So, what we have is the president outright admitting that neo-nazis, racists, victim harassers, and various hate groups are all part of his political right-wing. That THIS is his Republican Party. White supremacists are his base is what he is admitting here. Because that is the overwhelming majority of who is being ousted from these platforms. He is also trying to frame this as an attack on American "Christian" values, and that Christians are next, which means he is speaking to those extreme Christians who are also racists.
It also plays will to his Russian base, who are also likely taking a hit from this wave of platform scrubbing.
I didn't sign up for YouTube Red and then got Google Music for free. I signed up for Google Music and they lumped in a useless service called YouTube Red that I don't use or care about. They better not F this up. I don't want to have to move my freaking music library AGAIN! I moved off of Amazon when they stopped supporting Linux despite using Flash for everything. It's just crap!
those drugs that actually do break-down into toxic substances? Expiration may be based on outdated assumptions, but there are other very serious factors involved.
I'm applying Hanlon's law here: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. It far more likely that bad knowledge and over careful scientists made expiration very short. Some drugs really do break down faster than others, some are incredibly stable and will last for decades, and some become deadly over time.
Chemical given to children used to create nuclear bombs!
H2O, sometimes known as "water", is given to children. It also has uses in industrial factories as a cleanser and is even used as a shielding for nuclear reactors. This chemical, which has been refereed to as the "universal solvent" has been known to be used during the making of nuclear bombs.
Youths have been spotty spraying each other with this solvents as a game. Film at 11.
This is not just a nitpick. Skeptics are people who reserve judgement or attack bad evidence. Pretending the evidence is bad doesn't make you a skeptic, it makes you a denier. As in "holocaust denier" or "evolution denier" or "Sandy Hook shooting denier".
because with KDE 4 they change the fundamental design philosophy of the project. I didn't want easy of use, I wanted control, which I why I originally left GNOME for KDE before that.
Now with GNOME making the same design choices, I'm left with MATE, which is just a fork of the the GNOME I want to use, but it's still lacking right now.
I understand that they want the interface to be easy for anyone to approach, but what about those of us who want to do more than just browse the web and share pictures of the grandkids?
I'm loosing all the features of the Linux Desktop that I left Windows for in the first place. *sigh
And the fundamentalists are enraged that all the liberal Christians are diluting the word of God by accepting things that are clearly not biblical, like treating women as equals, using science to understand things, and not spreading the faith through any means necessary (including lies and war).
I have been a user of KDE since 2.0 running it on Solaris. Every release got better, giving user more tools, better control and an easier experience. When Gnome was dumbing down their interface, KDE stuck to the idea that users wanted control and I was one of those users.
Now we have 4.x. Major features are gone/not implemented, control is lost/not implemented and the tools are so different to the point that they can hardly be called the same app. (Konsole for one).
Innovation is important and it's the one thing that Desktop OSS is known for, but the stigma of making software that isn't really usable or having a development cycle that isn't reliable is well deserved. KDE is pulling a "Vista" with 4.X, but buggier and an even bigger difference between versions. Hell, it an entire philosophical shift.
I guess I don't share it. It's too bad, because I don't honestly expect KDE to survive it either.
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I thought the "Books" section was for reviews. This "review" seems cut and pasted from some marketing copy. Either that, or has a hard-on for the author.
It is also the filtering of evidence and interpretation of evidence so as to favor one's viewpoint. Quite common in our science today. Ah, but isn't the strength of science that this bias towards favored evidence is removed when others try to replicate the work or find other explanations for a conclusion? A scientist may see evidence for a particular conclusion, but if he doesn't provide the means for others to try and prove him wrong(falsifiability), then he isn't following good scientific protocol.
ID/Creationism/Religion does not do this. It never provides the means to determine the truth for yourself. It assumes that it is true and can not be changed.
Those "fired" scientists said "2+2=5" and their fellow scientists asked how/why/please-explain. The the poor persecuted "scientist" stamp his feet and said: I don't have too, I just know it!
He was then asked to leave because he failed at his job. He wasn't expelled, he flunked out!
NOMA sucks! It's pussing out of the issue because you are afraid someone will pull out the "Oh I'm offended" card. F*** 'em. Let 'em be offended. 1/2 the time they're not offended, but hoping to shut people up be pretending to be. It's called lies and manipulation
If you're religion says man was made of dirt that was created with the rest of the universe 6000 years ago by an invisible sky ghost in only 144 hours, then there IS conflict between science and religion.
You are making the big assumption that the "religion" you want to refer to is a very liberal, reformed, and enlightened one that is the very opposite of what their religious books tell them they are.
