There would be little to no reaction to a staged fight.
Maybe not in France, but in the US when a man slugs a woman in the face on national televison, all hell will break loose. Do it outside of an tacitly approved staged-fight-venue like the Jerry Springer Show, and expect all your advertisers to cancel their contracts within minutes.
If you really want to see us act like troglodytes, just simulate a gang rape on stage at the next Superbowl halftime show. We're quite unenlightened in that regard...
By that rationale if Justin Timberlake had punched Janet Jackson in the face at halftime of the Super Bowl, it wouldn't have been a fraction of the problem it was when he flashed her boob.
You're crazy if you think that's true. If Justin had punched Janet in the face all hell would have broken loose.
the authorities react quicker to displays of sex then to violence.
Nonsense. It's true that there was a controversy when Justin Timberlake ripped off Janet Jackson's clothing on prime time television, but that doesn't mean that there would have been a lesser reaction if Justin had pulled out a gun and shot her dead instead.
So you're telling me that the music software UC Berkeley chose doesn't work with the OS that UC Berkeley made? Does anyone know if this works with Linux compatibility feature of FreeBSD?
If it only ran on one platform, people would scream about a monopoly. If it only ran on two platforms, people would yell about collusion. But since it runs on three platforms, the Linux people don't see any problem. I'll stick with Open Source Software, thank you.
What the hell is wrong with you people! Eight years is not old. Do you drag your house down to the dump every eight years because you're embarassed to seen living in it? Of course not!
If there's nothing wrong with your PC, don't throw it away! Some of you guys will boycott deodorants to protect the ozone layer, and drive cars fueled by recycled fish sauce, but don't even blink when tossing out your six month old Alienware PC just because some guy at Nvidia called you a dweeb. Sheesh.
Joe Coder: "The NOC filled up with smoke and the entire building had to be evacuated? I think it's just a corner race condition that won't happen in production, so let's reboot and try it again!"
Of course, not even a minimalist text mode browser can compete with a browser already running in the background. Which is why Konqueror is so fast under KDE, it's running in the background as well.
Something's wrong with your installation then. KDE uses 1% of my system's resources. Always has since the 1.0 days. A konqueror windows (either file system or browser) pops up in under one second, quicker than Firefox does in Windows.
On the other hand, I had a weird problem at work last friday where MS Word would take five minutes to load, so slow you could see Windows draw each individual element in the windows.
90% of the "bloat" in KDE can be solved by merely changing your configuration. It's not something a noob can do, but for a distro, it's a piece of cake. Don't want two text editors, dump one! Don't want artsd running? Don't run it! Don't start kdesktop and keep the icons off the root window, or put a "start here" icon on the desktop and don't run kicker. Dump all the incredibly useful kio plugins, don't install any widget or window manager themes, etc, etc.
In short, you can make KDE as simple as you want. Just start stripping out functionality.
Actually that's a benefit and side effect to having multiple desktops. The real reason we have multiple desktops is because we have the freedom to work on whichever damned desktop we want to.
I've never understood why some people want only one desktop. If they had their way, there would be a one-party democracy, and with a completely straight face would declare it "freedom."
"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions." - Terry Pratchett, "The Truth".
Awesome quote! The problem with the Free Software community is that too few people understand what "free" means. Everytime someone says we need consolidation, or that KDE and GNOME need to merge, or that we have too many text editors and package managers, all they are doing is admitting that they don't know the first thing about freedom.
Freedom is messy. It's uncomfortable. It doesn't hold your hand. It doesn't make any promises. Sometimes we need to grow up and stop depending on mommy and daddy or the big nice government or the dictatorial standards committee to wipe our butts and make all of our decisions for us. It's called "adulthood". People who can't handle should go back to a childish OS like Windows.
Or something, at least, because the current situation SUCKS!
Then DO SOMETHING about it! LIke write all the drop-in replacements that are missing. But do not take away our freedom to use whatever toolkit we want to use.
What are you going to do? Pass a law and then arrest and imprison people who program with a different API? You can kiss my hairy unwashed butt first!
If the ACLU is so concerned about my fingerprint(*) being on a Disneyland pass, where the fsck where they when my freaking PICTURE was being taken? Why are the so concerned about fingerprints at Disneyland but completely and utterly silent about my fingerprints at the Department of Motor Vehicles? Where the hell where they when I was fingerprinted as part of my earlier employment as a teacher?
Do they really think the government is so noble and enlightened that they can give it a free ride? Disney can't ruin my life with a fingerprint, the government can.
Nope, I thought it was a bad movies because it was painful to watch. I went into it thinking "it's going to be cheesy", so I wasn't expecting anything in the way of good acting, good editing, good effects, good production, or anything like that. The story was incoherent, the main character so one dimensional it was impossible to feel for him, the action implausible to the extreme, and the CGI just plain sucked. Nick Nolte was just plain awful in the movie. His inane philosophical spoutings were almost as bad as the Merovingian's in Matrix II.
But those weren't the worst things. The worst thing was that the movie took itself seriously. It didn't try to be a fun movie, it tried to be "art", and that's what tipped it over the edge into junk.
