Just to clarify, Germany runs the.de (.dk is Denmark), and East Timor already has a TLD,.tp, although they will probably want to change it to since.tp stands for Portuguese Timor;.tl (Timor Leste) or.tl (Timor Lorosae) could be used I think.
Hey, you're letting silly things like "ratings of human development" get in the way of things; in this forum people living in trailer parks is a great statement of capitalist victory!
Just to clarify, I was glad to read you post; amidst all the wage-slave mentality ("... I don't care if my coworker can't feed his family, he probably deserves what he gets...") and Cold War hostility it's very refreshing.
I must say that I'm impressed on how you can still find the strength to try to add some real information in this article. You're a better man than me, I gave up long ago,/. is the playing ground of the free-as-in-I-don't-give-a-fuck-gimme-the-demo whiners.
Oh, sorry then, Google searches in misterious ways and since I have google.pt it must massage the results even when not using the "search pages in portuguese".
Not important though, I added that part as a curiosity and not as a supposed obligation on your part.
"Expresso" is used here to refer to the kind of coffee made in special machines through high temperature and pressure in opposition to other methods; what I want to say is that the word is seldom used in daily life since, by default, a coffee is an "expresso", that's the way everybody drinks it. Only when one needs to specify otherwise is the word "expresso" used.
By the way, the word in portuguese and english changed less from the original Latin expressu than italian.
In portuguese it is expresso. Google is your friend, all the top links for "expresso" are in Portugal and Brasil. "Espresso" or whatever you call it is the same word in Italian.
You can define a HTTP proxy in the account settings and create a username in a server that listen in port 443 (like amessage.info). You can even use any transport you want with this setup, from whichever server, it all goes throught the proxy.
This works in at least Psi, both Linux and Windows.
Maybe you're among the group of owners. But if you're not, then your point of view to me seems pathological.
And they are. Most people around here like to speak very loud about the fact that they are still employed speaks volumes about their skills. You see, unemployment is for the non-skilled, lazy workers that just whine a lot. This mindset is part of the reason that I couldn't avoid laughing a bit when the layoffs in the US began a few years ago. It was quite a sight seing the people that were butt buddies with upper management that, to put it bluntly, spat upon their fellow workers all of a sudden shouting "OMG OMG, offshoring, what about our rights!??!?!". Programmers and IT staff are funny in that regard, they like to position themselves as "labour aristocracy" in times of abundance and then they bitch and moan a lot when what happens to them is after all the same that happens to blue collar workers. They are a great source of yellows, too, as the reaction to the strike around here shows.
Thank you very much, that makes things much more clear to me, and it makes the movies make way more sense, especially in what regards the Clone Army parts. I can now actually view certain parts of the movies in a different light.
Agreed. I didn't exactly disliked the first two movies, but only because I started to view them as a special effects extravaganza.
Speaking of the plot, your post made me review what I remember about the plot and, well, I seem to have forgoten major parts of the movie. If someone could help me with one-liners to this questions I would be really thankful:
o The Feds siege Naboo. Why? What makes Naboo something that is important to atack, and why should other people care?
o Anakin's mother. Why someone couldn't just buy her freedom is totaly beyond me.
o The whole Dias/Jango/Clones thing is probably extremely clear, but I never really understood the role of any of them in relation to each other.
This are just some of the things I (don't) remember...
Since you are apparently interested enough in the answer to ask it twice "Americans" -- the kind of "Americans" that are mentioned in this generalization sentences, with capital letter and all.. hate communism because they have been spoon fed that same hate since they were born, they have lived half their live looking for Reds under the table and doing duck&cover drills and because they are in general completely unable to even grasp simple concepts let alone complex ones like political and economical systems. "Americans", in this general sense, don't like communism because they are "mighty good Christians" and communism is the work of the Devil. "Americans" hate communism because they actually think that the rest of the world likes them because of it, without even understanding the cheer ammount of disdain and contempt that the traditional Right in Europe always had for the colonials and the sheer hatred that most of the 3rd World has for what their country stands for.
The only difference between the "Americans" I portrayed and the ones at slashdot that talk about politics is that the last ones can probably compile a kernel (or, to be more up-to-date, use iTunes).
