Lastly, I posit that women do have a choice, when they choose sex without appropriate contraception. Don't mention rape, because rape cases can be dealt with separately.
It's their body. Why is it any of my business, unless I'm invited?
Lastly, I would present this solution to the abortion issue: A woman may have an abortion if at the time of conception, measures were taken to prevent conception by a government approved contraceptive device such as an IUD, except in cases of rape. Furthermore, such contraception will be made freely available to the public free of charge, by the government. Possibly including the distribution of the contraceptives in our public school system. (Notice I'm not a stock republican here)
You just lost the 'Moral Majority' right there when you advocate government-issue contraceptives. The 'MM' is totally against contraception as well as against abortion.
Anti-abortion laws were from a time when women were disenfranchised. They had zero control over their bodies, and prectically none over their own lives. For all intents and purposes, they were property of their husbands. This has changed. Welcome to the 21st Century. You expect women to go backwards in time? Not gonna happen.
But if they kill Linux, there's a pretty good chance that FreeBSD usage would explode "overnight".
Which would be a Good Thing for Microsoft. Remember the *BSD TCP/IP stack that they grabbed, modified, and dropped into Windows? A *BSD explosion would give them a lot more code to cherry pick off of. Why pay good money to innovate when you can just cherry pick? Code monkeys are cheaper than programmers.
You're forgetting that Novell includes a large body of existing code. All that would have to happen is for FSF to find a program that they own and that is in Novell, and then find an MS patent that might read upon it, and sue Novell for a license to that patent that is compliant with the GPL language. There goes GNU LIBC, GCC, etc., and Novell can't get along without them.
If any MS patent reads onto any GNU program, I'm sure the issue is already either under review or dealt with thanks to the SCO idiotfest. As for the FSF stopping Novell from using GNU software as long as there's no GPL violations, well, that can't happen under the GPL.
Right about now, though, I'm DAMNED glad Linux isn't under the BSD license.
Novell distributes Linux. The GPL is very clear that they aren't allowed to have an agreement like this and still distribute software under the GPL. Essentially, any holder of GPL software in Novell's distribution can sue Novell for breaking their license, unless Novell extends the same patent protection to everyone.
Sure they're allowed to have an agreement liek this. As long as none of Microsoft's code or patented IP shows up in SUSE, there's no GPL violation. If that code does show up, it won't be GPL-able, and Novell won't be under obligation to share the code. Thing is, it'll have to come in clean-room style. And who knows who'll actually own the code at the end of the 5 year agreement.
Everyone knows Iraq didn't have WMDs and wasn't developing WMDs.
The alternate theory is that we knew they DID have WMDs at one point, because we sold them to them, and we don't know what they did with them. It certainly doesn't appear that they have them now.
Yeah, makes sense. Kilo for kilo, a WMD would be worth a LOT more than oil. I could see Saddam smuggling WMDs out & selling them on a street corner for more than his smuggled oil got him. Gotta pay off the politicians, right?
Wow. Why would the officials bother to mention that?
Because it's very easy to get your hands on low-grade nuclear material, wrap it around a conventional explosive, and create a "dirty bomb" that will throw a bunch of nuclear crap around and render the neighborhood effectively uninhabitable until it can be cleaned up. Do it in the rain and that might require digging up tons and tons of dirt and hauling it off, etc etc.
Um, you mean the Dutch. One of my old roomies lived in the Netherlands for several years and swore by it. As for myself, I swore AT him. Good riddance.
I certainly do not have any confidence in our courts. Do you really want Osama to get off on a technicality?
He already has a standing conviction from the 1993 WTC bombing. Even if he somehow manages to beat the 911 specific charges, he still goes to jail forever and ever and ever, amen.
Reauthorized means, passed through congress again.:P I think it's significant that congress was dumb enough to let it get by again without more of a fuss. But then, i suppose this isn't a subject that anybody could raise without getting tarred and feathered.
