It points out the hypocrisy of the current government's crusade.
What the fsck are you talking about? Showing your ID was required BEFORE this administration took office! This doesn't have anything to do with the Middle East, it's been standard operating procedure in the US for as long as I've been flying. That includes Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagon, Carter and Ford.
Where the hell were all of you civil libertarians during the Clinton years? That's the true hypocrisy. At least I've been consistant on this issue for the last thirty years since I formed an opinion on it, regardless of who was in office.
But even though I have an opinion on it still doesn't negate the fact that it's still a minor issue. Let's fight the random strip searches of anyone who doesn't fit the terrorist profile BEFORE we take up the "you shouldn't need an automobile license to sit on an airplane" cause.
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X.org on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE with a Radeon 9200 works just dandy for me. It's not broken, it works fine. Just because NetBSD is one of the lone holdouts for XFree86 doesn't mean that everything else is broken.
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Appearantly the ports collection doesn't handle dependencies as well as some people would make you think.
Actually it does. It just doesn't cover all the oddball corner cases.
If it did, it would not allow you to upgrade (without using force) your perl port without also upgrading all ports that depend on it.
When the upgrade doesn't break the dependents, you don't need to upgrade the dependents. If the upgrade does break one or two, then you mark those for a mandatory upgrade by bumping the revision level. But then you get to this particular Perl upgrade. For whatever reason it broke too many dependents, and there were simply too many to mark them all. At least not in a timely manner.
This is a corner case because usually you don't need to upgrade packages that haven't changed. After all, I migrated from XFree86 to X.org without having to upgrade ANYTHING. I've used some Linux systems where such a migration would have required an upgrade to everything on the system.
If you contribute code under the BSD license, everyone still gets to use it. You can't both contribute and close it off. It doesn't work that way. Both parties still get FULL advantage of all contributed code.
Of course, you're not required by the license to contribute anything, but so what? I've always preferred voluntary contributions over sour grapes myself.
I'll bet you a lot that it's really nvi, which just about everyone calls plain old "vi". This is the vi that the BSDs use, since it was the replacement for AT&T's vi in 4.4BSD. From the README for nvi: "This is the README for nex/nvi, a freely redistributable implementation of the ex/vi text editors originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley."
I agree with him wholeheartedly, you shouldn't have to show ID to travel. Give me freedom! Get your regulations out of my life! Down with the paternal/maternal/nanny state! Rah, rah, rah!
But I do have to wonder why this is the hill John has decided to die on. Considering all the really big and important issues one could sacrifice oneself for, why choose this minor one? I really can't get excited about the right to travel anonymously on airplanes. Sorry, but I can't.
Let's fight the real wrongs of the world, not the technicalities.
Now pardon me while I mop up the buckets of blood here. That's the last time I ever invite both Redhat and Debian advocates to my annual Friendly Package Manager Discussion party...
Why aren't the BSD's as popular with their very good license at least in the eyes of the IBMs and HPs?
IBM: As an ex-monopolist themselves, they still think in terms of world domination. IBM is simply incapable of choosing any product that doesn't dominate the market. Hell, you couldn't even get their own OS/2 on one of their PCs! So of course they choose Linux, it has the most mindshare of any Free Software operating system.
HP: HP had to go with Linux, otherwise they would piss off Maddog, and you don't want a pissed of Maddog roaming your halls!
You're saying that if work was available they wouldn't take it? Every one of them? Are you really serious?
That's exactly what I'm saying! How the hell are they going to know that work is available if they aren't out looking for it? Seriously, how would they know?
I'm reminded of this old neighbor of mine who constantly bitched about being out of work. This was during the heyday of the dot.com boom, this was the middle of the Silicon Valley, and he was a developer. The jobs were there! But he never bothered to get past his front porch in his search. I even gave him advanced notice of job openings in my company, but he never bothered to even apply. A few months later he moved off to Colorado because he was disgusted at the lousy California job market.
Should he have been counted among the unemployed? In my opinion, absolutely not! He was a thirty year old retiree who took up bitching instead of fishing!
If I go in for a windows admin position people see my unix credentials as a problem. If I go in for unix they say "you look like a programmer".. if I go in for programming they say, "you look like a administrator".
