Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Albeit, motorcycles seem to be for those who really want to break the speed limit, but cars do as well. You don't see this because if the driver is prudent, they will slow down if they see any oncoming traffic (possible unmarked police car). It is usually the idiot teenagers who drive their shitty cars way too fast (yesterday, a guy at my high school rolled his jeep because, it seems, he was going 80km/h in the parking lot).
But if there are patents on videogames, would it not stimulate the production of original games? If you couldn't make a game based on a certain set of ideas, wouldn't you be forced to create an original game?
Note: I don't agree with software or videogame patents, because I think they screw the consumer in the end by providing a crappy product, at likely a high price. But still, that last sentence made no sense.
Summer break is the only thing that keeps my sanity from completely evaporating by this point in the year. Secondly (admittedly, this is for high school), parents often don't know/understand/remember whatever it is that a homework assignment is about. I mean, my parents aren't stupid, but there's really no point in having them "help me understand" my physics homework. The thing that drives me absolutely mad about school is the mind-numbing pace at which everything is taught; it's never like I have any homework, because I get it all done in class when the teacher is repeating something for the seventh time.
Do I have a solution for these problems? Not really, but it's more than just homework causing the current situation: it's a weird combination of defectiveness and stupidity on the part of students, teachers, and administration. It will never be fixed, in other words.
...ruins it for all of us again. Everyone I know, for the most part, has played M-rated games (I'm 15). I started playing them at 13 (with the odd exposure much younger, but I didn't know they were M at the time). Many of my friends started playing earlier than this. Interestingly, not one of us has ever killed somebody, or, as far as I know, been charged with a violent crime. The one kid I know that was sheltered from violent games and movies, by overprotective parents, scares me far more than anyone who has played GTA:3, because he is now rather obsessed with guns and whatnot. My point being, there will be violence no matter what anyone says or does, and now minors can't buy games that they want to play.
Both terrorists and nazis, and to some extent the Japanese, were hardly scapegoats. The point could be argued that USSR/communism was a scapegoat, but it would be, at most, a half truth.
How do you know that Cubans would not vote for this regime? Although the election results of 98% are hardly accurate, it cannot be said that less than half of the Cuban population would vote for the Communist party. Cuba is semi-democratic, meaning that there are elections, but they are not completely free. During the last set of municipal elections, some large percentage of winners were non-incumbent. Although the dynamics change on a national scale, it shows a side of the Cuban governmental process that most people do not know about.
I responded to another post like this above your own. I think you will find that disagreeing with Israel's policies, and leaders, does not constitute hatred of the Jews or imply a request or preference for ethnic cleansing. Hitler was an asshole, but Israel has come surprisingly close to where he was. Plus, I think that you'll find Jews are safer in North America than in Israel, due to not being surrounded by people who want to kill them. Since suicide bombings are most common in Israel, I think it is safe to say that perhaps it isn't the most secure place for Jews to live. Also, do not forget that the Jews were hardly the only casualties during the Holocaust. Did the Roma get their own country after WW2? Did homosexuals? What about dissenters of Hitler's policies?
Firstly, North Korea is not stable, in any sense of the word. It's run by a nut, and war lies in wait at its border. Now, on to the meat and potatoes of your argument. From what I see on that site, Cuban policy and law is based on what needed to happen at the time of the revolution. The situation in pre-Communist Cuba was awful, where the people still had no control. Cuba is, essentially, a police state. It is run this way because there are numerous threats to the existance of the communist government. Communism runs on a different paradigm when compared to a democratic society. In a communist society, the right of the people to live in a socialist/communist society is valued above an individual's right to free speech. From their way of looking at the world, it is more important to have basic welfare and security provided than free speech and other "fundamental" freedoms. Look at other places in the Caribbean, where communism did not gain a foothold. Look at Haiti. Don't we all wish that Cuba could be like that?
Hear hear! I disagree with Castro on several things: invading Grenada, human rights abuses (not nearly as many as the US would have you believe), but he does have guts. It's a shame that the only countries with the power to criticize the US harshly are the likes of Cuba and North Korea, so that often valid points will fall on deaf ears.
