I am not a believer in anthropomorphic global warming. At least not to the extent that I think we are in totally responsible for it. But I accept we are playing our (very small) part. None of this addresses the greater issue. Global warming (climate change) is a natural and inevitable force. While we are running around like headless chickens squawking about CO2, we seem to be forgetting the *other* scientists who established years ago that we were in the middle of a brief warming during an ice age. The graphs showing the gas content of ice from other ice ages show a steeply rising curve of temp. and CO2 just before a huge drop of both, as the ice age resumes.
Hopefully, those in charge know this and are just keeping the masses occupied - it can't do any harm - can it ? But still, think about how long humans have been around as intelligent beings then compare that to the length of time between major geological events in history. History has not stopped, these changes are going to happen. It is up to us to adapt, not retreat in the face of adversity and restrict ourselves for fear of retribution.
I had hoped to be off the planet before now, but I'm stuck here with a bunch of whiners who would rather restrict themselves and worry about every last gas molecule, than get off the planet and find more resources. There is a definite rift opening up in humanity. Those who question and those who don't. The gap has been wider in the past, but now it has started to widen again. Let us get off this planet before we lose the will. Imagine a flowering plant. Its whole purpose in life is to grow as big and strong as it can, then flower and produce seed that fly away on the wind to who knows where. We are strong, we may get even stronger, but we are being browbeaten into "conserving our energy" ! What sense does that make to a plant who wants to spread and needs that energy now, before it dies.
Ignore the clouds. Wasn't there a study showing the relationship between rates of radioactive decay and solar activity ? IIRC, then some of the earths warming comes from the core, which in turn is warmed by radioactive decay. After a big bag of assumptions, couldn't solar activity be related to global temperature. Tectonics must release a lot of heat, and we've had quite a few events recently (Christmas 2006 onwards anyway).
If a service provider is providing poor service, then there is a huge incentive for a large company to come in and providing competing service. The only thing stopping them is the local government's restriction on laying parallel lines.
And which is more efficient ?
Let a company get replicated, have to lay new lines, start from scratch with the management then take the dominant position in the market, then let the other company die and put people out of work, and have to fund them through taxes
regulate the existing company to achieve the same effect (better service)
The issue is that even though some of the job losses are offset by the new company taking on, not all of them are. This is the future of all manual labour. What is being done about it ? Other than turning people into extremely inefficient data input drones.
Most of the tags I see are correct - other than the last one "story". IMHO, that should read "same *old* propaganda". But I use linux all the time and I'm avoiding the flame wars thanks. Byeee.
Unfortunately, you have to spend a good deal more to get a TFT that can handle 1600x1200. I "upgraded" from a 19" CRT to a 19" tft and am stuck at 1024 (at 32bit admittedly). But the tft cost more than the CRT at the time. Good old Dell.
You shouldn't do that. Trust is a nebulous thing. I prefer to know in advance what my machine is intending to do.
As for the post you replied to, I would have said that a truly intelligent person would set the auto update to notify only. Why download a huge update you don't want on your system ? And that's speaking from a linux POV. OO.org updates can be 100's of meg.
If that's not true, why does it tell you to reboot after an update ?
So post an unedited video of updating Internet Explorer without rebooting windows, coz I've never seen it. And that means applying the update (rebooting), not just using the machine for a day (thinking you've done it) before rebooting and using the browser tomorrow. Coz that's when the browser gets updated in windows - on reboot. Everywhere else, you just have to restart the browser.
I have left windows (XP) for hours after a patch and it has never rebooted itself. After every 20 minutes or so it will issue a pop-up reminding you of the patch and need to reboot, but never has it just done it unrequested. But then I have automatic installation turned off. I allow notify only, otherwise you get WGA, and the malicious software tool installed which is bad news. Poor suckers who installed SP3, even though they were already up to date...
On that note, has anybody had issues with something named au_.exe after the SP3 install ? I never heard of it before but now there are hundreds of people with misbehaving software (not all of MS origin) and they can't get rid of it. AV just doesn't do the job and I run linux for anything promiscuous anyway so it's hard to pinpoint a solution.
I'm sorry but you are wrong. So is the OP, but even so...
