Who besides Jimmy Carter and Hugo Chavez endorsed the election?
I was under the impression that there were inspectors there under UN governance, aswell as various volunteer organisations. I'll check sources. In the meantime, feel free to find anything near credible sources saying the opposite (and right-wing papers who willingly spread the 26-year lies without correcting them does *not* count)
Many voted for him because they would lose their government benefits if they didn't.
And that's an argument against what? People voted for him because the opposition would have stripped away their benefits? That's as inane as another guy on Slashdot who was complaining about their democrazy because Chavez was giving state money to the poor and of course they were going to vote for him then!
The Venezuela media are afraid to critcize Chavez.
Yes. The state-run media don't. The corporate media do. They're both tainted as **** and any argument useable against one side is useable against the other though. Media there simply isn't working. That said, I think the situation there is actually more balanced now than when the you only had one one-sided view, the aristrocrats. Now you have two one-sided views, which is a helluva lot better.
People are starting to disappear.
I'll believe this when I see it from a credible source.. I sincerely hope I'm just blinded by the hope that Venezuela can turn themselves around, and considering the amount of FUD that's certifiably not-true I'm really not inclined to take this at face-value from you. I mean, you believed the 26-year old myth, which means you're really not bothering reading alternate news-sources.
In the next 'election' you will see Hugo get all of the vote and that is not possible with a fair national election.
Yeah right. Even if you're right, and he's a criminally minded tug he's way smarter than that. Please, try and put away *some* of your emotions.
1. Ooohh.. he is evil, don't defend him! The elections has been deemed fair by the international observers time and time again. As usual, it was the opposition, without popular support, who were crying foul. Does it not strike as strange that the opposition are consentrating their PR-campaign on foreign-media? They've given up on winning elections back home. The people will not support the Aristocrats, and I surely don't blame them. Given how rich Venezuela is, it's a bloody outrage they have so many poor people. (my country, was in the same situation 30 years ago, ridicilously shit poor and then found oil. We chose sosialsm from the start, and we're now bloody well off)
..packing the Supreme Court with his men. That doesn't happen in any other Western Superpowers now does it?
The reason he wants to be able to run in consecutive elections is pretty transparent,
I agree; but as long as he's upholding the elections I hardly see the problem.
2. Yes, I can. It depends a whole lot on your definition of corruption though, but mine is somewhere near 'anytime an elected official does something detrimental to the general populace in area; ie putting special financial interests ahead of the population (and yes, occasionally helping special interests is for the good of the general populace, but that doesn't break the argument). No-Broadcast-flag, DMCA and microsoft-case being dumped are all clear cases of corruption in my opinion; ie special interests of the few being put ahead of what could have made society better.
1. Stop spreading lies. Please. This meme is even worse then the 'I invented the internet claim'-meme.
What he wanted was 'If the opposition refuses to run in presidential elections (which they have done to delegitamete the elections as much as possible, due to them having no popular support whatsoever), he wanted the possibility of running in consecutive elections.
2. And property rights are absolute in the US? Did you read GP, did you read the article? Confiscating property has been common practice a long time, only difference is the US is more corrupt (although you seem to have implemented it as a feature instead of a bug).
(Because you said offtopic rant, I get to comment on your spelling and grammar)
Sure thing! I was way too tired when I wrote that, and couldn't be arsed checked the spelling.
Why did you use 'who' for 'for' and 'whom' for 'from'?
My English teacher always said it was never wrong to replace 'who' for 'whom', so basically I just end up using 'whom' when I think it sounds better. It takes too much effort to bother changing.
Is "heteregounes" French?(Heterogenous)
Not any language I'd guess. With English pronounciation being as thouroughly broken as it is, it hardly matters though.
"We respect individual property rights, but I would like to stress that we do not think of those rights as absolute"
Only difference is he was referring to old colonial lords sitting on masses on undeveloped land; eg aristocrats, so his interpretation actually have some morally and economically redeeming factors.
Freedom to spend your money however you want? Freedom from taxes?.. and freedom to be poor? Freedom to be forced to work two jobs to afford to feed your child?
