Windowmaker is not a desktop. It's a window manager, which is merely one component of the desktop. Gnome is NOT a window manager, but can work with other window managers. Originally it worked with Enlightenment, but now it works with Sawfish and Windowmaker as well.
Your post made it sound like choosing windowmaker means NOT choosing Gnome. That isn't so. They are not mutually exclusive options.
.. pharmeceutical factories, and, on occaision, baby food factories
With that line you have demonstrated yourself to be someone who lives in an alternate universe totally unconnected to the real one. I'm done with you now. (Do you know the difference between "going after" a type of target and "going after" a different type of target and failing?)
If you want to accuse the US of being sloppy with it's aim, and it's intelligence, so that through criminal negligence innocent targets get hit, I'd actually agree. But since you chose to phrase it as if those results are deliberate malicious acts, I know your messages aren't worth the electrons they're printed on.
It is the research of means to convince people
to buy products, period.
False. There's two variables: 1 - what the customers want or will be wanting, and 2 - what products you produce. The goal of both marketing and advertising is trying to get those two to match up so you can make money. The difference between the two is that advertising deals ONLY with adjusting variable 1 while leaving variable 2 untouched. Marketing deals with both. When a marketing department is doing JUST advertising and that's all - then they are only doing half the job. When a marketing department concentrates more on #2 (figuring out what sort of products will be demanded so the company knows what it needs to be making) than it does on #1, then it is beneficial. The problem is all to often they ONLY look at #1 - how to manipulate customers into buying the crap the company happens to be making, instead of getting the company to CHANGE the crap that it's making to match what the customers want. This leads many (like you) into the false conclusion that advertising is all there is to marketing, and that all marketing is evil. I agree that what companies are doing today IS evil - but not because it's marketing. It's because it's lopsidedly throwing all their effort into one half of the job while ignoring the more important half. The advertising end of things is supposed to be soft-sell. Just let the customer know that you have a product that does X,Y,Z and that's all you need to do IF the other aspect of marketting (making a product people might actually want to buy) was done properly beforehand. All this excessive in-your-face advertising is not good marketing.
The revolutionaries were fighting guys all wearing red coats. Know what that means? They were British soldiers.
That's the difference between freedom fighters and terrorists - whether the intended target is military or civilian. The attack against the USS Cole, for example, was NOT terrorism. The attack on the Pentagon (assuming that was the intended target, which is still in question), was NOT terrorism. The Pentagon and the USS Cole can be considered military targets. The WTC and the embassy bombings are not. THAT is the defining difference.
If the US people weren't calling for blood and Dubya wasn't a jingoist prick, they'd have gone in, assasinated a few key people, snatched a few others, and
it'd be done.
I think you misspelled "If we lived in an alternate universe where it was actually possible,"
You try to figure out how to go in and assasinate "a few key people" with the Taliban in control and not have your operatives get caught. You make it sound so easy.
They don't agree because I don't recognize this specious distinction.
Marketing is research into what customers want, (and research into how to manipulate that). Advertising is getting the information out to the
potential market. Advertising is what you get when you APPLY the stuff that Marketing discovered.
I agree with your assesment of what the constitution was set up to try and do. I just disagree that it has anything to do with the difference between the words "republic" and "democracy". I'm not arguing that your core point is wrong. I'm saying you are using the wrong words to describe it.
re: pet peeve: When did I ever imply it was an assignment? I didn't want an assignment. I wanted to say it *already is* equal, not that I am trying to make it become equal.
A republic is a democracy in which there is an indirect mapping from people to power rather than a direct one - we elect representatives who in turn decide the law of the land, as opposed to deciding the law directly. This has nothing whatsoever to do with whether the law is dispensed on a freeform case-by-case basis or whether rules are decided upon ahead of time. What matters to making the difference between a democracy and a republic is *who* is the one making the law (either ahead of time or on a case-by-case basis).
Why should corporations be instruments of govenrment? That sounds like an unpleasant situation to me.
It's not that the corporations themselves were meant to be instruments of government, but that the institution of having corporations in the first place is an instrument of government. A corporation is a government-invented concept, of treating a collection of people who work at the same place as if they were one person under the law - so that it is possible for the "person" of a corporation to hold a bank account, or be liable for damages, and so on. Before corporations, a company was just a collection of individuals under the law. Companies didn't have their own bank accounts - all the money was personal money in
the hands of the persons who ran the company. Companies couldn't be sued, or sue others - You had to take up greivences with the individuals in the company, in person-to-person cases.
The problem isn't the privacy itself. It's the utter lack of respect for the "innocent until proven guilty" concept. It's the "seizure" part of "search and seizure" that bothers most people. If someone wants to waste their time spying on me I don't care. But if that someone wants to take my possesions based only on "suspicion" without any checks and balances to control that power, then I'm damn well gonna complain. I don't want to be the next Steve Jackson Games.
