Truth is relative. If you don't like some facts or evidences, simply ignore them and adhere to your "higher" truth. No need to separate LGF's snarky commentary from the actual facts, simply dismiss everything they say and believe whatever you want.
It's easy to be a member of the reality based community when you get to pick and choose your reality.
Congressmen, as many others here have noted, don't read the bills they vote for. One more sentence isn't going to be read anyway. It's not the text of the bill that being voted on anyway, it's the PR quality of the thirty second soundbite that's being voted on.
So instead of CVS for congress, we need software that ensures that the bills are actually being read. My idea, which is far too sensible to ever be made into law, is to have speech software recite upon the floor of the House or Senate, the text of the bills before they can be voted upon. Even if the congresscritters slept through the recitals, it would at least have the benefit of slowing down the rate these inane bills are being passed.
Yeah, you're right. My bad. But still, he's not a small government type by any stretch of the imagination. Even with regards to foreign policy, he was part of an adminstration that was quite interventionist militarily.
Bizarre, just bizzare. All I said, once you strip out the religious analogies, is that government shouldn't be the *first* resort we turn to when faced with a problem. Have we gone so far down the slope that even that little bit will get you labelled libertarian?
I fail to see the need for a single wifi provider. We're talking about digital wireless, not about multiple phone companies trying to negotiate the use of a single strand of copper wire. You can easily and effortlessly have multiple wifi providers with overlapping coverage.
We manage this with cellphones quite well, so what makes wifi so different? Besides being a couple orders of magnitude cheaper, that is.
Well, I'll say it. Bullshit. The market only provides that to those who will pay -- sometimes pay exorbitant percentages of their income -- and if you don't or can't pay, fuck you.
Grow up and join the real world, asshole. Life isn't going to give you a free ride. Even with the help of municipal governments, you're still not going to get everything you want for free. The basic laws of economics won't go away just because you wish them into the cornfield. As long as goods are scarce, they will have a price. As long as people interact to distribute and aquire those goods, there will be markets.
Where's the benevolence of the invisible hand there?
No one ever claimed the free market to be benevolent. All that has been claimed, is merely that it's less destructive than non-voluntary systems of resource allocation. History is quite clear on this point. The more a government manages the allocation of goods and services, the less efficient the allocation, and more damaging to society as a whole. In some cases, that cost to society may be worthwhile. Adam Smith was NOT an anarcho-capitalist.
Homelessness and below-living-wage jobs are a huge issue, even here in the US
So maybe, just maybe, we should get those problems solved BEFORE passing out free wifi to middle class techies.
We're talking wifi, not wires. Even in an alternate reality were municipal government has the moral responsibility to lay cat5 to every house, park bench and tree in the city, the same does not apply to the digital airwaves. There's no possibility of a natural monopoly on wifi. It's a ludicrous idea on the face of it.
Municpal governments don't provide food, yet the grocery stores are full. They don't provide clothing, yet I'm wearing a shirt. And unless you're homeless and it's a cold night, they don't provide shelter. Yet here I am with a roof over my head. Food, clothing and shelter are FAR more necessary to my well being than wifi, yet the market manages to provide those necessities to me without the help of municipal government.
For some classes of products, such as sewers and drinkable water, it may make sense to put your local conniving pocket-lining councilman in charge. But I'm far from convinced that wifi falls under that category.
Is there something in the genetic makeup of human beings that is making them believe that government is the answer to all problems? Is there a "there ought to be a law" gene? Is there a "someone think of the children" gene? Why is when we are faced with any problem the first answer is always to pray to government?
Both parties want massive intrusive governments, they just want that massive intrusiveness to be applied to slightly different anatomical locations on the taxpayer. I'm not just talking about the party leadership, I'm talking about the party tank and file as well. We have massive intrusive governments because the public keeps voting in politicians that promise massive intrusive governments. Just look at this topic, where most posts are demanding a more massive intrusive FDA.
The thought that things would have been better if only Bush weren't in office is naive. If Gore/Kerry had made it to the white house, we would still have had a massive intrusive government. Hell, considering they both voted for the invasion, we would still be in Iraq! None of the current crop of presidential candidates is any better. They are all in favor of massive intrusive government, they just want it to massively intrude in slightly different ways.
The same arguments can be used for command line apps. Just get rid of the GUI completely. Seriously. If you don't need a GUI, then use a freaking command line tool. But if you DO need a GUI, then use a GUI! A webapp is only going to subject the user to a nasty user interface.
There's always been homework, but the amount of it waxes and wanes according to the political winds. Politicians are very lousy at solving problems, but very adept at making people think they are doing something useful. Not just national and state politicians, but the yahoos on the local schoolboards as well. Making the kids do more homework is a way to fool the parents into thinking something is being done. If Johnny still can't read after twelve years of eight hours of daily homework, then obviously it's Johnny's fault, not the compassionate politicos who send their own children to private schools.
