I doubt that you would gain anything other than different window dressing.
I would buy a mac, if I could afford one, for it's multimedia mastering capabilites. I hear they are fantastic at creating and editing multimedia. I would bet that it's a marriage of hardware, OS and apps.
Just dropping an alien OS into a cheap x86 box won't suddenly let me do the same things it would on true mac hardware.
Not to mention the price. Last time I checked, Suse is a LOT cheaper than "them" and would provide the same functionality.
you can buy them all day long in any quantity you wish at any gun show or gun store. They are totally legal and require no license or registration. Cash and carry, no questions asked. Unless you live in California or NYC. I can see them being illegal there. Hell, farting or hollering BOO at a burglar is illegal in those states...
self employed. I either ask my customers to pay me in cash or write me a personal check, which I have no problem cashing. More often than not, I barter. I've gotten some cool stuff in leu of cash. Traded a 22" crt for a riding mower once. I've traded my labors for medical, dental, optical services, etc.. Most small businesses are thrilled to death to barter like this. My needs are minimal. I'm quite happy trading my labor for goods. That's why I am so much in favor of small business and so against big business. You can always do things like that with a mom & pop biz, but I assure you, Wally World sure isn't about to trade you some merchandise for your labor if you go fix their lan...
Barter can be a viable way of life. It works for me! I'm not rich but I'm happy!
The whole "I won't put money in the bank" is a little tinfoil-hattish though.
Not really. I am 100% in control of my money. Every time I put my money in a bank they find ways to siphon it off and flat out steal it from me. I don't believe in or support usury. And banks are all about usury. I've had accounts siezed over debt disputes, and they didn't just seize the amount in dispute, they seized the entire account, all of it, freezing it and rendering me unable to function, unable to purchase gas, food, pay bills, buy materials for my business.. Freezing the account and going to dispute over it caused me to lose a business once because I could not purchase materials and deliver product on time per contract. It took two months of mediation to resolve the dispute, in which case THEY were wrong. The account was released, the funds unfrozen and not a single "we're sorry" from the lips of anyone. By this time, my small business had collapsed and I was left with nothing, to start over again from scratch.
That's giving other people WAY TOO MUCH CONTROL over your life and well being.
99% of the police use trunked 800mhz radios. Not that many people are listening. It's not like they are broadcasting it on Zoom 102.4fm....
And a number of PD's are switching to encrypted radio. It's really not a concern. Besides, they have been calling in DL's on the radio for 60+ years now. I would rather it go over the radio than be in a friggin database that parasite marketeers can troll..
You do know that states sell ALL their databases to marketing firms, right? You have to opt out of that. And you have to ASK to opt out, they don't present you with the info to inform you, you have to have already know this before hand.
I don't drink but I do know that you are right, they do this in Texas. In some counties they are "dry" but restaurants can serve alcohol if you purchase a "license to drink" in that dry county. When you go to eat and want a margarita, they swipe your DL through a machine and Xref it to a county DB to see if you are paid up on your "license to drink". If you are, the bring you your drink. If there are any warrants out for you, no matter how trivial they may be, such as a traffic ticket or you are on probation, the waitress/waiter holds your DL and the police show up there to collect you. The county keeps a DB of your drinking habits too. I've seen this happen to friends. They submit to this because they feel the need to drink outweighs the need for privacy.
And what about when you buy groceries and they swipe your DL? Do you folks really, really think that a DB of your purchases isn't being compiled?
Sure they are. They are the camels nose under the tent. It's a form of passive protest. Some of us old folks don't like the direction this world is going in and we resist. Yes, I use computers but only as a tool to survive in a competitive world. I would rather go back to the days when there were no computers. Like when I was a kid. Well, there were some, but only a few punchcard machines. They didn't run everyone's life then and people had some reasonable expectancy of privacy. Now, parasites troll databases for your private info, which is for sale to anyone with the money, so that they can invade your privacy and harass you with sales crap. In my case, I'm currently being harassed for a bad credit card debt (divorce probs) that's over 17 years old and for a company that no longer exists. But parasites keep selling and reselling the debt from one to another, tacking new collection fees onto it, each time going ever and ever higher. They can rot in hell. I don't care if I ever get credit ever again, I live strictly by cash alone and do not use banks or credit unions at all, ever, for any reason. I have no bank accounts of any kind and never will. EVERYTHING I own is 100% paid for and I owe no one anything. I only have to pay utilities and groceries and I drive to each place and do that with cash. Am I weird? You bet.. I hate this parasitic world and I will go to my grave fighting it.
