If you for either of the two major party's candidates, you're asking for more government intervention in your life, not less.
Check out Harry Browne, he's ahead of Pat Buchanan in some of the polls, (and that's with a surprising lack of attention from the media!) Harry Browne 2000
While I personally prefer Gnome to KDE, (KDE smacks too much of Windows to me), I have both installed and don't use either on a regular basis. They both try too hard to "protect me against myself" by popping up annoying, modal, "confirmation" windows. If I said to quit, just do it, damn it! I KNOW I haven't saved my changes!
KDE's rather largish ace-in-the-hole, however, is the forthcoming release of Kylix, which IIRC, will be based on QT.
I'll be perfectly content to use WindowMaker as long as the WM guys keep working on it.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
--
Think you know more about how to run your life than Al or George Dubya? Check out Harry!
I agree with you about not wanting to be a teenager these days.
In my day(our days, bet you/. folks didn't know you had all these MIDDLEAGED folks in your midst, did ya?), the draconian start of the 'War on Drugs', and specifically the war on marijuana, opened many eyes to the fact that our current government DOESN'T have our best interests at heart. The current war on REAL software innovation, (the lawsuits against Napster and DeCss, the mindless granting of software 'patents') has earned our "bought 'n' paid-for government" (TM pending) the same disdain that an earlier generation heaped upon it after the mindless vilification of the "drug" marijuana.
Nixon started the war on drugs 28 years ago; the RIAA and the MPAA just declared war this year, seemingly with the backing of our courts.
Let's hope this new war doesn't drag on quite as long.
Maybe it's time for another 'tea-party'!!
It's all about the donations...
Ask Al Gore. He invented the internet, he ought to be rolling in dough now!!
Well, I just took a new job in a new city, so I'm living in a rental house until I can find one of my own. My woodworking shop is all tucked away in a 10'X 12' storage shed in the back yard.
Can't wait to get my shop back. There's just something extremely relaxing about working at the lathe - the snick-snick-snick sound a well sharpened gouge makes produces as much satisfaction (for me) as routing out that intermittent bug that affects only that ONE user. (Smells better, too!)
How 'bout it, Rob? Seems like a good idea for a poll to me.
Errr... exactly what is it that InTouch offers that I _could_ boycott?
A trip to www.intouch.com (rather slowly) offers a page that has quite a bit of, what appears to me, an Arabic language.
This site appears to be an Egyptian ISP.
Similarly, www.itouch.com appears to be a Texas based ISP.
I already have an ISP (that, AFAIK, _doesn't_ pursue frivilous patent litigation, although they are putting up a valiant fight against SouthCentral Bell in order to provide DSL to their subscribers!).
I _finally_ downloaded the gnapster client last nite. I've been reading about it for awhile, and finally decided to see what it was all about.
I was, naturally, impressed. The first song I snagged was "Strawberry Fields", by the Beatles.
I sent my little sister (she's 40, but she's still my little sister) an email urging her to check out napster.
And what I typed next set me back a bit; it forced home just what's going on with MP3's and DVD's. I justified my download by stating that "I have this song on a 45 RPM, an LP, a cassette tape, a CD, and a VCR tape. I think I've paid for the right to download it from the 'net. Most of my copies of that song are unplayable, anyway".
THIS is what is scaring the 'labels'; people are finally realising that they're being forced to pay for the same IP over and over and over again. And that the media DOES wear out.
It's not a big leap from worn media to pay-per-play!
I've been buying 'albums' for 30 years now. I have over 600 LP's, about 400 cassette tapes, and about 200 CD's. There are some duplicates in there (Beatles, Led Zep...) but I've been busy converting a lot of my favorite single tracks from CD's to MP3. I've been planning to buy a turntable (a what?) to start ripping some of my LP's. I may still do that, but in the mean time, if I find a track I want using napster that lives on an LP I bought 20 years ago, I'll not think twice about downloading it, and I won't lose (lose, NOT loose) any sleep over it.
Damn... and here I thought I was going to be able to moderate.
