Altering the immune system to actually cure things and fix other problems instead of treating them virtually guarantees they will lobby to stop it.
Why do you think illegal drugs are illegal? Because RX drugs are often the same thing only controlling them protects their revenue stream.
Why are phages all but outlawed for human use? They aren't drugs, can literally be made in a Russian basement so market entry is easy and they actually cure and prevent disease.
There's little profit in cures for big pharma, its all in long term treatment and the pharma lobby is powerful.
I think there are people who pay attention to what's going on and they should vote.
I think there's also a large body of people who tune the political process out. While I think they should still be allowed to vote I don't believe in encouraging them to do so. Usually pushing people out the door to vote is done to support an otherwise weak special interest. Special interest groups push these couch potatoes out the door to vote with visions of faeries and unicorns and free chocolate pie for all! They do this while simultaneously telling them the opposition uses croquette mallets on faeries, saws the horns off of unicorns and doesn't like chocolate. They do this while glossing over the fact that fulfilling the specialist interest will make their parents go broke and they'll no longer be able to afford the mortgage on the house that contains the basement they're living in.
I would rather they just stay on the couch watching American Idol between sessions of refining their Skyrim skills.
I used to think more like you do. I've learned otherwise and my rose colored glasses are now shattered.
What you seem to suggest is universal application of half-assed decisions. The problem with half-way implementing things like you seem to support is that nothing is ever implemented properly and everything only half works.
The real answer is to do very little on a federal government scale. When something is done do it all the way, don't half way anything. If there's lobbying involved or you half to convince other people to change their vote to get your way it's probably something we shouldn't be doing. Unless it's a 90% support item out of the gate we should probably avoid it.
There's a reason the word "compromised" is used to identify weakness. The amount of money and energy dedicated to supporting compromises is far more than needed to support solid structures. Commit to little, but commit whole heartedly.
A democratic constitutional republic is supposed to prevent corruption by having rights protected while leaving a limited democracy in place to adjust to the world around it. In the case of the United States we had an incredibly good Constitutional Republic system setup corrupted by those tasked with interpreting and implementing the paperwork that creating their jobs. The Liberty Tree needs watering, were we to water it the way we used to I think we could actually get things back on track and make it work again.
I could totally see the value in a constitutional republic run by a dictator. Say you take someone with Ron Pauls dedication to liberty, Cincinnatus' drive for power, and Steve Jobs' ability to assemble and manage talented people who can do what needs to be done a dictator of that sort doesn't need to restrained by a constitution to be awesome. People are assholes so it can't work, but don't think I haven't sat around and dreamed up a country with me as dictator and my primary job was to make the place run free and smooth and keep working that way after I die under the guidance of the bullet proof constitution and laws I tweaked during my term as dictator. No, Cincinnatus proved what the problem with being a good leader is, even if you do it right the next guy won't.
I think a properly enforced constitutional republic really does beat democracy. It has some built in safeguards for this form of idiocy, unfortunately we've more or less proven we can vote and ignore our way around the safeguards.
The issue itself appears to be in KIO, which KDE apps depend on. It's a nice process in theory but when I find myself going back to old skool Midnight Commander because it doesn't work maybe it's time to look at the problem.
The file copy issue: Filed by multiple people with slightly different descriptions multiple times (they were all copying differently, partitions, devices, etc). That particular bug is usually closed with "unable to duplicate", despite the fact multiple people have it. High I/O is usually one of the bug descriptions, I concur. I consider this one very serious as file loss is usually involved. Fortunately for me it's been music and movies, but I could easily lose my photos also and those are original works I can't just re-rip a disk for.
One interesting tidbit about this bug. When I copy to a USB device when the copy is done I can click on every file, it works, it shows up as the correct size and everything. Unmount, move to a different, or even the same system 0-Byte and truncated files everywhere!
It's not hard to prove, look at the bug list, there's many KIO bugs complaining about this and many related issues. If I were to complain through regular channels like you're suggesting my complaint would be closed as "unable to duplicate" just like all the others. Feel free to browse the already closed ones, it won't take long to validate my words. Look for high I/O, truncated, zero byte and for all different manners of connection methods, USB, network etc.. It's a major bug in Kubuntu's implementation of KIO, it may be a KDE issue, I'm not certain.
The krename thing is just a "you broke it, updated it, and left it broke" pointer. ZSNES is just arm waving.
