It gets even more interesting if you want to consider the idea that law enforcement wants to treat ISP's like common carriers. Which they are not, under current law.
The ISP's should just say "yes" and then send them a bill for the data retention. Watch how fast it gets retracted when local voters have to foot the bill through taxes and etc.
My Dad was asking basically the same question a few years ago, he was 70 at the time. I told him that SuSE is probably the best bet for an everyday desktop to replace his XP desktop and MacBook. Second best would be RH if he wants to get close to the metal. He bought the fully-supported version of SuSE and was quite pleased. He's a retired aerospace engineer but his main apps were e-mail, firefox, word processing, excel, and solitaire.
A couple weeks ago, while taking my asian girlfriend shopping at the local mall, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john, Steve Jobs -- the messiah himself -- came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was busy and in any case I was sure the security guards wouldn't even let me shake his hand. As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as his cock -- or at least as I imagined it! I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a liberal thinker and had been an Apple customer since 1984. Of course I'd had fantasies of meeting Jobs, sucking his cock and balls, not to mention sucking his asshole clean, but I never imagined I would have the chance. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of Steve Jobs, the chosen one. Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract? I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled. I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big half nigger cock, beating my meat like a madman, and thrusting my pink iPod Shuffle into my ass. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was that Steve Jobs wasn't there to see my loyalty and wash it down with his piss. I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. It's even better than reading an Apple press release! Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom. I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process. I often think of Steve Jobs dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful Apple customer.
These are the reasons why I just switched to Slackware with the GSB Gnome packages. It kinda gets "back to basics" as you describe. It's maintainable by mere mortals. It's transparent. And it Does What I Need(TM).
The side benefit is that I don't have to fight 18 layers of abstractions and *compat libs, etc. Nor struggle with half-baked implementations of new stuff.
Actually solving the prob, I recommend Dillo. Does 99% of whatever I need when I'm in a pinch. Fits inside of something like 10 megs, and you can learn it instantly if you're used to FireFox.
News to me. *My entire machine* only has 512 megs of RAM. Not by choice, I'll get some more when I have the money.
And yet FF4 does just fine. So does OpenOffice, for that matter.
And so did all the previous versions for like the last 3 years.
And no, I'm not making this up, nor am I trolling. So really I just dunno why people are having probs with the memory, etc. My swap is 128 megs, but I hardly even use it. My current distro is slackware-13.37 with GNOME .
Let's see you just *try* getting business-class service in an area that's zoned "residential" in NY. If it wasn't for that, I actually would have a business class. But OTOH, time-warner cable is already giving me up to 1.5 MBPS down and 512K up, uncapped, which is plenty for me.
Just switched to Slack last week. First time I've used it since slackware 3.0 I'm happy. It's got a nice clean feel without all the layers and obfuscation - it just stays out of the way and lets me do whatever I'm doing. Nice and simple. And that's the way I like it.
I *know* that. Linus himself consulted with the FSF's lawyers on the matter. And no, the kernel is not a fundamental piece of the whole as long as it isn't directly linked into the resulting binary.
If what you were saying was true then linux distros such as Red Hat would not be legally possible, let alone SuSE. Otherwise how do you think they manage to legally include all those closed-source drivers?
What about running a closed-source Adobe reader on that kernel? Does the reader now need to be open?
And excuse me but I've damn near memorized the GPL. I've been in this game since like 1996, including reading every single work on Groklaw. Literally.
False. Torvalds himself has clarified this many times. "Mere aggregation" as defined in the GPL is explicitly allowed, and your user-space closed source binary can make use of public kernel syscalls all day.
Agreed. My total used to hover around 40% between the state and federal. This was on a 25k/year gross income. On the other hand, now I actually *need* to use those health systems, so I no longer complain about how the taxes butt-raped me all those years. You can have your whole life ripped out from under you due to unforseen disease. My previous retirement is long gone, and social security is a joke - they won't admit that they've been playing games with it. So as soon as I get my health back, I'm going to keep on working and paying taxes until I die, for the very reasons you outlined. And no, I don't think the corporate types are any better than our politicians... just from hard experience.
There is no gaffe. I know from first-hand experience that PJ spends a couple of days researching before she publishes anything. And I also know that she prefers to go straight to the original sources (such as the gov't) instead of quoting all the other journalists.
We saw how well that worked in the SCO cases. At one point they were making conflicting claims in 3 different courts *and* the SEC. The CxO's and directors walked off with lots of money, the company has collapsed, and that was it. They never got called on it, and the bankruptcy court let them do pretty much anything, without paying any mind to the prior legal cases and rulings against them.
