A radio news report quoted the book as stating that the medical reports of her examination at a US military hospital after she was rescued reported injury consistent with anal rape.
She herself says that she has no recollection of the hours surrounding her capture, including whether her broken bones were sustaine during the fight or if they were broken in beatings by her captors. Again, this is what a radio report said about the book. I have not read it myself.
I hope your grasp on the rest of reality is less tenuous than your grasp on ME geopolitics. Having Turkish troops in Iraq would not be a good thing because:
1) The Turks and the Kurds don't exactly like each other;
2) During the days of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq was occupied by Turkey. It wasn't exactly popular with the people of what later was cobbled together by the British into Iraq. People remember things for a long time in the Middle East. Recall that people still talk about the Crusades there almost as if their grandfathers had fought in them. I don't know if Americans even learn about the Crusades in school anymore (doubt it; I did in high school, but that was in the late seventies).
Having more troops in Iraq would be a Good Thing (TM), but having Turkish troops there would not. We are having enough problems there anyway, without fanning those flames. We should thank the Turkish government for preventing us from pumping several poorly-aimed rounds into our feet.
What a pathetic excuse for a troll you are. You don't even deserve the title. A decent troll is nearly an art form, but the best you can do is to post the usual tired old links. Even the GNAA is better than you are, and they are not only racists, but have become boring and old.
If anyone wants to waste your mod points, on an AC, mod him redundant. Such a loser is unworthy of the title Troll. Plus, of course, real trolls will do so logged in, correctly perceiving that:
1)/. karma is worthless;
2) Poor karma as a result of trolling is a badge of honor among real trolls.
Flamebait? Excuse me, O Might and All-Seeing Moderator, but you must be a person with little or no Mandrake experience and/or little or no Debian experience.
I migrated from Red Hat to Debian about two years ago. Well prior to that,, starting with Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1, my dad started using Mandrake. My Red Hat systems were always more stable and reliable than any Mandrake version he had. Just ask somebody about Mandrake 7.x and CUPS, for example.
Now I run Debian Unstable, and it's as stable as any Red Hat system I used previously, and sometimes better, which is to say it's also better than Mandrake.
The comparison between Fedora and Debian Testing/Unstable is, of course, accurate.
I might understand if you modded the comment about Mandrake as a troll (it halfway was), but flamebait? The mods really are on crack after all. My post was informative, but I guess your definition of flamebait is anything that doesn't fit in with your unfounded prejudices. Not that such a definition is unusual, mind you.
I work for a large (the largest?) commercial spam filtering company, with a lot of large enterprise clients (but we also deal with small businesses, law firms, medical, etc.), and I can tell you that *our* spam filters certainly work and most certainly can look at text and tell, with a very high degree of accuracy, whether it's spam or not.
You're on crack if you think VRFY will help you much. Most mail admins turn VRFY off so that spammers can't exploit it. That's mail administration 101. Say, you wouldn't happen to be a spammer yourself, out here trolling and trying to get people to use OE b/c it's vulnerable to spam and viruses, would you? Nah! Couldn't be!;-)
3) Keep doing what you were always doing. If you suddenly disappear, that could raise suspicions. (No, I'm not a blackhat, but I am a sysadmin, and you have to think like your enemies think if you want to keep them out.)
4) ???
5) Profit!
Because of 5, it's clear that MS or SCO must be behind it;-)
You live in a place where you can get 500 clear feet ahead of you in congested traffic? I live in LA, my daily commute takes me from Torrance to Marine del Rey and back. There's absolutely no way you can get 500 feet open ahead of you in congested traffic. If you've got 3 car lengths ahead of you, you're doing pretty well.
Heck, even when it's not congested you won't get 500 feet:-p
Debian has Testing and Unstable releases (although in my experience Debian Unstable is more stable than some distros' production releases (coughmandrakecoughcoughmandrakecough). It's my impression that Fedora is to Red Hat what Testing and Unstable are to Debian Stable. Or perhaps a better comparison might be that it is to Red Hat what Mozilla is to the branded Netscape browser.
I haven't seen any of the Matrix movies (yes, really!) so I won't address your review, but one minor quibble with the conclusion: Star Wars (neither the original movie nor the trilogy) was groundbreaking only with respect to the special effects, which were indeed special in the mid-1970s.
Star Wars was a nod to the past, just as the Indiana Jones movies were. I guess most/.ers are to young to remember that stuff:-)
I hope the HTML of their website isn't an example of NVU output. Even at a casual glance, it's obviously not W3C-compliant. Granted, they don't claim it will be, they merely claim it works with most popular browsers, but to make yet another HTML editor that does not produce W3C-compliant code would be reprehensible. We not only need an open source product like this, we need one that produces 100% W3C-compliant HTML. It's not just the right thing to do, it's a selling point. With it, you can claim that NVU isn't just better because it's open source (something some people would argue with) but that it's better because it produces the best output.
