Re:What's the point?
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Internet Hunting
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...Hunting is...
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I grew up in rural Wisconsin in a hunting family, and a hunting town (the place shuts down during deer hunting season). So I know what hunting is.
What you described was hunting 2 or 3 hundred years ago. If you understood our place in nature _today_ you would know that we can produce enough crops to live entirely on non-animal sources of food.
Back when it was kill or be killed there was honor in hunting for survival. Today the choice is kill, or hit the produce section of your super market. There's no honor in gratuitous killing.
You can get all that mystical hunter crap you were talking about on the way to the grocery store anyway - check it:
Going to the grocery store is NOT a game. It really isn't any fun at all.
Going to the store is about skill, patience, and responsability, and consequences. Cooking skill so you know what to get, patience because the store is always crowded, and you should be responsable and select organic produce.
If you drive to the store you have to handle your deadly tool (your car) safely. Be especially careful in the parking lot - there are kids running around. And be double plus careful on icy winter roads.
Walking around the produce section is about coming to the understanding that you are an animal that's learned to grow all the food it needs for you and your family. And only plants need to die to feed you, not animals.
Going vegetarian is about the lengths you'll go to keep yourself and your family fed while honoring animals with their lives. Sure, it isn't easy at first. You have to learn all new recipes. Your hunting buddies will make fun of you. You have to question some of the core beliefs you were raised on. But remember, you're going to great lengths here.
Going vegetarian is about knowing, deep in your gut, that you can live without killing animals. It is about honoring animals not by killing them but by not killing them. Sure, they may be killed more painfully by a predator than by your gun (ignoring the tremendous number of animals that are only wounded by the hunter, that limp off and slowly and painfully die. You guys ain't all dead eye shots you know.) But that _is_ a kill or be killed kind of situation, and there _is_ honor in that. Not that animals really care much about honor.
Eating fruits and vegetables is about understanding your place in nature in 2004. You don't need to be a predator anymore. You can choose which part of the food chain you want to be connected to.
You are SO effective at growing food that you don't need to eat animals anymore.
I agree with you that hunting isn't about "tradition" and "sportsmanship". But that isn't what "city people" think hunting is about. That's the standard propaganda that the NRA and outdoor sports magazines try and feed to "city people" to make them think hunting is about "tradition" and "sportsmanship". They even call hunters "sportsmen".
Hmm. But if you search for barack obama you do get hits. Including his pic at the Illinois state senate web site, which must have only been updated a few days ago.
My credit card company (mbna) has a web site where they will generate a temporary credit card number for you. You pick the expiration date and max dollar amount that can be charged to that number. It is great for services that auto-pay themselves when your subscription runs out. I just generate a number with a limit of what one subscription costs. Then they can't charge your card again unless you renew your subscription with a new card number. You have to explicitly renew. And if a database with your card number gets hacked that number is no good anyway.
I assume all AOL wants from you to get a free trial is card number. So you could generate a number with a $1 limit that expires before the end of your free trial, and there is no way they can bill you.
"There are no obvious geologic features like impact craters or tectonic features," Brown said. "The surface is... giving even the best geologists a real run for their money."
According to radar reports, there are no hills or valleys more than 50 meters high or deep.
I think they should have a scientist death match or something to decide.
I hope we keep moving away from casual dress. We gave people the opportunity in the 90's, and it proved what we knew in the 80's. We gave people the opportunity in the 60's, and it proved what we knew in the 50's. People are too damn stupid to dress themselves. Especially IT people. If I see one more out of shape slob with glowing white legs in Dockers shorts with black socks, loafers, and a shirt tucked into their shorts in a way that calls attention to their fat ass beer gut, and six different wireless devices clipped to their belt I swear to god I'm going to start shooting.
Dumb ass mother fuckers think if they wear one article of clothing with the word "Dockers" stitched to it they can anything else they want around it, any way they want to. It just isn't so.
I was all for the casual dress when I graduated from college. But a few years of industry experience has taught me otherwise. All people needed to do to keep their "dress themselves" privileges was dress in a way that didn't make them repulsive. They couldn't even do that.
