Behind what curve, exactly? Surely you don't mean the curve of the latest glitzy stuff? If you want that, run potato. If you don't care for Enlightenment and all that shit, and just want a solid server, run slink. It's that simple.
"Next World Order" is more like it. Everything evolves, changes. The attitudes, tastes, arts and even sciences of today evolved out of yesterday's World Order, and tomorrow's will be different from todays.
I am personally sick of everyone lumping change under the banner New World Order, as if the current "World Order" is uniquely special in the annuls of history.
Sheesh, are you sick of people talking about the 'New intel processor' too? They're obviously lumping all the old ones together, right? 8088, pentium II, what's the difference anyway?;-)
'New' does not mean there's been only one before. It DOES mean that, hey, there's a new one, as opposed to all the ones that are/were already here. Or even that there hasn't been anything like it before...
Personally, I HATE dselect. I just can't get the hang of it. Does that make me a retard? It's not exactly one of the most obvious and friendly installers now is it? I'll take apt over dselect anytime. (Or even raw dpkg and ftp if I need to)
I've installed exactly one system (bo) with dselect, and that turned into a complete disaster. it's been dpkg (and later apt) ever since.
You can't install debian entirely over ftp, as far as I know. You have to install the base first, off of floppies or cdrom or a harddisk partition, which is a bit of a shame because an install would be so much easier if it would just work from one or two floppies.
Taking a few phone bugs as evidence is exactly the same as treating people like roaches.
Well, both are following orders. Just doing what you're told to do, without thinking if it's somehow 'good' or 'bad'. Sure, one of them happens to be a couple of magnitudes worse than the other, but the idea is the same. It's both "I don't have to think, I'm just following orders.", doesn't matter if you're a Fed or chief operator of the gas chambers.
And it still has nothing to do with tearing babies in half. That's their own interpretation of the job.
What are the supposed to do, walk up to the front door and say "Hey, are you guys doing anything illegal in there?
Well, they could start with something like that, yeah. Or would you like it better if every investigation of a legitimate claim started with a squad of feds marching in like they own the place and start taking stuff with them?
In that case, can I have your name and address, I have this anonymous phonecall I'd like to make...
If it turns out that they did nothing wrong, then they'll get their equipment back.
Sure, that will happen eventually. But the question is when, and how much time does it take to go bankrupt in the mean time?
Were they smashing the joint up?
They took $30k worth of inventory. That counts for something...
Were they pushing people around?
Yes.
Relax, haven't you people ever dealt with law enforcement types before?
No. And reading all this I sure hope to keep it that way!
in Europe, people aren't allowed to own guns (mostly), and very few see that as a threat to their rights.
Yeah, strange that, innit? People in Europe don't HAVE a right to own guns, so how can we see that as a threat to our rights? Not everyone lives under the US constitution.
You're probably Shit Outta Luck anyway on your bike, because 'people' have a tendency not to care about motorcycles.
Example: Here in.nl some big brain thought up a way to slow people down. Something like speedbumps, but in the shape of big rubberish circles in the middle of the road. It worked pretty well on cars, but when you tried to negotiate one of those on a motorcycle you were either launched or floored immediately!
So the result was that the average motorcycle would be doing something like 10 km/h trying to zigzag between these things. Yeah, that really improved the safety if you're driving up to it in your car doing 50 km/h.
I don't have first hand experience with these, but I've heard the stories from friends. (And I've seen the damage!) These were separate occasions, with radically different bikes. Suzuki RF-crotchrocket, and Honda Shadow-cruiser-thing. One went flat on his face, the other was launched.
(And no, this had nothing to do with the competence of the riders!)
If you really want a sexy, high-tech piece of gadgetry in every car, I think you'd be better off with a distance sensor in the front bumper that slows your car if you get too close to the car in front of you. And have it coupled with how fast you're going to vary the safe distance.
Sure, this is also far from perfect and still in a way encourages people to drive like the lazy assholes a lot of them are, but I think it'll be safer and more tamper-proof.
Then again, this won't make it, because it does nothing to stop people from speeding, and this whole system is probably more aimed at keeping people from speeding as opposed to actually improving the safety on the road.
So what happens if there's an emergency and the maximum speed needs to be temporarily lowered?
What happens when a speed limit is changed permanently and some people still have the old cd?
