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You really don't want to get involved with those Linux hooligans. Do anything they don't like and they'll attack your systems.
So buy Microsoft. Because we never get attacked!*
* exceptions include Nimda, CodeRed, Slammer, VB-scripts, MSWord macros, I love you, trojans, haxors, script kiddies, anyone with a degree in computer science, that guy in your class with the messy hair and your grandmother.
I haven't seen the extended FOTR but I have the 'regular' version on DVD. Is the extended version really cool? Is it worth getting the extended FOTR and should I wait for the extended TTT?
Now, we can drop a conventional bomb or 4 right through a specific window,
Yeah, except that's nonsense. In the NATO invasion of Kosovo and the bombing of the rest of Serbia, a huge number of bombs were not on target. Even if the accuracy rate were 90% (which it's definitely not) given that 10's of thousands of bombs are being dropped, that's still 1000's of bombs off target. And the accuracy hasn't improved much since the late 90's because plenty of bombs missed their targets and hit civillian areas in Baghdad and other areas of Iraq. Some of those civillian bombings were also intentional, but that's another story.
Losing weight is as simple as expending more calories each day than you intake. If your whole day consists of hacking code and then playing some video games, you don't need that many calories.
What I used to do in school was work for however many hours/days on coding for my assignments. Once they were handed in, I'd hit the gym for a few hours and burn off some steam. Lifting weights is a great way to relieve the stress of incompetent teammates and pointless assignments. Before I graduated, I could bench over 200lbs. Of course doing cardio is important too.
It's not difficult to figure out how many calories you should be eating. It's only a matter of self control if you want to shed that extra flab.
That's what they're doing here in Toronto. People that are refusing to obey the voluntary isolation are being forcibly confined. Some are also being changed by police. In fact one school and an office (HP in markham) have been closed because people refused to obey the voluntary isolation. I even have family that works in one of the hospitals downtown. There's a lot of FUD about SARS on the news, but I'm not worried. I don't know anyone who's sick and while there are a few new cases being announced, the spread isn't rapid. So I'll just keep reading/. uhh, I mean working.
My supermarket know what I bought. Does that mean if the goverment saw that I never bought pork it means I'm Jewish or does it mean that I just don't like it?
Well if you don't buy alcohol either then you could be a danged Moslem terrorist!!! Well I'm just joking, I'm a Muslim. But actually, that very thing is supposedly flagged about passengers on planes headed to the US; whether or not they ordered a meal without pork.
All the arguments about TCO and which system is cheaper in the long run depend a lot on training pr retraining of staff and such. But if kids grow up on OSS and everyone is not stuck with the idea that Windows is your computer, then it makes a whole hell of a lot of sense to use GNU/Linux (or some other *NIX that can be made user friendly). Because then the main argument is between $0 - GNU/Linux or $>0 - Windows. Doesn't seem like a very hard choice.:)
How can we free other peoples and nations when we can't even free ourselves?
That's the whole point. When the government starts refusing permits to demonstrations of free speech and monitoring them with snipers on hand (as occured in New York during the anti-war protest in february), and they push for total information awareness, you know your rights are not only being reduced but trampled.
When you have assholes like A.G. John Ashcroft drafting resolutions to revoke citizenship, remove barriers to police surveillance, and place heavy restrictions on freedom of information, then you know things are getting bad.
When you have the media refusing to print stuff that it thinks the gov't wouldn't approve of, the army going to war not for oil though the oil sources are the first thing being secured, and toppling foreign governments which are evil even though they were the closest allies but a decade ago, well you might as well say "War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength".
Yeah, I'd say that this free trade thing ain't working out.
Yes, well that's because it's being actively worked against. I'm currently reading Year 501 which explains in detail how free trade is only meant to work one way. Foreign countries have large multi-nationals doing as they wish with production. But if any independent or national efforts are made in terms of production, they are sorely crushed if not literally then by tariffs and trade barriers.
There are many examples of this if you read the book, a couple being american steel and of course the softwood lumber debate between the US and Canada.
