Junk that old-packard-looking-thing OSDN is giving away and put this baby up for giveaway. I can almost see the scripts now: create user, fill form, reply, goto begining. "Wow, 9 million more people signed up for the space capsule today, this Linux thing is huge!"
Actually according to the Swedish themselves they're doing quite well:
With demand growing so strongly, employment is now rising faster than at any other time in the past 40 years. The rapid increase in employment is expected to bring the unemployment rate down below the Governments 4-percent target during the fourth quarter of this year.
http://www.konj.se/Eng/prog_analys/konj_laget.as p
Private insurance has never nor never will provide each and every citizen with healthcare.
European healthcare varies in different countries but its sure beats nothing, and being a slashdot tech savvy user you probably haven't gone very long without it. Not to mention the ridiculous debts that have been put on people after life-saving surgery and pharacutical costs that are out of control. Even though we subsidize a lot of pharmacutical companies citizens do not get a price break. Nor are our HMO's a smashing successes and we're paying quite heavily for them.
Oh course it doesnt 'always works.' Nothing 'always works.'
As to the name calling, sorry but you are immature. Criminal capitalism is when business gets away with healthcare fraud, breaking environmental laws, gross negligence, etc. I was NOT saying capitalism = criminal. The free run Browne and company would give big business would be disasterous.
Capitalism produces revenue, democracy produces justice, there's a compromise in there to eveyrone's benefit and that's exactly what your man doesn't get.
I'm in the same boat, there are what, maybe 3 or 4 types of games now and a serious lack of creativity in the gaming industry. "My FPS has a weapon that stops time! That's innovation people."
I just don't see it either, I don't know if 90% is a fair number but at least 50% of what makes it to the market is total garbage and the other 49% is the same old-same old and 1% is a rare exception of a creative well produced game that somehow made it to the market without huge amounts of managerial compromises.
As far as the PS2 is concerned, its the mad rush to get the newest and prettiest and Sony does have a couple good games out for it already, but according to what I've read there isn't much (significant, worth buying) of a difference compared to the Dreamcast.
Its about 8 or 9 years old, running a overclocked 8086 chip with not one, but two 5.25 inch disk drives! It has a 300 baud modem and I'll toss in the 12 inch monocrome monitor for free! Come on people, you'll kick yourselves later.
I don't see Nader advocating the governments ownership of means of production, which is what socialism means. Feel free to call me a commie too, lots of 50s propaganda is now public domain.
Caring and help social causes isn't the same as Socialism. Nader advocates capitalism, but not criminal capitalism.
He's in politics because he and his followers simply can't grasp that government is the shadow of business. There's much ado about nothing with complaints like Social Security which has lowered the poverty level of seniors from 50 to 10%, or income tax - tempting but that does include dismantling most of the federal government. College loans/grants that I'm sure most Slashdotters are partaking in. I just love college kids who preach Browneisms after submitting a FAFSA or have grandparents collecting S.S.
The lesson he failed to learn is that we should set up a democratic state that protects people from business, not the other way around. A mature government has the responisbility to take care of those who can't take care of themselves. Not engage into this wild-west mentality of "lets let market dictate our everyday rights and choices."
Considering we're living in the age of he multinationals, boycotts have no power and Browne will simply cut out the messy government part of our society and let business do all the talking. Soon enough federal child-labor laws, minimum wage, etc will be abolished because "Hey I can't find it in the constitution, I looked twice!" Great plan to push us straight into the third world.
Instead of embracing Canadian or European governments and politics which are rated highly on quality of life issues not just GDP we have a plan from a man who's ready to sell us out to an ever-scarier criminal capitalist machine.
The best thing Browne has going for him are his views on drugs and guns. Those alone get one issue righties and lefties to the polls. Good work Browne you've earned your 1%.
Instead of taking it out on the slashdot accepted enemy DC, why aren't we enraged by a patent that is unbelievably obvious. So any device I rig up that can connect to paper belongs to these patent holders. Ridiculous.
