I listed how climate research is actually done, you listed a bunch of name calling.
You listed a misunderstanding of how the research is actually done based on the FUD spread by the oil companies for a generation, attempting to undermine the public understanding of science. Just claiming that you have presented facts, does not make it so.
I started to make a list of links to articles describing how the energy industry, and organizations that used to spread the same sort of FUD regarding the health risks of tobacco, but the following wikipedia article contains links to most of the sites I found on my own.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial
Yes, even their Search Engine wasn't really that novel.
Bullshit. Their algorithm, page rank, was something brand new that was a significant improvement on the two standard approaches to search engines: hierarchically organized oracles (Yahoo) and keyword matching based on relative frequencies (Altavista).
Agreed. Before I found google I was using something called dogpile, which compiled the top hits from a half a dozen different search engines. It wasn't very good, but by adding together the results from a dozen lousy search engines is was the best there was. Then google came along and suddenly there was a search engine that provided really useful and relevant results that were far less likely to be spoofed, and it was really fast. It was massively novel and deservedly lead to an internet empire.
I have been hearing that Global warming will cause the seas to rise for 30 years. And yet the concrete piers in the gulf are still at the same level as they were 30 years ago.
This is the worst sort of nonsensical argument. You equate scientific predictions of sea level rise with a sea level rise that is so large that you would be able to observe and notice it with the naked eye by casual and randomly timed observations when you go to the beach. Did you take measurements? Did you account for tide level when you were there? Were you a kid with a totally different sense of scale 30 years ago?
No scientist ever predicted a rise so large over the last 30 years that casual observation would be able to observe it. The reality is that the predicted sea level rise has matched the reality quite closely. During the last thirty years that you referenced the three-year-average sea level has risen by about 5cm. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recent_Sea_Level_Rise.png
The scientific predictions I am aware of predict that the rise will accelerate over the coming century. Some effects, especially big systemic effects lag behind the cause. For instance it takes time for rising CO2 to trap the amount of heat to increase average ocean temperature (which requires a gargantuan amount of energy that is really beyond most humans ability to grasp) then it takes more time for the warmer water to undermine the Antarctic and Greenland Glaciers, but if they do start to fall apart in a big way the Army Corps of Engineers will have to really scramble to keep Huston dry.
This issue has been investigated to death by the following organizations:
4.1 House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
4.2 Science Assessment Panel
4.3 Pennsylvania State University
4.4 Independent Climate Change Email Review
4.5 United States Environmental Protection Agency report
4.6 Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Commerce
4.7 National Science Foundation
No scientific wrong doing has ever been found. The quotes that the tinfoil heads have used to show that "Phil Jones admitted manipulating data" were taken out of context and completely misunderstood. So please go take your willfull ignorance and hang out with the young earth creationists and the flat earthers, and stop interfering with the rest of us while we try to save our asses and your sorry ass from this building world disaster.
I used to do all of this as well, but I gave up because it's gotten to the point where it takes me days to fix all the stupid things they've done to FF to get it the way it used to be. So I just change tabs on top and move the home and reload buttons left and leave it at that. It took two weeks to get used to "open in new tab" being on top but I did it, mostly.
The TSA is security theater, and Rand Paul's proposal is liberty theater.
Sure the TSA sucks but this won't get rid of the FBI's national security letters, the PATRIOT Act, the indefinite detention provisions of the recent NDAA, torture, robo-bombing of other nations at will, extraordinary rendition, NSA snooping every email, NSA snooping in everything else, the looming legal lockdown on the internet, the elimination of the public domain culture in favor of permanent copyright, FBI infiltration and disruption of dissident organizations, or any of the other dozens of despicable BS our government has done recently.
In fact Rand Paul would just privatize the TSA, because government tyranny sucks, but corporate tyranny is the Amuuurican way!
I'm sure that Microsoft will be generous and actually pass on these savings to the consumer, right? I mean, they wouldn't just cut out a feature to save some money and then keep that money for themselves, would they?
