Maybe because there's no legitimate reason to support Redhat Enterprise Linux over any other distribution appart from kickbacks to some marketing fuck?
Linux is Linux, and if some company fucks their distro up so much that a vendor hast to bend over backwards to support it, that distro should NOT be supported.
There is NO reason why what works on one distro wouldn't work on another. No LEGITIMATE reason.
And just like programming, if you're going to derive your work from other work, you have to fucking PAY FOR IT if the license calls for it.
Yea mixing is tough. Not as tough as learning how to play a guitar or keyboard or whatever for yourself. Even if it was, it wouldn't make it ok to sample people with actual TALENT and use their work for your own gain without paying them their due.
I don't give a shit how clever he was. It wasn't his to take, without paying whatever the fair market fee was.
Bah. "Sampling" isn't art, it's theft(ish). Danger Mouse hasn't the talent to learn to play an actual instrument, so he uses sound bits from actual talented musicians to make his music.
It's just the same as using clip-art, folks. If you're really so talent-free as to need to use other people's work to make a piece of art, PAY THE FUCKING LICENSE FEE, The person that made what you're using is better than you. They made something people actually want to listen to. If you can't without riding their coattails, then don't bitch about the cost.
Is it Ok for a liberal or marxist prof to fail a student just because he's conservative? This has happened, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of the reaction that liberal profs are getting is due to the fact that they do this, and presume that their position will protect them.
They should be happy that students have this method of attempting to find justice. Take away legal means, and you're likely to walk out to your car after a marxist rally to get brained by a 15 lb sledgehammer from a former student who had no other means to right the wrong done him.
Hard to teach when your IQ has been reduced to that of a poodle by a heavy piece of steel. Better to consider what you're doing to others.
It is also possible, and not uncommon, for a prof to fail a student that he does not personally like (due to differences in politics, for instance, leftist profs at every college I have heard of are FAMOUS for this).
It is only fair that such a student have a method of retaliation for such action. Fair is fair, and profs that don't deserve tenure should have it stripped from them and learn the phrase "Would you like fries with that?"
This website that has been shut down is the very same Free Speech that the Liberal Profs SCREAM about when it gets stiffled in the context of suppressing their marxist views.
Different when the shoe is on the other foot, huh?
Of course UC Berkley is the most Marxist of the Marxist universities, so I probably should have put this response on a different thread....
Bunch of morons. "Yea, the human race evolved to be the pinacle of creation and we should all just die out so that we don't inconvenience any of the other life forms."
I think you missed the bit about "simulated low gravity." They're not going to be in "zero-g" or microgravity.
The point of the experiment, if I understand it correctly, is to determine to what degree a low gravity (as opposed to micro-gravity, which is what the space stations experience) environment differs in effect on mammals from Full Gravity and Micro-gravity environments.
The alternitive... well when you see what Terrorists from 3rd world countries can do, imagine what a terrorism-inclined individual who has lost his job in the first world and has enough resources left to make a "statement" can do.
I'm not looking forward to seeing that, myself. If I was a CEO, I'd be trying to NOT see that kind of future...
World-wide economy does not mean it's a smart idea to cut your own country's throat. This goes beyond the parallels that some of the liberal apologists try to prop up. This is not the fabric mills. This is not the Iron mills, and this is not the fucking auto industry. Those were blue collar labor. While it is a fucking crime that those jobs went overseas, those were not really middle class jobs. I have never heard of a steel worker that didn't have 25 years Tenure that made the equivalent of $65K/year in todays dollars.
If our "representatives" do actually destroy this country by shipping these jobs overseas, I'm pretty sure that those folks won't wind up alive when whatever comes after the United States of America writes it's constitution.
I'm not a man of action, I'm a man of vision, and I've read to many works of "speculative fiction" along these lines to predict a rosy future for those that are making this happen.
I won't have anythign to do with the consequences though...
Nice thought, but El Gringo won't be able to actually get citizenship in the places where these jobs are moving, and as a non-citizen, he won't be able to get a job.
You forgot "Re-invent yourself". Wherein those of us with rewarding Tech Jobs are supposed to re-invent ourselves as greeters at Wal-Mart.
There will be a reckoning. I wouldn't want to be the "outsourcing magnate" on the last page of this article 18 months from now. I'm thinking no amount of money will be able to hire a bodyguard squad that will be able to keep him alive.
What you do will come back to you threefold. It's all on you.
Ah a pro-Chomsky fruitcake. My moron file has had an empty spot. Welcome to it.
Honestly, you have to know better than expect people to forgoe all entertainment becuse something isn't quite right.
It's not like this ad proposes any kind of solution.
*PLONK*
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You really think most americans dont care that their govt is running a 1 TRILLION+ dollar deficit?
It's not about caring, it's about not wanting to have that sort of issue shoved in their face when they're trying to enjoy a game.
