Left! Left? I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around your poor leftie-biggot excuse for an arguement.
While I don't sport a Neo-Libertarian bent myself, I do believe that legalization or at least the downsizing of regulations concerning personal behaviors is a torch carried by the said-same people. Oddly enough it's one of the platforms on which I agree with them (Yup! I'm a leftie.) Needless to say the marijuana legalization issue is less left/right oriented as it is a freedom/fascism issue.
That having been said, I'm a nerd (technology and Linux geek) and this is news to me, and might I add very interesting and important to all Americans not just non-nerd ones.
So not only are you wrong in the crux of your post, but also in the snide undercurrent also. Have a nice day!;)
Have you looked at the other kooky stuff sold on that site? It's not exactly a peer-reviewed scientific journal. I mean the "Biophoton Analyzer" looks like a Scientology artifact.
"Being told you MUST makes it not a sacrifice, but like she says, it's "slavery." You're being forced to work for someone else, as opposed to giving willingly."
Calling taxes, slavery is both misleading, inaccurate and disingenuous. It's like calling grey, black because it has some black in it. Conversely, by the same logic grey could be called white. And while there may be an argument about acceptable levels of slavery as white follows black in grey so does freedom follow slavery in taxes.
In fact I would argue that a free man is NEVER totally free to pursue happiness nor is a slave totally EVER a slave. Is it better to be mostly free and part slave, or mostly slave and partly free?
Fighting towards personal freedom is an honorable goal, but not at the expense of others. (A point on which Ayn seems to agree.) And if a person is so poor as to not being able to afford food, shelter and clothing, let's just say that there's little social mobility with that as starting point, and hence absolutely no freedom exists for that person. The US system of welfare has more to do with making the playing field more level (true parity won't ever be reached.) across the socio-economic scale. It's about ensuring that the rich can't take complete advantage over the poor and create a state of slavery in all but the name.
Taxes are necessary to protect the common welfare of a state, and everyone who has the ability to pay the taxes, should be obligated by law to pay them, or else it wouldn't be fair if some paid and others didn't, but all benefited from services provided.
One parting thought: People that don't get enough to eat, have a place to live or clothing on their backs while others around them are living well tend to commit crimes, or even worse revolt.
Too bad you're an Anonymous Coward... I spot an IT guy who shouldn't have the job he was given.
No doubt. An IT guy who doesn't listen to his users about their needs, is just creating enemies for no reason. Particularly, since the users and the jobs they perform are the reason that the IT guy has has a job in the first place. An IT person's job is to facilitate the other employees' in performing their job duties in respect to interfacing with the corporate network and computers.
There are ALWAYS amicable ways of dealing with these situations and almost NEVER a good reason to lock down individual computers to the point that the user can't even change their desktop background. The derision and fascism of these people isn't part of an their job description and generally gets in the way of the corporate mission.
In my experience (10 years as an IT guy) such maneuvers by the IT department are usually in retaliation and subjugation against the user pool, and brought about by a controlling and insecure IT staff. These things are security theater at it's worst rather than a real security or computer management concern.
Of course not. It's an open source project. Someone else will probably pick up the code and work on it.
Code on, brother!
On a more serious note, we don't know if he's guilty. We do know that his wife is missing. We don't know why.
There are many reasons for people to turn up missing, and not all involve foul play.
While I do share some of your concern for him, his ex-wife and his family, the fact is I'm not exactly broken up about it. People die every day. Some of those people are murdered. People lose their parents. I'm not a calous person, yet I don't feel anything special about these occurences, and that's normal. Because when my mother died, I cried, but when my uncle died I was a little sad, but mostly not shaken at all.
In the absence of great feeling about the situation, one is left with the question, "How does this affect me and what is next?", because essentially for people not close to the situation it NEWS, and that is how most people react to NEWS.
Journalism has been pretty scummy for a long time, I guess that comes from the fact that if it's not sensational it does not get published.
