Great - they recommend uninstalling Java to use it.
Right. Brilliant.
How about going back to the drawing board and fixing the problem BEFORE releasing a crippled product? Ever occur to anybody on the project?
I hope this thing works better than Amarok which for no known or apparent reason just died on my Kubuntu. And Juk, which I tried as a replacement, wouldn't play anything at all. I'm back to using Kaffeine as my audio player as well as my video player.
Can anybody in the IT industry write code that actually works? Anybody? Anybody at all?
In other words, how long before the Feds require each state to maintain the same database - or require access to the Federal database - before you can get a driver's license or pretty much do anything else?
Next, cops will be running your license plate - or just your face on the street - and stopping you for warrantless searches based on criteria you know nothing about?
Sure, cops can do all that stuff NOW. The difference is they do it based on either their own stupidity, or because they have a "quota" of "stops" to make or because they actually see some reason to suspect YOU. Now they will do it because "somebody" "somewhere" put "something" about you in a database you can't see or challenge.
This goes WAY past "show me your papers".
Face it, folks, you're living in Nazi Germany now, with "The Decider" calling the shots as a result of a "Reichstag Fire" incident and "the invasion of Poland".
And the suckers here will continue to say it's all good.
More proof that Gates is using this Foundation as a stock laundering scheme and influence peddling. After he croaks he couldn't care less if it continues on. I'm just surprised he isn't using the money to find a way to live forever (a laudable goal for anyone else) - apparently he doesn't have the imagination.
is that everybody is perfectly willing to assume that the President of Russia personally ordered a critic poisoned in another major country - thus threatening Russia's diplomatic relations with said country if it ever is proven - just to silence a guy who basically was a raving nutcase that nobody paid any attention to. All the while ignoring the billionaire oligarch who was BEHIND said raving lunatic and who is KNOWN to be a criminal and whose associates are KNOWN to be criminals wanted in Russia for crimes against the government and the people,
Meanwhile, the same morons vehemently deny the possibility that Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq in order to secure oil for his family's oil company cronies, or that Cheney has ANY connections with the amount of money Halliburton has made out of Iraq, or that Israel, KNOWN to commit assassinations practically anywhere on the planet regardless of legality, could have anything to do with the assassinations in Lebanon, despite being the only known beneficiary of such assassinations.
The NK "elite" can get whatever they need regardless of stupid sanctions.
That's WHY they are the "elite". Did you miss that?
And who says they'll be any more open to throwing away their nuclear weapons than Kim even if they DID overthrow him? You compare nukes to iPods? I'd much rather have a nuke than an iPod - especially if I know Bush wants MY ass overthrown along with Kim's.
Like people starving in North Korea - or Kim, for that matter - are going to be pressured into doing anything because they can't buy an iPod (which of course will be instantly smuggled in anyway from China or via the business connections the North has with the South if anybody really wants one.)
This is what passes for "spreading democracy" in the Bush administration.
Well, as far as the WTC is concerned, the Zim company moved out shortly before it occurred - after a decades-long presence there, and foregoing a $50,000 penalty. And one of the bigger stockholders happens to be the State of Israel.
Not to mention that Mossad agents were known to be shadowing the WTC conspirators (as "handlers", perhaps) for months before the attack - and only bothered to alert the US - in vague terms - perhaps a month before the attack.
Not to mention the Israeli agents caught filming the WTC attack - and their "employer" in New Jersey who fled to Israel when questioned by the FBI.
Oh, by the way, the company that runs the video monitoring systems in the London Underground - which allows anyone associated with them easy access to the Underground - is Israeli.
All the above facts are readily available to anyone who bothers to check.
Now it turns out from another source that Bob Lazar, the Area 51 UFO guy, runs a company that sells chemicals and he can sell you polonium for $69 from his Web site. Apparently the stuff is hard to produce, but relatively easy to obtain as it isn't tracked as a hazardous substance that you need authorization to buy or is surveilled by any agency.
So much for it being hard to get and thus requiring a state to do this form of hit.
Well, 3, really, since I agree with the author that the look is worse - but that doesn't particularly bother me, as I'm not interested in "eye candy". If I can read the screen text and figure out the buttons, I'm satisfied.