The period you are struggling to identify was the dark ages, that being the time after the Roman empire collapsed leaving a void in its wake. There was no significant technological advancement (that we know of) during this period.
The middle ages stretches from around 1100 right up to around 1500. This period was the beginning of enlightenment and re-establishment of knowledge. "Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion, resistance and renaissance." See for yourself.
Oh and BTW, cast iron was invented and in use since the 6th century BC. As for your intimation that the black death was caused by lack of cleanliness - not even the wiki link you gave supports that argument. How was a civilisation that had no inkling of epidemiology supposed to identify the cause of a disease that spread so rapidly ? And even if they had somehow guessed that rats were the carriers, what were they supposed to do about it ? No chemical poisons could have helped, there were no inoculations, and the whole continent was suffering both from the plague and malnutrition brought on by the ending of the medieval warm period. They had no chance. To suggest that the plague was caused by a lack of basic hygiene is just wrong.
I have not taken a bath for probably 8 or 9 years. Does that mean I'm filthy dirty or maybe, just maybe, I have used other methods (showers, strip washes, swimming in seas, lakes and rivers).
The Roman constructions were mostly built around the beginning of the last millennium. The Egyptian pyramids were already built 2 millennia before that. It took a good thousand years before the modern world surpassed the Roman architecture. Capiche ?
Until the rich are taxed at 100% (past the certain threshold) then there is ALWAYS incentive to make more. You sound like the dickheads I've worked with in the past who won't do paid overtime because "the government taxes them more". The govt. doesn't tax them any more than they do already, but that's their feeble excuse. After about £100 per week, you pay tax - end of story. You don't pay a higher rate until you reach over 40k a year and then it's only that portion over 40k that gets taxed at a higher rate. I don't see a shortage of millionaires either.
We also tend to find it offensive when we are forced to join organizations against our will or interests. Why should a worker have to join a union to work at a particular company? There is no morally acceptable reason why this is so.
Where does it say that when the union says jump, you must jump ? Do you always do what you're told ? Support the things you believe in and don't support the things you don't. But bear in mind that if you don't participate at all then the mechanism won't be there when you do need it. Why do you have to work at that particular company anyway ? Perhaps because they pay the best wages (probably due to the union), they have the best conditions (again, probably due to the union) or there is nowhere else to work (if it hadn't been for the union, the company would have shut down and moved elsewhere). Just because you see no immediate benefit to the union, doesn't mean there were no benefits at one point, or that there won't be a benefit in the future. You may as well say "I don't see the need for health insurance - I'm fine right now".
Time and time again I see people complaining about the corporations having the politicians on a tight leash, but nobody is in a position to change that( unless you are rich and have connections). But when unions are discussed, they are complained about because they have politicians on a tight leash. This is how democracy works. Both camps get to have a say. One is there to feather their own nest, and the other is there to make sure the other doesn't feather their nest to the detriment of the people who make the nest possible in the first place. It's similar to the dentist situation. You grab the dentist by the balls and say "we're not going to hurt each other are we ?"
And you can say exactly the same about any company that is not constrained by a union agreement. They pick the working hours (whether those hours are fair and possible or not) they get to choose how much you get paid, the state of the working conditions and if you don't like it you are forced to go elsewhere. Unfortunately, in the absence of unions, every company is able to offer the lowest rate possible and the worst working conditions and the workers are forced to comply. How is that not political ? You are lucky to have unions or you would be living in a shack by the side of the road. The labour party didn't exist in the UK until the beginning of the 20th century. It was formed by the unions allying themselves against the employers/landowners/rich. It caused a more even sharing of the value created by the companies and workers. But you obviously see yourself as an employer/landowner/rich man or you would not so easily dismiss the benefits that unions have bestowed upon everybodys working life. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. I'm sure I've read that somewhere...
Without unions (or some body that approximates their function) the only freedom you have is to choose which company you are enslaved to.
