One of the things that is really disappointing about the 'Real Bruce Perens' incident, if you recall (were you around them?) is that to 'counter' it they changed the slashdot interface to visibly show the Slashdot ID number. They did it, supposedly, to protect from people forging usernames, namely Bruce Perens' name. As a result of that, the discussions have a 'ranking' deal now that says little or nothing about the content of posts. It's called Prejudice and it's not good.
It reminds me of the way rankings were 'in your face' on the C-64 BBSes that I occasionally participated on (I never had a commie, though.) A bunch of little kids all striving to one-up each other.
It doesn't matter what somebody's Slashdot ID is. Yeah, this one I am posting on right now is pretty big. It's the account I choose to post on. Whatever.
As I said, it's really easy to grow marijuana. Completely different from Tobacco, which is very labor intensive and only thrives in a small growing region. The result of a high tax would be that people would grow their own. Which is really rather trivial to do, unless the government is going to have a huge enforcement operation out there watching every plot of ground and every tub of dirt in every home.
Pot isn't easy to control without absolute prohibition. That was the point I was trying to make.
You're nuts. The healthcare subsidy/tax deal is a huge amount of money. It won't just disappear under a rug in the executive suite. The change in employee budgets would insure that couldn't happen. People will absolutely need the extra money to buy their healthcare. It would equivalent to an across-the-board pay cut for every employee everywhere, so just plain couldn't be gotten away with.
Also, the idea is no more frivolous than the notion, hehe, that you're gonna get good health care by the gubmint raising your taxes. Get real, dude.
It's disappointing how much people rant about politicians and money. The worst, most dangerous politicians, are engaged in gathering ever more power for themselves and their organizations. The ones dabbling in graft who have an endgame where they don't die in office are the less dangerous sorts.
Money is certainly a corrupting factor, but it's those politicians who have an ideology driving them who do the most damage to the rest of our lives. People like Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms come to mind. We can only wish these dudes wanted a pile of money and would then leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
Furthermore, in order to read the PDFs, he by necessity had to download them to his computer. Apparently he didn't keep a local copy of what he downloaded. So he deleted them himself. Nobody else is at fault.
It sounds to me more like in 2016 we have the National Guard running the Health Care system, since it's basically out of business. Maybe they'll have enough weapons and enforcement power to keep some of the medical staffers on duty. But mostly there just won't be any health care.
That seems correct on the surface, but it gets really weird when you think "well, then who policies the FDA?" It's cronies all the way down, you know. The Big Medical companies love a top-heavy regulatory system, because it shuts out troublesome innovators.
Obama won't ever stop campaigning. It's his perpetual mode of operation. And it's why he's such a terrible administrator. He lives and breathes politics.
What I read, on the BBC site this weekend, was that they said that 29% of the samples were found to have measurable trace amounts of horse DNA in them. Nowhere did I read that the aggregate total of samples were 29% horsemeat.
Is this the typical example of a grossly distorted Slashdot post, or did the BBC get it wrong?
That dovetails nicely to the comment I wanted to make. Humanity BADLY needs to stop treating the space exploration fantasy as an opportunity to run away from what we've already messed up. We need to get our shit together in the here and now, and not act like we can just sput off to somewhere else, leaving behing a messy shitpile in our wake.
Frankly, we've got a long way to go before we are ready to rocket off some place else. It's fun to fantasize about being the first cowboy in space but eventually one has to grow to adulthood.
I'm not sure what you were planning on doing, but I'm now hungry for a Chick-fil-a sandwich. I'll probably go out and get one in awhile. Thanks for bringing it up.
They were ordered to stop a number of discriminatory practices like redlining and to find a way to make mortgage loans to first time buyers without requiring as large of a down payment. Those loans should have been modest in size, sufficient for a starter home, not for a McMansion.