Having worked at a newspaper with journalists for a while, I can verify that that's simply not true. If you were misquoted, generally it means that you were the victim of poor journalism and/or poor note-taking/bad memory. Many journalists will go out of their way to NOT report sensational stories that ACTUALLY matter in order to protect their sources. Journalists need to keep their sources friendly or they don't get any gossip, and aren't effective journalists.
Journalists, as a rule, know lots more information than they print and if they slant an article it may be due to something they know "off the record." and can't quote directly.
On the other hand, good journalism looks for an angle or a story and will slant towards that if possible, but don't assume that they are misquoting you because they are slime.
Don't want businesses lobbying government? There's an easy solution: get government out of the business of micromanaging businesses.
A great way to end corruption would be to make government as small (and transparent) as possible.
Then businesses can screw over people directly, without all that messy government interference.
...And as a matter of fact the smaller something is the more things can be hidden. The more people are in on a secret, the more likely it's going to be shared outside of the secretive cabal.
In Linux, I have an/etc directory, and there's files in there, and the files have obvious names like apache.conf, and the files are in plain text which is easily manipulated with any text editing tool, and if I ever get lost in the file they are generally well commented out so I can know what a setting changes.
My point is there is absolutely NO REASON to make an OBSCURE database for application settings. It's somewhat unrealiable, inaccessible, unintelligible and intentionally, uselessly, pointlessly abstract. I don't see a reason for any programming language or configuration needing "Special Magic Codes" to access arcane functions of the program/language. If {1234567800-0-28973847} means c:\buttmonkey.txt, you should be able to shove c:\buttmonkey.txt in instead of some indecypherable number. If the system needs all this crazy data, stick it in a dll.
My point is Windows if foolish, overcomplicated piece of crap.
Nicotine, while dangerously toxic in ludicrously small doses, is not the cause of cancer from smoking.
Nicotine is actually safe in micro-doses. Horribly addictive, but safe.
It's the public's fear and the media's fear-mongering of cigarettes and vilianization of nicotine that's to blame for it not being used as a pharmacuetical.
Scary and possible, and something that has bothered me since he took office the first time.
A cabal that has no problems with rigging elections in Florida won't likely have an issue with declaring martial law to extend it's reign.
Especially, when they feel that they are on a mission from God, e.g. everything is fair game and ends justify the means.
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You were using the wrong tool (Paintbrush Tool). All the paintbrushes are images that you can paint with and therefore aren't sizeable. There is a wide selection of paintbrushes available by default, by clicking on the Brush setting either on the Gimp Tool window or in the Paintbrush tool preferences.
What you wanted was the ink tool (quill pen icon). It allows several settings including brush shape and a simple slider for size.
Don't assume that just because you can't figure it out that The Gimp is missing the feature or The Gimp sucks.
Ahh, your true colors are shining through. There is nothing inherently wrong with being rich. If you were rich, I seriously doubt you would mind. The problem is the individual, not the money.
No, if he said those rich people he would be lumping them all together. He said "rich bastards" of which a person would have to belong to both the rich group AND the bastards group. He obviously has not issues with rich nice people.
Nice idea, but the trickle off a solar panel is particularily well suited to recharging batterys, and a solar panel the size of a car roof won't put out that many watts.
I doubt it. It's not the kind of con that a 16 year old (or even most 60 year olds) could pull off. If the girl was an unwilling participant without her knowlege, e.g. someone else is using her to setup a con, she and everyone else associated with this would have been incredulous from day/hour 1.
The details are too perfect. Like the conflicting stories, multiple myspace accounts some of which have been deactivated. Unless a person cons for a living they wouldn't think of human nature stuff like that. Some of the T-Mobile stuff jibes, too. Too many good details.
It seems easy to do now that it's been done, but it wouldn't have been easy to setup and coordinate as spontaneously as it has happened.
Besides, I don't doubt he's out of bandwidth what with the combined Digg/Slashdot effect, that kind of stuff can get expensive real quick, and he probably underestimated how expensive.
