I know a man that burned his US Marines uniform when he came back from Viet Nam. I was never a Marine, I was never in Viet Nam. I wouldn't dare speculate on this for a second, nonetheless it's a pretty powerful action for any member of the armed services to perform. I know a lot of Veterans and for the most part I've found them to have similar stories, except Viet Nam vets. They have a different attitude towards their war then other Vets do. In fact if you want to find some people with a deep hatred for their government's actions.....
You should always support and give thanks to those soldiers who are willing to risk their lives in your defense. In return you should be ready to hang from the trees anyone that would risk the lives of those soldiers needlessly.
It's really a simple promise. "I'll die for my nation and any member of it, just don't make me die for something less"
Why is ANY critisism of the government "unpatriotic" do you have any idea what "patriotic" means? (Rhetorical question you obviously do not)
Being a 4th generation american let me step up for the rest of us and clue you in:
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
--Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
Ever heard "Freedom isn't Free" The United States of America is better then every other nation so long as each and every citizen does their part to keep the government in check. If you don't believe me, read the constitution it shouldn't take very long for you to get the theme of the document. The duty of every citizen is to watch the government like a child trying to get away with something.
If you accept everything your government tells you as gospel, you become the trailer park woman on Jerry Springer who believes everything her derelict 13 year old drug addicted car thief son tells her. "And I did axe him, I taid Timmy, where'd you get dat Merchedes Benz? And he did tell me dat he had done founded it." Just like being a parent you need to be in your kid's (government's) face 24-7. It's your duty to, it's your job and responsability to cry foul. Living in the US you get all these great rights and responsabilities, but they aren't a gift. You have a job to do in exchange for them.
I'm reminded as well of Lewis Black's comentary where he adds "Ever here people say 'America is the GREATEST country in the world', but they've never been to another country? How do you know? How do you know for sure that there isn't something better out there? For all you know there are countries out there just giving stuff away for free, like HEALTHCARE!"
Yeah if you think the US has gone downhill, or if there's just one thing or two that another country does better, it isn't the US government that's been slackin' IT'S YOU!
For Engineers the treatment was prompt, for the inhabbitants they pulled an "EPA in NYC after 9/11."
They didn't evacuate the area, and assured people that all was well. After a week THEN they evacutaed everyone. I don't think the locals received the same top notch treatment.
I got lost once on my way to visit a friend. I was driving and driving for hours. I cam to an intersection the didn't appear on my map. I decided to make a left and viola, there I was right on Main Street in Wallah Wallah Washington only 2 blocks from my friend's house.
How was that? Thanks to all for the English lesson. (My stretch to cover my error -see below)
Meaning of WALLAH
Pronunciation: 'wâlâ
WordNet Dictionary
Definition: [n] (India) usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing; "a kitchen wallah"; "the book wallah"
See Also: worker
Like Microsoft, that other company going patent crazy? Oh wait, they're not going out of business.
Maybe these are just the product of one IP lawyer to many. Perhaps they have a staff of 30 IP lawyers and they really only need 26. 4 guys are sitting around going "We're going to be fired, we have to invent some work" but maybe they're lazy. Wallah- patent some prior art and look like the almost hero. If they pull it off they may be up for a promotion, or a free gameboy...
The USPTO issues Patents NOT based on common sense (see above) but based on whether or not a patent for that exists. For example I submitted a patent for "scooting down stairs on your rear end, while making a 'budump' sound" While that is of course completely moronic, I'm sure I'll be issued a patent for it. Did I invent it? NO. But no one else is on record as inventing it so guess what, I OWN IT. Muwhahahahaha
My hope is that if enough ridiculous patents are issued (I'm reminded of the guy that patented "swinging on a porch swing sideways" and "swinging on a porch swing sideways while making 'tarzan' sounds") they may revamp how the patent process works.
Oh yeah I also submitted a patent for spinning in an office chair, don't be jealous...
Microsoft should have an auto-update during install feature. (If you have broadband). During the install process it could run the windows update, blah blah blah once your nic was initialized for the first time and IP granted etc.
No, not really. I've learned to believe nothing in an SEC filing. If they're not claiming that they made $40 billion this quarter, they're claiming that their corporation is really a charity.
