Normally, I don't respond twice to a post here, but I happened to think of something germane. If you'd like to see a great example of how the Melting Pot used to work, watch the movie Hester Street, from 1975. It takes place in New York in 1896 and the protagonist is a Russian Jew who'd been living on the Lower East Side for about three years, and was mostly assimilated. Then he brings his wife and son over. At first, of course, they speak only Yiddish, and unless you're fluent in it you'll need the subtitles. By the end of the movie, the wife's English is good enough that there's almost no more Yiddish, and his son's fit in with the other children in his neighborhood. In fact, much of the dramatic tension in the movie comes from her trying to learn how to live in America and becoming fluent in English while still hanging on to some of the more restrictive Russian customs she grew up with.
Only if you install from a LiveCD, and there are already KDE and Xfce spins if you prefer. Assuming that there's not a MATE spin (and that's a pretty big assumption) all you need to do is install from the DVD and select whatever DE you prefer.
I really hate gnome 3. I completely fails to support my work habits and annoyingly cannot by changed.
When Gnome 3 was first announced, I read the description of how it was going to work and knew, right then, that it wasn't for me. It wouldn't do things the way I like, it was expected to insist on doing things I didn't want and was almost completely unconfigurable without (potentially) unreliable third-party extensions. If I'd have known more about MATE then, I probably would have migrated to it. As it is, I ended up with Xfce and am very happy with it. Still, it's nice to have more than one option to point people to if they find Gnome 3 or Unity not to their taste.
And as far as "blending in" goes, you seem to think that it means that they're the ones who have to do all the changing. You mix blue and yellow paint together, you don't get blue, you get green.
Exactly. Thank you for making my point for me. American culture is a blend, an alloy, a mixture of many other cultures. And the only way it came about is by people from many different countries sharing the way they did things with others and learning parts of what others did. What would happen if you tried to mix blue and yellow paint and the yellow refused to mix? You wouldn't have green, you'd have an ugly mess.
Yes, English isn't our official language, but it is the common language in the USA. If you want to be able to communicate with strangers, you need to have a language you both know. If you refuse to learn the common tongue, you're left out of much of what goes on, and if you ever leave your little cultural island, you're probably unable to communicate. No matter how good a polyglot you are, you're going to run across people here in America who don't come from a culture who's language you know; if nothing else, English gives us a way to communicate.
Neither. I'm stating that our current practice is to discourage people who grew up in other cultures and speaking other languages from learning English or otherwise becoming members of our society. Somehow, liberals seem to think there's something good about people spending their lives here unable to communicate with the vast majority of people around them and knowing nothing about how things are done here.
Please understand that the Melting Pot didn't completely homogenize cultures. The Irish still retain their traditional cuisine and celebrate St. Patrick's Day; the Italians keep their culture, as do most of those who came from Latin America. But up until recently, they learned English, they expected their children to speak English (sometimes only outside the home) and they became citizens. Now, they're being told that they shouldn't try to blend in, they shouldn't learn English, there's no need for them to even want to become citizens or allow their children to speak English, even in school. Personally, i don't think that this is a Good Thing.
The US was always inhabited by people of different cultures who have spoken different languages.
One of the greatest parts of America has always been the concept of The Melting Pot. Now liberals are trying to do away with it in the name of Cultural Diversity with the unintended consequence of the loss of the hybrid vigor it produced.
Not only that, a cat uses its tail to turn over in mid-air so that even if you drop it with its feet pointing up it will land feet first as long as it has enough falling time to make the turn. I'm not sure, but I think I've heard of them getting turned in as little as 1.5 feet, but ICBW. Still it would be a great improvement over what they've got so far.
given the competition each round, you pretty much have to grovel at the IOC's feet to get one
Not always. Los Angeles has hosted the Olympics twice, in '32 and '84. Both times they were the only city offering to host them and both games were profitable for the city. Strange, but true.
The title of this article is begging the question because it assumes (without evidence) that having Steam available on GNU/Linux will affect software freedom. I'm not saying that it won't, but I'd prefer to see some evidence instead of just taking it for granted that it will. Much better would have been simply, Will Steam on Gnu/Linux affect software freedom?
Not at the high school level. or at least back when I took it. Back then, you learned the various formulae and how to use them. It wasn't until college, when I'd had some Calculus, that I learned how they were derived. Of course, I graduated from high school in '67, so things are probably different now.
You don't (or at least didn't when I took it) need Calculus for High School Physics. Just algebra, geometry and a little bit of basic trig. Once you reach college, you'll need Calculus, but not for the basics.
