It seems like the apotheosis of cop culture to me.
The entertainment industry is ridiculous: cops every fucking where you look, even worse than real life. We have cops, tough gritty, decent, yet alchoholic cops, saving us from those awful drug dealers, terrorists, and now, finally, a cop saves us from the fuckin' devil!
After Seattle I'm pretty convinced people just need to start killing cops.
It seems most folks prefer salaries because of the security.
Salaries are bullshit. For every one fair salaried jobs there are a dozen others that ask plenty of overtime with no or very poor compensation...
If you are selling your labor an hourly wage makes the most sense. Unions are the only legitimate way to provide security in your workplace. It shocks me how anti-union americans are, they are absolutely neccessary within capitalism as a democratizing force, otherwise, you just have greedy diskweed CEO's running roughshod over everyone. "Lean times" is a lame excuse when the "economy" is supposedly "booming" and bosses christmas bonuses exceeds the combined salaries of this years lay offs (and this is just typical). People need to protect themselves. It is quite typical that companies treat labor as about the first thing to cut when they are a little financially inconvenienced. This crap needs to stop. They need to consider labor a commodity like any other thing they buy. You anti-union people are way too brainwashed. Unions are the only answer. People must organize.
Uh-oh. If playing game is going to be one of the major uses of the machines, Linux starts to suck very badly..
(from the onion)
Quake Claims 500 Hours
SAN FRANCISCO--Rescue workers are still searching frantically for any signs of unwasted time in the wreckage of high-school student Jeremy Fanshaw's life, following a devastating Quake game that claimed an estimated 500 hours of his time. "Ordinarily, a game of this magnitude would destroy 40 to 50 hours," Red Cross worker Linda Wallis-Hupford said. "But, tragically, Jeremy went back to play the game from the beginning, then he started playing at harder and harder skill levels, and, eventually, he downloaded software that let him create his own levels and skins." As rescue efforts continue, experts are warning of a possible Quake II disaster that could last even longer, with more stunning graphics.
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Lets see here more people attend religious services now than at any point in the last 20 years, democracy is spreading around the world, and more patents and trademarks are applied for everyday. Do you have any evidence that religion, govt and IP are crumbling around us? Looks like they are doing fine to me.
Well, christianity certainly does NOT have the cultural currency it did only fifty years ago, let alone 100. That said, america is a very strong fundamentalist religeous coutry, much like Iran is fundamentalist islam. The point is christianity no longer has any intellectual force behind it; most educated people don't take it seriously (I'm trying to say that without being insulting, if you can believe it).
Democracy is not "spreading across the globe"; god, nothing could be further from the truth, what with the WTO meeting this month. Capitalist imperialism is spreading across the globe.
America is most certainly not a democracy. America is run by corporations, they practically own the government. So if corps aren't interested, the gov isn't. There are still some democratic aspects to the government, but they are being attacked viciously by business elites and free market advocates (DOJ, for eg).
If you really think "democracy is spreading across the globe", I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you read something by Chomsky. However his personal politcal leanings might offend you, his criticisms of US, especially with regard to the hypocrises of our foreign policies, are very solid and very eye opening.
gnu = the gnu gimp = wilbur linux = tux postgres = that elephant thing gnome = the foot kde = the dragon there must be dozens... I think that would make good artwork; the use of mascots is something that cleanly separates the Free Software crowd. Also, the "linux movement" is more than just the linux kernel.
Sorry for calling you a moron and being inflammatory in a previous post.
I don't quite know how else to explain this to you: the government really has no natural right to exist, nor, even by our constitution, does it have any rights. It has limited powers.
The sort of attitude which your original post displayed is something that saddens me. People are so easily whooped into a frenzy over nothing: terrorists, "niggers", drug dealers, teen sex, etc. Most of our laws already exist to limit our freedoms, at the same time they greatly expand private power (corporations - who also have no "inalienable rights" - by our own constitution); the whole thing serves to keep the superfluous population ("losers"; the folks who can't make it in the system, etc) and make others terrified of them.
The US government has been involved in the most horrible atrocities: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc, and has NEVER been held accountable for these things. I don't belive in realpolitik. All power is inherently immoral. I am an anarchist, but within our terribly corrupt system there are things we can do; above all we must limit power: all of it, on all levels.
You hint at the popular notion that the media is some sort of watchdog - this could not be farther from the truth. The media are nothing but a pack of plutocrats, and the information they sell you is simply whatever you want to hear. Most of the crap the US is involved in goes unreported. I can't even count the number of ridiculous hollywood movies that have been produced over the last two decades that served only to get the public more frightened, more cowed, more afraid of nothing but phantoms. Our prime time TV shows literally glorify cops, one after another. The apotheosis of this was perhaps "America's Most Wanted", where the nation is cajoled into being... stoolpidgeons.
