I suppose that's why I get a severe asthma attack from second hand smoke.
I used to get severe asthma attacks from cut grass, ragweed, and horse dander. Maybe we should create taxes to support incessent PSUs on the dangers of cutting grass and standing near horses.
p.s. I am a non-smoker. But I guess I haven't been off the nicotine long enough for me to start hating liberty like all the other non-smokers.
This is likely because of the great number of Linux server
Wait! Everytime Microsoft makes this argument in defense of Windows shoddy security, Slashdot laughs them down. Suddenly the argument is valid for Linux?
(Estimation of this turning into an anti/pro-database battle: 35%)
I would say 100%, because you already started the debate with your stupid (but very on topic) boast. The 35% is just an estimation of someone deciding to bite your troll.
They're fiction because you can't get a job unless you fictionalize them. I'm thinking of putting down Olympic Gold Medalist on my next resume.
A coworker is out looking for another job. He had to lie on his resume about knowing C++ because many companies demand it. One company wanted C++ expertise, even though the position was for Linux device drivers.
One manager at my work boasted that his group's code didn't have any bugs in it. Whenever a bug was assigned to his group, he would reassign it elsewhere. Seriously! When challenged on it he would get very insulted.
Then one day a bug he reassigned got fixed. The root cause was code that the manager had written back in that distant two week period when he actually touched code. Rather than tell him who wrote it, the other managers talked about the "really lame" coding error. We he got all righteous about the bug as well, they told him he wrote it.
I've followed you second link, and I still don't see any "disagreement" with BSD. The second hand rumour (and that's all it is, a second hand rumour) of your link involves DEC, not BSD.
You asserted that Phil inspired the modern BSD daemon (Beastie). This is absolutely incorrect. For the link happy, here's the pictoral history of Beasty.
The guy once said "I know how hard is for you to put food on your family", case dismissed.
I guess the new rule for presidential candidates is no malapropisms, no dyslexia, no gaffes, no speech disorders or impediments of any kind.
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As others have already stated, it was a joke. If you cannot recognize that, it's because you've been spending too much time in your parent's basement. Step outside into the sunlight and grow a humour gland.
What would a Badnarik adminstration really do? They would get the US out of the UN, stop paying UN dues, and stop paying the UN's rent. After that, it's New York's problem...
Duh! The government. Your "solution" to taxes is to give your money away first before the feds can get it. That's like avoiding a mugging by giving your wallet away.
It doesn't matter what philosophy you hold, or how religiously you believe in it, taxes remain involuntary, collected under the threat of imprisonment. My philosophy holds that even if taxation were necessary, its evil nature demands that only the necessary functions of government should be funded by it.
Providing a college education is not a <gasp> necessary function of government. Someplace you have to draw the line. Why do you draw it at four years of college education? Isn't a two year associate degree sufficient? Considering your level of outrage, probably not. So what about six years instead? Why not ensure that every poor child has the funds to get a master's degree? Or what about a doctorate? My employer has a job opening right now for a PhD. It's unfair that this job is limited to only those from a middle or upper class background.
Anyway, what would you rather base the education system on? Corporations, which, of course, always have your best interest in mind?
Who said anything about corporations? Corporations can only exist through government grant and at the expense of private business. Therefore many libertarians oppose the laws of incorporation.
Because no company would start shorting your kids education just to make a higher profit.
As much as I dislike corporations, I don't fall prey to the delusion that government is somehow better. We have one hundred years of government education in the US that tells us otherwise. We have to look no further than the current and prior administrations to see evidence of government short changing our children for crass political purposes. The US education system used to be number one in science and math. Now we're somewhere in 29th or 39th place. But at the same time we are spending more than ever before on education.
It's almost like the war on drugs. No, it's EXACTLY like the war on drugs. The more money we through at the problem, the bigger the problem becomes. For the past sixty years we've been foolishly subsidizing illiteracy.
A private education system will not be perfect. No one anywhere is claiming that. It's only the statists that make that claim.
...and realized that he would get a second chance to photograph such a historic event.
A "second chance" at history? While we may quibble over the definition of "staged", that photograph has been erroneous portrayed for the last fifty years as the initial flag raising event.