BOW to your corporate masters.
Disclaimer: I recently started an insurance company, I guess I'm "The Man" now. I'm going to have to get started with my "Holdin people down" and what not...
I wonder if anyone's selling CDs of it on e-bay...
Hmmmm.
My torrent file came with SP2 + Loads of free viruses, and a text file letting me know that I've be "0wn3d!!!" When did Microsoft add "l33+ |-|/-\x0rz" to their logo?:-)
was in part due to one man's sense of Adventure. Magellan, Columbus, Deep Sea explorers etc.
Granted these also have the motivation of riches, and possibly exterminating a civilization, and several speces of what have you. Still none the less, there is some ADVENTURE mixed in there.
We may find that outer planets have the cures to cancer that our rainforests held before we burnt them down. Or a better tasting Red # 5, or something that makes Potassium Benzoate look like Soy Lecithin. Think of the possabilities. Just the pet industry alone would boom should we find some small gremlin like creature.
Many argue that we should take care of the people on Earth before we spend Billions on Space Exploration, the truth of the matter is that Space Exploration is a HUGE Public Works Project (sort of, same idea, kind of.) The fortune 100 company(s) that get these contracts, sub contract out to little "ma and pop" machine shops that employ thousands of people, many in Middle America's poor towns. Benefitting the economy is nice. Me like. 2 Trillion dollars to visit a rock sounds pretty useless but a pitence of that does trickle down to Daryl, and his other brother Daryl.
Back in the day Cave men banged rocks together and sent smoke signals, figuring alien life would look for that, as they did when trying to locate someone.
Why would Aliens use radio waves? My guess is that they would use some ridiculous HD holographic signal which allows our 5 sense (+their 3?) to be triggered by these images.
And off on this planet somewhere there is an argument as to wether or not they should use some type of more primative means of communication. Those in charge point out that any civilization using a more primative means of communication would not be worth finding. (A planet of caddle for example).
Thinking of how old we estimate the Universe to be, smart money says we are not the most advanced speces ever.
READ Macroscope be Piers Anthony. It's a good book, and I'm to lazy to bring up any of the good points made by his book. -thanks
Your average *nix user is going to be (most likely in my experience) in the upper echelon of all windows users. These people are the ones that are willing to learn, and use a new OS.
BACK to the Mac question, hmmm I guess mac users are smarter. My mom and sis have macs, they have no idea how to use a PC or a mac for that matter. They do however have no problems using their macs to do whatever task they want. Ask them to open a terminal, or go to their home directory, and they're lost. They know how to play with digital photos, burn CDs and check their e-mail. As long as they can do that they are happy. With their macs they have no pop-ups and I never have to provide free tech support. Maybe I'm the smart one for telling them to buy macs....
What you are asking is are *nix users smarter then Windows users.
By average YES. For example we all have friends and fam with an XP box so infested with malware that they can't even open IE to the page they want. That is your average Windows user.
Your average *nix user is probably closer to the *nix newbie then the power admin. That being said, your *nix newbie is "*nix user" because of their understanding of windows.
Therefor (most) *nix users are going to be very knowledgable Windows users, thus the switch. Therefor, any *nix user is going to be "smarter" then your average Windows user, plus they would appear to be a little more open minded and willing to learn something new, where your average Windows user just "wants it to work" and has no interest in "how it works".
How about we have a/. pool, with Price is Right Rules.
Here'show it works:
You predict the next security flaw,exploit etc etc etc and what product it will hit. Apache buffer overflow (smart money says don't pick that one), Word vulernability etc. This could be cool.
I was a "Network Associate" for a broadband ISP, after I left the company (they done me wrong!)my old buddies saw no reason for me to have to start paying. After all, I had done a lot for the company and they really didn't do the right thing by me.
So through the netadmins, and some other contacts of ours, I get free Broadband.
Odder still is that many ISPs won't support Mozilla/Firefox etc.
For example, I used to work for Cablevision's Optimumonline service. I would sit in meetings and go on and on about how we should support, even lightly suggest our customers use Mozilla. One of the biggest avoidable call drivers in our Call Centers was people complaining of pop-ups. Another large driver was Spam. Mozilla is a great tool for handling both of those problems.
