Since around World War Two, Communism has been considered the extreme of the left wing, and Fascism has been considered the extreme of the right wing. In modern times, you don't often hear people explicitly quantify the left-wing and right-wing zeitgeist, because stupid people vilify words like 'social' and 'deregulation', muddying the political discourse. Even as I right, some idiots who read this post will have read the previous sentence and said 'Socialism is evil? Why is this commie defending it?' or something similar about the evils of deregulation.
Nowadays, left-wing normally refer to policies are believed to benefit the power of all individuals equally (wealth redistribution, personal freedom), and right-wing policies are believed to maintain or expand existing social structures (conservatism).
The key to understanding this is that the policies themselves are not inherently left wing or right wing, but rather their motivations are. The most recent example of this is free trade: Twenty years ago, free trade was championed by liberals as a way to bring down economic barriers, eliminating the differences in the wealth of nations. Now, so-called 'fair trade' policies are the left-wing stance, to prevent the economic might of richer countries from crushing poorer ones.
What do you call an anti-death penalty, anti-abortion and pro-gun control person?
Uhhh... either a liberal, or a left-leaning moderate: The world is not black and white, and it depends on their motivations.
Left wing and right wing are not absolutes, but rather extremes on a scale. People are not required to 'pick sides' in the way they live their everyday lives, only at election time. People can even chose different policies with identical motives. You are not required to agree with every policy your party supports; you only chose them because they were the best of a bad bunch.
The left-wing / right-wing classification was originally describing the political situation in France in the late 1700s. I agree it is now woefully inadequate to describe modern politics. However, the definition has changed over time, allowing it to maintain some relevance. In modern politics, there are most often two major parties in a given jurisdiction, one of which will paint itself as left wing (American Democrats), and one which will paint itself as right-wing (American Republicans). Thus, it can sometimes be a useful shorthand.
If you had bothered to read the post you were replying to, you would see the following:
Someone who's 'far-right', anywhere else in the world, in America would be considered 'moderate' or 'left-leaning'."
The key word is 'considered'. Yes, left-wing / right-wing is a woefully shallow tool for political comparison, but the GP post is correct (if a bit exaggerated), especially prior to Obama. The policies of the American self-styled 'left-wing' are closest to the self-styled moderates in the rest of the western world.
In general web surfing I'd say the religion bashing posts outnumber the Atheist bashing posts by a ratio of about 10,000:1.
That's because you visit more atheist-friendly websites than religious websites. People prefer to express their opinions in like-minded company; thus you see more anti-religion post on your pro-atheist websites.
No I'm not exaggerating
On this comment page, there are at least two anti-atheist posts. That is for a single story. Twenty slashdot stories a day, 500 posts per story makes your 20 000 posts to cover that. So you claim that almost every post made on slashdot is anti-religion? Or does slashdot have a different ratio because it is a particularly pro-religion website?
I was not aware of the typographical link. Given that movable type has been around in Europe since at least the 15th century, I don't think I was wrong to call that standard 'old-fashioned'.
Regarding your sig: 'Can someone explain to me why the () go inside the period, but the "" go outside the period?'
They don't. Correct (but old-fashioned) English usage has them both have the . inside the () or "". Modern usage, especially among science type, is to have the . outside any parenthesis, to keep the base sentence internally consistent (and other logical reasons).
Your perception stems from the way science types use () more often than "", and older English teachers use "" more often than ().
What irritates me about your post is that you are willing to accept error on the part of the votes, but do not even consider the possibility of error on the part of the system's developers.
Action Quake 2! The best multiplayer mod ever. A close second is Natural Selection for Half-Life, even if they have kind of lost the plot in the recent releases.
Thank you for this. I never looked into anything more than a basic wpa_supplicant configuration, as it seemed easier just to manipulate the iwconfig with a set of simple shell scripts.
I understand the risks of WEP, but with no permanent Internet connection, reasonably secure PCs and nothing more damaging than video files streaming to my media player, WEP is good enough for me at home.
To everyone else who say 'why not just click the icon', that icon does not work for me! That was the point of my original reply; I do not believe it to be prime-time software or even real 'zero-conf'.
On my laptop, I have an intel chipset of some kind. I don't recall the specifics offhand.
I use 7.10 on that machine, but I was disheartened to discover that one of the most basic interface bugs regarding WEP had not been fixed in 8.04. I am planning to move to 8.10 when it's available, so we will see.
No, although I didn't forget about Glide:) If I recall correctly that extra layer was needed only for compatibility with the 3Dfx Voodoo (and possibly the Voodoo2). Whether that was because the Voodoo cards had poor OpenGL support, or whether the glquake code was buggy, I don't know.
I would recommend Nano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor) for this purpose. It's easier to use than vim or emacs, and more familiar if you have a MS-DOS 'Edit' background. If you don't need to do any heavy duty coding, Nano is more than powerful enough.
I am a big fan of Kubuntu, but I suspect you must be talking about some other system. I have had nothing but problems with the knetworkmanager over a wide range of hardware. As we speak I have to run a custom script whenever I want to connect to the wireless WPA network at work on my laptop, and another for my PC on the WEP at home.
