- What is illegitimate about recreation? and more importantly:
- Where does the government claim to find constitutional authorization to ban particular recreations? Recreational drugs are illegal because they (might) pose a danger to the user, to people around the user and the public health. Even if you only think of a government as fulfilling the social contract, point two gives them plenty of reason to ban drugs. I'm not sure if that's in the constitution, but then not everything is.
If you don't think marijuana could pose a problem, you've never seen anyone on a bad trip (it happens with certain people, even if the stuff is pure!). It's not all cut and dried. Of course there's plenty of other recreational drugs out there such as alcohol that are legal. But my point is not about whether or not it should be illegal, rather the government does have a say over whether it should be. (IMO)
Hate to point out the obvious, but none of that says the current decline in size is due to that. That almost certainly is a temporary variation since calculations (compounded in a recent UN report) showed that we wouldn't be seeing the effects by 2030 or 2050 or something. I don't remember. Basically it's still full of gunk up there and it will take a long time to see the actual effects. You fail reading comprehension.
You can only face 5 years in jail if you are encrypting your files, forget or lose your encryption key, keep the encrypted files and somewhere in the very near future your house is searched for information about some crime or another. After that, the cops and the government still have to prove that there is reasonable cause to believe you still have the key. Okay, so I'm not sure about the exact wording of the law and it might be worse than that, but your paranoia seems unfounded. The police breaks into people's safes all the time, that hasn't stopped people from buying safes.
Actually I think you're wrong (but don't shoot me if I am). I believe free movement of goods only applies to those measures that puts unfair (protectionist) levies on importing legal goods. You can't make all french coffee spoons illegal because coffee spoons in general are not illegal of course, but you can ban coffee spoons altogether as a national health issue or something. (people choking on coffee spoons?)
Anyway, strange analogies aside, think of marijuana. It's legal in the netherlands (that is to say, you can't get arrested for carrying it, don't know if it's fully legalised), it's very illegal in many of the neighbouring countries.
Also, some things are easier for computer people than non-technical people. I've seen many things that make assumptions in relation to a level of understanding of how computers work that if you lack that, you are really screwed. A good example would be regular expressions. If you understand how a finite state machine works, regular expressions are likely to be easy for you. I remember when I learned about them and as soon as I was shown the syntax, a light bulb went off. I found them quite easy, once told how they work, but then I'd been tinkering with FSMs before I knew that term. However a non-technical person could be hopelessly lost on them because they just don't understand the logic behind them. Er, I don't think so. Firstly because I learned about and used them before I ever learned about FSMs. Secondly, because tons of PHP programmers use them. Okay, maybe it's my prejudice but that seems to be the biggest community of self-taught people I've ever seen, unlikely many of them really understand what FSMs are (though it's not exactly a hard concept). Heck, my brother was using RE's in PHP when he was 14, you betcha he didn't know about FSMs. Thirdly because regular expressions are declarative and thus more intuitive than writing a procedural program for string matching. I remember when first starting to write declarative programs (I haven't for some time now) that I was thinking "if this was the language I started out with, it would have been so much easier".
Different concepts of operation require a different way of thinking. I suppose you're right about that. Which does not really reflect badly on to blender, if it was made with a certain task and way of accomplishing it in mind. I don't really know though, haven't used it.
That's still what I think every time I use vi, and I know how to use it and use it regularly.
I'm not sure why so many people are enamored of it despite the fact that it is utterly nonintuitive. Well, obviously any modern programmer would be using vim or another extended version, because the original is crap to use. Many programmer's editors out there are pretty unintuitive. Both vi(m) and emacs have what a usability expert would probably consider horrible interfaces. The thing is, once you start programming 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, that doesn't matter much. The time and frustration of learning all these arcane and unintuitive keyboard shortcuts is well repayed when you want to go to the 237th line of a program, sort the next 10 lines, filter them through a shell script, replace all the dots with commas and move some chars around.
To anyone not doing large amounts of text editing those are mostly useless skills (although I've seen people do things in word that would take only seconds in vim). To me, that makes me feel like a lot of things are easy and reduces the drudgery of writing stuff down. It's interesting as well that all these old style programmer's editors have mainly keyboard driven interfaces (so you never move your hands away from the keyboard) while IDE's such as eclipse and visual studio seem to rely heavily on the mouse. Perhaps C# programmers need less time on the keyboard than C programmers? Although, having done a short stint in C#, I don't really think so...
