Times have changed, People are getting worse. They won't obey FOX News, and They just want to hack and blog. Should we blame the media? Or blame society? Or should we blame the RIAA's lawsuits? NO! Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
With their beady little eyes, Their flapping heads so full of lies. Blame Canada! Blame Canada! We need to form a full assault, it's Canada's fault!
Don't blame me, for my son Stan. He saw the darn porno and now he's off to join a gang! And my boy Eric once, Had my wallpaper on desktop, but now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself.
Well, Blame Canada! It seems that everything's gone wrong since Canada came along. Blame Canada! Blame Canada! They're not even a real country anyway.
My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true! Instead he burned out as an OSS evangelist. Should we blame the keyboard? Should we blame the screen? Or the Slashdot which he read every day? Heck, no!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada! With all their free-speech precedents and that bitch Anne Murray too. Blame Canada! Shame on Canada!
The smut we must stop, The trash we must smash, Laughter and fun, must all be undone. We must blame them and cause a fuss, Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
Anyone worried about corporations violating human rights, ask yourself: what does a corporation fear the most? Bankruptcy? Lower revenues? No. The greatest penalty a chartered corporation can face, and the only suitable penalty for violations of the basic rights of human beings, is revocation of its charter, the corporate death penalty.
I know this punishment has never been exacted in history, and that is only because governments have always been too cowardly and too bought by the wealthy to use it.
Corporations are created to serve their shareholders and, through commonly agreed-upon market economics, the general good. To these ends they are given charters that grant them life entirely seperate from that of any shareholder, officer or manager, along with any and all of the human rights they require to do business. They are considered legal persons, and yet have few to none of the limitations and mortalities of human beings. To serve humans they are created as economic superhumans.
These privileges should not come free. When a man, woman or child violates another's rights we (at least try) to call it a crime, and they are punished. Likewise, corporations must be punished when they violate the rights of others. And when a human being abuses the powers they have been given in the commission of a crime, their punishment is greater. So should it be with corporations, legalistic humans. It must be remembered, after all, that a fictional persons's rights are false themselves, established only as far as the purpose of that legal fiction's being carries them.
Human rights violations may add to the bottom line, but they are not tolerated for real people and thus should be tolerated far less in paper people, legal robots with rights. If a corporation aides in sending an honest journalist to jail, or does anything else to deprive a human being that organization was created to serve - however indirectly - of their rights, then it deserves to lose all of the rights it was being charitably granted by the state, including its given right to property.
After all, with the shareholders protected it's not like a real person is losing anything.
If wealth is simply financial demoninations, then it is not finite. However, if wealth is something that eventually is converted/traded for matter or energy (which are finite, conservation of matter and energy) than it is finite.
A given amount of wealth or currency can inflate infinitely, but as it does so it decreases its power to trade for actual and finite goods and services. The financial cake can grow, but the pie of real resources is unfortunately zero-sum.
1.Our schools do suck, but it isn't leading to a shortage of smart people; likewise, a shortage of smart people isn't what's causing outsourcing. It's all about teh mon-ay.
Also, the great grand parent post was kidding, you insensitive clods!
OK, needing two witnesses to make an arrest (excluding, of course, the case in which the law officer witnesses the event themself) isn't really a good idea. Probable Cause is a good standard.
That is not the way things are headed, because we're here and we aren't buying into the bullshit. The world will not go to hell as long as some minority of people continue to strive for and support freedom.
The only one that's real is #8. Besides, candidates that far left have never been able to get on the ballot because they don't have the right connections, so there's nothing for you to worry about.
How many times must you IRV folks be refuted! IRV can cause preferred candidates to be runoffed out of the race before lower-rank votes are counted, even if those votes would give the candidate a majority.
The most democratic voting system is a Condorcet Method, which IMHO should have ties broken by Borda Count.
BAH! You get warmth all year round, that has to count for something. It's getting towards "freeze your ass off" season here in the Northeast and real Spring won't come until April.
