Holy Lord! That Japanese Sex Catalog was the funniest display of bad grammar since Metal Gear! If only this were around in A.D. 2101, maybe CATS wouldn't have expressed his frustrations so viciously....
The way I avoid spam is to have my mail client screen out any email which contains any of these phrases:
Um, are you on any legitimate mailing lists? Don't those get filtered out? I'd imagine half of Slashdot's readership is on one or more of the Linux development lists. I'm Yahoo! Groups mailing list for any number of different interests....
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Hmmm, are you sure? I thought the American Dreams were the best team.
....does research to back up his claims about a game he never really liked, to be honest....
That's what the Constitution was supposed to be about. Too bad it didn't work.
That's a little more pessimistic a stance than I'd take. It's true that partly through Amendments (the 14th, 16th, and 17th come to mind) and partly through Supreme Courts' just looking the other way, the United States has gotten away from the form of Constitutional government ratified in Philadelphia in 1787.
At the same time, it's gotten better in a few ways since then. For one thing, now we let all genders and races vote. For another, in the eighteenth century this was an experiment - a radical outlandish idea. Now we can say it has lasted 200 years, produced the most powerful nation in the world, and, in modified forms, spread around the globe. Soviet communism took less than 75 years to die.
So there's hope for the Republic. "Living documents" and "political third rails" are scary, but yeah, there's hope.
....this project could lead to the officially designating Software Engineers as a real Engineering discipline. That could then mean that licenses could be required to practice software development and that this could to regulation and other legal ramifications....
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but Electrical Engineering is designated a "real Engineering discipline", right? Well I've never taken a course on EE, nor do I have any kind of license or certification, but I'm still allowed to take my radios apart and fix them when they break, right? Why would this official designation of software engineering affect anything? Am I the only one who doesn't get this?
Hey, calm down, I was just kidding. It was just one of those unfunny jokes that slashdotters think of when they read a front page story and feel compelled to post.
Putting people out of work? It's called capitalism.
Okay, if I follow this thread correctly, you're from the camp that favors governments' fining the pants off Microsoft. And then you chalk the consequences of said government intervention up to capitalism? You can't regulate and then blame the results on a lack of regulation. Well, actually you can - most politicians make a living off it - that doesn't mean it makes sense.
A little hint for the Randoids: You get a bunch of governments together in a room to agree on a set of rules and regulations about the economy and I guarandamntee you that "free trade" isn't going to come out the other end.
As a Libertarian, let me be the first to agree with you. And even if I didn't agree with that , I would still sympathize with protestors whose rights were being violated.
But I can't put all the blame for attitudes towards these protestors on media coverage. I know these people. Some of them are my friends. Even the intelligent ones believe a lot of things that are completely opposed to Libertarianism. They really do believe deep down that when a government intervenes in the economy, it does so most of the time on behalf of the poor, and that such intervention is the only way to ensure social justice. And that's a way of thinking I have trouble relating to.
So in fact, there is a lot to dislike about this protest movement without being "fooled".
The grammar and sentence structure in this post made it difficult to quote, but I'll use this:
shot.... by those hired to protect multi national and globalization efforts and interests
Those hired? Let's be specific here. Who did the shooting? Government agents, intervening on behalf of the wealthy, as governments have since the beginning of history. And the solution these protestors see is to make governments MORE powerful. What's wrong with this picture?
Yes, I'll admit that some of the things we've done were horrible - but what about the other things that people so readily forget?Like the fact that Afghanistan's government's budget consists mostly of foriegn aid - and we provide most of that to them.
So is that a good thing or a bad thing? The federal government takes its citizens' money to prop up this government that hides terrorists, then when said terrorists attack us, we have to spend more money to attack that government. Does this make sense to anyone?
What keeps Cisco from updating IOS to disallow any traffic to./?
Uh, the money they'd lose by doing that? That's probably within their rights now. Freedom of speech doesn't mean I have to do everything I can to help you speak, it just means the federal government can't forcibly stop you from speaking.
With their new ATM/MasterCard that pulls directly from my paypal balance, I think I might start using their service for offline commerce too.
Interesting - so it's basically a credit card where you can set your own limit? That'd be nice for buying from companies I don't entirely trust. If they say they're only going to charge me $20, and then attempt to take more, they'd be screwed if I only gave PayPal $20 as my balance, right?
