Hm. I thought that by submitting the code to LKML for inclusion, you were yielding your copyright to Linus... if that's not the case, then I will halt this deal based on the 8 lines or so I contributed to the software raid startup code =D.
> (beyond a token amount that ANYBODY could live a life of luxury on)
Well, while I think progressive taxation is the way to go, it sounds like you're in favor of an income cap? Correct me if I misunderstood you... I think that would be problematic in that it would quash any incentive for a person to be productive once they hit the magic number.
> Increasing Government spending pushes him completely in the opposite direction.
Nonsense. You seem to think that we on the left like spending for its own sake, but that's a silly myth. If there was a way to feed the hungry, cure the sick, and house the homeless and generally provide for a high standard of living for all Americans for free, then we'd be first in line to flatten government spending. As of right now there isn't, so we insist that the super-rich pay their fair share back into the system from which they draw so much.
Being a democrat doesn't exempt one from being a right-wing asshole. Zell Miller. QEMFD.
The whole permanence of copyright, police power of corporations movement that's going on is a very right-wing view, irrespective of the individuals who are at the head of it. Anybody who thinks that file swappers should go to jail is, IMHO, a right-wing asshole by definition.
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AOLV("I agree");
Still, the CO model seems like the path of least resistance; you can talk all day long about how great it would be to ditch the EV system nationally, but at the end of the day, you've got to convince the national Democratic and Republican parties who collectively control... well, every branch at every level of government, to let others join in their reindeer games. They'd be insane to allow that to happen.
Isn't their a statute of limitations on spoilers? For instance, if I were to say "ROSEBUD IS A SLED", surely you couldn't hold that against me at this late date.;)
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You forget, not only is Kerry a flip-flopper, he's also teh most liberal senator in the history of Earth! In other news, holding two mutually contradictory opinions in your brain at once and believing both of them absolutely does not mean you're insane either, so stop saying that!
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Are you in Colorado? Then fight like hell to pass the referendum allowing electoral college votes to be assigned proportional to the popular vote. Not in CO? Then fight for a similar ballot referendum in your state. This could be the beginning of the rise of the Third Parties.
> Lt. Commander Data would be able to pick her out of a crowd as artificial because her blinking pattern was exactly > the same as the Fibbonachi sequence.
> Yeah, and how many cities did you go through in SimCity to learn this precious tidbit of knowledge?
Since I doubt any of us will live to see a major U.S. city rip up all their roads and replace them with railroad, I don't believe SimCity rules will save us. =)
> Who cares? It's those who shout for equality who seem to be the first to highlight irrelevant differences; and > such people are the first defence used by the prejudiced to block those with true potential.
Over half the population is female. Do you honestly believe that in the history of that institution, Dr. Hockfield is really the first and only qualified woman to emerge? If not, then please conjecture as to why her 15 predecessors were all male.
> So is this the reason why people seem to be so much more rude on the Internet? Is it geeks getting out their pent-up > aggression from being picked on all the time in the real world? Is it people taking their anger at that asshole who > cut them off on the way to work out on the faceless masses on the Internet?
All of these phenomena are explained by the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:
-shrug- He's absurd most of the times, and intentionally so. But there are nuggets of pure genius in his rantings and I contend that the above is one such insight. The idea that a person should be deferred to or treated differently due to their occupation, their station in life or other aspects of social position and not on their individual achievements is a foreign and mildly offensive concept to me.
I try to afford everyone a basic, polite assumption of respectability, until they have proven themselves worthy of either reverence or contempt. For what it's worth, it usually doesn't take long to go one way or the other.;)
> I was beginning to wonder if anyone has paused to reflect on the concept of respect - even for someone you > don't personally like.
George Carlin did, and here's what he came up with: "Obedience, respect for authority. Just another name for controlling people. The truth is that obedience and respect shouldn't be automatic. They should be earned and based on... performance."
While it's true that I don't "personally" like Bush, that's not why I/we disrespect him. It's based on his performance.
Well, I seriously doubt that the processor of the device (or the SD-bus for that matter) could push enough bits to make a difference. However, even at 11mb rate, there's another good reason to do the 11g protocol: access points running in pure G mode. If you have a G router and you enable the backwards-compatibility for 11b, you cut your throughput almost in half.
> That's just plain wrong. If you don't like someone, then debate them - don't try to shut them up.
I agree, and if it really is a group of Kerry-supporters doing this (which I doubt) then they need to knock it the hell off. Of course, playing devil's advocate for a moment, they probably feel they're leveling the playing field since the entire mainstream media in the U.S. is working double overtime shifts trying to reelect Bush and shouting down, marginalizing or just plain ignoring any facts that might hurt Bush or help Kerry.
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> you'll never find *ALL* the copyright holders
Hm. I thought that by submitting the code to LKML for inclusion, you were yielding your copyright to Linus... if that's not the
case, then I will halt this deal based on the 8 lines or so I contributed to the software raid startup code =D.
> democracy can't be the pinnacle of systems of government. There's got to be something better.
We could try anarcho-syndicalism...
> (beyond a token amount that ANYBODY could live a life of luxury on)
Well, while I think progressive taxation is the way to go, it sounds like you're in favor of an income cap? Correct me if
I misunderstood you... I think that would be problematic in that it would quash any incentive for a person to be
productive once they hit the magic number.
> Increasing Government spending pushes him completely in the opposite direction.
