---- And you americans wonder why the rest of the world can't stand you. That kind of attitude just shows your complete unwillingness to cooperate with there rest or the world for the good of the planet. ----
If You mean we show unwillingness to build the infrastructure and hand it over to a bunch of idiots to destroy, then you are right. The unwashed anarchists of the world will have it destroyed within months, no matter what the other 95% of the world wishes! Consider it a stewardship instead of ownership if it makes it easier to swallow - A stewardship that is going rather well so far.
Cooperate does not mean give every thing to you, it means we let you play with our toys if you play nicely. If not, we take the toys away. If you start defecating in the public playground, we will fence it off, and if you insist on breaking in and continuing the antisocial behaviour, we will be forced to take appropriate action. So cooperate!
We can do this because we are the 800kg Gorilla. Where does the 800kg gorilla sleep? Any where he pleases! You are cooperating with the 800kg Gorilla by following his lead. If you want to lead, become a 801kg gorilla!
I have been running a 450mhz celeron on a server that started out with Redhat 6.2 . It is now running RH8 kernel 2.4.20-28.8
I never compiled a kernel! Up2Date did it all. Different ethernet, different video, motherboard swap, none of this required a kernel compile. I'm not running linux-from-scratch, or gentoo - no need to hand tune the kernel. Security up2dates just work by magic!
I'm a lazy linux user, I load it and it works - I use the gui to configure the server, I don't know vi or emacs, yet I am more productive in linux than I am on a windows box. I don't have to block popups, no need to worry about malicious email or viral macros in my documents.
So, if the user is savvy enough to upgrade the laptop hardware that the grandparent post spoke of, they should be savvy enough to compile a kernel.
I'm using mepis/debian on this Gateway solo laptop, and it has no problem adjusting to the full docking station with extra usb and pci slots, or to the port repicator. It just works, and works better than the "oem" MS win2k that I keep on dualboot. I needed the gateway driver CD to configure the dock and the port replicator, I didn't need any gateway specific software for the mepis install.
Even a lot pf parents and kids! I play across country with my daughter, and my buddy and his wife have side by side gaming stations. We messed with Roger Wilco for voice a long while ago, ended up having my daughter call with her unlimited minutes, then 3-waying in my buddys on their speakerphone. Made for some interesting gaming, and kept the EXP grind grom getting too dull too fast.
So try EQ, DAOC, Starwars Galaxy, one that suits both of your personalities, and allows you some down time to chat.
sorry, check the link the company is in business now!
From the site with a little digging:
1996 to Present. Over 65 years since its beginning, this fabulous automobile, will, once again, roar down the roads with its bright shinning side pipes and rich history. The same Howard Williams and the same Cord Automobile Company of Oklahoma, that was incorporated in 1968, is breathing new life into this timeless piece of art on wheels which will preserve this fabulous automobile for automotive history.
Cry Hearsay, and let slip the Dogs of law!
Solve your problems by getting this life as you call it. Everyone here who is a registered user has made a statement of joining this community, not staying outside as an AC. If you are one of those original crew complaining AC about new kids on the block like me, well I'm sorry! However, you let me move into the neighborhood - too late to worry about the property values now!
I don't know how many neurons were scarred looking at that joke, but I think I will survive. Just move on, read the next response and ignore what does not fit your definition of humor.
If that does not work for you maybe you need to leave this circle of friends and get on with your life. We will not joke too much about you when you are gone. (In fact, since you are an AC we may never know you left)
Cutler Hammer Electrical back in 1994! username@ch.etn.com Cutlerhammer was a subsidiary of Eaton Corp, but had a seperate email and network at the time. Eaton used username@etn.com etc. Now with restructuring, they all use username@eaton.com But I still have business cards to prove prior art if needed!
The name Kano reminds me of a great oil with a strange motto: Kano Kroil, the oil that creeps. By Kano Labs a penetrating oil that I use for just about everything. It even quiets PS fans until you get a chance to buy a new fan.
How can the EU enforce either? Not FB or Trolling, just wondering how they can stop MS from doing business when they refuse to pay the fine. US can't enforce anything against MS and it had Federal Marshals that could have gone in with guns!
So honest answers to an honest question, lets not start a US-EU or a then/now shitfest. Will the EU stop all retailers from handling MS if they refuse to pay? That would be a great prescedent, one I hope the US emulates.