200,000 volt stun gun will tune that puppy up. I took my current DL and bulk erased the mag stripe, then threw it on the concrete and stood on it and twisted my foot, grinding the barcode up so that it is no longer machine readable. Visually, my DL still functions, it shows my ID correctly, it just can't be read by a machine. If they want to check it against some DB, they have to call it in the old fashioned way. "Sir, your DL is damaged, you need to have it replaced" "Gee, imagine that, I guess I better do something about that huh?" and that's that.
Well, actually IBM preferred to call it a CBX but it's still a PBX none the less...
I personally own this beasty, a 12 node ROLM, capable of handling 10,000 phone lines. Anyone tired of small town phone company hassles? Start your own phone company...
that movie about 10 years ago named "The Water Engine" where some guy in the 30's invented an engine that ran on water and some shyster lawyers screwed him around and stole his invention then he ended up dead.
For those of us that don't use wireless, or Gnome, what's the big benefit to upgrade?
I use 9.1 pro, KDE 3.3, kernel 2.6, 512m, p4-2ghz, Nvidia, and a few large drives. DVD burner, and broadband. Pretty much standard, run of the mill stuff. I use apt-get to keep it pretty much up to date. I don't use the unstable sources, I'm not that adventurous.
What reason should I upgrade? What would be the benefit to me, an average user? I run a very small business and do a few OO things. Nothing heavy duty at all.
It's my thinking that I should just sit tight and wait for for 10.1 (I hate dot oh's)...
Am I missing some super duper nifty hidden benefit here? I think that apt-get will keep my 9.1 pretty much on par with 9.2, right??
The thing is this, there is no pirating going on in Linux circles because Linux is free. What is there to pirate? Why would you want to pirate free software?
Software pirates are M$ users because EVERYTHING in the M$ circles is either you pay for or trade your soul for. Not just the OS, but the apps or shall we say "appz"? So you need a Pro version of the OS, ok, that's about $200, more or less, then you need an office suite, what's that, another $400-500 ?? Then you better spend another $200 or so on protection rackets, er, anti-virus and firewall programs. Man, in no time flat you are in debt to your eyeballs and you barely have a functional system yet.
Or, take Suse 9.1 Pro. $90 and you have everything, office suite, cd/dvd burning, browsing, email, almost air tight security, etc. etc.. And no worries of the software police popping in to audit your office and bang you up with a big fine or legal action.
Yeah, it's a little different but in the end, it gets the job done for a whole lot less and a whole lot less trouble.
There may be some dual booters out there that have bootleg windows copies installed, but I'll bet they are the ones that only boot into windows twice a year for 10 minutes at a time. Those people are no threat to M$. M$ IS the empire. They own all the gold and they aren't going to go bankrupt anytime soon, they are just having paranoid delusions of grandeur because they aren't 100% in control of every soul on earth. They have more money than most third world countries combined and more than anyone could ever hope to spend.
I could care less about M$. I hope they go bankrupt, it would be nice if someone discovered kiddie porn on Bill Gate$ personal computer and he went to the big house to be bubba's bitch for the next 5,000 years. He's a thief and a scumbag. Gate$ stole his way to the position he's in now.
My only concern is that I am called a thief and associated with thieves and pirates only because I choose not to be a team player and use a homeland security approved o$... Oh yeah, and I'm also an enemy of the state because I'm not a good little consumer that runs out and buys the brand newest-bestest-gee-whizest George Jetson hardware every two weeks and I don't support the capitalist system by keeping M$ programmers in beer money.
I prefer to be the one that builds my own stuff and am the sole controller of my property. I'm a "bad man" for all these reasons...
I know. I know. He knows I can build up a jam up machine in the $600 range that will suffice as a Multi-Media system. He just wants to download and watch movies and DVD's. No big power horse needed there, just a good video card and a big HDD and a DVD drive. Cheap....
But, rather than save up his money for a month or two to have me build him one, which I would have done at no labor charge because he's my friend, his phone rings one day and a gateway solicitor cons him into making a snap decision by promising him the world on credit.
They told him it would record movies and everything. Well, yeah, it can, it has firewire but he has no firewire devices. His TV set is RF input only and he has a mono VCR (with the top missing and the heads *clogged* and glazed over from nicotine) from wally world for $29.00
He had no idea what firewire is, never even heard of it. He had the idea that he could screw his CATV wire into it and record movies that way or from his crappy VCR.
