In the US, we have chosen a system where the strong get stronger, and corruptly use that strength to crush rivals. Paying off legislators, dumping product below cost, price-fixing, cannabalizing, all have the effect of destroying competition and limiting choice for you and I. Make no mistake, this is why M$ is so strong. They have destroyed countless businesses and lives by bulldozing competitive balance, with their radical self-interest.
About half the population instinctively hews to the strongest --in any struggle-- simply because they look like they're going to win. This is anti-progress and anti-intellectual, but has been the case since the beginning of time.
So, let's do the math and see what happens: M$ continues to grow and destroy competitors (Real, Oracle, Ericsson, Nintendo), until M$ is our only source for software, computers, phones, gameboxen, internet, news, etc. One provider for everything. Do you think they'll care about you, then? What if you object to their billing? They cut you off and you're dead. Now we are actually patenting nature's genes, and patenting general business processes?! Mathematically, the only environment that can result from our current business climate, is a single provider for everything, and only two classes: royalty and peasant, the complete opposite of what The Party would have us believe. Which class will you be in? If your house is not presently in the top 5% of your city, guess what? Do you think that they're going to make you rich, if you support them? Has your position actually improved in the past three years, or did they screw you?
So tell me now: how can monopolies possibly be a good thing? What's wrong with treating Winduhs like a utility, which must be overseen in the public interest, given that it is unbiquitous? Some act like there'll be a giant bureaucracy to do this, but have a look at the first chart in this article.
No, look at it carefully. ZERO private-sector jobs in February, and 21,000 government jobs, after three years of Bush "economics"!! And as a bonus, we slingshot from a $350bb surplus, to an historic $550bb deficit in just three years!! This is the opposite of what you promised us!! We've been not only robbed & raped by these dirty-tricksters, but insulted as well. We know where the money really goes.
Until these conservatives can actually run an economy without stealing our Treasury, they should shutTF up. I call on all Party members to exercise some of that 'personal responsibility', and write a nice fat check today to the U.S. Treasury, to help cover our childrens' new debt.
And from now on, insults, smears, and ridicule, will be met with the same. We're learning your nasty tricks.
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could being an IM buddy with someone later come back and haunt you?
In the US Constitution is a provision called "freedom of association". You can be friends with whom you want. (Until that too, is undermined by The Party, at least)
If your friend is a drug dealer, just don't talk about or be involved with drugs with him.
I came to the same conclusion. But a Czech hoster ripped me off. So found a good French hoster, but it uses servers in the US for Americain customers. Better than a US host anyway...
Bottom line: If it's not open-source, it should be ejected.
This is actually fairly convenient, because X has not kept up for a long time. It's an unneeded intermediary, which slows things down and has too many bugs. It's time to reduce X's role.
I heard yesterday on NPR that in Iraq, the only jobs are as policemen. That all the fertilizer factories and other businesses are closed. This is a reality, that cannot be appreciated in the Corporate Bubble. Now, if Rummy really had the best interests of Iraq in mind, they'd concentrate on finding those former business owners, and get them set back up! You cannot have a country, without an economy; but that's exactly what we've given them. Iraqi business owners are not the idea though. Nope, the plan has always been:
- Invade Iraq to assuage Bush Sr's embarrassment for not taking Bagdad in the first Gulf War;
- Taxpayers foot the massive war costs ('they can afford it...');
- U.S. companies directly connected with the Party, get no-bid contracts and reap the revenue from rebuilding Iraq, with oil paying for it (hopefully);
- Taxpayers, unfortunately, not reimbursed.
Trouble is, Shi'ites are in the majority, and any election would stupidly create another Iran. Foolish. Clearly, none of this was thought out by the Bush Admin II. It's a quagmire... a tarbaby. And today we discover that Afganistan has been greatly increasing its opium poppy regions. Well, that's just great... is there anything else Bush can do to destroy civilization as we know it? Oh yeah, deforestation, park drilling, drift-netting, Kyoto-bashing, etc.