Bug reports that are systematically swept under the rug are like arbitration clauses in contracts. Making noise on Slashdot is putting it on the news.
I used MythTV years ago and I loved it. It's back when having an NTSC tuner and cable was still a useful setup.
I put MythTV on my own netbook as a dry run with a few movies and games, it worked great! I couldn't remember how to remove the unneeded menu options, but I figured it would come back to me before I was done with my daughters system.
Long story short - the scrapper SUCKED. Big time. I rip my own DVDs, I'm not a pirate, one of the things I had on her system was Jim Henson's The Storyteller. It kept coming up as some sort of Alicia Keys concert, I didn't even know who that was, I had to look it up. So I would fix things, easier said than done, but I would fix things. All of the sudden, all my work would get undone! I would have everything working for three days, then the scrapper would go through and undo all my manual settings by putting crap like Alicia Keys back. There was no "don't fuck with this!" option.
The way I used to remove menu entries no longer worked and I couldn't figure out how to remove them.
Video playback constantly re-scaled during playback when there was a large amount of black on the screen.
Every time I went to message boards and did searches on how to fix particular issues I always found the answer. For the previous version, or three version ago but never one that still worked.
Long story short, MythTV is "lighter" on the system than XBMC, which is why I went to it being a netbook and all. XBMC runs just fine anyways, I'm sure it runs the battery down faster than MythTV, but it's the difference between having a good working system and utter frustration, I'm going with the battery hog.
On another note the game/ROM manager on both sort of sucked, and often for the same reason. However I see the XBMC one as new an immature and I have confidence in a version or two most of my complaints will go away. I'm pretty sure the MythTV issues are there to stay.
I'm frustrated with Dolphin - regardless of distro. It's almost right but then it always has one little frustrating annoyance or another. I've switched to using Krusader on my non-Kubuntu systems (there's a back end bug that fails to copy some files properly on really big large number of files moves, like when I drag and drop my music collection but only on Kubuntu). It took me a while to warm up to it, but Krusader really makes file management easy for me, especially after I start setting bookmarks and I got used to sliding tabs from one side to the other.
Congratulations. If you fix the file copy truncation errors that only happens with the KDE back end - and then at unpredictable intervals, you fix the fact krename got broke a couple of versions back and stayed that way even through the next package update (AMD 64), and as a nice touch make ZSNES work I might stick around.
As it stands I'm using the good old fashioned Midnight Commander to manage large file copies now because Dolphin, Krusader and Konqueror can't be trusted to do them properly. That's fine locally, but it becomes a pain when dealing with fish:// and some other newer ways of doing things.
Well, I have Kubuntu on my main system that I'm using now and on two laptops rarely used, but still relevant. I have Mythbuntu on my daughters netbook with MythTV stripped out since it frustrated me and XBMC in its place. Sounds silly but it works great. Currently the only thing I have running Linux Mint is my netbook, which I actually use all the time when I'm on the go, I got a buggy KDE issue I had trouble resolving and instead of just deleting my config files and starting over on KDE only (my usual shotgun fix when I can't isolate the problem) I switched to Mint since the bug appeared quite close to the de-funding announcement.
My staying with you depends on my motivation to re-install my other systems.
Re-installing from scratch isn't particularly difficult, I always start fresh to prevent buggy little issues I have to chase down, the type that can happen by migrating and trying to save a massive number of configs.
I'm staying with you on the other systems as long as you don't motivate me to leave and I don't find some other reason to re-install, such as a failed hard disk. I switched to Kubuntu from Debian due to Debian motivating me through "stable" issues. Keeping me from switching out of frustration is up to you keeping things working with a minimum of frustrating troubleshooting. Keeping me when I get the next new system or the next hard disk failure depends not only keeping the frustration down but also making me feel like my choice of desktops is something you respect.
BTW - fixing krename and making SNES work on AMD 64 wouldn't hurt either.
Thanks to dropping Kubuntu funding makes them irrelevant to me, I've moved on to Linux Mint for my netbook and everything else will soon follow. The fact they're feeding Unity to their Gnome people like parent makes a three year old take nasty tasting medicine doesn't help much either.
Ubuntu is a turd spinning on it's way down post-flush.
Even as a non-doctor I realize that adding that much body mass to Bob or Art or whatever his name was would stress his system that wasn't used to it.
After doing some arm cardio for a while with a stable patient probably a year or more later, then maybe legs. It would probably take at least that long to find the next donor anyway.
