The list only got longer to now include everybody and they pet fish.
Well, one thing changed. We can not say anymore : "Wir haben es nicht gewuÃYt. (We didn't know.)". We also know about torture that is done in the name of freedom. We know that the government does not represent us anymore in the last several years.
And what do we do? We discuss if the donkey or the elephant is at fault, unable to understand that BOTH are wrong.
So unless people stand up to do something about this, it WILL get worse. Much worse.
The fact that she went to jail and others went free are two unrelated things. Would you have less sympathy for her if the others also went to jail? Or if she also went free?
I personally do not care if she drives the patent trolls into the ground, unless it means there will be a serious change in the patent system.
I also would be interested in punishing the companies that output such insecure software that this asshole can hack other people's webcams and computers.
You also want to sue Smith & Wesson for the people killed by their weapons? How about knife companies by people who were knifed? Or any other company that has been used to do harm?
The 'red Terror' was only a terror to those who wanted it to be a terror. People were afraid of it (at least in Europe) because they were told to be afraid of Russia. Apart from some minor groups, there was no terror. There was no threat.
You have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Even now I can vote for a communist or socialist party. Or for a more right wing one, if I want to do so. I can tell my friends that I am a communist and even my employer and nobody will bat an eye.
But the United States was supposed to be different to the hundreds of abusive governments that had preceded it.
And who believed that? Not that long ago there were talks about taking power over the Internet away from the USofA. People ridiculed Europe for wanting Galileo All over the world people were saying that the US had too much power.
And it has been said again and again: Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I would even go a step further and say that each government is supposed to be different and better. They start out ok, but then go down the hill over time.
And just a quote: "The National Security Agencyâ(TM)s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesnâ(TM)t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back." â" "Frank Church
As long as all the on-line commercial entities in that country were okay with never having any US business.
You make it sound as if companies would not want something like this. Do understand first that this would mean an ADDITIONAL network, not a replacement. One US one and one non-US one. The first who would be for this would be the music and movie industry.
I do not think this is a solution to anything. The NSA will still get the data one way or another as long as they are not stopped. To stop the NSA we indeed do not need a technical solution for a social problem.
It seems that everybody is relative OK with what the NSA does. Otherwise there would have been a lot of REAL protests.
OK, so you want to be in contact with other people.
Do they have an email account? Do they have a phone? Do they have an address? In that case you can email, phone or write them. So you keeping contact with them is not an issue.
What might happen is that they do not write back, do not phone back or come up with reasons why you can't visit.
So the REAL question is: can you handle the chance that THEY have no real interest in you.
I mean, even the close/minimize/maximize buttons had to be switched around to the top left... WHY?
Isn't that desktop and not distribution related?
I use openSUSE, because the _I_ can decode what I want to use. With the DVD you can select KDE or GNOME or with an extra click XFCE or LXDE. Or I add it afterwards, if I want to. I can even have multiple ones and let each user on the PC decide what they want. No need to change the distro if you want to change on of its programs.
Now if you do not like Unity, but do like Ubuntu, why not go for Xubuntu? Or something else from *buntu?
I see it all the time that people confuse the distro with the desktop. Even when professional reviews are done, what they test is not the distro, but the current version of the desktop.
Do you seriously believe that people in the HR department in the US have ANY idea how to manage the salary of those in Europe? If anything, this would be an advantage to handle local budgets locally.
Do you think they are interested in how much a 36 year old female receptionist in Belgium who works in a 9/10th system with every Wednesday morning of and has taken 3 days payed holiday and 1 afternoon in sickness gets in meal vouchers? (Yes, that is a real life example) . Or how much she gets payed back after she moved 7 KM closer to the company?
What really happens is that there is considers how high the headcount needs to be. Then how high the budget must be. And that is ALL they will be interested in. Headcount and cost. They do not care about individuals.
So these things are managed locally. This has been the way for EVERY international company.
I use XFCE. I never like GNOME or KDE. Thar does not mean I don't use any GNOME or KDE programs, because I do. When I install openSUSE 13.1 (as Evergreen) I might even go back to Windowmaker. I want the Window Manager back. I do not like the Window Desktop. One of the reasons I use Linux is because I want everything separated from other things. The desktop should just tell me where things show up on my screen.
What you have now is separation of development of many programs. Instead of having a choice of differnt terminal programs, I can select the one for GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE,... Instead of having several File Managers, I can use the one for KDE, GNOME, LXDE, XFCE,...
The same for many other programs.
Sure, there are some exceptions out there still, but I think it is a terrible waste of human productivity.
I Belgium people once got a ticket for being on the phone at a red light. They got no ticket when they protested as they were not driving. You are allowed to use the phone while standing still or while you are parked.
