Hey Chris, check out the username of the person you replied to and realize that said person is not going to hear anything you say, as he/she is a 'ditto head' (mega, in fact) which is a person who gets their opinion from Rush Limbaugh, not something so 'liberal' as facts.
Just thought I'd try and save you some (finger) breath.:-)
Lieberman is every bit as evil as Cheney. I'm sorry, what does that have to do with Gore? Are we to assume that in 2001 all the sudden the country would be run by the vice president? This is (AFAIK) the first time in U.S. history that a vice-president has mattered so much before the president dies. In fact, vice-president is pretty much a do-nothing position, kinda like an ambassador, except the tie-breaking vote in the Senate of course.
Cheyney having power is a symptom of Bush being unable to properly fill his position, not a natural consequence of the U.S. governmental system.
Damn Quantum, seems like today every other decent post is yours...
the actual post response:
Yeah, that's the goal, I mean, I think that what you were talking about is the real test of a species, right? Life only gets a short (in the universal sense) amount of time on a certain life-support rock before said rock becomes unable to support higher life (some bacteria might be space-worthy tough, I don't know honestly) so our real goal is to get off this rock. It's like going from server style to peer-to-peer style, in case of a crash. (people like car analogies on slashdot, but we LOVE computer analogies, it's the 'news for nerds' thing)
Don't get me wrong, we really REALLY need to not trash THIS planet even if we DO make habitable another one. This is like the house we grew (are growing) up in and the womb that birthed us all at the same time. I just don't know if we can get there. Maybe that's just my U.S. cynicism (which can, if you're paying attention to things, feel a lot like hopeless creeping doom) talking, but we've barely left the house. Oh, we've spent considerable time in our own front yard, made it to the garage (moon) a few times, and have tossed some inanimate objects around the whole block, but we've yet to step foot next door (other Sol system planets) let alone make it across the street (Proxima Centauri) and many of us seem to think throwing matches in the middle of the livingroom floor is fun. I so hope you're right though.
We don't have a term "nuclear civil war" yet, but we would if the U.S. citizenry did ANYTHING that really actually threatened the existing power structure in the U.S. I mean, they wouldn't toss H-bombs at the first major riot, but you can bet your ass (my ass actually, being a U.S. citizen/resident) that they would use ANY means available when it looked like the reigns would actually be taken from them.
The people spinning in and out of the revolving door of the government / corporate power structure are psychopaths. Many of them literally can't comprehend anything other than personal consequences, and not even the depth of that as they don't process extended-effect consequences, eg. global climate change.
Now, I'm not saying Gore (or anyone else in particular) is excluded because he sees the problem with our life-support system, even a complete nut can sometimes understand something if you explain it right, I was using climate change as just one example of system-wide effects that seem to be invisible to these people.
I'm thinking maybe that caviar causes damage to the empathy center of the brain.:-)
So, getting back to my original point, we can't rise up, what CAN we do? Well, a general strike would probably hurt the PTB (Powers That Be, for all you mass-media-only type ppl out there), but even if you COULD get enough people to make a real difference in on it (good fucking luck) the power structure would immediately adapt and "find" some labor, probably the original workers (slightly bruised and scared shitless).
In fact, I've thought recently that the power holders, especially those of the "neoconservative" (which is neither new nor conservative) philosophy have actually been baiting us toward some citizen-government conflict. A pretty good job has already been done of convincing people that they are separate from the government already, and the hostility part is growing.
I don't think that the article was posted in concern to those who aren't affected. In fact, I don't think ANY bug discussions are about the people who aren't affected.
I don't see how this is relevant. I must admit though, your 'soft-core' shilling is much less obnoxious than the longer line of goatse-like asshats shilling above you, you should ask for a raise.
Answer to paragraph 2: Yeah, that's happened, most especially with a couple of family members that think anything with a Disney logo on it is gold. The difference is that they don't spend NEARLY the amount time watching TV with their friends as they do when just with their brothers. I can't completely control them (nor would I want to) but I -CAN- guide them and put my foot down for extreme cases. (like I've done with the relatives)
Answer to paragraph 3: I dunno, I'm not there yet, but I spend a significant amount of time explaining exactly WHY I make the decisions I do, and let them ask questions. Hopefully that will allow me the opportunity to have productive discussions with them about their behavior when they DO grow further out of my direct influence. in other words, I'm trying to lay the foundations for them to understand the decision making process and implement it themselves.
