Troy isn't the main SL developer, he is one of two main developers. SL's original developer is still there, and it's pretty likely Fermilab will find a potential replacement for Troy from their pool of Linux talent.
Okay, I'm just fed up with this anti-American nonsense. First of all, the Linux kernel wasn't a revolution, just a copy of a 30 year old technology that evolved IN THE UNITED STATES at M.I.T. and Bell Labs. Andrew Tanenbaum, the guy whose Unix variant Minux inspired Linus to write Linux, is an American, born and educated in the U.S.A.
Just give it a rest. I know all you U.S.-haters just can't stand to admit anything good comes from America, but your racist denial doesn't eliminate the reality.
Bush didn't start the "warrantless wiretaps". They go back for decades. Clinton used the exact same procedures in tracking drug smugglers. It is accepted law that communications between a U.S. citizen and a foreign country are fair game for law enforcement without a warrant. Sorry, you don't like it? It has stood up in court many times.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, hero of liberals around the world, actually started this back in World War II:
http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=11465
The "errors" this judge points out are some BIG ONES. Such as the alleged causal link between CO2 and temperature. Does anybody ever point out the ridiculous amounts of money Gore and other corporations stand to make if this hysteria goes any further and forces more legislative and trade policy changes?
Al Gore's lies have even be been disputed by his own environmental allies from the IPCC. John T. Houghton, co-chair IPCC Scientific Assessment working group 1988-2002, acknowledges that ice core samples show CO2 driven by temperature, not the reverse, as stated by Al Gore.
Like most rich dads, Bush's father pulled strings to get him a safe posting.
Wrong. Bush actually volunteered for a unit that was very likely to be sent over to Vietnam, but he was rejected because he didn't have enough flight hours yet to qualify. I love how a lie, repeated often enough, becomes truth. Your statement is a lie.
Err.. don't you think these mysterious, nefarious, greedy "commercial interests" have some stake in protecting the planet? ie. If the planet is engulfed in flames, or C02, or giant termites from space, how are these nasty businesses going to make money?
Global climate change is a fact-- human-induced global climate change is an utterly unproven pile of steaming hysteria.
In other other news: 600 cancer patients in Canada, with its free medical system, died waiting for six months to see a cancer specialist.
(Don't mock me, I personally know someone this happened to).
> If you're looking for an exceptionally efficient economy, try the EU.
Sure, gotta love that unemployment rate and annual GDP growth as low as.1% in France and Germany. Great economy.
Give me a break. We're darned if we do, and darned if we don't. It doesn't matter what the United States does, the haters will find a way to spin it as something detrimental to the world. Ever heard of a little subsidized company called Airbus? Airbus couldn't possibly compete with Boeing if it weren't for the billions of Euros being pumped into it by the European taxpayers. Even with those billions Boeing is killing them. Nonetheless, the U.S. is not the only country artificially boosting its companies through corporate welfare.
When are these people going to realize that anti-Americanism is really anti-Capitalism and anti-Democracy in disguise. God forbid we should allow people to work hard to shape their own destinies when we can run their lives for them and make sure they aren't personally accountable for any of their actions.
Give me a break. The New York Times recounted the entire state using the standard that the Democrats endorsed for their recount-- they concluded Bush won. The New York Times is NOT a paper well-known for being a Bush supported.
As far as I know, the Federal Government cannot dictate what machines or what process is used by each State when it holds elections. The Constitution expressly leaves the elections to the States.
It's hard to take someone's comments seriously when they display such an obvious lack of spelling and grammar.
Perhaps you could make sure your pronoun agrees with your noun. "They" is a plural pronoun which should refer to a plural noun. Try using "he" next time. I suggest the following improvement: It's hard to take someone's comments seriously when he displays such an obvious lack of spelling and grammar.
All the politically correct grammar revisionists can kiss my butt if they disagree. Please note the wonderful agreement between the noun and pronoun in the previous sentence. The gender neutral singular pronoun in the English language is "he" or "him".
Have a nice day!
Why now? Because as soon as the next big virus/worm/trojan hits all the Bush-Government Bashers will line up to criticize him fo NOT doing anything to prevent cyber attacks.
The saddest thing about all this nonsense is not that the evil Republicans might be spying on us, or that the evil Democrats love terrorists more than freedom, but rather that people actually believe all this FUD and have lost all civility.
References? How about my wife, a published expert in prenatal development, who just happens to have a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from one of the best universities in the world. And no, I won't post her name here.
