There doesn't seem to be a version of Enigmail that works with 1.0!!! This is highly annoying! I can't read my encrypted mail until a new version is released...
How damn hard is it to not break Enigmail with every TB release? Not to whine, but come on...
Really? It was my understanding that gun ownership in Britain 30 years ago was, while not likely, at least possible for some, while now it is VERY hard to own a gun at all (for citizens, criminals find it very easy since Ireland is right next door).
The fact that thugs in Britain feel free to throw rocks at cop cars and cops when they are bored tells me something as well....
And your point is? America is NOT Afganistan. The cases are not parallel in the slightest.
I dare say that America is unique in the world. America is the result of 250 years or more of survival of the fittest. We got the rest of the world's independent, desperate and go-getting people, who weren't afraid to take a risk and take chances to make things better, while the stay at homes stayed at home, and frankly you can see the difference.
See below... and visit England, where less guns = more crime. On my recent trip to England, Scotland and Wales I met plenty of people who just couldn't understand why the US has guns, but then bitched about how nazi-like their government was and how the feared to walk their own streets at night.
Dear God people, get over your pathological fear of guns! They are a useful tool and can save your life.
Accidental US deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000 Number of Physicians = 700,000 Death By Physician = 0.171428571
Total US Deaths by Firearm (including Homicide and Accident) per year = 13,876 Number of Gun Owners = 80,000,000 Death Per Gun Owner = 1.73E-04
Therefore Physicians are ~1,000X more dangerous than gun owners.
Accidental US deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
Total US Deaths by Firearm (including Homicide and Accident) per year = 13,876
Therefore physicians are approximately 10x more dangerous than guns.
A "well-regulated" militia means one that is led by competent people, not one that can't carry guns.
Militias at the time of this document were ad-hoc groups of neighbors, taking up their hunting weapons (blunderbusses and smoothbore rifles) to defend their homes. As I mentioned in another reply, this is called "pre-amble", and states WHY it is necessary that "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
As for small arms not being able to stop tanks, JDAMs, etc., that is a red-herring. These arms are for defending oneself against one's own government which is staffed with one's own citizens. It is assumed that said citizens will be somewhat reticent about dropping cluster bombs or 155mm shells on their fellow citizens. Rebellion always works in such a way. The purpose here is to make sure that the individuals are never SO over matched that the "secret police", etc., can kill them at will. The point is not to make the average citizen the equal to the US Army. If the US Army takes orders to kill you and carries them out, then you have already lost.
Besides, gun use by average citizens stops over 2.5M crimes per year, including 400,000 cases where the citizen so using the weapon felt their life to be threatened. Guns are useful tools, both for LIFE and for DEATH. Guns are not in themselves bad.
The Greeks had a piece of jurisprudence that it would be nice if our "modern" legal systems understood. No object is in and of itself, bad. Only the actions performed with it can be good or bad.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" This usage is very clear, the right to bear arms is only concidered vital as part of a militia!
NO...The usage is very clear and it is a pre-amble, indicating WHY it is necessary, NOT restricting ownership only to "militia", which at that time were just small ad-hoc groups of people who happened to want to defend their homes against the oppressive British red-coats.
You are either an absolute idiot or someone who doesn't have a clue about history, even incredibly RECENT history.
Some objective facts that are PROVABLE:
All governments lie to their subjects.
All governments become bad/corrupt over time, requiring their removal if citizens want to keep their rights.
Amendment II A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." (Jefferson Papers, p. 334, C.J. Boyd, 1950) "The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." (Thomas Jefferson Papers p. 334, 1950) "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Letter to William S. Smith 13 Nov 1787 (Jefferson, On Democracy p. 20, 1939; Padover, editor)
" Defenseless people around the world killed in the 20th Century in part because they had no means of self defense (gun control) - 56 million. This total does not even take into consideration the recent genocides occurring in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia." - Unknown
"Number of physicians in the US = 700,000 Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000 Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
Number of gun owners in the US = 80,000,000 Number of accidental gun deaths per year = 1,500 (all age groups) Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188 (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms) Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners." -Taken from the Benton County News Tribune of November 17, 1999.
