What i would tell my own daughter would be something like "it's a man with some kind of mental disease"
A mental disease? Aren't you jumping to conclusions here? Maybe he's just been thinking with his arse? If so, he probably just has a "headache" from "thinking" too hard.
Right on. That's what I whas getting at by saying the battle isn't won in front of the TV cameras at the meetings of the powerful. Organizing is important. We need to make these issues something people talk about every day. Often the "conscious" people make the matters look so abstract, when in fact it impacts our every-day life.
By saying "make some trouble", I really do mean to encourage people to make some trouble! Many things could get better if people would realise we're not as much being oppressed, as letting ourselves being oppressed. And causing trouble is one way to find that out. (I mean trouble in a broud sense here.) Also, we can not rely on the people in position to make the decisions to always make the right ones, even if we petition our guts out.
With that said, I'm in no way going to let any cops trying to stop me from speaking my mind, no matter how much bad press that might cause.
Too bad RMS did not propose a way we, the average folk, might apply pressure against this fettering proposal.
Allow me to suggest how to apply pressure against proposals like this. Organize. Agitate. Educate. Resist. Take it to the streets if that is what it takes.
One does not need to study that much history, to come to the conclusion that it's through direct action that all advances of freedom and human rights have been made. And it's through direct action we have to defend and further advance our rights.
In the so called western world, things have been sleepy for quite some time. But the powerful people that have everything to gain by taking our rights away have not been at rest. This one-sided war can not go on for ever. People everywhere are taking up the many struggles that need to be won. This have been visible recently in places like Seattle, Nice and Prague. And this very weekend, in Gothenburg, it will happen again.
But it's not at the top meetings the battles are won. So find some like-minded people and start making some trouble!
Only half of the 8 listed servers are located in the EU. And one of them is listed as "Finland only". So unless you're sitting in Finland, four of the seven servers available to you are outside the EU.
So what if they found meaning in your story you did not intentionally (conciously?) put there?
I think this quest for the true meaning of works of art is silly and worthless. Isn't the beauty of these things that they we can all reach different interpretations based on our own experiences? Is a certain interpretation less "true" or "valuable" to you if you have reason to beleive it was not intended by the author?
This interpretation and criticism business shouldn't be a game of scoring points by finding anagrams. Just see it as a way to learn things about other people, the world, yourself, culture or whatever.
There was (is?) a high tech version of this in Gothenburg. Basically, just a huge cube whose sides were some sort of backlit screens. One could send a SMS to a certain number and have the message appear shortly on the cube.
Quite a fascinating thing to watch. The cube quickly became a popular meeting place though, so many messages were along the lines of "I'm 10 minutes late" or "Meet me at the other place instead".
The logo on www.ostdev.net made me laugh out loud. "Ost" is swedish for "cheese", you see. The logo is a mouse on a background of cheese.
Linus is finnish. Nokia is finnish. Linus' mother toungue is swedish. Nokia's web site for open development features a swedish pun. What does this really mean?
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Is it just to me it seems that one of the easiest ways to get modded up on Slashdot is to say something like "I'll probably get modded down for this..." or "I know this isn't what the/. crowd likes to hear, but..." or "Moderate me down all you like, I don't care".
Probably makes the moderators feel like they are smart or something when they moderate supposedly against the grain.
So... *ahem* I guess I'll get modded to hell now for calling the moderators stupid.
Well, what is considered "space" then? And what does it mean to say it can be "seen"? Of course there are satelites that can take photos of the Great Wall.
However, I've heard/read many times that the great wall could be seen from the moon (seen as in "with your bare eyes"), which is completely ridiculous.
Hehe, go to the nearest cattle farm and check out the steers. I'm sure you will soon see some pretty gay behaviour.
Actually, gay behaviour is very common amongst many animals. It just doesn't fit in with our idea of what is "natural" so it's been sort of a taboo subject or a blind spot of zoologists for a long time. There are however literature on the subject.