Freedom from monopolies or groups of heteregounes companies making up de-facto monopolies? Freedom from companies 'forcing' contracts which they can change their terms retro-activetely at will?
Freedom to not have your house bulldozed by occupanotial forces because your neighbour blew himself up?
Saying something is for 'Freedom' is inane. Everything comes down to freedom. The relevant question is which type, for who and from whom..
GSpot, the program which automatically finds out what codec a movie is in, and if you have it available?
Yep, it is really hard to find between all the porn-sites that show up when searching for it. Its homepage is however here
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Any snooping done is most likely going to be automatic, and this ensures naive snooping won't work. As long as this is not in widespread use it's going to much more secure than not doing it, and it's relativly easy to do and non-obstrusive.
All-in-all, I think it's a practical down-to-earth simple solution. Seriously, don't laugh just because it's not technical enough for you.. So while you're busy being a tech-snon, the world will be busy getting stuff done. This works; for now.
Bah, I except better from professionally run services than volunteer-based ones.. not that it's necessairly deserved, but I still do.
And the MSN-network isn't getting nearly as much as flac as it deserves. The service is, atleast in my experience, way too flaky and if I could get my friends to switch I'd do it in an instant.
Who yearns for a time when everything is out of your control and sailing sticks across a pond is fun because you've still to undeveloped mentally to enjoy a good game of Risk?
If you enjoy Risk I'd say you're still undeveloped mentally.
Features are nice as long as the UI is clean and performance doesn't suffer. FireFox accomplishes neither at the moment. Opera, on the other hand, have in my opinion been walking a fine line, performance is still good enough, but occasionally I have my doubts about the interface (usually after having seen my step-mother using it, but she's capable of not understanding anything, including 'click there','click with the left mouse button there', 'click with the left mouse button there, and release the button right afterwards so it makes a little click sound and don't move the mouse to the other part of the screen while releasing the mouse button')
All "privacy policies" are bullshit. They all say at the end of them something in legalese like: "We reserve the right to change our mind at any time".
Yes, they are very carefull not to stick anything like this into the actual contracts.
If you want privacy, have the government enact laws (feel free to copy as much as you want from our Scandinavian ones, privacy/consumer laws seem to be things we're reasonably good at). On the other hand, if the government is the problem, it's your own bloody fault, you (plural) elected it; vote something else next time.
I'm not excusing the guy's actions. He knew she was 14, and that's not OK, even if she said yes, which I'm guessing she probably did
Seriously, assuming she had hit puberty, what's the problem? Most likely, he was much closer to her in maturity level than he was girls his own age.
This magical age limit thing is really bothering me.. especially since each country seems to have their own magical number. I can understand there needing to be a set agelevel as far as the law goes, because measuring maturity-level is pretty much impossible.. But we don't *need* to be as stupid when it comes what we deem moral. A childish 19 year old boy can be perfect match for a grown-up'ish 14 year old maturity-wise.
I'm no bloody yank!.. but you seem to be, considering your complete lack of ability to understand the subtle differences and the cultural background of the French-bashing.
Please don't take this as a personal affair, my problem is not with you, but the general french bashing. It is stupid, childish and annoying.
I am taking it personally, because it's uncalled for. If I had made a joke about the French surrendering I could have understood your outburst, because that would have plain distastefull (especially considering they're based on them 'losing' WW2; and the Americans with their refusing to get involved until the Russians had effectively won the war, and still claiming to be 'our saviours' have no rights whatsoever to make jokes about WW2).
However, you do have to keep in mind that large majority of posters (even of the Europeans ones) have their feet firmly planted in the Anglo-camp in the Anglo/French-shitcasting contest.
They are the only non-communist country to have a state subsidized Institute of sport which has no other goal but to "make our guys win".
Not the only one.
Make one guess why Norway with its 4.5 million inhabitants and gulf-stream warmed climate is among the best (if not the best) winter-sports nations in the world:)
Why do you think cheat codes exist? Because people want instant gratification.