Actually, it really does. For the average user, it means that the power of apt can be used in a GUI environment. If we are going to compare the aspects of a GUI system to those of a command line system, the results will be almost entirely meaningless. Let's compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. Also, do not forget that.deb packages and RPMs can be created and downloadable from individual sites.
I don't hate Jews, and I don't hate American *people*. I dislike their respective nations, and their leaders, but the people themselves aren't to be hated automatically. I have American family, and I have a few Jewish friends, several actually from Israel. It is the actions of nations, and therefore their leaders, and to some extent (in a democratic society) the people who voted for them.
Umm... do you really have to wonder? I don't like the US, and I'm not afraid to admit it. They are run by an insane man who thinks he talks to God (and God talks back). In Canada, we call this a case of schitzophrenia, and it is treated with drugs. Why should I like the US? They continue to impose tariffs on our goods (softwood lumber and beef) in violation of WTO rulings, and they are generally just bullies throughout the international community. Ah yes, and they support the right of Israel to create an apartheid state, seperated by a wall. Now you don't have to question whose side I'm on.
I remember sitting in an internet cafe at a resort in Cuba, wondering why they didn't use linux. Now maybe they will. My personal anecdote aside, I look forward to the day when it will hurt the US not to deal with Cuba; given its current popularity among European and Canadian travellers, I think it is coming. Cuba is still stable, and, indeed, has outlasted the Soviet Union.
As a gentoo user (i.e. not afraid of the command line and such), I can say that autopackage is a nice piece of software. The problem is that the people who package and distribute such packages (I believe some debian people were complaining) need a system that is easy to use and powerful, just as much as the end user does. Also, let's face it, synaptic is not a complex piece of software for the most part. Autopackage is excellent for third party apps, but it is not particularly exciting (to me at least) when it comes to software distributed with/by the distro itself.
If people do anything the amount they smoke, it will kill them somehow. I smoke the occasional cigar, and I really don't think it's killing me any faster than the car exhaust everyone breathes in on a daily basis.
I know, this is a law that has ruined many a great Canadian channel (just look at some of the Comedy network garbage). The point being, that just because someone uses bittorrent, does not mean that they are trying to be evil pirates. If I had another way to get HBO, I wouldn't bittorrent things... but until that time, I will.
In Canada, there is no way to get HBO legally. The only option is BitTorrent or an illegal American satilite (sp?) dish. I'd pay for it if I could get it, but as it is, I have to download the excellent programming with BitTorrent. What they don't understand is that they need to make it available for people to pay them, before they starting bitching about piracy.
I have what was, essentially, the cheapest cell phone I could get when I signed up for a plan. The fucking color screen is a piece of shit, because I can't see a goddamned thing in any sort of light, and every polyphonic ringtone is so annoying that I have it set to only vibrate. Phones need to be just that: phones. I have an iPod for music. It works great, and the interface actually makes me hate listening to music on my computer, because it's so much more effort. It will be atrocious trying to control a music player and whatever other garbage they pile on to this piece of crap with just a number pad, and it will be a shitty phone if there are any other buttons. The *only* thing that might be positive is the ability to play movies (should it support that sort of thing), which I think is one of the iPod's weaknesses at the moment.
The odd thing about this is that, because twin-engine overseas aircraft need to pass this requirement, they have a greater dispatch reliability than an equivilent quad. Why do you think Air Canada went with the 777 over the A340?
Will they be shover robots or pusher robots? Also, what if the blind people do not have stairs in their house? How will the robots protect them from the Terrible Secret of Space??? This obviously wasn't thought out very well...
1) These photos are not digitally edited. This beach and airport is real.
2) It is not an awful beach; it is the holy grail of aircraft spotting, and a place that most aviation enthusiasts (myself included) would like to visit someday
3) If you say 9/11 in relation to this subject, such as, "OMG! it's unsafe there will be terrorisms LOLZ", I will be forced to kill you.
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I think the question is: do all of us have a DVD *burner*? I don't yet, despite both my computers having DVD drives.
