1. My time is better spent doing things other than compiling basic system utilities.
2. My optimized Gentoo system does not run faster enough to make up for the time lost building it from source.
3. Turns out there was nothing to learn from installing Gentoo from stage 1. I already knew what goes into a system at the most basic level, but I got this from 10+ years of Unix/Linux experience, before I ever saw Gentoo.
Going to try MEPIS now. 'Sposed to be easy and painless.
They put them in, they take them out. I've gotten Spamcop bounces when sending from Gmail before, too, only to have the listing disappear a few hours later, and no problems sending mail again to the same destination.
Do gay couples have to file their taxes together, or can they keep the huge tax benefits of filing singly, and if the latter, isn't that discrimination against unmarried straight couples?
Married couples can choose to file separately if they wish. If there are "huge tax benefits" to filing singly (??), married couples have always been able to do that. If they do, then one can file as head of household, and can even claim the kids, if any, as dependents. Also, depending on the other person's income, they may be able to claim their partner as a dependent. In fact, you can claim any party in your residence as a dependent, if in fact they are dependent upon you for their support, as defined by the IRS. They don't even have to be related to you by blood or marriage.
Married-filing-jointly is reserved for those couples who are married, even common-law marriages qualify.
Since there's currently no litmus test for what constitutes a committed gay relationship (ie marriage)Since there's currently no litmus test for what constitutes a committed gay relationship (ie marriage)
What is the "litmus test" for straights? As far as I can tell, the test is simply whether they applied for a license at the county courthouse. Why doesn't that work for gays?
I'm not aware of any federal law that says ISPs are legally-bound to keep private their customer's names.
Doesn't have to be a federal law. Could be a state law. States can pass laws, too, you know. Washington state has it in the state constitution.
No person shall be disturbed in his private affairs, or his home invaded, without authority of law. (Wash. Constitution Art. I, sec. 7)
Show me the law with the specific wording, not just interpretation of intent or precedent.
Hey Fred, I got some news for you. ALL laws are interpreted. No law is 100% perfectly clear in all cases. We rely on precedent and interpretation to decide what laws mean to the case at hand. This is not some recent innovation or "judicial activism" (whatever that means). This is what jurisprudence IS and always has been.
Look, I'm glad the two of you have an opinion, but just because you make millions in Hollywood and have played many roles in film doesn't give you any more credibility than the guy who slaves all day for his family.
Thanks, Dad.
The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines learned this lesson the hard way. True, as an American on our soil you are free to express an opinion. However, the Americans who are listening to you are also free to react to your opinion by counter-comment, or even just to ignore what you said. In the case of Ms. Maines, some folks decided that they would ignore her group's album for a while.
A few right wingnuts decided to do that, but most of her fans either agreed with her views or didn't care. The Dixie Chicks still sold out shows and still sell albums despite the best efforts of Faux News and their allies in radio and cable to figuratively run her out of town on a rail. The biggest secret about the Maines story is that there is no story. The DC were not adversely affected in any meaningful way, other than being the punching-bag-of-the-moment in the right wing echo chambers for a week or two.
Nitpick: it's Dallas Love Field (DAL) not Dallas-Ft. Worth International (DFW) that is affected by the Wright Amendment. Southwest, in fact, just declined to rent Delta's now-abandoned terminal at DFW. They like DAL just fine, even with the Wright Amendment in place.
Viewing media on a Memory Stick isn't worth $250 to anyone with half a brain...
I must have something more or less than half a brain, then, because I enjoyed watching a rip of my "Todd McFarlane's Spawn" DVD on a 2 1/2 hour airline flight last night, which when converted to Memory Stick video format at 15 fps is totally watchable and squeezes onto a 512Mb stick with about 18Mb to spare.
I need a 1Gb stick to store "The Matrix" or "Blade Runner" which come in at 527Mb and 489Mb, respectively. The biggest downside to movies on the PSP memory stick is the time it takes to rip and transcode. It's not a grab-and-go proposition, you have to plan ahead. But eventually I will have a library of PSP videos, and no doubt there will be torrents available soon, too.
So. Explain to me how this idea is a good thing for Sony?
It makes the Nintendo DS ("Do Something!") seem like a cheap toy in comparison.