The Higher Ups weren't interested in my ramblings. They would point out that we support IE, Netscape, Outlook Express and Outlook. They eventually came around and offered support of Safari but on a very limited basis (not that it needs anything more).
The biggest problem that most ISPs face is uneducated consumers. Their machines get hijacked and in turn Spam the World, which causes other users to complain and blame the company. These machines also eat up Network resources, again causing other users to complain and blame the service. Don't forget the users that click on EVRERY pop-up that comes their way, thereby infesting their machine with spy-ware to the point that even opening IE is near impossible. Again, this is blamed on the service.
Granted the Mozilla fam aren't really out of the "beta" fase, but I see less Firefox, and Mozilla fixes then there are for IE. Being that Netscape and Mozilla are half-siblings (in a sense) why not support it? It's not like the support staff needs to be re-trained.
People don't care what browser they use, they want one that is intuitive, free, and functional to their needs. I think the Mozilla branch does that. With firefox 9.1 out today, why are people still using IE? Better yet, why aren't ISPs telling people NOT to use IE? It would save them a fortune and a company not looking to save a fortune..... should be investigated!
This is so much better a diet then my last two ideas.
Human Growth Hormone
Ingest a Tapeworm
The human growth hormone was reall an idea to speed up your metabolism to what it was like when your body released lots of it into your blood. (Think 17 year old). You eat cake for breakfast and don't gain weight no matter what you do. Unfortunetly it doesn't really work, and their are nasty side effects. - Go figure.
As for the Tapeworm diet -I know what you're thinking, "He's Brilliant!". I could bottle tapeworms in a little jar and sell them for $19.95 each. It's the only diet where you can eat whatever you want, and still loose wait. - Again pretty ugly side effects.
This however seems to be spot on. Super muscles for nothing. This is so marketable to Americans it's not funny. Hell I'd love this sh!t. I'm always complaining that I need to go to the Gym. With some gene therapy I could continue to be lazy, yet still have the benefit of walking around saying "Yo, I'm jacked!!!"
This is only going to cause Sony to scramble their plans for PS3. Microsoft is trying to force Sony to rush their product and thereby not include all the features that they had planned on.
What is interesting is wether or not Sony will bite. Good poker game developing here.
If Sony bites then - advantage Xbox for now it is competing with PS2.75 not PS3. We will see games for "PS3 and Xbox2, and PC CD-rom" Xbox will maintain it's slight edge in the graphics department (maybe) and it continues the status quo.
The alternative- Sony doesn't bite and Xbox2 has only a few games written for it and developers refuse to adopt it (as most of the IT industry does when MS comes out with a new product). We continue to see games written for "PS2, Xbox, and PC CD-rom".
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You should always support and give thanks to those soldiers who are willing to risk their lives in your defense. In return you should be ready to hang from the trees anyone that would risk the lives of those soldiers needlessly.
It's really a simple promise. "I'll die for my nation and any member of it, just don't make me die for something less"
Being a 4th generation american let me step up for the rest of us and clue you in:
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia, Query 14, 1781
If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Colonel Charles Yancey, January 6, 1816
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. --Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
Ever heard "Freedom isn't Free" The United States of America is better then every other nation so long as each and every citizen does their part to keep the government in check. If you don't believe me, read the constitution it shouldn't take very long for you to get the theme of the document. The duty of every citizen is to watch the government like a child trying to get away with something.
If you accept everything your government tells you as gospel, you become the trailer park woman on Jerry Springer who believes everything her derelict 13 year old drug addicted car thief son tells her. "And I did axe him, I taid Timmy, where'd you get dat Merchedes Benz? And he did tell me dat he had done founded it." Just like being a parent you need to be in your kid's (government's) face 24-7. It's your duty to, it's your job and responsability to cry foul. Living in the US you get all these great rights and responsabilities, but they aren't a gift. You have a job to do in exchange for them.
I'm reminded as well of Lewis Black's comentary where he adds "Ever here people say 'America is the GREATEST country in the world', but they've never been to another country? How do you know? How do you know for sure that there isn't something better out there? For all you know there are countries out there just giving stuff away for free, like HEALTHCARE!"
