A democracy can easily be a theocracy. And there's nothing subtle about the collectivism of tax-funded social welfare. Nothing wrong with collectivism either. It's a survival trait first used by single celled organisms, to fish, to apes and finally to us. Rugged Individualism is tool to break human spirit and keep the plebs in their place.
To put the above in perspective, the above poster is clearly rich enough to a) afford a TV b) afford a connection to the internet. The coup against Chavez was organised by the rich, and defeated by the poor. The TV stations he mentions are all for the rich, so champion low taxes and screwing poor people, basically it's Fox on every channel. The one that got shut down openly advocated the coup. That's like Fox championing freepers marching to the Whitehouse with guns, the FCC would have failed to renew Fox's license if they went that far.
As for the claim of Chavez thugs shooting at peaceful protesters, there are other camera angles showing 3 guys trying to suppress fire from automatic rifles with handguns while women and children (Chavez's thugs remember) scurry for safety because the anti Chavez crowd thinks it's their right to shoot poor people.
Given Western reporting on Chavez, I'd suspect he said nothing of the sort. You know, like when he was ousted in a coup and restored to power through popular support, reports in the US and UK were that Chavez was oppressing peaceful protest.
Hi, this is the rest of the world. We know how scary it can be for inhabitants of such an insular country as the USA when confronted by the notion that their culture is only one among many. We support your attempts to connect with people outside your culture and we will help you in any way we can. Hopefully this will lead you to a better understanding of the world which, if it permeates your country, will stop you lashing out at cultures you don't understand.
Do tell me more about how communication between people is exactly the same as memory mapping. Is virtual memory mapping related to the fact that women can't read maps and men can't stop and ask for directions?
Dunno about that specifically, but cops are trained to lie to get what they want. Never let them in your home unless they have a warrant for entry to it.
Did any of the people authorized to know the passwords ask Childs for them without a room full of people? Or did they sit and fume for three days then have him arrested?
I know which one my money's on (as if we'd ever find out).
He didn't say he'd forgotten it because he was simply doing what his job description told him to do. He was called into a room with a dozen people he didn't know, he refused to hand over the password to these people. When a single person (the mayor) who was authorized to know the password asked for it, he handed it over without hesitation.
1 & 2) I'm not seeing anything on bug reports or the mailing list about specific issues. 3. That's not an explanation, that's an excuse for not having an explanation. Any design is a mix of architectures, would you reject a patch for the sole reason that it used events/and/ polling? 4. RTFA: "DIB Engine : Passing all tests" 5. The code it's replacing doesn't render anything in many places. WINE would prefer a stub to a mostly working implementation? Anyway, where is this report, I see Steven Edwards has posted a single image to the bug and called it a "comparison".
Having a Prima Donna at the helm of a project is not the same as "high standards". WINE has achieved some marvelous things, but the pace of development is very slow. Making people who have contributed their time to help play guess-what-the-project-leader-wants looks like a major cause of this. How much code has gone to waste because the devs couldn't guess what was required of them?
This is a working DIB engine. It integrates with the GDI layer. It has been developed at length and passes all tests, if you read the bug there are some fairly fanatical testers reporting in on the build. Providing detailed bug reports. Most bugs have been fixed. There are two outstanding issues, one is a show stopper (mouse movement chews CPU on slow machines (oddly it sounds like there's knee point below which CPU is chewed and above which no noticeable CPU is used at all)) the other is the problem: Alexandre doesn't like it and wont say why. Given the latter, why bother fixing the former?
That's bad logic. Few people agree 100% with the policies of their political parties.
The logic is not that you have to agree with every issue. In order to support the BNP you have to believe whatever policy you share with them outweighs the "end to non white immigration" policy. Unless the policy you share is that one. Either way it doesn't look good for you.
Since when is Al Qaeda a registered political party in the UK?
Who said anything about registered? If you declare your affiliation with a (quite possibly non existent) terrorist organisation, or with a bunch of racist thugs, you are going to find it hard to get into the police force. By making the official policy "No BNP members" the police cut down on paperwork. There would be much more paperwork involved in turning down individual applications to the police based on perceived racism that there would be turning down the application of a teacher for perceived pedophilia if they belong to a pedophile ring.
You have it backwards. They are barred from certain jobs because being a member of the party deemed to extreme by Oswald Mosley's Nazi party is good evidence of racism. Even if the BNP are the only party that agree with your policy on chewing gum disposal and so you join them, you are still saying you don't have a problem with their bashing immigrants policy.
This is not done due to a distaste for their opinions, but due to the fact that they are genuinely dangerous. I think you'd find the police would turn down job applications from anyone writing Al Queada under "Political Affiliation" on the form.
I should perhaps have been more clear. I was mocking Biggjeff5's argument, whereby he claimed that the things wrong with capitalism were not failures of capitalism. Buying and selling politicians is just as capitalist as recruitment, the emphasis placed on trading is the failure of capitalism. Markets should be used as a tool of society, not treated as society's master.
