Sure, they had no "problems" with lack of running water, sanitation, adequate medical care and other basic services. They weren't even aware things like that existed.
They did not fight over natural resources or diamonds for the simple reason they had no need for these.
"at the expense of the African ones."
There were no African economies. Wherever Europeans showed they found bunch of people living exactly the same way for thousands of years. Any sort of infrastructure these people have is leftover from colonial times.
Harsh but true.
"Sure it gives us geeks with our open source a bit of a chuckle, but it does make at least a little business sense to not screw over your 3rd party developers, especially in a world where a good number of your sales are driven by the fact that most 3rd parties still develop exclusively for your OS. "
That is a problem with Linux.
Nobody gives a damn about end users, and I don't only mean real end users but also developers.
Half of binary software that came with RH 6.0 will not work with 7.0..
What kind of bullshit is that? It almost seems like RH is bend on pissing off commercial developers ( who end up protecting themselves using static links, which results in tons of duplicated static code.. )
There you go...
You got a patch for known problem and you applied it.
The only difference from commercial products is that it was source patch as opposed to binary one.
I fail to see any advantages here. I mean what is so superior about performing recompile instead of simply downloading patched kernel?
How does he know that he did not introduced new bugs that will cost his company hours of downtime three weeks from now?
BTW.
Is it really efficient to pay networking people for debugging kernels (which is a big job on its own)?
Why do you think there is a market for precompiled and packaged OS in the first place?
So your job as a network architect is to actually spend hours running debug version of kernel looking for some small bug ?
How do you know you haven't introduced much bigger bug somewhere down the line ?
Are you kernel developer?
Are you suggesting all companies hire part-time kernel developers for occasions like that?
"Also, 7 years of appeals, and we still screw it up"
Nobody is perfect and we cannot achieve 100% accuracy ( I know, not much of a consolation for an innocent guy on death row)
I think it is a fair price to pay for having violent criminals removed from society.
Now I know it will be Ameritech...
Looks like we gonna keep our static IP but no more SDSL.
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Well, I had 768/384 which was better than 128 but as long as I get to keep my static IP and Ameritech allows me to run my little farm of services ( Telocity had no problem with it) I am gonna be reasonably happy.
I have very nice setup here in Chicago suburb with static IP and everything from Telocity.
I know Telocity here runs on Rhythm network I just hope they will resolve that issue without significant service interruption.
"Saying this doesn't imply that it didn't have any effect on the way the world has developed, quite the opposite. "
Oh please, you do realize that people who describe organized religion in these terms are NOT doing this from neutral position.
"and I could logically say that Christianity IS evil, since it's responsible for spreading countless diseases to that population"
I think Native Americans benefited from this whole ordeal but this is strictly personal opinion and since I have no means to prove it I won't push it any further.
I do agree that religion has similar effect as some drugs. I don't like that term since it implies addiction and all widely known ills associated with this disease.
"It makes people feel better about themselves, absolves them of guilt and fear, and takes away a degree of freedom. "
One can say that about everyone. We all have our little fetishes and nightmares and all end up slaves to things that make us feel better.
Who is to say that sex addiction is more natural and "mature" than belief in supernatural being?
The difference is that former, on average, is much more beneficial to the society in large.
And if we heard about an election in some remote place where one dude lost by a slim margin but was rescued by bunch of local state judges ( all of them from the same party as he was) who managed to come up with some vague problems during election ( problems which were present in the last 10 election), virtually no one would disagree that the result was a sham.
Face it. Gore tried to invent "voters scam" in order to challenge valid results.
I take you don't think tax cut was smart...
Hell, I am sure you would be just happy with Gore and his new slew of taxes (guaranteed NO democrat since Kennedy failed to substantially increase taxes.)
You don't want Feds to make decisions like that ?
Support every tax cut there is , less money flowing to DC less power for these people to make decisions about anything.
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What a piece of bullshit.
Sure, they had no "problems" with lack of running water, sanitation, adequate medical care and other basic services. They weren't even aware things like that existed.
They did not fight over natural resources or diamonds for the simple reason they had no need for these.
"at the expense of the African ones."
There were no African economies. Wherever Europeans showed they found bunch of people living exactly the same way for thousands of years. Any sort of infrastructure these people have is leftover from colonial times.
Harsh but true.
Well, we have no choice then but try to become like Inda, China or Indonesia.
You start first by giving up your computer and your car.
Hell yeah.
Seeing one of these gorilla-like monsters coming out of dark corner was truly terrifying.
