Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The above is the BSD license. You get everything you want. Open source, which you can sell, and none of the GPL's entanglements or other bullshit.
This response will, of course, be down modded into oblivion by Stallman's cultists, because they're generally desperate to ensure that any possible alternatives to their "freedom," never see the light of day, but I guess I can hope that you stumble upon it first.
Stop slamming the Chinese government as thugs and criminals, you hypocrites, when in other articles you turn around and rabidly support Richard Stallman on the other.
You can't have it both ways; Communism either is a bad thing, or it isn't.
I mentally compared the character Claude from GTA 3, with Carl Johnson from San Andreas.
To me, Carl wasn't fundamentally a bad guy, but was someone in a number of very bad situations, and was also a product of his environment. He doesn't do anywhere near as many cold-blooded or anonymous assassination missions, and when he is sent on a few, it begins to push him towards a nervous breakdown, because he has a conscience. He is also depicted as one of the only characters in the game who is strongly anti-drugs. Carl is also involved in turf wars, but he doesn't willingly fraternise with the mob, for the most part. As a white person, for me San Andreas also had some value from an anthropological point of view, as well.
Claude on the other hand was the proverbial silent psychopath. A lot of the missions he gets sent on are anonymous hits where he kills people who are complete strangers to him, in entirely cold blood. His story basically centres around his ascension within the heirarchies of a few different criminal organisations as well; the Italian Mafia, and the Yakuza.
With the GTA games, Rockstar were basically giving the public what they knew said public wanted, and what would sell. However, that doesn't mean that the content of the games is positive; for the most part it really isn't. San Andreas has some redeeming elements, but for the most part it is still exceedingly nihilistic and negative. GTA 3 doesn't really have any redeeming elements at all; it's a cross between an interactive version of Scarface, and a larger version of a high school playground with guns, cars, and explosions.
Anyone who thinks glorification of the Italian/Sicilian Mafia in particular is cool, needs to remember what said Mafia is and was. It was essentially a group of men who made money from committing crimes of various kinds on the one hand, and intermittently murdered people on the other. There's nothing positive there at all, and to me, there actually isn't really even anything romantic like there was with the pirate meme, either. They were just criminals and murderers; that's all.
Bash scripting first; go study this, to learn bash. Then maybe some PHP, depending on what you're doing.
Perl is abstract, hideously ugly, has utterly alien syntax unlike anything you will find anywhere else, and will make your ears bleed. Also don't go anywhere near assembler unless you are a mathematical savant. You also likely won't need to bother with C, either; 98% of what you might want to do in C will generally be done far more easily and painlessly in something else. Read this as well. Most of the hot shot Debian scrubs these days don't bother to, and they should.
You will only need Cobol if you're wanting to do this for a living, and even then, it probably isn't a language which anyone should learn as a new skill these days; still, banks and other similarly eldritch, sadomasochistic institutions can sometimes still want it. With Java, who knows? Some people use that for various things, but ask before you assume people will want you to have it. If you can get away with avoiding it, do so.
Also, do not try to learn to code purely for its' own sake; you won't learn anything that way. Find something you want to do; even if it's only something like setting up a cron job at first, and then do that. Learn vim or Emacs, read the RFCs for the net protocols, and listen to some psytrance while doing all of the above. Have a reason for doing it, and enjoy it while you do it, or you'll never get anywhere.
1) Ubuntu is just a derivative repack of Debian. Move upstream to Debian.
2) Sounds like you're using the equivalent of Debian stable or Debian testing. Move upstream to testing, or unstable.
Or get rid of Debian and install a distro which doesn't cause you to want to kill someone or break something every five minutes.
- Non-sane defaults. Vim's Debian conf is ok, but that's about the only app I've used where that has been the case. I've re-written or scrapped the dotfiles for virtually every other Debian console app I've installed, including the shell.
- The terrible concept of micromanaging every single application the OS comes with, hard wiring in distro-specific defaults for said applications, and then making the provided space for additional user configuration impossible to find. Apache is a particularly disastrous example. There are no less than three conf files for Apache with a Ubuntu install.
- Bizarre, sarcastic, outright freaks inhabiting the Freenode support channel. #Debian has one of the most obnoxious regular groups I've ever come across on IRC, and I've spent close to 15 years on the Undernet.
