Make your own sustainability. We're geeks here remember? A small few acre island should be enough to sustain a small group of people. Unfortunately I've been having trouble finding details on some of the pacific islands, but estimates are 25,000-30,000 land masses, I'm going to guess most of which are uninhabited.
Solar/Wind Power Desalinization Satellite/shortwave and various other communication devices Greenhouses Fishing some chickens
You should be able to live fairly comfortably in a small group with such a setup. I heard from a friend that they were working on 2-way satellite internet, and as long as you can find a carrier in some friendly company, or can bypass the security on one, you should be able to keep an eye on things. You'd also draw much less attention in the middle of nowhere. If you were to take over a place like Greenland, the US might say you're a terrorist threat.
Is anyone else getting the feeling that its not safe on either side of the water and its about time to find an uninhabited unclaimed island and start your own country?
I posed this question last time: What is the appropriate response, and who has the fortitude to stand up and see it through? This is to the point where you can't just go off willy-nilly and throw a stink bomb somewhere and hope it changes. It needs planning, but its also something that has to get beyond the "talking" stage. Someone needs to step forward and take a stance in the US or I can almost see them becoming completely isolated as no one would want to deal with them anymore.
The only way? I think not. There are plenty of ways to disrupt the traffic, that might be the only way you're willing to go about it, but don't pretend there aren't other options.
No it isn't. Doesn't anyone realize time is playing against society. Slow paced change isn't really going to help society because by the time we get around to it, it is going to be too late. By the time society clues in that there is a problem it'll be just before the nurse says "It is time for your 3 pm probing to make sure you've been sticking to your special diet".
and all I hear is a bunch of bellyaching and "ooh they're evil!". As I stated a few weeks ago, Who is going to do anything about it? Evertyime we turn around the American government or corporations come up with a new way to spy on us, restrict our rights or do something else to make the world a little less pleasant.
If they can't come up with anything specific that day, W. calls the RIAA and has them sue a dead woman. They want to make people so damn paranoid that one day they'll just turn around and say "Okay we're taking over your life, here is your itinerary for the day, don't alter this schedule. You have a bowel movement scheduled in 15 minutes". The vast majority will think its an awesome idea.
These stories are great to remind us what a wasteland this place has become, but they serve no real purpose if no one actually does anything about it.
They did this a few years ago. I can remember using their service to call someone in the US and it worked good even then. On Dial-up no less. Its nice that this is "big news" now that everyone is on the bandwagon. I love the whole "free pc to pc calls" marketing crap. Yeah thanks, Instant messengers have been doing that for years, you're not doing anything ground breaking.
The original comment made use of the fact that this same person would spend a long amount of time searching for the information on forums and google, so using that as a starting point, I can call it completely valid. The actual necessary content is less than 50 pages, and it takes no more time then setting up Windows after a format. So if Joe User can do that, they can do this.
Just because you can't follow that many words doesn't mean anyone else can't. If you can assume that Joe User is going to spend time hammering through forums and google to solve his issue, then he can certainly spend much less time using the installation notes.
They're quick and certainly don't require that much time to run through. Only the initial things are important. You can skip the installation part if you've already done that and focus on these: A warning about mixing repositories Yum Firefox and Thunderbird True Type fonts Fedora Extras Yum Extender Java Flash RealPlayer Adobe Reader MPlayer - another multimedia player XMMS - a music and MP3 player
Everything else on there is pick what you want. If you want. With pre done commands for you, if you really want to bury your head you can burn through it pretty quick. I've run through it three times and its never taken me anymore than 60-90 minutes outside of yum update and a lot of that is waiting for things to download/install.
If you're using Fedora Core: http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_instal lation_notes.html This is an excellent suppliment to the installation process. Why? As Fedora has stated they're avoiding licensing issues with certain things like mp3s, etc. Install as normal, run through this installation sheet, and you're fine. I wouldn't give anyone Fedora Core without giving them a link to fedoraforums and this page. The instructions are very clear, and you can even copy and paste half of it if you want.
Most things are covered in that. I used it to install FC5 on my laptop. Wireless worked in about 3 minutes as it includes the latest drivers for my wireless adapter, just needed the firmware (which is clearly detailed on fedoraforums if youc an operate a search box, or post and someone will link you)
You can install a completely spyware free codec pack that includes everything you need. I install it on any fresh XP installation I do for people who need their computers cleaned up. Works everytime for everything. Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
and if you need anything outside that scope, you're boned. If you need to build something, it can be a 2 hour hunt for dependencies. Windows, you just download it and click it and that is it. You can try to build a distro to include everything, but they're always going to want something else. That part of it is much easier in Windows than Linux.
