Geez, any organization that wants to use the Snort source against us just has to check out the code from the CVS tree. Maybe the US is afraid they're going to corrupt the rules set? Then what are they (whoever buys Snort) going to about http://bleedingsnort.org/ ?
M$ will require the North Korean Army to adopt Windows for Weapons Systems (the next release of Windows for Warships) and South Korean hackers will be able to stop them in their tracks...
The analyists make it sound like one or the other but nothing precludes it being both simultaneously. Personally, I doubt it's the PRC gov't because if I were them I'd be saving my hacks for a more important moment.
Oh, and FYI, professors are leftist because they actually study the world.
But do they study it effectively? Critically? Julian Simon wasn't on The Left. Neither was Von Mises. And some professors you might think are on The Left, like the economist Lester Thurow, do not seem so nearly on The Left once you read a few of their books.
A side note on being willing to listen to economic theory espoused by people unqualified to do so; when some economists say the economy is going up and others say it is going down, why, since they're both economists they must both be correct, right? Does this statement mean I should stop listening to Jeremy Rifkin when he talks about the environment because his degree is in economics?
A lot of countries in the western world don't govern themselves by Sharia law, women in those countries vote, drive and dress immodestly; but they haven't been attacked by islamic terrorists nor are they hated by the islamic world as you americans are
Actually the Austrialians were attacked in the Bora-Bora(?) nightclub bombing explicitly because their troops helped secure East Timor during the elections which led to its freedom from Indonesia.
Lots of Arabs certainly hate the US for supporting oppressive regimes, and rightfully so. But that does not mean al-Queida hates us for those reasons. (As an aside we did not invade oil-rich nations until AFTER 9/11, but that certainly doesn't make it any less a mistake.)
When I was attending tech school in Western NY in the late 70s there was a nearby computer store run out of a guys basement. He also had an '8080' that he built out of TTL in a rack mount that ran at 10 Mhz. Probably the fastest implementation of the architecture at that time !
The classic behavior is that a company drives down prices to get rid of the competition (if its internal costs allow that), then raise prices after the competition is gone.
While MS has competition within a market (Word Processing comes to mind) their prices are very low. I recall Word selling for $99 back when it was competing with WordPerfect. Today, with essentially zero competition, it's $299.
Of course the counter-argument is Excel vs Borland's Quattro Pro: Excel was at $495 and QPro at $295, but despite great QPro reviews vs Excel purchasers thought QPro was not in Excel's league because it was too cheap!
well, of course their greedy: that's the whole point of this "free enterprise" thing that everyone seems to think is so neat.
Do you know of an economic system that is not succeptable to human greed? Since the answer is 'No', why don't you consider the possibility that Greed is actually something brought into economic behavior by... people!
You could remove the people from an economic system but it would be kind of lonely. At least until we hit the Kurzweil Singularity.
You're dead right about the hypocrisy though. One odd thought is that, if most copyright violators really stop copying as they grow older and gain disposable income, then by suing/jailing/fining them the *AA is actually delaying the date when these people will begin buying their swill...
Free markets are where customers take or leave what providers offer. Capitalism is simply one way of financing the providers. One of Chomsky's pet peeves is that people equate Capitalism with Free Markets. Capitalism per se does not address the issue of using Laws to restrict competition, but Chomsky argues (especially in _The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many_) that large corps strive to equate Capitalism with Free Markets in our minds and use legislation to erect artificial barriers to competitors. He calls this the "Regualations for Us, Free Markets for You" policy, where 'Us' are the Capitalists.
Contrary to popular belief, and the belief of many of his supporters, Chomsky has good things to say about free markets, although he thinks there are three main areas where they work poorly: Banking (due to moral hazard), Health Care (it cannot be stored and consumed later), and broadcast (airwaves are scarce). OTOH he also says in an extended interview (one of the Real Story series), "Over long periods of time, Free Markets do a better job of distributing wealth than any other known system". Not something many of his supporters know, and that Real Story book did not ask followup questions...
(Bush and Kerry excepted, of course). You can always decide to not have a TV, as I did until I was in my mid-30s. Then you can change and have cable, as I did. Then, later, you can decide to get rid of cable, like my wife and I just did, and watch movies and get our 'regular' news off the internet, newspapers (also on the internet by the way), and editorials off of blogs. (I almost forgot: you have Mother Jones, the Atlantic Monthly, the National Review...)
Half of the secret here is recognizing that you do indeed have options. Of course, Fox, the Washington Post, and many others would like you to believe they are absolutely essential to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness...
