So true. like, when you ask random people if they know that the hydrogen is two times more than the oxygen, and why the government does not do anything about it
I'm sorry but I don't have a clue what you're trying to convey. Two times more than oxygen? Two times more what? Your comment is gibberish, you make no sense at all. Come back when you're not as drunk, OK? You're wasting my time.
I think it's hard to determine whether Hanlon's Law or mcgrew's law applies here -- never ascribe to incompetence that which can be ascribed to greedy self-interest.
They didn't show that they needed the surveillance by the bombing, rather they showed the opposite, so I think Heinlein (who Hanlon's law came from) is correct here. But there's no way to be sure without proof one way or another.
BTW, "who's" is a contraction for "who is". "Whose" is what you meant.
There are at least fifty in the US, five of them (inc Rs and Ds) are on enough ballots to win the Presidency. There were six on my ballot last election. The trouble is, the corporates who own the media outlets don't want to have to invest the cash to bribe three more parties, so they simply refuse to mention them.
Someone you love smokes marijuana. Why do you vote for people who want your loved ones in prison? Why do you vote for war and more corporate power? Why do you vote against the principles of our Constitution? If you're liberal vote Green, if you're conservative vote Libertarian. But a vote for a Democrat or Republican is a vote to jail your loved ones (or maybe even yourself), a vote for torturing prisoners and leaving suspects in jail for years without trial.
A vote for an R or D is a vote against the American people.
BTW, to the submitter and editor: Why should I have to google to find out that GHCQ is the "Official site of the UK Government Communications Headquarters which is the centre for Her Majesty's Government's Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) activities"? Nobody but a Brit or a spy would be acquainted with that acronym. Come on, guys, don't be so lazy. You don't have to explain RAM or LEO (unless you're talking about remote access methods or cops) but if it isn't a common science or tech acronym, SPELL IT OUT!
I'll be 98 in 2050, I'm sure I'll need them. Or maybe not, dead men don't need hearing aids. As to the tracking, as long as it's on their own property, why not? They know what I buy at their store anyway, unless I pay in cash.
branding the counterfeit gear(I'm just guessing that
I'm offtopic here (checking the "no bonus" boxes), but I notice you continue to omit the needed space between "gear" and "(I'm just guessing)". Your comments would be more readable (and more easily taken seriously) if you followed centuries old proper formatting rules.
Minor nit, far better than some folks here's "todays special's" or "there car is over their". If I were moderating I'd probably have modded you up despite the rather annoying mistake.
I guess I won't need to build a new PC after all, then, because Google and the NSA already get too much data from me, the creepy fucks. Considering some of the things I google for I'm probably on some list already.
Let me know when I can do this without "the cloud." I don't like not having control over my own data and processes.
I'd have to buy or build a new computer. Neither of the two old towers will take more than a gig, and I'm not going to add any to this notebook, too much of a PITA.
All the old computers do what I need them to so it'll be a while before that happens. I guess if I needed this functionality I'd have to spend a few hundred bucks.
Speaking of it doing what I need, I guess I should get back to work on that book (yep, that's why I haven't been here much lately).
You said that criminals are getting more murdeous when the numbers don't support your assertion. Policing is of course dangerous, but from what I see in the newspapers (and police deaths, accidents, and injuries almost always get reported in the media) I'd say the most dangerous part of your job was writing speeding tickets on the side of the interstate. We had so many police fatalities in Illinois that state law now says you have to move to the left if there's a police car parked on the shoulder with its lights on.
As to assaults, I have no numbers but I'd wager a civilian has a much larger chance of being assaulted by a criminal than a cop does. You'd have to be crazy to assault a man armed with a gun and a taser.
He was trying to make a point that criminals are getting deadlier, when there were only 10 more deaths in 2010 than 2000. The last few police deaths I've heard around here are accidental deaths caused by negligent drivers; from what I read, writing a speeding ticket on an interstate is pretty damned dangerous.
I'm not saying there job isn't dangerous, it certainly is, but it's not in the top ten most dangerous.
