Maybe the next opium craze in china will be western fashion, television and SUV's.
I sure don't hope so. If the Chinese also start to like these ridiculous petrol-lurking SUV's that nobody actually needs, the whole world will probably collapse because it cannot support this kind of energy consumption. All because the Chinese want to have the same things that Americans want (and why not?).
In the Netherlands we have this thing called a parliament. They monitor and control the administration to make sure no decisions are pushed through that are against what the voters (ie: the Dutch people, not some EC Ministers that are not chosen but assigned) expressed they want to see done.
This is called democracy, some other 'democratic' nations might actually learn something from it...
Eliminating firearms isn't going to eliminate death-by-stupidity, and it would have several other dire disadvantages as well.
You don't know that, and you don't have any proof of it. Where I live (the Netherlands) no-one carries guns except the police and the army (and its the same in the rest of Europe, for that matter), and here there are significantly less people killed by guns, be it by accident or on purpose. So everybody walking around with guns does not seem to add to public safety in general. And please don't try to only apply the way you use your gun to everybody else...
I just don't get how you can keep denying the fact that people are killed by your nice gun laws every day, just because you feel that its some kind of 'basic right' to carry guns, a right that stems from the society as it was in the 18th century or something, where it might have been a good idea at the time...
That's a biblical reference. This is where you're supposed to reject all of my arguments entirely because I referenced the Bible.
Yeah, and Jesus died for our sins... Not really an argument, is it?
Right, because everybody sane knows that only looneys keep and use firearms.
That's quite some reverse-logic you've got there. It takes only *one* looney to shoot somebody, or to shoot multiple, for example like the school shootings that happen every now and then in your beautiful country.
Since you think guns should be banned because people could ``possibly use it'' to shoot other people, I think Windex should be banned because children might drink it, pencils should be banned because people might possibly poke each other's eyes out, computers should be banned because they do cause RSI
Pencils and Windex are not made to kill, but guns are. I don't see people killed by pencils or computers in the newspapers every day, you do?? Don't you think the way you teach your children they have the 'right' to bear arms might affect the way they think about these things? How many people are killed by accidents with guns? Do you have any idea how many people would not have been killed if it was not so fucking easy for anyone, even 12-year olds, to get a gun and use it for something they're going to regret later??
CRTs should be banned because they might cause cancer
If this would be true and proven, CRT's would already be banned....after two thugs with baseball bats broke into your house, beat the shit out of you, raped your wife, and killed your children, all because you didn't have a way to protect your family inside your own home against two thugs with baseball bats.
That says more about your 'society' than the need to have guns around. Aside from that this could just as well happen if you do have a gun in the house.
You won't have to have a national ID tatooed into your forehead or right palm, and you still have the right to keep and bear arms.
Ah so that is what still is great about the US?? That every looney can keep and bear arms and possibly use it to shoot other people? Never wondered why there are so much more shooting incidents in the US compared to Europe, huh?
And what's this 'national ID stamped on your forehead' BS all about? What's wrong about having a national ID as long as you're not involved in something criminal or illicit?
Maybe I should really check out the FreeBSD FAQ & site & stuff, but hey, there's a lot of experts around here who can help me out, so I'll throw it in anyways:
Is it worthwhile for me to try FreeBSD now? I've already installed Win 95/98/2000, RedHat, Slackware,Suse,Debian & BeOS before and I still have an unfinished Linux from scratch install lurking around, but until now only Debian, Slack & Win 2000 stayed on long enough to make real use of them. ATM I'm running Debian w/KDE2.2 and I'm really happy with it, but hey, I still have a free 2Gig partition.
Can I run all apps/libs (or equivalents of the same quality) I use regularly now on FreeBSD? That would be KDE2.2, XMMS, OpenGL on GeForce2, MSN client, \LaTeX{}, Java1.2 a.o. Would It really bring me some extra performance/stability?
The whole FreeBSD approach does appeal to me, so I'm definitely interested in trying, but only if it has a real chance becoming my primary LILO partion;-)
AFAIK ADSL is going quite strong here in The Netherlands, and I'm not at all disappointed with the performance it brings.
I don't know how its done in the States, but here almost all ISP's use the KPN (dutch telecom) network. This way the company that owns the infrastructure profits from the ISP's competing for the customers.
AFAIK GTK+ draws on GDK surfaces. To port GTK they probably just had to port GDK to use the kernel fb support for providing surfaces.
