I'll make sure my next one consists entirely of "KARMA DOWN TO 40%" type utterances;)
If the new ST movies contains a single line of "shields down to whatever percent" or an exploding console I'm going to walk out in disgust. What other Trek cliches have run their course?
Well, I could make a plug here for Slackware, if you don't mind getting down and dirty. I've run it on all sorts of systems. Dunno what the rest of your box is like but the 512MB Ram probably wouldn't be an issue.
Ah, I seem to recall a lot of people vowing that the changes from Win2k to Windows XP would push them into switching to Linux. Most people always seem to wind up back on Uncle Gates' products though. More's the pity.
I just need to see what's holding me back from just moving to Linux. Ah MS Money. I wonder if I can import years worth of financial data into a F/OSS version.
I have this same problem although I'm tied into Quicken and not MS Money. I've never found GNUCash to be worthwhile. You might look into Moneydance. It's not FOSS but it runs on anything (Java) and is lightweight enough to put on a thumb drive for extreme portability. I'm still married to Quicken because I like the attachments feature but a buddy of mine swears by Moneydance. He keeps it on a thumb drive within a Truecrypt container and uses it everywhere he goes.
Dual boot? I don't know. I have had issues in the past with GRUB locking up machines and no being able to rescue my system. I had to reinstall everything.
I've thought about going back to dual boot and just keeping Windows around for Quicken and games. Strange that GRUB has corrupted your whole system though -- how does such a thing happen? I've always stuck with LILO (and Slackware... yes, I'm a purist) and never had any issue with it that would have caused me to lose data. I've had LILO itself get corrupted a few times but it never took my data with it.
Call me cynical, but the White House wasn't wrong to say that the GOP is beholden to Limbaugh
Call me cynical, but it seems to me that if you run your whole campaign on the promise of a "new kind of politics", you should probably refrain from engaging in the old kind of politics that you claimed was poisoning the atmosphere.
It becomes easier to see Obama as just another politician (as opposed to some sort of transformative figure) when his administration engages in this type of behavior after less than three months in office. Amazing how empty all that talk of changing the tone seems now, isn't it?
Actually you should have voted for McCain, because it was obvious that the Democrats would be in control of Congress. If the Clinton years are any indication, divided Government grows even slower and can even wind up with the occasional surplus or two.....
I think Obama is doing the exact wrong thing. He should pull the 3 million troops we've got stationed around the world back home and fire the majority of them
Umm, the US Armed Forces including the reserves only total up to around 2.2 million, so you might want to check your figure there.....
I screamed about the bailouts when Bush started this crap. I'm screaming now. Of course you may be right. My guy was Ron Paul and he didn't make the cut so technically my guy has never been in power. Too bad. He's abut the only Senator that really believes in the Constitution.
You had me right up until the part about Senator Ron Paul.......
Libertarians don't want to get rid of "education standards", they want to get rid of Federally-imposed education standards. Their argument is that local communities should be allowed to set their own standards without interference from Washington. I don't have a problem with that.
Regarding food and medical safety, there's no reason why you need Government to do that. Medical safety is going to be enforced by the malpractice insurance companies (it's in their financial interest to do so). Food safety could work the same way, and besides, it's the governmental involvement in our food system that has left it this vulnerable anyway. We subsidize agra-business and encourge the further centralization of our food production/distribution network, then act surprised when a single e'coli outbreak manages to impact all 50 states. Hmm.....
I don't care how good Steven's lawyers are--this looks, quacks, and waddles just like a duck and that indicates a duck to me.
It has nothing to do with how good his lawyers are. It has everything to do with how bad the DOJ lawyers were. If they hadn't withheld evidence and allowed him to have a fair trial then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
Just wait six years and Begich will lose. He only managed to win this time because the Republican was under indictment for most of the campaign and convicted before the conclusion. Any halfway popular Republican will beat him in 2014. Hell, if Sarah Palin had any foresight she'd be planning a run at his seat herself instead of trying to get some washed up 85 year old back into the job.
I only pointed out what happened to my employer as an example of what happens when a Governmental agency runs out of control and follows the letter of the law more closely than the spirit.