Up and down my street there are houses, even a few that have now been torn down, that had people who had moved into them a few years back who didn't really seem like they could afford a house. They were trashy shack houses, as a result some of them are now torn down. None of them were McMansions, and I suspect, though I haven't investigated, that the people who were living in them would have been better off saving some of their money and renting. But now they likely have a trashed credit rating.
Yes. It's good to know that Google is insuring they are the only party that will be eavesdropping on your searches. They'll protect you, and as a value-add prevent their competitors from eavesdropping.
The JDK codebase is incredibly complex - far worse than practically anything else I can think of, including the Linux kernel. The number of people on the planet who are good VM coders numbers maybe a hundred or two. That's it. And the rest of the organization has been decimated, too.
That's a little bit troubling, since a popular method of writing Android apps employs the JDK. People can talk about how the JRE platform can die, or be put to sleep. Android doesn't use the Sun/Oracle VM, but Java is important to Android's future.
It was Microsoft that killed Java. The last thing they wanted in the late 90's was for Java Applets to become a popular and powerful feature of the Web. So they corrupted and sabatogued the rollout of Java on Windows.
It's really weird that now, more than a decade later, people are trying to lay the death blow for Microsoft. Just plain weird. And especially sad to see it happen on Slashdot. Are you all Redmondites? (more than a few of you are, it's obvious)
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You can use MacOS X and install the (pkgsrc) which is very portable. This gives you a ton of the free software library you are talking about.
Yggdrasil LGX. The first plug-n-play CDROM distro. Fall 1992.
One of the things that is really disappointing about the 'Real Bruce Perens' incident, if you recall (were you around them?) is that to 'counter' it they changed the slashdot interface to visibly show the Slashdot ID number. They did it, supposedly, to protect from people forging usernames, namely Bruce Perens' name. As a result of that, the discussions have a 'ranking' deal now that says little or nothing about the content of posts. It's called Prejudice and it's not good.
It reminds me of the way rankings were 'in your face' on the C-64 BBSes that I occasionally participated on (I never had a commie, though.) A bunch of little kids all striving to one-up each other.
It doesn't matter what somebody's Slashdot ID is. Yeah, this one I am posting on right now is pretty big. It's the account I choose to post on. Whatever.
I switched to NetBSD after Red Hat 4.3.
51% enlightened Democrats
I've got the match. Go fetch the kerosene from the shed.
Yes. Right after the amendment to free speech, and a little before the amendment to not self-incriminate.
You had a point to make??
As I said, it's really easy to grow marijuana. Completely different from Tobacco, which is very labor intensive and only thrives in a small growing region. The result of a high tax would be that people would grow their own. Which is really rather trivial to do, unless the government is going to have a huge enforcement operation out there watching every plot of ground and every tub of dirt in every home.
Pot isn't easy to control without absolute prohibition. That was the point I was trying to make.
You're nuts. The healthcare subsidy/tax deal is a huge amount of money. It won't just disappear under a rug in the executive suite. The change in employee budgets would insure that couldn't happen. People will absolutely need the extra money to buy their healthcare. It would equivalent to an across-the-board pay cut for every employee everywhere, so just plain couldn't be gotten away with.
Also, the idea is no more frivolous than the notion, hehe, that you're gonna get good health care by the gubmint raising your taxes. Get real, dude.
It's disappointing how much people rant about politicians and money. The worst, most dangerous politicians, are engaged in gathering ever more power for themselves and their organizations. The ones dabbling in graft who have an endgame where they don't die in office are the less dangerous sorts.
Money is certainly a corrupting factor, but it's those politicians who have an ideology driving them who do the most damage to the rest of our lives. People like Barney Frank, Ted Kennedy, Newt Gingrich and Jesse Helms come to mind. We can only wish these dudes wanted a pile of money and would then leave the rest of us the fuck alone.
You are using the term iPod to praise something. The GP is using the term iPod for exactly the opposite reason.
You'll not reconcile your differences.