Postmodernism and moral relativism have inherited the earth
If moral relativism has inherited the earth, then where do you get off telling Hillary that her morality is wrong? There is no more right or wrong, so how dare you tell her that she's wrong!
She has been going after various right-wing concerns in an attempt to make herself look more palatable to what the Democrats perceive as the mainstream of US politics.
Amazing! The left can even find a way to blame the right for the stupidity of Hillary Clinton. If they look hard enough, I'm sure they'll find a way to blame the right for Tipper Gore's warning labels as well!
Get real! That's about the stupidest comment I've seen on Slashdot to date. Are you saying that Hillary gave a sly wink to the left, that she was really just playing along with the right? Do you really think anyone on the right would vote for her? Do you really think she'll say "fooledja!" after the election?
This is modern liberalism at its core! This is progressivism without its clothes! The heart of this philosophy is that people are stupid and need the intellectual elite to rule over them. People who install this patch and watch cheesy porn on their Playstation are stupid and intellectually elite people like Hillary need to smack them down!
This move isn't about pandering to the right, it's about sending a clear and distinct message to the left that she's fully within their camp!
No, but the liberal Democrats will keep trying. Maybe that's what Hillary meant when she said "it takes a village to raise a child." Even though she and Bill managed some success in raising Chelsea, she obviously she doesn't think other parents are capable of raising their own children.
p.s. This post shouldn't be construed to mean that I think social conservatives are any better in this regard. But I do find it ironic that the same political viewpoint that screams "keep government out of the bedroom" the loudest doesn't realize that most game consoles are located in children's bedrooms.
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There would be little to no reaction to a staged fight.
Maybe not in France, but in the US when a man slugs a woman in the face on national televison, all hell will break loose. Do it outside of an tacitly approved staged-fight-venue like the Jerry Springer Show, and expect all your advertisers to cancel their contracts within minutes.
If you really want to see us act like troglodytes, just simulate a gang rape on stage at the next Superbowl halftime show. We're quite unenlightened in that regard...
By that rationale if Justin Timberlake had punched Janet Jackson in the face at halftime of the Super Bowl, it wouldn't have been a fraction of the problem it was when he flashed her boob.
You're crazy if you think that's true. If Justin had punched Janet in the face all hell would have broken loose.
the authorities react quicker to displays of sex then to violence.
Nonsense. It's true that there was a controversy when Justin Timberlake ripped off Janet Jackson's clothing on prime time television, but that doesn't mean that there would have been a lesser reaction if Justin had pulled out a gun and shot her dead instead.
Yet you show a nipple to a Slashdot geek, and they get all wobbly and weak kneed. Almost like they've never seen one before!
Technically Linux is a derivative too, since all the code SCO presented as evidence turned out to be from 4.4BSD :-)
So you're telling me that the music software UC Berkeley chose doesn't work with the OS that UC Berkeley made? Does anyone know if this works with Linux compatibility feature of FreeBSD?
If it only ran on one platform, people would scream about a monopoly. If it only ran on two platforms, people would yell about collusion. But since it runs on three platforms, the Linux people don't see any problem. I'll stick with Open Source Software, thank you.
Now how is this going to reduce piracy?
I have no idea, since I haven't heard of anyone in either list.
What the hell is wrong with you people! Eight years is not old. Do you drag your house down to the dump every eight years because you're embarassed to seen living in it? Of course not!
If there's nothing wrong with your PC, don't throw it away! Some of you guys will boycott deodorants to protect the ozone layer, and drive cars fueled by recycled fish sauce, but don't even blink when tossing out your six month old Alienware PC just because some guy at Nvidia called you a dweeb. Sheesh.
Joe Coder: "The NOC filled up with smoke and the entire building had to be evacuated? I think it's just a corner race condition that won't happen in production, so let's reboot and try it again!"
Of course, not even a minimalist text mode browser can compete with a browser already running in the background. Which is why Konqueror is so fast under KDE, it's running in the background as well.
Something's wrong with your installation then. KDE uses 1% of my system's resources. Always has since the 1.0 days. A konqueror windows (either file system or browser) pops up in under one second, quicker than Firefox does in Windows.
On the other hand, I had a weird problem at work last friday where MS Word would take five minutes to load, so slow you could see Windows draw each individual element in the windows.
90% of the "bloat" in KDE can be solved by merely changing your configuration. It's not something a noob can do, but for a distro, it's a piece of cake. Don't want two text editors, dump one! Don't want artsd running? Don't run it! Don't start kdesktop and keep the icons off the root window, or put a "start here" icon on the desktop and don't run kicker. Dump all the incredibly useful kio plugins, don't install any widget or window manager themes, etc, etc.
In short, you can make KDE as simple as you want. Just start stripping out functionality.
Actually that's a benefit and side effect to having multiple desktops. The real reason we have multiple desktops is because we have the freedom to work on whichever damned desktop we want to.
I've never understood why some people want only one desktop. If they had their way, there would be a one-party democracy, and with a completely straight face would declare it "freedom."
