You are witnessing someone voting for the third
or fourth times because you happened to have
a good eye and can see father than the
table that you are working at.
You complain to the supervisor who tells you
that you are not allowed to question the
honesty of a voter who has just sworn on his
honor that this is his only vote.
The same guy is back within an hour or two
at another table and when you complain again
you are told that at the next outburst you will
be expelled.
Now you see a neighbor that you know is a refugee
come to the table. During the revising of the
list his name was removed since he has just
arrived a few months before in some container.
The law allows him to register on the day of
the election. All he needs is to swear that he
is a citizen and perhaps an ID proving that his
face is the same as the one on his fake ID.
He votes. He can go in the next table or county
later on and vote again.
Yes I have worked many times in canuck elections
and have witness a lot of shit of the kind.
There was even an empty high rise every one
not living in the said building voted. Then
there were cemeteries.
Fraud is just as bad in Canada as it is in the
USA. It is just done in different ways.
The only way around this bullshit would be
to identify you with a finger print or eye print
not use winblows as the platform for any voting
machine.
We don't NEED to stay off the streets of our downtown cores at night.
Unless you live in Toronto or Montréal and appear to own something.
Unless you're a taxi cab driver and someone
in need for cash is close by.
We don't NEED to fear being shot by some asshole on the freeway because he's in a pissy mood.
Machettes or hunting knifes in buses, taxi cabs
or dépanneurs work just as good and are less noisy.
Seems we don't need most of the draconian measures that you fine Americans need. Since we don't feel the need to beat the shit out of / kill our neibours like you americans seem to have,
unless you're an anglo and he's a French Canadian
in a bar Tillsonburg and he is talking to an anglo girl.
Oh my GOD Ottawa just recorded it's 6th homicide on Dec 29th
who is likely to get a suspended sentence with
plenty of welfare money so he doesn't have to
steal to pay for his drug
Taxes are coming down REAL BEER!
3%, not too many beers with that.
Taxes are still a little high
Just the sales tax is around 15% on
goods and services. That ain't coming
down anytime soon.
Athena! Didn't they have that strange web browser
for a while?
That browser that was such a piece of shit but
I always accidently installed it for some reason
or another and then reached for a shot gun but
at the end decided that uninstalling it was the
best approach.
I've used their V25 debugger before but
where the heck is a Linux version of any
of their debuggers?
I've never seen any Linux or Unix version
of their debuggers.
As for the V25 debugger I've used, it seemed
a derivative of Borland turbo debugger and
only runs on dos.
C is great, so is C++
C++ has some great features which can
solve hours of work. It may get bloated
sometime if you don't have a good
optimizer but it is nonetheless a very good
language.
Use what you like and leave the rest of
the world who love C++ alone.
Not true, a majority of Americans including
democrats want to live in a democracy
and that implies no Electoral College
except to break a tie. I think that in that
case the new elected congress (not senate)
should elect the president in case of a tie.
We should also do away with the senate and
add extra congress seats for supporter of
the Green, Reform or any other third parties.
We have governors to represent the states, we
don't need senators.
We then would have a true democracy.
We look like morons when we try to tell
everyone else in the world that they should
live in a democracy when we don't live in
one.
Polititians of both major party wants the
status quo because there is always a chance
that it would favor them as long as they can
secure key states.
I'm not convinced that Alzheimer causes the
brain cells to die. My dad died of Alzheimer
and my own experience with him shows something
else. Whenever I would touch his hands he
would come back to reality and just as sharp
and intelligent as ever. My impression was that
the electrical connections from his memory cells
to his brain weren't being made not that the
cells were dead or dying.
Just think of your computer with the traces
to the microprocessor cut, would that imply
that the memory sims are dead?
I don't see English as becoming the only
language on the net anytime soon.
Lotsa languages are used on the net. It is not
because english is used by people who don't
speak each other's language to communicate with
each other that English is likely replace those
languages.
French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish
for instance are much more pleasant languages to
use than english so it would be illogical to
switch to english for everyday use.
It sure would be a boring world if we all looked
alike and spoke all the same language.
We can find SuSE here in the stores but not
everyone carries SuSE. I have to drive 75 miles
to the Grand Rapids CompUSA to find it.
The local Walmart only carries Mandrake Linux
and Staples carries Mandrake, Corel, RedHat,
FreeBSD and Open Linux.
Since I found that www.chumbo.com always
carry it I don't bother with the local store.
I tried it by curiosity after reading a few
German posts and I think that if more people
in the US knew about SuSE, it could very well
outsell all the other Linux distributions.
