I really hope you aren't a US citizen. If you are (please don't take this the wrong way) you consider reading some Thomas Paine and reviewing the US constitution. His making a video cannot be used against him in any way. Apperantly using a computer or having someone use a computer on his behalf was a violation of his parole. That is it. He can make 100 such videos if he likes. Anyone can.
Google can host or not host anything it wants but if I had a vote then I'd answer "YES" to each of those questions. I'm sure you can search youtube right now and locate videos of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or someone calling for the extermination of Isreal. I'm equally sure that you can find neo nazi propoganda on youtube as well if you look for it. As I said google is a private entity and can censor what they want but yes I find acts of censorship for all of the above to be objectionable and given a choice I would be a member of a video sharing community that allowed the distribution of all of the above.
Would you consider them to be idiots if they got pissed off and decided to switch to a distro that focused on another desktop environment? Run FreeBSD instead? How about Darwin? I did recently switch to KDE and after some initial pains I'm finding that I like it quite a bit. It will probably be my new DE for a while now. I'm looking at new laptops though and seriously considering a macbook. I don't think I could bring myself to run OSX on a desktop but my next laptop? Maybe. Note I have absolutely no prior exposure to or fondness for OSX.
The constitution does not enumerate rights the government grants to the people. It enumerates rights the people grant the government. The Bill of Rights was not the government doing or creating anything for the people. It was the people saying something like "ok government is inherently evil but we need some sort of government so we're creating you with ONLY these powers".
Agreed mostly. Businesses want support contracts for EVERYTHING and consumers for the most part want a consistent graphical environment the more easy and fisher-pricey the better. Most people might look at the OSX "you can only do it this way" environment and it gives them a feeling of comfort and security. To me it feels more like being sewn up in a blanket. Desktop Linux might always be slightly fringe but on the other hand if you're a kid that in the future would gravitate toward a career in IT or programming there isn't a better general purpose OS to use than Linux. That "mostly usable as-is but feel free to install these dozen other WMs and DEs" status many distros stay in gives you plenty of opportunity to learn and grow into something more than a user. If Linux users are switching to OSX I'd argue that most of them wouldn't be as competent as they are today if they has started in OSX community instead of Linux.
So... restricted caloric intake results in your being healthier (less cancer etc.) throughout your life if you're a monkey but being healthier does not correlate to a increased life span? They didn't control for diet between the two groups only calories (groups ate entirely different things not just less) and the group that was healthier had monkeys that originated at least in part from a difference geographical region.
Well it may be that XFCE is becoming a little more bloated but that means its also becoming the defacto replacement to Gnome rather than some lightweight alternative with a little less functionality. I just installed it on a laptop recently and launched the file manager and typed smb:///share and it worked!. This is a little thing but it's one of the many little nitpicks I had with the DE in the past. Use to be whenever I tried xfce I had to use a file manager other than the default thunar or mount my shares. If I want super lightweight I can always install some window manager and have some little panel app auto-start on login but I want XFCE to be a little more bloated now because these days I need a replacement to Gnome not just a neat alternative. I want something sane I can use and also install on my parents desktop and Gnome 3 is not it.
This may or may not be correct but...this is not flamebait. The op is saying that lighter cars will be less durable in an accident. You can argue that this is an acceptable drawback or that well we can just offset this by using more expensive materials. You can even argue that he is wrong but this isn't flamebait. Setting an agressive mpg goal will result in lighter cars and the need to stay competitive may mean that 14-20K cars will be less safe. I don't know that you can build a carbon fiber and aluminum car for for 12-14k...
There is no true freedom of speech in most European countries at least not the way Americans think of it. You have the freedom to say what you want as long as it conforms to the states idea of what is correct and not seen as destructive to 'society'. Don't get me wrong there is a lot I admire about our friends in Europe but slowly erroding as it is I much prefer our 1st ammendment right and emphasis on individual liberty over societal obligation -or whatever the rationale is for limiting freedom of speech.
The moderation on slashdot ban be really disheartening. "Conservatives hate the homeless...They hate poor people (especially black ones)...". I suggest you take a look at some statistics on chartitable contributions between Republicans and Democtrats. You can start here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html
I'm not a Ron Paul voter but you're talking out of your ass. He never made any such comments. Slavery is antithetical to libertarianism and I request you find one quote of Ron's to back up your allegations.