Huh?? Where do you see the slightest indication of that? If you're referring to Obama saying Travon Martin could have been him thirty years ago that was a perfectly apt statement that we whites should think deeply about.
Secondly, even if your absurd statement were true, the administration doesn't write the laws, Congress does.
But the bottom line is that which is easier depends on which you know better
Actually, I've been using Windows twice as long as Linux, and knowing the interface makes Linux superior, since Microsoft changes everything around with every new version. If you'd cut your teeth on Windows 98 you'd be lost in Windows 7, but if you'd never used anything but 2002 Mandrake you would still be comfortable with kubuntu.
I never did like Gnome....and which is better depends on what you're doing with it.
Well, that is true. If you're an image professional you'll need Windows or Apple because there's no professional equivalent to Photoshop for Linux or BSD. But unless you absolutely need that $700 image editor, the price is a waste. And gamers still need Windows.
Maybe I have an advantage having worked with many different systems
Same here, started on a TS1000 that I learned assembly on, then a TRS-80, Apple IIe, DOS, JCL (I have no idea what hardware it was running on), then Windows, then Linux. From about 1995 unto; 2005 I did a lot of mostly database programming in NOMAD on the mainframe and dBase, Clipper, and FoxPro, with some javascript for my personal web pages around the turn of the century.
And over 5 years I had 2 failed desktop drives, one failed server drive (in a RAID array), 1 failed desktop power supply, and 1 failed server power supply. No OS or MS Office problems. Fully automated updates. After the install, only ever went to a desktop for the hardware failures I listed. I wouldn't want to try this with Linux.
No OS problems? No hangs or bluescreens with W95 or W98? That's unusual. As to hardware failures, I never had problems swapping hardware in either OS (except XP thought it was pirated after a few hardware changes and I had to call MS to fix the problem).
I discovered around 2004 that Linux was far more hardware-fault tolerant than XP. I had a dual-boot system with XP and Mandriva, and the Windows side got really flaky. Turned out the power supply had gotten flaky, Mandriva chugged along happily until it failed completely when the Windows side wouldn't even boot. Both were fine after I replaced the power supply.
BTW before you say the desktop is easier to use in Linux you may want to say which Linux and which GUI (plus add-ons) you're talking about.
Like I said, I never did like Gnome. Been happy with KDE (except 4, when I tried Gnome). That's the desktop I'd suggest to a Windows user.
A really good OS wouldn't even have a Control Panel.
Well, I don't agree with that but I will agree that text config files are really handy. Too bad neither Linux nor Windows use them any more, I miss them.
Why is it when I post with Chrome it takes out all my line feeds, guess I should use IE.
I wouldn't blame Chrome, I'd blame slashdot. I'm not having that problem with FireFox here but I'm having other problems with it.
Do you have it set to "plain old text?" If you have it set to HTML it will remove your line feeds, you'll need <br> and <p> unless it's plain old text.
You never did explain why if Windows 7 and 8 are less bloated and easier to use than Ubuntu and Mint my ten year old kubuntu tower has half the memory and half the processor speed as my Windows 7 notebook yet runs rings around it.
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So true. like, when you ask random people if they know that the hydrogen is two times more than the oxygen, and why the government does not do anything about it
I'm sorry but I don't have a clue what you're trying to convey. Two times more than oxygen? Two times more what? Your comment is gibberish, you make no sense at all. Come back when you're not as drunk, OK? You're wasting my time.
The founding father's realized this
I'd like a dozen tomatoes, please...
I think it's hard to determine whether Hanlon's Law or mcgrew's law applies here -- never ascribe to incompetence that which can be ascribed to greedy self-interest.
They didn't show that they needed the surveillance by the bombing, rather they showed the opposite, so I think Heinlein (who Hanlon's law came from) is correct here. But there's no way to be sure without proof one way or another.
BTW, "who's" is a contraction for "who is". "Whose" is what you meant.
Be seditionist, corrupt morals, piss on their gods and tell them to fuck off.
If I piss on their gods all my cash will be wet and stinky.