I hope that the next step after this is taking a cat into space in a properly-designed cage. (You don't want it loose!) Make sure that at least part of the cage is lined with something that the cat can grip so that it has the choice between clinging to the side of the cage and moving around in the inside and see how it adapts. Yes, I know that waste disposal will be a problem, but it's one that we'll have to solve sooner or later anyway.
No we don't, or at least, I certainly don't! I have Xfce configured to use one panel, on the bottom because I find two to be a waste of screen real estate. Yes, I have ample room on my monitor, especially with four workspaces, but I'm old-school enough to believe that the old maxim "wast not, want not" still applies.
I switched to Xfce (on Fedora) without even trying Gnome 3. Just the description of what it was going to be like was enough to drive me away. My sister uses Ubuntu. After about a year trying to learn how to like Unity (Ubuntu's version of Gnome 3) she asked me to help her migrate to Xfce because it doesn't keep getting in her way and making it hard for her to do things.
Not just in Europe. In 1776, Alexander Hamilton was able to drag the guns of Fort Ticonderoga across the frozen Hudson River to New York. By 1830, the ice on the Hudson was too thin for that, and by 1850 or so, it had completely stopped freezing over.
You need a tower to hold it upright, and a launch pad.
As it happens, you don't need a tower if you use the right design. And, you also don't need those expensive, fragile tiles or an army of engineers manning Mission Control.
It would stop if people got past the "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" teachings of the Old Testament
It would probably help almost as much if people understood what that line actually means. It's not saying that you must take an eye for an eye, but that you must not take more. That is, you can't blind a man because he damaged one of your eyes, or knock out all of his teeth because he knocked out one of yours.
Actually, he did. There's been a lot of change in the last three years: all for the worse. Three years ago, he told us that if he didn't get the economy moving again and people back to work he'd not be re-elected. All I have to say now is, "From his mouth to God's ears!"
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Becoming "members of society"?
Normally, I don't respond twice to a post here, but I happened to think of something germane. If you'd like to see a great example of how the Melting Pot used to work, watch the movie Hester Street, from 1975. It takes place in New York in 1896 and the protagonist is a Russian Jew who'd been living on the Lower East Side for about three years, and was mostly assimilated. Then he brings his wife and son over. At first, of course, they speak only Yiddish, and unless you're fluent in it you'll need the subtitles. By the end of the movie, the wife's English is good enough that there's almost no more Yiddish, and his son's fit in with the other children in his neighborhood. In fact, much of the dramatic tension in the movie comes from her trying to learn how to live in America and becoming fluent in English while still hanging on to some of the more restrictive Russian customs she grew up with.
Only if you install from a LiveCD, and there are already KDE and Xfce spins if you prefer. Assuming that there's not a MATE spin (and that's a pretty big assumption) all you need to do is install from the DVD and select whatever DE you prefer.
I really hate gnome 3. I completely fails to support my work habits and annoyingly cannot by changed.
When Gnome 3 was first announced, I read the description of how it was going to work and knew, right then, that it wasn't for me. It wouldn't do things the way I like, it was expected to insist on doing things I didn't want and was almost completely unconfigurable without (potentially) unreliable third-party extensions. If I'd have known more about MATE then, I probably would have migrated to it. As it is, I ended up with Xfce and am very happy with it. Still, it's nice to have more than one option to point people to if they find Gnome 3 or Unity not to their taste.
And as far as "blending in" goes, you seem to think that it means that they're the ones who have to do all the changing. You mix blue and yellow paint together, you don't get blue, you get green.
Exactly. Thank you for making my point for me. American culture is a blend, an alloy, a mixture of many other cultures. And the only way it came about is by people from many different countries sharing the way they did things with others and learning parts of what others did. What would happen if you tried to mix blue and yellow paint and the yellow refused to mix? You wouldn't have green, you'd have an ugly mess.
Yes, English isn't our official language, but it is the common language in the USA. If you want to be able to communicate with strangers, you need to have a language you both know. If you refuse to learn the common tongue, you're left out of much of what goes on, and if you ever leave your little cultural island, you're probably unable to communicate. No matter how good a polyglot you are, you're going to run across people here in America who don't come from a culture who's language you know; if nothing else, English gives us a way to communicate.
Neither. I'm stating that our current practice is to discourage people who grew up in other cultures and speaking other languages from learning English or otherwise becoming members of our society. Somehow, liberals seem to think there's something good about people spending their lives here unable to communicate with the vast majority of people around them and knowing nothing about how things are done here.
