Red Hats first two release always suck shit. 6.0 was a disaster, 6.1 was a little better. Maybe now they've sorted everything out. Just like with 5.0-5.2.
People can be religeous if they like, doesn't bother me.
Christianity does bother me.
Morality and christianity are irreconcilable. Christianity turns morality into obedience, and makes true virtue impossible.
Christianity make vices out of virtues and virtues of vices. For the christian, pity, obedience, meekness, modesty: these are virtues. This is upside down and sick. Compare to aristotle's conception of virtue through moderation, which depends on no dogmas and no fantasies. How much healthier and human this is!
Christianity is anti life; it contains a latent hatred for reality. The real world is god's kingdom: the fantasy. The material world is actually false. What an absurdity! How does a person come to believe such nonsense? I agree wih Nietzsche that christianity is perhaps the lowest conception of the divine, ever.
Indeed, for many christains life is simply a curse to be endured. No wonder christains hate sex and other natural healthy human instincts.
The christian god is a vampire that sucks the life and strength out of humanity. It makes humans obedient and weak. The Romans did wrong by nailing him up, they should've driven a stake through his stinking black heart.
That is how the vast majority of musicians in the world make their money: playing gigs. Whatever kind of music they play.
It is only a TINY minority that the corporate marketing juggernaut smiles upon and makes millionaires out of.
The whole system of corporate manufactured culture is coming to an end, and that is a good thing. Oh, so Brittany Spears won't make any money in the new world order. Boo fucking hoo.
David Lynch wanted a mini series for Dune, and originally that is what the producers gave him. Then they screwed him over and forced him to do it as a movie, it's not a project he's very proud of. There are a lot of movies ruined by executives, Fifth Element is another (was supposed to have been four hours).
Tape isn't dead. You still need tapes to store off site backups, and to have several backups from different dates. Backing up data to another disk is only good if you only care about getting "last nights" data back. What about three months ago?
The disk method is fine for home users with 10GB of mp3z and such, but if you have tons of important data you will still need tape or something like it.
Well, you don't need 4500 packages but it sure is convenient. It is somewhat overwhelming to install, but basically you just install what you need and do the rest over time as you need things.
After spending a lot of time compiling programs, I am quite sick of doing it, and I would far rather have a binary ready for me.
Besides, when I am really bored I'll go through dselect looking for interesting programs.
who in the hell buys an mp3 player thinking about $ per playback hour? WTF is that? All I care about is how much up front, and this thing is WAY, WAY too expensive.
weird... haven't experienced any memory leaks myself, been running squid for a long time on linux, uptime is 95 days and squid has been using 132MB since I can remember.
Good, I hate christians and their poisonous life-hating nonsense. I dislike religion generally, but I believe christianity to be the absolute low mark in religions throughout history.
They're perfectly free to believe whatever nonsense they want, but then you have to deal with people who disagree with you. Too bad.
I stopped reading newspapers a while ago, there isn't really any news in them, just a load of crap that the capitalist entertainment complex wants you to read. People who think the media is liberal are just idiots; the entertainment media is controversial for sure, but it's all for profit. Now that these media corps are consolidating into vast vertical monopolies, it will only get worse.
How can anyone look at the media circus surrounding JFK jr's death, or the current political campaigns, and possibly take the news media seriously? What a joke. The net isn't any better (it is perhaps worse), but at least there are mailing lists and so forth where one can get the press wires that don't generally make it into the mainstream.
A few weeks ago there was a revolution in Ecuador, massive labor strikes in India, but none of this was really in the news. I guess the little cuban kid was more important.
The internet must be made safe for ecommerce and epeople. Help the FBI rid the country of annoying free speech advocates, who only get in the way of everything and annoy people trying to go about conducting the holy acts of buying and selling.
In other words, WHY THE FUCK am I going to help the government when they have been conducting an all out war on our individual rights, while kissing up the corporations? Fuck them.
