Comments for Meldroc.com http://www.meldroc.com Linux, Politics and Geekery Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:07:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Comment on Glenn Beck’s Rally of Palingenesis: Why does “Restoring America” make me nervous? by Roger Griffin http://www.meldroc.com/?p=684&cpage=1#comment-69 Roger Griffin Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:07:30 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=684#comment-69 As I am the Roger Griffin cited in the article could I point out that palingenetic myth is NOT specific to fascism: it is a universal myth and a staple of religious world-views and of all revolutionary ideologies. Palingenesis in my theory is only an ingredient of fascism when it is combined with ULTRANATIONALISM, an organic nationalism which demonizes those who are not considered full members of the national community and feels superior to other ntions who are not destined to play a major role on the stage: so by no stretch of the imagination is any form of nationalism played out within the US democratic system fascist even when it has a palingenetic thrust, though some forms of the US racist, fundamentalist religious and 'paranoid' right get close to the tone/tenor of fascist fanaticism. So PLEASE DO NOT subscribe to the tendency of both left and right-wing democrats in the US to vilify opposing camps by harnessing fascism to their invective: Goldberg's Liberal Fascism and attempts to brand the Bushite right as fascist are academically inaccurate and propagandist rather than contributions to a rational, historically grounded debate. As I am the Roger Griffin cited in the article could I point out that palingenetic myth is NOT specific to fascism: it is a universal myth and a staple of religious world-views and of all revolutionary ideologies. Palingenesis in my theory is only an ingredient of fascism when it is combined with ULTRANATIONALISM, an organic nationalism which demonizes those who are not considered full members of the national community and feels superior to other ntions who are not destined to play a major role on the stage: so by no stretch of the imagination is any form of nationalism played out within the US democratic system fascist even when it has a palingenetic thrust, though some forms of the US racist, fundamentalist religious and ‘paranoid’ right get close to the tone/tenor of fascist fanaticism.

So PLEASE DO NOT subscribe to the tendency of both left and right-wing democrats in the US to vilify opposing camps by harnessing fascism to their invective: Goldberg’s Liberal Fascism and attempts to brand the Bushite right as fascist are academically inaccurate and propagandist rather than contributions to a rational, historically grounded debate.

]]> Comment on Glenn Beck’s Rally of Palingenesis: Why does “Restoring America” make me nervous? by Roger Griffin http://www.meldroc.com/?p=684&cpage=1#comment-68 Roger Griffin Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:06:53 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=684#comment-68 As I am the Roger Griffin cited in the article could I point out that palingenetic myth is NOT specific to fascism: it is a universal myth and a staple of religious world-views and of all revolutionary ideologies. Palingenesis in my theory is only an ingredient of fascism when it is combined with ULTRANATIONALISM, an organic nationalism which demonizes those who are not considered full members of the national community and feels superior to other ntions who are not destined to play a major role on the stage: so by no stretch of the imagination is any form of nationalism played out within the US democratic system fascist even when it has a palingenetic thrust, though some forms of the US racist, fundamentalist religious and 'paranoid' right get close to the tone/tenor of fascist fanaticism. So PLEASE DO NOT subscribe to the tendency of both left and right-wing democrats in the US to vilify opposing camps by harnessing fascism to their invective: Goldnerg's Liberal Fascism and attempts to brand the Bushite right as fascist are academically inaccurate and propagandist rather than parts of a historically grounded debate. As I am the Roger Griffin cited in the article could I point out that palingenetic myth is NOT specific to fascism: it is a universal myth and a staple of religious world-views and of all revolutionary ideologies. Palingenesis in my theory is only an ingredient of fascism when it is combined with ULTRANATIONALISM, an organic nationalism which demonizes those who are not considered full members of the national community and feels superior to other ntions who are not destined to play a major role on the stage: so by no stretch of the imagination is any form of nationalism played out within the US democratic system fascist even when it has a palingenetic thrust, though some forms of the US racist, fundamentalist religious and ‘paranoid’ right get close to the tone/tenor of fascist fanaticism.

