Earth rules! It was practically custom designed to meet our every need and take our punishment
Its disappointing to see on/. such an inability to grasp even the most basic tenets of evolution. We have evolved in such a way that we are well-adapted to life in certain environments on Earth. The notion that Earth has somehow been designed to be hospitable to humans, or for that matter any species, is laughable.
No, you cannot compare cosmic distances to travelling across the oceans. Sorry, in the real universe scale matters.
Approximate travel time to Mars: 1 year. Approximate travel time to row across the Pacific ocean: 6 months - 1 year. These are comparable figures, therefore your bald assertion above would appear to be incorrect.
The ocean analogy has been brought up before and it continues to demosntrate how ignorant most people are of basic science.
The ignorance being demonstrated here is your own. We are talking about going to Mars, not to another star system.
I tend to regard Gentoo as Linux From Scratch with some neat package management scripts. I loved LFS, since it taught me quite a bit about the nuts and bolts of a Linux distro; however, I ended up writing my own package management scripts, which became tedious to maintain. Gentoo fills this hole perfectly; it has the "build your own" feel, but makes the package management a doddle.
It wouldnt take much to offer "up an running in 10 minutes" iso's to people with a default set of apps, portage & tree etc
What, you mean like the 2-disk Live CD option offered by, erm, what's its name, Gentoo Linux? Sure, there's a bit of tweaking to do, but almost everything is precompiled. Too much for you? Then perhaps Gentoo's not for you.
*ONLY* $10 billion? The rest of the planet should get a paying job and chip in.
As a fraction of its GDP, the US gives less in foreign aid than almost any other developed nation. And $10 billion really doesn't go that far. Consider this: World Bank figures indicate that over 1100.2 million people were living in dire poverty (on less than $1.08 per day) in the year 2000. To raise their lot to one of moderate poverty ($2 per day) would require c. $1 billion dollars per day. So, the $10 billion which the US spent on foreign aid, assuming it all went on poverty relief, only would have helped the world's poor for 10 days. Not very impressive.
I guess $10 billion isn't very much money anymore...the US isn't required to give _anything_ to anyone...$10 billion can feed alot of faces!
My point was to refute the parent post, by pointing out that as a fraction of its GDP the US spends less on foreign aid than almost any other developed nation. Ironic that one of the most "Christian" of western societies is also one of the least charitable.
The entire continent of Africa would starve to death without UN food aid, paid for mostly by the United States.
What, the same United States which has spend $87 billion on its invasion of Iraq, but only $10 billion in the last year on foreign aid for the whole planet?
Has Europe moved into another ideological sphere that separates them from the rest of the world, and if so what is it?
Yes. Europe is 'Old West', and therefore considered irrelevant by some. America, on the other hand, is 'Nouveau West', which many Old Westerners consider rather crass, and look down their noses at.
Fer sure, and its definitely been working (smooth 3D viewing of 100,000 polygon meshes). Either that, or the Underpant Gnomes installed a 10GHz processor in my machine while I was asleep...
However, its worth noting that I'm using the drivers as packaged by Gentoo. This may include the patch which another reply to my OP mentions; I wasn't aware of this patch when I posted.
I've been running the 2.6-series kernel since test6 (IIRC), and all the time using the Nvidia GFX drivers for my Ti4600. This story suggests that Nvidia users have had to wait for a new 2.6-compatible release of the drivers, which clearly isn't the case.
Second, your comparison is fallacious. Sure, I have a right to be protected from people spying on me in my own home. However, if I plastered naked photos of myself all over the 'hood, then I think it reasonable to assume that I've waived this right. Same goes for wireless transmission; if I can receive the transmission in a public place, then those producing the transmission have effectively waived their right to privacy.
In fact, we could take this one step further. If I picked up a broadcast from a security camera, which happened to be pointed at two people fucking on the office copying machine, the company might be liable for broadcasting obscene material.
The text is in Old English and is presented without any transalation.
Nope, Chaucer isn't Old English (a language more closely related to Fresian), its actually Middle English. Once you get used to it, it isn't too difficult to understand. If you want to see some Old English, have a look at an untranslated version of Beowulf (the Epic, not the cluster).
