A democratic nation, any democratic nation, will always have moral highground over a non-democratic one
Wow that is remarkably myopic. You might want to watch how you throw around absolutes like that. Democratic does not always mean good or just. Open any history book for an example of that.
One could easily point to the downfalls of any group and ascribe those to the "culture" but I do believe that is the essence of bigotry. I also find it interesting that you included "shaming over acceptance" in a post that so clearly lacks acceptance of the Japanese people. A/.er asked advice and I'm sure he doesn't need your cheap attempts at being prevocative. ----------- My advice would be to bring things with you that your wife enjoys. Movies, music, magazines, photos or anything that can help her escape to Japan when times get tough, even if just in her mind.
One good way to test the modem thing is to use a live CD distro of debian. Knoppix would be a good call.
In trying to convert my parents, I weened them off of software first. Since firefox, thunderbird and OO.org run on windows as well I started there. Now they are ready for a debian install as they are used to using those three packages and mainly what they do on the comp is that stuff. Only questions left is there MP3 player and digicam. I plan on using Knoppix to test that angle.
I should also note that in my current job I've gotten firefox and thunderbird accepted as the department standard browser/email client. OO.org is still in conversations. It's just too bad I won't be here to complete the cycle and get them on debian. Oh well, onto bigger and better things.
I have had great success running Debian on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100). The install process let me tasksel a bunch of laptop specific stuff which was nice since I didn't know what half of them were before that. The sarge installer has reached the test candidate stage and I've been very happy with it since beta 4. Though I'd suggest installing testing for any newbie. Also, this webpage was so remarkably helpful I archived it in my own doc collection.
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Wow that is remarkably myopic. You might want to watch how you throw around absolutes like that. Democratic does not always mean good or just. Open any history book for an example of that.
One could easily point to the downfalls of any group and ascribe those to the "culture" but I do believe that is the essence of bigotry. I also find it interesting that you included "shaming over acceptance" in a post that so clearly lacks acceptance of the Japanese people. A /.er asked advice and I'm sure he doesn't need your cheap attempts at being prevocative.
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My advice would be to bring things with you that your wife enjoys. Movies, music, magazines, photos or anything that can help her escape to Japan when times get tough, even if just in her mind.
One good way to test the modem thing is to use a live CD distro of debian. Knoppix would be a good call.
In trying to convert my parents, I weened them off of software first. Since firefox, thunderbird and OO.org run on windows as well I started there. Now they are ready for a debian install as they are used to using those three packages and mainly what they do on the comp is that stuff. Only questions left is there MP3 player and digicam. I plan on using Knoppix to test that angle.
I should also note that in my current job I've gotten firefox and thunderbird accepted as the department standard browser/email client. OO.org is still in conversations. It's just too bad I won't be here to complete the cycle and get them on debian. Oh well, onto bigger and better things.
I have had great success running Debian on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1100). The install process let me tasksel a bunch of laptop specific stuff which was nice since I didn't know what half of them were before that. The sarge installer has reached the test candidate stage and I've been very happy with it since beta 4. Though I'd suggest installing testing for any newbie. Also, this webpage was so remarkably helpful I archived it in my own doc collection.