Still everybody is free to do whatever they want, within the law. Hey, we can do that In the United States too,.. While I suppose it's unfortunate we are denied the freedoms to:
Use any psychoactive drug we want to (it's our own bodies, afterall) Hire a prostitute Order drugs from a pharmacy without a perscription Order drugs from overseas without the DEA confiscating it occasionally Not pay taxes Marry as many people as we want Marry any Gender that we want Own and carry a handgun without jumping through 5 billion hoops (in many states) Be a nudist in public Own and carry an automatic weapon in many states Possess a nuclear weapon legally Have sex in the park settle a dispute with a duel marry family members drink alchohol under 21 sell phychoactives to consenting adults run your own radio statioin without paying huge fees or going to jail exercise your "freedom of speech" on said radio station by using obscenities, without being fined gamble change your gender on your birth certificate (in some states you cannot) etc etc
But I suppose at the end of the day, we are free because we can choose what job we have and what school we want to not have enough money to go to, thanks in-part to taxes.
Personally I think many people have a warped perception of freedom, Americans brag about how free they are all the time, but there are many things they ought to be able to do that are crimes. Unfortunately I think the rest of the world shares that warped perception to some degree as well.
Don't get me wrong, I am a former socialist, I would love it if nobody had to worry about if they can afford to go to the hospital to get that blood in the urine, or axe in the head checked out. But I also view forcing people to pay taxes is thievery, honestly in your country taxes are probably spent on better things, over here most of it is spent on defense from an enemy that doesn't exist, so that has probably helped me form my current views, that government turns anything it touches to shit.
Intriguing, please explain how we can have freedom for every individual, but socialistic rule. This is like the uniform theory of politics. I'm dying to hear it.
Personally, I find it far, Far, FAR, FAR easier to recover a damaged Linux box than a damaged Windows box. But that is primarily because the damaged Windows boxes that I get have major Registry issues. I can relate, having worked in a tech shop before, I can tell you (if you don't already know) the #1 fix for a broken windows install is reinstallation, It's way faster and easier than the alternative, acctually FIXING something.
At least with gentoo you know re-installation could take several days, it's a big motivator to find that dirty little problem....
That's exactly the same concept as stated in my OP. The beater car "stands out" in a group of well-kept vehicles. I disagree, some jurisdictions don't really care about cracking down on light drugs.
Very Interesting, and I have noticed that one can go about 20MPH over the speed limit In a 35MPH road in my area if they drive a beat up white Geo Metro because "Geos can't go that fast".
I am suprised governments will use anything closed source at all, especially in offices that handle sensitive data. But nobody ever said that the US government made sense. Personally I think Windows 2000 serves me best inside a little QEMU(virtualization) box I made for it.
We are starting to care, though. I don't really care.
But it is interesting, back when I was using windows 98se, I said I'd never use XP, "I don't need it" "no improvements", but honestly XP was a huge step up from 98se, once you take away the children's interfac. Maybe Vista -aero could be also an improvement.
Very unlikely, there is no reason why DRM packets from one computer running one song would flood a network to such a degree, besides, to my knowledge, windows vista SUPPORTS DRM, which means it will play DRM'ed music, but that does not mean it necessarially phones home for non-DRMed audio files, and it certainly would not dominate 90% worth of network traffic if they did.
Honestly, much of the paranoia people have for microsoft is baseless, even microsoft can't get away with everything, which is not to say that they wouldn't like to. Even windows drones have their limits, afterall.
Thanks to the closed-source nature of windows vista, we may never know.
I think many are makng a critical error in judgement, they expect microsoft products to make sense... Possibly vista is using the pci bus VERY poorly, like spamming a bunch of useless or redundant data into the bus, whenever utilized, maybe it is limited to audio devices, or not. I know I'm not pirating/buying/installing vista to find out how buggy it is.
No, It is already NOT the ISP's responsibility, as ISP's have common carrier status.
I'd love to not only see her lose (she will), but AOL and Sharman may very well sue for damages, that'd be hilarious, her mistake could get 3 unsavory corporations on her back.
Sounds like a great plan! I'd get started on it immediately if I were you, as it will take at least 10 or 20 milion years to "evolve" human nature for an improved society,(but then the planet would be hopelessly over-popoulated with mal-evolved humans who can't war and murder when needed.)