You make it sound like a bad thing. Do you and your wife/gf/hand take a half-hour break staring at the ceiling before having fun? Do you catch TV-shows early so you can get *all* the commercials they show in advance? Do you have 2 hours of prayer-time with your friends before getting pissed? No? The bottom line is, doing boring stuff is boring. It always have been, and it will always be.. even in MMORPGS.
Because people always want to have the best character, if for no other reason than to buy a level 60 warrior in full epic gear, then go and Heroic Strike someone in PvP with their Ashkandi. (Yeah, HS. I'm sure you've encountered these people too.)
Well; yes. There seems to be a subclass of youths who are socially retarded sugar-rushed mal-adjusted spastics amazingly lacking any empathy whatsoever. They're going to be bloody annoying whatever they bloody do. In a game requirinng social interaction you need social skills, and some people just fall flat there.
That still doesn't mean there isn't a middle way though.. you know, games cathering for normal players. I played WoW to level 39 with my main (and numerous chars to 20-25) and after that it just got plain boring. Ask pretty much anyone, and they will agree. 40-60 was boring.. so, why is it there?
LOL. Well I've lived in the American South for the last, oh, 20 or so years so I'm not too used to cool weather.
I lived in Moscow (for fun) last year. I shared a room with a guy from Miami who'd never seen snow. He learnt how to act in like 5 seconds. You just put on more clothers:) . The darkness during winter really did get to him though, and Moscow's way south of where I live now (although the smog made things *alot* worse there).
Still, I want to visit Scandanavia some time. It seems like a wonderfully different place to tour around as opposed to the usual touristy places such as Paris, Rome, etc.
Do so, it really is different. Assuming you're American enough, you'll probably find Norwegians to be a little stand-off'ish though, as there really isn't a culture for 'just talking to people' here. After the initial 'wtf, he's talking to me and I've never met him'-confusion people generally don't mind though. Just don't speak too loudly, and a tad slower/clearer than normal (and again, not too loudly. I think it's a cultural thing, it really does bother everybody here)
Around 30C^ (86 on weird scale) here now. Winter is actually quite hot compared to the inland countries, we're usually just below freezing the entire winter (which is bloody great for skiiing). The air is ridicously clear, which is really, really nice; if you come here by air directly from a polluted city, atleast on a nice day, you can actually taste the difference. With the entire country being coastal, it's also quite windy. Autumns are really moody, rainy and dark. We tend to stend indoors a lot, so the weather isn't that big'a deal (except during summer, when everybody has three weeks vacation:).
What will take some getting used to is barely seeing the sun at winter though (in Oslo you only get 2-3 hours of daylight at the worst.. although summer kinda makes up for it. At the moment I think the sun goes down at around 1:3o am, and comes at 3:30-4:00 am. On the other hand, it rarely gets *really* dark as the sun is usually just below the horizon:)
Slashdot Mirror
I was under the impression that there were inspectors there under UN governance, aswell as various volunteer organisations. I'll check sources. In the meantime, feel free to find anything near credible sources saying the opposite (and right-wing papers who willingly spread the 26-year lies without correcting them does *not* count)
Many voted for him because they would lose their government benefits if they didn't.
And that's an argument against what? People voted for him because the opposition would have stripped away their benefits? That's as inane as another guy on Slashdot who was complaining about their democrazy because Chavez was giving state money to the poor and of course they were going to vote for him then!
The Venezuela media are afraid to critcize Chavez.
Yes. The state-run media don't. The corporate media do. They're both tainted as **** and any argument useable against one side is useable against the other though. Media there simply isn't working. That said, I think the situation there is actually more balanced now than when the you only had one one-sided view, the aristrocrats. Now you have two one-sided views, which is a helluva lot better.
People are starting to disappear.
I'll believe this when I see it from a credible source.. I sincerely hope I'm just blinded by the hope that Venezuela can turn themselves around, and considering the amount of FUD that's certifiably not-true I'm really not inclined to take this at face-value from you. I mean, you believed the 26-year old myth, which means you're really not bothering reading alternate news-sources.
In the next 'election' you will see Hugo get all of the vote and that is not possible with a fair national election.
Yeah right. Even if you're right, and he's a criminally minded tug he's way smarter than that. Please, try and put away *some* of your emotions.
