Sure but: 1) Who really reads the commentary? The stupid pawns don't. The Dictator-to-be using the pawns might, but he doesn't care. 2) In most countries that are rich or that are growing rich, most of the workers already have votes and are voting in Capitalists.
Fact is you will have communists starting violent revolutions as part of the implementation as long as they follow the Communist Manifesto which states: http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61/pg61.html
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
And as long as violence is part of the revolution they will end up with a dictatorship.
Think about it. How else would the whole country realize who is the "winner" of the violent revolution? The winner is the one who has defeated all challengers. And in a violent revolution, the defeating is done violently not via votes or debates.
If you're very lucky you get a dictator who hands over the power soon after.
The problem with communism (Marx/Engels version) is that violent revolution is part of the Communist Manifesto's implementation plan for Communism (read it if you don't believe me).
In most violent revolutions the person willing and capable of exerting the most violence ends up at the top. Most such people do not give up their power once at the top.
That's why communist (and other violent) revolutions tend to end up as dictatorships.
Only a few cases (e.g. the American Revolution) are the exceptions. I'm no expert but I think the American Revolution was quite different when compared to most "communist revolutions". Seems to me that much of each state's structure was maintained rather than overthrown.
What I'm wondering about is China. China gets big earthquakes too and they're building dozens of reactors. Many with the AP1000 design that some people don't think is safe enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000#Safety_concerns
I'm not even sure you're not liable if it's an official upload.
And even if you're not liable, often the lawyers and don't know yet (or don't care - they may not be paid to care about such details), so you'd still have problems first.
It's just that there are so many fools nowadays that don't appear to notice or care (or may even be proud of it), so much so that just having "common sense" alone makes you wise in comparison.
Wisdom is the ability to respond correctly to the entire situation - which does not necessarily mean strictly providing the correct answer to a question. In contrast intelligence is the ability to provide the right answers (or questions), to questions.
For example: take the "Judgement of Solomon" story where two women claimed to be mother of a child.
Intelligence nowadays would mean doing a DNA test to prove who was the biological mother of the child.
Solomon's method determined who would be a better mother for the child.
Common sense now would be to do the DNA tests - since it is more likely to survive a legal challenge later. What would Solomon do now? I don't know I'm no Solomon:).
Him going to Japan and spending money is more likely to help Japan than remarks like yours.
Fact is globally there are thousands of people dying every _hour_. It helps none of them if we cried and mourned all the time.
Us earning and spending money like normal has a higher chance of helping Japan (unless we are working in a dubious/bad industry). And I'm sure they would welcome donations and other direct help (careful of scammers though).
If a nuclear station goes "chernobyl", I'd say don't go. But otherwise, there are plenty of parts of Japan (Kyoto etc) that aren't badly affected by the tsunamis and quakes.
I haven't had probs installing Windows XP slipstreamed with SP2 or SP3 on recent PCs ("whitebox" FTW ).
Dell says my work laptop is compatible with XP and Vista 32 bit (and doesn't say Windows 7 64;) ). From some random sampling seems most Dell Vostros support Windows XP. So if you want to use XP, buy a Vostro or Latitude. Check: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/osmatrix/index
As for the original XP, old versions of Linux have had problems with SATA. So why would anyone be surprised if there are problems installing the original XP?
Guild Wars works for me. It's not fast - but that's not surprising for most laptop 3D.
The problem I had actually wasn't with getting 3D drivers (IIRC I just had to google for them, there's some site devoted to ATI drivers for laptops, I think you'd find it with a google for: ati drivers laptop ).
The prob I had was with the touchpad drivers. In the end I used one from Toshiba! It has the option to automatically turn off the touchpad whenever I have my mouse plugged in. Only prob I still have is if I plug my mobile broadband stuff in, it thinks that's a mouse or something and still turns off the touchpad...
Due to work requirements, I installed Windows 7 64 bit on my corporate laptop from scratch (it came with Vista Home 32 bit or something unsuitable). Wasn't any harder than installing Ubuntu despite teh fact that Dell did/does not officially support Windows 7 64 bit on that laptop model.
