True, but you don't get a chance to correct CNN and those guys. And I did apologise, Zonk usually does an excellent job, at least he has on the stories I've submitted.
Dude, sorry. Everybody has a bad day once in a while, but that was nearly unparseable. Here-
Much drama is unfolding prior to the OOXML Ballot Resolution Meeting in Geneva, which is currently scheduled for the end of February. There is a subsequent 30 day period when countries can still change their vote. As a result, Bob Sutor is recommending that if you are concerned with long term interoperability, then saving your documents in OOXML format is probably about the riskiest thing you can do.
At this point, nobody has the vaguest idea what OOXML will look like in February, or even whether it will be in any sort of stable condition by the end of March. 'While we are talking about interoperability, who else do you think is going to provide long term complete support for this already dead OOXML format that Microsoft Office 2007 uses today?
Interoperability means that other applications can process the files fully and not just products from Microsoft. I would even go so far as to go back to those few OOXML files you have already created and create.doc,.ppt, and.xls versions of them for future use, if you want to make sure you can read them and you don't want to commit yourself to Microsoft's products for the rest of their lives.'"
It bodes well for those of us who are sick of supporting friends and families' windows viruses and spyware. Get them used to KDE and teh switch to Linux will be painless for all.
I've started brand new computer users on KDE/Linux with no trouble. Windows users are too used to doiing things ass-backwards.
Not having RTFM I'm wondering if it fixes some of the backwards shit in Windows (like the subdirectory separator)
I've read your journal and you don't seem to hang out with law-abiding types
I do but they're not interesting enough to write about. Odd that you need a passport to get here from Canada, where nobody is trying to immigrate here from, but not Mexico, where everyone is trying to emigrate out of.
I think our politicians are either stupid or ther'es a lot going on we, the voters, are clueless about. My monsy's on the second reason.
think that the better standards of living from the increased saving and investment is better for the poor.
That's the standard "conservative" Republican line from the monied class, but I don't buy it. You can't entice a rich man to invest his money; that's all he can do with it. He's going to invest it anyway.
You can't entice a poor man to spend his; he has to. He lives from paycheck to paycheck.
Investing doesn't create wealth, and the rich do not create wealth. Wealth is created by labor alone; when the GM employee builds a Chevy, (or his part of one) he has created wealth. His employer set the stage for that wealth to be created, but labor builds the wealth.
Wealth doesn't trickle down, it flows up. The wealthy aggregate the wealth. If you want to stimulate the conomy, don't give tax breaks to the rich, give them to the poor. The rich don't need them, and the poor can't help but use them for the good of the economy.
If there's a recession and I can't sell many hamburgers there's no way to entice me to hire more fry cooks. If I can't sell widgets there's no way to entice me to build a new factory. Give that poor man a dollar and he will buy a hamburger, or perhaps replace his old worn out widget.
Trading "carbon credits" (Gore would love that one, what with his bigassed house) would only give some people an excuse to waste. Tax them progressively; e.g. if you use twice the energy I do, you pay 4x the tax and no trading allowed.
You might see my latest journal for a take on universal health care, particularly mental health: if I cannot afford health care and I have a treatable condition that won't allow me to work, I am not going to contribute to the economy; I'll be a drain on it. If I can get that condition treated (say I'm a voices-hearing paranoid schitzophrenic who has an obsession with not wearing pants, and I can now get Haldol or some other anti-psychotic drug prescribed and paid for) I can get a job and create wealth for the rich to aggregate and invest.
All our insurance-centric method of paying for health care does is puts money in the pockets of insurance salesmen. It doesn't make a single person less sick, and prices many of them completely out of the health care market and out of the workforce.
Here's the salient part of the journal:
I know crazy people can't help being crazy but it gets tiring. I wish this stupid country would get universal health care, or at least universal mental health care. Of course, if they did that then all the homeless nuts you see wandering around talking to themselves would be looking for jobs, and our unemployment rate, which is based only on those collecting unemployment insurance so the figures rule out 99% of the jobless people, would skyrocket. But at least I wouldn't have all these crazy women making me crazy.
No, that would be my grandfather's generation. And he's dead, Jim.
Your generation is supposed to riot over the stupid/callous/thoughtless/cruel/selfish things my generation (at least, those in my generation that actually run things) do. We burned down campuses over the Vietnam War and marijuana laws, you're supposed to burn campuses down over the Iraq war and DMCA.
Bitching on the ionternet is futile. Nobody pays attention until there's massive property damage.
That's so. However, travelling is a right, and the unlicensed non-drivers use the roads as well, when they get a ride with a friend, or ride a bus, or ride a taxi. Even people without licenses use the roads.
Some of them don't want to pay gasoline tax until you stop giving them rides; non-drivers act as if gasoline were free.
