You're not really up on modern violations of Treaty Rights, are you?
True, genocide is "out" these days, but anyone who pays attention and lives in the West knows that Treaty Rights are frequently under attack and frequently undermined.
It's gotten better in the last three decades, mostly because the tribes have learned to get decent legal help.
And what's the definition of "Terrorism"? What's the penalty for falsely certifying? How will anyone find out if falsification has occurred?
What exactly was the problem with requiring a federal judge to agree to such monitoring? Exactly as is done today to get a warrant?
What was broken that needs fixing? (answer: nothing)
Then... what was the motivation for fixing the non-problem? (expansion of the powers of federal prosecutors)
And after this is deemed Constiutional (if it is, doubtful IMO), what is to prevent expansion? Our faith in the goodness of federal prosecutors and the office of the AG?
Certainly current laws are sufficient to bust down any attorney doing such things. RICO would seem to apply, among other things. Just follow the attorney, get a warrant, bug his phone, etc.
Lawyers don't have a privileged position in our legal system, in the sense that law enforcement and security agents can treat them just like any other suspect.
It's attorney-client communication that's protected, not attorneys.
Think about it. Justice will have no problem getting a federal judge to grant them that right in today's climate for today's terrorist suspects. They can get it in a matter of hours, and the suspect's in custody and ain't going anywhere for a bit anyway.
The AG has given us no evidence that the courts have hindered them in any way in their efforts to investigate this act of terrorism, past acts of terrorism, or any acts that may lead to future terrorism.
Ashcraft's taking advantage of the situation to remove judicial oversight because he knows that he can get away with it in today's climate. And can then proceed to use it in those cases where a federal judge is likely to say "no". Cases where it is unwarranted, in other words, and cases not connected to recent terrorist events...
If you don't think the goal is to eventually gain the right to monitor client-attorney communications for *all* suspects in jail, you're smokin' something far too strong to be good for your mental health...
Yes, it is total bullshit, as most of RMS's attempts to extend his responsibility for the current state of affairs beyond emacs and the FSF are.
RMS is a control freak just as much as Billy Boy Gates, just with a lot less money.
The Open Source movement should succeed, because it will be better for us all, but if it succeeds and RMS becomes some sort of autocrat, Lord help us all.
The key behind Open Source is really distributed authority and responsibility. RMS holds to himself the right to declare who fits, and who doesn't, engineers and lawyers be damned.
While I hate the RMS==Communist comparisons, in reality he does have the same emotional need for autocratic control held by Lenin and Stalin. Both of whom were autocrats (Stalin, much more so, though Lenin dies young an who know?) and not beholden to the democratic principles of Marxism...
And, when Gore's quote is read in content, that's *all* he was claiming credit for. Helping secure funding because he understood the potential at a time when very few politicians had a clue about it.
The fact that Gore let crap like this slide, making him a laughingstock, is one example which helps to demonstrate that he was utterly incompetent during the Presidential campaign.
As one law professor pointed out when the DOJ/MS deal was published, this agreement is unique precisely because it does NOT punish MS for past behavior.
As the professor put it, past settlements have at least attempted to force the guilty party to part with the fruits of its illegal behavior.
A substantial fine and strong restrictions on future behavior are both warranted in this case.
"fitness" is probably the most misunderstood word used in evolutionary circles. What is meant is "reproductive fitness", i.e. you don't outcompete other species in the sense that one football team outcompetes another. You outcompete competitors by being more successful in transmitting your genes down through time.
Clearly the dinosaurs were "fit" before the meteor or comet impact that caused their doom punctuated the equilibrium to which they'd become adapted. (OK, that's a bit of a pun, and of course things weren't in stasis beforehand - dinosaurs evolved during those millions of years they were prevelant).
If our natural history included a steady stream of
frequent Big Rocks slamming into the planet then one could probably talk about small, furry warm-blooded creatures mostly living a nocturnal lifestyle underground were better fit in a general sense.
But in reality they were just better able to survive a catastrophy of exceeding rarity. Nothing to do with "fitness" as evolutionists think of it, at all.
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What's the point in hating (in a personal, emotional, sense) a computer program?
