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Oh, and the Acer comes with a free printer and a free wireless router. That's another $100 in value, even at discount prices.
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I'm an apple fan, however this is total bullshit: However, when you look at Dell's Core Duo laptop and Apple's Core Duo laptop... the differences aren't much. That's the big win for Apple in switching to Intel hardware- the systems are really comparable and fairly easily similarly priced.
Slightly slower processor. 2 GB ram, base. Slightly slower video vard (ATI Radeon X1400). SD card reader, firewire, DVD burner, yadda yadda. 120 GB harddrive, which is slightly greater. $1299.99
The MacBook Pros are vastly more expensive than similar PC hardware. The build quality of this Acer is not so bad, either; I just purchased one. It is most likely going back, in exchange for a MacBook Pro (ATI's complete lack of any kind of linux support is a big issue), but this notebook is functionally equivalent to a MacBook Pro for significantly less money.
Don't even get me started on other similar systems, like the Gateway NX860, or a variety of others. The simple fact of the matter is that PCs with similar specs are vastly cheaper. If I could get a dual core PC laptop with 100% functioning drivers on Linux, I'd purchase a PC. Hell; I did purchase a PC, but then found out that not even the VESA drivers support the native resolution on this ATI chipset. Damn Acer for not releasing the 5650 (same machine with a Geforce) in the U.S.
Anything that has to mediate between native software code and native OS/Hardware code is an emulator.
Are GTK, QT, and Mono emulators?
Hell, what about XGL and/or Xorg? Or GTK on Win32? What about Cygwin? What about Xen, or VMware, or Java?
What is an emulator, anyways? What's the difference between "native" and "foreign"? How many layers of translation are okay? What if an app relies on libc? That's "translation" between native (assembly) code and the hardware.
Your understanding of these things is very, very limited. Emulation can be really fast (VMware), and in any case, Wine is an implementation of Win32 for Unix based systems. That's all; no more, no less. It's not really all that different from the Linux environment for FreeBSD, or even QT/GTK.
Don't get me wrong, there are speed problems. But these are not design issues, they are implementation issues, and are things that can be solved with programmer time. There is no fundamental design reason why Wine should be slower than Windows; indeed, as long as Linux is faster with the underlying hardware access, Wine can be significantly faster.
Disclaimer: I use Linux and OS X. My computers do not "feed" or "get sick".
I was at my cousin's house last night, and I wanted to show him the new Xgl videos. I sat down at his desktop to download them, and grumbled, "Feels slow. And the videos are stuttering. Something's wrong with your computer."
He replied, "It's because I'm running Limewire."
I grumbled some more, quit Limewire. "Still slow. Something's wrong. Your anti-virus isn't even running. You should do something about this, I bet its infected out the wazoo."
He replied, "No, it's just because I downloaded a lot of stuff. It'll get better later. It needs to recover from the download."
My mind absolutely blown away, I leaned over and patted his computer, and said, "There, there. I hope it feels better in the morning."
PC gamers are to regular gamers like people in the NRA and who drive SUVs are to regular people driving their Toyota Yaris and who don't own guns -- they are making up for something, and they are willing to spend any amount of money to fix it. Witness the 700$ US video card market.
Meh. I'm a PC gamer, and I don't buy from the $700 video card market.
I must admit I played Half-Life 2. However, most of the other games I play aren't console games. Civilization IV. World of Warcraft. Black and White 2. Guild Wars. Other strategy games.
My PC is cobbled together from random parts, runs Linux, and is a fun hobby for me. It's a labor of love, and the playing of games is the reward. I liken it to people who build their own kit cars, or home improvement nuts. Build it is half the fun, and enjoying it is the other half.
Besides, I don't always like the commercialized crap that comes out for consoles; and with consoles, you don't have the option of independent games. Not the World of Warcraft is an indy game, but I do enjoy them. Space Empires IV. Battle for Wesnoth. Time of Defiance. DarkSpace. SecondLife (I was there in the beginning!)
Not all PC gamers are leet-speaking hormonally challenged idiots. Some of us honestly prefer fiddling around with electronics to having everything prepackaged, or locked down. This is why I bought an original Xbox. The first thing I did with it was install a mod chip, 2nd was buy Soul Caliber 2, and 3rd was install 8 million nintendo games and Xbox media player.
