RTFA on your "detain without trial" link. It's talking about a draft law. Although it did pass, it has now been repealed on human rights grounds. We sometimes lose our liberties over here, but the courts seem to care about them so we get them back in the end. They've replaced it with one allowing house arrest without trial, but that's looking to be repealed soon.
In the US you don't vote directly for head of state either, you vote for your state's representatives. Only even if your state supports someone, they don't get any power unless the others do, wheras in the UK they sit in an assembly and can propose and vote on laws. Also, the size of British constituencies means you can and do get independent candidates winning them - something I've never seen in a US state in my lifetime.
The two house system is the checks and balances - house of lords is actually part of the judiciary. (And now we have European law too). They were able to stop people being imprisoned without trial, and got the government to promise to review keeping them under house arrest in a year - not enough perhaps, but more than has been done in the US about the people you're locking up without trial. I'd say the UK's more democratic than the US.
I suggest you read the geneva convention too, in particular section 4 (I think) where it says that if there is *any* doubt as to whether they have PoW status they have the right to have their case *speedily* determined by a competent tribunal. In particular, until such a tribunal has judged that they are not, they must be treated as PoWs. None of the people at Guantanamo has had this tribunal.
Remember, you don't have to be in uniform, if you take up arms to defend your country then you are entitled to PoW status provided you were carrying weapons openly and obeying the rules of law.
How? Not having people worse than you would make things bland and dull? I take it you'd prefer to have people starving than have things being "bland and dull"?
Yeah. That's why all America's heroes are people who stuck with their country no matter what, rather than, when faced with say religious persecution, fleeing to another continent to make a fresh start. Oh, wait.
Not so much any more. Most everyone is on PCI at the moment, for example, it would be braindead of apple to junk that in favour of a propriety bus like they used to use. There are a few crufty bits of the IBM-compatible arch that they could leave out, but not many that are really depended on anymore. Keyboard and mouse - can be USB, and grub can handle them if they are up to the point where linux takes over (which I think it will). Parallel, serial, ISA are non-essential now - the kernel might balk at their reserved memory areas being used for something else, but that can be fixed pretty easily. Getting rid of VESA and basic VGA functions might cause a bit of trouble, but it would only require a new bootloader and framebuffer drivers - a chore but a very much doable one. The one thing I'm not sure about is memory - are there non-standard ways of accessing memory?
It's still allowing the four freedoms, it's still meeting the open source definition, it can still be included in Debian. Claiming this isn't free is like claiming releasing it under GPL wouldn't be free because then it couldn't be used in BSD-licensed programs.
Oops. OK, the planet and one star are orbiting the second star in the same (ish) orbit, so that (at least on human timescales) they keep the same position because they're orbiting at the same speed. This requires the second star to be much heavier than the first, but that's OK if it's a lot denser, a white dwarf or something.
Because there are so many poor benighted infidels that don't realise that they should port all their applications to qt. Some of them even start new applications in non-qt toolkits, the fools.
Idiot moderators: I'm not being serious. I'm being sarcastic or ironic or some such to make the serious point that the reason linux has so many toolkits is that different people prefer different toolkits, and there's no way you can persuade them to switch to one.
Non-idiot moderators: where were you last time I said this?
There's already gnustep using exactly that package system. (Well at the moment most gnustep.apps are simply folders, but I think that's very easy to change). Look at how popular it is.
This is just another divisive effort with the same goals as most of the major desktops. Why not focus on improving existing usability? Or even joining one of the other "new useable desktop from scratch" projects. Not that any of them are successful, and for a good reason.
Integrated NX makes KDE the fastest remote desktop with complete menus and stuff I've seen.
Corba is less widely supported overall, because it has to be specifically included, so far from all applications within gnome support it. DCOP gets added to actions with zero effort from developers, with the result that even if they're all within KDE, overall there's more applications using DCOP than CORBA. And since both are moving to standardised DBUS it won't make much difference canyway.
How can you say that? It's so horribly bland. You can change the theme, but there aren't any good ones that ship with gnome, leaving you relying on look that may become unavailable with the next version if the author can't be bothered to port it. KDE gives you the choice of about five genuinely different widget looks in its startup wizard, there's something to suit most tastes.
Really? I haven't seen much fuss made about that, wheras kde's kiosk has had a lot of work and big deployments in German museums.
With a CD you can back it up without losing any quality - you can do a perfect 1:1 copy onto a blank cd, or rip in a lossless format like flac. With iTunes you don't get that option.
As far as slashdot is concerned, apple is holy. Anything they do must be right. Anyone who goes against them must be wrong. Really, that's what the reaction's like. Apple could eat babies and slashdot would say it was good.
