thousand tactical and strategic atomic weapons hooked to deadman switches. So, if you're right and we do lose consciousness, the rest of you won't need to buy flashlight batteries for a long time.
That's OK. We already have a mineshaft advantage over you. I will just taken my 7 allocated women and head on down.
"Mr.President, we can't let a mineshaft gap develop."
I write quite a few free programs, and I always staticly link them with everything they need. It might mean downloading an extra few hundred KB, or even a few MB but in the end the user is not put out of the way and it "just works".
AMEN to that brother!!
I recently downloaded a trial version of a development system for windows. Size: 68Meg. Yes, 68Meg. Now you can go on about bloat and download and the advantages of libraries blah blah blah, but on Linux, this is what I want.
Think about this - all of the retail engines have heaps upon heaps of mods that a) completely replace all of the in-game media and b) replace tons of code.
This is unclear. Can you give an example of a retail engine, plus an example of a mod it has?
Are you talking about something like "Auran Renderware", or hardware?
Where is the "Fuck you" from the Australian government? Do they have any balls at all?
No, they do not. They are the biggest bunch of limp-dicked , US Govt. butt-licking nancies elected in recent memory.
Given that our Government is such a bunch of moronic arseholes, it is really up to the citizens to tell the US Govt. to fuck off, so here we go...
MEMO: =====
TO: The Administration, Congress and Senate of the United States of America RE: Extradition of an Australian national on charges copyright infringement.
Dear Sirs/Madams,
Go fuck yourselves.
Yours sincerely, The People of Australia (sovereign nation last time we checked)
True, though interestingly enough, Ephedra, discovered by the Chinese, is not used by them for weightloss. Ephedra (ma huang)can be indicated in Traditional Chinese Medicine for dealing with cold and flu issues, but it's obviously intended for very short term use.
According to Daniel Reid's Handbook of Chinese Healing Herbs - it is indicated for Wind/Cold and Wind/Damp conditions (warming) and that it's affinity is for the Lungs/Bladder. - effects are diaphoretic, dilates Bronchi, stimulates respiration, diuretic, suppresses appetite.
The last effect being the probable reason why Westerners take it for weight loss , plus the fact that it raise the metabolism.
Also...
- indications are bronchitis and asthma, fevers and chills, hayfever and allergies, numbness in skin and flesh, red and swollen eyes, fluid retention (edema), excess appetite, obesity
It does go on to describe contra-indications in patients who should not use it for obesity, but other than those, weight control is an accepted use for this herb.
Of course, the difference between buying the raw herb and decocting it yourself, and buying pills or tablets of unknown strength or method of processing is enourmous. Any major city in the world will have a Chinese Herbalist that will sell you Ma Huang.
Yes, but changing jobs sounds worse, because that would require some effort.
This is open for debate. Often, the executives and higher-ups of a failing company get the shaft as well.
However, if they have used their higher income to save some money, they are often able to afford re-training or to be able to move to another area.
Of course, there has been an increasing disparity of wealth in the past few decades.
Could that be because those who were richer to start with had the funds and the witheral to make the transistion to the 'next economy', while those whose skills were easily replacable did not? This is how the rich get richer, that is until lemon socialist governments step in to bail out those who are unable to make the transistion.
Free trade hurts badly in the short run but will produce a vibrant economy that is very competitive in the world market in the long run. It's counterintuitive, but it works.
I don't believe it is counter-intuitive. To me it's perfectly intuitive. To change the the type of production your country engages in requires that the people working in these new industries have new and different knowledge and new and different skills.
To acquire this new knowledge and these new skills requires time, effort and oftentimes money. This is the pain that people who have been getting richer every year for a 100 years want to avoid.
Those who have money already make this transistion more easily than those who do not, which leads to an ever increasing disparity of wealth. This is the real source of complaint.
His job in china is to not get placed in Jail AND beat Google... If his search engine works too well and indexs the 'wrong' stuff he could face prison time.
Wow! A Chinese lawyer on Slashdot. Thank-you for sharing your insights with us!
Just one example. When the same news sources reported that 5.6% unemployment under Clinton Good, but currently report that 5.6% unemployment under Bush is Bad, they're liars.
No, that makes them disreputable. The press lies consistently, but demonstrating that requires much you to be extremely specific on what, how and what-kind-of lies they make.
-lies of ommission - the most common type of lie. Paints a false picture by leaving out certain information that contradicts the 'angle' of the story
- semantic lies - where the meaning of words are redefined in a 'a word means whatever I say it means' kind of way.
