yes, it was a good vehicle to let people know Linux but there are more.
Linux desktop is perfect for us nerds, and if it ever gets mainstream or not doesn't matter at all. Why? Because we are a community large enough using desktop Linux for our own purposes; if the average Joe User installs it should be of no concern to us. We have the desktop _we_ make fitting _our_ needs and perfect for doing every thinkable stuff plus being superb for developing, hacking, etc.
So, we, the community, shouldn't have any issue with Ubuntu disappearing as a wannabe Windows alternative and becoming the next Red Hat... which is in no way a bad thing.
I used two of them in the litter box of my cats: We put the box into one of them and then used the second one the other way around, then we poured the cat litter into the covered box. When we wanted to clean it we just pulled one of the bags off like a condom and so you could put the used cat litter safely into the bin and the box remained (more or less) clean.
Our new cat is smarter and prefer the gardens of the neighbours;)
You aren't going to believe it, but I have seen them used to mix liters of drinks:
Get a bag, pour the content of a bottle of gin or vodka in it, take a half-emtpy 2L bottle of lemonade or orange soda, pour the soda in the bag, mix, hold it like a pastry bag above the bottle's opening, cut off the corner, wait... ready to rumble!!!!!
And all bags are reusable, mind you. Nobody tells you that you have to toss them away when you arrive home. Here we just keep the good ones and when they break we recycle them.
To transport large amounts of stuff in a car (or bike) nothing beats a cardboard box.
And as most of us use bikes we can just put our groceries into our big bags, crates and baskets. I can transport a week worth of groceries in my normal city bike... and we have heavy transport bikes here that are used even for pro-transport (heck people carry a few children and a large dog on their bikes, even grannies can).
I actually agree on your view, I was only pointing at some practical alternatives, but your last paragraph resumes the situation quite nicely. As an proof of that, with all the nice stuff we do here in Flatland we are one of the most highly polluted countries in the world, air quality sucks massive balls and people toss packages of junk food or whatever everywhere, stuff still comes in layers and layers of useless bags, plastic covers and such stuff and our government has repeatedly disregarded policies to force producers to reduce at origin.
In Germany this was introduced in 1973 as a result of the Oil Crisis. I recall from my childhood that during a period plastic bags were completely unavailable and supermarkets started to place the cardboard boxes for the customers to use. This is now common at least in Germany and Holland (for what I know).
In Germany I don't know about any supermarket that does not charge for bags and here in Holland all the mayor ones do, but not so the non-food stores.
I don't see it as a bad move from any perspective: For the supermarkets themselves a governmental mandate would mean that they would have a legitimate reason and this would mean a cost reduction for them, which is always welcome.
Not one person or family but whole classes and the rest not.
Don't be delusional: That happens today at a global scale. Just that in the past it was called "aristocracy" and there were much less of them in a world with much less people. Now we are just called "rich countries" and at a global scale we are the same as the aristocracy of the past. While they lived in segregated cities and castles we live in whole segregated countries and continents.
So, if you boil it down to the basics we already live in such as system where even the miserable among us in the rich countries (be it Western or not) have much more liberties and anything else than the vast rest of the population of the planet.
There are more currents who adhere in one or more ways to these ideas:
Political and philosophical Satanism, for instance, which despite it's name and despite being inscribed as religion is in all aspects an atheistic movement based on aesthetics and the embrace of most of the things that have been deemed as "bad" by most judeo-christian (and similar) cultures such as the right to vengeance. More of interest in regard to the current article is their conception of society as a meritocracy, Social Darwinism, but not in the sense of Liberals but more in the sense of what is really meant by meritocracy: People which contribute to society should be leading and the rest wouldn't have any right to vote or decide, much in he way of Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and tribal societies such as the Maori. The more radical proposals rank from an aristocracy very similar to the old one but with no implied inheritance or a limited one (such systems have been in place in ancient China and to certain extend Korea or in other forms among the Germanic and Nordic tribes).
Note, however, that the idea of "gender roles" is not even contemplated or discussed: Everyone has the right to do as he/she fits. And of course, race place no role whatsoever... (except that black Satanist goth-chicks kick massive ass).
One of the arguments against democracy of these groups is that the majority is not always right and that a mass of ignorants can hardly take intelligent decisions. Of course, Democracy is actually not about intelligent decisions but more about keeping as many people content as possible. If this is a good idea with 7.000 Million H. sapiens on the planet is a different question.
