The Democrat Primary is for the purpose of decising the Democrat Candidate. He can still run for office under a few other parties, or as an independent. Believe it or not, the Democrat Party is a private organization. They could choose their candidates by lottery if they wanted, or by caucus (as some states do), or simply executive decision.
Bitching that the Democrat Party of South Carolina won't let him run is like bitching that the Moose Lodge won't let him run for Grand Poobah.
So, how do you explain that healthcare costs are much lower in those countries with more public healthcare
How do you explain the fact that healthcare quality are much lower in those countries with more public healthchare? Canada is notorius for waiting lines while Britain's NHS is a joke.
If you're concerned about the poor, then finance the poor's healthcare directly, with vouchers or similar, and stop fscking up the industry for the rest of us.
EVERY business has the motivation to make a buck. For example, everyone in the food industry has the motivation to make a buck, yet food is still affordable.
The reason markets works more efficiently than government planning, is that EVERYONE has the motivation to make a buck, including consumers. Making lots of bucks in business encourages entry into the field, raising competition lowering prices. Conversely, government regulation of the market discourages entries into the field, lowering competition and raising prices. When government rules dictate that only huge corporations with legions of accountants and lawyers are able to participate in the healthcare industry, then it should be no surprise to anyone that only huge corporations with legions of accountants and lawyers are participating in the healthcare industry.
It would be nice if everything were dirt cheap. But that's not the real world, and never will be. Reality tells us that markets provide goods and services cheaper than government planning can. Free markets aren't perfect, but pretending that government can create a perfect alternative is delusional utopianism.
And no, KDE's not "pulling away" from gnome. Indeed, from what I've seen, gnome is more popular.
I used to think it was only Redhat/Fedora that deliberately crippled KDE in their distros. Every time I run across someone in real life (not Slashdot) who thinks KDE is slow and crippled compared to GNOME, I ask what distro they use. Invariably it's Redhat or Fedora.
I'm a FreeBSD user myself, but will use Slackware if I need proprietary drivers for a laptop. But I recently put Kubuntu on my work laptop. After last week's Kubuntu 7.10, I started to realize that "KDE-friendly" distros will also bloat their KDE. If you want to know what KDE is really like, build a plain vanilla KDE from sources.
p.s. Of course, running a stand-alone window manager will always be faster than any flavor of desktop. If all you want are frames around your windows and an application launcher, stick with Blackbox.
WTF?!?!?! Last time I checked, video drivers were kernel drivers. Start up X.org, then look at the output of lsmod. You'll find a hardware specific video driver has been loaded by the kernel.
Incidentally..."It's been like 60 years" would put us back at the end of WWII and JFK was most certainly not assassinated then...if he had been it would have made it terribly difficult to be President when he was actually assassinated about 44 years ago.
Please don't present facts to conspiracists. It only makes them irritable and confused. Just close the door and walk away very quietly...
I believe you would. I believe every pro-war big-government neocon would abandon the Republican party and vote Democrat. They claim they hate Hillary, but they hate small government more.
We don't have socialized medicine today in the US, and people are NOT dying in the streets. Sheesh. There are several solutions to the high cost of healthcare, but further government interference is not one of them. Bureaucratic regulations and the tax code have moved healthcare from ala carte to carte blanche. No wonder costs are skyrocketing.
If auto insurance was run like healtchare, oil changes would be $400, but would be covered by our employer-chosen autocare provider. Since there's a small flat deductible, you might as well get new tires while they're changing your oil. Unfortunately the poor can't afford these autoplans, can't afford oil changes. But Hillary is coming to the rescue with universal autocare for everyone! Oil changes will be free [sic] for everyone!
A lot of people who hated Bush stayed on in the 2004 election because they just couldn't get up the energy to vote for Kerry. It's sort of like that fake campaign ad for frozen peas. Kerry was the frozen peas.
Don't forget commercial speech! We don't have the freedom of commercial speech either. We can say whatever we want as long as it's not political or commercial. Or offensive. Sorry, let me come in again...
I refuse to touch any GPLv3 code, that isn't at the minimum dual licensed with something else, even the GPLv3. It's simply too complex of a license for me to understand. If I have to touch some at work, I let my boss make the decision. But outside of work I'm not touching it with a ten foot pole. I'll use (load an execute a binary) the software if I have to, but that's the extent of it.
The GPLv3 is like a friend who has a huge Rottweiler guard dog. He tells me to visit him any time, but until he leashes and chains that dog, I ain't going anywhere near his front door.
Of course the correlation relationship still holds! But that correlation relationship is still correlation!
I want to see the study that STARTS with the hypothesis that lead causes crime, accounts for all the other known possible variables, and has a control group. Until then, this is merely a hypothesis.
It seems to me that this environmental hypothesis is testable (and confirmed) far beyond what is attainable for most theories in the social sciences.
It doesn't seem confirmed to me. It's a testable hypothesis, but no followup study has been performed that accounts for other factors. I see a lot of correlation, but without actually testing that hypothesis, including a control group, it remains merely a correlation.
Frankly, this sounds like a bunch of researchers waving some data around in hopes of new funding...
