You just don't understand. It's OK not to let non-citizens vote, simply because they are not citizens. That's status quo in mostly every country in this world. But in mostly every country (except the US) a criminal who got out of jail again is a normal citizen as before.
Uhm, isn't that discrimination? Criminals are citizens, too, with the same rights and duties as other citizens (at least one may think). This system is definitely flawed, seriously flawed.
And I can't remember of any president of any country in Europe after WW II who became president through court decisions. The US americans always had a very strange view of democracy, but to their excuse one has to mention the historical reasons. But in the time of TV, radio, telephones and internet, the current system is not suitable anymore. A more democratic system should be established, but isn't, and will (most likely) never be, because both big parties like it best.
A very true sentence. The documentation that I mentioned before in fact showed that Bill Clinton actually did mostly republican politics, i.e. he actively promoted death penalties, and for most people in Austria (where I come from) and Europe this is sure sign of being extremely right-wing (the only parties in Europe that promote death penalties are nazi or neonazi parties).
Hey, the Greens at least want to legalize marijuana, so with the Greens as governing party, you wouldn't have to worry about anything anymore (because of being stoned all the time).
and you'll understand why George Bush built concentration camps in Cuba and Afghanistan.
Not only that, one should never forget that several thousand Taliban died during transport inside Afghanistan, transports done by the US Army! This is mass murder, if not genocide. Bush is not any better than Milosevic, Stalin, Ceaucescu or Hitler.
Recently, a documentation in Austrian TV showed in a pretty good way that all the stuff that was going on in Florida was well-planned -- certain demographic groups weren't allowed to vote, and those groups were mostly people who were about to elect Gore (if they had been allowed to).
But beside that, the two-party system in the US is very questionable, anyway, since it doesn't have to do a lot with democracy anymore. The only difference compared to "democratic" elections in e.g. Cuba is that there are two parties instead of one, so in the US you can only choose the lesser of two evils, ultra-rightwing and moderately rightwing, that is.
What I wanted to say is that almost any kind of law enforcement act or logging of phone calls today gets allowed when it _can_ be used for fighting child porn or terrorism.
Ad terrorism itself: not everything that bears the name "terrorism" is necessarily terrorism. Quite a lot of people call certain "terrorist" groups freedom fighters, with the only target to free their country, to become independent, and to reach sovereignity. Currently, the word "terrorism" is used way too often, mostly in propaganda.
You're absolutely right. Before 9-11, it was child porn. Both child porn and terrorism must of course be fight, because it is bad(tm), will all the force available. That's the logic behind it.
Yeah, right. Nobody cares about the hundreds of people shot every day in the USA, but then 7 people die, and everybody cares and "god bless blabla".
So, those who do care about those 7 astronauts are in fact the heartless people, they only care about 7 people when they should care about hundreds of people. People who care about neither of them are only used to the cruelty of reality.
http://home.online.no/~gremmem/engrish_ttt_caption s/80-100/two-towers-04.jpg reminds me of "you're my heart, you're my soul", should anybody know that.
I've been at 19c3, an in the internal network, no Windows computer was known to be attacked. The only attack that really spread fear was a man-in-the-middle attack on SSH2. Very interesting stuff, unfortunately I was unable to get a sniffer up soon enough to log a few of those things.
A friend of mine once had SuSE 5.1 on a IBM PS/2 laptop with 6 MB RAM and a 80 MB harddisk (or so). That was in 1998, I think. He used it for C development, writing TeX (only writing! not compiling, elvis' preview function was enough for him) and playing text-based games. He even had networking, via SLIP. If the power supply unit hadn't got a loose contact, he maybe would still use it.
You're still depending on the good will of Microsoft. DirectX is still proprietary, and Microsoft can do with it whatever they want.
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Hey, OpenGL is at least standardized, something you can build on for years. Nobody can guarantee you that the next version of DirectX will be compatible with the current version.
In fact, there are only two 3D APIs that are standardized and (more or less) widely used: OpenGL and OpenInventor.
G'schissena, "schadenfreude" is already an English word, just like hinterland and rucksack (and several others, which I don't remember anymore).
