I called T-Mobile at 611 and asked and they said that they do not provide any customer data to any government agency without a court order, and that they did no provide the NSA any customer data in relation to today's news.
you make a very good point. but you are forgetting a few important things. singapore is the closest thing I've ever seen to a repressive communist regime that doesn't fully and whole-heartedly embrace the title. the singaporeans behave as if they don't even realize what the concept of civil rights actually means. it is by far and a way one of the most stifling and horrible societies on earth. yes, the streets are so clean and the people so friendly, but there is no other way. they have created an artificial panacea where there are no problems and it's complete and total lunacy. if singapore worked to help its neighbors as hard as it worked to help it self the southern side of the malay peninsula might be a nice place for humanity to call home.
Did you make sure to take out the spaces that Slashdot inserts every 50 characters?
Try this...
Take this story for example, "GE'S NET ROSE 25% in the first quarter as nine of the conglomerate's 11 businesses logged double-digit percentage gains for earnings. The company also issued an upbeat 2005 outlook." The URL for that story is
Has anyone else noticed that you can take nearly any URL from their front page, and read the article for free. Watch...
Take this story for example, "GE'S NET ROSE 25% in the first quarter as nine of the conglomerate's 11 businesses logged double-digit percentage gains for earnings. The company also issued an upbeat 2005 outlook." The URL for that story is
You get the story with out any annoying information surrounding it.
Now if only I could find a place online that would teach me how to write an extension for Firefox that would add the word for me automatically so I don't have to type the word public everytime.:) Any volunteers to teach me?:)
The unfortunate thing is that this kind of action happens all to frequently everyday in countries around the world, where individuals say things that threaten people in power. What's worse is that similar activities are occuring in the United States, which is supposed to be the land that may not occur in.
Actually, the passage you are referring to allows for patents and copyrights. I've never heard anyone interpret that to mean that companies are allowed to inhibit speech once a trade secret has been figured out. Just my two cents.
I think this might be a really cool idea if someone could do something like this. Say for example someone is in a really restrictive corporate or government environment which only allows HTTP and HTTPS out, and no SSH or anything like that. Now say for example you have Webmin installed on your home computer set to port 443. You use your work web browser to view your home's Webmin server inside SSL, and then if Jazilla were made into an applet and put inside a Webmin module that sends all of its information through the Webmin SSL encrypted connection, similar to the way Shell-in-a-Box does, one could use a really nice browser to surf in complete privacy.
With all do respect, I don't think that's what the guy was talking about. The wealthier 50% of the population is not a very homogenous group. In fact, it's highly straitified. The wealth is highly concentrated in the very upper percentages. It's not very egalitarian at all, whereas the poorer 50% is much more homogenous, only because it is far harder to continually amass a negative net wealth than it is a positive net wealth.
Furthermore, since our economy is very consumer driven, ie, no consumers means no economy, the fewer consumers the less likely our economy grows. Allowing only a few individuals to continual amass more money will not increase the amount of consumption significantly.
As opposed to "rich" taxpayers who will put it under their mattresses?
Well, no we use bank accounts.:)
income tax reductions actually make the system more progressive
So you're telling me that because I make tens of thousands every year in dividends, and may soon no longer need to pay taxes on it, that we are getting a more progressive tax structure? Honestly, I don't do anything to get that money, but it'll be tax free. However, somebody raising a family on the very same amount of money each year would have to pay taxes on it if he earned it. That doesn't sound very progressive to me. It only benefits my portfolio.
The Bush administration has nothing to do with it.
Well correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the US Congress need to authorize the rights for states to eventually collect sales taxes from merchants when they get this agreement codified into a law? And won't the US President have to sign it? I think the Bush administration may well have something to do with it.
