True, but the paper ballot lends itself to countless shenanigans and vote buying. And there is the non-trivial matter of counting the millions of votes and the associated interpretation of what constitutes a legal vote (i.e. the X is not centered on the party's symbol so this vote is null). As previously noted, the system scales badly with increasing number of voters.
You do know that the retiring pope is one of the progressive guys who brought about Vatican II, right? He's also a philosopher with tons of PhDs (as was the previous one) and in that position explicitly said he doesn't believe Jesus either resurrected or actually is God incarnate. These are a few among the many, many reasons actual conservative Catholics don't like him.
HAHAHAHAHHA!!! Don't know if you're serious or trolling, but this is the funniest thing I've read in this thread. Seriously, Pope Benny XVI progressive ?!?!
This pope, as the old one, are a bunch of far-right conservative pricks and all the PhDs in the world won't make them less reactionary.
A meddler in the politics of other nations, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition) and the puppetteer behind Pope John Paul II is a progressive guy? HEHEHE you're killing me.
This pope is resigning because he is tied to a whole bunch of scandals: the cover-up of child offending priests, the Vatileaks scandal and the Magdalene laundries in Ireland are just some of the controversial issues he is being associated with. He is resigning because he is beginning to be bad publicity for the vatican.
He doesn't care if actual catholics do not like him, if they don't follow what the pope says (Papal infallibility) they are simply not good catholics and should conform as soon as possible to the status quo (his) or burn in hell. And I can't even say good riddance because they will elect another reactionary, close minded world affair meddler to replace this one.
A properly pulled espresso in Naples, Italy costs 0.80 Euros, if you're paying anything more than a dollar or so for an untrained person to give you an espresso in a paper cup you ARE getting ripped off.
Note: current exchange rate is 1 U.S. dollar = 0.74 Euros
I never got this working consistently (XP, Vista or Win7) so if I need to order files by date I name the files something like filename_YYYYMMDD and then globally sort by name (which works).
The strange thing is that on my boss' computer (Win7) with sort and group by date everything just works... never understood how or why.
Damm between Berlusconi's shenanigans, the terrible state of Italian politics and now this I'm starting to be ashamed to be Italian.
Would someone from Italy like to explain why you voted this authoritarian cunt into the EU. Go on! I'd love to hear it!
Anyhow, most of the people voted into the EU are unknown to the voters because most people just vote the Party (Motti is part of the Christian Democrat Union -- UDC). Now you can express one or more preferences (up to 3 I think) for a single person and the vote goes to the political party and to the person(s). Total votes to the political party determine the number of seats, and total personal votes determine who gets elected. In case of a tie, the position in an internal list determines who goes so, in the extreme case where votes are only given to the party and no candidates receive a personal vote, the people that get elected are the first ones on the list... the list is obviously determined by the Party.
Now not many voters in Italy know that they can express a personal preference in the EU elections (because in the national elections you cannot express a preference for a candidate -- you vote the party and the party chooses who gets elected according to the list) the above situation is not far-fetched. Add to this that most people in Italy honestly don't give a fuck about who is elected and tend to vote by "habit" (as in "I'm a Christian so I have to vote the Christian Party...") and you can see how a bunch of fascist, racist, close-minded cunts; some shady persons and even showgirls can get elected to the EU.
Mod parent funny not insightful, the only link that that relates to the discussion is the riots in the UK, where a bunch of kids decided "Fuck all, let's riot" and proceeded to pillage the stores around in their own neighborhood.
The other links are legitimate protests to the government fucking up, the citizens having to pay the price and the police cracking down heavy on the protesters.
meh.. i don't see the point in releasing a DVD iso. I mean I usually install debian with a netinstall image that's what... 150-200 MB . Install the base system and pull down all the packages you need/want. What's wrong with doing this with Ubuntu?
Ok, I understand the "user friendliness" but the last Ubuntu I installed was a pain in the ass... had to burn a CD and it loaded a bunch of useless crap before sending me to the usual partition/install routine and installed everything on its own, I felt like I was installing Windows! At this point it might as well just load the base system from a small netboot iso and install whatever from the net. Keep the DVD iso for those that do not have an internet connection and propose the "netinstall" iso for those that do, it won't change anything from the user point of view (still gotta wait for stuff to load etc.). Give a default selection , which the normal install does anyways, in a compact iso. You can then save it on a pen drive, a CD a DVD or anywhere that is bootable. Easy way is from a pen drive, most PCs boot from it nowadays; otherwise burn a small cd or whatever and download everything (at the latest update) from the net. BOOM install done and ready to use.
Power user can still apt-get anything they need and normal users have an updated system ready to use. Partitioning and whatnot stays the same, questions asked are the same but I see my connection working so I don't fuss about the time it takes... after all it's downloading stuff from the internet!
