Post something here about needing to control our borders, you will inevitably get tagged "xenophobic," "racist..."
However, you will be hailed as a/. champion if you condemn offshore outsourcing.
Illegal aliens cost all of us uncounted BILLIONS each year in social services. Outsourcing to Asia on the other hand just affects a very few and poses no threat to the social welfare system.
Isn't comparing Fedora to Red Hat Enterprise inappropriate here?
Fedora is "bleeding edge." Major changes are incoporated from one release to the other, with the time between releases only six or nine months.
RHEL is extremely stable and well-tested, and the time between major releases is long. Therefore, documentation for RHEL will be "true" for a long time.
...that there are fewer satellite radios in service than you probably realize. I tend to really like stuff like this, but to this point I just haven't seen a reason to purchase one.
For one thing, I already pay (too much) for Dish Network--which has SIRIUS "built in" to the America's 200 package--their most popular. Also, I am fine with local radio, since I mostly listen to sports and political talk when I'm driving anyway.
Now, that's just me, but I suspect I'm pretty typical. MOST people are my age and even older (I'm at the tail-end of the Baby Boom) and have the disposable income, but I really don't see that many satellite radios in use. I know of some--my 70-year-old Father has one, as it happens--but they're just not that widespread.
A two-degree overall rise in the earth's ambient temperature--which is what the "global warming" theories suggest--will not cause the global calamaity you calmly predict.
Twenty years ago, the news was the opposite. Newsmagazines like Time and Newsweek regularly featured articles intoning "doom and gloom" that a new ICE AGE was upon us, the result of human pollution.
Of course, nothing of the kind of catastrophe they predicted then ever came to pass--but folks who benefit from the Chicken Little newsbusiness never seem to own up to it when they are WRONG.
Likewise, ten years ago the prediction was that 20% of the world would die by the year 2010 from AIDS. So far, they're about 10,000% off-target.
But again, no one ever gets the blame when Chicken Little's screams turn out to be wrong.
Nazism was not "Christian," and you won't be able to find any evidence of that (aside from some website run by such as yourself, making yet more undocumented claims to that effect).
Nazis were SOCIALISTS, and to the extent they had any religion other than the state, they practiced mysticism--more akin to today's "wicca" than anything else.
So your assumptions, being false, make your entire premise invalid.
On top of that, they don't even address the question as to whether science ought to operate without any constraints of religion or morality. This is what the Nazis believed. Eugenics is demonstrably correct. You can, indeed, "improve" human beings the same way you can livestock.
The question is, ought that to be allowed?
This is the notion that people like you will ALWAYS side-step.
FWIW, I don't think that (1) global warming has definitively been established, and (2) that there is anything even approaching a definitive establishment as to cause.
Me, I do believe it's happening--but that human activity has absolutely nothing to do with it. Rather, it's part of the natural cycle that has been in effect since before there WERE human beings on earth.
The notion that it is caused by what puny humans can do is just laughable. One has only to look at the phenomenon of Mt. Pinatubo and Mt. St. Helens--both of which put more particulates into the atmosphere in DAYS than humans have throughout their history--to realize the earth is a self-regulating system.
Global warming, if it is really happening, is a natural occurence, and will bring as much benefit as it does harm.
However, socialist politicians, who lust for the power to establish their order in the lives of individuals, are using it as a pretext for a power grab. This must NEVER be allowed to happen.
I have to agree with this, although I also have to say that I've experienced this even with Linux running Samba (at least Samba 2.x, anyway). I chalked it up to the stupidity of Netbios or Windows networking in general, but never took the time to figure it out.
I have struggled with this for some time now. I'm in my late 40s. I grew up in the 60s and 70s, therefore. Come summertime, we hit the door at about 7 or 8 in the morning, and didn't show back up 'til sundown (we took sandwiches or lunch money so we could cut the cord to the house for the day).
However, when my own children were growing up in the 80s and 90s, things had begun to change quite radically.
Now, with my grandchildren living with us, my wife and I have an ongoing argument about their play activities.
She just doesn't want our five and seven year old grandsons to go outside at all without supervision. They must stay in the front yard, aren't allowed to even go down the street to play with other kids their age.
So they stay inside mostly and watch a lot of TV--and eat.
I continually hound her about leaving them alone, letting them go out and PLAY, but "it's too dangerous out there" is her refrain.
Of course, it probably IS more dangerous--but the chances of their coming to harm from sexual predators or what-have-you are still infinitessimal. Yet they ARE coming to deliberate harm from their sedentary lifestyle!
In good part, I blame the 24-hour news cycle promulgated by Ted Turner et al. With so much time to fill up, you get to hear ad nauseum about this or that serial killer, or child rapist, or whatever. This leads to a grossly distorted view of what's going on in the world, and it makes everyone AFRAID.
Personally, I'm surprised that anyone still BUYS chemistry sets for their kids. After all, didn't we see a story on CNN the other day about some kid burning himself?
Slackers and ne'er-do-wells get money from the government for popping out kids for whom they can't provide. They do nothing but consume that largesse, then hold their hands out for more.
Although I am in favor of the government not doing ANYTHING (except pretty much shutting down altogether), my panties somehow fail to bunch at the thought that a business entrepeneur might take advantage of such largesse, then create a business that is responsible for tens, hundreds, or thousands of jobs (and lots of tax revenue, as it happens).
Proof of your "pennies on the dollar" claim, please.
Also, the government doesn't actually DO anything like you suggest. They have contractors do it. Over time, such things pay for themselves, and selling "used" wires for less than the cost of installation sounds pretty reasonable to me.
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What, were we supposed to believe this was "serious work" otherwise?
However, you will be hailed as a /. champion if you condemn offshore outsourcing.
