All sites ?
You are talking about sites supporting regime that punishes women for not dressing to their liking, let alone allowing people to freely express their opinion.
Please don't even go there..
She is right when pointing out it is utterly ridiculous to "assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac."
Of course they are not. It is not bigotry but common sense to watch out for people who are more likely to commit crimes.
Do you truly suggest that should pay the same amount of attention to some old lady boarding a plane, as we should to young Arab from abroad?
That is strange.
Woudn't it be better to bundle XIG GL drivers ( retail for 50$ or so ) instead of investing into programmers at, what was essentially a hardware company ?
XIG folks has been doing this stuff for years and it is simply stupid for VA folks trying to do the same thing with just a one guy.
They have to make up their mind : do they want to engage in public service or make money ?
Why form anything.
There is already a company that makes excellent GL drivers for Linux and pays its developers quite well.
But of course, you will refuse to pay 50$ for their driver while, at the same time, calling for establishing non-profit foundation.
That is just... well, stupid.
Of course it does.
If young black male is 10 times more likely to commit violent crime then police should pay more attention to that particular group.
It is common sense.
"No, it is still bigotry, because this mythical relative didn't give any reasons WHY they shouldn't be let into the country, only that because they are "those people" (pick your favorite minority), they shouldn't be allowed in. "
First of all he was talking about letting people in without checking them out.
On the other hand what you are proposing is to take away peoples right to decide who should be allowed to enter their own country.
Is it bigotry if one day Americans decide to stop immigration altogether or only allow people from certain countries or culture?
It is their country after all.
"in effect choosing the president we would have for the next four (and, as it turned out, eight) years. "
It was much more than that.
Carter and his policies were associated with growing inflation, complete inability of US to influence wild fuel markets, horrible incompetence of our military etc...
Even today most people don't speak of his term favorably.
Reagan, with all his faults, we exactly what America needed after years of weak or corrupt presidents.
As far as current situation is concerned, we have no reason to doubt W. Bush at this point.
No, I am talking about his vision of software being free of copyright and other restrictions.
According to him, copyleft is only temporary measure designed to protect what he sees as our rights to free software.
His ultimate goal is a world without any restrictions where everything is available for peer review etc...
Completely unrealistic vision clearly influenced by his academic roots.
Well, Jews don't have much choice for I doubt they would still exist if they went for more peaceful means.
In their case it is literally fight for survival.
Considering alternative I would say they are reasonably successful.
It is one thing to indiscriminately imprison people and another to pay more attention to people with certain "high-risk" background.
It is a common sense that it is unlikely that certain Arab fundamentalists will employ suicidal killers from, say China and consequently we can assume that these most likely will be people they know - this is the kind of information that we can use to our advantage.
The point is that not everyone things like the Slashdot folks and therefore this sort of openness leaves as vulnerable to people who have no such restrains.
No, you are not biased at all.
Most of these so called "Open Source" developers do have daily jobs which are very traditional and most of them are of "closed source" type.
I have no problem with OS becoming part of small hobbyist market but I am bothered by ESR and others painfully trying to fit that model into our economic system.
I mean this guy, who has no business experience whatsoever, is going around trying to convince people who spend decades running software markets.
It is silly.
"because then the truth would come out that their software is bloated, both in terms of features and price."
I have seen that "truth coming out" in the form of non-technical people playing around with Linux and let me tell you... they definitely preferred to stay away from that "truth".
Hell, 2 % voted for Tweedle The Dumbest.
What ? Now you complaining that only 2% voted and people actually dared to ignore your candidate ?
What are you gonna do ? Force them into voting for Nader ?
They are next to useless anyway.
MG-42 was arguably the best heavy machine gun during that time yet in this game it seems to be completely underpowered.
"politicians control the media, or media is riling up the politicians, but without any doubt the whole machine now has one goal -- to rile up everyone to want blood."
What the hell do you expect ?
If you go out and beat the hell out of somebody,would you be surprised if that person was riling up for your blood ?
Human nature 101.
"Government screwed up enough to expect terrorists to target US"
Interesting. It is hard not to piss of people who are known to kill their own women for showing up in public without "escort" etc...
We are not dealing with rational people here.
Great solution as long as you don't go beyond KDE and KOffice.
As soon as you do, things will look ugly... forget about pasting images, text copy/paste works in strange and unpredictable ways.
I watched ABC but could not stand obvious dislike Jennings has for the president.
These stupid remarks "he is still our president", these small references to his "escape" on 11th...
This is all personal preferences, for O'Reilly has obvious bias against anything coming from Democratic side but somehow it does not bother me at all:-)
Slashdot Mirror
All sites ? ..
You are talking about sites supporting regime that punishes women for not dressing to their liking, let alone allowing people to freely express their opinion.
Please don't even go there
She is right when pointing out it is utterly ridiculous to "assume every passenger is a potential crazed homicidal maniac."
Of course they are not. It is not bigotry but common sense to watch out for people who are more likely to commit crimes.
Do you truly suggest that should pay the same amount of attention to some old lady boarding a plane, as we should to young Arab from abroad?
