EVERY developed (and some not so developed) country spies on its citizens. The only reason ANY country would not do as much as the US is doing is PURELY due to lack of budget/technology.
Or, y'know, because the foundational Constitution explicitly forbid it.
Potaytoe, Potahtoe.
That you cannot imagine a better country does not mean that such a possible future does not exist.
There is nothing more stupid that someone hiding behind a pseudonym calling out an anonymous coward.
How about an AC calling out a pseudonymous person calling out an AC?
I really don't get why some posters obsess about AC vs. pseudonym. If you want to be taken seriously, you make an account. If you've already made an account and people mod you down for being stupid, you start posting as AC.
cf. the bit in Stargate Atlantis where they could give people the Ancient gene via injection
"Okay, so we've got the Base Force-Sensitive shot for 50 credits...the Generic Rent-A-Jedi for 500, and the Instant Yoda shot for 5000. Which one do you want?"
Back when they were making the Harry Potter movies and they kept saying, "Ooooh, they keep getting darker!" I said that the last movie was just going to be a black screen with the sounds of the characters being tortured. But then again, they made 2 movies out of a book where literally the entire first half of the book was them sitting in a tent bitching at each other, so apparently I'm just crazy.
He makes money. If Uwe Boll made money, he'd have movies lined up out the door.
Maybe we can put Uwe Boll and J.J. Abrams in a room together and let them fight it out? Only first we'd have to give J.J. brass knuckles or something because of that incident where Boll punched out some guy at a "charity" boxing match.
After all that it's hardly a sequel anymore, though; it's pretty much just another series set in the same universe, where some of the original characters have managed to survive everything getting destroyed.
Except for the small details where by that point Coruscant is fucked over and the Vong have destroyed half the galaxy...and the New Republic collapsed and turned into the Galactic Alliance...I can barely imagine what the title crawl would look like for that movie;-)
Yeah, just small details. It's all pretty much the same thing.
I hear that the original Stargate movie guys are talking about finally doing the sequels to the movie that they had planned but never did. It's easier to just ignore the EU rather than dance around a bunch of other authors' writing.
On the other hand, it's a world ruled by a vast paramilitary organization.
A) If Starfleet wasn't the military force, I'm not sure what was. There was no "para-" about it. B) You can have a "vast military force" without being a crushing fascist regime. Compare and contrast the U.S.
While I find hybrid Linux like Chrome OS doing better
Well apparently you need much more then what Linux has offered
You say Linux needs more and your alternative is Chrome OS? That's a bold move.
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The only real objection I have to Linux GUIs is that there are at least 2 different cut/copy/paste subsystems at work, as you can see if you try and copy text from something like gnome-terminal to a text box in Firefox (or vice versa.) There really wasn't any excuse for that.
You realize that you're trying to copy between a modern GUI and an emulator of a 60's-era physical teletype device, right? Terminals didn't have a concept of copy-and-paste I don't think. So that's kind of an excuse. And unless Gnome Terminal is much suckier than the XFCE terminal (a distinct possibility) it should be more or less (less) doable via the X buffer. (cue screaming)
You think that's bad, you should try to make the clipboard play nice with emacs:-)
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Another problem is the bone headedness of Canonical and Gnome who have copied every disasterous mistake and disaster of Windows 8 in creating user interfaces that are incomprehensible.
Technically Unity came out before Windows 8. Unity, June 2010; Win8 preview Sept 2011.
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X11 is also the name of the protocol. I assume that the only reason we're still using X11 is *because* it's still compatible with the protocol.
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My point was that he says forking sucks, he gave an example where (unbeknownst to him?) forking was certainly the best option, then he went on to talk about how forked Linux distributions have made the world a better place. He seems to conclude that forking is great and that he "loves" it.
What do you expect from a guy that the first paragraph explains also wrote books about how Linux is awesome?
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If I had no choice but to sell out my users to the government, I might be a bit snarky about it, too.
(granted he did have a choice...stop offering the service...which just inconveniences the users in a lesser way)
Sweden is try to charge him with rape and you're interpreting "innocent until proven guilty" to apply to the prosecutors? Ummm...
Because the U.S. government totally didn't try to stop Snowden from going public.
EVERY developed (and some not so developed) country spies on its citizens. The only reason ANY country would not do as much as the US is doing is PURELY due to lack of budget/technology.
Or, y'know, because the foundational Constitution explicitly forbid it.
Potaytoe, Potahtoe.
