Let's forget open-source software for any public activities.
Lets forget OSS totally. Let's forget software (and hardware) that is not produced by government certified producers all in the name of "consumer (read consumption) protection".
Your argument is fraught with tautologies, assumptions and unvoiced assumptive qualities of Atheism in an apparent attempt to promote institutionalized ignorance and delusion as something that is related to "truth". You sir, are apparently quite confused.
US citizens will not stand idly by, while democracy is stolen from them
They seem to have been doing a pretty good job of it so far, and a large number of them seem to be complicit in the theft.
But then most of them are just apathetic about politics (and have been trained to be so),the great portion of the "voting public" is ignorant of history, current events, geography, societies other than the mythical "America the Beautiful Savior of the World Through Democracy", political discourse on any level and are so propagandized and caught up in socio-ideological hot button issues that their votes are for the taking by whoever panders to them.
Agreed!!!!!
Paper receipts are worthless, as well as redundant, as they will only be used in a re-count, which will only be instigated due to a grounded contention which won't arise except when the rigged vote is particularly clumsy.
"LekTronik votin with pyuters" may be inevitabl because as we all know the more tech stuff and techies and the fewer peopl and manual processes it takes to do something the better, cooler, more efficient, modern, stylish, consumption intensive, profitable etc. ad nauseum it is. The problem is that it creates what is effectively a single point of control and so a single point of failure. As I have said before, using anything other than paper and pen to vote, and very granular human networks simply creates tools for fraud. While it is perfectly easy to stuff a ballot box, it is much easier to stuff them all with a few lines of code. This is especially true in an environment wherein few are willing to destabilize the system, much less the entire government, by exposing the profundity of corruption that has become the very fabric of the socio-political structure of the United States. Most woukd rather just get the upper hand so they can take advantage of the tools themselves.
And we are surprised that a tacit technology re-seller that constantly tries to re-market other peoples concepts and products does a poor job of re-packaging a concept when it's caught behind the curve and has to scramble to get it's competing offering out before people notice that yet again they missed the boat.
Personaly I miss the days of eXtreme Obfuscation, when multi-year projects, even entire careers, could be made of producing and deciphering intentionally and inadvertantly obfuscated code. Especially when you really had to dig through 4 foot high stacks of 14 7/8 x 11 green bar source listings and associated core dumps just to figure out that some asshole was relocating buffers on a vector just to fsck with the person coming along behind him.
Well, havibg used 2000 and XP a lot more than I would like to my experience is that the all NT derivitives have some inherient instability by the very nature of the design that can and will cause the OS to crash usually becuase of in corruption in address regions that aren't adequately isolated. That being said, as time has passed a large number of the most glaring inconsistancies between process that are the cause of this instablity have been identified and some that were implementation errors have certainly fixed but the basic design errors are only being avoided by the applications running on it. The success of this avoidence is directly related to the tools\API's used to build the application.
Have an attention span that is a complex of [all the things needed to get {re-)elected].
If they can support their original ideals/goals/etc. evil, good, demented or whatever, well that's a bonus.
They can't do shit unless they get elected first, and to get elected they have to sell out, so their priotities change with the system that owns them.
Many of the politicians have been aware of the flaws for a long time, and by now all but a very few of them are aware of the. The fight now has nothing to do with fixing or avoiding the flaws but only who gets to take advantage of the flaws and how to keep from getting caught in the game.
Voting requires nothing more complex than paper, ink, pens and boxes. Sure you can still cheat but it's harder to hide.
You seem to have read your history but your parsing of it seems a bit selective as you seem to equating oak trees and elephants and so missed the BIG PICTURE.
That not withstanding a comparison of post WWII Japan and Iraq in any context is absurd on its' face as the only point of similarity between them is the presence of the US armed forces and that isn't even really true as the services of today and the period between 1945 and 1960 have nothing in common other than some labels.
If you take a took at the history of, not only Iraq, but the entire region you will realize, I'm assume, that the stabilization of Iraq is not possible, short of a massive deployment of forces far in excess of anything the United States can or is willing to commit on it own, as there isn't actually an "Iraq" to stabilize.