- Mindless, cultic, RMS worshipping, slavishly pro-FSF fanboys who reflexively insist that anyone who doesn't adore Debian to the degree that they do is nothing but a troll, an astroturfer, or a Microsoft shill.
The atheist demographic of Slashdot have shown remarkable restraint in the comments for this article so far. Of course, the tags are predictable, but there has been considerably less mockery, derision, and atheistic evangelism attempts than I would have suspected.
This does, however, represent a deeply apropos time to drop you a hint, kids.
You can only consider yourself to have truly left Christianity when neither Christianity or Satanism, conversely, manages to generate any emotional response from you whatsoever. Railing against either Christianity, or conversely embracing Satanism, are both a sure sign that, your current self-perception to the contrary, you are, in some way still mentally within the Church.
Creative/artistic type people have active imaginations?! Holy News Flash Batman! I can't wait for the story about how librarians have a gene that has been tied to OCD.
I'm still waiting for the isolation of the gene which links trifocal glasses, red hair, and lesbianism in librarians, (AKA Thelma) personally.;)
Theo's political stances have brought a lot of problems for the development of OpenBSD as compared to other BSD dstributions
Theo has two things which the majority don't; a) intelligence, and b) a spine. As a result, he makes himself unpopular.
His presentation's entire point was to illustrate how much more effectively he is able to do things, than either corporations, or delusional idiots like the Debian developers who think they're doing a smashing job, but then don't understand why they take years to get releases out the door.
Accept it, Linux people. Linux. Is. Inferior. To. The. BSDs.
I know you don't like that. I know it upsets you. It is, however, the plain and simple truth.
The Debian fanboys are really out in force in the comments on this article.
I'm tired of the refusal to acknowledge just how chronically Debian sucks. It is the worst Linux/BSD distribution in existence, by a mile; the over-engineered garbage they try and add to virtually every application/package they get hold of is beyond belief. I was wrestling with adding configs to both vim and apache in Ubuntu the other day, when I finally realised that the Debian idiots have tried to make their own conf hardwired in, and then have another file somewhere else (with God only knows what name, in most cases) for "user" changes.
The answer isn't simply to use another distribution if I don't like it, either. Debian offends me to the point where I want it stopped. The horrible mess of perl glue that they refer to as their custom kernel build framework is yet another example. Good luck trying to compile a custom kernel in Ubuntu; there's just so many minor perl snags that it can fail on, that it is virtually impossible.
I savagely, passionately hate Debian, and even more, I hate the system's developers and users continuing to insist on how wonderful it is, because as long as they continue to do that, the system's problems will not get solved.
Debian is suffering from the same fundamental issue that most alcoholics do. You need to be willing to acknowledge that a problem exists before you can begin solving it.
Yes, because as we all know, women hating anyone, or being violent, absolutely never happens. You might want to go and look up some statistics concerning domestic violence among lesbians; I suspect you may be surprised.
In my own observation, women have just as much capacity for spite, hatred, and general vindictiveness as we do; they're just less direct in how they go about expressing it.
Here's some more proof; if women as a gender are any more inclined towards positive treatment of other life forms in general than we are, then movement towards an exclusively female society will not happen. I'm very familiar with the misandronistic line that it's simply payback for however many millenia of male dominance; but if they were really any better, they wouldn't simply be clamouring for the shoe to be on the other foot.
They'd be looking for a way in which we could both actually co-exist in a positive way, without either gender being held down by the other.
Women who aren't mentally ill (and I'm hoping that at least a few of them read Slashdot, and will back me up on this) understand something which their mentally stable male counterparts also do; namely that man and woman are both equal halves of the species, and both halves ideally depend on each other in order to survive. Chauvanism is wrong, whether it is practiced by male or female; when woman suffers, man really suffers with her, and vice versa.
That is something which mechanistic, atheistic science cannot change; and we as an entire species will simply be destroyed by it if any of us try.
Once they use stem cell research to figure out how to make G the new standard cup size for women in particular, I will enthusiastically offer my support.
The "skill" issue has only ever really been brought up by FPS gamers who have a need to feel superior to everyone else.
