If you scroll down to the bottom of the "Revenue generating Gatsos" page you will see how speed cameras are marked where I live (they got onto a page in the UK since we have so many). They are marked with the speed here so my experience could be different to yours. Possibly those speed limit markings (usually 6 or more in the vicinity in country areas) somewhat lower the effect of this rapid breaking, although I did observe a little chaos when they were first brought in. Maybe you should write to your minister for transport asking for similar markings, citing concerns about dangerous overbreaking. Also, the cameras tend to have a margin of error around here and they don't go off unless you're 7 km/h over the limit or so, I'm not sure if it's like that in the UK, it probably should be.
I looked at the "Revenue Generating" page. How about you look at my post again. Driving over the speed limit is against the road laws, you just shouldn't be doing it. Seriously, those speed limits are there to tell you how fast to drive for a reason, if you're driving over that limit it's your own problem. Just because you wouldn't have been caught before, doesn't mean that it is your right to do it, if you want to argue for liberalism in road rule interpretation then do that, but most developed countries have a system where you have to follow the rules to the letter and it tends to work. If the government wants to tax people who disregard its laws more than others fair enough, they've gotta get money somehow and if they want to get it from people who value velocity more than their wallet then so be it. Governments of democratic countries tend to be non-profit organisations that pay for schools, hospitals, police and look after the needy, it really is a good cause. Also it's something that you'd be contributing to anyway somehow if people wern't getting billed for their speed, so I don't see the issue.
Stick to the rules and you won't get busted, it's as simple as that. If you do that then you will pay the same amount of tax as you did before the cameras while your government will give you better services because of the revinue from others.
The real problem is that SVG is hard to implement.
Amen to that, I spent pretty much all of my open source development efforts last year on librsvg and although it is now largely standards complient (and one of the better open source SVG viewers), it is nowhere near completely finished. It's kinda depressing really.
Yes, that article will do a lot to reinforce the stereotypes about gentoo users. As a two year gentoo veteran, I had a chuckle at that headline. I have visited funroll-loops.org multiple times and and probably am more amused by many of the quotes there than those who have not used gentoo extensively, since I have seen just how silly a good amount of my fellow users are.
Despite the amusement value, I am mildly annoyed at a little hypocrisy in that site. Gentoo users are being portrayed as closed minded, elitist gits by them. The site seems to suggest that gentoo users have a strong belief that they are far superior to others because of the distribution that they use. This is sadly often true in many Gentoo users I have met, however this is not universal. Some gentoo users do not believe their distro is the silver bullet, a sign of manhood or even a badge of honour. A surprising number of Gentoo users, myself included, simply use it because we find it to be a pleasant and productive experience, yet we seem to be hit with this image of the proud and ignorant 13 year old who doesn't really know why he is using gentoo other than it is 1337 time and time again as the "gentoo user". According to netcraft, Funroll-loops runs Debian and I'm not judging them for that; in fact I run a debian based server down the hall in the lounge room and I am very satisfied with it. Despite this, I feel like I am being judged for my choice of software by that website, they are smearing me by implication and they have the gall to call my demographic the elitist one?
I kinda feel sorry for Russel Crowe since now, every time he goes to a bar in his (and my) home town in northern NSW, he is confronted by scores of drunken young men who want to beat Maximus in a fight. Of cause, when they do fight, and Crowe ends up loosing, it's him that looks stupid, not the other guy who knows that he is fighting an actor when assessing his chances of winning, but thinks he is fighting a great Roman general when assessing the glory.
Russell Crowe is a dude from Australia that thinks he's a musician (probably his dellusion isn't as well known outside of.au). The connection is a little frail, but there are people who would be less likely to know about it than him.
They are non-standard" CPUs because nobody uses them. Putting money into supporting them doesn't do jack for the average user. Putting it to work improving support for x86, x86-64, or PPC would do a hell of a lot more good for the distro's users (the ones who donated the money to begin with).
That sig is slanderous bullshit. Ratzinger (Benedict XVI) was just 14 when he joined the Hitler Youth (HJ). He did so, because three years earlier it became COMPULSORY for every boy 14 or over to join. He had no choice but to join it since he could be arrested and forced to participate, if not imprisoned or executed for un-patriotic tendencies.
As for his army service. Service was compulsory, deserters were shot. Not to mention the fact that his country, as poorly ideologically driven as it was, was being invaded by the time he joined and he could hardly be expected to not join, and it's not like he joined the SS or flew bombing raids over Britain or Russia. He simply shot down planes bombing his home country, a fairly understandable action even if Satan was your Fuhrer.
