When official state doctrine rests on the quote "Power comes from the barrel of a gun", you can legislate just about anything you want.
Don't forget that this is the government responsible for the millions dead in the Great Leap Forward, and the auto-genocide of the cultural revolution. In 1989, up to 10,000 died on the streets during the Tianamein massacre. Today, throngs of angry farmers upset over food prices are still butchered. Mortality of this sort is legislated ever day in China.
I wonder what G. Gordon Liddy thinks of all this. However, chances are that it is the Republicans who tried to make this appear so. They have a past history of doing such things. Afer all, ask Karl Rove.
I've been working with XP, 2000, and Windows 98 in a business environment. In an enterprise business environment, where IT controls the PCs, and people who install Yahoo Search Bar and other webtastic crap are fired, the O/S run great. A single, well built build with a good and constantly updating AV program will not fail 8% of the time. That's a load of horse dung.
But in an enviroment filled with Google Bar, Webshots, Gator, Weatherbug and other crap, not including the pure spywear and viruses, the PCs will fail. It has nothing to do with the OS, but everything to do with stupid users, and a lazy and ineffective IT department.
Hospitals have to be able to afford the staff to work on the PCs just like other businesses.
I heard of a hospital that bought some Systemax PCs (I'm still nursing the same model). These POS PCs had a tendancy to have a network failure every few weeks that required unplugging the power cable and the network cable to bring the PC back onto the network.
After this was realized, the hospital went nuts, and demanded (and got) new PCs. But this is the kind of crap hospitals, just like everyone else, have to put up with.
How do you feel about China's blocking of Wiki, and what effect, if any, do you think it'll have on the service that Wikipedia can and cannot provide to both the Chinese and the world community?
Orrin Hatch, the Republican Senator from Utah. Orrin Hatch is the biggest jackass in the Senate.
1. Last year, Hatch proposed creating black-ice like software that would destroy the hardware of people who download music illegally.
2. One of Hatch's staffers illegally cracked several Democrats' computers in the Senate.
3. Hatch's staff illegally used software for hosting a website at the same time Hatch was proposing destroying the PCs of those who would do similar.
4. Hatch is routinely involved in passing laws to reinforce copywrite protections, even if there might not be any grounds for the lawsuit.
5. Hatch's boy is a lawyer, one of who's clients in the SCO.
6. Hatch is constantly trying to amend the Constitution. For example, he keeps introducing an amendment to ban flag burning over and over and is now talking about amending the Constitution so Schwarzenegger can run for President. But he opposed the ERA.
The site's been slashdotted, but the use of technology does make sense. Think about a large conference. The entire area could be given cell phone and wireless coverage for a week, and then the blimp could be taken to another town for another event.
So an event like the Olympics could have its cell phone and wireless coverage reinforced, and then the week after, it could be back in London for Wimpleton. (Or whatever.)
Listen, lad. I built this research station up from nothing. When I started here, all there was an ice shelf. Other scientists said I was daft to build a research station on an iceshelf, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the water. So, I built a second one. That sank into the water. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the water, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest research station in these here ice shelves.
So the engines on SS1 shut off pre-maturely, after a burn of only about a minute, which was half of the predicted two minute burn. But they claim to have still made it all the way up and back. But wouldn't that mess with the ballistics? Were they trying for orbit and missed or was it something else? Or did the burn not shut off prematurely? What does that say about the pilot and the computer calculating the landing trajectory?
Anyway, if they made it up, and back down, with the engines quitting prematurely, my god. That means that a major failure took place, and everything was alright. That's a record NASA could never come close to achieving with its space shuttle.
Hey, it's our old friend, the Jackass from Utah!
1. Senator Hatch was the fellow who last year wanted to develop software to physically destroy the computers of people who download music.
2. One of his staffers cracked into computers of House Democrats.
3. Senator Hatch's website used unlicensed (read illegal) hosting software for several months.
4. Hatch also thinks of himself as an amateur musician, who is losing money because people download his music.
5. Hatch's son is a lawyer, one of who's clients is the SCO.
But that would leave Microsoft even more vulnerable to being sued when holes were found in the OS. A virus that hits because both the OS and the Anti-Virus software were defective and made by the same company? It sounds like a lawyer's wet dream.