Iraq, similarly as with the other states of the Arabian Peninsula, is not a "country" pre se but an artificial state drawn around an amalgam of disparate cultural/tribal societies cobbled together during the post WWI partition of the territories dominated by Automan Turks. Without getting into 300 pages of detail, the partitions were planned and executed to what ever the best negotiated interests of the planners and executors were at the time with, as dictated by the norms 19th and early 20th century western socio-political thought, little and preferably no, thought given to the preferences of the "mostly inconsequential but bothersome" populace in place.
The entire US adventure in Iraq is the greatest fiasco in which the United States has ever been involved and it bespeaks of forces driving the United States that have little to do with the well being of the United States and it's people and everything to do with the hegemonic aspirations of an ascendant aristocracy. That the true wielders of power in the United States are for the most part not named is evidenced by the lack of skill and knowledge, secrecy, political corruption, corporate collusion, intense propaganda campaign, power mongering, obvious conceit and hubris demonstrated by the current administration and it's sycophantic adherents in all branches of government. These people aren't in control, but their bosses are very sorry that they gave them so much leeway because they've made a complete cockup of the entire business.
Here! Here ! mate. Spot on.
Mercans don't even realise that their petrol is, in a very real sense, "artificially inexpensive". It treated as the scarce commodity and environmental threat that it actually is rather than the priciple commodity driving a very wasteful and self distructive consummerist economy the commodity price would actually be quite high and it would be taxed accordingly.
Also no one seems to be aware, or convieniently forget, that petrol prices in the US at USD 3.00 in 2006 are exceedingly low in comparison to prices 3 decades ago.
So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy?
What do you think happens now ? Do you honestly believe that an informed electorate could be responsible for the horrendous state of governance in the United States. The untold truth is that our society has evolved in such a way that the greatest portion of the population has no understanding, no interest and no influence on even local political matters on any consequence. We do have multitudes of "activists" and their "one issue followers" that can pontificate ad nauseum on their favorite non-issues that determine how they vote.
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you forgot : "The Ethical Standards of Richard M. Nixon"
Let's forget open-source software for any public activities.
Lets forget OSS totally. Let's forget software (and hardware) that is not produced by government certified producers all in the name of "consumer (read consumption) protection".
[I]s Windows really that much easier to look after in a web server environment[?]
No.
Yes, funny, but very scary when you consider the number of people that buy in to this fraud. In a more just society these people would be prosecuted.
Your argument is fraught with tautologies, assumptions and unvoiced assumptive qualities of Atheism in an apparent attempt to promote institutionalized ignorance and delusion as something that is related to "truth". You sir, are apparently quite confused.
or in other words, if you can't destroy proceed to own them.
US citizens will not stand idly by, while democracy is stolen from them
They seem to have been doing a pretty good job of it so far, and a large number of them seem to be complicit in the theft.
But then most of them are just apathetic about politics (and have been trained to be so),the great portion of the "voting public" is ignorant of history, current events, geography, societies other than the mythical "America the Beautiful Savior of the World Through Democracy", political discourse on any level and are so propagandized and caught up in socio-ideological hot button issues that their votes are for the taking by whoever panders to them.
Agreed!!!!!
Paper receipts are worthless, as well as redundant, as they will only be used in a re-count, which will only be instigated due to a grounded contention which won't arise except when the rigged vote is particularly clumsy.
everything, mostly because we insist on too much control of everything.
The tighter you squeeze the more slips twixt the digits..
"LekTronik votin with pyuters" may be inevitabl because as we all know the more tech stuff and techies and the fewer peopl and manual processes it takes to do something the better, cooler, more efficient, modern, stylish, consumption intensive, profitable etc. ad nauseum it is. The problem is that it creates what is effectively a single point of control and so a single point of failure.
As I have said before, using anything other than paper and pen to vote, and very granular human networks simply creates tools for fraud. While it is perfectly easy to stuff a ballot box, it is much easier to stuff them all with a few lines of code. This is especially true in an environment wherein few are willing to destabilize the system, much less the entire government, by exposing the profundity of corruption that has become the very fabric of the socio-political structure of the United States. Most woukd rather just get the upper hand so they can take advantage of the tools themselves.
weellllllllllll duuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhh ?
really ? now this is a surprise....
well said mate...
And we are surprised that a tacit technology re-seller that constantly tries to re-market other peoples concepts and products does a poor job of re-packaging a concept when it's caught behind the curve and has to scramble to get it's competing offering out before people notice that yet again they missed the boat.
