And yes, I am making a moral case for using bittorrent. I don't believe in copyright, or intellectual property of any kind, and I'm sure a number of people share this view. Bittorrent helps everyone, by giving them whatever infomation they want-unregulated by others. You benefit from it, and so does everyone else.
Well, everyone benefits except for the people who own the copyright - you've run roughshod over them. They don't count, though, they only created the entertainment you believe should be free. Fuck them!
Think of it as a plus for the RAM industry - since I have to run all of these heavyweight tools, I've installed 2 gigs. If my laptop would handle more, I'd have more. It keeps the economy humming.
Programming raw sockets in Javascript isn't coming anytime soon, nor would we want it, really. The security implications are tremendous.
I'm currently implementing a Javascript client for an application that mostly doesn't care about the responses. I just want the status line - 200 means it worked, 500 series indicates errors. That seems like what you're talking about. It's not as efficient as what you're looking for but over a network I imagine the difference is close to insignificant.
If you really don't care about the response at all, you can just ignore it once you've sent the request. If that's not it, I'm not getting you at all.
I'm just trying to determine the meaning of your comments as applied to the general population. 'All the time' carries connotations that make such a determination difficult, and your followup indicates as I suspected - this is still fairly rare.
I'd be interested in seeing hard numbers, if you have a way to get them, or know somewhere I can start researching. I've tried google, but I'm doing something wrong, because I'm not really getting anything useful yet.
for problem solving ability, self reliability, and work ethic, i will choose someone raised on a farm _every time_ over a city-slicker
I have a slightly different outlook. When I'm hiring a programmer to work on a large system, their ability to fix the plow so the field gets planted on time ranks somewhere with their ability to comparison shop at the nearest Whole Foods. I'm not really interested in low-level survival capabilities at all.
I will agree with the typical office job being trivial for someone raised on a farm. It should also be trivial for the average high school freshman. Most office jobs revolve around doing whatever the person immediately over you says to do. A job that requires independent, creative thought generally requires talent and skill in that particular area, however. Someone raised on a farm has no natural advantage here.
I'm not addressing the work ethic and self reliability aspects. I don't have any data, and my personal feelings don't trump your personal feelings, so that's a useless contest.
There are people that prefer not to live in large cities, for a variety of good reasons.
Well, a variety of reasons, anyway. Quite a few of which generally boil down to being afraid of black people. Not true in every case, I know, but boy is it surprising how many do. Well, that and traffic.
What bitrate are you using? 320 bps sounds like source material on any consumer level equipment, and if you're the type that feels like flinging your money at 'audiophile' equipment, then you won't want any kind of lossy compression anyway - if for nothing else than bragging rights.
Overall, given the general public's taste in music, wasting fidelity on their ears is pointless, in any case. They can't tell at all, and probably wouldn't care, as long as there was a beat.
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By the way, calling people 'sheep' exposes you as an asshole. Manually linebreaking your text in an inconsistent fashion so that it's impossible to read doesn't help. Appropriate capitalization is a favor to your readers. And mp3 doesn't mean the 3rd version of some nebulous 'mp' spec, so mp9 wouldn't mean what you think it would.
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Yeah, I can buy that. I was really just making the general point. I didn't mean to pick on you, and I apologize, because it definitely seems personal when I read it over.
Aside from all that mess (and to stay somewhat on topic) isn't that just the typical corporate hanger-on way of doing things? If these people had original insights they wouldn't be "contributing" in meetings, they'd be out starting the next Pixar, or whatever.
Now no one is quite sure what the Republican party stands for... except lower taxes.
Lower taxes, unified power base, constant war, and fresh religious opiates served to the masses weekly. And heterosexual relations, exclusively - probably allowing for experimental college chicks, am I right or am I right?
Well, not exactly right on the money. Shamefully close. I'll try to be as neutral as I can, although some of these are subjective, and my political leanings influence them.
Disclosure: I am a conservative. I am not a republican. I have never voted republican in a national election. I've also never voted democrat. I think national politics in America is an institution rotten to its core.
Powerful and continuing nationalism - check, but this isn't new to Bush.
Disdain for the recognition of human rights - check, and this one makes me sad. Even if the administration was angelic in every other respect, this is an unforgivable fault.
Identifying enemies or scapegoats as a unifying cause - check, but the enemy is real. That's a matter of convenience, I know, but something still has to be done.
Supremacy of the military - check, I'll give this one, but it's sort of overstated in the flash. As a conservative, I recognize the need for a military.
Rampant sexism - no, not really, although it seems unneeded for fascism anyway.
Controlled mass media - again, no. Sure, some media outlets lean the same way as the president. Others don't. It's a pretty good mix, in my opinion. On the other hand, I'm not like most people, which is to say I don't suffer from the disease of wanting to have my opinions parroted back at me. Overall, the media sells what people want to buy.
Obsession with national security - check, but once again, the enemy is real.
Religion and government are intertwined - no, not really. As a devout atheist, I'd probably notice. The President spouting personal religious beliefs does not a religious government make.
