Furthermore, the Federal government cannot regulate anything that the Constitution does not explicitly give them the authority to regulate. In other words, 99% of all Federal laws are unconstitutional -- including, for example, all restrictions on drugs and weapons, except those that regulate trafficking across state borders.
...is that other governments haven't expressed concern about this. A few months ago, I checked out the photos of my last duty station, NAS Atlanta. The resolution was good enough that you could make out rows of tiny green dots criscrossing the flight line -- Marines on their morning FOD walkdown.
Considering all the ridiculous things the Shrub administration has done in its so-called "war on terruh", you'd think they'd at least strategically blur satellite photos of our military installations. Lord knows, they'd like to blur that porn you were jerking off to last night. But we all know they would never ask an American business to stop distributing its products in the name of stopping terruh. Regulating capitalism is unamerican! It's just more evidence to me that they are not really interested in protecting our troops and citizens... unless it somehow profits them or increases their control.
I've personally had a police officer and/or court agent invent a traffic ticket out of thin air. They didn't even get the make and model of my vehicle right, but they harassed and threatened me for three years just to extort $150 (after waiting a year and a half to even tell me about it so I couldn't get a hearing.) They kept sending threatening letters to my mother, who finally broke down and paid them.
Such things aren't too surprising from unheard-of little fucktowns in Florida, the fraud and extortion capital of the United States. But banks and other businesses are starting to realize they can get away with the same thing, and there's little people can do except pay. I've had a credit union reorder my transactions to turn a single overdraft into several smaller ones and charge me an extra $100 in fees (which I never paid), and I've had a phone company try to collect on phone service which they restarted after I canceled it and moved away.
They have the cops and the courts in their pockets, and they think they're safe in their ivory towers. But I'm here to tell you, they've got another thing coming.
My advice: don't back down. It's just as likely that the phone company itself invented this charge out of thin air to buffer its slumping revenues as it is that "hackers" did it. I would not settle for a penny. And I'd start killing executives if they tried to garnish my wages.
Java is dying because it's proprietary . . .
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. .., neglected by its creators, and most importantly, a commodity product. If the Java platform and API were more open, many of their long-standing deficiencies would be quickly corrected. And although Java is still sometimes the best choice, nearly anything you can do with Java can be done with other, more open technologies.
In principle, Java's situation is no different from that of proprietary general-purpose operating systems, which are power-diving into irrelevance for exactly the same reasons.
I would say exactly the opposite about the two. I have no explanation for why Torvalds would prefer KDE. Who cares what Torvalds uses, anyway?
GNOME has always been superior. Except Nautilus.
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KDE has eye-candy for n00bs, but try getting any real work done on it. Just try.
The only thing really wrong with GNOME is Nautilus. It's always been incredibly buggy and slow. If they ripped Nautilus out and replaced it with something usable, GNOME would be next to perfect.
Yeah, I'm serious. I called Janet Reno "the domestic enemy I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against" in an email to my father, and two agents showed up at my door a couple days later. Their printout of my email only showed the text I had written, not what I'd quoted, and they asked if they could get copies of the rest of the conversation, whether I'd ever been to D.C., and whether I owned any firearms. Very strange.
Prominently displayed on my bookshelf were Bruce Schneier's crypto book, Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, and a book by a retired Army Colonel called On Killing. Haha.
This was about two months before they lied to Congress about Carnivore only being used to monitor the email of convicts and suspects. I've never been involved in anything illegal... never even smoked pot. But I guess now I am an enemy of the state.
Nah, the FBI already has a file on me three feet thick. They've been reading my email for no particular reason since 2000 or earlier, and they know that if I were going to do something, I wouldn't talk about it, before or after. I just like to throw them a bone now and then...
Are you reading this, Agent Summerville? I still have your business card. No, I still don't have anything to tell you.
You don't have much choice if you live in the Dirty South. Sure, the law requires they lease their lines to competitors... but if you try to get service from a competitor, BellSouth does everything they can to delay and interfere with it. A buddy of mine worked for a DSL provider in Atlanta, and they were run out of business because it literally took months to get BellSouth to do whatever they had to do to get a customer set up.
