Totally disagree. WinXP is a step backward after Windows 2000 Professional, which is what Win9x should have been all along. A lot of the WinXP annoyances are quite similar to Win9x annoyances, actually. If ReactOS is able to replicate the Windows 2000 experience, it will really and truly rock.
The MacOS has never allowed you to eject a disk while still in use. You have to "put away" a disk instead. The classic MacOS "drag it to the trash" metaphor, while counter-intuitive, works. In MacOS X you go down to the dock and hit the "eject" button.
Actually KDE handles this fairly well...you open the "removable disk" window with Konqui, right click the drive and select "Eject". Usually if you do this, even if you can't physically eject the disk from there you can usually hit the button on the drive and it will cough the disk up. Yeah, it's a lot like how Windows does it, but it's effective.
[batachan@buttercup batachan]$ apropos eject cd
eject: nothing appropriate /etc/nscd.conf [nscd] (5) - name service cache daemon configuration file /usr/sbin/nscd [nscd] (8) - name service cache daemon
tcdrain [termios] (3) - get and set terminal attributes, line control, get and set baud rate, get and set terminal foreground process group ID
Not very helpful, alas...an intelligent help system ala the help system in Windows 2000 or MacOS would be a worthy addition to Linux. Much as I hate Microsoft, I have to mention that the help files contained within are solid 24K gold. When I was studying for the MCSE, the help files and the Knowledge Base were the two sources of info I could rely on for the "last word" on something I would be stuck on.
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Scroll a few comments down...the link is right there. Although unfortunately the audio is corrupted towards the end.:P
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Someone posted a link to an DivX of Second Reality, and I gotta tell you, when you factor in the state of technology at the point it was created, it's a mindblower. I mean, anyone could do something like that now with Blender running on a PIII in their sleep, but when you place it in its timeframe it's pretty awesome.
I wonder if there were Mac people involved in the demoscene? I know Amiga people were doing it, and PC/DOS people, but did any crew use Macs? Just curious.
...like every Photo-Journalist wants to go out. Shooting photos, getting the story. [snif]
Oh yeah, if he had a Microdrive in that camera, I could guarantee that those photos would have been unrecoverable. Object lesson as to why flash RAM kicks all manner of ass over things with moving parts in a hostile environment like (quite literally) a war zone.
Math is a prerequisite for SCIENCE degrees only. Show me where it says you MUST take math to be accepted into any of these schools for a philosophy degree? At most I'll need to take an a linear algebra class or a pre calculus class, thats it.
OK, I must have misunderstood you. I thought that you were saying you had *zero* courses in Math and no intention of taking any. I agree with you about Calculus...neither your or my academic goal requires Calculus. However, in order to get an Associates in California community colleges, you have to have at least introductory Algebra, and for teacher prep you need to have intermediate Algebra, Geometry and a class called "Math for Educators."
Most degrees indeed require only one math class. I guess you don't consider Algebra as math, then.
By that logic (always a tricky thing to apply logic to religion, since it's inherently based on faith, not logic) the Christian God and the Jewish God are different too, since the Christian God has a Son, Who is the Messiah; and the Jewish God doesn't, and the Messiah according to Jewish belief has not yet come. And yet Christians have no problem claiming the Jewish God, along with His long collection of prophets found in the Old Testament, as their own. And most Jews acknowledge that the Christians worship the same God they do, even if they believe the Christians were wrong about Jesus being the Messiah.
An interesting point about Judaism is that the whole concept of the Messiah has changed from that which you find in the Tanach (Torah+Prophets+Psalms...the whole of the Jewish "bible") and that which you find in Judaism today.
The classic Jewish concept of the Messiah is that of a human "touched by God" and sent forth as a political liberator. The name Moses does not appear in Egyptian texts. There are many Egyptian royal names like Tuthmose and Ahmose but not Moses. However, in Hebrew, the name Moses is actually Mosheh. Not too far removed from moshiach, the Messiah-liberator.
