> IIRC Enermax is another one of those generic Taiwanese PSU's which usually > have a failure rate which just doesn't sit well (with me anyway) being > hooked up the $,$$$ worth of gear.
Yeah !
Except like, the opposite of that.
Enermax is the most reliable consumer brand in my experience. Their noisetaker line carries a _3 Year_ replacement warranty. That's not easy to find.
> In other news, it is guaranteed that some day, you will die. There is nothing you can do about it, it's > inevitable. You can't prevent death, no matter what kind of lifestyle you choose to live.
In yet other news, some people have kids. It's possible those kids will have kids of their own. Some people feel attachments to those yet-unborn descendants. Still other people feel a generalized attachment to humanity and the preservation of the species.
> This message has been brought to you by Marlboro. Come to Marlboro Country.
Either this is a sig, or you're tagging your post as irony, in which case I fail it.
> Then again why should we take the opinion of a bunch of people foolish enough to live below sea level, and right on the cost.
Absolutely! Since housing and transportation are free and there are more jobs than we can possibly ever fill in spots all over the country, they have only themselves to blame for not getting out sooner!
Is it even possible for you to hear somebody point out (completely accurately) the problems with current United States policy without spasmodically vomiting back "hate America !!!11!!1eleven11" ?
Consider for a second that there are _some_ of us living here that love this country enough that we're willing to fight to make it a better place, to realize its potential and be a world leader in scientific and social progress again. Why do you hate America so much that you don't think we're capable of better than just being an oafish, uneducated bully?
> Those much maligned mega marketers, the poorly pictured political parties and poll promulgators, the little > lobbyests languishing in the face of previously proposed changes to our country's telecommunications laws.
Their awe-inspiring alacrity to abuse alliteration...
> I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be ironic
Then you need to recalibrate your irony detector;)
> I know its an old argument, but stupid parents are the problem
I agree with the sentiment, but in this case I think it's a societal uptightness about sex. I never cease to be astonished by the levels of tolerance people have for gore and violence, so much so I can barely sit through what qualifies for an R rating these days, but they have no tolerance whatsoever for the natural and wonderful act of sex. The fact that we see the truly astonishing level of violence we do on the same stations that flew completely off the handle when Janet Jackson's tit flopped out for a tenth of a second says something really dark and disturbing about our society's appetites.
Now, I don't think we should censor ANY of this stuff, although I'm fully in favor of labelling and warning people so they can make educated choices, but if I had to choose between a sex scene and a guy getting lit on fire, it's not a tough decision. =)
> I want to shoot people in the face, bang prostitutes, traffic drugs, steal cars, and > terrorize police officers without this filthy smut in my game.
-nod- Mass murder, destruction of property, robbery and prostitution are one thing (er... four), but showing C.J. having consensual sex with his girlfriend? Dear God, man, there are CHILDREN playing this game !
> I like a good top down solution with centralized control because it "just works" and you don't have to worry about weirdo incompatibilities since you define compatibility.
Sure, if "you" are Google, Inc. Or Microsoft, Apple, AOL, any of the big proponents of centralization. What happens when you've built a big portion of your personal and business communications around this nice centralized system and then the central authority, be it Google, Microsoft, whoever, change the rules? How does pay-per-message grab you? What if the service goes down unexpectedly, and you can't simply run and fix it yourself?
Contrary to your point, I'd say nobody in their right mind would entrust an important chunk of the technology around which they build their lives and their businesses to a single, unaccountable entity.
Apologies in advance for using such strong words, but you have a sick view of atheism, based on grossly inaccurate facts. Hitler most decidedly was -not- an atheist. Many of the authors of the U.S. constitution, on the other hand, were atheist or deist.
As to the "add up their bodycounts" argument, need I refer you to The Crusades, or to the Al-Qaeda jihad on the U.S.? Or the Catholics crusading in AIDs-stricken Africa to discourage the use of condoms? More people have been killed in the name of one god or another in human history than for any other reason.
Now, for some quotes:
"The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfil God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence, and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. Therefore, let every man be active, each in his own denomination if you please, and let every man take it as his first and most sacred duty to oppose anyone who in his activity by word or deed steps outside the confines of his religious community and tries to butt into the other."
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
-- Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf
"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
-- James Madison
"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"
-- John Adams
"History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."
> Not all good acts are moral. I'd say I'm largely amoral. Although, that being said, I'm highly ethical. > The results are mostly the same, but the rationale is slightly different.