If I am a red light and I forgot to activate bluetooth, I pick up the phone and tell whomever it is that I will call back, activate bluetooth and call back hands free.
I think there should be more tickets for people phoning while driving. Especially now almost everybody has a bluetooth enabled phone and there are plenty of solutions for your car. Going from a headset to a complete new car system. I just bought a new car radio that put me down 120EUR including the installation. That is about the same as one (110 EUR) ticket driving wile on the phone.
But for most people that 120EUR extra is not an option, because they would then not be able to buy there newestest phone.
you know; the Bill of Rights wasnt drafted for no reason.
Please give it to Venezuela as the USofA does not seem to want it anymore.
And if you are only looking at the second amendment, there are plenty of countries that do not have that and still allow weapons. From WikipediaThe right to bear arms predates the Bill of Rights; the Second Amendment was based partially on the right to bear arms in English common law, and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
If only people were so interested in the other amendments. Unfortunately owning a gun is more important, apparently. then the rest. Owning things is more important then all the rest together. And where is this 'well regulated militia'?
For me, 8GB is a good starting point for RAM for what I use a PC for.
For YOU it is. People that still have a PC that runs a (most likely) pre-installed XP will have different demands.
They will not even be gamers, but rather the parents or grandparents of those gamers. What will they be doing? Surf, read email, Facebook and perhaps watch some movies, listen to music and view pictures.
There is a reason these people still have XP. That is because it came pre-installed. And there is also a reason why they have not yet bought a new PC. They do not NEED a new machine, because for what they use it for, it is just as fast as the first day and that was fast enough.
Snapping two windows together next to each other is not possible? That is not something the majprity of people would change their OS over. Theose who do already done it. need more then 3GB? If you need it, you already have a news OS. Any other tweaks you can not live without? Already a new OS runnng.
The fact that is is ugly for you means it is familiar for others. Not everybody likes the new My-First-PC look that is going on.
So people who have bought a pre-installed PC with WinXP that does what they want it to do, will not liking the change. The hardware still works. Why would you need to change, unless you are forced to?
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The list only got longer to now include everybody and they pet fish.
Well, one thing changed. We can not say anymore : "Wir haben es nicht gewuÃYt. (We didn't know.)". We also know about torture that is done in the name of freedom. We know that the government does not represent us anymore in the last several years.
And what do we do? We discuss if the donkey or the elephant is at fault, unable to understand that BOTH are wrong.
So unless people stand up to do something about this, it WILL get worse. Much worse.
The fact that she went to jail and others went free are two unrelated things. Would you have less sympathy for her if the others also went to jail? Or if she also went free?
I personally do not care if she drives the patent trolls into the ground, unless it means there will be a serious change in the patent system.
You also want to sue Smith & Wesson for the people killed by their weapons? How about knife companies by people who were knifed? Or any other company that has been used to do harm?
If he asked to play music in the background, that would put him in jail for a seriously long time. Just extortion? Not so much.
The 'red Terror' was only a terror to those who wanted it to be a terror. People were afraid of it (at least in Europe) because they were told to be afraid of Russia.
Apart from some minor groups, there was no terror. There was no threat.
You have nothing to fear, but fear itself.
Even now I can vote for a communist or socialist party. Or for a more right wing one, if I want to do so. I can tell my friends that I am a communist and even my employer and nobody will bat an eye.
That is why I use Firefox. I installed it when it was version 7 and it still is version ... (Checks version) ... How did it get to this version 23?
WHAT ABOUT THE CAPS LOCK KEY?
And who believed that? Not that long ago there were talks about taking power over the Internet away from the USofA.
People ridiculed Europe for wanting Galileo
All over the world people were saying that the US had too much power.
And it has been said again and again: Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
I would even go a step further and say that each government is supposed to be different and better. They start out ok, but then go down the hill over time.
And just a quote:
"The National Security Agencyâ(TM)s capability at any time could be turned around on the American people, and no American would have any privacy left, such is the capability to monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesnâ(TM)t matter. There would be no place to hide. If a dictator ever took over, the N.S.A. could enable it to impose total tyranny, and there would be no way to fight back."
â" "Frank Church
You make it sound as if companies would not want something like this. Do understand first that this would mean an ADDITIONAL network, not a replacement.
One US one and one non-US one. The first who would be for this would be the music and movie industry.
I do not think this is a solution to anything. The NSA will still get the data one way or another as long as they are not stopped. To stop the NSA we indeed do not need a technical solution for a social problem.
It seems that everybody is relative OK with what the NSA does. Otherwise there would have been a lot of REAL protests.
Oh, you mean like how the banks are now regulated and nothing like what happened before can happen again?
OK, so you want to be in contact with other people.
