Some noobs think that protecting the Panda just because it is cute and cuddly leaves many other species in the lurch. What about the non-cuddly animals?
Well, they are living in the same area. Panda does well, they do well.
QI had a nice example of this. There is a lice that is in danger since it lives on only one animal. But who cares about lice?
But the animal they live on is a cute pig. Protect the cute pig, protect the lice. No need for sea kittins, protect the otters, the seals and the whales (all photogenic as hell) and the fish follow right along.... oh okay, so not the fish that get eaten but the fish in general.
Most of PETA is just angsty kids who rage against their parents for only caring about money and not giving them enough pocket money. The worsed thing they do is they give the right wingers a weapon to ridicule anyone who thinks killing of the entire world might not be a good idea.
There has been a lot of research into this field and the basic conclusion is that there are only a few "real" people in the world, the rest are filler.
Simple setup, at a busy public location an actor fakes an incident, say collapsing on the pavement. The results are filmed. What shows? Nobody does anything UNTIL one person does something, then others rush to assist as well following that ones persons example.
It is wrong to think this is malice. There are leaders in our society and there are followers and the followers need someone to give them an example of what to do. How should I react?
Babies already have this, experiment: place a thick glass plate between two solid objects, making a bridge. Place child on one of the objects and encourage it to crawl over the glass bridge (height) to the other. Baby will be happy to do so, or drool, or poop (whipe, change and repeat). If it notices the drop below it, watch its reaction. It won't have one UNTIL it sees its mother. Mother looks happy? Baby happy. Mother looks scared? Baby is scared. Suddenly the height is something it must apparently fear, and it will.
What do you do when an incident happens? I actually know some emergency training because it was forced on me when I did my national service. A few years ago I had a chance to use it... no, that isn't right, a few years ago buried training emerged and took over. I didn't know what to do but my training did. It was on automatic. Had I had to give instructions to someone else to do the same as I was doing, I wouldn't have been able to. If you asked me afterwards what I did, I couldn't really tell you, CPR but not the actions itself.
People are cattle, performing well rehearsed tricks, my trick just happened to include CPR.
If one person shows the right example, the rest will follow and humanity can show itself at its best. If one person shows the wrong example... well... read up on history, things can get very dark indeed.
Oh as for an aid giver being sued? I did crack some ribs of my "patient" an elderly woman who suffered an heart attack right in front of her house, she died a few days later. Her son came to me and thanked me because although cracked ribs hurt like hell and she still died, she died amongst family in a warm bed, not on the street alone. Only in America would a person think of sueing for giving aid. One person showing the wrong example and the rest followed.
We make our own society far more then we think but it is always up to a single individual to lead the way. One must go first.
Just pray you are the one when the call comes unexpected. For 20 years my training went to waste and then I needed it in an instant... those that falter are not evil, they are human. The ones who exploit it, like those who sue or steal from victims, they are the ones to hate.
So don't blame the persons standing around that accident, blame the guy who wanted to sue you for creating the atmosphere of being afraid to help in the first place.
In races, it is pretty normal for objects to go out of control and leave the trac. From cyclists to horses to cars and of course airplanes.
Why does turd after turd come up with airshow rules when it is pretty clear from all the reporting and of course the bloody video that his is a race?
Did you watch the challenger crash and go, "but you shouldn't strap rockets to your plane to begin with"?
AIR RACE.
Gosh and this on a tech site where we complain how ordinary people keep thinking computers are magic but the moment a story happens a tiniest bit out of the common for most and everyone turns into a tabloid writer.
There is a difference. An airshow is about looking at aircraft, an air race is a race with aircraft and why do people watch races? Why when a trailer is made for racing on tv does it invariably show the crashes?
A rollercoaster is an event where we push our sense of danger to the edge but never over it, we wouldn't go on rollercoasters if they had the same accident as races of all kinds do.
But we do attend races... well, some do. Why stand on the road of a rally race?
Some attend races for the crashes. Not all but some.
I suppose this debate will always be split amongst those who think this kind of stuff is fun and those who don't.
Maybe we should examine your history and see if we can have some fun with that. If you are not just full of shit you will post your full personal details here or even better on 4chan.
