It's a shame about Rumsfeld screwing up in Iraq. That's been really hurting the President. Still, you don't always have the luxury of going to war with the Secretary of Defense that you want, sometimes you have to go to war with the Secretary of Defense that you have.
I don't read Digg regularly. I do check/. most days. What's wrong with an interesting link being posted on both sites? I visit here because they include an interesting selection of links from all over and (usually) intelligent discussion. Who cares is Digg (or someone else) posted it first?
I think there is a big difference between individual integrity and the lawyer and profit driven speak of companies. Of course there is personal honesty. Lots of people choose to tell the truth. Companies, however, tend to view honesty as a relative thing it is and highly subject to the influences of lawyers and shareholders.
My 14 year old daughter got xxx-1337 as her cell phone number. Unfortunately, she has little appreciation for the geekier things in life and is unimpressed by this honor.
However, I have noticed the word 'WOOT' entering her vocabulary. Maybe some geeky-coolness is slipping into the mainstream afterall.
I don't understand people who refuse to run an anti-virus program. There are wonderful free programs out there like Avast and AVG which don't take over your machine and are easy to keep up to date. Why not use them?
On a related note, I did dump my spyware sweepers as I found that if I don't use IE or run as Admin, the only 'spyware' they were picking up were cookies. Clearing my cookie folder when I close the browser solved that problem.
Tell me - would you rather have the Bush administration in power or the Ayatollah?
The undue influence of Religious Right on the Republican Party and this Administration creates the same result, Except Bush dresses better and the Ayatollah is smarter.
Cops are people, not ticket-writing machines. They have a choice when they pull you over. They can be an asshole or not. If you are polite and perhaps even chatty, they will sometimes choose to cut you a break. This break may mean that they give you a warning about the speed and a lesser ticket. This is a choice cops make dozens of times a day, every day. These guys are simply choosing not to be an asshole and I appreciate that.
As paranoid as it might sound, I keep wondering if Bush will invent some 'National Security' Crisis in '08 and announce that it is too dangerous to hold elections at this time.
For your protection, you know. And if you are a good patriot, you will not complain about a few more years of neo-con control, Its for your protection and disagreeing with the government aids our enemies, you know.
Maybe if you're into pre-op transexuals. I've never seen a LUG meeting that was anything but a complete sausagefest. Women don't use Linux, they use Windows.
It's attitudes like that kept females like me away from my local lug even when I was hopelessly stuck. The same attitude pervades Linux chat rooms where I have occasionally gone for help. I'm tired of being patted on the head, when I'm not wading through hot grit jokes.
I have managed to figure this shit out myself (started using linux in 99, when it was much more of a challenge), with no help from you chauvenistic guys. Look around. You are the reason we aren't at the Lugs.
"but exactly how are we supposed to find Al Qaeda cells in the U.S.? Ask suspected terrorists for permission first before we bug them?"
I seriously doubt that, three years post 911, terrorists are sitting around chatting about commiting terrorist acts on the phone. I doubt they have aquired much useful intelligence regarding Al Queda for quite a long time using these means. I suspect it is used primarily to spy on US Citizens who the Administration considers 'terror suspects' for such subsersive activities as researching a paper on Communism or attending a Quaker Peace Group.
As a Democrat, I can say that McCain is the only Republican I would consider voting for. He consistantly stands up for what he believes in, regardless of the party line. I used to feel similarly toward Colin Powell, but he turned out to be just another polititian when he lied to the American People and the world about WMDs, knowing full well it was a lie. The fact that McCain is considered a Republican in name only is a big plus as far as I am concerned.
I'll throw my dinosaur in here..a Toshiba Satellite laptop PII MMX 266 with 180 MB RAM running Deb Sarge as personal webserver. Runs absolutely rock solid and that is why I have been so reluctant to retire it. Love ya Linux.
This is exactly why MS's big push against F/OSS is focused outside the US. They know they are safe here, but the current anti-US sentiment overseas is causing other governments and corporations to start looking at Open Source Alternatives as a way of casting off the yoke of US control. (And who can blame them?)