I don't agree. I run my own servers, not at home but in a colo some considerable distance away. I own my domains, I run my own name servers. When the ISP for my home connection blocks smtp to any but their own smtp servers, I am disconnected from my own machines. Why should I be forced to operate under "rules for children" when I do not send any spam whatsoever. My mail servers are not open relays, they all require a login to accept smtp. So do the ISPs smtp servers, but the spam is still there, operating mostly from compromised home machines. Fix that problem before you interfere with perfectly honest and legal users of the network. Surely it is fairly trivial to spot forged From: headers when the user is trying to relay though an ISPs smtp servers ? If you want to fake your headers, use your own smtp servers outside the ISPs network. That way, any spamming servers MUST be outside the ISPs network and can be blocked efficiently. If a stream of spam is not using the ISPs servers to send, I would contend that it is none of their business and they should concentrate on incoming spam instead. Instead they decide to block the port, which breaks the internet.
On a side note, M$ have been pushing their stupid "I'm a PC" ads on tv a lot recently (in the UK), and the slogan the ads finish with makes me laugh - "Windows - Life without walls". ROFL ! That statement is wrong on so many levels it's almost unfunny. First, if they had "walls" maybe there wouldn't be so many botted machines, and secondly, what part of proprietary code and DRMed up the spout indicates "no walls" ?
I don't get to buy a Lexus, and then demand my neighbors pay 10% of it. Neither should you get to ride a train and demand I fund 10% of your ride. In either case it would be theft of others' property.
How many people get to ride on that train ? How many people get to ride in your lexus (and how many times a day) ?
If you want to be a selfish idiot, don't buy the lexus because you will be subsidizing trains. Easy. No theft involved. But don't you dare EVER ride the train. You want more people on the roads ? Or is that a cause for complaint as well. It seems to me that you are only interested in your own short sighted selfish existence. Instead of doing something that reduces costs to everybody, you want everybody else to stop doing things that annoy you, while you get free rein to carry on being an idiot. Sums up your whole philosophy quite neatly.
It's bad enough that $1 of every tank of gasoline goes to fund subways/metros. That shouldn't be allowed; let the riders directly pay the cost through the ticket sales, not force carowners to subsidize them.
How about car drivers pay the true cost of their choices ? Why should I pay taxes to subsidize the roads if I don't use them ? Why should I be poisoned by the fumes and be late to work every day because the road is full of assholes who want every thing "their way" ? Why should my taxes go towards paying for the "war" in Iraq, just so you assholes can keep buying cheap gas ?
We can all play your game, and then suddenly no-one has anything. That's the trouble with you libertarians, you are only concerned with how much you can get at the expense of everybody else. Problem being you don't realise how much your cozy little selfish existence owes to the community you are seeking to deprive. What makes your rights more important than my rights ? If you had half a brain and considered things honestly, you would realise that we are supposed to have equal rights. So the one thing that pisses you off may be the thing that I need, and vice-versa. So the only answer is we either have both or neither, and considering your childish notion of the world, we'll probably end up with nothing.
And once again jcr argues for heavy metals in your ground water, no safety features in cars, no minimum wage or health and safety precautions while at work, no military force, no hospitals nor anything else that the government currently regulates and therefore enforces. In order to have any of those benefits of civilisation, you have to get the money from somewhere, and that is why we pay taxes. Sure I agree that huge corporations should not be bailed out, but what about the workers of those corporations ? They didn't make the policies that are now costing billions. In fact most large corporations didn't. They just got used to living with easy credit, which due to the fantasy financial vehicles dreamed up by the financial markets, is no longer available. In jcrs world, you have to fight for what you want, whether that be clean air, airspace that you can use without interference or food. Winner takes all, or nothing.
Here's an idea - go live on a desert island with a few friends and see how long it takes before you are forced to cooperate or fight to the death over resources. This level of crass ignorance hasn't been seen since a certain M. Antoinette supposedly said "let them eat cake".
Both NPR and Wired are running stories about how nearly two decades ago, a dogged, absent minded Canadian geologist named Charles Fipke who was practically down to his last nickel when he discovered diamonds in the Northwest Territories.
Does anybody read these submissions ? What happened when he discovered these diamonds ? I get the "who was" and "when" but what happened nearly 2 decades ago ? Why should I invent the rest or follow links to find out what a sentence means ? Lose the "who" or it doesn't make sense.
