More directly, you really must understand that the environment as a real issue here only skyrocketed to the health-care and economy-level of importance in the last year or so. No political party, not even the Conservatives, will be able to get away with doing nothing now. As little as Dion was able to get done in the Martin administration, I'm sure a Harper administration would have found a way to do less than nothing, if only out of spite.
I appreciate you taking the time to reply, and accept your first two points, however here is my dictionary entry for "clamose" (abl of the noun clamos, a greek derivation I believe):
clamos.e N 3 1 LOC S M Always mostfreq at ~ (place where) clamos.e N 3 1 DAT S M Early sometimes
for _ (purpose, reference); to ~ (w/adjectives); to ~ (double dative) clamos.e N 3 1 ABL S M Always mostfreq
from _ (separ); because of ~ (cause); than ~ (compar); of ~ (circumstance) clamos, clamosis N M [BXXAO] Early veryfreq shout, outcry/protest; loud shouting (approval/joy), applause; clamor/noise/din war-cry, battle-cry; roar (thunder/surf); cry of fear/pain/mourning; wailing;
While it is Early Latin I still feel justified using this noun, although it may be a bit obscure. I have, however, since changed my sig to something a little more easily understood by the plebs on Slashdot.
Where to begin? Here is the entry for visa, ppt of visere/videre (this is a minor nitpick, the former is medieval Latin and is entirely correct for that era, the era whence the common usage "visa" came.
vis.a VPAR 3 1 NOM S F PERF PASSIVE PPL Always mostfreq ~ed PERF PASSIVE PPL often used as ADJ or N (amatus => belov.ed) vis.a VPAR 3 1 VOC S F PERF PASSIVE PPL Always mostfreq ~ed PERF PASSIVE PPL often used as ADJ or N (amatus => belov.ed) vis.a VPAR 3 1 ABL S F PERF PASSIVE PPL Always mostfreq ~ed PERF PASSIVE PPL often used as ADJ or N (amatus => belov.ed) vis.a VPAR 3 1 NOM P N PERF PASSIVE PPL Always mostfreq ~ed PERF PASSIVE PPL often used as ADJ or N (amatus => belov.ed) vis.a VPAR 3 1 VOC P N PERF PASSIVE PPL Always mostfreq ~ed PERF PASSIVE PPL often used as ADJ or N (amatus => belov.ed) vis.a VPAR 3 1 ACC P N PERF PASSIVE PPL Always mostfreq ~ed PERF PASSIVE PPL often used as ADJ or N (amatus => belov.ed) viso, visere, visi, visus V [XXXBX] frequent visit, go to see; look at;
But we'll overlook that one for now. Of more serious import is your assertion that the word "visum" is etymologically related to the modern "visa". Well, it isn't. Visa is a sister to visus and visum, yes. But it's not, by itself, where our word "visa" came from. It's from the phrase "carta visa", "the card having been seen/read". It's a feminine form agreeing with "carta". Our common usage of "visa" retains this allusion to the noun "card", which again is feminine. Othwerise what is your porposed "visum" referring to? Which neuter noun?
The mention of Dutch is superfluous. We are talking about English and Latin here. I can bring in French and Italian but that would be pointless, wouldn't it?
As for my sig, it's meant to be ironic. Look up the meaning of "illatino", ie "bad latin".
It comes by way of French from the Latin carta visa, an ablative absolute meaning "the card having been read,...".
Visum is a "vision", and unrelated etymologically.
The form visa itself is one way of making a feminine noun out of the verb visere, in the same way amata means "beloved (female)". Its plural would be visae in the Nom and visas in the Acc.
On that basis, I do not believe your use of visum is justified.
What does Vista do that's really NEW and WANTED in an operating system? Not much. More eye candy? That's worth $300? The customer will decide, but I'll say this:
This much bloat simply isn't necessary. Caching is one thing, but the RAM requirements of Vista simply for code space are massive compared to XP for roughly the same functionality. That's a center that cannot hold.