Only if you have the hardware it supports, as with any linux distro. I would submit that Windows has better out of the box support for hardware that isn't automatically installed. Why? You download the drivers, double click them, get on with your day.
With Linux, if its a fresh install for example, and you need to compile the drivers, you might have to install a few dependencies first, spend some time on google trying to figure out exactly what that error messages means and wtf it is you're missing. The difference with Windows is that it has a much larger supported hardware base than Linux because its been around longer.
That was 5 for interesting why? I can easily drag a photo from inside mozilla into windows explorer or my desktop and it saves. I guess they're really good comments if you just make shit up.
and for the few of us out there that care, that just wasn't their audience. If a site is comparing mileage in a luxury SUV, they're not going to throw in an economy 2 door from the Czech Republic just because you don't care about the mileage in those vehicles.
Their target audience was obviously windows users.
Canadian customs is good like that. I ordered a T-shirt from the states. I was charged $2 in GST on import, plus $5 "handling fee" for them to charge me $2.
Print ads? How narrow-minded They have radio ads, local billboards, online ads, and of course advertising on the channels of other cable providers. Plus, if they make a big enough stink about it, you can expect to see news reports on it.
I would recommend google's first step: Create a splash-screen for their site that tells anyone who's coming from one of those cable providers that service is being effected by them. Alternatively they could just service up banners based on IP blocks.
Google is huge. Its a world-wide household name. I doubt this cable company is. Why doesn't google just roll over and crush them? A nice ad-campaign to educate the home-user on how their cable company is trying to extort money from them and lower their quality of service should either: 1)snap them back into line 2)put them out of business and become a PR nightmare for them.
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Make your own sustainability. We're geeks here remember?
A small few acre island should be enough to sustain a small group of people.
Unfortunately I've been having trouble finding details on some of the pacific islands, but estimates are 25,000-30,000 land masses, I'm going to guess most of which are uninhabited.
Solar/Wind Power
Desalinization
Satellite/shortwave and various other communication devices
Greenhouses
Fishing
some chickens
You should be able to live fairly comfortably in a small group with such a setup. I heard from a friend that they were working on 2-way satellite internet, and as long as you can find a carrier in some friendly company, or can bypass the security on one, you should be able to keep an eye on things. You'd also draw much less attention in the middle of nowhere. If you were to take over a place like Greenland, the US might say you're a terrorist threat.
Is anyone else getting the feeling that its not safe on either side of the water and its about time to find an uninhabited unclaimed island and start your own country?
40% troll? for what? Pointing out the truth?
I posed this question last time:
What is the appropriate response, and who has the fortitude to stand up and see it through? This is to the point where you can't just go off willy-nilly and throw a stink bomb somewhere and hope it changes. It needs planning, but its also something that has to get beyond the "talking" stage. Someone needs to step forward and take a stance in the US or I can almost see them becoming completely isolated as no one would want to deal with them anymore.
The only way? I think not.
There are plenty of ways to disrupt the traffic, that might be the only way you're willing to go about it, but don't pretend there aren't other options.
There are places that try that, but then 90% of the workforce goes out and gets a doctor's note saying they're allowed to go whenever they want.
No it isn't. Doesn't anyone realize time is playing against society. Slow paced change isn't really going to help society because by the time we get around to it, it is going to be too late. By the time society clues in that there is a problem it'll be just before the nurse says "It is time for your 3 pm probing to make sure you've been sticking to your special diet".
and all I hear is a bunch of bellyaching and "ooh they're evil!". As I stated a few weeks ago, Who is going to do anything about it? Evertyime we turn around the American government or corporations come up with a new way to spy on us, restrict our rights or do something else to make the world a little less pleasant.
If they can't come up with anything specific that day, W. calls the RIAA and has them sue a dead woman. They want to make people so damn paranoid that one day they'll just turn around and say "Okay we're taking over your life, here is your itinerary for the day, don't alter this schedule. You have a bowel movement scheduled in 15 minutes". The vast majority will think its an awesome idea.
These stories are great to remind us what a wasteland this place has become, but they serve no real purpose if no one actually does anything about it.
Its like Tivo, but without any danger of crap. I can watch it at my leisure, its always ad free, and its readily available.