They weren't stupid, they were trying to hold onto their jobs. Vote against PATRIOT Act and in the next election, your opposition will campaign on it because you obviously 'are against keeping us SAFE', and in some cases 'want the terrists to WIN'.
Remember how they got the Federal ID law passed? They tailgated it on the back end of an appropriation bill reputedly to supply body armor to the troops in Iraq. You couldn't vote against the rider without voting for the appropriation. Would YOU want to face re-election when the opposition says 'Hey, he voted AGAINST body armor for our troops!!!'?
What really needs to happen is stopping the practice of putting riders on bills at the last minute. You can submarine all KINDS of nasty shit with the current system. Problem is, I don't see this happening. Ever.
You make an excellent point. At one time I was really gung-ho about the "upgrade process", when I was using Red Hat 4.2-7.3 and I'd happily run the update install overnight.
Later, I found that if I properly managed my partitions, it was much faster to re-install and then integrate my user accounts/data with the new install.
I used to think fresh installs were the way to go myself after waiting 9+ hours for Mandrake to upgrade from disk. My FC4 to FC5 upgrade went in about an hour & a half, didn't hose things TOO badly, only took a couple hours to update my special 3rd party apps. On a fresh install, it still takes a couple days to fix said special 3rd party apps.
FWIW, from what I've heard of FC6, I'm thinking of giving up on FC entirely and going to Ubuntu.
I tried installing Edgy on my 'settop machine' - old 600 MHz Via mini-itx machine with 512 megs of ram. Install died the real death under the regular 'install' and safemode install.
I hosed the disk to start over, put Dapper on it, no problems. Changed all the reops in/etc/apt/sources.list to edgy, did:
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
Updated ok, rebooted. X died the real death. Poked around on the boards, did the recommended 'sudo apt-get -f install', no joy. Poked around a bit more, found 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' which did the trick.
Edgy looks interesting. And now I know how to do it the 'right way', updating my Thinkpad will be a snap. It'll take a few hours, but it'll be a snap...
... First, Bush gets slammed because he didn't take over the various state National Guard units right off the bat after Katrina (after being refused authority by the Louisiana governor, which was her right to refuse). Now he signs a law that will let him do that and he gets slammed. WTF?
The problem isn't that it allows a President (not necessarily Bush) to send in the troops in case of natural disaster, it ALSO allows said President to send in the troops if he thinks there's massive insurrection going on. Say, if a state decides to tell the Feds to go screw themselves on an issue. It allows said President to overrule said Governor. This is NOT a Good Thing.
Think there's any politicking going on here?
Yup.
With this new law allowing suspension of posse comitatus and the earlier legislation allowing an expanded role of the military inside the continental US, all they need now is a repeal of the 22nd Amendment for a clean sweep. And they've been working on killing the 22nd for a long time now. Funny how, under a Democratic president, repealing the 22nd was seen as 'evil' by the Republicans, but now that one of their own is in the Big Chair, it's suddenly a Great Idea...
And so it happened that Bush signed an evil law without any assistance from an inept Congress.
Bzzt. Incorrect. But thank you for playing our game.
In order for that law to even get to his desk, it had to pass through Congress. BOTH House and Senate. Bush may have pulled the trigger, but Congress loaded the gun and handed it to him.
States and localities could request military assistance already. Governor Bianco invoked the Stafford Act on August 27, and Mayor Nagin less formally said "We need troops, man!".
Yup, they can. However, this bill is about the President overriding the politician on the scene in calling in the troops.
Scenario (old version of the MCA):
President: You need federal troops to help contain those Girl Scouts gone wild.
Governor: Nope, we're doing just fine here, thanks for offering, though.
President: (grumble) All right then, but don't expect any help in the next election.
Governor: Dude, you're not in my Party!! (hangs up)
Scenario (new version):
President: You need federal troops to help contain those Girl Scouts gone wild.
Governor: Nope, we're doing just fine here, thanks for offering, though.
President: Screw you, you're getting them anyways. Clear your runways, the transports will be landing in 20 minutes.
Governor: But we really don't need them! Honest!