Except that most busty women in computer games are unnaturally busty, to the point of defying the laws of physics.
"Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions." - Terry Pratchett, "The Truth".
Awesome quote! The problem with the Free Software community is that too few people understand what "free" means. Everytime someone says we need consolidation, or that KDE and GNOME need to merge, or that we have too many text editors and package managers, all they are doing is admitting that they don't know the first thing about freedom.
Freedom is messy. It's uncomfortable. It doesn't hold your hand. It doesn't make any promises. Sometimes we need to grow up and stop depending on mommy and daddy or the big nice government or the dictatorial standards committee to wipe our butts and make all of our decisions for us. It's called "adulthood". People who can't handle should go back to a childish OS like Windows.
Or something, at least, because the current situation SUCKS!
Then DO SOMETHING about it! LIke write all the drop-in replacements that are missing. But do not take away our freedom to use whatever toolkit we want to use.
What are you going to do? Pass a law and then arrest and imprison people who program with a different API? You can kiss my hairy unwashed butt first!
Do you like the Fantastic Four and Hulk in comic book form?
Actually I never got into comic books.Does that mean I have to turn in my geek card?
Consequently, I'm not judging these movies by how well they match the comic book. If a movie cannot stand on its own, don't bother making it.
(Which, btw, is why I heartedtly expect to think that any Avengers movie is going to suck. Because I don't like them in the comic books.)
They did make a movie out of it. Ralph Fiennes and Uma Thurman, I think. It sucked. I never knew they made it into a comic though.
If the ACLU is so concerned about my fingerprint(*) being on a Disneyland pass, where the fsck where they when my freaking PICTURE was being taken? Why are the so concerned about fingerprints at Disneyland but completely and utterly silent about my fingerprints at the Department of Motor Vehicles? Where the hell where they when I was fingerprinted as part of my earlier employment as a teacher?
Do they really think the government is so noble and enlightened that they can give it a free ride? Disney can't ruin my life with a fingerprint, the government can.
(*) actually a hand geometry instead
it's one of those bandwagon jumping things
Nope, I thought it was a bad movies because it was painful to watch. I went into it thinking "it's going to be cheesy", so I wasn't expecting anything in the way of good acting, good editing, good effects, good production, or anything like that. The story was incoherent, the main character so one dimensional it was impossible to feel for him, the action implausible to the extreme, and the CGI just plain sucked. Nick Nolte was just plain awful in the movie. His inane philosophical spoutings were almost as bad as the Merovingian's in Matrix II.
But those weren't the worst things. The worst thing was that the movie took itself seriously. It didn't try to be a fun movie, it tried to be "art", and that's what tipped it over the edge into junk.
I saw Fantastic Four yesterday. It was bad, but not nearly as bad as the Hulk. That's because it didn't take itself seriously.
Now the Hulk, that was worse than Plan 9. That was worse than any movie I have ever seen.
Consider the role of the media and sugar industries in the Spanish-American War.
But without the Spanish and American governments it never would have happened no matter how much the sugar industry wanted it to.
Number of story lines left dangling:
1) What about River? What did "they" do to her?
2) What about Book's background? WHy does he know so much about crime, and get so much respect from the feds?
3) Will Malcom and Anara ever get together? Did they really close down that story line, or was that just a teaser?
4) And speaking of Anara, what's with that whole companion thing? It sounds like a geisha religion.
4) Will Kaylee get to tell her mom she married a doctor?
1) What's with the whole Blue Sun Corporation thing? They go through and murder an entire government office, and the government doesn't even care?
Postmodernism and moral relativism have inherited the earth
If moral relativism has inherited the earth, then where do you get off telling Hillary that her morality is wrong? There is no more right or wrong, so how dare you tell her that she's wrong!
She has been going after various right-wing concerns in an attempt to make herself look more palatable to what the Democrats perceive as the mainstream of US politics.
Amazing! The left can even find a way to blame the right for the stupidity of Hillary Clinton. If they look hard enough, I'm sure they'll find a way to blame the right for Tipper Gore's warning labels as well!
Get real! That's about the stupidest comment I've seen on Slashdot to date. Are you saying that Hillary gave a sly wink to the left, that she was really just playing along with the right? Do you really think anyone on the right would vote for her? Do you really think she'll say "fooledja!" after the election?
This is modern liberalism at its core! This is progressivism without its clothes! The heart of this philosophy is that people are stupid and need the intellectual elite to rule over them. People who install this patch and watch cheesy porn on their Playstation are stupid and intellectually elite people like Hillary need to smack them down!
This move isn't about pandering to the right, it's about sending a clear and distinct message to the left that she's fully within their camp!
Can you legislate good parenting?
No, but the liberal Democrats will keep trying. Maybe that's what Hillary meant when she said "it takes a village to raise a child." Even though she and Bill managed some success in raising Chelsea, she obviously she doesn't think other parents are capable of raising their own children.
p.s. This post shouldn't be construed to mean that I think social conservatives are any better in this regard. But I do find it ironic that the same political viewpoint that screams "keep government out of the bedroom" the loudest doesn't realize that most game consoles are located in children's bedrooms.