I thought libertarian would be fiercely against the patriot act and some of the executive orders of the Bush administration. Do I misunderstand "libertarian"?
This is a pretty interesting read on the whole voter purge thing. I'm still reading it, but it looks like the purge for this election will be the same. In a state that's 20% hispanic, only 61 out of 48,000 "felons" on the purge list are hispanic.
The Florida Secretary of State, who was also the Florida State Campaign Manager for the Republican Party, is the person who hired the private company that performed the voter purge.
The test you refer to are interesting as well. In initial runs, the program purged too many hispanic voters. Since hispanic's historically vote republican in Florida, the software was altered and tested until the purge resulted in mostly blacks being disenfranchized.
The whole thing kind of feels like the story of that woman who was gang raped on the pinball machine of a bar, everyone watched, everyone knew what was happening, no one did anything to stop it.
Liberal journalists SERIOUSLY outnumber conservative ones
I've heard/read that phrase and similar all of my life (I'm 36). But the vast majority of "news" I see on tv and read in the local paper has a definate "right leaning slant". Just where are all of these liberal journalist?
I think that to have a healthy democracy you need a free press that is critical of those in power. But I have to go online and search for news on truly relevant issues. It may be that the "liberal media" is a myth, and our major media outlets are owned by "right-leaning" billionares.
The left button of my mx510 "wore out" after about 5 months. It would randomly stop working and I would have to hold it down for several seconds to get my desktop to recognize a click. Then it quit working entirely in the middle of a ut2k4 scrim. No fire, no t/l.:(
I bought a new one, this time I paid the 9 dollars for the the two year replacement plan. I've been considering taking the old apart to see if there's an obvious fix, but it doesn's seem very "take apartable"
Ok, here's an experiment we don't have to actually perform because we all know ourselves well enough:
Put 10 people in a house together. Three times a day put out dinner for 7. Everyone wakes up early in the morning to be the first in line. Several people actually take more than they need and hoard it upstairs in their room.
Now assume that the provider isn't doing this because he's mean or stingy but because that's all the food he can put out everyday and not eventually run out.
He solves this problem by telling everyone that there's plenty for everyone, no worries. Every meal he puts out enough food to feed 15 people. Some food goes to waste. Some people start sleeping in and missing breakfast. The provider complains about wasted food, start's to scale back on what he puts out. Eventually he's putting out the original amount of food but everyones satisfied.
Resources are scarce because we percieve that they are, not because they are. How much space does someone need? How many TV's? How many cars (if any)?
Small companies who are successful selling computers, become big companies or go out of business.
Why does it have to be like this though? Why is it that the stock market must go up, corporate profits must increase, and small companies must become large ones to survive?
Central Banks, that's why. They are so entrenched that just getting rid of them (Federal Reserve buy back) would cause much suffering for most of us.
I haven't heard anyone "pipe up" with a sensible plan to get ourselves out of this hole we've (our grandfathers) dug, but maybe this is it.
An alternative system evolves slowly and quietly alongside the old one, eventually replacing it. The final step would maybe not be a revolution but a collective decision to ignore the old system.
This should be modded up, not down. I quote: I don't know what the problem is, Transgaming already has the best copy protection system there is. Their product sucks ass. Why the hell would anyone want to copy this steaming pile? To find out that 2% of your games work, and most of those both work poorly and already have a native linux port.
You know what, I hope this works. I hope they shut everybody who was copying the software out of the picture so that maybe, just maybe, someone else will take a stab at making linux gaming better.
If anyone's going to get my pennies it'll be icculus.
This is not flamebait. It might be at odds with the moderators opinion, but it's not flamebait.
Pirating's not enough. I subscribed thinking that the winex code would all be given to the wine project when they had enough subscriptions (15000?). They lied to me and I think they should suffer for it. Breach of contract?
As the above poster said, SuSE is a good choice for a dual boot system. I used it for years before switching to Gentoo. I prefer gentoo now over SuSE, in large part because of their forums. If you do a stage3 install it's not really that difficult and with either suse or gentoo, losing your windows partition isn't an issue.
