The only thing you're going to get by giving people that choice, is even more hardcore rebellion and increased radicalization in other areas. The BEST case scenario is that the US starts really looking like a terrorist and the international community manages to make the Americans feel shitty enough about it to make the political stance untenable.
You are not going to get peace by bullying the other person into submission.
So basically, you want the Americans to channel the shittiest of all dictators and along with their bombings, occupy and terrorize a population. And this is marked insightful? Disgusting.
I get it. That barbaric culture is scary. You're afraid of them breeding like rabbits and establishing sharia law after immigrating to your country. If you react in this way, there is literally nothing separating you from the terrorists. Their ideas are your ideas. You literally WANT TO TERRORIZE THEM INTO SUBMISSION.
How the fuck is this insightful? Consider if someone was saying this about the US. You just know that even though you'll subjugate the majority, you will always have an armed rebellion for as long as you're there. Legitimately fighting their brutal occupiers. If The US saw Russia doing that, they'd call them brutal aggressive occupiers and that's what you'd be.
There are better options. They are harder, complex and don't give you the satisfaction of the genocide you crave. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. It may be from a movie but it's the goddamn truth. Real solutions are harder than that but maybe we humans haven't reached a level of emotional or intellectual maturity to use them yet.
I accept that I'm not as well versed in formal science as I'd like to be. I care about it a lot and think i's deeply interesting and I've read about it a lot but that's still no a formal education in science. I think a lot of us are the same way if we just have CS degrees and I don't see what's so hard to admit about that.
For a country so obsessed with keeping other countries heritage, greek architecture and what not, I am not surprised. They have the arrogance to suppose that they can take care of other countries property better than the rightful owners can.
Goddamnit, now what? Perhaps brain paths are formed the way you make them and you could train kids to do some things out of the total number of things you can teach.
The only way to truly do that is to become as crazy as the zealots. Anything short of that and you will still find objections.
Fuck them, drag them into 2010. Or at least (in the case of America) remind them that they can't simultaneously chant LAND OF THE FREE and omg, censor that.
Your precious citizens, the corporate overlords, ship manufacturing to china and support calls to India and you blame the people who took a job for the loss of 'your jobs' ?
Blame the manager who made the decision to give the job to someone else, not the person who chose to accept it.
BTW. Do you believe in free trade? Do you know that it extends beyond goods and services? It applies for jobs too. Jobs subject to the free market and all that. I wonder why the usual free trade nuts simultaneously hate outsourcing. It's like they choose the part which only benefits them.
Y'know what this kind of bitching, hey download and test the beta builds, contribute to debugging; is fine for the technically inclined out there but you release it to the general public they won't even know what the hell you're talking about.
Btw, why are there so many regressions anyway? Wifi worked in 8.04, I didn't expect to *break* in a clean install of 8.10 among numerous other issues.
If you can really say "well expect things to break that already work, tough shit" you're a tool of unimaginable magnitude.
Well a lot of games involve violence of some sort as critical to gameplay, FPS being a favourite of mine where the objective is to annhilate occasionally with good strategy.
Games with a sexual objective? Not so much. Of course there could be just as well.
However apart from this it's interesting to note just what society calls 'obscene' in Indian movies a hint of sexuality gets a movie's rating bumped up a couple age groups but a movie I once saw which had systematic hunting down and killing people in crazy ways (including being decapitated by a flying car door from a car exploding) and having a head sheared off with brute force, this got a fucking G rating. While matrix 3 with it's tiny no parts visible sex in the beginning automatically gets that an R rating. There's hypocrisy for you.
First I thought ASUS had crossed the line, it's one thing to promote MS and it's another to trash linux. Especially since it had become wildly popular because of its linux version and all the cool things you could now do with a open system on a tiny computer.
Obviously I am outraged (damnit stupid think-of-the-children types have usurped that word).
Then I thought about their point of view.
They get cash from microsoft, free publicity and a 0.1% of population of outraged geeks and nerds. Looks like a great strategy to sell more laptops while burning any cred they had with the open source crowd.
Fuck 'em.
"Google released a statement yesterday saying it was complying with the Brazilian court orders following a ruling Thursday by a Brazilian judge that threatened Google with a fine of $23,000 a day for noncompliance."
from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090100608.html
They had a court order, it was fine. No need to get all pissy about it.
People are always talking about how the vastness of the universe makes them feel insignificant or small, but looking at a piece of it here, with scales so vast that it has galaxies the size of the inch and countless dots of light, it just seems like so much to explore. So much more to see than what's on our little corner of the place, it's inspiring. Those who feel depressed by it don't know what they're talking about.
Perhaps I've seen too much star trek;)
I too like the sound and the vibration that you can feel from outside the case. I can tell which drive it's accessing, if there's something wrong or it's not doing anything at all by just placing my hand on the case.
