Those insane IP laws the studios wanted are coming back to haunt them. It's not so much the specific laws, but rather the culture they foster. This probably won't do anything other than further convince the fat cats in the movie industry that they need more protection from the proles.
They cared about the fact that he lied under oath which is perjury, a felony. If you or I did the same thing in the paula jones trial we'd be in prison.
Saddam would pose a threat to us if he got NBC weapons or was about to get them and planned to make them availible to terrorists to use against us. North Korea fits the category of a legitimate monster to destroy. Iraq, based on the little evidence we've seen, didn't.
Our founders would still not support intervening to make the world a safer place. Who would we attack next? Where would it end? Our founders recognized that this "logic" taken to its natural conclusion would bury us in imperial overstretch, debt and cripple us as a world power. So who is it next? China over Tibet and Taiwan? The Sudan?
I have nothing against supporting violent liberal revolutions against Marxist and Fascist regimes. I cannot though see anything but folly in going after every nation that rattles its sabres at us. The only way to be taken seriously is to use your military in a very strong show of force. If you get little bits involved here and there you weaken your ability to bring overwhelming force to bear on a single enemy and only embolden the pissants who want a piece of you.
That no patriot can stand such an odius piece of legislation which tears apart our civil liberties and turns the Constitution and freedoms our forefathers fought so hard for into courtroom toilet paper. I love my country, that's why I want a government bound to the Constitution and that doesn't send us abroad, as John Quincy Adams put it, in search of monsters to destroy. We built the beast that seeks to annihilate us because we paid lip service to our founders' timeless advice and made-and empowered-enemies in foreign lands.
These idiots would have us believe that we're on a collision course to the sort of product placement that was featured in the Truman Show (stop talking, hawk product to Truman-errr the audience). I don't even notice it 90% of the time unless it's something like a Macintosh being used for something cool (I like Macs, that's why I notice). Who gives a flying fuck about characters drinking coca cola? Your neighbor probably has a six pack of it in his/her house. Why the hell can't a character on tv drink it just because they're on TV? What the hell is this, affirmative action for mass market commodities?
When the TIPS program was being discussed he had this to say about it and what Bush was doing:
"smacks of the very type of fascist or Communist government we fought so hard to eradicate in other countries in decades past."
Barr was frequently openly critical of federal abuses of power. He was one of the few in Congress, especially on the Right, who came out strongly against Ashcroft.
Yeah right. It's the private property of the government, not you. If the people really were the government in Britain, Britain probably would not have gone into Iraq. Face it, your "we are the democracy, we are the government" bullshit is nothing more than wishful thinking.
Hey man, I'm not sure if you heard, but this is America, the land of the neverending payment to society for criminal acts. It is also a country where if you get off of a sentence you're suspected of "just having a good lawyer." Look at The Life of David Gale if you need an example.
And let's say that you get out 20 years later. You have no marketable white collar skills anymore. The mere fact that you went in for an offense will make you undesirable to most white collar employers. That's yuppy culture for you. I hope you're already married to a very dedicated person because you probably won't ever be able to get married at that point. Then there's that sticking point about the psychological conditioning of our prison system.
What this country needs is to restore corporal punishment for most non-white collar crimes so that an armed robber can get 20 lashes with a whip outside the county courthouse and then go back to being a productive citizen rather than get 5-10 years.
The problem with Grey Davis seems to be that he is one step away from being a clone of Clinton, the only missing part being Clinton's ability to smooth style. Clinton knew how to work people who disagreed with him and didn't like him so that he could at least seem decent on the surface. Davis just seems to be a total asshole and he even looks like one in most of the pictures I've seen. He just radiates hostility, arrogance and all of the other negative traits that most politicians don't want to cultivate.
I think Arnold may make the best candidate because he's a businessman, has been extraordinarily successful compared to most people who go into business and he's got the appearance of a genuine and warm personality that makes him look much more like a straight shooter. He's closer to the center than most, and as Reason Online's writers have pointed out, he's got many good points going for him.
