I did'nt have the time to respond to david's post but here it is:
Yes the spanish republicans were backed by the evil communists.
Yes the Francists were backed by the evil germans.
There was a difference. The republicans were trying to set up a democracy, human rights and all the nice things spain only got 40 years later for good. Franco set up a very harsh dictatorship.
I don't think republicans were in a situation where they could refuse any kind of help; esp. considering the lack of help by France or UK at that time (they were stupidly bound by that stupid treaty with Hitler).
The bottom line is, the republicans weren't evil because they were supported by the evil USSR, it's the Catholic church that has been evil for supportig the undoubtedly evil Franco regime.
El Snewf, fuck you one last time, I guess you don't know jack about history, let me see, ever heard of Giordano Bruno?
The Catholic Church is heavily influential in Spain, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland (to pull three off the top of my head -- there are many more), and they manage to maintain something very like a civilized society. Granted there are abortion issues in all three countries that some would view as repressive, but outside of that I'd hardly compare them with Afghanistan.
Well well well. The Catholic sect has tried its best to cover this but... Ahem... Let's check all those countries one by one...
Spain: there was a civil war in the 30s there... the republicans lost to the Franco militias backed by Hitler. Franco was also backed by the catholics, though probably not officially. The republicans were considered evil commies.
Italy: El Duce was praised for reestablishing good relationship between the Vatican and the Italian state, and gave them quite a few of the prerogatives they now consider for granted.
Ireland is another story, as their enemy were the 'evil' British protestants. It's then easy for the Catholics to impose all kind of their stupid rules.
All that happens is that if you try to download an MP3 that is copy-protected with this mechanism, you get an error message saying "Your hard disk cannot store this data because you have CPRM turned off." So what?
I wonder what part of the Linux kernel generates this message.
I'd rather take my business to those companies and doctors that cherish my privacy rather than trust the government to put a gun to the head of those doctors and entities that don't cherish my privacy
How can you those company who claim to "cherish" actually respect your privacy if there's nothing that prevents them to get that information without telling you?
Well, that might have changed as of late. When I had to do it (3 years ago?) it *was* a PITA. You had to get all the sources for the libs separately, compiling with (for example) RedHat supplied libs was full of incompatibilites, you had to tweak very non standard makefiles etc...
As for ImageMagick, the Perl module still gives me headaches.
I have *never* had a big problem compiling software for Linux. Yes, you have to read the damn docs, yes, you have to learn how to do
certain things, tough...
Have you tried to compile ghostscript? It used to be a real pain in the ass. And ImageMagick? A PITA, too. Now precompiled binaries for both of those work very well. And yeah, I've compiled them both at least once (actually much more than once), and I'm not going to do it again. I'll just grab an RPM.
"I find your comment offensive. I dont think you need to be a jewish to think that nazi memorabilia is not good. Maybe its true that the
judges should not have ruled this way. But for sure I think that French law should not give in to racists."
Look, please give me some credit here for not being a neo nazi, ok? I don't like it either, HOWEVER UEJF's suit is a fucking joke. Have they tried to *convince* Yahoo to ban the sales? No they haven't, they've just sued. Is there an enormous amount of Nazi crap on Yahoo? No there isn't it's < 100 items. Is all Nazi items sold going to be used for nazi propaganda? Not, it isn't. Did ANYONE in France go to that fucking site to buy fucking nazi shit before the losers at UEJF gave it ENORMOUS publicity? MOST LIKELY NOT
UEJF is a bunch of king sized retards. Look at their other trials. They sued most French ISPs in 1996 because one of their bozos found a nazi web page somewhere on the net. Of course they lost. Then they sued artist Costes on a satiric song for allegedly being racist. They lost initially, but no, do you think they'd get the message? They're appealing like there's no tomorrow.
"I find your comment offensive. I dont think you need to be a jewish to think that nazi memorabilia is not good. Maybe its true that the
judges should not have ruled this way. But for sure I think that French law should not give in to racists."