Hell, what happens when I hack up some cd to tell the system that wherever I am the speed limit is 100mph? And that will probably happen. There would be a big market for stuff like this, especially if this system will be used *instead* of traditional speed limit checks.
[metal detectors]are in airports, in some government buildings (high risk ones usually) and in private businesses that choose to install them.
Schools, bars, what's next?
Stuff like this has a tendency to creep around. And it does so gradually, so people don't really notice. So, how long will it take for these scanners to enter the schools or the corner bar?
Where is this "strip search" coming from? Strip search isn't discussed in the article. The scanner is a voluntary alternative to being frisked, which is already being done. If you don't want to be scanned, you can be frisked. Being searched invades your privacy, but with the new scanners you get a choice. I fail to understand why offering a choice is bad.
Offering a choice isn't bad, but if it's a choice between being hanged or being shot[0], I would really like a third choice, being "Sod all this, I'm going home."
So you're missing the point. What if you don't agree to being searched/scanned/frisked at all? What choices do you have then? Can you tear up your ticket and go home? Or will you find a couple of Big Friendly Men-In-Blue blocking your way?
You seem to have the idea that the Hindenburg was just some balloon that's filled with gas, like a child's rubber balloon.
It's not.
It was a metal frame with all kinds of compartments that held the gas, kind of like, oh, the wing of a 747. And you're still arguing over purpose. It doesn't matter if the gas/fuel is there to make the thing float or to generate propulsion, what matters is that it's there. Would you feel better if you died in a plane crash as opposed to a Hindenburg crash knowing that the burning fuel was there for a 'better' reason?
Different thing. I was referring to the fact that there was a big ol' balloon full of explosives. The gas pumped into the hindenburg was intended to make it float. The fuel in a 747 is intended to explode
Sure, but you still have these big ol' wing-shaped balloons full of explosives.
Its purpose doesn't matter. The fact that it's there does. I'm just trying to say that it's not just ANY ol' balloon, there were (at least some) safety precautions, just like there are safety precautions on a 747.
There were all kinds of design screwups on the Hindenburg, but having a bag of explosive stuff on board isn't necessarily a stupid idea.
I don't know (and frankly I don't care) but it's probably legal somewhere. There has to be at least ONE place on this rock where you don't have to import them at all because the stuff grows there.
I don't know if it's legal, but that's not the point. The point is that if it's only legal for Coca Cola then that's stupid. I thought law was supposed to be equal for everyone.
So if I want to start a cola company in the USA and I want to use this particular recipe that uses coca leaves, I can't because only CocaCola is allowed by law to do that?
Of course, when you say you can use coke's formula if you figure it out, that's not the case because no one else can import the coca leaves, or you rot in jail for the rest of your life.
So it's not about trade secrets, but about a government approved monopoly?
But even then, I'm in the Netherlands. This US law doesn't apply to me. Then Coca Cola is shit outta luck if I use their recipe and become a big softdrink manufacturer?
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Behind what curve, exactly? Surely you don't mean the curve of the latest glitzy stuff? If you want that, run potato. If you don't care for Enlightenment and all that shit, and just want a solid server, run slink. It's that simple.
'New' does not mean there's been only one before. It DOES mean that, hey, there's a new one, as opposed to all the ones that are/were already here. Or even that there hasn't been anything like it before...
Or are you thinking US-centric again?
Personally, I HATE dselect. I just can't get the hang of it. Does that make me a retard? It's not exactly one of the most obvious and friendly installers now is it? I'll take apt over dselect anytime. (Or even raw dpkg and ftp if I need to)
I've installed exactly one system (bo) with dselect, and that turned into a complete disaster. it's been dpkg (and later apt) ever since.
Started off with modula 2, and hated its guts. Now the newbies are starting on java... Suddenly modula2 doesn't look so bad for a start.
Well, both are following orders. Just doing what you're told to do, without thinking if it's somehow 'good' or 'bad'. Sure, one of them happens to be a couple of magnitudes worse than the other, but the idea is the same. It's both "I don't have to think, I'm just following orders.", doesn't matter if you're a Fed or chief operator of the gas chambers.
And it still has nothing to do with tearing babies in half. That's their own interpretation of the job.
Well, they could start with something like that, yeah. Or would you like it better if every investigation of a legitimate claim started with a squad of feds marching in like they own the place and start taking stuff with them?
In that case, can I have your name and address, I have this anonymous phonecall I'd like to make...
If it turns out that they did nothing wrong, then they'll get their equipment back.