The only problem I had in the past with SuSE
was it's poor support of French which is now
excellent and as good if not better than
Mandrake's, without the frequent core dumps.
What is lacking in SuSE is a better support of
Gnome which I think is far superior to KDE.
The internal clock of the 6502 was either 1Mhz
or 2Mhz.
I don't remember the divider, either 2 or 4 which
means the xtal was either 2Mhz or 4Mhz. Often
like with the COSMAC a TV 3.58Mhz xtal was used
because of it's lower cost.
The Z80 has been used in different speeds
depending on the computer. Originally it
was 4Mhz.
I remember when I worked at the World Trade Center
that our system that we install at Merril Lynch
beat the crap out of the PC XT in speed. It was
a ZCPR system with a Z80 (Clone of CPM/80)
Today you can find CMOS Z80 at 10Mhz. There
are parts that run Z80 code and more like the
rabbit and the Z180.
You need to wake up to reality. Most engineering
firms work this way :
There are several level of management, usually
made of morons as is well described in the
Dilbert cartoons.
The engineers are assigned projects which
deadlines are usually based on dreams or
idiotic ideas on how long a project is supposed
to take. It turns out that in most cases projects
are not delivered on time unless a lot of overtime
is done. Since the companies that pay for overtime
are extremmely rare it turns out that for most
people this is unpaid overtime.
A good experience programmer knows that the
company can't get rid of him or her easily
or dictate the number of unpaid overtime hours
that he or she ought to do.
Take an engineer on one of those temporary visas.
It is nearly impossible to say no. The alternative
is scary for those people. They are in a foreign
land with nowhere to go. They must stay at the
company they work at or may suffer certain
penalities. What happens then is that the
temporary worker could end up working 80 to 90
hours for the price of 40 or 45 hours.
How can a normal immigrant or citizen of this
great country compete against that?
Next time you think of coming up with bullshit
like your dumb defense of the ill conceived
immigration bill, talk to real engineers who
have known the engineering work place in the
US so you won't look as stupid as you did.
I have nearly 20 years experience in engineering
and I am seen by most companies as "over
qualified". Finding work at my age is nearly
impossible.
When I had around 10 years of experience and had
to take a temporary contract of 3 years in
Montréal (Canada) in order to survive, this was
after 7 months of search all over the US North
East.
There was a place in Rochester where the manager
told me flat out that I was too old (40 years old)
The catch is that if you have less than 2 years of
experience companies don't want you and if you
have more than 5 years of experience they think
you cost too much and don't want you either.
Those who hire green engineers have them work
their asses off for lower than normal wages and
get rid of em when they start refusing to work
excessive unpaid overtime.
Very few companies are smart enough to understand
that they should get the best and brightest. Their
HR dept will pick whatever cost the least. They'll
spend money on bullshitter managers but not on
real workers.
If you come under the temporary visa you are held
by the balls and can't leave even if you feel you
are screwed so you must to take the pay that is
offered to you.
If you leave that company in that 6 years you
can't apply for a green card.
Technically we are only importing cheap temporary
labor. We're not in Germany here, this is
America. If you work and pay taxes in this country
you should be entitled to stay here.
Since I don't earn over half a million a year
I see my taxes lower with Al Gore than with Bush.
Even ignoring this one issue, just the fact that
Bush sucks up to the most obnoxious fundies in
the USA should be a wake up call to anyone.
As for your beloved guns, unless you want an
AK47 for hunting deers or children I fail to
see your points.
Size of government is a bullshit issue. The
republicans want the government out the business
world but want the government in women's lives.
When a choice is between a few companies being
pissed at the government and the governement
tampering with people's freedom, the choice
becomes very clear.
A vote for Bush is a pro fundy vote and a
vote for Al Gore is a pro freedom vote.
According to nasdaq Corel's share went up sharply
early october to take a dive a few days later.
Whoever bought millions of shares of Corel
then made a killing as the shares doubled in value.
I wonder who dumped those millions of shares as
the price went up to $6 a share from close to
$3.50 a share.
You don't seem to realize the end result of that
.NET bullshit. I see a new way of delivery for
software when one has no longer to worry about
having to deal with stolen software as Microsoft,
Corel and many others have to deal with.
When the.NET system is in place, you rent all
your software much like you rent your cable TV or
satellite service, à la carte.
You may get a few little things for free like
the mine program or notepad but for real
applications you will pay forever. No more buying
software but you are just renting. A dream come
true for Microsoft, Corel and other companies
who will buy into the system.
IBM and Sun will ultimately look for systems
like this. IBM will most likely still pursue
both avenues since their money is in hardware
and services.
