As I replied to a similar comment above, this line of economic thinking was also offered up before World War I as the surefire reason that Europe would never descend into another war.
"It's far too easy to bandy around words like 'oppressive murderous governments', except you're forgetting that countries are not governments"
Countries are the governments that control them for all practical purposes and certainly within the realm of debate on foreign policy. Especially given the post-Imperialism conditions that can be found in many parts of the world where peoples who share no history with each other are located within the borders of 'countries'.
Anyways, if there is no evil then there's nothing wrong with not giving a shit about how many Iraqi's have been killed in Iraq.
If I remember right, they figured out a way to deal with radically nationalistic asian countries who would not knuckle under about 60 years ago. Something to do with mushrooms.
Oh I see the difference. Given a long enough span of time, any moron can predict that anything will happen and it just might. Thanks for clearing it up.
Can't predict with any degree of certainty wether it will rain or snow a few days from now but they can predict that a crack in the ground now will form an ocean in a million years. In the middle of a desert. Ok.
Unlike in movies, the scenario you describe would not occur within a 2 hour window. As the parent said, these areas would have decades of notice as to the pending 'disaster'. Frankly if all the fearmongers, who in all their arrogance act as if a few decades of research gives them an accurate idea of how the climate of a billion year old planet behaves over time, were so secure in their own prophecies they should be lobbying governments to begin massive population relocation efforts now while there is time to plan it as well as possible and execute it at a reasonable pace.
But they don't. Rather they demonize the industrial processes that have created the world they live comfortably in and offer unrealistic, incomplete and impractical alternatives to things such as renewable energy sources and pollution control.
Global warming research funding should be canned. All bodies with a desire to fund such research should consider their point well made and redirect the funds into lobbying governments for population resettlement plans if they believe in their own research to date.
You assume, because you are a paranoid person, that the only operations the FBI conducts involve spying on citizens. This is a ludicrous assumption. Your broken mind causes you to confuse your own misguided suspicions for reality. In case you missed it, people have been saying America is at war a lot on TV for the past few years. In times of war you hope that your nation's intelligence and millitary entities attract as many people as they can to prosecute the war.
Or at least I do. And I'm glad that paranoid people like yourself who are quick to assume that 'they' are always out to get you aren't in a position to stop it from happening.
If you think the government is a few more misteps from bringing down the iron fist on the citizenry, then I say let it happen and deal with it if it does. There is a reason this country has and will continue to have a well armed citizenry. Until that happens, this is a matter of finding the balance between privacy and security and nothing more. It is unfortunate that your paranoid world view makes it seem otherwise to you.
Hey man, really good points. People should remember how The Government told us they'd only be interring citizens of Japanese dissent "until the war with Japan ends". Well those people are still rotting in camps in California and we all know how totalitarian the US has become in the last 60 years!!!
The FBI isn't being granted any new authority to spy on people. The headline here is misleading/provoking/a lie.
If you wipe the froth from your mouth and slowly read the article to yourself, you'll see this is more a logisitcal maneuver allowing the sharing of info between intelligence bodies. Wasn't this something everyone was yammering for after 9/11?
So what if Congress wasn't allowed to discuss the matter. Congress has had decades to discuss all sorts of ways to improve this nation and have done nothing more than feather there own beds. If the FBI finds some domestic intel that would benefit the DoD in what they are doing overseas what's the problem. Again, nowhere in the article do I see that either agency gained new powers or has had the borders of their operational jurisdiction changed.
Keep repeating until it sinks in
No Visio, no *nix
No Visio, no *nix
No Visio, no *nix
Seriously, setting aside discussions about comparable features/performance of apps that can exist on both OS's any talk of completely abandoning Windows is pointless until some clever guy comes up with OpenVisio. It has been, and will likely continue to be, the sole reason I have to have a Windows machine under the desk here. Covered on all other fronts for both business and home use except for Visio or at least Visio file format compatibility.
Yeah because other than the last ten years the world has been such a peachy place.
This is no Dark Age. In a lot of ways things are better than they were.
Orwell was bitching about corporations controlling the (print) media long before most Slashdot readers' parents were born. Want to stay in business? You need revenue. Revenue comes from ads. Ads come from corporations and they expect you to dance to the tune they play if you want them to spend their money with you.
Stalin had the 1984 thing working quite well. Your postulation that Tony Blair is in some way creating a totalitarian society in Britain is laughable/insane/ludicrous, etc.
Religious fundamentalism is certainly nothing unique to our lifetimes.
Brainless masses of cattle describes 95% of the populous at ANY point in history. There's never been a time when the world was full of genuises.
If current times strike you as 'post-intellectual' in nature, it could be that exercises in intellect have moved beyond you. Moo Moo my fine bovine friend.
So what, another license violation that no one will do anything about. I've not heard of any legal fallout from any of the numerous license violations Slashdot has reported on. At this point you have to wonder why the license exists at all. If it's never enforced it may as well not.
If licensing revenue is no longer such a priority for MS be assured another source of revenue will be replacing it. I would guess MS will be dropping licenses completely in favor of subscription access to hosted applications.