I do agree that as a general rule, you should respect other peoples beliefs. You do have a right to personal beliefs.
I do NOT agree with the following statement: I think I'm pretty much your average christian-by-culture/atheist-by-belief dane and I understand why the muslims are so pissed! These drawings show nothing but disrespect for the entire muslim community, both here and in the rest of the world.
I cannot understand why they are so pissed. These are disrespectful drawings; but at BEST, thats a matter of taste. Even if its goes against their religious beliefs. These drawings did not advocate wholesale slaughter of muslisms, or anything like that.
They're rude. Do you think I should start a riot everytime someone is rude to me?
The muslim world is embroilded in horrible conditions, things that make everyones skin crawl, and we're having an international culture war over a couple of CARTOON DRAWINGS?
That's perverse. There are real issues here; treatment of muslims in the West, human rights in muslism societs, the vast economic disparities between the 1st world and the 3rd world. And we're talking about BLOODY CARTOONS!
Quite simply, there is no reason for the West to kowtow to Muslim rage. The right answer is for 'us', the reasonable people, to say things like this: "Yes, those cartoons were in poor taste, and I myself do not believe in their message. I respect the rights of Muslims across the world, and have a healthy respect for Islam. However, I also respect the rights of our news media to publish anything they desire, so long as it does not directly incite violence. I may not agree with what they say, but I will defend to the death their right to say it"
We're talking about cartoons. We're not talking about a massacre in tiannamen square. We're not talking about stoning women to death. We're not talking about Soviet purges, or a Jewish holocaust. We aren't discussing a Nuclear War.
Yet this is perhaps the biggest set of international protests I've seen since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
WHAT THE FUCK? (Pardon my French)
I get very, very upset when I hear about the NSA spying on Americans. I get very, very upset when I hear President Bush say that it is unpatriotic to criticize the administration.
But do I start a riot, and burn the local government offices? No.
When I see cartoons that ridicule my race (I'm Iranian), do I flip out and kill people, and demand laws against freedom of speech? No.
The supposed "outrage" we are seeing is misdirection on the part of dictators and religious leaders in the Middle East. There is a much historied tradition of blaming the Islamic world's problems on the West. This is an extension of that blame, and its reached absurd proportions.
Dozens of people have died over these cartoons. If the Islamic world spent a quarter of that effort on overthrowing unjust governments, there wouldn't be a single dictator in the Middle East.
I do not understand why they are this upset. I do not get why they are "pissed". It doesn't make sense to me, and its unacceptable.
If the U.S. government was so good at sponsoring these sorts of Riots, we wouldn't need to actually invade. We'd just sponsor huge unrest throughout Iran, and the government would collapse. Their hold on power is somewhat tenuous, anyways; all that is really needed is a strong opposition.
This Russian politican you are pointing at, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is a mad man who at one point advocated open warfar with the U.S. He is a hard, hard, hardcore Russian right-winger. Like, from the rafters. He's essentially a fascist.
I quote: He advocates alliances between the former Soviet republics leading up to re-incorporation of the Soviet Union. Zhirinovsky also made statements regarding re-acquisition of Alaska through the use of military force, invading and occupying Iran, and constructing large fans to blow Russia's nuclear waste into Germany. He has also praised Adolf Hitler's rule and encouraged the use of nuclear weapons against possible adversaries. He has been known to make public anti-Semitic remarks.
Zhirinovsky allegedly praised the success of American presidential candidate Pat Buchanan during Buchanan's 1992 Presidential bid. Buchanan refused Zhirinovsky's endorsement.
He's publicly made statements like this: The leader of the Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vladimir Zhirinovsky, expressed his opinion on the matter in an exclusive interview with Pravda.Ru.
"Condoleezza Rice released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children. She loses her reason because of her late single status. Nature takes it all.
"Such women are very rough. They are all workaholics, public workaholics. They can be happy only when they are talked and written about everywhere: "Oh, Condoleezza, what a remarkable woman, what a charming Afro-American lady! How well she can play the piano and speak Russian! What a courageous, tough and strong female she is!
"This is the only way to satisfy her needs of a female. She derives pleasure from it. If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear. Even if she had a whole selection of men to choose from she would stay single because her soul and heart have hardened. Like Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, or Alexander the Great of Macedon Ms. Rice needs to fight and release tough public statements in global scale. She needs to be on top of the world.... "The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power....
