US people seem ot be this weird idea that once you enter a prision all your rights are lost.
Just for your information folks citizens of the New Empire, jail prisioners have human rights that must be respected.
Respecting the rights of those people is a guarantee that your own rights will not be trampled with. Slippery slopes are a dangerous thing folks, you should stop the slip straight at the moment it starts to happen.
I have being using Linux as a desktop machine for 11 years. In very few ocassions I have needed to use other OS in order to get work (or pleasure) done. I can't believe that in the odd ocassion I needed something it was only for applications that mattered to everybody (I never had problems with Web browsing, USENET, email, documen writing, image processing, music playing, CD ripping, CD and DVD burning). I am thinking hard about something so fundmental that would make a Linux machine completely and utterly unusable and I frankly can't.
I made my Masters Degree using Linux exclusively as my workstation (I did not touch LateX or even emacs). After my experience and that of many other students our university began to suggest to the students to use OO.org, i.e. WIndows is no longer necessary.
I also upgraded my mother's PC to SuSE 10 (from Windows98) and she is as happy as ever. All the tools she needs are there and after a couple of months I have not heard any complaints.
Just for your information, there are Black people that defer more from other Black groups than from some groups of White folk (when genetic material is compared).
You should be worrying about tests been done in people with a genetic make up as close to yours as possible, skin colour does not ensure this (check the skin colour of any descendts from a "mixed race" marriage. Skin is normally dark but obviously genetics will have contributions from both parents).
Many people considered White (Spaniard for example) have loads of genetic material from Black folk (Spain had Moorish people for 800 years, many of them were Black).
In the one hand you have India, population 1.2 billion, new nuclear power, pan Asian interests.
In the other you have China. Ditto.
Then you have the US, population 300 million, global interests, more than willing to defend them as we all know.
And then we have little France (which is laughed at, "freedom fries" says it all), little Germany (which is ignored) or little Britain that does what the master says. And the we have even littler Poland, Italy or Czech Republic that do the dirty work of the master like illegaly allowing kidnapped individuals to be mover through their territory.
If the role you want for European countries is one of the above, keep rejecting further union, your country (Luxembourg? Malta? Cyprus?) will be an irrelevance that will be easily ignored.
If Europeans want a role in deciding how the planet should be run, they *must* join forces, it is the only way they will be heard. And you ought to do it, if the best Western Civilization has to offer is the US I think frankly we are fucked. THe US is a great experiment, but is religious zealotry is bringing all those great ideals to a sad end.
Humanism, rationality and democracy have their best champions in Europe, but only an Europe United will habe the etrength to defend those values.
The countries that initially brought cheap labour in the EU eventually grew richer and began to demand products and services from other EU countries.
Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Greece, countries for which it was told that would swamp richer countries with poor immigrants, now have labour shortages and patch this with illegal immigration or outsourcing manufacturing to countries like Morocco.
If anything, the EU free market has probed beyond resonably doubt that free markets work far better than stupid subsidies based in hazy nationalistic nonsense.
The people working in the UK that came from the last wave of EU countries (Poland mostly) are covering gaps in the economy that were impossibly to fill anymore (Polish plumbers, builders, waiters are all around the place). At the same time some outsourcing is taking place to Poland, Hungary and the Baltic states. Once this pepople become more prosperous they will become clients of the richer countries. At the same time consumers in rich countries benefit from most realistic prices (ask any Brit what they think about plumbing or brick laying prices).
If politicians in the US had any real interest to benefit their people they would be trying to promote a simila treaty with Mexico and other American countries. Most Mexicand do not wish to go to the US, for many Mexico is a better place to be, but the people that could offer their services in the US would benefit both countries. THat is the beauty of free markets, they provide an overall benefit to all the parties involved.
Your definition of consultant is so narrow that no camel will ever go through that needle's eyelet. Not even a mini camel.
Consulting is understood as the poviding of professional srvices in an area, the nature of the gig may be advisory, but can be also doing technical work. What you need is somebody that can fall in a position running. Anybody capable of doing that will fit the definition of most sane people.
In your ayatolhaic zeal you make half a point: people should be knowledgeable in their field of expertise. But the original poster made a point far more important: for a myriad of reasons people that are good enough to put in place a little app may not have the knowledge about how to secure it. That is real life here in the ground, real world so to speak, not in that area deprived of oxygen you seem to be moving in where every engineer or technician wears a shinny armor and has a perfect denture.