President: They'll be arresting you when they get there for interfering with a Federal operation. Congratulations, you're no longer . governor, since the law states you can't hold office as a convicted criminal.
Governor: (whimper)
Congresscritters are elected for 2 year terms. This is an election year. The election is less than 2 weeks away. This is his chance to get in the papers for some free publicity to get re-elected. It makes him look like he's 'doing something' without doing something.
The simple answer is that Republicans were for smaller government because they were the minority party. A smaller federal government would give them and their constituency more power on the local level. Now that they control the entire federal government, they see that it is at the federal level where it is most efficient to advance their agenda.
Actually, the Republican platform of smaller government was due more to the percieved 'common wisdom' that the Democrats never saw a social program they didn't like, complete with entrenched bureacracy and ever increasing budget items. At the time, conservatives thought very highly of self-reliance, and reacted with horror to 'entitlements'. They also knew that the less government you had, the less it cost to run it, which meant a lighter tax load. The Democrats loved to point at the new entitlements and say, 'See? See? We WILL take care of YOU, vote for us!' Course, they never bothered to mention that our grandkids will end up paying 200x what it cost us for the same 'entitlements'.
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It's their body. Why is it any of my business, unless I'm invited?
You just lost the 'Moral Majority' right there when you advocate government-issue contraceptives. The 'MM' is totally against contraception as well as against abortion.
Anti-abortion laws were from a time when women were disenfranchised. They had zero control over their bodies, and prectically none over their own lives. For all intents and purposes, they were property of their husbands. This has changed. Welcome to the 21st Century. You expect women to go backwards in time? Not gonna happen.
Which would be a Good Thing for Microsoft. Remember the *BSD TCP/IP stack that they grabbed, modified, and dropped into Windows? A *BSD explosion would give them a lot more code to cherry pick off of. Why pay good money to innovate when you can just cherry pick? Code monkeys are cheaper than programmers.
Yeah, they definitely needed a new horse to ride. SCO was getting way too tired...
If any MS patent reads onto any GNU program, I'm sure the issue is already either under review or dealt with thanks to the SCO idiotfest. As for the FSF stopping Novell from using GNU software as long as there's no GPL violations, well, that can't happen under the GPL.
Right about now, though, I'm DAMNED glad Linux isn't under the BSD license.
Sure they're allowed to have an agreement liek this. As long as none of Microsoft's code or patented IP shows up in SUSE, there's no GPL violation. If that code does show up, it won't be GPL-able, and Novell won't be under obligation to share the code. Thing is, it'll have to come in clean-room style. And who knows who'll actually own the code at the end of the 5 year agreement.
Strange, I distinctly remember seeing Colin Powell's address to the UN showing them 'hard evidence' of WMDs just before the invasion.
Yeah, makes sense. Kilo for kilo, a WMD would be worth a LOT more than oil. I could see Saddam smuggling WMDs out & selling them on a street corner for more than his smuggled oil got him. Gotta pay off the politicians, right?
It hasn't hit the bittorrent sites yet. >grin
Only if she takes Paris Hilton with her.
That's only if you wanna blow it apart. If you wanna restart the core, you got to get to the core. Oh, and have Hillary Swank with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_bomb
Looks to me like it'd be a waste of time other than the fact that it makes the government spend money cleaning it up.
Um, you mean the Dutch. One of my old roomies lived in the Netherlands for several years and swore by it. As for myself, I swore AT him. Good riddance.
He already has a standing conviction from the 1993 WTC bombing. Even if he somehow manages to beat the 911 specific charges, he still goes to jail forever and ever and ever, amen.
Oh, and they did that without the PATRIOT act.
They weren't stupid, they were trying to hold onto their jobs. Vote against PATRIOT Act and in the next election, your opposition will campaign on it because you obviously 'are against keeping us SAFE', and in some cases 'want the terrists to WIN'.
