I'd suggest that you educate yourself. At least 1/3 of the people in America (the 13 colonies that is) did not agree with the rebellion and were terrorized in various ways. One common example was tar and feathering, eg made to watch the tar heated up over a fire to maybe 160 degrees then have it poured over them and forced to roll in feathers. Sounds pretty terrorizing to me. Not to mention the nonphysical political acts done to them, you know, all men are equal unless black, or loyalist in which case they had no rights besides things like triple taxation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)
Nope, that's not true. "Terrorism" is not just a dirty word -- it refers to a very specific tactics to achieve ideological/political goals: violence targeting civilians. America's founders did not do that...
Oh bullshit, you should study history. Here is one source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution) . I personally think that making a civilian watch while you boil up some tar (about 160 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to give 1st degree burns and often kill) then applying it and making the person roll in feathers to be a terrorist act. Also not giving people any rights, triple taxation, confiscating property etc not far from terrorism either. Think about it, about 1/3 of America were loyalist and had to be driven out of the country (often from fear of terrorism) or terrorized into changing allegiance.
Hey, that's the vice dictator who shoots people in the face when frustrated by not being able to find any harmless birds to shoot for fun. But seriously the difference between China and The States is that China is honest about their repressiveness whereas the States are very hypocritical about how free they are. I personally hate hypocrites. Shit, personally if I was American I couldn't vote or own a firearm because I did something stupid 30 years ago when I was 19. Here in Canada I can vote and also own a firearm, I just have to show that I know which end the bullet comes out of. (owning a firearm here is about as much as a right as driving. You gotta show capability and responsibility).
Well you just have to look at some of the other well armed demographics like the middle east. Especially Afghanistan. Well armed population has really helped there.
Yes, that bearing arms thing has really helped the Iraqis and Afghans, both who are heavily armed. Incidentally the British got the right to bear arms (for self defense if not Catholic) in 1689 after the glorious revolution of 1688 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution . Another example of a right being eroded away along with most of the rights declared in the bill of rights enacted in 1689 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 . (Where do you think America's founding fathers got their ideas?)
They're making the common mistake of thinking paedophilia includes young adults (people who are physically mature but below the age of consent) when really it means adults being attracted to prepubescent children. A 15 year old going with a 13 year old is not paedophilia. At that a 50 year old going with a mature 13 year old is not paedophilia. While in our culture it is not right, lots of cultures it is more normal. A 13 year old going with a 10 year old is paedophilia, just as much as 50 year old going with a 10 year old. Personally I'm against calling young adults who have sex together paedophilia and even older adults going with very young adults, while not right and often should be illegal, is not the crime of paedophilia.
One of the advantages of SOM is that it allows a closed source environment to be extended. Don't like the file dialog, subclass it with a better one. Or a recent example, need transparent png bolted on your 10 year old OS, well create a few new classes and use Cairo to display them. Suddenly you have modern transparent icons, transparent widgets on the desktop etc. Unluckily with GPL you can get into issues of whether closed source or just incompatible licensed libraries can be added. One of the ideas behind SOM/DSOM was that anyone could write a DLL and extend the WPS. Now it seems that in free software land you often have to worry about incompatible licenses. If IBM ever does open source SOM/DSOM I hope it is with something liberal like the LGPL. Don't have to think about issues with linking and the important source stays open.
While SOM is very powerful and would of made a great addition to the Linux desktop I think it may be to late now as the common Linux desktop environments are quite entrenched. If only IBM had done this 10 years ago Linux could of had something to set itself apart.
Even worst is the fact that (at the time) OS/2 ran win apps as well or better then native. Win apps could be run in separate sessions so when one crashed the others kept running. OS/2 had superior file IO so many programs actually ran faster under OS/2 then native and even the worst case was at least 95% of native speed.