I don't know about HW acceleration, but if the kernel fb provides this, games could call GDK directly to provide fast video.
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Besides, if at all X is so darn bloated, it still runs pretty good on a 233 Mhz laptop with only 32 Mb RAM.
I'm the first to admit xf4 conveys a lot of improvements, but I still don't find it stable enough to recommend it to anyone. 4.0.0 works pretty well on my Toshiba laptop & my K6-2/Riva TNT, but 4.0.1 is just horrible. I had some 'random' lockups (of the whole system, that is), X crashes on me when I switch to a login console and the nVidia drivers just don't seem to care to clean up when an OpenGL program exits.
I'm looking forward to 4.0.2;-|
Let's wait first 'till this hits the market huh... Besides, technologies like this are not targeted at the consumer market, and AMD still has a lot of catching up to do in the server market...
I thought you needed at least some cell material to clone animals? Besides, I hardly believe it's healthy to clone a whole population out of one DNA sample.
It's real alright. I already knew about this a year ago. The electromagnet has an effect the very small amounts of metal in the frog's body fluids (nitrates have some part in it too, if I remember right).
I wouldn't be surprised if they'll sell a keyboard as add-on to the Xbox. Isn't it supposed to have internet access as well? Try browsing with a joypad some time...
We'll get a 'console' equipped with an x86 CPU, an nVidia GPU that will definitely be available for PC's as well, HD, Keyboard/Mouse and, ofcourse, MS Windows...
Who's worried about the PC gaming market here?
So what's the big difference between HTTP requests & FTP requests? The point I'm trying to make is that it can hardly be such a problem to rewrite these parts to get rid of Gnome...
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Maybe the next opium craze in china will be western fashion, television and SUV's.
I sure don't hope so. If the Chinese also start to like these ridiculous petrol-lurking SUV's that nobody actually needs, the whole world will probably collapse because it cannot support this kind of energy consumption. All because the Chinese want to have the same things that Americans want (and why not?).
Thanks for that...
Strange... Firefox takes me here.
;-)
Please research these things before you post and don't just go out bashing MS without constructive evidence!!
sigs are overrated
instead of
Interrupted that really quick, but it took me 3 weeks to find out and restore all (most?) of the binaries starting with letters a to m
In the Netherlands we have this thing called a parliament. They monitor and control the administration to make sure no decisions are pushed through that are against what the voters (ie: the Dutch people, not some EC Ministers that are not chosen but assigned) expressed they want to see done.
This is called democracy, some other 'democratic' nations might actually learn something from it...
As long as I can make an image of the original, I can make unlimited copies of this image (which is a copy of the original), that's what I meant...
...is what happens when I make a copy of my copy of the original. Would that be impossible too, and if so, how??
Eliminating firearms isn't going to eliminate death-by-stupidity, and it would have several other dire disadvantages as well.
You don't know that, and you don't have any proof of it. Where I live (the Netherlands) no-one carries guns except the police and the army (and its the same in the rest of Europe, for that matter), and here there are significantly less people killed by guns, be it by accident or on purpose. So everybody walking around with guns does not seem to add to public safety in general. And please don't try to only apply the way you use your gun to everybody else...
I just don't get how you can keep denying the fact that people are killed by your nice gun laws every day, just because you feel that its some kind of 'basic right' to carry guns, a right that stems from the society as it was in the 18th century or something, where it might have been a good idea at the time...
Very nice to see this modded to Troll, and all other insightful comments in this thread to 0. Must be a lot of americans around here.
And yes, please mod this to redundant...
Read Pierre Honeyman's blurb to find out why.
...after two thugs with baseball bats broke into your house, beat the shit out of you, raped your wife, and killed your children, all because you didn't have a way to protect your family inside your own home against two thugs with baseball bats.
Yeah, that surely convinced me...
That's a biblical reference. This is where you're supposed to reject all of my arguments entirely because I referenced the Bible.
Yeah, and Jesus died for our sins... Not really an argument, is it?
Right, because everybody sane knows that only looneys keep and use firearms.
That's quite some reverse-logic you've got there. It takes only *one* looney to shoot somebody, or to shoot multiple, for example like the school shootings that happen every now and then in your beautiful country.