The simple fact is, care about the deficit or not, the average American is NOT going to appreciate that kind of ad during the Superbowl. CBS recognizes this, and is acting appropriately.
Now, myself, I could care less about pro sports anyhow. I won't be watching the Superbowl, just like I haven't watched any other sporting event apart from fishing for many years. I don't see any reason to taint someone's mindless entertainment with what is quite franky an uneccessary message at that particular time, though.
Incidentally, the idea that this message is "non-partisan" is complete bullshit. It's designed to sway public opinion regarding the current President.
If CBS DID air the ad, they'd be obligated to provide equal time for refutation.
Nothing any advocacy group can do can lose them my support faster than them WHINING about entitlement and fairness when it comes to someone else's printing press.
well strictly speaking, my tongue in cheek "rebuttal" was a statement of fact as well. I don't think that me making more money with Bush in office makes him a better leader any more than I believe that you being unemployed since he entered office makes him a worse leader.
My point is that your bad fortune and my good fortune have nothing whatsoever to do with Bush, Clinton, or Alfred E Neuman's qualifications as President.
I don't particularly like ANY partisan politician. I'm pretty self centered, but not self-centered enough to assume that my fate has anything at all to do with who happens to be "in power" at the moment.
The comparison to spam is valid. Opt-out is opt-out.
It should never be brought to a vote in the first place. Students should never be subject to fees for politically motivated organizations based on any "vote" by other students.
Most colleges have non-traditional students (older than your usualy post high-school kids). These people should not be penalized financially because they're unaware of the political crap that goes on on campus (because they happen to already be working full time jobs).
Again I state: If it's such a good deal, you shouldn't have a problem with it being OPT IN. If that's a problem, then the comparison to the ethics of spammers is VERY valid.
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Maybe because there's no legitimate reason to support Redhat Enterprise Linux over any other distribution appart from kickbacks to some marketing fuck?
Linux is Linux, and if some company fucks their distro up so much that a vendor hast to bend over backwards to support it, that distro should NOT be supported.
There is NO reason why what works on one distro wouldn't work on another. No LEGITIMATE reason.
Commercially succesful != actual talent. See Spears, Britney.
And just like programming, if you're going to derive your work from other work, you have to fucking PAY FOR IT if the license calls for it.
Yea mixing is tough. Not as tough as learning how to play a guitar or keyboard or whatever for yourself. Even if it was, it wouldn't make it ok to sample people with actual TALENT and use their work for your own gain without paying them their due.
I don't give a shit how clever he was. It wasn't his to take, without paying whatever the fair market fee was.
Bah. "Sampling" isn't art, it's theft(ish). Danger Mouse hasn't the talent to learn to play an actual instrument, so he uses sound bits from actual talented musicians to make his music.
It's just the same as using clip-art, folks. If you're really so talent-free as to need to use other people's work to make a piece of art, PAY THE FUCKING LICENSE FEE, The person that made what you're using is better than you. They made something people actually want to listen to. If you can't without riding their coattails, then don't bitch about the cost.
Bah. Diskettes. Sheer luxury. We used cassette tapes, and we were glad to have 'em, too!.
We used to turn the volume up and sing along with the streaming bits out of gratitude that we were allowed to LOAD software on our computers...
Is it Ok for a liberal or marxist prof to fail a student just because he's conservative? This has happened, and I'm pretty sure that a lot of the reaction that liberal profs are getting is due to the fact that they do this, and presume that their position will protect them.
They should be happy that students have this method of attempting to find justice. Take away legal means, and you're likely to walk out to your car after a marxist rally to get brained by a 15 lb sledgehammer from a former student who had no other means to right the wrong done him.
Hard to teach when your IQ has been reduced to that of a poodle by a heavy piece of steel. Better to consider what you're doing to others.
It is also possible, and not uncommon, for a prof to fail a student that he does not personally like (due to differences in politics, for instance, leftist profs at every college I have heard of are FAMOUS for this).
It is only fair that such a student have a method of retaliation for such action. Fair is fair, and profs that don't deserve tenure should have it stripped from them and learn the phrase "Would you like fries with that?"
This website that has been shut down is the very same Free Speech that the Liberal Profs SCREAM about when it gets stiffled in the context of suppressing their marxist views.
Different when the shoe is on the other foot, huh?
Of course UC Berkley is the most Marxist of the Marxist universities, so I probably should have put this response on a different thread....
And it's only either if its not true.
As long as it doesn't come with a chicklet keyboard...
Fsck PETA sideways with a chainsaw.
Bunch of morons. "Yea, the human race evolved to be the pinacle of creation and we should all just die out so that we don't inconvenience any of the other life forms."
Fsck that.
I dunno, Sledgehammer maybe?
Well technically speaking, his gerbil would be an Ass-tronaut.
I'm quite certain that shortly after the first experimental colonies, live streaming video of such attempts will be available on the internet.