Disclaimer: I own an iPod (touch) but don't have a single track of music on it.
Furthermore, in order to read the PDFs, he by necessity had to download them to his computer. Apparently he didn't keep a local copy of what he downloaded. So he deleted them himself. Nobody else is at fault.
Actually, Microsoft pretty consistently supports the Democrats. At least, the top brass at Microsoft do.
It sounds to me more like in 2016 we have the National Guard running the Health Care system, since it's basically out of business. Maybe they'll have enough weapons and enforcement power to keep some of the medical staffers on duty. But mostly there just won't be any health care.
Great deal.
Corporations require heavy and strict policing.
That seems correct on the surface, but it gets really weird when you think "well, then who policies the FDA?" It's cronies all the way down, you know. The Big Medical companies love a top-heavy regulatory system, because it shuts out troublesome innovators.
Obama won't ever stop campaigning. It's his perpetual mode of operation. And it's why he's such a terrible administrator. He lives and breathes politics.
The solution is to eliminate the tax benefit for corporations to provide health care for their employees.
Really. Why the fuck should the HR asshole at my company decide which health plan I am allowed to buy?
Eliminate 'subsidized' employer-based health plans and just pay people more and let them choose their own.
What I read, on the BBC site this weekend, was that they said that 29% of the samples were found to have measurable trace amounts of horse DNA in them. Nowhere did I read that the aggregate total of samples were 29% horsemeat.
Is this the typical example of a grossly distorted Slashdot post, or did the BBC get it wrong?
Do tell me: it turns up a lot in your language.
Do you find yourself having to do a lot of douching?
That dovetails nicely to the comment I wanted to make. Humanity BADLY needs to stop treating the space exploration fantasy as an opportunity to run away from what we've already messed up. We need to get our shit together in the here and now, and not act like we can just sput off to somewhere else, leaving behing a messy shitpile in our wake.
Frankly, we've got a long way to go before we are ready to rocket off some place else. It's fun to fantasize about being the first cowboy in space but eventually one has to grow to adulthood.
I'm not sure what you were planning on doing, but I'm now hungry for a Chick-fil-a sandwich. I'll probably go out and get one in awhile. Thanks for bringing it up.
They were ordered to stop a number of discriminatory practices like redlining and to find a way to make mortgage loans to first time buyers without requiring as large of a down payment. Those loans should have been modest in size, sufficient for a starter home, not for a McMansion.
Up and down my street there are houses, even a few that have now been torn down, that had people who had moved into them a few years back who didn't really seem like they could afford a house. They were trashy shack houses, as a result some of them are now torn down. None of them were McMansions, and I suspect, though I haven't investigated, that the people who were living in them would have been better off saving some of their money and renting. But now they likely have a trashed credit rating.
Yes. It's good to know that Google is insuring they are the only party that will be eavesdropping on your searches. They'll protect you, and as a value-add prevent their competitors from eavesdropping.
Ummm...
So the consensus is that Javascript and HTML5 are also bad and to be shunned?
Near as I can tell, with both those technologies, all that an httpd does is shovel some data over the wire to a browser that then executes it.
The JDK codebase is incredibly complex - far worse than practically anything else I can think of, including the Linux kernel. The number of people on the planet who are good VM coders numbers maybe a hundred or two. That's it. And the rest of the organization has been decimated, too.
That's a little bit troubling, since a popular method of writing Android apps employs the JDK. People can talk about how the JRE platform can die, or be put to sleep. Android doesn't use the Sun/Oracle VM, but Java is important to Android's future.
It was Microsoft that killed Java. The last thing they wanted in the late 90's was for Java Applets to become a popular and powerful feature of the Web. So they corrupted and sabatogued the rollout of Java on Windows.
It's really weird that now, more than a decade later, people are trying to lay the death blow for Microsoft. Just plain weird. And especially sad to see it happen on Slashdot. Are you all Redmondites? (more than a few of you are, it's obvious)