Maybe safer for you. But it seems you've forgotten that those are real people in the pictures and movies who are putting themselves at greater risk for STDs, social stigmatization, etc. Despite what the few highly paid shills on Howard Stern tell you actors in porn aren't there because they think it is a fun way to earn money. They are there because they've hit rock bottom, and the porn industry is taking advantage of them. Whacking off to porn is morally on par with whacking off to a video of a homeless person getting the crap kicked out of them.
I'm absolutly against censorship. And I'm not against porn per se. If it were possible to create porn without taking advantage of people at the lowest points in their lives I would say whack away. But in reality, contrary to what the porn industry tells you, ethical porn isn't possible.
Re:Great article; clarifications for /. postings
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Inside Wal-Mart IT
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What a load. Goodie for you and your three new computers. It should make you physically sick to touch them, given how they were paid for. Walmart has a long record of employee abuse and anti-trust violations. Walmart utilizes slave labor over seas, and illegal labor at home. Just because you're treated well doesn't mean they are a good company. They just haven't figured out how to force IT people to stay and treat them like shit at the same time. But they are working on it. It is absolutely unethical to work for or support walmart under any circumstance.
Huh. Sounds to me like hurricanes kill a lot of people. There are factors that can increase/decrease your risk of being killed by a hurricain, but it is the hurricain that does it.
Everyone is complaining about "pre-approved" questions and all that, but that is misleading. The questions are pre-approved by the _moderator_. Neither campaign (and not event the commission) are allowed to see the questions before the debate. If you actually read the agreement that both candidates will be sticking to you'll see there is no conspiracy hidden in there. It is mostly nuts and bolts stuff like what kind of dressing room they'll get, the office space their staff will have, etc. It is really very reasonable.
During they debate they candidates will look like they knew the question was coming because they have lots of smart people working for them who prep them on pretty much every possible question. That gives the impression of a staged debate. But they don't know what will be asked before hand.
All the candidates know is the first debate will have questions about foreign policy and national security. The second debate will have questions about domestic policy and economics. I can't think of any question that doesn't fall into one of those four categories, so there really is no restriction on what questions can be asked.
The answers will still be canned and evasive but no debate format can fix that. These guys are professional politicians and debaters. The only way to get an interesting answer out of either of them would be to tie them to a chair and shock them whenever they start speaking in weasel. And the secret service won't allow that. And even if the secret service did allow it, Kerry/Bush might fry before they give up a straight answer.
The reason some parts of the libertarian platform appeal to people and some appear insane is because the libertarian platform is pretty much summed up as "no government in anything, except maybe defense."
Most everyone can think of something the government does that they don't like. So the libertarian stance on that issue, on the surface, will be appealing.
Most everyone can think of something the government does right. So the libertarian stance on that issue is "batshit insane" (I love that phrase).
Take, for example, the "war" on drugs. Since the government has this all screwed up (IMHO) the libertarian stance on the drug war makes sense, on the surface. Libertarians are against the war on drugs, I'm against the war on drugs. Am I a libertarian? No - the difference is what I want in place of the war on drugs. Libertarians don't want anything in its place. I want the government to help provide treatment for people with drug problems. I want the government to help keep drugs out of the hands of kids (but not through a "war"). I want to allow people to use some drugs that are not currently legal.
The rub is - for libertarians ending government programs is _the_ end goal, no matter if ending that program helps or hurts people (the libertarian would say all government programs hurt people. That doesn't stand up to reason though.) For me (and I venture to say most people) - ending _bad_ government programs is a means to an end. That end could be a better government program, or a private program depending on what will help more people.
If your platform is simply "no government" you can make that platform appear appealing to anybody by cherry picking the things the government has really screwed up and saying "See, we are both against that."
Do'h. You're the able bodied societal leech ass hole. Tax payers gave you K-12 education. Tax payers gave you a military to join. If you went to college it was probably a college to received state tax funds. Sounds like you were living off society for a long time. You can give a little back. Can you name a country that has both a high standard of living and no investment in social programs? No? Those social programs make your country a nice place to live and you don't even realize what you have, or who provides it. This pull yourself up by your boot straps crap is pure bullshit. You started out on top of a society provided infrastructure that made it possible to get where you are.
