You're forgetting that obesity can have psychological causes, too, and that one of those potential causes can be the decision that the societal ideal is unreachable, and to simply give up trying. I know too many women who have made that decision.
Anorexic models should be banned, but not because they promote anorexia, because they promote an unrealistic and ultimately unattainable vision of beauty. When a size 8 is considered a "plus size" by the fashion industry, something has gone horribly horribly wrong: depending on your body type/build, size 8 may never be possible, and it's counterproductive to be pushing a message that says this is "plus size". Case in point, I am half an inch shy of 6' tall, and not a petite build. I am fit, and take good care of myself. I run a quarter marathon daily, and have very low body fat content, but the last time I wore less than a size 12 was before high school. My bone structure simply isn't small enough to fit into anything smaller. And yet despite that being something completely beyond my control, I am constantly bombarded with images which tell me that I'm unattractive because I'm too fat. If you don't have the self respect and self esteem to stand up to that kind of image, it can have a devastating impact on your well being.
Slackware package system has always worked very well for me. It definitely does have an official package management system and it works wonderfully. On the other hand RPM and even DEB based systems have driven me back to Slack many times. I have lived through many horror stories with those systems - but installpkg has never failed me.
That's because a Slack package is literally a tarball. I used to maintain a couple of packages on Linuxpackages.net, and have plenty of experience... you could easily build a Slack package even on a system that doesn't have pkgtool installed, by using make install DESTDIR=/work, and then creating a tarball of/work (piped with gzip), and renaming the resulting file from.tar.gz to.tgz. Pkgtool would still happily install the file on a Slack system, and it would still work as long as the dependencies were installed. All pkgtool does when you install a.tgz package is untar it at the root, and then execute install/doinst.sh and any slackbuild scripts that may be included.
It's damned near idiot proof, but it does lack certain functionality that other package management tools have. Namely, it doesn't do dependencies. I have seen dependency hell on an RPM-based system before, and I understand it used to be a huge problem on DEB-based systems as well, but I haven't seen any sign of dependency hell on my production laptop, which is running Bodhi (a Ubuntu derivative). I've seen the opposite on Slackware, though... packages compiled against a specific version of a library, and you're screwed if you don't have that library installed... but when you install that library, it breaks some other package you're using. There is something to be said for a system that can handle the dependencies for you.
That being said, what got me to switch from Slackware to Bodhi on my production laptop (I went by way of Zenwalk) wasn't the lack of dependency-checking in the package manager, it was the size of the ISO. The laptop I use on a daily basis (and the one I travel with) has a minimum of software installed: leafpad (text editor), lxterminal, pcmanfm (file manager), chromium-browser (with the "no history" addon, and the cache set to store in/dev/null, stored passwords suitably locked down using a different encrypted keyring from the wifi passwords, one which re-locks on sleep/hibernate and logoff), and no-machine NX client. That's it. Not even any personal files, and no flash. I have AbiWord and Gnumeric installed on my HTPC at home, which I connect to via NX in order to do any document editing/etc., and I have another installation of chromium-browser on the HTPC for online banking. Rather than worry that my personal data will get commandeered when this laptop grows legs and walks off at a coffee shop, I prefer to make sure there's nothing on the laptop itself to be stolen, besides the laptop itself.
Slackware simply isn't geared towards a minimalist installation. I moved away from Slack when Pat decided to switch from a CD ISO to a DVD ISO so he could fit more stuff on the disc.
One was technology. 300 baud was the norm, far slower than 28.8, The most powerful PC at the time (I'll get disagreement over this; Amiga for one) was the IBM XT. 8088 processor, 64k of memory, and a humungous ten meg hard drive. Cost was prohibitive, an IBM cost thousands of dollars.
The 8086 predates the 8088, and is a more powerful chip (faster external bus speed, same internal clock speed). It didn't hit the market until slightly later, because there weren't any 16-bit capable motherboards, but in early 1984 my dad brought home an 8086 with 640KB of RAM and a 10meg hard drive, with a Hercules Monochrome graphics card, and an early WACOM tablet. It was, on paper, a much more powerful system than Amiga.
That being said, for gaming, PC didn't catch up to Amiga until the early 1990's. Amiga was a much better multimedia platform.
I remember having that problem in 1997 on an Apple eMac, using the keyboard to type directly into Works when I was at school. Once you got over about 80 wpm, the thing gakked and started beeping at you, and you needed to stop tying a few seconds while the screen caught up with what you'd already typed, then read where it stopped taking input and resume from there. That had nothing to do with the port speed, that was a badly designed FIFO buffer. (the amusing thing is the school had the gall to ask why I started bringing in a PC laptop to do work on, rather than using those fabulous computers they had available for everybody)
75 bits per second (9 bytes and change) is very slow by modern standards, but you'd need to be typing very quickly to be able to overflow that, even including control bytes built into the modem protocol. I know typists who can do it, but most people wouldn't be able to.
You... do realize that the only reason the Americans actually won their revolution was because of a combination of German/French generals providing tactics/training, and the fact that the bulk of the British military was too busy beating up the French to bother with the colonies? Look at the campaign from 1812 to 1814, when Madison decided to liberate Canada from the evil British, if you need further proof of what the British military was capable of when they weren't busy with the French.