I don't really care. I'd rather MS keep the extra $ than to have them send it on to the DVD consortium. I'm usually annoyed at MS but I still pick their OS over the many difficulties and shortcommings of linux, or the hardware lockin and constant paid upgrades of OSX. Now the DVD consortium is a group I have zero love for. They are parasites in every sense of the word. At least MS sells several useful products, and gives away many more useful products.
Ignorant with bad analogy skills, or troll? Hard to decide
Says the anon coward to the long time user with excellent karma.
What I said was 100% representative of my experience. I have been trying to like and to learn to use linux for 6 years and have given up. Every time I had a challenge I would get help from the relevant forums, and every time the solution would eventually come in the form of "Copy and paste these 15 lines into your shell." or "Run this script." My problem would be fixed and I would still be totally helpless to address the same issue in the future because I had no fracking idea what I had just done. EVERY TIME with EVERY PROBLEM it always came down to the command line interface.
Sorry I know that Linux is comparable to DOS like a sniper rifle is comparable to an atl-atl. My point was that the GUI isn't the primary way of interacting with the OS and it is often incomplete. When you need to do something that isn't implemented in the gui it back to the shell.
Do I use finger to poke, swipe, and pinch when I am on my desktop? Do I use a mouse to point and click when I use my phone? Is my desktop screen 3" x 2"? Is my phone screen 24" x 12"? No. No. No. No. These are two totally different operating environments with totally different requirements and limitations. They each need different interfaces. Besides who uses Firefox on their phone? It's all about Dolphin baby.
Why are all the software producers abandoning 30 years of desktop user interface improvements to make it more like mobile interfaces which are new and still developing, and by needs totally different. Just when they get it right and are just in need of the slightest refinements, they think it's time to make radical changes. Is this about improving the product or is it about keeping programers employed?
MOZILLA LISTEN!!! A browser should be so easy to use that it almost becomes transparent. It becomes that way by maintaining a nice user interface for a long time so use of the features becomes deeply ingrained habit. STOP CHANGING THINGS AROUND! PLEEEAAASE!!!
You don't want people listening in on your data? Don't transmit it on a "public" medium.
But google wasn't just incidentally listening to peoples data (like seeing the router name and signal strength). They were doing the equivalent of setting up a ladder on the sidewalk and taking multiple telephoto photos through each house's front windows on each block, in every town, in every state, then compiling and analyzing the data so they could better advertise to each household.
If I'm in my kitchen doing dishes and someone looks at the kitchen windows while walking down the sidewalk that's one thing. But if a fellow sets up a ladder, climbs it, then whips out a camera with a telephoto lens, is that fellow just capturing light that I am broadcasting into the public medium? Sort of, but he's also making a substantial effort to see things that aren't intended to be public. To knowledgeable people the most that a wardriver would see is the router name and the signal strength. That's like the incidental glancing at the window, no big deal. That is public. Google was using advanced packet sniffing software to effectively get on the ladder and take telephoto pictures of what was going on inside. You try out the ladder/camera trick and see how long before the local police show up and toss you in the clink for being a peeping tom.
They did this with the last Olympics. I was all excited that they'd finally have streaming Olympics and I would get to watch downhill, luge, etc. BUT NO you had to prove you had a cable subscription. So I didn't watch a bit of it. Is my life any worse. Nah.
Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I would not watch it
here or there.
I would not watch it anywhere.
I would not watch cable TV.
I do not like it, no-sir-ee.
When I was writing my post I went back and forth between flash and java, the java hassle must have been when trying to get the minecraft client working. I've been trying to forget the trauma of the whole thing so the details are mixed up. I did get flash working eventually, java/minecraft not.
Linux doesn't tell you what you should do. You tell Linux what it should do.
This is true if you are a master of the shell. If you aren't, the linux keeps telling you what you can't do. Like install a newer version of FF than was available in the package manager so my son could do his homework on multiplication.com. "Sorry son I worked on it all weekend and I got it installed and working but now I'm having trouble with installing java, just use Daddy's computer it has windows." "Dad, when can I have windows?"