The guy is a sucker. I've tried to steer him right but he falls for the bling-bling or the fast talking telemarketers (in Pakistan) like so many other people.
I already was a tech when the IBM PC hit the market. In those days they were so expensive that people couldn't afford to have them unless they were business people. And they didn't fiddle with them, they used them and called me when they broke. Now, any dipstick on earth can get a PC, 95% of the people on earth should be kept at least 100 feet from any electronic device.
And people wonder why they have so much trouble with computers and electronics. Once upon a time, in my lifetime, access to electronics was restricted to those qualified to operate it.
Some people are not Christians and are offended by their antics, their ranting and foaming at the mouth and their version of morality.
99% of them are child molesters or some other version of pervert, or adulters or drunks or drug abusers or...... They run around foaming at the mouth about God then run home, get drunk, smoke some dope and poke the little boy next door in the booty while reading a copy of Hustler.
I'm against pornography because it degrades women and I'm 101% against kiddie porn/molesters, child molesters are mentally ill and should be put to death. I'm a parent and grand parent so don't say anything to me about that, I would *kill* anyone that touches my kids or grandkids.
They have ways to detect, track down and arrest child pornographers. Leave that process to the police. But don't dictate with a broad brush what people can and can not see. I find it particularly offensive that a religious organization is allowed the status of a political party. And they find it offensive that I take offense to them. So they will dictate that I am not allowed to view dissenting materials of alternative political parties. It's their TRUE GOAL to convert, my force of law, the country into a religious Garden of Eden, as they see it in their limited minds.
Just like the CDU (Christian Democrats) in Germany or the Christian Family First in Australia or the Christian Neo-con right wingers in America. No religion has the right to impose it's will or morality upon anyone.
When a country seeks to silence dissenters from the approved party line, you have a dictatorship.
A friend of mine, that never, never listens to me until it's way to late and I hate to sit him down and tell him "I told you so, I told you so, it's a POS.." just went and bought a Gateway PC. Basics, P4-2.6ghz, 512m, 120m, Nvidia, CRT & MF PSCF, and, Winbloz XP home.
He ordered the machine, $1,500 (about $800 more than I could have built one from scratch)
He brings the whole thing, brand new in the box to me and says, "Install Suse 9.1 Pro on it please." and takes off.
Guess what? This Gateway machine will NOT BOOT AT ALL if it detects a Linux formated hard disc (0x83) plugged into it via ANY means. IDE, IDE on a card, even a USB drive formated for Linux stops the boot from happening. It won't boot Linux from CD or DVD, it won't touch Linux at all. It is coded into the bios to NO BOOT if it detects a non windows drive connected to it. It won't boot with XP as the OS on the primary drive and a Linux formated drive connected as a secondary drive. I spent a week verifying this. I tried dozens of different drives, CD's, DVD's, distros, and combos thereof. I had to re-install XP back on it and tell my friend, "You screwed the pooch, take it back." He won't, he claims he signed a contract to make payments on it. Screw that, I say it's broken and should be at the very least replaced with a usable machine. So my dumb friend is going to keep it, pay for it and give it to his daughter.
So, Gateway and M$ have found a way to prevent anyone from using anything but M$.
Oh, and one last comment, these so called XP pirates that would use Linux to pirate XP? Nope. They are too stupid to figure out how to use Linux just to get free winbloz. To do this they would have to spend way to much time figuring out how to setup their PPPOE, then finding using GTK-Gnutella or BitTorrent & Python and finally K3b to burn it to disc. Right. I've seen these low end PC's that have Linux pre-installed, ThizLinux. Total, unusable GARBAGE. Trust me, they will never accomplish the task. Just go to any of the alt.os.distro.linux groups and read any of the multitude of "Linux sux!" posts....
These retards will just get a copy from a buddy that's already online. XP is easier to find than crack or meth. Something they need to quit smoking. Oh, and if Linux is such an easy to use pirating tool, why is it that M$ is the number one delivery system for pirated warez?
Someone should sue these morons for slander and liable.
You know, I thought this was stupid at first, but,
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I read on and got to the part where they put the camera on the dog's collar. Seeing the world from your dog's point of view is really interesting. It made me appreciate my dog's position in life a little more than I had before.