In short, do you know why the White House is painted white, and the historical events your national anthem is about? As far as the British were concerned, Washington and his lot *were* traitors, and if they'd had the resources at the time, they would have thoroughly smacked down his revolution, and Washington would have been put to death for his troubles.
There were, however, ways to win independence that didn't involve breaking with the system in such a way. You don't seriously think that Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India all won their independence through revolution, do you? The last two of those had multiple failed revolutions, and all four of them ultimately won their independence through diplomacy. Similarly, if you want to change the military establishment in the US, you'd do well to try to change it from within. As it stands now, they have more than enough resources to lay a smackdown on anybody who's stupid enough to try to break away and attack from outside, like Manning did.
Ironically, the US break from Britain by way of revolution actually led to a much later end to slavery in the US, as well as the rise of Eugenics and much of the racial tension that surrounded the civil rights movement in the 1960's. Those issues were basically done in Canada, Australia, NZ, and pretty much everywhere else within the Empire 100 years before Martin Luther King was even born, so I would hardly say that it's been good for your country.
I'm sorry, I had no idea he was actively involved in actually pulling the trigger and killing innocent civilians, and that while he was doing all of that, he was also visiting and paying off opium farmers so they'd grow a more innocuous crop, and that in spite of all of that work load, he also had the time to visit every single informant and listen to them, and take down the information they were giving. That changes everything!
The Nuremberg defense isn't a defense if you actually committed the atrocities. On this we agree. However Manning didn't have anything to do with the events in question, he simply decided that rather than following the established procedure and protocols in place to challenge the information, he'd rather download it onto a USB stick and give it to the media. He wasn't even selective about the information he released: most of it was completely innocuous, but he decided to release it all and damn the consequences. If you can't actually see the distinction between the two, then perhaps you shouldn't be pontificating, and you absolutely shouldn't be making a comparison to the Nazis, for fear of somebody invoking Godwin's law.
No. He released classified information to the public. By necessity of the medium he chose, that public includes the enemy. We can argue about the legitimacy of that enemy until we run out of breath if you like, but the bottom line is that he provided aid to the enemy, in the form of material intelligence that his superiors had deemed to be secretive in nature. That's the very definition of treason, which is a capital crime in the military. If he wanted to maintain his honour, then he could have resigned from the military over it, and thus, no longer be part of the apparatus keeping the information secret. Or here's a thought: he could have followed the established procedure to challenge the information through the chain of command.
I'm not here to argue idealogical points about whether he did the right thing. It doesn't matter whether I agree with what he did ethically, what matters is that the actions he took went well beyond what was legal for him to do. Even Karl Marx said that if you want to change the system, you have to do it from within, because once you're outside the system, you won't be able to effect change. Manning stepped so far beyond the established system that any reaction to what he did will be to further empower the existing system. He was misguided and naive at best, and an idiot at worst, and regardless of where I personally stand on the matter, I refuse to defend his actions.
or bradley manning was a traitor to the country and endangered the lives of the troops because wikileaks had such sensitive important information.
The effect of the information he released has nothing to do with whether he's a traitor. It's the fact that he released the information in the first place, violating the oaths and vows that he took upon joining the military. Deciding whether that material was classified was well above his pay grade, and there were/are procedures in place for him to have challenged the information if he had ethical objections. He decided to release the information anyway.
Treason is in the intent, at least as much as it is the effect. Guy Fawkes still committed treason, even though he never succeeded at blowing up the parliament.
Not bashing, exactly... more a question of logic...
Why would they make "major interface changes" in a minor revision number update? Isn't the point of a minor version to be bugfixes and usability improvements, and keep the "major" changes to the "major" revision numbers?
I don't use gnome, I use e17, so I don't think I'm qualified to pontificate on how awful gnome is. It doesn't work for me. If it works for you, great. So happy for you. I don't like it, but that doesn't make it automatically bad.
If I was trying to hide a USB storage device, I wouldn't hide it in a joystick, or in anything else you could connect to a computer.
Actually, I wouldn't even hide it in a USB stick. I'd copy the data to a MicroSD card, and put it somewhere hard to find, like taped to the back of a painting, or taped to the underside of a drawer in the kitchen. Some kitchen knives have removable handles so you can clean them, and there's usually plenty of space in one of those to hide a MicroSD card.
That being said, I have no reason to bother with any of that. I'm not involved in anything criminal, and have other ways to secure stuff like my banking data. (incognito window, on a computer that doesn't have Flash installed?). I don't really care if the police find a copy of my monthly budget or my professional resume, as it's all information they could find quite easily by either googling me, or subpoenaing my bank records.
who will be paying for it to be installed in my car? (speaking as a theoretical Frenchwoman... haven't lived in France since 1997). Those things are expensive, and beyond the means of some people who own cars.
Chicken's not $1.99/lb here, it's closer to $4.99/lb. Beef and pork are more expensive, and good quality fish is in the range where it's a luxury for a lot of people. And the frozen veggies are nowhere near the quality of fresh veg... some veggies can be frozen and still retain their nutrition, but some veggies lose all nutrition value when you freeze 'em.