As for download time, both require lots of updates to be downloaded.
Given the amount of crapware bundled with most laptops, wiping and reinstalling Windows from scratch might actually be a good idea. Just most people can't do it (no licenses or time or knowledge or will).
The lawyers forget that Sweden is not a state of USA
Is that even relevant to them?
1) They still get paid right? 2) The US laws apply if the silly swedish guy (and his unicorn) ever ends up in the US territory[1]. So there is still an effect. Go ask Dmitry Sklyarov.
[1] You don't even have to be "rendered". You could be flying to/from Canada and stuff happens and your plane has to land in USA (this has happened to someone I know - the US immigration bunch even asked him stupid questions like why he didn't have a valid US visa - he wasn't intending to go to the US in the first place).
From 9.x to 10.x I remember yast taking up hundreds of megabytes of memory just to check for updates. It was very very slow.Yast was almost a swear word in our dept;). I believe at some stage we switched to another package manager.
Looking at the bug reports it wasn't just us who noticed.
Where I grew up, there was no crime named "homicide." Instead, Texas has a heading of "criminal homicide" encompassing those types of homicide which may be crimes
Not surprised that Texans are less likely to confuse homicide with criminal homicide, after all they're more familiar with the phrase "needed killing":).
Yeah we already have billions of intelligent nonhuman entities. They're mostly in farms.
We don't treat them well - we eat and exploit most of them). Why should we create more? So that we can exploit them too?
If that's the reason we'd just be causing more evil in the world than good.
Whereas if we instead used the tech to augment humans, we'd have about the same amount of evil and good. Or at least not increase the evil so rapidly.
For similar reasons we should not create animal-human hybrids. We're not ready to deal with the problems e.g. when is an entity legally human, and when is it not?
If we force the issue we will have to draw the line before we are ready. And if we draw it carelessly many humans may not qualify as humans.
Or the posthumans may regard us humans as expendable (just like we view livestock). If we're lucky we might be pets.
where are you going to get a good ground at altitude? Just fly the plane into a mountain. Once it achieves a good ground contact, you won't have any Wi-Fi interference problems.
Since nobody in KDE/GNOME was interested in implementing it, I wrote LinkKey (for Windows since I prefer Windows for desktop stuff to KDE/GNOME. FWIW, my home server is running a Linux distro, so I am far from anti-Linux or OSS).
I might revisit Desktop Linux if Windows gets worse. But KDE and GNOME are currently worse and GNOME sure looks like it won't be good for me any time soon.
Win-1 to Win-9 are already linked to the 1st through 9th taskbar buttons in Windows 7
to make sure the respective apps are always in the same taskbar position, making linkkey somewhat unnecessary.
Windows 7's approach doesn't work so well if you want to switch quickly amongst a particular app's windows.
For example say you have three spreadsheet windows and one word processor window, and you are using info in the three spreadsheet windows to edit the word processor document.
Windows 7's method would be significantly slower and more error prone.
Whereas to use LinkKey you would just click the four windows in reverse order, press alt-0, and after that alt+1 through to alt+4 would be bound to those windows in order (you can configure LinkKey to use alt instead of winkey so as not to clash with Windows 7's usage).
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Perhaps you should snort some plutonium and cocaine. You may notice some differences.
Sure but:
1) Who really reads the commentary? The stupid pawns don't. The Dictator-to-be using the pawns might, but he doesn't care.
2) In most countries that are rich or that are growing rich, most of the workers already have votes and are voting in Capitalists.
Fact is you will have communists starting violent revolutions as part of the implementation as long as they follow the Communist Manifesto which states:
http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/61/pg61.html
The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims.
They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by
the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions.
And as long as violence is part of the revolution they will end up with a dictatorship.
Think about it. How else would the whole country realize who is the "winner" of the violent revolution? The winner is the one who has defeated all challengers. And in a violent revolution, the defeating is done violently not via votes or debates.
If you're very lucky you get a dictator who hands over the power soon after.
In a few US states, convicted felons even after serving out their time no longer have a right to vote.