Personally, I feel sad for his experience and hope that I never never have to live in a situation like he endured. I couldn't possibly comprehend what it would be like to have my country filled with such horrific doctrine and have this ideology so pervasive that I would be forced to emulate it, or die a horrific death as a traitor to my country. I don't think many people other than those who lived in the Third Reich could comprehend it either.
I'm not a catholic or anything, but I think it's shameful that anyone could spread such libelous, ignorant crap about some poor dude who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you want to insult the Pope, go right ahead. But how about saying something about some of his controversial politics and his actions as a grown man. Here's a nice list.
By your logic, they should go ahead and put me in prison for owning a gun "capable" of killing someone.
I agree totally. Putting people in prison for owning guns when that are effective at killing people (auto and most semi-auto) is commonplace where I come from. And it keeps gun violence down very nicely.
If you did that in America, it would have the added advantage of discoraging crime among African Americans. Since jail would be full of gun totin', rhetoric throwin' good ol' boys like you, it would be too scary for a black man to even think of committing a crime.
You might not like that line of reasoning, however you have not countered with your own. I'm not saying your viewpoint is wrong, but simply stating supposed rights with no justification is hardly even arguing at all. You have simply pulled up cultural laws of some sort of ownership, and as far as the discussion of ethics and philosophy of file sharing is conserned it added absolutely nothing, this wouldn't be accepted by any ethics teacher of any reasonable institution.
The parent was good enough to state the distinction in the issue, and attempt to make some sort of semblance of a short argument about it. I suggest that if you want to disagree, you should give some reasons. I know that I'm being offensive and preechy, but I actually kind of agree with you in some respects so I think discussion would be a whole lot better with some actual meat to it.
Australia is 40% desert, 40% extremely dry grassland suitable only for sparse cattle grazing and indigenous lifestyles, and the remaining 20% is prone to salinisation, erosion and frequent drought.
Couple this arable land shortage with the consumption of the predominantly fat and rich Australian populace and you will probably be able to understand why they can't fit more than 20 million of them onto the island.
Considering that greenland + denmark and france + french polinesia + new calidonia + whatever else comes close to being bigger than canada, the list is good enough for the perpose.
I have written extensively in both C and C++. I personally prefer C++ because I use a very object oriented programming style and it seems to personally fit better. However, dispite this, C isn't that much harder to do things like that in. I think the majority of people who complain about C's weaknesses as far as OO is conserned probably are people who have never tried to do it.
Sure, C doesn't have automatic upcasting, automatic class scoping, operator overloading, function overloading, namespaces, templates, STL, RTTI and the string class out of the box but it really doesn't take that much effort to get around these things (I know that many people won't take my word for it, but there is not much else I can say). Glib REALLY helps out with this as it provides some useful container types that are almost as good as STL and string.
In conclusion, I would summerise that as a C++ lover, I probably would like to see gnome use it. However, gnome doesn't use it, and it doesn't really seem to hurt it, so why care?
What a dumb troll. The giveaway is "more mature languages like VC++ and Java", since VC++ is not a language, it's an IDE/compiler and Java is a lot newer, fast changing and generally less mature than C.
Anyway. Gnome and GTK+ are very object oriented, they use classes, virtual member functions and polymorphism right to their cores. Also, skinning in GTK+ is a simple matter of loading a config file.
I like to take project guttenburg books then feed them through festival. The voice is slow and awkward, but it is still very clear, and you can listen to just about anything for free.
Pfffft. You really don't understand international politics. Australia is America's bitch, what can Australia do to the United States no matter what agreements anyone has.
Australia has very low levels of patriotism and nationalism.
This is because of many factors, such as disagreement as to what it means to be Australian. The crocodile dundee image of a tough, ruggard but easygoing Australia is heartily embraced by many Australians in country areas, but is seen as a thing of shame to many psudo-sophisticated people in the city. Many people in the cities regard Australias culture to be defined by "multicultualism", which is not only not a real or unique culture, but is completely non-present outside of Sydney and Melbourne. The middle class fears being dominated by the Americans and the working class fears being dominated by the Chineese. The upper class seems to realise that selling the country to foreign powers and then leaving is by far the most advantageous thing to do right now (witness rupert murdoch). The Aboriginals who are by definition, the most Australian people in the nation are battling poverty and depression and often carry a contempt to the whole Australian establishment.
Australians hate their own icons, the flag is seen as a symbol of dependance on Britian, the national anthum is hated because of its lack of meaning, lack of tune and white supremist origins. Traditional Australian icons such as Victoria Bitter (beer) and rough sports (Rugby and Aussie Rules) are now often dismissed as unsophisticated and crude.