And aside from that, it's not only the economics of buying fresh/quality food. It's also the economics of time... if you're living in the bracket where both parents have to work full time, and your kid is a latchkey kid, then the kid is likely to feed themselves at least some of the time. That usually means having stuff in the house that the kid can easily prepare on their own. Read: pre-fab stuff they can toss in the oven when they get home.
There are ways around it... for breakfast, for example, most hot cereals will keep quite well overnight and can be reheated in the microwave in the morning... I cook oatmeal or cream of wheat the night before, because I'm usually out the door and on the way to work at 6:30 and it saves time. But ultimately, it is a question of time, and if you don't have time to put in the prep work for preparing a healthy meal, you'll default to prefab food that you can toss in the oven and ignore.
There's a degree of laziness involved for some, definitely, but for others, it really is a question of not being able to afford the time. GP is correct that it will be a new class divide.
It's trivially easy to set up a router/firewall to redirect all traffic on port 53 that doesn't originate from a specific IP address back to that IP address. It's something that large networks have been doing for a while... run your own caching DNS server, and direct all DNS traffic to that server, and on a sufficiently large network it does reduce traffic by a noticeable amount. It's also just good practice, because it reduces unnecessary traffic.
In, like, your opinion. Assault is a crime in which a victim is at least threatened with violence, and this is clearly not the case. I know it is fashionable to brand anything "psychological abuse", but I've had a lot worse in school than this guy, and I somehow managed to survive. I know many people like myself. Calling the experience in the article an "assault" is ridiculous.
You're either not gay, or not from the US. In some parts of the US, the knowledge that somebody is gay is tantamount to threats of physical violence. It doesn't matter who does the actual violence, there are parts of the US where it is not safe to be out, because of the degree of bigotry and stupidity that surrounds. In 2012, people still get lynched for being gay in the US. Outing him *is* a threat of violence, and it was motivated by his being gay. I'm not entirely sure how you're missing the connection.
When said invasion of privacy is done with the explicit purpose of humiliating the target, and leads to their suicide days later, then yes, it is an assault (psychological), and should be considered a hate crime. He's lucky he didn't get charged with negligent homicide: he should have known that his actions had consequences, and "not thinking" about those consequences is not an excuse. He's above the age of majority, and can be held legally responsible for his actions, regardless of whether he considered their effect.
Consider: this kid was away from his family, and his parents for the first time. He was just beginning to understand himself as gay, and quite likely had a very conservative family (most gay kids with liberally-minded parents come out long before they go off to University, at least in my experience). His roommate decided to film him having a homosexual encounter for the purpose of outing him, at a time when he was very likely only beginning to understand it himself. Coming out is not a question of waking up one day and saying "dad, I'm gay". First you need to come out to yourself, which can itself be very traumatic, and very difficult, especially if you've lived your whole life being taught that homosexuality is wrong. He was not ready for that kind of realization, and to have it happen in a public forum, on film and quite possibly his first ever, pushed him too far. Left to his own devices, he probably could have come to grips with his homosexuality or discovered a way to deal with it, but he was denied that chance by an act of bigotry. As a reasonable adult, particularly one who is aware of the situation with gay rights in the US, can you possibly tell me straight-faced that this couldn't possibly have had anything to do with the suicide?
Psychological abuse is still abuse, and this was motivated by the fact that he was gay. Whether it was done "for the lulz" or to humiliate him or to cause him actual harm is irrelevant, as the main reason behind it was the fact that he was gay, and that is somehow wrong.
Puppet would be the perfect tool for the job, but there may be a reason he can't use Puppet.
If that's the case, set up your own repo. Mirror Ubuntu's repo, and configure all of the systems to only connect to your repo. Set them to automatically update nightly, and bob's your uncle. If you want to push something to the computers, then push it to your repo and they will update during the overnight push
Had you actually understood context and history, you would have realized that Elizabeth II did not actually kill those people, and that things have actually gotten a *lot* better under her reign than they were beforehand.
Nobody is trying to deny the mistakes that were made historically. But it's utterly naive to try to pin them on the current administration, especially when the current administration has actually been trying to make things right.
Besides which, if you actually understood how our system of government works, you would realize that the last time the British crown exercised real power over Canada was in 1914, when they declared war on Germany for us. Since then, while the Queen is the titular head of state, they haven't actually refused to sign into law anything that was passed by both the house of commons and the senate, and they haven't made any unilateral decisions that affect Canada without consulting Canada's government. Perhaps the best example to support this (and strangely on topic) would be that even though Canada was still a colony in 1939, we waited a week after Britain declared war before joining in ourselves. It was well within Britain's power to declare war for us, but they allowed us to do it on our own.
In other words, it's not the Queen's fault. It's not even the crown's fault. It was the people who did it... perhaps with the blessing of the crown, but people should be held accountable for their own fuckups. The harm done to Canada's first nations peoples were done by the Hudson's Bay company, and by the duly elected government of Canada. And in case you missed it when it happened (it is one of the *only* good things Harper ever did, so I can see why you may have), the government has accepted responsibility for its part, and apologized. Now if only we could convince them to honour the treaties they signed.
Never heard somebody using radio procedure over a cell conversation, eh?
I-SPELL INDIA TANGO APOSTROPHE SIERRA SPACE DELTA OSCAR ALPHA BRAVO LIMA ECHO.