No company is going to hire anyone until this mess with Iraq starts to straigten out. Once that happens though, look for mega job listings to start appearing.
Yeah, this is one of the big benefits that Bush is looking for. Already there are companies competing for contracts to rebuild Iraq after the US army bombs it back to the stone age.
The actual war will likely do more harm than good to the economy, but once the war is over and there is a US army state in place, guess which companies will have preference in getting contracts for rebuilding?
This is the way things go with the way big corporations work and the way current trade and labour laws are set up.
This has been happening for a long time in other sectors of the economy. Manufacturing and textiles have largely been moved to cheap labour economies where labour laws are lax and workers are paid ridiculously small amounts.
The same thing is now happening in the tech industry. Jobs are moving to countries with a glut of highly educated people that are willing to work long hours under less than optimal work conditions.
So increasingly, people in North America are told that they should not unionize and work harder for less money and benefits. This is the way (we are told) to 'advance' our economies. Because what is good for the rich is good for all of us.
No I'm talking about Americanterrorism.
The Bush family has strong ties to bin Laden's family. And the Saudi government, one which is widely regarded as repressive as the Taleban, is one of the US' closest allies. Including all the family of bin Laden, with the obvious exception of Osama.
As for the thought that violation of copyright supports terrorism; even if this ridiculous suggestion were true, would that be a reason to punish kids that buy pirated stuff or rip their own stuff? Because that's who the MPAA and MS will try to punish.
Well if the agreement is to not buy anything from MS, and students still want to learn MS... then can't students still learn.NET stuff in GNU/Linux? Mono has made fair progress and is usable. Wouldn't that be a reasonable solution? And that's *if* they want MS stuff. But almost everything a student reasonably needs is available for GNU/Linux.
"We've got, maybe, far less than 75 years of oil left. That means we have about 50 years to become totally dependent on renewable sources, enough for us to use them to produce everything we know and use today. I have a close friend, who's got more degrees, PhD's and Doctorates than I've had hot dinners and he was the first to show me the figures and open my eyes to this. How do you build and maintain a wind farm of giant metal and plastic structures without oil, coal and gas to power the factories and foundries? It's EXTREMELY difficult."
Looks like you're assuming the only source of oil is out of the ground and it's not renewable. We can and do get oil from other perfectly renewable resources such as soy. In fact Canada has put through legislation to use a soy based replacement to diesel. There are similarly plenty of ways to produce and use metals, plastics and everything else needed without using petroleum based products, and possibly without coal and gas.
Hmm, with this boycott, does this mean IBM will drop Trolltech and QT for their embedded GNU/Linux needs?
Trolltech is also owned by Canopy Group.
So is a company called Tuglet which looks like it produces spamware.
I freaking hate andy rooney. That old bastard did nothing but bitch about useless consumer products. He just reminds me of Abe Simpson wandering through a store... "Look at these army toys! They break the first time I step on them!" [crushing army toys under slipper]
I used to watch 60min every week. I never watch it anymore.
But I installed Windows XP on my computer and it still runs
I installed XP and it's screwed up my nic! IE and MSN messenger programs don't work! Mozilla somehow magically works, so does the windows port of Gaim, but I assume that's just a fluke. The only way to fix this problem is by booting back in to Debian. Go figure.
He's been "undemocratic" as far as the sector of the population that has been benefitting from the oil boom is concerned, but even many of them realize that they are reaping what they have sown.
What's more, the US gov't praised his overthrow for a day, only to be embarassed by his return. What kind of gov't praises the overthrow of a democratically elected leader?
Same gov't that overthrew Chile's Allende, Iraq's Kassem, Iran's Mossadegh...
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You really don't want to get involved with those Linux hooligans. Do anything they don't like and they'll attack your systems.
So buy Microsoft. Because we never get attacked!*
* exceptions include Nimda, CodeRed, Slammer, VB-scripts, MSWord macros, I love you, trojans, haxors, script kiddies, anyone with a degree in computer science, that guy in your class with the messy hair and your grandmother.
