The king does not command the tide. It doesn't matter how much you blither and whine about climate change, the fact is that the cure is more toxic than the "disease". You will kill off all the marginal populations of the world with increased food prices long before they are displaced by rising sea levels. If the climate warms significantly as is supposedly going to happen, then the grain basket that is the American midwest will extend up into Canada, and North America will be able to produce enough grain to fed the whole world.
I too admit I'm ambivalent. Certainly, there may be man-made effects involved, but how involved? More than solar cycles, or any number of other phenomena? Is it AGM, or just another natural process or cycle we've not previously run across?
At this point being ambivalent is the equivalent of never having bothered to check it out. Or really being a denier and just pretending to be ambivalent just to make people think you're objective.
Do you hear yourself? Holy fuck, man, you're a believer!
What the hell is wrong with being skeptical? It offends your world view?
Get a grip! I'm trying to sort this stuff out for myself, but your hysterical screaming helps not at all. Jeebus!
If your really skeptical you've followed those links.
They didn't "port the driver", they copied two functions, radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() across:
"I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() functions from linux to CE. Actually I have validated that the evergreen_suspend() and evergreen_resume() work already on CE. But when the resume work is done and the screen is shown up, I found the 3D engine works wrong."
Since these two could well be little more than mov %radeon_register, $magic_value, the entire "ported driver" could consist of little more than a dozen bytes of code. Even SCO's lawsuit was built around more evidence of copying than this...
I feel sorry for all the windows users that can do nothing about it because ATI/AMD have shown time over that they're absolutely shit at software drivers.
And so we come full circle, because this is exactly why the GPL exists.
Everyone gets it wrong - the GPL isn't there to stop people "stealing your code" - it exists to make it possible for users to fix problems in the code.
debian squeeze installs gnome3 by default, but its as easy as "sudo apt-get install gdm" to remove it (gdm3) and install gdm.
Nope. Squeeze (stable) is Gnome 2.3
Wheezy may be Gnome 3, but isn't yet. If you want Gnone 3 it's in experimental at the moment.
Ah, I see your mistake - you're confusing gdm3 with gnome 3. Not the same thing at all. gdm is just the login screen. Yes, gdm3 is the rewrite of gdm for Gnome 3, but it works with gnome 2. (or kde, xfce, twm, whatever).
If Wikileaks was accused of going after Dick Cheney or George W. Bush's email and telephone records there would be overwhelming support for the actions.
Absolutely. Why not?
Now, if Wikileaks had been going after their childrens medical records, not so much.
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Not really.
The king does not command the tide. It doesn't matter how much you blither and whine about climate change, the fact is that the cure is more toxic than the "disease". You will kill off all the marginal populations of the world with increased food prices long before they are displaced by rising sea levels. If the climate warms significantly as is supposedly going to happen, then the grain basket that is the American midwest will extend up into Canada, and North America will be able to produce enough grain to fed the whole world.
Mere assertion, unbacked by any evidence.
And what's with the giveaway "supposedly"?
I too admit I'm ambivalent. Certainly, there may be man-made effects involved, but how involved? More than solar cycles, or any number of other phenomena? Is it AGM, or just another natural process or cycle we've not previously run across?
At this point being ambivalent is the equivalent of never having bothered to check it out. Or really being a denier and just pretending to be ambivalent just to make people think you're objective.
Do you hear yourself? Holy fuck, man, you're a believer!
What the hell is wrong with being skeptical? It offends your world view?
Get a grip! I'm trying to sort this stuff out for myself, but your hysterical screaming helps not at all. Jeebus!
If your really skeptical you've followed those links.
What do you think?
Is there something there you find unconvincing?
They didn't "port the driver", they copied two functions, radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() across:
"I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms() functions from linux to CE. Actually I have validated that the evergreen_suspend() and evergreen_resume() work already on CE. But when the resume work is done and the screen is shown up, I found the 3D engine works wrong."
Since these two could well be little more than mov %radeon_register, $magic_value, the entire "ported driver" could consist of little more than a dozen bytes of code. Even SCO's lawsuit was built around more evidence of copying than this...
Well, they're not huge, but they're a bit bigger than that - radeon_suspend_kms is 67 lines, radeon_resume_kms is 38 lines. http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_device.c
I feel sorry for all the windows users that can do nothing about it because ATI/AMD have shown time over that they're absolutely shit at software drivers.