Have you ever thought about tailoring your resume to emphasis the position you want? If you want a job in programming, expand all the programming bits and place them at top. Deemphasize the admin stuff and put it at bottom. Or reverse that if you're going for an admin job.
Businesses do NOT want creative multi-faceted people.
Oh but they do! The stupid numbnuts in HR might not, but ignore them, they're all insane. Never give your resume to someone in HR. If that's what you've been doing, it's no wonder you don't have a job. Your typical insane HR guy will only want to hire another typical insane HR guy.
People in engineering and R&D departments DEMAND creative multi-faceted people. So bypass HR and get your resume directly to them. This is where networking makes all the difference, because if you know someone working at the place you're applying to, they can make sure your resume gets to the right person.
I was one of the original founders of a major linux distribution.
That's the second time you've told us that. Here's a hint: businesses don't care. Really, they don't. It doesn't say anything at all about your programming skills, and very little about your admin skills.
I'm reminded of this guy who was bragging to me about being a Debian developer. Turns out that anyone who maintains a package is considered a developer in the Debian community. This guy couldn't program his way out of a soggy shell script. I'm not saying you're like this, but you need to be aware that that's the stereotype. Patrick Volkerding is the exception, everyone else is gets yawned at.
now you know an unemployed programmer in the IE so I guess your theory is broken
I was talking about Silicon Valley. The Inland Empire is way down south in San Bernadino. I don't know what the job market is like in IE, but it doesn't stand out as one the hot spots of software development.
Discouraged workers - those who want a job but have given up looking...
If they've given up looking for work, they're not in the labor pool. Period. You're not in the job market equation if you're not in the job market! They're not counted for the same reason retirees aren't counted.
You're original premise was that the unemployment rate doesn't count people whose benefits have run out. Let me quote in case you've forgotten your own words: "After your benefits run out (multiples of 6 months), you are considered to no longer be actively looking for a job." But your link does not back this up! You are obfuscating the issue.
p.s. Did you read the category directly below that one? It's just the opposite: people who are collecting benefits but not trying to find a job, and thus skewing the unemployment figures up.
So what? There was rationing and government interference during WWII and probably WWI
So are you saying the sins of the good guys excuse the sins of the bad guys? What a weird morality you have, it almost reminds of the kindergarten playground: "but ralphie did it too teacher!"
Besides, if it really does help humanity...
That's not good enough. The group may be more important than the individual, but that doesn't make the group supreme. Given the choice of killing one man to save ten other men, I'll pull the trigger. But that's ONLY because each of those ten men are INDIVIDUALS. If it came down to pulling the trigger or disbanding the group, I'll disband the group, because the group is nothing without individuals!
If the group is indeed preeminent, explain why minorities have rights! If the wants of the group is sufficient justification to take property from one person to give it to the larger group, then why isn't it equally justified to take the property of the racial minority and give it to the racially dominant majority?
No one's talking about setting up their own little country. Sheesh, it's amazing what some people can read into posts.
Assuming you have rights and priviledges is a silly thing to do...
What's silly is assuming that "might makes morality". I don't care how despotic the government is, my rights are still my rights. It is of course, prudent to heed the demands of government, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
If it's been three years then you've been doing something wrong. Maybe your resume isn't as good as you think it is, or maybe you need to get out of the Inland Empire. Around here I don't know ANY unemployed software engineers.
What California do you live in? My brother lost his job last week. He got himself a new one *yesterday* paying well into the six figure range. As a programmer. My own company is actively hiring right now for very good salaries.
And that MIGHT cover... eating food.
You've uncovered Calfornia's dirty little secret! It's too late now to deny the truth. Every morning Ahnold's goons come by with wagons to haul off all the employed programmers who starved to death over night. Pringles are Programmers!
The grandparent post had a reference. Where is yours. When it comes to a "does too does not" argument, people are going to side with the guy with the most facts. You don't have any facts, all you have is a screechy voice. His citation shows that the statistics are collected from a household survey, and not by looking at how many unemployment checks are being written.
We should be more concerned about what is good for humanity.
Your rationale has been the excuse of dictator, tyrant and despot in history, all you need to do is replace "humanity" with "our tribe". That you've expanded "our tribe" to include all of humanity isn't going to change matters.
