It's a matter of time before there's a Survivor: International Space Station, where the losers get flung out of the hatch and make their own way back by hitching a ride on the next Soyuz.
Can they rig it so the cast is made up of politicians, and no resupply missions? Howbout if they make the cast eat the ones voted off? Raw, of course, until they can rig a solar powered grill...
Yeah... I was definitely using Linux in 2001. I've never had blue hair, or a pony-tail. Does that make me wierd?:-) I guess all of us Open Source zealots are really just copying Microsoft (as usual). Heck, we've even gone and ripped-off a licensing method that they clearly originated. Big old Linus is beating-up poor little Billy and stealing his lunch money!
I've had the ponytail for decades. The beard too. And I'm blonde, not blue-haired. I've been using Linux since before RedHat 3.0.3, starting with SLS, before moving to RH. That's what, 7, 8 years? And while 98Se had a spot on my hard drive for a good long while, I dumped it 3 years ago, with some distro of Linux on my desktop.
Except that breaks having a single-cd installer, one of the fundamentals of Ubuntu, and it's something they'll hold on to for as long as possible.
Now what they might do is use free space on the live-cd as storage for any KDE packages they can't fit on the main installer CD.
I like the 'base install from a single CD & update over the net' model that Ubuntu picked up off Debian. I installed Ubuntu from the CD I got with a copy of Linux Format, then updated it with apt-get, one of the BEST tools they ever came up with for Debian. Smoother than snot on teflon. I even got the Kubuntu packages as well. Course, I've been using apt ever since it came out for RedHat/RPM, but the upgrade to Breezy was a world of difference smoother than upgrading FC.
Clinton was impeached. But for doing perjury, we should have gone after reagan. He obvioulsy lied about not knowing about any of the scandels, in particular, the deal that was cut with Iran on the prisoners, as well as the iran-Contra affair. But we had just had Watergate, so congress was not willing to persue it.
Reagan probably lied. However, it wasn't under oath. And Ollie North didn't get a tenth of what he had coming to him. Reagan was so obviously a meat puppet it wasn't funny.
Kenneth Starr's successor, Robert Ray, released a report in September of 2000 that stated "This office determined that the evidence was insufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that either President or Mrs. Clinton knowingly participated in any criminal conduct." Ray's report effectively ended the Whitewater investigation.
No, it's not the last five years. It's the last twenty. The press has gotten gradually worse, more corrupt and more right-wing over time. There was only one legit Clinton scandal, Monica. Whitewater was made up by the wingnuts:
The Starr investigation was shut down for lack of evidence, evidence that the Clinton Whitehouse stonewalled about having in the first place, and refusing to co-operate with what Hillary called a 'witch hunt', claiming that the investigation was the result of Republican pressure to do 'something' to derail the second term. Interestingly enough, I remember reading about a box of evidence mysteriously appearing in a well-travelled hallway in the White House after the investigation closed. Nobody knew where it came from, and from what I gather, nobody's seen it since.
So the Clintons made a killing in Whitewater. So what? Nobody could prove anything one way or another (that pesky lack of evidence thing). When you go into a courtroom, it's not what you know or what you think you know that counts, it's what you can PROVE. And by THAT definition, Clinton should have been impeached for perjury. The use of the office of the president to evade prosecution isn't illegal per se, as far as I know (IANAL, but I gotta deal with 'em every day...), but it is against the best interests of the office. It cheapens it, and if allowed to happen (like it did), it means precident is set. Ignore the cries on both sides of the political fence as to whether or not Clinton abused his office as governor, the fact that he lied under oath makes it perjury. That makes it an impeachable offense.
> You like to draw parallells with criminals and cash?
No, bankers and criminals, it looks like.
Like there's a difference?
The United States has less than 5% of the world's population, yet the per capita rate of having done time in prison in the US is one in 50. IIRC, the current figure is something like 20% of the world prison population is here in the US.
"well sir, the car you just purchased has no doors, no tires to speak of, no airbags, nothing you can call a seat, no radio, missing bumpers and a horrible AC package.....but i got good news."
I haven't updated it yet (got some stuff running ATM under Fedora I wanna get finished first), but Ubuntu's one of the 4 distros on this machine (Yoper, FC4 & RH9 are the others). And I totally agree, apt and Synaptic are GREAT. I use apt for 99% of my FC4 updates, though I haven't tried to do a dist-update with it (too much weirdness on that partition).
