IIRC, ligers and jackasses cannot reproduce. However, bi/multiracial children can reproduce, meaning blacks, whites and asians are of the same species.
I've always thought the difference between human racial groups was similar to how dogs have different breeds...they might look drastically different but they're all a bunch of cute and fluffy wolves when it's all said and done.
If they represented a culture, it was a culture of very few people at their school. Schoolyard bullying may be an institution, but the "System," which consists of the parents, school system and authorities, is generally against it. Although the mainstream media implicitly promotes intolerance against anything other than that which is mainstream, to say it encourages violence is a stretch.
You are correct in stating that innocent people get hurt in any sort of war situation.
I'm sure the English monarchy wasn't too happy with Washington. However, I do believe that George Washington's reasoning behind the revolution is much more rational than the Columbine kids' reasons for going postal. The Declaration of Independence, IIRC, states the reasons behind the American revolution...judge the rationality for yourself.
The two Columbine kids did not represent an entire repressed nation or ethnic group. Furthermore, they were not fighting against an established system, just a few bullies that you'll find in any society...however they ended up targetting many innocent people.
Their actions were not for a greater good; they were only for selfish and wildly irrational goals.
My.sig isn't about getting revolutionary on the asses of bullies or legal governments. It's about getting revolutionary on the ass of any system that takes away life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. btw, the American revolution *was* an armed insurrection against a legal government...and we even have a holiday to glorify and celebrate it.
They were also fans of Rammstein, iirc. Their first album has a song called "Weisses Fleich" (White Flesh), which is about going into a schoolyard and shooting up a bunch of kids.
Funny you should mention that. Although the DOJ is using Netscape as an example, you could go back further and claim that the Trumpet Winsock people were hurt by MS implementing a built-in TCP/IP stack. In fact, Trumpet would have a stronger case than Netscape, because while you can run Netscape and IE together with no problem, I'd defy the average user (or any user) to run Trumpet Winsock and MS's built-in stack together.
The whole point being that it's silly. As OS's evolve, certain features eventually get included in the distribution (although I believe "separate" from the actual OS). The DOJ lawsuit should have focused soley on instances where MS took deliberate measures to harm and kill competitors; ie DR-DOS, x86 BeOS, etc.
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Intel was one of the first investors in Be. I believe one of Intel's execs was quoted as saying (paraphrased) "our hardware can do that?!?!" when he heard about BeOS running on X86 hardware.
Maybe I'm too busy to copy & paste links. Maybe I don't like using my company's mail servers for sending personal mail.
The reality is that I, too, avoid using that feature on other, more "commercialized" web sites. Slashdot is a more trustworthy business, however. Since Slashdot has a tighter-knit community of readers than, say, CNBC, if word got out that they started spamming, then people would stop using the article forward feature.
Perhaps if it was offfered only to paying readers, then the risk of spam would drop since you're paying them for the article forwarding service and not an advertiser (implicitly).
She wouldn't believe me when I told her that Disney is evil, evil, evil. But now that they're attacking Apple (the company that makes her precious B&W Mac tower), I think she will see the light.
Offtopic, but articles like this are a reason why Taco should implement an "email this discussion to a friend" link. There are some discussions that pop up on/. that would be of genuine interest to non-geeks who haven't heard of Slashdot. Hell, what can it do other than bring in new readers/ad eyeballs?
"What kind of twisted capitalism is Mundie cheerleading here?!"
He sounds like a cafeteria capitalist...exploiting on those features of the system that work for him. A lot of religious types are like this, too.
There are very few "real" capitalists in the business world. What you really see is mostly a bunch of rich guys making a bunch of money and touting how capitalism is good for business and economic growth...until capitalism comes and bites them in the ass. Then they become opponents of true competition, one of the most important aspects of a healthy capitalist system.
Long story short, Craig Mundie will support any system that benefits MS. Free market capitalism isn't one of those systems (for those of you following Be, Inc.'s lawsuit, this should be crystal clear). But that shouldn't be too surprising of a revelation.
At the back of the reports we write at work, we put in a page with our qualifications. I have a BS in finance, so under the education section it used to say "BS, Finance." To some extent this is true, but I later changed my education credentials to "Bachelor's Degree in Finance."
Might be fun to watch this pass...
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When all the technology companies start hurting because people no longer find their devices useful, the NASDAQ is going to take a bath (that is investment talk for "going to hell in a handbasket").
