Vaccination is a matter of public safety, because even if you don't get sick you can infect other children or adults, causing deaths. So if you want to exercise your liberty then stay in your home your entire life.
I just can't understand that some future parents are risking the life of the mother and the life of the child for some traditions, religion or what ever is it why they chose their homes with a) no medical staff, b) no doctors, c) no medical equipment, d) no medicine, as oppose to a hospital.
But then of course some parents are choosing to mutilate their child's genitalia...
Firstly, I'm not an US citizen. Also I'm not quite familiar with the whole new health care laws. But this situation is obviously enough: the House amended time and time again the budged law with laws that would kill the heath care reform, and the Senate voted it down. Who's to blame for this mess is pretty obvious.
"Government of laws" what that suppose to mean? Laws are made by congress and the members of congress are people. Laws do not pop up out of nothing. What you mean is "the downside of having a government run by bipartisanship not by representatives of the people". The House should have had the best interest of your country as the top priority and not what laws they didn't liked (Obama's Health Care).
Gnome is a completely new design of the desktop. KDE is the traditional desktop from Win 3.11. (KDE have an option to switch to a netbook style desktop). As for performance: I run KDE just fine on an Asus Atom with Intel integrated graphics; Btw, it still runs just fine, the family of my wife is using that Netbook now for Skype and YMail.
Fine, we can agree on that. But you misunderstood the EME standard proposal. EME is not a standard of "technological protection measures", it would be great if such a standard would exist, but EME is just the interface to access those "technological protection measures". DRM can't, by definition, be a standard or in any form open, DRM relies 100% on obscurity.
If you look at the EME proposal, you will see the box labelled "CDM" that stands for Content Decryption Module. That CDM is not specified in the EME in any way and the developers of EME have stated time and time again that the CDM is out of scope of EME. But that is the most important part, because all the rest is just a façade.
EME does nothing for interoperability. EME is designed for one goal: to reduce the costs of DRM in the Web for content providers like Netflix, BBC, etc, because it shifts the burden to integrate the DRM player with the browser to the browser developers. Sure, Firefox can in principle implement EME but that does not mean that the CDM will work with Firefox or that Netflix CDM will work on Linux.
Firstly, administration of a Linux system is much much simpler then Windows. In Linux everything is transparent, the configuration is just ASCII text files. I think you could do "group policy" with a bash script and dsh (distributed shell) through SSH. Secondly, the file system is much more powerful then in Windows. For example, you can mount/home/userA to a remove file server with fuse sshfs. The user will not see any difference and you can link configuration files across networks. Linux is quite easy to boot from a remote file server, too. Thirdly, in Linux everything is a file. You can just use a simple copy tool to copy one application or configuration from one computer to the next.
This is all fundamental to Linux, so at the base it's much simpler to administer then Windows. Now the tools, why not Puppet? And I'm not quite believe you that there aren't as powerful tools as Windows's GP or AD.
Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively. [...] Puppet is used by the Wikimedia Foundation,[5] ARIN, Reddit,[6] Dell, Rackspace, Zynga, Twitter, the New York Stock Exchange, Disney, Citrix Systems, Oracle, the University of North Texas, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stanford University, Lexmark and Google, among others
Actually, I believe there should be copyright laws but DRM should be illegal or you should lose any copyright protection if you chose to use DRM. What category I am in your straw man argument?
The EME standard does not describe "what the big players are doing anyway". Look it up, the most important section of the standard is a black box, it's called Content Decryption Module (CDM).
I wish the EME would standardize DRM, because then anyone would be free to implement it. But the EME does only standardize the *access* to the DRM, it standardize the interface to the CDM. There is already a standard API to proprietary plugins like Flash: Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI). That is what EME is, basically.
The API requires each plugin to implement and expose approximately 15 functions for initializing, creating, destroying and positioning plugin content. The NPAPI also supports scripting, printing, full screen plugins, windowless plugins and content streaming.
Why Gnome? KDE is perfectly stable, have more features, looks great and functions in the same way then Windows 7. In my opinions KDE is much more user friendly and have more features then Gnome, and have a round-up experience (the KDE applications are integrate very well). I run for 2 years now Fedora with KDE and it's extremely well experience.