My two main complaints are:
1) Firefox's "Save Link As" is utterly broken (on Linux under KDE anyway - I think it works on the Windows version). Try to download anything from many different Web sites and you get spurious errors back from the Web site - including the notion, from Rapidshare, that you're "already downloading a file" or you've just submitted the wrong CAPCHA- or it just downloads a few bytes or no bytes. Utterly broken. I've had to install DownThemAll and use it to be able to download anything. ("Save Image As", however, still works fine, so I can still get my babe pictures from Superiorpics.com.)
2) Now that I'm still able to "Save Image As", as noted above, I run into: memory leaks - save dozens of images and wait for Firefox to slow to a crawl or start manipulating the save dialog weirdly (fixed under KDE by forcing the windows to a specific size and shape). C'mon, guys, MEMORY LEAKS? This is the 21st Century! We still have people not checking for properly allocated memory? The guys at Mozilla just graduate from Programming 101 - Introduction to Programming with BASIC?
And this has been true since Firefox 1.0. The author of the article under discussion mentions a cut and paste bug which I'm not sure I've seen myself, but he notes this bug is FOUR YEARS OLD. Add the memory leaks to that.
The screwups in 2.0 forced me to install Opera 9 as an alternative browser (and occasionally use Kongueror as well). I haven't used Opera since I think 5.7. Now that's free with no ads, I figured I might as well try it. It's STILL the fastest browser in the business, noticeably faster than Firefox or IE7. And while it has bugs (ALL software has bugs), they aren't show stoppers for me like Firefox 2.0's are.
What really bugs me is that problem number one above CLEARLY shows that Firefox 2.0 simply was NOT TESTED adequately. Since I've just had major problems a few weeks ago with Mandriva 2007 and SUSE 10.1, forcing me to switch to Kubuntu 6.06 (and IT had a problem with its installer), it is now VERY clear to me that Linux and OSS in general is in danger of being held back by incompetent design and very inadequate testing.
The distros and OSS projects are expending their limited manpower and resources into doing things like putting more eye candy into Linux (with Compiz and the like - the problems with the official Nvidia drivers in MANY distros are becoming legendary, since everybody wants "3D shaky windows", for some bizarre reason - I had to uninstall them on my machine after I lost my desktop and other instabilities) rather than putting them into ensuring a rock-solid experience for the end user - which is supposed to be Linux's strong point against Windows.
This is especially true in the installers. End users switching from Windows to Linux need to be shown UP FRONT in the installation process that Linux is better. Screwups like Kubuntu's inability to leave the mount point modification screen are simply unacceptable.
Screwups like SUSE 10.1's update "patch" that screws the entire software update process are also unacceptable. Software update is a considerable weakness in Linux right now (with the possible exception of Synaptic) and the entire process of setting repositories and downloading updates needs to be totally automated and rock solid if we expect Windows users to be able to use Linux.
I read a book twenty years ago about "industrial espionage" which also covered "piracy". Then it was Taiwan and Hong Kong that was the source of this sort of thing. The author of the book discovered that the Chinese had a network of companies set up who could reproduce the guts of the thing being copied, the packaging, the distribution, the whole nine yards.
At least one clothing company did what Samsung in the article tried to do - buy them out. They found a Chinese knockoff company, bought them, then released the product under their own name as their "budget brand".
Nothing wrong with the practice except when the "pirates" put the original company name on the product - that's fraud and should be exposed, if not punished. As long as the company doesn't promote the product as the original company's product, who cares?
According to Justin Raimondo's analysis of the case, Litivenko is a raving lunatic whose accusations in general have been ridiculously unsubstantiated.
Therefore, the likelihood is that he was killed precisely to frame Putin for his murder, since he had no other value to anybody, apparently.
The assumption that Putin is behind it just because the individual was ex-KGB is a clear case of jumping to conclusions based on no evidence.
Unfortunately for your theory, Putin is not involved in the "Russian Mafia" - which should read as "the Russian-Israeli Mafia" since some seventy of the Russian oligarchs that Putin chased out of Russia now have Israeli passports (whether they were ever "Jewish" or not, apparently.)