Truthfully, I've always tended to believe that WoW's pre-Arena PvP actually involved a lot more skill than the FPS games I'd played prior to that. The simple reason is actually because in WoW's PvP, you were able to stay alive for a certain period of time.
In a conventional FPS, it's one hit = dead. You don't have time to be skilled or unskilled; most of the time, death has absolutely nothing to do with you at all. You'd still die whether you were a decent player or not.
The FPS demographic won't agree, of course; and they have now destroyed WoW's PvP as well. The Arena was brought into the game specifically to cater to them, and it destroyed the game not long after.
So it's a moot point either way. The CounterStrike crowd get listened to and get what they want because they scream the loudest, not because they're actually right. Blizzard (sorry, I mean Activision) listened to them with regards to the Arena, because they thought that's where the money was.
Also, for any Arena players who feel like responding to this and telling me about what awesome fun the Arena is, and how I'm wrong about that, etc etc, don't bother. The entire thing is exploit based and always has been; it's based on composition and healer skill if anything, not offensive player skill. It's CounterStrike with bubbles and HoTs if the Priest or Druid you've got with you is able to get them off in time.
If you don't have a healer in your comp, you're screwed, and it won't matter how good you are.
My worry is that Russia will use the money, released from no longer having to maintain part of their arsenal, to have another foray into another ex-Soviet state.
Who gives a shit? The only reason why conventional skirmishes have ever been a problem is because you then have to worry about them going nuclear.
If the Russians want to go and get a few hundred thousand of themselves killed in Chechnya or the Ukraine, I hope they enjoy themselves, but as long as it doesn't have the potential to become either nuclear or large scale conventional, there's no particular reason why anyone else should care. If Afghanistan didn't teach them anything, then let them bash their heads against the imperialistic brick wall a few more times if they want; aside from the invaded country, it's no skin off anyone else's nose at all.
Americans need to stop caring so much about every minor regional scuffle that breaks out. Learn to mind your own business, and refrain from getting involved; it will hurt you a lot less in the long run, if nothing else.
Sorry; I define a "need," as something which someone will physically die without.
You won't die from a lack of sexual activity. Abstain even from masturbation, and as a male at least, you'll probably get very moody and feel rather sick after 6-8 weeks or so, but it still won't kill you. You could also go entirely without vaginal or anal penetration for your entire life, and not die from it.
Thus, sex is not a need. The people who claim they need sex are the same idiots who claim they need chocolate or mobile phones; it's in the same category.
Good plan. The next time an atheist comes to my door to preach at me I'll just tell them to go away. Oh, wait, that never happens.
This piece of inanity masquerading as intelligence had already been posted in response to my GP, and yet this post gets modded Insightful rather than Redundant, purely due to conformity with the groupthink.
How much more evidence do we need to be confronted with, that the WoWtards have truly inherited Slashdot, and that this site's older (read: vastly more intelligent) population have now moved on?
Yeah, but I know plenty of atheists who are douchebags as well.
Atheists are generally far more obnoxious than most Christians, in my experience. If I get a Mormon at my front door, I can tell them I'm not interested, and they'll go away.
Try doing that with an evangelical atheist sometime. Atheists don't take no for an answer, because they think that the only reason why someone might not want to listen to them, is because said person wants to "remain ignorant."
Aside from anything else, in the case of most people, contemporary atheism is actually complete bullshit. Most people these days who are atheists aren't because they're scientific rationalists or intellectuals. Rather, they're atheists because they're generally close to being sociopathic; the proverbial 4chan or WoW-addicted, 15 year old asshole who exploits online anonymity to be savage and devoid of empathy towards as many people as possible, and being a theist might imply that they actually gave a fuck about something.
(3) Abstaining/reducing risky sexual behaviors. For slashdotters, this shouldn't be a problem.
a) Use condoms/spermicides etc.
b) If you're going to be in more than a one night stand with someone, (which is preferable, from a disease point of view) then at least see if they'd be willing to get tested; especially if they've previously engaged in bisexual activity. It might not be politically correct to say it, but outside of the Third World, HIV is a primarily gay or bi disease. Call me a bigot for that as much as you want, and then once you've finished, go and look up the statistics.
c) Don't go near the ass. No anal sex, no analingus, and none of the other related activities, either. In sexual terms, HIV's primary means of transmission/propogation are either anal sex or anal/oral contact.
d) If you need blood work or transfusions done, find out what the hygeine policies of the place in question are, in advance.
e) Realise that abstinence will not kill you, and that consequently, contrary to popular perception, sex is actually a want, rather than a need.
