You are absolutely right,.. is west. Now that we've settled that we can move onto the more important subject:
When visualising a year, what does it look like?
(Correct answer: The year is a circle. Time flows counterclockwise. The year begins/ends about 11 o'clock.)
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I suppose the opposite of this MUD-Shell thing is a quest at NannyMUD (http://www.lysator.liu.se/nanny/). In the course of the quest you sort of fell out of the MUD and was stuck in a "real" shell for a while.
Minor point first: "Thielen" does not sound Scandinavian to me, and I'm Swedish. Much to my surprise though, there's actually 22 people named "Thielen" in Sweden, but that doesn't make it a typically Swedish name in any way. My guess is it's not a common Norwegian or Danish name either. So anyway...
Guessing the colour of somebody's skin from the way their name sounds has to be the most ridiculous idea I've heard for a long time. People marry, get adopted or just plain change their name all over the place. Just among the people I know that are Swedish for at least two generations back, I can find names from all over the world. I'm sure Swedish names are all over the world too, carried by people of all colours.
And just in case you're really far out there -- far from all Scandinavians and Germans are white, you know.
What a shame! Your rant was coming out just fine, you made sense and the other guy was a troll.
And then you have to spoil it all in the very last paragraph by going for the easy extra points by saying "communism is baaaaaaad". I'm very disappointed of you.
The plants are clean, yes. (Unless there's an accident of course. I was in an area where lots of the radiation from Chernobyl ended up at the time of the accident, not fun. It wasn't fun either to see huge amounts of reindeer and elk meat go to waste. But that will never happen again, never ever.)
However, the mining of the fuel for nuclear plants is *very* polluting in many ways. And to shrug off the waste as a non-issue is really stupid too.
As any sane person can understand, the way to go is of course renewable energy sources. It's as simple as that.
Yes, a neural network controls my home. It's this nifty thing called "brain" that I make sure to carry with me everywhere I go. But I suppose an artificial neural network capable of doing stuff for me when I was away would be pretty cool.
Aaaawwhhh, don't tell me. You're one of the little crybabies that feel threatened when somebody grows enough independence to leave behind the hypocritical cults where everyone must think and dress the same, often known as "scenes".
If you had guts enough to listen to Chumbawamba after they were branded "sellout" by your local i-know-what's-kosher-punk idiot, you'd noticed that their politics have not changed. And their music hasn't been anything like punk since the eighties, damnit.
Being on a major label gives them the opportunity to reach far more people than they would otherwise do. To them, I think it is more important to get their message across to as many people as possible, without caring about if their listeners know what labels, clothes and bands you must prefer to be a real punk/revolutionary/anarchist/vegan/whatever.
As for oi bands wanting to stomp the shit out of Chumbawamba, try Oi Polloi. Crass wouldn't stomp the shit out of anybody, and they're even less likely to reunite, whatever the reason.
An avalanche, in Denmark? Boy that's funny. They don't get much snow down there, and their highest point above sea level is like 150 meters (450 feet) I think. They call it a mountain =)
What kept you from simply restoring from a backup? Isn't the stuff kept on the root partition supposed to be all configuration files? That's not hard to keep backups of. If the server is in any way important, you should have made backups anyhow... Naughty you.
Besides, is ReiserFS officially stable now? I figured there was a reason it isn't in the kernel yet...
Back in the good old days when I was a punk (like full gear punk, hanging about town being obnoxious, I still listen to most of the music but I've since gotten a hair cut etc. Hmm, let me see, yeah, close the paranthesis and get on with it). I liked The Exploited quite alot until I heard a live recording of the song "I Hate You" where Wattie Buchan says "This song is dedicated to Yello Biafra because he's a fucking faggot. It's called I hate fucking you". Since It's a really crappy recording I haven't been able to understand why they hate Yello, but there you go.
Why I don't hate Yello Biafra is because he has a lot of good things to say, and he says them in a really way that makes me feel like "oh yeah, that is so fucking true, why can't I express myself like that?".
