You're trashing OSI now. You're calling ANSWER a "domestic terrorist." Answer has non-violent demonstrations and makes puppet shows... Do Kermit and Ms. Piggy have explosives under their felt or something?
IMC has no bias. It is an open publishing site. It is not a publication. Its a means for independent writers and journalists to get their work on the web in a central location.
Oh... I forgot. The neo-con definition of "bias" is any organization that allows for the opportunity for any coverage other than the press releses neo-con spin doctors create is "lib-ruhl plot."
Credibility on Indymedia journalism... It completely depends on the individual writer. There is no issue of credibility regarding Indymedia becasue it is not a publication. It is a vehicle for independent writers to publish. It isn't a "newspaper." It's just the paper a newspapaer is writen on basically. It's like asking whether typing paper has credibility. Well... no, it doesn't if it's used by Carrottop. Yes, it does if it's used by Nelson Mandela.
I can't believe you would even suggest a former Israeli defense minister would have a shred of credibility on this issue. The Israelis still deny they have any nukes at all. Cruise missiles have been usable since their initial design in the 70's as a nuclear weapons delivery platform. Jimmy Carter made that clear in his discussions about cruise missiles during his presidency, and the Soviet Union made it clear by their refusal to sign Salt II without ensuring that the US was not allowed to built them in the Salt II agreement. PLEASE don't suggest we are supposed to throw out more than two decades of proven history according to several arms control agreement because some Israeli hawk had a press conference.
Assassinating Arafat is okay because the Israeli Likud Party says so, right?
It's not anti-semitic to challenge current Israeli policy. It's anti-LIKUD. The Likud is no more representative of Judaism than Donald Rumsfeld is representative of Christianity.
Suuuuure. I'll tell that to the wiccan lesbian with a blue mohawk I saw wearing a indymedia press credential (available to anyone upon request for free) taking notes at a city meeting a few weeks ago. Indymedia can be bizarre, poorly written, badly spelled, and sometime completely off the planet. However, the one thing it is not is CONTROLLED.
On second thought, YOU tell that woman your Soros stuff. That should be fun to watch.
Indymedia is open publishing. Anything that someone enters into an Indymedia website and click the "publish" button at the bottom of the page goes up. In the same way that Slashdot should not be held responsible for what you or I may post in the comments section, there is no staff of Indymedia editors sitting in a room somewhere determining what's going to go up on the news wire. Indymedia only presents an uncensored place on the web for individuals to post their own journalistic efforts.
I just checked, though. Indymedia did have summitted coverage of Israel's acquisition of submarines that fire nuclear-armed Harpoon cruise missiles. These weapons are so illegal and destabilizing that even at the height of the Cold War, neither the Soviet Union or the United States produced any. They were eliminated in the Salt II treaties and are HIGHLY illegal under every single arms agreement in the world.
I figure you just forgot mentioning that, right?
I was brought up Catholic down South. It seems Catholics are "pagans" according to Evangelical Christians (statues in Catholic Churches are false idols it seems), and I heard plenty about me being a "pagan" in my public school classrooms as I was growing up. Any excuse to mention "God" or religion is taken by many in the educational system in the South as an opening to practice their evangelical work in the classroom. We spent more time in our weekly CYO church classes asking thing like why people we calling us pagans then we did on anything to do with being Catholic.
Although I don't practice any religion anymore, in looking back I recognize what a problem those preaching public school teachers created for me and others who were not a member of the predominant faith. It's one of those "give them an inch and they take a mile" issues. If the door is left cracked open to any religious discussion at all, they burst the door open and dump their whole evangelical agenda on the students.
Keep the religion out of the schools. Use the time for what it should be used for... reading, writing, and 'rithmatic.
...the phone makes you puke, but you're a lot more likely to be able to remember you are wearing your best shoes and get your feet out of the way of your projectile vomiting before it splatters said shoes.
I use linux. I want my piece of the enormous punitive damages that will be levied on SCO in the judgement. I don't care if SCO will be utterly worthless by the end of trial. I'd still love to get a stock certificate (suitable for framing) out of this mess. It would only be a couple of shares of a penny stock... but it would be the geek equivalent of a big stuffed swordfish over the mantle.
So... what part is class action and how do I register? I want my piece of Darl's ass over my fireplace.
Willing to bet the managers and programmers in NSA Echelon offices are not real pleased this lovely late summer evening.
I, for one, am willing to tolerate a little extra spam getting through the filters in exchange for the knowledge of the clumps of hair that are gathering on the floor tiles of NSA offices around the world.
Does Comcast Cable have any rules restricting it?
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Since Comcast now owns most of our Cable systems, I figured there is a large pool of informed readers that might know.
