I'm half/half North American/European and lived half my life in each continent so I see how things work on both sides of the Atlantic.
Right of reply is the most constitutional and democratic thing ever! I'll tell you why Reagan said it didn't promote free speech.
He started out in the media industry : radio host and actor. His friends in the media would say whatever pleased him to get him elected in return of favors like politcal protection.
Bush and his CNN/Foxnews friends certainly played the Americans latel. All forms of democratic dialogue was quelled by the Bush administration and their media friends.
Outside the US we've heard Rumsfeld has ties with Halliburton (even gets a few millions every couple years) and Bush in oil and media. We also heard the facts regarding Bush's grandaddy and the Nazi family ties. We also heard about the forged documents the Bush administration came up with way before it even made news in the US (I heard about it two days after the US had given it to UNMOVIC).
People in the US are blatently disinformed and laws like ROR are only meant to stop misinformation from happening.
When you have corruption (ala Microsoft and SCO) Slashdot gives the ROR to the people and that is why it is so popular. Actually the papers in France (there are a ton just in Paris) love the ROR on editorials. Their sales go up whenever they have a reply in one of their papers. They make more sales because people love listening to a dialogue rather than a mind numbing CNN/Foxnews.
In most European countries the head of state often goes on TV to talk to people and often live. They answer questions from the public and sometimes have to admit their own fallacies.
Has anyone seen Bush accept a challenge from the people? The only interviews he had were as close as rigged as you could have. He has all his answers readied for the prepared question we ask him. This is not dialogue, this is organized monologue.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
When you express your chauvinism do you look smart? Do you realize you make it sound like all other countries are not as good as yours?
There are idiots like yourself in every country in the world : proud of their country just because it is theirs.
Tell me have you ever lived in a different country than your own? Have you even travelled? Do you speak more than one languages? Have you ever spent a year in Europe? Could you even tell people where on the globe your country was when you finished grade 12? Actually did you even finish grade 9?
How can you be so sure that your country is so much more democratic/better than others? How can you compare your countries with others when the only things you know is what CNN and Foxnews tells you?
People like you make everyone in the world sick. You hurt Americans with your chauvinism. Some even wear Canadian flags on their backpacks when travelling just so they aren't associated with idiots like you. The world would be a better place if you could simply travel a little bit while keeping your mouth shut so you can learn a little bit.
First your assertion that the constitution was written by average people is wrong. The constitution was written for the people by exceptional people.
The EU is being built today with some great people too. The idea that drives them is working together to avoid war, plagues, tension and be stronger as whole. The movement is driven by fear of empires and all the injustice that comes along with it. If everyone works together no one can be the empire that controls all. No more Napoleon, no more Hitler! Just countries working together for the greater good of the majority.
The EU is not scary at all. I find it's a refreshing thing to see some politicians working towards achieving a goal like this one. It encourages democracy and justice in many countries (see Turkey for example). Saying that this is for the politicians I fail to see how you calculated that one!
I'm not saying that everything will work great with the new EU, I'm just saying that it is building up to be great for every EU citizens. You'd be misinformed if you thought otherwise.
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May I recommend you also read Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. It's the missing 67th book.
Well actually you do have a point but... if they have a Linux only policy they could simply delete Windows from all the free machines and install Linux on them instead!:-)
That way they are not locked in by proprietary software and don't have to worry about their licences running out on them or having to upgrade to a new MS Office because Office XP files can't be read by MS Office 97!:-)
The same social movement that created unions also gave people vacation and sick leave when people would never get paid if they didn't show up one day. Minimum wage is another good things from the socialist lobbyists.
There is too much anti-communism in North America. They point the finger at communism as an evil and as proof show that they won the race to the moon. Just because a country has more money doesn't mean they treat their citizens any better.
One of the flaws of communism was that it was too strict and too patriotic to see it's own flaws. Does anyone see a parrallel?
it was a nice platform in its days. I can understand the nostalgy. If today's computers were done with the same smarts that the Amiga was made with we'd be in a better state of affairs.
It's a way for Microsoft to undercut the Open Source groups out there. Whenever an Open Source model can make money Microsoft attempts to grab a hold of it in some way or another. If it means lowering prices it doesn't matter! 50$ is better than 0 to them!
well with the Bush administration we could expect some concentration camps in Iraq anytime now. They're close to free and the oil pays for them anyways!
don't think that technology fixes everything. It just allows us to do the same mistakes over and over again on a larger scale.
Take for example 100 years ago next to no one had washing machines, dryers and dishwashers. Why did they have time to do crafts and other stuff? Why is it that we barely have free time and we have cars to drive us places faster than we could ever dream of going before?
Fact is as soon as we are capable of doing something we do it and try to see what are the other limits of our stupidity. So instead of making the world better for our kids we simply provide tools for them to make bigger more blatent mistakes than us!
Here kids, here is a bunch of technology that saves you time so you don't have to work as much as I did. I hope it gives you time to figure out the real meaning of life.
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Just what OSS needs for general acceptance.
Reminds me of the near near miss paradox or the short dwarf pleonasm.
Just how is Europe pretentious? What is your enlightened reasonning behind such a statement!
see isn't right of reply wonderful :-)
I'm half/half North American/European and lived half my life in each continent so I see how things work on both sides of the Atlantic.
