"I am however appalled at what the Bush Administration has turned it into."
Why is it so hard for you to understand that it is not Bush doing something to America? We are "doing" whatever to ourselves.
If nothing else Iraq deserved to be invaded because they were not in compliance with the terms of the ceasefire from 1991. If you lose a war and agree to ceasefire terms and then you willingly violate them what do you think happens? Duh, you are back at war.
As to the "grab for oil" comment...Get over it.
There are no facts to back this assertion up, just some "post hoc ergo propter hoc" type logic:
-The US imports Oil -Iraq has Oil -The US invades Iraq Therefore -The US must be after the oil
How about the other side of the coin: -The US is a huge producer of oil -The US imports most of it's oil from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia -Iraq is a member of OPEC and as such its renewed production will not really affect the price of oil as controlled by them (sure a free stable Iraq might settle some traders and the price could drop to a realistic market rate) -If we wanted to "grab the oil" we'd be alot better off taking Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or Venezuala all of which have more oil.
What it boils down to is that Saddam and his cohorts were bad men who were not only slaughtering their own countrymen, but also destabilizing the region.
What we should all be asking ourselves is why the US is not actively involved with taking out more people like them in other countries, and why Europe is so complacent when dealing with problems like this at their own door steps when they KNOW the costs of turning the other cheek (WW2, Serbia, etc).
In the same breathes the world MF's us for not pouring more money into the developing world you are MF'ing us for taking direct action to give them something Americans value more then money - Freedom.
"A cowardly victim who is likely to spend the last 10 years of their life in a coma after being struck by an SUV while cycling between an anti-war and an anti-abortion protest."
If it makes you feel any better, while you are in the hospital your wife will dress you in witty t-shirts and animal slippers.
YOU ARE A TOOL. A stupid pinko commie tool. It makes me retch to think that you live in my country. You need to go straight to your local military recruiter. Your "Mum" has failed to raise you right, maybe your "Uncle" can rectify this situation before you open your pinko mouth in public again.
Un-F**king believable, reducing crime by pre-emptively giving all of your stuff to others. Are you French? You act French. Or German, maybe German, they're turning French as fast as they can. Either way, what you propose is instead of making people accountable for their actions, you are surrendering and advocating others to do the same.
You are also 100% clueless about the 60's in the US, like Billy Joel said:
"The good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems"
Amen, "Arming America" should not be banned. It should be re-shelfed with the fiction books, and a jacket should be placed on it explaining the whole story of how he manufactured "evidence" and how this action destroyed his career.
It is a perfect example of failures in academic integrity and should not be lost.
However, if I was looking through the library and found this title in the non-fiction aisle I would have to "challenge" it's position there.
I don't know why you're pissed now, we've been watching you for years.
Asside from the occasional nose picking and genital scratch you've kinda been a waste of our time (although there WAS that time when you were in high school..he he he)
Liberals are not overly represented among "skilled professionals", they are overly represented in students and "service professions" amongst which are webmasters and programmers, which since you are here I expect you are very likely to be.*
There are less conservative forums because people become conservative because of particular issues, and not as a way to meet chicks, keep their ex-hippie parents happy, or their "feelings". What forums there are, are issue centric and news based more then the liberal discussion groups. Most of us also have jobs and family obligations that keep us fully occupied.
In addition, the election of 2000 provided a sense of misplaced outrage in the democratic party. This outrage has been funneled into these forums for the past few years. If (God forbid) Kerry wins this year you can be sure that conservative forums will become MUCH more active. Remember, "Rush" got his start the last time we foolishly allowed a democrat into the whitehouse.
What you found are the hangouts for the unemployed rednecks. Fortunately, it IS possible to be a complete idiot and still be right when it comes to the issues.
Imagining the freerepublic crowd to be representative of republicans is like thinking the democraticunderground is representative of democrats.
Dan
* This is an important lesson, I don't know how many young job applicants I have seen that assume IT people are democrats since their help desk buddies were. One of the fastest ways to blow an interview is to make some dumb political statement or put a political website on a resume.
