Ahh, the self-styled intellectuals who don't learn from the lessons of history are doomed...
Human history has been a series of wars occasionally punctuated by relatively peaceful times, growing out of the complete annihilation of a set of enemies. Rome vs. Carthage, US vs. Japan and Germany, etc. Any politician, moral leader, etc. who tries to tell you anything different is lying to you.
I really hope you don't consider yourself to be "educated." At the very best, you and the "new castrati" like you are useful idiots.
I'm "middle class" and the Apple Powerbook or the PowerMac is the equivalent of a week's pay for me. Which "middle class" are you talking about?
Considering the longevity of apple hardware, it's more like putting down a down payment on a car or something equivalent. I had the "bic lighter" laptops from Dell and HP. They broke after a year of use.
Always there for the taking? Nice corporate attitude. Well, that sentence speaks for itself. Apple benefits from the hard work of the folks at Berkeley and KDE, then adds some polish, calls it innovation.
Other than KHTML, the roots of OS X are in NeXT/OpenStep which has been in production for the last 15-16 years or so. What the hell are you talking about? NeXTStep had the first "web browser", etc. I think this argument is futile. As far as not contributing KHTML back to the "community", the last time I checked, the WebKit source was available to everyone with a (free as in beer) base-level ADC login and password.
The interesting thing is that Americans have been subsidizing Western Europe's cradle-to-grave welfare systems for the last 50 years by footing the defense bill of the member states. Just imagine if the U.S. had pulled out of Europe completely during the cold war? I doubt the money for "free healthcare", et. al. would have been quite as easy to find when the European states would have had to begin allocating up to 15% of their budgets for defense instead of relying upon America.
It is comments like this that make me hope Rumsfeld follows through on his threat of pulling all American troops out of Europe.
Slashdot's audience, being geeks, are generally more intelligent and well-informed than the average US consumer:
Nice use of elitism here.
This argument appears to be a typical European misunderstanding of how the U.S. system of federalism works. In the hours before and after the storm, a series of missteps were made at the state and local levels which prevented the full utilization of the National Guard and the establishment of a "chain of command." People were also not evacuated in accordance to Louisiana's pre-existing disaster preparedness plans due to Mayor Nagin's refusal to believe that Katrina would be as devastating as the National Weather Service had predicted. Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco are the ones culpable for that screwup, not the Bush administration.
Now, it sucks when it works like this, but you have to remember that these sorts of first-responder and evacuation duties fall to state and local governments, while the Federal Government (a colossal elephant that takes forever to do the simplest of actions) comes in later, at the state's request, with aid dollars and reinforcements. The Federal Govt. is also restricted by posse comitatus, which does not allow it to deploy troops in the U.S. in order to enforce the laws. It has to first federalize the state's National Guard and then move them in, something that Gov. Blanco was supposedly reluctant to allow to happen.
Louisiana has had a history of being a political basketcase and the response to this disaster bears that out. The Federal Government, while not completely blameless, was basically called in to clean up a disaster which was much worse than it needed to be, due to the complete lack of leadership in the government at the state and local levels.
The funny thing is that Louisiana _did_ get the memo, and the funds, but the notoriously corrup Levee Board decided that the Federal dollars were better spent on things like casinos.
Politics as usual causes huge amounts of human suffering... nothing new here.
The parent post is so contradictory that it shoud be modded +5 Funny. To write such an obviously hateful (and therefore unhappy) screed about happiness should either be seen as higher-order trolling or so contradictory that it's funny.
You are gonna pay, directly or indirectly. There ain't no way around it. The kid turns 40 and has a heart attack, insurance or not. Who pays? In one case, premiums go up for all. In another case, the state pays.
Nope, I won't. If he has risk factors like obesity, he will pay higher remiums than I do (that's what actuary tables are for, right?) Another point is who pays for the iPod? If I'm going to be paying for this incentive as a taxpayer, I would say buy the kid a jumprope or a bicycle.
My theory is that if you want to be fat, or your kids want to be fat, society shouldn't care, it should just cost you more to indulge in your lifestyle. Applying a band-aid solution to this problem will not solve it, just move it on down the road a bit.
Truthfully, why should I care if a child weighs 300lbs. It's the responsibility of the parents, not society. I know that we'll get stuck with the cost of his/her health care down the road, but that's BS as well, caused by too much government involvement in our lives.
I think we should stop funding farm subsidies, WIC, and Food Stamps. That would be a definite step in the right direction.
Nope, that's why you should move from BFE to the city. Seriously, if I want the huge lots and the clean air that you breathe, should the govt. have to provide that to me here in the city?
Russia doesn't have the rubles for another arms race. It takes hard currency to build a military and Russia is having a hard enough time keeping ships at sea, planes in the air, and lord only knows the condition of most of the warheads in their ICBMs.
It's amazing how someone (at least AFAICS) posessing this much technical knowledge, plus an ability to learn can be "broke." The economy isn't that bad...
WTF is this gibberish and how did it get modded up? I guess if I post something with the words "distributed", "beowulf", "cluster", and "firefox" in it, I can get a +3 Interesting article, too?
*Smacks the mods with a cluebat*
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Ahh, the self-styled intellectuals who don't learn from the lessons of history are doomed...
Human history has been a series of wars occasionally punctuated by relatively peaceful times, growing out of the complete annihilation of a set of enemies. Rome vs. Carthage, US vs. Japan and Germany, etc. Any politician, moral leader, etc. who tries to tell you anything different is lying to you.
I really hope you don't consider yourself to be "educated." At the very best, you and the "new castrati" like you are useful idiots.
I'm "middle class" and the Apple Powerbook or the PowerMac is the equivalent of a week's pay for me. Which "middle class" are you talking about?