As I never browse with fewer than two windows open, as soon as I saw a full page ad coming up I'd just change windows. I suppose most people would do something similar.
TV ads you have to sit through as you don't want to miss what's coming up next. That will not be the case here, you can come back at any time and the ad will be done. (Unless they decide to really, really become a pain in the ass and give you like five seconds after the add to click through to the article or another ad starts up. In that case I'll simply leave and never come back again.)
I'm sick and tired of all the clueless newbie window$-using Anonymous Cowards karma-whoring by cut-n-pasting stuff directly from the article! What makes it worse are all the trigger-happy moderators that seem to think that if they can't understand it, it must be leet and informative. I bet I could cap my karma by piping/dev/random through strings and post it. Besides, back in the old days when/. wasn't for lusers we didn't even have karma. The only thing familiar around here in these times must be CmdrTaco's inability to spell.
Uhm, what differs denying some people using your mail server (cause you pay for it and all and don't want whatever people using your resources for whatever reason) from denying some people using your IM server (for whatever reason)?
If it's my server, my bandwith, my money paying for it, I'll chose who can use it and who can't. For whatever reason I can think up. It's my call. Go whine somewhere else.
Shouldn't an odd day require that *all* digits are odd? In other words, we won't see one for a loooong time. Blah blah blah..., just go read the discussion from 1999-11-19.
(Zero is an even number as it divides by two without a reminder. And year-month-date is a better way of writing dates, it sorts better.)
Aye! Always when I here this "but the ads pay for the content" whining and "without the ads you'd have to pay for watching TV" I say "but I end up paying for it anyway!". Yep, that's right. We all pay for the shitty commercials, we pay lots for it every time we buy stuff. Ditch the advertisement and most products would be much cheaper.
So, imagine a world whit TV without ads and unadvertised products. Most things would be cheaper. TV would be more expensive. In fact, I beleive most people would simply refuse to pay for TV what it already costs them, if they had to do it up front. So in my imaginary world, in addition to lower prices for most things, TV would either go away or get much better. I'm all for it either way!
Actually, I think the trolls do use templates. Check out the FAQ and other stuff at Geekizoid. The trolls are organized! But be VERY CAREFUL when reading Geekizoid. About half the links are links you don't want to follow (ie goatse.cx and worse). Don't say I didn't warn you!
First of all, I'd wish slashdotters would stop refering to Europe as if it's a single nation. Sure, fifteen of the european nations are in the EU, but they are still nations with their own laws for most things. And there's always a big fuss about EU members not following EU laws. Pick the laws you like and never mind the rest seems to be the way to go. If you're really unlucky, somebody will succeed in taking it all the way to the EU supreme court and you *might* have to fold. But that process takes years and years.
Second, many european countries *are* bettern than the US with regard to censorship. Especially if you consider this "indecency" nonsense. The "Parental advisory" and bleeping songs for radio or music videos seems especially stupid, as it sometimes reaches all the way over the atlantic. (ie a TV show host makes an apology for the record company apparently sending them the "US version" of a video with all the naughty words bleeped out and she says something like "so you'll have to sing the words yourself, they are fuck, weed, motheryfucker...")
Actually, the Galapagos Penguin (Spheniscus mendiculus), the most northerly occuring penguin, lives at the Galapagos Islands (no shit). Not very north nor atlantic, but way north of the south pole.
There must be other things to consider as well, as the only launch site (as far as I know) in Sweden is located in the very north of this country. (I'm talking about Esrange in Kiruna, http://www.ssc.se/esrange/)
If it's always preferable to be near the equator, Canada can find much sites way south of Kiruna (Just about pick any location at random in the country).
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A mental disease? Aren't you jumping to conclusions here? Maybe he's just been thinking with his arse? If so, he probably just has a "headache" from "thinking" too hard.
