It isn't a hate crime, but it is being really, really ignorant. Too bad you posted as AC, I'm compiling a list of ignorant fuckwits.
Grandparent post had a very interesting take on this issue, and so-called hate crime in general. It's not one I agree with, though. Nonetheless some of his points are valid; as and atheist who grew up in The Number One Muslim Country (Saudi Arabia, and no, not on a compound) I really get annoyed when people bundle all Muslims into the same boat. Some of the most amazing people I met in my life have been Saudi nationals, most (officially, all) practising Muslims. I've never been preached to. No one has tried to convert me. I have never felt so safe as when I am with Muslim/Arab friends. It properly fucks me off to see all these Slashdotters, whom I would usually consider to be intelligent people, making such stupid blanket statements.
Incidentally, all religions are guilty of being overly sensitive (sorry Sallo); here in the UK we have a number of Bible Bashers that love to God-bother at everything from Jerry Springer The Opera to Gay Pride. Hey, it's their right, and I support that, but let's be very clear that there are reactionary fucktards in every religion. And before anyone starts up about how only the Muslims kill people, pull your (generally) Amero-centric heads out of the sand and look at, among other places, Northern Ireland. (Hey, how's that for hypocracy on my part!) Jews are just as prone to jump up and down, especially at any criticism of Mother Israel; that isn't really anti-Semitism but Medinat Yisrael uses it rather well to deflect critical comments.
Long post, short point - there's lots of assholes out there, and like it or not, some are of the same nationality/belief/creed as you. Call them out as such whenever you see them but don't be bigoted asshats./rant.
I tried moving a VM from Fusion to VMWare server on Linux (1.0.2) and no dice - it said that the VM was created with a version of VMWare that had too many more features! FYI. It might work with ESX or something but we don't have that to test on.
> A similar class Boeing aircraft used four lines, with no one location containing all four lines
As an all-round geek and TriStar fan, I'd point out that the Lockheed L1011 had similar redundancy, with none of the hydraulic systems all coming together in the same place. There's a reason they call the DC-10 the 'Death Cruiser."
>I'm certainly not aware of any Boeing crashes caused by software failure, which can't be said for Airbus.
I'd challenge you to find a crash of an A320 or later (A300 and A310 are not fly by wire) that was caused by a _combination_ of pilot error and some idiosynchracies in the flight control software (such as AF296, here). And in case you think I'm being anti-pilot, "why yes, I am a pilot." (Commercial Single and Multi Engine Land, Instrument Airplane.)
AFAIK the Daily Hate isn't one of Murdoch's shitty papers... it's a horrible pile of right wing crap _without_ his help!
Funnily enough, "the Mail's founder, Lord Northcliffe, said his winning formula was to give his readers 'a daily hate'" (ref: Polly Toynbee in the Grauniad).
I agree with the first bit of your post (and indeed it is Rip Off Britian), but at least in this area (M4 corridor/NW Surrey) it's collection every week in most places, with newspaper/junkmail, magazines, plastic, tins and bottles. There's a rumour that rubbish collection will drop to once every 2 weeks mind you, and the council tax is ass-rapingly high as it is. I guess it just depends on your local borough council.
Incidentally I called up the recycling people at my council (Runnymede) recommending a few ways in which they could improve service. These included clearer labelling on plastic recycling dumpsters (ie, listing the plastic "codes" that can be recycled instead of just "bottles") and making sure all sites have all the relevant areas for different products (local tip takes cardboard but no plastic, local supermarkets take plastic and shopping bags but no cardboard). I was basically told that the local people are too stupid to read any complicated signage so they weren't going to bother. Typical!
In which case he died 'in glorious defence of his nation.' Just don't expect me to have a bit of remorse.
Toppling of the Taliban: sure enough, they are asspipes. Horrendous human rights, misguided misgynist religions nutjobs of the highest order. Buy you don't have the right to unilaterally do fuck all about them! The US is not the world's moral fucking policeman. You're support of Israel proves that. (And no, Hizbollah weren't in the right either... but they don't get $5billion from anyone either.)
"Liberation" of Iraq: Please, oh please, fuck right off. Saddam was an asshole, but the Americans supported him until he bit the proverbial hand. 'Pax' Americana is no better than 'Pax' Saddam.
I find this glorification of the military absolutely nauseating... at one time it was a noble profession, now it's nothing but being pimped out bu some rich regime. Ignorance is no excuse.