Antipathy towards MicroSoft-the-company's a different thing, though, as individuals run it and individuals are responsible for the fact that it seems to have no respect for the laws of the United States. Which happens to be my country. As a citizen of this country, it is perfectly reasonable for me to loath the company and its leadership for its business practices.
But hate Windows, per se? Like most folks, I need to use it from time to time, and other Microsoft products. Some of them work well enough, none of them are worth hating.
In a world where MicroSoft acted as a responsible corporate citizen I would have no problem with them. My feelings about their software would be unchanged - hey, Win2K's a lot more stable than NT, cool! - but my feelings about their company would be a *lot* different.
We in the Linux community - and in the world at large - have every reason in the world to dislike MicroSoft-the-company.
What is there to like about a corporation that falsified evidence in court? That ignores consent decrees? Whose very success is due to their having violated a contract with two programmers in Seattle (who'd written what became the basis for DOS)?
Samuel Delany is an excellent author. He's also black and gay, an unusual combination for a Science Fiction writer, and his autobiography (written 15? 20? years ago) is interesting as well.
Unfortunately, I was unpleasantly surprised, as my hopes were high. The first RFP from a potential client I fed through the latest Star Office beta was barely readable.
No, in football you aren't allowed to use anything you can to win. There are rules which must be followed, and people in striped shirts with yellow flags to enforce them.
Actually the InnoBase table type removes the biggest reason why MySQL traditionally has shit its pants under heavy load, as it provides row-level locking and non-blocking writes rather than the old table-level locking required with MySQL's original table type.
So it should be much better in this regard.
I don't know from personal experience, though. I use PostgreSQL instead because it's got important features like referential integrity checking and even better, a development team who understand why such features are important.
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Weird, I run KDE 2.2.x on my laptop and desktop and have never seen such problems. If you're not a troll, how about posting some specific steps I can take that will lead to my KDE 2.2.x install showing that cute error window you tout? I've never seen it. I'd love to see it. Help me out by telling me how to pop it up eight times a day, baby!
Like on the good 'ole USA? (There's no proof thus far that these cases are the result of any external terrorist group. It could well be a good 'ole boy here in the US pissed of at "the libral media's showing Osama bin Laden's videotaped propaganda" or the like).
Actually the federal government is "trashing the farm economy" in part to bolster salmon runs, the decline of which (in no small part due to water diversion for agriculture in the Klamath basin) has led to the trashing of the salmon fishing economy on the coast.
As the salmon fishermen on the coast have been quoted as saying "it's not about jobs vs. the environment, it's about my job vs. their job". Others, more bitter, call the farmers "water thieves".
The protection of the sucker fish has come as a result of suits by the Klamath Indians. Without getting into the complex details (which include the sucker being listed as endangered) the bottom line is that the tribe can exert prior water rights. Even without the ESA listing the Tribe had a very strong case (which they've pursued in court for a long time).
Just like the ag interests have prior water rights that lead to them getting most of what's left while the Klamath/Tule National Wildlife Refuge complex (one of the most important in the country)
is left high-and-dry.
Of course, all this comes against a background of one of the worst droughts in the area we've ever seen.
Regardless of how you feel about the water allocation dispute, don't believe for a moment that Libertarians would be welcome. The farm economy in the Klamath Basin wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the federal water project (i.e. paid for by the taxpayers, not farmers) and without past and present federal price support and other subsidy programs. And libertarians aren't wildly enthusiastic supporters of federal welfare programs for agriculture...
Keep in mind also, that the capital and operating costs of the federal project haven't come close to being paid for by fees charged to the irrigation district. The farmers claim different but do so by comparing fees paid in today's dollars with capital costs paid out when the project was built over a half-century ago (in other words they ignore inflation).
PostgreSQL isn't easy to install and get running properly? RH and Mandrake, at least, will install it for you when you install Linux. Automatically. Set it up so it starts up when you boot up and dies gracefully when you shutdown.
It doesn't get any easier than that.
PostgreSQL is *simple* to run and *simple* to administer. I've not used MySQL so can't directly compare, but the effort required to keep a PostgreSQL server running is so close to zero that MySQL can't possibly be significantly easier to administer.