I'd be interested to hear you expound on how you divide up morality and ethics. I use the two terms interchangably.
> The point is that it's not news for nerds and neither is the inevitable *informed > debate* that our slashdotterei will conduct about this insipid semantic question.
You do realize that you can block the Politics category from your front page, yes? "Nerd" does not mean just mean Linux, Perl, Star Wars or Firefly. There are also politics nerds.
> imply that you didn't mean the ONLY thing that the president has been > even remotely affirmatively or substantially "anti-science" about
"only" is a heavy word, you should be careful with it.
o) Stem cell research o) Global warming o) Economic/tax policy o) AIDs research
That's just a 30 second off-the-top-of-my-head list of areas where Bush stubbornly rejects science in order to carry on with his pre-selected agenda. If you generalize the discussion to his being "anti-fact", then the war in Iraq based on fabricated intelligence comes crashing into view.
> My point: It's not possible to entirely divorce laws from religion.
Balderdash. If you're such an amoral shill (and I don't know you; just going by your own words) that you need a book of fairy tales to tell you that torturing is wrong, then heaven help us if you ever find your way into any kind of political power. But do not assume that everyone else shares that handicap.
Morality and religion are NOT one and the same, and it's been my experience that those who get their morality from a book are a lot more likely to commit amoral or immoral acts than those who act morally because it is innate to them.
> I think we're fast approaching the time to switch to the jury box, if not the ammo box.
Too late for the jury box. The courts are totally sewn up with pro-corporate, anti-individual extremists. O'Conner was one of the last dominos to fall.
This is EXACTLY why you've been hearing so much rabble about "activist judges" and "legislating from the bench" and "nuclear options" lately. The corporations needed to lock the door of the courts to keep people like you and me out, and now they've done so.
Besides which, you still need _some_ kind of impact printer if you want to print on carbon forms. I have a l33t 24-pin color dot, but nevertheless... respeck the dot matrix!
Okay, this is ridiculous. I mean, is somebody paying these people to troll on/. ? It's been a couple years since I've seen anything on ANY platform that compares with Bitstream Vera Sans rendered by freetype2. TNR on Windows XP tuned to the hilt doesn't hold a candle to it in my opinion. Lucida Grande on OS X looks alright, but starts to look smeared at tiny font sizes, again IMO. Bitstream Vera Sans looks gorgeous on any gtk 2.x app and on FireFox, and so far is the benchmark for best looking fonts on the planet.
Look, there are still plenty of valid criticisms of Linux for the desktop. I'll even spot you some; wireless drivers are still very inconsistant in their behavior, and power management support is dodgy and hit-or- miss. But you really need to drop the fonts argument, it just doesn't fly anymore.
-nod- The fact that the first generation had 4 times the flash memory they needed, complete with exposed pads to boot into any of the 4 quadrants of the chip, has always amused me. It's like they were asking for it.
> We should charge MS for something that was guaranteed to happen anyways!
If you're the kind of ninny that throws things away and buys a new one even though the old one was still working fine then Congratulations! You're part of the problem.
Not everybody does that, believe it or not. Even if you feel the need to constantly stay on the upgrade treadmill, you could always donate your old stuff or sell it at a garage sale. Now, there won't be much use of the old tubes at all since they won't be compatible with the newest software.
But I know, I know, suggesting that any corporation be responsible for the damage it does means I'm a communist, or a terrorist, or an America-hater or whatever the new buzzword is.
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> Tiny Plastic Sword, of course!
That was my first thought. GPoaS was the one that threw me for the longest time. Now I have one,
it's name is Vlasic. Hurray for in-jokes !
> IIRC Enermax is another one of those generic Taiwanese PSU's which usually
> have a failure rate which just doesn't sit well (with me anyway) being
> hooked up the $,$$$ worth of gear.
Yeah !
Except like, the opposite of that.
Enermax is the most reliable consumer brand in my experience. Their noisetaker
line carries a _3 Year_ replacement warranty. That's not easy to find.
Antec is also quite good.
> In other news, it is guaranteed that some day, you will die. There is nothing you can do about it, it's
> inevitable. You can't prevent death, no matter what kind of lifestyle you choose to live.
In yet other news, some people have kids. It's possible those kids will have kids of their own. Some people feel
attachments to those yet-unborn descendants. Still other people feel a generalized attachment to humanity
and the preservation of the species.
