Your reasoning is logically perfect but the facts you cite should be the truth and the truth only, else you reach the wrong conclusions. So let me sow someseeds of doubt into your vision.
First of all the concept of Israel reacting to the offense of the kidnapping. The kidnapped soldiers were in Israel or Lebanon? this is disputed, search around. And then, what can you call a reaction and what an action? Look at the events before the kidnapping. Attacks from IDF, attacks from Hamas, the gaza beach shelli... pardon blast (search wikipedia again). You cannot say Israel reacted nor that Israel started something, it's going on for too long time. Then, if you want to fight terrorism, why making 900000 homeless? More than half of them are muslims and the majority lost everything they had after painfully getting out of the previous war. Perfect breeding ground for new terrorism.
Then, how much was the military action prepared in advance? It was prepared in advance for sure. Not that it proves anything because it's a precise responsibility of IDF to have plans ready. But this attack was greatly helped by syria getting out of lebanon after the killing of the political leader. Would israel have attacked syria for a kidnapping? nope? Might it be a casus belli instead of an unbearable offence that must be washed away with the blood of terrorist and innocents alike?
And there are reports of chemical weapong being used, and depleted uranium shells that imho and in less humble opinions of other qualifies as crimes against humanity.
And about Israel always reacting and never starting occupating or fighting (seen in another post): it does not make any death less grave, and it misses the possibility that they reacted to something they had provocated themselves. Stuff like that happened quite often, see the reichstag fire and the need to invade poland. Of course i won't mention tonkin gulf or the declassified pearl harbor documents because then i'm an antiamerican right?:D
And after having tried to paint my picture, seeing both yours and mine the question is: WHO THE FUCK CARES WHO'S RIGHT? Bombing must cease, fullstop. On both sides.
If it wasn't a PR operation from the start. That's what I said in a related comment when this story broke out.
Anyway it's either another debacle of Microsoft (is this news?:) ), or [wears tinfoil hat] the guy is about to follow up on the story saying that he resolved the issue in no time and that WGA is not as bad as people are led to believe by anti M$ trolls.
That is opposed to the continuous alpha testing that all users of open source software do?
It's worse. Simply because alpha quality OSS is not tested by ALL OSS users as you state. For example in
Debian only the experimental branch might be tagged "alpha", people using any other branch, the majority, have mature beta to production quality stuff. Oh and for the "having to pay" thing too.
Seeing the trend towards more varied web platform and adopting an evil corporation point of view, IE7 is maybe the last instance of a browser which can be used to embrace and extend web standards. So I expect few but vital quirks in IE7.
I agree. It's not strict force feeding, it's devious one. Any browser upgrade process window that doesn't also warn you with big red letters: "Warning, this upgrade might break your favourite website including online banking, shopping, and especially pr0n" is misleading.
IE7, the "browser sooo good that microsoft has to push it to his audience".
Pity that on a spare 400mhz ubuntu machine i got at work, firefox runs, in latest version, with 128 mb under gnome (and of course lighter stuff like xfce4) and doesn't even swap. So if it's not funny it's wrong.
Game play was really more varied earlier than your fancy multimegaherz platform, you newbie:D . See asteroids, xevious, gravitar, joust, defender, gyruss, missile command, battle zone...
I sure hope not. In my own experience even Debian unstable is better by a little margin than Ubuntu, stability-wise (and the current debian unstable has apt signed packages, xorg, dunno about amd64 as i haven't got one). Some headaches when config files change too much, or when evaluating a dist-upgrade vs an upgrade to get rid of some obsolete stuff, of course.
Please note I never said there was a golden age. I beg to differ about slavery and women condition. We are in a peaceful island, the rest of the world has sweatshops, infibulation, sexual tourism. Guantanamo, anyone? And it's the same global system that let us build our ivory tower (maybe for the others to see and think that capitalism will take em there too) and many of their infernos (not all of them of course, as you said cruelty is built in:) ). AFAIK OGM crops are patented, can't be used as seeds to grow new crop, and instead of being developed to be more resilient to parasites are often engineered to be resilient to new chemicals. The much debated danger for the health of OGM crops is, from my perspective, one of the minor issues, things can improve there.