Personaly I miss the days of eXtreme Obfuscation, when multi-year projects, even entire careers, could be made of producing and deciphering intentionally and inadvertantly obfuscated code. Especially when you really had to dig through 4 foot high stacks of 14 7/8 x 11 green bar source listings and associated core dumps just to figure out that some asshole was relocating buffers on a vector just to fsck with the person coming along behind him.
Well, havibg used 2000 and XP a lot more than I would like to my experience is that the all NT derivitives have some inherient instability by the very nature of the design that can and will cause the OS to crash usually becuase of in corruption in address regions that aren't adequately isolated. That being said, as time has passed a large number of the most glaring inconsistancies between process that are the cause of this instablity have been identified and some that were implementation errors have certainly fixed but the basic design errors are only being avoided by the applications running on it. The success of this avoidence is directly related to the tools\API's used to build the application.
Have an attention span that is a complex of [all the things needed to get {re-)elected]. If they can support their original ideals/goals/etc. evil, good, demented or whatever, well that's a bonus.
They can't do shit unless they get elected first, and to get elected they have to sell out, so their priotities change with the system that owns them.
Many of the politicians have been aware of the flaws for a long time, and by now all but a very few of them are aware of the. The fight now has nothing to do with fixing or avoiding the flaws but only who gets to take advantage of the flaws and how to keep from getting caught in the game.
Voting requires nothing more complex than paper, ink, pens and boxes. Sure you can still cheat but it's harder to hide.
You seem to have read your history but your parsing of it seems a bit selective as you seem to equating oak trees and elephants and so missed the BIG PICTURE.
That not withstanding a comparison of post WWII Japan and Iraq in any context is absurd on its' face as the only point of similarity between them is the presence of the US armed forces and that isn't even really true as the services of today and the period between 1945 and 1960 have nothing in common other than some labels.
If you take a took at the history of, not only Iraq, but the entire region you will realize, I'm assume, that the stabilization of Iraq is not possible, short of a massive deployment of forces far in excess of anything the United States can or is willing to commit on it own, as there isn't actually an "Iraq" to stabilize.
Iraq, similarly as with the other states of the Arabian Peninsula, is not a "country" pre se but an artificial state drawn around an amalgam of disparate cultural/tribal societies cobbled together during the post WWI partition of the territories dominated by Automan Turks. Without getting into 300 pages of detail, the partitions were planned and executed to what ever the best negotiated interests of the planners and executors were at the time with, as dictated by the norms 19th and early 20th century western socio-political thought, little and preferably no, thought given to the preferences of the "mostly inconsequential but bothersome" populace in place.
The entire US adventure in Iraq is the greatest fiasco in which the United States has ever been involved and it bespeaks of forces driving the United States that have little to do with the well being of the United States and it's people and everything to do with the hegemonic aspirations of an ascendant aristocracy.
That the true wielders of power in the United States are for the most part not named is evidenced by the lack of skill and knowledge, secrecy, political corruption, corporate collusion, intense propaganda campaign, power mongering, obvious conceit and hubris demonstrated by the current administration and it's sycophantic adherents in all branches of government. These people aren't in control, but their bosses are very sorry that they gave them so much leeway because they've made a complete cockup of the entire business.
Here! Here ! mate. Spot on. Mercans don't even realise that their petrol is, in a very real sense, "artificially inexpensive". It treated as the scarce commodity and environmental threat that it actually is rather than the priciple commodity driving a very wasteful and self distructive consummerist economy the commodity price would actually be quite high and it would be taxed accordingly. Also no one seems to be aware, or convieniently forget, that petrol prices in the US at USD 3.00 in 2006 are exceedingly low in comparison to prices 3 decades ago.
"Death before Dishonour; Beer before Lunch" should be "Breath of a Dinosaur; Deer offer Crunch"
So you want millions of uninformed uncaring citizens to start determining national policy?
What do you think happens now ?
Do you honestly believe that an informed electorate could be responsible for the horrendous state of governance in the United States. The untold truth is that our society has evolved in such a way that the greatest portion of the population has no understanding, no interest and no influence on even local political matters on any consequence.
We do have multitudes of "activists" and their "one issue followers" that can pontificate ad nauseum on their favorite non-issues that determine how they vote.
Bravo,Here Here, I wish I hd said it as succinctly as you, I never get past I Hate SQL simply because it is an abomination.
Just thought you might like to know that this is broken at the moment.
in print, is because they are generally un-intellegable on the recordings. What shyte.