I realize that JA, is all about promoting capitalism to our youth, which most of the time seems to be a non-bad thing. But this perversion is beyond sad.
I suggest that folks give them a call and let them know how much they appreciate this one-sided blatant shill for the RIAA & MPAA's version of copyright law.
Look, I've paid those guys ~$180 for the ability to play about 2 games in Linux (Max Payne (a 4) & Star Empires IV (about a 3)). Every other game I had didn't work, or worked so crappily that it wasn't worth playing on WineX.
Here are the OTHER things that are wrong with Transgaming that that other guy didn't mention:
1)Their forums are the worst set up forums I've EVER SEEN ANYWHERE. They are some sort of proprietary forum software (I think one of them wrote it themselves) and they SUCK beyond all possible belief. Hell, until recently they didn't even have THREADING! Damn near everyone agrees that the forums SUCK A MOUNTAIN OF A$$. Indeed, they suck so bad it is hard to tell how many other people think they suck because the forums are so butt ugly and useless that one can't find the threads. However, despite the fact that the forums SUCK A MOUNTAIN OF A$$, Transgaming refuses to spend the two days it would take them to set up some DECENT forums. Hell, I've seen forums some 12 year old set up to run his Pokemon fansite that were 1000 times better than the crap forums Transgaming has, and they are SUPPOSEDLY a business!
2)Asking for help getting anything other than a 4-5 (perfect) score game is an exercise in futility. Transgaming certainly doesn't help. If you are lucky you MAY find someone who tried to run the same game and found a fix, but 99% of the time, you will find JACK and get no help.
3) Almost all games, even those that are YEARS old are 3 or below (meaning major problems/doesn't run) with WineX. Add to that that I've had better luck getting Wine to run many more games than WineX (other than the FPS shooters) and you have to ask yourself what you are paying for, especially since they now have damn near as many Mac games released as Linux ones. Even if they expect to make their money off the Mac games to pay for their time, it was OUR dollars they used to get that time. Until they sell enough games in other words, WE paid for them to develop Mac OS games. Note: Oh yes, I know how the CPAs can play their games to say different, but that is the bottom line. Linux games are obviously no where near their top priority. If that's true, then fine, but come out and SAY it, don't try to pretend that Linux games are #1 and then sneak out a bunch of Mac games when we aren't looking.
4) Every 3 months or so Transgaming releases a new version of WineX. Invariably I try all the games that didn't work in the previous version and AGAIN they don't work a whit better than they did before. Not only that, but half the time, a game that DID work now no longer does (or now has some interesting new bugs). It seems like each release is solely for the purpose of being able to say that (#insert new game here#) ALMOST but not quite doesn't really work. In this manner Transgaming is a lot like that annoying beverage machine on the Heart of Gold. Unfortunately even that machine finally got it right, but not Transgaming... and I've run out of patience.
The bottom line is I feel I tried to support the Linux gaming community with my $ and I got NADA in return, certainly not $180 worth.
I just let my subscription expire for the first time in 3 years precisely because of the WineX lack of focus. Are MAC gamers paying these assholes 5$/mnth for MAC games? Hell no. I'm tired of only being able to play Max Payne and a couple other games. Hundreds of DirectX6 games that I'd like to play and which should be EASY to provide support for just continuously get dropped as they spend (mostly fruitless) time trying to get things like Battlefield 1942 to run well (guess what, it still doesn't last time I tried it).
So I'm kissing these bastards goodbye and good riddance. Let the damn Mac users pay for their stupidity for a while.
That's the reasoning alright, and I've seen the companies I worked at piss away ~$5B following that dumbass model.
I say, if it's making you money, milk it for all it is worth before you decide to take some optimistic bean counter's guess at some NEW business that you will probably lose your ASS at, despite all their made up pretty numbers.
