"So really, there is no way around this. They are screwed either way. No Catholic Church? Then the shaman tells them to rape a virgin, or maybe there is a vampire to blame. It is all so pathetic it is making my head hurt."
"If you have the power to stop a crime but do not stop it, you are as guitly as if you commited it."
Dunno if I've translated that correctly, but that was what I wanted to say. The catholic church has the power to stop many evil things, but instead they foster them. Same thing with the US-conservatives. Instead of inveasting the money to fight evil things (AIDS, drugs, etc) they invest brain in stupid projects with a sole ideological purpose.
Right. And then the conservatives can say: "You see how bad sex is!" Good strategy (not morally though). Ok, they kill thousants of people with that (like the catholic church does in Africa with their condom-prohibition), but it'll help them to preserve power.
In Africa AIDS has become an epidemic, and every year millions of people die of it. But, usually when there is such a life-threatening crisis, people become more religious. Church wins.
only the interface. honestly, the XP interface is way better than any linux desktop there is. On the other hand, as an OS, linux is way better than XP. But without a good GUI it will never win the desktop market.
WinXP is a good OS and almost as stable as Linux is. Explorer is as stable as Gnome or KDE. But XP is much easier to use for an average (desktop!) user. The point in making an open source clone is not so much stablility or ease of use, but it is about taking the control of the worldwide desktop market from MS. It is not desireable --and even dangerous-- that one single company controls the enduser IT of 95% of the world.
I like XP too, and I wish there were a Linux as user-friendly as XP is. But I do not feel very comfortable knowing that one single company controls all that. Maybe because I studied politics and know what consequences absolute power may have. I hope Linux will be successful, but it has to be as easy to use as XP if it wants to break the MS-hegemony.
and am wondering why phoenix gets so much more press.
IIRC KM was almost dead for quite a time. Both browsers are more or less the same. Phoenix uses XUL for its interface, KM doesn't. KM uses its own scripting that is very easy to do, so KM becomes easily costumizable by everybody. I use Phoenix now, because KM repeatedly crashed, and it corrupted also my bookmarks-file (especially letters like ä, ö, ü, etc and arabic or chinese characters were rendered unreadable (I use one bookmark-file for all browsers).
Right! In the US there is real poverty, so they need real low-cost computers. In Europe we have social welfare and everybody has a guaranteed living standart. So there is no need for computers that cheep.
*SCNR* A stupid comment deserves a stupid answer, right?!
I'm telling myself that it's not going to happen, but what if more than one of those 100 candidates turns out to be the real thing. What a shocker that would be!
In fact, that could be quite beneficial for humanity. Humans tent to identify themselfs by what they not are. In other words: If a group of people has some kind of "enemy" or "opposite", it usualy becomes more united. That does allways happen and on any scale. So hopefully, when we discover extraterrestial civilizations, people may begin to define themselfs more as "humans" and less than citizens of different countries.
Thinking that over... if they don't find any signal, they should make up one! Anyways, nobody will be able to validate it, if it comes from some 1000 Lightyears away...
On the other hand, you can't compare copyright handling in the anglo-saxon law tradition with copyright in the roman law tradition. In the roman law tradition e.g. it is perfectly legal to buy a CD and give a copy of it to a friend for free. Legaly you can't do that in anglo-saxon law, AFAIK. So wait half a year and the supreme court of the EU will cancel this decision, I am quite shure.
Yes, the ICE in Germany does that too, and almost any other country has it's high speed train.
This is a new technology. The Transrapid does not touch the track: no friction, no vibration. Just like flying, but without airports and Kerosin-Emissions.
This is precisely what a country with a GNIPC (gross national income per capita) of ~750$ (see WorldBank) needs these days.
Are you aware, that you are talking about 1.3 billion people here? That would be like taking all the Americas as 1 single country and complaining that the part where the USA is spends so much on high tech. (BTW: All the counties on the American continent together would be about half the population of China!)
When talking about China I cannot avoid to notice that it is often seen as any other county. You just can't compare China and Luxemburg!
Chinas current economic condition? You mean anual export growth rates of more than 10% for the last 12 years in a row? Or do you refere to the anual GDP growth of (average) 7% for the last 10 years? Be more specific, please!
*SCNR*
If people put their email adress all over the web, its no wonder. I just use some service like spamgourmet.com if I need an email address to subscribe somewhere and use a webform if you wanna contact me like C14L.com/mail. I've got no problem with spam.
all taiwanese i've talked to go for re-unification. the only obstacle is the authoritarian regime in mainland china. so it'll take some 30 or 40 more years, until economic developement will make mainland china switch to a democratic government (like taiwan itself and korea became democratic once their economies became sufficiently developed.)
btw, the US-gov is helping taiwan because mainland china is much likely one of the main competitors to US-hegemonie in the decates to come. so the US is currently building up a ring around china (from japan, s-korea, taiwan, pakistan, afghanistan, Usbekistan, etc.) it was called "detainment policy" in the cold war era.