Corporate power is protected - half a check. Corporate power is certainly huge, but that's the nature of corporations. I personally don't believe in beating businesspeople down just for doing business in any case, but that won't be a popular sentiment on a site that is so anti-people-making-money-for-themselves.
Labor power is suppressed - half a check. There's not a tremendous amount of supression going on, and the power labor is losing is more related to globalization than anything else. Interestingly, the fix requires more of number 1.
Disdain for intellectuals and the arts - I don't see this one. I think it's elitism, frankly. Disdain for the Dixie Chicks was shown, and that's fine by me, but I've thought they sucked from their inception. (I'm being facetious with my example.)
Obsession with crime and punishment - half a check. Outside of the national security angle, this one is surprisingly lowkey for a Republican administration. In the flash it is said that the "police are given almost limitless powers to enforce the laws." A case could be made, particularly regarding the USA PATRIOT act, but right now, it's just not entirely true. Right on the ledge, though. A short consolidation of federal and state powers would do this trick quickly.
Rampant cronyism and corruption - check. That's called politics. It exists everywhere there are politicians. That's not an excuse, of course.
Fraudulent elections - nope. Sorry, there's never been anything produced that points a clear finger toward election fraud. This drum will be beat for a long time, I'm sure, but there's just no evidence.
So I see 7.5 out of 14. We'll call it 8. Terrible score overall, but it doesn't add up to fascism to me. I'm pretty sure we'd see a lot more suppression of dissent if we lived under a fascist regime.
This is entirely anecdotal (and quite off the main topic), but I've always found it to be interesting.
Almost everyone I know that identifies as a conservative drives a fuel efficient vehicle. Mostly, they drive hybrid Hondas. Personally, I consider myself conservative, and I haven't owned a car in almost nine years. I'm all about public transportation and carpooling.
On the other hand, I know a large number of self-proclaimed liberals (I live in a major city) and a tremendous number of them drive large SUVs and gas guzzling sports cars. Of course, it stands to reason that most of them aren't really liberals at all, outside of proclaiming it like a fashion statement, but that's what you get when people mistakenly identify being intelligent with automatically being a liberal.
The rest of your opinion is pretty much hogwash, too, but I understand why you hold it - you can't admit that a position you don't hold has merit. It's a common human disease, along with demonizing that which is different.
It's a shame - attitudes like the one you're expressing contribute to the weakening of society, to the detriment of all.
What happens when a network adapter fails? Or a DIMM dies? Or the hard drive seizes? Or the CPU decides it's time to say goodnight? Does Linux have magical powers that will keep things going? Maybe it does, but I don't know about them.
Considering Apple switched to Intel for performance per watt, and also considering Intel wins that race by a wide margin over the entire industry (not just AMD, but IBM, Motorola, and everyone else you can bring to the table) your point makes no sense.
Blind loyalty serves no one, not customers, employees, leaders, or loners. That's a very important lesson, and I'm sure I can't possibly get anyone to understand it.
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And yes, I am making a moral case for using bittorrent. I don't believe in copyright, or intellectual property of any kind, and I'm sure a number of people share this view. Bittorrent helps everyone, by giving them whatever infomation they want-unregulated by others. You benefit from it, and so does everyone else.
Well, everyone benefits except for the people who own the copyright - you've run roughshod over them. They don't count, though, they only created the entertainment you believe should be free. Fuck them!
Think of it as a plus for the RAM industry - since I have to run all of these heavyweight tools, I've installed 2 gigs. If my laptop would handle more, I'd have more. It keeps the economy humming.
Programming raw sockets in Javascript isn't coming anytime soon, nor would we want it, really. The security implications are tremendous.
I'm currently implementing a Javascript client for an application that mostly doesn't care about the responses. I just want the status line - 200 means it worked, 500 series indicates errors. That seems like what you're talking about. It's not as efficient as what you're looking for but over a network I imagine the difference is close to insignificant.
If you really don't care about the response at all, you can just ignore it once you've sent the request. If that's not it, I'm not getting you at all.
I'm just trying to determine the meaning of your comments as applied to the general population. 'All the time' carries connotations that make such a determination difficult, and your followup indicates as I suspected - this is still fairly rare.
I'd be interested in seeing hard numbers, if you have a way to get them, or know somewhere I can start researching. I've tried google, but I'm doing something wrong, because I'm not really getting anything useful yet.
How exactly is masturbation homosexual? Do you put on rubber gloves to clean your dirty parts in the shower, so you don't acidentally turn gay?
Yeah, an eye for an eye until we're all blind!
So what wine would you recommend to go with shit on a bun?
Define 'all the time'
Are we talking 100,000 a year? 10,000? 1,000? 100? 10?
I think you just effectively explained the origin of the 'nut-job' comments.
for problem solving ability, self reliability, and work ethic, i will choose someone raised on a farm _every time_ over a city-slicker
I have a slightly different outlook. When I'm hiring a programmer to work on a large system, their ability to fix the plow so the field gets planted on time ranks somewhere with their ability to comparison shop at the nearest Whole Foods. I'm not really interested in low-level survival capabilities at all.