- adjectorial, adverbial and nominalisation lies - where words like 'good' , 'better' , 'the economy' that have no specific factual meaning that can be disputed, but are emotionally loaded with a specific emotional response, are used to convey opinions, true or false without recourse to debate.
I could go on, but perhaps you should do some reading to fine-tune your argument.
Short-term it's all gain for Microsoft. Long term, it could be a loss, leaving Linux even stronger with people even more convinced of its validity.
Not really. Microsoft's business strategy from the early days is to wait until someone else develops a promising or cool technology, and then develop their own slightly crappy version in lightning speed. The only thing that is important is time. Time to fully develop the.NET and DRM technologies.
I can see in their thinking that this SCO lawsuit FUD would buy them some time to improve their developer tools (especially for the web) via.NET, tighten up security through DRM (laughable from a security point of view but plausible from the PHB's point of view), and release a new operating system with all of these features built in to the OS (Longhorn).
What they have failed to realize AGAIN is that the Linux developers will keep on soldiering on through the pain. Ignoring FUD, lawsuits and the usual MS lies. Linux is not developed by a company whose time and resources can be consumed through frivolous lawsuits. As soon as it is, Linux is dead, but until then Gates and Ballmer will just have more sleepless nights.
We are going to postpone our suing of two companies but tomorrow we are going to sue THREE!
Nobody expects an SCO lawsuit. Our main weapon is secrecy... and threats. Our two main weapons are secrecy and threats.... and a fanatical devotion to our stock price. Our three main weapons are secrecy and threats and a fanatical devotion to our stock price... and a gullible media. Amongst our main weapons are...
The fact is, a person's writing skills is almost a direct correlation to the quality of their education.
The fact is, a person's writing skills are almost a direct correlation to the quality of their education.
I consider it more effective to share those opinions and feelings with others by doing it through proper spelling and grammar.
I consider it more effective to share those opinions and feelings with others by doing it with correct spelling and grammar.
He definately does not comprehend that
He definitely does not comprehend that
Otherwise, he just paid them money for nothing.
Sentence fragment.
But given the impression that he is not very educated
Beginning a sentence with a conjunction.
I suspect he is not very capable of doing a good analysis.
I suspect he is not capable of doing a very good analysis.
Also, 'good'' is a sloppy word to use in this context, as it conveys no specific information. 'Accurate' , 'Rational' or 'Intelligent' would have been better choices.
Bullshit. The US isn't rich because somebody else is poor. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. Wealth is made by production of goods and its possible to get rich without robbing somebody.
So I guess the first settlers of the US didn't 'rob' the local inhabitants of their land, they just 'put it to better use', right?
Why do you think we have 6 billion people living with food, cars, tvs and computers in 2004 compared to 100 million at 1AD with famine, mules, clay tablets and abacuses?
The replacement of labour with cheap energy. Once the steam and internal combustion engines were developed, Britain minednearly all of the readily available coal and the US in one hundred years drilled and extracted nearly all of the available oil (with the exception of Alaska, coming soon !!!). From 1904 until 1973, the adjusted price of energy decreased each year. That meant that both manufacturing and agriculture became cheaper each year, so the US produced more food and manufactured goods each year for less 'money' but using more energy.
The exploitation of cheap labour in developing countries by American businessmen/companies did not begin until after 1973 when energy costs started increasing, and so capital left the US to seek cheaper labour to offset higher energy costs.
Emotional ranting from both the left and right aside, there is labour exploitation in both South America and South-East Asia. In Indonesia, the governments of the US, UK and Australia assist and support the Indonesian military in suppressing the organised labour movement to prevent the formation of Workers Unions. This is just one way that the Western powers assist developing countries governments to keep the cost of labour down, the end result being a growing gap between the rich and the poor, and a growing discontent amoungst the poor that is being exploited by 'revolutionaries' using religious propaganda.
The countries and empires (Spanish, Mongol, etc.) that relied on looting of other's wealth collapsed because they lacked a viable internal production model, the only one that generates long-lasting wealth and poor.
Until the development of the powered engine, there was no production model like we have today. The Spanish empire collapsed because they developed a culture that equated gold with wealth, and so they spent enourmous time and effort chasing gold when real wealth is food, clothing, housing and entertainment. Today the US economy is in danger of similar flawed philosophy where Americans equate money with wealth, forgetting that money is just a piece of paper that we have agreed to use as a medium of exchange.
My comment was sarcastic (something too often lost on slashdot).
Sorry.... there needs to be a sarcasm emoticon.
