I've been on Slashdot for what 15ish years now... before there were user IDs.. anyway

I've always hated the supposedly free market capitalism anti-government crap espoused by the supposedly enlightened intellectual libertarians who hand around the "open source" movement. But this is the worst I have ever seen, and it proves they are not intellectuals, they are rabid dogmatists.

The fire department DOES need to get paid for fighting fires, and when a non-insured home is on fire the "putting out an actual fire" service fee will need to be much higher than the "putting out a hypothetical fire" insurance fee. But the service fee can be paid OUT OF POCKET, or by putting a LIEN on the house. The cost to put the fire out was WAY less than the value of the home, and refusing to put it out ends up being a net destruction of wealth (not to mention the lives of the pets inside).

At this point the worst libertards say "well they didn't pay the insurance, so tough", and it completely escapes their consideration that MAYBE just MAYBE the fire department could have charged them $5000 or $10000 to put out the fire. An intellectual would see that alternate payment system as a good and just possibility, but a dogmatist doesn't need to think that hard because they already have all the answers.

Any economic system that fails to protect wealth and watches it burn away will lead to a society with LESS WEALTH. The fire department may have saved $1000 by not putting out the fire, but the society lost 200 times that when the home and its contents were consumed. If you don't have enough brains to improve upon that result, even within the libertarian worldview then you are an idiot, not a legitimate intellectual that people should bother listening to.

um yeah except the WHITE firefighters were the ones suing, after the CITY decided to throw out the results of the exam, and IIRC she was following precedent that the supreme court later reversed itself on........ so how did the supreme court reversing its own precedent become her fault? Oh yeah race-baiting fox news.

care to do a calculation of the LD50 of tritum in water?

For the love of god, tritium decays by beta particle emission. Why the boy-who-cried-wolf nuclear panic over a beta emitter?

There may be additional hacks you need. Specifically comment out the lines in soundon or whatever they called it that uninstalls the alsa drivers, or you'll have to re-install the kernel after it deletes them. And be aware you may have to strangle udev to get it to STOP LOADING THE GODDAMN ALSA DRIVERS FIRST.

Whoops, meant to say "instead of /etc/init.d/oss" during init.

Actually I have oss4 for hdaudio, and alsa for usb audio working together on debian. It is was a royal bitch tho. I run this script instead of oss soundon/soundoff

#!/bin/bash
set -x

if [ ! -d /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/oss ]
then
                soundoff
                soundon
                mv /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/oss /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/oss
                depmod -a
fi

rmmod oss_hdaudio
rmmod osscore
modprobe osscore vmix_loopdevs=1 &&
sleep 1 &&
modprobe oss_hdaudio &&
sleep 1 && /usr/sbin/ossdetect -d &&
sleep 1 &&
sh /usr/lib/oss/etc/legacy_devices &&
sleep 1 && /usr/sbin/ossdevlinks -v
sleep 1 && /usr/sbin/savemixer -L -v
sleep 1 &&
modprobe snd_usb_audio

What corporation do you own 10% of that does not confer limited liability to you via the concept of corporate personhood? In order to sue you personally they'd have to "pierce the corporate veil" which doesn't happen very often. I think you're BSing here.

Um, dude. That statement by itself isn't racist. The policy that the statement is meant to defend by camouflaging it, RACIAL PROFILING, is racist. And the statement is wrong. Studies (that I do not have links for, sorry) have shown that after dark when the race of a person driving a car is harder to see the racial disparity in traffic stops decreases.