I will agree with the typical office job being trivial for someone raised on a farm. It should also be trivial for the average high school freshman. Most office jobs revolve around doing whatever the person immediately over you says to do. A job that requires independent, creative thought generally requires talent and skill in that particular area, however. Someone raised on a farm has no natural advantage here.
I'm not addressing the work ethic and self reliability aspects. I don't have any data, and my personal feelings don't trump your personal feelings, so that's a useless contest.
There are people that prefer not to live in large cities, for a variety of good reasons.
Well, a variety of reasons, anyway. Quite a few of which generally boil down to being afraid of black people. Not true in every case, I know, but boy is it surprising how many do. Well, that and traffic.
What bitrate are you using? 320 bps sounds like source material on any consumer level equipment, and if you're the type that feels like flinging your money at 'audiophile' equipment, then you won't want any kind of lossy compression anyway - if for nothing else than bragging rights.
Overall, given the general public's taste in music, wasting fidelity on their ears is pointless, in any case. They can't tell at all, and probably wouldn't care, as long as there was a beat.
----- under this line, I get catty. -----
By the way, calling people 'sheep' exposes you as an asshole. Manually linebreaking your text in an inconsistent fashion so that it's impossible to read doesn't help. Appropriate capitalization is a favor to your readers. And mp3 doesn't mean the 3rd version of some nebulous 'mp' spec, so mp9 wouldn't mean what you think it would.
Yeah, I can buy that. I was really just making the general point. I didn't mean to pick on you, and I apologize, because it definitely seems personal when I read it over.
Aside from all that mess (and to stay somewhat on topic) isn't that just the typical corporate hanger-on way of doing things? If these people had original insights they wouldn't be "contributing" in meetings, they'd be out starting the next Pixar, or whatever.
In what way? Is there some universal bitbank that's being depleted?
"Teh peoples want teh CG! We gives them teh CG!"
Deliberately misspelling 'the' once was funny until about 4 years ago. Doing it three times in the same sentence now is just torture for the reader.
It really shows something, the way internet slang is the first slang in the history of spoken word to actually make the user seem (even) less cool.
Well, then, when the members of this group run for government, vote against them, for the love of whatever you love.
But for now, let's keep the hyperbole on a low simmer.
Interesting post. I can't validate it, being in the US, but I'm sure you're right about scientists being welcomed in Europe.
By the way, and strictly out of curiousity - what the hell are you talking about, anyway? What does your post have to do with this story?
Was that an example of how you aren't belittling to people who don't agree with you?
Now no one is quite sure what the Republican party stands for... except lower taxes.
Lower taxes, unified power base, constant war, and fresh religious opiates served to the masses weekly. And heterosexual relations, exclusively - probably allowing for experimental college chicks, am I right or am I right?
Disclosure: I am a conservative. I am not a republican. I have never voted republican in a national election. I've also never voted democrat. I think national politics in America is an institution rotten to its core.
So I see 7.5 out of 14. We'll call it 8. Terrible score overall, but it doesn't add up to fascism to me. I'm pretty sure we'd see a lot more suppression of dissent if we lived under a fascist regime.
This is entirely anecdotal (and quite off the main topic), but I've always found it to be interesting.
Almost everyone I know that identifies as a conservative drives a fuel efficient vehicle. Mostly, they drive hybrid Hondas. Personally, I consider myself conservative, and I haven't owned a car in almost nine years. I'm all about public transportation and carpooling.
On the other hand, I know a large number of self-proclaimed liberals (I live in a major city) and a tremendous number of them drive large SUVs and gas guzzling sports cars. Of course, it stands to reason that most of them aren't really liberals at all, outside of proclaiming it like a fashion statement, but that's what you get when people mistakenly identify being intelligent with automatically being a liberal.
The rest of your opinion is pretty much hogwash, too, but I understand why you hold it - you can't admit that a position you don't hold has merit. It's a common human disease, along with demonizing that which is different.
It's a shame - attitudes like the one you're expressing contribute to the weakening of society, to the detriment of all.
What happens when a network adapter fails? Or a DIMM dies? Or the hard drive seizes? Or the CPU decides it's time to say goodnight? Does Linux have magical powers that will keep things going? Maybe it does, but I don't know about them.
Pentium-M Dothan 2.13 Ghz: 88 seconds.
Considering Apple switched to Intel for performance per watt, and also considering Intel wins that race by a wide margin over the entire industry (not just AMD, but IBM, Motorola, and everyone else you can bring to the table) your point makes no sense.
Blind loyalty serves no one, not customers, employees, leaders, or loners. That's a very important lesson, and I'm sure I can't possibly get anyone to understand it.
Let the rednecks feel like they still mean something. It doesn't hurt anybody, and they're too dumb to see what's coming to them anyway.
Honestly, for all the money we put towards advocating safe sex, we should be putting at least a little towards safe browsing.
Yeah, I agree. We need to reset our priorities. In the face of having my bad poetry on LiveJournal inaccessible, what harm does AIDS really do?