"With web crackdowns like this becoming more and more frequent, do you think we will start to see similar (overt) activities from US and European governments?"
No.
Despite the cries from people who read 1984 too many times, we very far from living in a totalitarian state. Bush at his worst doesn't have the kind of power to make this sort of stuff happen. All of our checks and balances and the antagonistic relationships of all the actors between the gov't and commercial enterprise would make such an effort futile, followed by becoming a meme on YouTube or an SNL sketch. Many people seem to think our gov't is something monolithic and centrally controlled. It just isn't. The vast majority of gov't positions are just jobs, not elected or appointed. Most of those jobs are filled by relatively normal people. Not square jawed conspirators. Real life just isn't that interesting.
If Obama is elected *crosses fingers* the "Patriot Act" will probably go away and many of W's abuses will be uncovered, or at least won't go on. Unless of course the tin foil hat crew is right and both parties work for the Colonel, the Gettys, the Rothschilds etc.
Or maybe i haven't smoked enough pot/watched enough X-Files.
Also, the gov't doesn't give a shit about you downloading the anarchist cookbook. You're not that interesting or important. i seriously hope that Obama's election will put and end to the ego-centrism and paranoia of the last 8 years. It's hilarious, but tiresome.
i don't want another browser to learn (and relearn after updates). i already have to deal with 2 (IE for sites that don't play nice, and FF as my preferred). i'd rather that google do more to integrate with FF. Or for FF to do more in the way of integrating all the google stuff i use (or better yet, replace them).
i find myself conflicted with open source ideals. i want free (in both senses), but i don't want redundant choices (flavors of the same thing) or learning curve (bookmarks vs. favorites, search vs. finder). i want to go to a machine and know how to use it because it's just like my machine at home/work. Same OS, same browser, same office apps, same selection in hard/software.
If humans were meant to be monogamous, we wouldn't be having this conversation. It would be a given and a non-issue. Non-monogamy would be something lesser beasts do and would strike us as odd and curious behavior.
Asking humans to be monogamous is like asking a cat to NOT chase a mouse. "Did you SEE her tits? Of COURSE I hit that. I'd be gay if it didn't!"
Marriage is a system invented by men with power to make alliances and to manage inheritance of power. The whole love thing is very 20th century.
Add upon that the Poor Tax. People with less money usually have higher interest rates, further eroding buying power. They can afford to rent, but not buy a home. Rent is money pissed away and lining someone else's pockets. Home owners, over enough time, build equity (so they've only pissed away interest).
Who teaches these lessons, though? Your broke ass parents? Your broke ass neighbors? Schools? i was lucky to have parents who taught me some of these things, and i went to a school system that also tried. In the USAF, they also try to teach how to handle credit and debt. Maybe if schools put more effort into teaching how to be an adult instead of how to throw a ball very far or how to calculate the area under a curve.
Our economy is based on debt. It's like a game of musical chairs, as long as the credit flows, the music keeps playing. Yet the music is getting faster and faster. Eventually it will stop and many people will be left without a chair. But who cares? The people without a chair won't be anyone who matters.
Our (US) culture preaches materialism from an early age. As a child i remember feeling tremendous pressure to have Nike or Reebok shoes, so i wouldn't be the poor kid in class. And even now at 33 i feel these insecurities and envy. i'm better equipped to feed that desire and to resist it. Not sure how to combat all that.
i'd like to see interest phased out, or reduced to something just small enough to allow people to buy homes, cars and pay for education, and to run the lending institutions. Make banks NPOs, or at least have NP banks available.
Or we could continue exploiting each other for short term gains at the expense of future generations. That's fine too.
Hmph. So we've been totally lied to by our album covers. Strange that we'd have differences, but not tie distinctions to them. The mil, gov and edu TLDs seem to be better controlled.
