Ah, if only that were true. Do you expect people to raise children in isolation? People live in a social matrix. You can only teach your kids so much before they go out into the world and meet others. You can try to engineer your neighbors, censor intrusive media, and homeschool your kids, but the stupidity of other people and the nastiness of the world is going to creep in through the slighest flaw in your shield.
You can try to raise your children ideally, but be prepared for the time when they learn all the things you do not want them to learn, and then throw it in your when they start to differeniate themselves from you.
Feel free to bike, and tell others to bike, but don't compare what you do to what a runner does. It's cliche to say it, but if you have to ask why we run, there's nothing we can possibly say that will ever explain it to you.
You know, that is exactly what my raver friends tell me about dancing on drugs (6+ hours at a time, mind you). Intense physical exertion releases copious amounts of chemicals in the head, does it not? Maybe that is the best explanation of all. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
socialism is not the form of government this country was founded on, and it's not the form of government we had to make us the strongest and most important nation in the world.
This is actually incorrect. America climbed out of the Great Depression and into prominence in WW2 because of socialist programs like the New Deal, SSI, and the GI Bill. America's golden age (the 1950s, of course) came about as a result of an exploding middle class that came about as a result of these programs. Is this not when America became truly powerful?
After the war many factories transitioned from war production to consumer production without reducing output. Since even the lower classes were stable, secure, educated (free college for soldiers), and prosperous, they were able to purchase these goods and sustain a healthy consumer economy.
Historically, if that is not the source of America's power today, than what is?
I think their viewers are ready for the kind of edgy, creative humor that The Simpsons just hasn't provided in years.
If by edgy you mean sophomoric? Cleverness is diminished when you constantly reach for the lowest common denominator. The Simpsons gets bad whenever its writers think that way, too. Family Guy is on Adult Swim because it simply does not have a wide appeal; subtle humor, like polite conversation, is a much better way to make a point.
Rule Number One: The police and the military have more raw firepower than you can ever imagine.
Rule Number Two: There are no exceptions to Rule Number One.
Your analytical system is deeply flawed. Recent and historical events suggest a far more nuanced Rule System. Do you normally tend to ignore all available data when constructing your theorems?
I'm not interested in using products to make me feel like I'm better or, or in using products to impress my friends. I am, however, interested in selling products to people who feel that way. It seems to me that the seller is in the much more intelligent position than the buyer.:)
How charming. What product or service do you sell? Since you have arrogantly presumed all of your customers to be fools, I want to make sure I never do business with you.
Oh, and do post a link to the blind chocolate studies you mentioned. I happen to think that they are nothing more than a con artist's justification for his living.:)
The Canada/US border is vast, but people *are* watching.
Yet strangely enough, ton after ton of high-grade marijuana flows across the border to New York City alone. Laugh if you will, but if bales of aromatic plant matter can enter the country on a routine basis, then a few clever men will certainly be able to do the same.
However, a quick look through the 3-page summary document revealed what seemed to be a reasonable plan of action, rather than a scheme for total world domination.
You must have missed this line: Ensure that Software Assurance and other Information Technology Centers of Excellence include an information protection component.
Isn't Microsoft working on information protection components? How coincidental.
From the Summary pdf: Ensure that Software Assurance and other Information Technology Centers of Excellence include an information protection component(Emphasis mine).
Is it any surprise that Microsoft's security recommendations would include Palladium?
People who come off with this "only use the latest" attitude really annoy me.
Many people need to justify buying ultrapremium computers. Attitudes like this help the rationalization process.
Debate is a good thing at any venue, but this sort of Red Herring / Ad Hominem attack is *NOT* constructive and makes us look like a bunch of infighting children.
If you refrain from debating or criticizing the 'con' position in a Mac thread, then there will be no fighting. They are called zealots for a reason....
At least, not in the hands of nascient technology firms. People store things in a safe-deposit box precisely because it is in a bank vault, protected from most disaster. If the bank goes out of business, customers are notified in ample time, and there are plenty of regulations to make sure the banks toe the line.
