No, the amish one is steam powered and burns wood.:)
Actually, they do not do things the "hard way".
For a good read, get thee a copy of "Better Off" by Eric Brende. An MIT student questions technology and lives among a group of these people... His finding will suprise those of you who think that the 19th century lifestyle is "harder".
I have always wondered why anyone would exchange cash, which can be used almost anywhere, for a card that is only good at one establishment, when doing so coveys no additional discount...
If $97 cash could buy a $100 wal-mart card for example, it might make some sense.... But, if all I get in exchange is $100 cash, (spendable ANYWHERE) for a $100 in merchandise, only good here, I would call them a GIFT CARD FOR THE MENTALLY UNGIFTED.
Cash is still the best option for anonimity.
If you want to rent a car, motel room, etc. then you should expect the owner of the business to expect a full, verifiable Identification to cover his own ass. I sure as hell would.
This is not a troll, or a flamebait. Please do not take it as such, as it meant as something to think about... It is written in annoyed rant mode however, but, this is not directed at you personally. So, with that disclaimer, I shall step onto my soapbox.
There is no "show". In my opine, the problem is exactly the fact that so many are content to sit on their arse, and watch frigging television.
Want a superhero? Someone to fight for your rights? I actually know where to find one!
Go to your nearest mirror, and take a close look.
(Cape is optional.)
Hmmm, now who would expect that ugly mug to be the face of a freedom fighter?
The way it works is, you, and every other mothers son has to stand up, put down the budweiser or moosehead, turn off the damn glowing boxen, and march your self down to the local city hall, or other local government office and make a damn pest of yourself, by actually being involved with what goes on.
I will lay odds that 99.5% of slashdot readers, for all their bullshit political raving, don't actually _do_ anything. (A simple test, do your city councilmen know your face and name?) My city council sure as hell does not like to see my face in any council meeting, and they all certainly know my name, because they know that I am ever ready to challenge any bullshit they routinely try to pull. I have caused overly restrictive ordinance changes to be sent back to committee, for extreme modification, because they knew that I would take it to the voters for referendum. To quote the city manager... "That's the last thing we want."
So, If the will of the voters is the last thing they want, and ONE PERSON can cause this to go back for a more resonable approach to the problem, then how many freedoms have been lost in this country because people would rather sit home watching the damn glowing box than watching their local government in action, and standing up to them to keep the freedom destroyers in check.... Same in the state and federal level.
Look, these guys are mostly cowards... Most of them will fold under public scrutiny and political pressure... But, if it appears that there is little or no resistance, then many will do whatever is expediant, and the hell with your freedoms.
Freedoms are usually not won in small increments, but they are lost or kept that way.
So, to all the readers. Don't bitch about it on slash-dot only. Get your butt involved in local, state and federal politics.
I will yeild the soap box to the next person now... NOW, what did I do with that beer?
Were not disclosed. So, it could have been ONE DOLLAR, plus the apology. (or ten, one hundred, one thousand, or some such small amount.)
Since the amount was not disclosed, I would think it to be a small amount. If it was some large amount, I think they would have published the amount. An unknown amount may have as much, if not more "fear factor" than a known large amount, when it comes to discouraging future behaviour in others.
So, I think the carping about picking on a "poor student" is a load of crap. To enter into a binding contract, one must be of the age of majority. If he then broke the terms of the NDA, I have no sympathy.
In our family, we just flat gave up on TV. I am not trying to troll or be flamebate here, but, high definition crapola or digital crapola is still crapola. Nothing worth watching, for the most part. 90+ channels of clear, sharp, digital dung... and certainly nothing worth paying $40+ on a monthly basis, as far as we were concerned. Just my.02. I wonder if others feel the same about the amount of good content most of the time.
Cheers.
Create small peice of "art" in form of lapel pin, hat with design, or some such.
Copyright.
No, no frigging photos allowed! So, various "security" camera's, etc are would all be violating the law, and the city, county, and state, airports, etc. have absolutely no right to photograph you as long as you are wearing your "art" EVEN IN A PUBLIC PLACE.
Obvoiusly, that is insane... but sauce for the goose.....