I hope it works. Let ya know in a decade how it went.
Here we are again, at police vs criminals, two MINORITY groups amongst our populous.
I'll tell you how -I- see it, being a member of neither minority. (okay, maybe a little bit criminal, but less so than most of you, I tend to limit myself to 2 MPH over the speed limit, 5 on the freeway) I see it as which one of these groups offers me more trouble, and it's not looking good for law enforcement. They are bullies. You see that period on that sentence, it's there on purpose. Not all of them of course (the sample size is too large for that kind of homogeneity) but you'll find it the trend.
Let me give you an example of the last encounter I've had with each group.
Criminal: I was at a friend's housewarming party and a guy asked me if I wanted to buy a bag of weed. I said "No thanks, don't smoke." He apologized and walked away.
Law Enforcement: I was sitting at my house and get a call from my sister (who lives with me) telling me that she's being pulled over right outside the house. I walk outside and immediately get told (not asked) to go back inside by this large policeman. I say nothing and stand there (in my front yard, at least 10 yards from the officer) and he gets louder, more intimidating "I said, get back in the house" to which I reply "If I go back in, I'm coming right back out with a video camera". Oh, he didn't like that at all, told me that if I did that "things will get bad" for my sister so now, not knowing what my sister did in the first place, I get a bit scared and defensive, send my wife in the house, (I hope he thought for the camera) but I'm not gonna let this large angry and threatening man (who for some reason seems very afraid of being recorded) handle my sister without supervision. So I stand on my porch (5 feet back from my original position) and watch while he stammers out something about how my sister shouldn't be driving through a particular neighborhood. Oh, so THAT'S what she was going to be in so much trouble about. Driving home from work taking the most efficient route, because she's not too scared to drive straight home instead of a 2 mile detour through a more 'pleasant' neighborhood. Yep, her "crime" was being in the ghetto while white at night.
Spare me the "hero police" crap. Some of them CAN BE heros if the situation presents itself, but what profession could that not be said of? They are people, some are hero-stuff but honestly, most people are complete fucking turds who I would voluntarily give not one mote of authority over my life. Because some other complete fucking turd gave them a shiny trinket to pin to their shirt I'm supposed to think that they are somehow to be revered and that they automatically have my best interest at heart?
I'm sorry, but as the old saying goes, I may have been born at night but it wasn't LAST night.
This isn't Disneyland, hell Disneyland isn't even as Disneylandish as starry-eyed conservative hanky-grabbers like to think it is, with Andy Griffith walking the streets. Nowadays Barney Fyfe carries a couple full magazines to go with his loaded pistol, and Andy pulls over young women and intimidates them for driving through (not even stopping) through the wrong part of town.
Why should the San Franciscan's vote count any less than yours? See, you started talking about states and then switched it to talking about people. A state isn't a person, so in NO WAY would getting rid of the EC make any person's vote count less than another persons vote. If your state has the same amount of people as San Francisco, then yes, that means that your WHOLE STATE'S vote would be canceled out if the people in SanFran all voted inversely. It also means that your tiny little state wiped out the entire vote of a major city. Welcome to Introductory Voting 101.
Seriously, it's easy to understand, if you have a situation where one guy can win with 20 votes while the loser has 22, then you have stumbled upon a situation where one person's vote DOES matter more than another's. Claiming that you'd be being oppressed by making your vote exactly equal to everyone else's doesn't impress me, and draws no (probably negative) sympathy.
If you want to claim that each STATE needs to be equally represented, I'd at least see that your argument makes some sort of SENSE, right or wrong (and in this interconnected world why should where a citizen sleeps matter?), but the way you stated your opinion (that the EC somehow makes everyone's vote equal) is completely backwards in thought.
As soon as I became a parent I started putting thought into the memes that my kids would be picking up if they watched THIS show, or THAT show...