Oh, not fun when it is happening to you? Then it ain't just fun.
Maybe if you got your head out of MS fanboy land for a while you would have noticed that the general opinion about KDE4, Gnome 3 and Unity is NEGATIVE on slashdot. There was no praise and now that even the old stable desktop gnome has gone there is a lot of protest.
So your idea of funny is that people who protest about useless gunk on Linux desktops also complain about useless gunk on the Windows desktop...
Don't quit your day job to do standup... oh you don't have a day job. Funny that.
I don't have an iPhone as I am not a moral vacuum and so would never have heard of this app normally but now I have... good job Apple. See that they are not completely evil, they want to make sure everyone is properly informed of just what you stand for when you buy an iPhone. Censorship, outsourcing of all production work from the US and turning it into slave labor instead.
Samsung could at this point make Android phones with real kitten fur and still take the moral high ground... I didn't just give somebody an idea did I?
Alright all your Apple cultists, time for you to loudly protest that: vote with your dollars, doesn't apply when the shiny is shiny enough but we should boycot X Y and Z because they are not hip. Oh and claiming that it ain't censorship if it is a company doing it is also a good way to protest (and show that you have no spine).
I know I stand utterly alone in this but Bioshock fucking sucked. This was supposed to be the spiritual successor to System Shock? Yeah right. It was a barely acceptable shooter but System Shock was never just a plain shooter.
And now Xcom to be turned into a shooter... oh yes, straying from the strategy part by simply slapping xcom on another genre worked so well before hasn't it.
Oh wait, it hasn't. Xcom in space basically butchered the franchise. But this time is SURE to be different because what the world needs right now is another FPS...
If you don't need to be bad, how the hell did you manage to complete the story line? To me the GTA games seem like a marvelous engine created by some of the brightest in the industry with a storyline written by a particularly angsty and hate filled 12 year old. San Andreas was an absolute low point, there is a word starting with n that applies 100% to the character and then some. You could never find such a waste of air in real life. I played it mostly out of a sick curiousity of just how much a low life that character could be and reminded myself that there was an ocean between me and the writer before I could go to sleep at night.
None of the characters have anything to redeem them. Anti-hero's at least got to have something. It is not even as if you got a choice, there is one path and it would make Anakin Skywalker think twice.
It would seem to be a trend, for a long time fantasy meant high fantasy with good versus evil and you were good... then Dragon Age decided to want to find the angst crowd and made a dystopian fantasy game. If you think seeing everything in black and white is bad, then so is seeing everything in greys. Don't believe me? Someone who thinks only in shades of grey (and almost black and almost white isn't grey) is the kind who think the nazi's weren't all bad or that there is something to say for totalitarian regime etc etc. There are rights and wrongs in the world, only not in the minds of the morally vapid.
But I have always had the hunch that if you wanted to clean up the world morally, your best bet would be to kill every single writer. Who but a writer would kill of an entire planet just to give a character a motivation? More people are killed at the hands of authors then by all wars combined... take the sick fuck who wrote the bible, wipe out all of humanity just to make a moral point?
I am not saying that video games turn people into killers but I am entertaining the idea that the reverse is true. Same as a lot of serial killers turn out to have tortured animals in their life. A sick fuck is a sick fuck and give them a chance to show, it they will. So not 100% of sick fucks in games are serial killers but 100% if serial killers would be sick fucks in a game.
And if you are immediately outraged by this and want to kill me for saying this... point proven.
If only there were some examples in history of a party coming relatively late to the market but still dominating it!
It would be easy to point to Apple and its late entry in both the MP3 AND smartphone market. There were smartphones before the iPhone, LONG before. In fact MS had smartphones before Jobs even thought of one.
And MS was late to the computer market as well, there were lots of companies that came earlier AND thought they had control of the market. They were wrong... their names? Apple, IBM, Commodore, Amiga.
I doubt MS will make it this time but it is not because there is such a think as first mover advantage. MS will fail again because they produce crap. The proof? Apple had according to you control of the smartphone market. Didn't stop Android did it now?
MS previously relied on lockin and it didn't help to sell any of their previous phones and now they come up with the UI from hell and people still won't want it. Because they don't have to.
