We have science for one reason. Science tells us that to be fat (and there are scientific definitions of this) is not good for you (and for many people around you, but fat people are egoistic and don't care much about the needs of others around them).
Fat people give plenty of excuses like the one cited ("fat" is subjective, fat is beautiful, and much other drivel) in order to justify their lack of discipline and self respect.
I would agree that some minority of fat people have mental issues that push them on the direction of stuffing their mouths aimlessly, but most fat people are just lazy and can't be bothered to better themselves.
Homosexuals, has been demonstrated amply by now from a scientific point of view (if you are religious, get lost regarding this topic frankly) have no choice about their homosexuality.
The immense majority of fat people, in the other hand, do have a choice to change their life bad habits. The choice may not be easey, but they do have it and it is really a case of will oneself to do something about it.
Idiots like him give journalism a bad name. In this era of climate change, all the pro-car ranting sems more and more anticuated and idiotic.
It is also horribly ironic that one of the presenters almost died due to the unnecessary idiotic stunts they push themselves to do and the rampant disregard for security measures for drivers.
Look, if Solaris and java are released under the GPL, if you disagree with what they are doing, you can actually for the project and create your own.
How is that for openess?
I wish people would stop the unnecessary whinning when the licenses used take good care of that.
Once Sun, or any company, GPL stuff, they will remain in control only as long as they continue doing good, sane decisions. The day they stop doing so the community goes and plays elsewhere.
Any old software clearly states the OSes supported, this does not include any OSes commercialized in the future.
There is nothing stopping MS having 2 lines of products: one new, that would accept only certified software, one old, which will consist on keeping old systems running.
The backwards compatibility excuse is a tired one, which holds absolutely no water.
It is not anymore the little box out there hidden under a desk.
Most (all?) companies offering web hosting or collocations support Linux. Actually being able to 0wn a Linux server gives you much better malware posibilities since a system can have hundreds or thousends of users.
But black hats don't attack Linux not out of popularity, but simply because Linux has a better design when it comes to security (UNIX, and Linux, which takes its inspiration from it, were designed in the understanding that you may have different people working in the same computer at the same time. That has mae immensely easier to make these OSes cracker unfriendly. In the meantime MS has been hacking a multiuser systems in top of their offerings, the amount of holes left behind and the constant form over function ensure the systems will be easier to crack).
Security has nothing to do with popularity, it has to do with proper or improper security policies and their implementation.
Malware is firmly constrained to the priviledges of the user doing dumb things. Many things remain off limits.
And if you install any of the rule based security applications in Linux, the constraints are even stronger, this without sacrificing the versatility or the user's experience.
Linux is not attacked for lack of popularity, it is not attacked because it is more of a bitch to do an attack.
The philosophy under which these OSes are built is completely different and ensure better security.
And now with virtualization made easy (unlike with WIndows, where all kind of asinine licensing restrictions discourage virutalization) one is able to isolate even more logical instance of machines. This enhances security and reliability.
The position of having to know everything from ethernet wiring to set up websites using LAMP and anything in between is completely ludicrous.
If I don't know how to wire something I will look it up online, even if it is an ehternet connection, it is not like it is hte only one in the universe.
At the time Europeans arrived to America the Maya, just to name one of the peoples in the new continent, were performing surgical procedures, have invented a numerical system with positional zero, had a more accurate measurement of the year and were conversant with many astronomical events. Then you have the Inca, the Aztec, The Zapotec, the Olmec and many other cultures that were more advanced than the european in many meaningful ways.
The Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan (today's Mexico City) was by all measurements perhaps the most amazing city in the world back then, For people interested you can get the description of the town from the conqueror himself, Hernan Cortes or from Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one regular soldier in Cortes' party during the conquest.
The Aztecs had complex agriultural systems based on desecation of the lake where the city was funded as well as an extensive system of canals to transport goods which allowed Tenochtitlan to grow to more than 100000, one of the biggest towns in the world back then. Their sculpture and handicraftshad no parallel in Europe. We don;t have many examples left, because the "superior" culture systematically destroyed any traces of the old cultures, but if you go to Rufino Tamayo's museum in Oaxaca you can see the finest examples of high culture.
What fucked the Aztecs was the monumental luck of Cortes, who was mistaken by a god, a white skinned god, which had been prophecised would come back. That created vital indecisions in Moctezuma (Montezuma, Motecuzoma, you'll find different names) that did not unleash his army against the invaders until it was too late. That had nothing to do with cultural superiority, since the Aztecs were brave and damn well versed in the art of war, but with politics and luck.
