Most republicans/conservatives are against illegal immigration and want to close up the borders.
The national GOP leadership wants to duck the immigration issue because Wall Street Republicans and neocon pundits--the people with money--want lax immigration policies.
It's little people with less influence in the GOP who want immigration reform.
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), the most vocal opponent of illegal immigration in the House, has been warned by the White House's Karl Rove over breaking with Bush's "moderate" stance on immigration as Bush panders for the hispanic vote. The national GOP has even threatened to run a candidate against Tancredo in the next primary election.
Thing is, the Mexicans tend to vote Democrat for statist social services, which has led paleo-conservative pundit Samuel Francis to brand the GOP "the Stupid Party" since they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction by not cracking down on illegals while alienating their grassroots Middle America voters who will sit out this election in protest.
McDonalds fry cooks can't be replaced by workers in Bangalore.
Ah, but that's where the check-pants golfer, yacht-basin Republicans (a somewhat accurate euphamism for "management" -- represented by the WSJ editorial page) employ their other prong:
open immigration and lax borders to obain a steady supply of cheap labor (off the books, with no pension, work comp, etc) for businesses with facilities in the US.
So while it's true that a McD's fry cook won't be replaced by someone in Bangalore, he will be replaced by an illegal Mexican.
Whether it's offshoring or illegals, either way Middle America gets screwed.
if they could show that ftp was ever used for music piracy they'd go after ftp servers, too.
Dude, don't you remember the pre-Napster days of ftp server spiders like Audiogalaxy (before AG satellite)? RIAA was always sending cease-and-desists to network admins over ftp servers.
also, stop using the word "NeoCon". It just makes you seem like an uneducated Democratic fanboi.
"Neocon" isn't used exclusively by lefties either--it's just that they get the most media exposure.
Paleocons and paleo-libertarians have been naming the neocon for years now for what they are: Trotskyites who went Republican and are hell-bent on manipulating the US into an interventionist foreign policy that primarily benefits Eretz Yisroel while padding the wallets of the military-industrial complex.
The late Murray Rothbard termed this the welfare-warfare state.
I swear, if Redhat ever actually gets into the black, I'm switching to Apple, stat. Fuck market share--I want something where nobody will bother me with free tech support requests.
Dude, you should check out NetBSD if you want a geek-ish user community and a top-notch OS
Would you please tell me how cutting down several thousand acres of forest and drilling for oil will help the general population?
Increased self-sufficiency in domestic energy production, which means oil supply and prices for Americans will be less dependent on global geopolitics.
And 50 years down the line everyone will hate those companies because they destroyed the natural resources
How the fuck do you know these eeevvvvilll corporations will "destroy the natural resources" instead of being responsible stewards? I can't imagine ANWR being drilled and not being under a greenie microscope of taxpayer-funded environmentalist watchdogs.
I'm not making any moral judgments on such sites, but am merely wondering why this is something considered "new" and why anyone would think that it is secure from prosecution?
Because warez and ftp was a geek thing.
Ever since Napster and Kazaa, file sharing has been accessible to the lowest common denominator Joe Sixpack and Sally Soccer Mom trading popular media--music and movies.
My favorite band, Poker Face sells their music through CD Baby, and they're coming out with their latest album, "Made in America," in about two weeks... congrats, guys!
the war on piracy....it'll have the same results as the war on drugs, or the war on terrorism...
Yeah, it'll only end up putting more motherfuckers in jail to be cheap contracted prison labor for private industry, while fueling growth in private prisons operated by Wackenhut and "justifying" yet another federal law enforcement bureaucracy created to specialize in prosecuting file traders.
Welcome to the fascist crony capitalism of the New World Order -- your tax dollars at work.
That's what works for me....since April I've lost 22 easy pounds
* No sugars
* No starches
* Ride my bike late afternoons for an hour 5x/week
* Rarely drink, and then only a glass of red wine w/dinner
* Plenty of Omega fatty acids (walnuts, olive oil, ground flaxseeds)
* Limit caffeine to 100 mg/day...I switched from coffee to green tea
I must address the previous posts. Whether or not AC2 is better than AC1 is not relevant to this issue.
Wrong.
To take that a step further nor is it important if AC2 is a good game. Personall opinions of this game do not factor into the decision to consolidate these servers.
They do if a game blows and next to nobody wants to subscribe to it, like AC2.
