I may not like or respect your view of just not caring, but as someone who doesn't really give a damn I will fight for your right to express your um.. ah nevermind.
Seriously though, many people don't like it. Especially new citizens coming from former British colonies who went through alot, sometimes war, to get out from under the thumb of Britain. Of course some may argue that immigrants and new citizens shouldn't have much say in the symbolical makeup of the country.
But then there's the french-Canadians. Who are just as Canadian as anybody here. If I were Quebecois I'd probably have much less of a problem with being part of federalist Canada if I were not constantly being reminded that Canada is an English (as in British) country. Having the queen of England on the money certainly doesn't help.
Human nature is not the only nature to consider. Parent post was not talking about human nature, so it is you who are teaching the wrong lesson.
Corporations have a nature that, if the corporation becomes large enough, is independent of the human nature of its employees. It is a corporation's raison d'etre to grow and profit. And that is all. Even when it is at the expense of the general populace or even its own employees. Sometimes the humans working for the corporation see the harm that is being done but are powerless to stop it because they are such a relatively small part. If they try, they are just replaced by someone who is willing to do their job and ignore their human emotion of empathy.
A corporation is not some intelligent entity that can decide what is good for the long term future of a people. It is a dumb automaton that lives by a few rules. Those rules may be good for creating short term wealth and progress. They are also good rules for creating long term monopolies, stagnation and obscene wealth disparities.
It is this immutable nature of the large corporation that can't be reasoned with. That must be moderated if it is to be prevented from harming individual and society.
The need to moderate the nature of capitalism really doesn't have anything to do with human nature. It's just as simple as the fact that you can't just turn on a machine and let it go forever. It's not intelligent. It has to be guided and sometimes someone may even have to slow it down.
Which theory is supported by this? The one that says large scale structure in the universe formed first or that small scale structure formed and later clustered together to form super structures?
And how does this relate to the universe's current acceleration, if at all?
Re:Gnome guys still unresponsive I see.
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That's interesting. At the time that 2.10 came out with no menu editor, us normal users (from what I heard) weren't told of any time constraints or plans of implementing a menu editor. All I heard was that the developers (occasionally from an actual developer) felt that menu-editing was unecessary. This despite all the objections from users that we do need a menu editor*.
If the devs had just admitted that it was a time constraint which kept them from giving us a menu-editor, there would have been less complaints and accusations of devs being interface-nazis.
*I, for example, have an entire section dedicated to scientific applications which are an assortment of old and proprietary apps which never show up in the menu on their own without me adding them. The default GNOME menu-editor still doesn't solve this problem, as it doesn't let you add items. Thankfully the Ubuntu version does.
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Well, if you ask the users, GNOME Screensaver definitely needs more. Since the developer is refusing to listen to the users there are already people forking it.
See if there are any supportive comments on this app in these forums and bug reports (besides the developers of course):
Thread where early 2.14 users first noticed how lacking this thing is. Bug report where the developer dismisses any screen saver that needs configuration as broken, despite the arguments given here
and here.
And since the solution for many of these dissatisfied users (as mentioned in some of the threads above) is to uninstall it and put Xscreensaver back on, Xscreensaver obviously isn't that broken or confusing.
Wow. Oh wait. I'm dense. Didn't realize it was a joke for a while. I was staring at them, like 'man, do they ever have balls'.
The first makes me think how much easier it would have been for Stalin if he had had Diebold machines.
The second said "We deliver the vote" reminding me of how some official in Ohio in charge of the voting machines said 'we will deliver Ohio to Bush' or something to that effect.
The third: "Life's a crapshoot, elections don't have to be" reads like "why take chances in an election when you can predetermine the outcome?"
Knowingly allowing, accepting, and encouraging reproduction of individuals, who...shouldn't (No, I don't mean Bush). There's some bad genes out there. Some that shouldn't be passed on.
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your sentiment, but how does what you say contradict evolution? Evolution isn't about making humans smarter, stronger, or any other attribute that you think of as 'better'. To evolution the better person is whomever passes their genes on.