Another ideal firmly rooted in democratic and libertarian ideals is the sanctity and superiority of human lives. And I am not talking about abortion here. We are obviously social apes and our ancestry brings this heavy burden to such an extend that even the most liberal pro-choice activist would be shocked by the mere mention of reducing somebody's freedom to create a new human to add to the rest. A new fat ass to add weight to an already crowded couch, another waddling burger-swallowing piece of lard unable to even walk a mile without a car or escalators. Or if born in the "other part of the world" just another mouth to feed with not much to put into it.
Please note that I stress "new Human" as we are not talking about killing an existing one or doing anything that may pose the lives of existing ones in danger: We are talking about creating a completely new individual from scratch, to add more burden to the society and the planet, and just for the sake of an ideal about a right that is as stupid a notion as the superiority of democracy or the right of every half-witted redneck to decide how to steer a country or a city.
OK, you got me. I feel perfectly identified with many of the Neoreactionary ideas. But you also have to note that we are mostly talking about a philosophical and aesthetic current with a great of romanticism and the knowledge that we don't have much of a chance to win; But don't ever grow to confident...
Low fat, high fat and average fat. Low carb, high carb whatever. I would in any case love to know what an "empty carb" is. I know the concept of empty calories related to alcohol as it provides calories but with no added nutritional value. But carbs do carry nutritional value even if they are stored in the form of fat.
Fat people are fat because they eat more than what they burn.
Most runners and cyclists (and other endurance sporters) eat tons of "empty" carbs and we are rather skinny people. Some of us thrive on high fat diets too (I myself for instance). In fact you thrive with the diet you train with: If you train high-carb you will adapt to that and if you train on high fat you will improve your fat burning capacity which is an excellent idea for ultra-running, for instance. But that's beside the point.
The point is that the macronutrient percentages do not matter (too much), what matters is activity level and it matters in a lot more ways than just the energetic balance.
And professional elite troops with quite a good reputation among NATO, well armed and equipped (even the conscripts) with top notch stuff. I don't know what the heck you guys think over there in US-land but you should definitely apply a bit of logic and knowing that your army is not a bunch of idiots armed with flint-guns you should infer that their allies aren't either.
Or maybe you thing that our troops are just tagging along wile yours do the whole job?
In Norway meat consumption is very high AFAIK. I think the move is more to make the army more cost efficient and because vegetarianism and even veganism and nutritional awareness is becoming mainstream among sporters and the like. And an Army is not much different, I just see them as top sporters with weapons. I mean that I bet that there already are a good bunch Norwegian soldiers that are vegetarian, vegan or follow a healthy diet.
Sorry mates, but if you want to have a bunch of people ready to kill efficiently and do all the stuff an army has to do you have no other choice than keeping them fit and healthy.
An not matter what Fatty McBigbutt thinks: In a war or survival situation he would get his ass served in seconds.
The problem seems to be prions... although the Fidjians didn't seem to have too much of an issue with that. Purely from the point of view of global warming it would be the perfect solution.
I would however opt for a sort of "Soilent Green" solution as the human cattle that you see nowadays looks too fat. Well, the fat could be used for cooking them and the rest as fuel, machine grease... I see a whole new emerging industry.
Social Darwinism where we the fitter humans could hunt the weak. Whoaaa, I would consider eating meat again if this were the case.
Ah I thought hipsters were on Big Mac and Flurry diet. Exctly the same as the fat nerdy kids that want to look hard ^_^ soooo cuuuuuuutteeee little fatties:*
I have no idea why you consider it a foregone conclusion that the United States will be forced into upending its energy economy to support solar.
market pressure? cheap solar panels?
And remember: We have too have petrol (BP? Shell?) Not to talk about our Rusky neighbours.
So, your "increased GDP" theory goes down the gutter.
Fact is that if you don't stop teabagging your own technological development and torpedoing your I&D just because it doesn't fit your idea of Redneck manliness and Far-Right political correctness you will end up being part of the third world in a few decades.
Just wait for a couple of teabaggers governments to finish what Mr. Bush did and you will be begging the UK to re-colonise what's left of your country.
Take it this way mate: It's either you start thinking on implementing an efficient green economy or you will have to learn German and Chinese;) This easy.
Big Oil? Well, our local Shell and BP are big players in the renewable game too. And recall that Germany is still Germany.
Or thinking better about it... I think I will support you teabaggers: At the end of the day it's cash for us;) We just need to be quicker than the Chinese.
Not true!! I'm not listening na-nap-na-na-nanaaa!!
And what's wrong in subsidizing our good Megacorps ?
Please learn this basic fact: Subsidizing and paying to Megacorp is GOOD, is libertarian and is sexy. subsidizing anything else is liberal, gay, socialist and BAD, BAd, BAD. And everybody in favour of such a thing should be put to dead.
