and yet somehow you live with yourself. i'm sorry you're not glad.
btw, it's fun to do the math to see where your tax cut goes when you factor in state tax (hey all states are in the financial crapper - don't you start to wonder why?), increases in fees for local services, cuts to programs...
most people spent that rebate check before they got it.
but hey, what do i care, i moved to a real country with a gov't party that i disagree with a lot of the time but at least is generally responsible. my taxes didn't decrease the past two years but the economy is recovering.
"That's better than being in the gov't coffers and ending up paying for a study on some senator's pet project with little or no redeemingvalue."
like, say, arpanet?
schools?
national defense?
national health care - oh wait, it's us folks in europe with national health care systems who spend less money per capita on health care then the usa does on its private system, sorry, ignore that one.
taxes pay for maintaining a society. as with all things, you get what you pay for. i pay just a bit more taxes since moving to ireland and i get a national health care system (that i can supplement with private insurance), lower cost education, decent social programs, arts programs, etc. i don't seem to get snipers on highways, school shootings, and starving children.
so, you know, kinda think that's worth a few extra euro a month.
no, i hate bush because he's destroying america, his programs abuse society's most vulnerable, and he's letting his campaign contributors loot the public coffers.
call me weird, but i get a bit tetchy when someone tries to destroy the sweat and blood of millions of americans over 200+ years. pardon my bile if i see public officials pissing away our money to make people who already have more money then they need richer.
so yeah, i hate bush. and i hate what he stands for - greed, lies and indifference to most of his fellow citizens.
yes, the liberal media. do you mean the new york times which did the lead reporting on whitewater? or do you mean the network news programs that harped on gore's "lies" and yet failed to do things like look into bush's sealed records as governor (and don't be fooled, they're not unsealed now, they're "unsealed") or look into bush's record in the national guard (um, where was he that last year? hm?).
liberal media my ass. right wing media, pretty much. lazy-ass media, oh yeah.
what about cctv in a video store? mobile phones that can take quick videos with audio are beginning to come out - what if you use one to decide on a movie in the local video store - or even just use the phone since they can detain you on suspicion.
according to these folks they farted around for 5 years and did barely anything. redhat announces a merger with the existing fedora linux project (existing since november 2002) and there's a release in just a month or so. and while redhat has trademarked the name they haven't threatened this project.
if you sell a widget to do thing x, just have it do that thing. don't collect stats. don't have it usually do thing x buf sometimes do thing y randomly.
even with this change the chances of me buying anything by belkin ever again are nil. until i see belkin publicly appoint an ethics officer who will vet marketing decisions like this (and with the power to block them) i will actively encourage people to avoid them as well.
ok. let's just say sco does have ip in linux. and let's say they can bypass the gpl and charge for it. neither are likely true, but just humour me here. now let's say that they expect scosource to be their future revenue stream.
just pretend all of that is true, factual and on the level. say it's possible and what sco is honestly planning on.
how in the fuck does this latest move make any sense even in that nightmare fairie tale?
"here, you folks have violated our ip, we plan on continuing to charge you and, oh, by the way, here's some money to buy our competitors products so you won't have to pay us anymore."
is it any wonder that sco never took the unix world by storm in over a decade?
i have cd's i bought before 1989 and they still sound fine. and they've survived long island, buffalo (including 2 years in dorms), boston, dublin (ireland) and galway along with about a dozen moves - one across the atlantic. i never used them for frisbee, but they've had all the climate extremes.
what does that have to do with legislating on spam? i'm sure a lot of murderers know more about killing people then most politicians (excluding bush of course, he was getting rather good at it in texas but he's really shining now that he has a military to order around), but we're ok with politicians passing laws about murder. i'm also sure ceo's and financial people know more about illegal stock trades then most politicians (damn, bush is an exception there too), but we want them passing laws to keep our pensions safe. actually, we still want that to happen. the same points apply to healh care, job creation and education (though the parenthetical comments about bush don't apply on those topics)
i guess my point is that politicians pass laws on a wide variety of issues that concern the people they represent. to do that they have to consult experts in various fields - and that's the skill politicians need: the skill of asking for help and sifting through bullshit. and that's how they can best serve their people.
and obviously the other point is that bush knows an awful lot more than people give him credit for. too bad ken lay didn't get some business advice - maybe harvard could have bailed ken lay out too.
but i thought the reverend whoziwhatsis said the earth was only 10 thousand years old? doesn't this show that anthropologists are really anti-religion? they're essentially like hitler. they must be stopped. lobby bush to bomb nazi anthropology departments across the country!
