Take your favorites along with you. 1 set of bookmarks, any computer you go to. I've been emailing google for at least 6 months telling them they need to do this.
MS probably intercepted my mail, right?
Adarn
Why oh why is biodiesel seldom to never talked about in the media (even here on slashdot). Its safer than gasoline, its easy to produce out of domestic resources that we have abundances of and there are plenty of cars on the road right now that can run it. Why am I bothering to ask this question?
Do these people actually *do* anything, or are they simply consumers?
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Do YOU actually *DO* anything? Or just pimp geek women to slashdot losers?
Dont get me wrong, I agree with what your criticism of the lemming consumers, but I just think its ironic that you're nothing but a peddler (not a smut peddler per se, but just a peddler) yourself.
Brothers Bob and Todd Urosevich founded American Information Systems. Bob is currently president of Diebold and Todd Urosevich is Vice President, Aftermarket Sales of ES&S. (In 1999, American Information Systems, purchased Business Records Corp to become ES&S.)
American Information Systems (AIS) was primarily funded with money from Ahmanson brothers, William and Robert, of the Howard F. Ahmanson Co. The majority stake in ES&S is still owned by Howard F. Ahmanson and the Ahmanson Foundation
Howard Ahmanson belongs to Council for National Policy, a hard right wing organization and also helps finance The Chalcedon Institute. As the institute's own site reports, Chalcedon is a "Christian educational organization devoted to research, publishing, and promoting Christian reconstruction in all areas of life... Our emphasis on the Cultural or Dominion Mandate (Genesis 1:28) and the necessity of a return to Biblical Law has been a crucial factor in the challenge to Humanism by Christians in this country and elsewhere..." Chalcedon promotes Christian Reconstructionism, which mandates Christ's dominion over the entire world. The organization's purpose is to establish Old Testament Biblical law as the standard for society.
The article also explains how Bush II used leverage with a database company to win the florida election. (90,000 alleged felons who got the "update registered_voters set elligability = 0 where name = 'John Smith' and race = 'Black'" treatment.)
I think it seems pretty obvious that the company who designed and has copyrights to the software has more access to alter the results than any outsiders. And Diebold seems to have a pretty far right Christian slant. RTFA.
I think an important issue is not just how much the total cost of ownership for open source vs. proprietary software, but how the money you are spending effects the economy. Spending money on open source software is putting money and more importantly skill and know how into people, often local people, rather than putting a bunch of money into one corporation (in massachusettes case, one corporation on the other side of the country).
No, you totally misunderstand.
I'm not saying that *I* know what coolness is. I'm saying that coolness is not static, and can't be pinned down or bought.
Just because the notion of cool has been commodified doesnt mean that it doesnt exist in its pure form any more. Are you telling me you never thing anything is cool? Or that when you do it is just because its image has been sold to you? No, you probably find something you think is cool for its own merit every single day.
You people are confusing the appearance of coolness with actual coolness. Microsoft is purchasing the appearance of coolness, which many people accept as cool, since they don't know any better. They are not purchasing actual coolness, which usually involves no money changing hands.
They don't want actual coolness tho, they want people to buy their products, which the appearance of coolness is much more effective at doing.
Seems to me the answer to this is a rating system ala slashdot. Users mod you down and you get put at the bottom of the search list. The weight of your vote is based upon your personal rating. Once a user is voted low enough that it is obvious they are an RIAA drone, their account is deactivated (and IP blocked? Who cares how big the network is if the point of the network is to form a trusted user base for file sharing, rather than to create a corporation ala napster and kazaa).
So, get to work.
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Mod parent up, for christ's sake.
Take your favorites along with you. 1 set of bookmarks, any computer you go to. I've been emailing google for at least 6 months telling them they need to do this. MS probably intercepted my mail, right? Adarn
Why oh why is biodiesel seldom to never talked about in the media (even here on slashdot). Its safer than gasoline, its easy to produce out of domestic resources that we have abundances of and there are plenty of cars on the road right now that can run it. Why am I bothering to ask this question?
Oh yeah, rhetoric.
maybe the parent poster is jewish. A. Ryan the Irish Jew (Seriously.)
good thing smokey and the bandit was made like 30 years ago.
I'm sorry, but there is no dumber name for anything than Windows ME.
holy shit, an intelligent first post.
We didnt know that the iraqis had WMD's "for a fact" either, apparently. Although we claimed we did, because it was in our best interests.
Have you ever been to the bronx? The world isn't as dangerous as the TV's stereotypes say.
Do these people actually *do* anything, or are they simply consumers?
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Geek Girls Naked! [ccbill.com
Do YOU actually *DO* anything? Or just pimp geek women to slashdot losers?
Dont get me wrong, I agree with what your criticism of the lemming consumers, but I just think its ironic that you're nothing but a peddler (not a smut peddler per se, but just a peddler) yourself.
Quoting an article which can be found in its entirety at http://www.infernalpress.com/Columns/election.htm
The article also explains how Bush II used leverage with a database company to win the florida election. (90,000 alleged felons who got the "update registered_voters set elligability = 0 where name = 'John Smith' and race = 'Black'" treatment.)
I think it seems pretty obvious that the company who designed and has copyrights to the software has more access to alter the results than any outsiders. And Diebold seems to have a pretty far right Christian slant. RTFA.
I think an important issue is not just how much the total cost of ownership for open source vs. proprietary software, but how the money you are spending effects the economy. Spending money on open source software is putting money and more importantly skill and know how into people, often local people, rather than putting a bunch of money into one corporation (in massachusettes case, one corporation on the other side of the country).
The real irony is that the pledge was written by a socialist. http://history.vineyard.net/pledge.htm
No, you totally misunderstand. I'm not saying that *I* know what coolness is. I'm saying that coolness is not static, and can't be pinned down or bought. Just because the notion of cool has been commodified doesnt mean that it doesnt exist in its pure form any more. Are you telling me you never thing anything is cool? Or that when you do it is just because its image has been sold to you? No, you probably find something you think is cool for its own merit every single day.
You people are confusing the appearance of coolness with actual coolness. Microsoft is purchasing the appearance of coolness, which many people accept as cool, since they don't know any better. They are not purchasing actual coolness, which usually involves no money changing hands. They don't want actual coolness tho, they want people to buy their products, which the appearance of coolness is much more effective at doing.
Seems to me the answer to this is a rating system ala slashdot. Users mod you down and you get put at the bottom of the search list. The weight of your vote is based upon your personal rating. Once a user is voted low enough that it is obvious they are an RIAA drone, their account is deactivated (and IP blocked? Who cares how big the network is if the point of the network is to form a trusted user base for file sharing, rather than to create a corporation ala napster and kazaa). So, get to work.