So where is the failure? Is it capitalism doing what it has always done, and will always continue to do? Or was it the government's failure to reign it in? If a government official can be bribed, that's not a failure of capitalism.
No, it's a success of capitalism, any trade is a good trade.
You seem to be making the argument that a mixture of capitalism and socialism is still capitalism, therefore capitalism wins. Nice try, but no cigar.
Try visiting whyaretheydead.net, it will tell about the people Scientology has killed. Try googling Operation Snow White, you'll find out about how Scientology infiltrated the IRS and shortly afterwards gained tax-exempt status. Try visiting Tory Magoo's website, she's an high ranking ex-Scientologist. Read about how she was denied her epilepsy medicine by Scientology.
Want to know what they've done to me personally? I'll give you a clue, us non-Scientologists give a damn about each other.
So they are selling more bandwidth than they have the capacity to provide? Or to put it another way, bandwidth they do not have.
What's more, even if they had the capacity for the usage patterns of their users, they are still/selling/ more bandwidth than they have if they are selling/unlimited/ bandwidth. If a coffee shop sells unlimited refills, but refuses to give me another after my 5th refill, they are liars. Even if I didn't want more than five cups, the fact that they are lying would piss me off. The same is true of bandwidth, they should sell it as X MBit peak bandwidth, rather than 10 MBit unlimited.
I think the problem you are having though is you're assuming that when I say 'overselling' I mean selling more bandwidth than $total_isp_bandwidth/$number_of_customers. I'm not, I mean selling more bandwidth than they can provide, given normal usage patterns.
So, the problem is that ISPs are selling bandwidth they don't have?
As for the Youtube bit, there are two things you find the CEOs of ISPs crying over in public, one is Bittorrent, the other is streaming video. Usually the, frankly embarrassing, public whining will be followed by claims that the only way to solve the Youtube/Bittorrent/Comunist menace is for ISPs to engage in extortion against companies like Google and (in the UK) the BBC.
It seems even a few thousand people dling a few Youtube videos is beyond the means of a lot of ISPs these days, and their usual ways of dealing with problems (bigger bonus's for directors) aren't solving the problem for some strange reason.
That's not the same as saying ISPs have the capacity to support peak demand. If 10% of users using the service they've paid for tops out the ISPs capacity and they have to perform various tricks to keep running, then they clearly do not have the capacity needed.
Also, as a user of Youtube, you're part of the problem (the screwed over consumer part).
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A democracy can easily be a theocracy. And there's nothing subtle about the collectivism of tax-funded social welfare. Nothing wrong with collectivism either. It's a survival trait first used by single celled organisms, to fish, to apes and finally to us. Rugged Individualism is tool to break human spirit and keep the plebs in their place.
To put the above in perspective, the above poster is clearly rich enough to a) afford a TV b) afford a connection to the internet. The coup against Chavez was organised by the rich, and defeated by the poor. The TV stations he mentions are all for the rich, so champion low taxes and screwing poor people, basically it's Fox on every channel. The one that got shut down openly advocated the coup. That's like Fox championing freepers marching to the Whitehouse with guns, the FCC would have failed to renew Fox's license if they went that far.
As for the claim of Chavez thugs shooting at peaceful protesters, there are other camera angles showing 3 guys trying to suppress fire from automatic rifles with handguns while women and children (Chavez's thugs remember) scurry for safety because the anti Chavez crowd thinks it's their right to shoot poor people.
Given Western reporting on Chavez, I'd suspect he said nothing of the sort. You know, like when he was ousted in a coup and restored to power through popular support, reports in the US and UK were that Chavez was oppressing peaceful protest.
Downloading music is neither theft nor infringement. Every time someone mentions illegal downloading a little RIAA fairy gets its wings.
Hi, this is the rest of the world. We know how scary it can be for inhabitants of such an insular country as the USA when confronted by the notion that their culture is only one among many. We support your attempts to connect with people outside your culture and we will help you in any way we can. Hopefully this will lead you to a better understanding of the world which, if it permeates your country, will stop you lashing out at cultures you don't understand.
Do tell me more about how communication between people is exactly the same as memory mapping. Is virtual memory mapping related to the fact that women can't read maps and men can't stop and ask for directions?
Depends on the jurisdiction. Basically treat cops like you would a violent kleptomaniac. Be polite, never volunteer anything but your name.
Dunno about that specifically, but cops are trained to lie to get what they want. Never let them in your home unless they have a warrant for entry to it.
Did any of the people authorized to know the passwords ask Childs for them without a room full of people? Or did they sit and fume for three days then have him arrested?
I know which one my money's on (as if we'd ever find out).
Or sometimes will be outside and ask to use your toilet. Let em in and bingo, rights waived.
He didn't say he'd forgotten it because he was simply doing what his job description told him to do. He was called into a room with a dozen people he didn't know, he refused to hand over the password to these people. When a single person (the mayor) who was authorized to know the password asked for it, he handed it over without hesitation.
Protip: no-one wants those newsletters
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, I can't hover up peoples names and addresses to send them junk mail, waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Buy something with it, see what happens.
