Re:speaking as an owner of dell desktops ...
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Dell To Enter PDA Market
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pretty Linux (at least SuSE) friendly You mean like asking Dell support for some information regarding my Dell laptop which does not run Linux properly and being told: Sorry we do not support Linux?
they need to spend a little more time learning how to season their food Thank all the Gods, many indian and chinese people give England something they have always missed: Real food. Unfortunately these peoples have not invaded enough of the Netherlands. Gods, they do not even know what food is there! Probably because they have eaten too much tulip bulbs.
slow down cowboy. As has been said multiple times below, there is no law in France or Germany that prohibits anti-abortion speech. The fact that an anti-abortion site is blocked is, for the time being, a mistery.
According to the Harvard report, some sites that Google does not list include 1488.com, a "Chinese legal consultation network", and 14words.com, a discount Web-hosting service and some conservative, anti-abortion religious sites. Those sites do not appear to violate either German or French laws. This is a particularly surprising move though. The German and French laws against racist speech are well known, but why would google remove sites like the ones mentioned in the article and that I have reproduced above? Certainly not because of pressure of the French or German governements.
Interestingly, 14words.com, which seems to be just a web-hosting company, is in the following category in google directory:
Society > Issues > Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations > Hate > Hate Groups
If XML is unreadable, even without knowing what program wrote it, it fails to live up to it's promise. Duh! XML fails to live up to its hype. Yes, for sure. There is nothing new here.
The French just tried (and acquitted, true) a man for being uncomplimentary to Islam. RIDICULOUS! This trial was brought in by muslim and anti-racist associations. This had nothing whatsoever to do with THE FRENCH as you put it. The French governement was not involved.
I liked the No Logo book. Naomi Klein takes examples of child/slave/appalingly cheap labor for making IBM hard disks (if I remember correctly). She mentions China as one of the top countries for cheap, slave AND child labor. Let's hear it for China!
Like law enforcement? In fact it was like this in Britain with the fire brigades. Each fire brigade was owned by an insurance company and they would fight a fire in your house only if your house was insure by the appropriate insurance company, while letting the fire burn your neighbour's house. This crazy system was later replaced by local/national governement controls.
Another area where governements are necessary is pollution control. The private electricity industry in the US pollutes (proportionally) 6 times more than the (previoulsy or still) state owned electricity industry in Europe. This is a staggering number.
It has all the power because it has all the guns, and that is especially true in the UK. Governements in democraties do not have all the power. And this has nothing to do with guns. Many americans always bring back the issue of guns in the most irrelevant situations!
I guess the biggest difference between the UK and the US is that the media isn't privately owned to quite the same degree in the UK as it is in the US, right? This is equally irrelevant. Privately owned media can be forced by governements to say anything the governements want as much as public media.
Anyway, this is about ISPs which are all (AFAIK) privately owned.
I propose to the editors of/. to pay this poor unemployed woman to switch to Debian and then write a story about it on/. After all, she'll probably get the sack because of the article on/.
It seems the mouse and buttons are above the keyboard which is strange but could be practical. I used to have a picturebook in my previous job and I loved it. I have small fingers so it the keyboard size was not problem and I also have very good view so the size of the screen was not a problem either. And linux runs perfectely well on the old crusoe-based sony picturebook! (Not like on my current dell C400)
Yet I will be able to glimpse some of the internal programming bequeathed to me by evolution, and that I, in turn, have bequeathed to my children... or not. These types of genetic checks have interesting side-effects, such as finding out that your father is not who you think he was! I read somewhere that this was the case in about 25% of cases. The future will bring us lots of fun!
And what about all the idiots who queue for hours at night to be the first to get their hands on the latest Windows OS when a new one arrives? Oh but wait a second! Those people are not zealot! Just plain arsholes!
Yes, but read this sentence on thefreeworld.net site: * acknowledge that by downloading the data outside of the European Union you are performing an act of importation.
I think it clearly means that the site is in the E.U. Moreover, netcraft says that it is hosted by planet online which is based in the UK, AFAIK. So the owner is in the US, the site in the EU.
So let me try to understand what you say: Because you have a hit of redness in your hair and you think you are not more susceptible to pain, you conclude that what those people said is wrong. Fantastic! You deserve a noble prize for scientific conclusion of the week! Generalisation made on one person do not work.
Wow 5 gigs worth of portable porn Come on. For the businessman, 5 gigs is just enough for the powerpoint presentation of his company!
Re:Perhaps some ownership is necessary?
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Generation Wrecked
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Frankly I understand you and your mother and I agree with you but for one important point:
You cannot blame the current generation for being what it is! If genX is like it is it surely must be the fault of their (I mean our) parents (or their generation anyway). If genX was told to make quick money and not to worry about later, then older people have told them that.
I belong to genX and I feel my generation is pretty fucked up. And I worry about what will happen when genX will be old enough to be in power.
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pretty Linux (at least SuSE) friendly
You mean like asking Dell support for some information regarding my Dell laptop which does not run Linux properly and being told: Sorry we do not support Linux?
they need to spend a little more time learning how to season their food
Thank all the Gods, many indian and chinese people give England something they have always missed: Real food. Unfortunately these peoples have not invaded enough of the Netherlands. Gods, they do not even know what food is there! Probably because they have eaten too much tulip bulbs.
slow down cowboy.