Why does it seem that so many people in my tax bracket despise paying a greater share of the burden. Come on, it's not like we can't afford.
to bail them out. It seems to me that the French government could benefit greatly from supporting a French software company. Why doesn't the French governemnt have Mandrake become their official Linux distribution and infuse them with the cash. It would bring good quality Linux code to the government, and would help break their MS addiction.
Well considering only a little over half of the world's population is literate, and about 5% of the world's popualtion is deaf, that's a good 20 million people. You can read a rather interesting statement on deaf illiteracy. One shouldn't think for a moment that just because one can read that others can.
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Each point is equal to 1/8 of a percent of interest on the loan amount
A point, also called a discount point, is in fact equal to 1% of the loan amount. Not sure how you get the 1/8 of a percent figure.
I'll pay a bit more attention to the ACLU when it defends my right to defend myself with a firearm, and when it defends, even slightly, the right of *any* unborn person.
I'll agree with you that the ACLU does not usually defend the second amendment. That is why it also essential to support the NRA, one of the other wonderful organizations I was referring to earlier.
As for "unborn persons" I assume you are referring to embryonic and fetal humans, who have not reached infancy. Although I'm sure we completely diagree on this issue, and find it noble that you care so much about the rights of an embryonic or fetal being. However, I would truly be impressed if you also care about the rights of the woman who lives in poverty that would otherwise give birth to it. Or whether or not you will care to defend its rights after 20 years have passed and it has become a man who has murdered people and will be executed by the state.
Does this explain the 100,000,000 people of their own citizens that communist regimes murdered???
Well, no, I said our government which has never very close to communism. Communist governemnts such as Russia and China have also been infected much more severly by cancers of greed to the point where everyones rights as well as possessions were stripped from them.
However, I still debate your assertion that a government usurps the rights of individuals when it is in their benefit to do so. Your implication is that the government is a completely separate entity from the people. It never is. The government is always representing someone's interests, and usually multiple people's conflicting interests simultaneously. It's when one of the represented interest becomes too embedded and powerful compared to its competitors that the government begins to usurp the rights of segments of the population in manner where there is little negative effect on the embedded, powerful interest group(s) yet significant positive effect for them.
Take for example your own example of the right to bear arms. Corporate interests have no significant interest in allowing you to bear arms, because then you only become competition with the American military which they have some indirect control over through politicians. What's more, the politicians use gun control as an easy way to get the vote of someone who lives in fear, further entrenching their establishment, which has already been bought by corporations. In the end, if no group such as the NRA defends your rights, you loose your right to own your weapons.
But don't be illusioned into believing that the government strips powers simply because it is in its own best interests. Powers are always stripped because its in the best interest of some other person or collection of people.
After all, government ONLY works by removing liberties.
It's a shame you don't have an organization like the ACLU in your country. Because in my country, the home of the ACLU, we are kept free to live our lives as we see fit, because of organizations like the ACLU, who work tirelessly to defend the rights of people which are being trampled on by a system that is manipulated by many outside forces, namely extremely wealthy commericial interests. Without organizations like the ACLU, our Bill of Rights would be more worthless than the paper it's written on.
Government is a necessary in the real world. It's necessary to prevent one entity from taking advantage of another entity, in other words, promote the general welfare. In our society, since we desire to govern ourselves, and place a high value on freedom, we build a government accordingly. Our government only becomes a usurper of rights when it becomes corrupted by the cancer of greed that is engendered by overly wealthy business interests.
Remember what happened in Germany, and in many other places on earth. Don't let those whose lives were sacrificed there be done so in vain. Support the ACLU.
Actually DSL service with the phone company (a.k.a. Verizon) is a lot less problematic than cable modem service in my area (Maryland). The cable company (Comcast) does not support or allow routers on their network according to their terms of service. However, Verizon has no problems with routers and will even support it if you buy one from them. What's more, you don't even need ot install any software as long as you have a router that support PPPoE. I received the self-install kit that said, "This CD has Windows and Mac software." So I simply called the support line saying I use Linux and can't install their software, but still need an account with which to login for PPPoE. The customer service rep was so helpful, he sasid just a sec, transfered me to an account guy who said "Your username is... and you password is...." And it was set. No issues, software EULAs or anything else I wouldn't like. Just connectivity. I'm not even a big fan of Verizon, but they at least did something right.