By saying "make some trouble", I really do mean to encourage people to make some trouble! Many things could get better if people would realise we're not as much being oppressed, as letting ourselves being oppressed. And causing trouble is one way to find that out. (I mean trouble in a broud sense here.) Also, we can not rely on the people in position to make the decisions to always make the right ones, even if we petition our guts out.
With that said, I'm in no way going to let any cops trying to stop me from speaking my mind, no matter how much bad press that might cause.
Allow me to suggest how to apply pressure against proposals like this. Organize. Agitate. Educate. Resist. Take it to the streets if that is what it takes.
One does not need to study that much history, to come to the conclusion that it's through direct action that all advances of freedom and human rights have been made. And it's through direct action we have to defend and further advance our rights.
In the so called western world, things have been sleepy for quite some time. But the powerful people that have everything to gain by taking our rights away have not been at rest. This one-sided war can not go on for ever. People everywhere are taking up the many struggles that need to be won. This have been visible recently in places like Seattle, Nice and Prague. And this very weekend, in Gothenburg, it will happen again.
But it's not at the top meetings the battles are won. So find some like-minded people and start making some trouble!
Yes, that's right. EU != Europe.
I think this quest for the true meaning of works of art is silly and worthless. Isn't the beauty of these things that they we can all reach different interpretations based on our own experiences? Is a certain interpretation less "true" or "valuable" to you if you have reason to beleive it was not intended by the author?
This interpretation and criticism business shouldn't be a game of scoring points by finding anagrams. Just see it as a way to learn things about other people, the world, yourself, culture or whatever.
Quite a fascinating thing to watch. The cube quickly became a popular meeting place though, so many messages were along the lines of "I'm 10 minutes late" or "Meet me at the other place instead".
Linus is finnish. Nokia is finnish. Linus' mother toungue is swedish. Nokia's web site for open development features a swedish pun. What does this really mean?
Probably makes the moderators feel like they are smart or something when they moderate supposedly against the grain.
So... *ahem* I guess I'll get modded to hell now for calling the moderators stupid.
However, I've heard/read many times that the great wall could be seen from the moon (seen as in "with your bare eyes"), which is completely ridiculous.
Actually, gay behaviour is very common amongst many animals. It just doesn't fit in with our idea of what is "natural" so it's been sort of a taboo subject or a blind spot of zoologists for a long time. There are however literature on the subject.
TV ads you have to sit through as you don't want to miss what's coming up next. That will not be the case here, you can come back at any time and the ad will be done. (Unless they decide to really, really become a pain in the ass and give you like five seconds after the add to click through to the article or another ad starts up. In that case I'll simply leave and never come back again.)
Somebody pour me some hot grits.
If it's my server, my bandwith, my money paying for it, I'll chose who can use it and who can't. For whatever reason I can think up. It's my call. Go whine somewhere else.
(Zero is an even number as it divides by two without a reminder. And year-month-date is a better way of writing dates, it sorts better.)
So, imagine a world whit TV without ads and unadvertised products. Most things would be cheaper. TV would be more expensive. In fact, I beleive most people would simply refuse to pay for TV what it already costs them, if they had to do it up front. So in my imaginary world, in addition to lower prices for most things, TV would either go away or get much better. I'm all for it either way!
Second, many european countries *are* bettern than the US with regard to censorship. Especially if you consider this "indecency" nonsense. The "Parental advisory" and bleeping songs for radio or music videos seems especially stupid, as it sometimes reaches all the way over the atlantic. (ie a TV show host makes an apology for the record company apparently sending them the "US version" of a video with all the naughty words bleeped out and she says something like "so you'll have to sing the words yourself, they are fuck, weed, motheryfucker...")
#!/bin/sh
rm -f $1
touch $1.lz
And for good measure, my implementation of lunzip:
#!/bin/sh
mv $1 `echo $1 | sed -e 's/.lz$//'
If it's always preferable to be near the equator, Canada can find much sites way south of Kiruna (Just about pick any location at random in the country).