The main problem seems to be that once elected the buggers decide to go off and line their own pockets. So if you do come up with a solution to that be sure to let the rest of us know!
Allow electors to have recall referendums (holding a referendum on whether there should be a new election after a certain percentage of the electorate sign a petition) and not paying parliamentarians more than the average wage of a worker would be a good start.
This page on their site - "Top Ten Blogger Personas: The Mobosphere Unveiled" - is pretty damn hilarious.
Number 5:
Nerd
This is the guy who is scared to talk with a girl, but behind the keyboard, all alone, morphs into a Casanova. This empowerment of anonymity creates an omnipotent persona, and for the first time the nerd feels the effect of power and control, gets an adrenaline buzz when he exercises it, and he exercises it often, usually creating or perpetuating a volatile situation in which he feels he can outsmart the "opposition". There is no principle involved. His blog postings are all about the adrenaline. It is hard to know if you are dealing with this type online...his posts are intelligent and on their face credible. But, once you identify the nerd blogger, he cowers and goes away, usually forever.
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We appear to have Schrödingered their web server: We all went to look and now it's dead.
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none of the editors will say a word about it in response to all the hundreds of negative Roland posts that are made
And honestly, the only "proprietary" or "closed" things that EVER get included with ANY distro are things like *decent* drivers for 3D video cards, and codecs.
Actually I remember using Netscape 4 with an early version of Red Hat (3.5?). Only decent web browser I could find:) (Also, for a while Adobe Acrobat Reader was pretty important for me, despite xpdf being available)
BUSH:...We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in.
and:
BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets, that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.
Coined by Bush - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internets_(colloquial ism)
BUSH:...We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in.
and
BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets, that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.
Bah, forget banning it. What would be better is some total game mods - for example, one that would enable you to send your gay, atheist, science teachers in to battle Bible-bashing Christian bigots! That would rock!
it routinely consumes up to 2GB of memory (on a 4GB system) before I notice things grinding to a halt, and I kill the process and start a new browser. A day or two later, it's back up to 2GB of memory usage, with maybe 4-6 tabs going... But I suppose my experience isn't valid, since I'm just "trying to make firefox look bad" because I've got nothing better to do with my time, eh?
Well I dunno about that -- but, for example, I've had a different experience: I regularly use Firefox on a few different systems, some of which run Linux, some that run Windows 98 and some that run Windows XP and they all have less than a gig of memory. My home system is running Windows XP at the moment and only has 512MB of physical RAM and I haven't had your problem. This is despite running some sizeable apps like Photoshop at the same time. This isn't to say that I doubt your experience, just that other people may doubt it because they obviously have vastly more satifactory Firefox performance than you.
I've watched Mozilla development for a few years now, and I can tell you that this is actually a good thing... By listening to everyone you end up with (among a million other things) a kitchen sink.
What next? Users attack hardware vendors for not releasing drivers for graphics cards? Political parties make screensavers which overload the web servers of the opposition? We do not want to go there.
I don't follow the logic of your argument -- does spam have the same status as political speech in your view? (And therefore is any attack on spammers an infringment on free speech?)
I think while it's true that reading books may have declined, it's a testament to the medium's durability that it has already survived movies, TV, the VCR and DVDs.
More importantly, however, I think that the internet has ensured that the written word (albeit S0mT!meZ badly written) will survive although maybe books as a medium will suffer despite this. I actually think this combination of factors (survival of books, resurgence of the importance of text for communication thanks to the internet) means that it's unlikely animation will ever completely replace static comics. (Has film replaced painting?)
More likely the revolution will be in the distribution and production of comics, while their form will still hold appeal for many. Anyway, just my thoughts.
I remember reading Maus (and RAW) around 6th/7th grade and being moved and impressed too. I think that the Pulitzer prize it won was a "special" Pulitzer (not sure of the details.)
An interesting (and insightful) comment by Art Spiegelman, Maus' author, on comics as a medium: "Comics echo the way the brain works. People think in iconographic images, not in holograms, and people think in bursts of language, not in paragraphs." (Quoted here, but it isn't the original source.)
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Allow electors to have recall referendums (holding a referendum on whether there should be a new election after a certain percentage of the electorate sign a petition) and not paying parliamentarians more than the average wage of a worker would be a good start.
This page on their site - "Top Ten Blogger Personas: The Mobosphere Unveiled" - is pretty damn hilarious.
