It will most likely work fine with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc, as well as Mint and Debian. Linux dependency management is very mature, and there will likely be minimal problems getting it working on other distributions.
Steam on Linux beta, designed for Ubuntu, requires quite a lot of magic to get installed on Debian. Definitely within capabilities of a Linux enthusiast, but too much hassle even for a veteran who polished his system a couple of years ago and now just expects everything to work fine.
I would love to be able to play GW2 on Linux, since it constitutes 99+% of the gaming that I do these days.
Warhammer Online (yes, still alive and kicking). 99+% of my gaming recently. I have tried to run it in Wine, same with LotRO, but to no avail. Got tired, rebooted into Win7 and had fun.
Because, of course, it contributes NO greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
When are we going to get serious about NOT actively promoting global warming with every 'solution' we come up with? Sure, incineration reduces methane emissions, but couldn't we either recycle more, (and more efficiently), and/or just consume less?
Our pursuit of 'shiny' is killing us.
First of all Sweden seems to recycle as much as possible to the point they ran out of garbage and have to import it.
Second, this matter would decompose anyway releasing (as you noticed) methane, a much worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. If in those countries all this garbage would end up on landfills, why not to burn it thus both reducing coal burning and reducing methane emissions?
Third, nothing is lost. Do you think that if Sweden wasn't burning Italian trash, Italians would start recycling?
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" shows that Communism must lead to totalitarian regime. Atrocities of Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Red Khmers were not "errors", they were natural consequence of the essence of Communism.
Greed and laziness will ensure that most people would overestimate their needs and underestimate their abilities. This would require some external judgement, by the state, by the party, by the system. So, basically someone else would judge how much you can work and enforce that you work that much. Similarily someone would have to assess your needs and provide you with goods according to this. So the result is that an individual cannot decide for himself, which would be... slavery?
And in fact, apart from short periods of enthusiasm e.g. right after WW2, all communist states were founded on slavery, both hidden (compulsory employment) and official (e.g. Gulag).
"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth."
Einstein was wrong about this one, if it is in fact an authentic Einstein quote. Can someone please verify for me? The Catholic and Protestant Churches supported both Nazism and Fascism.
On the Catholic:
The Lateran Treaty of 1929 was when the Catholic Church threw its full formal support behind Mussolini. Of course, there had been longstanding informal support long before this, but this is the formal document that the Church cannot deny! It is a impossibility to win power in heavily Christian countries like Italy and Germany were in the 1920's without the active support of the church.
Typical fallacy of equating Nazism and Fascism. Did the Catholic Church supported Fascism? Probaby, I do not know. It did support Franco, if only due to "enemy of my enemy is my friend" reasons, but maybe for other as well. But while both Franco's and Mussolini's regimes were authoritarian and commited crimes, they do not in any scale compare with Nazis. Even today many tyrans oppress opposition and even attack whole cities (see Syria or Libya), but atrocities on the level of Nazis or Red Khmers are something absolutely unique.
So Einstein might have been right that the Church opposed Nazis even though it supported Fascism. In fact Nazis disdained Christianity as a Jewish sect propagating, as they saw it, "weakness". You know, that whole stuff about the other cheek and submitting to torture because of the God and the Truth - completely in opposition to "healthy" Aryan values of strength, victory and the whole "Ubermensch" concept.
When Joe Kittinger jumped for Excelsior in the '50s and '60s, he was testing the feasibilty high-altitude escape systems. He succeeded, and in the process, set some very impressive and rather durable records. Stratos was a not-very-subtle ad-funded stunt show. There's real science being done but I have little doubt that it's ultimately in service to the sponsor (also Austrian).
While it is all true, I am all for such ways to spend ad and marketing funds instead of just paying celebrities. Apple has reportedly spent 1 bn for marketing of iphone and ipad. Have they made anything really cool with all this money? I know that it is a matter of a different targetted group, but most Red Bull campaigns and stunts are awesome and some even borderline useful.
Disclaimer: I have drunk Red Bull twice. Nevermore. Likewise other "energy drinks".
