Well, we're talking about two moving bodies, there are only a certain amount of impact points across possible axis' on the earth, I guess if one stopped moving for a while you could at least draw a band across the surface of the planet indicating possible impact sites if the speeds of the two moving bodies were different.
1) More like "Active Bug Fixes and patches for Gaping Security Holes" - nothing like the buffer overflow bug in lpr that allows arbitrary programs to be run to ruin your day.
Not at all like an email client which autoexecutes dynamic html enclosed in email and includes a convenient propogation system over the net, or the myriad excuses for software that MS writes on top of it's already mediocre OS just brimming with holes that would make a piece of swiss cheese look stable.
And yet simultaneously the vendor claims said holes don't exist
2) A case of Linux-o-phile onanism - try giving RH to your Grandma so she can install it on her Tandy 2000; she'll disown you. Most 12-year-olds who play with Linux are socially-challenged geeks who get a thrill out of typing "nmake"
Try giving your gradma MS DOS 6.22 or any offering thereafter from Microsoft to install on her Tandy 2000. Most docile bovinesque snapperheads who play with windows are intellectually challenged fuckwits who consider themselves enlightened because they can create a dial up networking connection.
3) We now see the Marketing Strategy of Linux unfolded - market penetration by subtefuge and deception.
Subterfuge and deception of aforementioned bovinesque vacant clusterfuck management sounds just fine by me. The strategy strikes as much more ethically acceptable than any of the ones outlined in the article used by MS in the OS/2 War.
In addition, your comment about Linux becoming "illegal" is nothing but pure, assenine FUD. Making Linux "illegal" would be equal to making Crystal Radio sets illegal, or even typewriters. Good deduction there, Sherlock!
I get it, it would never be done because it's stupid, and the government would never do something that was stupid!
If you want an example of pure assinine FUD look no further than the mirror.
Your bullshit argument basically amounts to saying that we weren't justified in doing anything about Hitler, because ethics is a subjective thing, and we can't impose our subjective values on somebody else or interfere with their own culturally valid ways of life. And should governments not impose laws that regulate conduct, since everybody has their own subjective interpretation of ethics?
No it doesn't. Hitler had an overt policy of extermination of people based on racial prejudice and massively expansionist goals far past the limits of even the former greater German Empire, he was perfectly willing to interfere with the rights of other states and impose his own subjective morallity on the residents thereof, he got a taste of his own medicine.
I'd humbly put the suggestion that you don't have a clue what you're talking about and that 98% / 2% statistic was, like 98% of statistics, this one inclusive, pulled out of your ass. You offer no supporting collaborative evidence of your accusations, you just throw them around like a little boy in search of something to hate / stand up against because by god your way of life shall not be challenged by this fscking yellow peril.
As for governments imposing laws that regulate conduct, only in so far as necessary for the functioning of society. That really doesn't go much further than murder, and theft, and the many variations thereof. Governments as they are are so malignant and pathetic my humble opinion is that we'd be millions of times better off without them.
So in response, it requires no clinging, ethics *is* subjective, purely. Even with your direct-from-fresh-ass statistics it's still up to the population in question to decide whether what is being done to them is ok, and if it's not, revolt.
Who are you to impose a global ethical standard on anyone? Ethics is a totally subjective ideal and there is no act that can alone be considered wrong or right, even in the post S11 environment of today.
1. Most Chinese in Hong Kong support the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. A CNN/Time survey showed, in fact, that 60% of the Chinese in Hong Kong support the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. (reference: "Poll: Hong Kong residents optimistic [cnn.com]" ) While East Timorese fought and died for independence from the oppressive Indonesian government, the Chinese in Hong Kong cheered the mainland Chinese government.
Hong Kong was leased to the British at the free will of mainland China, People in Hong Kong are Chinese. The Chinese government had stated prior to it's resumption of ownership of Hong Kong that they had no intention of interfering with the winning economics of the prosperous island, so why wouldn't the residents be happy?
East Timor was forcefully invaded and brutally repressed for 30 years after the Dutch withdrew from the island and granted it independence in order to maintain regional stability.
Apples and Oranges.
