> composed of PEOPLE, ordinary Americans who would have to be somehow be persuaded to use that awesome weaponry against their fellow citizens.
Wouldn't take much. Just take a look at some of the comments on this thread against "liberals." They're nearly communists, according to most, so most certainly, they should be put down like dogs. Or wasn't there some such Republican propaganda saying that Liberals were Terrorists? Sure - there's probably a few people who might have a calm head, but with the right conditions, those calm heads might be found on a pole.
Of course, we're still living with the Yellow Elevated threat level.
With these new found protections, the feds should find it easier to go after those anti-freedom bastards running those terrorist networks called Bit Torrent and Freenet.
This isn't free as in beer, and developers gotta eat.
Still, it would be nice if they would release a "live" version on a bootable CD. Buying something that you haven't test drove is pretty freaking retarded.
This country needs a new space race. "War on Terror," "War on Drugs," All pointless drivel. The best we can do is that?
Nah - we can do much better. Let's try to seize control of the LaGrange points. Spain? France? You ninies wanna try and stop us? Come and try, you puny bastards. We'll beat you to the punch!
Here's the thing - the space race in the 60's was a huge success! The US had PURPOSE! What's the purpose now? "Spreading capitalism?" What a pile of crap. If an idea is good, it'll spread itself.
It's obvious that librarians are just another bunch of liberal aids to the terrorists. It's obvious that they must be stopped. Therefore, we need to eliminate their funding. After, with all the fine educational television, who visits libraries anymore?
Mod me as flaimbait, but the political discussion in the US is getting that rediculous. And that scary. Just watch - if the Librarians counter with something like this, the rabid right will follow suit.
Again, you got your guns (as if there was any danger of "liberals taking them away...") but we're loosing basic civil liberties. Are you really as free as your party would like you to believe?
It's cute how there are so many dupes of messages saying that the article is a dupe.
Here's the thing - if it's a dupe, do you REALLY need to say that it is? If so, why? Moral superiority? Some sort of misplaced dedication? Ego trip?
Come on - as with listservs, when someone asks how to unsub, just send a message offline and leave it be. There's no need to launch into a tirade saying how slashdot has gone down hill, etc, etc.
Come on, people - this is a nice sandbox. Let's all place nice.
(I'm not suggesting the parent isn't playing nice, but he was the second "this story is a dupe.")
Most on this board will disagree, but the military is how we in the US subsidize research. Rather than directly supporting Universities, our tax dollars go to guys with really sucky haircuts to do all the heavy lifting. After those BIG problems are solved, Coroprate Johny CEO says "hey, I can get a monopoly on X, protected by patents, and make some cash before my boon doggle goes pop." It's the way we do things.
It's nice to see that the Gentoo borg use Bittorrent as a way to distribute their ISOs, as does Knoppix and the rest of the Free Linux distros. Heck, you can even find a legit copy of SuSE 9.2 out there.
This is my preferred way to get large distros - I know that I'm going to get full bandwidth for the download nearly immediately.
> But the truth is, 99% of gun use is against people. Hold it, pardner - do you have any sources to back this up? I'll take it at face value for the sake of argument, but tossing around this sort of stat shouldn't be taken lightly. If you got a source, post it.
Easy for you to say. I'd LOVE to, really, I would, but the Freemarket Fundamentalists seem to be sleeping withe the the Biblical kind. I'd welcome any suggestions you have on how to >PEACEFULLY< take back the government.
The point is - if the criminals are in the US, it's much easier to go after them. If they are abroad, good luck. Considering that most thirdworld nation's judicial systems are powered by bribes, prosecuting them is much more difficult.
> It really is a shame when the prevailing "geek" > attitude towards agencies like the FBI is mistrust > and fear, not confidence and respect.
It's not just the FBI, but any source of power. There was a time in US history where the country chose the president, rather than some clown deciding to run.
We must all be careful of those who see to rule or control others.
> if i pay for broadband then share it > with my neighbors isn't that stealing > broadband? Most likely, but, (and I doubt there's a to the consumer ISP that does it this way) it depends on your terms and conditions. Most ISPs say that you can't share service with your neighbors. But, if this were true for EVERY ISP, then the internet would be pretty dull.
The Broadband providers are simply buying a chunk of service from one the major carriers and poviding a portion of it to you. There's no reason why a large city couldn't offer that (although it has got to tick off the broadband providers, to some extent.)
Now, (as was said in a previous post,) won't that mess with competition? Well, duh, it will. And there will be a bunch of people who will loose money because of it. On the other hand, in my state, we don't have toll roads, and it's a hell of a lot better place to live. We also have bridges over our rivers, rather than some flunky with a raft and a pole.
Providing municipal IP makes a lot of sense, much like providing free roads and highways: it just makes commerce work.
