non-conventional means of energy shall soon be required since there aren't that many natural resources available anymore.
Thank you, Thomas Malthus!
the current gas prices do seem an indicator of that
Surely it couldn't be because of problems in the Middle East, the fact that the extensive US petroleum reserves remain off the market? While you are correct that supply affects the price of oil, when nearly all petroleum production is controlled by a single cartel, you cannot conclude from it that we've just run out.
Really, shouldn't CVS logs be as much "proof" you wrote it as you need?
Not at all. Your CVS logs will show who committed the code, but not who wrote it. The commit also needs to attribute the author. Looking at logs for various projects, some do this, but many do not.
Besides which, Linux isn't under CVS, it's under Bitkeeper. And the Bitkeeper repository is still pretty new.
Also, I would imagine that pretty much every kernel code submission is traceable to it's submitter.
Actually, no. It can be pretty difficult to know where a particular line of code ultimately came from. It can be done, but it will be time consuming. That's because Linus has lots of filters in place before the code reaches him, and historically, no formal repository for the submissions to sort it out. So while you can find out relatively fast that the John gave a patch to Linus, it's much harder to find out who gave that patch to John, and who gave it to the person who gave it to John.
You Linux advocates need to stop taking every piece of constructive criticism as an attack! If there is a problem, you should go fix it, instead of arguing that it doesn't exist.
But I guess from a PR perspective this guy has a good point.
This "guy" is the Grand Master of unencumbered, free and open software. He's also a 32nd Degree Kernel Hacker. When he speaks, you should listen.
Where? Here? You've got to be joking. The economic system in the US is not "capitalism". It is "corporatism".
Corporatism is a bastard cousin of fascism. It is not private ownership of capital, as in capitalism, but government sponsored mass ownership of capital.
You're talking about corporations. Corporations are not natural entities. They have been created by governments. In world where markets are governed by market incentives instead of laws, there would be no corporations.
Yes, market incentives make Walmart try to bankrupt the economy of small towns. But that only happens because Walmart is a corporation. You don't see small mom-and-pops doing this, or even wanting to.
When there's no law, there are market incentives to Do The Right Thing.
For a while, we saw that at work. During the late 90s, companies treated employees extremely well. Any hint of employee disatisfaction over privacy issues would have had the executives apologizing on hands and knees.
But it's a different world now. They still can't piss off the customer, but there's nothing stopping them from pissing off the employee. Of course, to be fair, when the next boom hits, many companies might find themselves without employees...
p.s. I am not seeing the lack of laws as the problem, but rather the nature of the corporation as an impersonal entity.
Japan has lost it's status as an economic powerhouse. The only reason they had it in the past was their near-religious loyalty to the company. But that's slipping away and they can no longer afford to treat half of their population as merely a pretty face.
No, you have it backwards. The Indian employees in my company who are resident have a normal age distribution. By "resident", I mean living here for more than three months. They may be legal residents, H1Bs, student interns, etc. I would guess an average age of 40.
On the other hand, thopse who will go back to India a month after we've trained them how to do our job, are uniformly under the age of thirty. They're kids.
If you want to deeply effect the psyche of whites the image of the black rapist is a timeless classic.
Ah, so the Willie Horton ad was racist simply because people want it to be. For whatever reason you want to come up with, the demographics of the prison and ex-prison population is drastically skewed. There simply were more black rapists furloughed by Dukakis than white rapists. Do you really racial quotas in political ads? Really? Willie Horton was picked simply because he was a notorious example of a furloughed criminal.
Besides which, the myth that rape by a black man is worse than a rape by a non-black man is itself the epitome of racism. I level the charge of racism at Michael Moore! It is Michael Moore who is using the Willie Horton ad to shock people on the basis of race! It is Michael Moore who believes that white women are more afraid of black rapists than white rapists, as if there were different degrees of rape based on race!
For shame!
There are a few more but I'm tired.
I'm sure you are. But I'm still not losing any sleep worrying if the Bush administration is going to savage me over my criticisms.
Fact is Bush senior did make those ads and Heston did say all those things whether it was all in one speech or not.
You just said "Bush did not make those ads". You said those words. Perhaps not in that order, but you did say them. See how easy it is to lie when you have "creative control" over the order of words?
As for the Willie Horton ad are you also equally outraged at how George H.W. Bush's campaign used this ad in the first place, to use the race card to destroy Dukakis.
I remember those ads. Maybe you don't, but I do. They were not racist. Moore's re-editing of implied that they were, but they were not racist. He even added the caption! An attack on Dukakis' furlough program is not racist. Using a concrete example of his program's failure is not racist. I'm getting sick of this shit that anything that isn't liberal is racist.
It does take balls to go after an administration with a reputation for savaging its critics.