I'm sure someday it might be practical but that day isn't today or even 5 years from now. There is no realistic input method for a tablet other than voice to text. You could say bluetooth keyboard but then you just basically have a laptop or netbook. Even if you go voice to text, trying to edit something on a tablet is always a pain in the ass. Until we have some kind of super awesome AI on the tablet that lets us dicate something and say 'wait scratch that remove the line "text" and change it to "this text"' where no other input but voice is ever necessary it just wont be practical to use a tablet.
Given that it's Apple I'm suprised they went with another wired connector. Phones making more use of wireless sync and one of the things I really loved about the old Palm phones was the touchstone charger. That would be really slick and set the next Apple device apart from the competition. Maybe some patent issue...?
That's a bit like saying that if I choose not to shave I'm not growing a beard I'm simply not shaving. Deciding not to do something is a decision itself. There is no difference morally between failing to act and letting someone die and acting and causing their deaths. The only real difference is that maybe it's a little easier for you to rationalize away your guilt I suppose.
Ryan wanted to balance tax cuts with spending cuts. The theory being that tax cuts boost the economy but we also spend insanely too much already so cut on both ends. One of the big problems with the economy right now is that everyone feels like we're accelerating towards a cliff and not many people think we have the will to cut where we need to cut. People don't have confidence in their government's ablity to be fiscally responsibe. It would be difficult for someone on the Obama team to argue that tax cuts aren't a stimulus to the encomy since even the Pres said it would be a bad idea to raise taxes in a recession... I really like Paul Ryan he's a numbers guy that really believes in honestly examing budget items and making a real effort to balance our accounts.
This doesn't have anything to do with "pictures" in particular. You can ask someone a question that requires them to prioritize ethics or results about their job and they will choose a different path depending on if you've recently asked them an ethical question vs a results prioritizing question. You ask someone to pick a different colored card from a table in a sentance that contains a word that rhymes with one of those colors... same result. This is just how the mind works. You bring something to the forefront of someone's mind and they will prioritize it. Haven't seen someone for a while, more likely to lean towards maybe that old dude is dead. I think we've known this forever. At least.. street magicians and con artists have.
Agent orange was never intended to be a chemical weapon. It was an herbicide. You're asking what is wrong with our country? Elmira Ontario was the one producing agent orange for the purpose of selling to the US military. Why exactly would you think a Canadian city that manufactured and sold a chemical should get assistance from the US to clean up it's own waters? Anyway last I checked our Canadian friends were plenty capable of taking care of such things themselves.
This is almost standard practice in the US now. You can't give cops all these cool toys and expect them not to want to use them. Unfortunately it's rare for them to have really hard targets to work against so they end getting a judge to give them a no-knock warrent so they can practice by breaking down some guy's door and then occationally shooting the guy, his guest or a family member because someone is confused about what is going on and instinctively trying to defend himself.
So in order to prevent the criminalization of... a crime (because criminalizing stuff doesn't work as a deterrent) you're for preventing drug use by criminalizing drug possession.
Yeah seems more like a problem of lack of real competition or... a kind of de facto collusion between carriers. A 45% profit margin? Most companies I've worked with operate between 10-15 percent in good years.
I'm not particularly thrilled with Mitt but I'll take him hands down over Obama.. I'm not sure what you and the other poster are trying to intimate with that link but its a well established on both sides of the political fence that Obama hasn't been as attentive to the UK as his predecesors and has been focused on other regions. There have been comments amongst pundits for years about the Obama admin, saying that the 'special' relationship is not be so special anymore. Mitt's comment certainly isn't racism if that how your interpreting it. This is about strengthening political and economic alliances with our allies have have felt a bit left out in the cold recently.
Showing up on time to work for a few years is not a qualification for anything above a minimum wage job. I admit that I'm not too familiar with Obama's record during his tenure as a US senator so maybe someone can point to actual legistlation he authored or accomplishments he had during those 3 years.
I think we'd be much better off if more schools still offered a classical education. I guess you could make an argument that reading Euclid for geometry like people have did sucessfully for 2000 years or studying harmony might not be as good as what our text book companies churn out... Surely we can agree that some of the classes would be worth considering though. Say we trade out... 'civil rights' class for rhetoric. Which of these do you think more likely to equip your student with the tools necessary to actually protect their individual liberties?
Yeah and be prepared for calls complaining that their kid is trying to download "random_game_loaded_withmalware.exe" and how do they get it to work. Explaining that one of the advantages of Linux is that they don't have to worry about their kid doing this doesn't go very far in my experience. It just isn't worth the effort.
