If you're old and smart, you have no interest in perks designed to make your stay at work more comfortable and enjoyable, and you don't like people who enjoy them and stay at work for 18 hours a day. Makes us look bad. That's why we old farts run around adjusting the a/c or heat to make the place insufferable so you people will go home at a quitting time.
Look, capitalists just aren't going to ask the government to ban a cheap, useful, industrial commodity. If hemp were as useful as its proponents say, there would be an industry producing products from it. No law will get in the way of that. Look at the immigration situation in the USA - plenty of laws and even more who turn a blind eye to the law. If hemp were as useful to industry as cheap labor, you can bet your last dollar companies would be engaged in its production on an industrial scale, regardless of the law, just like they import cheap labor on an industrial scale, despite the law.
The reason hemp is not produced in industrial quantities is because it is not all that useful. No other explanation makes sense.
(I served an LDS mission in Salt Lake City, which would take a novel to even summerize).
I can summarize for you.
You: knock knock Them: Hello Elder Jones, so nice to see you again. You: *sigh* Hello Brother Johnson, didn't know you had moved to this neighborhood....
If it's that useful it still makes no sense to ban it completely on account of its use as a recreational drug. You would instead monopolize the processing industry, control the prices for the raw plant and drive your competition out of the market that way. WRH was many things, but a complete fool was not one of them.
That makes no sense. If those wealthy men had wanted to make their fortune in hemp, don't you think they could have? If hemp was a financial threat to them they'd have just bought most of the hemp farms. Duh.
They don't even do that anymore. My employer sent us all a link 1st week of January to a fracking website run by the paycheck processor where we could print out our own W-2 forms. Bunch of n00bs. Did they really think we'd print this shit out at home on our own paper?
This extension is hugely popular and works as advertised, giving you control over which JavaScript, Java and other executable content on a page can run, depending on that content's source domain. You whitelist the sites you consider safe and blacklist the sites you don't.
If you really have a need for this kind of control, then you're already using the extension and will continue to do so. But for the average Web surfer, constantly having to whitelist sites so that scripts can execute in order to give you a fully formed Web experience gets tedious very quickly.
Why they don't like Greasemonkey:
It can potentially get you in trouble because it allows JavaScripts written by other people to run in Firefox. If one of those scripts is malicious, your system could be at risk.
Summary:
NoScript is bad because it doesn't permit strangers to run JavaScript on your browser
Greasemonkey is bad because it permits strangers to run JavaScript on your browser
Ideally, in pure capitalism, consumers would either be savvy enough to see through these 'deceptions', or at least principled enough to refuse to purchase from merchants they deem to use deceptive business practices.
In other words for capitalism to realize its true potential, human nature must change or be changed to accomodate it.
That's what the communists say about their system, too.
But if you decline to fight it, some of its adherents will pick one with you anyway. Evolution doesn't say anything about God or salvation or the purpose of life. Nothing whatsoever. Plenty of evolutionary biologists are church-goers and consider themselves faithful, so there isn't anything inherently incompatible between evolutionary science and religious convictions. The evolution debate wasn't started by scientists who study it, it was started by believers who took offense at the implications that they themselves worked out for their faith. No one told them "Evolution means belief in God is obsolete." They decided for themselves that evolution implies that.
"This [CSS spec] is a product of a committee of lawyers," said Nichols in his ruling.... "It is almost self evident that there is potential for confusion there," said Nichols.
I have a Motorola Q and it SUCKS. Sure, it hooks up to exchange, and it is nice and small, but battery life sucks, voice recognition sucks, and it crashes more than Eddie Griffin driving an Enzo.
George Pal's "War of the Worlds" has not been mentioned yet, either. That was a ground-breaker on both fronts, a thoughtful sci-fi theme coupled with amazing special effects.
Mozilla is a company developing many of the most popular applications you can find, including the popular Firefox browser and mail client Thunderbird. A discussion that started a few days ago on the mozilla.dev.planning list has given birth to the idea of taking all this one step further by building a complete Desktop Environment, like gnome or KDE.
Instead, why not work in making your browser take hints from the existing desktop like all other well-behaved desktop apps do? Then I don't have to apply a separate theme to my Mozilla browser so it looks like my desktop.
Jesus Christ on a Pogo Stick! (with bong hits) How about that? Ya think?!:-/
Murdock believes that Debian is "process run amok" -- nobody feels empowered to make decisions, leading to the sluggish rate of progress."
That's how apt-get makes me feel, like I am not empowered to make any decisions. So even if I know that a library dependency is met, I am not empowered to override apt-get and tell it to install the package anyway. Apt-get is emblematic of the Debian project's biggest strength and, as Murdock has pointed out, its greatest weakness. "Process run amok" is a good way to describe it. People need to be able to make exceptions, because no one - not even the Debian maintainers - is a God.
If not that, then at least an upgrade of the current Solaris userland to make it more Linux-like.
You mean it would have all the inconsistencies and inscrutability of the System V and BSD userland inherited from SunOS, PLUS all the additional inconsistencies Linux has contributed? I can hardly wait.
Do I use a dash or a double-dash? Will the man page refer me to the info docs? Or will it refer me to the command line help? Or was that --help?
One of the things I dislike about Linux userland is that it is such a bastard of every other userland out there. Cacophony cannot be emulated, it can only be shouted down.
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If you're old and smart, you have no interest in perks designed to make your stay at work more comfortable and enjoyable, and you don't like people who enjoy them and stay at work for 18 hours a day. Makes us look bad. That's why we old farts run around adjusting the a/c or heat to make the place insufferable so you people will go home at a quitting time.