Eventually enough parents get pissed that new politicians get voted in and the homework load goes back to normal levels. Now it appears that the politicos are on a no-homework kick. Give it ten years (and millions of disserviced students) and the pendulum will swing back.
I would reference wikipedia, but wikipedia is referencing this thread. But every piece of documentation I can find uses the word "system" in the description, but none use "static".
When/sbin is mounted, so is/lib. So they don't need to be static. Besides, single user versus multi user modes have nothing to do with it, other than the fact that single user mode doesn't mount anything.
As a libertarian, I can attest to the massive damage the objectivists have done to the movement. It's a philosophy based on a cheap scifi novel, a cult centered around the personality of a woman who railed against cults of personality, and an irrational belief that the universe can be explained in one trite axiom. It's an individualist groupthink circle jerk. It's Scientology without bad Hollywood actors. I'll gladly trade them all in for a handful of stoned anarcho-capitalists.
It's "system binaries". It's the binaries needed to boot a system, and resides on the root partition./usr might be on another partition and not mounted yet.
I don't do business with liars, cheats, rudeniks or merchants who don't bathe. But sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't. Life's too short to spend it always being pissed.
There are a couple of things I could have done. I could have spent $50 more with a competitor. I frequently forego the cheaper prices of rude and/or dishonest merchants.
-OR- I could have simply skipped buying a home theater! Really!
The IRS may hold a gun to my head and force me to pay taxes, but businesses do not have that power. There is nothing forcing me to buy from a merchant I despise.
Similar story, but with much more honesty. The guy in front of my at MicroCenter wanted the internet price. But the salesman wouldn't give it to him. The internet price was for internet purchases only. The junior manager was called over, and then the store manager. But to no avail. If he wanted the internet price, he needed to purchase it online and wait for delivery, just like the newspaper ad he was waving around said.
I have to side with the store on this one. They stick to their word. It's one reason I do most of my computer shopping with them.
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Truth is relative. If you don't like some facts or evidences, simply ignore them and adhere to your "higher" truth. No need to separate LGF's snarky commentary from the actual facts, simply dismiss everything they say and believe whatever you want.
It's easy to be a member of the reality based community when you get to pick and choose your reality.
Because a FAQ is better than talking with your lawyer...
Congressmen, as many others here have noted, don't read the bills they vote for. One more sentence isn't going to be read anyway. It's not the text of the bill that being voted on anyway, it's the PR quality of the thirty second soundbite that's being voted on.
So instead of CVS for congress, we need software that ensures that the bills are actually being read. My idea, which is far too sensible to ever be made into law, is to have speech software recite upon the floor of the House or Senate, the text of the bills before they can be voted upon. Even if the congresscritters slept through the recitals, it would at least have the benefit of slowing down the rate these inane bills are being passed.
My cellphone is ten cents a minute. That's cheaper than my heavily regulated POTS.
Yeah, you're right. My bad. But still, he's not a small government type by any stretch of the imagination. Even with regards to foreign policy, he was part of an adminstration that was quite interventionist militarily.
Bizarre, just bizzare. All I said, once you strip out the religious analogies, is that government shouldn't be the *first* resort we turn to when faced with a problem. Have we gone so far down the slope that even that little bit will get you labelled libertarian?
I fail to see the need for a single wifi provider. We're talking about digital wireless, not about multiple phone companies trying to negotiate the use of a single strand of copper wire. You can easily and effortlessly have multiple wifi providers with overlapping coverage.
We manage this with cellphones quite well, so what makes wifi so different? Besides being a couple orders of magnitude cheaper, that is.
Well, I'll say it. Bullshit. The market only provides that to those who will pay -- sometimes pay exorbitant percentages of their income -- and if you don't or can't pay, fuck you.
Grow up and join the real world, asshole. Life isn't going to give you a free ride. Even with the help of municipal governments, you're still not going to get everything you want for free. The basic laws of economics won't go away just because you wish them into the cornfield. As long as goods are scarce, they will have a price. As long as people interact to distribute and aquire those goods, there will be markets.
Where's the benevolence of the invisible hand there?
No one ever claimed the free market to be benevolent. All that has been claimed, is merely that it's less destructive than non-voluntary systems of resource allocation. History is quite clear on this point. The more a government manages the allocation of goods and services, the less efficient the allocation, and more damaging to society as a whole. In some cases, that cost to society may be worthwhile. Adam Smith was NOT an anarcho-capitalist.
Homelessness and below-living-wage jobs are a huge issue, even here in the US
So maybe, just maybe, we should get those problems solved BEFORE passing out free wifi to middle class techies.
