Wow, could this be a reason to actually LIKE John Kerry? Someone in this country who shares a similar COMPLETE DISINTEREST in football, baseball, and their moronic fans?
OMFG Kerry doesn't know the name of a field or how to throw a football - yeah, I'll make sure to remember that when I'm voting on real issues like illegitimate wars, a gigantic and profligate government deficit, growing trade imbalance, continual erosion of civil liberties, etc.
har har whoa you got me! so ironically and incisively!
except I never said they were/earnest/ in open sourcing solaris or that they had already, i was simply pointing out the discrepency between not wanting to commoditize software and appearing to embrace open source which is inherently commoditizing
"people who'll vote for you would have voted for Kerry"
Huh? That does not necessarily follow AT ALL.
The libertarian party is for:
* limited government * less regulation * generally isolationist foreign policy * full gun rights
Those are hard core old school conservative values. Indeed, the Libertarian party seems a lot more conservative on many issues than the Republican party which is all for bloated corporatocracy, corporate welfare, and endless foreign entanglements to support the energy industry.
Which makes the Libertarian party a strange breed indeed as it also seems more left on many issues than the Democrats, including gay rights and marriage, and drug legalization.
"200.000 undisciplined rednecks, toting their semi-automatic assault rifles?"
If you can't think of a use you would be a very very bad military commander. (by the way, doesn't the assault weapon ban being lifted mean that they now have fully automatic assault rifles?)
Except if an X bug is identified on a FreeBSD system there's a good chance that it's on Slackware, and many other systems. 9x and NT have different *KERNELS* but I suspect lots of the userland is either the same, or mostly the same. You really think they *reimplemented* the entirety of the win32 api just because the kernel changed? hell no
"So the guy doesn't think we should continue the war against terrorism"
Where did he say that? He said "they both support the war in Iraq". Perhaps there is another explanation, for instance, that he does not equate fighting terrorism with the war in Iraq.
"he's not for any gun restriction"
Again, he didn't say that. It may be that that is his position or the position of the Liberatarian party, but you can't just wildly extrapolate it from that quote.
"he thinks we can just ignore that, yes, terrorist cells are/were operating in this country."
Huh? What? He just said: "they both support the PATRIOT Act".
Maybe the problem is with people like YOU who think the way the current government/administration thinks things should be done is the ONLY way things should be done. It's remarkable the amount of "just support it because somebody waved a flag" going around these days... I mean, if it weren't YOUR candidate in office would you still support it "just because"?
Does that preserve prefs like message filters? I had to find all the various message filter files, copy them over, then manually edit all the prefs files because they used absolute file paths (yes).
And how can we even exist as a "nation" when multination corporations shop around for the best labor and consumer market with no regard for national law as they can also shop around for courts and legal systems and *candidates* and *legislators* for that matter.
Laissez faire capitalism is one thing, but allowing multinational corporations to enjoy your laissez faire policies whilst simultaneously escaping the responsibility they own to the nation[s] whose economies they participate in by exploiting various loopholes and tax shelters, is entirely another thing. How can it even be "American"? Essentially we are just giving money away to these UN-American corporations.
"do public service, and chooses government as the means, then he is inherently interested in telling others what to do. That is the function of government. He may have the best intentions, be a truly enlightened benevolent despot, but if he is telling people to act in ways they would not othewise act, he is despotic."
That is a very narrow, cynical and broad-sweeping view of government, or public participation in general. There are lots of other things that government (or public/community participation in general) can do other than "telling others what to do". It can foster discussion between groups who would not otherwise talk or organize, yet mutually benefit from that discussion. It can inspire people. It can inform people. It can, get this, even respond to what people actually want. Imagine that. A lot of government work is boring shit like negotiating transit systems and financial responsibilities between different jurisdictions...it's not always, or even mostly, "telling people what to do".
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Wow, could this be a reason to actually LIKE John Kerry? Someone in this country who shares a similar COMPLETE DISINTEREST in football, baseball, and their moronic fans?
OMFG Kerry doesn't know the name of a field or how to throw a football - yeah, I'll make sure to remember that when I'm voting on real issues like illegitimate wars, a gigantic and profligate government deficit, growing trade imbalance, continual erosion of civil liberties, etc.
SHUT UP SHUT UP
cut his internet connection...
Hasn't this wheel already been invented many many times?
How about Log4C++, a port of the canonical Log4J logging package for Java.
OH THE DRAMA!
I'm glad I didn't waste my time reading all those damn pages of awful poetry.
har har whoa you got me! so ironically and incisively!
