The problem is that a lot of people believe statistics produced by an expert such as a doctor. Sri Roy Meadow had people sent to prison, and lots of children taken away from their parents, by misinterpreting statistics.
Please do provide us with examples of democracy at work within the church.
People are free to leave at will if they disagree.
The only sanctions taken internally for unorthodox views are withdrawal of offical positions (as a recognised theologian for example - as with Hans Kung).
Monasteries/convents elect their abbots/mother superiors, and a number of religious orders (such as the Jesuits) elect their heads. The latter include some of the most powerful roles in the Church (such as the Jesuit "Black Pope").
influence elections from the pulpit, lobby elected officials and the press
That's called 'freedom of speech'. You are entitled to call air your views, so is the church.
The Catholic Church initiated a lawsuit against the Girbauds
Did you see the verifiability note on the article? Citation needed.
In the Middle Ages it was the norm for feudal societies to be dictatorial - wow, some things have improved since then! On the other hand, the church did a huge amount of good throughout its history from opposing the use of gladiators to playing a part is loosening slavery into feudalism, to preserving intellectual life in the dark ages, to education, to medical services.
All the stuff people on Slashdot sprout about the Catholic church, and religion in general, sounds rather like listening to Microsoft on Linux: it sounds very convincing unless you actually start checking facts, or have direct experience.
Exactly what I thought. The Australian government wants to be able to block arbitrary websites at will without oversight, and their list of banned sites already includes political sites, the British government has a web censorship system that is unofficial, and therefore unaccountable. What is the difference,.
According to the story the website was calling for the VIOLENT overthrow of the government. That would be illegal in most countries.
As for holding forums responsible for postings, it sounds a lot like the recent Italian case against Google, or British libel law which makes web hosts responsible for the content of sites they host, or bookseller responsible for libelous content in books.
Funny how all this is terrible when Venezuela or Iran does it , but it is apparently fine for Saudi Arabia or Uzbekistan to do much worse.
Do not worry, Britain is quite happy to demonstrate how to get rid of freedom any time. Just say "terrorists" or "paedophiles" and the British public will quite happily vote for ANYTHING.
It is much easier to deal with the rare piece of software that is not in the repo, than lots and lots of software that is not in the non-existent repos.
Gamers are rarely completely naive users, and are rarely Linux users anyway.
There is usually a recognised non-free repo which should be enabled on installation for free-as-in-beer proprietary software. The problem only needs to be solved once.
Proprietary paid for software is usually safe-ish anyway (no worse than on Windows) and only a small proportion of all the software you install (serious gamers aside, again)
You are almost always safe assuming that if something is in the distro's repos it is legit and malware slipping through is very rare, even with obscure packages.
oh....
OK, then the best advice is that an OS without extensive repos provided by the vendor is not suitable for naive users, and you are wasting our time trying to fix the wrong problem.
Call them out how? They refuse to specify what patents are violated. If you look at the details of the licensing deals MS appears to have paid more than they have been paid.
You are assuming that MS made a profit on the deal.
It could be like the Novell deal: Novell agreed to pay MS$40m, but MS agreed to pay Novell $348m It could be simple cross-licensing like the Samsung or Amazon deals, with the compensation being MS's acess to IO's patents.
There is nothing by MS spin to suggest that MS has been paid for patents that cover Linux.
[quote]I'd rather see ISPs voluntarily cracking down on spam-generating machines than be forced to pay a tax in an attempt to make up for my neighbor*'s ignorance. [/quote]
Why not fine the owners of spam generating machines to fund it, rather than using general taxation? That way, as long as you keep your PC malware free, you do not pay.
Food standards is a bad example. Tight regulations leads to large slaughterhouses, which lead to production line methods and unskilled works, and more contamination (e.g. through spills from evisceration) and any contamination is more widely spread.
You should wear tags. The British government wants people to carry ID cards. Not carrying a cellphone (which allows you to be tracked) is likely to be regarded as suspicious. Then there is Britain network of CCTV cameras.