Lately you may have noticed that the White House is 'in disarray'. In the past few weeks Bush has proposed hydrogen cars, men-to-Mars, Segways-for-the poor, etc, all costing masses of money. (NASA says they weren't consulted -um-, and that it's far cheaper and safer to just go straight to Mars, without stopping at the Moon) Dubya asks for more money for defense, oil, and others who do not need it comparatively, while 'phasing out senior citizens' with the recent Medicare overhaul, and cutting thousands out of education programs.
The objective fact is, the Bush Admin II has managed to ruin our country's economy with their radical self-interest, in three short years. We have slingshotted from a $350bb surplus, to a $550bb deficit, solely due to the Party's spending and spending and spending. An historic budget deficit, and we know that another Iraq request for $45bb is waiting for elections to be over, in addition to the astounding, unprecedented Defense budget. 9/11? We're told that cost only $79bb. So, where's the other TRILLION or so, Dick? (And WTF are you blasting under your house, Dick? Who's paying for your new underground office, in your real house, Dick?)
Can anyone tell me why we still have a Navy? To "project power"? When missiles, long-range bombers, C5's, and in-flight fueling exist? Which are far faster? Aircraft carriers were proven obsolete in Pearl Harbor. (indeed any large, slow, expensive weapon is obsolete) We have a whole service branch that's not needed... and ties men up in isolated, cramped quarters for months. (These ideas proposed here for the first time) But the real problem that needs to be addressed is inertia. Gore started this with his Streamlining Govt initiative.
Repubs seem to cronically do the complete opposite of what they say they will: they spend money profligately; restrict civil freedoms; and dampen competition!
No reasonable person could look at this chart and fail to see a pattern of thieving, over the past 30 years. We would be so much better off without this hidden corruption, being able to afford universal healthcare and Euro-style free university, were it not for special interests emptying our Treasury with Dubya's $1.3 TRILLION tax cut. Reagan's tax cuts didn't work to "stimulate the economy" (in fact caused a major oil and real estate crash, which average taxpayers had to pay for... opposed to beneficiaries of the tax cuts), and there
I was hoping to find a college with a major, along the lines of Network Engineering, but I have yet to find one."
The reason is, most colleges are geared to train for higher-level jobs. When you say 'network engineering', you're thinking of how the job is now, with nuts and bolts and connections and packets. IOW, science, vs politics. But in the near future we'll be more and more abstracted from the hardware -- the difference between an 'object', and the 'symbol for that object'. Wouldn't be long before you're outclassed, and universities know this.
IOW, you think you want what I'd call 'vocational training', as opposed to university training. This may be where you're happiest, but given that you're on/. I'd guess you're a broadband thinker, and may not be happy in a vocational job all your life.
Because university is a rare privilege in the U.S., I say treat it like buying a house, and get the biggest, best, and most you can possibly manage. You'd always have the option of being a network engineer if you want, but you'd also have much better doors to open with a graduate degree.
And confusing a straw man with an analogy hardly makes you look any more justified in your original accusation.
LOL
BTW, Sharon is now perpetrating a 'kinder, gentler' genocide on the Palestinians, economic retardation being his most egregious repression. And, he is destroying Israel in the process.
Red phosphorus is mixed with the packaging resin, which encases chip die and lead frame. It's about 2-3% of that black plastic.
Apparently red phospherus enables an internal short, probably by reacting with the resin to make a carbon channel. This is my best guess, given the info we have.
The majority of US chip companies these days are just design labs. They hire Asian chip foundries to actually render their designs to product, and it appears that they are the manufacturer. More and more the large chipmakers are doing this too -- farming out production. This new process would be used on commodity chips first, like logic and memory. Unlikely to be in high-end chips like processors, A/D, etc.
Some here deride the environmental reasoning for the change. It's pretty stupid to not care about dioxin, no matter where it is. These Exxon fascists would also say that global warming is a myth, because it's cold today... well it's warmer than it was 20 years ago. In about 30 years, you'll be paying for dikes to protect New York and Los Angeles from being flooded, ignorant bastard. Weather will be erratic and catastrophic. But that's not your problem today, now is it? Anti-environmental/anti-intellectual clods should be the ones who suffer for their short-sighted ignorant views, not the world as a whole. But unfortunately that's not how things work.