Why use Wikipedia as an authority? That is as bad as using Slashdot! A user modifiable dictionary... Nice idea untill the bored Script kiddie re-writes all of the entries that "offend" him.
Wikipedia is a nice experiment in sociology, but also a great example of revisionism in action! Just look up your favorite political figure for examples. The page revision histories of Bill Clinton and George Bush are lessons in revisionist history!
A constantly changing reference point is no reference at all!
It is simply ludicrous to assume that one admin, or even a team of them, is going to manually install patches to 50,000 workstations every couple months.
Funny, that you never heard of login scripts. When the user logs in, a simple entry in their.profile will check for updates, MOTDs, actually anything you want it to do.
If Linux gets to the critical mass where routine updates are needed, you test the patch in the lab. Then post it on an inhouse server. All the desktop login scripts have a line pointing to that server. That line runs an update if it exists on the server, if no update exists, it exits and the user never knows the difference.
If you are really cranky, you can have a cron job checking every 4 hours for updates, and not post them to the server until they are vetted.
You don't even have to worry about the users logging in, it updates while they are at the bar! But none of this prohibits the savvy user from updating his/her own machine, instead of waiting till the next cycle.
Caution Religious Generalities below! Stop reading if easily offended, or devout anything!
---"Either way, claiming that Catholics are pagans is seriously messed up.
Not if you're a Lutheran Protestant...;-)"---
Children always think their parents are demons! But they mature and become just like the 'rents they despise.
Religions are the same way. Each schism of Christianity demonizes the root church from which it split. Just as Christianity demonized Judism and the newest major religion, Islam demonizes both! BTW, Roman Catholicism demonized Coptic Christianity, from which it grew.
The only thing all churches have in common is the belief that they hold exclusive right to the One Truth.
The newest Christian sects believe that all the older ones are corrupt and they are the only true way.
Funny how this parallels human development where the youth believe that they posess all the knowledge and wisdom of the world, when in fact they are just crouching on the shoulders of giants.
Hmm I wonder what the profit margin on the average car is? Is it close to the 70-80% that Microsoft makes on Windows?
But I actually only paid $4700 for the car used. I never called Ford, but they transfered this update to me by name. They went out and checked the DMVs for lists of that year and model car. 120k miles on the beast and they put in suspension parts. But I can not transfer a software license for an OEM windows 2K that I deleted from the machine the moment I plugged it in. That OEM license is bound to the sticker on the machine, and the wording of the license prohibits me from selling or even giving the software to someone else.
Now the site licenses for MS Windows 98 went for a bit more than $100. Buying a single license of 98 for $100 or dumping $25000 for an unlimited license and then be told that you have no choice but to upgrade because MS wants more money is not good business, no matter what the scale of the purchase.
Having worked aerial surviellance back in the last century, I agree on the value of film. We routinely datalinked our Sidelooking Airborne Radar (SLAR) imagery to ground stations but were required many times to send copies of the in-plane film to the remote sites to validate what was recorded on the ground. This was to ensure that there were no coverage dropouts due to datalink issues or worse, additional data due to interference or jamming.
We used a dry silver film heat developed film to give a near real-time readout in the cockpit, and the ground station operators had the same cockpit equipment, just minus the radar controls.
We also used literally tons of Kodak 5 inch rolls of film for mosaic photo mapping, and 70mm film for panoramic forward and vertical shots. Sneaking peeks over the iron curtain were always a tense mission, but we had reasonable standoff capabilities with the 5inch camera.
It was geek heaven: guns and gadgets; fear and loathing from mere groundbased mortals, snobbery and FUD. A great way of life, and good training ground for a BOFH attitude.
The Last of the Mohawks
I have 98 on my second pc so I believe this relates pretty well:
My second car is a 94 Ford Tarus, built in 93, and the company has put out an incompatible upgrade every year since the model's release.
But I can still get oem parts, support and even factory recall notices on this car.
Ford got a lump sum from me 10 years ago, no support contract, and yet they mailed me a notice about a free "patch" for a "bug" 8 years after the model was released. I took this car to the local dealer, and they fixed a potential problem completely free. My particular car did not have the defective part, but they replaced a perfectly good part just in case.
Yes they tried to sell me on a new car, but they still make model specific parts for this car and older models.
My Sandisk 256 seems to cause a Kernel panic in every distro I have tried it on, it panics Knoppix versions that run other thumb drives.