He wasn't implying that the USA and Nazi Germany are exactly alike. He was implying that we are headed down the same road.
Here's how the leak investigation would go down in the Soviet Union. You would be arrested and then beaten until you confessed, passed out, or died. Maybe they would try some kind of new drug on you. To be sure, whatever they did would far exceed the hysterical descriptions of so-called American torture. If you did confess you would be executed. If they wanted to make an example of you, you would get a show trial, then executed. Of course, your family would suffer unbearable consequences, up to and including a trip to Siberia.
Replace Soviet Union with American (and vice-versa) and Siberia with Guantanimo, and it comes dangerously close. Granted we're not EXACTLY there yet, but you can park and see it from here.
What? If we devalue our debt, who would want to buy bonds? The treasury would go bankrupt overnight, because there would be a rush on cashing the things in, as the outstanding bonds' value plummets. Enourmous portions of the economy would nosedive as people lose their savings overnight.
And that doesn't even take into account the effects of an embargo with China. Which honestly wouldn't hurt us too much, just in the short run, because all the manufacturing would quickly be shifted to other money poor/labor rich nations like Mexico, India, or pick a nation in Africa.
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Wow life imitating art, imitating life. Ripe!
Left! Left? I'm having trouble wrapping my brain around your poor leftie-biggot excuse for an arguement.
;)
While I don't sport a Neo-Libertarian bent myself, I do believe that legalization or at least the downsizing of regulations concerning personal behaviors is a torch carried by the said-same people. Oddly enough it's one of the platforms on which I agree with them (Yup! I'm a leftie.) Needless to say the marijuana legalization issue is less left/right oriented as it is a freedom/fascism issue.
That having been said, I'm a nerd (technology and Linux geek) and this is news to me, and might I add very interesting and important to all Americans not just non-nerd ones.
So not only are you wrong in the crux of your post, but also in the snide undercurrent also. Have a nice day!
Have you looked at the other kooky stuff sold on that site? It's not exactly a peer-reviewed scientific journal. I mean the "Biophoton Analyzer" looks like a Scientology artifact.
"Being told you MUST makes it not a sacrifice, but like she says, it's "slavery." You're being forced to work for someone else, as opposed to giving willingly."
Calling taxes, slavery is both misleading, inaccurate and disingenuous. It's like calling grey, black because it has some black in it. Conversely, by the same logic grey could be called white. And while there may be an argument about acceptable levels of slavery as white follows black in grey so does freedom follow slavery in taxes.
In fact I would argue that a free man is NEVER totally free to pursue happiness nor is a slave totally EVER a slave. Is it better to be mostly free and part slave, or mostly slave and partly free?
Fighting towards personal freedom is an honorable goal, but not at the expense of others. (A point on which Ayn seems to agree.) And if a person is so poor as to not being able to afford food, shelter and clothing, let's just say that there's little social mobility with that as starting point, and hence absolutely no freedom exists for that person. The US system of welfare has more to do with making the playing field more level (true parity won't ever be reached.) across the socio-economic scale. It's about ensuring that the rich can't take complete advantage over the poor and create a state of slavery in all but the name.
Taxes are necessary to protect the common welfare of a state, and everyone who has the ability to pay the taxes, should be obligated by law to pay them, or else it wouldn't be fair if some paid and others didn't, but all benefited from services provided.
One parting thought: People that don't get enough to eat, have a place to live or clothing on their backs while others around them are living well tend to commit crimes, or even worse revolt.
Could they please provide their prices in American dollars?
Not everyone lives on the other side of the pond, you know.;)
Too bad you're an Anonymous Coward... I spot an IT guy who shouldn't have the job he was given.
No doubt. An IT guy who doesn't listen to his users about their needs, is just creating enemies for no reason. Particularly, since the users and the jobs they perform are the reason that the IT guy has has a job in the first place. An IT person's job is to facilitate the other employees' in performing their job duties in respect to interfacing with the corporate network and computers.
