I'm not going to get into a full-out flame war here, but I'm going to generally respond to you here.
We live in a *modified* capitalist society. Capitalism in it's most basic form says that more or less those who work hard, and play by the rules of economics, and the market willing will succeed. In true capitalism, the lazy are not propped up for a socialistic hand-out. (Note: DO NOT mis-read my use of the word 'socialism' as Russian or Communism and the stigmas that go along with it. Read the word as it is.)
We have modified our capitalism to have a few socialistic aspects. One of which is our (badly broken) welfare system. Yes, this system is supposed to prop up, to a degree, 'the weak' as you say. Those who are somehow limited in their ability to make their own way. What that broken system lacks is the ability to move those who are capable towards hability. We have too many freeloaders. There are many who are fully capable, who are *LAZY*. IMHO, IT IS NOT "a primary function of society to guarante teh welfare of the"...(weak by your definition) "stupid...(and)...lazy". Those who are stupid can learn. Those who are lazy should be motivated. That doesn't mean you have to have aspirations of great wealth, but it does mean that you don't have an infinite right to leech off of society just because you don't feel like doing for yourself.
We all have our rough times in life, true, but our welfare system is better than most, but still pretty abysmal.
A captialistic society is dog-eat-dog, and it makes everyone better for it. You need to understand that we've made a trade-off. We're not purely capitalistic. We have a socialist side too, and I believe THAT is what allows the large corporations to get away with some of the things that they do. We've had to band-aid our pseudo-captialism with all sorts of trade rules, restrictions, anti-trust limitations, governmentally-support monopolies, subsidies, etc. to try to make it work. American is, and always has been, a big experiment in economics. A mostly successful one. That's something that I, and all of us, should be very proud of.
I'm curious, since you seem to be more clued in than most of us, what the technical solution to waste disposal is.
My understanding of nuclear-power generation is that is essentially a variation on hydro-electric power, in that you submerse a radio-active substance in water which raises the temperature of the water creating a syphoning action which turns a turbine.
Given my description above, the 'waste' is now that contaminated water. Technically speaking, how would you resolve that?
Overcompensatino of race, underprotection of the country.
What I'm seeing here are two things. Reverse-racism (instead of discriminating against those who happen to have darker skin tones, discriminate against everyone who does not to make up for it) rather than treating everyone the same, and leaving it at that, and secondly, reducing military budget by 50% over 10 years doesn't seem correct.
Let me explain...I don't like the idea of us policing the rest of the world. For the most part I would like to see each nation take care of itself where possible. That said, there is generally a large reason most countries won't screw with the US. The US doesn't get scared off or back down, we come roaring back.
Now, if we close all of our overseas bases of operation, and we get attacked, where does that leave us? I mean, unless the Canadians or Mexicans finally decide they've had enough of us, we won't have an operational foot to stand on.
Not being offensive doesn't mean we can't be sufficiently defensive. I believe we can fix our deficit without signficantly reducing our defensive stances.
I've already gotten one of these accounts, and i was so badly hoping that there was some sort of interface....procmail, shell (now THERE'S some wishful thinking)....anything that I could script so that i could e-mail myself binary files, and then set it up so that if someone e-mails me with the message in a certain format, it would automatically turn around and forward out a specific message.
The problem is that the 'conservatives' aren't being conservative right now, and many 'liberals' want to see a return to more conservative behavior. Go fig.
I'm also a big believer in Adam Smith's invisible hand when it comes to the market and economy. Both sides are trying to take more control, when the answer is to let go and let the economy do it's thing. Unfortunately, both sides are doing this because the public is crying out for it, mainly because they don't like what the economy is doing, and don't want change.
Change is the name of the game I'm afraid. It sucks for everyone at some point, but we all have to deal with it and move on.
FYI, blaming the economy on the President is a rather foolhardy thing.
So you're saying christian and non-christian alike are grade A stupid. Yeh, I think I can accept that. Thank you for the heads up.;)
We're all pretty stupid when you think about it.
We're voting on something so terribly complex that the vast majority of us voting probably don't fully grasp the magnitude of it. Yet we quibble over stupid things. Most of us don't even bother to vote. The majority of the people here on/. hate Diebold, yet won't go to the effort of voting unless they can do it from their computer.