We're talking wifi, not wires. Even in an alternate reality were municipal government has the moral responsibility to lay cat5 to every house, park bench and tree in the city, the same does not apply to the digital airwaves. There's no possibility of a natural monopoly on wifi. It's a ludicrous idea on the face of it.
Wow, I didn't even mention the "L" word. I must have hit too close to home. I won't apologize for insulting your religion though.
Municpal governments don't provide food, yet the grocery stores are full. They don't provide clothing, yet I'm wearing a shirt. And unless you're homeless and it's a cold night, they don't provide shelter. Yet here I am with a roof over my head. Food, clothing and shelter are FAR more necessary to my well being than wifi, yet the market manages to provide those necessities to me without the help of municipal government.
For some classes of products, such as sewers and drinkable water, it may make sense to put your local conniving pocket-lining councilman in charge. But I'm far from convinced that wifi falls under that category.
Is there something in the genetic makeup of human beings that is making them believe that government is the answer to all problems? Is there a "there ought to be a law" gene? Is there a "someone think of the children" gene? Why is when we are faced with any problem the first answer is always to pray to government?
Both parties want massive intrusive governments, they just want that massive intrusiveness to be applied to slightly different anatomical locations on the taxpayer. I'm not just talking about the party leadership, I'm talking about the party tank and file as well. We have massive intrusive governments because the public keeps voting in politicians that promise massive intrusive governments. Just look at this topic, where most posts are demanding a more massive intrusive FDA.
The thought that things would have been better if only Bush weren't in office is naive. If Gore/Kerry had made it to the white house, we would still have had a massive intrusive government. Hell, considering they both voted for the invasion, we would still be in Iraq! None of the current crop of presidential candidates is any better. They are all in favor of massive intrusive government, they just want it to massively intrude in slightly different ways.
The same arguments can be used for command line apps. Just get rid of the GUI completely. Seriously. If you don't need a GUI, then use a freaking command line tool. But if you DO need a GUI, then use a GUI! A webapp is only going to subject the user to a nasty user interface.
There's always been homework, but the amount of it waxes and wanes according to the political winds. Politicians are very lousy at solving problems, but very adept at making people think they are doing something useful. Not just national and state politicians, but the yahoos on the local schoolboards as well. Making the kids do more homework is a way to fool the parents into thinking something is being done. If Johnny still can't read after twelve years of eight hours of daily homework, then obviously it's Johnny's fault, not the compassionate politicos who send their own children to private schools.
Eventually enough parents get pissed that new politicians get voted in and the homework load goes back to normal levels. Now it appears that the politicos are on a no-homework kick. Give it ten years (and millions of disserviced students) and the pendulum will swing back.
I would reference wikipedia, but wikipedia is referencing this thread. But every piece of documentation I can find uses the word "system" in the description, but none use "static".
When /sbin is mounted, so is /lib. So they don't need to be static. Besides, single user versus multi user modes have nothing to do with it, other than the fact that single user mode doesn't mount anything.
As a libertarian, I can attest to the massive damage the objectivists have done to the movement. It's a philosophy based on a cheap scifi novel, a cult centered around the personality of a woman who railed against cults of personality, and an irrational belief that the universe can be explained in one trite axiom. It's an individualist groupthink circle jerk. It's Scientology without bad Hollywood actors. I'll gladly trade them all in for a handful of stoned anarcho-capitalists.
"Nathaniel! Bring me another gin and tonic!"
Were shared libraries in common use when /sbin was rolled out?
It's "system binaries". It's the binaries needed to boot a system, and resides on the root partition. /usr might be on another partition and not mounted yet.
I confirm your bulltish. These backronyms are silly.
/usr == user
/bin == binary
/sbin == system binary
/dev == device
/proc = process
/lib == library
/mnt == mount
/tmp == temporary
/etc == etcetera
And to clarify other standard directories:
On FreeBSD, if you don't have a separate partition for /home during install, you will get /usr/home instead.
I don't do business with liars, cheats, rudeniks or merchants who don't bathe. But sometimes I feel like I'm the only person in the world who doesn't. Life's too short to spend it always being pissed.
There are a couple of things I could have done. I could have spent $50 more with a competitor. I frequently forego the cheaper prices of rude and/or dishonest merchants.
-OR- I could have simply skipped buying a home theater! Really!
The IRS may hold a gun to my head and force me to pay taxes, but businesses do not have that power. There is nothing forcing me to buy from a merchant I despise.
Similar story, but with much more honesty. The guy in front of my at MicroCenter wanted the internet price. But the salesman wouldn't give it to him. The internet price was for internet purchases only. The junior manager was called over, and then the store manager. But to no avail. If he wanted the internet price, he needed to purchase it online and wait for delivery, just like the newspaper ad he was waving around said.
I have to side with the store on this one. They stick to their word. It's one reason I do most of my computer shopping with them.