That said, the majority people I've talked to that own their servers use Slackware (which I haven't tried since the zipslack days). I'd have to qualify that though, I don't know anyone hosting a huge traffic site like a popular porn site.
I don't see anyone posting comments describing how low the pay is at MicroSoft, or how horribly they treat their employees.
MicroSoft, with deliberate intent, lies to both it's customers and it's partners. It's a company that has broken trust many times.
You think: Having a BMW matters. Actually the chicks that would fuck someone because of his car would probably fuck anyone anyway. These days, anyone who wants to be a ladie killer is one.
Microsoft is just a software company.
Nope. Microsoft is Bill Gates's personal empire; it started with a deciet, became huge due to a betrayal, stays huge by breaking the law.
I like having a computer that I own, using the internet the way I want to, owning the hardware and software that I use. The company that you work for is willing to break the law to keep people from experiencing that. It's immoral, you either realize that or you're a moron.
People like you, who think their compensation package somehow makes up for what their employer does, are the reason why the world is so fucked up. Every fucking one of the worlds problems, including AIDS, war, world hunger, can be traced back to someone or some people like you.
#doom3linux on irc.enterthegame.com, we're waiting for it too:) Why not wait with us;)
I'm in. Everyone else should idle there too. What's the world record for the most idlers in an irc channel?
btw, please +v }MB{MANIFOLD. I don't have anything to say, I just want a V next to my name. thx
What is the real cause of all these attacks on the spatial Nautilius? In my opinion, it is just bad file organisation coupled with a bunch of old bad habits. It's really hard to use a spatial file browser if someone keeps his or her files in a ten-folder-deep structure. Browser-mode file browsers hide the lack of thought and organisation in the filesystem structure; spatial ones do not. Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible, and the "master" folders (something like My Images or My Music folders known from Windows) should have their own shortcuts on a GNOME panel, so that playing your favourite song would only require opening My Music from the panel, opening the appriopriate album folder and double-clicking a file icon, instead of browsing straight from the home directory (or, worse, the root one) through several levels of subfolders
He seems to equate good organization skills with having all your files in one or two folders and having a directory structure 10 folders deep with bad organization. He also uses a lot of "should be's", as if he wants to press his preferences onto the rest of us.
I don't know about Music Folder idea either. His My Music folder sounds horribly disorganized, or maybe his collection is really small/limited to one genre. His directory structure should be Media/Music/Rock/80s/Singles/B-52s_Rock_Lobster.mp 3. Whats that 5 folders deep? So if he wants to play that song he has to open 5 windows. Or he could go with his shortcut idea and eventually have 30 icons on his desktop. How tidy.
the more we break it. We keep cutting out arts, music and sports-the very things that foster creative problem solving skills. Every time I hear some idiot politician talking about how we need to concentrate more on the hard sciences and math, I think about a bunch of kids with stifled imaginations. The Japanese built their economy by copying our innovations, their kids couldn't come up with any of their own. Now, we have a bunch of idiots that say the educational system that gave us all of those creative minds didn't work as well as foreign educational systems. Stupid.
You sound kinda outta control, and some people might say thats counter productive. But your comments made me realize what's been missing. RAGE. It was there in the Viet Nam protests, it was there in the civil rights movement, where is it now? Something has effectively castrated/pacifed the American people. Video games, VCR's, internet porn, etc. We now have so many escape mechanisms to hide inside, we can't seem to stay mad past the weekend.
On a side note, does anyone notice a kind of resignation to laws like the Patriot Act now? Like we're waiting for after the election, we're assuming that it'll go away then? I have and it bothers me. There should actually be a massive campaign to FIRE EACH AND EVERY ENCUMBENT FROM EVERY OFFICE IN THE COUNTRY if the Patriot Act isn't completely repealed BEFORE the elections.
Hmph. A campaign like that would probably be labeled a terrorist act or extortion or something. I've no faith left.
Ok, now thats a good explanation of why humans can so (mentally) easily manipulate objects in 3d space without doing any math.
