I wanted to stress that you really meant that you have to buy into it. The course to actually learn about Xenu costs $750 alone! Individually the courses to become a "clear" cost over $4500! Some people spend more than that in a year going to a professional therapist. That's not a lot of money to become a 'clear', or 'individuated', or 'self actualized', or 'enlightened', or whatever. And for entertainment value, none of the great theorists of psychology have anything as interesting as Xenu. That's not a defense of the CoS, there's plenty you can be pissed at them about, but a $4500 therapy bill? I thought it was more than that. Are you sure that's all it costs to become a clear?
This would be more of an option if I could turn the work computer back on remotely if needed. I think there are servers that have that feature. 95% of the time I don't need to access my work computer from home outside of business hours, but it gets left on for the that other 5%.
It's just classical liberalism dressed up as a religion instead of as a philosophy with a healthy dose of sociopathy thrown in.
Lol, well, I could debate that but it would be something of an academic exercise since my heart wouldn't be in it as I'm no longer of the faith. Enjoyed your pithy, one sentence, summary though. Thanks for that:)
The problem with Ayn Rand and her philosophy is in its absence of compassion for regular people. She may have come up with it with Hank Reardens and John Galts in mind, but this lack of compassion makes it most appealing for assholes looking to justify greed and the ownership of more and more by fewer and fewer people. That's not to say there's no value in it if one looks at it purely for what it is, and to condemn Rand without reading her is contemptible, but it is incomplete. Recommended reading, especially Atlas Shrugged, but think twice before making a religion of it.
The would be linux n00b would be better off asking 'which distribution is most popular' rather than 'which distribution is best', then going with the most popular. Chances are that's the major distribution which is easiest to use and which has a large user base (lots of online help/forums if needed). Asking 'which is best' just opens the can of worms you refer to regarding choice, as some who answer will advocate for whatever it is they like, while others will answer fairly, if unhelpfully, 'there is no best distribution, it depends on what you want, yadda, yadda, yadda'.
Personally, I think the abundance of choice with Linux distributions is a good thing, and something Linux users with at least some experience may find interesting to explore. But it can be bewildering to the potential new user, especially if they make the mistake of asking which is best.
This is how we did things in the old days. If a court declared a guy to be an 'outlaw' then that's exactly what he was, outside the law, and fair game for anyone and everybody knew it. If you chopped off an outlaw's head and presented it to the sheriff he'd give you a silver penny, same as if you presented a wolf's head. If we're going back to that form of justice then lets just get on with it rather than trying to sneak it in by degrees, starting with the child molesters, then the rapists, and so on. 'Course the RIAA would want it to apply to file sharers as well, so might not be a popular idea on this forum.
For example, how many people usually break out laughing at funerals when everyone else is all sorrow or silence? Doesn't even have to be that extreme. Try laughing out loud at a really bad play. It's not my fault the actors suck, why am I the one who get a sharp elbow to the ribs? Gumby theatre is funny, even when unintentional.
... and he will eat for a day. Show him how to monetize his web site with google ads, and he can go to the market and buy fish with the money he makes.
You!=Everyone else:) You have to remember that every bad story about Vista isn't representing the whole truth - that there are thousands of folks out there who are using Vista on a day-to-day basis, and are not having problems. And I imagine there are many thousands like a friend of mine who contacts me periodically to ask about Linux. Vista has pissed her off. Then later I'll hear that she overcame her frustration. Then later she'll contact me again wanting advice about Linux again. She seems to be developing a tolerance/hate relationship with it. I can almost imagine her talking to it: "Listen, you behave yourself or I will nuke you and replace you with Linux. I'm not kidding. You think I'm kidding? Ok, this is me emailing fyoder about Linux. I'm sure he'd be happy to help me wipe you out you bastard OS. Hitting send now."
Great, another thing to switch to google for. Eventually we will move our physical bodies to Google as well, into their gCapules which provide an exceptional virtual reality experience we can work in, the only price being their using our bodies as batteries to power their massive server farms. That, and objects in the virtual world will be festooned with google ads.
