There's a guy on YouTube that has made many, many good videos on how to do a wide range of useful stuff on Ubuntu. His username is gotbletu. Give it a try.
The GP was a little of in the value of liberty, but he's on the right track.
While your example, Canada, didn't struggle to have liberty, they did earn it. As a people, they got together and chose to live in a free, open nation. Put another way, no one gave it to them. Which is the problem with Iraq. The US (my home) is trying to give it to them. That doesn't take away from the value of any such liberty, but it does bring into question the staying power of it.
Good for you. You don't need that printer, but what if someone else needs to replace the same printer?
There are any number of reasons that someone would purchase a modern printer-fax-copier. Just because you doesn't mean that Goodwill or the Salvation Army should pass on it. After all, there are 300 million other people out there (in the USA) and some of them have a use for it.
If you have something useful that you don't want anymore, donate it. Most organizations that take donations (Salvation Army, for example) not only spend money to help others, they also employ people that might not otherwise get employment.
Of course the world is getting warmer. It has been for the last ten thousand years. You know, since the end of the last ice age.
Back then, the polar ice cap extended down into modern-day Illinois. If only we could have stopped global warming from melting the ice cap all the way to what it was 100 years ago.
How about the fact that Greenland used to be warm enough for farming settlement?
Going beyond that, you're using the typical old "won't someone think of the icecaps?!" Do you wanna know how long the Earth's been warming up? Since the end of the last freakin' ice age; About 10,000 years ago. That's about 10,000 years before the industrial revolution (and autos) that are blamed for global warming.
But don't let those facts stop you from using selective data to falsify man-made global warming.
I read that as "I would like an elephant weapon from an more civilized age."
I thought, "What kind of weapon is an 'elephant weapon'? And before I could stop myself, I had a mental picture of an elephant slamming into a Mig fighter.
Your country wants to spy on everything you do (CCTV, GPS In your car, phone calls, emails, etc.), and your worried about what Americans think of you...
Re:1.0 right now (Score:5, Informative)
by metricmusic (766303) Alter Relationship on Tuesday November 09 2004, @08:14AM (#10764927)
Its great! I downloaded it from here: http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fi refox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%201.0.zip Don't think slashdot will be able to bring down an edu. Go firefox!
Re:1.0 right now (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 09 2004, @08:26AM (#10765036) [Vader]I find your lack of faith distrubing[/Vader]...
All I have to go on are are quotes like "suspicious user registrations by Google employees" and two browser-based applications that have a similar goal and layout. But Google is the big guy and the startup is the little guy. So...Google is evil. I have barely anything that resembles a fact, but I know the truth of it!
WTF does "suspicious user registrations by Google employees" supposed to mean? Google has over 22,000 full-time employees (who knows how many part-time). I'm willing to bet that a decent percentage of them are web savvy because...well..that's what they do. Also, how do they know that certain registrations are Google employees? Probably because they users' email was @google.com. So, let's see if I have this straight, Google decided to steal this startups (fairly obvious) idea and couldn't be bothered to at least hide it by using gmail.com and not google.com? Or maybe Yahoo! or Hotmail. Right...
As for the interface. I did RTFA and they mentioned (with picture in a link) that both apps have the same general set of buttons and similarities in their interface. It's a freakin' application that does one simple thing, it annotates web pages It's not an application that say, allows you to edit 3D objects and has a bajillion buttons (witness Blender). That's a couple of buttons and a couple of textboxes. Oh, and as to how the button arrangements are similar: the cancel button and the submit buttons are side-by-side, with the cancel on the left. Someone call the police! That's a smokin' gun right there!
I'm not saying that Google didn't steal this app, but everything so far is circumstantial at best.
There are three criteria, that if met by the animal in question, prevent me from eating them.
1. How intelligent they are. If an animal displays some sort of above rudimentary intelligence, it gets a pass. So whales, porpoise, monkeys, apes, octopi, and similar animals get a pass. I won't even eat pig anymore.
2. How closely they're related to humans. Apes, monkeys, lawyers, and politicians get a pass.
3. If they're endangered. No animal is tasty enough to warrant their extinction.
This is not a scientific list, it's just my way of putting the world in perspective. It's like asking "how nice should I be to others?" I get to draw the line. If you don't like it, tough.
One of the problems with environmentalism is common in any charged topic. You're all or nothing. In this case, your options are:
You don't believe that man-made global warming hasn't been adequately proven: so you're a greedy, goose stepping, capitalistic pig who doesn't care about the environment one bit.
or..
You believe that mankind should take responsibility for its actions on the environment: so pot smoking, brainless, mindless hippy that hates humanity.
Any people wonder why there's so much strife in today's world... Oh, and you can thank the media (sensationalism & controversy sales) and politicians (polarize to make them yours). Of which special interest groups are the bastard stepchild.