Any word on 64bit binaries for Linux? I've compiled the Non-gui version without issue before, but with a gui, things get more complicated. GTK/KDE? Which libraries? etc etc etc etc etc
Free markets require letting some inefficient parts of the market fail
Ah, but the original point I was making is that the immoral parts are not always equal to the inefficient parts. Slavery in the US was rather efficient for the cotton industry, or so it seemed to them at the time. They had zero market incentive to give that up, and it require extra-market forces to ensure that they did.
Your water analogy is apt. Water doesn't only seek it's own level, it seeks the lowest level.
What are some trade barriers that should be abolished? Tariffs, embargoes, taxing, local advantages? Sure, these could lead to long term advantages for many, if not most players in the market, from top to bottom (rising tides and all that).
But what if the barrier is a human right? One could argue that it would eventually be unprofitable to be the bad guy and more profitable to be the good guy, but how long should that "short term problem" last before it's a market failure? A decade? A generation? A century?
Oh, I agree! What I was countering was the view that the market "can fix anything". Many of those who hold that view rant how government interference with the market is BAD(tm) and unrestrained markets are almost holy. Markets are tools, and can be used for positive or negative effects. Markets, being complex systems, can actually do both at the same time. At which point it's about perspective. Poor Guatamalan farm worker can't affort food after working 3000* hrs a week, while we get good, cheap bananas.
So, if consumers want something that is deemed immoral (sex slaves), or business owners (shareholders) want more profit, the market, by itself, is totally unable (or unwilling) to stop it. Government and extra-market forces (activists, watchdog groups, tree hugging hippies) are required to put controls on how that market operates in order to stop unwanted activity (slavery, monopoly) and promote it's better effects.
Is it just me, or is this the clear limitation of "markets"? Markets are great for things like pushing down cost, creating diversity of products (through competition), and distributing wealth (if not manipulated).
But when it comes to profit vs. principle, it seems to hit a wall. Is this the reason markets can't stop human trafficing and a gov't has to step in. Any of you collije edumacated E-conomists want to correct me here?
Check out http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/16/115444 /263 This is the testimony of James Comey, who was the acting AG while John Ashcroft was in the ICU after surgury. Al Gonzoles and Andrew Card sought to push a sick, bed ridden old man to agree to their illegal program (according to the AG, they guy who's job it was to determine that). It took the FBI (guys with guns) to ensure that the acting AG would NOT get pushed out of the way. Essentially, FBI direct Meuller ordered his men to protect the AG from the White House's representitives.
This is sh!t that's supposed to happen only in 3rd world dictatorships, not the US of A!
The White House went ahead with the illegal program anyway. And yes, according to the TOP guy hired to enforce the LAW of the USA, it was illegal!
Born-again Bush and his evangelical whack-job support base actually WANT the world to end. These people are so deluded by their "faith" that they really want the world to end in fire and blood. They don't support Israel because they care about little Jewish kids growing up in peace, but because Jesus will come flying to earth on a cloud swinging a sword soon! They don't care about asteroid wiping out humanity, because humanity is unimportant to them.
These people actually BELIEVE that Jesus will return to earth in their lifetime, and that they are going to be ushered into heaven, while everyone else dies a horrific death at the hand of the "Prince of Peace", Do you REALLY think they are interested in advancing human understanding and civilization? Do you actually think these people ponder the future of the human race?
Hmm, let me think... Well the label on the site read "Available Formats: WMA". Hmm.. Of course that means "MP3 inside". How could I have been so stupid! Let me look at them all now... Hmmm... Mmmm... Oh... No. No MP3s inside either. How could that be? Maybe I really DID look at the site, and really DID try to find them... No... I must have just clicked once and given up, then they moved them all out as I looked again. I bet they will move them all back in when you go to look.
Let me try YOUR link...
We apologize, but www.puretracks.com is only available to Canadian residents. If you are a resident of the USA, please click here to access our American store.
Well, looky there. I must not have read the whole article, because it clearly must have stated "Canada Only"... Oh, it didn't? Well. How about that!
I have to end the comment now, I have a bandwagon to catch, I think I hear a MicroSoft bashing article getting posted somewhere!
It looks like some users over at BoingBoing have already debunked this one Link. According to them, all the track on the site, including the supposedly "DRM Free" are Windows crippled WMA.
Either they aren't doing this "immediately" or someone screwed up. I can't find a single BNL song that is available in anything other than WMA from Puretracks.