Illegal aliens cost all of us uncounted BILLIONS each year in social services. Outsourcing to Asia on the other hand just affects a very few and poses no threat to the social welfare system.
We know whose ox is gored.
Fedora is "bleeding edge." Major changes are incoporated from one release to the other, with the time between releases only six or nine months.
RHEL is extremely stable and well-tested, and the time between major releases is long. Therefore, documentation for RHEL will be "true" for a long time.
Not the case with Fedora (I use Fedora, btw).
Actually, history indicates that the "wizards" will start developing something more appropriate FROM SCRATCH.
How many "scripting languages" are we up to, now?
For one thing, I already pay (too much) for Dish Network--which has SIRIUS "built in" to the America's 200 package--their most popular. Also, I am fine with local radio, since I mostly listen to sports and political talk when I'm driving anyway.
Now, that's just me, but I suspect I'm pretty typical. MOST people are my age and even older (I'm at the tail-end of the Baby Boom) and have the disposable income, but I really don't see that many satellite radios in use. I know of some--my 70-year-old Father has one, as it happens--but they're just not that widespread.
I suspect HD has a very good shot at the market.
...how to stay up REALLY, REALLY late, and still be ready for action the next day.
Twenty years ago, the news was the opposite. Newsmagazines like Time and Newsweek regularly featured articles intoning "doom and gloom" that a new ICE AGE was upon us, the result of human pollution.
Of course, nothing of the kind of catastrophe they predicted then ever came to pass--but folks who benefit from the Chicken Little newsbusiness never seem to own up to it when they are WRONG.
Likewise, ten years ago the prediction was that 20% of the world would die by the year 2010 from AIDS. So far, they're about 10,000% off-target.
But again, no one ever gets the blame when Chicken Little's screams turn out to be wrong.
The ONLY difference between Communism and Fascism is the "nationalistic" element--and in practical terms even THAT doesn't really hold.
Witness the continued adversarial relationship between "communist" Soviet Union and "communist" China.
The Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty worked well, because the commies and the fascists had so much in common.
Try again.
Nazis were SOCIALISTS, and to the extent they had any religion other than the state, they practiced mysticism--more akin to today's "wicca" than anything else.
So your assumptions, being false, make your entire premise invalid.
On top of that, they don't even address the question as to whether science ought to operate without any constraints of religion or morality. This is what the Nazis believed. Eugenics is demonstrably correct. You can, indeed, "improve" human beings the same way you can livestock.
The question is, ought that to be allowed?
This is the notion that people like you will ALWAYS side-step.
Me, I do believe it's happening--but that human activity has absolutely nothing to do with it. Rather, it's part of the natural cycle that has been in effect since before there WERE human beings on earth.
The notion that it is caused by what puny humans can do is just laughable. One has only to look at the phenomenon of Mt. Pinatubo and Mt. St. Helens--both of which put more particulates into the atmosphere in DAYS than humans have throughout their history--to realize the earth is a self-regulating system.
Global warming, if it is really happening, is a natural occurence, and will bring as much benefit as it does harm.
However, socialist politicians, who lust for the power to establish their order in the lives of individuals, are using it as a pretext for a power grab. This must NEVER be allowed to happen.
A corollary of Godwin's Law, to be sure.
But bring up the Nazi eugenics experiments--and bear in mind the eugenics is scientifically established--and they just mumble and walk away.
"My sweet orc..."
To avoid this, I think we should adopt the exact same border security policy as Mexico.
But, how can he be SURE it's from me?
I have to agree with this, although I also have to say that I've experienced this even with Linux running Samba (at least Samba 2.x, anyway). I chalked it up to the stupidity of Netbios or Windows networking in general, but never took the time to figure it out.
I think they ought to think about thinking as a thought process, myself.
At least, that's what I think.
I mean, "duh!"
However, when my own children were growing up in the 80s and 90s, things had begun to change quite radically.
Now, with my grandchildren living with us, my wife and I have an ongoing argument about their play activities.
She just doesn't want our five and seven year old grandsons to go outside at all without supervision. They must stay in the front yard, aren't allowed to even go down the street to play with other kids their age.
So they stay inside mostly and watch a lot of TV--and eat.
I continually hound her about leaving them alone, letting them go out and PLAY, but "it's too dangerous out there" is her refrain.
Of course, it probably IS more dangerous--but the chances of their coming to harm from sexual predators or what-have-you are still infinitessimal. Yet they ARE coming to deliberate harm from their sedentary lifestyle!
In good part, I blame the 24-hour news cycle promulgated by Ted Turner et al. With so much time to fill up, you get to hear ad nauseum about this or that serial killer, or child rapist, or whatever. This leads to a grossly distorted view of what's going on in the world, and it makes everyone AFRAID.
Personally, I'm surprised that anyone still BUYS chemistry sets for their kids. After all, didn't we see a story on CNN the other day about some kid burning himself?
Well, for that matter so were Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot.
They sure got their business done, after all.
Of course, that depends upon what "parameters" you want to set.
That's just flat-out wrong.
And Canadian productivity? Funny you should ask.
Although I am in favor of the government not doing ANYTHING (except pretty much shutting down altogether), my panties somehow fail to bunch at the thought that a business entrepeneur might take advantage of such largesse, then create a business that is responsible for tens, hundreds, or thousands of jobs (and lots of tax revenue, as it happens).
The producers at least give back.
The consumer/slackers give back NOTHING.
Also, the government doesn't actually DO anything like you suggest. They have contractors do it. Over time, such things pay for themselves, and selling "used" wires for less than the cost of installation sounds pretty reasonable to me.
And make a h*ll of a lot more money than those other folks.
Like my old man used to say:
"Gee, it's amazing! The harder I work, the luckier I get!"