For the same reason it was a good thing for Microsoft/Intel.
And any private sector business, no matter how crappy, should not be competed against by the government.
Great! Then you would have no problem with a municipality offering services commercial entities are shying away from, right? That's what's happening here, only the telecom companies are trying to prevent munis from competing against commercial services that aren't yet offered in that community.
You snooze, you lose - isn't that how business works?
This is what we skeptics call the ad hominem fallacy. When you critique a viewpoint, statement, or article by questioning the character of the author, or of the author's other works, rather than the content of the work in question itself, you have committed the ad hominem fallacy. It is an invalid criticism. As much as I like bashing neocons - and they do deserve it - one can do much better than attacking the character of the messenger (which in the case of neocons, is always questionable, and a rather moot point as the past two elections have shown).
But these days, it seems the US government is a bigger violator of human rights than the soviets ever were.
You are naive if you think the US Government only recently started acting the way they claim their enemies have acted in the past. "These days" have been the status quo for decades. Only because information is easier to find and disseminate are you now hearing about this kind of thing more often.
Excuse me, but we're talking about a person who stabbed to death another person over a sword that doesn't really exist. It's obvious that respect for contract law is pretty far down the perp's list of priorities. I doubt a contract would have saved the other guy's life.
I can pretty much guarantee that nobody's gonna rebuy movies for this thing, at least in the US.
They're just $13.97 retail. Probably $9.99 on Newegg soon. Don't expect anything but action/thriller movies. Look at the audience. Why release "House of Sand and Fog" for the PSP, LOL.
I just want to see Apple take that gorgeous LCD and wrap a star-killing PDA phone around it, using a scaled-up iPod mini look with touchscreen.
Been there, done that, didn't get a T-shirt. Verizon and T-mobile won't support the iPod phone Apple and Motorola have already developed. There is no revenue for the mobile carriers in a device that can aquire music without connecting to the mobile network. Forget your dreams of a iPod phone, it won't happen unless the only way to put music on it is by burning up your airtime minutes and purchasing tunes exclusively from T-mobile or Verizon's partners. And you would not like an iPod crippled in that way, so forget all about it. Not happening.
If you want to own it, do it on your own time and pick something else for company time.
That sort of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? If the employee does his real personal project on his own time, and a fake personal project on company time, he has cheated Google out of what they expected, hasn't he?
I mean, it's not like I've ever heard of bullshit lawsuits before.
Obviously, since you are so quick to pronouce this suit bullshit before it has even been heard, based on a single news article. You're just as quick as Senator/Doctor Bill Frist, who judged that Schiavo's doctors were wrong about her condition based solely on highly edited news footage he saw on TV. You are in great company!
LOL, are you saying I'm making this shit up?
Yes I am. "I have a list but I don't want to bother posting it." Bullshit. Of course, you could prove me wrong by posting your list of retarded rules. But I see you haven't bothered still. Maybe you don't really have a point to make, but just wanted to pile on. In that case, I can see why you wouldn't bother to support your position with the facts you claim to possess. It makes perfect sense, in that case.
Your move.
Ah. Let me guess - you used to be an employee and got shafted by a company, who then hired a temp (or consultant if we're talking above burger flipping or bubble wrapping) in your place, correct?
No. I have worked as a temp in the chemical industries, however. I've been subject to the same scam the plaintiffs are filing suit over,: employers using temps to get around labor laws.
Don't fucking sign it then. This is still a free country, after all.
Not entirely free. You are not free to enter into an illegal contract, and you are not free to enforce one.
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Some of the things I learned:
1. My time is better spent doing things other than compiling basic system utilities.
2. My optimized Gentoo system does not run faster enough to make up for the time lost building it from source.
3. Turns out there was nothing to learn from installing Gentoo from stage 1. I already knew what goes into a system at the most basic level, but I got this from 10+ years of Unix/Linux experience, before I ever saw Gentoo.
Going to try MEPIS now. 'Sposed to be easy and painless.
Sadly, the next civil war is probably going to be about who should have won on American Idol.
Since "The Heartland" has shown repeatedly in the past several election cycles that it has no heart, I propose we change it's name to "The Assland."