I was just thinking that. Finally someone with a warchest big enough to bring them down.
They did this a few years ago. I can remember using their service to call someone in the US and it worked good even then. On Dial-up no less. Its nice that this is "big news" now that everyone is on the bandwagon. I love the whole "free pc to pc calls" marketing crap. Yeah thanks, Instant messengers have been doing that for years, you're not doing anything ground breaking.
I've seen that in Linux as well. Grow a set and get a username if you have an actual point to make.
The original comment made use of the fact that this same person would spend a long amount of time searching for the information on forums and google, so using that as a starting point, I can call it completely valid. The actual necessary content is less than 50 pages, and it takes no more time then setting up Windows after a format. So if Joe User can do that, they can do this.
Just because you can't follow that many words doesn't mean anyone else can't. If you can assume that Joe User is going to spend time hammering through forums and google to solve his issue, then he can certainly spend much less time using the installation notes.
They're quick and certainly don't require that much time to run through.
Only the initial things are important. You can skip the installation part if you've already done that and focus on these:
A warning about mixing repositories
Yum
Firefox and Thunderbird
True Type fonts
Fedora Extras
Yum Extender
Java
Flash
RealPlayer
Adobe Reader
MPlayer - another multimedia player
XMMS - a music and MP3 player
Everything else on there is pick what you want. If you want. With pre done commands for you, if you really want to bury your head you can burn through it pretty quick. I've run through it three times and its never taken me anymore than 60-90 minutes outside of yum update and a lot of that is waiting for things to download/install.
If you're using Fedora Core:l lation_notes.html
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_insta
This is an excellent suppliment to the installation process. Why? As Fedora has stated they're avoiding licensing issues with certain things like mp3s, etc. Install as normal, run through this installation sheet, and you're fine. I wouldn't give anyone Fedora Core without giving them a link to fedoraforums and this page.
The instructions are very clear, and you can even copy and paste half of it if you want.
Or joe normal user could come across Fedora Core installation notes just as I did.l lation_notes.html
http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_insta
Most things are covered in that. I used it to install FC5 on my laptop. Wireless worked in about 3 minutes as it includes the latest drivers for my wireless adapter, just needed the firmware (which is clearly detailed on fedoraforums if youc an operate a search box, or post and someone will link you)
You can't keep current on flash cartoons in linux?
Flash works fine under linux.
You can install a completely spyware free codec pack that includes everything you need. I install it on any fresh XP installation I do for people who need their computers cleaned up. Works everytime for everything. Just because you can't find it doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
and if you need anything outside that scope, you're boned.
If you need to build something, it can be a 2 hour hunt for dependencies.
Windows, you just download it and click it and that is it.
You can try to build a distro to include everything, but they're always going to want something else. That part of it is much easier in Windows than Linux.
Only if you have the hardware it supports, as with any linux distro.
I would submit that Windows has better out of the box support for hardware that isn't automatically installed.
Why? You download the drivers, double click them, get on with your day.
With Linux, if its a fresh install for example, and you need to compile the drivers, you might have to install a few dependencies first, spend some time on google trying to figure out exactly what that error messages means and wtf it is you're missing. The difference with Windows is that it has a much larger supported hardware base than Linux because its been around longer.
That was 5 for interesting why?
I can easily drag a photo from inside mozilla into windows explorer or my desktop and it saves.
I guess they're really good comments if you just make shit up.
and for the few of us out there that care, that just wasn't their audience. If a site is comparing mileage in a luxury SUV, they're not going to throw in an economy 2 door from the Czech Republic just because you don't care about the mileage in those vehicles.
Their target audience was obviously windows users.
Canadian customs is good like that.
I ordered a T-shirt from the states. I was charged $2 in GST on import, plus $5 "handling fee" for them to charge me $2.
Print ads? How narrow-minded
They have radio ads, local billboards, online ads, and of course advertising on the channels of other cable providers. Plus, if they make a big enough stink about it, you can expect to see news reports on it.
I would recommend google's first step:
Create a splash-screen for their site that tells anyone who's coming from one of those cable providers that service is being effected by them. Alternatively they could just service up banners based on IP blocks.
Google is huge.
Its a world-wide household name. I doubt this cable company is. Why doesn't google just roll over and crush them? A nice ad-campaign to educate the home-user on how their cable company is trying to extort money from them and lower their quality of service should either:
1)snap them back into line
2)put them out of business and become a PR nightmare for them.