I'm not saying anything pro-gore, the post isn't to promote anyone.
Bush and Gore both owe their privileged status to oil money. Little Bush's saving moment came when Big George got him fat oil contracts, somehow getting him past big boys like Exxon and Mobil. No string pulling there.
The whole Gore family is owned by Standard Oil. They have been since before Al was even born.
I'm not pushing an agenda, I'm not trying to sway anyone's vote, I'm just worried and wondering. I have a question that I'd really like answered. If you see that as being against your view on drugs, the very fiber of the American family, etc. then you're being WAY too defensive and mising my point.
I'd like to know about the CIA ties. Our privacy is eroding moment to moment. Before we possibly put the White House in control of a CIA wonk, I'd like to know.
Ramesh Ponnuru on the thought of a Gore victory: "Imagine a Birkenstock on your face, forever".
haaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha... Who is Ramesh Ponnuru? That's going at the end of my emails for a while.
They thought that Bush could provide solid, unsullied character to stand up next to Gore and his association with Clinton. Unfortunately for the Republicans, Americans don't really care if their politicians are slime balls.
Well, that's what their line is. I'm not buying it for a second.
I'm not calming down anytime soon, either, we had 8 years of the Reagan puppet, then 4 years of Bush himself running things the CIA way, now we're looking forward to possibly another 4 years of puppetship...
'It's a a bad idea to have people with clear political ties reviewing a system under political scrutiny,'
Let's see.... G.W. Bush has a total of 5 years of political experience... He's been nominated mainly because of his ties to his dad... His dad was the head of the CIA for many years.... Somehow enough strings were pulled to get someone with 5 years of political experience nominated for president... Who could pull those strings?
Has anyone checked on a *gasp* TWO click purchasing patent? Is maybe three-click still up for grabs?
I'm still waiting on my patent for breathing. My edge is that it's an inhale to exhale loop. The rest of you better start listening to REM's "Try Not to Breathe"...
How many times have you heard "I can't find anyone to help you" only to one day discover that management decided to actually spend some money on the hunt and instantly got 20 resumes?
With the burn rate at a lot of companies these days, the key thing is to get by with as few people as possible. Many of us end up doing the jobs of 5 or 6 people, working far too many hours (or refusing to) and "there just isn't anyone out there who is qualified" is always a "valid" reason for getting by with as few people as possible.
I'm not saying this is always the case, but it is definitely a contributor to the whole gestalt.
Theoretically, this would not be an issue with a console anyway. You won't even be able to access a shell without hacking, nevermind rebuild your kernel.
Everyone keeps discussing this box in terms of install and configuration -- it's a CONSOLE, don't worry about it.
Probably the main thing that has kept the current crop of video game manufacturers alive over the years has been their ability to sign key game developers along the way.
What kinds of alliances have you been striking with game development companies, or are you planning on relying on the normal development of PC games for Linux?
When deja took away the newsgroup archives pre-99, I was at first outraged, and then of course I realized that they're a business and not a public resource.
The wealth of human knowledge available in the newsgroup archives is immense and extremely useful on a day-to-day basis. A repository of public newsgroup archives would be a great public resource, and I'd love to see a project that gets shares that knowledge with the world. Hopefully this project will go that way, but I dunno if usenet is included in the 30 terabytes.
Hopefully we can also get these archives without the annoying product links inserted in them.:]
Statistically even, today's youth has a lot of pent up anger. Just check out the medication levels that the educational facilities are pumping into them...
It's really sad when noone sees the relationship between this and the constant barrage of psychologically-defined, targeted marketing that is constantly trying to sell, sell, sell.
Already the complaints about kids being distracted in schools is deafening. The only way this marketing model will work is if it further distracts the students...
You've got to ask yourself how much available memory space you have for retaining important information, and how much of that space is taken up by CocaCola campaigns, McDonald's jingles, etc. Billions and billions of dollars are spent each year in a battle for your memory space.
If you get that info into brains when they're young, it's more likely to remain forever. So kids are having attention deficit problems? Retention deficit problems? Jesus, I wonder why...
Somehow I doubt that Metallica has better lawyers than Harvard. Call me crazy, but I think Harvard Law may have a decent lawyer or two up their sleeve.
I just don't understand why they're pursuing the model. Check out Sonic Net's personalized radio service -- I believe it's essentially the same model as standard radio, where royalties are payed for songs played, but a) it isn't trying to do an end-around on the current music business model and b) it allows you to listen to an amazingly wide variety of music without owning the CDs.