So instead of raising the intelligence of the users, we must lower the complexity of linux ? How does that help anybody ? Why teach people to drive properly when we can just install auto transmissions and airbags ? You do realise that lack of movie playing on linux is a copyright and patent issue and not a software issue. As are most of the issues regarding hardware. You speak as though you were being charged for your copy of linux, and therefore expect it to work fully in every aspect. It is not a product, it is an environment. You choose which environment to work in, either get movies playing out of the box and get pwned every 5 minutes, or get a secure environment which can also play movies IF you want it to. Besides which, I have had to install codecs on XP before to play divx/xvid and other formats. I also have to install flash etc. So claiming that windows does it all out of the box is disingenuous. Linux distros commonly do far more "out of the box" than windows ever has. I have never installed windows where I didn't have to reboot maybe 5 times because after the os is installed you have to install drivers for all the hardware, in the correct order. Then you can start on installing software, which often needs a reboot for each item.
Notepad has certainly had issues. I remember a virus back in '99 that hid itself in notepad, so even if you rebooted after a full scan it re-inserted itself in the system. It blocked virus updates on the AV scanner too, so the only way I found it was to search the net for symptoms on a clean machine, then (eventually) take a copy of the clean notepad.exe on a floppy to the other machine and replace the infected one. IIRC, it was kakworm responsible.
I remember because I was showing one of the office girls what happened when you opened one of the various russian spam emails we were getting. She asked what it did, so I said click it and find out... took me 4 hours to track that fucker down.
This is a chicken and egg problem. Do stars form galaxies or do galaxies form stars?
I don't think that's right. Galaxies ARE formed OF stars. Think of a shallow sea (the universe). As it dries out you get isolated puddles. Those puddles are galaxies, but they are formed of water (stars). The word galaxy is only a collective noun.
Surely from what we know, stellar objects coalesce from clouds of gas, and a galaxy is therefore somewhat similar to a solar system where the most massive object is at the centre, merely because it has coalesced more. Naturally it becomes the centre. It would follow then that the stars in galaxies are the smaller coalescences surrounding the black hole which is naturally the most massive. For all we know, all the galaxies are lesser coalescences in the universe, which in turn is a lesser coalescence in the whatever. Maybe it is all fractal.
The whole point of this was to show you it disappearing. End of. No more. Done.
Putting into a medium designed for longevity would be precisely against the intention of the work. How do you demonstrate the effect of a highly mobile medium on literature if you protect against that effect ? Do you (can you) see DRM in action through the medium of paper ? It is impossible because you can always go back a page - not so with this. This is ice sculpture for the modern age.
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Global warming
I am not a believer in anthropomorphic global warming. At least not to the extent that I think we are in totally responsible for it. But I accept we are playing our (very small) part. None of this addresses the greater issue. Global warming (climate change) is a natural and inevitable force. While we are running around like headless chickens squawking about CO2, we seem to be forgetting the *other* scientists who established years ago that we were in the middle of a brief warming during an ice age. The graphs showing the gas content of ice from other ice ages show a steeply rising curve of temp. and CO2 just before a huge drop of both, as the ice age resumes.
Hopefully, those in charge know this and are just keeping the masses occupied - it can't do any harm - can it ? But still, think about how long humans have been around as intelligent beings then compare that to the length of time between major geological events in history. History has not stopped, these changes are going to happen. It is up to us to adapt, not retreat in the face of adversity and restrict ourselves for fear of retribution.
I had hoped to be off the planet before now, but I'm stuck here with a bunch of whiners who would rather restrict themselves and worry about every last gas molecule, than get off the planet and find more resources. There is a definite rift opening up in humanity. Those who question and those who don't. The gap has been wider in the past, but now it has started to widen again. Let us get off this planet before we lose the will. Imagine a flowering plant. Its whole purpose in life is to grow as big and strong as it can, then flower and produce seed that fly away on the wind to who knows where. We are strong, we may get even stronger, but we are being browbeaten into "conserving our energy" ! What sense does that make to a plant who wants to spread and needs that energy now, before it dies.
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Ignore the clouds. Wasn't there a study showing the relationship between rates of radioactive decay and solar activity ? IIRC, then some of the earths warming comes from the core, which in turn is warmed by radioactive decay. After a big bag of assumptions, couldn't solar activity be related to global temperature. Tectonics must release a lot of heat, and we've had quite a few events recently (Christmas 2006 onwards anyway).