But having lived in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, I know that rich people do far more driving than poor people in these cities
That doesn't apply to any but those cities, and I didn't think it applied to LA either; Chicago and NY and SanFran are the only places I know of in th eUS with good enough mass transit that you can do without a car (although St Louis is getting there).
Second, since this is not a right or something that actually affects anyone, it's hard to see how this is properly speaking a pure tax. This is more like the government charging you for the cost of doing something with them, e.g. like the fees you pay the recorder or for titling your vehicle
Those are taxes, too, no different than cigarette taxes. The 2001 recession wan't caused by Bush's ineptitude, or the dot bomb, or 9-11. It was because I stopped smoking and the state and feds couldn't get along without the cigarette taxes I had been paying. Or is that "cigarette user fees" to pay ofr the Clean Air Act?
It galls me that the Greens ran Nader but were on so few states that they would have lost had they carried every single state they were on the ballot in, while the Libertarians were on th eballot in 49 states, yet the corporate media slobbered all over the Greens while not saying a single word about the Libertarians.
It also galls me that only Republicans and Democrats (the two wings of the Corporate Republicrat Party) are allowed in the debates. I wonder what subversive ideas they're afraid of confronting?
You need a passport to go to Canada or Mexicao? That's odd, none of the Mexicans I've met here in Illinois have passports. Maybe they waded across the river?
The very idea of passports is repugnant to me. "Your papers, please" always reminds me of a bad WWII movie. If the current bunch in Washington have their way you're going to need a passport to cross county lines.
I agree. I'd like to see a windmill and/or solar cell array on every roof, particularly on commercial/business roofs. If businesses were forced to pay the same electric rates as residential users, businesses would start getting seroius about reducing energy consumption. That's where your biggest gain would be.
Except that the poor who live from paycheck to paycheck are taxed on all of their income, while the rich who can afford to save are not. Sales/Vat taxes are inherently regressive.
Then it worked; it IS art. Oh, what? Oops, sorry. You're as unlearned in the art world as as Van Gogh was unlearned in string theory, relativity, or black holes.
Just go to Steve's School of Fine Art! You'll be hopelessly stupid in no time. Or if you're looking for a little something that's not quite so last century (that articls is as old as slashtot) you might peruse my slashdot journal, but it's offtopic, having to do with a crazy woman, an absent alien, marijuana, and my hot roomie and not a word about art.
Pshaw, everybody knows google, jeeves, and wilkipedia are innacurate. That's why when I'm in need of absolute accuracy I go to the uncyclopedia (featured article of the day is linked, and fortunately today's is about humungous breasts).
So I looked up "Breathalyzer" and found that they don't exist. Breathalyzers, I mean, not humungous breasts. Unless of course you're referring to Bighead, who has no breasts at all. She could be in the Guiness book as the world's flattest chested woman. Of course the skinny little thing only weighs about eighty pounds.
You almost fooled me there! Unless of course you're referring to one of the articles in the "Breathalyzer doesn't exist" page like Partially Huffable Kitten (the orange ones fuck you up real good).
-mcgrew
PS- there were no kittens huffed in the production of this comment.
"The VCR is to the movie industry hat Jack the Ripper was to women" - Jack Valenti, then head of the MPAA
-mcgrew
(Hey, they should use some of my slashdot journals or old K5 diaries as scripts. My life is a lot more interesting than today's movies, unfortunately for me)
The corporates have the kids brainwashed. The younger folks don't care about physical property, they've been led to believe that imaginary property is real, making the real no more real than the imaginary.
So now, copyright infringement may well lead to real thieft, since the imaginary is now as real as the real.
Wow, I clicked your link. It's been a few years since I've been to K5, and I must say that place has really gone to the shitter. From the DRM article you linked it seems all the respectable folks have gone to HuSi and all that are left are Balsamic Vinega (formerly known as "nigga" before he was banned) and his fellow shiteating trolls.
And to think I was thinking of going back there... I'd have to start taking Paxil again. Or at least start smoking again.
-mcgrew
(the mcgrew slashdot journals continue the old Paxil Diaries, only with hookers instead of paxil, for those of you who used to haunt K5 before Pete Jongular fucked it up)
"Intellectual property" is NOT property. I hold two registered copyrights with ISBN numbers (and a shitload of unregistered ones), and not a single one of those works are mine.
I do NOT own this comment. I hold a "limited" time monopoly on this comment.
I own my house, I own my car. I do not own my latest slashdot journal (which is about whores, making it kind of on topic, considering we're talking about the MPAA).
Some here (including myself) have started calling it "imaginary property" which is far more factual.
The original story would have been on page 2. This story will be on page D-14, botton left corner of the page under an advertisemsnt, under "correction", following ian item about someone's name bein misspelled and the color of an ice cream wrapper being wrong.