Crap like that happens all the time. "Redevelopment" is a way to get around eminent domain. Hopefully this current case will stop it.
I thank our founding fathers for putting the eminent domain clause in our Constitution, because it's one of the few protections we have against local governments, who on the whole are among the worst of statists. It doesn't matter if the councilman is a Democrat, Republican or Green, but them inside the council chambers and they suddenly become the worst of tyrants.
No one wants to think of their home as the property of the government but there are significant advantages to having it that way.
But the advantages go solely to the government and its sycophants. I don't mind crooked roads nearly as much as I mind meddling city councilmen setting themselves up as petty dictators.
You misquoted me. I didn't say "I found an error", but rather "I think I found an error". It's no wonder Wikipedia is a pile of crap if their advocates are suggesting random folks edit articles merely because they suspect they might not be perfect.
Wikipedia is biased. This doesn't mean that they deliberately falsify information, that's not what "bias" means. What it does mean is that the the presentation of facts in Wikipedia is not politically neutral. I can't tell whether this bias comes from the collective political leanings of the editor community, or is merely an emergent phenomena of medium. But it is there.
Two recent blogs take a look at this. Of course, these blogs are also biased, but at least they admit it! Sometimes you need a bias on the right to point out the bias on the left. Since this is a recent issue on the right leaning blogs, expect the left leaning blogs to find biases in the opposite direction next week.
The first blog from a week ago is from Kesher Talk, which includes several examples of the bias. The other is from yesterday from Done With Mirrors, also mentioned on Instapundit. Edits to correct the biases in stories are being rejected! Trivialities are being magnified. A claim of controversy on a neutral fact will taint it and keep it out of a story.
Wikipedia needs to stop claiming it is objective and unbiased, because it's simply isn't true.
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It points out the hypocrisy of the current government's crusade.
What the fsck are you talking about? Showing your ID was required BEFORE this administration took office! This doesn't have anything to do with the Middle East, it's been standard operating procedure in the US for as long as I've been flying. That includes Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagon, Carter and Ford.
Where the hell were all of you civil libertarians during the Clinton years? That's the true hypocrisy. At least I've been consistant on this issue for the last thirty years since I formed an opinion on it, regardless of who was in office.
But even though I have an opinion on it still doesn't negate the fact that it's still a minor issue. Let's fight the random strip searches of anyone who doesn't fit the terrorist profile BEFORE we take up the "you shouldn't need an automobile license to sit on an airplane" cause.
X.org on FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE with a Radeon 9200 works just dandy for me. It's not broken, it works fine. Just because NetBSD is one of the lone holdouts for XFree86 doesn't mean that everything else is broken.
What? You want the old Big Giant Lock back?
Here's the new rundown of the BSDs:
FreeBSD: Most performance
NetBSD: Most portable
OpenBSD: Most stability
DragonflyBSD: Most trolls
Don't worry about it. The people who where trying to make it political went off and created their own fork with a bug for a mascot :-)
That's the only political brouhaha I can think of recently, and to be fair, it's largely been confined to advocates and not the developers.
Appearantly the ports collection doesn't handle dependencies as well as some people would make you think.
Actually it does. It just doesn't cover all the oddball corner cases.
If it did, it would not allow you to upgrade (without using force) your perl port without also upgrading all ports that depend on it.
When the upgrade doesn't break the dependents, you don't need to upgrade the dependents. If the upgrade does break one or two, then you mark those for a mandatory upgrade by bumping the revision level. But then you get to this particular Perl upgrade. For whatever reason it broke too many dependents, and there were simply too many to mark them all. At least not in a timely manner.
This is a corner case because usually you don't need to upgrade packages that haven't changed. After all, I migrated from XFree86 to X.org without having to upgrade ANYTHING. I've used some Linux systems where such a migration would have required an upgrade to everything on the system.
If you contribute code under the BSD license, everyone still gets to use it. You can't both contribute and close it off. It doesn't work that way. Both parties still get FULL advantage of all contributed code.
Of course, you're not required by the license to contribute anything, but so what? I've always preferred voluntary contributions over sour grapes myself.