Not to mention that most GIS systems have been doing exactly this for decades. The GRASS system, for example, an open source, open GIS system that existed in the early 80s when Microsoft hadn't started selling MS-DOS yet.
Sorry, but this is yet another modern version of Eugenics being pushed in to your face. Just like "using DNA to determine future criminals" and "Detecting psychopaths by Tweets".
The people working on these papers expressing opinions like this are dangerous and should be locked up. Yes, it's that simple and yes, the propaganda they are spreading is extremely dangerous. If you don't understand the danger, go read a fucking history book and see what happens when people are convinced that genocide or racial superiority are good things.
Ummm, then we should also lock up anarchists, communists, nationalists, racist, Christians, Muslims, Jews, well, all religious people, atheists and quite a few others, because all of these ideologies/religions caused genocide at some point in the past.
Hell, we should start from locking up people who suggest locking up scientist and people having different opinions, because locking up people for such reasons is almost always the beginning for any totalitarian and terror regime.
Only if it is successfull. However even brief (e.g. several years) presence of a large army (think Napoleon in Prussia, partitioned Poland/Duchy of Warsaw and Russia) may leave significant genetic trace in the local population.
I wanted to click most of stories in that screenshot, from The Cure for Information Overload, through Here There Be Dragons, to Quasars Used for Encryption.
Compare it with three of five uppermost stories on the current frontpage: Google settles blah blah, Phillipines new legislation, Facebook Privacy Boosted. Ok. there is the MakerFaire and a test engine for 1000 mph car, but still...
Probably more sign of the times than the state of/. though.
The invisible hand works, just the results are not optimal for either suppliers or customers. It is the pork cycle mentioned above. Due to production lag and adaptive expectations, supply/demand and prices of livestock (and hogs especially) experience stable oscillations.
"The invisible hand" is nothing more than a complicated feedback loop. Anyone working with industrial control systems can tell you that in some circumstances feedback loops can have not nice equilibra: oscilations, chaotic fluctuations or runaway conditions. This is why governments attempt to influence the invisible hand, e.g. flatten natural cycles.
At first, I thought it was just a silly conspiracy theory that they released an intentionally crappy OS every other cycle, but I'm really starting to think they do it on purpose
On purpose - probably yes. Sinister plan - rather not.
Every other version is pushing boundaries, taking chances, kind of like KDE 4.0 or Gnome 3.0. Then MS learns what did not work and releases a polished version. So you have Win 2000 followed by XP, then an ambitious failure of Vista followed by Win7. Now it is time for another push with Win8 and ideas tested with it will return in usable form with Win9.
So "stable" versions provide income while "experimental" versions provide UAT.
Chromebooks, at this point, don't seem to be targeted at anyone that reads slashdot. Well, maybe only if it's an IT manager.
Why? I read slashdot for some time now, I am not an IT manager and I would buy a Chromebook gladly - if not for the issue mentioned by the GP: Chromebooks are more expensive now than a comparable netbook/cheap laptop.
I own an Aspire One d522 and the only time when I am not using a browser is when I play Diablo II (on Battle.net) or Warhammer Online. So yes, it is useless for me if the net is down. I use gmail and google docs and use my main pc for serious work. The netbook is for browsing and watching VOD. There's Debian on a second partition too, but it is a barebone xfce install with chromium.
So I could replace it with a chromebook gladly - less hassle with updates and everything - if the price was significantly lower.
With a warrant you have court approval. This is being done because the court did not grant approval
I would rather say that the court did not grant approval because remote forensics is not in the law. Putting this into the law would enable courts to grant/deny approvals on merit grounds.
Soviet Russia doesn't refer to USSR. It's to distinguish it from Tsarist Russia, or Kievan Russia, or any of the other regimes that ruled Russia
Obviously off-topic, but since you were modded up to Informative, I would like to clarify. Soviet Russia is often used as a synonym for Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic especially before proclamation of the USSR in 1922. In English it was usually referred to as Bolshevist Russia, but in other languages it is called what translates to Soviet Russia. In Russian it was Sovetskaya respublika or Rossiyskaya respublika. So it is more than just notion that it is 'Russia under Soviet rule'.