Considering the longevity of apple hardware, it's more like putting down a down payment on a car or something equivalent. I had the "bic lighter" laptops from Dell and HP. They broke after a year of use.
Use a Folder Action Script to automagically add and delete stuff from iTunes if you want "watched folders". Go here for some documentation.
Always there for the taking? Nice corporate attitude. Well, that sentence speaks for itself. Apple benefits from the hard work of the folks at Berkeley and KDE, then adds some polish, calls it innovation.
Other than KHTML, the roots of OS X are in NeXT/OpenStep which has been in production for the last 15-16 years or so. What the hell are you talking about? NeXTStep had the first "web browser", etc. I think this argument is futile. As far as not contributing KHTML back to the "community", the last time I checked, the WebKit source was available to everyone with a (free as in beer) base-level ADC login and password.
Go emit code.
Yep, because, as Neville Chamberlain showed us all, the best way to deal with "paranoid schizophrenics" is to appease them.
Those who do not learn from history...
The interesting thing is that Americans have been subsidizing Western Europe's cradle-to-grave welfare systems for the last 50 years by footing the defense bill of the member states. Just imagine if the U.S. had pulled out of Europe completely during the cold war? I doubt the money for "free healthcare", et. al. would have been quite as easy to find when the European states would have had to begin allocating up to 15% of their budgets for defense instead of relying upon America.
It is comments like this that make me hope Rumsfeld follows through on his threat of pulling all American troops out of Europe.
Nice use of elitism here.
This argument appears to be a typical European misunderstanding of how the U.S. system of federalism works. In the hours before and after the storm, a series of missteps were made at the state and local levels which prevented the full utilization of the National Guard and the establishment of a "chain of command." People were also not evacuated in accordance to Louisiana's pre-existing disaster preparedness plans due to Mayor Nagin's refusal to believe that Katrina would be as devastating as the National Weather Service had predicted. Mayor Nagin and Gov. Blanco are the ones culpable for that screwup, not the Bush administration.
Now, it sucks when it works like this, but you have to remember that these sorts of first-responder and evacuation duties fall to state and local governments, while the Federal Government (a colossal elephant that takes forever to do the simplest of actions) comes in later, at the state's request, with aid dollars and reinforcements. The Federal Govt. is also restricted by posse comitatus, which does not allow it to deploy troops in the U.S. in order to enforce the laws. It has to first federalize the state's National Guard and then move them in, something that Gov. Blanco was supposedly reluctant to allow to happen.
Louisiana has had a history of being a political basketcase and the response to this disaster bears that out. The Federal Government, while not completely blameless, was basically called in to clean up a disaster which was much worse than it needed to be, due to the complete lack of leadership in the government at the state and local levels.
The funny thing is that Louisiana _did_ get the memo, and the funds, but the notoriously corrup Levee Board decided that the Federal dollars were better spent on things like casinos.
Politics as usual causes huge amounts of human suffering... nothing new here.
The parent post is so contradictory that it shoud be modded +5 Funny. To write such an obviously hateful (and therefore unhappy) screed about happiness should either be seen as higher-order trolling or so contradictory that it's funny.
Nope, I won't. If he has risk factors like obesity, he will pay higher remiums than I do (that's what actuary tables are for, right?) Another point is who pays for the iPod? If I'm going to be paying for this incentive as a taxpayer, I would say buy the kid a jumprope or a bicycle.
My theory is that if you want to be fat, or your kids want to be fat, society shouldn't care, it should just cost you more to indulge in your lifestyle. Applying a band-aid solution to this problem will not solve it, just move it on down the road a bit.
Oh, and thanks for calling me selfish.
Truthfully, why should I care if a child weighs 300lbs. It's the responsibility of the parents, not society. I know that we'll get stuck with the cost of his/her health care down the road, but that's BS as well, caused by too much government involvement in our lives.
I think we should stop funding farm subsidies, WIC, and Food Stamps. That would be a definite step in the right direction.
We all saw how much protection requiring signed code (cough-cough ActiveX) afforded the user.
Yep, any of you tech people looking for jobs should really take a look in the Valley. It's pretty nice here and the job prospects are good.
Nope, that's why you should move from BFE to the city. Seriously, if I want the huge lots and the clean air that you breathe, should the govt. have to provide that to me here in the city?
One Name: Condoleeza Rice
(aka, one of the most powerful women in the world, arguably has more power now than Maggie Thatcher did back in her day.)
What about all of the computers he "raped" with his "worm"?
Russia doesn't have the rubles for another arms race. It takes hard currency to build a military and Russia is having a hard enough time keeping ships at sea, planes in the air, and lord only knows the condition of most of the warheads in their ICBMs.
It's amazing how someone (at least AFAICS) posessing this much technical knowledge, plus an ability to learn can be "broke." The economy isn't that bad...
"Bricks?" I prefer to call them "wall-warts". :^)
I would never ever try my development code on her productive box.
If your father had never tried his "development code" on your mother's "productive box," you wouldn't be here!
Huh? How does this analogy work? How this hell is this "Insightful"?
If I post something saying "BillG sux" will I get modded up, too?
Why do you choose to live in a country in which half of its area is below sealevel?
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Louisiana voted for Bush and New Orleans will probably be worse off than the Netherlands if sealevels rise.
WTF is this gibberish and how did it get modded up? I guess if I post something with the words "distributed", "beowulf", "cluster", and "firefox" in it, I can get a +3 Interesting article, too?
*Smacks the mods with a cluebat*
... self-aggrandizement, ego-driven elitism, or a bounced reality check ...
...so if JET's on a chip, does that mean we'll soon have Exchange on a Dorito?