I am a Southerner, and for lack of a better political label I am closer to a libertarian socialist than a libertarian capitalist on most issues. These are what I think are wrong with Georgy's positions.
The Death Penalty is Evil and Expensive(tm). Right, and locking someone in a cage for the rest of their life like a circus animal or zoo exhibit is more humane? I'd much rather get executed than imprisoned for life. Life imprisonment, not execution, is cruel and unusual.
Tax increases are needed. No, what you need is a tax system that is very easy to force near 100% accountability on. It is easier to predict the future through tarot cards and reading tea leaves than calculate what the rich and middle class owe in a modern income tax system. Get rid of the income tax and raise excise taxes. Introduce a flat corporate income tax of say.... 2.5% for businesses based in CA and 5% for those that just do a lot of business there.
Protect the social programs. How about you stop competing with private charities? The people who work for them are more dedicated because most of them are doing the same work as government bureacrats, but for free or little compensation. Americans already give around $300B a year in charitable donations. Imagine what that would be if there was no income tax and welfare state.
Universal Healthcare is necessary. No it isn't. If you are going to do a socialized medicare system, the better way to do it rather pay for everybody's healthcare is to evaluate every citizen's income and give it only to those whose income couldn't buy private insurance. Many in the lower class could afford insurance, if they stopped buying luxury items like controlled substances, IP, cable tv and internet access. It's a matter of priority.
Gays should be allowed to marry. I agree in principle, but not on the basis of "equality." Marriage should be a title like Mr. or Mrs. in the eyes of the state, not a special license. I don't think that letting two men or women raise a heterosexual child is going to be very bad, it's not entirely desirable, but I do think that if we open the door to "alternatives" like polygamy then we are in danger. The only logistical problem I see with "damage to the family" from gay marriage is that kids are probably better off with parents of both genders. For example, girls need a mother to show them how to be a woman by example and a good father figure to show them what to look for in and expect from a man. Most of the girls I've know that fit that description date decent guys, the ones that don't date men that are at best described eventually once they get to know them as tee-total assholes.
Legalize Marijuana. Why stop there? The best way to help minorities is to take away the easy cash that comes from being able to sell illegal drugs. Legal drugs are cheaper, safer and very difficult for criminals to take advantage of for huge profit. Oh and did I mention it's good for national security?
You have not committed any violation of the law by hosting such a package. Their shitty software's regex on the package name misidentified it. Any judge not wanting to be impeached for incompetence would take one look at this and see how there's no case at all.
companies did not depend on horses and carriages to keep their businesses working. If the company carriage broke it could be replaced easily. The switch also didn't require fundamental infrastructure changes. Switching a payroll management system from Windows to Linux requires redesigning much of the system. Your comparison does not hold.
I used Mandrake 9.1 which is a very polished desktop distribution for about 3 months. Then I just got sick of tweaking, I wanted an OS that was a real desktop OS. Needless to say, I went back to Windows XP.
Windows is far from perfect, but it is getting much better on the desktop. Linux with KDE installed is a far cry from what Windows XP offers.
If you want a real open source desktop go hack on OpenBeOS. BeOS was designed to be a desktop OS and this is the project most likely to give you a real open source desktop OS.
without set top boxes so that people can watch their movies on their TVs most people won't want broadband for watching movies and TV?
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Much of our society is not fit to vote. They don't pay attention to the issues, they don't critically think about what they see and hear and they sure as hell don't have enough passion to keep a fire lit under our leaders' asses. Giving every tom, dick, harry, jane and sally the right to vote is the perfect way to guarantee that you will have a government that does represent us. "Swing voters" are only at best about 20% of the electorate, the rest are pretty much 50/50 both major parties. If we could get rid of the other 80%'s right to vote then we'd have an electorate filled mostly with at a minimum semi-critical thinkers.
It's taboo to say that just because you're a citizen doesn't mean you are fit to wield any form of political power. Of course it all goes back to the inability of most Americans to pass a moral judgement against someone's behavior and beliefs. How often do we hear "well that's their culture and it's just different from ours?" I'm in college and I hear that all the time. I get a look of utter disgust like I'm a member of the KKK when I suggest that not everyone is biochemically equal and that certain cultural practices are barbaric and worthy of our deepest contempt. When I criticized many African and Middle Eastern countries for tolerating female circumcision I got a little bit of "how dare you criticize Africa you honkey" from some of the blacks there.