I've always figured that the best design for a computer would be one that's able to "imagine". Since it would take too many transistors to emulate a neuron, maybe there's some other way to do it? Is binary the only way to compute?
Well it could be a big deal depending on how you define the word "advertising". Could it mean that you need written permission to publicly display the term "xfree86"? That could be a problem.
If I wanted to sell computers pre-installed with linux I would need written permission to say "includes xfree86 4.4" in my brochure. I think that's a big deal
I noticed something interesting and thought it might fit as a reply to your post; as you said, most of the Democratic candidates (traditionally "the liberals") are speaking against the Patriot Act and most of the people defending it or trying to expand it are Republican (traditionally the "conservatives"). Yet the article makes this statement:
But conservatives came out of the woodwork, claiming the "smart card" could become a national I.D. card, containing all kinds of information that could be misused by authorities. The bill quickly died.
So am I supposed to conclude that the real threat to our liberties is from the liberals? Is this a spin job or have I been confused?
The most interesting point of this story is that the entire planet wasn't given permission to reprint the posix standard from day one. It's a standard isn't it?
Isn't promoting standards one of the main reasons for the IEEE consortium's existance? How do you promote standards by not allowing anyone to reprint them?
And the Linux Man Page Project expresses how grateful they feel. Whatever.
This trait occurs often in Norwegian fishermen as well. I'm an American fisherman who's worked for a few Norwegian deckbosses. The job often requires spending the entire day repairing a net with your bare hands while the snow blows sideways at 40 kts.
The answer is that you need both: technical measures to assure the identity of the sender -- both spammer and sponsor -- as well as legal measures to provide for punishment.
Doesn't matter if you can't actually find the spammer. If there was an easy way to track every spam to its true originator there would be no more spam.
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I thought libertarian would be fiercely against the patriot act and some of the executive orders of the Bush administration. Do I misunderstand "libertarian"?
thx
This is a pretty interesting read on the whole voter purge thing. I'm still reading it, but it looks like the purge for this election will be the same. In a state that's 20% hispanic, only 61 out of 48,000 "felons" on the purge list are hispanic.
The Florida Secretary of State, who was also the Florida State Campaign Manager for the Republican Party, is the person who hired the private company that performed the voter purge.
The test you refer to are interesting as well. In initial runs, the program purged too many hispanic voters. Since hispanic's historically vote republican in Florida, the software was altered and tested until the purge resulted in mostly blacks being disenfranchized.
The whole thing kind of feels like the story of that woman who was gang raped on the pinball machine of a bar, everyone watched, everyone knew what was happening, no one did anything to stop it.
wtf?
Why was this modded troll? Hey moderators! Please stop modding down views that differ from your own. I see nothing "trollish" in the above post.
Liberal journalists SERIOUSLY outnumber conservative ones
I've heard/read that phrase and similar all of my life (I'm 36). But the vast majority of "news" I see on tv and read in the local paper has a definate "right leaning slant". Just where are all of these liberal journalist? I think that to have a healthy democracy you need a free press that is critical of those in power. But I have to go online and search for news on truly relevant issues. It may be that the "liberal media" is a myth, and our major media outlets are owned by "right-leaning" billionares.
The left button of my mx510 "wore out" after about 5 months. It would randomly stop working and I would have to hold it down for several seconds to get my desktop to recognize a click. Then it quit working entirely in the middle of a ut2k4 scrim. No fire, no t/l. :(
I bought a new one, this time I paid the 9 dollars for the the two year replacement plan. I've been considering taking the old apart to see if there's an obvious fix, but it doesn's seem very "take apartable"
Ok, here's an experiment we don't have to actually perform because we all know ourselves well enough:
Put 10 people in a house together. Three times a day put out dinner for 7. Everyone wakes up early in the morning to be the first in line. Several people actually take more than they need and hoard it upstairs in their room.
Now assume that the provider isn't doing this because he's mean or stingy but because that's all the food he can put out everyday and not eventually run out.