There have been many moshiach figures in Jewish history. Moses, definitely, as was his successor Joshua. David defeating the corrupt King Saul put him in the category of moshiach. Yehuda the Maccabee could arguably be given the title moshiach if looked upon in this more modest definition. Even Kouroush Shah, known to us as Cyrus the King of Persia, was considered a minor moshiach for freeing the Jews from their bondage in Babylon.
The concept of moshiach as God-man or as at least someone supernatural and sacred is an alien concept that found its way into Judaism by way of Christianity. The Jewish God, like the Muslim Allah, has no sons or co-deities. Islam basically was Judaism made palatable for the Arab tribes. It could also be argued that Christianity (which diverges from Judaism far more than Islam does) was Judaism made more palatable for Romans and Greeks.
cannot apply to Baghdad, as it's never had great religious significance for christians. It may have been a great city but Nostrodamus would never have described it as a City of God.
The Hebrew name for Baghdad, Babel, comes from two words: "bab"=gate and "El"=The Most High. That was actually a good call by the guy who forged that quatrain...Nostradamus was very fond of making puns from things he translated out of Hebrew or Latin. "The Gate of God" could easily be rendered as "The City of God" in archaic French.
This is not to give the faux prediction any weight. Just to show that the guy who did the forgery did his homework.
If I face up to it now it could RUIN me and make it so I cannot afford to go to college at all, It can also keep me from getting into an elite school if I screw up now, I mean sure after you've got 10 As and Bs, the occassional C wont mess up your GPA, but when you have only around a dozen As and Bs, that C will totally destroy your GPA.
Suit yourself, Hanzo. Those elite schools will pass you over for avoiding math much quicker than they will looking at your overall GPA. There is a sure-fire way to avoid that C...HARD WORK. If you aren't good in math, rather than dance around it, get some help! Tutoring and other services are usually available at Community Colleges.
Perhaps you might have an undiagnosed learning disability that prevents you from "grokking" math. Again, find out about resources available to you and use them.
It is utterly impossible to get a degree, anywhere, without math. That is, unless you answer one of those many spams for U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.E.G.R.E.E.S F.A.S.T. You know the ones...the ones you get in the same batch as the Nigerian Scam and "free porn passwords."
But don't you think the admissions committe is going to notice the lack of math courses on your transcript? A 3.0 GPA may be a minimum standard, but I can assure you that not all 3.0 GPAs are equal. A 3.0 with Intro Calc is going to be more impressive then a 3.0 with "Free Verse for Slackers". This is true even for liberal arts majors. If you are thinking of going into a technical field, the lack of math would be the kiss of death.
I am going to have to revisit math after running from it for over 25 years. I'm 39 now and will hit the big Four-Oh in November. I intend to get my teaching credential, and to do it, I have to return to school. And I'm going to have to basically take up where I left off regarding math. In California Community Colleges, you have to have at least Intermediate Algebra on your transcript with a C or better, or test out at that level or beyond.
So starting September 2nd, I have to revisit Pre-Algebra. Yes, folks, she's a geek, but she sucks at math. Luckily I have a very nice circle of friends who are absolute wizards on the subject, and my husband would have been a math major had the music bug not bit him.
It's either that or go through life without a degree. And that, my friend, sucks even worse than that C in math will. I was looking at McJobs for the rest of my life. Sure, K-12 teachers aren't paid much, but the perqs are golden. And it pays way better than the CA minimum wage. And most importantly, you are hopefully helping to turn kids onto lifelong learning.
Don't think for a minute that if your school pays the RIAA $10/student that you as a student are also going to pay $10. It will be more like $50 (Entertainment Fee).
Schools already do this with long distance. They pay about 2.9c/minute and charge students between 10 and 25. I know the school I worked at really hates that so many students are using cellphones with unlimited LD... it's really cut into the bottom line.
They'll just yentz you where they traditionally yentz you...on textbooks. I have gotten a rude awakening about the markup school bookstores take on books. We're talking about a premium above list price, folks! That's upsetting.
