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  1. Re:Genetics on Morality — Biological or Philosophical? · · Score: 1

    No, but people with exceptional strong/stuborn morals can find themselves very lonely and overlooked in a modern world.

    Some anti-depressive drugs helps the communications in the brain so that you are more aware of your social needs, and thus makes you more likely to take action to fullfill them. This can move your moral compass.

    From a Christian point-of-view anti-depressives might make you more evil (more likely to engage in premaritial sex, come out as a gay, etc.)

  2. Re:Pay really sucks on Summer of Code Student Applications Now Open · · Score: 1

    ASFAIK SoC was nominated for 7 weeks in 2005

    Personally I don't consider it a full-time job, but just a project, which I invested 20 hours per week in.

    $4500/(7 weeks * 20 hours/week) = 32.14$/hour

    That has been how I've calculated the last two times I was in SoC. In reality I probably spend much more time on it, but much of it is after SoC is over and the project needs to be merged into KDE.

  3. Re:What about rejected organisations? on Summer of Code Student Applications Now Open · · Score: 1

    GStreamer and GIMP are as much GNOME projects as KOffice is a KDE project.

    * They share some developers
    * They share some resources
    * They share some fundamental libraries
    * They share the same initial letter

    And that is it.

    P.S. It is funny that you attack me for not knowing the projects and then make the exact same mistake you accuse me of with KOffice :D

  4. Re:Pay really sucks on Summer of Code Student Applications Now Open · · Score: 1

    It's not bad. You get to do whatever you want, and it is approximately 30$/hour tax-free. For an under-grad or even a grad-student it is still attractive. AND don't forget the T-Shirt!

    Of course a Ph.D. can make more than that, and if he studies some natural science especially Physics, he can go to some of the big international research centers, like CERN and earn 5000$/month tax-free in a summer project. So seriously if you care that much about money, your last summer job sucked!

  5. Re:What about rejected organisations? on Summer of Code Student Applications Now Open · · Score: 2, Insightful

    KOffice also got rejected for the second time. It will ride with the KDE project yet again. It just seems odd KDE isn't allowed to register the subprojects, when it gets more than twice as many applications as the second biggest project.

    I am assuming some of the GNOME/GTK projects got rejected this time to add some balance, they can always put their ideas under their umbrella project like KOffice does.

  6. Re:Real land of chocolate on Germany Rejects Microsoft FAT Patent · · Score: 1

    Swiss chocolate is usually not real chocolate but milk chocolate. No one making this weak fake chocolate deserves the title of "land of chocolate"

  7. Re:Sensible World of Soccer? on The Ten Most Important Games · · Score: 1

    Sensible soccer was the first soccer game where the ball didn't magically stick the players feet.

  8. Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... on French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu · · Score: 2, Informative

    In Ubuntu or Kubuntu you need to replace both GNOME and KDE to get something stable. They apply a bunch of experimental patches to "improve" the experience, but the patches often creates more bugs.

    There also seems to lack mature features for installing 3rd party content. This might not be much of a problem for really basic desktop user, but for a standard Linux users not being able to install and run tar-balls is a real problem (ubuntu doesn't even include /usr/local to PATH!), and they have obscured everything but /home and /mnt in the file-browsers, making it hard to access your webpage in /var/www, your source code in /src and your optional packages in /opt !!

  9. Re:I don't get why they would use Ubuntu... on French Parliament Chooses Ubuntu · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Who is modding down all critique of Ubuntu? I use Ubuntu every day, and it is really a immature* piece of shit.

    (* as in immature software, not immature attitude)

    It feels as stable and coherent as Red Hat or SuSE 6 years ago. It needs lots of work to be a modern Linux distribution.

  10. Re:Apologies but i beg to differ on Turkey Censors YouTube · · Score: 1

    So, let me get this straight: You are denying your Turkish origins?

    And don't feed me racist propaganda, it doesn't bite on me. People are saying the same about Turks in Denmark, and I don't buy that either.

  11. Re:Apologies but i beg to differ on Turkey Censors YouTube · · Score: 1


    - 80% of the electricity used in that region is illegal - they directly steal electricity from the national network, and do not pay. We, people living in western parts pay for kurd's electric bills.