So PLEASE DO NOT subscribe to the tendency of both left and right-wing democrats in the US to vilify opposing camps by harnessing fascism to their invective: Goldnerg’s Liberal Fascism and attempts to brand the Bushite right as fascist are academically inaccurate and propagandist rather than parts of a historically grounded debate.

]]> Comment on Glenn Beck’s Rally of Palingenesis: Why does “Restoring America” make me nervous? by Jim http://www.meldroc.com/?p=684&cpage=1#comment-66 Jim Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:51:48 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=684#comment-66 If you really want to see fascism on parade, just go to pol sites like DU, DailyKos, and HuffingtonPost. Virtually every thought (if one can call what they do "thinking") is one of hatred and anger towards the US Constitution, minorities, the poor, and all things good and decent. Try pointing that fact out to those who dwell there, and they don't have the intelligence to comprehend it, much less admit who and what they are. They are simpletons and will be treated as such. If you really want to see fascism on parade, just go to pol sites like DU, DailyKos, and HuffingtonPost. Virtually every thought (if one can call what they do “thinking”) is one of hatred and anger towards the US Constitution, minorities, the poor, and all things good and decent. Try pointing that fact out to those who dwell there, and they don’t have the intelligence to comprehend it, much less admit who and what they are. They are simpletons and will be treated as such.

]]> Comment on What’s new in KDE 4.2? A Review: by Jake http://www.meldroc.com/?p=229&cpage=1#comment-53 Jake Tue, 19 May 2009 20:39:31 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=229#comment-53 @sebaro >> Konqueror is the best browser in our galaxy. ... When I make a website, first I test it with Konq, if it works than I’m sure it works in every browser. So anything that works in Konq works in every other browser, but there are things that work in other browsers that do not work in Konq. From my logic, that would make Konqueror the WORST browser in our galaxy.... @sebaro
>> Konqueror is the best browser in our galaxy. … When I make a website, first I test it with Konq, if it works than I’m sure it works in every browser.

So anything that works in Konq works in every other browser, but there are things that work in other browsers that do not work in Konq. From my logic, that would make Konqueror the WORST browser in our galaxy….

]]> Comment on A Review of Linux Mint 6: Felicia by mewtwo064 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19&cpage=1#comment-51 mewtwo064 Sat, 02 May 2009 18:35:15 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19#comment-51 Mint 6 simply works. I successfully installed it on 3 different computers using the install under windows method and works most excellently. One of my computers gave me so much trouble even getting Live CD's from other distros to work right (with out having to add commands like acpi=off and/or use compatibility modes) let alone a full install working properly. It was even a breeze to install the missing video card and wireless drivers on my laptop under Mint 6 and they work perfectly! I give this 2 thumbs up aside from a few very minor glitches that I've encountered (but then again, what software is without its glithces? =P) Mint 6 simply works. I successfully installed it on 3 different computers using the install under windows method and works most excellently. One of my computers gave me so much trouble even getting Live CD’s from other distros to work right (with out having to add commands like acpi=off and/or use compatibility modes) let alone a full install working properly. It was even a breeze to install the missing video card and wireless drivers on my laptop under Mint 6 and they work perfectly! I give this 2 thumbs up aside from a few very minor glitches that I’ve encountered (but then again, what software is without its glithces? =P)

]]> Comment on A Review of Linux Mint 6: Felicia by Abesh http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19&cpage=1#comment-46 Abesh Thu, 16 Apr 2009 03:36:16 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19#comment-46 I installed mint 6 on both my laptop and my desktop and i face the same problem as egonomico.Ubuntu repositories are really fast and i though i keep hearing that mint is an improvisation on ubuntu,how come the repositories are so slow?other than that,i feel mint is a fantastic distribution(GNOME,havent tried out the KDE yet) and things are pretty smooth sailing till now. Does anybody have a solution to speed up accessing the repositories somehow??lik,downloading 300 mb of updates takes the whole night!and that is really frustrasting:( I installed mint 6 on both my laptop and my desktop and i face the same problem as egonomico.Ubuntu repositories are really fast and i though i keep hearing that mint is an improvisation on ubuntu,how come the repositories are so slow?other than that,i feel mint is a fantastic distribution(GNOME,havent tried out the KDE yet) and things are pretty smooth sailing till now.
Does anybody have a solution to speed up accessing the repositories somehow??lik,downloading 300 mb of updates takes the whole night!and that is really frustrasting:(

