The US is the only country I've seen where people display their flag outside their house.
I live in the UK, and I have indeed never seen a house with a flagpole. However, the more rabid sports fans and the occasional BNP nutjob will hang the English flag (never the Union Flag) in our out of the window of their house or van (such people seem not to drive normal cars).
No that is perfectly legal in the US. We call it free speech.
And I call it shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. Death-threats usually aren't legal.
I'm not a lawyer or an American (and didn't actually mention the US), but I would hope that putting up a sign saying that you're going to kill your Jewish neighbour would be very illegal over there. Nazi symbols, if used to actually show support for Nazi ideology, are essentially a shorthand for such a statement.
Someone expressing support for Nazism simply isn't just "nasty and ugly political speech", it's also usually a statement that, with or without a government that supports them, they'd encourage and possibly participate in terrorist attacks on ethnic minorities.
For the record, I don't think I'm in favour of the now slightly silly absolute ban on swastikas in Germany (nutters collecting Nazi memorabilia are creepy, but aren't going to be made any more dangerous by letting them have the stuff, and most certainly enough time has gone by for films to be made about the war), but I do think that very obvious shows of support for Nazism should be illegal (not just in Germany), simply because they cause people to fear for their lives.
If someone were to fly as confederate flag as in implicit threat to murder his black neighbours, then I think he should be made to take it down. I'm not from the US, but I get the impression that it's more often used as a symbol of disliking the federal government. I don't see that (seriously) showing a Nazi flag could ever not be taken as a threat against the Jewish/Roma/whatever population of a city.
Try Konqueror? I switched to Firefox as soon as it was stable enough to replace the Mozilla suite, (which I'd moved to from I.E. for the tabbed browsing) used it as my main browser through both name changes and recommended it to everybody when everybody used I.E. Konqueror is where I went when it started to bloat and suffer from odd decisions (and an increasing number of windows-centric changes). I'd switched to Fx for the superior start-up time, and now it's become as bloated as the Suite was. Wonder if there's an extension to put the Mozilla Suite splashscren back in?
Konqueror loads Netscape plugins in a separate process, so your Flash problem wouldn't cause the browser to crash (it was doing this long, long before Chrome presented this as a new idea).
It renders with KHTML (the KDE project which started the codebase Webkit was based on), with a new option (recently made stable, if I recall correctly) of using Webkit, which gives compatibility with those sites written by people who ignore standards and just test against I.E., Firefox and Safari (it seems that's what the people who used to make IE-only sites do now). The Webkit mode doesn't suffer from the idiosyncratic treatment of text seen in Safari for Windows (the only Safari I've tested).
It also feels significantly less clunky and more responsive, subjectively, than Firefox. I haven't done any tests. I starts much faster, and while that is largely because I use KDE and all its libs are already available, I believe it would start faster from a different DE too.
Displaying the confederate flag doesn't generally imply a threat of violence. Displaying a Nazi flag (I say this to intentional not include other uses of the swastika) in seriousness does.
Do you think not having a Swastika will prevent a dictator or demagogue from choosing a different symbol to hide behind?
Using one which allows them to associate themselves with perceived "former glory" would work better. There would be a small number of automatic supporters.
I think the issue is with where to draw the line. Obviously, someone shouldn't be allowed to fly the flag of Nazi Germany outside their house, as that would be extremely intimidating to anyone living nearby who belongs to any of the groups Nazis don't like. By banning the swastika nearly outright, they avoid situations where someone could claim it was there for some artistic, ironic reason.
I thought Mao was pretty much universally hated, outside of China, even by very left-wing people. Inside China, negative information about him is carefully controlled.
Part of the reason he isn't hated as much as he might be is that the majority of the deaths he caused where due to incompetence rather than intentional mass-murder.
We live in a world where thousands of children starve to death every day, people are killed or imprisoned for expressing their beliefs, women/minorities/everybody are oppressed, and few people really care about any of it, because it's all someone else's problem. I find it kind of funny (and more than a little sad) that the use of a driver can be blithely written off as "immoral" just because you can't download the source.
Some people rape children. How can you possibly think shoplifting is immoral?
I'm another nvidia + Linux user, but there is a Radeon sitting next to my computer ready for me to install next time I have a free moment. The reason is that AMD is now cooperating with Linux devs on making open-source drivers available. The ATi driver situation is only going to get better from here.
