I understand your point of view, but the marijuana legalization movement is stronger now than it ever has been. It's come to state law enforcement facing off with federal law enforcement with guns drawn. The fight has moved out of the streets and into the halls of power. It is no longer as visible, but it is more powerful. The people are slowly starting to learn that action is better than complaining, and they are slowly but surely beginning to prove it with their votes, and not with a hand painted sign dancing in the streets.
This suffers from the same problems, however. The numbers will be inflated because there is still a huge pressure on people to put on a front because of the worry that their views are not shared. I freely admit to having no polls or studies to present, but I do not believe a reliable measure can be made of this sort of thing because of its very nature. I meet new people all the time, and once you take the time to get past the facade and they start to open up to what the really believe the world is an incredibly liberal place. There are still the bigots and the racists, but they suffer from a different problem than fundamentalist religion based morality presents. However I believe there is some overlap. For example, the gay hater who does what he does out of fear that he might be one. Why does he fear it? The answer to that question is obvious. The gaining popularity of willfull and selective public living facilitated by cheap and easy global communication will slowly erode the global social facade that anyone who is paying attention sees every day they interact with the world. As it becomes more and more acceptable to have public ideas that go against the grain the world will have no choice but to accept what it really is. Humanity is growing up, and it is time we learn who we are.
This emerging generation has one thing all of the others did not have, however, and the changes it is bringing to the world are already noteworthy for such an early stage. That is ubiquitous world-wide cheap communication. Communication has always been responsible for significant large scale changes in societies, and never before has such a level of communication been achieved. From wikipedia to the rise of the blog to the formation of a unique internet culture, and this is only the beginning.
Besides the point about morality has nothing to do with idealism. Being tolerent is not being an idealist. It takes more work to be in-tolerent and fundamentalist. It's much easier to say "whatever, I don't care if you are gay" than it is to fight tooth and nail to pass legislation to ban it because of some "higher order" you think you are following.
Erosion of privacy is when personal details about your life are taken from you. It's when police chiefs talk about tapping everyones home or looking up library records without a warrant. If I willfully give away information about myself then I never did consider it very private then, did I? This crap about lost opportunities, while perhaps partially true in today's freakishly religious climate, will not be such an issue as these things become more common. This is absolute proof that the minority voice controls the world. Damn near everyone has to lie about who they are because they're afraid everyone else lives some higher "moral" standard and will look down on them. This is simply not true. Even the noisy types who push this false sense of morality on us hardly practice what they preach. As a global community develops and communication with the entire world becomes simple and cheap the world will shift as knowledge becomes free. You will no longer have to worry about losing your job because there is a picture of you with a joint on someones myspace page or your hair is dyed neon blue. The transition period will not be smooth, but I welcome the day. All this article does is beg us to continue living in fear of some invisible and nonexistent moral majority. I, for one, refuse.
It is already happening. The company I work for was founded by two young entrepreneurs that grew up in the age where knowledge was free and they learned that masturbation won't cause hair to grow on your hands or your dick to fall off. They learned that the D.A.R.E. cop that told them the story of the young man who died from ONE hit from a joint was LYING. They realized that nobody else they grew up with believed this horseshit anymore either. They only care about your skill and your work ethic. As the younger generations start to take back this world it will become a better place to live because of the global community and available, simple worldwide communication.
You must still be using the linux from 2002... because last I checked every single negative point you have mentioned has been solved. Perhaps you should read the KDE HIG, or visit openusability.org, or actually install a distribution with automatic dependency resolution. When I plug a flash drive in a window pops up asking me what I want to do with it based on the types of files in it.. automatically. Same with a camera. Plugging a scanner in makes it immediately available to any program that needs to use it.. Perhaps you need to stop using slackware. Perhaps you should visit freedesktop.org or learn what HAL and DBus are... all of these technologies you claim linux is missing not only exist, but work, and work well.
Did you ever try to fight the school on this, or did you just expect someone else to raise a voice for you? Lets see.. if your story is true then you have both documentation from the doctors visit and absolutely no injuries on the woman who kicked your ass. Did you even bother to press charges or file a complaint with the school board? What the hell were your parents doing about the situation? Did they just pretend nothing happened as well?