Echelon is a horrible thing. Power is a horrible thing. We have to act now to limit or destroy it.
Furthermore, IMHO, not being bombed by terrorists is a bit more important than maintaining my personal privacy.
What terrorists, exactly? Are you really that dull? No, I don't give up liberty for anyhting. It's idiots like you that are the reason for our ongoing police state. I'll rephrase that:
"Not being attacked by forty foot purple three horned hippopotami is more important than my security. We need more police".
The entertainment industry is mostly to blame. Shows like the X-Files (don't get me wrong, I love that show) and similar movies have taught us that the CIA, FBI, and especially the NSA are all out to get us
Yes, you are that dull. The entertainment industry glorifies the NSA and the CIA, there has been a never ending stream of bullshit "patriotic" movies about these non-existent "terrorists" since the eighties (Bond, Clancy movies, Rambo, Schwarzenegger flicks, et al). "You see?? These are the guys that save you from all these terrorists!! That's why you never really see them!!! It could happen any minute, so make sure to respect your friendly neighborhood cop!!"
The media does nothing but glorify cops, lawyers and government spooks.
The CIA is a terrorist organization, for sure. 99% of what Americans call "terrorist" are people fighting US aggresion the only way they know how. US needs to just leave them the fuck alone == problem solved.
The concept of government conspiracies is pure myth,
Then you know nothing of history, because governments have always been involved in conspriacies of the worst kind. There hasn't been one yet that hasn't.
The existence of echelon is a conspiracy in and of itself.
Finally, after raping the public for nearly billions of dollars and providing work for thousand of temp workers, Packard Bell has succumbed to the ultimate power: consumers.
Speaking from his sixty foot yacht somewhere in the south Pacific, former CEO Alain Couder expressed regret and repentance, and having learned his lesson, his next company would fare much better. He also expressed sincere regret for the thousands who are now out of work, and the millions of customers who are "shit out of luck, suckaz!".
don't forget the other contributions of great artists to the field: Lynch wasn't the only contributor to the entrepenurial craze.
Calvin Klein was clearly influenced by Dali's Andalusian Dog, and the wild colors and brave patterns of Hilfiger's 1999 fall lineup is a clear, if understated, nod to the works of Bergman.
Rockefeller Jr. was so blown away by Bunuel's Simon of the Desert that he spent his remaining years as an achorite mystic living on a telephone pole in New Mexico, controlling his vast hordes via remote control.
This is awesome, I thought I was going to have to sell my SBLive or something. This rocks, it isn't just another soundcard. Finally, great midi under linux (?)
This is truly great news... I can't wait for mature drivers and software for this thing. CL might be cool after all. This might just turn out to be the most popular sound card of all time.
ncftp is the best ftp client in the world and of course allows continuous retries. This little console app beats the crap out of the 'doze clients I've tried.
What the hell is CuteFTP? Can't find it at freshmeat:-). Does that run on unix?
we use old hurricane names at work: carmen, camille, audrey, hugo, betsy etc.
before I came here it was shit like "fs2nola" and "blah_incorporated"
I have trouble coming up with names for all the workstations, though. Around here almost no body names their servers anything interesting. They think I am really weird.
At home: trotsky, infidel, liberacion, che (that wouldn't go over too well at work)
see AJ Ayer "god is meaningless". Very good essay which presents perhaps the strongest atheist position there is. Very few atheists think one can "disprove" gods existence.
Science cannnot deal with God, the supernatural, or anything else non-observable.
... neither can anything else
No one's making a religeon of science here (although many do that). God is irrelevant because it is unknowable. Even if you claim to "know god", your experience is unintelligible to me (and everyone else).
Re: the arguments against xtianity: Neitsche said it better than anyone else. If you want to be challenged, as a christian, read the "Antichrist". It has little to do with zealotry ala Pat Robertson. It's the underlying slave mentality and world hatred of it all that's so perverse.
This reminds me a little of the anecdote about Time magazine when the "grunge" thing was just starting to become a fad.
They wanted a big story on it, and interviewed a few bands, who fed them all sorts of crap they made up off the top of their heads. Of course the article had nothing to do with reality. That was hilarious.
We can't beat 'em, we may as well play with them.
If they interviewed me, I would have them take pictures of me using an ancient DOS AT-286, talking about how many banks I'd hacked and how I regularly break into government computers.
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...and made the 90's the shiny happy completely drugless decade its been.
I know you were being sarcastic, but why on earth would we want a world free of recreational drugs anyway? Why do some people think that's a good thing?
I looked for the debs on ftp.debian.org but all that seems to be there is the original slink... apt-get is going to be a little painful over a modem. Sometimes I just want to burn a bunch of new stuff to cd and take it home.
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by Neil Postman.