It's wrong to teach ID in science class. It's wrong because science should not be bastardized to accomodate ideology.
However, the rest of your statements about the danger of people blindly accepting what they are taught as they grow up can and should be equally applied to everyone. Of the all the people posting to this thread, with the sole exception of Professor Utah perhaps, not one of them has likely ever performed any experiments to see if what they've been taught in school regarding evolution is true. There is not one shred of evidence that average Joe can point at and say 'that is an obvious indicator that evolution is probably the correct explanation for how life develops'.
But evolution is so obviously correct, right? People speak with such certainty about natural processes that span inconceivable amounts of time.
The total knowledge of the human race can be thought of as extrapolating from a single frame of a film what the plot of the 3 hour feature is (and in the case of some sciences, what will happen in the next scene).
Nontheless, I am not championing ID and this was clearly a disappointing turn of events.
I have been using this for quite some time now:
[12:49pm exs@kirov/usr/ports/security/vpnd]> more../vpnc/pkg-descr
VPNC - Client for Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator[12:49pm exs@kirov/usr/ports/security/vpnd]> more../vpnc/pkg-descr
VPNC - Client for Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator
A VPN client compatible with Cisco's EasyVPN equipment.
Supports IPSec (ESP) with Mode Configuration and Xauth. Supports only
shared-secret IPSec authentication, 3DES, MD5, and IP tunneling.
It runs entirely in userspace.
A VPN client compatible with Cisco's EasyVPN equipment.
Supports IPSec (ESP) with Mode Configuration and Xauth. Supports only
shared-secret IPSec authentication, 3DES, MD5, and IP tunneling.
It runs entirely in userspace.
Post a link to the law if you have it. More likely you react based on the limited "knowledge" you gain from other slashdot comments. Franking laws, which I am assuming you are referring to, also prevent Reps from contacting the public at large via taxpayer money. While generally considered a reference to mass mailings, it would seem a blog would also fall under this category - yet here his blog is. So apparently one way communication is ok, dialog is not.
You are an apologist for people who could care less about you. Grats, go hug a politician.
Slashdot Mirror
Nice post. If I could mod up I would.
Posting an article like this on slashdot is like tossing garbage bags full of heroin into a rehab clinic.
As I replied to a similar comment above, this line of economic thinking was also offered up before World War I as the surefire reason that Europe would never descend into another war.
"It's far too easy to bandy around words like 'oppressive murderous governments', except you're forgetting that countries are not governments"
Countries are the governments that control them for all practical purposes and certainly within the realm of debate on foreign policy. Especially given the post-Imperialism conditions that can be found in many parts of the world where peoples who share no history with each other are located within the borders of 'countries'.
Anyways, if there is no evil then there's nothing wrong with not giving a shit about how many Iraqi's have been killed in Iraq.
Similiar economic reasoning was offered up before World War I as the reason there would not be another great european war.
First atomic weapon created by man was inferior technology? Uhh, ok. Guess we really got lucky.
If I remember right, they figured out a way to deal with radically nationalistic asian countries who would not knuckle under about 60 years ago. Something to do with mushrooms.
Oh I see the difference. Given a long enough span of time, any moron can predict that anything will happen and it just might. Thanks for clearing it up.
Can't predict with any degree of certainty wether it will rain or snow a few days from now but they can predict that a crack in the ground now will form an ocean in a million years. In the middle of a desert. Ok.
That sort of resume gets you a job as President of the USA, so mind your tounge.
Unlike in movies, the scenario you describe would not occur within a 2 hour window. As the parent said, these areas would have decades of notice as to the pending 'disaster'. Frankly if all the fearmongers, who in all their arrogance act as if a few decades of research gives them an accurate idea of how the climate of a billion year old planet behaves over time, were so secure in their own prophecies they should be lobbying governments to begin massive population relocation efforts now while there is time to plan it as well as possible and execute it at a reasonable pace.
But they don't. Rather they demonize the industrial processes that have created the world they live comfortably in and offer unrealistic, incomplete and impractical alternatives to things such as renewable energy sources and pollution control.
Global warming research funding should be canned. All bodies with a desire to fund such research should consider their point well made and redirect the funds into lobbying governments for population resettlement plans if they believe in their own research to date.
"could be deduced"
"have interpreted it as"
"possibly containing"
"could be interpreted as"
"what may be"
"the intriguing possibility"
"prior interpretations"
"scientists were able to draw the likely scenario"
"but the search has only begun"
Ahh yes, science. Where shades of gray run screaming from the cold hard face of objective facts!
You assume, because you are a paranoid person, that the only operations the FBI conducts involve spying on citizens. This is a ludicrous assumption. Your broken mind causes you to confuse your own misguided suspicions for reality. In case you missed it, people have been saying America is at war a lot on TV for the past few years. In times of war you hope that your nation's intelligence and millitary entities attract as many people as they can to prosecute the war.
Or at least I do. And I'm glad that paranoid people like yourself who are quick to assume that 'they' are always out to get you aren't in a position to stop it from happening.