MS has no fear of losing it's continued domination of the US IT industry, but they are concerned that the rest of the world may realize they don't need them anymore. That will be the beginning of the end of Microsoft.
"Do you know people who will spend inordinate amounts of time searching for a lost remote instead of just changing the channel by hand?:raises his hand"
This brings up an issue which has always bugged me: Why don't they put a 'page' button on the set so you can FIND the damned remote? Geeze. This seems like a no-brainer to me.
My company (U.S. healthcare insurance) is run in a similar way. They are mysteriously successful, however.:-) Don't lose hope!
Your company is successful for no 'mysterious' reason. The Health Care Industry in this country is a disgrace and companies like yours pour millions to lawmakers (mostly Republican) to keep it this way. Your industry is breaking the back of employees and employers alike.
I pay more for crappy Health Insurance than I do for my mortgage. And so does two-thirds of the other families in this country. What a huge waste of resources and an incredible drain on the economy. What exactly does this huge expense buy us? Protection from being sued if myself or one of my family members are unlucky to become sick or injured. Many US Companies are going broke trying to provide Health Insurance for thier employees. And don't pretend that a $2,000 deductible is even usable on a $10.00 hour job. (If your employer even offers Health Insurance)
Why should whether my children are able to see a doctor depend on the good graces or financial ability of my employer to provide Insurance?
This country will eventually have to move to some kind of Socialized Medicine because the Health Insurance / Pharmacutical Industries are sucking the life out of the US economy and it will eventually fall of its own weight.
I remember that day so clearly, and the helpless horror I felt watching that man dragged from his truck and beaten and beaten...they even smashed his head with a cement block.
I saw him on tv sometime later and he said he didn't remember any of it and held no hard feeling toward those who did it.
"...and that the cure is not worse than the disease."
This brings up an interesting point. We can argue all day about why it is happening but there is very little argument over the fact that it IS happening. The real question is what will this mean for the world in 20 or 50 years. What should we be doing now to prepare for a significantly warmer, wetter world?
By the way, if anything, the result is disappointing to me. Don't know about you, but I certainly prefer smart chicks. And now they say there aren't enough of them for us all!
Maybe if our society put more value on 'smart chicks' young girls would put more value into learning. Unfortunately, ask any Junior High School Girl what is important and they will tell you that 'looking hot' is the most important thing. Smart is not 'cool'. Whether men wish to admit it or not, most still perfer a Barbie Doll to Madame Curie.
I have a Post Office Box and the damn cds are too big so they put in a notice to pick up a package. You never know if it's a real package so I wind up standing in line on my lunch hour for another freaking AOL cd...Could I glue one to a brick and write 'Return to Sender' on it?.
Another gripe: Why can't you cancel the deduction from your account with the bank? It seems only AOL can choose to stop taking money out. Your only other option is to close the account. If I can authorize payment, why can't I remove the authorization?
I am behind a good firewall and have always been very careful to keep my Win2K box up to date with the critical updates. I have resisted SP4 due to the Windows DRM which is included.
There is no 'critial update' patch for this. It is SP4 or nothing. I am counting on my firewall to keep this worm out of the Windows box, but it bothers me greatly to be vulnerable to the exploit.
Give me a break! This is an example of Republican brainwashing of the ignorant masses. Your party has no claim to God, there are good dedicated Christians in every political party. Perhaps you mean you are the party of radical Christian fundalmentalists which feel free to ram their religious beliefs down everyone else's throat. There are many Middle Eastern countries which have fundalmentalist leaders who also consider themselves the 'Party of God.' You have more in common with those close-minded mullahs than you would like to believe.
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It's a shame about Rumsfeld screwing up in Iraq. That's been really hurting the President. Still, you don't always have the luxury of going to war with the Secretary of Defense that you want, sometimes you have to go to war with the Secretary of Defense that you have.
Bush -'The Decider' (Koo-koo-ka-choo)
Flourescent tubes give off a crappy light that makes a lot of people ill...
