By that logic the attacks on Iraqi Christians by Islamic fundamentalists are justified, because they are at war with the (supposedly) Christian US.
Also, countries with conflicts with ethnic minorities are justified in treating all members of a minority as enemies because some have taken arms against the state?
The good bit is that we can now hold all Americans responsible for George Bush's actions.....
I also find it odd that so many americans find the very idea (of workers gathering together to form a stronger position for bargaining with employers) somehow offensive.
Because:
Good for employees at a cost to employers == socialism == evil
It may be obvious, but it was not obvious to legislators....
Unless, of course, its more important to them to be seen to do something, rather than actually do something effective (like providing a budget for enforcement).
I don't know why, but whenever I try out KDE (every few years or so) there's something about it which drives me back to GNOME again.
I find the same - the other way around. Put it down to personal preference or different usage.
The majority of useful utilities on Linux are written with GTK widgets rather than Qt
Most of the apps (not quite the same thing!) I prefer are KDE. What I have open right now: Firefox, Kate, Konsole, Konqueror, Akregator, Epiphany, Kmail.
the different File Open/Save dialogue boxes grate on me.
I for prefer the KDE one.
I do like some things about Gnome, and will continue to give it a try every so often.
They also said that Google have changed their stance. If you look at this Google Public Policy Blog post from last summer:
Beyond that, we also believe that broadband carriers should have the flexibility to engage in a whole host of activities, including....Employing certain upgrades, such as the use of local caching or private network backbone links
When I showed my mother my linux box, I said "You click that for the web browser, click that for email, click that for writing documents" opening each one to show her. Her response "It's exactly the same as windows!".
The problem is that much of the/. crowd do not realise how simple and limited most people's usage of computers is.
Its a bit late to be sensitive about it - its already happened.
European law overrides national law (i.e. EU regulations and directives), EU law covers areas that US states have autonomy over, EU courts issue EU wide arrest warrants (i.e. no extradition).
What more would it take before you say it has happened.
I favour the EU constitution though. We are not being given the choice of not being part of the EU, so we might as well vote for a constitution that will make it more democratic.
Though the teacher grossly over-reacted, why don't some people understand that, especially at the lower grade levels, teachers have to teach to the standards?
No one expected her to teach Linux. The kids were learning it for themselves.
Telling them that they should only learn what they are taught is the opposite of education.
One shouldn't show up to a guitar class handing out trumpets to everybody and then expect the teacher to teach to both the guitar and the trumpet.
Bad analogy. No one expected her to teach Linux.
I would not expect a guitar teacher to try to prevent their pupils learning the trumpet in another class. I would not expect the guitar teacher to claim that trumpets were illegal and threaten to sue anyone who gave children trumpets.
This made me laugh. I would like to think that you would not need to say that, but then I remember that you probably do.
It may not be enough.
A friend of mine was working in a hospital in the US (I cannot remember where exactly). A patient once came in to the hospital and asked to see the Spanish doctor. There was no Spanish doctor at the hospital. After a short conversation it turned out he meant the Sri Lankan doctor, to which he said "Oh! I knew it was one of those 'S' countries"
It is not just the Americans either. My wife was recently told (by a German) that someone was Greek, who turned out to be Syrian. Someone else who we were told was Uzbek turned out to be Tajik.
I'm just waiting for the day when a botnet herder decides to find out the answer to the question of "what will the government do when *everyone* is a criminal?"... and malware sends a "care package" to 1,000,000+ computers, consisting of illegal content {child porn / whatever) - then reports the IP addresses to the authorities.
If the sort of people who ran botnets were the sort of people who want better laws and police, that would happen. I rather think that is the last thing they want.
What is more likely (if it is not happening already) is that more targeted hacks are being used to plant material on computers, hidden where are non-knowledgeable user would not easily find it, and then blackmailing them. A few files could be placed in open view to prove that the threat was real - or perhaps a random illegal image could be popped up at intervals to keep the pressure up.
Most people would be too scared to get help, and would roll over.
forced wealth redistribution (he guided his followers to be charitable to their fellow human beings - but he never supported the government stepping in and forcing them to do so)
He did not exactly think much of the government - or them of him.
He also had very harsh things to say about the rich - "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven". He was never that harsh about any other group of people - he was criticised for having too much contact with other people who were considered bad by society. Both sides of that are still prettly radical.
She confiscated property with no good reason, she is ignorant and arrogant, and is clearly unable to deal with people fairly and is ignorant. She sent an offensive and threatening email without bothering to check her facts.
She could have dealt with it by asking what was happening, checking the legal position, and then acting.
She is not fit to be a teacher. There are circumstances when it is right to be tactful, but this does not look like one of them.
Yes, but the losses to one industry means gains to another: even the people who would have bought if they did not pirate, probably spent the money they saved on something else, so another industry made gains. Otherwise they saved it, and it would have been available to provide capital to industry.
You could even argue that as the consumers who pirated and bought something else are now better off than if they had not pirated, there is an increase in consumers utility - and utility maximisation is the entire point of a free market economy.
