There is a large majority for legal abortion, and it is legal, but not because of a majority, because of a supreme court rulings.
If you meant illegal, a supreme court ruling is against it, so you can't just have a small majority, you need a giant majority to amend the constitution (or slowly replace the supreme court by overtaking both executive and legislative offices).
I suggest you learn something about your government before proclaiming to know an answer.
But you failed to make your point at all - these issues can NOT be solved. You will never convince an extremely motivated and vocal minority like those of the prolife group to give up their cause. You can call them sore losers, but the truth of it is, with how vocal they are they are getting much more done on their behalf than a silent minority would get done. Of course people taking to the streets are in a minority that isn't large enough to win something on their own -- that's why they take to the streets. They're not doing it to cause chaos, they're doing it to bring attention to their cause, and hopefully rally more supporters in doing so. They're doing it to show that they will be more of a thorn in the side of politicians who don't support their cause than would be the silent (often apathetic) majority.
Yes, that's a minority, if it's not a majority it's a minority. It's not a hard concept, but it's obvious you have problems with logic and intelligent discussion. 38% to 56% is pretty extreme. A close minority in poltiical terms is 52-48, or maybe 54-46. 18% in political terms is a blowout.
"A lack of street protests can mean either one of two things: a very successful system where all issues that would result in street protests are solved within the legal process"
Perhaps you didn't read my post, that is impossible. There is no way an issue like abortion can be "solved". A large minority of our society will not be happy unless it's completely illegal, a small majority of our country will not be satisfied unless it's legal in most situations. There is no way that this (or many similar issues like it), will ever be "solved". The situation you describe would mean a legal system that can solve unsolvable problems, an impossibility, an absurdism.
Where exactly did you study the political process? Street protests are used by groups that are in the minority to bring awareness and supporters to their cause. A lack of street protests means a suppression of the minority. The abortion issue will cause street protests forever, no matter which side wins, because the other side will always be pissed. Right now the pro-life people are in a pretty sharp minority (only 30-40% of our population), notice how much they protest?
getting a new drive if you'd really like Linux on that box. CD drives cost all of $10 these days, and a new drive would certainly fix that problem. I had to go that route 3 or 4 years ago with a computer that was 3 or 4 years old at the time.
Not that I'd expect an answer if that's true...but;) A lot of times older drives have real problems with burns, in various ways. If your XP disk is an official release and not a burned copy it would make sense why XP would boot and your burned linux disks would not.
Wireless cards are one of those very few special cases where reverse engineering really isn't an option. They without a doubt require support from the manufacturer (which as you say, M$ has), so in such cases (again very rare), yes, buy hardware that is linux compatible. Wireless cards happen to be the ONLY case I can think of right now, video cards used to fall in there but their support has gotten much better in the past several years.
And FWIW, I've gotten the same response for a wireless card on windows. When 802.11b first came out I got a PC-slot card for my laptop that was win95/win98 supported only, and never got support for WinXP.
if several other OS's didn't exist which run perfectly fine on tons of hardware (*BSD and Linux). And the sad part is, M$ has all the vendors producing drivers SPECIFICALLY for their operating system. All they have to do is provide a stable kernel and easy/efficient module system for these drivers, and they'd be golden -- every advantage is on their side there. This opposed to Linux and *BSD, who are still more or less reverse engineering many of their drivers.
under Section "Device"
driver probably is something like
driver "ati"
right now, or i think maybe driver "fglrx" or something weird like that.
Change it to
driver "vesa"
That should cover it.
There was no flamebait at all in there, I answered all of the problems he suggested exist (which don't), and then proposed he must have some kind of agenda to suggest they do. I'm guessing it's an idiot who also couldn't figure out how to install a fairly simple-to-install application, and instead decided to waste their money and buy a proprietary piece of crap to produce crappy DRM'ed files.
I bought an IR Blaster and had it working fairly quickly, though I had to search the web to find the appropriate configuration file for my satellite box (which I couldn't find, but I found a "close-enough" model). To get the remote working though, I was trying to use ATI's USB remote, which was supposed to be supported. After talking to the Lirc developers who actually wrote the ATI support, and hanging around IRC channels for a couple days asking supposed "experts" who were baffled, I finally gave in and just started using a Hauppauge remote that required line-of-sight, and had less keys.
