Shame that's not also true for the muslims. We do ignore them, thats why they resort to the semtex vests you mentioned. (Of course alot of muslims I have spoken too do consider blowing yourself up and taking as many other people with you as possible to by against the Quoran and also barbaric).
Most europeans think all religons should be entirely from the state and politics. This means that sharia law or however its spelt is pretty unlikely to ever come to pass here. This is the key point.
Regardless of whether you believe in any religon, it should never be enforced by law or encouraged in schools (with state money). This is widely known as the seperation of church and state. You would probably find that most Europeans would consider themselves Christian, but would still not agree with government taking a pro-christian bias when it came to education, foreign policy and certainly the law of the land.
I have often seen people in the American media complaining that we are all anti-semites here in Europe because of our nervousness of Israel. The point they usually miss is that we are generally pretty sceptical of all countries that involve religion in the process of government. That "One nation under God" bit of the US constitution or whatever makes us just as nervious when the american people elect someone who actually believes it.
I am English. We have the Church of England, however the thought that we might let it rule us is ridiculous. Politicians in this country have long since realised that trying use religion overtly to get more votes is political suicide.
How about: "Rampaging kitty in the 1200 block of Chatsworth district. Warning extremely dangerous. Shoot on sight. White, fuzzy, and answers to the name 'Snook'ums'."
Do about 5 of those and someone will get the hint! Either that or there will be 5 (ex)cat owners wondering why their little 'Snook'ums' isn't begging for his food bowl to refilled as soon as they get home.
and Google, which also didn't exist back then Even if google didn't exist there were other search engines before it. I know they were a pain in the arse but with time ans effort you could still get some useful hits in the end.
I'd also love to know what Kernel version you are referring to as I have only been using Linux since 2.2 days. I know it was around for a long time before then though and from what I have heard using it could be somewhat interesting to say the least.
One another related point, there is no way he would have got elected as an European with his original name if he hadn't been a rich famous movie star. So referring to him in a way that reminds people WHY he was famous in the first point is actually useful in this case.
For those who still have not remembered, he was originally famous for being a body builder who probably has taken more steroids than I have had hot dinners and then starred in loads of vaguely amusing action movies where no acting talent or intelligence was required. He had still barely learned to speak English after living and working here for years, and that was with a small fortune behind him by the end of his Hollywood career.
So no, we are not in 6th Grade, but you would never know it judging be who we elect to make decisions for us sometimes.
(Disclaimer - I cannot remember who he was running against but it would not surprise me if some or all of them were worse.)
They used to tell you to make sure you copied all of the info out of Device Manager before attempting a Linux install so you could hunt down the drivers you would need to get your hardware working. Christ knows who "They" are, but they should have said to try running "lspci" as root. This will show you all the pci devices in your system (even the ones with no drivers). If you have a device not working, copy the output from lspci for that device and paste it into google along with the name of your distribution. This will usually yield the relevant procedure to fix said device.
There is also a similar command (lsusb, I think) for USB devices. The only thing I have never got working using this procedure is the Sony Memory Pro stick reader in the laptop I am currently using. If anyone has ever got one of these working under Linux I would love to hear how.
I assume that, like others of your ilk, you would like to say "it's a republic, not a democracy," but even if that wasn't what you were thinking, you're still quite wrong about the US. I suggest you try and tell that to the CIA. The CIA world factbook describes the US as "Constitution-based federal republic" with a "strong democratic tradition".
So exactly how bad will your economy have to tank before you admit the current system is counter productive? It's not about how bad the economy will tank. It is about when the American media will spoon feed this point of view to the public so they can start considering it. Now that is closer to flamebait. The parent poster asks some very legitimate and challenging questions so I am not surprised that some people would rather try and censor them (moderation is kind of censorship since most people do not browse at -1)
Their position is the only one that will increase shareholder value. I sincerely wish I had not exempted myself from the slashdot mod points system when I read posts like this. It is about as insightful as they come.
I was just trying to say that anyone that mails you to tell you your code is shit without offering any helpful advice is at best a juvenile arsehole and should just be ignored. No, they should not be ignored. Instead try telling them how completely unhelpful they are being are ask them to be more constructive in future. If everyone tells them this they might eventually listen and grow up.
Oh, this is just a case of Google doing what it damn well pleases. They're showing their true colors and bias. All people contributing to this thread from either viewpoint should first declare weather they hold staunch republican or democratic views.
I am a socialist so I guess that makes me more prone to a democrat point of view than a republican one.
