Making your own BBQ sauce isn't too difficult and you can use alternative sweeteners like molasses instead of HFCS. Blackstrap molasses in particular is much better than HFCS... just a few tablespoons of it provide almost a day's worth of iron, calcium, magnesium, Vitamin B, and other good things. Blackstrap is a sweetener that is actually good for you even though it tastes kind of like burned sugar and looks like crude oil. I wouldn't use Blackstrap or lighter molasses in applications where white table sugar is called for, but for stuff that isn't supposed to be very sweet or as an alternative to brown sugar Blackstrap should do fine in most instances.
If you need ultra-lightweight browsing and just can't stomach Lynx (or elinks), I've had success with Dillo. It supports basic HTML (text and images) and CSS1. If you can't get it in your distro's package manager, Dillo is easy to compile and doesn't require anything special. (simple./configure && make && make install should do the trick)
It seems to me like the best way to avoid this sort of problem is to fork the original project and develop each version in parallel. (basically, keep development separate at all times, no code sharing between the two AT ALL after the fork, etc.) That way, you get to keep control over your version and the employer gets their own customized version with all the necessary proprietary enhancements. Sure, it's double the work, but everybody wins and gets what they want. Since the pre-existing GPL code in the proprietary version is also in the original version, (assuming you release it at some point) it probably wouldn't be a GPL violation, but I could be wrong.
What? I haven't seen a wifi card that isn't capable of that, aside from ones that pointblank don't work on Linux without annoying hacks (NDISwrapper), like broadcom-based ones.
Broadcom cards have actually been easy to set up for the past couple years ever since the b43 project took off, unless you have one of the few models that b43 doesn't support. Broadcom cards just need firmware to work; the stock kernel in most distros supports the actual device natively.
That one and several others. Lincoln declared Martial law, suspended Habeas Corpus, and openly ignored huge chunks of the Constitution and US law.
If it weren't for the issue of slavery, and the fact that the South didn't behave all that much better, it would be very hard for anyone to honestly side with Lincoln and the North.
And no, I'm not a Southerner, secessionist, KKK member, or any of that nonsense.
Why do people always look down on the south?
The truth was that the war was our bid for independence from the north. We had no intention of taking over DC, so you could hardly call it a civil war. At the time, trade laws were biased heavily in favor of the north, and the southern states had to pay heavy tariffs on everything we got from them. Slavery was a side issue because not every southerner owned slaves or had an incentive to protect slavery. (I admit that slavery was something we should never have done, but just let it rest already! The north even had slavery too at one point) We finally had enough of the north and decided to form our own country. (we even had our own capital city, first at Montgomery, AL and then at Richmond, VA) It was hypocrital of the north to try and stop us because they did the same thing four score and seven years before that in the American Revolution against the British.
The north is in no position to take the moral high ground here. Lincoln chose to ignore the constitution he swore to uphold and should have been impeached. Sherman was a war criminal who burned everything in sight just for the sake of causing damage. The north invaded our lands, killed many of our people, and destroyed most of our infrastructure. Who are they to judge us?
Dongles are evil... most of them use USB interfaces, so they take up a valuable USB port on my equipment (if you have only 4-6 ports to allocate amongst a lot of other USB equipment, losing one can be a big deal) that could be put to much better use with something else. Why should I sacrifice my computer's resources just to protect some company's profits? It just goes to show how little respect these companies have for you.
Not everyone lives in $big_local_city for a variety of reasons. (crowded conditions, crime, expense, etc.) If you live out in the sticks, (essential if you want to own a plot of land that is somewhat bigger than what your house actually sits on) public transportation or biking is not a serious option. Plus, who the hell wants to bike to work and get sweaty in the summer and freeze during the winter?
work five jobs to pay your debt while you recuperate.
How are you supposed to get five jobs these days? Most people are grateful even to have only one. Even the low-end shit jobs are overburdened with applicants.
Not to mention that it's trivial to get your machine re-authorized over the phone if you actually did buy your copy of the OS and end up being a false positive.
