It's not a matter of WINE, he was fucking botting! He took his programmable keyboard and built macros for fighting mobs and then left it unattendend.
So why is this a fucking problem? Computers are made for automation of repetitive tasks. If a bot can play the game, you've done something terribly wrong in game-design.
Now, I don't know why Debian doesn't support mplayer out of the box
Because some fucking morons in your governement thought patents on software were a good idea. That's why its in "non-US". Don't blame Debian for compliance with your idiot laws.
Their customers' path away has not been Linux - it's been Windows
Right. And that's exactly why I think Novells path with Linux is the right one -- because meddling with Microsoft will kill you, and it nearly killed Novell.
You may offer (print- and fileserver) solutions for Windows-clients for years, but in the end, Microsoft will offer those itself, and then you've lost. The same applies just about to anything. Either your company gets killed, or bought by Microsoft. There is no future in the Microsoft-market.
The city council will slap this down if they are smart.
If they're really smart, they'd fire the chief for this. "Thank you, we'd like a police chief who values democracy and is not bringing up fascist proposals".
Downloading music or movies that you don't own is illegal, I agree with them there.
Not necessarily. Depends on you legislation. Here in Switzerland it is legal. It is however illegal to upload music or movies to which you don't own the copyright.
This (IMHO) is a downfall of capitalism - businesses no longer compete by making a better product, they compete by leveraging laws and other details against any existing and would-be competitors. If you can manipulate the rules, you do not have to play as hard.
Monopolies are the enemy of the free market. Funny enough the same people who don't want the government to interfere with business are the same ones lobbying for governement-granted monopolies.
A ban on "creating human-animal hybrids" is more debatable but we damn sure better get a line drawn somewhere and we better do it fast or science is going to race out ahead of ethics and make one hell of a mess for someone to clean up.
No its not. This is actually a ban on the production of Insulin. Which nowadays is produced nearly exclusively by bacteria with human DNA. http://www.che.utoledo.edu/Biotechnology.html
Embryos aren't human beings and as I'm not a religious fanatic I see no reason to treat them as such.
And christianity thought the same for several hundered years. According to the (catholic, it's the early middle ages) church an embryo only evolved into a human, and got a soul, after 10 to 16 weeks (there was, of course a discussion, and whether males had a soul already with 10 weeks, whereas femles only had one with 12 weeks or whatever), and abortion was thus allowed before that.
It's only recently some religious zealots invented this absolutist anti-abortion nonsense.
I'm so sick of 'liberal education', I was forced to take a sociology class which claimed that *I* am the source of all the worlds problems.
Well, there is nothing liberal about being forced. If, however, you attribute everything bad that happens to you as "liberal", then mabye you are the source of all the worlds problems...
Well, besides that D&D sucks, my RuneQuest-group consisted of three males (one of those being the game-master) and two females. But then, maybe I'm just not a typical gamer, since I don't play online-CRPGs but I LARP, where you can meet live women which aren't played by men;)
The fact that lame garbage like this can be posted by any left-wing socialist and get pushed up to a "5" on Slashdot, whereas any pro-conservative post will not make it up anywhere near a 5 just shows that Slashdot has a sickening left-wing liberal slant on the issues.
You're explaining it yourself. As long as you throw around things like "sickening left-wing liberal" you WILL get modded down, because, frankly, you're an idiot. What about viewing other peoples opinions without categorizing them into "sickening left-wing liberal"? Or is this the main paradigm of your so-called "conservatism" to do exactly that: Label everything that you don't like as "sickening left-wing liberal"?
Conservatives stand for freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, honest prosperity, and peace.
Actually, they only stand for that if it's already the reigning paradigm. "Conservativism" as I understand it (from a european background) tries to uphold the status quo. The desire to impose moral standards on todays society perceived as in force somewhere in the past isn't "conservative" strictly speaking. More often, these values are actually completely newly-invented.
Take abortion: The church in the early middle-ages decided that a fetus only gets a soul 10-16 weeks after conception, and abortion thus is only allowed before that. The idea that abortion should be completely outlawed is thus a NEW idea, running contrary to about 1000 years of cristianity. So this isn't actually a "conservative" stance.
