1) From your text: "While the criminal code does not appear to expressly address same-sex sexuality or cross-dressing, there is no visible LGBT community in North Korea and no LGBT rights movement" Further it clarifies that public display of affection is against tradition regardless of sex and sexual orientation Deduce that: a) LGBT is not illegal b) North Koreans are very conservative. which is something I already knew. Ok they're stuck with tradition, that doesn't mean that gays are outlawed. The view that "gay traits" are connected to feebleness or capitalism may be idiotic but does not classify as gay repression.
2) Detail: "US ex-president Jimmy Carter reported that" -- that demolishes any credibility. Though if the fact that NK are 5' shorter than SK is strong indication, if I'd feel the research was not biased. Which may be, since wikipedia does NOT cite reference! (violation of WP rules, isn't it?) -- Anyway, I frequently watch reports from BBC and people are certainly do not seem malnourished.
3) From wikipedia: "The Daily NK is an online newspaper focusing on issues relating to North Korea. The site, run by opponents of the North Korean government, is based in South Korea and regularly reports stories from inside North Korea via a network of informants inside the country.[1]" Still I read it. It says that free education collapsed in 90's. May be true, but: a) America does not have free education at all. $45,000 a year in an American university is way too much when the dept in France I am applying for postgrad studies wants €250 and an equivalent in EPFL in Lausanne wants ~600CHF. Even in your country, a postgrad programme costs $5000/yr. b) It would be totally reasonable, since the fall of socialism (which happened that exactly period) deprived NK most its allies and radically worsened its economic status.
A quote: "It is impossible for schools to solve their heating problems without state support during the winter, but they do their best by forcing students to give firewood, coal or money." That actually happens in Greece now. It's actually better than that what I was raised. I had NO heating at all in my school of ANY kind. So no use to bring fuel from home.
3) I didn't even know that parties can be elected. I thought that only Worker's Party was legal. So practically you enforced my position by revealing that there are elections even for high posts. Ok, not totally free since they're not entirely secret, but even that way, it allows to have 4 parties in the Assembly. I personally was referring to low and mid key posts, like municipalities and local governors.
Not to forget to mention that in America there are essentially only two parties representing the exact same political stance ("The Business Party" as called by Chomski), differing only in religious matters like abortion. Even in the Banana Republic of Greece (as we jokingly some refer to it, bananas refer to colonialism), we have a communist, a far-left, a center-right, a right-wing, previously a far right-wing and a far-far-far extremist right-wing nazi party in the parliament.
4) Please specify where my info was wrong.
5) It's called ROC by WHO? Only themselves use that term. Even the WP article you gave me, actually redirects to "Taiwan"! From the article, only 22 UN members have even official relationships with Taiwan. Even themselves, in their last bid at the UN for recognition (which of course failed), they used the term "Taiwan" and not "ROC". It would be useful to mention that the credentials transfer to PRC from ROC/Taiwan was made by the UN General Assembly (which represents everyone) and not the Security Council (which effectively represents only the interest of 5 countries)
6) And a question. Does the UK belong to "Free World" according to your views? I mean they have as colonies the 1/3 of the world just a few decades ago. Can they still be classified as a country promoting freedom?
ps: That would be interesting why do you believe all the Greeks sound alike. Probably far less pro-West?
First of all, starvation was in 1997 -- I'm not saying NK is rich country, it isn't, it's development is trailing far below SK, and most of the country wealth first goes to military when an important portion of food supplies come from China since NK can't cover all it's food needs. But certainly people are NOT starving. If you want to see how it is to starve, come here to Greece (NATO and EU member) where pensioners search food from the garbage.
BTW, it's China even in the UN. UN has recognized PRC as the "only" China, back in 1948, if my memory serves me well, and this has never changed, repeated even by current UN secretariat of Ban Ki-moon. So when we say China we can only mean PRC and nothing else. (in reference to your previous post).
As for completely uneducated, that's just not true. By any means. Certainly isolating their national networks from internet and blocking roaming and external calls from their cellular networks is a huge step backwards from knowledge and communication, but hardly that means uneducated. At least, creating nukes needs some knowledge, doesn't it?