Ubuntu 11.04 is opensources answer to Vista and ME. "Hey! We can suck donkey ass too and force you to relearn everything without tutorials on a system that is buggier then a MS first release and has more driver issues then a dos machine. It is not like you got a choice... stop looking at mint, that is not the distro you are looking for".
Calling Vista a good OS... stockholm syndrome much? MS has a solid strategy, they release a product they know is absolutely crap to make their regular crap look better in comparison. Just look at the people calling Windows 7 good... if I stop force feeding you shit and put you on a diet of urine instead you might think things are looking up. They are not.
It is new coke all over again. Give people a taste of how bad it can be and they appreciate their regular dose of crap a lot more.
The Russians had publicity in the west against them so they pulled out of a war that was nothing but negative press to them.
The US was making that bad press and funding the war against the russians.
The Russians may be laughing their ass of at the mess the US has gotten itself into BUT they are not going to aid the taliban just to piss of the Americans.
The US may not be winning the war but they sure as hell are thinning out the Taliban. There is reason the Taliban is using more and more terror tactics in Afghanistan, they are running out of capable recruits.
What you may not have heard is that just after 9/11 the Taliban fielded a fairly capable army and was using traditional war strategies against the Afghani government. They are no longer capable of it. That is not to say the war has been won but you got to have a LOT of hatred to join up for what is practically a suicide mission. Suicide bombers you say? Count them. They have a horrific impact but are totally incapable of being used in any sensible military tactics. Post 9/11 people feared an uprising, the beginning of a new war... but where is the hatred? Just recently Libyan's were shown kissing the US flag for the aid in helping liberate their country. Oh, the US involvement there is far from clean BUT Osama cried for Muslims around the world to rally to a common cause and for 9 years, the answer was silence. There are plenty of individuals with enough hatred but terrorism is hardly new. IRA, Basks, German radicals. There are always going to be people who want to force their minority opinion through violence.
The western world has payed dearly for the war but the price payed on the side of the extremists is far far higher. Their leadership is in ruins, new plots are half-assed and stopped routinely and worsed off all. When the uprising finally started, it was peaceful and directed against Muslim rulers with so far precious little input from extreme Islam. This is not what Osama was dreaming off.
And those who cry about how the west is fighting itself... metal detectors? They have been at airports for decades. Just because the US allowed internal flights to be boarded from the runway by anybody taking anything they wanted doesn't mean that this is the norm. I was search 30 years ago on a boat trip to the UK for crying out load. Maybe the US just needed a wake-up call in general.
As for hatred against the US? There seems to be more hatred amongst rich white boys from the American suburbs then say in Egypt or Tunisia or Libya. Remember the protests in Iran. The ones happening in Syria? Against the evil imparislists! Oh, wait no... they are protesting against their own leaders, leaders who try to use the US as the great Satan and their people are rejecting it.
No, 9/11 saw big changes in the world but I doubt Osama is very pleased with them... even if he was still alive.
But kiddies like you wish to see the world burn and use their own fears to put hatred into other peoples mind, even if those other people got far more important things to worry about. Read the real news for a change, not Fox or the BBC, both are extremists wishing to color the news to suit their agenda but the real news. What real people living real life are thinking.
2500 euro's is about 4000 dollars... 4500 dollars...5000 dollars...5500 dollars... 6000 dollars.
Of course that EU price includes a high VAT and better consumer protection so that also helps explains the lower price... eh what?
If you really want to upset the Americans, mention how socialized obama care means that the standard hearing aids are free and if you want a top of the range one you just pay a max of 500 euro's for it, the base price being covered by your insurance.
Currently wifi is the make or break of many a linux install. Laptop builders love to add the latest for no very good reason that barely works under windows, let alone linux.
Often by the time a new piece of hardware makes it to the consumer a driver will be out there but getting it involves going cutting edge... and then a 8 week test window starts to look bloody long.
There really is no middle ground unless you want to spend an absolute fortune on release management.
Wait till everything you want to put into a release is stable and tested and you will be obsolete and unable to add patches some users need NOW.
Doing a rolling release and you are a tester and will just have to rely on people not breaking things on purpose like Gnome 3 or KDE4.
