I suggest you also take anatomy. The beer would have to travel through your bowels to get into your brain, since the stomach does not touch any of the lobes or the stem.
The trust-busting laws were used in the turn-of-the-last-century anti-conglomeration effort by then-president Teddy Roosevelt and others of his time. They were established because Joe Schmoe was tired of losing limbs at the Spam factory and dieing at the ripe age of 27 due to improper working conditions. That was when we lost the true captilism that our country was founded on, and that is why our socialist capitalism survived where communism failed.
As for Microsoft, the only trust-busting law they're breaking is that they're kinda sorta forcing their product on consumers.
Im not an expert, but that idea sounds scandalous so there may be some SEC law preventing that... but then I'm not sure... I'm basing this only off of common sense and my vague familiarity with the SEC.
No.. I live here and I think thats pretty typical. Just becuase you consider yourself smarter does not mean that you are typical. However, I also believe that the average American plays dumb because it is cooler and more hip to do that...
And, when you think Uruguay, just remember what Homer said: "U R Gay" and he was pointing at South America at the time...
It doesn't work as well as CmdrTaco and Hemos believe... it worked well in the beginning because wed get Karma points for m2ing... but after that was killed off it lost its glamour. I used to do it if I feelt like being a moderator, but then that stopped too. Theres just no reward for meta-moderating.
Problems:
no accountability
no reward
no visible effect
easy to abuse
time/benifits ratio too low...
Well those are just my opinions on it. For all I know I could be abnormal...
Ok I apologize for that and this whole argument... Im just stubborn. I realized my mistake a little while ago but I was arguing from the reason why I made that mistake...
Got this off their website.. apparently some of the other CDs they sale for $7.95 won't help Linux's reputation...
Anarchist's Cookbook ATM Machines Beating Lie Detectors (Polygraphs) Beginner's Guide to Hacking Big Book of Mischief Booby Traps Bypassing Phone Billing Systems Cable TV Piracy Cloning Cellular Phones Computer Underground Digest (Volumes 1-6) Credit Card Scams Drugs & Recipes Electronics (Modification Files) Explosives from Common Household Ingredients Fake IDs Free Airline Travel FREEBAGE (Art of Bernsteining) Fire Works Get RICH QUICK Scams Getting Unlisted Phone Numbers Hacking UNIX Systems Hacking VAX Systems Interrogation Tactics Jackpotting Change Machines Jolly Roger's Cookbook Knock-out Drops Know your Legal Rights Legal Tips that can save your ASS Listening Devices Lock Picking LSD Recipes Money Making Scams M-80's New Identities Occult Payphones (Free Calls, Jackpotting) Radar Jamming Techniques Revenge Tactics Sabotage on Automobiles Secret Radio Frequency Lists Smoke Bombs Spells & Potions Telephone Box Plans Telephone Technology Tutorials UFOs Underground BBSs VooDoo Witchcraft ZOMBIE Potions SO MUCH MORE!!!
The entire contents of this CD is for educational purposes only. The Authors, Publishers and Distri- butors neither approve nor condone the actual use of this information.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
-------------------- I dont like the smell of this.
Are either you or the poster above you paying the slightest attention to what I'm talking about? I know that the Tux icon means stuff having to do with Linux... but a out of context version number does not mean anything next to Tux, because so many different LINUX topics are posted with Tux next to them!
No that is not clear. As you can see by clicking on the linux penguin (or alt message), a wide range of topics are posted with Tux as the icon. Feel free to notice that everything from Opera to new Window Managers get posted with Tux as the logo.
No, not siberia. I come to slashdot for nerd news, not linux news. Believe it or not, I dont use linux. Articles without a topic are confusing even if they are talking about a product that I use often. Would you understand if a post claimed that Version 7 would be coming out next month? Version 7 of what? Who knows?
Comics like User Friendly vent the anger and and despair felt by techies trying to clue the clueless, when the clueless assume that they know what they're doing and they end up making the problem worse. How is this bad?
Well thanks for the most uninformative news post I have ever seen. What on earth are you talking about? Version 2.3.x of what? I can't recognize a project by someone's name that I can't recognize. Grrr...
I agree. We are unwittingly pushing ourselves to be ordinary every day. With ad campaiges(sp?) like The Gap's Everyone in Vests and such, are we really that individualistic? We are given the chance to have options in someone else's inovation.
True individualism is not picking white jeans instead of blue ones. That is a preference. You are not expressing your indviduality by changing the colors, filling in the blanks, or entering your preferences.
