I agree, I'd like to see them go, but you've got to tell the motherboard makers to give us another route to flash our BIOSes. Especially for those of us who do not run any sort of MS Windows. I still have to keep a win98 boot floppy around just for this purpose.
How about here and here ? Ok, Linux is on the Thunder MB where Win2k is on a Tiger. Then there is this and this . Those are identical hardware, except the number of clients is different.
All the Redhats after 7.0 (or 7.1?) set up a firewall by default. And keeping on top of security is easy with up2date, red-carpet or apt-rpm (my personal favorite). The easiest firewall script I've found so far is pmfirewall (http://www.pointman.org). It is nice because it is tiny and simple. The only issue is that it is kind of out of date, e.g., it uses ipchains instead of iptables. Yes, it is a command line program, but it is a very friendly one. I wish they'd update it.
It is perfectly legal to burn a flag in political protest in the U.S. Burning a flag is an extreme form of political speech which is the most protected form of speech under the 1st Amendment. I think it was Justice Brennan who said in the Texas vs. Johnson ruling "We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its descration, for in doing so we take away from what this cherished emblem represents..." Of course there are the nutters in Congress who "want to get the patriotic fire burning in their bellies [and make this illegal]" (that was one of the actual "arguments" by one of the enemies of freedom). More and more, I am afraid what was given to us by giants is slowly being nibbled away by midgets.
I think it might even be legitimate. All you have to do is show this to your girlfriend (or boyfriend if you are that way). I think it is originally an article from the Boston Globe.
I recently joined a gym that constantly plays what I am guessing is currently popular music (or perhaps what the RIAA would like to ram down our throats). If this is the case, then I would say they're suffering because the music plainly sucks. It all sounds the same, the videos look the same and there is hardly a distinction to be made between songs. It is what I call McMusic. It generally consists of a constant thumping synthesized base drum and not much else in the way of instrumentation and the lyrics are never about anything more imaginitive than about who she wants to fuck or who has fucked her and dumped her or some other relationship psychodrama. On some "songs" they sample other songs that weren't even good when they were popular. I would be happy to NEVER hear "Jack and Diane" again but some idiot thought it would be a great idea to sample the fist few chords and make a sappy, crappy, syrupy love song out of it. Then there's another idiot that ripped off the theme for "The Young and the Restless" that is pure torture to listen to. Perhaps the worst of all though is the one where they've taken the main theme from Pachelbel's Cannon in D minor and put another set of sappy lyrics to it. I mean, am I the only one who thinks Brittany Spears' voice sounds a lot like an infant crying? It's awful. What happened to real music that is interesting to listen to? Where thought and inventiveness of the music can take the listener to places they've not been yet? I can only name a few recent bands that are entertaining to listen to. I am hard pressed to name any that I think are truly musical pioneers. Probably anyone who is doing great things musically either doesn't look like a model and can't dance like N'Sync so the music industry doesn't want them.
Here's your chance to talk to Jack and tell him what you think in person. He is coming on the Diane Rehm show on NPR *now* in Wash. DC. Phone: 800-443-8850
I am no expert in this area, but from what I understand, if the GM corn cross-pollinates with their native corn, the seeds become sterile and useless. I think there are more reprecussions as well, but I do not remember what they are.
I will not dispute that this guy is a self-serving idiot though...
Yeah, and this policy is acutally one factor in causing Zimbabwe's people to starve. Most of the large farms there were owned by whites and when the squatters took them over, the farming that would've been taking place there tended to cease. This coupled with a severe drought is threatening to cause a huge humanitarian disaster there. He also refused a large shipment of corn (a main staple there) from the US because they could not tell him if the corn was genetically modified. While this may seem foolhardy to some, he may actually have a point. If it were to get planted, it could potentially ruin a lot of other crops (thanks to the likes of a company that even make Microsoft look good: Monsanto).
I remember somewhere around RedHat 6.1 (I think), one of the languages you could select during the install was Redneck. They've since rid their install of this option. I kind of liked it. Perhaps Lindows should "borrow" this feature given their current clientelle.
Never underestimate the power of human greed. The police do this sort of thing all the time to capture fugitives. It seems to me that people who are in this category of those who steal would be generally even more suseptible to this sort of ruse, so I imagine it'd be effective. As another example, one only needs to remember that Nigerian diamond mine scam that was making the rounds in email. It netted so many suckers that the Nigerian gov't had to construct new laws to react to the problem (IIRC).
