I chose Pure-FTPd. Authentication over TLS (or not, depending on how you set them up), users jailed (or not, depending on their level of trust). I hear there are quite a few other solutions that can do what you asked, so it must be you asked your question quite a long time ago.
Not document-bound in MS Office. Switching between languages is very easy in Windows/Office. If you've defined all the languages you use in the Control Panel, switching between them within Word is as easy as Left Alt + Shift. Word is immediately notified. Keyboard layouts are not tied to the language and vice versa. Whenever I have to use Windows, I set it up so that all the languages are tied to the Estonian keyboard layout with which I am familiar. It's actually a lot easier than in OOo (which I use daily), where you have to wade through all those menus and drop-down lists. Already extant text's language properties can be changed with a simple double-click on the bottom of the windows etc.
every frame at quantizer 31
Dude, that IS the whole problem. Should've instructed to keep it in the sane range of, say, 2-8. The higher the quantiser, the more the codec is allowed to ruin the picture.
I have had many contrary experiences with floppy drives. Since the medium started becoming obsolete (what with the widespread use of e-mail and to a lesser extent FTP), the manufacturing quality of both the discs and the drives went downhill fast. At one point, you couldn't even be sure anymore that two drives from the same factory were calibrated the same way. You could format a disc in one drive, check it for errors, copy data on it, check again and then get a "Disc not formatted" in another drive. Reverse the order in which the drives were tested, ditto. It has to be said that the data was all right when checked in the original drive.
I'd already forgotten about it until a girlfriend came about and wanted to copy something from an e-mail to her floppy disc. I'm going to forgo all the lecture I gave her about the year being 2005 - which it was - and floppies having been a) redundant; b) not to be trusted. She stored all her data on it, since she needed to work on it in two locations. The obvious happened: none of the drives in my household could read any of her discs. Not one. She was dismayed to have lost her data. The discs were all right when she returned home and tried them there.
Now, I've tried time and again, just for kicks, if it was just a bad magnetic storm or something. No. Every single floppy disc drive in this flat is different, and I am talking only about those that at least work with the discs they formatted. Some of the others contain some leftover metal parts from old discs, some hair, some dust, some what not.
No, from the anecdotal evidence I have gathered - and luckily for everybody I did not mention most of it - floppies and the drives are very far from being reliable, and that mostly because they aren't as sturdy as you think. They are badly manufactured these days, or they just fail. Too much dust, one bent metal slider, buh-bye. And buh-bye, floppy.
I'm European and I've never been exposed to the imperial system. I am thus not tempted to use my hands or feet for measuring anything but the runway length for my long jumps. I've heard of no-one that uses decimetres for measuring distance, either. It's pretty much "metre twenty" or "two forty" everything. The pound thing, I think, would be "half a kilo", the beer issue is solved by asking "a beer". Or "a small beer" for a 0.33 l glass. (Other beer countries' customs and glass sizes do vary.) People weigh something like "75 kilos" and are "metre eighty" tall.
I guess it shows that even if you would think one system is harder or more cumbersome for certain things than the other, people who have had exposure to only one of them tend to come up with a very flexible and convenient way of measuring stuff. I still get dizzy when a translator fails to translate all the measurements to the target culture's system (all right, there are those rare times when it's desirable to have cubic feet and furlongs in literature), but the North Americans don't.
My favourite (not) is the standard PC case and its measurements. Have a metric ruler handy and go over it. Everything is very much metric. The 3.5 inch floppy? It's not 8.89 cm, it's exactly 9 cm. The 3.5 inch drive bay? Exactly 10 cm wide. The 5 1/4 inch bay? Not 13.335 cm, exactly 15 instead. Etc. Everything metric from the beginning, re-measured and rounded to fit the imperial system (what with the US probably being the biggest target market in the beginning of the PC). The sad thing is, the rest of the world seems to be accepting it unconditionally. It's as if no-one has had a ruler handy for quite some time.
The Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians are basically the same nation that has been divided since the Middle Ages between the Muslim (the Ottomans), Protestant (the Habsburgs) and the Eastern Orthodox faiths. The feuds can all be tracked to differing views on how to make a cross or to which god's representative to pray. Add the people's ingrained temperament to the mix and you get a highly volatile situation.