Indeed. I had a friend in college who could be induced to grand mal seizures by a flickering flourescent bulb.
As a fortysomething female geek, I feel your pain and I appreciate you saying it so well. Thank you.
I don't read Digg regularly. I do check /. most days. What's wrong with an interesting link being posted on both sites? I visit here because they include an interesting selection of links from all over and (usually) intelligent discussion. Who cares is Digg (or someone else) posted it first?
I think there is a big difference between individual integrity and the lawyer and profit driven speak of companies. Of course there is personal honesty. Lots of people choose to tell the truth. Companies, however, tend to view honesty as a relative thing it is and highly subject to the influences of lawyers and shareholders.
My 14 year old daughter got xxx-1337 as her cell phone number. Unfortunately, she has little appreciation for the geekier things in life and is unimpressed by this honor.
However, I have noticed the word 'WOOT' entering her vocabulary. Maybe some geeky-coolness is slipping into the mainstream afterall.
I don't understand people who refuse to run an anti-virus program. There are wonderful free programs out there like Avast and AVG which don't take over your machine and are easy to keep up to date. Why not use them?
On a related note, I did dump my spyware sweepers as I found that if I don't use IE or run as Admin, the only 'spyware' they were picking up were cookies. Clearing my cookie folder when I close the browser solved that problem.
Tell me - would you rather have the Bush administration in power or the Ayatollah?
The undue influence of Religious Right on the Republican Party and this Administration creates the same result, Except Bush dresses better and the Ayatollah is smarter.
Cops are people, not ticket-writing machines. They have a choice when they pull you over. They can be an asshole or not. If you are polite and perhaps even chatty, they will sometimes choose to cut you a break. This break may mean that they give you a warning about the speed and a lesser ticket. This is a choice cops make dozens of times a day, every day. These guys are simply choosing not to be an asshole and I appreciate that.
As paranoid as it might sound, I keep wondering if Bush will invent some 'National Security' Crisis in '08 and announce that it is too dangerous to hold elections at this time.
For your protection, you know. And if you are a good patriot, you will not complain about a few more years of neo-con control, Its for your protection and disagreeing with the government aids our enemies, you know.
Maybe if you're into pre-op transexuals. I've never seen a LUG meeting that was anything but a complete sausagefest. Women don't use Linux, they use Windows.
It's attitudes like that kept females like me away from my local lug even when I was hopelessly stuck. The same attitude pervades Linux chat rooms where I have occasionally gone for help. I'm tired of being patted on the head, when I'm not wading through hot grit jokes.
I have managed to figure this shit out myself (started using linux in 99, when it was much more of a challenge), with no help from you chauvenistic guys. Look around. You are the reason we aren't at the Lugs.
Perhaps thats because it's getting harder and harder to publicly support the Administrtion without sounding like a brainwashed fool.
"but exactly how are we supposed to find Al Qaeda cells in the U.S.? Ask suspected terrorists for permission first before we bug them?"
I seriously doubt that, three years post 911, terrorists are sitting around chatting about commiting terrorist acts on the phone. I doubt they have aquired much useful intelligence regarding Al Queda for quite a long time using these means. I suspect it is used primarily to spy on US Citizens who the Administration considers 'terror suspects' for such subsersive activities as researching a paper on Communism or attending a Quaker Peace Group.
As a Democrat, I can say that McCain is the only Republican I would consider voting for. He consistantly stands up for what he believes in, regardless of the party line. I used to feel similarly toward Colin Powell, but he turned out to be just another polititian when he lied to the American People and the world about WMDs, knowing full well it was a lie. The fact that McCain is considered a Republican in name only is a big plus as far as I am concerned.
I'll throw my dinosaur in here..a Toshiba Satellite laptop PII MMX 266 with 180 MB RAM running Deb Sarge as personal webserver. Runs absolutely rock solid and that is why I have been so reluctant to retire it. Love ya Linux.