Plus the expresson on people's when I touch the case and say something like "it's accessing d: drive" is priceless.
It also sounds like the dude's drive is on its last legs.
...I took precautions. It's impractical to upload massive amounts on your own and I like slick little GUI's. I also recignized the potential for abuse in such a thing. So I just created a gmail account specifically for backing up data, no e-mails, no contacts. And encrypted all files before uploading them, then maintained a text file with names and md5 hashes in my main account.
The worst that could happen was that the backups would be deleted, nothing more. A little caution goes a long way.
Kazakhstan....rather than block sites, it slows them down, frustrating the users of political content into looking elsewhere. A practical example of why we need net neutrality and what happens without it.
The court order that muzzled Wikileaks.org (covered here) was prompted not by the government but by a bank registered in the Cayman Islands. That just adds insult to injury. As if the local corporations weren't enough, other companies can mess with your freedom of speech.
I also like how they quote it's still available from the link http://88.80.13.160/ or the other http://www.wikileaks.be/
Ok, so not exactly but I can't believe the number of times I've said "That's exactly like Animal Farm." Especially the part where the pigs say "do what I say you don't want the farmer/terrorists to come back do you?!"
Well sure engineers are useful for blowing up stuff and all so obviously the terror recruiters would go after them. Who would need smarty arts geeks for terror?
For the proverbial 'year of the Linux desktop' this is the sort of thing that we need. The flashy stuff might not matter to the slashdot crowd but to the average joe, the cosmetic improvements itself would be a reason to consider linux. We just had that article about better designed GUI's rating over better functioning programs, looks like the Gnome developers have taken that to heart.
but download a video from iTMS, and you know it will work, period. Meanwhile, your XviD might or might not work on the off-brand player, even spending an hour with the conversion software. Yeah but most of the videos I want on my iPod aren't on the ITMS so I've to spend time converting them manually anyway. And no they don't always work.
having techs setting up every joe six pack or grandmothers computer. Lol, ironically an Indian ISP 'Sify' does exactly that. How do they handle the cost? Teach two 'joe six pack' types exactly what steps to follow like trained monkeys and send them around.
"Ok now sir if you'll just start windows"
"But I don't use windows"
"Then how can you start your computer?"
"....."
That's why I stick to only one site. Which isn't a problem in say Brazil or India. Is there really that deep a split between the American myspace and facebook that users can't stick to one?
Aggregators are pointless if you do that.
The silver lining of this truth is that the fewer computers Nigerians have the better off the rest of the world is This is what you say on Slashdot and you get modded up? wtf? Talk about dealing with symptoms and not the problems. This is the geek equivalent of that 'uncovered meat' remark.
If we want better spam protection we should have ISP's that give a damn about abuse of their networks. Or here's an idea, support the folks at sites like http://419eater.com/ Restricting access to computers for the kids will end up punishing the wrong people. Whether the laptops actually end up being used by them is a different matter. Deal with the problem directly instead of screwing over other people in the process.
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The only thing you're going to get by giving people that choice, is even more hardcore rebellion and increased radicalization in other areas. The BEST case scenario is that the US starts really looking like a terrorist and the international community manages to make the Americans feel shitty enough about it to make the political stance untenable.
You are not going to get peace by bullying the other person into submission.
So basically, you want the Americans to channel the shittiest of all dictators and along with their bombings, occupy and terrorize a population. And this is marked insightful? Disgusting.
I get it. That barbaric culture is scary. You're afraid of them breeding like rabbits and establishing sharia law after immigrating to your country. If you react in this way, there is literally nothing separating you from the terrorists. Their ideas are your ideas. You literally WANT TO TERRORIZE THEM INTO SUBMISSION.
How the fuck is this insightful? Consider if someone was saying this about the US. You just know that even though you'll subjugate the majority, you will always have an armed rebellion for as long as you're there. Legitimately fighting their brutal occupiers. If The US saw Russia doing that, they'd call them brutal aggressive occupiers and that's what you'd be.
There are better options. They are harder, complex and don't give you the satisfaction of the genocide you crave. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering. It may be from a movie but it's the goddamn truth. Real solutions are harder than that but maybe we humans haven't reached a level of emotional or intellectual maturity to use them yet.
I accept that I'm not as well versed in formal science as I'd like to be. I care about it a lot and think i's deeply interesting and I've read about it a lot but that's still no a formal education in science.
I think a lot of us are the same way if we just have CS degrees and I don't see what's so hard to admit about that.
For a country so obsessed with keeping other countries heritage, greek architecture and what not, I am not surprised. They have the arrogance to suppose that they can take care of other countries property better than the rightful owners can.
Goddamnit, now what? Perhaps brain paths are formed the way you make them and you could train kids to do some things out of the total number of things you can teach.
It's like choosing an RPG class but with life.
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Excellent post, I was actually considering whether or not it was a real mistake at the end.
