Ain't really got anything to do with a free market. We are talking about the economic system of Corporate Communism.
The cradle to grave protection of the Large Corporation by the State. Those ISP's have no use for a free market.
What the user experiences is what makes great software. PHP and ActionScript smoke Python or Perl for writing beautiful software that human beings will enjoy!
Obviously lots of great hackers write on Linux in things like Python and Perl. That's a no brainer.
It is also obvious alot of great hackers work in Java. Slam dunk if you live in the real world.
He also gets Bozo the Clown status for suggesting Windows is a sub par environment. Only a blind person could use Windows and see the hand of many awesome hackers.
Funny how Evil Empires's boxes just worky-worky.
I like my Linux experience far away on a web server someone else maintains. Those Linux boxes in the closet are good for spare parts on the rare occasion Evil Empire box no worky worky.
No arguments here about US wars since WW2. The affairs in Central America, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, etc had little to do with protecting human rights. They were WRONG. In fact, would have no problem with slapping a war criminal label on Pres Johnson and Pres Nixon. America certainly is not a great defender of human rights in the Third World.
I believe it is pathetic all the horrible things that happen in the Third World. Most of these problems are so systemic and severe, only outside powers are capable of solving them. Violence is unfortunately part of the solution.
Amnesty International plays an important role. But, I stand by the statement they are an extremist organization. They place far too much value on ideology. It blinds them many times.
It is a sad statement on human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan that the US Army and a De Facto Dictatorship by Pres Bush improves their future prospects.
Simply my opinion. Not a John Bircher, not even a Republican. Still like the John Birch comment. Shows that some people are still educated.:)
People killing with guns is a seperate logical case, and is an AND. People killing with other weapons besides guns is a different circumstance (logical case).
I am a semi regular reader of AI's website. It is quite interesting, and they do a great job of shining the light on many evil things. But there is a good deal I cannot agree with.
Without writing an essay...
There is a terrible problem with brutal dictatorships on Planet Earth. Whenever possible, the tactics of MLK and Gandhi are best. But these are mostly practical vs an Oppressive Democracy or "Benevolant" Dictator, not an exceptionally brutal Dictator.
AI is a wacko organization in that they tend to,
1. Discount the need for brutal military action to break the backs of the worst dictatorships.
2. They tend to do a poor job of distinguishing between an unpleasant but needed evil such as the war to crush Islamo Fascism, and the actions of the ugliest of dictators.
3. I don't think that it is unfair to point out it's obvious Communist roots. This is not entirely a criticism.
"Your "modern day communists" epithet outs you as a throwback John Bircher"
I like that, shows Doc Ruby is more insightful than 99% of the SlashDotters... :)
While the Linux/Unix World struggles to edit another config file, after 3 hours of research, I am headed to the Bar to watch the Super Bowl, work done.
Not entirely accurate. Linux/Apache makes a helluva good, cheap printing press for Windows machines, if the application is simple. That is what a Linux server does best, a dirt cheap printer so a Windows machine can print HTML files to the world.
Gotta give Linux that, they make a heckava better printing press than Hewlett Packard or Epson.
Oh yeah, bout forgot, Linux makes a great MP3 player for that old computer in the closet.
Well, let's see, a certain gentleman in the White House quits chit chatting about human rights, sends out some well armed folks, and kills, maims and imprisons some of Planet Earth's worst human rights violators (ie Evil Doers). Unfortunately, he makes some mistakes, but has more success than failure in smashing some of the worst abusers of human rights on Planet Earth.
Amnesty International ( not all good, not all bad), fails to recognize the good that is done, because it is imprisoned by it's ideology. Certainly, Amnesty International is in many ways a modern descendant of the Marxist world view (again a good and bad thing). No doubt there are many modern day Communists in Amnesty International.
As we speak, President Bush is attempting to ruthlessly halt some of the worst abuses that Amnesty International is always saying needs to be stopped.
To deny that Amnesty International has some Marxist roots is like denying that there are Hard Core, Bible toting Fundamntalist roots in the American Republican Party.
It's fine regular folks get their AND?OR logic confused. Computer people never should. It ain't an OR. Guns AND people kill people. :)
Have a Nice Day!!!
Amnesty International does have a very good web site. It is an excellent cross reference ( for a different point of view) when reading the news. But they are definitely some paranoid folks. Like many paranoids, they often have some great insights.
Do you read that interesting ( sometimes informative), usually paranoid and crazy, stuff at Amnesty International? They most certainly do hold MS partially responcible for what the Chinese Government does with their software.
But you gotta consider the source. Amnesty International is a wacko organization. In a wierd way it reminds me of some way out Far Right Christian Fundamentalist political groups.
First off, he quotes the Windows example, perhaps he is unaware Windows is quite powerful with Scripts and Command Lines.
Likewise, his bias on command lines vs graphics is archaic. Some human / computer conversations are better conducted in text. Others human / computer conversations are impossible without graphics.
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Ain't really got anything to do with a free market. We are talking about the economic system of Corporate Communism. The cradle to grave protection of the Large Corporation by the State. Those ISP's have no use for a free market.
And Heck yes
What the user experiences is what makes great software. PHP and ActionScript smoke Python or Perl for writing beautiful software that human beings will enjoy!