Just do it. It's highly unlikely anyone will laugh at you. Anyone that has spent time to read through your code is unlikely to be so juvenile as to mail you just to point out how bad it is. Actually they might point out how bad it is, but they might point it out in helpful way that helped to make you a better coder. I have written an awful lot of shit code in my time, but I very grateful to the people who have given me constructive advice on how to improve it in future.
I figure the whole problem was caused by old machines and politicians wanting the latest and greatest - latching onto a neat phrase. No, the whole problem was caused by companies realising that the politicians were becoming too expensive and that a machine would do the same job cheaper.
You seem to have missed out the most important advantage:
If there is any doubt as to the accuracy of the machine you can simply do an old style human based count.
This is the most important feature.
You also mention that you could destroy the pile of paper ballots after the election is confirmed. This is an option, but it is also an option to leave them in secure storage in case anyone ever wants a recount at a later date.
The only downside I can think of is that people are unable to deface a ballot as a protest vote. In the last election I voted in I was so displeased by the appalling choice I was presented with I chose to write on the ballot why I thought both candidates were worthless cretins who should not be put in charge of a piss up in a brewery let alone a country. I know this was a waste of time, but at least it made me feel like I was doing something rather than just being to lazy to vote.
Why do you think there are terrorist message boards out there? If US wanted, these would be removed tomorrow. They are using them. Exactly. Over here in Britain there is a very famous mosque in North London that was widely reported as having been infiltrated by radicals who were using it to spread hatred and plan attacks. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finsbury_Park_mosque)
This came to the attention of the British gutter press who started a hate campaign to have it closed. The police gave the impression that they were completely powerless to intervene and close the place and seemed to be letting things just carry on. Then after a year or so they raided the place and it became apparent that all of our security services had been watching the place very closely for years. The more radical the place became the better, as it drove out most of the moderates and left the only people going there being the people who needed watching.
The fact is the trying to stop people ever hearing an idea is always unsuccessful, but what is much more effective is to discredit it. Personally I think the best way to do this (and most fun) is public ridicule (be careful before you start a conversation with me about religion if you have deeply held beliefs) but to each their own.
Trying to simply kill the messenger or censor the message is usually counter productive as you create a martyr and reveal that you are scared of what they are saying.
What do you think our legal system as it currently exists would do to someone convicted of ten million counts of assault? Would three strikes and your out (ie - life imprisonment) still apply if you committed them all before any of them came to court? I know nothing about the US legal system so have no idea.
Open source is in no way in conflict with making money. And it's a good job too or the OSS movement would not survive very long since we all need money to buy food and shelter, let alone a computer to use to contribute to open source software in any capacity.
I would rather this wasn't the case since if I did not need to earn a wage I would spend as much time as possible coding things I wanted to rather than things my boss wanted me to. They would probably not even be that different except I would produce a better product without commercial time constraints.
Thanks for the info, I have been using gentoo for years but i always stick to emerge to search and download from portage.
I generally use the portage web site (http://gentoo-portage.com/AdvSearch) when I need anything emerge can't provide easily but I will have a look at eix if my package.keywords grows much more than the 20-30 lines it is currently (I run a couple of fairly stable Gentoo systems).
You've got to be trolling. I hate being called a troll, although at least you had the courage to say it rather than hiding behind an anonymous moderation system. I have some weird arse beliefs in your opinion but so do a great many other people in mine, that does not make them trolls any more than me.
I do not believe in the death penalty, most of us here in Europe do actually believe that revenge killings are barbaric. I will say that the guy was obviously a very sick individual but it sounds like he needed some serious help (like being thrown in an asylum for his own safety) rather than kicking to death.
With regard to sleeping with 15 year olds that is too young for my tastes (I am 32), but lets not forget that in certain states that is old enough to marry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age). In my country it could get him charged with statutory rape (quite rightly) but that does not currently carry the death penalty.
I do take your point about abused children never recovering but we do not know the facts of the case. For starters we do not know whether the girl in question ever considered it abuse. Lets remember that if you are going to spend time in Moscow nightclubs during one of the harshest times in recent memory you are hardly likely to be the most naive 15 year old in the world. I personally find it a bit fucked up that she was even allowed into the nightclub if her age was outwardly apparent.
Some 15 year old girls actually go looking for older men, although why either party is interested in someone so mentally different is completely beyond me as I actually find conversation an important part of any relationship.
BTW, what's your email address.. I have some very enticing offers for you, to for make strong man of your middle parts! I said it made me feel sympathetic to someone sending that crap, not stupid enough to actually encourage them to send giving them any money.