Here in Melbourne this last summer, we had our two hottest days on record, both at 46 degrees centigrade. Victoria also has not had seasonal rainfall now for 14 years.
Global warming is very real, and has been measured all over the planet; look up some of the studies that have been done on the polar ice caps.
The only people who want to believe that global warming isn't occurring are the capitalist fanatic, "making money is literally more important than being alive to spend it," crowd, who want an excuse to continue to rape the planet until it is no longer inhabitable at all. Such people do not care about the survival of anyone, including their own.
These people need to be silenced. We need to move past the debate stage, and into the stage where we start taking concrete action to rectify the problem...and at least halt it, even if it cannot be reversed. Something else that is appropriate to quote, here.
"Only when the last tree has been cut down, Only when the last river has been poisoned, Only when the last fish has been caught... Only then, will you realise, that money cannot be eaten."
Linux IMHO should not be incorporating Microsoft's standards in any form. Doing so could lead to litigation, and eventually the death of the system.
Ballmer would probably love to see Linux implementations of a few bits of Microsoft's stuff, purely so that he would have the grounds to sue someone later. Integrating such material is therefore very dangerous.
Australia governmentally may or may not be better than some other places. However, when you come here, you'll also have the following things waiting for you:-
- Racism. It wasn't always so bad in Australia, but it's getting a lot worse in recent years. We had the Cronulla race riots a few years back, and then there were the Indian riots in Melbourne recently. I consider the racism an American cultural import, personally; it isn't an inherently Aussie thing.
- Alcoholism and drug abuse, integrated as part of the culture; along with the associated violence. Methamphetamine abuse is chronic in Australia, and good luck finding anyone under the age of 35 or so who also doesn't smoke weed. The Australian penchant for alcohol abuse is just as legendary these days as it has ever been, as well.
- An angry, aggressive, unintelligent, anti-intellectual population, at least as far as whites are concerned. You mentioned having some IT skills; that's a good thing, because the only other three jobs you'll be likely to get here involve either fixing cars, building houses, or agriculture. Yes, of course we have a hospitality industry, but have fun getting into it. My younger brother both holds a Gaming Liquor License and did a modelling course a while back, and the best jobs he's been able to get were tending bar and delivering pizzas.
- A spineless, emasculated legal system. If the above mentioned racist, drug addicted louts invade your home early one morning, (I've had it happen to me) you are not legally permitted to defend yourself, like you are in America. You also aren't legally permitted to own a gun without a license in Australia, and the police are selective about who they give licenses to, as well.
If you happen to get murdered by said miscreants, you can also rest assured that they will be unlikely to serve more than ten years in jail, and in some cases, possibly not even five, depending on whether or not their lawyer is able to make a magistrate cry into his microphone about what broken homes they had.
I've been in Tamera which is a "healing biotope" about the healing of the earth and humanity and making models of living in peace.
Bad idea. All it takes there is a foreign government (not even necessarily the US) to declare that Tamera is a "terrorist training camp," and the site could get a Falluja makeover within 72 hours.
Moving to a commune these days is a death wish. For the reason why, just ask David Koresh.
I'm honestly trying to understand, here. How is it that there is a single American left in existent, who still believes this?
Seriously, Americans; what will have to happen for you to finally stop drinking the ideological Kool-Aid which your education system pours down your throats? Will a future government literally have to start shooting you in the streets before you grow out of the fairy tales that you were raised with?
If the mythology about American freedom was ever true, it certainly isn't after the second Bush government. You've proven that your government is no better than any other tyranny on the face of the planet, morally speaking. The only real difference is that they're slightly less blatant, and more careful about making sure they don't get caught.
Slashdot Mirror
Copyright (c) ,
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
* Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
* Neither the name of the nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.
THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
The above is the BSD license. You get everything you want. Open source, which you can sell, and none of the GPL's entanglements or other bullshit.
This response will, of course, be down modded into oblivion by Stallman's cultists, because they're generally desperate to ensure that any possible alternatives to their "freedom," never see the light of day, but I guess I can hope that you stumble upon it first.