      - In the last 20 years, a great deal of the national budget has been spent in infrastructure investments in southeastern anatolia, in kurd populated zone, for them to be able to better do agriculture and related activities. Now they are making heaploads of money, but all the money is taken by their clan leaders in accordance with their long standing clan structure and individuals do not get anything major. they are fine with it, dont object.

      - A good deal of them migrate to western parts of turkey and major cities. the number of rapes, muggings, robberies, and other mafia-related activities have gone to such an extent that national police is unable to deal with them all, and a nation wide outcry is going on for a few years now. They move in and rent a shop in a neighborhood, then gradually force out ALL other people out of their businesses and rent all shops to their kurdish relatives. There has come up a common saying that "if you let a kurd in to a neighborhood, after 10 years all of the neighborhood becomes kurd".


    If they are so horrible. Why don't you let them go?

  12. Re:Headache for EU negotiators on Turkey Censors YouTube · · Score: 1

    No.

    Most laws are about proving a stable basis for civilization. Murder and theft are illegal because that makes our society more productive. Early morals came from the good advice on how to run a society, but today the morals and law has diverged and morals are all over the map with some being silly and other being usefull.

  13. Re:Bill Gates Cyborg Icon on MS Promotion Site Flagged By MS Anti-Phishing · · Score: 1

    Sounds great, except: CEO Monkey Boy, can't be a cyborg. He's a Monkey Boy.

  14. Re:Security Footage on In France, Only Journalists Can Film Violence · · Score: 1

    Which is not part of or related to the EU, but rather the European Council that includes many more countries.

  15. Re:Does Apple sale for twice what Windows users pa on Microsoft Wanted To Drop Mac Office To Hurt Apple · · Score: 1

    MP3 players are by definition never Hi-Fi, not even the fairy touch of Apple can change that.

  16. Re:Oh Boy on Lego MMOG Announced · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It could be Second Life universe for kids, where the kids can create their own content using Lego.

  17. Re:Brazil elections... on Diebold to Withdraw from E-Voting? · · Score: 1

    ... no fraud attempt was detected

    Of course not. Auditing is not permitted in Brazil. In itself a very suspect decision.

  18. Re:Go back to physics class on Sun May Be Warming Both Earth and Mars · · Score: 1

    Actually many climate models include an increase in solar energy. It is estimated to cause between 1 and 10% of global warming, leaving an increase in CO2 to account most of the remaining 90%

    So there is nothing new, and nothing damning to mainsteam climate research in this article.

  19. Re:Read your own history, mate on Avoiding the Word "Evolution" · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Actually the US is both a republic and a democracy. The concepts are not as mutually exclusive as the two-party system would like you too believe.

    A democracy just means that all power derive from the people in some form, and republic means you have president.

    To be a republic without being a democracy you need a autocratic president, like Iraq under Saddam Hussein; and while the George Bush might be bad, he is not quite Saddam.

  20. Re:This is news? on Chimps Found Making Own Weapons to Hunt for Food · · Score: 1

    No, I think he means the whitehouse has been infected by chimpanses..

    Sorry for destroying the joke for you

  21. Re:Know Your Place on Canadian Border Tightens Due to Info Sharing · · Score: 1

    And to travel to Denmark and Sweden or Norway, or if you fly. And you do need a passport (or citizens ID) on you even within schengen, you just don't need to present it when crossing the border (unless you are flying).

    Ehmm.. In short: You need a passport

  22. Re:Err on Crashing an In-Flight Entertainment System · · Score: 1

    Almost. The standard deviation of most IQ tests is 24 (15 in the US).

    Most quoted IQs use the 24 scale because it sounds better.

  23. Re:Oblivion on Why Computer RPGs Waste Your Time · · Score: 1

    Rats where an exception in Oblivion. Try Mountain lions. They advanced faster than the player. They were really easy at level 1, and the stalking death of doom at level 20.

  24. Re:Competition, competition, competition on US Lags World In Broadband Access · · Score: 1

    Canada, Finland and Sweden comes to mind

  25. Re:Porn? They practically invented it on Web Censorship Proposed For Norway · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No, I think he is thinking of Denmark. It's in the same neighbourhood and was the first western country to (re-)legalize porn.

    The lack puritanism is what distinguish Denmark from the two other Scandinavian countries, Sweden and Norway.