I'm not eager to go back to listening to music I already own while waiting for the buffer to be filled between tracks.
Uh, thank you for ringing in. It is not my decision that they use w2k, it was a voted-upon issue, and management does not yet trust linux on the workstations, generally due to the IDE choices of the developers.
I always have a w2k/nt4 box at my desk, as well as a linux box. Often I have all 3.
Thanks for being judgemental though. It's such a rarity at/. that it's always refreshing to see.
It's happening almost everywhere now, new laws and regulations are being bought left and right.
It's sad, really, when a country isn't out to protect its citizens, but it's corporations. It totally devalues the individual to a point of nonexistence.
Our media is already owned, so we've lost our voice, but when our governments are owned we'll have lost our rights as well.
It's almost funny, 10 years ago we were all worried about what kind of a nuclear world our children would inherit, now we have to wonder if they'll any control over their own lives whatsoever.
Agreed, Exchange is *far* beyond pop3 email. We use it to register all of our dem osoftware downloaders, and their information from the forms they fill out becomes a contact within a public folder accessible to all of the salespeople.
Outlook is the main reason that I need a windows environment available, but we also have some MS DNS servers, an IIS server and all of our hosted sites are connected to MS SQL. It's nice to be able to just fire up a Windows session to use the management tools.
As the administrator for a w2k network, it's very nice to not have to use it myself:]
This is just plain *wrong*. The MPAA is trying SO hard to take advantage of the digital age to take away our rights to record and archive our own media.
We need to beware reasoning like "We want to make sure that [the device] has the ability to provide copy protection, but it doesn't mean all product running into the box won't be able to be copied" -- this kind of vague, "honor system"-based lingo doesn't limit what they can later decide to do with the technology. Once it is in place, they can do whatever they want with it.
Personally, I hate when any box I've got some access to or control of gets hacked.
However, I think that as we approach more and more intrusion on our privacy, especially our computer privacy, it isn't hard to see a Big Brother type situation in our future.
I see this kind of work as our "well-armed militia."
I think it's important that there are tools to take out tracking systems and privacy intrusion devices, just in case they are needed in the future.
It as a false assumption that mobile phones exist so that their users could be available 24/7. This might be because previously mobile phones were only affordable for those who really needed them such as businessmen, people on call etc.
In your point of view, this may be a false assumption. To me, it is the reason I don't have one. Yes, I can turn it off, but I don't want to have to deal with people (family, friends, mainly bosses) saying, "I called you 20 times. Stop turning off your phone."
I personally feel no need for one. I represent a lot of people who don't want one for the same reasons. If I'm not at home or at the office, I don't want a phone ringing. It's that simple.
This isn't an assumption, this isn't me talking people out of getting phones, this is a personal opinion.
How about people who *don't* need to be in contact 24/7? How many bazillions of dollars are they going to spend on marketing to alter the ways these people think?
They're getting into serious social engineering to sell possibly cancer-causing technology. Which, to me, is about as evil as evil gets. Not quite record-exec evil, but that's just because I'm a musician.
The other day on NPR they actually stated "A major problem with Osteoporosis was recently discovered... not by doctors, but by economists."
Doctors have been stating for over a decade now that osteoporosis is a *major* health issue in this country, but noone (read: the insurance companies) listens until it affects the bottom line.
Health doesn't matter. Mental health doesn't matter. All that matters is the bottom line.
Repeat after me:
"The economy, of course, is of utmost importance."
I have set up countless linux boxes in the last 5 years, and have yet to get a box to print to a network print server.
Granted, it hasn't been something I've spent a lot of time on, but I have an office full of Windows machines printing to a Windows print server (running HP jetdirect, as a matter of fact), but none of the linux boxes print to the thing.
The ability to add network printers quickly and easily is still lacking in both gnome and KDE... Perhaps this is why HP isn't eager to support linux?
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I'm not saying anything pro-gore, the post isn't to promote anyone.
Bush and Gore both owe their privileged status to oil money. Little Bush's saving moment came when Big George got him fat oil contracts, somehow getting him past big boys like Exxon and Mobil. No string pulling there.
The whole Gore family is owned by Standard Oil. They have been since before Al was even born.
I'm not pushing an agenda, I'm not trying to sway anyone's vote, I'm just worried and wondering. I have a question that I'd really like answered. If you see that as being against your view on drugs, the very fiber of the American family, etc. then you're being WAY too defensive and mising my point.
I'd like to know about the CIA ties. Our privacy is eroding moment to moment. Before we possibly put the White House in control of a CIA wonk, I'd like to know.
