"So I look at something like this and go how will this advance mankind. The only answer is that it will not. This is like trying to balloon around the world. I think subjuects like this have no0 relevence on slashdot. He could take the money that he is squandering on this and give it to doctors without borders and actually do some good in this world. Isn't it time that postmodernism died."
You know what the moral difference is between robbing someone on the street at gunpoint, and using your government representatives to do it for you?
None.
What you state is VERY contrary to the spirit of freedom and individual liberty. What someone does with his own time and money is no business of yours at all.
How about your own life? That money you spent on that new RAM upgrade could have gone to help AIDS victims. That money you blew on beer and pr0n magazines could have gone to help the homeless.
See what I mean? This is, in essence, what socialism is: A central comitte decides what is done with money, property, and individuals, NOT the individuals.
I don't think that is what you are advocating, at least, I hope not...
If not for the individual freedom the USA is supposed to stand for, and the incredible spirit of adventure and creativity this spawns, the world wouldn't have had:
Charles Lindburgh Wilbur and Orville Wright
Who both did things that were thought to be nutty at the time.
There is a reason why most great inventions of the past 150 years have happened in America. One word: Freedom.
Freedom to do with what is yours, and what gifts you have, as you will.
"Try to install apt-rpm in your computer, if you are still using Red Hat. It will find all dependencies and install them automagically.
http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/ This is a port from apt-get (Debian) to use RPMs, first implemented in Conectiva Linux (Brazilian distro). For Conectiva, there is also Synaptic, a front-end for apt-rpm."
Thanks a TON for pointing this out to me! I've installed it, and am playing around with it. Quite powerful. I messed with urpmi on Mandrake, and liked it for some things, but it would not work with upgrading KDE..
I've been using Linux for the past 3 years. Love it dearly. I used to use Ximian GNOME, but have come to prefer the more mature and cleaner GUI of KDE (personal preference, NOT intended as a flame).
Unfortunately, KDE is very hard, at least in my experience, to upgrade. I've used Red Hat and Mandrake distros, and have settled into using Red Hat mostly. I've never sucessfully upgraded a KDE installation on my box.
Yes, I should try harder to learn how to do it, but I usually wait for another distro to come out with the upgraded version. Seeing as how painless Ximian GNOME is to install and to maintain/upgrade, I see no reason why KDE shouldn't have something similar.
This is KDE's greatest weakness, IMHO.
"Why do we claim to be an enlightened nation, yet actively trade with China? They need us much more than we need them."
Two reasons:
1. The extreme on the left in this country, the ones who's religion is government, LIKE China and wish the USA were more like it...
2. The megacorporations, who's religion is cheap labor.
Yet another stunning example that the extreme right and extreme left produce the SAME results, ultimately.
BTW, I don't necessarily agree that Communism is extreme Republicanism, I think socialism/communism are left wing totalitarianism. Right wing totalitarianism would be something more akin to what exists in the middle eastern Islamic fundamentalist states.
Much as I am devoted to my religion (Christianity), I DO NOT want priests running the country, if you catch my drift.
But they both produce similar results, an oppressed people whom have no individual rights or choices.
"One of the slogans for communism is that with everyone equal, there is no slavery and no discrimination. If you look at it, all but those in the high levels of government are slaves. If you look at it, all but those in the high levels of government are discriminated against."
Communism is state slavery. Where there is no individual liberty, nor right of private property, the State owns everything, and therefore, everybody. Should it surprise anyone that in EVERY so called "egalitarian" system, which Marxist-Lenninism-Maoism purports to be, that some (the few elites) are "more equal than equal".
Our own system is the same way, looking at the easy access the rich have to legislation, but has the virtue of not having YET opressed the average individual to the extreme of a communist state.
YET being the operative word. Legislatively, we are headed there. Rapidly. Not at the behest of government, but at the behest of the CORPORATIONS...
I see things like Peakabooty as 21st century civil disobedience. Sooner or later, a rebellion of the individual against the collective WILL happen, or else we will become nothing more than uniformed drones in the collective.