But at least, being a gay it's totally ok in NK in contrast to many Middle East countries, like the US ally Saudi Arabia (and US foe Iran) which is a capital offence. Both men AND women have a right for voting (municipal and regional elections, there are no top gov't elections). Note that even in Switzerland women got vote right in 90's. Saudi Arabia has no voting of any kind. Also they have equality of the sexes when Saudi Arabia wanted to refuse female athletes to go to Olympics. And NK doen't dress its women like ghosts. (Burka is not just religion, it's repression)
But all in all, it's leadership is immensely popular. Since they're fine with their leaders, why should others care? I'm not supporting the dynasty-style inheritance of power, but if they like it, it's fine with me. Don't forget than many countries in Europe have kings and queens, with varying level of powers.
"Free world"? Is the liberated Iraq and Afghanistan one of them, where women are still stoned for adultery? Is Saudi Arabia where there are no elections even for the smallest scale regional administrators? Where gays are beheaded just for having sex? Are the US, where abortion or premarital sex is a perceived as a crime by half of the politicians but installing a dictatorship in most of Latin America or bombing 3rd world countries is perfectly fine? Is South Korea who has democratic elections for only 20 years? The same country responsible for the Bodo League massacre of even more than 1 million political dissidents after Korean war?
NK may be an militaristic country, it has repeatedly threatened others, but NEVER fulfilled these threats, never since the end of Korean War. It always been just words, that even the US don't take very seriously.
In kilos, cm and $. For example my first hard disk, a Seagate ST-124, 20MB, weighed some kilos, it has 5.25" large, and cost multi-hundred $. That's big.
How old is your hardware? My first computer, a 1980's era machine, IBM PS/2 Model 30, an 8086/8MHz (without heatsink or fan), had a 70W PSU, so I can safely assume that at peak load could draw this 50W.
If command line scares you, you should try Linux or any other UNIX at first place. Linux and any UNIX-related system except OSX is not for desktop use of the average person. Now stop bitching, if network administrators are fine using Apache or BIND or mysql, your opinion is redundant. And... really... you need a GUI for GRUB? You can't type 4 lines? If they are not already cared by the distro.
As for the last: printer configuration is available at your browser at localhost:631 (for cups). Screen-resolution settings is available in most DEs. For example at Xfce is at Menu -> Settings -> Display. For network parameters, use wicd or network manager which both have GUI applets. For volume control there should be an icon at your system tray. If not, at Xfce is Menu->Multimedia->Mixer.
Ah, so start menu is so old, we should probably get something fresh even if it is unusable? I've tried GNOME3 and I found it awful beyond description, and NOT for the lack of start menu, which can be very easily added with a simple extension. The whole idea is an unholy mess as Linus said. If they wanted to make a UI more suitable for tablets, they should begin a new project, not damage a good existing one.
Every SMALL device is DC-powered. My opinion is to have only one AC->DC rectifier centrally in the building and have DC sockets in each room providing standard voltages, 3.7, 5 and 12V. Actually this can be done even now.
I don't know if you intended to troll, but your post should me tagged as "Insightful" not "Troll" Apple should become a fashion firm not electronics. It sells looks and style, not performance.
I think that both are properly capitalized as "MIPS". Why Mips or MIps? Unless you also say also Mflops? Well, thankfully it doesn't matter anymore as no processor is measured in MIPS or MFLOPS. Even low power chips are in the range of Giga.
My opinion: If QWERTY has a slight provision for common accents (grave, acute, circumflex, cedille, ulaut), a fucking COMPOSE key mandatory (aside from AltGr), that would actually be a great idea.
As for weird alphabets (like Greek I use) there are different layouts activated temporarily with Alt-Shift. So it's fine even with this.
It may change in time, but just because someone invents a better keyboard layout, or a more innovative way to type, doesn't mean it will meet common acceptance
"abcdef" a better keyboard layout? No, not at all. If any change is to be made ever, it would be an international collaboration and research, that would give something that would be widely agreed that is significantly better, with international use, not just US or even EU.
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1) From your text:
"While the criminal code does not appear to expressly address same-sex sexuality or cross-dressing, there is no visible LGBT community in North Korea and no LGBT rights movement"
Further it clarifies that public display of affection is against tradition regardless of sex and sexual orientation
Deduce that:
a) LGBT is not illegal b) North Koreans are very conservative.
which is something I already knew. Ok they're stuck with tradition, that doesn't mean that gays are outlawed.
The view that "gay traits" are connected to feebleness or capitalism may be idiotic but does not classify as gay repression.
