What you say sounds very reasonable. You're right that it's not uncommon to have to play around with package versions to get things right or that you you can easily screw things up by messing with your portage configuration. My feeling is that Gentoo is great if you *enjoy* messing around with things, getting them exactly as you like and optimized for your exact hardware and preferences.
That it's a bad choice for a server sounds rather obvious to me. For that you want a distro targeted towards usability and especially towards stabiliy (and perhaps security). If there was a sudden rush of people adopting Gentoo for critical applications, I can easily see why there would be a just as rapid exodus.
As for "The Prisoner" after years of hype by fans I finally watched it last year, and I was unimpressed. Yes it is an intelligently-written series, but there were a lot of moments where I wanted to reach for the fast-forward button because many of the middle episodes were excruciatingly dull.
I still can't believe Rockstar had a mandatory recall on a game where you play a criminal, and the games primary objectives including assisinations, pimping, thieving and selling dugs
For the record, the game includes no pimping or drugs selling. In fact, at one point you kill a drug dealer whose dope is fucking up addicted members of your gang. I recall one mission in GTA3 where you have to rush to pick up prostitutes and deliver them to a policeman's ball, but I don't think there was anything like that in GTA:SA.
Not that I'm saying that invalidates your point or anything.
But if you show two people pretending to have sex (IIRC the hot coffee mod showed people fully clothed) then what were you thinking, we can't allow THIS and people would have to wait a year before being allowed to play this game (18+ vs 17+).
Correct me if I'm wrong (there's a good chance I am), but I think the 17+ thing is just a recommendation while 18+ is legally enforcible. No?
No, I'm hanging a noose. If I hang a noose and say "bring me that nigger over there!" then I'm threatening to lynch someone.
You can claim that all you like, but it doesn't change that hanging a noose has indeed been used as a threat and is still meant that way when used by KKK types.
It's a disgusting gesture meant to invoke a primal reaction but I wouldn't regard it as a threat on it's own.
I'm less offended by your defense of the right to display nooses in this way than the defense given by some other people here, because I think you really are just ignorant about history and this proves it.
This won't be a popular opinion but lynching would never have been the problem it was if the targeted population hadn't been deprived of it's right to keep and bear arms as a result of racially motivated gun control laws. Would you go into a community and drag someone out of his house to lynch him if you knew all of his neighbors had shotguns and were willing to use them?
I have nothing to add to this, I just want to say that I agree with it 100%.
The point is that YOU choose to see the noose as racial, regardless of what I am thinking if I put one up. In this case, it is less the action of the speaker than the interpretation of the listener.
That's absolute bullshit and you know it, unless you're completely ignorant about US history.
And does killing hurt more if it is racially motivated? Lynching is illegal. Lets focus on evil actions, because there are plenty of those.
Threatening to lynch is also illegal, and displaying a noose has historically been used to threaten lynching against blacks. This isn't rocket science.
I find it bizarre that the one example you choose to give of truly threatening speech is against whites, or that your proof against nooses being a threat against blacks is that "plenty of white people have been hung". You know perfectly well what the noose is used to symbolize, and that is violence against blacks.
Every time there's some special on the history of MTV, they talk about it being this crazy idea that no one thought would work, but they proved them all wrong, etc.. And yet MTV itself abandoned the concept they supposedly "proved" was a great idea.
I would contend that it is much simpler to avoid accidents in three dimensions than two: you have significantly more options should a collision be imminent.
Trust me, Grimms Fairy Tales are much better in their original form
I don't generally care for Disneyfication of classic stories, but in the case of the Grimm's fairy tales, it's difficult to say that the stories are better or worse left in their original hardcore form.
The original stories weren't so much supposed to be entertainment as moral and cautionary tales. Back in the day, the message to kids of Little Red Riding Hood was very relevant: don't wander around in the woods by yourself or you'll get eaten by a fucking wolf.
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The sky is exploding! The sky is exploding!
..and it will all be linux on the desktop and will come with a free copy of Duke Nukem forever.
and it will be open-source, which will have become ubiquitous.
What you say sounds very reasonable. You're right that it's not uncommon to have to play around with package versions to get things right or that you you can easily screw things up by messing with your portage configuration. My feeling is that Gentoo is great if you *enjoy* messing around with things, getting them exactly as you like and optimized for your exact hardware and preferences.
That it's a bad choice for a server sounds rather obvious to me. For that you want a distro targeted towards usability and especially towards stabiliy (and perhaps security). If there was a sudden rush of people adopting Gentoo for critical applications, I can easily see why there would be a just as rapid exodus.