But be that as it may, I'm still distressed that the Slashdot population would so quickly mod my post down as "troll". Did I offend someone? Since when has Slashdot modded down misinformation? Heck, most of the time it gets modded up!
I think we need to clean up the Constitution so that we're all guaranteed one vote, with equal access to that vote (that right is not there now.)
Oh, but that right is there now!
If you are a citizen of the USA, and are not a convicted felon, and are over eighteen years of age. then you have the firm legal right to cast one vote and have access to that vote equal to everyone else.
It may not work 100% in practice, but there's no need to place new laws on the books because the laws are ALREADY THERE. If you find an eligible voter being disenfranchised, then take the matter to the courts, not the legislature.
Fuck you for saying that just because their parents couldn't afford to send them to college that they don't deserve to go. Fuck you for condemning unprivileged people to having less opportunity for education than upper-middle class kids. And fuck you very much for judging someone who went to college and got a good job to be equal to a bank robber.
Yeah, fuck me for not wanting to base the education system on violent coercion and taxation at the point of a gun.
The truth about the Great Depression is that the government got us into it and the government kept us in it. The postwar boom was fifteen years of catching up.
even though the Democrats sponsored the draft bill in the House, they weren't really serious about it
If they weren't serious about it then they should never have sponsored it! Let me be perfectly blunt here: If a congressman introduces a bill, and it isn't April Fool's day, then he's fucking serious about it. This isn't a game. If they want to make a statement then they can jolly well march with signs and banners like the rest of us!
The libertarian position on social security is simple: Grandma was swindled! For the forty most productive years of her life she and grandpa were encouraged *NOT* to save any money for retirement. The government promised them a retirement, and by damn as long as the government is able to it needs to live up to that promise. The government swindled them out of a real retirement, and paying them the promised income is how it performs restitution.
Social security is a fraud. None of the money you pay in is invested. For what you pay in, you could retire a multimillionare.
But that doesn't mean we have to perpetuate social security forever. Very few libertarians advocate an instantaneous abolishing of social security payments. Instead they advocate a "build down". Keep paying the current retirees 100%. But only pay 50% to those retiring in twenty years, and nothing to those just entering the workforce today. In the meantime we start encouraging retirement investing by eliminating the caps on IRA contributions, and abolishing capital gains for individuals. Cut the social security tax at the same rate you're reducing payments, to give people their own income back to invest.
But even if libertarians never get elected, the current system of social security will go bankrupt. We can either grow cojones now and start planning for its demise, or we can be like Bush and Kerry and hide our heads in the sand until the shit hits the fan.
If you think a Gore administration would have been different, you would be correct. But if you think it would have been better (or worse) you would be in error. He probably would have attacked Iraq. Why? Because he was the VP of an administration that claimed Iraq had WMDs, and the VP of an adminstration that repeatedly conducted airstrikes against Iraq.
Domestically we would still have had a PATRIOT act, especially considering that 99 out of 100 senators voted for it. It might have had a slightly different content, but it would have been just as freedom and privacy restricting. He might not have expanded deficit spending, but neither would he reduce actual spending. He would just pushed through taxes to make up for it. And with a recent terrorist attack, he would have gotten it.
Nope, the world would have been different, but it wouldn't necessarily have been better.
Who marked this insightful? Funny maybe, insightful, NO! The truth of the matter is that Osama Bin Laden wants both Bush and Kerry dead. He is not a Democrat or Republican. He is not a conservative or liberal. He is a depraved evil man preying on the emotional weaknesses of his followers. He attacked the USA because it symbolizes everything his philosophy of hatred is against. He has attacked other nations standing as similar symbols of liberty, democracy, economic capitalism and religious tolerance.
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I suppose that's why I get a severe asthma attack from second hand smoke.
I used to get severe asthma attacks from cut grass, ragweed, and horse dander. Maybe we should create taxes to support incessent PSUs on the dangers of cutting grass and standing near horses.
p.s. I am a non-smoker. But I guess I haven't been off the nicotine long enough for me to start hating liberty like all the other non-smokers.
You're absolutely correct. The western front was not a "real war".
This is likely because of the great number of Linux server
Wait! Everytime Microsoft makes this argument in defense of Windows shoddy security, Slashdot laughs them down. Suddenly the argument is valid for Linux?