I would tend to agree with you, and thanks as well for the well thought-out reply.
But still, the silly liberal idealist in me still says, why do people join up in the US (and here in the UK) knowing the direction of current foreign policy? OK, I agree with "who are bound to do their dirty work if they have any hope of going to college" but clearly this just isn't right! Why should getting an education be based on joining the military (not a rhetorical question; I lived in the US for 4 years at a big ROTC school)? I see that there are people who's only shot at higher edu. is via the armed forces but isn't this totally fsked up?
John
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I get a little miffed when your soldiers invade another country. Forgive me if I don't get too upset when they get "splattered by a homemade bomb." Your troops still have it a hell of a lot better than the people who they've invaded, and who can blame the "insurgents" for turning to violence to repel the people who've taken over their country? If I recall, the Americans waged a guerilla war against the British too.
There was a time when serving your country meant defending it against threat (ie NOT IRAQ!)... now it's just colonialism by another name. Don't want to die fighting in a shit war? Don't join up!
(Yes, I am aware that many people in the US are given no other option economically than to enlist.. that's a failure of the system and while I won't wish the enlistees well, I will be saddened by their death.)
OK, I guess I'll admit it's easy to jump on the anti-Bush bandwagon. But it's a blanket statement to characterise all those who oppose what your (sorry, assuming you're American here) government is doing as brainless adherents to some cult of the Anti-Dubya.
I'll grant you that there are dictators/governments who do far worse that Bush and Co. But at the same time anything that the US does/supports is automatically of a much larger scale than, say, North Korea, simply due to your level of world power.
At the same time, I'd remind everyone of Washington's support for a whole host of quite horrible right-wing dictatorships in Chile, South Vietnam, South Africa (my half home nation so let's not debate the factual accuracy of this one!), and a few anonymous central Asian "republics." I'd also say that the Nazi analogy is a bit too much; bear in mind a lot of countries who's citizenry aren't too fond of Bush, such at the UK (my other half home), actually suffered badly at the hand of the Third Reich, would argue strongly against being labelled as such. It's a bit flippant to suggest it in any case.
c6gunner, I must say, I like the proverbial cut of your jib... you're not the mindless type that seems to frequent most online fora. If it weren't for the fact it's my bed time (0100 GMT here), I'd love to debate further. Let's just leave it with this: I must disagree with you but you're by far the most eloquent right-winger/Bushie/Conservative/"person who disagrees with me" (delete/add as appropriate) I've dealt with for a while.
> Anything you hear that's critical of Bush, or, in the rest of the world, critical of the US, people tend to automatically believe
Because, sorry, a lot if it is quite easy to believe these days. The Bush government has so far invaded 2 sovereign nations, committed God-knows how many people to a period of miserable hell at Gitmo, rabbitted on like something worthy of Monty Python about Iran, and had a hand in loads of other things too numerous and dodgy to mention. Is it any real surprise to anyone with half a brain that people are just a touch apprehensive about anything out of the "Good Old" US of A these days?
Obviously it's not all Americans that feel this way, but from what I've seen (and this includes living there for 4 years) it's certainly a majority. Iraq (and soon, Iran, I'm sure) is just about oil and protecting America's regional sweetheart, Israel. Funny, isn't it, that Israel is allowed to have nuclear weapons but anyone else in the region gets a stern talking to, followed by invasion, for daring to think about the same.
The Good Gift Guide has a whole load of "alternative" charitable gifts available via their online store, things like a goat for an African family, Ducks for Peace and whatnot... quite groovy. The World Vision organisation does something similar but I've never used it myself.
modecx... why not order some region 2 dvds from here (UK) and rip them (straight up, no compression, just a VIDEO_TS folder), and re-burn as Region Free? Not the ideal solution but better than a kick in the trousers:). MacTheRipper will do this on MacOS X, Im sure there's a Windows/Linux package to do the same.
Same here, I've dabbled with SVO rather than WVO in my '92 Renault 21 (1.9 diesel, sadly it has a Lucas pump but has done over 2000mi with a low percentage of SVO). Once I replace the pump, should I be able to use veggie oil cut with unleaded all the time?
JG PS feel free to email me as well, maybe we could get a forum going or somethin... jgibbsnsa1@nospam.mac.com, remove the obvious bits.
One of my users sent a 75 MB (yes you saw that right) attachment to 100 users on our mail servers yesterday, as well as 20 or so at some other server. That was fun. The charcoal briquette in the server room now makes an interesting conversation starter. Off topic but what the hell.