I don't know for sure about "GREATEST" and "MOST FREE" but I've been agruing at work, with friends, at parties, and on both coasts against the Iraq war since before the vote to give the President war authroization, let alone since the war began. I've been in the local majority, in the local minority, and completely alone in my opposition at one time or another and I've never been threatened or pyhsically harrassed (though I've had my judgement questioned - fair enough!.)
On the other hand, John Kerry sucks ALMOST, not quite as bad, but ALMOST as bad as Bush. And to think I wanted John Kerry to run back in 2002...
Thank God I haven't voted for a major party candidate since 1990. The Libertarians and Greens have been my salvation.
Since, to paraphrase, Bush used coke and Laura likes maryjane does this mean that everyone who voted for Bill Clinton is going to vote for GW?
Personally, I've wondered why the Republicans haven't been praising Kerry for serving in Vietnam and why the Democrats haven't been congradulating Bush for being smart enough to stay out of same. But I guess that's just me.
Animal Farm by George Orwell. My brother lent it to me when I was 13. It sure taught me how a population enslaves itself to its politicians... Dune by Frank Herbert, which rekindled my love of science fiction...
and The Irony Of Democracy by Thomas Dye and Harmon Zeigler, which put me firmly on the path that led to my finally breaking free of the Republican-Democrat duopoly.
You don't understand capitalism. There is no such thing as "enough".
As opposed to, say, Romainia or East Germany under Stalinism where the top lived like... um... Czars and everyone else lived like peasents. The problem you mention is not limited to Capitalism, let alone the last 250 years.
I wonder if ISPs can now be held responsible for what passes over their network? An interesting collision between their Common Carrier status and their ability (perhaps implying responsibility) to read email.
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Geez, any organization that wants to use the Snort source against us just has to check out the code from the CVS tree. Maybe the US is afraid they're going to corrupt the rules set? Then what are they (whoever buys Snort) going to about http://bleedingsnort.org/ ?
Yes, of course, the US must confiscate and burn all banned books! Because this is what capitalistic democracies do to protect their citizens.
Good thing too because non-Capitalistic Democratic gov'ts just shoot you (Pol Pot, USSR under Stalin, The Gang of Four, etc).
Citizen, are you wearing glasses?
M$ will require the North Korean Army to adopt Windows for Weapons Systems (the next release of Windows for Warships) and South Korean hackers will be able to stop them in their tracks...
The analyists make it sound like one or the other but nothing precludes it being both simultaneously. Personally, I doubt it's the PRC gov't because if I were them I'd be saving my hacks for a more important moment.
Oh, and FYI, professors are leftist because they actually study the world.
But do they study it effectively? Critically? Julian Simon wasn't on The Left. Neither was Von Mises. And some professors you might think are on The Left, like the economist Lester Thurow, do not seem so nearly on The Left once you read a few of their books.
A side note on being willing to listen to economic theory espoused by people unqualified to do so; when some economists say the economy is going up and others say it is going down, why, since they're both economists they must both be correct, right? Does this statement mean I should stop listening to Jeremy Rifkin when he talks about the environment because his degree is in economics?
That's OK. Experimenting on black prisoners with STDs didn't come to light before conglomerates owned the media anyway.
A lot of countries in the western world don't govern themselves by Sharia law, women in those countries vote, drive and dress immodestly; but they haven't been attacked by islamic terrorists nor are they hated by the islamic world as you americans are
Actually the Austrialians were attacked in the Bora-Bora(?) nightclub bombing explicitly because their troops helped secure East Timor during the elections which led to its freedom from Indonesia.
Lots of Arabs certainly hate the US for supporting oppressive regimes, and rightfully so. But that does not mean al-Queida hates us for those reasons. (As an aside we did not invade oil-rich nations until AFTER 9/11, but that certainly doesn't make it any less a mistake.)
When I was attending tech school in Western NY in the late 70s there was a nearby computer store run out of a guys basement. He also had an '8080' that he built out of TTL in a rack mount that ran at 10 Mhz. Probably the fastest implementation of the architecture at that time !
What's the problem? Does the PRCs increasing standard of living somehow diminish ours? What's wrong with our sense of perspective here?
... avoid your own responsibility for her upbringing. Seesh.
The classic behavior is that a company drives down prices to get rid of the competition (if its internal costs allow that), then raise prices after the competition is gone.
While MS has competition within a market (Word Processing comes to mind) their prices are very low. I recall Word selling for $99 back when it was competing with WordPerfect. Today, with essentially zero competition, it's $299.