Until I came in to work this morning and noticed the exponentially increasing volume of spam we are recieving. Then I thought about the two previous personal email accounts I have had to abandon due to unmanageable volume of spam.
Oh, no, that's not good at all. That's positively evil. My school email address is short, so I get a crapload of spam bounces. At least they're mostly trivial to filter on. But at least it means that the person sending the email gets warned their mail was not delivered and it doesn't look like we simply ignored what could be a potential client. Usually when they get that bounceback they give us a call to confirm the email address. At which point the person they called can just grab the email out of their local spam folder and forward it to me as a false positve. I then whitelist that email address permanently.
The alternative would be that members of our company who have their emails listed on our company website (sales team for starters) each recieve a completely ridiculous volume of email.
You don't get much spam do you? Absolutely none sent to me directly. I have a fairly strange name that nobody would ever guess and my email is my full name. I also don't publish my email addresses very widely.
I administer a business network. We can't use draconian spam filtering to just drop it all at the MTA because one false positive and I'm out of the job. SPAM is a huge pain in my ass on a daily basis. I also administer a business network. I also get the job of managing the spam filter.
I recommend "No Spam Today" if you use windows. It is basically a wrapper for Spam Assassin. It allows you to delete everything that gets a very high score, but forward borderline spam after having been marked in the subject as possible spam. Then you can set outlook to put all this borderline spam into a separate mail folder. This borderline spam also generates an address unknown bounceback to the sender. That way we are not likely to lose any legitimate emails.
This setup seems to work fairly well for me and even got me commendation from the MD when it decreased the amount of spam in his inbox.
The last russian spammer who was killed specialised in Russian language spam advertising his own "American Language Center". The idea was that they taught you American (ie - English) and then you used that to get your own job (yup, no placement or visa included).
Apparently this guy sent out tons of spam inside Russia and managed to annoy too many people with the sheer volume, making a small fortune in the process.
Then he was found beaten to death. According to the Wired article I remember reading some time ago (link posted below) the people who killed him really took their time to make sure he suffered. No bullets are mentioned, although a lot of blood and a very sound kicking is. Then the police just swept the whole thing under the carpet.
I really would recommend that anyone who gets pissed off when they receive spam read the link the below. It cured me as I actually felt sorry for him by then end:
Slashdot Mirror
Most europeans think all religons should be entirely from the state and politics. This means that sharia law or however its spelt is pretty unlikely to ever come to pass here. This is the key point.
Regardless of whether you believe in any religon, it should never be enforced by law or encouraged in schools (with state money). This is widely known as the seperation of church and state. You would probably find that most Europeans would consider themselves Christian, but would still not agree with government taking a pro-christian bias when it came to education, foreign policy and certainly the law of the land.
I have often seen people in the American media complaining that we are all anti-semites here in Europe because of our nervousness of Israel. The point they usually miss is that we are generally pretty sceptical of all countries that involve religion in the process of government. That "One nation under God" bit of the US constitution or whatever makes us just as nervious when the american people elect someone who actually believes it.
I am English. We have the Church of England, however the thought that we might let it rule us is ridiculous. Politicians in this country have long since realised that trying use religion overtly to get more votes is political suicide.
Do about 5 of those and someone will get the hint! Either that or there will be 5 (ex)cat owners wondering why their little 'Snook'ums' isn't begging for his food bowl to refilled as soon as they get home.
I'd also love to know what Kernel version you are referring to as I have only been using Linux since 2.2 days. I know it was around for a long time before then though and from what I have heard using it could be somewhat interesting to say the least.
Personally I think Governator is brilliant.
One another related point, there is no way he would have got elected as an European with his original name if he hadn't been a rich famous movie star. So referring to him in a way that reminds people WHY he was famous in the first point is actually useful in this case.
For those who still have not remembered, he was originally famous for being a body builder who probably has taken more steroids than I have had hot dinners and then starred in loads of vaguely amusing action movies where no acting talent or intelligence was required. He had still barely learned to speak English after living and working here for years, and that was with a small fortune behind him by the end of his Hollywood career.
So no, we are not in 6th Grade, but you would never know it judging be who we elect to make decisions for us sometimes.
(Disclaimer - I cannot remember who he was running against but it would not surprise me if some or all of them were worse.)
There is also a similar command (lsusb, I think) for USB devices. The only thing I have never got working using this procedure is the Sony Memory Pro stick reader in the laptop I am currently using. If anyone has ever got one of these working under Linux I would love to hear how.
