While I was growing up, playing video games pretty much meant you had an Atari, NES, or SNES.
Really? For me it meant bringing my Atari/NES/SNES friends over to play games on my Amiga and watch their amazement at how great it looked compared to their silly little machines.
Until there is a Linux distro that "just works" as well as an average new windows installation, there will only be niche uptake of Linux.
Having just installed a dualboot box for my wife, I can tell you that it already does work better than a new windows installation. Ubuntu booted up with graphics drivers, sound working, hp scanner/printer/fax working out of the box. Windows booted up with no ethernet, low graphics mode, no sound, no printer/scanner/fax.
This is a very common thing these days. Linux driver support is miles ahead of Windows as far as 'out of the box' goes.
"Protectionism" of sovereign nations was long ago destroyed by the free trade and NAFTA agreements
Not really. There is no court that has jurisdiction to enforce the rules of NAFTA so it becomes a game of who can go to court more times and not give up. See the softwood lumber issue for details.
I perfectly understand the the world is not composed only of people who agree with me. When one speaks vocally about unpopular issues for most of their life, it's a pretty damn obvious thing. What part of my post gave you the impression that I couldn't see things from others' points of view?
You have no idea what kind of troll you are arguing with. Don't even bother.
Don't even bother trying to provide him with evidence.. He'll just claim you haven't provided any no matter how many links, quotes, pictures, audio, and video you show him. That is his entire strategy for debate.
No, you were talking about Israel building new settlements every day. A claim which you've yet to document.
No, I said every year. Besides that, do you think there is a difference between a new settlement, and expansion of an old settlement if it displaces people who already live there in exactly the same way? The Ministry of Construction and Housing is planning to construct at least 73,300 housing units in the West Bank. You are going to try to say these aren't "new settlements"? There are satellite photos of development in progress. Do you also argue that the world is flat?
Heh. Right. "splinter terrorist organization". Well that makes it a whole lot better, doesn't it? Hey, technically the Taliban weren't responsible for 9/11 - it was the work of a "splinter terrorist organization". And the US wasn't bombed by Germany at Pearl Harbour, so why didn't they just focus on the Japanese?
Meanwhile you claim that black is white, up is down, and "The Palestinians" violated the ceasefire.
Well please post the rest of the list, because both of your examples are invalid. The first refers to a proposed settlement (ie. it hasn't been built) and the second refers to an expansion of existing settlements.
Invalid? We're talking about Israel expanding its borders, and removing Palestinians from their lands. Call it expansion, call it proposed, call it whatever you want. Don't claim it isn't happening. If you would like a list, Google can provide you with several. Here is a CBS 60 minutes video which describes much of what you claim isn't happening. You may find it interesting.
if Canadians were regularly launching rockets at New York and teaching their children from infancy to hate Americans, then you might have a point.
This where you have to imagine what things would be like if America had continued with it's policy of Manifest Destiny where they were determined to conquer the entire northern continent. If they had, we would be at war with them, and probably we would be full of American "settlements".
If the Palestinians were willing to stick to a ceasefire agreement, and sat down to work out a workable compromise, Israel would be more than happy to abandon either all or the vast majority of their settlements.
Or by recently, maybe you mean while they were busying destroying Gaza, they didn't have time to build any?
Yeah, technically it's "problematic" in the same sense that a fist-fight between a Palestinian and an Israeli might be problematic, but compared to the real problems it's not even worth mentioning.
Not worth mentioning? Imagine if Americans were removing Canadians from their houses on the border, bulldozing them, and building settlements on the land. You don't think we might be tempted to fight those settlers? Would the rest of the world call us "anti-american" if we did? It's about the only thing worth mentioning.
The only ones still causing problems are the Palestinians and Hezbollah.
That is what you choose to believe. Every year Israel builds new settlements on lands that Palestinians live on. They remove them from their land and build communities on it. You cannot tell me that you believe this isn't problematic.
Your beef at this point is with Canada, not the U.S.
No it is not. It is with your country who imposes its will on everyone else, whether they are friend or foe.
We also have free trade agreements which make putting tariffs on softwood lumber illegal as was ruled by your court systems as laid out in NAFTA. U.S. continues to do what it wants.
We have agreements that prevent your country from interfering with waterways which flow into our country, but they ignore those and do what they want.
We have laws against killing Canadian citizens, but here sits a man on death row which you barbarians are going to celebrate in his murder.
It is illegal to detain people indefinitely, but here sits a Canadian boy who defended himself against U.S. invaders after they killed his family and friends. He's been there since October 30, 2002 without a conviction.
Achieve a decisive victory which will put a stop to further attacks, and allow a negotiated settlement which both sides can live with.
And killing over a thousand Lebanese citizens, and 8 or 900 Palestinian civilians wasn't decisive enough? You would support more agressive action, and think the rest of the world won't let them?
Marc Emery did not commit a crime. If you send a postcard to someone in Thailand that insults the monarchy, should you be extradited and killed? How about if you wrote a book called "Satanic Verses" and people bought it in other countries? Surely you deserve to die if some country decides it is punishable by death.
I mean we give the condemned legal council and a trial by a jury of peers and only execute in extremely heinous cases after several appeals and years of waiting to see if new evidence will surface that might warrent overturning the case or allowing for a publicly elected governor or president to intervene with a pardon.
Murder is a judgment based on some law - secular or divine. You can call it homicide, but it's not murder if the homicide is done in accordance with the laws of the jurisdiction.