Nonsense. You seem to think that we on the left like spending for its own sake, but that's a silly myth.
If there was a way to feed the hungry, cure the sick, and house the homeless and generally provide for a high standard of
living for all Americans for free, then we'd be first in line to flatten government spending. As of right now there isn't,
so we insist that the super-rich pay their fair share back into the system from which they draw so much.
> Saddam Hussein, WHO ATTACKED US
Troll better, or don't troll at all. KTHX.
Being a democrat doesn't exempt one from being a right-wing asshole. Zell Miller. QEMFD.
The whole permanence of copyright, police power of corporations movement that's going on is a very right-wing view, irrespective
of the individuals who are at the head of it. Anybody who thinks that file swappers should go to jail is, IMHO, a right-wing asshole
by definition.
AOLV("I agree");
Still, the CO model seems like the path of least resistance; you can talk all day long about how great it would
be to ditch the EV system nationally, but at the end of the day, you've got to convince the national Democratic and
Republican parties who collectively control... well, every branch at every level of government, to let others join in
their reindeer games. They'd be insane to allow that to happen.
Isn't their a statute of limitations on spoilers? For instance, if I were to say "ROSEBUD IS A SLED", ;)
surely you couldn't hold that against me at this late date.
You forget, not only is Kerry a flip-flopper, he's also teh most liberal senator in the history of Earth!
In other news, holding two mutually contradictory opinions in your brain at once and believing both of them
absolutely does not mean you're insane either, so stop saying that!
Are you in Colorado? Then fight like hell to pass the referendum allowing electoral college votes to be assigned proportional to
the popular vote. Not in CO? Then fight for a similar ballot referendum in your state. This could be the beginning of the rise of
the Third Parties.
More info.
> And I don't remember Bush ever saying that these are good times
The economy is strong, it's getting stronger
> Lt. Commander Data would be able to pick her out of a crowd as artificial because her blinking pattern was exactly
> the same as the Fibbonachi sequence.
Data is dead you insensitive clod !
-sob-
> Yeah, great joke... other than that you're stupid and obviously unaware that there is no 'w' sound in Russian.
Then vere do you keep your nuclear wessels ?
Who is Luke's Father?
... Officer Barbrady ?
... The 1987 Denver Broncos ?
Is it... Darth Vader ?
You play as Worf. Son of MMOG.
> Yeah, and how many cities did you go through in SimCity to learn this precious tidbit of knowledge?
Since I doubt any of us will live to see a major U.S. city rip up all their roads and replace them with
railroad, I don't believe SimCity rules will save us. =)
Obviously they're running into troubles... their adapter can't overcome the bandwith limitations of wireless handhelds. The
picture goes fuzzy...
> Who cares? It's those who shout for equality who seem to be the first to highlight irrelevant differences; and
> such people are the first defence used by the prejudiced to block those with true potential.
Over half the population is female. Do you honestly believe that in the history of that institution, Dr. Hockfield is really
the first and only qualified woman to emerge? If not, then please conjecture as to why her 15 predecessors were all male.
> So is this the reason why people seem to be so much more rude on the Internet? Is it geeks getting out their pent-up
> aggression from being picked on all the time in the real world? Is it people taking their anger at that asshole who
> cut them off on the way to work out on the faceless masses on the Internet?
All of these phenomena are explained by the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:
http://penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2004-03-19
> Unless, of course, you also forgot your BIOS password. Then you're really screwed.
Bah, just clear the CMOS. Unless you're on a serious, non-toy computer like a Sun where prom passwords
really can be the end of a machine. =)
> ...and marked "Cuban" on my DVDs. Now what? Do I wait for the next article for more instructions?
> Is this some quest?
You gain 12 sarcasm. Moxious !
-shrug- He's absurd most of the times, and intentionally so. But there are nuggets of pure genius in his rantings
;)
and I contend that the above is one such insight. The idea that a person should be deferred to or treated
differently due to their occupation, their station in life or other aspects of social position and not on their
individual achievements is a foreign and mildly offensive concept to me.
I try to afford everyone a basic, polite assumption of respectability, until they have proven themselves worthy
of either reverence or contempt. For what it's worth, it usually doesn't take long to go one way or the other.
> I was beginning to wonder if anyone has paused to reflect on the concept of respect - even for someone you
... performance."
> don't personally like.
George Carlin did, and here's what he came up with: "Obedience, respect for authority. Just another name for
controlling people. The truth is that obedience and respect shouldn't be automatic. They should be earned
and based on
While it's true that I don't "personally" like Bush, that's not why I/we disrespect him. It's based on his performance.
> Or, put another way: Why not the faster 11g?
Well, I seriously doubt that the processor of the device (or the SD-bus for that matter) could push enough bits to make a
difference. However, even at 11mb rate, there's another good reason to do the 11g protocol: access points running in pure
G mode. If you have a G router and you enable the backwards-compatibility for 11b, you cut your throughput almost in half.
> That's just plain wrong. If you don't like someone, then debate them - don't try to shut them up.
I agree, and if it really is a group of Kerry-supporters doing this (which I doubt) then they need to knock it the hell off.
Of course, playing devil's advocate for a moment, they probably feel they're leveling the playing field since the entire mainstream
media in the U.S. is working double overtime shifts trying to reelect Bush and shouting down, marginalizing or just plain
ignoring any facts that might hurt Bush or help Kerry.