Anyway, it's really funny to see English-speaking people speaking or even writing German.:-) And then , you can overcharge them by speaking (or writing) one of the German dialects. Mine is the Upper Austrian dialect, so beware.;-) (sometimes, not even Germans understand me!)
and places like India instead of combating absolute illiteracy and hunger, run out to make PDAs.
Well, the Simputer was in fact built to combat illiteracy! I saw a documentation about it on a German/Austrian/Swiss TV station "3sat" presenting the Simputer, and they basically showed programs to teach people all kinds of stuff. So, IMHO this is a good thing.
What's really wrong about forbidding National socialism? Don't answer "that's against free speech", because National socialism is basically promoting genocide, with is morally and ethically just wrong. and by not forbidding it you indirectly promote it.
Why do you think Germany's society is repressive in any way? You mean because Nazis aren't allowed to praise what Hitler did? That's because national socialism got criminalized after World War II (by the Allies, btw.), and this is good. Extreme forces are publically dispised, thus leading to less violence on the streets.
And about the game stuff: of course, certain games are not allowed for kids under 18, but that's only for their protection. And that system is not even that hard compared to e.g. the FCC (are you yet allowed to say "fuck" on the radio?). It's often quite funny to see _American_ musicians interviewed on some TV stations, and when they're shocked when the interviewer says something sexually explicit.
And usually, the network card's MAC address is stored in RAM, to make it easily accessible by the different drivers that need it (e.g. Ethernet). This makes it changeable with e.g. Linux's ifconfig:
ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth0 hw ether DE:AD:BE:EF:BA:BE ifconfig eth0 up
I'd suggest everybody with the need of a high-performance web server to try out fnord. It's extremely small, and pretty fast (without any special performance hacks!), see here.
It's not ACLs. Think about it as some kind of evolution. First, there was the not-too-flexible Unix privilege system (users,groups, rwx bits). Then there were Access Control Lists. And the last step in the "evolution" is a role-based system with cool things like "there is no superuser". This is really a huge leap forward in the security of Linux.
(although, OpenBSD's system call sandboxing via systrace is still nifty!:-)
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You just don't understand. It's OK not to let non-citizens vote, simply because they are not citizens. That's status quo in mostly every country in this world. But in mostly every country (except the US) a criminal who got out of jail again is a normal citizen as before.
Uhm, isn't that discrimination? Criminals are citizens, too, with the same rights and duties as other citizens (at least one may think). This system is definitely flawed, seriously flawed.
And I can't remember of any president of any country in Europe after WW II who became president through court decisions. The US americans always had a very strange view of democracy, but to their excuse one has to mention the historical reasons. But in the time of TV, radio, telephones and internet, the current system is not suitable anymore. A more democratic system should be established, but isn't, and will (most likely) never be, because both big parties like it best.
Democrats are Republicans in bad suits.
A very true sentence. The documentation that I mentioned before in fact showed that Bill Clinton actually did mostly republican politics, i.e. he actively promoted death penalties, and for most people in Austria (where I come from) and Europe this is sure sign of being extremely right-wing (the only parties in Europe that promote death penalties are nazi or neonazi parties).
Hey, the Greens at least want to legalize marijuana, so with the Greens as governing party, you wouldn't have to worry about anything anymore (because of being stoned all the time).
and you'll understand why George Bush built concentration camps in Cuba and Afghanistan.
Not only that, one should never forget that several thousand Taliban died during transport inside Afghanistan, transports done by the US Army! This is mass murder, if not genocide. Bush is not any better than Milosevic, Stalin, Ceaucescu or Hitler.
Recently, a documentation in Austrian TV showed in a pretty good way that all the stuff that was going on in Florida was well-planned -- certain demographic groups weren't allowed to vote, and those groups were mostly people who were about to elect Gore (if they had been allowed to).
But beside that, the two-party system in the US is very questionable, anyway, since it doesn't have to do a lot with democracy anymore. The only difference compared to "democratic" elections in e.g. Cuba is that there are two parties instead of one, so in the US you can only choose the lesser of two evils, ultra-rightwing and moderately rightwing, that is.
No I don't, at least not for child porn.
What I wanted to say is that almost any kind of law enforcement act or logging of phone calls today gets allowed when it _can_ be used for fighting child porn or terrorism.