There's no need for fisheries. It's been shown that simply cordoning off sections of the ocean where no one is allowed to fish at all, causes an explosion of sea life in the surrounding areas.
Well...okay, I take back part of what I said. We do need fisheries for shell fish. It's fishing for shell fish (especially shrimp) that causes so much of the habitat destruction. The trawlers rake scoops across the ocean beds to catch shrimp. Which annihilate the corral reefs.
It's not a lack of predators. The problem with this particular jellyfish stems from increased global temperature and pollution from China (near Hong Kong).
Thinking about it, the Chinese and Japanese will eat rhino penis because they think it's an aphrodisiac. Someone should tell them that eating giant jellyfish will give them a bigger penis.
I saw a Nation Geographic (I think) special on this.
These jellyfish spawn off the cost of China, near Hong Kong. The increasing water temperature (since the end of the last ice age) coupled with the pollution that China dumps into the sea, has caused an explosion of the aforementioned animals. The jellyfish then float eastward, right into the Japanese fishing waters.
The Japanese have no real solution to this problem. Thy only thing they can do it try to kill as many jellyfish as they can (using bladed or hooked poles).
Here's when I venture into probably troll country: I'm okay with the affect the jellyfish are having. The way that the Japanese over-fish the oceans (not to mention killing whales), I'm okay with anything that slows them down. Now only if something could slow down the over-fishing done by the rest of the world. This includes the US, of which I'm a citizen.
I'm not a Green Peace lovin' (I hate 'em), tree hugging, nut job; but we really need to have some sort of international regulation (with punishments in the form of sanctions) on the fishing and care of the oceans. From over-fishing to habitat destruction (often a side affect of fishing) to pollution, we're well on our way to killing the oceans as we know them. Which will lead to the killing of our civilization as we know it. Not the end of it, mind you. Just the end of it as we know it.
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Did you just say that things change naturally? That's crazy talk! It's a fact that nothing on this planet ever changes unless it's caused by mankind!
Ever!
They asked? That's it?
*sigh*
For a minute there, I thought I'd found my new dream job. "Now, tell me if this makes you have an orgasm. Don't worry, it's for science."
I see you worship at the feet of Foamy, too.
NSFW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcwAwTPX3IQ
My story is exactly like yours!
There's a guy on YouTube that has made many, many good videos on how to do a wide range of useful stuff on Ubuntu. His username is gotbletu. Give it a try.
I thought it was understood that octopi have primate-level intelligence. Why is this so surprising?
When is it okay for me to start killing them?
The GP was a little of in the value of liberty, but he's on the right track.
While your example, Canada, didn't struggle to have liberty, they did earn it. As a people, they got together and chose to live in a free, open nation. Put another way, no one gave it to them. Which is the problem with Iraq. The US (my home) is trying to give it to them. That doesn't take away from the value of any such liberty, but it does bring into question the staying power of it.
Good for you. You don't need that printer, but what if someone else needs to replace the same printer?
There are any number of reasons that someone would purchase a modern printer-fax-copier. Just because you doesn't mean that Goodwill or the Salvation Army should pass on it. After all, there are 300 million other people out there (in the USA) and some of them have a use for it.
If you have something useful that you don't want anymore, donate it. Most organizations that take donations (Salvation Army, for example) not only spend money to help others, they also employ people that might not otherwise get employment.
It's the whole win-win thing.
It has nothing to do with games. It has to do with the OS.
Believe me, having to deal with Vista has made me want to kill like nothing else.
Of course the world is getting warmer. It has been for the last ten thousand years. You know, since the end of the last ice age.
Back then, the polar ice cap extended down into modern-day Illinois. If only we could have stopped global warming from melting the ice cap all the way to what it was 100 years ago.
Whoopdie-fucking-doo.
How about the fact that Greenland used to be warm enough for farming settlement?
Going beyond that, you're using the typical old "won't someone think of the icecaps?!" Do you wanna know how long the Earth's been warming up? Since the end of the last freakin' ice age; About 10,000 years ago. That's about 10,000 years before the industrial revolution (and autos) that are blamed for global warming.
But don't let those facts stop you from using selective data to falsify man-made global warming.
Show me on the doll where Microsoft and Apple multi-touched you inappropriately.
You're only as old as the woman you feel. - W. C. Fields
So you thought you could outdo us on Big Brothering, but we're catching up!
I read that as "I would like an elephant weapon from an more civilized age."
I thought, "What kind of weapon is an 'elephant weapon'? And before I could stop myself, I had a mental picture of an elephant slamming into a Mig fighter.
Putting DRM on a device built for the visually impaired? I don't see it.
I'm going to hell.
Your country wants to spy on everything you do (CCTV, GPS In your car, phone calls, emails, etc.), and your worried about what Americans think of you...
Just wow...
