Don't feel sorry for Robin about being flamed...at least not out here in the open. Perhaps some screwball flooded his email with flames, but the number of "Roblimo sucks!" posts was so pitifully small that I can only wonder what he mistakenly used for sugar in his coffee this morning.
Of course, I probably sound like the folks who prompted Robin's 'apology,' but...oh well. He is the worst of the lot about posting senationalistic stories (with the possible exception of Katz, but I'm not sure he counts,) and deserves at least a little roasting for it. People aren't mad about the subject (well...perhaps a few are,) rather they are upset about the piss poor follow up that goes into the stories which have been posted to/. of late. That 'apology' is just more sensationalistic crap...and he got twice as many flames (posted, anyway) over it as over posting the story.
If Robin gets upset over the kind of flaming he got over this story, he'd better not read any comments to the polls...vitriol over missing options is always far worse than he got here.
As for becoming the "Jews of Germany", that's downright offensive, not to mention self-aggrandizing. You haven't been gassed. Rounded up wholesale and slaughtered. Used in vile medical experiments to see what happens if your liver is removed without anethesia. Don't you dare to compare a 7 day waiting period to buy more guns with watching your entire family get butchered before your eyes. You might say that didn't happen during the 1930's, but they pieces were being put in place to do it in a few short years, and somehow I don't think you'll be seeing the inside of a gas chamber all that fast.
American Indians and Japanese have both been rounded up by the United States government. Various populaces in the United States have been subjected to medical experiments without their knowledge or consent. McCarthy and his lot did their level best to ruin the lives of anyone they considered a Communist.
You said yourself that the pieces were put together in a few short years. How many Algerians/Arabs were hassled over the last few weeks here in the United States? I will agree with you that it's unlikely that we'll see gas chambers sprouting up on the landscape anytime soon, but once the framework is there, what will stop it from happening?
-------------------------------------------------- On another note, if I could get 44Mbs over 30 miles, would I get 4.4Mbs over 300 miles? I realise that is an oversimplification, but 4Mbs+ over 100s of miles would be a godsend to countries with poor infrastructure (e.g. Africa, Russia) ------------------------------------------------ --
no, probably not, i'm afraid. the article didn't say anything about what kind of frequencies were involved, but if they are using vhf/uhf/microwave/etc., which they almost assuredly are, then line of sight is about the limit (i'm only talking about the distance the radio waves will travel, not how the technology will compensate for buildings and such.)
really, it would depend upon how high up they got the antenna. if you had a mountain nearby, it could conceivably cover much, much more than 30 miles...doubtful this would be the common situation, i'm afraid.
i wonder why this would preclude mobile operations, though? i imagine it would relatively trivial to set up a repeater system, linked to a server bank.
regardless, i can't wait to see the antennae sprouting up everywhere! beautiful!:)
he wasn't trying to discredit you, it was a reference to the move 'The Matrix.'
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Ah, my apologies...i'd interpretted what i saw on their website incorrectly, then.
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What I find ironic about the Caps Lock rant is that the focus of the article seems to be about the evils of chording, particularly when the keyboard he espouses uses the 'caps lock' idea for the function keys.;)
Mind you, I think the caps lock is in a pretty lousy place, but "a lynching party"?? C'mon...
i'm not certain that they've collected any money yet, though. what they are doing is collecting pledges, via credit card, which (supposedly) will not be charged until enough money has been pledged in order to produce the commercial.
it's not clear, nor openly solicited (that i can find, anyway,) than any money is being is being raised for the running of the website...although perhaps the t-shirt/bumper sticker sales fall under this.
so, while this fellow _may_ be violating campaign law by not making public any donors, he _may not_ yet be in violation of that law, if the money hasn't actually been collected. i'll freely claim my ignorance upon the intricacies of campaign finance law, though...
if you're concerned about how the presidential candidates feel about free speech, please keep in mind the gore's associations with.... oh crap. the name of the organisation just escaped me...someone out there will remember it. the "parental" group who went on a holy war trying to ban certain albums back in the 80's.
neither the republicans nor democrats are looking very healthy for our 'rights.'