Stop slamming the Chinese government as thugs and criminals, you hypocrites, when in other articles you turn around and rabidly support Richard Stallman on the other.
You can't have it both ways; Communism either is a bad thing, or it isn't.
I mentally compared the character Claude from GTA 3, with Carl Johnson from San Andreas.
To me, Carl wasn't fundamentally a bad guy, but was someone in a number of very bad situations, and was also a product of his environment. He doesn't do anywhere near as many cold-blooded or anonymous assassination missions, and when he is sent on a few, it begins to push him towards a nervous breakdown, because he has a conscience. He is also depicted as one of the only characters in the game who is strongly anti-drugs. Carl is also involved in turf wars, but he doesn't willingly fraternise with the mob, for the most part. As a white person, for me San Andreas also had some value from an anthropological point of view, as well.
Claude on the other hand was the proverbial silent psychopath. A lot of the missions he gets sent on are anonymous hits where he kills people who are complete strangers to him, in entirely cold blood. His story basically centres around his ascension within the heirarchies of a few different criminal organisations as well; the Italian Mafia, and the Yakuza.
With the GTA games, Rockstar were basically giving the public what they knew said public wanted, and what would sell. However, that doesn't mean that the content of the games is positive; for the most part it really isn't. San Andreas has some redeeming elements, but for the most part it is still exceedingly nihilistic and negative. GTA 3 doesn't really have any redeeming elements at all; it's a cross between an interactive version of Scarface, and a larger version of a high school playground with guns, cars, and explosions.
Anyone who thinks glorification of the Italian/Sicilian Mafia in particular is cool, needs to remember what said Mafia is and was. It was essentially a group of men who made money from committing crimes of various kinds on the one hand, and intermittently murdered people on the other. There's nothing positive there at all, and to me, there actually isn't really even anything romantic like there was with the pirate meme, either. They were just criminals and murderers; that's all.
If you're hooked on the Arena, then that I might understand, but there's really nothing else left.
The levelling game? Dead.
Twinking in battlegrounds? Dead.
Doing 5 mans in anything but end-game instances? Dead.
So what is a WoW addict these days, addicted to?
Bash scripting first; go study this, to learn bash. Then maybe some PHP, depending on what you're doing.
Perl is abstract, hideously ugly, has utterly alien syntax unlike anything you will find anywhere else, and will make your ears bleed. Also don't go anywhere near assembler unless you are a mathematical savant. You also likely won't need to bother with C, either; 98% of what you might want to do in C will generally be done far more easily and painlessly in something else. Read this as well. Most of the hot shot Debian scrubs these days don't bother to, and they should.
You will only need Cobol if you're wanting to do this for a living, and even then, it probably isn't a language which anyone should learn as a new skill these days; still, banks and other similarly eldritch, sadomasochistic institutions can sometimes still want it. With Java, who knows? Some people use that for various things, but ask before you assume people will want you to have it. If you can get away with avoiding it, do so.
Also, do not try to learn to code purely for its' own sake; you won't learn anything that way. Find something you want to do; even if it's only something like setting up a cron job at first, and then do that. Learn vim or Emacs, read the RFCs for the net protocols, and listen to some psytrance while doing all of the above. Have a reason for doing it, and enjoy it while you do it, or you'll never get anywhere.
1) Ubuntu is just a derivative repack of Debian. Move upstream to Debian.
2) Sounds like you're using the equivalent of Debian stable or Debian testing. Move upstream to testing, or unstable.
Or get rid of Debian and install a distro which doesn't cause you to want to kill someone or break something every five minutes.
- Non-sane defaults. Vim's Debian conf is ok, but that's about the only app I've used where that has been the case. I've re-written or scrapped the dotfiles for virtually every other Debian console app I've installed, including the shell.
- The terrible concept of micromanaging every single application the OS comes with, hard wiring in distro-specific defaults for said applications, and then making the provided space for additional user configuration impossible to find. Apache is a particularly disastrous example. There are no less than three conf files for Apache with a Ubuntu install.
- Bizarre, sarcastic, outright freaks inhabiting the Freenode support channel. #Debian has one of the most obnoxious regular groups I've ever come across on IRC, and I've spent close to 15 years on the Undernet.