So you can help your friendly Chinese solar power manufacturers sell you the stuff later;)
And of course: It's Waayyyyyyyy better to pay your electricity bills than to create your own. Sooo much better. And long live capitalism and the free market, as long as it's Megacorps free market and not YOUR free market XD
Really mates, I am so happy that we don't have teabaggers here in Europe.
isn't a decentralised private owned source of electricity where you don't have to pay taxes for and may even earn some cash the ideal for these "freedom loving" guys?
I thought libertarianism was about that... but it seems that they are pro-private as long as the "private" part is a huge megacorporation even if it means paying top dollar for a service... but if there is something that is private but small... then it's a filthy liberal manbearpig thing only made for sissies and treehuggers !!! Wit hthe only exception of guns, of course.
A bank printing it's own banknotes? Oh, yes, yes, Awesome idea, the teabagging version of me is already masturbating to it and suffering from a religious rapture, oh, ohhhh, it's p-r-i-v-a-t-e, omg, omg,OMG!!!!
Cyprus itself is a good example for that. They became Europe's capital of financial fancies, gambling and speculation and they got utterly fucked in the arse in such a way that nobody is giving a shit for them, the EU even refused to bail them out like we did with Spain, Greece, the European banks etc. If they are as successful with Bitcoins as with the real currencies chances are they will have to sell to the Chinese and their bodies for medical experiments:P
Here in the Netherlands we have already a very advanced propulsion system: Netherweed!!!
Our plans include transforming Dam Square into our space launch centre from which our astronauts will float all the way up to the moon, once there the lunar plantations can refuel our astronauts for a safe travel back to earth or with the help of our Colombian partners' "Wonder Powder" to a travel faster than light to the Alpha Centaury!
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Debian, Mac OS X 10.6 (yes, I know, it's outdated, lol), Win7 and Android 1.6 (!!!!bwahaaaaa)
done already.
Pity for a good distro.
yes, it was a good vehicle to let people know Linux but there are more.
Linux desktop is perfect for us nerds, and if it ever gets mainstream or not doesn't matter at all.
Why? Because we are a community large enough using desktop Linux for our own purposes; if the average Joe User installs it should be of no concern to us. We have the desktop _we_ make fitting _our_ needs and perfect for doing every thinkable stuff plus being superb for developing, hacking, etc.
So, we, the community, shouldn't have any issue with Ubuntu disappearing as a wannabe Windows alternative and becoming the next Red Hat... which is in no way a bad thing.
"Affect"?
Is that Irish slang for "penis" ?
Indeed.
I used two of them in the litter box of my cats: We put the box into one of them and then used the second one the other way around, then we poured the cat litter into the covered box. When we wanted to clean it we just pulled one of the bags off like a condom and so you could put the used cat litter safely into the bin and the box remained (more or less) clean.
Our new cat is smarter and prefer the gardens of the neighbours ;)
You aren't going to believe it, but I have seen them used to mix liters of drinks:
Get a bag, pour the content of a bottle of gin or vodka in it, take a half-emtpy 2L bottle of lemonade or orange soda, pour the soda in the bag, mix, hold it like a pastry bag above the bottle's opening, cut off the corner, wait... ready to rumble!!!!!
We have all these things here:
reusable bags and supermarkets charging for them.
And all bags are reusable, mind you. Nobody tells you that you have to toss them away when you arrive home. Here we just keep the good ones and when they break we recycle them.
To transport large amounts of stuff in a car (or bike) nothing beats a cardboard box.
And as most of us use bikes we can just put our groceries into our big bags, crates and baskets. I can transport a week worth of groceries in my normal city bike... and we have heavy transport bikes here that are used even for pro-transport (heck people carry a few children and a large dog on their bikes, even grannies can).
I actually agree on your view, I was only pointing at some practical alternatives, but your last paragraph resumes the situation quite nicely. As an proof of that, with all the nice stuff we do here in Flatland we are one of the most highly polluted countries in the world, air quality sucks massive balls and people toss packages of junk food or whatever everywhere, stuff still comes in layers and layers of useless bags, plastic covers and such stuff and our government has repeatedly disregarded policies to force producers to reduce at origin.
In Germany this was introduced in 1973 as a result of the Oil Crisis. I recall from my childhood that during a period plastic bags were completely unavailable and supermarkets started to place the cardboard boxes for the customers to use. This is now common at least in Germany and Holland (for what I know).