Open source nothing. To really understand how a human works takes more than four years of university level study. You need to understand the chemistry of drugs, and the biology of what does what. There is a process that takes years of research before a person even understands how drugs really work.
And then you need to create the drug itself. That takes another many years of experimentation. And then you need years of clinical trials. Then a manufacturer needs to then be found.
And someone would propose that drugs be created using an open source process? What would be the incentive of creating drugs or getting the education to do so? This isn't Linux, it's a complicated process of creating a drug for a human. Get it wrong, and your monitor refresh rate is off? No, people die. This is clearly just a pipe dream.
As for the native Taiwanese, there is a group called the Benshengren, who are more or less native. Then, there is a another group called Hakka that moved over about 700 years ago. After that, in the past 100 years, the mainlanders came over, particularly with the KMT.
As for comparing Chinese and Western freedoms, there is no comparison. I know fools like the previous poster go on about how bad it is in the west, but that's bullshit.
In mainland China, it is quite accepted to punish individuals families for collective punishment. The crimes of a a few will be punished with collective economic punishment. Sons are punished for the actions of fathers. Families are destroyed for their ancestor's hard work. Knowledge and truth is banned.
The Chinese who revolt are slaughtered. What the Japanese did to the Chinese is peanuts compared to the auto-genocide that Mao and company committed agains the Chinese, what Deng did in Tiananmen and elsewhere, or what goes on all over on a small scale today.
As for better than 1976, that's true and that's false. China has a much stronger military then it did 30 years ago. It is capable of reaking much more havok. The Chinese have proven their violence in the past.
In the past 60 years, they have been at war with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, and South Korea. They have been in a quasi-war with Russia since Stalin died. The Chinese attack their Muslim population and are attempting to destroy them.
No, there is little good coming from China at present. The Chinese themselves are responsible for the situation as well. They are the ones threatening world peace over a small democracy several miles off their coast. The attitude is a willingness to destroy the happy people of Taiwan in exchange for the destruction of the siland is gladly accepted by the Communist leaders. The threat of the US Seventh Fleet, and American Ballistic Missiles, is all that defends the freedom loving people of Taiwan. Were it not for the nuclear weapons of the US, China would long ago have destroyed that freedom loving island.
There is no excuse for the fascist power that China has become. None. The excuse that they are improving is not true. There is no desire for change by the corrupt Communist leaders. A revolution is the only possibility of success and freedom for the people of the mainland.
No, the people of China deserve better than to be told, "Look at how much your government has changed." To say otherwise demeans their trials. Democracy and freedom are all peoples' unalienable rights, even if they live in a country of 1.3 billion.
The reason music is dead is very simple. There is no innovation.
Music companies are unwilling to invest in the albums that take music to a next level. I mean, christ, the last rock opera I could find for purchase was from some nobodies in Germany who released it on some no-name label.
In order for people to buy the music, the music has to be good. In order for something to be good, there has to be a chance of failure. I don't want to buy some market tested album with some 19 year old thin blond hick on the cover. I want good music. If The Who was able to make Tommy 30 years ago and Pink Floyd The Wall 25 years ago, why hasn't the music industry progressed? The music industry has not moved forward, it has moved backwards.
The answer is fear of failure. If the music industry would try to put out more concept albums rather than 3 minute nothing songs, then album sales would turn around.
It figures that Orrin Hatch is one of the sponsers. The Republican from Utah has been doing this stuff for years now. The guy thinks he is a musician, and is worried that pirating music could hurt other musicians. Last year, Orrin Hatch was the jackass who advocated developing technology to destroy the computers of people who download music. It was one of Hatch's staffer's who broke into a democrat's computer and read his docs. Hatch himself was found to have pirated some software a while back as well to host his website.
Hatch's boy is one of the lawyers for the SCO. No surprise there. Daddy's just trying to make the laws for his baby boy to enforce.
Call your senators (you have two) and tell them to oppose this bill. If you don't know who they are, go here to find out.
The problem isn't with passwords. The problem is with the 40 year old women in the office who use their kids names over and over with different numbers at the end of the password, and then write even that simple to remember password down at their desk. The problem is with an HR department that doesn't care if IT policies are enforced, and management that doesn't care if HR isn't doing their job.