Downloading MDK Move now. Mandrake is a love-hate distro, very few people are neutral on it. Great for recent Windows converts. They had some issues in ver 8 that I disliked that were non issues in 9. Just personal quirks of mine with the install choices. But their default desktop seemed the best for making the window user comfortable. I hope this CD has the same quality feel.
I do dislike the club concept. If you want money, either ask for donations, or charge for the product. It reminds me too much of the old shareware, with nags hidden all over the site. Just charge for support, and high speed download access, and have slow mirrors for us leaches.
But Mandrakesoft needs to get their financial act together, drop the club paradigm for a real business model and get solvent! I'm not sure how their Corporate sales are doing, but corporate clubs reminds me of the cuntry club setting, something I would have a tough time selling to a PHB. Corporate support contracts can be sold, but not club memberships.
Some great programming minds in that company doing some interesting things with Linux. But they need to get a PHB to do the PHB-work for them, and let the geeks do the geek-work.
The Michigan law not only outlaws NAT, it outlaws Proxy servers, Firewalls, anything that hides or obfuscates the originating location of the traffic. If you only have one PC hooked to the cable abd use an appliance FW to protect it, you are violating the law, and have committed a felony.
It is a very poorly written law, I doubt if it would stand a test in court. But until someone with deep pockets or pro-bono lawyers challenges it in court, it stands and can be used for all sorts of mischief.
Last spring, I researched the Michigan laws for some legal courses I was taking. Their law is one of the most draconian ones in effect, and was ghost-written by the industry lobbyists. The Michigan Laws are being used as the blueprint for all the states without DMCA-style legislation on the books.
EFF has some info, but search around there is much more out there. SuperDMCA
Ahhh Check your history. The first police forces WERE all private. There was no publicly funded police or state mandated police force untill well into the 1800s in the USA.
Maybe he was chanelling William Shatner when he wrote that.
He was probably, breathing heavily, from, the exertion, of a, LONG, exhausting, session of self-love.
Not that I would know about self-love. Even my hand goes to sleep on me!
It is interesting that back then all it took was a couple of guys with printing presses and a few with horses and a good oratory style to stir up a sufficient number of the population and start a revolution. This was over an outlandish tax rate of 10% to boot!
The Majority of the population of the colonies were not pro-revolution! The majority were either happy sheep or Torries. If memory serves me right the Torry population didn't all go to Canada either after the final outcome. A good portion of them hung around, grumbling; only to try and re-revolt in the war of 1812.
Now we have fat, dumb and happy sheep throughout the first world. What kind of government sponsored atrocities will it take to get the next batch of revolutionaries off their haunches?
I think we will see the slow constant erosion of rights till nothing is left.
Some fanatic once said something like Live free or die.
The Breakup of the Soviet Union was Post Nuclear..
You have to niave as hell to think that any government would nuke their own land. It is one thing to obliterate some far shore but quite another to destroy yourself to prove a point.
Even The Soviets in all their lunacy were stopped by the doctrine of Mutual Assured Distruction. Yet the New Russian Revolution came to pass, without the massive bloodshed of protracted fighting or the use of nukes.
That shocked most of the old Pentagon Hawks... USSR going out with a wimper, not a bang
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
So you see those in "power" have no power over me, for I am not anonymous nor am I a coward!
All producers are consumers. Or do you think the corporations just buy any raw material with out looking at price? Companies DO live in a free market. They do not magically pull their product out of the void. They use material and energy and services that they purchased just like you and I. Labor, energy, water, ore, wood, paint, whatever it takes to make their product they buy. No one just gives Intel sand, they have to buy it, refine it to get the silica, then purify the silicon from that. That all takes machinery, energy, labor, and it all costs money. They shop around for the best deals.
Someone made your PC. Inside, you can find a motherboard, RAM, Disk drives, all made by third parties. The only thing most PC Manufacturers create is the case badge. Everything they can outsource, is outsourced - to the supplier that provides the best price/quality ratio. That is why you will find different hard drives in the same run of a PC model - either supplier problems or a radically better deal came along.
At my previous gig, my telcom manager's main mission was to purchase the best services at the best price. We dealt primarily with AT&T, but also bought lines and redundant circuits from the other major carriers. For our local circuits, we went with redundant cheaper providers over the expensive reliable one. It saved a bundle, and with the redundancy, we never had downtime. I helped with the budget, and I must have missed that line for government subsidy, either that or it was balanced out by the campaign contributions.
Please post some of this info you have on subsidizing. I want to get in on some of that! As long as I don't have to wear a funny reflective hat to qualify for the money.
