>What are they gonna do?
>Organize all the little 3rd world countries and
>ship them over to us in wooden boats??
No, they'll invade the source of 50% of the world's oil and directly threaten our economies. Oh, wait, they tried that. Thankfully, we hadn't disarmed. But maybe next time.
Since when? Canada's patent and copyright system falls into step with the US almost as fast as the government can bring it in. On top of our own stupid laws (like CDR taxes) and insanely high taxes.
Yeah, for the moment we don't have a DMCA. But you can bet the government's under pressure from the US and the same companies that got it passed down there, and they're working on one as we speak.
>Does the Bible state that God created life 'only'
>on the planet earth
Since the people who wrote the bible weren't aware that there were other planets, they most likely didn't feel it necessary to specify one way or another.
My question is what do eternal souls do? Eternity is really quite a long time. For entities that aren't really permitted to do anything, that could get a tad boring.
VA's pricing is actually pretty good. I bought a couple of machines from them about 3 months ago. I compared their prices to building the same machines from parts from local clone shops (and this is in Vancouver, where computer parts are really cheap). Turns out the VA boxes are only about 15% more, and they come in great little 1 and 2 RU cases you can't really put together yourself (you need at least a 4 RU case for normal PC parts).
Well worth it for rack-mount systems at least.
However....
One of the systems we bought was damaged in transit. It took them almost 3 weeks to replace it. We shipped the broken one back, and they sent us a third one;) Still haven't sorted that out. They also shipped an 18GB drive instead of a 36GB drive as a spare on one of the original systems. We returned that, too, and have yet to receive the 36GB.
VA has really serious RMA-handling problems. They replace the systems, and their tech support seems good, but they have some process problems. I'm glad to see they're paying attention to this discussion. It doesn't matter how good your systems are - service is everything.
All it proves is that the ability to be brainwashed as a child into believing just about anything doesn't significantly affect one's ability to survive long enough to reproduce.
There's relatively little luck involved, sorry. Sure, there are some people with mental or physical disabilities who can't work. For everyone else, it's taking the initiative to do what needs to be done to make a living.
Overall, Capitalism makes more people better off than any other system (demonstrated to date). Unless you have a better alternative (that would actually work), live with it. Want to help the less fortunate - give to a charity that will help.
>Which in itself resolves a fundamental problem, >emissions, which are a very serious problem, >getting worse, in most countries.
Well, it doesn't really solve it, it just pushes the emission generation away from the car. You still have to generate the power somewhere, and most countries burn fossil fuels to generate their electricity (including over half the power in the US I believe). The only practical alternative to that is nuclear power, and Greenpeace et. al have pretty much put paid to any new nuclear power development.
So, while electric cars, and now flywheels, sound cool, keep in mind that the power will still be coming mostly from burning fossil fuels with all the pollution that entails.
First he rails about how narrow-minded Stallman's position is and how terrible it is that he draws comparisons between other moral issues and Free Software.
Then he turns around and spends a quarter of the article railing about how terrible guns are and that we should immediately drop support for Eric Raymond and Open Source because Eric has the temerity to support the 2nd Amendment, as do a great many other Americans. WTF do guns have to do with Free Software (specifically GNU)?
I treat their spam like any other. I bounce it to their upstream with a complaint (currently Exodus I believe). Naturally, this has no effect (although they did get RBL'd for a while last year if I recall correctly, which helped for a while).
Once I get an opensrs.org registration agreement in place, and get my customers to switch over, I'll just filter NSI along with the rest of the spammers.
I don't think we need new laws. For one, I'm not American, so your new laws wouldn't do me any good anyhow (although most spammers seem to be American).
I just don't want anyone thinking they have the Right to spam. I want to be able to filter the crap out and force ISP's to nuke spammers' accounts through peer pressue. You start equating spam to Free Speech and suddenly you're prevented from doing anything about it, which would be very bad.
Free speech means I have to let you say whatever you want (which is good). I don't have to pay for you to say it to me, and I don't have to let you into my house to say it.
Let's say it together. Spam is not Free Speech. Spam is not Free Speech. Repeat until it sinks in.
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Use an Action (updated) block - ie:
ftp("ftp://site/updates") {
Report (Yes);
Display_Report (No);
Report_To ("you@there");
Action (updated) {
Install (Auto);
RPM_Opt ("--nodeps");
}
}
.. will only install updates for already installed RPM's. Whereas an Action (new) will install new RPMS in the directory.
>What are they gonna do?
>Organize all the little 3rd world countries and
>ship them over to us in wooden boats??
No, they'll invade the source of 50% of the world's oil and directly threaten our economies. Oh, wait, they tried that. Thankfully, we hadn't disarmed. But maybe next time.
Actually, they didn't say "let's go to war". They said "we're out of here, see ya". The Federal government went to war to preserve the Union.
The result was a strong United States and the end of slavery, so I'd have to say it was a good thing. But it was Abe who went to war, not the South.
Since when? Canada's patent and copyright system falls into step with the US almost as fast as the government can bring it in. On top of our own stupid laws (like CDR taxes) and insanely high taxes.
