Although I can appreciate your sentiments about standing up for your rights, I think you need to face reality... The American public IS stupid... examples...
Re-electing that bozo
Letting said bozo remain in charge after sending troops to war for non-exisiting WMD's
Letting bozo rush us into war in the first place.. the urgency was ??
And if you want to get into "culure"...
ALF
Harry and the Hendersons
anthing with "puppets" not for edutaining children
any show that's basicly a rip-off of candid camera, which wasn't funny itself
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Charlies Angels
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Dukes of Hazard
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Starsky & Hutch
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Mod Squad
-- (I'll forgive Hillbillies, and Mission Impossible because they were originally good shows)
that's enough, it would be an extremly long post to name all the crap that entertains the American public which is requires the intelligence of a 10 year old. There are "maybe" 3 or 4 shows in a week "kinda" worth watching, and occasionaly a decent couple new movies a year. And to top it off the public overpays the cable and sattelite companys for this stuff... yeah, we be smart.
To me, the more important question is why ?
From what I can make of it from the article..
The information wanted is corespondence to and from Pukke to Baker (the holder of the gmail account) That is all that should be covered in the subpoena. Everything else is fishing for something they might find suspicous.. They are trying to find Pukkes' money, they think Baker has it (I guess) and it's invested in his development company.
First of all, I would think that with the sums of money we are talking, it should be easier than looking at emails to find out if money was transfered. It sounds like they (the lawyers working for the FTC) are trying to find some other evidence of something else, rather than finding the money, which is what they were hired to do. If they have reason to beleive that Baker has done something wrong, well that is unrelated to this case and it should be brought up seperately with new subpoenas. He is a witness in this case not a defendant (at least not until his corespondence with Pukke shows otherwise)
Although I agree with you that our news media is terrible.. ("and the body count is expected to rise.." they love that), I still think that there are "some" cracks where the truth gets in.. (ports deal, Bush aproval ratings) and it can make some difference (deal stopped, Bush the "green advocate" lol)
So maybe it's best not to silence what little we have.
Journalistic ethics are sorely needed. The media in the US touted the party line just for access to the story, and helped create the mess which is Iraq. There was absolutely no reason to rush the invasion, but the media portayed it like we had to act immediately. Time was running out for what ? The only time that was running out was Bushs' deadline, and all attempts by the Iraqis to talk to the Whitehouse at the time were rejected., you would think that might be newsworthy in itself.
So yeah, our media needs a overhaul, but we don't need laws to further restrict the reporting of things contrary to the powers in charge.
If you from one of these countries feel free to correct me if I am wrong.
By law, annual MINIMUM paid vacation (not holidays those are paid too)...
Argentina.... 14 days
Belgium...... 20 days
Bulgaria..... 20 days
Canada....... 14 days
Chech Rep.... 28 days
Estonia...... 28 days
France....... 35 days
Hungary...... 20 days
Ireland...... 28 days
Israel....... 14 days
Latvia....... 28 days
Lithuania.... 28 days
Poland....... 18 days
Spain........ 30 days
US........... 0 days
Generaly the law to qualify is working 6 months (a year in some cases). Starting a new non government job in the US, how long before you get to the Argintine minimum level ?.. 5 years on avg ?
The average american has no idea how much he works in comparison to these other countries.
Although his actions are suspicious, unless the company has some real evidence of what was deleted, I don't see how they have a case. The deleted files could be anything.. It "might" have been his mp3 collection.. it "may" have been his photo's of Aunt May.. who knows ?
A better policy for the company, would have been to periodicly mirror his drive at the office.. at least then they would be able to say.. "see this file is missing.." and there you have your proof of destroying company data. Now, his job may have been collecting information and storing it on the laptop, but the fact that it is not there doesn't prove anything. Perhaps he was just not doing his job, and spending all his time daydreaming about starting his own company.
I can use any vendors install disks to install Windows on my Dell computer ?
Pick a Distro, you will find a way to install whatever program you want into it with whatever package manager you are using.. if not you can probably compile from source..
Whatever distro chosen would then have alot more users.. this demands attention and of course any new program would definately make an installer for that distro (probably already done anyway if a popilar one anyway)
PDF's can actually a better format to send your infornation, particulary if you don't want someone to copy and edit your information, and then pass it off as their own. And it can also avoid mistakes.
