But when you're one of those people who use more architectures, it's wonderful to be able to use the same distro on several systems.
Seconded. I run Debian on Alpha, SPARC, and X86, and it's just amazing to have the very same software packages, configurations, and quality available on each of these architectures. In effect I can just replicate my environment from one system to another with minimal changes (different boot loaders for each arch and different kernels because of SMP or no-SMP come to mind).
But that's what I like about living in the U.S.A. -- no "regime propaganda" on TV.
Don't know what you're watching, but I see plenty of that (propaganda, lies, government agenda intruced bullshit, censored reporting) when I turn on CNN, ABC, or any other US-based TV channel. Of course, I only watch TV when I'm bored in hotel during business trips, so my sample is somewhat limited.
Unlike Democrats, I believe in a free market. This business of subsidation and all sorts of other communistic non-sense is crap.
Eh, you must mean George Wah-Wah Bush (aka "the incredible brainless wonder"), who just signed the largest subsidies in the world for US steel and agriculture (against all WTO free-trade articlas), is now a democrat?
Guess what would happen if they were suddenly banned? Right -- they would get power from the negative attention, and suddenly would become the "cool thing" for the amateur anarchists.
Heh, "cool thing" like teaching of evolution in schools or offering of evolutionary literature in libraries in certain Southern US states has become, I could imagine. Or showing tits in telly anywhere in the land of the "free".
Reminds me of some low-budget sci-fi movie I was once saw...
A yeti-like creature was supposed to be speaking some ancient Tibethan dialect, which in reality was simply Dutch...
Or the Star Trek movie, where the Norwegian whale hunters speak Finnish. God damn.
It's extremely refreshing to note that at least somebody has smelt the coffee over there.
Even if the standard/.'er doesn't see it after some witty moderation by the me-me-me-generetion of the libertarian task force.
So, even though I'm not completely in harmony with the actual communist ideals - I prefer socialism with more of a "eco fascist" touch with much less focus on human wellfare - I agree fully on your point on the olicarghy of the investers ruling the world (not just America, but everywhere - look at Russia, China, EU, and indirectly the third world as well), and the consequences it brings to the well-being of an average citizen, foreigner, animal, or anything else than the bank account of the inner circle. And this is not paranoia or something not really existing brought you by the servants of Papa Stalin - everything is completely transparent and public to research if you just have a few hours to spend on it.
A good starting point for the uninitiated could be e.g. Chomsky's Profit Over People, not a perfect compilation of essays, but thought provoking.
If you're planning on moving to China, be prepared for some nasty shit, and don't ever tell anybody what you really think about anything, lest you be whipped into the local police station and beaten until you admit to being 'an impererialist running dog trying to subvert the glorious motherland.'
Shit, you've never visited China as a foreigner? They don't imprison you for "incorrect" political opinions, you just get the boot and will be denied entry for a few years. Nothing worse than what would happen if I (a foreigner) would burn the US flag in public during my visit to the States.
Ji-haa! Finally they're doing something worthy with that technology. I just hope they include a remote implentee termination option on the chip as well... I mean syanide or such for efficient population control.
But there's an awful lot which we can do today which is possible but not yet practical - for example, a house which turns its lights on and off according to whether people are in the room or not. This is eminently possible with current technology, but not yet practical for the average consumer.
Bad example. Trivially available, at least where I live (in the backwoods of Scandinavia).
"Modern" free-market theory, in which goods must be free to travel unhindered, is little changed from the teachings of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, who wrote two hundred years ago, in Britain, under conditions entirely different from those of the present. There is still no statistical reason to believe that this theory works, but corporations have many selfish economic reasons to make it the law.
And again, who were first in space? Where is the literacy rate better; in Scandinavia or the US? Which country allows the "burning" of school books teaching evolution?
But then, this has nothing to do with scientific or social progress. Capitalism just sucks because it promotes wrong values. Democracy just sucks because people are so inherently stupid and selfish. Totalitarian leftist rule is the sane way to go, my son.
As well, the Supreme Court of Finland has given a decision stating that (e.g. software-) EULAs can not override the basic customer rights in law (which is just what common sense would tell you anyway). And based on that, pretty much nothing in M$'s EULAs is legally binding in Finland.
Glad to be living in a society not (yet) completely ruled by megacorporations.
Most small projects does not need transactions, subqueries or locking. And to really take advantages of such features you need to have some good understanding of databases.