Just because you don't see it doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Albeit, motorcycles seem to be for those who really want to break the speed limit, but cars do as well. You don't see this because if the driver is prudent, they will slow down if they see any oncoming traffic (possible unmarked police car). It is usually the idiot teenagers who drive their shitty cars way too fast (yesterday, a guy at my high school rolled his jeep because, it seems, he was going 80km/h in the parking lot).
Note: I don't agree with software or videogame patents, because I think they screw the consumer in the end by providing a crappy product, at likely a high price. But still, that last sentence made no sense.
Summer break is the only thing that keeps my sanity from completely evaporating by this point in the year. Secondly (admittedly, this is for high school), parents often don't know/understand/remember whatever it is that a homework assignment is about. I mean, my parents aren't stupid, but there's really no point in having them "help me understand" my physics homework. The thing that drives me absolutely mad about school is the mind-numbing pace at which everything is taught; it's never like I have any homework, because I get it all done in class when the teacher is repeating something for the seventh time.
Do I have a solution for these problems? Not really, but it's more than just homework causing the current situation: it's a weird combination of defectiveness and stupidity on the part of students, teachers, and administration. It will never be fixed, in other words.
...ruins it for all of us again. Everyone I know, for the most part, has played M-rated games (I'm 15). I started playing them at 13 (with the odd exposure much younger, but I didn't know they were M at the time). Many of my friends started playing earlier than this. Interestingly, not one of us has ever killed somebody, or, as far as I know, been charged with a violent crime. The one kid I know that was sheltered from violent games and movies, by overprotective parents, scares me far more than anyone who has played GTA:3, because he is now rather obsessed with guns and whatnot. My point being, there will be violence no matter what anyone says or does, and now minors can't buy games that they want to play.
Both terrorists and nazis, and to some extent the Japanese, were hardly scapegoats. The point could be argued that USSR/communism was a scapegoat, but it would be, at most, a half truth.
Not true... you still have to bake it, and you would probably want to paint and/or glaze it.
How do you know that Cubans would not vote for this regime? Although the election results of 98% are hardly accurate, it cannot be said that less than half of the Cuban population would vote for the Communist party. Cuba is semi-democratic, meaning that there are elections, but they are not completely free. During the last set of municipal elections, some large percentage of winners were non-incumbent. Although the dynamics change on a national scale, it shows a side of the Cuban governmental process that most people do not know about.
I responded to another post like this above your own. I think you will find that disagreeing with Israel's policies, and leaders, does not constitute hatred of the Jews or imply a request or preference for ethnic cleansing. Hitler was an asshole, but Israel has come surprisingly close to where he was. Plus, I think that you'll find Jews are safer in North America than in Israel, due to not being surrounded by people who want to kill them. Since suicide bombings are most common in Israel, I think it is safe to say that perhaps it isn't the most secure place for Jews to live. Also, do not forget that the Jews were hardly the only casualties during the Holocaust. Did the Roma get their own country after WW2? Did homosexuals? What about dissenters of Hitler's policies?
Firstly, North Korea is not stable, in any sense of the word. It's run by a nut, and war lies in wait at its border. Now, on to the meat and potatoes of your argument. From what I see on that site, Cuban policy and law is based on what needed to happen at the time of the revolution. The situation in pre-Communist Cuba was awful, where the people still had no control. Cuba is, essentially, a police state. It is run this way because there are numerous threats to the existance of the communist government. Communism runs on a different paradigm when compared to a democratic society. In a communist society, the right of the people to live in a socialist/communist society is valued above an individual's right to free speech. From their way of looking at the world, it is more important to have basic welfare and security provided than free speech and other "fundamental" freedoms. Look at other places in the Caribbean, where communism did not gain a foothold. Look at Haiti. Don't we all wish that Cuba could be like that?
As a Canadian, I can honestly say that I prefer Americans to ignorant, rude Frenchmen. There are lots of those too.
Hear hear! I disagree with Castro on several things: invading Grenada, human rights abuses (not nearly as many as the US would have you believe), but he does have guts. It's a shame that the only countries with the power to criticize the US harshly are the likes of Cuba and North Korea, so that often valid points will fall on deaf ears.