2. The constitution of the Chinese living in Taiwan supports the integration of both Tibet and Mongolia into mainland China. While Tibetans suffer and die at the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Chinese in Taiwan support integrating Tibet into "One China".
The Taiwanese are in a very delicate political situation, posturing from them draws posturing from the mainland and it is irresponsible and provocative of war not to pet the kitty whilst it's claws are out and threatening. Do you know the real opinion of the residents of Taiwan in relation to the issue of Tibet? Have you been there? have you asked them?
3. The Chinese son of the chairman of a powerful conglomerate in Taiwan has joined with the son of Jiang Zemin, the butcher of Tibet, to build an advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai. (reference: "Sons of prominent Chinese team up on chip venture [taipeitimes.com]")
Wasn't Mao the reigning chairman at the time of the invasion of Tibet, how did Jiang Zemin earn the title of Butcher of Tibet? as for the advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai, so what? More ridiculous hypocritical prattle from the Americans about how their local industries will be irrepairably damaged by free trade? Free Trade was something that developed countries with the US at the forefront were supposed to be pushing strongly, and Dubya Bush sticks a 40% tarrif on imported steel products, unilaterally defying the vaunted WTO, to protect the sacred cows in the rust belt, currying favour for the Republican party just ahead of the congressional elections.
I really really hate hypocrisy
4. Senior Chinese military officials retired from the Taiwanese military have gone to mainland China and given military secrets about the American F-16 fighter jet to the Beijing government. (reference: "Military secrets on sale to China [taipeitimes.com]")
What military secrets about the F-16 fighter jet? The piece of technology in question is over 10 years old, do you honestly think that they didn't already know everything relevant about it? What's left to know? Dimensions? Top speed? Armament Capability? All of this information is public domain from the manufacturer and various general knowledge sources
5. Most Chinese, including those living in the United States of America, support the territorial ambitions of mainland China. Most Chinese support integrating Tibet into mainland China. Most Chinese support integrating the Spratleys into mainland China. Most Chinese support integrating the Senkaku islands into mainland China.
Have you studied the issues behind why the Senkaku Islands should / should not be integrated into the Mainland? You've taken a position and not explained why, I'm not going to criticise your position because I don't understand the individual issues you're referring to well enough, except perhaps for Tibet, Which you've already gone over and I've already talked about re point 1.
6. Most Chinese support Beijing's attempt to use torture and murder to crush the Falun Gong. Indeed, the Beijing government has funded anti-Falun-Gong meetings within the United States itself. These meetings within the United States are attended by the very same Chinese who fight with tooth and nail to stay permanently in the United States of America.
And that is a prime example of hypocrisy to take such a stance against a spiritual movement in such an accepting country as America.
Didn't know many Branch Davidians? Never heard of WACO?
Let the nation state without sin cast the first stone, hint, it won't be the US.
And on the same subject, do you even know why the mainland government is attempting to repress Falun Gong, or have you merely accepted the spoonfed mainstream press info that they're doing it because they're mean and nasty?
I'm not saying that Falun Gong is the root of all evil, but you don't say anything in your statement that could be construed as a rebuke to the Mainland government's stance on the issue.
7. The Chinese from "poor, little, scared" Taiwan have invested more than $50 billion into more than 50,000 businesses in mainland China. How did this phenomenon happen? Immediately, after the Tienanman Square incident back in June 4, 1989, the American government and businesses curtailed investments in mainland China. The Taiwanese (and the other Chinese in Hong Kong) seized this window of opportunity and accelerated investments into mainland China. The rate of investments from Taiwan into China has skyrocketed to the present levels; investments continue to grow at double-digit rates. (In 1999, the "Wall Street Journal" reported that of all the Chinese arrested and convicted of stealing American military technology to give to Beijing, the majority of these Chinese came from Taiwan.)
That is merely an example of intelligent people exploiting the not so clever actions of a group of self hating foreigners. The outcome of the withdrawal of foreign investment should have been obvious. Not to say that it shouldn't have been done, but what did you expect? He with the least scruples wins.