The Flash SWF format is open, and Adobe has a better track record than MS on open formats (PDF).
Linux is no-longer negligible in terms of market share. Its difficult to get numbers, but Ubuntu alone passed 8m users back in 2008 and has been growing since. Add users who are not counted thanks to multiple installs plus apt caching, then add the other distros (with similar adjustments), and you get a total comparable to MacOS,
It is simply that the user of the service knows with better than 98% certainty WHAT the experience will be. The user knows the food, the prices, the environment, before they even pull into the parking lot.
To expand globally McDonalds had to introduce new products to appeal to differing tastes in different countries.
Linus gave me a cow, Stallman donated the iron for utensils (I though about reversing that but I get this metal image of RMS as an herbivore), so I could do it all myself
That is an accurate analogy for what distros do. Installing Linux is a one-off problem, and you can get it- pre-installed from some vendors. How much the fragmentation of Android matter depends on how badly people want a single Andriod app store.
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That should, of course, read Sir Roy Meadow....
Learn to read the preview!
The problem is that a lot of people believe statistics produced by an expert such as a doctor. Sri Roy Meadow had people sent to prison, and lots of children taken away from their parents, by misinterpreting statistics.
I think its more to do with the fact that its government organisation, than the general culture.
British Airways recently went to court rather than allow Christian to wear a (small and unobtrusive) cross at work.
Please do provide us with examples of democracy at work within the church.
People are free to leave at will if they disagree.
The only sanctions taken internally for unorthodox views are withdrawal of offical positions (as a recognised theologian for example - as with Hans Kung).
Monasteries/convents elect their abbots/mother superiors, and a number of religious orders (such as the Jesuits) elect their heads. The latter include some of the most powerful roles in the Church (such as the Jesuit "Black Pope").
influence elections from the pulpit, lobby elected officials and the press
That's called 'freedom of speech'. You are entitled to call air your views, so is the church.
The Catholic Church initiated a lawsuit against the Girbauds
Did you see the verifiability note on the article? Citation needed.
In the Middle Ages it was the norm for feudal societies to be dictatorial - wow, some things have improved since then! On the other hand, the church did a huge amount of good throughout its history from opposing the use of gladiators to playing a part is loosening slavery into feudalism, to preserving intellectual life in the dark ages, to education, to medical services.
All the stuff people on Slashdot sprout about the Catholic church, and religion in general, sounds rather like listening to Microsoft on Linux: it sounds very convincing unless you actually start checking facts, or have direct experience.
Exactly what I thought. The Australian government wants to be able to block arbitrary websites at will without oversight, and their list of banned sites already includes political sites, the British government has a web censorship system that is unofficial, and therefore unaccountable. What is the difference,.
The example he gives looks like malice to me.
On the other hand, malice is not needed in Britain. Even a reasonable belief and a public interest are not defences - you have to prove what you said.
What did the TV stations do?
According to the story the website was calling for the VIOLENT overthrow of the government. That would be illegal in most countries.
As for holding forums responsible for postings, it sounds a lot like the recent Italian case against Google, or British libel law which makes web hosts responsible for the content of sites they host, or bookseller responsible for libelous content in books.
Funny how all this is terrible when Venezuela or Iran does it , but it is apparently fine for Saudi Arabia or Uzbekistan to do much worse.
]Though to get back to the earlier post - despite the UK still having state religion, I find it funny that at least we print Darwin on our bank notes
Why? Because a small minority of Christians, whose ideas have been rejected by the major churches, have a problem with his ideas?
[quote]If they want to put something that reflects Christian values on the money, they should use "Render unto Cesar".[/quote]
As a Chritian, I agree that would be an improvement, but Jesus key teaching about money were:
"it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven"
and
"give all you have to the poor"
A REAL Christian country would have one of those two on its money.
