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This guy promoted from within, replaced from within and just handed out medals like hotcakes. He also, as someone has said here has devastated the surplus (blame that all you want on the ressessive slowdown of 2000-2003, but there's no way we're in this deep a hole if he doesn't), Cut taxes.. DURING a time of war...
We were not in a time of war during his "handout", which by the way I was against. Plus, his point is that the government shouldn't have to bail out a program like SS, since it should be set up to take care of itself. If the government does have to bail out the program, then it's not doing the job it was intended to do, which was to provide retirement benefits without using taxes outside the SS structure.
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Really? I'll submit that while it's a flawed system, the same can be said of many social programs, especially when we're trying to apply New Deal economics to today's markets.
But that doesn't mean it's time to do away with the whole thing. What I should've said was, if you oppose Bush's idea of SS reform, then, you're only playing politics - and this "with us or against us" administration certainly believes it has the clout to paint its opponents that way.
I don't see how you can have an option to take money out of a system that will already have a shortfall / be broke in 50 years, and somehow not come up in the red, even sooner than if we keep the current system and stop spending the cash set aside for it like it's a fucking money tree for Bush's wars.
When did he say he wanted to "do away with the whole thing"?
Furthur, his plan is to allow people to "opt-out" of to a certain level and put that money elsewhere. (which I would prefer) I would much rather take a chance with my money than let my government take a chance with it. I mean, your social security is YOUR money. Wouldn't you like to be in control of as much of it as you can?
Plus, politicians play politics. Especially now-a-days when the democrats are outnumbered. They said themselves that they are going to "draw a line in the sand" on this issue. Well how open minded can you be staring at a line in the sand. Although I agree that the present administration has a with-us-or-against-us policy, so do the democrats. That's how politics work.
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Yeah, but you've got 30 years to get it right. this, is NOT getting it right, unless you absolutely adhere to "some action, even the wrong action is better than no action".
This administration sure believes that.
I suppose we all hear what we want to hear but if you evaluate what he SAID and not what the news folks said, he said any idea was on the table. The main thrust of that portion of his speech was that it was going down the tubes and SOMETHING must be done. I like the fact that instead of saying "It's broke, it's the democrats fault" he said (paraphrased of course), "It's broke, and we need to figure out how to fix it. I have an idea but I'll listen to anyone".
What's the matter with that? Would it be better if he said "It's broken and I have no ideas..."
Which is still wrong! A parent doesn't have the right to choose what they're children should or should not be playing?!
Sure, the lax enforcement of the Mature games being sold to under-age kids should definitly be fixed, but taking away the right of a parent to say their 15 year old is mature enough to play Halo or GTA? That's wrong.
Don't be such a dumb ass. If the 15 year old's parent wants to let his/her child play halo or any other "off limits" game, they can just buy it for them. I doubt the ban will apply to what you provide your own child...unless you do so without caring or showing reasonable regard for your childs welfare.
>You aren't stealing the product, you're stealing part of the profit that the producer would have made were it not for your illegal activity.
That's bullshit, if only for the fact that more people will purchase your product for free than for X dollars. It is doubly so in this particular case (where things are on the net in peer to peer networks) because the ones that infringe the copyright don't make money off it, so they aren't stealing shit, much less "profit".
Your stance is bullshit.
Yes, it is stealing. Just because they are not selling the result of their illegal activities, it's still stealing. If you steal my bicycle and use it to ride to work or to have fun on the mountain, you still stole it. It doesn't matter if you actually sell, or make profit from it...you are still stealing from me.
This article has produced thousands of page views, which directly translate into advertising revenue. Consequently, the people who operate the parent company that operates the parent company of the company that owns the "Slashdot" brand and that pays the staff's salaries will get to sleep on slightly bigger piles of money.
If you don't think that making fat cats even fatter is good, then the terrorists have already won.
Oh...right. I keep forgetting that Slashdot is a business.
I don't know about laptops without tap pads but mine has a button to disable it. Plus, usually it shows up as a pointing device or something so you can just disable the whole device. That's what I do and then rock the wireless mouse.
Your just wrong/misinformed/paranoid. If you spent half the time reading as you do playing with yourself, I mean "gaming", then you might not be so paranoid.
From http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6724510/
Blagojevich's proposed legislation would prohibit the distribution, sale, rental and availability of mature video games to children younger than 18.
"We're talking about violent games that use realistic depiction of human-on-human violence, video games that include dismemberment and disfigurement, video games where the kids control the process," Blagojevich said Thursday.
Current Illinois law does not prohibit selling or renting video games to children, regardless of how violent or sexually explicit the games may be. Retailers are not supposed to sell them to people under 17 but have been blamed for lax enforcement.