BellSouth also loves to heap questionable charges on your bill. They charge $80 to transfer your number if you move, even though it takes all of five minutes and is done without the operator getting out of her chair.
When I moved from Atlanta, I canceled my BellSouth service. Three years later I got calls from debt collectors demanding payment for several months of service after I canceled it. I basically told them to fuck off, and never heard from them again. If they try to garnish my wages, I swear to God, I'll fly a jet into the BellSouth tower...
A similar but better strategy would be to limit porn to a.XXX TLD. There's still the problem that foreign sites would not be bound by our laws, but if such a TLD were created, other countries would probably follow with similar laws.
I am generally against censorship, but in the case of porn, I agree that there are times and places where it is not appropriate... e.g., schools and libraries. Ensuring that such places have a reliable means of blocking it would actually serve to protect the right of everyone else to view it, by providing an officially sanctioned venue for its publication.
Unfortunately, Shrub opposes the creation of the.XXX TLD. It's not enough for the NeoCons that kids should be prevented from seeing porn; they don't want anyone to have access to it. Creating a.XXX TLD could be seen as legitimizing the Constitutionally-protected exercise of Free Speech that is the porn industry.
"They believe that internet publishing would harm the exchange of knowledge between researchers."
Pure FUD.
The only thing being threatened is the business model of the journal publishers. Their enterprise was a necessary expense in the age of dead trees, but those days are gone. If online publication makes the free exchange of knowledge between researchers possible, that's a good thing!
I'm a database developer. I use Ubuntu 5.10 exclusively both at work and at home. Due to horrendous bugs, Ubuntu does not integrate easily (or at all, in some cases) with a Windows environment.
Evolution in 5.04 could connect to our Exchange server, though it was quite flaky. Evolution in 5.10 does not work at all.
Samba printing is totally jacked because the GUI config tool puts the fields in the wrong order in the config file. I got that working by editing the config file manually after two hours of pulling my hair out.
Samba in 5.10 also insists on using the MSHOME domain, repeatedly forgetting my user name and password, and not working even when I type them in. Probably not putting the values in the config file right again, but I haven't had time to look yet. This has disrupted our communications because I cannot see, much less read and write the shares on the network. At least 5.04 let me see them, though we never did figure out how to get it to recognize my write permissions.
People of Earth, do not allow your governments to be tainted by the cancer of Americanism! Eliminate all aspects of this plague from your public and private lives! Do not allow your children or your leaders to be tempted by the power and wealth of the Harlot of Babylon, the United States of America!
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Yeah, right. How big is the latest vbrunxxx.dll?
I'm left-handed, you insensitive clod!
Furthermore, the Federal government cannot regulate anything that the Constitution does not explicitly give them the authority to regulate. In other words, 99% of all Federal laws are unconstitutional -- including, for example, all restrictions on drugs and weapons, except those that regulate trafficking across state borders.
Considering all the ridiculous things the Shrub administration has done in its so-called "war on terruh", you'd think they'd at least strategically blur satellite photos of our military installations. Lord knows, they'd like to blur that porn you were jerking off to last night. But we all know they would never ask an American business to stop distributing its products in the name of stopping terruh. Regulating capitalism is unamerican! It's just more evidence to me that they are not really interested in protecting our troops and citizens... unless it somehow profits them or increases their control.
If it happens, Taco, post a story about it, because it'll be bigger news than most of the shit you post.
I'm pretty sure my money's safe.
Such things aren't too surprising from unheard-of little fucktowns in Florida, the fraud and extortion capital of the United States. But banks and other businesses are starting to realize they can get away with the same thing, and there's little people can do except pay. I've had a credit union reorder my transactions to turn a single overdraft into several smaller ones and charge me an extra $100 in fees (which I never paid), and I've had a phone company try to collect on phone service which they restarted after I canceled it and moved away.
They have the cops and the courts in their pockets, and they think they're safe in their ivory towers. But I'm here to tell you, they've got another thing coming.
