Unless they start putting facial recognition cameras in taxis. They don't have to. What you don't know is that the first thing the taxi drivers do, when they get your cash, is take your fingerprint off the cash (bills or coins, although admittedly, it's easier with coins), and they report those to FBI at the end of the day.
Have you ever touched a door handle? Then the Big Brother knows where you are, and, yes, he's watching you---if he needed a camera to know what you are doing, he wouldn't be the Big Brother.
see the civil rights movement, women's suffrage movement, India's break from British rule. You forgot to mention independence of United States from British rule.
Oh, wait. That did take an armed resistance.
Nonviolent resistance is all good and nice, but sometimes, the only way to let the other guys know how serious you are is by showing your willingness to shed blood (your own and others) for your cause.
By writing themselves into the law as "above the law", I no longer feel particularly feel any moral obligation to obey the law. The only principle that guides my behavior now when it comes to dealing with the RIAA/MPAA is "don't get caught". Yes, laws like these should be disobeyed at all opportunities. But do you know what would really make RIAA/MPAA mad?
Don't listen to their music or watch their movies AT ALL.
By consuming their products (whether you pay for it or not), you let them maintain their cultural influence and dominance—and things like that can be used to make money, if not by direct sale. Drive them into irrelevance and obscurity by refusing to listen to or watch anything made by those who would make slaves of the general population.
Unfortunately for video, this means you won't be watching anything at all (since very few videos are liberally licensed at the moment; but maybe you'll get more work done this way), but for music, there are plenty of CC-licensed music available, e.g. at Jamendo.
If you really feel someone should pirate RIAA/MPAA's work, encourage your friends who cannot stay away from mass-produced culture to pirate them instead of buying them.
I regard lawyers (mine or not) as instruments of the client's will. It is the RIAA that is the scumbags, because they're the ones asking for, or at least not blocking, their tactics. If "I was just following orders" is not a valid defense for soldiers and military officers against charges of war crimes, do you think a civilian would be justified in saying that "I was only being paid to do these immoral things"?
If you really think that, I hope you don't reproduce.
That's the problem with cell-phone companies today. They subsidize the cost of the equipment, in the expectation that they might get some call revenue in exchange. Then they get all annoyed when you don't give them any call revenue. Weird that. How many people would actually save money by going into prepaid plan, even at the gigantic rates of 10 to 25 cents / min, rather than paying the monthly rate that they are locked into?
Some of the providers have gotten better with minutes that roll over to the next month (so that you can actually use something that you paid for, even if you don't use it exactly in a month), but as long as they are operating with guaranteed profit with these contracts (as for people who "don't give them any call revenue", see sibling post about termination fee), subsidizing the cost of the phone (in exchange for a higher monthly rate that you are locked into) is a nefarious tactic designed to wheel in dumb people. As nefarious as interest-only mortgages, I might say.
Hell, look at motorcycles. The passengers aren't even contained in the vehicle! Just to be a little pedantic, if you are going to look at motorcycles, also look at the fatality rate of motorcycles (from a quick Google search, here's a secondary source).
Where safety is concerned, something that a passenger car has makes a difference. It's probably not the skin, though.
I recommend all newsgroup denizens with TW, Sprint, and Verizon sign up for news.individual.net [individual.net]. It's 10 euros per year (about $15) and there are no binary groups, but they do a better job of spam and sporge filtering than any ISP I've seen.
Who would've thought the day would come when you'd have to use a German news server to ensure freedom of speech. Er, you pay for access to nonbinary newsgroups? That's... let's say as smart as paying for web browsers. Google Groups has been providing access (and full archive!) to nonbinary newsgroups for years now. And you can even post through Google Groups!
On the other hand, if you want access to binary newsgroups, I'd highly advise against any kind of usenet provider that charges any kind of periodic fees (I use usenet-news.net when I need to, and the $10 I put in years ago still gives me enough transfers to play around with).
Rubbish. Without full disk encryption, laptops today are as vulnerable as they were 15 years ago. If anything they're *more* vulnerable nowadays,... keep them connected to the net all the time... Not to overstate the obvious, but if you are worried about someone remotely hacking into a live system, full disk encryption does nothing, unless it's a kind of "disk" (more often an image used as loopback device) that you mount only when you are using it. The rest are just as vulnerable as without encryption, if you leave them decrypted all the time.
Better tell your Clinton friends to take a LONG HARD LOOK at the alternative. 4-8 more years of Iraq, world hatred, and the continuing decline of the economy is a BIG price just to pay for a little spite. Er, they are politicians. Things like "the right thing" and "good of the people" do not matter to them. If they can get power by pretending to care about such things, they will. If they will lose power by actually caring about such things, they won't.