He solves this problem by telling everyone that there's plenty for everyone, no worries. Every meal he puts out enough food to feed 15 people. Some food goes to waste. Some people start sleeping in and missing breakfast. The provider complains about wasted food, start's to scale back on what he puts out. Eventually he's putting out the original amount of food but everyones satisfied.
Resources are scarce because we percieve that they are, not because they are. How much space does someone need? How many TV's? How many cars (if any)?
Small companies who are successful selling computers, become big companies or go out of business.
Why does it have to be like this though? Why is it that the stock market must go up, corporate profits must increase, and small companies must become large ones to survive?
Central Banks, that's why. They are so entrenched that just getting rid of them (Federal Reserve buy back) would cause much suffering for most of us.
I haven't heard anyone "pipe up" with a sensible plan to get ourselves out of this hole we've (our grandfathers) dug, but maybe this is it.
An alternative system evolves slowly and quietly alongside the old one, eventually replacing it. The final step would maybe not be a revolution but a collective decision to ignore the old system.
This should be modded up, not down. I quote:
I don't know what the problem is, Transgaming already has the best copy protection system there is. Their product sucks ass. Why the hell would anyone want to copy this steaming pile? To find out that 2% of your games work, and most of those both work poorly and already have a native linux port. You know what, I hope this works. I hope they shut everybody who was copying the software out of the picture so that maybe, just maybe, someone else will take a stab at making linux gaming better. If anyone's going to get my pennies it'll be icculus. This is not flamebait. It might be at odds with the moderators opinion, but it's not flamebait.
Pirating's not enough. I subscribed thinking that the winex code would all be given to the wine project when they had enough subscriptions (15000?). They lied to me and I think they should suffer for it. Breach of contract?
As the above poster said, SuSE is a good choice for a dual boot system. I used it for years before switching to Gentoo. I prefer gentoo now over SuSE, in large part because of their forums. If you do a stage3 install it's not really that difficult and with either suse or gentoo, losing your windows partition isn't an issue.
That said, the majority people I've talked to that own their servers use Slackware (which I haven't tried since the zipslack days). I'd have to qualify that though, I don't know anyone hosting a huge traffic site like a popular porn site.
wow. you missed the point completely.
I don't see anyone posting comments describing how low the pay is at MicroSoft, or how horribly they treat their employees.
MicroSoft, with deliberate intent, lies to both it's customers and it's partners. It's a company that has broken trust many times.
You think:
Microsoft is just a software company.Having a BMW matters.
Actually the chicks that would fuck someone because of his car would probably fuck anyone anyway. These days, anyone who wants to be a ladie killer is one.
Nope. Microsoft is Bill Gates's personal empire; it started with a deciet, became huge due to a betrayal, stays huge by breaking the law. I like having a computer that I own, using the internet the way I want to, owning the hardware and software that I use. The company that you work for is willing to break the law to keep people from experiencing that. It's immoral, you either realize that or you're a moron.
People like you, who think their compensation package somehow makes up for what their employer does, are the reason why the world is so fucked up. Every fucking one of the worlds problems, including AIDS, war, world hunger, can be traced back to someone or some people like you.
You suck.#doom3linux on irc.enterthegame.com, we're waiting for it too :) Why not wait with us ;)
I'm in. Everyone else should idle there too. What's the world record for the most idlers in an irc channel? btw, please +v }MB{MANIFOLD. I don't have anything to say, I just want a V next to my name. thxWhat is the real cause of all these attacks on the spatial Nautilius? In my opinion, it is just bad file organisation coupled with a bunch of old bad habits. It's really hard to use a spatial file browser if someone keeps his or her files in a ten-folder-deep structure. Browser-mode file browsers hide the lack of thought and organisation in the filesystem structure; spatial ones do not. Folder structure should be simple and as shallow as possible, and the "master" folders (something like My Images or My Music folders known from Windows) should have their own shortcuts on a GNOME panel, so that playing your favourite song would only require opening My Music from the panel, opening the appriopriate album folder and double-clicking a file icon, instead of browsing straight from the home directory (or, worse, the root one) through several levels of subfolders
He seems to equate good organization skills with having all your files in one or two folders and having a directory structure 10 folders deep with bad organization. He also uses a lot of "should be's", as if he wants to press his preferences onto the rest of us.