I worked as a sys admin for a collection agency in a former life. Here's a real VALUABLE link for anyone who finds they've got a collector on the other end of the phone:
A caveat; collectors ARE people, and they're trying to earn a living, too. I couldn't believe the unearned abuse that some of these folks had to take from people who were, honestly, deadbeats. ALL of the collectors I dealt with were good people, and would go out of their way to work with you. I must say, however, that the collection agency I worked for had no tolerance for a collector that strayed beyond the bounds of the FDCPA. Other collection agencies aren't as stringent.
This all said, your lawyer is wrong... dead wrong. If you wait for a debt to show up on your credit report, you've waited too long! You DO have the option of dealing with the original creditor, (and it's usually in your best interest to do so), but collection agencies legally can, and do, routinely report 'bad debts' to the credit agencies on behalf of the original creditor.
And, BTW, "writeoff" is short for "writeoff to bad debt". If you've accurately described your situation, it probably means that the company you owe the $500 to sent you several letters concerning your debt, and either got no response and had mail returned (did you move?), or their 'in-house' collections procedures determined that they'd have a better chance of recovery if they turned you over to a collection agency.
In either case you "know" that you owe $500 to the original creditor. The fact that the original creditor has not 'contacted' you with a bill does not relieve you of the debt; only filing bankruptcy will do that.
I'd go on to mention 'personal responsibility' as it relates to the debt collection 'scam', but I've already spent too much time reliving this part of my past.
In short, you owe the money, you indicate that you now have the means to pay it, and choose not to. What's your bitch? You're now costing me and everyone else who deals with your creditor money in the form of higher prices. (You don't REALLY think they're just going to write off $500, do you?)
Grow up, and take responsibility for your actions.
And damn, now I've got 4 moderator points that I can't use here!
I haven't downloaded 4.72 yet, and I'm not sure I want to.
I've noticed, just in the past month, that I can no longer access any pages on either Infoworld or Computerworld, or, seemingly, any page that includes XML in the URL, using Netscape 4.7. Am I missing something here? Is there a plugin I need to retrieve?
I also find it interesting that Netscape is the ONLY browser so affected. Mozilla, StarOffice, lynx and (shudder, I tried it once just to check) IE all load the pages with no problem. And what really puzzles me is that when I view the page source, the content is all there. Have I missed something obvious in the Netscape setup?
shiny Time-Warner DVD entitled "The Matrix" into my spanking new DVD player one more time...
OK, now I understand. The "pod" is my living room. The "plugs" that they're pulling out are my cable connection, my satellite feed, my phone line, my radio/TV antenna, my checkbook, my ATM card, my VISA card, my library card, my driver's license, my HMO card, my ISP ID/password, and my employee ID.
Why the hell haven't I made the connection until now?
I get to take home about 65% of what I "earn" by working 40 hours a week.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've been behind someone in the checkout line who paid for their Oreo's and 'Death by Chocolate" ice cream with food stamps.
I wish I had $100 for every time I've been behind someone in the 'express' checkout line who had 50 or 60 items in their cart and paid for their Oreo's and 'Death by Chocolate" ice cream.
Bump that $100 to $1000 if the 'patron' is grossly overweight, and I could buy myself a pretty nice house!
Dammit Esinum! I BOUGHT "The Matrix". I still can't watch it under Linux. Seems all these stupid-ass lawsuits are getting in the way of letting technology prosper...
First, everyone always wants more civil servents. You may say to yourself... no I don't! But look, you always want more police than you have. But who would want to be a cop, only people who are dedicate to the idea of low pay, high stress, high divorce rates, and the possibility of death or dismemberment on the job. They get to carry a gun and wear armor. Now teacher, there ar never enough, they are underfunded individually and as a system. They deal, in many areas, with high stress, troubled teens, and get the rap for just about the entire state of education today. They don't get to carry or wear armor (well I guess they could wear armor if they wanted to).
