The Gnome team broke a bunch of stuff in the name of "progress" while removing useful features. Gee, I wonder why people had an adverse reaction. It's like they actually wanted to use their computer for applications instead of being forced to learn a new interface with less functionality.
The political quotes and cutscenes from that game were a joy. It's a shame it sold so poorly. It's definitely worth checking out if you haven't played it. A bonus for playing such an old game today is that it absolutely flies on a modern machine.
No excuse for not looking things up these days. From Wikipedia:
"In the late nineteenth century, the British and Italians gained control of parts of the coast, and established British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland.[17] In the interior, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State successfully repulsed the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region,[18] but the Dervishes were finally defeated in 1920 by British airpower.[19] Italy acquired full control of their parts of the region in 1927. This occupation lasted until 1941, when it was replaced by a British military administration."
In fact I was driving at 55 MPH, the speed limit through that stretch -- and routinely exceeded by many. [..] I was on Rt 128
Almost nobody does the speed limit around Boston, unless traffic is slow due to congestion. Driving 55 is actually more dangerous when the flow of traffic is well above that.
Such a scheme would also help rebut some of these nonsense arguments (and in this case, maybe help identify the nitwit trucker responsible).
The scariest truck incident I witnessed is when a trailer blindly switched a lane to the left with a car next to him. Luckily the guy he almost hit was able to maneuver out of the way. I should have made an effort to get his license plate and report him, but you know how it is, too busy to get involved.
I see that you view things from a more or less humanist viewpoint and tend to dismiss religion and spirituality.
Correct, I'm a secular humanist.
My view is that men need a general common sense and common spiritual structure of morality over and above any laws any government may pass in order for a free and open society to remain stable, as a need for some sense of spirituality is part of basic human nature and inescapable in a general sense, as people make up their own spiritual belief systems lacking any outside examples.
I would agree with you, and that was basically what I was saying about how the collective and the individual define their rights. You can look at societies and history to see how this has happened with various results. The only difference in our positions is that I believe "God" is just another one of those "make up their own spiritual belief systems lacking any outside examples".
Please accept my apologies for any actual or implied slights against you on my part.
That's good of you, and no offense taken, but I'd rather see you acknowledge that your initial summary of the situation was biased and didn't give the whole story. I acknowledged the judge's position that the government overstepped their bounds.
The whole "Once a Marine, Always a Marine" isn't propaganda at all.
Propaganda: "2: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person"
I know the word propaganda has a connotation of being false and harmful, but that's not my meaning here. I'm just recognizing that this terminology is part of the whole group bonding thing. As somebody who is not a Marine, I'm not going to respect what they call themselves when they leave the service and stick to plain words.
Not taking a proactive part in cooperating with your arrest is not resisting.
I checked the law, and that's apparently true in Virginia, where he was arrested. Then again, the officers have a right to use reasonable force to take you in. I don't know exactly what happened, but when a big, strong guy stops cooperating with his arrest, multiple cops are going to surround him. What is clear is that they didn't knock on the door and "bum rush" him like some kind of raid.
First, there is no such thing as an "ex-Marine". Once a Marine, always a Marine.
I don't give a crap about the Marine service's propaganda.
Again, a judge confirmed that Raub's posts did not justify arrest or detention, and in fact the judge strongly chastised the government for violating his basic rights. [..] Second, again, what he posted did not, according to a judge, rise to the level of being an arrestable act.
I don't know why you're repeating the same point twice here, when I already acknowledged this in my last post.
Whether or not he was a Marine does not enter into it, does not lower the standards required for arrest/detention. As the judge pointed out if you read his findings.
I couldn't find the findings to read, even though I looked. And while I'm sure it is legally true with regards to military service, practically speaking somebody with military training and service talking about revolutions and severed heads is going to raise more eyebrows.
Legal issues aside, as I've already conceded the legal issues, my original point, which you haven't acknowledged, is that your summary was biased and did not tell the whole story.
[quotes from Founders]
I'm well aware of these positions, especially as stated in the Declaration of Independence, but that doesn't make them true. Some of these same founders also held slaves. That these same men for the most part also believed in "God" holds just about as much respect for me as did their belief in slavery.
The "collective" has nothing to do with from where rights spring from.
