Fox Networks by no stretch of the imagination has a conservative bias. Everybody keeps using that word but I definitely don't believe you know what it means if they associate it with the Fox Network.
Conservative style politics is politics that is resistant to change, prefers the status quo, avoids war, has no interest global expansion, deplores increased government spending, they demand privacy, insist upon the respect of private property, and loathe the concentration of power.
That the term conservative has been flagrantly hijacked by the pseudo Christian lobbyists party (the republicans) and by corporate mass media is with out question, that the term conservative is actually being used to camouflage, gross corporate exploitation of the conservative electorate is self evident.
The Fox Network is a relic of the past, an abusive of the truth, bereft of honesty, network whose only goal is profit without limits, and the damage done to a society and those middle class conservative members who make up that society, just seems to motivate Fox Network to ever greater excesses. The Network seems to be going out of it's way to support the ruination of the US economy and the elimination of the actual real conservative middle class.
On Deaf and dumb one. Actually look at history and prevalent cultures. Actually look at the 18th century outside of the rich and greedy un-noble nobility. Here is why did the un-noble pursued the pre-pubusecent look, veneral deasease, and an absence of morals (want to be sure thaey don't have venereal disease, then take them young). You watchy TV old stuff, only see rich not poor, the majority driver evolution, as for breeding, all pursue the strongest, those that actually have matured, that's why the pubescent hair growth so you can actually tell, fool, moron idiot.
Evolutionary speaking, bullocks boy, if that were true, then men would not grow beards, and women would not get hairy legs, evolution takes tens of thousands of years it does not happen overnight. You have even confused social with biological evolution.
Oh Crap. In the 1920 Mr Gillette wanted to get really really rich selling razors, and initiated a marketing campaign to achieve that goal. To imply that human evolution has been driven by what has occurred in the last century is stupid, behaviour driven by mass marketing and obeying the marketing fed to you since birth either directly or indirectly via your parents or peers who are just parroting the marketing B$ they have been fed, points to the gullibility and stupidity of the human race. Fortunately that does not seem to be a barrier to the continued survival of the species, but then again we are only short haired, crested, rock throwing monkeys.
Vacuum sealed double glazed units are supplied as complete units from any major glazing manufacturer, don't forget it is only one atmosphere and of course glass area is limited (they are vacuum sealed for the improved insulative properties as well as to eliminate condensation problems and of course it is not an absolute vacuum just low pressure and industry terminology).
For windows the cheapest is glass externally for scratch resistant and acrylic internally as plastic is a better insulator so less condensation problems, in can be fairly thin (hence cheap) as there is no internal wind load and the material is flexible for impact resistance (it can even be in a light weight sub-frame that can be fitted to the window frame much the same as a fly screen just provide an appropriate flexible seal where the sub frame contacts the main window frame and remove the complete unit when you want to open the window, as of course at that time double glazing is obviously pointless).
For doors timber is a relative good insulator so just the thicker the better, other than that there are metal clad poly urethane filled doors, high cost (if you are really fussy you could hunt around for second hand commercial refrigeration door units).
If you have a stiffened slab concrete floor you can also do what is done for commercial refrigeration installations and provide a layer of insulation under the concrete slab. Also if you are really fussy you should never open windows but use ducting to supply fresh air which should pass a heat exchanger which contains exhaust air, so you are pre-conditioning the air entering the living space and recovering some of the desired temp from the exhaust air .
you kinda left out legs, armpits and crotches, hmm. Still as a supposedly intelligent species attempting to look like a sexually immature version of the species has to be psychologically questionable and in today's age, with regard to the threats to children in society, that attempt and the desirability of those features surely sets questionable moral precedence and provides very poor subconscious life lessons for children growing up in that environment.
Of course I'm slack and idle, I don't grow a beard so much as I couldn't be bothered paying for Mr Gillette and co's next mansion and to be blunt I am vain about not being vain.
Hmm, are they born this way, or is this sexual perversion just driven by mass media, it would seem rather illogical that men and women naturally evolved this way over hundreds of thousands of years, I mean why do you consider the natural appearance of men and women so disgusting, is there something you see in the mirror that so disturbs you in the mornings.