The cell phone is cheaper than your landline (if you get the right plan).
Where do you live? I'm doubting it's in Canada. We have a government anti-competition board which exists to green light the buying up of smaller companies by larger (recently Fido by Rogers) so that collusion between them is easier. Right now the heads of the mobile phone companies could all meet together on a park bench. I'm not saying that they do. Not when they can easily afford the best restaurants.
You could give parallels workstation a try. It's less expensive than VMWare workstation. More expensive than the free vmplayer, obviously, but more featureful. I'm not accustomed to paying for proprietary software, but I did shell out for it the other day since it proved itself during the trial period, running on Ubuntu (gutsy gibbon, 7.10).
So it is you, you nephews and brothers-in-law and husbands of co-workers, who are facilitating the creation of massive bot-nets of compromised Windows machines, you who are not clueless yet commit the sin of settling for shit. Do everyone a favour and switch to a superior operating system, OS/X or Linux, it doesn't matter, and then, when a clueless Windows user calls for help, be firm and say, "Wouldn't know anything about that, I use Linux [or OS/X]. If you want to switch, I'd be happy to help you out."
Exactly. Everything always comes back to economics. The Romans collected tax money from bakers and fishermen. A diminishment of their income reduced money going back to Rome. There was also the threat to the ferrymen. An apostle nearly got the walking on water thing down, but lacked faith so began to sink and had to be rescued. Had Jesus been allowed to operate for longer, he would have had everyone walking on water, seriously reducing the trade of the ferrymen. They would have been reduced to transporting asses, since it is unlikely simple beasts of burden could be trained to have the sufficient faith necessary for water walking. And, of course, the whole contempt for commerce conducted in temples would have been bad for the economy in the short term, though long term would only have accelerated the development of modern banking.
The only reason for anyone under 40 to buy a CD now is so they can rip it and put it onto their portable music device...
And us old fogies are into vinyl, so CDs are really in trouble. My Grado Reference cartridge blows away any of your digital to analog con verters, sonny. Now get off my lawn so I can get back to listening to Zeppelin the way it was meant to be heard.
It is for reasons such as this that I have come to believe that the Constitution must be amended and the office of the Presidency abolished. It is simply too much power in the hands of one person, with the temptation to seize even more power.
However I see the chances of this happening as slim to know, as many people not only desire a President but actually a King or Emperor. In their world view, they need to see somebody "in charge", even if that person is a travesty.
Somebody, by whatever title, gets to be head of state. The trick is to limit their power so much that they are effectively a figurehead, regardless of their title. Here in Canada, that's the Queen, through her representative the Governor General who is officially Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. But if she decided on her own to use the military to 'liberate' her native Haiti or something, it wouldn't happen, even though she looks really cute with her Amazon Brigade.
Sony's PC shipments for Japan shrank 10 percent in 2006 from a year earlier.
Clearly my boycott Sony campaign is achieving results. I go on and on mercilessly to people about how they shouldn't buy Sony because of their rootkit sheanigans and their belonging to an organization that sues children and the disabled. Clearly this has somehow made it to Japan and is making a difference, at least amongst non-slashdot readers. With slashdot one day it's 'boo, Sony, for doing bad things', but next day it's 'Hooray, Sony has released a shiny new toy' (or movie or some other goody). I don't give me that line about how Sony is divided into different departments and we shouldn't penalize one section for the misdeeds of another. At the end of the day when the money is counted it's all Sony profit. Which is why the premise of the article is no big deal to Sony; if one part of their empire loses to another part of their empire, overall they haven't lost at all.
Initially all Windows, but when geeks complained they threw us a bone of two ogg streams from Ontario. It has been that way for some time, with no sign of other regions being offered in ogg. Another reason to hate Toronto, I guess.
Democracy only works well with an educated populace capable of some degree of critical thinking, otherwise it's reduced to a popularity contest where whoever has the most effective advertising wins. If people cared about and understood democracy, they'd push for more money for education, and within that for an emphasis on critical thinking.
