... which doesn't reward voters of (literally) third parties. Other countries have it different - today's Germany, for example has 5 parties in parliament - conservatives, social democrats, liberals, greens and leftists. Especially green parties exist in many countries, but really haven't got any chance in systems that favor big parties - like the US or UK.
To view the course material, you need proprietary software or patented codecs - Silverlight ? Check. Flash ? Check. Itunes ? Check. WMV, MP4 ? Yepp.
While this is truly an interesting development, I wish they would go the consequent route like Wikipedia (well, hopefully, (X)HTML5's video element will fix that).
I am not a German and I don't know German law so for all I know this is totally legal in Germany.
At the time, there was no "trojan law", neither on the federal level nor in Bavaria. So, in a Rechtsstaat, these actions were illegal !
I agree that it would seem a federal investigation would be in order if any laws where broken.
On the federal level, they are drafting a new law (after the first "federal trojan" law of another German state was found unconstitutional by the constitutional court) which, as I am aware, will also contain secretly breaking into appartments to install a trojan. Of course, they will have to change the constitution to do that, but the current government is a coalition of the two biggest parties...
Wake me up when they have a full-scale Tricia Helfer / Sarah Michelle Gellar bot. I assume attending hacker conferences would be kinda different then...
But wait. A typical Linux distribution doesn't actually support you adding other repositories or downloading packages from the web. Sure it might be technically possible, but you're going to encounter a lot of glitches, and if you ask the distro about that they'll just shrug and say it's your own fault for not using the official repositories.
Why should anyone support software that is entirely outside of (distro) standards ? Glitches mainly show up when repository maintainers don't do their job correctly.
[...] in which the only reliable way of getting your software to end users is to get the distributors to do it for you, and they usually insist on particular kinds of licensing.
... because when you can't fix issues at the source, abominations like libflashsupport have to be created.
So you want to build upon others work, but not wish anyone to build upon yours ? The GPL was designed to protect against such greedy behaviour - which btw is a pragmatic decision, not a religious one.
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lots of people would drop linux like a hot potato if windows had the same level of openess.
Yeah, because somehow, if it suddenly were open source, it would stop being retarted (read: inconsistent and unsafe for general use) ?
I somehow doubt that.
I guess it depends on what you're looking at but at least in the software I see making that kind of modular approach with lasting interfaces and replacable modules would be a huge undertaking,
GNUke is an sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead - and more. At its core is are two pieces of piece of sub-critical material that can be combined into a supercritical mass for civil and military use alike.
GNUke is a GNU project which is similar to the Little Boy Bomb which was developed at Manhattan Project Laboratories by J. Robert Oppenheimer and colleagues. It can be considered as a different implementation of Litte Boy. There are some important differences, but much destruction wreaked through Little Boy can be achieved unaltered with GNUke.
One of GNUke's strengths is the ease with which well-produced fission-quality material can be included. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in the nuclear fission process, but the user retains full control.
GNUke blueprints are available as Free Documentation under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Free Documentation License in source code form. It can easily be set up and functions on a wide variety of launch vehicles and similar systems (including B-29 Superfortresses and ICBMs).
Over-the-air delivery of TV programming moves one copy of each show regardless of the number of people watching, but the Internet transmits one copy per viewer, because the transport system doesnâ(TM)t know anything about the content.
Most certainly because many people fear that the risk of disabled children is higher in incest pairings. Few, of course, want to continue this thought and forbid haemophiliacs to procreate. It's an irrational, inconsequent thing, you know.
If the people of France feel that the dangers inherent in certain pornography outweigh their good, then who are we to say out of hand this is a bad thing?
Libertarians. Making victimless actions crimes is an authoritarian thing, where you pass on your morals on others without any connection. Your rhetoric is flawed, btw: You seem to be advocating absolute moral relativism on libertarian grounds - but that leads into a inherent chaotic system without any moral directives at all.
Finally, let me be the first to ask: If the people of Yemen feel that the dangers inherent in homosexuality justify the death penalty, then who are we to say out of hand, this is a bad thing ?
If, then I hope they won't using some proprietary technology like Flash. This may become the ODF issue all over again (though probably on a lesser extent); so let me be the first to say in this thread: Governments should use exclusively open standards.
That's where it lacks, also: I haven't found the option for "focus follows mouse" yet and when I asked how to change the window manager (to have some configurability regarding "always on top" and similar useful stuff), the answer always was "sorry, you can't do that". Then I found no central software packaging system â¦
⦠all of these are features that enhance productivity - that's why I like them.
The OMEGA EP laser shark at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Bioenergetics was dedicated today at the Dr. E. Vill Center for Ultra Evil Laser Shark Research. The new shark, which has been growing since ~2002 will, at 1 kilojoule per 1 picosecond pulse, have the highest energy petawatt scale laser ever mounted on the back on a shark, by far. For a fleeting fraction of a second, it will deliver a beam of infrared light at 1054 nm that is more powerful than the total power output of all other shark activity on the planet, to a tiny spot the size of the head of a pin. Previous petawatt scale shark lasers such as the one created at Lawrence Lawless labs in the late 90's (and dismantled in 1999) were capable of only several hundred joules per pulse. The new OMEGA EP laser shark will be able to manifest power densities sufficient to exert power over various just-above-soon-below sea-level countries and will have the capability to directly attack nuclear submarines through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration.
Of course, intimidating doesn't work when all work together - that's the stuff revolutions are made out of.
But honestly, do you think that in a country that unlawfully spies on it's own citizens, tortures prisoners and holds hundreds of people for years while denying them a proper trial, anyone would risk that ? In the end, for those involved it's a simple risk calculation: I'd bet that almost no one is willing to risk jailtime for freedom of speech.