I wouldn't mind the trailers, per se, but the last movie I saw was AvP, and it had been a year and a half since the previous time I'd gone into a theater. 3 things stuck out at me:
1. The 'downloading movies is a crime' signs all over the theater. WTF? I just spent $7.50 to get into the movie, and you're preaching at us not to steal. Right.....and this was an afternoon matinee.
2. 22 minutes of trailers. !!!!!!!!!!!!! That is just flat out insane. Without excuse. Commericals commercials and more commercials. There's absolutely no excuse for it.
3. I made the mistake of not eating luch before I went. No big deal, just grab popcorn and a soda. I know it'll hurt, but I haven't been in a while....go up, toss a $5 bill on the counter, and place my order. They bring back the soda and popcorn, then tell me that I'm $3 short.
WHAT. $5 not only won't cover popcorn and a soda anymore, but THE PRICE OF THE TICKET WON'T EITHER. That's right, popcorn and soda now cost more than seeing the movie itself. Of course it's summertime, so I can't get away with wearing my coat and bringing in whatever I want...it's just wrong.
The theater is basically a scam to make you a captive audience for commercials and overpriced goods. Sad that's it has degraded so far.:(
Irony that, 'The Right'(tm) and Christians (I'm one...don't hurt me), usually view the good and evil and Republicans good, liberals and democrats evil.
That explains the Superhero votes, and I *think* the villian votes are trying to make a statement, thus:
Good guys (christians, right wing) are sheep, and are going to vote republican because it's the right thing to do (minus spidey, who has personal issues and apparently wants a governmental handout? WTF?), and the villians are voting replublican because they know 'the truth', which is that Bush is really an EVIL choice.
I would also make note that most villians aren't too bright and wind up being wrong in the end. Just a though.
*I would note that the above statements are the fault of every english literature teacher I've ever had that wants you to read symbolism into something that obviously was never intended to have such depth.
Tell them to have it fulfill prerequisites. What will happen along the way is the CPAN will build the latest Perl in order to make 3.0 build nicely.;)
Sure, it's devious and underhanded, but darn it...it works.:P I'm an ISP admin myself, and I do these things as soon as the latest is released, but maybe you have a BOFH or something.
No.:( I always install via CPAN for Perl modules. That makes me evil I guess. I can try installing razor again from ports...but somehow I think I'm missing something.
I could use some help. I've been trying to get Vipul's Razor working with SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 5.2.1, and I keep running into problems. Anyone out there have a working config and like to share?
SpamAssassin Milter Quarantine - Quarantines spam messages and sends summaries in digest for 1 or more times daily rather than simply delivering to the end user.
Very carefully. First I'm aiming for basic functionality. How does the spam firewall know about end users? Where is it storing it's settings? How does it quarantine and inform end users? What type of anti-virus does it use?
Those questions are getting answered now. The quarantine works along with sa-milt. That alone is a pretty good step forward. Next I'm working on quarantine management.
After that I'm going to be working on optimal spamassassin configuration, then finally web interfaces.
So far as the 'hourly updates', I'll have to say...you get what you pay for?:P I'm presuming these are bayesian updates? Have you looked to see what the updates do? Adding things to/etc/mail/spamassassin? What?
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/me is a Christian, FYI. Will be voting for Badnarik. :)
Hey, one of my strongest role models was nailed to a cross (no freedom) and held up naked in public (no privacy)!
If he didn't need 'em, we don't either!
* If you don't see the sarcasm, then don't bother responding.
I'm not going to get into a full-out flame war here, but I'm going to generally respond to you here.
We live in a *modified* capitalist society. Capitalism in it's most basic form says that more or less those who work hard, and play by the rules of economics, and the market willing will succeed. In true capitalism, the lazy are not propped up for a socialistic hand-out. (Note: DO NOT mis-read my use of the word 'socialism' as Russian or Communism and the stigmas that go along with it. Read the word as it is.)
We have modified our capitalism to have a few socialistic aspects. One of which is our (badly broken) welfare system. Yes, this system is supposed to prop up, to a degree, 'the weak' as you say. Those who are somehow limited in their ability to make their own way. What that broken system lacks is the ability to move those who are capable towards hability. We have too many freeloaders. There are many who are fully capable, who are *LAZY*. IMHO, IT IS NOT "a primary function of society to guarante teh welfare of the"...(weak by your definition) "stupid...(and)...lazy". Those who are stupid can learn. Those who are lazy should be motivated. That doesn't mean you have to have aspirations of great wealth, but it does mean that you don't have an infinite right to leech off of society just because you don't feel like doing for yourself.