They own the phone lines too? Cable is a monopoly, but if you can get DSL, you can get multiple ISPs to vie for you as a customer. Well maybe not fight over you, but at least you will have a choice of evils. If you can't get DSL yet, start asking for it. The squeaky wheel and all that.
Now I am stuck in the sticks with an ancient baby-bell who happens to own an ISP. My sDSL is reasonable, "unlimited", and reliable. It may be unlimited because I am on as a business customer; but honestly, they never mentioned usage, and I neverhad reason to ask. My line is limited to 768 because of the distance from the DSLAM. But I get an honest 768 both ways, and a static IP. My neighbor has the telco vault right across the street from his house, and he is running nominal 768 but claims he peaks out at higher. Neither of us have AUP issues, no problems with bandwidth. I am constantly downloading ISOs of some *nix distro, I grabbed Solaris9 twice, since I was half asleep and DLed the 5 sparc CDs. After they were down, I read sparc in the filename, so I slurped the intel version. That was 6gb in one morning!
Not sure how my ISP treats the average user closer to civilization. I know their infrastructure is different for home users in town, they use PPOE and a multi ISP service called ConnectTime to manage their users. Total different subnets than us Country bumpkins. About three different ISPs offer DSL in town, all have different pricing, and all use ConnectTime to serve the network.
So do some research, and be an informed consumer, be a loud, cranky consumer. It is your money, make them earn it.
That is probably because you never drove the first mule.
1/4 ton capacity quad drive. Great for stringing communications line anywhere a jeep could not go. Some towed artillery line batteries would use them to "hump rounds" out to the guns, if the ammo could not be delivered up close via the gamma goats
As of 2000 there were a few running around the woods of Tennessee with roll-bars after they were phased out of the inventory at Ft Campbell.
I would not mind having one, however they are just a little lacking in the 5mph bumper crash tests, though.
Slashdot Mirror
---- And you americans wonder why the rest of the world can't stand you. That kind of attitude just shows your complete unwillingness to cooperate with there rest or the world for the good of the planet.
----
If You mean we show unwillingness to build the infrastructure and hand it over to a bunch of idiots to destroy, then you are right. The unwashed anarchists of the world will have it destroyed within months, no matter what the other 95% of the world wishes! Consider it a stewardship instead of ownership if it makes it easier to swallow - A stewardship that is going rather well so far.
Cooperate does not mean give every thing to you, it means we let you play with our toys if you play nicely. If not, we take the toys away. If you start defecating in the public playground, we will fence it off, and if you insist on breaking in and continuing the antisocial behaviour, we will be forced to take appropriate action.
So cooperate!
We can do this because we are the 800kg Gorilla.
Where does the 800kg gorilla sleep?
Any where he pleases!
You are cooperating with the 800kg Gorilla by following his lead. If you want to lead, become a 801kg gorilla!
I have been running a 450mhz celeron on a server that started out with Redhat 6.2 . It is now running RH8 kernel 2.4.20-28.8
I never compiled a kernel! Up2Date did it all. Different ethernet, different video, motherboard swap, none of this required a kernel compile. I'm not running linux-from-scratch, or gentoo - no need to hand tune the kernel. Security up2dates just work by magic!
I'm a lazy linux user, I load it and it works - I use the gui to configure the server, I don't know vi or emacs, yet I am more productive in linux than I am on a windows box. I don't have to block popups, no need to worry about malicious email or viral macros in my documents.
So, if the user is savvy enough to upgrade the laptop hardware that the grandparent post spoke of, they should be savvy enough to compile a kernel.
I'm using mepis/debian on this Gateway solo laptop, and it has no problem adjusting to the full docking station with extra usb and pci slots, or to the port repicator.
It just works, and works better than the "oem" MS win2k that I keep on dualboot. I needed the gateway driver CD to configure the dock and the port replicator, I didn't need any gateway specific software for the mepis install.
Even a lot pf parents and kids! I play across country with my daughter, and my buddy and his wife have side by side gaming stations. We messed with Roger Wilco for voice a long while ago, ended up having my daughter call with her unlimited minutes, then 3-waying in my buddys on their speakerphone. Made for some interesting gaming, and kept the EXP grind grom getting too dull too fast.