I'll bet you a lot that it's really nvi, which just about everyone calls plain old "vi". This is the vi that the BSDs use, since it was the replacement for AT&T's vi in 4.4BSD. From the README for nvi: "This is the README for nex/nvi, a freely redistributable implementation of the ex/vi text editors originally distributed as part of the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution (4BSD), by the University of California, Berkeley."
I agree with him wholeheartedly, you shouldn't have to show ID to travel. Give me freedom! Get your regulations out of my life! Down with the paternal/maternal/nanny state! Rah, rah, rah!
But I do have to wonder why this is the hill John has decided to die on. Considering all the really big and important issues one could sacrifice oneself for, why choose this minor one? I really can't get excited about the right to travel anonymously on airplanes. Sorry, but I can't.
Let's fight the real wrongs of the world, not the technicalities.
It's just you.
Now pardon me while I mop up the buckets of blood here. That's the last time I ever invite both Redhat and Debian advocates to my annual Friendly Package Manager Discussion party...
Why aren't the BSD's as popular with their very good license at least in the eyes of the IBMs and HPs?
IBM: As an ex-monopolist themselves, they still think in terms of world domination. IBM is simply incapable of choosing any product that doesn't dominate the market. Hell, you couldn't even get their own OS/2 on one of their PCs! So of course they choose Linux, it has the most mindshare of any Free Software operating system.
HP: HP had to go with Linux, otherwise they would piss off Maddog, and you don't want a pissed of Maddog roaming your halls!
You're saying that if work was available they wouldn't take it? Every one of them? Are you really serious?
That's exactly what I'm saying! How the hell are they going to know that work is available if they aren't out looking for it? Seriously, how would they know?
I'm reminded of this old neighbor of mine who constantly bitched about being out of work. This was during the heyday of the dot.com boom, this was the middle of the Silicon Valley, and he was a developer. The jobs were there! But he never bothered to get past his front porch in his search. I even gave him advanced notice of job openings in my company, but he never bothered to even apply. A few months later he moved off to Colorado because he was disgusted at the lousy California job market.
Should he have been counted among the unemployed? In my opinion, absolutely not! He was a thirty year old retiree who took up bitching instead of fishing!
If I go in for a windows admin position people see my unix credentials as a problem. If I go in for unix they say "you look like a programmer" .. if I go in for programming they say, "you look like a administrator".
Have you ever thought about tailoring your resume to emphasis the position you want? If you want a job in programming, expand all the programming bits and place them at top. Deemphasize the admin stuff and put it at bottom. Or reverse that if you're going for an admin job.
Businesses do NOT want creative multi-faceted people.
Oh but they do! The stupid numbnuts in HR might not, but ignore them, they're all insane. Never give your resume to someone in HR. If that's what you've been doing, it's no wonder you don't have a job. Your typical insane HR guy will only want to hire another typical insane HR guy.
People in engineering and R&D departments DEMAND creative multi-faceted people. So bypass HR and get your resume directly to them. This is where networking makes all the difference, because if you know someone working at the place you're applying to, they can make sure your resume gets to the right person.
I was one of the original founders of a major linux distribution.
That's the second time you've told us that. Here's a hint: businesses don't care. Really, they don't. It doesn't say anything at all about your programming skills, and very little about your admin skills.
I'm reminded of this guy who was bragging to me about being a Debian developer. Turns out that anyone who maintains a package is considered a developer in the Debian community. This guy couldn't program his way out of a soggy shell script. I'm not saying you're like this, but you need to be aware that that's the stereotype. Patrick Volkerding is the exception, everyone else is gets yawned at.
now you know an unemployed programmer in the IE so I guess your theory is broken
I was talking about Silicon Valley. The Inland Empire is way down south in San Bernadino. I don't know what the job market is like in IE, but it doesn't stand out as one the hot spots of software development.
Discouraged workers - those who want a job but have given up looking...
If they've given up looking for work, they're not in the labor pool. Period. You're not in the job market equation if you're not in the job market! They're not counted for the same reason retirees aren't counted.
You're original premise was that the unemployment rate doesn't count people whose benefits have run out. Let me quote in case you've forgotten your own words: "After your benefits run out (multiples of 6 months), you are considered to no longer be actively looking for a job." But your link does not back this up! You are obfuscating the issue.
p.s. Did you read the category directly below that one? It's just the opposite: people who are collecting benefits but not trying to find a job, and thus skewing the unemployment figures up.