When I wrote it, I intended it to sound like a laundry list of foreign military causes one COULD support, but it ended up being mostly causes Uncle Sam supported, so when I threw East Timor in there, it didn't sound right. I didn't mean to say I agreed or disagreed with any of the causes there, or label any party "good guys" or "bad guys". Sorry about the confusion.
So what: terrorist bombs kill people, but people who donate money to buy those bombs don't kill people?
Nope, they both kill people, and they both are Bad Things. However, when my government donates money to buy bombs, it is taking my money by force and using it to kill people. Which makes me complicit in their deaths. And that, well, sucks.
Maybe some military intervention is justified. Some isn't. If I want to support the IRA against the UK, the Taliban against the USSR, Saddam against Iran, Israel against Arafat, East Timor against Indonesia, so on, so forth, I'll write a check - I won't force you to take part.
The removal of spectrum limits would mean that the mnopoly that phone companies once had on land lines will now be easly avalilbe in the wireless market ( much more lucrative ).
How is there any comparison whatsoever? Did the land line companies start out small and then buy up all their competition? Or were they granted exclusive contracts by the government, which excluded all new entrants to the market? And, for that matter, don't they still have monopolies? I know that where I live (Philadelphia) we don't get to choose our land line company.
The government regulations on cell phone providers aren't keeping your bill low. They're keeping some of the providers less efficient than they could be and protecting the inefficient ones.
I think I could start a company of telecommuters if I could build the business around the concept. The savings would be in facilities: a few meeting rooms, kitchen facilities only for the number of employees who'd be there daily, and a lab of general purpose terminals for when developers needed to be at the site. This would be very cost-effective: imagine an IT company that didn't have to buy its employees' workstations!
The problem is that chances are you have your own cubicle or office, with a workstation on the desk, and a whole mess of software. If you telecommute, that workstation and desk are going to be running a screen saver and not much else. That's not efficient.
Telecommuting can work as a business model, but only if you really embrace that model, and that's difficult to do.
Most people would agree - and guess what, in a democracy, people make the laws of the land... even those that affect the economy (*gasp*).
That's why I'm glad America is a republic, not a democracy. Democracy means 51% of people have absolute power and the other 49% have no rights whatsoever. The Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Amendments to the Constitution have unfortunately taken us closer to mob rule. I leave the Eighteenth (Prohibition) in there even though it's been repealed because it's a perfect example of how a scared majority can impose their will on the minority and make life worse for everyone - exactly like today's drug prohibition.
more proof that STUPID laws stick around, even though every reasonable person laughs at them
That's a very important point. My dad's a writer and therefore sympathetic to copyright, and I was explaining to him why the "new copyright" (a la DMCA) is a bad thing, particularly how it's possible that it will be illegal to sell a VCR capable of taping certain digital TV shows, and he said, "Who cares - that's unenforceable!"
That is the reaction of a lot of intelligent people to these crazy laws, but this point must not be forgotten: Unenforceable laws still have the power to destroy lives.
Yes, there are legitimate moral issues surrounding stem cell research. No, government has no business taking those moral choices away from researchers, academics, and everyday joes.
It's not quite that simple. If you're morally opposed to stem-cell research and the government is funding it, the threat of force is being used to coerce you to pay (in taxes) for something you disagree with. That's money you could be spending on TV and newspaper ads peacefully explaining your opposition to the research - to a certain extent, you're being silenced. So if Bush says "yes" he's forcing you to support with silence something you oppose, and if he says "no" he's inhibiting the advance of science.
Yes, that's why being President of the US is one of the hardest jobs in the world. But I don't shed any tears for them - the Constitution doesn't say it's the job of the President OR the federal government to make decisions on dilemmas of medical ethics, but presidents throughout our history (blame whichever one you like to blame) have taken more and more power from the states and the people.
So, to sum up, it was a damn hard decision for Bush, but not a decision he should have been making in the first place.
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Holy Lord! That Japanese Sex Catalog was the funniest display of bad grammar since Metal Gear! If only this were around in A.D. 2101, maybe CATS wouldn't have expressed his frustrations so viciously....