> This message has been brought to you by Marlboro. Come to Marlboro Country.
Either this is a sig, or you're tagging your post as irony, in which case I fail it.
> Then again why should we take the opinion of a bunch of people foolish enough to live below sea level, and right on the cost.
Absolutely! Since housing and transportation are free and there are more jobs than we can possibly ever fill
in spots all over the country, they have only themselves to blame for not getting out sooner!
> If so why does it not seem to have the mind share that Fedora, SuSE, Mandriva and [K]ubuntu appear to enjoy?
If you're used to Windows or Mac, it requires you to do more learning of Linux up front.
> what will you come up with next to hate America
Is it even possible for you to hear somebody point out (completely accurately) the problems with current
United States policy without spasmodically vomiting back "hate America !!!11!!1eleven11" ?
Consider for a second that there are _some_ of us living here that love this country enough that we're
willing to fight to make it a better place, to realize its potential and be a world leader in scientific and
social progress again. Why do you hate America so much that you don't think we're capable of better
than just being an oafish, uneducated bully?
> Those much maligned mega marketers, the poorly pictured political parties and poll promulgators, the little
> lobbyests languishing in the face of previously proposed changes to our country's telecommunications laws.
Their awe-inspiring alacrity to abuse alliteration...
> I'm not sure if your comment was meant to be ironic
;)
Then you need to recalibrate your irony detector
> I know its an old argument, but stupid parents are the problem
I agree with the sentiment, but in this case I think it's a societal uptightness about sex. I never cease to be
astonished by the levels of tolerance people have for gore and violence, so much so I can barely sit through what
qualifies for an R rating these days, but they have no tolerance whatsoever for the natural and wonderful act of
sex. The fact that we see the truly astonishing level of violence we do on the same stations that flew completely
off the handle when Janet Jackson's tit flopped out for a tenth of a second says something really dark and
disturbing about our society's appetites.
Now, I don't think we should censor ANY of this stuff, although I'm fully in favor of labelling and warning people
so they can make educated choices, but if I had to choose between a sex scene and a guy getting lit on fire,
it's not a tough decision. =)
> I want to shoot people in the face, bang prostitutes, traffic drugs, steal cars, and
> terrorize police officers without this filthy smut in my game.
-nod- Mass murder, destruction of property, robbery and prostitution are one thing (er... four), but showing
C.J. having consensual sex with his girlfriend? Dear God, man, there are CHILDREN playing this game !
> MS is still beating linux among people who actually pay for their OS.
Here he is, everybody, Mr. Underbridge, Doctor of Tautology.
> I like a good top down solution with centralized control because it "just works" and you don't have to worry about weirdo incompatibilities since you define compatibility.
Sure, if "you" are Google, Inc. Or Microsoft, Apple, AOL, any of the big proponents of centralization. What happens
when you've built a big portion of your personal and business communications around this nice centralized system
and then the central authority, be it Google, Microsoft, whoever, change the rules? How does pay-per-message
grab you? What if the service goes down unexpectedly, and you can't simply run and fix it yourself?
Contrary to your point, I'd say nobody in their right mind would entrust an important chunk of the technology around
which they build their lives and their businesses to a single, unaccountable entity.
Apologies in advance for using such strong words, but you have a sick view of atheism, based on grossly inaccurate facts.
Hitler most decidedly was -not- an atheist. Many of the authors of the U.S. constitution, on the other hand, were atheist
or deist.
As to the "add up their bodycounts" argument, need I refer you to The Crusades, or to the Al-Qaeda jihad on the
U.S.? Or the Catholics crusading in AIDs-stricken Africa to discourage the use of condoms? More people have
been killed in the name of one god or another in human history than for any other reason.
Now, for some quotes:
"The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfil God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. For God's will gave men their form, their essence, and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. Therefore, let every man be active, each in his own denomination if you please, and let every man take it as his first and most sacred duty to oppose anyone who in his activity by word or deed steps outside the confines of his religious community and tries to butt into the other."
"Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord."
-- Adolf Hitler, in Mein Kampf
"What influence, in fact, have ecclesiastical establishments had on society? In some instances they have been seen to erect a spiritual tyranny on the ruins of the civil authority; on many instances they have been seen upholding the thrones of political tyranny; in no instance have they been the guardians of the liberties of the people. Rulers who wish to subvert the public liberty may have found an established clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just government, instituted to secure and perpetuate it, needs them not."