The languages and protocols we are using to build the Web are not secure enough, people working on new tools for the Internet ought to take this into account. The next big language, the next big protocol, shoud do as the previous poster say: protect the developper against himself.
If people leave property unsecured, unttaged, elsewhere, and you find it, it is all yours. You are not obliged to bend over to return something to his owner that clearly he can't be bothered to claim as his.
Same thing should apply to WiFi APs. Every single one of them comes with instructions about how to secure them, so if you don't do so, well, what is other people to think?
Music supply is no longer constrained by physical media.
The market speaks by offering a price that is deemed fair (free or near to free).
You may whine all what you want about the ethics of this (downloading has many pluses from a cultural point of view) but can't argue with the change of the supply.
Recording labels have being on denial bout this, this is what is being criticized.
Token figures in position of power do not demonstrate by any means a better position of women in society. Even several mulsim countries have had PMs or Presidents, that has not meant a better situation for women there.
The situation for women in India is dire. Castes, forced arranged marriages, and patriarchial societies are a common problem.
Women in the US and in most Western countries are in a far better position, in spite of not having political representation or power.
For bunnies sakes, drop the computer and find a book about history, and perhaps one about the convention of human rights.
Very clever people (much clever than you) have come with explanations about why what you are proposing is complete nonsense.
And as for your sentence about many countries still practicing public hangings, you just show your imperivious, stereorypical US ignorance about the rest of the world.
The immense majority of modern countries have abolished public executions decades ago. And for you r diepleasure most modern democracies (EUrope, Latinamerica) have abolished the death penalty outright.
You guys are one of the biggest executioners, you are in the fine company of those shinny examples of judicial impecabilitiy like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the People's Republic of China or the Dear Leader's North Korea.
You guys should have a reality check in regards o your position of the death penalty as a justified punishment. Most of enlighted humanity does not agree with you.
.... is typical of an authoritarian dictatorial state.
I know you guys in the US voted for Bush, not only once but twice, but if you want democracy and the rule of law you should know by now that men are born free and you should not force them to work against their will.
You can seel the assets of the thief, or enact a systme by which money is deducted at source whenever he decides to work, but what you are suggesting only happens in states like Stalinist Russia.
... why I am boycotting the US as a flying destination (I don't go ther even as an stop over destination).
It is a real shame, I have seen only bits of it, not the most necessary (NY, LA, Grand Canyon), but frankly I don't want to be treated like a criminal just for being me.
You should check his biography before making such an ignorant and uninformed statement.
Suffice to say that Isaac Newton was an alchemist. no scientist will know it all, and all of them may say or do folly things if they go stray from thei main body of knowledge.
But to go as far as saying what you said is completely idiotic.
FC5 is the latest version of that distro afaik. So you are completely uninformed there pal.
As for being fully configured, you are missing the point: even die hard geeks need to get things done.
I have installed Linux on many laptops. Been there, done that, got the cheap T-shirt. If I needed a new laptop I would be more than happy to get something ready to go to which I can add what I need, but that has the basics (Internet stuff, multimedia, office applications) ready to rock.
They are aiming for the geek with little time. The laptop is even cheaper if you don't put the OS of the beast on it, which in my book gets lots of coockie points.
Any people still working there surely should know by noe the stinker of a company they are working for.
There is a point when you can't keep pretending you don't have some responsibility in your employers actions. It has been 3 years since this charade started, by now ny decent people should have jumped ship.
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US people seem ot be this weird idea that once you enter a prision all your rights are lost.
Just for your information folks citizens of the New Empire, jail prisioners have human rights that must be respected.
Respecting the rights of those people is a guarantee that your own rights will not be trampled with. Slippery slopes are a dangerous thing folks, you should stop the slip straight at the moment it starts to happen.
I have being using Linux as a desktop machine for 11 years. In very few ocassions I have needed to use other OS in order to get work (or pleasure) done. I can't believe that in the odd ocassion I needed something it was only for applications that mattered to everybody (I never had problems with Web browsing, USENET, email, documen writing, image processing, music playing, CD ripping, CD and DVD burning). I am thinking hard about something so fundmental that would make a Linux machine completely and utterly unusable and I frankly can't.