I haven't seen the extended FOTR but I have the 'regular' version on DVD. Is the extended version really cool? Is it worth getting the extended FOTR and should I wait for the extended TTT?
how they hire people for their security group.
Interviewer: How would you make a critical, large, distributed application more secure?
Interviewee: Round!
Interviewer: Congratulations. Welcome to Microsoft.
Now, we can drop a conventional bomb or 4 right through a specific window,
Yeah, except that's nonsense. In the NATO invasion of Kosovo and the bombing of the rest of Serbia, a huge number of bombs were not on target. Even if the accuracy rate were 90% (which it's definitely not) given that 10's of thousands of bombs are being dropped, that's still 1000's of bombs off target.
And the accuracy hasn't improved much since the late 90's because plenty of bombs missed their targets and hit civillian areas in Baghdad and other areas of Iraq.
Some of those civillian bombings were also intentional, but that's another story.
Here's the Dilbert strip.
No. If it had 4 wheels, it would BE a car.
You obviously haven't seen the 4-wheeled Tomahawk.
Losing weight is as simple as expending more calories each day than you intake. If your whole day consists of hacking code and then playing some video games, you don't need that many calories.
What I used to do in school was work for however many hours/days on coding for my assignments. Once they were handed in, I'd hit the gym for a few hours and burn off some steam. Lifting weights is a great way to relieve the stress of incompetent teammates and pointless assignments. Before I graduated, I could bench over 200lbs. Of course doing cardio is important too.
It's not difficult to figure out how many calories you should be eating. It's only a matter of self control if you want to shed that extra flab.
That's what they're doing here in Toronto. People that are refusing to obey the voluntary isolation are being forcibly confined. Some are also being changed by police. /. uhh, I mean working.
In fact one school and an office (HP in markham) have been closed because people refused to obey the voluntary isolation.
I even have family that works in one of the hospitals downtown. There's a lot of FUD about SARS on the news, but I'm not worried. I don't know anyone who's sick and while there are a few new cases being announced, the spread isn't rapid. So I'll just keep reading
My supermarket know what I bought. Does that mean if the goverment saw that I never bought pork it means I'm Jewish or does it mean that I just don't like it?
Well if you don't buy alcohol either then you could be a danged Moslem terrorist!!!
Well I'm just joking, I'm a Muslim. But actually, that very thing is supposedly flagged about passengers on planes headed to the US; whether or not they ordered a meal without pork.
mod parent up.
A bad coder will be a bad coder, regardless of the language they use.
All the arguments about TCO and which system is cheaper in the long run depend a lot on training pr retraining of staff and such. But if kids grow up on OSS and everyone is not stuck with the idea that Windows is your computer, then it makes a whole hell of a lot of sense to use GNU/Linux (or some other *NIX that can be made user friendly). Because then the main argument is between $0 - GNU/Linux or $>0 - Windows. :)
Doesn't seem like a very hard choice.
How can we free other peoples and nations
when we can't even free ourselves?
That's the whole point. When the government starts refusing permits to demonstrations of free speech and monitoring them with snipers on hand (as occured in New York during the anti-war protest in february), and they push for total information awareness, you know your rights are not only being reduced but trampled.
When you have assholes like A.G. John Ashcroft drafting resolutions to revoke citizenship, remove barriers to police surveillance, and place heavy restrictions on freedom of information, then you know things are getting bad.
When you have the media refusing to print stuff that it thinks the gov't wouldn't approve of, the army going to war not for oil though the oil sources are the first thing being secured, and toppling foreign governments which are evil even though they were the closest allies but a decade ago, well you might as well say "War is peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength".
Japan? What about Indonesia? It's got the 4th largest population in the world.
Yeah, I'd say that this free trade thing ain't working out.
Yes, well that's because it's being actively worked against. I'm currently reading Year 501 which explains in detail how free trade is only meant to work one way. Foreign countries have large multi-nationals doing as they wish with production. But if any independent or national efforts are made in terms of production, they are sorely crushed if not literally then by tariffs and trade barriers.
There are many examples of this if you read the book, a couple being american steel and of course the softwood lumber debate between the US and Canada.
