Are you unaware of the fact that the United States has far and away the highest prision population
I am very aware of that thankyou. That's why I added the word "relatively" to the the "few losses". Relatively, as to keeping the entire population under constant surveilance (and thus virtually impaired in their actions).
Didn't you read the last part of my post? The one saying "it hasn't been successfull in any measurable way. Except for ensuring prison-wardens their jobs".
You'd think that covers your concern for my lack of knowledge. And, yes, ofcourse I think that it is a major problem. Just in case you don't see my bias on that point.
The "war on terror" is just like "the war on drugs" and probably will be as much effective.
Yeah, but don't forget the ultra-über-excessive means you can introduce in the name of fighting terror.
"War on drugs": stupid waste of time, but a relatively few losses of liberty. "War on terror": waste of time or not, utterly unneccassery waste of civil liberties.
As for the how long they'll sustain the current condition and new-found police-state-laws... Well, they haven't called off the "War on drugs" as of yet, have they? Even though it hasn't been successfull in any measurable way. Except for ensuring prison-wardens their jobs ofcourse.
I say were all up shit creek. And no nun is gonna stop me saying that.
Technically, that would make the act of human reproduction illegal, since the child could very conceivably grow up into a person with enough mental accuity to take on a task like that.
Technically, that would wipe out all of those market- and lobby-droids as well. Not so bad nothing good comes out of it.
And if we just "act a little discrete", the next generation of humans, will exclusively be the intellectual elite without annoying droids to make life miserable for them.
Make a "forbidden" communication look too similar to a company VPN
Except now all encxrupytion is to be forbidden. If it looks like VPN you will have a problem.
If this utter rubbish of mindless legislation passes, that is. Then I'll use encryption for everything, and that for no reason at all except it's legal state.
That way we wouldn't realize that Britney-pop and all that "art" that is industrially manufactured to annoy as little as possible (not please as much as possible) is truly utter garbage.
After all, if we don't buy CDs their industry will die. Nevermind the quality and price of their product.
Now that the SCO-fud had finally weakened to an inaudiable level, SUN (although maybe not intentionally) decides to start the circus yet again.
In history, SCO will be given an entire chapter of the sad states of affairs in our time. Probably named something like "Lawyers, litigaters, outright dishonesty and profit"
SCO are demonspawns from hell to overrun the earth with lawyers and thus confusion. All to ensure chaos and armageddon. /my theory
So if the international society, UN or whatever agrees on something everyone has to abide. For instance, Iraq failed to live up to what was decided (by the UN) it had to too. Result? A US-led invasion. The rules seems clear. UN decides, you abide, NO questions asked.
Now lets change recipient. US disobeys the UN? Results? "The rules don't apply to us bevause blahblah constitution and free country and given by God and BLAHBLAHBLAH OUR PENISES ARE BIGGER THAN YOURS".
You people seriously needs to understand what treaties, laws, democracy and basic principles means. And grand parent is not a troll. You are. By any none-USian eyes, I dare claim.
I still can't believe you people still believe that you live in a civilized country.
It's really, really time to reconsider anarchism guys. Democracy been has proven so flawed by capitalism, that it really hurts. By the people for the people my ass. Any mention of that and you're a communist/terririst/cyber-criminal (insert favorite none-commercialist decoy hot-word of the day here).
In case you can't stand the idea of anarchism, at least it's about time to reconsider democracy and what's it's about. I, for once, would consider the second lawyers are needed the moment of decline. But again that's just me.
I'm to lazy too google, but give me the death tools here.
American lives lost in wars the since WW2 vs "Eastern lives" lost in America-related wars since WW2?
Arab lives lost due to American foreign-intervention vs. American lives lost.
You get those number for Afghanistan alone, and you'll see that the World trade center thingy is a pretty small incident in comparison.
Mod me troll. Mod me flamebait. But these are facts, and as long as fail to see them, you can never win the so called (and dommed btw) "War on terror".
9.11 happened for a reason: namely US foreign-politics. As long as you totally disregard that fact, your war is so lost, I'm actually lost for words to describe it.
I do run Windows XP and Slackware, both being nice and gentle detecting the SATA-drive. However getting XP to run off the SATA drive was next to impossible.
I made it happen -once-, by doing a fresh install onto a standard ATA-drive, with the SATA-controller low-level drivers provided as a first thing(tm) to Windows Setup.
For the record: Windows did specificly say the SATA-drive "was not a Windows compatible (blahblah) drive for installation" or something like that, and refused to even try.
But by running Symantec Ghost, doing a basic partition copy from the ATA drive to the SATA drive, I made Windows XP boot off the SATA drive.
I have however not been able to repeat this procedure succesfully... So how did you actually make WinXP install itself on a SATA drive?!?