And, yes, this includes Obama and McCain. Not just Clinton. All you have is a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche.
Except, of course, even assuming that no mistake was made in that case at all, that particular observation only tells us about neutrinos. There are enough about neutrinos that we do not know (e.g. are they Majorana particles (in short, antineutrino = neutrino), so they would behave the same way in every testable way), so it's bordering on silliness to say that some observation on neutrinos would allow us to say the same for other, more massive and charged particles with any kind of certainty.
Everything is subject to experimental verification. Everyone thought parity was a fundamental symmetry until it was found to be maximally violated with weak forces.
How many KDE3-guified apps are going to switch over to KDE4? I don't know about how much things are different under the hood, but as far as GUI goes, QT4 has compatibility objects and methods for programs transitioning from QT3, if the developer doesn't want to re-implement everything with QT4.
Except for very old, stable programs that are not being updated anymore, I don't see what would stop someone from switching over to QT4 (and presumably KDE4).
It's rather hard to believe that authorizing everyone to carry firearms can in any way make the society safer It has nothing to do with "making the society safer" (as if they were worried about crime rates in late 1700s). It has everything to do with preventing the government from oppressing its citizens so much that they cannot even rise up in a bloody rebellion when the government becomes too oppressive to endure.
UserID 0 was a handy value to use... ... which is why there is such a thing as "rootsquash" on the export option.
BTW, what do you mean "at one point"? I thought NFS still accepted UID for filesystem permisson purposes, unless you have the "secure" option set, which then it requires one to "keylogin".
... to get the music that also puts some money in the music label's pocket. 'Fixed it for you.
If you actually care about where your money is going to, I suggest that you donate directly to the artists. I've found Jamendo to be a convenient place to do that, but I guess if you care about listening to big name music (rather than actual quality art), I suppose there's no way to avoid contributing to big music labels.
Also, once you have a great single distro and tools/apps THEN branch off and create your variants and niche products. Er, what do you think Debian GNU/Linux ("the universal operating system") is? Many successful distributions serving a particular niche have been derived from Debian. To give just two widely known examples, there is Knoppix (the Live CD distro) and Ubuntu (... supposedly geared towards desktop users).
And the worst (or best) part of all is, all this happened 10, 15 years ago—you are way out of date, buddy.
P.S. Besides, if you are writing an application for a particular platform, well, you are a bad programmer and if you don't publish anything, the world will be better for it. One of the principles that bind all *nix platforms together is portability. If a program isn't written in a portable manner (ready to be compiled from source wherever standard libraries are available), well, it's not quite release-ready.
There needs to be a singular distro at the heart of it all which is steered by either Linus or a committee that focuses on one vision and goal. I think this alone says that you are, in fact, very unfamiliar with "Linux" (GNU/Linux would be less confusing, unless you are a kernel hacker).
Linus just works on the kernel, and he said as much—that he cares only about hardware and not about applications and other stuff. A distribution headed by Linus would indeed be a terrible idea—as bad as transplanting a high school teacher to teach kindergarteners.
Having said that, as much as I am particular to Debian (which this "shootout" mysteriously left out), I see nothing wrong with diversity. If new users are confused, let them be. Would you let America become a homogenized land of drones, just so that new immigrants are not confused by its "strange culture"?
Ubuntu's raison d'etre is about making debian usable for everyday use without making users spend a day looking up config details for their hardware or what chipset their cards are using and what drivers go with what. And you have to do that with Debian? That's news to me, at least in last couple of years. When I bought a relatively new and mixed off-brand laptop (a whitebook with gigabit ethernet, but with cheap wireless card), all I had to do was install and boot with the default kernel in Debian testing and that was it. No looking up chipsets or messing with configs.
Give me one example where hardware works perfectly without any configuration on the user part in Ubuntu but not in Debian (... testing or unstable), and your characterization will be fair.
The only difference is that google has kind of a hard time respecting Brazil's sovereigny. I think you got it backwards. Brazil has hard time respecting U.S. sovereignty. Does Google have a presence in Brazil? What jurisdiction does Brazil possibly have over Google?
As long as Google is a U.S. corporation with all its offices and servers in U.S. (I don't know this for a fact; but I'm sure if they had offices in Brazil, they could have simply confiscated equipments there), Brazillian courts have absolutely no authority over Google's servers. They should have gone through the proper channel---U.S. judicial system.