Read Justin Raimondo's analysis of the case at Antiwar.com. He makes a good case for Putin being framed for this by US and other neocons and oligarchs trying to restart the "Cold War".
It works the same as Syria being framed for the Harriri (and now Gemayel) murders in Lebanon - since the real beneficiary of all this is Israel, who is known to have assassination squads operating in Lebanon for several years.
Personally, I think in 2008 we should run Putin for US President - with either George Galloway or Segolene Royal as Vice-President. At least we'd get a smart President and either a smart and/or good-looking (Segolene makes Hillary look like Ernest Borgnine - and he's been dead for years) Vice President - instead of getting another neocon or the Democratic equivalent in both slots.
Can't see a damn thing. All you can do is hear the cops demanding the guy stand up, and the guy yelling back at them, plus the other students demanding to see the cops badge numbers.
Nothing to see here - move along.
As for the case itself, this will go no where - despite the fact that bloggers are reporting that one of the cops involved has a history of excessive force including choking a student with a nightstick and shooting a mentally ill homeless man. The cops can claim that the guy was either "resisting arrest" or "interfering with an officer" and that will be accepted as justification for using the Taser.
The facts are that the guy was in process of leaving, was seized by a cop (unnecessarily since the guy was leaving) and when the guy demanded to be released, the cops accelerated their use of force, and then when the guy went limp to avoid further abuse, they proceeded to Taser him.
This is clearly improper police procedure, at the very least an inappropriate way to handle a situation which had no reason to become violent.
Nonetheless, the cops will walk on this one, because police forces everywhere in this country are out of control as part of the general decline into fascism in this country. Go back and look at the NYPD goons involved in the Abner Louima case. When I first saw videos of these cops, I thought, "What section of the SS did they find these goons from?"
A primary reason for the Abu Ghraib and other torture scandals in Iraq was the presence of correctional officers in the National Guard. Correctional officers in both state and Federal prisons routinely abuse prisoners. It's no surprise it occurred in a military setting outside the overview of the court system.
Face it. The only proper attitude to cops these days is: death to cops!
We have a system where the urinals are sort of kiosk-like affairs. You put in a quarter (or a token for the homeless), the door opens, you go in and do your thing, you leave, the door closes and locks for a few minutes while the system steam-cleans the insides completely, then it's ready for the next customer.
I've only used them a couple times, but they seem efficient - as long as they don't break down, which they do apparently.
Business wants cheap labor. It has nothing to do with "skill sets" - which these morons wouldn't understand if you paid them anyway, as anybody who has ever looked for a tech job knows.
They stop supporting universities and trade schools. They also treat the tech grads they have miserly - as they have since the dot.bomb. They make sure the tech employment market slows down.
Wallah! No more tech grads.
Now they go to the government and say, "We don't have enough tech grads! Let us import cheap labor."
Suckers.
Again, if you don't understand the underlying motives of humans, you'll never understand how things work in the real world.
Go see the movie, "The Departed" which illustrates the point. Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello has a great line. Told somebody's mother is dying and "on her way out", he replies: "You all are. Act accordingly."
When you people get a clue and realize that law is intended to create crime and thus criminals out of ordinary citizens who can then be controlled more easily, you'll never understand how things work.
Just as "war is the health of the state" externally so "crime is the health of the state" internally.
It's that simple.
And it's always done for the benefit of a few. The "few" may change from time to time, as one group rises and another falls, but it's always a few.
Get a clue or keep playing the same old game "from here to Eternity", as William Burroughs character "Old Sarge" used to say.
...when programmers FINALLY learn to stop producing buffer overflow conditions?
How many years now have they known this is a no-no?
When the hell are programmers going to be adequately trained in proper coding procedures?
When the hell are humans going to stop taking pointless shortcuts contradictory to their end goals? Or start using computers to CHECK FOR their stupid mistakes instead of using them to MAKE their stupid mistakes?
I've just switched back to Opera 9 because Firefox 2.0 is so riddled with stupid bugs - not to mention a new security problem just about every week. It was like using IE 5.0.
