It is offensive. Polygamy depends on certain people (i.e. women) being unequal in the eyes of the law.
How can courts cope with say, a divorce, when claims on property and custodianship are bound to be orders of magnitude more complex than with any normal married pair? How can a patriarch face the possibility that the deterioration of his relationship with one wife would quite likely lead to a huge emotional and legal nightmare not just with her, but eventually embroiling 6 other wives plus all the children? How are such marriages, between fully-empowered adults, NOT a recipie for the destruction of whole towns?
Answer: Take their rights away (or prevent them from claiming any). The incentive to surpress disharmony in such a loaded environment becomes an urgent need to legally imprison some particular spousal class (almost always women).
And please don't bother with descriptions of polygamy as a simple ability for an individual to marry more than one person... unless you think having whole regions where all the people are legally interrelated after a couple generations is workable.
"What will the Federal Government do when the State of Massachusetts only submits ISO-standard ODP (OASIS) documents back to the feds?
My guess? Use OpenOffice.org as a conversion filter. Then, various fed employees (IT people) will start wondering _why_ they should be paying for MS Office when they *already* use a similar office suite as a _conversion_ filter."
I really doubt they need us for anything now. Since 2002 the US has been running a slight trade deficit in farm products with the rest of the world... the first time since the Great Depression.
Oh wait... they 'need' our 'Intellectual Property'.
I really don't see what is wrong with the user 'indescriminately' typing the admin password for a program they want to install. Either they trust the app or they do not. No way around that.
Sure there are people who would type in their admin password for something like an applet on a web page...... There are also people who drive their cars into brick walls. I don't worry that the former could bring down the Internet, any more than I worry about the latter stopping highway traffic.
That is what the Climateprediction.net project does:
It uses distributed computing (ala SETI@Home) to test climate models against the past and present in order to hone its climate forcast for the future (post-2050).
If you think there are better places to live, you're always free to move there. If you're planning on moving to a socialist country, though, I'd advise leaving yourself a decade or so, governments of that type have even worse red tape than the US.
I'm sure there is much red tape for immigration. For the rest of life (such as healthcare, transportation and housing) probably not so much.
Also, they are not really "socialist countries". They are mixed, democratic economies that contain a vociferous socialist vein among their elected offices.
You seem to have some confusion about politics in the US because you are putting it exclusively in terms of political parties.
No, I put it in terms of ideologies and parties.
You can't make the kind of comparison you're trying to make because the fundamental framework in which politics takes place is different in the US and most European countries, which are what I assume you're referring to.
Europe, Canada... yes. And they are human beings just like us; that is the 'fundamental' that counts. If you can't relate at this point, then there is likely nothing I can do to help it. And don't tell me that the US Constitution makes looting agreements like CAFTA or NAFTA necessary. We could pushing agreements that resemble the EU framework, which accounts for human rights... but we do not.
Also, your 'quality of life' argument is a crock, as are all 'quality of life' arguments, because the speaker always simply defines the term to mean what he wants.
That's pretty sweeping... Have I hit a nerve?? The United Nations seems to value quality of life as a concept, as do many countries. You are welcome to visit their site and read the reports along with their methodology. Of course here in the US it is all about GDP, which is assuredly the biggest "crock" currently getting lipservice.
"President Bush, Latin America is calling with offers of aid... Mr. President? Mr. President???"
Looks like voting for oligarch-vetted so-called "individuals" has its sharp pitfalls.
Since 2003, FEMA is no longer responsible. The Department of Homeland Security has supplanted them.
No link yet, but here is an excerpt from a FEMA Timeline by Henry Breitrose, Professor of Communication at Stanford Univ.
January 2001: Bush appoints Joe Allbaugh, a crony from Texas, as the head of FEMA. Allbaugh has no previous experience in disaster management.
April 2001: Budget Director Mitch Daniels announces the Bush administration's goal of privatizing much of FEMA's work. In May, Allbaugh confirms that FEMA will be downsized: "Many are concerned that federal disaster assistance may have evolved into an oversized entitlement program...." he said. "Expectations of when the federal government should be involved and the degree of involvement may have ballooned beyond what is an appropriate level."
2001: FEMA designates a major hurricane hitting New Orleans as one of the three "likeliest, most catastrophic disasters facing this country."