Most people don't know that many U.S. agencies like the INS, are completely self-funded through fees.
Fewer people know that the CIA et al, own numerous key businesses worldwide, and this comprises a major source of shadow income for them.
It means that they are essentially not accountable to us, and can become as strong s they want.
a new system for tracking individuals based on their electronic presence.
My god. Not only do they tip up the U.S. Treasury and shake it empty, but they also want to track everyone as we try find a job? Double-plus ungood.
Any remaining Party members should have a look at this. We have been raped and robbed, repeatedly, and we should start publicizing it, and see to ars publicum, as they have seen to their radical self-interest, for so long.
{foil hat}
This in mind, I offer a deeply cynical view of this Senate ricin episode:
- In 2001 several middle-left congressmen and newspeople were targeted with anthrax, which was truly deadly because it was extremely fine and it had a special exotic treatment on each particle to cause it to fly airborne. It could even pass through the pores in an envelope.
- Now "gray granules" of ricin are found in envelopes to conservatives.
- Only an idiot would think granules would be a real threat. The kind of idiot who would leave fingerprints on the envelope and DNA in the glue, which is not the case here.
- U.S. Gen Tommy Franks recently said that the Constitution "may have to be suspended if there's another major terrorist attack".
- Some are concerned that the 2008 elections may be suspended on grounds of national security; but hopefully it won't be the 2004 elections instead? If Kerry or Edwards is too strong?
- With the blame made this time on 'linux hippies?
{/foil hat}
I used Gnome for about a year, and it lacked many basic and oft-used things, like right-click make a shortcut/unarch/move. Also it was shakey as heck -- unreliable.
I'm happy for those who like Gnome, but K just gets the job done, for me. And fast, too.
My only wish is that X could be re-written to be a common object broker to the hardware, so that creation od a new window-manager is within an average-person's reach. Or else X should eliminated altogether. Its current mission is obsolete.
It would seem that the real goal is to show how many people are stupid enough to still click on attachments when they have no idea what the fuck they are.
Eaaasy, big fella. All three of the virus emails I got yesterday had attachments named body.zip and test.zip. (to smuggle through corporate firewalls) Inside these were a single file, like body.txt-----------------.scr or document.html-----------------.scr (instead of -'s, spaces, and lots of them), so it looks like a harmless file to non-experts. We've always told them to not click on executable attachments.
I've had Opie on my IPaq 3950 for six months, and it is great. I tried it in desperation, when PPC2002 refused to reliably sync, and then relieved me of two months of vital information.
It is not an X-based system, but is Linux through and through. Intuitive. Comprehensive. I question the relevance and efficiency of X anyway, these days.
Opie shows what a fine bit of hardware the 3950 actually is.
Yup. Copyright is a privilege granted... which is a comprimise between the welfare of a society, and its creative element.
Did you know that just last year, The Party extended copyright from 17 years (which it has been since the beginning of the United States...) to 75 years past the author's lifetime!!
This radical, selfish, unprecedented move actually has the effect of creating a new class of royalty. Wrong move for a 'free society', Mujambo. Wrong move altogether.
No, man. These communications were happening 'under the radar' at Diebold, dude. This is not a case of free and open internal communications, as you think. As soon as it was discovered the system was shut down, and certain people were let go. This would have happened even if the memos hadn't been published.
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In the US, we have chosen a system where the strong get stronger, and corruptly use that strength to crush rivals. Paying off legislators, dumping product below cost, price-fixing, cannabalizing, all have the effect of destroying competition and limiting choice for you and I. Make no mistake, this is why M$ is so strong. They have destroyed countless businesses and lives by bulldozing competitive balance, with their radical self-interest.
About half the population instinctively hews to the strongest --in any struggle-- simply because they look like they're going to win. This is anti-progress and anti-intellectual, but has been the case since the beginning of time.