And you see nothing inherently wrong with the concept that you have to call Microsoft and essentially beg them to reactivate a product you already bought and paid for? If your Windows 7 can be deactivated and essentially blacklisted on Microsoft's whim, what exactly did you purchase? Do you actually own a copy or are you just renting it? Phone reactivation may not be a long drawn-out process, but I still oppose it on principle. It's not my problem that Microsoft is supposedly losing money on piracy, so why should I be inconvenienced in the slightest by it?
Not to mention that I would consider any program that phones home without my concept to be malware, even if Microsoft wrote it.
When is the last time that China has bought anything of significance from us except for our debt? I think it's high time that America woke up and understood that foreign countries are not necessarily our friends or have our best interests in mind just because they're willing to trade with us. Free trade is going to be the ruin of this country.
You know, I hear this sort of complaint a lot, but honestly I don't feel too sorry for people who are unemployed and not actually looking. It's not THAT hard to send out a resume once a month or so.
If you have an established career, then it's merely difficult (but not impossible) to find a good job these days. New grads have it worse than everyone else in this economy... not only do they have to compete with each other, but they also have to compete with hordes of other people who have years of experience and are clamoring for the same jobs as the grads because they are desperate. I was told that a degree would give me a huge advantage, only to graduate right in time for this huge recession. (or minor depression, depending on who you talk to) I blame the university for lying to me just as much as I blame myself for actually believing them. New grads can send out a million resumes for all the good it would do, and it's not going to make much of a difference if there's a huge glut of unemployed workers with real-world experience on the job market. It's easy to lose hope and stop trying after 6 months or more of no results. These days, employers have all the advantages and can afford to be choosy.
That would be the stuff of nightmares... just imagine what it would be like if your boss at work could randomly possess anyone in the world and then come talk to you. You would never be able to get away.
But what it doesn't do well enough to compensate for the $200 price of Word, is handle the typical exchange of documents between business users, all of whom add or remove mark-up and editing. In fact, Word didn't really even support this very well itself for a long time. And the result is usually a complete mess of course, but it's passable and it facilitates collaboration among several workers.
I've used the markup feature in OpenOffice Writer several times (I moonlight as a technical writer sometimes and I have to deal with documents that have inline corrections originating in Word) and it passes muster. The color coding does not always work right (I sometimes set it, send the document to the client, and then have to reset it when I get it back) but the record of who made each edit is still intact even after several revisions, so it is no big deal. Granted, there's room for improvement, but the feature generally works as of OO.o v3. It used to be terrible in previous versions, so what is there is already a huge improvement.
The Republican party in the north, the party of Lincoln, was Fiscally Conservative, pro-business, Politically Moderate, and Socially Moderate. They were certainly liberal in the sense that they liberated the black slaves.
Lincoln was no saint and greatly exceeded his power. The war was not actually a true civil war, since the south had no intention of taking over Washington DC and gaining control of the country. (just like Washington had no intention of taking over England during the American revolution) We only wanted our independence from the tariffs that we had to unfairly pay the north for manufactured goods. Of course the revisionists would say that the war was over slavery and that the southerners were nothing but a bunch of bigoted slaveowners, but that's the way it often goes when the winners of a war get to write the history to cover up their own transgressions. Lincoln was actually more for big government, so he would probably be more in line with the democrats today.
When Texas Democratic President Lyndon Johnson signed the voting rights act in 1964, he remarked that it was going to deliver the deep South to the Republican Party for a generation. He underestimated.
Never mind the fact that the Democrats have historically opposed civil rights legislation up to that point. (the south has historically been predominately democratic or "dixiecratic" for a very long time) The republicans were the ones who pushed it through congress. Johnson probably only signed it because the democratic party wanted the black vote and the actions of the president are much more visible than those of congress. It's too bad that more people don't know how much they've been scammed by these politicians.
The vast majority of the Republican party are simply pro-business (or more accurately, pro-corporation) proto-fascists. Opportunists. Thieves. Corrupt.