For every advertising a$$hole like you who NEEDs to kiss Adobe's a$$ and suck down Photoshop, there are a thousand or more people who just want to be able to modify some snapshots.
GIMP ain't Photoshop by a long ways, but then again, there are about 3 guys who wrote most of the GIMP code, while Adobe has 300 or more supporting Photoshop (when they aren't out abusing the DMCA by suing Russian developers).
Adobe is evil, and you contribute to that. Think on that one you professional a$$hole.
Since they are pumping up the stock price with lots of big claims that it will probably be provable they knew were false, in order to sell their stock, will they be the next executives to go to prison?
If so, it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of &*%$@!
Here's hoping they enjoy having Ken Lay as a cellmate...
The rights of the corporations shall never be circumvented by the rights of the peons.
How this decision could have possibly been made without rampant corruption of our judges is completely beyond me.
Kiss the constitution goodbye. The 1st Amendment no longer exists unless you want to complain about God. Write about anything else and you'll either be branded a terrorist (for political speech) or a DMCA violator (for commercial/political speech) and thrown in jail.
This country is no longer "free". It hasn't been for a long time.... unless you are corporation.
The only possible good news would be if someone could appeal this to SCOTUS and get a different answer.
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There doesn't seem to be a version of Enigmail that works with 1.0!!! This is highly annoying! I can't read my encrypted mail until a new version is released...
How damn hard is it to not break Enigmail with every TB release? Not to whine, but come on...
Yeah, but it's good... heck it is almost as good as : "Quantity has a quality all its own."
"Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." - Josef Stalin
Really? It was my understanding that gun ownership in Britain 30 years ago was, while not likely, at least possible for some, while now it is VERY hard to own a gun at all (for citizens, criminals find it very easy since Ireland is right next door).
The fact that thugs in Britain feel free to throw rocks at cop cars and cops when they are bored tells me something as well....
And your point is? America is NOT Afganistan. The cases are not parallel in the slightest.
I dare say that America is unique in the world. America is the result of 250 years or more of survival of the fittest. We got the rest of the world's independent, desperate and go-getting people, who weren't afraid to take a risk and take chances to make things better, while the stay at homes stayed at home, and frankly you can see the difference.
See below... and visit England, where less guns = more crime. On my recent trip to England, Scotland and Wales I met plenty of people who just couldn't understand why the US has guns, but then bitched about how nazi-like their government was and how the feared to walk their own streets at night.
Dear God people, get over your pathological fear of guns! They are a useful tool and can save your life.
Accidental US deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
Number of Physicians = 700,000
Death By Physician = 0.171428571
Total US Deaths by Firearm (including Homicide and Accident) per year = 13,876
Number of Gun Owners = 80,000,000
Death Per Gun Owner = 1.73E-04
Therefore Physicians are ~1,000X more dangerous than gun owners.
Sorry, screwed up the math... See below.
Accidental US deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
Number of Physicians = 700,000
Death By Physician = 0.171428571
Total US Deaths by Firearm (including Homicide and Accident) per year = 13,876
Number of Gun Owners = 80,000,000
Death Per Gun Owner = 1.73E-04
Therefore Physicians are ~1,000X more dangerous than gun owners.
Accidental US deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
Total US Deaths by Firearm (including Homicide and Accident) per year = 13,876
Therefore physicians are approximately 10x more dangerous than guns.
A "well-regulated" militia means one that is led by competent people, not one that can't carry guns.
Militias at the time of this document were ad-hoc groups of neighbors, taking up their hunting weapons (blunderbusses and smoothbore rifles) to defend their homes. As I mentioned in another reply, this is called "pre-amble", and states WHY it is necessary that "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
As for small arms not being able to stop tanks, JDAMs, etc., that is a red-herring. These arms are for defending oneself against one's own government which is staffed with one's own citizens. It is assumed that said citizens will be somewhat reticent about dropping cluster bombs or 155mm shells on their fellow citizens. Rebellion always works in such a way. The purpose here is to make sure that the individuals are never SO over matched that the "secret police", etc., can kill them at will. The point is not to make the average citizen the equal to the US Army. If the US Army takes orders to kill you and carries them out, then you have already lost.
