Better would be to have a recording handy with something similar to this: "By calling this number, you agree to a [hefty sum] charge." add legalese where necessary/appropriate and play after they begin their script...and record the call...hmmm, sounds like someone else is paying my phone bill this month...
I was given a Debian CD when I started on a trip during a summer. I got home and popped the cd into the drive of my pentium 75 and watched as it told me to jump through gads of hoops just so I could be scared away by the "you might lose everything on this computer" bit. Btw, I think that was slink. Yes, I didn't feel like backing up...anyway, fast forward to freshman year of college, I'm in a tech school and a friend shows me his super awesome looking RH setup and I drool until he gives me his RH CD. I set up red hat (seawolf I think) and it's all easy and I get my video drivers set up and am super happy because I'm running linux and it looks cool and I can run back to win2k if I need to play games. My friend with the red hat cds tells me he's using debian now because it's even more awesome and red hat kind of starts to suck, but I keep going with rh because it's working fine for me. Eventually my system begins to bog and I go to rpm -e something and it never works and I'm kind of getting sick of all these dependencies not lining up so I say screw it and wipe the hd again and install debian
FF- now
I've been running debian for years with no dependency issues, no reinstalls, no real crashes...and I know what my computer's made out of as a Special Added Bonus.
point? Other distros are great to get people interested but many fall short and that's where Debian picks up the slack (pardon the pun...no slight intended on slackware people)
Pure speculation: 1st Amendment has nothing to do with it; laws don't get passed if they don't have votes and there's no way the US government would pass a law saying that its members' advocates can't call you as you're about to sit down to dinner so they can tell you about the wonders Candidate X will bring to America.
Don't bother calling, CT is in the list of states that will be transferring their current list to the national one. (Actually they're adopting the national one and adding what they have to it.)
Maybe you should read the article, as part of what I was talking about was this:
I really wish we could do away with having to find various sites to download updates or additions.
I use a handy package called apt-spy, it runs around and builds a sources.list for me. I haven't seen anyone say urpmi could do that yet. And apt does support ssh and rsh, though I've never used them, as ftp alone (I don't bother with the http) has been enough for my systems. debian's better mandrake's just as good you're dumb you're dumb who cares? it's all GNU/Linux
I really wish we could do away with having to find various sites to download updates or additions. I would like to see Mandrake Update act more like Windows Update. I don't care where I download them from, just auto configure that by asking me where I am. Then download the files and skip listing the lib/perl/whatever. Just download it and install it with everything it needs.
...useful to everyone but the people who can open it...You're just digging a hole.
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His own personal profit? I see no profit in making a formal statement of dissent, other than satisfaction of those who agree and the dissatisfaction of those who disagree. Michael Moore's web site appears devoid of banner ads (I block popups so I can't really be sure that there aren't any) so he's not profiting monetarily, at least directly. It seems to me that, along with some satire, Michael Moore makes some powerful statements, not the least of which is that the majority of voting citizens of the United States of America did not vote for George W. Bush to become president.
If someone knows how to get remote access to my box through some exploit, then escalate themselves to root, this patch won't affect that. That's why they call it a local exploit.
I know it's not the question, but the main reason I use linux is because it doesn't have too many great games supported. I run a dual boot debian/wintendo system and have resisted the urge to even install the drivers for my 3d card in linux just because then I'd end up playing quake all day and not getting any work done. Some weekends I boot up windows but I find that I'm much more productive when my uptime is in the tens of days.
Sorry to go bubble bursting, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work...I don't want to have to work out just so I can move my mouse and optics tend to take lots of power. Have fun proving me wrong.
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Better would be to have a recording handy with something similar to this:
"By calling this number, you agree to a [hefty sum] charge."
add legalese where necessary/appropriate and play after they begin their script...and record the call...hmmm, sounds like someone else is paying my phone bill this month...
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I was given a Debian CD when I started on a trip during a summer. I got home and popped the cd into the drive of my pentium 75 and watched as it told me to jump through gads of hoops just so I could be scared away by the "you might lose everything on this computer" bit. Btw, I think that was slink. Yes, I didn't feel like backing up...anyway, fast forward to freshman year of college, I'm in a tech school and a friend shows me his super awesome looking RH setup and I drool until he gives me his RH CD. I set up red hat (seawolf I think) and it's all easy and I get my video drivers set up and am super happy because I'm running linux and it looks cool and I can run back to win2k if I need to play games. My friend with the red hat cds tells me he's using debian now because it's even more awesome and red hat kind of starts to suck, but I keep going with rh because it's working fine for me. Eventually my system begins to bog and I go to rpm -e something and it never works and I'm kind of getting sick of all these dependencies not lining up so I say screw it and wipe the hd again and install debian FF- now I've been running debian for years with no dependency issues, no reinstalls, no real crashes...and I know what my computer's made out of as a Special Added Bonus. point? Other distros are great to get people interested but many fall short and that's where Debian picks up the slack (pardon the pun...no slight intended on slackware people)
I don't want to bother...http://www.debian.org/releases/
Pure speculation: 1st Amendment has nothing to do with it; laws don't get passed if they don't have votes and there's no way the US government would pass a law saying that its members' advocates can't call you as you're about to sit down to dinner so they can tell you about the wonders Candidate X will bring to America.
Don't bother calling, CT is in the list of states that will be transferring their current list to the national one. (Actually they're adopting the national one and adding what they have to it.)
I use a handy package called apt-spy, it runs around and builds a sources.list for me. I haven't seen anyone say urpmi could do that yet. And apt does support ssh and rsh, though I've never used them, as ftp alone (I don't bother with the http) has been enough for my systems.
debian's better
mandrake's just as good
you're dumb
you're dumb
who cares? it's all GNU/Linux
oh, how I love apt-get
You may know about Jesus (real or not) but the majority of the human race is not christian and it seems rather egocentric to imply such.
...useful to everyone but the people who can open it...You're just digging a hole.
His own personal profit? I see no profit in making a formal statement of dissent, other than satisfaction of those who agree and the dissatisfaction of those who disagree. Michael Moore's web site appears devoid of banner ads (I block popups so I can't really be sure that there aren't any) so he's not profiting monetarily, at least directly. It seems to me that, along with some satire, Michael Moore makes some powerful statements, not the least of which is that the majority of voting citizens of the United States of America did not vote for George W. Bush to become president.
If someone knows how to get remote access to my box through some exploit, then escalate themselves to root, this patch won't affect that. That's why they call it a local exploit.
I know it's not the question, but the main reason I use linux is because it doesn't have too many great games supported. I run a dual boot debian/wintendo system and have resisted the urge to even install the drivers for my 3d card in linux just because then I'd end up playing quake all day and not getting any work done. Some weekends I boot up windows but I find that I'm much more productive when my uptime is in the tens of days.
Sorry to go bubble bursting, but I'm pretty sure that wouldn't work...I don't want to have to work out just so I can move my mouse and optics tend to take lots of power. Have fun proving me wrong.