I happen to think the answer is actually quite easy. It's the same answer we use for many other issues or problems in society. It's an answer most people in Western society agree on to be good for many differentiated parts of societies challenges. Western societies like to export the answer at every chance they get.
What's that answer? Education. Make drugs available on a personal basis to those that completed an exam on the specific drug. You can't drive a truck with your drivers license for a normal car. Make sure that the user understands all aspects of a drug. For heavier drugs, have them take a practical exam under supervision. This attacks the issue on several levels. It makes it 'uncool' to do drugs, a major incentive for younger people. It will reduce cases of unintentional overdose, mixing of substances or accidents due to being under the influence in conditions that don't allow for it (driving, operating machinery or even something as simple as cooking while stoned.)
Combine this with a system where drugs are made available cleanly and afford-ably and you'll have a society much less burdened by drug use even if the number of users increase due to legalisation. I'm quite certain, though, that the numbers of users of all types of drugs, including alcohol, will/decrease/ with such a scheme, especially with younger people.
Please tell me how you feel about such a system and what you would think should be changed?
"[...] why is it unfair that parents (whose interest is in seeing their kids marry and produce the next generation) would be worried about their kids being told that homosexuality was "perfectly normal"[...]"
One would hope, perhaps unrealisticly, that the interest of these parents would be for their children to be happy instead of being 'as much as the rest of the population as possible so as to not stand out.' Especially in a place like/. where abberation from the norm is probably the norm, I think your point of view is odd:).
I see no reason why gay parents are worse than straight parents and I personally know children being raised by gay people around me. These kids aren't gay themselves and the role-model doesn't seem to influence that 'position' in the least. If having grand-children (even with their own DNA) is the biggest interest parents have, their children being gay does not have to stand in the way so that argument is out the window. The argument that gay parenting or 'gay propaganda' begets gay children is unfounded(*) and sounds much like arguments brought forward by racists against mixed-race mariages or TV shows showing such mixed race bonds. Oh. Wait. Isn't that one of the last big taboos on US TV?:D.
To answer your final question
"Why, if homosexuality is "fixed", are pro-gay groups working so hard to get books promoting their lifestyle into kindergartens if not that they're trying to propagandize kids the same way and pick up some numbers?"
perhaps superfluously: for the same reason the best way to beat racim is for children of different races to play together so that when they grow up, differences in color of skin and other racial characteristics are a natural thing to them. It doesn't turn someone from one race to another (with the odd exception, here and there;), but it makes these "impressionable minds" accept more easily that there is more than one way to do things so they won't discriminate against those who are different. Perhaps nerds and geeks should start such propaganda in pre-schools as well...:P
(*)If you know of independant, verifyible scientific studies that support the 'gay surroundings turn you gay' idea, please point them out so I can read up.
I'm unsure why you're labled funny. I think you managed to hit the nail on the head. Autism an autistic tendencies might very well lead to a taste for minimalism.
This is a testable hypothesis: are there any other ways in which the interior of these houses is minimalistic? Interior blinds instead of (draped) curtains, leather instead of fabric on the chairs and couch? Vynil _or_ tiles instead of carpet?
I do think alternative underlying reasons for the correlation can and will be found:).
"And yet for all the gun control in Germany they still have mass casualty school shootings. For all the gun control in Russia they still have one of the highest murder rates on the planet."
Those are insidious, not rational arguments.
In the latest German shooting, the father of the shooter is being investigated for not storing the gun, used in the shooting, properly. The man had a total of 15 weapons of which only one wasn't in the strongbox it was supposed to be in. It was in the master bedroom. It so happens that a lot of fatal accidents with guns in the US are caused by guns kept 'under the pillow' as well. Not a very good argument for liberal gun-laws.
Gun laws in Germany specifically require you to a) take a test of mental stability before you can own a gun and b) store the weapons safely. Those laws seem to work a lot of the time but if someone doesn't do b) and someone else takes advantage of that to circumvent a) you're SOL, no matter what. As with most tragedies, a number of things need to go wrong before things really turn bad. This is a good example. Laws do work. The amount of gun casualties is incomparably lower in Germany.