Canadian government is also forbidden to do illegal searches by Constitution. Recently someone got of due to the fact that he was searched on a hunch by the border guards (they had no reasonable suspicion) even though they found 50 Kg of cocaine. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n880/a12.html of course it will probably not stand up to appeal. Another interesting decision found while googling above is http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1988/1988rcs2-548/1988rcs2-548.html where someone got of for not being informed of his right to a lawyer as soon as customs decided to search him. Canada's constitution is a bit weaker as whether illegal evidence is admitted is based on whether it brings justice into disrepute. Also the constitution is a bit more modern than America's as it was put into place in 1981.
Every single country in the whole world is under terrorist attack nowadays, including your cuddly neighbor to the north Canada. I missed the recent terrorist attacks on Canada. I guess being Canadian our news has kept quite and intercepted the news coming over the border so we don't know about them.
I though it was pretty well excepted that there was enough methane in the atmosphere to of created enough of a greenhouse effect that the Earth wasn't unduly cold.
Actually I'd include constitutional monarchies in the list when mentioning the modern meaning of democracy. Canada, Australia, various European countries are also democracies with quite good freedoms.
Canada is pretty spread out to. Parts of the States have quite high population densities. The east coast is quite heavily populated. California has about the same population as Canada. If it was really about population density you'd have parts of the States with great internet access and other parts like Wyoming with bad access. Instead it seems it is all bad.
The American revolution wasn't really a revolution but instead a war of secession. The British government continued on and the Americans got a new government. I can't really think of any violent revolutions that were really successful.
Loved Beagle Bros. The other thing that I loved was Nibble magazine. Lots of interesting programs to type in and my favorite was Sandy Mossberg's disassembly column where he took us through the ROM, DOS, ProDOS and eventually the GS toolbox. And it is still around sorta http://www.nibblemagazine.net/
You do realize that the Apple II was designed to use a TV for a monitor don't you? That was why only 40 columns and the weird graphics design. When the Apple II was released custom chips were very expensive so it didn't use any unlike some of the later computers. Due to FCC regs you had to buy the RF doohickey separately.
There is a good chance that your neighbor is illegally growing drugs. Opium poppies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_poppy are very common, you can buy them from any seed house, and they self seed quite easy. I had a couple of volunteers growing in a window box here. Also there is all those stories that used to go around about the little old lady who bought some bird seed where the hemp seed wasn't sterilized and sprouted in the back yard. Anyways excellent comparision, just like a large number of people are unwittingly breaking the drug laws so many businesses are unwittingly breaking software licensing.
Err, I'm on dialup, only choice here, and one song takes an hour at least if doing nothing else at the same time. Crappy phone lines, lots of mountains stopping satellites...
This is exactly what I thought. I'm on dialup, average connection is 26.4. That's an hour to DL a song with the wife complaining about the phone being tied up, my son complaining about his connection being dead etc. And I'd sure love to find a decent plan for 2.95 a month. I pay 24.95 a month (plus GST) in a province where the radio is advertising lo-hi-speed (128 kb?) connections for $14.95. Oh well they figure fiber should be here inside of 20 years.
Why would anyone want to ever trust sony? I have never had Microsoft deliberately to something malicious to my PC but with sony its the norm.
I've never had Sony do anything malicious to my PC though I have heard that they took advantage of a MS flaw to do it to some. Now MS has been quite consistently malicious to my PC. I have run OS/2 for quite a while. Often I have been forced to run Windows, for a while it seemed just to browse the internet you needed Windows and lots of crap came in Windows only formats. Anyways every version of Win9x upon install would announce that my OS/2 install was now bye-bye, not even a chance to save your data before making OS/2 nonworking. For me it wasn't to bad because I knew enough to go into fdisk and change the active partition but how many didn't? Oh Win2k totally fucked BootManager every time you ran it. This is without even mentioning changing your partition types to whatever they'd invented this week.