However all is not lost. Much individuality exists in the software developement clique, for the reason that new and interesting ways have to be found to accomplish unpredictable tasks. That requires innovation and creativity, which is (what I feel) the biggest part of being an individual.
Why, you ask? Why are we this way? Well, I dont claim to speak for society, but I do have a reason that seems sensible enough to me. We shun whats different. We always have and we always will. It may not exist in everyone, but as whole humans do not like the unpredictable. It is ingrained in us subconsiously, as a feature of self-preservation.
If you know what to expect, then you can prepare, thus resulting in less harm to ones self. When you go hiking, you bring a map, when you go to Mexico, you dont drink the water. Seems like common sense, and it is. You dont want to get lost or have diareah. The problem exists in that we translate this desire to know whats ahead into other facets.
Businesspeople use schedules so that they know what theyre going to be doing and they can prepare. The military wears uniforms, to make it harder to tell one soldier from the next, so you get the same thing with any troop. There are many examples, all lending to the loss of individuality, but the most drastic by far is that we expect everyone to act the same.
If I were to start acting differently, I'd be shunned. More people wouldn't like me than already don't. People wouldn't want to be near me. So I act relatively normal (most of the time). Thus the loss of individuality. This absence of true free will leads to people expressing their individuality in stunts, such as the Berkely student who goes naked to class, or Southpark, or even shooting sprees. All are the result of being forced into conformity by this society.
There are ways around this, thank the heavens. But we all manage to survive. And in the end it doesn't matter. Might makes right, and it also sets the precedents. I'd go on, but this is starting to become offtopic.
Summary: I don't agree with parts of his Manifesto.
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I suggest you also take anatomy. The beer would have to travel through your bowels to get into your brain, since the stomach does not touch any of the lobes or the stem.
The trust-busting laws were used in the turn-of-the-last-century anti-conglomeration effort by then-president Teddy Roosevelt and others of his time. They were established because Joe Schmoe was tired of losing limbs at the Spam factory and dieing at the ripe age of 27 due to improper working conditions. That was when we lost the true captilism that our country was founded on, and that is why our socialist capitalism survived where communism failed.
As for Microsoft, the only trust-busting law they're breaking is that they're kinda sorta forcing their product on consumers.
Aren't you awfully pessimistic?
Hey! I've got some Microsoft stock and its done nothing but go up! Why not own it?
Sounds kind of like _Death of a Salesman_, which, coincidently, I am writing a paper for which is due in exactly 8 hours and 1 minute.
Im not an expert, but that idea sounds scandalous so there may be some SEC law preventing that... but then I'm not sure... I'm basing this only off of common sense and my vague familiarity with the SEC.
Do you have any idea what were talking about?
Were talking about converting TV signal to something to use on the computer... scan lines dont matter, we need a resolution.
NTSC = Never the same color
Well.. lets see:
Is there any such thing as a 5Ghz Athalon? No.
So yes, it does appear to be an actual joke.
I believe standard television translates to 320x240 interlaced... so 640x480 is what you would need to produce TV quality signal from your computer.
No.. I live here and I think thats pretty typical. Just becuase you consider yourself smarter does not mean that you are typical. However, I also believe that the average American plays dumb because it is cooler and more hip to do that...
And, when you think Uruguay, just remember what Homer said: "U R Gay" and he was pointing at South America at the time...
"shis"?
- Problems:
- no accountability
- no reward
- no visible effect
- easy to abuse
- time/benifits ratio too low...
Well those are just my opinions on it. For all I know I could be abnormal...OH YEAH I WON.
Ok I apologize for that and this whole argument... Im just stubborn. I realized my mistake a little while ago but I was arguing from the reason why I made that mistake...
No hard feelings.
Linux Logo ---> Linux kernel, Linux software, Linux GUIs, Linux lawsuits, Linux IPOs...
Got this off their website.. apparently some of the other CDs they sale for $7.95 won't help Linux's reputation...