I can see a growing need for this kind of thing in the USA, as we allow the Megacorp cartels like the RIAA/MPAA to chop off and "firewall" so to speak, the individual.
Remember the Napster trial? The infamous statement by a RIAA honcho "We will firewall them at their PC"? And then go read the story just below this one where AOLTW's RoadRunner is port blocking Kazaa.
I find it very interesting phinisophically, that the net result of "Big Government (Communist)" and "Big Business (Capitalist)", when left unrestrained by civil law that is supposed to protect and affirm the rights of the individual, produce the SAME RESULTS!
In the communist system, as China is, the governmment IS the corporation. It makes up "laws" as it goes along, always to benefit those in power. In the USA, we've allowed corporations to achieve similar results by the fact that our Congress and Presidents are passing and signing laws WRITTEN BY THEM, as the DMCA and CBDTPA are.
Unfortunately for the tyrants, both governmental and corporate, there are a lot of Thomas Paine's in the world, and they tend to be creative people. Hence this program that lets you circumvent firewalls.
Fine print in a contract and in advertisements can only cover RoadRunner so far. Clearly, they are aware this is an unethical practice, or else they'd be a little more forthcoming (like NOTIFYING their customers that something was being cut off).
Even though AOLTW is one of the RIAA 5 labels, they probably have as much, if not more, at stake on the OTHER END to get broadband in as many people's homes as they can.
P2P sharing is one reason why I used to have RR, before I left NC and moved back to one of the last broadband free areas of the USA, NE KY:(
They should have notified customers. I've not read their EULA completely, but I'm sure like most they are totally one sided contracts and they allow AOLTW to change terms at will.
Even IF the EULA covers it though, PRUDENCE tells me that customers who have it cut off suddenly, without notice, are going to be a LOT more pissed off and likely to drop the service than would be customers told in advance.
Now that it's on/. it's no longer a secret, and their offices better brace for a FIRESTORM on Monday. I wouldn't want to be one of their helpdesk drones!
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"So I look at something like this and go how will this advance mankind. The only answer is that it will not. This is like trying to balloon around the world. I think subjuects like this have no0 relevence on slashdot. He could take the money that he is squandering on this and give it to doctors without borders and actually do some good in this world. Isn't it time that postmodernism died."
You know what the moral difference is between robbing someone on the street at gunpoint, and using your government representatives to do it for you?
None.
What you state is VERY contrary to the spirit of freedom and individual liberty. What someone does with his own time and money is no business of yours at all.
How about your own life? That money you spent on that new RAM upgrade could have gone to help AIDS victims. That money you blew on beer and pr0n magazines could have gone to help the homeless.
See what I mean? This is, in essence, what socialism is: A central comitte decides what is done with money, property, and individuals, NOT the individuals.
I don't think that is what you are advocating, at least, I hope not...
If not for the individual freedom the USA is supposed to stand for, and the incredible spirit of adventure and creativity this spawns, the world wouldn't have had:
Charles Lindburgh
Wilbur and Orville Wright
Who both did things that were thought to be nutty at the time.
There is a reason why most great inventions of the past 150 years have happened in America. One word: Freedom.
Freedom to do with what is yours, and what gifts you have, as you will.
"Try to install apt-rpm in your computer, if you are still using Red Hat. It will find all dependencies and install them automagically.
http://apt-rpm.tuxfamily.org/
This is a port from apt-get (Debian) to use RPMs, first implemented in Conectiva Linux (Brazilian distro). For Conectiva, there is also Synaptic, a front-end for apt-rpm."
Thanks a TON for pointing this out to me! I've installed it, and am playing around with it. Quite powerful. I messed with urpmi on Mandrake, and liked it for some things, but it would not work with upgrading KDE..