I use it instinctively whenever I'm doing something like that over the phone, even if it's a good connection, and I ask the person on the other end to read it back to me phonetically as well. And when it's a bad connection, I'll use "words twice". It just makes sense when it's information like that, and I suspect even with "hd audio", you'll still need to do it, because people can still screw up S and F, D and T, and others like that. Surprisingly, even when you're speaking with somebody who doesn't have radio/military experience, when you start using radio indicators like "Figures", "I Spell", "Say Again", and the phonetic alphabet, people don't seem to have a hard time understanding it.
And yes, a text or an e-mail is better... in theory. On my cell phone, the keyboard is a pain in the backside, and it's very easy to make a typo. And that's one of the rare phones that actually has a keyboard... it's worse with the touchscreen. If I'm in the field, it is usually faster to simply spell it phonetically over the phone, rather than trying to write a text or an e-mail on my phone. And gods help anybody who's stuck using T-9.
This is also a government that was found guilty of contempt for parliament shortly before the last election... the first time *any* british parliamentary system has *ever* been found guilty of that, since the introduction of the british parliamentary system almost 1000 years ago. By rights, Harper should have been in jail during the last election, not on the campaign trail.
You're not accounting for the usage habits of the buyers.
There are *no* ad-supported apps on my cell phone. None. Everything I have installed is either legitimately free, or it came with the phone. And I don't use mobile web at all. I'm on a flex data plan, and my usage is consistently in the bottom tier (25mb/mo). 100% of my data usage is e-mail, calendar, and contacts. I would not show up on either of those statistics. And yes, I have an Android device.
Considering that the iPhone is marketed as an internet-connected consumer device, specifically for the consumption of stuff on the web, I would be willing to lay odds that iPhone users consume more web, on average, than Android users. Sure, there will be aberrations on either platform, but ultimately I think the numbers will show that on the whole, iPhone users consume more data. That will naturally skew statistics that come from watching peoples' data use: that is, search hits and ad impressions.
No, you're buying maximum speed. The dreaded car analogy: if you buy a Ferrari, are you surprised when the police take umbrage to your driving it at 200km/h down the highway? The car is quite capable of handling that speed safely, but the road network can't safely handle cars travelling that fast. Do you sue Ferrari when you start driving in traffic and can't get over 50km/h?
Now, it's a bit of a flawed analogy... in this case, some of the people who bought the fast car are being told "have fun, but you can only drive 3000km in a month or we'll charge you", and others are being told "have fun, but keep it in first", on the same roads. That's where the disagreement is coming from, and the user is right to challenge it.... if the network can handle the speeds, then they should be allowed to use them. If the network can't handle the speeds, then how come I'm being told to keep it in first, and the guy next to me is zooming along in 5th? Shouldn't we both be throttled?
But when you buy a 3G or a 3.5G device, you are not buying the network capacity, you're buying the ability to use the network capacity when it's not needed for somebody else. There's a very fine distinction to be made there... the capacity belongs to the carrier, and they have an obligation to ensure quality of service for everybody, not just you. If that means everybody experiences slowdowns because a particular cell is congested, then that's what it means, and you've got no recourse. The problem is when they do not remain neutral on who gets throttled.
Though honestly, it's a little weird to be having this discussion in the first place... my cell provider uses the same frequencies as ATT does for LTE and HSPA. There's 2 other major networks on the same frequencies, and something like 10 MVNO's on one of those 3 networks. There's 3 providers using different frequencies (they're all on 1700/2100), but between them they have a very small portion of the market, less than 10%. And I live in a city with a population well over a million. This city has 5 major universities, about 20 colleges, and is home to a major military presence (national defense headquarters) and large numbers of government offices. Yet somehow, I never have problems with speed. I consistently get 5.5mbit or higher down, and 4mbit or higher up on my 3G HSPA phone. ATT is the only provider in the US that's using 850/1900 for its HSPA network (not counting the MVNO's that hang on their network, but they don't really count), and yet they're having severe congestion problems? They're doing something horribly, horribly wrong with their network design.
heaven forbid your money actually be accessible to the blind...
and the polymer currency that many nations are now introducing are far more durable than paper money. (though US paper money is actually cotton... still....)
*shrugs* I can pay with Interac, and it doesn't cost me anything. It will cost the merchant a small percentage (less than Visa/Mastercard), but most merchants will write that into their margins and count it as pure profit when you opt for cash instead.
The reason I pay with cash more than debit is quite simple: it's tangible. I can go to the bank on payday, pull out $100 folding cash, and say "that's how much you've got to spend on coffee/snacks/pizza/etc. until next payday". I can then easily look at my wallet and know exactly how much folding cash I have left. As long as I exercise some personal restraint, it is ridiculously easy to keep to this budget: just don't go to the bank and withdraw more money. It makes it a lot easier to budget "personal spending/float money" when you are not in the habit of swiping your card at Starbucks without thinking of where that money comes from. You'd be surprised how much easier it is to grow your bank account when you stop using plastic for stupid small stuff.
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You're forgetting that obesity can have psychological causes, too, and that one of those potential causes can be the decision that the societal ideal is unreachable, and to simply give up trying. I know too many women who have made that decision.