The worst part is Browne is just planning on passing the buck to the states, where his libertarians will be as anti-choice as he is. Voters tend to agree with the ideology of those they vote with and its a big suspension of disbelief to assume that *those* Browne Libertarians will be pro-choice.
You'd think with so many smart Libertarians around they'd pick someone who wasn't a Republican in disguise. Even posterboy Libertarian Bill Maher is voting Nader.
Ads what ads? My hosts file blocked all of them except one. Everyone should have some ad blocking option either on or ready to be activated when we come across articles like these.
I can almost hear them on the phone to accounting, "Yes, yes, we did get 20,000 hits on that one but the ad people said their server only sent 1,000 ads!"
The way cryogenics is practiced now most people get embalmed and sit around for a few days then get frozen, instead of freezing immediately.
Its a scam and a fraud, ice crystals will make you unrepairable regardless. Even the finest nanomachine cannot know exactly where this broken neuron went and so on. If perfected, you would be lucky to be functionally retarded. Why don't you ever hear about the hundreds of animals that should have been frozen now side by side with the humans? Would you like to be the first one they tried to bring back? Unless you're bringing a few gorillas, chimps, and a few hundred mice along with you, you'll be the guinea pig. Be scared, some things are worse than death.
I'd much rather see more articles and work done on short time hibernation for spacetravel that lasts maybe 6 months to a year and work your way up. And if its ever perfected then you can move up to humans.
Just the fact that these companies start with humans and shrug when you ask how exactly are they going to revive a rotted then frozen corpse should make you very suspicious.
Pedantic academics and graduate students have to do something. Icemen are going to be a friggin gold mine. You might not like being the first 10,000 mistakes. Imagine:
1. Being alive and well but having a gorilla body.
2. Being alive and well and finding yourself in culture whose language you don't know and conventions you cannot grasp. If its 1million years into the future you may never even come close to understanding what life means to them and you'll end up in a cage somewhere.
3. Half-dead coma state, coming in and out for a few hundred years.
4. Finding yourself in a robot body that has about 1% functionality of the human body, etc.
I think its a different story for mammals which tend to be more delicate than insects. Not to mention hibernation is only good for so long, just because this animal can stay near frozen for 1 year doesnt mean it can do 20.
This has happened to me also, though the address above is a little obvious you can pick a bunch of letters and number randomly and still expect spam the next day or so. I think its a security problem, some tech who works there is just sniffing them off a handful of servers and selling them on cdrom.
If legislation is needed at least require a opt-out link with every email. Its just courtesy. They purposely do this to keep their crap flowing. I'd also like to see all of them have [ADV] as the subject so we can just use a regular filter.
While I'm dreaming up an email utopia, what keeps ISPs from identifying spammers who dialed up on the open relay and sent 400,000 messages? Just call Ameritech or whomever and call their abuse department. Now with those 400,000 messages figure out the real cost to the ISP, bandwidth, CPU time, etc and send them a bill. Oh I would guess they would get a crappy rate and it would be $40,000. Cheaper than the post office. Sue them if they don't pay, garnish wages etc. That would stop them cold. Unless they're coming off-shore this should be happening all the time.
I'm still dreaming here but why don't we start a little campaign to inform technophobes that buying from spammers encourages spam. I'm sure enough banners and it'll get into the mainstream. "Grandpa are you crazy?! That's a spammer, go to a real store for your aluminum siding."
The really unfair part is the more you particpate on the internet the more spam you'll get. Lets say you want the newest download and you have to fill out a webform, you use USENET, you find yourself quoted on some webpage with your email address attached, you're on a long list of CC:, you post to webboards, etc.
Most AOL users rarely venture out of the Disney-esque safe for family AOL net so their addresses don't get picked up and they don't understand what we're complaining about. Get a hold of every AOL address dump it on usenet and the angry AOL customer lobby will take care of the rest. Upstanding citizens and "family oriented users" blow experts, technophiles, and geeks out of the water when it comes to getting shit done on certain levels.