I hate to quote such big blocks of text, but this is sooo wrong:
There's a reason why the Holocaust garners more attention than Stalin's purges or the vast number of deaths attributed to Mao's Great Leap Forward, and that is because the Holocaust wasn't merely a mass-murder, but an institutionalized bureaucratic machine. This wasn't some mad man forcing his subservient lieutenants to shoot Polish officers, but rather an entire government apparatus, with civil servants, budgets and records, all dedicated towards the murder of every Jew within the Nazi's grasp. No one is defending Stalin, whose own attrocities have come to light in very great clarity since the end of the Cold War. But Stalin was your typical monomaniacal paranoid tyrant (or you might say the very pinnacle of monomaniacal paranoid tyrants), the sort of prototypical Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe and Saddam Hussein. Hitler and his cohorts were not ordering the murdering millions of Jews to force subservience out of conquered populations, or to destroy political rivalries.
I cannot say much about China, but Stalin's crimes are furthest from 'one mad man forcing his subservient lieutenants to shoot Polish officers'. Communism in Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, and probably in China, North Korea, Cuba, as you wrote it 'wasn't merely a mass-murder, but an institutionalized bureaucratic machine'. Read about yearly commitments of convinced and executed 'enemies of the Proletaryat' - yes, administrative units in Soviet Union had to 'provide' each year a fixed number of kulaks, members of 'bourgeoisie' etc.
Read about the whole bureaucracy of Gulag, of Cheka and later NKVD. The only difference between nazis and commies was that Nazis wanted to kill nations (especially two of them: Jews and Gypsies, but also Poles and Russians) while Communists wanted to kill classes. Are you a priest? Bullet in your head. An entrepreneur? Against the wall! A former-regime politician, police or army officer? Dead. A farmer having enough land to survive of it in free-market? Shot or sent to gulag.
How is it any better than Holocaust? The only real difference is PR. Compare Hitler's slogans: Lebensraum, final solution of Jewish problem etc. with communists' variations 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'. The typical comment on communists' atrocities is: yeah, it went wrong but the goal was noble.
Yeah, right.
It is not about a bunch of Polish officers killed in Katyn and elsewhere. It is about millions of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Estonian etc. farmers, shoppers, teachers etc. whose only guilt was that they could live a decent live before revolution and (abomination!) they had soft hands or wore glasses!
A quick 'apt-cache search human resources' revealed The Truth:
craft - Warcraft 2-like multi-player real-time strategy game dstat - versatile resource statistics tool t1utils - A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs
Bugger, it might not be what you were looking for after all;-)
Furthermore, Communism does not have to equate directly to censorship.
I beg to differ. As Leszek Koakowski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Ko%C5%82akows ki) showed in his "Main Currents of Marxism", communism logically leads to totalitarism and Stalin's, Mao's, and other regimes are not aberrations but logical consequences of communism. Communism is two things:
- to each according to his needs - which is in conflict with natural scarcity of goods; as a result, without money, you have other ways to regulate distribution of goods (and you get "communist aristocracy")
- from each according to his abilities - in free market you work hard to earn more (or to make a living); in communism you get everything "according to your needs", so there is no reason to work hard. So you need control, but people that control you are neither awarded, so they don't care and they are easy to bribe, so you need another layer of control, preferably secret. And if your wage is not linked to your work, and if there is no unemployment, there have to be other ways to ensure your work. Terror.
And all this has to be done so, that everyone thinks that they live in the land of freedom and happiness. The only way to do it is to supress free speech.
And thus you have censorship.
Of course, it is a very crude argument, if you want the same thoughts more formalised try to find Koakowski's works in English. They are quite difficult to read, but they open eyes.
As far as I know, the only groups that the Nazis determined to systematically exterminate were the Jews and the homosexuals.
Others have already mentioned Jehova Witnesses and Gypsies.
Remember that also Poles were killed systematically. Not with the ultimate goal to destroy the whole nation, like it was with Jews, but in order to kill everyone educated, to create a nation of slaves for simplest jobs.
