I like to think of 2005 to 2015 as the decade of Linux on the desktop. It's really only the last few years that linux has become usable by grandma, so long as grandma has the right hardware. I'm hopeful that the next 7 years will see much improvement for linux. By 2015, Linux will be on par with/ superior to other OS's on the desktop.
Why is there so many people surprised about the class keyword finally being implemented? I remember reading the reserved words for javascript way back in the 90's and seeing class in there. I always wondered how long it would take to be implemented. Here is a list of javascript reserved words.
Maybe, but modern medicine is not doing evolution any favours be letting people who would otherwise quickly die live and reproduce.
This is a fallacy. Evolution is a process. It takes place in what ever environment happens to be there. You can't do evolution favours, evolution has no intent. Evolution is simply the change in the genome over successive generations. It has no end goal, no master plan.
By your logic we should all abandon technology and go live as cavemen again.
Some 15 year old with a bunch of records telling me they sounds better than digital playback does not convince me. Does vinyl have a bigger possible range of frequencies? And if so can the human ear tell the difference?
I agree with you, No it doesn't necessarily warrant all that stuff. All I'm saying is that in their fundamentalist ideology, they do hate our culture, our freedoms.
they don't hate us for our freedom and never have while all that stuff you mention about meddling in their governments and the like may be true, the above statement is definitely NOT true. Do you understand what an Islamic fundamentalist is? Do you understand that they hate most music, they ban it if they can. They hate women having freedom to choose and do things for themselves. They ban this if they can. Have you heard of honour killings?
Don't be fooled by this 'it's all our fault' mentality folks. There are religious maniacs out there that hate our culture, hate 'our freedoms'. And they want to impose their islamic law upon the world. They would kill us if they could.
regardless of how much pollution is generated at a power plant somewhere, there will be a hell of a lot less pollution blowing in our faces in the street, in the cities. This means better health for citizens.
I think centralization of power production (that is, not produced in car) is the key. Get the electric car tech sorted, and have other solutions for producing the power dealt with else where. It's abstracted away, a power input at the service station works regardless of where/how the power is generated.
Now, if only we could get John Carmack working on fusion reactor technology...
However, I would argue a an inbox full of spam can do a lot less damage to an individual than getting mixed up with drugs. How much damage can some of those drugs do that are advertised in the spam?
Cannabis is not particularly harmful, especially when vapourized or eaten instead of smoked.
I guess simply, those who pirate your works are violating your wishes to be paid for the property you are selling. The pirates are breaking the state of anarchy.
However, the issue of digital content is bigger than this. What about the people who would not pay for your work anyway, and only download it because they can (which I believe is most people) ? What kind of ethic is it to hoard something that is infinitely reproducible, denying it from those that simply can not make the money to pay?
Finally. I don't see such a thing as an 'anarchist society'. Rather, anarchy is a principle, an ideal which we can tend towards. It's not a state which will stay fixed. People try new things which can upset the balance. Getting back to the example at hand. On the whole, millions of people may have their lives enhanced by downloading the works which one person pirated from you. You may suffer, but many others benefit. Not ideal, you lose in this situation. Perhaps we can be more holistic in our analysis - how can we setup a system where people have food on the table, a roof over their head and be able to work on the art/craft of their choice....and give it to the world for free if its digital.
..rather then create an anarchist society where people do whatever they want.. As an anarchist, i have to respond to this. Anarchy does not mean people can do whatever they want. It means they can do whatever they want so long as that action does not stop other people from doing what they want. There is a massive difference between the two.
Please, get a clue and stop spreading the FUD about anarchists.
The only one you need to know: podcast. Most annoying word EVER! I find the term VODcast more peculiar. I understand that it's short for Video On Demand..cast. Which is stupid, a video RSS feed is not on demand, its a feed. I would have thought the more sensible VIDcast might have been used.
I use the sensible terms whenever possible: Audio Feed and Video Feed. Or maybe Audiocast and Videocast.
open source = you can see the source I don't think the definition should have to apply any further than that if companies dont want to The word 'open' implies more than just being able to view the source. It implies what you should be able to do with it.