Please, get a life! Your pretending to be on the side of martyrs isn't funny. Yes, there are prisoners of Gitmo, and yes, they may be there for the wrong reasons, but none of them are there for criticizing the President. Save your persecution complex for when you're being persecuted. Otherwise when it really happens no one will believe you.
It's very disturbing to me that Michael Moore would deliberately slant this event to portray his own ideology. It's bad enough that a disturbed kid from a crack house would shoot another kid. But to pretend that this was a normal kid from a healthy family is beyond the pale.
No, it's pretty accurate. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000. I won't vote for him this year either. But that doesn't mean I have to rally behind the Michael Moore and pretend that his lies are the truth.
His last documentary opened with a Willie Horton political ad. Unfortunately, that ad was doctored. It wasn't genuine. It was a splice of two other ads, with a Moore added caption.
He then proceeds to show the NRA holding meetings immediately after school shootings, even though in the first case (Denver) the meeting was scheduled months in advance, and in the latter (Flint) the meeting was months after the shooting took place. During this segment, Moore showed a Heston speech that was a complete fabrication. Moore spliced together words from different speeches. You can even see the Heston's coat and tie change!
Other fabriciations abound throughout the movie. Moore doesn't make documentaries, he makes fiction.
Can you please locate a biased news article and point it out to me?
You miss the point. Fox News is actually somewhat centrist. But because all other US media is to the left, it seems to liberals that Fox is to the right. To the left, "fair and balanced" just naturally seems reactionary.
I'm not a conservative, I'm a libertarian. I can't find any conservative bias in Fox News. I might see some bias in their *opinion* shows, but not in their news. Of course, I see much more bias in the mainstream opinion shows in the opposite direction.
p.s. But I still find Fox News quite shallow. Just as shallow as CBS, CNN, ABC, etc...
Here is the difference: Fox News is still news. It may be biased, but it is still news. It still reports the events of the day. On the other hand, not only is a Moore "documentary" biased, it's a gross distortion of the truth. No, it's more than that, it's a deliberate lie.
I can handle a biased documentary. As others have said, all documentaries are biased to some degree or another. But Michael Moore does not produces documentaries, he produces FICTION.
At work I have to use Windows. I've got Mozilla mail, but also have to use Outlook at times. Please tell me, in both applications, how to enable reading messages in plain text. As a hardcore Unix user, this is something that seems to be beyond my skills to do.
Probably why the Phillipines are not an economic powerhouse... "I see you're a Rhodes scholar and MacArthur Grant Recipient, Miss Domingo. However you only wear a B-cup, so we cannot hire you at this time."
I can understand (but not necessarily agree) wanting a young pretty woman for your receptionist, but it's economically stupid to demand them everywhere else.
That explains it. All of the Indian employees from India that are arriving at my company for "replacment training" seem quite young. Yet the resident Indian employees seem to have a normal age distribution. I thought this was because my company got into the outsourcing fad late, and was only able to hire very recent college grads. Now I am starting to realize that over-30 is but another caste over there.
Last I checked, there were over a hundred Linux distributions. I'm sure I'm low on that mark by several hundred. As for popular distributions, there's at least a dozen. They're not all Redhat! There's Mandrake, Fedora, SuSE, Xandros, Lindows, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Lycoris, etc. Then there are three major BSD systems to choose from, along with half a dozen minor offshoots.
The reason there are so many choices is that everyone is different. Did you ever stop to think that you might actually be in the minority in your zeal to tell me I'm wrong for pointing out a choice to a newbie?
I'm not most people. Actually, most people aren't most people. Rather than tell a newbie he MUST do something the "most people" way, I prefer to give him or her a choice. If that's a crime, come arrest me.
install e.g. Linux on them and then train whoever it is these PCs are going to be given to.
Why is it that the training costs always come up when Linux is mentioned, but never with Windows. You didn't mention the training costs for Windows. Do you think it doesn't exist?
These are charities. They're not using WinXP. They're using whatever's on their current system. That might be Windows 3.1, MSDOS, OS9, AppleDOS, etc.
They are accustomed to a certain level of usability, both regarding speed and user interface.
If that's true, then why the problem with using that 1995 sytem? Or are your using "accustomed" in a manner in which I am not aware?
If people truly are accustomed to a certain level of speed and a certain specific interface, then why the heck isn't Windows 3.1 still the major consumer operating system? The history of the PC has been one of a constantly changing speed and style, not the opposite.
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non-conventional means of energy shall soon be required since there aren't that many natural resources available anymore.
Thank you, Thomas Malthus!
the current gas prices do seem an indicator of that
Surely it couldn't be because of problems in the Middle East, the fact that the extensive US petroleum reserves remain off the market? While you are correct that supply affects the price of oil, when nearly all petroleum production is controlled by a single cartel, you cannot conclude from it that we've just run out.
