What you can do is something really extreme. Something so extreme you might not even be willing to do it. It will hurt, but if you organize and don't crave in, you might just force those people into rethinking how far they can push people. Here is my idea.
If people's opinions don't matter to your government, let's see what happens when it's the ISPs who refuse to apply the new rules. How to make this happen? By pressuring them. How to pressure them? Well, maybe you're already starting to imagine. Threaten to cancel you account. Call whomever you have to call and tell them that if by some date (let's say, a month from now), things are the same, that you'll cancel your account.
If enough people do this, and follow through, I bet they will be rethinking their position and 'find a way to make everyone happy.' If every American on Slashdot does this, and convinces their family and friends to do the same (explaining why, of course), I bet you can make some noise. Maybe you won't even have to actually cancel your internet account, because ISPs will hopefully act much sooner.
The key is getting organized. Remember, the internet is the people who make it. Shutting off the internet can only be done by the people. If those assholes up there want to take over, people can just not use it anymore, and find another way to connect to each other.
You don't need to spell it with only one kana. You can use U+I+I. Remember hiragana/katakana don't correspond to english spelling, when you see "wakaru" it doesn't mean that those kana are japanese to english wa, ka and ru, it's only a help to knowing how to pronounce the kana.
It was using LFS 4 or 5 when I last saw lyx working properly. Then I upgraded to a version >=1.4 and the from that point on it was broken. That was one of the reasons why I switched to gentoo, because I figured it would be easier to configure. Now, I've just switched to ubuntu and it's still broken. I'm thinking about giving debian a try. I guess it's bound to work on debian, right?
Don't talk to me like I'm a moron. I know how to use the compose key, I just think it's stupid to have to use it when I've got a latinamerican keyboard that works properly under every application that is not qt based. Yes, I've tried to configure the kde settings. It didn't work on gentoo, and under ubuntu I use gnome. Lyx is one of the few qt apps that I use and I'm not installing a whole kde desktop just to try changing some setting when I know it doesn't work.
Oh, and guess what, the whole mess started with a qt upgrade.
Those damn things are already immortal. Now they're teaching them how to use machines. Soon they'll be able to develop their own technology and then we'll be their livestock. They'll make us cook for them, and they'll only let us eat food they've already walked on, and then we'll have to fight each other in arenas for their amusement. It's so fucking disgusting.
That's a great idea for a new FPS right there! I hereby licence this concept under the Creative Commons licence, which I've never read but can't be too bad.
Microsoft will pay you $2 bucks rebate to exchange your ipod for some crippled piece of junk with a tenth the capacity, corrosive materials and its software on it and offer to kick you in the mouth.
you dummy! you just leaked your source code! now some big corporation is going to patent it, you'll be sued for posting this incredibly valuable algorithm on a public forum
There's a reason it won't be too difficult to learn the technical (especially computer) jargon: we use practically the same vocabulary as in english. And there's a reason for that too, at least in my experience: most of my "computer" or "geeky" online computer-related life happens in english, and that's the case for everyone. I often find myself having trouble trying to find the right word in spanish for something that immediately pops up in my head as an english word. If I want to talk to some friend about a computer case, it might take me quite a while to figure out what word is the correct one, in this case... uhh... hold on... well, I'm sure you get the point.
The thing is that, at least for people like me, it is so much easier to ask for help in an english-speaking forum because I have a lot of trouble trying to understand what they are talking about when they translate every single technical word. Of course, there's a basic vocabulary that you'll have to learn, as a previous poster said. I could add: password=contraseña, driver=controlador, mousepad=tapete, port=puerto, and windows=esa chingadera (only likely to be understood if you're moving to Mexico, though).
For acronyms, you're in safe lands. You'll just have to learn your alphabet: USB=u ese be, DVD=de ve de... etc. I have no idea how to pronounce PCMCIA or whatever the hell that's spelled.
I don't think the poster meant we should "leave it to God" or anything. I think they meant that nobody can go saying "Oh, look, look, we already know how the universe will end!" because it's very likely that they are wrong. There are still so many things we haven't figured out yet, that we can't go around saying we know something for sure.
How is this person so sure that he's got the real answer, has he stopped to consider that there might still be some circumstances he hasn't considered? For example, things that science is far from understanding or even discovering yet.
It's okay to say: "We think it's like this", but not: "Scientists have found out for sure how the end will come. Everybody else, shut up; we're right and that's final".
Here in Mexico, they've been bombing us with an ad telling us how bad piracy is and how much harm we're making to the poor little multizillionaires like Billy, or the dinosaurs that own the record companies and all the parasites that live from them. But so far this is another stupid complaining post, doesn't it?
Well, in this ad, the (really strong, national-security-in-risk) voice tells us that piracy is a serious Federal _Crime_ and it is punished by jail without bail.
One might think "they compare someone who copies his friend's Britney Spears' new album to rapists, kidnappers and murderers", right? Wrong! because in our beautiful and beloved Mexico, Rape and Kidnap are not serious crimes (which means a rapist can be bailed out and the next day attack again), but piracy is.
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Never has the Redundant mod option been so perfectly adequate. This was probably THE reason it was meant to exist, solely to moderate that one post.