But no, no millennia there, just a couple or so hundred years.
Tiananmen is what the western world shouts about. Look up tiananmen myth" and see why that is so. The real deal went on at the same time elsewhere in Beijing, but no one was actually killed at Tiananmen.
Yes, it's a valid issue. You have your terrorist ghosts in the middle east, we have ours in the Caucasia. Had them for hundreds of years, to be specific.
Well, if you look back in time, you'll see it in another way and could put it in a slightly different context. See, Russia has been manifesting its self-conceived pan-slavic agenda for a long time and has acted upon it once too often. Failed, too: it failed in its mission to control the Balkans (see Grand Bulgaria that turned to Germany instead, or Serbia that in a whole didn't give too much damn about the Great Slavic Empire) and was pretty much held back in its desire to export pravoslavije around Europe. We have to thank Bismarck for that. But Western Europe didn't mind Russia's conquests as long as they didn't happen in Europe and weren't too close to India. Caucasia was a relatively late conquest, with Chechenia being the fiercest to oppose. Why Chechenia? Because they are literally sitting on oil. See also: the British controlling Arabia in the 19th and the 20th century, Russia and Great Britain dividing Persia into three in the 19th, US invading Iraq etc.
Which brings us to the present day. The Chechens have no love lost for the Russians who have for more than a hundred years been trying to fuck them over. This process is still going strong. To call them terrorists is quite like beating somebody into a coma and then calling him an intolerable bully since he had the guts to throw a stone in your window after he had miraculously recovered.
I am not condoning the Chechens' methods, I am implying that a) people who have been terrorised by the occupying forces for more than a hundred years have scarcely had a chance to build up a modern democratic culture and b) what else have they to go by if their land is systematically bombed and their livelihoods destroyed? Negotiations or petitions, perhaps? Maybe even a short story in their defense in Omskii Komsomolets? You cannot call them terrorists and imply that the state is in the right. It is quite inconceivable that you even seriously believe that yourself. It's a media buzzword whose task is to spread FUD.
I don't live in Russia, I live in one of those neighbouring countries who have also just recently seen the same horror and who are now being painted very black by the famous and very capable Russian propaganda machine.
Why do you think Russia is pressing so much for the status of the Russian language in Latvia and Estonia? (They obviously don't have a case in Lithuania, although the Lithuanians are way more proficient in Russian... Whoever knows why.) Because they see a loophole through which they can push the Russian language into the position of being one of the official languages of the EU. It is not a coincidence that all of a sudden there's been a "people's movement" to give the Latgal language an official status in Latvia. That would make the Latvian language effectively a minority in Latvia, thus elevating Russian into the most favoured position. That cannot be done in Estonia (no dialects so big), so the Kremlin looks for other methods. You think the Kremlin really gives a damn about the Russians living abroad? If yes, why are they so silent about, say, Central Asia? Because there's no agenda there. I could cite pieces of news from Central Asia that are way out there even according to Russian media's standards, yet they go uncommented. The people are a propaganda tool, always have been.
But I leave it at that.
You call the Swedish language small, yet you fail to consider the context. You have 9 million Swedes jabbering away and neither Finland nor Norway have ever posed any relevant threat. Hell, you have a hard time even finding a job as a janitor in Sweden if you don't speak Swedish. This comes as a report from a friend in Falun. Maybe you don't even understand the problem at its core, for it's easy for a Swede to think that eventually every newcomer picks up Swedish and there'll be a happy family. There's also the 5+ million strong Finland in the way to skew the perspective. It may well be that your geographical situation is so good you don't even need a state language to protect your native tongue. A look at a map, however, assures you that it is definitely not true here. A history lesson would reinforce the point. Yes, yes, bygones, you might say, only they aren't, for we get now the same rhetorics that we got at the end of the seventies.
Of course, there's always the question as to why there even should be so many languages, and a language with "only" 1 million speakers is surely a nuisance to everybody adjacent. Why even protect a small Fenno-Ugrian tongue while so many of its kind are becoming extinct in Siberia on a yearly basis? Well, to that question you'll have to find your own answers. I, for one, think that language is always closely tied to culture and if a language dies, well, here goes the culture. We'll all be worse off if we choose to cultivate a monoculture. Sure, there'll be less reason to travel around if everywhere is the same, you'll save lots on transportation costs, but do you really want that?