So what is you solution? The state takes all children of parents it thinks made bad decisions away?
I blame much of this problem on the British government which took an extremely patronising attitude to parents. Their leaflets supposedly explaining the safety of the MMR did not cite any facts other than that the vaccine had been used got a long time without any evidence of damage being found - it conspicuously failed to mention whether anyone had looked for such evidence. The rest of it was largely "we know better than you so you better do as your told".
It would have been perfectly easy to fund something like the Danish study much earlier.
Even better would be to fund a set of long term studies of the long term effects of all commonly used vaccines, proving them all safe. The datasets would overlap (reducing costs) and it might turn up other useful information as well, and datasets that could be mined if any future doubts were raised.
On the contrary, breaking up formed monopolies is a lot more expensive than preventing monopolies from forming in the first place.
Either is still less expensive than the cost of tolerating monopolies.
(on a side note: for those who thought Google was any less predatory than Microsoft, think again...)
Search does not have the network effects that OSes and Office software benefit from, so, regardless of their attitude, Google will not be as big a danger unless other services like Google Docs become equally successful.
You are caricaturing their position (I agree with them on some things, but I have no opinion on gun ownership, and American conservatives would regard a good many of my opinions as socialist).
Most people, liberal or conservative, would agree that:
It is acceptable to kill in self defence if you have no alternative
It should be a serious crime to kill someone except in such very limit circumstances.
No one says "its OK to own a gun and to kill people with whenever you think its useful to get rid of them". I known lots of people who have owned guns (for protection, to kill animals, etc.) but I do not know anyone who has killed someone. "Gun's don't kill people, people kill people", is atleast partly true.
Most people opposed to abortion do not describe women who resort to them, especially under difficult circumstances, as murderers - there are too many extenuating circumstances. Even the most hardline opponents of abortion reserve the label for those who carry out abortions.
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By that logic the attacks on Iraqi Christians by Islamic fundamentalists are justified, because they are at war with the (supposedly) Christian US.
Also, countries with conflicts with ethnic minorities are justified in treating all members of a minority as enemies because some have taken arms against the state?
The good bit is that we can now hold all Americans responsible for George Bush's actions.....
I also find it odd that so many americans find the very idea (of workers gathering together to form a stronger position for bargaining with employers) somehow offensive.
Because:
Good for employees at a cost to employers ==
socialism == evil
Flawless reasoning!
It may be obvious, but it was not obvious to legislators....
Unless, of course, its more important to them to be seen to do something, rather than actually do something effective (like providing a budget for enforcement).
I do not know how randy Archimedes himself was, but:
ancient Greek sexuality is disturbing.
I really wonder if the book in the last link can really be legal.
I don't know why, but whenever I try out KDE (every few years or so) there's something about it which drives me back to GNOME again.
I find the same - the other way around. Put it down to personal preference or different usage.
The majority of useful utilities on Linux are written with GTK widgets rather than Qt
Most of the apps (not quite the same thing!) I prefer are KDE. What I have open right now: Firefox, Kate, Konsole, Konqueror, Akregator, Epiphany, Kmail.
the different File Open/Save dialogue boxes grate on me.
I for prefer the KDE one.
I do like some things about Gnome, and will continue to give it a try every so often.
They also said that Google have changed their stance. If you look at this Google Public Policy Blog post from last summer:
Beyond that, we also believe that broadband carriers should have the flexibility to engage in a whole host of activities, including....Employing certain upgrades, such as the use of local caching or private network backbone links
She's not eyecandy like Billie Piper(Rose) or Freema Agyeman (Martha), but she certainly can act.
Freema Agyeman is eye candy AND can act.
You can still get USB to parallel port adaptors.
The same thing will happen with whatever replaces USB.
I really hope we do not move to wireless USB. It will just be an extra set of security holes and other problems.
When I showed my mother my linux box, I said "You click that for the web browser, click that for email, click that for writing documents" opening each one to show her. Her response "It's exactly the same as windows!".
The problem is that much of the /. crowd do not realise how simple and limited most people's usage of computers is.
Its a bit late to be sensitive about it - its already happened.
European law overrides national law (i.e. EU regulations and directives), EU law covers areas that US states have autonomy over, EU courts issue EU wide arrest warrants (i.e. no extradition).
What more would it take before you say it has happened.
I favour the EU constitution though. We are not being given the choice of not being part of the EU, so we might as well vote for a constitution that will make it more democratic.
Though the teacher grossly over-reacted, why don't some people understand that, especially at the lower grade levels, teachers have to teach to the standards?
No one expected her to teach Linux. The kids were learning it for themselves.
Telling them that they should only learn what they are taught is the opposite of education.
One shouldn't show up to a guitar class handing out trumpets to everybody and then expect the teacher to teach to both the guitar and the trumpet.
Bad analogy. No one expected her to teach Linux.
I would not expect a guitar teacher to try to prevent their pupils learning the trumpet in another class. I would not expect the guitar teacher to claim that trumpets were illegal and threaten to sue anyone who gave children trumpets.
