There certainly are alot of morons with mod points out there as this doesn't strike me as a troll in the context of this debate.
I thoroughly agree with this sentiment. Religion is just an easter bunny story for adults. Jesus probably did exist but like all of the muslim prophets (yup, for those who don't know he is also a prophet of Islam) he was just another guy trying to suggest better ways of living 2000 years ago. Some of his suggestions will still be valid, some of them are not so useful now.
Another thing to remember is that the bible was not written by Jesus. It was drafted several hundred years later when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as a means of holding the empire together. This is what religion has always been very good at, getting people to live the way you want them too. Sometimes it will be for the good of the society, sometimes it is just for the good of the people running the religion. The first few popes were also the roman emperor by some coincidence.
I could carry on, I could post lots of links to the things that Jesus said regarding organised religion and how they are similar to the sentiments Karl Marx repeated more recently ("Religion is the opiate of the masses") but whats the point. All it does it make god botherers more entrenched in their ridiculous faiths (As far as I am concerned all organised religion is utter rubbish, Christianity and Islam are just as bad as each other).
Is this some sort of script that all americans must learn in college?
Everytime a report comes out suggesting that the FCC is in the pockets of the US telecoms industry this same old argument gets trotted out. Maybe the real reason is because you have a political system based on corruption and "donations to campaign funds" which keeps your politicians in the pockets of which ever business pays the most unless there is a realy popular swing against the company paying that could cost and politician siding with them their office. Since this doesnt happen very often most of the time politicians vote according to whichever lobbiest has the most clout (not always cash, the lobbiest might have a photo of the senator with a young intern getting a blowjob)
Why? Because they will eventually stop supporting linux? Maybe, but by then I will be in the market for a new graphics card anyway.
Generally the useful life time of one of these cards for playing top end games is 3 or 4 years max so if it doesn't work under linux beyond then I dont care as I will have upgraded it anyway so I can continue playing the latest windows games at the highest resolution.
If by "saddled with all kinds of misery" you mean having to replace a product that still works jusr because I can get drivers for it then this is something I will always have to put up with until every application I want is available without me ever having to use windows (as windows invariably causes me these issues more often than linux).
For the most part nowadays the only reason to boot into Windows XP is to play games. If I ever give up playing games that demand this sort of high end graphics card then I would just get some old card that was supported by open source drivers and probably remove windows entirely. Then it would be more important to buy a product the was more OSS friendly to take advantage of the longer upgrade cycle but in this case I would not care about performance so both ATI and Nvidia would be out based on cost.
Documentation for products purchased is a reasonable baseline expectation from a manufacturer. We need to insist on this point.
Only for you, most of us dont give a crap as it works fine with the proprietary drivers they ship. In fact, most people are windows users so have never even been exposed to this debate.
Personally I run gentoo and the proprietary nvidia driver is fine, if I ever have a problem I might start complaining (to nvidia), but in the 3 years I have bought nvidia cards they have never given me any issues.
As an ex bartender I can say most of us were fairly careful about not serving people who look like they have already had enough to drink - Nobody likes cleaning up puke.
In the UK we have the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (RIP) which can get you sent to prison for 5 years if you refuse to release your encryption keys.
I have had a quick look at the truecrypt site and see it supposedly can create a hidden volume within an enrypted volume, but you still have to be very careful. If they find any evidence of the hidden volume they can force the decryption key out of you or send you to prison.
I think the issue here is not about what the children watch when their parents are at home, but what they can watch when parents are at work.
When I was a kid we were never allowed satellite tv for this reason as both my parents had full time jobs by the time I was a teenager. They would have had no input into what I watched while they were at work. They did try and monitor my PC usage but they failed as I just learnt my way round the PC from top to bottom. Any sort of technological control would have just been a challenge to overcome. My parents realised this and just opted for no objectionable TV.
Now back to the issue at hand, the question here did not seem to be about preventing all of us from watching violent TV, but about forcing the broadcast companies to offer subscriptions which do not contain channels the show a lot of violence. There is a difference between the two. If I had a child and knew they would be in the house for a long time when I wasn't (Especially at the times like this week when I will have to work until 8pm) I would consider the option of picking which channels were available very carefully.
I used to like 24, but it is by no means suitable for children, and nowadays alot of parents are forced to work quite late in the evening on more than the odd occasion. I do not think it should be removed from the airwaves entirely, but I do think that broadcasters should offer more options which do not include this sort of programming by default.
