The most common user of computers will never need to configure a.conf file, or even know it exists. There are configuration GUI's for that. Windows also has conf files, it doesn't store the configuration in limbo, or something!
I live in a catholic European country. the Catholic Church can be pretty annoying sometimes, but I have seen nothing here like the crazy fundamentalist Protestant guys you have there.
Protestantism is, in its genesis, a lot more tolerant than Catholicism. Also, while the Catholic Church has a very rigid and centralised structure, in Protestantism there are many different churches. This allows for the upcoming of all sorts of freaks with fanatic, completely reality-detached speach. Though in Europe they are disregarded as freaks and made targets for laughter, in the US they have lots of power and money, and can get their twisted message through.
We have catholic priests and bishops saying fanatic shit all the time. But it usually plays against them in public opinion. And some public statements, if serious enough, can make the Catholic Church punish them.
I'm not defending Catholicism, I don't have any religious faith whatsoever, never had and never will. If I happened to have any, I would probably choose one of the most tolerant branches of Protestantism.
It is the same here (Portugal). I don't listen to radio anymore because i hate listening to the same half a dozen hits the whole day. But it's not because of protectionism, nobody respects the quotas for national music, 90% of what plays in our radios is anglo-saxon pop/rock.
If the quotas were enforced it would actually be an opportunity for many national artists that can't pierce through the anglo-saxon corporate machine and the puppet radio stations.
Not that I don't like anglo-saxon music, but I would like some diversity, and that doesn't happen. The giant multinational record labels are the ones to blame for the assassination of cultural diversity worldwide, because they will promote only those lab-made artists that give them 100% possibilities for success.
It will only get worse with the time. They are alienating lots of people like me that can't stand all those fashionable pop tunes of the moment. The Internet is a great opportunity for artists that can't make it in this plastic, industrial star-system and also for consumers that are careful about what they listen to.
The problem with this study is that it's based on scientific criteria. The RIAA doesn't need science, they won't let reality fool them. They create their own parallel reality first and then base all their assumptions on that. More or less like what TV pundits do.
The USA has 4% of the World's population and produces 25% of CO2 emissions. China has 21% of World's population and produces 15% of the emissions. How can you blame China?
I disagree completely. Despite all the problems related to freedom of expression that happened in the Socialist states, the commonality of knowledge is one of the pillars of Marxism. The former Soviet Block countries have the best levels of education in the World, even better than the rich capitalist countries.
Socialism is based in the belief that everyone is equal. Fascism is based on the belief that there are superior people that should have the power and lesser people that must obey or die.
The so called Socialist states have made huge deviations from the original Marxist doctrine. The political organisation created by Stalin in the USSR resembles more a fascist state than a socialist one. And China is definitely a fascist country. They just use the Communist iconography to disguise their real nature.
I am a musician and I prefer music performed live.
But I value works like this, of course. Most modern music is made with a combination of manipulation and actual playing.
Though, IMHO, the process used by our Scandinavian friend is so time consuming that it would be cheaper to learn how to play the instruments. If he took the time to learn how to play, he could compose and perform many music pieces, instead he spent a great deal of time to produce this one and will spend it for every work he creates in the future.
His work, though admirable, is only interesting as a curiosity, it doesn't prove anything. The musical taste of the people has travelled back and forth between the artificial and the natural, I believe electronics are here to stay, but skilled musicians will always be necessary. Music is so much more than combining notes together, there are the subjective senses of feeling and groove that make live music more interesting. What makes an interpretation of a symphony so interesting and other so dull, if they are using the exact same sheets? And can a computer perform a jazz piece, which is always different, and depends a lot on the interaction between musicians?
After all, when the machines can do anything, what will we do?
What do you need India for? I'm a skilled computer engineer with years of experience and I make € 17,000/year! Kids right out of college are offered internships making € 10,000/year!
We have wonderful, European-style labour laws, but hey, nobody abides to them! So, you want paid overtime? Are you crazy?
And it's close to you guys, a lot closer than India. In fact, we are your closest European neighbor. We have warm and sunny weather, great beaches, pretty women, great food and wines.
Outsource to Portugal, the California of Europe!
I use Linux at my home. I had a tough time convincing my wife to use it, but, really, it has all the application she needs, and she uses it just as she would use Windows. When I'm using my home computer, most of the time I don't even notice I'm using Linux, instead of the Windoze machine at work.