We all have our rough times in life, true, but our welfare system is better than most, but still pretty abysmal.
A captialistic society is dog-eat-dog, and it makes everyone better for it. You need to understand that we've made a trade-off. We're not purely capitalistic. We have a socialist side too, and I believe THAT is what allows the large corporations to get away with some of the things that they do. We've had to band-aid our pseudo-captialism with all sorts of trade rules, restrictions, anti-trust limitations, governmentally-support monopolies, subsidies, etc. to try to make it work. American is, and always has been, a big experiment in economics. A mostly successful one. That's something that I, and all of us, should be very proud of.
I'm curious, since you seem to be more clued in than most of us, what the technical solution to waste disposal is.
My understanding of nuclear-power generation is that is essentially a variation on hydro-electric power, in that you submerse a radio-active substance in water which raises the temperature of the water creating a syphoning action which turns a turbine.
Given my description above, the 'waste' is now that contaminated water. Technically speaking, how would you resolve that?
Overcompensatino of race, underprotection of the country.
What I'm seeing here are two things. Reverse-racism (instead of discriminating against those who happen to have darker skin tones, discriminate against everyone who does not to make up for it) rather than treating everyone the same, and leaving it at that, and secondly, reducing military budget by 50% over 10 years doesn't seem correct.
Let me explain...I don't like the idea of us policing the rest of the world. For the most part I would like to see each nation take care of itself where possible. That said, there is generally a large reason most countries won't screw with the US. The US doesn't get scared off or back down, we come roaring back.
Now, if we close all of our overseas bases of operation, and we get attacked, where does that leave us? I mean, unless the Canadians or Mexicans finally decide they've had enough of us, we won't have an operational foot to stand on.
Not being offensive doesn't mean we can't be sufficiently defensive. I believe we can fix our deficit without signficantly reducing our defensive stances.
I've already gotten one of these accounts, and i was so badly hoping that there was some sort of interface....procmail, shell (now THERE'S some wishful thinking)....anything that I could script so that i could e-mail myself binary files, and then set it up so that if someone e-mails me with the message in a certain format, it would automatically turn around and forward out a specific message.
Binaries on demand. Heh. >:)
A bit petty to make me a foe for something like this, isn't it? I was simply attempting to clarify. Sheesh.
No. ? :P
Only been married a year man.
How old are you by chance? You remember the whole bruhaha there was over the Game Genie for the original NES? :P
Actually, I consider myself quite conservative.
The problem is that the 'conservatives' aren't being conservative right now, and many 'liberals' want to see a return to more conservative behavior. Go fig.
I'm also a big believer in Adam Smith's invisible hand when it comes to the market and economy. Both sides are trying to take more control, when the answer is to let go and let the economy do it's thing. Unfortunately, both sides are doing this because the public is crying out for it, mainly because they don't like what the economy is doing, and don't want change.
Change is the name of the game I'm afraid. It sucks for everyone at some point, but we all have to deal with it and move on.
FYI, blaming the economy on the President is a rather foolhardy thing.
I really don't want to start a flamewar, but...
I don't really understand the logic of voting against someone rather than for someone.
By voting Kerry, you're not voting for Kerry (if I understand you right), but rather you're voting against Bush.
Is that to say you don't care who else wins so far as it isn't Bush? I mean, if we got enough of those, Badnarik would have a chance...
So you're saying christian and non-christian alike are grade A stupid. Yeh, I think I can accept that. Thank you for the heads up. ;)
/. hate Diebold, yet won't go to the effort of voting unless they can do it from their computer.
:P
We're all pretty stupid when you think about it.
We're voting on something so terribly complex that the vast majority of us voting probably don't fully grasp the magnitude of it. Yet we quibble over stupid things. Most of us don't even bother to vote. The majority of the people here on
And then it would still be iffy.
So...yeah.
I wouldn't mind the trailers, per se, but the last movie I saw was AvP, and it had been a year and a half since the previous time I'd gone into a theater. 3 things stuck out at me:
:(
1. The 'downloading movies is a crime' signs all over the theater. WTF? I just spent $7.50 to get into the movie, and you're preaching at us not to steal. Right.....and this was an afternoon matinee.