There is nothing to unite Australians, we have nothing to say that we all have in common, increasingly, in some inner Sydney suburbs, we don't even speak the same language. We can't say we are all working towards a common goal, we can't say we share the same values, we can't say that if we were to meet an Australian overseas that we would be able to tell them apart from the surrounding population. Whe have little loyalty to our country because we can say so little about it without being narrow sighted that we hardly are aquainted to the identity of our own country.
As for our flimsy government: John Howard who was previously known as the toughguy of Australian politics due to his refusal to back down in any situation has only recently became a puppet of the United States. The Iraq War II, the one sided free trade agreement, this extradition thing, the abandonment of David Hicks and Mandu Habib (two of the least patriotic Australians, but still Australians) have all be recent things. Personally I don't know what the hell is going on with this, but I don't like it. John Howard lied to the Australian public to win almost every election that he ran in. He lied about the GST, he lied about the illegal immigrants throwing children into the water and he lied about intrest rates (which he had no power to control anyway). John Howard had become little more than a slippery demigogue with contempt for Australia and the people of the country.
There are still some patriotic Australians, like myself. But then again, many men have fallen in love with prostitutes only to live a life of humiliation when he finds out that his love is only recipricated when she's payed. That's what it is like for me every time I read something like this.
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If you scroll down to the bottom of the "Revenue generating Gatsos" page you will see how speed cameras are marked where I live (they got onto a page in the UK since we have so many). They are marked with the speed here so my experience could be different to yours. Possibly those speed limit markings (usually 6 or more in the vicinity in country areas) somewhat lower the effect of this rapid breaking, although I did observe a little chaos when they were first brought in. Maybe you should write to your minister for transport asking for similar markings, citing concerns about dangerous overbreaking. Also, the cameras tend to have a margin of error around here and they don't go off unless you're 7 km/h over the limit or so, I'm not sure if it's like that in the UK, it probably should be.
Stick to the rules and you won't get busted, it's as simple as that. If you do that then you will pay the same amount of tax as you did before the cameras while your government will give you better services because of the revinue from others.
Whoever made that site fails to remember that maybe one shouldn't be driving over the speed limit to begin with.
Amen to that, I spent pretty much all of my open source development efforts last year on librsvg and although it is now largely standards complient (and one of the better open source SVG viewers), it is nowhere near completely finished. It's kinda depressing really.
Despite the amusement value, I am mildly annoyed at a little hypocrisy in that site. Gentoo users are being portrayed as closed minded, elitist gits by them. The site seems to suggest that gentoo users have a strong belief that they are far superior to others because of the distribution that they use. This is sadly often true in many Gentoo users I have met, however this is not universal. Some gentoo users do not believe their distro is the silver bullet, a sign of manhood or even a badge of honour. A surprising number of Gentoo users, myself included, simply use it because we find it to be a pleasant and productive experience, yet we seem to be hit with this image of the proud and ignorant 13 year old who doesn't really know why he is using gentoo other than it is 1337 time and time again as the "gentoo user". According to netcraft, Funroll-loops runs Debian and I'm not judging them for that; in fact I run a debian based server down the hall in the lounge room and I am very satisfied with it. Despite this, I feel like I am being judged for my choice of software by that website, they are smearing me by implication and they have the gall to call my demographic the elitist one?
I kinda feel sorry for Russel Crowe since now, every time he goes to a bar in his (and my) home town in northern NSW, he is confronted by scores of drunken young men who want to beat Maximus in a fight. Of cause, when they do fight, and Crowe ends up loosing, it's him that looks stupid, not the other guy who knows that he is fighting an actor when assessing his chances of winning, but thinks he is fighting a great Roman general when assessing the glory.
Oh no you don't you sneaky sheep farming weasel. Claiming Russell Crowe is ours is like claiming that the nuclear bomb is Japaneese.
Russell Crowe is a dude from Australia that thinks he's a musician (probably his dellusion isn't as well known outside of .au). The connection is a little frail, but there are people who would be less likely to know about it than him.
They are non-standard" CPUs because nobody uses them. Putting money into supporting them doesn't do jack for the average user. Putting it to work improving support for x86, x86-64, or PPC would do a hell of a lot more good for the distro's users (the ones who donated the money to begin with).
As for his army service. Service was compulsory, deserters were shot. Not to mention the fact that his country, as poorly ideologically driven as it was, was being invaded by the time he joined and he could hardly be expected to not join, and it's not like he joined the SS or flew bombing raids over Britain or Russia. He simply shot down planes bombing his home country, a fairly understandable action even if Satan was your Fuhrer.
Personally, I feel sad for his experience and hope that I never never have to live in a situation like he endured. I couldn't possibly comprehend what it would be like to have my country filled with such horrific doctrine and have this ideology so pervasive that I would be forced to emulate it, or die a horrific death as a traitor to my country. I don't think many people other than those who lived in the Third Reich could comprehend it either.