Most clueless users I know will pirate everything they can instead of bothering to use OSS. Everybody calls me crazy because I use Linux at home, even tech savvy guys.
Of course you don't get to see the news about the German. The US media don't give a shit about what happens in the rest of the World, and I see your sources are pretty limited.
Do you bother to leave your bubble and check what's in the media in that tiny little area called "the rest of the World"?
You talk like there's no other media except the English speaking ones and Al Jazeera.
Nice spin. You got the touch. Assuming your numbers are right,just a few questions:
The invasion saved 180.000 people, but killed 500.000. I think this gives US a pretty negative balance, no?
How many of them were killed when Saddam was the US' "good boy"?
How many of them were murdered by order of the USA?
How many of them were murdered using American weapons that your past governments gladily supplied Saddam with?
How many of them were killed in the Iraq-Iran war, caused by Saddam with great incentive from the US? Are you also including the 1 million Iranis killed in that war?
How many of them died as a consequence of depleted uranium used by the US in Gulf War I?
How many of them died from starvation or lack of medicine because of the inhuman sanctions imposed after Gulf War I? How much pain have those sanctions caused to Saddam or any of his thugs? None, I believe.
I live in that tiny little place caleed "the rest of the World", and I can guarantee you this war was considered a disgrace ever since your president started talking about it. Face it, nobody bought Bush's crap outside of the US, in spite of the great effort from our media corporate machine to convince us otherwise.
Only some right-wing politicians (and Blair, the poodle) gave their approval, but they would suck the American President's dick any time, no matter who he is or what party he belongs to.
I didn't know it was offensive. It's now banned from my posts.
Europe in general has an extremely protectionistic attitude towards people/companies/etc - one of the basic tenants of socialism
Capitalism resorts to that all the time. It is the basis for the prosperity of the rich Western countries (USA, Europe, etc). And is one of the fundamental components of the fascist doctrine, which creates the best possible environment for monopolies to establish and grow.
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The most common user of computers will never need to configure a .conf file, or even know it exists. There are configuration GUI's for that. Windows also has conf files, it doesn't store the configuration in limbo, or something!
I live in a catholic European country. the Catholic Church can be pretty annoying sometimes, but I have seen nothing here like the crazy fundamentalist Protestant guys you have there.
Protestantism is, in its genesis, a lot more tolerant than Catholicism. Also, while the Catholic Church has a very rigid and centralised structure, in Protestantism there are many different churches. This allows for the upcoming of all sorts of freaks with fanatic, completely reality-detached speach. Though in Europe they are disregarded as freaks and made targets for laughter, in the US they have lots of power and money, and can get their twisted message through.
We have catholic priests and bishops saying fanatic shit all the time. But it usually plays against them in public opinion. And some public statements, if serious enough, can make the Catholic Church punish them.
I'm not defending Catholicism, I don't have any religious faith whatsoever, never had and never will. If I happened to have any, I would probably choose one of the most tolerant branches of Protestantism.
I have yet to see a page of Windows Help that has any use whatsoever.
It is the same here (Portugal). I don't listen to radio anymore because i hate listening to the same half a dozen hits the whole day. But it's not because of protectionism, nobody respects the quotas for national music, 90% of what plays in our radios is anglo-saxon pop/rock.
If the quotas were enforced it would actually be an opportunity for many national artists that can't pierce through the anglo-saxon corporate machine and the puppet radio stations.
Not that I don't like anglo-saxon music, but I would like some diversity, and that doesn't happen. The giant multinational record labels are the ones to blame for the assassination of cultural diversity worldwide, because they will promote only those lab-made artists that give them 100% possibilities for success.
It will only get worse with the time. They are alienating lots of people like me that can't stand all those fashionable pop tunes of the moment. The Internet is a great opportunity for artists that can't make it in this plastic, industrial star-system and also for consumers that are careful about what they listen to.
The problem with this study is that it's based on scientific criteria. The RIAA doesn't need science, they won't let reality fool them. They create their own parallel reality first and then base all their assumptions on that. More or less like what TV pundits do.
The USA has 4% of the World's population and produces 25% of CO2 emissions. China has 21% of World's population and produces 15% of the emissions. How can you blame China?
I disagree completely. Despite all the problems related to freedom of expression that happened in the Socialist states, the commonality of knowledge is one of the pillars of Marxism. The former Soviet Block countries have the best levels of education in the World, even better than the rich capitalist countries.