8. These observations are not an exaggeration of any kind. At your university, attend your local meeting of Amnesty International. The engineering and business schools will have plenty of Chinese people, but there will be virtually _NO_ Chinese faces in a meeting of Amnesty International. Chinese (and other Orientals) are over-represented in engineering and business schools, but they are under-represented in meetings of Amnesty International. Why?
Amnesty international is the yardstick of your global ethical scale? Go look for Americans at a Shanghai Buddhist temple and tell me how many you find, then compare that number with the number of Chinese people in your local Amnesty International chapter, then cram it up your ass and stop spouting mindless mainstream spoonfed crap.
TV sucks period, that is what TV does, But I never had any idea the broadband was better in New Zealand, how do you class it as better? By speed, or by price? Tell me more!
Don't you guys have a completely moronic tax system?
Can anyone direct me to a URL discussing antimatter powerplants and the creation thereof? I have a vague recollection of reading that approximately a few pounds worth of antimatter would provide enough energy to transport us to the nearest stars, surely it would be possible to use this massive power supply for this application? I guess it comes down to how antimatter and matter collisions generate power. It's an interesting concept though, I assume most people aren't going to be comfortable with nuclear powered versions of the same.
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You speak of the Governor General, and while only a figure head, they do still have certain powers over the government. Australia came so close to becoming a republic a few years ago, so hopefully in another couple of years we will have broken free from our opressors!
Excuse me, let me regain my senses again enough to respond to this amusing remark.
The UK are the Australian population's "oppressors" ? If we're being repressed at all it certainly has little to nothing to do with Britain, a large amount of the reason that the referendum to enact a republic seperate from the British monarchy altogether was because of the other measures that the slimy Australian government proper attempted to slip in with the logical and perfectly acceptable removal of a constitutional link between Australia and England..
So whatever a general population wants is what should remain as such until the end of time?
in Victorian society child sex slaves were socially acceptable, homosexuallity was not, By your logic this would never have changed.
Emancipation proclamation never would have come to pass, civil rights movement in your countries in the 60s, etc.
Just because something has current popular support does not make it sensible, age based restrictions on intellectual material are ludicrous and until it can be categorically proven otherwise by scientific methods or studies of neural or behavioural pathology, this will continue to be the case.
There's more than just two parties in our system, you could have voted for one of the other ones.
And they're just as / moreso fucked up than the two majors, also they're nearly guarunteed to not get voted in, so a vote for them is a defacto vote for the slightly left of center, or slightly less left of center (labour, liberal).
Aussie classifications for film and literature HAVE SUCCEEDED. We can watch and read pretty much what we want, with commonsense restrictions that limit the availability of this material based on age.
Without wanting to be overtly offensive to someone I know next to nothing about, I take extreme offense at this statement, so excuse me, but fuck you.
How the hell is restricting access to material based on age "common sense"? Hint; Because that's how we've always done it is not a suitable response.
I'm no gun lover by any means, but I do like to have the freedom to make MY OWN choice, and not be subjected to some Big Brother attitude, lets rap the world in cotton wool type government that less than 50% of my fellow Australians voted for.
Hey, hey... What option does an Australian have? offhand, you can't vote for a single Australian political party actively in favour of repealing the current firearms laws or constructing a suitable alternative with concealed carry, etc.
Not that I voted at all last election, just pointing out, if you vote at all, you have to vote pro-gun-control.
Except that whack bitch Pauline Hanson, probably, on reflection, but she's discounted out of hand for being a damn fool.
Anyway, Australia appears to have a very statist position on both speech and self-defense. i.e., that the nice men from the government should create a padded-cell world for you.
I agree with everything you said and even to some degree this, but it isn't the case for everyone who lives here. Certainly I think our firearms laws are fundamentally useless, even if I did believe in restriction of firearms, which I don't due to the aforementioned 6'4" 210 lb vs 115 lb 80 yr old granny argument, the ones we particularily have in Australia are just flat out insane, about the only thing that they outlaw are semi automatic weapons (there are laws from much further back outlawing automatic weapons, ironically the newer sets of laws were precipitated primarily by a single event in Port Arthur with an Automatic weapon anyway, can you say kneejerk?), pistols, and that's pretty much it.
What does this mean?