If a solution is open source and available at no charge, some people will use it because it's free, whether or not it produces the best output (if they even know what W3C-compliance is; a lot of people who are into WYIWYG either don't know or don't care (IMO)), and some will opt for a proprietary product, even if expensive, if that's the one that does the best job. If you can point to a product and say "Not only is it open source and available at no charge, it also produces the best HTML" then you can really hook people.
A lot of the problem with discipline today comes from the failure of parents to teach it at home, and the idea, held by so many people that "I've got rights!" while completely ignoring the idea that they have also have responsibilities and obligations which are as binding upon them as their (Constitutional) rights are inalienable. Thus you find the schools full of discipline-case punks who mouth off to, physically threaten, and just generally disrespect their teachers. Meanwhile, the teachers are powerless to do much about it, and the discipline cases know that and exploit it.
As the father of two young children, I simply will not accept that kind of behavior. When they reach school age, they will be expected to study hard, be respectful to their teachers and classmates, and be good citizens of the school. If I got a report from the teacher that one of my kids threatened the teacher, it would be a case of "You can't buy a calendar long enough to see how long you'll be grounded." Even now, we teach them at home, so that they will be ready for, and used to, learning, when they start school. Our eleven-month old already has an impressive vocabulary and can understand many questions and perform actions based on them (e.g., "Where is the doll?" and she'll pick her doll out of a group of toys.). It all comes down to the expectations you place. If you have high expectations of your children, they will probably live up to and meet them. If you have low expectations, they will surely live down to those and meet them.
My wife and I teach our kids to respect their elders and behave properly. That is an obligation that all parents have to both their children and society, yet far too many of them in America fail in that obligation. I lived abroad for nine years, married during that time, and both of my children were born overseas. I must say, compared to kids in the countries where I lived, American kids are, by and large, spoiled-rotten little brats. The only ones that come close are the "Little Emperors" in China, the boys in "one male child" families who are spoiled rotten by parents, grandparents, pretty much everyone. But compared to most American kids, they're not so bad. Most of them will grow up to be hardworking, law-abiding, productive members of society. It's hard to not think that many of today's kids will grow up to be whining losers - or worse, prison inmates - until life has given them a sufficient does of hard reality that they turn themselves around if they can.
Mandrake, the distro for people who really shoudn't be using Linux without supervision (read, "Your sysadmin installs it and gives you an unprivileged user account and locks the box down tight, if that's really possible on Mandrake, and he could tell you the root password but then he'd have to kill you and would enjoy doing it") but who nevertheless are going to rush headlong into it anyway.
The fact of the matter is that Linux is fundamentally a server operating system, as is the rest of the *nix family and the NT Server/W2K Server line. If you want to run a server OS, fine, but you have an ethical responsibility to educate yourself and become a knowledegable user. If you choose not to meet that responsiblity, Microsoft and Apple both have operating systems which are better suited to your talents, or lack thereof. Mandrake, sadly, pitches their usually badly done distro toward those who do not wish to educate themselves. The only difference between an ignorant Windows user and an ignorant Mandrake user is the OS, but they're still ignorant and that is the problem.
Debian unstable? I've been running it as my desktop OS for about a year and a half now, since I got tired of Red Hat's BlueCurve and had no interest in their one-year-to-EOL policy. I get the latest KDE (much faster than users of Mandrake Hooker, or Cooker, or whatever they call it) do, and despite the fact that they call this Debian *Unstable* it has always been far more stable and had fewer problems than the Mandrake release versions that my father uses.
So yes, if you want a decent OS you should use Debian Unstable. It's more stable than Mandrake releases tend to be, and it will force you to know what you are doing to a far greater degree than Mandrake will. That is a Good Thing.
So take that cap in your own arse, thank you very much. But then, you probably enjoy that sort of thing.
Oh, and did I mention Debian unstable is on 2.4.22 ? Being ignorant, you probably had no idea. Also, you might be interested to note that even now the 2.2 kernel is more stable than 2.4 and I know a number of people who have yet to migrate their most mission-critical systems to a 2.4 kernel. They run Debian Stable on them, they have rock-solid reliability and great uptime, and they are happy.
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A radio news report quoted the book as stating that the medical reports of her examination at a US military hospital after she was rescued reported injury consistent with anal rape.
She herself says that she has no recollection of the hours surrounding her capture, including whether her broken bones were sustaine during the fight or if they were broken in beatings by her captors. Again, this is what a radio report said about the book. I have not read it myself.