...not a credible terrorist force by any measure. In any case, you've not refuted my point that Sinn Fein are/were the negotiating face of the Provisional IRA.
I want Jewish boots kept on the throat of the murderous Muslim fiends until the sun dies.
Substitute 'Aryan' for 'Jewish', and 'Jewish' for 'Muslim', and its pretty clear that it was people like you who were responsible for the Holocaust. In your fervour to support the Zionist cause, you have become the very evil which made the Zionist movement necessary in the first place. I pity you, I really do.
The Guardian hates the BBC, and they along with Rupert Murdoch have been trying to get the British government to shut down the BBCs great website, so that more people go to their services.
Fuck me, I never thought I'd see The Guardian and Rupert Murdoch mentioned in the same breath. 'Scuse me while I look outside and check whether the guy driving the snow-plough (East-coast ice storm at the 'mo) is wearing a red leotard and pointy horns.
Well, I would think that one small difference between the Americans and the Palestinian "freedom fighters" is that the Americans did not sneak into Britain and blow up random civilians
Your point would be relevant, if it were the case that Britain had belonged to America 50 years prior to the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, although the case in Israel, which belonged to the Palestinian peoples until 1946, it was not the case in the US. Hence, your analogy is completely flawed, and all statements you make after the one I quote above are meaningless.
Before we all don our tin-foil hats, its worth pointing out that the episode of Panorama (a highly-respected current affairs programme) which aired last Wednesday was highly critical of the BBC involvement in the Kelly business. Which channel did it air on? That would be BBC One. Don't beleive me? Check out this story on the BBC website.
In light of this, it's pretty peverse to suggest that the BBC has gone to any lengths to hide or downplay their involvement in the whole affair. I myself think the Google ad buying is simply part of the BBCs shift towards positioning itself as more of a 'regular' media player (albeit with public funding), as opposed to the state-run service which it originated as.
It seems to me that if an organization is truely 'terrorist' then experts should not be supporting or advising them.
Ah, but who decides when an organization is truely 'terrorist'. I support the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), who are fighting for independence from Indonesia in Aceh, a northern province on the island of Sumatra. The people of Aceh have been subject to the most appaling treatment by Indonesian security forces -- ranging from rape to torture and murder.
However, the Indonesian government -- which represents the most populous Muslim country in the world, and has friendly ties with the USA -- has declared GAM to be a terrorist organization. Therefore, under the provisions of the Patriot act which were recently ruled unconstitutional, I was committing a crime by supporting GAM, even though this support was aimed toward helping to secure basic human rights for the Aceh people.
Ultimately, the problem is this: 'terrorist' is a highly-subjective, value-laden label; in fact, so much so that no sensible law should legislate against 'terrorist organisations'. Instead, legislation should be aimed against specific acts. Of course, we're unlikely to see such reformed legislation; the current US adminstration appears to have a liking for the 'flexibility' which the designation 'terrorist' carries with it.
Parent: So even if Spirit gives up the ghost, her kin can carry on the flame (albeit in a less interesting location).
Me: Not if the problem is due to a design fault. That's the drawback of sending multiple identical probes: if one is intrinsically fucked, they all are.
I now bask, contented, in the glow of my own brilliance....
Which is why, if you notice, a lot of Hindus do not eat things like Garlic, Onions, Carrots, Potatos, and the like -- anything where a plant is killed.
I'm skeptical about this assertion. Just a couple of common items of Indian cuisine would seem to disprove your case: onion bhajee and sag aloo (potato). Perhaps you are thinking of Jainism?
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Earth rules! It was practically custom designed to meet our every need and take our punishment
Its disappointing to see on /. such an inability to grasp even the most basic tenets of evolution. We have evolved in such a way that we are well-adapted to life in certain environments on Earth. The notion that Earth has somehow been designed to be hospitable to humans, or for that matter any species, is laughable.
No, you cannot compare cosmic distances to travelling across the oceans. Sorry, in the real universe scale matters.
Approximate travel time to Mars: 1 year. Approximate travel time to row across the Pacific ocean: 6 months - 1 year. These are comparable figures, therefore your bald assertion above would appear to be incorrect.