In Germany I don't know about any supermarket that does not charge for bags and here in Holland all the mayor ones do, but not so the non-food stores.
I don't see it as a bad move from any perspective: For the supermarkets themselves a governmental mandate would mean that they would have a legitimate reason and this would mean a cost reduction for them, which is always welcome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
We have to do anything in our hands to stop the Mruders, they are very dangerous!
Not one person or family but whole classes and the rest not.
Don't be delusional: That happens today at a global scale. Just that in the past it was called "aristocracy" and there were much less of them in a world with much less people. Now we are just called "rich countries" and at a global scale we are the same as the aristocracy of the past. While they lived in segregated cities and castles we live in whole segregated countries and continents.
So, if you boil it down to the basics we already live in such as system where even the miserable among us in the rich countries (be it Western or not) have much more liberties and anything else than the vast rest of the population of the planet.
There are more currents who adhere in one or more ways to these ideas:
Political and philosophical Satanism, for instance, which despite it's name and despite being inscribed as religion is in all aspects an atheistic movement based on aesthetics and the embrace of most of the things that have been deemed as "bad" by most judeo-christian (and similar) cultures such as the right to vengeance.
More of interest in regard to the current article is their conception of society as a meritocracy, Social Darwinism, but not in the sense of Liberals but more in the sense of what is really meant by meritocracy: People which contribute to society should be leading and the rest wouldn't have any right to vote or decide, much in he way of Heinlein's "Starship Troopers" and tribal societies such as the Maori. The more radical proposals rank from an aristocracy very similar to the old one but with no implied inheritance or a limited one (such systems have been in place in ancient China and to certain extend Korea or in other forms among the Germanic and Nordic tribes).
Note, however, that the idea of "gender roles" is not even contemplated or discussed: Everyone has the right to do as he/she fits. And of course, race place no role whatsoever... (except that black Satanist goth-chicks kick massive ass).
One of the arguments against democracy of these groups is that the majority is not always right and that a mass of ignorants can hardly take intelligent decisions. Of course, Democracy is actually not about intelligent decisions but more about keeping as many people content as possible. If this is a good idea with 7.000 Million H. sapiens on the planet is a different question.
Another ideal firmly rooted in democratic and libertarian ideals is the sanctity and superiority of human lives. And I am not talking about abortion here. We are obviously social apes and our ancestry brings this heavy burden to such an extend that even the most liberal pro-choice activist would be shocked by the mere mention of reducing somebody's freedom to create a new human to add to the rest. A new fat ass to add weight to an already crowded couch, another waddling burger-swallowing piece of lard unable to even walk a mile without a car or escalators. Or if born in the "other part of the world" just another mouth to feed with not much to put into it.
Please note that I stress "new Human" as we are not talking about killing an existing one or doing anything that may pose the lives of existing ones in danger: We are talking about creating a completely new individual from scratch, to add more burden to the society and the planet, and just for the sake of an ideal about a right that is as stupid a notion as the superiority of democracy or the right of every half-witted redneck to decide how to steer a country or a city.
OK, you got me. I feel perfectly identified with many of the Neoreactionary ideas. But you also have to note that we are mostly talking about a philosophical and aesthetic current with a great of romanticism and the knowledge that we don't have much of a chance to win; But don't ever grow to confident...
They eat a lot of everything, period.
Low fat, high fat and average fat. Low carb, high carb whatever.
I would in any case love to know what an "empty carb" is. I know the concept of empty calories related to alcohol as it provides calories but with no added nutritional value. But carbs do carry nutritional value even if they are stored in the form of fat.
Fat people are fat because they eat more than what they burn.
Most runners and cyclists (and other endurance sporters) eat tons of "empty" carbs and we are rather skinny people. Some of us thrive on high fat diets too (I myself for instance). In fact you thrive with the diet you train with: If you train high-carb you will adapt to that and if you train on high fat you will improve your fat burning capacity which is an excellent idea for ultra-running, for instance. But that's beside the point.
The point is that the macronutrient percentages do not matter (too much), what matters is activity level and it matters in a lot more ways than just the energetic balance.
And professional elite troops with quite a good reputation among NATO, well armed and equipped (even the conscripts) with top notch stuff.
I don't know what the heck you guys think over there in US-land but you should definitely apply a bit of logic and knowing that your army is not a bunch of idiots armed with flint-guns you should infer that their allies aren't either.
Or maybe you thing that our troops are just tagging along wile yours do the whole job?
Here, these are our guys for instance (In Uruzgan): http://youtu.be/fyiPyMiRUMA
In Norway meat consumption is very high AFAIK.