Oh, c'mon, that was funny! Somebody mod him up! :-)
I hope your grasp on the rest of reality is less tenuous than your grasp on ME geopolitics. Having Turkish troops in Iraq would not be a good thing because:
1) The Turks and the Kurds don't exactly like each other;
2) During the days of the Ottoman Empire, Iraq was occupied by Turkey. It wasn't exactly popular with the people of what later was cobbled together by the British into Iraq. People remember things for a long time in the Middle East. Recall that people still talk about the Crusades there almost as if their grandfathers had fought in them. I don't know if Americans even learn about the Crusades in school anymore (doubt it; I did in high school, but that was in the late seventies).
Having more troops in Iraq would be a Good Thing (TM), but having Turkish troops there would not. We are having enough problems there anyway, without fanning those flames. We should thank the Turkish government for preventing us from pumping several poorly-aimed rounds into our feet.
What a pathetic excuse for a troll you are. You don't even deserve the title. A decent troll is nearly an art form, but the best you can do is to post the usual tired old links. Even the GNAA is better than you are, and they are not only racists, but have become boring and old.
/. karma is worthless;
If anyone wants to waste your mod points, on an AC, mod him redundant. Such a loser is unworthy of the title Troll. Plus, of course, real trolls will do so logged in, correctly perceiving that:
1)
2) Poor karma as a result of trolling is a badge of honor among real trolls.
Flamebait? Excuse me, O Might and All-Seeing Moderator, but you must be a person with little or no Mandrake experience and/or little or no Debian experience.
I migrated from Red Hat to Debian about two years ago. Well prior to that,, starting with Mandrake 7.0 or 7.1, my dad started using Mandrake. My Red Hat systems were always more stable and reliable than any Mandrake version he had. Just ask somebody about Mandrake 7.x and CUPS, for example.
Now I run Debian Unstable, and it's as stable as any Red Hat system I used previously, and sometimes better, which is to say it's also better than Mandrake.
The comparison between Fedora and Debian Testing/Unstable is, of course, accurate.
I might understand if you modded the comment about Mandrake as a troll (it halfway was), but flamebait? The mods really are on crack after all. My post was informative, but I guess your definition of flamebait is anything that doesn't fit in with your unfounded prejudices. Not that such a definition is unusual, mind you.
Any obvious troll, but I gotta reply anyway.
;-)
I work for a large (the largest?) commercial spam filtering company, with a lot of large enterprise clients (but we also deal with small businesses, law firms, medical, etc.), and I can tell you that *our* spam filters certainly work and most certainly can look at text and tell, with a very high degree of accuracy, whether it's spam or not.
You're on crack if you think VRFY will help you much. Most mail admins turn VRFY off so that spammers can't exploit it. That's mail administration 101. Say, you wouldn't happen to be a spammer yourself, out here trolling and trying to get people to use OE b/c it's vulnerable to spam and viruses, would you? Nah! Couldn't be!
No kidding. My wife is better looking than any of the women in the BSD Bimbo Corps (TM) he's so hot for.
:-)
Since I'm a Linux admin and my wife is better looking than any of the BSD Bimboes, this can mean only one thing: BSD is dying!
Can I sue McDonald's for a million dollars if I spill a hot iTune in my lap?
3) Keep doing what you were always doing. If you suddenly disappear, that could raise suspicions. (No, I'm not a blackhat, but I am a sysadmin, and you have to think like your enemies think if you want to keep them out.)
;-)
4) ???
5) Profit!
Because of 5, it's clear that MS or SCO must be behind it
You live in a place where you can get 500 clear feet ahead of you in congested traffic? I live in LA, my daily commute takes me from Torrance to Marine del Rey and back. There's absolutely no way you can get 500 feet open ahead of you in congested traffic. If you've got 3 car lengths ahead of you, you're doing pretty well.
:-p
Heck, even when it's not congested you won't get 500 feet
Debian has Testing and Unstable releases (although in my experience Debian Unstable is more stable than some distros' production releases (coughmandrakecoughcoughmandrakecough). It's my impression that Fedora is to Red Hat what Testing and Unstable are to Debian Stable. Or perhaps a better comparison might be that it is to Red Hat what Mozilla is to the branded Netscape browser.
Of what, greased Yoda dolls? If you find out where, please don't tell us :-)
I haven't seen any of the Matrix movies (yes, really!) so I won't address your review, but one minor quibble with the conclusion: Star Wars (neither the original movie nor the trilogy) was groundbreaking only with respect to the special effects, which were indeed special in the mid-1970s.
/.ers are to young to remember that stuff :-)
Star Wars was a nod to the past, just as the Indiana Jones movies were. I guess most
If it's so steely, why is it dangling?
