Have you meet many people in our government ? Competence would be great. But it's not there. It's either incompetence or malice, pick one. When I'm traveling I'm much more afraid of the security screener on a power trip than I am of a religious nutball with a bomb in his shoe. This isn't irrational. I'm much more likely to run into a security screener with some personal problems looking to take it out on someone than I am a shoe bomber.
Who puts murders behind bars ? I hate to burst your bubble, but over half of all crime in the US isn't solved at all, and the average murderer is out in less than 10 years. The government isn't responsible for the safety of food supply, they can't check even 1% of it, the farmers and companies we buy food from make sure it's safe. Sure, the government promises to have harsh words with them if they screw up, but it's not a very big stick, and isn't much of a threat, when it's carried out at all.
Our government is a larger threat to the average US citizen than any foreigner. The Founding Fathers knew it as well, you can see their care in limiting the scope of the Federal Government. Unfortunately the courts have allowed the Feds to get out of hand, by not slapping down the abuse of the interstate commerce clause, among others.
I'm not sure if you are putting me down or not...but....does Godwins law still apply if I wasn't comparing the USA's government to the Nazi's ? I was just pointing out that malice and stupidity are so linked that the evil ones tend to shoot themselves in the foot. Like the Nazi's getting rid of brilliant scientists because they happen to be Jewish, and then those same people end up help building the Atom Bomb for the Allies ?
The incompetence of government is our only real chance at safely. These people are the reason I don't believe the government has covered up UFO's or a massive 9/11 conspiracy. They aren't competent. They can't find their own ass using both hands, much less scratch it without getting caught.
The fixed ratio of stupidity to malice being constant means the damage these people can do will be sort term. (Short term being years though.) Much the same way the malice/stupidity ratio lead to the Nazi's being responsible for the very mistakes that lead to their defeat.
Read the GPL. They do need to supply the code or offer to at a nominal price even if they make no changes. If they distribute the binaries, they are on the hook to distribute the source for every single program they provide a binary for. There was a guy in Tennessee who rolled his own distro, first with Mandriva then he switched to Ubuntu as a base. He had to provide the source for every program in Ubuntu to comply with the GPL. He was a little grumpy about it, but he did it. He just offered 2 DVD's with the full source via snail mail for $20 I think it was. I'm sorry I can't remember the name of the distro just now.
There is already a law to apply here....take away their common carrier status. As soon as they discriminate among content, they SHOULD lose their common carrier status, and can be sued out of business the first time they DON'T block hate speech or kiddy porn. THERE is a law that applies. It never gets applied because they pay politicians.
It's not hard to see something other than complete incompetency. Malice. If you can control the company that makes the machine, you can control the vote. No need to try to bride the voters with their own money.
Anyone else find it strange that offshore gambling sites are less corrupt than our own politicians ? I know I trust them more. The offshore gambling sites need my trust to make millions. The politicians I KNOW are taking corporate money to screw me over. Not just screw me out of cash anymore either, they are taking money to send me to prison now, to make more cash for themselves. Someone should go to prison for bribery.
Any you protect them by putting them in prison ? Players protect themselves by playing at a place they trust. The online poker rooms would lose hundreds of millions of $ if they found to be cheating, or have unsafe games. The sites themselves do a very good job of rooting out cheating. Get a clue, and don't defend the corrupt. (Strange that off shore gambling is less corrupt than our own politicians.)
Red Hat makes money selling services to big companies who can't afford to be wrong. They sell CYA insurance to suits. CentOS is probably a plus, as it lets people test drive the real thing for free. When you have to put your career on the line in a large company, you pay Red Hat to Cover Your Ass. They are good at it, and the rate of pay reflects it.
If it can be abused, it will. No news here. I'm sure a DNA data base will never be abused either. America is becoming a fascist nation. It's not there yet, but it's heading in that direction.
We are lucky we live in the United States of America. We have a Constitution that guarantees that congress can make no law "abridging the freedom of speech". Errr....wait.....ummmmm. Well, I mean... except POLITICAL speech. I'm sure when they wrote the 1st amendment they didn't really mean political speech. I wonder why the supreme court just ignores this ?
I didn't mean to insult anyone, though it seems I have. I was trying to funny. I'm sorry if you feel insulted. I love Linux (Kubuntu), I use XP everyday though, for that one last app that wine doesn't handle well. Windows may work for some people, but I paid $300 retail for a copy of XP pro right after it came out, and every time I have to reinstall due to a hardware failure I have to call M$ and ask their damn permission. Vista is much much worse. They do screw over the little people. They plan to screw them over even more. So from a disgruntled customer who loves Linux, Vista users seem a little slow. And as far as BEFORE goes, anyone who has tried to get rid of some malware or a virus knows exactly what I'm talking about. I don't care if it's M$'s tendency to screw over their own customers by turning off legally bought copy's of Vista or some drive by exploit that bit you in the ass, by now, any savvy geek should know better. That was my point.