Sorry, I am a moron. From the pages: --- Midrash: one of the classical collections of the Sages' homiletical teachings on the Torah, on the non-literal level of derush. Midrash * --- Heb. - midras, "to seek, examine, investigate" *
Refers both to a method of exposition and application of the Torah as well as a collection of these expositions and applications. *
Ezra practiced this style b/c of his efforts to study and apply the Torah *
Haggadah midras - interpreted non-legal materials in an ethical and expository style; a distillation of principles from the Torah. *
Halakah midras - applied the general principles of OT laws to specific situations; an application of the Torah in a kind of 'case law' format. *
Midrash material was preserved orally for a long time *
AD 100's the halakic midrashim were written down *
Mekilta - treatise to Exodus *
Sifra - treatise to Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy *
AD 200's the haggadic midrashim were written down *
Treatise on Genesis followed later by Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy as well as the Megilloth *
These were known as the Midrash Rabbah --- Ok, so I am apparently making stuff up:) One day, I will learn how to spell. And do not think I was saying it is *all* metaphor, just that a strictly literal interpretation is incorrect.
"The Bible isn't just a history book. It's a means to eternal salvation...."
That's a strong assertion. Prove it. Or at least let's hear a strong plausibility argument. I was raised Jewish. I understand Jewish traditions. It is *our* book, after all. Where is the credibility in your claim?
Jews wrote the old testament. The four gospels were also written by people who were effectively Jews, but were kicked out of the temples in 70AD when the Romans sacked Jerusalem. What you are not understanding about Jews is that all of these texts were written in the Mishradic tradition, which is to say that they are in no way meant to be taken as a literal, subjective history, but are metaphors. When a Jew reads the bible, the meaning and interpretation of the story is what is important. Not what it says literally. In fact, one could argue that the Romans caused this unforunate literal interpretation you hold because when they kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem, the orthodoxy feared it would loose its culture without a homeland, so it kicked out of the temple the early Christians who they were previously tolerating (who were known as "Followers of the Way") in fear of change. This left these early Christians to either die off, or to begin actively proselytizing the gentile population. These gentiles now had no understanding of Mishradic tradition and so they began reading the bible in a literal fashion. So, in a nutshell, this is why you are not understanding why he is saying what he is saying.
So what if he does? I remember when I was six, my older cousin showed me this huge stack of Penthouse magazine he had. I picked one up and thumbed through it. I did note that there were a lot of naked women in it, but I didn't care. It bored me completely. So we went and played basketball. No emotional scars. No trauma. Nothing. Now maybe if I'd seen them a 13, then I'd care:) By that age though, I had my own stack of Penthouse and Hustlers.
"Look at Covad or the 100's of other isp's that jumped on the Broadband bandwagon and now are no longer around."
Covad's still there. Northpoint and Rhythm are gone. I hope they hang in there since Verizon and Cox Cable (at least in my neighborhood) suck royally. I pay $52.00/month for 608/128 and I'm happy to do it since I get physically ill when I happen to hear a modem handshake from years of connecting at 24,600b/s.
"The anti-religion bias in the US is staggering sometimes."
If anything there is a bias against the nontheist in this country. How do you think I feel as an agnostic when "our" president proclaims "a national day of prayer?" So many times when the religious types find out I am not so, they often tell me they will "pray for me" (as if I was deficient) or even actively proselytize me. Only approximately 14% of this country is nonreligious. Most of those in powerful political positions do not fall into this category. Can you think of a single, self-professed atheist or agnostic in Congress? I can't. I can name *a lot* of them who will gladly and loudly proclaim their faith in God though. It is only because of the wisdom of our founding fathers that specifically protected the freedom of and from religion in the US Constitution to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority that I can live in this country without fear of undergoing a religious inquisition.
But OpenOffice is a *free* download. So they just put that on their computer at home along with MS Office or even instead of MS Office. MS Office is not, in my opinion, $400US better than OpenOffice anyway. See
I do not wish to start a flame war or anything like that, but following the logic above, maybe these radical pro-lifers should also kill any women that are taking the birth control pill. The pill does not prevent the egg from becoming fertilized, but works by disallowing it to attach to the uterine wall, so is this basically a non-surgical abortion. I do respect the pro-life opinion, but this is a bit of a slippery slope.
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I agree, I'd like to see them go, but you've got to tell the motherboard makers to give us another route to flash our BIOSes. Especially for those of us who do not run any sort of MS Windows. I still have to keep a win98 boot floppy around just for this purpose.
How about here and here ? Ok, Linux is on the Thunder MB where Win2k is on a Tiger. Then there is this and this . Those are identical hardware, except the number of clients is different.