The British comedy series "Yes Minister", had Sir Humphrey Appleby calling it "The politicians syllogism":
1) We must do something
2) This is somehing
3) Therefore, we must do this
Do not worry, Britain is quite happy to demonstrate how to get rid of freedom any time. Just say "terrorists" or "paedophiles" and the British public will quite happily vote for ANYTHING.
It is much easier to deal with the rare piece of software that is not in the repo, than lots and lots of software that is not in the non-existent repos.
Gamers are rarely completely naive users, and are rarely Linux users anyway.
There is usually a recognised non-free repo which should be enabled on installation for free-as-in-beer proprietary software. The problem only needs to be solved once.
Proprietary paid for software is usually safe-ish anyway (no worse than on Windows) and only a small proportion of all the software you install (serious gamers aside, again)
You are almost always safe assuming that if something is in the distro's repos it is legit and malware slipping through is very rare, even with obscure packages.
oh....
OK, then the best advice is that an OS without extensive repos provided by the vendor is not suitable for naive users, and you are wasting our time trying to fix the wrong problem.
So you should logically also ban all violent films, books, paintings etc.
It is wrong to ban adults access to material that is unsuitable for children.
Call them out how? They refuse to specify what patents are violated. If you look at the details of the licensing deals MS appears to have paid more than they have been paid.
You are assuming that MS made a profit on the deal.
It could be like the Novell deal: Novell agreed to pay MS$40m, but MS agreed to pay Novell $348m
It could be simple cross-licensing like the Samsung or Amazon deals, with the compensation being MS's acess to IO's patents.
There is nothing by MS spin to suggest that MS has been paid for patents that cover Linux.
[quote]I'd rather see ISPs voluntarily cracking down on spam-generating machines than be forced to pay a tax in an attempt to make up for my neighbor*'s ignorance. [/quote]
Why not fine the owners of spam generating machines to fund it, rather than using general taxation? That way, as long as you keep your PC malware free, you do not pay.
Food standards is a bad example. Tight regulations leads to large slaughterhouses, which lead to production line methods and unskilled works, and more contamination (e.g. through spills from evisceration) and any contamination is more widely spread.
Giving IE the rightmost position so often makes it look deliberate.
There also seem to be a very high proportion of Trident based browsers. I count:
5 Trident (IE, Green browser, Sleipnir, Avant, Flashpeak)
3 Webkit (Safari, Chome, Maxathon)
3 Gecko (FF, K-Meleon, Flock)
1 other (opera)
You should wear tags. The British government wants people to carry ID cards. Not carrying a cellphone (which allows you to be tracked) is likely to be regarded as suspicious. Then there is Britain network of CCTV cameras.
You may to wear a tag, but you might as well.
The Flash SWF format is open, and Adobe has a better track record than MS on open formats (PDF).
Linux is no-longer negligible in terms of market share. Its difficult to get numbers, but Ubuntu alone passed 8m users back in 2008 and has been growing since. Add users who are not counted thanks to multiple installs plus apt caching, then add the other distros (with similar adjustments), and you get a total comparable to MacOS,
I am sure someone will make a claim to the rights to pictures of similar things in your country - if no-one else the government will.
That assumes that Windows users will actually install this plugin.
Will there be a Mac version?
Will games that actually make use of this be small enough to reload every times your browser cache gets cleared?
Very, very few browser plugins have become common.
Have you ever used Linux? Most of the software you use is in the repos, so its EASIER to install than on Windows.
If you need to compile stuff yourself (which is what you are talking about) you are enough of a geek to cope with it.
It is simply that the user of the service knows with better than 98% certainty WHAT the experience will be. The user knows the food, the prices, the environment, before they even pull into the parking lot.
To expand globally McDonalds had to introduce new products to appeal to differing tastes in different countries.
Linus gave me a cow, Stallman donated the iron for utensils (I though about reversing that but I get this metal image of RMS as an herbivore), so I could do it all myself
That is an accurate analogy for what distros do. Installing Linux is a one-off problem, and you can get it- pre-installed from some vendors. How much the fragmentation of Android matter depends on how badly people want a single Andriod app store.