Personally, I think we should get rid of the travel ban and trade sanctions against cuba, especially since we don't treat other communist countries the same way.
Is the travel ban still in place? I thought you could fly direct to Havana from LAX.....
I was pointing out the hypocracy in foreign relations.
I guess policy is formulated by people, so it will always be personal, not rational.
They are even giving the hardware back. They waited wich they don't have to and give the hardware back after copying data wich they don't have to do.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
No wonder congress has to keep bickering about wether we should maintain travel bans and trade sanctions against Cuba.
>>> Because clearly the 40 or so years of sanctions have worked.
What do you mean exactly when you say 'worked'. What was the intention of the sanctions? To punish cubans for their choice of government (as opposed the the US's choice)? To develop the most effecient organic farm techniques in the world? To fill Florida with cubans? OR something else?
Meanwhile, we give most favored nation trading status to China.
Presumably you are opposed to this because you believe that the US should use blunt economic instruments to force everybody else in the world to follow it's philosophy?
... "criminals never learn". I couldn't believe it, somebody was actually said that criminals lack the ability to learn from their mistakes.
Actually, many criminals do learn. The time spent in prison is used to learn how to be much more effective criminals.
It seemed to echo the whole American policy of simply locking people away instead of bothering to rehabilitate them.
You are starting with the premise that criminality is some kind of injury or disease that can be rehabilitated.
What if, given the environment you live in, criminal behaviour is the obvious evolutionary choice. That is, the lowest risk behaviour for the greatest return? Or, simply tribal behaviour?
Changing environment and social setting may cure criminal behaviour. Or at least change it to the more acceptable kind that you can get away with if you are a white person, ie. securities fraud or corruption.
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Keep firmly in mind that we still have over ten thousand tactical and strategic atomic weapons hooked to deadman switches. So, if you're right and we do lose consciousness, the rest of you won't need to buy flashlight batteries for a long time.
That's OK. We already have a mineshaft advantage over you. I will just taken my 7 allocated women and head on down.
"Mr.President, we can't let a mineshaft gap develop."
I write quite a few free programs, and I always staticly link them with everything they need. It might mean downloading an extra few hundred KB, or even a few MB but in the end the user is not put out of the way and it "just works".
AMEN to that brother!!
I recently downloaded a trial version of a development system for windows. Size: 68Meg. Yes, 68Meg. Now you can go on about bloat and download and the advantages of libraries blah blah blah, but on Linux, this is what I want.
Download->Install->Run
Is that really so hard??
Think about this - all of the retail engines have heaps upon heaps of mods that a) completely replace all of the in-game media and b) replace tons of code.
This is unclear. Can you give an example of a retail engine, plus an example of a mod it has?
Are you talking about something like "Auran Renderware", or hardware?
Thanks,
Where is the "Fuck you" from the Australian government? Do they have any balls at all?
...
No, they do not. They are the biggest bunch of limp-dicked , US Govt. butt-licking nancies elected in recent memory.
Given that our Government is such a bunch of moronic arseholes, it is really up to the citizens to tell the US Govt. to fuck off, so here we go
MEMO:
=====
TO: The Administration, Congress and Senate of the United States of America
RE: Extradition of an Australian national on charges copyright infringement.
Dear Sirs/Madams,
Go fuck yourselves.
Yours sincerely,
The People of Australia (sovereign nation last time we checked)
Don't like it? Kick out Bush and his PNAC buddies.
What makes you think that the PNAC loons are only into Republicans?
Couple of questions
The era of the fatass 80-IQ lifer sergeant shouting at draftees and enlist-or-go-to-prison volunteers is long gone.
What replaced it?
What are Hollywood screenwriters going to do now that they can't use the screaming parade sargeant prop?
True, though interestingly enough, Ephedra, discovered by the Chinese, is not used by them for weightloss. Ephedra (ma huang)can be indicated in Traditional Chinese Medicine for dealing with cold and flu issues, but it's obviously intended for very short term use.
...
According to Daniel Reid's Handbook of Chinese Healing Herbs
- it is indicated for Wind/Cold and Wind/Damp conditions (warming) and that it's affinity is for the Lungs/Bladder.
- effects are diaphoretic, dilates Bronchi, stimulates respiration, diuretic, suppresses appetite.
The last effect being the probable reason why Westerners take it for weight loss , plus the fact that it raise the metabolism.
Also
- indications are bronchitis and asthma, fevers and chills, hayfever and allergies, numbness in skin and flesh, red and swollen eyes, fluid retention (edema), excess appetite, obesity
It does go on to describe contra-indications in patients who should not use it for obesity, but other than those, weight control is an accepted use for this herb.