Please understand that the Melting Pot didn't completely homogenize cultures. The Irish still retain their traditional cuisine and celebrate St. Patrick's Day; the Italians keep their culture, as do most of those who came from Latin America. But up until recently, they learned English, they expected their children to speak English (sometimes only outside the home) and they became citizens. Now, they're being told that they shouldn't try to blend in, they shouldn't learn English, there's no need for them to even want to become citizens or allow their children to speak English, even in school. Personally, i don't think that this is a Good Thing.
Thank you. I sit corrected.
The US was always inhabited by people of different cultures who have spoken different languages.
One of the greatest parts of America has always been the concept of The Melting Pot. Now liberals are trying to do away with it in the name of Cultural Diversity with the unintended consequence of the loss of the hybrid vigor it produced.
Not only that, a cat uses its tail to turn over in mid-air so that even if you drop it with its feet pointing up it will land feet first as long as it has enough falling time to make the turn. I'm not sure, but I think I've heard of them getting turned in as little as 1.5 feet, but ICBW. Still it would be a great improvement over what they've got so far.
given the competition each round, you pretty much have to grovel at the IOC's feet to get one
Not always. Los Angeles has hosted the Olympics twice, in '32 and '84. Both times they were the only city offering to host them and both games were profitable for the city. Strange, but true.
AIUI, the flag is actually hanging from a thin, stiff rod that holds it up. If it weren't for that, it would always have been hanging down.
The title of this article is begging the question because it assumes (without evidence) that having Steam available on GNU/Linux will affect software freedom. I'm not saying that it won't, but I'd prefer to see some evidence instead of just taking it for granted that it will. Much better would have been simply, Will Steam on Gnu/Linux affect software freedom?
Not at the high school level. or at least back when I took it. Back then, you learned the various formulae and how to use them. It wasn't until college, when I'd had some Calculus, that I learned how they were derived. Of course, I graduated from high school in '67, so things are probably different now.
You don't (or at least didn't when I took it) need Calculus for High School Physics. Just algebra, geometry and a little bit of basic trig. Once you reach college, you'll need Calculus, but not for the basics.
On Soviet Mars, robotic life finding machines welcome YOU!
I hope that the next step after this is taking a cat into space in a properly-designed cage. (You don't want it loose!) Make sure that at least part of the cage is lined with something that the cat can grip so that it has the choice between clinging to the side of the cage and moving around in the inside and see how it adapts. Yes, I know that waste disposal will be a problem, but it's one that we'll have to solve sooner or later anyway.
If you feel you have to ask, especially with that comment, you're too childish for her.
No we don't, or at least, I certainly don't! I have Xfce configured to use one panel, on the bottom because I find two to be a waste of screen real estate. Yes, I have ample room on my monitor, especially with four workspaces, but I'm old-school enough to believe that the old maxim "wast not, want not" still applies.
I switched to Xfce (on Fedora) without even trying Gnome 3. Just the description of what it was going to be like was enough to drive me away. My sister uses Ubuntu. After about a year trying to learn how to like Unity (Ubuntu's version of Gnome 3) she asked me to help her migrate to Xfce because it doesn't keep getting in her way and making it hard for her to do things.
...and caused the Little Ice Age in Europe.
Not just in Europe. In 1776, Alexander Hamilton was able to drag the guns of Fort Ticonderoga across the frozen Hudson River to New York. By 1830, the ice on the Hudson was too thin for that, and by 1850 or so, it had completely stopped freezing over.
It's called an orgasm, produced by a hand motion similar to squeezing a trigger.
You really need to get out of your mother's basement more often and find out by personal experience why there are two sexes.
Is that a generally agreed-upon interpretation?
AFAIK it is. Of course, I'm Jewish, and I have no idea what Christians think it means.
You need a tower to hold it upright, and a launch pad.
As it happens, you don't need a tower if you use the right design. And, you also don't need those expensive, fragile tiles or an army of engineers manning Mission Control.
It would stop if people got past the "eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth" teachings of the Old Testament
It would probably help almost as much if people understood what that line actually means. It's not saying that you must take an eye for an eye, but that you must not take more. That is, you can't blind a man because he damaged one of your eyes, or knock out all of his teeth because he knocked out one of yours.
There were two parts to his statement. Do the words "jobless recovery" mean anything to you?
He didn't change a fucking thing,
Actually, he did. There's been a lot of change in the last three years: all for the worse. Three years ago, he told us that if he didn't get the economy moving again and people back to work he'd not be re-elected. All I have to say now is, "From his mouth to God's ears!"