And the Democrats aren't? You have more back-room dealing and arm twisting than ever before these days. (for instance, look at what happened to Lieberman recently and how the Louisiana governor got bought off recently)
People don't think that, it's a legal fact, which I'm pretty sure is what the OP meant. (IE he was in FAVOR of returning CP to the set of tools available to disciplinarians).
Ultimately it depends on where you live. I feel the government has no right to tell you how to discipline your kids (that's tyranny and facism) as long as you do not genuinely abuse them. Believe me, there is a huge difference between discipline and child abuse. I've experienced both and the abuse did not come from my parents. A paddling done gently with love, control on your part, and an intention to correct bad behavior is not child abuse and is integral to producing well brought-up kids. If you discipline your kids in anger you are close to stepping over the line as far as I'm concerned because it can be easy to overreact. With parenting, you have authority over your children and a responsibility to properly wield it.
Is it? Physical discipline can be a problem if you take it too far of course, but I was raised with a bit of corporal punishment and looking back I believe that it did me good. It definitely let me know when I was in the wrong and it did no real sort of damage. My parents never took pleasure in doing it and I can honestly say that each time it happened I really had it coming. In my day kids would never act like they do now. Parents have to do their damn job and set boundaries until their kids are old enough to think for themselves.
You can't reason with children like you would with an adult simply because children are NOT adults and do not have mature thought processes yet. Left to their own devices, they will do whatever they want in the immediate moment with no thought of consequences. I've lost track of the times I've seen parents who cannot control their own children AT ALL in public. The kids know that any threat their parent hands down is empty and will eventually be rescinded or go completely unenforced, so the kid has figured out that he is free to act however he wants.
But hell yes, Mr 23-Year-Old-I-Know-It-All thinks we should all "live forever". Wait till you've experience an elderly releative with Alzheimers who gets confused and frustrated because they can't remember what they were doing 5 minutes ago... or takes an hour to get up because every joint is locked in pain.
I'm 26 and have a neurological condition that impacts my short-term memory quite badly (although to balance it out I have exceptionally good long-term memory) and I often can't remember what I did five minutes ago. I'm also quite prone to fatigue and moving around can be exhausting and painful at times.
I still enjoy my life. I've simply had to figure out ways to cope with the problems and compensate for them.
That could very well be true. Several years ago I heard stories about how estrogen-like chemicals could theoretically leach out of plastic bottled water containers under certain conditions. I would believe this because I've left bottles of water in the sun on various occasions and the water has had a slightly strange taste afterward. Who knows what was in there?
Personally, I wish they would start using glass containers again for drinks. There's nothing to hurt you there. (plus we wouldn't need to use petroleum for that since silica is one of the most abundant minerals on the planet)
I've been hearing about stuff like that (scenarios of some future drmOS) for a long time. Years ago, I heard how Vista (then called Longhorn) was supposed to be totally locked down with all kinds of TPM-enabled features, but it didn't happen in the finished Vista and it didn't happen in Windows 7.
If you thought the Vista backlash was bad, just wait and see what happens when people have to put up with drmOS if it ever gets developed. People don't like it when their computer doesn't obey them. (I don't care if they're geeks or not) The company that eventually makes drmOS (apple or microsoft) will probably go out of business or be severely wounded if it manages to survive the debacle. The media companies and other software companies the BSA works for simply can't bring enough incentive to the table to make Microsoft or Apple take that kind of risk. Plus, I have a lot of faith in the doom9 guys to break something like that even should it be developed.
What are they going to do about all the little independent video stores? Those places often do good business b/c they have a pretty good inventory and cost way less than blockbuster.
If I owned a little store I would tell the studios to kiss my ass after I was able to stop laughing at them.
I don't think voting is going to be enough at this stage. I agree that the federal government needs to have its power diminished severely and be given back to the states. The problem is that most career politicians see big government as a way to increase their own wealth and personal power, and these people have built such safe districts for themselves that the chances of getting them voted out are slim to nil unless they do something bad enough to wake up the average uninformed voter. At this point, I'm afraid that the only way to save our country is with a revolution. People everywhere are certainly getting angry enough for something like that to happen, and their motivations stem from a true grassroots movement with no party involvement.