For Ubuntu, 11.04 was a mistake, they released new projects that were in an early beta state at the best as critical packages for any desktop. You can make available a beta package as an optional replacement for an established package but to go Unity Gnome3 full hog when neither was or is ready... no.
Why they wanted it 11.04 and no say in 99.10 when it might be functional (it isn't right now) I don't know. Why other distro's copied them, I understand even less.
Sometimes you need the cutting edge and sometimes you don't. But going cutting edge on a critical piece... that is just silly.
There were gnome 3 packages for the fans in 10.10. They should have kept it that way.
Mint so far seems to be only distro with the sense to keep the basics that work.
I am talking about religious schools, they don't each anything but reading the Koran. Or do you think someone going to priest school is qualified for a technical job? Note the difference between a school founded on Catholic principles and an education teaching you for priesthood.
If regulars can't expect the same service every time, can the restaurant expect the same payment every time?
Gosh yeah, he sure feels self entitled, only thing he does is pay and probably tip and expect service in return. How DARE HE! Burn him I say! Whip his ungrateful body until he begs for cold food and crap service as the undeserving dog he is.
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Some noobs think that protecting the Panda just because it is cute and cuddly leaves many other species in the lurch. What about the non-cuddly animals?
Well, they are living in the same area. Panda does well, they do well.
QI had a nice example of this. There is a lice that is in danger since it lives on only one animal. But who cares about lice?
But the animal they live on is a cute pig. Protect the cute pig, protect the lice. No need for sea kittins, protect the otters, the seals and the whales (all photogenic as hell) and the fish follow right along.... oh okay, so not the fish that get eaten but the fish in general.
Most of PETA is just angsty kids who rage against their parents for only caring about money and not giving them enough pocket money. The worsed thing they do is they give the right wingers a weapon to ridicule anyone who thinks killing of the entire world might not be a good idea.
Doesn't matter, it was only obtained through animal testing so it should be off limits regardless of how it is obtained now.
PETA is not Greenpeace, PETA is against ALL forms of animal use. A cat allows you to stay in its house? Animal cruelty. Guide dogs? Cruelty.
And her kids?
Someone isn't uptodate on his lore. Hand in your geek pass at the door, from now on you will just have to sex like the rest of the plebs.
Wesley is to Star Trek what a the phantom menace was to Star Wars. That is if either existed, which they don't.
The HD without the contents is now worth more then the US economy.
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Most amazing article recently, Geithner called on the EU for unity to deal with the crisis especially regarding to Greece.
Geez, how about solving your own problems first since they caused the whole mess to begin with?
It takes one. Just one.
There has been a lot of research into this field and the basic conclusion is that there are only a few "real" people in the world, the rest are filler.
Simple setup, at a busy public location an actor fakes an incident, say collapsing on the pavement. The results are filmed. What shows? Nobody does anything UNTIL one person does something, then others rush to assist as well following that ones persons example.
It is wrong to think this is malice. There are leaders in our society and there are followers and the followers need someone to give them an example of what to do. How should I react?
Babies already have this, experiment: place a thick glass plate between two solid objects, making a bridge. Place child on one of the objects and encourage it to crawl over the glass bridge (height) to the other. Baby will be happy to do so, or drool, or poop (whipe, change and repeat). If it notices the drop below it, watch its reaction. It won't have one UNTIL it sees its mother. Mother looks happy? Baby happy. Mother looks scared? Baby is scared. Suddenly the height is something it must apparently fear, and it will.
What do you do when an incident happens? I actually know some emergency training because it was forced on me when I did my national service. A few years ago I had a chance to use it... no, that isn't right, a few years ago buried training emerged and took over. I didn't know what to do but my training did. It was on automatic. Had I had to give instructions to someone else to do the same as I was doing, I wouldn't have been able to. If you asked me afterwards what I did, I couldn't really tell you, CPR but not the actions itself.
People are cattle, performing well rehearsed tricks, my trick just happened to include CPR.
If one person shows the right example, the rest will follow and humanity can show itself at its best. If one person shows the wrong example... well... read up on history, things can get very dark indeed.
