France is a modern Western democracy - comparing it to the Middle East is absurd. Not only that, but they have different reasons for disliking our cultural influence. Western culture conflicts with Islamic teachings (at least those of the more fundamentalist interpretations) - the French purists (the average person doesn't really give a shit - they're fine with using "e-mail" instead of "courriel") just don't like American culture because they're egotards and want to still be the center of Western culture.
Easy targets = less publicity, less fear. Hitting the WTC is far more spectacular than some building in Copenhagen.
You are just wrong. People don't just hate people for no particular reason...
To quote you, "You are just wrong."
Also, if what you are saying is correct, how come this is only a recent problem (in the last 20 years or so)? If they really hated your culture, it would have happened for much longer, possibly hundreads of years...
The Arab world wasn't always backwards and fundamentalist - at one time, it was far more progressive than Europe was. Islamic fundamentalism's a pretty recent problem.
It seems to be the near-unanimous opinion of everyone that knew McVeigh that he wouldn't have hit the building had he known there was an occupied daycare center there - so I certainly hold a bit more respect for him than I do for Al Qaeda.
The "tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers likely killed" were combatants in a war zone. Is the US supposed to use paintball guns from now on in such situations? Good God, what an absurd objection.
You really believe that? How come they aren't bombing Norway or Denmark?
Because they're going after the most obvious of Western countries. When presented with the choice between hitting the US and hitting Norway, wouldn't you choose the US too?
Same reason TV stations don't air their popular shows at 3 AM.
Of course, if you're a liberal democrat, nothing I can say will convince you otherwise.
I'm a liberal democrat and I agree with you on the Iraq war - they're better off than they were under Saddam (or will be, when order's eventually restored).
Terrorists attempt to maximize civilian casualties, the US attempts to minimize them (if only for PR purposes). That's the difference.
And we wonder why terrorists are trying to kill us?
They'd be trying to kill us no matter what we did. If we withdrew from the Middle East they'd hate us for our cultural influence. There are always more reasons to hate for people like that - trying to appease them is useless.
god, I love coop... I played a huge amount with my brother, and we pretty much knew exactly what the other would do - felt like being on a highly trained special ops team or something... managed to beat the game on Legendary - craziness:-D
it's a pity they won't have it on Halo PC... hopefully Halo 2 will have it, though
Sorry about the pessimism, but I lump consumer space flight in with finding a cure for cancer.
What, you mean the fact that they're both something that we've made great strides towards in the last 10 years, and both are extremely important to humanity? Good comparison!
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Radio quality is between 30 and 50 kbps, whereas files downloaded over P2P networks can be anywhere from 128 kbps to full CD quality. Radio stations also pay a license fee to play songs, whereas P2P networks do not. The two are not at all comparable.
If people shift to counterfeit disc vendors (which I've not seen a single one of in my life in this country), that doesn't make it right or legal. Not only that, but the increase would paint one huge bullseye on those vendors, just like Napster painted one on P2P.
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Take their money away by boycotting them, and they will be forced to stop.
Oh, yes, because you're gonna get every one of the hundred million teeny boppers who buy RIAA-supported labels to boycott.
RIAA's never gonna get hurt by a boycott.
Our purchases are a privilege they must earn, not a debt we owe!
You may not owe them purchases, but they don't owe you free music if you choose not to purchase. If you don't want to pay for music, fine - but don't claim that gives you a right to get it for free.
Uh, no, Mozilla's just as vulnerable to users running an executable that installs adware. Unless I missed the AI that goes through a program and figures out whether you want it or not before allowing you to run it...
You don't need an exploit when the users are installing the software on their own. Kazaa's installing of adware/spyware isn't an IE problem - it's a stupid user problem.
It'll happen in Linux, too, if it catches on more in the desktop. If KazaaLinux gets written, you can bet it'll install with spyware and adware, too People will write Mozilla extensions that automatically prompt you to install them (like the Moz extensions sites already do for legit extensions) and proceede to overwrite your homepage.
Just because people have thus far written spyware for Windows doesn't mean Linux isn't just as vulnerable to user stupidity.
p.s. if you had a modern version of IE and left security settings on their default, you (or someone using that computer) were prompted to install the Xupiter hijacker and said okay... not Microsoft's fault.
I honestly don't know. This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem every day. Everytime something wants to open IE, it goes nuts and spawns 20 or so windows. This isn't right. Software shouldn't BE this vulnerable. I remember when Netscape 4 was damn near bulletproof...
Supporting JavaScript's window.open() function is now considered "vulnerable"? WTF?
That's like saying supporting <a> tags is a "vulnerability" because some people link to goatse - it's absurd.