Number 5:
Nerd
This is the guy who is scared to talk with a girl, but behind the keyboard, all alone, morphs into a Casanova. This empowerment of anonymity creates an omnipotent persona, and for the first time the nerd feels the effect of power and control, gets an adrenaline buzz when he exercises it, and he exercises it often, usually creating or perpetuating a volatile situation in which he feels he can outsmart the "opposition". There is no principle involved. His blog postings are all about the adrenaline. It is hard to know if you are dealing with this type online...his posts are intelligent and on their face credible. But, once you identify the nerd blogger, he cowers and goes away, usually forever.
We appear to have Schrödingered their web server: We all went to look and now it's dead.
That's not quite true.
Tag it: "defectivebyaccident"!
And honestly, the only "proprietary" or "closed" things that EVER get included with ANY distro are things like *decent* drivers for 3D video cards, and codecs.
Actually I remember using Netscape 4 with an early version of Red Hat (3.5?). Only decent web browser I could find :) (Also, for a while Adobe Acrobat Reader was pretty important for me, despite xpdf being available)
defectivebyaccident
Maybe tag with !dental to avoid confusion.
Coined by Bush - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internets_(colloquial ism)
BUSH: ...We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in.
and:
BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets, that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.
Coined by Bush - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internets_(colloquial ism)
BUSH: ...We can have filters on Internets where public money is spent. There ought to be filters in public libraries and filters in public schools so if kids get on the Internet, there is not going to be pornography or violence coming in.
and
BUSH: Yes, that's a great question. Thanks. I hear there's rumors on the, uh, Internets, that we're going to have a draft. We're not going to have a draft, period. The all-volunteer army works. It works particularly when we pay our troops well. It works when we make sure they've got housing, like we have done in the last military budgets.
Bah, forget banning it. What would be better is some total game mods - for example, one that would enable you to send your gay, atheist, science teachers in to battle Bible-bashing Christian bigots! That would rock!
Yahoo has been hiring in Sydney quite recently apparently.
it routinely consumes up to 2GB of memory (on a 4GB system) before I notice things grinding to a halt, and I kill the process and start a new browser. A day or two later, it's back up to 2GB of memory usage, with maybe 4-6 tabs going ... But I suppose my experience isn't valid, since I'm just "trying to make firefox look bad" because I've got nothing better to do with my time, eh?
Well I dunno about that -- but, for example, I've had a different experience: I regularly use Firefox on a few different systems, some of which run Linux, some that run Windows 98 and some that run Windows XP and they all have less than a gig of memory. My home system is running Windows XP at the moment and only has 512MB of physical RAM and I haven't had your problem. This is despite running some sizeable apps like Photoshop at the same time. This isn't to say that I doubt your experience, just that other people may doubt it because they obviously have vastly more satifactory Firefox performance than you.
Yeah - watch out for these dodgy people!
Man funced by nuke power industry supports nuke power...
Brings to mind Coagula, the "Industrial Strength Color-Note Organ", which converts .bmp files to synth sounds.
I've watched Mozilla development for a few years now, and I can tell you that this is actually a good thing... By listening to everyone you end up with (among a million other things) a kitchen sink.
Ahem.
Mac OS X will "blow everyone off"? Can't believe that Apple didn't advertise that feature!
What next? Users attack hardware vendors for not releasing drivers for graphics cards? Political parties make screensavers which overload the web servers of the opposition? We do not want to go there.
I don't follow the logic of your argument -- does spam have the same status as political speech in your view? (And therefore is any attack on spammers an infringment on free speech?)
Part 4 is already here.
The speed at which Firefox tries to render a page can be increased -- see here and here.
The html got messed up somewhere along the line. Here's my original submission:
An article on Mozillanews.org is reporting on Google's registration of the domain Gbrowser.com (nothing to look at there yet). The article provides a summary of rumours that Google will release a branded version of Mozilla Firefox (along with some interesting speculation).
Wikipedia entry on it.
I think while it's true that reading books may have declined, it's a testament to the medium's durability that it has already survived movies, TV, the VCR and DVDs.
More importantly, however, I think that the internet has ensured that the written word (albeit S0mT!meZ badly written) will survive although maybe books as a medium will suffer despite this. I actually think this combination of factors (survival of books, resurgence of the importance of text for communication thanks to the internet) means that it's unlikely animation will ever completely replace static comics. (Has film replaced painting?)
More likely the revolution will be in the distribution and production of comics, while their form will still hold appeal for many. Anyway, just my thoughts.
I remember reading Maus (and RAW) around 6th/7th grade and being moved and impressed too. I think that the Pulitzer prize it won was a "special" Pulitzer (not sure of the details.)
An interesting (and insightful) comment by Art Spiegelman, Maus' author, on comics as a medium: "Comics echo the way the brain works. People think in iconographic images, not in holograms, and people think in bursts of language, not in paragraphs." (Quoted here, but it isn't the original source.)