2) Detail: "US ex-president Jimmy Carter reported that" -- that demolishes any credibility. Though if the fact that NK are 5' shorter than SK is strong indication, if I'd feel the research was not biased. Which may be, since wikipedia does NOT cite reference! (violation of WP rules, isn't it?) -- Anyway, I frequently watch reports from BBC and people are certainly do not seem malnourished.
3) From wikipedia:
"The Daily NK is an online newspaper focusing on issues relating to North Korea. The site, run by opponents of the North Korean government, is based in South Korea and regularly reports stories from inside North Korea via a network of informants inside the country.[1]"
Still I read it. It says that free education collapsed in 90's. May be true, but:
a) America does not have free education at all. $45,000 a year in an American university is way too much when the dept in France I am applying for postgrad studies wants €250 and an equivalent in EPFL in Lausanne wants ~600CHF. Even in your country, a postgrad programme costs $5000/yr.
b) It would be totally reasonable, since the fall of socialism (which happened that exactly period) deprived NK most its allies and radically worsened its economic status.
A quote: "It is impossible for schools to solve their heating problems without state support during the winter, but they do their best by forcing students to give firewood, coal or money."
That actually happens in Greece now. It's actually better than that what I was raised. I had NO heating at all in my school of ANY kind. So no use to bring fuel from home.
3) I didn't even know that parties can be elected. I thought that only Worker's Party was legal. So practically you enforced my position by revealing that there are elections even for high posts. Ok, not totally free since they're not entirely secret, but even that way, it allows to have 4 parties in the Assembly. I personally was referring to low and mid key posts, like municipalities and local governors.
Not to forget to mention that in America there are essentially only two parties representing the exact same political stance ("The Business Party" as called by Chomski), differing only in religious matters like abortion. Even in the Banana Republic of Greece (as we jokingly some refer to it, bananas refer to colonialism), we have a communist, a far-left, a center-right, a right-wing, previously a far right-wing and a far-far-far extremist right-wing nazi party in the parliament.
4) Please specify where my info was wrong.
5) It's called ROC by WHO? Only themselves use that term. Even the WP article you gave me, actually redirects to "Taiwan"! From the article, only 22 UN members have even official relationships with Taiwan. Even themselves, in their last bid at the UN for recognition (which of course failed), they used the term "Taiwan" and not "ROC".
It would be useful to mention that the credentials transfer to PRC from ROC/Taiwan was made by the UN General Assembly (which represents everyone) and not the Security Council (which effectively represents only the interest of 5 countries)
6) And a question. Does the UK belong to "Free World" according to your views? I mean they have as colonies the 1/3 of the world just a few decades ago. Can they still be classified as a country promoting freedom?
ps: That would be interesting why do you believe all the Greeks sound alike. Probably far less pro-West?
First of all, starvation was in 1997 -- I'm not saying NK is rich country, it isn't, it's development is trailing far below SK, and most of the country wealth first goes to military when an important portion of food supplies come from China since NK can't cover all it's food needs. But certainly people are NOT starving. If you want to see how it is to starve, come here to Greece (NATO and EU member) where pensioners search food from the garbage.
BTW, it's China even in the UN. UN has recognized PRC as the "only" China, back in 1948, if my memory serves me well, and this has never changed, repeated even by current UN secretariat of Ban Ki-moon. So when we say China we can only mean PRC and nothing else. (in reference to your previous post).
As for completely uneducated, that's just not true. By any means. Certainly isolating their national networks from internet and blocking roaming and external calls from their cellular networks is a huge step backwards from knowledge and communication, but hardly that means uneducated. At least, creating nukes needs some knowledge, doesn't it?
But at least, being a gay it's totally ok in NK in contrast to many Middle East countries, like the US ally Saudi Arabia (and US foe Iran) which is a capital offence.
Both men AND women have a right for voting (municipal and regional elections, there are no top gov't elections). Note that even in Switzerland women got vote right in 90's. Saudi Arabia has no voting of any kind.
Also they have equality of the sexes when Saudi Arabia wanted to refuse female athletes to go to Olympics. And NK doen't dress its women like ghosts. (Burka is not just religion, it's repression)
But all in all, it's leadership is immensely popular. Since they're fine with their leaders, why should others care?
I'm not supporting the dynasty-style inheritance of power, but if they like it, it's fine with me. Don't forget than many countries in Europe have kings and queens, with varying level of powers.
Woah, you exceeded the "Black book of Communism"! Why not 260m? 465m? 580m?
ps: Cambodia communism?? OMG RLY? Shutting down schools and universities and killing teachers, sending all people to farms, is communism?
free world just says "Korea"
"Free world"?