Oh as for an aid giver being sued? I did crack some ribs of my "patient" an elderly woman who suffered an heart attack right in front of her house, she died a few days later. Her son came to me and thanked me because although cracked ribs hurt like hell and she still died, she died amongst family in a warm bed, not on the street alone. Only in America would a person think of sueing for giving aid. One person showing the wrong example and the rest followed.
We make our own society far more then we think but it is always up to a single individual to lead the way. One must go first.
Just pray you are the one when the call comes unexpected. For 20 years my training went to waste and then I needed it in an instant... those that falter are not evil, they are human. The ones who exploit it, like those who sue or steal from victims, they are the ones to hate.
So don't blame the persons standing around that accident, blame the guy who wanted to sue you for creating the atmosphere of being afraid to help in the first place.
AIRRACE, not an airshow.
In races, it is pretty normal for objects to go out of control and leave the trac. From cyclists to horses to cars and of course airplanes.
Why does turd after turd come up with airshow rules when it is pretty clear from all the reporting and of course the bloody video that his is a race?
Did you watch the challenger crash and go, "but you shouldn't strap rockets to your plane to begin with"?
AIR RACE.
Gosh and this on a tech site where we complain how ordinary people keep thinking computers are magic but the moment a story happens a tiniest bit out of the common for most and everyone turns into a tabloid writer.
There is a difference. An airshow is about looking at aircraft, an air race is a race with aircraft and why do people watch races? Why when a trailer is made for racing on tv does it invariably show the crashes?
A rollercoaster is an event where we push our sense of danger to the edge but never over it, we wouldn't go on rollercoasters if they had the same accident as races of all kinds do.
But we do attend races... well, some do. Why stand on the road of a rally race?
Some attend races for the crashes. Not all but some.
Your idea of fun is pretty weird.
I suppose this debate will always be split amongst those who think this kind of stuff is fun and those who don't.
Maybe we should examine your history and see if we can have some fun with that. If you are not just full of shit you will post your full personal details here or even better on 4chan.
Oh, not fun when it is happening to you? Then it ain't just fun.
Maybe if you got your head out of MS fanboy land for a while you would have noticed that the general opinion about KDE4, Gnome 3 and Unity is NEGATIVE on slashdot. There was no praise and now that even the old stable desktop gnome has gone there is a lot of protest.
So your idea of funny is that people who protest about useless gunk on Linux desktops also complain about useless gunk on the Windows desktop...
Don't quit your day job to do standup... oh you don't have a day job. Funny that.
I don't have an iPhone as I am not a moral vacuum and so would never have heard of this app normally but now I have... good job Apple. See that they are not completely evil, they want to make sure everyone is properly informed of just what you stand for when you buy an iPhone. Censorship, outsourcing of all production work from the US and turning it into slave labor instead.
Samsung could at this point make Android phones with real kitten fur and still take the moral high ground... I didn't just give somebody an idea did I?
Alright all your Apple cultists, time for you to loudly protest that: vote with your dollars, doesn't apply when the shiny is shiny enough but we should boycot X Y and Z because they are not hip. Oh and claiming that it ain't censorship if it is a company doing it is also a good way to protest (and show that you have no spine).
Ready? GO!
So you are the one to blame for 99% of games being fps'es. That means if we kill you, the world will finally get something new and original.
Now is it worth killing a human being, even if it isn't a particularly good example, for the sake of gaming. That is a though call...
I will have to think about this...
Don't start any long books.
I know I stand utterly alone in this but Bioshock fucking sucked. This was supposed to be the spiritual successor to System Shock? Yeah right. It was a barely acceptable shooter but System Shock was never just a plain shooter.
And now Xcom to be turned into a shooter... oh yes, straying from the strategy part by simply slapping xcom on another genre worked so well before hasn't it.
Oh wait, it hasn't. Xcom in space basically butchered the franchise. But this time is SURE to be different because what the world needs right now is another FPS...
If you don't need to be bad, how the hell did you manage to complete the story line? To me the GTA games seem like a marvelous engine created by some of the brightest in the industry with a storyline written by a particularly angsty and hate filled 12 year old. San Andreas was an absolute low point, there is a word starting with n that applies 100% to the character and then some. You could never find such a waste of air in real life. I played it mostly out of a sick curiousity of just how much a low life that character could be and reminded myself that there was an ocean between me and the writer before I could go to sleep at night.