Considering the reply, I would not be surprised that you cant' tell the difference between you making a choice and somepne marking your choices for you, a victim of marketing, obey, buy, believe, obey, buy some more, obey, tell everyone else, buy some more, obey - So sad;(.
Slashdot by definition and appearance would then seem to be the home of independent thought, perhaps you might feel more at home on the juvenile, lipstick, shaver and high heels forums;).
Shaving, I never did get why it is so necessary to look like a pre-pubescent child, perhaps the mass media 'in' crowd could explain that one too me, I would have thought it was indicative of some seriously disturbed shared sexual preferences, but then the hollywood and MTV crowd will sell anything.
Are you, or are you not, part of the Slashdot crowd (you read, you post, you are), as such I really don't see the need for you to share your obviously disturbed grooming and dress habits;).
Technically speaking, if there was high pitched wailing every time a windows server got hacked (these were not Canonical servers they just pay for them for use and care by others), then nearby star systems would start complaining about the noise.
Could you imagine the data load if everybody wanted the information about how every windows server that ever got hacked (I assume M$ takes greater care of it's servers than general users, just as Canonical does).
Thieves can use it to plan the crimes (the ones with secret warrants as well as the regular kind), and who exactly will be spying on children in playgrounds and what will they be planning.
Of course the really cool things is it is digital, so what was in it can be altered as well as when it actually occurred.
When they can continuously monitor and control your family, they control you, good luck.
Perhaps you should check out the insulative ratings of adobe versus concrete before comparing them, adobe is a far more effective insulator. As for wall thickness and floor area, get tape measure, measure your internal and external walls and see which takes up the greatest floor area, you obviously one of those amateur experts, perhaps you even more comfortable living in hole in ground.
Join the rest of the world, metric is lovely and far easier to use. External thermal moderators are illogical, is is generally cold all winter or hot all summer, external is strictly insulate, internal is heat sinks. Concrete to achieve the same thermal rating of a framed insulated wall would only be about ten times as expensive and still require an external waterproof cladding (be it a flexible paint coating or some other waterproof cladding) as well as an internal coating for comfort. Concrete is made with water, water reacts chemically with the cement, hydration' causing it to set, the water then leaves the resultant set cement, resulting in open pores through out the set product as well as shrinkage cracks (all concrete has cracks some smaller than others, concrete high compressive strength, low tensile strength). The only concrete products with worth while insulative properties are those which have been aerated either via chemical process 'hebel' or by using selected aggregates, scoria or polystyrene beads.
The other problem is, do you really want highly flammable bacteria of algae growing in the wild (depending upon the nature of stored molecules and possible end of life cycle accumulation, flammable toxic sea foam accumulating and drying on beaches). I would think any modified bacteria of algae of this nature would be engineered so that it specifically can't survive in the wild.
Cool company, from what perverted marketing speak world do you come from, people are cool, some products are temporarily cool, art work of various types music, paintings, CGI can be considered cool.
The only time and I mean absolute only time a company is cool is in the wet dreams of the market droids who inhabit the dark recesses of corporate corridors, mass media marketing B$ is never representative of reality.
As for low intellectual grade jock straps, what ever they are told is cool by market droids they believe is cool.
Let me see on one hand intellectual pursuits and achievements (which on slashdot is considered very cool) on the other hand the forlorn attempt by jockstraps to outperform battery operated dildos, whilst jock straps can be considered to be 'mostly' intellectually superior to the battery powered versions of themselves even in their wildest delusions they can't physically out perform them.
No, they are copyrighted by the owners of the copyright not the authors, the corporations that bought the copyright to the creative works for cents in the dollar ie. they basically exploited the creative artists with promises of wealth, they just didn't bother to explain in by far the majority of instances it was wealth for the publishers and nothing for the artists except what they earned at live performances.
Concrete is generally a low cost bulk fabrication solution, due to poor sound insulation, poor thermal insulation and it's hydroscopic nature (absorbs moisture, it creates an uncomfortable cooling affect as a result of evaporation during winters high moisture conditions), it is not a very good green building material. High insulation values are preferable, R3.0 and up would be desirable and 50mm of polyurethane doesn't cut it.
At some point of course the strength of poly urethane was underrated, polyurethane is actually very strong the (rigid types rather than seat padding), some people might have become confused with poly styrene, but of course poly urethane is some what toxic over it's life and very toxic in the event of a fire.
