Sorry, METALLICA !=GOOD, and it's quite ironic that Metallica would be your choice considering their in-beddedness with the RIAA on the issue at hand.:) I take that back, this is/. and you were probably making a point circuitously.
Because their actions (Get the Facts, SCO Lawsuit Ties, Mixed OOo and ODF Arguments) indicate that they are waging a campaign to lock people into their proprietary formats and applications, and they are doing it using lobbying efforts in many countries.
They have judgements against them in courts of law that have identified this behavior as unlawful and monopolistic.
This is a PR problem that Microsoft has had and actively hamfistedly mishandled for quite some time.
"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." (Anatomy of Fascism, p. 218)
1: Community Decline - Anecdotally it is quite evident that news media and the religio-militarist-fascists-in the guise of liberty loving folks like you use this very assertion hourly (24 hours a day, on CNN - headline news) but don't worry, it's fascism "for the children."
2: Humiliation - Outing of Valerie Plame (sic?) . Multitudes of others.
3: victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity - Again, the popular recent meme of the victimized Christian was used admirably by the Bush Administration to gain power, appealing to the sheeple works admirably. Where have you been?
I could go on, but the further points are less easy to make a case for objectively, the above were not really objective either, but fascism is not far from the mark, in my opinion.
It aint just the Republicans either. The Dems will gladly give away freedom for security, arguably faster than most Republicans, they both read from the same playbook.
Somewhat off topic, but maybe not, rentacoder has some of the most horribly content-absent displaying fields of white space in my particular bleeding edge firefox browser. Perhaps the original poster should seek out the arch enemy of the Rentacoder web programming staff.
Well it would stand to reason that Sony will be less likely to go for a ridiculously evil activity like this after getting spanked both in various United States state courts and the court of public opinion. Then again, if they were reasonable they wouldn't be so hot on excessive DRM activities to begin with.
Only because the organization I work for has to, it must have a large enough user base that it is a necessary platform to develop for.
IMO HP-UX Just isn't all that exciting or robust, even to those that get excited in general about Unix and Unix-Like operating systems.
It is similar to AIX in that it has a nice console-gui, SAM, that you can use to do almost every, and perhaps every system admin task through it. This for me is a definite plus.
I am sad for those that may have used it extensively, and enjoyed the Interex user group.
They release updates to the game via [fv]ileplanet (:)) so why not go whole hog and release the game under promotion too?
The profit/promotion motive does not exist however as I'm getting the feeling Vengeance will be a "Win32 and Maybe OSX Only But Theres a Linux Server" kind of game.
Wish I had more time to play while there's still the possibility of playing.
I wonder if the linux version (only one I actually own) is offered under this promotion.
I would suspect not... but the article doesn't go into too many details.
It would be better if the game was "Free as in Speech" released, but not too realistic to expect considering the torque engine has license fees to depend on.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, do not represent (except in lip service) any sort of free market.
Maybe they represent it more closely than most Democrats...
That out of the way, relating this back to the topic, the free market or the invisible hand, whatever, seems to have contorted or corrected in reaction to developments intelligently.
Since I would be considered a Mammonist... or a Free Market worshipper of sorts.;) I think it's a good thing.
I'm sick of D-Idiot and R-Idiot Bring Back the Old Whigs!
I happen to have an IBM Model MO09K mouse that does what the Microsoft mouse is said to do... three buttons and a scroll in both axes. Because the middle mover nub is essentially a blue trackpoint.
Micro$oft Innovation? No... just really good marketing...
I really like this mouse though so the bandwagon Microsoft is jumping on is the right one in my opinion.
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HUH?
There would also be no incentive for me to tip at my favorite restaraunt since i am ensured of getting a good meal from any place...
Why do i still do it?
/<WHUMP/>
The sound of logic falling.
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As someone fond of seeking root causes...
The racial and ethnic discrimination *is* pretty effing close to the attitudes of the status quo towards (insert your subculture here)...
For a prime example of an ethnic minority/racial/cultural minority without an obvious physical difference that was rounded up and put to death just look at Nazi Germany.
The only difference is by degree. And the sick thing is people really don't realize they are doing it.
A jerry springer episode comes to mind <shudder> with the (hoochie mama subculture) girl in the audience absolutely enraged by the (raver goth subculture) girl onstage. There is a bitter irony in this picture of society.
Ahhh... hell. We'll all be rounding ourselves up at this rate. The point of the movie and the comic is related to the fascist/racist instinct? in us. And it illustrates it well. Katz doesnt exactly deliver his point well but he's not that off base.