The minute the american people let education become less than a priority in our society... the society itself took a fall. We are moving into a more high tech world with a smaller percentage of our work force being able to handle the load.
In most schools I know of...a 5 year old child needs know there ABC's, 123's, and know a few colors and shape. That's IT!!!! I am no Rocket Scientist (and rely heavily on spell checkers) but I could read J.R.R. Tolkien. How, because my family took in interest in my education.
We need to use the tools we have available at home and in school. If that means computers... then use them. Who knows what advances will be made in the next 30 years... but the fundementals will stay the same. Reading, Writing, and Mathmatics. Throw in science and history as you go and BOOM! We are back off to a good start. But it needs to start and stay on the home front.
The same group of shallow minded trolls who say shooters encourage violence are, by in large, the same people who let TV raise their children. They wonder why the school systems are not teaching values and then prohit value type lessons for fear of reprisals from anybody. Remember Dungeons & Dragons in the 80's, it was Demonic , et. al. Same people and there ignorance spouting off.
If parents would raise their children with a sense of pride in acomplishment and morality... thing would only getter better. But as long as people can lay the balame on something besides themselves... there will alway be a scape goat out in their pasture.
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If you for either of the two major party's candidates, you're asking for more government intervention in your life, not less. Check out Harry Browne, he's ahead of Pat Buchanan in some of the polls, (and that's with a surprising lack of attention from the media!)
Harry Browne 2000
While I personally prefer Gnome to KDE, (KDE smacks too much of Windows to me), I have both installed and don't use either on a regular basis. They both try too hard to "protect me against myself" by popping up annoying, modal, "confirmation" windows. If I said to quit, just do it, damn it! I KNOW I haven't saved my changes!
KDE's rather largish ace-in-the-hole, however, is the forthcoming release of Kylix, which IIRC, will be based on QT.
I'll be perfectly content to use WindowMaker as long as the WM guys keep working on it.
If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!
--
Think you know more about how to run your life than Al or George Dubya? Check out Harry!
I, too, am using Junkbuster's 'User Agent' feature to truthfully reflect the use of "Mozilla M17".
I find that infoworld refuses to serve me pages because of this.
You forgot to stick in "for the children".
I agree with you about not wanting to be a teenager these days.
/. folks didn't know you had all these MIDDLEAGED folks in your midst, did ya?), the draconian start of the 'War on Drugs', and specifically the war on marijuana, opened many eyes to the fact that our current government DOESN'T have our best interests at heart. The current war on REAL software innovation, (the lawsuits against Napster and DeCss, the mindless granting of software 'patents') has earned our "bought 'n' paid-for government" (TM pending) the same disdain that an earlier generation heaped upon it after the mindless vilification of the "drug" marijuana.
In my day(our days, bet you
Nixon started the war on drugs 28 years ago; the RIAA and the MPAA just declared war this year, seemingly with the backing of our courts.
Let's hope this new war doesn't drag on quite as long.
Maybe it's time for another 'tea-party'!!
It's all about the donations...
Ask Al Gore. He invented the internet, he ought to be rolling in dough now!!
Well, I just took a new job in a new city, so I'm living in a rental house until I can find one of my own. My woodworking shop is all tucked away in a 10'X 12' storage shed in the back yard.
Can't wait to get my shop back. There's just something extremely relaxing about working at the lathe - the snick-snick-snick sound a well sharpened gouge makes produces as much satisfaction (for me) as routing out that intermittent bug that affects only that ONE user. (Smells better, too!)
How 'bout it, Rob? Seems like a good idea for a poll to me.
Errr... exactly what is it that InTouch offers that I _could_ boycott?
A trip to www.intouch.com (rather slowly) offers a page that has quite a bit of, what appears to me, an Arabic language.
This site appears to be an Egyptian ISP.
Similarly, www.itouch.com appears to be a Texas based ISP.
I already have an ISP (that, AFAIK, _doesn't_ pursue frivilous patent litigation, although they are putting up a valiant fight against SouthCentral Bell in order to provide DSL to their subscribers!).