Sort of like now that I am disabled and have to see the world and deal with it, from a few feet lower than I used to. I'm recovering from back surgery and have to ride around in those little electric carts you see at wally world and the grocery store. The world is a little bigger and I'm a little smaller now. You don't think about these things until you are actually put into that position, then you rethink the whole world. Our little friends see the world from an even lower elevation and to them, we are giants. Maybe people should see the world from a different point of view sometime and they would be less likely to take certain things for granted.
Lucas shows he doesn't respect the fans wishes, he only cares about his own self gratification. If he really cared about his fans, he would release the original version on DVD and make the bastard version as an optional or put it on the flip side, like Blade Runner did.
George, we fell in love with the original, leave it alone. We don't care what YOU think, we care about what we grew up with. Don't trash our memories of the good times. It worked for us then and it made you filthy rich. Why do you insist on pissing on the little people that elevated you to such a high and mighty position?
Sit back on your "Skywalker Ranch" and piss on the heads of the little people, the little people that paid for your empire..
Oh, and BTW, I guess I'll have to put my old VHS tape onto DVD myself now. Thanks George..
we can shoot them when they flee? Yeah baby! I can see a new career for me here. Let's see, plastic cuffs, a box of 9mm ammo, oh, and a badge too! Oh boy! I can't wait to shoot some spammers in the back as they run away!
I used to build and sell Alloy multi-user systems (full pc's on 8bit ISA cards) in the mid 80's, and even did some PC-MOS and DR DOS systems on AT clones w/serial terminals. Using the IBM expansion unit you could put plenty of Alloy cards in. We used serial terminals and in most businesses the people that NEEDED terminals could have one, back when an XT was $8,000 and an AT was even more.
I did a few Altos 80186 Xenix multi-user systems too, also using serial terminals.
Low end multi-user systems have been around a long time. What's the big to do over this thing?
I do remember that the above systems were allways having problems, many long hours, very high maintenence. I really don't miss those days after all..
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Actually, this formula is my life story in a nutshell.....
I doubt that you would gain anything other than different window dressing.
I would buy a mac, if I could afford one, for it's multimedia mastering capabilites. I hear they are fantastic at creating and editing multimedia. I would bet that it's a marriage of hardware, OS and apps.
Just dropping an alien OS into a cheap x86 box won't suddenly let me do the same things it would on true mac hardware.
Not to mention the price. Last time I checked, Suse is a LOT cheaper than "them" and would provide the same functionality.
Am I wrong?
you can buy them all day long in any quantity you wish at any gun show or gun store. They are totally legal and require no license or registration. Cash and carry, no questions asked. Unless you live in California or NYC. I can see them being illegal there. Hell, farting or hollering BOO at a burglar is illegal in those states...
self employed. I either ask my customers to pay me in cash or write me a personal check, which I have no problem cashing. More often than not, I barter. I've gotten some cool stuff in leu of cash. Traded a 22" crt for a riding mower once.
I've traded my labors for medical, dental, optical services, etc.. Most small businesses are thrilled to death to barter like this.
My needs are minimal. I'm quite happy trading my labor for goods. That's why I am so much in favor of small business and so against big business. You can always do things like that with a mom & pop biz, but I assure you, Wally World sure isn't about to trade you some merchandise for your labor if you go fix their lan...
Barter can be a viable way of life. It works for me! I'm not rich but I'm happy!
The whole "I won't put money in the bank" is a little tinfoil-hattish though.
Not really. I am 100% in control of my money. Every time I put my money in a bank they find ways to siphon it off and flat out steal it from me. I don't believe in or support usury. And banks are all about usury. I've had accounts siezed over debt disputes, and they didn't just seize the amount in dispute, they seized the entire account, all of it, freezing it and rendering me unable to function, unable to purchase gas, food, pay bills, buy materials for my business.. Freezing the account and going to dispute over it caused me to lose a business once because I could not purchase materials and deliver product on time per contract. It took two months of mediation to resolve the dispute, in which case THEY were wrong. The account was released, the funds unfrozen and not a single "we're sorry" from the lips of anyone. By this time, my small business had collapsed and I was left with nothing, to start over again from scratch.
That's giving other people WAY TOO MUCH CONTROL over your life and well being.
99% of the police use trunked 800mhz radios. Not that many people are listening. It's not like they are broadcasting it on Zoom 102.4fm....
And a number of PD's are switching to encrypted radio. It's really not a concern. Besides, they have been calling in DL's on the radio for 60+ years now. I would rather it go over the radio than be in a friggin database that parasite marketeers can troll..