I do find your suggestion that we'd revert to the 1800s without them to be kind of FUD'ish though.....
Yes. You can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle and I don't relish living in a world where my country is blackmailed by some other country that doesn't share our lofty notions of a nuclear free planet.
They aren't perfect, but I trust government regulators to keep the food supply safe more than I do private business owners
Yet you happily accept electrical appliances approved by underwriters laboratories as opposed to ones approved by some governmental agency. How many times has a UL listed appliance burned your house down?
OSHA is a joke. OSHA fined my employer $3,000 because of a space heater that didn't have a grate over the fan. Said space heater was 14 feet off the floor. I guess they were worried that some poor fool could drag a ladder over and accidentally fall into it or something.
If you actually want to solve the problem in Mexico then two things come to mind:
1) Secure the border. Until the border is secured weapons, drugs and people will cross it in defiance of American and Mexican law.
2) Legalize drugs and dry up the revenue source for the criminal elements.
You don't solve the problem by restricting civil liberties here at home.
Because they are big enough to matter when it comes time to write donation checks to political action committees^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^Wtoo big to fail and will drag the rest of us down with them. Yeah, that's it....
Just because you don't see it as "meaningful" doesn't mean it isn't an infringement on our civil liberties. There are many valid reasons to own an "assault" weapon and few compelling ones (rarely used in crime) to ban them. If they can ban one class of weapons they can ban another class or them all.
given that any meaningful gun ban would be unlikely to be upheld.
Just because it eventually gets struck down doesn't mean it won't make life miserable for every law-abiding gun owner in the country until that happens.
Slashdot Mirror
Kirk: The away team will consist of Spock, Bones, myself and Ensign Smith.
Ensign Smith: Fuck
Have they broken the ST curse?
Yes, the even numbered ones suck now too ;) Oh wait, that's not what you meant.... n/m
This post is a better movie than Nemesis.
I'll make sure my next one consists entirely of "KARMA DOWN TO 40%" type utterances ;)
If the new ST movies contains a single line of "shields down to whatever percent" or an exploding console I'm going to walk out in disgust. What other Trek cliches have run their course?
.... I'd hate to see this guy have to do another plot synopsis ;)
Well, I could make a plug here for Slackware, if you don't mind getting down and dirty. I've run it on all sorts of systems. Dunno what the rest of your box is like but the 512MB Ram probably wouldn't be an issue.
Ah, I seem to recall a lot of people vowing that the changes from Win2k to Windows XP would push them into switching to Linux. Most people always seem to wind up back on Uncle Gates' products though. More's the pity.
I just need to see what's holding me back from just moving to Linux. Ah MS Money. I wonder if I can import years worth of financial data into a F/OSS version.
I have this same problem although I'm tied into Quicken and not MS Money. I've never found GNUCash to be worthwhile. You might look into Moneydance. It's not FOSS but it runs on anything (Java) and is lightweight enough to put on a thumb drive for extreme portability. I'm still married to Quicken because I like the attachments feature but a buddy of mine swears by Moneydance. He keeps it on a thumb drive within a Truecrypt container and uses it everywhere he goes.
Dual boot? I don't know. I have had issues in the past with GRUB locking up machines and no being able to rescue my system. I had to reinstall everything.
I've thought about going back to dual boot and just keeping Windows around for Quicken and games. Strange that GRUB has corrupted your whole system though -- how does such a thing happen? I've always stuck with LILO (and Slackware... yes, I'm a purist) and never had any issue with it that would have caused me to lose data. I've had LILO itself get corrupted a few times but it never took my data with it.
how exactly are we supposed to pay?
I'm not sure how the whole process works but I'm guessing that it involves bending over at some point.....
Call me cynical, but the White House wasn't wrong to say that the GOP is beholden to Limbaugh
Call me cynical, but it seems to me that if you run your whole campaign on the promise of a "new kind of politics", you should probably refrain from engaging in the old kind of politics that you claimed was poisoning the atmosphere.
It becomes easier to see Obama as just another politician (as opposed to some sort of transformative figure) when his administration engages in this type of behavior after less than three months in office. Amazing how empty all that talk of changing the tone seems now, isn't it?