For the unheard of low price of $0.00, you can install KDE and get rid of those annoying popups... KDE doesn't seem to suffer from the annoying popup problem... I just fixed this problem on my neighbors computer...
I read that as you installed KDE (and, by extension, Linux) on his computer.
Opera's not a possibility for replacing Outlook (using a browser to replace an e-mail and calendar app?), and for most people Mozilla isn't - no built in calendar (there's one in development, but not finished). For some people, Outlook's the only way to go currently. That said, I've switched over to Moz Thunderbird alpha and like it.
Why is Outlook a menace? I used it for several years and got exactly zero viruses. People usually get viruses from Outlook because they run an attachment - something they'd do no matter what the e-mail client. There used to be a problem with <iframe>s (which Klez still tries to exploit), but that's been fixed for ages.
Last I checked... the windows XP cd burning software that was built in was a pain in the ass. Try burning an ISO.
The XP CD burning software is the best I've seen for the average user - the person who wants to drag their music files onto the CD drive, press "Burn To CD", and be done with it. Most people don't know what an ISO is, let alone want/need to burn one.
How can you multitask when you can only have one desktop.
Alt+Tab?
You get pretty quick at it if you need to multitask in Windows, and I personally find it easier to use than multiple window setups... now if only I could get my second flatpanel working on dual monitor... mmmmm.
To tell you the truth I had a harder time going from windows 200 to xp then going from gnome to kde.
Well duh... going from stone tablets to a modern operating system is quite the jump.
Seriously though, you had problems going from 2000 to XP? It takes like three clicks to set it all back to looking exactly like Windows 2000, and even if you leave it on default there's nothing much changed... just the new themes, an extra panel in Explorer, and a slightly rearranged Start menu...
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they do not want to experiment with Open Source alternatives that would lower the PC repair cost
What Open Source software packages are going to lower the repair costs of a PC?
France is a modern Western democracy - comparing it to the Middle East is absurd. Not only that, but they have different reasons for disliking our cultural influence. Western culture conflicts with Islamic teachings (at least those of the more fundamentalist interpretations) - the French purists (the average person doesn't really give a shit - they're fine with using "e-mail" instead of "courriel") just don't like American culture because they're egotards and want to still be the center of Western culture.
Utterly different situations.
It's not funny. Groan.
Easy targets = less publicity, less fear. Hitting the WTC is far more spectacular than some building in Copenhagen.
You are just wrong. People don't just hate people for no particular reason...
To quote you, "You are just wrong."
Also, if what you are saying is correct, how come this is only a recent problem (in the last 20 years or so)? If they really hated your culture, it would have happened for much longer, possibly hundreads of years...
The Arab world wasn't always backwards and fundamentalist - at one time, it was far more progressive than Europe was. Islamic fundamentalism's a pretty recent problem.
It seems to be the near-unanimous opinion of everyone that knew McVeigh that he wouldn't have hit the building had he known there was an occupied daycare center there - so I certainly hold a bit more respect for him than I do for Al Qaeda.
The "tens of thousands of Iraqi soldiers likely killed" were combatants in a war zone. Is the US supposed to use paintball guns from now on in such situations? Good God, what an absurd objection.
You really believe that? How come they aren't bombing Norway or Denmark?
Because they're going after the most obvious of Western countries. When presented with the choice between hitting the US and hitting Norway, wouldn't you choose the US too?
Same reason TV stations don't air their popular shows at 3 AM.
Of course, if you're a liberal democrat, nothing I can say will convince you otherwise.
;-)
I'm a liberal democrat and I agree with you on the Iraq war - they're better off than they were under Saddam (or will be, when order's eventually restored).
Good luck with Lieberman.
Who, BushLight? No thanks... see my sig
Terrorists attempt to maximize civilian casualties, the US attempts to minimize them (if only for PR purposes). That's the difference.
And we wonder why terrorists are trying to kill us?
They'd be trying to kill us no matter what we did. If we withdrew from the Middle East they'd hate us for our cultural influence. There are always more reasons to hate for people like that - trying to appease them is useless.
it's called a neutron bomb - kills all the people, but leaves the target intact for occupation
god, I love coop... I played a huge amount with my brother, and we pretty much knew exactly what the other would do - felt like being on a highly trained special ops team or something... managed to beat the game on Legendary - craziness :-D
it's a pity they won't have it on Halo PC... hopefully Halo 2 will have it, though
Sorry about the pessimism, but I lump consumer space flight in with finding a cure for cancer.
What, you mean the fact that they're both something that we've made great strides towards in the last 10 years, and both are extremely important to humanity? Good comparison!