Microsoft has been screwing over it's customers for quite a while now. (Customers=people who give them money.) Anyone who has been paying attention has noticed. They do this in part to help content providers. (People who don't give them money.) The rest I figure is neurotic control issues. So, the summary for those of you who are a little slow (Vista users), they screw over people who give them money to help people who don't give them money. Sell the damn stock now, before everyone notices.
That website is hideous....whoever designed it should be fired. I am interested in buying it, but I don't even want to hit the button to see the next page.....can't we have a link to an all in one print page ?
China hasn't been communist in a damn long time. Now they are just a one party dictatorship. Think Soviets without the good intentions. The funny part about it is the communist party isn't even embarrassed about it.
I haven't meet any local cops trying to fight crime. They wait until a crime has been commited and then they show up and do paperwork. In between paperwork they try hard to prop up their egos. That, I have seen plenty of. Local cops in larger cities have police work to do. In smaller towns, they try hard to find something to do. THOSE cops are a larger threat to your wellbeing than the FBI.
When the spin begins. When even those who are a little slow can smell the winds of change enough to start some damage control, you know the fat lady is about to step up to the plate. (I can't think of any other metaphores to mix in there, but maybe my grammer nazi overlords can think of a few.)
They have detained at least one US citizen for over 3 years without charges being brought. If they can do it to one (even if he's guilty scum), they can do it to any of us, and will, sooner or later.
Ahhh.....I see. You're 12. What the hell does "keep your insults to me" mean ? Keep them consistent maybe ? Please have your Mom read over your post before you click the submit button. Oh, you mean it's inconsistent to call you both a fascist and a whinny liberal. You seem to have aspects of both, which is more your inconsistency than mine buddy. First, you give yourself the right to be protected from rudeness. (Whinny liberal.) Then you give yourself the right to protect yourself from rudeness with violence. (Whinny liberal with some fascist violence.) By the way, talking for too long isn't disturbing the peace. It's just stupid and rude. Getting assaulted for being rude makes you the victom of people choosing to disturb the peace. Just a quick history lesson, as I don't believe you read much. Fascism is neither conservitive nor liberal.
http://www.answers.com/topic/fascism?cat=biz-fin
Best hope no one with a badge happens to both think like you and find you rude, or he'll be able to defend he right to be protected from your rudeness with violence. You don't fight wind with clubs. (If you Mom isn't right there to translate, that means don't fight words with violence.) It's morally wrong. That's the difference between us and evil. The fact you are not capable of seeing that proves my point.
Society does not have the right to use violence just because this dumb kid is rude. You are an out and out fascist. That choice is only simple to simple people. There are non-violent ways to deal with rude people. Even the crowd ws dismayed by the actions of the police. Even the police knew they had gone too far, by asking people in the crowd to stop recording. Exactly why do you think they didn't want any video evidence ? There is no law against being rude. No one has the right to use violence against a non violent kid who is guilty of nothing more than talking too much. You don't have to right to be protected against ever hearing a rude person. That non-existent right isn't backed by the right to use violence, to prevent you from, OMG, rudeness. I'm pretty sure the constitution doesn't guarantee a right to be free from having to suffer a rude asshole, so much so that you or the police can kick his ass. You are a whinny liberal thug. Just let the rest of us know if you manufacture any more "rights" for yourself you feel you can defend with violence. Jackass. Oh look, I was rude to you. Should the police have the right to tase me ?
I don't believe they have a right to use violence to stop someone from being a non-violent asshole. And the peaceful assembly you refer to was disturbed when the asshole in question was physically assaulted. Society, American society at least, doesn't have the right to use violence just to stop a dumb kid from speaking. Violence is a last resort, used to stop further violence, not just to make you feel better because you want as asshole to get whats coming to him.
Just so I understand, everyone else there had the right to say what they wanted, but this dumb kid gets assaulted because the rest of them didn't like that he took too long to say what he wanted ? Freedom of speech just for the rest of them huh ? Or as long as YOU like what he has to say ? I bet you can't even see the irony. In one sentence you defend their freedom of assembly and speech, and in the next you defend the use of force to stop speech you don't won't to hear. Dumbass. People like you are a threat to our Freedoms.