Gentoo jokes are hardly funny anymore, since it seems most users have taken its issues to heart and moved on to Ubuntu.
I seem to have missed the party. What are all these Gentoo jokes/criticisms? I've been using it very happily since early this year so I'm curious.
Awesome, now we know which species we can let go extinct!
You do know that Rock Band was made by the same people who made Guitar Hero 1 and 2, don't you?
Which invalidates my point how?
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Is that an icon version of Mothula?
What makes you think everyone who knows of and likes The Prisoner follows every source that might possibly have news on this decades-old show?
Psychological. That's the key.
I think you're confusing "psychological" with "weird". ;)
As for "The Prisoner" after years of hype by fans I finally watched it last year, and I was unimpressed. Yes it is an intelligently-written series, but there were a lot of moments where I wanted to reach for the fast-forward button because many of the middle episodes were excruciatingly dull.
Patrick McGoohan made a list of seven episodes that "really count". See question #4 here: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/tv/the-prisoner/part1/
"The Design Failures That Led To Rock Band": everything they tried before they said "fuck it" and made a Guitar Hero ripoff with more instruments?
I still can't believe Rockstar had a mandatory recall on a game where you play a criminal, and the games primary objectives including assisinations, pimping, thieving and selling dugs
For the record, the game includes no pimping or drugs selling. In fact, at one point you kill a drug dealer whose dope is fucking up addicted members of your gang. I recall one mission in GTA3 where you have to rush to pick up prostitutes and deliver them to a policeman's ball, but I don't think there was anything like that in GTA:SA.
Not that I'm saying that invalidates your point or anything.
But if you show two people pretending to have sex (IIRC the hot coffee mod showed people fully clothed) then what were you thinking, we can't allow THIS and people would have to wait a year before being allowed to play this game (18+ vs 17+).
Correct me if I'm wrong (there's a good chance I am), but I think the 17+ thing is just a recommendation while 18+ is legally enforcible. No?
No, I'm hanging a noose. If I hang a noose and say "bring me that nigger over there!" then I'm threatening to lynch someone.
You can claim that all you like, but it doesn't change that hanging a noose has indeed been used as a threat and is still meant that way when used by KKK types.
It's a disgusting gesture meant to invoke a primal reaction but I wouldn't regard it as a threat on it's own.
I'm less offended by your defense of the right to display nooses in this way than the defense given by some other people here, because I think you really are just ignorant about history and this proves it.
This won't be a popular opinion but lynching would never have been the problem it was if the targeted population hadn't been deprived of it's right to keep and bear arms as a result of racially motivated gun control laws. Would you go into a community and drag someone out of his house to lynch him if you knew all of his neighbors had shotguns and were willing to use them?
I have nothing to add to this, I just want to say that I agree with it 100%.
The point is that YOU choose to see the noose as racial, regardless of what I am thinking if I put one up. In this case, it is less the action of the speaker than the interpretation of the listener.
That's absolute bullshit and you know it, unless you're completely ignorant about US history.
And does killing hurt more if it is racially motivated? Lynching is illegal. Lets focus on evil actions, because there are plenty of those.
Threatening to lynch is also illegal, and displaying a noose has historically been used to threaten lynching against blacks. This isn't rocket science.
I find it bizarre that the one example you choose to give of truly threatening speech is against whites, or that your proof against nooses being a threat against blacks is that "plenty of white people have been hung". You know perfectly well what the noose is used to symbolize, and that is violence against blacks.
Every time there's some special on the history of MTV, they talk about it being this crazy idea that no one thought would work, but they proved them all wrong, etc.. And yet MTV itself abandoned the concept they supposedly "proved" was a great idea.
Which is the purpose of trademark law -- to protect the customer
Jesus, what planet are you living on?
How about the Difference Engine?
That's changing the subject. We can (and should) cut all three.
I would contend that it is much simpler to avoid accidents in three dimensions than two: you have significantly more options should a collision be imminent.
Specifically, two more options.
It's news to me that we know who wrote the story. It was my impression that the metaphorical subtext was added later...
Awooooo- I mean, ba-a-a-a.
Trust me, Grimms Fairy Tales are much better in their original form
I don't generally care for Disneyfication of classic stories, but in the case of the Grimm's fairy tales, it's difficult to say that the stories are better or worse left in their original hardcore form.
The original stories weren't so much supposed to be entertainment as moral and cautionary tales. Back in the day, the message to kids of Little Red Riding Hood was very relevant: don't wander around in the woods by yourself or you'll get eaten by a fucking wolf.
he original reason Disney bought Touchstone was to release non-G rated movies separate from the Disney label.
I'm pretty sure that Disney itself founded Touchstone.