Look, please give me some credit here for not being a neo nazi, ok? I don't like it either, HOWEVER UEJF's suit is a fucking joke. Have they tried to *convince* Yahoo to ban the sales? No they haven't, they've just sued. Is there an enormous amount of Nazi crap on Yahoo? No there isn't it's
UEJF is a bunch of king sized retards. Look at their other trials. They sued most French ISPs in 1996 because one of their bozos found a nazi web page somewhere on the net. Of course they lost. Then they sued artist Costes on a satiric song for allegedly being racist. They lost initially, but no, do you think they'd get the message? They're appealing like there's no tomorrow.
It's not the French government, idiot, it's a bunch of zealous jewish fundamentalist who happened to have found a sympathetic judge. Could have happened anywhere.
ST (Formerly SGS-Thomson) is not related anymore to Thomson Multimedia.
ST is the product of the fusion of SGS Microelletronica (Italian company)
and the microelectronics division of former Thomson, which has then split
into Thomson CSF (now Thalès, military electronics) and Thomson Multimedia
(TV, VCRs, etc...).
Once I went to see some obscure movie (about some nympho girl turned lesbian then prude or whatever), there were like 6 people in the room including a friend and I. Among those was a group of 3 friends. They had plenty of things to tell to each other, loudly. So I asked them to shut up. 12 times. Each time they would stop for 30s max, and start again. In the end, they would start talking again, and the 3 of us would just yell "SHUT UP". They never learnt. Pavlov must be wrong somehow. After about 40 minutes, one of them said "this movie sucks" and they left.
Made me wonder. WTF were they doing there? Why weren't they even slightly embarassed to be reprimanded like 5 year old kids? (they were about 30 something). Strange, more so than annoying.
Well Linux will necessarily fragment. It's been years that 'experts' and 'industry insiders' have started predicting it... it's just a matter of time, now!
Oh and there will be a major havoc on January 1st 2000, they predict, too.
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Unfortunately, the European contries are at least as xenophobic as US, probably more so. Just about all EU contries have political parties whose main agenda is to keep foreigner out.
Those parties you refer to are really somewhat tame compared to Bush's platform. Oh yeah, they're racist and shit, and when you compare the numbers, you realize that they haven't killed as many people as Mr. Bush with the death penalty.
If there's any stupidity in this court decision, you owe it to the fucking retards at UEJF.ORG, admire their fucking retarded home page with that ridiculous photo, it's entertaining. UEJF means French Jewish Students Union. They're a bunch of crybabies who want people to believe that THEY were in the concentration camps. Nevermind they're 20 year old and still covered with acnee. Anyway, voice your contempt on their online forum that they never read anyway.
The decision is not final, Yahoo is going to appeal, and AFAIK their legal argument was along the lines of "we can't do it" or "we're not responsible for it" (IE it's Yahoo, France that was sued when it's Yahoo, CA. that did it). For the appeal, I guess they will switch legal strategies; basically, the "law" invoked does'nt stand very well as it's only a government decret, whereas, per the constitution it should be a full fledged law as it restricts freedom of speech.
As for our friends at UEJF, let it be known that this bunch of losers are famous for suing like mad monkeys. They have sued the antiracist activist Costes when the incriminated work was, obviously and irrefutably so, sarcastic, a parody, etc... (it said "give white women to arabs" or something).
A big bunch of whiney, arrogant losers. Let them know what you think. Call them at +33 1 47 34 62 00. Fill their forum with junk. They deserve all the shit they get.
It was "figured out" by the rep for the district who said something along the lines of "There's no way that many people here voted for
Buchanan, something must be wrong". even though a similar amoung of votes for the Reform party came from there last election...
I might have something wrong here, BUT in the 1996 election Perrot scored an impressive 9% overall, and, as you claim, about 3500 votes in that county.
Now fast forward to 2000. Buchanan had what? A tenth of that? So he should have had by your logic, 350 votes!