I keep wondering why México still bothers with Spanish. After all, they're all supposed to study English from the first grade or so. And what's this national language shit with the Netherlands and Belgium? Everybody speaks English there.
And I also keep wondering how Putin's propaganda lackeys end up on Slashdot. Either they or simply highly misinformed creeps with too much time on their hands and their heart aching for the 150 millions of Russians whom the 1 million Estonians are obviously so badly abusing.
By the way, where do all those numbers and percentages come from?
The Waffen-SS thing has been pretty much covered, I think.
As for the minority issue, well... Citizenship is available to all. As in all countries, there are some prerequisites. The first: one has to apply. The second: one has to know the official language. The country has been out of the Soviet Union for 14 years now, there has been lots of time to apply for the citizenship, which the minority that you mentioned by and large has not done. If you followed the issue more closely, you'd see that they also haven't applied for the Russian citizenship. Why? Because if they chose a side, they'd either lose the easy way to visit Russia (visa hassle and everything), or they'd have to apply for a residence permit in Estonia and start renewing it every once in a while. Either way, they lose (or so they think), and being unable to vote in either Russia or Estonia is a trifle matter compared to that. Besides, non-citizens really do vote in local elections. Do they have that luxury everywhere else in the world?
The language issue is also not problematic on a purely technical level, although the Russian media likes to blow it out of proportion. The language is definitely tricky to master, but as easy as any other to learn on an everyday level, which is enough for the citizenship. Example: there were some christian missionaries from the US of A in Estonia sometime in the mid-nineties, they learnt to speak Estonian within 2 weeks and even gave some TV interviews. There might be problems in the NE region of Estonia where most Estonians were either outright ousted or just silently driven away during the Soviet times, so there are not many Estonians with whom to practise the language. Also, one cannot underestimate the big nation complex. Likewise, most of the Americans and Britons living for years in Estonia have not learnt a word in the local language, often because they think everybody must speak English.
So you use MP3 and AAC and that's the basis of your representative heuristic. Mine, on the other hand, shows that everybody uses Ogg Vorbis and keeps trying to get rid of the legacy MP3s that don't even have a reasonable and working-outside-the-Yankeestan-codepage tagging system. I wonder why people keep doing that.
Get off your high MP3/AAC horse. There are other worlds than that. Köszönöm szépen.
Well. I use Ogg Vorbis for a few reasons. Let me count.
a) at 128 Kib/s it sounds remarkably good, with the aoTuV patches I cannot tell the difference from a 192 Kib/s MP3, and the difference in size is ~1/3, which amounts to quite a few gigs saved, be it my hard drive or the portable gadget I shall buy someday (and it is not going to be an iPod, for I usually shop according to my needs, not fads). Plus, when I do share my files, they'll eat less bandwidth.
b) tags that use UTF-8 internally, thus enabling me to use all those nifty characters that appear seemingly in every other language but American English and possibly Uzbek written with the Latin script. My collection has lots of East European music in it, plus Russian and what not, and believe me you, it is a major pain in the arse even to teach ID3v2 to correctly understand some variant of Unicode (UTF-8? If UTF-16, which endianness? Goddammit!), and I am not going to delve into ID3v1.
c) all that you said and scoffed at.
Yes, it's Fripp's eloquent and well-written answer (albeit not overly thorough, possibly considering the recipient) to an absolutely clueless audient who felt compelled to advertise his cluelessness by telling about it to other people.
Yeah, have you seen their per capita outcome as well? We're talking about a country where a bottle of beer costs about 10 US dollars and that's just for starters.
Swamps and bogs are sacred, you don't go there with your laptop. You go instead with a clear sense of self, respect towards all living things, and a bong plus some supplies.
In "The German Ideology", Marx states that working for somebody else but oneself is the process of active alienation of the worker from the product of his labour. Therefore, in that respect, GPL is Marxist, since no alienation is involved, quite the opposite. Also, since in the Marxian utopia everybody does only the work that they feel like doing, and no-one's exactly forcing anybody to code and release it under GPL, it's again quite Marxist.