Now, as some shill asked ealier - what about clowns abusing it with P2P, Streaming Audio, and other such bandwidth hogs. No problem, really, that's where the broadband people will be able provide service. If you want uptime and "secure" network access, np - score it up from a provider. If you just want to read/. from the park, use the municple net + some VPN software.
If the new advertising doesn't interfere with our TiVo (you gotta admit, it's no longer my tivo, if the mothership keeps dinkin' with it,) then NBD, I'll just deal with it.
If it does become intrusive - either it'll run Setiathome, or I'll pop out the disk and "recycle" the rest - maybe in a MythTV box (of course, the hollywood political whores will probably make that some sort of terrorist activity...)
> What's wrong with making fun of people > believing silly sounding, probably wrong > stuff ?
You need to do this - go home, and slap your mother and father for not teaching you the basic idea of respect. "Making fun of people" is just a bad idea. Period.
Next, slap yourself for being an insensitive jerk.
Critiquing, debating, and discussing: feel free! That's what this country is about. Being disrespectful? No... although it certainly seems that the media outlets are encouraging this behavior.
Here's a clue - treat people with respect, and, most likley, they'll treat you with respect, too.
You're most of the way there. Parents are responsible for the kids. More so when they're young, but kids are a pretty good running commentary of their parents (some genetic influences aside.) If the kids aren't inquisitive, you can be the parents are dullards.
The problem with the government running education, as you alledge, is that WE are the government. Those ill-informed kids have ill-informed parents. And they vote. They are enabling other's political ambitions, which is ruining the educational system. That's why we keep getting stuff like "Intelligent Design" popping up. The parents are morons, and they want to legislate further tripe. There's a school shooting, and all of a sudden the kids need to "work in the community" to learn how to be good.
Utter nonsense.
Kids need to be taught how to reason, how to mine facts from sources, and some basic knowledge in which to navigate the world (Math, civics, Science, and English will do it.)
In a few generations, we'll have informed voters again.
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> composed of PEOPLE, ordinary Americans who would have to be somehow be persuaded to use that awesome weaponry against their fellow citizens.
Wouldn't take much. Just take a look at some of the comments on this thread against "liberals." They're nearly communists, according to most, so most certainly, they should be put down like dogs. Or wasn't there some such Republican propaganda saying that Liberals were Terrorists? Sure - there's probably a few people who might have a calm head, but with the right conditions, those calm heads might be found on a pole.
Great! Kosher Chips!
Of course, we're still living with the Yellow Elevated threat level.
With these new found protections, the feds should find it easier to go after those anti-freedom bastards running those terrorist networks called Bit Torrent and Freenet.
Good Hunting.
Well, how much would you pay?
This isn't free as in beer, and developers gotta eat.
Still, it would be nice if they would release a "live" version on a bootable CD. Buying something that you haven't test drove is pretty freaking retarded.
This country needs a new space race. "War on Terror," "War on Drugs," All pointless drivel. The best we can do is that?
Nah - we can do much better. Let's try to seize control of the LaGrange points. Spain? France? You ninies wanna try and stop us? Come and try, you puny bastards. We'll beat you to the punch!
Here's the thing - the space race in the 60's was a huge success! The US had PURPOSE! What's the purpose now? "Spreading capitalism?" What a pile of crap. If an idea is good, it'll spread itself.
So, hey, a new space race would be a good thing.
It's obvious that librarians are just another bunch of liberal aids to the terrorists. It's obvious that they must be stopped. Therefore, we need to eliminate their funding. After, with all the fine educational television, who visits libraries anymore?
Mod me as flaimbait, but the political discussion in the US is getting that rediculous. And that scary. Just watch - if the Librarians counter with something like this, the rabid right will follow suit.
Again, you got your guns (as if there was any danger of "liberals taking them away...") but we're loosing basic civil liberties. Are you really as free as your party would like you to believe?
Say what you like, but the best way to hear someone with a penny wistle of an xmitter through heavy interference is the code.
Seems the brain's dsp just simply freaking rocks. SSB, or even FM, for that matter just doesn't work on my ears.
And, don't forget - morse code was the first form of digital communication. It just works.
It's cute how there are so many dupes of messages saying that the article is a dupe.
Here's the thing - if it's a dupe, do you REALLY need to say that it is? If so, why? Moral superiority? Some sort of misplaced dedication? Ego trip?
Come on - as with listservs, when someone asks how to unsub, just send a message offline and leave it be. There's no need to launch into a tirade saying how slashdot has gone down hill, etc, etc.
Come on, people - this is a nice sandbox. Let's all place nice.
(I'm not suggesting the parent isn't playing nice, but he was the second "this story is a dupe.")
As the UPS mantra went:
Lift with your head, and not your back.
Translation: use your knees.
Bah. Don't sweat it.
Most on this board will disagree, but the military is how we in the US subsidize research. Rather than directly supporting Universities, our tax dollars go to guys with really sucky haircuts to do all the heavy lifting. After those BIG problems are solved, Coroprate Johny CEO says "hey, I can get a monopoly on X, protected by patents, and make some cash before my boon doggle goes pop." It's the way we do things.