You shouldn't be administrating databases at all if you don't have a good understanding of the theoretical context and these, eh "advanced" features. Shit, I've seen so many web-monkeys-turned-dbas fuck up their systems because they lack the proper education of basic rdbms functionality.
What scares me is the recent revelations that they also planned to finish off our population centers with smallpox laden RVs as well. You should never underestimate those Commies.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Like your wonderfull capitalists never had any plans for your smallpox virii still kept in safe (against all international treaties) "for a better day"...
Which means that the rest of us owe Geekoid and the other people who were at SAC a word of thanks that we arrived at the 21st century neither dead or Red (unless you live in Cuba or the PRC... sorry guys, we'll free you when we can).
But Cuba is free. Except, of course, from CIA-machined terrorism.
we will take several hundred billion dollars out of the United States economy, and use it to clean up everybody else's polution
Study the statistics, boy. The US is by far the most polluting nation on earth. By far. So in most causes, it's your pollution we're all cleaning and suffering from. And as your mother surely has told you, it's your job to clean up the mess your party left when they were away for the weekend.
We've already tried it that way a number of times--China under Mao, Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. It got pretty ugly, to say the least.
Uh, how about US (and the so called "free" world, more or less) under the tyranny of those fatcat corporate powers and raging consumerism. Seems to me that this is, in the long run, much more harmful and ugly to all of us.
Bring me an eco-fascist totalitarian regime anyday. Atleast they should be killing people fairly.
I for one can't wait to see qute what happens to the mice.
They should send all those millionairies up there instead. If they want to see what the effects of Mars are on humans, they should try it out using humans. Animal testing is (IMHO in any imaginable case, even in drug research, but YMMV) unethical, and even more so in cases like this where it really won't be able to provide any new information that couldn't be simulated using our current knowledge on astrophysics, biology and mathematics.
Anyway, we have more than enough of our own species down here already, so if the bourgeoises want to save themselves, they could just send all the petty crack dealers to interplanetary round-trips and free some space in your prison camps.
BillG and the Evil Empire have too many politicians in their pockets to make any investigation successful
So they have the easily corrupted, money-whoring US politicians in their pockets..? How I'm not surprised, given your electorian system.But maybe (just maybe) our Euro weenies are not so easily bribed by an American company. Maybe the justice system over here has a bit more integrity. Maybe everything doesn't rally around big fat corporate money in the EU (atleast in the quantities it does in the US).
And yeah, maybe the cows have finally learned how to fly.
So, yes, I agree with the \. editors statement but I wish that they would realize that it follows true on their other topics as well.
Oh, how easily some people miss the subtle hints of irony.
But then again, you should also read the Non-Libertarian FAQ to set your view of the world right (or left, which is right). And travel a bit (according to the rant about "comforts" on your homepage, you are for a big surprise).
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Seconded. I run Debian on Alpha, SPARC, and X86, and it's just amazing to have the very same software packages, configurations, and quality available on each of these architectures. In effect I can just replicate my environment from one system to another with minimal changes (different boot loaders for each arch and different kernels because of SMP or no-SMP come to mind).
Don't know what you're watching, but I see plenty of that (propaganda, lies, government agenda intruced bullshit, censored reporting) when I turn on CNN, ABC, or any other US-based TV channel. Of course, I only watch TV when I'm bored in hotel during business trips, so my sample is somewhat limited.
Eh, you must mean George Wah-Wah Bush (aka "the incredible brainless wonder"), who just signed the largest subsidies in the world for US steel and agriculture (against all WTO free-trade articlas), is now a democrat?
Heh, a poor example. The literacy rate of US citizens is in the very bottom of industrialised countries.
Heh, "cool thing" like teaching of evolution in schools or offering of evolutionary literature in libraries in certain Southern US states has become, I could imagine. Or showing tits in telly anywhere in the land of the "free".
Or the Star Trek movie, where the Norwegian whale hunters speak Finnish. God damn.
It's extremely refreshing to note that at least somebody has smelt the coffee over there. Even if the standard /.'er doesn't see it after some witty moderation by the me-me-me-generetion of the libertarian task force.
So, even though I'm not completely in harmony with the actual communist ideals - I prefer socialism with more of a "eco fascist" touch with much less focus on human wellfare - I agree fully on your point on the olicarghy of the investers ruling the world (not just America, but everywhere - look at Russia, China, EU, and indirectly the third world as well), and the consequences it brings to the well-being of an average citizen, foreigner, animal, or anything else than the bank account of the inner circle. And this is not paranoia or something not really existing brought you by the servants of Papa Stalin - everything is completely transparent and public to research if you just have a few hours to spend on it.