Thus this mean that there are not valid objections to communism and/or that the citizens of the USA are all pompous, gullible "land-of-the-free" tools? Of course not. It does however relate to the fact that even people that seem competent and knowlegeble in their field around here are surprisingly superficial and, well, ignorant when general politics are involved, falling back to the "American Super Hero" pose that is understandable in a sociological way but at the same time laughable for anyone seeing it.
Just curious, since you seem to know something about it and the CPIM is down: are they "3rd International" communists (i.e. what would have been "default" and Soviet aligned), 4th International, Maoist, none of the above?
If Linus adopted Arch or Monotone, he would basically be admitting that he could have adopted open source tools in the first place and avoided the whole BitKeeper stupidity. So for ego reasons, he has to build a new tool.
I'm glad you are already modded up because I fully agree with you. Arch was mentioned from the begining, since it was actually written with this in mind, but Linux wouldn't use *GNU* Arch to manage the kernel. No free software solution would be good enough because it would be exactly like you said, admiting that the use of BK could perfectly have been avoided.
Oh, I've heard about it. I remember it pretty well, since as you can imagine it was covered at length here (and still is, sometimes). The legality of it was never really established, true, but many different things were on the table (territorial waters, EEZ, environmental protection, jurisdiction, etc).
This kind of void -- or at least flexibility in interpretation -- was probably why some decades ago cod fishing bots from Portugal (and probably other countries) were escorted by the War Navy troughout the whole season.
There is a difference between territorial waters and Economic Exclusive Waters (probably bad translation from the designation we use in portuguese). That's why Canada can seize fishing vessels when they are doing something not agreed upon (like exceding quotas).
This is something that people that actually own companies (directly, via stocks,etc.) do all the time. I, trough salaried work, pay taxes up to the roof and can't avoid them (and wouldn't even want to avoid them if the tax system was fair and the social beneficts as a whole were as intended), but earnings from stock trade speculation are much less (depending on the country, if at all) taxed, as are earnings from companies.
Spanish often puts Es in front of words that start with S, for example:
Latin "stare" -> estar
status -> estado
Quite right, and it's a thing that is common at least on the Gallo-Iberian romanic branch.
I'm not sure how you call it in english, but since you seemed interested the general scheme for this phenomenon is (applied to Portuguese, but surely the same for Spanish and most likely French, Occitan, etc.) that the consonant groups that begin with an improper S are prefixed with a protetic E, working as a support vowel. Hence all your examples (plus Fr. stella->étoilé, Po. spatio->espaço, etc).
However when they begin with SC followed by i or e, as in scientia, the S is dropped (again, probably appliable to the Gallo-Iberian branch). So, while in english it's science, it's ciência, cience, etc. in the romance languages that evolved this way.
I know you didn't ask for this sort of abuse, but hey, you started it:)
(archaeology and forensics come to mind), a good deal of effort has to be put into showing that certain processes or artifacts are, in fact, the products of an intelligent designer. I personally could walk through a field strewn with Acheulian tools and not recognize them as being the product of an intelligent mind.
Big truth, in my first archaeology classes I was asked to pick several "artifacts" and select those that might be "interesting" (read, man made) and those that weren't.
I - and everyone else - got it wrong, it's very, very hard many times (especially when we are talking about the very begining) to even consider a formless piece of rock as something carved by Man, and very tempting to see some kind of purpose in what is the result of erosion.
The good news for ID people is that the Earth for them probably didn't exist at the time-frame we are talking, so no need to put a lot of work at making the distinction.
I'm also not a biologist (my official education is in History), but this article just shows to me how Wikipedia can be addictive.
I went there the other day looking for something about the Battle of Covadonga and went on clicking... after 4 hours I was reading about reverse transcripase, RNA world theory, DNA unwiding and MRSA. This is related to your post in that I found that RNA is apparently not only a middle-man - as in mRNA - as I expected. There are living organisms that have RNA as their genetic foundation, and from several articles I was surprised with the suspected and known functions of RNA which I didn't knew about.
This post isn't informative, insightful or informative in what relates to the topic, just an advise to fellow biology-ignorant slashdotters t browse Wikipedia on the subject... absolutly amazing topic for people like me with only a superficial understanding of it. Start here and you'll be addicted.