You want to get rid of corruption? It won't end with banning soft money. You have many reforms needed on top of that.
1) Make it a class 4-6 felony to give soft money. You know what that felony class range is? Around 10 years to life as possible sentences. 2) Pass a constitutional amendment waiving 8th amendment protection for those attempting to corrupt the government so that if you catch a lobbyist trying to bribe someone you can execute them if they are a repeat offender. Waive the same protection for elected and appointed government officials 3) Allow each state to pass its own ethics rules. Allow each state to issue a warrant for the arrest of a member of Congress from their delegation who has violated their rules. Also give the state police the power to place their member of Congress under arrest anywhere in the US and extradite them to their state for criminal prosecution. 4) Give each state legislature the power to pass a vote of no confidence in their congressional delegation. 5) Create a new form of impeachement for the executive branch where if a simple majority of state legislatures pass a vote of no confidence in a member of the cabinet they're out and if 2/3 or more vote on the President he's removed. 6) Since we're also talking about democratic reforms how about we pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting judges from ordering appropriations of taxpayer money and creating public policy. They can rule it unconstitutional, but not create it.
Granted I usually buy stuff that is not RIAA affiliated thanks to the RIAA Radar, but I prefer the CD because it looks nice and it's a great way to ensure that my investment is safe. I just rip the CD as some oggs and add them to my playlist.
There's no DRM, no media player lockin, nothing of the kind. Get off your asses and search for the album online if you think it's too expensive in the stores in your area. I've found albums on cduniverse.com for $10.75 that go for $18 at tower records and sam goody.
With the CD it really is "CD quality." You won't get that with a 128k AAC or WMA download. You also won't get the ability to mix and match your stuff on a mix CD at the same quality as the original, the ability to use whatever format you choose and use any mp3 player you want. I plan to buy an iPod eventually, when I get one I won't have to worry about the format my music collection is in and how to make mp3s from it for my iPod because I have the CDs.
I don't actively boycott them, rather I just actively look for good metal that isn't affiliated with them. Century Media is clean according to the RIAA Radar. They've got lot's of good stuff like Novembre, The Gathering, Lacuna Coil, Lullacry, Strapping Young Lad, Sentenced, Moonspell and some others. If you're into non-metal goth stuff, Projekt seems to be RIAA-clean too.
"Hello Mr. Ashcroft, my name is Larry Ellison. I'm the CEO of Oracle corporation. I'd just like to go ahead and let your antitrust division know that I plan on committing a violation of the antitrust law. You see we plan on buying out one of our competitors and discontinuing their entire product line so that their customers have to use ours. Dirty, anti-competitive and sneak, isn't it? Glad to hear you think so to."
"I'd recommend that old boy David Boise, but he's a real fuck up ya know? First he can't keep Microsoft in your crosshairs and then he builds a case in 2000 based on the argument that Florida Supreme Court, not the Florida state law, sets the rules for how elections work. So being fair, I'd thought we'd just give you boys some time to build a real legal time this time. Next thing you know, he'll be suing President Bush for not properly defending our country from the 'looming threat of the heat death of the universe' given the way he likes to lose and make an ass out of himself. Have your people call mine, we'll do lunch and litigation."
Congress is admittedly often little more than den of thieves, murders and other assorted scoundrels. However.... there is only so far they can go to tell their constituents to fuck off like that. Here you could at least organize an awareness campaign and cost them votes to make their reelction harder.
It would be very helpful if there was an analog to VB.NET for Java. Java is a language and a bytecode/runtime standard. I don't see why Sun hasn't worked hard to make the Java platform support other languages like Basic, Python and others. They really should have taken Jython to a new level: a Python compiler that generates Java bytecodes from Python source code. Or it could be Ruby for all I care. I just find Python to be an easier language to do stuff quickly in.