Things like vacuum sealed double glazing are of course desirable as well as passive heating and cooling making use of thermo dynamic flows ie. heat collectors at ground level out side (black tube under glass) and pipe the heated fluid to heat exchangers in internal walls on in the floor. Then you can have internal heat sinks to stabilise temperature over time. Automated natural ventilation when the outside air temperature is preferable to the internal air temperature, automatic awning windows in pairs at high and low level.
Subtle stuff like having vines over external walls, shading and evaporative cooling affect, internally using the refrigeration heat exchanger in a clothes drying room. Given sufficient wealth of course having an inground indoor swimming pool means you can use that as a very effective heat sink.
Now for reality, if you really truly want a green home, then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_houses and adjust you expectations, you will be a little cold at times, you will be a little warm at times, when it is night you will sleep, when it is day you will be awake ie. it is not green homes it is green living.
Green construction on a budget means high insulation R3.0 fibreglass in clad framed walls and roof (cladding largely arbitrary aside from durability and cost, low tensile sheet metal externally, internally plasterboard), minimum windows (lighting is far cheaper and 'greener' than heating and cooling) awning windows in pairs, high level low level and keep the house as small as is comfortable, everything else is just a rich man's self indulgent fantasy;).
And in this case Star Office also has google desktop search embedded. Now is there any way of stripping the privacy invasive stuff and getting a 'clean' copy of Star Office out of google pack, and google can target itself with it's own marketing about itself and leave the rest of us out of it;).
Being unable to service that Novell licensing debt, makes it look like they were trading whilst insolvent, they could possibly 'bounce' from a civil to criminal court. Continuing to spend money on lawyers on a losing case whilst they cannot pay an outstanding debt to Novell puts them in more than just a tricky position.
The share trading that occurred during this whole process is likely to come under review in what is now starting to look like nothing more than a pump and dump scheme ie. sue IBM for billions with no hope of winning but have a sudden influx of funds to fund the case which just happens to come from one of IBM biggest competitors.
The solution to this is of course making many copies of your RFID identity and getting many people to carry it, as well as sticking it to random vehicles, birds and even insects. Let them try to track you, when you are in a few hundred different places at the same time, exchange them over the Internet and you could be in a few thousand places at the same time, subvert the system. Would confuse the hell out of RFID detectors, when according to the detector a thousand people just walked past it at the same time, add to this jamming tags would likely become very popular http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2004/03/62 468.
That's great, give them a hard time, they deserve it but how about doing better rather than worse. For what earthly reason would I feel guilty about the behaviour of others when I am trying to seek improvement and greater democracy and freedoms and the rights of individuals. I feel absolutely free to critique any political leader from any country, I especially loathe self serving autocrats (I'll give you a hint, no matter how bad democratic leaders have been, the corrupt autocrats were far far worse, even the Chinese ones).
What I think you miss is the whole nature of the current Chinese government and it's threat to freedom, democracy and workers rights in the rest of the world and what needs to be done about them to reduce that threat (whilst I have some concern for Chinese workers, my greater concern is for workers rights with in my own country and not only protecting those rights and condition but improving upon them). So, as it turns out not all that much, as long as China continues on it's current course, the pollution they are generating will solve our (workers in democratic countries who want to preserve their rights, fuck so many cents per hour and living in worker/slave dormitories) problems, a bit unfortunate for the countries surrounding China but that's just the way it is.
Although I still do support fair trade tariffs, where taxes are loaded onto imported products to cover the cost differences of minimum wage (valid due to global pricing of commodity products), worker safety and conditions, environmental protections, quality inspections, taxation levels (avoiding tax holiday cheating corporations), there is no reason that companies should be forced to compete upon an unequal basis, especially when they support their consumers by providing the local employment rather than pursuing every last cent of profit regardless of the socio economic consequences.
Now of course the big question is, whether Olympic officials will supply the EPA inspections teams to ensure the health and safety of athletes, not only at the events, but at their accommodation and travelling to their events as well as the food consumed, It would be harsh to put Olympic sized corporate profits ahead of athletes health.
If they have nothing to hide, why is it secret wire tapping and secret warrants.
