Bad Karma gets you one way or the other. The greeks called it Erynies for a reason.
It's not that the murderer was a disgruntled web-surfer but probably the victim's agressive pursue of wealth led to shady dealings with people you only want to see on movies...
... so *cachiiiiing* here is your karma paycheck! In your next life you will be a firewall router...
Chomsky's beliefs can be summed up quite simply. USA = bad.
That would rather be:
USA government = bad
and it is not a matter of belief but of fact. He doesn't tell nice feel-good patriotic stories of heroes and scoundrels but presents steel arguments and ice cold facts to make his case.
Do you have any objection to the facts? Can you point to an inaccuracy? Most likely not. Now if his views do not settle right with your feel-good ideas that is a problem you have to deal with...
or is this just another, thinly veiled but convenient, cheap shot at the US?
Not at all. Joe SPs exist allover the globe. I have spent some time of my life talking to people of the above category and the feeling is the same as if talking to a wall. So the conclusion that I've reached is that only when the same problems that I was interested or worried enough to learn about, visit them at their doorstep will their eyes open to them. Until then the usual cliches about "democracy and freedom", "people dying so I can be free", "nobody knocking on my door", "support our troops" do not leave much room for thought or conversation, and frankly I am tired of redefining the world from scratch everytime I have to talk to people like them.
So I admit it I have given up on them. As the ancient saying goes only blood and tears change the world...
Yes, the worst enemy of capitalism is capitalism. What that means is that as MS continues to become less and less paltable, competitors will take their place
If you limit the scope in hi-tech nifty stuff like computers, iPods, etc then you are right. Although one might argue that OSS mentality is diverging from the good old 'profit uber alles' mantra. But if you expand to environmental issues (carcenogenic substances found in infants, Joe SP's infant), welfare (entrenched and diminished by the year), growing social inequality (poor getting poorer), insecurity (financial, social) then you have all the ingredients there.
I am tired talking to Joe SPs about these issues in other countries far away from them. Now they (the Joes) will live these problems in their own country. Sad but true, that is the only way to open their eyes.
I on the other hand, contrary to the basic/. reflexes, welcome this new "feature" along with the others in line brought to us by Corporate America(TM).
First it was paying for products (what's wrong with that, if you want something you should pay for it).
Then it was paying for upgrading/expanding of products (what's wrong with that if you want more of a product you should pay for it).
Then it was paying for every function of a product (what's wrong with that if you want functionality you should pay for it).
Then it was repeatedly paying for product functionality (what's wrong with that if you want multiple uses of functionality you should pay for it you communist!).
Welcome, welcome I say. One day you will have even Joe SP raging in communistic libels agains you and bringing your Corporate America Empire down with a thud!
The worst enemy of capitalism is capitalism. I will just sit back and enjoy they show...
Since when art and science are seperable entities?
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Is Programming Art?
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Free your mind from duality and the dilemma magically disappears!
... but then there will be no article and no lots of feel good fanfare... hmmmmmmmm
the Chinese government is trying to stop a river with pebbles. What happened to the visionary leaders that opened up their market so they won't have the Soviet Union's fate? How long do they think they can buy time before information becomes utterly loose on their "kingdom"?
Damn it folks! You can not stop progress! You can only impede it but never stop it! Get over it! You should either reform or perish! Do the Chinese Party commissars have to take history lessons anymore?
In our city, of the 2 top revenue generating civic agencies, were...
1) the police department
2) the transit system
Well in corporate america I am not sure if there is a thing like a "public" service, at least in the sense that you encounter it in europe. Everybody has to fund-raise. Church, police, schools, everything is a corporate entity and is run by corporate mentality that beats down to:
If it does not profit it should close down.
You of course are right, there are some "public" or public services that should not be profit oriented. But then again this is a conversation we should have 100 years from now when neo-capitalism will be taught in schools in the same class as feudalism...
... for the corporations to arbitrate and exploit (legally) with the backup of politicians and law enforcement agencies.
I knew it that my crazy uncle was right when he said that:
police is there to protect the rich from the poor. Nothing else.
Don't worry uncle I have faith in the system. For each pirate server they shut down, three more will spring out.