So try EQ, DAOC, Starwars Galaxy, one that suits both of your personalities, and allows you some down time to chat.
sorry, check the link the company is in business now! From the site with a little digging: 1996 to Present. Over 65 years since its beginning, this fabulous automobile, will, once again, roar down the roads with its bright shinning side pipes and rich history. The same Howard Williams and the same Cord Automobile Company of Oklahoma, that was incorporated in 1968, is breathing new life into this timeless piece of art on wheels which will preserve this fabulous automobile for automotive history. Cry Hearsay, and let slip the Dogs of law!
Maybe there is a lesson for YOU in your missive.
Solve your problems by getting this life as you call it. Everyone here who is a registered user has made a statement of joining this community, not staying outside as an AC. If you are one of those original crew complaining AC about new kids on the block like me, well I'm sorry! However, you let me move into the neighborhood - too late to worry about the property values now!
I don't know how many neurons were scarred looking at that joke, but I think I will survive. Just move on, read the next response and ignore what does not fit your definition of humor.
If that does not work for you maybe you need to leave this circle of friends and get on with your life. We will not joke too much about you when you are gone. (In fact, since you are an AC we may never know you left)
Cutler Hammer Electrical back in 1994!
username@ch.etn.com Cutlerhammer was a subsidiary of Eaton Corp, but had a seperate email and network at the time.
Eaton used username@etn.com etc. Now with restructuring, they all use username@eaton.com But I still have business cards to prove prior art if needed!
The name Kano reminds me of a great oil with a strange motto:
Kano Kroil, the oil that creeps.
By Kano Labs a penetrating oil that I use for just about everything. It even quiets PS fans until you get a chance to buy a new fan.
How can the EU enforce either? Not FB or Trolling, just wondering how they can stop MS from doing business when they refuse to pay the fine. US can't enforce anything against MS and it had Federal Marshals that could have gone in with guns!
So honest answers to an honest question, lets not start a US-EU or a then/now shitfest.
Will the EU stop all retailers from handling MS if they refuse to pay? That would be a great prescedent, one I hope the US emulates.
Link direct to the site!
Why use Wikipedia as an authority? That is as bad as using Slashdot! A user modifiable dictionary... Nice idea untill the bored Script kiddie re-writes all of the entries that "offend" him.
Wikipedia is a nice experiment in sociology, but also a great example of revisionism in action! Just look up your favorite political figure for examples. The page revision histories of Bill Clinton and George Bush are lessons in revisionist history!
A constantly changing reference point is no reference at all!
It is simply ludicrous to assume that one admin, or even a team of them, is going to manually install patches to 50,000 workstations every couple months.
.profile will check for updates, MOTDs, actually anything you want it to do.
Funny, that you never heard of login scripts.
When the user logs in, a simple entry in their
If Linux gets to the critical mass where routine updates are needed, you test the patch in the lab. Then post it on an inhouse server. All the desktop login scripts have a line pointing to that server. That line runs an update if it exists on the server, if no update exists, it exits and the user never knows the difference.
If you are really cranky, you can have a cron job checking every 4 hours for updates, and not post them to the server until they are vetted. You don't even have to worry about the users logging in, it updates while they are at the bar!
But none of this prohibits the savvy user from updating his/her own machine, instead of waiting till the next cycle.
Where is the problem again?
Caution Religious Generalities below! Stop reading if easily offended, or devout anything!
;-)"---
---"Either way, claiming that Catholics are pagans is seriously messed up.
Not if you're a Lutheran Protestant...
Children always think their parents are demons! But they mature and become just like the 'rents they despise.
Religions are the same way. Each schism of Christianity demonizes the root church from which it split. Just as Christianity demonized Judism and the newest major religion, Islam demonizes both! BTW, Roman Catholicism demonized Coptic Christianity, from which it grew.
The only thing all churches have in common is the belief that they hold exclusive right to the One Truth.
The newest Christian sects believe that all the older ones are corrupt and they are the only true way.
Funny how this parallels human development where the youth believe that they posess all the knowledge and wisdom of the world, when in fact they are just crouching on the shoulders of giants.
Hmm I wonder what the profit margin on the average car is? Is it close to the 70-80% that Microsoft makes on Windows?
But I actually only paid $4700 for the car used. I never called Ford, but they transfered this update to me by name. They went out and checked the DMVs for lists of that year and model car. 120k miles on the beast and they put in suspension parts. But I can not transfer a software license for an OEM windows 2K that I deleted from the machine the moment I plugged it in. That OEM license is bound to the sticker on the machine, and the wording of the license prohibits me from selling or even giving the software to someone else.