Anyway I share your hope. I just warn you that IMHO blind hope will take us down big time.
I've had installs of Linux remove my Windows MBR and force grub as the default, its not just windows
drive
Pity for your point that grub offers an entry to boot the existing windows installation, and does it automagically in all installers i came across in 3 years. So let's see:
Linux: replaces windows bootloader with one capable of booting both Win and linux
Windows: hides the linux partition.
Debian and ubuntu in expert mode lets you decide if and where the bootloader should be configured. Non experts can perfectly live with a working bootloader for both operating systems. Yaboot on my mac works perfectly for old macos macosx linux partitions since 2001, even boots from external firewire with some tweaking.
Yes this needs clarification indeed. I don't know about other religions, but for christianity things have gotten out of control long ago. Luke 9:5 doesn't mention any coercition towards those who refuse to believe, instead we had crusades (and the spanish inquisition that nobody expected:) ).
If people refuse religion and it's their choice, no problem. If external interests want people to obey only to one value and make people either hate religion or follow its distortion, that's a problem. Another problem is that religion becomes something that divides, and divided people who fights among themselves are not likely to fight other battles which might be vital, like the one to be free human beings.
I am no supporter of aristocracy either, but I like even less that the power coming from being landowner be destroyed by the almighty buck. Why? because the buck is easily concentrated in the hands of the few and becomes dangerous. In fact, those having the real money, those producing the money (ie banks and the fractional reserve), are interested in acquiring power and real goods, since they now better than anybody that money is worthless per se. Power and goods that won't be ours anyway.
Ethically speaking, you have the right to resist indeed. What's missing from the discussion (and for TFA if I'd only read it) is one of the most important factors that make singularity a thing to welcome, if you have the guts to modify yourself, or to refuse no matter what: the forces driving our development.
It might be we still follow the survival of the fittest rule.
But then, how come I sense this disturbing trend that is stripping the single man of all his cultural and material property?
Men in the past had access to renewable water sources because there was a different kind of pollution, didn't fear the sun because of the ozone layer depletion, didn't pollute the land with genetically engineered crop or chemicals. Culturally speaking the trend is stripping man of every set of values which is not money: French revolution fucked the aristocracy. Fascist trolls made us hate nationalism associating it with violence and ignorance (this is an european perspective, in fact usa people were more nationalist, but now you have your own bush troll). Global media fucked home-bred traditions in the west, while Communism did the same in a more violent and explicit way in the east. Corporations have stripped us of science. Scientific experiments in total privacy and patents make not science, but occultism. Now everything is poised to strip us of religion, as the battle is between islamic violent and sexist integralism, neo-con crusaders, zionists will end up with people worn by WWIII refusing anything that remotely sounds like faith.
This is a brain dump not an analysis. Am I wrong? I sure hope i am. But think about it when you have to evaluate any change marketed as "progress".
Microsoft to come up with a new piece of software that works flawlessly from day one.
Anyway it's either another debacle of Microsoft (is this news?:) ), or [wears tinfoil hat] the guy is about to follow up on the story saying that he resolved the issue in no time and that WGA is not as bad as people are led to believe by anti M$ trolls.
I wonder how small you could make an ethanol distiller.
Theoretically the problem would be to have a heat source, in practice just choose the right cpu frequency and use beer as coolant until it evaporates. Neat huh?
Let's see if the open source philosophy works with hardware too. For instance, Italian hackers could teach this robot to play soccer, French hackers to do proper headbutts, German ones to make unfunny jokes about other nations, and so on.