December 2002: After less than two years at FEMA, Allbaugh announces he is leaving to start up a consulting firm that advises companies seeking to do business in Iraq. He is succeeded by his deputy, Michael Brown, who, like Allbaugh, has no previous experience in disaster management.
March 2003: FEMA is downgraded from a cabinet-level position and folded into the Department of Homeland Security. Its mission is refocused on fighting acts of terrorism.
2003: Under its new organization chart within DHS, FEMA's preparation and planning functions are reassigned to a new Office of Preparedness and Response. FEMA will henceforth focus only on response and recovery...
"Just another sign of the stupidly polarized political environment around here these days. Imagine trying to drive down the street if your only steering mechanism was full-lock left and full-lock right.
I'm calling you on this one: Refresh me about that period when Democrats tried to nationalize all or most of the country's economy. I can't recall.
The country is 'poliarized' to one economic pole, with a very wimpy center. The Republican party is what incipient fascism looks like in red, white and blue.
And I will remind you that other developed countries with a better quality of life than the US have far more authentic Left parties sharing power that go by names like 'labour' and 'socialist'.
Americans need to quit staring at themselves in the TV all the time and get a clue. There are excellent examples of governance and culture around the world today...not that anyone here would care to notice.
Funny I always seem to notice these claims without anything to back them up.
Ubuntu is not the paragon of integtration or user-friendliness. If you can't get on the web and just expect plugins and multimedia protocols AND codecs to work, then aint no spartan, drab desktop theme gonna make things 'simple'.
I've seen this off-hand comment before, and it sounds like the PC users who claim OS X is "limiting".
In what way is Linspire limiting?
No one is going to break a fingernail setting up sources.list if they want to expand their horizons. Is it going to kill a power user if they have to apt-get some additional packages they're accustomed to having?
I am tired of eye-candy-coated free distros that can't even remember the Windows domain password you typed in 15 min ago when you go to print something over the network. Or that expect people to wade through tons of library and utility packages to discern an acutal user-facing application. Or that don't have support for browser plugins and rtsp/mms protocols setup.
Otherwise save some money, use Ubuntu or fedora and take 5 minutes to read any of the many guides to adding software to your system. There aren't many things worse then dealing with desktop linux when you are new to OSS.
I'd never send an average user into the frightful wilderness that is the Synaptic UI. It's nice for those of us with experience... but c'mon, apps are indistishinguishable from all of the many MANY other little pieces in the repository.
OTOH, Linspire comes complete with what seems like every codec and reader in semi-common use... AND they are well integrated into Firefox and Konqueror. Using it for viewing content is a dream even compared to Windows XP... the Mac can't hold a candle to it here (wish I could get as many codecs for OSX/PPC).
It also has CNR which defaults to just showing the user applications...gosh what a concept! It's too bad Fedora and Ubuntu haven't progressed beyond the 1970s in this respect.
And if you don't like CNR or don't want to pay for the support you get with it, then add the Debian repository to sources.list. Sheesh!
Stop acting like Linspire (or any commercial Linux) is restricting or trapping users just because the distro is easy to use. If "expert" Linux users and coders started with thoughtfully-assembled distros like this one more often, then perhaps more applications would be packaged such that a non-sysadmin can properly recognize and handle them.
FWIW, two distros that now include Reiser4 by default are Xandros 3 SP2 and the latest KANOTIX.
I personally have been using Reiser4 intensively since the beginning of June without incident. However I have not done anything with its extended features and don't really know how practical that is at this point.
That may be common on some BOINC-type projects, but I've found that people crunching for ClimatePrediction.net to be more of the concerned variety.
There is still some emphasis on stats, but overall the activity surrounding the related Open University course and discussion of climate change and ecology tend to eclipse competition for its own sake.
CPDN is the most demanding distributed computing research project I've seen and narcissists fall by the wayside pretty quickly. What we COULD use are more geeks.;-)
Can't say for certain, but Xandros Linux does have this behavior of handling a zip file like a folder. Its available via a free download so you may want to check it out.
I'm sure if you searched on "stirling biomass" you would find some useful applications.
In diesel engines, burning biodiesel and even straight vegetable oil (both fats) is considered to be efficient and relatively clean. Biodiesel is also used in place of home heating oil. It's energy density is somewhere between that of gasoline and petrodiesel.
Xandros does not charge for access either to the core repository or the 'Debian Unsupported' one. Also, nothing prevents you from adding a standard Debian mirror to sources.apt.