So the U.S.A. can have Marc Emery extradited even though he committed no crime according to the laws of his jurisdiction. From where I'm standing, it is illegal for the government to kill its citizens. It's called murder here. Or does it only work when you are standing in the U.S.A.?
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That's okay, according to our constitution, she only works for the big boogy man in the sky anyway:
Whereas Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law
Really? For me it meant bringing my Atari/NES/SNES friends over to play games on my Amiga and watch their amazement at how great it looked compared to their silly little machines.
Having just installed a dualboot box for my wife, I can tell you that it already does work better than a new windows installation. Ubuntu booted up with graphics drivers, sound working, hp scanner/printer/fax working out of the box. Windows booted up with no ethernet, low graphics mode, no sound, no printer/scanner/fax.
This is a very common thing these days. Linux driver support is miles ahead of Windows as far as 'out of the box' goes.
Hans Reiser death match... Ahhh shit, probably still too soon for that one.
I much prefer your current president. Having one that is owned by Disney is very much preferable to having one that is owned by the war mongers.
Not really. There is no court that has jurisdiction to enforce the rules of NAFTA so it becomes a game of who can go to court more times and not give up. See the softwood lumber issue for details.
You wouldn't think so... But strangely enough Marc Emery got hauled off to jail for breaking a U.S. law on Canadian soil where there is no law against his actions. Thanks for setting that precedent Stephen Harper.
You have no idea what kind of troll you are arguing with. Don't even bother.
Don't even bother trying to provide him with evidence.. He'll just claim you haven't provided any no matter how many links, quotes, pictures, audio, and video you show him. That is his entire strategy for debate.
If you could make an exact copy of your neighbours $80,000 car without paying a cent or stealing anything, you would.
Satellite photos of new settlements, and video of Israeli soldiers occupying houses and holding civillians captive isn't evidence?
So it's the same thing but different?
No, I said every year. Besides that, do you think there is a difference between a new settlement, and expansion of an old settlement if it displaces people who already live there in exactly the same way? The Ministry of Construction and Housing is planning to construct at least 73,300 housing units in the West Bank. You are going to try to say these aren't "new settlements"? There are satellite photos of development in progress. Do you also argue that the world is flat?
Meanwhile you claim that black is white, up is down, and "The Palestinians" violated the ceasefire.
Invalid? We're talking about Israel expanding its borders, and removing Palestinians from their lands. Call it expansion, call it proposed, call it whatever you want. Don't claim it isn't happening. If you would like a list, Google can provide you with several. Here is a CBS 60 minutes video which describes much of what you claim isn't happening. You may find it interesting.
This where you have to imagine what things would be like if America had continued with it's policy of Manifest Destiny where they were determined to conquer the entire northern continent. If they had, we would be at war with them, and probably we would be full of American "settlements".
Again you have been misinformed.
Again.. That is something you choose to believe, but you cannot state it as fact.
"The settlement of Sansana, in the Southern Hebron Hills received approval from the Minister of Defense in May 2008 for completion of the planning stages of plan No. 501/1 in. This plan refers to the immediate construction of 68 housing units and a designation of another area for future construction, totaling 440 housing units to be constructed in this settlement."
According to statistics published by the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (ICBS), as of September 2008 the settler population (West Bank and East Jerusalem) had risen to 285,800 people, compared to 276,100 at the end of 2007. This represents annual growth rate of 4.7% in the settlements in 2008, continuing the trend of a much higher population growth rate in the settlements compared to Israel (areas inside the Green Line), where the annual growth rate in 2008 was 1.7%
The list goes on.
Or by recently, maybe you mean while they were busying destroying Gaza, they didn't have time to build any?
Not worth mentioning? Imagine if Americans were removing Canadians from their houses on the border, bulldozing them, and building settlements on the land. You don't think we might be tempted to fight those settlers? Would the rest of the world call us "anti-american" if we did? It's about the only thing worth mentioning.
That is what you choose to believe. Every year Israel builds new settlements on lands that Palestinians live on. They remove them from their land and build communities on it. You cannot tell me that you believe this isn't problematic.
No it is not. It is with your country who imposes its will on everyone else, whether they are friend or foe.
We also have free trade agreements which make putting tariffs on softwood lumber illegal as was ruled by your court systems as laid out in NAFTA. U.S. continues to do what it wants.
We have agreements that prevent your country from interfering with waterways which flow into our country, but they ignore those and do what they want.
We have laws against killing Canadian citizens, but here sits a man on death row which you barbarians are going to celebrate in his murder.
It is illegal to detain people indefinitely, but here sits a Canadian boy who defended himself against U.S. invaders after they killed his family and friends. He's been there since October 30, 2002 without a conviction.
And killing over a thousand Lebanese citizens, and 8 or 900 Palestinian civilians wasn't decisive enough? You would support more agressive action, and think the rest of the world won't let them?
Democracy is a bitch sometimes.
Marc Emery did not commit a crime. If you send a postcard to someone in Thailand that insults the monarchy, should you be extradited and killed? How about if you wrote a book called "Satanic Verses" and people bought it in other countries? Surely you deserve to die if some country decides it is punishable by death.
And so you commit murder to avenge murder and the cycle of violence continues.
Whatever you call yourselves, and whatever "finish the job" means is beyond David Icke.
Your kind deserves to be exposed.
We're talking about Guantanamo now?
So the U.S.A. can have Marc Emery extradited even though he committed no crime according to the laws of his jurisdiction. From where I'm standing, it is illegal for the government to kill its citizens. It's called murder here. Or does it only work when you are standing in the U.S.A.?