]]> Comment on A Review of Linux Mint 6: Felicia by David http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19&cpage=1#comment-45 David Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:09:02 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19#comment-45 I played around with Mint but gave up because of problems with keeping the wifi working. With Mint 6 I'm hoping they followed close on the heels of Ubuntu 8.10. U-8.10 rocks when it comes to wifi. I played around with Mint but gave up because of problems with keeping the wifi working. With Mint 6 I’m hoping they followed close on the heels of Ubuntu 8.10. U-8.10 rocks when it comes to wifi.

]]> Comment on A Review of Linux Mint 6: Felicia by Boris http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19&cpage=1#comment-44 Boris Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:41:14 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19#comment-44 Personally i was a bit skeptical about switching to Linux. My Adobe software (Photoshop and Dreamweaver) all work on Windows only... But i found out that using Wine it can be done. Now, i have LinuxMint on my laptop, with all my Adobe software running with Wine. It's FAST! Love it. Personally i was a bit skeptical about switching to Linux. My Adobe software (Photoshop and Dreamweaver) all work on Windows only… But i found out that using Wine it can be done.

Now, i have LinuxMint on my laptop, with all my Adobe software running with Wine. It’s FAST! Love it.

]]> Comment on A Review of Linux Mint 6: Felicia by egonomico http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19&cpage=1#comment-43 egonomico Wed, 25 Feb 2009 03:11:49 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=19#comment-43 I was playing around with my laptop and had a "formatting" mistake courtesy of Mac OS X so I started from scratch and decided to go with Mint6 over ubuntu (hardy). I was just tired of installing a lot of stuff that I use so Mint was my answer. I had tried it a few weeks and knew I was pretty completed out of the box. The only big problem I have had is that the repositories are extremely slow. Ubuntu updates at +250 kb/s but with Mint I get only a 10 % of that. It sucks. I couldn't find a way to change the location as in Ubuntu (software Origins) so I had to leave it updating and went away to do something else. I'm new to Mint so I don't know if I'm alone with this, but google didn't help. It's gonna be on a laptop that I don't usually connect to the web so it is not a real problem, but it'd be great if this issue went away. Nice review! bye I was playing around with my laptop and had a “formatting” mistake courtesy of Mac OS X so I started from scratch and decided to go with Mint6 over ubuntu (hardy). I was just tired of installing a lot of stuff that I use so Mint was my answer. I had tried it a few weeks and knew I was pretty completed out of the box.

The only big problem I have had is that the repositories are extremely slow. Ubuntu updates at +250 kb/s but with Mint I get only a 10 % of that. It sucks. I couldn’t find a way to change the location as in Ubuntu (software Origins) so I had to leave it updating and went away to do something else. I’m new to Mint so I don’t know if I’m alone with this, but google didn’t help. It’s gonna be on a laptop that I don’t usually connect to the web so it is not a real problem, but it’d be great if this issue went away.

Nice review! bye

]]> Comment on Economic Stimulus Bill postmortem. by John Bailo http://www.meldroc.com/?p=529&cpage=1#comment-42 John Bailo Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:27:25 +0000 http://www.meldroc.com/?p=529#comment-42 787? Gee, just like the Boeing 787. Looks like the Stealulus is just one for the insiders. It's all just a big joke for those inside the Beltway. Yet the average taxpayer will have been robbed. Just like with TARP. 787?

Gee, just like the Boeing 787.

Looks like the Stealulus is just one for the insiders.

It’s all just a big joke for those inside the Beltway.

Yet the average taxpayer will have been robbed.

Just like with TARP.

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