How the funding works: These ads will be funded using a no-risk system that only the Internet makes convenient. This website will gather pledges for contributions. Once enough pledges have come in to fund one TV spot, the money will be collected, the spot will be aired, and then pledges will be collected for another spot. When you pledge a contribution, your credit card will be validated but not charged. Therefore, you don't have to worry about giving to a project that isn't going to take off. If not enough people pledge to run even one spot, then you lose nothing. If enough pledges do come in, then your contribution goes to making something wonderful possible.
To make a pledge click here.
To volunteering to gather footage email us at: info@gwbush.com
Press inquiries can be made via email to: info@gwbush.com or to 617-216-5688 ------------------------------------------------ --
if you'll notice that page slashdot's link points to, you'll see an 'o' in 'oindex.htm.'
if you take out that 'o', it'll take you to a page where it talks about this fellow's idea for a 'new way' to fund political ads, and then links to a page where you can pledge a contribution (which an above poster has pointed out.)
i don't believe they are allowing minors into the show. it's possible they've changed their policy since the article about the teenaged executive which appeared here a few weeks ago, but the last i'd heard, they made a 'one time' exception for this fellow.
it's possible that open source/free software's reputation could suffer, but if it does, it'll be our own damned fault.
it won't be possible to save every sinking ship that tosses a line at our tug. if we don't save _any_ of them, that's where the besmirching of our pristine reputation comes in (snort.)
worrying about the reputation that we have in the business world is wasted, i'm afraid. the companies that think they can use the community (and i suppose i _do_ mean in both senses of the word) will give us a shot...and if we fail to deliver, then they'll ignore us.
it's an ongoing series. there was an article last week, where he just gave a basic overview of what he was planning on doing. there should be an article next week giving his overview on freebsd, and then one following that comparing the two bsd's and linux.
besides, he's only had it installed for a week...i've had linux installed for close to a year now, and don't know all the in's and out's. sheesh...
while i'm sure that someone will eventually come up with a good one, i'm afraid this company won't be the one.
i suppose i shouldn't flame their product before it even comes out. nothing they've done has convinced me that they are anything more than a bunch of jackals trying to ride the linux IPO tidal wave of money, though. hell, i wouldn't be surprised if they _never_ release a product.
------------------------------------------------- 1] The Americans Conducted an ILLEGAL blockade of an Island [Cuba]. It's not illegal to pull a blockaid for any reason or even for no reason at all. It's wrong but in politics wrong + lame excuse = right ------------------------------------------------ -
an interesting aside to this discussion is that after the russians turned their boats around, the moved their subs in.
------------------------------------------------ -- 3] Kosovo. I thought that was a UN deal.. shows you how much I know. NATO exists to attack... It's the United States property pritty much and yeah it's pritty much US aggenda all the way. A lot of flowery notions Seriously, but it comes down to a largish defence platform that makes it posable for us to fry the world 3 times over and fell good we have such power. It scares me that such is needed, or if not needed... exists. ------------------------------------------------ --
this is wrong. nato was set up as a defensive organization. do i have any faith that it will ever be that way again? hell no...the die has been cast. but it doesn't 'exist to attack.'
do you really think it would be hard to smuggle something like that into this country? there's alot of unguarded border...not everything/everyone comes in through an airport, regardless of what the current administration/dept. of justice/atf/doa want you to believe.
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grits are sort of like a corn porridge.
pretty good, actually.
Don't feel sorry for Robin about being flamed...at least not out here in the open. Perhaps some screwball flooded his email with flames, but the number of "Roblimo sucks!" posts was so pitifully small that I can only wonder what he mistakenly used for sugar in his coffee this morning.
/. of late. That 'apology' is just more sensationalistic crap...and he got twice as many flames (posted, anyway) over it as over posting the story.