Remember how they got the Federal ID law passed? They tailgated it on the back end of an appropriation bill reputedly to supply body armor to the troops in Iraq. You couldn't vote against the rider without voting for the appropriation. Would YOU want to face re-election when the opposition says 'Hey, he voted AGAINST body armor for our troops!!!'?
What really needs to happen is stopping the practice of putting riders on bills at the last minute. You can submarine all KINDS of nasty shit with the current system. Problem is, I don't see this happening. Ever.
Do these jeans make my ass look fat???
I used to think fresh installs were the way to go myself after waiting 9+ hours for Mandrake to upgrade from disk. My FC4 to FC5 upgrade went in about an hour & a half, didn't hose things TOO badly, only took a couple hours to update my special 3rd party apps. On a fresh install, it still takes a couple days to fix said special 3rd party apps.
FWIW, from what I've heard of FC6, I'm thinking of giving up on FC entirely and going to Ubuntu.
I hosed the disk to start over, put Dapper on it, no problems. Changed all the reops in /etc/apt/sources.list to edgy, did:
sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
Updated ok, rebooted. X died the real death. Poked around on the boards, did the recommended 'sudo apt-get -f install', no joy. Poked around a bit more, found 'sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop' which did the trick.
Edgy looks interesting. And now I know how to do it the 'right way', updating my Thinkpad will be a snap. It'll take a few hours, but it'll be a snap...
The problem isn't that it allows a President (not necessarily Bush) to send in the troops in case of natural disaster, it ALSO allows said President to send in the troops if he thinks there's massive insurrection going on. Say, if a state decides to tell the Feds to go screw themselves on an issue. It allows said President to overrule said Governor. This is NOT a Good Thing.
Yup.
With this new law allowing suspension of posse comitatus and the earlier legislation allowing an expanded role of the military inside the continental US, all they need now is a repeal of the 22nd Amendment for a clean sweep. And they've been working on killing the 22nd for a long time now. Funny how, under a Democratic president, repealing the 22nd was seen as 'evil' by the Republicans, but now that one of their own is in the Big Chair, it's suddenly a Great Idea...
Bzzt. Incorrect. But thank you for playing our game.
In order for that law to even get to his desk, it had to pass through Congress. BOTH House and Senate. Bush may have pulled the trigger, but Congress loaded the gun and handed it to him.
Remember that on Election Day.
Yup, they can. However, this bill is about the President overriding the politician on the scene in calling in the troops.
Scenario (old version of the MCA):
President: You need federal troops to help contain those Girl Scouts gone wild.
Governor: Nope, we're doing just fine here, thanks for offering, though.
President: (grumble) All right then, but don't expect any help in the next election.
Governor: Dude, you're not in my Party!! (hangs up)
Scenario (new version):
President: You need federal troops to help contain those Girl Scouts gone wild.
Governor: Nope, we're doing just fine here, thanks for offering, though.
President: Screw you, you're getting them anyways. Clear your runways, the transports will be landing in 20 minutes.
Governor: But we really don't need them! Honest!
President: They'll be arresting you when they get there for interfering with a Federal operation. Congratulations, you're no longer
. governor, since the law states you can't hold office as a convicted criminal.
Governor: (whimper)
Any questions?
Did he float on the water? No? Sorry, just a misidentification there. Our bad...
He's new here. :D
Congresscritters are elected for 2 year terms. This is an election year. The election is less than 2 weeks away. This is his chance to get in the papers for some free publicity to get re-elected. It makes him look like he's 'doing something' without doing something.
I'll save you both a spot in the chow line at Gitmo.
Actually, the Republican platform of smaller government was due more to the percieved 'common wisdom' that the Democrats never saw a social program they didn't like, complete with entrenched bureacracy and ever increasing budget items. At the time, conservatives thought very highly of self-reliance, and reacted with horror to 'entitlements'. They also knew that the less government you had, the less it cost to run it, which meant a lighter tax load. The Democrats loved to point at the new entitlements and say, 'See? See? We WILL take care of YOU, vote for us!' Course, they never bothered to mention that our grandkids will end up paying 200x what it cost us for the same 'entitlements'.