It might seem unfair to test for requisite knowledge prior to voting, but I can see where that idea comes from. It is sad that it should arise at all, that we can't just assume that everyone is qualified to vote by virtue of their education.
With the amount of money they have, I would think they could afford to fund 10 separate teams in parallel, each developing the next generation of Windows from scratch, and pick the best of the 10 when they're done. And yet they can't even muster enough skill to produce *one* decent next-generation product? What a bunch of losers!
Not really. What they are is a corporation, and what they are primarily trying to produce is profit. And they've done very well at achieving their primary objective. What you are proposing is unnecessarily expensive, given that they can continue as they have been doing while raking it in. Better still, from their perspective, would be if they could halve the number of developers on the payroll while continuing to turn out the same shite. Multiplying the number of developers by ten would be just insane from the perspective of maximizing profits and minimizing expenses.
It is time to put to bed the idea that Linux runs on shite hardware. There might be some truth in that (depending on degree of shite) if you're talking about the kernel, but if you're talking a recent major distro with either KDE or Gnome desktop, just forget running it on old hardware. The Puppy Linux distro the parent refers to doesn't use either.
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This would be more of an option if I could turn the work computer back on remotely if needed. I think there are servers that have that feature. 95% of the time I don't need to access my work computer from home outside of business hours, but it gets left on for the that other 5%.
Lol, well, I could debate that but it would be something of an academic exercise since my heart wouldn't be in it as I'm no longer of the faith. Enjoyed your pithy, one sentence, summary though. Thanks for that :)
The problem with Ayn Rand and her philosophy is in its absence of compassion for regular people. She may have come up with it with Hank Reardens and John Galts in mind, but this lack of compassion makes it most appealing for assholes looking to justify greed and the ownership of more and more by fewer and fewer people. That's not to say there's no value in it if one looks at it purely for what it is, and to condemn Rand without reading her is contemptible, but it is incomplete. Recommended reading, especially Atlas Shrugged, but think twice before making a religion of it.
The would be linux n00b would be better off asking 'which distribution is most popular' rather than 'which distribution is best', then going with the most popular. Chances are that's the major distribution which is easiest to use and which has a large user base (lots of online help/forums if needed). Asking 'which is best' just opens the can of worms you refer to regarding choice, as some who answer will advocate for whatever it is they like, while others will answer fairly, if unhelpfully, 'there is no best distribution, it depends on what you want, yadda, yadda, yadda'.
Personally, I think the abundance of choice with Linux distributions is a good thing, and something Linux users with at least some experience may find interesting to explore. But it can be bewildering to the potential new user, especially if they make the mistake of asking which is best.
I want my sexbot! I don't want a cute dog robot, I don't want a dinosaur robot, what, is there no market for sexbots?
Just be sure not to google google, or you will break the internet.
What's next? Shutting down ilovelucy.com?
This is how we did things in the old days. If a court declared a guy to be an 'outlaw' then that's exactly what he was, outside the law, and fair game for anyone and everybody knew it. If you chopped off an outlaw's head and presented it to the sheriff he'd give you a silver penny, same as if you presented a wolf's head. If we're going back to that form of justice then lets just get on with it rather than trying to sneak it in by degrees, starting with the child molesters, then the rapists, and so on. 'Course the RIAA would want it to apply to file sharers as well, so might not be a popular idea on this forum.
... and he will eat for a day. Show him how to monetize his web site with google ads, and he can go to the market and buy fish with the money he makes.
Great, another thing to switch to google for. Eventually we will move our physical bodies to Google as well, into their gCapules which provide an exceptional virtual reality experience we can work in, the only price being their using our bodies as batteries to power their massive server farms. That, and objects in the virtual world will be festooned with google ads.
Where do you live? I'm doubting it's in Canada. We have a government anti-competition board which exists to green light the buying up of smaller companies by larger (recently Fido by Rogers) so that collusion between them is easier. Right now the heads of the mobile phone companies could all meet together on a park bench. I'm not saying that they do. Not when they can easily afford the best restaurants.