Who's there to boycott?
... do they want me to pay?
I _finally_ downloaded the gnapster client last nite. I've been reading about it for awhile, and finally decided to see what it was all about.
I was, naturally, impressed. The first song I snagged was "Strawberry Fields", by the Beatles.
I sent my little sister (she's 40, but she's still my little sister) an email urging her to check out napster.
And what I typed next set me back a bit; it forced home just what's going on with MP3's and DVD's. I justified my download by stating that "I have this song on a 45 RPM, an LP, a cassette tape, a CD, and a VCR tape. I think I've paid for the right to download it from the 'net. Most of my copies of that song are unplayable, anyway".
THIS is what is scaring the 'labels'; people are finally realising that they're being forced to pay for the same IP over and over and over again. And that the media DOES wear out.
It's not a big leap from worn media to pay-per-play!
I've been buying 'albums' for 30 years now. I have over 600 LP's, about 400 cassette tapes, and about 200 CD's. There are some duplicates in there (Beatles, Led Zep...) but I've been busy converting a lot of my favorite single tracks from CD's to MP3. I've been planning to buy a turntable (a what?) to start ripping some of my LP's. I may still do that, but in the mean time, if I find a track I want using napster that lives on an LP I bought 20 years ago, I'll not think twice about downloading it, and I won't lose (lose, NOT loose) any sleep over it.
Damn... and here I thought I was going to be able to moderate.
I worked as a sys admin for a collection agency in a former life. Here's a real VALUABLE link for anyone who finds they've got a collector on the other end of the phone:
American Collectors Association
A caveat; collectors ARE people, and they're trying to earn a living, too. I couldn't believe the unearned abuse that some of these folks had to take from people who were, honestly, deadbeats. ALL of the collectors I dealt with were good people, and would go out of their way to work with you. I must say, however, that the collection agency I worked for had no tolerance for a collector that strayed beyond the bounds of the FDCPA. Other collection agencies aren't as stringent.
This all said, your lawyer is wrong... dead wrong. If you wait for a debt to show up on your credit report, you've waited too long! You DO have the option of dealing with the original creditor, (and it's usually in your best interest to do so), but collection agencies legally can, and do, routinely report 'bad debts' to the credit agencies on behalf of the original creditor.
And, BTW, "writeoff" is short for "writeoff to bad debt". If you've accurately described your situation, it probably means that the company you owe the $500 to sent you several letters concerning your debt, and either got no response and had mail returned (did you move?), or their 'in-house' collections procedures determined that they'd have a better chance of recovery if they turned you over to a collection agency.
In either case you "know" that you owe $500 to the original creditor. The fact that the original creditor has not 'contacted' you with a bill does not relieve you of the debt; only filing bankruptcy will do that.
I'd go on to mention 'personal responsibility' as it relates to the debt collection 'scam', but I've already spent too much time reliving this part of my past.
In short, you owe the money, you indicate that you now have the means to pay it, and choose not to. What's your bitch? You're now costing me and everyone else who deals with your creditor money in the form of higher prices. (You don't REALLY think they're just going to write off $500, do you?)
Grow up, and take responsibility for your actions.
And damn, now I've got 4 moderator points that I can't use here!
I haven't downloaded 4.72 yet, and I'm not sure I want to.
I've noticed, just in the past month, that I can no longer access any pages on either Infoworld or Computerworld, or, seemingly, any page that includes XML in the URL, using Netscape 4.7. Am I missing something here? Is there a plugin I need to retrieve?
I also find it interesting that Netscape is the ONLY browser so affected. Mozilla, StarOffice, lynx and (shudder, I tried it once just to check) IE all load the pages with no problem. And what really puzzles me is that when I view the page source, the content is all there. Have I missed something obvious in the Netscape setup?
I tried using the strings from the Netscape.ad file, and they didn't work. A straight cut'n'paste from the above reply did.
What's the difference between the two?
What I'd like to see is one that will play my CD's, my MP3's AND my DVD's...
shiny Time-Warner DVD entitled "The Matrix" into my spanking new DVD player one more time...