When speaking on the survival of a species, that welfare mom is a hell of alot more important than some wealthy smart person who keeps their genes to themselves.
Right, go Sens! That is 'till they get to the playoffs and choke against the Leafs again.
Yeah, I know the Leafs probably won't make the playoffs this year. Which will make it all the more amazing when the Sens somehow manage to lose to them.
I'd like to see a survey of just hand-guns as opposed to all guns including hunting rifles. I bet the U.S. rate is way higher. And very few people are murdered with rifles compared to hand-guns.
I don't recall any of those examples being inserted into people's hands. Revelations says nothing about people having to carry the mark in their wallets, or having it handy when they go out for a drive.
As an aside, I read a while back that the origin of 666 is that it was the numerical equivalent (through some fancy religious conversion) of some king's name. Maybe Herod, I forget. But I guess there are many theories.
I would have had several sony mp3 players by now if it wasn't for the several restrictions on filetype (ok, they finally took care of that one) and how you put songs on the player. Battery life and style almost have me wanting one anyway.
I wish they would just spin-off some of their hardware to a completely independent line that doesn't have to care about the content that their other half is so worried about us pirating. Then they would be able to put out some easy to use media players.
Yeah, I think they'll lose this media war if they keep fighting their consumers as much as they fight their competitors.
Some scientists worry that even with a bunch of new antibiotics hitting the market, there still aren't enough and they want legislation to make it easier for companies to develop them."...
Insert missing part of summary here: "Will this evil genius, yet incompetent Bush administration have the guts to pass this legislation? Or will we all be dead in a decade because monkey boy doesn't believe these bacteria can evolve? Go Ralph Nader!"
Note to mods: I didn't write that. It actually was in the summary. Must have got edited out. Weird.
Wikipedia has different views on what Hi-Fi is. From the same article (How'd you miss that I wonder, it's at the top):
High fidelity or hi-fi reproduction is a quality standard that means the reproduction of sound or images is very faithful to the original. High fidelity aims to achieve minimal or unnoticeable amounts of noise and distortion. The term high fidelity tends to be applied to any reasonable-quality home-music system, though some believe that a higher standard than this is intended, and in 1973, the German Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) standard DIN 45500 laid down mimimum requirements for measurements of frequency response, distortion, noise and other defects and gained some recognition in hi-fi magazines.
mp3s have noticeable amounts of noise and distortion. The iPod has noticeable amounts of noise and distortion. Not Hi-Fi. Not even according to the lowest standard quoted above.
But anyway, that's beside my original point. I was just poking fun at this thing being called hi-fi. mp3s aren't hi-fi. Yes, someone can play lossles music on it, but then the ipod isn't hi-fi either. Nothing about this is hi-fi. Yet Apple calls it a hi-fi home stereo. Funny.
Gentoo's packages that are marked ~ (testing) are just as stable as something in Debian unstable (or is it testing? I keep getting those mixed up). Anyway, it should be fine to emerge 3.5. It's the ones marked hard masked that they don't want you trying yet.
0. The general public never moved to Windows themselves. They were moved to Windows by their workplace. When more businesses start using Linux it won't matter what the general public wants.
1. The average person doesn't know about Linux, so how could they want it? Once they do find out about it many average people do want it.
2. It's free and doesn't get spyware or viruses. Those are two killer features. Especially for people who aren't good at maintaining their machines.
I've seen firsthand how average people want Linux after they heard about it from me. Absolutely nothing and nobody are ridiculous exaggerations.
Well that's much better than what I though previously. I thought the record companies got it all and that it was their responsibility to get it to the artists.
If they only get 15% it makes me not mind the levy as much.
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I may not like or respect your view of just not caring, but as someone who doesn't really give a damn I will fight for your right to express your um.. ah nevermind.
Seriously though, many people don't like it. Especially new citizens coming from former British colonies who went through alot, sometimes war, to get out from under the thumb of Britain. Of course some may argue that immigrants and new citizens shouldn't have much say in the symbolical makeup of the country.