I can install the gecko rendering component on my machine so I can read the article about the gecko component. The ars page doesn't render right on konq 3.2.3. At least on my machine.
yeah. Slashdot is generally a pretty racist, sexist, homophobic, randian, social darwinist type of site. But I was pretty surprised to see it right there on the front page too.
Hah. And you all scoffed at using humans for power in the Matrix. If a fly can power a robot certainly humans can power computers. In fact, I'm going to prove it. Just need to find something with a smell that attracts humans... Ah, beer should do it.
people can't support a political party and still do their job without prejudice...
Some can, some can't. I think psychologist would tell you most people can't completely divorce themselves from their ideology. The problem is there's no way to know who's who. The decent person knows this.
The solution for the decent person is to make sure the process is open to public scrutiny at all times. If the enitre process isn't open to public review they, by definition, have no decency.
No, they don't crash planes, but the pilot must endure even more static in the headphones when some lamer leaves their phone on. Sure, the pilots can handle it, but it is one more pain in the ass they don't need.
That wasn't economics. That was a libertarian rant against government controlled currency. Gilligan's island doesn't scale to the real world. Now put your nose back in your Ayn Rand book.
Don't use any gadgets! Use pencil and paper, they're cheap!
This isn't far off the mark. When I got my CS degree (6 years ago or so) the only gadget I had was my CD player. The university has all that other crap. Sure, you have to get out of your room and work in the lab, but being a geek, that's probably the only time you'll be out of your room, so you should maximize it.
And get a job with the computer support service on campus. Then you have access to pallets of new computers that need to be "tested" before you deliver them to the profs.
There are always boundry cases where things won't work. The case where you have a system that is running Java code you later find you need to access from a C app and the system doesn't support dynamic linking must be pretty rare. It would be difficult to make any interpreted language mix with C on that platform.
I've never used gcc's Java compiler, but it does compile Java to native code, so there's probably a solution there. I assume you can compile the Java code to a native library you can statically link to.
If you're on a system so obscure it doesn't even support gcc linking C with Java is really the least of your problems.
Let's see, here I am at a command line, I want to run a Java application. Any other compiled language compiles to a native executable that you run by typing its name....
Compile in kernel support for misc binaries on linux. Read Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt to learn how to use it. Read Documentation/java.txt to learn how to use it with java. On any recent version of windows it works to just type the name of the jar file.
Slashdot Mirror
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I grew up in rural Wisconsin in a hunting family, and a hunting town (the place shuts down during deer hunting season). So I know what hunting is.
What you described was hunting 2 or 3 hundred years ago. If you understood our place in nature _today_ you would know that we can produce enough crops to live entirely on non-animal sources of food.
Back when it was kill or be killed there was honor in hunting for survival. Today the choice is kill, or hit the produce section of your super market. There's no honor in gratuitous killing.
You can get all that mystical hunter crap you were talking about on the way to the grocery store anyway - check it:
- Going to the grocery store is NOT a game. It really isn't any fun at all.
- Going to the store is about skill, patience, and responsability, and consequences. Cooking skill so you know what to get, patience because the store is always crowded, and you should be responsable and select organic produce.
- If you drive to the store you have to handle your deadly tool (your car) safely. Be especially careful in the parking lot - there are kids running around. And be double plus careful on icy winter roads.
- Walking around the produce section is about coming to the understanding that you are an animal that's learned to grow all the food it needs for you and your family. And only plants need to die to feed you, not animals.
- Going vegetarian is about the lengths you'll go to keep yourself and your family fed while honoring animals with their lives. Sure, it isn't easy at first. You have to learn all new recipes. Your hunting buddies will make fun of you. You have to question some of the core beliefs you were raised on. But remember, you're going to great lengths here.