The ocean analogy has been brought up before and it continues to demosntrate how ignorant most people are of basic science.
The ignorance being demonstrated here is your own. We are talking about going to Mars, not to another star system.
Why exactly doesnt gentoo have an installer ?
I tend to regard Gentoo as Linux From Scratch with some neat package management scripts. I loved LFS, since it taught me quite a bit about the nuts and bolts of a Linux distro; however, I ended up writing my own package management scripts, which became tedious to maintain. Gentoo fills this hole perfectly; it has the "build your own" feel, but makes the package management a doddle.
It wouldnt take much to offer "up an running in 10 minutes" iso's to people with a default set of apps, portage & tree etc
What, you mean like the 2-disk Live CD option offered by, erm, what's its name, Gentoo Linux? Sure, there's a bit of tweaking to do, but almost everything is precompiled. Too much for you? Then perhaps Gentoo's not for you.
*ONLY* $10 billion? The rest of the planet should get a paying job and chip in.
As a fraction of its GDP, the US gives less in foreign aid than almost any other developed nation. And $10 billion really doesn't go that far. Consider this: World Bank figures indicate that over 1100.2 million people were living in dire poverty (on less than $1.08 per day) in the year 2000. To raise their lot to one of moderate poverty ($2 per day) would require c. $1 billion dollars per day. So, the $10 billion which the US spent on foreign aid, assuming it all went on poverty relief, only would have helped the world's poor for 10 days. Not very impressive.
I guess $10 billion isn't very much money anymore...the US isn't required to give _anything_ to anyone...$10 billion can feed alot of faces!
My point was to refute the parent post, by pointing out that as a fraction of its GDP the US spends less on foreign aid than almost any other developed nation. Ironic that one of the most "Christian" of western societies is also one of the least charitable.
The entire continent of Africa would starve to death without UN food aid, paid for mostly by the United States.
What, the same United States which has spend $87 billion on its invasion of Iraq, but only $10 billion in the last year on foreign aid for the whole planet?
Has Europe moved into another ideological sphere that separates them from the rest of the world, and if so what is it?
Yes. Europe is 'Old West', and therefore considered irrelevant by some. America, on the other hand, is 'Nouveau West', which many Old Westerners consider rather crass, and look down their noses at.
So you've never ran the 2.6 kernel up until now?
See my post below. I've been running 2.6 since it was released, and have never had a problem with the Nvidia binary drivers. YMMV, however.
You had 3D acceleration?
Fer sure, and its definitely been working (smooth 3D viewing of 100,000 polygon meshes). Either that, or the Underpant Gnomes installed a 10GHz processor in my machine while I was asleep...
However, its worth noting that I'm using the drivers as packaged by Gentoo. This may include the patch which another reply to my OP mentions; I wasn't aware of this patch when I posted.
I've been running the 2.6-series kernel since test6 (IIRC), and all the time using the Nvidia GFX drivers for my Ti4600. This story suggests that Nvidia users have had to wait for a new 2.6-compatible release of the drivers, which clearly isn't the case.
You are a nincompoop sir.
...and there, like "voyeur", is another nice French phrase: "non-comprendre", not understanding.
It is no different than a voyer.
First, it's voyeur, not voyer.
Second, your comparison is fallacious. Sure, I have a right to be protected from people spying on me in my own home. However, if I plastered naked photos of myself all over the 'hood, then I think it reasonable to assume that I've waived this right. Same goes for wireless transmission; if I can receive the transmission in a public place, then those producing the transmission have effectively waived their right to privacy.
In fact, we could take this one step further. If I picked up a broadcast from a security camera, which happened to be pointed at two people fucking on the office copying machine, the company might be liable for broadcasting obscene material.
The text is in Old English and is presented without any transalation.
Nope, Chaucer isn't Old English (a language more closely related to Fresian), its actually Middle English. Once you get used to it, it isn't too difficult to understand. If you want to see some Old English, have a look at an untranslated version of Beowulf (the Epic, not the cluster).