That you bring up Russia, a third-world corrupt country, propped up by it's massive natural resources, is simply laughable. The only law that is really adhered to in ye ol' USSR, nay Russia, is the golden rule.
In other words, the rest of us is comparing civilized countries where the rule of law is upheld to other civilized countries and the conclusion can only be: liberal gun laws get a lot more people killed than strict gun laws, if properly upheld. The anti-social behaviour of people wanting to be able to 'defend themselves', at great cost to society at large, is despicable.
The fact that you're already so afraid of big brother watching over your shoulder that you won't click on a link, not because of its content but because it might contain something that is criminally taboo in society is telling volumes about the current state of society. This is exactly why privacy isn't something optional and we should be fighting tooth and nail to get it back.
perhaps it's time to think about how those 'funny Europeans' got those ideas in the first place. Smoke, fire, etc.
For a country that seems to subsist mainly from marketing you have managed to ruin your image in the rest of the world quite well. (Yes, another caricature. Perhaps you should read something into the fact that those bloody, non-native english speaking Europeans, speak English just as wel as you do, too?)
Oh. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be putting you all into on basket. It's all Bush's fault. 'You' voted Bush into office. The first time, that was a mistake that could be labled as such. The second time... Well, suffices to say that you can't complain about impressions Europeans have of Americans. You brought it onto yourselves. I hope 'you lot' vote in Obama tomorrow. Not because he's better than Mc Cain, but because the rest of the world in majority sees him as better. Consider it a PR offensive.
Lament the behaviour of your governement all you want. Don't lament 'Europeans' for their lack of respect for you, change our view by being better again.
I'm getting of my high horse again, but I'll mount it any time if you keep up this crap of blaming 'your governement' for all the shit the US has been pouring all over the world in the name of 'justice'. You're also blaming our governements for being socialistic, not supporting you in Iraq, etc etc etc. You lot _are_ to blame. You should have voted Bush out 4 years ago.
I can't understand one can be an intelligent being and believe in $Deity. The quick answer is: in light of religion, independant thought dies.
On a side-note, I can't think of a reason why you would want to conjure up a 'being' to create our universe. Where did the being come from? What created that being? If that being could exist forever out of nothing, then why not the universe by and of itself?
You could do worse than to read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins for a more thorough argumentation, if you can spare the time. Be warned, it isn't a very 'nice' book by most standards, but is sincere, rather complete and gives theists and deists a view from the other side of the isle. A view that they'll likely (hopefully?) never forget.
People 'need' religion like they need being set on fire.
queue the theist burning me to a crisp. (It's well worth it, too.)
Worse. He is verifiably 'mistaken'. At one point, SCO entered something on groklaw.net into evidence, which allowed the judge to look at the site. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the relevant entry.
I work as a sysadmin at an ICT department for several broadcasting organisations.
We're seeing what media-storage needs we have right now and our department is making predictions on future storage needs based on the plans of these broadcasters. For this, admittedly niche, application SSD's won't do for many years to come. We're talking about 200TB+ of storage right now and expanding at an alarming rate.
This becomes relevant at the consumer level as HDTV is gaining acceptance and consumers everywhere are embracing audio/video applications. Unless the network scales up, people will want to store those movies and whatnot on their home computers.
Given the current problems ISP's seem to have with coping with the amounts of data streaming television is causing, (and we see this first hand in difficulties over interconnects and peering, being able to deliver over 25% of the total available interconnect bandwidth in concurrent video-streams:) it is very unlikely that local storage needs will wane the coming years. I see multi-TB at home becoming the norm and unike laptop-drives, these will be full to the brim with: - home videos (HD) - bluray movie rips - HD audio registrations - HD television recordings - etc.
Google will make a killing in offering software to do meaningfull indexing on those amounts of home storage:)
If you point out the name-calling in the GP's statement, I'll take your statement seriously.