What we expect from an OS is pretty well-known and well-defined now. This means the innovation will slow and there will be increasing reluctance to upgrade simply for the sake of upgrading, especially when the upgrade is a worse performer than the software being upgraded!
This is fertile ground for optimization.
An example:
Compare the executable size and memory utilisation of uTorrent and Azureus. Azureus represents the old guard of BT clients, you might say. A large, bloated code base in Java, implementing features that you wouldn't think would require that much code. And boy it's a dog, and crawls on any sub-1.5Ghz laptop. Enter uTorrent. I would say Azureus is the Vista to uTorrent's microLinux. For the uninitiated, in terms of program size (exe + libs) and memory utilization, we're talking about 170kB/4MB to 7.6MB/16.3MB, respectively. uTorrent was able to bring just about all the features present in Azureus and compact it into a 170kB.exe. And lo, the damn thing is snappy even on my old P233/64MB laptop.
I think this will be the end of Microsoft. The API expected for a Windows box is known. It's publicized. The time is ripe for a competitor to come in and reimplement it, using less RAM and resources while conforming to the same standards, and for a fraction of the price. If this were to happen, and if the software companies were to realize they didn't have to sit beholden to *Microsoft's* "Windows" anymore, then we'd really see some fur fly in the marketplace.
The point, as you say, isn't to create a perfectly fair game. It's to create a world in which some people can be better than others, and where being better also gets you desirable things, like the envy of fellow players.
Whether they're better by means of time invested, or dollars spent, it really makes no difference.
Je peux pas decider lequel je trouve le plus drole... un americain en France, ou on vous deteste et ou tu ne seras jamais accepte, ou ton air de superiorite parce-que tu apprends leur langue.
Viens-toi a Montreal. Je t'enseignerai l'argot des quebecois et leurs mots pour les americains. Tu seras deteste ici aussi mais, on a au moins les belles chicks dans les bars de Ste-Catherine.
I think we need a 'common carrier' style law for advertising programs. It's obviously not possible for Google to police each and every website that signs up for ad impressions.
That'd be warranteed, friend. We are not incompetents, we can read English without apostrophes smattered needlessly between words and their endings, and we still understand it just fine. Don't insult our intelligence.
The number one thing to be doing about it is to understand why they hate us. Hint: They don't hate our freedoms.
They hate us because we're rich, and not muslims. Hell, probably mostly because we're rich. That's the easy part.
If you think we have the right to bomb random people to try and prevent them from attacking us, why don't you think they have the right to bomb random American's to try and prevent us from attacking them? But I suppose it's ok if we do it, right? Cause we're "good".
I'm not American. I'm Canadian. And it is OK when we do it, OK for us at least, because we're us. Given the choice between them and us, there is no choice.
As long as hardware specs remain open, that won't happen, but our current open marketplace is under threat from ideas like (nearly) mandatory driver signing in Vista (if you want the content), and DRM. Their purpose is to restrict the openness of the PC architecture.
The PC marketplace happened nearly by accident, through what would today be called hardware piracy by OEMs seeking to undercut IBM's monopoly over the PC architecture. You know the history, I'm sure.
The best innovation happens when engineers are free to innovate and motivated to do so. DRM, driver signing, authentication, keys, patents, licenses... these are all hinderences, concessions made to preserving the status quo, to protecting Big Money. The grey market drove the PC revolution, the little guys. Now the people who benefitted from that want to become and stay some sort of new IBM by controlling the architecture through crypto. The irony is palpable.
The crackers, the hardware hackers, they are today's heroes, as much as the IBMBIOS revengineers were way back when. They keep the wildcards in play, the market free. Vista touts security... it's not just security from worms, or viruses they're aiming for, it's security for Microsoft against the crackers that keep the playing field open, and the DRM behemoth at bay.
Anyone who criticises Islam is accused of being racist, and has the full weight of Political Correctness thrust down upon them. This is utter bullshit.