I can go buy a Sako TRG-22 long range high powered target rifle and pick off targets accurately in excess of 1km range, but I cannot buy a 9mm pistol for personal emergency self defense.
Not all residents of Australia are statist, although I often feel like the odd one out, I despise the Australian government and all permutations thereof, the reason I and people like myself do not leave? There really isn't much else out there that's better. All countries are fucked in some way, first world western countries are the best pick of a lousy bunch, and they're not much different to each other in reality, certainly not enough to warrant relocating to an entirely new country.
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When I was a kid I was taught to respect the God, your family and country (in that particular order). A strong nation of a collective of people who are tied together by blood and common culture -- not by some fancy hobby like computing. How can you even compare hundreds of years of common history and culture to Linux?
What is more important, where we are, or where we came from? How can a person discount hundreds of years of common history and bloodlines merely because the result of the aforementioned circumstances bears little to no resemblance to themselves?
How can you discount many millenia of common evolutionary bonds with other living humans of the world and support the wholesale slaughter of people halfway across the world because of the actions of a radical minority in your own country?
I'm not necessarily trying to tell you what's wrong and what's right, but try to keep perspective. Personally I reject the theory that I owe my fellow human beings a damn thing in the entire world simply because I happen to be the same species as them, and I only feel slightly more obligation as the link becomes closer and terminates with the family, the point where if a member of my family was not a worthwhile person to know, I would treat them the same as someone who was not a member of aforementioned family.
To me, it doesn't matter where we came from or what we've gone through, it matters where we are and what we're doing.
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Now I'm just waiting for someone to label the whole of Europe "socialist" without any understanding of what that means, and without any explanation of why something done for the benefit of society should be a BAD thing... *sigh*... Think I'm paranoid? It happens every other time Europe is mentioned on/.
People who have problems with Socialism typically don't have problems with things being done for the good of society, humanity, call it what you will, they have problems with small irrelevant annoying things being done for the good of humanity at the immense expense of the collective and each and every member thereof, the individual.
beginning, during, end.
beginning = yes, ok keep going.
during = yes, ok keep going.
end = no, well, what are you supposed to do, put it back in and reclaim the deposit?
if you can seriously be charged for rape because a woman changed her mind after it was all over, that's an absurd proposition, it's not even an issue of whether a person would or would not agree to this (given the appropriate time travel technology I'd gladly go back and tell myself to get my head checked before having sex with certain people), it's simply not possible due to the rules of reality, what's done is done, if there was no objection before or during what the hell are you supposed to do?
then again if it's just some ignorant pig jock deciding he doesn't want to stop halfway through, that's a different matter altogether. castrate the motherfucker with a blunt rusty knife for all I care.
You can't revoke consent after the event and persecute the partner in question. that's just plain absurd.
I hope it's not like that in Canada, I kind of halfway liked the sound of that place.
As far as for the woman to go to the extent of claiming rape something must be wrong, I'd agree to you only to an extent. Something must indeed be wrong but not necessarily with the other person, some women are just by nature fucked in the head just as surely as some men are, gender has very little to do with idiocy.
You can be licensed to carry shotguns, as well as any given non semi/automatic rifle (including the sako trg 22 and the Remington PSS 700 and various other bolt action extremely high range sniper rifles).
Who hunts with a desert eagle outside counterstrike server reserves?
Not to mention bowhunting, spearhunting, knife/sword hunting, etc etc etc.
In my particular circumstance it's actually cause I've got a mysql db of the 150 different machines that I administer and so I'd run an sql query in order to get the names of all the machines running wu-ftpd and output the result to a temp file then do the for x in, but even in a typical circumstance once you've got more than say 15 machines it's hard to just be able to snap your fingers and say which ones have ftpd installed on them and what their names are and if the machine you're running your script on will resolve all those names and if the machines in question have RSA keys for your ssh task etc etc etc...
of course if the machines really were called just box1 - box6 then there's no reason at all not to just do it like you posted.
I have telstra cable , only option, optus cable doesn't do apartment buildings and the DSL market right now is rife with examples such as the one you just quoted.
I pay 400$ per month for uncapped cable speed with a 10gb allowance. Then 17.50c per mb after the 10gb usage.