Yes, I agree that it's a very common misnomer, being documented in most respected dictionaries. I make no qualm about that. However it is still a misnomer and it is still an improper application of the meaning of the word. Unless one is refering to the abruptness of the change, ie. its sudden occurance, which i might add is nearly never the case, one doesn't realize the significance of the word quantum.
Plus, I'm not saying anyone is stupid.:) I'm just sharing that which I was informed. No malice intended.
It's not a quantum leap better than 8.2 was, but it is incrementally better.
I hate to do this, but I have to, especially since this is/. and everyone here should no better. But a "quantum leap" is the smallest possible leap that can be made. Hence the idea of something occuring on the "quantum scale" is something that occurs in the very, very small scale.
It's a common misnomer to use the term "quantum leap" when in fact the speaker means something more along the lines of a "cosmic leap" or a "galactic leap".
So in reference to your quote a quantum leap is in fact the smalles incremental adjustment the distro could make.
I urge all/.ers to be more observant of the definition of quantum.
The more we bring bring porn 'up' on the popular culture, the safer and more equal place it will be for its participants. All attempts to squash and censor it will simply allow its participants to operate in an area where public conciousness fears to tread - ensuring that its activites dovetail with the other cultures pushed underground (drugs, sex trade, etc).
Quite possibly the most insightful comment anyone has mentioned concerning pornography in this discussion.
Thank you for giving a link to the website concerning the continuum concept. That idea is something I have always believed, and am greatly interested that someone has developed the idea into a book. Now, I'll have something to read next week.
The rights of people cannot be trampled because the speech they chose to focus their time on is offensive to other people. To summarily block the viewing of information regarding human sexuality, nudity, pornography, in order to prevent minors from seeing it not only smells of fascism but screams absurdity. If you are so concerned over children accessing pornography, you need not bring your child to a library, or allow them to use any internet connected computer. If you wish to keep information regarding the sexual world in which a child lives from that child, the parent has ever right to lock that child up in the parent's dwelling and not let her access that information until she turns the magical age of 18. However, don't expect me or anyone else to have my speech silenced because you want that child to see a sanitized (read naive) view of the world.
Furthermore, a computer with internet access does not need to be treated like a hard-core porn rag. It is to be treated like a pen and paper. I can draw a really gratuitous scene of a childing getting raped a rabid dog with a pen and paper just as easily as I can download an image of one onto a computer screen. My ability to draw that image does not ban pens or papers from libraries. Nor is it illegal for me to sit in a library and draw such a raunchy, kinky image.
With regards to your statement, "An individual's supposed "right" to view pornography does not override my right to protect my children from things that I judge to be harmful," is non-sense. My speech can not be silenced because you don't wish your children to observe it. No one is forcing you or your children to look at anyone else's computer screen. In fact, in some circle, it might even be considered rude to look over someone's shoulder. But if you see something you don't like to look at, the simple answer is to look away, not to inhibit the other observers ability to observe it.
Your tax dollars are used to provide the public with information, ie a Library. It's not used to provide the public with only the information that you personally feel the public should be allowed to see. Other people may have desires to know or observe information that you or I may not be interested in, but that's part of what makes them "other people." Because you aren't the only one who wish to suck or fellate information from the library. I may not wish to have my tax dollars spent on providing access to information that your children are interested in, however, since they are members of the public they have just as much right to seek out and access thier desired information at a library as I do if I want to go into the library and pull up an image of a guy taking it up the ass while eating his wife out, if I'm doing a study on bisexual man who like to engage in menage-a-trois.
And for those of you who have forgotten, this is The United States of America, not the National Socialist Empire of Germany (aka. Nazi Germany).