Honestly, I'm saying this after trying for 6 years of trying and really wanting it to work. I'm a poweruser with windows and a floundering retard with linux. My son has windows xp now, and I have windows 7, and we use our computers instead of struggling with trying to tell them what they should do.
Linux is really more like Windows 3.0, the real action with win3.0 was in DOS. The real action in linux is in the shell. All the GUI stuff is just pasted on top of it.
Not only that but another big turn off is that documentation often tends to be non-existent, incomplete, confusing, or simply wrong then, to make matters worse, when inexperienced users venture into the forums looking for guidance...
This I disagree with. The linux community has always be very nice and helpful to me. But it doesn't make linux any less of a hassle to deal with.
I hated vista so I hoped to use linux someday; so as a learning process and test bed I ran linux on my son's computer since about 2005. I started with edubuntu then kubuntu and when the install I had running on it got messed up with dependency issues that were beyond my comprehension, I updated to a newer version. It had the new KDE which I completely floundered with. I tried regular Ubuntu which took lots of relearning to grasp Gnome, and it ran like crap because the pc was old. So I switched to a variety of different compact linuxes and settled on Slitaz. It was fine, and he loved it but getting it to handle his online homework (2nd and 3rd grade stuff like spellingcity.com and multiplication.com) which have lots of flash games was a nightmare. Getting a recent version of firefox (only 3.6 was available through the package manager) was a nightmare, that was eventually helped by a fellow who wrote a script to get me to 4.0 so I could then easily update to a current version. When my son got excited about minecraft this year I tried and tried to get the client running, and had to got through hell trying to manually install java, which I'm sure I did wrong. Then it wouldn't work anyway, and finally I gave up. I also had a eee901 that I got eeebuntu running on, and though it usually works for doing powerpoint presentations, it sometimes doesn't. That's been hours and days of hassle too.
Anyway my son's old pc has gone into the county ewaste program (good riddance). I built myself a new PC that runs win7 pro 64bit. My son has my old XP PC. He can access his online schoolwork with no issues. I have a minecraft server running on my pc so we can play together. The only help I needed was to help me decide how to partition my hard drive with the new win7 install, and I found very nice and helpful people at sevenforums.com. Everything just works, and if it doesn't I can deal with it with on my own 98% of the time. I've probably spent twice as much effort since 2005 trying to get his pc to do simple things as I have since 2001 building my windows PCs from scratch and making them do all sorts of amazing things.
In summary every new thing I have ever tried with linux has been a huge ordeal that I sometimes got working with the help of someone super nice and very helpful saying "cut and paste this into the terminal window" which would be a half page of almost incomprehensible commands or "run this mystery script" which would usually work but leave me in the dark. When I was done I could never have repeated the process on my own. The community for every distro I ever tried was always super kind, patient, and helpful. BUT I would come away exhausted having spent hours or days on something I that I take for granted in windows AND I HADN'T LEARNED A THING. When I have trouble with windows I get help and when I'm done I know it and I can turn around and teach the next fellow. I never have to get help with anything twice. With linux I was always asking for help and getting fish. With windows when I need help I get taught how to fish. With linux if you are every going to be competent you have to master the shell, which in essence means learning a new language.
I REALLY wanted to abandon microsoft and adopt the OS that was free (beer) and free (liberty), but despite the fact that everyone I know comes to me with their computer problems, it was way beyond my skill. Linux will always be the realm of true geeks. I am humbled by their skill. I'm a really smart guy and I can do just about anything I set my mind to doing and I was defeated by linux. If I had all the time in the world, I could do it, but I'd rather USE the computer than struggle with it.
Obama threatened to veto the NDAA. It had the effect of calming the growing protest storm against the act. "No worries, Obama will save us. We can relax." When in fact his staff was negotiating the nastier more offensive version that he eventually signed.
Don't trust him. He falls somewhere between Reagan and Bush1 on the political spectrum and gets called a socialist for being so far to the left of the Republi-fascist party. Our country has gone mad.
Also, if this is true, shouldn't the evidence of it be bloody obvious to any sufficiently skilled programer who could examine both sets of code? It seems like a totally testable hypothesis to me. Someone should test it.