Anorexic models should be banned, but not because they promote anorexia, because they promote an unrealistic and ultimately unattainable vision of beauty. When a size 8 is considered a "plus size" by the fashion industry, something has gone horribly horribly wrong: depending on your body type/build, size 8 may never be possible, and it's counterproductive to be pushing a message that says this is "plus size". Case in point, I am half an inch shy of 6' tall, and not a petite build. I am fit, and take good care of myself. I run a quarter marathon daily, and have very low body fat content, but the last time I wore less than a size 12 was before high school. My bone structure simply isn't small enough to fit into anything smaller. And yet despite that being something completely beyond my control, I am constantly bombarded with images which tell me that I'm unattractive because I'm too fat. If you don't have the self respect and self esteem to stand up to that kind of image, it can have a devastating impact on your well being.
Slackware package system has always worked very well for me. It definitely does have an official package management system and it works wonderfully. On the other hand RPM and even DEB based systems have driven me back to Slack many times. I have lived through many horror stories with those systems - but installpkg has never failed me.
That's because a Slack package is literally a tarball. I used to maintain a couple of packages on Linuxpackages.net, and have plenty of experience... you could easily build a Slack package even on a system that doesn't have pkgtool installed, by using make install DESTDIR=/work, and then creating a tarball of /work (piped with gzip), and renaming the resulting file from .tar.gz to .tgz. Pkgtool would still happily install the file on a Slack system, and it would still work as long as the dependencies were installed. All pkgtool does when you install a .tgz package is untar it at the root, and then execute install/doinst.sh and any slackbuild scripts that may be included.
It's damned near idiot proof, but it does lack certain functionality that other package management tools have. Namely, it doesn't do dependencies. I have seen dependency hell on an RPM-based system before, and I understand it used to be a huge problem on DEB-based systems as well, but I haven't seen any sign of dependency hell on my production laptop, which is running Bodhi (a Ubuntu derivative). I've seen the opposite on Slackware, though... packages compiled against a specific version of a library, and you're screwed if you don't have that library installed... but when you install that library, it breaks some other package you're using. There is something to be said for a system that can handle the dependencies for you.
That being said, what got me to switch from Slackware to Bodhi on my production laptop (I went by way of Zenwalk) wasn't the lack of dependency-checking in the package manager, it was the size of the ISO. The laptop I use on a daily basis (and the one I travel with) has a minimum of software installed: leafpad (text editor), lxterminal, pcmanfm (file manager), chromium-browser (with the "no history" addon, and the cache set to store in /dev/null, stored passwords suitably locked down using a different encrypted keyring from the wifi passwords, one which re-locks on sleep/hibernate and logoff), and no-machine NX client. That's it. Not even any personal files, and no flash. I have AbiWord and Gnumeric installed on my HTPC at home, which I connect to via NX in order to do any document editing/etc., and I have another installation of chromium-browser on the HTPC for online banking. Rather than worry that my personal data will get commandeered when this laptop grows legs and walks off at a coffee shop, I prefer to make sure there's nothing on the laptop itself to be stolen, besides the laptop itself.
Slackware simply isn't geared towards a minimalist installation. I moved away from Slack when Pat decided to switch from a CD ISO to a DVD ISO so he could fit more stuff on the disc.
One was technology. 300 baud was the norm, far slower than 28.8, The most powerful PC at the time (I'll get disagreement over this; Amiga for one) was the IBM XT. 8088 processor, 64k of memory, and a humungous ten meg hard drive. Cost was prohibitive, an IBM cost thousands of dollars.
The 8086 predates the 8088, and is a more powerful chip (faster external bus speed, same internal clock speed). It didn't hit the market until slightly later, because there weren't any 16-bit capable motherboards, but in early 1984 my dad brought home an 8086 with 640KB of RAM and a 10meg hard drive, with a Hercules Monochrome graphics card, and an early WACOM tablet. It was, on paper, a much more powerful system than Amiga.
That being said, for gaming, PC didn't catch up to Amiga until the early 1990's. Amiga was a much better multimedia platform.
I remember having that problem in 1997 on an Apple eMac, using the keyboard to type directly into Works when I was at school. Once you got over about 80 wpm, the thing gakked and started beeping at you, and you needed to stop tying a few seconds while the screen caught up with what you'd already typed, then read where it stopped taking input and resume from there. That had nothing to do with the port speed, that was a badly designed FIFO buffer. (the amusing thing is the school had the gall to ask why I started bringing in a PC laptop to do work on, rather than using those fabulous computers they had available for everybody)
75 bits per second (9 bytes and change) is very slow by modern standards, but you'd need to be typing very quickly to be able to overflow that, even including control bytes built into the modem protocol. I know typists who can do it, but most people wouldn't be able to.
You... do realize that the only reason the Americans actually won their revolution was because of a combination of German/French generals providing tactics/training, and the fact that the bulk of the British military was too busy beating up the French to bother with the colonies? Look at the campaign from 1812 to 1814, when Madison decided to liberate Canada from the evil British, if you need further proof of what the British military was capable of when they weren't busy with the French.
In short, do you know why the White House is painted white, and the historical events your national anthem is about? As far as the British were concerned, Washington and his lot *were* traitors, and if they'd had the resources at the time, they would have thoroughly smacked down his revolution, and Washington would have been put to death for his troubles.