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I called T-Mobile at 611 and asked and they said that they do not provide any customer data to any government agency without a court order, and that they did no provide the NSA any customer data in relation to today's news.
you make a very good point. but you are forgetting a few important things. singapore is the closest thing I've ever seen to a repressive communist regime that doesn't fully and whole-heartedly embrace the title. the singaporeans behave as if they don't even realize what the concept of civil rights actually means. it is by far and a way one of the most stifling and horrible societies on earth. yes, the streets are so clean and the people so friendly, but there is no other way. they have created an artificial panacea where there are no problems and it's complete and total lunacy. if singapore worked to help its neighbors as hard as it worked to help it self the southern side of the malay peninsula might be a nice place for humanity to call home.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111160514010687 816,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
which if you are not already logged in, takes you to the log in page. However, if you insert the word public before the word article like so...
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB11116051 4010687816,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
You are taken right to the story. Even better, if you make the URL look like this...
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/0,,SB11 1160514010687816,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
You get the story with out any annoying information surrounding it.
Has anyone else noticed that you can take nearly any URL from their front page, and read the article for free. Watch...
6 87 816,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
0 51 4010687816,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
B 11 1160514010687816,00.html?mod=home_whats_news_us
:) Any volunteers to teach me? :)
Take this story for example, "GE'S NET ROSE 25% in the first quarter as nine of the conglomerate's 11 businesses logged double-digit percentage gains for earnings. The company also issued an upbeat 2005 outlook." The URL for that story is
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111160514010
which if you are not already logged in, takes you to the log in page. However, if you insert the word public before the word article like so...
http://online.wsj.com/public/article/0,,SB11116
You are taken right to the story. Even better, if you make the URL look like this...
http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/0,,S
You get the story with out any annoying information surrounding it.
Now if only I could find a place online that would teach me how to write an extension for Firefox that would add the word for me automatically so I don't have to type the word public everytime.
Enjoy!
Remember, Freedom can't protect itself.
Actually, the passage you are referring to allows for patents and copyrights. I've never heard anyone interpret that to mean that companies are allowed to inhibit speech once a trade secret has been figured out. Just my two cents.
that all the gay geniuses have an even better chance at making a contribution to sciences and arts? ;) It makes you wonder. ;)
I think this might be a really cool idea if someone could do something like this. Say for example someone is in a really restrictive corporate or government environment which only allows HTTP and HTTPS out, and no SSH or anything like that. Now say for example you have Webmin installed on your home computer set to port 443. You use your work web browser to view your home's Webmin server inside SSL, and then if Jazilla were made into an applet and put inside a Webmin module that sends all of its information through the Webmin SSL encrypted connection, similar to the way Shell-in-a-Box does, one could use a really nice browser to surf in complete privacy.
Well, it's just a thought anyway.
Furthermore, since our economy is very consumer driven, ie, no consumers means no economy, the fewer consumers the less likely our economy grows. Allowing only a few individuals to continual amass more money will not increase the amount of consumption significantly.
Just my two cents.
Well, no we use bank accounts.
income tax reductions actually make the system more progressive
So you're telling me that because I make tens of thousands every year in dividends, and may soon no longer need to pay taxes on it, that we are getting a more progressive tax structure? Honestly, I don't do anything to get that money, but it'll be tax free. However, somebody raising a family on the very same amount of money each year would have to pay taxes on it if he earned it. That doesn't sound very progressive to me. It only benefits my portfolio.
The Bush administration has nothing to do with it.
Well correct me if I'm wrong, but won't the US Congress need to authorize the rights for states to eventually collect sales taxes from merchants when they get this agreement codified into a law? And won't the US President have to sign it? I think the Bush administration may well have something to do with it.
Why does it seem that so many people in my tax bracket despise paying a greater share of the burden. Come on, it's not like we can't afford.