Is it legal to have a business without a license? Perhaps i'm assuming too much with the word license.
www.Integrated-Software and www.Integrated-Engines
Is there a national registry for company names? My guess would be that there should be a list at the federal level, if only for tax IDs. If there is such a list, does anyone here know if they deconflict company names? "Hey Steve, there's already a company named Apple, Inc."
(further off the subject, but in line with the tangent) And while i'm thinking about it, is there a grand list of band names? Sometimes bands will come up with the same name in the US and the UK, and the UK band will go by "[Bandname] UK". Like Charlatans UK, or The Mission UK. i've never seen an instance of Charlatans US.
i have an idea that would prolly piss off lots of people but would reduce domain troubles: Get rid of the TLDs. That would end any sort of WhiteHouse.gov vs. WhiteHouse.com issues. It would end Company.com vs Company.org/net, where the latter is a site for praising or hating Company. If we need a TLD to differentiate what packets go to what country, make them all.us. Use trademarks and such to determine who gets to keep the name.
OR
If you're going to have a.org you have to send in paperwork showing you are a registered NPO. You want.com? Send us a copy of your business license.
Yes, well said. If there is a 1/1,000,000,000,000 chance of life forming around any given star, there should be metric fucktons of life supporting stars in our unfashionable western spiral arm alone.
What cracks me up is that someone modded me a flamebait for making a joke that was marked as a joke. Either someone didn't read the exchange i was replying to (wl, or people are abusing their mod points. Do i have karma stalkers?
"When you mod me flamebait, i was JOKING!" - Krusty the Slashdotter
If i change the password they would send the password to me again in plain text. Sometimes it's a forum, sometimes it's something else. Either way, it's a terrible practice.
i've canceled membership in forums and other sites because they sent my PW in plain text. Followed by a nastygram sent to their "Contact Us" or "Help" link. It's inexcusable for PW to ever be in plain text, particularly on the side of the people hosting the service.
It's a problem because like smoking and other addictions, such people can become a burden on society. One's right to pollute one's body should end when it becomes a problem for someone else. Helmets protect the rider, but more importantly perhaps it protect family members from a closed casket funeral and cops from having to use a squeegee to clean up brain. It also protects society in the sense that if Bob smears his brain on the highway, he takes his other values to society with him.
The last sentence of your post is a republican mantra, which would be great if people made smart choices, but they don't. If we were Vulcan you'd have a point. By the time it done it's too late to undo it. Humans are not thinking machines that happen to feel. We're feeling machines that think from time to time. But we're clever monkeys and we often make bad choices. Many of these choices happen subconsciously. Many people's brains don't work in the way paragons of self control such as yourself. A second slice of cake triggers the same part of the brain triggered by heroine. A moody teenage girl can tell you about the Rhythm Method of birth control from what she learned in health class. But her boyfriend swears that he loves her and all her friends are doing it. i had friend who was a card carrying member of MENSA who chose a guy who lived on the other side of the country who treated her terribly, over a guy who lived near her and treated her well. Knowing the consequences half the battle, it takes something else entirely to make a wise choice. The wise choice is all too obvious for outsiders. We know all too well that the Hail Mary Pass would have been better than going for the field goal. Chances are the quarter back realized this too as the ball headed toward an opponents arms.
If we were all as awesome as you we could live in Ayn Rand's utopia. Alas, it is not so.
Enter paternalism. When you were a child you were too stupid to understand that the pot on the stove was full of Scarring 2nd Degree Burns. So your mother, who is a bit smarter, smacked your hand and yelled "NO! HOT!" when you reached for the handle. That oppressive bitch!
A bit late to the game, but i'd like to offer an additional PvP Only game: PlanetSide. It's not an RPG, more of an FPS in a persistent world. Battles are up to 100+ vs. 100+ vs. 100+. Very little grinding, you play to play rather than to collect this or that bean. The certification system make the dominant factors: skill, knowledge and teamwork. As opposed to most MMOs where free time and real world money are dominant. Teamwork is essential. Sure you can foot zerg your way to victory, but a skilled and cohesive unit (using TeamSpeak) can win against significant odds.