I think he's made himself unpopular among punks because he points out all the hypocracy and bullshit about being punk the right way that goes on. And he does it in the not so very gentle Yello Biafra way.
And for the record, I think The Dead Kennedys and The Exploited both made damn good punk _music_.
Yes, the Nuclear power plant in itself is very clean, (until you have a meltdown, remember the words of Murphy). BUT the mining of uranium is very damaging to the environment. And there's also the problem of the radioactive waste you end up with for quite a long time.
So given that a) You don't live near the uranium mines, or are in any way dependent of the nature surrounding it b) there are no more nuclear power plant accidents, ever c) you don't live near the place all the waste ends up at (and don't worry about all the things that can go wrong with it for the next couple of thousand years) then I suppose you can call nuclear power clean.
In how many other countries can you openly protest without fear of arrest just a few yards from the home of your country's president/prime minister/leader
I suppose you don't regard pepper spray, tear gas and truncheons used against peaceful protesters as repressive? Perhaps the police didn't read the Constitution...
In Sweden, it is illegal for a reporter to give away an anonymous source, even to the police. (A reporter was recently convicted for this very crime)
It is also illegal for government employees to attempt to find out who an anonymous source is.
This is *very* good laws, as people are more likely to go to the press when they have less reason to fear they will get in trouble for it. Which leads to more bad guys having their dirty business being exposed.
The reason people in the third world have many children is not religion or lack of resposibility. To suggest that (especially using wording like "breed like rabbits" I find very ignorant and full of "they bring it onto themselves, so they deserve it" bullshit.
The reason is poverty. When you are poor, the risk of your children dying is high, so you have many because most likely some of them will not make it. And children are theese people's pension fund! They need their children because no one else will take care of them when they grow old and weak.
Look at countries whith high standards or living and low infant fatality, the population is stable!(And in some cases, would be decreasing were it not for immigration.)
The first first-person-shooter I played was Spear of Destiny. And I used to get sick all the time playing it. Nowadays I guess I've grown a resistance to it. But, a really fun thing is, at the time when I played SoD all day long, I also listened to a certain band that was my favourite of the time. Now, whenever I here that music, I feel slightly sick, as the music reminds me of SoD, and hence of the nausea!
I too did not like that statement. As if the Spartans had failed, we'd still be living in the dark ages, or what? The ideas from greece at the time that have helped form the "Western Civilization" of today would have survived anyway. And the Persians sure did their part forming those ideas too.
The evolution of civilization isn't a battle between ideas were one has to defeat all the others. They are endlessly merging and influencing each other. (Cultures aren't proprietary, they are more like Free software, to make this post fit for/. =)
It is impossible to keep foreign ideas out. Just look at China before the brits came. Or Soviet, or what is happening in China today. And given the widespread fear of Islam that's poisoning the Western countries today, I find such a statement rather disturbing. (Of course I know the Persians weren't Muslims(sp?), but I think you can see the connection.)
I think the "Western Civilizations" really would be better of if they had borrowed a bit of the view on other religions from the Islamic empire of medeival europe.
And I put "s around "Western Civilization" as I, like Ghandi, think it would still be a good idea.
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When I was taking the Calais (sp?) - Dover ferry, they repeatedly said on the speakers that one shouldn't leave baggage unattended. They do that here in Sweden to, but that's so one can avoid having it stolen. So, having a rather heavy bag, I left it to go stroll about the ferry. I hadn't taken more than a few steps before someone of the crew came running after me and started yelling all sorts of stuff. He said they'd have to take it off the ship and blow it up if they found unattended luggage. Pretty scary.
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When visualising a year, what does it look like?
(Correct answer: The year is a circle. Time flows counterclockwise. The year begins/ends about 11 o'clock.)
Guessing the colour of somebody's skin from the way their name sounds has to be the most ridiculous idea I've heard for a long time. People marry, get adopted or just plain change their name all over the place. Just among the people I know that are Swedish for at least two generations back, I can find names from all over the world. I'm sure Swedish names are all over the world too, carried by people of all colours.
