This is another big "hot topic" in L.A. county right now. Try not to pay too much attention to this stuff or you will go surely go insane.
'In late January, this year, Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff called a talk show in Los Angeles. The hosts of the show had "dared" public officials to call the show and defend their support for higher vehicle taxes. The pair questioned rhetorically whether officials would "have the gonads" to defend their positions on the air. Sheriff Baca called, and after a brief debate with John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the popular "John and Ken Show", offered that "if you wonder whether or not I have gonads, why don't you invite me down to the office there and I'll come there and show you what I've got." This was unequivocally an offer made over public airways to visually display his genitals. Clearly such a statement made by a deputy sheriff in an environment as public as the one Baca chose would result in sanctions for any number of department violations.'
--The Harris County Star
Them equating Baca threatening to show them what he's got meaning he actually means to expose himself is the same as saying that John and Ken meant that there was literally nobody who had the sexual organs necessary to defend their position.
My personal bitching, we had one of these Belkin routers, and their PPPoE support didn't work for crap with our pacbell DSL. It would disconnect every few minutes.
We also got a Belkin WAP which appears to be broken, it randomly loses its SSID every few hours. We did get it off ebay mind you, it may have been damaged.
*cough*
Damn straight:)
The Faramir stuff really pissed me off. Denethor's family drama will certainly lose some of its thunder. At least Faramir semi-renewed himself at the end. This was the single worst plot change in the first two movies combined. So much for the whole "blood of Numenor" storyline. I doubt now that we will even see the white tree. Jackson should have spent more time explaining the history of men rather than wasting time with that whole 'Aragorn fell off the cliff' claptrap.
I disagree that capitalism is working against the free software movement, and I do not see free software conforming to a socialistic distribution system, because the model of free software distribution has no single governing body. It has no regulatory system at all. The reason why it works is because software doesn't need one.
Capitalism itself shouldn't care about what's free, it doesn't concern capitalism. One could make the argument that preventing the distribution of a free product is socialistic, at least as socialistic as it is capitalist, since they are both economic systems which don't care about what's free.
Most of our bitching about "capitalism" comes from our anger at companies over IP rights and the lot, which I would make the argument, are actually socialistic laws, where a regulatory body is attempting to reward innovation instead of letting the market reward innovation, which IMHO would be the true capitalistic way.
I respect your message and am surprised it wasn't modded as flamebait.
However, I do not feel that it is somehow immoral or decadent to devote time to computer operating systems rather than running in political circles, accomplishing nothing, or doing electrical wiring at the Wendy's. Everyone is interested in something, and one cannot help but look at things with a starting perspective. A job's relative physical strain has only a partial bearing on its true worth.
If I want to lose by job over a Linux issue, that's my business and my right because I am fully allowed to pursue happiness. This does not make me decadent or immoral. (I have no chlidren..)
My message might be a cheap shot but yours was cheaper:)
'Well, it was about that time that I realized it wasn't a dying *NIX company trying to artificially inflate their stock prices at all, but rather it was that thirty foot tall dinosaur from the paleolithic era! The loch ness monster! I said, "Go away, monster! I ain't given you no damn tree fiddy! Stop bothering my family!"'
Wife: 'I gave him a dollar!'
'She gave him a dollar!'
Wife: 'I thought if I gave him a dollar he would go away.'
'Well of course he ain't gunna go away if you give him a dollar! You give him a dollar he's gunna assume you got more!'
Also consider that all of us typing these posts are doing so via computer. As we continue to push clock speeds higher and higher, power consumption in processors increases - power consumption in CMOS is something like cfv^2 (f: frequency, v: voltage, c: capacitance) so the faster we run'em the more power they take. Now consider that a 2GHz Athlon or Pentium packs all the power that your average Joe user will ever need - perhaps now that these processors are consuming in the 75 to 100 watt range, we should be putting more effort into reducing power consumption, instead of increasing clock speeds?
Hah! I love the idea of criticizing people who use UI's that use unnecessary CPU cycles with this argument! A whole new angle on that FVWM article earlier:) FVWM--the environmentally friendly WM.
Assuming NOOP uses less power than other instructions of course.
The windfarms in california, at least the tehachipe (sp) windfarm which I am familiar with, actually could be considered somewhat beautiful. There is now maze of wiring about or anything like that, so it is just a countryside of rolling hills covered in the various types of windmills. It actually looks pretty cool and doesn't appear to harm nature at all (except maybe for birds.. I've never seen any bird carcasses about though..)
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Psssh, only sissy europeans drink their beer above 0 Kelvin.
Just wait until they hit gnutella and start suing all the people who offer
24kb -.mp3
24kb - (REALLY WORKS!).mp3
24kb - THE REAL THING.mp3
24kb - AV Checked!.mp3
The lawsuits will fly.
His imitation basis could not have been genetic, because he copied also the clothes of the officer. I think we are to believe that he can just 'look' at something and have enough data to create an identical replica.
Yeah its sad to see Dana Carvey sink to such depths.
He was nothing short of genious in SNL, clean slate wasn't bad.... then....
His standup stuff in the SNL days was superb.