This is not the place, where one can sublimate their personal sexual problems.
"Complex-prone women are especially dangerous. They are like malicious mothers-in-law, women that evoke hatred and irritation with everyone.... "Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied. On the other hand, she can hardly be satisfied because of her age. This is a complex. She needs to return to her university and teach students there. She could also deal with psychological analysis.
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men's attention," Vladimir Zhirinovsky said.
Ahem...
This is not a man one should be basing research on;-)
The (not-so) funny thing is that your actually mistaken; in many of these places, the radicals are the MAJORITY, or at least hold all the political and economic power.
Take your pick:
Iran Saudi Arabia Palestinian Territories Islamic portions of Iraq Taliban Afghanistan
Although the moderates were probably the majority in these states, the extremists hold all the cards, and in some cases (the islamic areas of Iraq) they actually are in the majority!
It's a far more difficult problem. Marginilization doesn't work when these people are living large, and run the arm. The only real solution is armed conflict, but the U.S. is not permitted to be involved for political reasons.
Really, its a rather hopeless situation. And I'm not saying this as a "red-neck" American; I'm a dispossed Iranian. The simple fact of the matter is that the Iranian Revolutionary Government, or the Islamic House of Saud, and the various high-powered radical cleric in the middle east aren't going anywhere, and won't loose any power without violent upheaval.
Let's see: Iran: According to Entekhab; an Iranian daily, on April 24, Ferdows B another Iranian woman was sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic court in Tehran. Sima; another woman is awaiting to be stoned since Jan. 2002
Pakistan: On 17 April, Zafaran Bibi was sentence to death by stoning under section 8 of Zina Ordinance and in accordance with Islamic Shari'a in Kohat in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan for willful extra - marital sex. Zafaran's Lawyer filed an appeal on 24 April. Since 1981, human and women's rights activists and organisations have been struggling to repeal this law.
Nigeria: Amina Lawal Kurami is awaiting death by stoning after Safiya Hussaini's sentence was overturned Safiya Hussaini was the first woman who could be sentenced to death for sex out of marriage in that country according to the Shari'a in modern times. The Islamic leaders that have fought vigorously to reintroduce the Islamic law, did not want outside pressure deprive them of this symbolic sentence. After overturning Safiya's case, on March 22, they put another woman; Amina Lawal Kurami on the death row of Islamic Shari'a.
Meanwhile, Amina finds herself on death row; she lives with her family and her baby in their village of Bakori in Kastina State in North Nigeria. The Judge ordered that the death sentence should be delayed for 8 months to allow Amina to breast-feed her baby. She was given 30 days to decide whether to challenge the sentence. Her baby the evidence in her case is unconscious of the flurry her birth has caused, she might very well grow up as an orphan and be seen as the cause of her mother's brutal and savage murder by political Islam and Islamic Shari'a in Nigeria.
If a woman is raped, she runs a high risk of being charged with zina, particularly if she becomes pregnant. In order to prove an absence of consent, however, a woman is required to provide four witnesses to the rape, a near impossible task.
Or what about the mundane? Like Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving? Jokes about female drivers aside, this shows a profound disrespect for what we, in the west, recognize as fundamental political rights across most of our political/social spectrum.
Do you see people in the west burning Saudi/Iranian/Pakistani/Nigerian embassies? Do you see us rioting in the streets when a women gets stoned to death, or any of the other massive rights violations that occur under strict sharia regimes?
I find the very notion that women are economically, politically, and socially inferior beings to men deeply insulting.
That muslims anywhere in the world have the audacity to be violently upset about the Danish government's refusal to punish Jyllands-Posten while Shariat governments commit absurd numbers of human rights violations blows my mind. Frankly, people like that don't know right from wrong, and their opinion should not carry that much weight.
Don't misunderstand me, of course. I don't agree that you should go around insulting other people's belief systems. However, I would defend your right to insult my belief system, and I'd like to hope that no matter how you insulted me, I
You would be surprised how many gigantic companies try _really_ _really_ hard to have good customer service.
Just because you've had a bad experience with AT&T Wireless, or Comcast, or something, doesn't mean other companies are like that.