There are at least fifty in the US, five of them (inc Rs and Ds) are on enough ballots to win the Presidency. There were six on my ballot last election. The trouble is, the corporates who own the media outlets don't want to have to invest the cash to bribe three more parties, so they simply refuse to mention them.
Someone you love smokes marijuana. Why do you vote for people who want your loved ones in prison? Why do you vote for war and more corporate power? Why do you vote against the principles of our Constitution? If you're liberal vote Green, if you're conservative vote Libertarian. But a vote for a Democrat or Republican is a vote to jail your loved ones (or maybe even yourself), a vote for torturing prisoners and leaving suspects in jail for years without trial.
A vote for an R or D is a vote against the American people.
BTW, to the submitter and editor: Why should I have to google to find out that GHCQ is the "Official site of the UK Government Communications Headquarters which is the centre for Her Majesty's Government's Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) activities"? Nobody but a Brit or a spy would be acquainted with that acronym. Come on, guys, don't be so lazy. You don't have to explain RAM or LEO (unless you're talking about remote access methods or cops) but if it isn't a common science or tech acronym, SPELL IT OUT!
I wish I could read the actual studies. Most are paywalled. Can we change this? I want to learn!
Bravery isn't the lack of fear, lacking fear is stupidity. Bravery is overcoming fear.
Why can't the motive simply be "What I post on Slashdot is nobody's business"?
If it's nobody's business, why post it?
I am afraid to post this comment. I am sure that I will get categorized as a dissident for it.
You are the heart of the problem. The brave aren't easily terrorized. The government has acted criminally, and I voice my dissent publicly.
Not that it will do any good.
Don't buy anything.
Grow your own crops and raise animals? The form of barter called "cash" works just as well if you don't want corporations stalking you.
...let alone actually be able to offer clothes that match.
Clothes that match? I'm sorry, I have no idea what you're talking about.
I've done it a few times, the results were hilarious, if almost hitting pedestrians on the sidewalk is your version of hilarious.
Maybe it's the reefer, but I laughed for a long time about that. Thank you, sir!
I'll be 98 in 2050, I'm sure I'll need them. Or maybe not, dead men don't need hearing aids. As to the tracking, as long as it's on their own property, why not? They know what I buy at their store anyway, unless I pay in cash.
Tough room... I'll get my coat.
branding the counterfeit gear(I'm just guessing that
I'm offtopic here (checking the "no bonus" boxes), but I notice you continue to omit the needed space between "gear" and "(I'm just guessing)". Your comments would be more readable (and more easily taken seriously) if you followed centuries old proper formatting rules.
Minor nit, far better than some folks here's "todays special's" or "there car is over their". If I were moderating I'd probably have modded you up despite the rather annoying mistake.
The real question is who is behind this?
I'm betting it's this guy.
Google is all about cloud computing
I guess I won't need to build a new PC after all, then, because Google and the NSA already get too much data from me, the creepy fucks. Considering some of the things I google for I'm probably on some list already.
Let me know when I can do this without "the cloud." I don't like not having control over my own data and processes.
I'd have to buy or build a new computer. Neither of the two old towers will take more than a gig, and I'm not going to add any to this notebook, too much of a PITA.
All the old computers do what I need them to so it'll be a while before that happens. I guess if I needed this functionality I'd have to spend a few hundred bucks.
Speaking of it doing what I need, I guess I should get back to work on that book (yep, that's why I haven't been here much lately).
You said that criminals are getting more murdeous when the numbers don't support your assertion. Policing is of course dangerous, but from what I see in the newspapers (and police deaths, accidents, and injuries almost always get reported in the media) I'd say the most dangerous part of your job was writing speeding tickets on the side of the interstate. We had so many police fatalities in Illinois that state law now says you have to move to the left if there's a police car parked on the shoulder with its lights on.
Police officer isn't even in the top ten list of dangerous jobs.
As to assaults, I have no numbers but I'd wager a civilian has a much larger chance of being assaulted by a criminal than a cop does. You'd have to be crazy to assault a man armed with a gun and a taser.