redhat's hiring developers in india? excellent! i'm glad to see they're hiring decent developers who are aware there are other countries besides america! plus some of the money spent on redhat software will go to a developing country as opposed to a nation that enthusiastically supports a policy of pre-emptive war.
what would you recommend? note, you're responding to a developer who has access to a few linux x86 machines and a few opensbd sparc machines. though in all honesty the openbsd machines are really just xterminals, so if i could avoid them i'd like that.
also, why is mingw32 bad? i just need it to generate correct code. it's running in a retail environment where it polls directories (that's the design i have to work with, yes i know it sucks) and doing modem comms (but very low speed modem comms so tapi isn't really useful here - though as api's go it sucks too).
uh, no. i find ms's position confusing. it really is pretty awful technology - and i just spent the past several months seriously writing windows code for the first time in my career so i know. unix has warts, but wow, it's been like living in medieval times the past few months (and that's even with a mingw32 cross-compiler). why all the windows programmers (app and os) haven't killed themselves is an amazing testament to the human spirit.
so yeah, confusing. it gets hyped up as this tech nirvana when it's really just a cheap knockoff/kludge.
more proof that a lot of the world is not very keen on reality.
i support wesley clark's entry into the dems race, but i'd like this explained. in the cryptome cease and desist link there was this paragraph:
Bear in mind that General Wesley Clark, US presidential contender, is/was a member of the board of Acxiom, giant database producer, which sold far more information to Torch Concepts on citizens of the world than JetBlue provided apparently for no cost. As the Torch study proclaims, it was the Axciom data that was much more useful to spy on citizens than that of JetBlue.
people should politely ask him about it at his weblog. seriously, don't be assholes. he has a way to get feedback - use it intelligently. we need to encourage politicians to be more responsive. if clark ignores the issue or gives a poor answer then pester the other candidates on their positions and vote for the ones who answer better. but leave out the insults.
"linux usage" is hard to gauge. there's no central licensing authority (despite a certain moronic company's attempt). of course that argument is rather silly as closed software companies have to guess at their user base. for instance i count as 2 solaris users and around 10 windows users if you go by licenses purchased but i don't use either of those os's.
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yes, tom clancy novels are an excellent source of info on other cultures.
ireland is not northern ireland.
"Sorry, I just don't suffer fools gladly."
and yet somehow you live with yourself. i'm sorry you're not glad.
btw, it's fun to do the math to see where your tax cut goes when you factor in state tax (hey all states are in the financial crapper - don't you start to wonder why?), increases in fees for local services, cuts to programs...
most people spent that rebate check before they got it.
but hey, what do i care, i moved to a real country with a gov't party that i disagree with a lot of the time but at least is generally responsible. my taxes didn't decrease the past two years but the economy is recovering.
"That's better than being in the gov't coffers and ending up paying for a study on some senator's pet project with little or no redeemingvalue."
like, say, arpanet?
schools?
national defense?
national health care - oh wait, it's us folks in europe with national health care systems who spend less money per capita on health care then the usa does on its private system, sorry, ignore that one.
taxes pay for maintaining a society. as with all things, you get what you pay for. i pay just a bit more taxes since moving to ireland and i get a national health care system (that i can supplement with private insurance), lower cost education, decent social programs, arts programs, etc. i don't seem to get snipers on highways, school shootings, and starving children.
so, you know, kinda think that's worth a few extra euro a month.
no, i hate bush because he's destroying america, his programs abuse society's most vulnerable, and he's letting his campaign contributors loot the public coffers.
call me weird, but i get a bit tetchy when someone tries to destroy the sweat and blood of millions of americans over 200+ years. pardon my bile if i see public officials pissing away our money to make people who already have more money then they need richer.
so yeah, i hate bush. and i hate what he stands for - greed, lies and indifference to most of his fellow citizens.
muppet.
people made the words "miserable failure" link to bush's bio on hundreds (thousands?) of web pages. get a clue.
yes, the liberal media. do you mean the new york times which did the lead reporting on whitewater? or do you mean the network news programs that harped on gore's "lies" and yet failed to do things like look into bush's sealed records as governor (and don't be fooled, they're not unsealed now, they're "unsealed") or look into bush's record in the national guard (um, where was he that last year? hm?).
liberal media my ass. right wing media, pretty much. lazy-ass media, oh yeah.
it's good to know just how strong this commitment to civil discourse the republicans suddenly have is.
what about cctv in a video store? mobile phones that can take quick videos with audio are beginning to come out - what if you use one to decide on a movie in the local video store - or even just use the phone since they can detain you on suspicion.
according to these folks they farted around for 5 years and did barely anything. redhat announces a merger with the existing fedora linux project (existing since november 2002) and there's a release in just a month or so. and while redhat has trademarked the name they haven't threatened this project.