"If you're 18 or older and you're a grown-up and an adult, that's your business," the governor said. "But I don't believe that my 8-year-old daughter has a constitutional right to cut somebody's head off in a game that she plays."
Under the governor's plan, the proposed fine for violating the bans would be a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison or a $5,000 fine.
The proposed legislation also would require retailers to label violent or sexually explicit video games. Video games now are rated with general labels such as "M" for "mature."
They're trying to do that because they see gamers as violent, socially inept, serial killers-to-be.
When really, they're just a bunch of non-violent, socially inept, basement-dwellers-to-be.
Plus, if states like Illinois DOES choose to ban some games, it'll be like porno being "banned". You need to be of a certain age to buy. What's wrong with that?
I mean shit, won't SOMEONE please think of the childen???
You know, because we've discussed this news before? Four months ago? Some would say it's basically a dupe.
A dupe??? On Slashdot???
Seriously though...A dupe??? On Slashdot???
( it was two months ago...and three months ago...yes we all think that it would be great if google made a browser...since they are magical...aparently )
it is the wrong tool for the job, much like using tables to layout HTML pages (as the CSS religionists like to point out)
CSS religionists like to deny the existence of the 90% browser, whose CSS implementation has too many bugs and deficiencies to make it a complete replacement for some forms of table based layout. Personally, I prefer using a hybrid of tables and CSS on sites that I develop.
Be fair...(and I am a Firefox guy) NO [ right...NO] browser fully conforms to CSS standards. I am a CSS religionist and have found it impossible to test my work since NO [right...NO] browser fully conforms to CSS standards...(Yes folks...that means CSS1 AND CSS2)
BTW...I thought XML was on its way out...
Or people who are still using WinME and Win98 who patch what they can from the dribbles off MS table (and they use WinME or Win98 and haven't upgraded because *GASP* those versions of Windows do what they need them to do and they don't want to pay another MS tax to upgrade)?
Clearly you can call up a spammer's ISP and say "make your sleazy customer stop spamming me".
It would likely be quite difficult to sue you over such a request.
If however you allege things about the spammer that might open you up to liability.
So keep complaining about spam, but watch what you say, especially in writing.
Unless, of course you have real proof of criminal activitiy. ex. Subject lines of emails
This is a serious problem. Lawyers/spammers are now citing CSA, and as long as they're following that ACT, it will be legal.
But really, all this guy did was complain to his ISP. You cannot get sued for complaining. If there is a lawsuit, it should be against the ISP for canceling the account. No? Seems like a million lawyers would jump at a countersuit on this one.
....from TIVO got real bad anyway. I used to have one, and the service was great for the first few years. Then all the sudden they changed thigs around and their service started to suck. At first their customer support reps were great, the company was really happy to please the customer, and catored to the hacker community. I blew up my own box playing around and they fixed it for free, even told me what I did wrong and why it didn't work. Then about a year ago the modem died, and this time I was met with terrible customer support and terrible service. I sent the box in and payed something like $50, waited a month and a half and got the box back. The modem worked but now the VHF/UHF coax ports were dead. I called them up and told them this, and found out they had lost my records so they couldn't confirm that whoever repaired it busted it because they had no record of me sending it in. I just used the RCA outputs untill the modem died again a month later. Called and found out it would cost me over $300 to have it fixed this time, and got explanation why the price skyrocketed from the last repair. The place I would have sent it to was the same location as the last time and everything, not like they used a different outsourced repair shop or anything. I have hated TIVO ever since.
Two words. Wireless USB.
Network the TIVO and then you don't need the modem.
Plus, a new TiVo series 2 is only $99 so it's barely worth the UPS and downtime to send it back no?
Guess what, Windows will let you. What he is saying is this:
We didn't put the DRM on the content, the provider did, what we are doing is providing the way to get to the content.
Microsoft didn't put the DRM on your Shrek video, but they did give you the software to get at it.
That is totally Mr. Gates' point and I think he makes it well. I don't love his company or his business practices, however I agree with him here. He is not putting the DRM on the content. He is not suing people for getting around it. He is simply implementing the tool.
If you are selling them a license to run your software package, couldn't you just purchase the MySQL license and include the cost of it in the price of your product? Unless your product is selling for $49.99, which I doubt.
Or give them your product for free (open source it) and sell them the support contract. No license required.:)
It's true...you could do that.
Of course, how do you get your monthes of development costs back when your competition can get your software, give it away, and then sell his support package for less than yours since he has no costs to recoup. And since your software was so brilliantly developed, it needs no maintainance. What then? Mac and Cheese for dinner?