What you can do is something really extreme. Something so extreme you might not even be willing to do it. It will hurt, but if you organize and don't crave in, you might just force those people into rethinking how far they can push people. Here is my idea.
If people's opinions don't matter to your government, let's see what happens when it's the ISPs who refuse to apply the new rules. How to make this happen? By pressuring them. How to pressure them? Well, maybe you're already starting to imagine. Threaten to cancel you account. Call whomever you have to call and tell them that if by some date (let's say, a month from now), things are the same, that you'll cancel your account.
If enough people do this, and follow through, I bet they will be rethinking their position and 'find a way to make everyone happy.' If every American on Slashdot does this, and convinces their family and friends to do the same (explaining why, of course), I bet you can make some noise. Maybe you won't even have to actually cancel your internet account, because ISPs will hopefully act much sooner.
The key is getting organized. Remember, the internet is the people who make it. Shutting off the internet can only be done by the people. If those assholes up there want to take over, people can just not use it anymore, and find another way to connect to each other.
It's funny, laugh!
Look, now he's actually trying!
Quick, quick! Mod him up!
A Nazi Pope that looks like the Emperor... what did you expect?
You don't need to spell it with only one kana. You can use U+I+I. Remember hiragana/katakana don't correspond to english spelling, when you see "wakaru" it doesn't mean that those kana are japanese to english wa, ka and ru, it's only a help to knowing how to pronounce the kana.
There's poo everywhere!!!
Well if nobody in her family uses linux, then who the hell installed it in her computer? The Gnomes?
Well... maaaaybe the Gnomes, but who else?
Dear all,
It was using LFS 4 or 5 when I last saw lyx working properly. Then I upgraded to a version >=1.4 and the from that point on it was broken. That was one of the reasons why I switched to gentoo, because I figured it would be easier to configure. Now, I've just switched to ubuntu and it's still broken. I'm thinking about giving debian a try. I guess it's bound to work on debian, right?
Don't talk to me like I'm a moron. I know how to use the compose key, I just think it's stupid to have to use it when I've got a latinamerican keyboard that works properly under every application that is not qt based. Yes, I've tried to configure the kde settings. It didn't work on gentoo, and under ubuntu I use gnome. Lyx is one of the few qt apps that I use and I'm not installing a whole kde desktop just to try changing some setting when I know it doesn't work.
Oh, and guess what, the whole mess started with a qt upgrade.
Those damn things are already immortal. Now they're teaching them how to use machines. Soon they'll be able to develop their own technology and then we'll be their livestock. They'll make us cook for them, and they'll only let us eat food they've already walked on, and then we'll have to fight each other in arenas for their amusement. It's so fucking disgusting.
That's a great idea for a new FPS right there! I hereby licence this concept under the Creative Commons licence, which I've never read but can't be too bad.
does this mean inputting accents on qt applications will finally be fixed? kde and lyx have been unusable for me since qt-3.something...
I might be just an ignorant troll, but if it wasn't qt-3, I don't know why else i can't write accented words on anything using qt.
Microsoft will pay you $2 bucks rebate to exchange your ipod for some crippled piece of junk with a tenth the capacity, corrosive materials and its software on it and offer to kick you in the mouth.
and it will be successful.
you dummy! you just leaked your source code! now some big corporation is going to patent it, you'll be sued for posting this incredibly valuable algorithm on a public forum
silly silly...
If they use this sort of things, then they could hardly be considered artists
The thing is that, at least for people like me, it is so much easier to ask for help in an english-speaking forum because I have a lot of trouble trying to understand what they are talking about when they translate every single technical word. Of course, there's a basic vocabulary that you'll have to learn, as a previous poster said. I could add: password=contraseña, driver=controlador, mousepad=tapete, port=puerto, and windows=esa chingadera (only likely to be understood if you're moving to Mexico, though).
For acronyms, you're in safe lands. You'll just have to learn your alphabet: USB=u ese be, DVD=de ve de... etc. I have no idea how to pronounce PCMCIA or whatever the hell that's spelled.
Oh, I just remembered. Case=gabinete Yay!
Americans read?
I don't think the poster meant we should "leave it to God" or anything. I think they meant that nobody can go saying "Oh, look, look, we already know how the universe will end!" because it's very likely that they are wrong. There are still so many things we haven't figured out yet, that we can't go around saying we know something for sure.
How is this person so sure that he's got the real answer, has he stopped to consider that there might still be some circumstances he hasn't considered? For example, things that science is far from understanding or even discovering yet.
It's okay to say: "We think it's like this", but not: "Scientists have found out for sure how the end will come. Everybody else, shut up; we're right and that's final".
Here in Mexico, they've been bombing us with an ad telling us how bad piracy is and how much harm we're making to the poor little multizillionaires like Billy, or the dinosaurs that own the record companies and all the parasites that live from them. But so far this is another stupid complaining post, doesn't it?
Well, in this ad, the (really strong, national-security-in-risk) voice tells us that piracy is a serious Federal _Crime_ and it is punished by jail without bail.
One might think "they compare someone who copies his friend's Britney Spears' new album to rapists, kidnappers and murderers", right?
Wrong! because in our beautiful and beloved Mexico, Rape and Kidnap are not serious crimes (which means a rapist can be bailed out and the next day attack again), but piracy is.
Oh, and that includes software piracy.
How do you like that?