If all they did was observe passively I wouldn't care. But it doesn't *stop* with mere observation.
Remember the mis-named CDA - Communications Decency (yeah right) Act? Fiengold was only of only two (that's right TWO) senators who voted against it. He specificly cited the civil liberties problems in the bill as his reason for not supporting it.
I don't agree with everything he does, but on the basis of that one vote alone he earned a lot of respect from me. He was a relative newcomer and began making waves almost immediately with his campaign finance reform bill (with McCain), and his willingness to protect individual rights even when it's politically dangerous to take such a stand (like with the CDA, and now this).
Hat's off to him. If he runs again, he gets my vote. (I'm in Wisconsin). Tonight I'll look up the snail address to send him some dead trees letting him know this. (It's important to tell your representatives when you agree with them just as much as it's important to tell them when you disagree.)
[...] guys in the 10th Mtn have a fairly long memory, and they can think back. They were one of the divisions that went up the mountain
spine of Italy.
I doubt the 10th Mtn division has any 75-year-old WW2 veterans still in it.
the '.' isn't stored as part of the filename though,
Oops. Yes, you're right. My analogy's last statement should have been: strcpy( exten, "c" );
The dot is implied.
The radiator needs to feel the wind.
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The radiator *needs* air to ram into it to operate correctly (hence the fan that kicks in when you are idling for too long). This is at odds with the needs of areodynamics.
To get rid of the flat front grill of cars you have to first design a different style of radiator, one that doesn't require air to funnel
through its fins. I'm not sure how to go about doing that.
Besides, airflow only becomes an issue at higher speeds. Most of the gas wastage comes from commuters going at speeds less than freeway speeds, either on heavily traffic-lighted roads where there is a lot of idling, or on jammed highways that are supposed to go faster, but don't during the mis-named "rush hour". The times of greatest gas wastage are times when airflow doesn't matter at all.
Re:Imperial System does have an advantage
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There may be an occasional basketball player here and there who's feet are 12 inches long, but most peoples' feet are less than a 'foot' in length.
The big problem with Metric is that changing our mental concept of our time system is way too hard to get people to accept, so the MKS system has this weird bag on the side - seconds/minutes/hours, which are NOT expressed in 10's even though everything ELSE is.
When the Metric system was first proposed, it came with a new way to recon time: 1 day = 10 decidays (2.4 imperial hours) = 100 centidays (14.4 imperial minutes) = 1000 millidays (1.44 imperial minutes), and so on. This went nowhere, not because it's bad, but because it was just too alien for people to accept it. (Our current 24 hours per day system is purely made up and arbitrary, unlike the other aspects of the system that are based loosely on celestial events we can't control - length of a day, length of a year, length of a month (although our calender is way off on that one). )
In unix they aren't file extensions. They are suffixes. The difference is that in DOS/FAT they got stored in an actual seperate field in the directory. (I don't know if NTFS also does this. I stopped paying attention to MS technical details a while ago). In Unix, they are just ordinary parts of the filename, and don't mean anything special unless a particular program is written to parse the filename for "stuff coming after the last period".
An analogy: /*Unix*/
char fname[PATH_MAX]; strcpy( fname, "foo.c" );
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but they should at least know how to use Windows before they spend 90% of their energy trying to convince people that Windows is evil.
So nobody is allowed to criticise a product unless they give money to the company that makes it? You might not realize it, but that's the outcome of what you arre saying. Unless I buy each new version of Windows that comes out, I can't stay on top of the trivia details. So, only actual MS customers can criticise MS. In that case you are applying a filter that says only those who are satisfied with MS (satisfied enough to keep purchasing their OS'es) are allowed to comment.
I leave it as an excercise to the reader to see what's wrong with that.
I had heard (urban legend?) that that was the event that spawned the media's use of '555' for all fake phone numbers. They didn't want to get in a heap of trouble for using a real number, and there's a good chance that any random number they pick would be a real number of some unfortunate person, so they started using 555-.... numbers because those are never given out. I had heard that 865-5309 was the event that started this trend.
I don't think any of these people are seriously claiming that hydrogen sitting in a sealed undamaged tank will explode spontaneously. The concern is what happens WHEN (not if) the hydrogen
leaks out of its airtight container due to bad maintenence or a crash. In case you hadn't noticed, we seem to have an awful lot of oxygen around.
Oops - look I just got a paper cut. Hmm interesting - the blood is blue inside the vien, but it's red when it bleeds out. Gee, I wonder why that is...
Re-read your point #5. You start by saying the fire was not a signifigant part of the collapse, but then your further explanation says just the opposite. Was this just a writing mistake or am I missing something?