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This guy promoted from within, replaced from within and just handed out medals like hotcakes. He also, as someone has said here has devastated the surplus (blame that all you want on the ressessive slowdown of 2000-2003, but there's no way we're in this deep a hole if he doesn't), Cut taxes.. DURING a time of war...
We were not in a time of war during his "handout", which by the way I was against. Plus, his point is that the government shouldn't have to bail out a program like SS, since it should be set up to take care of itself. If the government does have to bail out the program, then it's not doing the job it was intended to do, which was to provide retirement benefits without using taxes outside the SS structure.
Really? I'll submit that while it's a flawed system, the same can be said of many social programs, especially when we're trying to apply New Deal economics to today's markets.
But that doesn't mean it's time to do away with the whole thing. What I should've said was, if you oppose Bush's idea of SS reform, then, you're only playing politics - and this "with us or against us" administration certainly believes it has the clout to paint its opponents that way.
I don't see how you can have an option to take money out of a system that will already have a shortfall / be broke in 50 years, and somehow not come up in the red, even sooner than if we keep the current system and stop spending the cash set aside for it like it's a fucking money tree for Bush's wars.
When did he say he wanted to "do away with the whole thing"?
Furthur, his plan is to allow people to "opt-out" of to a certain level and put that money elsewhere. (which I would prefer) I would much rather take a chance with my money than let my government take a chance with it. I mean, your social security is YOUR money. Wouldn't you like to be in control of as much of it as you can?
Plus, politicians play politics. Especially now-a-days when the democrats are outnumbered. They said themselves that they are going to "draw a line in the sand" on this issue. Well how open minded can you be staring at a line in the sand. Although I agree that the present administration has a with-us-or-against-us policy, so do the democrats. That's how politics work.
Yeah, but you've got 30 years to get it right. this, is NOT getting it right, unless you absolutely adhere to "some action, even the wrong action is better than no action".
This administration sure believes that.
I suppose we all hear what we want to hear but if you evaluate what he SAID and not what the news folks said, he said any idea was on the table. The main thrust of that portion of his speech was that it was going down the tubes and SOMETHING must be done. I like the fact that instead of saying "It's broke, it's the democrats fault" he said (paraphrased of course), "It's broke, and we need to figure out how to fix it. I have an idea but I'll listen to anyone".
What's the matter with that? Would it be better if he said "It's broken and I have no ideas..."
Which is still wrong! A parent doesn't have the right to choose what they're children should or should not be playing?!
Sure, the lax enforcement of the Mature games being sold to under-age kids should definitly be fixed, but taking away the right of a parent to say their 15 year old is mature enough to play Halo or GTA? That's wrong.
Don't be such a dumb ass. If the 15 year old's parent wants to let his/her child play halo or any other "off limits" game, they can just buy it for them. I doubt the ban will apply to what you provide your own child...unless you do so without caring or showing reasonable regard for your childs welfare.
>You aren't stealing the product, you're stealing part of the profit that the producer would have made were it not for your illegal activity.
That's bullshit, if only for the fact that more people will purchase your product for free than for X dollars. It is doubly so in this particular case (where things are on the net in peer to peer networks) because the ones that infringe the copyright don't make money off it, so they aren't stealing shit, much less "profit".
Your stance is bullshit.
Yes, it is stealing. Just because they are not selling the result of their illegal activities, it's still stealing. If you steal my bicycle and use it to ride to work or to have fun on the mountain, you still stole it. It doesn't matter if you actually sell, or make profit from it...you are still stealing from me.
This article has produced thousands of page views, which directly translate into advertising revenue. Consequently, the people who operate the parent company that operates the parent company of the company that owns the "Slashdot" brand and that pays the staff's salaries will get to sleep on slightly bigger piles of money. If you don't think that making fat cats even fatter is good, then the terrorists have already won. Oh...right. I keep forgetting that Slashdot is a business.
I don't know about laptops without tap pads but mine has a button to disable it. Plus, usually it shows up as a pointing device or something so you can just disable the whole device. That's what I do and then rock the wireless mouse.
It's funnier without quotes. Do some investigation and see for yourself.
(Which by the way...proves my theory. No matter what the search terms...you will ALWAYS get porn as a match)
Yeah really. Asking Slashdot users which Linux to use will produce more results than asking google.
At least google won't make fun of you while you ask.
C'mon Cliff. Why post this kinda thing? What good will come from this.
[your distro] sucks...use [my distro]...
Killme now.
Your just wrong/misinformed/paranoid. If you spent half the time reading as you do playing with yourself, I mean "gaming", then you might not be so paranoid.
From http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6724510/ Blagojevich's proposed legislation would prohibit the distribution, sale, rental and availability of mature video games to children younger than 18.