Um, are you on any legitimate mailing lists? Don't those get filtered out? I'd imagine half of Slashdot's readership is on one or more of the Linux development lists. I'm Yahoo! Groups mailing list for any number of different interests....
Hmmm, are you sure? I thought the American Dreams were the best team.
m l, the American Dreams are the league leaders, and the Ladies and the Crushers are the bottom feeders.
....does research to back up his claims about a game he never really liked, to be honest....
Yes, according to http://www.geocities.com/ziggers86/NES/page184.ht
Who can forget Baseball Stars, which took place in "SNK Stadium", featuring the classic scrolling scoreboard cheer "Hooray Hooray!"
And of course, the bottom feeders of the league were the SNK Crushers. Boy did they ever suck. Even worse than the Lovely Ladies....
That's a little more pessimistic a stance than I'd take. It's true that partly through Amendments (the 14th, 16th, and 17th come to mind) and partly through Supreme Courts' just looking the other way, the United States has gotten away from the form of Constitutional government ratified in Philadelphia in 1787.
At the same time, it's gotten better in a few ways since then. For one thing, now we let all genders and races vote. For another, in the eighteenth century this was an experiment - a radical outlandish idea. Now we can say it has lasted 200 years, produced the most powerful nation in the world, and, in modified forms, spread around the globe. Soviet communism took less than 75 years to die.
So there's hope for the Republic. "Living documents" and "political third rails" are scary, but yeah, there's hope.
Okay, correct me if I'm wrong, but Electrical Engineering is designated a "real Engineering discipline", right? Well I've never taken a course on EE, nor do I have any kind of license or certification, but I'm still allowed to take my radios apart and fix them when they break, right? Why would this official designation of software engineering affect anything? Am I the only one who doesn't get this?
Hey, calm down, I was just kidding. It was just one of those unfunny jokes that slashdotters think of when they read a front page story and feel compelled to post.
In an authoritarian Marxist country, any site ending in .com is going to be considered subversive....
But I can't put all the blame for attitudes towards these protestors on media coverage. I know these people. Some of them are my friends. Even the intelligent ones believe a lot of things that are completely opposed to Libertarianism. They really do believe deep down that when a government intervenes in the economy, it does so most of the time on behalf of the poor, and that such intervention is the only way to ensure social justice. And that's a way of thinking I have trouble relating to.
So in fact, there is a lot to dislike about this protest movement without being "fooled".
Interesting - so it's basically a credit card where you can set your own limit? That'd be nice for buying from companies I don't entirely trust. If they say they're only going to charge me $20, and then attempt to take more, they'd be screwed if I only gave PayPal $20 as my balance, right?
More IT layoffs in NJ, eh? I probably should have gone to the Rutgers career fair this morning.
When I wrote it, I intended it to sound like a laundry list of foreign military causes one COULD support, but it ended up being mostly causes Uncle Sam supported, so when I threw East Timor in there, it didn't sound right. I didn't mean to say I agreed or disagreed with any of the causes there, or label any party "good guys" or "bad guys". Sorry about the confusion.
Maybe some military intervention is justified. Some isn't. If I want to support the IRA against the UK, the Taliban against the USSR, Saddam against Iran, Israel against Arafat, East Timor against Indonesia, so on, so forth, I'll write a check - I won't force you to take part.
The government regulations on cell phone providers aren't keeping your bill low. They're keeping some of the providers less efficient than they could be and protecting the inefficient ones.
The problem is that chances are you have your own cubicle or office, with a workstation on the desk, and a whole mess of software. If you telecommute, that workstation and desk are going to be running a screen saver and not much else. That's not efficient.
Telecommuting can work as a business model, but only if you really embrace that model, and that's difficult to do.
That is the reaction of a lot of intelligent people to these crazy laws, but this point must not be forgotten: Unenforceable laws still have the power to destroy lives.
Yes, that's why being President of the US is one of the hardest jobs in the world. But I don't shed any tears for them - the Constitution doesn't say it's the job of the President OR the federal government to make decisions on dilemmas of medical ethics, but presidents throughout our history (blame whichever one you like to blame) have taken more and more power from the states and the people.
So, to sum up, it was a damn hard decision for Bush, but not a decision he should have been making in the first place.