In any case, many foodstufs you take for granted now were domesticated and made productive by American peoples: potatoes, corn, tomatoes, chillies, cocoa (chocolate), turkey and many others I can't care to mention. Without those Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Indian cuisine would be completely different today. If you don't consider that relevant, ask the Irish, they can tell you one or two things about how important potatoes are, or the Indian, whose curry may be derived from concoctions origanally made in Mexico (mole).
The monumental insult of pretending that you can discover a continent populated by other peoples has been disowned officialy by Spain, the biggest conqueror of the time, and certainly no American country refers anymore to the encounter as discovery anymore.
Only the more retarded racists refer to it as a discovery. So if you are not a racist you would be well adviced to dissociate yourself from such concept, it will only mark you in the most negative of lights.
The colonizers of the American continent knew damn well of all the immoralities they were commiting during the savage conquest of the New World, there were many voices raised in disgust at the time.
YOu make it appear like if there was a universal favourable consensus on the matter.
And stop your reluctance to accept what is by now glaringly obvious: NK has the capability to produce a crappy nuclear device and the capability to launch rockets far enough to make things very uncomfortable in the region.
I talked to a geophysicist with lots of experience in the field, he confirmed that the data collected could only be generated by a primitive nuclear device.
As I understoo things, a nuclear device has an specific "fingerprint" when exploded underground. People with familirarity of this field of expertise have confirmed the nature of NK explosion as nuclear in nature.
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Most people think that is the case, but half the people there are fat people that are trying to do the responsible thing and lose the flab.
That is not candy for any eye IMHO.
There, I said it.
We have science for one reason. Science tells us that to be fat (and there are scientific definitions of this) is not good for you (and for many people around you, but fat people are egoistic and don't care much about the needs of others around them).
Fat people give plenty of excuses like the one cited ("fat" is subjective, fat is beautiful, and much other drivel) in order to justify their lack of discipline and self respect.
I would agree that some minority of fat people have mental issues that push them on the direction of stuffing their mouths aimlessly, but most fat people are just lazy and can't be bothered to better themselves.
Homosexuals, has been demonstrated amply by now from a scientific point of view (if you are religious, get lost regarding this topic frankly) have no choice about their homosexuality.
The immense majority of fat people, in the other hand, do have a choice to change their life bad habits. The choice may not be easey, but they do have it and it is really a case of will oneself to do something about it.
Idiots like him give journalism a bad name. In this era of climate change, all the pro-car ranting sems more and more anticuated and idiotic.
It is also horribly ironic that one of the presenters almost died due to the unnecessary idiotic stunts they push themselves to do and the rampant disregard for security measures for drivers.
Look, if Solaris and java are released under the GPL, if you disagree with what they are doing, you can actually for the project and create your own.
How is that for openess?
I wish people would stop the unnecessary whinning when the licenses used take good care of that.
Once Sun, or any company, GPL stuff, they will remain in control only as long as they continue doing good, sane decisions. The day they stop doing so the community goes and plays elsewhere.
What else do you foxy need?
.... become the package mantainer and do it.
Otherwise, frankly STFU, and wait like the rest of us, greateful that there are actually people doing instead of whinning.
.... that MS ditched it in favour of an iTunesque scheme for their Zune player.
You must be joking.
Any old software clearly states the OSes supported, this does not include any OSes commercialized in the future.
There is nothing stopping MS having 2 lines of products: one new, that would accept only certified software, one old, which will consist on keeping old systems running.
The backwards compatibility excuse is a tired one, which holds absolutely no water.
It is not anymore the little box out there hidden under a desk.
Most (all?) companies offering web hosting or collocations support Linux. Actually being able to 0wn a Linux server gives you much better malware posibilities since a system can have hundreds or thousends of users.
But black hats don't attack Linux not out of popularity, but simply because Linux has a better design when it comes to security (UNIX, and Linux, which takes its inspiration from it, were designed in the understanding that you may have different people working in the same computer at the same time. That has mae immensely easier to make these OSes cracker unfriendly. In the meantime MS has been hacking a multiuser systems in top of their offerings, the amount of holes left behind and the constant form over function ensure the systems will be easier to crack).
Security has nothing to do with popularity, it has to do with proper or improper security policies and their implementation.
Malware is firmly constrained to the priviledges of the user doing dumb things. Many things remain off limits.
And if you install any of the rule based security applications in Linux, the constraints are even stronger, this without sacrificing the versatility or the user's experience.