You could give parallels workstation a try. It's less expensive than VMWare workstation. More expensive than the free vmplayer, obviously, but more featureful. I'm not accustomed to paying for proprietary software, but I did shell out for it the other day since it proved itself during the trial period, running on Ubuntu (gutsy gibbon, 7.10).
Damn the nephews for all spam
So it is you, you nephews and brothers-in-law and husbands of co-workers, who are facilitating the creation of massive bot-nets of compromised Windows machines, you who are not clueless yet commit the sin of settling for shit. Do everyone a favour and switch to a superior operating system, OS/X or Linux, it doesn't matter, and then, when a clueless Windows user calls for help, be firm and say, "Wouldn't know anything about that, I use Linux [or OS/X]. If you want to switch, I'd be happy to help you out."
Exactly. Everything always comes back to economics. The Romans collected tax money from bakers and fishermen. A diminishment of their income reduced money going back to Rome. There was also the threat to the ferrymen. An apostle nearly got the walking on water thing down, but lacked faith so began to sink and had to be rescued. Had Jesus been allowed to operate for longer, he would have had everyone walking on water, seriously reducing the trade of the ferrymen. They would have been reduced to transporting asses, since it is unlikely simple beasts of burden could be trained to have the sufficient faith necessary for water walking. And, of course, the whole contempt for commerce conducted in temples would have been bad for the economy in the short term, though long term would only have accelerated the development of modern banking.
And us old fogies are into vinyl, so CDs are really in trouble. My Grado Reference cartridge blows away any of your digital to analog con verters, sonny. Now get off my lawn so I can get back to listening to Zeppelin the way it was meant to be heard.
And then the ritual sex magic.
Oh, Baphomet, yes, Yes, YES!
Hm, torrent hasn't finished downloading. Let's smoke a joint and do another invocation.
Clearly my boycott Sony campaign is achieving results. I go on and on mercilessly to people about how they shouldn't buy Sony because of their rootkit sheanigans and their belonging to an organization that sues children and the disabled. Clearly this has somehow made it to Japan and is making a difference, at least amongst non-slashdot readers. With slashdot one day it's 'boo, Sony, for doing bad things', but next day it's 'Hooray, Sony has released a shiny new toy' (or movie or some other goody). I don't give me that line about how Sony is divided into different departments and we shouldn't penalize one section for the misdeeds of another. At the end of the day when the money is counted it's all Sony profit. Which is why the premise of the article is no big deal to Sony; if one part of their empire loses to another part of their empire, overall they haven't lost at all.
CBC Radio Live Streams
Initially all Windows, but when geeks complained they threw us a bone of two ogg streams from Ontario. It has been that way for some time, with no sign of other regions being offered in ogg. Another reason to hate Toronto, I guess.
Democracy only works well with an educated populace capable of some degree of critical thinking, otherwise it's reduced to a popularity contest where whoever has the most effective advertising wins. If people cared about and understood democracy, they'd push for more money for education, and within that for an emphasis on critical thinking. It might seem unfair to test for requisite knowledge prior to voting, but I can see where that idea comes from. It is sad that it should arise at all, that we can't just assume that everyone is qualified to vote by virtue of their education.
Not really. What they are is a corporation, and what they are primarily trying to produce is profit. And they've done very well at achieving their primary objective. What you are proposing is unnecessarily expensive, given that they can continue as they have been doing while raking it in. Better still, from their perspective, would be if they could halve the number of developers on the payroll while continuing to turn out the same shite. Multiplying the number of developers by ten would be just insane from the perspective of maximizing profits and minimizing expenses.
It is time to put to bed the idea that Linux runs on shite hardware. There might be some truth in that (depending on degree of shite) if you're talking about the kernel, but if you're talking a recent major distro with either KDE or Gnome desktop, just forget running it on old hardware. The Puppy Linux distro the parent refers to doesn't use either.