Besides, gun use by average citizens stops over 2.5M crimes per year, including 400,000 cases where the citizen so using the weapon felt their life to be threatened. Guns are useful tools, both for LIFE and for DEATH. Guns are not in themselves bad.
The Greeks had a piece of jurisprudence that it would be nice if our "modern" legal systems understood. No object is in and of itself, bad. Only the actions performed with it can be good or bad.
Too bad the UK High Court forgot this one.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed" This usage is very clear, the right to bear arms is only concidered vital as part of a militia!
NO...The usage is very clear and it is a pre-amble, indicating WHY it is necessary, NOT restricting ownership only to "militia", which at that time were just small ad-hoc groups of people who happened to want to defend their homes against the oppressive British red-coats.
You are either an absolute idiot or someone who doesn't have a clue about history, even incredibly RECENT history.
Some objective facts that are PROVABLE:
All governments lie to their subjects.
All governments become bad/corrupt over time, requiring their removal if citizens want to keep their rights.
Amendment II
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
"No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms." (Jefferson Papers, p. 334, C.J. Boyd, 1950)
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." (Thomas Jefferson Papers p. 334, 1950)
"And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." Letter to William S. Smith 13 Nov 1787 (Jefferson, On Democracy p. 20, 1939; Padover, editor)
" Defenseless people around the world killed in the 20th Century in part because they had no means of self defense (gun control) - 56 million. This total does not even take into consideration the recent genocides occurring in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia." - Unknown
"Number of physicians in the US = 700,000
Accidental deaths caused by physicians per year = 120,000
Accidental deaths per physician = 0.171 (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human
Services)
Number of gun owners in the US = 80,000,000
Number of accidental gun deaths per year = 1,500 (all age groups)
Accidental deaths per gun owner = 0.0000188 (U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco
& Firearms)
Therefore, doctors are approximately 9,000 times more dangerous than gun
owners." -Taken from the Benton County News Tribune of November 17, 1999.
Which, given Ashcroft's history will probably be fine by them....
I realize that JA, is all about promoting capitalism to our youth, which most of the time seems to be a non-bad thing. But this perversion is beyond sad.
I suggest that folks give them a call and let them know how much they appreciate this one-sided blatant shill for the RIAA & MPAA's version of copyright law.
JA Head Office (719) 540-8000
What the hell is VLC? Please don't use acronymns that the rest of us may not know.
That Microsoft is 100% completely evil, this is it.
Anyone who tells themself anything different from now on is just fooling themselves.
Microsoft appears to be able to give Satan lessons.
Look, I've paid those guys ~$180 for the ability to play about 2 games in Linux (Max Payne (a 4) & Star Empires IV (about a 3)). Every other game I had didn't work, or worked so crappily that it wasn't worth playing on WineX.
Here are the OTHER things that are wrong with Transgaming that that other guy didn't mention:
1)Their forums are the worst set up forums I've EVER SEEN ANYWHERE. They are some sort of proprietary forum software (I think one of them wrote it themselves) and they SUCK beyond all possible belief. Hell, until recently they didn't even have THREADING! Damn near everyone agrees that the forums SUCK A MOUNTAIN OF A$$. Indeed, they suck so bad it is hard to tell how many other people think they suck because the forums are so butt ugly and useless that one can't find the threads. However, despite the fact that the forums SUCK A MOUNTAIN OF A$$, Transgaming refuses to spend the two days it would take them to set up some DECENT forums. Hell, I've seen forums some 12 year old set up to run his Pokemon fansite that were 1000 times better than the crap forums Transgaming has, and they are SUPPOSEDLY a business!
