Look up the Bedouin situation in Israel and get back to me. They are not even allowed to participate in local elections let alone national ones, but the Jewish Israelis in the same area do, if that is not unethical to an open society than what is?
I'm not talking about the Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied lands, I'm talking about the Bedouin and the other Israeli Arabs who have lived in Israel proper for generations who are prevented from participating in the democratic system because of the obstructionist and corrupt political system there. In our lifetimes the Arab citizens of Israel will constitute the largest population in Israel, what then? Do they get to call Israel a Muslim state like the Jews call it a Jewish one?
The government was started with a clean slate, not the other political situations which abound from the illegal appropriation of Arab and Palestinian land. Their government was allowed to grow and mature under the auspices of cooperation ensured by the international community, esp Britain, France and the US. Even if Israel itself was breaking the law from day one, it felt almost no repercussions for it politically with the west. Its military strength bolstered by cold war paranoia is still unmatched in the region but it is quickly losing its ability to act against international law without at least diplomatic problems developing.
It will be a long time before Israel answers for what is has done, but let us hope that enough of those people who committed the crimes will be alive to be prosecuted for them.
Israel was started with a clean slate, the backing of the United States and one of the world's largest immigrant populations who were already used to a certain sense of liberty in society; however it is not doing nearly as well as other countries in the EU in respecting human and civil rights. This is not just about apartheid in Palestine, religious courts or the numerous violations of the Geneva convention Israel has committed over the years but goes to the heart and soul of the government of Israel and its current majority Jewish population, " What happens when Jews are the minority in Israel? " This is going to happen sooner than later and from the past acts against the Israeli religious minorities esp the Muslims it looks like they will do everything in their power to ensure that the country is always run by Jewish laws, customs and politics. That is not a democracy, that is a theocracy. The only way you can do that is through the denial of civil rights, esp the right to participate fully in an openly democratic process and look, that is exactly what is happening .
Turkey for better or worse is one of the most progressive Muslim majority states in the region and has a per capita GDP less than 1/5th that of Israel. Yes they have atrocious history and current operations against minorities as well that they have to account for, but I have far higher hopes that eventually Turkey will admit Genocide than Israel in my lifetime to admit its own mistakes and stop oppressing its own minorities.
Like the idea of creating your own nuclear deterrent to prop up a theocracy that operates under the guise of a democratic country? I think it may already have spread.
The TSA is supposed to herd air travelers in ever larger targets for terrorists in front of machines they use to find shampoo bottles in.
Seriously, how long is it going to take for some terrorist to walk into an airport with a suitcase bomb, sit in line for the TSA till he is in the middle of 100's or even 1000's of people during the holiday season and blow himself up ?
Doom 3 was released 6 years ago, are you telling me that the PS3 and Xbox360 came out 6 years ago?
I don't know what your priorities are for computing needs but you are on Slashdot and your telling me you do a refresh every 6 years or so?
I'm paid to do CAD for a living so I need a beast at home to do work on but I could not imagine a 6 year old, what an original Athlon or P3 could even handle 1080p streaming content, let alone any hardcore programming environment for compiling or a modern parametric modeler.
Why should a company be obliged to open source its drivers so people can use hardware on hardware platforms they have not tested on and therefore do not support? Currently a Solaris hardware platform using products like the XVR series which I have worked on can cost 100's of dollars for a low end 2D card, and yeah that sucks; however, why wouldn't ATI reserve its rights on such platforms to release a workstation-class video card that costs maybe 3/4 the amount of the Sun offering but still costs 5-6x what a desktop version of the same GPU would cost? The only way they can do that is by keeping their drivers proprietary, and if I were them I would do the same thing as a publicly traded company.
Open source freedom does not work as well in the hardware world because of this, and as long as you do not have open source hardware it will continue. I'm an EE and I can tell there is no way you are going to even get close to current generation GPUs without a massive EE open source community working night and day on it for years, and I don't see that happening. If you want good open source drivers and a decent open source ethic, try Intel.
Never kept more than a few computers that long. There is a certain energy savings if I upgrade my equipment every 3-4 years that has kept me ahead of any legacy hardware cutoff. Also the oldest video card I have an x300 works fine in Ubuntu, even in 3D and it is 5+ years old. Both NVidia and ATI have a large enough interest in Linux devices/workstations/platforms they would never stop support now.
What other architecture are you talking about, BSD and Solaris? Both supported by NV but ATI only does Linux.
Freedom for who, why should a company that spent 100's of millions of dollars in RD give away the keys to kingdom?
I believe there is experimental support for video acceleration in Linux esp Flash in the latest proprietary drivers from ATI. I never saw the need for open source drivers for Video hardware.
The other cool thing is that when the postwoman delivers you stuff from exotic locales all the time, she gets a bit flirty. Since all postwomen have damn sexy legs from all the walking around here, that is a good thing.
I have a small music studio at home so maybe I am not the norm but I have over 100 GB of personal music in addition to 200 GB of music recordings/randomness I use for making music.
Do you rip in MP3 or FLAC is the question. My FLAC collection of ripped music is easily 70% of the total.