It is our RIGHT to criticize ANY religion, be it in the spirit of Martin Luther, or in the spirit of Frederick Neitzche. It doesn't matter.
Now, to ban a man for making a video of quotes from a book, simply the quotes, and calling that "inappropriate hate speech", that is a fucking travesty, and a symptom of everything that's wrong with giving certain groups special treatment. It may not be a violation of any of his rights, since Youtube is a private entity, but it's still a bitter pill to swallow. A man has been silenced because quoting from a book was deemed "inappropriate".
I suppose nobody at Youtube figured that, if the quotes are inappropriate, maybe it's the author(s) of the book itself that should be blamed, and not the messenger. No, truth takes a back seat to making damned sure nobody could possibly be offended by anything.
You have the order a bit wrong, I think. It's about the idea that the 'morality' of the majority is the best for everyone. People demand it be enforced, legislators prey on the people's desire to see it enforced, and we end up with 'laws' that are somehow magically sacred despite coming from the filthy hamburger grinder of a house of politicians.
To enforce these laws then, there is what you call the "prison industrial complex". And it certainly has an interest in its own survival. But it's a system set up to serve the primary desire, which is the majority public's desire to see other people forced to behave in a way that suits their 'morals'.
You seem awfully certain (again - a bad thing) that the course of history has been the best possible one that could have happened.
I am not certain about the future, but I am definitely certain when it comes to the past, as the past is static and fixed. Events that have happened in history are the only events that could have led us to be who and what we are today. There could have been no other sequence of events that would exactly reproduce the world we have now.
It's not the best that could have happened, it's the only one, but unfortunately we do not know which events are inevitable until they've already occured.
Atrocities by whose judgement? Let's forget the ones that happened in the 20th century, we have no perspective on those yet. Think ancient history, perhaps the suppression of the Nika Riots in Constantinople, or the Jewish Revolt of 66-73AD. Were those massacres? Were they justified?
If Constantinople had fallen before the middle ages, there would have been no Renaissance, no Enlightenment, no Industrial Revolution, and dare I say, no America.
If Judea had been allowed to revolt, who knows what might have happened? No Roman rule in that part of the world might have impacted Christianity's later rise to Imperial status.
What is an "innocent population"? Who is to say that no good can come from killing? Lots clearly has.
However, as you would tar me with that brush, let me say I do not support outright genocide. It's a waste of resources. I would prefer to try deculturization, stripping the Islamic peoples of their languages, religions, and ideals, normalizing them to the west, and integrating them into our culture instead of letting them continue down the path of having their own, one that will, it seems, perpetually threaten ours. The means of doing so would be subversive and insidious, taking the form of a commercial invasion of their economies, progressing to a forced domination of their media, and culminating in a banning of local languages and a standardization of Western values in governments, places of worship, schools, and businesses, enforced by well-bribed puppet governments.
Terrorism's roots are in the "innocent populations". They are the enemy, they, the culture and people that spawn them. That's what people seem blind to, the bare and unpleasant reality of it all. Little Billy stands a good chance of growing up to be a suicide bomber, and his parents are to blame.
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More directly, you really must understand that the environment as a real issue here only skyrocketed to the health-care and economy-level of importance in the last year or so. No political party, not even the Conservatives, will be able to get away with doing nothing now. As little as Dion was able to get done in the Martin administration, I'm sure a Harper administration would have found a way to do less than nothing, if only out of spite.
The mention of Dutch is superfluous. We are talking about English and Latin here. I can bring in French and Italian but that would be pointless, wouldn't it?
As for my sig, it's meant to be ironic. Look up the meaning of "illatino", ie "bad latin".
You fail at life.
(vsa, ptp. fem. of vsere to look into, see to)
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It comes by way of French from the Latin carta visa, an ablative absolute meaning "the card having been read,
Visum is a "vision", and unrelated etymologically.
The form visa itself is one way of making a feminine noun out of the verb visere, in the same way amata means "beloved (female)". Its plural would be visae in the Nom and visas in the Acc.
