"you cannot be both for free trade and against outsourcing... Perhaps the ranters should send back all their hardware to Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, etc. and buy American!!"
1. Who said that we we *should* be for free trade? Given sufficient time & space, I could present some pretty worthwhile arguments against it, especially when the offshore sources bypass higher onshore standards for labor laws, etc.
2. re "buy American": hard to do if you don't know what's "American". Nobody says it's wrong to boycott Anita-what's-her-name-o.j if you're gay. Nobody says it was wrong to boycott South Africa for apartheid. Whole cities (like Phoenix, AZ) and their convention business have been boycotted for their policies and practices. So, what's wrong with boycotting businesses based on their offshoring? You want to talk about "open"? Don't impose trade barriers which obstruct offshoring; let's just require complete freedom of information about it, so consumers can make informed choices.
works great. allow 6 hrs to wear off, and you'll have no after-effects. the hardest part is disciplining yourself to take it, even though you're not feeling ready to sleep at [$x]pm. not addictive. BUT go to bed IMMEDIATELY. It IS POSSIBLE to stay awake, but your behavior will be very erratic, and your judgement will be worthless.
btw, if "Essential BSD" makes you LESS sleepy, you have bigger problems than WE can help. besides, everyone knows that "*BSD IS DEAD DEAD DEAD!";-)
"if you spoke a language other than English, you can get error messages and such in your native language"
-- a language other than English -- you mean, like 'Murikin, or blue-dy Scutch? -- error messages and such in your native language -- mine's l33t, so i'm covered, right?
1. I'm curious. "I live in a small town of 12k (Not my first choice, but it's where I could get work after graduating)." -- While in school, what kind of work did you hope to get after graduation? -- What job did you finally take (in that small TX town)? -- How willing were you to be geographically flexible?
2. "homogenized and philistine...racist...hunting, farming, or NASCAR...farther away you are from medical care" If you don't mind the abstract CONCEPT of living in a small town, I *know* that there are small US towns which don't match your description. Are you being artifically restricted by family? GF? Parole officer?
"I look for things. Things that make me go." That sig is driving me nuts. i know it's from a film (maybe tv) i've seen, probably sf. i googled exhaustively, no joy. please end my torment.
1. It's completely OS. 2. It's completely interoperable with the non-Linux versions (i.e., document transportability) 3. It's guaranteed to keep step with changes in non-Linux versions, with respect to #1, #2, security, and all other maintenance. 4. MSFT publicly promises that the above conditions will be in perpetuity, to avoid any "get 'em addicted, then cut them off" tricks.
-- in that I hadn't even "taken two seconds". But I'm not even sure that I feel apologetic about that. In the atmosphere of the last three years, now I see anything associated with Bush and/or his ilk and then just automatically assume that it's going to be bad news and raise my bp.
The man's a cynical condescending clown, but what's worse is that he and his gang are dangerous -- not just for peace & IR, not just for reason and science and medicine, not just for domestic security or social unity; worst is that they're dangerous for our freedom & liberties, for separation of powers, and for open, honest uncynical governance.
They've done so much damage since 9/11, that I sincerely fear that even a Demo prez will be unable to undo enough of the damage for me to change my mind about emigrating.
In all my life, I've never been in such fear and despair for my country.
-- in that I made a blanket comment. My post, in summary, *intended* to convey nothing about those "real, interesting, professional people" or their credentials. I'm just completely devoid of hope for the END RESULT of anything which will eventually be touched by the Gang Of Bush.
-- in that my reaction WAS "knee-jerk", as explained above, and "helps Bush's supporters write off all of his opponents as worthless" -- but that doesn't make it "idiocy", in the circumstances. As for how I'm perceived by the Gang's supporters, it's irrelevant: I ORIGINALLY WELCOMED HIS ARRIVAL, thinking (for the most regrettable superficial reasons) that he'd be another Reagan, mostly innocuous. A LOT of people who welcomed his ascendance, including some staunch conservatives, are aghast at what the Gang has done to the 1st, 4th, 5th & 6th Amendments to the Constitution. The people who are still his supporters at this point, are unlikely even to be exposed to -- let alone affected by -- anything *I* do.
Finally, as for "a halfway intelligible response", I think you meant "intelliGENT". It's pretty apparent that you didn't find my post unintelligible, nor should you have.