I'm not knocking MySQL in this comparision, just wondering how the heck someone who is competent to administer Oracle can describe PostgreSQL as being anything other than trivial to install and administer.
Please begin thinking for yourself. I am tired of sophmoric pseudo-intellects regurgitating silly rhetoric heard by callers on NPR.
Why does Bin Laden have the right to tell America to leave the Islamic holy lands? Does he own all of it? Is he the elected representative of ALL the people? Does he even have the best interest of all the people in mind?
Consider taking your own advice. The previous poster is recounting Bin Laden's stated goals and as far as anyone knows it is an accurate picture. Osama Bin Laden didn't become radicalized until the Gulf War with the stationing of American troops on Saudi soil being a primary motivator. He accurately predicted at the time that we wouldn't leave after the War was over.
Understanding the man's position and the man's goals doesn't require that one agree with them.
In fact, understanding that he views this as a war waged for a specific purpose in some respects makes it easier to accept the need to wage war in return. After all, you don't declare war on common criminals, you declare war on those waging war against you.
Well... there's already a large number of microwave links, beacons, and other expensive electronic gear scattered around the Mojave, Sonoran and Great Basins deserts, guarded by nothing more than a chain link
fence with razor wire on the top.
I suppose this stuff gets vandalized from time-to-time. A few rounds from a 30-'06 are more likely than theft, though - check out the road signs
next time you visit us out in the InterMountain West.
My point's simple, though - this stuff's no more likely to be ripped off or vandalized than the expensive equipment that already decorates some of
our mountaintops, and you deal with it the same way. Insure and replace as necessary.
Lightning's probably a bigger risk, anyway. Mountains out here get slammed consistently (I assume they're locating the relays on mountains).
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You're not really up on modern violations of Treaty Rights, are you?
True, genocide is "out" these days, but anyone who pays attention and lives in the West knows that Treaty Rights are frequently under attack and frequently undermined.
It's gotten better in the last three decades, mostly because the tribes have learned to get decent legal help.
And what's the definition of "Terrorism"? What's the penalty for falsely certifying? How will anyone find out if falsification has occurred?
... what was the motivation for fixing the non-problem? (expansion of the powers of federal prosecutors)
What exactly was the problem with requiring a federal judge to agree to such monitoring? Exactly as is done today to get a warrant?
What was broken that needs fixing? (answer: nothing)
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And after this is deemed Constiutional (if it is, doubtful IMO), what is to prevent expansion? Our faith in the goodness of federal prosecutors and the office of the AG?
So denying 0.1% of the population the privacy inherent in the attorney-client relationship is OK, eh?
How about 1.0%?
How about 10.0%?
How about 100.0%?
Which is it, and how did you decide?
And why do you believe Ashcraft when he says it will only be 0.1%, anyway?
Certainly current laws are sufficient to bust down any attorney doing such things. RICO would seem to apply, among other things. Just follow the attorney, get a warrant, bug his phone, etc.
Lawyers don't have a privileged position in our legal system, in the sense that law enforcement and security agents can treat them just like any other suspect.
It's attorney-client communication that's protected, not attorneys.
Removing judicial oversight is a *huge* step.
Think about it. Justice will have no problem getting a federal judge to grant them that right in today's climate for today's terrorist suspects. They can get it in a matter of hours, and the suspect's in custody and ain't going anywhere for a bit anyway.
The AG has given us no evidence that the courts have hindered them in any way in their efforts to investigate this act of terrorism, past acts of terrorism, or any acts that may lead to future terrorism.
Ashcraft's taking advantage of the situation to remove judicial oversight because he knows that he can get away with it in today's climate. And can then proceed to use it in those cases where a federal judge is likely to say "no". Cases where it is unwarranted, in other words, and cases not connected to recent terrorist events...
If you don't think the goal is to eventually gain the right to monitor client-attorney communications for *all* suspects in jail, you're smokin' something far too strong to be good for your mental health...
Yes, it is total bullshit, as most of RMS's attempts to extend his responsibility for the current state of affairs beyond emacs and the FSF are.
RMS is a control freak just as much as Billy Boy Gates, just with a lot less money.
The Open Source movement should succeed, because it will be better for us all, but if it succeeds and RMS becomes some sort of autocrat, Lord help us all.