There needs to be some sort of OSS equivalent to Visual Basic (what I mean by that is ease of developing GUI applications).
You should check out Gambas. It is a BASIC implementation with visual capabilities. It does not aim to clone VB, however, so there are many major differences, but it is the same concept.
(Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Gambas. I am just a fan.)
This is the text of the bill passed by both the house and senate. This version of the bill DOES contain that section. I hope for the sake of anyone who reads your post that they also read this reply.
Re:Not the job, it's the type of person
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"I don't have any kind of custody of my son, basically because my ex is from a rich family and I was dead broke at the time from paying her credit card bills. I do have standard visitation, though, and I'm always pushing for more."
Sounds to me like you were used. Women these days will not hesitate to take advantage of men. They will convince you they love you, and even worse, they'll use pregnancy to prove it or lock you in if they have to. Then they will drain you dry. She got you to pay off her debt, then took your son and hauled ass. Is she demanding child support and/or alimony as well? I've seen women pop out a kid for less. Women are not to be trusted. They are simply too good at playing men, and the modern women has learned this.
I'm not sure if you are advocating that movies producers need to be more responsible or just venting, but ultimately education is not the job of the entertainment industry. I find it very easy to separate fact and fiction. If I saw it on a movie, it is fiction until I verify it with a trusted source. I don't care if it is accurate or not. If I think I remember something as fact I try to to remember where I learned it, and if I am unable to remember precisely where and how then I treat it as fiction. There are very simple rules anyone can follow to avoid spreading or relying on misinformation. Also, no, your best friend is NOT a trusted source. Hell I barely consider educators to be trusted sources. If these simple rules were followed by everyone many of the urban legends and other types of misinformation we encounter on a daily basis would cease. Unfortunately it'll never happen, but anyone who relies on movie for gun safety advice deserves a darwin award.
I've always found myself in the exact opposite position. I've run linux exclusively for a few years, and not to stick it to microsoft. For one I hate dual booting. I think it is a real pain in the ass. Both Windows and Linux have apps the other does not that I want to run. I ultimately decided on Linux because it is easier for me to work with due to its open nature. I can run most of the windows apps I want (the rest aren't really that big a deal) using wine (linux's cygwin with the ability to run unmodified binaries). To put it more simply, Linux IS the path of least resistance to me. I am not sure what is different about me that makes it so, but it is.
I'm calling Bullshit here. I would MUCH rather have opposing parties in the executive and legislative branches. Especially if the alternative is control of both branches by the religious right. In that situation it would be better to have gridlock than what we have now.
While it is unfortunate the build from source aspect of gentoo is what gets all the attention (the 'my system is 10x as fast now!!@!!@!@!oneone' bullshit from people who have no clue what they are talking about), not all users use it for that. In fact, I have been a gentoo user for over 4 years now, and I HATE the build from source aspect. It is my least favorite part of gentoo. It is time consuming and error prone. I do, however, love portage. I love use flags. I love the init system. There are a great deal many things about gentoo that make it an outstanding distro that I will continue to use. The fact that it is a source based distro is not one of them. However, I will note that being able to manually patch packages between the unpack and compile stages of the installation process can be handy.
What, exactly, is this exploit? As a previous poster mentioned all there is on the site are a couple of screenshots showing the system is up to date and a console window showing some gibberish. All the text of the article says is that there is some mysterious bug in a general part of IE that is being used to install spyware. There's not a damn thing else. What is the nature of this bug? What websites exploit it? How can I reproduce the exploit? There are absolutely no details beyond an accusation and a screenshot that demonstrates nothing. I could "discover" a new 0day exploit in IE every day like this!
I'm not sure which of these are on what is considered network tv, but surely some of them are. There's Bones, Invasion, The Closer, Smallville, 24, and that's just what is currently still in production. TV seems to be coming out of the reality series insanity a bit. There are lots of new drama's coming out that look like they may have potential. There's plenty to see. All you have to do is look.
Re:Turning the computer inside out
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Ya. Screw applications. Tools are the way to go......