Odd you should say that when the free market has just imploded due to under supply (faith, confidence, credit).
Fffiiiiissh !
And which is more efficient ?
The issue is that even though some of the job losses are offset by the new company taking on, not all of them are. This is the future of all manual labour. What is being done about it ? Other than turning people into extremely inefficient data input drones.
Most of the tags I see are correct - other than the last one "story".
IMHO, that should read "same *old* propaganda".
But I use linux all the time and I'm avoiding the flame wars thanks.
Byeee.
Unfortunately, you have to spend a good deal more to get a TFT that can handle 1600x1200. I "upgraded" from a 19" CRT to a 19" tft and am stuck at 1024 (at 32bit admittedly). But the tft cost more than the CRT at the time. Good old Dell.
You shouldn't do that. Trust is a nebulous thing. I prefer to know in advance what my machine is intending to do.
As for the post you replied to, I would have said that a truly intelligent person would set the auto update to notify only. Why download a huge update you don't want on your system ? And that's speaking from a linux POV. OO.org updates can be 100's of meg.
If that's not true, why does it tell you to reboot after an update ?
So post an unedited video of updating Internet Explorer without rebooting windows, coz I've never seen it. And that means applying the update (rebooting), not just using the machine for a day (thinking you've done it) before rebooting and using the browser tomorrow. Coz that's when the browser gets updated in windows - on reboot. Everywhere else, you just have to restart the browser.
I have left windows (XP) for hours after a patch and it has never rebooted itself. After every 20 minutes or so it will issue a pop-up reminding you of the patch and need to reboot, but never has it just done it unrequested. But then I have automatic installation turned off. I allow notify only, otherwise you get WGA, and the malicious software tool installed which is bad news. Poor suckers who installed SP3, even though they were already up to date...
On that note, has anybody had issues with something named au_.exe after the SP3 install ? I never heard of it before but now there are hundreds of people with misbehaving software (not all of MS origin) and they can't get rid of it. AV just doesn't do the job and I run linux for anything promiscuous anyway so it's hard to pinpoint a solution.
I'm sorry but you are wrong. So is the OP, but even so...
The period you are struggling to identify was the dark ages, that being the time after the Roman empire collapsed leaving a void in its wake. There was no significant technological advancement (that we know of) during this period.
The middle ages stretches from around 1100 right up to around 1500. This period was the beginning of enlightenment and re-establishment of knowledge.
"Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion, resistance and renaissance." See for yourself.
Oh and BTW, cast iron was invented and in use since the 6th century BC. As for your intimation that the black death was caused by lack of cleanliness - not even the wiki link you gave supports that argument. How was a civilisation that had no inkling of epidemiology supposed to identify the cause of a disease that spread so rapidly ? And even if they had somehow guessed that rats were the carriers, what were they supposed to do about it ? No chemical poisons could have helped, there were no inoculations, and the whole continent was suffering both from the plague and malnutrition brought on by the ending of the medieval warm period. They had no chance. To suggest that the plague was caused by a lack of basic hygiene is just wrong.
I have not taken a bath for probably 8 or 9 years. Does that mean I'm filthy dirty or maybe, just maybe, I have used other methods (showers, strip washes, swimming in seas, lakes and rivers).
The Roman constructions were mostly built around the beginning of the last millennium. The Egyptian pyramids were already built 2 millennia before that. It took a good thousand years before the modern world surpassed the Roman architecture.
Capiche ?
Utter crap.
Until the rich are taxed at 100% (past the certain threshold) then there is ALWAYS incentive to make more. You sound like the dickheads I've worked with in the past who won't do paid overtime because "the government taxes them more". The govt. doesn't tax them any more than they do already, but that's their feeble excuse. After about £100 per week, you pay tax - end of story. You don't pay a higher rate until you reach over 40k a year and then it's only that portion over 40k that gets taxed at a higher rate. I don't see a shortage of millionaires either.