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I really hope you aren't a US citizen. If you are (please don't take this the wrong way) you consider reading some Thomas Paine and reviewing the US constitution. His making a video cannot be used against him in any way. Apperantly using a computer or having someone use a computer on his behalf was a violation of his parole. That is it. He can make 100 such videos if he likes. Anyone can.
Google can host or not host anything it wants but if I had a vote then I'd answer "YES" to each of those questions. I'm sure you can search youtube right now and locate videos of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad or someone calling for the extermination of Isreal. I'm equally sure that you can find neo nazi propoganda on youtube as well if you look for it. As I said google is a private entity and can censor what they want but yes I find acts of censorship for all of the above to be objectionable and given a choice I would be a member of a video sharing community that allowed the distribution of all of the above.
Would you consider them to be idiots if they got pissed off and decided to switch to a distro that focused on another desktop environment? Run FreeBSD instead? How about Darwin? I did recently switch to KDE and after some initial pains I'm finding that I like it quite a bit. It will probably be my new DE for a while now. I'm looking at new laptops though and seriously considering a macbook. I don't think I could bring myself to run OSX on a desktop but my next laptop? Maybe. Note I have absolutely no prior exposure to or fondness for OSX.
The constitution does not enumerate rights the government grants to the people. It enumerates rights the people grant the government. The Bill of Rights was not the government doing or creating anything for the people. It was the people saying something like "ok government is inherently evil but we need some sort of government so we're creating you with ONLY these powers".
Agreed mostly. Businesses want support contracts for EVERYTHING and consumers for the most part want a consistent graphical environment the more easy and fisher-pricey the better. Most people might look at the OSX "you can only do it this way" environment and it gives them a feeling of comfort and security. To me it feels more like being sewn up in a blanket. Desktop Linux might always be slightly fringe but on the other hand if you're a kid that in the future would gravitate toward a career in IT or programming there isn't a better general purpose OS to use than Linux. That "mostly usable as-is but feel free to install these dozen other WMs and DEs" status many distros stay in gives you plenty of opportunity to learn and grow into something more than a user. If Linux users are switching to OSX I'd argue that most of them wouldn't be as competent as they are today if they has started in OSX community instead of Linux.
So... restricted caloric intake results in your being healthier (less cancer etc.) throughout your life if you're a monkey but being healthier does not correlate to a increased life span? They didn't control for diet between the two groups only calories (groups ate entirely different things not just less) and the group that was healthier had monkeys that originated at least in part from a difference geographical region.
Well it may be that XFCE is becoming a little more bloated but that means its also becoming the defacto replacement to Gnome rather than some lightweight alternative with a little less functionality. I just installed it on a laptop recently and launched the file manager and typed smb:///share and it worked!. This is a little thing but it's one of the many little nitpicks I had with the DE in the past. Use to be whenever I tried xfce I had to use a file manager other than the default thunar or mount my shares. If I want super lightweight I can always install some window manager and have some little panel app auto-start on login but I want XFCE to be a little more bloated now because these days I need a replacement to Gnome not just a neat alternative. I want something sane I can use and also install on my parents desktop and Gnome 3 is not it.
This may or may not be correct but ...this is not flamebait. The op is saying that lighter cars will be less durable in an accident. You can argue that this is an acceptable drawback or that well we can just offset this by using more expensive materials. You can even argue that he is wrong but this isn't flamebait. Setting an agressive mpg goal will result in lighter cars and the need to stay competitive may mean that 14-20K cars will be less safe. I don't know that you can build a carbon fiber and aluminum car for for 12-14k...
There is no true freedom of speech in most European countries at least not the way Americans think of it. You have the freedom to say what you want as long as it conforms to the states idea of what is correct and not seen as destructive to 'society'. Don't get me wrong there is a lot I admire about our friends in Europe but slowly erroding as it is I much prefer our 1st ammendment right and emphasis on individual liberty over societal obligation -or whatever the rationale is for limiting freedom of speech.
The moderation on slashdot ban be really disheartening. "Conservatives hate the homeless...They hate poor people (especially black ones)...". I suggest you take a look at some statistics on chartitable contributions between Republicans and Democtrats. You can start here: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2008/03/conservatives_more_liberal_giv.html
I'm not a Ron Paul voter but you're talking out of your ass. He never made any such comments. Slavery is antithetical to libertarianism and I request you find one quote of Ron's to back up your allegations.