- Mindless, cultic, RMS worshipping, slavishly pro-FSF fanboys who reflexively insist that anyone who doesn't adore Debian to the degree that they do is nothing but a troll, an astroturfer, or a Microsoft shill.
Burn in fucking Hell, Debian.
The atheist demographic of Slashdot have shown remarkable restraint in the comments for this article so far. Of course, the tags are predictable, but there has been considerably less mockery, derision, and atheistic evangelism attempts than I would have suspected.
This does, however, represent a deeply apropos time to drop you a hint, kids.
You can only consider yourself to have truly left Christianity when neither Christianity or Satanism, conversely, manages to generate any emotional response from you whatsoever. Railing against either Christianity, or conversely embracing Satanism, are both a sure sign that, your current self-perception to the contrary, you are, in some way still mentally within the Church.
LOL.
This seriously is amusing. Makes me wonder how many badass 14 year olds are actually using it. ;)
I loved the slogan, "Linux For The Damned." Well played, guys, well played.
Creative/artistic type people have active imaginations?! Holy News Flash Batman! I can't wait for the story about how librarians have a gene that has been tied to OCD.
I'm still waiting for the isolation of the gene which links trifocal glasses, red hair, and lesbianism in librarians, (AKA Thelma) personally. ;)
Theo's political stances have brought a lot of problems for the development of OpenBSD as compared to other BSD dstributions
Theo has two things which the majority don't; a) intelligence, and b) a spine. As a result, he makes himself unpopular.
His presentation's entire point was to illustrate how much more effectively he is able to do things, than either corporations, or delusional idiots like the Debian developers who think they're doing a smashing job, but then don't understand why they take years to get releases out the door.
Accept it, Linux people. Linux. Is. Inferior. To. The. BSDs.
I know you don't like that. I know it upsets you. It is, however, the plain and simple truth.
The Debian fanboys are really out in force in the comments on this article.
I'm tired of the refusal to acknowledge just how chronically Debian sucks. It is the worst Linux/BSD distribution in existence, by a mile; the over-engineered garbage they try and add to virtually every application/package they get hold of is beyond belief. I was wrestling with adding configs to both vim and apache in Ubuntu the other day, when I finally realised that the Debian idiots have tried to make their own conf hardwired in, and then have another file somewhere else (with God only knows what name, in most cases) for "user" changes.
The answer isn't simply to use another distribution if I don't like it, either. Debian offends me to the point where I want it stopped. The horrible mess of perl glue that they refer to as their custom kernel build framework is yet another example. Good luck trying to compile a custom kernel in Ubuntu; there's just so many minor perl snags that it can fail on, that it is virtually impossible.
I savagely, passionately hate Debian, and even more, I hate the system's developers and users continuing to insist on how wonderful it is, because as long as they continue to do that, the system's problems will not get solved.
Debian is suffering from the same fundamental issue that most alcoholics do. You need to be willing to acknowledge that a problem exists before you can begin solving it.
URICA!
Still juvenile, but much more creative than usual. I laughed.
Possible consequences: less war;
Yes, because as we all know, women hating anyone, or being violent, absolutely never happens. You might want to go and look up some statistics concerning domestic violence among lesbians; I suspect you may be surprised.
In my own observation, women have just as much capacity for spite, hatred, and general vindictiveness as we do; they're just less direct in how they go about expressing it.
Here's some more proof; if women as a gender are any more inclined towards positive treatment of other life forms in general than we are, then movement towards an exclusively female society will not happen. I'm very familiar with the misandronistic line that it's simply payback for however many millenia of male dominance; but if they were really any better, they wouldn't simply be clamouring for the shoe to be on the other foot.
They'd be looking for a way in which we could both actually co-exist in a positive way, without either gender being held down by the other.
Women who aren't mentally ill (and I'm hoping that at least a few of them read Slashdot, and will back me up on this) understand something which their mentally stable male counterparts also do; namely that man and woman are both equal halves of the species, and both halves ideally depend on each other in order to survive. Chauvanism is wrong, whether it is practiced by male or female; when woman suffers, man really suffers with her, and vice versa.
That is something which mechanistic, atheistic science cannot change; and we as an entire species will simply be destroyed by it if any of us try.