It's what they can DO that matters - and the bottom line is that the BEST they could do is 9/11 - and it's pretty clear that only worked because of either incompetence or collusion on the part of the US government and the Israeli Mossad (who had the 9/11 guys under surveillance for MONTHS, maybe years, without telling the US until a month before the attacks.)
Stuff your paranoia.
Go look at "V for Vendetta" again and concentrate on the following line:
"I want EVERYONE to REMEMBER WHY THEY NEED US!"
That's the rationale for this crap right there. Nothing more.
They should look at MY hard drive - got nuclear weapons plans there from Cryptome just last week! Not to mention every military weapons and improvised weapons and explosives manual and hacker book there is.
Bwahahahaha!!
And with MY background, they REALLY would be concerned.
Of course, I'm white and not Muslim...
When I got arrested for armed bank robbery back in 1993, the judge was provided copies of papers from my room. He didn't know whether to poop or go blind. All he could say was that he didn't think some of the stuff there was possible.
He was wrong. Someday somebody somewhere (other than me) will prove him wrong.
In other words, Ubuntu-Kubuntu NEVER TESTED AN INSTALL FROM LIVE CD WITH CHANGES OF MOUNT POINTS!!
How FUCKING STUPID IS THAT?
I'm telling you, folks, after THREE DAYS now trying to get Mandriva 2007 to not crash (it simply died on its own when I went out for an hour - came back to a black screen, rebooted, no desktop except for the panel! No clue as to what happened anywhere!) , SUSE 10.1 to properly do update (Zenworks updater fails totally - SUSE acknowledges it's borked, users suggest using Smart which "mostly worked" - eventually an "Update all packages" crashed and burned the system) and now trying to install Kubuntu and failing with the unbelievably stupid problem of a screen that you can't go beyond, I am about to reverse my opinion about Linux on the desktop.
Linux "mostly works" on the desktop - IF you can GET IT TO the desktop - which apparently EVERY distro is now making virtually impossible.
Folks, Linux will not be destroyed by the kernel, or Microsoft patents, or corporate desktop inertia, or any of that.
It will be destroyed by the UTTER STUPID INCOMPETENCE of the distro makers and their apparent UTTER INABILITY to TEST, TEST, TEST before releasing their distro!
Everybody here knows I am an avid Linux supporter, but this sort of distro bullshit is just unacceptable. The Linux industry needs to step back, get a grip, and stop releasing new versions every six months WITHOUT ANY GODDAMN TESTING!
It's not the kernel's fault. It's crappy distro design, and utter lack of testing.
Setting up package repositories, for example. This should be UTTERLY AUTOMATED. No going to Web sites, copying and pasting command lines to a terminal, no hunting down mirrors and manually adding URLs (like Smart does), none of that crap.
Every distro should have ONE location (with mirrors) where a comprehensive list of repos and mirrors is present. Every distro should run a cron job at night that goes there, updates the list of repos and mirrors, disabling ones that are done, enabling ones that are up, getting the catalogs of stuff and rebuilding the package database. The ONLY thing the user has to do is browse available software and either install or remove it. No dependency crap, no nothing else. The advanced user can be given the ability to select preferred repos and mirror and the like in "expert" mode.
And every distro needs to make DAMN SURE that an update does NOT break the system, at least not without providing an easy and automated way to uninstall the offending update and restoring the system to functionality.
NO distro has package management right yet.
STOP fucking around with installing "three dimensional windows" and the rest of that eye candy BULLSHIT and GET THE BASICS RIGHT.
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Great - they recommend uninstalling Java to use it.
Right. Brilliant.
How about going back to the drawing board and fixing the problem BEFORE releasing a crippled product? Ever occur to anybody on the project?
I hope this thing works better than Amarok which for no known or apparent reason just died on my Kubuntu. And Juk, which I tried as a replacement, wouldn't play anything at all. I'm back to using Kaffeine as my audio player as well as my video player.
Can anybody in the IT industry write code that actually works? Anybody? Anybody at all?
In other words, how long before the Feds require each state to maintain the same database - or require access to the Federal database - before you can get a driver's license or pretty much do anything else?
