True, but lobby groups and deep pockets allow you to buy their services. In the wors of Mrs. Doubtfire, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"
We'll see how we (Australians) fare after a few more years of Howard dismantling Medicare and HECS, increasing our military budget and corresponding military activity and continuing to skew the social playing field in favour of his corporate buddies.
So if there's corruption on both sides, you're telling me you'll just vote for whoever's the least corrupt instead of trying to root out corruption from your national government's very fabric? No wonder your country is so messed up.
You mean by spreading fear and uncertainty, and destroying respect for each others' rights?
selling us out to international law via the court system
Who would have thought civilised society institutionalises rules for interacting with one's neighbours
pandering for votes from illegals
I have no problem with them not being allowed to vote, but I have a problem with the word "illegal" is used to refer to them as something less then human.
wanting to destroy any successful corporation
Because corporations are struggling to survive and need all the help they can get from the peoples' government.
Frankly, Slashdot is going further and further to the left
If you ask me, the state controlled media is calibrating the idea of "fair and balanced" to the right. Compare the airtime anti-war arguments get on CNN with pro-war arguments.
it's growing very tiring and is pushing me away from wanting to even participate here
We'll miss you. Really.
but don't be too surprised when all you have left is a bunch of people preaching to the choir and another bunch trolling
This is the internet. People participate in the sites they agree with, thanks to the fact that they are (form now) free to do so. Which is why you'll find most people at *any* site will agree in general.
Umm... I didn't actually see a single line from the Koran there. A don't suppose a claim like "It's in the Koran" should be backed up by a quote or two? That's kinda like me saying it's in Bush's doctrine to pillage other countries. Oh wait...
Those who buy into the extreme version of Islam will not stop until the world converts to their expectations.
You don't seriously believe that they are more worried about the fact that Americans are eating pig and drinking beer than:
The fact that American armies roam the world raping, pillaging and torturing as they go;
Their corporations extort loans upon countries that can't afford the interest in the first place so that they sign hugely inflated and unnecessary economic development contracts that forever shackle their people to foreign owned infrastructute;
Their businessmen "employ" millions of workers around the world in destitute conditions paying them just enough to not die but not enough to actully improve their apalling conditions all the while trumpeting their own altruism for employing otherwise helpless people.
It never ceases to amaze me just how willing the American people are to swallow the "They are evil and want to make you Muslim!" vitriol spouted by the state controlled American media, when the real evidence is so blatantly apparent. They do not want to make you Muslim, they want your armies, your corporations and your supposed "economic aid" out of their countries.
According to Muslims, it's "Muslim". But if we're going to start ignoring what people call themselves and just arbitrarily allocate names and spellings, I vote we alter the spelling of America just slightly to "CrazyMilitaryManiacLedSheepFarm".
I know, I know, Australian's will complain that they actually have dibbs on the sheep farm thing, but in Australia, sheep only outnumber the population. In America, sheep *are* the population.
An OpenCores wireless chipset would be nice, especially if the chipset was able to be tuned for freq/power in the software.
Production of even small numbers could be done at any cheap foundry, these are not complex chips like GPUs and certainly not CPUs, they could be done at any small chipshop in China, Taiwan or India (find a jurisdiction that won't kill the project for breaking local spectrum regulations).
As it'd be open, any foundry could produce them to order, and OSS groups could raise funds from users who pre-order them. There are far more details to work out and possibly better ways to organise it, but I think the idea of getting the simpler chipsets done in an open fashion can work, especially since the IEEE specifies the various WiFi specs and making a chip to comply with them is in principle the same as getting an OSS browser to comply with W3C specs or indeed getting an OSS operating system to comply with POSIX.
An ambution project? Absolutely. Unfeasible? Not at all. Who would have thought 15 years ago that a hobbyist OS from some geek in Helsinki would one day cripple commercial Unix sales?
I agree wholeheartedly, I was merely pointing out to our fellow Slashdotter that Google was not his knight on a white horse come to rescue him, and also the irony in him buying into the silly Google brand loyalty while calling other brand loyalties immature in the same breath.
Slashdot Mirror
...on my what?
D'oh! Posts where you deride other peoples' stupidity are NOT posts you want to make typos in.
I still got modded "Funny" though... at least the mods didn't notice hehe!
