More seriously, I hope you find a way to make a meaningful contribution. It would be good to see a system like ubuntu more widely used in schools. Could there be a marketing effort bring schools and ubuntu together?"
Dawkins shits me. What he seems to be saying is that there is no such thing as free will. Either you do the right thing because you're in good working order, or you need fixing. What a load of shit.
I don't think it is inconceivable that some people commit violent crime simply for the experience. They think it through. They know it's wrong but do it anyway: for pleasure; for intellectual challenge; whatever. Maybe they do it because they think that there is no higher power in existence than themselves and therefore "why shouldn't I?"
To put all errant, abhorrent human behaviour down to a dodgy nervous system seems, to me at least, as overly simplistic.
I fart in your general direction
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XHTML 1.0 "transitional". That's shite.
Try strict. transitional is for loosers.:-)
Your entitled to your opinion of course. But IMHO your wrong. "Walk On" is a great song dedicated to an extremely brave and determined woman. "Beautiful day" is an excellent tune. I reckon the whole of "all that you can't leave behind" is excellent. Before that there'd have to be at least a dozen songs I enjoy from there back catalogue.
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Good call. Paul Graham is fairly happy with his brain and likes to tells us all about it.
Going to mars is a complete waste of time, money, and resources, and a complete misplacement of human effort and initiative.
Going to Mars and taming space is the only way forward for humanity as a whole.
Crap. Rather than address difficult issues like exploitation of our environment, unchecked militarism and industrialisation etc, we'll go to Mars because it's the only thing we can do. What are you smoking?
Where do I even start? New home for humanity.
We don't need a new home. This one is just fine. We just need to take better care of it.
Unprecedented Scientific discovery.
Like we need to go to Mars for this.
Plentiful fusion fuel (this will be important in the next 10-20 years).
We have plenty of fusion fuel. The trouble is a lack of a viable fusion reactor. We don't need any more reasons to develop these.
The purpose of prisons and a criminal code is to deter crime, punish criminals
Is it? This is an old debate. Are (or should) prisons be about punishment or correction/rehabilitation? Prisons are, possibly euphamistically, referred to as "correctional facilities", with rehabilitation being the desired outcome for the incarcerated.
Of course, prisons are reported to be hellish places where "rehabilitation" basically corresponds to the prisoner developing a desire never to return.
Most states have laws requiring the pledge to be recited every day as a class activity, and these are the laws in question. In theory students shouldn't be punished for failing to recite along with the rest of the class (due to a previous Supreme Court decision).
That almost sounds like brainwashing to me. Allegiance to a nation and all the ramifications that go along with that are not things that children are generally equipped to consider. They lack the maturity and objectivity.
Secondly, taking the pledge is a patriotic act. Plenty has been said about the folly of patriotism . Here's some of it:-
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" -Oscar Wilde
"It is man, not systems of man, to whom I owe my allegiance. I care nothing for the flag to which you pledge, I care only for the actions by which you represent yourself as a good or bad person."
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism, 1945.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease" Albert Einstein.
"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?" Martin Luther King, Jr.
"My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing, and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities." Gandhi.
Ok, I'll inform you. You have some interesting points, but you are off on some.
No worries. Thanks.:-)
I agree that for productivity (openoffice.org, koffice, etc) and internet (mozilla, konqueror, kmail, evolution, etc) unix-like desktops are acceptable for the average user. If that's what you're saying then I agree.
You appear to be using the fact of the monopolistic hold that Microsoft has over the PC environment to justify a position negating Linux having any value as a desktop PC right now. And that's just bogus. I'm sorry. YOU USE Mandrake 9.1 at home.
I don't think that linux has no value as a desktop PC. I just see it as a bit limited. Entertainment hardware and software support being a limitation. The video editing software that accompanies the digital minicam still won't run under linux. As soon as an alternative has to be sourced that runs under linux , then linux looses that consumer ease of use test.