Is the liberated Iraq and Afghanistan one of them, where women are still stoned for adultery?
Is Saudi Arabia where there are no elections even for the smallest scale regional administrators? Where gays are beheaded just for having sex?
Are the US, where abortion or premarital sex is a perceived as a crime by half of the politicians but installing a dictatorship in most of Latin America or bombing 3rd world countries is perfectly fine?
Is South Korea who has democratic elections for only 20 years? The same country responsible for the Bodo League massacre of even more than 1 million political dissidents after Korean war?
NK may be an militaristic country, it has repeatedly threatened others, but NEVER fulfilled these threats, never since the end of Korean War. It always been just words, that even the US don't take very seriously.
US taking down a SOUTH Korean satellite? That would be fun!!
In kilos, cm and $. For example my first hard disk, a Seagate ST-124, 20MB, weighed some kilos, it has 5.25" large, and cost multi-hundred $. That's big.
At 50 W
How old is your hardware? My first computer, a 1980's era machine, IBM PS/2 Model 30, an 8086/8MHz (without heatsink or fan), had a 70W PSU, so I can safely assume that at peak load could draw this 50W.
If command line scares you, you should try Linux or any other UNIX at first place. Linux and any UNIX-related system except OSX is not for desktop use of the average person. Now stop bitching, if network administrators are fine using Apache or BIND or mysql, your opinion is redundant. And... really... you need a GUI for GRUB? You can't type 4 lines? If they are not already cared by the distro.
As for the last: printer configuration is available at your browser at localhost:631 (for cups). Screen-resolution settings is available in most DEs. For example at Xfce is at Menu -> Settings -> Display. For network parameters, use wicd or network manager which both have GUI applets. For volume control there should be an icon at your system tray. If not, at Xfce is Menu->Multimedia->Mixer.
Why don't you try ratpoison?
Ah, so start menu is so old, we should probably get something fresh even if it is unusable? I've tried GNOME3 and I found it awful beyond description, and NOT for the lack of start menu, which can be very easily added with a simple extension. The whole idea is an unholy mess as Linus said. If they wanted to make a UI more suitable for tablets, they should begin a new project, not damage a good existing one.
... but it gets in the way if you use a keyboard or mouse
Ah, it was GNOME3 that Microsoft copied/inspired to make Windows 8?
Are these laptops powered by standard 6-cell batteries?
Every SMALL device is DC-powered. My opinion is to have only one AC->DC rectifier centrally in the building and have DC sockets in each room providing standard voltages, 3.7, 5 and 12V. Actually this can be done even now.
Doesn't matter. All your base are belong to us!
All this, when I search for "big boobs" on YouPorn, they turn to be female. Pure luck, right? :P
I don't know if you intended to troll, but your post should me tagged as "Insightful" not "Troll"
Apple should become a fashion firm not electronics.
It sells looks and style, not performance.
Intel Atom (D2700 2x2.13GHz@10W)? AMD Zacate (E-450@18W)?
I bet you can find them at the $50-$70 range (motherboard+cpu).
I think that both are properly capitalized as "MIPS". Why Mips or MIps? Unless you also say also Mflops?
Well, thankfully it doesn't matter anymore as no processor is measured in MIPS or MFLOPS. Even low power chips are in the range of Giga.
No, it's Slashdot filtering out certain chars, not that we can't type them.
For example I didn't see the "cent" sign.
Quebec is 100% french speaking yet they use QWERTY...
My opinion: If QWERTY has a slight provision for common accents (grave, acute, circumflex, cedille, ulaut), a fucking COMPOSE key mandatory (aside from AltGr), that would actually be a great idea.
As for weird alphabets (like Greek I use) there are different layouts activated temporarily with Alt-Shift. So it's fine even with this.
I only can't find a proper solution for CJK guys.
It may change in time, but just because someone invents a better keyboard layout, or a more innovative way to type, doesn't mean it will meet common acceptance
"abcdef" a better keyboard layout? No, not at all.
If any change is to be made ever, it would be an international collaboration and research, that would give something that would be widely agreed that is significantly better, with international use, not just US or even EU.
My opinion? Not gonna happen.
> help linux
Loads a Linux kernel. Usage "linux
sounds easy to me
LI LI LI LI LI LI LI LI (x1000 times)
Please debug this!
Oh, how discreetly you attach words like "inevitably" to your predictions! How "futile" is arguing with you....!