People have so much trouble because it is horribly documented, and there are tons of things to go wrong in the driver process, from the kernel-module lever to the userland software. The user-side software also has horrible error returns, so you can't figure out at what point it's breaking (since the kernel module rarely reports any errors when modprobe'ing it). Even the gentoo how-to pages which are normally excellent proved insufficient.
Lirc is a pain-in-the-ass unless you bought hardware specifically to go along with the how-to or tutorials you were using to install it, because the generic documentation is insufficient for specific cases.
Perhaps you should try a distribution with some sort of half decent package management. I run gentoo, to install mythtv (compiling from source no less) it is as simple as:
# emerge mythtv
Most modern distributions have some sort of good package management, where you don't even have to think about all the problems you list.
And as to your comment:
"I then had to mess with getting the NVIDIA binary drivers installed and xconf configured properly."
No you didn't. For simple TV viewing as you suggest, you can use the vesa X11 drivers and it'll output on every possible output. And if you do decide to go the nvidia route, the binary installer itself will configure your xorg.conf for you. You seem to be trying to serve some type of agenda with these complaints, or are just completely incompetent at linux.
Isn't the general mythtv installation - it's the driver installation for all your hardware (most specifically, Lirc). The only way I really see a tool like this being groundbreaking is if they manage to stick a great GUI on top of Lirc setup (which is quite a bit more difficult than a graduate quantum chemistry course). Lirc aside, mythtv setup is fairly trivial these days. And excuse me for wanting Knoppix (a distribution time-tested at dynamically picking up new hardware) as the foundation rather than Fedora for a system that is very dependent on picking up all the necessary hardware.
That being said, I put it on top of a gentoo system, and backed up my/etc and my kernel/.config the second I finally got all the driver crap working;)
First of all, power plants are a LOT more efficient at converting fossil fuels into energy than a cars combustion engine is. Think 500+% more efficient. Meaning if the electricity didn't have any overhead (which it would), you'd have to burn 1/5th the gas to get the same distance. That being the case, the energy that right now costs us $3 (gallon of gas) equivalent would be 60 cents, and that's if they're paying the ridiculous consumer taxes (which they wouldn't be), and not taking significantly lower demand into consideration in price per gallon.
On top of that, by moving all cars over to electricity, you then have the option of SLOWLY changing the power backbone from fossil fuels to whatever you like (nuclear or solar).
Lastly, don't group all fossil fuels together. Some fossil fuels (gasoline) take wars to keep the black-blood pipelines flowing. Others (coal) are dug in vast quantities out of kentucky and west virginia and will not only benefit our economy significantly more, but will remove our dependency on the middle east.
That would be what I discussed in my original post about a small percent of cases which are truly tragic, but much much more rare. Are you implying that the number of people who have aids due to rape or bad transfusions is higher than the number of people that have Malaria simply because of where they live?
It is an avoidable disease for the most part, don't have unprotected sex, don't share needles, you probably won't get it. That's as much a "cure" as you're supposing Diabetes II has. There are tragic cases where people who didn't make mistakes still got the disease, but don't suppose that those comprise any serious percentage of those afflicted.
The Aids rate in Africa is truly stunning and disturbing, but with a rate that high it is obvious that more money needs to be spent on Aids EDUCATION than a blind search for a cure at this point.
$250,000 in the miami area? They can probably rebiuld their front porch with that money...nice theory though. It's quite a bit more likely that they want a beautiful house that they can show off, rather than a cheap house that they can rebuild. Nothing quite says "waste of beach front" like a cement/brick house without many windows.
the most, are going to switch over to what is far and away the most proprietary of consumer systems?
Rrrrrrrriiiiiiightt
Linux isn't just about Security, or ease of use, or intelligent design (all the things both Linux and OSX have over Windows) -- it is also more importantly about freedom (in terms of both beer and speech). Apple offers neither. So why again would people start jumping ship to pay infinitely more for a more proprietary system? I'm not saying it won't happen, but it seems to me the Linux community won't be giving up their freedom for Apple any time soon.
And worked for UITS last year, and can say that I don't know anybody on dial up;) All the dial up people I dealt with were IUPUI students. I of course don't deal with too many "townies" as a student and working tech help for students though. But students do compose over half of Bloomington's population 8 months a year.