Really, shouldn't CVS logs be as much "proof" you wrote it as you need?
Not at all. Your CVS logs will show who committed the code, but not who wrote it. The commit also needs to attribute the author. Looking at logs for various projects, some do this, but many do not.
Besides which, Linux isn't under CVS, it's under Bitkeeper. And the Bitkeeper repository is still pretty new.
Also, I would imagine that pretty much every kernel code submission is traceable to it's submitter.
Actually, no. It can be pretty difficult to know where a particular line of code ultimately came from. It can be done, but it will be time consuming. That's because Linus has lots of filters in place before the code reaches him, and historically, no formal repository for the submissions to sort it out. So while you can find out relatively fast that the John gave a patch to Linus, it's much harder to find out who gave that patch to John, and who gave it to the person who gave it to John.
You Linux advocates need to stop taking every piece of constructive criticism as an attack! If there is a problem, you should go fix it, instead of arguing that it doesn't exist.
But I guess from a PR perspective this guy has a good point.
This "guy" is the Grand Master of unencumbered, free and open software. He's also a 32nd Degree Kernel Hacker. When he speaks, you should listen.
unbridled, unhindered, wanton capitalism
Where? Here? You've got to be joking. The economic system in the US is not "capitalism". It is "corporatism".
Corporatism is a bastard cousin of fascism. It is not private ownership of capital, as in capitalism, but government sponsored mass ownership of capital.
Was there in discusson in class on WHY there is this difference? Unless this is a law school, solutions are more important than the problems.
You're talking about corporations. Corporations are not natural entities. They have been created by governments. In world where markets are governed by market incentives instead of laws, there would be no corporations.
Yes, market incentives make Walmart try to bankrupt the economy of small towns. But that only happens because Walmart is a corporation. You don't see small mom-and-pops doing this, or even wanting to.
When there's no law, there are market incentives to Do The Right Thing.
For a while, we saw that at work. During the late 90s, companies treated employees extremely well. Any hint of employee disatisfaction over privacy issues would have had the executives apologizing on hands and knees.
But it's a different world now. They still can't piss off the customer, but there's nothing stopping them from pissing off the employee. Of course, to be fair, when the next boom hits, many companies might find themselves without employees...
p.s. I am not seeing the lack of laws as the problem, but rather the nature of the corporation as an impersonal entity.
IMNSHO, much of this is caused by the Catholic Church
BS. You cannot blame this on Catholicism, because there are dozens of poor overpopulated nations without significant Catholic populations.
Japan has lost it's status as an economic powerhouse. The only reason they had it in the past was their near-religious loyalty to the company. But that's slipping away and they can no longer afford to treat half of their population as merely a pretty face.
No, you have it backwards. The Indian employees in my company who are resident have a normal age distribution. By "resident", I mean living here for more than three months. They may be legal residents, H1Bs, student interns, etc. I would guess an average age of 40.
On the other hand, thopse who will go back to India a month after we've trained them how to do our job, are uniformly under the age of thirty. They're kids.
If you want to deeply effect the psyche of whites the image of the black rapist is a timeless classic.
Ah, so the Willie Horton ad was racist simply because people want it to be. For whatever reason you want to come up with, the demographics of the prison and ex-prison population is drastically skewed. There simply were more black rapists furloughed by Dukakis than white rapists. Do you really racial quotas in political ads? Really? Willie Horton was picked simply because he was a notorious example of a furloughed criminal.
Besides which, the myth that rape by a black man is worse than a rape by a non-black man is itself the epitome of racism. I level the charge of racism at Michael Moore! It is Michael Moore who is using the Willie Horton ad to shock people on the basis of race! It is Michael Moore who believes that white women are more afraid of black rapists than white rapists, as if there were different degrees of rape based on race!
For shame!
There are a few more but I'm tired.
I'm sure you are. But I'm still not losing any sleep worrying if the Bush administration is going to savage me over my criticisms.
And people call Windows "easy to use"? Hah!
Fact is Bush senior did make those ads and Heston did say all those things whether it was all in one speech or not.
You just said "Bush did not make those ads". You said those words. Perhaps not in that order, but you did say them. See how easy it is to lie when you have "creative control" over the order of words?
As for the Willie Horton ad are you also equally outraged at how George H.W. Bush's campaign used this ad in the first place, to use the race card to destroy Dukakis.
I remember those ads. Maybe you don't, but I do. They were not racist. Moore's re-editing of implied that they were, but they were not racist. He even added the caption! An attack on Dukakis' furlough program is not racist. Using a concrete example of his program's failure is not racist. I'm getting sick of this shit that anything that isn't liberal is racist.