It must be said that I've had very little trouble with nvidia drivers in recent years, they responded quickly when the KDE community complained that KWin 4 turned up performance problems in rarely-use functions of the driver, and nvidia drivers have never prevented me from doing a kernel or xorg upgrade (a complaint I've heard about binary ATi drivers). However, open-source graphics drivers are clearly the future, and will enable the community to do awesome things like desktop effects more easily in future, without waiting around for corporations to help.
Kernel mode setting is a somewhat geekier and less pretty example of such a new technology being implemented now - it allows the Linux console to run at native resolution and makes X start a little faster, on Intel chips and, since September 9th, on Radeon HD cards. Support for nvidia cards will have to wait for the nouveau project (who are writing nvidia drivers without access to specs) to mature. This seems likely to be the way things will work for any cool new graphics features on Linux in future, unless nvidia releases some of their own specs.
Which driver are you using? Have you tried the alternatives? I'm undecided as to whether I'm going to use the open drivers right away or wait for them to mature a bit.
Not to mention that Apple hardware lasts a HELL of a lot longer than a vast majority of comparable products from other companies.
No.
It doesn't last longer. On average, Apple products probably do takes longer to develop a fault than competing devices, but once a fault has developed, I would say it's less likely that you can get it fixed, and almost impossible that you'll be able to fix it yourself or get it fixed cheaply.
Few apps have been nuked after acceptance, but for some apps they started rejecting upgrades due to a change in policy, effectively nuking the app when it needs to be updated to work with a new firmware version.
It makes sense for any animal to avoid a site where its own are dead.
Except for cannibals which are so hard to kill that whatever happened to the dead one was probably just bad luck. Like, for example, roaches. IIRC, their attraction to the smell of their own dead is pretty well documented.
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Use the water as an energy source how? Heat difference between something heated by the sun and the ice? I'm not sure I follow.
No.
No, no no. No. Do you actually own a computer or do you send your Slashdot posts in by mail?
1) The article is about a cable.
2) You probably don't have a 10Gb/s cable
3) You certainly don't have a 100m long 10Gb/s cable.
"in or out", as in either inside, covering the window, or outside, hanging from it.
/me should sleep instead of making typos on Slashdot.
I live in the UK, and I have indeed never seen a house with a flagpole. However, the more rabid sports fans and the occasional BNP nutjob will hang the English flag (never the Union Flag) in our out of the window of their house or van (such people seem not to drive normal cars).
And I call it shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. Death-threats usually aren't legal.
I'm not a lawyer or an American (and didn't actually mention the US), but I would hope that putting up a sign saying that you're going to kill your Jewish neighbour would be very illegal over there. Nazi symbols, if used to actually show support for Nazi ideology, are essentially a shorthand for such a statement.
Someone expressing support for Nazism simply isn't just "nasty and ugly political speech", it's also usually a statement that, with or without a government that supports them, they'd encourage and possibly participate in terrorist attacks on ethnic minorities.
For the record, I don't think I'm in favour of the now slightly silly absolute ban on swastikas in Germany (nutters collecting Nazi memorabilia are creepy, but aren't going to be made any more dangerous by letting them have the stuff, and most certainly enough time has gone by for films to be made about the war), but I do think that very obvious shows of support for Nazism should be illegal (not just in Germany), simply because they cause people to fear for their lives.
If someone were to fly as confederate flag as in implicit threat to murder his black neighbours, then I think he should be made to take it down. I'm not from the US, but I get the impression that it's more often used as a symbol of disliking the federal government. I don't see that (seriously) showing a Nazi flag could ever not be taken as a threat against the Jewish/Roma/whatever population of a city.
Try Konqueror? I switched to Firefox as soon as it was stable enough to replace the Mozilla suite, (which I'd moved to from I.E. for the tabbed browsing) used it as my main browser through both name changes and recommended it to everybody when everybody used I.E. Konqueror is where I went when it started to bloat and suffer from odd decisions (and an increasing number of windows-centric changes). I'd switched to Fx for the superior start-up time, and now it's become as bloated as the Suite was. Wonder if there's an extension to put the Mozilla Suite splashscren back in?
Konqueror loads Netscape plugins in a separate process, so your Flash problem wouldn't cause the browser to crash (it was doing this long, long before Chrome presented this as a new idea).