Do they have an email account? Do they have a phone? Do they have an address? In that case you can email, phone or write them.
So you keeping contact with them is not an issue.
What might happen is that they do not write back, do not phone back or come up with reasons why you can't visit.
So the REAL question is: can you handle the chance that THEY have no real interest in you.
Oh. So cute. Still blaming 'the other' party. Please do that again and again in the next few elections.
Isn't that desktop and not distribution related?
I use openSUSE, because the _I_ can decode what I want to use. With the DVD you can select KDE or GNOME or with an extra click XFCE or LXDE. Or I add it afterwards, if I want to. I can even have multiple ones and let each user on the PC decide what they want. No need to change the distro if you want to change on of its programs.
Now if you do not like Unity, but do like Ubuntu, why not go for Xubuntu? Or something else from *buntu?
I see it all the time that people confuse the distro with the desktop. Even when professional reviews are done, what they test is not the distro, but the current version of the desktop.
I hated hipsters before it was cool.
The company with the most money would win.
Religion? Just look at advertising. It is BASED on people not knowing the difference between fantasy and reality.
Well, obviously. Boobs and nipples especially are not intended for babies.
Do you seriously believe that people in the HR department in the US have ANY idea how to manage the salary of those in Europe? If anything, this would be an advantage to handle local budgets locally.
Do you think they are interested in how much a 36 year old female receptionist in Belgium who works in a 9/10th system with every Wednesday morning of and has taken 3 days payed holiday and 1 afternoon in sickness gets in meal vouchers? (Yes, that is a real life example) . Or how much she gets payed back after she moved 7 KM closer to the company?
What really happens is that there is considers how high the headcount needs to be. Then how high the budget must be. And that is ALL they will be interested in. Headcount and cost. They do not care about individuals.
So these things are managed locally. This has been the way for EVERY international company.
I use XFCE. I never like GNOME or KDE.
Thar does not mean I don't use any GNOME or KDE programs, because I do.
When I install openSUSE 13.1 (as Evergreen) I might even go back to Windowmaker. I want the Window Manager back. I do not like the Window Desktop. One of the reasons I use Linux is because I want everything separated from other things. The desktop should just tell me where things show up on my screen.
What you have now is separation of development of many programs. Instead of having a choice of differnt terminal programs, I can select the one for GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE, ... ...
Instead of having several File Managers, I can use the one for KDE, GNOME, LXDE, XFCE,
The same for many other programs.
Sure, there are some exceptions out there still, but I think it is a terrible waste of human productivity.
I Belgium people once got a ticket for being on the phone at a red light. They got no ticket when they protested as they were not driving.
You are allowed to use the phone while standing still or while you are parked.
If I am a red light and I forgot to activate bluetooth, I pick up the phone and tell whomever it is that I will call back, activate bluetooth and call back hands free.
I think there should be more tickets for people phoning while driving. Especially now almost everybody has a bluetooth enabled phone and there are plenty of solutions for your car. Going from a headset to a complete new car system. I just bought a new car radio that put me down 120EUR including the installation. That is about the same as one (110 EUR) ticket driving wile on the phone.
But for most people that 120EUR extra is not an option, because they would then not be able to buy there newestest phone.
If you want to have it easy, just take this or take this
I can agree with that if we can get a 'Delete this story" on April first.
Please give it to Venezuela as the USofA does not seem to want it anymore.
And if you are only looking at the second amendment, there are plenty of countries that do not have that and still allow weapons. From WikipediaThe right to bear arms predates the Bill of Rights; the Second Amendment was based partially on the right to bear arms in English common law, and was influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689.
If only people were so interested in the other amendments. Unfortunately owning a gun is more important, apparently. then the rest. Owning things is more important then all the rest together. And where is this 'well regulated militia'?
Nothing scarier? How about a twilight marathon?
For YOU it is. People that still have a PC that runs a (most likely) pre-installed XP will have different demands.
They will not even be gamers, but rather the parents or grandparents of those gamers. What will they be doing? Surf, read email, Facebook and perhaps watch some movies, listen to music and view pictures.
There is a reason these people still have XP. That is because it came pre-installed. And there is also a reason why they have not yet bought a new PC. They do not NEED a new machine, because for what they use it for, it is just as fast as the first day and that was fast enough.
Snapping two windows together next to each other is not possible? That is not something the majprity of people would change their OS over. Theose who do already done it.
need more then 3GB? If you need it, you already have a news OS.
Any other tweaks you can not live without? Already a new OS runnng.
The fact that is is ugly for you means it is familiar for others. Not everybody likes the new My-First-PC look that is going on.
So people who have bought a pre-installed PC with WinXP that does what they want it to do, will not liking the change. The hardware still works. Why would you need to change, unless you are forced to?