2. 22 minutes of trailers. !!!!!!!!!!!!! That is just flat out insane. Without excuse. Commericals commercials and more commercials. There's absolutely no excuse for it.
3. I made the mistake of not eating luch before I went. No big deal, just grab popcorn and a soda. I know it'll hurt, but I haven't been in a while....go up, toss a $5 bill on the counter, and place my order. They bring back the soda and popcorn, then tell me that I'm $3 short.
WHAT. $5 not only won't cover popcorn and a soda anymore, but THE PRICE OF THE TICKET WON'T EITHER. That's right, popcorn and soda now cost more than seeing the movie itself. Of course it's summertime, so I can't get away with wearing my coat and bringing in whatever I want...it's just wrong.
The theater is basically a scam to make you a captive audience for commercials and overpriced goods. Sad that's it has degraded so far.
That's all I have to say.
Really. You can keep scrolling now.
Irony that, 'The Right'(tm) and Christians (I'm one...don't hurt me), usually view the good and evil and Republicans good, liberals and democrats evil.
That explains the Superhero votes, and I *think* the villian votes are trying to make a statement, thus:
Good guys (christians, right wing) are sheep, and are going to vote republican because it's the right thing to do (minus spidey, who has personal issues and apparently wants a governmental handout? WTF?), and the villians are voting replublican because they know 'the truth', which is that Bush is really an EVIL choice.
I would also make note that most villians aren't too bright and wind up being wrong in the end. Just a though.
*I would note that the above statements are the fault of every english literature teacher I've ever had that wants you to read symbolism into something that obviously was never intended to have such depth.
Uh....right.
FYI, I think I've been more or less convinced that Badnarik is probably the best choice I've seen so far.
Yeah, yeah, I know, he can't win, blah blah blah.
If I'm not going to vote what I think is the RIGHT thing why should I bother voting at all?
Is there anyone here that is voting Bush or Kerry with a clear conscience?
Sorry, offtopic, bleh. I still think Megatron voting for Nader to get Bush elected is um...just dumb.
I'm trying to think of something witty to say about running linux on such a device, but I'm actually lost for words.
Quick, someone say something funny!
Moral of the story when dealing with spamass-milter:
:P
build from cvs, not release.
At least until he finally releases 0.3.0
Just e-mail them, and ask them to do the following (I had posted this above):
;)
:P I'm an ISP admin myself, and I do these things as soon as the latest is released, but maybe you have a BOFH or something.
# perl -MCPAN -e shell;
cpan > install Mail::SpamAssassin
Tell them to have it fulfill prerequisites. What will happen along the way is the CPAN will build the latest Perl in order to make 3.0 build nicely.
Sure, it's devious and underhanded, but darn it...it works.
No. :( I always install via CPAN for Perl modules. That makes me evil I guess. I can try installing razor again from ports...but somehow I think I'm missing something.
I could use some help. I've been trying to get Vipul's Razor working with SpamAssassin on FreeBSD 5.2.1, and I keep running into problems. Anyone out there have a working config and like to share?
I'm building the latest on all of my clients' mail exchangers and our primary boxen. ;)
:) Keep up the good work.
Here's the command to install/upgrade 3.0 via CPAN:
# perl -MCPAN -e shell;
cpan > install Mail::SpamAssassin
(many lines, type in the administrator's e-mail address, say no to network tests)
exit
#
Very difficult stuff.
Oh! Some link whoring as well:
SpamAssassin Milter for Sendmail - Filters everyone without procmail
SpamAssassin Milter Quarantine - Quarantines spam messages and sends summaries in digest for 1 or more times daily rather than simply delivering to the end user.
Anyone know what that document format is since it's roughly half the size of the pdf?
Very carefully. First I'm aiming for basic functionality. How does the spam firewall know about end users? Where is it storing it's settings? How does it quarantine and inform end users? What type of anti-virus does it use?
:P I'm presuming these are bayesian updates? Have you looked to see what the updates do? Adding things to /etc/mail/spamassassin? What?
Those questions are getting answered now. The quarantine works along with sa-milt. That alone is a pretty good step forward. Next I'm working on quarantine management.
After that I'm going to be working on optimal spamassassin configuration, then finally web interfaces.
So far as the 'hourly updates', I'll have to say...you get what you pay for?
Oops, forgot to link the Setup Instructions.
Please use the files in cvs. Kthx!