People with mundane, boring lives play video games to escape, and play as "someone cool." Why would people with mundane, boring lives shell out money just to role-play as themselves?
Democrat or not, you don't seem to understand the reasons we have anti-trust laws in the first place. These are the same reasons we need campaign finance reform i.e, because justice can be bought. Just like MS bought RAV, and fired its Unix developers, they have enough money to do the same with your favorite non-MS software too.
I don't seem to understand the...no I do. We actually have the Sherman Anti-trust law to prevent unions from becoming too powerful, not corporations, if you read your history books.
I agree that corporations can get too powerful, but that's exactly why you need to either a) innovate a way around it (Linux), or b) live without the product. If it is the case that the corporation commits criminal offences, or has just become too large to stop, then yes, I do believe invoking the Sherman Act is in order. My point was not that anti-trust acts are a bad thing, only that your sny comment about the Republicans (while they are evil) is only a small part of the truth. The whole paradigm is set up to give the Federal Government no control. Both parties offer Federal control as a solution to the mistakes The Other Side made.
Only one party can claim that a majority of its members support anti-trust enforcement and campaign finance reform. That party is not the Republican party.
That's a lame argument. Many parties support anti-trust enforcement, the debate is over "to what extent." When you fail to include that fact, you come across like Democrats are the shining beacon of Goodness and Light in an America ruled by corporations. Guess what, we have more votes! We also have a free press which means the we have alternatives to corporate and government bought lies! We also have public education and libraries, and with a quick mixture of common sense, information, and a willingness to think for ourselvses, we could solve these problems ourselves. If we could just care...
Corporations are neither good nor bad, they can be either depending on their behavior. Enron, Worldcom, et al are all corporations. These are not "a good thing" in my book, nor were they good to all the millions of investors who lost their retirement when their fraud and corruption reached critical mass.
Historically speaking, corporations provide many, many magnitudes more jobs than they destroy. I also pointed out (above, not originally) that at some point, corporations can/will start getting evil. I believe that if an educated masses can't stop it, and they're not breaking any greater law, Anti-Trust Act should be enforced.
Corruption is the product of human nature, corruption that lasts is the product of human negligence and indifference. We have become both, so try and change that, and you'll see some better elected officials:)
Nice thought but free markets don't work like that. You can only boycott what you're not forced to buy. If you want to run Project, for example, you have to buy it from MS. Why? Because MS bought the company, effectively removing your ability to boycott.
Some are good, some are bad. I believe that most are good, and only few are bad. Democrats believe that most of them are bad, or at least bash corporations as a whole without looking at the overwhelming good most do provide. Republicans make the mistake of rarely believing that corporations ever are bad (they really only give up in the case of criminal activity as in the case of Enron).
Look, here's my point. We have to follow a procedure here. First: find an alternative. If there is no suitable alternative, make one. If you can't make one or are just unwilling to, at least consider and move on. Then, you try and learn to live without it. If you can't try to find people that also can't live without it, but want to change it, and help them spread the word. If it's ultimately impossible, then the Sherman Act is in order:)
One of my many criticismn of the Democrats is their tendency to "jump the gun"
Microsoft will be beaten by people not buying Microsoft products, and convincing others that they should do the same; not imposing your values on the rest of America through legislating through the Judicial branch.
The case is clear to anyone without a bias. Kollar-Kotelly is only attempting to spin the fact that justice in the US can be bought (If you have enough money, and there's a Republican administration).
Please. You may agree with Democratic politics, and dislike Republicans, but that doesn't mean Democrats are some sort of beacon of light in a corrupt world controlled by suits.
This is why I hate partisan politics. It makes people think all the problems we have are cause by The Other Side (TM), rather than both sides being equally foobared.
Corporations are a good thing. They provide plenty of jobs and stimulate progress on all fronts. The problem comes when corporations get big enough to screw people, in which case the Republican solution is to give them tax cuts, and the Democrat solution is to tax them so high they have to pack their bags and move their plants to Mexico, India, and China. And then Democrats have the balls to say "look how evil they are! They're moving away from the US, firing Americans, and hiring children."
It's time consumers got their minds off of autopilot and excersized their right to demonstrate and boycott corporations that screw the little guys, 'cause if you tell the Government to do it, you're giving an already overgrown, mutated mouse a very large, tasty cookie...
Microsoft will be beaten by people not buying Microsoft products, not convincing others that they should do the same; not imposing your values on the rest of America.
I believe you're talking about the Prehistory of The Far Side.
My favorites among the section that got bad reader response was "Cow Tools," "Tethercat," and the one where the old lady nails wood onto her doggie door and beckons her dog, Fifi, to run straight into it.
...if this will make my old g400 play Doom III "better" than Quake III. I guess it all depends on whether or not this relic of the 90's will still be able to play it. I hope so, g400's are still really nice (albeit low-end) cards.
The support contracts limit how many separate installs you can have whilst getting support. Nothing stops you from installing RHEL on every box you own and then some. Doing so obviously doesn't violate the GPL, just the support license.
Of course, I'm not necessarily arguing with you, just the "people's complaints."