Had to reply... I lost the A500 when my folks moved house (I had left at that point). I found an A1200 on eBay a little while back, but it had a defective RF modulator, so I re-flogged it. A while later I found an A600 with a load of games for £20 so I grabbed it. I agree that C= fscked themselves with the A600 but it's not that bad of a machine, esp since I use it on and off, just for old A500-style games.
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Heh, I remember when I dropped the Amiga for a Mac (please don't hate me, this was 1995), I was pissed that DD floppies on the Mac were only 800K and HD's where only 1.4 MB as opposed to 1.76:).
I now have an A600 that I will be reconnecting this weekend, in memory of the amazing experiences I had as an early teenager with my A500.... it ended up with a 33MHz 68030 (CSA Derringer board!), an 80MB hard drive (Alfa HDD controller) and a whopping 24 MB RAM or so. Man I miss that machine, it kicked the ass of any PC we had at school in 93-94. It was also the machine with which I first connected to the Internet, used email, and downloaded a file from an FTP server. Man, my mom freaked (about the phone bill of all things) when I told her I was connected to a server in Finland via the Internet. Such fond memories...
Something about this post seems odd. Maybe I've just been trolled (!), its Monday morning and my brain is still off. Anyone else think this is bogus? The giveaway, for me is "the VOIP suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site." Huh? Vonage reading from an intranet site? Ugh, coffee...
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It isn't a hate crime, but it is being really, really ignorant. Too bad you posted as AC, I'm compiling a list of ignorant fuckwits.
/rant.
Grandparent post had a very interesting take on this issue, and so-called hate crime in general. It's not one I agree with, though. Nonetheless some of his points are valid; as and atheist who grew up in The Number One Muslim Country (Saudi Arabia, and no, not on a compound) I really get annoyed when people bundle all Muslims into the same boat. Some of the most amazing people I met in my life have been Saudi nationals, most (officially, all) practising Muslims. I've never been preached to. No one has tried to convert me. I have never felt so safe as when I am with Muslim/Arab friends. It properly fucks me off to see all these Slashdotters, whom I would usually consider to be intelligent people, making such stupid blanket statements.
Incidentally, all religions are guilty of being overly sensitive (sorry Sallo); here in the UK we have a number of Bible Bashers that love to God-bother at everything from Jerry Springer The Opera to Gay Pride. Hey, it's their right, and I support that, but let's be very clear that there are reactionary fucktards in every religion. And before anyone starts up about how only the Muslims kill people, pull your (generally) Amero-centric heads out of the sand and look at, among other places, Northern Ireland. (Hey, how's that for hypocracy on my part!) Jews are just as prone to jump up and down, especially at any criticism of Mother Israel; that isn't really anti-Semitism but Medinat Yisrael uses it rather well to deflect critical comments.
Long post, short point - there's lots of assholes out there, and like it or not, some are of the same nationality/belief/creed as you. Call them out as such whenever you see them but don't be bigoted asshats.
JG
I saw a demo at a Sun conference earlier this year that proposed something similar (Java, not X11 based though...)
http://research.sun.com/projects/mc/mpk20.html
Cheers,
JG
I tried moving a VM from Fusion to VMWare server on Linux (1.0.2) and no dice - it said that the VM was created with a version of VMWare that had too many more features! FYI. It might work with ESX or something but we don't have that to test on.
JG
> A similar class Boeing aircraft used four lines, with no one location containing all four lines
As an all-round geek and TriStar fan, I'd point out that the Lockheed L1011 had similar redundancy, with none of the hydraulic systems all coming together in the same place. There's a reason they call the DC-10 the 'Death Cruiser."
>I'm certainly not aware of any Boeing crashes caused by software failure, which can't be said for Airbus.
I'd challenge you to find a crash of an A320 or later (A300 and A310 are not fly by wire) that was caused by a _combination_ of pilot error and some idiosynchracies in the flight control software (such as AF296, here). And in case you think I'm being anti-pilot, "why yes, I am a pilot." (Commercial Single and Multi Engine Land, Instrument Airplane.)
JG
The *only* way you can use such broadcasts with a PVR (without going through the analogue hole) is to buy Sky's own Sky+ PVR system.
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I've not tried it, but apparently you can use a Dragon CAM module; check out this post: http://www.videohelp.com/forum/archive/t277041.ht
AFAIK the Daily Hate isn't one of Murdoch's shitty papers... it's a horrible pile of right wing crap _without_ his help!