Ramesh Ponnuru on the thought of a Gore victory: "Imagine a Birkenstock on your face, forever".
haaaaaaaaaahahahahahaha... Who is Ramesh Ponnuru? That's going at the end of my emails for a while.
They thought that Bush could provide solid, unsullied character to stand up next to Gore and his association with Clinton. Unfortunately for the Republicans, Americans don't really care if their politicians are slime balls.
Well, that's what their line is. I'm not buying it for a second.
I'm not calming down anytime soon, either, we had 8 years of the Reagan puppet, then 4 years of Bush himself running things the CIA way, now we're looking forward to possibly another 4 years of puppetship...
That comment then went on to Bush's involvement in the CIA.
:]
Yeah, he was in the CIA, but somehow the whole Iran-Contra thing made it past him...
...in this election season...
'It's a a bad idea to have people with clear political ties reviewing a system under political scrutiny,'
Let's see.... G.W. Bush has a total of 5 years of political experience... He's been nominated mainly because of his ties to his dad... His dad was the head of the CIA for many years.... Somehow enough strings were pulled to get someone with 5 years of political experience nominated for president... Who could pull those strings?
Why isn't ANYONE talking about G.W.'s CIA ties?
Has anyone checked on a *gasp* TWO click purchasing patent? Is maybe three-click still up for grabs?
I'm still waiting on my patent for breathing. My edge is that it's an inhale to exhale loop. The rest of you better start listening to REM's "Try Not to Breathe"...
How many times have you heard "I can't find anyone to help you" only to one day discover that management decided to actually spend some money on the hunt and instantly got 20 resumes?
With the burn rate at a lot of companies these days, the key thing is to get by with as few people as possible. Many of us end up doing the jobs of 5 or 6 people, working far too many hours (or refusing to) and "there just isn't anyone out there who is qualified" is always a "valid" reason for getting by with as few people as possible.
I'm not saying this is always the case, but it is definitely a contributor to the whole gestalt.
Theoretically, this would not be an issue with a console anyway. You won't even be able to access a shell without hacking, nevermind rebuild your kernel.
Everyone keeps discussing this box in terms of install and configuration -- it's a CONSOLE, don't worry about it.
Probably the main thing that has kept the current crop of video game manufacturers alive over the years has been their ability to sign key game developers along the way.
What kinds of alliances have you been striking with game development companies, or are you planning on relying on the normal development of PC games for Linux?
...and they should be public too, I think.
:]
When deja took away the newsgroup archives pre-99, I was at first outraged, and then of course I realized that they're a business and not a public resource.
The wealth of human knowledge available in the newsgroup archives is immense and extremely useful on a day-to-day basis. A repository of public newsgroup archives would be a great public resource, and I'd love to see a project that gets shares that knowledge with the world. Hopefully this project will go that way, but I dunno if usenet is included in the 30 terabytes.
Hopefully we can also get these archives without the annoying product links inserted in them.
Check out Discipline Global Mobile. It's kinda the baby of King Crimson, although the label now lists about 20 different acts.
From the site:
The business aims of Discipline Global Mobile are....
to help music come into the world which would otherwise be unlikely to do so, or under conditions prejudicial to the music and/or musicians.
to operate in the market place, while being free of the values of the market place.
to help the artists and staff of DGM achieve what they wish for themselves.
to find its audience.
to be a model of ethical business in an industry founded on exploitation, oiled by deceit, riven with theft and fuelled by greed.
All of DGM's artists retain the rights to their work, as they rightfully should.
What we really need is more labels like this, and for artists to stop buying into the bullshit of the big label distribution deal.
Statistically even, today's youth has a lot of pent up anger. Just check out the medication levels that the educational facilities are pumping into them...
It's really sad when noone sees the relationship between this and the constant barrage of psychologically-defined, targeted marketing that is constantly trying to sell, sell, sell.
Already the complaints about kids being distracted in schools is deafening. The only way this marketing model will work is if it further distracts the students...
You've got to ask yourself how much available memory space you have for retaining important information, and how much of that space is taken up by CocaCola campaigns, McDonald's jingles, etc. Billions and billions of dollars are spent each year in a battle for your memory space.
If you get that info into brains when they're young, it's more likely to remain forever. So kids are having attention deficit problems? Retention deficit problems? Jesus, I wonder why...
Do not taunt Happy Fun Lars.
Somehow I doubt that Metallica has better lawyers than Harvard. Call me crazy, but I think Harvard Law may have a decent lawyer or two up their sleeve.