This is highway robbery and in light of the figures above that I see people going "ooh! you're paying 70$ per month for service, you're so getting ripped off" I hope that telstra choke and die painfully.
I have to wait 12 seconds to ask you a simple question so I'm filling my time writing useless spam whilst slashdot decides what I must be writing is in fact worth posting after all.
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Well, we're talking about two moving bodies, there are only a certain amount of impact points across possible axis' on the earth, I guess if one stopped moving for a while you could at least draw a band across the surface of the planet indicating possible impact sites if the speeds of the two moving bodies were different.
Not at all like an email client which autoexecutes dynamic html enclosed in email and includes a convenient propogation system over the net, or the myriad excuses for software that MS writes on top of it's already mediocre OS just brimming with holes that would make a piece of swiss cheese look stable.
And yet simultaneously the vendor claims said holes don't exist
2) A case of Linux-o-phile onanism - try giving RH to your Grandma so she can install it on her Tandy 2000; she'll disown you. Most 12-year-olds who play with Linux are socially-challenged geeks who get a thrill out of typing "nmake"Try giving your gradma MS DOS 6.22 or any offering thereafter from Microsoft to install on her Tandy 2000. Most docile bovinesque snapperheads who play with windows are intellectually challenged fuckwits who consider themselves enlightened because they can create a dial up networking connection.
3) We now see the Marketing Strategy of Linux unfolded - market penetration by subtefuge and deception.
Subterfuge and deception of aforementioned bovinesque vacant clusterfuck management sounds just fine by me. The strategy strikes as much more ethically acceptable than any of the ones outlined in the article used by MS in the OS/2 War.
In addition, your comment about Linux becoming "illegal" is nothing but pure, assenine FUD. Making Linux "illegal" would be equal to making Crystal Radio sets illegal, or even typewriters. Good deduction there, Sherlock!
I get it, it would never be done because it's stupid, and the government would never do something that was stupid!
If you want an example of pure assinine FUD look no further than the mirror.
No it doesn't. Hitler had an overt policy of extermination of people based on racial prejudice and massively expansionist goals far past the limits of even the former greater German Empire, he was perfectly willing to interfere with the rights of other states and impose his own subjective morallity on the residents thereof, he got a taste of his own medicine.
I'd humbly put the suggestion that you don't have a clue what you're talking about and that 98% / 2% statistic was, like 98% of statistics, this one inclusive, pulled out of your ass. You offer no supporting collaborative evidence of your accusations, you just throw them around like a little boy in search of something to hate / stand up against because by god your way of life shall not be challenged by this fscking yellow peril.
As for governments imposing laws that regulate conduct, only in so far as necessary for the functioning of society. That really doesn't go much further than murder, and theft, and the many variations thereof. Governments as they are are so malignant and pathetic my humble opinion is that we'd be millions of times better off without them.
So in response, it requires no clinging, ethics *is* subjective, purely. Even with your direct-from-fresh-ass statistics it's still up to the population in question to decide whether what is being done to them is ok, and if it's not, revolt.
1. Most Chinese in Hong Kong support the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. A CNN/Time survey showed, in fact, that 60% of the Chinese in Hong Kong support the return of Hong Kong to mainland China. (reference: "Poll: Hong Kong residents optimistic [cnn.com]" ) While East Timorese fought and died for independence from the oppressive Indonesian government, the Chinese in Hong Kong cheered the mainland Chinese government.
Hong Kong was leased to the British at the free will of mainland China, People in Hong Kong are Chinese. The Chinese government had stated prior to it's resumption of ownership of Hong Kong that they had no intention of interfering with the winning economics of the prosperous island, so why wouldn't the residents be happy?
East Timor was forcefully invaded and brutally repressed for 30 years after the Dutch withdrew from the island and granted it independence in order to maintain regional stability.
Apples and Oranges.
2. The constitution of the Chinese living in Taiwan supports the integration of both Tibet and Mongolia into mainland China. While Tibetans suffer and die at the hands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, the Chinese in Taiwan support integrating Tibet into "One China".