When they release an Open Source driver for a newer card, let me know. There occasional announcement of vague future plans just don't cut it. In the meantime I'm going to back to sleep.
p.s. Oooh! I just dissed ATI! Expect this post to be modded into oblivion within ten minutes.
I find it quite shocking to see them be so cavalier, and even hypocritical, about it. Glad you could wake up. The coffee pot is over there. If you take the last cup, start another batch.
...will the spirit of freedom and idealism remain true
No. So long as Linux advocates undergo orgasms everytime some company releases a proprietary Linux driver, codec or plugin, then the spirit of freedom and idealism will remain tainted and sullied.
I don't have anything against proprietary software, but I find it ironic that the number of people still left in the Linux community still advocating Free Software are dwindled to so few, that they can be counted on Richard Stallman's left hand.
I was assuming that all the moral indignation shown towards Cisco was due to a perception of immorality. If you're morally indignant at them just because you feel like it, then by all means carry on...
It's not common sense. Over half the members of congress co-signed the bill to make the moratorium permanent, but they STILL couldn't get it out to the floor for a vote. That's nuts.
Except that Cisco did nothing immoral in this. While Cisco may have been in technical violation of a law, that is not the same as being immoral. If this was their equipment, then why should they not be able to use it in Brazil? If this was their company equipment, to be used by the company, never to be resold in Brazil, then Cisco has cheated nobody.
Why can't hardware manufacturers do more to certify their hardware for Linux?
1) 95% of their customers want Windows, so it's cheap to certify for Windows. But when 2% of their customers want Linux, that marginal cost of that certificatin rises dramatically.
2) What if I want FreeBSD certification instead? Maybe I can get the gub'ment to stick a gun to Dell's head and force them to put on a "Designed for FreeBSD" sticker as well. And Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, HPUX, yada, yada, yada, Will that new Amiga run on an x86? Then certify it as well! At gunpoint!
3) If you would stop demanding ultra-high-end video cards it would be a heck of a lot easier to certify for any random operating system. When when you keep demanding components that were designed for Windows only, it's shit trying to certify the system. Or did you mean to hold a gun to the component manufacturers as well?
4) Children whine, adults make a choice and then get on with life. The only reason this is an issue is that we have a childish society that wants government to wipe their chins when they dribble their porridge.
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The Democrat Primary is for the purpose of decising the Democrat Candidate. He can still run for office under a few other parties, or as an independent. Believe it or not, the Democrat Party is a private organization. They could choose their candidates by lottery if they wanted, or by caucus (as some states do), or simply executive decision.
Bitching that the Democrat Party of South Carolina won't let him run is like bitching that the Moose Lodge won't let him run for Grand Poobah.
Yes, Slackware does. As soon as this project at work is over, I'm exorcising Kubuntu from the laptop and putting on Slackware.
Yeah, for a quarter it will vibrate for fifteen minutes!
So, how do you explain that healthcare costs are much lower in those countries with more public healthcare
How do you explain the fact that healthcare quality are much lower in those countries with more public healthchare? Canada is notorius for waiting lines while Britain's NHS is a joke.
If you're concerned about the poor, then finance the poor's healthcare directly, with vouchers or similar, and stop fscking up the industry for the rest of us.
EVERY business has the motivation to make a buck. For example, everyone in the food industry has the motivation to make a buck, yet food is still affordable.
The reason markets works more efficiently than government planning, is that EVERYONE has the motivation to make a buck, including consumers. Making lots of bucks in business encourages entry into the field, raising competition lowering prices. Conversely, government regulation of the market discourages entries into the field, lowering competition and raising prices. When government rules dictate that only huge corporations with legions of accountants and lawyers are able to participate in the healthcare industry, then it should be no surprise to anyone that only huge corporations with legions of accountants and lawyers are participating in the healthcare industry.
It would be nice if everything were dirt cheap. But that's not the real world, and never will be. Reality tells us that markets provide goods and services cheaper than government planning can. Free markets aren't perfect, but pretending that government can create a perfect alternative is delusional utopianism.
And no, KDE's not "pulling away" from gnome. Indeed, from what I've seen, gnome is more popular.
I used to think it was only Redhat/Fedora that deliberately crippled KDE in their distros. Every time I run across someone in real life (not Slashdot) who thinks KDE is slow and crippled compared to GNOME, I ask what distro they use. Invariably it's Redhat or Fedora.
I'm a FreeBSD user myself, but will use Slackware if I need proprietary drivers for a laptop. But I recently put Kubuntu on my work laptop. After last week's Kubuntu 7.10, I started to realize that "KDE-friendly" distros will also bloat their KDE. If you want to know what KDE is really like, build a plain vanilla KDE from sources.
p.s. Of course, running a stand-alone window manager will always be faster than any flavor of desktop. If all you want are frames around your windows and an application launcher, stick with Blackbox.
Too bad that is not a kernel issue.
WTF?!?!?! Last time I checked, video drivers were kernel drivers. Start up X.org, then look at the output of lsmod. You'll find a hardware specific video driver has been loaded by the kernel.