All the Redhats after 7.0 (or 7.1?) set up a firewall by default. And keeping on top of security is easy with up2date, red-carpet or apt-rpm (my personal favorite). The easiest firewall script I've found so far is pmfirewall (http://www.pointman.org). It is nice because it is tiny and simple. The only issue is that it is kind of out of date, e.g., it uses ipchains instead of iptables. Yes, it is a command line program, but it is a very friendly one. I wish they'd update it.
It is perfectly legal to burn a flag in political protest in the U.S. Burning a flag is an extreme form of political speech which is the most protected form of speech under the 1st Amendment. I think it was Justice Brennan who said in the Texas vs. Johnson ruling "We do not consecrate the flag by punishing its descration, for in doing so we take away from what this cherished emblem represents..." Of course there are the nutters in Congress who "want to get the patriotic fire burning in their bellies [and make this illegal]" (that was one of the actual "arguments" by one of the enemies of freedom). More and more, I am afraid what was given to us by giants is slowly being nibbled away by midgets.
I think it might even be legitimate. All you have to do is show this to your girlfriend (or boyfriend if you are that way). I think it is originally an article from the Boston Globe.
It does have a safe more: Runlevel 1 (single user mode).
I recently joined a gym that constantly plays what I am guessing is currently popular music (or perhaps what the RIAA would like to ram down our throats). If this is the case, then I would say they're suffering because the music plainly sucks. It all sounds the same, the videos look the same and there is hardly a distinction to be made between songs. It is what I call McMusic. It generally consists of a constant thumping synthesized base drum and not much else in the way of instrumentation and the lyrics are never about anything more imaginitive than about who she wants to fuck or who has fucked her and dumped her or some other relationship psychodrama. On some "songs" they sample other songs that weren't even good when they were popular. I would be happy to NEVER hear "Jack and Diane" again but some idiot thought it would be a great idea to sample the fist few chords and make a sappy, crappy, syrupy love song out of it. Then there's another idiot that ripped off the theme for "The Young and the Restless" that is pure torture to listen to. Perhaps the worst of all though is the one where they've taken the main theme from Pachelbel's Cannon in D minor and put another set of sappy lyrics to it. I mean, am I the only one who thinks Brittany Spears' voice sounds a lot like an infant crying? It's awful. What happened to real music that is interesting to listen to? Where thought and inventiveness of the music can take the listener to places they've not been yet? I can only name a few recent bands that are entertaining to listen to. I am hard pressed to name any that I think are truly musical pioneers. Probably anyone who is doing great things musically either doesn't look like a model and can't dance like N'Sync so the music industry doesn't want them.
Here's your chance to talk to Jack and tell him what you think in person. He is coming on the Diane Rehm show on NPR *now* in Wash. DC. Phone: 800-443-8850
I am no expert in this area, but from what I understand, if the GM corn cross-pollinates with their native corn, the seeds become sterile and useless. I think there are more reprecussions as well, but I do not remember what they are.
I will not dispute that this guy is a self-serving idiot though...
Yeah, and this policy is acutally one factor in causing Zimbabwe's people to starve. Most of the large farms there were owned by whites and when the squatters took them over, the farming that would've been taking place there tended to cease. This coupled with a severe drought is threatening to cause a huge humanitarian disaster there. He also refused a large shipment of corn (a main staple there) from the US because they could not tell him if the corn was genetically modified. While this may seem foolhardy to some, he may actually have a point. If it were to get planted, it could potentially ruin a lot of other crops (thanks to the likes of a company that even make Microsoft look good: Monsanto).
I remember somewhere around RedHat 6.1 (I think), one of the languages you could select during the install was Redneck. They've since rid their install of this option. I kind of liked it. Perhaps Lindows should "borrow" this feature given their current clientelle.
Never underestimate the power of human greed. The police do this sort of thing all the time to capture fugitives. It seems to me that people who are in this category of those who steal would be generally even more suseptible to this sort of ruse, so I imagine it'd be effective. As another example, one only needs to remember that Nigerian diamond mine scam that was making the rounds in email. It netted so many suckers that the Nigerian gov't had to construct new laws to react to the problem (IIRC).
Sorry, I am a moron. From the pages:
:) One day, I will learn how to spell. And do not think I was saying it is *all* metaphor, just that a strictly literal interpretation is incorrect.
---
Midrash: one of the classical collections of the Sages' homiletical teachings on the Torah, on the non-literal level of derush.