I used to get CAD drawings sent to me as PDFs, so that I could manufacture parts. I would end up redrawing them, when a DXF cad file could more easily just be put straight into the machine. This actualy proved safer from a manufacturing standpoint, because many engineers dimensions didn't match what they actually had drawn.. perhaps they wanted to shorten a part, and instead of redrawing it, they just changed the dimension (lazy).. now if I just made the part from their drawing sent straight to the machine it would be wrong, and I would be wrong, because you manufacture "to print", and the drawings dimensions are what count. If you are sent a PDF, there is no manipulatung of dimensions possible, it prints out as it was sent, and that's it. Cad files on the other hand can be wrong, and they can be edited... and then you end up in a "blame-game" as to who messed it up... PDF's much safer.
Re:in other news "target subpoenas pepsi"
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But your not buying a combo deal here.
A better exapmle would be buying the latest game, that works well and has all the bells and wistles running for brand-x video card... Now it "runs" on other cards, but you don't get everything.. nothing wrong with that... unless, there are other cards with all the same features, and the ONLY reason it won't use them is because it is not brand-x. If you purchased such a game you would be similarly upset if you had a spent good money for a good video card and your not getting your full resolution, or surround sound, or "whatever" just because it wasn't brand-x
It's like this.. Every parent knows there is crap on the internet that they don't want their kids to see. So if I were such a parent, then I would either not let my kids on the internet, or I would supervise their online experience.
There is an adult section in many video stores, no one would just let their kid wander into it. Same thing, the internet is not a G-rated babysitter like a Disney movie, and it never will be. Parents should stop complaining, and just not give kids access.. Or push for the creation of an alternate "kids net".. Problem solved.
Have not tried Xubuntu. but XFLD has been around for quite awhile. What is nice about it, is that it is a bootable CD, with an installer for hard drive also.
Before my current computer, I ran a K6-300 built from parts scrounged from the local dump.. long story, but this was a downgrade from what I had before that,, but anyway, it was a computer to use until I could build a new machine, and it was free. I used XFLD for the OS (it's Debian, so I did the apt-get synaptic to make life easier) and was a very happy camper. I now run stock sarge Debian with gnome, but occasionaly I still run the XFLD desktop, which is a little better than stock XFCE because you get a start menu and some other nice apps as well. I am with you about XFCE though, I think it's a great GUI.
The job of a police officer is to enforce the law. Period. Punishment is NOT the job of the police. If someone is speeding, then either give them a ticket for speeding, or a warning if you feel that they have been cooperative enough. To reduce the offence by giving a lesser ticket, is giving a lessor punishment.. Police are not supposed to punish anyone for anything that is the job of the courts. I would be highly suspect of an officers evidence, if he offered a seatbelt ticket in place of speeding. perhaps he just thought you were going fast and pulled you over, knowing he could always "make a deal", or hoping that maybe he would catch you legitmately in the seatbelt violation.. I think better to say no.. just give me the speeding ticket, and see what happens. Might put a little paranoia in him not to show up for court if he thinks you might spill the beans about his "deal" for you.
My uses for Autocad were not so extensive, but I used it at work. At home I bought Turbocad, and liked it much better. I tried like hell to get Turbocad to run through wine, but it was too intertwined with Internet explorer, which I believe is the case with later versions of Autocad. (never tried to get that going with wine, but I think doubtful) Have recently tried Briscad, and found it on par with my Autocad needs, but disclaimer here.. I am not an archetect or an engineer, but to draw simple parts it is more than adequate.
Only 12 percent of the oil The US imports comes from the Mideast.. So the Saudi share must be less than that. What is amazing is that a conflict such as Iraq has affected the price so dramaticly considering this percentage.. and the fact that the oil has not stopped flowing. The original price hikes were insurance do to "possible" stoppages from the conflict.. of course, I guess it's like getting a raise at work, you never want to make less after that. Let's face it, it's going to take some type of serious government price and profit controls to turn back the clock.. and it will be painful to see, but if no one is willing to buy at those prices because they can't make any money, then the producers will have to drop the price.