You do know that states sell ALL their databases to marketing firms, right? You have to opt out of that. And you have to ASK to opt out, they don't present you with the info to inform you, you have to have already know this before hand.
I don't drink but I do know that you are right, they do this in Texas. In some counties they are "dry" but restaurants can serve alcohol if you purchase a "license to drink" in that dry county.
When you go to eat and want a margarita, they swipe your DL through a machine and Xref it to a county DB to see if you are paid up on your "license to drink". If you are, the bring you your drink. If there are any warrants out for you, no matter how trivial they may be, such as a traffic ticket or you are on probation, the waitress/waiter holds your DL and the police show up there to collect you. The county keeps a DB of your drinking habits too. I've seen this happen to friends. They submit to this because they feel the need to drink outweighs the need for privacy.
And what about when you buy groceries and they swipe your DL? Do you folks really, really think that a DB of your purchases isn't being compiled?
Get real. Go cash. Ditch the system, it's evil...
Sure they are. They are the camels nose under the tent.
It's a form of passive protest. Some of us old folks don't like the direction this world is going in and we resist.
Yes, I use computers but only as a tool to survive in a competitive world. I would rather go back to the days when there were no computers. Like when I was a kid. Well, there were some, but only a few punchcard machines. They didn't run everyone's life then and people had some reasonable expectancy of privacy.
Now, parasites troll databases for your private info, which is for sale to anyone with the money, so that they can invade your privacy and harass you with sales crap. In my case, I'm currently being harassed for a bad credit card debt (divorce probs) that's over 17 years old and for a company that no longer exists. But parasites keep selling and reselling the debt from one to another, tacking new collection fees onto it, each time going ever and ever higher.
They can rot in hell. I don't care if I ever get credit ever again, I live strictly by cash alone and do not use banks or credit unions at all, ever, for any reason. I have no bank accounts of any kind and never will. EVERYTHING I own is 100% paid for and I owe no one anything. I only have to pay utilities and groceries and I drive to each place and do that with cash.
Am I weird? You bet.. I hate this parasitic world and I will go to my grave fighting it.
200,000 volt stun gun will tune that puppy up.
I took my current DL and bulk erased the mag stripe, then threw it on the concrete and stood on it and twisted my foot, grinding the barcode up so that it is no longer machine readable.
Visually, my DL still functions, it shows my ID correctly, it just can't be read by a machine.
If they want to check it against some DB, they have to call it in the old fashioned way.
"Sir, your DL is damaged, you need to have it replaced" "Gee, imagine that, I guess I better do something about that huh?" and that's that.
Resistance is NOT futile.
Well, actually IBM preferred to call it a CBX but it's still a PBX none the less...
I personally own this beasty, a 12 node ROLM, capable of handling 10,000 phone lines. Anyone tired of small town phone company hassles? Start your own phone company...
that movie about 10 years ago named "The Water Engine" where some guy in the 30's invented an engine that ran on water and some shyster lawyers screwed him around and stole his invention then he ended up dead.
hmmmm...
For those of us that don't use wireless, or Gnome, what's the big benefit to upgrade?
I use 9.1 pro, KDE 3.3, kernel 2.6, 512m, p4-2ghz, Nvidia, and a few large drives. DVD burner, and broadband. Pretty much standard, run of the mill stuff. I use apt-get to keep it pretty much up to date. I don't use the unstable sources, I'm not that adventurous.
What reason should I upgrade? What would be the benefit to me, an average user? I run a very small business and do a few OO things. Nothing heavy duty at all.
It's my thinking that I should just sit tight and wait for for 10.1 (I hate dot oh's)...
Am I missing some super duper nifty hidden benefit here? I think that apt-get will keep my 9.1 pretty much on par with 9.2, right??
You forgot to figure in your BB bill, for me, that's $54 a month ($10 extra penalty for NOT subscribing to CATV)
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And if you get carried away, you BB carrier may TOS you for exceeding bandwidth..
The thing is this, there is no pirating going on in Linux circles because Linux is free. What is there to pirate? Why would you want to pirate free software?
Software pirates are M$ users because EVERYTHING in the M$ circles is either you pay for or trade your soul for. Not just the OS, but the apps or shall we say "appz"? So you need a Pro version of the OS, ok, that's about $200, more or less, then you need an office suite, what's that, another $400-500 ?? Then you better spend another $200 or so on protection rackets, er, anti-virus and firewall programs. Man, in no time flat you are in debt to your eyeballs and you barely have a functional system yet.