Godaddy is the #1 domain registrar on the internet, and a top hosting provider to boot. Their service response times are exceptional. T-mobile is a nationwide mobile phone carrier, and with a small amount of effort you can get them to go back and forward with you, in writing, on all sorts of interesting aspects of their service.
There are lots of companies who make the conscious decision to treat customers better than necessary to get their business. Not all, and perhaps not even a majority, but they are out there, and from what I know, google *is* indeed one of these corporations.
No, we're a little bitty company. 8 employees. Only 6 of which participate in the health plan. We don't get any discounts at all; one of the guys we work with is his own business, and the rates United Health care offers him are exactly the same as the rates they offer us. They don't even bother to bargain, they just give us their standard rate chart.
I found (and am the primary point of contact for) the insurance broker myself, so I feel like I have a fairly decent grasp on the reality of the situation.
The quote for me insured as an individual is ~10% high, IIRC.
The absolute biggest factor in health insurance cost isn't your group size, age, or even # of dependants; its whether or not you are a tobacco smoker.
Don't get me wrong; its still a fair amount of money. ~$200 for me, as a young, relatively healthy single male is about ~25% of the rent I could expect to pay for a single around here. But go out and solicit some quotes yourself, and see what numbers you come back with.
If you have to pay for your own health insurance, the moral of the story is "Don't Smoke". All the other factors, the size of your group, yadda yadda; these are no where near as important.
Any reason you don't run a custom kernel with all the SuSE patches, but the timer set for 100 Hz? Doesn't that resolve 99% of the problem, of which NTP can resolve the rest?
My company pays ~$190, monthly, for my health, dental and vision. I do not believe that my (My paycheck) + 3 * ($190) = 4 * (My Paycheck)
My father's benefits are expensive; he's older now, and my mother and sisters are his dependants. Total, his runs about $1000 a month.
That's still only $18000 per year, pre-income-tax. And I believe that you can deduct your health care costs if you are self-employed.
I'm very happy with my health care, and I know my father is happy with his; I set both up! A well recognized, well run PPO; I think its the 2nd best insurance company in the business, and I've never, ever had a problem with them.
I don't know how much your employer pays for your benefits, but its probably less than you think!
The company pays for the work one. The second one, your personal one, you pay for. During "non-work" hours, when you want your privacy, leave the "work" phone off, and have it forwarded to your "personal" phone.
The location records for your personal phone cannot be requested by your boss, except perhaps for a criminal investigation.
Yes, it costs money; but isn't your privacy worth $20-50?
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Oh, and the Acer comes with a free printer and a free wireless router. That's another $100 in value, even at discount prices.
I'm an apple fan, however this is total bullshit:
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However, when you look at Dell's Core Duo laptop and Apple's Core Duo laptop... the differences aren't much. That's the big win for Apple in switching to Intel hardware- the systems are really comparable and fairly easily similarly priced.
http://www.compusa.com/products/product_info.asp?
Slightly slower processor. 2 GB ram, base. Slightly slower video vard (ATI Radeon X1400). SD card reader, firewire, DVD burner, yadda yadda. 120 GB harddrive, which is slightly greater.
$1299.99
The MacBook Pros are vastly more expensive than similar PC hardware. The build quality of this Acer is not so bad, either; I just purchased one. It is most likely going back, in exchange for a MacBook Pro (ATI's complete lack of any kind of linux support is a big issue), but this notebook is functionally equivalent to a MacBook Pro for significantly less money.
Don't even get me started on other similar systems, like the Gateway NX860, or a variety of others. The simple fact of the matter is that PCs with similar specs are vastly cheaper. If I could get a dual core PC laptop with 100% functioning drivers on Linux, I'd purchase a PC. Hell; I did purchase a PC, but then found out that not even the VESA drivers support the native resolution on this ATI chipset. Damn Acer for not releasing the 5650 (same machine with a Geforce) in the U.S.
Anything that has to mediate between native software code and native OS/Hardware code is an emulator.
Are GTK, QT, and Mono emulators?
Hell, what about XGL and/or Xorg? Or GTK on Win32? What about Cygwin? What about Xen, or VMware, or Java?
