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Yes, I am owed a home (not necessarily a house) and a job. I can't trek off to the wilderness, and build myself a log cabin. But hey, that's cool too... because if I did that, how could I be a consumer, and support the "free market" ?
Sorry, didn't mean to insult your religion.
No, you are not owed a home, or a job, not even food.
Just because the government prints the money (sort of), doesn't mean that they actually make the money.
When the government gives you something, they took it from somebody else.
And yes you can trek off to the wilderness and build youself a log cabin if you wish, assuming that you own the property you built it on.
That really wouldn't be all that hard either, there are places in this country where you can buy land for real cheap.
But then that would involve real work on your part, instead of just a government handout, so we can rule out that possibility..
As for remaining a consumer, I am sure that you could just continue to throw away money on small cardboard rectangles.
That would work.
If you stopped that too, well then you would be quite the little heathen!
Insulting my religion, Southern Missionary Capitalism [Reformed]!
Don't you know that, just like you have a right to a house and a job, I have a right to not have my beliefs questioned!
(I haven't even gotten my 40 acres or my mule yet.)
These messages are a waste of everyone's time. I get hundreds of worms daily...but I never see them, because they're easy to filter. What I do see are these damned "helpful" messages that "I" sent someone a virus. Those are much harder to filter.
I get those all the time too, and I know my machine
(FreeBSD)
isn't randomly spewing worms out at people.
I just mark them as spam too, so I don't see them that much easier.
I contend that, with a government so controlling, so expecting, that he is indeed entitled to a job.
I contend that a government even more controlling will be the result of all these people who think the rest of the world owes them:
a job,
a house,
health care,
retirement,
security (foreign and domestic),
a pony too, just for good measure.
Because the only way for any of what is "owed" to them to be collected is with the power of the government taking it from others.
When we dump about 90% of our laws, then maybe people can "be on their own".
If people would be willing to go it alone for the things they should, we wouldn't need 90% of our laws.
However, there are a lot of people who want a socialast regime instead of a free-market society, and they manage to get a lot of laws passed.
BTW, "colledge" isn't necessarily a misspelling, but a typo. Sloppy typing isn't nearly as stupid as being unable to spell that word, and it's sort of a low blow. (How can I tell this? E and D are adjacent.)
It wasn't the only error, just the most amusing one.
No offence to the older generation who reads slashdot but I am getting a little tired of being constantly reminded of the baby boomer generation (those people who could leave high school and almost be guaranteed a job that would put bread on the table, today going through colledge/university can't even do that). To be reminded of the Baby Boomers hedonistic glory days of free love, drugs and peace to all gets a tad revolting.
A little bit bitter, aren't we?
You are not entitled to a job, nor should the government be changed such that you would be.
A high school diploma used to mean that a person was at least capable of reading, writing and arithmetic, however wherever you are going to "colledge" apparently does not.
And by the way, I am not a baby-boomer, someone roughly your own age is telling you this.
Wasn't Shatner who told a bunch of Trekie fanatics to "get a life"?
Link here.
I don't think you would actually want to buy it from there though, apparently they farked with its hardware themselves, and I am not sure exactly why.
Finding a place to actually buy it from is left as an exercise to the reader.
I used to use one of these a few years ago.
It is infrared, but that doesn't really matter that much, it would go about 30 feet, and had a wide angle.
The "mouse" is some weird joystick thing that looks more like a plastic nipple than anything, and takes some getting used to.
It is layed out just as a laptop keyboard though, and I don't like the smaller layout, so I eventually went back to my ever-reliable IBM Model M keyboard, which is almost 20 years old now, and still capable of killing a man with a single blow.
I refuse to use them on the grounds that that is just bending over for the marketing types, when the correct response is a good old-fashioned class-action lawsuit.
If the hard drive manufacturers were actually on some high-and-mighty mission to use proper SI units, then they wouldn't define a GB = 1000 MB with MB still defined as 2**20 bytes.
This is deceptive advertising, plain and simple.
My guess is that they are talking only about things like
this.
I used to use a similar program back when I was taking English classes, in order to bring my papers down to an 8th-grade reading level.
These are encredibly easy to mess around with.