Of course, you can always go on the Internet and find great deals on textbooks. Stick it to Da Man!:P
I was following the example of the guy who sued his computer company in small claims court and priced the copy of XP at full retail cost. Source: Outpost.Com.
Apple doesn't do "upgrade editions". Every time they sell a copy of their OS, they sell it as a full retail purchase. It's a bit of a bummer, but considering that their full retail price is a little over half what XP Pro full retail costs, and less than twice what XP Home Upgrade Edition costs, (XP Home is so neutered! Who'd want it?) it's clear that OS X is a bargain.
And, mais bien sur, Mandrake Linux, a worthy competitor to either one, is available for free download or $54 for the Powerpack Edition 7 CD-ROM set or 1 DVD-ROM set. Red Hat, for those who are conscientiously objecting to anything French, can be had without support in the basic pack for $40. For those who don't like Mandrake but do like KDE, SuSE is at the exact price point.
There is also ample evidence, even without MacOS X's liberal use of the codebase, that BSDisn'tdying, exaggerated reports to the contrary.
MacOS X costs $130 retail. Compare and contrast to Windows XP Home, which costs $200 retail, and Windows XP Pro, which costs $300 retail. All numbers rounded up to the nearest whole dollar figure.
With the student discount, MacOS X costs $65./me gets her classes today./me gets Panther (10.3) the day it comes out. w00t.
I haven't had any "install nightmare" on any version of Linux since 5.X ages ago. Red Hat 6, Suse 7, Suse 8, Red Hat 9 have never given me any issues on installation on any of the boxes I've installed them on.
Vote of confidence for Mandrake 9.1. Mandrake 9 gave me a bit of trouble trying to install it on a computer with an NVidia nForce (I) chipset motherboard. But 9.1 even installs smoothly on that box. Mandrake Update is really, really easy too...just about as brain-dead easy as Windows Update. It's big and you might want to trim some apps from the install if you have limited HD space, but other than that, it rocks.
OS-less desktops are getting easier and easier to find new. As far as OS-less laptops, you really have to go to Computer Geeks or other places like that and hunt for 'em.
What the Barbarian said. That's copy taken right from the site...I typed it in this morning. All Richie asks is for you to not plagiarize his songs, or use them in movies, TV shows or paid compilations without first contacting him. The songs are copyrighted, but you are free to share them however you like. Share and Enjoy.
Not any more than any other MPAA signatories' "intellectual property." By suppressed by the studios I mean that Disney and Warner Bros (who also own the MGM catalog thanks to their purchase of Turner) are able to keep these cartoons in their vaults for a period of time that might as well be forever thanks to the Sonny Bono copyright act. Thank the midget, Mr. God!Awful2...
hmm... how about USA and its buddies, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Colombia, et al? I guess you are happy with what's happening there eh?:(
I think I just had East Asia on the brain when I was writing that. Yes, we have lots of problems right here at home. The Islamic world is full of human (and particularly female human) abuses.
Colombia is a nasty situation that has grown even worse because of our intervention. Thank the War On Drugs (tm) for that. And yes, both GOP and Democratic administrations have been guilty of hyping the drug war since back in LBJ's day, so neither party's hands are clean there.
There are lots of human rights abuses to go around in the world. The acquittal of one of the cops in the Inglewood, CA, US police abuse case and the failure to convict on the other is a fresh reminder that we still have a long way to go here.
Actually this would be an excellent chip for a firewall/router box. Expect to see this in the next generation of broadband routers. It would also be nice for handhelds. I don't like the Chinese's human rights record. Only North Korea and Burma make my skin crawl more. But it's interesting nonetheless.
There are people who trade rare, hard to find (read: suppressed by the studios) cartoons. Most are indeed over 50 years old. Let me mention a few names. "Song Of The South." "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarves." "Tin Pan Alley Cats." "Uncle Tom's Cabana." "Herr vs. Hare." "The Blitz Wolf." "Tokio Jokio." "The Japoteurs." etc. etc. Most have either politically incorrect stereotypes and/or inflammatory anti-German or anti-Japanese content that was part of popular culture during World War II.