Good luck seeing this happen in this administration, regardless of the BS of reducing americas "addiction" that Bush spouted off... Sheesh he sounded like he was part of the green party !... I beleive this about as much as I beleive he didn't really know there were no WMD's in Iraq... Bush will let the inevitable happen, inflation is coming.. because it has to, to pay for these increased costs.
I like Niven, especialy the Ringworld books. And yeah possibilties for movies there. I also like Varley.. good movie possibilties. Then there is my Favorite author Greg Bear.. Eon and Eternity.. out"effn"standing SF !
Lets look at 2 things in Eon, and see if they are familiar.. (1.) a virtual computer city outside of the real world where you could live in either reality. (2.) Go to the library to learn something, like how to play the guitar or speak russian, and it is downloaded into your brain.,, What movie made lonnnng after 1985 (when Eon was published) had these things in it ? .. but you know, even though those two things have been "used", there is still an awful ot of AWESOME story left to Eon and the sequel Eternity to cover 2 or 3 movies.
I remeber back in 99, having a long discussion with a co-worker who was convinced that the Euro would be a complete and miserable failure, and lead to riots and wars. It didn't help my side of the argument when the golfers on tour in Europe would not accept Euros as payment. However, things have changed...
Feb 1999 1 US dollar would buy 1.19074 Euros
Feb 2006 1 US dollar will buy 0.839585 Euros
I don't remeber the model numbers, but my dad built a Heathkit computer, which was our first home computer (1976 sounds about right). I think he eventualy got it to whopping 32k memory. I spent many hours entering in basic programs and saving them to the cassete player. This led to an Atari (400) I think, folowed by an 800.. I did several years in the Army, and when I came to stay with him after, he bought an Apple IIC, and then our first computer with a hard drive the Mac. In 1982 it was still rare that people had home computers, and the fact that I had used an Aplle IIc actualy landed me a job. As we led seperate lives, my dad stayed in the Apple camp, and I went the PC route, but the "computer thing" that he started, way back with the Heathkit, was always our bond.
As of a few seconds ago when browsing, Shoutcast had over 12,000 stations.. Live365 says "thousands".. yep, sounds like it's dying.
Now I'll plug a couple favorites.. Streamtuner, and Streamripper for Linux.. And for the Windows guys.. WinAmp with the streamripper plugin. Explore these babys, and tell me if internet (broadcasting not radio) is dead.
I admit I haven't tried GnuCash, but I recently installed sql-ledger. I suppose it "could" be used to managed personal finances, but it would require more accounting knowledge than I currently have.
However, I am not "dissen" sql-ledger. It appears to be a good small buisness accounting program. The reason I looked at it, was the multi-lingual capabilites. which I played with a bit. If I ever get to the point where I can act on some business ideas I have for a startup, I would probably run it with sql-ledger.
Your post modded funny, but one of the reasons Google (and others) have agreed to bend to demands of China is that it is a huge market. To have a cheaper (or free), but nice alternative OS would be very attractive to them, I would think. I know that there is already Red Flag Linux that is specificly targrting China, and I seem to recall that TurboLinux was also heading in that direction. China as a "consumer" country is growing at a very fast rate. The population of China is like 1.3 billion (that's a lot of potential customers)
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yeah, that's it
Re-electing that bozo
Letting said bozo remain in charge after sending troops to war for non-exisiting WMD's
Letting bozo rush us into war in the first place.. the urgency was ??
And if you want to get into "culure"...
ALF
Harry and the Hendersons
anthing with "puppets" not for edutaining children
any show that's basicly a rip-off of candid camera, which wasn't funny itself
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Charlies Angels
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Dukes of Hazard
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Starsky & Hutch
movies made off old TV shows that were not good themselves --- Mod Squad
-- (I'll forgive Hillbillies, and Mission Impossible because they were originally good shows)
that's enough, it would be an extremly long post to name all the crap that entertains the American public which is requires the intelligence of a 10 year old. There are "maybe" 3 or 4 shows in a week "kinda" worth watching, and occasionaly a decent couple new movies a year. And to top it off the public overpays the cable and sattelite companys for this stuff ... yeah, we be smart.
From what I can make of it from the article..
The information wanted is corespondence to and from Pukke to Baker (the holder of the gmail account) That is all that should be covered in the subpoena. Everything else is fishing for something they might find suspicous.. They are trying to find Pukkes' money, they think Baker has it (I guess) and it's invested in his development company.