Of course, I probably sound like the folks who prompted Robin's 'apology,' but...oh well. He is the worst of the lot about posting senationalistic stories (with the possible exception of Katz, but I'm not sure he counts,) and deserves at least a little roasting for it. People aren't mad about the subject (well...perhaps a few are,) rather they are upset about the piss poor follow up that goes into the stories which have been posted to
If Robin gets upset over the kind of flaming he got over this story, he'd better not read any comments to the polls...vitriol over missing options is always far worse than he got here.
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As for becoming the "Jews of Germany", that's downright offensive, not to mention self-aggrandizing. You haven't been
gassed. Rounded up wholesale and slaughtered. Used in vile medical experiments to see what happens if your liver is
removed without anethesia. Don't you dare to compare a 7 day waiting period to buy more guns with watching your entire
family get butchered before your eyes. You might say that didn't happen during the 1930's, but they pieces were being put
in place to do it in a few short years, and somehow I don't think you'll be seeing the inside of a gas chamber all that fast.
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American Indians and Japanese have both been rounded up by the United States government. Various populaces in the United States have been subjected to medical experiments without their knowledge or consent. McCarthy and his lot did their level best to ruin the lives of anyone they considered a Communist.
You said yourself that the pieces were put together in a few short years. How many Algerians/Arabs were hassled over the last few weeks here in the United States? I will agree with you that it's unlikely that we'll see gas chambers sprouting up on the landscape anytime soon, but once the framework is there, what will stop it from happening?
if this is as bad as it sounds, then it's no wonder.
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On another note, if I could get 44Mbs over 30 miles, would I get 4.4Mbs over 300 miles? I realise that is an oversimplification,
but 4Mbs+ over 100s of miles would be a godsend to countries with poor infrastructure (e.g. Africa, Russia)
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no, probably not, i'm afraid. the article didn't say anything about what kind of frequencies were involved, but if they are using vhf/uhf/microwave/etc., which they almost assuredly are, then line of sight is about the limit (i'm only talking about the distance the radio waves will travel, not how the technology will compensate for buildings and such.)
really, it would depend upon how high up they got the antenna. if you had a mountain nearby, it could conceivably cover much, much more than 30 miles...doubtful this would be the common situation, i'm afraid.
i wonder why this would preclude mobile operations, though? i imagine it would relatively trivial to set up a repeater system, linked to a server bank.
:)
regardless, i can't wait to see the antennae sprouting up everywhere! beautiful!
he wasn't trying to discredit you, it was a reference to the move 'The Matrix.'
Ah, my apologies...i'd interpretted what i saw on their website incorrectly, then.
What I find ironic about the Caps Lock rant is that the focus of the article seems to be about the evils of chording, particularly when the keyboard he espouses uses the 'caps lock' idea for the function keys. ;)
Mind you, I think the caps lock is in a pretty lousy place, but "a lynching party"?? C'mon...
i'm not certain that they've collected any money yet, though. what they are doing is collecting pledges, via credit card, which (supposedly) will not be charged until enough money has been pledged in order to produce the commercial.
it's not clear, nor openly solicited (that i can find, anyway,) than any money is being is being raised for the running of the website...although perhaps the t-shirt/bumper sticker sales fall under this.
so, while this fellow _may_ be violating campaign law by not making public any donors, he _may not_ yet be in violation of that law, if the money hasn't actually been collected. i'll freely claim my ignorance upon the intricacies of campaign finance law, though...
if you're concerned about how the presidential candidates feel about free speech, please keep in mind the gore's associations with .... oh crap. the name of the organisation just escaped me...someone out there will remember it. the "parental" group who went on a holy war trying to ban certain albums back in the 80's.
neither the republicans nor democrats are looking very healthy for our 'rights.'
below is an explanation for how this funding is supposed to work, taken from http://www.gwbush.com/ad1.htm
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How the funding works: These ads will be funded using a no-risk system that only the Internet makes convenient. This
website will gather pledges for contributions. Once enough pledges have come in to fund one TV spot, the money will be
collected, the spot will be aired, and then pledges will be collected for another spot. When you pledge a contribution, your
credit card will be validated but not charged. Therefore, you don't have to worry about giving to a project that isn't going to
take off. If not enough people pledge to run even one spot, then you lose nothing. If enough pledges do come in, then your
contribution goes to making something wonderful possible.