For example, the fog index is:
Fog Index = 0.4*(words/sentences+100*((words >= 3 syllables)/words))
Which is roughly equal to the school grade reading level required for the essay.
If I remember correctly, Associated Press articles are written to a 4th-grade reading level, which is why all of the paragraphs are only one sentence long.
The same holds true for other TV shows too, not even remotely related to Star Trek.
The perfect example is Friends.
I didn't like it, but my little sister used to watch it all the time, and the only thing I could really see that it had going for it was that the cast actually did seem to be friends.
Even she would admit that most of the writing was crap, and that the jokes weren't even that funny.
I don't know how much of this is just because people work better if they view their coworkers as friends, or if people just would rather see people on TV who are friends; probably a little of both.
On the downside for the studios though, if the cast are actually friends in real life, you get stuck with collective bargaining.
It is a lot harder than you might think.
The work usually requires a whole linguistic research and development center;
this is why you pay so much for an unabridged copy of Webster's, it is just like with medicine:
sure the actual paper is cheap, but they have to spend billions on R&D.
After all, your average lexemic engineer gets paid around $80,000 a year, and they produce hundreds, if not thousands of failed designs for new words that you never get to see in between the few good ones.
While TNG did have some good episodes, it would be easy to beat it. About half of the episodes were so liberal-preachy that it made me want to puke, and about half of the episodes involved no real plot except some piece of technology breaking (transporter, holodeck, etc.) (yes I know that doesn't leave any room left for good shows in my numbers, there is overlap between those two sets).
The main thing about TNG, and even more so with the original Star Trek, is that you had what actually seemed like real interaction among the cast. You got the feeling that Kirk, McCoy and Spock were real people, and were actually friends; the same holds true with the TNG crew.
On Enterprise, there really hasn't been any character development at all.
I have watched most of the series, but couldn't really tell you anything about any of the characters, and can just barely remember their names.
That is its real problem.
I wonder what called for such a response?
If you are a guy (which I will assume because of your username), then was it the Enzyte reference perhaps? You aren't that Bob guy, are you?
If you are a girl, well then I should point out that one doesn't contract herpes by remaining chaste and pure, so I view my choice in terminology to be accurate.
I purposely lie when I fill out those surveys too, but I inflate my income to benefit them.
A poor graduate student probably isn't all that attractive to advertisers, but if the website I visit thinks I am making $100,000+ (or whatever is the highest listed), they can get more advertising money.
Oh, and I use Adblock, so that I don't actually see any of those high-priced ads, although they are fetched, so that they think I did.
It is a good arrangement for everybody but the advertisers, but that is okay, because they are all bastards., especially the ones running "Enzyte: natural male enhancement" commercials, and tampon commercials, and Gold Bond commercials, and most especially the ones for herpes medication, with the attractive woman who can go back to "living her life" as a slut.
The star wars program was a great idea.
If you have thousands of nuclear missles aimed at you, and no way to stop them, how is doing nothing a good idea?
The only bad idea was to let the press, and the Soviets, know about it before it was developed.
The better way would have been to just do it, and then afterwords at some UN general assembly or something, where the Soviets were acting all threatening-like with their nuclear weapons, just be like:
"Oh, by the way, we can shoot all of those pretty missles down you know. Oh, you didn't know? Well, now you do. What's that, you can't shoot down our missles? Sucks to be you."
Q:
How do you tell a history professor from a street bum?
A:
The street bum bathes more regularly.
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The real question at this point, and it's one the players in the Open Source industry need to think about, is, who ends up with the rights to UNIX when SCO is gone? Sun? IBM? Red Hat? Boies?
Probably whoever ponies up enough money to buy what is left of SCO at the end of all of this.
That might actually have some real value, and therefore SCO stock might actually not be worthless.
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I stand corrected. I should have known this though, since even on a direct 100 Mbit ethernet an NFS mount seems horribly slow, even compared to IDE.
22 MB/sec = 176 Mbit/sec, so faster than any IDE/ATA/"whatever they are calling them now" hard drive, but slower than modern SCSI drives.
I think he has a problem with the number 432.
