In the US, "Conservative" ostensibly means "conservative interpretation of founder's principles (ie freedom)" and "Liberal" ostensibly means "liberal interpretation of founder's principles (ie not necessarily freedom)"
It's not even that clear.
Jefferson, Madison and their ilk considered themselves Liberals. From "liberty". People who believe in individual freedom still call themselves 'Classical Liberals' often times.
In the 1920's the socialists in the US, the Progressive movement (a Marxist-populist movement), hijacked the term and called themselves 'modern liberals'. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran with this, and now 'liberal' is nearly synonymous with socialist. But the term has been so attacked of late that the socialists are back to calling themselves Progressives.
That's the easy one. 'Conservatives' can be all sorts. They're usually traditionalists. They're often religious. Since Reagan, they're often militaristic (the so-called Regan Democrats). Some are nationalistic, some are patriotic, and some are libertarian (old 'liberals'). And some are even big-government socialists who like to use military interventions to promote politics - these are called 'NeoCons'. Some are socialists who are religious Christians - they call themselves 'Compassionate Conservatives'.
Basically neither term is deterministic or useful, except by people who try to get those who self-identify with either term all riled-up against 'the other side' while they perpetrate skulduggery in back rooms and by the dark of night.
It completely devalues the sacrifice Vader/Anakin makes in saving his son.
and is an insipidly cheap plot device.
I used to read some of the Star Wars novels. Kevin Anderson's were the only ones I thought tried to be Star Wars novels in spirit/archetype. Zahn's read like D&D set in Star Wars Land.
The founding fathers would be the first to say that people have a right and a duty to revolt against tyranny, but they also seemed to say that the government has a right to try and stop them.
They also thought their design for a limited government was right and just (and would last).
On February 3 Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence told the House Intelligence Committee that it was now "defined policy" that the U.S. government can murder its own citizens on the sole basis of someone in the government's judgement that an American is a threat. No arrest, no trial, no conviction, just execution on suspicion of being a threat.
You'll have to explain that to the people who saw Avatar in IMAX 3D (including myself). Worked fine, but yeah I had to watch my head tilt...
I found being required to sit up straight for nearly three hours a major downside of the experience. And the frame problems of IMAX just seemed to be exacerbated in 3D, I'm not sure why that it, but the flicker was pretty terrible at times.
The bigger problem though was the fixed inter-ocular distance. My eyes strained in a bit, my daughter's (she's 6) had to accommodate way outside her normal range, and she wound up having to just alternate eyes for much of the movie.
Theatre 3D has to be a compromise, so personal 3D is likely to be the end-game. If Microvision ever makes it to market with a real product and your software is fast enough you can give the viewer a perfect 3D experience. I hate to say it, but BTTF2 probably got this right.
No, they're not so hamfisted. They'll just require an Internet Driver's License. It'll be to stop spam and protect the children from pornography. It'll be verified identity and software will be required to include their keys in encrypted communications. GMail will seem better if you're just using it to trade cupcake recipes.
Then again, Obama has little faith in the Constitution, he considers it a document of "negative liberty" (see his NPR interview) that unfortunately tells he and his government lots of stuff (like this) they aren't allowed to do.
Well, that's exactly right, the US Constitution is founded on a political concept of negative reciprocity. It's a promise of a limit of power from a government in exchange for a minimal surrender from the people.
Maybe the problem is the powers given to the government fictions called 'corporations' and not free speech?
Remember, non-limited non-public-benefit corporations were effectively banned in the US until the 1860's when John D. Rockefeller lobbied to get Standard Oil a permanent charter. Then a footnote in Santa Clara gave them personhood.
None of these things were designed into the Republic - they are vestiges of later corruption. SCOTUS took the right first step, we need to demand the rest.
To that end, we'll use our RFI to identify interested communities and to assess local factors that will impact the efficiency and speed of our deployment, such as the level of community support, local resources, weather conditions, approved construction methods and local regulatory issues.
to mean that they're not going to deal with winter in this round.
They don't. They want to embarrass the real ISP's into building decent networks so the network-neutrality issue goes away and they don't wind up having to pay the ISP's for traffic they're sending to its customers.