To make a pledge click here.
To volunteering to gather footage email us at: info@gwbush.com
Press inquiries can be made via email to: info@gwbush.com or to 617-216-5688
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if you'll notice that page slashdot's link points to, you'll see an 'o' in 'oindex.htm.'
if you take out that 'o', it'll take you to a page where it talks about this fellow's idea for a 'new way' to fund political ads, and then links to a page where you can pledge a contribution (which an above poster has pointed out.)
my apologies...vdsl is the *dsl technology i was referring to.
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if you want to read a bit more about this, check out this link:
http://www.hamradio-online.com/library99.html#j
adsl isn't even going to be the largest factor affecting hf. as i recall, idsl broadcasts across the entire u.s. hf amatuer spectrum...
more details at http://www.hamradio-online.com
it's hard to get into a car wearing a large sombrero, though...perhaps someone could put earphones on a derby.
not that i really want more people driving while talking on the phone, but....
i don't believe they are allowing minors into the show. it's possible they've changed their policy since the article about the teenaged executive which appeared here a few weeks ago, but the last i'd heard, they made a 'one time' exception for this fellow.
you might check back through the archives.
or it could just be named crusoe to give us a witty name if it flops...
will crusoe=gilligan?
:)
it's possible that open source/free software's reputation could suffer, but if it does, it'll be our own damned fault.
it won't be possible to save every sinking ship that tosses a line at our tug. if we don't save _any_ of them, that's where the besmirching of our pristine reputation comes in (snort.)
worrying about the reputation that we have in the business world is wasted, i'm afraid. the companies that think they can use the community (and i suppose i _do_ mean in both senses of the word) will give us a shot...and if we fail to deliver, then they'll ignore us.
it's an ongoing series. there was an article last week, where he just gave a basic overview of what he was planning on doing. there should be an article next week giving his overview on freebsd, and then one following that comparing the two bsd's and linux.
besides, he's only had it installed for a week...i've had linux installed for close to a year now, and don't know all the in's and out's. sheesh...
while i'm sure that someone will eventually come up with a good one, i'm afraid this company won't be the one.
i suppose i shouldn't flame their product before it even comes out. nothing they've done has convinced me that they are anything more than a bunch of jackals trying to ride the linux IPO tidal wave of money, though. hell, i wouldn't be surprised if they _never_ release a product.
check the linux weekly news
http://www.lwn.net
they keep a running tally, with links to all the known (to them) distrobutions.
you forgot ventura's minigun (from Predator.)
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1] The Americans Conducted an ILLEGAL blockade of an Island [Cuba].
It's not illegal to pull a blockaid for any reason or even for no reason at all.
It's wrong but in politics wrong + lame excuse = right
-----------------------------------------------
an interesting aside to this discussion is that after the russians turned their boats around, the moved their subs in.
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3] Kosovo.
I thought that was a UN deal.. shows you how much I know.
NATO exists to attack... It's the United States property pritty much and yeah it's pritty much US aggenda all
the way.
A lot of flowery notions Seriously, but it comes down to a largish defence platform that makes it posable for
us to fry the world 3 times over and fell good we have such power.
It scares me that such is needed, or if not needed... exists.
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this is wrong. nato was set up as a defensive organization. do i have any faith that it will ever be that way again? hell no...the die has been cast. but it doesn't 'exist to attack.'
do you really think it would be hard to smuggle something like that into this country? there's alot of unguarded border...not everything/everyone comes in through an airport, regardless of what the current administration/dept. of justice/atf/doa want you to believe.