Re:1.0 right now (Score:5, Informative)
by metricmusic (766303) Alter Relationship on Tuesday November 09 2004, @08:14AM (#10764927) Its great! I downloaded it from here: http://mozilla.ussg.indiana.edu/pub/mozilla.org/fi refox/releases/1.0/win32/en-US/Firefox%201.0.zip Don't think slashdot will be able to bring down an edu. Go firefox!
Re:1.0 right now (Score:5, Funny)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 09 2004, @08:26AM (#10765036)
[Vader]I find your lack of faith distrubing[/Vader]...
All I have to go on are are quotes like "suspicious user registrations by Google employees" and two browser-based applications that have a similar goal and layout. But Google is the big guy and the startup is the little guy. So...Google is evil. I have barely anything that resembles a fact, but I know the truth of it!
WTF does "suspicious user registrations by Google employees" supposed to mean? Google has over 22,000 full-time employees (who knows how many part-time). I'm willing to bet that a decent percentage of them are web savvy because...well..that's what they do. Also, how do they know that certain registrations are Google employees? Probably because they users' email was @google.com. So, let's see if I have this straight, Google decided to steal this startups (fairly obvious) idea and couldn't be bothered to at least hide it by using gmail.com and not google.com? Or maybe Yahoo! or Hotmail. Right...
As for the interface. I did RTFA and they mentioned (with picture in a link) that both apps have the same general set of buttons and similarities in their interface. It's a freakin' application that does one simple thing, it annotates web pages It's not an application that say, allows you to edit 3D objects and has a bajillion buttons (witness Blender). That's a couple of buttons and a couple of textboxes. Oh, and as to how the button arrangements are similar: the cancel button and the submit buttons are side-by-side, with the cancel on the left. Someone call the police! That's a smokin' gun right there!
I'm not saying that Google didn't steal this app, but everything so far is circumstantial at best.
Because whales are a highly intelligent species.
There are three criteria, that if met by the animal in question, prevent me from eating them.
1. How intelligent they are. If an animal displays some sort of above rudimentary intelligence, it gets a pass. So whales, porpoise, monkeys, apes, octopi, and similar animals get a pass. I won't even eat pig anymore.
2. How closely they're related to humans. Apes, monkeys, lawyers, and politicians get a pass.
3. If they're endangered. No animal is tasty enough to warrant their extinction.
This is not a scientific list, it's just my way of putting the world in perspective. It's like asking "how nice should I be to others?" I get to draw the line. If you don't like it, tough.
One of the problems with environmentalism is common in any charged topic. You're all or nothing. In this case, your options are:
You don't believe that man-made global warming hasn't been adequately proven: so you're a greedy, goose stepping, capitalistic pig who doesn't care about the environment one bit.
or..
You believe that mankind should take responsibility for its actions on the environment: so pot smoking, brainless, mindless hippy that hates humanity.
Any people wonder why there's so much strife in today's world... Oh, and you can thank the media (sensationalism & controversy sales) and politicians (polarize to make them yours). Of which special interest groups are the bastard stepchild.
There's no need for fisheries. It's been shown that simply cordoning off sections of the ocean where no one is allowed to fish at all, causes an explosion of sea life in the surrounding areas.
Well...okay, I take back part of what I said. We do need fisheries for shell fish. It's fishing for shell fish (especially shrimp) that causes so much of the habitat destruction. The trawlers rake scoops across the ocean beds to catch shrimp. Which annihilate the corral reefs.
It's not a lack of predators. The problem with this particular jellyfish stems from increased global temperature and pollution from China (near Hong Kong).
Thinking about it, the Chinese and Japanese will eat rhino penis because they think it's an aphrodisiac. Someone should tell them that eating giant jellyfish will give them a bigger penis.
Problem solved.
I saw a Nation Geographic (I think) special on this.
These jellyfish spawn off the cost of China, near Hong Kong. The increasing water temperature (since the end of the last ice age) coupled with the pollution that China dumps into the sea, has caused an explosion of the aforementioned animals. The jellyfish then float eastward, right into the Japanese fishing waters.
The Japanese have no real solution to this problem. Thy only thing they can do it try to kill as many jellyfish as they can (using bladed or hooked poles).
Here's when I venture into probably troll country: I'm okay with the affect the jellyfish are having. The way that the Japanese over-fish the oceans (not to mention killing whales), I'm okay with anything that slows them down. Now only if something could slow down the over-fishing done by the rest of the world. This includes the US, of which I'm a citizen.
I'm not a Green Peace lovin' (I hate 'em), tree hugging, nut job; but we really need to have some sort of international regulation (with punishments in the form of sanctions) on the fishing and care of the oceans. From over-fishing to habitat destruction (often a side affect of fishing) to pollution, we're well on our way to killing the oceans as we know them. Which will lead to the killing of our civilization as we know it. Not the end of it, mind you. Just the end of it as we know it.