Everybody thinks OJ is guilty because he is. He got off because Fuhrman said "nigger" and so the defense managed to get the jury to believe the cops planted evidence.
The latest fiasco with OJ in Vegas just backs up the assumption that he's sort of a loose cannon.
Since OLPC seems to be voiding its own warranty, after a manner of speaking, why not stick an older Linux distro on them, like RH 7 or so, and give 'em away to some local kids who are into sci/tech but maybe don't have a lot of money?
I'm sure that relevant teachers at the local high school or something might be able to hook you up with the right kind of kids, and you maybe could get a tax deduction out of it, even if they required a tad bit of work on the power supplies or batteries I'm sure you'd still come out ahead, even if only morally.
And the moral of the story is, chicks is bitches... all of my female friends tell me there is no such thing as a "nice girl." All my friends that were in sororities fought more with their "sisters" than they did with girls from other houses.
I had my problems with guys, but we'd just slug it out until someone gave up, then we'd be cool again. Girls, on the other hand, are all about sneaking around behind people's backs, rumors, gossip, backstabbing and "death from a thousand wounds" type shit.
The fact a "boy" was doing that shit should have told her, either he was fake or gay. Guys don't do that shit.
The only thing that surprises me about this is that you'd think a 50 year old woman would have something better to do than beat up on a teenager. Then again, I do remember reading Sleeping Beauty in one of my folklore classes, and as a child... this is more or less the same thing.
an indictment means that a Grand Jury has weighed all the evidence and decided that there is enough of it to cause any reasonable person to believe that a crime has in fact been committed. Rules of evidence are much more lax and guilt or non-guilt is not the issue -- only whether a crime has been committed.
The Grand Jury then issues an indictment, which are the formal charges which will be presented to the criminal court, in which arguments will be weighed by a Petite Jury who decides if the individual in question did the shit that the Grand Jury said happened.
My knowledge of the British legal system comes from watching Poirot and a few episodes of Murphy's Law, but I think its roughly analogous to a Coroner's Inquest in the UK, where they decided if in fact a it was a murder before they decide who actually gets charged with the crime.
I loved it on my Dual Celeron 333 (over clock to 366) with 512MB of RAM with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP graphics card and commercial XiG Accelerated X server (I was dual-booting FreeBSD and Slackware at the time and it'd run on both and handle my card better than XFree86 on both)... I love it even more on this Dell d830 w/ 1.8ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and nVidia w/ 512MB of graphics ram, only I wish I could get it to react perhaps a tad bit slower...
I mean, GNOME is nice and all, but seriously -- chasing after Windows' look and feel to try and bring in "converts" for some ill-defined reason seems doomed to failure to me. Show me something totally cool and awesome -- that's what got me, although I got my first UNIX exposure when I was 12 and was Captain of my high school's computer programming team (C/C++) for 3 years in a row, and captain of my college's ACM Team B my freshman year. I'd have ended up with it anyway. But to a 13/14 year old kid, Enlightenment screenshots were the sort of thing that made me go "so THAT'S what I can do!"
But its not just the botnet -- they want total p0wnage ability over ALL systems. They want some script-kiddie software so that PFC Dillhole can be plopped into a seat and in in 15 minutes be in control of secretchinesewarplans.cn, whether they're running Windows, Linux, Solaris or BSD.
If all they were trying to do was DDoS people, then yeah - their stupid windows botnet would be alright, but that's not what this project is about and that's why is pretty much impossible.
This must be the ultimate example of "solutions" to engineering problems coming from a manager and not an engineer. I bet they'd like a pony while they're at it.
You know they'll get what they want out of commercial OSs by putting pressure on the vendors. Linux and the BSDs are too much of a moving target, and OpenBSD is run out of Canada anyway. If ever there was an article that needed to be tagged 'goodluckwiththat,' this would be it.
No, the whole war was about free trade vs protectionism.
The industrial north wanted protectionist trade because they wanted to maintain a domestic market for their products. The agricultural south wanted free trade, because tariffs at home meant tariffs abroad. They needed to export to Britain to make a living, and also imported from Britain to get things to enjoy life.