I'll schedule a cron job tonite to do the update when nobody else is on the LAN. (grin)
Think of it more as a factory recall kind of thing.
Amalgamated Motors puts a badly designed front wheel drive on their premier car. This front end is found to fall off under certain conditions, usually with serious injuries and deaths resulting. The plaintiffs in the class action suit argue that Amalgamated Motors must replace the front ends of that model car at their expense. The defendants argue that only the front ends that actually caused damage need to be replaced, and that any potential victim of the design flaw has no grounds to sue.
What happened in the aforementioned case was, since no 'front ends fell off the car in most cases', the entire class action was ruled out.
I never was able to stay awake thru the whole movie. As some of my buddies remarked, it was 5 minutes of rip-roaring action jam-packed into 2+ hrs of movie.
Nonononononono.
You remodulate the deflector dish to generate an inverse tachyon pulse, you'll be up to your ass in Borg in a minute. Not a bad 'rescue plan' if you don't mind your crew being assimilated & carted off to the Delta Quadrant, however, at our current state of technology, the Borg wouldn't bother assimulating us. Too primitive.
And you call yourself a Trekkie??????????????
What Microsoft has is some of the world's brightest programmers working for it. Coding skills isn't Microsoft's downfall, it's the marketting wanks who keep insisting on releasing stuff that isn't ready for prime time. Microsoft is market-driven, and what markets need is product, preferably as much and as often as possible. By getting the world locked into betatesting everything they make at a hefty price, the marketting wanks at Microsoft made billions.
The product, though, from an engineering viewpoint, still needs work. If Microsoft was run by the engineers, it could do great things. Problem with that is, it wouldn't generate nearly as much product...
Take a good look at the current military adventurism taking place in Afghanistan and Iraq. It's one thing to go someplace to arrest somebody for crimes committed in the United States ( i.e. Noriega in Panama ), quite another thing to force a change of government on a sovereign nation under the guise of attempting to arrest someone for crimes committed in the United States. Where in the Constitution does it say we are authorised to force a change of government on somebody? Particulary when we withdraw from things like the Treaty of Rome, saying decisions of the World Court are not binding on the US simply because it's not a US court.
Who is the United States Federal government to make these kinds of decisions? Where in the Constitution is the power to make these decisions granted?
Getting Xwindows working on Redhat 3.0.3 was a major chore. Getting an ALS120 sound card working right was even tougher before ALSA. And I still had problems with getting ALSA to work right, but they were all configuration errors on my part.
Fedora Core 4 loves my old IBM T22 just fine, and even likes my homebrew workstation & Epia 10000 set top box. The ViaChrome drivers fired right up!!
You're kidding me, aren't you???
I work for a collection agency as a collector and a skip tracer. Give me a name and a town they once lived in, and an approximate age, and odds are, I'll find them, including any SSNs they use. And I can do this from *ANY* computer on the planet that has a connection to the Net.
As far as HIPAA is concerned, that's only concerned with MEDICAL data, like a diagnosis at a hospital or emergency room. I work with this data on a daily basis, and by law I'm allowed to see the medical bills (properly sanitised of course to replace diagnostics and treatments with the proper billing codes), but NOT any medical records.
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Can they rig it so the cast is made up of politicians, and no resupply missions? Howbout if they make the cast eat the ones voted off? Raw, of course, until they can rig a solar powered grill...
I've had the ponytail for decades. The beard too. And I'm blonde, not blue-haired. I've been using Linux since before RedHat 3.0.3, starting with SLS, before moving to RH. That's what, 7, 8 years? And while 98Se had a spot on my hard drive for a good long while, I dumped it 3 years ago, with some distro of Linux on my desktop.
But possession with intent of sale is good for quite a few years in prison...
Oh, wait...
I like the 'base install from a single CD & update over the net' model that Ubuntu picked up off Debian. I installed Ubuntu from the CD I got with a copy of Linux Format, then updated it with apt-get, one of the BEST tools they ever came up with for Debian. Smoother than snot on teflon. I even got the Kubuntu packages as well. Course, I've been using apt ever since it came out for RedHat/RPM, but the upgrade to Breezy was a world of difference smoother than upgrading FC.
I like Kaffiene as a media player.