Anarchist's Cookbook
ATM Machines
Beating Lie Detectors (Polygraphs)
Beginner's Guide to Hacking
Big Book of Mischief
Booby Traps
Bypassing Phone Billing Systems
Cable TV Piracy
Cloning Cellular Phones
Computer Underground Digest (Volumes 1-6)
Credit Card Scams
Drugs & Recipes
Electronics (Modification Files)
Explosives from Common Household Ingredients
Fake IDs
Free Airline Travel
FREEBAGE (Art of Bernsteining)
Fire Works
Get RICH QUICK Scams
Getting Unlisted Phone Numbers
Hacking UNIX Systems
Hacking VAX Systems
Interrogation Tactics
Jackpotting Change Machines
Jolly Roger's Cookbook
Knock-out Drops
Know your Legal Rights
Legal Tips that can save your ASS
Listening Devices
Lock Picking
LSD Recipes
Money Making Scams
M-80's
New Identities
Occult
Payphones (Free Calls, Jackpotting)
Radar Jamming Techniques
Revenge Tactics
Sabotage on Automobiles
Secret Radio Frequency Lists
Smoke Bombs
Spells & Potions
Telephone Box Plans
Telephone Technology Tutorials
UFOs
Underground BBSs
VooDoo
Witchcraft
ZOMBIE Potions
SO MUCH MORE!!!
The entire contents of this CD is for educational
purposes only. The Authors, Publishers and Distri-
butors neither approve nor condone the actual use
of this information.
YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED
--------------------
I dont like the smell of this.
Are either you or the poster above you paying the slightest attention to what I'm talking about? I know that the Tux icon means stuff having to do with Linux... but a out of context version number does not mean anything next to Tux, because so many different LINUX topics are posted with Tux next to them!
Maybe a $5000 dollar PC if you spent $300 on the box and $4700 on the mouse...
No that is not clear. As you can see by clicking on the linux penguin (or alt message), a wide range of topics are posted with Tux as the icon. Feel free to notice that everything from Opera to new Window Managers get posted with Tux as the logo.
No that is not clear. As you can see by clicking on the linux penguin (or alt message), a wide range of topics are posted with Tux as the icon.
No, not siberia. I come to slashdot for nerd news, not linux news. Believe it or not, I dont use linux. Articles without a topic are confusing even if they are talking about a product that I use often. Would you understand if a post claimed that Version 7 would be coming out next month? Version 7 of what? Who knows?
My mistake.
I have to treat slashdot more like the mail. If no country is mentioned on a stamp, it means UK. If no topic is mentioned on a post, it means Linux.
Comics like User Friendly vent the anger and and despair felt by techies trying to clue the clueless, when the clueless assume that they know what they're doing and they end up making the problem worse. How is this bad?
Well thanks for the most uninformative news post I have ever seen. What on earth are you talking about? Version 2.3.x of what? I can't recognize a project by someone's name that I can't recognize. Grrr...
I agree. We are unwittingly pushing ourselves to be ordinary every day. With ad campaiges(sp?) like The Gap's Everyone in Vests and such, are we really that individualistic? We are given the chance to have options in someone else's inovation.
True individualism is not picking white jeans instead of blue ones. That is a preference. You are not expressing your indviduality by changing the colors, filling in the blanks, or entering your preferences.
However all is not lost. Much individuality exists in the software developement clique, for the reason that new and interesting ways have to be found to accomplish unpredictable tasks. That requires innovation and creativity, which is (what I feel) the biggest part of being an individual.
Why, you ask? Why are we this way? Well, I dont claim to speak for society, but I do have a reason that seems sensible enough to me. We shun whats different. We always have and we always will. It may not exist in everyone, but as whole humans do not like the unpredictable. It is ingrained in us subconsiously, as a feature of self-preservation.
If you know what to expect, then you can prepare, thus resulting in less harm to ones self. When you go hiking, you bring a map, when you go to Mexico, you dont drink the water. Seems like common sense, and it is. You dont want to get lost or have diareah. The problem exists in that we translate this desire to know whats ahead into other facets.
Businesspeople use schedules so that they know what theyre going to be doing and they can prepare. The military wears uniforms, to make it harder to tell one soldier from the next, so you get the same thing with any troop. There are many examples, all lending to the loss of individuality, but the most drastic by far is that we expect everyone to act the same.
If I were to start acting differently, I'd be shunned. More people wouldn't like me than already don't. People wouldn't want to be near me. So I act relatively normal (most of the time). Thus the loss of individuality. This absence of true free will leads to people expressing their individuality in stunts, such as the Berkely student who goes naked to class, or Southpark, or even shooting sprees. All are the result of being forced into conformity by this society.
There are ways around this, thank the heavens. But we all manage to survive. And in the end it doesn't matter. Might makes right, and it also sets the precedents. I'd go on, but this is starting to become offtopic.
Summary: I don't agree with parts of his Manifesto.