Next, cops will be running your license plate - or just your face on the street - and stopping you for warrantless searches based on criteria you know nothing about?
Sure, cops can do all that stuff NOW. The difference is they do it based on either their own stupidity, or because they have a "quota" of "stops" to make or because they actually see some reason to suspect YOU. Now they will do it because "somebody" "somewhere" put "something" about you in a database you can't see or challenge.
This goes WAY past "show me your papers".
Face it, folks, you're living in Nazi Germany now, with "The Decider" calling the shots as a result of a "Reichstag Fire" incident and "the invasion of Poland".
And the suckers here will continue to say it's all good.
More proof that Gates is using this Foundation as a stock laundering scheme and influence peddling. After he croaks he couldn't care less if it continues on. I'm just surprised he isn't using the money to find a way to live forever (a laudable goal for anyone else) - apparently he doesn't have the imagination.
This is merely another PR move.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
is that everybody is perfectly willing to assume that the President of Russia personally ordered a critic poisoned in another major country - thus threatening Russia's diplomatic relations with said country if it ever is proven - just to silence a guy who basically was a raving nutcase that nobody paid any attention to. All the while ignoring the billionaire oligarch who was BEHIND said raving lunatic and who is KNOWN to be a criminal and whose associates are KNOWN to be criminals wanted in Russia for crimes against the government and the people,
Meanwhile, the same morons vehemently deny the possibility that Bush ordered an invasion of Iraq in order to secure oil for his family's oil company cronies, or that Cheney has ANY connections with the amount of money Halliburton has made out of Iraq, or that Israel, KNOWN to commit assassinations practically anywhere on the planet regardless of legality, could have anything to do with the assassinations in Lebanon, despite being the only known beneficiary of such assassinations.
Double standard, anyone?
The NK "elite" can get whatever they need regardless of stupid sanctions.
That's WHY they are the "elite". Did you miss that?
And who says they'll be any more open to throwing away their nuclear weapons than Kim even if they DID overthrow him? You compare nukes to iPods? I'd much rather have a nuke than an iPod - especially if I know Bush wants MY ass overthrown along with Kim's.
"Dumbass"...
Everyone who disagrees with me IS a moron.
/, so many times it's beyond dispute.
Proven it here on
Expect to prove it again within minutes.
Like people starving in North Korea - or Kim, for that matter - are going to be pressured into doing anything because they can't buy an iPod (which of course will be instantly smuggled in anyway from China or via the business connections the North has with the South if anybody really wants one.)
This is what passes for "spreading democracy" in the Bush administration.
It's moronic beyond words.
Well, as far as the WTC is concerned, the Zim company moved out shortly before it occurred - after a decades-long presence there, and foregoing a $50,000 penalty. And one of the bigger stockholders happens to be the State of Israel.
Not to mention that Mossad agents were known to be shadowing the WTC conspirators (as "handlers", perhaps) for months before the attack - and only bothered to alert the US - in vague terms - perhaps a month before the attack.
Not to mention the Israeli agents caught filming the WTC attack - and their "employer" in New Jersey who fled to Israel when questioned by the FBI.
Oh, by the way, the company that runs the video monitoring systems in the London Underground - which allows anyone associated with them easy access to the Underground - is Israeli.
All the above facts are readily available to anyone who bothers to check.
Any more questions?
I follow Wayne Madsen as well.
Now it turns out from another source that Bob Lazar, the Area 51 UFO guy, runs a company that sells chemicals and he can sell you polonium for $69 from his Web site. Apparently the stuff is hard to produce, but relatively easy to obtain as it isn't tracked as a hazardous substance that you need authorization to buy or is surveilled by any agency.
So much for it being hard to get and thus requiring a state to do this form of hit.
You're right about Borgnine - I must have been thinking about his last wife.
Still, he's always LOOKED dead, which was the point.
"better concept" of intellectual property because IP is a "non-concept", flawed at its root.
The only "IP" is a SECRET I know and you don't. As soon as I tell it or sell it to you, it's no longer "IP". That simple.