We share a world where lose == loose, accept == except, people "aks" questions about "nu-cue-lar" weapons, and write "seperate". And you're in the least bit surprised by -- or hopeful that you can influence any improvement in -- the misuse of "e.g." & "i.e."?
You think YOU have problems? *I* live in the hell of knowing the proper use of unsplit infinitives, subjunctive mood, and "decimate"!
Several responders missed my point, which is that arbitrary + rigid == uninteresting.
I'll skip right over the AC flames and go to the worthwhile posts . ..
"It's a universally understood metric, it gives a pretty diverse snapshot of the world (not too specific, not too broad), and it gives them an easily quantified goal."
well, how about this alternate proposal? You and I will start at opposite ends of [throw a dart at a map], taking pictures of interesting stuff along the way, until we meet in the middle. Recruit enough people to do that, and your criteria have been met.
"a set of images where the ratio of "boring" to "beautiful" images approximates how the world is actually like"
and who defines "boring"? My ex-S.O. grew up in the desert and hates trees. De gustibus est non disputandam.
Merriam-Webster has been enjoined from using floogle, flugel, bugle, canoodle, Gogol, googol, kugel, ogle, Rigel, toodle, woozle, and yodel -- except as character names in a children's book about a band of strip-mining munchkins.
Why? How is this project any more interesting or useful than a confluence of any other human-specified arbitrary classification, e.g. visiting every peak who altitude in cubits is a prime number?
"HD" & "BluRay": it seems to me that those are orthogonal categories. What makes a DVD an "HD" DVD, other than the fact that HD requires more bytes and BluRay's got 'em? After all, I could store an HD file on paper-tape, if I wanted to.
Slashdot Mirror
"you cannot be both for free trade and against outsourcing... Perhaps the ranters should send back all their hardware to Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, etc. and buy American!!"
1. Who said that we we *should* be for free trade? Given sufficient time & space, I could present some pretty worthwhile arguments against it, especially when the offshore sources bypass higher onshore standards for labor laws, etc.
2. re "buy American": hard to do if you don't know what's "American".
Nobody says it's wrong to boycott Anita-what's-her-name-o.j if you're gay.
Nobody says it was wrong to boycott South Africa for apartheid.
Whole cities (like Phoenix, AZ) and their convention business have been boycotted for their policies and practices.
So, what's wrong with boycotting businesses based on their offshoring?
You want to talk about "open"? Don't impose trade barriers which obstruct offshoring; let's just require complete freedom of information about it, so consumers can make informed choices.
works great.
;-)
allow 6 hrs to wear off, and you'll have no after-effects.
the hardest part is disciplining yourself to take it, even though you're not feeling ready to sleep at [$x]pm.
not addictive.
BUT go to bed IMMEDIATELY. It IS POSSIBLE to stay awake, but your behavior will be very erratic, and your judgement will be worthless.
btw, if "Essential BSD" makes you LESS sleepy, you have bigger problems than WE can help.
besides, everyone knows that "*BSD IS DEAD DEAD DEAD!"
"if you spoke a language other than English, you can get error messages and such in your native language"
-- a language other than English -- you mean, like 'Murikin, or blue-dy Scutch?
-- error messages and such in your native language -- mine's l33t, so i'm covered, right?
wrong.
the Gang Of Bush does, but it's not the same.
zsh
1. I'm curious.
"I live in a small town of 12k (Not my first choice, but it's where I could get work after graduating)."
-- While in school, what kind of work did you hope to get after graduation?
-- What job did you finally take (in that small TX town)?
-- How willing were you to be geographically flexible?
2. "homogenized and philistine...racist...hunting, farming, or NASCAR...farther away you are from medical care"
If you don't mind the abstract CONCEPT of living in a small town, I *know* that there are small US towns which don't match your description. Are you being artifically restricted by family? GF? Parole officer?
"I look for things. Things that make me go."
That sig is driving me nuts.
i know it's from a film (maybe tv) i've seen, probably sf.
i googled exhaustively, no joy.
please end my torment.
"Segways cost about $5,000 USD at that price a small car or motor bike is a much better bet for urban transport."
yes, but can you use them to play slacker lawn polo and get a cool video posted on slashdot?
where are your priorities?
AC's standard screed on the death and irrelevance of *BSD
;-)
(just to spare him the effort of posting it again
1. It's completely OS.
2. It's completely interoperable with the non-Linux versions (i.e., document transportability)
3. It's guaranteed to keep step with changes in non-Linux versions, with respect to #1, #2, security, and all other maintenance.