Google is always playing the chess board three moves ahead.
I think once 2.8's UI is out, there will be a real opportunity for somebody to setup a SourceForge page offering a re-branded GIMP, and market that. I think you're probably right, but it's not a hard experiment to run.
If it's successful and the GIMP folks are convinced, redirect the test site.
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If the attacker has this much physical access to your system/data then you've lost LONG before the TPM chip failed.
It's not about winning or losing, it's about how long it takes to play the game.
Actually, it looks like 4.4 is still in the kde-unstable repo (4.4.0-1). I'm surprised it's not in -testing yet, I'm used to running -testing and hearing about releases here a few weeks after I've been updated.
> There's no such thing as a taskbar. There are Plasma panels,
This, this right here is what's wrong with KDE4.
Yes, it's entirely too flexible and properly-abstracted, we might restrict user choice!
(the fact the default configuration is incredibly like the Windows 95 contruct, not withstanding).
For the mentally handicapped, click on the 'cashew' and drag the label 'screen edge' to the top of the screen. Gods, when did the Slashcrowd devolve into babies that need to be spoon-fed? The typical Mac user is less afraid to explore his desktop options.
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In the US, "Conservative" ostensibly means "conservative interpretation of founder's principles (ie freedom)" and "Liberal" ostensibly means "liberal interpretation of founder's principles (ie not necessarily freedom)"
It's not even that clear.
Jefferson, Madison and their ilk considered themselves Liberals. From "liberty". People who believe in individual freedom still call themselves 'Classical Liberals' often times.
In the 1920's the socialists in the US, the Progressive movement (a Marxist-populist movement), hijacked the term and called themselves 'modern liberals'. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ran with this, and now 'liberal' is nearly synonymous with socialist. But the term has been so attacked of late that the socialists are back to calling themselves Progressives.
That's the easy one. 'Conservatives' can be all sorts. They're usually traditionalists. They're often religious. Since Reagan, they're often militaristic (the so-called Regan Democrats). Some are nationalistic, some are patriotic, and some are libertarian (old 'liberals'). And some are even big-government socialists who like to use military interventions to promote politics - these are called 'NeoCons'. Some are socialists who are religious Christians - they call themselves 'Compassionate Conservatives'.
Basically neither term is deterministic or useful, except by people who try to get those who self-identify with either term all riled-up against 'the other side' while they perpetrate skulduggery in back rooms and by the dark of night.
Along with his defense of Bush wiretapping, it sure looks like we got the hope and change we were promised, eh?
Wait, somebody believed a politician? :palm to forehead:
It completely devalues the sacrifice Vader/Anakin makes in saving his son.
and is an insipidly cheap plot device.
I used to read some of the Star Wars novels. Kevin Anderson's were the only ones I thought tried to be Star Wars novels in spirit/archetype. Zahn's read like D&D set in Star Wars Land.
The founding fathers would be the first to say that people have a right and a duty to revolt against tyranny, but they also seemed to say that the government has a right to try and stop them.
They also thought their design for a limited government was right and just (and would last).
Women.
Yeah?
Homosexuals.
Right.
Atheists.
Laws or just bloviators?
Non-US citizens.
Most certainly. I guess they didn't get endowed by their Creator, eh?
Add citizens the government suspects to be threats:
It definitely advocates the violent overthrowing of the United States government...
How do you figure? The Confederacy didn't hope for war, Lincoln pushed that.
You'll have to explain that to the people who saw Avatar in IMAX 3D (including myself). Worked fine, but yeah I had to watch my head tilt...
I found being required to sit up straight for nearly three hours a major downside of the experience. And the frame problems of IMAX just seemed to be exacerbated in 3D, I'm not sure why that it, but the flicker was pretty terrible at times.
The bigger problem though was the fixed inter-ocular distance. My eyes strained in a bit, my daughter's (she's 6) had to accommodate way outside her normal range, and she wound up having to just alternate eyes for much of the movie.
Theatre 3D has to be a compromise, so personal 3D is likely to be the end-game. If Microvision ever makes it to market with a real product and your software is fast enough you can give the viewer a perfect 3D experience. I hate to say it, but BTTF2 probably got this right.