Because it had potential to bring in more customers. If they had stayed with it they would of pry had up to 500k people playing it like EVE online or STO. There was pretty large marketing hole when EnB left the MMORPG industry with only one space-based game.
You have no idea what you are talking about, all of your points are exasperations of ignorance that you turn into barbs.
Anarchy etymologically means without rulers, not without rules. Let me reiterate that. Anarchism, the modern political ideology which has been written on by such philosophers as Chomsky, Bakunin and Kropotkin still involves a government just one without any rule-making representative or royal government.
During the Spanish Civil war these modern Anarchistic political and economic ideologies were followed by 100's of thousand of people and dozens of cities, towns and provinces within Spain. They might not of been perfect but we will never know how well they would of worked long term because they were crushed by Communists and Fascists before they could get off the ground.
Burning man was not always 'laden with rules' that is why I said what it 'once was'. Google its history. Reading comprehension is a useful skill, you might want to work on it.
Businesses are not entities, they are institutions run by human beings. They are also not amoral because that would imply they are capable of morality in the first place when only the people that are involved in the actual institutions are. So when he says greed he is talking about the governing members of the business institution.
You gives a fuck what Aristotle said he also justified slavery and was in bed with the ruling elite at the time. His idea of democracy was a way for land owners to extend their rule over the vast majority of the population. He believed that people like carpenters, engineers and other working classes were beneath some sort of Kingdom of Philosophers.
Anarchism is a very broad and deep ideology and for you to paint it with one brush shows you are wholly ignorant on the subject. There is everything from Anarcho-syndicalism which espouses rule by cooperative economic system which could have police and even a military as part of its government to things like Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zones (like what Burning Man once was) which believe that wherever there is the will to freedom and autonomy there can be 'zones' that exist outside of all governments. There is also the idea of Direct Democracy, which besides being the most pure democratic ideology by eliminating rule by Representatives, Kings or Priests fits in perfectly within Anarchist Ideology.
Rule by force is a form of all centralized governments not most forms of Anarchism.
I think they want to confront China with the fact that part of the country has utterly distinct laws between the two countries not start an international armed conflict.
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Look up the Bedouin situation in Israel and get back to me. They are not even allowed to participate in local elections let alone national ones, but the Jewish Israelis in the same area do, if that is not unethical to an open society than what is?
I'm not talking about the Palestinians living in Israeli-occupied lands, I'm talking about the Bedouin and the other Israeli Arabs who have lived in Israel proper for generations who are prevented from participating in the democratic system because of the obstructionist and corrupt political system there. In our lifetimes the Arab citizens of Israel will constitute the largest population in Israel, what then? Do they get to call Israel a Muslim state like the Jews call it a Jewish one?
The government was started with a clean slate, not the other political situations which abound from the illegal appropriation of Arab and Palestinian land. Their government was allowed to grow and mature under the auspices of cooperation ensured by the international community, esp Britain, France and the US. Even if Israel itself was breaking the law from day one, it felt almost no repercussions for it politically with the west. Its military strength bolstered by cold war paranoia is still unmatched in the region but it is quickly losing its ability to act against international law without at least diplomatic problems developing.
It will be a long time before Israel answers for what is has done, but let us hope that enough of those people who committed the crimes will be alive to be prosecuted for them.
Israel was started with a clean slate, the backing of the United States and one of the world's largest immigrant populations who were already used to a certain sense of liberty in society; however it is not doing nearly as well as other countries in the EU in respecting human and civil rights. This is not just about apartheid in Palestine, religious courts or the numerous violations of the Geneva convention Israel has committed over the years but goes to the heart and soul of the government of Israel and its current majority Jewish population, " What happens when Jews are the minority in Israel? " This is going to happen sooner than later and from the past acts against the Israeli religious minorities esp the Muslims it looks like they will do everything in their power to ensure that the country is always run by Jewish laws, customs and politics. That is not a democracy, that is a theocracy. The only way you can do that is through the denial of civil rights, esp the right to participate fully in an openly democratic process and look, that is exactly what is happening .
Turkey for better or worse is one of the most progressive Muslim majority states in the region and has a per capita GDP less than 1/5th that of Israel. Yes they have atrocious history and current operations against minorities as well that they have to account for, but I have far higher hopes that eventually Turkey will admit Genocide than Israel in my lifetime to admit its own mistakes and stop oppressing its own minorities.
Like the idea of creating your own nuclear deterrent to prop up a theocracy that operates under the guise of a democratic country? I think it may already have spread.
The TSA is supposed to herd air travelers in ever larger targets for terrorists in front of machines they use to find shampoo bottles in.
Seriously, how long is it going to take for some terrorist to walk into an airport with a suitcase bomb, sit in line for the TSA till he is in the middle of 100's or even 1000's of people during the holiday season and blow himself up ?
The type of people who use Facebook all day should be walled in. I support the online Ghettofication of the Internet.
You mean like Wikinews, which already exists or something different like Indymedia or the whole blogosphere?
Doom 3 was released 6 years ago, are you telling me that the PS3 and Xbox360 came out 6 years ago?