Then, when the retirement funds that own the mutual funds that own shares in these companies take a dive in a couple years and ruin people's lives, maybe we Americans will get off of our collective ass, take a more active interest in the government and boot out the pre-paid politicians that started the whole mess. Never underestimate the power and anger of a retiree whose money is being fscked with.
In your first paragraph you're basically admitting that democracy is being usurped by monied organizations. Democracy gives each man and woman an equal say regardless of economic status. Capitalism deals with a way of distributing value, goods and services and has nothing to do with buying governance over a populace. What's happening is that crooked politicians are being bought.
Communism (in the political, not economic sense) is the enemy of democracy. To an individual, there is little difference between communist rule and facist rule. It hurts just the same being hit with the emperor's stick or the people's stick.
Democracy is not a socialist dilution of capitalism. Democracy is a political structure, not an economic one. Democracy is how we come up with laws that establish the US as a mix of socialist (public infrastructure) and capitalist (private companies) economic structures. Under a facist political structure, the dictator establishes the mix and under a communist political structure, the "central authority board" establishes the mix. The latter usually chooses a heavy socialist/communist econ. environment.
In theory, free market capitalism (competition, good flow of information, low/no barriers to entry) provides a "fair deal"...so the government doesn't need to protect the citizens from it...What is happening in reality is that the government is protecting the citizens from those who seek to break the free market system (ie Microsoft) and shaft the citizens.
As someone who used to spend most of his morning HS homeroom period playing SpaceWar on an IBM PS/2 in the back of the classroom, let me give you a little tip:
Yes, the gravity may seem to be a constant pain to fight against, but it can be your friend. The trick is to use the gravity to fall towards the planet/star, but then *miss* it by hitting your rockets. This trick is otherwise known as FLYING AROUND IN AN ORBIT.
If you do it right the first time, you'll be orbiting the planet/star without having to mind your rockets.
Hollywood really is overrun with Communists...think about it for a moment.
Within the context of entertainment and information media, they want to introduce a centrally-controlled system that dictates how and when individuals access information...an artificial demand system. There will be no free market because there will be no choice. Dissidents will be fined and jailed.
As a side-effect of introducing this system of control, the "entertainment industry" will effectively have control over the flow of information, too, by locking out independent producers of entertainment and information. Thus, the only media you will be able to receive will be "official" media. Again, disidents will be fined and jailed.
When it's all said and done, the SSSCA will turn the American entertainment & news industry (encompassing both mainstream & independents) into a Communist system...backed by the US Government, no less.
The SSSCA is unAmerican, undemocratic, freedom-hating Communism, plain and simple.
"Okay: one thing does it for me. WinNT/2k/XP allows you to create unattended setup answer files. Its a little feature, but saves me ages."
Mandrake has been doing this for a while. I have a floppy that stores all my setup preferences. You can even customize the setup file so that it can be totally automatic or even stop at certain points to prompt the user for questions. The setup file can be created during the very first install or by going into Mandrake Control Center...nice GUI setup with drop-down boxes makes it an easy task.
"Well, let me put it this way: the people of Afghanistan had FULL freedom to bear arms. Always did. Did it help vs the Taliban? No."
In other news, owning a computer does not make you automatically intelligent. The ability to bear arms doesn't guarantee victory, but it gives you a better chance.
"...inappropriate for modern urban societies...no problem with farmers and hunters having reasonably unrestricted ability to own appropriate firearms"
Hunters keep their firearms at home...and they live in modern urban societies, not out in the woods somewhere.
It's also worthy to note that during the American Civil War, the citizens down south didn't always have access to cannons, gatling guns and the such. In times of strife, you'll see breaks in the military as well.
I am thinking of moving to Canada. However, being a freedom-loving individual, I would first like to know how hard it would be for the populace to overthrow the government in case it became too oppressive or tyrannical. Thanks your your help.
">Microsoft hit BeOS hard with the release of Windows Me. You see, BeOS PE needed a way to exit Windows without shutting down. This was possible in Win 95 and Win 98, but removed in Win Me.
Sorry to not be bashing MS, but I see nothing wrong with this. They changed their software to fix an exploit. (Now if they'd just fix the real exploits)"
So when we find an exploit in Windows, MS calls it a feature. When Windows has an actual feature that gives consumers choice, MS calls it an exploit...how convenient.
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Here, have a .sig:
Dear Canadian /. readers:
As an American, I propose we organize an international trade federation: Your beer for our cheap CD blanks.
"In fact, all TI-80, the first of the 80s series was made in 1995."