'Tis true. Stereoscopic techniques have already been developed in vertex and fragment shaders that can run straight on the hardware. They require 3D glasses still, but their presence could be made transparent to game software.
Does anyone else think we should simply abolish political parties? Enough infrastructure has grown up outside of them to publicly, privately and illicitly back and fund any candidate that a particular think-tank, movement, foundation, PAC or other organization wants to see in office, so what purpose are parties serving other than being nuclei for political machines and holding back the entire system of government through allegiance catfights?
All we'd have to do is declare all political parties null and void and let the new political institutions drop into place where they already were.
This guy was lucky. I was arrested for resisting being forcibly moved into detention when I refused to go on my own. I wasn't being violent, just standing in one place being a smart-ass and pissing off the principal and resource officer, who shouldn't have been there in the first place. Neither of these threatens anyone or is illegal. The case was dismissed from court once we got a lawyer, and we decided not to sue for damages. If you don't want to believe me on a matter of personal experience, fine. I've got better things to do than prove I was arrested.
So, yes, abuse of power is an immense, towering problem in public schools. Personally, I hope that having to pay $117,000 whenever they fuck up will make school officials a bit more conservative in their exercise of authority. They have gone so far so often that the ACLU has to print special pamphlets explaining to students that they have Constitutional Rights in school! Given that students are citizens as well and Tinker vs. De Moines, this fact should be obvious and self-evident!
As someone who has personally had to tweak the source code of his WLAN driver in order to get it running on 2.6 kernels by changing one line of C and 12 of shell script utility, I can say that we need to find a way to keep drivers working across kernel versions. Come on people, this was the open source linux-wlan-ng driver. The lack of a standard interface is holding back open source drivers as well as proprietary.
I was without net access for 3 days just because I switched to Gentoo! I had to download local copies of the linux-wlan-ng drivers in Windoze, hack their source and then spend another day figuring out how to use the accompanying shell scripts to start the network interface wlan0 without crashing the driver due to an unneeded firmware upload. This has got to stop, it is inane and idiotic that I must do this on every distro switch or major kernel upgrade.
This is an extremely insightful post, and I wholeheartedly concur. Just one problem: How does one build an API/ABI that forces the driver devs to include enough source code to let the GPL have its viral effect without technically corrupting the idea of a small, stable API?
For God sakes, people! Everyone knows that the moon is made of cheese and has been staked out and owned by the first to actually harvest some of that cheese: An English inventor named Wallace.
Why can't people just leave Wallace in peace? I can just see Gromit knitting a nice tablecloth for the table on the moon.
I've tried all that. I've got 4 or 5 female friends, and yet none of them has even remotely hinted at dating. Why do I think you have to say magic words to get a date? Because I can only find friends. Granted, they're really good friends (two of them are near the top of my friend charts), but even those two haven't indicated any interest in dating.
I'm not saying stop scientific research, I just don't like how people (particularly Slashdotters) become so attached to their scientific theories that they fight over them as though they were religions. There were even insults today in the article comments on Dr. Mills and his Classical Quantum Mechanics theory, which is far more scientific than anything we flame each other for in this article! The Holy Wars in the Name of Science are the only thing that needs to stop here.
Define religion, eh? That's sort of a koan, and so I leave you with a koanish answer: "There is no Master but the Master, and QT-1 is His prophet!"
Slashdot Mirror
Times have changed,
People are getting worse.
They won't obey FOX News, and
They just want to hack and blog.
Should we blame the media?
Or blame society?
Or should we blame the RIAA's lawsuits? NO!
Blame Canada! Blame Canada!
With their beady little eyes,
Their flapping heads so full of lies.
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
We need to form a full assault, it's Canada's fault!
Don't blame me, for my son Stan.
He saw the darn porno and now he's off to join a gang!
And my boy Eric once,
Had my wallpaper on desktop,
but now when I see him he tells me to fuck myself.