To think that we Linux users are moron enough
to buy into this bullshit shows an excess use
of some strange substance or an excess use of
Microsoft's products.
I will never buy into this as I want to run
either software that I write, software that
I buy, Freeware or Shareware.
To those who think that I will rent software
from them someday instead of buying it :
"FUCK YOU"
>This isn't really 100% true (Perhaps with the
>exception of Slackware). From my experiences, the
>default Linux filesystem is extermely finicky and
>anything other than a careful shutdown
>( ctrl-alt-del or "shutdown" or "reboot" ) will
>end up in a serious FS problem, which at least
>will require a fsck -f to fix and at worst will
>trash the filesystem completely.
During storms which are frequent in this area
in the summer I get forced shutdowns and aside
from the long fsck I have seen no particular
problem. On winblows I had to reinstall a few
times because of unrecoverable errors. You might
think that I was not lucky but considering that it
is on the same machine I would fail to see your
point.
The way it works in Canada and here to some
extent is that a lot of the taxpayer's money
goes to companies. The amounts given are
disguise as help to enterprises.
In Canada they call this "Subventions à
la petite et moyenne entreprise", in anglo
provinces they have similar giveaway programs
as well. I don't remember the name they got
for here in Michigan but it is a similar
shaft of the taxpayers.
Canada is one of the most generous in that
area but they've managed over the years to
convince people that the high taxes are caused
by the high cost of medecine which is actually
much lower than here.
By the way, who is that jackass on TV bashing
the Canuck medical system? He claims to have
been a Canadian MP, I don't remember seing the
MF's face before.
Slashdot Mirror
You are witnessing someone voting for the third
or fourth times because you happened to have
a good eye and can see father than the
table that you are working at.
You complain to the supervisor who tells you
that you are not allowed to question the
honesty of a voter who has just sworn on his
honor that this is his only vote.
The same guy is back within an hour or two
at another table and when you complain again
you are told that at the next outburst you will
be expelled.
Now you see a neighbor that you know is a refugee
come to the table. During the revising of the
list his name was removed since he has just
arrived a few months before in some container.
The law allows him to register on the day of
the election. All he needs is to swear that he
is a citizen and perhaps an ID proving that his
face is the same as the one on his fake ID.
He votes. He can go in the next table or county
later on and vote again.
Yes I have worked many times in canuck elections
and have witness a lot of shit of the kind.
There was even an empty high rise every one
not living in the said building voted. Then
there were cemeteries.
Fraud is just as bad in Canada as it is in the
USA. It is just done in different ways.
The only way around this bullshit would be
to identify you with a finger print or eye print
not use winblows as the platform for any voting
machine.
Unless you're a taxi cab driver and someone in need for cash is close by. Machettes or hunting knifes in buses, taxi cabs or dépanneurs work just as good and are less noisy. unless you're an anglo and he's a French Canadian in a bar Tillsonburg and he is talking to an anglo girl. who is likely to get a suspended sentence with plenty of welfare money so he doesn't have to steal to pay for his drug Taxes are coming down REAL BEER! 3%, not too many beers with that. Just the sales tax is around 15% on goods and services. That ain't coming down anytime soon.
Athena! Didn't they have that strange web browser
for a while?
That browser that was such a piece of shit but
I always accidently installed it for some reason
or another and then reached for a shot gun but
at the end decided that uninstalling it was the
best approach.
Some morons say that Linux doesn't have any
applications and now we have another moron
who think there are too many.
To show Corel as an example to follow shows
a bigger moron considering the that the
install program is some sort of Trojan Horse.
I buy SuSE because they have a lot of stuff and
have a great distribution.
As for Corel I made the mistake of trying it
and had to restore a trashed 14G hard disk that
had SuSE and OS/2 on it.
I've used their V25 debugger before but
where the heck is a Linux version of any
of their debuggers?
I've never seen any Linux or Unix version
of their debuggers.
As for the V25 debugger I've used, it seemed
a derivative of Borland turbo debugger and
only runs on dos.
C is great, so is C++
C++ has some great features which can
solve hours of work. It may get bloated
sometime if you don't have a good
optimizer but it is nonetheless a very good
language.
Use what you like and leave the rest of
the world who love C++ alone.
Not true, a majority of Americans including
democrats want to live in a democracy
and that implies no Electoral College
except to break a tie. I think that in that
case the new elected congress (not senate)
should elect the president in case of a tie.
We should also do away with the senate and
add extra congress seats for supporter of
the Green, Reform or any other third parties.
We have governors to represent the states, we
don't need senators.
