You can find good domestic and imported beers easily enough here in New Jersey. You don't nessecarily have to go with imported, though - not all American beer is bad. My favorite brewery, Dogfish Head, is American. They make some seriously good ales.
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I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
For example, I noticed that, in that default installation, there is a boot option for "Recovery Console," which simply gives anyone who starts it root access to the computer without a password. While it can be disabled by editing a configuration file, something like that should never have been added in the first place.
I don't love that, but it's not a big deal for most people. It's certainly not something that should prohibit average desktop users from running Ubuntu. Try holding Apple-S during boot on your OS X machine sometime, it does the same thing. Besides, if someone really wants your data and has physical access to your unencrypted hard drive, you're screwed anyway.
It would be awesome if I could export a playlist from iTunes and upload it to a site and have it make recommendations based on that, rather than having to manually type in artists & songs. Anyone know of any services that accept that kind of input?
Last.fm's recommendations are based on the music you listen to. You just install the audioscrobber plugin for your media player (or, in my case, enter your login info in amaroK), and it submits your listening habits to last.fm. Pretty cool IMO.
For some reason, Ralph Nader, who was only on the ballot in 36 states, got far more coverage than Badnarik, who was on the ballot in (I believe) 49 states. Why? Because Nader couldn't have won, so the media could safely involve him.
To be fair, most of the media coverage of Nader was negative. His name was usually only mentioned in the context of blaming him for the Bush win in 2000 in order to scare liberals into voting for Kerry. He was presented by the media as a misguided, quixotic figure (if not something worse), and some liberal Democrats who should really know better portrayed him as an agent of the Bush administration. I don't think all the exposure won him too many votes - compare the number of votes he received in 2000 with 2004.
Instead of a dist-upgrade, I would try upgrading Samba and maybe cups, that should fix it. I haven't looked in depth as to what the fix was specifically - I was given my own printer before the fix was made, so it wasn't a big deal to me anymore. I believe the fix was made about a week ago.
My brain must not be working properly today, I meant "gtkpod" not "gnupod". I agree that gtkpod is a nice app. Personally I like using amaroK to manage my music library, it does everything I need. Of coarse that's just a matter of preference.
That would be true in the current case where those companies don't own the land (for example, a mining company that mines on public land or a farmer whose herd grazes on public land). Those companies don't care about the land because they have no reason to invest in it, nor do they have any liabilities. In a true free market they would own the land they are working on. In that case the land would be an investment. Ranchers wouldn't overgraze the land and miners wouldn't pollute it.
But what does the mining company care if their land is polluted, as long as they can still extract whatever they need from it? If it is more profitable for them to pollute, then that's what they'll do.
As soon as the military/police power is strong enough (and enough Americans stop owning guns), they can and will go further.
Our military and police already have enourmous resources. I don't believe that civillian firepower is in any way a deterrent to government power grabs at this point. Anyone who thinks that keeping a few automatic rifles in their home is any kind of protection from big brother is deluding themselves.
they can get all worked up about a colleague getting raided, but not about a 80 year old couple getting raided under obviously horrendously false pretenses. They don't care about serving the public
Exactly. This is a prime example of how the two major parties collaborate to maintain the status quo. The idea that they are bitter enemies at the opposite end of the political spectrum (which is the picture we are presented with, at least by the mainstream media) is a joke.
The concept of non-restrictive licensing is still pretty new to the music world. As a result, musicians who aren't well versed in copyright law (most of them) see licensing as a choice is between traditional copyright and public domain. I agree that Steven's statement was ironic - the downloading is only "illegal" because Stevens himself was reserving the rights. However, I doubt he really knows or cares much about licensing or copyright law. He's probably more concerned with his music, and he's letting his listners know that he doesn't mind them sharing it. I would consider that a relatively progressive attitude, uninformed as it may be.
I don't think you'll see any young rising stars embracing free distribution licenses with their content on the internet.