Here's what's happened. We've built educatedpopulation against terribleschools, which is considered deprecated and any modern society uses goodschools. Also, major pharmecutical companies have convinced people that our kids are born stupid and require their expensive drugs to have any kind of attention span (attention span==learning ability==intelligence). So now we have added druggedupkids to our USE flags, which, combined with terribleschools, has broken educatedpopulation. And since we seem to have brainwashedpopulation in our USE flags as well, we get a broken informedpopulation build. While we do have many responsibe people in this country that would be willing to think for themselves, because educatedpopulation and informedpopulation are broken, and our USE flags contain some nasty entries, liberty no longer builds.
I wish there were some way to undo this. Now we have to go in and fix all those broken dependencies. Let's see, we need to take out the druggedupkids and brainwashedpopulation from the USE flags. Then we need to build goodschools, build educatedpopulation against goodschools, and rebuild informedpopulation. Then we can try building liberty again.
Democrats: We want to build a larger federal government in order make sure that every American is either receiving federal aid or spending most of their paycheck for that aid. Also note the rise in social workers, immigration, and national-level progams. Basically, big government.
Republicans: We want to make sure that we stop terrorists that our jealous of our freedom. We will of course have to curtail civil liberties and build a large Department of Defense, Homeland Security, FBI, NSA, CIA, RIAA, DDOJSIOC, and of course militarize local police forces and train them to raid civilian homes looking for terrorists. To do this, we'll need lots of taxes unfortunately. Basically, big government.
There was a time not too long ago when Republicans were pragmatic, libertarian-minded, and altogether respectable. When did they abandon state and local rights? I'd say "what a joke," but if that's the case, the joke's on us.
Soon as I can, I'm moving to New Zealand. Actually, the idealist in me really wants to fight this.
I type "prt-get sysup" and get the same results. Gentoo doesn't suck, it's actually a very well maintained distribution. As long as it's on topic, I really don't mind. Just tell those 14-year old zealots that frequent those infamous forums of yours to stop throwing pitches where it's not on-topic, 'cause you're not the only one who can do that, nor is Gentoo the first to come up with it (there have been source-based distros for Linux for a while).
By the way, prt-get is a tool for Crux, a minimalistic distribution with a ports system. More my style than Gentoo, as it leaves more of the configuration in my hands.
I didn't know patching apps in Windows required a reboot. I know a lot of cl00less developers got in the habit of asking for a reboot to make them feel like their app is important enough to warrant one, but I remember back in my Windows days choosing not to reboot after ie upgrades and whatnot and not experiencing problems.
That's not a fair comparison. Their employees aren't forced into 90-hour work weeks for almost no pay...likening SCO and Canopy to Scientologists is kind of a mean gesture for those that are suffering.
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People with mundane, boring lives play video games to escape, and play as "someone cool." Why would people with mundane, boring lives shell out money just to role-play as themselves?
Recompile any third party modules such as dri drivers. If you got binary ones, I think you'll need to find some 2.6.0-ready ones.
I don't seem to understand the...no I do. We actually have the Sherman Anti-trust law to prevent unions from becoming too powerful, not corporations, if you read your history books.
I agree that corporations can get too powerful, but that's exactly why you need to either a) innovate a way around it (Linux), or b) live without the product. If it is the case that the corporation commits criminal offences, or has just become too large to stop, then yes, I do believe invoking the Sherman Act is in order. My point was not that anti-trust acts are a bad thing, only that your sny comment about the Republicans (while they are evil) is only a small part of the truth. The whole paradigm is set up to give the Federal Government no control. Both parties offer Federal control as a solution to the mistakes The Other Side made.
Only one party can claim that a majority of its members support anti-trust enforcement and campaign finance reform. That party is not the Republican party.
That's a lame argument. Many parties support anti-trust enforcement, the debate is over "to what extent." When you fail to include that fact, you come across like Democrats are the shining beacon of Goodness and Light in an America ruled by corporations. Guess what, we have more votes! We also have a free press which means the we have alternatives to corporate and government bought lies! We also have public education and libraries, and with a quick mixture of common sense, information, and a willingness to think for ourselvses, we could solve these problems ourselves. If we could just care...
Corporations are neither good nor bad, they can be either depending on their behavior. Enron, Worldcom, et al are all corporations. These are not "a good thing" in my book, nor were they good to all the millions of investors who lost their retirement when their fraud and corruption reached critical mass.
Historically speaking, corporations provide many, many magnitudes more jobs than they destroy. I also pointed out (above, not originally) that at some point, corporations can/will start getting evil. I believe that if an educated masses can't stop it, and they're not breaking any greater law, Anti-Trust Act should be enforced.
Corruption is the product of human nature, corruption that lasts is the product of human negligence and indifference. We have become both, so try and change that, and you'll see some better elected officials :)
Nice thought but free markets don't work like that. You can only boycott what you're not forced to buy. If you want to run Project, for example, you have to buy it from MS. Why? Because MS bought the company, effectively removing your ability to boycott.