All the extra feaures are coming in the second iteration, after they've finished suckering in the following:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE money > bains;
Where on that page does it say anything about Linux?
True, but lobby groups and deep pockets allow you to buy their services. In the wors of Mrs. Doubtfire, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?"
We'll see how we (Australians) fare after a few more years of Howard dismantling Medicare and HECS, increasing our military budget and corresponding military activity and continuing to skew the social playing field in favour of his corporate buddies.
Yea I know, I was responding to (one in 20 is a 5% rate), and it was a joke. Nevertheless I still got modded troll :(
Oh well.
So if there's corruption on both sides, you're telling me you'll just vote for whoever's the least corrupt instead of trying to root out corruption from your national government's very fabric? No wonder your country is so messed up.
I like this:
Generally, I applaud your ability to see in perspective.
You mean by spreading fear and uncertainty, and destroying respect for each others' rights?
Who would have thought civilised society institutionalises rules for interacting with one's neighbours
I have no problem with them not being allowed to vote, but I have a problem with the word "illegal" is used to refer to them as something less then human.
Because corporations are struggling to survive and need all the help they can get from the peoples' government.
If you ask me, the state controlled media is calibrating the idea of "fair and balanced" to the right. Compare the airtime anti-war arguments get on CNN with pro-war arguments.
We'll miss you. Really.
This is the internet. People participate in the sites they agree with, thanks to the fact that they are (form now) free to do so. Which is why you'll find most people at *any* site will agree in general.
Not if you use Republican math!
Err... how about "I'd rather not answer that." ?
Umm... I didn't actually see a single line from the Koran there. A don't suppose a claim like "It's in the Koran" should be backed up by a quote or two? That's kinda like me saying it's in Bush's doctrine to pillage other countries. Oh wait...
You don't seriously believe that they are more worried about the fact that Americans are eating pig and drinking beer than:
It never ceases to amaze me just how willing the American people are to swallow the "They are evil and want to make you Muslim!" vitriol spouted by the state controlled American media, when the real evidence is so blatantly apparent. They do not want to make you Muslim, they want your armies, your corporations and your supposed "economic aid" out of their countries.
According to Muslims, it's "Muslim". But if we're going to start ignoring what people call themselves and just arbitrarily allocate names and spellings, I vote we alter the spelling of America just slightly to "CrazyMilitaryManiacLedSheepFarm".
I know, I know, Australian's will complain that they actually have dibbs on the sheep farm thing, but in Australia, sheep only outnumber the population. In America, sheep *are* the population.
You forgot to stick the pins on. That's what the gum is for.
Patience, grasshopper.
An OpenCores wireless chipset would be nice, especially if the chipset was able to be tuned for freq/power in the software.
Production of even small numbers could be done at any cheap foundry, these are not complex chips like GPUs and certainly not CPUs, they could be done at any small chipshop in China, Taiwan or India (find a jurisdiction that won't kill the project for breaking local spectrum regulations).
As it'd be open, any foundry could produce them to order, and OSS groups could raise funds from users who pre-order them. There are far more details to work out and possibly better ways to organise it, but I think the idea of getting the simpler chipsets done in an open fashion can work, especially since the IEEE specifies the various WiFi specs and making a chip to comply with them is in principle the same as getting an OSS browser to comply with W3C specs or indeed getting an OSS operating system to comply with POSIX.
An ambution project? Absolutely. Unfeasible? Not at all. Who would have thought 15 years ago that a hobbyist OS from some geek in Helsinki would one day cripple commercial Unix sales?
You'll also need a silicon wafer kiln capable of consistent lattice seeding at around 2000K. Other than that, gum and duct tape should do.
What, you mean they aren't using MacOS?
I agree wholeheartedly, I was merely pointing out to our fellow Slashdotter that Google was not his knight on a white horse come to rescue him, and also the irony in him buying into the silly Google brand loyalty while calling other brand loyalties immature in the same breath.
;-)
P.S., I *love* your sig
Dude do you just not get my position on this? Are you that narrow minded that you just can't think in terms wider than a coin slot?
Incidentally, do you know *anything* about Interface? Anything at all? Had you even heard of them when you replied earlier?
You say that like I'd work for an unprincipled whore like you in the first place.
Lowering standards of education != evolution.
Removing letters and simplifying spelling would be like you evolving into an amoeba. Oh wait...