The only thing erroneous about what I said was that they were all written and directed by an American, when one out of the six was only written by Lucas, but not directed by it.
Er, no. Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, though conceived by Lucas like all the others, was directed by Irvin Kershner.
Isn't that what I stipulated to? I asserted that six movies were credited with the same writer and director when one had a different director. Eleven out of twelve is still close enough for my original point to be valid.
Darth Vader, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2 hardly count as starring roles, let alone roles in the traditional sense. I would definitely give you both Obi-Wans and Palpatine as starring non-Americans though.
To reiterate my last post: "The only thing erroneous about what I said was that they were all written and directed by an American, when one out of the six was only written by Lucas, but not directed by it."
The post I originally replied to implied we should be taking these films in some galactic context, and not as if we were humans from earth, let alone the US. That is simply absurd.
1./usr/local. Everything that you add afterwards goes in there. It's just extra to type. And is apache config in/usr/local/apache/conf or/usr/local/etc/apache/conf ?
That is where it's supposed to go. Read hier(7). AFAIK, before Linux, all *NIX variants used/usr/local in this way.
2. The interface names change with the drivers of the card. em0? or fxp0. Who knows. What a silly idea.
Actually, I prefer that to eth0 and eth1 magically switching places as has happened occasionally for me after rebooting Linux.
It certainly seems to be the prevailing mentality among the/. Linux fanboys.
Generally speaking, I am more comfortable with Linux, but if FreeBSD were to ever have a similar packaging style to Debian (all pieces of the system, including kernel as binary packages, backported security updates, etc), I would never touch Linux again. Maybe the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project will go somewhere.
There are no federal laws prohibiting one from checking out or purchasing any book. The PATRIOT Act only gave certain law enforcement agencies the explicit ability to obtain the identities of those checking out and purchasing books.
No one has ever said you can't go check out communist literature from your local library. It is just a matter of there being no right to anonymity.
The only thing erroneous about what I said was that they were all written and directed by an American, when one out of the six was only written by Lucas, but not directed by it. Out of all six, the starring cast members were still American with the exception of Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, Amidala, and Palpatine.
At any rate, the bulk of the creative influence for the movies came from Americans, hence the absurdity of blasting people for looking at the movies from the perspectives of Americans. Even those who were not American and involved in the movies were from Western countries with similar enough political and social climates to the US's to the point that their national origin would in all likelihood not have been a differentiating factor in how they contributed to the movies. In other words, they came from countries with modern liberal democracies where people have similar standards of living to those in the US. We are not talking about people from the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, China, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc.
All six movies were written and directed by an American and starred almost all American actors (nevermind that 100% of the people involved in the movies were TERRAN). Get off your politically correct high horse when you are talking about main-stream American cinema.
People infer anonymity from privacy, which they infer from the fourth amendment. Unreasonable search and seizure is not a blanket protection of our privacy. The PATRIOT Act enables law enforcement officials to violate our privacy in various ways, but few people with a strong understanding of the law find these violations unconstitutional, even those judges who tend to apply more expansive interpretations of the constitution.
Call me wacky too, but inferring from that passage that one has the right to anonymously check out communist literature from a public library, though a matter of privacy and anonymity would not seem to be guaranteed right.
Nope. It made its debut in Netscape 2, along with Java applets. The big hype was the ability for the two to interact, but it never really seemed to happen.
I agree with that, except that thankfully companies like Ahead that take the plunge probably don't care too much what malcontent elitists think. People trashing their product on/. is probably of little or no consequence to them.
There are many practical and usually shortterm exceptions. Look at it this way, a government isn't going to both provide you with healthcare and permit you to lie in a ditch with a needle in your vein.
You should do some more research before you call someone ignorant. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is quite different from the US Constitution (and its Bill of Rights), especially in that the the former is easily circumvented when deemed justifiable. Perhaps you should have read section 1 of it:
"The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
This specific clause has been used repeatedly in court to nullify the rights and freedoms supposedly guaranteeed by the charter.
It is illegal to verbalize skepticism about the holocaust in Canada. Just as Canada has no first amendment guaranteeing freedom of expression, they have no fourth amendment protecting its citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.
At least you call it socialism. Most prefer the terms contemporary liberalism, progressivism, etc.
Honestly, I could care less about what people do with their lives. Be it not wearing a seat belt or sitting in a ditch shooting up. My problem with the modern socialist movement in this country is that people want the right to do drugs, but at the same time want state-run healthcare. The current public healthcare programs are used all too often as excuses to tell people what to do with respect to seat belts, eating, or smoking. The "we don't want to foot the bill" mentality is what scares me. They give us healthcare and in turn require certain behavior of us to keep the program fiscally viable? That doesn't sound like an appropriate solution to me. If someone wants to smoke pot, that's fine with me, but I don't want to see them at the unemployment line because they can't seem to hold down a job.