More to the point, who are you trying to kid? We are all a bunch of fanatical morons. Why else would we frequent/.?:D
And on topic: just because an MS employee thinks MS is doing a great job at providing documentation, anyone is entitled to provide his or her opinion on that effort in response. It's called dialog and it's what you open yourself up to once you make a comment on a public site.
It could drive users to Google services in droves, especially if Microsoft F's up Yahoo! services by migrating all the succesful stuff they're buying to the same platform as their own unsuccesful stuff that caused them to have to look outside in the first place.
Come to think of it, I'm quite certain they will do that. Balmers arogance knows no bounds, he all but proved that with the letter to the Yahoo! board.
Oh well, at least it'll cost Microsoft real money to make this happen, unlike most regulatory actions have up until now.
disclaimer: I'm European, haven't been to the US and given the circumstances will not travel there for the forseeable future.
"Agreed. Then I'd pardon everyone in jail for simple possession." Why not go several steps further and end the war on drugs altogether? Change it to a commercial model where distribution is legalized and FDA controlled. Everyone who wants to buy/use has to follow a course much like drivers-ed and get a license to use, perhaps even per-substance and perhaps with a practical exam (using under supervision) to make sure there are no adverse reactions? The 'license' would hold biometric data, only to make sure it's the original holder that is buying and you could put quota on it.
Such a system would yield major advantages for everyone: - Educate users. I'm a firm believer in education as a way to reduce harm and raise awareness. - take away income from criminals and put it into the taxable real economy. - use said income to mitigate medical and social consequences of (a)buse - get rid of a lot of 'criminals' (small time dealers are usually opportunity criminals. no opportunity, no criminals.) - not throwing away a lot of human potential over petty crime like posession or use - police would have a lot of capacity to battle drugsrelated crime like theft, robbery, DUI, etc. as well as check the fringes like reselling to people without a license (meaning you get a fine and forfeit your license to buy)
After everyone has come to terms with that, perhaps you can put alcohol and tobacco in the same system as they are (hard)drugs themselves.
Will this end all problems? No. There will always be people trying to abuse the system for higher gain. There will always be addicts and their related problems. Issues with home-producers (meth labs, etc., not home growers of pot.) Lots more that I'm too tired to think of right now.
Anyway, 'The State' is harming users that get caught a lot more than most drugs will ever do. End that and you've done at least one good thing as a president.
more disclaimers: I don't see marihuana as 'completely innocent', I think all recreational psychoactive substances should only be available to people over the age of 18. Taxes should be imposed in relation to the cost to society.
"As a stockholder, I'm happy that they are trying to earn money for me." Instead of re-replying my support to this answer of another user, I rather wanted for you to see this reply again:
I hope you sleep well on your pile of blood money.
And I would like to add to that: you insensitive, money-hungry monster.
What percentage of the ticket price is '$2-3' exactly wherever it is you live? My guess is >20%.
You consider prices that you think are >20% too high fair?!
For the real shocker: consider yourself lucky. Ticket prices here in The Netherlands are EUR8 or more and snacks and sodas are just as over-priced as in the US. Even though the Euro is strong vs the US$, we don't see any of the price benefits that should bring on products from the US. None.
If this turns out to be true then that would be particularly cruel towards Hans Reiser: losing your kids without the slightest possibility of ever seeing them again because you are in jail and cannot reasonably defend your parentage, seeing them being whisked away abroad, because the police want what they consider the real killer to slip up while you're suffering in jail innocently?! Besides, isn't this 'serial killer friend' of his already in jail? How is he supposed to slip up?
I think the idea of 'stupid cops' goes much further in explaining the behaviour of the police department.
There are at least two quite reasonable, even plausible explanations for his estranged wife's disappearance, both not involving any guilt on Hans' part. Merely on those grounds the man should have been free on bail a very long time ago.
There are Mobos with an on-board CF-slot, especially in the smaller boards geared towards embedded use. Most of them have shortcomings that make them unsuitable.