Now the site licenses for MS Windows 98 went for a bit more than $100. Buying a single license of 98 for $100 or dumping $25000 for an unlimited license and then be told that you have no choice but to upgrade because MS wants more money is not good business, no matter what the scale of the purchase.
Having worked aerial surviellance back in the last century, I agree on the value of film. We routinely datalinked our Sidelooking Airborne Radar (SLAR) imagery to ground stations but were required many times to send copies of the in-plane film to the remote sites to validate what was recorded on the ground. This was to ensure that there were no coverage dropouts due to datalink issues or worse, additional data due to interference or jamming.
We used a dry silver film heat developed film to give a near real-time readout in the cockpit, and the ground station operators had the same cockpit equipment, just minus the radar controls.
We also used literally tons of Kodak 5 inch rolls of film for mosaic photo mapping, and 70mm film for panoramic forward and vertical shots. Sneaking peeks over the iron curtain were always a tense mission, but we had reasonable standoff capabilities with the 5inch camera.
It was geek heaven: guns and gadgets; fear and loathing from mere groundbased mortals, snobbery and FUD. A great way of life, and good training ground for a BOFH attitude.
The Last of the Mohawks
I have 98 on my second pc so I believe this relates pretty well:
My second car is a 94 Ford Tarus, built in 93, and the company has put out an incompatible upgrade every year since the model's release.
But I can still get oem parts, support and even factory recall notices on this car.
Ford got a lump sum from me 10 years ago, no support contract, and yet they mailed me a notice about a free "patch" for a "bug" 8 years after the model was released. I took this car to the local dealer, and they fixed a potential problem completely free. My particular car did not have the defective part, but they replaced a perfectly good part just in case.
Yes they tried to sell me on a new car, but they still make model specific parts for this car and older models.
By any chance are you using a Sandisk 256M USB ?
My Sandisk 256 seems to cause a Kernel panic in every distro I have tried it on, it panics Knoppix versions that run other thumb drives.
Downloading MDK Move now. Mandrake is a love-hate distro, very few people are neutral on it. Great for recent Windows converts. They had some issues in ver 8 that I disliked that were non issues in 9. Just personal quirks of mine with the install choices. But their default desktop seemed the best for making the window user comfortable. I hope this CD has the same quality feel.
I do dislike the club concept. If you want money, either ask for donations, or charge for the product. It reminds me too much of the old shareware, with nags hidden all over the site. Just charge for support, and high speed download access, and have slow mirrors for us leaches.
But Mandrakesoft needs to get their financial act together, drop the club paradigm for a real business model and get solvent! I'm not sure how their Corporate sales are doing, but corporate clubs reminds me of the cuntry club setting, something I would have a tough time selling to a PHB. Corporate support contracts can be sold, but not club memberships.
Some great programming minds in that company doing some interesting things with Linux. But they need to get a PHB to do the PHB-work for them, and let the geeks do the geek-work.
The Michigan law not only outlaws NAT, it outlaws Proxy servers, Firewalls, anything that hides or obfuscates the originating location of the traffic. If you only have one PC hooked to the cable abd use an appliance FW to protect it, you are violating the law, and have committed a felony.
It is a very poorly written law, I doubt if it would stand a test in court. But until someone with deep pockets or pro-bono lawyers challenges it in court, it stands and can be used for all sorts of mischief.
Last spring, I researched the Michigan laws for some legal courses I was taking. Their law is one of the most draconian ones in effect, and was ghost-written by the industry lobbyists. The Michigan Laws are being used as the blueprint for all the states without DMCA-style legislation on the books.
EFF has some info, but search around there is much more out there.
SuperDMCA
Ahhh Check your history. The first police forces WERE all private. There was no publicly funded police or state mandated police force untill well into the 1800s in the USA.
Maybe he was chanelling William Shatner when he wrote that.
He was probably, breathing heavily, from, the exertion, of a, LONG, exhausting, session of self-love.
Not that I would know about self-love. Even my hand goes to sleep on me!
It is interesting that back then all it took was a couple of guys with printing presses and a few with horses and a good oratory style to stir up a sufficient number of the population and start a revolution. This was over an outlandish tax rate of 10% to boot!
The Majority of the population of the colonies were not pro-revolution! The majority were either happy sheep or Torries. If memory serves me right the Torry population didn't all go to Canada either after the final outcome. A good portion of them hung around, grumbling; only to try and re-revolt in the war of 1812.