I just don't understand why they're pursuing the model. Check out Sonic Net's personalized radio service -- I believe it's essentially the same model as standard radio, where royalties are payed for songs played, but a) it isn't trying to do an end-around on the current music business model and b) it allows you to listen to an amazingly wide variety of music without owning the CDs.
I'm not eager to go back to listening to music I already own while waiting for the buffer to be filled between tracks.
fnord.
Uh, thank you for ringing in. It is not my decision that they use w2k, it was a voted-upon issue, and management does not yet trust linux on the workstations, generally due to the IDE choices of the developers.
/. that it's always refreshing to see.
I always have a w2k/nt4 box at my desk, as well as a linux box. Often I have all 3.
Thanks for being judgemental though. It's such a rarity at
It's happening almost everywhere now, new laws and regulations are being bought left and right.
It's sad, really, when a country isn't out to protect its citizens, but it's corporations. It totally devalues the individual to a point of nonexistence.
Our media is already owned, so we've lost our voice, but when our governments are owned we'll have lost our rights as well.
It's almost funny, 10 years ago we were all worried about what kind of a nuclear world our children would inherit, now we have to wonder if they'll any control over their own lives whatsoever.
Agreed, Exchange is *far* beyond pop3 email. We use it to register all of our dem osoftware downloaders, and their information from the forms they fill out becomes a contact within a public folder accessible to all of the salespeople.
:]
Outlook is the main reason that I need a windows environment available, but we also have some MS DNS servers, an IIS server and all of our hosted sites are connected to MS SQL. It's nice to be able to just fire up a Windows session to use the management tools.
As the administrator for a w2k network, it's very nice to not have to use it myself
I downloaded it and was running through the README, and it looks like it wants to replace your kernel....
Personally, I'm not going to install kernels handed out by software publishers, or there would be no point in building your own.
Heheheheh... One of the things that the "Digital Age" should definitely be known for is bad analogies. :]
...at this url.
This is just plain *wrong*. The MPAA is trying SO hard to take advantage of the digital age to take away our rights to record and archive our own media.
We need to beware reasoning like "We want to make sure that [the device] has the ability to provide copy protection, but it doesn't mean all product running into the box won't be able to be copied" -- this kind of vague, "honor system"-based lingo doesn't limit what they can later decide to do with the technology. Once it is in place, they can do whatever they want with it.
Honestly, the MPAA frightens me.
Personally, I hate when any box I've got some access to or control of gets hacked.
However, I think that as we approach more and more intrusion on our privacy, especially our computer privacy, it isn't hard to see a Big Brother type situation in our future.
I see this kind of work as our "well-armed militia."
I think it's important that there are tools to take out tracking systems and privacy intrusion devices, just in case they are needed in the future.
It as a false assumption that mobile phones exist so that their users could be available 24/7. This might be because previously mobile phones were only affordable for those who really needed them such as businessmen, people on call etc.
In your point of view, this may be a false assumption. To me, it is the reason I don't have one. Yes, I can turn it off, but I don't want to have to deal with people (family, friends, mainly bosses) saying, "I called you 20 times. Stop turning off your phone."
I personally feel no need for one. I represent a lot of people who don't want one for the same reasons. If I'm not at home or at the office, I don't want a phone ringing. It's that simple.
This isn't an assumption, this isn't me talking people out of getting phones, this is a personal opinion.
Heheheh...
How about people who *don't* need to be in contact 24/7? How many bazillions of dollars are they going to spend on marketing to alter the ways these people think?
They're getting into serious social engineering to sell possibly cancer-causing technology. Which, to me, is about as evil as evil gets. Not quite record-exec evil, but that's just because I'm a musician.
The other day on NPR they actually stated "A major problem with Osteoporosis was recently discovered... not by doctors, but by economists."
Doctors have been stating for over a decade now that osteoporosis is a *major* health issue in this country, but noone (read: the insurance companies) listens until it affects the bottom line.
Health doesn't matter. Mental health doesn't matter. All that matters is the bottom line.
Repeat after me:
"The economy, of course, is of utmost importance."
I have set up countless linux boxes in the last 5 years, and have yet to get a box to print to a network print server.
Granted, it hasn't been something I've spent a lot of time on, but I have an office full of Windows machines printing to a Windows print server (running HP jetdirect, as a matter of fact), but none of the linux boxes print to the thing.
The ability to add network printers quickly and easily is still lacking in both gnome and KDE... Perhaps this is why HP isn't eager to support linux?