- Going vegetarian is about knowing, deep in your gut, that you can live without killing animals. It is about honoring animals not by killing them but by not killing them. Sure, they may be killed more painfully by a predator than by your gun (ignoring the tremendous number of animals that are only wounded by the hunter, that limp off and slowly and painfully die. You guys ain't all dead eye shots you know.) But that _is_ a kill or be killed kind of situation, and there _is_ honor in that. Not that animals really care much about honor.
- Eating fruits and vegetables is about understanding your place in nature in 2004. You don't need to be a predator anymore. You can choose which part of the food chain you want to be connected to.
- You are SO effective at growing food that you don't need to eat animals anymore.
I agree with you that hunting isn't about "tradition" and "sportsmanship". But that isn't what "city people" think hunting is about. That's the standard propaganda that the NRA and outdoor sports magazines try and feed to "city people" to make them think hunting is about "tradition" and "sportsmanship". They even call hunters "sportsmen".oh. I didn't notice that. My bad.
Hmm. But if you search for barack obama you do get hits. Including his pic at the Illinois state senate web site, which must have only been updated a few days ago.
You're supposed to look for images with the image search. Not links with the web search.
My credit card company (mbna) has a web site where they will generate a temporary credit card number for you. You pick the expiration date and max dollar amount that can be charged to that number. It is great for services that auto-pay themselves when your subscription runs out. I just generate a number with a limit of what one subscription costs. Then they can't charge your card again unless you renew your subscription with a new card number. You have to explicitly renew. And if a database with your card number gets hacked that number is no good anyway. I assume all AOL wants from you to get a free trial is card number. So you could generate a number with a $1 limit that expires before the end of your free trial, and there is no way they can bill you.
I think they should have a scientist death match or something to decide.
Dumb ass mother fuckers think if they wear one article of clothing with the word "Dockers" stitched to it they can anything else they want around it, any way they want to. It just isn't so.
I was all for the casual dress when I graduated from college. But a few years of industry experience has taught me otherwise. All people needed to do to keep their "dress themselves" privileges was dress in a way that didn't make them repulsive. They couldn't even do that.
Maybe safer for you. But it seems you've forgotten that those are real people in the pictures and movies who are putting themselves at greater risk for STDs, social stigmatization, etc. Despite what the few highly paid shills on Howard Stern tell you actors in porn aren't there because they think it is a fun way to earn money. They are there because they've hit rock bottom, and the porn industry is taking advantage of them. Whacking off to porn is morally on par with whacking off to a video of a homeless person getting the crap kicked out of them. I'm absolutly against censorship. And I'm not against porn per se. If it were possible to create porn without taking advantage of people at the lowest points in their lives I would say whack away. But in reality, contrary to what the porn industry tells you, ethical porn isn't possible.
What a load. Goodie for you and your three new computers. It should make you physically sick to touch them, given how they were paid for. Walmart has a long record of employee abuse and anti-trust violations. Walmart utilizes slave labor over seas, and illegal labor at home. Just because you're treated well doesn't mean they are a good company. They just haven't figured out how to force IT people to stay and treat them like shit at the same time. But they are working on it. It is absolutely unethical to work for or support walmart under any circumstance.
Huh. Sounds to me like hurricanes kill a lot of people. There are factors that can increase/decrease your risk of being killed by a hurricain, but it is the hurricain that does it.
During they debate they candidates will look like they knew the question was coming because they have lots of smart people working for them who prep them on pretty much every possible question. That gives the impression of a staged debate. But they don't know what will be asked before hand.
All the candidates know is the first debate will have questions about foreign policy and national security. The second debate will have questions about domestic policy and economics. I can't think of any question that doesn't fall into one of those four categories, so there really is no restriction on what questions can be asked.
The answers will still be canned and evasive but no debate format can fix that. These guys are professional politicians and debaters. The only way to get an interesting answer out of either of them would be to tie them to a chair and shock them whenever they start speaking in weasel. And the secret service won't allow that. And even if the secret service did allow it, Kerry/Bush might fry before they give up a straight answer.
Most everyone can think of something the government does that they don't like. So the libertarian stance on that issue, on the surface, will be appealing.