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Have you meet many people in our government ? Competence would be great. But it's not there. It's either incompetence or malice, pick one. When I'm traveling I'm much more afraid of the security screener on a power trip than I am of a religious nutball with a bomb in his shoe. This isn't irrational. I'm much more likely to run into a security screener with some personal problems looking to take it out on someone than I am a shoe bomber. Who puts murders behind bars ? I hate to burst your bubble, but over half of all crime in the US isn't solved at all, and the average murderer is out in less than 10 years. The government isn't responsible for the safety of food supply, they can't check even 1% of it, the farmers and companies we buy food from make sure it's safe. Sure, the government promises to have harsh words with them if they screw up, but it's not a very big stick, and isn't much of a threat, when it's carried out at all. Our government is a larger threat to the average US citizen than any foreigner. The Founding Fathers knew it as well, you can see their care in limiting the scope of the Federal Government. Unfortunately the courts have allowed the Feds to get out of hand, by not slapping down the abuse of the interstate commerce clause, among others.
I'm not sure if you are putting me down or not...but....does Godwins law still apply if I wasn't comparing the USA's government to the Nazi's ? I was just pointing out that malice and stupidity are so linked that the evil ones tend to shoot themselves in the foot. Like the Nazi's getting rid of brilliant scientists because they happen to be Jewish, and then those same people end up help building the Atom Bomb for the Allies ?
The incompetence of government is our only real chance at safely. These people are the reason I don't believe the government has covered up UFO's or a massive 9/11 conspiracy. They aren't competent. They can't find their own ass using both hands, much less scratch it without getting caught. The fixed ratio of stupidity to malice being constant means the damage these people can do will be sort term. (Short term being years though.) Much the same way the malice/stupidity ratio lead to the Nazi's being responsible for the very mistakes that lead to their defeat.
If you've looked around America lately, fat and ugly ARE this phase of evolution.
Read the GPL. They do need to supply the code or offer to at a nominal price even if they make no changes. If they distribute the binaries, they are on the hook to distribute the source for every single program they provide a binary for. There was a guy in Tennessee who rolled his own distro, first with Mandriva then he switched to Ubuntu as a base. He had to provide the source for every program in Ubuntu to comply with the GPL. He was a little grumpy about it, but he did it. He just offered 2 DVD's with the full source via snail mail for $20 I think it was. I'm sorry I can't remember the name of the distro just now.
There is already a law to apply here....take away their common carrier status. As soon as they discriminate among content, they SHOULD lose their common carrier status, and can be sued out of business the first time they DON'T block hate speech or kiddy porn. THERE is a law that applies. It never gets applied because they pay politicians.
It's not hard to see something other than complete incompetency. Malice. If you can control the company that makes the machine, you can control the vote. No need to try to bride the voters with their own money.
Anyone else find it strange that offshore gambling sites are less corrupt than our own politicians ? I know I trust them more. The offshore gambling sites need my trust to make millions. The politicians I KNOW are taking corporate money to screw me over. Not just screw me out of cash anymore either, they are taking money to send me to prison now, to make more cash for themselves. Someone should go to prison for bribery.
Any you protect them by putting them in prison ? Players protect themselves by playing at a place they trust. The online poker rooms would lose hundreds of millions of $ if they found to be cheating, or have unsafe games. The sites themselves do a very good job of rooting out cheating. Get a clue, and don't defend the corrupt. (Strange that off shore gambling is less corrupt than our own politicians .)
Red Hat makes money selling services to big companies who can't afford to be wrong. They sell CYA insurance to suits. CentOS is probably a plus, as it lets people test drive the real thing for free. When you have to put your career on the line in a large company, you pay Red Hat to Cover Your Ass. They are good at it, and the rate of pay reflects it.
If it can be abused, it will. No news here. I'm sure a DNA data base will never be abused either. America is becoming a fascist nation. It's not there yet, but it's heading in that direction.
We are lucky we live in the United States of America. We have a Constitution that guarantees that congress can make no law "abridging the freedom of speech". Errr....wait.....ummmmm. Well, I mean... except POLITICAL speech. I'm sure when they wrote the 1st amendment they didn't really mean political speech. I wonder why the supreme court just ignores this ?
I didn't mean to insult anyone, though it seems I have. I was trying to funny. I'm sorry if you feel insulted. I love Linux (Kubuntu), I use XP everyday though, for that one last app that wine doesn't handle well. Windows may work for some people, but I paid $300 retail for a copy of XP pro right after it came out, and every time I have to reinstall due to a hardware failure I have to call M$ and ask their damn permission. Vista is much much worse. They do screw over the little people. They plan to screw them over even more. So from a disgruntled customer who loves Linux, Vista users seem a little slow. And as far as BEFORE goes, anyone who has tried to get rid of some malware or a virus knows exactly what I'm talking about. I don't care if it's M$'s tendency to screw over their own customers by turning off legally bought copy's of Vista or some drive by exploit that bit you in the ass, by now, any savvy geek should know better. That was my point.