If IT keeps warning, they're told to stop worrying. If something happens, IT is blamed. These morons (leaders) need to figure out that IT isn't something that helps them do business. Their business runs on IT. Without it, they have no business.
Basically, its not certain she'll come back. Dealing with Americans in China is also difficult. The American Embassy tends to employ local Chinese (as I understand it) and they are tough to deal with.
Once you get to a point where you can just go, and not need to speak to anyone, like with a I-131 or a Green Card, you'll be much better off.
They already have a larger consumer population than the US, just not a larger consumer economy. China's been growing at ~8-10% for the past two decades. The economy over there is huge, and getting bigger ever day.
The official economic policy is like a fascist Japanese model. That is, the government controls who may enter the cities, keeping rural population about level, while providing labor for the urban production markets.
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Don't forget that this is the government responsible for the millions dead in the Great Leap Forward, and the auto-genocide of the cultural revolution. In 1989, up to 10,000 died on the streets during the Tianamein massacre. Today, throngs of angry farmers upset over food prices are still butchered. Mortality of this sort is legislated ever day in China.
I wonder what G. Gordon Liddy thinks of all this. However, chances are that it is the Republicans who tried to make this appear so. They have a past history of doing such things. Afer all, ask Karl Rove.
Funny that you mention this, because they'll definitely be adding the verb "slashdotted" after today.
But in an enviroment filled with Google Bar, Webshots, Gator, Weatherbug and other crap, not including the pure spywear and viruses, the PCs will fail. It has nothing to do with the OS, but everything to do with stupid users, and a lazy and ineffective IT department.
They have even admitted to taking the idea from the Svengoolie show. I've noticed Richard Koz is not suing anyone.
I heard of a hospital that bought some Systemax PCs (I'm still nursing the same model). These POS PCs had a tendancy to have a network failure every few weeks that required unplugging the power cable and the network cable to bring the PC back onto the network.
After this was realized, the hospital went nuts, and demanded (and got) new PCs. But this is the kind of crap hospitals, just like everyone else, have to put up with.
How do you feel about China's blocking of Wiki, and what effect, if any, do you think it'll have on the service that Wikipedia can and cannot provide to both the Chinese and the world community?
1. Last year, Hatch proposed creating black-ice like software that would destroy the hardware of people who download music illegally.
2. One of Hatch's staffers illegally cracked several Democrats' computers in the Senate.
3. Hatch's staff illegally used software for hosting a website at the same time Hatch was proposing destroying the PCs of those who would do similar.
4. Hatch is routinely involved in passing laws to reinforce copywrite protections, even if there might not be any grounds for the lawsuit.
5. Hatch's boy is a lawyer, one of who's clients in the SCO.
6. Hatch is constantly trying to amend the Constitution. For example, he keeps introducing an amendment to ban flag burning over and over and is now talking about amending the Constitution so Schwarzenegger can run for President. But he opposed the ERA.
So an event like the Olympics could have its cell phone and wireless coverage reinforced, and then the week after, it could be back in London for Wimpleton. (Or whatever.)
Listen, lad. I built this research station up from nothing. When I started here, all there was an ice shelf. Other scientists said I was daft to build a research station on an iceshelf, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It sank into the water. So, I built a second one. That sank into the water. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then sank into the water, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest research station in these here ice shelves.
Airport! No, don't bring that up! George Bush will have to invade Sweden now!
Anyway, if they made it up, and back down, with the engines quitting prematurely, my god. That means that a major failure took place, and everything was alright. That's a record NASA could never come close to achieving with its space shuttle.
Hey, it's our old friend, the Jackass from Utah!
1. Senator Hatch was the fellow who last year wanted to develop software to physically destroy the computers of people who download music.
2. One of his staffers cracked into computers of House Democrats.
3. Senator Hatch's website used unlicensed (read illegal) hosting software for several months.
4. Hatch also thinks of himself as an amateur musician, who is losing money because people download his music.
5. Hatch's son is a lawyer, one of who's clients is the SCO.
So basically, between China and the EU, free speech on the Internet is fucked?