From a cartoon historian's standpoint, this is all stuff that should not be suppressed. Maybe it should also not be shown to impressionable children, as well -- at least without an accompanying history lesson as part of the deal. But not everyone who is interested in animation is a kid. Some of us are adults. And it is the adults that are being denied by the embargo on certain politically incorrect cartoons.
And as far as creative people having their food stolen: the screenwriters and songwriters and musicians whose "rights" are supposedly being "protected" by the RIAA/MPAA Sturmabteilung are also systematically being raped up the butt, no Crisco offered, by the same Big Media companies that the RIAA and MPAA actually represent. A recent post I made in my Slashdot blog is all about this.
Moreover, my husband is a musician, who has seen things from both the side of the struggling, unsigned musician and the exploited, swindled musician signed to a contract which in other businesses would be laughed out as being horrifyingly one-sided and biased towards Management. He is now beginning to release all his back catalog of music that he himself owns copyright and publishing on, for free, on the Internet. The only strings attached are that he'd like people to talk to him if they want to either put a song of his on a retail compilation album or use one of his songs in a movie or TV show. If you want a look, here is the link: http://www.richiehass.com/.
Why is he doing this? Because his gamble is that once people get acquainted with his back catalog, when he finally gets an indie CD of new stuff done and up on CD Baby people will be sufficiently interested enough to buy it.
The actions of the RIAA and the MPAA are the actions of frightened Luddites fearing the loss of their livelihoods. As history shows, when old industries die, new ones spring up to take their place. The economic models that have supported musicians and other types of artists over the millenia have shifted considerably. They will likely shift again with the flow of technology. Like the song goes, "It's Evolution, baby." Adapt or die.
It's interesting how English-like Dutch is. A Dutch friend of mine, Annamiek, has a Mac running the Dutch version of MacOS 9.2.2. I had no problems navigating around on it, and the menus and dialogue boxes were fairly sensible to me even though I had to ask her about a few particular words.
Dutch is basically a cousin of English, with both being heavily influenced by Low German. Yiddish also came from the same source, in this case influenced by all the countries the Jewish Diaspora passed through, like Russia and Poland. English is basically Low German with lots of stuff that came to us from Latin-derived languages like French and Spanish and Italian.
Oh yeah, in Holland, most people speak English. A lot of people in the Netherlands speak English better than we Yanks do. For that matter, so do most non-rural Pakistanis and Indians. I wouldn't be surprised if, in my lifetime, American English morphs even further. Enough to where non-Americans who speak English will, basically, only be able to function with it like I did when I was helping Annamiek fix her computer.
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Totally disagree. WinXP is a step backward after Windows 2000 Professional, which is what Win9x should have been all along. A lot of the WinXP annoyances are quite similar to Win9x annoyances, actually. If ReactOS is able to replicate the Windows 2000 experience, it will really and truly rock.
The MacOS has never allowed you to eject a disk while still in use. You have to "put away" a disk instead. The classic MacOS "drag it to the trash" metaphor, while counter-intuitive, works. In MacOS X you go down to the dock and hit the "eject" button.
Actually KDE handles this fairly well...you open the "removable disk" window with Konqui, right click the drive and select "Eject". Usually if you do this, even if you can't physically eject the disk from there you can usually hit the button on the drive and it will cough the disk up. Yeah, it's a lot like how Windows does it, but it's effective.
Did I say I like KDE? ^_^
[batachan@buttercup batachan]$ apropos eject cd
/etc/nscd.conf [nscd] (5) - name service cache daemon configuration file
/usr/sbin/nscd [nscd] (8) - name service cache daemon
eject: nothing appropriate
tcdrain [termios] (3) - get and set terminal attributes, line control, get and set baud rate, get and set terminal foreground process group ID
Not very helpful, alas...an intelligent help system ala the help system in Windows 2000 or MacOS would be a worthy addition to Linux. Much as I hate Microsoft, I have to mention that the help files contained within are solid 24K gold. When I was studying for the MCSE, the help files and the Knowledge Base were the two sources of info I could rely on for the "last word" on something I would be stuck on.
