I love this quote by Jay Lehr of The Heartland Institute: "And, if we were to try to reduce greenhouse gases with China and India controlling way more than we do and they have boldly said they are not going to cripple their economy by following suit, our impact would have no change in temperature at all."
Point blank, people: You can't trust your local, highly trained meteorologist to predict tomorrow's weather, so how can you trust a bunch of politicians and climate scientists looking for funding to predict the weather 50 to 100 years out? Most of you will be dead before you realize it was a scam all along.
Remember the hole in the ozone scare? Turns out it's a natural phenomena after all... Now, we're stuck with R134a instead of the far more efficient R12, not to mention all these other products that supposedly did such irreparable harm...
Patrick Moore (founder of Greenpeace) said, "much of the environmental movement has been hijacked by extremist activists who use the language of the environment for a movement that has more to do with class struggle and anti-corporatism."
I absolutely refuse to buy games at the high ransom they charge. I wait until the games dip well below $40 before I ever buy.
I honestly believe that if they cut the price of their games by 1/3, the sales would double.
I really sure that I'd take information on global warming from a political machine that calls themselves "The Daily Green". Not on your life...
Again, this is modern day McCarthyism, where if you disagree, you'll be attacked. I've seen both sides of the evidence from many sources. I've concluded that the sky is not falling, so Chicken Little (Al Gore) needs to get lost!
It's complete garbage science mixed with carefully selected evidence, disregarding the complete portfolio of evidence to fit a theory based in politics. It's a big lie. Stop listening to Al Gore and start listening to real scientists. This is the modern day McCarthyism...
I actually met and attended a seminar of one of those that did defeat him, Vic Moore (a seriously tough dude!). I was actually a student of John Jelks and George Davis, who were Vic Moore's second and first black belt students, respectively.
http://victormoore.org/
I also met Chuck Norris, as a child, at the USKA Grand Nationals back in the 1970's. He was a very nice guy. I don't understand the hatred for the guy. He's never bragged about himself in public the way that Steven Segal has, and he's lived up to everything he's about. He actually was a great champion during his competitive days, and thus struck a bond with Bruce Lee and was featured in one of his films as a result. What's to dislike about him?
I find Linux to suit me for the very same reason. I'm not 100% converted, yet, but I just find Linux easier to install, upgrade, repair, and figure out than Windows. When all hell breaks loose due to a bad install in Windows, I'm absolutely lost, despite using the environment for a long, long time. I've been using Linux for a few years now, and I can actually fix lots of stuff when it goes wrong (but not always). When I can't, I can usually find help from somewhere, whether in a forum, newsgroup, or IRC chatroom and get it fixed and without all the snobbery I get from Windows "experts". Many Linux gurus are actually interested in helping your figure it out without demeaning you in the process, though there are a few jerks out there in the Linux newsgroups.
Also, I hate to sound cheap, but I can download a good quality free Linux distro like OpenSuse, Mandriva, Fedora, or for more experienced users, Mepis, Debian, Ubuntu/Kubuntu or whatever and have just about any application I'll ever need. I do, however, believe in supporting my distro and OSS in general, and tend to buy my distros. But even then, you can get Suse Linux for about $60 US and have just about everything you want. You'll spend more than that for Windows, and you don't even have a single application to work with. When I built my last Windows machine with a fresh, legal copy of XP Professional and got updated versions of all my favorite applications, and even new ones that I wanted, as well as armed it with utilities like Norton's Internet Security, I'd spent nearly a grand on software alone. Now, to top that off, all that software has EULA's. The only EULA I got with my Linux installation is to agree to the GPL.
Another thing I like about Linux is the excitement in the platform. Linux is constantly under a state of improvement. So many hands are involved that the backbone of Linux, as well as all the shiny bling-bling you see on the desktop are under constant development and improving all the time. Windows XP came out in something like 2001, and looks and feels about as tired and old-hat as the Chevy Cavalier did when they (finally!) put it to rest.
I don't understand why their Natural(TM) keyboard has been bastardized so much...
If I could put a blue-tooth adapter on my Microsoft Natural (version 1.0) keyboards (I have 3) I'd do it in a heartbeat.
I agree! I have 2 of them myself. I love the feel of them and can't get used to typing on a normal keyboard anymore.
SuSE is one of THE biggest contributors in both code and funds for KDE. I hope that continues. KDE is the choice for home Linux use. I don't know what those coporate IT guys smoke. Gnome is ugly and is nowhere near as nice to use...
"UnitedLinux 1.0 is not a completely new Linux distribution. Instead, it's based on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server."
Other members contributions:
"While SuSE developers are taking the lead in developing UnitedLinux, they're not doing it on their own. Even before UnitedLinux was announced on May 30, SCO, then Caldera, according to Ransom Love, former Caldera CEO, was transferring its Linux development team to SuSE to start work on UnitedLinux. Today, SCO's main contribution to UnitedLinux development is financial support.
That is also the case with Turbolinux and Conectiva. Turbolinux did contribute technology from its Turbolinux Cluster Server product. And, Turbolinux, as it moves away from the American market and focuses almost all its attention on the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese markets continues to contribute language support. Conectiva's main technical contribution has been to the Spanish and Portuguese versions of UnitedLinux."