In the end, it's mostly really about finding a niche editor you're comfortable and productive with. (or can get comfortable and productive with) As they say, there's no silver bullet.
Debian recognized the need to sometimes update data files for programs that use changeing data over time (such as time zones, for political reasons, and antivirus definitions, for obvious reasons) and in response created the volatile repository, intended solely for this kind of package that may need to update but can't or shouldn't really make use of the security infrastructure (which covers critical updates only).
Now they are using this special part of their infrastructure in the way they had originally intended to use it, putting out a patch to the tzdata in a timely manner to users so wishing to upgrade this file, and they still get shit from/. Just what does this distro have to do to appease you people, it's like one flamebait story every month and they're always completely ridiculous. A NZ sysadmin who is not able to learn about the most basic aspects of the distro he's deploying on company servers might soon be off looking for another job. Okay so ordinary users might not know about volatile yet, guess this is a good time to learn.
IMHO it's not the debian developers looking like asses here.
Not I don't think it's coincidence. So what? It's still open source. The GPLv2 has served us well. Not all people in the open source world (I'd say most) are writing software just to stick it to Microsoft y'know.
The page you link looks all nice and green but I've tried to use some windows.forms apps and have not managed to find one that worked properly. I very much doubt this one would work properly, especially since.Net 1.1 kind of sucks, making 2.0 very popular. As you can see from the link, 2.0 items are supported much less well. (no combobox?!?) I also thought Microsoft released 3.0 recently. It seems that project is doomed to be perpetually behind in its implementation.
This might be a repressive and inhumane government, but there is no such thing as an "illegal" government. I think many governments in this case (and in other cases of third world nations) take a wait and see approach because they're the ones who screwed things up in the first place (e.g. western colonialism). It's not always a good idea for them to get involved. If there were any semblance of international human rights law left you might have a point, but as the US has been so exemplary in undermining practically all aspects of it in the recent past, I doubt you'd have much authority when approaching the U.N. about it. China for one would almost surely veto any attempts to do something about it.
The US could also invade them, that worked well in the past, right?
I think you're absolutely right. I also think that makes the story here not make much sense, since the problem starts way sooner we should be trying to solve it sooner. Go to high schools and try to convince girls to start a science career. I've seen it done and it is a lot more effective than some sort of positive discrimination (which is what berners-lee seems to be proposing).
Blaming geek culture seems a bit over the top anyway, I'm sure geeks might sometimes form a male clique a bit but it's not like they won't readily accept women into it and tone down the female unfriendly humor etc. Most of the time the only problem that women seem to have with geek is that they're, well, geeky. They like talking about potential ways to solve NP complete problems over a good pint of beer, female geeks less so it seems. Or maybe that's just my personal bias showing?
Institutional bias is a different matter, but what does that have to do with geek culture? How many people running the show at your local uni would you consider real "geeks". I'd call half of them business men.
In Iraq, bombs go off every day. In the US the last terrorist attack was what, a year ago? (and it was unsuccessful) One must adapt to the threat level of the situation. If you'd use iraq style rules to defend against bombers in the US you'd probably be killing more people than the terrorists would be capable of.
I definitely agree. Just recently there was an EVE online tournament and I really took to watching all the matches, partly because it is very interesting if you are into the game yourself. I'm sure many of the people who watch regular sports also play those sports themselves and this is part of the appeal for them. At least so it seems to me.
Tastes and colors etc.. but am I the only person who absolutely hates the amarok UI? I keep having to look 5 minutes every time I want to do something new. All the flashy osd popups and integration and whatnot is nice, but I found it kinda hard to actually get to the part of playing some music. Last time I used it I inserted an audio cd and could not find out how to play it so I just gave up. The documentation usually wasn't much help either.
Almost everything that's good in the last 150 years has come from the US. What has Islam brought to the world that is not violence and oppression? Nothing. Oil.