The same is true for islamists (fundamental islamism). They don't defend conservative islam values, but newly invented ones they are trying to root into the history. I don't know a proper word for it, "fundamentalism" maybe, but it has to be clear that this fundament is made up by themselves.
Likewise for so-called "liberals". In Europe, this refers to capitalists, and not in any way to people who desire "liberty". Not only they don't care about civil liberties, but they're actually quite content to let the governement interfere with business, as long as its for their own profit. Patents are the classical example.
Liberalism as such would refer to "every person and business has the liberty to do as it wants, as long as it doesn't hurt others; unfettered by the governemnt". It comes in two flavours, the BSD-license laissez-faire liberalism, and the GPL fight-for-freedom liberalism. But as said, the word refers to something else now (and as I understand, to something else different in the USA).
Well it would really be nice if Conservatives stand for freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, honest prosperity, and peace; because Liberals stand for freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, honest prosperity, and peace. So there.
IME, most users of Opera and Firefox have IE to fall back to if their prefered browser doesn't work.
No, they haven't. There are at least 7% of all users out there which do not happen to run windows and have no IE. Do you really want to lock out 7% of your potential customers, and annoy another 10-20% or something which could use IE, but doesn't want to?
Trade in your SparcStations and PackardBells for something modern, please.
Please? My SparcStations happily run Debian GNU/Linux "sid", with Firefox 1.5.
I don't see any point of supporting ancient operating systems for hardware on which you can install a very modern operating system without problems. Or supportings Browsers on platforms for which there are modern browsers freely available.
Of course, with "modern" I don't mean "has the latest graphical glitz" but "has a modern design and can work with xhtml/css". links or w3m are modern in that respect, IE 5 and Netscape 4.7 are not.
I design my webpages for Firefox, check them with the latest Konqueror and Opera, and finally make some fixes for IE 6 where I hit the famous box model bug, so they can at least view the pages. Other checks I do is using the w3c/wdg validator to make sure my documents are valid xhtml 1.0 strict, and a check with links/lynx or something to make sure search-engines and blind people can use and navigate the pages. Also, I check pages with a browser width of 600pixels, and with one of 1900 pixels to make sure it scales.
Do I have some misconception about your law, or is "filing a lawsuit" in this case referring to civil law (as opposed to criminal law)?
If so, why is this? As far as I can tell spying is considered a criminal offense. In this case, the juridical system should automatically start to investigate Georg W. Bush for charges of "illegal espionage against the american people". in other words: high treason.
Perhaps I'm a coward, but that should tell you something of what this country is slowly turning into...
A Dictatorship. Well, according to recent actions it already is. Per Definition, "dictator refers to an absolutist or autocratic ruler who governs outside the normal constitutional rule of law.". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator
The fact that president Bush was able to order a huge illegal eavesdropping-action, and was not impeached and imprisoned for high treason immediately makes him per definition a dictator.
So, ISPs will be able to threaten to kick Microsoft in the balls unless they get favorable treatment (RE: cheaper prices)
We, as an ISP don't get (or buy) nothing from Microsoft, so no matter how much Microsoft lowers its prices, multiplied with zero its still zero.
On the other hand we have to deal with fucking idiots who expect frontpage-extensions on their webservers, screwed-up html-emails at our helpdesk and denial-of-service attacks from zombified windowses -- Of course we like to kick those assholes responsible for this in the balls. Repeatedly. Until they fucking stop producing software at all.
So now I can't record my guitar to my computer? No more computer karaoke?
That's the idea. You haven't signed with a recording company, so why should you be able to make your own recordings? You might even threaten the profit of the recording industry with you self-made recordings.
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It's not a matter of WINE, he was fucking botting! He took his programmable keyboard and built macros for fighting mobs and then left it unattendend.
So why is this a fucking problem? Computers are made for automation of repetitive tasks. If a bot can play the game, you've done something terribly wrong in game-design.
What idiot wants to run Windows on a Mac? Hell, I don't even want to run Windows on a PC!