The key behind Open Source is really distributed authority and responsibility. RMS holds to himself the right to declare who fits, and who doesn't, engineers and lawyers be damned.
While I hate the RMS==Communist comparisons, in reality he does have the same emotional need for autocratic control held by Lenin and Stalin. Both of whom were autocrats (Stalin, much more so, though Lenin dies young an who know?) and not beholden to the democratic principles of Marxism...
And, when Gore's quote is read in content, that's *all* he was claiming credit for. Helping secure funding because he understood the potential at a time when very few politicians had a clue about it.
The fact that Gore let crap like this slide, making him a laughingstock, is one example which helps to demonstrate that he was utterly incompetent during the Presidential campaign.
As one law professor pointed out when the DOJ/MS deal was published, this agreement is unique precisely because it does NOT punish MS for past behavior.
As the professor put it, past settlements have at least attempted to force the guilty party to part with the fruits of its illegal behavior.
A substantial fine and strong restrictions on future behavior are both warranted in this case.
A US poll would probably show 3% in favor...in northern Idaho a much higher percentage.
"fitness" is probably the most misunderstood word used in evolutionary circles. What is meant is "reproductive fitness", i.e. you don't outcompete other species in the sense that one football team outcompetes another. You outcompete competitors by being more successful in transmitting your genes down through time.
Clearly the dinosaurs were "fit" before the meteor or comet impact that caused their doom punctuated the equilibrium to which they'd become adapted. (OK, that's a bit of a pun, and of course things weren't in stasis beforehand - dinosaurs evolved during those millions of years they were prevelant).
If our natural history included a steady stream of
frequent Big Rocks slamming into the planet then one could probably talk about small, furry warm-blooded creatures mostly living a nocturnal lifestyle underground were better fit in a general sense.
But in reality they were just better able to survive a catastrophy of exceeding rarity. Nothing to do with "fitness" as evolutionists think of it, at all.
What's the point in hating (in a personal, emotional, sense) a computer program?
Antipathy towards MicroSoft-the-company's a different thing, though, as individuals run it and individuals are responsible for the fact that it seems to have no respect for the laws of the United States. Which happens to be my country. As a citizen of this country, it is perfectly reasonable for me to loath the company and its leadership for its business practices.
But hate Windows, per se? Like most folks, I need to use it from time to time, and other Microsoft products. Some of them work well enough, none of them are worth hating.
In a world where MicroSoft acted as a responsible corporate citizen I would have no problem with them. My feelings about their software would be unchanged - hey, Win2K's a lot more stable than NT, cool! - but my feelings about their company would be a *lot* different.
We in the Linux community - and in the world at large - have every reason in the world to dislike MicroSoft-the-company.
What is there to like about a corporation that falsified evidence in court? That ignores consent decrees? Whose very success is due to their having violated a contract with two programmers in Seattle (who'd written what became the basis for DOS)?
Samuel Delany is an excellent author. He's also black and gay, an unusual combination for a Science Fiction writer, and his autobiography (written 15? 20? years ago) is interesting as well.
Did you write the above diatribe three years ago?
What part of three-year-after do you not understand?
Unfortunately, I was unpleasantly surprised, as my hopes were high. The first RFP from a potential client I fed through the latest Star Office beta was barely readable.
No, in football you aren't allowed to use anything you can to win. There are rules which must be followed, and people in striped shirts with yellow flags to enforce them.
Or else he wouldn't think that only open source software has lousy error messages...
Someone has a little trouble comprehending sarcasm, eh?
Actually the InnoBase table type removes the biggest reason why MySQL traditionally has shit its pants under heavy load, as it provides row-level locking and non-blocking writes rather than the old table-level locking required with MySQL's original table type.
So it should be much better in this regard.
I don't know from personal experience, though. I use PostgreSQL instead because it's got important features like referential integrity checking and even better, a development team who understand why such features are important.
Weird, I run KDE 2.2.x on my laptop and desktop and have never seen such problems. If you're not a troll, how about posting some specific steps I can take that will lead to my KDE 2.2.x install showing that cute error window you tout? I've never seen it. I'd love to see it. Help me out by telling me how to pop it up eight times a day, baby!