How about the 72,000+ French Police desktops, or the 14,000+ Munich/Germany desktops? Are you stating that they either don't need a large scale manageability or that they use just browser and OpenOffice? This very story contradicts your comment, and also all the other large scale desktop Linux success stories.
True. Privacy is not a technological issue but a political one. I could barricade my windows, put steel fence around my house, install EM shielding etc. Would not be a nice life, through. The same is for Internet privacy: I could install packet filter, firewalls, encrypt everything, but it's not a nice experience of the Internet then.
That is why we need strong privacy laws. We have privacy laws of mail and phone calls, why we don't have privacy laws for e-Mail and Web sites, Skype, etc.? Privacy laws are essential for freedom of expression and democracy.
Can you show some examples of Microsoft research? In the Channel 9 I only see Windows Phone, Azure, Kinect, some drivers,...? Do you mean "C--" as in C minus minus?
Are you kidding me? Dare to show me just one Javascript GUI that does not suck? Browser/HTML GUI is still at least 20 years behind Desktop GUI. No surprise, because the Web was not designed for rich GUI, but to present hyperlinked information. I'm still sad that Sun/Oracle does not have the courage to push Java applets, and make them more integrated with Web sites. If I would think how much user friendly Facebook as a Java applet would be, or Twitter. But instead we have this clumsy Javascript GUI that breaks with every odd browser version, have no accessibility, common accessibility features, like hot keys, mnemonics, are inconsistent from page to page.
My opinions of religious people are evidence based, like most my opinions. Even in this post you confirm my opinions. My very first post was explicitly about Christians, but you still somehow get personal offended by me. In my second post I have used "you" but only because you have replied to my post about Christianity.
The genesis, first sin and Jesus sacrifice is the very core of Christianity. Without that, there would be no Christianity at all. Yes, a state based religion tends to have a very profound effect on the culture, but I'm glad that Christianity did not became "the most basic foundations of western culture", this myth will not get true no matter how many times religious people try.
Our current basic foundations are democracy and personal freedom with personal responsibilities, the very opposite of Christianity. This foundations came from the Enlightenment at 17th and 18th centuries and Renaissance (beginning at the 14th century), with democracy first invented by the ancient Greeks. If you want to see what are the foundations of a culture following religion just look at the Middle East.
> Only if you believe the bible is literally true. Which most believers do not.
Even if you don't believe the bible as literally true, you still have to believe at least in the genesis, the first sin and in a young earth. And that is the core that evolution disproves.
An ABC News poll released Sunday found that 61 percent of Americans believe the account of creation in the Bible’s book of Genesis is “literally true” rather than a story meant as a “lesson.”
That is like saying that 61% believe in Zeus and Apollo and the Olympic Gods. And of course the religious power figures like reverend are happy about it.
> The bible can still be a holy document with important lessons if it's "only" a myth and not literal history
Like what? The bible is the most immoral book ever written. I would rate the book +18 only. It's full of murder, mass murder, rape, incests, immoral behaviour, and so on. It's a propaganda book of a death cult, with a failed dooms-day prophet.
If you want to see evolution "in action" look at Ring Species. For example with lizards or birds. A -> B -> C -> D (-> means A give birth to B); A, B, C and D are lizards, but D can't interbreed with A because of genetic mutations.
Many Christians believe in the genesis myth, and the very important concept of first sin of Adam&Eve. This was the condition for Jesus sacrifice. Evolution disproves the concept of both the genesis and Adam&Eve and as such the first sin. Because of that Jesus sacrifice was pointless and thus science disproves the whole foundation of Christianity.
If someone wonders how evolution disproves genesis and Adam&Eve: evolution states that humans have evolved from a common ancestor. Everyone is an intermediate: Evolution proves that there was never a first human pair Adam&Eve. I am an intermediate between my children and my parent; my parents are an intermediate between me and my grandparents, and so on. If you go down your family tree, you will find the first branch of Chimpanzee and Homo, then a long long time ego the first branch of vertebrates fish and vertebrates amphibians.