On that basis, I do not believe your use of visum is justified.
I'll have to say I was unfamiliar with ReactOS, but I would not characterize WINE as an independent implementation of the Windows API.
What does Vista do that's really NEW and WANTED in an operating system? Not much. More eye candy? That's worth $300? The customer will decide, but I'll say this:
.exe. And lo, the damn thing is snappy even on my old P233/64MB laptop.
This much bloat simply isn't necessary. Caching is one thing, but the RAM requirements of Vista simply for code space are massive compared to XP for roughly the same functionality. That's a center that cannot hold.
What we expect from an OS is pretty well-known and well-defined now. This means the innovation will slow and there will be increasing reluctance to upgrade simply for the sake of upgrading, especially when the upgrade is a worse performer than the software being upgraded!
This is fertile ground for optimization.
An example:
Compare the executable size and memory utilisation of uTorrent and Azureus. Azureus represents the old guard of BT clients, you might say. A large, bloated code base in Java, implementing features that you wouldn't think would require that much code. And boy it's a dog, and crawls on any sub-1.5Ghz laptop. Enter uTorrent. I would say Azureus is the Vista to uTorrent's microLinux. For the uninitiated, in terms of program size (exe + libs) and memory utilization, we're talking about 170kB/4MB to 7.6MB/16.3MB, respectively. uTorrent was able to bring just about all the features present in Azureus and compact it into a 170kB
I think this will be the end of Microsoft. The API expected for a Windows box is known. It's publicized. The time is ripe for a competitor to come in and reimplement it, using less RAM and resources while conforming to the same standards, and for a fraction of the price. If this were to happen, and if the software companies were to realize they didn't have to sit beholden to *Microsoft's* "Windows" anymore, then we'd really see some fur fly in the marketplace.
Read the article. It's a pseudo-religious mathematical philosophy, not an actual physical phenomenon.
The point, as you say, isn't to create a perfectly fair game. It's to create a world in which some people can be better than others, and where being better also gets you desirable things, like the envy of fellow players.
Whether they're better by means of time invested, or dollars spent, it really makes no difference.
Je peux pas decider lequel je trouve le plus drole... un americain en France, ou on vous deteste et ou tu ne seras jamais accepte, ou ton air de superiorite parce-que tu apprends leur langue.
Viens-toi a Montreal. Je t'enseignerai l'argot des quebecois et leurs mots pour les americains. Tu seras deteste ici aussi mais, on a au moins les belles chicks dans les bars de Ste-Catherine.
I think we need a 'common carrier' style law for advertising programs. It's obviously not possible for Google to police each and every website that signs up for ad impressions.
J'habite au Quebec, alors TA YEULE. Je connais des autres langues qu'anglais et latin.
Je crois t'a un probleme avec la jalousie, toi.
Brave words from someone too scared to log in.
MP3s. If you capitalize properly, you do not need to throw apostrophes after acronyms. They really are a tool for the lazy and stupid.
That'd be warranteed, friend. We are not incompetents, we can read English without apostrophes smattered needlessly between words and their endings, and we still understand it just fine. Don't insult our intelligence.
They hate us because we're rich, and not muslims. Hell, probably mostly because we're rich. That's the easy part.
I'm not American. I'm Canadian. And it is OK when we do it, OK for us at least, because we're us. Given the choice between them and us, there is no choice.
As long as hardware specs remain open, that won't happen, but our current open marketplace is under threat from ideas like (nearly) mandatory driver signing in Vista (if you want the content), and DRM. Their purpose is to restrict the openness of the PC architecture.
The PC marketplace happened nearly by accident, through what would today be called hardware piracy by OEMs seeking to undercut IBM's monopoly over the PC architecture. You know the history, I'm sure.