If the collective doesn't recognize your rights then you de facto don't have them (such as the right to use illegal drugs), or you may de facto be granted them (such as the right to clean water from your landlord). But I also mentioned the individual, as they will ultimately decide for themselves what rights they feel they have. To say that rights are granted by God is just a shortcut in logic.
The "collective" is mob-rule and subject to the vagaries and corruptions of politics and the public's temporary impulses, fears, and hysteria.
And individual rule is anarchy, which tends to evolve into some power structure based on warring groups. In truth there is always going to be a tension between society and individual.
Many, many people, most of them mediocre engineers and programmers, accomplished the same.
Gates and his team did it first for the Altair. Nobody prevented anybody else from doing it. It was this effort that led to his being the head of a successful company by the time that IBM came knocking. Just like people give credit to Woz or Linus for accomplishing something technical that leads to success, despite others doing it as well, so Gates is credited. Calling any of them a "failure" with regards to programming or engineering is laughable.
The rest of your post is pure baseless bullshit.
Too funny, the king of baseless bullshit tries to throw it back at me. So you're saying that it's "baseless bullshit" to say that IBM was referred to Gary Kildall by Gates? That it's "baseless bullshit" that Microsoft was already successful by the time IBM came knocking? No, you really aren't, you're just repeating your pattern of ignoring facts while trying to make up your own.
Yeah, they wanted him to to allow them to search his home without a warrant.
"Raub said he talked with two FBI agents from inside his door for about 10 to 15 minutes. He said the agents mentioned his Facebook posts, but were not very specific and seemed to be prodding for him to elaborate on the messages.
However, the discussion them moved outside and Raub said he started going into specifics about government conspiracy theories. He said one of the FBI agents was scribbling down what he said. He also said that at no point was he read his Miranda rights, but that he was handcuffed. "
At that point, he knew what was coming. Anyone would. I don't blame him. How is going limp "resisting"?
He was already in handcuffs and being led away, walking along with the officers towards the car. My understanding is that if you don't comply with an officer, by for example not putting your hands behind your back, not stepping away from a vehicle when ordered, or in this case dropping your weight, then you are resisting.
And no, the FB postings were not sufficient, as the judge pointed out. The "evaluation" was to be conducted during 30 days in a mental ward, *after* they illegally abducted him, no evaluations by a doctor or other legitimate mental health authority were conducted before and used as a reason to detain him. That all came after the fact.
OK, I concede your point, they didn't have enough to arrest him and place him under psychiatric evaluation in the first place, but the picture you were painting was hardly unbiased or fair. He wasn't just some guy posting "anti-big-government opinions and Canadian rap song lyrics". He was an ex-Marine posting anti-government fringe conspiracy theories, talking about a coming revolution, and the lyrics were "Sharpen up my axe: I'm here to sever heads".
I don't agree with much of what Raub posted, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have every right to express them without being snatched up and thrown in a mental ward.
Maybe not, but I can understand the difficult position the government is in. These are obvious warning signs, and when somebody like this goes off you'll always have the media and victims complaining why the government ignored them.
Don't you have some boots to lick somewhere instead of wasting intelligent people's time that actually understand freedom, the rights that they have not from government, but from God, and when they are being violated?
Funny that you're talking about boot-licking while appealing to the ultimate authority figure, "God". Rights come from the collective and individuals. Anybody with a knowledge of history and societies around the world could figure that out.
"Raub said he talked with two FBI agents from inside his door for about 10 to 15 minutes."
As for "bum-rushing", that was after he started resisted arrest:
"At this point, Raub, still in nothing but a pair of shorts, said he begged the agents to let him go back inside and get some flip-flops and a shirt.
When they refused, and at one point, he said he decided to make things more difficult for the officers since they wouldn't let him get clothes from the house.
"I realized that they weren't going to read me my rights and they weren't arresting me, so I basically just decided just to make it more difficult for them take me. I dropped my body weight -- and I don't think one of the Chesterfield policeman liked it very much, so he tackled me into the fence." "
OK, so judging purely on that story that was an overreaction, but it was hardly the knock-on-the-door bum-rush that you make it out to be.
do not consult a psychiatrist/psychologist
Now this is getting stupid. Don't you think a psychiatric evaluation would include talking to a psychiatrist?