Slavery was incidental. It was a tool of the day. The North was no great friend of the black man either. Lincoln was going to ship 'em all back to Africa, and would ahve had he not been shot. Draft riots in New York were because the people, mostly Irish, didn't want the freed slaves coming north and taking their jobs, etc.
Slavery never should have happened in the first place, but it was hardly the cause of the war.
As to it spreading, free-soil Yankees had to push their manifest destiny, too. What about all the poor Indians, huh?
Well, Temple of Doom sucked hell-a bad. Frankly, I blame it on "short stuff" and trying to be campy.
Putting that Shai LaBuff (spelling) kid in this one is probably what did it in. The success formula for Indiana Jones movies is number of nazis > number of kids. Nazis are exciting and mysterious, kids are just obnoxious and don't belong in an adventure film anyway... except for Goonies.
Leave Debian out of this for the moment, because it seems to take them a few years to get a major release out the door...
Instead of getting commercial Red Hat and SuSE on board, why not get Fedora, which feeds into RHEL, on board first?
Ubuntu and Fedora just put out releases within a month of each other, so it wouldn't take much to keep the schedules synced from on out. Maybe get some other popular community distro on board next.
RH will probably fall into step by default, which would be nice (i guess -- i can't buy it at the store anymore, so wtf do i care what they do?) then.
trying to get the free-be to dictate to major corporate distros that have been around for a hot minute is not likely to happen. imho
Qt used to not be Free Software -- it was just free as in beer for "non-commercial" work. You couldn't make GPL programs that included it.
GNOME was based around Gtk and started as an official GNU project to be completely Free Software because KDE was not, at the time.
This has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with ideology. I doubt very much that it'll change anytime soon. Frankly, if it did, that would be a bigger detriment.
Unification makes no sense once you realize WHY the projects are what they are. Use whichever you wish, for whatever reason you want.
One day, his legacy will destroy the world and all life in it. If, by his legacy, you mean the atomic bomb, then you you may be right. Of course, then the same thing could be said of Fermi, Openheimer, Wheeler, Teller, and others. I'm not sure being the anti-christ is a group effort, like some sort of hip-hop "posse" though.
Well, it more or less is - unless you have permission. The brilliant stroke with the GPL, BSDL, and others is that the permission is included with the "license" which explains the copyright scheme.
Before the Civil War, the it was "these United States are," now its "the United States is" -- that's not cool. not cool at all.
The Constitution was a contract entered into by the several states, who were themselves soverign entities. When one party to a contract no longer honors the agreement, the other party is no longer bound to.
Northern states, and the Federal Government, were not doing their due diligence or keeping up their end of the bargain, and were actively engaged in policies to undermine the South economically (protectionist trade schemes which would have destroyed the South).
The Southern States, being soveriegn entities and agreived parties, therefore, removed themselves from the deal. This is not rebellion.
This Whiskey Rebellion was rebellion. The Revolutionary War was rebellion. The civil war was not rebellion.
I grew up most of my life in Virginia, but was born in New York and had family on both sides. I'm not interested in fighting the war over again, especially not on/. but the point is -- Lincoln was a little bitch. There, I said it.
I think they meant things like Linux -- which is, of course, copy-written. The whole Free Software movement hinges on Copyright (Left?). So, presumably, they just meant crap like music and movies that someone is going to bitch about you copying as being copy-written.
It was a stupid remark on their part, I agree - but I think their intent was obvious.
You act like we ever had control in the first place. The Democrat Party has a history as far back as the 1840s (at least) of dragooning Irish immigrants and mobsters into their party, offering them city jobs if they'd vote right and beat up anyone who didn't. Once they had the Irish hooked, they moved on to Blacks and now Hispanics... Northern Dems, anyway. Southern Dems are the party of slavery and the KKK, lest we forget.