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The people who maintain the gentoo patches for Gnome must do a damn fine job then because I always find the opposite. For me gnome flies along (even on my old centrino laptop).
That may explain why it always takes a while for a gome release to be marked as a stable ebuild.
Of course the real advantage of using Gnome is that it is more intuitive to windows users. It seems that even tho MS have spent a fortune on useability testing, the KDE devs refuse to learn any lessons from it. Gnome seems to be much better at nicking the nicest design features of OSX and Windows. Now all they need to do is sort out the bloody awful way you add items to the start menu.
Only if morons set Gnome up. On every PC I have put it on I can get it running alot faster and smoother. This centrino laptop I am currently using is no exception. Even under XP it grinds along but Gnome is very nippy.
last thing you need is having a doubleckick cookie ratting on you.
Or run a local DNS server which routes all traffoc for any of those doubleclick sites to your own machine.
I used to use a small local ISP where the system admin had used this technique to shield us from advertising. Any request for an image from any of the sites who host banner ads (like doubleclick) got redirected to a image of a can of spam. It made browsing quite weird when the only advert we saw was for spam but quite funny too.
The reason he used this method was partly to save bandwidth but also to stop us getting any of those cookies stored on our PC's. He also made sure the logs were rotated to null nice and quick for the NAT.
In fact, the deniers are the only ones I have seen become emotional...
I used to spend quite alot of time with green activists and believe me they can get just as emotional.
The fact is that oneside get emotional because they cant handle the idea that their own actions being responsible for climate change, and the other side get emotional because they are unable to convince the people in the first camp to stop.
But it is definately both sides who can have extreme views and a lack of tollerance for otehr peoples less extreme views.
Over here in Britain we have one group of looneys who go round freeing animals bred for vivisection or terrorising people involved in animal research. We have also recently had another looney sending out parcel bombs to companies who made speed cameras or administered the congestion charge (a charge for people who drive in central london during the day).
Whatever your opinions on the issue, trying to blow up some office junior who works in the mail room is never going to change anyones mind.
Neither is freeing a bunch of Mink (http://animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions- Spain/MinkOct14.htm) into an environment which they are not native too. The mink will either die quickly, or will decimate all the local wild fowl which is their usual prey. It is also worth noting that the freed mink were american mink who are driving the european mink to the extinction (http://www.iberianature.com/material/minkspain.ht ml).
The extremists on both sides dont want to listen to any sort of scientific argument contrary to their own point of view.
Basically I text them the name of a local train station (local to which ever pub I am in usually) and they text me back the list of trains on the departure board and what time they leave.
So I can leave the pub at the last possible moment and still miss one and wait an hour.
Call it lacking an open mind, if you will, but, by the sound of it, it sounds like a lot of work and a heck of a learning curve just to play a game. I thought the game designers were finally learning the idea that some of us just want to play a quick and unchallenging round of a game to relax, rather than have to spend a month just getting past the learning curve.
You might, some of us on the other hand are obsessive compulsive players who will put in years playing the same game (Americas Army) in order to become better and better. We will play the same map (CSAR) for 14 hours straight, day in, day out. Then we will find someone better than us and keep playing until we can beat them.
Then we will shoose a silly name (nohax) and start playing again from scratch when a new, slightly better version comes along. If anyone out there has played the game I am talking about, just think about how many people you see with 100 honor. This requires literally millions of hours playing time to get there.
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What if the people command their government to protect them?
Anyone else see the similarity with applying this sentiment to violent films or computer games?
A few points:
Murder rate is usually given as per capita so aggregating all of europes would still leave the US on top.
Spain left the war on terror after the Madrid train bombings.
There certainly are alot of morons with mod points out there as this doesn't strike me as a troll in the context of this debate.
I thoroughly agree with this sentiment. Religion is just an easter bunny story for adults. Jesus probably did exist but like all of the muslim prophets (yup, for those who don't know he is also a prophet of Islam) he was just another guy trying to suggest better ways of living 2000 years ago. Some of his suggestions will still be valid, some of them are not so useful now.
Another thing to remember is that the bible was not written by Jesus. It was drafted several hundred years later when the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as a means of holding the empire together. This is what religion has always been very good at, getting people to live the way you want them too. Sometimes it will be for the good of the society, sometimes it is just for the good of the people running the religion. The first few popes were also the roman emperor by some coincidence.