Look, capitalists just aren't going to ask the government to ban a cheap, useful, industrial commodity. If hemp were as useful as its proponents say, there would be an industry producing products from it. No law will get in the way of that. Look at the immigration situation in the USA - plenty of laws and even more who turn a blind eye to the law. If hemp were as useful to industry as cheap labor, you can bet your last dollar companies would be engaged in its production on an industrial scale, regardless of the law, just like they import cheap labor on an industrial scale, despite the law.
The reason hemp is not produced in industrial quantities is because it is not all that useful. No other explanation makes sense.
(I served an LDS mission in Salt Lake City, which would take a novel to even summerize).
I can summarize for you.
You: knock knock
Them: Hello Elder Jones, so nice to see you again.
You: *sigh* Hello Brother Johnson, didn't know you had moved to this neighborhood....
If it's that useful it still makes no sense to ban it completely on account of its use as a recreational drug. You would instead monopolize the processing industry, control the prices for the raw plant and drive your competition out of the market that way. WRH was many things, but a complete fool was not one of them.
That makes no sense. If those wealthy men had wanted to make their fortune in hemp, don't you think they could have? If hemp was a financial threat to them they'd have just bought most of the hemp farms. Duh.
They don't even do that anymore. My employer sent us all a link 1st week of January to a fracking website run by the paycheck processor where we could print out our own W-2 forms. Bunch of n00bs. Did they really think we'd print this shit out at home on our own paper?
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True as far as it goes, but failure modes matter. When capitalism fails, you get unfair fees and corporate-written laws like the DMCA.
I don't understand. The DMCA is a triumph of crony capitalism. In what way does it signal the failure of our system?
Why they don't like Greasemonkey:
Summary:
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Ideally, in pure capitalism, consumers would either be savvy enough to see through these 'deceptions', or at least principled enough to refuse to purchase from merchants they deem to use deceptive business practices.
In other words for capitalism to realize its true potential, human nature must change or be changed to accomodate it.
That's what the communists say about their system, too.
Wake me up when you car stereo can control your Nomad.
It's fighting religion that keeps it alive.
But if you decline to fight it, some of its adherents will pick one with you anyway. Evolution doesn't say anything about God or salvation or the purpose of life. Nothing whatsoever. Plenty of evolutionary biologists are church-goers and consider themselves faithful, so there isn't anything inherently incompatible between evolutionary science and religious convictions. The evolution debate wasn't started by scientists who study it, it was started by believers who took offense at the implications that they themselves worked out for their faith. No one told them "Evolution means belief in God is obsolete." They decided for themselves that evolution implies that.
LOLpwnz0r!!one!eleven
I have a Motorola Q and it SUCKS. Sure, it hooks up to exchange, and it is nice and small, but battery life sucks, voice recognition sucks, and it crashes more than Eddie Griffin driving an Enzo.
Once? That ain't bad.
Cool. Now about that documentation.... ;)
Of course. And then you are forever committed to using dpkg. apt-get will refuse to install anything else until the dependency failure is resolved.
They need to take responsibility and self police.
The DMCA disagrees.
Is it reasonable to say just tell us what is your's when you removed the items without their permission.
The DMCA requires exactly this procedure. Is following the law reasonable?
They need to start an approval process like most other sites.
No, they don't. The DMCA provides a safe harbor for them and the others.
I'm talking kiddie porn and such.
No one else is. Stay on topic. The recorded music vending industry got the law they wanted, now let them live with it.
George Pal's "War of the Worlds" has not been mentioned yet, either. That was a ground-breaker on both fronts, a thoughtful sci-fi theme coupled with amazing special effects.
Really, this is blog fodder, not something that should be posted unedited on the Slashdot front page.
LOL!1!!!111one!!!eleven
"I am attempting, Madame, to construct a MP3 player using stone knives and bearskins." - Spock, Music City on the Edge of Forever
You forgot to tell us what the song was. We're dying to know!
Instead, why not work in making your browser take hints from the existing desktop like all other well-behaved desktop apps do? Then I don't have to apply a separate theme to my Mozilla browser so it looks like my desktop.
Jesus Christ on a Pogo Stick! (with bong hits) How about that? Ya think?!
And what is this "shift-insert" thing?
Shift-insert is paste, Ctrl-insert is copy and Shift-Delete is cut. This is standard Unix WM behavior for quite a long time, since Motif.
All those keys work just fine under KTerm. Perhaps the problem really is with Gnome.
Murdock believes that Debian is "process run amok" -- nobody feels empowered to make decisions, leading to the sluggish rate of progress."
That's how apt-get makes me feel, like I am not empowered to make any decisions. So even if I know that a library dependency is met, I am not empowered to override apt-get and tell it to install the package anyway. Apt-get is emblematic of the Debian project's biggest strength and, as Murdock has pointed out, its greatest weakness. "Process run amok" is a good way to describe it. People need to be able to make exceptions, because no one - not even the Debian maintainers - is a God.
If not that, then at least an upgrade of the current Solaris userland to make it more Linux-like.
You mean it would have all the inconsistencies and inscrutability of the System V and BSD userland inherited from SunOS, PLUS all the additional inconsistencies Linux has contributed? I can hardly wait.
Do I use a dash or a double-dash? Will the man page refer me to the info docs? Or will it refer me to the command line help? Or was that --help?
One of the things I dislike about Linux userland is that it is such a bastard of every other userland out there. Cacophony cannot be emulated, it can only be shouted down.