On other news today: Software piracy in its last throes. Exclusive interview with Joe Sixpack Pirate. Administrator officials have been regularly holding meetings with pirates...
Ahhhh I got it out of my system! Next thing should be open sourced phone carrier services where real call prevention/blocking of solicitors can be implemented. So in a few years we can all say:
Fuck you 1-888 numbers, and fuck you corrupt politicians for supporting them!
I am not sure what you mean by easy. I upgraded last year or so from RH9 to FC2 using 'yum upgrade' and it went smoothly. I still had to do some cleanup by myself since the upgrade is not aggressive and does not change all of the gazillions of.conf files but that was smooth as well.
My humble suggestion is *not* to upgrade though unless you have too. In a few months FC4 will be obsolete and FC5 will be out and so on and so forth. A recent kernel upgrade that I did (2.6.10-1-771_FC2) broke the ACPI interface on my laptop, so sometimes living on the bleeding edge can be tiresome, especially with your production PCs!
become irrelevant? Cut through the mediator and reclaim the airwaves! Are you sick and tired of corporate TV/radio? Well, broadcast your own without *gasp* ads or commercial breaks.
In the near future mainstream TV/radio/media will be talking to themselves. Grassroots (communist) radio/music here we come...
MS will not die anytime soon, they will at most render themselves irrelevant to the whole computerized world simply because their model does not work anymore. It belongs to the previous century.
Open source (not standards only) is the model that has been working in the scientific community for decades now. I can access any paper I want (maybe with a small fee that my University Institution will pay) and after that I can take their model, replicate it, add on to it, simply do whatever I want, without having to pay anybody a dime. My only obligation is to make sure I cite the reference where my work came from.
In contrast, the Microsoft model states that I have to pay royalties to MS in order to read the paper, I have to pay royalties in order to use the idea, and what is worse: everybody that wants to use my work, has to pay royalties to MS as well. You can imagine where science would be today if that was the case there as well.
So it simply will grow irrelevant, MS will grow irrelevant and out of the picture, unless they find a better more viable way to sustain themselves into the 21st century.
But I liked the spirit of the article. Seeing people ready to rise up and challenge authority, corporate rule and dominance is a promise for the future. Compare that to the apathetic, docile, gullible american public...
in order to promote good hygene practices among the patrons, they will be subjected to mandatory enemas at least once every five(5) visits to the library.
The library staff promises the enema temperature will be in the pleasant range of the body temperatures.
Also, in an effort to fight the war on terror and increase security, all patrons will be required to provide their SSN and a valid bank account number (how do we know you are who you claim you are unless you prove to us that you are, or we prove to you that you are not).
The library staff (again) promises that it will not disclose this information but to the highest bidder.
(I am so glad I come from a country that they still throw Molotov cocktails at the cops and their Riot Control Squads...)
I just received the new product catalog from HP and Windows Media Player Suite is at the "bargain" price of $200.
LOL!!! That gave me a good laugh! Talking about irrelevancy here! Somebody needs to send them xine or mplayer on a 50cent CD with a $1 red ribbon on it. They just do not get it and it will be a while since they do, but it will be too late.
Insulting the intelligence of the population with the FUD campaign won't cut it either!
Go Brazil! Europe and Asia are following suite sooner or later!
... then it is definitely a trait I'd like to have. Being excluded from one of the most murderous and trigger-happy armies in the world is something I'd like to put in my CV...
Yeah, by the way I didn't make it to Murder Inc. last year (please hire me now)...
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Bad Karma gets you one way or the other. The greeks called it Erynies for a reason.
... so *cachiiiiing* here is your karma paycheck! In your next life you will be a firewall router...
It's not that the murderer was a disgruntled web-surfer but probably the victim's agressive pursue of wealth led to shady dealings with people you only want to see on movies...
Chomsky's beliefs can be summed up quite simply. USA = bad.
That would rather be:
USA government = bad
and it is not a matter of belief but of fact. He doesn't tell nice feel-good patriotic stories of heroes and scoundrels but presents steel arguments and ice cold facts to make his case.
Do you have any objection to the facts? Can you point to an inaccuracy? Most likely not. Now if his views do not settle right with your feel-good ideas that is a problem you have to deal with...