I contend that the general public are fairly interested in using their personal computers for entertainment and recreational purposes. I think that linux lets them down in this area. However, I will concede the possibility that these are my requirements and, MAYBE, are not that important to Dick & Jane.
Anybody here that has used Mandrake with KDE can tell you that it's more than enough for the average user. It's easier than Windows to install for one, and comes with everything the average user actually needs.
I don't think so. I'm happy to be informed if I'm wrong but *NIX & *BSD desktop system leave a bit to be desired in my opinion.
Let's say I've just got a brand new PC with the latest video card from ATI. Are there X drivers that fully support it? Will the kernel installed with the latest Mandrake distro support my graphics hardware fully? What if I want to learn a foreign language by running language learning software on my new PC: is there software available that I can use on a *NIX/*BSD desktop? I've just seen the full trailer for half-life 2. Will I be able to run that game on my *NIX/*BSD desktop when it comes out? Will I be able to watch DivX movies or will I have to install additional software? What about if decide to subscribe to a bradband internet service: will the ISP's technician set it up for me if I'm not running windows? (Optus here in Australia say nay to that)
I use mandrake 9.1 at home. I am somewhat experienced with PCs and I've used many a linux distro. I've even built my own with LFS. I like using free software. I advocate it and agree with the principles of liberty which pervade the OSS and free software movements. That said, I think, as a desktop PC OS for consumers, windows is a better product than a unix-like running KDE or GNOME. Things "just work" under windows. Got new hardware? No problem. You install it and then you install the windows drivers that ship with it. Want to run some niche-interest software? No worries. You're most like to find the "best of breed" product is windows software.
IMHO the unix-like desktops have a long way to go. Some of it is out of their direct control, but that makes no difference to the consumer, and not much more difference to me.
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She's one courageous lady and I think the song is a decent tribute.
Each to his own though.
Yep, definetly a marketing droid.
More seriously, I hope you find a way to make a meaningful contribution. It would be good to see a system like ubuntu more widely used in schools. Could there be a marketing effort bring schools and ubuntu together?"
bash history can be searched. I have my bash in vi mode so if I want to find that wget I issued 2 weeks ago ...
$ /^wget
then 'n' will move through the matches until I see what I'm looking for. Then 'enter' reissues it.
Only on slashdot will you find nouns converted so humourously into adjectives.
I think I'll have to start some sort of collection of these term I find on slashdot that crack me up. :-)
Let's see:-
I'll be keeping an eye out.
... Dawkins and Dennet come to know Christ.
It does indeed. I was actually expecting a comment of that ilk to be first post.
Objection your honour! How can the witness possibly testify as to what a million or so other people beleive?
Dude, you probably shouldn't attack someone for making a generalisation, and then go and make the exact same generalisation.
Correct, at least from a Jewish perspective. The early Christian church was referred to by Jewish leaders as the "Nazarene cult".
Dawkins shits me. What he seems to be saying is that there is no such thing as free will. Either you do the right thing because you're in good working order, or you need fixing. What a load of shit.
I don't think it is inconceivable that some people commit violent crime simply for the experience. They think it through. They know it's wrong but do it anyway: for pleasure; for intellectual challenge; whatever. Maybe they do it because they think that there is no higher power in existence than themselves and therefore "why shouldn't I?"
To put all errant, abhorrent human behaviour down to a dodgy nervous system seems, to me at least, as overly simplistic.
XHTML 1.0 "transitional". That's shite. Try strict. transitional is for loosers. :-)
cretin
clicks are kilometres. 200 miles is roughly 320 kilometres, so the car will at least get you to the next town. :-)
Your entitled to your opinion of course. But IMHO your wrong. "Walk On" is a great song dedicated to an extremely brave and determined woman. "Beautiful day" is an excellent tune. I reckon the whole of "all that you can't leave behind" is excellent. Before that there'd have to be at least a dozen songs I enjoy from there back catalogue.
Good call. Paul Graham is fairly happy with his brain and likes to tells us all about it.
Going to mars is a complete waste of time, money, and resources, and a complete misplacement of human effort and initiative.