Then again, that will never happen if we don't remove rotton eggs from the genepool, and sadly blinding them is not enough to shape the future of human evolution, so probably the best method to punish idiot kids who blind bus drivers is to 1. Blind THEM and 2. permanantly remove their ability to reproduce. and 3. Put them on a social services blacklist so they have no chance of leeching off the system.
And may I remind you that humans don't come out of the womb with a perfectly developed sense of empathy, it's an emotion that takes time to develop, in the first years of existence, children start out as greedy hedonists, and this stage subsides eventually, sometimes the best way to discipline children is using whatever methods you can, if a child of mine flashed blinding lasers into a bus driver's eye's, I should be perfectly justified as a parent to restrain it and enact a few hours of laser torture, sadly this is what society calls "child abuse", which is a travesty.
One would assume that in the absense of any explaination otherwise the literal definition of "Linux" User is the one we are interested in, essentially anyone who uses GNU/Linux, on any device, whether they are aware of it or not. In that case it's pretty damn prevalent.
Additionally, is anyone who owns no computer or dvr or cell phone or anything of the sort, but who still occasionally uses some ATM's, POSes, computers at work running GNU/Linux, etc, "Linux" Users?
Is anyone who browses a website hosted on a GNU/Linux system a "Linux" User?
Looking at it this way it's not a huge stretch to say that nearly 100% of the populace of any industrialized country is a Linux User.
(fyi, you're probably half-joking, but i find that Gentoo need not be hardcore and for only mad men unless one installs stage1, it was my very first distro, and is not terribly difficult for a noob, as long as they have access to Online Gentoo documentation (which is awesome), and Gentoo Wiki, and Gentoo Forum.)
Men also have a universal preference for women with a low waist-to-hip ratio. They are healthier and more fertile than other women; they have an easier time conceiving a child and do so at earlier ages because they have larger amounts of essential reproductive hormones. Thus men are unconsciously seeking healthier and more fertile women when they seek women with small waists.
In the choice of a wife, the Igbo gives preference to a girl with long thin limbs which are regarded as signs of fast growth and hugeness later on in marred life. Whereas ideas of female beauty vary from people to people, the horror of disease or of physical deformity can be said to be universal. Nevertheless, what is beautiful to a European or to an Asiatic may seem repulsive to an African It is all a matter of taste and De gustibus non est disputandum as the old adage has it. For instance in Western Europe, fashion may decide the position and width of women's waists, and corsets be used to emphasize them, while obesity in a woman goes against the established standard of female beauty. However among the Kirghiz of Central Asia and some West African peoples fatness in a woman is regarded as attractive. Also among the Igbos in the past, a prospective wife was set aside in a hut and fed and instructed without much exercise until she was well prepared physically and psychologically to assume the role of house wife and after a short time, that of a mother. This practice which no longer exists today, was referred to "ino na nkpu or npu' (returning to the fattening house)." http://www.afrikaworld.net/afrel/igbo-marriage.htm
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While I suppose it's unfortunate we are denied the freedoms to:
Use any psychoactive drug we want to (it's our own bodies, afterall)
Hire a prostitute
Order drugs from a pharmacy without a perscription
Order drugs from overseas without the DEA confiscating it occasionally
Not pay taxes
Marry as many people as we want
Marry any Gender that we want
Own and carry a handgun without jumping through 5 billion hoops (in many states)
Be a nudist in public
Own and carry an automatic weapon in many states
Possess a nuclear weapon legally
Have sex in the park
settle a dispute with a duel
marry family members
drink alchohol under 21
sell phychoactives to consenting adults
run your own radio statioin without paying huge fees or going to jail
exercise your "freedom of speech" on said radio station by using obscenities, without being fined
gamble
change your gender on your birth certificate (in some states you cannot)
etc etc
But I suppose at the end of the day, we are free because we can choose what job we have and what school we want to not have enough money to go to, thanks in-part to taxes.
Personally I think many people have a warped perception of freedom, Americans brag about how free they are all the time, but there are many things they ought to be able to do that are crimes.
Unfortunately I think the rest of the world shares that warped perception to some degree as well.
