The people who did it were threating to kill all the Israelis and Jews on board. Until an Israeli special forces unit came in and took them out. Guess what no one has hijacked a jet leaving Israel since. The only way to deal with dictators and thugs it it hit them so hard that they don't get up again. Ever.
I agree. Fights should be avoided. However, if you're going to get into a fight, make sure that the other guy never, ever, fights you again. Fight to win all future fights.
Do you honestly think they they will care that we have forgiven them, should we do that? Or that our forgiveness would change their behavior? They're on a holy war. We're the Great Satan. I'm not thinking that our forgiveness will mean a lot to them.
Not true, if you shipped a Linux with only the capabilities of a fresh Windows 95 installation.
Linux comes with lost of editors, compilers, wallpapers, etc.
Remove all that and you could probably fit it in less space than Windows. Jailbait, for instance, is a 16MB flash distro, and includes X, multimedia apps, netscape, mail programs, editors, etc.; about everything and Win95 does.
You think small, cheap, affordable clustering technology is only useful to businesses that have money?
No, it's useful to companies without a lot of money as well. I imagine they will be using Beowulf or Mosix, though, as the cost for standard software with lots of drivers and available programmers and administrators is $0.00. Heck, even big companies like Shell use Beowulf and Mosix.
PETROS® is written using an in-house Object Pascal compiler. This enables us to generate machine code with roughly the same efficiency as C or C++, but with very strict type checking. The language is compatible with Borland Delphi Pascal allowing code to be interchanged with many of the existing applications that Trumpet has developed to date.
Perhaps we can use Bush. The Bush Administration and Hollywood are not best friends. Perhaps we can get Bush to screw Hollywood in the public interest. It would definitely be in the public interest.
On a different note, what will they use for their Render Farms after they make Linux and FreeBSD illegal? Back to slowlaris or winblows, I suppose.
Too funny! But I actually mentioned to my wife this evening the very real possibility that we could be moving out of the country before too many years pass.
DMCA
SSSCA
Alteration of bankruptcy laws in favor of businesses, particularly banks (I read an interesting book once noting how the Federal Reserve System is a tool of authoritarianism)
Microsoft obviously getting nothing more than a minor wrist-slap at this point, which amounts to government endorsement of their sleazeball business practices.
Increase in the usage of automated surveillance technologies.
Increase in the number of criminals being manufactured by bad laws, and an accompanying increase in the incarceration rate
Increasing number of treaties binding us to other nations' hardly-enlightend laws; these same treaties also have the effect of reducing the control of Americans over their own government, as they are the "supreme law of the land" alongside the increasingly-mythical Constitution
Poor and descending quality of the U.S. Media. Look at any local news broadcast, or CNN.
Rise in "reality tv" and other gladiator-type specticle entertainment, like those crazy Romans liked so much
How would they stop such private armies from existing?
The same way the "aggressively libertarian" early U.S. Federal Government did. Send in U.S. Marshalls and Army Reserve troops to shoot them.
A Libertarian government would not be a weak one, just a limited one. Part of the benefit of a Libertarian government would be LESS power in the hands of corporations. Libertarians belive in LESS concentrated power, not more power. This includes opposition to more power in "the private sector" or "the market." A Libertarian government would defend the lives, rights and property of the people, because Libertarians believe that the only legitimate role of government is to defend the rights, lives and property of the citizens who chartered it.
You make it sound like the government grants us rights, when under our Constitution, it's the opposite -- the people grant limited powers to the government.
Of course, that's becoming more fiction than reality. Sadly.
One-sided privacy is a problem, as is one-sided transparency.
The point Brin made was to demand and expect reciprocal transparency. If someone wants to know something about you, require that you get to know it about them. For instance, if government officials want to surveil you, require that you get to surveil them.
Word 5.1 for the Mac was the last, and perhaps only, good version of Word. It did everything real humans needed in a word processor, and everyone else used RageMaker, TeX, etc.
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Do you live in Akihabara? I used to live in Roppongi, and Shinagawa. Sundays were always fun in Akihabara.