The Republican Party has always been the party of big money, cigar-munching industrialists who hire the mobsters that the Democrats didn't get to beat up Democrat-backing union-members and break strikes. It was always free market, industrialist and all that jazz. Lincoln was the first Neo-Con, too -- suspending habaeus corpus in Maryland and locking the state legislature up, invading the Confederacy, etc.
It wasn't until the 1960s when the Southern Democrats switched to the Republican (Carpetbagger) Party, for some reason which still makes absolutely no sense that the illusion formed that anyone was actually a Republican.
American politics has always been about whose gang is bigger -- just like Roman politics. Don't like it? Tough. I highly doubt that it's that much different in the rest of the world. You Europeans just have smaller parties and more of them -- but probably no more parties than your country has football teams, because your political lynch gangs are just called "football hooligans."
Rome's new mayor is of the National Alliance Party, which either is or is allied with MSI and Alessandra Mussolini, Playboy Bunny and Fascist MEP. Boys Roma, one of the local hooligan squads, backs that party.
Glasgow has battle lines drawn between Rangers (UDA) and Celts (IRA) and has in the past been a spill-over for that whole mess.
Of course, Latin American political mobs just kill each other outright with bombs and machine guns and deal drugs. ----
My point is, perhaps the only thing we've lost in America is the illusion that "we" ever had a say. But frankly, no one else is any better off either, really.
If you hate MS, why do you want their products? What is it about MacOS X that you want so badly that you HAVE TO HAVE yet won't pay for?
OS X is just FreeBSD with enhanced Obj-C APIs and a fancy GUI. Unless you're super attached to a pirated copy of Photoshop, I fail to see what cool shit you're missing out on that you can't get from Compiz on Linux or BSD...
especially since it seems that the hardware list is even more restrictive for this little project.
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Everybody thinks OJ is guilty because he is. He got off because Fuhrman said "nigger" and so the defense managed to get the jury to believe the cops planted evidence.
The latest fiasco with OJ in Vegas just backs up the assumption that he's sort of a loose cannon.
Since OLPC seems to be voiding its own warranty, after a manner of speaking, why not stick an older Linux distro on them, like RH 7 or so, and give 'em away to some local kids who are into sci/tech but maybe don't have a lot of money?
I'm sure that relevant teachers at the local high school or something might be able to hook you up with the right kind of kids, and you maybe could get a tax deduction out of it, even if they required a tad bit of work on the power supplies or batteries I'm sure you'd still come out ahead, even if only morally.
And the moral of the story is, chicks is bitches... all of my female friends tell me there is no such thing as a "nice girl." All my friends that were in sororities fought more with their "sisters" than they did with girls from other houses.
I had my problems with guys, but we'd just slug it out until someone gave up, then we'd be cool again. Girls, on the other hand, are all about sneaking around behind people's backs, rumors, gossip, backstabbing and "death from a thousand wounds" type shit.
The fact a "boy" was doing that shit should have told her, either he was fake or gay. Guys don't do that shit.
The only thing that surprises me about this is that you'd think a 50 year old woman would have something better to do than beat up on a teenager. Then again, I do remember reading Sleeping Beauty in one of my folklore classes, and as a child... this is more or less the same thing.
an indictment means that a Grand Jury has weighed all the evidence and decided that there is enough of it to cause any reasonable person to believe that a crime has in fact been committed. Rules of evidence are much more lax and guilt or non-guilt is not the issue -- only whether a crime has been committed.
The Grand Jury then issues an indictment, which are the formal charges which will be presented to the criminal court, in which arguments will be weighed by a Petite Jury who decides if the individual in question did the shit that the Grand Jury said happened.
My knowledge of the British legal system comes from watching Poirot and a few episodes of Murphy's Law, but I think its roughly analogous to a Coroner's Inquest in the UK, where they decided if in fact a it was a murder before they decide who actually gets charged with the crime.
I loved it on my Dual Celeron 333 (over clock to 366) with 512MB of RAM with a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP graphics card and commercial XiG Accelerated X server (I was dual-booting FreeBSD and Slackware at the time and it'd run on both and handle my card better than XFree86 on both)... I love it even more on this Dell d830 w/ 1.8ghz Core 2 Duo, 2GB of RAM and nVidia w/ 512MB of graphics ram, only I wish I could get it to react perhaps a tad bit slower...