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So, what we have is the president outright admitting that neo-nazis, racists, victim harassers, and various hate groups are all part of his political right-wing. That THIS is his Republican Party. White supremacists are his base is what he is admitting here. Because that is the overwhelming majority of who is being ousted from these platforms. He is also trying to frame this as an attack on American "Christian" values, and that Christians are next, which means he is speaking to those extreme Christians who are also racists.
It also plays will to his Russian base, who are also likely taking a hit from this wave of platform scrubbing.
I didn't sign up for YouTube Red and then got Google Music for free. I signed up for Google Music and they lumped in a useless service called YouTube Red that I don't use or care about. They better not F this up. I don't want to have to move my freaking music library AGAIN! I moved off of Amazon when they stopped supporting Linux despite using Flash for everything. It's just crap!
those drugs that actually do break-down into toxic substances? Expiration may be based on outdated assumptions, but there are other very serious factors involved.
I'm applying Hanlon's law here: Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. It far more likely that bad knowledge and over careful scientists made expiration very short. Some drugs really do break down faster than others, some are incredibly stable and will last for decades, and some become deadly over time.
Chemical given to children used to create nuclear bombs!
H2O, sometimes known as "water", is given to children. It also has uses in industrial factories as a cleanser and is even used as a shielding for nuclear reactors. This chemical, which has been refereed to as the "universal solvent" has been known to be used during the making of nuclear bombs.
Youths have been spotty spraying each other with this solvents as a game. Film at 11.
Fixed the headline.
This is not just a nitpick. Skeptics are people who reserve judgement or attack bad evidence. Pretending the evidence is bad doesn't make you a skeptic, it makes you a denier. As in "holocaust denier" or "evolution denier" or "Sandy Hook shooting denier".
... as if millions of Linux users suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
Unless your brain happens to be in the body of a woman, because then you're screwed.
because with KDE 4 they change the fundamental design philosophy of the project. I didn't want easy of use, I wanted control, which I why I originally left GNOME for KDE before that.
Now with GNOME making the same design choices, I'm left with MATE, which is just a fork of the the GNOME I want to use, but it's still lacking right now.
I understand that they want the interface to be easy for anyone to approach, but what about those of us who want to do more than just browse the web and share pictures of the grandkids?
I'm loosing all the features of the Linux Desktop that I left Windows for in the first place. *sigh
And the fundamentalists are enraged that all the liberal Christians are diluting the word of God by accepting things that are clearly not biblical, like treating women as equals, using science to understand things, and not spreading the faith through any means necessary (including lies and war).
Welcome to the 19th Century.
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I have been a user of KDE since 2.0 running it on Solaris. Every release got better, giving user more tools, better control and an easier experience. When Gnome was dumbing down their interface, KDE stuck to the idea that users wanted control and I was one of those users.
Now we have 4.x. Major features are gone/not implemented, control is lost/not implemented and the tools are so different to the point that they can hardly be called the same app. (Konsole for one).
Innovation is important and it's the one thing that Desktop OSS is known for, but the stigma of making software that isn't really usable or having a development cycle that isn't reliable is well deserved. KDE is pulling a "Vista" with 4.X, but buggier and an even bigger difference between versions. Hell, it an entire philosophical shift.
I guess I don't share it. It's too bad, because I don't honestly expect KDE to survive it either.
I thought the "Books" section was for reviews. This "review" seems cut and pasted from some marketing copy. Either that, or has a hard-on for the author.
Here is all the digital data available in the universe with all duplicate versions removed. It takes up 1 byte.
0|0
1|0
0|1
1|1
You are not allowed to assemble these into a copyrighted work. You have been warned.
the mormons for more money!
ID/Creationism/Religion does not do this. It never provides the means to determine the truth for yourself. It assumes that it is true and can not be changed.
Those "fired" scientists said "2+2=5" and their fellow scientists asked how/why/please-explain. The the poor persecuted "scientist" stamp his feet and said: I don't have too, I just know it!
He was then asked to leave because he failed at his job. He wasn't expelled, he flunked out!
NOMA sucks! It's pussing out of the issue because you are afraid someone will pull out the "Oh I'm offended" card. F*** 'em. Let 'em be offended. 1/2 the time they're not offended, but hoping to shut people up be pretending to be. It's called lies and manipulation
If you're religion says man was made of dirt that was created with the rest of the universe 6000 years ago by an invisible sky ghost in only 144 hours, then there IS conflict between science and religion.
You are making the big assumption that the "religion" you want to refer to is a very liberal, reformed, and enlightened one that is the very opposite of what their religious books tell them they are.