4. MSFT publicly promises that the above conditions will be in perpetuity, to avoid any "get 'em addicted, then cut them off" tricks.
Got Those DVD Blues
You're (mostly) right,
-- in that I hadn't even "taken two seconds".
But I'm not even sure that I feel apologetic about that. In the atmosphere of the last three years, now I see anything associated with Bush and/or his ilk and then just automatically assume that it's going to be bad news and raise my bp.
The man's a cynical condescending clown, but what's worse is that he and his gang are dangerous -- not just for peace & IR, not just for reason and science and medicine, not just for domestic security or social unity;
worst is that they're dangerous for our freedom & liberties, for separation of powers, and for open, honest uncynical governance.
They've done so much damage since 9/11, that I sincerely fear that even a Demo prez will be unable to undo enough of the damage for me to change my mind about emigrating.
In all my life, I've never been in such fear and despair for my country.
-- in that I made a blanket comment. My post, in summary, *intended* to convey nothing about those "real, interesting, professional people" or their credentials.
I'm just completely devoid of hope for the END RESULT of anything which will eventually be touched by the Gang Of Bush.
-- in that my reaction WAS "knee-jerk", as explained above, and "helps Bush's supporters write off all of his opponents as worthless" -- but that doesn't make it "idiocy", in the circumstances.
As for how I'm perceived by the Gang's supporters, it's irrelevant: I ORIGINALLY WELCOMED HIS ARRIVAL, thinking (for the most regrettable superficial reasons) that he'd be another Reagan, mostly innocuous.
A LOT of people who welcomed his ascendance, including some staunch conservatives, are aghast at what the Gang has done to the 1st, 4th, 5th & 6th Amendments to the Constitution. The people who are still his supporters at this point, are unlikely even to be exposed to -- let alone affected by -- anything *I* do.
Finally, as for "a halfway intelligible response", I think you meant "intelliGENT". It's pretty apparent that you didn't find my post unintelligible, nor should you have.
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We share a world where lose == loose, accept == except, people "aks" questions about "nu-cue-lar" weapons, and write "seperate".
And you're in the least bit surprised by -- or hopeful that you can influence any improvement in -- the misuse of "e.g." & "i.e."?
You think YOU have problems?
*I* live in the hell of knowing the proper use of unsplit infinitives, subjunctive mood, and "decimate"!
Several responders missed my point, which is that arbitrary + rigid == uninteresting.
.
I'll skip right over the AC flames and go to the worthwhile posts . .
"It's a universally understood metric, it gives a pretty diverse snapshot of the world (not too specific, not too broad), and it gives them an easily quantified goal."
well, how about this alternate proposal? You and I will start at opposite ends of [throw a dart at a map], taking pictures of interesting stuff along the way, until we meet in the middle. Recruit enough people to do that, and your criteria have been met.
"a set of images where the ratio of "boring" to "beautiful" images approximates how the world is actually like"
and who defines "boring"? My ex-S.O. grew up in the desert and hates trees.
De gustibus est non disputandam.
UTALKN2ME
. . . a license-plate which says "STFU" ?
... which winks, be charged with sexual harassment?
[wait for it] . . . inscrutable!
Merriam-Webster has been enjoined from using floogle, flugel, bugle, canoodle, Gogol, googol, kugel, ogle, Rigel, toodle, woozle, and yodel -- except as character names in a children's book about a band of strip-mining munchkins.
"How many people besides me initially parsed the acronym as "Pain In The Ass Committee" ??"
Actually, at first I thought it had something to do with Near Eastern finger-food.
I have absolutely no interest in saying anything which anyone appointed by Dubya would be interested in hearing.
Why?
How is this project any more interesting or useful than a confluence of any other human-specified arbitrary classification, e.g. visiting every peak who altitude in cubits is a prime number?
"HD" & "BluRay": it seems to me that those are orthogonal categories.
What makes a DVD an "HD" DVD, other than the fact that HD requires more bytes and BluRay's got 'em?
After all, I could store an HD file on paper-tape, if I wanted to.
"we just purchased 6 SATA 10k rpm Raptor drives from Seagate and they came with the 5 year warranty"
Did Seagate take over WD while my back was turned?