Fuck knows, but they do.. Didn't a whole town full of christians
spend their holiday period burning Harry Potter? Harry Potter,
JESUS CHRIST, some people need to think before they breed.
Who else wants this stuff banned? It all comes down to the fear that
christians have always had of the truth, and that one day,
"heaven forbid", their superstition be found out to be, shall we say,
not 100% true? Maybe the world is older than 6000 years after all?
Heck, maybe god has nothing to do with banning abortions and condoms,
as he has nothing to do with Harry Potter, or censorship in general.
But then again, since Constantine, what has christianity got to do with god either?
Its politics and power
Yeah... Christians really are the obvious fundamentalists in the world nowadays. Idiot.
I'm not 100% sure what your rambling about, but you are welcome to elaborate.
I know the superstitous like to divide themselves into factions such as
"Jews" and "Muslims" and "Christians", but they all have one thing in common,
they all believe falsehoods, and I group them into the same category as all the other
people that despise reason and common-sense in exchange for their archaic rituals.
I don't respect any religion (except perhaps the parody religions and satanism, I get their points.)
Adult themes may include verbal references to and depictions associated with issues such as suicide, crime, corruption, marital problems, emotional trauma, drug and alcohol dependency, death and serious illness, racism, religious issues
Thats some scary shit! I would have been totally unsurprised
to see 'political issues' in that list as well. Surely a progressive
society that believes in free speech has an interest
in making sure material, of any nature, is available to anyone,
regardless.
I sure has hell can't think of any text, sound, or image, moving
or still, that is so harmful to my kids, that I will disregard my love
for free speech so much, that I would censor that material from them.
Its the fear, the banning, and the censorship, from superstitous fundamentalists
such as christians, that gives this material its stigma, not the material itself.
Yeah for sure, most of us are developing sickening feelings whenever we see how our culture is being overridden by americanization. Not just with computer software, but with music and movies etc too. The backlash against this is slowly building up steam, but a lot of the young'uns still see america as the coolest place in the world. Once they get to high school though, cynicism plays its part, and people start to question americas dominance of everything.
I think the source is available.. If you want it to run under the native gui layer instead of the x windows, you make have to hack yourself up some quick gui code, but thats part of the fun.
Hiroshima, Vietnam, sanctions against poor starving Iraqis, these are crimes against humanity. This is simply justice, against a nation that has gone crazy with it's own ideals of invincibility and superiority. And especially against the childish and dangerous attitude of George Bush towards foreign relations.
My hearts go out to all the Muslim people that are regrettabley going to suffer the prejudices that the vengful and misunderstanding americans are going to display.
Everyone knows that a 1GHz Athalon is equivalent to a 1.5GHz Pentium, so who cares? AMD won't suffer by being honest about the clock speed, model numbers are pretty stupid, if they are really so ashamed to admit they can get a better performance per clock cycle then how about model names instead, that could be cool.
How is it that KDE is keeping up with them then? (surpassing, even, IMHO) Greater support from non-paid developers?
Its the underlying library Qt. It supports C++ natively, and is developed by a company and a large team of paid developers. This makes people write KDE software.
I prefered a lot of things about GNOME, but wanted to write object-oriented C++, and unfortunatley, Gtk-- is written by a single developer, and doesn't seem to develop as fast. Its possible that a product done by a company could have longer longevity than a product by a single individual too.
Some people need reminding that Linux is
behind commercial UNIX in many important areas. My
1985 copy of SCO Xenix-286 has good stuff still
missing
from Linux.
What features exactly? (Apart from support for the 286 chip).
It is possible for programmers to get paid for writing open source software too. Most programmers get paid for writing custom software, this stuff cannot simply be downloaded, so a firm pays for it to be written.
The firm gets an advantage by making this open source, simply because this allows the programmer, to build on open source building blocks, and copy existing code.
I was saddened and sickened by Red Hats latest press release, it is plainly racist. Chinese coders have indeed contributed substantially to the linux source code base, and I would speculate that many works if code, outside of china, are also not submitted back into the open source world.
Also They didn't even tell us what coders, what software, and what license were involved, so Red Hats press release lacks total credibility.
Its pure china-bashing.
Just what I would expect from the company that released a RedHat 7.0 with a non-compatable gcc.
It seems this light beam system can only produce consistent coffee, not perfect coffee.
For perfect coffee one would have to use an espresso at least, its always better than filter, due to the temperature and pressure and finer grind of coffee used.
No, I don't think here would be a lot you can do unless you have very specialist skills. Generally companies want you to look at staying with them for at least 3 years. One to get into it, one to get some work started, and a third to actualy feel at home.