Java is too hard for many people to understand, something like Python or BASIC as an alternative language that targets the same runtime would help them fend off.NET. Not that I really see much of a difference, it's sort of like being asked to root for either the Soviet Union or NAZI Germany during the Battle of Stalingrad. Sun's only more OSS friendly than Microsoft because they want a big stick to beat MS with. If Sun had no competition, they'd be the same tyrants that Microsoft are.
I will say that in regard to.NET and J2EE I think Mono is safe because Microsoft is in a damned if you, damned if you don't situation. If they go after Mono, they reduce their claim that.NET is open and cross platform to steaming pile of rubble a la the WTC. If they don't, they have a potentially serious competitor that makes much of Windows' advantages disappear. Microsoft has to play catch up with Sun here and they're SOL if they don't let Mono grow. By the time Mono is truly mature, Microsoft will probably be a shadow of their former selves. Germany is already moving away from buying their products and the USDoD is quietly opening up to OSS. If Microsoft loses the USDoD then it's over for them in the US Government because the USDoD accounts for the majority of the federal work force
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Those insane IP laws the studios wanted are coming back to haunt them. It's not so much the specific laws, but rather the culture they foster. This probably won't do anything other than further convince the fat cats in the movie industry that they need more protection from the proles.
They cared about the fact that he lied under oath which is perjury, a felony. If you or I did the same thing in the paula jones trial we'd be in prison.
Saddam would pose a threat to us if he got NBC weapons or was about to get them and planned to make them availible to terrorists to use against us. North Korea fits the category of a legitimate monster to destroy. Iraq, based on the little evidence we've seen, didn't.
Our founders would still not support intervening to make the world a safer place. Who would we attack next? Where would it end? Our founders recognized that this "logic" taken to its natural conclusion would bury us in imperial overstretch, debt and cripple us as a world power. So who is it next? China over Tibet and Taiwan? The Sudan?
I have nothing against supporting violent liberal revolutions against Marxist and Fascist regimes. I cannot though see anything but folly in going after every nation that rattles its sabres at us. The only way to be taken seriously is to use your military in a very strong show of force. If you get little bits involved here and there you weaken your ability to bring overwhelming force to bear on a single enemy and only embolden the pissants who want a piece of you.
That no patriot can stand such an odius piece of legislation which tears apart our civil liberties and turns the Constitution and freedoms our forefathers fought so hard for into courtroom toilet paper. I love my country, that's why I want a government bound to the Constitution and that doesn't send us abroad, as John Quincy Adams put it, in search of monsters to destroy. We built the beast that seeks to annihilate us because we paid lip service to our founders' timeless advice and made-and empowered-enemies in foreign lands.
It's only fitting since the last x86 system I bought is also able to serve as my college apartment's central heating system in the winter time....
Like Century Media and Projekt which aren't members and have a lot of great bands.
Clinton got away with "it depends on what the meaning of is, is......."
These idiots would have us believe that we're on a collision course to the sort of product placement that was featured in the Truman Show (stop talking, hawk product to Truman-errr the audience). I don't even notice it 90% of the time unless it's something like a Macintosh being used for something cool (I like Macs, that's why I notice). Who gives a flying fuck about characters drinking coca cola? Your neighbor probably has a six pack of it in his/her house. Why the hell can't a character on tv drink it just because they're on TV? What the hell is this, affirmative action for mass market commodities?
Barr was frequently openly critical of federal abuses of power. He was one of the few in Congress, especially on the Right, who came out strongly against Ashcroft.
Yeah right. It's the private property of the government, not you. If the people really were the government in Britain, Britain probably would not have gone into Iraq. Face it, your "we are the democracy, we are the government" bullshit is nothing more than wishful thinking.
Hey man, I'm not sure if you heard, but this is America, the land of the neverending payment to society for criminal acts. It is also a country where if you get off of a sentence you're suspected of "just having a good lawyer." Look at The Life of David Gale if you need an example.