I don't know about Music Folder idea either. His My Music folder sounds horribly disorganized, or maybe his collection is really small/limited to one genre. His directory structure should be Media/Music/Rock/80s/Singles/B-52s_Rock_Lobster.mp 3. Whats that 5 folders deep? So if he wants to play that song he has to open 5 windows. Or he could go with his shortcut idea and eventually have 30 icons on his desktop. How tidy.
the more we break it. We keep cutting out arts, music and sports-the very things that foster creative problem solving skills. Every time I hear some idiot politician talking about how we need to concentrate more on the hard sciences and math, I think about a bunch of kids with stifled imaginations. The Japanese built their economy by copying our innovations, their kids couldn't come up with any of their own. Now, we have a bunch of idiots that say the educational system that gave us all of those creative minds didn't work as well as foreign educational systems. Stupid.
You sound kinda outta control, and some people might say thats counter productive. But your comments made me realize what's been missing. RAGE. It was there in the Viet Nam protests, it was there in the civil rights movement, where is it now? Something has effectively castrated/pacifed the American people. Video games, VCR's, internet porn, etc. We now have so many escape mechanisms to hide inside, we can't seem to stay mad past the weekend.
On a side note, does anyone notice a kind of resignation to laws like the Patriot Act now? Like we're waiting for after the election, we're assuming that it'll go away then? I have and it bothers me. There should actually be a massive campaign to FIRE EACH AND EVERY ENCUMBENT FROM EVERY OFFICE IN THE COUNTRY if the Patriot Act isn't completely repealed BEFORE the elections.
Hmph. A campaign like that would probably be labeled a terrorist act or extortion or something. I've no faith left.
mod up please
Ok, now thats a good explanation of why humans can so (mentally) easily manipulate objects in 3d space without doing any math.
I've always figured that the best design for a computer would be one that's able to "imagine". Since it would take too many transistors to emulate a neuron, maybe there's some other way to do it? Is binary the only way to compute?
Well it could be a big deal depending on how you define the word "advertising". Could it mean that you need written permission to publicly display the term "xfree86"? That could be a problem.
If I wanted to sell computers pre-installed with linux I would need written permission to say "includes xfree86 4.4" in my brochure. I think that's a big deal
I noticed something interesting and thought it might fit as a reply to your post; as you said, most of the Democratic candidates (traditionally "the liberals") are speaking against the Patriot Act and most of the people defending it or trying to expand it are Republican (traditionally the "conservatives"). Yet the article makes this statement:
But conservatives came out of the woodwork, claiming the "smart card" could become a national I.D. card, containing all kinds of information that could be misused by authorities. The bill quickly died.
So am I supposed to conclude that the real threat to our liberties is from the liberals? Is this a spin job or have I been confused?
The most interesting point of this story is that the entire planet wasn't given permission to reprint the posix standard from day one. It's a standard isn't it?
Isn't promoting standards one of the main reasons for the IEEE consortium's existance? How do you promote standards by not allowing anyone to reprint them?
And the Linux Man Page Project expresses how grateful they feel. Whatever.
This trait occurs often in Norwegian fishermen as well. I'm an American fisherman who's worked for a few Norwegian deckbosses. The job often requires spending the entire day repairing a net with your bare hands while the snow blows sideways at 40 kts.
This is the first i've heard of this company. I've been to their website, googled a bit and I don't think I like them.
Is there a filter for "warranted email" from habeas? It seems to me that any email that needs to be warranted must be spam.
bah.
that wasn't clear. what I meant was that you won't be able to find the body, just an ip address.
The answer is that you need both: technical measures to assure the identity of the sender -- both spammer and sponsor -- as well as legal measures to provide for punishment.
Doesn't matter if you can't actually find the spammer. If there was an easy way to track every spam to its true originator there would be no more spam.