"We're talking about violent games that use realistic depiction of human-on-human violence, video games that include dismemberment and disfigurement, video games where the kids control the process," Blagojevich said Thursday.
Current Illinois law does not prohibit selling or renting video games to children, regardless of how violent or sexually explicit the games may be. Retailers are not supposed to sell them to people under 17 but have been blamed for lax enforcement.
"If you're 18 or older and you're a grown-up and an adult, that's your business," the governor said. "But I don't believe that my 8-year-old daughter has a constitutional right to cut somebody's head off in a game that she plays."
Under the governor's plan, the proposed fine for violating the bans would be a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in prison or a $5,000 fine.
The proposed legislation also would require retailers to label violent or sexually explicit video games. Video games now are rated with general labels such as "M" for "mature."
s/DOES/DO
They're trying to do that because they see gamers as violent, socially inept, serial killers-to-be.
When really, they're just a bunch of non-violent, socially inept, basement-dwellers-to-be.
Plus, if states like Illinois DOES choose to ban some games, it'll be like porno being "banned". You need to be of a certain age to buy. What's wrong with that?
I mean shit, won't SOMEONE please think of the childen???
You know, because we've discussed this news before? Four months ago? Some would say it's basically a dupe.
A dupe??? On Slashdot???
Seriously though...A dupe??? On Slashdot???
( it was two months ago...and three months ago...yes we all think that it would be great if google made a browser...since they are magical...aparently )
Yes, I DO love ellipses...
it is the wrong tool for the job, much like using tables to layout HTML pages (as the CSS religionists like to point out) CSS religionists like to deny the existence of the 90% browser, whose CSS implementation has too many bugs and deficiencies to make it a complete replacement for some forms of table based layout. Personally, I prefer using a hybrid of tables and CSS on sites that I develop.
Be fair...(and I am a Firefox guy) NO [ right...NO] browser fully conforms to CSS standards. I am a CSS religionist and have found it impossible to test my work since NO [right...NO] browser fully conforms to CSS standards...(Yes folks...that means CSS1 AND CSS2) BTW...I thought XML was on its way out...
Or people who are still using WinME and Win98 who patch what they can from the dribbles off MS table (and they use WinME or Win98 and haven't upgraded because *GASP* those versions of Windows do what they need them to do and they don't want to pay another MS tax to upgrade)?
Microsoft doesn't even support 98 anymore so what's the big deal?
Great....another reason for you to strap on the Nikes and start brewing the Kool-Aid...
You SSH into your friends, clients, and family's machines? They ALL run SSH? Hrm. I can never get my mom run SSH on her windows 98 machine.
Clearly you can call up a spammer's ISP and say "make your sleazy customer stop spamming me". It would likely be quite difficult to sue you over such a request. If however you allege things about the spammer that might open you up to liability. So keep complaining about spam, but watch what you say, especially in writing.
Unless, of course you have real proof of criminal activitiy. ex. Subject lines of emails
This is a serious problem. Lawyers/spammers are now citing CSA, and as long as they're following that ACT, it will be legal.
But really, all this guy did was complain to his ISP. You cannot get sued for complaining. If there is a lawsuit, it should be against the ISP for canceling the account. No? Seems like a million lawyers would jump at a countersuit on this one.
Two words. Wireless USB.
Network the TIVO and then you don't need the modem. Plus, a new TiVo series 2 is only $99 so it's barely worth the UPS and downtime to send it back no?
He is simply implementing the tool.
Which is selling out. Granted, I'm not surprised that the world's richest man has no qualms about selling out, but dammit, it's still not admirable.
Jesus. Get a job hippie. "Selling out". Give me a break.
Guess what, Windows will let you. What he is saying is this:
We didn't put the DRM on the content, the provider did, what we are doing is providing the way to get to the content.
Microsoft didn't put the DRM on your Shrek video, but they did give you the software to get at it.
That is totally Mr. Gates' point and I think he makes it well. I don't love his company or his business practices, however I agree with him here. He is not putting the DRM on the content. He is not suing people for getting around it. He is simply implementing the tool.
If you are selling them a license to run your software package, couldn't you just purchase the MySQL license and include the cost of it in the price of your product? Unless your product is selling for $49.99, which I doubt. Or give them your product for free (open source it) and sell them the support contract. No license required. :)
It's true...you could do that.
Of course, how do you get your monthes of development costs back when your competition can get your software, give it away, and then sell his support package for less than yours since he has no costs to recoup. And since your software was so brilliantly developed, it needs no maintainance. What then? Mac and Cheese for dinner?
But that would violate the license. If your app REQUIRES the product, then you need to get the license.
SCO is a software company??? All this time I thought they were just a legal firm...just me?