2)Asking for help getting anything other than a 4-5 (perfect) score game is an exercise in futility. Transgaming certainly doesn't help. If you are lucky you MAY find someone who tried to run the same game and found a fix, but 99% of the time, you will find JACK and get no help.
3) Almost all games, even those that are YEARS old are 3 or below (meaning major problems/doesn't run) with WineX. Add to that that I've had better luck getting Wine to run many more games than WineX (other than the FPS shooters) and you have to ask yourself what you are paying for, especially since they now have damn near as many Mac games released as Linux ones. Even if they expect to make their money off the Mac games to pay for their time, it was OUR dollars they used to get that time. Until they sell enough games in other words, WE paid for them to develop Mac OS games. Note: Oh yes, I know how the CPAs can play their games to say different, but that is the bottom line. Linux games are obviously no where near their top priority. If that's true, then fine, but come out and SAY it, don't try to pretend that Linux games are #1 and then sneak out a bunch of Mac games when we aren't looking.
4) Every 3 months or so Transgaming releases a new version of WineX. Invariably I try all the games that didn't work in the previous version and AGAIN they don't work a whit better than they did before. Not only that, but half the time, a game that DID work now no longer does (or now has some interesting new bugs). It seems like each release is solely for the purpose of being able to say that (#insert new game here#) ALMOST but not quite doesn't really work. In this manner Transgaming is a lot like that annoying beverage machine on the Heart of Gold. Unfortunately even that machine finally got it right, but not Transgaming... and I've run out of patience.
The bottom line is I feel I tried to support the Linux gaming community with my $ and I got NADA in return, certainly not $180 worth.
I just let my subscription expire for the first time in 3 years precisely because of the WineX lack of focus. Are MAC gamers paying these assholes 5$/mnth for MAC games? Hell no. I'm tired of only being able to play Max Payne and a couple other games. Hundreds of DirectX6 games that I'd like to play and which should be EASY to provide support for just continuously get dropped as they spend (mostly fruitless) time trying to get things like Battlefield 1942 to run well (guess what, it still doesn't last time I tried it).
So I'm kissing these bastards goodbye and good riddance. Let the damn Mac users pay for their stupidity for a while.
Not a single one of these links work.
This is like waving an empty book around as evidence.
I'm not saying it's untrue, just that none of these links work.
"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
Crazier than a bunch of shithouse rats.
That's the reasoning alright, and I've seen the companies I worked at piss away ~$5B following that dumbass model.
I say, if it's making you money, milk it for all it is worth before you decide to take some optimistic bean counter's guess at some NEW business that you will probably lose your ASS at, despite all their made up pretty numbers.
Idiots.
Why do we care? We can just through the polycarbonate ones we have into one of these thermal depolymerization reactors and presto chango, free oil!
For every advertising a$$hole like you who NEEDs to kiss Adobe's a$$ and suck down Photoshop, there are a thousand or more people who just want to be able to modify some snapshots. GIMP ain't Photoshop by a long ways, but then again, there are about 3 guys who wrote most of the GIMP code, while Adobe has 300 or more supporting Photoshop (when they aren't out abusing the DMCA by suing Russian developers). Adobe is evil, and you contribute to that. Think on that one you professional a$$hole.
England is so small you should be able to walk everywhere..... :)
Since they are pumping up the stock price with lots of big claims that it will probably be provable they knew were false, in order to sell their stock, will they be the next executives to go to prison?
If so, it couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of &*%$@!
Here's hoping they enjoy having Ken Lay as a cellmate...
The rights of the corporations shall never be circumvented by the rights of the peons.
How this decision could have possibly been made without rampant corruption of our judges is completely beyond me.
Kiss the constitution goodbye. The 1st Amendment no longer exists unless you want to complain about God. Write about anything else and you'll either be branded a terrorist (for political speech) or a DMCA violator (for commercial/political speech) and thrown in jail.
This country is no longer "free". It hasn't been for a long time.... unless you are corporation.
The only possible good news would be if someone could appeal this to SCOTUS and get a different answer.