Our? Speak for yourself. There are plenty of us left who can sit through an entire album; lights dimmed, fully reclined, eyes closed, volume up. Usually a great album is better than any movie. There are still plenty of us who love talent, and an artist who can meld 10-12 tracks into an hour long cohesive whole that can take your mind on an amazing journey of emotion and sensation. Music is life. I pity anyone who is unable to understand how to listen to it.
Gosh, this has gotta be the perfect phone for KDE lovers!
OK. Now I understand that people generally consider apps written in GTK to be gnome apps, but pure Qt apps stand out like a sore thumb on a KDE desktop. Qt is merely the foundation that the multitude of KDE technologies is built on. In fact, about the only people that use KDE that care much about Qt are the developers. Even most of the default Qt widgets are extended in KDE. This phone does not use KDE. It does not use kparts, kio slaves, knotify, or any of the other technologies provided by KDE from the perspective of the end user or the developer.
To summarize, Qt != KDE. This is not a KDE lovers phone.
If only it had some sort of way to defend against such a situation. Perhaps some kind of change log, like a history of sorts. Maybe some sort of revision history. A method to see a list of changes made sorted by time. Yes, I think that would definately help if you needed to make sure your data was accurate. Someone should recommend this to wikipedia!
... is this news story just really, really late, or did they drop local news some time ago then readd it? Several years ago I had a my yahoo account for local movie listings. The listings were right under my local news.
As I understand it, they've already been paid. They don't have a billion in stocks. They have a billion in cash from stocks they've already sold. This $1 salary gimmick is much more like Dave Chappell screaming "I'M RICH, BITCH!!!" For those of you living in a cave, they are BRAGGING. I would have thought this was obvious.
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I do not and most web developers don't because we usually HATE the back button as it can really mess with your web apps.
While I generally agree I fail to see the relevence in this case. The aesthetics of a website really has no bearing on the quality of the information there. In fact, and unfortunately, one of the best ways to fool people via a website is to make sure the design is as professional as possible.
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I understand your point of view, but the marijuana legalization movement is stronger now than it ever has been. It's come to state law enforcement facing off with federal law enforcement with guns drawn. The fight has moved out of the streets and into the halls of power. It is no longer as visible, but it is more powerful. The people are slowly starting to learn that action is better than complaining, and they are slowly but surely beginning to prove it with their votes, and not with a hand painted sign dancing in the streets.
This suffers from the same problems, however. The numbers will be inflated because there is still a huge pressure on people to put on a front because of the worry that their views are not shared. I freely admit to having no polls or studies to present, but I do not believe a reliable measure can be made of this sort of thing because of its very nature. I meet new people all the time, and once you take the time to get past the facade and they start to open up to what the really believe the world is an incredibly liberal place. There are still the bigots and the racists, but they suffer from a different problem than fundamentalist religion based morality presents. However I believe there is some overlap. For example, the gay hater who does what he does out of fear that he might be one. Why does he fear it? The answer to that question is obvious. The gaining popularity of willfull and selective public living facilitated by cheap and easy global communication will slowly erode the global social facade that anyone who is paying attention sees every day they interact with the world. As it becomes more and more acceptable to have public ideas that go against the grain the world will have no choice but to accept what it really is. Humanity is growing up, and it is time we learn who we are.
This emerging generation has one thing all of the others did not have, however, and the changes it is bringing to the world are already noteworthy for such an early stage. That is ubiquitous world-wide cheap communication. Communication has always been responsible for significant large scale changes in societies, and never before has such a level of communication been achieved. From wikipedia to the rise of the blog to the formation of a unique internet culture, and this is only the beginning.
Besides the point about morality has nothing to do with idealism. Being tolerent is not being an idealist. It takes more work to be in-tolerent and fundamentalist. It's much easier to say "whatever, I don't care if you are gay" than it is to fight tooth and nail to pass legislation to ban it because of some "higher order" you think you are following.