So, let's do the math and see what happens: M$ continues to grow and destroy competitors (Real, Oracle, Ericsson, Nintendo), until M$ is our only source for software, computers, phones, gameboxen, internet, news, etc. One provider for everything. Do you think they'll care about you, then? What if you object to their billing? They cut you off and you're dead. Now we are actually patenting nature's genes, and patenting general business processes?! Mathematically, the only environment that can result from our current business climate, is a single provider for everything, and only two classes: royalty and peasant, the complete opposite of what The Party would have us believe. Which class will you be in? If your house is not presently in the top 5% of your city, guess what? Do you think that they're going to make you rich, if you support them? Has your position actually improved in the past three years, or did they screw you?
So tell me now: how can monopolies possibly be a good thing? What's wrong with treating Winduhs like a utility, which must be overseen in the public interest, given that it is unbiquitous? Some act like there'll be a giant bureaucracy to do this, but have a look at the first chart in this article.
No, look at it carefully. ZERO private-sector jobs in February, and 21,000 government jobs, after three years of Bush "economics"!! And as a bonus, we slingshot from a $350bb surplus, to an historic $550bb deficit in just three years!! This is the opposite of what you promised us!! We've been not only robbed & raped by these dirty-tricksters, but insulted as well. We know where the money really goes.
Until these conservatives can actually run an economy without stealing our Treasury, they should shutTF up. I call on all Party members to exercise some of that 'personal responsibility', and write a nice fat check today to the U.S. Treasury, to help cover our childrens' new debt.
And from now on, insults, smears, and ridicule, will be met with the same. We're learning your nasty tricks.
could being an IM buddy with someone later come back and haunt you?
In the US Constitution is a provision called "freedom of association". You can be friends with whom you want. (Until that too, is undermined by The Party, at least)
If your friend is a drug dealer, just don't talk about or be involved with drugs with him.
They've photographed the Martian who destroyed Beagle II, and other prior landers.
I came to the same conclusion. But a Czech hoster ripped me off. So found a good French hoster, but it uses servers in the US for Americain customers. Better than a US host anyway...
Bottom line: If it's not open-source, it should be ejected.
This is actually fairly convenient, because X has not kept up for a long time. It's an unneeded intermediary, which slows things down and has too many bugs. It's time to reduce X's role.
Gravetational lensing... marvellous.
I heard yesterday on NPR that in Iraq, the only jobs are as policemen. That all the fertilizer factories and other businesses are closed. This is a reality, that cannot be appreciated in the Corporate Bubble. Now, if Rummy really had the best interests of Iraq in mind, they'd concentrate on finding those former business owners, and get them set back up! You cannot have a country, without an economy; but that's exactly what we've given them. Iraqi business owners are not the idea though. Nope, the plan has always been:
- Invade Iraq to assuage Bush Sr's embarrassment for not taking Bagdad in the first Gulf War;
- Taxpayers foot the massive war costs ('they can afford it...');
- U.S. companies directly connected with the Party, get no-bid contracts and reap the revenue from rebuilding Iraq, with oil paying for it (hopefully);
- Taxpayers, unfortunately, not reimbursed.
Trouble is, Shi'ites are in the majority, and any election would stupidly create another Iran. Foolish. Clearly, none of this was thought out by the Bush Admin II. It's a quagmire... a tarbaby. And today we discover that Afganistan has been greatly increasing its opium poppy regions. Well, that's just great... is there anything else Bush can do to destroy civilization as we know it? Oh yeah, deforestation, park drilling, drift-netting, Kyoto-bashing, etc.
Lately you may have noticed that the White House is 'in disarray'. In the past few weeks Bush has proposed hydrogen cars, men-to-Mars, Segways-for-the poor, etc, all costing masses of money. (NASA says they weren't consulted -um-, and that it's far cheaper and safer to just go straight to Mars, without stopping at the Moon)
Dubya asks for more money for defense, oil, and others who do not need it comparatively, while 'phasing out senior citizens' with the recent Medicare overhaul, and cutting thousands out of education programs.