He argues quite forcefully that television has in fact already brought about a Huxleyan nightmare, and I am fairly convinced he is on the mark.
read it now!
or just go here if you're too lazy
junkbuster filters ads, cookies, etc. You don't need the browser for this, you just tell junkbuster which sites can allow cookies in.
I haven't seen it.
It seems like the apotheosis of cop culture to me.
The entertainment industry is ridiculous: cops every fucking where you look, even worse than real life. We have cops, tough gritty, decent, yet alchoholic cops, saving us from those awful drug dealers, terrorists, and now, finally, a cop saves us from the fuckin' devil!
After Seattle I'm pretty convinced people just need to start killing cops.
It seems most folks prefer salaries because of the security.
...
Salaries are bullshit. For every one fair salaried jobs there are a dozen others that ask plenty of overtime with no or very poor compensation
If you are selling your labor an hourly wage makes the most sense. Unions are the only legitimate way to provide security in your workplace. It shocks me how anti-union americans are, they are absolutely neccessary within capitalism as a democratizing force, otherwise, you just have greedy diskweed CEO's running roughshod over everyone. "Lean times" is a lame excuse when the "economy" is supposedly "booming" and bosses christmas bonuses exceeds the combined salaries of this years lay offs (and this is just typical). People need to protect themselves. It is quite typical that companies treat labor as about the first thing to cut when they are a little financially inconvenienced. This crap needs to stop. They need to consider labor a commodity like any other thing they buy. You anti-union people are way too brainwashed. Unions are the only answer. People must organize.
(from the onion)
Quake Claims 500 Hours
SAN FRANCISCO--Rescue workers are still searching frantically for any signs of unwasted time in the wreckage of high-school student Jeremy Fanshaw's life, following a devastating Quake game that claimed an estimated 500 hours of his time. "Ordinarily, a game of this magnitude would destroy 40 to 50 hours," Red Cross worker Linda Wallis-Hupford said. "But, tragically, Jeremy went back to play the game from the beginning, then he started playing at harder and harder skill levels, and, eventually, he downloaded software that let him create his own levels and skins." As rescue efforts continue, experts are warning of a possible Quake II disaster that could last even longer, with more stunning graphics.
Well, christianity certainly does NOT have the cultural currency it did only fifty years ago, let alone 100. That said, america is a very strong fundamentalist religeous coutry, much like Iran is fundamentalist islam. The point is christianity no longer has any intellectual force behind it; most educated people don't take it seriously (I'm trying to say that without being insulting, if you can believe it).
Democracy is not "spreading across the globe"; god, nothing could be further from the truth, what with the WTO meeting this month. Capitalist imperialism is spreading across the globe.
America is most certainly not a democracy. America is run by corporations, they practically own the government. So if corps aren't interested, the gov isn't. There are still some democratic aspects to the government, but they are being attacked viciously by business elites and free market advocates (DOJ, for eg).
If you really think "democracy is spreading across the globe", I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you read something by Chomsky. However his personal politcal leanings might offend you, his criticisms of US, especially with regard to the hypocrises of our foreign policies, are very solid and very eye opening.
You can see it Here. But the pic in the actual tarball looks better. Sorry for drooling.
gnu = the gnu gimp = wilbur linux = tux postgres = that elephant thing gnome = the foot kde = the dragon there must be dozens ... I think that would make good artwork; the use of mascots is something that cleanly separates the Free Software crowd. Also, the "linux movement" is more than just the linux kernel.
I don't quite know how else to explain this to you: the government really has no natural right to exist, nor, even by our constitution, does it have any rights. It has limited powers.
The sort of attitude which your original post displayed is something that saddens me. People are so easily whooped into a frenzy over nothing: terrorists, "niggers", drug dealers, teen sex, etc. Most of our laws already exist to limit our freedoms, at the same time they greatly expand private power (corporations - who also have no "inalienable rights" - by our own constitution); the whole thing serves to keep the superfluous population ("losers"; the folks who can't make it in the system, etc) and make others terrified of them.
The US government has been involved in the most horrible atrocities: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc, and has NEVER been held accountable for these things. I don't belive in realpolitik. All power is inherently immoral. I am an anarchist, but within our terribly corrupt system there are things we can do; above all we must limit power: all of it, on all levels.
You hint at the popular notion that the media is some sort of watchdog - this could not be farther from the truth. The media are nothing but a pack of plutocrats, and the information they sell you is simply whatever you want to hear. Most of the crap the US is involved in goes unreported. I can't even count the number of ridiculous hollywood movies that have been produced over the last two decades that served only to get the public more frightened, more cowed, more afraid of nothing but phantoms. Our prime time TV shows literally glorify cops, one after another. The apotheosis of this was perhaps "America's Most Wanted", where the nation is cajoled into being ... stoolpidgeons.