He was trying to make a point that criminals are getting deadlier, when there were only 10 more deaths in 2010 than 2000. The last few police deaths I've heard around here are accidental deaths caused by negligent drivers; from what I read, writing a speeding ticket on an interstate is pretty damned dangerous.
I'm not saying there job isn't dangerous, it certainly is, but it's not in the top ten most dangerous.
So you think collusion and price fixing should be legal?? You, sir, are talking utter nonsense.
The answer to why police have become more militaristic is because criminals have become more murderous against cops.
Sorry, officer, but you're full of shit. 160 police officers died in 2010, a 37% increase from 2009. Ten years earlier 150 died. That's out of 794,300 cops. And remember, those are all deaths including squad car wrecks.
To put that in better prospective, 774 construction workers died in the US in 2010.
Being a cop is a hell of a lot safer than being a construction worker.
Here's a little hint, Officer Moore: you might want to google before making a fool of yourself.
Huh?? Where do you see the slightest indication of that? If you're referring to Obama saying Travon Martin could have been him thirty years ago that was a perfectly apt statement that we whites should think deeply about.
Secondly, even if your absurd statement were true, the administration doesn't write the laws, Congress does.
Yes, I wish she would show up in more stories about biology. Surely there are more biologists here, though.
But the bottom line is that which is easier depends on which you know better
Actually, I've been using Windows twice as long as Linux, and knowing the interface makes Linux superior, since Microsoft changes everything around with every new version. If you'd cut your teeth on Windows 98 you'd be lost in Windows 7, but if you'd never used anything but 2002 Mandrake you would still be comfortable with kubuntu.
I never did like Gnome. ...and which is better depends on what you're doing with it.
Well, that is true. If you're an image professional you'll need Windows or Apple because there's no professional equivalent to Photoshop for Linux or BSD. But unless you absolutely need that $700 image editor, the price is a waste. And gamers still need Windows.
Maybe I have an advantage having worked with many different systems
Same here, started on a TS1000 that I learned assembly on, then a TRS-80, Apple IIe, DOS, JCL (I have no idea what hardware it was running on), then Windows, then Linux. From about 1995 unto; 2005 I did a lot of mostly database programming in NOMAD on the mainframe and dBase, Clipper, and FoxPro, with some javascript for my personal web pages around the turn of the century.
And over 5 years I had 2 failed desktop drives, one failed server drive (in a RAID array), 1 failed desktop power supply, and 1 failed server power supply. No OS or MS Office problems. Fully automated updates. After the install, only ever went to a desktop for the hardware failures I listed. I wouldn't want to try this with Linux.
No OS problems? No hangs or bluescreens with W95 or W98? That's unusual. As to hardware failures, I never had problems swapping hardware in either OS (except XP thought it was pirated after a few hardware changes and I had to call MS to fix the problem).
I discovered around 2004 that Linux was far more hardware-fault tolerant than XP. I had a dual-boot system with XP and Mandriva, and the Windows side got really flaky. Turned out the power supply had gotten flaky, Mandriva chugged along happily until it failed completely when the Windows side wouldn't even boot. Both were fine after I replaced the power supply.
BTW before you say the desktop is easier to use in Linux you may want to say which Linux and which GUI (plus add-ons) you're talking about.
Like I said, I never did like Gnome. Been happy with KDE (except 4, when I tried Gnome). That's the desktop I'd suggest to a Windows user.
A really good OS wouldn't even have a Control Panel.
Well, I don't agree with that but I will agree that text config files are really handy. Too bad neither Linux nor Windows use them any more, I miss them.
Why is it when I post with Chrome it takes out all my line feeds, guess I should use IE.
I wouldn't blame Chrome, I'd blame slashdot. I'm not having that problem with FireFox here but I'm having other problems with it.
Do you have it set to "plain old text?" If you have it set to HTML it will remove your line feeds, you'll need <br> and <p> unless it's plain old text.
You never did explain why if Windows 7 and 8 are less bloated and easier to use than Ubuntu and Mint my ten year old kubuntu tower has half the memory and half the processor speed as my Windows 7 notebook yet runs rings around it.