The Taiwanese are in a very delicate political situation, posturing from them draws posturing from the mainland and it is irresponsible and provocative of war not to pet the kitty whilst it's claws are out and threatening. Do you know the real opinion of the residents of Taiwan in relation to the issue of Tibet? Have you been there? have you asked them?
3. The Chinese son of the chairman of a powerful conglomerate in Taiwan has joined with the son of Jiang Zemin, the butcher of Tibet, to build an advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai. (reference: "Sons of prominent Chinese team up on chip venture [taipeitimes.com]")
Wasn't Mao the reigning chairman at the time of the invasion of Tibet, how did Jiang Zemin earn the title of Butcher of Tibet? as for the advanced silicon-wafer factory in Shanghai, so what? More ridiculous hypocritical prattle from the Americans about how their local industries will be irrepairably damaged by free trade? Free Trade was something that developed countries with the US at the forefront were supposed to be pushing strongly, and Dubya Bush sticks a 40% tarrif on imported steel products, unilaterally defying the vaunted WTO, to protect the sacred cows in the rust belt, currying favour for the Republican party just ahead of the congressional elections.I really really hate hypocrisy
4. Senior Chinese military officials retired from the Taiwanese military have gone to mainland China and given military secrets about the American F-16 fighter jet to the Beijing government. (reference: "Military secrets on sale to China [taipeitimes.com]")
What military secrets about the F-16 fighter jet? The piece of technology in question is over 10 years old, do you honestly think that they didn't already know everything relevant about it? What's left to know? Dimensions? Top speed? Armament Capability? All of this information is public domain from the manufacturer and various general knowledge sources
5. Most Chinese, including those living in the United States of America, support the territorial ambitions of mainland China. Most Chinese support integrating Tibet into mainland China. Most Chinese support integrating the Spratleys into mainland China. Most Chinese support integrating the Senkaku islands into mainland China.Have you studied the issues behind why the Senkaku Islands should / should not be integrated into the Mainland? You've taken a position and not explained why, I'm not going to criticise your position because I don't understand the individual issues you're referring to well enough, except perhaps for Tibet, Which you've already gone over and I've already talked about re point 1.
6. Most Chinese support Beijing's attempt to use torture and murder to crush the Falun Gong. Indeed, the Beijing government has funded anti-Falun-Gong meetings within the United States itself. These meetings within the United States are attended by the very same Chinese who fight with tooth and nail to stay permanently in the United States of America.And that is a prime example of hypocrisy to take such a stance against a spiritual movement in such an accepting country as America.
Didn't know many Branch Davidians? Never heard of WACO?
Let the nation state without sin cast the first stone, hint, it won't be the US.
And on the same subject, do you even know why the mainland government is attempting to repress Falun Gong, or have you merely accepted the spoonfed mainstream press info that they're doing it because they're mean and nasty?
I'm not saying that Falun Gong is the root of all evil, but you don't say anything in your statement that could be construed as a rebuke to the Mainland government's stance on the issue.
7. The Chinese from "poor, little, scared" Taiwan have invested more than $50 billion into more than 50,000 businesses in mainland China. How did this phenomenon happen? Immediately, after the Tienanman Square incident back in June 4, 1989, the American government and businesses curtailed investments in mainland China. The Taiwanese (and the other Chinese in Hong Kong) seized this window of opportunity and accelerated investments into mainland China. The rate of investments from Taiwan into China has skyrocketed to the present levels; investments continue to grow at double-digit rates. (In 1999, the "Wall Street Journal" reported that of all the Chinese arrested and convicted of stealing American military technology to give to Beijing, the majority of these Chinese came from Taiwan.)
That is merely an example of intelligent people exploiting the not so clever actions of a group of self hating foreigners. The outcome of the withdrawal of foreign investment should have been obvious. Not to say that it shouldn't have been done, but what did you expect? He with the least scruples wins.
8. These observations are not an exaggeration of any kind. At your university, attend your local meeting of Amnesty International. The engineering and business schools will have plenty of Chinese people, but there will be virtually _NO_ Chinese faces in a meeting of Amnesty International. Chinese (and other Orientals) are over-represented in engineering and business schools, but they are under-represented in meetings of Amnesty International. Why?