A truthful, non-corporate-stooge newspaper would have big black headlines on page 1 screaming MPAA LIES ABOUT SURVEY RESULTS (smaller headline underneath that one) "Piracy" taking almost no toll on studios, despite fake study's claims"
Slashdot Mirror
True, but you don't get a chance to correct CNN and those guys. And I did apologise, Zonk usually does an excellent job, at least he has on the stories I've submitted.
It bodes well for those of us who are sick of supporting friends and families' windows viruses and spyware. Get them used to KDE and teh switch to Linux will be painless for all.
I've started brand new computer users on KDE/Linux with no trouble. Windows users are too used to doiing things ass-backwards.
Not having RTFM I'm wondering if it fixes some of the backwards shit in Windows (like the subdirectory separator)
I've read your journal and you don't seem to hang out with law-abiding types
I do but they're not interesting enough to write about. Odd that you need a passport to get here from Canada, where nobody is trying to immigrate here from, but not Mexico, where everyone is trying to emigrate out of.
I think our politicians are either stupid or ther'es a lot going on we, the voters, are clueless about. My monsy's on the second reason.
They are taxes. If gpvernment was serious about global warming, government run transportation like trains and city busses would be free.
That's the standard "conservative" Republican line from the monied class, but I don't buy it. You can't entice a rich man to invest his money; that's all he can do with it. He's going to invest it anyway.
You can't entice a poor man to spend his; he has to. He lives from paycheck to paycheck.
Investing doesn't create wealth, and the rich do not create wealth. Wealth is created by labor alone; when the GM employee builds a Chevy, (or his part of one) he has created wealth. His employer set the stage for that wealth to be created, but labor builds the wealth.
Wealth doesn't trickle down, it flows up. The wealthy aggregate the wealth. If you want to stimulate the conomy, don't give tax breaks to the rich, give them to the poor. The rich don't need them, and the poor can't help but use them for the good of the economy.
If there's a recession and I can't sell many hamburgers there's no way to entice me to hire more fry cooks. If I can't sell widgets there's no way to entice me to build a new factory. Give that poor man a dollar and he will buy a hamburger, or perhaps replace his old worn out widget.
Trading "carbon credits" (Gore would love that one, what with his bigassed house) would only give some people an excuse to waste. Tax them progressively; e.g. if you use twice the energy I do, you pay 4x the tax and no trading allowed.
You might see my latest journal for a take on universal health care, particularly mental health: if I cannot afford health care and I have a treatable condition that won't allow me to work, I am not going to contribute to the economy; I'll be a drain on it. If I can get that condition treated (say I'm a voices-hearing paranoid schitzophrenic who has an obsession with not wearing pants, and I can now get Haldol or some other anti-psychotic drug prescribed and paid for) I can get a job and create wealth for the rich to aggregate and invest.
All our insurance-centric method of paying for health care does is puts money in the pockets of insurance salesmen. It doesn't make a single person less sick, and prices many of them completely out of the health care market and out of the workforce.
Here's the salient part of the journal:
Gee, it's only been ten years, what's your hurry?
No, that would be my grandfather's generation. And he's dead, Jim.
Your generation is supposed to riot over the stupid/callous/thoughtless/cruel/selfish things my generation (at least, those in my generation that actually run things) do. We burned down campuses over the Vietnam War and marijuana laws, you're supposed to burn campuses down over the Iraq war and DMCA.
Bitching on the ionternet is futile. Nobody pays attention until there's massive property damage.
First, driving is not a right
That's so. However, travelling is a right, and the unlicensed non-drivers use the roads as well, when they get a ride with a friend, or ride a bus, or ride a taxi. Even people without licenses use the roads.
Some of them don't want to pay gasoline tax until you stop giving them rides; non-drivers act as if gasoline were free.
But having lived in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles, I know that rich people do far more driving than poor people in these cities
That doesn't apply to any but those cities, and I didn't think it applied to LA either; Chicago and NY and SanFran are the only places I know of in th eUS with good enough mass transit that you can do without a car (although St Louis is getting there).
Second, since this is not a right or something that actually affects anyone, it's hard to see how this is properly speaking a pure tax. This is more like the government charging you for the cost of doing something with them, e.g. like the fees you pay the recorder or for titling your vehicle
Those are taxes, too, no different than cigarette taxes. The 2001 recession wan't caused by Bush's ineptitude, or the dot bomb, or 9-11. It was because I stopped smoking and the state and feds couldn't get along without the cigarette taxes I had been paying. Or is that "cigarette user fees" to pay ofr the Clean Air Act?
AFAIC if I pay the government, it's a tax.
If you find out, let me know. I voted for him.
It galls me that the Greens ran Nader but were on so few states that they would have lost had they carried every single state they were on the ballot in, while the Libertarians were on th eballot in 49 states, yet the corporate media slobbered all over the Greens while not saying a single word about the Libertarians.