Now, I don't know why Debian doesn't support mplayer out of the box
Because some fucking morons in your governement thought patents on software were a good idea. That's why its in "non-US". Don't blame Debian for compliance with your idiot laws.
Their customers' path away has not been Linux - it's been Windows
Right. And that's exactly why I think Novells path with Linux is the right one -- because meddling with Microsoft will kill you, and it nearly killed Novell.
You may offer (print- and fileserver) solutions for Windows-clients for years, but in the end, Microsoft will offer those itself, and then you've lost. The same applies just about to anything. Either your company gets killed, or bought by Microsoft. There is no future in the Microsoft-market.
So I could just flag the whole debate as "overrated".
The city council will slap this down if they are smart.
If they're really smart, they'd fire the chief for this. "Thank you, we'd like a police chief who values democracy and is not bringing up fascist proposals".
Downloading music or movies that you don't own is illegal, I agree with them there.
Not necessarily. Depends on you legislation. Here in Switzerland it is legal. It is however illegal to upload music or movies to which you don't own the copyright.
What, the Gestapo isn't happy that they might not be able to read the contents of your hard-drive? What a surprise.
This (IMHO) is a downfall of capitalism - businesses no longer compete by making a better product, they compete by leveraging laws and other details against any existing and would-be competitors. If you can manipulate the rules, you do not have to play as hard.
Monopolies are the enemy of the free market. Funny enough the same people who don't want the government to interfere with business are the same ones lobbying for governement-granted monopolies.
A ban on "creating human-animal hybrids" is more debatable but we damn sure better get a line drawn somewhere and we better do it fast or science is going to race out ahead of ethics and make one hell of a mess for someone to clean up.
No its not. This is actually a ban on the production of Insulin. Which nowadays is produced nearly exclusively by bacteria with human DNA.
http://www.che.utoledo.edu/Biotechnology.html
Embryos aren't human beings and as I'm not a religious fanatic I see no reason to treat them as such.
And christianity thought the same for several hundered years. According to the (catholic, it's the early middle ages) church an embryo only evolved into a human, and got a soul, after 10 to 16 weeks (there was, of course a discussion, and whether males had a soul already with 10 weeks, whereas femles only had one with 12 weeks or whatever), and abortion was thus allowed before that.
It's only recently some religious zealots invented this absolutist anti-abortion nonsense.
I'm so sick of 'liberal education', I was forced to take a sociology class which claimed that *I* am the source of all the worlds problems.
Well, there is nothing liberal about being forced. If, however, you attribute everything bad that happens to you as "liberal", then mabye you are the source of all the worlds problems...
Well, besides that D&D sucks, my RuneQuest-group consisted of three males (one of those being the game-master) and two females. But then, maybe I'm just not a typical gamer, since I don't play online-CRPGs but I LARP, where you can meet live women which aren't played by men ;)
you're into crustaceans?
The fact that lame garbage like this can be posted by any left-wing socialist and get pushed up to a "5" on Slashdot, whereas any pro-conservative post will not make it up anywhere near a 5 just shows that Slashdot has a sickening left-wing liberal slant on the issues.
You're explaining it yourself. As long as you throw around things like "sickening left-wing liberal" you WILL get modded down, because, frankly, you're an idiot. What about viewing other peoples opinions without categorizing them into "sickening left-wing liberal"? Or is this the main paradigm of your so-called "conservatism" to do exactly that: Label everything that you don't like as "sickening left-wing liberal"?
Or is this too recursive for you to grasp?
Yes, but I got a free MySQL-T-Shirt at the LinuxTag (Really! It says "whats your uptime?"), so I'm advocating MySQL.
I predict that Cars will totally flop in Europe.
Conservatives stand for freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, honest prosperity, and peace.
Actually, they only stand for that if it's already the reigning paradigm. "Conservativism" as I understand it (from a european background) tries to uphold the status quo. The desire to impose moral standards on todays society perceived as in force somewhere in the past isn't "conservative" strictly speaking. More often, these values are actually completely newly-invented.