The poster above stated: "A human embryo does not have a brain. Nor does it have a functional nervous system. Therefore it can neither think nor feel. Therefore, experimentation on them involves no suffering or loss of freedom (for the embryo)."
Whatever your opinion on abortion or cloning, you are an idiot if you think this. Talk to any developmental psychologist or embryologist, which I have, who has any credibility whatsoever and they will tell you flat out:
Human embryos have brains. They feel pain as intensely as you or I do. If you had even the slightest idea what you were talking about you would never have posted such an ignorant statement.
I am not making any statement about abortion here, but denying the science is hardly going to win your argument for you.
Your example is ridiculous and highly improbable. Anonymity is not the same as privacy. That is the first fallacy in your argument. The second fallacy is that anonymous speech has the same intellectual weight as public speech, it does not. Most people, other than perhaps the mysterious "sheeple" that you refer to, understand the difference.
Further, there is nothing stopping people from challenging the SUBSTANCE of these "anonymous anti-minority postings", even without knowing who posted them. The ideas can be debated without attribution.
You obviously never studied this issue seriously. The absence of privacy forces people to modify their behavior. The less privacy, the less freedom of behavior. It is not just illegal behavior that is suppressed, but any behavior that is outside the accepted norms.
Lack of privacy is the single greatest threat to freedom we now face.
Amendments can also be used to slow down or kill a bill. Often a very unpopular amendment is added to a bill, by either party, in order to make the whole bill unpalatable.
Examples of abriding constitutionally protected free speech?
Campaign Finance Reform Laws
FEC trying to regulate Blogs that do political commentary.
Flag burning laws. (As opposed to a constitutional amendment).
Using the racketeering laws to prosecute abortion clinic protesters. (You may not like them, but they use the same tactics that the civil rights protesters did in the 60's). I'm not talking bombers obviously.
I'm sure other people can find better examples than these.
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Troy isn't the main SL developer, he is one of two main developers. SL's original developer is still there, and it's pretty likely Fermilab will find a potential replacement for Troy from their pool of Linux talent.
Okay, I'm just fed up with this anti-American nonsense. First of all, the Linux kernel wasn't a revolution, just a copy of a 30 year old technology that evolved IN THE UNITED STATES at M.I.T. and Bell Labs. Andrew Tanenbaum, the guy whose Unix variant Minux inspired Linus to write Linux, is an American, born and educated in the U.S.A. Just give it a rest. I know all you U.S.-haters just can't stand to admit anything good comes from America, but your racist denial doesn't eliminate the reality.
yawn. nothing to see here. Just more U.S. bashing.
Bush didn't start the "warrantless wiretaps". They go back for decades. Clinton used the exact same procedures in tracking drug smugglers. It is accepted law that communications between a U.S. citizen and a foreign country are fair game for law enforcement without a warrant. Sorry, you don't like it? It has stood up in court many times. Franklin D. Roosevelt, hero of liberals around the world, actually started this back in World War II: http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=11465
Thank god. Someone who knows what they are talking about... a novelty on Slashdot.
Not according to this British Court:
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1670882,00.html
The "errors" this judge points out are some BIG ONES. Such as the alleged causal link between CO2 and temperature. Does anybody ever point out the ridiculous amounts of money Gore and other corporations stand to make if this hysteria goes any further and forces more legislative and trade policy changes?
Al Gore's lies have even be been disputed by his own environmental allies from the IPCC. John T. Houghton, co-chair IPCC Scientific Assessment working group 1988-2002, acknowledges that ice core samples show CO2 driven by temperature, not the reverse, as stated by Al Gore.
I didn't claim he volunteered to go to Vietnam. I said he tried to get into a unit that was very likely to be sent to Vietnam.
Wrong. Bush actually volunteered for a unit that was very likely to be sent over to Vietnam, but he was rejected because he didn't have enough flight hours yet to qualify. I love how a lie, repeated often enough, becomes truth. Your statement is a lie.
Err.. don't you think these mysterious, nefarious, greedy "commercial interests" have some stake in protecting the planet? ie. If the planet is engulfed in flames, or C02, or giant termites from space, how are these nasty businesses going to make money?
Global climate change is a fact-- human-induced global climate change is an utterly unproven pile of steaming hysteria.
In other other news: 600 cancer patients in Canada, with its free medical system, died waiting for six months to see a cancer specialist. (Don't mock me, I personally know someone this happened to).