My personal view is that we would all do a bit better if our elected officials focussed less effort on running our lives. People might actually be forced to take personal responsibility for their actions.
As a sidenote, keep in mind the police conduct in socialist states. Having a gun pulled on you for asking a cop for directions starts to seem like a good thing.
I am not saying we should turn a blind eye because corruption is inevitable, simply that illegal police misconduct and brutality are way down by most people's standards. Throwing a fit over this HP patent is absurd.
A true utilitarian economist would argue that losing one civilian life per day is a far better scenario than losing 100 police lives per day. There are many things that could be done, not just with respect to law enforcement that would save civilian lives. This does not make them desirable.
My comment regarding songs about revolution is best exemplified by the hordes of white suburban kids who dished out billions of dollars to listen to Rage Against The Machine sing about socialist revolutions in South America. (Of course the real irony there is that the one singing was even whiter than them.) Many people love the idea of revolution, especially when they feel like they have gotten a raw deal in life and tend to feel the need for an outlet of some sort.
What I can not understand is why people are talking about revolution because of things such as the PATRIOT Act, but are perfectly content to deal with laws requiring them to wear seat belts. I personally view the right to drive my car on the streets my taxes pay for without wearing a seat belt as being much more fundamental than the right to anonymously check out communist literature from a library. Maybe there aren't enough catchy songs about seat belt revolutions.
Conservative? That really depends on your definition. I don't like lying to myself or painting the world a rosy color. I simply consider myself a skeptic. There is corruption and impropriety in every profession. Law enforcement is no exception, but making cops as a whole out to be worse than criminals because of the occasional isolated incident is an irrational and at this point pretty damn cliched attitude.
I knew someone who I saw arrested after being called a fagot and pinned to the ground with his face pressed against the asphalt. To hear him tell the story you would think he was beaten until he was barely alive.
Do you understand the irony of quoting a song about revolution that was literally and figuratively sold to you?
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Isn't that what I stipulated to? I asserted that six movies were credited with the same writer and director when one had a different director. Eleven out of twelve is still close enough for my original point to be valid.
Darth Vader, Chewbacca, C-3PO, and R2-D2 hardly count as starring roles, let alone roles in the traditional sense. I would definitely give you both Obi-Wans and Palpatine as starring non-Americans though.
To reiterate my last post: "The only thing erroneous about what I said was that they were all written and directed by an American, when one out of the six was only written by Lucas, but not directed by it."
The post I originally replied to implied we should be taking these films in some galactic context, and not as if we were humans from earth, let alone the US. That is simply absurd.
On the prosecution?
Remind me again how a negative such as "AIDS cannot be spread through tears" is scientifically proven?
What about politics? Or anti-religious politics for that matter?
Actually, I believe it is pretty trivial to rename an interface in FreeBSD. Same should be the case w/ Linux.
That is where it's supposed to go. Read hier(7). AFAIK, before Linux, all *NIX variants used /usr/local in this way.
Actually, I prefer that to eth0 and eth1 magically switching places as has happened occasionally for me after rebooting Linux.
It certainly seems to be the prevailing mentality among the /. Linux fanboys.
Generally speaking, I am more comfortable with Linux, but if FreeBSD were to ever have a similar packaging style to Debian (all pieces of the system, including kernel as binary packages, backported security updates, etc), I would never touch Linux again. Maybe the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD project will go somewhere.
There are no federal laws prohibiting one from checking out or purchasing any book. The PATRIOT Act only gave certain law enforcement agencies the explicit ability to obtain the identities of those checking out and purchasing books.
No one has ever said you can't go check out communist literature from your local library. It is just a matter of there being no right to anonymity.
The only thing erroneous about what I said was that they were all written and directed by an American, when one out of the six was only written by Lucas, but not directed by it. Out of all six, the starring cast members were still American with the exception of Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, Amidala, and Palpatine.
At any rate, the bulk of the creative influence for the movies came from Americans, hence the absurdity of blasting people for looking at the movies from the perspectives of Americans. Even those who were not American and involved in the movies were from Western countries with similar enough political and social climates to the US's to the point that their national origin would in all likelihood not have been a differentiating factor in how they contributed to the movies. In other words, they came from countries with modern liberal democracies where people have similar standards of living to those in the US. We are not talking about people from the USSR, North Korea, Cuba, China, Somalia, Afghanistan, etc.
Yeah, you're right. Star Wars isn't American cinema after all.