If they have nothing to hide, why isn't every communication between lobbyists and politicians recorded and publicly declared.
If they have nothing to hide, why is not the activity of every law enforcement officer recorded whilst they are on duty, rather than a taser to torture why not a video camera to record.
If they have nothing to hide, why secret no fly lists.
Let's all of us give up our secrets and privacy at the same time or maybe lets start with the people who are in such a hurry to take our privacy whilst keeping their own dirty secrets, which will be the most interesting, our little white lies, or the massive whoppers of the corrupt corporate executives, the typical lying politician, the abusive power freak law enforcement officer, and of course the biggest liars of all lobbyists.
In this case I think 'Mad Penguin" went a little off track in it's headline, while the article is somewhat accurate it is rather inflammatory in its approach.
It is actually a pro-community anti-corporate article. Of course open source being 'open' means that disputes have been, are and will be inevitable. Being open also means that consensus is also inevitable, the majority defines the path, what ever that will be.
As the Linux numbers grow, a future minority Linux segment would be equal to today's current total Linux segment, it is just a matter of chopping up and redistributing M$ windows market share amongst the various Linux distributions, both community and corporate, plenty to go around;).
So in reality it is free google sales reps peddling google's services. Catch for google is more accurate searches and the paying customers, the addworders are paying for nothing, less accurate searches and people are more likely to use addwords but they just get annoyed with the google and start using on of the competitors instead. Of course addwords has already become more spamwords than anything else.
Overall, it comes of as a really slutty advertising campaign, get free press for it, get lots of word of mouth and the whole campaign is still far cheaper than advertising in main stream media, the slutty part is it scams a lot of young people in the process, typical google work more for less.
Of course localised search is where it is at in the future but the existing local media players (local news and advertising media) have a major advantage and when they combine their local offerings with national and international search, they will be way ahead of google.
The big problem with google advertising is association, being entry level, a lot of the cheap and nasty companies are using it, and if your company represents quality services and products you definitely don't want it in the same block of advertising text as some cheap and nasty nobody, their reputation lowers yours and your reputation raises theirs. So yellow page adds have the advantage, they last a full year regardless of the number of hits, by far the majority of commercial companies use it, price and account verification tends to exclude the fly by nighters.
Oh yeah, and for all you youthful squealers than only old people use it, well that's fine, old people tend to have by far the most money to spend, old people have also learnt the lesson of using the cheap and nasty companies, and well, I have tried both, and I found yellow pages far more effective or local web sites like this http://www.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm for local technologically up to date companies.
Wise man say, those that pursue the politics of fifty years ago are either historians or idiots. My only concern is what is happening today and what will be happening tomorrow, history is just lessons, that people should not repeat, you kinda missed that whole not repeating history bit didn't you.
You kind of idiot logic means it is ok to keep repeating the same mistakes, the same abuses, the same lies over and over and over again.
Why don't reach further back into history and cite Roman slavery at brick factories, I hear China repeated that example just in the last year, hey that's ok after all the ancient Romans did it too.
When it comes to autocracies why would I blame the 'Chinese People' for the corruption of their government, corrupt greedy politicians are readily available all over the world, as are the greedy corporations that feed them, save the racism for yourself, I dislike all of them regardless of what nationality, citizenship, race, colour etc., as for China, let's have a democracy and really see what the 'Chinese People' actually think, rather than just a few corrupt politicians.
Linux is the work of hundreds of thousands of individuals, code, installations, support, marketing, lobbying etc. etc. etc. As for Richard Stallman he is certainly fully and totally entitled to his opinion and to push and promote his stance, as much as he chooses to do in what ever way he chooses, just as those people who seek similar ideals are free to also promote and support their own opinions regardless of whom they share them with.
The whole Linux thing was driven by choice and the freedom to choose, so GNU or Kernel or Open Source, it was all about individuals working together in what ever capacity they choose to achieve a wide range of shared goals.
In a manner of speaking every one involved was a sidekick to Tux, a symbol representing a shared ideal, and what ever that ideal was, it was left up to each and every individual own interpretation.
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Conservative style politics is politics that is resistant to change, prefers the status quo, avoids war, has no interest global expansion, deplores increased government spending, they demand privacy, insist upon the respect of private property, and loathe the concentration of power.