Actually, Google found itself blocked last year for some time.
But that would leave Microsoft even more vulnerable to being sued when holes were found in the OS. A virus that hits because both the OS and the Anti-Virus software were defective and made by the same company? It sounds like a lawyer's wet dream.
And then you need to create the drug itself. That takes another many years of experimentation. And then you need years of clinical trials. Then a manufacturer needs to then be found.
And someone would propose that drugs be created using an open source process? What would be the incentive of creating drugs or getting the education to do so? This isn't Linux, it's a complicated process of creating a drug for a human. Get it wrong, and your monitor refresh rate is off? No, people die. This is clearly just a pipe dream.
It's that bloody (but beautiful) Dragon Lady. She and her pirates just can't be trusted.
As for the native Taiwanese, there is a group called the Benshengren, who are more or less native. Then, there is a another group called Hakka that moved over about 700 years ago. After that, in the past 100 years, the mainlanders came over, particularly with the KMT.
As for comparing Chinese and Western freedoms, there is no comparison. I know fools like the previous poster go on about how bad it is in the west, but that's bullshit.
In mainland China, it is quite accepted to punish individuals families for collective punishment. The crimes of a a few will be punished with collective economic punishment. Sons are punished for the actions of fathers. Families are destroyed for their ancestor's hard work. Knowledge and truth is banned.
The Chinese who revolt are slaughtered. What the Japanese did to the Chinese is peanuts compared to the auto-genocide that Mao and company committed agains the Chinese, what Deng did in Tiananmen and elsewhere, or what goes on all over on a small scale today.
As for better than 1976, that's true and that's false. China has a much stronger military then it did 30 years ago. It is capable of reaking much more havok. The Chinese have proven their violence in the past.
In the past 60 years, they have been at war with Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, India, and South Korea. They have been in a quasi-war with Russia since Stalin died. The Chinese attack their Muslim population and are attempting to destroy them.
No, there is little good coming from China at present. The Chinese themselves are responsible for the situation as well. They are the ones threatening world peace over a small democracy several miles off their coast. The attitude is a willingness to destroy the happy people of Taiwan in exchange for the destruction of the siland is gladly accepted by the Communist leaders. The threat of the US Seventh Fleet, and American Ballistic Missiles, is all that defends the freedom loving people of Taiwan. Were it not for the nuclear weapons of the US, China would long ago have destroyed that freedom loving island.
There is no excuse for the fascist power that China has become. None. The excuse that they are improving is not true. There is no desire for change by the corrupt Communist leaders. A revolution is the only possibility of success and freedom for the people of the mainland.
No, the people of China deserve better than to be told, "Look at how much your government has changed." To say otherwise demeans their trials. Democracy and freedom are all peoples' unalienable rights, even if they live in a country of 1.3 billion.
And Manchuria was a seperate country, a puppet state of Japan under the rule of Pu Yi, the last emperor.
Music companies are unwilling to invest in the albums that take music to a next level. I mean, christ, the last rock opera I could find for purchase was from some nobodies in Germany who released it on some no-name label.
In order for people to buy the music, the music has to be good. In order for something to be good, there has to be a chance of failure. I don't want to buy some market tested album with some 19 year old thin blond hick on the cover. I want good music. If The Who was able to make Tommy 30 years ago and Pink Floyd The Wall 25 years ago, why hasn't the music industry progressed? The music industry has not moved forward, it has moved backwards.
The answer is fear of failure. If the music industry would try to put out more concept albums rather than 3 minute nothing songs, then album sales would turn around.
Hatch's boy is one of the lawyers for the SCO. No surprise there. Daddy's just trying to make the laws for his baby boy to enforce.
Call your senators (you have two) and tell them to oppose this bill. If you don't know who they are, go here to find out.
If IT keeps warning, they're told to stop worrying. If something happens, IT is blamed. These morons (leaders) need to figure out that IT isn't something that helps them do business. Their business runs on IT. Without it, they have no business.
Once you get to a point where you can just go, and not need to speak to anyone, like with a I-131 or a Green Card, you'll be much better off.
The official economic policy is like a fascist Japanese model. That is, the government controls who may enter the cities, keeping rural population about level, while providing labor for the urban production markets.