Sure it is a major redirection, pity that it doesn't likely come from mr. Gates waking up one morning and realizing his enterprise behaved just like the mafia, but from antitrust and competition. Even if it takes years to complete, this is a tactical, not a strategic move. BTW, granparent doesn't deserve negative moderation.
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Your reasoning is logically perfect but the facts you cite should be the truth and the truth only, else you reach the wrong conclusions. So let me sow someseeds of doubt into your vision.
:D
First of all the concept of Israel reacting to the offense of the kidnapping. The kidnapped soldiers were in Israel or Lebanon? this is disputed, search around. And then, what can you call a reaction and what an action? Look at the events before the kidnapping. Attacks from IDF, attacks from Hamas, the gaza beach shelli... pardon blast (search wikipedia again). You cannot say Israel reacted nor that Israel started something, it's going on for too long time.
Then, if you want to fight terrorism, why making 900000 homeless? More than half of them are muslims and the majority lost everything they had after painfully getting out of the previous war. Perfect breeding ground for new terrorism.
Then, how much was the military action prepared in advance? It was prepared in advance for sure. Not that it proves anything because it's a precise responsibility of IDF to have plans ready. But this attack was greatly helped by syria getting out of lebanon after the killing of the political leader.
Would israel have attacked syria for a kidnapping? nope? Might it be a casus belli instead of an unbearable offence that must be washed away with the blood of terrorist and innocents alike?
And there are reports of chemical weapong being used, and depleted uranium shells that imho and in less humble opinions of other qualifies as crimes against humanity.
And about Israel always reacting and never starting occupating or fighting (seen in another post): it does not make any death less grave, and it misses the possibility that they reacted to something they had provocated themselves. Stuff like that happened quite often, see the reichstag fire and the need to invade poland. Of course i won't mention tonkin gulf or the declassified pearl harbor documents because then i'm an antiamerican right?
And after having tried to paint my picture, seeing both yours and mine the question is: WHO THE FUCK CARES WHO'S RIGHT? Bombing must cease, fullstop. On both sides.
That's what I said in a related comment when this story broke out.
Yes, we'll get good voice recognition one day. It'll be right after 99% of the world population have mastered mouse and keyboard interfaces.
Simply because alpha quality OSS is not tested by ALL OSS users as you state. For example in Debian only the experimental branch might be tagged "alpha", people using any other branch, the majority, have mature beta to production quality stuff. Oh and for the "having to pay" thing too.
Seeing the trend towards more varied web platform and adopting an evil corporation point of view, IE7 is maybe the last instance of a browser which can be used to embrace and extend web standards. So I expect few but vital quirks in IE7.
I, for one, welcome the TPM enhanced, chinese manufactured, Army computing gear...
And other browsers run just fine on a commodore 64, you squanderer of CPU cycles.
I agree. It's not strict force feeding, it's devious one. Any browser upgrade process window that doesn't also warn you with big red letters: "Warning, this upgrade might break your favourite website including online banking, shopping, and especially pr0n" is misleading. IE7, the "browser sooo good that microsoft has to push it to his audience".
oh wait tempest came well before gyruss.
Game play was really more varied earlier than your fancy multimegaherz platform, you newbie :D . See asteroids, xevious, gravitar, joust, defender, gyruss, missile command, battle zone...
I sure hope not. In my own experience even Debian unstable is better by a little margin than Ubuntu, stability-wise (and the current debian unstable has apt signed packages, xorg, dunno about amd64 as i haven't got one). Some headaches when config files change too much, or when evaluating a dist-upgrade vs an upgrade to get rid of some obsolete stuff, of course.
Please note I never said there was a golden age. I beg to differ about slavery and women condition. We are in a peaceful island, the rest of the world has sweatshops, infibulation, sexual tourism. Guantanamo, anyone? And it's the same global system that let us build our ivory tower (maybe for the others to see and think that capitalism will take em there too) and many of their infernos (not all of them of course, as you said cruelty is built in :) ). AFAIK OGM crops are patented, can't be used as seeds to grow new crop, and instead of being developed to be more resilient to parasites are often engineered to be resilient to new chemicals. The much debated danger for the health of OGM crops is, from my perspective, one of the minor issues, things can improve there.