Some thoughts... 1. Notepad + i.e = scripting 2. PHP 3. perl 4. The other 1,000,000 free compilers here (or a hundred other such lists): http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/ 5. The MASSIVE amount of free information, tutorials and source code available
ANYONE with access to a PC and the internet cannot whine about not having qbasic/BASIC/etc. It is a non-issue. I only learned basic because my vic20 had (er has) it. I wanted to learn a "real" language, but there were no free compilers, damn little PD source, and few free tutorials.
You need to research copyrights. Everything is automatically copyrighted (including these comments). Nothing needs registered for you to have copyright.
From the FAQ on your source:
When is my work protected?
Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
Do I have to register with your office to be protected?
No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Copyright Registration."
"If you want to dislike Macs, pick a legitimate reason"
Well, they did put that moron Gore on their board. I'll use that for my reason.
But wait, if any of the rest of you need reasons here are a couple more: 2. Jobs and his all black, all the time, wardrobe. 3. A "tangarine" computer? 4. A Round mouse? 5. Jobs and his spoiled little boy attitude. 6. Their first product that anyone liked was not even a computer (Ipod) 7. Their annoying "I" names 8. The bearded losers they position in CompUSA's selling Mac crap to unsuspecting people who came to buy a computer. 9. Seattle, not technically their fault, but I'd bet Seattle has a higher Mac/PC ratio then the normal parts of this country. 10. Apple stores, what your products can't compete with PCs in the same store? 11. Apple zealots, come on guys, we don't use Mac's, we aren't planning to switch, nuf said... 12. Appletalk 13. The fact that they just tried to patent the joystick 14. The whinners that don't understand why no one ports their software to a platform with less then 10% market share 15. The fact that in many parts of the country kids never learn a useful computer skill in school because Apple has brainwashed the school districts and all they learn is Mac's. 16. Handles on every system (of course maybe this is helpful as you lug your crappy Mac from all of the places you get fired from) 17. No Mac clones? Hell, even Sun has clones 18. They are still stuck on their dumbass "look and feel" lawsuit 19. BSD, oops, I mean OSX. If anyone liked BSD Linux would not be where it is today. 20. Their commercials. Hint: Save your money guys, the 200 people in the world who like your computers are working for you already. 21. BeOS, cause MacOS Sucks. 22. Apple "Customer Service" 22.5 Apple "Quality" 23. Mac "Performance" Just how the hell do you screw up BSD? 24. Jobs is an ass.
If the "environmentalists" would please stop breathing.
The point is, no one KNOWS how the entire climate system works.
It (CO2=Global Warming) is a theory. That is all.
Imagine if we decided to kill all people with birth defects, or even just "bad jeans", just because many accept evolution?
"Environmentalists" will tell you: 1. It is warmer then it was 100 years ago. 2. There is more free CO2 in the air 3. Therefore the CO2 MUST be the cause of the increase in temperature.
This ladies and gentlemen is referred to as "post hoc ergo propter hoc" so long as we do not have all of the supporting facts. Kinda like:
1. It is warmer then it was 10 years ago. 2. The internet is larger then it was 10 years ago. 3. Therefore the internet MUST be the cause of the increase in temperature.
Of course, there's always the requisite ad hominum attacks.
Normal person: "Hey, maybe part of this warming is normal considering that we are coming out of an Ice Age"
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Hey, maybe part of this warming is caused by variable energy intensity from the sun."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Hey, maybe part of this warming is from the fact that the locations where the temperature is being taken has become more urbanized since 1900."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Maybe we should reserve judgement on this until the facts are in."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "You know, the rate that it seems to be getting warmer is so slow that it won't make much difference if we wait, say, 500 years, and then if it IS a problem it will probably have stopped being one since I don't think ANYONE thinks we have 500 years of fossil fuels in reserve, but even if it is still a problem we will have 500 years of new technologies to combat it."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Kyoto was a flawed protocol from the start. It's main goal was wealth redistribution away from the US. That is why, except for Gore, no one in the US government wanted it (including Congress and Clinton)"
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"...
And the sooner these sheeple recognize that this TCPA and Palladium are anti-consumer the better.
Hopefully AMD will throw Intel for a loop and do the logical step with Open Firmware.
