instead of bitching about them and accomplishing nothing
If we were to follow your logic, we should all shut up and fix our own problems silently with our ubermensch bodies and piles of gold coins locked up in a high-rise size vault.
It might have worked better if Senators weren't directly accountable to the "mob" as was originally intended before the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.
Fuck me that's funny. Are you saying Senators are actually accountable to their electorate now? You're not going to convince anyone here...
You know, a police state is not a binary thing. Your post is correct in not conflating the US with, say, Iran, but you could at least admit that the direction the US is heading towards isn't exactly anti-police state either.
Really, are you that much of a pedant that you'll keep arguing over minutiae up until the last possible moment? You're not helping anyone but yourself.
If the Goverment is a car setting out to give every one a ride to work, then for 40 years the Republicans have been puncturing the tires, pouring sand in the gas tank, stealing the distributer cap, and, whenever they can get their hands on the wheel, driving it straight into the nearest ditch and then, pointing to the wreckage as the tow truck backs up to it, saying, See, this proves that people were meant to walk.
And they do this so that they don't have to chip in on gas.
Didn't the US just fight a big fucking war with the English a couple hundred years ago along the same lines?
I'm serious. I know all of you are paying taxes, and shit like this sure as hell means the common guys isn't represented. Time for a few tea parties, methinks.
However, we do know that if you take our current healthcare problems, and try to bandaid on a fix like national healthcare, we will end up with some beast of a system that costs more and provides less.
I can't argue with ironclad logic like that. You, sir, have utterly convinced me.
In fact, I bristle at the paltry +1 Insightful you have received.
Perhaps, Gods of Slashdot, a new moderation could be created in this man's honour: +10000000 Awesome.
If you install stock Windows (not a recovery disc) to a laptop, you can easily run into the same problems
Mod parent up, he's spot on on this one. Having had to rescue many a PC or laptop whose rescue disk or partition has gone by bye bye means lots of things not working properly, and a long tedious hunt for drivers, of which only about 75% will work. For the rest, you'll find yourself poring over reams of forum posts to find the magical workaround to finish the last few.
From that point on you will be archived, scraped, spidered, copied, pasted, jacked off to, daydreamed about, blogged, included in research, and a million other things you never intended to happen.
As funny, scary and true as that is, does anyone realize that there's a whole generation of kids, who've never really known life without the 'web, who not only know this but actively count on it?
Hey, when you get a minute, email me your home address. I want to go to your house and stare at you all day.
Note to mods: Don't bother modding this OT/flamebait/troll/stalker or whatever. I'm just continuing a conversation with parent that we've been having for a while, so don't bother wasting any points.
One of the replies in the comment thread of TFA sums up the response we'll see in this thread rather well IMO:
No, the truth of the matter is that Linux was originally developed because some kid in Finland wanted a better Unix clone on the 386 than Minix could provide. The "counter-culture" happened because he wasn't alone in that desire and so people joined in on Linux. Linux quickly gained popularity because at the time BSD was embroiled in a legal battle with AT&T and the FSF/GNU were completely unable to get their Hurd kernel out the door.
No one person in the open source community speaks for the entire community - most everyone speaks for themselves. There are a few people who can speak for individual projects (such as Linus and the Kernel) but no one can speak on behalf of everything. A few people have claimed that they speak for everyone, but they're just being deluded (and I say this on behalf of everyone in the open source community:-).
More CNET FUD if you ask me. Although I'd probably do the same thing in their position. After all, their business is closely tied to the PC and, to a lesser extent, the Windows OS, so for every bit of ground gained by Linux, they can either risk losing relevance or have to expend time and money keeping up.
To run splices. If they did that normally, cable operators would notice something immediately. With a cable cut, there's nothing to measure, and everybody's attention is diverted elsewhere, so they can do the splice with comfort, ease, and no detection.
Nobody was trying to 'stop' anything. Just get a little more control.
Bullshit. If the private market's so frigging great, how come we don't have a cure for lung cancer? If I ran a multi-billion tobacco company, I'd definitely want to find a way of keeping my customers, not killing them.
I'll agree government isn't necessarily the answer either, but I see that as more of a problem with your government than government in general.
I dunno. Every single Zippo I've ever owned has been pretty robust. Those Ironman watches popular back in the 80's were fairly hardy, too.
My wife's 2nd gen iPod has seen constant and rugged use since it was bought and it still works great.
While I'm here, I'd like to also give a shoutout to my ancient HP Vectra VE, which until recently was my file/dyndns/hotline server . They don't make PCs like they used to, that's for sure.
Are there any (major) sites still using Real as their video delivery of choice? They were on the ropes even before Flash video became all the rage, so I can only assume they have a couple of juicy patents that keep from being buried outright.
The problem is that a lot of leading political figures on the left believe that 50% is the right mark
Yeah, we all got together at a secret meeting and decided on that figure. For good measure, we also assassinated the crazy loons who were advocating 49%, fucking imperialists the lot of them.
ROFLMAO! "Honest, your honour, it wasn't us, the neocons just came in one day and hijacked us! We're not bloodthirsty assholes, they just had a really big, convincing document!"
How the fuck do you hijack the republican party? Conservatism must be more boring than I thought if that's possible...