Yeah, for the moment we don't have a DMCA. But you can bet the government's under pressure from the US and the same companies that got it passed down there, and they're working on one as we speak.
>Does the Bible state that God created life 'only'
>on the planet earth
Since the people who wrote the bible weren't aware that there were other planets, they most likely didn't feel it necessary to specify one way or another.
My question is what do eternal souls do? Eternity is really quite a long time. For entities that aren't really permitted to do anything, that could get a tad boring.
>Canadians and Mexicans consider themselves
>Americans too.
No, we don't (Canadian's anyhow). An American is someone from the USA, period.
I wouldn't mind if Clifford Olsen, among others, got the needle. Or a bullet in the head, for that matter.
Not since 3.12.
Although, 4.xx systems usually need to be rebooted to restore the abended service.
Dunno about 5.x, haven't run a NetWare server for a few years.
VA's pricing is actually pretty good. I bought a couple of machines from them about 3 months ago. I compared their prices to building the same machines from parts from local clone shops (and this is in Vancouver, where computer parts are really cheap). Turns out the VA boxes are only about 15% more, and they come in great little 1 and 2 RU cases you can't really put together yourself (you need at least a 4 RU case for normal PC parts).
....
;) Still haven't sorted that out. They also shipped an 18GB drive instead of a 36GB drive as a spare on one of the original systems. We returned that, too, and have yet to receive the 36GB.
Well worth it for rack-mount systems at least.
However
One of the systems we bought was damaged in transit. It took them almost 3 weeks to replace it. We shipped the broken one back, and they sent us a third one
VA has really serious RMA-handling problems. They replace the systems, and their tech support seems good, but they have some process problems. I'm glad to see they're paying attention to this discussion. It doesn't matter how good your systems are - service is everything.
All it proves is that the ability to be brainwashed as a child into believing just about anything doesn't significantly affect one's ability to survive long enough to reproduce.
> So, why hasn't anybody else done this?
They have. See AlterNIC.
Of course, they're run by a bunch of historic Net Kooks and hardly anyone took them seriously. But they're there if you want'em.
Might want a bit more than that - they're talking 950MB install for Diablo II alone ...
There's relatively little luck involved, sorry. Sure, there are some people with mental or physical disabilities who can't work. For everyone else, it's taking the initiative to do what needs to be done to make a living.
Overall, Capitalism makes more people better off than any other system (demonstrated to date). Unless you have a better alternative (that would actually work), live with it. Want to help the less fortunate - give to a charity that will help.
That's true. We only jail people for putting up protest signs that might offend foreign dictators.
That's why the math guys use Fortran ;)
Seriously, though, C's never been known for even decent math performance.
That's funny, because I seem to recall Ford getting sued because the gas tank in the Pinto(?) tended to explode when drunks ran into them.
>I also think sendmail seemed out of place on the
>list. There hasn't been a root exploit on
>sendmail in what, three years?
The problem is there are still 10's of thousands of systems out there (mostly old Sun workstations and the like) still running vulnerable versions.
The ones shipped with 6.1 were vulnerable, though.
>Which in itself resolves a fundamental problem,
>emissions, which are a very serious problem,
>getting worse, in most countries.
Well, it doesn't really solve it, it just pushes the emission generation away from the car. You still have to generate the power somewhere, and most countries burn fossil fuels to generate their electricity (including over half the power in the US I believe). The only practical alternative to that is nuclear power, and Greenpeace et. al have pretty much put paid to any new nuclear power development.
So, while electric cars, and now flywheels, sound cool, keep in mind that the power will still be coming mostly from burning fossil fuels with all the pollution that entails.
First he rails about how narrow-minded Stallman's position is and how terrible it is that he draws comparisons between other moral issues and Free Software.
Then he turns around and spends a quarter of the article railing about how terrible guns are and that we should immediately drop support for Eric Raymond and Open Source because Eric has the temerity to support the 2nd Amendment, as do a great many other Americans. WTF do guns have to do with Free Software (specifically GNU)?
What a crock.
That's why God invented firewalls.
They can send the crap to themselves, and maybe even each other, but no one I know needs to talk to companies that spam.
I treat their spam like any other. I bounce it to their upstream with a complaint (currently Exodus I believe). Naturally, this has no effect (although they did get RBL'd for a while last year if I recall correctly, which helped for a while).
Once I get an opensrs.org registration agreement in place, and get my customers to switch over, I'll just filter NSI along with the rest of the spammers.
They're such jerks.
I don't think we need new laws. For one, I'm not American, so your new laws wouldn't do me any good anyhow (although most spammers seem to be American).
I just don't want anyone thinking they have the Right to spam. I want to be able to filter the crap out and force ISP's to nuke spammers' accounts through peer pressue. You start equating spam to Free Speech and suddenly you're prevented from doing anything about it, which would be very bad.
Free speech means I have to let you say whatever you want (which is good). I don't have to pay for you to say it to me, and I don't have to let you into my house to say it.
Let's say it together. Spam is not Free Speech. Spam is not Free Speech. Repeat until it sinks in.