To qualify your point, from the birth of home 3D acceleration until about 1999, OpenGL was the de facto standard for 3D games that supported hardware acceleration, with few notable exceptions. This was less impressive than it sounds, as 3D acceleration had yet to catch on in the mass market. By the time the hardware was common enough, Direct3D 7 and 8.1 were taking over as the standards.
Manipulated? There doesn't need to be manipulation. Once again, go back to your textbooks. Or at least ask the Oracle or the Collective Unconscious. How many features does the oil market share with perfect competition?
My curiousity got the better of me and I fought through the rising bile to read some more of your post. I saw this little gem:
For instance they are trying to say all that stuff you learn in Economics 101 is a lie and that the laws of Supply and Demand are a fraud.
Perhaps you missed some of your economics lectures, but they probably would have mentioned that supply and demand are neither the lie or a truth: they are an economic model, and one that only exist in a Utopian market called 'perfect competition'.
Perhaps you should read up on that in your textbooks.
I would like to point out to you that he didn't try to seize power and stay in office
This is where I stopped reading. The Republican party tried and succeeded in seizing power in the 2000 elections. There should not have been a first term.
Additionally, as an AC on slashdot once pointed out, perhaps 'better than Venezuela' is not the goal you should have for your democracy.
Obviously? How do you figure that? All we know is that a dude who was sane enough for the FBI to work with for many months is now dead. Suicide has not been proved, and even suicide does not prove mental illness. Guilt has not been proved, and neither was the man ever formally charged. There is very little we know about this incident, and it is irresponsible of you to claim that anything is 'obvious' at this juncture.
There is no 'Drugs will automatically ruin your life" thing! If you go fetch your reading glasses, you will see: "If people want to take drugs, and ruin their lives,it's their choice , not mine."
There is even a comma, AND an 'and' there to highlight that the two do not correlate perfectly. "If you take drugs, and if they end up ruining your life..."
The dude is still wrong, but on a different point. Taking drugs, even pot, increases your chance of ruining your life. If you ruin your life, you place a disproportionate stress on society. If that stress is greater than the stress that denying you the right to take recreational drug causes, then society should act to stop you taking drugs.
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Since around World War Two, Communism has been considered the extreme of the left wing, and Fascism has been considered the extreme of the right wing. In modern times, you don't often hear people explicitly quantify the left-wing and right-wing zeitgeist, because stupid people vilify words like 'social' and 'deregulation', muddying the political discourse. Even as I right, some idiots who read this post will have read the previous sentence and said 'Socialism is evil? Why is this commie defending it?' or something similar about the evils of deregulation.
Nowadays, left-wing normally refer to policies are believed to benefit the power of all individuals equally (wealth redistribution, personal freedom), and right-wing policies are believed to maintain or expand existing social structures (conservatism).
The key to understanding this is that the policies themselves are not inherently left wing or right wing, but rather their motivations are. The most recent example of this is free trade: Twenty years ago, free trade was championed by liberals as a way to bring down economic barriers, eliminating the differences in the wealth of nations. Now, so-called 'fair trade' policies are the left-wing stance, to prevent the economic might of richer countries from crushing poorer ones.
Uhhh... either a liberal, or a left-leaning moderate: The world is not black and white, and it depends on their motivations.
Left wing and right wing are not absolutes, but rather extremes on a scale. People are not required to 'pick sides' in the way they live their everyday lives, only at election time. People can even chose different policies with identical motives. You are not required to agree with every policy your party supports; you only chose them because they were the best of a bad bunch.
The left-wing / right-wing classification was originally describing the political situation in France in the late 1700s. I agree it is now woefully inadequate to describe modern politics. However, the definition has changed over time, allowing it to maintain some relevance. In modern politics, there are most often two major parties in a given jurisdiction, one of which will paint itself as left wing (American Democrats), and one which will paint itself as right-wing (American Republicans). Thus, it can sometimes be a useful shorthand.
If you had bothered to read the post you were replying to, you would see the following:
The key word is 'considered'. Yes, left-wing / right-wing is a woefully shallow tool for political comparison, but the GP post is correct (if a bit exaggerated), especially prior to Obama. The policies of the American self-styled 'left-wing' are closest to the self-styled moderates in the rest of the western world.
That's because you visit more atheist-friendly websites than religious websites. People prefer to express their opinions in like-minded company; thus you see more anti-religion post on your pro-atheist websites.
On this comment page, there are at least two anti-atheist posts. That is for a single story. Twenty slashdot stories a day, 500 posts per story makes your 20 000 posts to cover that. So you claim that almost every post made on slashdot is anti-religion? Or does slashdot have a different ratio because it is a particularly pro-religion website?
I was not aware of the typographical link. Given that movable type has been around in Europe since at least the 15th century, I don't think I was wrong to call that standard 'old-fashioned'.
In the case you mention, the ? belongs to your quote; thus, I include it in the ''. The following example illustrates the other case:
What did you mean when you said 'that idea is poison'?