Ad terrorism itself: not everything that bears the name "terrorism" is necessarily terrorism. Quite a lot of people call certain "terrorist" groups freedom fighters, with the only target to free their country, to become independent, and to reach sovereignity. Currently, the word "terrorism" is used way too often, mostly in propaganda.
You're an AC, you're a loser, STFU.
You're absolutely right. Before 9-11, it was child porn. Both child porn and terrorism must of course be fight, because it is bad(tm), will all the force available. That's the logic behind it.
Yeah, right. Nobody cares about the hundreds of people shot every day in the USA, but then 7 people die, and everybody cares and "god bless blabla".
So, those who do care about those 7 astronauts are in fact the heartless people, they only care about 7 people when they should care about hundreds of people. People who care about neither of them are only used to the cruelty of reality.
http://home.online.no/~gremmem/engrish_ttt_caption s/80-100/two-towers-04.jpg reminds me of "you're my heart, you're my soul", should anybody know that.
I've been at 19c3, an in the internal network, no Windows computer was known to be attacked. The only attack that really spread fear was a man-in-the-middle attack on SSH2. Very interesting stuff, unfortunately I was unable to get a sniffer up soon enough to log a few of those things.
Well, I heard on radio (Ö1 broadcasted it a while ago), and it was quite fun. I even was able to find which file they were currently broadcasting. :-))
No. Please learn about Amdahl's law.
A friend of mine once had SuSE 5.1 on a IBM PS/2 laptop with 6 MB RAM and a 80 MB harddisk (or so). That was in 1998, I think. He used it for C development, writing TeX (only writing! not compiling, elvis' preview function was enough for him) and playing text-based games. He even had networking, via SLIP. If the power supply unit hadn't got a loose contact, he maybe would still use it.
You're still depending on the good will of Microsoft. DirectX is still proprietary, and Microsoft can do with it whatever they want.
Hey, OpenGL is at least standardized, something you can build on for years. Nobody can guarantee you that the next version of DirectX will be compatible with the current version.
In fact, there are only two 3D APIs that are standardized and (more or less) widely used: OpenGL and OpenInventor.
G'schissena, "schadenfreude" is already an English word, just like hinterland and rucksack (and several others, which I don't remember anymore).
:-) And then , you can overcharge them by speaking (or writing) one of the German dialects. Mine is the Upper Austrian dialect, so beware. ;-) (sometimes, not even Germans understand me!)
Anyway, it's really funny to see English-speaking people speaking or even writing German.
and places like India instead of combating absolute illiteracy and hunger, run out to make PDAs.
Well, the Simputer was in fact built to combat illiteracy! I saw a documentation about it on a German/Austrian/Swiss TV station "3sat" presenting the Simputer, and they basically showed programs to teach people all kinds of stuff. So, IMHO this is a good thing.
What's really wrong about forbidding National socialism? Don't answer "that's against free speech", because National socialism is basically promoting genocide, with is morally and ethically just wrong. and by not forbidding it you indirectly promote it.
Why do you think Germany's society is repressive in any way? You mean because Nazis aren't allowed to praise what Hitler did? That's because national socialism got criminalized after World War II (by the Allies, btw.), and this is good. Extreme forces are publically dispised, thus leading to less violence on the streets.
And about the game stuff: of course, certain games are not allowed for kids under 18, but that's only for their protection. And that system is not even that hard compared to e.g. the FCC (are you yet allowed to say "fuck" on the radio?). It's often quite funny to see _American_ musicians interviewed on some TV stations, and when they're shocked when the interviewer says something sexually explicit.
And usually, the network card's MAC address is stored in RAM, to make it easily accessible by the different drivers that need it (e.g. Ethernet). This makes it changeable with e.g. Linux's ifconfig:
ifconfig eth0 down
ifconfig eth0 hw ether DE:AD:BE:EF:BA:BE
ifconfig eth0 up
I'd suggest everybody with the need of a high-performance web server to try out
fnord. It's extremely small, and pretty fast (without any special performance hacks!), see here.
It's not ACLs. Think about it as some kind of evolution. First, there was the not-too-flexible Unix privilege system (users,groups, rwx bits). Then there were Access Control Lists. And the last step in the "evolution" is a role-based system with cool things like "there is no superuser". This is really a huge leap forward in the security of Linux.
:-)
(although, OpenBSD's system call sandboxing via systrace is still nifty!