None of the characters have anything to redeem them. Anti-hero's at least got to have something. It is not even as if you got a choice, there is one path and it would make Anakin Skywalker think twice.
It would seem to be a trend, for a long time fantasy meant high fantasy with good versus evil and you were good... then Dragon Age decided to want to find the angst crowd and made a dystopian fantasy game. If you think seeing everything in black and white is bad, then so is seeing everything in greys. Don't believe me? Someone who thinks only in shades of grey (and almost black and almost white isn't grey) is the kind who think the nazi's weren't all bad or that there is something to say for totalitarian regime etc etc. There are rights and wrongs in the world, only not in the minds of the morally vapid.
But I have always had the hunch that if you wanted to clean up the world morally, your best bet would be to kill every single writer. Who but a writer would kill of an entire planet just to give a character a motivation? More people are killed at the hands of authors then by all wars combined... take the sick fuck who wrote the bible, wipe out all of humanity just to make a moral point?
I am not saying that video games turn people into killers but I am entertaining the idea that the reverse is true. Same as a lot of serial killers turn out to have tortured animals in their life. A sick fuck is a sick fuck and give them a chance to show, it they will. So not 100% of sick fucks in games are serial killers but 100% if serial killers would be sick fucks in a game.
And if you are immediately outraged by this and want to kill me for saying this... point proven.
If only there were some examples in history of a party coming relatively late to the market but still dominating it!
It would be easy to point to Apple and its late entry in both the MP3 AND smartphone market. There were smartphones before the iPhone, LONG before. In fact MS had smartphones before Jobs even thought of one.
And MS was late to the computer market as well, there were lots of companies that came earlier AND thought they had control of the market. They were wrong... their names? Apple, IBM, Commodore, Amiga.
I doubt MS will make it this time but it is not because there is such a think as first mover advantage. MS will fail again because they produce crap. The proof? Apple had according to you control of the smartphone market. Didn't stop Android did it now?
MS previously relied on lockin and it didn't help to sell any of their previous phones and now they come up with the UI from hell and people still won't want it. Because they don't have to.
Point to me to any evidence that you could not get a porn app into a Linux repo. Oh wait, there isn't one. See pornview for one.
The guidelines you refer to are about basic quality and legal requirements, not about censorship.
Ubuntu 11.04 is opensources answer to Vista and ME. "Hey! We can suck donkey ass too and force you to relearn everything without tutorials on a system that is buggier then a MS first release and has more driver issues then a dos machine. It is not like you got a choice... stop looking at mint, that is not the distro you are looking for".
Calling Vista a good OS... stockholm syndrome much? MS has a solid strategy, they release a product they know is absolutely crap to make their regular crap look better in comparison. Just look at the people calling Windows 7 good... if I stop force feeding you shit and put you on a diet of urine instead you might think things are looking up. They are not.
It is new coke all over again. Give people a taste of how bad it can be and they appreciate their regular dose of crap a lot more.
Dos 2 3 4 5? Windows 2 3? (Leaving out the 1 because you don't tend to add the numeric when there is just 1) Just why do you think it is 7 and 8?
Those who don't learn from history are bound to look silly.
The Russians had publicity in the west against them so they pulled out of a war that was nothing but negative press to them.
The US was making that bad press and funding the war against the russians.
The Russians may be laughing their ass of at the mess the US has gotten itself into BUT they are not going to aid the taliban just to piss of the Americans.
The US may not be winning the war but they sure as hell are thinning out the Taliban. There is reason the Taliban is using more and more terror tactics in Afghanistan, they are running out of capable recruits.