I know that there are some people here who love big government and are going to disagree with me, but so be it.
Virtualizing Windows 98 is an absolutely hateful experience on Virtualbox. Since Microsoft in their infinite wisdom failed to make the Windows 98 CD properly bootable, (my system lacks a floppy drive so I couldn't use a boot floppy) I had to use some pretty nasty tricks to boot into DOS to run the setup utility. None of the DOS boot floppy images I found online would work-- eventually I was able to do the installation by booting the Virtualbox Win98 VM with a DOS boot Cd I made years ago and switching out the discs real fast once DOS was running. Even after windows 98 was installed, it would not recognize any of Virtualbox's emulated hardware, so the system was barely functional. (no sound, 16 color 640x480, no ethernet support, etc.) Basically useless.
After that experience, I was in no mood to repeat the process with VMware, so I have no idea how well it handles Win98.
If you want Windows 98 to work well, you have to use Virtual PC. (Linux used to work well with Virtual PC but it hasn't the last few times I tried it)
I also have a 2070N. They are excellent. The first unit I got was defective, but I was able to RMA it back to Newegg and the replacement has worked great for the past few years.
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Making your own BBQ sauce isn't too difficult and you can use alternative sweeteners like molasses instead of HFCS. Blackstrap molasses in particular is much better than HFCS... just a few tablespoons of it provide almost a day's worth of iron, calcium, magnesium, Vitamin B, and other good things. Blackstrap is a sweetener that is actually good for you even though it tastes kind of like burned sugar and looks like crude oil. I wouldn't use Blackstrap or lighter molasses in applications where white table sugar is called for, but for stuff that isn't supposed to be very sweet or as an alternative to brown sugar Blackstrap should do fine in most instances.
If you need ultra-lightweight browsing and just can't stomach Lynx (or elinks), I've had success with Dillo. It supports basic HTML (text and images) and CSS1. If you can't get it in your distro's package manager, Dillo is easy to compile and doesn't require anything special. (simple ./configure && make && make install should do the trick)
It seems to me like the best way to avoid this sort of problem is to fork the original project and develop each version in parallel. (basically, keep development separate at all times, no code sharing between the two AT ALL after the fork, etc.) That way, you get to keep control over your version and the employer gets their own customized version with all the necessary proprietary enhancements. Sure, it's double the work, but everybody wins and gets what they want. Since the pre-existing GPL code in the proprietary version is also in the original version, (assuming you release it at some point) it probably wouldn't be a GPL violation, but I could be wrong.
Broadcom cards have actually been easy to set up for the past couple years ever since the b43 project took off, unless you have one of the few models that b43 doesn't support. Broadcom cards just need firmware to work; the stock kernel in most distros supports the actual device natively.
Why do people always look down on the south?
The truth was that the war was our bid for independence from the north. We had no intention of taking over DC, so you could hardly call it a civil war. At the time, trade laws were biased heavily in favor of the north, and the southern states had to pay heavy tariffs on everything we got from them. Slavery was a side issue because not every southerner owned slaves or had an incentive to protect slavery. (I admit that slavery was something we should never have done, but just let it rest already! The north even had slavery too at one point) We finally had enough of the north and decided to form our own country. (we even had our own capital city, first at Montgomery, AL and then at Richmond, VA) It was hypocrital of the north to try and stop us because they did the same thing four score and seven years before that in the American Revolution against the British.
The north is in no position to take the moral high ground here. Lincoln chose to ignore the constitution he swore to uphold and should have been impeached. Sherman was a war criminal who burned everything in sight just for the sake of causing damage. The north invaded our lands, killed many of our people, and destroyed most of our infrastructure. Who are they to judge us?
Dongles are evil... most of them use USB interfaces, so they take up a valuable USB port on my equipment (if you have only 4-6 ports to allocate amongst a lot of other USB equipment, losing one can be a big deal) that could be put to much better use with something else. Why should I sacrifice my computer's resources just to protect some company's profits? It just goes to show how little respect these companies have for you.