Just my two cents.
to bail them out. It seems to me that the French government could benefit greatly from supporting a French software company. Why doesn't the French governemnt have Mandrake become their official Linux distribution and infuse them with the cash. It would bring good quality Linux code to the government, and would help break their MS addiction.
Just my two cents.
Why is the above post moderated as funny? How is a large poplulation of illiterate deaf people funny?
Well considering only a little over half of the world's population is literate, and about 5% of the world's popualtion is deaf, that's a good 20 million people. You can read a rather interesting statement on deaf illiteracy. One shouldn't think for a moment that just because one can read that others can.
Each point is equal to 1/8 of a percent of interest on the loan amount
A point, also called a discount point, is in fact equal to 1% of the loan amount. Not sure how you get the 1/8 of a percent figure.
I'll pay a bit more attention to the ACLU when it defends my right to defend myself with a firearm, and when it defends, even slightly, the right of *any* unborn person.
I'll agree with you that the ACLU does not usually defend the second amendment. That is why it also essential to support the NRA, one of the other wonderful organizations I was referring to earlier.
As for "unborn persons" I assume you are referring to embryonic and fetal humans, who have not reached infancy. Although I'm sure we completely diagree on this issue, and find it noble that you care so much about the rights of an embryonic or fetal being. However, I would truly be impressed if you also care about the rights of the woman who lives in poverty that would otherwise give birth to it. Or whether or not you will care to defend its rights after 20 years have passed and it has become a man who has murdered people and will be executed by the state.
Does this explain the 100,000,000 people of their own citizens that communist regimes murdered???
Well, no, I said our government which has never very close to communism. Communist governemnts such as Russia and China have also been infected much more severly by cancers of greed to the point where everyones rights as well as possessions were stripped from them.
However, I still debate your assertion that a government usurps the rights of individuals when it is in their benefit to do so. Your implication is that the government is a completely separate entity from the people. It never is. The government is always representing someone's interests, and usually multiple people's conflicting interests simultaneously. It's when one of the represented interest becomes too embedded and powerful compared to its competitors that the government begins to usurp the rights of segments of the population in manner where there is little negative effect on the embedded, powerful interest group(s) yet significant positive effect for them.
Take for example your own example of the right to bear arms. Corporate interests have no significant interest in allowing you to bear arms, because then you only become competition with the American military which they have some indirect control over through politicians. What's more, the politicians use gun control as an easy way to get the vote of someone who lives in fear, further entrenching their establishment, which has already been bought by corporations. In the end, if no group such as the NRA defends your rights, you loose your right to own your weapons.
But don't be illusioned into believing that the government strips powers simply because it is in its own best interests. Powers are always stripped because its in the best interest of some other person or collection of people.
It's a shame you don't have an organization like the ACLU in your country. Because in my country, the home of the ACLU, we are kept free to live our lives as we see fit, because of organizations like the ACLU, who work tirelessly to defend the rights of people which are being trampled on by a system that is manipulated by many outside forces, namely extremely wealthy commericial interests. Without organizations like the ACLU, our Bill of Rights would be more worthless than the paper it's written on.
Government is a necessary in the real world. It's necessary to prevent one entity from taking advantage of another entity, in other words, promote the general welfare. In our society, since we desire to govern ourselves, and place a high value on freedom, we build a government accordingly. Our government only becomes a usurper of rights when it becomes corrupted by the cancer of greed that is engendered by overly wealthy business interests.
Remember what happened in Germany, and in many other places on earth. Don't let those whose lives were sacrificed there be done so in vain. Support the ACLU.