After a thorough survey my children (who are all between 5 and 7) watch nothing but PBSKids (a 24 hour station of PBSKids is provided here, that's great for camping out in the living room) a station called noggin that plays PBS and some of the nicer Nick Jr titles and pre-screened movies. Everything Disney has made since Aladdin (or is it the Little Mermaid, whichever was latter) has failed the 'bastardly attitude' test miserably.
No Nickelodeon, no Disney channel, and you'd have to beat me up pretty bad to get me to let them watch Cartoon Network. My kids are always very well behaved at family gatherings, the park, wherever. It's pretty simple, before you let your kids watch a show, ask yourslef if you want your kids acting like the people IN the show, because they will.
Oh, and one last thing, I'm absolutely SURE my kids will be partially immune to marketing propaganda, as I point out TV lies to them several times a day, to the point where they now come and tell me what tehy saw on TV and think is a lie. It's working out well.
Telepresence as I understand it has unlimited engineering possibilities, not just medical (which is a specific type of engineering really, just a massively complicated one) but besides any industrial type usage it's mostly a social tool.
I mean, really, as far as talking to people goes, the telephone is enough. It's the ultimate evolution in long distance communication taken as a basic concept.
But.
Videoconferencing is just so much nicer, you can see the smiles or the anger of the person on the other side, filling in more sensory data that we've evolved to take in as a whole package over our entire lifespan, making the connection more 'real' to us. This is one more sense to be added. I remember hearing something about a "smell printer" a while back too. Having said all that, I flat out refuse to stick my tongue in any piece of consumer electronics to get the whole 'Fully Sensory' package.
The point is, it's something to help bridge the gap between the conscious mind and the very sensory-based animal we still are.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention to the news recently. I feel like petting the trolls today, so here ya go... http://news.google.com/news?q=Taguba&btnG=Search+N ews Try out those stories and get back to me about those 3 squares a day. You hungry enough to not mind being forced to rape your son? Be raped by a man in uniform?
I'm (usually) nicer than this, but make like Jeff Gannon and go suck GWB's cock. Whatever you do, just shut the fuck up with your 'anti-bush' conspiracy theory bullshit. The man is a crook, was a crook from the start, and now has PROVED (even to most hard-headed people) that he is a crook. It's pretty fucking simple.
Oh, and just to let you know, politics isn't sports. You don't pick a 'team' and root for them no matter how bad they fuck up. Politics is the organizational principle that we've developed society around, so when you find people that are using their position to the detriment of society as a whole, you fucking remove them. Again, this is really simple. Turn off Fox News and pick up a book please, preferably a history book. We've seen all this rhetoric and ultra-nationalism and pseudo-patriotism (yeah, that means FAKE patriotism) before, and it hasn't worked out very well yet. It won't. Society built on bullshit falls into it's own bullshit like houses built on sand.
Ron Paul isn't a troll. Necromancer maybe, or Icke style Reptoid or something, but no troll. Probably a necromancer.
Honestly though, doesn't Michael Chertoff look like a necromancer? Google him and find a picture (the first one on wiki is nice) and picture him holding up a skull commanding the zombie hoards. Makes me giddy like a schoolgirl, but I have issues.;-)
You don't need a 5GB VM for every song (hell, the 5GB number is twink anyways, but whatever) you need ONE VM for your whole library, to run the OS that'll let you play the video while the OS that's actually on the bottom REALLY running the show does all those dirty things the boys at the RIAA and MPAA have nightmares about.
Wasn't a crack at Apple at all, it was pointing out that using people's stuff while giving credit (like Apple does) and using people's stuff and pretending it's your design (like another company that I was talking about a couple posts ago) are two different things. The first is perfectly fine, the second not so much.
It depends. Does Apple credit BSD where appropriate, or just pass it off as their own 'innovation'?
And there is where it matters, because you forgot the 'give credit where credit is due' part of the BSD license. It's sharing when you follow the terms of the license, it's stealing when you don't.
With Vista they tossed out the TCP/IP stack that they had allegedly stolen from one of the BSDs (don't remember which) and used (with modifications) from Win95 (or was it 3.11 for Workgroups?) all the way up to XP and 2003 server, right?