And let's say that you get out 20 years later. You have no marketable white collar skills anymore. The mere fact that you went in for an offense will make you undesirable to most white collar employers. That's yuppy culture for you. I hope you're already married to a very dedicated person because you probably won't ever be able to get married at that point. Then there's that sticking point about the psychological conditioning of our prison system.
What this country needs is to restore corporal punishment for most non-white collar crimes so that an armed robber can get 20 lashes with a whip outside the county courthouse and then go back to being a productive citizen rather than get 5-10 years.
I think Arnold may make the best candidate because he's a businessman, has been extraordinarily successful compared to most people who go into business and he's got the appearance of a genuine and warm personality that makes him look much more like a straight shooter. He's closer to the center than most, and as Reason Online's writers have pointed out, he's got many good points going for him.
I am a Southerner, and for lack of a better political label I am closer to a libertarian socialist than a libertarian capitalist on most issues. These are what I think are wrong with Georgy's positions.
Just a little critique from an outsider.
You have not committed any violation of the law by hosting such a package. Their shitty software's regex on the package name misidentified it. Any judge not wanting to be impeached for incompetence would take one look at this and see how there's no case at all.
companies did not depend on horses and carriages to keep their businesses working. If the company carriage broke it could be replaced easily. The switch also didn't require fundamental infrastructure changes. Switching a payroll management system from Windows to Linux requires redesigning much of the system. Your comparison does not hold.
I used Mandrake 9.1 which is a very polished desktop distribution for about 3 months. Then I just got sick of tweaking, I wanted an OS that was a real desktop OS. Needless to say, I went back to Windows XP.
Windows is far from perfect, but it is getting much better on the desktop. Linux with KDE installed is a far cry from what Windows XP offers.
If you want a real open source desktop go hack on OpenBeOS. BeOS was designed to be a desktop OS and this is the project most likely to give you a real open source desktop OS.
without set top boxes so that people can watch their movies on their TVs most people won't want broadband for watching movies and TV?
Much of our society is not fit to vote. They don't pay attention to the issues, they don't critically think about what they see and hear and they sure as hell don't have enough passion to keep a fire lit under our leaders' asses. Giving every tom, dick, harry, jane and sally the right to vote is the perfect way to guarantee that you will have a government that does represent us. "Swing voters" are only at best about 20% of the electorate, the rest are pretty much 50/50 both major parties. If we could get rid of the other 80%'s right to vote then we'd have an electorate filled mostly with at a minimum semi-critical thinkers.
It's taboo to say that just because you're a citizen doesn't mean you are fit to wield any form of political power. Of course it all goes back to the inability of most Americans to pass a moral judgement against someone's behavior and beliefs. How often do we hear "well that's their culture and it's just different from ours?" I'm in college and I hear that all the time. I get a look of utter disgust like I'm a member of the KKK when I suggest that not everyone is biochemically equal and that certain cultural practices are barbaric and worthy of our deepest contempt. When I criticized many African and Middle Eastern countries for tolerating female circumcision I got a little bit of "how dare you criticize Africa you honkey" from some of the blacks there.
You want to get rid of corruption? It won't end with banning soft money. You have many reforms needed on top of that.
1) Make it a class 4-6 felony to give soft money. You know what that felony class range is? Around 10 years to life as possible sentences.
2) Pass a constitutional amendment waiving 8th amendment protection for those attempting to corrupt the government so that if you catch a lobbyist trying to bribe someone you can execute them if they are a repeat offender. Waive the same protection for elected and appointed government officials
3) Allow each state to pass its own ethics rules. Allow each state to issue a warrant for the arrest of a member of Congress from their delegation who has violated their rules. Also give the state police the power to place their member of Congress under arrest anywhere in the US and extradite them to their state for criminal prosecution.
4) Give each state legislature the power to pass a vote of no confidence in their congressional delegation.
5) Create a new form of impeachement for the executive branch where if a simple majority of state legislatures pass a vote of no confidence in a member of the cabinet they're out and if 2/3 or more vote on the President he's removed.
6) Since we're also talking about democratic reforms how about we pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting judges from ordering appropriations of taxpayer money and creating public policy. They can rule it unconstitutional, but not create it.