Yeah if you think the US has gone downhill, or if there's just one thing or two that another country does better, it isn't the US government that's been slackin' IT'S YOU!
That concludes how to be American 101.
For Engineers the treatment was prompt, for the inhabbitants they pulled an "EPA in NYC after 9/11." They didn't evacuate the area, and assured people that all was well. After a week THEN they evacutaed everyone. I don't think the locals received the same top notch treatment.
How was that? Thanks to all for the English lesson. (My stretch to cover my error -see below)
Meaning of WALLAH Pronunciation: 'wâlâ WordNet Dictionary Definition: [n] (India) usually in combination: person in charge of or employed at a particular thing; "a kitchen wallah"; "the book wallah" See Also: worker
Maybe these are just the product of one IP lawyer to many. Perhaps they have a staff of 30 IP lawyers and they really only need 26. 4 guys are sitting around going "We're going to be fired, we have to invent some work" but maybe they're lazy. Wallah- patent some prior art and look like the almost hero. If they pull it off they may be up for a promotion, or a free gameboy...
My hope is that if enough ridiculous patents are issued (I'm reminded of the guy that patented "swinging on a porch swing sideways" and "swinging on a porch swing sideways while making 'tarzan' sounds") they may revamp how the patent process works.
Oh yeah I also submitted a patent for spinning in an office chair, don't be jealous...
Microsoft should have an auto-update during install feature. (If you have broadband). During the install process it could run the windows update, blah blah blah once your nic was initialized for the first time and IP granted etc.
Everyone knows that they aren't bugs, they're features!
No, not really. I've learned to believe nothing in an SEC filing. If they're not claiming that they made $40 billion this quarter, they're claiming that their corporation is really a charity.
BOW to your corporate masters.
Disclaimer: I recently started an insurance company, I guess I'm "The Man" now. I'm going to have to get started with my "Holdin people down" and what not...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=115490&cid=978 2852
My html no is good.
Hmmmm.
My torrent file came with SP2 + Loads of free viruses, and a text file letting me know that I've be "0wn3d!!!" When did Microsoft add "l33+ |-|/-\x0rz" to their logo? :-)
Granted these also have the motivation of riches, and possibly exterminating a civilization, and several speces of what have you. Still none the less, there is some ADVENTURE mixed in there.
We may find that outer planets have the cures to cancer that our rainforests held before we burnt them down. Or a better tasting Red # 5, or something that makes Potassium Benzoate look like Soy Lecithin. Think of the possabilities. Just the pet industry alone would boom should we find some small gremlin like creature.
Many argue that we should take care of the people on Earth before we spend Billions on Space Exploration, the truth of the matter is that Space Exploration is a HUGE Public Works Project (sort of, same idea, kind of.) The fortune 100 company(s) that get these contracts, sub contract out to little "ma and pop" machine shops that employ thousands of people, many in Middle America's poor towns. Benefitting the economy is nice. Me like. 2 Trillion dollars to visit a rock sounds pretty useless but a pitence of that does trickle down to Daryl, and his other brother Daryl.
OK it's been a long day, go ahead make fun.
Mods: Que -1 for god awful spelling....
Also, I meant "Macroscope BY Piers Anthony", wow it really has been a long day. OHHHHH there's a PREVIEW button.........
Why would Aliens use radio waves? My guess is that they would use some ridiculous HD holographic signal which allows our 5 sense (+their 3?) to be triggered by these images.
And off on this planet somewhere there is an argument as to wether or not they should use some type of more primative means of communication. Those in charge point out that any civilization using a more primative means of communication would not be worth finding. (A planet of caddle for example).
Thinking of how old we estimate the Universe to be, smart money says we are not the most advanced speces ever.
READ Macroscope be Piers Anthony. It's a good book, and I'm to lazy to bring up any of the good points made by his book. -thanks
Your average *nix user is going to be (most likely in my experience) in the upper echelon of all windows users. These people are the ones that are willing to learn, and use a new OS.