There would be no such safeguards on consumer-grade data storage (business-grade data storage suffers from 'misplacement' even today). The electronic parts of your life (photos, music, thesis, novel, home movies, and so forth) will be in the hands of a company that can (a)run out of money; (b) have a change in Management (Caldera?); or (c) follow the whims of stockholders. Your life could suddenly be open to 'anonymous' market profiling. Other sorts of profiling as well. You could suddenly be confronted by a price increase that ransoms your data.
As much as I hate to say it, any company offering such an intangible yet essential service would need to be watched and/or regulated in some fashion.
Is it the result of people buying into the "OMG, they're killing the small-towns" nonsense? What's the problem? Seriously.
Nonsense? I know many businesses in parts of upstate NY that went out of business because of WalMart (I can provide specific examples). Some of these were other chains, sure, but most were in fact local businesses with local owners. Now all that revenue goes up the chain to the corporate headquarters, and then out to the shareholders. Upstate NY gets NOTHING except $5.15 jobs.....and Chinese-made consumer goods at a low price.
Unless your area never had a viable 'downtown' to begin with, you have no excuse being this ignorant. I suppose few people question things that work in their favor.....
Talk about indirect signals. Stuff like 'Aspirations' and 'fancy restaurants in the future' is doubletalk for "You Better Be Hoping For a Fat Paycheck in the Future, because I Sure As Hell Will Be Looking For One."
Crude male behavior (sex me baby) is as big a turnoff as crude female behavior (secure me baby). Sometimes female geeks need pointers, too.
Suburbs, right? They are not designed for childraising, not socializing, and now you are feeling that design flaw. If you do not already have such friends, or if one does not happen to live next door, you are basically screwed.
What does your area have for community groups? See if there is a Computer Club or Linux User's Group (LUG) in your area. Or if you are really in the boonies, save up some cash for a convention in a major city. If you go to a convention start-to-finish and attend a seminar or two, chances are you will make alot of friends that you will keep in touch with when you return home.
It will not help find you friends for a Saturday Night, but in our American society it is sometimes the only solution.
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Yes. I remember thinking just the same way. I nearly screamed in terror the first time I saw the thousands of packages on the Debian CDs. Then, slowly, I familiarized myself with all of these confusingly similar programs, and now I know them well. It was a slow accumulation of knowledge over time; it cannot be done in a single night's browsing.
It is no less daunting than memorizing all the trivia surrounding baseball or football (or any professional sport, for that matter). 'Joe User' can follow such sports complexity after a learning period (usually during youth)....why can he not do the same with window managers? He may not want to learn such a thing, but my point is that he CAN learn it if he is motivated to do so.
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What is with some developers and their attitude towards little Windows-like widgets? Some of those things are actually useful. And if you ever want GNOME to approach the functionality of, say, Windows XP...SNIP
GNOME and KDE are not the only desktops for Linux, despite what many seem to think. WindowMaker (with cousins like fluxbox) are much older and support tiny programs called dockapps that do anything you could want them to. The variety, configurability and stability of this tiny applets beats Windows, easily.
Remember GNOME is not Linux, nor is it XF86. It is a high-level desktop environment -- which is another way of saying that it is window-dressing. Explore the other desktop options (and I do not mean KDE!) for Linux and you will be pleasantly surprised.
Just in case anyone needs a reminder of the value produced by a no-bid contract with a monopoly:
Last night Verizon-NYC upgraded software systems on the phone network. Unforunately the 911 crashed hard and did not come back up. The backup system was, regrettably, also incompatible with the software upgrade. So for all of a busy Friday night in a city of 8+ million people, callers to 911 received a busy signal. Who cares to guess how many people were killed by Verizon last night?
It is sad that you respect the man who made The Most Violent and Bloodiest Story Ever Told. Of all the movies about Jesus, Mel's is the only one that focuses solely upon pain and torment. Face it, he butchered the story to push an agenda. The Pythons are rereleasing a parody that demonstrates the folly of fervent religiousity of the terminally stupid; if they can make a few dollars while doing so, good for them.