Santa Claus, wherever he has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left no other nexus between people than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment". It has drowned out the most heavenly ecstacies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
Santa Claus has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
Santa Claus has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation into a mere money relation.
The Santa Claus has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigor in the Middle Ages, which reactionaries so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former exoduses of nations and crusades.
Santa Claus cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.
Santa Claus has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.
Santa Claus, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.
Santa Claus keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.
Santa Claus, during its rule of scarce one thousand years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization or rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground -- what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?
read up on the US-Phillipine war. (1899-1902) 1 million Phillipino civilians and 20,000 Phillipino millitary casualities (estimate). One of the more interesting american policies: "Kill everyone over ten". Yes, I think Roosevelt was a bit much like Stalin. He's a bit more famous for betraying the Cuban people, but that is another matter. I was not confusing the Roosevelts, although it might look that way; I just meant to say that I don't know too much about G. Marshall & Co.
I'm not too keen on USA from 1945-1960, but Roosevelt was one of the ugliest people imaginable... he was no better than stalin. A complete brute if there ever was one.
Thanks, David, for choosing a man responsible for spreading america's own brand of imperialsm.
If you want a really good treatment of this subject, without the usual shit-kicking arguments of the left & right, please read Neil Postman's book, "Amusing ourselves to death".
Violence on TV and games are not really the problem; violence has been in art for thousands of years. The real problem is amusement. TV turns everything into entertainment; the war on drugs is entertainment, our political spectacles are entertainment, the tragedies of others are purely entertainment. Combine this with the fact that TV is NOT real (it is mediated reality, and epistemelogically polluted), and that the advertising detritus it pipes into your mind is violently irrational, and yes, you have a serious problem on your hands. I can't give a good run down of everything he presents here, but that is the general thesis of the book.
The columbine crime has nothing to do with "teenage rebellion" or "drugs" or "geekiness". It has everything to do with commodification - it was a designer massacre. Idiots putting up ten commandments in schools are only worsening the problem. I think Calvin Klein ads are far more dangerous than quake.
the US has supported facist regimes all over the world, overthrowing scores of democratically elected governments everywhere.
The US gov LOVES facists, especially in the 3rd world. Roosevelt's administration was very fond of both Hitler and Mussolini until they declared war on the US.
haven't you ever wondered WHY there are so many third world dictators???? Your tax dollars at work.
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you can still use the text install ... just type "text" when the cd first boots (like it says to)
Red Hats first two release always suck shit. 6.0 was a disaster, 6.1 was a little better. Maybe now they've sorted everything out. Just like with 5.0-5.2.
People can be religeous if they like, doesn't bother me.
Christianity does bother me.
Morality and christianity are irreconcilable. Christianity turns morality into obedience, and makes true virtue impossible.
Christianity make vices out of virtues and virtues of vices. For the christian, pity, obedience, meekness, modesty: these are virtues. This is upside down and sick. Compare to aristotle's conception of virtue through moderation, which depends on no dogmas and no fantasies. How much healthier and human this is!
Christianity is anti life; it contains a latent hatred for reality. The real world is god's kingdom: the fantasy. The material world is actually false. What an absurdity! How does a person come to believe such nonsense? I agree wih Nietzsche that christianity is perhaps the lowest conception of the divine, ever.
Indeed, for many christains life is simply a curse to be endured. No wonder christains hate sex and other natural healthy human instincts.
The christian god is a vampire that sucks the life and strength out of humanity. It makes humans obedient and weak. The Romans did wrong by nailing him up, they should've driven a stake through his stinking black heart.
That is how the vast majority of musicians in the world make their money: playing gigs. Whatever kind of music they play.
It is only a TINY minority that the corporate marketing juggernaut smiles upon and makes millionaires out of.
The whole system of corporate manufactured culture is coming to an end, and that is a good thing. Oh, so Brittany Spears won't make any money in the new world order. Boo fucking hoo.
The RIAA needs to be destroyed.