Socialism is based in the belief that everyone is equal. Fascism is based on the belief that there are superior people that should have the power and lesser people that must obey or die.
The so called Socialist states have made huge deviations from the original Marxist doctrine. The political organisation created by Stalin in the USSR resembles more a fascist state than a socialist one. And China is definitely a fascist country. They just use the Communist iconography to disguise their real nature.
I am a musician and I prefer music performed live.
But I value works like this, of course. Most modern music is made with a combination of manipulation and actual playing.
Though, IMHO, the process used by our Scandinavian friend is so time consuming that it would be cheaper to learn how to play the instruments. If he took the time to learn how to play, he could compose and perform many music pieces, instead he spent a great deal of time to produce this one and will spend it for every work he creates in the future.
His work, though admirable, is only interesting as a curiosity, it doesn't prove anything. The musical taste of the people has travelled back and forth between the artificial and the natural, I believe electronics are here to stay, but skilled musicians will always be necessary. Music is so much more than combining notes together, there are the subjective senses of feeling and groove that make live music more interesting. What makes an interpretation of a symphony so interesting and other so dull, if they are using the exact same sheets? And can a computer perform a jazz piece, which is always different, and depends a lot on the interaction between musicians?
After all, when the machines can do anything, what will we do?
What do you need India for? I'm a skilled computer engineer with years of experience and I make € 17,000/year! Kids right out of college are offered internships making € 10,000/year!
We have wonderful, European-style labour laws, but hey, nobody abides to them! So, you want paid overtime? Are you crazy?
And it's close to you guys, a lot closer than India. In fact, we are your closest European neighbor. We have warm and sunny weather, great beaches, pretty women, great food and wines. Outsource to Portugal, the California of Europe!
I use Linux at my home. I had a tough time convincing my wife to use it, but, really, it has all the application she needs, and she uses it just as she would use Windows. When I'm using my home computer, most of the time I don't even notice I'm using Linux, instead of the Windoze machine at work.
Most clueless users I know will pirate everything they can instead of bothering to use OSS. Everybody calls me crazy because I use Linux at home, even tech savvy guys.
Submit your resumé in XML format and let the computer choose people!
Dude, you're COMPLETELY clueless. Get your head out of your own ass and look around. Maybe you learn something.
Of course you don't get to see the news about the German. The US media don't give a shit about what happens in the rest of the World, and I see your sources are pretty limited.
Do you bother to leave your bubble and check what's in the media in that tiny little area called "the rest of the World"?
You talk like there's no other media except the English speaking ones and Al Jazeera.
I see you live in a bubble. German soldiers are facing court now, for commiting atrocities in NATO missions. It hit the headlines some weeks ago.
Nice spin. You got the touch. Assuming your numbers are right,just a few questions:
And how exactly did you get that number from? Maybe Bill O'Reilly pulled it out of his ass.
The population is 26 Million, they only killed a few hundred thousands. It will take a long time to reach half the job. I suggest they hurry up.
I live in that tiny little place caleed "the rest of the World", and I can guarantee you this war was considered a disgrace ever since your president started talking about it. Face it, nobody bought Bush's crap outside of the US, in spite of the great effort from our media corporate machine to convince us otherwise.
Only some right-wing politicians (and Blair, the poodle) gave their approval, but they would suck the American President's dick any time, no matter who he is or what party he belongs to.
US population is only about 300 million people whereas the population of China is almost twice that
The population in China is more than 4 times that!
That's about 1400 litres per minute.
Margaritas are mexican. Maybe you meant caipirinhas?
That doesn't mean anything. If you seek for the brand owners, they're all from the rich countries, mainly USA.
The brand owners are the ones making real money with those products. The others are just subcontractors manufacturing and earning peanuts for it.
gringo is an offensive term in the US
I didn't know it was offensive. It's now banned from my posts.
Europe in general has an extremely protectionistic attitude towards people/companies/etc - one of the basic tenants of socialism
Capitalism resorts to that all the time. It is the basis for the prosperity of the rich Western countries (USA, Europe, etc). And is one of the fundamental components of the fascist doctrine, which creates the best possible environment for monopolies to establish and grow.
Thanks for the advice. I take the opportunity to enhance my English skills.
English is not my native language.