That wasn't the primary goal. Suppression of publicly voiced anti-government opinion was the priority here based on the government's actions.
Except for all the countless looney-tunes sites parroting the same garbage, minus the ex-Marine talking about severed heads and revolutions. Be honest and stop with the one-sided nonsense.
So you've got some guy who is an ex-Marine parroting fringe conspiracy theories, and saying stuff like "Just know that a new beginning is coming." and "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads." If this guy had gone postal, you'd have the media questioning why the authorities ignored the obvious warning signs.
If he was only detained for conspiracy theories, that would be one thing, but that just isn't the case.
There are approximately three friends in my contact list who use pseudonyms, and damn was it hard to find them. Usually it involved phonecalls to various people to find out who's hiding behind the ever changing alias this week. Phonecalls to find out somebody's Facebook handle. Nice.
I don't have a problem with people that use Facebook or their real name on Facebook, but it seems that you have the reverse problem -- that you don't respect people who want to use pseudonyms. You also might want to consider that if somebody hasn't contacted you with their "alternate" account, maybe you aren't that important to them.
Then they should do the one thing that actually turns a profit for free software vendors: subscriptions (for e.g. support, updates, etc.), targeting business users.
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Do you want to see my golden plates?
Gosh
Apparently Mitt's rubbed off on you.
What's Romney's policy on Libya? What is Romney's policy on terrorism? Other than "not apologizing" he seems to mostly agree with Obama.
Romney's foreign policy: Whatever Obama is doing is wrong, even if alternate-Romney suggested the same thing 6 months ago.
The Gnome team broke a bunch of stuff in the name of "progress" while removing useful features. Gee, I wonder why people had an adverse reaction. It's like they actually wanted to use their computer for applications instead of being forced to learn a new interface with less functionality.
fast-user switching
Something that I always regret using because it is full of nasty bugs. I've sworn it off for at least another year.
I'm at a loss to understand how to reconcile the two articles.
The article you link to has very few commits and looks like a junky, incomplete article.
No, I advocate free speech with the provision that any public claims made must be subject to the scientific method.
In other words, you want such a high standard for free speech that your speech isn't free at all. No thanks.
From Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.
The political quotes and cutscenes from that game were a joy. It's a shame it sold so poorly. It's definitely worth checking out if you haven't played it. A bonus for playing such an old game today is that it absolutely flies on a modern machine.
So you advocate being a bloody tyrant who wants to be the final arbiter of truth and let nothing else be spoken. No thanks.
No excuse for not looking things up these days. From Wikipedia:
"In the late nineteenth century, the British and Italians gained control of parts of the coast, and established British Somaliland and Italian Somaliland.[17] In the interior, Muhammad Abdullah Hassan's Dervish State successfully repulsed the British Empire four times and forced it to retreat to the coastal region,[18] but the Dervishes were finally defeated in 1920 by British airpower.[19] Italy acquired full control of their parts of the region in 1927. This occupation lasted until 1941, when it was replaced by a British military administration."
Or just do a search if you're still in doubt.
Nice job, actually.
My issue is that I dont know which end is up until I look for it.
You could put a piece of tape or some other tactile marker on it in a discreet spot.
Tires get low because the bead and valve aren't prefect, not because there are holes.
Having just fixed a tire with a slow leak because of a screw embedded in it, that isn't always true.
In fact I was driving at 55 MPH, the speed limit through that stretch -- and routinely exceeded by many. [..] I was on Rt 128
Almost nobody does the speed limit around Boston, unless traffic is slow due to congestion. Driving 55 is actually more dangerous when the flow of traffic is well above that.
Such a scheme would also help rebut some of these nonsense arguments (and in this case, maybe help identify the nitwit trucker responsible).
The scariest truck incident I witnessed is when a trailer blindly switched a lane to the left with a car next to him. Luckily the guy he almost hit was able to maneuver out of the way. I should have made an effort to get his license plate and report him, but you know how it is, too busy to get involved.
Secondary effect.
More like standard fat American on Standard American Diet. Probably diabetic, too.
I see that you view things from a more or less humanist viewpoint and tend to dismiss religion and spirituality.
Correct, I'm a secular humanist.