Xandros 3 has been synchronized with Sarge, minimizing installation problems. Prior versions were 'nonstandard' in this respect however.
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It is offensive. Polygamy depends on certain people (i.e. women) being unequal in the eyes of the law.
How can courts cope with say, a divorce, when claims on property and custodianship are bound to be orders of magnitude more complex than with any normal married pair? How can a patriarch face the possibility that the deterioration of his relationship with one wife would quite likely lead to a huge emotional and legal nightmare not just with her, but eventually embroiling 6 other wives plus all the children? How are such marriages, between fully-empowered adults, NOT a recipie for the destruction of whole towns?
Answer: Take their rights away (or prevent them from claiming any). The incentive to surpress disharmony in such a loaded environment becomes an urgent need to legally imprison some particular spousal class (almost always women).
And please don't bother with descriptions of polygamy as a simple ability for an individual to marry more than one person... unless you think having whole regions where all the people are legally interrelated after a couple generations is workable.
When will these Sci-Fi "critics" finally live up to their lofty edifice and recognize Lost Saucer as one of the greats?
Someday, Ruth Buzzy and Jim Neighbors will get their due.
"What will the Federal Government do when the State of Massachusetts only submits ISO-standard ODP (OASIS) documents back to the feds?
:-)
My guess? Use OpenOffice.org as a conversion filter. Then, various fed employees (IT people) will start wondering _why_ they should be paying for MS Office when they *already* use a similar office suite as a _conversion_ filter."
You took the words right out of my mouth.
I really doubt they need us for anything now. Since 2002 the US has been running a slight trade deficit in farm products with the rest of the world... the first time since the Great Depression.
Oh wait... they 'need' our 'Intellectual Property'.
I really don't see what is wrong with the user 'indescriminately' typing the admin password for a program they want to install. Either they trust the app or they do not. No way around that.
Sure there are people who would type in their admin password for something like an applet on a web page...... There are also people who drive their cars into brick walls. I don't worry that the former could bring down the Internet, any more than I worry about the latter stopping highway traffic.
I'ts also worth noting that human-made NOx contributes about as much to the greenhouse effect as human-made CO2
The total warming potential from NOx is a small fraction of CO2's warming potential.
Where do you get your facts from: Ideology?
Thank you.
That is what the Climateprediction.net project does:
It uses distributed computing (ala SETI@Home) to test climate models against the past and present in order to hone its climate forcast for the future (post-2050).
http://www.climateprediction.net/
You will get better quality from CCD sensors than CMOS ones, all other things being equal.
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http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/question362.
...will make an OS that uses the four corners of the display.
It's called Expose, and the corner-sensitive feature is activated through System Preferences.
Neoliberals are the ones who hand over henhouse keys to the FOX.
Then the FOX calls his neocon-cousins on the phone and invites them over for diner.
I'm sure there is much red tape for immigration. For the rest of life (such as healthcare, transportation and housing) probably not so much.
Also, they are not really "socialist countries". They are mixed, democratic economies that contain a vociferous socialist vein among their elected offices.
You seem to have some confusion about politics in the US because you are putting it exclusively in terms of political parties.
No, I put it in terms of ideologies and parties.
You can't make the kind of comparison you're trying to make because the fundamental framework in which politics takes place is different in the US and most European countries, which are what I assume you're referring to.
Europe, Canada... yes. And they are human beings just like us; that is the 'fundamental' that counts. If you can't relate at this point, then there is likely nothing I can do to help it. And don't tell me that the US Constitution makes looting agreements like CAFTA or NAFTA necessary. We could pushing agreements that resemble the EU framework, which accounts for human rights... but we do not.
The US Constitution does not make this necessary.
Also, your 'quality of life' argument is a crock, as are all 'quality of life' arguments, because the speaker always simply defines the term to mean what he wants.
That's pretty sweeping... Have I hit a nerve?? The United Nations seems to value quality of life as a concept, as do many countries. You are welcome to visit their site and read the reports along with their methodology. Of course here in the US it is all about GDP, which is assuredly the biggest "crock" currently getting lipservice.
"President Bush, Latin America is calling with offers of aid... Mr. President? Mr. President???"
Looks like voting for oligarch-vetted so-called "individuals" has its sharp pitfalls.
No link yet, but here is an excerpt from a FEMA Timeline by Henry Breitrose, Professor of Communication at Stanford Univ.