Nice spin doctoring though, add a bunch of anti-consumer crap no one needs much less wants (firmware on a "special" part of your harddisk? I guess we'll be buying Intel branded harddisks), remove some features, and call it "Legacy Free" and people want to upgrade to it. It boggles the mind...
Well, congratulations on the CMM progress, it is probably worth your while.
Granted, no tool will make you a software engineer.
I'm probably not considering the full range of practices, but I completely disagree that the road to success is to "trust their programmers to be capable of doing their jobs properly". The right way is to put a process in place that ensures that the programmers do their jobs properly. Specification documentation, design documentation, design reviews, code reviews, etc. Tools like the CMM model/inspections are a step in the right direction. If your documented process is taping note cards on a white board then get with the program and get out your note cards. You should find some real engineers and ask them how much documentation and peer reviews, etc they have to do for their stuff.
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"I am however appalled at what the Bush Administration has turned it into."
Why is it so hard for you to understand that it is not Bush doing something to America? We are "doing" whatever to ourselves.
If nothing else Iraq deserved to be invaded because they were not in compliance with the terms of the ceasefire from 1991. If you lose a war and agree to ceasefire terms and then you willingly violate them what do you think happens? Duh, you are back at war.
As to the "grab for oil" comment...Get over it.
There are no facts to back this assertion up, just some "post hoc ergo propter hoc" type logic:
-The US imports Oil
-Iraq has Oil
-The US invades Iraq
Therefore
-The US must be after the oil
How about the other side of the coin:
-The US is a huge producer of oil
-The US imports most of it's oil from Canada, Mexico, Venezuela, and Saudi Arabia
-Iraq is a member of OPEC and as such its renewed production will not really affect the price of oil as controlled by them (sure a free stable Iraq might settle some traders and the price could drop to a realistic market rate)
-If we wanted to "grab the oil" we'd be alot better off taking Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, or Venezuala all of which have more oil.
What it boils down to is that Saddam and his cohorts were bad men who were not only slaughtering their own countrymen, but also destabilizing the region.
What we should all be asking ourselves is why the US is not actively involved with taking out more people like them in other countries, and why Europe is so complacent when dealing with problems like this at their own door steps when they KNOW the costs of turning the other cheek (WW2, Serbia, etc).
In the same breathes the world MF's us for not pouring more money into the developing world you are MF'ing us for taking direct action to give them something Americans value more then money - Freedom.
No, I'm thinking more along the lines of:
"A cowardly victim who is likely to spend the last 10 years of their life in a coma after being struck by an SUV while cycling between an anti-war and an anti-abortion protest."
If it makes you feel any better, while you are in the hospital your wife will dress you in witty t-shirts and animal slippers.
Dan
Gee, a coward with a point of view.
Somehow I don't care.
You can start giving your stuff away now.
Dan
I won't be an AC on this.
YOU ARE A TOOL. A stupid pinko commie tool. It makes me retch to think that you live in my country. You need to go straight to your local military recruiter. Your "Mum" has failed to raise you right, maybe your "Uncle" can rectify this situation before you open your pinko mouth in public again.
Un-F**king believable, reducing crime by pre-emptively giving all of your stuff to others. Are you French? You act French. Or German, maybe German, they're turning French as fast as they can. Either way, what you propose is instead of making people accountable for their actions, you are surrendering and advocating others to do the same.
You are also 100% clueless about the 60's in the US, like Billy Joel said:
"The good old days weren't always good and tomorrow ain't as bad as it seems"
Dan Anderson
Amen, "Arming America" should not be banned. It should be re-shelfed with the fiction books, and a jacket should be placed on it explaining the whole story of how he manufactured "evidence" and how this action destroyed his career.
It is a perfect example of failures in academic integrity and should not be lost.
However, if I was looking through the library and found this title in the non-fiction aisle I would have to "challenge" it's position there.
Dan
I don't know why you're pissed now, we've been watching you for years.