Like on the good 'ole USA? (There's no proof thus far that these cases are the result of any external terrorist group. It could well be a good 'ole boy here in the US pissed of at "the libral media's showing Osama bin Laden's videotaped propaganda" or the like).
Actually the federal government is "trashing the farm economy" in part to bolster salmon runs, the decline of which (in no small part due to water diversion for agriculture in the Klamath basin) has led to the trashing of the salmon fishing economy on the coast.
As the salmon fishermen on the coast have been quoted as saying "it's not about jobs vs. the environment, it's about my job vs. their job". Others, more bitter, call the farmers "water thieves".
The protection of the sucker fish has come as a result of suits by the Klamath Indians. Without getting into the complex details (which include the sucker being listed as endangered) the bottom line is that the tribe can exert prior water rights. Even without the ESA listing the Tribe had a very strong case (which they've pursued in court for a long time).
Just like the ag interests have prior water rights that lead to them getting most of what's left while the Klamath/Tule National Wildlife Refuge complex (one of the most important in the country)
is left high-and-dry.
Of course, all this comes against a background of one of the worst droughts in the area we've ever seen.
Regardless of how you feel about the water allocation dispute, don't believe for a moment that Libertarians would be welcome. The farm economy in the Klamath Basin wouldn't even exist if it weren't for the federal water project (i.e. paid for by the taxpayers, not farmers) and without past and present federal price support and other subsidy programs. And libertarians aren't wildly enthusiastic supporters of federal welfare programs for agriculture...
Keep in mind also, that the capital and operating costs of the federal project haven't come close to being paid for by fees charged to the irrigation district. The farmers claim different but do so by comparing fees paid in today's dollars with capital costs paid out when the project was built over a half-century ago (in other words they ignore inflation).
PostgreSQL isn't easy to install and get running properly? RH and Mandrake, at least, will install it for you when you install Linux. Automatically. Set it up so it starts up when you boot up and dies gracefully when you shutdown.
It doesn't get any easier than that.
PostgreSQL is *simple* to run and *simple* to administer. I've not used MySQL so can't directly compare, but the effort required to keep a PostgreSQL server running is so close to zero that MySQL can't possibly be significantly easier to administer.
I'm not knocking MySQL in this comparision, just wondering how the heck someone who is competent to administer Oracle can describe PostgreSQL as being anything other than trivial to install and administer.
Please begin thinking for yourself. I am tired of sophmoric pseudo-intellects regurgitating silly rhetoric heard by callers on NPR.
Why does Bin Laden have the right to tell America to leave the Islamic holy lands? Does he own all of it? Is he the elected representative of ALL the people? Does he even have the best interest of all the people in mind?
Consider taking your own advice. The previous poster is recounting Bin Laden's stated goals and as far as anyone knows it is an accurate picture. Osama Bin Laden didn't become radicalized until the Gulf War with the stationing of American troops on Saudi soil being a primary motivator. He accurately predicted at the time that we wouldn't leave after the War was over.
Understanding the man's position and the man's goals doesn't require that one agree with them.
In fact, understanding that he views this as a war waged for a specific purpose in some respects makes it easier to accept the need to wage war in return. After all, you don't declare war on common criminals, you declare war on those waging war against you.
Well ... there's already a large number of microwave links, beacons, and other expensive electronic gear scattered around the Mojave, Sonoran and Great Basins deserts, guarded by nothing more than a chain link
fence with razor wire on the top.
I suppose this stuff gets vandalized from time-to-time. A few rounds from a 30-'06 are more likely than theft, though - check out the road signs
next time you visit us out in the InterMountain West.
My point's simple, though - this stuff's no more likely to be ripped off or vandalized than the expensive equipment that already decorates some of
our mountaintops, and you deal with it the same way. Insure and replace as necessary.
Lightning's probably a bigger risk, anyway. Mountains out here get slammed consistently (I assume they're locating the relays on mountains).
Show me where, in the Constitution, it says that local folks can't decide to spend their local tax dollars on this if they want to!
It's our money and to a damned large degree we should have the freedom to spend it however we want.
If we-the-taxpayers choose not to - by voting down a
proposed bond or tax - then fine. If we choose to, then what they hell's your beef?