"Yeah baby, that's my Source right there, now let me show you how I compile..." or, after discovering your date is a transvestite "Whoa there now, I don't support your platform... I'm no cross-compiler"
Stuff like that, not to mention all the 'optimized for speed' jokes that could be made.
1. Qualify this lie please. Do your best to spin 'more terrorists than ever' into we = safer. 2. On the run? Which terrorists? The 500 before Iraq or the 20,000 created (by bombing innocent family members) since then? 3. Are you fucking kidding? Seriously now, do you really believe this? Energy security by invoking a civil war in a prime oil producer? Wow. 4. Our slave and servant! WOW! How much of China do WE own? How much of the U.S. do THEY own? 5a. Taxes at an all time low, yes. Cost of living has so far outstripped it that you really have to be RICH (not just upper middle class) to see any benefit. 5b. ROFL. This is the lamest of all your points by far. As far as anything other than graduate school we are slipping so quickly behind that 3rd world countries are starting to educate their children better. Why do we do good in graduate school? Because of historical inertia (decades of tradition if you don't understand what I mean) extremely high cost, and a LARGE influx of foreign students who received primary schhol education in a foreign land. 6. Claiming that the Bush administration is science friendly? Did you really just do that with a straight face? By the way, nice pre-war link from 5 years ago talking about 'where is our money going'.
People like you killed Rome. If you really care about your country stop being so (wrongly) prideful about being 'right' and try and make SURE you're right. Put your flag down log enough to pick up a book. Oh, I'm not telling you to not pick the flag back up (I fly mine, but I'm -actually- a patriot) but if you want to participate in the realities of our government you should acquaint yourself with good old-fashioned reality first.
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Hey Chris, check out the username of the person you replied to and realize that said person is not going to hear anything you say, as he/she is a 'ditto head' (mega, in fact) which is a person who gets their opinion from Rush Limbaugh, not something so 'liberal' as facts.
:-)
Just thought I'd try and save you some (finger) breath.
Could you get (what-a-)Rush(-you-get-from-Oxycontin) Limbaugh's dick out of your mouth please? You were mumbling.
Cheyney having power is a symptom of Bush being unable to properly fill his position, not a natural consequence of the U.S. governmental system.
Damn Quantum, seems like today every other decent post is yours...
the actual post response:
Yeah, that's the goal, I mean, I think that what you were talking about is the real test of a species, right? Life only gets a short (in the universal sense) amount of time on a certain life-support rock before said rock becomes unable to support higher life (some bacteria might be space-worthy tough, I don't know honestly) so our real goal is to get off this rock. It's like going from server style to peer-to-peer style, in case of a crash. (people like car analogies on slashdot, but we LOVE computer analogies, it's the 'news for nerds' thing)
Don't get me wrong, we really REALLY need to not trash THIS planet even if we DO make habitable another one. This is like the house we grew (are growing) up in and the womb that birthed us all at the same time.
I just don't know if we can get there. Maybe that's just my U.S. cynicism (which can, if you're paying attention to things, feel a lot like hopeless creeping doom) talking, but we've barely left the house. Oh, we've spent considerable time in our own front yard, made it to the garage (moon) a few times, and have tossed some inanimate objects around the whole block, but we've yet to step foot next door (other Sol system planets) let alone make it across the street (Proxima Centauri) and many of us seem to think throwing matches in the middle of the livingroom floor is fun. I so hope you're right though.
We can't rise up. (notice the period)
:-)
We don't have a term "nuclear civil war" yet, but we would if the U.S. citizenry did ANYTHING that really actually threatened the existing power structure in the U.S. I mean, they wouldn't toss H-bombs at the first major riot, but you can bet your ass (my ass actually, being a U.S. citizen/resident) that they would use ANY means available when it looked like the reigns would actually be taken from them.
The people spinning in and out of the revolving door of the government / corporate power structure are psychopaths. Many of them literally can't comprehend anything other than personal consequences, and not even the depth of that as they don't process extended-effect consequences, eg. global climate change.