Be afraid. Be very afraid. Be British and very very very very very afraid:
Noam Chomsky
The western world is in its worst decadence since the Medieval times...
You don't have to be a Cisco rep to be part of the Cisco PR effort :-)
:-)
Since when exposing a PR stunt is considered negative comment?
Why did you post a reponse anonymously?
Big hug and kisses!
two spelling mistakes in one simple post. Ts ts ts ts ts ts ts ts!
Here *kneeling down and extending the neck*. I surrender to the grammar nazis. Please be swift and painless...
how wonderfully clandestine public PR industry operatations are nowdays:
For more information on CDP, visit http://cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk648/tk362/tk100/tec
Hmmmmmmmm... and the
or is this just another, thinly veiled but convenient, cheap shot at the US?
Not at all. Joe SPs exist allover the globe. I have spent some time of my life talking to people of the above category and the feeling is the same as if talking to a wall. So the conclusion that I've reached is that only when the same problems that I was interested or worried enough to learn about, visit them at their doorstep will their eyes open to them. Until then the usual cliches about "democracy and freedom", "people dying so I can be free", "nobody knocking on my door", "support our troops" do not leave much room for thought or conversation, and frankly I am tired of redefining the world from scratch everytime I have to talk to people like them.
So I admit it I have given up on them. As the ancient saying goes only blood and tears change the world...
Yes, the worst enemy of capitalism is capitalism. What that means is that as MS continues to become less and less paltable, competitors will take their place
If you limit the scope in hi-tech nifty stuff like computers, iPods, etc then you are right. Although one might argue that OSS mentality is diverging from the good old 'profit uber alles' mantra. But if you expand to environmental issues (carcenogenic substances found in infants, Joe SP's infant), welfare (entrenched and diminished by the year), growing social inequality (poor getting poorer), insecurity (financial, social) then you have all the ingredients there.
I am tired talking to Joe SPs about these issues in other countries far away from them. Now they (the Joes) will live these problems in their own country. Sad but true, that is the only way to open their eyes.
I on the other hand, contrary to the basic /. reflexes, welcome this new "feature" along with the others in line brought to us by Corporate America(TM).
First it was paying for products (what's wrong with that, if you want something you should pay for it).
Then it was paying for upgrading/expanding of products (what's wrong with that if you want more of a product you should pay for it).
Then it was paying for every function of a product (what's wrong with that if you want functionality you should pay for it).
Then it was repeatedly paying for product functionality (what's wrong with that if you want multiple uses of functionality you should pay for it you communist!).
Welcome, welcome I say. One day you will have even Joe SP raging in communistic libels agains you and bringing your Corporate America Empire down with a thud!
The worst enemy of capitalism is capitalism. I will just sit back and enjoy they show...
Free your mind from duality and the dilemma magically disappears!
... but then there will be no article and no lots of feel good fanfare ... hmmmmmmmm
the Chinese government is trying to stop a river with pebbles. What happened to the visionary leaders that opened up their market so they won't have the Soviet Union's fate? How long do they think they can buy time before information becomes utterly loose on their "kingdom"?
Damn it folks! You can not stop progress! You can only impede it but never stop it! Get over it! You should either reform or perish! Do the Chinese Party commissars have to take history lessons anymore?
In our city, of the 2 top revenue generating civic agencies, were... 1) the police department 2) the transit system
Well in corporate america I am not sure if there is a thing like a "public" service, at least in the sense that you encounter it in europe. Everybody has to fund-raise. Church, police, schools, everything is a corporate entity and is run by corporate mentality that beats down to:
If it does not profit it should close down.
You of course are right, there are some "public" or public services that should not be profit oriented. But then again this is a conversation we should have 100 years from now when neo-capitalism will be taught in schools in the same class as feudalism...
... for the corporations to arbitrate and exploit (legally) with the backup of politicians and law enforcement agencies.
I knew it that my crazy uncle was right when he said that:
police is there to protect the rich from the poor. Nothing else.
Don't worry uncle I have faith in the system. For each pirate server they shut down, three more will spring out.
On other news today: Software piracy in its last throes. Exclusive interview with Joe Sixpack Pirate. Administrator officials have been regularly holding meetings with pirates...