Well, Blame Canada!
It seems that everything's gone wrong since
Canada came along.
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
They're not even a real country anyway.
My son could've been a doctor or a lawyer it's true!
Instead he burned out as an OSS evangelist.
Should we blame the keyboard?
Should we blame the screen?
Or the Slashdot which he read every day? Heck, no!
Blame Canada!
Blame Canada!
With all their free-speech precedents and that bitch Anne Murray too. Blame Canada!
Shame on Canada!
The smut we must stop,
The trash we must smash,
Laughter and fun,
must all be undone.
We must blame them and cause a fuss,
Before somebody thinks of blaming us!
Just what language is that? We have it in English, too.
Anyone worried about corporations violating human rights, ask yourself: what does a corporation fear the most? Bankruptcy? Lower revenues? No. The greatest penalty a chartered corporation can face, and the only suitable penalty for violations of the basic rights of human beings, is revocation of its charter, the corporate death penalty.
I know this punishment has never been exacted in history, and that is only because governments have always been too cowardly and too bought by the wealthy to use it.
Corporations are created to serve their shareholders and, through commonly agreed-upon market economics, the general good. To these ends they are given charters that grant them life entirely seperate from that of any shareholder, officer or manager, along with any and all of the human rights they require to do business. They are considered legal persons, and yet have few to none of the limitations and mortalities of human beings. To serve humans they are created as economic superhumans.
These privileges should not come free. When a man, woman or child violates another's rights we (at least try) to call it a crime, and they are punished. Likewise, corporations must be punished when they violate the rights of others. And when a human being abuses the powers they have been given in the commission of a crime, their punishment is greater. So should it be with corporations, legalistic humans. It must be remembered, after all, that a fictional persons's rights are false themselves, established only as far as the purpose of that legal fiction's being carries them.
Human rights violations may add to the bottom line, but they are not tolerated for real people and thus should be tolerated far less in paper people, legal robots with rights. If a corporation aides in sending an honest journalist to jail, or does anything else to deprive a human being that organization was created to serve - however indirectly - of their rights, then it deserves to lose all of the rights it was being charitably granted by the state, including its given right to property.
After all, with the shareholders protected it's not like a real person is losing anything.
If wealth is simply financial demoninations, then it is not finite. However, if wealth is something that eventually is converted/traded for matter or energy (which are finite, conservation of matter and energy) than it is finite.
A given amount of wealth or currency can inflate infinitely, but as it does so it decreases its power to trade for actual and finite goods and services. The financial cake can grow, but the pie of real resources is unfortunately zero-sum.
1.Our schools do suck, but it isn't leading to a shortage of smart people; likewise, a shortage of smart people isn't what's causing outsourcing. It's all about teh mon-ay.
Also, the great grand parent post was kidding, you insensitive clods!
OK, needing two witnesses to make an arrest (excluding, of course, the case in which the law officer witnesses the event themself) isn't really a good idea. Probable Cause is a good standard.
The rest, however, are brilliant ideas.
That is not the way things are headed, because we're here and we aren't buying into the bullshit. The world will not go to hell as long as some minority of people continue to strive for and support freedom.
Keep up the good work.
The only one that's real is #8. Besides, candidates that far left have never been able to get on the ballot because they don't have the right connections, so there's nothing for you to worry about.
How many times must you IRV folks be refuted! IRV can cause preferred candidates to be runoffed out of the race before lower-rank votes are counted, even if those votes would give the candidate a majority.
The most democratic voting system is a Condorcet Method, which IMHO should have ties broken by Borda Count.
See subject.
BAH! You get warmth all year round, that has to count for something. It's getting towards "freeze your ass off" season here in the Northeast and real Spring won't come until April.
Be grateful you live in God's Ashtray.
'Tis true. Stereoscopic techniques have already been developed in vertex and fragment shaders that can run straight on the hardware. They require 3D glasses still, but their presence could be made transparent to game software.