As an hypothetical example, do you think Nigeria should be able to get to your private data by using just the procedures that their government declares is "due procedure", and ignore all U.S. (or U.K., or wherever you actually live) laws about how they should do it? Because that would be a great loop hole for corrupt FBI and CIA agents to exploit---get their foreign contacts (with looser laws about what due procedure is) to request information through their channel that is not recognized by U.S.
And all I am asking is access to several bedrooms and bathrooms in your house. Apparently there are reports that your house is being used as a meth lab.
Do you see a difference here? Except for the change of the alleged crime (and that I am attacking you, not some hypothetical pedophile), there is no difference whatsoever. Is what I am asking a reasonable thing to ask, if I were a warrantless police officer?
... with the right perks, like no travel. I fail to see how "no travel" is a perk. Who in their right minds would turn down an opportunity to see new places, especially when your employer will foot the bill?
What are you, some sort of a small fish in a small pond?
The Teapot can make itself invisible, you heathen infidel fool! Trust in the teapot or be boiled forever in an eternity of agony! But if it's a teapot with supernatural powers (I do see now that Hubble won't be good enough---either we have to build a very large ground-based telescopes (maybe that's what they can turn LIGO into, after it detects a gravity wave), or we need to send dozens and hundreds of probes), then it's not a teapot at all, but a god in disguise of a teapot.
And we are back to the original question: Could (or must) God have created the whole universe, or at least the life on a little planet orbiting an average star, in an average galaxy?
Mocking it doesn't make it go away---just as questioning Darwin's ancestry didn't suddenly discredit the theory of evolution.
1) Religion defies logic. Think of the Genesis 1 counting of days before there was a difference between night and day... How interesting that you should make the same exact mistake that religious fundamentalists make---i.e. reading the Bible too literally---in trying to oppose them.
The mainstream position (both protestant and Catholic---in fact, didn't the Vatican declare that the theory of evolution is not in conflict with the teachings of the Church some time ago?) is to read the problematic passages figuratively---they (Genesis, in particular) were written by some old man in, what, 1300 B.C.E.?
3) Any competing theories to Teapot Creationism is heresy. What do we say about places where there are heretics? Kill them all and let the Teapot sort them out! And, if all you can do is mock your opponents (not that they aren't terribly easy and tempting to mock), I find you no better than those who scoffed at the theory of evolution, pondering whether Darwin (or whoever the proponent of the day was) was a monkey on his mother's side or father's side. When two kindergarten kids fight (and that's really how many of evolution vs. creationism debate looks like), to put it simply, well, it's just juvenile.
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Have you ever touched a door handle? Then the Big Brother knows where you are, and, yes, he's watching you---if he needed a camera to know what you are doing, he wouldn't be the Big Brother.
Oh, wait. That did take an armed resistance.
Nonviolent resistance is all good and nice, but sometimes, the only way to let the other guys know how serious you are is by showing your willingness to shed blood (your own and others) for your cause.
Don't listen to their music or watch their movies AT ALL.
By consuming their products (whether you pay for it or not), you let them maintain their cultural influence and dominance—and things like that can be used to make money, if not by direct sale. Drive them into irrelevance and obscurity by refusing to listen to or watch anything made by those who would make slaves of the general population.
Unfortunately for video, this means you won't be watching anything at all (since very few videos are liberally licensed at the moment; but maybe you'll get more work done this way), but for music, there are plenty of CC-licensed music available, e.g. at Jamendo.
If you really feel someone should pirate RIAA/MPAA's work, encourage your friends who cannot stay away from mass-produced culture to pirate them instead of buying them.
And, if you are an experimental scientist, build a shutter ('sorry, but you do need some sort of subscription to access the journal page).
If you really think that, I hope you don't reproduce.
Some of the providers have gotten better with minutes that roll over to the next month (so that you can actually use something that you paid for, even if you don't use it exactly in a month), but as long as they are operating with guaranteed profit with these contracts (as for people who "don't give them any call revenue", see sibling post about termination fee), subsidizing the cost of the phone (in exchange for a higher monthly rate that you are locked into) is a nefarious tactic designed to wheel in dumb people. As nefarious as interest-only mortgages, I might say.
Where safety is concerned, something that a passenger car has makes a difference. It's probably not the skin, though.
Who would've thought the day would come when you'd have to use a German news server to ensure freedom of speech. Er, you pay for access to nonbinary newsgroups? That's
On the other hand, if you want access to binary newsgroups, I'd highly advise against any kind of usenet provider that charges any kind of periodic fees (I use usenet-news.net when I need to, and the $10 I put in years ago still gives me enough transfers to play around with).