It's probably just staged, I seem to recall they made it as a recruiting vid. However leeroy is a warrior (I think) so he wouldn't be casting spells. Basically in that room you're not supposed to get close to the eggs, and he just aggroed everything. (which is a stupid/funny thing to do) Since then whenever a warrior aggroes half of the instance in one go people refer to it as leeroying. Hope this was informative.:P
Most of them are older than 3 years yes. The newer ones I'm not sure about, though I'm pretty sure World of Warcraft would be a problem. For one, it stores all the user data in the program directory, it writes it patches to there,... Yeah it's crappy design, yeah I put up with it.
The reason I don't run antivirus is because most of them never seem to catch any viruses, they only detect it when it is too late, and they slow your system down to a crawl. IMHO they are completely the wrong way to go about this problem. Security should be proactive, not reactive. That being said, I have never been infected once with a virus, but then I don't run outlook or browse the web with internet explorer, basically insulating myself from 90% of windows infections.
As for using calcs, well thanks but you can also just right click the folder in an administrated owned windows explorer. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of software also writes to other locations (e.g. the registry), further complicating the issue. There's an entire business sprung up around simply imaging the entire harddrive of windows pc's and restoring when necessary. Why? Because it is actually easier than trying to make all your apps work.
Just a tiny nitpick, I've run a windows XP install for 5 years as well, mostly for games and the occasional app someone makes me use. I've found that running in a limited user account just doesn't work though. I can't cite any titles specifically but I will bet that about 80% (at least) of the games I own will not work with a limited user account. Well, barring me going through the trouble of logging in as administrator, giving the user rights to the relevant parts of the registry and the user dirs and lord knows what else. I'm what I would call a power user and I wouldn't be comfortable doing that myself, let alone expect anyone with only a casual interest in computers.
It's also still really easy to get infected on windows. The trick is a NAT router, which helps a lot. I don't bother running antivirus. I might have to reinstall windows at some point though, I find all the cruft buildup in the registry really does slow it down after a while.
But anyway, we're replying to twitter here, I routinely just skip every flamewar he starts of (and he does it a lot, with completely ridiculous posts).
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The lone exception is WoW which works great now, but I no longer use it. It does not for me. There are some major sound issues, so unless I want to be playing without sound it doesn't really work. I've seen people claim everything works perfectly and I assume they're not lying but I'm sure there's some stuff there still needing to be worked out. My best bet is that those other people have way faster CPU's and run their sound emulated, thus skirting the problem. Apparently all this has been fixed in cedega but they're unwilling to fork over the patches as it makes them money being better at it then wine.
I basically just want somewhere that won't bother me for owning a gun, hunting, playing any type of video game I want, and whose government won't bitch about porn like it's the epitome of all evil. Cheap broadband and low cost-of-living wouldn't hurt:). Uhm... Texas?
Not to question your credentials (I don't know if you're german) but are you sure this applies to germany? I live in belgium (where porn is regulated in a similar way) and it is perfectly legal to put porn on the top shelf above a bunch of video games, for instance.
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That might be but plenty a people might have crashed cars or jumped out of windows.
and more importantly:
- Where does the government claim to find constitutional authorization to ban particular recreations? Recreational drugs are illegal because they (might) pose a danger to the user, to people around the user and the public health. Even if you only think of a government as fulfilling the social contract, point two gives them plenty of reason to ban drugs. I'm not sure if that's in the constitution, but then not everything is.
If you don't think marijuana could pose a problem, you've never seen anyone on a bad trip (it happens with certain people, even if the stuff is pure!). It's not all cut and dried. Of course there's plenty of other recreational drugs out there such as alcohol that are legal. But my point is not about whether or not it should be illegal, rather the government does have a say over whether it should be. (IMO)
Hate to point out the obvious, but none of that says the current decline in size is due to that. That almost certainly is a temporary variation since calculations (compounded in a recent UN report) showed that we wouldn't be seeing the effects by 2030 or 2050 or something. I don't remember. Basically it's still full of gunk up there and it will take a long time to see the actual effects. You fail reading comprehension.
Fair enough. Let's hope the courts manage to interpret the law in the "correct" way.