My advice: don't back down. It's just as likely that the phone company itself invented this charge out of thin air to buffer its slumping revenues as it is that "hackers" did it. I would not settle for a penny. And I'd start killing executives if they tried to garnish my wages.
In principle, Java's situation is no different from that of proprietary general-purpose operating systems, which are power-diving into irrelevance for exactly the same reasons.
Softare development, mainly. It's what puts food on my table and also what I do for fun.
I would say exactly the opposite about the two. I have no explanation for why Torvalds would prefer KDE. Who cares what Torvalds uses, anyway?
The only thing really wrong with GNOME is Nautilus. It's always been incredibly buggy and slow. If they ripped Nautilus out and replaced it with something usable, GNOME would be next to perfect.
Are they going to put "CCCP" on the sides of the vehicles?
Prominently displayed on my bookshelf were Bruce Schneier's crypto book, Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare, and a book by a retired Army Colonel called On Killing. Haha.
This was about two months before they lied to Congress about Carnivore only being used to monitor the email of convicts and suspects. I've never been involved in anything illegal... never even smoked pot. But I guess now I am an enemy of the state.
Nah, the FBI already has a file on me three feet thick. They've been reading my email for no particular reason since 2000 or earlier, and they know that if I were going to do something, I wouldn't talk about it, before or after. I just like to throw them a bone now and then... Are you reading this, Agent Summerville? I still have your business card. No, I still don't have anything to tell you.
BellSouth also loves to heap questionable charges on your bill. They charge $80 to transfer your number if you move, even though it takes all of five minutes and is done without the operator getting out of her chair.
When I moved from Atlanta, I canceled my BellSouth service. Three years later I got calls from debt collectors demanding payment for several months of service after I canceled it. I basically told them to fuck off, and never heard from them again. If they try to garnish my wages, I swear to God, I'll fly a jet into the BellSouth tower...
I am generally against censorship, but in the case of porn, I agree that there are times and places where it is not appropriate... e.g., schools and libraries. Ensuring that such places have a reliable means of blocking it would actually serve to protect the right of everyone else to view it, by providing an officially sanctioned venue for its publication.
Unfortunately, Shrub opposes the creation of the .XXX TLD. It's not enough for the NeoCons that kids should be prevented from seeing porn; they don't want anyone to have access to it. Creating a .XXX TLD could be seen as legitimizing the Constitutionally-protected exercise of Free Speech that is the porn industry.
Think a bit before you post next time.
Pure FUD.
The only thing being threatened is the business model of the journal publishers. Their enterprise was a necessary expense in the age of dead trees, but those days are gone. If online publication makes the free exchange of knowledge between researchers possible, that's a good thing!
Evolution in 5.04 could connect to our Exchange server, though it was quite flaky. Evolution in 5.10 does not work at all.
Samba printing is totally jacked because the GUI config tool puts the fields in the wrong order in the config file. I got that working by editing the config file manually after two hours of pulling my hair out.
Samba in 5.10 also insists on using the MSHOME domain, repeatedly forgetting my user name and password, and not working even when I type them in. Probably not putting the values in the config file right again, but I haven't had time to look yet. This has disrupted our communications because I cannot see, much less read and write the shares on the network. At least 5.04 let me see them, though we never did figure out how to get it to recognize my write permissions.
I could go on, but I need to go eat more turkey.
I'm still enjoying my PS1.
People of Earth, do not allow your governments to be tainted by the cancer of Americanism! Eliminate all aspects of this plague from your public and private lives! Do not allow your children or your leaders to be tempted by the power and wealth of the Harlot of Babylon, the United States of America!
Then the physical infrastructure belonging to those ISPs will be destroyed. How do you like that, wise guy? You can't win...
Way to get kids off on the wrong foot with Linux -- banish them all to RPM dependency hell!
1. Sue the popular hero
2. ???
3. Watch profits tumble!
They'll pay for this, or my name isn't Darl McBride!
Probably in a concentration camp somewhere.