My view is that men need a general common sense and common spiritual structure of morality over and above any laws any government may pass in order for a free and open society to remain stable, as a need for some sense of spirituality is part of basic human nature and inescapable in a general sense, as people make up their own spiritual belief systems lacking any outside examples.
I would agree with you, and that was basically what I was saying about how the collective and the individual define their rights. You can look at societies and history to see how this has happened with various results. The only difference in our positions is that I believe "God" is just another one of those "make up their own spiritual belief systems lacking any outside examples".
Please accept my apologies for any actual or implied slights against you on my part.
That's good of you, and no offense taken, but I'd rather see you acknowledge that your initial summary of the situation was biased and didn't give the whole story. I acknowledged the judge's position that the government overstepped their bounds.
The whole "Once a Marine, Always a Marine" isn't propaganda at all.
Propaganda: "2: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person"
I know the word propaganda has a connotation of being false and harmful, but that's not my meaning here. I'm just recognizing that this terminology is part of the whole group bonding thing. As somebody who is not a Marine, I'm not going to respect what they call themselves when they leave the service and stick to plain words.
Hello Somalia.
Not taking a proactive part in cooperating with your arrest is not resisting.
I checked the law, and that's apparently true in Virginia, where he was arrested. Then again, the officers have a right to use reasonable force to take you in. I don't know exactly what happened, but when a big, strong guy stops cooperating with his arrest, multiple cops are going to surround him. What is clear is that they didn't knock on the door and "bum rush" him like some kind of raid.
First, there is no such thing as an "ex-Marine". Once a Marine, always a Marine.
I don't give a crap about the Marine service's propaganda.
Again, a judge confirmed that Raub's posts did not justify arrest or detention, and in fact the judge strongly chastised the government for violating his basic rights. [..] Second, again, what he posted did not, according to a judge, rise to the level of being an arrestable act.
I don't know why you're repeating the same point twice here, when I already acknowledged this in my last post.
Whether or not he was a Marine does not enter into it, does not lower the standards required for arrest/detention. As the judge pointed out if you read his findings.
I couldn't find the findings to read, even though I looked. And while I'm sure it is legally true with regards to military service, practically speaking somebody with military training and service talking about revolutions and severed heads is going to raise more eyebrows.
Legal issues aside, as I've already conceded the legal issues, my original point, which you haven't acknowledged, is that your summary was biased and did not tell the whole story.
[quotes from Founders]
I'm well aware of these positions, especially as stated in the Declaration of Independence, but that doesn't make them true. Some of these same founders also held slaves. That these same men for the most part also believed in "God" holds just about as much respect for me as did their belief in slavery.
The "collective" has nothing to do with from where rights spring from.
If the collective doesn't recognize your rights then you de facto don't have them (such as the right to use illegal drugs), or you may de facto be granted them (such as the right to clean water from your landlord). But I also mentioned the individual, as they will ultimately decide for themselves what rights they feel they have. To say that rights are granted by God is just a shortcut in logic.
The "collective" is mob-rule and subject to the vagaries and corruptions of politics and the public's temporary impulses, fears, and hysteria.
And individual rule is anarchy, which tends to evolve into some power structure based on warring groups. In truth there is always going to be a tension between society and individual.
Many, many people, most of them mediocre engineers and programmers, accomplished the same.
Gates and his team did it first for the Altair. Nobody prevented anybody else from doing it. It was this effort that led to his being the head of a successful company by the time that IBM came knocking. Just like people give credit to Woz or Linus for accomplishing something technical that leads to success, despite others doing it as well, so Gates is credited. Calling any of them a "failure" with regards to programming or engineering is laughable.
The rest of your post is pure baseless bullshit.
Too funny, the king of baseless bullshit tries to throw it back at me. So you're saying that it's "baseless bullshit" to say that IBM was referred to Gary Kildall by Gates? That it's "baseless bullshit" that Microsoft was already successful by the time IBM came knocking? No, you really aren't, you're just repeating your pattern of ignoring facts while trying to make up your own.
Yeah, they wanted him to to allow them to search his home without a warrant.
"Raub said he talked with two FBI agents from inside his door for about 10 to 15 minutes. He said the agents mentioned his Facebook posts, but were not very specific and seemed to be prodding for him to elaborate on the messages.