First of all, I would think that with the sums of money we are talking, it should be easier than looking at emails to find out if money was transfered. It sounds like they (the lawyers working for the FTC) are trying to find some other evidence of something else, rather than finding the money, which is what they were hired to do. If they have reason to beleive that Baker has done something wrong, well that is unrelated to this case and it should be brought up seperately with new subpoenas. He is a witness in this case not a defendant (at least not until his corespondence with Pukke shows otherwise)
So maybe it's best not to silence what little we have.
Journalistic ethics are sorely needed. The media in the US touted the party line just for access to the story, and helped create the mess which is Iraq. There was absolutely no reason to rush the invasion, but the media portayed it like we had to act immediately. Time was running out for what ? The only time that was running out was Bushs' deadline, and all attempts by the Iraqis to talk to the Whitehouse at the time were rejected., you would think that might be newsworthy in itself.
So yeah, our media needs a overhaul, but we don't need laws to further restrict the reporting of things contrary to the powers in charge.
By law, annual MINIMUM paid vacation (not holidays those are paid too)...
Argentina.... 14 days
Belgium...... 20 days
Bulgaria..... 20 days
Canada....... 14 days
Chech Rep.... 28 days
Estonia...... 28 days
France....... 35 days
Hungary...... 20 days
Ireland...... 28 days
Israel....... 14 days
Latvia....... 28 days
Lithuania.... 28 days
Poland....... 18 days
Spain........ 30 days
US........... 0 days
Generaly the law to qualify is working 6 months (a year in some cases). Starting a new non government job in the US, how long before you get to the Argintine minimum level ?.. 5 years on avg ?
The average american has no idea how much he works in comparison to these other countries.
There is no Israel
A better policy for the company, would have been to periodicly mirror his drive at the office.. at least then they would be able to say.. "see this file is missing.." and there you have your proof of destroying company data. Now, his job may have been collecting information and storing it on the laptop, but the fact that it is not there doesn't prove anything. Perhaps he was just not doing his job, and spending all his time daydreaming about starting his own company.
I can use any vendors install disks to install Windows on my Dell computer ?
Pick a Distro, you will find a way to install whatever program you want into it with whatever package manager you are using.. if not you can probably compile from source..
Whatever distro chosen would then have alot more users.. this demands attention and of course any new program would definately make an installer for that distro (probably already done anyway if a popilar one anyway)
Argument doesn't fly to me.
I used to get CAD drawings sent to me as PDFs, so that I could manufacture parts. I would end up redrawing them, when a DXF cad file could more easily just be put straight into the machine. This actualy proved safer from a manufacturing standpoint, because many engineers dimensions didn't match what they actually had drawn.. perhaps they wanted to shorten a part, and instead of redrawing it, they just changed the dimension (lazy).. now if I just made the part from their drawing sent straight to the machine it would be wrong, and I would be wrong, because you manufacture "to print", and the drawings dimensions are what count. If you are sent a PDF, there is no manipulatung of dimensions possible, it prints out as it was sent, and that's it. Cad files on the other hand can be wrong, and they can be edited... and then you end up in a "blame-game" as to who messed it up... PDF's much safer.
A better exapmle would be buying the latest game, that works well and has all the bells and wistles running for brand-x video card... Now it "runs" on other cards, but you don't get everything.. nothing wrong with that... unless, there are other cards with all the same features, and the ONLY reason it won't use them is because it is not brand-x. If you purchased such a game you would be similarly upset if you had a spent good money for a good video card and your not getting your full resolution, or surround sound, or "whatever" just because it wasn't brand-x
There is an adult section in many video stores, no one would just let their kid wander into it. Same thing, the internet is not a G-rated babysitter like a Disney movie, and it never will be. Parents should stop complaining, and just not give kids access.. Or push for the creation of an alternate "kids net".. Problem solved.
I'm shocked that Rush, Oreilly, and Savage haven't jumped on the Turkish movie about Americans stealing organs from Iraqi prisoners... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4700154.s tm
But I guess after soooo many movies where every Arab is a terrorist, I guess turnabout is fair play.