Funnily enough, "the Mail's founder, Lord Northcliffe, said his winning formula was to give his readers 'a daily hate'" (ref: Polly Toynbee in the Grauniad).
I agree with the first bit of your post (and indeed it is Rip Off Britian), but at least in this area (M4 corridor/NW Surrey) it's collection every week in most places, with newspaper/junkmail, magazines, plastic, tins and bottles. There's a rumour that rubbish collection will drop to once every 2 weeks mind you, and the council tax is ass-rapingly high as it is. I guess it just depends on your local borough council.
Incidentally I called up the recycling people at my council (Runnymede) recommending a few ways in which they could improve service. These included clearer labelling on plastic recycling dumpsters (ie, listing the plastic "codes" that can be recycled instead of just "bottles") and making sure all sites have all the relevant areas for different products (local tip takes cardboard but no plastic, local supermarkets take plastic and shopping bags but no cardboard). I was basically told that the local people are too stupid to read any complicated signage so they weren't going to bother. Typical!
JG
I didn't mean that Hizbollah had no outside supporters, just that (as you said) it's not even near 5 billion.
In which case he died 'in glorious defence of his nation.' Just don't expect me to have a bit of remorse.
Toppling of the Taliban: sure enough, they are asspipes. Horrendous human rights, misguided misgynist religions nutjobs of the highest order. Buy you don't have the right to unilaterally do fuck all about them! The US is not the world's moral fucking policeman. You're support of Israel proves that. (And no, Hizbollah weren't in the right either... but they don't get $5billion from anyone either.)
"Liberation" of Iraq: Please, oh please, fuck right off. Saddam was an asshole, but the Americans supported him until he bit the proverbial hand. 'Pax' Americana is no better than 'Pax' Saddam.
I find this glorification of the military absolutely nauseating... at one time it was a noble profession, now it's nothing but being pimped out bu some rich regime. Ignorance is no excuse.
I would tend to agree with you, and thanks as well for the well thought-out reply.
But still, the silly liberal idealist in me still says, why do people join up in the US (and here in the UK) knowing the direction of current foreign policy? OK, I agree with "who are bound to do their dirty work if they have any hope of going to college" but clearly this just isn't right! Why should getting an education be based on joining the military (not a rhetorical question; I lived in the US for 4 years at a big ROTC school)? I see that there are people who's only shot at higher edu. is via the armed forces but isn't this totally fsked up?
John
I get a little miffed when your soldiers invade another country. Forgive me if I don't get too upset when they get "splattered by a homemade bomb." Your troops still have it a hell of a lot better than the people who they've invaded, and who can blame the "insurgents" for turning to violence to repel the people who've taken over their country? If I recall, the Americans waged a guerilla war against the British too.
There was a time when serving your country meant defending it against threat (ie NOT IRAQ!)... now it's just colonialism by another name. Don't want to die fighting in a shit war? Don't join up!
(Yes, I am aware that many people in the US are given no other option economically than to enlist.. that's a failure of the system and while I won't wish the enlistees well, I will be saddened by their death.)
Flame away, i guess.
Damnit, the day I don't have mod points!
Links would be good... I'm not necessarily saying what you posted isn't true, but try to back up your claims with some references.
>He started out webcamming (for guys no less)
So somehow this is worse than underage girls webcamming for men?
> Peppers is a guy with a deformed skull
Because, you know, having a deformity is a dead giveaway for deviant behavior... no really...
JG
According to WikiPedia it's a Sandals resort and part of Jamaica.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokomo_Island and yes it was the Beach Boys.
John
OK, I guess I'll admit it's easy to jump on the anti-Bush bandwagon. But it's a blanket statement to characterise all those who oppose what your (sorry, assuming you're American here) government is doing as brainless adherents to some cult of the Anti-Dubya.
I'll grant you that there are dictators/governments who do far worse that Bush and Co. But at the same time anything that the US does/supports is automatically of a much larger scale than, say, North Korea, simply due to your level of world power.