Right of reply is the most constitutional and democratic thing ever! I'll tell you why Reagan said it didn't promote free speech.
He started out in the media industry : radio host and actor. His friends in the media would say whatever pleased him to get him elected in return of favors like politcal protection.
Bush and his CNN/Foxnews friends certainly played the Americans latel. All forms of democratic dialogue was quelled by the Bush administration and their media friends.
Outside the US we've heard Rumsfeld has ties with Halliburton (even gets a few millions every couple years) and Bush in oil and media. We also heard the facts regarding Bush's grandaddy and the Nazi family ties. We also heard about the forged documents the Bush administration came up with way before it even made news in the US (I heard about it two days after the US had given it to UNMOVIC).
People in the US are blatently disinformed and laws like ROR are only meant to stop misinformation from happening.
When you have corruption (ala Microsoft and SCO) Slashdot gives the ROR to the people and that is why it is so popular. Actually the papers in France (there are a ton just in Paris) love the ROR on editorials. Their sales go up whenever they have a reply in one of their papers. They make more sales because people love listening to a dialogue rather than a mind numbing CNN/Foxnews.
In most European countries the head of state often goes on TV to talk to people and often live. They answer questions from the public and sometimes have to admit their own fallacies.
Has anyone seen Bush accept a challenge from the people? The only interviews he had were as close as rigged as you could have. He has all his answers readied for the prepared question we ask him. This is not dialogue, this is organized monologue.
ROR is for you the people.
When you express your chauvinism do you look smart? Do you realize you make it sound like all other countries are not as good as yours?
There are idiots like yourself in every country in the world : proud of their country just because it is theirs.
Tell me have you ever lived in a different country than your own? Have you even travelled? Do you speak more than one languages? Have you ever spent a year in Europe? Could you even tell people where on the globe your country was when you finished grade 12? Actually did you even finish grade 9?
How can you be so sure that your country is so much more democratic/better than others? How can you compare your countries with others when the only things you know is what CNN and Foxnews tells you?
People like you make everyone in the world sick. You hurt Americans with your chauvinism. Some even wear Canadian flags on their backpacks when travelling just so they aren't associated with idiots like you. The world would be a better place if you could simply travel a little bit while keeping your mouth shut so you can learn a little bit.
First your assertion that the constitution was written by average people is wrong. The constitution was written for the people by exceptional people.
The EU is being built today with some great people too. The idea that drives them is working together to avoid war, plagues, tension and be stronger as whole. The movement is driven by fear of empires and all the injustice that comes along with it. If everyone works together no one can be the empire that controls all. No more Napoleon, no more Hitler! Just countries working together for the greater good of the majority.
The EU is not scary at all. I find it's a refreshing thing to see some politicians working towards achieving a goal like this one. It encourages democracy and justice in many countries (see Turkey for example). Saying that this is for the politicians I fail to see how you calculated that one!
I'm not saying that everything will work great with the new EU, I'm just saying that it is building up to be great for every EU citizens. You'd be misinformed if you thought otherwise.
If someone truly is serious about photography he's not doing digital.
http://www.skepdic.com/ http://www.2think.org/ May I recommend you also read Shadows Of Forgotten Ancestors by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. It's the missing 67th book.
Just tell Dobleyou Bush that SCO stands for Satan Corpus Ominity and he'll hear the voice of God Himself tell him to nuke the place!
If France doesn't use it's veto against SCO's bullying tactics.
same reason we have this SCO scandal! :) LOL
did you ever think though that each character in their language is a word?
That way they are not locked in by proprietary software and don't have to worry about their licences running out on them or having to upgrade to a new MS Office because Office XP files can't be read by MS Office 97! :-)
So I guess you'll have to be using GNU/LINUX then! LOL
There is too much anti-communism in North America. They point the finger at communism as an evil and as proof show that they won the race to the moon. Just because a country has more money doesn't mean they treat their citizens any better.
One of the flaws of communism was that it was too strict and too patriotic to see it's own flaws. Does anyone see a parrallel?
it was a nice platform in its days. I can understand the nostalgy. If today's computers were done with the same smarts that the Amiga was made with we'd be in a better state of affairs.
It needs to be based on free, open and documented standards.
It's a way for Microsoft to undercut the Open Source groups out there. Whenever an Open Source model can make money Microsoft attempts to grab a hold of it in some way or another. If it means lowering prices it doesn't matter! 50$ is better than 0 to them!
..and support linux. That way you are sure not going to miss out on anything that could be in the enterprise version.
The real artists don't care if they don't make millions off of what they really love. They care if they can make a living off of it that is all.
Venus fact sheet is here http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/ven usfact.html
well with the Bush administration we could expect some concentration camps in Iraq anytime now. They're close to free and the oil pays for them anyways!
CNN and trust in the same sentence? Are you kidding?
Take for example 100 years ago next to no one had washing machines, dryers and dishwashers. Why did they have time to do crafts and other stuff? Why is it that we barely have free time and we have cars to drive us places faster than we could ever dream of going before?
Fact is as soon as we are capable of doing something we do it and try to see what are the other limits of our stupidity. So instead of making the world better for our kids we simply provide tools for them to make bigger more blatent mistakes than us!
Here kids, here is a bunch of technology that saves you time so you don't have to work as much as I did. I hope it gives you time to figure out the real meaning of life.