When it comes to unions, it has to be this way because the "other side" wants to get away with as little as possible, and will play dirty to get it. As for lawyers, it totally depends on the case, and there's far less "reality" involved usually...I mean how exactly *do* you put a price on emotional suffering? I know it deserves compensation, but figuring out how much is nearly impossible.
(responding to 0-scoring AC btw) No, you're just wildly conservative and out of touch with reality and the law thanks to your media masters:-P
But seriously though, I've not seen anything to suggest the 9th circuit is particularly out of touch with reality, quite the contrary, they seem to be more in-touch with reality.
Don't forget as well, as Colbert so famously said, "reality has a well-known liberal bias", which is perhaps more correctly translated as "the average of US opinion has a conservative bias compared to the rest of the Free World"
How dare you call me a filthy technocrat, you insensitive clod!
I'm a proud non-member of the non-group known sometimes as the hollow ones.
So there.:-P
I believe you are making the common mistake of conflating 'atheist' with 'materialist', and while yes many atheists are materialists, I for example am not (though perhaps I am more aptly described as a 'non-theist', there is a difference in shade of meaning, basically I assert that even if there is some sort of 'god', it is actually more beneficial to myself and society to reject it and climb the mythical tower of babel anyhow).
I think the reason for this is that people don't see a need to refuse the same people they are sending the message to the right to record said message, if you don't trust someone, you don't say something to them to begin with.
Unfortunately while this makes sense at first glance, there's this annoying thing that most countries signed onto (mostly at the pressure of US and international megacorps) known as the Berne Convention, and unless Canada wants to break this treaty (which I encourage), they can't do this (nor can they shorten copyright term beyond something unreasonable, not sure exactly what, but I think Berne says something like 60yrs?)
I don't know about the original poster, but I won't pay for food that's no good...that's just wrong. Of course until I've tried it, how do I know if its any good? (barring of course obvious signs) See, that's just it, try-before-you-buy is a good thing, and most sensible businesses know this...hell, many restaurants will even let you try a small taste of something where appropriate, and *all* will gladly refund/not charge if you have a valid complaint. (and yes, I usually do pay for food, partly because I learn quickly where to and not to go for it, and the restaurants I patronize continue to have good food because there's actually a consequence when they don't, i.e. they are not a mono/oligopoly like the *AA)
Actually, this is available in debian-based systems through 'debtags' and the related functionality -- open up your latest aptitude (or perhaps synaptic?) and look into the tags browsers. Its not perfect yet, but at least someone has thought of this
You would find yourself at home, I would think, among at least some forward thinking, humanistic Liberal groups, not all of them have an irrational fear of humanity, in fact most are a lot more sensible than that. Of course you have to be alright with human rights issues such as GLBT freedoms (especially). Now I agree there are some anti-personal-freedom Liberals (specifically, some hyper-environmentalists (though let me state that I'm in favor of more sensible energy policy and reducing carbon use), and some of the political-correctness nonsense), but in general personal freedom these days is held up by the liberals almost as much as the libertarians. Of course you also have to be ok with non-libertarian things like nationalized health care, etc., specifically, the whole humanistic approach -- people are more important than corporations/profits, coupled with the understanding that progress can be very humanistic (sorry guys but I can't get close to the whole tear-it-all-down approach)
Either way, I want to state [aol]Me too![/aol] and say that this sort of thing would be great, and it even works to some extent in other countries (at least pieces of it)
Anyhow, enough rambling, not even sure if I made a point here.
I'm AKA Quinn (registered here before I took the name), and to clarify some things -
Keeping the Beryl branding, while I agree might be a good idea in some ways, just upsets too many people, and I can understand that.
The GPL licensing is still something I stand for, and I will try to make sure that as much as I can get to be GPL is, but I have to also face facts here...I just don't have the developer base or community goodwill to go off on my own over *just* a license, its just not worth it in the end. We'll be able to do better things by working together
Either way, I hope it all works out well, and I will continue to do my best to make sure the community gets what it wants in the best possible way.
From what I've heard from those actually at Sun, the biggest thing they want *is* the patent-poison clause in the gpl3 (and the anti-drm clause), those are the biggest reasons they have for not yet moving completely away from CDDL, so it seems a *good* thing for the free software enthusiast.
I've had similar issues with my hardware (turns out I need a combination of: acpi_use_timer_override, idle=poll, noirqdebug, and vga=792 (of all things))
I don't however understand why you were having no crashes with other distros unless perhaps they used vga=792(or something like it) by default? Ubuntu is one of the few that doesn't enable a framebuffer console by default, so that could be it
For the record, my buggy hardware is an HP dv6110us with nForce 430go and GeForce 6150go...don't buy it.
