"mystery-lover's dream vacation" just started a lot of radars in my gaydar...:-) not that I have something against gay people, it's just... so... gay! something that you'd expect to hear while watching Will&Grace or QueerEye.
To do/say the political crap Bush wants during office time? as opposed to the one that he does not want. If the political crap is not OK, is not OK being lefty or righty. If it's OK to be righty, then it should be OK to be lefty.
Paper ballots are just as easy to rig elections with than electronic voting. Been there, done that. The only thing that keeps ANY election clean is levels and more levels of checking and rechecking.
Infrastructure is uber-expensive. Competition is good.:-)
I was a partner in an ISP years ago, and we operated at a loss for a long time. I don't know in the US, but down here ISPs have a lot of competition -- their prices are kept quite low this way (and our telcos do NOT offer flat-rate POTS lines, so the dial-up must be CHEAP because the phone bill is usually expensive for a heavier dial-up user.) Typical pricing for dial-up here (in US$): 0 to 5/month; 10/month if you subscribe to our main content producer (UOL/Abril), with many newspapers/weekly magazines articles available. US$ 30 for the telephone bill if you use the net everyday, but not heavily.
In the larger cities (>100k ppl) usually you have _at_ _least_ 2 or 3 wideband options; in my city (3rd largest in Brasil, 3M ppl), we do have 6 different WB options (two cable, two ADSL, two WiFi), and at least four of those are available in any given area inside the city's limits. Typical pricing here: US$ 50/mo for 1MBps, no bandwidth cap.
I use it to write a lot of stuff in Portuguese, and the only complain I have is that the clipboard is a little "schizophrenic" WRT utf8:-) As I don't use the clipboard a lot, I cope with it.
I put him and will put her in automobiles everyday.
Is it a necessity? Absolutely no.
I know lots of people who live their lives fullfillingly (is that a word?) without ever entering an automobile. When they have to go to the school, they walk to the school. When they have to go to the doctor, they walk/are carried to the doctor. Because you live in a big City you shouldn't assume everyone does, lest you sound really foolish. I'm not joking, I lived for five years in a town where my kid would not have to go inside an automobile to go to the school/doctor... and I still miss it a little.
Your argument is full of flaws... you say having a cellphone can't be a necessity for kids because there was a time where cellphones didn't exist (and you and I were raised at that time). Well, my father was born in a time/place where there were NO automobiles. Really. So, you see?
Now, if your argument was "to live in a big city (millions of people), kids need a car but they don't need a cellphone", my counterargument is "I consider indispensable that my son Lucas use a cellphone as soon as he is capable of not abusing it" (which I expect will be in a couple of years, at age 7-9, 10 tops). Because I live in a 3 1/2 million ppl metropolis and sith happens, and I want to be capable to call him and instruct him "get out of school, and walk three blocks south, I'll be waiting for you there because traffic is jammed at the school's gates" after his classes are over, and to call him when he is 14 and is going to a party with a fixed time to come back and he lets the time slip... because it's a big city and I'm freaking worried about sith that happens, but at the same time I'm not a dominatrix father that will lock his kids in a basement watching 50's american tv shows.
So, modern stuff becomes more and more indispensable at the same rate we start living a more and more "modern" lifestyle. And there is no need to be rude with me/others that think that some modern stuff is so indispensable in their lives as you think a car is in your life.
And those people (me including) will weight the risk of putting their kids inside automobiles, and the risk of putting a cell phone to the side of their kids heads, and the other risks they deem necessary for the lifestyle (s)he wants for itself and its kids.
The more information we have about the risks, the better.
So, you think a man should be allowed to cry "fire" in a crowded theater, and he's not responsible for the deaths that will ensue? Is that your definition of "freedom"? Because this is exactly what your sig's post brings: a man that was arrested for inciting racial hatred -- causing a lot of deaths in the process, because every time the neo-nazis come out of the closet they bring with them their personal "final solution", and you know it.
Now this: "Seriously, who cares about these "my penis [Linux software] is bigger than your penis" posts? Who gives a shit? iTunes is virtually the only music player software I've found that doesn't look like crap and has enough features to keep me happy. If you like Amarok better, fine! But don't make it sound like I'm some kind of idiot for liking iTunes." Ohboy.
