If you hired her, she would not be your SLAVE, she would be your EMPLOYEE, and would therefore be free to quit. If you hired someone to kidnap her and bring her to you, then that's kidnapping, not capitalism.
Captitalism has its flaws definitely, but if you want to talk about FORCING people to do things, then you're talking about Socialism.
I just have to point out a little something. A slave is a human being owned (as private property) by another human being. It is the ultimate extension of the capitalist ideal of private property -- even other people can be property. Socialism (whatever flaws it may have) contests exactly these ideas of private property. Slavery is totally inconceivable in a society where there is no private property. Think about it.
if you embed the final page/function so deep that the user can't find it, you might as well go back to CLI
You're quite right, but probably not for the reason you think. If you have to provide a large number of options, CLI is the best way to do it. That's why so many geeks that bothered to learn to use a shell still launch applications from xterms; it's more efficient than wading through menus. That's also why Google doesn't offer you a menu of the Internet, or a list of icons for all the world's Web sites. You type your command, just like you would at a shell prompt.
despicable scum... bankrupt ideology... collectivist bilge...
crack their heads...
shot dead in the streets.
My, my, my, what bile. My first impulse is to ask if you got dumped by a Greenpeace girl or something. I mean, why debate issues when ad hominem is so easy?
In the case of a user using the default ASCII character set, this is so he is alerted that the DNS name in the UTF-8 URL he cut and pasted in his address bar really translates to a different DNS name in ASCII.
This still doesn't help the bloke whose default character encoding is UTF-8. For example, I use the locales en_US.UTF-8 and fr_FR.UTF-8. In both of those, Cyrillic and CJK characters are ``native.'' If non-ASCII domain names become common, I don't want to be pestered
every time I try to go to a Web site with an acute accent in the domain name--for example, the Web site of the French President would presumably add the accent to elysee.fr.
There's a sore need for browsers to start displaying the DNS name in the address bar using *only* the logged-in user's default character set. Hopefully, this would show "[<cyrillic s>]nn.com" as "?nn.com".
That won't help users like me who use UTF-8 locales. I routinely visit Web sites in more than one language, including the occasional Russian one.
In the UK, it's the parties that are funded, not the politicians, and people contribute to the parties who then run the election campaigns.
I'll refrain from any smartass remarks about how you still got the same president we did;)
Seriously, the UK system also differs in that there is more room for other parties. The Liberal party is much more important than the rough American equivalent (Libertarian); we certainly don't have anything like Scottish Nationalists here. And the proportional representation arrangements in the devolved parliaments/assemblies are very exciting from a democratic perspective -- if we had a similar arrangement in the U.S. House of Reps we might have fifty or so ``third-party'' members of congress, and could really get some alternative voices heard.
Next time you go to a country the native language of which you can't understand, try planning your whole trip without once reading an English translation of any map or sign.
I would add that anything Indo-European using the Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic alphabets doesn't count. A smart American can fake his or her way through a lot of signs in anything from Spanish to Russian. Try that with Hebrew or Korean.
What happens when someone registers the domain cnn.com where the c or n is actually a character in a different character set. Then it would be difficult for 99% of the population to tell the difference say when they follow a link to http://www.cnn.com/the_world_is_ending_sell_your_s oul.html
Ewww, yuck! I do not want to have to guess whether I'm really looking at <cyrillic s>nn.com, or whether this is slashd<omicron>t.org. It's bad enough already with some of the typo-grabbing pr0n sites, etc.
It's really dangerous to assume its reasonable to pick the time when your chosen nation was at its largest extent and assume you get to put the clock back.
Aw, c'mon. It's fun! Especially if you're Greek. Just give all the land Alexander held back to the Greeks and we wouldn't have all these problems. We'd solve the Palestinian and Kashmir issues in one stroke!
Parish was originally a secular word too. It simply means neighbourhood from the greek para beside and oikos house.
Indeed. As is `pope' (from Greek `papas', meaning `daddy'); I would not recommend using it as a title for a state official, though. I think it more likely that the Louisianans had the Catholic meaning of the word in mind, rather than any literal, classical Greek sense.