So true, being a Pole was not enough to be exterminated, but being a Polish professor, priest, doctor, teacher - was quite enough.
Incidentally, the same was enough to be killed by Soviets, or sent to Gulag.
The funny thing is that, approx. 1400 years after the death of Jesus we also had our period of intolerance (did you say Inquisition) and of stalling progress.
Generalisations, generalisations, generalisations. Inquisition was in fact quite just court system, compared to secular courts of the era. Intolerance had more to do with general cultural collapse after the end of Roman Empire than anything else and in fact by 15th century it was much better than earlier. The progress was also not stalled (clockwork, gothic cathedrals, water and windmills etc. - that is 13th-14th century already!).
Also, opposite to present stereotypes, there was an exchange of ideas between Christian world and Islam: gothic architecture has obvious Arabic influences, a lot of ancient Greek scientific texts were translated from Arabic copies etc.
The Renaissance appears to be a flourishing era because of the giant leap that has been made in paintings but in terms of sculpture, architecture or litterature, the trend was to come back to the "classic style" : an aggregation of roman and greek techniques 1000 years old and considered perfect.
This is true. However "the progres" made in paintings was not just because of improvements in technique, but had most to do with a switch from use of paintings as symbols and allegories to representation of reality.
It is at this time also that we began to see scientists opposing Church dogmas whereas before this time scientists were often also religion scholars
True, the Renaissance brought enormous developments in empirical studies, physics - and mathematics necessary for physics. Again though, calling Medieval times "dark ages of science" is generalisation - empiricism and logic, optics, mathematics, scientific method - all these were studied in high medieval times at Universities, where free pursuit of scientific truth flourished. Unfortunately the Black Plague of 14th century destroyed most of this.
So, poor state of science and engineering had more to do with political (Fall of the Roman Empire) or medical (the Black Plague) factors than with "Church dogmas".
There must be a reason to place the dividing line in a certain spot, and that reason must be based on knowledge and not belief.
Like, I don't know, when a cell with completely unique, diploid genome is created? A cell completely different from gametes that were its origin, yet geneticaly identical (modulo non-lethal mutations) with all cells that will exist in the body of a person which will grow from this one cell?
If we are to establish the dividing line based on knowledge then the conception is the only viable choice. All other lines will be arbitrary.
Regards
Raf
PS. Yes, and I know that in cases of clonning or twins this argument fails;-)
Except that in animals, most of the K offsprings don't survive long enough to reproduce. Won't happen to humans - and thus the K type will dominate
Another thing: care more for children -> have less children at some points means: care a lot for children -> have one/no child -> open road for extinction, which just strengthens the trend.
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It will most likely work fine with Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc, as well as Mint and Debian. Linux dependency management is very mature, and there will likely be minimal problems getting it working on other distributions.
Steam on Linux beta, designed for Ubuntu, requires quite a lot of magic to get installed on Debian. Definitely within capabilities of a Linux enthusiast, but too much hassle even for a veteran who polished his system a couple of years ago and now just expects everything to work fine.
I would love to be able to play GW2 on Linux, since it constitutes 99+% of the gaming that I do these days.
Warhammer Online (yes, still alive and kicking). 99+% of my gaming recently. I have tried to run it in Wine, same with LotRO, but to no avail. Got tired, rebooted into Win7 and had fun.
Because, of course, it contributes NO greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
When are we going to get serious about NOT actively promoting global warming with every 'solution' we come up with? Sure, incineration reduces methane emissions, but couldn't we either recycle more, (and more efficiently), and/or just consume less?
Our pursuit of 'shiny' is killing us.
First of all Sweden seems to recycle as much as possible to the point they ran out of garbage and have to import it.
Second, this matter would decompose anyway releasing (as you noticed) methane, a much worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. If in those countries all this garbage would end up on landfills, why not to burn it thus both reducing coal burning and reducing methane emissions?
Third, nothing is lost. Do you think that if Sweden wasn't burning Italian trash, Italians would start recycling?
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" shows that Communism must lead to totalitarian regime. Atrocities of Stalin, Lenin, Mao and Red Khmers were not "errors", they were natural consequence of the essence of Communism.