Chip and pin is a joke BTW, you can still charge someones card with only the numbers on the front.
I do love the PR campaign that has successfully convinced so many people that you can only buy things by paying interest on them.
1 & 2) I'm not seeing anything on bug reports or the mailing list about specific issues. /and/ polling?
3. That's not an explanation, that's an excuse for not having an explanation. Any design is a mix of architectures, would you reject a patch for the sole reason that it used events
4. RTFA: "DIB Engine : Passing all tests"
5. The code it's replacing doesn't render anything in many places. WINE would prefer a stub to a mostly working implementation? Anyway, where is this report, I see Steven Edwards has posted a single image to the bug and called it a "comparison".
Having a Prima Donna at the helm of a project is not the same as "high standards". WINE has achieved some marvelous things, but the pace of development is very slow. Making people who have contributed their time to help play guess-what-the-project-leader-wants looks like a major cause of this. How much code has gone to waste because the devs couldn't guess what was required of them?
This is a working DIB engine. It integrates with the GDI layer. It has been developed at length and passes all tests, if you read the bug there are some fairly fanatical testers reporting in on the build. Providing detailed bug reports. Most bugs have been fixed. There are two outstanding issues, one is a show stopper (mouse movement chews CPU on slow machines (oddly it sounds like there's knee point below which CPU is chewed and above which no noticeable CPU is used at all)) the other is the problem: Alexandre doesn't like it and wont say why. Given the latter, why bother fixing the former?
The logic is not that you have to agree with every issue. In order to support the BNP you have to believe whatever policy you share with them outweighs the "end to non white immigration" policy. Unless the policy you share is that one. Either way it doesn't look good for you.
Who said anything about registered? If you declare your affiliation with a (quite possibly non existent) terrorist organisation, or with a bunch of racist thugs, you are going to find it hard to get into the police force. By making the official policy "No BNP members" the police cut down on paperwork. There would be much more paperwork involved in turning down individual applications to the police based on perceived racism that there would be turning down the application of a teacher for perceived pedophilia if they belong to a pedophile ring.
You have it backwards. They are barred from certain jobs because being a member of the party deemed to extreme by Oswald Mosley's Nazi party is good evidence of racism. Even if the BNP are the only party that agree with your policy on chewing gum disposal and so you join them, you are still saying you don't have a problem with their bashing immigrants policy.
This is not done due to a distaste for their opinions, but due to the fact that they are genuinely dangerous. I think you'd find the police would turn down job applications from anyone writing Al Queada under "Political Affiliation" on the form.
I should perhaps have been more clear. I was mocking Biggjeff5's argument, whereby he claimed that the things wrong with capitalism were not failures of capitalism. Buying and selling politicians is just as capitalist as recruitment, the emphasis placed on trading is the failure of capitalism. Markets should be used as a tool of society, not treated as society's master.
No, it's a success of capitalism, any trade is a good trade.
You seem to be making the argument that a mixture of capitalism and socialism is still capitalism, therefore capitalism wins. Nice try, but no cigar.
Try visiting whyaretheydead.net, it will tell about the people Scientology has killed.
Try googling Operation Snow White, you'll find out about how Scientology infiltrated the IRS and shortly afterwards gained tax-exempt status.
Try visiting Tory Magoo's website, she's an high ranking ex-Scientologist. Read about how she was denied her epilepsy medicine by Scientology.
Want to know what they've done to me personally? I'll give you a clue, us non-Scientologists give a damn about each other.
So they are selling more bandwidth than they have the capacity to provide? Or to put it another way, bandwidth they do not have.
What's more, even if they had the capacity for the usage patterns of their users, they are still /selling/ more bandwidth than they have if they are selling /unlimited/ bandwidth. If a coffee shop sells unlimited refills, but refuses to give me another after my 5th refill, they are liars. Even if I didn't want more than five cups, the fact that they are lying would piss me off. The same is true of bandwidth, they should sell it as X MBit peak bandwidth, rather than 10 MBit unlimited.
I think the problem you are having though is you're assuming that when I say 'overselling' I mean selling more bandwidth than $total_isp_bandwidth/$number_of_customers. I'm not, I mean selling more bandwidth than they can provide, given normal usage patterns.
So, the problem is that ISPs are selling bandwidth they don't have?
As for the Youtube bit, there are two things you find the CEOs of ISPs crying over in public, one is Bittorrent, the other is streaming video. Usually the, frankly embarrassing, public whining will be followed by claims that the only way to solve the Youtube/Bittorrent/Comunist menace is for ISPs to engage in extortion against companies like Google and (in the UK) the BBC.
It seems even a few thousand people dling a few Youtube videos is beyond the means of a lot of ISPs these days, and their usual ways of dealing with problems (bigger bonus's for directors) aren't solving the problem for some strange reason.
That's not the same as saying ISPs have the capacity to support peak demand. If 10% of users using the service they've paid for tops out the ISPs capacity and they have to perform various tricks to keep running, then they clearly do not have the capacity needed.
Also, as a user of Youtube, you're part of the problem (the screwed over consumer part).