You can only face 5 years in jail if you are encrypting your files, forget or lose your encryption key, keep the encrypted files and somewhere in the very near future your house is searched for information about some crime or another. After that, the cops and the government still have to prove that there is reasonable cause to believe you still have the key. Okay, so I'm not sure about the exact wording of the law and it might be worse than that, but your paranoia seems unfounded. The police breaks into people's safes all the time, that hasn't stopped people from buying safes.
Actually I think you're wrong (but don't shoot me if I am). I believe free movement of goods only applies to those measures that puts unfair (protectionist) levies on importing legal goods. You can't make all french coffee spoons illegal because coffee spoons in general are not illegal of course, but you can ban coffee spoons altogether as a national health issue or something. (people choking on coffee spoons?)
Anyway, strange analogies aside, think of marijuana. It's legal in the netherlands (that is to say, you can't get arrested for carrying it, don't know if it's fully legalised), it's very illegal in many of the neighbouring countries.
Different concepts of operation require a different way of thinking. I suppose you're right about that. Which does not really reflect badly on to blender, if it was made with a certain task and way of accomplishing it in mind. I don't really know though, haven't used it.
I'm not sure why so many people are enamored of it despite the fact that it is utterly nonintuitive. Well, obviously any modern programmer would be using vim or another extended version, because the original is crap to use. Many programmer's editors out there are pretty unintuitive. Both vi(m) and emacs have what a usability expert would probably consider horrible interfaces. The thing is, once you start programming 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, that doesn't matter much. The time and frustration of learning all these arcane and unintuitive keyboard shortcuts is well repayed when you want to go to the 237th line of a program, sort the next 10 lines, filter them through a shell script, replace all the dots with commas and move some chars around.
To anyone not doing large amounts of text editing those are mostly useless skills (although I've seen people do things in word that would take only seconds in vim). To me, that makes me feel like a lot of things are easy and reduces the drudgery of writing stuff down. It's interesting as well that all these old style programmer's editors have mainly keyboard driven interfaces (so you never move your hands away from the keyboard) while IDE's such as eclipse and visual studio seem to rely heavily on the mouse. Perhaps C# programmers need less time on the keyboard than C programmers? Although, having done a short stint in C#, I don't really think so...
In the end, it's mostly really about finding a niche editor you're comfortable and productive with. (or can get comfortable and productive with) As they say, there's no silver bullet.
Debian recognized the need to sometimes update data files for programs that use changeing data over time (such as time zones, for political reasons, and antivirus definitions, for obvious reasons) and in response created the volatile repository, intended solely for this kind of package that may need to update but can't or shouldn't really make use of the security infrastructure (which covers critical updates only).
/. Just what does this distro have to do to appease you people, it's like one flamebait story every month and they're always completely ridiculous. A NZ sysadmin who is not able to learn about the most basic aspects of the distro he's deploying on company servers might soon be off looking for another job. Okay so ordinary users might not know about volatile yet, guess this is a good time to learn.
Now they are using this special part of their infrastructure in the way they had originally intended to use it, putting out a patch to the tzdata in a timely manner to users so wishing to upgrade this file, and they still get shit from
IMHO it's not the debian developers looking like asses here.
Not I don't think it's coincidence. So what? It's still open source. The GPLv2 has served us well. Not all people in the open source world (I'd say most) are writing software just to stick it to Microsoft y'know.
The page you link looks all nice and green but I've tried to use some windows.forms apps and have not managed to find one that worked properly. I very much doubt this one would work properly, especially since .Net 1.1 kind of sucks, making 2.0 very popular. As you can see from the link, 2.0 items are supported much less well. (no combobox?!?) I also thought Microsoft released 3.0 recently. It seems that project is doomed to be perpetually behind in its implementation.
This might be a repressive and inhumane government, but there is no such thing as an "illegal" government. I think many governments in this case (and in other cases of third world nations) take a wait and see approach because they're the ones who screwed things up in the first place (e.g. western colonialism). It's not always a good idea for them to get involved. If there were any semblance of international human rights law left you might have a point, but as the US has been so exemplary in undermining practically all aspects of it in the recent past, I doubt you'd have much authority when approaching the U.N. about it. China for one would almost surely veto any attempts to do something about it.
The US could also invade them, that worked well in the past, right?