I could carry on, I could post lots of links to the things that Jesus said regarding organised religion and how they are similar to the sentiments Karl Marx repeated more recently ("Religion is the opiate of the masses") but whats the point. All it does it make god botherers more entrenched in their ridiculous faiths (As far as I am concerned all organised religion is utter rubbish, Christianity and Islam are just as bad as each other).
Is this some sort of script that all americans must learn in college?
Everytime a report comes out suggesting that the FCC is in the pockets of the US telecoms industry this same old argument gets trotted out. Maybe the real reason is because you have a political system based on corruption and "donations to campaign funds" which keeps your politicians in the pockets of which ever business pays the most unless there is a realy popular swing against the company paying that could cost and politician siding with them their office. Since this doesnt happen very often most of the time politicians vote according to whichever lobbiest has the most clout (not always cash, the lobbiest might have a photo of the senator with a young intern getting a blowjob)
What are you whining about?
Not flamebait - a serious point.
When it comes to products on the market you only have one voting option - with your wallet.
Why? Because they will eventually stop supporting linux? Maybe, but by then I will be in the market for a new graphics card anyway.
Generally the useful life time of one of these cards for playing top end games is 3 or 4 years max so if it doesn't work under linux beyond then I dont care as I will have upgraded it anyway so I can continue playing the latest windows games at the highest resolution.
If by "saddled with all kinds of misery" you mean having to replace a product that still works jusr because I can get drivers for it then this is something I will always have to put up with until every application I want is available without me ever having to use windows (as windows invariably causes me these issues more often than linux).
For the most part nowadays the only reason to boot into Windows XP is to play games. If I ever give up playing games that demand this sort of high end graphics card then I would just get some old card that was supported by open source drivers and probably remove windows entirely. Then it would be more important to buy a product the was more OSS friendly to take advantage of the longer upgrade cycle but in this case I would not care about performance so both ATI and Nvidia would be out based on cost.
Where I work has just deployed one of these godawful nigthmares.
Count yourself luck you have never heard of any of them. They are all a nightmare to support from a technical standpoint.
Documentation for products purchased is a reasonable baseline expectation from a manufacturer. We need to insist on this point.
Only for you, most of us dont give a crap as it works fine with the proprietary drivers they ship. In fact, most people are windows users so have never even been exposed to this debate.
Personally I run gentoo and the proprietary nvidia driver is fine, if I ever have a problem I might start complaining (to nvidia), but in the 3 years I have bought nvidia cards they have never given me any issues.
Slashdot needs a new moderation option - (-100) moron.
You bought it knowing it was a closed spec device, tough shit. If you dont like it buy something else.
As an ex bartender I can say most of us were fairly careful about not serving people who look like they have already had enough to drink - Nobody likes cleaning up puke.
...and some are just attracted to the darker side,
More like some are attracted to money.
Any one else remember a similar story a while ago regarding most spam kings coming from the US too? (http://www.spamhaus.org/rokso/)
I think I see a pattern, I wonder if it has anything to do with the US being the birthplace of unrestrained capitalism?
Be careful though.
In the UK we have the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Bill (RIP) which can get you sent to prison for 5 years if you refuse to release your encryption keys.
I have had a quick look at the truecrypt site and see it supposedly can create a hidden volume within an enrypted volume, but you still have to be very careful. If they find any evidence of the hidden volume they can force the decryption key out of you or send you to prison.
What is all the fuss about Karma anyway? It only takes a few decent posts for it to max out.
I think the issue here is not about what the children watch when their parents are at home, but what they can watch when parents are at work.
When I was a kid we were never allowed satellite tv for this reason as both my parents had full time jobs by the time I was a teenager. They would have had no input into what I watched while they were at work. They did try and monitor my PC usage but they failed as I just learnt my way round the PC from top to bottom. Any sort of technological control would have just been a challenge to overcome. My parents realised this and just opted for no objectionable TV.
Now back to the issue at hand, the question here did not seem to be about preventing all of us from watching violent TV, but about forcing the broadcast companies to offer subscriptions which do not contain channels the show a lot of violence. There is a difference between the two. If I had a child and knew they would be in the house for a long time when I wasn't (Especially at the times like this week when I will have to work until 8pm) I would consider the option of picking which channels were available very carefully.