Noah's flood story is not a rip-off of Gilgamesh, per se. If you compare myths in the region, they all have flood myths because they were likely hit by the same cyclopean flood. By contrast, the Vikings and the American Indians did not have flood myths.
A current theory is that the island of Santorini (Greece now, Minoan at the time), which was volcanic, did not erupt but instead exploded quite suddenly. That explosion was the largest in the history of human civilization; if you check a map only little remains of the landmass. The blast would have been powerful enough to devastate every culture in the region. The fertile crescent flooded, leaving Sumerians upset. Minoan civilization vanished. The Greeks have a myth about humanity being wiped out. Down in Eygpt, water surged up the Nile, kicking up nutrient-rich red silt, which removed oxygen from the water, which caused the creatures (like, say, frogs) to flee the river and die, bringing flies, which made people sick.....and then all that firey ash starting falling from the sky and their Israeli laborers ran away. Sound familiar?
Why do so many people on this site believe it is their divine right to have anything that makes them happy be given to them free?....unless it has to do with never growing up since as a kid, your concept of property is that everything is given to you for free. Too bad parents aren't there to bend you over and spank you for being a moron.
Why do so many music distribution companies that have no part in creating music believe it is their divine right to have anything that makes them a profit? Too bad their concept of property is that everything must have a profit margin. Too bad parents aren't there to bend them over and spank them for being greedy, stupid, and bastards.
The parent poster might have had other points, but I lost them amidst the self-righteous whining.
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Ah, if only that were true. Do you expect people to raise children in isolation? People live in a social matrix. You can only teach your kids so much before they go out into the world and meet others. You can try to engineer your neighbors, censor intrusive media, and homeschool your kids, but the stupidity of other people and the nastiness of the world is going to creep in through the slighest flaw in your shield.
You can try to raise your children ideally, but be prepared for the time when they learn all the things you do not want them to learn, and then throw it in your when they start to differeniate themselves from you.
You know, that is exactly what my raver friends tell me about dancing on drugs (6+ hours at a time, mind you). Intense physical exertion releases copious amounts of chemicals in the head, does it not? Maybe that is the best explanation of all. And no, I'm not being sarcastic.
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This is actually incorrect. America climbed out of the Great Depression and into prominence in WW2 because of socialist programs like the New Deal, SSI, and the GI Bill. America's golden age (the 1950s, of course) came about as a result of an exploding middle class that came about as a result of these programs. Is this not when America became truly powerful?
After the war many factories transitioned from war production to consumer production without reducing output. Since even the lower classes were stable, secure, educated (free college for soldiers), and prosperous, they were able to purchase these goods and sustain a healthy consumer economy.
Historically, if that is not the source of America's power today, than what is?
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If by edgy you mean sophomoric? Cleverness is diminished when you constantly reach for the lowest common denominator. The Simpsons gets bad whenever its writers think that way, too. Family Guy is on Adult Swim because it simply does not have a wide appeal; subtle humor, like polite conversation, is a much better way to make a point.
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Rule Number Two: There are no exceptions to Rule Number One.
Your analytical system is deeply flawed. Recent and historical events suggest a far more nuanced Rule System. Do you normally tend to ignore all available data when constructing your theorems?
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How charming. What product or service do you sell? Since you have arrogantly presumed all of your customers to be fools, I want to make sure I never do business with you.
Oh, and do post a link to the blind chocolate studies you mentioned. I happen to think that they are nothing more than a con artist's justification for his living. :)
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Yet strangely enough, ton after ton of high-grade marijuana flows across the border to New York City alone. Laugh if you will, but if bales of aromatic plant matter can enter the country on a routine basis, then a few clever men will certainly be able to do the same.
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Here's the next step. So very cyberpunk, isn't it?
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You must have missed this line:
Ensure that Software Assurance and other Information Technology Centers of Excellence include an information protection component.
Isn't Microsoft working on information protection components? How coincidental.
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Ensure that Software Assurance and other Information Technology Centers of Excellence include an information protection component (Emphasis mine).
Is it any surprise that Microsoft's security recommendations would include Palladium?
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Great idea. Let overpaid exexcutives and lawyers explain first. The rest of us will wait until they are finished, thanks.