The problem with communism (Marx/Engels version) is that violent revolution is part of the Communist Manifesto's implementation plan for Communism (read it if you don't believe me).
In most violent revolutions the person willing and capable of exerting the most violence ends up at the top. Most such people do not give up their power once at the top.
That's why communist (and other violent) revolutions tend to end up as dictatorships.
Only a few cases (e.g. the American Revolution) are the exceptions. I'm no expert but I think the American Revolution was quite different when compared to most "communist revolutions". Seems to me that much of each state's structure was maintained rather than overthrown.
Not all of them. Just #1.
http://www.icjt.org/npp/podrobnosti.php?drzava=14&lokacija=818
They are all pretty old anyway ( but have allegedly been used for interesting stuff before: http://www.mail-archive.com/envorum@ypb.or.id/msg00425.html )
What I'm wondering about is China. China gets big earthquakes too and they're building dozens of reactors. Many with the AP1000 design that some people don't think is safe enough: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP1000#Safety_concerns
I think BP's damage to the Gulf of Mexico will still be more in comparison.
Would solar panels (photovoltaics etc) be cheaper than using reflectors e.g. solar thermal?
If we are going to cover a total of 100km by 100km (or more) with panels the material costs are significant.
For wind and solar I don't think we are that far from the cost limits and getting to "as good as it gets".
You're not going to get more than 0.3 kilowatt per square metre on average: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insolation
It's a similar thing for wind - there's just so much wind per area (BTW those wind farms kill bats and birds).
So it's just a matter of getting the cost of materials down (e.g. use of reflectors instead of photovoltaics).
I'm not even sure you're not liable if it's an official upload.
And even if you're not liable, often the lawyers and don't know yet (or don't care - they may not be paid to care about such details), so you'd still have problems first.
Wisdom is not common sense.
:).
It's just that there are so many fools nowadays that don't appear to notice or care (or may even be proud of it), so much so that just having "common sense" alone makes you wise in comparison.
Wisdom is the ability to respond correctly to the entire situation - which does not necessarily mean strictly providing the correct answer to a question. In contrast intelligence is the ability to provide the right answers (or questions), to questions.
For example: take the "Judgement of Solomon" story where two women claimed to be mother of a child.
Intelligence nowadays would mean doing a DNA test to prove who was the biological mother of the child.
Solomon's method determined who would be a better mother for the child.
Common sense now would be to do the DNA tests - since it is more likely to survive a legal challenge later. What would Solomon do now? I don't know I'm no Solomon
It's the BBC. He doesn't understand British "English", they write strange there ;).
Him going to Japan and spending money is more likely to help Japan than remarks like yours.
Fact is globally there are thousands of people dying every _hour_. It helps none of them if we cried and mourned all the time.
Us earning and spending money like normal has a higher chance of helping Japan (unless we are working in a dubious/bad industry). And I'm sure they would welcome donations and other direct help (careful of scammers though).
If a nuclear station goes "chernobyl", I'd say don't go. But otherwise, there are plenty of parts of Japan (Kyoto etc) that aren't badly affected by the tsunamis and quakes.
I haven't had probs installing Windows XP slipstreamed with SP2 or SP3 on recent PCs ("whitebox" FTW ).
;) ). From some random sampling seems most Dell Vostros support Windows XP. So if you want to use XP, buy a Vostro or Latitude. Check: http://support.dell.com/support/topics/global.aspx/support/osmatrix/index
Dell says my work laptop is compatible with XP and Vista 32 bit (and doesn't say Windows 7 64
As for the original XP, old versions of Linux have had problems with SATA. So why would anyone be surprised if there are problems installing the original XP?
Guild Wars works for me. It's not fast - but that's not surprising for most laptop 3D.
The problem I had actually wasn't with getting 3D drivers (IIRC I just had to google for them, there's some site devoted to ATI drivers for laptops, I think you'd find it with a google for: ati drivers laptop ).
The prob I had was with the touchpad drivers. In the end I used one from Toshiba! It has the option to automatically turn off the touchpad whenever I have my mouse plugged in. Only prob I still have is if I plug my mobile broadband stuff in, it thinks that's a mouse or something and still turns off the touchpad...