True, I have seen very few bands embrace free disitribution licenses, but I doubt most artists are even aware that these licenses exist. What I have seen is bands explicity stated that they don't mind their work being shared freely. The first example that comes to mind is Wilco. Given, they're not young, but they never had much success on the charts until recently. After they produced an album that was deemed too 'experimental', they were dropped from their label. Instead of giving up, they put an mp3 stream of the whole album on their site and openly embraced file sharing. The album started to get a lot of buzz. Soon enough an independent label agreed to release the record, despite the fact that "hundreds of thousands" of people had already downloaded it (at least according to singer Jeff Tweedy in the Wired interview). The album was critically acclaimed and became their greatest commercial success to date, reaching #13 on the Billboard charts. Their next album sold even better, reaching the top ten.
[My music is] definitely not public domain. I have a publisher and I make money from the publishing of the songs. That's a big part of an income, so I'm not going to pretend that I'm that socialistic about my music. But I'm not so possessive about it that I would sue anyone who misused it. If someone were to sample my work, I would have a hard time seeking payment for that. I don't even have a problem with people illegally downloading that stuff.[emphasis mine]
Not everyone giving away their music is over the hill - and some of them are still making a living making music.
Speaking as one who has run Linux on a Thinkpad, and hated it.
Why? I have had a great experience with Ubuntu on my laptop. Wireless, 3d acceleration, and even trackpoint scrolling were all enabled during install. Ubuntu even has an on screen display for the brightness and volume buttons on the Thinkpad without any manual configuration.
Ubuntu on a server? So what? Ubuntu...is nothing special as a server.
Well, there is a lot of buzz around Ubuntu, and Sun is trying to capitalize on it. That aside, there's nothing wrong with running Ubuntu on a server. Do a "server" install to avoid all the bloat, and you have a stable Debian system with up to date software.
yes, I thought of that; a lot of radios out there can record from radio to tape, or maybe some can record to hard drive (like the RadioShark) or to removable media of some kind. But if being able to store part of the broadcast is a bad thing, as said... why didn't the RIAA sue decades ago?
Because they are desperate now.
The RIAA is just trying to capitalize on the technical illiteracy (overall) of judges and juries, I think.
I couldn't agree more. I'm not saying their suit has merit at all.
Regarding conspiracy theories, I believe the burden is on the conspiracy theorists to prove their theories, not for the targeted group to disprove all conspiracies directed towards them.
I agree, and didn't mean to imply otherwise.
I don't believe the theorists are "right" until the government disproves them. As a matter of principle, I think the government should be more open, and I believe that if they were, less people would be susceptible to conspiracy theories.
the US government has decided to release the videotape depicting the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon building, nearly five years after the 9/11 attacks
We should have had this on day 1. How did keeping this under wraps help the Moussaoui trial? This kind of secretive attitude creates an environment where conspiracy theories flourish. If the Government wants to disprove these theories, they should release as much information as they safely can, instead of fighting tooth and nail to keep everything secret.
it is exactly these types of concerns that are supposed to be addressed by congressional oversight of the executive branch.
I agree. The biggest problem with Bush's domestic surviellence programs is that they bypass such oversight. We're expected to trust them not to abuse their power. Not a reasonable proposition, if you ask me.
If there is any meat to this report, you can bet that the democrats will demand hearings.
I hope so. I'm sure there will be at least a few who make some noise, and you would think that in an election year, the rest of the party would follow suit. Then again, the Democrats never cease to dissapoint me, so I have come to expect relatively little from them.
If you are a reporter, and you're exchanging calls with anyone on the "list" suspected of leaks why shouldn't the government take a peek.
Because the government will most likely abuse that power. What makes you think that the government will have enough restraint to refrain from monitoring reporters who are critical of them, under the guise of national security?
Most industrialized "first world" countries ration healthcare for their citizens;
Sure beats letting the market determine who recieves care. Here, the rich get vanity surgery and specialists for everything, while the poor are treated only in the emergency room. From a humanitarian standpoint, our system is a failure.