David Lynch wanted a mini series for Dune, and originally that is what the producers gave him. Then they screwed him over and forced him to do it as a movie, it's not a project he's very proud of. There are a lot of movies ruined by executives, Fifth Element is another (was supposed to have been four hours).
are there any?
I have some jazz cd's that I had to do at 190 ... the piano would sound like shit at 128kbs.
Most all of my rock cds sound just fine at 128 .
Tape isn't dead. You still need tapes to store off site backups, and to have several backups from different dates. Backing up data to another disk is only good if you only care about getting "last nights" data back. What about three months ago?
The disk method is fine for home users with 10GB of mp3z and such, but if you have tons of important data you will still need tape or something like it.
Well, you don't need 4500 packages but it sure is convenient. It is somewhat overwhelming to install, but basically you just install what you need and do the rest over time as you need things.
After spending a lot of time compiling programs, I am quite sick of doing it, and I would far rather have a binary ready for me.
Besides, when I am really bored I'll go through dselect looking for interesting programs.
who in the hell buys an mp3 player thinking about $ per playback hour? WTF is that? All I care about is how much up front, and this thing is WAY, WAY too expensive.
When they're under $200, let me know.
weird ... haven't experienced any memory leaks myself, been running squid for a long time on linux, uptime is 95 days and squid has been using 132MB since I can remember.
but they changed the name from GnoMoney (which I thought was a very cool name) to GNUCash, which is stupid. I won't use it anymore!!
Good, I hate christians and their poisonous life-hating nonsense. I dislike religion generally, but I believe christianity to be the absolute low mark in religions throughout history.
They're perfectly free to believe whatever nonsense they want, but then you have to deal with people who disagree with you. Too bad.
I stopped reading newspapers a while ago, there isn't really any news in them, just a load of crap that the capitalist entertainment complex wants you to read. People who think the media is liberal are just idiots; the entertainment media is controversial for sure, but it's all for profit. Now that these media corps are consolidating into vast vertical monopolies, it will only get worse.
How can anyone look at the media circus surrounding JFK jr's death, or the current political campaigns, and possibly take the news media seriously? What a joke. The net isn't any better (it is perhaps worse), but at least there are mailing lists and so forth where one can get the press wires that don't generally make it into the mainstream.
A few weeks ago there was a revolution in Ecuador, massive labor strikes in India, but none of this was really in the news. I guess the little cuban kid was more important.
I thought the gritz guy was pretty funny myself, I'm 34.
Just laugh.
I know I'll be first in line.
The internet must be made safe for ecommerce and epeople. Help the FBI rid the country of annoying free speech advocates, who only get in the way of everything and annoy people trying to go about conducting the holy acts of buying and selling.
In other words, WHY THE FUCK am I going to help the government when they have been conducting an all out war on our individual rights, while kissing up the corporations? Fuck them.
Santa Claus, wherever he has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his "natural superiors", and has left no other nexus between people than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment". It has drowned out the most heavenly ecstacies of religious fervor, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of the numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- Free Trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation.
Santa Claus has stripped of its halo every occupation hitherto honored and looked up to with reverent awe. It has converted the physician, the lawyer, the priest, the poet, the man of science, into its paid wage laborers.
Santa Claus has torn away from the family its sentimental veil, and has reduced the family relation into a mere money relation.
The Santa Claus has disclosed how it came to pass that the brutal display of vigor in the Middle Ages, which reactionaries so much admire, found its fitting complement in the most slothful indolence. It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former exoduses of nations and crusades.
Santa Claus cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society. Conservation of the old modes of production in unaltered form, was, on the contrary, the first condition of existence for all earlier industrial classes. Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his real condition of life and his relations with his kind.
The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.