I've been using Linux for the past 3 years. Love it dearly. I used to use Ximian GNOME, but have come to prefer the more mature and cleaner GUI of KDE (personal preference, NOT intended as a flame). Unfortunately, KDE is very hard, at least in my experience, to upgrade. I've used Red Hat and Mandrake distros, and have settled into using Red Hat mostly. I've never sucessfully upgraded a KDE installation on my box. Yes, I should try harder to learn how to do it, but I usually wait for another distro to come out with the upgraded version. Seeing as how painless Ximian GNOME is to install and to maintain/upgrade, I see no reason why KDE shouldn't have something similar. This is KDE's greatest weakness, IMHO.
"Why do we claim to be an enlightened nation, yet actively trade with China? They need us much more than we need them."
Two reasons:
1. The extreme on the left in this country, the ones who's religion is government, LIKE China and wish the USA were more like it...
2. The megacorporations, who's religion is cheap labor.
Yet another stunning example that the extreme right and extreme left produce the SAME results, ultimately.
BTW, I don't necessarily agree that Communism is extreme Republicanism, I think socialism/communism are left wing totalitarianism. Right wing totalitarianism would be something more akin to what exists in the middle eastern Islamic fundamentalist states.
Much as I am devoted to my religion (Christianity), I DO NOT want priests running the country, if you catch my drift.
But they both produce similar results, an oppressed people whom have no individual rights or choices.
"One of the slogans for communism is that with everyone equal, there is no slavery and no discrimination. If you look at it, all but those in the high levels of government are slaves. If you look at it, all but those in the high levels of government are discriminated against."
Communism is state slavery. Where there is no individual liberty, nor right of private property, the State owns everything, and therefore, everybody. Should it surprise anyone that in EVERY so called "egalitarian" system, which Marxist-Lenninism-Maoism purports to be, that some (the few elites) are "more equal than equal".
Our own system is the same way, looking at the easy access the rich have to legislation, but has the virtue of not having YET opressed the average individual to the extreme of a communist state.
YET being the operative word. Legislatively, we are headed there. Rapidly. Not at the behest of government, but at the behest of the CORPORATIONS...
I see things like Peakabooty as 21st century civil disobedience. Sooner or later, a rebellion of the individual against the collective WILL happen, or else we will become nothing more than uniformed drones in the collective.
I can see a growing need for this kind of thing in the USA, as we allow the Megacorp cartels like the RIAA/MPAA to chop off and "firewall" so to speak, the individual.
Remember the Napster trial? The infamous statement by a RIAA honcho "We will firewall them at their PC"? And then go read the story just below this one where AOLTW's RoadRunner is port blocking Kazaa.
I find it very interesting phinisophically, that the net result of "Big Government (Communist)" and "Big Business (Capitalist)", when left unrestrained by civil law that is supposed to protect and affirm the rights of the individual, produce the SAME RESULTS!
In the communist system, as China is, the governmment IS the corporation. It makes up "laws" as it goes along, always to benefit those in power. In the USA, we've allowed corporations to achieve similar results by the fact that our Congress and Presidents are passing and signing laws WRITTEN BY THEM, as the DMCA and CBDTPA are.
Unfortunately for the tyrants, both governmental and corporate, there are a lot of Thomas Paine's in the world, and they tend to be creative people. Hence this program that lets you circumvent firewalls.
Fine print in a contract and in advertisements can only cover RoadRunner so far. Clearly, they are aware this is an unethical practice, or else they'd be a little more forthcoming (like NOTIFYING their customers that something was being cut off).
:(
/. it's no longer a secret, and their offices better brace for a FIRESTORM on Monday. I wouldn't want to be one of their helpdesk drones!
Even though AOLTW is one of the RIAA 5 labels, they probably have as much, if not more, at stake on the OTHER END to get broadband in as many people's homes as they can.
P2P sharing is one reason why I used to have RR, before I left NC and moved back to one of the last broadband free areas of the USA, NE KY
They should have notified customers. I've not read their EULA completely, but I'm sure like most they are totally one sided contracts and they allow AOLTW to change terms at will.
Even IF the EULA covers it though, PRUDENCE tells me that customers who have it cut off suddenly, without notice, are going to be a LOT more pissed off and likely to drop the service than would be customers told in advance.
Now that it's on