A good starting point for the uninitiated could be e.g. Chomsky's Profit Over People, not a perfect compilation of essays, but thought provoking.
Shit, you've never visited China as a foreigner? They don't imprison you for "incorrect" political opinions, you just get the boot and will be denied entry for a few years. Nothing worse than what would happen if I (a foreigner) would burn the US flag in public during my visit to the States.
But seriously, this discussion was about interesting technology, not fairy tales, so you're really off-topic now.
Ji-haa! Finally they're doing something worthy with that technology. I just hope they include a remote implentee termination option on the chip as well... I mean syanide or such for efficient population control.
Bad example. Trivially available, at least where I live (in the backwoods of Scandinavia).
Yeah, human race is the image of some god and all other animal races are their slaves and act as a handy resource pool (nevermind a food source).
Shit, I'm tired of this fucking judo-christian-muslim "humans are an uber-race" -attitude. Conscious species should act like it.
Random example from the www.gatt.org site:
"Modern" free-market theory, in which goods must be free to travel unhindered, is little changed from the teachings of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, who wrote two hundred years ago, in Britain, under conditions entirely different from those of the present. There is still no statistical reason to believe that this theory works, but corporations have many selfish economic reasons to make it the law.
English is not your first language, then?
Suits me. And GNU is good as well.
And again, who were first in space? Where is the literacy rate better; in Scandinavia or the US? Which country allows the "burning" of school books teaching evolution?
But then, this has nothing to do with scientific or social progress. Capitalism just sucks because it promotes wrong values. Democracy just sucks because people are so inherently stupid and selfish. Totalitarian leftist rule is the sane way to go, my son.
Sorry, that's a 3-time women's karate world champion. Even more depressing.
Glad to be living in a society not (yet) completely ruled by megacorporations.
You shouldn't be administrating databases at all if you don't have a good understanding of the theoretical context and these, eh "advanced" features. Shit, I've seen so many web-monkeys-turned-dbas fuck up their systems because they lack the proper education of basic rdbms functionality.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Like your wonderfull capitalists never had any plans for your smallpox virii still kept in safe (against all international treaties) "for a better day"...
Which means that the rest of us owe Geekoid and the other people who were at SAC a word of thanks that we arrived at the 21st century neither dead or Red (unless you live in Cuba or the PRC... sorry guys, we'll free you when we can).
But Cuba is free. Except, of course, from CIA-machined terrorism.
Yet you still sell more arms to Israel than to any nation on earth. Not exactly scolding.
Study the statistics, boy. The US is by far the most polluting nation on earth. By far. So in most causes, it's your pollution we're all cleaning and suffering from. And as your mother surely has told you, it's your job to clean up the mess your party left when they were away for the weekend.
Uh, how about US (and the so called "free" world, more or less) under the tyranny of those fatcat corporate powers and raging consumerism. Seems to me that this is, in the long run, much more harmful and ugly to all of us.
Bring me an eco-fascist totalitarian regime anyday. Atleast they should be killing people fairly.
They should send all those millionairies up there instead. If they want to see what the effects of Mars are on humans, they should try it out using humans. Animal testing is (IMHO in any imaginable case, even in drug research, but YMMV) unethical, and even more so in cases like this where it really won't be able to provide any new information that couldn't be simulated using our current knowledge on astrophysics, biology and mathematics.
Anyway, we have more than enough of our own species down here already, so if the bourgeoises want to save themselves, they could just send all the petty crack dealers to interplanetary round-trips and free some space in your prison camps.
So they have the easily corrupted, money-whoring US politicians in their pockets..? How I'm not surprised, given your electorian system.But maybe (just maybe) our Euro weenies are not so easily bribed by an American company. Maybe the justice system over here has a bit more integrity. Maybe everything doesn't rally around big fat corporate money in the EU (atleast in the quantities it does in the US).
And yeah, maybe the cows have finally learned how to fly.
So, yes, I agree with the \. editors statement but I wish that they would realize that it follows true on their other topics as well.
Oh, how easily some people miss the subtle hints of irony.
But then again, you should also read the Non-Libertarian FAQ to set your view of the world right (or left, which is right). And travel a bit (according to the rant about "comforts" on your homepage, you are for a big surprise).