In the preceding sentence, the ? is outside the '' because the question belongs to the speakers words, not to the quote he is using.
In all honesty, the real reason in this case was I was too lazy to type out the <blockquote> </blockquote> tags, instead I just used the ' '.
Regarding your sig:
'Can someone explain to me why the () go inside the period, but the "" go outside the period?'
They don't. Correct (but old-fashioned) English usage has them both have the . inside the () or "". Modern usage, especially among science type, is to have the . outside any parenthesis, to keep the base sentence internally consistent (and other logical reasons).
Your perception stems from the way science types use () more often than "", and older English teachers use "" more often than ().
What irritates me about your post is that you are willing to accept error on the part of the votes, but do not even consider the possibility of error on the part of the system's developers.
Action Quake 2! The best multiplayer mod ever. A close second is Natural Selection for Half-Life, even if they have kind of lost the plot in the recent releases.
Thank you for this. I never looked into anything more than a basic wpa_supplicant configuration, as it seemed easier just to manipulate the iwconfig with a set of simple shell scripts.
I understand the risks of WEP, but with no permanent Internet connection, reasonably secure PCs and nothing more damaging than video files streaming to my media player, WEP is good enough for me at home.
To everyone else who say 'why not just click the icon', that icon does not work for me! That was the point of my original reply; I do not believe it to be prime-time software or even real 'zero-conf'.
On my laptop, I have an intel chipset of some kind. I don't recall the specifics offhand.
I use 7.10 on that machine, but I was disheartened to discover that one of the most basic interface bugs regarding WEP had not been fixed in 8.04. I am planning to move to 8.10 when it's available, so we will see.
No, although I didn't forget about Glide :) If I recall correctly that extra layer was needed only for compatibility with the 3Dfx Voodoo (and possibly the Voodoo2). Whether that was because the Voodoo cards had poor OpenGL support, or whether the glquake code was buggy, I don't know.
add a slightly more robust text editor
I would recommend Nano http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano_(text_editor) for this purpose. It's easier to use than vim or emacs, and more familiar if you have a MS-DOS 'Edit' background. If you don't need to do any heavy duty coding, Nano is more than powerful enough.
I am a big fan of Kubuntu, but I suspect you must be talking about some other system. I have had nothing but problems with the knetworkmanager over a wide range of hardware. As we speak I have to run a custom script whenever I want to connect to the wireless WPA network at work on my laptop, and another for my PC on the WEP at home.
To qualify your point, from the birth of home 3D acceleration until about 1999, OpenGL was the de facto standard for 3D games that supported hardware acceleration, with few notable exceptions. This was less impressive than it sounds, as 3D acceleration had yet to catch on in the mass market. By the time the hardware was common enough, Direct3D 7 and 8.1 were taking over as the standards.
Claim bias? Hissy fit? You are proving my points for me!
If the American people had got the president they wanted, it would have been Gore.
Take your trolling elsewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_competition
From the bulleted entries:
* Many firms - FALSE
* Homogeneous Products - TRUE
* Low-Entry Barriers - FALSE
* High information - FALSE
Thus, the oil market isn't close to being competitive, so the simple model cannot be accurately applied.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_recount#Results
"The recount also showed that had there been a full statewide recount of all counties, Al Gore would have received more votes than Bush"
Manipulated? There doesn't need to be manipulation. Once again, go back to your textbooks. Or at least ask the Oracle or the Collective Unconscious. How many features does the oil market share with perfect competition?
My curiousity got the better of me and I fought through the rising bile to read some more of your post. I saw this little gem:
Perhaps you missed some of your economics lectures, but they probably would have mentioned that supply and demand are neither the lie or a truth: they are an economic model, and one that only exist in a Utopian market called 'perfect competition'.
Perhaps you should read up on that in your textbooks.
This is where I stopped reading. The Republican party tried and succeeded in seizing power in the 2000 elections. There should not have been a first term.
Additionally, as an AC on slashdot once pointed out, perhaps 'better than Venezuela' is not the goal you should have for your democracy.
PCBs? Really? I used to do some home chemistry, and never accidentally created a printed circuit board...
"This weather machine is a tad anti-climatic"
There, fixed that for ya.
Is there no honour among thieves?
Ivins was obviously mentally ill.
Obviously? How do you figure that? All we know is that a dude who was sane enough for the FBI to work with for many months is now dead. Suicide has not been proved, and even suicide does not prove mental illness. Guilt has not been proved, and neither was the man ever formally charged. There is very little we know about this incident, and it is irresponsible of you to claim that anything is 'obvious' at this juncture.
There is no 'Drugs will automatically ruin your life" thing! If you go fetch your reading glasses, you will see:
"If people want to take drugs, and ruin their lives,it's their choice , not mine."
There is even a comma, AND an 'and' there to highlight that the two do not correlate perfectly. "If you take drugs, and if they end up ruining your life..."
The dude is still wrong, but on a different point. Taking drugs, even pot, increases your chance of ruining your life. If you ruin your life, you place a disproportionate stress on society. If that stress is greater than the stress that denying you the right to take recreational drug causes, then society should act to stop you taking drugs.