Most of what you say is so much xenophobic ranting, e.g., the fallacious argument that people fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries are likely to engage in criminal conduct in the US merely because they were willing to violate immigration laws to get here. Absurd.
However, perhaps accidentally, you allude to a valid point about race versus class. Racism and xenophobia certainly are rampant, but the even more fundamental division is class. People on the left -- or pseudoleft -- often make the mistake of overemphasizing identity, to the detriment of the class struggle.
So say I, your friendly neighborhood Marxist.
My wife is as non-technical a user as you'll find, and she uses Ubuntu every day without knowing or caring or needing to care about anything technical. OK, sure, now and then she asks for my help, and in well over 99% of those cases it's a trivial thing to resolve and move on.
do I correctly understand that with either PHPMailer or SwiftMailer, if you are using SMTP for your transport rather than PHP's native mail(), you are not vulnerable?
I'll back you up on that. I have a ASUS C200 Chromebook refurb that cost me I think $140, with crouton running Debian Jessie. There are a couple rough edges with the Debian installation -- but so minor I can't remember at the moment what they are. Battery life is absurdly good, and it would be an exaggeration to say it weighs nothing so let's just say it's really light. The original post didn't emphasize cheap, but if you want really good in proportion to price, this is hard to beat.
Although you gotta admit -- the scene from the TV show Homeland in which they assassinate a guy (who had it coming) by hacking his pacemaker was pretty cool.
When I heard about https://github.com/dnschneid/c... I got an inexpensive chromebook and ended up quite satisfied running Debian 8.4 a/k/a Jessie with xcfe in a chrooted envinroment under Chromium OS. I use it offline alot and it's fine. But it would be cool if there were a Peppermint crouton thingy for this because it sounds like it's well-suited to this type of use and my Debian, overall satisfaction notwithstanding, has some clunkinesses.
As long as we're sharing: I've been a consistent sitter for 9 years, rarely missing a day. I started with a couple years of Zen training at a lay zendo in New York City before going my own way. Has meditation made me a happier, more stable, more equanimous and clear-minded person? I don't know. How could I? But I suspect (based on all the neuroscience and anecdotal evidence) that it probably has. I think it probably makes it possible for me to see what my mind is doing, at least some of the time, rather than just being dragged around by it -- and that makes the world a better place, albeit only slightly.
But here's the thing: I don't really care whether I or anyone else benefits from my practice, because after doing it for so long i do it with no expectation of reward. This in itself is liberating.
Can't help but suspect that the reason LSD is classified as Schedule I, way out of proportion to its dangerousness and potential for abuse, is that it emancipates the mind. And we can't have that, can we?
As a Marxist, I find it ironic that someone would use as a scare tactic the notion of re-classifying the Internet as a public utility, when that's exactly what should be done. It's rather like when the far right absurdly calls Obama a socialist, and I'm like, would that it were so.
Increasingly, people are recognizing that Marx got it right. Capitalism is a system under which the few at the top profit at the expense of the many, and the trend is self-reinforcing. In the culture of the US, historically there has been quasi-religious faith capitalism, but that is changing now -- especially in the younger generations that have never known those good old Leave-It-To-Beaver days of middle class prosperity. Stay tuned for more.
to many that may sound crackpot but it's the truth. both major parties represent the interests of the corporate and financial aristocracy; the difference is that one is more open and brazen about it, while the other poses as the defender of Joe Sixpack (although the brazen one's propaganda does a damn good job of convincing a good number of Joe Sixpacks, i gotta admit).
It bears repeating: Vote third party or abstain. Don't waste your vote on these buffoons.
While Obamacare is not as progressive as a socialist would implement, that does not mean it is not progressive.
In a land where children work long hours in factories for crappy pay, a law that would limit them to only 40 hours a week is still a progressive policy, even though it is not as progressive as what we have already implemented ourselves...
True, in a narrow technical sense. Liberals gush about Obamacare as though getting private health insurance were the holy grail, when in fact private health insurance sucks. People applaud because now you can stay on your parents' shitty policy till you're 26 -- woo hoo!
Single Payer: government-administered, publicly financed, no deductibles, no copays, no exclusions, no in- versus -out-of-network bullshit. We should not even be debating this in 2012. Every other country on the planet that has single payer has better public health outcomes than the USA does.
It sounds like you're excusing Obama and settling for incremental reforms. We've tried that for decades and it doesn't work. Here's the deal: the whole system of capitalism, in which private profit is pursued at the expense of human needs, is obsolete and has got to go. Call me a Marxist if you like, I'd be honored.
You are confusing the so-called Public Option with Single Payer (http://www.pnhp.org/publications/united-states-national-health-care-act-hr-676).
The former was a tasteless joke, ostensibly designed to put some competition on private sector insurers, but it would never have been able to compete without emulating the private insurance industry's worst characteristics. But of course even that had to be stripped away from Obama's bailout to private insurance (a/k/a Obamacare) because it sounded like a socially conscious kinda thing.