It's weird to see Oracle say that about Linux, especially since they are the ones pushing SLES/RH on their proposals. They have an agreement with RedHat and Novell that makes Oracle the single-point of support for Oracle-on-Linux problems, i.e. even if the problem is because of a kernel or OS usespace problem Oracle fixes it.
This position goes against their current practices. Maybe this was just spited out without the members knowing it (it happens a lot on this kind of useless "Alliances").
When it comes to GPL'd software, who IS the copyright holder?
Sure, one person starts the code. But when other people submit patches, improvements, branch the code, etc, etc. . . are they ALL copyright holders? If somebody, for instance, ripped off the Linux kernel, would only Linus Torvalds be eligible to sue, or would every single developer who'd submitted code to it be able to start up a suit?
Yes, they are all the copyright holders, and this makes it more difficult in case of GPL infrigement. This is why as a general rule in GNU projects developers assign the copyright to the FSF, since having only one copyright holder simplifies things.
Well, I've written and directly talked to people from my party (Portuguese Communist Party), as well as read the national and EU parliament statements by the deputies. They brought the issue of free software to the portuguese parliament for discussion (general apathy ensued) and oppose the law in Brussels (e.g PCP Motion against Council's "Political Agreement" on Software Patents
The problem is, not only is the representation rather small, but also the way the laws are passed and approved in the EU defy any logic. If they want to approve it, they will, even if they have to put it in an addendum of a work paper in a meeting about livestock vacination. The whole process is more or less guaranteed to lead to the approval of the law. If it goes to the parliament national possitions (if any...) will probably be blured by the political blocks, and even countries that are against the law can be made to review their position... we must remember that it's the EU that decides which ammount of, say, fish or fruit a country can explore.
Having said this I think that just because the whole situation appears as a done deal that shouldn't prevent all those against the law (of all countries and political spectrums) to fight it as much as they can.
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Just to clarify, Germany runs the .de (.dk is Denmark), and East Timor already has a TLD, .tp, although they will probably want to change it to since .tp stands for Portuguese Timor; .tl (Timor Leste) or .tl (Timor Lorosae) could be used I think.
Hey, you're letting silly things like "ratings of human development" get in the way of things; in this forum people living in trailer parks is a great statement of capitalist victory!
Just to clarify, I was glad to read you post; amidst all the wage-slave mentality ("... I don't care if my coworker can't feed his family, he probably deserves what he gets...") and Cold War hostility it's very refreshing.
I must say that I'm impressed on how you can still find the strength to try to add some real information in this article. You're a better man than me, I gave up long ago, /. is the playing ground of the free-as-in-I-don't-give-a-fuck-gimme-the-demo whiners.
Oh, sorry then, Google searches in misterious ways and since I have google.pt it must massage the results even when not using the "search pages in portuguese".
Not important though, I added that part as a curiosity and not as a supposed obligation on your part.
"Expresso" is used here to refer to the kind of coffee made in special machines through high temperature and pressure in opposition to other methods; what I want to say is that the word is seldom used in daily life since, by default, a coffee is an "expresso", that's the way everybody drinks it. Only when one needs to specify otherwise is the word "expresso" used.
By the way, the word in portuguese and english changed less from the original Latin expressu than italian.
Cheers.
In portuguese it is expresso. Google is your friend, all the top links for "expresso" are in Portugal and Brasil. "Espresso" or whatever you call it is the same word in Italian.
You can define a HTTP proxy in the account settings and create a username in a server that listen in port 443 (like amessage.info). You can even use any transport you want with this setup, from whichever server, it all goes throught the proxy.
This works in at least Psi, both Linux and Windows.
Maybe you're among the group of owners. But if you're not, then your point of view to me seems pathological.
And they are. Most people around here like to speak very loud about the fact that they are still employed speaks volumes about their skills. You see, unemployment is for the non-skilled, lazy workers that just whine a lot. This mindset is part of the reason that I couldn't avoid laughing a bit when the layoffs in the US began a few years ago. It was quite a sight seing the people that were butt buddies with upper management that, to put it bluntly, spat upon their fellow workers all of a sudden shouting "OMG OMG, offshoring, what about our rights!??!?!". Programmers and IT staff are funny in that regard, they like to position themselves as "labour aristocracy" in times of abundance and then they bitch and moan a lot when what happens to them is after all the same that happens to blue collar workers. They are a great source of yellows, too, as the reaction to the strike around here shows.