I think the ideal motherboard for a front-end would have: - 2D Onboard graphics good enough for HD playback on Linux (Intel G35 chipset might do, with HDCP) - wireless (although, now that 'n' seems further and further away I'm unsure...) and gigabit eth. - optical out for sound to an external amp. - firewire, USB2.0 and if at all possible bluetooth on board - CF slot for 1GB 'disk' for the operating system - a few connections for a omni-standard DVD rewriter.
Probably other stuff that I'm forgetting but this covers most of it.
You can boot from the CF into LinuxMCE, connect over network to a LinuxMCE back-end for recording and dishing up the content and output the stuff to a large panel with audio through a surround amp.
This can be made into a small package with perhaps one 12cm slow case fan and a Scythe Ninja mini fanless cooler plus a near-silent power supply.
I honestly sit here in admiration for the coolheaded and factual reply that I've just read...
Perhaps that says more about/. than anything else, but still:D.
I see your point that these kinds of 'moves' pit communities against each other. I hope that it doesn't happen too often, for that reason alone. I do hope that people will learn that if you create a 'freeer' license and use it, you have to take all the consequences or create a license that doesn't have so much freedom and has less of the consequences you didn't want. These are the choices that have been made by the license authors. I think you can't morally argue on the one hand that you have a freeer license that is therefore better but on the other hand do not want to have those freedoms apply to people who think differently.
I have the distinct feeling BSD people are making more out of this than should be and I think that's a pity.
Time (for me) to move on.
Thanks again for the way you managed to make me think this through a lot deeper than I otherwise would have taken time for on this subject!
"It's just a slogan, dude, why is it so important?" It's important because, as http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=299009&cid=20620587 this poster stated so eloquently, people everywhere take symbols for their value as society has 'decided' them.
To make sure prejudices are diminished, religious symbols should be taken out of government everywhere.
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I happen to think the answer is actually quite easy. It's the same answer we use for many other issues or problems in society. It's an answer most people in Western society agree on to be good for many differentiated parts of societies challenges. Western societies like to export the answer at every chance they get.
What's that answer? Education. Make drugs available on a personal basis to those that completed an exam on the specific drug. You can't drive a truck with your drivers license for a normal car. Make sure that the user understands all aspects of a drug. For heavier drugs, have them take a practical exam under supervision. This attacks the issue on several levels. It makes it 'uncool' to do drugs, a major incentive for younger people. It will reduce cases of unintentional overdose, mixing of substances or accidents due to being under the influence in conditions that don't allow for it (driving, operating machinery or even something as simple as cooking while stoned.)
Combine this with a system where drugs are made available cleanly and afford-ably and you'll have a society much less burdened by drug use even if the number of users increase due to legalisation. I'm quite certain, though, that the numbers of users of all types of drugs, including alcohol, will /decrease/ with such a scheme, especially with younger people.
Please tell me how you feel about such a system and what you would think should be changed?
"[...] why is it unfair that parents (whose interest is in seeing their kids marry and produce the next generation) would be worried about their kids being told that homosexuality was "perfectly normal"[...]"
One would hope, perhaps unrealisticly, that the interest of these parents would be for their children to be happy instead of being 'as much as the rest of the population as possible so as to not stand out.' Especially in a place like /. where abberation from the norm is probably the norm, I think your point of view is odd :).
I see no reason why gay parents are worse than straight parents and I personally know children being raised by gay people around me. These kids aren't gay themselves and the role-model doesn't seem to influence that 'position' in the least. If having grand-children (even with their own DNA) is the biggest interest parents have, their children being gay does not have to stand in the way so that argument is out the window. The argument that gay parenting or 'gay propaganda' begets gay children is unfounded(*) and sounds much like arguments brought forward by racists against mixed-race mariages or TV shows showing such mixed race bonds. Oh. Wait. Isn't that one of the last big taboos on US TV? :D.