EFF needs to re-register with the IRS as a 501c4 if it wants to be really effective.
In its current status as a 501c3, it cannot directly lobby Congress. Of course, donations would no longer be tax-deductible, but that's the price you pay for getting more political influence. Most 501c4 orgs now have some sort of 501c3 "educational foundation" anyways to skirt around that.
Powerful lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association are 501c4, not 501c3.
BTW, the availability of "stable, fast, powerful code for FREE, source code and binaries, packaged up all ready to go with easy installation" really doesn't impress businesses all that much.
Then how else do you explain Linux on x86 hardware putting a major squeeze play on proprietary UNIX in the last few years?
I don't use drake anymore, but you can't find a boxed set of 9.1 anywhere for retail sale in the US. Walked into Best Buy yesterday and all they had was RH and SuSE. I'd imagine it's the same at Fry's and Wal-Mart (which was probably the best outlet they ever had).
Why learn the ins and outs of Redhat when I can migrate to a system like Deb or FreeBSD? Slack->FBSD was easier than Slack->RH for me, and Slack->Deb is ridiculously easy. That and you have to admit that the ports system is really quite good. The advances FBSD has made in the last 3 years have been rather promising.
Slack->FBSD was my progression, and I don't regret it one bit. I really see no advantage in running Debian over FreeBSD. KSE and native Java are progressing nicely, and since importing pkg_add from NetBSD, it's as easy to install software as apt-get when you don't have the time to compile from the ports.
For on-the-job sysadmin skills, this is just my anecdotal opinion, but I would venture to say there are more commercial FreeBSD deployments than commercial Debian deployments, since so much of the commercial world uses Red Hat when it uses Linux, which is unfortunate because Debian is an excellent distro in its own right. Maybe with RH becoming more proprietary and charging for updates, businesses will become more cost-conscious and look into Debian and FreeBSD as they gain more *nix experience.
Music corporations, which employ thousands of people and, at the least, entertain a significant portion of the populace, don't deserve to be destroyed. Litigated to be honest, yes. Destroyed? Hell no.
I gives a damn if they go under. The whole mp3/p2p controversy wisened me up to the sleaze and cultural sewage the whole entertainment industry is.
also, why the fuck would MS care what you run if you are still buying their hardware?
Because Redmond sold that hardware at a deliberate loss in anticipation of customers making up for the margins on game sales.
I agree that if you buy a physical device it's now your private property and nobody should have the right to tell me what I can or can't do with it, however.
Redmond's business model in this case is analagous to GM trying to make it illegal for anyone to use anything but genuine AC-Delco parts in their Corvettes.
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The national GOP leadership wants to duck the immigration issue because Wall Street Republicans and neocon pundits--the people with money--want lax immigration policies.
It's little people with less influence in the GOP who want immigration reform.
Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO), the most vocal opponent of illegal immigration in the House, has been warned by the White House's Karl Rove over breaking with Bush's "moderate" stance on immigration as Bush panders for the hispanic vote. The national GOP has even threatened to run a candidate against Tancredo in the next primary election.
Thing is, the Mexicans tend to vote Democrat for statist social services, which has led paleo-conservative pundit Samuel Francis to brand the GOP "the Stupid Party" since they are sowing the seeds of their own destruction by not cracking down on illegals while alienating their grassroots Middle America voters who will sit out this election in protest.
Ah, but that's where the check-pants golfer, yacht-basin Republicans (a somewhat accurate euphamism for "management" -- represented by the WSJ editorial page) employ their other prong:
open immigration and lax borders to obain a steady supply of cheap labor (off the books, with no pension, work comp, etc) for businesses with facilities in the US.
So while it's true that a McD's fry cook won't be replaced by someone in Bangalore, he will be replaced by an illegal Mexican.
Whether it's offshoring or illegals, either way Middle America gets screwed.
Dude, don't you remember the pre-Napster days of ftp server spiders like Audiogalaxy (before AG satellite)? RIAA was always sending cease-and-desists to network admins over ftp servers.
That would definitely get alot more folks dusting off their old CDs for their 19" monitors
As if Greenpeace and the menagerie of other leftist organizations don't spend all their time doing nothing but bitching about everyone else?
"Neocon" isn't used exclusively by lefties either--it's just that they get the most media exposure.
Paleocons and paleo-libertarians have been naming the neocon for years now for what they are: Trotskyites who went Republican and are hell-bent on manipulating the US into an interventionist foreign policy that primarily benefits Eretz Yisroel while padding the wallets of the military-industrial complex.