Does anyone else think we should simply abolish political parties? Enough infrastructure has grown up outside of them to publicly, privately and illicitly back and fund any candidate that a particular think-tank, movement, foundation, PAC or other organization wants to see in office, so what purpose are parties serving other than being nuclei for political machines and holding back the entire system of government through allegiance catfights?
All we'd have to do is declare all political parties null and void and let the new political institutions drop into place where they already were.
There's also the whole thing with having a corrupt two-party political system, but we'll just ignore that for the purposes of your point.
My comment was in no way sarcastic. My OS WILL have UDI built-in as its native driver interface right from the start.
I hereby pledge that my hobby operating system will support Project UDI Core Spec version 1.01 from the very beginning.
Lord^H^H^H^HIntelligent Designer, please smite our enemies with a plague. Nothing too nasty, maybe just some boils.
This guy was lucky. I was arrested for resisting being forcibly moved into detention when I refused to go on my own. I wasn't being violent, just standing in one place being a smart-ass and pissing off the principal and resource officer, who shouldn't have been there in the first place. Neither of these threatens anyone or is illegal. The case was dismissed from court once we got a lawyer, and we decided not to sue for damages. If you don't want to believe me on a matter of personal experience, fine. I've got better things to do than prove I was arrested.
So, yes, abuse of power is an immense, towering problem in public schools. Personally, I hope that having to pay $117,000 whenever they fuck up will make school officials a bit more conservative in their exercise of authority. They have gone so far so often that the ACLU has to print special pamphlets explaining to students that they have Constitutional Rights in school! Given that students are citizens as well and Tinker vs. De Moines, this fact should be obvious and self-evident!
As someone who has personally had to tweak the source code of his WLAN driver in order to get it running on 2.6 kernels by changing one line of C and 12 of shell script utility, I can say that we need to find a way to keep drivers working across kernel versions. Come on people, this was the open source linux-wlan-ng driver. The lack of a standard interface is holding back open source drivers as well as proprietary.
I was without net access for 3 days just because I switched to Gentoo! I had to download local copies of the linux-wlan-ng drivers in Windoze, hack their source and then spend another day figuring out how to use the accompanying shell scripts to start the network interface wlan0 without crashing the driver due to an unneeded firmware upload. This has got to stop, it is inane and idiotic that I must do this on every distro switch or major kernel upgrade.
This is an extremely insightful post, and I wholeheartedly concur. Just one problem: How does one build an API/ABI that forces the driver devs to include enough source code to let the GPL have its viral effect without technically corrupting the idea of a small, stable API?
I stand corrected, BTW. Bob and George is merely the inspiration for most sprite comics afterwards.
The Revolution only truly came with Bob and George, the first sprite comic!
Hey, look, it's Mega Man!
ZOINK!
For God sakes, people! Everyone knows that the moon is made of cheese and has been staked out and owned by the first to actually harvest some of that cheese: An English inventor named Wallace.
Why can't people just leave Wallace in peace? I can just see Gromit knitting a nice tablecloth for the table on the moon.
I've tried all that. I've got 4 or 5 female friends, and yet none of them has even remotely hinted at dating. Why do I think you have to say magic words to get a date? Because I can only find friends. Granted, they're really good friends (two of them are near the top of my friend charts), but even those two haven't indicated any interest in dating.
Hence, a belief in magic words.
I'm not saying stop scientific research, I just don't like how people (particularly Slashdotters) become so attached to their scientific theories that they fight over them as though they were religions. There were even insults today in the article comments on Dr. Mills and his Classical Quantum Mechanics theory, which is far more scientific than anything we flame each other for in this article! The Holy Wars in the Name of Science are the only thing that needs to stop here.
Define religion, eh? That's sort of a koan, and so I leave you with a koanish answer: "There is no Master but the Master, and QT-1 is His prophet!"