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I did'nt have the time to respond to david's post but here it is:
Yes the spanish republicans were backed by the evil communists.
Yes the Francists were backed by the evil germans.
There was a difference. The republicans were trying to set up a democracy, human rights and all the nice things spain only got 40 years later for good. Franco set up a very harsh dictatorship.
I don't think republicans were in a situation where they could refuse any kind of help; esp. considering the lack of help by France or UK at that time (they were stupidly bound by that stupid treaty with Hitler).
The bottom line is, the republicans weren't evil because they were supported by the evil USSR, it's the Catholic church that has been evil for supportig the undoubtedly evil Franco regime.
El Snewf, fuck you one last time, I guess you don't know jack about history, let me see, ever heard of Giordano Bruno?
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If an adult chooses not to view what they consider unsavory, why hold their personal choice against them? It doesn't affect your rights.
Are we still allowed to call them dogs for believing such fucked up shit as religion?
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The Catholic Church is heavily influential in Spain, Italy, and the Republic of Ireland (to pull three off the top of my head -- there are many more), and they manage to maintain something very like a civilized society. Granted there are abortion issues in all three countries that some would view as repressive, but outside of that I'd hardly compare them with Afghanistan.
Well well well. The Catholic sect has tried its best to cover this but ... Ahem ... Let's check all those countries one by one ...
Spain: there was a civil war in the 30s there ... the republicans lost to the Franco militias backed by Hitler. Franco was also backed by the catholics, though probably not officially. The republicans were considered evil commies.
Italy: El Duce was praised for reestablishing good relationship between the Vatican and the Italian state, and gave them quite a few of the prerogatives they now consider for granted.
Ireland is another story, as their enemy were the 'evil' British protestants. It's then easy for the Catholics to impose all kind of their stupid rules.
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All that happens is that if you try to download an MP3 that is copy-protected with this mechanism, you get an error message saying "Your hard disk cannot store this data because you have CPRM turned off." So what?
I wonder what part of the Linux kernel generates this message.
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I'd rather take my business to those companies and doctors that cherish my privacy rather than trust the government to put a gun to the head of those doctors and entities that don't cherish my privacy
How can you those company who claim to "cherish" actually respect your privacy if there's nothing that prevents them to get that information without telling you?
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I have *never* had a big problem compiling software for Linux. Yes, you have to read the damn docs, yes, you have to learn how to do certain things, tough...
Have you tried to compile ghostscript? It used to be a real pain in the ass. And ImageMagick? A PITA, too. Now precompiled binaries for both of those work very well. And yeah, I've compiled them both at least once (actually much more than once), and I'm not going to do it again. I'll just grab an RPM.
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"I find your comment offensive. I dont think you need to be a jewish to think that nazi memorabilia is not good. Maybe its true that the judges should not have ruled this way. But for sure I think that French law should not give in to racists."
Look, please give me some credit here for not being a neo nazi, ok? I don't like it either, HOWEVER UEJF's suit is a fucking joke. Have they tried to *convince* Yahoo to ban the sales? No they haven't, they've just sued. Is there an enormous amount of Nazi crap on Yahoo? No there isn't it's < 100 items. Is all Nazi items sold going to be used for nazi propaganda? Not, it isn't. Did ANYONE in France go to that fucking site to buy fucking nazi shit before the losers at UEJF gave it ENORMOUS publicity? MOST LIKELY NOT
UEJF is a bunch of king sized retards. Look at their other trials. They sued most French ISPs in 1996 because one of their bozos found a nazi web page somewhere on the net. Of course they lost. Then they sued artist Costes on a satiric song for allegedly being racist. They lost initially, but no, do you think they'd get the message? They're appealing like there's no tomorrow.
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This did happen in France and if global companies pulled out then France might learn a lesson.
Yeah, and if the confederates had have more troops, they would have kicked the yankee's ass.
Stop smoking crack, dopey.
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"I find your comment offensive. I dont think you need to be a jewish to think that nazi memorabilia is not good. Maybe its true that the judges should not have ruled this way. But for sure I think that French law should not give in to racists."