"Portugal (a small country near Spain)"
This made me laugh. I would like to think that you would not need to say that, but then I remember that you probably do.
It may not be enough.
A friend of mine was working in a hospital in the US (I cannot remember where exactly). A patient once came in to the hospital and asked to see the Spanish doctor. There was no Spanish doctor at the hospital. After a short conversation it turned out he meant the Sri Lankan doctor, to which he said "Oh! I knew it was one of those 'S' countries"
It is not just the Americans either. My wife was recently told (by a German) that someone was Greek, who turned out to be Syrian. Someone else who we were told was Uzbek turned out to be Tajik.
Maybe the headline should read "incompetent data recovery nearly lets rapist get away"
I'm just waiting for the day when a botnet herder decides to find out the answer to the question of "what will the government do when *everyone* is a criminal?"... and malware sends a "care package" to 1,000,000+ computers, consisting of illegal content {child porn / whatever) - then reports the IP addresses to the authorities.
If the sort of people who ran botnets were the sort of people who want better laws and police, that would happen. I rather think that is the last thing they want.
What is more likely (if it is not happening already) is that more targeted hacks are being used to plant material on computers, hidden where are non-knowledgeable user would not easily find it, and then blackmailing them. A few files could be placed in open view to prove that the threat was real - or perhaps a random illegal image could be popped up at intervals to keep the pressure up.
Most people would be too scared to get help, and would roll over.
forced wealth redistribution (he guided his followers to be charitable to their fellow human beings - but he never supported the government stepping in and forcing them to do so)
He did not exactly think much of the government - or them of him.
He also had very harsh things to say about the rich - "it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle, than for a rich man to enter heaven". He was never that harsh about any other group of people - he was criticised for having too much contact with other people who were considered bad by society. Both sides of that are still prettly radical.
I was under the impression that if you used a GPL library (statically linked or not) your program must be covered by the GPL.
Well, yes, it must, because otherwise it is a breach of copyright.
The point is that no one can force you to change the license on your own code. The courts will just make you pay damages for breach of copyright.
She confiscated property with no good reason, she is ignorant and arrogant, and is clearly unable to deal with people fairly and is ignorant. She sent an offensive and threatening email without bothering to check her facts.
She could have dealt with it by asking what was happening, checking the legal position, and then acting.
She is not fit to be a teacher. There are circumstances when it is right to be tactful, but this does not look like one of them.
Yes, but the losses to one industry means gains to another: even the people who would have bought if they did not pirate, probably spent the money they saved on something else, so another industry made gains. Otherwise they saved it, and it would have been available to provide capital to industry.
You could even argue that as the consumers who pirated and bought something else are now better off than if they had not pirated, there is an increase in consumers utility - and utility maximisation is the entire point of a free market economy.
It took forever (a decade or more at least) to handle crashes in a microsoft OS which had thousands of talented people working on it.
Maybe it is because they had other priorities. Consumer software sales depend far more on features than reliability.
Maybe we should start a war on stupidity next ?
No point. We would not stand a chance.
So what is you solution? The state takes all children of parents it thinks made bad decisions away?
I blame much of this problem on the British government which took an extremely patronising attitude to parents. Their leaflets supposedly explaining the safety of the MMR did not cite any facts other than that the vaccine had been used got a long time without any evidence of damage being found - it conspicuously failed to mention whether anyone had looked for such evidence. The rest of it was largely "we know better than you so you better do as your told".
It would have been perfectly easy to fund something like the Danish study much earlier.
Even better would be to fund a set of long term studies of the long term effects of all commonly used vaccines, proving them all safe. The datasets would overlap (reducing costs) and it might turn up other useful information as well, and datasets that could be mined if any future doubts were raised.
Except the British scheme is voluntary for IPSs, and that sort of abuse would probably lead to ISPs just pulling out.
On the contrary, breaking up formed monopolies is a lot more expensive than preventing monopolies from forming in the first place.
Either is still less expensive than the cost of tolerating monopolies.
(on a side note: for those who thought Google was any less predatory than Microsoft, think again...)
Search does not have the network effects that OSes and Office software benefit from, so, regardless of their attitude, Google will not be as big a danger unless other services like Google Docs become equally successful.
You are caricaturing their position (I agree with them on some things, but I have no opinion on gun ownership, and American conservatives would regard a good many of my opinions as socialist).
Most people, liberal or conservative, would agree that:
No one says "its OK to own a gun and to kill people with whenever you think its useful to get rid of them". I known lots of people who have owned guns (for protection, to kill animals, etc.) but I do not know anyone who has killed someone. "Gun's don't kill people, people kill people", is atleast partly true.
Most people opposed to abortion do not describe women who resort to them, especially under difficult circumstances, as murderers - there are too many extenuating circumstances. Even the most hardline opponents of abortion reserve the label for those who carry out abortions.
Al Gore did not win the election. He had the majority of the popular vote. That's it. The popular vote means nothing in itself.
Can you not see there is something wrong there?