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I'd suggest that you educate yourself. At least 1/3 of the people in America (the 13 colonies that is) did not agree with the rebellion and were terrorized in various ways. One common example was tar and feathering, eg made to watch the tar heated up over a fire to maybe 160 degrees then have it poured over them and forced to roll in feathers. Sounds pretty terrorizing to me. Not to mention the nonphysical political acts done to them, you know, all men are equal unless black, or loyalist in which case they had no rights besides things like triple taxation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution)
Nope, that's not true. "Terrorism" is not just a dirty word -- it refers to a very specific tactics to achieve ideological/political goals: violence targeting civilians. America's founders did not do that...
Oh bullshit, you should study history. Here is one source, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyalist_(American_Revolution) .
I personally think that making a civilian watch while you boil up some tar (about 160 degrees Fahrenheit, hot enough to give 1st degree burns and often kill) then applying it and making the person roll in feathers to be a terrorist act.
Also not giving people any rights, triple taxation, confiscating property etc not far from terrorism either.
Think about it, about 1/3 of America were loyalist and had to be driven out of the country (often from fear of terrorism) or terrorized into changing allegiance.
Hey, that's the vice dictator who shoots people in the face when frustrated by not being able to find any harmless birds to shoot for fun.
But seriously the difference between China and The States is that China is honest about their repressiveness whereas the States are very hypocritical about how free they are. I personally hate hypocrites.
Shit, personally if I was American I couldn't vote or own a firearm because I did something stupid 30 years ago when I was 19.
Here in Canada I can vote and also own a firearm, I just have to show that I know which end the bullet comes out of. (owning a firearm here is about as much as a right as driving. You gotta show capability and responsibility).
Well you just have to look at some of the other well armed demographics like the middle east. Especially Afghanistan.
Well armed population has really helped there.
Yes, that bearing arms thing has really helped the Iraqis and Afghans, both who are heavily armed.
Incidentally the British got the right to bear arms (for self defense if not Catholic) in 1689 after the glorious revolution of 1688 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glorious_Revolution . Another example of a right being eroded away along with most of the rights declared in the bill of rights enacted in 1689 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_1689 . (Where do you think America's founding fathers got their ideas?)
I guess I was thinking of the 10 year old as not having hit puberty yet which was the way it was when I was a kid.
They're making the common mistake of thinking paedophilia includes young adults (people who are physically mature but below the age of consent) when really it means adults being attracted to prepubescent children.
A 15 year old going with a 13 year old is not paedophilia. At that a 50 year old going with a mature 13 year old is not paedophilia. While in our culture it is not right, lots of cultures it is more normal.
A 13 year old going with a 10 year old is paedophilia, just as much as 50 year old going with a 10 year old.
Personally I'm against calling young adults who have sex together paedophilia and even older adults going with very young adults, while not right and often should be illegal, is not the crime of paedophilia.
One of the advantages of SOM is that it allows a closed source environment to be extended. Don't like the file dialog, subclass it with a better one. Or a recent example, need transparent png bolted on your 10 year old OS, well create a few new classes and use Cairo to display them. Suddenly you have modern transparent icons, transparent widgets on the desktop etc.
Unluckily with GPL you can get into issues of whether closed source or just incompatible licensed libraries can be added. One of the ideas behind SOM/DSOM was that anyone could write a DLL and extend the WPS. Now it seems that in free software land you often have to worry about incompatible licenses.
If IBM ever does open source SOM/DSOM I hope it is with something liberal like the LGPL. Don't have to think about issues with linking and the important source stays open.
While SOM is very powerful and would of made a great addition to the Linux desktop I think it may be to late now as the common Linux desktop environments are quite entrenched. If only IBM had done this 10 years ago Linux could of had something to set itself apart.
Even worst is the fact that (at the time) OS/2 ran win apps as well or better then native.
Win apps could be run in separate sessions so when one crashed the others kept running.
OS/2 had superior file IO so many programs actually ran faster under OS/2 then native and even the worst case was at least 95% of native speed.
