I have to disagree with you on the violence part. Unless the kids are living in a really bad neighborhood, they are not exposed to the level of violence you see in GTA. They don't understand the consequences of murder, or how non-normative it is in our society.
You might think something like "my character in GTA is a bad guy", but that's not a distinction a child would make. He would simply identify with the hero, the way he would identify with the murderous protagonists of various action movies. The mere fact that the he is the protagonist, automatically makes him "the good guy", and legitimizes his actions.
Children have no innate understanding of "acceptable violence". That's the reason child soldiers are the most vicious of murderers. They simply don't know that there's anything wrong with murder.
On the other hand, what's so wrong with kids getting "the wrong ideas" about sex? Santa Claus and GI Joe are fantasy too, and no one objects to them!
You're trying to make a point, but you're wrong. You can go to jail (at least where I live) if you torture a higher-order animal such as a dog, a pig or a cow, but not if you abuse a cockroach.
And btw, for better or worse, cows are a genetically engineered monster bred specifically for meat and milk. It's not a natural species that humans keep abusing. If all humans would disappear from the face of the earth, cows will perish as well.
I'm sorry, but Debian's site has all of the elegance and simplicity of a program that has a single, 200,000-line function, two-character variable names, and no comments.
If they had some basic typographic sensitivity, sense of color, and some decision regarding hierarchy, the site could've been way simpler, comfortable, inviting, and yes, visually attractive.
Note that I didn't mention flash or any kind of graphics. Lots of annoying animation/images != good graphic design. On top of that, just about any website user survey that was made indicated that users hate slow loading flash sites with lots of sounds etc. Users love simple, attractive designs.
But I agree with your main point: when you're designing a site (or just about anything, for that matter) that you intend other people to use, you have to pay attention to what they want/like. Being an ignorant snob with regards to graphic design (as many programmers unfortunately are) helps no one.
Uh-huh, the problem is that you don't decide what's "Communism" and what's not. Israeli Kibbutzim never collectively describe themselves as being Communist - they were, like MAPAI, merely "Socialist" (just like many socialist parties in Europe, for example). Those who did describe themselves as being "Communist" were all poor (in many cases, starving), oppressive dictatorships.
Btw, the Israeli Kibbutzim failed. AFAIK, all of them are undergoing privatization of some sort, and those who aren't are held alive purely due to huge government subsidies. Aside from the financial failure, it was a social failure as well: tearing children away from their families and growing them in "children's homes", forcing them to conform, etc. caused deep emotional traumas. Many people that were raised in the Kibbutzim describe themselves as Kibbutz Survivors.
I think what the parent meant was, that while explorer handles the desktop and the "My Computer" windows as well as the "file explorer" window, it is not a Window Manager.
And it really isn't. Windows doesn't have window managers as such - they are a peculiarity of the X window system.
This is not true, at least according to orthodox Jewish thought. In fact, it is widely acknowledged that while the Torah is the holiest text on earth, it is also very vague, which leads to many interpretations. If it was so simple and clear-cut, there would be no reason for the Gemmarah and the Mishnah to exist, and there would be no Talmudic scholars.
Option A is the correct one. The root HRG appears in the Tanakh, and it is certainly not a modern invention. The word for "killing animals" is Tavakh or Shakhat.
Btw, in modern Israeli law, "Retzhakh" is Murder and "Harigah" is Manslaughter.
And no-one's, including the Palestinians themselves is denying that the "Palestinian nation" is a very new one.
In the camps, they are afforded no political rights (can't become citizens, can't own land, etc.) and very few human rights. It's an untenable situation, and one that the U.N., the U.S., and Israel must answer for.
Uhm, yeah, they were denied basic human rights... by the Arab countries that hosted them. And yet...
It's an untenable situation, and one that the U.N., the U.S., and Israel must answer for.
And it was supposed to be divided among the Jews and the Arabs (with Arabs getting the vast majority of it). The Jews were fine with that. However, the Arab nations couldn't accept even a tiny Jewish nation, so they tried to destroy it. Unfortunately for the Arabs, the Jews won in that war, and took the majority of the land.
That's history.
In any case, what the grandparent poster probably meant was that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian problem known as the "two state solution". That solution is accepted by more or less all of the western world, Israel, and the moderate parts of the Palestinian society. Unfortunately, the Palestinian people elected a party that rejects this idea (they can't allow Israel to exist), thus plunging the Palestinian nation into a state of eternal war.
Btw, did you ever try to think of why the Jews needed Israel in the first place? Did you ever think of why Zionism became so popular after the holocaust? Oh, what am I saying, of course you didn't. All you can see is a "greedy land grab".
The point is that using a GUI to select aribtrary files is a trivial function, while "% find . -depth -print0 | cpio --null -pvd new-dir" is anything but.
I didn't mean to say that you were trying to prove that it was as trivial. My only point was that in the context of this debate, your comment was pretty funny, even if coincidentally so.