The late Murray Rothbard termed this the welfare-warfare state.
Dude, you should check out NetBSD if you want a geek-ish user community and a top-notch OS
Mandrake 9.1 isn't available from any vendors listed on PriceGrabber.com, and I doubt 9.2 will be either.
Face it, Mandrake's US channel sales suck.
Increased self-sufficiency in domestic energy production, which means oil supply and prices for Americans will be less dependent on global geopolitics.
And 50 years down the line everyone will hate those companies because they destroyed the natural resources
How the fuck do you know these eeevvvvilll corporations will "destroy the natural resources" instead of being responsible stewards? I can't imagine ANWR being drilled and not being under a greenie microscope of taxpayer-funded environmentalist watchdogs.
But it's still a bargain.
Because warez and ftp was a geek thing.
Ever since Napster and Kazaa, file sharing has been accessible to the lowest common denominator Joe Sixpack and Sally Soccer Mom trading popular media--music and movies.
My favorite band, Poker Face sells their music through CD Baby, and they're coming out with their latest album, "Made in America," in about two weeks ... congrats, guys!
Yeah, it'll only end up putting more motherfuckers in jail to be cheap contracted prison labor for private industry, while fueling growth in private prisons operated by Wackenhut and "justifying" yet another federal law enforcement bureaucracy created to specialize in prosecuting file traders.
Welcome to the fascist crony capitalism of the New World Order -- your tax dollars at work.
* No sugars
* No starches
* Ride my bike late afternoons for an hour 5x/week
* Rarely drink, and then only a glass of red wine w/dinner
* Plenty of Omega fatty acids (walnuts, olive oil, ground flaxseeds)
* Limit caffeine to 100 mg/day...I switched from coffee to green tea
Wrong.
To take that a step further nor is it important if AC2 is a good game. Personall opinions of this game do not factor into the decision to consolidate these servers.
They do if a game blows and next to nobody wants to subscribe to it, like AC2.
In its current status as a 501c3, it cannot directly lobby Congress. Of course, donations would no longer be tax-deductible, but that's the price you pay for getting more political influence. Most 501c4 orgs now have some sort of 501c3 "educational foundation" anyways to skirt around that.
Powerful lobbying groups like the National Rifle Association are 501c4, not 501c3.
Then how else do you explain Linux on x86 hardware putting a major squeeze play on proprietary UNIX in the last few years?
Not even any vendors on PriceGrabber.com have 9.1 for sale
So the only people in the US using Mandrake are freeloaders downloading iso's, with a fraction of those joining Mandrake Club.
If Mandrake wants to survive, they have to find a way to revive their US channel sales.
Slack->FBSD was my progression, and I don't regret it one bit. I really see no advantage in running Debian over FreeBSD. KSE and native Java are progressing nicely, and since importing pkg_add from NetBSD, it's as easy to install software as apt-get when you don't have the time to compile from the ports.
For on-the-job sysadmin skills, this is just my anecdotal opinion, but I would venture to say there are more commercial FreeBSD deployments than commercial Debian deployments, since so much of the commercial world uses Red Hat when it uses Linux, which is unfortunate because Debian is an excellent distro in its own right. Maybe with RH becoming more proprietary and charging for updates, businesses will become more cost-conscious and look into Debian and FreeBSD as they gain more *nix experience.
I gives a damn if they go under. The whole mp3/p2p controversy wisened me up to the sleaze and cultural sewage the whole entertainment industry is.
Fuck Hollyweird
IN HEAVEN ...
All the chefs are French
All the police are British
All the mechanics are German
All the lovers are Italian
And the whole place is run by the Swiss
BUT IN HELL ...
All the chefs are British
All the police are German
All the mechanics are French
All the lovers are Swiss
And the whole place is run by the Italians!
I don't believe there has been a test case yet for someone running linux on an Xbox, but the DOJ is going after modchippers already:
IsoNews Ostensibly Shut Down By The DOJ
Because Redmond sold that hardware at a deliberate loss in anticipation of customers making up for the margins on game sales.
I agree that if you buy a physical device it's now your private property and nobody should have the right to tell me what I can or can't do with it, however.
Redmond's business model in this case is analagous to GM trying to make it illegal for anyone to use anything but genuine AC-Delco parts in their Corvettes.