They get off with it because the different courts don't necessarily collaborate, and the lawyers had to fight just to bring up the topic of what was said in the other court.
If they don't like morons then maybe they should "clicky clicky" stop creating them. Or enabling them. FFS nobody seems to have a problem with the concept that they need to learn how to drive a car... and it sounds like either your WISP or your Windows admin is a lazy turd.
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It gets even more interesting if you want to consider the idea that law enforcement wants to treat ISP's like common carriers. Which they are not, under current law.
The ISP's should just say "yes" and then send them a bill for the data retention. Watch how fast it gets retracted when local voters have to foot the bill through taxes and etc.
My Dad was asking basically the same question a few years ago, he was 70 at the time. I told him that SuSE is probably the best bet for an everyday desktop to replace his XP desktop and MacBook. Second best would be RH if he wants to get close to the metal. He bought the fully-supported version of SuSE and was quite pleased. He's a retired aerospace engineer but his main apps were e-mail, firefox, word processing, excel, and solitaire.
It's been that way for civilians too. Ever notice how the poverty line was determined from 1950's figures?
A couple weeks ago, while taking my asian girlfriend shopping at the local mall, I had to take a piss. As I entered the john, Steve Jobs -- the messiah himself -- came out of one of the booths. I stood at the urinal looking at him out of the corner of my eye as he washed his hands. He didn't once look at me. He was busy and in any case I was sure the security guards wouldn't even let me shake his hand.
As soon as he left I darted into the booth he'd vacated, hoping there might be a lingering smell of shit and even a seat still warm from his sturdy ass. I found not only the smell but the shit itself. He'd forgotten to flush. And what a treasure he had left behind. Three or four beautiful specimens floated in the bowl. It apparently had been a fairly dry, constipated shit, for all were fat, stiff, and ruggedly textured. The real prize was a great feast of turd -- a nine inch gastrointestinal triumph as thick as his cock -- or at least as I imagined it!
I knelt before the bowl, inhaling the rich brown fragrance and wondered if I should obey the impulse building up inside me. I'd always been a liberal thinker and had been an Apple customer since 1984. Of course I'd had fantasies of meeting Jobs, sucking his cock and balls, not to mention sucking his asshole clean, but I never imagined I would have the chance. Now, here I was, confronted with the most beautiful five-pound turd I'd ever feasted my eyes on, a sausage fit to star in any fantasy and one I knew to have been hatched from the asshole of Steve Jobs, the chosen one.
Why not? I plucked it from the bowl, holding it with both hands to keep it from breaking. I lifted it to my nose. It smelled like rich, ripe limburger (horrid, but thrilling), yet had the consistency of cheddar. What is cheese anyway but milk turning to shit without the benefit of a digestive tract?
I gave it a lick and found that it tasted better then it smelled.
I hesitated no longer. I shoved the fucking thing as far into my mouth as I could get it and sucked on it like a big half nigger cock, beating my meat like a madman, and thrusting my pink iPod Shuffle into my ass. I wanted to completely engulf it and bit off a large chunk, flooding my mouth with the intense, bittersweet flavor. To my delight I found that while the water in the bowl had chilled the outside of the turd, it was still warm inside. As I chewed I discovered that it was filled with hard little bits of something I soon identified as peanuts. He hadn't chewed them carefully and they'd passed through his body virtually unchanged. I ate it greedily, sending lump after peanutty lump sliding scratchily down my throat. My only regret was that Steve Jobs wasn't there to see my loyalty and wash it down with his piss.
I soon reached a terrific climax. I caught my cum in the cupped palm of my hand and drank it down. Believe me, there is no more delightful combination of flavors than the hot sweetness of cum with the rich bitterness of shit. It's even better than reading an Apple press release!
Afterwards I was sorry that I hadn't made it last longer. But then I realized that I still had a lot of fun in store for me. There was still a clutch of virile turds left in the bowl. I tenderly fished them out, rolled them into my handkerchief, and stashed them in my briefcase. In the week to come I found all kinds of ways to eat the shit without bolting it right down. Once eaten it's gone forever unless you want to filch it third hand out of your own asshole. Not an unreasonable recourse in moments of desperation or simple boredom.
I stored the turds in the refrigerator when I was not using them but within a week they were all gone. The last one I held in my mouth without chewing, letting it slowly dissolve. I had liquid shit trickling down my throat for nearly four hours. I must have had six orgasms in the process.