I found Slashdot BECAUSE OF Enlightenment. I found CmdrTaco.net trying to get ePlus (side bar thing): http://cmdrtaco.net/linux/e.shtml .
E17 perhaps? Maybe some day... Enlightenment rocks. Here are a couple of screen shots of mine from back in 1999 (my other name back in the day was EvilGNU): http://xwinman.org/screenshots/enl-dfree.jpg and http://xwinman.org/screenshots/enl-dfree2.jpg
Enlightenment was the only reason I ever brought up a Linux machine at home. I was perfectly content with the BSD machines I had access to.
http://www.plig.org/xwinman/screenshots/enlightenment.jpg
that's the shot that made me "fall in love."
I mean, GNOME is nice and all, but seriously -- chasing after Windows' look and feel to try and bring in "converts" for some ill-defined reason seems doomed to failure to me. Show me something totally cool and awesome -- that's what got me, although I got my first UNIX exposure when I was 12 and was Captain of my high school's computer programming team (C/C++) for 3 years in a row, and captain of my college's ACM Team B my freshman year. I'd have ended up with it anyway. But to a 13/14 year old kid, Enlightenment screenshots were the sort of thing that made me go "so THAT'S what I can do!"
Wireless, but less space than a Nomad... lame.
But its not just the botnet -- they want total p0wnage ability over ALL systems. They want some script-kiddie software so that PFC Dillhole can be plopped into a seat and in in 15 minutes be in control of secretchinesewarplans.cn, whether they're running Windows, Linux, Solaris or BSD.
If all they were trying to do was DDoS people, then yeah - their stupid windows botnet would be alright, but that's not what this project is about and that's why is pretty much impossible.
This must be the ultimate example of "solutions" to engineering problems coming from a manager and not an engineer. I bet they'd like a pony while they're at it.
You know they'll get what they want out of commercial OSs by putting pressure on the vendors. Linux and the BSDs are too much of a moving target, and OpenBSD is run out of Canada anyway. If ever there was an article that needed to be tagged 'goodluckwiththat,' this would be it.
No, the whole war was about free trade vs protectionism.
The industrial north wanted protectionist trade because they wanted to maintain a domestic market for their products. The agricultural south wanted free trade, because tariffs at home meant tariffs abroad. They needed to export to Britain to make a living, and also imported from Britain to get things to enjoy life.
Slavery was incidental. It was a tool of the day. The North was no great friend of the black man either. Lincoln was going to ship 'em all back to Africa, and would ahve had he not been shot. Draft riots in New York were because the people, mostly Irish, didn't want the freed slaves coming north and taking their jobs, etc.
Slavery never should have happened in the first place, but it was hardly the cause of the war.
As to it spreading, free-soil Yankees had to push their manifest destiny, too. What about all the poor Indians, huh?
Well, Temple of Doom sucked hell-a bad. Frankly, I blame it on "short stuff" and trying to be campy.
Putting that Shai LaBuff (spelling) kid in this one is probably what did it in. The success formula for Indiana Jones movies is number of nazis > number of kids. Nazis are exciting and mysterious, kids are just obnoxious and don't belong in an adventure film anyway... except for Goonies.
Leave Debian out of this for the moment, because it seems to take them a few years to get a major release out the door...
Instead of getting commercial Red Hat and SuSE on board, why not get Fedora, which feeds into RHEL, on board first?
Ubuntu and Fedora just put out releases within a month of each other, so it wouldn't take much to keep the schedules synced from on out. Maybe get some other popular community distro on board next.
RH will probably fall into step by default, which would be nice (i guess -- i can't buy it at the store anymore, so wtf do i care what they do?) then.
trying to get the free-be to dictate to major corporate distros that have been around for a hot minute is not likely to happen. imho
Qt used to not be Free Software -- it was just free as in beer for "non-commercial" work. You couldn't make GPL programs that included it.