Once they use stem cell research to figure out how to make G the new standard cup size for women in particular, I will enthusiastically offer my support.
The "skill" issue has only ever really been brought up by FPS gamers who have a need to feel superior to everyone else.
Truthfully, I've always tended to believe that WoW's pre-Arena PvP actually involved a lot more skill than the FPS games I'd played prior to that. The simple reason is actually because in WoW's PvP, you were able to stay alive for a certain period of time.
In a conventional FPS, it's one hit = dead. You don't have time to be skilled or unskilled; most of the time, death has absolutely nothing to do with you at all. You'd still die whether you were a decent player or not.
The FPS demographic won't agree, of course; and they have now destroyed WoW's PvP as well. The Arena was brought into the game specifically to cater to them, and it destroyed the game not long after.
So it's a moot point either way. The CounterStrike crowd get listened to and get what they want because they scream the loudest, not because they're actually right. Blizzard (sorry, I mean Activision) listened to them with regards to the Arena, because they thought that's where the money was.
Also, for any Arena players who feel like responding to this and telling me about what awesome fun the Arena is, and how I'm wrong about that, etc etc, don't bother. The entire thing is exploit based and always has been; it's based on composition and healer skill if anything, not offensive player skill. It's CounterStrike with bubbles and HoTs if the Priest or Druid you've got with you is able to get them off in time.
If you don't have a healer in your comp, you're screwed, and it won't matter how good you are.
My worry is that Russia will use the money, released from no longer having to maintain part of their arsenal, to have another foray into another ex-Soviet state.
Who gives a shit? The only reason why conventional skirmishes have ever been a problem is because you then have to worry about them going nuclear.
If the Russians want to go and get a few hundred thousand of themselves killed in Chechnya or the Ukraine, I hope they enjoy themselves, but as long as it doesn't have the potential to become either nuclear or large scale conventional, there's no particular reason why anyone else should care. If Afghanistan didn't teach them anything, then let them bash their heads against the imperialistic brick wall a few more times if they want; aside from the invaded country, it's no skin off anyone else's nose at all.
Americans need to stop caring so much about every minor regional scuffle that breaks out. Learn to mind your own business, and refrain from getting involved; it will hurt you a lot less in the long run, if nothing else.
Sorry; I define a "need," as something which someone will physically die without.
You won't die from a lack of sexual activity. Abstain even from masturbation, and as a male at least, you'll probably get very moody and feel rather sick after 6-8 weeks or so, but it still won't kill you. You could also go entirely without vaginal or anal penetration for your entire life, and not die from it.
Thus, sex is not a need. The people who claim they need sex are the same idiots who claim they need chocolate or mobile phones; it's in the same category.
Good plan. The next time an atheist comes to my door to preach at me I'll just tell them to go away. Oh, wait, that never happens.
This piece of inanity masquerading as intelligence had already been posted in response to my GP, and yet this post gets modded Insightful rather than Redundant, purely due to conformity with the groupthink.
How much more evidence do we need to be confronted with, that the WoWtards have truly inherited Slashdot, and that this site's older (read: vastly more intelligent) population have now moved on?
Yeah, but I know plenty of atheists who are douchebags as well.
Atheists are generally far more obnoxious than most Christians, in my experience. If I get a Mormon at my front door, I can tell them I'm not interested, and they'll go away.
Try doing that with an evangelical atheist sometime. Atheists don't take no for an answer, because they think that the only reason why someone might not want to listen to them, is because said person wants to "remain ignorant."
Aside from anything else, in the case of most people, contemporary atheism is actually complete bullshit. Most people these days who are atheists aren't because they're scientific rationalists or intellectuals. Rather, they're atheists because they're generally close to being sociopathic; the proverbial 4chan or WoW-addicted, 15 year old asshole who exploits online anonymity to be savage and devoid of empathy towards as many people as possible, and being a theist might imply that they actually gave a fuck about something.