What you may not have heard is that just after 9/11 the Taliban fielded a fairly capable army and was using traditional war strategies against the Afghani government. They are no longer capable of it. That is not to say the war has been won but you got to have a LOT of hatred to join up for what is practically a suicide mission. Suicide bombers you say? Count them. They have a horrific impact but are totally incapable of being used in any sensible military tactics. Post 9/11 people feared an uprising, the beginning of a new war... but where is the hatred? Just recently Libyan's were shown kissing the US flag for the aid in helping liberate their country. Oh, the US involvement there is far from clean BUT Osama cried for Muslims around the world to rally to a common cause and for 9 years, the answer was silence. There are plenty of individuals with enough hatred but terrorism is hardly new. IRA, Basks, German radicals. There are always going to be people who want to force their minority opinion through violence.
The western world has payed dearly for the war but the price payed on the side of the extremists is far far higher. Their leadership is in ruins, new plots are half-assed and stopped routinely and worsed off all. When the uprising finally started, it was peaceful and directed against Muslim rulers with so far precious little input from extreme Islam. This is not what Osama was dreaming off.
And those who cry about how the west is fighting itself... metal detectors? They have been at airports for decades. Just because the US allowed internal flights to be boarded from the runway by anybody taking anything they wanted doesn't mean that this is the norm. I was search 30 years ago on a boat trip to the UK for crying out load. Maybe the US just needed a wake-up call in general.
As for hatred against the US? There seems to be more hatred amongst rich white boys from the American suburbs then say in Egypt or Tunisia or Libya. Remember the protests in Iran. The ones happening in Syria? Against the evil imparislists! Oh, wait no... they are protesting against their own leaders, leaders who try to use the US as the great Satan and their people are rejecting it.
No, 9/11 saw big changes in the world but I doubt Osama is very pleased with them... even if he was still alive.
But kiddies like you wish to see the world burn and use their own fears to put hatred into other peoples mind, even if those other people got far more important things to worry about. Read the real news for a change, not Fox or the BBC, both are extremists wishing to color the news to suit their agenda but the real news. What real people living real life are thinking.
Right: tea party.
Left: Chinese communist party.
Let them both run a country for a while and see how well each country does.
Start date: 2012.
2500 euro's is about 4000 dollars... 4500 dollars...5000 dollars...5500 dollars... 6000 dollars.
Of course that EU price includes a high VAT and better consumer protection so that also helps explains the lower price... eh what?
If you really want to upset the Americans, mention how socialized obama care means that the standard hearing aids are free and if you want a top of the range one you just pay a max of 500 euro's for it, the base price being covered by your insurance.
America, the land of the silly.
No, carrier pigeons do not count as wifi.
Currently wifi is the make or break of many a linux install. Laptop builders love to add the latest for no very good reason that barely works under windows, let alone linux.
Often by the time a new piece of hardware makes it to the consumer a driver will be out there but getting it involves going cutting edge... and then a 8 week test window starts to look bloody long.
There really is no middle ground unless you want to spend an absolute fortune on release management.
Wait till everything you want to put into a release is stable and tested and you will be obsolete and unable to add patches some users need NOW.
Doing a rolling release and you are a tester and will just have to rely on people not breaking things on purpose like Gnome 3 or KDE4.
For Ubuntu, 11.04 was a mistake, they released new projects that were in an early beta state at the best as critical packages for any desktop. You can make available a beta package as an optional replacement for an established package but to go Unity Gnome3 full hog when neither was or is ready... no.
Why they wanted it 11.04 and no say in 99.10 when it might be functional (it isn't right now) I don't know. Why other distro's copied them, I understand even less.
Sometimes you need the cutting edge and sometimes you don't. But going cutting edge on a critical piece... that is just silly.
There were gnome 3 packages for the fans in 10.10. They should have kept it that way.
Mint so far seems to be only distro with the sense to keep the basics that work.
See the results in the EU courts, but Apples just files new ones.
Google didn't start this fight but I hope they win. They might not be good but they are the lesser evil.
I am talking about religious schools, they don't each anything but reading the Koran. Or do you think someone going to priest school is qualified for a technical job? Note the difference between a school founded on Catholic principles and an education teaching you for priesthood.
If regulars can't expect the same service every time, can the restaurant expect the same payment every time?
Gosh yeah, he sure feels self entitled, only thing he does is pay and probably tip and expect service in return. How DARE HE! Burn him I say! Whip his ungrateful body until he begs for cold food and crap service as the undeserving dog he is.