Isn't this basically what Linus Torvalds did with Linux? If it can be done with an OS couldn't you do it with a compiler or an interpreter? I'm not a programmer, so the likeliness of this story being true is beyond my ability to judge.
Since when has violating the law deterred the actions of our government? With the wiretapping of people without a warrant, search and seizure of anyone unfortunate enough to require air travel or border crossing, detainment of individuals without due process, to instigating of torture of war prisoners, I'm somewhat surprised we don't hear more stories like this.
Hate to say it but all of those things are legal now.
Not true, I believe that you are the one who is confused. Libertarians have always advocated a lack or regulations, especially on business (corporate) activity. Private enforcement organizations like the Pinkertons thrive under libertarian conditions. Most strains of anarchism believe that all hierarchical concentrations of power including both governments and corporations are antithetical to human freedom and liberty.
Also know your history, the Pinkertons in particular have been used repeatedly to destroy anarchist labor movements. So to say that anything associated with the Pinkertons is anarchist is beyond ignorant it is insulting in the extreme.
The biggest difference I see between libertarians and anarchists is that libertarians are only concerned with government power, anarchists are concerned with all concentrations of power.
Proddys vs Papists? Unionists vs Republicans? Don't get me wrong I love Ireland, it is beautiful and friendly and it may have been calm there recently but to claim that Ireland is somehow better because it is less tribal is a bit unrealistic. Ireland from 1921 to the end of the 20th century was one of the most unfortunate examples of intolerance and bigoted violence in the West. Also there may not have been a recent rise in xenophobic right wing extremism, but since DeValera's 1937 constitution recognized the "special position" of the Catholic church and banned divorce, Ireland has been a terribly conservative nation.
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The quote, "I'm going to kill you and fuck your eye sockets and then shit down your neck" was taken completely out of context.
This is called a straw man argument and it is a particularly ugly one at that.
I listed how climate research is actually done, you listed a bunch of name calling.
You listed a misunderstanding of how the research is actually done based on the FUD spread by the oil companies for a generation, attempting to undermine the public understanding of science. Just claiming that you have presented facts, does not make it so. I started to make a list of links to articles describing how the energy industry, and organizations that used to spread the same sort of FUD regarding the health risks of tobacco, but the following wikipedia article contains links to most of the sites I found on my own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_denial
Yes, even their Search Engine wasn't really that novel. Bullshit. Their algorithm, page rank, was something brand new that was a significant improvement on the two standard approaches to search engines: hierarchically organized oracles (Yahoo) and keyword matching based on relative frequencies (Altavista).
Agreed. Before I found google I was using something called dogpile, which compiled the top hits from a half a dozen different search engines. It wasn't very good, but by adding together the results from a dozen lousy search engines is was the best there was. Then google came along and suddenly there was a search engine that provided really useful and relevant results that were far less likely to be spoofed, and it was really fast. It was massively novel and deservedly lead to an internet empire.
I have been hearing that Global warming will cause the seas to rise for 30 years. And yet the concrete piers in the gulf are still at the same level as they were 30 years ago.
This is the worst sort of nonsensical argument. You equate scientific predictions of sea level rise with a sea level rise that is so large that you would be able to observe and notice it with the naked eye by casual and randomly timed observations when you go to the beach. Did you take measurements? Did you account for tide level when you were there? Were you a kid with a totally different sense of scale 30 years ago?