Most everyone can think of something the government does right. So the libertarian stance on that issue is "batshit insane" (I love that phrase).
Take, for example, the "war" on drugs. Since the government has this all screwed up (IMHO) the libertarian stance on the drug war makes sense, on the surface. Libertarians are against the war on drugs, I'm against the war on drugs. Am I a libertarian? No - the difference is what I want in place of the war on drugs. Libertarians don't want anything in its place. I want the government to help provide treatment for people with drug problems. I want the government to help keep drugs out of the hands of kids (but not through a "war"). I want to allow people to use some drugs that are not currently legal.
The rub is - for libertarians ending government programs is _the_ end goal, no matter if ending that program helps or hurts people (the libertarian would say all government programs hurt people. That doesn't stand up to reason though.) For me (and I venture to say most people) - ending _bad_ government programs is a means to an end. That end could be a better government program, or a private program depending on what will help more people.
If your platform is simply "no government" you can make that platform appear appealing to anybody by cherry picking the things the government has really screwed up and saying "See, we are both against that."
Do'h. You're the able bodied societal leech ass hole. Tax payers gave you K-12 education. Tax payers gave you a military to join. If you went to college it was probably a college to received state tax funds. Sounds like you were living off society for a long time. You can give a little back. Can you name a country that has both a high standard of living and no investment in social programs? No? Those social programs make your country a nice place to live and you don't even realize what you have, or who provides it. This pull yourself up by your boot straps crap is pure bullshit. You started out on top of a society provided infrastructure that made it possible to get where you are.
You can customize your menus in kde apps. The menu titles are not had coded in, but stored in xml files.
Customize to your heart's content.I can install the gecko rendering component on my machine so I can read the article about the gecko component. The ars page doesn't render right on konq 3.2.3. At least on my machine.
yeah. Slashdot is generally a pretty racist, sexist, homophobic, randian, social darwinist type of site. But I was pretty surprised to see it right there on the front page too.
Lots of slashdotters are stinky. If we can just convince them to eat flies they can hack 24/7 for the rest of their lives.
Hah. And you all scoffed at using humans for power in the Matrix. If a fly can power a robot certainly humans can power computers. In fact, I'm going to prove it. Just need to find something with a smell that attracts humans... Ah, beer should do it.
Some can, some can't. I think psychologist would tell you most people can't completely divorce themselves from their ideology. The problem is there's no way to know who's who. The decent person knows this.
The solution for the decent person is to make sure the process is open to public scrutiny at all times. If the enitre process isn't open to public review they, by definition, have no decency.
No, they don't crash planes, but the pilot must endure even more static in the headphones when some lamer leaves their phone on. Sure, the pilots can handle it, but it is one more pain in the ass they don't need.
That wasn't economics. That was a libertarian rant against government controlled currency. Gilligan's island doesn't scale to the real world. Now put your nose back in your Ayn Rand book.
This isn't far off the mark. When I got my CS degree (6 years ago or so) the only gadget I had was my CD player. The university has all that other crap. Sure, you have to get out of your room and work in the lab, but being a geek, that's probably the only time you'll be out of your room, so you should maximize it.
And get a job with the computer support service on campus. Then you have access to pallets of new computers that need to be "tested" before you deliver them to the profs.
I've never used gcc's Java compiler, but it does compile Java to native code, so there's probably a solution there. I assume you can compile the Java code to a native library you can statically link to.
If you're on a system so obscure it doesn't even support gcc linking C with Java is really the least of your problems.
Compile in kernel support for misc binaries on linux. Read Documentation/binfmt_misc.txt to learn how to use it. Read Documentation/java.txt to learn how to use it with java. On any recent version of windows it works to just type the name of the jar file.
Here I am with some code written in Java, and I want to call it from Tcl. Write a quick C wrapper, link the .o in, and package require... no...? How do I do that, then? 0 511-legacy.html
The first google hit - http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-05-2001/jw-
Here I am with a library written in C, or Fortran, and I want to call it from Java... well, how badly do I want it?/ It is really easy.
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/native1.1
Until the linux binary comes out you can practice up.