To answer your final question
"Why, if homosexuality is "fixed", are pro-gay groups working so hard to get books promoting their lifestyle into kindergartens if not that they're trying to propagandize kids the same way and pick up some numbers?"
perhaps superfluously: for the same reason the best way to beat racim is for children of different races to play together so that when they grow up, differences in color of skin and other racial characteristics are a natural thing to them. It doesn't turn someone from one race to another (with the odd exception, here and there ;), but it makes these "impressionable minds" accept more easily that there is more than one way to do things so they won't discriminate against those who are different. Perhaps nerds and geeks should start such propaganda in pre-schools as well... :P
(*)If you know of independant, verifyible scientific studies that support the 'gay surroundings turn you gay' idea, please point them out so I can read up.
I'm unsure why you're labled funny. I think you managed to hit the nail on the head. Autism an autistic tendencies might very well lead to a taste for minimalism.
This is a testable hypothesis: are there any other ways in which the interior of these houses is minimalistic? Interior blinds instead of (draped) curtains, leather instead of fabric on the chairs and couch? Vynil _or_ tiles instead of carpet?
I do think alternative underlying reasons for the correlation can and will be found :).
Those are insidious, not rational arguments.
In the latest German shooting, the father of the shooter is being investigated for not storing the gun, used in the shooting, properly. The man had a total of 15 weapons of which only one wasn't in the strongbox it was supposed to be in. It was in the master bedroom. It so happens that a lot of fatal accidents with guns in the US are caused by guns kept 'under the pillow' as well. Not a very good argument for liberal gun-laws.
Gun laws in Germany specifically require you to a) take a test of mental stability before you can own a gun and b) store the weapons safely. Those laws seem to work a lot of the time but if someone doesn't do b) and someone else takes advantage of that to circumvent a) you're SOL, no matter what. As with most tragedies, a number of things need to go wrong before things really turn bad. This is a good example. Laws do work. The amount of gun casualties is incomparably lower in Germany.
That you bring up Russia, a third-world corrupt country, propped up by it's massive natural resources, is simply laughable. The only law that is really adhered to in ye ol' USSR, nay Russia, is the golden rule.
In other words, the rest of us is comparing civilized countries where the rule of law is upheld to other civilized countries and the conclusion can only be: liberal gun laws get a lot more people killed than strict gun laws, if properly upheld. The anti-social behaviour of people wanting to be able to 'defend themselves', at great cost to society at large, is despicable.
The fact that you're already so afraid of big brother watching over your shoulder that you won't click on a link, not because of its content but because it might contain something that is criminally taboo in society is telling volumes about the current state of society. This is exactly why privacy isn't something optional and we should be fighting tooth and nail to get it back.
Je pense que c'est impoli d'user des langue etrangere au /. meme sur, votre publique est tres reducer.
Translations:
Literally "It's the empty barrels that make the most noise." You can probably make out what that means.
My reply: "I think it's rude to use strange languages on /. besides, your audience is greatly reduced."
Disclaimer: neither English, nor French is my first language.
perhaps it's time to think about how those 'funny Europeans' got those ideas in the first place. Smoke, fire, etc.
For a country that seems to subsist mainly from marketing you have managed to ruin your image in the rest of the world quite well. (Yes, another caricature. Perhaps you should read something into the fact that those bloody, non-native english speaking Europeans, speak English just as wel as you do, too?)
Oh. I'm sorry. I shouldn't be putting you all into on basket. It's all Bush's fault. 'You' voted Bush into office. The first time, that was a mistake that could be labled as such. The second time... Well, suffices to say that you can't complain about impressions Europeans have of Americans. You brought it onto yourselves. I hope 'you lot' vote in Obama tomorrow. Not because he's better than Mc Cain, but because the rest of the world in majority sees him as better. Consider it a PR offensive.
Lament the behaviour of your governement all you want. Don't lament 'Europeans' for their lack of respect for you, change our view by being better again.
I'm getting of my high horse again, but I'll mount it any time if you keep up this crap of blaming 'your governement' for all the shit the US has been pouring all over the world in the name of 'justice'. You're also blaming our governements for being socialistic, not supporting you in Iraq, etc etc etc. You lot _are_ to blame. You should have voted Bush out 4 years ago.