Evolution is the first threat to the basic concept of Christianity: of Adam&Eve and the first sin for which Jesus sacrificed himself. That is why many are in denial of it and try to remove it from the curriculum.
The part of "It Just Works" is more truer for Linux then for Windows. Last time I re-installed Windows 7 (because it started to just give BSoD) not even network was functional. I had to first install at least 5 drivers to get it to a working state.
The problem is not of "It Just Works" but "Is it pre-installed". Not because it's hard to install a Linux Distribution, but because the hardware and the games are tested to work with Linux like it's tested with Windows. The only reason you get such a good experience in games and hardware with Windows is because every vendor is to be 200% sure that it works on Windows. Because sadly Windows is still "the default". If the vendors would give Linux the same care for their hardware or software.
As a German I get regularly headaches when I'm watching Fox News or similar "news". The American news are like game shows, flashing light, CGI effects, running texts everywhere, cut screens, cut clips. It's like news for babies, like the assumed average concentration span is only 5 seconds of the viewers.
Every stock market model that I read about was successful right after a catastrophic event, when everyone in the stock market started to panic. You can model the stock market based on statistical algorithms if everyone in the market behaves rationally. Then a bubble starts to bubble up, then a crash happen, and then everyone panics.
And I don't understand why people want that. If I would want to have "search as the primary way for interacting with the shell" then I would use the terminal in Linux.
What hinders you to use Joda Time if you think that Java's data and time are insufficient? Any non-trivial application have dozens or more dependencies, one more or less really is not important. I find the strength of Java is the enterprise grade open source libraries, one for every possible scenario.
But you do have to pay the MAFIA a blanket fee, because we all know that you are a dirty filthy pirate. Even if, dear you, you write your own pictures or, how dare you, your own music and holiday videos on the Blu-Ray.
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Vaccination is a matter of public safety, because even if you don't get sick you can infect other children or adults, causing deaths. So if you want to exercise your liberty then stay in your home your entire life.
I just can't understand that some future parents are risking the life of the mother and the life of the child for some traditions, religion or what ever is it why they chose their homes with a) no medical staff, b) no doctors, c) no medical equipment, d) no medicine, as oppose to a hospital.
But then of course some parents are choosing to mutilate their child's genitalia...
Firstly, I'm not an US citizen. Also I'm not quite familiar with the whole new health care laws.
But this situation is obviously enough: the House amended time and time again the budged law with laws that would kill the heath care reform, and the Senate voted it down. Who's to blame for this mess is pretty obvious.
"Government of laws" what that suppose to mean? Laws are made by congress and the members of congress are people. Laws do not pop up out of nothing. What you mean is "the downside of having a government run by bipartisanship not by representatives of the people". The House should have had the best interest of your country as the top priority and not what laws they didn't liked (Obama's Health Care).
Could you give the source of your quote?
Gnome is a completely new design of the desktop. KDE is the traditional desktop from Win 3.11. (KDE have an option to switch to a netbook style desktop). As for performance: I run KDE just fine on an Asus Atom with Intel integrated graphics; Btw, it still runs just fine, the family of my wife is using that Netbook now for Skype and YMail.
Fine, we can agree on that. But you misunderstood the EME standard proposal. EME is not a standard of "technological protection measures", it would be great if such a standard would exist, but EME is just the interface to access those "technological protection measures". DRM can't, by definition, be a standard or in any form open, DRM relies 100% on obscurity.
If you look at the EME proposal, you will see the box labelled "CDM" that stands for Content Decryption Module. That CDM is not specified in the EME in any way and the developers of EME have stated time and time again that the CDM is out of scope of EME. But that is the most important part, because all the rest is just a façade.
EME does nothing for interoperability. EME is designed for one goal: to reduce the costs of DRM in the Web for content providers like Netflix, BBC, etc, because it shifts the burden to integrate the DRM player with the browser to the browser developers. Sure, Firefox can in principle implement EME but that does not mean that the CDM will work with Firefox or that Netflix CDM will work on Linux.