Single Payer, on the other hand, is the only model that makes any sense. Health insurance is not suitable for commodification as access to health care itself is a human right (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a25).
As for socialized medicine -- the model proposed in HR 676 is not socialized medicine like e.g., Veteran's Administration. Rather, it calls for public financing and private delivery. Nevertheless -- "the road to socialized medicine." You say that like ít's a bad thing.
That's because we confuse and conflate legal and moral guilt. The more anti-social the crime, the more this is true, and understandable.
When you're talking about non-violent, victimless "crime" like drug offenses, being expected to show remorse is fucking bullshit. I concede that selling hard drugs is socially irresponsible, maybe even anti-social. But if we in the USA were to give up on the wasteful, destructive failure known as punitive prohibition, and treat drug abuse as a public health problem rather than a criminal one, we would be in a position to reduce demand and vastly undercut the profit incentive.
Ask the bosses of the drug cartels if they favor legalization: they're against it. Status quo works ok for them.
True, but in the US District Court they spin it otherwise. Judges are no longer bound to sentence in accordance with the infamous Sentencing Guidelines, but they are required to compute the gravity of the offense -- known as the offense level -- and the criminal history category, then look up a sentencing range in a table. The judge must then "consider" the Guidelines sentencing range. The prosecution -- known simply as Government in federal jargon -- make the charging decisions, so it is they who really drive the Guidelines.
If you take a plea, the Government usually will agree a reduction in your offense level in return for your "acceptance of responsiblity." At a plea hearing, the judge will lecture you ad nauseum about your right to a trial and go to great lengths to hear you say "yes" when asked if you are pleading guilty freely and voluntarily with no fear of retribution or expectation of reward. The fiction is that you are rewarded for hanging your head, rather than punished for standing tall.
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oh please. it's *got* to remember shit from one invocation to the next. the older you get, the more you need to grep your $HISTFILE
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Here's a solution: open borders. That would stop people from violating our immigration rules by entering surreptitiously.
Most of what you say is so much xenophobic ranting, e.g., the fallacious argument that people fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries are likely to engage in criminal conduct in the US merely because they were willing to violate immigration laws to get here. Absurd. However, perhaps accidentally, you allude to a valid point about race versus class. Racism and xenophobia certainly are rampant, but the even more fundamental division is class. People on the left -- or pseudoleft -- often make the mistake of overemphasizing identity, to the detriment of the class struggle. So say I, your friendly neighborhood Marxist.
The story itself is such bullshit, it borders on fake news.
circa 1996, started teaching myself Perl in order to write CGI scripts to hook up a data source to an HTML form.
My wife is as non-technical a user as you'll find, and she uses Ubuntu every day without knowing or caring or needing to care about anything technical. OK, sure, now and then she asks for my help, and in well over 99% of those cases it's a trivial thing to resolve and move on.
Ain't that the truth! As much as I love Linux, when I have a problem, it becomes a real pain in the ass.
When I have a problem, I hit a search engine and usually find solutions quickly and easily. Often I'm amazed at how easily.
do I correctly understand that with either PHPMailer or SwiftMailer, if you are using SMTP for your transport rather than PHP's native mail(), you are not vulnerable?
except war propaganda, if you can call that a the substance. I urge you to read this carefully: http://www.wsws.org/en/article...
I'll back you up on that. I have a ASUS C200 Chromebook refurb that cost me I think $140, with crouton running Debian Jessie. There are a couple rough edges with the Debian installation -- but so minor I can't remember at the moment what they are. Battery life is absurdly good, and it would be an exaggeration to say it weighs nothing so let's just say it's really light. The original post didn't emphasize cheap, but if you want really good in proportion to price, this is hard to beat.
Although you gotta admit -- the scene from the TV show Homeland in which they assassinate a guy (who had it coming) by hacking his pacemaker was pretty cool.
When I heard about https://github.com/dnschneid/c... I got an inexpensive chromebook and ended up quite satisfied running Debian 8.4 a/k/a Jessie with xcfe in a chrooted envinroment under Chromium OS. I use it offline alot and it's fine. But it would be cool if there were a Peppermint crouton thingy for this because it sounds like it's well-suited to this type of use and my Debian, overall satisfaction notwithstanding, has some clunkinesses.
Dumb question: how did these password lists come to be unencrypted?
As long as we're sharing: I've been a consistent sitter for 9 years, rarely missing a day. I started with a couple years of Zen training at a lay zendo in New York City before going my own way. Has meditation made me a happier, more stable, more equanimous and clear-minded person? I don't know. How could I? But I suspect (based on all the neuroscience and anecdotal evidence) that it probably has. I think it probably makes it possible for me to see what my mind is doing, at least some of the time, rather than just being dragged around by it -- and that makes the world a better place, albeit only slightly.
