I grew up in Fort Wayne Indiana! I would love to move there if I could find a good paying (>$85,000) job there. Not a whole lot of tech jobs in good old Fort Wayne.
Could get a job mowing Johnny Appleseed's grave. Maybe referee the raft race at the Three Rivers Festival. (Oh wait, raft race [best part of the festival] was canceled a few years ago because the fucking insurance companies rates have gone through the edge of reality...)
OK, explain this to me then - isn't it COMPLETELY antithetical ("The opposite" if you don't know that word) to the ideas of Freedom and Democracy for the presidential debates to be conducted by a private corporation? No checks and balances, no true options, no true freedom. If any place is not the place for a private corporation to be involved, it is the most public part of presenting the candidates for leading this so-called free country to the people who will vote for them? Why are all possble options not being presented?
As far as property rights - what "property" do they allegedly have "rights" to? The presidential candidates themselves? Or some fake dog & pony show that misleads the public into thinking it is an official presentation of the government?
I have no respect for their rights since they are essentially saying that my rights (Properly selecting the best candidate to give my vote for president) belong to them.
Re-read the parent, it's related to the topic. (How the DOJ 'attitude' changed towards MS after Bush got into office) So what if a sub-thread breaks out?
Other than the top post of the sub thread, it's bad netiquette to mod all subsequent posts offtopic.
Obviously people want to discuss this topic or there wouldn't be so many posts on this thread.
I could steer the Green Machine most excellently. But because of that, I have a horrible time steering a plane on the ground, as the controls are completely backwards.
They are not "PRO-Abortion", they don't want to FORCE people to have abortions, they are simply not in favor of making it illegal to have an abortion. Making it illegal will not make them stop, but it will lead to back-alley abortions involving wire hangers, shop vacs, and severe infections.
I am a registered Libertarian (And the guy who started this whole thread, and it seems to me there must be a lot of people out there trying to silence intelligent political discussion with their lame "Off Topic" mods.) as well, and have voted Libertarian consistantly prior to now.
Although I'm not totally happy with the idea of voting Democratic this year, I feel it is far more important to remove Bush than to push for a Libertarian president this year. All of my local/state votes will be Libertarian this year, but my presidential vote will be for Kerry, as I know if I vote for a Libertarian president I will be foolishly throwing my vote away. The Libertarian strategy is still at the state & local level. Once we have a majority of state & local Libertarians, then it will be time to start pushing for a Libertarian president.
Right now the stakes are very weird, I don't like either the Republican or Democrat parties, my decision is based simply that I believe that another four years with Bush could very well prove fatal to the basic ways and traditions of America. (Think the people-pods on the Matrix as a Bush future) So I'm totally wanting Kerry to win. The middle class will be erased if Bush stays in office. No other presidential candidate has a hope in hell of winning this year, and the stakes are too high.
He has completely ignored, if not actively schemed against, the government checks and balances to provide a truly free society and economy.
He'd like us all to believe that a totally unencumbered economy will lead to riches for everyone, but instead it only bolsters the rich 1% and takes us back down the road to feudalism.
From a geek's point of view (And there are many others) - get Bush out, or he'll take your Open Source software away soon.
I've never seen any reason for non-millionnaires to vote with the Republican party. They want to turn the USA into another Mexico - only extremely rich and extremely poor, no middle class at all.
Yah yah, whatever. If a business cannot pay their people enough to make a decent living, then they shouldn't be in business at all. Make money by selling product, not by fucking over employees who make the product.
Katz posts a new rant every week or so. However, there is a bug in Slashcode which has hardcoded everyones settings to Ignore him, no matter how you have you configuration set, so nobody can see any of his postings. Poor guy, he's been wondering why nobody slams on his rants anymore...
That's what first brought Linux into my mental event horizon. I'd been reading HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, then was reading something computer related a week or so later, and the word Yggdrasil caught my eye in "Yggdrasil Linux". I had to find out what this was! So yah, I'm old - I remember it.:) What ever happened to it? Was it the thing that should not be?
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Which, in retrospect, gives a frightening mental image about frogs growing claws and living in toilets! Ouch!
Naming of I BM and Apple??
Eat a bunch of apples, have a BM, name it after the appearance or the smell.
Losedows? I always thought it was Wimp DOS. (DOS for idiots that need a pretty picture to remember things...)
What? You can't think with loud metal playing? That's when I do my best thinking! :)
Ooooh! Good theory! Where's my mod points when I need them! A Virtual +1 Interesting for you! :)
What? Don't put a chimp in my plans!
Press the "Electric Dog" button please...
OMFG! She met with some (ack!!) COMMUNISTS!! Oh Shit! Oh no!
Dude, time to catch up. Your reasoning is so 1960s. Communists are no longer the official bogeyman, Bin Laden and the Muslims are.