Echelon is a horrible thing. Power is a horrible thing. We have to act now to limit or destroy it.
Furthermore, IMHO, not being bombed by terrorists is a bit more important than maintaining my personal privacy.
What terrorists, exactly? Are you really that dull? No, I don't give up liberty for anyhting. It's idiots like you that are the reason for our ongoing police state. I'll rephrase that:
"Not being attacked by forty foot purple three horned hippopotami is more important than my security. We need more police".
The entertainment industry is mostly to blame. Shows like the X-Files (don't get me wrong, I love that show) and similar movies have taught us that the CIA, FBI, and especially the NSA are all out to get us
Yes, you are that dull. The entertainment industry glorifies the NSA and the CIA, there has been a never ending stream of bullshit "patriotic" movies about these non-existent "terrorists" since the eighties (Bond, Clancy movies, Rambo, Schwarzenegger flicks, et al). "You see?? These are the guys that save you from all these terrorists!! That's why you never really see them!!! It could happen any minute, so make sure to respect your friendly neighborhood cop!!"
The media does nothing but glorify cops, lawyers and government spooks.
The CIA is a terrorist organization, for sure. 99% of what Americans call "terrorist" are people fighting US aggresion the only way they know how. US needs to just leave them the fuck alone == problem solved.
The concept of government conspiracies is pure myth,
Then you know nothing of history, because governments have always been involved in conspriacies of the worst kind. There hasn't been one yet that hasn't.
The existence of echelon is a conspiracy in and of itself.
Speaking from his sixty foot yacht somewhere in the south Pacific, former CEO Alain Couder expressed regret and repentance, and having learned his lesson, his next company would fare much better. He also expressed sincere regret for the thousands who are now out of work, and the millions of customers who are "shit out of luck, suckaz!".
don't forget the other contributions of great artists to the field: Lynch wasn't the only contributor to the entrepenurial craze.
Calvin Klein was clearly influenced by Dali's Andalusian Dog, and the wild colors and brave patterns of Hilfiger's 1999 fall lineup is a clear, if understated, nod to the works of Bergman.
Rockefeller Jr. was so blown away by Bunuel's Simon of the Desert that he spent his remaining years as an achorite mystic living on a telephone pole in New Mexico, controlling his vast hordes via remote control.
This is awesome, I thought I was going to have to sell my SBLive or something. This rocks, it isn't just another soundcard. Finally, great midi under linux (?)
... I can't wait for mature drivers and software for this thing. CL might be cool after all. This might just turn out to be the most popular sound card of all time.
This is truly great news
What the hell is CuteFTP? Can't find it at freshmeat :-). Does that run on unix?
we use old hurricane names at work: carmen, camille, audrey, hugo, betsy etc.
before I came here it was shit like "fs2nola" and "blah_incorporated"
I have trouble coming up with names for all the workstations, though. Around here almost no body names their servers anything interesting. They think I am really weird.
At home:
trotsky, infidel, liberacion, che (that wouldn't go over too well at work)
... I would call that fear
Science cannnot deal with God, the supernatural, or anything else non-observable.
No one's making a religeon of science here (although many do that). God is irrelevant because it is unknowable. Even if you claim to "know god", your experience is unintelligible to me (and everyone else).
Re: the arguments against xtianity: Neitsche said it better than anyone else. If you want to be challenged, as a christian, read the "Antichrist". It has little to do with zealotry ala Pat Robertson. It's the underlying slave mentality and world hatred of it all that's so perverse.
What a waste of time.
It's a joke newspaper, like the Onion - I can't believe you guys don't know that.
Unlike the Onion, it's just barely believeable enough so that folks with IQ's under 90 will tend to believe it.
init: the boss at the end of the level, like the thing that kept spawing new monsters at the end of doom2.
other users processes in sectioned off areas?
Is netscape one of the tomato headed things that spit fire?
ABSOLUTELY. Journalists have never had any respect for the public.
So long as one takes the prize - publicly making asses out of them - not only is it good, it's very desireable.
This reminds me a little of the anecdote about Time magazine when the "grunge" thing was just starting to become a fad.
They wanted a big story on it, and interviewed a few bands, who fed them all sorts of crap they made up off the top of their heads. Of course the article had nothing to do with reality. That was hilarious.
We can't beat 'em, we may as well play with them.
If they interviewed me, I would have them take pictures of me using an ancient DOS AT-286, talking about how many banks I'd hacked and how I regularly break into government computers.
drob' tochka (IIRC)
I know you were being sarcastic, but why on earth would we want a world free of recreational drugs anyway? Why do some people think that's a good thing?
I looked for the debs on ftp.debian.org but all that seems to be there is the original slink ... apt-get is going to be a little painful over a modem. Sometimes I just want to burn a bunch of new stuff to cd and take it home.