All six movies were written and directed by an American and starred almost all American actors (nevermind that 100% of the people involved in the movies were TERRAN). Get off your politically correct high horse when you are talking about main-stream American cinema.
People infer anonymity from privacy, which they infer from the fourth amendment. Unreasonable search and seizure is not a blanket protection of our privacy. The PATRIOT Act enables law enforcement officials to violate our privacy in various ways, but few people with a strong understanding of the law find these violations unconstitutional, even those judges who tend to apply more expansive interpretations of the constitution.
Call me wacky too, but inferring from that passage that one has the right to anonymously check out communist literature from a public library, though a matter of privacy and anonymity would not seem to be guaranteed right.
Nope. It made its debut in Netscape 2, along with Java applets. The big hype was the ability for the two to interact, but it never really seemed to happen.
Or perhaps there were /. stories relating to Tiger and Tiger Direct targets their advertising toward pages using that word?
Here's a shocking one from the Slashdot community:
Fuck Microsoft!
I agree with that, except that thankfully companies like Ahead that take the plunge probably don't care too much what malcontent elitists think. People trashing their product on /. is probably of little or no consequence to them.
Why bother? It's not like those criticizing the bills actually understand them.
There are many practical and usually shortterm exceptions. Look at it this way, a government isn't going to both provide you with healthcare and permit you to lie in a ditch with a needle in your vein.
You should do some more research before you call someone ignorant. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms is quite different from the US Constitution (and its Bill of Rights), especially in that the the former is easily circumvented when deemed justifiable. Perhaps you should have read section 1 of it:
"The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees the rights and freedoms set out in it subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified in a free and democratic society."
This specific clause has been used repeatedly in court to nullify the rights and freedoms supposedly guaranteeed by the charter.
It may be flamebait, but he is basically right. The more government tends to its citizens' various needs, the more power it will exercise over them.
It is illegal to verbalize skepticism about the holocaust in Canada. Just as Canada has no first amendment guaranteeing freedom of expression, they have no fourth amendment protecting its citizens from unreasonable search and seizure.
At least you call it socialism. Most prefer the terms contemporary liberalism, progressivism, etc.
Honestly, I could care less about what people do with their lives. Be it not wearing a seat belt or sitting in a ditch shooting up. My problem with the modern socialist movement in this country is that people want the right to do drugs, but at the same time want state-run healthcare. The current public healthcare programs are used all too often as excuses to tell people what to do with respect to seat belts, eating, or smoking. The "we don't want to foot the bill" mentality is what scares me. They give us healthcare and in turn require certain behavior of us to keep the program fiscally viable? That doesn't sound like an appropriate solution to me. If someone wants to smoke pot, that's fine with me, but I don't want to see them at the unemployment line because they can't seem to hold down a job.
My personal view is that we would all do a bit better if our elected officials focussed less effort on running our lives. People might actually be forced to take personal responsibility for their actions.
As a sidenote, keep in mind the police conduct in socialist states. Having a gun pulled on you for asking a cop for directions starts to seem like a good thing.
I am not saying we should turn a blind eye because corruption is inevitable, simply that illegal police misconduct and brutality are way down by most people's standards. Throwing a fit over this HP patent is absurd.
A true utilitarian economist would argue that losing one civilian life per day is a far better scenario than losing 100 police lives per day. There are many things that could be done, not just with respect to law enforcement that would save civilian lives. This does not make them desirable.
My comment regarding songs about revolution is best exemplified by the hordes of white suburban kids who dished out billions of dollars to listen to Rage Against The Machine sing about socialist revolutions in South America. (Of course the real irony there is that the one singing was even whiter than them.) Many people love the idea of revolution, especially when they feel like they have gotten a raw deal in life and tend to feel the need for an outlet of some sort.
What I can not understand is why people are talking about revolution because of things such as the PATRIOT Act, but are perfectly content to deal with laws requiring them to wear seat belts. I personally view the right to drive my car on the streets my taxes pay for without wearing a seat belt as being much more fundamental than the right to anonymously check out communist literature from a library. Maybe there aren't enough catchy songs about seat belt revolutions.
Conservative? That really depends on your definition. I don't like lying to myself or painting the world a rosy color. I simply consider myself a skeptic. There is corruption and impropriety in every profession. Law enforcement is no exception, but making cops as a whole out to be worse than criminals because of the occasional isolated incident is an irrational and at this point pretty damn cliched attitude.
I knew someone who I saw arrested after being called a fagot and pinned to the ground with his face pressed against the asphalt. To hear him tell the story you would think he was beaten until he was barely alive.
Do you understand the irony of quoting a song about revolution that was literally and figuratively sold to you?