I made my Masters Degree using Linux exclusively as my workstation (I did not touch LateX or even emacs). After my experience and that of many other students our university began to suggest to the students to use OO.org, i.e. WIndows is no longer necessary.
I also upgraded my mother's PC to SuSE 10 (from Windows98) and she is as happy as ever. All the tools she needs are there and after a couple of months I have not heard any complaints.
So pray tell us, which applications are missing?
Define what is "White race".
Just for your information, there are Black people that defer more from other Black groups than from some groups of White folk (when genetic material is compared).
You should be worrying about tests been done in people with a genetic make up as close to yours as possible, skin colour does not ensure this (check the skin colour of any descendts from a "mixed race" marriage. Skin is normally dark but obviously genetics will have contributions from both parents).
Many people considered White (Spaniard for example) have loads of genetic material from Black folk (Spain had Moorish people for 800 years, many of them were Black).
SO again, what do you mean with "White"?
The US government and people don't have the balls to do allow people from Mexico to work freely in the US.
In the EUropean Union you don't require of visas or work permits to work in another country.
In the one hand you have India, population 1.2 billion, new nuclear power, pan Asian interests.
In the other you have China. Ditto.
Then you have the US, population 300 million, global interests, more than willing to defend them as we all know.
And then we have little France (which is laughed at, "freedom fries" says it all), little Germany (which is ignored) or little Britain that does what the master says. And the we have even littler Poland, Italy or Czech Republic that do the dirty work of the master like illegaly allowing kidnapped individuals to be mover through their territory.
If the role you want for European countries is one of the above, keep rejecting further union, your country (Luxembourg? Malta? Cyprus?) will be an irrelevance that will be easily ignored.
If Europeans want a role in deciding how the planet should be run, they *must* join forces, it is the only way they will be heard. And you ought to do it, if the best Western Civilization has to offer is the US I think frankly we are fucked. THe US is a great experiment, but is religious zealotry is bringing all those great ideals to a sad end.
Humanism, rationality and democracy have their best champions in Europe, but only an Europe United will habe the etrength to defend those values.
The countries that initially brought cheap labour in the EU eventually grew richer and began to demand products and services from other EU countries.
Spain, Ireland, Portugal and Greece, countries for which it was told that would swamp richer countries with poor immigrants, now have labour shortages and patch this with illegal immigration or outsourcing manufacturing to countries like Morocco.
If anything, the EU free market has probed beyond resonably doubt that free markets work far better than stupid subsidies based in hazy nationalistic nonsense.
The people working in the UK that came from the last wave of EU countries (Poland mostly) are covering gaps in the economy that were impossibly to fill anymore (Polish plumbers, builders, waiters are all around the place). At the same time some outsourcing is taking place to Poland, Hungary and the Baltic states. Once this pepople become more prosperous they will become clients of the richer countries. At the same time consumers in rich countries benefit from most realistic prices (ask any Brit what they think about plumbing or brick laying prices).
If politicians in the US had any real interest to benefit their people they would be trying to promote a simila treaty with Mexico and other American countries. Most Mexicand do not wish to go to the US, for many Mexico is a better place to be, but the people that could offer their services in the US would benefit both countries. THat is the beauty of free markets, they provide an overall benefit to all the parties involved.
You clearly know nothing about India...
You know, in order to avoid stereotyping of exactly the same type you are suggesting.
He is of Indian descent actually.
Come of it, have some pity of the tired beast.
Your definition of consultant is so narrow that no camel will ever go through that needle's eyelet. Not even a mini camel.
Consulting is understood as the poviding of professional srvices in an area, the nature of the gig may be advisory, but can be also doing technical work. What you need is somebody that can fall in a position running. Anybody capable of doing that will fit the definition of most sane people.
In your ayatolhaic zeal you make half a point: people should be knowledgeable in their field of expertise. But the original poster made a point far more important: for a myriad of reasons people that are good enough to put in place a little app may not have the knowledge about how to secure it. That is real life here in the ground, real world so to speak, not in that area deprived of oxygen you seem to be moving in where every engineer or technician wears a shinny armor and has a perfect denture.
The languages and protocols we are using to build the Web are not secure enough, people working on new tools for the Internet ought to take this into account. The next big language, the next big protocol, shoud do as the previous poster say: protect the developper against himself.
He should secure it.