Anything else is trying to use contract law to control someone's behavior for someone else's benefit.
The proper response to that "someone else" is: fuck you.
Well, 3, really, since I agree with the author that the look is worse - but that doesn't particularly bother me, as I'm not interested in "eye candy". If I can read the screen text and figure out the buttons, I'm satisfied.
My two main complaints are:
1) Firefox's "Save Link As" is utterly broken (on Linux under KDE anyway - I think it works on the Windows version). Try to download anything from many different Web sites and you get spurious errors back from the Web site - including the notion, from Rapidshare, that you're "already downloading a file" or you've just submitted the wrong CAPCHA- or it just downloads a few bytes or no bytes. Utterly broken. I've had to install DownThemAll and use it to be able to download anything. ("Save Image As", however, still works fine, so I can still get my babe pictures from Superiorpics.com.)
2) Now that I'm still able to "Save Image As", as noted above, I run into: memory leaks - save dozens of images and wait for Firefox to slow to a crawl or start manipulating the save dialog weirdly (fixed under KDE by forcing the windows to a specific size and shape). C'mon, guys, MEMORY LEAKS? This is the 21st Century! We still have people not checking for properly allocated memory? The guys at Mozilla just graduate from Programming 101 - Introduction to Programming with BASIC?
And this has been true since Firefox 1.0. The author of the article under discussion mentions a cut and paste bug which I'm not sure I've seen myself, but he notes this bug is FOUR YEARS OLD. Add the memory leaks to that.
The screwups in 2.0 forced me to install Opera 9 as an alternative browser (and occasionally use Kongueror as well). I haven't used Opera since I think 5.7. Now that's free with no ads, I figured I might as well try it. It's STILL the fastest browser in the business, noticeably faster than Firefox or IE7. And while it has bugs (ALL software has bugs), they aren't show stoppers for me like Firefox 2.0's are.
What really bugs me is that problem number one above CLEARLY shows that Firefox 2.0 simply was NOT TESTED adequately. Since I've just had major problems a few weeks ago with Mandriva 2007 and SUSE 10.1, forcing me to switch to Kubuntu 6.06 (and IT had a problem with its installer), it is now VERY clear to me that Linux and OSS in general is in danger of being held back by incompetent design and very inadequate testing.
The distros and OSS projects are expending their limited manpower and resources into doing things like putting more eye candy into Linux (with Compiz and the like - the problems with the official Nvidia drivers in MANY distros are becoming legendary, since everybody wants "3D shaky windows", for some bizarre reason - I had to uninstall them on my machine after I lost my desktop and other instabilities) rather than putting them into ensuring a rock-solid experience for the end user - which is supposed to be Linux's strong point against Windows.
This is especially true in the installers. End users switching from Windows to Linux need to be shown UP FRONT in the installation process that Linux is better. Screwups like Kubuntu's inability to leave the mount point modification screen are simply unacceptable.
Screwups like SUSE 10.1's update "patch" that screws the entire software update process are also unacceptable. Software update is a considerable weakness in Linux right now (with the possible exception of Synaptic) and the entire process of setting repositories and downloading updates needs to be totally automated and rock solid if we expect Windows users to be able to use Linux.
I read a book twenty years ago about "industrial espionage" which also covered "piracy". Then it was Taiwan and Hong Kong that was the source of this sort of thing. The author of the book discovered that the Chinese had a network of companies set up who could reproduce the guts of the thing being copied, the packaging, the distribution, the whole nine yards.
At least one clothing company did what Samsung in the article tried to do - buy them out. They found a Chinese knockoff company, bought them, then released the product under their own name as their "budget brand".
Nothing wrong with the practice except when the "pirates" put the original company name on the product - that's fraud and should be exposed, if not punished. As long as the company doesn't promote the product as the original company's product, who cares?
Thank you for pointing out some facts conveniently overlooked by the Western press eager to hang Putin.
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And you got scored zero for it - typical of
According to Justin Raimondo's analysis of the case, Litivenko is a raving lunatic whose accusations in general have been ridiculously unsubstantiated.
Therefore, the likelihood is that he was killed precisely to frame Putin for his murder, since he had no other value to anybody, apparently.