I often think of Steve Jobs dropping solid gold out of his sweet, pink asshole every day, never knowing what joy it could, and at least once did, bring to a grateful Apple customer.
These are the reasons why I just switched to Slackware with the GSB Gnome packages. It kinda gets "back to basics" as you describe. It's maintainable by mere mortals. It's transparent. And it Does What I Need(TM).
The side benefit is that I don't have to fight 18 layers of abstractions and *compat libs, etc. Nor struggle with half-baked implementations of new stuff.
Linux ACL not enough?
... he might know a thing or two about this...
Actually solving the prob, I recommend Dillo. Does 99% of whatever I need when I'm in a pinch. Fits inside of something like 10 megs, and you can learn it instantly if you're used to FireFox.
News to me. *My entire machine* only has 512 megs of RAM. Not by choice, I'll get some more when I have the money.
And yet FF4 does just fine. So does OpenOffice, for that matter.
And so did all the previous versions for like the last 3 years.
And no, I'm not making this up, nor am I trolling. So really I just dunno why people are having probs with the memory, etc. My swap is 128 megs, but I hardly even use it. My current distro is slackware-13.37 with GNOME .
Let's see you just *try* getting business-class service in an area that's zoned "residential" in NY. If it wasn't for that, I actually would have a business class. But OTOH, time-warner cable is already giving me up to 1.5 MBPS down and 512K up, uncapped, which is plenty for me.
Just switched to Slack last week. First time I've used it since slackware 3.0
I'm happy. It's got a nice clean feel without all the layers and obfuscation - it just stays out of the way and lets me do whatever I'm doing. Nice and simple. And that's the way I like it.
Then why did they want B-N to sign an NDA to see how they were supposedly violating?
There is plenty of evidence and in fact a court case or two. Dig back through the archives at Groklaw sometime, it's a real education.
Um, some of us were actually around when it was all happening, some of us can read court documents, and some of us have *long* memories.
I call astroturf.
You could always watch Margaret Thatcher take it all off just for you, big boy. I'm sure that would be better than watching this lawsuit stuff.
I *know* that. Linus himself consulted with the FSF's lawyers on the matter. And no, the kernel is not a fundamental piece of the whole as long as it isn't directly linked into the resulting binary.
If what you were saying was true then linux distros such as Red Hat would not be legally possible, let alone SuSE. Otherwise how do you think they manage to legally include all those closed-source drivers?
What about running a closed-source Adobe reader on that kernel? Does the reader now need to be open?
And excuse me but I've damn near memorized the GPL. I've been in this game since like 1996, including reading every single work on Groklaw. Literally.
False. Torvalds himself has clarified this many times. "Mere aggregation" as defined in the GPL is explicitly allowed, and your user-space closed source binary can make use of public kernel syscalls all day.
Agreed. My total used to hover around 40% between the state and federal. This was on a 25k/year gross income. On the other hand, now I actually *need* to use those health systems, so I no longer complain about how the taxes butt-raped me all those years. You can have your whole life ripped out from under you due to unforseen disease. My previous retirement is long gone, and social security is a joke - they won't admit that they've been playing games with it. So as soon as I get my health back, I'm going to keep on working and paying taxes until I die, for the very reasons you outlined.
And no, I don't think the corporate types are any better than our politicians... just from hard experience.
There is no gaffe. I know from first-hand experience that PJ spends a couple of days researching before she publishes anything. And I also know that she prefers to go straight to the original sources (such as the gov't) instead of quoting all the other journalists.
We saw how well that worked in the SCO cases. At one point they were making conflicting claims in 3 different courts *and* the SEC. The CxO's and directors walked off with lots of money, the company has collapsed, and that was it. They never got called on it, and the bankruptcy court let them do pretty much anything, without paying any mind to the prior legal cases and rulings against them.
They get off with it because the different courts don't necessarily collaborate, and the lawyers had to fight just to bring up the topic of what was said in the other court.
Linus Torvalds said "Real men don't make backups, they just upload it to some FTP site and let everyone else mirror it"
What if a bunch of miles I drive are off-road in my jeep? Are they going to tax those for road maintenance even if I wasn't on a road?
If they don't like morons then maybe they should "clicky clicky" stop creating them. Or enabling them. FFS nobody seems to have a problem with the concept that they need to learn how to drive a car... and it sounds like either your WISP or your Windows admin is a lazy turd.