"Guns were an essential part of the American Revolution. We as Americans gained our freedom by fighting for it. Without guns, we'd be a heavily taxed bastard colony of England still."
Right, look at Canada and Australia. We're still bastard colonies of Great Britain, aren't we ? Not everybody has to go through a bloody battle to become independent.
Clinging to such a dated and nowadays absurd idea that guns are still essential because they were essential in some long-irrelevant war, and, furthermore, that they are a RIGHT, not a PRIVILEGE, further promotes unneccessary and uncontrolled use of guns.
I have a friend who applied for a firearms license here in Ontario. He had to go through a rigorous psychological examination at least, not to mention the background check. However, apart from the procedures, the attitude that owning a firearm is a privilege (like driving) rather than a right, probably contributes significantly to keeping Canada (not to mention Australia, Germany, France, South Africa, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland,... ummm, shall I go on ?) much lower on the people-killed-by-guns scale.
Is there any legislation in the States that would prohibit people from using guns if they prove negligent in their care or irresponsible in their use (before even killing or wounding another) ?
You can lose your Driver's License if you are caught driving drunk, before you hit anyone or do any damage. You cannot lose your firearms license for keeping guns and ammo in the same closet or accidentally shooting a window pane to smithereens because, well, there is no such thing as a firearms license !
The discussion is not about which distro is better, merely about how distros differ from each other. "Better" or "worse" isn't supposed to enter the picture.
Different people feel different things are important, and they grab the bits of various projects that they like and build on them. I can then find the projects that most closely match my own priorities and use those
... in true Unix fashion. After all, isn't there a long tradition in the Unix world of writing small utilities that, woven (read:piped) together have the flexibility to accomplish almost any task ?
The big problem with utilities that include GUIs is that a pipeline simply doesn't cut it anymore. That's why there are things like ORBs and DCOM and such. Those are, in some ways the GUI equivalents of pipelines such as
kill `ps ax | grep bash | awk '{print $1;}'`
Please notice that in the GUI world, the interaction between the various applications is far more complex than the simple, linear interaction of programs on a pipeline.
Think before you flame: He wasn't talking about forcing a choice on you. He was talking about creating a whole new desktop, not from scratch, necessarily, but better than both. This way, fewer efforts are duplicated (for instance, forcing a new window manager to support both GNOME and KDE integration). You would still have choice, unless, for some reason you like one technology over the other. In that case, remember: We're dealing with desktop features here. This means that the technology is not the focus - as long as it works properly and efficiently.
Suppose all GNOME and KDE developers all of a sudden decided to combine their efforts and come up with a unified desktop. You can rest asured that it will have enough flexibility to satisfy the most twisted of imaginations as far as desktop arrangement is concerned.
You say that Windows is a bad example of a single desktop ? Of course it is ! But it's not bad because of lack of competition. It's bad because Microsoft doesn't listen to its users as much as the Open Source community does. After all, the users of Open Source Software are often its very developers, who are not restricted by Corporate Guidelines in coming up with imaginative new interface elments and artwork. Want more proof ? Windows is trying to catch up to the Linux desktops in flexibility, because more and more users want their icons just so, or they want their menus to do a little dance before disappearing.
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"Guns were an essential part of the American Revolution. We as Americans gained our freedom by fighting for it. Without guns, we'd be a heavily taxed bastard colony of England still."
... ummm, shall I go on ?) much lower on the people-killed-by-guns scale.
Right, look at Canada and Australia. We're still bastard colonies of Great Britain, aren't we ? Not everybody has to go through a bloody battle to become independent.
Clinging to such a dated and nowadays absurd idea that guns are still essential because they were essential in some long-irrelevant war, and, furthermore, that they are a RIGHT, not a PRIVILEGE, further promotes unneccessary and uncontrolled use of guns.
I have a friend who applied for a firearms license here in Ontario. He had to go through a rigorous psychological examination at least, not to mention the background check. However, apart from the procedures, the attitude that owning a firearm is a privilege (like driving) rather than a right, probably contributes significantly to keeping Canada (not to mention Australia, Germany, France, South Africa, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland,
Is there any legislation in the States that would prohibit people from using guns if they prove negligent in their care or irresponsible in their use (before even killing or wounding another) ?
You can lose your Driver's License if you are caught driving drunk, before you hit anyone or do any damage. You cannot lose your firearms license for keeping guns and ammo in the same closet or accidentally shooting a window pane to smithereens because, well, there is no such thing as a firearms license !
The discussion is not about which distro is better, merely about how distros differ from each other. "Better" or "worse" isn't supposed to enter the picture.
Whoops ! Ximian is GNOME-based.
You said it yourself: Micro$oft :o)
Yeah, the edge of your disk space, that is :o) I have never seen so much dren in a single distro ...
The big problem with utilities that include GUIs is that a pipeline simply doesn't cut it anymore. That's why there are things like ORBs and DCOM and such. Those are, in some ways the GUI equivalents of pipelines such as
kill `ps ax | grep bash | awk '{print $1;}'`
Please notice that in the GUI world, the interaction between the various applications is far more complex than the simple, linear interaction of programs on a pipeline.
Suppose all GNOME and KDE developers all of a sudden decided to combine their efforts and come up with a unified desktop. You can rest asured that it will have enough flexibility to satisfy the most twisted of imaginations as far as desktop arrangement is concerned. You say that Windows is a bad example of a single desktop ? Of course it is ! But it's not bad because of lack of competition. It's bad because Microsoft doesn't listen to its users as much as the Open Source community does. After all, the users of Open Source Software are often its very developers, who are not restricted by Corporate Guidelines in coming up with imaginative new interface elments and artwork. Want more proof ? Windows is trying to catch up to the Linux desktops in flexibility, because more and more users want their icons just so, or they want their menus to do a little dance before disappearing.