Lived in LA for 10 years and never saw the cops respond to 911 calls within 2 hours EVER. If you want a cop in LA, call a strip bar or an escort service.
Or OpenBSD as well. I bought the OpenBSD disks set when they got their funding cut by DARPA when the developer made an anti-war comment. I'd love to put them to use and start learning to use the OS, but I have the technical skill set you would expect from an ex-headbanger DJ. (I have moved up from one finger hunt n' peck typing to a bizarre 4 finger method in the last 10 years... that's about the extent of my improvement... I CAN type apt-get update, though). I'm a supporter of free software in all it's forms, but they need to make it easier for the clueless among us to start the learning process.
The changes that will be caused by genetic engineering and nanotechnology will make the changes caused by splitting the atom look mundane. Humanity will be able to make anything living or inanimate it desires to make. That's far greater change than television, don't you think? If Oakley had said something like.. we are in a cycle where people are more concerned about social changes than technological ones right now... whatever, that's an opinion that's debatable. However, Oakley said there is NO future technological changes ever going to happen that are worthy of discussion again. That's an outrageous, extremist position that is only worthy of mockery.
Part of the problem SF is facing is facing literature as a whole. The whole population reads and writes with less skill than it used to. With a less skilled population, you get fewer standout works.
So why the explosion of fantasy? All the dungeonmasters have hit book writing age. There were ALWAYS far, far more fantasy role players than SF players because TSR marketed D&D better than GDW marketed Traveller. D&D was also much more fleshed out. Traveler's small thin books always seemed so skeletal (pardon the pun) in comparison. Cranking out book 17 of the latest fantasy saga is little more work than preparing for the weekly hack n' slash session the writers used to run.
No new technological change ahead, huh? Read much SF about superstring theory? There's between 10 and 26 dimensions in spacetime if the math supporting superstring theory is correct. Riiiiight. There's nothing new out there we could possible wanna write about.
From the article...."There is the phantom MIT mathematics department team which MIT itself can't identify and which SCO has since said were people with former MIT mathematics department relationships, not MIT employees."... There's a woman who lives a couple of blocks from me that dated a MIT math grad student in the late 70's... she can only get part-time work as a travel agent now... maybe she was short on cash and...
Mark Oakley is an idiot if he believes that the past, the present, and the imaginary are all there is to write about.
Hell... you could create a whole sub-genre of literature just about writing about the future adventures of Ted Williams' head.
Oakley's "this is the future" viewpoint is about as accurate as the predictions that Bob Beamon's long jump record would never be equaled... and just as foolish.
There are a whole lot of us out here who believe in the free software movement and/or wanted access to apt-get to get away from the annoying rpm/gzip update process, and wanted to have a Debian system. However, Debian clings to it's god-awful installation process like Deep-South college fraternities cling to physically-abusive pledging rituals. Debian could be a much better tech skill learning platform if more could access it. Knoppix has made it possible for pretty much anyone to have a Debian distro with a simple hard disk installation process and excellent hardware detection.
Gnoppix will thrive or fail based on whether they follow the Knoppix installation model, or continue to refuse to change the Debian attitude toward difficult installation procedures.
France said they wouldn't invade Iraq because they had not been convinced the evidence presented confirmed Iraq was immediate threat to use weapons of mass destruction against other groups/nations. Now we know that France was correct. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. France has been proven correct that weapons inspections were all that was necessary to remaove WoMD from Iraq.
SCO is attempting to STEAL the linux operating system through slight of hand and abuse of legal loopholes. People that work for SCO are co-conspirators. The connection between SCO employees and the SCO management fits RICO requirements to establish an organized criminal conspiracy.
Damage doesn't want thieves working for them. I don't blame them.
Well, what's the use of all those fetuses going to waste. Thanks to Dubya we can't use already dead biological matter for something useful like curing illnesses, so there's nothing left to do but make chili.
But it's mighty tasty... want some?
...Cmdr. Data is to stand-up comedy.
("Take my Worf, please.")
Technically, this is not an original concept, as Data basically was doing almost exactly this in one scene in an episode. He had like 7 different pieces of music playing cranked at the same time that he was listening to/analysing when LeForge entered the scene and screamed at him to make it stop (or at least just play one... or something like that).
1) I agree with LeForge on this. Make it stop.
2) Does this mean Universal has a copyright for Eigenradio already?
I've played around with a most of the big linux distros, and nothing compares with the ease of KNOPPIX for getting a great system loaded and running.
All the benefits of the Debian distro without the headaches. At Distrowatch, it's currently generating more interest than Suse.