*scurries off to patent zero-g pr0n*
I think you missed the bit about "simulated low gravity." They're not going to be in "zero-g" or microgravity.
The point of the experiment, if I understand it correctly, is to determine to what degree a low gravity (as opposed to micro-gravity, which is what the space stations experience) environment differs in effect on mammals from Full Gravity and Micro-gravity environments.
Absolutely.
The alternitive... well when you see what Terrorists from 3rd world countries can do, imagine what a terrorism-inclined individual who has lost his job in the first world and has enough resources left to make a "statement" can do.
I'm not looking forward to seeing that, myself. If I was a CEO, I'd be trying to NOT see that kind of future...
World-wide economy does not mean it's a smart idea to cut your own country's throat. This goes beyond the parallels that some of the liberal apologists try to prop up. This is not the fabric mills. This is not the Iron mills, and this is not the fucking auto industry. Those were blue collar labor. While it is a fucking crime that those jobs went overseas, those were not really middle class jobs. I have never heard of a steel worker that didn't have 25 years Tenure that made the equivalent of $65K/year in todays dollars.
If our "representatives" do actually destroy this country by shipping these jobs overseas, I'm pretty sure that those folks won't wind up alive when whatever comes after the United States of America writes it's constitution.
I'm not a man of action, I'm a man of vision, and I've read to many works of "speculative fiction" along these lines to predict a rosy future for those that are making this happen.
I won't have anythign to do with the consequences though...
Nice thought, but El Gringo won't be able to actually get citizenship in the places where these jobs are moving, and as a non-citizen, he won't be able to get a job.
Try again.
You forgot "Re-invent yourself". Wherein those of us with rewarding Tech Jobs are supposed to re-invent ourselves as greeters at Wal-Mart.
There will be a reckoning. I wouldn't want to be the "outsourcing magnate" on the last page of this article 18 months from now. I'm thinking no amount of money will be able to hire a bodyguard squad that will be able to keep him alive.
What you do will come back to you threefold. It's all on you.
...and the CPU has just scored some primo coke... I see where you're going.
Yea that's probably more the reality of it.
Sometimes, when a boy processor and a girl processor love each other very much...
Hardly suprising. He does work for the NY Times. 'pears that's "Editorial Policy" for that particular rag.
They should just switch to Tabloid format and get it over with...
Ah a pro-Chomsky fruitcake. My moron file has had an empty spot. Welcome to it.
Honestly, you have to know better than expect people to forgoe all entertainment becuse something isn't quite right.
It's not like this ad proposes any kind of solution.
*PLONK*
It's not about caring, it's about not wanting to have that sort of issue shoved in their face when they're trying to enjoy a game.
The simple fact is, care about the deficit or not, the average American is NOT going to appreciate that kind of ad during the Superbowl. CBS recognizes this, and is acting appropriately.
Now, myself, I could care less about pro sports anyhow. I won't be watching the Superbowl, just like I haven't watched any other sporting event apart from fishing for many years. I don't see any reason to taint someone's mindless entertainment with what is quite franky an uneccessary message at that particular time, though.
Incidentally, the idea that this message is "non-partisan" is complete bullshit. It's designed to sway public opinion regarding the current President.
If CBS DID air the ad, they'd be obligated to provide equal time for refutation.
Nothing any advocacy group can do can lose them my support faster than them WHINING about entitlement and fairness when it comes to someone else's printing press.
well strictly speaking, my tongue in cheek "rebuttal" was a statement of fact as well. I don't think that me making more money with Bush in office makes him a better leader any more than I believe that you being unemployed since he entered office makes him a worse leader.
My point is that your bad fortune and my good fortune have nothing whatsoever to do with Bush, Clinton, or Alfred E Neuman's qualifications as President.
I don't particularly like ANY partisan politician. I'm pretty self centered, but not self-centered enough to assume that my fate has anything at all to do with who happens to be "in power" at the moment.
I ceased to be a student many years ago.
The comparison to spam is valid. Opt-out is opt-out.
It should never be brought to a vote in the first place. Students should never be subject to fees for politically motivated organizations based on any "vote" by other students.
Most colleges have non-traditional students (older than your usualy post high-school kids). These people should not be penalized financially because they're unaware of the political crap that goes on on campus (because they happen to already be working full time jobs).
Again I state: If it's such a good deal, you shouldn't have a problem with it being OPT IN. If that's a problem, then the comparison to the ethics of spammers is VERY valid.
Tough shit for you. All I know about Bush is I'm making a hell of a lot more now than I was when Clinton was President.
Actually I know more than that, but your sig is one of those ridiculous over-simplification of politics that shows real idiocy.
Both sides are full of scumbags.
Your personal fortune has not one shits worth to do with the value of one politician or another.
Deal.
Otherwise, I agree with your take on corruption and the University system %100.