As has been said multiple times below, there is no law in France or Germany that prohibits anti-abortion speech. The fact that an anti-abortion site is blocked is, for the time being, a mistery.
Right. So I assume that google has removed some sites containing 14 and 1488 in their address even if they are not racist sites.
Great.
In France, I use this:
www.google.com/en
According to the Harvard report, some sites that Google does not list include 1488.com, a "Chinese legal consultation network", and 14words.com, a discount Web-hosting service and some conservative, anti-abortion religious sites. Those sites do not appear to violate either German or French laws.
This is a particularly surprising move though. The German and French laws against racist speech are well known, but why would google remove sites like the ones mentioned in the article and that I have reproduced above? Certainly not because of pressure of the French or German governements.
Interestingly, 14words.com, which seems to be just a web-hosting company, is in the following category in google directory:
Society > Issues > Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations > Hate > Hate Groups
If XML is unreadable, even without knowing what program wrote it, it fails to live up to it's promise.
Duh! XML fails to live up to its hype. Yes, for sure. There is nothing new here.
Have you ever seen some complex XML file? Without documentation it could be as difficult as binary to reverse-engineer!
The French just tried (and acquitted, true) a man for being uncomplimentary to Islam.
RIDICULOUS! This trial was brought in by muslim and anti-racist associations. This had nothing whatsoever to do with THE FRENCH as you put it. The French governement was not involved.
I liked the No Logo book. Naomi Klein takes examples of child/slave/appalingly cheap labor for making IBM hard disks (if I remember correctly). She mentions China as one of the top countries for cheap, slave AND child labor.
Let's hear it for China!
Like law enforcement?
In fact it was like this in Britain with the fire brigades. Each fire brigade was owned by an insurance company and they would fight a fire in your house only if your house was insure by the appropriate insurance company, while letting the fire burn your neighbour's house. This crazy system was later replaced by local/national governement controls.
Another area where governements are necessary is pollution control. The private electricity industry in the US pollutes (proportionally) 6 times more than the (previoulsy or still) state owned electricity industry in Europe. This is a staggering number.
It has all the power because it has all the guns, and that is especially true in the UK.
Governements in democraties do not have all the power. And this has nothing to do with guns. Many americans always bring back the issue of guns in the most irrelevant situations!
I guess the biggest difference between the UK and the US is that the media isn't privately owned to quite the same degree in the UK as it is in the US, right?
This is equally irrelevant. Privately owned media can be forced by governements to say anything the governements want as much as public media.
Anyway, this is about ISPs which are all (AFAIK) privately owned.
From their FAQ:
...repeal of most gun control laws, repeal of most drug prohibition laws...
Yes! I want the freedom to shoot at anyone while on crack!
Name says it all.
Yep. It says: I can't spell algorithm!
You are a sad person. Nobody lives without ethics. If your ethics are poor you should not feel superior to someone whose ethics are higher than yours.
I propose to the editors of /. to pay this poor unemployed woman to switch to Debian and then write a story about it on /. After all, she'll probably get the sack because of the article on /.
It seems the mouse and buttons are above the keyboard which is strange but could be practical.
I used to have a picturebook in my previous job and I loved it. I have small fingers so it the keyboard size was not problem and I also have very good view so the size of the screen was not a problem either. And linux runs perfectely well on the old crusoe-based sony picturebook! (Not like on my current dell C400)
Yet I will be able to glimpse some of the internal programming bequeathed to me by evolution, and that I, in turn, have bequeathed to my children ...
or not. These types of genetic checks have interesting side-effects, such as finding out that your father is not who you think he was! I read somewhere that this was the case in about 25% of cases. The future will bring us lots of fun!
And what about all the idiots who queue for hours at night to be the first to get their hands on the latest Windows OS when a new one arrives? Oh but wait a second! Those people are not zealot! Just plain arsholes!
You are right, it's Brazil not US. Sorry.
Yes, but read this sentence on thefreeworld.net site:
* acknowledge that by downloading the data outside of the European Union you are performing an act of importation.
I think it clearly means that the site is in the E.U. Moreover, netcraft says that it is hosted by planet online which is based in the UK, AFAIK. So the owner is in the US, the site in the EU.
Could someone moderate the parent as Funny instead of Insightful?
So let me try to understand what you say:
Because you have a hit of redness in your hair and you think you are not more susceptible to pain, you conclude that what those people said is wrong. Fantastic! You deserve a noble prize for scientific conclusion of the week! Generalisation made on one person do not work.
Wow 5 gigs worth of portable porn
Come on. For the businessman, 5 gigs is just enough for the powerpoint presentation of his company!
Frankly I understand you and your mother and I agree with you but for one important point:
You cannot blame the current generation for being what it is! If genX is like it is it surely must be the fault of their (I mean our) parents (or their generation anyway). If genX was told to make quick money and not to worry about later, then older people have told them that.
I belong to genX and I feel my generation is pretty fucked up. And I worry about what will happen when genX will be old enough to be in power.