Asside from the occasional nose picking and genital scratch you've kinda been a waste of our time (although there WAS that time when you were in high school..he he he)
Dan
Liberals are not overly represented among "skilled professionals", they are overly represented in students and "service professions" amongst which are webmasters and programmers, which since you are here I expect you are very likely to be.*
There are less conservative forums because people become conservative because of particular issues, and not as a way to meet chicks, keep their ex-hippie parents happy, or their "feelings". What forums there are, are issue centric and news based more then the liberal discussion groups. Most of us also have jobs and family obligations that keep us fully occupied.
In addition, the election of 2000 provided a sense of misplaced outrage in the democratic party. This outrage has been funneled into these forums for the past few years. If (God forbid) Kerry wins this year you can be sure that conservative forums will become MUCH more active. Remember, "Rush" got his start the last time we foolishly allowed a democrat into the whitehouse.
What you found are the hangouts for the unemployed rednecks. Fortunately, it IS possible to be a complete idiot and still be right when it comes to the issues.
Imagining the freerepublic crowd to be representative of republicans is like thinking the democraticunderground is representative of democrats.
Dan
* This is an important lesson, I don't know how many young job applicants I have seen that assume IT people are democrats since their help desk buddies were. One of the fastest ways to blow an interview is to make some dumb political statement or put a political website on a resume.
A quick test to see if "Mike" is lying?
Check to see if his lips are moving.
The guy is a quack. Who the hell would stage "documentaries"?
Dan
If you live in the US you can't post instructions for making a bomb:
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105_2-5063032.html
Dan
True enough for this case but remember this is true only in civil issues. In criminal cases juries have absolute power to acquit.
Dan
You people need to think a bit more.
If the trademark gets thrown out then UNIX means nothing. No one can enforce what a UNIX system is, and is not.
This is not a good thing. It will just confuse the marketplace.
Dan
I'd love to have had it "so hard".
Some thoughts...
1. Notepad + i.e = scripting
2. PHP
3. perl
4. The other 1,000,000 free compilers here (or a hundred other such lists): http://www.thefreecountry.com/compilers/
5. The MASSIVE amount of free information, tutorials and source code available
ANYONE with access to a PC and the internet cannot whine about not having qbasic/BASIC/etc. It is a non-issue. I only learned basic because my vic20 had (er has) it. I wanted to learn a "real" language, but there were no free compilers, damn little PD source, and few free tutorials.
Dan
Isn't this the same story from a month or 2 ago?
Dan
You need to research copyrights. Everything is automatically copyrighted (including these comments). Nothing needs registered for you to have copyright.
From the FAQ on your source:
When is my work protected?
Your work is under copyright protection the moment it is created and fixed in a tangible form that it is perceptible either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.
Do I have to register with your office to be protected?
No. In general, registration is voluntary. Copyright exists from the moment the work is created. You will have to register, however, if you wish to bring a lawsuit for infringement of a U.S. work. See Circular 1, Copyright Basics, section "Copyright Registration."
Dan
Amen! This has got to be one of the most pathetic subjects ever brought up here.
:-)
Keep this shit up and we'll have the "roadrunner" sueing "Wile E. Coyote".
On the other hand, I'd give anything to see some sniveling geek crying about someone stealing his "diamond shield" in a court room.
Dan
Not MIT, Raytheon.
Dan
"If you want to dislike Macs, pick a legitimate reason"
Well, they did put that moron Gore on their board. I'll use that for my reason.
But wait, if any of the rest of you need reasons here are a couple more:
2. Jobs and his all black, all the time, wardrobe.
3. A "tangarine" computer?
4. A Round mouse?
5. Jobs and his spoiled little boy attitude.
6. Their first product that anyone liked was not even a computer (Ipod)
7. Their annoying "I" names
8. The bearded losers they position in CompUSA's selling Mac crap to unsuspecting people who came to buy a computer.
9. Seattle, not technically their fault, but I'd bet Seattle has a higher Mac/PC ratio then the normal parts of this country.
10. Apple stores, what your products can't compete with PCs in the same store?
11. Apple zealots, come on guys, we don't use Mac's, we aren't planning to switch, nuf said...
12. Appletalk
13. The fact that they just tried to patent the joystick
14. The whinners that don't understand why no one ports their software to a platform with less then 10% market share
15. The fact that in many parts of the country kids never learn a useful computer skill in school because Apple has brainwashed the school districts and all they learn is Mac's.