That the term conservative has been flagrantly hijacked by the pseudo Christian lobbyists party (the republicans) and by corporate mass media is with out question, that the term conservative is actually being used to camouflage, gross corporate exploitation of the conservative electorate is self evident.
The Fox Network is a relic of the past, an abusive of the truth, bereft of honesty, network whose only goal is profit without limits, and the damage done to a society and those middle class conservative members who make up that society, just seems to motivate Fox Network to ever greater excesses. The Network seems to be going out of it's way to support the ruination of the US economy and the elimination of the actual real conservative middle class.
On Deaf and dumb one. Actually look at history and prevalent cultures. Actually look at the 18th century outside of the rich and greedy un-noble nobility. Here is why did the un-noble pursued the pre-pubusecent look, veneral deasease, and an absence of morals (want to be sure thaey don't have venereal disease, then take them young). You watchy TV old stuff, only see rich not poor, the majority driver evolution, as for breeding, all pursue the strongest, those that actually have matured, that's why the pubescent hair growth so you can actually tell, fool, moron idiot.
Evolutionary speaking, bullocks boy, if that were true, then men would not grow beards, and women would not get hairy legs, evolution takes tens of thousands of years it does not happen overnight. You have even confused social with biological evolution.
Oh Crap. In the 1920 Mr Gillette wanted to get really really rich selling razors, and initiated a marketing campaign to achieve that goal. To imply that human evolution has been driven by what has occurred in the last century is stupid, behaviour driven by mass marketing and obeying the marketing fed to you since birth either directly or indirectly via your parents or peers who are just parroting the marketing B$ they have been fed, points to the gullibility and stupidity of the human race. Fortunately that does not seem to be a barrier to the continued survival of the species, but then again we are only short haired, crested, rock throwing monkeys.
For windows the cheapest is glass externally for scratch resistant and acrylic internally as plastic is a better insulator so less condensation problems, in can be fairly thin (hence cheap) as there is no internal wind load and the material is flexible for impact resistance (it can even be in a light weight sub-frame that can be fitted to the window frame much the same as a fly screen just provide an appropriate flexible seal where the sub frame contacts the main window frame and remove the complete unit when you want to open the window, as of course at that time double glazing is obviously pointless).
For doors timber is a relative good insulator so just the thicker the better, other than that there are metal clad poly urethane filled doors, high cost (if you are really fussy you could hunt around for second hand commercial refrigeration door units).
If you have a stiffened slab concrete floor you can also do what is done for commercial refrigeration installations and provide a layer of insulation under the concrete slab. Also if you are really fussy you should never open windows but use ducting to supply fresh air which should pass a heat exchanger which contains exhaust air, so you are pre-conditioning the air entering the living space and recovering some of the desired temp from the exhaust air .
Of course I'm slack and idle, I don't grow a beard so much as I couldn't be bothered paying for Mr Gillette and co's next mansion and to be blunt I am vain about not being vain.
Considering the reply, I would not be surprised that you cant' tell the difference between you making a choice and somepne marking your choices for you, a victim of marketing, obey, buy, believe, obey, buy some more, obey, tell everyone else, buy some more, obey - So sad ;(.
Slashdot by definition and appearance would then seem to be the home of independent thought, perhaps you might feel more at home on the juvenile, lipstick, shaver and high heels forums ;).
Are you, or are you not, part of the Slashdot crowd (you read, you post, you are), as such I really don't see the need for you to share your obviously disturbed grooming and dress habits ;).
Could you imagine the data load if everybody wanted the information about how every windows server that ever got hacked (I assume M$ takes greater care of it's servers than general users, just as Canonical does).
Of course the really cool things is it is digital, so what was in it can be altered as well as when it actually occurred.
When they can continuously monitor and control your family, they control you, good luck.
Perhaps you should check out the insulative ratings of adobe versus concrete before comparing them, adobe is a far more effective insulator. As for wall thickness and floor area, get tape measure, measure your internal and external walls and see which takes up the greatest floor area, you obviously one of those amateur experts, perhaps you even more comfortable living in hole in ground.