If people leave property unsecured, unttaged, elsewhere, and you find it, it is all yours. You are not obliged to bend over to return something to his owner that clearly he can't be bothered to claim as his.
Same thing should apply to WiFi APs. Every single one of them comes with instructions about how to secure them, so if you don't do so, well, what is other people to think?
Music supply is no longer constrained by physical media.
The market speaks by offering a price that is deemed fair (free or near to free).
You may whine all what you want about the ethics of this (downloading has many pluses from a cultural point of view) but can't argue with the change of the supply.
Recording labels have being on denial bout this, this is what is being criticized.
Token figures in position of power do not demonstrate by any means a better position of women in society. Even several mulsim countries have had PMs or Presidents, that has not meant a better situation for women there.
The situation for women in India is dire. Castes, forced arranged marriages, and patriarchial societies are a common problem.
Women in the US and in most Western countries are in a far better position, in spite of not having political representation or power.
Public humilliation and executions.
That is what you call justice.
For bunnies sakes, drop the computer and find a book about history, and perhaps one about the convention of human rights.
Very clever people (much clever than you) have come with explanations about why what you are proposing is complete nonsense.
And as for your sentence about many countries still practicing public hangings, you just show your imperivious, stereorypical US ignorance about the rest of the world.
The immense majority of modern countries have abolished public executions decades ago. And for you r diepleasure most modern democracies (EUrope, Latinamerica) have abolished the death penalty outright.
You guys are one of the biggest executioners, you are in the fine company of those shinny examples of judicial impecabilitiy like the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the People's Republic of China or the Dear Leader's North Korea.
You guys should have a reality check in regards o your position of the death penalty as a justified punishment. Most of enlighted humanity does not agree with you.
.... is typical of an authoritarian dictatorial state.
I know you guys in the US voted for Bush, not only once but twice, but if you want democracy and the rule of law you should know by now that men are born free and you should not force them to work against their will.
You can seel the assets of the thief, or enact a systme by which money is deducted at source whenever he decides to work, but what you are suggesting only happens in states like Stalinist Russia.
I will tell that to the children of a policeman I knew that died trying to stop a criminal gang in Guadalajara, Mexico.
And also to all the victims of crime commited by drug addicts trying to finance their adiction.
In other words, victimless crime my ass.
... why I am boycotting the US as a flying destination (I don't go ther even as an stop over destination).
It is a real shame, I have seen only bits of it, not the most necessary (NY, LA, Grand Canyon), but frankly I don't want to be treated like a criminal just for being me.
The only gaming machine i have is a PSP.
The shop that sold it tome asked me about itand i told them so.
StillI keep getting advertisements for other gaming platforms and far and between forPSP titles, novelties and news.
Companies are sitting in a gold mine of information and are doing naught with it
You should check his biography before making such an ignorant and uninformed statement.
Suffice to say that Isaac Newton was an alchemist. no scientist will know it all, and all of them may say or do folly things if they go stray from thei main body of knowledge.
But to go as far as saying what you said is completely idiotic.
I have contracted Internet for several years now in the UK (at least 5 different providers since dialup until 8Mb broadband).
I can really count with the fingers of one hand the times I have been left without Internet connectivity.
In the other hand I have to reboot my office Windows machine at least once very week.
As anecdotal as this is, I don'tthink it deviates much from the norm.
I am hurting on behalf of the straw man you just punched into a pulp.
FC5 is the latest version of that distro afaik. So you are completely uninformed there pal.
As for being fully configured, you are missing the point: even die hard geeks need to get things done.
I have installed Linux on many laptops. Been there, done that, got the cheap T-shirt. If I needed a new laptop I would be more than happy to get something ready to go to which I can add what I need, but that has the basics (Internet stuff, multimedia, office applications) ready to rock.
They are aiming for the geek with little time. The laptop is even cheaper if you don't put the OS of the beast on it, which in my book gets lots of coockie points.
What is the point of harrasing a former employee "divulging" non confedential information?
Any people still working there surely should know by noe the stinker of a company they are working for.
There is a point when you can't keep pretending you don't have some responsibility in your employers actions. It has been 3 years since this charade started, by now ny decent people should have jumped ship.
... should have no bussiness telling me to lock access to a wirelees access point.
Maybe then most USians would realize in disgust what they have done to their country (and the world) by electing this lot.
A more corrupt gang may perhaps never governed a democracy before.