When I was a gov.contractor with a high level clearance, we had to go through all kinds of security steps in the handling of classified docs... One day I had thought my PHB had lost his mind.....
I was wrong, it never exsisted to begin with.
We did not have to report it though, because it did not have anything to do with "intelligence".
That's how it USED to work here too...
Then we picked up our guns.
You really want to change oppressive and corrupt government? Do what we did, what the french did, what the romainians did.....
(And what may need to be done again, when the government forgets whom they serve.)
Freedom demands occasional blood sacrifice, preferably the blood of tyrants and corrupt politicians. Rabid dogs and corrupt "officials" both deserve exactly the same fate, and those too gutless to do the job have to live with the consequinces of thier inaction.
Besides, if thousands of people are independently of each other voluntarily accessing these particular sites, then there's no crime in that. (AFAIK, you can't be convicted of 'conspiracy to disable an internet server through requests')
Ummm, no. INTENT is the key. If thousands of people all independently decided to act this way, no crime of conspiracy. If on the other hand, they coordinate thier efforts, (through software that someone has hand programmed in the "target") with the intent to disrupt an buisiness, then those individuals DO conspire to commit a crime.
The software was written with the INTENT to disrupt spammers web sites. And, some person is choosing and approving the "target". Those people who use this software, INTEND to do harm to a network or web site. And, when you intend to do harm, your actions make very well make you personaly liable for damages.
Since interstate commerce is involved, shit is most likely going to hit the fan, and it is going to end up in lycos face, I'm afraid.
While I like the idea of taking down a spammer, we have to stay on the good side of the law.
Man, I hate spam, but I think lycos is about to seriously fsck itself with this.
I betcha within a few months, if not weeks, some asshole spammer will sue lycos, and, eventually win more than they ever made spamming. They might even sue the indiviual users of the "screen savers"... Because unlike unknowing zombies of many ddos attacks, these users intended to harm them, and willingly and knowingly conspired with others through the use of software written to cause damage to a buisiness. ( albiet a scum sucking asshat business model imo. )
The FCC has mandated that only certain spectrums can be used by non-licensed individuals.
Which only applies within the U.S.A.
Other countries = other rules.
Someone in a country ( where it is allowed ) will eventually reverse engineer stuff like this, and then the cat will be out of the bag anyway, and Intel ends up only looking like an asshole.
I live in Lead, South Dakota, near Deadwood. Have seen firsthand the conditions of the "Native Americans" both on and off the res. I concur. Stop the welfare, and give these people a chance to solve their own problems. These are bright, intelligent people. But, welfare handouts seldom do anything other than enable them to fall into a lifestyle that is destructive and degenerative. Go to the Pine Ridge, the Rosebud, or other reservations and SEE what the conditions are. More "free" money is not going to make the lives of the people better, except perhaps enable some to buy a better quality of booze, and a nicer car to trash. All the damn do gooders who sincerely want to help think that they can solve these problems by giving more money.
To say or imply that people can come to the United States from various third world repressive shitholes in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and other parts of the globe, with no or limited english language skills, immigrate to the United States, and within several years be a functioning succsessful and contributing part of our culture, yet think that the Native Americans somehow need more "help" in order to succeed, is to denigrate their entire race. I am sure that there are some exceptions, as I have met and seen a few of them, but, overall, the results of government handouts is a failure.
As for the rest of this tread, we moved here to get OUT of a big stinking, crime ridden metropolis of 2+ million. Cost of living is so much lower, and a traffic jam is what happens when a herd of deer of flock of wild turkeys need to cross the road... It was a total quality of life improvement, although if you measure the results in dollars, we are now down near poverty level income. It is amazing, however what so little money can do, when you are debt free and don't have a mortgage or car payment. No way I could have a semi retired lifestyle if I was still in the Denver Metro area. For an equivilent lifestyle, I would need to earn many times what I can get by on here, since I would still be trying to pay off a 200K+ mortgage. Instead, we have 3 houses, with 2 of them rented. We have found that living in a rural community gives us a life, and the big city was slavery, where you worked 60+ hours a week, just to pay for the basics. I have also noticed that many who have never been lived in a rural area think that what you have out here are just a bunch of dumb fsck hicks. I have found that a major portion of the residents are well educated, and a large percentage have moved here from the big cities for the same reasons we did. No, we don't have the opera, 12 screen theaters, 500 restraunts and clubs, and large shopping "mauls". But, that is something we didn't really care about since (because of working 60+ hours a week) we didnt have time for, or enjoy anyway. We have instead, clean air & water, no commute, happy safe children, decent neighbors, almost zero stress, bike and hiking trails, downhill and x-c skiing, hunting and fishing, and the time to enjoy it all.