Don't get me wrong, I am a former socialist, I would love it if nobody had to worry about if they can afford to go to the hospital to get that blood in the urine, or axe in the head checked out. But I also view forcing people to pay taxes is thievery, honestly in your country taxes are probably spent on better things, over here most of it is spent on defense from an enemy that doesn't exist, so that has probably helped me form my current views, that government turns anything it touches to shit.
Just as "Linux" has become the official synonym for GNU/Linux.
It still doesn't make it right.
Intriguing, please explain how we can have freedom for every individual, but socialistic rule. This is like the uniform theory of politics. I'm dying to hear it.
At least with gentoo you know re-installation could take several days, it's a big motivator to find that dirty little problem....
Very Interesting, and I have noticed that one can go about 20MPH over the speed limit In a 35MPH road in my area if they drive a beat up white Geo Metro because "Geos can't go that fast".
I am suprised governments will use anything closed source at all, especially in offices that handle sensitive data.
But nobody ever said that the US government made sense.
Personally I think Windows 2000 serves me best inside a little QEMU(virtualization) box I made for it.
Very unlikely, there is no reason why DRM packets from one computer running one song would flood a network to such a degree, besides, to my knowledge, windows vista SUPPORTS DRM, which means it will play DRM'ed music, but that does not mean it necessarially phones home for non-DRMed audio files, and it certainly would not dominate 90% worth of network traffic if they did.
Honestly, much of the paranoia people have for microsoft is baseless, even microsoft can't get away with everything, which is not to say that they wouldn't like to. Even windows drones have their limits, afterall.
Thanks to the closed-source nature of windows vista, we may never know.
I think many are makng a critical error in judgement, they expect microsoft products to make sense...
Possibly vista is using the pci bus VERY poorly, like spamming a bunch of useless or redundant data into the bus, whenever utilized, maybe it is limited to audio devices, or not. I know I'm not pirating/buying/installing vista to find out how buggy it is.
No, It is already NOT the ISP's responsibility, as ISP's have common carrier status.
I'd love to not only see her lose (she will), but AOL and Sharman may very well sue for damages, that'd be hilarious, her mistake could get 3 unsavory corporations on her back.
Sounds like a great plan! I'd get started on it immediately if I were you, as it will take at least 10 or 20 milion years to "evolve" human nature for an improved society,(but then the planet would be hopelessly over-popoulated with mal-evolved humans who can't war and murder when needed.) Then again, that will never happen if we don't remove rotton eggs from the genepool, and sadly blinding them is not enough to shape the future of human evolution, so probably the best method to punish idiot kids who blind bus drivers is to 1. Blind THEM and 2. permanantly remove their ability to reproduce. and 3. Put them on a social services blacklist so they have no chance of leeching off the system. And may I remind you that humans don't come out of the womb with a perfectly developed sense of empathy, it's an emotion that takes time to develop, in the first years of existence, children start out as greedy hedonists, and this stage subsides eventually, sometimes the best way to discipline children is using whatever methods you can, if a child of mine flashed blinding lasers into a bus driver's eye's, I should be perfectly justified as a parent to restrain it and enact a few hours of laser torture, sadly this is what society calls "child abuse", which is a travesty.
OK, so if you use a Cellphone/PDA that has Windows Embedded on it, then you are not a Windows User?
So, if you buy a Dell, and that dell has Windows Preinstalled, you are not a Windows User?
One would assume that in the absense of any explaination otherwise the literal definition of "Linux" User is the one we are interested in, essentially anyone who uses GNU/Linux, on any device, whether they are aware of it or not. In that case it's pretty damn prevalent.
Additionally, is anyone who owns no computer or dvr or cell phone or anything of the sort, but who still occasionally uses some ATM's, POSes, computers at work running GNU/Linux, etc, "Linux" Users?
Is anyone who browses a website hosted on a GNU/Linux system a "Linux" User?
Looking at it this way it's not a huge stretch to say that nearly 100% of the populace of any industrialized country is a Linux User.
(fyi, you're probably half-joking, but i find that Gentoo need not be hardcore and for only mad men unless one installs stage1, it was my very first distro, and is not terribly difficult for a noob, as long as they have access to Online Gentoo documentation (which is awesome), and Gentoo Wiki, and Gentoo Forum.)