Artificial limbs, I see that. Now what is with someone who had laser surgery on his eyes so he/she can see better ? Would you ban that person from a shooting match ? Even if he/she still can't see better than a top athlete ? If the person can see on par ? Or better ?
In the end, the questions we should ask ourselves probably are not about fairness but about the purpose of such games.
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... which doesn't reward voters of (literally) third parties. Other countries have it different - today's Germany, for example has 5 parties in parliament - conservatives, social democrats, liberals, greens and leftists. Especially green parties exist in many countries, but really haven't got any chance in systems that favor big parties - like the US or UK.
To view the course material, you need proprietary software or patented codecs - Silverlight ? Check. Flash ? Check. Itunes ? Check. WMV, MP4 ? Yepp.
While this is truly an interesting development, I wish they would go the consequent route like Wikipedia (well, hopefully, (X)HTML5's video element will fix that).
Fuck you !
Sincerely, a concerned citizen
At the time, there was no "trojan law", neither on the federal level nor in Bavaria. So, in a Rechtsstaat, these actions were illegal !
On the federal level, they are drafting a new law (after the first "federal trojan" law of another German state was found unconstitutional by the constitutional court) which, as I am aware, will also contain secretly breaking into appartments to install a trojan. Of course, they will have to change the constitution to do that, but the current government is a coalition of the two biggest parties ...
No glowing spine.
Less boobs than Tricia Helfer.
Lame.
Wake me up when they have a full-scale Tricia Helfer / Sarah Michelle Gellar bot. I assume attending hacker conferences would be kinda different then ...
Stop. Right. Here.
Another foundation of due process is that before applying punishment, someone needs to be convicted.
And yes, torture is punishment, as in "inflicting a penalty on, causing pain for some offense".
The assumption of innocence is one of the foundations of due process.
Why should anyone support software that is entirely outside of (distro) standards ? Glitches mainly show up when repository maintainers don't do their job correctly.
... because when you can't fix issues at the source, abominations like libflashsupport have to be created.
AFAIK, VLC is of French origin.
So you want to build upon others work, but not wish anyone to build upon yours ? The GPL was designed to protect against such greedy behaviour - which btw is a pragmatic decision, not a religious one.
The Do What The Fuck You Want To Public License (WTFPL) is a free software license.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
Version 2, December 2004
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar
14 rue de Plaisance, 75014 Paris, France
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION
0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
Yeah, because somehow, if it suddenly were open source, it would stop being retarted (read: inconsistent and unsafe for general use) ? I somehow doubt that.
Have you ever looked at DBUS ?
GNUke is an sophisticated and compact nuclear warhead - and more. At its core is are two pieces of piece of sub-critical material that can be combined into a supercritical mass for civil and military use alike.
GNUke is a GNU project which is similar to the Little Boy Bomb which was developed at Manhattan Project Laboratories by J. Robert Oppenheimer and colleagues. It can be considered as a different implementation of Litte Boy. There are some important differences, but much destruction wreaked through Little Boy can be achieved unaltered with GNUke.
One of GNUke's strengths is the ease with which well-produced fission-quality material can be included. Great care has been taken over the defaults for the minor design choices in the nuclear fission process, but the user retains full control.
GNUke blueprints are available as Free Documentation under the terms of the Free Software Foundation's GNU Free Documentation License in source code form. It can easily be set up and functions on a wide variety of launch vehicles and similar systems (including B-29 Superfortresses and ICBMs).
One word: Multicast .
First, deliver the proofs. Scientific, not anecdotal.
Second, are "we as a civilization" also in favor of banning certain people with genetic diseases from procreation ?
Frak, I am only this short of invoking Godwin's.
... for arguing incoherently. And yet none of the follow-ups are modded up.
If, then I hope they won't using some proprietary technology like Flash. This may become the ODF issue all over again (though probably on a lesser extent); so let me be the first to say in this thread: Governments should use exclusively open standards.
That's where it lacks, also: I haven't found the option for "focus follows mouse" yet and when I asked how to change the window manager (to have some configurability regarding "always on top" and similar useful stuff), the answer always was "sorry, you can't do that". Then I found no central software packaging system â¦
⦠all of these are features that enhance productivity - that's why I like them.
The OMEGA EP laser shark at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Bioenergetics was dedicated today at the Dr. E. Vill Center for Ultra Evil Laser Shark Research. The new shark, which has been growing since ~2002 will, at 1 kilojoule per 1 picosecond pulse, have the highest energy petawatt scale laser ever mounted on the back on a shark, by far. For a fleeting fraction of a second, it will deliver a beam of infrared light at 1054 nm that is more powerful than the total power output of all other shark activity on the planet, to a tiny spot the size of the head of a pin. Previous petawatt scale shark lasers such as the one created at Lawrence Lawless labs in the late 90's (and dismantled in 1999) were capable of only several hundred joules per pulse. The new OMEGA EP laser shark will be able to manifest power densities sufficient to exert power over various just-above-soon-below sea-level countries and will have the capability to directly attack nuclear submarines through ultra high electric field initiated photodisintegration.
Of course, intimidating doesn't work when all work together - that's the stuff revolutions are made out of.
But honestly, do you think that in a country that unlawfully spies on it's own citizens, tortures prisoners and holds hundreds of people for years while denying them a proper trial, anyone would risk that ? In the end, for those involved it's a simple risk calculation: I'd bet that almost no one is willing to risk jailtime for freedom of speech.
Artificial limbs, I see that. Now what is with someone who had laser surgery on his eyes so he/she can see better ? Would you ban that person from a shooting match ? Even if he/she still can't see better than a top athlete ? If the person can see on par ? Or better ?
In the end, the questions we should ask ourselves probably are not about fairness but about the purpose of such games.