So how was it that I was able to use a TI-85 in 1993-4? The back of my TI-85 is marked copyright 1991. Perhaps you meant 1985?
IIRC, ligers and jackasses cannot reproduce. However, bi/multiracial children can reproduce, meaning blacks, whites and asians are of the same species.
I've always thought the difference between human racial groups was similar to how dogs have different breeds...they might look drastically different but they're all a bunch of cute and fluffy wolves when it's all said and done.
If they represented a culture, it was a culture of very few people at their school. Schoolyard bullying may be an institution, but the "System," which consists of the parents, school system and authorities, is generally against it. Although the mainstream media implicitly promotes intolerance against anything other than that which is mainstream, to say it encourages violence is a stretch.
You are correct in stating that innocent people get hurt in any sort of war situation.
I'm sure the English monarchy wasn't too happy with Washington. However, I do believe that George Washington's reasoning behind the revolution is much more rational than the Columbine kids' reasons for going postal. The Declaration of Independence, IIRC, states the reasons behind the American revolution...judge the rationality for yourself.
The two Columbine kids did not represent an entire repressed nation or ethnic group. Furthermore, they were not fighting against an established system, just a few bullies that you'll find in any society...however they ended up targetting many innocent people.
Their actions were not for a greater good; they were only for selfish and wildly irrational goals.
"Me too!!!"
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My .sig isn't about getting revolutionary on the asses of bullies or legal governments. It's about getting revolutionary on the ass of any system that takes away life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. btw, the American revolution *was* an armed insurrection against a legal government...and we even have a holiday to glorify and celebrate it.
They were also fans of Rammstein, iirc. Their first album has a song called "Weisses Fleich" (White Flesh), which is about going into a schoolyard and shooting up a bunch of kids.
Funny you should mention that. Although the DOJ is using Netscape as an example, you could go back further and claim that the Trumpet Winsock people were hurt by MS implementing a built-in TCP/IP stack. In fact, Trumpet would have a stronger case than Netscape, because while you can run Netscape and IE together with no problem, I'd defy the average user (or any user) to run Trumpet Winsock and MS's built-in stack together.
The whole point being that it's silly. As OS's evolve, certain features eventually get included in the distribution (although I believe "separate" from the actual OS). The DOJ lawsuit should have focused soley on instances where MS took deliberate measures to harm and kill competitors; ie DR-DOS, x86 BeOS, etc.
Intel was one of the first investors in Be. I believe one of Intel's execs was quoted as saying (paraphrased) "our hardware can do that?!?!" when he heard about BeOS running on X86 hardware.
Maybe I'm too busy to copy & paste links. Maybe I don't like using my company's mail servers for sending personal mail.
The reality is that I, too, avoid using that feature on other, more "commercialized" web sites. Slashdot is a more trustworthy business, however. Since Slashdot has a tighter-knit community of readers than, say, CNBC, if word got out that they started spamming, then people would stop using the article forward feature.
Perhaps if it was offfered only to paying readers, then the risk of spam would drop since you're paying them for the article forwarding service and not an advertiser (implicitly).
She wouldn't believe me when I told her that Disney is evil, evil, evil. But now that they're attacking Apple (the company that makes her precious B&W Mac tower), I think she will see the light.
/. that would be of genuine interest to non-geeks who haven't heard of Slashdot. Hell, what can it do other than bring in new readers/ad eyeballs?
Offtopic, but articles like this are a reason why Taco should implement an "email this discussion to a friend" link. There are some discussions that pop up on
"What kind of twisted capitalism is Mundie cheerleading here?!"
He sounds like a cafeteria capitalist...exploiting on those features of the system that work for him. A lot of religious types are like this, too.
There are very few "real" capitalists in the business world. What you really see is mostly a bunch of rich guys making a bunch of money and touting how capitalism is good for business and economic growth...until capitalism comes and bites them in the ass. Then they become opponents of true competition, one of the most important aspects of a healthy capitalist system.
Long story short, Craig Mundie will support any system that benefits MS. Free market capitalism isn't one of those systems (for those of you following Be, Inc.'s lawsuit, this should be crystal clear). But that shouldn't be too surprising of a revelation.
At the back of the reports we write at work, we put in a page with our qualifications. I have a BS in finance, so under the education section it used to say "BS, Finance." To some extent this is true, but I later changed my education credentials to "Bachelor's Degree in Finance."
When all the technology companies start hurting because people no longer find their devices useful, the NASDAQ is going to take a bath (that is investment talk for "going to hell in a handbasket").