Obviously lots of great hackers write on Linux in things like Python and Perl. That's a no brainer. It is also obvious alot of great hackers work in Java. Slam dunk if you live in the real world. He also gets Bozo the Clown status for suggesting Windows is a sub par environment. Only a blind person could use Windows and see the hand of many awesome hackers.
Same plant. They had one on loan at the Atlanta Botanical Garden a few years back. It is a neat looking plant.
Funny how Evil Empires's boxes just worky-worky.
I like my Linux experience far away on a web server someone else maintains. Those Linux boxes in the closet are good for spare parts on the rare occasion Evil Empire box no worky worky.
There is no excuse for what that soldier did, if it is real video. If America where a greater nation, he would be punished severely.
Pitiful thing is, and I mean this sincerely, that is a minor war crime compared to what people in Iraq and Afghanistan are accustomed too.
:(
No arguments here about US wars since WW2. The affairs in Central America, Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, etc had little to do with protecting human rights. They were WRONG. In fact, would have no problem with slapping a war criminal label on Pres Johnson and Pres Nixon. America certainly is not a great defender of human rights in the Third World.
:)
I believe it is pathetic all the horrible things that happen in the Third World. Most of these problems are so systemic and severe, only outside powers are capable of solving them. Violence is unfortunately part of the solution.
Amnesty International plays an important role. But, I stand by the statement they are an extremist organization. They place far too much value on ideology. It blinds them many times.
It is a sad statement on human rights in Iraq and Afghanistan that the US Army and a De Facto Dictatorship by Pres Bush improves their future prospects.
Simply my opinion. Not a John Bircher, not even a Republican. Still like the John Birch comment. Shows that some people are still educated.
Was trying to sidestep this unpleasant fact amigo
I stand corrected. I reckon my program has bugs in it also.
People killing with guns is a seperate logical case, and is an AND.
People killing with other weapons besides guns is a different circumstance (logical case).
I am a semi regular reader of AI's website. It is quite interesting, and they do a great job of shining the light on many evil things. But there is a good deal I cannot agree with.
Without writing an essay...
There is a terrible problem with brutal dictatorships on Planet Earth. Whenever possible, the tactics of MLK and Gandhi are best. But these are mostly practical vs an Oppressive Democracy or "Benevolant" Dictator, not an exceptionally brutal Dictator.
AI is a wacko organization in that they tend to,
1. Discount the need for brutal military action to break the backs of the worst dictatorships.
2. They tend to do a poor job of distinguishing between an unpleasant but needed evil such as the war to crush Islamo Fascism, and the actions of the ugliest of dictators.
3. I don't think that it is unfair to point out it's obvious Communist roots. This is not entirely a criticism.
"Your "modern day communists" epithet outs you as a throwback John Bircher"
:)
I like that, shows Doc Ruby is more insightful than 99% of the SlashDotters...
While the Linux/Unix World struggles to edit another config file, after 3 hours of research, I am headed to the Bar to watch the Super Bowl, work done.
Not entirely accurate. Linux/Apache makes a helluva good, cheap printing press for Windows machines, if the application is simple. That is what a Linux server does best, a dirt cheap printer so a Windows machine can print HTML files to the world.
Gotta give Linux that, they make a heckava better printing press than Hewlett Packard or Epson.
Oh yeah, bout forgot, Linux makes a great MP3 player for that old computer in the closet.
Well, let's see, a certain gentleman in the White House quits chit chatting about human rights, sends out some well armed folks, and kills, maims and imprisons some of Planet Earth's worst human rights violators (ie Evil Doers). Unfortunately, he makes some mistakes, but has more success than failure in smashing some of the worst abusers of human rights on Planet Earth.
Amnesty International ( not all good, not all bad), fails to recognize the good that is done, because it is imprisoned by it's ideology. Certainly, Amnesty International is in many ways a modern descendant of the Marxist world view (again a good and bad thing). No doubt there are many modern day Communists in Amnesty International.
As we speak, President Bush is attempting to ruthlessly halt some of the worst abuses that Amnesty International is always saying needs to be stopped.
To deny that Amnesty International has some Marxist roots is like denying that there are Hard Core, Bible toting Fundamntalist roots in the American Republican Party.
Senator Zell Miller Admirer out...
HEHEHE
If you use the OR logic, your program will contain persistent bugs.
"guns don't kill, people do"
:)
It's fine regular folks get their AND?OR logic confused. Computer people never should. It ain't an OR. Guns AND people kill people.
Have a Nice Day!!!
Amnesty International does have a very good web site. It is an excellent cross reference ( for a different point of view) when reading the news. But they are definitely some paranoid folks. Like many paranoids, they often have some great insights.
Do you read that interesting ( sometimes informative), usually paranoid and crazy, stuff at Amnesty International? They most certainly do hold MS partially responcible for what the Chinese Government does with their software.
But you gotta consider the source. Amnesty International is a wacko organization. In a wierd way it reminds me of some way out Far Right Christian Fundamentalist political groups.
Not the fastest, but reasonable performance. I don't know how much electricity it uses, can't be much, makes little noise and barely even gets warm.
First off, he quotes the Windows example, perhaps he is unaware Windows is quite powerful with Scripts and Command Lines.
Likewise, his bias on command lines vs graphics is archaic. Some human / computer conversations are better conducted in text. Others human / computer conversations are impossible without graphics.