Some are good, some are bad. I believe that most are good, and only few are bad. Democrats believe that most of them are bad, or at least bash corporations as a whole without looking at the overwhelming good most do provide. Republicans make the mistake of rarely believing that corporations ever are bad (they really only give up in the case of criminal activity as in the case of Enron).
Look, here's my point. We have to follow a procedure here. First: find an alternative. If there is no suitable alternative, make one. If you can't make one or are just unwilling to, at least consider and move on. Then, you try and learn to live without it. If you can't try to find people that also can't live without it, but want to change it, and help them spread the word. If it's ultimately impossible, then the Sherman Act is in order :)
One of my many criticismn of the Democrats is their tendency to "jump the gun"
I've had that .sig for months. It was funny at first, now not anymore. Unless it was the same AC the whole time, but I don't want to flatter myself.
Microsoft will be beaten by people not buying Microsoft products, and convincing others that they should do the same; not imposing your values on the rest of America through legislating through the Judicial branch.
Please. You may agree with Democratic politics, and dislike Republicans, but that doesn't mean Democrats are some sort of beacon of light in a corrupt world controlled by suits.
This is why I hate partisan politics. It makes people think all the problems we have are cause by The Other Side (TM), rather than both sides being equally foobared.
Corporations are a good thing. They provide plenty of jobs and stimulate progress on all fronts. The problem comes when corporations get big enough to screw people, in which case the Republican solution is to give them tax cuts, and the Democrat solution is to tax them so high they have to pack their bags and move their plants to Mexico, India, and China. And then Democrats have the balls to say "look how evil they are! They're moving away from the US, firing Americans, and hiring children."
It's time consumers got their minds off of autopilot and excersized their right to demonstrate and boycott corporations that screw the little guys, 'cause if you tell the Government to do it, you're giving an already overgrown, mutated mouse a very large, tasty cookie...
Microsoft will be beaten by people not buying Microsoft products, not convincing others that they should do the same; not imposing your values on the rest of America.
My favorites among the section that got bad reader response was "Cow Tools," "Tethercat," and the one where the old lady nails wood onto her doggie door and beckons her dog, Fifi, to run straight into it.
Unfortunately no DRI support for anything above 9200. I'll have to go 8500; I don't want to mess with Binary drivers. Thanks for your help.
Thanks for the insight...I guess I'll have to ditch this thing after all. I'll probably get an ATI low-9000's, so it plays nicely with Linux.
Or they can run them in rooms with such complicated surfaces and lighting that even the newest graphics cards won't maintain 60fps.
I dunno how much more doom3 is going to need in terms of power.
...if this will make my old g400 play Doom III "better" than Quake III. I guess it all depends on whether or not this relic of the 90's will still be able to play it. I hope so, g400's are still really nice (albeit low-end) cards.
Of course, I'm not necessarily arguing with you, just the "people's complaints."
Dude, we've all heard CCR before.
Sadly, I feel that politicians on both sides will use any major catastrophic event to further degrade civil liberties.
The only way to fight is to convince people that their liberties do matter.
I wish there were some way to undo this. Now we have to go in and fix all those broken dependencies. Let's see, we need to take out the druggedupkids and brainwashedpopulation from the USE flags. Then we need to build goodschools, build educatedpopulation against goodschools, and rebuild informedpopulation. Then we can try building liberty again.
Try witches. BUUUURN them all.
Doncha wish we could 'emerge common_sense'?
Democrats: We want to build a larger federal government in order make sure that every American is either receiving federal aid or spending most of their paycheck for that aid. Also note the rise in social workers, immigration, and national-level progams. Basically, big government.
Republicans: We want to make sure that we stop terrorists that our jealous of our freedom. We will of course have to curtail civil liberties and build a large Department of Defense, Homeland Security, FBI, NSA, CIA, RIAA, DDOJSIOC, and of course militarize local police forces and train them to raid civilian homes looking for terrorists. To do this, we'll need lots of taxes unfortunately. Basically, big government.
There was a time not too long ago when Republicans were pragmatic, libertarian-minded, and altogether respectable. When did they abandon state and local rights? I'd say "what a joke," but if that's the case, the joke's on us.
Soon as I can, I'm moving to New Zealand. Actually, the idealist in me really wants to fight this.
I type "prt-get sysup" and get the same results. Gentoo doesn't suck, it's actually a very well maintained distribution. As long as it's on topic, I really don't mind. Just tell those 14-year old zealots that frequent those infamous forums of yours to stop throwing pitches where it's not on-topic, 'cause you're not the only one who can do that, nor is Gentoo the first to come up with it (there have been source-based distros for Linux for a while). By the way, prt-get is a tool for Crux, a minimalistic distribution with a ports system. More my style than Gentoo, as it leaves more of the configuration in my hands.
But it has been a while, so I may be wrong.
Just say "you-know-who" and "YKW's party"
I wish people wouldn't run around forums looking for ways to show off their knowledge.
You know, System V code is *almost* old enough for that to make sense chronologically.
That's not a fair comparison. Their employees aren't forced into 90-hour work weeks for almost no pay...likening SCO and Canopy to Scientologists is kind of a mean gesture for those that are suffering.