When I was in canada, they told me it was because of a bullshit "protect the children" law stating only brown beverages can have added caffeine...I shit you not. Apparently the lobbyists who pushed it through used a (likely doomed to fail anyway) plan by coca-cola to produce caffienated orange juice to scare parliament into passing it. I could be wrong about all of this of course, but it is what I was told and I have no real reason to doubt it
(note, I registered before I took the handle QuinnStorm)
I think I should install a pbuilder for debian etch and start emitting compiz packages for that too...
maybe then people will stop associating that with ubuntu, as it works just as well with debian if you have the right packages
I don't know, but a fully open process for it is one of the goals I've been aiming for. see www.compiz.net and find out how to really make your compiz nice (note, I'm mostly a KDE user too, but for some reason, kicker is crashy with compiz, so I switched to a gnome-based session with lots of KDE apps. (I hate gnome's remove-the-options interface style, and hate that it's infected gaim...)
I agree about the rubber...mmm...skin tight on big curvy sexy girls...not those little skinny bags of bones of course...they just look weird in tight clothes...
I'd mod you up except I fear my government might not like that.
I agree that the USA is in some real serious trouble at the moment, and I really hope that we can extricate our collective head from our collective ass.
I want to take a moment to point out though a disturbing trend in Canada as well...I know the public perception is that the Liberal party was corrupt and that's why the Conservatives have power, but given things like the amount of money flooding into Canada from the USA in support of the Conservatives...I'm a bit wary to take it at face value. Anyhow, the problem is, corrupt or not, the Liberals were more...well, liberal...and under the Conservatives, many of the same bullshit things happening here in the USA will be coming to Canada. I hope this does not come to pass, as really Canada, in many ways -is- a shining example of freedom. (however I've heard bad things about your libel laws)
Two areas of special concern to me are GLBT rights (the Conservatives really want to break those down) and health care (again, if they actually had enough power to get their way, they'd dismantle the public health system). Obviously I'm not a Canadian citizen, and I don't have 100% of the facts, so feel free to correct me.
Many many years back (think 96 or so), I had finally heard of this "linux" thing, and had downloaded disksets over AOL. At this point it became clear to me that AOL wasn't supported on linux, and I needed something better. We went for a local company that offered nice dial-up at a reasonable price. Cancelling AOL had to be done over the phone, and while the rep wasn't as pushy as this one, they did try to foist free service on me. Of course, I had to explain that the free service would do me no good, and eventually they got it.
While its not *good* for your retinas, its not your retinas that looking at the sun will mess up, its your iris. What happens is your iris tries to contract too far, and that can damage the delicate muscles therein. If this happens, you will be left virtually blinded because your iris can no longer compensate, and likely it will deform the rest of the eye too.
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When it comes to unions, it has to be this way because the "other side" wants to get away with as little as possible, and will play dirty to get it. As for lawyers, it totally depends on the case, and there's far less "reality" involved usually...I mean how exactly *do* you put a price on emotional suffering? I know it deserves compensation, but figuring out how much is nearly impossible.
(responding to 0-scoring AC btw) No, you're just wildly conservative and out of touch with reality and the law thanks to your media masters :-P
But seriously though, I've not seen anything to suggest the 9th circuit is particularly out of touch with reality, quite the contrary, they seem to be more in-touch with reality.
Don't forget as well, as Colbert so famously said, "reality has a well-known liberal bias", which is perhaps more correctly translated as "the average of US opinion has a conservative bias compared to the rest of the Free World"
As far as I can tell, they're both python, but I could be wrong. Oh yeah, and apparently I type too fast.
How dare you call me a filthy technocrat, you insensitive clod! I'm a proud non-member of the non-group known sometimes as the hollow ones. So there. :-P
I believe you are making the common mistake of conflating 'atheist' with 'materialist', and while yes many atheists are materialists, I for example am not (though perhaps I am more aptly described as a 'non-theist', there is a difference in shade of meaning, basically I assert that even if there is some sort of 'god', it is actually more beneficial to myself and society to reject it and climb the mythical tower of babel anyhow).
I think the reason for this is that people don't see a need to refuse the same people they are sending the message to the right to record said message, if you don't trust someone, you don't say something to them to begin with.
Unfortunately while this makes sense at first glance, there's this annoying thing that most countries signed onto (mostly at the pressure of US and international megacorps) known as the Berne Convention, and unless Canada wants to break this treaty (which I encourage), they can't do this (nor can they shorten copyright term beyond something unreasonable, not sure exactly what, but I think Berne says something like 60yrs?)
I don't know about the original poster, but I won't pay for food that's no good...that's just wrong. Of course until I've tried it, how do I know if its any good? (barring of course obvious signs) See, that's just it, try-before-you-buy is a good thing, and most sensible businesses know this...hell, many restaurants will even let you try a small taste of something where appropriate, and *all* will gladly refund/not charge if you have a valid complaint. (and yes, I usually do pay for food, partly because I learn quickly where to and not to go for it, and the restaurants I patronize continue to have good food because there's actually a consequence when they don't, i.e. they are not a mono/oligopoly like the *AA)
Actually, this is available in debian-based systems through 'debtags' and the related functionality -- open up your latest aptitude (or perhaps synaptic?) and look into the tags browsers. Its not perfect yet, but at least someone has thought of this
You would find yourself at home, I would think, among at least some forward thinking, humanistic Liberal groups, not all of them have an irrational fear of humanity, in fact most are a lot more sensible than that. Of course you have to be alright with human rights issues such as GLBT freedoms (especially). Now I agree there are some anti-personal-freedom Liberals (specifically, some hyper-environmentalists (though let me state that I'm in favor of more sensible energy policy and reducing carbon use), and some of the political-correctness nonsense), but in general personal freedom these days is held up by the liberals almost as much as the libertarians. Of course you also have to be ok with non-libertarian things like nationalized health care, etc., specifically, the whole humanistic approach -- people are more important than corporations/profits, coupled with the understanding that progress can be very humanistic (sorry guys but I can't get close to the whole tear-it-all-down approach)
Either way, I want to state [aol]Me too![/aol] and say that this sort of thing would be great, and it even works to some extent in other countries (at least pieces of it)
Anyhow, enough rambling, not even sure if I made a point here.