There are ALWAYS amicable ways of dealing with these situations and almost NEVER a good reason to lock down individual computers to the point that the user can't even change their desktop background. The derision and fascism of these people isn't part of an their job description and generally gets in the way of the corporate mission.
In my experience (10 years as an IT guy) such maneuvers by the IT department are usually in retaliation and subjugation against the user pool, and brought about by a controlling and insecure IT staff. These things are security theater at it's worst rather than a real security or computer management concern.
Mod that up! I would place bets on it.
In fact look for obscure companies with loads of bright people and little early focus, narrowing down on a pseudo-related product.
The interesting point is not whether you make anti-government statements alone, but rather how popular your messages become.
For more information see Ghandi, Martin Luther King Jr., Jesus, Socrates, etc.
This is NOT a tragedy for the Reiser filesystem.
Of course not. It's an open source project. Someone else will probably pick up the code and work on it.
Code on, brother!
On a more serious note, we don't know if he's guilty. We do know that his wife is missing. We don't know why.
There are many reasons for people to turn up missing, and not all involve foul play.
While I do share some of your concern for him, his ex-wife and his family, the fact is I'm not exactly broken up about it. People die every day. Some of those people are murdered. People lose their parents. I'm not a calous person, yet I don't feel anything special about these occurences, and that's normal. Because when my mother died, I cried, but when my uncle died I was a little sad, but mostly not shaken at all.
In the absence of great feeling about the situation, one is left with the question, "How does this affect me and what is next?", because essentially for people not close to the situation it NEWS, and that is how most people react to NEWS.
Lighten up.
Journalism has been pretty scummy for a long time, I guess that comes from the fact that if it's not sensational it does not get published.
Having worked at a newspaper with journalists for a while, I can verify that that's simply not true. If you were misquoted, generally it means that you were the victim of poor journalism and/or poor note-taking/bad memory. Many journalists will go out of their way to NOT report sensational stories that ACTUALLY matter in order to protect their sources. Journalists need to keep their sources friendly or they don't get any gossip, and aren't effective journalists.
Journalists, as a rule, know lots more information than they print and if they slant an article it may be due to something they know "off the record." and can't quote directly.
On the other hand, good journalism looks for an angle or a story and will slant towards that if possible, but don't assume that they are misquoting you because they are slime.
Don't want businesses lobbying government? There's an easy solution: get government out of the business of micromanaging businesses.
...And as a matter of fact the smaller something is the more things can be hidden. The more people are in on a secret, the more likely it's going to be shared outside of the secretive cabal.
A great way to end corruption would be to make government as small (and transparent) as possible.
Then businesses can screw over people directly, without all that messy government interference.
Most definitely is fake. In fact it's a scam.
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You see they get these sewing people all scared, work them up into a lather and then direct them to the "Amnesty Program" here:
http://www.embroideryprotection.org/Amnesty_Progr
Where they procede to take $300 a piece from unwitting cross-stichers.
NO, I think YOU are missing something here.
/etc directory, and there's files in there, and the files have obvious names like apache.conf, and the files are in plain text which is easily manipulated with any text editing tool, and if I ever get lost in the file they are generally well commented out so I can know what a setting changes.
In Linux, I have an
My point is there is absolutely NO REASON to make an OBSCURE database for application settings. It's somewhat unrealiable, inaccessible, unintelligible and intentionally, uselessly, pointlessly abstract. I don't see a reason for any programming language or configuration needing "Special Magic Codes" to access arcane functions of the program/language. If {1234567800-0-28973847} means c:\buttmonkey.txt, you should be able to shove c:\buttmonkey.txt in instead of some indecypherable number. If the system needs all this crazy data, stick it in a dll.
My point is Windows if foolish, overcomplicated piece of crap.
Try editing the registry with a text editor.
While possible, it could also drive you insane.
And whats up with key names like: {4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}
What the hell is that supposed to mean? Could they try something closer to a human language?
Bah!
Nicotine, while dangerously toxic in ludicrously small doses, is not the cause of cancer from smoking.