Not everyone lives in $big_local_city for a variety of reasons. (crowded conditions, crime, expense, etc.) If you live out in the sticks, (essential if you want to own a plot of land that is somewhat bigger than what your house actually sits on) public transportation or biking is not a serious option. Plus, who the hell wants to bike to work and get sweaty in the summer and freeze during the winter?
How are you supposed to get five jobs these days? Most people are grateful even to have only one. Even the low-end shit jobs are overburdened with applicants.
And you see nothing inherently wrong with the concept that you have to call Microsoft and essentially beg them to reactivate a product you already bought and paid for? If your Windows 7 can be deactivated and essentially blacklisted on Microsoft's whim, what exactly did you purchase? Do you actually own a copy or are you just renting it? Phone reactivation may not be a long drawn-out process, but I still oppose it on principle. It's not my problem that Microsoft is supposedly losing money on piracy, so why should I be inconvenienced in the slightest by it?
Not to mention that I would consider any program that phones home without my concept to be malware, even if Microsoft wrote it.
When is the last time that China has bought anything of significance from us except for our debt? I think it's high time that America woke up and understood that foreign countries are not necessarily our friends or have our best interests in mind just because they're willing to trade with us. Free trade is going to be the ruin of this country.
If you have an established career, then it's merely difficult (but not impossible) to find a good job these days. New grads have it worse than everyone else in this economy... not only do they have to compete with each other, but they also have to compete with hordes of other people who have years of experience and are clamoring for the same jobs as the grads because they are desperate. I was told that a degree would give me a huge advantage, only to graduate right in time for this huge recession. (or minor depression, depending on who you talk to) I blame the university for lying to me just as much as I blame myself for actually believing them. New grads can send out a million resumes for all the good it would do, and it's not going to make much of a difference if there's a huge glut of unemployed workers with real-world experience on the job market. It's easy to lose hope and stop trying after 6 months or more of no results. These days, employers have all the advantages and can afford to be choosy.
Agent Lumbergh: "Mr Anderson...What's happening?"
That would be the stuff of nightmares... just imagine what it would be like if your boss at work could randomly possess anyone in the world and then come talk to you. You would never be able to get away.
I've used the markup feature in OpenOffice Writer several times (I moonlight as a technical writer sometimes and I have to deal with documents that have inline corrections originating in Word) and it passes muster. The color coding does not always work right (I sometimes set it, send the document to the client, and then have to reset it when I get it back) but the record of who made each edit is still intact even after several revisions, so it is no big deal. Granted, there's room for improvement, but the feature generally works as of OO.o v3. It used to be terrible in previous versions, so what is there is already a huge improvement.
or they could actually give rights to their citizens by doing nothing at all in regard to censorship.
Lincoln was no saint and greatly exceeded his power. The war was not actually a true civil war, since the south had no intention of taking over Washington DC and gaining control of the country. (just like Washington had no intention of taking over England during the American revolution) We only wanted our independence from the tariffs that we had to unfairly pay the north for manufactured goods. Of course the revisionists would say that the war was over slavery and that the southerners were nothing but a bunch of bigoted slaveowners, but that's the way it often goes when the winners of a war get to write the history to cover up their own transgressions. Lincoln was actually more for big government, so he would probably be more in line with the democrats today.
Never mind the fact that the Democrats have historically opposed civil rights legislation up to that point. (the south has historically been predominately democratic or "dixiecratic" for a very long time) The republicans were the ones who pushed it through congress. Johnson probably only signed it because the democratic party wanted the black vote and the actions of the president are much more visible than those of congress. It's too bad that more people don't know how much they've been scammed by these politicians.
And the Democrats aren't? You have more back-room dealing and arm twisting than ever before these days. (for instance, look at what happened to Lieberman recently and how the Louisiana governor got bought off recently)
Ultimately it depends on where you live. I feel the government has no right to tell you how to discipline your kids (that's tyranny and facism) as long as you do not genuinely abuse them. Believe me, there is a huge difference between discipline and child abuse. I've experienced both and the abuse did not come from my parents. A paddling done gently with love, control on your part, and an intention to correct bad behavior is not child abuse and is integral to producing well brought-up kids. If you discipline your kids in anger you are close to stepping over the line as far as I'm concerned because it can be easy to overreact. With parenting, you have authority over your children and a responsibility to properly wield it.