LG, I'm somewhat on the anti-Sony bandwagon, it's for their own good, if I and everyone else stops buying their products maybe they'll stop trying to force "memory stick", root kits, proprietary connectors on their portable game consoles on us and open up their tech a little.
I already control my media with my phone. I have a DLNA/UPNP server and a DLNA/UPNP BluRay player. My phone can watch the movies or send them from the server to the player.
I bought the HDD with the server off of woot.com over a year ago, and I've found that XBMC makes my dedicated drive look crappy (but the dedicated drive takes less power and space).
I started this back in my iProduct days with iTunes. I just wanted something a little less iWalledGarden so I went with UPNP as much as possible (due to it being totally open) with DLNA as a sort of "make it work smoother with products that don't like open" patch.
To top it all off my Bluray player has a remote control application for my phone that doesn't say anything about being DLNA.
Back when I had an overnight job I spent a whole night playing around on that twisted "chose your own adventure" game/hypertext story.
Really, I think the best "hypertext" books were the Broaderbund Dr. Seuss stories I got for my daughter. They really were pretty cool and brought the book to life. The Ted Talk I watched last night sort of approached the subject as well.
If you're going to say something say it without caring who hears it or don't say anything at all.
The above described phenomenon is akin to how women and girls whisper in each others ears, filters are like whispering. The unfriending I see as akin to what I watched a group of girls do in high school. There was about a dozen of them but only 11 could be friends at a time, there was always one girl kicked out of the circle, when she came back they chose another one to be mad at and kicked her out of the circle.
My guess is the regret men have is regret over how a woman reacted to the picture or other content.
Listen, you have "valid" points but you're twisting my position.
I don't let my nine year old play those kinds of games and I take a personal interest in that process. I don't want the state policing my involvement, the game ratings already on the box assist me in that process.
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It happened to The Offspring. They got in trouble for putting their music up for free.
(I still can't figure out why they chose to distribute their music in Quicktime format)
Altering the immune system to actually cure things and fix other problems instead of treating them virtually guarantees they will lobby to stop it.
Why do you think illegal drugs are illegal? Because RX drugs are often the same thing only controlling them protects their revenue stream.
Why are phages all but outlawed for human use? They aren't drugs, can literally be made in a Russian basement so market entry is easy and they actually cure and prevent disease.
There's little profit in cures for big pharma, its all in long term treatment and the pharma lobby is powerful.
I'm not a huge fan of 100% participation.
I think there are people who pay attention to what's going on and they should vote.
I think there's also a large body of people who tune the political process out. While I think they should still be allowed to vote I don't believe in encouraging them to do so. Usually pushing people out the door to vote is done to support an otherwise weak special interest. Special interest groups push these couch potatoes out the door to vote with visions of faeries and unicorns and free chocolate pie for all! They do this while simultaneously telling them the opposition uses croquette mallets on faeries, saws the horns off of unicorns and doesn't like chocolate. They do this while glossing over the fact that fulfilling the specialist interest will make their parents go broke and they'll no longer be able to afford the mortgage on the house that contains the basement they're living in.
I would rather they just stay on the couch watching American Idol between sessions of refining their Skyrim skills.
I used to think more like you do. I've learned otherwise and my rose colored glasses are now shattered.
What you seem to suggest is universal application of half-assed decisions. The problem with half-way implementing things like you seem to support is that nothing is ever implemented properly and everything only half works.
The real answer is to do very little on a federal government scale. When something is done do it all the way, don't half way anything. If there's lobbying involved or you half to convince other people to change their vote to get your way it's probably something we shouldn't be doing. Unless it's a 90% support item out of the gate we should probably avoid it.
There's a reason the word "compromised" is used to identify weakness. The amount of money and energy dedicated to supporting compromises is far more than needed to support solid structures. Commit to little, but commit whole heartedly.
It depends.
A democratic constitutional republic is supposed to prevent corruption by having rights protected while leaving a limited democracy in place to adjust to the world around it. In the case of the United States we had an incredibly good Constitutional Republic system setup corrupted by those tasked with interpreting and implementing the paperwork that creating their jobs. The Liberty Tree needs watering, were we to water it the way we used to I think we could actually get things back on track and make it work again.