Now, I'm not saying Gore (or anyone else in particular) is excluded because he sees the problem with our life-support system, even a complete nut can sometimes understand something if you explain it right, I was using climate change as just one example of system-wide effects that seem to be invisible to these people.
I'm thinking maybe that caviar causes damage to the empathy center of the brain.
So, getting back to my original point, we can't rise up, what CAN we do? Well, a general strike would probably hurt the PTB (Powers That Be, for all you mass-media-only type ppl out there), but even if you COULD get enough people to make a real difference in on it (good fucking luck) the power structure would immediately adapt and "find" some labor, probably the original workers (slightly bruised and scared shitless).
In fact, I've thought recently that the power holders, especially those of the "neoconservative" (which is neither new nor conservative) philosophy have actually been baiting us toward some citizen-government conflict. A pretty good job has already been done of convincing people that they are separate from the government already, and the hostility part is growing.
Oh look, the Anonymous Fucktard rides again!
Dripping with incorrectness and obnoxiousness, the Anonymous Fucktard is sure to bring you a laugh, or at least a derisive snort.
I don't think that the article was posted in concern to those who aren't affected. In fact, I don't think ANY bug discussions are about the people who aren't affected.
I don't see how this is relevant. I must admit though, your 'soft-core' shilling is much less obnoxious than the longer line of goatse-like asshats shilling above you, you should ask for a raise.
Answer to paragraph 2: Yeah, that's happened, most especially with a couple of family members that think anything with a Disney logo on it is gold. The difference is that they don't spend NEARLY the amount time watching TV with their friends as they do when just with their brothers. I can't completely control them (nor would I want to) but I -CAN- guide them and put my foot down for extreme cases. (like I've done with the relatives)
Answer to paragraph 3: I dunno, I'm not there yet, but I spend a significant amount of time explaining exactly WHY I make the decisions I do, and let them ask questions. Hopefully that will allow me the opportunity to have productive discussions with them about their behavior when they DO grow further out of my direct influence. in other words, I'm trying to lay the foundations for them to understand the decision making process and implement it themselves.
I hope it works. Let ya know in a decade how it went.
Here we are again, at police vs criminals, two MINORITY groups amongst our populous.
I'll tell you how -I- see it, being a member of neither minority. (okay, maybe a little bit criminal, but less so than most of you, I tend to limit myself to 2 MPH over the speed limit, 5 on the freeway) I see it as which one of these groups offers me more trouble, and it's not looking good for law enforcement. They are bullies. You see that period on that sentence, it's there on purpose. Not all of them of course (the sample size is too large for that kind of homogeneity) but you'll find it the trend.
Let me give you an example of the last encounter I've had with each group.
Criminal: I was at a friend's housewarming party and a guy asked me if I wanted to buy a bag of weed. I said "No thanks, don't smoke." He apologized and walked away.
Law Enforcement: I was sitting at my house and get a call from my sister (who lives with me) telling me that she's being pulled over right outside the house. I walk outside and immediately get told (not asked) to go back inside by this large policeman. I say nothing and stand there (in my front yard, at least 10 yards from the officer) and he gets louder, more intimidating "I said, get back in the house" to which I reply "If I go back in, I'm coming right back out with a video camera". Oh, he didn't like that at all, told me that if I did that "things will get bad" for my sister so now, not knowing what my sister did in the first place, I get a bit scared and defensive, send my wife in the house, (I hope he thought for the camera) but I'm not gonna let this large angry and threatening man (who for some reason seems very afraid of being recorded) handle my sister without supervision. So I stand on my porch (5 feet back from my original position) and watch while he stammers out something about how my sister shouldn't be driving through a particular neighborhood. Oh, so THAT'S what she was going to be in so much trouble about. Driving home from work taking the most efficient route, because she's not too scared to drive straight home instead of a 2 mile detour through a more 'pleasant' neighborhood. Yep, her "crime" was being in the ghetto while white at night.
Spare me the "hero police" crap. Some of them CAN BE heros if the situation presents itself, but what profession could that not be said of? They are people, some are hero-stuff but honestly, most people are complete fucking turds who I would voluntarily give not one mote of authority over my life. Because some other complete fucking turd gave them a shiny trinket to pin to their shirt I'm supposed to think that they are somehow to be revered and that they automatically have my best interest at heart?