We then would have a true democracy.
We look like morons when we try to tell
everyone else in the world that they should
live in a democracy when we don't live in
one.
Polititians of both major party wants the
status quo because there is always a chance
that it would favor them as long as they can
secure key states.
Twit would have been a better term.
I'm not convinced that Alzheimer causes the
brain cells to die. My dad died of Alzheimer
and my own experience with him shows something
else. Whenever I would touch his hands he
would come back to reality and just as sharp
and intelligent as ever. My impression was that
the electrical connections from his memory cells
to his brain weren't being made not that the
cells were dead or dying.
Just think of your computer with the traces
to the microprocessor cut, would that imply
that the memory sims are dead?
I don't see English as becoming the only
language on the net anytime soon.
Lotsa languages are used on the net. It is not
because english is used by people who don't
speak each other's language to communicate with
each other that English is likely replace those
languages.
French, Italian, Portuguese, Catalan and Spanish
for instance are much more pleasant languages to
use than english so it would be illogical to
switch to english for everyday use.
It sure would be a boring world if we all looked
alike and spoke all the same language.
We can find SuSE here in the stores but not
everyone carries SuSE. I have to drive 75 miles
to the Grand Rapids CompUSA to find it.
The local Walmart only carries Mandrake Linux
and Staples carries Mandrake, Corel, RedHat,
FreeBSD and Open Linux.
Since I found that www.chumbo.com always
carry it I don't bother with the local store.
I tried it by curiosity after reading a few
German posts and I think that if more people
in the US knew about SuSE, it could very well
outsell all the other Linux distributions.
The only problem I had in the past with SuSE
was it's poor support of French which is now
excellent and as good if not better than
Mandrake's, without the frequent core dumps.
What is lacking in SuSE is a better support of
Gnome which I think is far superior to KDE.
The internal clock of the 6502 was either 1Mhz
or 2Mhz.
I don't remember the divider, either 2 or 4 which
means the xtal was either 2Mhz or 4Mhz. Often
like with the COSMAC a TV 3.58Mhz xtal was used
because of it's lower cost.
The Z80 has been used in different speeds
depending on the computer. Originally it
was 4Mhz.
I remember when I worked at the World Trade Center
that our system that we install at Merril Lynch
beat the crap out of the PC XT in speed. It was
a ZCPR system with a Z80 (Clone of CPM/80)
Today you can find CMOS Z80 at 10Mhz. There
are parts that run Z80 code and more like the
rabbit and the Z180.
You need to wake up to reality. Most engineering
firms work this way :
There are several level of management, usually
made of morons as is well described in the
Dilbert cartoons.
The engineers are assigned projects which
deadlines are usually based on dreams or
idiotic ideas on how long a project is supposed
to take. It turns out that in most cases projects
are not delivered on time unless a lot of overtime
is done. Since the companies that pay for overtime
are extremmely rare it turns out that for most
people this is unpaid overtime.
A good experience programmer knows that the
company can't get rid of him or her easily
or dictate the number of unpaid overtime hours
that he or she ought to do.
Take an engineer on one of those temporary visas.
It is nearly impossible to say no. The alternative
is scary for those people. They are in a foreign
land with nowhere to go. They must stay at the
company they work at or may suffer certain
penalities. What happens then is that the
temporary worker could end up working 80 to 90
hours for the price of 40 or 45 hours.
How can a normal immigrant or citizen of this
great country compete against that?
Next time you think of coming up with bullshit
like your dumb defense of the ill conceived
immigration bill, talk to real engineers who
have known the engineering work place in the
US so you won't look as stupid as you did.
I have nearly 20 years experience in engineering
and I am seen by most companies as "over
qualified". Finding work at my age is nearly
impossible.
When I had around 10 years of experience and had
to take a temporary contract of 3 years in
Montréal (Canada) in order to survive, this was
after 7 months of search all over the US North
East.
There was a place in Rochester where the manager
told me flat out that I was too old (40 years old)
The catch is that if you have less than 2 years of
experience companies don't want you and if you
have more than 5 years of experience they think
you cost too much and don't want you either.
Those who hire green engineers have them work
their asses off for lower than normal wages and
get rid of em when they start refusing to work
excessive unpaid overtime.
Very few companies are smart enough to understand
that they should get the best and brightest. Their
HR dept will pick whatever cost the least. They'll
spend money on bullshitter managers but not on
real workers.
If you come under the temporary visa you are held
by the balls and can't leave even if you feel you
are screwed so you must to take the pay that is
offered to you.
If you leave that company in that 6 years you
can't apply for a green card.