But then there's the french-Canadians. Who are just as Canadian as anybody here. If I were Quebecois I'd probably have much less of a problem with being part of federalist Canada if I were not constantly being reminded that Canada is an English (as in British) country. Having the queen of England on the money certainly doesn't help.
Human nature is not the only nature to consider. Parent post was not talking about human nature, so it is you who are teaching the wrong lesson.
Corporations have a nature that, if the corporation becomes large enough, is independent of the human nature of its employees. It is a corporation's raison d'etre to grow and profit. And that is all. Even when it is at the expense of the general populace or even its own employees. Sometimes the humans working for the corporation see the harm that is being done but are powerless to stop it because they are such a relatively small part. If they try, they are just replaced by someone who is willing to do their job and ignore their human emotion of empathy.
A corporation is not some intelligent entity that can decide what is good for the long term future of a people. It is a dumb automaton that lives by a few rules. Those rules may be good for creating short term wealth and progress. They are also good rules for creating long term monopolies, stagnation and obscene wealth disparities.
It is this immutable nature of the large corporation that can't be reasoned with. That must be moderated if it is to be prevented from harming individual and society.
The need to moderate the nature of capitalism really doesn't have anything to do with human nature. It's just as simple as the fact that you can't just turn on a machine and let it go forever. It's not intelligent. It has to be guided and sometimes someone may even have to slow it down.
Thanks!
To any cosmologists/astronomers:
Which theory is supported by this? The one that says large scale structure in the universe formed first or that small scale structure formed and later clustered together to form super structures?
And how does this relate to the universe's current acceleration, if at all?
That's interesting. At the time that 2.10 came out with no menu editor, us normal users (from what I heard) weren't told of any time constraints or plans of implementing a menu editor. All I heard was that the developers (occasionally from an actual developer) felt that menu-editing was unecessary. This despite all the objections from users that we do need a menu editor*.
If the devs had just admitted that it was a time constraint which kept them from giving us a menu-editor, there would have been less complaints and accusations of devs being interface-nazis.
*I, for example, have an entire section dedicated to scientific applications which are an assortment of old and proprietary apps which never show up in the menu on their own without me adding them. The default GNOME menu-editor still doesn't solve this problem, as it doesn't let you add items. Thankfully the Ubuntu version does.
Well, if you ask the users, GNOME Screensaver definitely needs more. Since the developer is refusing to listen to the users there are already people forking it.
See if there are any supportive comments on this app in these forums and bug reports (besides the developers of course):
Thread where early 2.14 users first noticed how lacking this thing is.
Bug report where the developer dismisses any screen saver that needs configuration as broken, despite the arguments given here and here.
And since the solution for many of these dissatisfied users (as mentioned in some of the threads above) is to uninstall it and put Xscreensaver back on, Xscreensaver obviously isn't that broken or confusing.
Wow. Oh wait. I'm dense. Didn't realize it was a joke for a while. I was staring at them, like 'man, do they ever have balls'.
The first makes me think how much easier it would have been for Stalin if he had had Diebold machines.
The second said "We deliver the vote" reminding me of how some official in Ohio in charge of the voting machines said 'we will deliver Ohio to Bush' or something to that effect.
The third: "Life's a crapshoot, elections don't have to be" reads like "why take chances in an election when you can predetermine the outcome?"
Knowingly allowing, accepting, and encouraging reproduction of individuals, who...shouldn't (No, I don't mean Bush). There's some bad genes out there. Some that shouldn't be passed on.
/. article too?
Did you just read the last
Maybe I'm misunderstanding your sentiment, but how does what you say contradict evolution? Evolution isn't about making humans smarter, stronger, or any other attribute that you think of as 'better'. To evolution the better person is whomever passes their genes on.
When speaking on the survival of a species, that welfare mom is a hell of alot more important than some wealthy smart person who keeps their genes to themselves.
Right, go Sens! That is 'till they get to the playoffs and choke against the Leafs again.
Yeah, I know the Leafs probably won't make the playoffs this year. Which will make it all the more amazing when the Sens somehow manage to lose to them.