There were, however, ways to win independence that didn't involve breaking with the system in such a way. You don't seriously think that Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and India all won their independence through revolution, do you? The last two of those had multiple failed revolutions, and all four of them ultimately won their independence through diplomacy. Similarly, if you want to change the military establishment in the US, you'd do well to try to change it from within. As it stands now, they have more than enough resources to lay a smackdown on anybody who's stupid enough to try to break away and attack from outside, like Manning did.
Ironically, the US break from Britain by way of revolution actually led to a much later end to slavery in the US, as well as the rise of Eugenics and much of the racial tension that surrounded the civil rights movement in the 1960's. Those issues were basically done in Canada, Australia, NZ, and pretty much everywhere else within the Empire 100 years before Martin Luther King was even born, so I would hardly say that it's been good for your country.
I'm sorry, I had no idea he was actively involved in actually pulling the trigger and killing innocent civilians, and that while he was doing all of that, he was also visiting and paying off opium farmers so they'd grow a more innocuous crop, and that in spite of all of that work load, he also had the time to visit every single informant and listen to them, and take down the information they were giving. That changes everything!
The Nuremberg defense isn't a defense if you actually committed the atrocities. On this we agree. However Manning didn't have anything to do with the events in question, he simply decided that rather than following the established procedure and protocols in place to challenge the information, he'd rather download it onto a USB stick and give it to the media. He wasn't even selective about the information he released: most of it was completely innocuous, but he decided to release it all and damn the consequences. If you can't actually see the distinction between the two, then perhaps you shouldn't be pontificating, and you absolutely shouldn't be making a comparison to the Nazis, for fear of somebody invoking Godwin's law.
No. He released classified information to the public. By necessity of the medium he chose, that public includes the enemy. We can argue about the legitimacy of that enemy until we run out of breath if you like, but the bottom line is that he provided aid to the enemy, in the form of material intelligence that his superiors had deemed to be secretive in nature. That's the very definition of treason, which is a capital crime in the military. If he wanted to maintain his honour, then he could have resigned from the military over it, and thus, no longer be part of the apparatus keeping the information secret. Or here's a thought: he could have followed the established procedure to challenge the information through the chain of command.
I'm not here to argue idealogical points about whether he did the right thing. It doesn't matter whether I agree with what he did ethically, what matters is that the actions he took went well beyond what was legal for him to do. Even Karl Marx said that if you want to change the system, you have to do it from within, because once you're outside the system, you won't be able to effect change. Manning stepped so far beyond the established system that any reaction to what he did will be to further empower the existing system. He was misguided and naive at best, and an idiot at worst, and regardless of where I personally stand on the matter, I refuse to defend his actions.
or bradley manning was a traitor to the country and endangered the lives of the troops because wikileaks had such sensitive important information.
The effect of the information he released has nothing to do with whether he's a traitor. It's the fact that he released the information in the first place, violating the oaths and vows that he took upon joining the military. Deciding whether that material was classified was well above his pay grade, and there were/are procedures in place for him to have challenged the information if he had ethical objections. He decided to release the information anyway.
Treason is in the intent, at least as much as it is the effect. Guy Fawkes still committed treason, even though he never succeeded at blowing up the parliament.
Not bashing, exactly... more a question of logic...
Why would they make "major interface changes" in a minor revision number update? Isn't the point of a minor version to be bugfixes and usability improvements, and keep the "major" changes to the "major" revision numbers?
I don't use gnome, I use e17, so I don't think I'm qualified to pontificate on how awful gnome is. It doesn't work for me. If it works for you, great. So happy for you. I don't like it, but that doesn't make it automatically bad.
If I was trying to hide a USB storage device, I wouldn't hide it in a joystick, or in anything else you could connect to a computer.
Actually, I wouldn't even hide it in a USB stick. I'd copy the data to a MicroSD card, and put it somewhere hard to find, like taped to the back of a painting, or taped to the underside of a drawer in the kitchen. Some kitchen knives have removable handles so you can clean them, and there's usually plenty of space in one of those to hide a MicroSD card.
That being said, I have no reason to bother with any of that. I'm not involved in anything criminal, and have other ways to secure stuff like my banking data. (incognito window, on a computer that doesn't have Flash installed?). I don't really care if the police find a copy of my monthly budget or my professional resume, as it's all information they could find quite easily by either googling me, or subpoenaing my bank records.
who will be paying for it to be installed in my car? (speaking as a theoretical Frenchwoman... haven't lived in France since 1997). Those things are expensive, and beyond the means of some people who own cars.
grammar: the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit.
(blatantly ripped from a picture I saw on a social network)
Chicken's not $1.99/lb here, it's closer to $4.99/lb. Beef and pork are more expensive, and good quality fish is in the range where it's a luxury for a lot of people. And the frozen veggies are nowhere near the quality of fresh veg... some veggies can be frozen and still retain their nutrition, but some veggies lose all nutrition value when you freeze 'em.
And aside from that, it's not only the economics of buying fresh/quality food. It's also the economics of time... if you're living in the bracket where both parents have to work full time, and your kid is a latchkey kid, then the kid is likely to feed themselves at least some of the time. That usually means having stuff in the house that the kid can easily prepare on their own. Read: pre-fab stuff they can toss in the oven when they get home.
