To make it short: I can see no safe way for the United States to go down.
And that bothers me. But probably you'll just ignore Brazil, or buy its government somehow. Either way changes almost nothing, so it doesn`t bother me that much.
Why characteristic number 5 (sexism)? I can see the correlation, but I can`t see any causal relation between it and facism, and can`t see why they come toghether.
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Just an unhappy citizen in a plutoclacy trying to understand your facism:(
So shoudn`t we extinguish copyrights to stop giving money to the mafia? (of course, some mid term copyrights will lead to mid term transfers, so softing it helps too.) Hardening it will only help the mafia.
On servers, both are true from my experience too. But there is a problem with this argument, Microsoft redefined the meaning of "maintence" and "set up". With Windows, "set up" is something you'll surely do every few years, and may do some times between when there is an "emergency". With Linux, all that are "maintance". Some Linux admins count even changing the functions of the servers as "maintance".
Not even that new... There where some people at the VII century that started to even destroy the new machines at the great migration of the time. Of course, today people can`t really destroy Linux, but refusing to learn is quite a small protest.
Now, there are a few people that like Windows and complain about Linux from a position of knowledge. Up to now, I have met very few of them (in fact, I can only remember one), but Windows doesn`t suck universaly. Only almost all the time.
That is not completely true. If you spend 6:00 to 7:00 on transit, getting out at 5:50 you may get home at 6:00. But there is no way you get out after 6:00 and get home before 7:00. If you get out 6:10, you'll probably get home at 7:10 or latter. At the best case, you get home at 7:00.
INAL, but shouldn't that be a patent? Or did your company copyrighted the "parody" word? Ops... Am I violating it?!?!? Oh... Who owns the copyright on "violating" around here?
Why don't ISPs support multicast, and remove the need for bittorrent? Oh, yes, because they want us to need (and, so, pay for) the bandwidth, not to use it.
Your 4th point is simply wrong. The sun emits light as a dark body, and it is a very hot dark body. It is hard to emulate the sun light with LEDs because LEDs have a very narrow emission spectrum, and a dark body's emission is continuos. Also, because the sun is very hot, it emmits light at very hight frequencies (blue and violet), that are hard to abtain on LEDs.
Tried that (with FF 1.5.01), and got a blocked popup, and Firefox asked me what to do with a file. Quite normal behaviour, take a look on your configurations, to see if you didn't have a default action for.exe files.
That said, the page is obviously phishing. The download is probably a piece of spyware, and lots of IE systems will probably run it without user intervention, and lots of users will probably click 'Yes' on the box "Are you sure you want to run this program?" without reading.
It would be GREAT if no OS had more than 10%, maybe 15% of the installed base. That way, all of them would matter, we would be able to change OS without any trouble, and no seller would be powerfull.
We'd also use standars... You know, that kind of documented thing that doesn't change every time.
We still have a huge amount of coal to dig, and a lot of natural gas. The only fossil fuel that seems to be peaking is oil. And remember that peak is not depletion, by the models we have, oils peaks wen half of the reserves are used.
So, we still have plenty of garbage to trow at the atmosfere.
It is even worse because people that are not from the United States (like me) don't even know what a quarter looks like. So, this 'intuitive' measurement is anthing but it.
So don't install all those applications, not installing them by default is quite welcome on a distro. But if you are trying to convince people to not include them on their distros, well, you're free to do yours, with no choice, and see it fail.
Now, if you are one of those people that want all concurrent development to stop, just because you think it is wastefull. Well, get a life, and respect our oppinion that choice is good!
It is not just random mutations. What adds functionality is selective pressure, helped by recombination. Mutations just creates diversity, that is essential to evolution to work.
You should really study a bit of genetic programming, as a previous poster said.
1: Why do people need to know the software if they'll have trainning? And if it is an entry level position, how do you think they'll know the software that is used by companies like yours? You only want a full trainned employee, with experience by the salary of an out of school one.
2: "but would you buy an '05 car with 2000 miles for full retail price..." WTF?!?!?! It is not about cars that we are talking here. Are people really all the same to you? Do you really think you can replace anybody just by looking at the "specs"?
Well, social sciences are siences. Computer science is math. There are people that don't classify math as a science, but there is no point on classifying social sciences as anything else.
The sad part is that those people are right. There is a secret shake. People must be able to get it installed on their computer (even if they want to buy a computer with Linux, it is still hard), and must learn which programs do what.
Those are two very big problems, that make people unable to use Linux, because they simply can't touch it or because they feel alien on it and don't know what to do. And the bad news is that those problems won't go away, doesn't matter how well we make the system.
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To make it short: I can see no safe way for the United States to go down.
And that bothers me. But probably you'll just ignore Brazil, or buy its government somehow. Either way changes almost nothing, so it doesn`t bother me that much.
Why characteristic number 5 (sexism)? I can see the correlation, but I can`t see any causal relation between it and facism, and can`t see why they come toghether.