We need some standards. Letting companies attach any meaning they please to a common term makes the term useless.
For more information on the context of whats going on in Venezula, check out the docco Chavez - Inside the Coup. It shows how the oil corporates attempting a coup manipulated the public. This is the people that lost their broadcast license not long ago.
Chavez may seem like a bad man to some, but really is a result of the grass roots organising - aka The Bolivarian Circles.
what happened is that all the fanboys and fangirls wanted it to end with a big grisly bloody killing spree Yeah. I was actually hoping he would put that machine gun to use!
if you were able to buy crack, heroin, and marijuana in your local CVS, the world would be a much better place
Really? Alcohol & tobacco are legal, and still cause a lot of harm. Crack & heroin are far, far more harmful than booze & cigarettes.
Legalization would be a disaster. That's still no reason to keep certain drugs criminalized. It's social segregation, or as I like to call it, apartheid. Yes, aparthied. I have to run and hide from the cops, buy my drugs illegally, use my drugs in secrecy, while other people can buy their drugs at the store, use them in public. Hell, there is dedicated drug dealers / drug taking houses called pubs everywhere. It's apartheid.
Though just selling it all at a store isn't the solution either. There needs to be education. Dealers should have to make their customers aware of the effects of the drugs they are selling.
More predictions: when they get to earth, nobody will be there, empty planet. They fracked up their interpretation of the ancient texts, THEY ARE the 13th colony.
Protesting against the system should be done by voting You really are deluded. Is your life that hunky dory?
So I get to vote every 3 years or so (Im in Australia) and neither of the major parties that always take power represent me. It's bullshit. Voting does nothing. The major parties are paid for by big business. And because they have the most money, they can afford more advertising etc to brainwash all the people who take no interest in politics.
Then criminals can have rape houses where rape isn't illegal, houses where child molestation is legal, distribution centers for illegal weapons... What a great idea! Take the idea of the sovereign individual. Everyone has their own sovereignty. Now rape houses and molestation houses are clearly a violation of the individuals sovereignty. Saying you have the sovereign right to abuse someone elses sovereignty is not really what I was thinking.
The idea of anarchy is that you can do what you like so long as you are not denying others of their freedom.
Untrue. I've prohibited it in my house. If you want to disclaim copyright on a work then you can go someplace else and do it. My house, my rules. Likewise, cannabis isn't illegal at my place.
It's the sort of thinking we need to overthrow this system. Start thinking of ourselves as sovereign peoples, sovereign households - streets - communities.
I had hoped that after all these years, the % of females who use Linux would have improved. Granted, this is only SUSE, but 539 out of 27000 isn't very good odds.
But we could have one hell of a bukakke session! Well maybe if people like you stopped making such gross remarks about women, more women would join the community.
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all this talk of UAC makes me feel like playing some doom again.
I like to think of 2005 to 2015 as the decade of Linux on the desktop. It's really only the last few years that linux has become usable by grandma, so long as grandma has the right hardware. I'm hopeful that the next 7 years will see much improvement for linux. By 2015, Linux will be on par with/ superior to other OS's on the desktop.
Why is there so many people surprised about the class keyword finally being implemented? I remember reading the reserved words for javascript way back in the 90's and seeing class in there. I always wondered how long it would take to be implemented. Here is a list of javascript reserved words.
Sydney protest footage here.
This is a fallacy. Evolution is a process. It takes place in what ever environment happens to be there. You can't do evolution favours, evolution has no intent. Evolution is simply the change in the genome over successive generations. It has no end goal, no master plan.
By your logic we should all abandon technology and go live as cavemen again.
Some 15 year old with a bunch of records telling me they sounds better than digital playback does not convince me.
Does vinyl have a bigger possible range of frequencies? And if so can the human ear tell the difference?
I agree with you, No it doesn't necessarily warrant all that stuff. All I'm saying is that in their fundamentalist ideology, they do hate our culture, our freedoms.