I'm not a catholic or anything, but I think it's shameful that anyone could spread such libelous, ignorant crap about some poor dude who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. If you want to insult the Pope, go right ahead. But how about saying something about some of his controversial politics and his actions as a grown man. Here's a nice list.
I hear the net really sucks in prison.
I agree totally. Putting people in prison for owning guns when that are effective at killing people (auto and most semi-auto) is commonplace where I come from. And it keeps gun violence down very nicely.
If you did that in America, it would have the added advantage of discoraging crime among African Americans. Since jail would be full of gun totin', rhetoric throwin' good ol' boys like you, it would be too scary for a black man to even think of committing a crime.
The math department uses linux too now. They have 3 really well set up labs, I think they run RedHat.
The parent was good enough to state the distinction in the issue, and attempt to make some sort of semblance of a short argument about it. I suggest that if you want to disagree, you should give some reasons. I know that I'm being offensive and preechy, but I actually kind of agree with you in some respects so I think discussion would be a whole lot better with some actual meat to it.
Couple this arable land shortage with the consumption of the predominantly fat and rich Australian populace and you will probably be able to understand why they can't fit more than 20 million of them onto the island.
Considering that greenland + denmark and france + french polinesia + new calidonia + whatever else comes close to being bigger than canada, the list is good enough for the perpose.
You don't know all that much about geography do you?
Through patents, Amazon rapes the GPL. It's only fair that this be recipricated.
Sure, C doesn't have automatic upcasting, automatic class scoping, operator overloading, function overloading, namespaces, templates, STL, RTTI and the string class out of the box but it really doesn't take that much effort to get around these things (I know that many people won't take my word for it, but there is not much else I can say). Glib REALLY helps out with this as it provides some useful container types that are almost as good as STL and string.
In conclusion, I would summerise that as a C++ lover, I probably would like to see gnome use it. However, gnome doesn't use it, and it doesn't really seem to hurt it, so why care?
Anyway. Gnome and GTK+ are very object oriented, they use classes, virtual member functions and polymorphism right to their cores. Also, skinning in GTK+ is a simple matter of loading a config file.
I like to take project guttenburg books then feed them through festival. The voice is slow and awkward, but it is still very clear, and you can listen to just about anything for free.
I'm in Australia too by the way?
This is because of many factors, such as disagreement as to what it means to be Australian. The crocodile dundee image of a tough, ruggard but easygoing Australia is heartily embraced by many Australians in country areas, but is seen as a thing of shame to many psudo-sophisticated people in the city. Many people in the cities regard Australias culture to be defined by "multicultualism", which is not only not a real or unique culture, but is completely non-present outside of Sydney and Melbourne. The middle class fears being dominated by the Americans and the working class fears being dominated by the Chineese. The upper class seems to realise that selling the country to foreign powers and then leaving is by far the most advantageous thing to do right now (witness rupert murdoch). The Aboriginals who are by definition, the most Australian people in the nation are battling poverty and depression and often carry a contempt to the whole Australian establishment.
Australians hate their own icons, the flag is seen as a symbol of dependance on Britian, the national anthum is hated because of its lack of meaning, lack of tune and white supremist origins. Traditional Australian icons such as Victoria Bitter (beer) and rough sports (Rugby and Aussie Rules) are now often dismissed as unsophisticated and crude.
There is nothing to unite Australians, we have nothing to say that we all have in common, increasingly, in some inner Sydney suburbs, we don't even speak the same language. We can't say we are all working towards a common goal, we can't say we share the same values, we can't say that if we were to meet an Australian overseas that we would be able to tell them apart from the surrounding population. Whe have little loyalty to our country because we can say so little about it without being narrow sighted that we hardly are aquainted to the identity of our own country.
As for our flimsy government: John Howard who was previously known as the toughguy of Australian politics due to his refusal to back down in any situation has only recently became a puppet of the United States. The Iraq War II, the one sided free trade agreement, this extradition thing, the abandonment of David Hicks and Mandu Habib (two of the least patriotic Australians, but still Australians) have all be recent things. Personally I don't know what the hell is going on with this, but I don't like it. John Howard lied to the Australian public to win almost every election that he ran in. He lied about the GST, he lied about the illegal immigrants throwing children into the water and he lied about intrest rates (which he had no power to control anyway). John Howard had become little more than a slippery demigogue with contempt for Australia and the people of the country.
There are still some patriotic Australians, like myself. But then again, many men have fallen in love with prostitutes only to live a life of humiliation when he finds out that his love is only recipricated when she's payed. That's what it is like for me every time I read something like this.
I never said that. I care about usibility issues. But what I don't give a damn about is however much he payed for his software from distros.