Even racist talk can be funny. In fact, humor transcends everything. That's why it is so useful. In Germany (how appropriate!) we have a saying: "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht." It means: "Humor is, when you laugh nonetheless." And yes, the borked grammar is there on purpose.
That doesn't mean that I support racial humor, but denying that you did laugh (or smile) about it doesn't help fighting the racist cause.
OTOH, I have mod priviledges right now and would not have moderated the post as funny, because it's not.
Racism has nothing to do with genetics of people, but rather with their ethnic origin. Thus, the remark is racist. It is also mildly amusing in a very shallow way, and I for one would err on the side of humor.
Exercise for the interested reader: Does that make me a shallow person? Am I a racist?
You don't remember netscape packages in Debian? You obviously never used potato or older.
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are two different things. Ie, here in Germany we have very tough laws with regard to your personal information and how it must be handled by businesses and the government. It's called "Datenschutz" and the CCC (Chaos Computer Club, you know: Blinkenlights) is a big lobbiest for Datenschutz.
Unfortunately the laws and procedures are broken every day, simply because it's so easy to do. It's very rare that somebody publicly complains when personal privacy is jeopardized and even when somebody cries foul, the public doesn't care.
The fact of evolution is simply that organism change through time.
Consider: a) There live now organism (eg. animals, plants, fungus) on this world that did not live on it before b) All living things are created by other living things (the problem that there must have been one (or a few) first living things nonwithstanding)
And no, the changes do not necesarily occur over million of years; we have seen these changes occur in recent history.
Go read the links which are posted in this thread.
> What they will not do is sign away my rights to the UN. My gov't will not allow that. I will not allow my gov't to do that.
Dream on. Have you ever heard of GATS? Your government signs away your rights (ie self-determination) right there. And please tell me in detail, what you will do against it?
I understand that GATS has nothing to do with the UN though. Well, everything is fine and dandy then, right?
I'm not against private property and a capitalist system, I am however deeply concerned, that huge corporations and few individuals accumulate too much power simply because they are insanely rich. I think this has already happened.
By the way, in ancient Sparta, when a person became to wealthy (and thus too powerful) it was exiled. Think about it for a second.
Germany's economy is stagnating, because money is being wasted by corrupt politicians and greedy corporate managers. Note, that Germany is right now richer than it was ever before (along with the rest of the western world) as expressed by the GNP. Right now, some unionists are rallying behind warning strikes, because the metall industry is offering an 1,2 increase (just around the inflation rate, after years of no increases), but only if the employees accept an unpaid increase in the working hours from 35 to 40 hours a week.
Now, what is wrong with this picture? a) The employers want the unionists to accept less money for more work b) Requiring individuals to work more time while we have 11% unemployment and more part-time work would significally decrease unemployment c) The average income has decreased in Germany in the last 10 years, when you account for inflation, while the income of top managers has increased more than tenfold d) All of the above.
I'm not promoting Socialism, at least not in the way it was done in the GDR, in which I was born by the way. I'm promoting transparent and democratic decision making processes which is currently not happening in the system we have here. I'm also opposed of putting the economy above all, especially above the interests of people that are actually in need.
I have no sympathy for this system at all, because I had to find out that all the things I once cherished after the Wall came down in Berlin, eg free speech, privacy laws, free demonstrations, and all that liberty stuff, aren't worth the paper on which they are printed on. As soon as you're critical to the system and claim your rights, you get bullied around by police and the media doesn't care at all. And I have a feeling that the corporate sector is the driving force behind this, too.
I trust that you're not from around here, otherwise you wouldn't ask. The German government has cut down on income from the corperate sector for the last 25 years.
Also, while I agree to your hypothesis, that the 600+ million is a small investment to the potential future income by taxes, the point is moot, because large companies in Germany simply don't pay taxes anymore.
The problem with "equal opportunity" is that it's not only based on skills (which is indeed a very important factor), but also on plain luck.
By luck I mean not getting sick, not being born with a disability, and most of all having rich parents that can afford to pay for your opportunities.
You can take your idea of a "truly free society" and shove it up your ass, as it simply reiterates the neoliberal myth of a free society by market forces, when those market force do nothing but favour the rich few and ensure the status quo.