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http://www.almanac.com/weathercenter/howwepredict.php
More on Global Cooling:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=10783
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,25348657-401,00.html
I love this quote by Jay Lehr of The Heartland Institute: "And, if we were to try to reduce greenhouse gases with China and India controlling way more than we do and they have boldly said they are not going to cripple their economy by following suit, our impact would have no change in temperature at all."
Point blank, people: You can't trust your local, highly trained meteorologist to predict tomorrow's weather, so how can you trust a bunch of politicians and climate scientists looking for funding to predict the weather 50 to 100 years out? Most of you will be dead before you realize it was a scam all along.
Remember the hole in the ozone scare? Turns out it's a natural phenomena after all... Now, we're stuck with R134a instead of the far more efficient R12, not to mention all these other products that supposedly did such irreparable harm...
http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/news/beck/230899.htm
Patrick Moore (founder of Greenpeace) said, "much of the environmental movement has been hijacked by extremist activists who use the language of the environment for a movement that has more to do with class struggle and anti-corporatism."
Don't believe the hype!
I absolutely refuse to buy games at the high ransom they charge. I wait until the games dip well below $40 before I ever buy. I honestly believe that if they cut the price of their games by 1/3, the sales would double.
I really sure that I'd take information on global warming from a political machine that calls themselves "The Daily Green". Not on your life...
Again, this is modern day McCarthyism, where if you disagree, you'll be attacked. I've seen both sides of the evidence from many sources. I've concluded that the sky is not falling, so Chicken Little (Al Gore) needs to get lost!
Attn: 400 scientist worldwide have come forward and denounced global warming theory. Some of them are actually listed on the IPCC's original report.
http://tinyurl.com/2dv6nz
It's complete garbage science mixed with carefully selected evidence, disregarding the complete portfolio of evidence to fit a theory based in politics. It's a big lie. Stop listening to Al Gore and start listening to real scientists. This is the modern day McCarthyism...
I actually met and attended a seminar of one of those that did defeat him, Vic Moore (a seriously tough dude!). I was actually a student of John Jelks and George Davis, who were Vic Moore's second and first black belt students, respectively.
http://victormoore.org/
I also met Chuck Norris, as a child, at the USKA Grand Nationals back in the 1970's. He was a very nice guy. I don't understand the hatred for the guy. He's never bragged about himself in public the way that Steven Segal has, and he's lived up to everything he's about. He actually was a great champion during his competitive days, and thus struck a bond with Bruce Lee and was featured in one of his films as a result. What's to dislike about him?
I find Linux to suit me for the very same reason. I'm not 100% converted, yet, but I just find Linux easier to install, upgrade, repair, and figure out than Windows. When all hell breaks loose due to a bad install in Windows, I'm absolutely lost, despite using the environment for a long, long time. I've been using Linux for a few years now, and I can actually fix lots of stuff when it goes wrong (but not always). When I can't, I can usually find help from somewhere, whether in a forum, newsgroup, or IRC chatroom and get it fixed and without all the snobbery I get from Windows "experts". Many Linux gurus are actually interested in helping your figure it out without demeaning you in the process, though there are a few jerks out there in the Linux newsgroups.
Also, I hate to sound cheap, but I can download a good quality free Linux distro like OpenSuse, Mandriva, Fedora, or for more experienced users, Mepis, Debian, Ubuntu/Kubuntu or whatever and have just about any application I'll ever need. I do, however, believe in supporting my distro and OSS in general, and tend to buy my distros. But even then, you can get Suse Linux for about $60 US and have just about everything you want. You'll spend more than that for Windows, and you don't even have a single application to work with. When I built my last Windows machine with a fresh, legal copy of XP Professional and got updated versions of all my favorite applications, and even new ones that I wanted, as well as armed it with utilities like Norton's Internet Security, I'd spent nearly a grand on software alone. Now, to top that off, all that software has EULA's. The only EULA I got with my Linux installation is to agree to the GPL.
Another thing I like about Linux is the excitement in the platform. Linux is constantly under a state of improvement. So many hands are involved that the backbone of Linux, as well as all the shiny bling-bling you see on the desktop are under constant development and improving all the time. Windows XP came out in something like 2001, and looks and feels about as tired and old-hat as the Chevy Cavalier did when they (finally!) put it to rest.
That's so you can hit ctrl-alt-DELETE easier...
SuSE is one of THE biggest contributors in both code and funds for KDE. I hope that continues. KDE is the choice for home Linux use. I don't know what those coporate IT guys smoke. Gnome is ugly and is nowhere near as nice to use...
According to Linux Planet:
"UnitedLinux 1.0 is not a completely new Linux distribution. Instead, it's based on SuSE Linux Enterprise Server."
Other members contributions:
"While SuSE developers are taking the lead in developing UnitedLinux, they're not doing it on their own. Even before UnitedLinux was announced on May 30, SCO, then Caldera, according to Ransom Love, former Caldera CEO, was transferring its Linux development team to SuSE to start work on UnitedLinux. Today, SCO's main contribution to UnitedLinux development is financial support.
That is also the case with Turbolinux and Conectiva. Turbolinux did contribute technology from its Turbolinux Cluster Server product. And, Turbolinux, as it moves away from the American market and focuses almost all its attention on the Chinese, Korean, and Japanese markets continues to contribute language support. Conectiva's main technical contribution has been to the Spanish and Portuguese versions of UnitedLinux."
You can bet, YaST is in there! SuSE ROCKS!