Actually you should have voted for McCain, because it was obvious that the Democrats would be in control of Congress. If the Clinton years are any indication, divided Government grows even slower and can even wind up with the occasional surplus or two.....
I think Obama is doing the exact wrong thing. He should pull the 3 million troops we've got stationed around the world back home and fire the majority of them
Umm, the US Armed Forces including the reserves only total up to around 2.2 million, so you might want to check your figure there.....
I screamed about the bailouts when Bush started this crap. I'm screaming now. Of course you may be right. My guy was Ron Paul and he didn't make the cut so technically my guy has never been in power. Too bad. He's abut the only Senator that really believes in the Constitution.
You had me right up until the part about Senator Ron Paul.......
And you obviously don't bother to watch the news if you think the Government is actually keeping food safe.
Libertarians don't want to get rid of "education standards", they want to get rid of Federally-imposed education standards. Their argument is that local communities should be allowed to set their own standards without interference from Washington. I don't have a problem with that.
Regarding food and medical safety, there's no reason why you need Government to do that. Medical safety is going to be enforced by the malpractice insurance companies (it's in their financial interest to do so). Food safety could work the same way, and besides, it's the governmental involvement in our food system that has left it this vulnerable anyway. We subsidize agra-business and encourge the further centralization of our food production/distribution network, then act surprised when a single e'coli outbreak manages to impact all 50 states. Hmm.....
I don't care how good Steven's lawyers are--this looks, quacks, and waddles just like a duck and that indicates a duck to me.
It has nothing to do with how good his lawyers are. It has everything to do with how bad the DOJ lawyers were. If they hadn't withheld evidence and allowed him to have a fair trial then we wouldn't be having this conversation right now.
Just wait six years and Begich will lose. He only managed to win this time because the Republican was under indictment for most of the campaign and convicted before the conclusion. Any halfway popular Republican will beat him in 2014. Hell, if Sarah Palin had any foresight she'd be planning a run at his seat herself instead of trying to get some washed up 85 year old back into the job.
but there was definitely manufactured evidence that tainted things enough to get him off.
Huh?
I only pointed out what happened to my employer as an example of what happens when a Governmental agency runs out of control and follows the letter of the law more closely than the spirit.
I do find your suggestion that we'd revert to the 1800s without them to be kind of FUD'ish though.....
Yes. You can't put the nuclear genie back in the bottle and I don't relish living in a world where my country is blackmailed by some other country that doesn't share our lofty notions of a nuclear free planet.
They aren't perfect, but I trust government regulators to keep the food supply safe more than I do private business owners
Yet you happily accept electrical appliances approved by underwriters laboratories as opposed to ones approved by some governmental agency. How many times has a UL listed appliance burned your house down?
OSHA is a joke. OSHA fined my employer $3,000 because of a space heater that didn't have a grate over the fan. Said space heater was 14 feet off the floor. I guess they were worried that some poor fool could drag a ladder over and accidentally fall into it or something.
If you actually want to solve the problem in Mexico then two things come to mind:
1) Secure the border. Until the border is secured weapons, drugs and people will cross it in defiance of American and Mexican law.
2) Legalize drugs and dry up the revenue source for the criminal elements.
You don't solve the problem by restricting civil liberties here at home.
Depends on if you ask him while he's in campaign mode or talk to the supporters from San Francisco mode......
Why should GM or AIG be any different?
Because they are big enough to matter when it comes time to write donation checks to political action committees^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^W^Wtoo big to fail and will drag the rest of us down with them. Yeah, that's it....
Just because you don't see it as "meaningful" doesn't mean it isn't an infringement on our civil liberties. There are many valid reasons to own an "assault" weapon and few compelling ones (rarely used in crime) to ban them. If they can ban one class of weapons they can ban another class or them all.
If it's hate and spite you are looking for there's always Mr. Olbermann.
I don't know of any moves afoot to restrict gun rights.
I guess you haven't looked at Obama's urban agenda or paid attention to what Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder have been saying?
given that any meaningful gun ban would be unlikely to be upheld.
Just because it eventually gets struck down doesn't mean it won't make life miserable for every law-abiding gun owner in the country until that happens.