By giving tax rebates to corperations the state is reducing its income. If it doesn't want to accumulate more debts it has to cut back on expenses. Currently Germany excels at this political art, by cutting back on social services of all kinds.
By the way, large German companies don't really pay taxes at all anymore. Instead the state of NRW had to pay German Telekom 1,8 billion Euros last year, nicely inflating the profit margin of said company.
The new revenues will largely consist of amounts with 7 or 8 digits nicely deposited on Swiss bank accounts which can only be accessed by a few but elite party officials.
Common practice here in Germany. Screw the public and get rich.
That's right! Thanks to our center-left government, German Telekom (you know, T-Mobile) und Siemens (as in Fujitsu-Siemens) pay less in taxes than the janitors working there. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Hurra to the forces of a free marked economy!
That is so fucking stupid and short-sighted. Yes it is entirely plausible that there were no people in the Siberian wilderness. It is also possible, that the US simply doesn't know about casualties, because they didn't have sources on the ground. The article doesn't say that. It's just government speak "casualties were not known" which could mean anything.
Well, but Linux and other Free Software play their important parts in the revolution, because they empower their users to emancipate themselves and be free of heteronomy.
Also, the notion of sharing the software with your neighbor emphasizes the important aspect of solidarity in this world.
Still, if you only use Linux because you like it better than Windows, more power to you. It only means that Linux does not have to compete on ideology, but that it can compete on merit alone. But be assured that the revolution is coming, nonetheless.
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Even racist talk can be funny. In fact, humor transcends everything. That's why it is so useful. In Germany (how appropriate!) we have a saying: "Humor ist, wenn man trotzdem lacht." It means: "Humor is, when you laugh nonetheless." And yes, the borked grammar is there on purpose.
That doesn't mean that I support racial humor, but denying that you did laugh (or smile) about it doesn't help fighting the racist cause.
OTOH, I have mod priviledges right now and would not have moderated the post as funny, because it's not.
Racism has nothing to do with genetics of people, but rather with their ethnic origin. Thus, the remark is racist. It is also mildly amusing in a very shallow way, and I for one would err on the side of humor.
Exercise for the interested reader: Does that make me a shallow person? Am I a racist?
I wonder if Linus will go to court over the Lin---s.com name.
You don't remember netscape packages in Debian? You obviously never used potato or older.
are two different things. Ie, here in Germany we have very tough laws with regard to your personal information and how it must be handled by businesses and the government. It's called "Datenschutz" and the CCC (Chaos Computer Club, you know: Blinkenlights) is a big lobbiest for Datenschutz.
Unfortunately the laws and procedures are broken every day, simply because it's so easy to do. It's very rare that somebody publicly complains when personal privacy is jeopardized and even when somebody cries foul, the public doesn't care.
That's going on everywhere in society: Profits are privatized, losses are socialized.
The fact of evolution is simply that organism change through time.
Consider:
a) There live now organism (eg. animals, plants, fungus) on this world that did not live on it before
b) All living things are created by other living things (the problem that there must have been one (or a few) first living things nonwithstanding)
And no, the changes do not necesarily occur over million of years; we have seen these changes occur in recent history.
Go read the links which are posted in this thread.
Disclaimer: IANAB (I Am Not A Biologist)
> What they will not do is sign away my rights to the UN. My gov't will not allow that. I will not allow my gov't to do that.
Dream on. Have you ever heard of GATS? Your government signs away your rights (ie self-determination) right there. And please tell me in detail, what you will do against it?
I understand that GATS has nothing to do with the UN though. Well, everything is fine and dandy then, right?
I forgot:
I'm not against private property and a capitalist system, I am however deeply concerned, that huge corporations and few individuals accumulate too much power simply because they are insanely rich. I think this has already happened.
By the way, in ancient Sparta, when a person became to wealthy (and thus too powerful) it was exiled. Think about it for a second.
Germany's economy is stagnating, because money is being wasted by corrupt politicians and greedy corporate managers. Note, that Germany is right now richer than it was ever before (along with the rest of the western world) as expressed by the GNP. Right now, some unionists are rallying behind warning strikes, because the metall industry is offering an 1,2 increase (just around the inflation rate, after years of no increases), but only if the employees accept an unpaid increase in the working hours from 35 to 40 hours a week.