..packing the Supreme Court with his men. That doesn't happen in any other Western Superpowers now does it?
I agree; but as long as he's upholding the elections I hardly see the problem.2. Yes, I can. It depends a whole lot on your definition of corruption though, but mine is somewhere near 'anytime an elected official does something detrimental to the general populace in area; ie putting special financial interests ahead of the population (and yes, occasionally helping special interests is for the good of the general populace, but that doesn't break the argument). No-Broadcast-flag, DMCA and microsoft-case being dumped are all clear cases of corruption in my opinion; ie special interests of the few being put ahead of what could have made society better.
1. Stop spreading lies. Please. This meme is even worse then the 'I invented the internet claim'-meme.
What he wanted was 'If the opposition refuses to run in presidential elections (which they have done to delegitamete the elections as much as possible, due to them having no popular support whatsoever), he wanted the possibility of running in consecutive elections.
2. And property rights are absolute in the US? Did you read GP, did you read the article? Confiscating property has been common practice a long time, only difference is the US is more corrupt (although you seem to have implemented it as a feature instead of a bug).
Sure thing! I was way too tired when I wrote that, and couldn't be arsed checked the spelling.
My English teacher always said it was never wrong to replace 'who' for 'whom', so basically I just end up using 'whom' when I think it sounds better. It takes too much effort to bother changing.
Not any language I'd guess. With English pronounciation being as thouroughly broken as it is, it hardly matters though.
Most certainly not!
"We respect individual property rights, but I would like to stress that we do not think of those rights as absolute"
Only difference is he was referring to old colonial lords sitting on masses on undeveloped land; eg aristocrats, so his interpretation actually have some morally and economically redeeming factors.
Freedom to spend your money however you want? Freedom from taxes?.. and freedom to be poor? Freedom to be forced to work two jobs to afford to feed your child?
Freedom from monopolies or groups of heteregounes companies making up de-facto monopolies? Freedom from companies 'forcing' contracts which they can change their terms retro-activetely at will?
Freedom to not have your house bulldozed by occupanotial forces because your neighbour blew himself up?
Saying something is for 'Freedom' is inane. Everything comes down to freedom. The relevant question is which type, for who and from whom..
[sorry: offtopic rant.]
Yep, it is really hard to find between all the porn-sites that show up when searching for it. Its homepage is however here
All-in-all, I think it's a practical down-to-earth simple solution. Seriously, don't laugh just because it's not technical enough for you.. So while you're busy being a tech-snon, the world will be busy getting stuff done. This works; for now.
Remember, it's only censorship if it's the government doing it.
And the MSN-network isn't getting nearly as much as flac as it deserves. The service is, atleast in my experience, way too flaky and if I could get my friends to switch I'd do it in an instant.
If you enjoy Risk I'd say you're still undeveloped mentally.
signed
a Tabletop Gamer
I'll help you out: It's the latter.
Features are nice as long as the UI is clean and performance doesn't suffer. FireFox accomplishes neither at the moment. Opera, on the other hand, have in my opinion been walking a fine line, performance is still good enough, but occasionally I have my doubts about the interface (usually after having seen my step-mother using it, but she's capable of not understanding anything, including 'click there','click with the left mouse button there', 'click with the left mouse button there, and release the button right afterwards so it makes a little click sound and don't move the mouse to the other part of the screen while releasing the mouse button')
Yes, they are very carefull not to stick anything like this into the actual contracts.
If you want privacy, have the government enact laws (feel free to copy as much as you want from our Scandinavian ones, privacy/consumer laws seem to be things we're reasonably good at). On the other hand, if the government is the problem, it's your own bloody fault, you (plural) elected it; vote something else next time.
Ah, but do bear in mind that the ideal number of videos of hot girls passing by is certainly asympotic and unbounded.
Seriously, assuming she had hit puberty, what's the problem? Most likely, he was much closer to her in maturity level than he was girls his own age.