Technically we are only importing cheap temporary
labor. We're not in Germany here, this is
America. If you work and pay taxes in this country
you should be entitled to stay here.
Since I don't earn over half a million a year
I see my taxes lower with Al Gore than with Bush.
Even ignoring this one issue, just the fact that
Bush sucks up to the most obnoxious fundies in
the USA should be a wake up call to anyone.
As for your beloved guns, unless you want an
AK47 for hunting deers or children I fail to
see your points.
Size of government is a bullshit issue. The
republicans want the government out the business
world but want the government in women's lives.
When a choice is between a few companies being
pissed at the government and the governement
tampering with people's freedom, the choice
becomes very clear.
A vote for Bush is a pro fundy vote and a
vote for Al Gore is a pro freedom vote.
Palestinians and Jewish are both idiots to
kill each other over religion. A solution
might to abolish religion in that part of
the world.
But seriously here, there is enough blame to
go around on both sides and bashing the
Palestinians the way you do make you look
like a big asshole.
As to why you choose a discussion on Bush's
stupidity to put your bullshit is hard to understand.
Va jouer dans le traffic!
According to nasdaq Corel's share went up sharply
early october to take a dive a few days later.
Whoever bought millions of shares of Corel
then made a killing as the shares doubled in value.
I wonder who dumped those millions of shares as
the price went up to $6 a share from close to
$3.50 a share.
The share have now gone back up a bit.
You don't seem to realize the end result of that .NET system is in place, you rent all
.NET bullshit. I see a new way of delivery for
software when one has no longer to worry about
having to deal with stolen software as Microsoft,
Corel and many others have to deal with.
When the
your software much like you rent your cable TV or
satellite service, à la carte.
You may get a few little things for free like
the mine program or notepad but for real
applications you will pay forever. No more buying
software but you are just renting. A dream come
true for Microsoft, Corel and other companies
who will buy into the system.
IBM and Sun will ultimately look for systems
like this. IBM will most likely still pursue
both avenues since their money is in hardware
and services.
To think that we Linux users are moron enough
to buy into this bullshit shows an excess use
of some strange substance or an excess use of
Microsoft's products.
I will never buy into this as I want to run
either software that I write, software that
I buy, Freeware or Shareware.
To those who think that I will rent software
from them someday instead of buying it :
"FUCK YOU"
There are those restore CD that are tied to a
particular bios and motherboard. Your motherboard
died and you're fucked.
Install SuSE 7.0 professional and your struggle
will be to find room on your 30G hard drive
to fit everything and still leave room for
making CDs.
Instead of making ridiculous remarks on things
you don't know about, why don't you do some
research before making an ass of yoursef?
>from what I hear, speaking English is illegal in France.
The moron who told you that was probably drunk
or under the influence of some strange substance
or perhaps he was a brit.
>This isn't really 100% true (Perhaps with the
>exception of Slackware). From my experiences, the
>default Linux filesystem is extermely finicky and
>anything other than a careful shutdown
>( ctrl-alt-del or "shutdown" or "reboot" ) will
>end up in a serious FS problem, which at least
>will require a fsck -f to fix and at worst will
>trash the filesystem completely.
During storms which are frequent in this area
in the summer I get forced shutdowns and aside
from the long fsck I have seen no particular
problem. On winblows I had to reinstall a few
times because of unrecoverable errors. You might
think that I was not lucky but considering that it
is on the same machine I would fail to see your
point.
I use SuSE 7.0
I've seen a store in Montréal where computers
come bundled with Linux and you add $120 to
get winblows 98 instead.
A naked PC saves us the expense of useless
CDs when we allready have our OS. I prefer
to buy my OS from CompUSA or www.chumbo.com.
I can understand that dogs may like the
frisbees but think about those of us who
don't have a dog.
What the hell do you think we can do with the
frisbees that we have to buy with the PC?
My cats like balls, not frisbees.
The way it works in Canada and here to some
extent is that a lot of the taxpayer's money
goes to companies. The amounts given are
disguise as help to enterprises.
In Canada they call this "Subventions à
la petite et moyenne entreprise", in anglo
provinces they have similar giveaway programs
as well. I don't remember the name they got
for here in Michigan but it is a similar
shaft of the taxpayers.
Canada is one of the most generous in that
area but they've managed over the years to
convince people that the high taxes are caused
by the high cost of medecine which is actually
much lower than here.
By the way, who is that jackass on TV bashing
the Canuck medical system? He claims to have
been a Canadian MP, I don't remember seing the
MF's face before.
The two party system has worked well and it turns
out that we live in a free country which is
the best in the world.