Going to Mars and taming space is the only way forward for humanity as a whole.
Crap. Rather than address difficult issues like exploitation of our environment, unchecked militarism and industrialisation etc, we'll go to Mars because it's the only thing we can do. What are you smoking?
Where do I even start? New home for humanity.
We don't need a new home. This one is just fine. We just need to take better care of it.
Unprecedented Scientific discovery.
Like we need to go to Mars for this.
Plentiful fusion fuel (this will be important in the next 10-20 years).
We have plenty of fusion fuel. The trouble is a lack of a viable fusion reactor. We don't need any more reasons to develop these.
"There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
No spam. File sharing. No government regulation.
Is it? This is an old debate. Are (or should) prisons be about punishment or correction/rehabilitation? Prisons are, possibly euphamistically, referred to as "correctional facilities", with rehabilitation being the desired outcome for the incarcerated.
Of course, prisons are reported to be hellish places where "rehabilitation" basically corresponds to the prisoner developing a desire never to return.
That almost sounds like brainwashing to me. Allegiance to a nation and all the ramifications that go along with that are not things that children are generally equipped to consider. They lack the maturity and objectivity.
Secondly, taking the pledge is a patriotic act. Plenty has been said about the folly of patriotism . Here's some of it:-
"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" -Oscar Wilde
"It is man, not systems of man, to whom I owe my allegiance. I care nothing for the flag to which you pledge, I care only for the actions by which you represent yourself as a good or bad person."
"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them." George Orwell, Notes on Nationalism, 1945.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease" Albert Einstein.
"If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?" Martin Luther King, Jr.
"My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing, and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities." Gandhi.
No worries. Thanks. :-)
I agree that for productivity (openoffice.org, koffice, etc) and internet (mozilla, konqueror, kmail, evolution, etc) unix-like desktops are acceptable for the average user. If that's what you're saying then I agree.
You appear to be using the fact of the monopolistic hold that Microsoft has over the PC environment to justify a position negating Linux having any value as a desktop PC right now. And that's just bogus. I'm sorry. YOU USE Mandrake 9.1 at home.
I don't think that linux has no value as a desktop PC. I just see it as a bit limited. Entertainment hardware and software support being a limitation. The video editing software that accompanies the digital minicam still won't run under linux. As soon as an alternative has to be sourced that runs under linux , then linux looses that consumer ease of use test.
I contend that the general public are fairly interested in using their personal computers for entertainment and recreational purposes. I think that linux lets them down in this area. However, I will concede the possibility that these are my requirements and, MAYBE, are not that important to Dick & Jane.
I don't think so. I'm happy to be informed if I'm wrong but *NIX & *BSD desktop system leave a bit to be desired in my opinion.
Let's say I've just got a brand new PC with the latest video card from ATI. Are there X drivers that fully support it? Will the kernel installed with the latest Mandrake distro support my graphics hardware fully? What if I want to learn a foreign language by running language learning software on my new PC: is there software available that I can use on a *NIX/*BSD desktop? I've just seen the full trailer for half-life 2. Will I be able to run that game on my *NIX/*BSD desktop when it comes out? Will I be able to watch DivX movies or will I have to install additional software? What about if decide to subscribe to a bradband internet service: will the ISP's technician set it up for me if I'm not running windows? (Optus here in Australia say nay to that)
I use mandrake 9.1 at home. I am somewhat experienced with PCs and I've used many a linux distro. I've even built my own with LFS. I like using free software. I advocate it and agree with the principles of liberty which pervade the OSS and free software movements. That said, I think, as a desktop PC OS for consumers, windows is a better product than a unix-like running KDE or GNOME. Things "just work" under windows. Got new hardware? No problem. You install it and then you install the windows drivers that ship with it. Want to run some niche-interest software? No worries. You're most like to find the "best of breed" product is windows software.
IMHO the unix-like desktops have a long way to go. Some of it is out of their direct control, but that makes no difference to the consumer, and not much more difference to me.