Which is NOT possible anyway - even with some Uzis a bunch of gun-nuts won't overthrown the US governement (be it corrupt or not : gun-nuts tend to be on the paranoid side).
I suppose it also was not possible for the citizenry opposed to the us/french in Vietnam to have done very well in opposing a technically superior foreign aggressor. Anyway, you really aren't going to make any impression whatsoever on someone like me who believes in the 2nd ammendment quite strongly and does not fall into the "Billy Bubba chewin tobacco Deliverance cast member" stereotype you hope to carry across with the term gun-nut.
And then again, I don't think the constitution was written with Uzi, tactical nukes, biological weapons and TNT in mind. The consitution doesn't say you should be allowed to buy SR-71 at Walmart.
Like any constitutional right there is to it protection a neccesary amount of common sense applied...DMCA Know your Customer and several other forms of state mandated idiocy also werent invented but the first ammendment still may (i hope) have some effectiveness against them.
for a first ammendment parallel="fire in a crowded theater" not being protected speech. Perhaps this shall sway you away from the fear-rhetoric you are obviously under the effect of, which may cause you to think that your neighbor has an Anthrax warhead equipped Missle aimed at your home;)
The weapon possession should be allowed BECAUSE it is necessary to the security of a free state. This is a reference to external threats (such as England) NOT a defense against a corrupt governement. The people who say so are just right-wingers obsessed with any governement intervention into their activies and other conspiracy nuts. This article talks about being able to turn citizens into a defense army against invasions, not about emptying a McDonalds with a M16. Also notice the words well regulated (which doesn't apply to individuals stockpiling AK-47 to prepare for the Y2K bug, or to David Koresh followers either). So far pro-gun failed to explain how they plan to "well regulate " their militia (since they hate so much any regulation). I'm afraid all you pro-gun people only take the words the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed and try to erase the begining of the sentence (A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state) because you don't like it. If you have to use the 2nd amendment, then use it completely or don't use it.
You are wrong, they/I do. At the time the United States had no regular army and relied upon local militias to organize themselves into fighting units. To this end in order that militias are not to require massive amounts of training to be effective with their weaponry in the defense of the FREE state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Also people used their weapons for self defense and hunting as they do now.
And for my defensive stab at your attack on my rights:
Im afraid all you anti-gun people will stumble all over yourselves to crush every contitutional right we have in the name of safety and the common good while in actuality you create a system of laws that punish and the law-abiding all for a kind and happy feeling that someone will always be there to protect you when/if anything bad happens.
Now this is the analogy of the day. Mod this guy up... Not sure (memory fails at the moment) but i think the salon peice was the only one that went into the details on this one. Should something that I slightly modify be considered protected under my own licence agreements if it was a slightly hacked version of the original?
I believe the problem with the asteroid collision was more related to massive overall environmental change causing everything existing at the time to ante up for their survivability. I had heard the cold blooded vs warm blooded thing mentioned but only as a one-of-many factor argument.
All the food (plants, other animals that ate plants, insects that breed in other animals...) for most critters at the time was dealt a rather hefty shock, so all the critters (love that word lately) had to deal with a drastic change followed by a long period of calamitous weather conditions.
Just grade them on what you read in this book. The Constitution of Liberty Friedrich A Hayek.
Good reading... Mod me up for something informative please...
Now on to the Christians.
If they could only realize there are more important things to be doing with our body politic than worrying about the horrors of pornography.
You will probably notice the stunning lack of any kind of respect for any religion when you offer a repocrat enough money.
And a response to all the poor christians complaining that they get some ill will thrown their way. Christianity is big business. And it engages, or has engaged in, practices which make our friend in Redmond look like a kind neighborhood grocer. They have strongarmed their way into institutional control of every government in europe pre-1776 and in this new world have been held in check by the protections in our constitution.
I have respect for Christians who can see this and take this criticism, for those that can't, I vote against you on these issues and with you on certain others. Hopefully there is a shred of power I can wield with other like minded people.
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http://www.openrpg.com/ - wx?Python based online virtual tabletop.
I believe he got it from the crufty fud factory.
I sense a PR machine being retooled, or maybe listened to more frequently.
Sorry, METALLICA !=GOOD, and it's quite ironic that Metallica would be your choice considering their in-beddedness with the RIAA on the issue at hand. :) I take that back, this is /. and you were probably making a point circuitously.