Well, there just so happens to be a penguin character amongst the Sanrio stable...
Scroll a few comments down...the link is right there. Although unfortunately the audio is corrupted towards the end. :P
Someone posted a link to an DivX of Second Reality, and I gotta tell you, when you factor in the state of technology at the point it was created, it's a mindblower. I mean, anyone could do something like that now with Blender running on a PIII in their sleep, but when you place it in its timeframe it's pretty awesome.
I wonder if there were Mac people involved in the demoscene? I know Amiga people were doing it, and PC/DOS people, but did any crew use Macs? Just curious.
...like every Photo-Journalist wants to go out. Shooting photos, getting the story. [snif]
Oh yeah, if he had a Microdrive in that camera, I could guarantee that those photos would have been unrecoverable. Object lesson as to why flash RAM kicks all manner of ass over things with moving parts in a hostile environment like (quite literally) a war zone.
OK, I must have misunderstood you. I thought that you were saying you had *zero* courses in Math and no intention of taking any. I agree with you about Calculus...neither your or my academic goal requires Calculus. However, in order to get an Associates in California community colleges, you have to have at least introductory Algebra, and for teacher prep you need to have intermediate Algebra, Geometry and a class called "Math for Educators."
Most degrees indeed require only one math class. I guess you don't consider Algebra as math, then.
An interesting point about Judaism is that the whole concept of the Messiah has changed from that which you find in the Tanach (Torah+Prophets+Psalms...the whole of the Jewish "bible") and that which you find in Judaism today.
The classic Jewish concept of the Messiah is that of a human "touched by God" and sent forth as a political liberator. The name Moses does not appear in Egyptian texts. There are many Egyptian royal names like Tuthmose and Ahmose but not Moses. However, in Hebrew, the name Moses is actually Mosheh. Not too far removed from moshiach, the Messiah-liberator.
There have been many moshiach figures in Jewish history. Moses, definitely, as was his successor Joshua. David defeating the corrupt King Saul put him in the category of moshiach. Yehuda the Maccabee could arguably be given the title moshiach if looked upon in this more modest definition. Even Kouroush Shah, known to us as Cyrus the King of Persia, was considered a minor moshiach for freeing the Jews from their bondage in Babylon.
The concept of moshiach as God-man or as at least someone supernatural and sacred is an alien concept that found its way into Judaism by way of Christianity. The Jewish God, like the Muslim Allah, has no sons or co-deities. Islam basically was Judaism made palatable for the Arab tribes. It could also be argued that Christianity (which diverges from Judaism far more than Islam does) was Judaism made more palatable for Romans and Greeks.
cannot apply to Baghdad, as it's never had great religious significance for christians. It may have been a great city but Nostrodamus would never have described it as a City of God.
The Hebrew name for Baghdad, Babel, comes from two words: "bab"=gate and "El"=The Most High. That was actually a good call by the guy who forged that quatrain...Nostradamus was very fond of making puns from things he translated out of Hebrew or Latin. "The Gate of God" could easily be rendered as "The City of God" in archaic French.
This is not to give the faux prediction any weight. Just to show that the guy who did the forgery did his homework.
Suit yourself, Hanzo. Those elite schools will pass you over for avoiding math much quicker than they will looking at your overall GPA. There is a sure-fire way to avoid that C...HARD WORK. If you aren't good in math, rather than dance around it, get some help! Tutoring and other services are usually available at Community Colleges.
Perhaps you might have an undiagnosed learning disability that prevents you from "grokking" math. Again, find out about resources available to you and use them.
It is utterly impossible to get a degree, anywhere, without math. That is, unless you answer one of those many spams for U.N.I.V.E.R.S.I.T.Y D.E.G.R.E.E.S F.A.S.T. You know the ones...the ones you get in the same batch as the Nigerian Scam and "free porn passwords."
It's up to you, HanzoSan.
The movie is called Westworld. And it's gonna be remade.