Fair? No. Effective? Yes.
Imagine how fast I would be laughed out of court if I complained about the busy modems at my little ISP compared to the colossal suit AOLers smote upon Steve Case.
Thats just not practical, especially if you're dealing with people you don't know on the net. What email do I put on my webpage or to the guy who wants to sent me some file? After a while you're going to go through all the spam anyways looking for important stuff, you might as well trash the personal 'friends' account. I can't see myself saying, "Okay I'm upgrading you to my friend account mail me here"
Disposing accounts is a good idea but I'd rather just use the bulk filter in Hotmail, it works like a charm but the regular filter could use more rules like a To: or CC:.
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Nader want to tax the hell out of people who actually work and make money, and then give it to the poor. The thing is, the working poor (I don't give a damn about the poor who are able but unwilling to work) would have more income for things such as insurance if businesses are investing rather than saving (thereby offering jobs). Call it trickle-down economics if you want, but a Robin Hood-esque plan of taking from the rich and giving to the poor doesn't work in my book
Actually the plan is to cut all corporate welfare and lessen defense spending to make room for new social programs. Not to "tax" the hell out of people who are already paying R&D for the products they buy at retail prices. Removing these two items is a big chunk of revenue.
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Junk that old-packard-looking-thing OSDN is giving away and put this baby up for giveaway. I can almost see the scripts now: create user, fill form, reply, goto begining. "Wow, 9 million more people signed up for the space capsule today, this Linux thing is huge!"
Actually according to the Swedish themselves they're doing quite well:
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With demand growing so strongly, employment is now rising faster than at any other time in the past 40 years. The rapid increase in employment is expected to bring the unemployment rate down below the Governments 4-percent target during the fourth quarter of this year.
http://www.konj.se/Eng/prog_analys/konj_laget.a
Private insurance has never nor never will provide each and every citizen with healthcare.
European healthcare varies in different countries but its sure beats nothing, and being a slashdot tech savvy user you probably haven't gone very long without it. Not to mention the ridiculous debts that have been put on people after life-saving surgery and pharacutical costs that are out of control. Even though we subsidize a lot of pharmacutical companies citizens do not get a price break. Nor are our HMO's a smashing successes and we're paying quite heavily for them.
Oh course it doesnt 'always works.' Nothing 'always works.'
As to the name calling, sorry but you are immature. Criminal capitalism is when business gets away with healthcare fraud, breaking environmental laws, gross negligence, etc. I was NOT saying capitalism = criminal. The free run Browne and company would give big business would be disasterous.
Capitalism produces revenue, democracy produces justice, there's a compromise in there to eveyrone's benefit and that's exactly what your man doesn't get.
Canada, Sweden, and most other progressive states aren't falling into a financial blackhole, perhaps you'd like to back that up with facts?
Your use of "comrade" just shows your extreme bias and name-calling is simply immature.
I'm in the same boat, there are what, maybe 3 or 4 types of games now and a serious lack of creativity in the gaming industry. "My FPS has a weapon that stops time! That's innovation people."
I just don't see it either, I don't know if 90% is a fair number but at least 50% of what makes it to the market is total garbage and the other 49% is the same old-same old and 1% is a rare exception of a creative well produced game that somehow made it to the market without huge amounts of managerial compromises.
As far as the PS2 is concerned, its the mad rush to get the newest and prettiest and Sony does have a couple good games out for it already, but according to what I've read there isn't much (significant, worth buying) of a difference compared to the Dreamcast.
Its about 8 or 9 years old, running a overclocked 8086 chip with not one, but two 5.25 inch disk drives! It has a 300 baud modem and I'll toss in the 12 inch monocrome monitor for free! Come on people, you'll kick yourselves later.
Now I'll just wait for the 15 grand.
Sterile citizens when they're down on their luck? Hmm you might find like minded people in the fascist party.