So what? There was rationing and government interference during WWII and probably WWI
So are you saying the sins of the good guys excuse the sins of the bad guys? What a weird morality you have, it almost reminds of the kindergarten playground: "but ralphie did it too teacher!"
Besides, if it really does help humanity...
That's not good enough. The group may be more important than the individual, but that doesn't make the group supreme. Given the choice of killing one man to save ten other men, I'll pull the trigger. But that's ONLY because each of those ten men are INDIVIDUALS. If it came down to pulling the trigger or disbanding the group, I'll disband the group, because the group is nothing without individuals!
If the group is indeed preeminent, explain why minorities have rights! If the wants of the group is sufficient justification to take property from one person to give it to the larger group, then why isn't it equally justified to take the property of the racial minority and give it to the racially dominant majority?
No one's talking about setting up their own little country. Sheesh, it's amazing what some people can read into posts.
Assuming you have rights and priviledges is a silly thing to do...
What's silly is assuming that "might makes morality". I don't care how despotic the government is, my rights are still my rights. It is of course, prudent to heed the demands of government, but that doesn't mean I have to be happy about it.
If it's been three years then you've been doing something wrong. Maybe your resume isn't as good as you think it is, or maybe you need to get out of the Inland Empire. Around here I don't know ANY unemployed software engineers.
What California do you live in? My brother lost his job last week. He got himself a new one *yesterday* paying well into the six figure range. As a programmer. My own company is actively hiring right now for very good salaries.
... eating food.
And that MIGHT cover
You've uncovered Calfornia's dirty little secret! It's too late now to deny the truth. Every morning Ahnold's goons come by with wagons to haul off all the employed programmers who starved to death over night. Pringles are Programmers!
The grandparent post had a reference. Where is yours. When it comes to a "does too does not" argument, people are going to side with the guy with the most facts. You don't have any facts, all you have is a screechy voice. His citation shows that the statistics are collected from a household survey, and not by looking at how many unemployment checks are being written.
Here's the link again: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Situation Summary.
Then it's shootin' time ... time to start the civil war, folks.
Except that you leftwingnuts have confiscated all the guns.
We should be more concerned about what is good for humanity.
Your rationale has been the excuse of dictator, tyrant and despot in history, all you need to do is replace "humanity" with "our tribe". That you've expanded "our tribe" to include all of humanity isn't going to change matters.
Crap like that happens all the time. "Redevelopment" is a way to get around eminent domain. Hopefully this current case will stop it.
I thank our founding fathers for putting the eminent domain clause in our Constitution, because it's one of the few protections we have against local governments, who on the whole are among the worst of statists. It doesn't matter if the councilman is a Democrat, Republican or Green, but them inside the council chambers and they suddenly become the worst of tyrants.
No one wants to think of their home as the property of the government but there are significant advantages to having it that way.
But the advantages go solely to the government and its sycophants. I don't mind crooked roads nearly as much as I mind meddling city councilmen setting themselves up as petty dictators.
You misquoted me. I didn't say "I found an error", but rather "I think I found an error". It's no wonder Wikipedia is a pile of crap if their advocates are suggesting random folks edit articles merely because they suspect they might not be perfect.
Wikipedia is biased. This doesn't mean that they deliberately falsify information, that's not what "bias" means. What it does mean is that the the presentation of facts in Wikipedia is not politically neutral. I can't tell whether this bias comes from the collective political leanings of the editor community, or is merely an emergent phenomena of medium. But it is there.
Two recent blogs take a look at this. Of course, these blogs are also biased, but at least they admit it! Sometimes you need a bias on the right to point out the bias on the left. Since this is a recent issue on the right leaning blogs, expect the left leaning blogs to find biases in the opposite direction next week.
The first blog from a week ago is from Kesher Talk, which includes several examples of the bias. The other is from yesterday from Done With Mirrors, also mentioned on Instapundit. Edits to correct the biases in stories are being rejected! Trivialities are being magnified. A claim of controversy on a neutral fact will taint it and keep it out of a story.
Wikipedia needs to stop claiming it is objective and unbiased, because it's simply isn't true.