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Religious claims cannot be recreated. A scientific claim can."
Really? So we can recreate Macro-Evolution? Show me the latest partially evolved Chimp.
For many scientists science is a religion. You start with evidence and base your belief (faith, if you will. As "faith" is merely belief based on your understanding of evidence, it's merely been bastardized by modern concepts of faith) on that evidence.
The idea that science has to prove it's claims isn't exactly true. Many believe the Big Bang to be fact, but it is not proveable, like many other theories. Like religion, they feel the preponderance of evidence supports it.
If he's so scared, why not just start the.XOMOL project and create XAML for Linux? This way he can still tout his "can't we all just get along with the Beast" montra under a new platform. Miguel, be scared! You weren't so scared of M$ when you were courting.NET interopability, but suddenly you're scared now? The only good interopability with M$ products right now is SAMBA and FTP. Get your data off M$, onto a Linux/UNIX/BSD server and be done with it.
You just made my point. "Go here, do this, then do this, and go here...here..and here...now do this." You can't be serious? How do expect that to compete with "Click Start, then Run, now type d:\setup.exe and install."
Read that carefully, does it say that Powell DID anything? Or that he was asked? Puhleez. So now the Bush Administration is guilty of anything they are even asked to do? Where did this quote come from, BTW? I didn't see it in the stories I searched.
Except for the fact that you 're conceding the TCO war to M$ if you do. I don't understand why we would want to. We've already conceded the "runs on older machines" war. Early on the argument was "you won't have to upgrade your older machines" until the distro's started getting too big for them. Then we said "OS is cheaper" now we're adding insurance costs. What's the advantage now? Just that it's not proprietary?
Just food for thought.
doesn't like the idea of someone other than the scientific elite having a plausable theory? Just a thought. So much of the "global warming" issue is such conjecture and/or fuel for paranoia. "Some bad stuff going down, according to my calculations! Somebody better start payin' me to get to work on a remedy! Did you hear me? I said SOMEBODY..." That sums up a lot of what passes for "science" today.
that have been limiting the free speech of conservative student organizations in the name of political correctness? I would have liked to have seen at least one of those on the list.
I would contend that fonts under Linux are a problem. Take Mozilla. You can have all your "fonts" in a row under KDE or Gnome but Mozilla is still likely to render and scale them improperly. Going into prefs and trying to set them to scale usually means having to compromise. This is a fault, perhaps, more with Mozilla than Linux but it's a problem. Installing font-type "x" or "y" is just not the answer. A good look and feel out of the box is needed. I would agree that SuSE and most new distro's do this well, but go install some apps (again, Mozilla) and watch it all go to pot.
I'm with ya. RFC 1 was about 18 or so in 1987. Around that time I logged onto my first BBS. It was a couple of years later before the such BBS's started using FidoNet extensively. I remember thinking "Cool! I can send an email to the west coast and have a reply by morning!" Now users complain when they're not there immediately!
User: "Yeah, I was on the phone with my vendor and sent them a critical document. I stayed on the phone and they didn't receive it. We waited several minutes and nothing! Is the Internet down or something?"
Me: "Yes."
I would only argue that when you decide to join in principal a treaty or any other agreement and you find that in fact there are things you find opposition to then you have the right not to sign.
I don't agree with everything Bush does. I respect your right to question anything. I wouldn't call him a fool, however.
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Clinton: 10 trillion dollar surplus (over 10 years)
Uh...that was bogus...also keep in mind that the Gov't's own figures on growth during much of his years had to be revised. Why? They were inflated.
Bush: War in Iraq with NO international support
Uh...can you count?
Clinton: Longest growth/expansion in US history
Where are these figures?
Bush: Most job losses since great depression
Yeah, more people are in the job market. Very few women worked in the 20's and 30's compared to today. Oh, and the bad 5.7 unemployment rate? yeah, they called 5.6 "low" during the Clinton years.
Move along, folks, don't stare at the liberal idiot he's sensitive! Dork.
