Sorry I have a tendency to use bad wording so I take back that particular remark. I'm not going to argue over whose being more violent though - if you ever watch representatives of the two sides argue you'll notice they act like children with most attention paid to finger pointing in a "he started it" manner. I acknowledge there are injustices being commited on both sides.
the Net has been a great influence on bringing the American ideas of freedom to the rest of the world.
The problem with Americans is they live under the false impression that they live in a free, democratic society, which is fundamentally a weakness. Democracy is a tired ideal and nearly 300 years of democratic idealists have failed to make it work.
Ok.. so the people of USA, UK and other Western/European countries have large Jewish electorates, larger than the Muslim electorate, and therefore democratically our leaders are right to support Israeli genocide etc. Right democratically, but it seems a little immoral. I am aware I'm not the first person to notice this.
The problem is, you look at other nations and think you're completely different, but to an outside observer you would look like identical twins -
In the red corner, we have the USA. They mostly believe that they have the best governmental system in existence and hopefully one day every one else will use the same system.
In the blue corner, China. They mostly believe they have the best governmental system in existence and it woud be nice if every one else used the same one.
This is very true...
I even do this with a 56k modem. You could start with a set of debian disks which you can persuade someone with a faster line to burn for you (though a little patience and you can do it with a modem). Then if you set apt-get to use the testing or unstable distribution you can run apt-get update then apt-get upgrade / dist-upgrade frequently to keep your OS up to date with no extra cost.
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Sorry I have a tendency to use bad wording so I take back that particular remark. I'm not going to argue over whose being more violent though - if you ever watch representatives of the two sides argue you'll notice they act like children with most attention paid to finger pointing in a "he started it" manner. I acknowledge there are injustices being commited on both sides.
the Net has been a great influence on bringing the American ideas of freedom to the rest of the world.
The problem with Americans is they live under the false impression that they live in a free, democratic society, which is fundamentally a weakness. Democracy is a tired ideal and nearly 300 years of democratic idealists have failed to make it work.
Ok.. so the people of USA, UK and other Western/European countries have large Jewish electorates, larger than the Muslim electorate, and therefore democratically our leaders are right to support Israeli genocide etc. Right democratically, but it seems a little immoral. I am aware I'm not the first person to notice this.
The problem is, you look at other nations and think you're completely different, but to an outside observer you would look like identical twins -
In the red corner, we have the USA. They mostly believe that they have the best governmental system in existence and hopefully one day every one else will use the same system.
In the blue corner, China. They mostly believe they have the best governmental system in existence and it woud be nice if every one else used the same one.
An alternative perspective
KDE is well mirrored. Try changing www.kde.org to www.uk.kde.org or similar, works fine for me.
This is very true... I even do this with a 56k modem. You could start with a set of debian disks which you can persuade someone with a faster line to burn for you (though a little patience and you can do it with a modem). Then if you set apt-get to use the testing or unstable distribution you can run apt-get update then apt-get upgrade / dist-upgrade frequently to keep your OS up to date with no extra cost.