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You can find good domestic and imported beers easily enough here in New Jersey. You don't nessecarily have to go with imported, though - not all American beer is bad. My favorite brewery, Dogfish Head, is American. They make some seriously good ales.
I hasten to add that since each man will be required to do prodigious... service along these lines, the women will have to be selected for their sexual characteristics which will have to be of a highly stimulating nature.
For example, I noticed that, in that default installation, there is a boot option for "Recovery Console," which simply gives anyone who starts it root access to the computer without a password. While it can be disabled by editing a configuration file, something like that should never have been added in the first place.
I don't love that, but it's not a big deal for most people. It's certainly not something that should prohibit average desktop users from running Ubuntu. Try holding Apple-S during boot on your OS X machine sometime, it does the same thing.
Besides, if someone really wants your data and has physical access to your unencrypted hard drive, you're screwed anyway.
It would be awesome if I could export a playlist from iTunes and upload it to a site and have it make recommendations based on that, rather than having to manually type in artists & songs. Anyone know of any services that accept that kind of input?
Last.fm's recommendations are based on the music you listen to. You just install the audioscrobber plugin for your media player (or, in my case, enter your login info in amaroK), and it submits your listening habits to last.fm. Pretty cool IMO.
For some reason, Ralph Nader, who was only on the ballot in 36 states, got far more coverage than Badnarik, who was on the ballot in (I believe) 49 states. Why? Because Nader couldn't have won, so the media could safely involve him.
To be fair, most of the media coverage of Nader was negative. His name was usually only mentioned in the context of blaming him for the Bush win in 2000 in order to scare liberals into voting for Kerry. He was presented by the media as a misguided, quixotic figure (if not something worse), and some liberal Democrats who should really know better portrayed him as an agent of the Bush administration.
I don't think all the exposure won him too many votes - compare the number of votes he received in 2000 with 2004.
Instead of a dist-upgrade, I would try upgrading Samba and maybe cups, that should fix it. I haven't looked in depth as to what the fix was specifically - I was given my own printer before the fix was made, so it wasn't a big deal to me anymore. I believe the fix was made about a week ago.
I had the same problem starting when I moved my Breezy box to Dapper. According to the bug report, it's been fixed.
Is your copy of Samba up to date?
My brain must not be working properly today, I meant "gtkpod" not "gnupod".
I agree that gtkpod is a nice app. Personally I like using amaroK to manage my music library, it does everything I need. Of coarse that's just a matter of preference.
gtkpod is a good choice. That's actually what I was thinking of when I typed gnupod, I believe gnupod is a command line utility.
:)
Good luck making the switch to Linux
I'd recommend amaroK if you use KDE, or Rhythmbox or gnupod if you use gnome. Banshee also handles ipods pretty well.
But what does the mining company care if their land is polluted, as long as they can still extract whatever they need from it? If it is more profitable for them to pollute, then that's what they'll do.
As soon as the military/police power is strong enough (and enough Americans stop owning guns), they can and will go further.
Our military and police already have enourmous resources. I don't believe that civillian firepower is in any way a deterrent to government power grabs at this point. Anyone who thinks that keeping a few automatic rifles in their home is any kind of protection from big brother is deluding themselves.
they can get all worked up about a colleague getting raided, but not about a 80 year old couple getting raided under obviously horrendously false pretenses. They don't care about serving the public
Exactly. This is a prime example of how the two major parties collaborate to maintain the status quo. The idea that they are bitter enemies at the opposite end of the political spectrum (which is the picture we are presented with, at least by the mainstream media) is a joke.
The concept of non-restrictive licensing is still pretty new to the music world. As a result, musicians who aren't well versed in copyright law (most of them) see licensing as a choice is between traditional copyright and public domain.
I agree that Steven's statement was ironic - the downloading is only "illegal" because Stevens himself was reserving the rights. However, I doubt he really knows or cares much about licensing or copyright law. He's probably more concerned with his music, and he's letting his listners know that he doesn't mind them sharing it.
I would consider that a relatively progressive attitude, uninformed as it may be.