This magical age limit thing is really bothering me.. especially since each country seems to have their own magical number. I can understand there needing to be a set agelevel as far as the law goes, because measuring maturity-level is pretty much impossible.. But we don't *need* to be as stupid when it comes what we deem moral. A childish 19 year old boy can be perfect match for a grown-up'ish 14 year old maturity-wise.
I am stupid. Please make them give me money.
Erm, are you stalking me? :(
I'm no bloody yank! .. but you seem to be, considering your complete lack of ability to understand the subtle differences and the cultural background of the French-bashing.
Please don't take this as a personal affair, my problem is not with you, but the general french bashing. It is stupid, childish and annoying.
I am taking it personally, because it's uncalled for. If I had made a joke about the French surrendering I could have understood your outburst, because that would have plain distastefull (especially considering they're based on them 'losing' WW2; and the Americans with their refusing to get involved until the Russians had effectively won the war, and still claiming to be 'our saviours' have no rights whatsoever to make jokes about WW2).
However, you do have to keep in mind that large majority of posters (even of the Europeans ones) have their feet firmly planted in the Anglo-camp in the Anglo/French-shitcasting contest.
about time, those French are bloody annoying!
No need to brag about how many Norwegian you know either, I know more :)
Not the only one.
Make one guess why Norway with its 4.5 million inhabitants and gulf-stream warmed climate is among the best (if not the best) winter-sports nations in the world :)
You make it sound like a bad thing. Do you and your wife/gf/hand take a half-hour break staring at the ceiling before having fun? Do you catch TV-shows early so you can get *all* the commercials they show in advance? Do you have 2 hours of prayer-time with your friends before getting pissed? No? The bottom line is, doing boring stuff is boring. It always have been, and it will always be.. even in MMORPGS.
Because people always want to have the best character, if for no other reason than to buy a level 60 warrior in full epic gear, then go and Heroic Strike someone in PvP with their Ashkandi. (Yeah, HS. I'm sure you've encountered these people too.)
Well; yes. There seems to be a subclass of youths who are socially retarded sugar-rushed mal-adjusted spastics amazingly lacking any empathy whatsoever. They're going to be bloody annoying whatever they bloody do. In a game requirinng social interaction you need social skills, and some people just fall flat there.That still doesn't mean there isn't a middle way though.. you know, games cathering for normal players. I played WoW to level 39 with my main (and numerous chars to 20-25) and after that it just got plain boring. Ask pretty much anyone, and they will agree. 40-60 was boring.. so, why is it there?
I lived in Moscow (for fun) last year. I shared a room with a guy from Miami who'd never seen snow. He learnt how to act in like 5 seconds. You just put on more clothers :) . The darkness during winter really did get to him though, and Moscow's way south of where I live now (although the smog made things *alot* worse there).
Still, I want to visit Scandanavia some time. It seems like a wonderfully different place to tour around as opposed to the usual touristy places such as Paris, Rome, etc.
Do so, it really is different. Assuming you're American enough, you'll probably find Norwegians to be a little stand-off'ish though, as there really isn't a culture for 'just talking to people' here. After the initial 'wtf, he's talking to me and I've never met him'-confusion people generally don't mind though. Just don't speak too loudly, and a tad slower/clearer than normal (and again, not too loudly. I think it's a cultural thing, it really does bother everybody here)
So, instead of weapons with planned obsolence and a high maintenance costs you want planetary killers that last forever?
Around 30C^ (86 on weird scale) here now. Winter is actually quite hot compared to the inland countries, we're usually just below freezing the entire winter (which is bloody great for skiiing). The air is ridicously clear, which is really, really nice; if you come here by air directly from a polluted city, atleast on a nice day, you can actually taste the difference. With the entire country being coastal, it's also quite windy. Autumns are really moody, rainy and dark. We tend to stend indoors a lot, so the weather isn't that big'a deal (except during summer, when everybody has three weeks vacation:).
What will take some getting used to is barely seeing the sun at winter though (in Oslo you only get 2-3 hours of daylight at the worst.. although summer kinda makes up for it. At the moment I think the sun goes down at around 1:3o am, and comes at 3:30-4:00 am. On the other hand, it rarely gets *really* dark as the sun is usually just below the horizon :)