Granted I usually buy stuff that is not RIAA affiliated thanks to the RIAA Radar, but I prefer the CD because it looks nice and it's a great way to ensure that my investment is safe. I just rip the CD as some oggs and add them to my playlist.
There's no DRM, no media player lockin, nothing of the kind. Get off your asses and search for the album online if you think it's too expensive in the stores in your area. I've found albums on cduniverse.com for $10.75 that go for $18 at tower records and sam goody.
With the CD it really is "CD quality." You won't get that with a 128k AAC or WMA download. You also won't get the ability to mix and match your stuff on a mix CD at the same quality as the original, the ability to use whatever format you choose and use any mp3 player you want. I plan to buy an iPod eventually, when I get one I won't have to worry about the format my music collection is in and how to make mp3s from it for my iPod because I have the CDs.
I don't actively boycott them, rather I just actively look for good metal that isn't affiliated with them. Century Media is clean according to the RIAA Radar. They've got lot's of good stuff like Novembre, The Gathering, Lacuna Coil, Lullacry, Strapping Young Lad, Sentenced, Moonspell and some others. If you're into non-metal goth stuff, Projekt seems to be RIAA-clean too.
"Hello Mr. Ashcroft, my name is Larry Ellison. I'm the CEO of Oracle corporation. I'd just like to go ahead and let your antitrust division know that I plan on committing a violation of the antitrust law. You see we plan on buying out one of our competitors and discontinuing their entire product line so that their customers have to use ours. Dirty, anti-competitive and sneak, isn't it? Glad to hear you think so to."
"I'd recommend that old boy David Boise, but he's a real fuck up ya know? First he can't keep Microsoft in your crosshairs and then he builds a case in 2000 based on the argument that Florida Supreme Court, not the Florida state law, sets the rules for how elections work. So being fair, I'd thought we'd just give you boys some time to build a real legal time this time. Next thing you know, he'll be suing President Bush for not properly defending our country from the 'looming threat of the heat death of the universe' given the way he likes to lose and make an ass out of himself. Have your people call mine, we'll do lunch and litigation."
Do you not know that Google is powered by Python, the living software symbol of the tempter of the fall of Adam and Eve?
They have a Basic intrepreter for stuff like that. It's called IIRC OpenOffice Basic.
Congress is admittedly often little more than den of thieves, murders and other assorted scoundrels. However.... there is only so far they can go to tell their constituents to fuck off like that. Here you could at least organize an awareness campaign and cost them votes to make their reelction harder.
I literally just finished downloading the 2nd beta last night.
It would be very helpful if there was an analog to VB.NET for Java. Java is a language and a bytecode/runtime standard. I don't see why Sun hasn't worked hard to make the Java platform support other languages like Basic, Python and others. They really should have taken Jython to a new level: a Python compiler that generates Java bytecodes from Python source code. Or it could be Ruby for all I care. I just find Python to be an easier language to do stuff quickly in.
.NET. Not that I really see much of a difference, it's sort of like being asked to root for either the Soviet Union or NAZI Germany during the Battle of Stalingrad. Sun's only more OSS friendly than Microsoft because they want a big stick to beat MS with. If Sun had no competition, they'd be the same tyrants that Microsoft are.
.NET and J2EE I think Mono is safe because Microsoft is in a damned if you, damned if you don't situation. If they go after Mono, they reduce their claim that .NET is open and cross platform to steaming pile of rubble a la the WTC. If they don't, they have a potentially serious competitor that makes much of Windows' advantages disappear. Microsoft has to play catch up with Sun here and they're SOL if they don't let Mono grow. By the time Mono is truly mature, Microsoft will probably be a shadow of their former selves. Germany is already moving away from buying their products and the USDoD is quietly opening up to OSS. If Microsoft loses the USDoD then it's over for them in the US Government because the USDoD accounts for the majority of the federal work force
Java is too hard for many people to understand, something like Python or BASIC as an alternative language that targets the same runtime would help them fend off
I will say that in regard to