{Ideology} is as {Ideology Group} does (in the name of {Ideology}).
It may not be very {Ideology} to {Action Conflicting with Ideology}, but the world is going to judge {Ideology} by its ACTIONS/RESULTS, not it's claims/intentions. If i plan to cure cancer and end up killing a bunch of people, are people going care about my intentions or my results?
This is the No True Scotsman thing. People like to say that the horrors committed in the name of {Ideology} were not really part of {Ideology}, no true {Ideology Member} would act that way.
If you don't like how {Ideology} is perceived, take that up with the people creating that image. Because from were i'm sitting, {Ideology} seems to be about {Bad Things Inconsistent with Ideology}. And not just from the behavior of individuals, much of it seems to be institutional and systemic. {Ideology} seems to create these behaviors, even if as an emergent behavior. If {Ideology} means to teach {Good Behavior} (and it doesn't seem to), it is failing and perhaps should be replaced with something that works.
And i'd also be worried about losing a PB all at once. There are TB drives at my local Best Buy, but that's a lot to lose at once. i'd rather split my files and programs between two or more smaller drives (and have a RAID).
Why did someone mod me a troll for making a Spinal Tap reference? Is this someone getting revenge for something else i said? Aren't there supposed to be meta-moderators to check on abuse like this?
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So, it's not just LOADED on the stick, it's PRE loaded! What will they think of next? These men of science.
And thank goodness we don't have to buy used cars anymore. Used cars suck. Give me a pre owned car. It's like new, but cheaper, right?
"With web crackdowns like this becoming more and more frequent, do you think we will start to see similar (overt) activities from US and European governments?"
No.
Despite the cries from people who read 1984 too many times, we very far from living in a totalitarian state. Bush at his worst doesn't have the kind of power to make this sort of stuff happen. All of our checks and balances and the antagonistic relationships of all the actors between the gov't and commercial enterprise would make such an effort futile, followed by becoming a meme on YouTube or an SNL sketch. Many people seem to think our gov't is something monolithic and centrally controlled. It just isn't. The vast majority of gov't positions are just jobs, not elected or appointed. Most of those jobs are filled by relatively normal people. Not square jawed conspirators. Real life just isn't that interesting.
If Obama is elected *crosses fingers* the "Patriot Act" will probably go away and many of W's abuses will be uncovered, or at least won't go on. Unless of course the tin foil hat crew is right and both parties work for the Colonel, the Gettys, the Rothschilds etc.
Or maybe i haven't smoked enough pot/watched enough X-Files.
Also, the gov't doesn't give a shit about you downloading the anarchist cookbook. You're not that interesting or important. i seriously hope that Obama's election will put and end to the ego-centrism and paranoia of the last 8 years. It's hilarious, but tiresome.
i read the first few chapters and lost interest. When does the story start?
When i deal with other people(mostly at work), and certain test functions, IE tab won't cut it. :(
i don't want another browser to learn (and relearn after updates). i already have to deal with 2 (IE for sites that don't play nice, and FF as my preferred). i'd rather that google do more to integrate with FF. Or for FF to do more in the way of integrating all the google stuff i use (or better yet, replace them).
i find myself conflicted with open source ideals. i want free (in both senses), but i don't want redundant choices (flavors of the same thing) or learning curve (bookmarks vs. favorites, search vs. finder). i want to go to a machine and know how to use it because it's just like my machine at home/work. Same OS, same browser, same office apps, same selection in hard/software.
If humans were meant to be monogamous, we wouldn't be having this conversation. It would be a given and a non-issue. Non-monogamy would be something lesser beasts do and would strike us as odd and curious behavior.
Asking humans to be monogamous is like asking a cat to NOT chase a mouse. "Did you SEE her tits? Of COURSE I hit that. I'd be gay if it didn't!"