Thank you very much, that makes things much more clear to me, and it makes the movies make way more sense, especially in what regards the Clone Army parts. I can now actually view certain parts of the movies in a different light.
Best regards, and - again - many thanks,
fsmunoz
Agreed. I didn't exactly disliked the first two movies, but only because I started to view them as a special effects extravaganza.
Speaking of the plot, your post made me review what I remember about the plot and, well, I seem to have forgoten major parts of the movie. If someone could help me with one-liners to this questions I would be really thankful:
o The Feds siege Naboo. Why? What makes Naboo something that is important to atack, and why should other people care?
o Anakin's mother. Why someone couldn't just buy her freedom is totaly beyond me.
o The whole Dias/Jango/Clones thing is probably extremely clear, but I never really understood the role of any of them in relation to each other.
This are just some of the things I (don't) remember...
So tell me again why Americans hate communism?
.. hate communism because they have been spoon fed that same hate since they were born, they have lived half their live looking for Reds under the table and doing duck&cover drills and because they are in general completely unable to even grasp simple concepts let alone complex ones like political and economical systems. "Americans", in this general sense, don't like communism because they are "mighty good Christians" and communism is the work of the Devil. "Americans" hate communism because they actually think that the rest of the world likes them because of it, without even understanding the cheer ammount of disdain and contempt that the traditional Right in Europe always had for the colonials and the sheer hatred that most of the 3rd World has for what their country stands for.
Since you are apparently interested enough in the answer to ask it twice "Americans" -- the kind of "Americans" that are mentioned in this generalization sentences, with capital letter and all
The only difference between the "Americans" I portrayed and the ones at slashdot that talk about politics is that the last ones can probably compile a kernel (or, to be more up-to-date, use iTunes).
Thus this mean that there are not valid objections to communism and/or that the citizens of the USA are all pompous, gullible "land-of-the-free" tools? Of course not. It does however relate to the fact that even people that seem competent and knowlegeble in their field around here are surprisingly superficial and, well, ignorant when general politics are involved, falling back to the "American Super Hero" pose that is understandable in a sociological way but at the same time laughable for anyone seeing it.
Even more disturbing, who would have guessed 5 years ago that /. would be filled with Apple fanboys while Free Software zealots decrease in number? :)
While I would be quite happy to talk about something I never used (this is /., after all...) I actually have used and use Arch daily.
Just curious, since you seem to know something about it and the CPIM is down: are they "3rd International" communists (i.e. what would have been "default" and Soviet aligned), 4th International, Maoist, none of the above?
If Linus adopted Arch or Monotone, he would basically be admitting that he could have adopted open source tools in the first place and avoided the whole BitKeeper stupidity. So for ego reasons, he has to build a new tool.
I'm glad you are already modded up because I fully agree with you. Arch was mentioned from the begining, since it was actually written with this in mind, but Linux wouldn't use *GNU* Arch to manage the kernel. No free software solution would be good enough because it would be exactly like you said, admiting that the use of BK could perfectly have been avoided.
Oh, I've heard about it. I remember it pretty well, since as you can imagine it was covered at length here (and still is, sometimes). The legality of it was never really established, true, but many different things were on the table (territorial waters, EEZ, environmental protection, jurisdiction, etc).
This kind of void -- or at least flexibility in interpretation -- was probably why some decades ago cod fishing bots from Portugal (and probably other countries) were escorted by the War Navy troughout the whole season.
There is a difference between territorial waters and Economic Exclusive Waters (probably bad translation from the designation we use in portuguese). That's why Canada can seize fishing vessels when they are doing something not agreed upon (like exceding quotas).
Exactly, mod parent up, etc.
This is something that people that actually own companies (directly, via stocks,etc.) do all the time. I, trough salaried work, pay taxes up to the roof and can't avoid them (and wouldn't even want to avoid them if the tax system was fair and the social beneficts as a whole were as intended), but earnings from stock trade speculation are much less (depending on the country, if at all) taxed, as are earnings from companies.
Followed that link couldn't help to see that he "...died at Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey on March 19, 2005 from a stroke...".
Overlook Hospital? How obvious can you get?
