Some still do for legacy support. My Epox 8KTA-PRO motherboard not only has an ISA slot; the manual recommends having an old ISA video card around if the BIOS gets corrupted so it can be reflashed. The best thing I can use it for? Actually having a true totally hardware based modem without having to go external. All the PCI ones are software driven to some extent. (I've seen Intel's "hardware" PCI modem. It is still software driven.)
That would be like if all the car makers got together and decided to only sell gasolines that would only work in specific makes and models of cars so they could control who sold what gas and for how much.
"Should I buy the Ford Escort that takes runs on only Ford 1838b unleaded gasoline at $2.34 a gallon or should I buy the Geo Tracker which costs less but takes Geo GMF-21 unleaded gasoline at $3.54 a gallon?"
While I am at it, I guess I should also thank: - That asshole that cut me off because he helped me improved my alertness. - The the kids that robbed me because they let me know I need to beef up my home security. - Homeland Security for relieving me of my troublesome management of my civil liberties. - SCO for helping us with Linux. - Pretty much everyone else that has gone out of their way to shaft me for their own personal gain.
"If you can get those 60 million Americans to vote and make their voices heard to the politicians then no amount of steak dinners and golf outings are going to change their mind."
That would work if the only two parties that have an actual chance at being elected on the national level were not both in the pockets of the lobbies.
Astroturfing is the set up of a fake grassroots movement. This can be in order to undermine or misrepresent a real one or to disguies the efforts of a lobbying group as an political effort by citizenry.
"astroturf (AS.troh.turf) n. A fake grass-roots movement."
"Among other things, the protesters claim that SCO employes came out and joined the event holding pre-prepared signs saying things like 'I love software piracy' and 'Try communism - use Linux."
I guess SCO really isn't ashamed to outright astroturf.
"The sad thing is that the slashdot crowd constantly criticizes the corrupting influence of corporate money, but next time election time in the US comes around we'll get dozens of posts from people bragging about how they never vote because their one vote won't make a difference."
Maybe because no matter who you vote for, they are likely to be corrupted by corporate money. All the big players are heavily lobbied and funded by corporate, industrial, and lawyer interests. The only way one can get around it is to vote for "Bob, the toothless janitor." Good luck getting even 1% of the popular vote. There isn't any choice other than which heavily moneyed factions get the good pork for the next 4 years.
I expect trademark law to be used to protect the integrity of a specific brand, not to curb stomp anyone with a vaugely similiar idea off the market. "Freecraft" was just an engine so one could play Warcraft on Linux without emulation. It required the content off the original Warcraft CD's to be used in order to work. It is not like it was a competing game. Even with that considered, claiming the -craft suffix is as broad and overeaching as Microsoft's trademark on "Windows." This would be similar to Microsoft putting the axe in X-Windows for trademark violation.
I've been robbed twice, and attempted at least 2 more times from the same people. All the cops do is send one out to scratch their balls and a few notes down. The most they did was tell me they'd put me in jail if I actually caught the suckers in the act and touched them. That's assult.
Oh, the FBI only cares if someone: pisses off something or someone rich, traffics a significant amount of drugs, or has kiddie porn. Otherwise, you can officially go to hell. Unless they think you are doing one of the formetioned. In which case you can go to jail.
Whenever any OS hoses any filesystem severely, run a burn in test program or at least a memory checking program to make sure something in your hardware (*cough* bargain basement RAM *cough*) isn't the culpret.
Actually, that is rare. The republicans tend to give such favors to industry, which donates heavily to them. It is typically the democrats, which get most of their doe from media conglomerates and lawyers who pass force such legislation.
Yeah, you would think based on their philosephies, the republicans would be the ones passing these kind of laws; but to see the reality, look at where the money is at.
I've posted on this one before. Corporations and industry funding lobby groups with names that conflict with their agenda are not uncommon. It is a slant on the usual astroturfing. Basically it is a way to discredit your "enemy" by making it look like you are the "enemy" and then surrendering.
I am making a generalizeation based on the composition of the senior members of out little government. Most are white, male, rich, have law degrees, have close corporate or industry ties, mostly do whatever expands their money and/or power, do whatever the people that "donate" to them want, and/or have been convicted or have been let off on technacality of some kind of crime (felony types if I remember the statistic correctly).