Neither will happen. Microsoft has a monopoly. They are completely insulated from the consequences of their actions, know it, and act accordingly.
Microsoft has been screwing over it's customers for quite a while now. (Customers=people who give them money.) Anyone who has been paying attention has noticed. They do this in part to help content providers. (People who don't give them money.) The rest I figure is neurotic control issues. So, the summary for those of you who are a little slow (Vista users), they screw over people who give them money to help people who don't give them money. Sell the damn stock now, before everyone notices.
Fool me once...shame on you......fool me twice.....shame on me. If you use vista and it bites you in the ass....well.... you deserve it.
That website is hideous....whoever designed it should be fired. I am interested in buying it, but I don't even want to hit the button to see the next page.....can't we have a link to an all in one print page ?
China hasn't been communist in a damn long time. Now they are just a one party dictatorship. Think Soviets without the good intentions. The funny part about it is the communist party isn't even embarrassed about it.
I haven't meet any local cops trying to fight crime. They wait until a crime has been commited and then they show up and do paperwork. In between paperwork they try hard to prop up their egos. That, I have seen plenty of. Local cops in larger cities have police work to do. In smaller towns, they try hard to find something to do. THOSE cops are a larger threat to your wellbeing than the FBI.
When the spin begins. When even those who are a little slow can smell the winds of change enough to start some damage control, you know the fat lady is about to step up to the plate. (I can't think of any other metaphores to mix in there, but maybe my grammer nazi overlords can think of a few.)
They have detained at least one US citizen for over 3 years without charges being brought. If they can do it to one (even if he's guilty scum), they can do it to any of us, and will, sooner or later.
Ahhh.....I see. You're 12. What the hell does "keep your insults to me" mean ? Keep them consistent maybe ? Please have your Mom read over your post before you click the submit button. Oh, you mean it's inconsistent to call you both a fascist and a whinny liberal. You seem to have aspects of both, which is more your inconsistency than mine buddy. First, you give yourself the right to be protected from rudeness. (Whinny liberal.) Then you give yourself the right to protect yourself from rudeness with violence. (Whinny liberal with some fascist violence.) By the way, talking for too long isn't disturbing the peace. It's just stupid and rude. Getting assaulted for being rude makes you the victom of people choosing to disturb the peace. Just a quick history lesson, as I don't believe you read much. Fascism is neither conservitive nor liberal. http://www.answers.com/topic/fascism?cat=biz-fin Best hope no one with a badge happens to both think like you and find you rude, or he'll be able to defend he right to be protected from your rudeness with violence. You don't fight wind with clubs. (If you Mom isn't right there to translate, that means don't fight words with violence.) It's morally wrong. That's the difference between us and evil. The fact you are not capable of seeing that proves my point.
Lots of Mac and Linux user aren't going to be disappointed. No one is going to be disappointed. No one wants to use this.
Society does not have the right to use violence just because this dumb kid is rude. You are an out and out fascist. That choice is only simple to simple people. There are non-violent ways to deal with rude people. Even the crowd ws dismayed by the actions of the police. Even the police knew they had gone too far, by asking people in the crowd to stop recording. Exactly why do you think they didn't want any video evidence ? There is no law against being rude. No one has the right to use violence against a non violent kid who is guilty of nothing more than talking too much. You don't have to right to be protected against ever hearing a rude person. That non-existent right isn't backed by the right to use violence, to prevent you from, OMG, rudeness. I'm pretty sure the constitution doesn't guarantee a right to be free from having to suffer a rude asshole, so much so that you or the police can kick his ass. You are a whinny liberal thug. Just let the rest of us know if you manufacture any more "rights" for yourself you feel you can defend with violence. Jackass. Oh look, I was rude to you. Should the police have the right to tase me ?
I don't believe they have a right to use violence to stop someone from being a non-violent asshole. And the peaceful assembly you refer to was disturbed when the asshole in question was physically assaulted. Society, American society at least, doesn't have the right to use violence just to stop a dumb kid from speaking. Violence is a last resort, used to stop further violence, not just to make you feel better because you want as asshole to get whats coming to him. Just so I understand, everyone else there had the right to say what they wanted, but this dumb kid gets assaulted because the rest of them didn't like that he took too long to say what he wanted ? Freedom of speech just for the rest of them huh ? Or as long as YOU like what he has to say ? I bet you can't even see the irony. In one sentence you defend their freedom of assembly and speech, and in the next you defend the use of force to stop speech you don't won't to hear. Dumbass. People like you are a threat to our Freedoms.