You could however look at being self employed and you may discover or purchase some business model that permits you to make money while travelling overseas.
Yes but the internet is precisely the thing that can change the status quo in that unfortunate, but very promising nation. So its important that this is one thing the government has minimal control over.
Its something the Government could easily do, but it would seriously affect it's usefulness and defeat the purpose of constructing this net in the first place.
I predict The Party will be unlikely to impose severe censorship, once they consider its benefits, and the internet will be a great enabler of positive change in The Peoples Republic.
Satanists should go knocking on doors (merely to mock the JoHos and Mormons, that is), it could be just the thing we need to ban those pests, including Jehovahs and Mormans (from knocking on doors that is).
So do any slashdotters live in areas, where other groups religous or otherwise, go-a-knocking?
Well I find that sort of uninvited intrusion rude and unwelcome, but I always invite them in to "discuss ideology" anyway hehehe.
what about the most important thing of all?
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I don't think any corporation can be considered Open Source friendly until we can see some actual open source code.
My biggest fear is being part of the generation that ended scientific progress in fear of being seen as "unethical" or whatever that is.
In fact ethics and morality are so culturally dependant, that there are no universal standards, and certainly legislature should't enforce ethical and moral standards.
The best government can do is to permit everything within reason, and let individual cultures decide what should not be permitted.
Genetic engineering is the next frontier and opens up chances of our species surviving into the future, but the christians are so rapped up in their rapture and determined to see some disaster, that they want to restrict science as much as possible in the hope we wont develop technologies to help us cope with over population for example (which the christians try to cope with by abandoning the use of contraceptives?!)
Don't the realise that it was Gregor Mendel, a christian monk, that invented the science of genetics?
Ok so the perfect output device for the HDTV could just be this 42 inch plasma flat panel but where do we source a HDTV signal?
Can anyone actually get this via cable or satelite? Whats the other hardware requirements invloved in the ultimate HDTV experience?
There is no reason why the government should be applying restrictions to immigration. Immigration should be completely open because when it is, both domestic and foreign economies prosper, and unemployment reduces drastically.
Especially when combined with a sensible abolishment of the minimum wage.
The state can simply not afford to maintain the lifestyles of the non-contributing members of society any longer.
I don't know why Browne has featured so insignificantly in the media. Ooops, politics is off topic now isnt it.:)
But the net result is that one photon goes through and the other one doesn't. Nothing spooky at all. Also they aren't acting in concert, because they aren't changing their alignment, it stays fixed. And while the alignments of each may not be known to an observer, (of course we can "predict" what will happen but we just cant "guess" which one is which), they are predetermined by the pysical situation at any arbitrary time 0.
So don't try to confuse us by making it sound like a fancy particle physics problem when its just a bit of common sense, cause and effect stuff.
Exactly, this guy was merely exercising his right as was Guiness when they applied to have the domains revoked. The real evil entity here is the WIPO panel, the sole member of which is James Bridgeman.
You can let him know how you feel about his decision via his email:
Cmon, net g33ks have always loved the soothing mellow high of cannabis over the agressive stupefying intoxication of alcohol anyway. Drinking piss sux, and this rude action on the part of guiness emphasises that. No weed dealer or grower that I know has or would think of stealing a domain name froma private individual.
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spend their holiday period burning Harry Potter? Harry Potter,
JESUS CHRIST, some people need to think before they breed.
Who else wants this stuff banned? It all comes down to the fear that
christians have always had of the truth, and that one day,
"heaven forbid", their superstition be found out to be, shall we say,
not 100% true? Maybe the world is older than 6000 years after all?
Heck, maybe god has nothing to do with banning abortions and condoms,
as he has nothing to do with Harry Potter, or censorship in general.
But then again, since Constantine, what has christianity got to do with god either?
Its politics and power
I'm not 100% sure what your rambling about, but you are welcome to elaborate.
I know the superstitous like to divide themselves into factions such as
"Jews" and "Muslims" and "Christians", but they all have one thing in common,
they all believe falsehoods, and I group them into the same category as all the other
people that despise reason and common-sense in exchange for their archaic rituals.
I don't respect any religion (except perhaps the parody religions and satanism, I get their points.)
Thats some scary shit! I would have been totally unsurprised
to see 'political issues' in that list as well. Surely a progressive
society that believes in free speech has an interest
in making sure material, of any nature, is available to anyone,
regardless.
I sure has hell can't think of any text, sound, or image, moving
or still, that is so harmful to my kids, that I will disregard my love
for free speech so much, that I would censor that material from them.