At this point the fact that a package is or is not included becomes moot, use whatever package manager you like/want as long as you give a default one (isn't this the Linux way, add/remove whatever you want), hell use whatever the fuck you want! Default install keeps Joe Sixpack happy and apt-get (or aptitude or Synaptic or whatever) keep Jim Poweruser happy too.
And if Ubuntu becomes too strict for you then move to debian (or Fedora, or Gentoo, or Slackware, or ), we're talking about linux here, I'm sure you can find a distro you're comfortable with.
Exactly the way I feel. I voted against mainly because I do not trust public administrations in Italy. Some of the building that collapsed in the last earthquake in L'Aquila were modern buildings and supposed to be "earthquake-proof" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L'Aquila_earthquake#Effects), I would not trust such an administration to build a nuclear plant!!
So I guess I'm stupid and want to to slow down progress too. Go ahead and laugh at me, better than to live waiting to find out the hard way how some criminal administration fuck-up.
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Like that's going to work in a country where whores and criminals are your local members of parliament...
The problem with Italy and technology is that most of the people running this country are still amazed at color television!
Don't forget that BioWare is part of EA so he should at least know about Dragon Age.
Now don't get me started on the bullshit that I found in Dragon Age (in game messages to buy DLC, crappy DLC, game balance thrown out the window if you have DLC) that I blame wholly on the EA business model...
From what I've experienced, phones in Europe can call emergency numbers, usually 112 in most of the EU, even without a SIM card.
Depending on the country, a SIM-less phone can also call other emergency numbers; in Italy that would be 118 (ambulance), 115 (fire department) and 113 (state police). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number#Europe
But doesn't an alpha release serve the purpose to evaluate and catch any errors (code and/or design related) in your software? And if the code is "defective by design", isn't it better to stop and re-analyze your software specs in an alpha rather than spending resources working with something that you know is going to give problems later on?
Maybe Google has spoiled us setting a higher bar for software labeled as alpha/beta.
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Mod parent Up! (Where are mod points when you need them...)
True, but the paper ballot lends itself to countless shenanigans and vote buying. And there is the non-trivial matter of counting the millions of votes and the associated interpretation of what constitutes a legal vote (i.e. the X is not centered on the party's symbol so this vote is null). As previously noted, the system scales badly with increasing number of voters.
You do know that the retiring pope is one of the progressive guys who brought about Vatican II, right? He's also a philosopher with tons of PhDs (as was the previous one) and in that position explicitly said he doesn't believe Jesus either resurrected or actually is God incarnate. These are a few among the many, many reasons actual conservative Catholics don't like him.
HAHAHAHAHHA!!! Don't know if you're serious or trolling, but this is the funniest thing I've read in this thread. Seriously, Pope Benny XVI progressive ?!?!
This pope, as the old one, are a bunch of far-right conservative pricks and all the PhDs in the world won't make them less reactionary.
A meddler in the politics of other nations, the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (previously known as the Supreme Sacred Congregation of the Roman and Universal Inquisition) and the puppetteer behind Pope John Paul II is a progressive guy? HEHEHE you're killing me.
This pope is resigning because he is tied to a whole bunch of scandals: the cover-up of child offending priests, the Vatileaks scandal and the Magdalene laundries in Ireland are just some of the controversial issues he is being associated with.
He is resigning because he is beginning to be bad publicity for the vatican.
He doesn't care if actual catholics do not like him, if they don't follow what the pope says (Papal infallibility) they are simply not good catholics and should conform as soon as possible to the status quo (his) or burn in hell. And I can't even say good riddance because they will elect another reactionary, close minded world affair meddler to replace this one.
Yeah, poor scum! (wrong moderation, posting).
So where did this concept of an almost theme-park like torture camp 'hell' come from?
Dante's Inferno.
I'm not aware of this practice in Europe... but give it some time and some some pointy-hair boss will think it's a great idea.
A properly pulled espresso in Naples, Italy costs 0.80 Euros, if you're paying anything more than a dollar or so for an untrained person to give you an espresso in a paper cup you ARE getting ripped off.
Note: current exchange rate is 1 U.S. dollar = 0.74 Euros
I never got this working consistently (XP, Vista or Win7) so if I need to order files by date I name the files something like filename_YYYYMMDD and then globally sort by name (which works).
The strange thing is that on my boss' computer (Win7) with sort and group by date everything just works... never understood how or why.
Would someone from Italy like to explain why you voted this authoritarian cunt into the EU. Go on! I'd love to hear it!