Then, when the retirement funds that own the mutual funds that own shares in these companies take a dive in a couple years and ruin people's lives, maybe we Americans will get off of our collective ass, take a more active interest in the government and boot out the pre-paid politicians that started the whole mess. Never underestimate the power and anger of a retiree whose money is being fscked with.
In your first paragraph you're basically admitting that democracy is being usurped by monied organizations. Democracy gives each man and woman an equal say regardless of economic status. Capitalism deals with a way of distributing value, goods and services and has nothing to do with buying governance over a populace. What's happening is that crooked politicians are being bought.
Communism (in the political, not economic sense) is the enemy of democracy. To an individual, there is little difference between communist rule and facist rule. It hurts just the same being hit with the emperor's stick or the people's stick.
Democracy is not a socialist dilution of capitalism. Democracy is a political structure, not an economic one. Democracy is how we come up with laws that establish the US as a mix of socialist (public infrastructure) and capitalist (private companies) economic structures. Under a facist political structure, the dictator establishes the mix and under a communist political structure, the "central authority board" establishes the mix. The latter usually chooses a heavy socialist/communist econ. environment.
In theory, free market capitalism (competition, good flow of information, low/no barriers to entry) provides a "fair deal"...so the government doesn't need to protect the citizens from it...What is happening in reality is that the government is protecting the citizens from those who seek to break the free market system (ie Microsoft) and shaft the citizens.
As someone who used to spend most of his morning HS homeroom period playing SpaceWar on an IBM PS/2 in the back of the classroom, let me give you a little tip:
Yes, the gravity may seem to be a constant pain to fight against, but it can be your friend. The trick is to use the gravity to fall towards the planet/star, but then *miss* it by hitting your rockets. This trick is otherwise known as FLYING AROUND IN AN ORBIT.
If you do it right the first time, you'll be orbiting the planet/star without having to mind your rockets.
Hollywood really is overrun with Communists...think about it for a moment.
Within the context of entertainment and information media, they want to introduce a centrally-controlled system that dictates how and when individuals access information...an artificial demand system. There will be no free market because there will be no choice. Dissidents will be fined and jailed.
As a side-effect of introducing this system of control, the "entertainment industry" will effectively have control over the flow of information, too, by locking out independent producers of entertainment and information. Thus, the only media you will be able to receive will be "official" media. Again, disidents will be fined and jailed.
When it's all said and done, the SSSCA will turn the American entertainment & news industry (encompassing both mainstream & independents) into a Communist system...backed by the US Government, no less.
The SSSCA is unAmerican, undemocratic, freedom-hating Communism, plain and simple.
"Okay: one thing does it for me. WinNT/2k/XP allows you to create unattended setup answer files. Its a little feature, but saves me ages."
Mandrake has been doing this for a while. I have a floppy that stores all my setup preferences. You can even customize the setup file so that it can be totally automatic or even stop at certain points to prompt the user for questions. The setup file can be created during the very first install or by going into Mandrake Control Center...nice GUI setup with drop-down boxes makes it an easy task.
"Well, let me put it this way: the people of Afghanistan had FULL freedom to bear arms. Always did. Did it help vs the Taliban? No."
In other news, owning a computer does not make you automatically intelligent. The ability to bear arms doesn't guarantee victory, but it gives you a better chance.
"...inappropriate for modern urban societies...no problem with farmers and hunters having reasonably unrestricted ability to own appropriate firearms"
Hunters keep their firearms at home...and they live in modern urban societies, not out in the woods somewhere.
It's also worthy to note that during the American Civil War, the citizens down south didn't always have access to cannons, gatling guns and the such. In times of strife, you'll see breaks in the military as well.
I am thinking of moving to Canada. However, being a freedom-loving individual, I would first like to know how hard it would be for the populace to overthrow the government in case it became too oppressive or tyrannical. Thanks your your help.
I was going for the (+5, Funny) mod!
I think they mean Jack Valenti.
">Microsoft hit BeOS hard with the release of Windows Me. You see, BeOS PE needed a way to exit Windows without shutting down. This was possible in Win 95 and Win 98, but removed in Win Me.
Sorry to not be bashing MS, but I see nothing wrong with this. They changed their software to fix an exploit. (Now if they'd just fix the real exploits)"
So when we find an exploit in Windows, MS calls it a feature. When Windows has an actual feature that gives consumers choice, MS calls it an exploit...how convenient.