Greed and laziness will ensure that most people would overestimate their needs and underestimate their abilities. This would require some external judgement, by the state, by the party, by the system. So, basically someone else would judge how much you can work and enforce that you work that much. Similarily someone would have to assess your needs and provide you with goods according to this. So the result is that an individual cannot decide for himself, which would be... slavery?
And in fact, apart from short periods of enthusiasm e.g. right after WW2, all communist states were founded on slavery, both hidden (compulsory employment) and official (e.g. Gulag).
"Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for suppressing truth."
Einstein was wrong about this one, if it is in fact an authentic Einstein quote. Can someone please verify for me?
The Catholic and Protestant Churches supported both Nazism and Fascism.
On the Catholic:
The Lateran Treaty of 1929 was when the Catholic Church threw its full formal support behind Mussolini. Of course, there had been longstanding informal support long before this, but this is the formal document that the Church cannot deny! It is a impossibility to win power in heavily Christian countries like Italy and Germany were in the 1920's without the active support of the church.
Typical fallacy of equating Nazism and Fascism. Did the Catholic Church supported Fascism? Probaby, I do not know. It did support Franco, if only due to "enemy of my enemy is my friend" reasons, but maybe for other as well. But while both Franco's and Mussolini's regimes were authoritarian and commited crimes, they do not in any scale compare with Nazis. Even today many tyrans oppress opposition and even attack whole cities (see Syria or Libya), but atrocities on the level of Nazis or Red Khmers are something absolutely unique.
So Einstein might have been right that the Church opposed Nazis even though it supported Fascism. In fact Nazis disdained Christianity as a Jewish sect propagating, as they saw it, "weakness". You know, that whole stuff about the other cheek and submitting to torture because of the God and the Truth - completely in opposition to "healthy" Aryan values of strength, victory and the whole "Ubermensch" concept.
When Joe Kittinger jumped for Excelsior in the '50s and '60s, he was testing the feasibilty high-altitude escape systems. He succeeded, and in the process, set some very impressive and rather durable records. Stratos was a not-very-subtle ad-funded stunt show. There's real science being done but I have little doubt that it's ultimately in service to the sponsor (also Austrian).
While it is all true, I am all for such ways to spend ad and marketing funds instead of just paying celebrities. Apple has reportedly spent 1 bn for marketing of iphone and ipad. Have they made anything really cool with all this money? I know that it is a matter of a different targetted group, but most Red Bull campaigns and stunts are awesome and some even borderline useful.
Disclaimer: I have drunk Red Bull twice. Nevermore. Likewise other "energy drinks".
Not to mention that most GIS systems have been doing exactly this for decades. The GRASS system, for example, an open source, open GIS system that existed in the early 80s when Microsoft hadn't started selling MS-DOS yet.
But now it is on a smartphone or a tablet!
Sorry, but this is yet another modern version of Eugenics being pushed in to your face. Just like "using DNA to determine future criminals" and "Detecting psychopaths by Tweets".
The people working on these papers expressing opinions like this are dangerous and should be locked up. Yes, it's that simple and yes, the propaganda they are spreading is extremely dangerous. If you don't understand the danger, go read a fucking history book and see what happens when people are convinced that genocide or racial superiority are good things.
Ummm, then we should also lock up anarchists, communists, nationalists, racist, Christians, Muslims, Jews, well, all religious people, atheists and quite a few others, because all of these ideologies/religions caused genocide at some point in the past.
Hell, we should start from locking up people who suggest locking up scientist and people having different opinions, because locking up people for such reasons is almost always the beginning for any totalitarian and terror regime.
War of conquest is a form of immigration.
Only if it is successfull. However even brief (e.g. several years) presence of a large army (think Napoleon in Prussia, partitioned Poland/Duchy of Warsaw and Russia) may leave significant genetic trace in the local population.
Never forget OMG Ponies!
I wanted to click most of stories in that screenshot, from The Cure for Information Overload, through Here There Be Dragons, to Quasars Used for Encryption.