Join the rest of the world, metric is lovely and far easier to use. External thermal moderators are illogical, is is generally cold all winter or hot all summer, external is strictly insulate, internal is heat sinks. Concrete to achieve the same thermal rating of a framed insulated wall would only be about ten times as expensive and still require an external waterproof cladding (be it a flexible paint coating or some other waterproof cladding) as well as an internal coating for comfort. Concrete is made with water, water reacts chemically with the cement, hydration' causing it to set, the water then leaves the resultant set cement, resulting in open pores through out the set product as well as shrinkage cracks (all concrete has cracks some smaller than others, concrete high compressive strength, low tensile strength). The only concrete products with worth while insulative properties are those which have been aerated either via chemical process 'hebel' or by using selected aggregates, scoria or polystyrene beads.
The other problem is, do you really want highly flammable bacteria of algae growing in the wild (depending upon the nature of stored molecules and possible end of life cycle accumulation, flammable toxic sea foam accumulating and drying on beaches). I would think any modified bacteria of algae of this nature would be engineered so that it specifically can't survive in the wild.
The only time and I mean absolute only time a company is cool is in the wet dreams of the market droids who inhabit the dark recesses of corporate corridors, mass media marketing B$ is never representative of reality.
As for low intellectual grade jock straps, what ever they are told is cool by market droids they believe is cool.
Let me see on one hand intellectual pursuits and achievements (which on slashdot is considered very cool) on the other hand the forlorn attempt by jockstraps to outperform battery operated dildos, whilst jock straps can be considered to be 'mostly' intellectually superior to the battery powered versions of themselves even in their wildest delusions they can't physically out perform them.
No, they are copyrighted by the owners of the copyright not the authors, the corporations that bought the copyright to the creative works for cents in the dollar ie. they basically exploited the creative artists with promises of wealth, they just didn't bother to explain in by far the majority of instances it was wealth for the publishers and nothing for the artists except what they earned at live performances.
At some point of course the strength of poly urethane was underrated, polyurethane is actually very strong the (rigid types rather than seat padding), some people might have become confused with poly styrene, but of course poly urethane is some what toxic over it's life and very toxic in the event of a fire.
Things like vacuum sealed double glazing are of course desirable as well as passive heating and cooling making use of thermo dynamic flows ie. heat collectors at ground level out side (black tube under glass) and pipe the heated fluid to heat exchangers in internal walls on in the floor. Then you can have internal heat sinks to stabilise temperature over time. Automated natural ventilation when the outside air temperature is preferable to the internal air temperature, automatic awning windows in pairs at high and low level.
Subtle stuff like having vines over external walls, shading and evaporative cooling affect, internally using the refrigeration heat exchanger in a clothes drying room. Given sufficient wealth of course having an inground indoor swimming pool means you can use that as a very effective heat sink.
Now for reality, if you really truly want a green home, then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_houses and adjust you expectations, you will be a little cold at times, you will be a little warm at times, when it is night you will sleep, when it is day you will be awake ie. it is not green homes it is green living.
Green construction on a budget means high insulation R3.0 fibreglass in clad framed walls and roof (cladding largely arbitrary aside from durability and cost, low tensile sheet metal externally, internally plasterboard), minimum windows (lighting is far cheaper and 'greener' than heating and cooling) awning windows in pairs, high level low level and keep the house as small as is comfortable, everything else is just a rich man's self indulgent fantasy ;).
And in this case Star Office also has google desktop search embedded. Now is there any way of stripping the privacy invasive stuff and getting a 'clean' copy of Star Office out of google pack, and google can target itself with it's own marketing about itself and leave the rest of us out of it ;).
The share trading that occurred during this whole process is likely to come under review in what is now starting to look like nothing more than a pump and dump scheme ie. sue IBM for billions with no hope of winning but have a sudden influx of funds to fund the case which just happens to come from one of IBM biggest competitors.
The solution to this is of course making many copies of your RFID identity and getting many people to carry it, as well as sticking it to random vehicles, birds and even insects. Let them try to track you, when you are in a few hundred different places at the same time, exchange them over the Internet and you could be in a few thousand places at the same time, subvert the system. Would confuse the hell out of RFID detectors, when according to the detector a thousand people just walked past it at the same time, add to this jamming tags would likely become very popular http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/news/2004/03/62 468.