I think "... heathery new penguin-gnu ..." would have a better ring. :)
Because their actions (Get the Facts, SCO Lawsuit Ties, Mixed OOo and ODF Arguments) indicate that they are waging a campaign to lock people into their proprietary formats and applications, and they are doing it using lobbying efforts in many countries.
They have judgements against them in courts of law that have identified this behavior as unlawful and monopolistic.
This is a PR problem that Microsoft has had and actively hamfistedly mishandled for quite some time.
Sarcasm or Devils Advocacy.
"Fascism may be defined as a form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation, or victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion." (Anatomy of Fascism, p. 218)
1: Community Decline - Anecdotally it is quite evident that news media and the religio-militarist-fascists-in the guise of liberty loving folks like you use this very assertion hourly (24 hours a day, on CNN - headline news) but don't worry, it's fascism "for the children."
2: Humiliation - Outing of Valerie Plame (sic?) . Multitudes of others.
3: victim-hood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy, and purity - Again, the popular recent meme of the victimized Christian was used admirably by the Bush Administration to gain power, appealing to the sheeple works admirably. Where have you been?
I could go on, but the further points are less easy to make a case for objectively, the above were not really objective either, but fascism is not far from the mark, in my opinion.
It aint just the Republicans either. The Dems will gladly give away freedom for security, arguably faster than most Republicans, they both read from the same playbook.
Check your keyboard, the 'y' 'o' 'u' and 'r' key appear to have issues with responsiveness to pressing, I'd say it is about 50% functional.
Now this post is insightful, pithy too.
Somewhat off topic, but maybe not, rentacoder has some of the most horribly content-absent displaying fields of white space in my particular bleeding edge firefox browser. Perhaps the original poster should seek out the arch enemy of the Rentacoder web programming staff.
Well it would stand to reason that Sony will be less likely to go for a ridiculously evil activity like this after getting spanked both in various United States state courts and the court of public opinion. Then again, if they were reasonable they wouldn't be so hot on excessive DRM activities to begin with.
Guess I'm just muddying up the issue.
Only because the organization I work for has to, it must have a large enough user base that it is a necessary platform to develop for.
IMO HP-UX Just isn't all that exciting or robust, even to those that get excited in general about Unix and Unix-Like operating systems.
It is similar to AIX in that it has a nice console-gui, SAM, that you can use to do almost every, and perhaps every system admin task through it. This for me is a definite plus.
I am sad for those that may have used it extensively, and enjoyed the Interex user group.
I know someone trustworthy enough!
"The People"
But they'll probably let us all down, eventually.
I second the "doesn't seem right".
They release updates to the game via [fv]ileplanet (:)) so why not go whole hog and release the game under promotion too?
The profit/promotion motive does not exist however as I'm getting the feeling Vengeance will be a "Win32 and Maybe OSX Only But Theres a Linux Server" kind of game.
Wish I had more time to play while there's still the possibility of playing.
I wonder if the linux version (only one I actually own) is offered under this promotion.
I would suspect not... but the article doesn't go into too many details.
It would be better if the game was "Free as in Speech" released, but not too realistic to expect considering the torque engine has license fees to depend on.
Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld, do not represent (except in lip service) any sort of free market.
;) I think it's a good thing.
Maybe they represent it more closely than most Democrats...
That out of the way, relating this back to the topic, the free market or the invisible hand, whatever, seems to have contorted or corrected in reaction to developments intelligently.
Since I would be considered a Mammonist... or a Free Market worshipper of sorts.
I'm sick of D-Idiot and R-Idiot
Bring Back the Old Whigs!
Ahh how refreshing to hear a state/government employee voting with someone elses (taxpayers) wallet.
That deal for the products did cost money, just not money out of *your* pocket.
I happen to have an IBM Model MO09K mouse that does what the Microsoft mouse is said to do... three buttons and a scroll in both axes. Because the middle mover nub is essentially a blue trackpoint.
Micro$oft Innovation? No... just really good marketing...
I really like this mouse though so the bandwagon Microsoft is jumping on is the right one in my opinion.
HUH?
There would also be no incentive for me to tip at my favorite restaraunt since i am ensured of getting a good meal from any place...
Why do i still do it?
/<WHUMP/>
The sound of logic falling.
As someone fond of seeking root causes...
The racial and ethnic discrimination *is* pretty effing close to the attitudes of the status quo towards (insert your subculture here)...
For a prime example of an ethnic minority/racial/cultural minority without an obvious physical difference that was rounded up and put to death just look at Nazi Germany.