Or, take Suse 9.1 Pro. $90 and you have everything, office suite, cd/dvd burning, browsing, email, almost air tight security, etc. etc.. And no worries of the software police popping in to audit your office and bang you up with a big fine or legal action.
Yeah, it's a little different but in the end, it gets the job done for a whole lot less and a whole lot less trouble.
There may be some dual booters out there that have bootleg windows copies installed, but I'll bet they are the ones that only boot into windows twice a year for 10 minutes at a time. Those people are no threat to M$. M$ IS the empire. They own all the gold and they aren't going to go bankrupt anytime soon, they are just having paranoid delusions of grandeur because they aren't 100% in control of every soul on earth.
They have more money than most third world countries combined and more than anyone could ever hope to spend.
I could care less about M$. I hope they go bankrupt, it would be nice if someone discovered kiddie porn on Bill Gate$ personal computer and he went to the big house to be bubba's bitch for the next 5,000 years. He's a thief and a scumbag. Gate$ stole his way to the position he's in now.
My only concern is that I am called a thief and associated with thieves and pirates only because I choose not to be a team player and use a homeland security approved o$...
Oh yeah, and I'm also an enemy of the state because I'm not a good little consumer that runs out and buys the brand newest-bestest-gee-whizest George Jetson hardware every two weeks and I don't support the capitalist system by keeping M$ programmers in beer money.
I prefer to be the one that builds my own stuff and am the sole controller of my property. I'm a "bad man" for all these reasons...
I know. I know. He knows I can build up a jam up machine in the $600 range that will suffice as a Multi-Media system. He just wants to download and watch movies and DVD's. No big power horse needed there, just a good video card and a big HDD and a DVD drive. Cheap....
But, rather than save up his money for a month or two to have me build him one, which I would have done at no labor charge because he's my friend, his phone rings one day and a gateway solicitor cons him into making a snap decision by promising him the world on credit.
They told him it would record movies and everything. Well, yeah, it can, it has firewire but he has no firewire devices. His TV set is RF input only and he has a mono VCR (with the top missing and the heads *clogged* and glazed over from nicotine) from wally world for $29.00
He had no idea what firewire is, never even heard of it. He had the idea that he could screw his CATV wire into it and record movies that way or from his crappy VCR.
The guy is a sucker. I've tried to steer him right but he falls for the bling-bling or the fast talking telemarketers (in Pakistan) like so many other people.
I already was a tech when the IBM PC hit the market. In those days they were so expensive that people couldn't afford to have them unless they were business people. And they didn't fiddle with them, they used them and called me when they broke. Now, any dipstick on earth can get a PC, 95% of the people on earth should be kept at least 100 feet from any electronic device.
And people wonder why they have so much trouble with computers and electronics. Once upon a time, in my lifetime, access to electronics was restricted to those qualified to operate it.
Some people are not Christians and are offended by their antics, their ranting and foaming at the mouth and their version of morality.
99% of them are child molesters or some other version of pervert, or adulters or drunks or drug abusers or...... They run around foaming at the mouth about God then run home, get drunk, smoke some dope and poke the little boy next door in the booty while reading a copy of Hustler.
I'm against pornography because it degrades women and I'm 101% against kiddie porn/molesters, child molesters are mentally ill and should be put to death. I'm a parent and grand parent so don't say anything to me about that, I would *kill* anyone that touches my kids or grandkids.
They have ways to detect, track down and arrest child pornographers. Leave that process to the police. But don't dictate with a broad brush what people can and can not see. I find it particularly offensive that a religious organization is allowed the status of a political party. And they find it offensive that I take offense to them. So they will dictate that I am not allowed to view dissenting materials of alternative political parties. It's their TRUE GOAL to convert, my force of law, the country into a religious Garden of Eden, as they see it in their limited minds.
Just like the CDU (Christian Democrats) in Germany or the Christian Family First in Australia or the Christian Neo-con right wingers in America. No religion has the right to impose it's will or morality upon anyone.
When a country seeks to silence dissenters from the approved party line, you have a dictatorship.
A friend of mine, that never, never listens to me until it's way to late and I hate to sit him down and tell him "I told you so, I told you so, it's a POS.." just went and bought a Gateway PC.
Basics, P4-2.6ghz, 512m, 120m, Nvidia, CRT & MF PSCF, and, Winbloz XP home.