-- James Madison
"I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved -- the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!"
-- John Adams
"History I believe furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government. This marks the lowest grade of ignorance, of which their political as well as religious leaders will always avail themselves for their own purpose."
-- Thomas Jefferson
These and more quotes from here.
> Not all good acts are moral. I'd say I'm largely amoral. Although, that being said, I'm highly ethical.
> The results are mostly the same, but the rationale is slightly different.
I'd be interested to hear you expound on how you divide up morality and ethics. I use the two terms interchangably.
> The point is that it's not news for nerds and neither is the inevitable *informed
> debate* that our slashdotterei will conduct about this insipid semantic question.
You do realize that you can block the Politics category from your front page, yes?
"Nerd" does not mean just mean Linux, Perl, Star Wars or Firefly. There are also politics nerds.
> imply that you didn't mean the ONLY thing that the president has been
> even remotely affirmatively or substantially "anti-science" about
"only" is a heavy word, you should be careful with it.
o) Stem cell research
o) Global warming
o) Economic/tax policy
o) AIDs research
That's just a 30 second off-the-top-of-my-head list of areas where Bush stubbornly rejects science in
order to carry on with his pre-selected agenda. If you generalize the discussion to his being "anti-fact",
then the war in Iraq based on fabricated intelligence comes crashing into view.
Tom Tomorrow says it better than I could:
http://www.bartcop.com/tmw-groundhog-day.jpg
> My point: It's not possible to entirely divorce laws from religion.
Balderdash. If you're such an amoral shill (and I don't know you; just going by your own words) that you need a
book of fairy tales to tell you that torturing is wrong, then heaven help us if you ever find your way into any
kind of political power. But do not assume that everyone else shares that handicap.
Morality and religion are NOT one and the same, and it's been my experience that those who get their morality
from a book are a lot more likely to commit amoral or immoral acts than those who act morally because it is
innate to them.
> I think we're fast approaching the time to switch to the jury box, if not the ammo box.
Too late for the jury box. The courts are totally sewn up with pro-corporate, anti-individual extremists.
O'Conner was one of the last dominos to fall.
This is EXACTLY why you've been hearing so much rabble about "activist judges" and "legislating from
the bench" and "nuclear options" lately. The corporations needed to lock the door of the courts to
keep people like you and me out, and now they've done so.
Besides which, you still need _some_ kind of impact printer if you want to print on carbon forms. I have a l33t 24-pin
color dot, but nevertheless... respeck the dot matrix!
> Give me font rendering that doesn't suck.
/. ? It's been a couple years
Okay, this is ridiculous. I mean, is somebody paying these people to troll on
since I've seen anything on ANY platform that compares with Bitstream Vera Sans rendered by freetype2.
TNR on Windows XP tuned to the hilt doesn't hold a candle to it in my opinion. Lucida Grande on OS X
looks alright, but starts to look smeared at tiny font sizes, again IMO. Bitstream Vera Sans looks gorgeous
on any gtk 2.x app and on FireFox, and so far is the benchmark for best looking fonts on the planet.
Look, there are still plenty of valid criticisms of Linux for the desktop. I'll even spot you some; wireless
drivers are still very inconsistant in their behavior, and power management support is dodgy and hit-or-
miss. But you really need to drop the fonts argument, it just doesn't fly anymore.
> That's what Orwell called "thinkcrime", you know. It's widely considered a bad idea.
Thoughtcrime. Yeah, though.
This plays into the same issues as virtual child pornography.
-nod- The fact that the first generation had 4 times the flash memory they needed, complete with
exposed pads to boot into any of the 4 quadrants of the chip, has always amused me. It's like they
were asking for it.
> This wouldn't be used to treat those people, though.
Sure, just like the microwave gun posted earlier today will never be used
on peaceful protesters, only rioters.
You can't hold Turbo down, it's for short boosts!
> We should charge MS for something that was guaranteed to happen anyways!
If you're the kind of ninny that throws things away and buys a new one even though the old
one was still working fine then Congratulations! You're part of the problem.
Not everybody does that, believe it or not. Even if you feel the need to constantly stay on
the upgrade treadmill, you could always donate your old stuff or sell it at a garage sale.
Now, there won't be much use of the old tubes at all since they won't be compatible with the
newest software.
But I know, I know, suggesting that any corporation be responsible for the damage it does
means I'm a communist, or a terrorist, or an America-hater or whatever the new buzzword is.