Marriage is a system invented by men with power to make alliances and to manage inheritance of power. The whole love thing is very 20th century.
Add upon that the Poor Tax. People with less money usually have higher interest rates, further eroding buying power. They can afford to rent, but not buy a home. Rent is money pissed away and lining someone else's pockets. Home owners, over enough time, build equity (so they've only pissed away interest).
Who teaches these lessons, though? Your broke ass parents? Your broke ass neighbors? Schools? i was lucky to have parents who taught me some of these things, and i went to a school system that also tried. In the USAF, they also try to teach how to handle credit and debt. Maybe if schools put more effort into teaching how to be an adult instead of how to throw a ball very far or how to calculate the area under a curve.
Our economy is based on debt. It's like a game of musical chairs, as long as the credit flows, the music keeps playing. Yet the music is getting faster and faster. Eventually it will stop and many people will be left without a chair. But who cares? The people without a chair won't be anyone who matters.
Our (US) culture preaches materialism from an early age. As a child i remember feeling tremendous pressure to have Nike or Reebok shoes, so i wouldn't be the poor kid in class. And even now at 33 i feel these insecurities and envy. i'm better equipped to feed that desire and to resist it. Not sure how to combat all that.
i'd like to see interest phased out, or reduced to something just small enough to allow people to buy homes, cars and pay for education, and to run the lending institutions. Make banks NPOs, or at least have NP banks available.
Or we could continue exploiting each other for short term gains at the expense of future generations. That's fine too.
Hmph. So we've been totally lied to by our album covers. Strange that we'd have differences, but not tie distinctions to them. The mil, gov and edu TLDs seem to be better controlled.
Is it legal to have a business without a license? Perhaps i'm assuming too much with the word license.
(off to wikipedia to learn more about the TLDs)
www.Integrated-Software and www.Integrated-Engines
Is there a national registry for company names? My guess would be that there should be a list at the federal level, if only for tax IDs. If there is such a list, does anyone here know if they deconflict company names? "Hey Steve, there's already a company named Apple, Inc."
(further off the subject, but in line with the tangent)
And while i'm thinking about it, is there a grand list of band names? Sometimes bands will come up with the same name in the US and the UK, and the UK band will go by "[Bandname] UK". Like Charlatans UK, or The Mission UK. i've never seen an instance of Charlatans US.
i have an idea that would prolly piss off lots of people but would reduce domain troubles: Get rid of the TLDs. That would end any sort of WhiteHouse.gov vs. WhiteHouse.com issues. It would end Company.com vs Company.org/net, where the latter is a site for praising or hating Company. If we need a TLD to differentiate what packets go to what country, make them all .us. Use trademarks and such to determine who gets to keep the name.
OR
If you're going to have a .org you have to send in paperwork showing you are a registered NPO. You want .com? Send us a copy of your business license.
i wish i had points for you. :(
Yes, well said. If there is a 1/1,000,000,000,000 chance of life forming around any given star, there should be metric fucktons of life supporting stars in our unfashionable western spiral arm alone.
MM seems to require O. Particularly that first M.
Diablo 2 at your LAN party was Multiplayer, and sometimes O, but never Massive.
Are there games that are O, but not M or MM? Eventually we could just say ORPG or OFPS and the MM will be implied.
What cracks me up is that someone modded me a flamebait for making a joke that was marked as a joke. Either someone didn't read the exchange i was replying to (wl, or people are abusing their mod points. Do i have karma stalkers?
"When you mod me flamebait, i was JOKING!"
- Krusty the Slashdotter
eldavojohn, with all due respect, your sister's a whore.
Nothing personal.
(joking, or i'd be AC)
If i change the password they would send the password to me again in plain text. Sometimes it's a forum, sometimes it's something else. Either way, it's a terrible practice.
What's your /. PW?
LEAVE IDOL.SLASHDOT ALONE!