Due to work requirements, I installed Windows 7 64 bit on my corporate laptop from scratch (it came with Vista Home 32 bit or something unsuitable). Wasn't any harder than installing Ubuntu despite teh fact that Dell did/does not officially support Windows 7 64 bit on that laptop model.
As for download time, both require lots of updates to be downloaded.
Given the amount of crapware bundled with most laptops, wiping and reinstalling Windows from scratch might actually be a good idea. Just most people can't do it (no licenses or time or knowledge or will).
Where's your evidence supporting your claim that it's a myth. Even the other AC says:
The reason SUSE's package management is so slow is that it essentially does the equivalent of an apt-get update *every time* it initializes,
In case you don't understand, he doesn't say it isn't slow. He's giving an excuse for why it is slow.
The lawyers forget that Sweden is not a state of USA
Is that even relevant to them?
1) They still get paid right?
2) The US laws apply if the silly swedish guy (and his unicorn) ever ends up in the US territory[1]. So there is still an effect. Go ask Dmitry Sklyarov.
[1] You don't even have to be "rendered". You could be flying to/from Canada and stuff happens and your plane has to land in USA (this has happened to someone I know - the US immigration bunch even asked him stupid questions like why he didn't have a valid US visa - he wasn't intending to go to the US in the first place).
From 9.x to 10.x I remember yast taking up hundreds of megabytes of memory just to check for updates. It was very very slow.Yast was almost a swear word in our dept ;). I believe at some stage we switched to another package manager.
Looking at the bug reports it wasn't just us who noticed.
Where I grew up, there was no crime named "homicide." Instead, Texas has a heading of "criminal homicide" encompassing those types of homicide which may be crimes
Not surprised that Texans are less likely to confuse homicide with criminal homicide, after all they're more familiar with the phrase "needed killing" :).
Yeah we already have billions of intelligent nonhuman entities. They're mostly in farms.
We don't treat them well - we eat and exploit most of them). Why should we create more? So that we can exploit them too?
If that's the reason we'd just be causing more evil in the world than good.
Whereas if we instead used the tech to augment humans, we'd have about the same amount of evil and good. Or at least not increase the evil so rapidly.
For similar reasons we should not create animal-human hybrids. We're not ready to deal with the problems e.g. when is an entity legally human, and when is it not?
If we force the issue we will have to draw the line before we are ready. And if we draw it carelessly many humans may not qualify as humans.
Or the posthumans may regard us humans as expendable (just like we view livestock). If we're lucky we might be pets.
8.9 pretty much counts as an epic center. 9.9 would definitely be legendary.
where are you going to get a good ground at altitude?
Just fly the plane into a mountain. Once it achieves a good ground contact, you won't have any Wi-Fi interference problems.
I actually made the feature request to KDE years ago: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121349
And more recently to GNOME too:
http://www.mail-archive.com/usability@gnome.org/msg04993.html
Since nobody in KDE/GNOME was interested in implementing it, I wrote LinkKey (for Windows since I prefer Windows for desktop stuff to KDE/GNOME. FWIW, my home server is running a Linux distro, so I am far from anti-Linux or OSS).
I might revisit Desktop Linux if Windows gets worse. But KDE and GNOME are currently worse and GNOME sure looks like it won't be good for me any time soon.
Failed reading comprehension? You're the one assuming stuff and falsely too.
Win-1 to Win-9 are already linked to the 1st through 9th taskbar buttons in Windows 7
to make sure the respective apps are always in the same taskbar position, making linkkey somewhat unnecessary.
Windows 7's approach doesn't work so well if you want to switch quickly amongst a particular app's windows.
For example say you have three spreadsheet windows and one word processor window, and you are using info in the three spreadsheet windows to edit the word processor document.
Windows 7's method would be significantly slower and more error prone.
Whereas to use LinkKey you would just click the four windows in reverse order, press alt-0, and after that alt+1 through to alt+4 would be bound to those windows in order (you can configure LinkKey to use alt instead of winkey so as not to clash with Windows 7's usage).