So, all those great theories and ideologies are intertwined.
The way I see it, it would have been lots easier if you just had typed
find/etc -name "._cfg*"
then evaluated what files you definitely won't need updated (fstab, modules.autoload, the bulk in conf.d etc, whatever fits your system), removed the._cfg* versions of them and then executed etc-update.
Well, yeah, I'll go out and buy a Canon digital SLR. Only then will I realise that my entire collection of lenses has... a Nikon mount!
Blast, I say! Now I am locked into two vendors' game at the same time. I cannot say if that is a good thing. After all, I do have a respectable collection of good lenses that I am not going to sell.
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Please. Communism is an economic ideology, democracy is a means to govern. You could have a communist democracy if you were so inclined, only you should first ensure that all the people that participate in it are ideal. Just as in anarchy.
If you want to compare, go ahead. Only compare items from the same drawer. Capitalism in and of itself is not guaranteed to be democratic. See Pinochet, Franco, Perón etc, all for free trade under the guiding hand of a dictator.
Yes, it is a common misconception that there was ever communism in the Soviet Union. And no, there wasn't. There hasn't been communism anywhere on a scale like this after the hunterers and gatherers. It's an utopia; please, stop mislabelling a noble idea of Plato with the stained record of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was never communist, not even in name. It was an oppressive form of socialism, led from the fifties on by gerontocracy. It may have been striving (in words) to achieve a Marxist state, but even that never came even close.
We could go more in-depth, but one thing must be clear from the beginning: the Soviet Union was never communist. Not even the KPSS. This may, however, not be the best place to discuss this and as usual, there are tons of ways to mince words, so that at the end, everyone feels stupider.
There is actually quite a lot of useful information on films' technical characteristics on Kodak's and Fuji's website. It's so technical that being a photographer (who usually says "this goes to 11", eg. "let's scan everything at 4000") doesn't help, it needs a more educated reader to actually make sense of the charts, curves and numbers.
One such reader explained the charts to me. It turns out that depending on the film and the nature of the shots, it's actually often useful to scan at a lower resolution than a photographer would suggest with his layman understanding of the issue. I had photographed a band in a relatively dark setting, I had not used a flash and needed to use the picture in a CD design at A5. So I went to somebody with a Linotype-Hell "Topaz" and to my amazement, they scanned it at 1000 ppi only. I asked for a higher resolution and got back that a higher resolution would only result in more grain, not more detail, because there are no more details there to scan. They went more in-depth, but in short: they were so right.
Of course, there's also the lens to take into account. Few 35 mm lenses are sharp enough to produce 100 line pairs per millimeter in the centre of the image, so that amounts to approximately 5000 ppi. Since it's reasonable to doubt that all those films were filmed using ideal lenses at full aperture, and moreover, that the films' physical resolution (yes, it does exist) was comparable to those of today, it's quite safe to say that 4000 ppi is absolutely sufficient.
Now, if I could get my hands on one of those Carl Zeiss lenses or steal a Leica R9 full set, that would make me quite a happy camper.
Well, hi-fi usually means you do not tinker with the EQ if it exists at all (and the hi-er the fi, the less chance there is that there are EQ knobs on your system at all), since what came from the studio must be how the massa wanted it. I do not buy that missing out on low and high end thing either, because then we should be going to live performances with EQ-adjustable ears, which we don't. Besides, most music does happen within that 1kHz-4kHz range, why ruin it by overemphasising the accompaniment?
Music does sounds livelier and closer to the source without EQ. To me, messing with EQ equals going to a top notch restaurant, ordering à la carte and then covering everything with ketchup.
Here's more about underwater world. Natasha sent them.
These are pictures of fish that were found on the coast of Thailand after the tsunami. I cannot be responsible for the accuracy of the names, these are just the captions that came under the photos.
So nothing new there. On page two, the poster also presents some new links and doubts the authenticity of the pictures and another adds that again the muck-rackers and news-mongers needed a sensation.