You think welfare is a drain on your paycheck, try corporate welfare.
Sterilization, the wisdom that can only come from a libertarian who believes in "Personal freedom."
Oh come on.
Ever hear of TCP/IP or any open standands? I have a feeling that card of yours has the words "Lobotomized on 10/5/95" at the bottom.
I don't see Nader advocating the governments ownership of means of production, which is what socialism means. Feel free to call me a commie too, lots of 50s propaganda is now public domain.
Caring and help social causes isn't the same as Socialism. Nader advocates capitalism, but not criminal capitalism.
He's in politics because he and his followers simply can't grasp that government is the shadow of business. There's much ado about nothing with complaints like Social Security which has lowered the poverty level of seniors from 50 to 10%, or income tax - tempting but that does include dismantling most of the federal government. College loans/grants that I'm sure most Slashdotters are partaking in. I just love college kids who preach Browneisms after submitting a FAFSA or have grandparents collecting S.S.
The lesson he failed to learn is that we should set up a democratic state that protects people from business, not the other way around. A mature government has the responisbility to take care of those who can't take care of themselves. Not engage into this wild-west mentality of "lets let market dictate our everyday rights and choices."
Considering we're living in the age of he multinationals, boycotts have no power and Browne will simply cut out the messy government part of our society and let business do all the talking. Soon enough federal child-labor laws, minimum wage, etc will be abolished because "Hey I can't find it in the constitution, I looked twice!" Great plan to push us straight into the third world.
Instead of embracing Canadian or European governments and politics which are rated highly on quality of life issues not just GDP we have a plan from a man who's ready to sell us out to an ever-scarier criminal capitalist machine.
The best thing Browne has going for him are his views on drugs and guns. Those alone get one issue righties and lefties to the polls. Good work Browne you've earned your 1%.
Boo fucking hoo. Another grammer and spelling Nazi on Slashdot, what a surprise.
Instead of taking it out on the slashdot accepted enemy DC, why aren't we enraged by a patent that is unbelievably obvious. So any device I rig up that can connect to paper belongs to these patent holders. Ridiculous.
I think most of this technology was perfected in the late sixies and made various cameos on the UK TV show The Prisoner.
Wow, an unconvincing slashdot poster making terrible analogies and picking on the typos of others. I've never seen that before. Keep up the good work!
The worst part is Browne is just planning on passing the buck to the states, where his libertarians will be as anti-choice as he is. Voters tend to agree with the ideology of those they vote with and its a big suspension of disbelief to assume that *those* Browne Libertarians will be pro-choice.
You'd think with so many smart Libertarians around they'd pick someone who wasn't a Republican in disguise. Even posterboy Libertarian Bill Maher is voting Nader.
Go Green!
Just click above and be mostly ad free.
Ads what ads? My hosts file blocked all of them except one. Everyone should have some ad blocking option either on or ready to be activated when we come across articles like these.
I can almost hear them on the phone to accounting, "Yes, yes, we did get 20,000 hits on that one but the ad people said their server only sent 1,000 ads!"
Obviously you have seen the grim vision of the future that is Futurama too!
Considering the interferance that comes about tiny tremors to windy conditions, couldnt they have launched 2 satellites for better results?
Ok this stupid ass java ad is screwing with my cursor. Move all the ads to ads.slashdot.org please. Thanks.
The way cryogenics is practiced now most people get embalmed and sit around for a few days then get frozen, instead of freezing immediately.
Its a scam and a fraud, ice crystals will make you unrepairable regardless. Even the finest nanomachine cannot know exactly where this broken neuron went and so on. If perfected, you would be lucky to be functionally retarded. Why don't you ever hear about the hundreds of animals that should have been frozen now side by side with the humans? Would you like to be the first one they tried to bring back? Unless you're bringing a few gorillas, chimps, and a few hundred mice along with you, you'll be the guinea pig. Be scared, some things are worse than death.