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instead of bitching about them and accomplishing nothing
If we were to follow your logic, we should all shut up and fix our own problems silently with our ubermensch bodies and piles of gold coins locked up in a high-rise size vault.
Yeah, that's a universal solution.
It might have worked better if Senators weren't directly accountable to the "mob" as was originally intended before the passage of the Seventeenth Amendment.
Fuck me that's funny. Are you saying Senators are actually accountable to their electorate now? You're not going to convince anyone here...
You know, a police state is not a binary thing. Your post is correct in not conflating the US with, say, Iran, but you could at least admit that the direction the US is heading towards isn't exactly anti-police state either.
Really, are you that much of a pedant that you'll keep arguing over minutiae up until the last possible moment? You're not helping anyone but yourself.
civil liberties != personal pet projects
Thanks for playing, troll.
Whoa, let's be fair. Don't hate the car because the driver sucks:
Didn't the US just fight a big fucking war with the English a couple hundred years ago along the same lines?
I'm serious. I know all of you are paying taxes, and shit like this sure as hell means the common guys isn't represented. Time for a few tea parties, methinks.
However, we do know that if you take our current healthcare problems, and try to bandaid on a fix like national healthcare, we will end up with some beast of a system that costs more and provides less.
I can't argue with ironclad logic like that. You, sir, have utterly convinced me.
In fact, I bristle at the paltry +1 Insightful you have received.
Perhaps, Gods of Slashdot, a new moderation could be created in this man's honour: +10000000 Awesome.
If you install stock Windows (not a recovery disc) to a laptop, you can easily run into the same problems
Mod parent up, he's spot on on this one. Having had to rescue many a PC or laptop whose rescue disk or partition has gone by bye bye means lots of things not working properly, and a long tedious hunt for drivers, of which only about 75% will work. For the rest, you'll find yourself poring over reams of forum posts to find the magical workaround to finish the last few.
From that point on you will be archived, scraped, spidered, copied, pasted, jacked off to, daydreamed about, blogged, included in research, and a million other things you never intended to happen.
As funny, scary and true as that is, does anyone realize that there's a whole generation of kids, who've never really known life without the 'web, who not only know this but actively count on it?
No, but I play him on TV.
Hey, when you get a minute, email me your home address. I want to go to your house and stare at you all day.
Note to mods: Don't bother modding this OT/flamebait/troll/stalker or whatever. I'm just continuing a conversation with parent that we've been having for a while, so don't bother wasting any points.
More CNET FUD if you ask me. Although I'd probably do the same thing in their position. After all, their business is closely tied to the PC and, to a lesser extent, the Windows OS, so for every bit of ground gained by Linux, they can either risk losing relevance or have to expend time and money keeping up.
Does anyone really even give a damn anymore?
Uhh, yeah. I'd like my last season of BSG, thankyouverymuch.
Plus a couple of other shows, but that one's top of the list.
what is the purpose of this conspiracy?
To run splices. If they did that normally, cable operators would notice something immediately. With a cable cut, there's nothing to measure, and everybody's attention is diverted elsewhere, so they can do the splice with comfort, ease, and no detection.
Nobody was trying to 'stop' anything. Just get a little more control.
What kind of timeframe are we looking at? I'm thinking about buying my first ever PS, would definitely be interested in getting a good deal.
How the hell did these clueless fucks get so much power?
Oh yeah. Lobbying. God bless free speech!
loosing your pics
lose = to fail inadvertently to retain
loose = your mama after I got done with her last night.
My first grammar nazi post, folks. Can't help it, that one really is elementary.
Except that the price ratio of cards to DVDRs is ridiculous.
Having said that, I wouldn't want to trust a variety of postal systems for my backups.
Why not get 2 Asus EEEs and a USB drive? Redundancy and storage all the way round, for low weight.
a street corner near you in a couple of years.
Dude, just because it makes your balls sweat doesn't mean it's actually going to happen. Man up a little. Sheesh.
Bullshit. If the private market's so frigging great, how come we don't have a cure for lung cancer? If I ran a multi-billion tobacco company, I'd definitely want to find a way of keeping my customers, not killing them.
I'll agree government isn't necessarily the answer either, but I see that as more of a problem with your government than government in general.
techpawn wins the thread!
;)
Especially for point #3
I dunno. Every single Zippo I've ever owned has been pretty robust. Those Ironman watches popular back in the 80's were fairly hardy, too.
My wife's 2nd gen iPod has seen constant and rugged use since it was bought and it still works great.
While I'm here, I'd like to also give a shoutout to my ancient HP Vectra VE, which until recently was my file/dyndns/hotline server . They don't make PCs like they used to, that's for sure.
Are there any (major) sites still using Real as their video delivery of choice? They were on the ropes even before Flash video became all the rage, so I can only assume they have a couple of juicy patents that keep from being buried outright.
The problem is that a lot of leading political figures on the left believe that 50% is the right mark
Yeah, we all got together at a secret meeting and decided on that figure. For good measure, we also assassinated the crazy loons who were advocating 49%, fucking imperialists the lot of them.
Nice scaremongering.
hijacked
ROFLMAO! "Honest, your honour, it wasn't us, the neocons just came in one day and hijacked us! We're not bloodthirsty assholes, they just had a really big, convincing document!"
How the fuck do you hijack the republican party? Conservatism must be more boring than I thought if that's possible...