Amnesty international is the yardstick of your global ethical scale? Go look for Americans at a Shanghai Buddhist temple and tell me how many you find, then compare that number with the number of Chinese people in your local Amnesty International chapter, then cram it up your ass and stop spouting mindless mainstream spoonfed crap.
Cheers.
Is it just me or does this also strike other people as the AC poster sticking his fingers in his ears and singing?
I'm intrigued.
TV sucks period, that is what TV does, But I never had any idea the broadband was better in New Zealand, how do you class it as better? By speed, or by price? Tell me more!
Don't you guys have a completely moronic tax system?
Can anyone direct me to a URL discussing antimatter powerplants and the creation thereof? I have a vague recollection of reading that approximately a few pounds worth of antimatter would provide enough energy to transport us to the nearest stars, surely it would be possible to use this massive power supply for this application? I guess it comes down to how antimatter and matter collisions generate power. It's an interesting concept though, I assume most people aren't going to be comfortable with nuclear powered versions of the same.
You speak of the Governor General, and while only a figure head, they do still have certain powers over the government. Australia came so close to becoming a republic a few years ago, so hopefully in another couple of years we will have broken free from our opressors!
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Excuse me, let me regain my senses again enough to respond to this amusing remark.
The UK are the Australian population's "oppressors" ? If we're being repressed at all it certainly has little to nothing to do with Britain, a large amount of the reason that the referendum to enact a republic seperate from the British monarchy altogether was because of the other measures that the slimy Australian government proper attempted to slip in with the logical and perfectly acceptable removal of a constitutional link between Australia and England..
Giggles, oppressors, my my my...
That's true, but can you see the democrats getting the necessary votes, what did they get last elections, like 5%?
and anyway, in my opinion, thank fuck for that. They're worse than the either of the current choices anyway.
So whatever a general population wants is what should remain as such until the end of time?
in Victorian society child sex slaves were socially acceptable, homosexuallity was not, By your logic this would never have changed.
Emancipation proclamation never would have come to pass, civil rights movement in your countries in the 60s, etc.
Just because something has current popular support does not make it sensible, age based restrictions on intellectual material are ludicrous and until it can be categorically proven otherwise by scientific methods or studies of neural or behavioural pathology, this will continue to be the case.
And they're just as / moreso fucked up than the two majors, also they're nearly guarunteed to not get voted in, so a vote for them is a defacto vote for the slightly left of center, or slightly less left of center (labour, liberal).
Without wanting to be overtly offensive to someone I know next to nothing about, I take extreme offense at this statement, so excuse me, but fuck you.
How the hell is restricting access to material based on age "common sense"? Hint; Because that's how we've always done it is not a suitable response.
Hey, hey... What option does an Australian have? offhand, you can't vote for a single Australian political party actively in favour of repealing the current firearms laws or constructing a suitable alternative with concealed carry, etc.
Not that I voted at all last election, just pointing out, if you vote at all, you have to vote pro-gun-control.
Except that whack bitch Pauline Hanson, probably, on reflection, but she's discounted out of hand for being a damn fool.
I agree with everything you said and even to some degree this, but it isn't the case for everyone who lives here. Certainly I think our firearms laws are fundamentally useless, even if I did believe in restriction of firearms, which I don't due to the aforementioned 6'4" 210 lb vs 115 lb 80 yr old granny argument, the ones we particularily have in Australia are just flat out insane, about the only thing that they outlaw are semi automatic weapons (there are laws from much further back outlawing automatic weapons, ironically the newer sets of laws were precipitated primarily by a single event in Port Arthur with an Automatic weapon anyway, can you say kneejerk?), pistols, and that's pretty much it.
What does this mean?
I can go buy a Sako TRG-22 long range high powered target rifle and pick off targets accurately in excess of 1km range, but I cannot buy a 9mm pistol for personal emergency self defense.
Not all residents of Australia are statist, although I often feel like the odd one out, I despise the Australian government and all permutations thereof, the reason I and people like myself do not leave? There really isn't much else out there that's better. All countries are fucked in some way, first world western countries are the best pick of a lousy bunch, and they're not much different to each other in reality, certainly not enough to warrant relocating to an entirely new country.