OK, now I understand. The "pod" is my living room. The "plugs" that they're pulling out are my cable connection, my satellite feed, my phone line, my radio/TV antenna, my checkbook, my ATM card, my VISA card, my library card, my driver's license, my HMO card, my ISP ID/password, and my employee ID.
Why the hell haven't I made the connection until now?
Hmmm... rogue cancels from @home... let's extend the UDP a few more days.
actually, taxes aren't legal theft. they're taxes.
I get to take home about 65% of what I "earn" by working 40 hours a week.
I wish I had a dollar for every time I've been behind someone in the checkout line who paid for their Oreo's and 'Death by Chocolate" ice cream with food stamps.
I wish I had $100 for every time I've been behind someone in the 'express' checkout line who had 50 or 60 items in their cart and paid for their Oreo's and 'Death by Chocolate" ice cream.
Bump that $100 to $1000 if the 'patron' is grossly overweight, and I could buy myself a pretty nice house!
Current_US_tax_system = legal_theft
Where are the Grammar Police when you need them?
...undo...
%s/o/ue
I make pretty good money.
So do most of my peers.
Not ALL Linux users are fresh out of college, you know...
This was posted in the etoys thread (but was off-topic there)
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http://www.cbs.com/now/story/0,1597,144162-311,
Dammit Esinum! I BOUGHT "The Matrix". I still can't watch it under Linux. Seems all these stupid-ass lawsuits are getting in the way of letting technology prosper...
I'm trying to remember the quote, but can't; it's about censorship, the 'net, sensing as damage and routing around it.
At any rate, I've now got a copy of a tool I've wanted for awhile, and I didn't know it existed until the lawsuit.
Hmmm... horse, barn door... my middle-aged memory just doesn't serve me well any more!!
First, everyone always wants more civil servents. You may say to yourself... no I don't! But look, you always want more police than you have. But who would want to be a cop, only people who are dedicate to the idea of low pay, high stress, high divorce rates, and the possibility of death or dismemberment on the job. They get to carry a gun and wear armor. Now teacher, there ar never enough, they are underfunded individually and as a system. They deal, in many areas, with high stress, troubled teens, and get the rap for just about the entire state of education today. They don't get to carry or wear armor (well I guess they could wear armor if they wanted to).
The minute the american people let education become less than a priority in our society... the society itself took a fall. We are moving into a more high tech world with a smaller percentage of our work force being able to handle the load.
In most schools I know of...a 5 year old child needs know there ABC's, 123's, and know a few colors and shape. That's IT!!!! I am no Rocket Scientist (and rely heavily on spell checkers) but I could read J.R.R. Tolkien. How, because my family took in interest in my education.
We need to use the tools we have available at home and in school. If that means computers... then use them. Who knows what advances will be made in the next 30 years... but the fundementals will stay the same. Reading, Writing, and Mathmatics. Throw in science and history as you go and BOOM! We are back off to a good start. But it needs to start and stay on the home front.
The same group of shallow minded trolls who say shooters encourage violence are, by in large, the same people who let TV raise their children. They wonder why the school systems are not teaching values and then prohit value type lessons for fear of reprisals from anybody. Remember Dungeons & Dragons in the 80's, it was Demonic , et. al. Same people and there ignorance spouting off.
If parents would raise their children with a sense of pride in acomplishment and morality... thing would only getter better. But as long as people can lay the balame on something besides themselves... there will alway be a scape goat out in their pasture.
Or maybe use his home address:
Charles R Scriber
3208 English Turn, Ruston, LA
71270-2620
Still looking for an email address...
Voting is one way to make your voice heard.
But why speak up only ONCE a year?
Do you know your Congressmans' email address? Is it in your address book? Do you communicate your stance on issues to him/her?
If you don't know it, you can find it at www.visi.com/juan/congress
When is the last time Congress got 'slashdotted'? Oh, they haven't been...
Why not?
Again...