/earnest/ in open sourcing solaris or that they had already, i was simply pointing out the discrepency between not wanting to commoditize software and appearing to embrace open source which is inherently commoditizing
except I never said they were
"Sun wants to find a way to avoid commoditization of software"
Yeah, like open sourcing Solaris...wait, oops!
I don't know, little things like overthrowing English rule of the colonies? Settling frontier?
As you well know... ever since I joined office, things have been really really, good.
Sure thing, but you'll have to wait until after I take several sequential deferments. I have other priorities.
Wow, that seems really cool except... ...I don't actually have a desired for a flatscreen TV. Even a free one. Does that mean I'm ill?
That was his point. The longer you put something off the worse it will be when it hits.
Gah, I got sidetracked by a previous thread and thought the poster was talking about Badnarik. Forget it.
Admit it: you're just bitter because you are a "shut-in" trapped in the "dark dungeons of the internet" that needs a compassionate punch in the face.
"people who'll vote for you would have voted for Kerry"
Huh? That does not necessarily follow AT ALL.
The libertarian party is for:
* limited government
* less regulation
* generally isolationist foreign policy
* full gun rights
Those are hard core old school conservative values. Indeed, the Libertarian party seems a lot more conservative on many issues than the Republican party which is all for bloated corporatocracy, corporate welfare, and endless foreign entanglements to support the energy industry.
Which makes the Libertarian party a strange breed indeed as it also seems more left on many issues than the Democrats, including gay rights and marriage, and drug legalization.
"200.000 undisciplined rednecks, toting their semi-automatic assault rifles?"
If you can't think of a use you would be a very very bad military commander. (by the way, doesn't the assault weapon ban being lifted mean that they now have fully automatic assault rifles?)
Except if an X bug is identified on a FreeBSD system there's a good chance that it's on Slackware, and many other systems. 9x and NT have different *KERNELS* but I suspect lots of the userland is either the same, or mostly the same. You really think they *reimplemented* the entirety of the win32 api just because the kernel changed? hell no
"So the guy doesn't think we should continue the war against terrorism"
Where did he say that? He said "they both support the war in Iraq". Perhaps there is another explanation, for instance, that he does not equate fighting terrorism with the war in Iraq.
"he's not for any gun restriction"
Again, he didn't say that. It may be that that is his position or the position of the Liberatarian party, but you can't just wildly extrapolate it from that quote.
"he thinks we can just ignore that, yes, terrorist cells are/were operating in this country."
Huh? What? He just said: "they both support the PATRIOT Act".
Maybe the problem is with people like YOU who think the way the current government/administration thinks things should be done is the ONLY way things should be done. It's remarkable the amount of "just support it because somebody waved a flag" going around these days... I mean, if it weren't YOUR candidate in office would you still support it "just because"?
Actually I was just about to say:
Definition of a Green Party member
Walking along a beach he sees a man swimming happily 20 yards off shore and is glad he helped give a free government-sanctioned swimming course.
"There have been 4 major hurricanes on my opponent's watch! That's not what I call PROGRESS!"
You mean newsmax could be *wrong*? UNFATHOMICATIONABLE!
Does that preserve prefs like message filters? I had to find all the various message filter files, copy them over, then manually edit all the prefs files because they used absolute file paths (yes).
And everybody sees psychology-driven marketing over reason also.
For the metaphor-challenged, interpret app as an app-lication, as in applying something, in this case linux.
And how can we even exist as a "nation" when multination corporations shop around for the best labor and consumer market with no regard for national law as they can also shop around for courts and legal systems and *candidates* and *legislators* for that matter.
Laissez faire capitalism is one thing, but allowing multinational corporations to enjoy your laissez faire policies whilst simultaneously escaping the responsibility they own to the nation[s] whose economies they participate in by exploiting various loopholes and tax shelters, is entirely another thing. How can it even be "American"? Essentially we are just giving money away to these UN-American corporations.
"do public service, and chooses government as the means, then he is inherently interested in telling others what to do. That is the function of government. He may have the best intentions, be a truly enlightened benevolent despot, but if he is telling people to act in ways they would not othewise act, he is despotic."
That is a very narrow, cynical and broad-sweeping view of government, or public participation in general. There are lots of other things that government (or public/community participation in general) can do other than "telling others what to do". It can foster discussion between groups who would not otherwise talk or organize, yet mutually benefit from that discussion. It can inspire people. It can inform people. It can, get this, even respond to what people actually want. Imagine that. A lot of government work is boring shit like negotiating transit systems and financial responsibilities between different jurisdictions...it's not always, or even mostly, "telling people what to do".