I don't know what your priorities are for computing needs but you are on Slashdot and your telling me you do a refresh every 6 years or so?
I'm paid to do CAD for a living so I need a beast at home to do work on but I could not imagine a 6 year old, what an original Athlon or P3 could even handle 1080p streaming content, let alone any hardcore programming environment for compiling or a modern parametric modeler.
I'm sure Hollywood will invent/steal from old science fiction something soon.
Why should a company be obliged to open source its drivers so people can use hardware on hardware platforms they have not tested on and therefore do not support? Currently a Solaris hardware platform using products like the XVR series which I have worked on can cost 100's of dollars for a low end 2D card, and yeah that sucks; however, why wouldn't ATI reserve its rights on such platforms to release a workstation-class video card that costs maybe 3/4 the amount of the Sun offering but still costs 5-6x what a desktop version of the same GPU would cost? The only way they can do that is by keeping their drivers proprietary, and if I were them I would do the same thing as a publicly traded company.
Open source freedom does not work as well in the hardware world because of this, and as long as you do not have open source hardware it will continue. I'm an EE and I can tell there is no way you are going to even get close to current generation GPUs without a massive EE open source community working night and day on it for years, and I don't see that happening. If you want good open source drivers and a decent open source ethic, try Intel.
Never kept more than a few computers that long. There is a certain energy savings if I upgrade my equipment every 3-4 years that has kept me ahead of any legacy hardware cutoff. Also the oldest video card I have an x300 works fine in Ubuntu, even in 3D and it is 5+ years old. Both NVidia and ATI have a large enough interest in Linux devices/workstations/platforms they would never stop support now.
What other architecture are you talking about, BSD and Solaris? Both supported by NV but ATI only does Linux.
Freedom for who, why should a company that spent 100's of millions of dollars in RD give away the keys to kingdom?
I believe there is experimental support for video acceleration in Linux esp Flash in the latest proprietary drivers from ATI. I never saw the need for open source drivers for Video hardware.
The other cool thing is that when the postwoman delivers you stuff from exotic locales all the time, she gets a bit flirty. Since all postwomen have damn sexy legs from all the walking around here, that is a good thing.
Why, they will just steal the IP they want and sell it back to us at 30% of the price. They do it with everything else so why not search engines ?
I have a small music studio at home so maybe I am not the norm but I have over 100 GB of personal music in addition to 200 GB of music recordings/randomness I use for making music.
Do you rip in MP3 or FLAC is the question. My FLAC collection of ripped music is easily 70% of the total.
Because it had potential to bring in more customers. If they had stayed with it they would of pry had up to 500k people playing it like EVE online or STO. There was pretty large marketing hole when EnB left the MMORPG industry with only one space-based game.
Why, are you going to marry her off? As long as it is not rape, I don't think it is really any of your business.
I gave up on EA when they cancelled Earth and Beyond for not making enough profit, even though it was technically breaking even.
I'm not going to argue ontologies and semantics on Slashdot.
You have no idea what you are talking about, all of your points are exasperations of ignorance that you turn into barbs. Anarchy etymologically means without rulers, not without rules. Let me reiterate that. Anarchism, the modern political ideology which has been written on by such philosophers as Chomsky, Bakunin and Kropotkin still involves a government just one without any rule-making representative or royal government. During the Spanish Civil war these modern Anarchistic political and economic ideologies were followed by 100's of thousand of people and dozens of cities, towns and provinces within Spain. They might not of been perfect but we will never know how well they would of worked long term because they were crushed by Communists and Fascists before they could get off the ground. Burning man was not always 'laden with rules' that is why I said what it 'once was'. Google its history. Reading comprehension is a useful skill, you might want to work on it.
That is a great defeatist attitude. I guess we don't have you to thank for civil rights, women's rights and now healthcare. I mean, why bother ?
Businesses are not entities, they are institutions run by human beings. They are also not amoral because that would imply they are capable of morality in the first place when only the people that are involved in the actual institutions are. So when he says greed he is talking about the governing members of the business institution.
You gives a fuck what Aristotle said he also justified slavery and was in bed with the ruling elite at the time. His idea of democracy was a way for land owners to extend their rule over the vast majority of the population. He believed that people like carpenters, engineers and other working classes were beneath some sort of Kingdom of Philosophers.
Anarchism is a very broad and deep ideology and for you to paint it with one brush shows you are wholly ignorant on the subject. There is everything from Anarcho-syndicalism which espouses rule by cooperative economic system which could have police and even a military as part of its government to things like Hakim Bey's Temporary Autonomous Zones (like what Burning Man once was) which believe that wherever there is the will to freedom and autonomy there can be 'zones' that exist outside of all governments. There is also the idea of Direct Democracy, which besides being the most pure democratic ideology by eliminating rule by Representatives, Kings or Priests fits in perfectly within Anarchist Ideology.
Rule by force is a form of all centralized governments not most forms of Anarchism.
I think they want to confront China with the fact that part of the country has utterly distinct laws between the two countries not start an international armed conflict.