Where does it say that when the union says jump, you must jump ? Do you always do what you're told ? Support the things you believe in and don't support the things you don't. But bear in mind that if you don't participate at all then the mechanism won't be there when you do need it. Why do you have to work at that particular company anyway ? Perhaps because they pay the best wages (probably due to the union), they have the best conditions (again, probably due to the union) or there is nowhere else to work (if it hadn't been for the union, the company would have shut down and moved elsewhere). Just because you see no immediate benefit to the union, doesn't mean there were no benefits at one point, or that there won't be a benefit in the future. You may as well say "I don't see the need for health insurance - I'm fine right now".
Time and time again I see people complaining about the corporations having the politicians on a tight leash, but nobody is in a position to change that( unless you are rich and have connections). But when unions are discussed, they are complained about because they have politicians on a tight leash. This is how democracy works. Both camps get to have a say. One is there to feather their own nest, and the other is there to make sure the other doesn't feather their nest to the detriment of the people who make the nest possible in the first place.
It's similar to the dentist situation. You grab the dentist by the balls and say "we're not going to hurt each other are we ?"
And you can say exactly the same about any company that is not constrained by a union agreement. They pick the working hours (whether those hours are fair and possible or not) they get to choose how much you get paid, the state of the working conditions and if you don't like it you are forced to go elsewhere. Unfortunately, in the absence of unions, every company is able to offer the lowest rate possible and the worst working conditions and the workers are forced to comply. How is that not political ? You are lucky to have unions or you would be living in a shack by the side of the road. The labour party didn't exist in the UK until the beginning of the 20th century. It was formed by the unions allying themselves against the employers/landowners/rich. It caused a more even sharing of the value created by the companies and workers. But you obviously see yourself as an employer/landowner/rich man or you would not so easily dismiss the benefits that unions have bestowed upon everybodys working life. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. I'm sure I've read that somewhere ...
Without unions (or some body that approximates their function) the only freedom you have is to choose which company you are enslaved to.
I don't agree. I run my own servers, not at home but in a colo some considerable distance away. I own my domains, I run my own name servers. When the ISP for my home connection blocks smtp to any but their own smtp servers, I am disconnected from my own machines. Why should I be forced to operate under "rules for children" when I do not send any spam whatsoever. My mail servers are not open relays, they all require a login to accept smtp. So do the ISPs smtp servers, but the spam is still there, operating mostly from compromised home machines. Fix that problem before you interfere with perfectly honest and legal users of the network. Surely it is fairly trivial to spot forged From: headers when the user is trying to relay though an ISPs smtp servers ? If you want to fake your headers, use your own smtp servers outside the ISPs network. That way, any spamming servers MUST be outside the ISPs network and can be blocked efficiently. If a stream of spam is not using the ISPs servers to send, I would contend that it is none of their business and they should concentrate on incoming spam instead. Instead they decide to block the port, which breaks the internet.
On a side note, M$ have been pushing their stupid "I'm a PC" ads on tv a lot recently (in the UK), and the slogan the ads finish with makes me laugh - "Windows - Life without walls".
ROFL ! That statement is wrong on so many levels it's almost unfunny. First, if they had "walls" maybe there wouldn't be so many botted machines, and secondly, what part of proprietary code and DRMed up the spout indicates "no walls" ?
How many people get to ride on that train ? How many people get to ride in your lexus (and how many times a day) ?
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If you want to be a selfish idiot, don't buy the lexus because you will be subsidizing trains. Easy. No theft involved. But don't you dare EVER ride the train. You want more people on the roads ? Or is that a cause for complaint as well. It seems to me that you are only interested in your own short sighted selfish existence. Instead of doing something that reduces costs to everybody, you want everybody else to stop doing things that annoy you, while you get free rein to carry on being an idiot. Sums up your whole philosophy quite neatly.
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How about car drivers pay the true cost of their choices ? Why should I pay taxes to subsidize the roads if I don't use them ? Why should I be poisoned by the fumes and be late to work every day because the road is full of assholes who want every thing "their way" ? Why should my taxes go towards paying for the "war" in Iraq, just so you assholes can keep buying cheap gas ?
We can all play your game, and then suddenly no-one has anything. That's the trouble with you libertarians, you are only concerned with how much you can get at the expense of everybody else. Problem being you don't realise how much your cozy little selfish existence owes to the community you are seeking to deprive. What makes your rights more important than my rights ? If you had half a brain and considered things honestly, you would realise that we are supposed to have equal rights. So the one thing that pisses you off may be the thing that I need, and vice-versa. So the only answer is we either have both or neither, and considering your childish notion of the world, we'll probably end up with nothing.