Always nice to come across someone with a sense of humour as fucked up as my own :)
Here is a link:
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html
It seems to be working on me
I am a socialist so I guess that makes me more prone to a democrat point of view than a republican one.
You seem to have missed out the most important advantage:
If there is any doubt as to the accuracy of the machine you can simply do an old style human based count.
This is the most important feature.
You also mention that you could destroy the pile of paper ballots after the election is confirmed. This is an option, but it is also an option to leave them in secure storage in case anyone ever wants a recount at a later date.
The only downside I can think of is that people are unable to deface a ballot as a protest vote. In the last election I voted in I was so displeased by the appalling choice I was presented with I chose to write on the ballot why I thought both candidates were worthless cretins who should not be put in charge of a piss up in a brewery let alone a country. I know this was a waste of time, but at least it made me feel like I was doing something rather than just being to lazy to vote.
This came to the attention of the British gutter press who started a hate campaign to have it closed. The police gave the impression that they were completely powerless to intervene and close the place and seemed to be letting things just carry on. Then after a year or so they raided the place and it became apparent that all of our security services had been watching the place very closely for years. The more radical the place became the better, as it drove out most of the moderates and left the only people going there being the people who needed watching.
The fact is the trying to stop people ever hearing an idea is always unsuccessful, but what is much more effective is to discredit it. Personally I think the best way to do this (and most fun) is public ridicule (be careful before you start a conversation with me about religion if you have deeply held beliefs) but to each their own.
Trying to simply kill the messenger or censor the message is usually counter productive as you create a martyr and reveal that you are scared of what they are saying.
I would rather this wasn't the case since if I did not need to earn a wage I would spend as much time as possible coding things I wanted to rather than things my boss wanted me to. They would probably not even be that different except I would produce a better product without commercial time constraints.
Thanks for the info, I have been using gentoo for years but i always stick to emerge to search and download from portage.
I generally use the portage web site (http://gentoo-portage.com/AdvSearch) when I need anything emerge can't provide easily but I will have a look at eix if my package.keywords grows much more than the 20-30 lines it is currently (I run a couple of fairly stable Gentoo systems).
I do not believe in the death penalty, most of us here in Europe do actually believe that revenge killings are barbaric. I will say that the guy was obviously a very sick individual but it sounds like he needed some serious help (like being thrown in an asylum for his own safety) rather than kicking to death.
With regard to sleeping with 15 year olds that is too young for my tastes (I am 32), but lets not forget that in certain states that is old enough to marry. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriageable_age). In my country it could get him charged with statutory rape (quite rightly) but that does not currently carry the death penalty.
I do take your point about abused children never recovering but we do not know the facts of the case. For starters we do not know whether the girl in question ever considered it abuse. Lets remember that if you are going to spend time in Moscow nightclubs during one of the harshest times in recent memory you are hardly likely to be the most naive 15 year old in the world. I personally find it a bit fucked up that she was even allowed into the nightclub if her age was outwardly apparent.
Some 15 year old girls actually go looking for older men, although why either party is interested in someone so mentally different is completely beyond me as I actually find conversation an important part of any relationship.
Until I came in to work this morning and noticed the exponentially increasing volume of spam we are recieving. Then I thought about the two previous personal email accounts I have had to abandon due to unmanageable volume of spam.
The alternative would be that members of our company who have their emails listed on our company website (sales team for starters) each recieve a completely ridiculous volume of email.
I recommend "No Spam Today" if you use windows. It is basically a wrapper for Spam Assassin. It allows you to delete everything that gets a very high score, but forward borderline spam after having been marked in the subject as possible spam. Then you can set outlook to put all this borderline spam into a separate mail folder. This borderline spam also generates an address unknown bounceback to the sender. That way we are not likely to lose any legitimate emails.
This setup seems to work fairly well for me and even got me commendation from the MD when it decreased the amount of spam in his inbox.
The last russian spammer who was killed specialised in Russian language spam advertising his own "American Language Center". The idea was that they taught you American (ie - English) and then you used that to get your own job (yup, no placement or visa included).
Apparently this guy sent out tons of spam inside Russia and managed to annoy too many people with the sheer volume, making a small fortune in the process.
Then he was found beaten to death. According to the Wired article I remember reading some time ago (link posted below) the people who killed him really took their time to make sure he suffered. No bullets are mentioned, although a lot of blood and a very sound kicking is. Then the police just swept the whole thing under the carpet.
I really would recommend that anyone who gets pissed off when they receive spam read the link the below. It cured me as I actually felt sorry for him by then end:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.08/spamking.html