Therefore, they should be required to abide by the **spirit** of the 4th amendment.
"I'm gonna have my cake and eat it too because I've got a monopoly on violence."
Remember when 3D used to mean they had two dimensions and a story!
You're quite right. Photographs are 2D. TV and Movies are 3D. Avatar was 4D.
I'm simply astonished the marketdroids haven't picked up on this yet.
They've even got one of those catchy web-2.0-style names for their new site, mail.ir [mail.ir].
I think this one is catchier. :)
Here's a nice recent introductory article for the less technically-inclined or via BoingBoing. (fd: I was interviewed for this one).
Please set up a bridge if you have the ability.
Next up: US and EU.
No, they're not so hamfisted. They'll just require an Internet Driver's License. It'll be to stop spam and protect the children from pornography. It'll be verified identity and software will be required to include their keys in encrypted communications. GMail will seem better if you're just using it to trade cupcake recipes.
Then again, Obama has little faith in the Constitution, he considers it a document of "negative liberty" (see his NPR interview) that unfortunately tells he and his government lots of stuff (like this) they aren't allowed to do.
Well, that's exactly right, the US Constitution is founded on a political concept of negative reciprocity. It's a promise of a limit of power from a government in exchange for a minimal surrender from the people.
A promise obviously broken.
That's great, thanks for the info.
BTW, .sig WIN!
This was exactly my experience as well. I'm back to using Catalyst for now.
And I'm pretty sure that competition in the banking sector is good, just like competition in other areas of the market.
Agreed, but right now they don't have to compete on fiscal prudence.
Maybe the problem is the powers given to the government fictions called 'corporations' and not free speech?
Remember, non-limited non-public-benefit corporations were effectively banned in the US until the 1860's when John D. Rockefeller lobbied to get Standard Oil a permanent charter. Then a footnote in Santa Clara gave them personhood.
None of these things were designed into the Republic - they are vestiges of later corruption. SCOTUS took the right first step, we need to demand the rest.
I would be constrained by the fact that no one else has 1G/s available for me to even use
I suspect Google would.
It would still take 6 hours to back up my MythTV storage. But that seems reasonable to me - current connections would be about 5 months.
Gigabit to the home is probably about what we need for real Network Computing, accounting for the information density of the human sensory systems.
I take this:
to mean that they're not going to deal with winter in this round.
They don't. They want to embarrass the real ISP's into building decent networks so the network-neutrality issue goes away and they don't wind up having to pay the ISP's for traffic they're sending to its customers.
Google is always playing the chess board three moves ahead.
You mean how you can buy a 3.4 GHz Phenom II X4 from AMD? That 3.0 GHz ceiling?
If you constrain yourself to PPC, there was a famous pledge for a 3GHz PPC 970 but that materialized about three years behind schedule in the Power 6.
Actually, that's worth noting - the Power7's aren't trying to out-clock the Power6's.
I think once 2.8's UI is out, there will be a real opportunity for somebody to setup a SourceForge page offering a re-branded GIMP, and market that. I think you're probably right, but it's not a hard experiment to run.
If it's successful and the GIMP folks are convinced, redirect the test site.
If the attacker has this much physical access to your system/data then you've lost LONG before the TPM chip failed.
It's not about winning or losing, it's about how long it takes to play the game.
Actually, it looks like 4.4 is still in the kde-unstable repo (4.4.0-1). I'm surprised it's not in -testing yet, I'm used to running -testing and hearing about releases here a few weeks after I've been updated.
> There's no such thing as a taskbar. There are Plasma panels,
This, this right here is what's wrong with KDE4.
Yes, it's entirely too flexible and properly-abstracted, we might restrict user choice!
(the fact the default configuration is incredibly like the Windows 95 contruct, not withstanding).
For the mentally handicapped, click on the 'cashew' and drag the label 'screen edge' to the top of the screen. Gods, when did the Slashcrowd devolve into babies that need to be spoon-fed? The typical Mac user is less afraid to explore his desktop options.
Down is up, war is peace, single-tasking is the new hotness.