Is it? Physical discipline can be a problem if you take it too far of course, but I was raised with a bit of corporal punishment and looking back I believe that it did me good. It definitely let me know when I was in the wrong and it did no real sort of damage. My parents never took pleasure in doing it and I can honestly say that each time it happened I really had it coming. In my day kids would never act like they do now. Parents have to do their damn job and set boundaries until their kids are old enough to think for themselves.
You can't reason with children like you would with an adult simply because children are NOT adults and do not have mature thought processes yet. Left to their own devices, they will do whatever they want in the immediate moment with no thought of consequences. I've lost track of the times I've seen parents who cannot control their own children AT ALL in public. The kids know that any threat their parent hands down is empty and will eventually be rescinded or go completely unenforced, so the kid has figured out that he is free to act however he wants.
I'm 26 and have a neurological condition that impacts my short-term memory quite badly (although to balance it out I have exceptionally good long-term memory) and I often can't remember what I did five minutes ago. I'm also quite prone to fatigue and moving around can be exhausting and painful at times.
I still enjoy my life. I've simply had to figure out ways to cope with the problems and compensate for them.
The AutoPager extension for Firefox makes reading the article much easier. It takes what's on each page and puts it together into one.
I've been hearing about stuff like that (scenarios of some future drmOS) for a long time. Years ago, I heard how Vista (then called Longhorn) was supposed to be totally locked down with all kinds of TPM-enabled features, but it didn't happen in the finished Vista and it didn't happen in Windows 7.
If you thought the Vista backlash was bad, just wait and see what happens when people have to put up with drmOS if it ever gets developed. People don't like it when their computer doesn't obey them. (I don't care if they're geeks or not) The company that eventually makes drmOS (apple or microsoft) will probably go out of business or be severely wounded if it manages to survive the debacle. The media companies and other software companies the BSA works for simply can't bring enough incentive to the table to make Microsoft or Apple take that kind of risk. Plus, I have a lot of faith in the doom9 guys to break something like that even should it be developed.
What are they going to do about all the little independent video stores? Those places often do good business b/c they have a pretty good inventory and cost way less than blockbuster.
If I owned a little store I would tell the studios to kiss my ass after I was able to stop laughing at them.
I don't think voting is going to be enough at this stage. I agree that the federal government needs to have its power diminished severely and be given back to the states. The problem is that most career politicians see big government as a way to increase their own wealth and personal power, and these people have built such safe districts for themselves that the chances of getting them voted out are slim to nil unless they do something bad enough to wake up the average uninformed voter. At this point, I'm afraid that the only way to save our country is with a revolution. People everywhere are certainly getting angry enough for something like that to happen, and their motivations stem from a true grassroots movement with no party involvement.
I know that there are some people here who love big government and are going to disagree with me, but so be it.
Virtualizing Windows 98 is an absolutely hateful experience on Virtualbox. Since Microsoft in their infinite wisdom failed to make the Windows 98 CD properly bootable, (my system lacks a floppy drive so I couldn't use a boot floppy) I had to use some pretty nasty tricks to boot into DOS to run the setup utility. None of the DOS boot floppy images I found online would work-- eventually I was able to do the installation by booting the Virtualbox Win98 VM with a DOS boot Cd I made years ago and switching out the discs real fast once DOS was running. Even after windows 98 was installed, it would not recognize any of Virtualbox's emulated hardware, so the system was barely functional. (no sound, 16 color 640x480, no ethernet support, etc.) Basically useless.
After that experience, I was in no mood to repeat the process with VMware, so I have no idea how well it handles Win98.
If you want Windows 98 to work well, you have to use Virtual PC. (Linux used to work well with Virtual PC but it hasn't the last few times I tried it)
I also have a 2070N. They are excellent. The first unit I got was defective, but I was able to RMA it back to Newegg and the replacement has worked great for the past few years.