Spanish often puts Es in front of words that start with S, for example: Latin "stare" -> estar status -> estado
:)
Quite right, and it's a thing that is common at least on the Gallo-Iberian romanic branch.
I'm not sure how you call it in english, but since you seemed interested the general scheme for this phenomenon is (applied to Portuguese, but surely the same for Spanish and most likely French, Occitan, etc.) that the consonant groups that begin with an improper S are prefixed with a protetic E , working as a support vowel. Hence all your examples (plus Fr. stella->étoilé, Po. spatio->espaço, etc).
However when they begin with SC followed by i or e, as in scientia, the S is dropped (again, probably appliable to the Gallo-Iberian branch). So, while in english it's science, it's ciência, cience, etc. in the romance languages that evolved this way.
I know you didn't ask for this sort of abuse, but hey, you started it
(archaeology and forensics come to mind), a good deal of effort has to be put into showing that certain processes or artifacts are, in fact, the products of an intelligent designer. I personally could walk through a field strewn with Acheulian tools and not recognize them as being the product of an intelligent mind.
Big truth, in my first archaeology classes I was asked to pick several "artifacts" and select those that might be "interesting" (read, man made) and those that weren't.
I - and everyone else - got it wrong, it's very, very hard many times (especially when we are talking about the very begining) to even consider a formless piece of rock as something carved by Man, and very tempting to see some kind of purpose in what is the result of erosion.
The good news for ID people is that the Earth for them probably didn't exist at the time-frame we are talking, so no need to put a lot of work at making the distinction.
I'm also not a biologist (my official education is in History), but this article just shows to me how Wikipedia can be addictive. I went there the other day looking for something about the Battle of Covadonga and went on clicking... after 4 hours I was reading about reverse transcripase, RNA world theory, DNA unwiding and MRSA. This is related to your post in that I found that RNA is apparently not only a middle-man - as in mRNA - as I expected. There are living organisms that have RNA as their genetic foundation, and from several articles I was surprised with the suspected and known functions of RNA which I didn't knew about.
This post isn't informative, insightful or informative in what relates to the topic, just an advise to fellow biology-ignorant slashdotters t browse Wikipedia on the subject... absolutly amazing topic for people like me with only a superficial understanding of it. Start here and you'll be addicted.
With that nick I must confess I was expecting the solution to this when I clicked it :)
Well, you left out Oracle...
It's weird to see Oracle say that about Linux, especially since they are the ones pushing SLES/RH on their proposals. They have an agreement with RedHat and Novell that makes Oracle the single-point of support for Oracle-on-Linux problems, i.e. even if the problem is because of a kernel or OS usespace problem Oracle fixes it.
This position goes against their current practices. Maybe this was just spited out without the members knowing it (it happens a lot on this kind of useless "Alliances").
When it comes to GPL'd software, who IS the copyright holder? Sure, one person starts the code. But when other people submit patches, improvements, branch the code, etc, etc. . . are they ALL copyright holders? If somebody, for instance, ripped off the Linux kernel, would only Linus Torvalds be eligible to sue, or would every single developer who'd submitted code to it be able to start up a suit?
Yes, they are all the copyright holders, and this makes it more difficult in case of GPL infrigement. This is why as a general rule in GNU projects developers assign the copyright to the FSF, since having only one copyright holder simplifies things.
Well, I've written and directly talked to people from my party (Portuguese Communist Party), as well as read the national and EU parliament statements by the deputies. They brought the issue of free software to the portuguese parliament for discussion (general apathy ensued) and oppose the law in Brussels (e.g PCP Motion against Council's "Political Agreement" on Software Patents
The problem is, not only is the representation rather small, but also the way the laws are passed and approved in the EU defy any logic. If they want to approve it, they will, even if they have to put it in an addendum of a work paper in a meeting about livestock vacination. The whole process is more or less guaranteed to lead to the approval of the law. If it goes to the parliament national possitions (if any...) will probably be blured by the political blocks, and even countries that are against the law can be made to review their position... we must remember that it's the EU that decides which ammount of, say, fish or fruit a country can explore.
Having said this I think that just because the whole situation appears as a done deal that shouldn't prevent all those against the law (of all countries and political spectrums) to fight it as much as they can.