As for voting ignorantly voting, most people I have seen either a) vote based on what party they like, or b) vote based on what they glean off of comercial media. Very little research is done into donations, past affiliations and political actions, or anything else.
"Democrats favor policies that enrich and empower the rulers and damage the economy," no argument there...
"while the Republicans are a little more likely to let the productive members of society produce and boost the economy"
I've got a problem with this. The rich and big industry (those "productive members of society") do not necessarily do what is productive for society as a whole or the economy. They do whatever gets them more money and power.
"[your token dumb insult to the President]"
Insult? I just use it so people don't get confused between father and son. If I wanted to insult him, I'd say something like "that dumbass in the Whitehouse."
"However, as for the problems being the Democrats' fault, that is their intent: Tom Daschle wants the tax cuts reduced as much as possible in order to further his goals of preventing economic recovery. He thinks that if he wrecks things, people will blame Bush, and in 2004 he (Daschle) will be majority leader again, under President Hillary, Ketchup, or whoever."
Something to note, is that some people are claiming that the republicans are intentionally trying to bankrupt the country in order to force a complete budget overhaul. And since they have majority countrol of all three federal branches, they would be able to fashion it as they wish.
"This is not true, support for both partieis is fairly evenly split among the economic strata."
Just because I reference ignorance does not mean I believe it. I know very well that the republican and democrat split is fairly even.
Personally I don't want either side in the Whitehouse. Can I vote "Anyone but them!" on the ballot?
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"So now people who download illegal MP3s are crack junkies?"
What else do you expect from rich people that snort coke?
Some still do for legacy support. My Epox 8KTA-PRO motherboard not only has an ISA slot; the manual recommends having an old ISA video card around if the BIOS gets corrupted so it can be reflashed. The best thing I can use it for? Actually having a true totally hardware based modem without having to go external. All the PCI ones are software driven to some extent. (I've seen Intel's "hardware" PCI modem. It is still software driven.)
That would be like if all the car makers got together and decided to only sell gasolines that would only work in specific makes and models of cars so they could control who sold what gas and for how much.
"Should I buy the Ford Escort that takes runs on only Ford 1838b unleaded gasoline at $2.34 a gallon or should I buy the Geo Tracker which costs less but takes Geo GMF-21 unleaded gasoline at $3.54 a gallon?"
While I am at it, I guess I should also thank:
- That asshole that cut me off because he helped me improved my alertness.
- The the kids that robbed me because they let me know I need to beef up my home security.
- Homeland Security for relieving me of my troublesome management of my civil liberties.
- SCO for helping us with Linux.
- Pretty much everyone else that has gone out of their way to shaft me for their own personal gain.
Why is it not surprising to find Microsoft's hand in the SCO cookie jar again?
I'd rather they shoot themselves into the sun.
"If you can get those 60 million Americans to vote and make their voices heard to the politicians then no amount of steak dinners and golf outings are going to change their mind."
That would work if the only two parties that have an actual chance at being elected on the national level were not both in the pockets of the lobbies.
Amen.
Many people fail to realize that this country, and indeed the world at large, is being shafted by these parasites.
Both the candidates will both be owned and will both continue to fleece the public.
Astroturfing is the set up of a fake grassroots movement. This can be in order to undermine or misrepresent a real one or to disguies the efforts of a lobbying group as an political effort by citizenry.
"astroturf
(AS.troh.turf) n. A fake grass-roots movement."
"Among other things, the protesters claim that SCO employes came out and joined the event holding pre-prepared signs saying things like 'I love software piracy' and 'Try communism - use Linux."
I guess SCO really isn't ashamed to outright astroturf.
"The sad thing is that the slashdot crowd constantly criticizes the corrupting influence of corporate money, but next time election time in the US comes around we'll get dozens of posts from people bragging about how they never vote because their one vote won't make a difference."
Maybe because no matter who you vote for, they are likely to be corrupted by corporate money. All the big players are heavily lobbied and funded by corporate, industrial, and lawyer interests. The only way one can get around it is to vote for "Bob, the toothless janitor." Good luck getting even 1% of the popular vote. There isn't any choice other than which heavily moneyed factions get the good pork for the next 4 years.