Anyway I share your hope. I just warn you that IMHO blind hope will take us down big time.
Linux: replaces windows bootloader with one capable of booting both Win and linux
Windows: hides the linux partition.
Debian and ubuntu in expert mode lets you decide if and where the bootloader should be configured. Non experts can perfectly live with a working bootloader for both operating systems. Yaboot on my mac works perfectly for old macos macosx linux partitions since 2001, even boots from external firewire with some tweaking.
And remember, if anybody criticizes you later for crimes against humanity: "I only followed orders". Sieg heil. :P
Does the plastic surgeon count as evolution, now? :->
Yes this needs clarification indeed. I don't know about other religions, but for christianity things have gotten out of control long ago. Luke 9:5 doesn't mention any coercition towards those who refuse to believe, instead we had crusades (and the spanish inquisition that nobody expected :) ).
If people refuse religion and it's their choice, no problem. If external interests want people to obey only to one value and make people either hate religion or follow its distortion, that's a problem. Another problem is that religion becomes something that divides, and divided people who fights among themselves are not likely to fight other battles which might be vital, like the one to be free human beings.
I am no supporter of aristocracy either, but I like even less that the power coming from being landowner be destroyed by the almighty buck. Why? because the buck is easily concentrated in the hands of the few and becomes dangerous. In fact, those having the real money, those producing the money (ie banks and the fractional reserve), are interested in acquiring power and real goods, since they now better than anybody that money is worthless per se. Power and goods that won't be ours anyway.
Ethically speaking, you have the right to resist indeed. What's missing from the discussion (and for TFA if I'd only read it) is one of the most important factors that make singularity a thing to welcome, if you have the guts to modify yourself, or to refuse no matter what: the forces driving our development.
It might be we still follow the survival of the fittest rule.
But then, how come I sense this disturbing trend that is stripping the single man of all his cultural and material property?
Men in the past had access to renewable water sources because there was a different kind of pollution, didn't fear the sun because of the ozone layer depletion, didn't pollute the land with genetically engineered crop or chemicals. Culturally speaking the trend is stripping man of every set of values which is not money: French revolution fucked the aristocracy. Fascist trolls made us hate nationalism associating it with violence and ignorance (this is an european perspective, in fact usa people were more nationalist, but now you have your own bush troll). Global media fucked home-bred traditions in the west, while Communism did the same in a more violent and explicit way in the east. Corporations have stripped us of science. Scientific experiments in total privacy and patents make not science, but occultism. Now everything is poised to strip us of religion, as the battle is between islamic violent and sexist integralism, neo-con crusaders, zionists will end up with people worn by WWIII refusing anything that remotely sounds like faith.
This is a brain dump not an analysis. Am I wrong? I sure hope i am. But think about it when you have to evaluate any change marketed as "progress".
Microsoft to come up with a new piece of software that works flawlessly from day one.
:) ), or [wears tinfoil hat] the guy is about to follow up on the story saying that he resolved the issue in no time and that WGA is not as bad as people are led to believe by anti M$ trolls.
Anyway it's either another debacle of Microsoft (is this news?
WAS? You missed one star, then.
Let's see if the open source philosophy works with hardware too. For instance, Italian hackers could teach this robot to play soccer, French hackers to do proper headbutts, German ones to make unfunny jokes about other nations, and so on.
Sure it is a major redirection, pity that it doesn't likely come from mr. Gates waking up one morning and realizing his enterprise behaved just like the mafia, but from antitrust and competition. Even if it takes years to complete, this is a tactical, not a strategic move. BTW, granparent doesn't deserve negative moderation.
... I decided to convert myself to Islam, and I'm looking for Jewish sites with good introductory material for my new religion.