The live CD format, easy HD installation, and excellent hardware detection allows easy access to apt-get. That could be the ticket to increasing the linux share on the desktop.
http://www.knoppix.com/
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You're trashing OSI now. You're calling ANSWER a "domestic terrorist." Answer has non-violent demonstrations and makes puppet shows... Do Kermit and Ms. Piggy have explosives under their felt or something? IMC has no bias. It is an open publishing site. It is not a publication. Its a means for independent writers and journalists to get their work on the web in a central location. Oh... I forgot. The neo-con definition of "bias" is any organization that allows for the opportunity for any coverage other than the press releses neo-con spin doctors create is "lib-ruhl plot."
Credibility on Indymedia journalism... It completely depends on the individual writer. There is no issue of credibility regarding Indymedia becasue it is not a publication. It is a vehicle for independent writers to publish. It isn't a "newspaper." It's just the paper a newspapaer is writen on basically. It's like asking whether typing paper has credibility. Well... no, it doesn't if it's used by Carrottop. Yes, it does if it's used by Nelson Mandela. I can't believe you would even suggest a former Israeli defense minister would have a shred of credibility on this issue. The Israelis still deny they have any nukes at all. Cruise missiles have been usable since their initial design in the 70's as a nuclear weapons delivery platform. Jimmy Carter made that clear in his discussions about cruise missiles during his presidency, and the Soviet Union made it clear by their refusal to sign Salt II without ensuring that the US was not allowed to built them in the Salt II agreement. PLEASE don't suggest we are supposed to throw out more than two decades of proven history according to several arms control agreement because some Israeli hawk had a press conference.
Assassinating Arafat is okay because the Israeli Likud Party says so, right? It's not anti-semitic to challenge current Israeli policy. It's anti-LIKUD. The Likud is no more representative of Judaism than Donald Rumsfeld is representative of Christianity.
Suuuuure. I'll tell that to the wiccan lesbian with a blue mohawk I saw wearing a indymedia press credential (available to anyone upon request for free) taking notes at a city meeting a few weeks ago. Indymedia can be bizarre, poorly written, badly spelled, and sometime completely off the planet. However, the one thing it is not is CONTROLLED. On second thought, YOU tell that woman your Soros stuff. That should be fun to watch.
Indymedia is open publishing. Anything that someone enters into an Indymedia website and click the "publish" button at the bottom of the page goes up. In the same way that Slashdot should not be held responsible for what you or I may post in the comments section, there is no staff of Indymedia editors sitting in a room somewhere determining what's going to go up on the news wire. Indymedia only presents an uncensored place on the web for individuals to post their own journalistic efforts. I just checked, though. Indymedia did have summitted coverage of Israel's acquisition of submarines that fire nuclear-armed Harpoon cruise missiles. These weapons are so illegal and destabilizing that even at the height of the Cold War, neither the Soviet Union or the United States produced any. They were eliminated in the Salt II treaties and are HIGHLY illegal under every single arms agreement in the world. I figure you just forgot mentioning that, right?
I was brought up Catholic down South. It seems Catholics are "pagans" according to Evangelical Christians (statues in Catholic Churches are false idols it seems), and I heard plenty about me being a "pagan" in my public school classrooms as I was growing up. Any excuse to mention "God" or religion is taken by many in the educational system in the South as an opening to practice their evangelical work in the classroom. We spent more time in our weekly CYO church classes asking thing like why people we calling us pagans then we did on anything to do with being Catholic. Although I don't practice any religion anymore, in looking back I recognize what a problem those preaching public school teachers created for me and others who were not a member of the predominant faith. It's one of those "give them an inch and they take a mile" issues. If the door is left cracked open to any religious discussion at all, they burst the door open and dump their whole evangelical agenda on the students. Keep the religion out of the schools. Use the time for what it should be used for... reading, writing, and 'rithmatic.
They have taken away internet access and they just show you all the AOL advertising
...the phone makes you puke, but you're a lot more likely to be able to remember you are wearing your best shoes and get your feet out of the way of your projectile vomiting before it splatters said shoes.
I use linux. I want my piece of the enormous punitive damages that will be levied on SCO in the judgement. I don't care if SCO will be utterly worthless by the end of trial. I'd still love to get a stock certificate (suitable for framing) out of this mess. It would only be a couple of shares of a penny stock... but it would be the geek equivalent of a big stuffed swordfish over the mantle. So... what part is class action and how do I register? I want my piece of Darl's ass over my fireplace.
Willing to bet the managers and programmers in NSA Echelon offices are not real pleased this lovely late summer evening. I, for one, am willing to tolerate a little extra spam getting through the filters in exchange for the knowledge of the clumps of hair that are gathering on the floor tiles of NSA offices around the world.
Since Comcast now owns most of our Cable systems, I figured there is a large pool of informed readers that might know.
Lived in LA for 10 years and never saw the cops respond to 911 calls within 2 hours EVER. If you want a cop in LA, call a strip bar or an escort service.
