"It is strange to witness the passion with which some secular figures rail against the misdeeds of the Crusaders and Inquisitors more than 500 years ago. The number sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition appears to be about 10,000."
The Inquisition started in France, not Spain. It was started to deal with the Cathars, Christians who were the subject of the Albigensian Crusade.
As for your naming of Hitler and Stalin, look at the action of the Archbishop of Citeaux in the crusade. He was responsible for the killing of somewhere between 7,000 and 20,000 in a single day in Bezier. When asked how to distinguish between the Cathars and the rest of the population he declared "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius".
In the crusade, which was instigated by Pope Innocent III, some half a million people were killed. Not quite as many as Hitler, but there again the population was that much smaller.
I am still running SUSE 10.1, there are some things I need to do before I can think about the change. However, I will be making it sooner than I anticipated.
While running an update this morning I noticed that the "Mono implementation of ASP.NET" was being updated. Why the fsck should I need this on a desktop machine?
This one may be harmless. But how about the next one? Or the one that Novell sneaked in before the deal was announced?
MS has only got to show that its code was introduced into a FOSS application once to discredit much of the effort that the community has put together over the years. If they can show that one piece of their code was used then they can start asking how many more pieces?
You start off with the view that anything the State does is wrong and in a subsequent post essentially claim that the free market is the correct and only mechanism.
Adam Smith's free market ideas were extant at the same time as the Phlostigen theory. Is there any reason to suppose that the theory of free markets is any more valid than Phlostigen? If it is a scientific theory has it been subject to critical tests and passed? Or is it yet another matter of belief with limited evidence of its validity?
They can run the current version, but tests showed them having insufficient power and memory to run the beta versions of Vista and the associated version of Office.
Assume that these, and other machines, are being deliberately hacked to give one party or another the victory.
Presumably someone will eventually spill the beans and say what has been done, by whom and for how much money. What will American voters, judiciary and legislature do then?
Unfortunately the cake they sent had red icing in a large square over the top of it with a black and yellow stripe and a few other bits of coloured icing scattered here and there.
I agree with you. However, drugs have got to be the epitome of the neoliberal free marketeers. A perfect example of supply and demand.
The only thing that you don't mention (nor does the OP) is that to purchase drugs the addict often (usually?) reverts to crime. Additionally, they become unable to contribute to society. Hence the reason that governments become involved.
Speaking as the brother of someone who died as a result of a legal drug addiction, alcoholism.
Obviously not seen the the latest version of Krita, the version I run (1.4.2) is significantly buggy.
It is a developing app with great potential and it will overtake the GIMP unless the latter actually improves its rate of development. At the moment it seems glacial, how long have we been waiting for 2.4 (which will still only have 8 bit colour)?
There seems to be a naive belief in the free market similar to that of "god will provide".
There isn't a free market - in this case there is likely to be collusion between the hardware vendors, the proprietary software vendors and the *AA. Given the amount of money they have they can use the "free market" to purchase as many additional lawmakers they need to push through whatever restrictions they want.
> Neocons who are willing and able to give away all of our your Constitutional rights and freedoms
Close but not quite, you are missing a "y". Replace "our" by your.
To quote from one of my favourite books (The Man who was Thursday) "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly. The rich have always objected to being governed at all".
However, this also implies that the reader/viewer has sufficient discernment to realise that material from some news organisations may not be entirely accurate.
You forgot to include information coming from organisations like Murdoch's "News International".
There may not be (too many) restrictions on the press in the West, but what use is this if the news organisations distort the news for their own interests.
> If you are a full free-market capitalist then indeed you wouldn't want government intervening in the market with enforcement of patents and copyright and licenses with royalties, or intervening in general.
If you are a free market capitalist then you probably regard government as just another product that you should be able to purchase.
If they were in the UK I am sure they would be a member of "Investors in People", the organisation that gets you to emphasise that your people are your best asset.
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> The rendering engine was updated for efficiency and standards compliance (which is much better now, if still not yet where you'd like it to be)
Yeah - I believe it actually implements something over 30% of CSS 2 now!
Whereas every other browser is over 90%.
Its the management that get the new, big muscular machines. Then the customer facing sales staff get the sexy looking new laptops.
All their kit then trickles down to the rest of us.
"It is strange to witness the passion with which some secular figures rail against the misdeeds of the Crusaders and Inquisitors more than 500 years ago. The number sentenced to death by the Spanish Inquisition appears to be about 10,000."
The Inquisition started in France, not Spain. It was started to deal with the Cathars, Christians who were the subject of the Albigensian Crusade.
