How about that the freedom of speech is guaranteed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Of course, this is holding opinions - when I present something as a fact, when it is in fact false, that's not protected. But whenever I start a sentence by "I think, that...." it is just an opinion, and should be fine, whatever I say... At least I think....
That's great, Mandriva is my ever fav linux distro, if I just want something that's readily prepared for me... Those guys have a lot of innovative ideas, and I'm glad to see there's something better than my EeePC's tortured Xandros....
Hmm. I'm not convinced. What about VoIP? I *like* my low-latency reliable VoIP, and I like the fact that my ISP is able to prioritize it over bulk traffic like BT. Ditto small HTTP traffic bursts, DNS requests, etc.
One solution would be per-user bandwidth allocation - as it has been on the proposed list for ages now... Then all you have to do, is you yourself decide not to run BT when you are making a VoIP call... How hard is that? Yours is the responsibility and yours is the power to decide what is important for you, and not the ISP, which has no business whatsoever, deciding your preferences for you...
Or aMSN, oh how much sweeter it was, after the lunacy of the Microsoft client.... I'd be damned, if I understand why would anyone really _want_ to use that...
Taiwan is pretty geeky, though, much higher level of average computer knowledge, though I myself haven't really seen people using other things than Windows...
Nevertheless, I'm all for more Linux-using Taiwanese housewives;) --- it's quite a few fantasy in a single package, totally sweet....:))
Why can't a radio station be charged with "making available? Hell, anyone can pull out a tape recorder. OMG, I hummed a song earlier today! What if someone heard me and downloaded music because of it. Can they charge me?? And the scary part is, that it's no joke.... Not at all. If you can play the radio too loud, and liable for infringement, even when you are on the side of law, that's no good...
So next time you are humming on the street... check your wallet beforehand for that $150.000 per song...
In other news Graphics cards are good at . . . graphics.
It's not the graphics part that makes it so computer-intensive.... All the mathematics behind it, once that's done, the presentation could be done on any ol' computer....
So, if you mean by "graphics" that they are good at difficult geometrical calculations (like in games, for example), than you are right.... because that's what it is, truck-load of geometry...
From Wikipedia:
Tomography: "[...] Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image of the inside of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation."
Yeah, like everything is so simple and clear...
It is so sickening to think that you can be on trial, and no matter what you do, the jury condemned you after reading out the charges... People are full of prejudice and try to pass moral judgment even (or especially) when they are not any cleaner than you....
And i know this is just a comic, but it's funny because it could be real. Sadly.
Take care of the children, but with real care, not with the illusion of it to shrug of your guilt by sending random people to prison....
Lastly, The Japanese government has produced an introductory video on the new scheme that you really have to see to believe. That's a really awful PR video, with fade-in/fade-out list of terrorist attacks since 9-11, of course with the towers (on fire) in the background...
When they cut to Tokyo, I was really thinking when will a rampaging, terrorizing Godzilla appear???
Oh, yeah, Godzilla is Japanese, so no need for fingerprinting....
Other than that: were there no terrorists before 2001?
Somehow every country just seem to make it harder and harder for people to travel - now that it would be possible for more people than ever in human history....
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Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.
Of course, this is holding opinions - when I present something as a fact, when it is in fact false, that's not protected. But whenever I start a sentence by "I think, that...." it is just an opinion, and should be fine, whatever I say... At least I think....
That's great, Mandriva is my ever fav linux distro, if I just want something that's readily prepared for me... Those guys have a lot of innovative ideas, and I'm glad to see there's something better than my EeePC's tortured Xandros....
Hmm. I'm not convinced. What about VoIP? I *like* my low-latency reliable VoIP, and I like the fact that my ISP is able to prioritize it over bulk traffic like BT. Ditto small HTTP traffic bursts, DNS requests, etc.
One solution would be per-user bandwidth allocation - as it has been on the proposed list for ages now... Then all you have to do, is you yourself decide not to run BT when you are making a VoIP call... How hard is that? Yours is the responsibility and yours is the power to decide what is important for you, and not the ISP, which has no business whatsoever, deciding your preferences for you...
Or aMSN, oh how much sweeter it was, after the lunacy of the Microsoft client.... I'd be damned, if I understand why would anyone really _want_ to use that...
Taiwan is pretty geeky, though, much higher level of average computer knowledge, though I myself haven't really seen people using other things than Windows...
Nevertheless, I'm all for more Linux-using Taiwanese housewives ;) --- it's quite a few fantasy in a single package, totally sweet.... :))
It's not the graphics part that makes it so computer-intensive.... All the mathematics behind it, once that's done, the presentation could be done on any ol' computer....
So, if you mean by "graphics" that they are good at difficult geometrical calculations (like in games, for example), than you are right.... because that's what it is, truck-load of geometry...
From Wikipedia:
Tomography: "[...] Digital geometry processing is used to generate a three-dimensional image of the inside of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around a single axis of rotation."
And this is not just for us, humans.... Other species are also affected by pedophilia...
Yeah, like everything is so simple and clear...
It is so sickening to think that you can be on trial, and no matter what you do, the jury condemned you after reading out the charges... People are full of prejudice and try to pass moral judgment even (or especially) when they are not any cleaner than you....
And i know this is just a comic, but it's funny because it could be real. Sadly.
Take care of the children, but with real care, not with the illusion of it to shrug of your guilt by sending random people to prison....
When they cut to Tokyo, I was really thinking when will a rampaging, terrorizing Godzilla appear??? Oh, yeah, Godzilla is Japanese, so no need for fingerprinting....
Other than that: were there no terrorists before 2001? Somehow every country just seem to make it harder and harder for people to travel - now that it would be possible for more people than ever in human history....