Firstly, administration of a Linux system is much much simpler then Windows. In Linux everything is transparent, the configuration is just ASCII text files. I think you could do "group policy" with a bash script and dsh (distributed shell) through SSH. Secondly, the file system is much more powerful then in Windows. For example, you can mount /home/userA to a remove file server with fuse sshfs. The user will not see any difference and you can link configuration files across networks. Linux is quite easy to boot from a remote file server, too. Thirdly, in Linux everything is a file. You can just use a simple copy tool to copy one application or configuration from one computer to the next.
This is all fundamental to Linux, so at the base it's much simpler to administer then Windows. Now the tools, why not Puppet? And I'm not quite believe you that there aren't as powerful tools as Windows's GP or AD.
Puppet is a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively.
[...]
Puppet is used by the Wikimedia Foundation,[5] ARIN, Reddit,[6] Dell, Rackspace, Zynga, Twitter, the New York Stock Exchange, Disney, Citrix Systems, Oracle, the University of North Texas, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Stanford University, Lexmark and Google, among others
Actually, I believe there should be copyright laws but DRM should be illegal or you should lose any copyright protection if you chose to use DRM. What category I am in your straw man argument?
The EME standard does not describe "what the big players are doing anyway". Look it up, the most important section of the standard is a black box, it's called Content Decryption Module (CDM).
I wish the EME would standardize DRM, because then anyone would be free to implement it. But the EME does only standardize the *access* to the DRM, it standardize the interface to the CDM. There is already a standard API to proprietary plugins like Flash: Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI). That is what EME is, basically.
The API requires each plugin to implement and expose approximately 15 functions for initializing, creating, destroying and positioning plugin content. The NPAPI also supports scripting, printing, full screen plugins, windowless plugins and content streaming.
Why Gnome? KDE is perfectly stable, have more features, looks great and functions in the same way then Windows 7.
In my opinions KDE is much more user friendly and have more features then Gnome, and have a round-up experience (the KDE applications are integrate very well). I run for 2 years now Fedora with KDE and it's extremely well experience.
How about the 72,000+ French Police desktops, or the 14,000+ Munich/Germany desktops?
Are you stating that they either don't need a large scale manageability or that they use just browser and OpenOffice?
This very story contradicts your comment, and also all the other large scale desktop Linux success stories.
True. Privacy is not a technological issue but a political one.
I could barricade my windows, put steel fence around my house, install EM shielding etc. Would not be a nice life, through. The same is for Internet privacy: I could install packet filter, firewalls, encrypt everything, but it's not a nice experience of the Internet then.
That is why we need strong privacy laws. We have privacy laws of mail and phone calls, why we don't have privacy laws for e-Mail and Web sites, Skype, etc.? Privacy laws are essential for freedom of expression and democracy.
Can you show some examples of Microsoft research? ...?
In the Channel 9 I only see Windows Phone, Azure, Kinect, some drivers,
Do you mean "C--" as in C minus minus?
Are you kidding me? Dare to show me just one Javascript GUI that does not suck?
Browser/HTML GUI is still at least 20 years behind Desktop GUI. No surprise, because the Web was not designed for rich GUI, but to present hyperlinked information. I'm still sad that Sun/Oracle does not have the courage to push Java applets, and make them more integrated with Web sites. If I would think how much user friendly Facebook as a Java applet would be, or Twitter. But instead we have this clumsy Javascript GUI that breaks with every odd browser version, have no accessibility, common accessibility features, like hot keys, mnemonics, are inconsistent from page to page.
My opinions of religious people are evidence based, like most my opinions. Even in this post you confirm my opinions. My very first post was explicitly about Christians, but you still somehow get personal offended by me. In my second post I have used "you" but only because you have replied to my post about Christianity.
The genesis, first sin and Jesus sacrifice is the very core of Christianity. Without that, there would be no Christianity at all. Yes, a state based religion tends to have a very profound effect on the culture, but I'm glad that Christianity did not became "the most basic foundations of western culture", this myth will not get true no matter how many times religious people try.