Sorry couldn't resist! :-)
Also the obligatory:
At first they ignore you, then they mock you, then they fight you, and then you win. (Ghandi)
is in order as well.
Do you think the fact that according to separate sources it is mid-summer right now in Florida, has anything to do with the risk factor being reduced?
Fuck you doubleclick!
Ahhhh I got it out of my system! Next thing should be open sourced phone carrier services where real call prevention/blocking of solicitors can be implemented. So in a few years we can all say:
Fuck you 1-888 numbers, and fuck you corrupt politicians for supporting them!
Sorry, I needed this therapy...
I am not sure what you mean by easy. I upgraded last year or so from RH9 to FC2 using 'yum upgrade' and it went smoothly. I still had to do some cleanup by myself since the upgrade is not aggressive and does not change all of the gazillions of .conf files but that was smooth as well.
My humble suggestion is *not* to upgrade though unless you have too. In a few months FC4 will be obsolete and FC5 will be out and so on and so forth. A recent kernel upgrade that I did (2.6.10-1-771_FC2) broke the ACPI interface on my laptop, so sometimes living on the bleeding edge can be tiresome, especially with your production PCs!
become irrelevant? Cut through the mediator and reclaim the airwaves! Are you sick and tired of corporate TV/radio? Well, broadcast your own without *gasp* ads or commercial breaks.
In the near future mainstream TV/radio/media will be talking to themselves. Grassroots (communist) radio/music here we come...
MS will not die anytime soon, they will at most render themselves irrelevant to the whole computerized world simply because their model does not work anymore. It belongs to the previous century.
Open source (not standards only) is the model that has been working in the scientific community for decades now. I can access any paper I want (maybe with a small fee that my University Institution will pay) and after that I can take their model, replicate it, add on to it, simply do whatever I want, without having to pay anybody a dime. My only obligation is to make sure I cite the reference where my work came from.
In contrast, the Microsoft model states that I have to pay royalties to MS in order to read the paper, I have to pay royalties in order to use the idea, and what is worse: everybody that wants to use my work, has to pay royalties to MS as well. You can imagine where science would be today if that was the case there as well.
So it simply will grow irrelevant, MS will grow irrelevant and out of the picture, unless they find a better more viable way to sustain themselves into the 21st century.
But I liked the spirit of the article. Seeing people ready to rise up and challenge authority, corporate rule and dominance is a promise for the future. Compare that to the apathetic, docile, gullible american public...
Another great example is Messenger, the chat program not the service. Microsoft has made it nearly impossible to get rid of
Have you tried: Run-> RunDLL32 advpack.dll, LaunchINFSection %windir%\INF\msmsgs.inf,BLC.Remove
it appears to have worked for me...
in order to promote good hygene practices among the patrons, they will be subjected to mandatory enemas at least once every five(5) visits to the library.
The library staff promises the enema temperature will be in the pleasant range of the body temperatures.
Also, in an effort to fight the war on terror and increase security, all patrons will be required to provide their SSN and a valid bank account number (how do we know you are who you claim you are unless you prove to us that you are, or we prove to you that you are not).
The library staff (again) promises that it will not disclose this information but to the highest bidder.
(I am so glad I come from a country that they still throw Molotov cocktails at the cops and their Riot Control Squads...)
a day to blank it and another day to backup your hard disk on it?
What is the speed input/ouput? That is the most relevant factor!
Mods for you! Somebody mod parent up as interesting! Yo! Moderator blockheads! Here!
I just received the new product catalog from HP and Windows Media Player Suite is at the "bargain" price of $200.
LOL!!! That gave me a good laugh! Talking about irrelevancy here! Somebody needs to send them xine or mplayer on a 50cent CD with a $1 red ribbon on it. They just do not get it and it will be a while since they do, but it will be too late.
Insulting the intelligence of the population with the FUD campaign won't cut it either!
Go Brazil! Europe and Asia are following suite sooner or later!
... then it is definitely a trait I'd like to have. Being excluded from one of the most murderous and trigger-happy armies in the world is something I'd like to put in my CV...
Yeah, by the way I didn't make it to Murder Inc. last year (please hire me now)...