You took me so wrong: I was being serious, not sarcastic, and I apologize if I made you feel like a fool for iTunes. I read a lot about iTunes, but I don't have access to it: none of my closest friends use it (not even the iPod owners), iTMS does not work in Brasil AFAIK. And, from the screenshots, I could only define iTunes as a "crippled amaroK that can play Fair". I am of the opinion that iTunes and amaroK look remarkably similar (compare the screenshots pointed to, and take in consideration that the amaroK screenshot is in the "full glory" mode -- it can me far more discreet [and is by default]) and that my (Free, not linux) personal choice of software is quite good.
Now, I asked, and noone answered: what's so special about iTunes? it's a fair and honest question -- and I doubt the answer would take me away from amaroK anyway (you know, KDE machines and stuff).
surely, amaroK is at (in?) Debian -- I have the "latest and greatest" (prepackaged for Dapper & Breezy, with all the goodies), but I'm sure Woody (and Etch) has it, too. The thing is: I have heard a lot of iTunes, but I surely don't know anyone that has it. Obviously, I don't see a Mac since the TiBook days -- as you know, they are waaaaay too expensive down here in Brasil (and here in BH, we only have One Mac store, and it's not in a mall or in the commerce region of Savassi -- it's quite out of the way). But I know a number of people that has iPods, and I don't know if they have iTunes (and, to boot, iTMS does not work down here in Brasil, does it?)
Back to iTunes vs. amaroK -- the cReative capitalizatioN wars -- AFAIK amaroK does manage your digital audio player, too... and it's not a question of it being "linux software", it's the fact that many Free Software thingies are better than the Proprietary Software thongies. (No, I'm not saying that the Gimp is better than Photoshop, we still lose on that one -- but I surely prefer k3b to Nero etc etc)
this "iTunes" I keep reading about? Is it some sort of amaroK-like digital audio player, that can play virtually every digital audio format, shuffle my music collection in a variety of ways, show me the album covers, lyrics and info about the band, beyond playing podcasts?
About banning toy guns altogether? In my home, they are banned. In the case some uninformed relative gives Lucas (going 7yo) a toy gun for his birthday, he plays with it inside the house for a couple of days with it and then it magically vanishes. That simple. Not that _I_ should be highly concerned -- his real interest is dinosaurs.:-)
Don't despair! I am a nerd as everybody else around here (*), and I still could impregnate a woman -- thrice no less!!! Don't lose your hope.
(*) I'm a 35yo trekkie, comic-books and prog rock-loving, systems analyst. I watch one of SGA-SG1-Lost-CSI-Smallville every single day. And this is my break after staying on the computer at work for ten hours or so. I am married (9 years now) and my wife is so not nerdy (she's a career lawyer - District Attorney [yes, not ADA, but DA]). And I'm teaching my 6yo oldest boy to love Star Wars:-)
All functionality is available or is installable with one command-line (even if it's "tar xzvf some.tgz; cd some-versin; make; sudo make install" in most (all?) linux distros; nobody is hiding anything nor making anything incompatible on purpose. So, no, the 2000 different linux distros will be actually less confusing than the eight Windows Vistas.
There are subtle ways to introduce bugs, one line at a time, spread over a dozen different patches... If the idiot that broke kernel.org had worked on a lot of stuff in the kernel, seemlingly legitimaly at first, he could have slipped that vulnerability quite easily.
but, IF Oracle really wants to shaft MySQL AB, all they have to do is introduce subtle bugs on newer versions of InnoDB and BDB, preferably while doing nice updates and security fixes... the potential for wrongdoing here is infinite.
But: (1) grownup people (like me, 35) don't say "my ass" -- we leave such language for teenagers; (2) grownup people don't confuse copyright infringement with theft -- even because we grownups can be sued for slander or libel if we call a copyright infringer a "thieve"; (3) I have no intention of sounding smart / looking smart, my only purpose in my post was to further the discussion. Copyright infringement may or may not be a criminal offense, depending on your jurisdiction but theft it isn't.
Ferrari wouldn't be able to condition the sale of an F50 on prior ownership of a Ferrari. They wouldn't. But Ferraris aren't sold in Brasil, they're sold in Italy (the transaction takes place in Italy).
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"mystery-lover's dream vacation" just started a lot of radars in my gaydar ... :-) not that I have something against gay people, it's just... so... gay! something that you'd expect to hear while watching Will&Grace or QueerEye.
At every trek convention I attended to in Brasil, the m:f ratio is 2:1 and the non-hot-f:hot-f ratio is 5:1
IOW: A party with 4 female trekkies is EASY.
To do/say the political crap Bush wants during office time? as opposed to the one that he does not want. If the political crap is not OK, is not OK being lefty or righty. If it's OK to be righty, then it should be OK to be lefty.