It does take balls to go after an administration with a reputation for savaging its critics.
Please, get a life! Your pretending to be on the side of martyrs isn't funny. Yes, there are prisoners of Gitmo, and yes, they may be there for the wrong reasons, but none of them are there for criticizing the President. Save your persecution complex for when you're being persecuted. Otherwise when it really happens no one will believe you.
Is this not very disturbing to anyone else?
It's very disturbing to me that Michael Moore would deliberately slant this event to portray his own ideology. It's bad enough that a disturbed kid from a crack house would shoot another kid. But to pretend that this was a normal kid from a healthy family is beyond the pale.
calling Moore's work "fiction" is pretty weak.
No, it's pretty accurate. I didn't vote for Bush in 2000. I won't vote for him this year either. But that doesn't mean I have to rally behind the Michael Moore and pretend that his lies are the truth.
His last documentary opened with a Willie Horton political ad. Unfortunately, that ad was doctored. It wasn't genuine. It was a splice of two other ads, with a Moore added caption.
He then proceeds to show the NRA holding meetings immediately after school shootings, even though in the first case (Denver) the meeting was scheduled months in advance, and in the latter (Flint) the meeting was months after the shooting took place. During this segment, Moore showed a Heston speech that was a complete fabrication. Moore spliced together words from different speeches. You can even see the Heston's coat and tie change!
Other fabriciations abound throughout the movie. Moore doesn't make documentaries, he makes fiction.
Every film contains film clips. Is every film a documentary? Of course not!
Can you please locate a biased news article and point it out to me?
You miss the point. Fox News is actually somewhat centrist. But because all other US media is to the left, it seems to liberals that Fox is to the right. To the left, "fair and balanced" just naturally seems reactionary.
I'm not a conservative, I'm a libertarian. I can't find any conservative bias in Fox News. I might see some bias in their *opinion* shows, but not in their news. Of course, I see much more bias in the mainstream opinion shows in the opposite direction.
p.s. But I still find Fox News quite shallow. Just as shallow as CBS, CNN, ABC, etc...
Here is the difference: Fox News is still news. It may be biased, but it is still news. It still reports the events of the day. On the other hand, not only is a Moore "documentary" biased, it's a gross distortion of the truth. No, it's more than that, it's a deliberate lie.
I can handle a biased documentary. As others have said, all documentaries are biased to some degree or another. But Michael Moore does not produces documentaries, he produces FICTION.
At work I have to use Windows. I've got Mozilla mail, but also have to use Outlook at times. Please tell me, in both applications, how to enable reading messages in plain text. As a hardcore Unix user, this is something that seems to be beyond my skills to do.
Probably why the Phillipines are not an economic powerhouse... "I see you're a Rhodes scholar and MacArthur Grant Recipient, Miss Domingo. However you only wear a B-cup, so we cannot hire you at this time."
I can understand (but not necessarily agree) wanting a young pretty woman for your receptionist, but it's economically stupid to demand them everywhere else.
That explains it. All of the Indian employees from India that are arriving at my company for "replacment training" seem quite young. Yet the resident Indian employees seem to have a normal age distribution. I thought this was because my company got into the outsourcing fad late, and was only able to hire very recent college grads. Now I am starting to realize that over-30 is but another caste over there.
Last I checked, there were over a hundred Linux distributions. I'm sure I'm low on that mark by several hundred. As for popular distributions, there's at least a dozen. They're not all Redhat! There's Mandrake, Fedora, SuSE, Xandros, Lindows, Debian, Gentoo, Slackware, Lycoris, etc. Then there are three major BSD systems to choose from, along with half a dozen minor offshoots.
The reason there are so many choices is that everyone is different. Did you ever stop to think that you might actually be in the minority in your zeal to tell me I'm wrong for pointing out a choice to a newbie?
Most people don't learn through immersion
I'm not most people. Actually, most people aren't most people. Rather than tell a newbie he MUST do something the "most people" way, I prefer to give him or her a choice. If that's a crime, come arrest me.
install e.g. Linux on them and then train whoever it is these PCs are going to be given to.
Why is it that the training costs always come up when Linux is mentioned, but never with Windows. You didn't mention the training costs for Windows. Do you think it doesn't exist?
These are charities. They're not using WinXP. They're using whatever's on their current system. That might be Windows 3.1, MSDOS, OS9, AppleDOS, etc.
They are accustomed to a certain level of usability, both regarding speed and user interface.
If that's true, then why the problem with using that 1995 sytem? Or are your using "accustomed" in a manner in which I am not aware?
If people truly are accustomed to a certain level of speed and a certain specific interface, then why the heck isn't Windows 3.1 still the major consumer operating system? The history of the PC has been one of a constantly changing speed and style, not the opposite.