Our current basic foundations are democracy and personal freedom with personal responsibilities, the very opposite of Christianity. This foundations came from the Enlightenment at 17th and 18th centuries and Renaissance (beginning at the 14th century), with democracy first invented by the ancient Greeks. If you want to see what are the foundations of a culture following religion just look at the Middle East.
> Only if you believe the bible is literally true. Which most believers do not.
Even if you don't believe the bible as literally true, you still have to believe at least in the genesis, the first sin and in a young earth. And that is the core that evolution disproves.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/feb/16/20040216-113955-2061r/?page=all
An ABC News poll released Sunday found that 61 percent of Americans believe the account of creation in the Bible’s book of Genesis is “literally true” rather than a story meant as a “lesson.”
Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2004/feb/16/20040216-113955-2061r/#ixzz2fTQ0VwdE
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That is like saying that 61% believe in Zeus and Apollo and the Olympic Gods. And of course the religious power figures like reverend are happy about it.
> The bible can still be a holy document with important lessons if it's "only" a myth and not literal history
Like what? The bible is the most immoral book ever written. I would rate the book +18 only. It's full of murder, mass murder, rape, incests, immoral behaviour, and so on. It's a propaganda book of a death cult, with a failed dooms-day prophet.
If you want to see evolution "in action" look at Ring Species. For example with lizards or birds. A -> B -> C -> D (-> means A give birth to B); A, B, C and D are lizards, but D can't interbreed with A because of genetic mutations.
Many Christians believe in the genesis myth, and the very important concept of first sin of Adam&Eve. This was the condition for Jesus sacrifice. Evolution disproves the concept of both the genesis and Adam&Eve and as such the first sin. Because of that Jesus sacrifice was pointless and thus science disproves the whole foundation of Christianity.
If someone wonders how evolution disproves genesis and Adam&Eve: evolution states that humans have evolved from a common ancestor. Everyone is an intermediate: Evolution proves that there was never a first human pair Adam&Eve. I am an intermediate between my children and my parent; my parents are an intermediate between me and my grandparents, and so on. If you go down your family tree, you will find the first branch of Chimpanzee and Homo, then a long long time ego the first branch of vertebrates fish and vertebrates amphibians.
Evolution is the first threat to the basic concept of Christianity: of Adam&Eve and the first sin for which Jesus sacrificed himself. That is why many are in denial of it and try to remove it from the curriculum.
The part of "It Just Works" is more truer for Linux then for Windows. Last time I re-installed Windows 7 (because it started to just give BSoD) not even network was functional. I had to first install at least 5 drivers to get it to a working state.
The problem is not of "It Just Works" but "Is it pre-installed". Not because it's hard to install a Linux Distribution, but because the hardware and the games are tested to work with Linux like it's tested with Windows. The only reason you get such a good experience in games and hardware with Windows is because every vendor is to be 200% sure that it works on Windows. Because sadly Windows is still "the default". If the vendors would give Linux the same care for their hardware or software.
As a German I get regularly headaches when I'm watching Fox News or similar "news". The American news are like game shows, flashing light, CGI effects, running texts everywhere, cut screens, cut clips. It's like news for babies, like the assumed average concentration span is only 5 seconds of the viewers.
Every stock market model that I read about was successful right after a catastrophic event, when everyone in the stock market started to panic. You can model the stock market based on statistical algorithms if everyone in the market behaves rationally. Then a bubble starts to bubble up, then a crash happen, and then everyone panics.
I think the last one was the Black–Scholes–Merton model but there could be more recent ones.
And I don't understand why people want that. If I would want to have "search as the primary way for interacting with the shell" then I would use the terminal in Linux.
What hinders you to use Joda Time if you think that Java's data and time are insufficient?
Any non-trivial application have dozens or more dependencies, one more or less really is not important.
I find the strength of Java is the enterprise grade open source libraries, one for every possible scenario.
But you do have to pay the MAFIA a blanket fee, because we all know that you are a dirty filthy pirate. Even if, dear you, you write your own pictures or, how dare you, your own music and holiday videos on the Blu-Ray.