Paper ballots are just as easy to rig elections with than electronic voting. Been there, done that. The only thing that keeps ANY election clean is levels and more levels of checking and rechecking.
Infrastructure is uber-expensive. Competition is good. :-)
/month; 10/month if you subscribe to our main content producer (UOL/Abril), with many newspapers/weekly magazines articles available. US$ 30 for the telephone bill if you use the net everyday, but not heavily.
I was a partner in an ISP years ago, and we operated at a loss for a long time. I don't know in the US, but down here ISPs have a lot of competition -- their prices are kept quite low this way (and our telcos do NOT offer flat-rate POTS lines, so the dial-up must be CHEAP because the phone bill is usually expensive for a heavier dial-up user.) Typical pricing for dial-up here (in US$): 0 to 5
In the larger cities (>100k ppl) usually you have _at_ _least_ 2 or 3 wideband options; in my city (3rd largest in Brasil, 3M ppl), we do have 6 different WB options (two cable, two ADSL, two WiFi), and at least four of those are available in any given area inside the city's limits. Typical pricing here: US$ 50/mo for 1MBps, no bandwidth cap.
I use it to write a lot of stuff in Portuguese, and the only complain I have is that the clipboard is a little "schizophrenic" WRT utf8 :-) As I don't use the clipboard a lot, I cope with it.
It does everything you want, makes Wonderful(TM) papers, all absolutely without any effort. I'm using it for almost everything those days.
I have one 6yo boy and a girl is coming in April.
I put him and will put her in automobiles everyday.
Is it a necessity? Absolutely no.
I know lots of people who live their lives fullfillingly (is that a word?) without ever entering an automobile. When they have to go to the school, they walk to the school. When they have to go to the doctor, they walk/are carried to the doctor. Because you live in a big City you shouldn't assume everyone does, lest you sound really foolish. I'm not joking, I lived for five years in a town where my kid would not have to go inside an automobile to go to the school/doctor... and I still miss it a little.
Your argument is full of flaws... you say having a cellphone can't be a necessity for kids because there was a time where cellphones didn't exist (and you and I were raised at that time). Well, my father was born in a time/place where there were NO automobiles. Really. So, you see?
Now, if your argument was "to live in a big city (millions of people), kids need a car but they don't need a cellphone", my counterargument is "I consider indispensable that my son Lucas use a cellphone as soon as he is capable of not abusing it" (which I expect will be in a couple of years, at age 7-9, 10 tops). Because I live in a 3 1/2 million ppl metropolis and sith happens, and I want to be capable to call him and instruct him "get out of school, and walk three blocks south, I'll be waiting for you there because traffic is jammed at the school's gates" after his classes are over, and to call him when he is 14 and is going to a party with a fixed time to come back and he lets the time slip... because it's a big city and I'm freaking worried about sith that happens, but at the same time I'm not a dominatrix father that will lock his kids in a basement watching 50's american tv shows.
So, modern stuff becomes more and more indispensable at the same rate we start living a more and more "modern" lifestyle. And there is no need to be rude with me/others that think that some modern stuff is so indispensable in their lives as you think a car is in your life.
And those people (me including) will weight the risk of putting their kids inside automobiles, and the risk of putting a cell phone to the side of their kids heads, and the other risks they deem necessary for the lifestyle (s)he wants for itself and its kids.
The more information we have about the risks, the better.
Because we have to
Yikes! This is Stupid Bull Sh*t (TM)!
Why to we have to put our children in automobiles?
So, you think a man should be allowed to cry "fire" in a crowded theater, and he's not responsible for the deaths that will ensue? Is that your definition of "freedom"?
Because this is exactly what your sig's post brings: a man that was arrested for inciting racial hatred -- causing a lot of deaths in the process, because every time the neo-nazis come out of the closet they bring with them their personal "final solution", and you know it.
You know, it can download TV shows, runs on OSX?!
Now this: "Seriously, who cares about these "my penis [Linux software] is bigger than your penis" posts? Who gives a shit? iTunes is virtually the only music player software I've found that doesn't look like crap and has enough features to keep me happy. If you like Amarok better, fine! But don't make it sound like I'm some kind of idiot for liking iTunes." Ohboy.