And once again jcr argues for heavy metals in your ground water, no safety features in cars, no minimum wage or health and safety precautions while at work, no military force, no hospitals nor anything else that the government currently regulates and therefore enforces. In order to have any of those benefits of civilisation, you have to get the money from somewhere, and that is why we pay taxes. Sure I agree that huge corporations should not be bailed out, but what about the workers of those corporations ? They didn't make the policies that are now costing billions. In fact most large corporations didn't. They just got used to living with easy credit, which due to the fantasy financial vehicles dreamed up by the financial markets, is no longer available. In jcrs world, you have to fight for what you want, whether that be clean air, airspace that you can use without interference or food. Winner takes all, or nothing.
Here's an idea - go live on a desert island with a few friends and see how long it takes before you are forced to cooperate or fight to the death over resources.
This level of crass ignorance hasn't been seen since a certain M. Antoinette supposedly said "let them eat cake".
Both NPR and Wired are running stories about how nearly two decades ago, a dogged, absent minded Canadian geologist named Charles Fipke who was practically down to his last nickel when he discovered diamonds in the Northwest Territories.
Does anybody read these submissions ?
What happened when he discovered these diamonds ? I get the "who was" and "when" but what happened nearly 2 decades ago ? Why should I invent the rest or follow links to find out what a sentence means ? Lose the "who" or it doesn't make sense.
No Irish Sausage Producers here !
So instead of raising the intelligence of the users, we must lower the complexity of linux ? How does that help anybody ? Why teach people to drive properly when we can just install auto transmissions and airbags ? You do realise that lack of movie playing on linux is a copyright and patent issue and not a software issue. As are most of the issues regarding hardware. You speak as though you were being charged for your copy of linux, and therefore expect it to work fully in every aspect. It is not a product, it is an environment. You choose which environment to work in, either get movies playing out of the box and get pwned every 5 minutes, or get a secure environment which can also play movies IF you want it to. Besides which, I have had to install codecs on XP before to play divx/xvid and other formats. I also have to install flash etc. So claiming that windows does it all out of the box is disingenuous. Linux distros commonly do far more "out of the box" than windows ever has. I have never installed windows where I didn't have to reboot maybe 5 times because after the os is installed you have to install drivers for all the hardware, in the correct order. Then you can start on installing software, which often needs a reboot for each item.
So yeah, troll indeed.
Notepad has certainly had issues. I remember a virus back in '99 that hid itself in notepad, so even if you rebooted after a full scan it re-inserted itself in the system. It blocked virus updates on the AV scanner too, so the only way I found it was to search the net for symptoms on a clean machine, then (eventually) take a copy of the clean notepad.exe on a floppy to the other machine and replace the infected one. IIRC, it was kakworm responsible.
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I remember because I was showing one of the office girls what happened when you opened one of the various russian spam emails we were getting. She asked what it did, so I said click it and find out
took me 4 hours to track that fucker down.
I don't think that's right. Galaxies ARE formed OF stars. Think of a shallow sea (the universe). As it dries out you get isolated puddles. Those puddles are galaxies, but they are formed of water (stars). The word galaxy is only a collective noun.
Surely from what we know, stellar objects coalesce from clouds of gas, and a galaxy is therefore somewhat similar to a solar system where the most massive object is at the centre, merely because it has coalesced more. Naturally it becomes the centre. It would follow then that the stars in galaxies are the smaller coalescences surrounding the black hole which is naturally the most massive. For all we know, all the galaxies are lesser coalescences in the universe, which in turn is a lesser coalescence in the whatever. Maybe it is all fractal.
- 1 Missing the point.
The whole point of this was to show you it disappearing. End of. No more. Done.
Putting into a medium designed for longevity would be precisely against the intention of the work. How do you demonstrate the effect of a highly mobile medium on literature if you protect against that effect ? Do you (can you) see DRM in action through the medium of paper ? It is impossible because you can always go back a page - not so with this. This is ice sculpture for the modern age.