I'd much rather see more articles and work done on short time hibernation for spacetravel that lasts maybe 6 months to a year and work your way up. And if its ever perfected then you can move up to humans.
Just the fact that these companies start with humans and shrug when you ask how exactly are they going to revive a rotted then frozen corpse should make you very suspicious.
Pedantic academics and graduate students have to do something. Icemen are going to be a friggin gold mine. You might not like being the first 10,000 mistakes. Imagine:
1. Being alive and well but having a gorilla body.
2. Being alive and well and finding yourself in culture whose language you don't know and conventions you cannot grasp. If its 1million years into the future you may never even come close to understanding what life means to them and you'll end up in a cage somewhere.
3. Half-dead coma state, coming in and out for a few hundred years.
4. Finding yourself in a robot body that has about 1% functionality of the human body, etc.
I think its a different story for mammals which tend to be more delicate than insects. Not to mention hibernation is only good for so long, just because this animal can stay near frozen for 1 year doesnt mean it can do 20.
This has happened to me also, though the address above is a little obvious you can pick a bunch of letters and number randomly and still expect spam the next day or so. I think its a security problem, some tech who works there is just sniffing them off a handful of servers and selling them on cdrom.
If legislation is needed at least require a opt-out link with every email. Its just courtesy. They purposely do this to keep their crap flowing. I'd also like to see all of them have [ADV] as the subject so we can just use a regular filter.
While I'm dreaming up an email utopia, what keeps ISPs from identifying spammers who dialed up on the open relay and sent 400,000 messages? Just call Ameritech or whomever and call their abuse department. Now with those 400,000 messages figure out the real cost to the ISP, bandwidth, CPU time, etc and send them a bill. Oh I would guess they would get a crappy rate and it would be $40,000. Cheaper than the post office. Sue them if they don't pay, garnish wages etc. That would stop them cold. Unless they're coming off-shore this should be happening all the time.
I'm still dreaming here but why don't we start a little campaign to inform technophobes that buying from spammers encourages spam. I'm sure enough banners and it'll get into the mainstream. "Grandpa are you crazy?! That's a spammer, go to a real store for your aluminum siding."
The really unfair part is the more you particpate on the internet the more spam you'll get. Lets say you want the newest download and you have to fill out a webform, you use USENET, you find yourself quoted on some webpage with your email address attached, you're on a long list of CC:, you post to webboards, etc.
Most AOL users rarely venture out of the Disney-esque safe for family AOL net so their addresses don't get picked up and they don't understand what we're complaining about. Get a hold of every AOL address dump it on usenet and the angry AOL customer lobby will take care of the rest. Upstanding citizens and "family oriented users" blow experts, technophiles, and geeks out of the water when it comes to getting shit done on certain levels.
Fair? No. Effective? Yes.
Imagine how fast I would be laughed out of court if I complained about the busy modems at my little ISP compared to the colossal suit AOLers smote upon Steve Case.
Thats just not practical, especially if you're dealing with people you don't know on the net. What email do I put on my webpage or to the guy who wants to sent me some file? After a while you're going to go through all the spam anyways looking for important stuff, you might as well trash the personal 'friends' account. I can't see myself saying, "Okay I'm upgrading you to my friend account mail me here"
Disposing accounts is a good idea but I'd rather just use the bulk filter in Hotmail, it works like a charm but the regular filter could use more rules like a To: or CC:.
Nader want to tax the hell out of people who actually work and make money, and then give it to the poor. The thing is, the working poor (I don't give a damn about the poor who are able but unwilling to work) would have more income for things such as insurance if businesses are investing rather than saving (thereby offering jobs). Call it trickle-down economics if you want, but a Robin Hood-esque plan of taking from the rich and giving to the poor doesn't work in my book
Actually the plan is to cut all corporate welfare and lessen defense spending to make room for new social programs. Not to "tax" the hell out of people who are already paying R&D for the products they buy at retail prices. Removing these two items is a big chunk of revenue.