And just in case you're really far out there -- far from all Scandinavians and Germans are white, you know.
And then you have to spoil it all in the very last paragraph by going for the easy extra points by saying "communism is baaaaaaad". I'm very disappointed of you.
However, the mining of the fuel for nuclear plants is *very* polluting in many ways. And to shrug off the waste as a non-issue is really stupid too.
As any sane person can understand, the way to go is of course renewable energy sources. It's as simple as that.
What does a goatse.cx troll sound like in zero gravity?
If you had guts enough to listen to Chumbawamba after they were branded "sellout" by your local i-know-what's-kosher-punk idiot, you'd noticed that their politics have not changed. And their music hasn't been anything like punk since the eighties, damnit.
Being on a major label gives them the opportunity to reach far more people than they would otherwise do. To them, I think it is more important to get their message across to as many people as possible, without caring about if their listeners know what labels, clothes and bands you must prefer to be a real punk/revolutionary/anarchist/vegan/whatever.
As for oi bands wanting to stomp the shit out of Chumbawamba, try Oi Polloi. Crass wouldn't stomp the shit out of anybody, and they're even less likely to reunite, whatever the reason.
Peace...
(Please excuse this post, I'm Swedish.)
Besides, is ReiserFS officially stable now? I figured there was a reason it isn't in the kernel yet...
Why I don't hate Yello Biafra is because he has a lot of good things to say, and he says them in a really way that makes me feel like "oh yeah, that is so fucking true, why can't I express myself like that?".
I think he's made himself unpopular among punks because he points out all the hypocracy and bullshit about being punk the right way that goes on. And he does it in the not so very gentle Yello Biafra way.
And for the record, I think The Dead Kennedys and The Exploited both made damn good punk _music_.
So given that
a) You don't live near the uranium mines, or are in any way dependent of the nature surrounding it
b) there are no more nuclear power plant accidents, ever
c) you don't live near the place all the waste ends up at (and don't worry about all the things that can go wrong with it for the next couple of thousand years)
then I suppose you can call nuclear power clean.
I suppose you don't regard pepper spray, tear gas and truncheons used against peaceful protesters as repressive? Perhaps the police didn't read the Constitution...
It is also illegal for government employees to attempt to find out who an anonymous source is.
This is *very* good laws, as people are more likely to go to the press when they have less reason to fear they will get in trouble for it. Which leads to more bad guys having their dirty business being exposed.
And that's S-k-a-j-o-h-a-n btw!
The reason is poverty. When you are poor, the risk of your children dying is high, so you have many because most likely some of them will not make it. And children are theese people's pension fund! They need their children because no one else will take care of them when they grow old and weak.
Look at countries whith high standards or living and low infant fatality, the population is stable!(And in some cases, would be decreasing were it not for immigration.)
If you don't want over population, end poverty!
The evolution of civilization isn't a battle between ideas were one has to defeat all the others. They are endlessly merging and influencing each other. (Cultures aren't proprietary, they are more like Free software, to make this post fit for /. =)
It is impossible to keep foreign ideas out. Just look at China before the brits came. Or Soviet, or what is happening in China today. And given the widespread fear of Islam that's poisoning the Western countries today, I find such a statement rather disturbing. (Of course I know the Persians weren't Muslims(sp?), but I think you can see the connection.)
I think the "Western Civilizations" really would be better of if they had borrowed a bit of the view on other religions from the Islamic empire of medeival europe.
And I put "s around "Western Civilization" as I, like Ghandi, think it would still be a good idea.
When I was taking the Calais (sp?) - Dover ferry, they repeatedly said on the speakers that one shouldn't leave baggage unattended. They do that here in Sweden to, but that's so one can avoid having it stolen. So, having a rather heavy bag, I left it to go stroll about the ferry. I hadn't taken more than a few steps before someone of the crew came running after me and started yelling all sorts of stuff. He said they'd have to take it off the ship and blow it up if they found unattended luggage. Pretty scary.