Or OpenBSD as well. I bought the OpenBSD disks set when they got their funding cut by DARPA when the developer made an anti-war comment. I'd love to put them to use and start learning to use the OS, but I have the technical skill set you would expect from an ex-headbanger DJ. (I have moved up from one finger hunt n' peck typing to a bizarre 4 finger method in the last 10 years... that's about the extent of my improvement... I CAN type apt-get update, though). I'm a supporter of free software in all it's forms, but they need to make it easier for the clueless among us to start the learning process.
The changes that will be caused by genetic engineering and nanotechnology will make the changes caused by splitting the atom look mundane. Humanity will be able to make anything living or inanimate it desires to make. That's far greater change than television, don't you think? If Oakley had said something like.. we are in a cycle where people are more concerned about social changes than technological ones right now... whatever, that's an opinion that's debatable. However, Oakley said there is NO future technological changes ever going to happen that are worthy of discussion again. That's an outrageous, extremist position that is only worthy of mockery.
Part of the problem SF is facing is facing literature as a whole. The whole population reads and writes with less skill than it used to. With a less skilled population, you get fewer standout works. So why the explosion of fantasy? All the dungeonmasters have hit book writing age. There were ALWAYS far, far more fantasy role players than SF players because TSR marketed D&D better than GDW marketed Traveller. D&D was also much more fleshed out. Traveler's small thin books always seemed so skeletal (pardon the pun) in comparison. Cranking out book 17 of the latest fantasy saga is little more work than preparing for the weekly hack n' slash session the writers used to run.
No new technological change ahead, huh? Read much SF about superstring theory? There's between 10 and 26 dimensions in spacetime if the math supporting superstring theory is correct. Riiiiight. There's nothing new out there we could possible wanna write about.
From the article...."There is the phantom MIT mathematics department team which MIT itself can't identify and which SCO has since said were people with former MIT mathematics department relationships, not MIT employees."... There's a woman who lives a couple of blocks from me that dated a MIT math grad student in the late 70's... she can only get part-time work as a travel agent now... maybe she was short on cash and...
... was really the Starship Enterprise? I knew I sold that car too cheap.
Mark Oakley is an idiot if he believes that the past, the present, and the imaginary are all there is to write about. Hell... you could create a whole sub-genre of literature just about writing about the future adventures of Ted Williams' head. Oakley's "this is the future" viewpoint is about as accurate as the predictions that Bob Beamon's long jump record would never be equaled... and just as foolish.
I couldn't deal with Al Capone and barely disguised Madonna a second longer.
There are a whole lot of us out here who believe in the free software movement and/or wanted access to apt-get to get away from the annoying rpm/gzip update process, and wanted to have a Debian system. However, Debian clings to it's god-awful installation process like Deep-South college fraternities cling to physically-abusive pledging rituals. Debian could be a much better tech skill learning platform if more could access it. Knoppix has made it possible for pretty much anyone to have a Debian distro with a simple hard disk installation process and excellent hardware detection. Gnoppix will thrive or fail based on whether they follow the Knoppix installation model, or continue to refuse to change the Debian attitude toward difficult installation procedures.
France said they wouldn't invade Iraq because they had not been convinced the evidence presented confirmed Iraq was immediate threat to use weapons of mass destruction against other groups/nations. Now we know that France was correct. There were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. France has been proven correct that weapons inspections were all that was necessary to remaove WoMD from Iraq. SCO is attempting to STEAL the linux operating system through slight of hand and abuse of legal loopholes. People that work for SCO are co-conspirators. The connection between SCO employees and the SCO management fits RICO requirements to establish an organized criminal conspiracy. Damage doesn't want thieves working for them. I don't blame them.
Well, what's the use of all those fetuses going to waste. Thanks to Dubya we can't use already dead biological matter for something useful like curing illnesses, so there's nothing left to do but make chili. But it's mighty tasty... want some?
...Cmdr. Data is to stand-up comedy. ("Take my Worf, please.") Technically, this is not an original concept, as Data basically was doing almost exactly this in one scene in an episode. He had like 7 different pieces of music playing cranked at the same time that he was listening to/analysing when LeForge entered the scene and screamed at him to make it stop (or at least just play one... or something like that). 1) I agree with LeForge on this. Make it stop. 2) Does this mean Universal has a copyright for Eigenradio already?
I've played around with a most of the big linux distros, and nothing compares with the ease of KNOPPIX for getting a great system loaded and running. All the benefits of the Debian distro without the headaches. At Distrowatch, it's currently generating more interest than Suse. The live CD format, easy HD installation, and excellent hardware detection allows easy access to apt-get. That could be the ticket to increasing the linux share on the desktop. http://www.knoppix.com/