First of all, The Kyoto Treaty was a joke. I find it totally irrelevent to anything productive. I'm glad we didn't sign it and frankly, it's has nothing to do with this issue. Second, yes we are "part of the world" but we're a sovreign nation. When it comes to security, it's me first. I cease to care about the world at large when it comes to defense because by nature I have to put self first. The U.S. gives more nations monetary help than any other nation on the planet. No one is more benevolent than we are. This idea that we need to somehow see ourselves as "just another nation on the planet" and that THAT translates to giving up some of our sovreignty to people like the U.N. (Yeah, the U.N. is the world body that put Libya in charge of it's Human Rights arm) or any other world body is a joke. How our putting a weapon of defense or offense into space violates some other nation's right is beyond me. Like most arguments anti-US it comes down to jealousy. Those nations lack the technology and I'm supposed to refrain from using mine out of guilt. I stopped caring less for the world and more for my country on Sept. 12, 2001.
All valid points. I love Linux, use it daily. My PDA runs Linux now, though not as full-featured as I'd like, but I still love it. But perhaps the hypsters and marketing reps should stop calling embedded Linux a "low-cost alternative."
Frankly, I say why not? To say that putting weapons in space is "disrespectful of other cultures" is just stupid. Why is it that every culture has a right of respect but the U.S.? If this will deter some maniac from shooting an ICBM over my way I'm all for it. Further, if it means we can pluck Bin Laden off the shitter, I'm all for it.
No the problem continues to be price. Oddly enough, that's the one thing Linux should have helped keep down; even in the PDA market. Unfortunately, the PDA market appears to be oblivious to this.
So you're saying that signing on to the WTO means that the US agrees to always abide be everything they hand down? Frankly, it doesn't matter. You don't give up your autonomy because you agree to join the WTO. Much like the UN, you're not going to agree with everything. At the point someone asks you to violate your principles even a signed agreement becomes of no value to you. You are compelled to do what is right first and foremost.
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Here we can clearly see Dark Matter, as illustrated by these red blotches!...I mean....uh.....ahemm....nevermind."
" Religious claims cannot be recreated. A scientific claim can." Really? So we can recreate Macro-Evolution? Show me the latest partially evolved Chimp. For many scientists science is a religion. You start with evidence and base your belief (faith, if you will. As "faith" is merely belief based on your understanding of evidence, it's merely been bastardized by modern concepts of faith) on that evidence. The idea that science has to prove it's claims isn't exactly true. Many believe the Big Bang to be fact, but it is not proveable, like many other theories. Like religion, they feel the preponderance of evidence supports it.
Another Dem. searching for a cash cow.
If he's so scared, why not just start the .XOMOL project and create XAML for Linux? This way he can still tout his "can't we all just get along with the Beast" montra under a new platform. Miguel, be scared! You weren't so scared of M$ when you were courting .NET interopability, but suddenly you're scared now? The only good interopability with M$ products right now is SAMBA and FTP. Get your data off M$, onto a Linux/UNIX/BSD server and be done with it.
You just made my point. "Go here, do this, then do this, and go here...here..and here...now do this." You can't be serious? How do expect that to compete with "Click Start, then Run, now type d:\setup.exe and install."
Read that carefully, does it say that Powell DID anything? Or that he was asked? Puhleez. So now the Bush Administration is guilty of anything they are even asked to do? Where did this quote come from, BTW? I didn't see it in the stories I searched.
Except for the fact that you 're conceding the TCO war to M$ if you do. I don't understand why we would want to. We've already conceded the "runs on older machines" war. Early on the argument was "you won't have to upgrade your older machines" until the distro's started getting too big for them. Then we said "OS is cheaper" now we're adding insurance costs. What's the advantage now? Just that it's not proprietary? Just food for thought.
doesn't like the idea of someone other than the scientific elite having a plausable theory? Just a thought. So much of the "global warming" issue is such conjecture and/or fuel for paranoia. "Some bad stuff going down, according to my calculations! Somebody better start payin' me to get to work on a remedy! Did you hear me? I said SOMEBODY..." That sums up a lot of what passes for "science" today.
Hmmm...my original is mod'd Troll. Guess someone doesn't like the idea of free-Conservative-speech here either.
I stand corrected. I just caught the " The University of New Orleans Administration" piece.
that have been limiting the free speech of conservative student organizations in the name of political correctness? I would have liked to have seen at least one of those on the list.