Yes, I am owed a home (not necessarily a house) and a job. I can't trek off to the wilderness, and build myself a log cabin. But hey, that's cool too... because if I did that, how could I be a consumer, and support the "free market" ?
Sorry, didn't mean to insult your religion.
No, you are not owed a home, or a job, not even food. Just because the government prints the money (sort of), doesn't mean that they actually make the money. When the government gives you something, they took it from somebody else.
And yes you can trek off to the wilderness and build youself a log cabin if you wish, assuming that you own the property you built it on. That really wouldn't be all that hard either, there are places in this country where you can buy land for real cheap. But then that would involve real work on your part, instead of just a government handout, so we can rule out that possibility..
As for remaining a consumer, I am sure that you could just continue to throw away money on small cardboard rectangles. That would work. If you stopped that too, well then you would be quite the little heathen! Insulting my religion, Southern Missionary Capitalism [Reformed]! Don't you know that, just like you have a right to a house and a job, I have a right to not have my beliefs questioned! (I haven't even gotten my 40 acres or my mule yet.)
These messages are a waste of everyone's time. I get hundreds of worms daily...but I never see them, because they're easy to filter. What I do see are these damned "helpful" messages that "I" sent someone a virus. Those are much harder to filter.
I get those all the time too, and I know my machine (FreeBSD) isn't randomly spewing worms out at people. I just mark them as spam too, so I don't see them that much easier.
I contend that a government even more controlling will be the result of all these people who think the rest of the world owes them:
- a job,
- a house,
- health care,
- retirement,
- security (foreign and domestic),
- a pony too, just for good measure.
Because the only way for any of what is "owed" to them to be collected is with the power of the government taking it from others.When we dump about 90% of our laws, then maybe people can "be on their own".
If people would be willing to go it alone for the things they should, we wouldn't need 90% of our laws. However, there are a lot of people who want a socialast regime instead of a free-market society, and they manage to get a lot of laws passed.
BTW, "colledge" isn't necessarily a misspelling, but a typo. Sloppy typing isn't nearly as stupid as being unable to spell that word, and it's sort of a low blow. (How can I tell this? E and D are adjacent.)
It wasn't the only error, just the most amusing one.
A little bit bitter, aren't we? You are not entitled to a job, nor should the government be changed such that you would be. A high school diploma used to mean that a person was at least capable of reading, writing and arithmetic, however wherever you are going to "colledge" apparently does not. And by the way, I am not a baby-boomer, someone roughly your own age is telling you this.
Wasn't Shatner who told a bunch of Trekie fanatics to "get a life"?
Sadly, very few took his sage advice.
Link here. I don't think you would actually want to buy it from there though, apparently they farked with its hardware themselves, and I am not sure exactly why. Finding a place to actually buy it from is left as an exercise to the reader.
I used to use one of these a few years ago. It is infrared, but that doesn't really matter that much, it would go about 30 feet, and had a wide angle. The "mouse" is some weird joystick thing that looks more like a plastic nipple than anything, and takes some getting used to. It is layed out just as a laptop keyboard though, and I don't like the smaller layout, so I eventually went back to my ever-reliable IBM Model M keyboard, which is almost 20 years old now, and still capable of killing a man with a single blow.
I refuse to use them on the grounds that that is just bending over for the marketing types, when the correct response is a good old-fashioned class-action lawsuit. If the hard drive manufacturers were actually on some high-and-mighty mission to use proper SI units, then they wouldn't define a GB = 1000 MB with MB still defined as 2**20 bytes. This is deceptive advertising, plain and simple.
A small step into the non-sucking direction. However, this is still too slow. Only 150MB/sec? That is like 1999 all over again.
As a SCSI bigot, I can tell you the real reason: because SCSI doens't suck, unlike IDE.