What is an emulator, anyways? What's the difference between "native" and "foreign"? How many layers of translation are okay? What if an app relies on libc? That's "translation" between native (assembly) code and the hardware.
Your understanding of these things is very, very limited. Emulation can be really fast (VMware), and in any case, Wine is an implementation of Win32 for Unix based systems. That's all; no more, no less. It's not really all that different from the Linux environment for FreeBSD, or even QT/GTK.
Don't get me wrong, there are speed problems. But these are not design issues, they are implementation issues, and are things that can be solved with programmer time. There is no fundamental design reason why Wine should be slower than Windows; indeed, as long as Linux is faster with the underlying hardware access, Wine can be significantly faster.
Hmm... And I was just thinking their new Core Duo laptop looked like the perfect mobile linux solution.
I wonder if this will make them cheaper or more expensive in the near future....
Question: Does Apple do anything innovative? Does OS X count as "innovative"?
Apple is top ten; it's actually sixth in U.S. marketshare, IIRC.
You have to qualify this statement: "Firefox is more secure."
Firefox 1.0.5 is more secure than IE 6, unpatched.
Not that I'm not a Firefox advocate, I'm the largest anti-MS hack out there. But make sure you make controlled statements you can backup.
Hear Hear!
Disclaimer: I use Linux and OS X. My computers do not "feed" or "get sick".
I was at my cousin's house last night, and I wanted to show him the new Xgl videos. I sat down at his desktop to download them, and grumbled, "Feels slow. And the videos are stuttering. Something's wrong with your computer."
He replied, "It's because I'm running Limewire."
I grumbled some more, quit Limewire. "Still slow. Something's wrong. Your anti-virus isn't even running. You should do something about this, I bet its infected out the wazoo."
He replied, "No, it's just because I downloaded a lot of stuff. It'll get better later. It needs to recover from the download."
My mind absolutely blown away, I leaned over and patted his computer, and said, "There, there. I hope it feels better in the morning."
Absolute madness.
Yeah, what the other poster said.
Use locate.
http://www.computerhope.com/unix/ulocate.htm
It's pretty sweet. Of course, Beagle/KAT should blow it away, but until they are more stable, locate is the way to go.
There's no DirectX 10 anymore.
It's going to be called Windows Graphics Framework (WGF). WGF will be released in Vista, and will not be backported.
WGF = What was going to be DX10 + Avalon + OpenGL Emulation + Other Goop
I do expect that Transgaming will implement it for Linux; soon Linux will be a very viable gaming platform.
PC gamers are to regular gamers like people in the NRA and who drive SUVs are to regular people driving their Toyota Yaris and who don't own guns -- they are making up for something, and they are willing to spend any amount of money to fix it. Witness the 700$ US video card market.
Meh. I'm a PC gamer, and I don't buy from the $700 video card market.
I must admit I played Half-Life 2. However, most of the other games I play aren't console games. Civilization IV. World of Warcraft. Black and White 2. Guild Wars. Other strategy games.
My PC is cobbled together from random parts, runs Linux, and is a fun hobby for me. It's a labor of love, and the playing of games is the reward. I liken it to people who build their own kit cars, or home improvement nuts. Build it is half the fun, and enjoying it is the other half.
Besides, I don't always like the commercialized crap that comes out for consoles; and with consoles, you don't have the option of independent games. Not the World of Warcraft is an indy game, but I do enjoy them. Space Empires IV. Battle for Wesnoth. Time of Defiance. DarkSpace. SecondLife (I was there in the beginning!)
Not all PC gamers are leet-speaking hormonally challenged idiots. Some of us honestly prefer fiddling around with electronics to having everything prepackaged, or locked down. This is why I bought an original Xbox. The first thing I did with it was install a mod chip, 2nd was buy Soul Caliber 2, and 3rd was install 8 million nintendo games and Xbox media player.
No, I guess I mis-responded to your post.
I do agree that as a general rule, you should respect other peoples beliefs. You do have a right to personal beliefs.
I do NOT agree with the following statement:
I think I'm pretty much your average christian-by-culture/atheist-by-belief dane and I understand why the muslims are so pissed! These drawings show nothing but disrespect for the entire muslim community, both here and in the rest of the world.
I cannot understand why they are so pissed. These are disrespectful drawings; but at BEST, thats a matter of taste. Even if its goes against their religious beliefs. These drawings did not advocate wholesale slaughter of muslisms, or anything like that.