Other than core system configuration and core libraries the whole system uses, I ideally think *any app should be totally confined to one directory level.
Wouldn't this eventually require system kernel changes and an eXtensible Stack-Module (in short excess-module)?
I mean, just try to imagine the lengths of that PATH-variable after every single tiny little GNU-app should have a own directory with added path. You'd probably end up needing a Oracle dB-server extension for the basic PATH-system...
The CLI performance would end up so beyond any overbloated GUI, that people wouldn't even dear putting the terminal icon on their desktops.
IMO this is one thing Windows does right.
Except a couple of things. First of all it doesn't. Second of all it's all a matter of taste. I'm love the POSIX way and I getting increasingly fed up with windows pseudo-organized structures.
When you don't make the system consistent, it quickly ends up (a lot) worse than any bad, yet consistent system.
Winamp 5 also does this. You can also search the file-location and whatever really. If you wish. It's your choice. If this goes for the *crappy* Winamp 3, I dunno.
I see some people here have issues with WA5, but I must admit I have never had any problems whatsoever. Maybe I'm just lucky...
The search however is pretty neat. You still get to filter by artist and album and whatnot if the search-results are to "overwhelaming".
Sorry guys, but I like WA5. A lot. I'll hvae WA instead of iTunes anyday.
I did read his, post, but I might have ommited or downsized some of his statements. I'm, after all, used to Microsoft-technology requirering even more Microsoft-technology.
But to be quite honest, I haven't bothered checking out too much background on.NET so whatever I assume or say, may in fact be entirely wrong. I won't object to that.
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Explain to me again... Under such conditions... Whhy the hell do you bother even owning a TV at all?!?
I'd feel screwed over just possesing a TV under such circumstances! Thank god laws are a lot less commercialist-friendly where I live.
Yeah. That would sell bigtime! Wonder why this honest industry has chosen to this all backwards...
I am very aware of that thankyou. That's why I added the word "relatively" to the the "few losses". Relatively, as to keeping the entire population under constant surveilance (and thus virtually impaired in their actions).
Didn't you read the last part of my post? The one saying "it hasn't been successfull in any measurable way. Except for ensuring prison-wardens their jobs".
You'd think that covers your concern for my lack of knowledge. And, yes, ofcourse I think that it is a major problem. Just in case you don't see my bias on that point.
Yeah, but don't forget the ultra-über-excessive means you can introduce in the name of fighting terror.
"War on drugs": stupid waste of time, but a relatively few losses of liberty.
"War on terror": waste of time or not, utterly unneccassery waste of civil liberties.
As for the how long they'll sustain the current condition and new-found police-state-laws... Well, they haven't called off the "War on drugs" as of yet, have they? Even though it hasn't been successfull in any measurable way. Except for ensuring prison-wardens their jobs ofcourse.
I say were all up shit creek. And no nun is gonna stop me saying that.
You mean it's developed by Diebold?
*w00t*
Troll or joke, that's really a subjective matter, but the guy who modded this "Informative" should give up moderating priveleges ASAP.
Technically, that would wipe out all of those market- and lobby-droids as well. Not so bad nothing good comes out of it.
And if we just "act a little discrete", the next generation of humans, will exclusively be the intellectual elite without annoying droids to make life miserable for them.
Well. Sort of, anyway.
Except now all encxrupytion is to be forbidden. If it looks like VPN you will have a problem.
If this utter rubbish of mindless legislation passes, that is. Then I'll use encryption for everything, and that for no reason at all except it's legal state.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but how would this benefit the lawyers and promote the case of justice for the wealthiest?
Your attitude seems rather un-american and un-patriotic to me. If we refer to bush-standards that is. Interpret that any way you want.
That way we wouldn't realize that Britney-pop and all that "art" that is industrially manufactured to annoy as little as possible (not please as much as possible) is truly utter garbage.
After all, if we don't buy CDs their industry will die. Nevermind the quality and price of their product.
Ban brains now! Save the AAs!
Now that the SCO-fud had finally weakened to an inaudiable level, SUN (although maybe not intentionally) decides to start the circus yet again.
In history, SCO will be given an entire chapter of the sad states of affairs in our time. Probably named something like "Lawyers, litigaters, outright dishonesty and profit"
SCO are demonspawns from hell to overrun the earth with lawyers and thus confusion. All to ensure chaos and armageddon.
/my theory
Wow, oh wow! Does that work counter-effectively these days or what?
Except for US-soldies, I mean.
So if the international society, UN or whatever agrees on something everyone has to abide. For instance, Iraq failed to live up to what was decided (by the UN) it had to too. Result? A US-led invasion. The rules seems clear. UN decides, you abide, NO questions asked.