I think the move is more to make the army more cost efficient and because vegetarianism and even veganism and nutritional awareness is becoming mainstream among sporters and the like. And an Army is not much different, I just see them as top sporters with weapons. I mean that I bet that there already are a good bunch Norwegian soldiers that are vegetarian, vegan or follow a healthy diet.
Sorry mates, but if you want to have a bunch of people ready to kill efficiently and do all the stuff an army has to do you have no other choice than keeping them fit and healthy.
An not matter what Fatty McBigbutt thinks: In a war or survival situation he would get his ass served in seconds.
The problem seems to be prions... although the Fidjians didn't seem to have too much of an issue with that.
Purely from the point of view of global warming it would be the perfect solution.
I would however opt for a sort of "Soilent Green" solution as the human cattle that you see nowadays looks too fat. Well, the fat could be used for cooking them and the rest as fuel, machine grease... I see a whole new emerging industry.
Social Darwinism where we the fitter humans could hunt the weak. Whoaaa, I would consider eating meat again if this were the case.
Ah I thought hipsters were on Big Mac and Flurry diet. Exctly the same as the fat nerdy kids that want to look hard ^_^ soooo cuuuuuuutteeee little fatties :*
market pressure?
cheap solar panels?
And remember: We have too have petrol (BP? Shell?) Not to talk about our Rusky neighbours.
So, your "increased GDP" theory goes down the gutter.
Fact is that if you don't stop teabagging your own technological development and torpedoing your I&D just because it doesn't fit your idea of Redneck manliness and Far-Right political correctness you will end up being part of the third world in a few decades.
Just wait for a couple of teabaggers governments to finish what Mr. Bush did and you will be begging the UK to re-colonise what's left of your country.
Err, yes, nice.
But Angela Merkel doesn't seem to think the same.
Take it this way mate: It's either you start thinking on implementing an efficient green economy or you will have to learn German and Chinese ;)
This easy.
Big Oil? Well, our local Shell and BP are big players in the renewable game too. And recall that Germany is still Germany.
Or thinking better about it... I think I will support you teabaggers: At the end of the day it's cash for us ;) We just need to be quicker than the Chinese.
Not true!! I'm not listening na-nap-na-na-nanaaa!!
And what's wrong in subsidizing our good Megacorps ?
Please learn this basic fact: Subsidizing and paying to Megacorp is GOOD, is libertarian and is sexy.
subsidizing anything else is liberal, gay, socialist and BAD, BAd, BAD. And everybody in favour of such a thing should be put to dead.
Yes WAR!! Kill all the Solar Nazis...
So you can help your friendly Chinese solar power manufacturers sell you the stuff later ;)
And of course: It's Waayyyyyyyy better to pay your electricity bills than to create your own. Sooo much better.
And long live capitalism and the free market, as long as it's Megacorps free market and not YOUR free market XD
Really mates, I am so happy that we don't have teabaggers here in Europe.
Really.
isn't a decentralised private owned source of electricity where you don't have to pay taxes for and may even earn some cash the ideal for these "freedom loving" guys?
I thought libertarianism was about that... but it seems that they are pro-private as long as the "private" part is a huge megacorporation even if it means paying top dollar for a service... but if there is something that is private but small... then it's a filthy liberal manbearpig thing only made for sissies and treehuggers !!! Wit hthe only exception of guns, of course.
A bank printing it's own banknotes? Oh, yes, yes, Awesome idea, the teabagging version of me is already masturbating to it and suffering from a religious rapture, oh, ohhhh, it's p-r-i-v-a-t-e, omg, omg,OMG!!!!
Oh... wait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panic_of_1819
hmmm....
Well, I think I'm going back to coffee and leave the tea resting in it's bag for some time
And they still are.
Cyprus itself is a good example for that. They became Europe's capital of financial fancies, gambling and speculation and they got utterly fucked in the arse in such a way that nobody is giving a shit for them, the EU even refused to bail them out like we did with Spain, Greece, the European banks etc. :P
If they are as successful with Bitcoins as with the real currencies chances are they will have to sell to the Chinese and their bodies for medical experiments
That's the future of space travel mate!
Here in the Netherlands we have already a very advanced propulsion system: Netherweed!!!
Our plans include transforming Dam Square into our space launch centre from which our astronauts will float all the way up to the moon, once there the lunar plantations can refuel our astronauts for a safe travel back to earth or with the help of our Colombian partners' "Wonder Powder" to a travel faster than light to the Alpha Centaury!
Oh, wait, I just bought myself a second hand PC with Win7, LOOOOL~!!!