Don't be fooled by this 'it's all our fault' mentality folks. There are religious maniacs out there that hate our culture, hate 'our freedoms'. And they want to impose their islamic law upon the world. They would kill us if they could.
regardless of how much pollution is generated at a power plant somewhere, there will be a hell of a lot less pollution blowing in our faces in the street, in the cities. This means better health for citizens.
I think centralization of power production (that is, not produced in car) is the key. Get the electric car tech sorted, and have other solutions for producing the power dealt with else where. It's abstracted away, a power input at the service station works regardless of where/how the power is generated.
Now, if only we could get John Carmack working on fusion reactor technology...
Cannabis is not particularly harmful, especially when vapourized or eaten instead of smoked.
Quite a challenging question. Thankyou.
I guess simply, those who pirate your works are violating your wishes to be paid for the property you are selling. The pirates are breaking the state of anarchy.
However, the issue of digital content is bigger than this. What about the people who would not pay for your work anyway, and only download it because they can (which I believe is most people) ? What kind of ethic is it to hoard something that is infinitely reproducible, denying it from those that simply can not make the money to pay?
Finally. I don't see such a thing as an 'anarchist society'. Rather, anarchy is a principle, an ideal which we can tend towards. It's not a state which will stay fixed. People try new things which can upset the balance. Getting back to the example at hand. On the whole, millions of people may have their lives enhanced by downloading the works which one person pirated from you. You may suffer, but many others benefit. Not ideal, you lose in this situation. Perhaps we can be more holistic in our analysis - how can we setup a system where people have food on the table, a roof over their head and be able to work on the art/craft of their choice....and give it to the world for free if its digital.
..rather then create an anarchist society where people do whatever they want.. As an anarchist, i have to respond to this. Anarchy does not mean people can do whatever they want. It means they can do whatever they want so long as that action does not stop other people from doing what they want. There is a massive difference between the two.Please, get a clue and stop spreading the FUD about anarchists.
Not another one.
You can get some grass roots coverage of the protests against APEC at Sydney Indymedia.
I use the sensible terms whenever possible: Audio Feed and Video Feed. Or maybe Audiocast and Videocast.
We need some standards. Letting companies attach any meaning they please to a common term makes the term useless.
For more information on the context of whats going on in Venezula, check out the docco Chavez - Inside the Coup. It shows how the oil corporates attempting a coup manipulated the public. This is the people that lost their broadcast license not long ago.
Chavez may seem like a bad man to some, but really is a result of the grass roots organising - aka The Bolivarian Circles.
Really? Alcohol & tobacco are legal, and still cause a lot of harm. Crack & heroin are far, far more harmful than booze & cigarettes.
Legalization would be a disaster. That's still no reason to keep certain drugs criminalized. It's social segregation, or as I like to call it, apartheid. Yes, aparthied. I have to run and hide from the cops, buy my drugs illegally, use my drugs in secrecy, while other people can buy their drugs at the store, use them in public. Hell, there is dedicated drug dealers / drug taking houses called pubs everywhere. It's apartheid.
Though just selling it all at a store isn't the solution either. There needs to be education. Dealers should have to make their customers aware of the effects of the drugs they are selling.
Drug User Liberation
I don't think so :)
I think Starbuck is the 12th cylon.
More predictions: when they get to earth, nobody will be there, empty planet. They fracked up their interpretation of the ancient texts, THEY ARE the 13th colony.
So I get to vote every 3 years or so (Im in Australia) and neither of the major parties that always take power represent me. It's bullshit. Voting does nothing. The major parties are paid for by big business. And because they have the most money, they can afford more advertising etc to brainwash all the people who take no interest in politics.
The idea of anarchy is that you can do what you like so long as you are not denying others of their freedom.
It's the sort of thinking we need to overthrow this system. Start thinking of ourselves as sovereign peoples, sovereign households - streets - communities.
ok. its the NASDAQ rules ..but why is it in the rules?