Of course the counter-argument is Excel vs Borland's Quattro Pro: Excel was at $495 and QPro at $295, but despite great QPro reviews vs Excel purchasers thought QPro was not in Excel's league because it was too cheap!
well, of course their greedy: that's the whole point of this "free enterprise" thing that everyone seems to think is so neat.
Do you know of an economic system that is not succeptable to human greed? Since the answer is 'No', why don't you consider the possibility that Greed is actually something brought into economic behavior by... people!
You could remove the people from an economic system but it would be kind of lonely. At least until we hit the Kurzweil Singularity.
You're dead right about the hypocrisy though. One odd thought is that, if most copyright violators really stop copying as they grow older and gain disposable income, then by suing/jailing/fining them the *AA is actually delaying the date when these people will begin buying their swill...
... they'll just by Webroot!
Free markets are where customers take or leave what providers offer. Capitalism is simply one way of financing the providers. One of Chomsky's pet peeves is that people equate Capitalism with Free Markets. Capitalism per se does not address the issue of using Laws to restrict competition, but Chomsky argues (especially in _The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many_) that large corps strive to equate Capitalism with Free Markets in our minds and use legislation to erect artificial barriers to competitors. He calls this the "Regualations for Us, Free Markets for You" policy, where 'Us' are the Capitalists.
Contrary to popular belief, and the belief of many of his supporters, Chomsky has good things to say about free markets, although he thinks there are three main areas where they work poorly: Banking (due to moral hazard), Health Care (it cannot be stored and consumed later), and broadcast (airwaves are scarce). OTOH he also says in an extended interview (one of the Real Story series), "Over long periods of time, Free Markets do a better job of distributing wealth than any other known system". Not something many of his supporters know, and that Real Story book did not ask followup questions...
Parent is absolutely correct - please mod parent up!
I'll have to look at my copy, but I think the bool said they were enclosd between static fields too.
(Bush and Kerry excepted, of course). You can always decide to not have a TV, as I did until I was in my mid-30s. Then you can change and have cable, as I did. Then, later, you can decide to get rid of cable, like my wife and I just did, and watch movies and get our 'regular' news off the internet, newspapers (also on the internet by the way), and editorials off of blogs. (I almost forgot: you have Mother Jones, the Atlantic Monthly, the National Review...)
Half of the secret here is recognizing that you do indeed have options. Of course, Fox, the Washington Post, and many others would like you to believe they are absolutely essential to your life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness...
I don't know for sure about "GREATEST" and "MOST FREE" but I've been agruing at work, with friends, at parties, and on both coasts against the Iraq war since before the vote to give the President war authroization, let alone since the war began. I've been in the local majority, in the local minority, and completely alone in my opposition at one time or another and I've never been threatened or pyhsically harrassed (though I've had my judgement questioned - fair enough!.)
On the other hand, John Kerry sucks ALMOST, not quite as bad, but ALMOST as bad as Bush. And to think I wanted John Kerry to run back in 2002...
Thank God I haven't voted for a major party candidate since 1990. The Libertarians and Greens have been my salvation.
I like literature _and_ NASCAR !
Since, to paraphrase, Bush used coke and Laura likes maryjane does this mean that everyone who voted for Bill Clinton is going to vote for GW?
Personally, I've wondered why the Republicans haven't been praising Kerry for serving in Vietnam and why the Democrats haven't been congradulating Bush for being smart enough to stay out of same. But I guess that's just me.
Oceana and Asiana indeed...
Animal Farm by George Orwell. My brother lent it to me when I was 13. It sure taught me how a population enslaves itself to its politicians...
Dune by Frank Herbert, which rekindled my love of science fiction...
and The Irony Of Democracy by Thomas Dye and Harmon Zeigler, which put me firmly on the path that led to my finally breaking free of the Republican-Democrat duopoly.
You don't understand capitalism. There is no such thing as "enough".
As opposed to, say, Romainia or East Germany under Stalinism where the top lived like... um... Czars and everyone else lived like peasents. The problem you mention is not limited to Capitalism, let alone the last 250 years.
I wonder if ISPs can now be held responsible for what passes over their network? An interesting collision between their Common Carrier status and their ability (perhaps implying responsibility) to read email.
You mean this couldn't happen under Communism? Or Socialism? (I speak of economic systems, not political systems.)
If something can happen under multiple economic systems then it may be something besides the economic system...
Huh. I've been back and forth a couple of times since 9/11 and have never had that happen.