Comment Makes sense. (Score 1) 634
'At the end of the day it's about people and trust
*facepalm* Oh Bill Hicks, I miss you.
'At the end of the day it's about people and trust
*facepalm* Oh Bill Hicks, I miss you.
A couple thousand alternative currencies such as Bitcoin started surfacing? What would happen when the economy is completely watered down with different types of currencies just because people started using them as heavily as Bitcoin?
The IRS can "legally" tax barter agreements for their monetary value, just to tax trade.
I'm getting an image of an arrogant, bratty red faced child with their hands out, waiting for their piece of cake.
If Bitcoin can't exist outside of the economic iron fist, then what possibility do normal people have with turning it around?
Reminds me of a quote I heard on Slashdot by a commenter back in 2000...
'Programmers always wonder whether or not they can do something...but hardly ever whether they *should*.'
Applying sales tax to anything BUT the merchendise (i.e. NOT labor of any kind) is labor/income tax. Which, if you've read up on the history of income tax, shluldn't be legal in the first place.
This whole ideal about trickling/sneaking/forcing in legislation regarding either establishing or increasing taxes of any kind is immoral and we should be ashamed of allowing it to get this far.
We can't just prune this tree, we have to cut it down.
There, I said it.
(I am an independent technical consultant in California, so this especially hits home for me..)
I mean, look at our moon and other planets/moons in our solar system. Look at their craters. Look at the craters on our planet. Something hits something else, a peice breaks off and flies toward something else (eventually). Let's say a comet so big hit Earth that gravity from the comet attracts water, bacteria, plantlife, some fish, etc. and then flies off in another direction...carries it somewhere else. If you think about how LONG the universe has been around, this is a scientific certainty that the "building blocks of life" will be carried around and distributed to other planets.
I like to think that the universe has been playing a nonstop game of billiards for billions and billions of years.
I cannot disagree that Ubuntu (and Canonical) have done a good (no, great) job at bringing Linux more into peoples' hearts and minds. To say that Ubuntu is a poster-boy distro, however, would be a crime. Ubuntu stood on the shoulders of Debian to gain its traction, but past the initial push of getting better hardware/driver support, it seems like the roadmap of Ubuntu has been about as scattered as darts thrown by a drunken barfly. A bunch of ambitious "tries" at different angles, with very little attention to actually fixing bugs to maintain their stability/usability ("Won't fix" as new release is out, LTS: Long-term-suffering,
I'm not trying to bash Ubuntu, like I said they have done a lot of good. But I'm typing this on my Debian workstation, which I left to go to Ubuntu for a number of years, and now I'm back. And I couldn't be happier, because I haven't had such a stable system in years =) None the less, congrats on fixing the infamous bug #1 I guess. It is a very sentimental thing, I'm sure.
Don't let the higher-ups know you're running a rebel operating system, you might just get canned. What use is running Linux in school anyway, when the students should be learning REAL job skills (I.E. Microsoft Office)?
(Sorry, I have been tainted by the education "industry" when it comes to anything Linux in school).
Your mom was a pretty good fuck last night, just sayin'...
PLEASE DON'T HIT ME! lol
THANK you.
Hi, 4chan! *waves*
I've been using Debian 'testing' as a desktop (and a netbook for that matter) for many years now. I used Ubuntu for about 4 years at home and with my business clients (I'm a network engineer), roughly from v6.10 -> 10.04 but switched back because of the "will not fix" developer mentality to those who wanted functional packages from an LTS release. There was always something major that was broken, always with the carrot-on-a-stick, "Just upgrade to the latest release and use PPA from JoeSchmoe" answer when you just wanted to use your computer. It kept me for a while, but it got reeeeal tiring.
Debian has always "just worked" on my desktop. It's also a great LTSP sever, serving my kitchen and livingroom thin clients. With all of the good stuff that the Ubuntu/Canonical folks do getting backported to Debian, I feel like Debian testing is "Ubuntu Stable".
(in testing):
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thedarkener@c64:~$ steam
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I saw the above post regarding the i386 libs and I was sure that I had already installed them previously (and confirmed with the following:)
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thedarkener@c64:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk ia32-libs-sdl
Place your finger on the fingerprint reader
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ia32-libs-sdl
thedarkener@c64:~$ sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-gtk
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
ia32-libs is already the newest version.
ia32-libs-gtk is already the newest version.
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Any ideas?
Perception causes me to believe that this "feature" is a double-edged sword. On the one side, it adds to the whole "social networking" thing. Find friends, recognize friends, connect with friends.
On the other hand, it is a massive crowdsourced facial recognition system that is incredibly difficult to stay away from, even if you refuse to be a part of Facebook (IIRC people can tag you in a picture by typing in your name). It's a f*cking privacy nightmare.
But what do you have to hide, huh? *grin....sigh*
Seriously. I think all the Slashbots are just excited to repeat the great word.
I know who he is. If Alan Cox said, "McDonald's makes the worst hamburger", would you repeat his testimony like the universal truth you believe it is too?
Force needed to accelerate 2.2lbs of cookies = 1 Fig-newton to 1 meter per second