Midrash *
---
Heb. - midras, "to seek, examine, investigate" *
Refers both to a method of exposition and application of the Torah as well as a collection of these expositions and applications. *
Ezra practiced this style b/c of his efforts to study and apply the Torah *
Haggadah midras - interpreted non-legal materials in an ethical and expository style; a distillation of principles from the Torah. *
Halakah midras - applied the general principles of OT laws to specific situations; an application of the Torah in a kind of 'case law' format. *
Midrash material was preserved orally for a long time *
AD 100's the halakic midrashim were written down *
Mekilta - treatise to Exodus *
Sifra - treatise to Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy *
AD 200's the haggadic midrashim were written down *
Treatise on Genesis followed later by Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy as well as the Megilloth *
These were known as the Midrash Rabbah
---
Ok, so I am apparently making stuff up
Do you even know what Mishrad is? Here's a link:
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http://www.xenos.org/classes/papers/ancscrip.ht
http://www.sichosinenglish.org/general/glossary
I was raised Jewish, I am not just making this stuff up.
Doh! I meant it is not a literal, objective history. I really should use preview.
"The Bible isn't just a history book. It's a means to eternal salvation...."
That's a strong assertion. Prove it. Or at least let's hear a strong plausibility argument. I was raised Jewish. I understand Jewish traditions. It is *our* book, after all. Where is the credibility in your claim?
Jews wrote the old testament. The four gospels were also written by people who were effectively Jews, but were kicked out of the temples in 70AD when the Romans sacked Jerusalem. What you are not understanding about Jews is that all of these texts were written in the Mishradic tradition, which is to say that they are in no way meant to be taken as a literal, subjective history, but are metaphors. When a Jew reads the bible, the meaning and interpretation of the story is what is important. Not what it says literally. In fact, one could argue that the Romans caused this unforunate literal interpretation you hold because when they kicked the Jews out of Jerusalem, the orthodoxy feared it would loose its culture without a homeland, so it kicked out of the temple the early Christians who they were previously tolerating (who were known as "Followers of the Way") in fear of change. This left these early Christians to either die off, or to begin actively proselytizing the gentile population. These gentiles now had no understanding of Mishradic tradition and so they began reading the bible in a literal fashion. So, in a nutshell, this is why you are not understanding why he is saying what he is saying.
Thanks for one of the best posts ever.
We're dumb all over; a little ugly on the side.
So what if he does? I remember when I was six, my older cousin showed me this huge stack of Penthouse magazine he had. I picked one up and thumbed through it. I did note that there were a lot of naked women in it, but I didn't care. It bored me completely. So we went and played basketball. No emotional scars. No trauma. Nothing. Now maybe if I'd seen them a 13, then I'd care :) By that age though, I had my own stack of Penthouse and Hustlers.
"Look at Covad or the 100's of other isp's that jumped on the Broadband bandwagon and now are no longer around."
Covad's still there. Northpoint and Rhythm are gone. I hope they hang in there since Verizon and Cox Cable (at least in my neighborhood) suck royally. I pay $52.00/month for 608/128 and I'm happy to do it since I get physically ill when I happen to hear a modem handshake from years of connecting at 24,600b/s.
"The anti-religion bias in the US is staggering sometimes."
If anything there is a bias against the nontheist in this country. How do you think I feel as an agnostic when "our" president proclaims "a national day of prayer?" So many times when the religious types find out I am not so, they often tell me they will "pray for me" (as if I was deficient) or even actively proselytize me. Only approximately 14% of this country is nonreligious. Most of those in powerful political positions do not fall into this category. Can you think of a single, self-professed atheist or agnostic in Congress? I can't. I can name *a lot* of them who will gladly and loudly proclaim their faith in God though. It is only because of the wisdom of our founding fathers that specifically protected the freedom of and from religion in the US Constitution to protect the minority from the tyranny of the majority that I can live in this country without fear of undergoing a religious inquisition.
One of the things that really sucks if they are able to squelch the competition is that:
a) the Bell's TOS typically sucks. Especially compared to ISP's like Speakeasy and Megapath. E.g., they do not allow you to run servers.
b) Their service (at least for me with Verizon) is always battling for 2nd worst ISP* with AOL according to this:
http://www.dslreports.com/gbu
*MSN is *always* the worst rated.
But OpenOffice is a *free* download. So they just put that on their computer at home along with MS Office or even instead of MS Office. MS Office is not, in my opinion, $400US better than OpenOffice anyway. See
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42
I do not wish to start a flame war or anything like that, but following the logic above, maybe these radical pro-lifers should also kill any women that are taking the birth control pill. The pill does not prevent the egg from becoming fertilized, but works by disallowing it to attach to the uterine wall, so is this basically a non-surgical abortion. I do respect the pro-life opinion, but this is a bit of a slippery slope.