I'm sorry, but as the old saying goes, I may have been born at night but it wasn't LAST night.
This isn't Disneyland, hell Disneyland isn't even as Disneylandish as starry-eyed conservative hanky-grabbers like to think it is, with Andy Griffith walking the streets. Nowadays Barney Fyfe carries a couple full magazines to go with his loaded pistol, and Andy pulls over young women and intimidates them for driving through (not even stopping) through the wrong part of town.
Your last paragraph destroys your whole position.
Why should the San Franciscan's vote count any less than yours? See, you started talking about states and then switched it to talking about people. A state isn't a person, so in NO WAY would getting rid of the EC make any person's vote count less than another persons vote. If your state has the same amount of people as San Francisco, then yes, that means that your WHOLE STATE'S vote would be canceled out if the people in SanFran all voted inversely. It also means that your tiny little state wiped out the entire vote of a major city. Welcome to Introductory Voting 101.
Seriously, it's easy to understand, if you have a situation where one guy can win with 20 votes while the loser has 22, then you have stumbled upon a situation where one person's vote DOES matter more than another's. Claiming that you'd be being oppressed by making your vote exactly equal to everyone else's doesn't impress me, and draws no (probably negative) sympathy.
If you want to claim that each STATE needs to be equally represented, I'd at least see that your argument makes some sort of SENSE, right or wrong (and in this interconnected world why should where a citizen sleeps matter?), but the way you stated your opinion (that the EC somehow makes everyone's vote equal) is completely backwards in thought.
Exactly.
As soon as I became a parent I started putting thought into the memes that my kids would be picking up if they watched THIS show, or THAT show...
After a thorough survey my children (who are all between 5 and 7) watch nothing but PBSKids (a 24 hour station of PBSKids is provided here, that's great for camping out in the living room) a station called noggin that plays PBS and some of the nicer Nick Jr titles and pre-screened movies. Everything Disney has made since Aladdin (or is it the Little Mermaid, whichever was latter) has failed the 'bastardly attitude' test miserably.
No Nickelodeon, no Disney channel, and you'd have to beat me up pretty bad to get me to let them watch Cartoon Network. My kids are always very well behaved at family gatherings, the park, wherever. It's pretty simple, before you let your kids watch a show, ask yourslef if you want your kids acting like the people IN the show, because they will.
Oh, and one last thing, I'm absolutely SURE my kids will be partially immune to marketing propaganda, as I point out TV lies to them several times a day, to the point where they now come and tell me what tehy saw on TV and think is a lie. It's working out well.
Telepresence as I understand it has unlimited engineering possibilities, not just medical (which is a specific type of engineering really, just a massively complicated one) but besides any industrial type usage it's mostly a social tool.
I mean, really, as far as talking to people goes, the telephone is enough. It's the ultimate evolution in long distance communication taken as a basic concept.
But.
Videoconferencing is just so much nicer, you can see the smiles or the anger of the person on the other side, filling in more sensory data that we've evolved to take in as a whole package over our entire lifespan, making the connection more 'real' to us. This is one more sense to be added. I remember hearing something about a "smell printer" a while back too. Having said all that, I flat out refuse to stick my tongue in any piece of consumer electronics to get the whole 'Fully Sensory' package.
The point is, it's something to help bridge the gap between the conscious mind and the very sensory-based animal we still are.
That explains the crash, slippery control stick.
Apparently you haven't been paying attention to the news recently. I feel like petting the trolls today, so here ya go...N ews
http://news.google.com/news?q=Taguba&btnG=Search+
Try out those stories and get back to me about those 3 squares a day. You hungry enough to not mind being forced to rape your son? Be raped by a man in uniform?
I'm (usually) nicer than this, but make like Jeff Gannon and go suck GWB's cock. Whatever you do, just shut the fuck up with your 'anti-bush' conspiracy theory bullshit. The man is a crook, was a crook from the start, and now has PROVED (even to most hard-headed people) that he is a crook. It's pretty fucking simple.