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I chose Pure-FTPd. Authentication over TLS (or not, depending on how you set them up), users jailed (or not, depending on their level of trust). I hear there are quite a few other solutions that can do what you asked, so it must be you asked your question quite a long time ago.
Not document-bound in MS Office. Switching between languages is very easy in Windows/Office. If you've defined all the languages you use in the Control Panel, switching between them within Word is as easy as Left Alt + Shift. Word is immediately notified. Keyboard layouts are not tied to the language and vice versa. Whenever I have to use Windows, I set it up so that all the languages are tied to the Estonian keyboard layout with which I am familiar. It's actually a lot easier than in OOo (which I use daily), where you have to wade through all those menus and drop-down lists. Already extant text's language properties can be changed with a simple double-click on the bottom of the windows etc.
And how many people understood the comment for what it is? :-)
Brian: "Peter, do you ever listen to yourself when you speak?"
Peter: "I drift in and out."
every frame at quantizer 31 Dude, that IS the whole problem. Should've instructed to keep it in the sane range of, say, 2-8. The higher the quantiser, the more the codec is allowed to ruin the picture.
I have had many contrary experiences with floppy drives. Since the medium started becoming obsolete (what with the widespread use of e-mail and to a lesser extent FTP), the manufacturing quality of both the discs and the drives went downhill fast. At one point, you couldn't even be sure anymore that two drives from the same factory were calibrated the same way. You could format a disc in one drive, check it for errors, copy data on it, check again and then get a "Disc not formatted" in another drive. Reverse the order in which the drives were tested, ditto. It has to be said that the data was all right when checked in the original drive.
I'd already forgotten about it until a girlfriend came about and wanted to copy something from an e-mail to her floppy disc. I'm going to forgo all the lecture I gave her about the year being 2005 - which it was - and floppies having been a) redundant; b) not to be trusted. She stored all her data on it, since she needed to work on it in two locations. The obvious happened: none of the drives in my household could read any of her discs. Not one. She was dismayed to have lost her data. The discs were all right when she returned home and tried them there.
Now, I've tried time and again, just for kicks, if it was just a bad magnetic storm or something. No. Every single floppy disc drive in this flat is different, and I am talking only about those that at least work with the discs they formatted. Some of the others contain some leftover metal parts from old discs, some hair, some dust, some what not.
No, from the anecdotal evidence I have gathered - and luckily for everybody I did not mention most of it - floppies and the drives are very far from being reliable, and that mostly because they aren't as sturdy as you think. They are badly manufactured these days, or they just fail. Too much dust, one bent metal slider, buh-bye. And buh-bye, floppy.
I'm European and I've never been exposed to the imperial system. I am thus not tempted to use my hands or feet for measuring anything but the runway length for my long jumps. I've heard of no-one that uses decimetres for measuring distance, either. It's pretty much "metre twenty" or "two forty" everything. The pound thing, I think, would be "half a kilo", the beer issue is solved by asking "a beer". Or "a small beer" for a 0.33 l glass. (Other beer countries' customs and glass sizes do vary.) People weigh something like "75 kilos" and are "metre eighty" tall.
I guess it shows that even if you would think one system is harder or more cumbersome for certain things than the other, people who have had exposure to only one of them tend to come up with a very flexible and convenient way of measuring stuff. I still get dizzy when a translator fails to translate all the measurements to the target culture's system (all right, there are those rare times when it's desirable to have cubic feet and furlongs in literature), but the North Americans don't.
My favourite (not) is the standard PC case and its measurements. Have a metric ruler handy and go over it. Everything is very much metric. The 3.5 inch floppy? It's not 8.89 cm, it's exactly 9 cm. The 3.5 inch drive bay? Exactly 10 cm wide. The 5 1/4 inch bay? Not 13.335 cm, exactly 15 instead. Etc. Everything metric from the beginning, re-measured and rounded to fit the imperial system (what with the US probably being the biggest target market in the beginning of the PC). The sad thing is, the rest of the world seems to be accepting it unconditionally. It's as if no-one has had a ruler handy for quite some time.
The Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians are basically the same nation that has been divided since the Middle Ages between the Muslim (the Ottomans), Protestant (the Habsburgs) and the Eastern Orthodox faiths. The feuds can all be tracked to differing views on how to make a cross or to which god's representative to pray. Add the people's ingrained temperament to the mix and you get a highly volatile situation.
But no, no millennia there, just a couple or so hundred years.
Tiananmen is what the western world shouts about. Look up tiananmen myth" and see why that is so. The real deal went on at the same time elsewhere in Beijing, but no one was actually killed at Tiananmen.
Children: Daaaaad! Vista and Office late, we hungry! Steve: No worries, kiddos, Daddy will put FUD on the table again.
Well, if you look back in time, you'll see it in another way and could put it in a slightly different context. See, Russia has been manifesting its self-conceived pan-slavic agenda for a long time and has acted upon it once too often. Failed, too: it failed in its mission to control the Balkans (see Grand Bulgaria that turned to Germany instead, or Serbia that in a whole didn't give too much damn about the Great Slavic Empire) and was pretty much held back in its desire to export pravoslavije around Europe. We have to thank Bismarck for that. But Western Europe didn't mind Russia's conquests as long as they didn't happen in Europe and weren't too close to India. Caucasia was a relatively late conquest, with Chechenia being the fiercest to oppose. Why Chechenia? Because they are literally sitting on oil. See also: the British controlling Arabia in the 19th and the 20th century, Russia and Great Britain dividing Persia into three in the 19th, US invading Iraq etc.
Which brings us to the present day. The Chechens have no love lost for the Russians who have for more than a hundred years been trying to fuck them over. This process is still going strong. To call them terrorists is quite like beating somebody into a coma and then calling him an intolerable bully since he had the guts to throw a stone in your window after he had miraculously recovered.
I am not condoning the Chechens' methods, I am implying that a) people who have been terrorised by the occupying forces for more than a hundred years have scarcely had a chance to build up a modern democratic culture and b) what else have they to go by if their land is systematically bombed and their livelihoods destroyed? Negotiations or petitions, perhaps? Maybe even a short story in their defense in Omskii Komsomolets? You cannot call them terrorists and imply that the state is in the right. It is quite inconceivable that you even seriously believe that yourself. It's a media buzzword whose task is to spread FUD.
I don't live in Russia, I live in one of those neighbouring countries who have also just recently seen the same horror and who are now being painted very black by the famous and very capable Russian propaganda machine.
Why do you think Russia is pressing so much for the status of the Russian language in Latvia and Estonia? (They obviously don't have a case in Lithuania, although the Lithuanians are way more proficient in Russian... Whoever knows why.) Because they see a loophole through which they can push the Russian language into the position of being one of the official languages of the EU. It is not a coincidence that all of a sudden there's been a "people's movement" to give the Latgal language an official status in Latvia. That would make the Latvian language effectively a minority in Latvia, thus elevating Russian into the most favoured position. That cannot be done in Estonia (no dialects so big), so the Kremlin looks for other methods. You think the Kremlin really gives a damn about the Russians living abroad? If yes, why are they so silent about, say, Central Asia? Because there's no agenda there. I could cite pieces of news from Central Asia that are way out there even according to Russian media's standards, yet they go uncommented. The people are a propaganda tool, always have been.
But I leave it at that.
You call the Swedish language small, yet you fail to consider the context. You have 9 million Swedes jabbering away and neither Finland nor Norway have ever posed any relevant threat. Hell, you have a hard time even finding a job as a janitor in Sweden if you don't speak Swedish. This comes as a report from a friend in Falun. Maybe you don't even understand the problem at its core, for it's easy for a Swede to think that eventually every newcomer picks up Swedish and there'll be a happy family. There's also the 5+ million strong Finland in the way to skew the perspective. It may well be that your geographical situation is so good you don't even need a state language to protect your native tongue. A look at a map, however, assures you that it is definitely not true here. A history lesson would reinforce the point. Yes, yes, bygones, you might say, only they aren't, for we get now the same rhetorics that we got at the end of the seventies.