The assumption that Putin is behind it just because the individual was ex-KGB is a clear case of jumping to conclusions based on no evidence.
Unfortunately for your theory, Putin is not involved in the "Russian Mafia" - which should read as "the Russian-Israeli Mafia" since some seventy of the Russian oligarchs that Putin chased out of Russia now have Israeli passports (whether they were ever "Jewish" or not, apparently.)
Read Justin Raimondo's analysis of the case at Antiwar.com. He makes a good case for Putin being framed for this by US and other neocons and oligarchs trying to restart the "Cold War".
It works the same as Syria being framed for the Harriri (and now Gemayel) murders in Lebanon - since the real beneficiary of all this is Israel, who is known to have assassination squads operating in Lebanon for several years.
Personally, I think in 2008 we should run Putin for US President - with either George Galloway or Segolene Royal as Vice-President. At least we'd get a smart President and either a smart and/or good-looking (Segolene makes Hillary look like Ernest Borgnine - and he's been dead for years) Vice President - instead of getting another neocon or the Democratic equivalent in both slots.
Can't see a damn thing. All you can do is hear the cops demanding the guy stand up, and the guy yelling back at them, plus the other students demanding to see the cops badge numbers.
Nothing to see here - move along.
As for the case itself, this will go no where - despite the fact that bloggers are reporting that one of the cops involved has a history of excessive force including choking a student with a nightstick and shooting a mentally ill homeless man. The cops can claim that the guy was either "resisting arrest" or "interfering with an officer" and that will be accepted as justification for using the Taser.
The facts are that the guy was in process of leaving, was seized by a cop (unnecessarily since the guy was leaving) and when the guy demanded to be released, the cops accelerated their use of force, and then when the guy went limp to avoid further abuse, they proceeded to Taser him.
This is clearly improper police procedure, at the very least an inappropriate way to handle a situation which had no reason to become violent.
Nonetheless, the cops will walk on this one, because police forces everywhere in this country are out of control as part of the general decline into fascism in this country. Go back and look at the NYPD goons involved in the Abner Louima case. When I first saw videos of these cops, I thought, "What section of the SS did they find these goons from?"
A primary reason for the Abu Ghraib and other torture scandals in Iraq was the presence of correctional officers in the National Guard. Correctional officers in both state and Federal prisons routinely abuse prisoners. It's no surprise it occurred in a military setting outside the overview of the court system.
Face it. The only proper attitude to cops these days is: death to cops!
The only good cop is a dead cop.
We have a system where the urinals are sort of kiosk-like affairs. You put in a quarter (or a token for the homeless), the door opens, you go in and do your thing, you leave, the door closes and locks for a few minutes while the system steam-cleans the insides completely, then it's ready for the next customer.
I've only used them a couple times, but they seem efficient - as long as they don't break down, which they do apparently.
Business wants cheap labor. It has nothing to do with "skill sets" - which these morons wouldn't understand if you paid them anyway, as anybody who has ever looked for a tech job knows.
They stop supporting universities and trade schools. They also treat the tech grads they have miserly - as they have since the dot.bomb. They make sure the tech employment market slows down.
Wallah! No more tech grads.
Now they go to the government and say, "We don't have enough tech grads! Let us import cheap labor."
Suckers.
Again, if you don't understand the underlying motives of humans, you'll never understand how things work in the real world.
Go see the movie, "The Departed" which illustrates the point. Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello has a great line. Told somebody's mother is dying and "on her way out", he replies: "You all are. Act accordingly."
When you people get a clue and realize that law is intended to create crime and thus criminals out of ordinary citizens who can then be controlled more easily, you'll never understand how things work.
Just as "war is the health of the state" externally so "crime is the health of the state" internally.
It's that simple.
And it's always done for the benefit of a few. The "few" may change from time to time, as one group rises and another falls, but it's always a few.
Get a clue or keep playing the same old game "from here to Eternity", as William Burroughs character "Old Sarge" used to say.
...when programmers FINALLY learn to stop producing buffer overflow conditions?
How many years now have they known this is a no-no?