Oh, and just to let you know, politics isn't sports. You don't pick a 'team' and root for them no matter how bad they fuck up. Politics is the organizational principle that we've developed society around, so when you find people that are using their position to the detriment of society as a whole, you fucking remove them. Again, this is really simple. Turn off Fox News and pick up a book please, preferably a history book. We've seen all this rhetoric and ultra-nationalism and pseudo-patriotism (yeah, that means FAKE patriotism) before, and it hasn't worked out very well yet. It won't. Society built on bullshit falls into it's own bullshit like houses built on sand.
Do yourself a favor and get informed.
Once again "proving" right wing conspiracies are just liberal fantasy.
Oh, and you're an asshole, post with your username when you're gonna be defaming others you scared little shit.
RTCW:ET is my personal addiction (if you're just counting videogames, isn't that right Mr. Camel Menthol?)
I think it's all the morphine... I know I need to play when I start unconsciously rubbing my arm...
MEDIC!
Ron Paul isn't a troll. Necromancer maybe, or Icke style Reptoid or something, but no troll. Probably a necromancer.
;-)
Honestly though, doesn't Michael Chertoff look like a necromancer? Google him and find a picture (the first one on wiki is nice) and picture him holding up a skull commanding the zombie hoards. Makes me giddy like a schoolgirl, but I have issues.
You don't need a 5GB VM for every song (hell, the 5GB number is twink anyways, but whatever) you need ONE VM for your whole library, to run the OS that'll let you play the video while the OS that's actually on the bottom REALLY running the show does all those dirty things the boys at the RIAA and MPAA have nightmares about.
Wasn't a crack at Apple at all, it was pointing out that using people's stuff while giving credit (like Apple does) and using people's stuff and pretending it's your design (like another company that I was talking about a couple posts ago) are two different things. The first is perfectly fine, the second not so much.
It depends. Does Apple credit BSD where appropriate, or just pass it off as their own 'innovation'?
And there is where it matters, because you forgot the 'give credit where credit is due' part of the BSD license.
It's sharing when you follow the terms of the license, it's stealing when you don't.
With Vista they tossed out the TCP/IP stack that they had allegedly stolen from one of the BSDs (don't remember which) and used (with modifications) from Win95 (or was it 3.11 for Workgroups?) all the way up to XP and 2003 server, right?
They call that 'virgin', heh.
"Yeah baby, that's my Source right there, now let me show you how I compile..."
or, after discovering your date is a transvestite
"Whoa there now, I don't support your platform... I'm no cross-compiler"
Stuff like that, not to mention all the 'optimized for speed' jokes that could be made.
Are you KIDDING me?
1. Qualify this lie please. Do your best to spin 'more terrorists than ever' into we = safer.
2. On the run? Which terrorists? The 500 before Iraq or the 20,000 created (by bombing innocent family members) since then?
3. Are you fucking kidding? Seriously now, do you really believe this? Energy security by invoking a civil war in a prime oil producer? Wow.
4. Our slave and servant! WOW! How much of China do WE own? How much of the U.S. do THEY own?
5a. Taxes at an all time low, yes. Cost of living has so far outstripped it that you really have to be RICH (not just upper middle class) to see any benefit.
5b. ROFL. This is the lamest of all your points by far. As far as anything other than graduate school we are slipping so quickly behind that 3rd world countries are starting to educate their children better. Why do we do good in graduate school? Because of historical inertia (decades of tradition if you don't understand what I mean) extremely high cost, and a LARGE influx of foreign students who received primary schhol education in a foreign land.
6. Claiming that the Bush administration is science friendly? Did you really just do that with a straight face? By the way, nice pre-war link from 5 years ago talking about 'where is our money going'.
People like you killed Rome. If you really care about your country stop being so (wrongly) prideful about being 'right' and try and make SURE you're right. Put your flag down log enough to pick up a book. Oh, I'm not telling you to not pick the flag back up (I fly mine, but I'm -actually- a patriot) but if you want to participate in the realities of our government you should acquaint yourself with good old-fashioned reality first.
You forgot a stellar converter, oh, and my favorite accessory, the achilles targeting system.
I say it. Picked it up in SE Michigan.