I would contend that fonts under Linux are a problem. Take Mozilla. You can have all your "fonts" in a row under KDE or Gnome but Mozilla is still likely to render and scale them improperly. Going into prefs and trying to set them to scale usually means having to compromise. This is a fault, perhaps, more with Mozilla than Linux but it's a problem. Installing font-type "x" or "y" is just not the answer. A good look and feel out of the box is needed. I would agree that SuSE and most new distro's do this well, but go install some apps (again, Mozilla) and watch it all go to pot.
How big is 7.6% relative to similar markets? How does it compare to other drops in sales in the past for the recording industry?
I'm with ya. RFC 1 was about 18 or so in 1987. Around that time I logged onto my first BBS. It was a couple of years later before the such BBS's started using FidoNet extensively. I remember thinking "Cool! I can send an email to the west coast and have a reply by morning!" Now users complain when they're not there immediately!
User: "Yeah, I was on the phone with my vendor and sent them a critical document. I stayed on the phone and they didn't receive it. We waited several minutes and nothing! Is the Internet down or something?"
Me: "Yes."
I would only argue that when you decide to join in principal a treaty or any other agreement and you find that in fact there are things you find opposition to then you have the right not to sign. I don't agree with everything Bush does. I respect your right to question anything. I wouldn't call him a fool, however.
Clinton: 10 trillion dollar surplus (over 10 years) Uh...that was bogus...also keep in mind that the Gov't's own figures on growth during much of his years had to be revised. Why? They were inflated.
Bush: War in Iraq with NO international support Uh...can you count?
Clinton: Longest growth/expansion in US history Where are these figures? Bush: Most job losses since great depression Yeah, more people are in the job market. Very few women worked in the 20's and 30's compared to today. Oh, and the bad 5.7 unemployment rate? yeah, they called 5.6 "low" during the Clinton years.
Move along, folks, don't stare at the liberal idiot he's sensitive! Dork.
First of all, The Kyoto Treaty was a joke. I find it totally irrelevent to anything productive. I'm glad we didn't sign it and frankly, it's has nothing to do with this issue. Second, yes we are "part of the world" but we're a sovreign nation. When it comes to security, it's me first. I cease to care about the world at large when it comes to defense because by nature I have to put self first. The U.S. gives more nations monetary help than any other nation on the planet. No one is more benevolent than we are. This idea that we need to somehow see ourselves as "just another nation on the planet" and that THAT translates to giving up some of our sovreignty to people like the U.N. (Yeah, the U.N. is the world body that put Libya in charge of it's Human Rights arm) or any other world body is a joke. How our putting a weapon of defense or offense into space violates some other nation's right is beyond me. Like most arguments anti-US it comes down to jealousy. Those nations lack the technology and I'm supposed to refrain from using mine out of guilt. I stopped caring less for the world and more for my country on Sept. 12, 2001.
All valid points. I love Linux, use it daily. My PDA runs Linux now, though not as full-featured as I'd like, but I still love it. But perhaps the hypsters and marketing reps should stop calling embedded Linux a "low-cost alternative."
Frankly, I say why not? To say that putting weapons in space is "disrespectful of other cultures" is just stupid. Why is it that every culture has a right of respect but the U.S.? If this will deter some maniac from shooting an ICBM over my way I'm all for it. Further, if it means we can pluck Bin Laden off the shitter, I'm all for it.
No the problem continues to be price. Oddly enough, that's the one thing Linux should have helped keep down; even in the PDA market. Unfortunately, the PDA market appears to be oblivious to this.
So you're saying that signing on to the WTO means that the US agrees to always abide be everything they hand down? Frankly, it doesn't matter. You don't give up your autonomy because you agree to join the WTO. Much like the UN, you're not going to agree with everything. At the point someone asks you to violate your principles even a signed agreement becomes of no value to you. You are compelled to do what is right first and foremost.
Looks like they're following suit with Linux PDA companies and staying about $100-200 above the competition.
This has been questioned before, though not necessarily as a patent issue. This, to me, is what makes Mono dangerous.
Not at all.
And that answered my question? Is it me? ...it's him, right?