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Yeah, but the US has the military capacity to invade them, and on present form will probably be willing to.
RTFA on your "detain without trial" link. It's talking about a draft law. Although it did pass, it has now been repealed on human rights grounds. We sometimes lose our liberties over here, but the courts seem to care about them so we get them back in the end. They've replaced it with one allowing house arrest without trial, but that's looking to be repealed soon.
The two house system is the checks and balances - house of lords is actually part of the judiciary. (And now we have European law too). They were able to stop people being imprisoned without trial, and got the government to promise to review keeping them under house arrest in a year - not enough perhaps, but more than has been done in the US about the people you're locking up without trial. I'd say the UK's more democratic than the US.
Remember, you don't have to be in uniform, if you take up arms to defend your country then you are entitled to PoW status provided you were carrying weapons openly and obeying the rules of law.
How? Not having people worse than you would make things bland and dull? I take it you'd prefer to have people starving than have things being "bland and dull"?
Sorry, open goal
Yeah. That's why all America's heroes are people who stuck with their country no matter what, rather than, when faced with say religious persecution, fleeing to another continent to make a fresh start. Oh, wait.
Hmm. How's it stop you copying them then?
Not so much any more. Most everyone is on PCI at the moment, for example, it would be braindead of apple to junk that in favour of a propriety bus like they used to use. There are a few crufty bits of the IBM-compatible arch that they could leave out, but not many that are really depended on anymore. Keyboard and mouse - can be USB, and grub can handle them if they are up to the point where linux takes over (which I think it will). Parallel, serial, ISA are non-essential now - the kernel might balk at their reserved memory areas being used for something else, but that can be fixed pretty easily. Getting rid of VESA and basic VGA functions might cause a bit of trouble, but it would only require a new bootloader and framebuffer drivers - a chore but a very much doable one. The one thing I'm not sure about is memory - are there non-standard ways of accessing memory?
It's still allowing the four freedoms, it's still meeting the open source definition, it can still be included in Debian. Claiming this isn't free is like claiming releasing it under GPL wouldn't be free because then it couldn't be used in BSD-licensed programs.
Not when you're being punished for a crime you don't. If it was up to MS they wouldn't be releasing it at all.
Railguns are already real though. I built one a couple of months ago.
I was thinking more in terms of distributing them. It's hard to download a folder, and harder to email one.
If you burn them to CD you lose quality when you re-rip them. If you're talking about copying the actual files as data, doesn't the DRM stop that?
It wouldn't be called a genetic *disease* if it wasn't actively harmful
Oops. OK, the planet and one star are orbiting the second star in the same (ish) orbit, so that (at least on human timescales) they keep the same position because they're orbiting at the same speed. This requires the second star to be much heavier than the first, but that's OK if it's a lot denser, a white dwarf or something.
Freedom. That's what it's all about, that's what it has always been about, right from when RMS started it in what, 1984?
Idiot moderators: I'm not being serious. I'm being sarcastic or ironic or some such to make the serious point that the reason linux has so many toolkits is that different people prefer different toolkits, and there's no way you can persuade them to switch to one.
Non-idiot moderators: where were you last time I said this?
There's already gnustep using exactly that package system. (Well at the moment most gnustep .apps are simply folders, but I think that's very easy to change). Look at how popular it is.
This is just another divisive effort with the same goals as most of the major desktops. Why not focus on improving existing usability? Or even joining one of the other "new useable desktop from scratch" projects. Not that any of them are successful, and for a good reason.
If there wasn't any benefit these genes gave, common sense would suggest they'd have died out long ago.
Because my admin knows the second he did this I'd find him and strangle him.
Corba is less widely supported overall, because it has to be specifically included, so far from all applications within gnome support it. DCOP gets added to actions with zero effort from developers, with the result that even if they're all within KDE, overall there's more applications using DCOP than CORBA. And since both are moving to standardised DBUS it won't make much difference canyway.
How can you say that? It's so horribly bland. You can change the theme, but there aren't any good ones that ship with gnome, leaving you relying on look that may become unavailable with the next version if the author can't be bothered to port it. KDE gives you the choice of about five genuinely different widget looks in its startup wizard, there's something to suit most tastes.
Really? I haven't seen much fuss made about that, wheras kde's kiosk has had a lot of work and big deployments in German museums.
With a CD you can back it up without losing any quality - you can do a perfect 1:1 copy onto a blank cd, or rip in a lossless format like flac. With iTunes you don't get that option.
As far as slashdot is concerned, apple is holy. Anything they do must be right. Anyone who goes against them must be wrong. Really, that's what the reaction's like. Apple could eat babies and slashdot would say it was good.