Uh, wrong.
This country (USA) was founded on the idea that rights are unalianable. (Granted by GOD, not man. see declaration of independence. )
The Constitution give the Federal Government certain LIMITED powers, and the first 8 of 10 amendments spell out clearly what the government MAY NOT DO. All rights NOT ENUMERATED are retained BY THE PEOPLE, and the STATES, repspectively. Read the 9th and 10th amendment.
If the Federal Government needs additional powers, legally the constitution must be amended to give the government those additional powers.
Of course, since the people are not vigilant, it is moot. The feds are so fscking out of control with their power, and people dont seem to give a shift. We should have dealt with the abusive laws and power hungry bastards long ago.
Now, statements like "such and such is not a right" because it is NOT enumerated is seldom challenged as the bullshit that it is. It shows that the thinking of the people is deteriorated to the point that they believe that rights flow from the government, and we get what they decide to give us, rather than the original notion that man is free to live his life how he sees fit, within the parameters of decency and civility, and the government is on a short leash, to serve us....
Yeppers... Examine MOST of the doors and windows on my house and find big deadbolts, and everything locked up. Examine ALL the door and windows and find one WIDE OPEN, just walk right in. ( Hmmm, would that be the windows XP? )
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, they do not do things the "hard way". For a good read, get thee a copy of "Better Off" by Eric Brende. An MIT student questions technology and lives among a group of these people... His finding will suprise those of you who think that the 19th century lifestyle is "harder".
Enjoy!
I have always wondered why anyone would exchange cash, which can be used almost anywhere, for a card that is only good at one establishment, when doing so coveys no additional discount... If $97 cash could buy a $100 wal-mart card for example, it might make some sense.... But, if all I get in exchange is $100 cash, (spendable ANYWHERE) for a $100 in merchandise, only good here, I would call them a GIFT CARD FOR THE MENTALLY UNGIFTED. Cash is still the best option for anonimity. If you want to rent a car, motel room, etc. then you should expect the owner of the business to expect a full, verifiable Identification to cover his own ass. I sure as hell would.
If some asshole brings a lawsuit, SUE THE BASTARDS!
Gee... they could have made a game show of that.
Oh... wait...
Plenty good enough for most of the great engineering of the 20th century. Another example of practical and "good enough".
recirc. lap tank inside a jet.... You swim, it flies. :)
There is no "show". In my opine, the problem is exactly the fact that so many are content to sit on their arse, and watch frigging television.
Want a superhero? Someone to fight for your rights? I actually know where to find one!
Go to your nearest mirror, and take a close look. (Cape is optional.) Hmmm, now who would expect that ugly mug to be the face of a freedom fighter?
The way it works is, you, and every other mothers son has to stand up, put down the budweiser or moosehead, turn off the damn glowing boxen, and march your self down to the local city hall, or other local government office and make a damn pest of yourself, by actually being involved with what goes on.
I will lay odds that 99.5% of slashdot readers, for all their bullshit political raving, don't actually _do_ anything. (A simple test, do your city councilmen know your face and name?)
My city council sure as hell does not like to see my face in any council meeting, and they all certainly know my name, because they know that I am ever ready to challenge any bullshit they routinely try to pull. I have caused overly restrictive ordinance changes to be sent back to committee, for extreme modification, because they knew that I would take it to the voters for referendum. To quote the city manager... "That's the last thing we want."