That you cannot imagine a better country does not mean that such a possible future does not exist.
There is nothing more stupid that someone hiding behind a pseudonym calling out an anonymous coward.
How about an AC calling out a pseudonymous person calling out an AC?
I really don't get why some posters obsess about AC vs. pseudonym. If you want to be taken seriously, you make an account. If you've already made an account and people mod you down for being stupid, you start posting as AC.
cf. the bit in Stargate Atlantis where they could give people the Ancient gene via injection
"Okay, so we've got the Base Force-Sensitive shot for 50 credits...the Generic Rent-A-Jedi for 500, and the Instant Yoda shot for 5000. Which one do you want?"
Then Leia immediately bares something else...
The part where Vader was poking Obi-Wan's empty robe confusedly really seems to imply that even he didn't understand how it worked.
Calling them "the Borgs" kind of undermines the entire concept of their existence. There is only one Borg. All is one and one is all.
Except for the hot one you stuff into a catsuit, obviously. And that other one you find. And the occasional isolated family. And...
Back when they were making the Harry Potter movies and they kept saying, "Ooooh, they keep getting darker!" I said that the last movie was just going to be a black screen with the sounds of the characters being tortured. But then again, they made 2 movies out of a book where literally the entire first half of the book was them sitting in a tent bitching at each other, so apparently I'm just crazy.
He makes money. If Uwe Boll made money, he'd have movies lined up out the door.
Maybe we can put Uwe Boll and J.J. Abrams in a room together and let them fight it out? Only first we'd have to give J.J. brass knuckles or something because of that incident where Boll punched out some guy at a "charity" boxing match.
After all that it's hardly a sequel anymore, though; it's pretty much just another series set in the same universe, where some of the original characters have managed to survive everything getting destroyed.
Except for the small details where by that point Coruscant is fucked over and the Vong have destroyed half the galaxy...and the New Republic collapsed and turned into the Galactic Alliance...I can barely imagine what the title crawl would look like for that movie ;-)
Yeah, just small details. It's all pretty much the same thing.
I hear that the original Stargate movie guys are talking about finally doing the sequels to the movie that they had planned but never did. It's easier to just ignore the EU rather than dance around a bunch of other authors' writing.
On the other hand, it's a world ruled by a vast paramilitary organization.
A) If Starfleet wasn't the military force, I'm not sure what was. There was no "para-" about it.
B) You can have a "vast military force" without being a crushing fascist regime. Compare and contrast the U.S.
While I find hybrid Linux like Chrome OS doing better
Well apparently you need much more then what Linux has offered
You say Linux needs more and your alternative is Chrome OS? That's a bold move.
The only real objection I have to Linux GUIs is that there are at least 2 different cut/copy/paste subsystems at work, as you can see if you try and copy text from something like gnome-terminal to a text box in Firefox (or vice versa.) There really wasn't any excuse for that.
You realize that you're trying to copy between a modern GUI and an emulator of a 60's-era physical teletype device, right? Terminals didn't have a concept of copy-and-paste I don't think. So that's kind of an excuse. And unless Gnome Terminal is much suckier than the XFCE terminal (a distinct possibility) it should be more or less (less) doable via the X buffer. (cue screaming)
You think that's bad, you should try to make the clipboard play nice with emacs :-)
Another problem is the bone headedness of Canonical and Gnome who have copied every disasterous mistake and disaster of Windows 8 in creating user interfaces that are incomprehensible.
Technically Unity came out before Windows 8. Unity, June 2010; Win8 preview Sept 2011.
X11 is also the name of the protocol. I assume that the only reason we're still using X11 is *because* it's still compatible with the protocol.
My point was that he says forking sucks, he gave an example where (unbeknownst to him?) forking was certainly the best option, then he went on to talk about how forked Linux distributions have made the world a better place. He seems to conclude that forking is great and that he "loves" it.
What do you expect from a guy that the first paragraph explains also wrote books about how Linux is awesome?
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Who is John Galt?
I want to know so I can find him and beat him up
s/elitist/ostensibly smarter than me/g
Well, there's always running the video, recording the audio through stereo mix, and then playing it into a text-to-speech program.
Then Google translate to Japanese and back!
Whoooooooosh
I think we all assumed your initial post (assuming you're the same AC as above) was a joke. So more like a metawhoosh. Boomerang whoosh?
Is there a rule against plugging it in with the lights on or something? Or do you just blindly throw cables at your PC until they stick?