and now they want to bitch about the name?
if you sell a widget to do thing x, just have it do that thing. don't collect stats. don't have it usually do thing x buf sometimes do thing y randomly.
even with this change the chances of me buying anything by belkin ever again are nil. until i see belkin publicly appoint an ethics officer who will vet marketing decisions like this (and with the power to block them) i will actively encourage people to avoid them as well.
i suspect i'm not alone in this opinion.
ok. let's just say sco does have ip in linux. and let's say they can bypass the gpl and charge for it. neither are likely true, but just humour me here. now let's say that they expect scosource to be their future revenue stream.
just pretend all of that is true, factual and on the level. say it's possible and what sco is honestly planning on.
how in the fuck does this latest move make any sense even in that nightmare fairie tale?
"here, you folks have violated our ip, we plan on continuing to charge you and, oh, by the way, here's some money to buy our competitors products so you won't have to pay us anymore."
is it any wonder that sco never took the unix world by storm in over a decade?
on the nra front page there's a link to "order your ruger/nra pistol" - it's down along the left side.
yes, and luskin even had an article on that event - the title of the article contains the words "we stalk"
i didn't hear krugman say "he's stalking me in the legal sense." i heard him say "he's a stalker." that luskin has such thin skin just kills me.
note, i'm not accusing luskin of being a murderer.
i have cd's i bought before 1989 and they still sound fine. and they've survived long island, buffalo (including 2 years in dorms), boston, dublin (ireland) and galway along with about a dozen moves - one across the atlantic. i never used them for frisbee, but they've had all the climate extremes.
i haven't read the article but how does this fire paste compare to the current tiles in terms of weight?
does kibo do /.?
just curious...
who is more tech savvy?
what does that have to do with legislating on spam? i'm sure a lot of murderers know more about killing people then most politicians (excluding bush of course, he was getting rather good at it in texas but he's really shining now that he has a military to order around), but we're ok with politicians passing laws about murder. i'm also sure ceo's and financial people know more about illegal stock trades then most politicians (damn, bush is an exception there too), but we want them passing laws to keep our pensions safe. actually, we still want that to happen. the same points apply to healh care, job creation and education (though the parenthetical comments about bush don't apply on those topics)
i guess my point is that politicians pass laws on a wide variety of issues that concern the people they represent. to do that they have to consult experts in various fields - and that's the skill politicians need: the skill of asking for help and sifting through bullshit. and that's how they can best serve their people.
and obviously the other point is that bush knows an awful lot more than people give him credit for. too bad ken lay didn't get some business advice - maybe harvard could have bailed ken lay out too.
but i thought the reverend whoziwhatsis said the earth was only 10 thousand years old? doesn't this show that anthropologists are really anti-religion? they're essentially like hitler. they must be stopped. lobby bush to bomb nazi anthropology departments across the country!
you failed to mention that bush's papers as governor of texas are not viewable and that bush was arrested for dwi.
redhat's hiring developers in india? excellent! i'm glad to see they're hiring decent developers who are aware there are other countries besides america! plus some of the money spent on redhat software will go to a developing country as opposed to a nation that enthusiastically supports a policy of pre-emptive war.
go redhat!
what would you recommend? note, you're responding to a developer who has access to a few linux x86 machines and a few opensbd sparc machines. though in all honesty the openbsd machines are really just xterminals, so if i could avoid them i'd like that.
also, why is mingw32 bad? i just need it to generate correct code. it's running in a retail environment where it polls directories (that's the design i have to work with, yes i know it sucks) and doing modem comms (but very low speed modem comms so tapi isn't really useful here - though as api's go it sucks too).
"everybody?"
uh, no. i find ms's position confusing. it really is pretty awful technology - and i just spent the past several months seriously writing windows code for the first time in my career so i know. unix has warts, but wow, it's been like living in medieval times the past few months (and that's even with a mingw32 cross-compiler). why all the windows programmers (app and os) haven't killed themselves is an amazing testament to the human spirit.
so yeah, confusing. it gets hyped up as this tech nirvana when it's really just a cheap knockoff/kludge.
more proof that a lot of the world is not very keen on reality.
people should politely ask him about it at his weblog. seriously, don't be assholes. he has a way to get feedback - use it intelligently. we need to encourage politicians to be more responsive. if clark ignores the issue or gives a poor answer then pester the other candidates on their positions and vote for the ones who answer better. but leave out the insults.
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"linux usage" is hard to gauge. there's no central licensing authority (despite a certain moronic company's attempt). of course that argument is rather silly as closed software companies have to guess at their user base. for instance i count as 2 solaris users and around 10 windows users if you go by licenses purchased but i don't use either of those os's.