It also galls me that only Republicans and Democrats (the two wings of the Corporate Republicrat Party) are allowed in the debates. I wonder what subversive ideas they're afraid of confronting?
You need a passport to go to Canada or Mexicao? That's odd, none of the Mexicans I've met here in Illinois have passports. Maybe they waded across the river?
The very idea of passports is repugnant to me. "Your papers, please" always reminds me of a bad WWII movie. If the current bunch in Washington have their way you're going to need a passport to cross county lines.
I agree. I'd like to see a windmill and/or solar cell array on every roof, particularly on commercial/business roofs. If businesses were forced to pay the same electric rates as residential users, businesses would start getting seroius about reducing energy consumption. That's where your biggest gain would be.
Except that the poor who live from paycheck to paycheck are taxed on all of their income, while the rich who can afford to save are not. Sales/Vat taxes are inherently regressive.
This is lame. It's neither insightful nor funny.
Then it worked; it IS art. Oh, what? Oops, sorry. You're as unlearned in the art world as as Van Gogh was unlearned in string theory, relativity, or black holes.
Just go to Steve's School of Fine Art! You'll be hopelessly stupid in no time. Or if you're looking for a little something that's not quite so last century (that articls is as old as slashtot) you might peruse my slashdot journal, but it's offtopic, having to do with a crazy woman, an absent alien, marijuana, and my hot roomie and not a word about art.
This is an outrage and my congressperson ought to be ashamed of herself for buying into this crap.
He's not buying, he's selling. The MPAA is buying.
Pshaw, everybody knows google, jeeves, and wilkipedia are innacurate. That's why when I'm in need of absolute accuracy I go to the uncyclopedia (featured article of the day is linked, and fortunately today's is about humungous breasts).
So I looked up "Breathalyzer" and found that they don't exist. Breathalyzers, I mean, not humungous breasts. Unless of course you're referring to Bighead, who has no breasts at all. She could be in the Guiness book as the world's flattest chested woman. Of course the skinny little thing only weighs about eighty pounds.
You almost fooled me there! Unless of course you're referring to one of the articles in the "Breathalyzer doesn't exist" page like Partially Huffable Kitten (the orange ones fuck you up real good).
-mcgrew
PS- there were no kittens huffed in the production of this comment.
Your post made me think of the first episode of STNG and I had to read it twice to realize that it actually wasn't.
No wonder I can't get laid!
"The VCR is to the movie industry hat Jack the Ripper was to women" - Jack Valenti, then head of the MPAA
-mcgrew
(Hey, they should use some of my slashdot journals or old K5 diaries as scripts. My life is a lot more interesting than today's movies, unfortunately for me)
Hookers? Did somebody say hookers? Mmmmmmmm hookers.....
The corporates have the kids brainwashed. The younger folks don't care about physical property, they've been led to believe that imaginary property is real, making the real no more real than the imaginary.
So now, copyright infringement may well lead to real thieft, since the imaginary is now as real as the real.
-mcgrew
Wow, I clicked your link. It's been a few years since I've been to K5, and I must say that place has really gone to the shitter. From the DRM article you linked it seems all the respectable folks have gone to HuSi and all that are left are Balsamic Vinega (formerly known as "nigga" before he was banned) and his fellow shiteating trolls.
And to think I was thinking of going back there... I'd have to start taking Paxil again. Or at least start smoking again.
-mcgrew
(the mcgrew slashdot journals continue the old Paxil Diaries, only with hookers instead of paxil, for those of you who used to haunt K5 before Pete Jongular fucked it up)
Losses? What losses? Didn't they make billions of dollars last year?
"Intellectual property" is NOT property. I hold two registered copyrights with ISBN numbers (and a shitload of unregistered ones), and not a single one of those works are mine.
I do NOT own this comment. I hold a "limited" time monopoly on this comment.
I own my house, I own my car. I do not own my latest slashdot journal (which is about whores, making it kind of on topic, considering we're talking about the MPAA).
Some here (including myself) have started calling it "imaginary property" which is far more factual.
The original story would have been on page 2. This story will be on page D-14, botton left corner of the page under an advertisemsnt, under "correction", following ian item about someone's name bein misspelled and the color of an ice cream wrapper being wrong.
A truthful, non-corporate-stooge newspaper would have big black headlines on page 1 screaming MPAA LIES ABOUT SURVEY RESULTS (smaller headline underneath that one) "Piracy" taking almost no toll on studios, despite fake study's claims"
The same corporations that own the movie studios and recording labels also own the TV stations and newspapers.
I, for on, do NOT welcome our new corporate overlords. Isn't the younger generation supposed to be burning shit down? Ours owuld have!
-mcgrew