I hope the HTML of their website isn't an example of NVU output. Even at a casual glance, it's obviously not W3C-compliant. Granted, they don't claim it will be, they merely claim it works with most popular browsers, but to make yet another HTML editor that does not produce W3C-compliant code would be reprehensible. We not only need an open source product like this, we need one that produces 100% W3C-compliant HTML. It's not just the right thing to do, it's a selling point. With it, you can claim that NVU isn't just better because it's open source (something some people would argue with) but that it's better because it produces the best output.
If a solution is open source and available at no charge, some people will use it because it's free, whether or not it produces the best output (if they even know what W3C-compliance is; a lot of people who are into WYIWYG either don't know or don't care (IMO)), and some will opt for a proprietary product, even if expensive, if that's the one that does the best job. If you can point to a product and say "Not only is it open source and available at no charge, it also produces the best HTML" then you can really hook people.
Ditto.
A lot of the problem with discipline today comes from the failure of parents to teach it at home, and the idea, held by so many people that "I've got rights!" while completely ignoring the idea that they have also have responsibilities and obligations which are as binding upon them as their (Constitutional) rights are inalienable. Thus you find the schools full of discipline-case punks who mouth off to, physically threaten, and just generally disrespect their teachers. Meanwhile, the teachers are powerless to do much about it, and the discipline cases know that and exploit it.
As the father of two young children, I simply will not accept that kind of behavior. When they reach school age, they will be expected to study hard, be respectful to their teachers and classmates, and be good citizens of the school. If I got a report from the teacher that one of my kids threatened the teacher, it would be a case of "You can't buy a calendar long enough to see how long you'll be grounded." Even now, we teach them at home, so that they will be ready for, and used to, learning, when they start school. Our eleven-month old already has an impressive vocabulary and can understand many questions and perform actions based on them (e.g., "Where is the doll?" and she'll pick her doll out of a group of toys.). It all comes down to the expectations you place. If you have high expectations of your children, they will probably live up to and meet them. If you have low expectations, they will surely live down to those and meet them.
My wife and I teach our kids to respect their elders and behave properly. That is an obligation that all parents have to both their children and society, yet far too many of them in America fail in that obligation. I lived abroad for nine years, married during that time, and both of my children were born overseas. I must say, compared to kids in the countries where I lived, American kids are, by and large, spoiled-rotten little brats. The only ones that come close are the "Little Emperors" in China, the boys in "one male child" families who are spoiled rotten by parents, grandparents, pretty much everyone. But compared to most American kids, they're not so bad. Most of them will grow up to be hardworking, law-abiding, productive members of society. It's hard to not think that many of today's kids will grow up to be whining losers - or worse, prison inmates - until life has given them a sufficient does of hard reality that they turn themselves around if they can.
> Where did you get that from?
:-)
There are two main possibilities:
1) They got it from the crack pipes they're smoking;
2) Our society is becoming so poorly educated that people no longer understand the meaning of "haves and have-nots."
In the case of number 2, number 1 probably also fits in somewhere.
Or maybe they're just stupid. You pick
Mandrake, the distro for people who really shoudn't be using Linux without supervision (read, "Your sysadmin installs it and gives you an unprivileged user account and locks the box down tight, if that's really possible on Mandrake, and he could tell you the root password but then he'd have to kill you and would enjoy doing it") but who nevertheless are going to rush headlong into it anyway.
The fact of the matter is that Linux is fundamentally a server operating system, as is the rest of the *nix family and the NT Server/W2K Server line. If you want to run a server OS, fine, but you have an ethical responsibility to educate yourself and become a knowledegable user. If you choose not to meet that responsiblity, Microsoft and Apple both have operating systems which are better suited to your talents, or lack thereof. Mandrake, sadly, pitches their usually badly done distro toward those who do not wish to educate themselves. The only difference between an ignorant Windows user and an ignorant Mandrake user is the OS, but they're still ignorant and that is the problem.
Debian unstable? I've been running it as my desktop OS for about a year and a half now, since I got tired of Red Hat's BlueCurve and had no interest in their one-year-to-EOL policy. I get the latest KDE (much faster than users of Mandrake Hooker, or Cooker, or whatever they call it) do, and despite the fact that they call this Debian *Unstable* it has always been far more stable and had fewer problems than the Mandrake release versions that my father uses.
So yes, if you want a decent OS you should use Debian Unstable. It's more stable than Mandrake releases tend to be, and it will force you to know what you are doing to a far greater degree than Mandrake will. That is a Good Thing.
So take that cap in your own arse, thank you very much. But then, you probably enjoy that sort of thing.
Oh, and did I mention Debian unstable is on 2.4.22 ? Being ignorant, you probably had no idea. Also, you might be interested to note that even now the 2.2 kernel is more stable than 2.4 and I know a number of people who have yet to migrate their most mission-critical systems to a 2.4 kernel. They run Debian Stable on them, they have rock-solid reliability and great uptime, and they are happy.