Look, please give me some credit here for not being a neo nazi, ok? I don't like it either, HOWEVER UEJF's suit is a fucking joke. Have they tried to *convince* Yahoo to ban the sales? No they haven't, they've just sued. Is there an enormous amount of Nazi crap on Yahoo? No there isn't it's
UEJF is a bunch of king sized retards. Look at their other trials. They sued most French ISPs in 1996 because one of their bozos found a nazi web page somewhere on the net. Of course they lost. Then they sued artist Costes on a satiric song for allegedly being racist. They lost initially, but no, do you think they'd get the message? They're appealing like there's no tomorrow.
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How do we know that you are the real Doug Rudd, mister?
Hell, it's easy. The real Doug Rudd is user ID # 43032.
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Once I went to see some obscure movie (about some nympho girl turned lesbian then prude or whatever), there were like 6 people in the room including a friend and I. Among those was a group of 3 friends. They had plenty of things to tell to each other, loudly. So I asked them to shut up. 12 times. Each time they would stop for 30s max, and start again. In the end, they would start talking again, and the 3 of us would just yell "SHUT UP". They never learnt. Pavlov must be wrong somehow. After about 40 minutes, one of them said "this movie sucks" and they left.
Made me wonder. WTF were they doing there? Why weren't they even slightly embarassed to be reprimanded like 5 year old kids? (they were about 30 something). Strange, more so than annoying.
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Yes, but that would be a waste of another $129k. People who say - 'don't buy Windows, use Linux' are being unrealistic.
Give me $129k and I will build a very practical, very handy, very secure Free Software based solution for your whole county.
Give me all the money they have spent on buying those damn licenses on top of that ($1M?), and I'll give you something even better.
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Oh and there will be a major havoc on January 1st 2000, they predict, too.
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"Yes it really does work"
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"Do you like nasty little sluts?"
"First time on camera for these nasty little teens!"
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Unfortunately, the European contries are at least as xenophobic as US, probably more so. Just about all EU contries have political parties whose main agenda is to keep foreigner out.
Those parties you refer to are really somewhat tame compared to Bush's platform. Oh yeah, they're racist and shit, and when you compare the numbers, you realize that they haven't killed as many people as Mr. Bush with the death penalty.
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If there's any stupidity in this court decision, you owe it to the fucking retards at UEJF.ORG, admire their fucking retarded home page with that ridiculous photo, it's entertaining. UEJF means French Jewish Students Union. They're a bunch of crybabies who want people to believe that THEY were in the concentration camps. Nevermind they're 20 year old and still covered with acnee. Anyway, voice your contempt on their online forum that they never read anyway.
The decision is not final, Yahoo is going to appeal, and AFAIK their legal argument was along the lines of "we can't do it" or "we're not responsible for it" (IE it's Yahoo, France that was sued when it's Yahoo, CA. that did it). For the appeal, I guess they will switch legal strategies; basically, the "law" invoked does'nt stand very well as it's only a government decret, whereas, per the constitution it should be a full fledged law as it restricts freedom of speech.
As for our friends at UEJF, let it be known that this bunch of losers are famous for suing like mad monkeys. They have sued the antiracist activist Costes when the incriminated work was, obviously and irrefutably so, sarcastic, a parody, etc ... (it said "give white women to arabs" or something).
A big bunch of whiney, arrogant losers. Let them know what you think. Call them at +33 1 47 34 62 00. Fill their forum with junk. They deserve all the shit they get.
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It was "figured out" by the rep for the district who said something along the lines of "There's no way that many people here voted for Buchanan, something must be wrong". even though a similar amoung of votes for the Reform party came from there last election...
I might have something wrong here, BUT in the 1996 election Perrot scored an impressive 9% overall, and, as you claim, about 3500 votes in that county.
Now fast forward to 2000. Buchanan had what? A tenth of that? So he should have had by your logic, 350 votes!
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