Since you think guns should be banned because people could ``possibly use it'' to shoot other people, I think Windex should be banned because children might drink it, pencils should be banned because people might possibly poke each other's eyes out, computers should be banned because they do cause RSI
Pencils and Windex are not made to kill, but guns are. I don't see people killed by pencils or computers in the newspapers every day, you do?? Don't you think the way you teach your children they have the 'right' to bear arms might affect the way they think about these things? How many people are killed by accidents with guns? Do you have any idea how many people would not have been killed if it was not so fucking easy for anyone, even 12-year olds, to get a gun and use it for something they're going to regret later??
CRTs should be banned because they might cause cancer
If this would be true and proven, CRT's would already be banned.
That says more about your 'society' than the need to have guns around. Aside from that this could just as well happen if you do have a gun in the house.
You're just being ignorant...
>>What's so great about the US nowadays?
You won't have to have a national ID tatooed into your forehead or right palm, and you still have the right to keep and bear arms.
Ah so that is what still is great about the US?? That every looney can keep and bear arms and possibly use it to shoot other people? Never wondered why there are so much more shooting incidents in the US compared to Europe, huh?
And what's this 'national ID stamped on your forehead' BS all about? What's wrong about having a national ID as long as you're not involved in something criminal or illicit?
>> Sure, lots of other life forms have been sequenced too, but most of these have much smaller genomes than humans.
:-P
Actually, they don't
Maybe I should really check out the FreeBSD FAQ & site & stuff, but hey, there's a lot of experts around here who can help me out, so I'll throw it in anyways:
;-)
Is it worthwhile for me to try FreeBSD now? I've already installed Win 95/98/2000, RedHat, Slackware,Suse,Debian & BeOS before and I still have an unfinished Linux from scratch install lurking around, but until now only Debian, Slack & Win 2000 stayed on long enough to make real use of them. ATM I'm running Debian w/KDE2.2 and I'm really happy with it, but hey, I still have a free 2Gig partition.
Can I run all apps/libs (or equivalents of the same quality) I use regularly now on FreeBSD? That would be KDE2.2, XMMS, OpenGL on GeForce2, MSN client, \LaTeX{}, Java1.2 a.o. Would It really bring me some extra performance/stability?
The whole FreeBSD approach does appeal to me, so I'm definitely interested in trying, but only if it has a real chance becoming my primary LILO partion
They have PC video cards with some thingie called 'TV-out' for exactly that ;-)
AFAIK ADSL is going quite strong here in The Netherlands, and I'm not at all disappointed with the performance it brings.
I don't know how its done in the States, but here almost all ISP's use the KPN (dutch telecom) network. This way the company that owns the infrastructure profits from the ISP's competing for the customers.
AFAIK GTK+ draws on GDK surfaces. To port GTK they probably just had to port GDK to use the kernel fb support for providing surfaces. I don't know about HW acceleration, but if the kernel fb provides this, games could call GDK directly to provide fast video.
Besides, if at all X is so darn bloated, it still runs pretty good on a 233 Mhz laptop with only 32 Mb RAM.
CN plays DBZ in Holland. And Pokemon/Digimon (dunno if you can call it anime though...)
In the end nothing is 100% secure...
I'm the first to admit xf4 conveys a lot of improvements, but I still don't find it stable enough to recommend it to anyone. 4.0.0 works pretty well on my Toshiba laptop & my K6-2/Riva TNT, but 4.0.1 is just horrible. I had some 'random' lockups (of the whole system, that is), X crashes on me when I switch to a login console and the nVidia drivers just don't seem to care to clean up when an OpenGL program exits. I'm looking forward to 4.0.2 ;-|
Let's wait first 'till this hits the market huh... Besides, technologies like this are not targeted at the consumer market, and AMD still has a lot of catching up to do in the server market...
I thought you needed at least some cell material to clone animals? Besides, I hardly believe it's healthy to clone a whole population out of one DNA sample.
It's real alright. I already knew about this a year ago. The electromagnet has an effect the very small amounts of metal in the frog's body fluids (nitrates have some part in it too, if I remember right).
Probably you wont last long enough for that, since a continuous supply of caffeine would probably trigger a haemorrhage within a a week or so...
I wouldn't be surprised if they'll sell a keyboard as add-on to the Xbox. Isn't it supposed to have internet access as well? Try browsing with a joypad some time... We'll get a 'console' equipped with an x86 CPU, an nVidia GPU that will definitely be available for PC's as well, HD, Keyboard/Mouse and, ofcourse, MS Windows... Who's worried about the PC gaming market here?
So what's the big difference between HTTP requests & FTP requests? The point I'm trying to make is that it can hardly be such a problem to rewrite these parts to get rid of Gnome...