They're rude. Do you think I should start a riot everytime someone is rude to me?
The muslim world is embroilded in horrible conditions, things that make everyones skin crawl, and we're having an international culture war over a couple of CARTOON DRAWINGS?
That's perverse. There are real issues here; treatment of muslims in the West, human rights in muslism societs, the vast economic disparities between the 1st world and the 3rd world. And we're talking about BLOODY CARTOONS!
Quite simply, there is no reason for the West to kowtow to Muslim rage. The right answer is for 'us', the reasonable people, to say things like this: "Yes, those cartoons were in poor taste, and I myself do not believe in their message. I respect the rights of Muslims across the world, and have a healthy respect for Islam. However, I also respect the rights of our news media to publish anything they desire, so long as it does not directly incite violence. I may not agree with what they say, but I will defend to the death their right to say it"
We're talking about cartoons. We're not talking about a massacre in tiannamen square. We're not talking about stoning women to death. We're not talking about Soviet purges, or a Jewish holocaust. We aren't discussing a Nuclear War.
Yet this is perhaps the biggest set of international protests I've seen since the fall of the Iron Curtain.
WHAT THE FUCK? (Pardon my French)
I get very, very upset when I hear about the NSA spying on Americans. I get very, very upset when I hear President Bush say that it is unpatriotic to criticize the administration.
But do I start a riot, and burn the local government offices? No.
When I see cartoons that ridicule my race (I'm Iranian), do I flip out and kill people, and demand laws against freedom of speech? No.
The supposed "outrage" we are seeing is misdirection on the part of dictators and religious leaders in the Middle East. There is a much historied tradition of blaming the Islamic world's problems on the West. This is an extension of that blame, and its reached absurd proportions.
Dozens of people have died over these cartoons. If the Islamic world spent a quarter of that effort on overthrowing unjust governments, there wouldn't be a single dictator in the Middle East.
I do not understand why they are this upset. I do not get why they are "pissed". It doesn't make sense to me, and its unacceptable.
Meh. I'm suspicious of these sorts of theories.
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If the U.S. government was so good at sponsoring these sorts of Riots, we wouldn't need to actually invade. We'd just sponsor huge unrest throughout Iran, and the government would collapse. Their hold on power is somewhat tenuous, anyways; all that is really needed is a strong opposition.
This Russian politican you are pointing at, Vladimir Zhirinovsky, is a mad man who at one point advocated open warfar with the U.S. He is a hard, hard, hardcore Russian right-winger. Like, from the rafters. He's essentially a fascist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Zhirinovsky
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He advocates alliances between the former Soviet republics leading up to re-incorporation of the Soviet Union. Zhirinovsky also made statements regarding re-acquisition of Alaska through the use of military force, invading and occupying Iran, and constructing large fans to blow Russia's nuclear waste into Germany. He has also praised Adolf Hitler's rule and encouraged the use of nuclear weapons against possible adversaries. He has been known to make public anti-Semitic remarks.
Zhirinovsky allegedly praised the success of American presidential candidate Pat Buchanan during Buchanan's 1992 Presidential bid. Buchanan refused Zhirinovsky's endorsement.
He's publicly made statements like this:
The leader of the Liberal and Democratic Party of Russia (LDPR), Vladimir Zhirinovsky, expressed his opinion on the matter in an exclusive interview with Pravda.Ru.
"Condoleezza Rice released a coarse anti-Russian statement. This is because she is a single woman who has no children. She loses her reason because of her late single status. Nature takes it all.
"Such women are very rough. They are all workaholics, public workaholics. They can be happy only when they are talked and written about everywhere: "Oh, Condoleezza, what a remarkable woman, what a charming Afro-American lady! How well she can play the piano and speak Russian! What a courageous, tough and strong female she is!
"This is the only way to satisfy her needs of a female. She derives pleasure from it. If she has no man by her side at her age, he will never appear. Even if she had a whole selection of men to choose from she would stay single because her soul and heart have hardened. Like Napoleon, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, or Alexander the Great of Macedon Ms. Rice needs to fight and release tough public statements in global scale. She needs to be on top of the world.
"The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.
This is not the place, where one can sublimate their personal sexual problems.