The only difference is by degree. And the sick thing is people really don't realize they are doing it.
A jerry springer episode comes to mind <shudder> with the (hoochie mama subculture) girl in the audience absolutely enraged by the (raver goth subculture) girl onstage. There is a bitter irony in this picture of society.
Ahhh... hell. We'll all be rounding ourselves up at this rate. The point of the movie and the comic is related to the fascist/racist instinct? in us. And it illustrates it well. Katz doesnt exactly deliver his point well but he's not that off base.
Which is NOT possible anyway - even with some Uzis a bunch of gun-nuts won't overthrown the US governement (be it corrupt or not : gun-nuts tend to be on the paranoid side).
I suppose it also was not possible for the citizenry opposed to the us/french in Vietnam to have done very well in opposing a technically superior foreign aggressor. Anyway, you really aren't going to make any impression whatsoever on someone like me who believes in the 2nd ammendment quite strongly and does not fall into the "Billy Bubba chewin tobacco Deliverance cast member" stereotype you hope to carry across with the term gun-nut.
And then again, I don't think the constitution was written with Uzi, tactical nukes, biological weapons and TNT in mind. The consitution doesn't say you should be allowed to buy SR-71 at Walmart.
Like any constitutional right there is to it protection a neccesary amount of common sense applied...DMCA Know your Customer and several other forms of state mandated idiocy also werent invented but the first ammendment still may (i hope) have some effectiveness against them.
for a first ammendment parallel="fire in a crowded theater" not being protected speech. Perhaps this shall sway you away from the fear-rhetoric you are obviously under the effect of, which may cause you to think that your neighbor has an Anthrax warhead equipped Missle aimed at your home;)
The weapon possession should be allowed BECAUSE it is necessary to the security of a free state. This is a reference to external threats (such as England) NOT a defense against a corrupt governement. The people who say so are just right-wingers obsessed with any governement intervention into their activies and other conspiracy nuts. This article talks about being able to turn citizens into a defense army against invasions, not about emptying a McDonalds with a M16. Also notice the words well regulated (which doesn't apply to individuals stockpiling AK-47 to prepare for the Y2K bug, or to David Koresh followers either). So far pro-gun failed to explain how they plan to "well regulate " their militia (since they hate so much any regulation).
I'm afraid all you pro-gun people only take the words the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed and try to erase the begining of the sentence (A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state) because you don't like it. If you have to use the 2nd amendment, then use it completely or don't use it.
You are wrong, they/I do.
At the time the United States had no regular army and relied upon local militias to organize themselves into fighting units. To this end in order that militias are not to require massive amounts of training to be effective with their weaponry in the defense of the FREE state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Also people used their weapons for self defense and hunting as they do now.
And for my defensive stab at your attack on my rights:
Im afraid all you anti-gun people will stumble all over yourselves to crush every contitutional right we have in the name of safety and the common good while in actuality you create a system of laws that punish and the law-abiding all for a kind and happy feeling that someone will always be there to protect you when/if anything bad happens.
Now this is the analogy of the day.
Mod this guy up...
Not sure (memory fails at the moment) but i think the salon peice was the only one that went into the details on this one.
Should something that I slightly modify be considered protected under my own licence agreements if it was a slightly hacked version of the original?
I believe the problem with the asteroid collision was more related to massive overall environmental change causing everything existing at the time to ante up for their survivability. I had heard the cold blooded vs warm blooded thing mentioned but only as a one-of-many factor argument.
All the food (plants, other animals that ate plants, insects that breed in other animals...) for most critters at the time was dealt a rather hefty shock, so all the critters (love that word lately) had to deal with a drastic change followed by a long period of calamitous weather conditions.
Just grade them on what you read in this book. The Constitution of Liberty Friedrich A Hayek.
Good reading... Mod me up for something informative please...
Now on to the Christians.
If they could only realize there are more important things to be doing with our body politic than worrying about the horrors of pornography.
You will probably notice the stunning lack of any kind of respect for any religion when you offer a repocrat enough money.
And a response to all the poor christians complaining that they get some ill will thrown their way. Christianity is big business. And it engages, or has engaged in, practices which make our friend in Redmond look like a kind neighborhood grocer. They have strongarmed their way into institutional control of every government in europe pre-1776 and in this new world have been held in check by the protections in our constitution.
I have respect for Christians who can see this and take this criticism, for those that can't, I vote against you on these issues and with you on certain others. Hopefully there is a shred of power I can wield with other like minded people.