Now, what is wrong with this picture?
a) The employers want the unionists to accept less money for more work
b) Requiring individuals to work more time while we have 11% unemployment and more part-time work would significally decrease unemployment
c) The average income has decreased in Germany in the last 10 years, when you account for inflation, while the income of top managers has increased more than tenfold
d) All of the above.
I'm not promoting Socialism, at least not in the way it was done in the GDR, in which I was born by the way. I'm promoting transparent and democratic decision making processes which is currently not happening in the system we have here. I'm also opposed of putting the economy above all, especially above the interests of people that are actually in need.
I have no sympathy for this system at all, because I had to find out that all the things I once cherished after the Wall came down in Berlin, eg free speech, privacy laws, free demonstrations, and all that liberty stuff, aren't worth the paper on which they are printed on. As soon as you're critical to the system and claim your rights, you get bullied around by police and the media doesn't care at all. And I have a feeling that the corporate sector is the driving force behind this, too.
This is getting OT.
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That's so cruel!
That's the horseshit I've been hearing for the last 10 years and the current structural politics have been going on for the last 20+ years.
To which I say: A different world is possible. Smash capitalism!
> But is it cutting income?
I trust that you're not from around here, otherwise you wouldn't ask. The German government has cut down on income from the corperate sector for the last 25 years.
Also, while I agree to your hypothesis, that the 600+ million is a small investment to the potential future income by taxes, the point is moot, because large companies in Germany simply don't pay taxes anymore.
The problem with "equal opportunity" is that it's not only based on skills (which is indeed a very important factor), but also on plain luck.
By luck I mean not getting sick, not being born with a disability, and most of all having rich parents that can afford to pay for your opportunities.
You can take your idea of a "truly free society" and shove it up your ass, as it simply reiterates the neoliberal myth of a free society by market forces, when those market force do nothing but favour the rich few and ensure the status quo.
Well, the money has still to come from somewhere.
By giving tax rebates to corperations the state is reducing its income. If it doesn't want to accumulate more debts it has to cut back on expenses. Currently Germany excels at this political art, by cutting back on social services of all kinds.
By the way, large German companies don't really pay taxes at all anymore. Instead the state of NRW had to pay German Telekom 1,8 billion Euros last year, nicely inflating the profit margin of said company.
The new revenues will largely consist of amounts with 7 or 8 digits nicely deposited on Swiss bank accounts which can only be accessed by a few but elite party officials.
Common practice here in Germany. Screw the public and get rich.
That's right! Thanks to our center-left government, German Telekom (you know, T-Mobile) und Siemens (as in Fujitsu-Siemens) pay less in taxes than the janitors working there. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. Hurra to the forces of a free marked economy!
Businesses can open till 8pm on Saturdays in Germany, just like every day during the week.
The German counterpart of the RIAA is the IFPI Deutschland and not the GEMA.
That is so fucking stupid and short-sighted. Yes it is entirely plausible that there were no people in the Siberian wilderness. It is also possible, that the US simply doesn't know about casualties, because they didn't have sources on the ground. The article doesn't say that. It's just government speak "casualties were not known" which could mean anything.
Well, but Linux and other Free Software play their important parts in the revolution, because they empower their users to emancipate themselves and be free of heteronomy.
Also, the notion of sharing the software with your neighbor emphasizes the important aspect of solidarity in this world.
Still, if you only use Linux because you like it better than Windows, more power to you. It only means that Linux does not have to compete on ideology, but that it can compete on merit alone. But be assured that the revolution is coming, nonetheless.
Damn, my u-key got stck again.
Yeah, but yor average fuckwit doesn't and won't care. Which explains a lot.
One could also argue that IBM and Sun etc. hopped onto the bandwaggon just in time before it really started rolling fast.
Or that the bandwaggon was rolling fast long before IBM and Sun etc jumped onto it.
It's all a matter of perspective.
Okay, then the option to access that feature from the KDE GUI was included in 3.1 or so.
:1` on the console to open a new session? Or is it internally handled by the same X process that runs on :0?
BTW, is that the same as running `startx --