Actually DSL service with the phone company (a.k.a. Verizon) is a lot less problematic than cable modem service in my area (Maryland). The cable company (Comcast) does not support or allow routers on their network according to their terms of service. However, Verizon has no problems with routers and will even support it if you buy one from them. What's more, you don't even need ot install any software as long as you have a router that support PPPoE. I received the self-install kit that said, "This CD has Windows and Mac software." So I simply called the support line saying I use Linux and can't install their software, but still need an account with which to login for PPPoE. The customer service rep was so helpful, he sasid just a sec, transfered me to an account guy who said "Your username is ... and you password is ...." And it was set. No issues, software EULAs or anything else I wouldn't like. Just connectivity. I'm not even a big fan of Verizon, but they at least did something right.
Yes, I agree that it's a very common misnomer, being documented in most respected dictionaries. I make no qualm about that. However it is still a misnomer and it is still an improper application of the meaning of the word. Unless one is refering to the abruptness of the change, ie. its sudden occurance, which i might add is nearly never the case, one doesn't realize the significance of the word quantum.
:) I'm just sharing that which I was informed. No malice intended.
Plus, I'm not saying anyone is stupid.
Yes and I do "no" better. If only I edit before I hit submit.
I hate to do this, but I have to, especially since this is
It's a common misnomer to use the term "quantum leap" when in fact the speaker means something more along the lines of a "cosmic leap" or a "galactic leap".
So in reference to your quote a quantum leap is in fact the smalles incremental adjustment the distro could make.
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Enjoy the article.
The more we bring bring porn 'up' on the popular culture, the safer and more equal place it will be for its participants. All attempts to squash and censor it will simply allow its participants to operate in an area where public conciousness fears to tread - ensuring that its activites dovetail with the other cultures pushed underground (drugs, sex trade, etc).
Quite possibly the most insightful comment anyone has mentioned concerning pornography in this discussion.
Thank you for giving a link to the website concerning the continuum concept. That idea is something I have always believed, and am greatly interested that someone has developed the idea into a book. Now, I'll have something to read next week.
Once again, thank you very much.
The rights of people cannot be trampled because the speech they chose to focus their time on is offensive to other people. To summarily block the viewing of information regarding human sexuality, nudity, pornography, in order to prevent minors from seeing it not only smells of fascism but screams absurdity. If you are so concerned over children accessing pornography, you need not bring your child to a library, or allow them to use any internet connected computer. If you wish to keep information regarding the sexual world in which a child lives from that child, the parent has ever right to lock that child up in the parent's dwelling and not let her access that information until she turns the magical age of 18. However, don't expect me or anyone else to have my speech silenced because you want that child to see a sanitized (read naive) view of the world.
Furthermore, a computer with internet access does not need to be treated like a hard-core porn rag. It is to be treated like a pen and paper. I can draw a really gratuitous scene of a childing getting raped a rabid dog with a pen and paper just as easily as I can download an image of one onto a computer screen. My ability to draw that image does not ban pens or papers from libraries. Nor is it illegal for me to sit in a library and draw such a raunchy, kinky image.
With regards to your statement, "An individual's supposed "right" to view pornography does not override my right to protect my children from things that I judge to be harmful," is non-sense. My speech can not be silenced because you don't wish your children to observe it. No one is forcing you or your children to look at anyone else's computer screen. In fact, in some circle, it might even be considered rude to look over someone's shoulder. But if you see something you don't like to look at, the simple answer is to look away, not to inhibit the other observers ability to observe it.
Your tax dollars are used to provide the public with information, ie a Library. It's not used to provide the public with only the information that you personally feel the public should be allowed to see. Other people may have desires to know or observe information that you or I may not be interested in, but that's part of what makes them "other people." Because you aren't the only one who wish to suck or fellate information from the library. I may not wish to have my tax dollars spent on providing access to information that your children are interested in, however, since they are members of the public they have just as much right to seek out and access thier desired information at a library as I do if I want to go into the library and pull up an image of a guy taking it up the ass while eating his wife out, if I'm doing a study on bisexual man who like to engage in menage-a-trois.
And for those of you who have forgotten, this is The United States of America, not the National Socialist Empire of Germany (aka. Nazi Germany).