Could you "stop" putting "everything" between "quotation marks", it's annoying to read in an otherwise great post.
I think you're absolutely right. I also think that makes the story here not make much sense, since the problem starts way sooner we should be trying to solve it sooner. Go to high schools and try to convince girls to start a science career. I've seen it done and it is a lot more effective than some sort of positive discrimination (which is what berners-lee seems to be proposing).
Blaming geek culture seems a bit over the top anyway, I'm sure geeks might sometimes form a male clique a bit but it's not like they won't readily accept women into it and tone down the female unfriendly humor etc. Most of the time the only problem that women seem to have with geek is that they're, well, geeky. They like talking about potential ways to solve NP complete problems over a good pint of beer, female geeks less so it seems. Or maybe that's just my personal bias showing?
Institutional bias is a different matter, but what does that have to do with geek culture? How many people running the show at your local uni would you consider real "geeks". I'd call half of them business men.
In Iraq, bombs go off every day. In the US the last terrorist attack was what, a year ago? (and it was unsuccessful) One must adapt to the threat level of the situation. If you'd use iraq style rules to defend against bombers in the US you'd probably be killing more people than the terrorists would be capable of.
I definitely agree. Just recently there was an EVE online tournament and I really took to watching all the matches, partly because it is very interesting if you are into the game yourself. I'm sure many of the people who watch regular sports also play those sports themselves and this is part of the appeal for them. At least so it seems to me.
Tastes and colors etc.. but am I the only person who absolutely hates the amarok UI? I keep having to look 5 minutes every time I want to do something new. All the flashy osd popups and integration and whatnot is nice, but I found it kinda hard to actually get to the part of playing some music. Last time I used it I inserted an audio cd and could not find out how to play it so I just gave up. The documentation usually wasn't much help either.
It's probably just staged, I seem to recall they made it as a recruiting vid. However leeroy is a warrior (I think) so he wouldn't be casting spells. Basically in that room you're not supposed to get close to the eggs, and he just aggroed everything. (which is a stupid/funny thing to do) Since then whenever a warrior aggroes half of the instance in one go people refer to it as leeroying. Hope this was informative. :P
Most of them are older than 3 years yes. The newer ones I'm not sure about, though I'm pretty sure World of Warcraft would be a problem. For one, it stores all the user data in the program directory, it writes it patches to there, ... Yeah it's crappy design, yeah I put up with it.
The reason I don't run antivirus is because most of them never seem to catch any viruses, they only detect it when it is too late, and they slow your system down to a crawl. IMHO they are completely the wrong way to go about this problem. Security should be proactive, not reactive. That being said, I have never been infected once with a virus, but then I don't run outlook or browse the web with internet explorer, basically insulating myself from 90% of windows infections.
As for using calcs, well thanks but you can also just right click the folder in an administrated owned windows explorer. That doesn't change the fact that a lot of software also writes to other locations (e.g. the registry), further complicating the issue. There's an entire business sprung up around simply imaging the entire harddrive of windows pc's and restoring when necessary. Why? Because it is actually easier than trying to make all your apps work.
Just a tiny nitpick, I've run a windows XP install for 5 years as well, mostly for games and the occasional app someone makes me use. I've found that running in a limited user account just doesn't work though. I can't cite any titles specifically but I will bet that about 80% (at least) of the games I own will not work with a limited user account. Well, barring me going through the trouble of logging in as administrator, giving the user rights to the relevant parts of the registry and the user dirs and lord knows what else. I'm what I would call a power user and I wouldn't be comfortable doing that myself, let alone expect anyone with only a casual interest in computers.
It's also still really easy to get infected on windows. The trick is a NAT router, which helps a lot. I don't bother running antivirus. I might have to reinstall windows at some point though, I find all the cruft buildup in the registry really does slow it down after a while.
But anyway, we're replying to twitter here, I routinely just skip every flamewar he starts of (and he does it a lot, with completely ridiculous posts).
To clarify, the doors have fingerprint locks.
Not to question your credentials (I don't know if you're german) but are you sure this applies to germany? I live in belgium (where porn is regulated in a similar way) and it is perfectly legal to put porn on the top shelf above a bunch of video games, for instance.