Compare it with three of five uppermost stories on the current frontpage: Google settles blah blah, Phillipines new legislation, Facebook Privacy Boosted. Ok. there is the MakerFaire and a test engine for 1000 mph car, but still...
Probably more sign of the times than the state of /. though.
The invisible hand works, just the results are not optimal for either suppliers or customers. It is the pork cycle mentioned above. Due to production lag and adaptive expectations, supply/demand and prices of livestock (and hogs especially) experience stable oscillations.
"The invisible hand" is nothing more than a complicated feedback loop. Anyone working with industrial control systems can tell you that in some circumstances feedback loops can have not nice equilibra: oscilations, chaotic fluctuations or runaway conditions. This is why governments attempt to influence the invisible hand, e.g. flatten natural cycles.
At first, I thought it was just a silly conspiracy theory that they released an intentionally crappy OS every other cycle, but I'm really starting to think they do it on purpose
On purpose - probably yes. Sinister plan - rather not.
Every other version is pushing boundaries, taking chances, kind of like KDE 4.0 or Gnome 3.0. Then MS learns what did not work and releases a polished version. So you have Win 2000 followed by XP, then an ambitious failure of Vista followed by Win7. Now it is time for another push with Win8 and ideas tested with it will return in usable form with Win9.
So "stable" versions provide income while "experimental" versions provide UAT.
It's called Windows 7. You can expect it to be a lot more popular in the enterprise then 8.
Unless you're unlucky enough that your corporation signed a deal with MS of upgrading to every second Windows release, starting with Win2000.
Yes, that's Win2000, then Vista, then Win8, bypassing both XP and Win7 :(
Chromebooks, at this point, don't seem to be targeted at anyone that reads slashdot. Well, maybe only if it's an IT manager.
Why? I read slashdot for some time now, I am not an IT manager and I would buy a Chromebook gladly - if not for the issue mentioned by the GP: Chromebooks are more expensive now than a comparable netbook/cheap laptop.
I own an Aspire One d522 and the only time when I am not using a browser is when I play Diablo II (on Battle.net) or Warhammer Online. So yes, it is useless for me if the net is down. I use gmail and google docs and use my main pc for serious work. The netbook is for browsing and watching VOD. There's Debian on a second partition too, but it is a barebone xfce install with chromium.
So I could replace it with a chromebook gladly - less hassle with updates and everything - if the price was significantly lower.
What do they care? they already have your money!
Well, they don't and they will not have.
Fortunately, as others pointed out, they announced this beforehand. Whoever buys this knows he's been warned.
I would rather say that the court did not grant approval because remote forensics is not in the law. Putting this into the law would enable courts to grant/deny approvals on merit grounds.
Cheers
Obviously off-topic, but since you were modded up to Informative, I would like to clarify. Soviet Russia is often used as a synonym for Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic especially before proclamation of the USSR in 1922. In English it was usually referred to as Bolshevist Russia, but in other languages it is called what translates to Soviet Russia. In Russian it was Sovetskaya respublika or Rossiyskaya respublika. So it is more than just notion that it is 'Russia under Soviet rule'.
Cheers
I cannot say much about China, but Stalin's crimes are furthest from 'one mad man forcing his subservient lieutenants to shoot Polish officers'. Communism in Soviet Union, Poland, East Germany, and probably in China, North Korea, Cuba, as you wrote it 'wasn't merely a mass-murder, but an institutionalized bureaucratic machine'. Read about yearly commitments of convinced and executed 'enemies of the Proletaryat' - yes, administrative units in Soviet Union had to 'provide' each year a fixed number of kulaks, members of 'bourgeoisie' etc.
Read about the whole bureaucracy of Gulag, of Cheka and later NKVD. The only difference between nazis and commies was that Nazis wanted to kill nations (especially two of them: Jews and Gypsies, but also Poles and Russians) while Communists wanted to kill classes. Are you a priest? Bullet in your head. An entrepreneur? Against the wall! A former-regime politician, police or army officer? Dead. A farmer having enough land to survive of it in free-market? Shot or sent to gulag.