I used to like 24, but it is by no means suitable for children, and nowadays alot of parents are forced to work quite late in the evening on more than the odd occasion. I do not think it should be removed from the airwaves entirely, but I do think that broadcasters should offer more options which do not include this sort of programming by default.
The people who maintain the gentoo patches for Gnome must do a damn fine job then because I always find the opposite. For me gnome flies along (even on my old centrino laptop).
That may explain why it always takes a while for a gome release to be marked as a stable ebuild.
Of course the real advantage of using Gnome is that it is more intuitive to windows users. It seems that even tho MS have spent a fortune on useability testing, the KDE devs refuse to learn any lessons from it. Gnome seems to be much better at nicking the nicest design features of OSX and Windows. Now all they need to do is sort out the bloody awful way you add items to the start menu.
Vista faster than gnome?
Only if morons set Gnome up. On every PC I have put it on I can get it running alot faster and smoother. This centrino laptop I am currently using is no exception. Even under XP it grinds along but Gnome is very nippy.
Thats what I meant too although I probably didnt make it clear.
They release a new version fairly regularly and I always download via their site. I also visit to read the forums and such.
last thing you need is having a doubleckick cookie ratting on you.
Or run a local DNS server which routes all traffoc for any of those doubleclick sites to your own machine.
I used to use a small local ISP where the system admin had used this technique to shield us from advertising. Any request for an image from any of the sites who host banner ads (like doubleclick) got redirected to a image of a can of spam. It made browsing quite weird when the only advert we saw was for spam but quite funny too.
The reason he used this method was partly to save bandwidth but also to stop us getting any of those cookies stored on our PC's. He also made sure the logs were rotated to null nice and quick for the NAT.
When? been up for the past 2 years as that is about long I have been playing.
Cant speak for before then obviously but during the past 2 I have played about once a week at least.
I wasn't talking about america you stupid yank.
Get your head out of you arse for second and you might realise that most of the planet is outside your borders.
In fact, the deniers are the only ones I have seen become emotional...
- Spain/MinkOct14.htm) into an environment which they are not native too. The mink will either die quickly, or will decimate all the local wild fowl which is their usual prey. It is also worth noting that the freed mink were american mink who are driving the european mink to the extinction (http://www.iberianature.com/material/minkspain.ht ml).
I used to spend quite alot of time with green activists and believe me they can get just as emotional.
The fact is that oneside get emotional because they cant handle the idea that their own actions being responsible for climate change, and the other side get emotional because they are unable to convince the people in the first camp to stop.
But it is definately both sides who can have extreme views and a lack of tollerance for otehr peoples less extreme views.
Over here in Britain we have one group of looneys who go round freeing animals bred for vivisection or terrorising people involved in animal research. We have also recently had another looney sending out parcel bombs to companies who made speed cameras or administered the congestion charge (a charge for people who drive in central london during the day).
Whatever your opinions on the issue, trying to blow up some office junior who works in the mail room is never going to change anyones mind.
Neither is freeing a bunch of Mink (http://animalliberationfront.com/ALFront/Actions
The extremists on both sides dont want to listen to any sort of scientific argument contrary to their own point of view.
I use a train time info service quite a lot.
Basically I text them the name of a local train station (local to which ever pub I am in usually) and they text me back the list of trains on the departure board and what time they leave.
So I can leave the pub at the last possible moment and still miss one and wait an hour.
It's too bad they shutdown the project
Did they? Not accoring to this site here:
http://www.americasarmy.com/
Call it lacking an open mind, if you will, but, by the sound of it, it sounds like a lot of work and a heck of a learning curve just to play a game. I thought the game designers were finally learning the idea that some of us just want to play a quick and unchallenging round of a game to relax, rather than have to spend a month just getting past the learning curve.
You might, some of us on the other hand are obsessive compulsive players who will put in years playing the same game (Americas Army) in order to become better and better. We will play the same map (CSAR) for 14 hours straight, day in, day out. Then we will find someone better than us and keep playing until we can beat them.
Then we will shoose a silly name (nohax) and start playing again from scratch when a new, slightly better version comes along. If anyone out there has played the game I am talking about, just think about how many people you see with 100 honor. This requires literally millions of hours playing time to get there.