Regardless, my comment was not meant to be taken too seriously... no more seriously than suggesting we should abolish the word `county' because it suggests feudal government.
...from the frequent enslavement of Slavs in central Europe
And not just central Europe. The Swedes used to sell Slavic slaves as far away as Samarqand (modern Uzbekistan). Oddly enough, if you were blonde-haired and blue-eyed in Samarqand a thousand years ago, it probably would be assumed you were a slave; the ruling classes were a mix of Persian, Turkish, and Arab. Slavic slaves were also quite popular in pre-Reconquista Andalusia (modern Spain/Portugal)--perhaps more so than African ones.
Well, I ban the word "County" because "Count" is a title in an archaic nobility system that has no place in modern American culture. Take that, L.A. *****y!
Given your nick, this might not bother you too much, but the other LA (Louisiana, that is) still calls them `parishes'. At least counties are secular.
Let's just call them departements, shall we?;)
(@#$& crapfilter keeps stripping out my acute accent...)
They can't use the term cockpit, it's a flight deck.
I'm not a pilot, but I've sat in the, erm, `flight deck' of an F-15 before. `Deck' is an extremely generous term for it; even `balcony' would be going a bit far...
While Microsoft (and their products) aren't perfect, neither the computer intustry nor the Internet would be what it is today without their contributions.
They certainly wouldn't.
And I'm supposed to thank them for this?
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"Trademarks are the heraldry of the new feudalism."
Except that under feudalism, there is a two-way obligation. Property comes with obligation, both to the lord who granted it, and to the peasants who work it. Capitalism has no such restrictions on what you do with your property, and the corporation has no obligation to the consumer comparable to the lord's obligations to his peasants. Don't insult the memory of feudalism, please.
Sorry, probably pretty obscure. Sauer is a (very old and respected) German firearms manufacturer. Their handguns are known colloquially as ``SIG Sauer.'' This is also a song by Rob Halford's band Fight, if you follow that style of music. (Sauer, BTW, rhymes with shower.) Hence ``Sig in shower'' -> ``SIG Schauer.'' All in all a pretty weak pun, and I apologize for wasting your time;)
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scripsit lemox:
I just have to point out a little something. A slave is a human being owned (as private property) by another human being. It is the ultimate extension of the capitalist ideal of private property -- even other people can be property. Socialism (whatever flaws it may have) contests exactly these ideas of private property. Slavery is totally inconceivable in a society where there is no private property. Think about it.
scripsit phrostie:
You're quite right, but probably not for the reason you think. If you have to provide a large number of options, CLI is the best way to do it. That's why so many geeks that bothered to learn to use a shell still launch applications from xterms; it's more efficient than wading through menus. That's also why Google doesn't offer you a menu of the Internet, or a list of icons for all the world's Web sites. You type your command, just like you would at a shell prompt.
scripsit ccmay:
My, my, my, what bile. My first impulse is to ask if you got dumped by a Greenpeace girl or something. I mean, why debate issues when ad hominem is so easy?
scripsit sonamchauhan:
This still doesn't help the bloke whose default character encoding is UTF-8. For example, I use the locales en_US.UTF-8 and fr_FR.UTF-8. In both of those, Cyrillic and CJK characters are ``native.'' If non-ASCII domain names become common, I don't want to be pestered every time I try to go to a Web site with an acute accent in the domain name--for example, the Web site of the French President would presumably add the accent to elysee.fr.
scripsit grub:
Well, yes, but it's harder to breathe...
scripsit bdrago:
Well, it would be a bit inappropriate for me to criticize anyone else's fashion sense (suffice it to say that I'm sitting here posting on /.).