> If you're looking for an exceptionally efficient economy, try the EU. Sure, gotta love that unemployment rate and annual GDP growth as low as .1% in France and Germany. Great economy.
Give me a break. We're darned if we do, and darned if we don't. It doesn't matter what the United States does, the haters will find a way to spin it as something detrimental to the world. Ever heard of a little subsidized company called Airbus? Airbus couldn't possibly compete with Boeing if it weren't for the billions of Euros being pumped into it by the European taxpayers. Even with those billions Boeing is killing them. Nonetheless, the U.S. is not the only country artificially boosting its companies through corporate welfare.
When are these people going to realize that anti-Americanism is really anti-Capitalism and anti-Democracy in disguise. God forbid we should allow people to work hard to shape their own destinies when we can run their lives for them and make sure they aren't personally accountable for any of their actions.
Security of elections is not about Democrats or Republicans? Which party opposes showing a picture ID to vote? Oh yeah, that's the Democrats.
If I have to show a lousy picture ID just to buy Claritin-D these days I see nothing wrong with requiring voters to prove they are legal voters.
Give me a break. The New York Times recounted the entire state using the standard that the Democrats endorsed for their recount-- they concluded Bush won. The New York Times is NOT a paper well-known for being a Bush supported.
As far as I know, the Federal Government cannot dictate what machines or what process is used by each State when it holds elections. The Constitution expressly leaves the elections to the States.
Perhaps you could make sure your pronoun agrees with your noun. "They" is a plural pronoun which should refer to a plural noun. Try using "he" next time. I suggest the following improvement: It's hard to take someone's comments seriously when he displays such an obvious lack of spelling and grammar.
All the politically correct grammar revisionists can kiss my butt if they disagree. Please note the wonderful agreement between the noun and pronoun in the previous sentence. The gender neutral singular pronoun in the English language is "he" or "him". Have a nice day!
Why now? Because as soon as the next big virus/worm/trojan hits all the Bush-Government Bashers will line up to criticize him fo NOT doing anything to prevent cyber attacks.
The saddest thing about all this nonsense is not that the evil Republicans might be spying on us, or that the evil Democrats love terrorists more than freedom, but rather that people actually believe all this FUD and have lost all civility.
At the installer prompt:
linux selinux=0 reiserfs
Are you nuts? They were always at least a decade behind the West.
Try a famous Development Psychologist named DeCasper. You can Google to your heart's content, but here's some information for you:
t ml
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-640.h
References? How about my wife, a published expert in prenatal development, who just happens to have a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from one of the best universities in the world. And no, I won't post her name here.
The poster above stated: "A human embryo does not have a brain. Nor does it have a functional nervous system. Therefore it can neither think nor feel. Therefore, experimentation on them involves no suffering or loss of freedom (for the embryo)."
Whatever your opinion on abortion or cloning, you are an idiot if you think this. Talk to any developmental psychologist or embryologist, which I have, who has any credibility whatsoever and they will tell you flat out:
Human embryos have brains. They feel pain as intensely as you or I do. If you had even the slightest idea what you were talking about you would never have posted such an ignorant statement.
I am not making any statement about abortion here, but denying the science is hardly going to win your argument for you.
Your example is ridiculous and highly improbable. Anonymity is not the same as privacy. That is the first fallacy in your argument. The second fallacy is that anonymous speech has the same intellectual weight as public speech, it does not. Most people, other than perhaps the mysterious "sheeple" that you refer to, understand the difference.
Further, there is nothing stopping people from challenging the SUBSTANCE of these "anonymous anti-minority postings", even without knowing who posted them. The ideas can be debated without attribution.
You obviously never studied this issue seriously. The absence of privacy forces people to modify their behavior. The less privacy, the less freedom of behavior. It is not just illegal behavior that is suppressed, but any behavior that is outside the accepted norms.
Lack of privacy is the single greatest threat to freedom we now face.
Amendments can also be used to slow down or kill a bill. Often a very unpopular amendment is added to a bill, by either party, in order to make the whole bill unpalatable.
Examples of abriding constitutionally protected free speech?
Campaign Finance Reform Laws
FEC trying to regulate Blogs that do political commentary.
Flag burning laws. (As opposed to a constitutional amendment).
Using the racketeering laws to prosecute abortion clinic protesters. (You may not like them, but they use the same tactics that the civil rights protesters did in the 60's). I'm not talking bombers obviously.
I'm sure other people can find better examples than these.