Actually, it really does. For the average user, it means that the power of apt can be used in a GUI environment. If we are going to compare the aspects of a GUI system to those of a command line system, the results will be almost entirely meaningless. Let's compare apples to apples and oranges to oranges. Also, do not forget that .deb packages and RPMs can be created and downloadable from individual sites.
I don't hate Jews, and I don't hate American *people*. I dislike their respective nations, and their leaders, but the people themselves aren't to be hated automatically. I have American family, and I have a few Jewish friends, several actually from Israel. It is the actions of nations, and therefore their leaders, and to some extent (in a democratic society) the people who voted for them.
Umm... do you really have to wonder? I don't like the US, and I'm not afraid to admit it. They are run by an insane man who thinks he talks to God (and God talks back). In Canada, we call this a case of schitzophrenia, and it is treated with drugs. Why should I like the US? They continue to impose tariffs on our goods (softwood lumber and beef) in violation of WTO rulings, and they are generally just bullies throughout the international community. Ah yes, and they support the right of Israel to create an apartheid state, seperated by a wall. Now you don't have to question whose side I'm on.
I remember sitting in an internet cafe at a resort in Cuba, wondering why they didn't use linux. Now maybe they will. My personal anecdote aside, I look forward to the day when it will hurt the US not to deal with Cuba; given its current popularity among European and Canadian travellers, I think it is coming. Cuba is still stable, and, indeed, has outlasted the Soviet Union.
As a gentoo user (i.e. not afraid of the command line and such), I can say that autopackage is a nice piece of software. The problem is that the people who package and distribute such packages (I believe some debian people were complaining) need a system that is easy to use and powerful, just as much as the end user does. Also, let's face it, synaptic is not a complex piece of software for the most part. Autopackage is excellent for third party apps, but it is not particularly exciting (to me at least) when it comes to software distributed with/by the distro itself.
If people do anything the amount they smoke, it will kill them somehow. I smoke the occasional cigar, and I really don't think it's killing me any faster than the car exhaust everyone breathes in on a daily basis.
Why not? Shouldn't students be able to make their own choice after being presented with all of the options?
I know, this is a law that has ruined many a great Canadian channel (just look at some of the Comedy network garbage). The point being, that just because someone uses bittorrent, does not mean that they are trying to be evil pirates. If I had another way to get HBO, I wouldn't bittorrent things... but until that time, I will.
In Canada, there is no way to get HBO legally. The only option is BitTorrent or an illegal American satilite (sp?) dish. I'd pay for it if I could get it, but as it is, I have to download the excellent programming with BitTorrent. What they don't understand is that they need to make it available for people to pay them, before they starting bitching about piracy.
I have what was, essentially, the cheapest cell phone I could get when I signed up for a plan. The fucking color screen is a piece of shit, because I can't see a goddamned thing in any sort of light, and every polyphonic ringtone is so annoying that I have it set to only vibrate. Phones need to be just that: phones. I have an iPod for music. It works great, and the interface actually makes me hate listening to music on my computer, because it's so much more effort. It will be atrocious trying to control a music player and whatever other garbage they pile on to this piece of crap with just a number pad, and it will be a shitty phone if there are any other buttons. The *only* thing that might be positive is the ability to play movies (should it support that sort of thing), which I think is one of the iPod's weaknesses at the moment.
The odd thing about this is that, because twin-engine overseas aircraft need to pass this requirement, they have a greater dispatch reliability than an equivilent quad. Why do you think Air Canada went with the 777 over the A340?
Will they be shover robots or pusher robots? Also, what if the blind people do not have stairs in their house? How will the robots protect them from the Terrible Secret of Space??? This obviously wasn't thought out very well...
1) These photos are not digitally edited. This beach and airport is real.
2) It is not an awful beach; it is the holy grail of aircraft spotting, and a place that most aviation enthusiasts (myself included) would like to visit someday
3) If you say 9/11 in relation to this subject, such as, "OMG! it's unsafe there will be terrorisms LOLZ", I will be forced to kill you.