Nice try: Real IRA (RIRA); a.k.a. True IRA
...not a credible terrorist force by any measure. In any case, you've not refuted my point that Sinn Fein are/were the negotiating face of the Provisional IRA.
I want Jewish boots kept on the throat of the murderous Muslim fiends until the sun dies.
Substitute 'Aryan' for 'Jewish', and 'Jewish' for 'Muslim', and its pretty clear that it was people like you who were responsible for the Holocaust. In your fervour to support the Zionist cause, you have become the very evil which made the Zionist movement necessary in the first place. I pity you, I really do.
The Guardian hates the BBC, and they along with Rupert Murdoch have been trying to get the British government to shut down the BBCs great website, so that more people go to their services.
Fuck me, I never thought I'd see The Guardian and Rupert Murdoch mentioned in the same breath. 'Scuse me while I look outside and check whether the guy driving the snow-plough (East-coast ice storm at the 'mo) is wearing a red leotard and pointy horns.
The difference is that terrorists have NO CENTRALIZED AUTHORITY.
A bald assertion which is demonstrably untrue. How shall I demonstrate this? With two words, m'lud. Sinn Fein.
Thanks for playing, good luck!
Well, I would think that one small difference between the Americans and the Palestinian "freedom fighters" is that the Americans did not sneak into Britain and blow up random civilians
Your point would be relevant, if it were the case that Britain had belonged to America 50 years prior to the Revolutionary War. Unfortunately, although the case in Israel, which belonged to the Palestinian peoples until 1946, it was not the case in the US. Hence, your analogy is completely flawed, and all statements you make after the one I quote above are meaningless.
Before we all don our tin-foil hats, its worth pointing out that the episode of Panorama (a highly-respected current affairs programme) which aired last Wednesday was highly critical of the BBC involvement in the Kelly business. Which channel did it air on? That would be BBC One. Don't beleive me? Check out this story on the BBC website.
In light of this, it's pretty peverse to suggest that the BBC has gone to any lengths to hide or downplay their involvement in the whole affair. I myself think the Google ad buying is simply part of the BBCs shift towards positioning itself as more of a 'regular' media player (albeit with public funding), as opposed to the state-run service which it originated as.
It seems to me that if an organization is truely 'terrorist' then experts should not be supporting or advising them.
Ah, but who decides when an organization is truely 'terrorist'. I support the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), who are fighting for independence from Indonesia in Aceh, a northern province on the island of Sumatra. The people of Aceh have been subject to the most appaling treatment by Indonesian security forces -- ranging from rape to torture and murder.
However, the Indonesian government -- which represents the most populous Muslim country in the world, and has friendly ties with the USA -- has declared GAM to be a terrorist organization. Therefore, under the provisions of the Patriot act which were recently ruled unconstitutional, I was committing a crime by supporting GAM, even though this support was aimed toward helping to secure basic human rights for the Aceh people.
Ultimately, the problem is this: 'terrorist' is a highly-subjective, value-laden label; in fact, so much so that no sensible law should legislate against 'terrorist organisations'. Instead, legislation should be aimed against specific acts. Of course, we're unlikely to see such reformed legislation; the current US adminstration appears to have a liking for the 'flexibility' which the designation 'terrorist' carries with it.
O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hail'd at the twilight's last gleaming?
Ah yes, the national anthem whose tune is taken from an English drinking song. How very American...
Opportunity will most likely have the same problem since they are twin brothers and had an identical build process.
I quote from my post a couple of days ago:
Parent: So even if Spirit gives up the ghost, her kin can carry on the flame (albeit in a less interesting location).
Me: Not if the problem is due to a design fault. That's the drawback of sending multiple identical probes: if one is intrinsically fucked, they all are.
I now bask, contented, in the glow of my own brilliance....
In practice, it's more of a rotational kakistodemocracy
I find the term 'kleptocracy' most appropriate: rule by thieves.
Which is why, if you notice, a lot of Hindus do not eat things like Garlic, Onions, Carrots, Potatos, and the like -- anything where a plant is killed.
I'm skeptical about this assertion. Just a couple of common items of Indian cuisine would seem to disprove your case: onion bhajee and sag aloo (potato). Perhaps you are thinking of Jainism?