Non-Americans? Hell, non-Military Americans even. I'm an American and not a clue what this acronym soup means.
I grew up in Fort Wayne Indiana! I would love to move there if I could find a good paying (>$85,000) job there. Not a whole lot of tech jobs in good old Fort Wayne.
Could get a job mowing Johnny Appleseed's grave. Maybe referee the raft race at the Three Rivers Festival. (Oh wait, raft race [best part of the festival] was canceled a few years ago because the fucking insurance companies rates have gone through the edge of reality...)
OK, that's a new one to me. What in the fuck is that site all about? :)
I think that LEGALLY OFFICIAL candidates not being allowed to present their views is a total distortion of democracy.
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Well, I didn't post the message, but I am posting under my real ID, and I'd sure like to see the citations please.
OK, explain this to me then - isn't it COMPLETELY antithetical ("The opposite" if you don't know that word) to the ideas of Freedom and Democracy for the presidential debates to be conducted by a private corporation? No checks and balances, no true options, no true freedom. If any place is not the place for a private corporation to be involved, it is the most public part of presenting the candidates for leading this so-called free country to the people who will vote for them? Why are all possble options not being presented?
As far as property rights - what "property" do they allegedly have "rights" to? The presidential candidates themselves? Or some fake dog & pony show that misleads the public into thinking it is an official presentation of the government?
I have no respect for their rights since they are essentially saying that my rights (Properly selecting the best candidate to give my vote for president) belong to them.
I spit on them as an American who values freedom.
Are you too dumb to fear this?
Re-read the parent, it's related to the topic. (How the DOJ 'attitude' changed towards MS after Bush got into office) So what if a sub-thread breaks out?
Other than the top post of the sub thread, it's bad netiquette to mod all subsequent posts offtopic.
Obviously people want to discuss this topic or there wouldn't be so many posts on this thread.
Yah, but what'd you get? The lame 2% that most companies are getting? Or more?
I could steer the Green Machine most excellently. But because of that, I have a horrible time steering a plane on the ground, as the controls are completely backwards.
They are not "PRO-Abortion", they don't want to FORCE people to have abortions, they are simply not in favor of making it illegal to have an abortion. Making it illegal will not make them stop, but it will lead to back-alley abortions involving wire hangers, shop vacs, and severe infections.
I am a registered Libertarian (And the guy who started this whole thread, and it seems to me there must be a lot of people out there trying to silence intelligent political discussion with their lame "Off Topic" mods.) as well, and have voted Libertarian consistantly prior to now.
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Although I'm not totally happy with the idea of voting Democratic this year, I feel it is far more important to remove Bush than to push for a Libertarian president this year. All of my local/state votes will be Libertarian this year, but my presidential vote will be for Kerry, as I know if I vote for a Libertarian president I will be foolishly throwing my vote away. The Libertarian strategy is still at the state & local level. Once we have a majority of state & local Libertarians, then it will be time to start pushing for a Libertarian president.
Right now the stakes are very weird, I don't like either the Republican or Democrat parties, my decision is based simply that I believe that another four years with Bush could very well prove fatal to the basic ways and traditions of America. (Think the people-pods on the Matrix as a Bush future) So I'm totally wanting Kerry to win. The middle class will be erased if Bush stays in office. No other presidential candidate has a hope in hell of winning this year, and the stakes are too high.
That's my argument, I hope you think it over.
He has completely ignored, if not actively schemed against, the government checks and balances to provide a truly free society and economy.
He'd like us all to believe that a totally unencumbered economy will lead to riches for everyone, but instead it only bolsters the rich 1% and takes us back down the road to feudalism.
From a geek's point of view (And there are many others) - get Bush out, or he'll take your Open Source software away soon.
I've never seen any reason for non-millionnaires to vote with the Republican party. They want to turn the USA into another Mexico - only extremely rich and extremely poor, no middle class at all.
Yah yah, whatever. If a business cannot pay their people enough to make a decent living, then they shouldn't be in business at all. Make money by selling product, not by fucking over employees who make the product.
Yah, what happened to that show? First season of Dark Angel was very cool. Second season pretty much sucked. Not even sure when it was canceled.
Unfortunately, that was a stand in for the nude scenes. :(
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Katz posts a new rant every week or so. However, there is a bug in Slashcode which has hardcoded everyones settings to Ignore him, no matter how you have you configuration set, so nobody can see any of his postings. Poor guy, he's been wondering why nobody slams on his rants anymore...
That's what first brought Linux into my mental event horizon. I'd been reading HP Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, then was reading something computer related a week or so later, and the word Yggdrasil caught my eye in "Yggdrasil Linux". I had to find out what this was! So yah, I'm old - I remember it. :) What ever happened to it? Was it the thing that should not be?