Nicotine is actually safe in micro-doses. Horribly addictive, but safe.
It's the public's fear and the media's fear-mongering of cigarettes and vilianization of nicotine that's to blame for it not being used as a pharmacuetical.
Scary and possible, and something that has bothered me since he took office the first time.
A cabal that has no problems with rigging elections in Florida won't likely have an issue with declaring martial law to extend it's reign.
Especially, when they feel that they are on a mission from God, e.g. everything is fair game and ends justify the means.
Wow! You just described my company.
You were using the wrong tool (Paintbrush Tool). All the paintbrushes are images that you can paint with and therefore aren't sizeable. There is a wide selection of paintbrushes available by default, by clicking on the Brush setting either on the Gimp Tool window or in the Paintbrush tool preferences.
What you wanted was the ink tool (quill pen icon). It allows several settings including brush shape and a simple slider for size.
Don't assume that just because you can't figure it out that The Gimp is missing the feature or The Gimp sucks.
"...of the rich bastards..."
Ahh, your true colors are shining through. There is nothing inherently wrong with being rich. If you were rich, I seriously doubt you would mind. The problem is the individual, not the money.
No, if he said those rich people he would be lumping them all together. He said "rich bastards" of which a person would have to belong to both the rich group AND the bastards group. He obviously has not issues with rich nice people.
Nice idea, but the trickle off a solar panel is particularily well suited to recharging batterys, and a solar panel the size of a car roof won't put out that many watts.
For more information read the book: Solo: Life With an Electric Car by Noel, Perrin
It's quite entertaining.
Nah that's most likely just his ISP's default.
It's not like Evan is an HTML wiz.
I doubt it. It's not the kind of con that a 16 year old (or even most 60 year olds) could pull off. If the girl was an unwilling participant without her knowlege, e.g. someone else is using her to setup a con, she and everyone else associated with this would have been incredulous from day/hour 1.
The details are too perfect. Like the conflicting stories, multiple myspace accounts some of which have been deactivated. Unless a person cons for a living they wouldn't think of human nature stuff like that. Some of the T-Mobile stuff jibes, too. Too many good details.
It seems easy to do now that it's been done, but it wouldn't have been easy to setup and coordinate as spontaneously as it has happened.
Besides, I don't doubt he's out of bandwidth what with the combined Digg/Slashdot effect, that kind of stuff can get expensive real quick, and he probably underestimated how expensive.
He wasn't implying that the USA and Nazi Germany are exactly alike. He was implying that we are headed down the same road.
Here's how the leak investigation would go down in the Soviet Union. You would be arrested and then beaten until you confessed, passed out, or died. Maybe they would try some kind of new drug on you. To be sure, whatever they did would far exceed the hysterical descriptions of so-called American torture. If you did confess you would be executed. If they wanted to make an example of you, you would get a show trial, then executed. Of course, your family would suffer unbearable consequences, up to and including a trip to Siberia.
Replace Soviet Union with American (and vice-versa) and Siberia with Guantanimo, and it comes dangerously close. Granted we're not EXACTLY there yet, but you can park and see it from here.
Hey that that kind of looks like the rocks here or here or here or here.
and check out these regularily "cut" bad boys here.
But how do you explain natural pyramids?
Oh I don't know maybe this quote:
"If the glacier erodes three or more cirques on different sides of the mountain, a peak will begin to form. The peak may be a steep pyramid shaped rock, which is known as a horn. The Matterhorn in the Swiss Alps is a well known horn."
Yah!
What? If we devalue our debt, who would want to buy bonds? The treasury would go bankrupt overnight, because there would be a rush on cashing the things in, as the outstanding bonds' value plummets. Enourmous portions of the economy would nosedive as people lose their savings overnight.
And that doesn't even take into account the effects of an embargo with China. Which honestly wouldn't hurt us too much, just in the short run, because all the manufacturing would quickly be shifted to other money poor/labor rich nations like Mexico, India, or pick a nation in Africa.
We could never afford to default on our debt.