That said, however, that picture really does make him look like a minor character on The Sopranos, doesn't it?
scripsit sonamchauhan:
That won't help users like me who use UTF-8 locales. I routinely visit Web sites in more than one language, including the occasional Russian one.
scripsit ccmay:
Ah, Cold War-style ``environmentalists are really Commies'' then...
scripsit ccmay:
The what?
scripsit Christian Smith:
I'll refrain from any smartass remarks about how you still got the same president we did ;)
Seriously, the UK system also differs in that there is more room for other parties. The Liberal party is much more important than the rough American equivalent (Libertarian); we certainly don't have anything like Scottish Nationalists here. And the proportional representation arrangements in the devolved parliaments/assemblies are very exciting from a democratic perspective -- if we had a similar arrangement in the U.S. House of Reps we might have fifty or so ``third-party'' members of congress, and could really get some alternative voices heard.
scripsit isaac338:
I would add that anything Indo-European using the Latin, Greek, or Cyrillic alphabets doesn't count. A smart American can fake his or her way through a lot of signs in anything from Spanish to Russian. Try that with Hebrew or Korean.
scripsit Tumbleweed:
Oh, don't be such a killjoy. CJK ideograms as variable names are k3wl!
scripsit suso:
Ewww, yuck! I do not want to have to guess whether I'm really looking at <cyrillic s>nn.com, or whether this is slashd<omicron>t.org. It's bad enough already with some of the typo-grabbing pr0n sites, etc.
scripsit Shimbo:
Aw, c'mon. It's fun! Especially if you're Greek. Just give all the land Alexander held back to the Greeks and we wouldn't have all these problems. We'd solve the Palestinian and Kashmir issues in one stroke!
scripsit danheskett:
Which are? (Other than the fact that MS showed no interest in implementing it...)
I don't do SVG stuff, so maybe there's something I'm missing, but it sounded pretty good to me.
scripsit yuri benjamin:
Indeed. As is `pope' (from Greek `papas', meaning `daddy'); I would not recommend using it as a title for a state official, though. I think it more likely that the Louisianans had the Catholic meaning of the word in mind, rather than any literal, classical Greek sense.
Regardless, my comment was not meant to be taken too seriously... no more seriously than suggesting we should abolish the word `county' because it suggests feudal government.
scripsit tfreport:
And not just central Europe. The Swedes used to sell Slavic slaves as far away as Samarqand (modern Uzbekistan). Oddly enough, if you were blonde-haired and blue-eyed in Samarqand a thousand years ago, it probably would be assumed you were a slave; the ruling classes were a mix of Persian, Turkish, and Arab. Slavic slaves were also quite popular in pre-Reconquista Andalusia (modern Spain/Portugal)--perhaps more so than African ones.
scripsit achurch:
Given your nick, this might not bother you too much, but the other LA (Louisiana, that is) still calls them `parishes'. At least counties are secular.
Let's just call them departements, shall we? ;)
(@#$& crapfilter keeps stripping out my acute accent...)
scripsit noddyholder:
I'm not a pilot, but I've sat in the, erm, `flight deck' of an F-15 before. `Deck' is an extremely generous term for it; even `balcony' would be going a bit far...
scripsit donscarletti:
Nah, that's female/male. What you're thinking of is called a `cleaver'.
scripsit TrollBridge:
They certainly wouldn't.
And I'm supposed to thank them for this?
Black Art's sig:
Except that under feudalism, there is a two-way obligation. Property comes with obligation, both to the lord who granted it, and to the peasants who work it. Capitalism has no such restrictions on what you do with your property, and the corporation has no obligation to the consumer comparable to the lord's obligations to his peasants. Don't insult the memory of feudalism, please.
scripsit wed128:
What's more, it also works as an extremely effective contraceptive.
You can't get a girl pregnant if you never get laid.
scripsit Hatta:
Um, a terminal that doesn't barf on Unicode? (Eterm and aterm have the same problem... so I just stick to good ol' xterm).
scripsit InadequateCamel:
Sorry, probably pretty obscure. Sauer is a (very old and respected) German firearms manufacturer. Their handguns are known colloquially as ``SIG Sauer.'' This is also a song by Rob Halford's band Fight, if you follow that style of music. (Sauer, BTW, rhymes with shower.) Hence ``Sig in shower'' -> ``SIG Schauer.'' All in all a pretty weak pun, and I apologize for wasting your time ;)