What I think you miss is the whole nature of the current Chinese government and it's threat to freedom, democracy and workers rights in the rest of the world and what needs to be done about them to reduce that threat (whilst I have some concern for Chinese workers, my greater concern is for workers rights with in my own country and not only protecting those rights and condition but improving upon them). So, as it turns out not all that much, as long as China continues on it's current course, the pollution they are generating will solve our (workers in democratic countries who want to preserve their rights, fuck so many cents per hour and living in worker/slave dormitories) problems, a bit unfortunate for the countries surrounding China but that's just the way it is.
Although I still do support fair trade tariffs, where taxes are loaded onto imported products to cover the cost differences of minimum wage (valid due to global pricing of commodity products), worker safety and conditions, environmental protections, quality inspections, taxation levels (avoiding tax holiday cheating corporations), there is no reason that companies should be forced to compete upon an unequal basis, especially when they support their consumers by providing the local employment rather than pursuing every last cent of profit regardless of the socio economic consequences.
Now of course the big question is, whether Olympic officials will supply the EPA inspections teams to ensure the health and safety of athletes, not only at the events, but at their accommodation and travelling to their events as well as the food consumed, It would be harsh to put Olympic sized corporate profits ahead of athletes health.
If they have nothing to hide, why isn't every communication between lobbyists and politicians recorded and publicly declared.
If they have nothing to hide, why is not the activity of every law enforcement officer recorded whilst they are on duty, rather than a taser to torture why not a video camera to record.
If they have nothing to hide, why secret no fly lists.
Let's all of us give up our secrets and privacy at the same time or maybe lets start with the people who are in such a hurry to take our privacy whilst keeping their own dirty secrets, which will be the most interesting, our little white lies, or the massive whoppers of the corrupt corporate executives, the typical lying politician, the abusive power freak law enforcement officer, and of course the biggest liars of all lobbyists.
It is actually a pro-community anti-corporate article. Of course open source being 'open' means that disputes have been, are and will be inevitable. Being open also means that consensus is also inevitable, the majority defines the path, what ever that will be.
As the Linux numbers grow, a future minority Linux segment would be equal to today's current total Linux segment, it is just a matter of chopping up and redistributing M$ windows market share amongst the various Linux distributions, both community and corporate, plenty to go around ;).
Overall, it comes of as a really slutty advertising campaign, get free press for it, get lots of word of mouth and the whole campaign is still far cheaper than advertising in main stream media, the slutty part is it scams a lot of young people in the process, typical google work more for less.
Of course localised search is where it is at in the future but the existing local media players (local news and advertising media) have a major advantage and when they combine their local offerings with national and international search, they will be way ahead of google.
The big problem with google advertising is association, being entry level, a lot of the cheap and nasty companies are using it, and if your company represents quality services and products you definitely don't want it in the same block of advertising text as some cheap and nasty nobody, their reputation lowers yours and your reputation raises theirs. So yellow page adds have the advantage, they last a full year regardless of the number of hits, by far the majority of commercial companies use it, price and account verification tends to exclude the fly by nighters.
Oh yeah, and for all you youthful squealers than only old people use it, well that's fine, old people tend to have by far the most money to spend, old people have also learnt the lesson of using the cheap and nasty companies, and well, I have tried both, and I found yellow pages far more effective or local web sites like this http://www.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm for local technologically up to date companies.
You kind of idiot logic means it is ok to keep repeating the same mistakes, the same abuses, the same lies over and over and over again.
Why don't reach further back into history and cite Roman slavery at brick factories, I hear China repeated that example just in the last year, hey that's ok after all the ancient Romans did it too.
When it comes to autocracies why would I blame the 'Chinese People' for the corruption of their government, corrupt greedy politicians are readily available all over the world, as are the greedy corporations that feed them, save the racism for yourself, I dislike all of them regardless of what nationality, citizenship, race, colour etc., as for China, let's have a democracy and really see what the 'Chinese People' actually think, rather than just a few corrupt politicians.
The whole Linux thing was driven by choice and the freedom to choose, so GNU or Kernel or Open Source, it was all about individuals working together in what ever capacity they choose to achieve a wide range of shared goals.
In a manner of speaking every one involved was a sidekick to Tux, a symbol representing a shared ideal, and what ever that ideal was, it was left up to each and every individual own interpretation.