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Just an unhappy citizen in a plutoclacy trying to understand your facism
It is a way to enforce DRM. That means that the poor will not have access to information at all, not just technology.
So shoudn`t we extinguish copyrights to stop giving money to the mafia? (of course, some mid term copyrights will lead to mid term transfers, so softing it helps too.) Hardening it will only help the mafia.
Some things you simply can't train. The people have to decide to learn for themsemves.
On servers, both are true from my experience too. But there is a problem with this argument, Microsoft redefined the meaning of "maintence" and "set up". With Windows, "set up" is something you'll surely do every few years, and may do some times between when there is an "emergency". With Linux, all that are "maintance". Some Linux admins count even changing the functions of the servers as "maintance".
Not even that new... There where some people at the VII century that started to even destroy the new machines at the great migration of the time. Of course, today people can`t really destroy Linux, but refusing to learn is quite a small protest.
Now, there are a few people that like Windows and complain about Linux from a position of knowledge. Up to now, I have met very few of them (in fact, I can only remember one), but Windows doesn`t suck universaly. Only almost all the time.
That is not completely true. If you spend 6:00 to 7:00 on transit, getting out at 5:50 you may get home at 6:00. But there is no way you get out after 6:00 and get home before 7:00. If you get out 6:10, you'll probably get home at 7:10 or latter. At the best case, you get home at 7:00.
INAL, but shouldn't that be a patent? Or did your company copyrighted the "parody" word? Ops... Am I violating it?!?!? Oh... Who owns the copyright on "violating" around here?
Or MS starts to ask more money from Windows and sue the FOSS competitors
Well, since Sony stole code from 2 or 3 different GPLed (and even LGPLed) programs, their answer would be: "It surely does!"
Why don't ISPs support multicast, and remove the need for bittorrent? Oh, yes, because they want us to need (and, so, pay for) the bandwidth, not to use it.
Your 4th point is simply wrong. The sun emits light as a dark body, and it is a very hot dark body. It is hard to emulate the sun light with LEDs because LEDs have a very narrow emission spectrum, and a dark body's emission is continuos. Also, because the sun is very hot, it emmits light at very hight frequencies (blue and violet), that are hard to abtain on LEDs.
Tried that (with FF 1.5.01), and got a blocked popup, and Firefox asked me what to do with a file. Quite normal behaviour, take a look on your configurations, to see if you didn't have a default action for .exe files.
That said, the page is obviously phishing. The download is probably a piece of spyware, and lots of IE systems will probably run it without user intervention, and lots of users will probably click 'Yes' on the box "Are you sure you want to run this program?" without reading.
It would be GREAT if no OS had more than 10%, maybe 15% of the installed base. That way, all of them would matter, we would be able to change OS without any trouble, and no seller would be powerfull.
We'd also use standars... You know, that kind of documented thing that doesn't change every time.
We still have a huge amount of coal to dig, and a lot of natural gas. The only fossil fuel that seems to be peaking is oil. And remember that peak is not depletion, by the models we have, oils peaks wen half of the reserves are used.
So, we still have plenty of garbage to trow at the atmosfere.
Microsoft used to promise that the entire Windows would not be available to pirates... Well, they are getting closer to reality every time.
70 MPa (~700 atm) is much better. Tank you.
It is even worse because people that are not from the United States (like me) don't even know what a quarter looks like. So, this 'intuitive' measurement is anthing but it.
Tanks! Now I'll need to do all that calculation again...
So don't install all those applications, not installing them by default is quite welcome on a distro. But if you are trying to convince people to not include them on their distros, well, you're free to do yours, with no choice, and see it fail.
Now, if you are one of those people that want all concurrent development to stop, just because you think it is wastefull. Well, get a life, and respect our oppinion that choice is good!
It is not just random mutations. What adds functionality is selective pressure, helped by recombination. Mutations just creates diversity, that is essential to evolution to work.
You should really study a bit of genetic programming, as a previous poster said.
People like you are part of the problem.
1: Why do people need to know the software if they'll have trainning? And if it is an entry level position, how do you think they'll know the software that is used by companies like yours? You only want a full trainned employee, with experience by the salary of an out of school one.
2: "but would you buy an '05 car with 2000 miles for full retail price..." WTF?!?!?! It is not about cars that we are talking here. Are people really all the same to you? Do you really think you can replace anybody just by looking at the "specs"?
Well, social sciences are siences. Computer science is math. There are people that don't classify math as a science, but there is no point on classifying social sciences as anything else.
The sad part is that those people are right. There is a secret shake. People must be able to get it installed on their computer (even if they want to buy a computer with Linux, it is still hard), and must learn which programs do what.
Those are two very big problems, that make people unable to use Linux, because they simply can't touch it or because they feel alien on it and don't know what to do. And the bad news is that those problems won't go away, doesn't matter how well we make the system.
No way! Microsoft would need an entire Linux lab for doing that intentionaly...
Oh,ok. Never mind...