If you think the government is a few more misteps from bringing down the iron fist on the citizenry, then I say let it happen and deal with it if it does. There is a reason this country has and will continue to have a well armed citizenry. Until that happens, this is a matter of finding the balance between privacy and security and nothing more. It is unfortunate that your paranoid world view makes it seem otherwise to you.
Hey man, really good points. People should remember how The Government told us they'd only be interring citizens of Japanese dissent "until the war with Japan ends". Well those people are still rotting in camps in California and we all know how totalitarian the US has become in the last 60 years!!!
Preach on!!
The FBI isn't being granted any new authority to spy on people. The headline here is misleading/provoking/a lie.
If you wipe the froth from your mouth and slowly read the article to yourself, you'll see this is more a logisitcal maneuver allowing the sharing of info between intelligence bodies. Wasn't this something everyone was yammering for after 9/11?
So what if Congress wasn't allowed to discuss the matter. Congress has had decades to discuss all sorts of ways to improve this nation and have done nothing more than feather there own beds. If the FBI finds some domestic intel that would benefit the DoD in what they are doing overseas what's the problem. Again, nowhere in the article do I see that either agency gained new powers or has had the borders of their operational jurisdiction changed.
Keep repeating until it sinks in No Visio, no *nix No Visio, no *nix No Visio, no *nix Seriously, setting aside discussions about comparable features/performance of apps that can exist on both OS's any talk of completely abandoning Windows is pointless until some clever guy comes up with OpenVisio. It has been, and will likely continue to be, the sole reason I have to have a Windows machine under the desk here. Covered on all other fronts for both business and home use except for Visio or at least Visio file format compatibility.
"Odd that something put together 3 years ago is getting slashdotted now." Uhh, yeah.
If the excerpts in the review are typical of the book then the book sucks and that's it.
Joe: this book sucks
Jim: you're right
Yeah because other than the last ten years the world has been such a peachy place.
This is no Dark Age. In a lot of ways things are better than they were.
Orwell was bitching about corporations controlling the (print) media long before most Slashdot readers' parents were born. Want to stay in business? You need revenue. Revenue comes from ads. Ads come from corporations and they expect you to dance to the tune they play if you want them to spend their money with you.
Stalin had the 1984 thing working quite well. Your postulation that Tony Blair is in some way creating a totalitarian society in Britain is laughable/insane/ludicrous, etc.
Religious fundamentalism is certainly nothing unique to our lifetimes.
Brainless masses of cattle describes 95% of the populous at ANY point in history. There's never been a time when the world was full of genuises.
If current times strike you as 'post-intellectual' in nature, it could be that exercises in intellect have moved beyond you. Moo Moo my fine bovine friend.
So what, another license violation that no one will do anything about. I've not heard of any legal fallout from any of the numerous license violations Slashdot has reported on. At this point you have to wonder why the license exists at all. If it's never enforced it may as well not.
Companies don't just walk away from revenue.
If licensing revenue is no longer such a priority for MS be assured another source of revenue will be replacing it. I would guess MS will be dropping licenses completely in favor of subscription access to hosted applications.
It's wrong to teach ID in science class. It's wrong because science should not be bastardized to accomodate ideology. However, the rest of your statements about the danger of people blindly accepting what they are taught as they grow up can and should be equally applied to everyone. Of the all the people posting to this thread, with the sole exception of Professor Utah perhaps, not one of them has likely ever performed any experiments to see if what they've been taught in school regarding evolution is true. There is not one shred of evidence that average Joe can point at and say 'that is an obvious indicator that evolution is probably the correct explanation for how life develops'. But evolution is so obviously correct, right? People speak with such certainty about natural processes that span inconceivable amounts of time. The total knowledge of the human race can be thought of as extrapolating from a single frame of a film what the plot of the 3 hour feature is (and in the case of some sciences, what will happen in the next scene). Nontheless, I am not championing ID and this was clearly a disappointing turn of events.
...yet another web server.
Sorry for bad copy/paste. Anyways, I regularly tunnel into cisco 30xx and pix units using that client.
I have been using this for quite some time now: [12:49pm exs@kirov /usr/ports/security/vpnd]> more ../vpnc/pkg-descr
VPNC - Client for Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator[12:49pm exs@kirov /usr/ports/security/vpnd]> more ../vpnc/pkg-descr
VPNC - Client for Cisco 3000 VPN Concentrator
A VPN client compatible with Cisco's EasyVPN equipment.
Supports IPSec (ESP) with Mode Configuration and Xauth. Supports only
shared-secret IPSec authentication, 3DES, MD5, and IP tunneling.
It runs entirely in userspace.
A VPN client compatible with Cisco's EasyVPN equipment.
Supports IPSec (ESP) with Mode Configuration and Xauth. Supports only
shared-secret IPSec authentication, 3DES, MD5, and IP tunneling.
It runs entirely in userspace.
Post a link to the law if you have it. More likely you react based on the limited "knowledge" you gain from other slashdot comments. Franking laws, which I am assuming you are referring to, also prevent Reps from contacting the public at large via taxpayer money. While generally considered a reference to mass mailings, it would seem a blog would also fall under this category - yet here his blog is. So apparently one way communication is ok, dialog is not. You are an apologist for people who could care less about you. Grats, go hug a politician.