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  1. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Ok so if you have nothing but respectable and obviously fastidiously honest people to elect, then that works great. However that is not a sustainable model for the rest of the nation. have fun in your little Utopian world up there there. Oh and I didn't say I couldn't handle winter (I was born in Colorado), I just have no use for it.

    I looked at the web site and like a lot of the green web sites they have a pie in the sky attitude and fail to grasp reality fully. The "Second American Revolution" will come with a bang not a whimper the French have seen to that. Besides it won't be a revolution really, more of a collapse and rebirth.

  2. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Ok well jay walking frequently does get you the death penalty hence the illegality of it. And being able to potentially distribute as many copies as the commercial copier could with physical media should somehow get a lesser penalty? The purpose of the excessive penalty is to punish. Sounds like it does that.

  3. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    I see, you don't pay the politicians, so in order to feed their kids you guarantee they have to get the beans and bullets from someone other than the tax payer. please explain to me how that helps to make politicians honest? Because it sure sounds like a perfect invitation to corruption. And I've got 72 degrees worth of reasons to not move to New Hampshire I mean in the summer maybe but I just didn't want to tread on you underneath 3 feet of snow.

  4. Re:Editors and Debuggers on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    Yes command lines have their place, in the closet with the rest of the tools that hardly need to get used. Get over this command line thing guys, actually JOIN the 21st century. There is plenty of typing to do without having to resort to arcane paroxysms of too short commands because the Unix weenies that made them up wanted them to be as short as possible to dispense with excess typing and didn't care how obscure the references were. There that was a whole run on sentence with way too many characters.

  5. Re:Sad thing is, the Dems are infringers! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    You are assuming that they failed to pay the license fee. How big of you to accuse without having all the facts. Guilty until proven innocent I like that!

  6. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Actually you only lose if you break the law right.
    Oh wait I see, your statement assumes that we are or should all be law breakers. Since you believe it is an unjust law and in your opinion that we are all losers since those of us that don't break the law now are deprived of the fruits of breaking the law.
    Clever, very clever.
    I'm not too sure about this but that almost qualifies as having your cake and eating it too.

  7. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    The industrial military complex seems to be the republicans darling. Money seems to have been flowing freely both ways there for quite a while.

  8. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm all for the free state project thingy, but could you please choose a state with better weather? I mean the cold cold north east really!

  9. Re:Hope and Change, baby! on Obama DOJ Sides With RIAA Again In Tenenbaum · · Score: 1

    Here here!

  10. Re:Editors and Debuggers on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    Sonny you just need to get the hell off of my lawn!
    Yeah we made all that stuff and we were proud of what we accomplished with the stone knives and bear skins. But this is the 21st century.

  11. Re:Editors and Debuggers on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    Tool chain integration that actually works, not having to code in lisp to make macros work? I could go on but that will do for a start,

  12. Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    Hey give that man a cookie, he tweaked to the trick of making your whole tool chain useful.

  13. Re:Editors and Debuggers on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    If you want to spend more time configuring the tools than developing then KGDB and GDB are the tools for you! GDB is so arcane that setting a breakpoint is nigh impossible without the manual in your hand but then you have only one left to type with, and oh wait, you will have two hands after all as there is no manual for GDB sorry my bad. Oops I stand corrected I found the manual. It does assume you know quite a bit though and these are the instructions for "running a program under GDB"

    When you run a program under gdb, you must first generate debugging information when you compile it.

    You may start gdb with its arguments, if any, in an environment of your choice. If you are doing native debugging, you may redirect your program's input and output, debug an already running process, or kill a child process.


    to compile a program to run inder GDB you are assumed to be using C/C++ and the GCC compiler from the command line ie.
    To request debugging information, specify the `-g' option when you run the compiler.
    There is more but it also assumes the command line is in use or you are somehow a guru at configuring the IDE of your choice. Sorry. For utility and ease of development Visual Studio is still tops.
    Surely someone somewhere has made GDB and their IDE of choice easier to use? I will plead ignorance of it despite quite a bit of research and the research delivered some very confusing results at that.

  14. Re:Editors and Debuggers on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    SLIME does not hold a candle to VS sorry.

  15. FLOSS? on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 1

    I think all you really need is a good wax applicator and some really good string. Maybe a way to apply flavor would be nice too.

  16. Re:Visual Studio replacement on Linux on What Tools Do FLOSS Developers Need? · · Score: 3, Interesting

    There's nothing special I've seen in Visual Studio's debugging that couldn't be done with DDD
    This must be some new meaning for the word "done" that I have previously been unfamiliar with.
    Can you edit and continue when working with C++ or C#?
    Making changes on the fly is one of the premium features of Visual Studio and I have never seen it in any other IDE. True I haven't used all of them yet but I've been thru netbeans, eclipse and a few others. The integration of the IDE with the debugger is far more important than the utility of the debugger. I have seen this with python, lua and several interpreted basics but not with C++ or C#.

  17. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    True, but the other reasons to legalize pot were more than sufficient without adding the lunatic "Liberty" cry. The same reasons that repealing prohibition put an end to the gangs of the alcohol underground. Liberty has nothing to do with it really and although I agree that liberty is a noble cause it just clouds the issue where pot is concerned, no pun intended.

  18. Re:The Inconvenient Truth on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    The line between abuse and use is so fine that a car driven over it can kill 50 people at a time. Harmless is not an adjective I'd apply to alcohol even on a good day.

  19. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    Yeah I don't really think you see this issue clearly. I love the lunatic fringe libertarian thinking though. A significant number of people want nuclear weapons too but I'm not going to propose legalizing private ownership of them for that reason.

  20. Re:It's Worse Than You think! on $4,400/Yr. Coders May Work On Dept. of Labor Project · · Score: 1

    Nothing wrong with distilling beer except that the result is crap. you can produce a certain amount of hard liquor for personal use every year. got to the batf websites if you want specifics.

  21. Re:My psychic prediction on Martian Microbe Fossils, Not So Debunked Anymore · · Score: 1

    Your cynicism and arrogance leave me astounded. I'd try to argue this more but I've found that arrogant cynicists are entirely incapable of being influenced by reason or logic or emotion.

  22. Re:nerd fail on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 1

    Wine is a mocker, strong drink a rage!

  23. Re:Easy answer on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 1

    I don't actually use the dynamic DNS services. I did way back when it mattered, doesn't as much today. I do use the custom DNS services for which I donated once and had unlimited use on EveryDNS, I've let the services on DynDNS expire because I couldn't afford to keep them up. I've used both for years but always went to EveryDNS because it was just easier to understand how to do what I wanted to do and lately cheaper too.

  24. Re:Easy answer on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 1

    Easier said than done I'm afraid for most people...

  25. Re:Easy answer on DynDNS.com Acquires EveryDNS · · Score: 1

    This was another reason I moved to EveryDNS.