I could totally see the value in a constitutional republic run by a dictator. Say you take someone with Ron Pauls dedication to liberty, Cincinnatus' drive for power, and Steve Jobs' ability to assemble and manage talented people who can do what needs to be done a dictator of that sort doesn't need to restrained by a constitution to be awesome. People are assholes so it can't work, but don't think I haven't sat around and dreamed up a country with me as dictator and my primary job was to make the place run free and smooth and keep working that way after I die under the guidance of the bullet proof constitution and laws I tweaked during my term as dictator. No, Cincinnatus proved what the problem with being a good leader is, even if you do it right the next guy won't.
Instead of that why not just give the power to the top 1% of people based on finances. ...oh wait....
I think a properly enforced constitutional republic really does beat democracy. It has some built in safeguards for this form of idiocy, unfortunately we've more or less proven we can vote and ignore our way around the safeguards.
The issue itself appears to be in KIO, which KDE apps depend on. It's a nice process in theory but when I find myself going back to old skool Midnight Commander because it doesn't work maybe it's time to look at the problem.
The file copy issue:
Filed by multiple people with slightly different descriptions multiple times (they were all copying differently, partitions, devices, etc). That particular bug is usually closed with "unable to duplicate", despite the fact multiple people have it. High I/O is usually one of the bug descriptions, I concur. I consider this one very serious as file loss is usually involved. Fortunately for me it's been music and movies, but I could easily lose my photos also and those are original works I can't just re-rip a disk for.
One interesting tidbit about this bug. When I copy to a USB device when the copy is done I can click on every file, it works, it shows up as the correct size and everything. Unmount, move to a different, or even the same system 0-Byte and truncated files everywhere!
It's not hard to prove, look at the bug list, there's many KIO bugs complaining about this and many related issues. If I were to complain through regular channels like you're suggesting my complaint would be closed as "unable to duplicate" just like all the others. Feel free to browse the already closed ones, it won't take long to validate my words. Look for high I/O, truncated, zero byte and for all different manners of connection methods, USB, network etc.. It's a major bug in Kubuntu's implementation of KIO, it may be a KDE issue, I'm not certain.
The krename thing is just a "you broke it, updated it, and left it broke" pointer. ZSNES is just arm waving.
Bug reports that are systematically swept under the rug are like arbitration clauses in contracts. Making noise on Slashdot is putting it on the news.
I used MythTV years ago and I loved it. It's back when having an NTSC tuner and cable was still a useful setup.
I put MythTV on my own netbook as a dry run with a few movies and games, it worked great! I couldn't remember how to remove the unneeded menu options, but I figured it would come back to me before I was done with my daughters system.
Long story short - the scrapper SUCKED. Big time. I rip my own DVDs, I'm not a pirate, one of the things I had on her system was Jim Henson's The Storyteller. It kept coming up as some sort of Alicia Keys concert, I didn't even know who that was, I had to look it up. So I would fix things, easier said than done, but I would fix things. All of the sudden, all my work would get undone! I would have everything working for three days, then the scrapper would go through and undo all my manual settings by putting crap like Alicia Keys back. There was no "don't fuck with this!" option.
The way I used to remove menu entries no longer worked and I couldn't figure out how to remove them.
Video playback constantly re-scaled during playback when there was a large amount of black on the screen.
Every time I went to message boards and did searches on how to fix particular issues I always found the answer. For the previous version, or three version ago but never one that still worked.
Long story short, MythTV is "lighter" on the system than XBMC, which is why I went to it being a netbook and all. XBMC runs just fine anyways, I'm sure it runs the battery down faster than MythTV, but it's the difference between having a good working system and utter frustration, I'm going with the battery hog.
On another note the game/ROM manager on both sort of sucked, and often for the same reason. However I see the XBMC one as new an immature and I have confidence in a version or two most of my complaints will go away. I'm pretty sure the MythTV issues are there to stay.
I'm frustrated with Dolphin - regardless of distro. It's almost right but then it always has one little frustrating annoyance or another. I've switched to using Krusader on my non-Kubuntu systems (there's a back end bug that fails to copy some files properly on really big large number of files moves, like when I drag and drop my music collection but only on Kubuntu). It took me a while to warm up to it, but Krusader really makes file management easy for me, especially after I start setting bookmarks and I got used to sliding tabs from one side to the other.
And I'm still not using Gnome.
Congratulations. If you fix the file copy truncation errors that only happens with the KDE back end - and then at unpredictable intervals, you fix the fact krename got broke a couple of versions back and stayed that way even through the next package update (AMD 64), and as a nice touch make ZSNES work I might stick around.