The best innovation happens when engineers are free to innovate and motivated to do so. DRM, driver signing, authentication, keys, patents, licenses... these are all hinderences, concessions made to preserving the status quo, to protecting Big Money. The grey market drove the PC revolution, the little guys. Now the people who benefitted from that want to become and stay some sort of new IBM by controlling the architecture through crypto. The irony is palpable.
The crackers, the hardware hackers, they are today's heroes, as much as the IBMBIOS revengineers were way back when. They keep the wildcards in play, the market free. Vista touts security... it's not just security from worms, or viruses they're aiming for, it's security for Microsoft against the crackers that keep the playing field open, and the DRM behemoth at bay.
Anyone who criticises Islam is accused of being racist, and has the full weight of Political Correctness thrust down upon them. This is utter bullshit.
It is our RIGHT to criticize ANY religion, be it in the spirit of Martin Luther, or in the spirit of Frederick Neitzche. It doesn't matter.
Now, to ban a man for making a video of quotes from a book, simply the quotes, and calling that "inappropriate hate speech", that is a fucking travesty, and a symptom of everything that's wrong with giving certain groups special treatment. It may not be a violation of any of his rights, since Youtube is a private entity, but it's still a bitter pill to swallow. A man has been silenced because quoting from a book was deemed "inappropriate".
I suppose nobody at Youtube figured that, if the quotes are inappropriate, maybe it's the author(s) of the book itself that should be blamed, and not the messenger. No, truth takes a back seat to making damned sure nobody could possibly be offended by anything.
Oh, bullshit. Laws, prisons, and police are the children of the populace's judgemental desires.
Just fyi, "nisp" should be "nisi", I think.
You have the order a bit wrong, I think. It's about the idea that the 'morality' of the majority is the best for everyone. People demand it be enforced, legislators prey on the people's desire to see it enforced, and we end up with 'laws' that are somehow magically sacred despite coming from the filthy hamburger grinder of a house of politicians.
To enforce these laws then, there is what you call the "prison industrial complex". And it certainly has an interest in its own survival. But it's a system set up to serve the primary desire, which is the majority public's desire to see other people forced to behave in a way that suits their 'morals'.
So now even children are victims of ill-thought out, inane "OMG THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!~1~!" type laws?
My head asplode.
I am not certain about the future, but I am definitely certain when it comes to the past, as the past is static and fixed. Events that have happened in history are the only events that could have led us to be who and what we are today. There could have been no other sequence of events that would exactly reproduce the world we have now.
It's not the best that could have happened, it's the only one, but unfortunately we do not know which events are inevitable until they've already occured.
Atrocities by whose judgement? Let's forget the ones that happened in the 20th century, we have no perspective on those yet. Think ancient history, perhaps the suppression of the Nika Riots in Constantinople, or the Jewish Revolt of 66-73AD. Were those massacres? Were they justified?
If Constantinople had fallen before the middle ages, there would have been no Renaissance, no Enlightenment, no Industrial Revolution, and dare I say, no America.
If Judea had been allowed to revolt, who knows what might have happened? No Roman rule in that part of the world might have impacted Christianity's later rise to Imperial status.
What is an "innocent population"? Who is to say that no good can come from killing? Lots clearly has.
However, as you would tar me with that brush, let me say I do not support outright genocide. It's a waste of resources. I would prefer to try deculturization, stripping the Islamic peoples of their languages, religions, and ideals, normalizing them to the west, and integrating them into our culture instead of letting them continue down the path of having their own, one that will, it seems, perpetually threaten ours. The means of doing so would be subversive and insidious, taking the form of a commercial invasion of their economies, progressing to a forced domination of their media, and culminating in a banning of local languages and a standardization of Western values in governments, places of worship, schools, and businesses, enforced by well-bribed puppet governments.
Terrorism's roots are in the "innocent populations". They are the enemy, they, the culture and people that spawn them. That's what people seem blind to, the bare and unpleasant reality of it all. Little Billy stands a good chance of growing up to be a suicide bomber, and his parents are to blame.
So what are you going to do about it?
It's intellectual laziness, you tard.