Anyhow, most of the people voted into the EU are unknown to the voters because most people just vote the Party (Motti is part of the Christian Democrat Union -- UDC). Now you can express one or more preferences (up to 3 I think) for a single person and the vote goes to the political party and to the person(s). Total votes to the political party determine the number of seats, and total personal votes determine who gets elected. In case of a tie, the position in an internal list determines who goes so, in the extreme case where votes are only given to the party and no candidates receive a personal vote, the people that get elected are the first ones on the list... the list is obviously determined by the Party.
Now not many voters in Italy know that they can express a personal preference in the EU elections (because in the national elections you cannot express a preference for a candidate -- you vote the party and the party chooses who gets elected according to the list) the above situation is not far-fetched. Add to this that most people in Italy honestly don't give a fuck about who is elected and tend to vote by "habit" (as in "I'm a Christian so I have to vote the Christian Party...") and you can see how a bunch of fascist, racist, close-minded cunts; some shady persons and even showgirls can get elected to the EU.
Mod parent funny not insightful, the only link that that relates to the discussion is the riots in the UK, where a bunch of kids decided "Fuck all, let's riot" and proceeded to pillage the stores around in their own neighborhood. The other links are legitimate protests to the government fucking up, the citizens having to pay the price and the police cracking down heavy on the protesters.
I welcome our new jedi-bot overlords!
meh.. i don't see the point in releasing a DVD iso. I mean I usually install debian with a netinstall image that's what... 150-200 MB . Install the base system and pull down all the packages you need/want. What's wrong with doing this with Ubuntu?
Ok, I understand the "user friendliness" but the last Ubuntu I installed was a pain in the ass... had to burn a CD and it loaded a bunch of useless crap before sending me to the usual partition/install routine and installed everything on its own, I felt like I was installing Windows! At this point it might as well just load the base system from a small netboot iso and install whatever from the net. Keep the DVD iso for those that do not have an internet connection and propose the "netinstall" iso for those that do, it won't change anything from the user point of view (still gotta wait for stuff to load etc.). Give a default selection , which the normal install does anyways, in a compact iso. You can then save it on a pen drive, a CD a DVD or anywhere that is bootable. Easy way is from a pen drive, most PCs boot from it nowadays; otherwise burn a small cd or whatever and download everything (at the latest update) from the net. BOOM install done and ready to use.
Power user can still apt-get anything they need and normal users have an updated system ready to use. Partitioning and whatnot stays the same, questions asked are the same but I see my connection working so I don't fuss about the time it takes... after all it's downloading stuff from the internet!
At this point the fact that a package is or is not included becomes moot, use whatever package manager you like/want as long as you give a default one (isn't this the Linux way, add/remove whatever you want), hell use whatever the fuck you want! Default install keeps Joe Sixpack happy and apt-get (or aptitude or Synaptic or whatever) keep Jim Poweruser happy too.
And if Ubuntu becomes too strict for you then move to debian (or Fedora, or Gentoo, or Slackware, or ), we're talking about linux here, I'm sure you can find a distro you're comfortable with.
They might non last forever or, as someone pointed out, as long as the Dead Sea Scrolls, but they will surely outlive the digital format of an eBook.
Exactly the way I feel. I voted against mainly because I do not trust public administrations in Italy. Some of the building that collapsed in the last earthquake in L'Aquila were modern buildings and supposed to be "earthquake-proof" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_L'Aquila_earthquake#Effects), I would not trust such an administration to build a nuclear plant!!
So I guess I'm stupid and want to to slow down progress too. Go ahead and laugh at me, better than to live waiting to find out the hard way how some criminal administration fuck-up.
Like that's going to work in a country where whores and criminals are your local members of parliament... The problem with Italy and technology is that most of the people running this country are still amazed at color television!
Don't forget that BioWare is part of EA so he should at least know about Dragon Age. Now don't get me started on the bullshit that I found in Dragon Age (in game messages to buy DLC, crappy DLC, game balance thrown out the window if you have DLC) that I blame wholly on the EA business model...
Must be a slow day on /. if the ramblings of an old fart make the news.
From what I've experienced, phones in Europe can call emergency numbers, usually 112 in most of the EU, even without a SIM card. Depending on the country, a SIM-less phone can also call other emergency numbers; in Italy that would be 118 (ambulance), 115 (fire department) and 113 (state police).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_telephone_number#Europe
a lot of NASA's computer systems are antiquated, but they've also been vetted and engineered so that all the bugs and kinks have been worked out.
Well said. If it ain't broke don't fix it, and it's hard to to find issues on something that's been running for decades.
But doesn't an alpha release serve the purpose to evaluate and catch any errors (code and/or design related) in your software? And if the code is "defective by design", isn't it better to stop and re-analyze your software specs in an alpha rather than spending resources working with something that you know is going to give problems later on?
Maybe Google has spoiled us setting a higher bar for software labeled as alpha/beta.
A private tab in Opera defeats it too.