When the hell are programmers going to be adequately trained in proper coding procedures?
When the hell are humans going to stop taking pointless shortcuts contradictory to their end goals? Or start using computers to CHECK FOR their stupid mistakes instead of using them to MAKE their stupid mistakes?
I've just switched back to Opera 9 because Firefox 2.0 is so riddled with stupid bugs - not to mention a new security problem just about every week. It was like using IE 5.0.
Get your heads out of your asses, geeks.
Who gives a shit what "Muslim extremists" WANT?
It's what they can DO that matters - and the bottom line is that the BEST they could do is 9/11 - and it's pretty clear that only worked because of either incompetence or collusion on the part of the US government and the Israeli Mossad (who had the 9/11 guys under surveillance for MONTHS, maybe years, without telling the US until a month before the attacks.)
Stuff your paranoia.
Go look at "V for Vendetta" again and concentrate on the following line:
"I want EVERYONE to REMEMBER WHY THEY NEED US!"
That's the rationale for this crap right there. Nothing more.
They should look at MY hard drive - got nuclear weapons plans there from Cryptome just last week! Not to mention every military weapons and improvised weapons and explosives manual and hacker book there is.
Bwahahahaha!!
And with MY background, they REALLY would be concerned.
Of course, I'm white and not Muslim...
When I got arrested for armed bank robbery back in 1993, the judge was provided copies of papers from my room. He didn't know whether to poop or go blind. All he could say was that he didn't think some of the stuff there was possible.
He was wrong. Someday somebody somewhere (other than me) will prove him wrong.
Journalists ARE pigs.
And they write cheap spam.
What's your point?
Guess what?
You can't get past the Mount Points screen!
In other words, Ubuntu-Kubuntu NEVER TESTED AN INSTALL FROM LIVE CD WITH CHANGES OF MOUNT POINTS!!
How FUCKING STUPID IS THAT?
I'm telling you, folks, after THREE DAYS now trying to get Mandriva 2007 to not crash (it simply died on its own when I went out for an hour - came back to a black screen, rebooted, no desktop except for the panel! No clue as to what happened anywhere!) , SUSE 10.1 to properly do update (Zenworks updater fails totally - SUSE acknowledges it's borked, users suggest using Smart which "mostly worked" - eventually an "Update all packages" crashed and burned the system) and now trying to install Kubuntu and failing with the unbelievably stupid problem of a screen that you can't go beyond, I am about to reverse my opinion about Linux on the desktop.
Linux "mostly works" on the desktop - IF you can GET IT TO the desktop - which apparently EVERY distro is now making virtually impossible.
Folks, Linux will not be destroyed by the kernel, or Microsoft patents, or corporate desktop inertia, or any of that.
It will be destroyed by the UTTER STUPID INCOMPETENCE of the distro makers and their apparent UTTER INABILITY to TEST, TEST, TEST before releasing their distro!
Everybody here knows I am an avid Linux supporter, but this sort of distro bullshit is just unacceptable. The Linux industry needs to step back, get a grip, and stop releasing new versions every six months WITHOUT ANY GODDAMN TESTING!
It's not the kernel's fault. It's crappy distro design, and utter lack of testing.
Setting up package repositories, for example. This should be UTTERLY AUTOMATED. No going to Web sites, copying and pasting command lines to a terminal, no hunting down mirrors and manually adding URLs (like Smart does), none of that crap.
Every distro should have ONE location (with mirrors) where a comprehensive list of repos and mirrors is present. Every distro should run a cron job at night that goes there, updates the list of repos and mirrors, disabling ones that are done, enabling ones that are up, getting the catalogs of stuff and rebuilding the package database. The ONLY thing the user has to do is browse available software and either install or remove it. No dependency crap, no nothing else. The advanced user can be given the ability to select preferred repos and mirror and the like in "expert" mode.
And every distro needs to make DAMN SURE that an update does NOT break the system, at least not without providing an easy and automated way to uninstall the offending update and restoring the system to functionality.
NO distro has package management right yet.
STOP fucking around with installing "three dimensional windows" and the rest of that eye candy BULLSHIT and GET THE BASICS RIGHT.