Sure, that will happen eventually. But the question is when, and how much time does it take to go bankrupt in the mean time?
Were they smashing the joint up?
They took $30k worth of inventory. That counts for something...
Were they pushing people around?
Yes.
Relax, haven't you people ever dealt with law enforcement types before?
No. And reading all this I sure hope to keep it that way!
Yeah, strange that, innit?
People in Europe don't HAVE a right to own guns, so how can we see that as a threat to our rights? Not everyone lives under the US constitution.
Since you seem to know about this stuff, how hard would it be to hack up some cdrom that says you can go 100 mph wherever you are?
Example: .nl some big brain thought up a way to slow people down. Something like speedbumps, but in the shape of big rubberish circles in the middle of the road. It worked pretty well on cars, but when you tried to negotiate one of those on a motorcycle you were either launched or floored immediately!
Here in
So the result was that the average motorcycle would be doing something like 10 km/h trying to zigzag between these things. Yeah, that really improved the safety if you're driving up to it in your car doing 50 km/h.
I don't have first hand experience with these, but I've heard the stories from friends. (And I've seen the damage!) These were separate occasions, with radically different bikes. Suzuki RF-crotchrocket, and Honda Shadow-cruiser-thing. One went flat on his face, the other was launched.
(And no, this had nothing to do with the competence of the riders!)
Sure, this is also far from perfect and still in a way encourages people to drive like the lazy assholes a lot of them are, but I think it'll be safer and more tamper-proof.
Then again, this won't make it, because it does nothing to stop people from speeding, and this whole system is probably more aimed at keeping people from speeding as opposed to actually improving the safety on the road.
What happens when a speed limit is changed permanently and some people still have the old cd?
Hell, what happens when I hack up some cd to tell the system that wherever I am the speed limit is 100mph? And that will probably happen. There would be a big market for stuff like this, especially if this system will be used *instead* of traditional speed limit checks.
Schools, bars, what's next?
Stuff like this has a tendency to creep around. And it does so gradually, so people don't really notice. So, how long will it take for these scanners to enter the schools or the corner bar?
You can always forget about the gun for a while and go with a bigass ceramic knife. And they are for sale already.
Offering a choice isn't bad, but if it's a choice between being hanged or being shot[0], I would really like a third choice, being "Sod all this, I'm going home."
So you're missing the point. What if you don't agree to being searched/scanned/frisked at all? What choices do you have then? Can you tear up your ticket and go home? Or will you find a couple of Big Friendly Men-In-Blue blocking your way?
[0] Deliberate outrageous example
Okay, different approach:
- The gas in the zeppelin is there to make the thing fly.
- The fuel in the 747 is there to make the thing fly.
Tell you what, the zeppelin is more fuel efficient! Guess the 747 must be a bad design then.(Okay I'll shut up now...)
Installation of this product may result in your computers unwilligness to function.
Slight rephrazing:
Installation of this product may result in the targets unwillingness to function.
And voila, it can be used for both Windows-the OS and Windows-the beer. :-)
It's not.
It was a metal frame with all kinds of compartments that held the gas, kind of like, oh, the wing of a 747. And you're still arguing over purpose. It doesn't matter if the gas/fuel is there to make the thing float or to generate propulsion, what matters is that it's there. Would you feel better if you died in a plane crash as opposed to a Hindenburg crash knowing that the burning fuel was there for a 'better' reason?
(Yes I know this is getting waaaay offtopic)
Sure, but you still have these big ol' wing-shaped balloons full of explosives.
Its purpose doesn't matter. The fact that it's there does. I'm just trying to say that it's not just ANY ol' balloon, there were (at least some) safety precautions, just like there are safety precautions on a 747.
There were all kinds of design screwups on the Hindenburg, but having a bag of explosive stuff on board isn't necessarily a stupid idea.
(Sure, it's not a gas, but it's still flammable)
I don't know if it's legal, but that's not the point. The point is that if it's only legal for Coca Cola then that's stupid. I thought law was supposed to be equal for everyone.
So if I want to start a cola company in the USA and I want to use this particular recipe that uses coca leaves, I can't because only CocaCola is allowed by law to do that?
So it's not about trade secrets, but about a government approved monopoly?
But even then, I'm in the Netherlands. This US law doesn't apply to me. Then Coca Cola is shit outta luck if I use their recipe and become a big softdrink manufacturer?