I'm AKA Quinn (registered here before I took the name), and to clarify some things -
Keeping the Beryl branding, while I agree might be a good idea in some ways, just upsets too many people, and I can understand that.
The GPL licensing is still something I stand for, and I will try to make sure that as much as I can get to be GPL is, but I have to also face facts here...I just don't have the developer base or community goodwill to go off on my own over *just* a license, its just not worth it in the end. We'll be able to do better things by working together
Either way, I hope it all works out well, and I will continue to do my best to make sure the community gets what it wants in the best possible way.
Novell deserves what they get.
From what I've heard from those actually at Sun, the biggest thing they want *is* the patent-poison clause in the gpl3 (and the anti-drm clause), those are the biggest reasons they have for not yet moving completely away from CDDL, so it seems a *good* thing for the free software enthusiast.
I've had similar issues with my hardware (turns out I need a combination of: acpi_use_timer_override, idle=poll, noirqdebug, and vga=792 (of all things))
I don't however understand why you were having no crashes with other distros unless perhaps they used vga=792(or something like it) by default? Ubuntu is one of the few that doesn't enable a framebuffer console by default, so that could be it
For the record, my buggy hardware is an HP dv6110us with nForce 430go and GeForce 6150go...don't buy it.
It would merely safely disintegrate due to atmospheric friction
Just wait until us Beryl developers get ahold of one ^-^
When I was in canada, they told me it was because of a bullshit "protect the children" law stating only brown beverages can have added caffeine...I shit you not. Apparently the lobbyists who pushed it through used a (likely doomed to fail anyway) plan by coca-cola to produce caffienated orange juice to scare parliament into passing it. I could be wrong about all of this of course, but it is what I was told and I have no real reason to doubt it
As for (mostly good) exposé clones, and using the GPU, check out:
forum.beryl-project.org
#beryl on freenode
beryl is the community-driven fork of compiz, an OpenGL based compositing and window manager.
(note, I registered before I took the handle QuinnStorm) I think I should install a pbuilder for debian etch and start emitting compiz packages for that too... maybe then people will stop associating that with ubuntu, as it works just as well with debian if you have the right packages
I don't know, but a fully open process for it is one of the goals I've been aiming for. see www.compiz.net and find out how to really make your compiz nice (note, I'm mostly a KDE user too, but for some reason, kicker is crashy with compiz, so I switched to a gnome-based session with lots of KDE apps. (I hate gnome's remove-the-options interface style, and hate that it's infected gaim...)
I agree about the rubber...mmm...skin tight on big curvy sexy girls...not those little skinny bags of bones of course...they just look weird in tight clothes...
I'm just curious who you are referring to there, as a female OSS project leader is a rare (and wonderful) thing.
I'd mod you up except I fear my government might not like that.
I agree that the USA is in some real serious trouble at the moment, and I really hope that we can extricate our collective head from our collective ass.
I want to take a moment to point out though a disturbing trend in Canada as well...I know the public perception is that the Liberal party was corrupt and that's why the Conservatives have power, but given things like the amount of money flooding into Canada from the USA in support of the Conservatives...I'm a bit wary to take it at face value. Anyhow, the problem is, corrupt or not, the Liberals were more...well, liberal...and under the Conservatives, many of the same bullshit things happening here in the USA will be coming to Canada. I hope this does not come to pass, as really Canada, in many ways -is- a shining example of freedom. (however I've heard bad things about your libel laws)
Two areas of special concern to me are GLBT rights (the Conservatives really want to break those down) and health care (again, if they actually had enough power to get their way, they'd dismantle the public health system). Obviously I'm not a Canadian citizen, and I don't have 100% of the facts, so feel free to correct me.
Many many years back (think 96 or so), I had finally heard of this "linux" thing, and had downloaded disksets over AOL. At this point it became clear to me that AOL wasn't supported on linux, and I needed something better. We went for a local company that offered nice dial-up at a reasonable price. Cancelling AOL had to be done over the phone, and while the rep wasn't as pushy as this one, they did try to foist free service on me. Of course, I had to explain that the free service would do me no good, and eventually they got it.
While its not *good* for your retinas, its not your retinas that looking at the sun will mess up, its your iris. What happens is your iris tries to contract too far, and that can damage the delicate muscles therein. If this happens, you will be left virtually blinded because your iris can no longer compensate, and likely it will deform the rest of the eye too.