Of course, there's always the question as to why there even should be so many languages, and a language with "only" 1 million speakers is surely a nuisance to everybody adjacent. Why even protect a small Fenno-Ugrian tongue while so many of its kind are becoming extinct in Siberia on a yearly basis? Well, to that question you'll have to find your own answers. I, for one, think that language is always closely tied to culture and if a language dies, well, here goes the culture. We'll all be worse off if we choose to cultivate a monoculture. Sure, there'll be less reason to travel around if everywhere is the same, you'll save lots on transportation costs, but do you really want that?
I keep wondering why México still bothers with Spanish. After all, they're all supposed to study English from the first grade or so. And what's this national language shit with the Netherlands and Belgium? Everybody speaks English there.
And I also keep wondering how Putin's propaganda lackeys end up on Slashdot. Either they or simply highly misinformed creeps with too much time on their hands and their heart aching for the 150 millions of Russians whom the 1 million Estonians are obviously so badly abusing.
By the way, where do all those numbers and percentages come from?
The Waffen-SS thing has been pretty much covered, I think.
As for the minority issue, well... Citizenship is available to all. As in all countries, there are some prerequisites. The first: one has to apply. The second: one has to know the official language. The country has been out of the Soviet Union for 14 years now, there has been lots of time to apply for the citizenship, which the minority that you mentioned by and large has not done. If you followed the issue more closely, you'd see that they also haven't applied for the Russian citizenship. Why? Because if they chose a side, they'd either lose the easy way to visit Russia (visa hassle and everything), or they'd have to apply for a residence permit in Estonia and start renewing it every once in a while. Either way, they lose (or so they think), and being unable to vote in either Russia or Estonia is a trifle matter compared to that. Besides, non-citizens really do vote in local elections. Do they have that luxury everywhere else in the world?
The language issue is also not problematic on a purely technical level, although the Russian media likes to blow it out of proportion. The language is definitely tricky to master, but as easy as any other to learn on an everyday level, which is enough for the citizenship. Example: there were some christian missionaries from the US of A in Estonia sometime in the mid-nineties, they learnt to speak Estonian within 2 weeks and even gave some TV interviews. There might be problems in the NE region of Estonia where most Estonians were either outright ousted or just silently driven away during the Soviet times, so there are not many Estonians with whom to practise the language. Also, one cannot underestimate the big nation complex. Likewise, most of the Americans and Britons living for years in Estonia have not learnt a word in the local language, often because they think everybody must speak English.
So you use MP3 and AAC and that's the basis of your representative heuristic. Mine, on the other hand, shows that everybody uses Ogg Vorbis and keeps trying to get rid of the legacy MP3s that don't even have a reasonable and working-outside-the-Yankeestan-codepage tagging system. I wonder why people keep doing that.
Get off your high MP3/AAC horse. There are other worlds than that. Köszönöm szépen.
Well. I use Ogg Vorbis for a few reasons. Let me count. a) at 128 Kib/s it sounds remarkably good, with the aoTuV patches I cannot tell the difference from a 192 Kib/s MP3, and the difference in size is ~1/3, which amounts to quite a few gigs saved, be it my hard drive or the portable gadget I shall buy someday (and it is not going to be an iPod, for I usually shop according to my needs, not fads). Plus, when I do share my files, they'll eat less bandwidth. b) tags that use UTF-8 internally, thus enabling me to use all those nifty characters that appear seemingly in every other language but American English and possibly Uzbek written with the Latin script. My collection has lots of East European music in it, plus Russian and what not, and believe me you, it is a major pain in the arse even to teach ID3v2 to correctly understand some variant of Unicode (UTF-8? If UTF-16, which endianness? Goddammit!), and I am not going to delve into ID3v1. c) all that you said and scoffed at.
Yes, it's Fripp's eloquent and well-written answer (albeit not overly thorough, possibly considering the recipient) to an absolutely clueless audient who felt compelled to advertise his cluelessness by telling about it to other people.
Yeah, have you seen their per capita outcome as well? We're talking about a country where a bottle of beer costs about 10 US dollars and that's just for starters.
Swamps and bogs are sacred, you don't go there with your laptop. You go instead with a clear sense of self, respect towards all living things, and a bong plus some supplies.
Kakerdaja raba!