Of course, the difference between buying the raw herb and decocting it yourself, and buying pills or tablets of unknown strength or method of processing is enourmous. Any major city in the world will have a Chinese Herbalist that will sell you Ma Huang.
Losing jobs sounds bad.
Yes, but changing jobs sounds worse, because that would require some effort.
This is open for debate. Often, the executives and higher-ups of a failing company get the shaft as well.
However, if they have used their higher income to save some money, they are often able to afford re-training or to be able to move to another area.
Of course, there has been an increasing disparity of wealth in the past few decades.
Could that be because those who were richer to start with had the funds and the witheral to make the transistion to the 'next economy', while those whose skills were easily replacable did not?
This is how the rich get richer, that is until lemon socialist governments step in to bail out those who are unable to make the transistion.
Free trade hurts badly in the short run but will produce a vibrant economy that is very competitive in the world market in the long run. It's counterintuitive, but it works.
I don't believe it is counter-intuitive. To me it's perfectly intuitive. To change the the type of production your country engages in requires that the people working in these new industries have new and different knowledge and new and different skills.
To acquire this new knowledge and these new skills requires time, effort and oftentimes money. This is the pain that people who have been getting richer every year for a 100 years want to avoid.
Those who have money already make this transistion more easily than those who do not, which leads to an ever increasing disparity of wealth. This is the real source of complaint.
His job in china is to not get placed in Jail AND beat Google... If his search engine works too well and indexs the 'wrong' stuff he could face prison time.
Wow! A Chinese lawyer on Slashdot. Thank-you for sharing your insights with us!
Just one example. When the same news sources reported that 5.6% unemployment under Clinton Good, but currently report that 5.6% unemployment under Bush is Bad, they're liars.
No, that makes them disreputable. The press lies consistently, but demonstrating that requires much you to be extremely specific on what, how and what-kind-of lies they make.
-lies of ommission - the most common type of lie. Paints a false picture by leaving out certain information that contradicts the 'angle' of the story
- semantic lies - where the meaning of words are redefined in a 'a word means whatever I say it means' kind of way.
- adjectorial, adverbial and nominalisation lies - where words like 'good' , 'better' , 'the economy' that have no specific factual meaning that can be disputed, but are emotionally loaded with a specific emotional response, are used to convey opinions, true or false without recourse to debate.
I could go on, but perhaps you should do some reading to fine-tune your argument.
No matter what M$'s lawyers have been telling him, he can't pull this kind of stuff and get away with it in a regulated market. There are still laws.
...
I was under the impression that in the US laws are only for poor people
Short-term it's all gain for Microsoft. Long term, it could be a loss, leaving Linux even stronger with people even more convinced of its validity.
.NET and DRM technologies.
.NET, tighten up security through DRM (laughable from a security point of view but plausible from the PHB's point of view), and release a new operating system with all of these features built in to the OS (Longhorn).
Not really. Microsoft's business strategy from the early days is to wait until someone else develops a promising or cool technology, and then develop their own slightly crappy version in lightning speed. The only thing that is important is time. Time to fully develop the
I can see in their thinking that this SCO lawsuit FUD would buy them some time to improve their developer tools (especially for the web) via
What they have failed to realize AGAIN is that the Linux developers will keep on soldiering on through the pain. Ignoring FUD, lawsuits and the usual MS lies. Linux is not developed by a company whose time and resources can be consumed through frivolous lawsuits. As soon as it is, Linux is dead, but until then Gates and Ballmer will just have more sleepless nights.
We are going to postpone our suing of two companies but tomorrow we are going to sue THREE!
... and threats. Our two main weapons are secrecy and threats .... and a fanatical devotion to our stock price. Our three main weapons are secrecy and threats and a fanatical devotion to our stock price ... and a gullible media. Amongst our main weapons are ...
Nobody expects an SCO lawsuit. Our main weapon is secrecy
The fact is, a person's writing skills is almost a direct correlation to the quality of their education.
The fact is, a person's writing skills are almost a direct correlation to the quality of their education.
I consider it more effective to share those opinions and feelings with others by doing it through proper spelling and grammar.
I consider it more effective to share those opinions and feelings with others by doing it with correct spelling and grammar.
He definately does not comprehend that
He definitely does not comprehend that
Otherwise, he just paid them money for nothing.
Sentence fragment.
But given the impression that he is not very educated
Beginning a sentence with a conjunction.
I suspect he is not very capable of doing a good analysis.