But here's the thing: I don't really care whether I or anyone else benefits from my practice, because after doing it for so long i do it with no expectation of reward. This in itself is liberating.
Can't help but suspect that the reason LSD is classified as Schedule I, way out of proportion to its dangerousness and potential for abuse, is that it emancipates the mind. And we can't have that, can we?
sorry, I meant: "...quasi-religious faith in capitalism..."
As a Marxist, I find it ironic that someone would use as a scare tactic the notion of re-classifying the Internet as a public utility, when that's exactly what should be done. It's rather like when the far right absurdly calls Obama a socialist, and I'm like, would that it were so. Increasingly, people are recognizing that Marx got it right. Capitalism is a system under which the few at the top profit at the expense of the many, and the trend is self-reinforcing. In the culture of the US, historically there has been quasi-religious faith capitalism, but that is changing now -- especially in the younger generations that have never known those good old Leave-It-To-Beaver days of middle class prosperity. Stay tuned for more.
All charges dropped and a Nobel Prize.
to many that may sound crackpot but it's the truth. both major parties represent the interests of the corporate and financial aristocracy; the difference is that one is more open and brazen about it, while the other poses as the defender of Joe Sixpack (although the brazen one's propaganda does a damn good job of convincing a good number of Joe Sixpacks, i gotta admit).
It bears repeating: Vote third party or abstain. Don't waste your vote on these buffoons.
If you want to NOT waste your vote take a look at http://socialequality.com/
While Obamacare is not as progressive as a socialist would implement, that does not mean it is not progressive.
In a land where children work long hours in factories for crappy pay, a law that would limit them to only 40 hours a week is still a progressive policy, even though it is not as progressive as what we have already implemented ourselves...
True, in a narrow technical sense. Liberals gush about Obamacare as though getting private health insurance were the holy grail, when in fact private health insurance sucks. People applaud because now you can stay on your parents' shitty policy till you're 26 -- woo hoo!
Single Payer: government-administered, publicly financed, no deductibles, no copays, no exclusions, no in- versus -out-of-network bullshit. We should not even be debating this in 2012. Every other country on the planet that has single payer has better public health outcomes than the USA does.
It sounds like you're excusing Obama and settling for incremental reforms. We've tried that for decades and it doesn't work. Here's the deal: the whole system of capitalism, in which private profit is pursued at the expense of human needs, is obsolete and has got to go. Call me a Marxist if you like, I'd be honored.
That would be fantastic. Single payer is the only sane way to provide health care..
That is absolutely correct, and once again, let us not confuse the bogus Public Option, now long dead, with Single Payer.
You are confusing the so-called Public Option with Single Payer (http://www.pnhp.org/publications/united-states-national-health-care-act-hr-676).
The former was a tasteless joke, ostensibly designed to put some competition on private sector insurers, but it would never have been able to compete without emulating the private insurance industry's worst characteristics. But of course even that had to be stripped away from Obama's bailout to private insurance (a/k/a Obamacare) because it sounded like a socially conscious kinda thing.
Single Payer, on the other hand, is the only model that makes any sense. Health insurance is not suitable for commodification as access to health care itself is a human right (http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a25).
As for socialized medicine -- the model proposed in HR 676 is not socialized medicine like e.g., Veteran's Administration. Rather, it calls for public financing and private delivery. Nevertheless -- "the road to socialized medicine." You say that like ít's a bad thing.
That's because we confuse and conflate legal and moral guilt. The more anti-social the crime, the more this is true, and understandable.
When you're talking about non-violent, victimless "crime" like drug offenses, being expected to show remorse is fucking bullshit. I concede that selling hard drugs is socially irresponsible, maybe even anti-social. But if we in the USA were to give up on the wasteful, destructive failure known as punitive prohibition, and treat drug abuse as a public health problem rather than a criminal one, we would be in a position to reduce demand and vastly undercut the profit incentive.
Ask the bosses of the drug cartels if they favor legalization: they're against it. Status quo works ok for them.
True, but in the US District Court they spin it otherwise. Judges are no longer bound to sentence in accordance with the infamous Sentencing Guidelines, but they are required to compute the gravity of the offense -- known as the offense level -- and the criminal history category, then look up a sentencing range in a table. The judge must then "consider" the Guidelines sentencing range. The prosecution -- known simply as Government in federal jargon -- make the charging decisions, so it is they who really drive the Guidelines.
If you take a plea, the Government usually will agree a reduction in your offense level in return for your "acceptance of responsiblity." At a plea hearing, the judge will lecture you ad nauseum about your right to a trial and go to great lengths to hear you say "yes" when asked if you are pleading guilty freely and voluntarily with no fear of retribution or expectation of reward. The fiction is that you are rewarded for hanging your head, rather than punished for standing tall.
oh please. it's *got* to remember shit from one invocation to the next. the older you get, the more you need to grep your $HISTFILE
When I first read the excerpt in this article in the email digest, I read the example email address as blowjob@aol.com.