The impact of the planes did not destroy the towers. They were build to take a *massive* shakedown like that and still stand. They fell because the steel they were made out of started getting mushy when their temperature approached the melting point of steel. In other words, take out the fuel fire and just have the kinetic energy of the impact and the towers would have stood. (but the damage would have been bad enough that it would still have taken a long time to fix them.)
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Your post made it sound like choosing windowmaker means NOT choosing Gnome. That isn't so. They are not mutually exclusive options.
That's the difference between freedom fighters and terrorists - whether the intended target is military or civilian. The attack against the USS Cole, for example, was NOT terrorism. The attack on the Pentagon (assuming that was the intended target, which is still in question), was NOT terrorism. The Pentagon and the USS Cole can be considered military targets. The WTC and the embassy bombings are not. THAT is the defining difference.
You try to figure out how to go in and assasinate "a few key people" with the Taliban in control and not have your operatives get caught. You make it sound so easy.
I agree with your assesment of what the constitution was set up to try and do. I just disagree that it has anything to do with the difference between the words "republic" and "democracy". I'm not arguing that your core point is wrong. I'm saying you are using the wrong words to describe it.
re: pet peeve: When did I ever imply it was an assignment? I didn't want an assignment. I wanted to say it *already is* equal, not that I am trying to make it become equal.
That's why his statement and yours don't necessarily agree.
Representative Democracy == Republic.
I have no idea what you are trying to say. Too many pronouns without context.
If all they did was observe passively I wouldn't care. But it doesn't *stop* with mere observation.
I don't agree with everything he does, but on the basis of that one vote alone he earned a lot of respect from me. He was a relative newcomer and began making waves almost immediately with his campaign finance reform bill (with McCain), and his willingness to protect individual rights even when it's politically dangerous to take such a stand (like with the CDA, and now this).
Hat's off to him. If he runs again, he gets my vote. (I'm in Wisconsin). Tonight I'll look up the snail address to send him some dead trees letting him know this. (It's important to tell your representatives when you agree with them just as much as it's important to tell them when you disagree.)
Oops. Yes, you're right. My analogy's last statement should have been: strcpy( exten, "c" );
The dot is implied.
To get rid of the flat front grill of cars you have to first design a different style of radiator, one that doesn't require air to funnel through its fins. I'm not sure how to go about doing that.
Besides, airflow only becomes an issue at higher speeds. Most of the gas wastage comes from commuters going at speeds less than freeway speeds, either on heavily traffic-lighted roads where there is a lot of idling, or on jammed highways that are supposed to go faster, but don't during the mis-named "rush hour". The times of greatest gas wastage are times when airflow doesn't matter at all.
The big problem with Metric is that changing our mental concept of our time system is way too hard to get people to accept, so the MKS system has this weird bag on the side - seconds/minutes/hours, which are NOT expressed in 10's even though everything ELSE is.
When the Metric system was first proposed, it came with a new way to recon time: 1 day = 10 decidays (2.4 imperial hours) = 100 centidays (14.4 imperial minutes) = 1000 millidays (1.44 imperial minutes), and so on. This went nowhere, not because it's bad, but because it was just too alien for people to accept it. (Our current 24 hours per day system is purely made up and arbitrary, unlike the other aspects of the system that are based loosely on celestial events we can't control - length of a day, length of a year, length of a month (although our calender is way off on that one). )
Read the article through to the end of it. He *does* know about the right-click method.
An analogy:
/*Unix*/
char fname[PATH_MAX]; strcpy( fname, "foo.c" );
char fname[9]; strcpy( fname, "foo" );
char exten[4]; strcpy( exten, ".c" );
I leave it as an excercise to the reader to see what's wrong with that.
I had heard (urban legend?) that that was the event that spawned the media's use of '555' for all fake phone numbers. They didn't want to get in a heap of trouble for using a real number, and there's a good chance that any random number they pick would be a real number of some unfortunate person, so they started using 555-.... numbers because those are never given out. I had heard that 865-5309 was the event that started this trend.
Oops - look I just got a paper cut. Hmm interesting - the blood is blue inside the vien, but it's red when it bleeds out. Gee, I wonder why that is...
Re-read your point #5. You start by saying the fire was not a signifigant part of the collapse, but then your further explanation says just the opposite. Was this just a writing mistake or am I missing something?
The impact of the planes did not destroy the towers. They were build to take a *massive* shakedown like that and still stand. They fell because the steel they were made out of started getting mushy when their temperature approached the melting point of steel. In other words, take out the fuel fire and just have the kinetic energy of the impact and the towers would have stood. (but the damage would have been bad enough that it would still have taken a long time to fix them.)