As for your naming of Hitler and Stalin, look at the action of the Archbishop of Citeaux in the crusade. He was responsible for the killing of somewhere between 7,000 and 20,000 in a single day in Bezier. When asked how to distinguish between the Cathars and the rest of the population he declared "Caedite eos! Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius".
In the crusade, which was instigated by Pope Innocent III, some half a million people were killed. Not quite as many as Hitler, but there again the population was that much smaller.
I am still running SUSE 10.1, there are some things I need to do before I can think about the change. However, I will be making it sooner than I anticipated.
While running an update this morning I noticed that the "Mono implementation of ASP.NET" was being updated. Why the fsck should I need this on a desktop machine?
This one may be harmless. But how about the next one? Or the one that Novell sneaked in before the deal was announced?
MS has only got to show that its code was introduced into a FOSS application once to discredit much of the effort that the community has put together over the years. If they can show that one piece of their code was used then they can start asking how many more pieces?
> I would REALLY like to hear from Miguel about THIS
So who is he working for these days?
When it is shown to be Mono that is infringing?
> but what I see is that Novell just lost all their street cred by selling out to you.
I agree with you, but I think it is worse than that. I think the deal changes the perception of Linux, which is what the point of it was all the time.
If I wasn't running Kubuntu they would get my business.
You start off with the view that anything the State does is wrong and in a subsequent post essentially claim that the free market is the correct and only mechanism.
Adam Smith's free market ideas were extant at the same time as the Phlostigen theory. Is there any reason to suppose that the theory of free markets is any more valid than Phlostigen? If it is a scientific theory has it been subject to critical tests and passed? Or is it yet another matter of belief with limited evidence of its validity?
> ...but can it run Microsoft Word? :|
They can run the current version, but tests showed them having insufficient power and memory to run the beta versions of Vista and the associated version of Office.
Right title - think of "Creature Comforts"
Assume that these, and other machines, are being deliberately hacked to give one party or another the victory.
Presumably someone will eventually spill the beans and say what has been done, by whom and for how much money. What will American voters, judiciary and legislature do then?
"The US started the internet"
No, but
"The US started the Internet"
is true. Lots of other countries had public internets, not necessarily using IP, at the same time as ARPAnet.
Unfortunately the cake they sent had red icing in a large square over the top of it with a black and yellow stripe and a few other bits of coloured icing scattered here and there.
The cake itself was pretty acid too.
I agree with you. However, drugs have got to be the epitome of the neoliberal free marketeers. A perfect example of supply and demand.
The only thing that you don't mention (nor does the OP) is that to purchase drugs the addict often (usually?) reverts to crime. Additionally, they become unable to contribute to society. Hence the reason that governments become involved.
Speaking as the brother of someone who died as a result of a legal drug addiction, alcoholism.
Obviously not seen the the latest version of Krita, the version I run (1.4.2) is significantly buggy.
It is a developing app with great potential and it will overtake the GIMP unless the latter actually improves its rate of development. At the moment it seems glacial, how long have we been waiting for 2.4 (which will still only have 8 bit colour)?
> You'll notice there are two standards of Sea Mark (buoys) in existence globally.
True
> The french insisted on keeping their own standard when everyone else had a different one in place.
False. IALA System B is used in the Americas, the Philippines and Japan. Everywhere else in the world uses IALA System A.
Now if you had wanted to bring up prime meridians...
FYI - I teach the UK RYA (Royal Yachting Association) yachtmaster course.
There seems to be a naive belief in the free market similar to that of "god will provide".
There isn't a free market - in this case there is likely to be collusion between the hardware vendors, the proprietary software vendors and the *AA. Given the amount of money they have they can use the "free market" to purchase as many additional lawmakers they need to push through whatever restrictions they want.
> Anyway, it is a lame expression (meme) and I doubt there is an equivalent for it currently in use in any other country/language.
What we need to invent is a single word meme for End Times Christian Fundamentalist Neo Conservative.
> Neocons who are willing and able to give away all of our your Constitutional rights and freedoms
Close but not quite, you are missing a "y". Replace "our" by your.
To quote from one of my favourite books (The Man who was Thursday) "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly. The rich have always objected to being governed at all".
Fairy Nuff.
However, this also implies that the reader/viewer has sufficient discernment to realise that material from some news organisations may not be entirely accurate.
You forgot to include information coming from organisations like Murdoch's "News International".
There may not be (too many) restrictions on the press in the West, but what use is this if the news organisations distort the news for their own interests.
> If you are a full free-market capitalist then indeed you wouldn't want government intervening in the market with enforcement of patents and copyright and licenses with royalties, or intervening in general.
If you are a free market capitalist then you probably regard government as just another product that you should be able to purchase.
If they were in the UK I am sure they would be a member of "Investors in People", the organisation that gets you to emphasise that your people are your best asset.