This statement must be of great comfort to you. Repeating that your opponent is wrong does not help your argument. You should have checked your facts. Microsoft was found to be guilty of anti-compettative practices. The settlement was in the punnishment phase of the proceedings.
OTOH, I don't know why I keep feeding these trolls.
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Since the 1960's, the intelligence community> has used private corporate contractors, such as Wackenhut, The Curry Company, Scientologythe Music Corporation of America (The Curry Company's parent corporation), and the Mafia to gather information and diseminate disinformation. The changing nature of the information economy, due to the internet and Free Software, threatens the quite lucrative monopoly on information and populace control (hence the recent activities of the RIAA and the MPAA).
It seems to me that the Intelligence Community and the private contractors, who have seen thier profits dwindle since the end of the cold war, seek more to control IT in order to both increase thier ability to monitor the daily lives of private citizens, and to limit the access to information that may inform us about thier covert activities.
The concern of the CIA over technology is not one of information gathering, but one of information, and populace, control.
Perhaps the poster meant that government funds already earmarked for software development or research should go to Open Source projects rather than to private companies.
I don't mind paying taxes when the benefit is going to everyone (as opposed to just the campaign contributers).
And now SCO seems to be continuing in the role of Agent Provocatuer. This could be very bad for open source as far as the relationship with corporations goes. Companies will be led to believe that dealing in open source will leave them open to lawsuits. I may sound like a conspiracy nut, but there are a lot of very powerful people who are afraid of the (most likely subtle) changes in the economic model that open source software and a proliferation of bandwidth is inevetably going to bring about. Not to mention those in the intelligence, law enforcement, and organised crime industries (the three are closely linked.) who are afraid of strong encryption getting into the hands of ordinary citizens, or uncontrolled access to information databases that the manipulated may use to connect the dots.
Seems the readers here need to retake thier RADCAS training. Relatively "high" doses of radiation exposure don't do much (if any) damage, if you limit the duration and don't make a habit of it. The current (immediate) levels are importantant only because they may indicate the risk of contamination you may be facing (and they tell you how soon you should get the hell out of there).
Remember it's not the stink you have to worry about, it's the the sh...
My first memory is from when we were two or three, maybe four. We were between his house and the neighbors. The ground was just dirt and weeds. We had been playing around a square hole in the ground that in the memory seemed quite deep, but when I know now to be just a few inches deep. I think I pushed him into the hole, and he threw a brick at me. It tore off one of my fingernails. I don't remember running home, but I remember standing on the front porch of my house, I remember how unusual the pain was, how ugly my finger looked. And I remember how blurry the world was through my tears.
I use BlackBox (sometimes WindowMaker) for the same reasons. I've never been a Windows (or MAC) user, why would I want a [look|act]alike desktop. Why waste my 256MB of ram on uneccessary, unwanted "features".
I'd like to see some of the productivity apps written for Gnome/KDE stripped of thier desktop dependancies, and am currently attempting to achieve this by gutting gnumeric. (not very pretty as of this writting)
If more programers thought more about the consequenses of thier design decisions rather than the generally accepted (mis)conceptions that currently seem to rule the quest for productivity apps, then you'd have more company in your position.
I'd like to see the argument changed from "Gnome vs KDE" to "Integrated vs Independant applications", but it seems most programmers working on productivity apps are guilty of thinking "Windows" and speaking "Linux"
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This statement must be of great comfort to you. Repeating that your opponent is wrong does not help your argument. You should have checked your facts. Microsoft was found to be guilty of anti-compettative practices. The settlement was in the punnishment phase of the proceedings.
OTOH, I don't know why I keep feeding these trolls.
Since the 1960's, the intelligence community> has used private corporate contractors, such as Wackenhut, The Curry Company, Scientologythe Music Corporation of America (The Curry Company's parent corporation), and the Mafia to gather information and diseminate disinformation. The changing nature of the information economy, due to the internet and Free Software, threatens the quite lucrative monopoly on information and populace control (hence the recent activities of the RIAA and the MPAA).
It seems to me that the Intelligence Community and the private contractors, who have seen thier profits dwindle since the end of the cold war, seek more to control IT in order to both increase thier ability to monitor the daily lives of private citizens, and to limit the access to information that may inform us about thier covert activities.
The concern of the CIA over technology is not one of information gathering, but one of information, and populace, control.
Perhaps the poster meant that government funds already earmarked for software development or research should go to Open Source projects rather than to private companies.
I don't mind paying taxes when the benefit is going to everyone (as opposed to just the campaign contributers).
Outlaw advertising.
no adds, no spam.
Not that tin foil will protect you when they target your house or car. So much for dissent...
And now SCO seems to be continuing in the role of Agent Provocatuer. This could be very bad for open source as far as the relationship with corporations goes. Companies will be led to believe that dealing in open source will leave them open to lawsuits. I may sound like a conspiracy nut, but there are a lot of very powerful people who are afraid of the (most likely subtle) changes in the economic model that open source software and a proliferation of bandwidth is inevetably going to bring about. Not to mention those in the intelligence, law enforcement, and organised crime industries (the three are closely linked.) who are afraid of strong encryption getting into the hands of ordinary citizens, or uncontrolled access to information databases that the manipulated may use to connect the dots.
Seems the readers here need to retake thier RADCAS training. Relatively "high" doses of radiation exposure don't do much (if any) damage, if you limit the duration and don't make a habit of it. The current (immediate) levels are importantant only because they may indicate the risk of contamination you may be facing (and they tell you how soon you should get the hell out of there).
Remember it's not the stink you have to worry about, it's the the sh...
My first memory is from when we were two or three, maybe four. We were between his house and the neighbors. The ground was just dirt and weeds. We had been playing around a square hole in the ground that in the memory seemed quite deep, but when I know now to be just a few inches deep. I think I pushed him into the hole, and he threw a brick at me. It tore off one of my fingernails. I don't remember running home, but I remember standing on the front porch of my house, I remember how unusual the pain was, how ugly my finger looked. And I remember how blurry the world was through my tears.
He was my best friend for many years (20+ years).
I wish we had stayed in touch better.
Tall people have tall kids, and smart people have smart kids.
I wish it did work like that, my parents are rather smart, but...
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I use BlackBox (sometimes WindowMaker) for the same reasons. I've never been a Windows (or MAC) user, why would I want a [look|act]alike desktop. Why waste my 256MB of ram on uneccessary, unwanted "features".
I'd like to see some of the productivity apps written for Gnome/KDE stripped of thier desktop dependancies, and am currently attempting to achieve this by gutting gnumeric. (not very pretty as of this writting)
Are there any others doing similar things?
If more programers thought more about the consequenses of thier design decisions rather than the generally accepted (mis)conceptions that currently seem to rule the quest for productivity apps, then you'd have more company in your position.
I'd like to see the argument changed from "Gnome vs KDE" to "Integrated vs Independant applications", but it seems most programmers working on productivity apps are guilty of thinking "Windows" and speaking "Linux"