"For George to say this could take years, I think, sadly, he's more right than he knows"
This is simply insane.
Is it that hard to give the guy credit when he makes right decision ?
Maybe he actually knows what he is talking about.
That is strange.
Woudn't it be better to bundle XIG GL drivers ( retail for 50$ or so ) instead of investing into programmers at, what was essentially a hardware company ?
XIG folks has been doing this stuff for years and it is simply stupid for VA folks trying to do the same thing with just a one guy.
They have to make up their mind : do they want to engage in public service or make money ?
Why form anything. ... well, stupid.
There is already a company that makes excellent GL drivers for Linux and pays its developers quite well.
But of course, you will refuse to pay 50$ for their driver while, at the same time, calling for establishing non-profit foundation.
That is just
"Does this make racial profiling right for them?"
Of course it does.
If young black male is 10 times more likely to commit violent crime then police should pay more attention to that particular group.
It is common sense.
"No, it is still bigotry, because this mythical relative didn't give any reasons WHY they shouldn't be let into the country, only that because they are "those people" (pick your favorite minority), they shouldn't be allowed in. "
First of all he was talking about letting people in without checking them out.
On the other hand what you are proposing is to take away peoples right to decide who should be allowed to enter their own country.
Is it bigotry if one day Americans decide to stop immigration altogether or only allow people from certain countries or culture?
It is their country after all.
"in effect choosing the president we would have for the next four (and, as it turned out, eight) years. "
...
It was much more than that.
Carter and his policies were associated with growing inflation, complete inability of US to influence wild fuel markets, horrible incompetence of our military etc
Even today most people don't speak of his term favorably.
Reagan, with all his faults, we exactly what America needed after years of weak or corrupt presidents.
As far as current situation is concerned, we have no reason to doubt W. Bush at this point.
Flight crews were trained not to confront hijackers in any way.
I doubt anyone even suspected what these people had in store for them.
No, I am talking about his vision of software being free of copyright and other restrictions. ...
According to him, copyleft is only temporary measure designed to protect what he sees as our rights to free software.
His ultimate goal is a world without any restrictions where everything is available for peer review etc
Completely unrealistic vision clearly influenced by his academic roots.
Well, Jews don't have much choice for I doubt they would still exist if they went for more peaceful means.
In their case it is literally fight for survival.
Considering alternative I would say they are reasonably successful.
It is one thing to indiscriminately imprison people and another to pay more attention to people with certain "high-risk" background.
It is a common sense that it is unlikely that certain Arab fundamentalists will employ suicidal killers from, say China and consequently we can assume that these most likely will be people they know - this is the kind of information that we can use to our advantage.
The point is that not everyone things like the Slashdot folks and therefore this sort of openness leaves as vulnerable to people who have no such restrains.
The guy is so biased it is not even funny. ...
Imagine MS PR dude writing piece like that but with reversed conclusion.
Slashdot would go nuts
No, you are not biased at all.
Most of these so called "Open Source" developers do have daily jobs which are very traditional and most of them are of "closed source" type.
I have no problem with OS becoming part of small hobbyist market but I am bothered by ESR and others painfully trying to fit that model into our economic system.
I mean this guy, who has no business experience whatsoever, is going around trying to convince people who spend decades running software markets.
It is silly.
RMS vision does not exists as far as real world is concerned.
Please, don't confuse your small circle of friends with the world at large.
"because then the truth would come out that their software is bloated, both in terms of features and price."
I have seen that "truth coming out" in the form of non-technical people playing around with Linux and let me tell you... they definitely preferred to stay away from that "truth".
Hell, 2 % voted for Tweedle The Dumbest.
What ? Now you complaining that only 2% voted and people actually dared to ignore your candidate ?
What are you gonna do ? Force them into voting for Nader ?
They are next to useless anyway.
MG-42 was arguably the best heavy machine gun during that time yet in this game it seems to be completely underpowered.
To bad you are stupid enough to realize that if anybody it is Democrats with their grand Government schemas who are your greatest enemy.
"You can clearly see that the original poster wants mass devastation. "
So do I.
"politicians control the media, or media is riling up the politicians, but without any doubt the whole machine now has one goal -- to rile up everyone to want blood."
,would you be surprised if that person was riling up for your blood ?
...
What the hell do you expect ?
If you go out and beat the hell out of somebody
Human nature 101.
"Government screwed up enough to expect terrorists to target US"
Interesting. It is hard not to piss of people who are known to kill their own women for showing up in public without "escort" etc
We are not dealing with rational people here.
Great solution as long as you don't go beyond KDE and KOffice. ... forget about pasting images, text copy/paste works in strange and unpredictable ways.
As soon as you do, things will look ugly
I watched ABC but could not stand obvious dislike Jennings has for the president. :-)
These stupid remarks "he is still our president", these small references to his "escape" on 11th...
This is all personal preferences, for O'Reilly has obvious bias against anything coming from Democratic side but somehow it does not bother me at all
"that not everybody running a business in the world today is a backstabbing blackguard."
I am sure these business people who died in WTC aren't anymore.
You should be happy, your arch enemies just died in large numbers.