The system seems to work, don't knock it.
That, and it's a Union. We can't have Unions in America. It's unAmerican. My corporate sponsored government told me so.
(Burnin' Karma like draft cards...)
Hey, thanks again for voting more "conservatives" into office! You get to "keep yer gun," and instead of registering, you get to register your ass!
Way to go, boys! Way to go! Gotta love that tripe your NRA masters fed ya.
Ossama is free - are you?
(waitin' for the -1 flaimbait.)
It's nice to see that the Gentoo borg use Bittorrent as a way to distribute their ISOs, as does Knoppix and the rest of the Free Linux distros. Heck, you can even find a legit copy of SuSE 9.2 out there.
This is my preferred way to get large distros - I know that I'm going to get full bandwidth for the download nearly immediately.
> But the truth is, 99% of gun use is against people.
Hold it, pardner - do you have any sources to back this up? I'll take it at face value for the sake of argument, but tossing around this sort of stat shouldn't be taken lightly. If you got a source, post it.
Easy for you to say. I'd LOVE to, really, I would, but the Freemarket Fundamentalists seem to be sleeping withe the the Biblical kind. I'd welcome any suggestions you have on how to >PEACEFULLY< take back the government.
You mean you haven't?
The point is - if the criminals are in the US, it's much easier to go after them. If they are abroad, good luck. Considering that most thirdworld nation's judicial systems are powered by bribes, prosecuting them is much more difficult.
> It really is a shame when the prevailing "geek"
> attitude towards agencies like the FBI is mistrust
> and fear, not confidence and respect.
It's not just the FBI, but any source of power. There was a time in US history where the country chose the president, rather than some clown deciding to run.
We must all be careful of those who see to rule or control others.
> if i pay for broadband then share it
/. from the park, use the municple net + some VPN software.
> with my neighbors isn't that stealing
> broadband?
Most likely, but, (and I doubt there's a to the consumer ISP that does it this way) it depends on your terms and conditions. Most ISPs say that you can't share service with your neighbors. But, if this were true for EVERY ISP, then the internet would be pretty dull.
The Broadband providers are simply buying a chunk of service from one the major carriers and poviding a portion of it to you. There's no reason why a large city couldn't offer that (although it has got to tick off the broadband providers, to some extent.)
Now, (as was said in a previous post,) won't that mess with competition? Well, duh, it will. And there will be a bunch of people who will loose money because of it. On the other hand, in my state, we don't have toll roads, and it's a hell of a lot better place to live. We also have bridges over our rivers, rather than some flunky with a raft and a pole.
Providing municipal IP makes a lot of sense, much like providing free roads and highways: it just makes commerce work.
Now, as some shill asked ealier - what about clowns abusing it with P2P, Streaming Audio, and other such bandwidth hogs. No problem, really, that's where the broadband people will be able provide service. If you want uptime and "secure" network access, np - score it up from a provider. If you just want to read
Damn it. And I have moderator points today, of all days.
If the new advertising doesn't interfere with our TiVo (you gotta admit, it's no longer my tivo, if the mothership keeps dinkin' with it,) then NBD, I'll just deal with it.
If it does become intrusive - either it'll run Setiathome, or I'll pop out the disk and "recycle" the rest - maybe in a MythTV box (of course, the hollywood political whores will probably make that some sort of terrorist activity...)
> What's wrong with making fun of people
> believing silly sounding, probably wrong
> stuff ?
You need to do this - go home, and slap your mother and father for not teaching you the basic idea of respect. "Making fun of people" is just a bad idea. Period.
Next, slap yourself for being an insensitive jerk.
Critiquing, debating, and discussing: feel free! That's what this country is about. Being disrespectful? No... although it certainly seems that the media outlets are encouraging this behavior.
Here's a clue - treat people with respect, and, most likley, they'll treat you with respect, too.
There is no monopoly. Please report to the Department of Homeland Security immediately!
You're most of the way there. Parents are responsible for the kids. More so when they're young, but kids are a pretty good running commentary of their parents (some genetic influences aside.) If the kids aren't inquisitive, you can be the parents are dullards.
The problem with the government running education, as you alledge, is that WE are the government. Those ill-informed kids have ill-informed parents. And they vote. They are enabling other's political ambitions, which is ruining the educational system. That's why we keep getting stuff like "Intelligent Design" popping up. The parents are morons, and they want to legislate further tripe. There's a school shooting, and all of a sudden the kids need to "work in the community" to learn how to be good.
Utter nonsense.
Kids need to be taught how to reason, how to mine facts from sources, and some basic knowledge in which to navigate the world (Math, civics, Science, and English will do it.)
In a few generations, we'll have informed voters again.
That's with tne new firmware. I've requested it, but haven't recieved it yet: are you using it yet? Know of a way to speed up the process of getting it?