And so we come full circle, because this is exactly why the GPL exists.
Everyone gets it wrong - the GPL isn't there to stop people "stealing your code" - it exists to make it possible for users to fix problems in the code.
Go read about RMS and the buggy printer driver.
He still wouldn't be legally entitled to use your work.
And neither would you.
Everybody loves Debian. I hear all this hoopla about Debian.
Dselect is the most confounding piece of software I've ever used. Debian sucks.
Who uses dselect? The Debian package manager is aptitude.
(Or synaptic if you prefer a windowing thingy).
Unless you [...] want [...] a package manager which works out of the box. .
When doesn't aptitude work out of the box?
debian squeeze installs gnome3 by default, but its as easy as "sudo apt-get install gdm" to remove it (gdm3) and install gdm.
Nope. Squeeze (stable) is Gnome 2.3
Wheezy may be Gnome 3, but isn't yet. If you want Gnone 3 it's in experimental at the moment.
Ah, I see your mistake - you're confusing gdm3 with gnome 3. Not the same thing at all. gdm is just the login screen. Yes, gdm3 is the rewrite of gdm for Gnome 3, but it works with gnome 2. (or kde, xfce, twm, whatever).
debian squeeze installs gnome3 by default, but its as easy as "sudo apt-get install gdm" to remove it (gdm3) and install gdm.
Nope. Squeeze (stable) is Gnome 2.3
Wheezy may be Gnome 3, but isn't yet. If you want Gnone 3 it's in experimental at the moment.
Well, that's a pretty grudging admission.
How about "I was wrong, the world is not the same place as I imagined it to be".
Obviously I meant the national debt and that in comparison to the population. Have a look at: http://www.economist.com/content/global_debt_clock
So you're wrong again.
US National debt per capita: $29,053.53
France: $31,882.18
Canada: $36,898.23
Italy: $38,025.60
Japan: $83,444.57
The country with the biggest dept (per person) in the western World is the US.
Assuming you mean external debt then you're wrong.
The biggest is Luxembourg with 3,759,174 USD per capita. Wow! 3000% of GDP.
The US is at 47,568 USD per capita, 99% of GDP, better than the UK (400% GDP), Switzerland (220% GDP), France (182% GDP) or Germany (142% GDP).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_external_debt
... oh, that's right, it isn't.
So they've got another thing wrong. Big suprise.
(And not knowing the Ankh-Morpork precedent - that'll lose them fanboy cred).
The period after the Dark Ages was the height of productivity in Western Civilization in terms of arable land and agriculture.
No it wasn't you ridiculous loon. Are you seriously trying to claim European agricultural production in the 14th century was greater than it is today?
. It was warmer then!
Oh yeah?
Power can be produced in many ways that don't involve releasing greenhouse gases. It will just take a few decades to make the switch.
Yeah, the 1970's, '80s and '90s.
Oh, you're not living in France. Sorry, you'd better get a move on.
I still haven't seen any overwhelming evidence that global warming is real.
Now with free added "anthropogenic":
http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti/scale:100/plot/esrl-co2/offset:-300/from:1980/plot/wti/scale:100/trend
More importantly, we can solve problems rationally
This is looking less and less true as this whole insane "debate" goes on.
Wealth is not a superfluid - you've forgotten to take viscocity into account.
Which proposls would those be?
Do they come after Obama has take your guns away?
The tradeoff is that they get paid for the food they sell.
If Wikileaks was accused of going after Dick Cheney or George W. Bush's email and telephone records there would be overwhelming support for the actions.
Absolutely. Why not?
Now, if Wikileaks had been going after their childrens medical records, not so much.
A person gets caught doing this to a corporation, and 9 times out of 10 they end up in Federal 'Pound Me In The Ass' Prison
What is this American fasination with male on male anal rape?
Get a grip.
In this period, she reportedly attempted to persuade David Yelland to end the Page Three Girls feature.
Yeah, she's pure scum - no respect for British tradiotion.
Hanging's too good for her.
Before this story was posted it was already revealed that at least one other paper (The Times - not really a tabloid) has been caught in this.
That would be The Times that is also published by Mr Rupert Murdoch, would it?
A lot of his personal politics are to the left of Obama,
Uh, like, [citation neeeded]++