Marlin Perkins: "Notice the gyrobeast in its native habitat, as it grazes on tender shoots of the falafeltree."
(Estimation of this turning into an anti/pro-database battle: 35%)
I would say 100%, because you already started the debate with your stupid (but very on topic) boast. The 35% is just an estimation of someone deciding to bite your troll.
Is there something I'm missing here?
...and while I've no personal experience...
Oh man, where to begin...
Okay, first thing you're missing is a brain. No problem with fanatical devotion, you've got plenty of that. But the brain is definitely missing.
We know.
Bob: "With the magic of Gentoo, I'm already running KDE 3.4!"
Joe: "KDE 3.4 isn't out yet."
Bob: "Like I said, with the magic of Gentoo..."
They're fiction because you can't get a job unless you fictionalize them. I'm thinking of putting down Olympic Gold Medalist on my next resume.
A coworker is out looking for another job. He had to lie on his resume about knowing C++ because many companies demand it. One company wanted C++ expertise, even though the position was for Linux device drivers.
One manager at my work boasted that his group's code didn't have any bugs in it. Whenever a bug was assigned to his group, he would reassign it elsewhere. Seriously! When challenged on it he would get very insulted.
Then one day a bug he reassigned got fixed. The root cause was code that the manager had written back in that distant two week period when he actually touched code. Rather than tell him who wrote it, the other managers talked about the "really lame" coding error. We he got all righteous about the bug as well, they told him he wrote it.
I've followed you second link, and I still don't see any "disagreement" with BSD. The second hand rumour (and that's all it is, a second hand rumour) of your link involves DEC, not BSD.
You asserted that Phil inspired the modern BSD daemon (Beastie). This is absolutely incorrect. For the link happy, here's the pictoral history of Beasty.
The guy once said "I know how hard is for you to put food on your family", case dismissed.
I guess the new rule for presidential candidates is no malapropisms, no dyslexia, no gaffes, no speech disorders or impediments of any kind.
As others have already stated, it was a joke. If you cannot recognize that, it's because you've been spending too much time in your parent's basement. Step outside into the sunlight and grow a humour gland.
What would a Badnarik adminstration really do? They would get the US out of the UN, stop paying UN dues, and stop paying the UN's rent. After that, it's New York's problem...
Where is this gun & who's holding it?
Duh! The government. Your "solution" to taxes is to give your money away first before the feds can get it. That's like avoiding a mugging by giving your wallet away.
It doesn't matter what philosophy you hold, or how religiously you believe in it, taxes remain involuntary, collected under the threat of imprisonment. My philosophy holds that even if taxation were necessary, its evil nature demands that only the necessary functions of government should be funded by it.
Providing a college education is not a <gasp> necessary function of government. Someplace you have to draw the line. Why do you draw it at four years of college education? Isn't a two year associate degree sufficient? Considering your level of outrage, probably not. So what about six years instead? Why not ensure that every poor child has the funds to get a master's degree? Or what about a doctorate? My employer has a job opening right now for a PhD. It's unfair that this job is limited to only those from a middle or upper class background.
Anyway, what would you rather base the education system on? Corporations, which, of course, always have your best interest in mind?
Who said anything about corporations? Corporations can only exist through government grant and at the expense of private business. Therefore many libertarians oppose the laws of incorporation.
Because no company would start shorting your kids education just to make a higher profit.
As much as I dislike corporations, I don't fall prey to the delusion that government is somehow better. We have one hundred years of government education in the US that tells us otherwise. We have to look no further than the current and prior administrations to see evidence of government short changing our children for crass political purposes. The US education system used to be number one in science and math. Now we're somewhere in 29th or 39th place. But at the same time we are spending more than ever before on education.
It's almost like the war on drugs. No, it's EXACTLY like the war on drugs. The more money we through at the problem, the bigger the problem becomes. For the past sixty years we've been foolishly subsidizing illiteracy.
A private education system will not be perfect. No one anywhere is claiming that. It's only the statists that make that claim.
...and realized that he would get a second chance to photograph such a historic event.
A "second chance" at history? While we may quibble over the definition of "staged", that photograph has been erroneous portrayed for the last fifty years as the initial flag raising event.