I am going to have to revisit math after running from it for over 25 years. I'm 39 now and will hit the big Four-Oh in November. I intend to get my teaching credential, and to do it, I have to return to school. And I'm going to have to basically take up where I left off regarding math. In California Community Colleges, you have to have at least Intermediate Algebra on your transcript with a C or better, or test out at that level or beyond.
So starting September 2nd, I have to revisit Pre-Algebra. Yes, folks, she's a geek, but she sucks at math. Luckily I have a very nice circle of friends who are absolute wizards on the subject, and my husband would have been a math major had the music bug not bit him.
It's either that or go through life without a degree. And that, my friend, sucks even worse than that C in math will. I was looking at McJobs for the rest of my life. Sure, K-12 teachers aren't paid much, but the perqs are golden. And it pays way better than the CA minimum wage. And most importantly, you are hopefully helping to turn kids onto lifelong learning.
Paging George W. Bush...Yale just called. They want their degree back.
Schools already do this with long distance. They pay about 2.9c/minute and charge students between 10 and 25. I know the school I worked at really hates that so many students are using cellphones with unlimited LD... it's really cut into the bottom line.
They'll just yentz you where they traditionally yentz you...on textbooks. I have gotten a rude awakening about the markup school bookstores take on books. We're talking about a premium above list price, folks! That's upsetting.
Of course, you can always go on the Internet and find great deals on textbooks. Stick it to Da Man! :P
XP Home: http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3063039
XP Pro: http://shop4.outpost.com/product/3063019
Apple doesn't do "upgrade editions". Every time they sell a copy of their OS, they sell it as a full retail purchase. It's a bit of a bummer, but considering that their full retail price is a little over half what XP Pro full retail costs, and less than twice what XP Home Upgrade Edition costs, (XP Home is so neutered! Who'd want it?) it's clear that OS X is a bargain.
And, mais bien sur, Mandrake Linux, a worthy competitor to either one, is available for free download or $54 for the Powerpack Edition 7 CD-ROM set or 1 DVD-ROM set. Red Hat, for those who are conscientiously objecting to anything French, can be had without support in the basic pack for $40. For those who don't like Mandrake but do like KDE, SuSE is at the exact price point.
There is also ample evidence, even without MacOS X's liberal use of the codebase, that BSD isn't dying, exaggerated reports to the contrary.
...of adding up* what's cool and adding up what sucks, I have arrived at these personal final results.
Cool: 48
Sucks: 181
Therefore, the Cool to Sucks ratio is almost 4:1.
Note: this ratio only works for me, not for all tastes. It's all highly subjective.
BTW I arrived at this information using Open Office Calc. Which is cool.
* Yeah, I know Beavis and Butt-Head are too stupid to add and have blown up computers in previous episodes just by banging on them.
MacOS X costs $130 retail. Compare and contrast to Windows XP Home, which costs $200 retail, and Windows XP Pro, which costs $300 retail. All numbers rounded up to the nearest whole dollar figure.
/me gets her classes today. /me gets Panther (10.3) the day it comes out. w00t.
With the student discount, MacOS X costs $65.
Vote of confidence for Mandrake 9.1. Mandrake 9 gave me a bit of trouble trying to install it on a computer with an NVidia nForce (I) chipset motherboard. But 9.1 even installs smoothly on that box. Mandrake Update is really, really easy too...just about as brain-dead easy as Windows Update. It's big and you might want to trim some apps from the install if you have limited HD space, but other than that, it rocks.
OS-less desktops are getting easier and easier to find new. As far as OS-less laptops, you really have to go to Computer Geeks or other places like that and hunt for 'em.
What the Barbarian said. That's copy taken right from the site...I typed it in this morning. All Richie asks is for you to not plagiarize his songs, or use them in movies, TV shows or paid compilations without first contacting him. The songs are copyrighted, but you are free to share them however you like. Share and Enjoy.
Staying up way too late,
Ms. Geek
Not any more than any other MPAA signatories' "intellectual property." By suppressed by the studios I mean that Disney and Warner Bros (who also own the MGM catalog thanks to their purchase of Turner) are able to keep these cartoons in their vaults for a period of time that might as well be forever thanks to the Sonny Bono copyright act. Thank the midget, Mr. God!Awful2...