As it stands I'm using the good old fashioned Midnight Commander to manage large file copies now because Dolphin, Krusader and Konqueror can't be trusted to do them properly. That's fine locally, but it becomes a pain when dealing with fish:// and some other newer ways of doing things.
Well, I have Kubuntu on my main system that I'm using now and on two laptops rarely used, but still relevant. I have Mythbuntu on my daughters netbook with MythTV stripped out since it frustrated me and XBMC in its place. Sounds silly but it works great. Currently the only thing I have running Linux Mint is my netbook, which I actually use all the time when I'm on the go, I got a buggy KDE issue I had trouble resolving and instead of just deleting my config files and starting over on KDE only (my usual shotgun fix when I can't isolate the problem) I switched to Mint since the bug appeared quite close to the de-funding announcement.
My staying with you depends on my motivation to re-install my other systems.
Re-installing from scratch isn't particularly difficult, I always start fresh to prevent buggy little issues I have to chase down, the type that can happen by migrating and trying to save a massive number of configs.
I'm staying with you on the other systems as long as you don't motivate me to leave and I don't find some other reason to re-install, such as a failed hard disk. I switched to Kubuntu from Debian due to Debian motivating me through "stable" issues. Keeping me from switching out of frustration is up to you keeping things working with a minimum of frustrating troubleshooting. Keeping me when I get the next new system or the next hard disk failure depends not only keeping the frustration down but also making me feel like my choice of desktops is something you respect.
BTW - fixing krename and making SNES work on AMD 64 wouldn't hurt either.
Thanks to dropping Kubuntu funding makes them irrelevant to me, I've moved on to Linux Mint for my netbook and everything else will soon follow. The fact they're feeding Unity to their Gnome people like parent makes a three year old take nasty tasting medicine doesn't help much either.
Ubuntu is a turd spinning on it's way down post-flush.
Crunches maybe?
Looks like he answered the question well to me.
Even as a non-doctor I realize that adding that much body mass to Bob or Art or whatever his name was would stress his system that wasn't used to it.
After doing some arm cardio for a while with a stable patient probably a year or more later, then maybe legs. It would probably take at least that long to find the next donor anyway.
Thanks to my Bluray player the TV I'm piping this to is an SD 36" Mitsubishi Diamatron tube....
At least the Bluray player is HD.
(I'm going to get an LG HDTV eventually)
LG, I'm somewhat on the anti-Sony bandwagon, it's for their own good, if I and everyone else stops buying their products maybe they'll stop trying to force "memory stick", root kits, proprietary connectors on their portable game consoles on us and open up their tech a little.
I actually got into quite a bit of detail on my review of the LG player. I've also got some advice for using the Samsung player. Don't.
I already control my media with my phone. I have a DLNA/UPNP server and a DLNA/UPNP BluRay player. My phone can watch the movies or send them from the server to the player.
I bought the HDD with the server off of woot.com over a year ago, and I've found that XBMC makes my dedicated drive look crappy (but the dedicated drive takes less power and space).
I started this back in my iProduct days with iTunes. I just wanted something a little less iWalledGarden so I went with UPNP as much as possible (due to it being totally open) with DLNA as a sort of "make it work smoother with products that don't like open" patch.
To top it all off my Bluray player has a remote control application for my phone that doesn't say anything about being DLNA.
Brad: The Game
Back when I had an overnight job I spent a whole night playing around on that twisted "chose your own adventure" game/hypertext story.
Really, I think the best "hypertext" books were the Broaderbund Dr. Seuss stories I got for my daughter. They really were pretty cool and brought the book to life. The Ted Talk I watched last night sort of approached the subject as well.
If you're going to say something say it without caring who hears it or don't say anything at all.
The above described phenomenon is akin to how women and girls whisper in each others ears, filters are like whispering. The unfriending I see as akin to what I watched a group of girls do in high school. There was about a dozen of them but only 11 could be friends at a time, there was always one girl kicked out of the circle, when she came back they chose another one to be mad at and kicked her out of the circle.
My guess is the regret men have is regret over how a woman reacted to the picture or other content.
Listen, you have "valid" points but you're twisting my position.
I don't let my nine year old play those kinds of games and I take a personal interest in that process. I don't want the state policing my involvement, the game ratings already on the box assist me in that process.
At least he didn't go all SCO level stupid on it. He would be selling chunks of the state to Mexico to finance the legal battle.