NOMA sucks!
Any word on 64bit binaries for Linux? I've compiled the Non-gui version without issue before, but with a gui, things get more complicated. GTK/KDE? Which libraries? etc etc etc etc etc
Free markets require letting some inefficient parts of the market fail
Ah, but the original point I was making is that the immoral parts are not always equal to the inefficient parts. Slavery in the US was rather efficient for the cotton industry, or so it seemed to them at the time. They had zero market incentive to give that up, and it require extra-market forces to ensure that they did.
Your water analogy is apt. Water doesn't only seek it's own level, it seeks the lowest level.
What are some trade barriers that should be abolished? Tariffs, embargoes, taxing, local advantages? Sure, these could lead to long term advantages for many, if not most players in the market, from top to bottom (rising tides and all that).
But what if the barrier is a human right? One could argue that it would eventually be unprofitable to be the bad guy and more profitable to be the good guy, but how long should that "short term problem" last before it's a market failure? A decade? A generation? A century?
Oh, I agree! What I was countering was the view that the market "can fix anything". Many of those who hold that view rant how government interference with the market is BAD(tm) and unrestrained markets are almost holy. Markets are tools, and can be used for positive or negative effects. Markets, being complex systems, can actually do both at the same time. At which point it's about perspective. Poor Guatamalan farm worker can't affort food after working 3000* hrs a week, while we get good, cheap bananas.
*slight exageration
So, if consumers want something that is deemed immoral (sex slaves), or business owners (shareholders) want more profit, the market, by itself, is totally unable (or unwilling) to stop it. Government and extra-market forces (activists, watchdog groups, tree hugging hippies) are required to put controls on how that market operates in order to stop unwanted activity (slavery, monopoly) and promote it's better effects.
It's the ultimate in mob (not mafia) behavior.
Is it just me, or is this the clear limitation of "markets"? Markets are great for things like pushing down cost, creating diversity of products (through competition), and distributing wealth (if not manipulated).
But when it comes to profit vs. principle, it seems to hit a wall. Is this the reason markets can't stop human trafficing and a gov't has to step in. Any of you collije edumacated E-conomists want to correct me here?
Check out http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/16/115444 /263
This is the testimony of James Comey, who was the acting AG while John Ashcroft was in the ICU after surgury. Al Gonzoles and Andrew Card sought to push a sick, bed ridden old man to agree to their illegal program (according to the AG, they guy who's job it was to determine that). It took the FBI (guys with guns) to ensure that the acting AG would NOT get pushed out of the way. Essentially, FBI direct Meuller ordered his men to protect the AG from the White House's representitives.
This is sh!t that's supposed to happen only in 3rd world dictatorships, not the US of A!
The White House went ahead with the illegal program anyway. And yes, according to the TOP guy hired to enforce the LAW of the USA, it was illegal!
Born-again Bush and his evangelical whack-job support base actually WANT the world to end. These people are so deluded by their "faith" that they really want the world to end in fire and blood. They don't support Israel because they care about little Jewish kids growing up in peace, but because Jesus will come flying to earth on a cloud swinging a sword soon! They don't care about asteroid wiping out humanity, because humanity is unimportant to them.
These people actually BELIEVE that Jesus will return to earth in their lifetime, and that they are going to be ushered into heaven, while everyone else dies a horrific death at the hand of the "Prince of Peace", Do you REALLY think they are interested in advancing human understanding and civilization? Do you actually think these people ponder the future of the human race?
Hmm, let me think... Well the label on the site read "Available Formats: WMA". Hmm.. Of course that means "MP3 inside". How could I have been so stupid! Let me look at them all now...
Hmmm...
Mmmm...
Oh...
No. No MP3s inside either. How could that be? Maybe I really DID look at the site, and really DID try to find them... No... I must have just clicked once and given up, then they moved them all out as I looked again. I bet they will move them all back in when you go to look.
Let me try YOUR link...
We apologize, but www.puretracks.com is only available to Canadian residents. If you are a resident of the USA, please click here to access our American store.
Well, looky there. I must not have read the whole article, because it clearly must have stated "Canada Only"... Oh, it didn't? Well. How about that!
I have to end the comment now, I have a bandwagon to catch, I think I hear a MicroSoft bashing article getting posted somewhere!
It looks like some users over at BoingBoing have already debunked this one Link. According to them, all the track on the site, including the supposedly "DRM Free" are Windows crippled WMA.
Either they aren't doing this "immediately" or someone screwed up. I can't find a single BNL song that is available in anything other than WMA from Puretracks.