I think I just had East Asia on the brain when I was writing that. Yes, we have lots of problems right here at home. The Islamic world is full of human (and particularly female human) abuses.
Colombia is a nasty situation that has grown even worse because of our intervention. Thank the War On Drugs (tm) for that. And yes, both GOP and Democratic administrations have been guilty of hyping the drug war since back in LBJ's day, so neither party's hands are clean there.
There are lots of human rights abuses to go around in the world. The acquittal of one of the cops in the Inglewood, CA, US police abuse case and the failure to convict on the other is a fresh reminder that we still have a long way to go here.
Actually this would be an excellent chip for a firewall/router box. Expect to see this in the next generation of broadband routers. It would also be nice for handhelds. I don't like the Chinese's human rights record. Only North Korea and Burma make my skin crawl more. But it's interesting nonetheless.
There are people who trade rare, hard to find (read: suppressed by the studios) cartoons. Most are indeed over 50 years old. Let me mention a few names. "Song Of The South." "Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarves." "Tin Pan Alley Cats." "Uncle Tom's Cabana." "Herr vs. Hare." "The Blitz Wolf." "Tokio Jokio." "The Japoteurs." etc. etc. Most have either politically incorrect stereotypes and/or inflammatory anti-German or anti-Japanese content that was part of popular culture during World War II.
From a cartoon historian's standpoint, this is all stuff that should not be suppressed. Maybe it should also not be shown to impressionable children, as well -- at least without an accompanying history lesson as part of the deal. But not everyone who is interested in animation is a kid. Some of us are adults. And it is the adults that are being denied by the embargo on certain politically incorrect cartoons.
And as far as creative people having their food stolen: the screenwriters and songwriters and musicians whose "rights" are supposedly being "protected" by the RIAA/MPAA Sturmabteilung are also systematically being raped up the butt, no Crisco offered, by the same Big Media companies that the RIAA and MPAA actually represent. A recent post I made in my Slashdot blog is all about this.
Moreover, my husband is a musician, who has seen things from both the side of the struggling, unsigned musician and the exploited, swindled musician signed to a contract which in other businesses would be laughed out as being horrifyingly one-sided and biased towards Management. He is now beginning to release all his back catalog of music that he himself owns copyright and publishing on, for free, on the Internet. The only strings attached are that he'd like people to talk to him if they want to either put a song of his on a retail compilation album or use one of his songs in a movie or TV show. If you want a look, here is the link: http://www.richiehass.com/. Why is he doing this? Because his gamble is that once people get acquainted with his back catalog, when he finally gets an indie CD of new stuff done and up on CD Baby people will be sufficiently interested enough to buy it.
The actions of the RIAA and the MPAA are the actions of frightened Luddites fearing the loss of their livelihoods. As history shows, when old industries die, new ones spring up to take their place. The economic models that have supported musicians and other types of artists over the millenia have shifted considerably. They will likely shift again with the flow of technology. Like the song goes, "It's Evolution, baby." Adapt or die.
It's interesting how English-like Dutch is. A Dutch friend of mine, Annamiek, has a Mac running the Dutch version of MacOS 9.2.2. I had no problems navigating around on it, and the menus and dialogue boxes were fairly sensible to me even though I had to ask her about a few particular words.
Dutch is basically a cousin of English, with both being heavily influenced by Low German. Yiddish also came from the same source, in this case influenced by all the countries the Jewish Diaspora passed through, like Russia and Poland. English is basically Low German with lots of stuff that came to us from Latin-derived languages like French and Spanish and Italian.
Oh yeah, in Holland, most people speak English. A lot of people in the Netherlands speak English better than we Yanks do. For that matter, so do most non-rural Pakistanis and Indians. I wouldn't be surprised if, in my lifetime, American English morphs even further. Enough to where non-Americans who speak English will, basically, only be able to function with it like I did when I was helping Annamiek fix her computer.