Santa Claus has, through its exploitation of the world market, given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country. To the great chagrin of reactionaries, it has drawn from under the feet of industry the national ground on which it stood. All old-established national industries have been destroyed or are daily being destroyed. They are dislodged by new industries, whose introduction becomes a life and death question for all civilized nations, by industries that no longer work up indigenous raw material, but raw material drawn from the remotest zones; industries whose products are consumed, not only at home, but in every quarter of the globe. In place of the old wants, satisfied by the production of the country, we find new wants, requiring for their satisfaction the products of distant lands and climes. In place of the old local and national seclusion and self-sufficiency, we have intercourse in every direction, universal inter-dependence of nations. And as in material, so also in intellectual production. The intellectual creations of individual nations become common property. National one-sidedness and narrow-mindedness become more and more impossible, and from the numerous national and local literatures, there arises a world literature.
Santa Claus, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of commodities are the heavy artillery with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.
Santa Claus keeps more and more doing away with the scattered state of the population, of the means of production, and of property. It has agglomerated population, centralized the means of production, and has concentrated property in a few hands. The necessary consequence of this was political centralization. Independent, or but loosely connected provinces, with separate interests, laws, governments, and systems of taxation, became lumped together into one nation, with one government, one code of laws, one national class interest, one frontier, and one customs tariff.
Santa Claus, during its rule of scarce one thousand years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. Subjection of nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalization or rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground -- what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labor?
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read up on the US-Phillipine war. (1899-1902)
1 million Phillipino civilians and 20,000 Phillipino millitary casualities (estimate).
One of the more interesting american policies: "Kill everyone over ten".
Yes, I think Roosevelt was a bit much like Stalin.
He's a bit more famous for betraying the Cuban people, but that is another matter.
I was not confusing the Roosevelts, although it might look that way; I just meant to say that I don't know too much about G. Marshall & Co.
really, why should police have guns?
read up on the US-Phillipine war. (1899-1902)
1 million Phillipino civilians and 20,000 Phillipino millitary casualities (estimate).
One of the more interesting american policies: "Kill everyone over ten".
Yes, I think Roosevelt was a bit much like Stalin.
He's a bit more famous for betraying the Cuban people, but that is another matter.
I was not confusing the Roosevelts, although it might look that way; I just meant to say that I don't know too much about G. Marshall & Co.
read up on the US-Phillipine war. (1899-1902) 1 million Phillipino civilians and 20,000 Phillipino millitary casualities (estimate). One of the more interesting american policies: "Kill everyone over ten". Yes, I think Roosevelt was a bit much like Stalin. He's a bit more famous for betraying the Cuban people, but that is another matter. I was not confusing the Roosevelts, although it might look that way; I just meant to say that I don't know too much about G. Marshall & Co.
why do americans babble endlessly about freedom while licking the hands that beat them?
... who the fuck gave us that capability in the first place?
Teddy Roosevelt? You've got to be kidding.
You claim that so-and-so "saved us" from nuclear war
Personally I have no repsect for power whatsoever.
I'm not too keen on USA from 1945-1960, but Roosevelt was one of the ugliest people imaginable ... he was no better than stalin. A complete brute if there ever was one.
Thanks, David, for choosing a man responsible for spreading america's own brand of imperialsm.
Violence on TV and games are not really the problem; violence has been in art for thousands of years. The real problem is amusement. TV turns everything into entertainment; the war on drugs is entertainment, our political spectacles are entertainment, the tragedies of others are purely entertainment. Combine this with the fact that TV is NOT real (it is mediated reality, and epistemelogically polluted), and that the advertising detritus it pipes into your mind is violently irrational, and yes, you have a serious problem on your hands. I can't give a good run down of everything he presents here, but that is the general thesis of the book.
The columbine crime has nothing to do with "teenage rebellion" or "drugs" or "geekiness". It has everything to do with commodification - it was a designer massacre. Idiots putting up ten commandments in schools are only worsening the problem. I think Calvin Klein ads are far more dangerous than quake.
the US has supported facist regimes all over the world, overthrowing scores of democratically elected governments everywhere.
The US gov LOVES facists, especially in the 3rd world. Roosevelt's administration was very fond of both Hitler and Mussolini until they declared war on the US.
haven't you ever wondered WHY there are so many third world dictators???? Your tax dollars at work.