(3) Abstaining/reducing risky sexual behaviors. For slashdotters, this shouldn't be a problem.
a) Use condoms/spermicides etc.
b) If you're going to be in more than a one night stand with someone, (which is preferable, from a disease point of view) then at least see if they'd be willing to get tested; especially if they've previously engaged in bisexual activity. It might not be politically correct to say it, but outside of the Third World, HIV is a primarily gay or bi disease. Call me a bigot for that as much as you want, and then once you've finished, go and look up the statistics.
c) Don't go near the ass. No anal sex, no analingus, and none of the other related activities, either. In sexual terms, HIV's primary means of transmission/propogation are either anal sex or anal/oral contact.
d) If you need blood work or transfusions done, find out what the hygeine policies of the place in question are, in advance.
e) Realise that abstinence will not kill you, and that consequently, contrary to popular perception, sex is actually a want, rather than a need.
Here in Melbourne this last summer, we had our two hottest days on record, both at 46 degrees centigrade. Victoria also has not had seasonal rainfall now for 14 years.
Global warming is very real, and has been measured all over the planet; look up some of the studies that have been done on the polar ice caps.
The only people who want to believe that global warming isn't occurring are the capitalist fanatic, "making money is literally more important than being alive to spend it," crowd, who want an excuse to continue to rape the planet until it is no longer inhabitable at all. Such people do not care about the survival of anyone, including their own.
These people need to be silenced. We need to move past the debate stage, and into the stage where we start taking concrete action to rectify the problem...and at least halt it, even if it cannot be reversed. Something else that is appropriate to quote, here.
"Only when the last tree has been cut down,
Only when the last river has been poisoned,
Only when the last fish has been caught...
Only then, will you realise, that money cannot be eaten."
but I do in this instance.
Linux IMHO should not be incorporating Microsoft's standards in any form. Doing so could lead to litigation, and eventually the death of the system.
Ballmer would probably love to see Linux implementations of a few bits of Microsoft's stuff, purely so that he would have the grounds to sue someone later. Integrating such material is therefore very dangerous.
Australia governmentally may or may not be better than some other places. However, when you come here, you'll also have the following things waiting for you:-
- Racism. It wasn't always so bad in Australia, but it's getting a lot worse in recent years. We had the Cronulla race riots a few years back, and then there were the Indian riots in Melbourne recently. I consider the racism an American cultural import, personally; it isn't an inherently Aussie thing.
- Alcoholism and drug abuse, integrated as part of the culture; along with the associated violence. Methamphetamine abuse is chronic in Australia, and good luck finding anyone under the age of 35 or so who also doesn't smoke weed. The Australian penchant for alcohol abuse is just as legendary these days as it has ever been, as well.
- An angry, aggressive, unintelligent, anti-intellectual population, at least as far as whites are concerned. You mentioned having some IT skills; that's a good thing, because the only other three jobs you'll be likely to get here involve either fixing cars, building houses, or agriculture. Yes, of course we have a hospitality industry, but have fun getting into it. My younger brother both holds a Gaming Liquor License and did a modelling course a while back, and the best jobs he's been able to get were tending bar and delivering pizzas.
- A spineless, emasculated legal system. If the above mentioned racist, drug addicted louts invade your home early one morning, (I've had it happen to me) you are not legally permitted to defend yourself, like you are in America. You also aren't legally permitted to own a gun without a license in Australia, and the police are selective about who they give licenses to, as well.
If you happen to get murdered by said miscreants, you can also rest assured that they will be unlikely to serve more than ten years in jail, and in some cases, possibly not even five, depending on whether or not their lawyer is able to make a magistrate cry into his microphone about what broken homes they had.
I've been in Tamera which is a "healing biotope" about the healing of the earth and humanity and making models of living in peace.
Bad idea. All it takes there is a foreign government (not even necessarily the US) to declare that Tamera is a "terrorist training camp," and the site could get a Falluja makeover within 72 hours.
Moving to a commune these days is a death wish. For the reason why, just ask David Koresh.
I'd say the US comes closest to real freedom.
I'm honestly trying to understand, here. How is it that there is a single American left in existent, who still believes this?
Seriously, Americans; what will have to happen for you to finally stop drinking the ideological Kool-Aid which your education system pours down your throats? Will a future government literally have to start shooting you in the streets before you grow out of the fairy tales that you were raised with?
If the mythology about American freedom was ever true, it certainly isn't after the second Bush government. You've proven that your government is no better than any other tyranny on the face of the planet, morally speaking. The only real difference is that they're slightly less blatant, and more careful about making sure they don't get caught.