I go to IU and obviously 99.9% of people in bloomington have broadband. I also have family and friends in south bend and indy who are all cable modem now. It probably depends on where you're at and who you hang out with. Not to mention if they've ever gotten a taste of broadband before.
On how to go from a poor capitalism to a communism. There are plenty of poor capitalisms out there. There are many many many flaws in communism, and I think your statement but I don't feel like pointing them out w/ the solution right now is the equivalent of Fermat's last theorem;)
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If you meant illegal, a supreme court ruling is against it, so you can't just have a small majority, you need a giant majority to amend the constitution (or slowly replace the supreme court by overtaking both executive and legislative offices).
I suggest you learn something about your government before proclaiming to know an answer.
But you failed to make your point at all - these issues can NOT be solved. You will never convince an extremely motivated and vocal minority like those of the prolife group to give up their cause. You can call them sore losers, but the truth of it is, with how vocal they are they are getting much more done on their behalf than a silent minority would get done. Of course people taking to the streets are in a minority that isn't large enough to win something on their own -- that's why they take to the streets. They're not doing it to cause chaos, they're doing it to bring attention to their cause, and hopefully rally more supporters in doing so. They're doing it to show that they will be more of a thorn in the side of politicians who don't support their cause than would be the silent (often apathetic) majority.
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Perhaps you didn't read my post, that is impossible. There is no way an issue like abortion can be "solved". A large minority of our society will not be happy unless it's completely illegal, a small majority of our country will not be satisfied unless it's legal in most situations. There is no way that this (or many similar issues like it), will ever be "solved". The situation you describe would mean a legal system that can solve unsolvable problems, an impossibility, an absurdism.
Where exactly did you study the political process? Street protests are used by groups that are in the minority to bring awareness and supporters to their cause. A lack of street protests means a suppression of the minority. The abortion issue will cause street protests forever, no matter which side wins, because the other side will always be pissed. Right now the pro-life people are in a pretty sharp minority (only 30-40% of our population), notice how much they protest?
getting a new drive if you'd really like Linux on that box. CD drives cost all of $10 these days, and a new drive would certainly fix that problem. I had to go that route 3 or 4 years ago with a computer that was 3 or 4 years old at the time.
Not that I'd expect an answer if that's true...but ;) A lot of times older drives have real problems with burns, in various ways. If your XP disk is an official release and not a burned copy it would make sense why XP would boot and your burned linux disks would not.
Wireless cards are one of those very few special cases where reverse engineering really isn't an option. They without a doubt require support from the manufacturer (which as you say, M$ has), so in such cases (again very rare), yes, buy hardware that is linux compatible. Wireless cards happen to be the ONLY case I can think of right now, video cards used to fall in there but their support has gotten much better in the past several years. And FWIW, I've gotten the same response for a wireless card on windows. When 802.11b first came out I got a PC-slot card for my laptop that was win95/win98 supported only, and never got support for WinXP.
if several other OS's didn't exist which run perfectly fine on tons of hardware (*BSD and Linux). And the sad part is, M$ has all the vendors producing drivers SPECIFICALLY for their operating system. All they have to do is provide a stable kernel and easy/efficient module system for these drivers, and they'd be golden -- every advantage is on their side there. This opposed to Linux and *BSD, who are still more or less reverse engineering many of their drivers.
under Section "Device" driver probably is something like driver "ati" right now, or i think maybe driver "fglrx" or something weird like that. Change it to driver "vesa" That should cover it.
There was no flamebait at all in there, I answered all of the problems he suggested exist (which don't), and then proposed he must have some kind of agenda to suggest they do. I'm guessing it's an idiot who also couldn't figure out how to install a fairly simple-to-install application, and instead decided to waste their money and buy a proprietary piece of crap to produce crappy DRM'ed files.
As other posters point out, an RF remote, which LIRC also covers despite the fact that its acronym suggests it might not.
People have so much trouble because it is horribly documented, and there are tons of things to go wrong in the driver process, from the kernel-module lever to the userland software. The user-side software also has horrible error returns, so you can't figure out at what point it's breaking (since the kernel module rarely reports any errors when modprobe'ing it). Even the gentoo how-to pages which are normally excellent proved insufficient.
Lirc is a pain-in-the-ass unless you bought hardware specifically to go along with the how-to or tutorials you were using to install it, because the generic documentation is insufficient for specific cases.