I can't understand one can be an intelligent being and believe in $Deity. The quick answer is: in light of religion, independant thought dies.
On a side-note, I can't think of a reason why you would want to conjure up a 'being' to create our universe. Where did the being come from? What created that being? If that being could exist forever out of nothing, then why not the universe by and of itself?
You could do worse than to read "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins for a more thorough argumentation, if you can spare the time. Be warned, it isn't a very 'nice' book by most standards, but is sincere, rather complete and gives theists and deists a view from the other side of the isle. A view that they'll likely (hopefully?) never forget.
People 'need' religion like they need being set on fire.
queue the theist burning me to a crisp.
(It's well worth it, too.)
It's only funny if you're not addicted to blow... ;D
There's no need. Just mod it insightful if you have the points and didn't just post in this to...
Anyway, I don't need a tag or moderation to make me feel depressed, GP's text does that all by itself. All the more worthy of your points.
Worse. He is verifiably 'mistaken'. At one point, SCO entered something on groklaw.net into evidence, which allowed the judge to look at the site. Unfortunately I can't seem to find the relevant entry.
I work as a sysadmin at an ICT department for several broadcasting organisations.
:) it is very unlikely that local storage needs will wane the coming years. I see multi-TB at home becoming the norm and unike laptop-drives, these will be full to the brim with:
:)
We're seeing what media-storage needs we have right now and our department is making predictions on future storage needs based on the plans of these broadcasters. For this, admittedly niche, application SSD's won't do for many years to come. We're talking about 200TB+ of storage right now and expanding at an alarming rate.
This becomes relevant at the consumer level as HDTV is gaining acceptance and consumers everywhere are embracing audio/video applications. Unless the network scales up, people will want to store those movies and whatnot on their home computers.
Given the current problems ISP's seem to have with coping with the amounts of data streaming television is causing, (and we see this first hand in difficulties over interconnects and peering, being able to deliver over 25% of the total available interconnect bandwidth in concurrent video-streams
- home videos (HD)
- bluray movie rips
- HD audio registrations
- HD television recordings
- etc.
Google will make a killing in offering software to do meaningfull indexing on those amounts of home storage
Apologies are in order. I managed to mix up 'GP' postings due to my lack of 'finesse' in using the new moderation system. Oh well. Live and learn.
If you point out the name-calling in the GP's statement, I'll take your statement seriously.
/.? :D
More to the point, who are you trying to kid? We are all a bunch of fanatical morons. Why else would we frequent
And on topic: just because an MS employee thinks MS is doing a great job at providing documentation, anyone is entitled to provide his or her opinion on that effort in response. It's called dialog and it's what you open yourself up to once you make a comment on a public site.
It could mean exactly that, yes.
It could drive users to Google services in droves, especially if Microsoft F's up Yahoo! services by migrating all the succesful stuff they're buying to the same platform as their own unsuccesful stuff that caused them to have to look outside in the first place.
Come to think of it, I'm quite certain they will do that. Balmers arogance knows no bounds, he all but proved that with the letter to the Yahoo! board.
Oh well, at least it'll cost Microsoft real money to make this happen, unlike most regulatory actions have up until now.
Such a system would yield major advantages for everyone:
- Educate users. I'm a firm believer in education as a way to reduce harm and raise awareness.
- take away income from criminals and put it into the taxable real economy.
- use said income to mitigate medical and social consequences of (a)buse
- get rid of a lot of 'criminals' (small time dealers are usually opportunity criminals. no opportunity, no criminals.)
- not throwing away a lot of human potential over petty crime like posession or use
- police would have a lot of capacity to battle drugsrelated crime like theft, robbery, DUI, etc. as well as check the fringes like reselling to people without a license (meaning you get a fine and forfeit your license to buy)
After everyone has come to terms with that, perhaps you can put alcohol and tobacco in the same system as they are (hard)drugs themselves.