But be that as it may, I'm still distressed that the Slashdot population would so quickly mod my post down as "troll". Did I offend someone? Since when has Slashdot modded down misinformation? Heck, most of the time it gets modded up!
Who the hell marked this as "troll"? Get your freaking facts straight before you start marking stuff down!
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What a surprise
Frankly, I'm shocked. I am beside myself in outrage. It is unfathomable to me that Slashdot would ever post a story with a misleading abstract.
I think this is going to permanently tarnish Slashdot's reputation of fair, honest and unbiased reporting.
I think we need to clean up the Constitution so that we're all guaranteed one vote, with equal access to that vote (that right is not there now.)
Oh, but that right is there now!
If you are a citizen of the USA, and are not a convicted felon, and are over eighteen years of age. then you have the firm legal right to cast one vote and have access to that vote equal to everyone else.
It may not work 100% in practice, but there's no need to place new laws on the books because the laws are ALREADY THERE. If you find an eligible voter being disenfranchised, then take the matter to the courts, not the legislature.
Hmmm, you do know that the famous flag raising photo was *staged*? You know that, don't you?
What disagreement?!?! There is no disagreement! Do you guys just get bored over the weekend and make up stuff?
Fuck you for saying that just because their parents couldn't afford to send them to college that they don't deserve to go. Fuck you for condemning unprivileged people to having less opportunity for education than upper-middle class kids. And fuck you very much for judging someone who went to college and got a good job to be equal to a bank robber.
Yeah, fuck me for not wanting to base the education system on violent coercion and taxation at the point of a gun.
The truth about the Great Depression is that the government got us into it and the government kept us in it. The postwar boom was fifteen years of catching up.
A quick link to a F.E.E. article: The Mysteries of the Great Depression Finally Solved
even though the Democrats sponsored the draft bill in the House, they weren't really serious about it
If they weren't serious about it then they should never have sponsored it! Let me be perfectly blunt here: If a congressman introduces a bill, and it isn't April Fool's day, then he's fucking serious about it. This isn't a game. If they want to make a statement then they can jolly well march with signs and banners like the rest of us!
The libertarian position on social security is simple: Grandma was swindled! For the forty most productive years of her life she and grandpa were encouraged *NOT* to save any money for retirement. The government promised them a retirement, and by damn as long as the government is able to it needs to live up to that promise. The government swindled them out of a real retirement, and paying them the promised income is how it performs restitution.
Social security is a fraud. None of the money you pay in is invested. For what you pay in, you could retire a multimillionare.
But that doesn't mean we have to perpetuate social security forever. Very few libertarians advocate an instantaneous abolishing of social security payments. Instead they advocate a "build down". Keep paying the current retirees 100%. But only pay 50% to those retiring in twenty years, and nothing to those just entering the workforce today. In the meantime we start encouraging retirement investing by eliminating the caps on IRA contributions, and abolishing capital gains for individuals. Cut the social security tax at the same rate you're reducing payments, to give people their own income back to invest.
But even if libertarians never get elected, the current system of social security will go bankrupt. We can either grow cojones now and start planning for its demise, or we can be like Bush and Kerry and hide our heads in the sand until the shit hits the fan.
If you think a Gore administration would have been different, you would be correct. But if you think it would have been better (or worse) you would be in error. He probably would have attacked Iraq. Why? Because he was the VP of an administration that claimed Iraq had WMDs, and the VP of an adminstration that repeatedly conducted airstrikes against Iraq.
Domestically we would still have had a PATRIOT act, especially considering that 99 out of 100 senators voted for it. It might have had a slightly different content, but it would have been just as freedom and privacy restricting. He might not have expanded deficit spending, but neither would he reduce actual spending. He would just pushed through taxes to make up for it. And with a recent terrorist attack, he would have gotten it.
Nope, the world would have been different, but it wouldn't necessarily have been better.
Who marked this insightful? Funny maybe, insightful, NO! The truth of the matter is that Osama Bin Laden wants both Bush and Kerry dead. He is not a Democrat or Republican. He is not a conservative or liberal. He is a depraved evil man preying on the emotional weaknesses of his followers. He attacked the USA because it symbolizes everything his philosophy of hatred is against. He has attacked other nations standing as similar symbols of liberty, democracy, economic capitalism and religious tolerance.