In "The German Ideology", Marx states that working for somebody else but oneself is the process of active alienation of the worker from the product of his labour. Therefore, in that respect, GPL is Marxist, since no alienation is involved, quite the opposite. Also, since in the Marxian utopia everybody does only the work that they feel like doing, and no-one's exactly forcing anybody to code and release it under GPL, it's again quite Marxist.
So, all those great theories and ideologies are intertwined.
The way I see it, it would have been lots easier if you just had typed
then evaluated what files you definitely won't need updated (fstab, modules.autoload, the bulk in conf.d etc, whatever fits your system), removed theWell, yeah, I'll go out and buy a Canon digital SLR. Only then will I realise that my entire collection of lenses has ... a Nikon mount!
Blast, I say! Now I am locked into two vendors' game at the same time. I cannot say if that is a good thing. After all, I do have a respectable collection of good lenses that I am not going to sell.
Please. Communism is an economic ideology, democracy is a means to govern. You could have a communist democracy if you were so inclined, only you should first ensure that all the people that participate in it are ideal. Just as in anarchy.
If you want to compare, go ahead. Only compare items from the same drawer. Capitalism in and of itself is not guaranteed to be democratic. See Pinochet, Franco, Perón etc, all for free trade under the guiding hand of a dictator.
Yes, it is a common misconception that there was ever communism in the Soviet Union. And no, there wasn't. There hasn't been communism anywhere on a scale like this after the hunterers and gatherers. It's an utopia; please, stop mislabelling a noble idea of Plato with the stained record of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union was never communist, not even in name. It was an oppressive form of socialism, led from the fifties on by gerontocracy. It may have been striving (in words) to achieve a Marxist state, but even that never came even close.
We could go more in-depth, but one thing must be clear from the beginning: the Soviet Union was never communist. Not even the KPSS. This may, however, not be the best place to discuss this and as usual, there are tons of ways to mince words, so that at the end, everyone feels stupider.
There is actually quite a lot of useful information on films' technical characteristics on Kodak's and Fuji's website. It's so technical that being a photographer (who usually says "this goes to 11", eg. "let's scan everything at 4000") doesn't help, it needs a more educated reader to actually make sense of the charts, curves and numbers.
One such reader explained the charts to me. It turns out that depending on the film and the nature of the shots, it's actually often useful to scan at a lower resolution than a photographer would suggest with his layman understanding of the issue. I had photographed a band in a relatively dark setting, I had not used a flash and needed to use the picture in a CD design at A5. So I went to somebody with a Linotype-Hell "Topaz" and to my amazement, they scanned it at 1000 ppi only. I asked for a higher resolution and got back that a higher resolution would only result in more grain, not more detail, because there are no more details there to scan. They went more in-depth, but in short: they were so right.
Of course, there's also the lens to take into account. Few 35 mm lenses are sharp enough to produce 100 line pairs per millimeter in the centre of the image, so that amounts to approximately 5000 ppi. Since it's reasonable to doubt that all those films were filmed using ideal lenses at full aperture, and moreover, that the films' physical resolution (yes, it does exist) was comparable to those of today, it's quite safe to say that 4000 ppi is absolutely sufficient.
Now, if I could get my hands on one of those Carl Zeiss lenses or steal a Leica R9 full set, that would make me quite a happy camper.
Well, hi-fi usually means you do not tinker with the EQ if it exists at all (and the hi-er the fi, the less chance there is that there are EQ knobs on your system at all), since what came from the studio must be how the massa wanted it. I do not buy that missing out on low and high end thing either, because then we should be going to live performances with EQ-adjustable ears, which we don't. Besides, most music does happen within that 1kHz-4kHz range, why ruin it by overemphasising the accompaniment?
Music does sounds livelier and closer to the source without EQ. To me, messing with EQ equals going to a top notch restaurant, ordering à la carte and then covering everything with ketchup.
I do read Russian. What it says above 1:
Here's more about underwater world. Natasha sent them.
These are pictures of fish that were found on the coast of Thailand after the tsunami. I cannot be responsible for the accuracy of the names, these are just the captions that came under the photos.
So nothing new there. On page two, the poster also presents some new links and doubts the authenticity of the pictures and another adds that again the muck-rackers and news-mongers needed a sensation.