No company is going to hire anyone until this mess with Iraq starts to straigten out. Once that happens though, look for mega job listings to start appearing.
Yeah, this is one of the big benefits that Bush is looking for. Already there are companies competing for contracts to rebuild Iraq after the US army bombs it back to the stone age.
The actual war will likely do more harm than good to the economy, but once the war is over and there is a US army state in place, guess which companies will have preference in getting contracts for rebuilding?
This is the way things go with the way big corporations work and the way current trade and labour laws are set up.
This has been happening for a long time in other sectors of the economy. Manufacturing and textiles have largely been moved to cheap labour economies where labour laws are lax and workers are paid ridiculously small amounts.
The same thing is now happening in the tech industry. Jobs are moving to countries with a glut of highly educated people that are willing to work long hours under less than optimal work conditions.
So increasingly, people in North America are told that they should not unionize and work harder for less money and benefits. This is the way (we are told) to 'advance' our economies. Because what is good for the rich is good for all of us.
No I'm talking about American terrorism. The Bush family has strong ties to bin Laden's family. And the Saudi government, one which is widely regarded as repressive as the Taleban, is one of the US' closest allies. Including all the family of bin Laden, with the obvious exception of Osama.
As for the thought that violation of copyright supports terrorism; even if this ridiculous suggestion were true, would that be a reason to punish kids that buy pirated stuff or rip their own stuff? Because that's who the MPAA and MS will try to punish.
Well if the agreement is to not buy anything from MS, and students still want to learn MS... then can't students still learn .NET stuff in GNU/Linux?
Mono has made fair progress and is usable. Wouldn't that be a reasonable solution?
And that's *if* they want MS stuff. But almost everything a student reasonably needs is available for GNU/Linux.
"We've got, maybe, far less than 75 years of oil left. That means we have about 50 years to become totally dependent on renewable sources, enough for us to use them to produce everything we know and use today.
I have a close friend, who's got more degrees, PhD's and Doctorates than I've had hot dinners and he was the first to show me the figures and open my eyes to this. How do you build and maintain a wind farm of giant metal and plastic structures without oil, coal and gas to power the factories and foundries? It's EXTREMELY difficult."
Looks like you're assuming the only source of oil is out of the ground and it's not renewable. We can and do get oil from other perfectly renewable resources such as soy. In fact Canada has put through legislation to use a soy based replacement to diesel.
There are similarly plenty of ways to produce and use metals, plastics and everything else needed without using petroleum based products, and possibly without coal and gas.
Hmm, with this boycott, does this mean IBM will drop Trolltech and QT for their embedded GNU/Linux needs? Trolltech is also owned by Canopy Group. So is a company called Tuglet which looks like it produces spamware.
I freaking hate andy rooney. That old bastard did nothing but bitch about useless consumer products.
He just reminds me of Abe Simpson wandering through a store...
"Look at these army toys! They break the first time I step on them!" [crushing army toys under slipper]
I used to watch 60min every week. I never watch it anymore.
You realize some geeks are going to use this resolution to view more text on the screen at once
Yeah, text. That's what geeks will use it for. And they read playboy just for the articles.
Dr. Mehran Anvari in Hamilton Ontario tele-operated instruments in North Bay General Hospital,
You'd think that Dr.Anvari would take whatever chance he could get to get out of Hamilton. People here know it as the armpit of Canada.
But I installed Windows XP on my computer and it still runs
I installed XP and it's screwed up my nic! IE and MSN messenger programs don't work! Mozilla somehow magically works, so does the windows port of Gaim, but I assume that's just a fluke.
The only way to fix this problem is by booting back in to Debian. Go figure.
He's been "undemocratic" as far as the sector of the population that has been benefitting from the oil boom is concerned, but even many of them realize that they are reaping what they have sown.
What's more, the US gov't praised his overthrow for a day, only to be embarassed by his return. What kind of gov't praises the overthrow of a democratically elected leader?
Same gov't that overthrew Chile's Allende, Iraq's Kassem, Iran's Mossadegh...
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