Canadian government is also forbidden to do illegal searches by Constitution. Recently someone got of due to the fact that he was searched on a hunch by the border guards (they had no reasonable suspicion) even though they found 50 Kg of cocaine. http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n880/a12.html of course it will probably not stand up to appeal.
Another interesting decision found while googling above is http://csc.lexum.umontreal.ca/en/1988/1988rcs2-548/1988rcs2-548.html where someone got of for not being informed of his right to a lawyer as soon as customs decided to search him.
Canada's constitution is a bit weaker as whether illegal evidence is admitted is based on whether it brings justice into disrepute. Also the constitution is a bit more modern than America's as it was put into place in 1981.
I though it was pretty well excepted that there was enough methane in the atmosphere to of created enough of a greenhouse effect that the Earth wasn't unduly cold.
Actually I'd include constitutional monarchies in the list when mentioning the modern meaning of democracy. Canada, Australia, various European countries are also democracies with quite good freedoms.
Canada is pretty spread out to. Parts of the States have quite high population densities. The east coast is quite heavily populated. California has about the same population as Canada. If it was really about population density you'd have parts of the States with great internet access and other parts like Wyoming with bad access. Instead it seems it is all bad.
The American revolution wasn't really a revolution but instead a war of secession. The British government continued on and the Americans got a new government. I can't really think of any violent revolutions that were really successful.
Loved Beagle Bros. The other thing that I loved was Nibble magazine. Lots of interesting programs to type in and my favorite was Sandy Mossberg's disassembly column where he took us through the ROM, DOS, ProDOS and eventually the GS toolbox.
And it is still around sorta http://www.nibblemagazine.net/
You do realize that the Apple II was designed to use a TV for a monitor don't you? That was why only 40 columns and the weird graphics design. When the Apple II was released custom chips were very expensive so it didn't use any unlike some of the later computers.
Due to FCC regs you had to buy the RF doohickey separately.
There is a good chance that your neighbor is illegally growing drugs. Opium poppies http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_poppy are very common, you can buy them from any seed house, and they self seed quite easy.
I had a couple of volunteers growing in a window box here.
Also there is all those stories that used to go around about the little old lady who bought some bird seed where the hemp seed wasn't sterilized and sprouted in the back yard.
Anyways excellent comparision, just like a large number of people are unwittingly breaking the drug laws so many businesses are unwittingly breaking software licensing.
Actually quite a few stores advertise buy it at the American list price.
Err, I'm on dialup, only choice here, and one song takes an hour at least if doing nothing else at the same time.
Crappy phone lines, lots of mountains stopping satellites...
This is exactly what I thought. I'm on dialup, average connection is 26.4. That's an hour to DL a song with the wife complaining about the phone being tied up, my son complaining about his connection being dead etc.
And I'd sure love to find a decent plan for 2.95 a month. I pay 24.95 a month (plus GST) in a province where the radio is advertising lo-hi-speed (128 kb?) connections for $14.95.
Oh well they figure fiber should be here inside of 20 years.
Why would anyone want to ever trust sony? I have never had Microsoft deliberately to something malicious to my PC but with sony its the norm.
I've never had Sony do anything malicious to my PC though I have heard that they took advantage of a MS flaw to do it to some.
Now MS has been quite consistently malicious to my PC.
I have run OS/2 for quite a while. Often I have been forced to run Windows, for a while it seemed just to browse the internet you needed Windows and lots of crap came in Windows only formats.
Anyways every version of Win9x upon install would announce that my OS/2 install was now bye-bye, not even a chance to save your data before making OS/2 nonworking. For me it wasn't to bad because I knew enough to go into fdisk and change the active partition but how many didn't?
Oh Win2k totally fucked BootManager every time you ran it.
This is without even mentioning changing your partition types to whatever they'd invented this week.
The biggest dependent on mosquitoes are fish eating the larvae.
You do realize that using DDT to control disease bearing things like mosquitos is still allowed don't you? http://www.malaria.org/DDTpage.html