I used to buy a lot of music, but ever since the introduction of crippled, copyprotected CDs, I haven't bothered. Now I just download whatever interests me using the overnet.
I wasn't blaming NATO for anything. In fact, the reason why I found the papers hilarious was that the plan still makes perfect sense.
It doesn't matter if Finland joins/had joined/never joins NATO, because we'd get nuked anyway. This renders the whole question of joining NATO, which will probably be the main topic of the next parliamentary elections, completely irrelevant.
As a Finn I found the recently unclassified NATO plans for countering an all-out Warsaw Pact assault here in the north oddly hilarious.
Nuke the Russian tank divisions with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles while they're still in the process of occupying Finland. Provide military assistance to Sweden and make a stand in Norway and in the northernmost Sweden (for Kiruna and the other mines).
This is why I am amazed why our last two governments have been talking the public to accept that we must NATO for our safety's sake.
Well, I wouldn't mind getting quality pot once in a while but I don't want to deal with the unstable morons who are selling it. People who deal guns and hard drugs in my neighbourhood, well you don't want them to know you even exist.
with free software, have it equal an expensive PVR + dvd player
Please name one TV-capture card that captures and packs video into DivX using free software.
I have an el-cheapo card that does that perfectly in Windows, but under Linux (xawtv) it can hardly capture raw input (which I have to compress later manually).
Working together on an engineering solution brings people together and not arguing with each other!
I suppose you've never been to a meeting with a dozen engineers or scientists divided into two diametrically opposed camps?-) I have and let me tell you that it's all about politics, not the truth.
Imagine a bunch of perl scripts identifying spam, auto-composing semi-random replies
I'm not sure such an offensive can be maintained without governmental support.
Let's take the private anti-spam groups, for instance, How many of them were DDOSed to oblivion this year? Futhermore, it's become more and more evident that at least some spammers are joining forces with organized crime and professional mercenary crackers. Would you start a fight with spammers funded by the Russian mafia?
"Good men do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad men will find a way around the laws"
So you think the "bad men" won't find a way around engineering solutions?
Your attitude is a typical die-hard engineer's attitude. It completely misses the fact that you can't apply engineering rules to a human society. That's why we have sociologists, lawyers and politicians.
The current tactic of ignoring spam "in the hope it will go away"
Well, why not crack down on it on multiple fronts. Target the morons buying into spam by advertisements showing how stupid it is and create an effective, international anti-spam effort.
Quite frankly, I don't see any other alternative to controlling the spammers and crackers than regulation.
Let's face it. We're past the "wild, wild west" stage of the internet. It's not the 1990s anymore and the mob is here and therefore regulation is required.
The most dangerous people in the human history have been those who have an unwavering right in their own righteousness. Hitler, Stalin, Jesus, several Popes and so on.
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Way to shoot yourself in the foot, RIAA.
What reinforcements? Above someone called even the static defensive positions mere speedbumps.
or nuke/tomahawk them on the way
Why not nuke them while they're in Finland getting refuelled and rearmed...
Finland, being rather a large country geographically, is the perfect buffer zone where to deal with the hostile force in a decisive manner.
RAID-1 means mirroring. In this case it just takes place over a network.
What are you smoking?
Buy hardware RAID with an automatic rebuild. It's the only way to be sure.
It doesn't matter if Finland joins/had joined/never joins NATO, because we'd get nuked anyway. This renders the whole question of joining NATO, which will probably be the main topic of the next parliamentary elections, completely irrelevant.
Whoa. That's a one, big fire-extinguisher you have there...
Nuke the Russian tank divisions with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles while they're still in the process of occupying Finland. Provide military assistance to Sweden and make a stand in Norway and in the northernmost Sweden (for Kiruna and the other mines).
This is why I am amazed why our last two governments have been talking the public to accept that we must NATO for our safety's sake.
Well, I wouldn't mind getting quality pot once in a while but I don't want to deal with the unstable morons who are selling it. People who deal guns and hard drugs in my neighbourhood, well you don't want them to know you even exist.
Well, you don't want to see SW-III...
And how much worse would it be WITHOUT the regulation?
Please name one TV-capture card that captures and packs video into DivX using free software.
I have an el-cheapo card that does that perfectly in Windows, but under Linux (xawtv) it can hardly capture raw input (which I have to compress later manually).
I once got spam with my own address.
Heh. If only...
I suppose you've never been to a meeting with a dozen engineers or scientists divided into two diametrically opposed camps?-) I have and let me tell you that it's all about politics, not the truth.
I'm not sure such an offensive can be maintained without governmental support.
Let's take the private anti-spam groups, for instance, How many of them were DDOSed to oblivion this year? Futhermore, it's become more and more evident that at least some spammers are joining forces with organized crime and professional mercenary crackers. Would you start a fight with spammers funded by the Russian mafia?
So you think the "bad men" won't find a way around engineering solutions?
Your attitude is a typical die-hard engineer's attitude. It completely misses the fact that you can't apply engineering rules to a human society. That's why we have sociologists, lawyers and politicians.
Well, why not crack down on it on multiple fronts. Target the morons buying into spam by advertisements showing how stupid it is and create an effective, international anti-spam effort.
Sure no system is perfect, but it's better than nothing.
But that's what the SPEWS assholes keep telling us to do.
Let's face it. We're past the "wild, wild west" stage of the internet. It's not the 1990s anymore and the mob is here and therefore regulation is required.
But you're right, LILO could be easier to work with. At least it has proper, not readable Texinfo, documentation.
Unwavering belief, not right, of course.
The most dangerous people in the human history have been those who have an unwavering right in their own righteousness. Hitler, Stalin, Jesus, several Popes and so on.
I've got a SiI3112 PCI controller and haven't been able to figure out how to make GRUB access it.
That's why I'm only buying PCI-X mobos from now on.