BACK to the Mac question, hmmm I guess mac users are smarter. My mom and sis have macs, they have no idea how to use a PC or a mac for that matter. They do however have no problems using their macs to do whatever task they want. Ask them to open a terminal, or go to their home directory, and they're lost. They know how to play with digital photos, burn CDs and check their e-mail. As long as they can do that they are happy. With their macs they have no pop-ups and I never have to provide free tech support. Maybe I'm the smart one for telling them to buy macs....
Hmmmmmmmm
By average YES. For example we all have friends and fam with an XP box so infested with malware that they can't even open IE to the page they want. That is your average Windows user.
Your average *nix user is probably closer to the *nix newbie then the power admin. That being said, your *nix newbie is "*nix user" because of their understanding of windows.
Therefor (most) *nix users are going to be very knowledgable Windows users, thus the switch. Therefor, any *nix user is going to be "smarter" then your average Windows user, plus they would appear to be a little more open minded and willing to learn something new, where your average Windows user just "wants it to work" and has no interest in "how it works".
If only it was announced tomorrow, I would have won both showcases!!!!!!
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=114272&cid=9 681659
Appologies, my html skills no work good. :-)
Here'show it works:
You predict the next security flaw,exploit etc etc etc and what product it will hit. Apache buffer overflow (smart money says don't pick that one), Word vulernability etc. This could be cool.
Dibs on Wednesday IE exploit.
So through the netadmins, and some other contacts of ours, I get free Broadband.
:-)
Here and I thought those sounds were from the 4th of July fireworks......
For example, I used to work for Cablevision's Optimumonline service. I would sit in meetings and go on and on about how we should support, even lightly suggest our customers use Mozilla. One of the biggest avoidable call drivers in our Call Centers was people complaining of pop-ups. Another large driver was Spam. Mozilla is a great tool for handling both of those problems.
The Higher Ups weren't interested in my ramblings. They would point out that we support IE, Netscape, Outlook Express and Outlook. They eventually came around and offered support of Safari but on a very limited basis (not that it needs anything more).
The biggest problem that most ISPs face is uneducated consumers. Their machines get hijacked and in turn Spam the World, which causes other users to complain and blame the company. These machines also eat up Network resources, again causing other users to complain and blame the service. Don't forget the users that click on EVRERY pop-up that comes their way, thereby infesting their machine with spy-ware to the point that even opening IE is near impossible. Again, this is blamed on the service.
Granted the Mozilla fam aren't really out of the "beta" fase, but I see less Firefox, and Mozilla fixes then there are for IE. Being that Netscape and Mozilla are half-siblings (in a sense) why not support it? It's not like the support staff needs to be re-trained.
People don't care what browser they use, they want one that is intuitive, free, and functional to their needs. I think the Mozilla branch does that. With firefox 9.1 out today, why are people still using IE? Better yet, why aren't ISPs telling people NOT to use IE? It would save them a fortune and a company not looking to save a fortune..... should be investigated!
http://sportsbybrooks.com/ramonachorleu.html
but excited none the less.
Human Growth Hormone
Ingest a Tapeworm
The human growth hormone was reall an idea to speed up your metabolism to what it was like when your body released lots of it into your blood. (Think 17 year old). You eat cake for breakfast and don't gain weight no matter what you do. Unfortunetly it doesn't really work, and their are nasty side effects. - Go figure.
As for the Tapeworm diet -I know what you're thinking, "He's Brilliant!". I could bottle tapeworms in a little jar and sell them for $19.95 each. It's the only diet where you can eat whatever you want, and still loose wait. - Again pretty ugly side effects.
This however seems to be spot on. Super muscles for nothing. This is so marketable to Americans it's not funny. Hell I'd love this sh!t. I'm always complaining that I need to go to the Gym. With some gene therapy I could continue to be lazy, yet still have the benefit of walking around saying "Yo, I'm jacked!!!"
What is interesting is wether or not Sony will bite. Good poker game developing here.
If Sony bites then - advantage Xbox for now it is competing with PS2.75 not PS3. We will see games for "PS3 and Xbox2, and PC CD-rom" Xbox will maintain it's slight edge in the graphics department (maybe) and it continues the status quo.
The alternative- Sony doesn't bite and Xbox2 has only a few games written for it and developers refuse to adopt it (as most of the IT industry does when MS comes out with a new product). We continue to see games written for "PS2, Xbox, and PC CD-rom".