:)
What do you think?
They put them in, they take them out. I've gotten Spamcop bounces when sending from Gmail before, too, only to have the listing disappear a few hours later, and no problems sending mail again to the same destination.
And one more thing...
Do gay couples have to file their taxes together, or can they keep the huge tax benefits of filing singly, and if the latter, isn't that discrimination against unmarried straight couples?
Married couples can choose to file separately if they wish. If there are "huge tax benefits" to filing singly (??), married couples have always been able to do that. If they do, then one can file as head of household, and can even claim the kids, if any, as dependents. Also, depending on the other person's income, they may be able to claim their partner as a dependent. In fact, you can claim any party in your residence as a dependent, if in fact they are dependent upon you for their support, as defined by the IRS. They don't even have to be related to you by blood or marriage.
Married-filing-jointly is reserved for those couples who are married, even common-law marriages qualify.
Since there's currently no litmus test for what constitutes a committed gay relationship (ie marriage)Since there's currently no litmus test for what constitutes a committed gay relationship (ie marriage)
What is the "litmus test" for straights? As far as I can tell, the test is simply whether they applied for a license at the county courthouse. Why doesn't that work for gays?
Doesn't have to be a federal law. Could be a state law. States can pass laws, too, you know. Washington state has it in the state constitution.
Show me the law with the specific wording, not just interpretation of intent or precedent.
Hey Fred, I got some news for you. ALL laws are interpreted. No law is 100% perfectly clear in all cases. We rely on precedent and interpretation to decide what laws mean to the case at hand. This is not some recent innovation or "judicial activism" (whatever that means). This is what jurisprudence IS and always has been.
Look, I'm glad the two of you have an opinion, but just because you make millions in Hollywood and have played many roles in film doesn't give you any more credibility than the guy who slaves all day for his family.
Thanks, Dad.
The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines learned this lesson the hard way. True, as an American on our soil you are free to express an opinion. However, the Americans who are listening to you are also free to react to your opinion by counter-comment, or even just to ignore what you said. In the case of Ms. Maines, some folks decided that they would ignore her group's album for a while.
A few right wingnuts decided to do that, but most of her fans either agreed with her views or didn't care. The Dixie Chicks still sold out shows and still sell albums despite the best efforts of Faux News and their allies in radio and cable to figuratively run her out of town on a rail. The biggest secret about the Maines story is that there is no story. The DC were not adversely affected in any meaningful way, other than being the punching-bag-of-the-moment in the right wing echo chambers for a week or two.
Nitpick: it's Dallas Love Field (DAL) not Dallas-Ft. Worth International (DFW) that is affected by the Wright Amendment. Southwest, in fact, just declined to rent Delta's now-abandoned terminal at DFW. They like DAL just fine, even with the Wright Amendment in place.
Can't anyone have any fun anymore?
I've seen the DS screen. It looks like crap compared to the PSP. So there.
Engineering-wise, it's got every piece of hardware you can think of.
It lacks an audio input. Shame, since VoIP would be really killer, wouldn't it?
Video needs to be in a very specific format to play off a memory card: MPEG4, 29.97 fps, exact resolution
That's actually a standard for memory stick video, which the PSP follows, but it is not exclusive to the PSP.
Viewing media on a Memory Stick isn't worth $250 to anyone with half a brain...
I must have something more or less than half a brain, then, because I enjoyed watching a rip of my "Todd McFarlane's Spawn" DVD on a 2 1/2 hour airline flight last night, which when converted to Memory Stick video format at 15 fps is totally watchable and squeezes onto a 512Mb stick with about 18Mb to spare.
I need a 1Gb stick to store "The Matrix" or "Blade Runner" which come in at 527Mb and 489Mb, respectively. The biggest downside to movies on the PSP memory stick is the time it takes to rip and transcode. It's not a grab-and-go proposition, you have to plan ahead. But eventually I will have a library of PSP videos, and no doubt there will be torrents available soon, too.
So. Explain to me how this idea is a good thing for Sony?
It makes the Nintendo DS ("Do Something!") seem like a cheap toy in comparison.
For the same reason it was a good thing for Microsoft/Intel.
And any private sector business, no matter how crappy, should not be competed against by the government.