It renders with KHTML (the KDE project which started the codebase Webkit was based on), with a new option (recently made stable, if I recall correctly) of using Webkit, which gives compatibility with those sites written by people who ignore standards and just test against I.E., Firefox and Safari (it seems that's what the people who used to make IE-only sites do now). The Webkit mode doesn't suffer from the idiosyncratic treatment of text seen in Safari for Windows (the only Safari I've tested).
It also feels significantly less clunky and more responsive, subjectively, than Firefox. I haven't done any tests. I starts much faster, and while that is largely because I use KDE and all its libs are already available, I believe it would start faster from a different DE too.
Gah, I thought people stopped spreading crap about patching five years ago..
"They're PATCHING the open-source competitor. That means it was BROKEN! We never patch OUR software, therefore you know it isn't broken!"
Displaying the confederate flag doesn't generally imply a threat of violence. Displaying a Nazi flag (I say this to intentional not include other uses of the swastika) in seriousness does.
Using one which allows them to associate themselves with perceived "former glory" would work better. There would be a small number of automatic supporters.
I think the issue is with where to draw the line. Obviously, someone shouldn't be allowed to fly the flag of Nazi Germany outside their house, as that would be extremely intimidating to anyone living nearby who belongs to any of the groups Nazis don't like. By banning the swastika nearly outright, they avoid situations where someone could claim it was there for some artistic, ironic reason.
I thought Mao was pretty much universally hated, outside of China, even by very left-wing people. Inside China, negative information about him is carefully controlled.
Part of the reason he isn't hated as much as he might be is that the majority of the deaths he caused where due to incompetence rather than intentional mass-murder.
Some people rape children. How can you possibly think shoplifting is immoral?
/me steals some stuff.
They're obviously developing a new rootkit that is totally undetectable because it both is and isn't there.
I'm another nvidia + Linux user, but there is a Radeon sitting next to my computer ready for me to install next time I have a free moment. The reason is that AMD is now cooperating with Linux devs on making open-source drivers available. The ATi driver situation is only going to get better from here.
It must be said that I've had very little trouble with nvidia drivers in recent years, they responded quickly when the KDE community complained that KWin 4 turned up performance problems in rarely-use functions of the driver, and nvidia drivers have never prevented me from doing a kernel or xorg upgrade (a complaint I've heard about binary ATi drivers). However, open-source graphics drivers are clearly the future, and will enable the community to do awesome things like desktop effects more easily in future, without waiting around for corporations to help.
Kernel mode setting is a somewhat geekier and less pretty example of such a new technology being implemented now - it allows the Linux console to run at native resolution and makes X start a little faster, on Intel chips and, since September 9th, on Radeon HD cards. Support for nvidia cards will have to wait for the nouveau project (who are writing nvidia drivers without access to specs) to mature. This seems likely to be the way things will work for any cool new graphics features on Linux in future, unless nvidia releases some of their own specs.
Which driver are you using? Have you tried the alternatives? I'm undecided as to whether I'm going to use the open drivers right away or wait for them to mature a bit.
That's why I said "by choice". I think it's about the same fraction that have tried alternatives to IE and not liked them.
http://www.google.com/#hl=en&q=nvidia+crash+windows&aq=&aqi=&aq=f&aqi=g1&oq=&fp=ee36edbd3c16a1c5 has more hits.
Who the fuck uses iTunes by choice?
No.
It doesn't last longer. On average, Apple products probably do takes longer to develop a fault than competing devices, but once a fault has developed, I would say it's less likely that you can get it fixed, and almost impossible that you'll be able to fix it yourself or get it fixed cheaply.
Few apps have been nuked after acceptance, but for some apps they started rejecting upgrades due to a change in policy, effectively nuking the app when it needs to be updated to work with a new firmware version.
That's what will happen to you if you use closed-source software. They can do this already, you know.
If you're moving faster than the wind, nothing is going to smell you coming.
(Please somebody say WHOOSH!)
Except for cannibals which are so hard to kill that whatever happened to the dead one was probably just bad luck. Like, for example, roaches. IIRC, their attraction to the smell of their own dead is pretty well documented.
It's more like sending someone a bag of dog shit, and that someone is an idiot, who eats the dog shit. Then blames you.