The reason it looks so similar is that Freecraft requires the original Warcraft CD data to run. Think of it as a homebrewed linux engine for Warcraft.
I expect trademark law to be used to protect the integrity of a specific brand, not to curb stomp anyone with a vaugely similiar idea off the market. "Freecraft" was just an engine so one could play Warcraft on Linux without emulation. It required the content off the original Warcraft CD's to be used in order to work. It is not like it was a competing game. Even with that considered, claiming the -craft suffix is as broad and overeaching as Microsoft's trademark on "Windows." This would be similar to Microsoft putting the axe in X-Windows for trademark violation.
I've been robbed twice, and attempted at least 2 more times from the same people. All the cops do is send one out to scratch their balls and a few notes down. The most they did was tell me they'd put me in jail if I actually caught the suckers in the act and touched them. That's assult.
Oh, the FBI only cares if someone: pisses off something or someone rich, traffics a significant amount of drugs, or has kiddie porn. Otherwise, you can officially go to hell. Unless they think you are doing one of the formetioned. In which case you can go to jail.
Place your bets on which corporate organizations info is in the meta data as the original author! Favorates include:
1. The BSA
2. The RIAA
3. The MPAA
4. One of the above's overseas meatpuppets.
5. Cowboyneal's secret organization planning to take over the world.
Whenever any OS hoses any filesystem severely, run a burn in test program or at least a memory checking program to make sure something in your hardware (*cough* bargain basement RAM *cough*) isn't the culpret.
Except WinNT 4.0 (at the time) fudged my security permissions on the partition and wouldn't even boot.
Actually, that is rare. The republicans tend to give such favors to industry, which donates heavily to them. It is typically the democrats, which get most of their doe from media conglomerates and lawyers who pass force such legislation.
Yeah, you would think based on their philosephies, the republicans would be the ones passing these kind of laws; but to see the reality, look at where the money is at.
I've posted on this one before. Corporations and industry funding lobby groups with names that conflict with their agenda are not uncommon. It is a slant on the usual astroturfing. Basically it is a way to discredit your "enemy" by making it look like you are the "enemy" and then surrendering.
I wonder how many astroturf in here.
;P)
(Well, it can't be too many.
Maybe it is only a US policy, but I thought "We will sue you!" letters from the organization's lawyers was the standard reply.
I am making a generalizeation based on the composition of the senior members of out little government. Most are white, male, rich, have law degrees, have close corporate or industry ties, mostly do whatever expands their money and/or power, do whatever the people that "donate" to them want, and/or have been convicted or have been let off on technacality of some kind of crime (felony types if I remember the statistic correctly).
As for voting ignorantly voting, most people I have seen either a) vote based on what party they like, or b) vote based on what they glean off of comercial media. Very little research is done into donations, past affiliations and political actions, or anything else.
"Democrats favor policies that enrich and empower the rulers and damage the economy," no argument there...
"while the Republicans are a little more likely to let the productive members of society produce and boost the economy"
I've got a problem with this. The rich and big industry (those "productive members of society") do not necessarily do what is productive for society as a whole or the economy. They do whatever gets them more money and power.
"[your token dumb insult to the President]"
Insult? I just use it so people don't get confused between father and son. If I wanted to insult him, I'd say something like "that dumbass in the Whitehouse."
"However, as for the problems being the Democrats' fault, that is their intent: Tom Daschle wants the tax cuts reduced as much as possible in order to further his goals of preventing economic recovery. He thinks that if he wrecks things, people will blame Bush, and in 2004 he (Daschle) will be majority leader again, under President Hillary, Ketchup, or whoever."
Something to note, is that some people are claiming that the republicans are intentionally trying to bankrupt the country in order to force a complete budget overhaul. And since they have majority countrol of all three federal branches, they would be able to fashion it as they wish.
"This is not true, support for both partieis is fairly evenly split among the economic strata."
Just because I reference ignorance does not mean I believe it. I know very well that the republican and democrat split is fairly even.
Personally I don't want either side in the Whitehouse. Can I vote "Anyone but them!" on the ballot?
No, actually most of us have figured out voting doesn't mean dick. Why do you think voter turn out is low?
"Yeah, I want to vote for the rich criminal corporate lawyer scumbag over the rich corporate criminal scumbag with a law degree."