Take abortion: The church in the early middle-ages decided that a fetus only gets a soul 10-16 weeks after conception, and abortion thus is only allowed before that. The idea that abortion should be completely outlawed is thus a NEW idea, running contrary to about 1000 years of cristianity. So this isn't actually a "conservative" stance.
The same is true for islamists (fundamental islamism). They don't defend conservative islam values, but newly invented ones they are trying to root into the history. I don't know a proper word for it, "fundamentalism" maybe, but it has to be clear that this fundament is made up by themselves.
Likewise for so-called "liberals". In Europe, this refers to capitalists, and not in any way to people who desire "liberty". Not only they don't care about civil liberties, but they're actually quite content to let the governement interfere with business, as long as its for their own profit. Patents are the classical example.
Liberalism as such would refer to "every person and business has the liberty to do as it wants, as long as it doesn't hurt others; unfettered by the governemnt". It comes in two flavours, the BSD-license laissez-faire liberalism, and the GPL fight-for-freedom liberalism. But as said, the word refers to something else now (and as I understand, to something else different in the USA).
Well it would really be nice if Conservatives stand for freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, honest prosperity, and peace; because Liberals stand for freedom, liberty, individual responsibility, honest prosperity, and peace. So there.
IME, most users of Opera and Firefox have IE to fall back to if their prefered browser doesn't work.
No, they haven't. There are at least 7% of all users out there which do not happen to run windows and have no IE. Do you really want to lock out 7% of your potential customers, and annoy another 10-20% or something which could use IE, but doesn't want to?
Trade in your SparcStations and PackardBells for something modern, please.
Please? My SparcStations happily run Debian GNU/Linux "sid", with Firefox 1.5.
I don't see any point of supporting ancient operating systems for hardware on which you can install a very modern operating system without problems. Or supportings Browsers on platforms for which there are modern browsers freely available.
Of course, with "modern" I don't mean "has the latest graphical glitz" but "has a modern design and can work with xhtml/css". links or w3m are modern in that respect, IE 5 and Netscape 4.7 are not.
I design my webpages for Firefox, check them with the latest Konqueror and Opera, and finally make some fixes for IE 6 where I hit the famous box model bug, so they can at least view the pages. Other checks I do is using the w3c/wdg validator to make sure my documents are valid xhtml 1.0 strict, and a check with links/lynx or something to make sure search-engines and blind people can use and navigate the pages. Also, I check pages with a browser width of 600pixels, and with one of 1900 pixels to make sure it scales.
Sadly enough, it has become a dictatorship itself. And that bit with the "economy on a steady course" is wishful thinking.
Do I have some misconception about your law, or is "filing a lawsuit" in this case referring to civil law (as opposed to criminal law)?
If so, why is this? As far as I can tell spying is considered a criminal offense. In this case, the juridical system should automatically start to investigate Georg W. Bush for charges of "illegal espionage against the american people". in other words: high treason.
Perhaps I'm a coward, but that should tell you something of what this country is slowly turning into...
A Dictatorship. Well, according to recent actions it already is. Per Definition, "dictator refers to an absolutist or autocratic ruler who governs outside the normal constitutional rule of law.". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictator
The fact that president Bush was able to order a huge illegal eavesdropping-action, and was not impeached and imprisoned for high treason immediately makes him per definition a dictator.
See also: http://schneier.com/crypto-gram-0601.html#12
So, ISPs will be able to threaten to kick Microsoft in the balls unless they get favorable treatment (RE: cheaper prices)
We, as an ISP don't get (or buy) nothing from Microsoft, so no matter how much Microsoft lowers its prices, multiplied with zero its still zero.
On the other hand we have to deal with fucking idiots who expect frontpage-extensions on their webservers, screwed-up html-emails at our helpdesk and denial-of-service attacks from zombified windowses -- Of course we like to kick those assholes responsible for this in the balls. Repeatedly. Until they fucking stop producing software at all.
So now I can't record my guitar to my computer? No more computer karaoke?
That's the idea. You haven't signed with a recording company, so why should you be able to make your own recordings? You might even threaten the profit of the recording industry with you self-made recordings.