GNOME was based around Gtk and started as an official GNU project to be completely Free Software because KDE was not, at the time.
This has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with ideology. I doubt very much that it'll change anytime soon. Frankly, if it did, that would be a bigger detriment.
Unification makes no sense once you realize WHY the projects are what they are. Use whichever you wish, for whatever reason you want.
Well, it more or less is - unless you have permission. The brilliant stroke with the GPL, BSDL, and others is that the permission is included with the "license" which explains the copyright scheme.
Before the Civil War, the it was "these United States are," now its "the United States is" -- that's not cool. not cool at all.
/. but the point is -- Lincoln was a little bitch. There, I said it.
The Constitution was a contract entered into by the several states, who were themselves soverign entities. When one party to a contract no longer honors the agreement, the other party is no longer bound to.
Northern states, and the Federal Government, were not doing their due diligence or keeping up their end of the bargain, and were actively engaged in policies to undermine the South economically (protectionist trade schemes which would have destroyed the South).
The Southern States, being soveriegn entities and agreived parties, therefore, removed themselves from the deal. This is not rebellion.
This Whiskey Rebellion was rebellion. The Revolutionary War was rebellion. The civil war was not rebellion.
I grew up most of my life in Virginia, but was born in New York and had family on both sides. I'm not interested in fighting the war over again, especially not on
I think they meant things like Linux -- which is, of course, copy-written. The whole Free Software movement hinges on Copyright (Left?). So, presumably, they just meant crap like music and movies that someone is going to bitch about you copying as being copy-written.
It was a stupid remark on their part, I agree - but I think their intent was obvious.
You act like we ever had control in the first place. The Democrat Party has a history as far back as the 1840s (at least) of dragooning Irish immigrants and mobsters into their party, offering them city jobs if they'd vote right and beat up anyone who didn't. Once they had the Irish hooked, they moved on to Blacks and now Hispanics... Northern Dems, anyway. Southern Dems are the party of slavery and the KKK, lest we forget.
The Republican Party has always been the party of big money, cigar-munching industrialists who hire the mobsters that the Democrats didn't get to beat up Democrat-backing union-members and break strikes. It was always free market, industrialist and all that jazz. Lincoln was the first Neo-Con, too -- suspending habaeus corpus in Maryland and locking the state legislature up, invading the Confederacy, etc.
It wasn't until the 1960s when the Southern Democrats switched to the Republican (Carpetbagger) Party, for some reason which still makes absolutely no sense that the illusion formed that anyone was actually a Republican.
American politics has always been about whose gang is bigger -- just like Roman politics. Don't like it? Tough. I highly doubt that it's that much different in the rest of the world. You Europeans just have smaller parties and more of them -- but probably no more parties than your country has football teams, because your political lynch gangs are just called "football hooligans."
Rome's new mayor is of the National Alliance Party, which either is or is allied with MSI and Alessandra Mussolini, Playboy Bunny and Fascist MEP. Boys Roma, one of the local hooligan squads, backs that party.
Glasgow has battle lines drawn between Rangers (UDA) and Celts (IRA) and has in the past been a spill-over for that whole mess.
Of course, Latin American political mobs just kill each other outright with bombs and machine guns and deal drugs.
----
My point is, perhaps the only thing we've lost in America is the illusion that "we" ever had a say. But frankly, no one else is any better off either, really.
Except the Swiss.
It was $190,000 CDN. Slashdot is trying to become more cosmopolitan. Please keep up :-p
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don't you mean HURD?
Intel was started by engineers who left Texas Instruments after having invented the microprocessor... they seem to be doing pretty well, honestly.
I just used the online H&R block thing and was done in 20 minutes...
If you hate MS, why do you want their products? What is it about MacOS X that you want so badly that you HAVE TO HAVE yet won't pay for?
OS X is just FreeBSD with enhanced Obj-C APIs and a fancy GUI. Unless you're super attached to a pirated copy of Photoshop, I fail to see what cool shit you're missing out on that you can't get from Compiz on Linux or BSD...
especially since it seems that the hardware list is even more restrictive for this little project.