Reagan probably lied. However, it wasn't under oath. And Ollie North didn't get a tenth of what he had coming to him. Reagan was so obviously a meat puppet it wasn't funny.
The Starr investigation was shut down for lack of evidence, evidence that the Clinton Whitehouse stonewalled about having in the first place, and refusing to co-operate with what Hillary called a 'witch hunt', claiming that the investigation was the result of Republican pressure to do 'something' to derail the second term. Interestingly enough, I remember reading about a box of evidence mysteriously appearing in a well-travelled hallway in the White House after the investigation closed. Nobody knew where it came from, and from what I gather, nobody's seen it since.
So the Clintons made a killing in Whitewater. So what? Nobody could prove anything one way or another (that pesky lack of evidence thing). When you go into a courtroom, it's not what you know or what you think you know that counts, it's what you can PROVE. And by THAT definition, Clinton should have been impeached for perjury. The use of the office of the president to evade prosecution isn't illegal per se, as far as I know (IANAL, but I gotta deal with 'em every day...), but it is against the best interests of the office. It cheapens it, and if allowed to happen (like it did), it means precident is set. Ignore the cries on both sides of the political fence as to whether or not Clinton abused his office as governor, the fact that he lied under oath makes it perjury. That makes it an impeachable offense.
Like there's a difference?
The United States has less than 5% of the world's population, yet the per capita rate of having done time in prison in the US is one in 50. IIRC, the current figure is something like 20% of the world prison population is here in the US.
Gives you something to think about, doesn't it?
What, you saved a fortune by switching to Geico?
I haven't updated it yet (got some stuff running ATM under Fedora I wanna get finished first), but Ubuntu's one of the 4 distros on this machine (Yoper, FC4 & RH9 are the others). And I totally agree, apt and Synaptic are GREAT. I use apt for 99% of my FC4 updates, though I haven't tried to do a dist-update with it (too much weirdness on that partition). I'll schedule a cron job tonite to do the update when nobody else is on the LAN. (grin)
Amalgamated Motors puts a badly designed front wheel drive on their premier car. This front end is found to fall off under certain conditions, usually with serious injuries and deaths resulting. The plaintiffs in the class action suit argue that Amalgamated Motors must replace the front ends of that model car at their expense. The defendants argue that only the front ends that actually caused damage need to be replaced, and that any potential victim of the design flaw has no grounds to sue.
What happened in the aforementioned case was, since no 'front ends fell off the car in most cases', the entire class action was ruled out.
She was a partner in that law firm. That makes her one of the bosses at that firm.
I've been alive for 50 years now, and I can categorically state for the record this is NOT the country I grew up in.
See you in Gitmo...
I never was able to stay awake thru the whole movie. As some of my buddies remarked, it was 5 minutes of rip-roaring action jam-packed into 2+ hrs of movie.
Once every 9 months for procreation is it. Anything more is *extra*. (remembered from an old National Lampoon...)
I haven't seen a mod point in ages.
Nonononononono. You remodulate the deflector dish to generate an inverse tachyon pulse, you'll be up to your ass in Borg in a minute. Not a bad 'rescue plan' if you don't mind your crew being assimilated & carted off to the Delta Quadrant, however, at our current state of technology, the Borg wouldn't bother assimulating us. Too primitive. And you call yourself a Trekkie??????????????
The product, though, from an engineering viewpoint, still needs work. If Microsoft was run by the engineers, it could do great things. Problem with that is, it wouldn't generate nearly as much product...
Mine (Trent Franks, R-Az) voted for it.
Too bad the KGB went outta business, eh?
Who is the United States Federal government to make these kinds of decisions? Where in the Constitution is the power to make these decisions granted?
Fedora Core 4 loves my old IBM T22 just fine, and even likes my homebrew workstation & Epia 10000 set top box. The ViaChrome drivers fired right up!!
Next step is to get my girlfriend penguinised...
You're kidding me, aren't you??? I work for a collection agency as a collector and a skip tracer. Give me a name and a town they once lived in, and an approximate age, and odds are, I'll find them, including any SSNs they use. And I can do this from *ANY* computer on the planet that has a connection to the Net. As far as HIPAA is concerned, that's only concerned with MEDICAL data, like a diagnosis at a hospital or emergency room. I work with this data on a daily basis, and by law I'm allowed to see the medical bills (properly sanitised of course to replace diagnostics and treatments with the proper billing codes), but NOT any medical records.