The objective fact is, the Bush Admin II has managed to ruin our country's economy with their radical self-interest, in three short years. We have slingshotted from a $350bb surplus, to a $550bb deficit, solely due to the Party's spending and spending and spending. An historic budget deficit, and we know that another Iraq request for $45bb is waiting for elections to be over, in addition to the astounding, unprecedented Defense budget. 9/11? We're told that cost only $79bb. So, where's the other TRILLION or so, Dick? (And WTF are you blasting under your house, Dick? Who's paying for your new underground office, in your real house, Dick?)
Can anyone tell me why we still have a Navy? To "project power"? When missiles, long-range bombers, C5's, and in-flight fueling exist? Which are far faster? Aircraft carriers were proven obsolete in Pearl Harbor. (indeed any large, slow, expensive weapon is obsolete) We have a whole service branch that's not needed... and ties men up in isolated, cramped quarters for months. (These ideas proposed here for the first time) But the real problem that needs to be addressed is inertia. Gore started this with his Streamlining Govt initiative.
Repubs seem to cronically do the complete opposite of what they say they will: they spend money profligately; restrict civil freedoms; and dampen competition! No reasonable person could look at this chart and fail to see a pattern of thieving, over the past 30 years. We would be so much better off without this hidden corruption, being able to afford universal healthcare and Euro-style free university, were it not for special interests emptying our Treasury with Dubya's $1.3 TRILLION tax cut. Reagan's tax cuts didn't work to "stimulate the economy" (in fact caused a major oil and real estate crash, which average taxpayers had to pay for... opposed to beneficiaries of the tax cuts), and there
Disney has licensed Microsoft's Windows Media DRM technology...
Soon they will taste the sting of the M$ lash...
I was hoping to find a college with a major, along the lines of Network Engineering, but I have yet to find one."
/. I'd guess you're a broadband thinker, and may not be happy in a vocational job all your life.
The reason is, most colleges are geared to train for higher-level jobs. When you say 'network engineering', you're thinking of how the job is now, with nuts and bolts and connections and packets. IOW, science, vs politics. But in the near future we'll be more and more abstracted from the hardware -- the difference between an 'object', and the 'symbol for that object'. Wouldn't be long before you're outclassed, and universities know this.
IOW, you think you want what I'd call 'vocational training', as opposed to university training. This may be where you're happiest, but given that you're on
Because university is a rare privilege in the U.S., I say treat it like buying a house, and get the biggest, best, and most you can possibly manage. You'd always have the option of being a network engineer if you want, but you'd also have much better doors to open with a graduate degree.
No, it's byproducts of manufacture, that's the problem. (dioxin)
And confusing a straw man with an analogy hardly makes you look any more justified in your original accusation. LOL
BTW, Sharon is now perpetrating a 'kinder, gentler' genocide on the Palestinians, economic retardation being his most egregious repression. And, he is destroying Israel in the process.
Red phosphorus is mixed with the packaging resin, which encases chip die and lead frame. It's about 2-3% of that black plastic.
Apparently red phospherus enables an internal short, probably by reacting with the resin to make a carbon channel. This is my best guess, given the info we have.
The majority of US chip companies these days are just design labs. They hire Asian chip foundries to actually render their designs to product, and it appears that they are the manufacturer. More and more the large chipmakers are doing this too -- farming out production. This new process would be used on commodity chips first, like logic and memory. Unlikely to be in high-end chips like processors, A/D, etc.
Some here deride the environmental reasoning for the change. It's pretty stupid to not care about dioxin, no matter where it is. These Exxon fascists would also say that global warming is a myth, because it's cold today... well it's warmer than it was 20 years ago. In about 30 years, you'll be paying for dikes to protect New York and Los Angeles from being flooded, ignorant bastard. Weather will be erratic and catastrophic. But that's not your problem today, now is it? Anti-environmental/anti-intellectual clods should be the ones who suffer for their short-sighted ignorant views, not the world as a whole. But unfortunately that's not how things work.