No scientist ever predicted a rise so large over the last 30 years that casual observation would be able to observe it. The reality is that the predicted sea level rise has matched the reality quite closely. During the last thirty years that you referenced the three-year-average sea level has risen by about 5cm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recent_Sea_Level_Rise.png
The scientific predictions I am aware of predict that the rise will accelerate over the coming century. Some effects, especially big systemic effects lag behind the cause. For instance it takes time for rising CO2 to trap the amount of heat to increase average ocean temperature (which requires a gargantuan amount of energy that is really beyond most humans ability to grasp) then it takes more time for the warmer water to undermine the Antarctic and Greenland Glaciers, but if they do start to fall apart in a big way the Army Corps of Engineers will have to really scramble to keep Huston dry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climatic_Research_Unit_email_controversy#Inquiries_and_reports
This issue has been investigated to death by the following organizations:
4.1 House of Commons Science and Technology Committee
4.2 Science Assessment Panel
4.3 Pennsylvania State University
4.4 Independent Climate Change Email Review
4.5 United States Environmental Protection Agency report
4.6 Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Commerce
4.7 National Science Foundation
No scientific wrong doing has ever been found. The quotes that the tinfoil heads have used to show that "Phil Jones admitted manipulating data" were taken out of context and completely misunderstood. So please go take your willfull ignorance and hang out with the young earth creationists and the flat earthers, and stop interfering with the rest of us while we try to save our asses and your sorry ass from this building world disaster.
I used to do all of this as well, but I gave up because it's gotten to the point where it takes me days to fix all the stupid things they've done to FF to get it the way it used to be. So I just change tabs on top and move the home and reload buttons left and leave it at that. It took two weeks to get used to "open in new tab" being on top but I did it, mostly.
The TSA is security theater, and Rand Paul's proposal is liberty theater.
Sure the TSA sucks but this won't get rid of the FBI's national security letters, the PATRIOT Act, the indefinite detention provisions of the recent NDAA, torture, robo-bombing of other nations at will, extraordinary rendition, NSA snooping every email, NSA snooping in everything else, the looming legal lockdown on the internet, the elimination of the public domain culture in favor of permanent copyright, FBI infiltration and disruption of dissident organizations, or any of the other dozens of despicable BS our government has done recently.
In fact Rand Paul would just privatize the TSA, because government tyranny sucks, but corporate tyranny is the Amuuurican way!
I'm sure that Microsoft will be generous and actually pass on these savings to the consumer, right? I mean, they wouldn't just cut out a feature to save some money and then keep that money for themselves, would they?
I don't really care. I'd rather MS keep the extra $ than to have them send it on to the DVD consortium. I'm usually annoyed at MS but I still pick their OS over the many difficulties and shortcommings of linux, or the hardware lockin and constant paid upgrades of OSX. Now the DVD consortium is a group I have zero love for. They are parasites in every sense of the word. At least MS sells several useful products, and gives away many more useful products.
Ignorant with bad analogy skills, or troll? Hard to decide
Says the anon coward to the long time user with excellent karma.
What I said was 100% representative of my experience. I have been trying to like and to learn to use linux for 6 years and have given up. Every time I had a challenge I would get help from the relevant forums, and every time the solution would eventually come in the form of "Copy and paste these 15 lines into your shell." or "Run this script." My problem would be fixed and I would still be totally helpless to address the same issue in the future because I had no fracking idea what I had just done. EVERY TIME with EVERY PROBLEM it always came down to the command line interface.
Sorry I know that Linux is comparable to DOS like a sniper rifle is comparable to an atl-atl. My point was that the GUI isn't the primary way of interacting with the OS and it is often incomplete. When you need to do something that isn't implemented in the gui it back to the shell.
Do I use finger to poke, swipe, and pinch when I am on my desktop? Do I use a mouse to point and click when I use my phone? Is my desktop screen 3" x 2"? Is my phone screen 24" x 12"? No. No. No. No. These are two totally different operating environments with totally different requirements and limitations. They each need different interfaces. Besides who uses Firefox on their phone? It's all about Dolphin baby.
Why are all the software producers abandoning 30 years of desktop user interface improvements to make it more like mobile interfaces which are new and still developing, and by needs totally different. Just when they get it right and are just in need of the slightest refinements, they think it's time to make radical changes. Is this about improving the product or is it about keeping programers employed?
MOZILLA LISTEN!!! A browser should be so easy to use that it almost becomes transparent. It becomes that way by maintaining a nice user interface for a long time so use of the features becomes deeply ingrained habit. STOP CHANGING THINGS AROUND! PLEEEAAASE!!!