So, If the will of the voters is the last thing they want, and ONE PERSON can cause this to go back for a more resonable approach to the problem, then how many freedoms have been lost in this country because people would rather sit home watching the damn glowing box than watching their local government in action, and standing up to them to keep the freedom destroyers in check.... Same in the state and federal level.
Look, these guys are mostly cowards... Most of them will fold under public scrutiny and political pressure...
But, if it appears that there is little or no resistance, then many will do whatever is expediant, and the hell with your freedoms.
Freedoms are usually not won in small increments, but they are lost or kept that way.
So, to all the readers. Don't bitch about it on slash-dot only. Get your butt involved in local, state and federal politics.
I will yeild the soap box to the next person now...
NOW, what did I do with that beer?
It's freedom AFTER speech that matters.
Since the amount was not disclosed, I would think it to be a small amount. If it was some large amount, I think they would have published the amount. An unknown amount may have as much, if not more "fear factor" than a known large amount, when it comes to discouraging future behaviour in others.
So, I think the carping about picking on a "poor student" is a load of crap. To enter into a binding contract, one must be of the age of majority. If he then broke the terms of the NDA, I have no sympathy.
So, stupid tax collectors are a BAD thing? Intelligent gestapo agents scare me more than the Col. Klink types.
You catch flies with shit.
In our family, we just flat gave up on TV. I am not trying to troll or be flamebate here, but, high definition crapola or digital crapola is still crapola. Nothing worth watching, for the most part. 90+ channels of clear, sharp, digital dung... and certainly nothing worth paying $40+ on a monthly basis, as far as we were concerned. Just my .02. I wonder if others feel the same about the amount of good content most of the time.
Cheers.
Talk about global warming as if it was a bad thing... BKm in South Dakota.
Create small peice of "art" in form of lapel pin, hat with design, or some such. Copyright. No, no frigging photos allowed! So, various "security" camera's, etc are would all be violating the law, and the city, county, and state, airports, etc. have absolutely no right to photograph you as long as you are wearing your "art" EVEN IN A PUBLIC PLACE. Obvoiusly, that is insane... but sauce for the goose.....
When I was a gov.contractor with a high level clearance, we had to go through all kinds of security steps in the handling of classified docs... One day I had thought my PHB had lost his mind..... I was wrong, it never exsisted to begin with. We did not have to report it though, because it did not have anything to do with "intelligence".
That's how it USED to work here too... Then we picked up our guns. You really want to change oppressive and corrupt government? Do what we did, what the french did, what the romainians did..... (And what may need to be done again, when the government forgets whom they serve.) Freedom demands occasional blood sacrifice, preferably the blood of tyrants and corrupt politicians. Rabid dogs and corrupt "officials" both deserve exactly the same fate, and those too gutless to do the job have to live with the consequinces of thier inaction.
Some of us do not even play computer games. Not a comment on those who do... whatever lights your fire.
Besides, if thousands of people are independently of each other voluntarily accessing these particular sites, then there's no crime in that. (AFAIK, you can't be convicted of 'conspiracy to disable an internet server through requests')
Ummm, no. INTENT is the key. If thousands of people all independently decided to act this way, no crime of conspiracy. If on the other hand, they coordinate thier efforts, (through software that someone has hand programmed in the "target") with the intent to disrupt an buisiness, then those individuals DO conspire to commit a crime.
The software was written with the INTENT to disrupt spammers web sites. And, some person is choosing and approving the "target". Those people who use this software, INTEND to do harm to a network or web site. And, when you intend to do harm, your actions make very well make you personaly liable for damages.
Since interstate commerce is involved, shit is most likely going to hit the fan, and it is going to end up in lycos face, I'm afraid.
While I like the idea of taking down a spammer, we have to stay on the good side of the law.
Man, I hate spam, but I think lycos is about to seriously fsck itself with this.
I betcha within a few months, if not weeks, some asshole spammer will sue lycos, and, eventually win more than they ever made spamming. They might even sue the indiviual users of the "screen savers"... Because unlike unknowing zombies of many ddos attacks, these users intended to harm them, and willingly and knowingly conspired with others through the use of software written to cause damage to a buisiness. ( albiet a scum sucking asshat business model imo. )
The FCC has mandated that only certain spectrums can be used by non-licensed individuals. Which only applies within the U.S.A. Other countries = other rules. Someone in a country ( where it is allowed ) will eventually reverse engineer stuff like this, and then the cat will be out of the bag anyway, and Intel ends up only looking like an asshole.