Incidentally..."It's been like 60 years" would put us back at the end of WWII and JFK was most certainly not assassinated then...if he had been it would have made it terribly difficult to be President when he was actually assassinated about 44 years ago.
Please don't present facts to conspiracists. It only makes them irritable and confused. Just close the door and walk away very quietly...
I believe you would. I believe every pro-war big-government neocon would abandon the Republican party and vote Democrat. They claim they hate Hillary, but they hate small government more.
Fine, the Democrats can have all of you!
We don't have socialized medicine today in the US, and people are NOT dying in the streets. Sheesh. There are several solutions to the high cost of healthcare, but further government interference is not one of them. Bureaucratic regulations and the tax code have moved healthcare from ala carte to carte blanche. No wonder costs are skyrocketing.
If auto insurance was run like healtchare, oil changes would be $400, but would be covered by our employer-chosen autocare provider. Since there's a small flat deductible, you might as well get new tires while they're changing your oil. Unfortunately the poor can't afford these autoplans, can't afford oil changes. But Hillary is coming to the rescue with universal autocare for everyone! Oil changes will be free [sic] for everyone!
A lot of people who hated Bush stayed on in the 2004 election because they just couldn't get up the energy to vote for Kerry. It's sort of like that fake campaign ad for frozen peas. Kerry was the frozen peas.
Don't forget commercial speech! We don't have the freedom of commercial speech either. We can say whatever we want as long as it's not political or commercial. Or offensive. Sorry, let me come in again...
I'm a realist. I don't think he's going to win. But I'm still voting for him!
...that isn't at the minimum dual licensed with something else, even the GPLv3
Whoops, I meant "GPLv2".
I refuse to touch any GPLv3 code, that isn't at the minimum dual licensed with something else, even the GPLv3. It's simply too complex of a license for me to understand. If I have to touch some at work, I let my boss make the decision. But outside of work I'm not touching it with a ten foot pole. I'll use (load an execute a binary) the software if I have to, but that's the extent of it.
The GPLv3 is like a friend who has a huge Rottweiler guard dog. He tells me to visit him any time, but until he leashes and chains that dog, I ain't going anywhere near his front door.
The relationship still holds.
Of course the correlation relationship still holds! But that correlation relationship is still correlation!
I want to see the study that STARTS with the hypothesis that lead causes crime, accounts for all the other known possible variables, and has a control group. Until then, this is merely a hypothesis.
It's not junk science, it's junk reporting.
It seems to me that this environmental hypothesis is testable (and confirmed) far beyond what is attainable for most theories in the social sciences.
It doesn't seem confirmed to me. It's a testable hypothesis, but no followup study has been performed that accounts for other factors. I see a lot of correlation, but without actually testing that hypothesis, including a control group, it remains merely a correlation.
Frankly, this sounds like a bunch of researchers waving some data around in hopes of new funding...
Irrelevant. We were talking about 195 children in a DIFFERENT study.
When they release an Open Source driver for a newer card, let me know. There occasional announcement of vague future plans just don't cut it. In the meantime I'm going to back to sleep.
p.s. Oooh! I just dissed ATI! Expect this post to be modded into oblivion within ten minutes.
I find it quite shocking to see them be so cavalier, and even hypocritical, about it.
Glad you could wake up. The coffee pot is over there. If you take the last cup, start another batch.
No. So long as Linux advocates undergo orgasms everytime some company releases a proprietary Linux driver, codec or plugin, then the spirit of freedom and idealism will remain tainted and sullied.
I don't have anything against proprietary software, but I find it ironic that the number of people still left in the Linux community still advocating Free Software are dwindled to so few, that they can be counted on Richard Stallman's left hand.
I was assuming that all the moral indignation shown towards Cisco was due to a perception of immorality. If you're morally indignant at them just because you feel like it, then by all means carry on...
It's not common sense. Over half the members of congress co-signed the bill to make the moratorium permanent, but they STILL couldn't get it out to the floor for a vote. That's nuts.
Except that Cisco did nothing immoral in this. While Cisco may have been in technical violation of a law, that is not the same as being immoral. If this was their equipment, then why should they not be able to use it in Brazil? If this was their company equipment, to be used by the company, never to be resold in Brazil, then Cisco has cheated nobody.
Why can't hardware manufacturers do more to certify their hardware for Linux?
1) 95% of their customers want Windows, so it's cheap to certify for Windows. But when 2% of their customers want Linux, that marginal cost of that certificatin rises dramatically.
2) What if I want FreeBSD certification instead? Maybe I can get the gub'ment to stick a gun to Dell's head and force them to put on a "Designed for FreeBSD" sticker as well. And Solaris, NetBSD, OpenBSD, HPUX, yada, yada, yada, Will that new Amiga run on an x86? Then certify it as well! At gunpoint!
3) If you would stop demanding ultra-high-end video cards it would be a heck of a lot easier to certify for any random operating system. When when you keep demanding components that were designed for Windows only, it's shit trying to certify the system. Or did you mean to hold a gun to the component manufacturers as well?
4) Children whine, adults make a choice and then get on with life. The only reason this is an issue is that we have a childish society that wants government to wipe their chins when they dribble their porridge.