You don't want people listening in on your data? Don't transmit it on a "public" medium.
But google wasn't just incidentally listening to peoples data (like seeing the router name and signal strength). They were doing the equivalent of setting up a ladder on the sidewalk and taking multiple telephoto photos through each house's front windows on each block, in every town, in every state, then compiling and analyzing the data so they could better advertise to each household. If I'm in my kitchen doing dishes and someone looks at the kitchen windows while walking down the sidewalk that's one thing. But if a fellow sets up a ladder, climbs it, then whips out a camera with a telephoto lens, is that fellow just capturing light that I am broadcasting into the public medium? Sort of, but he's also making a substantial effort to see things that aren't intended to be public. To knowledgeable people the most that a wardriver would see is the router name and the signal strength. That's like the incidental glancing at the window, no big deal. That is public. Google was using advanced packet sniffing software to effectively get on the ladder and take telephoto pictures of what was going on inside. You try out the ladder/camera trick and see how long before the local police show up and toss you in the clink for being a peeping tom.
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They did this with the last Olympics. I was all excited that they'd finally have streaming Olympics and I would get to watch downhill, luge, etc. BUT NO you had to prove you had a cable subscription. So I didn't watch a bit of it. Is my life any worse. Nah.
Not in a box.
Not with a fox.
Not in a house.
Not with a mouse.
I would not watch it
here or there.
I would not watch it anywhere.
I would not watch cable TV.
I do not like it, no-sir-ee.
When I was writing my post I went back and forth between flash and java, the java hassle must have been when trying to get the minecraft client working. I've been trying to forget the trauma of the whole thing so the details are mixed up. I did get flash working eventually, java/minecraft not.
Linux doesn't tell you what you should do. You tell Linux what it should do.
This is true if you are a master of the shell. If you aren't, the linux keeps telling you what you can't do. Like install a newer version of FF than was available in the package manager so my son could do his homework on multiplication.com. "Sorry son I worked on it all weekend and I got it installed and working but now I'm having trouble with installing java, just use Daddy's computer it has windows." "Dad, when can I have windows?"
Honestly, I'm saying this after trying for 6 years of trying and really wanting it to work. I'm a poweruser with windows and a floundering retard with linux. My son has windows xp now, and I have windows 7, and we use our computers instead of struggling with trying to tell them what they should do.
Linux is really more like Windows 3.0, the real action with win3.0 was in DOS. The real action in linux is in the shell. All the GUI stuff is just pasted on top of it.
Not only that but another big turn off is that documentation often tends to be non-existent, incomplete, confusing, or simply wrong then, to make matters worse, when inexperienced users venture into the forums looking for guidance...
This I disagree with. The linux community has always be very nice and helpful to me. But it doesn't make linux any less of a hassle to deal with.
I hated vista so I hoped to use linux someday; so as a learning process and test bed I ran linux on my son's computer since about 2005. I started with edubuntu then kubuntu and when the install I had running on it got messed up with dependency issues that were beyond my comprehension, I updated to a newer version. It had the new KDE which I completely floundered with. I tried regular Ubuntu which took lots of relearning to grasp Gnome, and it ran like crap because the pc was old. So I switched to a variety of different compact linuxes and settled on Slitaz. It was fine, and he loved it but getting it to handle his online homework (2nd and 3rd grade stuff like spellingcity.com and multiplication.com) which have lots of flash games was a nightmare. Getting a recent version of firefox (only 3.6 was available through the package manager) was a nightmare, that was eventually helped by a fellow who wrote a script to get me to 4.0 so I could then easily update to a current version. When my son got excited about minecraft this year I tried and tried to get the client running, and had to got through hell trying to manually install java, which I'm sure I did wrong. Then it wouldn't work anyway, and finally I gave up. I also had a eee901 that I got eeebuntu running on, and though it usually works for doing powerpoint presentations, it sometimes doesn't. That's been hours and days of hassle too. Anyway my son's old pc has gone into the county ewaste program (good riddance). I built myself a new PC that runs win7 pro 64bit. My son has my old XP PC. He can access his online schoolwork with no issues. I have a minecraft server running on my pc so we can play together. The only help I needed was to help me decide how to partition my hard drive with the new win7 install, and I found very nice and helpful people at sevenforums.com. Everything just works, and if it doesn't I can deal with it with on my own 98% of the time. I've probably spent twice as much effort since 2005 trying to get his pc to do simple things as I have since 2001 building my windows PCs from scratch and making them do all sorts of amazing things.