Is a ban on the TAXERS, not the TAXES. isn't CONgress is the opposite of PROgress?
Growing your own tobacco is not ileagal, if kept below a certain amount of acreage.
I live in Lead, South Dakota, near Deadwood. Have seen firsthand the conditions of the "Native Americans" both on and off the res. I concur. Stop the welfare, and give these people a chance to solve their own problems. These are bright, intelligent people. But, welfare handouts seldom do anything other than enable them to fall into a lifestyle that is destructive and degenerative. Go to the Pine Ridge, the Rosebud, or other reservations and SEE what the conditions are. More "free" money is not going to make the lives of the people better, except perhaps enable some to buy a better quality of booze, and a nicer car to trash. All the damn do gooders who sincerely want to help think that they can solve these problems by giving more money.
To say or imply that people can come to the United States from various third world repressive shitholes in Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and other parts of the globe, with no or limited english language skills, immigrate to the United States, and within several years be a functioning succsessful and contributing part of our culture, yet think that the Native Americans somehow need more "help" in order to succeed, is to denigrate their entire race. I am sure that there are some exceptions, as I have met and seen a few of them, but, overall, the results of government handouts is a failure.
As for the rest of this tread, we moved here to get OUT of a big stinking, crime ridden metropolis of 2+ million. Cost of living is so much lower, and a traffic jam is what happens when a herd of deer of flock of wild turkeys need to cross the road... It was a total quality of life improvement, although if you measure the results in dollars, we are now down near poverty level income. It is amazing, however what so little money can do, when you are debt free and don't have a mortgage or car payment. No way I could have a semi retired lifestyle if I was still in the Denver Metro area. For an equivilent lifestyle, I would need to earn many times what I can get by on here, since I would still be trying to pay off a 200K+ mortgage. Instead, we have 3 houses, with 2 of them rented. We have found that living in a rural community gives us a life, and the big city was slavery, where you worked 60+ hours a week, just to pay for the basics. I have also noticed that many who have never been lived in a rural area think that what you have out here are just a bunch of dumb fsck hicks. I have found that a major portion of the residents are well educated, and a large percentage have moved here from the big cities for the same reasons we did. No, we don't have the opera, 12 screen theaters, 500 restraunts and clubs, and large shopping "mauls". But, that is something we didn't really care about since (because of working 60+ hours a week) we didnt have time for, or enjoy anyway. We have instead, clean air & water, no commute, happy safe children, decent neighbors, almost zero stress, bike and hiking trails, downhill and x-c skiing, hunting and fishing, and the time to enjoy it all.
Uh, wrong. This country (USA) was founded on the idea that rights are unalianable. (Granted by GOD, not man. see declaration of independence. ) The Constitution give the Federal Government certain LIMITED powers, and the first 8 of 10 amendments spell out clearly what the government MAY NOT DO. All rights NOT ENUMERATED are retained BY THE PEOPLE, and the STATES, repspectively. Read the 9th and 10th amendment. If the Federal Government needs additional powers, legally the constitution must be amended to give the government those additional powers. Of course, since the people are not vigilant, it is moot. The feds are so fscking out of control with their power, and people dont seem to give a shift. We should have dealt with the abusive laws and power hungry bastards long ago. Now, statements like "such and such is not a right" because it is NOT enumerated is seldom challenged as the bullshit that it is. It shows that the thinking of the people is deteriorated to the point that they believe that rights flow from the government, and we get what they decide to give us, rather than the original notion that man is free to live his life how he sees fit, within the parameters of decency and civility, and the government is on a short leash, to serve us....
bada-boom.
Yeppers... Examine MOST of the doors and windows on my house and find big deadbolts, and everything locked up. Examine ALL the door and windows and find one WIDE OPEN, just walk right in. ( Hmmm, would that be the windows XP? )