It was a classic.
No, it does not.
99% of Win32 software created 5 years ago will work on Windows ME.
You are the one who doesn't know what he is taking about.
"Sure it gives us geeks with our open source a bit of a chuckle, but it does make at least a little business sense to not screw over your 3rd party developers, especially in a world where a good number of your sales are driven by the fact that most 3rd parties still develop exclusively for your OS. "
.. )
That is a problem with Linux.
Nobody gives a damn about end users, and I don't only mean real end users but also developers.
Half of binary software that came with RH 6.0 will not work with 7.0..
What kind of bullshit is that? It almost seems like RH is bend on pissing off commercial developers ( who end up protecting themselves using static links, which results in tons of duplicated static code
There you go ...
You got a patch for known problem and you applied it.
The only difference from commercial products is that it was source patch as opposed to binary one.
I fail to see any advantages here. I mean what is so superior about performing recompile instead of simply downloading patched kernel?
How does he know that he did not introduced new bugs that will cost his company hours of downtime three weeks from now?
BTW.
Is it really efficient to pay networking people for debugging kernels (which is a big job on its own)?
Why do you think there is a market for precompiled and packaged OS in the first place?
So your job as a network architect is to actually spend hours running debug version of kernel looking for some small bug ?
How do you know you haven't introduced much bigger bug somewhere down the line ?
Are you kernel developer?
Are you suggesting all companies hire part-time kernel developers for occasions like that?
"Also, 7 years of appeals, and we still screw it up"
Nobody is perfect and we cannot achieve 100% accuracy ( I know, not much of a consolation for an innocent guy on death row)
I think it is a fair price to pay for having violent criminals removed from society.
Now I know it will be Ameritech ...
Looks like we gonna keep our static IP but no more SDSL.
Well, I had 768/384 which was better than 128 but as long as I get to keep my static IP and Ameritech allows me to run my little farm of services ( Telocity had no problem with it) I am gonna be reasonably happy.
"but that doesn't change the fact that I am not getting anywhere close to the kind of break that they are. "
If you did it would not be return but welfare check.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,1258964;roo t=telocity;mode=flat
Check this out.
It looks like we gonna end up with Ameritech.
Hmm, I doubt civil rights movement would amount to anything if south stuck to "democratic" way of handling things.
I have very nice setup here in Chicago suburb with static IP and everything from Telocity.
I know Telocity here runs on Rhythm network I just hope they will resolve that issue without significant service interruption.
"Saying this doesn't imply that it didn't have any effect on the way the world has developed, quite the opposite. "
Oh please, you do realize that people who describe organized religion in these terms are NOT doing this from neutral position.
"and I could logically say that Christianity IS evil, since it's responsible for spreading countless diseases to that population"
I think Native Americans benefited from this whole ordeal but this is strictly personal opinion and since I have no means to prove it I won't push it any further.
I do agree that religion has similar effect as some drugs. I don't like that term since it implies addiction and all widely known ills associated with this disease.
"It makes people feel better about themselves, absolves them of guilt and fear, and takes away a degree of freedom. "
One can say that about everyone. We all have our little fetishes and nightmares and all end up slaves to things that make us feel better.
Who is to say that sex addiction is more natural and "mature" than belief in supernatural being?
The difference is that former, on average, is much more beneficial to the society in large.
And if we heard about an election in some remote place where one dude lost by a slim margin but was rescued by bunch of local state judges ( all of them from the same party as he was) who managed to come up with some vague problems during election ( problems which were present in the last 10 election), virtually no one would disagree that the result was a sham.
Face it. Gore tried to invent "voters scam" in order to challenge valid results.
"Maybe this country will yet survive this president, till we can actually elect the next one."
It can survive with people like you so I have no doubts about us surviving G.W.Bush.
"Most stem cell researchers were surprised that President Bush "
What kind of science is that when one can talk about "most researchers" ?
We talking here about believes and NOT widely accepted scientific facts.
I take you don't think tax cut was smart...
Hell, I am sure you would be just happy with Gore and his new slew of taxes (guaranteed NO democrat since Kennedy failed to substantially increase taxes.)
Well, he is smarten than you. No doubt here.
"Bush playing God "
Precisely the reason why Government should be kept to bare minimum.
How about we solve everything with referendums ?
For better or worse we are product of Christianity.
By claiming that this religion is evil and "opium for the masses" you are denying your own heritage.
You don't want Feds to make decisions like that ?
Support every tax cut there is , less money flowing to DC less power for these people to make decisions about anything.