I'd like to see a survey of just hand-guns as opposed to all guns including hunting rifles. I bet the U.S. rate is way higher. And very few people are murdered with rifles compared to hand-guns.
I don't recall any of those examples being inserted into people's hands. Revelations says nothing about people having to carry the mark in their wallets, or having it handy when they go out for a drive.
As an aside, I read a while back that the origin of 666 is that it was the numerical equivalent (through some fancy religious conversion) of some king's name. Maybe Herod, I forget. But I guess there are many theories.
Is a second sun some kind of harbringer of armageddon or something?
Ubuntu can use Klik. Most Debian based distros can. There's nothing else for Ubuntu to do.
Linky.
But there's still the problem of obtaining completely legal DVD playing and such.
Love the hardware, hate the software.
I would have had several sony mp3 players by now if it wasn't for the several restrictions on filetype (ok, they finally took care of that one) and how you put songs on the player. Battery life and style almost have me wanting one anyway.
I wish they would just spin-off some of their hardware to a completely independent line that doesn't have to care about the content that their other half is so worried about us pirating. Then they would be able to put out some easy to use media players.
Yeah, I think they'll lose this media war if they keep fighting their consumers as much as they fight their competitors.
Some scientists worry that even with a bunch of new antibiotics hitting the market, there still aren't enough and they want legislation to make it easier for companies to develop them."...
Insert missing part of summary here:
"Will this evil genius, yet incompetent Bush administration have the guts to pass this legislation? Or will we all be dead in a decade because monkey boy doesn't believe these bacteria can evolve? Go Ralph Nader!"
Note to mods: I didn't write that. It actually was in the summary. Must have got edited out. Weird.
Wikipedia has different views on what Hi-Fi is. From the same article (How'd you miss that I wonder, it's at the top):
High fidelity or hi-fi reproduction is a quality standard that means the reproduction of sound or images is very faithful to the original. High fidelity aims to achieve minimal or unnoticeable amounts of noise and distortion. The term high fidelity tends to be applied to any reasonable-quality home-music system, though some believe that a higher standard than this is intended, and in 1973, the German Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) standard DIN 45500 laid down mimimum requirements for measurements of frequency response, distortion, noise and other defects and gained some recognition in hi-fi magazines.
mp3s have noticeable amounts of noise and distortion. The iPod has noticeable amounts of noise and distortion. Not Hi-Fi. Not even according to the lowest standard quoted above.
We have different views on what portable is.
But anyway, that's beside my original point. I was just poking fun at this thing being called hi-fi. mp3s aren't hi-fi. Yes, someone can play lossles music on it, but then the ipod isn't hi-fi either. Nothing about this is hi-fi. Yet Apple calls it a hi-fi home stereo. Funny.
What does transferring music have to do with a non-portable $350 system?
Not sure i'd pay $350 for a boombox though...
Oh, I would, for sure. I can't wait to spend money on a high fidelity system to listen to sub-CD quality songs piped from a portable device.
Bye bye stereo!
Like with muslims?
More like with asshole Anonymous Cowards.
Gentoo's packages that are marked ~ (testing) are just as stable as something in Debian unstable (or is it testing? I keep getting those mixed up). Anyway, it should be fine to emerge 3.5. It's the ones marked hard masked that they don't want you trying yet.
0. The general public never moved to Windows themselves. They were moved to Windows by their workplace. When more businesses start using Linux it won't matter what the general public wants.
1. The average person doesn't know about Linux, so how could they want it? Once they do find out about it many average people do want it.
2. It's free and doesn't get spyware or viruses. Those are two killer features. Especially for people who aren't good at maintaining their machines.
I've seen firsthand how average people want Linux after they heard about it from me. Absolutely nothing and nobody are ridiculous exaggerations.
Well that's much better than what I though previously. I thought the record companies got it all and that it was their responsibility to get it to the artists.
If they only get 15% it makes me not mind the levy as much.
I don't have hard evidence at the moment, but I've been told repeatedly that no Canadian artist has ever seen a dime of that levy money.
Unless you count some round-a-bout reasoning that the levy money lets the music industry produce more musicians.