16. Handles on every system (of course maybe this is helpful as you lug your crappy Mac from all of the places you get fired from)
17. No Mac clones? Hell, even Sun has clones
18. They are still stuck on their dumbass "look and feel" lawsuit
19. BSD, oops, I mean OSX. If anyone liked BSD Linux would not be where it is today.
20. Their commercials. Hint: Save your money guys, the 200 people in the world who like your computers are working for you already.
21. BeOS, cause MacOS Sucks.
22. Apple "Customer Service"
22.5 Apple "Quality"
23. Mac "Performance" Just how the hell do you screw up BSD?
24. Jobs is an ass.
There you go, reasons enough for a few of you!
Dan
"one simple mistake"
:-)
"avarage. As a respresentitive"
I'm not a teacher, but I count this as two.
Dan
"avarage. As a respresentitive"
Pot: "Kettle, you are black!"
Dan
Yea, right, a geek like that with a girlfriend?
Who are YOU kidding!
Dan
"Anti-green"?
Please re-read your high school biology text's.
Warming AND increased CO2=GREEN.
Dan
Great, now I have to pop off and kill myself lest the "jean" pool get contaminated. :-)
s/jean/gene/
Dan
If the "environmentalists" would please stop breathing.
...
The point is, no one KNOWS how the entire climate system works.
It (CO2=Global Warming) is a theory. That is all.
Imagine if we decided to kill all people with birth defects, or even just "bad jeans", just because many accept evolution?
"Environmentalists" will tell you:
1. It is warmer then it was 100 years ago.
2. There is more free CO2 in the air
3. Therefore the CO2 MUST be the cause of the increase in temperature.
This ladies and gentlemen is referred to as "post hoc ergo propter hoc" so long as we do not have all of the supporting facts. Kinda like:
1. It is warmer then it was 10 years ago.
2. The internet is larger then it was 10 years ago.
3. Therefore the internet MUST be the cause of the increase in temperature.
Of course, there's always the requisite ad hominum attacks.
Normal person: "Hey, maybe part of this warming is normal considering that we are coming out of an Ice Age"
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Hey, maybe part of this warming is caused by variable energy intensity from the sun."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Hey, maybe part of this warming is from the fact that the locations where the temperature is being taken has become more urbanized since 1900."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Maybe we should reserve judgement on this until the facts are in."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "You know, the rate that it seems to be getting warmer is so slow that it won't make much difference if we wait, say, 500 years, and then if it IS a problem it will probably have stopped being one since I don't think ANYONE thinks we have 500 years of fossil fuels in reserve, but even if it is still a problem we will have 500 years of new technologies to combat it."
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Normal person: "Kyoto was a flawed protocol from the start. It's main goal was wealth redistribution away from the US. That is why, except for Gore, no one in the US government wanted it (including Congress and Clinton)"
"Environmentalist": "You are bought and paid for by the oil companies!"
Some people can not be reasoned with.
Dan
Amen. EFI=End Freedom Initiative
And the sooner these sheeple recognize that this TCPA and Palladium are anti-consumer the better.
Hopefully AMD will throw Intel for a loop and do the logical step with Open Firmware.
Nice spin doctoring though, add a bunch of anti-consumer crap no one needs much less wants (firmware on a "special" part of your harddisk? I guess we'll be buying Intel branded harddisks), remove some features, and call it "Legacy Free" and people want to upgrade to it. It boggles the mind...
Dan
Well, congratulations on the CMM progress, it is probably worth your while.
Granted, no tool will make you a software engineer.
I'm probably not considering the full range of practices, but I completely disagree that the road to success is to "trust their programmers to be capable of doing their jobs properly". The right way is to put a process in place that ensures that the programmers do their jobs properly. Specification documentation, design documentation, design reviews, code reviews, etc. Tools like the CMM model/inspections are a step in the right direction. If your documented process is taping note cards on a white board then get with the program and get out your note cards. You should find some real engineers and ask them how much documentation and peer reviews, etc they have to do for their stuff.
Dan