Besides that overplayed choppin broccoli bit at least:)
It's funny how officials think they should give a few people the maximum sentence to 'act as a deterrent'.
That's like saying we should kill 10 jaywalkers a year randomly, and when we do we'll paste their pictures all over the TV, with remorseful family shots, etc. Jaywalking? This is what it gets you!
Slashdot Mirror
'In late January, this year, Sheriff Lee Baca, Los Angeles County Sheriff called a talk show in Los Angeles. The hosts of the show had "dared" public officials to call the show and defend their support for higher vehicle taxes. The pair questioned rhetorically whether officials would "have the gonads" to defend their positions on the air. Sheriff Baca called, and after a brief debate with John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of the popular "John and Ken Show", offered that "if you wonder whether or not I have gonads, why don't you invite me down to the office there and I'll come there and show you what I've got." This was unequivocally an offer made over public airways to visually display his genitals. Clearly such a statement made by a deputy sheriff in an environment as public as the one Baca chose would result in sanctions for any number of department violations.' --The Harris County Star Them equating Baca threatening to show them what he's got meaning he actually means to expose himself is the same as saying that John and Ken meant that there was literally nobody who had the sexual organs necessary to defend their position.
Ack, I'm paying attention again.
Sean
Has anyone every calculated the approximate ballpark total amount of page loads of your average /.'ing? I would love to see some statistics.
In soviet russia, internet maps you!
I don't have a point... those people suck..
McKellan Asks Jackson for Hobbit Adaption
That would be cool, huh huh.
We also got a Belkin WAP which appears to be broken, it randomly loses its SSID every few hours. We did get it off ebay mind you, it may have been damaged.
*cough* Damn straight :)
The Faramir stuff really pissed me off. Denethor's family drama will certainly lose some of its thunder. At least Faramir semi-renewed himself at the end. This was the single worst plot change in the first two movies combined. So much for the whole "blood of Numenor" storyline. I doubt now that we will even see the white tree. Jackson should have spent more time explaining the history of men rather than wasting time with that whole 'Aragorn fell off the cliff' claptrap.
I'm sure you could get a computer wired up to the tachometer and generate your own engine sound on the stereo system :)
Sean
Capitalism itself shouldn't care about what's free, it doesn't concern capitalism. One could make the argument that preventing the distribution of a free product is socialistic, at least as socialistic as it is capitalist, since they are both economic systems which don't care about what's free.
Most of our bitching about "capitalism" comes from our anger at companies over IP rights and the lot, which I would make the argument, are actually socialistic laws, where a regulatory body is attempting to reward innovation instead of letting the market reward innovation, which IMHO would be the true capitalistic way.
Sean
Someone -1 troll'd the parent?
That was hilarious! I think people moderate without reading or something.
People like you invented clippy..
However, I do not feel that it is somehow immoral or decadent to devote time to computer operating systems rather than running in political circles, accomplishing nothing, or doing electrical wiring at the Wendy's. Everyone is interested in something, and one cannot help but look at things with a starting perspective. A job's relative physical strain has only a partial bearing on its true worth.
If I want to lose by job over a Linux issue, that's my business and my right because I am fully allowed to pursue happiness. This does not make me decadent or immoral. (I have no chlidren..)
My message might be a cheap shot but yours was cheaper :)
Sure it can.
Wife: 'I gave him a dollar!'
'She gave him a dollar!'
Wife: 'I thought if I gave him a dollar he would go away.'
'Well of course he ain't gunna go away if you give him a dollar! You give him a dollar he's gunna assume you got more!'
8 year olds, dude.
He's talking about disk space, not memory.
Hah! I love the idea of criticizing people who use UI's that use unnecessary CPU cycles with this argument! A whole new angle on that FVWM article earlier :) FVWM--the environmentally friendly WM.
Assuming NOOP uses less power than other instructions of course.
The windfarms in california, at least the tehachipe (sp) windfarm which I am familiar with, actually could be considered somewhat beautiful. There is now maze of wiring about or anything like that, so it is just a countryside of rolling hills covered in the various types of windmills. It actually looks pretty cool and doesn't appear to harm nature at all (except maybe for birds.. I've never seen any bird carcasses about though..)
Psssh, only sissy europeans drink their beer above 0 Kelvin.
Just wait until they hit gnutella and start suing all the people who offer 24kb - .mp3
24kb - (REALLY WORKS!).mp3
24kb - THE REAL THING.mp3
24kb - AV Checked!.mp3
The lawsuits will fly.
Hey, he's right! And Keanu Reeves is still alive!
His imitation basis could not have been genetic, because he copied also the clothes of the officer. I think we are to believe that he can just 'look' at something and have enough data to create an identical replica.
my movie is just a life. since I like fiction so much, why not watch a movie?
Yeah its sad to see Dana Carvey sink to such depths. He was nothing short of genious in SNL, clean slate wasn't bad.. .. then....
His standup stuff in the SNL days was superb.
Besides that overplayed choppin broccoli bit at least :)
It's funny how officials think they should give a few people the maximum sentence to 'act as a deterrent'. That's like saying we should kill 10 jaywalkers a year randomly, and when we do we'll paste their pictures all over the TV, with remorseful family shots, etc. Jaywalking? This is what it gets you!