There are ways around it... for breakfast, for example, most hot cereals will keep quite well overnight and can be reheated in the microwave in the morning... I cook oatmeal or cream of wheat the night before, because I'm usually out the door and on the way to work at 6:30 and it saves time. But ultimately, it is a question of time, and if you don't have time to put in the prep work for preparing a healthy meal, you'll default to prefab food that you can toss in the oven and ignore.
There's a degree of laziness involved for some, definitely, but for others, it really is a question of not being able to afford the time. GP is correct that it will be a new class divide.
If they're dumb enough to lock down internet access to the point that it becomes unusable for work purposes
Because you use SomethingAwful on a daily basis to do your job?
It's trivially easy to set up a router/firewall to redirect all traffic on port 53 that doesn't originate from a specific IP address back to that IP address. It's something that large networks have been doing for a while... run your own caching DNS server, and direct all DNS traffic to that server, and on a sufficiently large network it does reduce traffic by a noticeable amount. It's also just good practice, because it reduces unnecessary traffic.
In, like, your opinion. Assault is a crime in which a victim is at least threatened with violence, and this is clearly not the case. I know it is fashionable to brand anything "psychological abuse", but I've had a lot worse in school than this guy, and I somehow managed to survive. I know many people like myself. Calling the experience in the article an "assault" is ridiculous.
You're either not gay, or not from the US. In some parts of the US, the knowledge that somebody is gay is tantamount to threats of physical violence. It doesn't matter who does the actual violence, there are parts of the US where it is not safe to be out, because of the degree of bigotry and stupidity that surrounds. In 2012, people still get lynched for being gay in the US. Outing him *is* a threat of violence, and it was motivated by his being gay. I'm not entirely sure how you're missing the connection.
When said invasion of privacy is done with the explicit purpose of humiliating the target, and leads to their suicide days later, then yes, it is an assault (psychological), and should be considered a hate crime. He's lucky he didn't get charged with negligent homicide: he should have known that his actions had consequences, and "not thinking" about those consequences is not an excuse. He's above the age of majority, and can be held legally responsible for his actions, regardless of whether he considered their effect.
Consider: this kid was away from his family, and his parents for the first time. He was just beginning to understand himself as gay, and quite likely had a very conservative family (most gay kids with liberally-minded parents come out long before they go off to University, at least in my experience). His roommate decided to film him having a homosexual encounter for the purpose of outing him, at a time when he was very likely only beginning to understand it himself. Coming out is not a question of waking up one day and saying "dad, I'm gay". First you need to come out to yourself, which can itself be very traumatic, and very difficult, especially if you've lived your whole life being taught that homosexuality is wrong. He was not ready for that kind of realization, and to have it happen in a public forum, on film and quite possibly his first ever, pushed him too far. Left to his own devices, he probably could have come to grips with his homosexuality or discovered a way to deal with it, but he was denied that chance by an act of bigotry. As a reasonable adult, particularly one who is aware of the situation with gay rights in the US, can you possibly tell me straight-faced that this couldn't possibly have had anything to do with the suicide?
Psychological abuse is still abuse, and this was motivated by the fact that he was gay. Whether it was done "for the lulz" or to humiliate him or to cause him actual harm is irrelevant, as the main reason behind it was the fact that he was gay, and that is somehow wrong.
Puppet would be the perfect tool for the job, but there may be a reason he can't use Puppet.
If that's the case, set up your own repo. Mirror Ubuntu's repo, and configure all of the systems to only connect to your repo. Set them to automatically update nightly, and bob's your uncle. If you want to push something to the computers, then push it to your repo and they will update during the overnight push
Had you actually understood context and history, you would have realized that Elizabeth II did not actually kill those people, and that things have actually gotten a *lot* better under her reign than they were beforehand.
Nobody is trying to deny the mistakes that were made historically. But it's utterly naive to try to pin them on the current administration, especially when the current administration has actually been trying to make things right.
Besides which, if you actually understood how our system of government works, you would realize that the last time the British crown exercised real power over Canada was in 1914, when they declared war on Germany for us. Since then, while the Queen is the titular head of state, they haven't actually refused to sign into law anything that was passed by both the house of commons and the senate, and they haven't made any unilateral decisions that affect Canada without consulting Canada's government. Perhaps the best example to support this (and strangely on topic) would be that even though Canada was still a colony in 1939, we waited a week after Britain declared war before joining in ourselves. It was well within Britain's power to declare war for us, but they allowed us to do it on our own.
In other words, it's not the Queen's fault. It's not even the crown's fault. It was the people who did it... perhaps with the blessing of the crown, but people should be held accountable for their own fuckups. The harm done to Canada's first nations peoples were done by the Hudson's Bay company, and by the duly elected government of Canada. And in case you missed it when it happened (it is one of the *only* good things Harper ever did, so I can see why you may have), the government has accepted responsibility for its part, and apologized. Now if only we could convince them to honour the treaties they signed.
and only 2/3 of eligible voters actually voted. do the math.
Harper does not have the support of the majority of the country, and I would be surprised if voter apathy is as bad next time around.