Will this end all problems? No. There will always be people trying to abuse the system for higher gain. There will always be addicts and their related problems. Issues with home-producers (meth labs, etc., not home growers of pot.) Lots more that I'm too tired to think of right now.
Anyway, 'The State' is harming users that get caught a lot more than most drugs will ever do. End that and you've done at least one good thing as a president.
more disclaimers: I don't see marihuana as 'completely innocent', I think all recreational psychoactive substances should only be available to people over the age of 18. Taxes should be imposed in relation to the cost to society.
I hope you sleep well on your pile of blood money.
And I would like to add to that: you insensitive, money-hungry monster.
"Sun Viagra 2 CPU... Ok.. I need glasses"
;D
I didn't know far-sightedness is a known side-effect of V1@9r@?
Blindness is, though...
Time to see a medical professional?
What percentage of the ticket price is '$2-3' exactly wherever it is you live? My guess is >20%.
You consider prices that you think are >20% too high fair?!
For the real shocker: consider yourself lucky. Ticket prices here in The Netherlands are EUR8 or more and snacks and sodas are just as over-priced as in the US. Even though the Euro is strong vs the US$, we don't see any of the price benefits that should bring on products from the US. None.
If this turns out to be true then that would be particularly cruel towards Hans Reiser:
losing your kids without the slightest possibility of ever seeing them again because you are in jail and cannot reasonably defend your parentage, seeing them being whisked away abroad, because the police want what they consider the real killer to slip up while you're suffering in jail innocently?! Besides, isn't this 'serial killer friend' of his already in jail? How is he supposed to slip up?
I think the idea of 'stupid cops' goes much further in explaining the behaviour of the police department.
There are at least two quite reasonable, even plausible explanations for his estranged wife's disappearance, both not involving any guilt on Hans' part. Merely on those grounds the man should have been free on bail a very long time ago.
There are Mobos with an on-board CF-slot, especially in the smaller boards geared towards embedded use. Most of them have shortcomings that make them unsuitable.
I think the ideal motherboard for a front-end would have:
- 2D Onboard graphics good enough for HD playback on Linux (Intel G35 chipset might do, with HDCP)
- wireless (although, now that 'n' seems further and further away I'm unsure...) and gigabit eth.
- optical out for sound to an external amp.
- firewire, USB2.0 and if at all possible bluetooth on board
- CF slot for 1GB 'disk' for the operating system
- a few connections for a omni-standard DVD rewriter.
Probably other stuff that I'm forgetting but this covers most of it.
You can boot from the CF into LinuxMCE, connect over network to a LinuxMCE back-end for recording and dishing up the content and output the stuff to a large panel with audio through a surround amp.
This can be made into a small package with perhaps one 12cm slow case fan and a Scythe Ninja mini fanless cooler plus a near-silent power supply.
Well, I didn't have to, I just felt like it! (Cruel and unusual punishment is fine among country-men in the Netherlands.)
Nah, just kidding. This is where the "Slashdot formatting did it" defense comes into play, although the preview was alright. Odd.
Inappropriate GP comment about drugs aside:
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:D)
*Woosh*
Joke --->
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You ---> |
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(Not your fault. Typical case of: "lost in translation, by a Dutch person." (tm)
I honestly sit here in admiration for the coolheaded and factual reply that I've just read...
/. than anything else, but still :D.
Perhaps that says more about
I see your point that these kinds of 'moves' pit communities against each other. I hope that it doesn't happen too often, for that reason alone. I do hope that people will learn that if you create a 'freeer' license and use it, you have to take all the consequences or create a license that doesn't have so much freedom and has less of the consequences you didn't want. These are the choices that have been made by the license authors. I think you can't morally argue on the one hand that you have a freeer license that is therefore better but on the other hand do not want to have those freedoms apply to people who think differently.
I have the distinct feeling BSD people are making more out of this than should be and I think that's a pity.
Time (for me) to move on.
Thanks again for the way you managed to make me think this through a lot deeper than I otherwise would have taken time for on this subject!
To make sure prejudices are diminished, religious symbols should be taken out of government everywhere.