Now lets change recipient. US disobeys the UN? Results? "The rules don't apply to us bevause blahblah constitution and free country and given by God and BLAHBLAHBLAH OUR PENISES ARE BIGGER THAN YOURS".
You people seriously needs to understand what treaties, laws, democracy and basic principles means. And grand parent is not a troll. You are. By any none-USian eyes, I dare claim.
I still can't believe you people still believe that you live in a civilized country.
You're saying god sent lawyers to punish humans for our misdeeds?!? Ok, nevermind. It sounds reasonable enough.
Face it. It will be litigated into oblivion, and simply mentioning that it ever existed will be made illegal.
Long live the new public domain!
It's really, really time to reconsider anarchism guys. Democracy been has proven so flawed by capitalism, that it really hurts. By the people for the people my ass. Any mention of that and you're a communist/terririst/cyber-criminal (insert favorite none-commercialist decoy hot-word of the day here).
In case you can't stand the idea of anarchism, at least it's about time to reconsider democracy and what's it's about. I, for once, would consider the second lawyers are needed the moment of decline. But again that's just me.
I'm to lazy too google, but give me the death tools here.
American lives lost in wars the since WW2 vs "Eastern lives" lost in America-related wars since WW2?
Arab lives lost due to American foreign-intervention vs. American lives lost.
You get those number for Afghanistan alone, and you'll see that the World trade center thingy is a pretty small incident in comparison.
Mod me troll. Mod me flamebait. But these are facts, and as long as fail to see them, you can never win the so called (and dommed btw) "War on terror".
9.11 happened for a reason: namely US foreign-politics. As long as you totally disregard that fact, your war is so lost, I'm actually lost for words to describe it.
Well... This was basicly what I did, but then again, my SATA bios runs after my ordinary one, so maybe Windows had an issue with that?
Still, I find it strange that Windows will boot of a hacked installation, but deny me to make a proper one.
What the hell... It really doesn't matter that much anyway.
I do run Windows XP and Slackware, both being nice and gentle detecting the SATA-drive. However getting XP to run off the SATA drive was next to impossible.
I made it happen -once-, by doing a fresh install onto a standard ATA-drive, with the SATA-controller low-level drivers provided as a first thing(tm) to Windows Setup.
For the record: Windows did specificly say the SATA-drive "was not a Windows compatible (blahblah) drive for installation" or something like that, and refused to even try. But by running Symantec Ghost, doing a basic partition copy from the ATA drive to the SATA drive, I made Windows XP boot off the SATA drive.
I have however not been able to repeat this procedure succesfully... So how did you actually make WinXP install itself on a SATA drive?!?
Wouldn't this eventually require system kernel changes and an eXtensible Stack-Module (in short excess-module)?
I mean, just try to imagine the lengths of that PATH-variable after every single tiny little GNU-app should have a own directory with added path. You'd probably end up needing a Oracle dB-server extension for the basic PATH-system...
The CLI performance would end up so beyond any overbloated GUI, that people wouldn't even dear putting the terminal icon on their desktops.
Except a couple of things. First of all it doesn't. Second of all it's all a matter of taste. I'm love the POSIX way and I getting increasingly fed up with windows pseudo-organized structures.
When you don't make the system consistent, it quickly ends up (a lot) worse than any bad, yet consistent system.
Man, I wouldn't do that in a million years or for... well anything I guess.
Someone obviously works for their Karma around here :)
Worked like Magic :)
I think it was used to tweak the looks as well, but I may be wrong. I used so many tweaking utils on my Amiga, it was sheer fun.
But I forget to tell that the Defragmenter shouldn't use virtual memory. Dang.
Anyway, those were the days... 7.14 flying Mhz! *no irony, no lag at all*
Winamp 5 also does this. You can also search the file-location and whatever really. If you wish. It's your choice. If this goes for the *crappy* Winamp 3, I dunno.
I see some people here have issues with WA5, but I must admit I have never had any problems whatsoever. Maybe I'm just lucky...
The search however is pretty neat. You still get to filter by artist and album and whatnot if the search-results are to "overwhelaming".
Sorry guys, but I like WA5. A lot. I'll hvae WA instead of iTunes anyday.
Maybe my spam-filter hooked that one, but I can't ever recall seeing advertisement for verbal viagra!
Karma be damned: Please post, I can't wait!
Wouldn't that be a rather mild reaction?
No casteration by soldering-iron to ensure severe pain and cronic lack of reproductive skills?
*shocked at the current /.-modesty*
I did read his, post, but I might have ommited or downsized some of his statements. I'm, after all, used to Microsoft-technology requirering even more Microsoft-technology.
But to be quite honest, I haven't bothered checking out too much background on .NET so whatever I assume or say, may in fact be entirely wrong. I won't object to that.