What is more important, where we are, or where we came from? How can a person discount hundreds of years of common history and bloodlines merely because the result of the aforementioned circumstances bears little to no resemblance to themselves?
How can you discount many millenia of common evolutionary bonds with other living humans of the world and support the wholesale slaughter of people halfway across the world because of the actions of a radical minority in your own country?
I'm not necessarily trying to tell you what's wrong and what's right, but try to keep perspective. Personally I reject the theory that I owe my fellow human beings a damn thing in the entire world simply because I happen to be the same species as them, and I only feel slightly more obligation as the link becomes closer and terminates with the family, the point where if a member of my family was not a worthwhile person to know, I would treat them the same as someone who was not a member of aforementioned family.
To me, it doesn't matter where we came from or what we've gone through, it matters where we are and what we're doing.
People who have problems with Socialism typically don't have problems with things being done for the good of society, humanity, call it what you will, they have problems with small irrelevant annoying things being done for the good of humanity at the immense expense of the collective and each and every member thereof, the individual.
Hmmm, it's not actually, check the current massive firestorms in .au, these are not uncommon over here.
Assuming you're a decent admin, a firestorm burning shit up is much more likely than you having one of your machines cracked.
Foreign Invasion, Australia being invaded by the USA?
Somehow I don't think so.
beginning, during, end.
beginning = yes, ok keep going.
during = yes, ok keep going.
end = no, well, what are you supposed to do, put it back in and reclaim the deposit?
if you can seriously be charged for rape because a woman changed her mind after it was all over, that's an absurd proposition, it's not even an issue of whether a person would or would not agree to this (given the appropriate time travel technology I'd gladly go back and tell myself to get my head checked before having sex with certain people), it's simply not possible due to the rules of reality, what's done is done, if there was no objection before or during what the hell are you supposed to do?
then again if it's just some ignorant pig jock deciding he doesn't want to stop halfway through, that's a different matter altogether. castrate the motherfucker with a blunt rusty knife for all I care.
You can't revoke consent after the event and persecute the partner in question. that's just plain absurd.
I hope it's not like that in Canada, I kind of halfway liked the sound of that place.
As far as for the woman to go to the extent of claiming rape something must be wrong, I'd agree to you only to an extent. Something must indeed be wrong but not necessarily with the other person, some women are just by nature fucked in the head just as surely as some men are, gender has very little to do with idiocy.
You can be licensed to carry shotguns, as well as any given non semi/automatic rifle (including the sako trg 22 and the Remington PSS 700 and various other bolt action extremely high range sniper rifles).
Who hunts with a desert eagle outside counterstrike server reserves?
Not to mention bowhunting, spearhunting, knife/sword hunting, etc etc etc.
In my particular circumstance it's actually cause I've got a mysql db of the 150 different machines that I administer and so I'd run an sql query in order to get the names of all the machines running wu-ftpd and output the result to a temp file then do the for x in, but even in a typical circumstance once you've got more than say 15 machines it's hard to just be able to snap your fingers and say which ones have ftpd installed on them and what their names are and if the machine you're running your script on will resolve all those names and if the machines in question have RSA keys for your ssh task etc etc etc...
of course if the machines really were called just box1 - box6 then there's no reason at all not to just do it like you posted.
echo "box1 box2 box3 box4 box5 box6" > list; for x in `cat list`; do echo $x; ssh -l root $x 'rpm -Uvh ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.1/en/os/i386/wu-ftpd-2. 6.1-16.7x.1.i386.rpm' ;done
is it really that hard?
which one was the provider in ohio? I'm lost now.
I have telstra cable , only option, optus cable doesn't do apartment buildings and the DSL market right now is rife with examples such as the one you just quoted.
I pay 400$ per month for uncapped cable speed with a 10gb allowance. Then 17.50c per mb after the 10gb usage.
This is highway robbery and in light of the figures above that I see people going "ooh! you're paying 70$ per month for service, you're so getting ripped off" I hope that telstra choke and die painfully.
I have to wait 12 seconds to ask you a simple question so I'm filling my time writing useless spam whilst slashdot decides what I must be writing is in fact worth posting after all.
Which provider?