Now we have fat, dumb and happy sheep throughout the first world. What kind of government sponsored atrocities will it take to get the next batch of revolutionaries off their haunches?
I think we will see the slow constant erosion of rights till nothing is left.
Some fanatic once said something like Live free or die.
The Breakup of the Soviet Union was Post Nuclear..
You have to niave as hell to think that any government would nuke their own land. It is one thing to obliterate some far shore but quite another to destroy yourself to prove a point.
Even The Soviets in all their lunacy were stopped by the doctrine of Mutual Assured Distruction. Yet the New Russian Revolution came to pass, without the massive bloodshed of protracted fighting or the use of nukes.
That shocked most of the old Pentagon Hawks... USSR going out with a wimper, not a bang
Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
So you see those in "power" have no power over me,
for I am not anonymous nor am I a coward!
All producers are consumers. Or do you think the corporations just buy any raw material with out looking at price? Companies DO live in a free market. They do not magically pull their product out of the void. They use material and energy and services that they purchased just like you and I. Labor, energy, water, ore, wood, paint, whatever it takes to make their product they buy. No one just gives Intel sand, they have to buy it, refine it to get the silica, then purify the silicon from that. That all takes machinery, energy, labor, and it all costs money. They shop around for the best deals.
Someone made your PC. Inside, you can find a motherboard, RAM, Disk drives, all made by third parties. The only thing most PC Manufacturers create is the case badge. Everything they can outsource, is outsourced - to the supplier that provides the best price/quality ratio. That is why you will find different hard drives in the same run of a PC model - either supplier problems or a radically better deal came along.
At my previous gig, my telcom manager's main mission was to purchase the best services at the best price. We dealt primarily with AT&T, but also bought lines and redundant circuits from the other major carriers. For our local circuits, we went with redundant cheaper providers over the expensive reliable one. It saved a bundle, and with the redundancy, we never had downtime. I helped with the budget, and I must have missed that line for government subsidy, either that or it was balanced out by the campaign contributions.
Please post some of this info you have on subsidizing. I want to get in on some of that!
As long as I don't have to wear a funny reflective hat to qualify for the money.
I'm well regulated! I eat my bran flakes.
Everyone is a member of the militia. But to be well regulated you have to practice with your weapon, that part requires you to bear arms....
They own the phone lines too?
Cable is a monopoly, but if you can get DSL, you can get multiple ISPs to vie for you as a customer. Well maybe not fight over you, but at least you will have a choice of evils. If you can't get DSL yet, start asking for it. The squeaky wheel and all that.
Now I am stuck in the sticks with an ancient baby-bell who happens to own an ISP. My sDSL is reasonable, "unlimited", and reliable. It may be unlimited because I am on as a business customer; but honestly, they never mentioned usage, and I neverhad reason to ask.
My line is limited to 768 because of the distance from the DSLAM. But I get an honest 768 both ways, and a static IP. My neighbor has the telco vault right across the street from his house, and he is running nominal 768 but claims he peaks out at higher. Neither of us have AUP issues, no problems with bandwidth. I am constantly downloading ISOs of some *nix distro, I grabbed Solaris9 twice, since I was half asleep and DLed the 5 sparc CDs. After they were down, I read sparc in the filename, so I slurped the intel version. That was 6gb in one morning!
Not sure how my ISP treats the average user closer to civilization. I know their infrastructure is different for home users in town, they use PPOE and a multi ISP service called ConnectTime to manage their users. Total different subnets than us Country bumpkins. About three different ISPs offer DSL in town, all have different pricing, and all use ConnectTime to serve the network.
So do some research, and be an informed consumer, be a loud, cranky consumer. It is your money, make them earn it.
You always buy the most expensive item, or use the internet to find the highest price for any purchase? Or do you look for the lowest price?
So why should business be forced to pay a higher price for the same commodity item - labor?
You want cheap goods, but do not want to lose your high paying job. You can't have it both ways.
That is probably because you never drove the first mule.
1/4 ton capacity quad drive. Great for stringing communications line anywhere a jeep could not go. Some towed artillery line batteries would use them to "hump rounds" out to the guns, if the ammo could not be delivered up close via the gamma goats
As of 2000 there were a few running around the woods of Tennessee with roll-bars after they were phased out of the inventory at Ft Campbell.
I would not mind having one, however they are just a little lacking in the 5mph bumper crash tests, though.