Most people don't know that many U.S. agencies like the INS, are completely self-funded through fees.
Fewer people know that the CIA et al, own numerous key businesses worldwide, and this comprises a major source of shadow income for them.
It means that they are essentially not accountable to us, and can become as strong s they want.
a new system for tracking individuals based on their electronic presence.
My god. Not only do they tip up the U.S. Treasury and shake it empty, but they also want to track everyone as we try find a job? Double-plus ungood.
Any remaining Party members should have a look at this. We have been raped and robbed, repeatedly, and we should start publicizing it, and see to ars publicum, as they have seen to their radical self-interest, for so long.
{foil hat}
This in mind, I offer a deeply cynical view of this Senate ricin episode:
- In 2001 several middle-left congressmen and newspeople were targeted with anthrax, which was truly deadly because it was extremely fine and it had a special exotic treatment on each particle to cause it to fly airborne. It could even pass through the pores in an envelope.
- Now "gray granules" of ricin are found in envelopes to conservatives.
- Only an idiot would think granules would be a real threat. The kind of idiot who would leave fingerprints on the envelope and DNA in the glue, which is not the case here.
- U.S. Gen Tommy Franks recently said that the Constitution "may have to be suspended if there's another major terrorist attack".
- Some are concerned that the 2008 elections may be suspended on grounds of national security; but hopefully it won't be the 2004 elections instead? If Kerry or Edwards is too strong?
- With the blame made this time on 'linux hippies?
{/foil hat}
Thank you KDE developers!
I used Gnome for about a year, and it lacked many basic and oft-used things, like right-click make a shortcut/unarch/move. Also it was shakey as heck -- unreliable.
I'm happy for those who like Gnome, but K just gets the job done, for me. And fast, too.
My only wish is that X could be re-written to be a common object broker to the hardware, so that creation od a new window-manager is within an average-person's reach. Or else X should eliminated altogether. Its current mission is obsolete.
Who trusts that SCO would actually pay the reward, in any case? The Iraqi dude who turned in Uday and Qusay never got paid.
They'd get alot less mileage from martyrdom, than they'd lose for the embarassment of being down.
This is complicated though, by the fact that they actually run Linux, LOL.
It would seem that the real goal is to show how many people are stupid enough to still click on attachments when they have no idea what the fuck they are.
Eaaasy, big fella. All three of the virus emails I got yesterday had attachments named body.zip and test.zip. (to smuggle through corporate firewalls) Inside these were a single file, like body.txt-----------------.scr or document.html-----------------.scr (instead of -'s, spaces, and lots of them), so it looks like a harmless file to non-experts. We've always told them to not click on executable attachments.
I've had Opie on my IPaq 3950 for six months, and it is great. I tried it in desperation, when PPC2002 refused to reliably sync, and then relieved me of two months of vital information.
It is not an X-based system, but is Linux through and through. Intuitive. Comprehensive. I question the relevance and efficiency of X anyway, these days.
Opie shows what a fine bit of hardware the 3950 actually is.
Yup
The majority of Linux installations are as servers. No one can equate Linux with virus-writers, without risking their credibility.
In fact the case could be made that virus-writers are expert Winduhs developers...
The hammering of SCO doesn't start until Feb 1 though. Supposed to be Feb 1-12.
I received three of these yesterday, and it's been ages since I received anything with a virus. Must be massive.
Yup. Copyright is a privilege granted... which is a comprimise between the welfare of a society, and its creative element.
Did you know that just last year, The Party extended copyright from 17 years (which it has been since the beginning of the United States...) to 75 years past the author's lifetime!!
This radical, selfish, unprecedented move actually has the effect of creating a new class of royalty. Wrong move for a 'free society', Mujambo. Wrong move altogether.
No, man. These communications were happening 'under the radar' at Diebold, dude. This is not a case of free and open internal communications, as you think. As soon as it was discovered the system was shut down, and certain people were let go. This would have happened even if the memos hadn't been published.