This is exactly why MS's big push against F/OSS is focused outside the US. They know they are safe here, but the current anti-US sentiment overseas is causing other governments and corporations to start looking at Open Source Alternatives as a way of casting off the yoke of US control. (And who can blame them?)
MS has no fear of losing it's continued domination of the US IT industry, but they are concerned that the rest of the world may realize they don't need them anymore. That will be the beginning of the end of Microsoft.
"Do you know people who will spend inordinate amounts of time searching for a lost remote instead of just changing the channel by hand? :raises his hand"
This brings up an issue which has always bugged me: Why don't they put a 'page' button on the set so you can FIND the damned remote? Geeze. This seems like a no-brainer to me.
My company (U.S. healthcare insurance) is run in a similar way. They are mysteriously successful, however. :-) Don't lose hope!
Your company is successful for no 'mysterious' reason. The Health Care Industry in this country is a disgrace and companies like yours pour millions to lawmakers (mostly Republican) to keep it this way. Your industry is breaking the back of employees and employers alike.
I pay more for crappy Health Insurance than I do for my mortgage. And so does two-thirds of the other families in this country. What a huge waste of resources and an incredible drain on the economy. What exactly does this huge expense buy us? Protection from being sued if myself or one of my family members are unlucky to become sick or injured. Many US Companies are going broke trying to provide Health Insurance for thier employees. And don't pretend that a $2,000 deductible is even usable on a $10.00 hour job. (If your employer even offers Health Insurance)
Why should whether my children are able to see a doctor depend on the good graces or financial ability of my employer to provide Insurance?
This country will eventually have to move to some kind of Socialized Medicine because the Health Insurance / Pharmacutical Industries are sucking the life out of the US economy and it will eventually fall of its own weight.
I remember that day so clearly, and the helpless horror I felt watching that man dragged from his truck and beaten and beaten...they even smashed his head with a cement block.
I saw him on tv sometime later and he said he didn't remember any of it and held no hard feeling toward those who did it.
"...and that the cure is not worse than the disease."
This brings up an interesting point. We can argue all day about why it is happening but there is very little argument over the fact that it IS happening. The real question is what will this mean for the world in 20 or 50 years. What should we be doing now to prepare for a significantly warmer, wetter world?
By the way, if anything, the result is disappointing to me. Don't know about you, but I certainly prefer smart chicks. And now they say there aren't enough of them for us all!
Maybe if our society put more value on 'smart chicks' young girls would put more value into learning. Unfortunately, ask any Junior High School Girl what is important and they will tell you that 'looking hot' is the most important thing. Smart is not 'cool'. Whether men wish to admit it or not, most still perfer a Barbie Doll to Madame Curie.
Grrr....
I have a Post Office Box and the damn cds are too big so they put in a notice to pick up a package. You never know if it's a real package so I wind up standing in line on my lunch hour for another freaking AOL cd...Could I glue one to a brick and write 'Return to Sender' on it?.
Another gripe: Why can't you cancel the deduction from your account with the bank? It seems only AOL can choose to stop taking money out. Your only other option is to close the account. If I can authorize payment, why can't I remove the authorization?
I am behind a good firewall and have always been very careful to keep my Win2K box up to date with the critical updates. I have resisted SP4 due to the Windows DRM which is included.
There is no 'critial update' patch for this. It is SP4 or nothing. I am counting on my firewall to keep this worm out of the Windows box, but it bothers me greatly to be vulnerable to the exploit.
"We're supposed to be the party of God..."
Give me a break! This is an example of Republican brainwashing of the ignorant masses. Your party has no claim to God, there are good dedicated Christians in every political party. Perhaps you mean you are the party of radical Christian fundalmentalists which feel free to ram their religious beliefs down everyone else's throat. There are many Middle Eastern countries which have fundalmentalist leaders who also consider themselves the 'Party of God.' You have more in common with those close-minded mullahs than you would like to believe.
Please explain why you voted for Bush the second time. I truely cannot fathom it. This is not a troll, I wish to understand.