Great! Then you would have no problem with a municipality offering services commercial entities are shying away from, right? That's what's happening here, only the telecom companies are trying to prevent munis from competing against commercial services that aren't yet offered in that community.
You snooze, you lose - isn't that how business works?
This is what we skeptics call the ad hominem fallacy. When you critique a viewpoint, statement, or article by questioning the character of the author, or of the author's other works, rather than the content of the work in question itself, you have committed the ad hominem fallacy. It is an invalid criticism. As much as I like bashing neocons - and they do deserve it - one can do much better than attacking the character of the messenger (which in the case of neocons, is always questionable, and a rather moot point as the past two elections have shown).
I want my news back.
Yeah! Bring back the Slashdot of 1997!
Congratulations. Your post asking "why does Ask Jeeves suck so hard" is now the number one result for "why does Ask Jeeves suck so hard?"
"why does Ask Jeeves suck so hard"
But these days, it seems the US government is a bigger violator of human rights than the soviets ever were.
You are naive if you think the US Government only recently started acting the way they claim their enemies have acted in the past. "These days" have been the status quo for decades. Only because information is easier to find and disseminate are you now hearing about this kind of thing more often.
Excuse me, but we're talking about a person who stabbed to death another person over a sword that doesn't really exist. It's obvious that respect for contract law is pretty far down the perp's list of priorities. I doubt a contract would have saved the other guy's life.
I got bored and went on to something else. Nice to know I had you hanging on, though.
End of transmission.
I can pretty much guarantee that nobody's gonna rebuy movies for this thing, at least in the US.
They're just $13.97 retail. Probably $9.99 on Newegg soon. Don't expect anything but action/thriller movies. Look at the audience. Why release "House of Sand and Fog" for the PSP, LOL.
I just want to see Apple take that gorgeous LCD and wrap a star-killing PDA phone around it, using a scaled-up iPod mini look with touchscreen.
Been there, done that, didn't get a T-shirt. Verizon and T-mobile won't support the iPod phone Apple and Motorola have already developed. There is no revenue for the mobile carriers in a device that can aquire music without connecting to the mobile network. Forget your dreams of a iPod phone, it won't happen unless the only way to put music on it is by burning up your airtime minutes and purchasing tunes exclusively from T-mobile or Verizon's partners. And you would not like an iPod crippled in that way, so forget all about it. Not happening.
If you want to own it, do it on your own time and pick something else for company time.
That sort of defeats the purpose, doesn't it? If the employee does his real personal project on his own time, and a fake personal project on company time, he has cheated Google out of what they expected, hasn't he?
And here comes the cavalcade of leeches spouting "smart people don't reinvent the wheel.."
You used an already existing language - English - to post this article. You leech.
It's very unfortunate that the entirely separate application, MS Word, which is not a part of Windows ...
Yet...
Is it any surprise that the companies are responding to economic pressure from the government NOT to hire regular full-time workers?
By breaking the law? No, it doesn't suprise me at all.
I mean, it's not like I've ever heard of bullshit lawsuits before.
Obviously, since you are so quick to pronouce this suit bullshit before it has even been heard, based on a single news article. You're just as quick as Senator/Doctor Bill Frist, who judged that Schiavo's doctors were wrong about her condition based solely on highly edited news footage he saw on TV. You are in great company!
LOL, are you saying I'm making this shit up?
Yes I am. "I have a list but I don't want to bother posting it." Bullshit. Of course, you could prove me wrong by posting your list of retarded rules. But I see you haven't bothered still. Maybe you don't really have a point to make, but just wanted to pile on. In that case, I can see why you wouldn't bother to support your position with the facts you claim to possess. It makes perfect sense, in that case.
Your move.
Ah. Let me guess - you used to be an employee and got shafted by a company, who then hired a temp (or consultant if we're talking above burger flipping or bubble wrapping) in your place, correct?
No. I have worked as a temp in the chemical industries, however. I've been subject to the same scam the plaintiffs are filing suit over,: employers using temps to get around labor laws.
Don't fucking sign it then. This is still a free country, after all.
Not entirely free. You are not free to enter into an illegal contract, and you are not free to enforce one.