He ordered the machine, $1,500 (about $800 more than I could have built one from scratch)
He brings the whole thing, brand new in the box to me and says, "Install Suse 9.1 Pro on it please." and takes off.
Guess what? This Gateway machine will NOT BOOT AT ALL if it detects a Linux formated hard disc (0x83) plugged into it via ANY means. IDE, IDE on a card, even a USB drive formated for Linux stops the boot from happening. It won't boot Linux from CD or DVD, it won't touch Linux at all. It is coded into the bios to NO BOOT if it detects a non windows drive connected to it.
It won't boot with XP as the OS on the primary drive and a Linux formated drive connected as a secondary drive. I spent a week verifying this. I tried dozens of different drives, CD's, DVD's, distros, and combos thereof. I had to re-install XP back on it and tell my friend, "You screwed the pooch, take it back." He won't, he claims he signed a contract to make payments on it. Screw that, I say it's broken and should be at the very least replaced with a usable machine. So my dumb friend is going to keep it, pay for it and give it to his daughter.
So, Gateway and M$ have found a way to prevent anyone from using anything but M$.
Oh, and one last comment, these so called XP pirates that would use Linux to pirate XP? Nope. They are too stupid to figure out how to use Linux just to get free winbloz. To do this they would have to spend way to much time figuring out how to setup their PPPOE, then finding using GTK-Gnutella or BitTorrent & Python and finally K3b to burn it to disc. Right.
I've seen these low end PC's that have Linux pre-installed, ThizLinux. Total, unusable GARBAGE. Trust me, they will never accomplish the task. Just go to any of the alt.os.distro.linux groups and read any of the multitude of "Linux sux!" posts....
These retards will just get a copy from a buddy that's already online. XP is easier to find than crack or meth. Something they need to quit smoking. Oh, and if Linux is such an easy to use pirating tool, why is it that M$ is the number one delivery system for pirated warez?
Someone should sue these morons for slander and liable.
was a real "screw up" eh??
I read on and got to the part where they put the camera on the dog's collar. Seeing the world from your dog's point of view is really interesting. It made me appreciate my dog's position in life a little more than I had before.
Sort of like now that I am disabled and have to see the world and deal with it, from a few feet lower than I used to. I'm recovering from back surgery and have to ride around in those little electric carts you see at wally world and the grocery store. The world is a little bigger and I'm a little smaller now. You don't think about these things until you are actually put into that position, then you rethink the whole world. Our little friends see the world from an even lower elevation and to them, we are giants. Maybe people should see the world from a different point of view sometime and they would be less likely to take certain things for granted.
Lucas shows he doesn't respect the fans wishes, he only cares about his own self gratification.
If he really cared about his fans, he would release the original version on DVD and make the bastard version as an optional or put it on the flip side, like Blade Runner did.
George, we fell in love with the original, leave it alone. We don't care what YOU think, we care about what we grew up with. Don't trash our memories of the good times. It worked for us then and it made you filthy rich. Why do you insist on pissing on the little people that elevated you to such a high and mighty position?
Sit back on your "Skywalker Ranch" and piss on the heads of the little people, the little people that paid for your empire..
Oh, and BTW, I guess I'll have to put my old VHS tape onto DVD myself now. Thanks George..
we can shoot them when they flee?
Yeah baby! I can see a new career for me here.
Let's see, plastic cuffs, a box of 9mm ammo, oh, and a badge too! Oh boy! I can't wait to shoot some spammers in the back as they run away!
I used to build and sell Alloy multi-user systems (full pc's on 8bit ISA cards) in the mid 80's, and even did some PC-MOS and DR DOS systems on AT clones w/serial terminals.
Using the IBM expansion unit you could put plenty of Alloy cards in. We used serial terminals and in most businesses the people that NEEDED terminals could have one, back when an XT was $8,000 and an AT was even more.
I did a few Altos 80186 Xenix multi-user systems too, also using serial terminals.
Low end multi-user systems have been around a long time. What's the big to do over this thing?
I do remember that the above systems were allways having problems, many long hours, very high maintenence. I really don't miss those days after all..
Use the force Luke...
Hint..
Used Scanning Electron Microscope on ebay - $4,000
Googling for the works of Markus Kuhn - free
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/sc99-tamper.pdf
Watching free TV just for the challange - Priceless
Speed & 200 kbps in the same sentence...
200 kbps is so 1999........