I'm sure someday it might be practical but that day isn't today or even 5 years from now. There is no realistic input method for a tablet other than voice to text. You could say bluetooth keyboard but then you just basically have a laptop or netbook. Even if you go voice to text, trying to edit something on a tablet is always a pain in the ass. Until we have some kind of super awesome AI on the tablet that lets us dicate something and say 'wait scratch that remove the line "text" and change it to "this text"' where no other input but voice is ever necessary it just wont be practical to use a tablet.
Given that it's Apple I'm suprised they went with another wired connector. Phones making more use of wireless sync and one of the things I really loved about the old Palm phones was the touchstone charger. That would be really slick and set the next Apple device apart from the competition. Maybe some patent issue...?
That's a bit like saying that if I choose not to shave I'm not growing a beard I'm simply not shaving. Deciding not to do something is a decision itself. There is no difference morally between failing to act and letting someone die and acting and causing their deaths. The only real difference is that maybe it's a little easier for you to rationalize away your guilt I suppose.
Ryan wanted to balance tax cuts with spending cuts. The theory being that tax cuts boost the economy but we also spend insanely too much already so cut on both ends. One of the big problems with the economy right now is that everyone feels like we're accelerating towards a cliff and not many people think we have the will to cut where we need to cut. People don't have confidence in their government's ablity to be fiscally responsibe. It would be difficult for someone on the Obama team to argue that tax cuts aren't a stimulus to the encomy since even the Pres said it would be a bad idea to raise taxes in a recession... I really like Paul Ryan he's a numbers guy that really believes in honestly examing budget items and making a real effort to balance our accounts.
This doesn't have anything to do with "pictures" in particular. You can ask someone a question that requires them to prioritize ethics or results about their job and they will choose a different path depending on if you've recently asked them an ethical question vs a results prioritizing question. You ask someone to pick a different colored card from a table in a sentance that contains a word that rhymes with one of those colors... same result. This is just how the mind works. You bring something to the forefront of someone's mind and they will prioritize it. Haven't seen someone for a while, more likely to lean towards maybe that old dude is dead. I think we've known this forever. At least.. street magicians and con artists have.
Agent orange was never intended to be a chemical weapon. It was an herbicide. You're asking what is wrong with our country? Elmira Ontario was the one producing agent orange for the purpose of selling to the US military. Why exactly would you think a Canadian city that manufactured and sold a chemical should get assistance from the US to clean up it's own waters? Anyway last I checked our Canadian friends were plenty capable of taking care of such things themselves.
This is almost standard practice in the US now. You can't give cops all these cool toys and expect them not to want to use them. Unfortunately it's rare for them to have really hard targets to work against so they end getting a judge to give them a no-knock warrent so they can practice by breaking down some guy's door and then occationally shooting the guy, his guest or a family member because someone is confused about what is going on and instinctively trying to defend himself.
Yeah it's nice to know the continued militarization of the police isn't just a US/UK phenomenon.
So in order to prevent the criminalization of... a crime (because criminalizing stuff doesn't work as a deterrent) you're for preventing drug use by criminalizing drug possession.
Yeah seems more like a problem of lack of real competition or... a kind of de facto collusion between carriers. A 45% profit margin? Most companies I've worked with operate between 10-15 percent in good years.
I'm not particularly thrilled with Mitt but I'll take him hands down over Obama.. I'm not sure what you and the other poster are trying to intimate with that link but its a well established on both sides of the political fence that Obama hasn't been as attentive to the UK as his predecesors and has been focused on other regions. There have been comments amongst pundits for years about the Obama admin, saying that the 'special' relationship is not be so special anymore. Mitt's comment certainly isn't racism if that how your interpreting it. This is about strengthening political and economic alliances with our allies have have felt a bit left out in the cold recently.
Showing up on time to work for a few years is not a qualification for anything above a minimum wage job. I admit that I'm not too familiar with Obama's record during his tenure as a US senator so maybe someone can point to actual legistlation he authored or accomplishments he had during those 3 years.
I think we'd be much better off if more schools still offered a classical education. I guess you could make an argument that reading Euclid for geometry like people have did sucessfully for 2000 years or studying harmony might not be as good as what our text book companies churn out... Surely we can agree that some of the classes would be worth considering though. Say we trade out... 'civil rights' class for rhetoric. Which of these do you think more likely to equip your student with the tools necessary to actually protect their individual liberties?
Yeah and be prepared for calls complaining that their kid is trying to download "random_game_loaded_withmalware.exe" and how do they get it to work. Explaining that one of the advantages of Linux is that they don't have to worry about their kid doing this doesn't go very far in my experience. It just isn't worth the effort.