True, I have seen very few bands embrace free disitribution licenses, but I doubt most artists are even aware that these licenses exist. What I have seen is bands explicity stated that they don't mind their work being shared freely.
The first example that comes to mind is Wilco. Given, they're not young, but they never had much success on the charts until recently. After they produced an album that was deemed too 'experimental', they were dropped from their label.
Instead of giving up, they put an mp3 stream of the whole album on their site and openly embraced file sharing. The album started to get a lot of buzz. Soon enough an independent label agreed to release the record, despite the fact that "hundreds of thousands" of people had already downloaded it (at least according to singer Jeff Tweedy in the Wired interview).
The album was critically acclaimed and became their greatest commercial success to date, reaching #13 on the Billboard charts. Their next album sold even better, reaching the top ten.
Another example - Sufjan Stevens, who actually is a "young rising star", recently said in an interview
Not everyone giving away their music is over the hill - and some of them are still making a living making music.
Speaking as one who has run Linux on a Thinkpad, and hated it.
Why?
I have had a great experience with Ubuntu on my laptop. Wireless, 3d acceleration, and even trackpoint scrolling were all enabled during install. Ubuntu even has an on screen display for the brightness and volume buttons on the Thinkpad without any manual configuration.
Ubuntu on a server? So what? Ubuntu ...is nothing special as a server.
Well, there is a lot of buzz around Ubuntu, and Sun is trying to capitalize on it.
That aside, there's nothing wrong with running Ubuntu on a server. Do a "server" install to avoid all the bloat, and you have a stable Debian system with up to date software.
yes, I thought of that; a lot of radios out there can record from radio to tape, or maybe some can record to hard drive (like the RadioShark) or to removable media of some kind. But if being able to store part of the broadcast is a bad thing, as said ... why didn't the RIAA sue decades ago?
Because they are desperate now.
The RIAA is just trying to capitalize on the technical illiteracy (overall) of judges and juries, I think.
I couldn't agree more. I'm not saying their suit has merit at all.
Regarding conspiracy theories, I believe the burden is on the conspiracy theorists to prove their theories, not for the targeted group to disprove all conspiracies directed towards them.
I agree, and didn't mean to imply otherwise.
I don't believe the theorists are "right" until the government disproves them. As a matter of principle, I think the government should be more open, and I believe that if they were, less people would be susceptible to conspiracy theories.
the US government has decided to release the videotape depicting the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon building, nearly five years after the 9/11 attacks
We should have had this on day 1. How did keeping this under wraps help the Moussaoui trial?
This kind of secretive attitude creates an environment where conspiracy theories flourish. If the Government wants to disprove these theories, they should release as much information as they safely can, instead of fighting tooth and nail to keep everything secret.
it is exactly these types of concerns that are supposed to be addressed by
congressional oversight of the executive branch.
I agree. The biggest problem with Bush's domestic surviellence programs is that they bypass such oversight. We're expected to trust them not to abuse their power. Not a reasonable proposition, if you ask me.
If there is any meat to this report, you can bet that the democrats will demand hearings.
I hope so. I'm sure there will be at least a few who make some noise, and you would think that in an election year, the rest of the party would follow suit. Then again, the Democrats never cease to dissapoint me, so I have come to expect relatively little from them.
If you are a reporter, and you're exchanging calls with anyone on the "list" suspected of leaks why shouldn't the government take a peek.
Because the government will most likely abuse that power. What makes you think that the government will have enough restraint to refrain from monitoring reporters who are critical of them, under the guise of national security?
I thought [the GPL] was supposed to make things simpler, not have all of these caveats and 'gotchas'.
You are confused. The GPL is designed to keep software big-F Free. The "caveats and 'gotchas'" are very much the point.
Most industrialized "first world" countries ration healthcare for their citizens;
Sure beats letting the market determine who recieves care. Here, the rich get vanity surgery and specialists for everything, while the poor are treated only in the emergency room. From a humanitarian standpoint, our system is a failure.