Its the fear, the banning, and the censorship, from superstitous fundamentalists
such as christians, that gives this material its stigma, not the material itself.
Yeah for sure, most of us are developing sickening feelings whenever we see how our culture is being overridden by americanization. Not just with computer software, but with music and movies etc too. The backlash against this is slowly building up steam, but a lot of the young'uns still see america as the coolest place in the world. Once they get to high school though, cynicism plays its part, and people start to question americas dominance of everything.
I think the source is available.. If you want it to run under the native gui layer instead of the x windows, you make have to hack yourself up some quick gui code, but thats part of the fun.
Hiroshima, Vietnam, sanctions against poor starving Iraqis, these are crimes against humanity. This is simply justice, against a nation that has gone crazy with it's own ideals of invincibility and superiority. And especially against the childish and dangerous attitude of George Bush towards foreign relations.
My hearts go out to all the Muslim people that are regrettabley going to suffer the prejudices that the vengful and misunderstanding americans are going to display.
Everyone knows that a 1GHz Athalon is equivalent to a 1.5GHz Pentium, so who cares? AMD won't suffer by being honest about the clock speed, model numbers are pretty stupid, if they are really so ashamed to admit they can get a better performance per clock cycle then how about model names instead, that could be cool.
Its the underlying library Qt. It supports C++ natively, and is developed by a company and a large team of paid developers. This makes people write KDE software.
I prefered a lot of things about GNOME, but wanted to write object-oriented C++, and unfortunatley, Gtk-- is written by a single developer, and doesn't seem to develop as fast. Its possible that a product done by a company could have longer longevity than a product by a single individual too.
So I went to Qt.
What features exactly? (Apart from support for the 286 chip).
It is possible for programmers to get paid for writing open source software too. Most programmers get paid for writing custom software, this stuff cannot simply be downloaded, so a firm pays for it to be written.
The firm gets an advantage by making this open source, simply because this allows the programmer, to build on open source building blocks, and copy existing code.
What? You haven't tried Debian?
Also They didn't even tell us what coders, what software, and what license were involved, so Red Hats press release lacks total credibility.
Its pure china-bashing.
Just what I would expect from the company that released a RedHat 7.0 with a non-compatable gcc.
For perfect coffee one would have to use an espresso at least, its always better than filter, due to the temperature and pressure and finer grind of coffee used.
Its a bit americo centric
You could however look at being self employed and you may discover or purchase some business model that permits you to make money while travelling overseas.
Its something the Government could easily do, but it would seriously affect it's usefulness and defeat the purpose of constructing this net in the first place.
I predict The Party will be unlikely to impose severe censorship, once they consider its benefits, and the internet will be a great enabler of positive change in The Peoples Republic.
So do any slashdotters live in areas, where other groups religous or otherwise, go-a-knocking?
Well I find that sort of uninvited intrusion rude and unwelcome, but I always invite them in to "discuss ideology" anyway hehehe.
I don't think any corporation can be considered Open Source friendly until we can see some actual open source code.
In fact ethics and morality are so culturally dependant, that there are no universal standards, and certainly legislature should't enforce ethical and moral standards.
The best government can do is to permit everything within reason, and let individual cultures decide what should not be permitted.
Genetic engineering is the next frontier and opens up chances of our species surviving into the future, but the christians are so rapped up in their rapture and determined to see some disaster, that they want to restrict science as much as possible in the hope we wont develop technologies to help us cope with over population for example (which the christians try to cope with by abandoning the use of contraceptives?!)
Don't the realise that it was Gregor Mendel, a christian monk, that invented the science of genetics?
Ok so the perfect output device for the HDTV could just be this 42 inch plasma flat panel but where do we source a HDTV signal?
Can anyone actually get this via cable or satelite? Whats the other hardware requirements invloved in the ultimate HDTV experience?
Especially when combined with a sensible abolishment of the minimum wage.
The state can simply not afford to maintain the lifestyles of the non-contributing members of society any longer.
I don't know why Browne has featured so insignificantly in the media. Ooops, politics is off topic now isnt it. :)
So don't try to confuse us by making it sound like a fancy particle physics problem when its just a bit of common sense, cause and effect stuff.
You can let him know how you feel about his decision via his email:
bridgeman@iol.ie
Cmon, net g33ks have always loved the soothing mellow high of cannabis over the agressive stupefying intoxication of alcohol anyway. Drinking piss sux, and this rude action on the part of guiness emphasises that. No weed dealer or grower that I know has or would think of stealing a domain name froma private individual.