Erosion of privacy is when personal details about your life are taken from you. It's when police chiefs talk about tapping everyones home or looking up library records without a warrant. If I willfully give away information about myself then I never did consider it very private then, did I? This crap about lost opportunities, while perhaps partially true in today's freakishly religious climate, will not be such an issue as these things become more common. This is absolute proof that the minority voice controls the world. Damn near everyone has to lie about who they are because they're afraid everyone else lives some higher "moral" standard and will look down on them. This is simply not true. Even the noisy types who push this false sense of morality on us hardly practice what they preach. As a global community develops and communication with the entire world becomes simple and cheap the world will shift as knowledge becomes free. You will no longer have to worry about losing your job because there is a picture of you with a joint on someones myspace page or your hair is dyed neon blue. The transition period will not be smooth, but I welcome the day. All this article does is beg us to continue living in fear of some invisible and nonexistent moral majority. I, for one, refuse.
It is already happening. The company I work for was founded by two young entrepreneurs that grew up in the age where knowledge was free and they learned that masturbation won't cause hair to grow on your hands or your dick to fall off. They learned that the D.A.R.E. cop that told them the story of the young man who died from ONE hit from a joint was LYING. They realized that nobody else they grew up with believed this horseshit anymore either. They only care about your skill and your work ethic. As the younger generations start to take back this world it will become a better place to live because of the global community and available, simple worldwide communication.
Do not fear it. Embrace it.
You must still be using the linux from 2002... because last I checked every single negative point you have mentioned has been solved. Perhaps you should read the KDE HIG, or visit openusability.org, or actually install a distribution with automatic dependency resolution. When I plug a flash drive in a window pops up asking me what I want to do with it based on the types of files in it.. automatically. Same with a camera. Plugging a scanner in makes it immediately available to any program that needs to use it.. Perhaps you need to stop using slackware. Perhaps you should visit freedesktop.org or learn what HAL and DBus are... all of these technologies you claim linux is missing not only exist, but work, and work well.
Did you ever try to fight the school on this, or did you just expect someone else to raise a voice for you? Lets see.. if your story is true then you have both documentation from the doctors visit and absolutely no injuries on the woman who kicked your ass. Did you even bother to press charges or file a complaint with the school board? What the hell were your parents doing about the situation? Did they just pretend nothing happened as well?
There needs to be some sort of OSS equivalent to Visual Basic (what I mean by that is ease of developing GUI applications).
You should check out Gambas. It is a BASIC implementation with visual capabilities. It does not aim to clone VB, however, so there are many major differences, but it is the same concept.
(Disclaimer: I have no affiliation with Gambas. I am just a fan.)
This is the text of the bill passed by both the house and senate. This version of the bill DOES contain that section. I hope for the sake of anyone who reads your post that they also read this reply.
"I don't have any kind of custody of my son, basically because my ex is from a rich family and I was dead broke at the time from paying her credit card bills. I do have standard visitation, though, and I'm always pushing for more."
Sounds to me like you were used. Women these days will not hesitate to take advantage of men. They will convince you they love you, and even worse, they'll use pregnancy to prove it or lock you in if they have to. Then they will drain you dry. She got you to pay off her debt, then took your son and hauled ass. Is she demanding child support and/or alimony as well? I've seen women pop out a kid for less. Women are not to be trusted. They are simply too good at playing men, and the modern women has learned this.
Um, that's kinda the point. America's Army teaches you to be a more effective killer than vice city does.
I'm not sure if you are advocating that movies producers need to be more responsible or just venting, but ultimately education is not the job of the entertainment industry. I find it very easy to separate fact and fiction. If I saw it on a movie, it is fiction until I verify it with a trusted source. I don't care if it is accurate or not. If I think I remember something as fact I try to to remember where I learned it, and if I am unable to remember precisely where and how then I treat it as fiction. There are very simple rules anyone can follow to avoid spreading or relying on misinformation. Also, no, your best friend is NOT a trusted source. Hell I barely consider educators to be trusted sources. If these simple rules were followed by everyone many of the urban legends and other types of misinformation we encounter on a daily basis would cease. Unfortunately it'll never happen, but anyone who relies on movie for gun safety advice deserves a darwin award.