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Many people need to justify buying ultrapremium computers. Attitudes like this help the rationalization process.
Debate is a good thing at any venue, but this sort of Red Herring / Ad Hominem attack is *NOT* constructive and makes us look like a bunch of infighting children.
If you refrain from debating or criticizing the 'con' position in a Mac thread, then there will be no fighting. They are called zealots for a reason....
*PowerBook owner, too. Suck it, fanboys.
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There would be no such safeguards on consumer-grade data storage (business-grade data storage suffers from 'misplacement' even today). The electronic parts of your life (photos, music, thesis, novel, home movies, and so forth) will be in the hands of a company that can (a)run out of money; (b) have a change in Management (Caldera?); or (c) follow the whims of stockholders. Your life could suddenly be open to 'anonymous' market profiling. Other sorts of profiling as well. You could suddenly be confronted by a price increase that ransoms your data.
As much as I hate to say it, any company offering such an intangible yet essential service would need to be watched and/or regulated in some fashion.
Nonsense? I know many businesses in parts of upstate NY that went out of business because of WalMart (I can provide specific examples). Some of these were other chains, sure, but most were in fact local businesses with local owners. Now all that revenue goes up the chain to the corporate headquarters, and then out to the shareholders. Upstate NY gets NOTHING except $5.15 jobs.....and Chinese-made consumer goods at a low price.
Unless your area never had a viable 'downtown' to begin with, you have no excuse being this ignorant. I suppose few people question things that work in their favor.....
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Crude male behavior (sex me baby) is as big a turnoff as crude female behavior (secure me baby). Sometimes female geeks need pointers, too.
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What does your area have for community groups? See if there is a Computer Club or Linux User's Group (LUG) in your area. Or if you are really in the boonies, save up some cash for a convention in a major city. If you go to a convention start-to-finish and attend a seminar or two, chances are you will make alot of friends that you will keep in touch with when you return home.
It will not help find you friends for a Saturday Night, but in our American society it is sometimes the only solution.
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It is no less daunting than memorizing all the trivia surrounding baseball or football (or any professional sport, for that matter). 'Joe User' can follow such sports complexity after a learning period (usually during youth)....why can he not do the same with window managers? He may not want to learn such a thing, but my point is that he CAN learn it if he is motivated to do so.
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GNOME and KDE are not the only desktops for Linux, despite what many seem to think. WindowMaker (with cousins like fluxbox) are much older and support tiny programs called dockapps that do anything you could want them to. The variety, configurability and stability of this tiny applets beats Windows, easily.
Remember GNOME is not Linux, nor is it XF86. It is a high-level desktop environment -- which is another way of saying that it is window-dressing. Explore the other desktop options (and I do not mean KDE!) for Linux and you will be pleasantly surprised.
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Last night Verizon-NYC upgraded software systems on the phone network. Unforunately the 911 crashed hard and did not come back up. The backup system was, regrettably, also incompatible with the software upgrade. So for all of a busy Friday night in a city of 8+ million people, callers to 911 received a busy signal. Who cares to guess how many people were killed by Verizon last night?
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A current theory is that the island of Santorini (Greece now, Minoan at the time), which was volcanic, did not erupt but instead exploded quite suddenly. That explosion was the largest in the history of human civilization; if you check a map only little remains of the landmass. The blast would have been powerful enough to devastate every culture in the region. The fertile crescent flooded, leaving Sumerians upset. Minoan civilization vanished. The Greeks have a myth about humanity being wiped out. Down in Eygpt, water surged up the Nile, kicking up nutrient-rich red silt, which removed oxygen from the water, which caused the creatures (like, say, frogs) to flee the river and die, bringing flies, which made people sick.....and then all that firey ash starting falling from the sky and their Israeli laborers ran away. Sound familiar?
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Why do so many music distribution companies that have no part in creating music believe it is their divine right to have anything that makes them a profit? Too bad their concept of property is that everything must have a profit margin. Too bad parents aren't there to bend them over and spank them for being greedy, stupid, and bastards.
The parent poster might have had other points, but I lost them amidst the self-righteous whining.
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