"Complex-prone women are especially dangerous. They are like malicious mothers-in-law, women that evoke hatred and irritation with everyone.
"Condoleezza Rice needs a company of soldiers. She needs to be taken to barracks where she would be satisfied. On the other hand, she can hardly be satisfied because of her age. This is a complex. She needs to return to her university and teach students there. She could also deal with psychological analysis.
"The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention. Releasing such stupid remarks gives her the feeling of being fulfilled. This is the only way for her to attract men's attention," Vladimir Zhirinovsky said.
Ahem...
This is not a man one should be basing research on
The (not-so) funny thing is that your actually mistaken; in many of these places, the radicals are the MAJORITY, or at least hold all the political and economic power.
Take your pick:
Iran
Saudi Arabia
Palestinian Territories
Islamic portions of Iraq
Taliban Afghanistan
Although the moderates were probably the majority in these states, the extremists hold all the cards, and in some cases (the islamic areas of Iraq) they actually are in the majority!
It's a far more difficult problem. Marginilization doesn't work when these people are living large, and run the arm. The only real solution is armed conflict, but the U.S. is not permitted to be involved for political reasons.
Really, its a rather hopeless situation. And I'm not saying this as a "red-neck" American; I'm a dispossed Iranian. The simple fact of the matter is that the Iranian Revolutionary Government, or the Islamic House of Saud, and the various high-powered radical cleric in the middle east aren't going anywhere, and won't loose any power without violent upheaval.
No, I cannot agree with you.
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The cartoons? Yes, they are tasteless. But that's really all; they are mildly offensive, if that.
Now, let me discuss an issue which offends me a great deal more than these stupid cartoons. Women's rights in Sharia observant muslim societies.
http://www.secularislam.org/women/bulletin.htm
Let's see:
Iran: According to Entekhab; an Iranian daily, on April 24, Ferdows B another Iranian woman was sentenced to death by stoning by an Islamic court in Tehran. Sima; another woman is awaiting to be stoned since Jan. 2002
Pakistan: On 17 April, Zafaran Bibi was sentence to death by stoning under section 8 of Zina Ordinance and in accordance with Islamic Shari'a in Kohat in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan for willful extra - marital sex. Zafaran's Lawyer filed an appeal on 24 April. Since 1981, human and women's rights activists and organisations have been struggling to repeal this law.
Nigeria: Amina Lawal Kurami is awaiting death by stoning after Safiya Hussaini's sentence was overturned Safiya Hussaini was the first woman who could be sentenced to death for sex out of marriage in that country according to the Shari'a in modern times. The Islamic leaders that have fought vigorously to reintroduce the Islamic law, did not want outside pressure deprive them of this symbolic sentence. After overturning Safiya's case, on March 22, they put another woman; Amina Lawal Kurami on the death row of Islamic Shari'a.
Meanwhile, Amina finds herself on death row; she lives with her family and her baby in their village of Bakori in Kastina State in North Nigeria. The Judge ordered that the death sentence should be delayed for 8 months to allow Amina to breast-feed her baby. She was given 30 days to decide whether to challenge the sentence. Her baby the evidence in her case is unconscious of the flurry her birth has caused, she might very well grow up as an orphan and be seen as the cause of her mother's brutal and savage murder by political Islam and Islamic Shari'a in Nigeria.
Or how about in Pakistan? http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/features/ ihavearightto/four_b/casestudy_art07.shtml
Under the so-called zina (fornication) law in Pakistan, extramarital sex is punishable by public whipping or even stoning to death.
If a woman is raped, she runs a high risk of being charged with zina, particularly if she becomes pregnant. In order to prove an absence of consent, however, a woman is required to provide four witnesses to the rape, a near impossible task.
Or what about the mundane? Like Saudi Arabia's ban on women driving? Jokes about female drivers aside, this shows a profound disrespect for what we, in the west, recognize as fundamental political rights across most of our political/social spectrum.
Do you see people in the west burning Saudi/Iranian/Pakistani/Nigerian embassies?
Do you see us rioting in the streets when a women gets stoned to death, or any of the other massive rights violations that occur under strict sharia regimes?