Linux is not attacked for lack of popularity, it is not attacked because it is more of a bitch to do an attack.
The philosophy under which these OSes are built is completely different and ensure better security.
And now with virtualization made easy (unlike with WIndows, where all kind of asinine licensing restrictions discourage virutalization) one is able to isolate even more logical instance of machines. This enhances security and reliability.
Feisy Fawn is even closer as I type!
Tollef Fog Heen came back from lunch and just turned on his screen. Now that is progress.
Oh man, we live excilarating times.
Please check back for updates:
In one hour Tollef Fog Heen will finish to write an email.
In three hours Tollef Fog Heen will complete one icon missing in one of the menus in the graphic installer.
In 5 hours Tollef Fog Heen goes home. Nooooooo! Ubuntu development stalled! Stop the presses....
Now I should throw a chair at Miguel de Icaza or something.
Google for Steve Jobs DRM and enjoy.
The meaty bit: people have a neglegible percentage of DRMed music on their iPods.
People are either ripping from CDs, pirating or downloading from the mushroming indie labels that don't bother with the DRM nonsense.
He is saying he will not buy DRMed music.
There are several ways to get the smae music in a legit manner.
The position of having to know everything from ethernet wiring to set up websites using LAMP and anything in between is completely ludicrous.
If I don't know how to wire something I will look it up online, even if it is an ehternet connection, it is not like it is hte only one in the universe.
So get creative.
But thanks for playing anyway.
At the time Europeans arrived to America the Maya, just to name one of the peoples in the new continent, were performing surgical procedures, have invented a numerical system with positional zero, had a more accurate measurement of the year and were conversant with many astronomical events. Then you have the Inca, the Aztec, The Zapotec, the Olmec and many other cultures that were more advanced than the european in many meaningful ways.
The Aztec capital city, Tenochtitlan (today's Mexico City) was by all measurements perhaps the most amazing city in the world back then, For people interested you can get the description of the town from the conqueror himself, Hernan Cortes or from Bernal Diaz del Castillo, one regular soldier in Cortes' party during the conquest.
The Aztecs had complex agriultural systems based on desecation of the lake where the city was funded as well as an extensive system of canals to transport goods which allowed Tenochtitlan to grow to more than 100000, one of the biggest towns in the world back then. Their sculpture and handicraftshad no parallel in Europe. We don;t have many examples left, because the "superior" culture systematically destroyed any traces of the old cultures, but if you go to Rufino Tamayo's museum in Oaxaca you can see the finest examples of high culture.
What fucked the Aztecs was the monumental luck of Cortes, who was mistaken by a god, a white skinned god, which had been prophecised would come back. That created vital indecisions in Moctezuma (Montezuma, Motecuzoma, you'll find different names) that did not unleash his army against the invaders until it was too late. That had nothing to do with cultural superiority, since the Aztecs were brave and damn well versed in the art of war, but with politics and luck.
In any case, many foodstufs you take for granted now were domesticated and made productive by American peoples: potatoes, corn, tomatoes, chillies, cocoa (chocolate), turkey and many others I can't care to mention. Without those Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Indian cuisine would be completely different today. If you don't consider that relevant, ask the Irish, they can tell you one or two things about how important potatoes are, or the Indian, whose curry may be derived from concoctions origanally made in Mexico (mole).
The monumental insult of pretending that you can discover a continent populated by other peoples has been disowned officialy by Spain, the biggest conqueror of the time, and certainly no American country refers anymore to the encounter as discovery anymore.
Only the more retarded racists refer to it as a discovery. So if you are not a racist you would be well adviced to dissociate yourself from such concept, it will only mark you in the most negative of lights.
IT is what barbaric people do.
The colonizers of the American continent knew damn well of all the immoralities they were commiting during the savage conquest of the New World, there were many voices raised in disgust at the time.
YOu make it appear like if there was a universal favourable consensus on the matter.
We see more readily only what we crave to have.
I think you wanted to say Saudi Arabia but somehow got things muddled.
Oh wait, they are US allies.
Er, never mind.
And stop your reluctance to accept what is by now glaringly obvious: NK has the capability to produce a crappy nuclear device and the capability to launch rockets far enough to make things very uncomfortable in the region.
I talked to a geophysicist with lots of experience in the field, he confirmed that the data collected could only be generated by a primitive nuclear device.
As I understoo things, a nuclear device has an specific "fingerprint" when exploded underground. People with familirarity of this field of expertise have confirmed the nature of NK explosion as nuclear in nature.