At the same time, I'd remind everyone of Washington's support for a whole host of quite horrible right-wing dictatorships in Chile, South Vietnam, South Africa (my half home nation so let's not debate the factual accuracy of this one!), and a few anonymous central Asian "republics." I'd also say that the Nazi analogy is a bit too much; bear in mind a lot of countries who's citizenry aren't too fond of Bush, such at the UK (my other half home), actually suffered badly at the hand of the Third Reich, would argue strongly against being labelled as such. It's a bit flippant to suggest it in any case.
c6gunner, I must say, I like the proverbial cut of your jib... you're not the mindless type that seems to frequent most online fora. If it weren't for the fact it's my bed time (0100 GMT here), I'd love to debate further. Let's just leave it with this: I must disagree with you but you're by far the most eloquent right-winger/Bushie/Conservative/"person who disagrees with me" (delete/add as appropriate) I've dealt with for a while.
Sleep well...
JG
> Anything you hear that's critical of Bush, or, in the rest of the world, critical of the US, people tend to automatically believe
Because, sorry, a lot if it is quite easy to believe these days. The Bush government has so far invaded 2 sovereign nations, committed God-knows how many people to a period of miserable hell at Gitmo, rabbitted on like something worthy of Monty Python about Iran, and had a hand in loads of other things too numerous and dodgy to mention. Is it any real surprise to anyone with half a brain that people are just a touch apprehensive about anything out of the "Good Old" US of A these days?
Obviously it's not all Americans that feel this way, but from what I've seen (and this includes living there for 4 years) it's certainly a majority. Iraq (and soon, Iran, I'm sure) is just about oil and protecting America's regional sweetheart, Israel. Funny, isn't it, that Israel is allowed to have nuclear weapons but anyone else in the region gets a stern talking to, followed by invasion, for daring to think about the same.
JG
Get over it, it's just a term... it may be technically incorrect but realistically, who cares? (Half-Welsh here btw, and even I don't care!)
In any case, the Beeb isn't a gov't mouthpiece... if it were, do you think things like Dead Ringers and Have I Got News For You would be "allowed"?
The Good Gift Guide has a whole load of "alternative" charitable gifts available via their online store, things like a goat for an African family, Ducks for Peace and whatnot... quite groovy. The World Vision organisation does something similar but I've never used it myself.
Good Gift Guide
World Vision's Great Gifts
modecx... why not order some region 2 dvds from here (UK) and rip them (straight up, no compression, just a VIDEO_TS folder), and re-burn as Region Free? Not the ideal solution but better than a kick in the trousers :). MacTheRipper will do this on MacOS X, Im sure there's a Windows/Linux package to do the same.
FWIW I love Top Gear too!
JG
Same here, I've dabbled with SVO rather than WVO in my '92 Renault 21 (1.9 diesel, sadly it has a Lucas pump but has done over 2000mi with a low percentage of SVO). Once I replace the pump, should I be able to use veggie oil cut with unleaded all the time?
JG
PS feel free to email me as well, maybe we could get a forum going or somethin... jgibbsnsa1@nospam.mac.com, remove the obvious bits.
One of my users sent a 75 MB (yes you saw that right) attachment to 100 users on our mail servers yesterday, as well as 20 or so at some other server. That was fun. The charcoal briquette in the server room now makes an interesting conversation starter. Off topic but what the hell.
"Collapses?" Surely you mean, "is liberated." :).
Had to reply... I lost the A500 when my folks moved house (I had left at that point). I found an A1200 on eBay a little while back, but it had a defective RF modulator, so I re-flogged it. A while later I found an A600 with a load of games for £20 so I grabbed it. I agree that C= fscked themselves with the A600 but it's not that bad of a machine, esp since I use it on and off, just for old A500-style games.
Heh, I remember when I dropped the Amiga for a Mac (please don't hate me, this was 1995), I was pissed that DD floppies on the Mac were only 800K and HD's where only 1.4 MB as opposed to 1.76 :).
I now have an A600 that I will be reconnecting this weekend, in memory of the amazing experiences I had as an early teenager with my A500.... it ended up with a 33MHz 68030 (CSA Derringer board!), an 80MB hard drive (Alfa HDD controller) and a whopping 24 MB RAM or so. Man I miss that machine, it kicked the ass of any PC we had at school in 93-94. It was also the machine with which I first connected to the Internet, used email, and downloaded a file from an FTP server. Man, my mom freaked (about the phone bill of all things) when I told her I was connected to a server in Finland via the Internet. Such fond memories...
Ahhh, nostalgia.
John
Something about this post seems odd. Maybe I've just been trolled (!), its Monday morning and my brain is still off. Anyone else think this is bogus? The giveaway, for me is "the VOIP suddenly had an error reading from our intranet site." Huh? Vonage reading from an intranet site? Ugh, coffee...