The only way to truly do that is to become as crazy as the zealots. Anything short of that and you will still find objections.
Fuck them, drag them into 2010. Or at least (in the case of America) remind them that they can't simultaneously chant LAND OF THE FREE and omg, censor that.
Your precious citizens, the corporate overlords, ship manufacturing to china and support calls to India and you blame the people who took a job for the loss of 'your jobs' ? Blame the manager who made the decision to give the job to someone else, not the person who chose to accept it. BTW. Do you believe in free trade? Do you know that it extends beyond goods and services? It applies for jobs too. Jobs subject to the free market and all that. I wonder why the usual free trade nuts simultaneously hate outsourcing. It's like they choose the part which only benefits them.
It is making the user click more to watch more of their ads. It's a needless restriction and that's why it sucks.
Y'know what this kind of bitching, hey download and test the beta builds, contribute to debugging; is fine for the technically inclined out there but you release it to the general public they won't even know what the hell you're talking about. Btw, why are there so many regressions anyway? Wifi worked in 8.04, I didn't expect to *break* in a clean install of 8.10 among numerous other issues. If you can really say "well expect things to break that already work, tough shit" you're a tool of unimaginable magnitude.
Well a lot of games involve violence of some sort as critical to gameplay, FPS being a favourite of mine where the objective is to annhilate occasionally with good strategy. Games with a sexual objective? Not so much. Of course there could be just as well. However apart from this it's interesting to note just what society calls 'obscene' in Indian movies a hint of sexuality gets a movie's rating bumped up a couple age groups but a movie I once saw which had systematic hunting down and killing people in crazy ways (including being decapitated by a flying car door from a car exploding) and having a head sheared off with brute force, this got a fucking G rating. While matrix 3 with it's tiny no parts visible sex in the beginning automatically gets that an R rating. There's hypocrisy for you.
Probably, though it still will be large. woots test.
First I thought ASUS had crossed the line, it's one thing to promote MS and it's another to trash linux. Especially since it had become wildly popular because of its linux version and all the cool things you could now do with a open system on a tiny computer. Obviously I am outraged (damnit stupid think-of-the-children types have usurped that word). Then I thought about their point of view. They get cash from microsoft, free publicity and a 0.1% of population of outraged geeks and nerds. Looks like a great strategy to sell more laptops while burning any cred they had with the open source crowd. Fuck 'em.
"Google released a statement yesterday saying it was complying with the Brazilian court orders following a ruling Thursday by a Brazilian judge that threatened Google with a fine of $23,000 a day for noncompliance." from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090100608.html They had a court order, it was fine. No need to get all pissy about it.
People are always talking about how the vastness of the universe makes them feel insignificant or small, but looking at a piece of it here, with scales so vast that it has galaxies the size of the inch and countless dots of light, it just seems like so much to explore. So much more to see than what's on our little corner of the place, it's inspiring. Those who feel depressed by it don't know what they're talking about. Perhaps I've seen too much star trek ;)
I too like the sound and the vibration that you can feel from outside the case. I can tell which drive it's accessing, if there's something wrong or it's not doing anything at all by just placing my hand on the case. Plus the expresson on people's when I touch the case and say something like "it's accessing d: drive" is priceless. It also sounds like the dude's drive is on its last legs.
...I took precautions. It's impractical to upload massive amounts on your own and I like slick little GUI's. I also recignized the potential for abuse in such a thing. So I just created a gmail account specifically for backing up data, no e-mails, no contacts. And encrypted all files before uploading them, then maintained a text file with names and md5 hashes in my main account. The worst that could happen was that the backups would be deleted, nothing more. A little caution goes a long way.
I think the prequel is 'Animal Farm' ;)
Ok, so not exactly but I can't believe the number of times I've said "That's exactly like Animal Farm."
Especially the part where the pigs say "do what I say you don't want the farmer/terrorists to come back do you?!"
Well sure engineers are useful for blowing up stuff and all so obviously the terror recruiters would go after them. Who would need smarty arts geeks for terror?
For the proverbial 'year of the Linux desktop' this is the sort of thing that we need. The flashy stuff might not matter to the slashdot crowd but to the average joe, the cosmetic improvements itself would be a reason to consider linux. We just had that article about better designed GUI's rating over better functioning programs, looks like the Gnome developers have taken that to heart.
That's why I stick to only one site. Which isn't a problem in say Brazil or India. Is there really that deep a split between the American myspace and facebook that users can't stick to one? Aggregators are pointless if you do that.
If we want better spam protection we should have ISP's that give a damn about abuse of their networks. Or here's an idea, support the folks at sites like http://419eater.com/
Restricting access to computers for the kids will end up punishing the wrong people. Whether the laptops actually end up being used by them is a different matter. Deal with the problem directly instead of screwing over other people in the process.