"Just another sign of the stupidly polarized political environment around here these days. Imagine trying to drive down the street if your only steering mechanism was full-lock left and full-lock right.
I'm calling you on this one: Refresh me about that period when Democrats tried to nationalize all or most of the country's economy. I can't recall.
The country is 'poliarized' to one economic pole, with a very wimpy center. The Republican party is what incipient fascism looks like in red, white and blue.
And I will remind you that other developed countries with a better quality of life than the US have far more authentic Left parties sharing power that go by names like 'labour' and 'socialist'.
Americans need to quit staring at themselves in the TV all the time and get a clue. There are excellent examples of governance and culture around the world today...not that anyone here would care to notice.
It was called colonialism then, it's not named now.
Today its called neoliberalism.
The article is about the installable, full version of Linspire.
This isn't rocket science, geeks.
And you not even willing to pull up a CLI. Hmmm, I doubt Linspire will be paying you to have these changes made.
Funny I always seem to notice these claims without anything to back them up.
Ubuntu is not the paragon of integtration or user-friendliness. If you can't get on the web and just expect plugins and multimedia protocols AND codecs to work, then aint no spartan, drab desktop theme gonna make things 'simple'.
I found the whole thing quite limiting
I've seen this off-hand comment before, and it sounds like the PC users who claim OS X is "limiting".
In what way is Linspire limiting?
No one is going to break a fingernail setting up sources.list if they want to expand their horizons. Is it going to kill a power user if they have to apt-get some additional packages they're accustomed to having?
I am tired of eye-candy-coated free distros that can't even remember the Windows domain password you typed in 15 min ago when you go to print something over the network. Or that expect people to wade through tons of library and utility packages to discern an acutal user-facing application. Or that don't have support for browser plugins and rtsp/mms protocols setup.
Eye-candy != Ease of use
Ease of use != Constraints
I'd never send an average user into the frightful wilderness that is the Synaptic UI. It's nice for those of us with experience... but c'mon, apps are indistishinguishable from all of the many MANY other little pieces in the repository.
OTOH, Linspire comes complete with what seems like every codec and reader in semi-common use... AND they are well integrated into Firefox and Konqueror. Using it for viewing content is a dream even compared to Windows XP... the Mac can't hold a candle to it here (wish I could get as many codecs for OSX/PPC).
It also has CNR which defaults to just showing the user applications...gosh what a concept! It's too bad Fedora and Ubuntu haven't progressed beyond the 1970s in this respect.
And if you don't like CNR or don't want to pay for the support you get with it, then add the Debian repository to sources.list. Sheesh!
Here is a guide on 'hacking' Linspire 5. It is very short.
Stop acting like Linspire (or any commercial Linux) is restricting or trapping users just because the distro is easy to use. If "expert" Linux users and coders started with thoughtfully-assembled distros like this one more often, then perhaps more applications would be packaged such that a non-sysadmin can properly recognize and handle them.
Many supernovas are asymmetric. The net effect is that the remaining core receives a sideways "kick".
FWIW, two distros that now include Reiser4 by default are Xandros 3 SP2 and the latest KANOTIX.
I personally have been using Reiser4 intensively since the beginning of June without incident. However I have not done anything with its extended features and don't really know how practical that is at this point.
That may be common on some BOINC-type projects, but I've found that people crunching for ClimatePrediction.net to be more of the concerned variety.
;-)
There is still some emphasis on stats, but overall the activity surrounding the related Open University course and discussion of climate change and ecology tend to eclipse competition for its own sake.
CPDN is the most demanding distributed computing research project I've seen and narcissists fall by the wayside pretty quickly. What we COULD use are more geeks.
Can't say for certain, but Xandros Linux does have this behavior of handling a zip file like a folder. Its available via a free download so you may want to check it out.
I'm sure if you searched on "stirling biomass" you would find some useful applications.
In diesel engines, burning biodiesel and even straight vegetable oil (both fats) is considered to be efficient and relatively clean. Biodiesel is also used in place of home heating oil. It's energy density is somewhere between that of gasoline and petrodiesel.
Xandros does not charge for access either to the core repository or the 'Debian Unsupported' one. Also, nothing prevents you from adding a standard Debian mirror to sources.apt.
Xandros 3 has been synchronized with Sarge, minimizing installation problems. Prior versions were 'nonstandard' in this respect however.