How is it any better than Holocaust? The only real difference is PR. Compare Hitler's slogans: Lebensraum, final solution of Jewish problem etc. with communists' variations 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'. The typical comment on communists' atrocities is: yeah, it went wrong but the goal was noble.
Yeah, right.
It is not about a bunch of Polish officers killed in Katyn and elsewhere. It is about millions of Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Estonian etc. farmers, shoppers, teachers etc. whose only guilt was that they could live a decent live before revolution and (abomination!) they had soft hands or wore glasses!
Cheers
Raf
A quick 'apt-cache search human resources' revealed The Truth:
;-)
craft - Warcraft 2-like multi-player real-time strategy game
dstat - versatile resource statistics tool
t1utils - A collection of simple Type 1 font manipulation programs
Bugger, it might not be what you were looking for after all
Cheers
Raf
I beg to differ. As Leszek Koakowski (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leszek_Ko%C5%82akow
- to each according to his needs - which is in conflict with natural scarcity of goods; as a result, without money, you have other ways to regulate distribution of goods (and you get "communist aristocracy")
- from each according to his abilities - in free market you work hard to earn more (or to make a living); in communism you get everything "according to your needs", so there is no reason to work hard. So you need control, but people that control you are neither awarded, so they don't care and they are easy to bribe, so you need another layer of control, preferably secret. And if your wage is not linked to your work, and if there is no unemployment, there have to be other ways to ensure your work. Terror.
And all this has to be done so, that everyone thinks that they live in the land of freedom and happiness. The only way to do it is to supress free speech.
And thus you have censorship.
Of course, it is a very crude argument, if you want the same thoughts more formalised try to find Koakowski's works in English. They are quite difficult to read, but they open eyes.
Cheers
Raf
Others have already mentioned Jehova Witnesses and Gypsies.
Remember that also Poles were killed systematically. Not with the ultimate goal to destroy the whole nation, like it was with Jews, but in order to kill everyone educated, to create a nation of slaves for simplest jobs.
So true, being a Pole was not enough to be exterminated, but being a Polish professor, priest, doctor, teacher - was quite enough.
Incidentally, the same was enough to be killed by Soviets, or sent to Gulag.
Cheers
Raf
Generalisations, generalisations, generalisations. Inquisition was in fact quite just court system, compared to secular courts of the era. Intolerance had more to do with general cultural collapse after the end of Roman Empire than anything else and in fact by 15th century it was much better than earlier. The progress was also not stalled (clockwork, gothic cathedrals, water and windmills etc. - that is 13th-14th century already!).
Also, opposite to present stereotypes, there was an exchange of ideas between Christian world and Islam: gothic architecture has obvious Arabic influences, a lot of ancient Greek scientific texts were translated from Arabic copies etc.
This is true. However "the progres" made in paintings was not just because of improvements in technique, but had most to do with a switch from use of paintings as symbols and allegories to representation of reality.
True, the Renaissance brought enormous developments in empirical studies, physics - and mathematics necessary for physics. Again though, calling Medieval times "dark ages of science" is generalisation - empiricism and logic, optics, mathematics, scientific method - all these were studied in high medieval times at Universities, where free pursuit of scientific truth flourished. Unfortunately the Black Plague of 14th century destroyed most of this.
So, poor state of science and engineering had more to do with political (Fall of the Roman Empire) or medical (the Black Plague) factors than with "Church dogmas".
Cheers
Raf
No, they have just realised that getting favourable laws passed and enforced is cheaper and effective.
Cheers
Raf
Like, I don't know, when a cell with completely unique, diploid genome is created? A cell completely different from gametes that were its origin, yet geneticaly identical (modulo non-lethal mutations) with all cells that will exist in the body of a person which will grow from this one cell?
If we are to establish the dividing line based on knowledge then the conception is the only viable choice. All other lines will be arbitrary.
Regards
Raf
PS. Yes, and I know that in cases of clonning or twins this argument fails
Another thing: care more for children -> have less children at some points means: care a lot for children -> have one/no child -> open road for extinction, which just strengthens the trend.
Raf