Never heard somebody using radio procedure over a cell conversation, eh?
I-SPELL INDIA TANGO APOSTROPHE SIERRA SPACE DELTA OSCAR ALPHA BRAVO LIMA ECHO.
I use it instinctively whenever I'm doing something like that over the phone, even if it's a good connection, and I ask the person on the other end to read it back to me phonetically as well. And when it's a bad connection, I'll use "words twice". It just makes sense when it's information like that, and I suspect even with "hd audio", you'll still need to do it, because people can still screw up S and F, D and T, and others like that. Surprisingly, even when you're speaking with somebody who doesn't have radio/military experience, when you start using radio indicators like "Figures", "I Spell", "Say Again", and the phonetic alphabet, people don't seem to have a hard time understanding it.
And yes, a text or an e-mail is better... in theory. On my cell phone, the keyboard is a pain in the backside, and it's very easy to make a typo. And that's one of the rare phones that actually has a keyboard... it's worse with the touchscreen. If I'm in the field, it is usually faster to simply spell it phonetically over the phone, rather than trying to write a text or an e-mail on my phone. And gods help anybody who's stuck using T-9.
This is also a government that was found guilty of contempt for parliament shortly before the last election... the first time *any* british parliamentary system has *ever* been found guilty of that, since the introduction of the british parliamentary system almost 1000 years ago. By rights, Harper should have been in jail during the last election, not on the campaign trail.
You're not accounting for the usage habits of the buyers.
There are *no* ad-supported apps on my cell phone. None. Everything I have installed is either legitimately free, or it came with the phone. And I don't use mobile web at all. I'm on a flex data plan, and my usage is consistently in the bottom tier (25mb/mo). 100% of my data usage is e-mail, calendar, and contacts. I would not show up on either of those statistics. And yes, I have an Android device.
Considering that the iPhone is marketed as an internet-connected consumer device, specifically for the consumption of stuff on the web, I would be willing to lay odds that iPhone users consume more web, on average, than Android users. Sure, there will be aberrations on either platform, but ultimately I think the numbers will show that on the whole, iPhone users consume more data. That will naturally skew statistics that come from watching peoples' data use: that is, search hits and ad impressions.
No, you're buying maximum speed. The dreaded car analogy: if you buy a Ferrari, are you surprised when the police take umbrage to your driving it at 200km/h down the highway? The car is quite capable of handling that speed safely, but the road network can't safely handle cars travelling that fast. Do you sue Ferrari when you start driving in traffic and can't get over 50km/h?
Now, it's a bit of a flawed analogy... in this case, some of the people who bought the fast car are being told "have fun, but you can only drive 3000km in a month or we'll charge you", and others are being told "have fun, but keep it in first", on the same roads. That's where the disagreement is coming from, and the user is right to challenge it.... if the network can handle the speeds, then they should be allowed to use them. If the network can't handle the speeds, then how come I'm being told to keep it in first, and the guy next to me is zooming along in 5th? Shouldn't we both be throttled?
But when you buy a 3G or a 3.5G device, you are not buying the network capacity, you're buying the ability to use the network capacity when it's not needed for somebody else. There's a very fine distinction to be made there... the capacity belongs to the carrier, and they have an obligation to ensure quality of service for everybody, not just you. If that means everybody experiences slowdowns because a particular cell is congested, then that's what it means, and you've got no recourse. The problem is when they do not remain neutral on who gets throttled.
Though honestly, it's a little weird to be having this discussion in the first place... my cell provider uses the same frequencies as ATT does for LTE and HSPA. There's 2 other major networks on the same frequencies, and something like 10 MVNO's on one of those 3 networks. There's 3 providers using different frequencies (they're all on 1700/2100), but between them they have a very small portion of the market, less than 10%. And I live in a city with a population well over a million. This city has 5 major universities, about 20 colleges, and is home to a major military presence (national defense headquarters) and large numbers of government offices. Yet somehow, I never have problems with speed. I consistently get 5.5mbit or higher down, and 4mbit or higher up on my 3G HSPA phone. ATT is the only provider in the US that's using 850/1900 for its HSPA network (not counting the MVNO's that hang on their network, but they don't really count), and yet they're having severe congestion problems? They're doing something horribly, horribly wrong with their network design.
heaven forbid your money actually be accessible to the blind...
and the polymer currency that many nations are now introducing are far more durable than paper money. (though US paper money is actually cotton... still....)
*shrugs* I can pay with Interac, and it doesn't cost me anything. It will cost the merchant a small percentage (less than Visa/Mastercard), but most merchants will write that into their margins and count it as pure profit when you opt for cash instead.
The reason I pay with cash more than debit is quite simple: it's tangible. I can go to the bank on payday, pull out $100 folding cash, and say "that's how much you've got to spend on coffee/snacks/pizza/etc. until next payday". I can then easily look at my wallet and know exactly how much folding cash I have left. As long as I exercise some personal restraint, it is ridiculously easy to keep to this budget: just don't go to the bank and withdraw more money. It makes it a lot easier to budget "personal spending/float money" when you are not in the habit of swiping your card at Starbucks without thinking of where that money comes from. You'd be surprised how much easier it is to grow your bank account when you stop using plastic for stupid small stuff.