The cost of the fabric and the salary of the third-worlders that actually make the clothes are just a fraction of the price people pay for designer clothes. What do people pay for then? Well, design - i.e. intellectual property.
I mean, these "virtual" clothes even perform the same function as their real-world counterparts: to be aesthetically pleasing.
Because there are many fanatics and bigots that consider themselves to be "Mature". These folks usually think that hating gay people not only the proper way to behave, but the only acceptable one.
There's a filter in Photoshop called Extract, that does exactly the same thing (although I can't say if it's better or worse at it than SIOX). Photoshop had it for quite some time.
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You might think something like "my character in GTA is a bad guy", but that's not a distinction a child would make. He would simply identify with the hero, the way he would identify with the murderous protagonists of various action movies. The mere fact that the he is the protagonist, automatically makes him "the good guy", and legitimizes his actions.
Children have no innate understanding of "acceptable violence". That's the reason child soldiers are the most vicious of murderers. They simply don't know that there's anything wrong with murder.
On the other hand, what's so wrong with kids getting "the wrong ideas" about sex? Santa Claus and GI Joe are fantasy too, and no one objects to them!
Are you sure you don't mean HPV (that causes cervical cancer)?
And where do you get that 95% figure from?
And btw, for better or worse, cows are a genetically engineered monster bred specifically for meat and milk. It's not a natural species that humans keep abusing. If all humans would disappear from the face of the earth, cows will perish as well.
Could you give some examples of sites that were obviously designed by clueless print designers?
If they had some basic typographic sensitivity, sense of color, and some decision regarding hierarchy, the site could've been way simpler, comfortable, inviting, and yes, visually attractive.
Note that I didn't mention flash or any kind of graphics. Lots of annoying animation/images != good graphic design. On top of that, just about any website user survey that was made indicated that users hate slow loading flash sites with lots of sounds etc. Users love simple, attractive designs.
But I agree with your main point: when you're designing a site (or just about anything, for that matter) that you intend other people to use, you have to pay attention to what they want/like. Being an ignorant snob with regards to graphic design (as many programmers unfortunately are) helps no one.
Btw, the Israeli Kibbutzim failed. AFAIK, all of them are undergoing privatization of some sort, and those who aren't are held alive purely due to huge government subsidies. Aside from the financial failure, it was a social failure as well: tearing children away from their families and growing them in "children's homes", forcing them to conform, etc. caused deep emotional traumas. Many people that were raised in the Kibbutzim describe themselves as Kibbutz Survivors.
Also, Windows 95 included DOS, so there was no problem running DOS games and apps.
The situation is simply not comparable.
And it really isn't. Windows doesn't have window managers as such - they are a peculiarity of the X window system.
But now I think of it, and even in Europe (I won't even mention the Muslim world) it's a pretty prominent opinion.
Only complete morons actually believe what the Anonymous Coward parent said, so refuting his claims is kinda pointless.
Worst. Acronym. Ever.
Does it make it GNU/OS X?
This is not true, at least according to orthodox Jewish thought. In fact, it is widely acknowledged that while the Torah is the holiest text on earth, it is also very vague, which leads to many interpretations. If it was so simple and clear-cut, there would be no reason for the Gemmarah and the Mishnah to exist, and there would be no Talmudic scholars.
Btw, in modern Israeli law, "Retzhakh" is Murder and "Harigah" is Manslaughter.
Try to pronounce more like "Dune" and less like "Zoon". Also, think of the way it would be written (zain-yud-vav-nun).
That's history.
In any case, what the grandparent poster probably meant was that there is a solution to the Israeli/Palestinian problem known as the "two state solution". That solution is accepted by more or less all of the western world, Israel, and the moderate parts of the Palestinian society. Unfortunately, the Palestinian people elected a party that rejects this idea (they can't allow Israel to exist), thus plunging the Palestinian nation into a state of eternal war.
Btw, did you ever try to think of why the Jews needed Israel in the first place? Did you ever think of why Zionism became so popular after the holocaust? Oh, what am I saying, of course you didn't. All you can see is a "greedy land grab".
"Ridiculous bias" indeed.
I didn't mean to say that you were trying to prove that it was as trivial. My only point was that in the context of this debate, your comment was pretty funny, even if coincidentally so.
I wish I had mod points now - this comment deserves a +5 funny
I mean, these "virtual" clothes even perform the same function as their real-world counterparts: to be aesthetically pleasing.
The Hebrew word is pronounced "Zee-yun", not "Z'yun".
Do they? Isn't d20 an "open source" game system?
what pun?
Because there are many fanatics and bigots that consider themselves to be "Mature". These folks usually think that hating gay people not only the proper way to behave, but the only acceptable one.
There's a filter in Photoshop called Extract, that does exactly the same thing (although I can't say if it's better or worse at it than SIOX). Photoshop had it for quite some time.