However, the discussion them moved outside and Raub said he started going into specifics about government conspiracy theories. He said one of the FBI agents was scribbling down what he said. He also said that at no point was he read his Miranda rights, but that he was handcuffed. "
At that point, he knew what was coming. Anyone would. I don't blame him. How is going limp "resisting"?
He was already in handcuffs and being led away, walking along with the officers towards the car. My understanding is that if you don't comply with an officer, by for example not putting your hands behind your back, not stepping away from a vehicle when ordered, or in this case dropping your weight, then you are resisting.
And no, the FB postings were not sufficient, as the judge pointed out. The "evaluation" was to be conducted during 30 days in a mental ward, *after* they illegally abducted him, no evaluations by a doctor or other legitimate mental health authority were conducted before and used as a reason to detain him. That all came after the fact.
OK, I concede your point, they didn't have enough to arrest him and place him under psychiatric evaluation in the first place, but the picture you were painting was hardly unbiased or fair. He wasn't just some guy posting "anti-big-government opinions and Canadian rap song lyrics". He was an ex-Marine posting anti-government fringe conspiracy theories, talking about a coming revolution, and the lyrics were "Sharpen up my axe: I'm here to sever heads".
I don't agree with much of what Raub posted, but that doesn't mean he doesn't have every right to express them without being snatched up and thrown in a mental ward.
Maybe not, but I can understand the difficult position the government is in. These are obvious warning signs, and when somebody like this goes off you'll always have the media and victims complaining why the government ignored them.
Don't you have some boots to lick somewhere instead of wasting intelligent people's time that actually understand freedom, the rights that they have not from government, but from God, and when they are being violated?
Funny that you're talking about boot-licking while appealing to the ultimate authority figure, "God". Rights come from the collective and individuals. Anybody with a knowledge of history and societies around the world could figure that out.
Hey, there are things they could have done besides bum-rushing the guy and throwing him in a mental ward. You know, like talk to the guy.
That's what they did. Apparently they didn't like his answers:
http://wtvr.com/2012/08/28/brandon-raub-youtubeinterview/
"Raub said he talked with two FBI agents from inside his door for about 10 to 15 minutes."
As for "bum-rushing", that was after he started resisted arrest:
"At this point, Raub, still in nothing but a pair of shorts, said he begged the agents to let him go back inside and get some flip-flops and a shirt.
When they refused, and at one point, he said he decided to make things more difficult for the officers since they wouldn't let him get clothes from the house.
"I realized that they weren't going to read me my rights and they weren't arresting me, so I basically just decided just to make it more difficult for them take me. I dropped my body weight -- and I don't think one of the Chesterfield policeman liked it very much, so he tackled me into the fence." "
OK, so judging purely on that story that was an overreaction, but it was hardly the knock-on-the-door bum-rush that you make it out to be.
do not consult a psychiatrist/psychologist
Now this is getting stupid. Don't you think a psychiatric evaluation would include talking to a psychiatrist?
That wasn't the primary goal. Suppression of publicly voiced anti-government opinion was the priority here based on the government's actions.
Except for all the countless looney-tunes sites parroting the same garbage, minus the ex-Marine talking about severed heads and revolutions. Be honest and stop with the one-sided nonsense.
So you've got some guy who is an ex-Marine parroting fringe conspiracy theories, and saying stuff like "Just know that a new beginning is coming." and "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads." If this guy had gone postal, you'd have the media questioning why the authorities ignored the obvious warning signs.
If he was only detained for conspiracy theories, that would be one thing, but that just isn't the case.
There are approximately three friends in my contact list who use pseudonyms, and damn was it hard to find them. Usually it involved phonecalls to various people to find out who's hiding behind the ever changing alias this week. Phonecalls to find out somebody's Facebook handle. Nice.
I don't have a problem with people that use Facebook or their real name on Facebook, but it seems that you have the reverse problem -- that you don't respect people who want to use pseudonyms. You also might want to consider that if somebody hasn't contacted you with their "alternate" account, maybe you aren't that important to them.
We could fund Sunni extremists to blow up cars in crowded markets, hoping to start a wave of terror.
And you claim the US was behind that? What's your evidence?
Then they should do the one thing that actually turns a profit for free software vendors: subscriptions (for e.g. support, updates, etc.), targeting business users.
They do that already.