In summary every new thing I have ever tried with linux has been a huge ordeal that I sometimes got working with the help of someone super nice and very helpful saying "cut and paste this into the terminal window" which would be a half page of almost incomprehensible commands or "run this mystery script" which would usually work but leave me in the dark. When I was done I could never have repeated the process on my own. The community for every distro I ever tried was always super kind, patient, and helpful. BUT I would come away exhausted having spent hours or days on something I that I take for granted in windows AND I HADN'T LEARNED A THING. When I have trouble with windows I get help and when I'm done I know it and I can turn around and teach the next fellow. I never have to get help with anything twice. With linux I was always asking for help and getting fish. With windows when I need help I get taught how to fish. With linux if you are every going to be competent you have to master the shell, which in essence means learning a new language.
I REALLY wanted to abandon microsoft and adopt the OS that was free (beer) and free (liberty), but despite the fact that everyone I know comes to me with their computer problems, it was way beyond my skill. Linux will always be the realm of true geeks. I am humbled by their skill. I'm a really smart guy and I can do just about anything I set my mind to doing and I was defeated by linux. If I had all the time in the world, I could do it, but I'd rather USE the computer than struggle with it.
Even leaving aside Obama's veto threat,
Obama threatened to veto the NDAA. It had the effect of calming the growing protest storm against the act. "No worries, Obama will save us. We can relax." When in fact his staff was negotiating the nastier more offensive version that he eventually signed.
Don't trust him. He falls somewhere between Reagan and Bush1 on the political spectrum and gets called a socialist for being so far to the left of the Republi-fascist party. Our country has gone mad.
Also, if this is true, shouldn't the evidence of it be bloody obvious to any sufficiently skilled programer who could examine both sets of code? It seems like a totally testable hypothesis to me. Someone should test it.
"Stand back I'm going to try SCIENCE!"
Isn't this basically what Linus Torvalds did with Linux? If it can be done with an OS couldn't you do it with a compiler or an interpreter? I'm not a programmer, so the likeliness of this story being true is beyond my ability to judge.
Excellent! We are in agreement then about what ought to be, and we both learned a bit as well.
Since when has violating the law deterred the actions of our government? With the wiretapping of people without a warrant, search and seizure of anyone unfortunate enough to require air travel or border crossing, detainment of individuals without due process, to instigating of torture of war prisoners, I'm somewhat surprised we don't hear more stories like this.
Hate to say it but all of those things are legal now.
Not true, I believe that you are the one who is confused. Libertarians have always advocated a lack or regulations, especially on business (corporate) activity. Private enforcement organizations like the Pinkertons thrive under libertarian conditions. Most strains of anarchism believe that all hierarchical concentrations of power including both governments and corporations are antithetical to human freedom and liberty.
Also know your history, the Pinkertons in particular have been used repeatedly to destroy anarchist labor movements. So to say that anything associated with the Pinkertons is anarchist is beyond ignorant it is insulting in the extreme.
The biggest difference I see between libertarians and anarchists is that libertarians are only concerned with government power, anarchists are concerned with all concentrations of power.
Proddys vs Papists? Unionists vs Republicans? Don't get me wrong I love Ireland, it is beautiful and friendly and it may have been calm there recently but to claim that Ireland is somehow better because it is less tribal is a bit unrealistic. Ireland from 1921 to the end of the 20th century was one of the most unfortunate examples of intolerance and bigoted violence in the West. Also there may not have been a recent rise in xenophobic right wing extremism, but since DeValera's 1937 constitution recognized the "special position" of the Catholic church and banned divorce, Ireland has been a terribly conservative nation.