What about girls? I don't see how growing a pair of knockers would do any good.
Er, you probably won't get paid. Olympic is for amateurs.
And, yes, this includes Obama and McCain. Not just Clinton. All you have is a choice between a turd sandwich and a giant douche.
Except, of course, even assuming that no mistake was made in that case at all, that particular observation only tells us about neutrinos. There are enough about neutrinos that we do not know (e.g. are they Majorana particles (in short, antineutrino = neutrino), so they would behave the same way in every testable way), so it's bordering on silliness to say that some observation on neutrinos would allow us to say the same for other, more massive and charged particles with any kind of certainty.
Everything is subject to experimental verification. Everyone thought parity was a fundamental symmetry until it was found to be maximally violated with weak forces.
Except for very old, stable programs that are not being updated anymore, I don't see what would stop someone from switching over to QT4 (and presumably KDE4).
BTW, what do you mean "at one point"? I thought NFS still accepted UID for filesystem permisson purposes, unless you have the "secure" option set, which then it requires one to "keylogin".
... to get the music that also puts some money in the music label's pocket. 'Fixed it for you.If you actually care about where your money is going to, I suggest that you donate directly to the artists. I've found Jamendo to be a convenient place to do that, but I guess if you care about listening to big name music (rather than actual quality art), I suppose there's no way to avoid contributing to big music labels.
And the worst (or best) part of all is, all this happened 10, 15 years ago—you are way out of date, buddy.
P.S. Besides, if you are writing an application for a particular platform, well, you are a bad programmer and if you don't publish anything, the world will be better for it. One of the principles that bind all *nix platforms together is portability. If a program isn't written in a portable manner (ready to be compiled from source wherever standard libraries are available), well, it's not quite release-ready.
Linus just works on the kernel, and he said as much—that he cares only about hardware and not about applications and other stuff. A distribution headed by Linus would indeed be a terrible idea—as bad as transplanting a high school teacher to teach kindergarteners.
Having said that, as much as I am particular to Debian (which this "shootout" mysteriously left out), I see nothing wrong with diversity. If new users are confused, let them be. Would you let America become a homogenized land of drones, just so that new immigrants are not confused by its "strange culture"?
Give me one example where hardware works perfectly without any configuration on the user part in Ubuntu but not in Debian (... testing or unstable), and your characterization will be fair.
As long as Google is a U.S. corporation with all its offices and servers in U.S. (I don't know this for a fact; but I'm sure if they had offices in Brazil, they could have simply confiscated equipments there), Brazillian courts have absolutely no authority over Google's servers. They should have gone through the proper channel---U.S. judicial system.
As an hypothetical example, do you think Nigeria should be able to get to your private data by using just the procedures that their government declares is "due procedure", and ignore all U.S. (or U.K., or wherever you actually live) laws about how they should do it? Because that would be a great loop hole for corrupt FBI and CIA agents to exploit---get their foreign contacts (with looser laws about what due procedure is) to request information through their channel that is not recognized by U.S.
And all I am asking is access to several bedrooms and bathrooms in your house. Apparently there are reports that your house is being used as a meth lab.
Do you see a difference here? Except for the change of the alleged crime (and that I am attacking you, not some hypothetical pedophile), there is no difference whatsoever. Is what I am asking a reasonable thing to ask, if I were a warrantless police officer?
... with the right perks, like no travel. I fail to see how "no travel" is a perk. Who in their right minds would turn down an opportunity to see new places, especially when your employer will foot the bill?What are you, some sort of a small fish in a small pond?
And we are back to the original question: Could (or must) God have created the whole universe, or at least the life on a little planet orbiting an average star, in an average galaxy?
Mocking it doesn't make it go away---just as questioning Darwin's ancestry didn't suddenly discredit the theory of evolution.
The mainstream position (both protestant and Catholic---in fact, didn't the Vatican declare that the theory of evolution is not in conflict with the teachings of the Church some time ago?) is to read the problematic passages figuratively---they (Genesis, in particular) were written by some old man in, what, 1300 B.C.E.? 3) Any competing theories to Teapot Creationism is heresy. What do we say about places where there are heretics? Kill them all and let the Teapot sort them out! And, if all you can do is mock your opponents (not that they aren't terribly easy and tempting to mock), I find you no better than those who scoffed at the theory of evolution, pondering whether Darwin (or whoever the proponent of the day was) was a monkey on his mother's side or father's side. When two kindergarten kids fight (and that's really how many of evolution vs. creationism debate looks like), to put it simply, well, it's just juvenile.