I suspect he is not capable of doing a very good analysis.
Also, 'good'' is a sloppy word to use in this context, as it conveys no specific information. 'Accurate' , 'Rational' or 'Intelligent' would have been better choices.
HTH.
Bullshit. The US isn't rich because somebody else is poor. Wealth isn't a zero-sum game. Wealth is made by production of goods and its possible to get rich without robbing somebody.
So I guess the first settlers of the US didn't 'rob' the local inhabitants of their land, they just 'put it to better use', right?
Why do you think we have 6 billion people living with food, cars, tvs and computers in 2004 compared to 100 million at 1AD with famine, mules, clay tablets and abacuses?
The replacement of labour with cheap energy. Once the steam and internal combustion engines were developed, Britain minednearly all of the readily available coal and the US in one hundred years drilled and extracted nearly all of the available oil (with the exception of Alaska, coming soon !!!). From 1904 until 1973, the adjusted price of energy decreased each year. That meant that both manufacturing and agriculture became cheaper each year, so the US produced more food and manufactured goods each year for less 'money' but using more energy.
The exploitation of cheap labour in developing countries by American businessmen/companies did not begin until after 1973 when energy costs started increasing, and so capital left the US to seek cheaper labour to offset higher energy costs.
Emotional ranting from both the left and right aside, there is labour exploitation in both South America and South-East Asia. In Indonesia, the governments of the US, UK and Australia assist and support the Indonesian military in suppressing the organised labour movement to prevent the formation of Workers Unions. This is just one way that the Western powers assist developing countries governments to keep the cost of labour down, the end result being a growing gap between the rich and the poor, and a growing discontent amoungst the poor that is being exploited by 'revolutionaries' using religious propaganda.
The countries and empires (Spanish, Mongol, etc.) that relied on looting of other's wealth collapsed because they lacked a viable internal production model, the only one that generates long-lasting wealth and poor.
Until the development of the powered engine, there was no production model like we have today. The Spanish empire collapsed because they developed a culture that equated gold with wealth, and so they spent enourmous time and effort chasing gold when real wealth is food, clothing, housing and entertainment.
Today the US economy is in danger of similar flawed philosophy where Americans equate money with wealth, forgetting that money is just a piece of paper that we have agreed to use as a medium of exchange.
LOSE is the opposite of WIN
LOSE is also a synonym for 'misplace', otherwise I agree with you 100%.
My comment was sarcastic (something too often lost on slashdot).
.... there needs to be a sarcasm emoticon.
.....
Sorry
Personally, I think we should get rid of the travel ban and trade sanctions against cuba, especially since we don't treat other communist countries the same way.
Is the travel ban still in place? I thought you could fly direct to Havana from LAX
I was pointing out the hypocracy in foreign relations.
I guess policy is formulated by people, so it will always be personal, not rational.
They are even giving the hardware back. They waited wich they don't have to and give the hardware back after copying data wich they don't have to do.
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. "
The FBI is not bound by the 4th Amendment?
No wonder congress has to keep bickering about wether we should maintain travel bans and trade sanctions against Cuba.
>>> Because clearly the 40 or so years of sanctions have worked.
What do you mean exactly when you say 'worked'. What was the intention of the sanctions?
To punish cubans for their choice of government (as opposed the the US's choice)?
To develop the most effecient organic farm techniques in the world?
To fill Florida with cubans?
OR something else?
Meanwhile, we give most favored nation trading status to China.
Presumably you are opposed to this because you believe that the US should use blunt economic instruments to force everybody else in the world to follow it's philosophy?
... "criminals never learn". I couldn't believe it, somebody was actually said that criminals lack the ability to learn from their mistakes.
Actually, many criminals do learn. The time spent in prison is used to learn how to be much more effective criminals.
It seemed to echo the whole American policy of simply locking people away instead of bothering to rehabilitate them.
You are starting with the premise that criminality is some kind of injury or disease that can be rehabilitated.
What if, given the environment you live in, criminal behaviour is the obvious evolutionary choice. That is, the lowest risk behaviour for the greatest return? Or, simply tribal behaviour?
Changing environment and social setting may cure criminal behaviour. Or at least change it to the more acceptable kind that you can get away with if you are a white person, ie. securities fraud or corruption.
Choice is capitalistic. Excluding non-OS software is limiting choice.
Choice has got nothing to do with Capitalism. Choice is about free markets. CAPITALISM != FREE MARKETS
Capitalism is the allocation of resources and the production of goods through capital.
Free markets is the de-regulation of markets and merchants to ensure the greatest competition.