I find the very notion that women are economically, politically, and socially inferior beings to men deeply insulting
That muslims anywhere in the world have the audacity to be violently upset about the Danish government's refusal to punish Jyllands-Posten while Shariat governments commit absurd numbers of human rights violations blows my mind. Frankly, people like that don't know right from wrong, and their opinion should not carry that much weight.
Don't misunderstand me, of course. I don't agree that you should go around insulting other people's belief systems. However, I would defend your right to insult my belief system, and I'd like to hope that no matter how you insulted me, I
Yes, yes they did.
Google is building the world's largest index of electronic books, and is physically stealing each and every one of those books.
Bookshops of the world, beware! Googlites come for YOU tonight!
You would be surprised how many gigantic companies try _really_ _really_ hard to have good customer service.
Just because you've had a bad experience with AT&T Wireless, or Comcast, or something, doesn't mean other companies are like that.
Godaddy is the #1 domain registrar on the internet, and a top hosting provider to boot. Their service response times are exceptional. T-mobile is a nationwide mobile phone carrier, and with a small amount of effort you can get them to go back and forward with you, in writing, on all sorts of interesting aspects of their service.
There are lots of companies who make the conscious decision to treat customers better than necessary to get their business. Not all, and perhaps not even a majority, but they are out there, and from what I know, google *is* indeed one of these corporations.
No, we're a little bitty company. 8 employees. Only 6 of which participate in the health plan. We don't get any discounts at all; one of the guys we work with is his own business, and the rates United Health care offers him are exactly the same as the rates they offer us. They don't even bother to bargain, they just give us their standard rate chart.
I found (and am the primary point of contact for) the insurance broker myself, so I feel like I have a fairly decent grasp on the reality of the situation.
The quote for me insured as an individual is ~10% high, IIRC.
The absolute biggest factor in health insurance cost isn't your group size, age, or even # of dependants; its whether or not you are a tobacco smoker.
Don't get me wrong; its still a fair amount of money. ~$200 for me, as a young, relatively healthy single male is about ~25% of the rent I could expect to pay for a single around here. But go out and solicit some quotes yourself, and see what numbers you come back with.
If you have to pay for your own health insurance, the moral of the story is "Don't Smoke". All the other factors, the size of your group, yadda yadda; these are no where near as important.
Any reason you don't run a custom kernel with all the SuSE patches, but the timer set for 100 Hz? Doesn't that resolve 99% of the problem, of which NTP can resolve the rest?
Ummm.. it depends on the benefits you need.
My company pays ~$190, monthly, for my health, dental and vision. I do not believe that my (My paycheck) + 3 * ($190) = 4 * (My Paycheck)
My father's benefits are expensive; he's older now, and my mother and sisters are his dependants. Total, his runs about $1000 a month.
That's still only $18000 per year, pre-income-tax. And I believe that you can deduct your health care costs if you are self-employed.
I'm very happy with my health care, and I know my father is happy with his; I set both up! A well recognized, well run PPO; I think its the 2nd best insurance company in the business, and I've never, ever had a problem with them.
I don't know how much your employer pays for your benefits, but its probably less than you think!
How do you edit mime-types, then?
l #gmime
Gnome 2.10 is fairly recent, and it doesn't have a mimetype editor
http://www.ces.clemson.edu/linux/fc4_desktop.shtm
Does 2.12?
Or do you just not use mime-types?
Not sure if its still true, but fairly recently in GNOME you had to manually edit your menus and file associations. As in with a text editor.
Yes, it blows my mind as well.
You see more FPS in Linux than Windows on your ATI cards?
Have you tried any Cedega gaming? Do Cedega (Windows) games work properly?
Get two cellphones.
The company pays for the work one. The second one, your personal one, you pay for. During "non-work" hours, when you want your privacy, leave the "work" phone off, and have it forwarded to your "personal" phone.
The location records for your personal phone cannot be requested by your boss, except perhaps for a criminal investigation.
Yes, it costs money; but isn't your privacy worth $20-50?
Meh....
I only run Linux. I used to be a huge fan of ATI. I still have a Radeon 9800 Pro, and an Xpress 200 integrated chipset.
Both are a HUGE pain in Linux, compared to Nvidia. Huge. Gigantic.
Their drivers have improved, yes. But they still suck quite a bit. At least they usually compile/install correctly now, but performance is crappy.
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