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"So really, there is no way around this. They are screwed either way. No Catholic Church? Then the shaman tells them to rape a virgin, or maybe there is a vampire to blame. It is all so pathetic it is making my head hurt."
"If you have the power to stop a crime but do not stop it, you are as guitly as if you commited it."
Dunno if I've translated that correctly, but that was what I wanted to say. The catholic church has the power to stop many evil things, but instead they foster them. Same thing with the US-conservatives. Instead of inveasting the money to fight evil things (AIDS, drugs, etc) they invest brain in stupid projects with a sole ideological purpose.
Right. And then the conservatives can say: "You see how bad sex is!" Good strategy (not morally though). Ok, they kill thousants of people with that (like the catholic church does in Africa with their condom-prohibition), but it'll help them to preserve power.
In Africa AIDS has become an epidemic, and every year millions of people die of it. But, usually when there is such a life-threatening crisis, people become more religious. Church wins.
only the interface. honestly, the XP interface is way better than any linux desktop there is. On the other hand, as an OS, linux is way better than XP. But without a good GUI it will never win the desktop market.
WinXP is a good OS and almost as stable as Linux is. Explorer is as stable as Gnome or KDE. But XP is much easier to use for an average (desktop!) user. The point in making an open source clone is not so much stablility or ease of use, but it is about taking the control of the worldwide desktop market from MS. It is not desireable --and even dangerous-- that one single company controls the enduser IT of 95% of the world.
I like XP too, and I wish there were a Linux as user-friendly as XP is. But I do not feel very comfortable knowing that one single company controls all that. Maybe because I studied politics and know what consequences absolute power may have. I hope Linux will be successful, but it has to be as easy to use as XP if it wants to break the MS-hegemony.
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SCNRand am wondering why phoenix gets so much more press.
IIRC KM was almost dead for quite a time. Both browsers are more or less the same. Phoenix uses XUL for its interface, KM doesn't. KM uses its own scripting that is very easy to do, so KM becomes easily costumizable by everybody. I use Phoenix now, because KM repeatedly crashed, and it corrupted also my bookmarks-file (especially letters like ä, ö, ü, etc and arabic or chinese characters were rendered unreadable (I use one bookmark-file for all browsers).
Ahm, C0LDFusion, did you read the part after the "*SCNR*" in my original post?
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Right! In the US there is real poverty, so they need real low-cost computers. In Europe we have social welfare and everybody has a guaranteed living standart. So there is no need for computers that cheep.
*SCNR* A stupid comment deserves a stupid answer, right?!
I'm telling myself that it's not going to happen, but what if more than one of those 100 candidates turns out to be the real thing. What a shocker that would be!
In fact, that could be quite beneficial for humanity. Humans tent to identify themselfs by what they not are. In other words: If a group of people has some kind of "enemy" or "opposite", it usualy becomes more united. That does allways happen and on any scale. So hopefully, when we discover extraterrestial civilizations, people may begin to define themselfs more as "humans" and less than citizens of different countries.
Thinking that over... if they don't find any signal, they should make up one! Anyways, nobody will be able to validate it, if it comes from some 1000 Lightyears away...
On the other hand, you can't compare copyright handling in the anglo-saxon law tradition with copyright in the roman law tradition. In the roman law tradition e.g. it is perfectly legal to buy a CD and give a copy of it to a friend for free. Legaly you can't do that in anglo-saxon law, AFAIK. So wait half a year and the supreme court of the EU will cancel this decision, I am quite shure.
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Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
??? I am not using "so many caps", I am using abreviation! What the heck...
Yes, the ICE in Germany does that too, and almost any other country has it's high speed train.
This is a new technology. The Transrapid does not touch the track: no friction, no vibration. Just like flying, but without airports and Kerosin-Emissions.
This is precisely what a country with a GNIPC (gross national income per capita) of ~750$ (see WorldBank) needs these days.
Are you aware, that you are talking about 1.3 billion people here? That would be like taking all the Americas as 1 single country and complaining that the part where the USA is spends so much on high tech. (BTW: All the counties on the American continent together would be about half the population of China!)
When talking about China I cannot avoid to notice that it is often seen as any other county. You just can't compare China and Luxemburg!
Chinas current economic condition? You mean anual export growth rates of more than 10% for the last 12 years in a row? Or do you refere to the anual GDP growth of (average) 7% for the last 10 years? Be more specific, please! *SCNR*
If people put their email adress all over the web, its no wonder. I just use some service like spamgourmet.com if I need an email address to subscribe somewhere and use a webform if you wanna contact me like C14L.com/mail. I've got no problem with spam.
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all taiwanese i've talked to go for re-unification. the only obstacle is the authoritarian regime in mainland china. so it'll take some 30 or 40 more years, until economic developement will make mainland china switch to a democratic government (like taiwan itself and korea became democratic once their economies became sufficiently developed.)
btw, the US-gov is helping taiwan because mainland china is much likely one of the main competitors to US-hegemonie in the decates to come. so the US is currently building up a ring around china (from japan, s-korea, taiwan, pakistan, afghanistan, Usbekistan, etc.) it was called "detainment policy" in the cold war era.