Well, by British TV owners actually, but I digress.
I don't have a problem with government-funded "arts" but this seems a bit beyond the normal scope of things
Really? Government sponsorship is one of the major sources of science research funding in many westernised countries. Who do you think pays for NASA, the Lawrence Livermore Labs, and a large proportion of science research in universities (not biotech, sure, but a lot of stuff in computing, high energy physics, astronomy, applied maths etc).
And, in the case of Britain's Natural and Environmental Research Council (NERC), me!
some of the tools shipped with SuSE are less fully featured or standards-compatible than the Microsoft/Windows equivalents
Fully featured, I'd grant you, but unless you count MS Word files as a "standard", I'd be interested to know which SuSE tools you consider less standards-compatible than the Microsoft/Windows equivalents.
the original name for the top and bottom quarks were Truth and Beauty.
Ah, yes. But the famous physicist John Keats demonstrated (in his ground breaking URN experiments in Greece), that these two were the same thing.
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It's pretty sad that when you say something even slightly critical of linux, you feel the need to defend yourself from the moderators by parading your linux qualifications to prove that your really truly one of the cognoscenti.
(Beowulf Boy, this isn't a criticism of you, but the mentality of moderators)
Quantum tunneling is nothing to do with Quantum Chromodynamics or the strong interaction. That comes from pure quantum mechanics, you don't need to explain the in-particle nuclear binding forces to understand tunneling.
It accounts for the behavior of three out of nature's four fundamental forces
Err, no. QCD accounts for one of the fundamental forces, the strong force. Quarks (and their asymptotic freedom) don't really have anything to do with the electroweak forces, which are carried by W and Z bosons and photons.
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.? Maybe 1%. And (honestly) I tend to delete what I don't like and buy what I do. 2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?None at all. 3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music? None at all. 4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs? Maybe 5-10% 5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs? 2% ish.
they go chasing the preferences of the nutbag right wing lesbian porn haters
You hear that a lot, but I don't think its true. Sucking up to extremists for the balance of power alienates a lot of your middle ground support, and thats what everyone relies one for the second term. It might work, but its short termism in the extreme.
The long term strategy would be for the Libs to suck up to the Nationals or for Labour to form a broad coalition with the Dems, Progs and Greens
And, frankly, if I were to worry about extremists holding the balance of power, I'd worry about One Nation before Family First.
The only thing that worries me more than that is if the Tories win. Rarely has a mainstream party so blatantly appealed to xenophobia, out of fear of UKIP. Terrifyingly, the Blair and Blunkett show has forced me into the arms of the Liberal Democrats (and if he doesn't get to be PM soon, I wouldn't be surprised if Gordon Brown followed me).
Because if we're not aware of what some deluded people want to do to our freedom online,
The world is full of people who want to fuck you up and fuck you over. Most of them can't, because they don't, and never will, have sufficient power of you. This party falls firmly into the that category, and to pay them any attention is to dignify their insignificance far beyond any reasonable amount.
I mean, do you go to sleep worrying what would happen if the KKK won the 2008 US Presidential Election? Course you don't, because it isn't going to happen.
Only nutters with a power base are scary, Family First are merely nutters.
A group of fundamentalist Christians dislike pornography and want censorship. Well duh. That's what fundie politicos do, they try and impose their beliefs on others.
However, they're not expected to win very many (if any) seats in the Senate. (They've got exactly *one* elected representative anywhere at the moment, a member of the South Australian Legislative Council.
It's a fringe policy of a fringe party, who are going to have zero power in the forseeable future. Why is this considered newsworthy?
Except thats not what its named. Its called the 'Regulation of Investigatory Powers (RIP) Act' (previously the RIP Bill). No mention of the word "Justice". Yes, its a horrible piece of legislation, but thats no excuse to pretend its name is different from what it is.
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And, in the case of Britain's Natural and Environmental Research Council (NERC), me!
Oh, fair enough then. I thought thats what you meant.
It's often said that deFacto standards are the only ones that matter, and I tend to agree.
It's pretty sad that when you say something even slightly critical of linux, you feel the need to defend yourself from the moderators by parading your linux qualifications to prove that your really truly one of the cognoscenti.
(Beowulf Boy, this isn't a criticism of you, but the mentality of moderators)
Quantum tunneling is nothing to do with Quantum Chromodynamics or the strong interaction. That comes from pure quantum mechanics, you don't need to explain the in-particle nuclear binding forces to understand tunneling.
Asymptotic freedom in the theory of the Strong Interaction
Well, that's not an exhaustive list of sources is it? That's what I meant by "vinyl" at the end.
1) Roughly what percent of your music collection is unauthorized files from P2P like Kazaa, FTP, etc.?
Maybe 1%. And (honestly) I tend to delete what I don't like and buy what I do.
2) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from sources like iTunes Music Store, eMusic, etc?None at all.
3) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from shareable sources like Creative Commons-licensed music?
None at all.
4) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of your own CDs?
Maybe 5-10%
5) Roughly what percent of your music collection comes from rips of friends' CDs?
2% ish.
Vinyl, baby, vinyl
Well the latter one is MIT's fault. They asked for a user name, and MIT sent them the wrong one. RIAA then acted on that information in good faith.
Don't you know, we don't hate Java anymore. These days we all love Java due to its major new feature -- its not C#
The long term strategy would be for the Libs to suck up to the Nationals or for Labour to form a broad coalition with the Dems, Progs and Greens
And, frankly, if I were to worry about extremists holding the balance of power, I'd worry about One Nation before Family First.
Interesting numbers, for a variety of reasons (mainly to bash the millions of people who don't understand that Correlation Is Not Causation).
Do you have a source?
I mean, do you go to sleep worrying what would happen if the KKK won the 2008 US Presidential Election? Course you don't, because it isn't going to happen.
Only nutters with a power base are scary, Family First are merely nutters.
A group of fundamentalist Christians dislike pornography and want censorship. Well duh. That's what fundie politicos do, they try and impose their beliefs on others.
However, they're not expected to win very many (if any) seats in the Senate. (They've got exactly *one* elected representative anywhere at the moment, a member of the South Australian Legislative Council.
It's a fringe policy of a fringe party, who are going to have zero power in the forseeable future. Why is this considered newsworthy?
Bad idea : Hand off film to two egomaniacs with special effects obsessions and no sense of narrative.
(Disclaimer : Matrix excellent, sequels awful)
.. as long as you've got your ELF, that's the main thing. /*rim shot*
... it's advertastic!
"Warfighter" is a horrible word though. Whats wrong with "member of the Armed Forces"?