Before my current computer, I ran a K6-300 built from parts scrounged from the local dump.. long story, but this was a downgrade from what I had before that,, but anyway, it was a computer to use until I could build a new machine, and it was free. I used XFLD for the OS (it's Debian, so I did the apt-get synaptic to make life easier) and was a very happy camper. I now run stock sarge Debian with gnome, but occasionaly I still run the XFLD desktop, which is a little better than stock XFCE because you get a start menu and some other nice apps as well. I am with you about XFCE though, I think it's a great GUI.
The job of a police officer is to enforce the law. Period. Punishment is NOT the job of the police. If someone is speeding, then either give them a ticket for speeding, or a warning if you feel that they have been cooperative enough. To reduce the offence by giving a lesser ticket, is giving a lessor punishment.. Police are not supposed to punish anyone for anything that is the job of the courts. I would be highly suspect of an officers evidence, if he offered a seatbelt ticket in place of speeding. perhaps he just thought you were going fast and pulled you over, knowing he could always "make a deal", or hoping that maybe he would catch you legitmately in the seatbelt violation.. I think better to say no.. just give me the speeding ticket, and see what happens. Might put a little paranoia in him not to show up for court if he thinks you might spill the beans about his "deal" for you.
I know.. I tried them in keno.
My uses for Autocad were not so extensive, but I used it at work. At home I bought Turbocad, and liked it much better. I tried like hell to get Turbocad to run through wine, but it was too intertwined with Internet explorer, which I believe is the case with later versions of Autocad. (never tried to get that going with wine, but I think doubtful) Have recently tried Briscad, and found it on par with my Autocad needs, but disclaimer here.. I am not an archetect or an engineer, but to draw simple parts it is more than adequate.
Good luck seeing this happen in this administration, regardless of the BS of reducing americas "addiction" that Bush spouted off... Sheesh he sounded like he was part of the green party !... I beleive this about as much as I beleive he didn't really know there were no WMD's in Iraq... Bush will let the inevitable happen, inflation is coming.. because it has to, to pay for these increased costs.
Lets look at 2 things in Eon, and see if they are familiar.. (1.) a virtual computer city outside of the real world where you could live in either reality. (2.) Go to the library to learn something, like how to play the guitar or speak russian, and it is downloaded into your brain.,, What movie made lonnnng after 1985 (when Eon was published) had these things in it ?
.. but you know, even though those two things have been "used", there is still an awful ot of AWESOME story left to Eon and the sequel Eternity to cover 2 or 3 movies.
Feb 1999 1 US dollar would buy 1.19074 Euros
Feb 2006 1 US dollar will buy 0.839585 Euros
I don't remeber the model numbers, but my dad built a Heathkit computer, which was our first home computer (1976 sounds about right). I think he eventualy got it to whopping 32k memory. I spent many hours entering in basic programs and saving them to the cassete player. This led to an Atari (400) I think, folowed by an 800.. I did several years in the Army, and when I came to stay with him after, he bought an Apple IIC, and then our first computer with a hard drive the Mac. In 1982 it was still rare that people had home computers, and the fact that I had used an Aplle IIc actualy landed me a job. As we led seperate lives, my dad stayed in the Apple camp, and I went the PC route, but the "computer thing" that he started, way back with the Heathkit, was always our bond.
Now I'll plug a couple favorites.. Streamtuner, and Streamripper for Linux.. And for the Windows guys.. WinAmp with the streamripper plugin. Explore these babys, and tell me if internet (broadcasting not radio) is dead.
However, I am not "dissen" sql-ledger. It appears to be a good small buisness accounting program. The reason I looked at it, was the multi-lingual capabilites. which I played with a bit. If I ever get to the point where I can act on some business ideas I have for a startup, I would probably run it with sql-ledger.
That's like 4,000,000,000 garden hoses !
Princess Jehnna: I suppose nothing hurts you.
Conan: Only pain.
Your post modded funny, but one of the reasons Google (and others) have agreed to bend to demands of China is that it is a huge market. To have a cheaper (or free), but nice alternative OS would be very attractive to them, I would think. I know that there is already Red Flag Linux that is specificly targrting China, and I seem to recall that TurboLinux was also heading in that direction. China as a "consumer" country is growing at a very fast rate. The population of China is like 1.3 billion (that's a lot of potential customers)