Radio quality is between 30 and 50 kbps, whereas files downloaded over P2P networks can be anywhere from 128 kbps to full CD quality. Radio stations also pay a license fee to play songs, whereas P2P networks do not. The two are not at all comparable.
If people shift to counterfeit disc vendors (which I've not seen a single one of in my life in this country), that doesn't make it right or legal. Not only that, but the increase would paint one huge bullseye on those vendors, just like Napster painted one on P2P.
Take their money away by boycotting them, and they will be forced to stop.
Oh, yes, because you're gonna get every one of the hundred million teeny boppers who buy RIAA-supported labels to boycott.
RIAA's never gonna get hurt by a boycott.
Our purchases are a privilege they must earn, not a debt we owe!
You may not owe them purchases, but they don't owe you free music if you choose not to purchase. If you don't want to pay for music, fine - but don't claim that gives you a right to get it for free.
So, basically, it's incompatible with the GPL because it's incompatible with the GPL.
:-p
What do you expect when the G in GNU stands for GNU?
Uh, no, Mozilla's just as vulnerable to users running an executable that installs adware. Unless I missed the AI that goes through a program and figures out whether you want it or not before allowing you to run it...
You don't need an exploit when the users are installing the software on their own. Kazaa's installing of adware/spyware isn't an IE problem - it's a stupid user problem.
But I don't like virtual desktops, and I don't really find Linux to be ready to replace Windows for me. So I'll stick with XP, thx. :-p
Well, my problem with hooking up my second flatpanel is that the power cord is broken - need to get it replaced.
:-p
It worked w/o a hitch before that, though
Guess what?
It'll happen in Linux, too, if it catches on more in the desktop. If KazaaLinux gets written, you can bet it'll install with spyware and adware, too People will write Mozilla extensions that automatically prompt you to install them (like the Moz extensions sites already do for legit extensions) and proceede to overwrite your homepage.
Just because people have thus far written spyware for Windows doesn't mean Linux isn't just as vulnerable to user stupidity.
p.s. if you had a modern version of IE and left security settings on their default, you (or someone using that computer) were prompted to install the Xupiter hijacker and said okay... not Microsoft's fault.
I honestly don't know. This is becoming a bigger and bigger problem every day. Everytime something wants to open IE, it goes nuts and spawns 20 or so windows. This isn't right. Software shouldn't BE this vulnerable. I remember when Netscape 4 was damn near bulletproof...
Supporting JavaScript's window.open() function is now considered "vulnerable"? WTF?
That's like saying supporting <a> tags is a "vulnerability" because some people link to goatse - it's absurd.
For the unheard of low price of $0.00, you can install KDE and get rid of those annoying popups... KDE doesn't seem to suffer from the annoying popup problem... I just fixed this problem on my neighbors computer...
I read that as you installed KDE (and, by extension, Linux) on his computer.
Opera's not a possibility for replacing Outlook (using a browser to replace an e-mail and calendar app?), and for most people Mozilla isn't - no built in calendar (there's one in development, but not finished). For some people, Outlook's the only way to go currently. That said, I've switched over to Moz Thunderbird alpha and like it.
Why is Outlook a menace? I used it for several years and got exactly zero viruses. People usually get viruses from Outlook because they run an attachment - something they'd do no matter what the e-mail client. There used to be a problem with <iframe>s (which Klez still tries to exploit), but that's been fixed for ages.
Or, you can save yourself a step and just install Mozilla Firebird on Windows.
I just fixed this problem on my neighbors computer, and he then asked me, "How do I secure Outlook?". I replied, "Uninstall it."
So you installed KDE on his comp (must be a dual boot?) and now he's just using Windows anyways? Heh...
Last I checked... the windows XP cd burning software that was built in was a pain in the ass. Try burning an ISO.
The XP CD burning software is the best I've seen for the average user - the person who wants to drag their music files onto the CD drive, press "Burn To CD", and be done with it. Most people don't know what an ISO is, let alone want/need to burn one.
How can you multitask when you can only have one desktop.
Alt+Tab?
You get pretty quick at it if you need to multitask in Windows, and I personally find it easier to use than multiple window setups... now if only I could get my second flatpanel working on dual monitor... mmmmm.
To tell you the truth I had a harder time going from windows 200 to xp then going from gnome to kde.
Well duh... going from stone tablets to a modern operating system is quite the jump.
Seriously though, you had problems going from 2000 to XP? It takes like three clicks to set it all back to looking exactly like Windows 2000, and even if you leave it on default there's nothing much changed... just the new themes, an extra panel in Explorer, and a slightly rearranged Start menu...
Because the expensive proprietary software is sometimes far better than the free alternative?