Or that Optimus Prime hasn't stomped on it.
i've canceled membership in forums and other sites because they sent my PW in plain text. Followed by a nastygram sent to their "Contact Us" or "Help" link. It's inexcusable for PW to ever be in plain text, particularly on the side of the people hosting the service.
It's a problem because like smoking and other addictions, such people can become a burden on society. One's right to pollute one's body should end when it becomes a problem for someone else. Helmets protect the rider, but more importantly perhaps it protect family members from a closed casket funeral and cops from having to use a squeegee to clean up brain. It also protects society in the sense that if Bob smears his brain on the highway, he takes his other values to society with him.
The last sentence of your post is a republican mantra, which would be great if people made smart choices, but they don't. If we were Vulcan you'd have a point. By the time it done it's too late to undo it. Humans are not thinking machines that happen to feel. We're feeling machines that think from time to time. But we're clever monkeys and we often make bad choices. Many of these choices happen subconsciously. Many people's brains don't work in the way paragons of self control such as yourself. A second slice of cake triggers the same part of the brain triggered by heroine. A moody teenage girl can tell you about the Rhythm Method of birth control from what she learned in health class. But her boyfriend swears that he loves her and all her friends are doing it. i had friend who was a card carrying member of MENSA who chose a guy who lived on the other side of the country who treated her terribly, over a guy who lived near her and treated her well. Knowing the consequences half the battle, it takes something else entirely to make a wise choice. The wise choice is all too obvious for outsiders. We know all too well that the Hail Mary Pass would have been better than going for the field goal. Chances are the quarter back realized this too as the ball headed toward an opponents arms.
If we were all as awesome as you we could live in Ayn Rand's utopia. Alas, it is not so.
Enter paternalism. When you were a child you were too stupid to understand that the pot on the stove was full of Scarring 2nd Degree Burns. So your mother, who is a bit smarter, smacked your hand and yelled "NO! HOT!" when you reached for the handle. That oppressive bitch!
A bit late to the game, but i'd like to offer an additional PvP Only game: PlanetSide. It's not an RPG, more of an FPS in a persistent world. Battles are up to 100+ vs. 100+ vs. 100+. Very little grinding, you play to play rather than to collect this or that bean. The certification system make the dominant factors: skill, knowledge and teamwork. As opposed to most MMOs where free time and real world money are dominant. Teamwork is essential. Sure you can foot zerg your way to victory, but a skilled and cohesive unit (using TeamSpeak) can win against significant odds.
{Ideology} is as {Ideology Group} does (in the name of {Ideology}).
It may not be very {Ideology} to {Action Conflicting with Ideology}, but the world is going to judge {Ideology} by its ACTIONS/RESULTS, not it's claims/intentions. If i plan to cure cancer and end up killing a bunch of people, are people going care about my intentions or my results?
This is the No True Scotsman thing. People like to say that the horrors committed in the name of {Ideology} were not really part of {Ideology}, no true {Ideology Member} would act that way.
If you don't like how {Ideology} is perceived, take that up with the people creating that image. Because from were i'm sitting, {Ideology} seems to be about {Bad Things Inconsistent with Ideology}. And not just from the behavior of individuals, much of it seems to be institutional and systemic. {Ideology} seems to create these behaviors, even if as an emergent behavior. If {Ideology} means to teach {Good Behavior} (and it doesn't seem to), it is failing and perhaps should be replaced with something that works.
Agreed.
And i'd also be worried about losing a PB all at once. There are TB drives at my local Best Buy, but that's a lot to lose at once. i'd rather split my files and programs between two or more smaller drives (and have a RAID).
Why did someone mod me a troll for making a Spinal Tap reference? Is this someone getting revenge for something else i said? Aren't there supposed to be meta-moderators to check on abuse like this?
So, Fedora and Red Hat use Windows Server 2003 for development?
But how much more black could it get?