I've always found myself in the exact opposite position. I've run linux exclusively for a few years, and not to stick it to microsoft. For one I hate dual booting. I think it is a real pain in the ass. Both Windows and Linux have apps the other does not that I want to run. I ultimately decided on Linux because it is easier for me to work with due to its open nature. I can run most of the windows apps I want (the rest aren't really that big a deal) using wine (linux's cygwin with the ability to run unmodified binaries). To put it more simply, Linux IS the path of least resistance to me. I am not sure what is different about me that makes it so, but it is.
I'm calling Bullshit here. I would MUCH rather have opposing parties in the executive and legislative branches. Especially if the alternative is control of both branches by the religious right. In that situation it would be better to have gridlock than what we have now.
While it is unfortunate the build from source aspect of gentoo is what gets all the attention (the 'my system is 10x as fast now!!@!!@!@!oneone' bullshit from people who have no clue what they are talking about), not all users use it for that. In fact, I have been a gentoo user for over 4 years now, and I HATE the build from source aspect. It is my least favorite part of gentoo. It is time consuming and error prone. I do, however, love portage. I love use flags. I love the init system. There are a great deal many things about gentoo that make it an outstanding distro that I will continue to use. The fact that it is a source based distro is not one of them. However, I will note that being able to manually patch packages between the unpack and compile stages of the installation process can be handy.
What, exactly, is this exploit? As a previous poster mentioned all there is on the site are a couple of screenshots showing the system is up to date and a console window showing some gibberish. All the text of the article says is that there is some mysterious bug in a general part of IE that is being used to install spyware. There's not a damn thing else. What is the nature of this bug? What websites exploit it? How can I reproduce the exploit? There are absolutely no details beyond an accusation and a screenshot that demonstrates nothing. I could "discover" a new 0day exploit in IE every day like this!
I'm not sure which of these are on what is considered network tv, but surely some of them are. There's Bones, Invasion, The Closer, Smallville, 24, and that's just what is currently still in production. TV seems to be coming out of the reality series insanity a bit. There are lots of new drama's coming out that look like they may have potential. There's plenty to see. All you have to do is look.
Ya. Screw applications. Tools are the way to go... ...
Our? Speak for yourself. There are plenty of us left who can sit through an entire album; lights dimmed, fully reclined, eyes closed, volume up. Usually a great album is better than any movie. There are still plenty of us who love talent, and an artist who can meld 10-12 tracks into an hour long cohesive whole that can take your mind on an amazing journey of emotion and sensation. Music is life. I pity anyone who is unable to understand how to listen to it.
Gosh, this has gotta be the perfect phone for KDE lovers!
OK. Now I understand that people generally consider apps written in GTK to be gnome apps, but pure Qt apps stand out like a sore thumb on a KDE desktop. Qt is merely the foundation that the multitude of KDE technologies is built on. In fact, about the only people that use KDE that care much about Qt are the developers. Even most of the default Qt widgets are extended in KDE. This phone does not use KDE. It does not use kparts, kio slaves, knotify, or any of the other technologies provided by KDE from the perspective of the end user or the developer.
To summarize, Qt != KDE. This is not a KDE lovers phone.
If only it had some sort of way to defend against such a situation. Perhaps some kind of change log, like a history of sorts. Maybe some sort of revision history. A method to see a list of changes made sorted by time. Yes, I think that would definately help if you needed to make sure your data was accurate. Someone should recommend this to wikipedia!
... is this news story just really, really late, or did they drop local news some time ago then readd it? Several years ago I had a my yahoo account for local movie listings. The listings were right under my local news.
As I understand it, they've already been paid. They don't have a billion in stocks. They have a billion in cash from stocks they've already sold. This $1 salary gimmick is much more like Dave Chappell screaming "I'M RICH, BITCH!!!" For those of you living in a cave, they are BRAGGING. I would have thought this was obvious.
I do not and most web developers don't because we usually HATE the back button as it can really mess with your web apps.
Some people might call this poor design....
While I generally agree I fail to see the relevence in this case. The aesthetics of a website really has no bearing on the quality of the information there. In fact, and unfortunately, one of the best ways to fool people via a website is to make sure the design is as professional as possible.
I think you missed the point somewhat.