You took me so wrong: I was being serious, not sarcastic, and I apologize if I made you feel like a fool for iTunes. I read a lot about iTunes, but I don't have access to it: none of my closest friends use it (not even the iPod owners), iTMS does not work in Brasil AFAIK. And, from the screenshots, I could only define iTunes as a "crippled amaroK that can play Fair". I am of the opinion that iTunes and amaroK look remarkably similar (compare the screenshots pointed to, and take in consideration that the amaroK screenshot is in the "full glory" mode -- it can me far more discreet [and is by default]) and that my (Free, not linux) personal choice of software is quite good.
Now, I asked, and noone answered: what's so special about iTunes? it's a fair and honest question -- and I doubt the answer would take me away from amaroK anyway (you know, KDE machines and stuff).
surely, amaroK is at (in?) Debian -- I have the "latest and greatest" (prepackaged for Dapper & Breezy, with all the goodies), but I'm sure Woody (and Etch) has it, too. The thing is: I have heard a lot of iTunes, but I surely don't know anyone that has it. Obviously, I don't see a Mac since the TiBook days -- as you know, they are waaaaay too expensive down here in Brasil (and here in BH, we only have One Mac store, and it's not in a mall or in the commerce region of Savassi -- it's quite out of the way). But I know a number of people that has iPods, and I don't know if they have iTunes (and, to boot, iTMS does not work down here in Brasil, does it?)
Back to iTunes vs. amaroK -- the cReative capitalizatioN wars -- AFAIK amaroK does manage your digital audio player, too... and it's not a question of it being "linux software", it's the fact that many Free Software thingies are better than the Proprietary Software thongies. (No, I'm not saying that the Gimp is better than Photoshop, we still lose on that one -- but I surely prefer k3b to Nero etc etc)
this "iTunes" I keep reading about? Is it some sort of amaroK-like digital audio player, that can play virtually every digital audio format, shuffle my music collection in a variety of ways, show me the album covers, lyrics and info about the band, beyond playing podcasts?
About banning toy guns altogether? In my home, they are banned. In the case some uninformed relative gives Lucas (going 7yo) a toy gun for his birthday, he plays with it inside the house for a couple of days with it and then it magically vanishes. That simple. Not that _I_ should be highly concerned -- his real interest is dinosaurs. :-)
every person that deserves to have a root session just does sudo su - on Konsole/(ya)kuake/GNOMEterminal and goes by... :-)
Seriously, if you can't grok something that simple, stay on the "not root" zone the most time you can, please.
pugs is here.
Don't despair!
:-)
I am a nerd as everybody else around here (*), and I still could impregnate a woman -- thrice no less!!!
Don't lose your hope.
(*) I'm a 35yo trekkie, comic-books and prog rock-loving, systems analyst. I watch one of SGA-SG1-Lost-CSI-Smallville every single day. And this is my break after staying on the computer at work for ten hours or so. I am married (9 years now) and my wife is so not nerdy (she's a career lawyer - District Attorney [yes, not ADA, but DA]). And I'm teaching my 6yo oldest boy to love Star Wars
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"Sith happens" -- Jedi Master Yoda
Or Insightful, +1 or Underrated, +1 -- if you with mod points want to give Yaa 101 a boost on his karma.
All functionality is available or is installable with one command-line (even if it's "tar xzvf some.tgz; cd some-versin; make; sudo make install" in most (all?) linux distros; nobody is hiding anything nor making anything incompatible on purpose. So, no, the 2000 different linux distros will be actually less confusing than the eight Windows Vistas.
in response to the grantparent post.
There are subtle ways to introduce bugs, one line at a time, spread over a dozen different patches... If the idiot that broke kernel.org had worked on a lot of stuff in the kernel, seemlingly legitimaly at first, he could have slipped that vulnerability quite easily.
but, IF Oracle really wants to shaft MySQL AB, all they have to do is introduce subtle bugs on newer versions of InnoDB and BDB, preferably while doing nice updates and security fixes... the potential for wrongdoing here is infinite.
But: (1) grownup people (like me, 35) don't say "my ass" -- we leave
such language for teenagers;
(2) grownup people don't confuse copyright infringement with theft --
even because we grownups can be sued for slander or libel if we call a
copyright infringer a "thieve";
(3) I have no intention of sounding smart / looking smart, my only
purpose in my post was to further the discussion. Copyright infringement
may or may not be a criminal offense, depending on your jurisdiction but
theft it isn't.
Ferrari wouldn't be able to condition the sale of an F50 on prior ownership of a Ferrari. They wouldn't. But Ferraris aren't sold in Brasil, they're sold in Italy (the transaction takes place in Italy).