Thanks! Not knowing Japanese, I just copy-and-pasted when I found from searching.
Perhaps this also needs to be said:
"I fear that we have done nothing but awoken a sleeping giant."
--Isoroku Yamamoto, WW2 Japanese General; accuracy of this quote is suspect
"Nekubi o kaite was ikenai" ("It does not do to slit the throat of a sleeping man.")
-- Actual quote
And how many major conflicts has the use of force started, hmm?
The retaliatory use of force is the only legitimate use of force.
Whatever. I wasn't quoting Card, and this is not science fiction.
The people who did it were threating to kill all the Israelis and Jews on board. Until an Israeli special forces unit came in and took them out. Guess what no one has hijacked a jet leaving Israel since. The only way to deal with dictators and thugs it it hit them so hard that they don't get up again. Ever.
I agree. Fights should be avoided. However, if you're going to get into a fight, make sure that the other guy never, ever, fights you again. Fight to win all future fights.
Do you honestly think they they will care that we have forgiven them, should we do that? Or that our forgiveness would change their behavior? They're on a holy war. We're the Great Satan. I'm not thinking that our forgiveness will mean a lot to them.
Do the OpenAFS Windows clients work? Work well?
It would be nice to be able to use the, I think. Of course, Samba supports AFS, so I could always re-export an AFS volume on local networks via samba.
Not true, if you shipped a Linux with only the capabilities of a fresh Windows 95 installation.
Linux comes with lost of editors, compilers, wallpapers, etc.
Remove all that and you could probably fit it in less space than Windows. Jailbait, for instance, is a 16MB flash distro, and includes X, multimedia apps, netscape, mail programs, editors, etc.; about everything and Win95 does.
You think small, cheap, affordable clustering technology is only useful to businesses that have money?
No, it's useful to companies without a lot of money as well. I imagine they will be using Beowulf or Mosix, though, as the cost for standard software with lots of drivers and available programmers and administrators is $0.00. Heck, even big companies like Shell use Beowulf and Mosix.
...they chose to use a diaphragm for their logo... hmm...
Aiiiiiieeeieieieieie!
Darn tootin'!
Perhaps we can use Bush. The Bush Administration and Hollywood are not best friends. Perhaps we can get Bush to screw Hollywood in the public interest. It would definitely be in the public interest.
On a different note, what will they use for their Render Farms after they make Linux and FreeBSD illegal? Back to slowlaris or winblows, I suppose.
Innocent until proven guilty. Oh, wait, I have that backwards...
Hell. Handbasket.
How would they stop such private armies from existing?
The same way the "aggressively libertarian" early U.S. Federal Government did. Send in U.S. Marshalls and Army Reserve troops to shoot them.
A Libertarian government would not be a weak one, just a limited one. Part of the benefit of a Libertarian government would be LESS power in the hands of corporations. Libertarians belive in LESS concentrated power, not more power. This includes opposition to more power in "the private sector" or "the market." A Libertarian government would defend the lives, rights and property of the people, because Libertarians believe that the only legitimate role of government is to defend the rights, lives and property of the citizens who chartered it.
You make it sound like the government grants us rights, when under our Constitution, it's the opposite -- the people grant limited powers to the government.
Of course, that's becoming more fiction than reality. Sadly.
One-sided privacy is a problem, as is one-sided transparency.
The point Brin made was to demand and expect reciprocal transparency. If someone wants to know something about you, require that you get to know it about them. For instance, if government officials want to surveil you, require that you get to surveil them.
That would make a great T-Shirt :)
Bill... a big cross... and Uncle Sam with a mallet and a handful of railroad spikes...
Word 5.1 for the Mac was the last, and perhaps only, good version of Word. It did everything real humans needed in a word processor, and everyone else used RageMaker, TeX, etc.
I like the fact that OpenOffice Writer uses all the truetype fonts on my system (700+) and prints correctly. Unlike Abiword.
Broadcasting video over a home LAN? To other replays over the internet? Jackie "the fish" Valenti will have them in irons by the end of the week.
Actually, you can get A.A. in other themes; just chose a "custom font" that's scalable in the Theme Selector.