Perhaps you should try a distribution with some sort of half decent package management. I run gentoo, to install mythtv (compiling from source no less) it is as simple as: # emerge mythtv Most modern distributions have some sort of good package management, where you don't even have to think about all the problems you list. And as to your comment: "I then had to mess with getting the NVIDIA binary drivers installed and xconf configured properly." No you didn't. For simple TV viewing as you suggest, you can use the vesa X11 drivers and it'll output on every possible output. And if you do decide to go the nvidia route, the binary installer itself will configure your xorg.conf for you. You seem to be trying to serve some type of agenda with these complaints, or are just completely incompetent at linux.
Isn't the general mythtv installation - it's the driver installation for all your hardware (most specifically, Lirc). The only way I really see a tool like this being groundbreaking is if they manage to stick a great GUI on top of Lirc setup (which is quite a bit more difficult than a graduate quantum chemistry course). Lirc aside, mythtv setup is fairly trivial these days. And excuse me for wanting Knoppix (a distribution time-tested at dynamically picking up new hardware) as the foundation rather than Fedora for a system that is very dependent on picking up all the necessary hardware.
/etc and my kernel/.config the second I finally got all the driver crap working ;)
That being said, I put it on top of a gentoo system, and backed up my
First of all, power plants are a LOT more efficient at converting fossil fuels into energy than a cars combustion engine is. Think 500+% more efficient. Meaning if the electricity didn't have any overhead (which it would), you'd have to burn 1/5th the gas to get the same distance. That being the case, the energy that right now costs us $3 (gallon of gas) equivalent would be 60 cents, and that's if they're paying the ridiculous consumer taxes (which they wouldn't be), and not taking significantly lower demand into consideration in price per gallon.
On top of that, by moving all cars over to electricity, you then have the option of SLOWLY changing the power backbone from fossil fuels to whatever you like (nuclear or solar).
Lastly, don't group all fossil fuels together. Some fossil fuels (gasoline) take wars to keep the black-blood pipelines flowing. Others (coal) are dug in vast quantities out of kentucky and west virginia and will not only benefit our economy significantly more, but will remove our dependency on the middle east.
That would be what I discussed in my original post about a small percent of cases which are truly tragic, but much much more rare. Are you implying that the number of people who have aids due to rape or bad transfusions is higher than the number of people that have Malaria simply because of where they live?
It is an avoidable disease for the most part, don't have unprotected sex, don't share needles, you probably won't get it. That's as much a "cure" as you're supposing Diabetes II has. There are tragic cases where people who didn't make mistakes still got the disease, but don't suppose that those comprise any serious percentage of those afflicted. The Aids rate in Africa is truly stunning and disturbing, but with a rate that high it is obvious that more money needs to be spent on Aids EDUCATION than a blind search for a cure at this point.
$250,000 in the miami area? They can probably rebiuld their front porch with that money...nice theory though. It's quite a bit more likely that they want a beautiful house that they can show off, rather than a cheap house that they can rebuild. Nothing quite says "waste of beach front" like a cement/brick house without many windows.
But a tax on that sure pissed a lot of them off.
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the most, are going to switch over to what is far and away the most proprietary of consumer systems? Rrrrrrrriiiiiiightt Linux isn't just about Security, or ease of use, or intelligent design (all the things both Linux and OSX have over Windows) -- it is also more importantly about freedom (in terms of both beer and speech). Apple offers neither. So why again would people start jumping ship to pay infinitely more for a more proprietary system? I'm not saying it won't happen, but it seems to me the Linux community won't be giving up their freedom for Apple any time soon.
And worked for UITS last year, and can say that I don't know anybody on dial up ;) All the dial up people I dealt with were IUPUI students. I of course don't deal with too many "townies" as a student and working tech help for students though. But students do compose over half of Bloomington's population 8 months a year.
I go to IU and obviously 99.9% of people in bloomington have broadband. I also have family and friends in south bend and indy who are all cable modem now. It probably depends on where you're at and who you hang out with. Not to mention if they've ever gotten a taste of broadband before.
On how to go from a poor capitalism to a communism. There are plenty of poor capitalisms out there. There are many many many flaws in communism, and I think your statement but I don't feel like pointing them out w/ the solution right now is the equivalent of Fermat's last theorem ;)