For example, my post above (with the formula removed):
readability grades:
Kincaid: 6.4
ARI: 6.6
Coleman-Liau: 9.2
Flesch Index: 77.8
Fog Index: 8.5
Lix: 35.8 = school year 5
SMOG-Grading: 8.0
sentence info:
408 characters
96 words, average length 4.25 characters = 1.33 syllables
6 sentences, average length 16.0 words
50% (3) short sentences (at most 11 words)
33% (2) long sentences (at least 26 words)
3 paragraphs, average length 2.0 sentences
0% (0) questions
100% (6) passive sentences
longest sent 28 wds at sent 2; shortest sent 6 wds at sent 4
word usage:
verb types:
to be (9) auxiliary (0)
types as % of total:
conjunctions 1(1) pronouns 9(9) prepositions 14(13)
nominalizations 1(1)
sentence beginnings:
pronoun (3) interrogative pronoun (0) article (0)
subordinating conjunction (1) conjunction (0) preposition (0)
My guess is that they are talking only about things like this. I used to use a similar program back when I was taking English classes, in order to bring my papers down to an 8th-grade reading level.
These are encredibly easy to mess around with. For example, the fog index is:
Fog Index = 0.4*(words/sentences+100*((words >= 3 syllables)/words))
Which is roughly equal to the school grade reading level required for the essay. If I remember correctly, Associated Press articles are written to a 4th-grade reading level, which is why all of the paragraphs are only one sentence long.
I see somebody here is a staunch supporter of big business and big government with that attitude.
I think the ideal thing to do is replace "them" with something that actually works, not oversee "them". Just a thought.
Som sort of politburo, perhaps?
The same holds true for other TV shows too, not even remotely related to Star Trek. The perfect example is Friends. I didn't like it, but my little sister used to watch it all the time, and the only thing I could really see that it had going for it was that the cast actually did seem to be friends. Even she would admit that most of the writing was crap, and that the jokes weren't even that funny. I don't know how much of this is just because people work better if they view their coworkers as friends, or if people just would rather see people on TV who are friends; probably a little of both. On the downside for the studios though, if the cast are actually friends in real life, you get stuck with collective bargaining.
It is a lot harder than you might think. The work usually requires a whole linguistic research and development center; this is why you pay so much for an unabridged copy of Webster's, it is just like with medicine: sure the actual paper is cheap, but they have to spend billions on R&D. After all, your average lexemic engineer gets paid around $80,000 a year, and they produce hundreds, if not thousands of failed designs for new words that you never get to see in between the few good ones.
While TNG did have some good episodes, it would be easy to beat it. About half of the episodes were so liberal-preachy that it made me want to puke, and about half of the episodes involved no real plot except some piece of technology breaking (transporter, holodeck, etc.) (yes I know that doesn't leave any room left for good shows in my numbers, there is overlap between those two sets). The main thing about TNG, and even more so with the original Star Trek, is that you had what actually seemed like real interaction among the cast. You got the feeling that Kirk, McCoy and Spock were real people, and were actually friends; the same holds true with the TNG crew. On Enterprise, there really hasn't been any character development at all. I have watched most of the series, but couldn't really tell you anything about any of the characters, and can just barely remember their names. That is its real problem.
I wonder what called for such a response? If you are a guy (which I will assume because of your username), then was it the Enzyte reference perhaps? You aren't that Bob guy, are you? If you are a girl, well then I should point out that one doesn't contract herpes by remaining chaste and pure, so I view my choice in terminology to be accurate.
I purposely lie when I fill out those surveys too, but I inflate my income to benefit them. A poor graduate student probably isn't all that attractive to advertisers, but if the website I visit thinks I am making $100,000+ (or whatever is the highest listed), they can get more advertising money. Oh, and I use Adblock, so that I don't actually see any of those high-priced ads, although they are fetched, so that they think I did. It is a good arrangement for everybody but the advertisers, but that is okay, because they are all bastards., especially the ones running "Enzyte: natural male enhancement" commercials, and tampon commercials, and Gold Bond commercials, and most especially the ones for herpes medication, with the attractive woman who can go back to "living her life" as a slut.
"Oh, by the way, we can shoot all of those pretty missles down you know. Oh, you didn't know? Well, now you do. What's that, you can't shoot down our missles? Sucks to be you."
Q: How do you tell a history professor from a street bum?
A: The street bum bathes more regularly.
Probably whoever ponies up enough money to buy what is left of SCO at the end of all of this. That might actually have some real value, and therefore SCO stock might actually not be worthless.
What, no Joshua?