I should certainly hope they do: I've found some real gems via links from/. Sites that are linked to from Slashdot should, I think, play a role in pagerank. So... up in the rankings goes Kinderstart. All thanks to Slashdot!
I'm afraid so. When the USA enters into any kind of trade agreement with another country, it's not just about taxes and tariffs: especially in recent years, the USA puts pressure on the other country to "harmonise" its laws with the USA in various respects, including intellectual property laws. This happened especially prominently with the free trade agreement between the USA and Australia (details courtesy of Wikipedia), when Australia agreed to extend copyright to life-plus-70-years and introduce legislation to enforce the use of DRM.
Well, that's the progaganda, -- but what on earth kind of "community" would want to have anything to do with this? What "community", anywhere, is dedicated to donating free labour to Hallibu^H^H^H^H^H^H^HGeorge Bush? Everyone loses. It's not as if anyone's going to get kickbacks for this.
I don't think that sig means what you think it means. To illustrate: what it actually means is, "Big brother -- hey, you lot, take a look!" If you want it to mean what I think you want it to mean, try "magnus frater te spectat."
I would think -- based on my own experience and observations -- that number two on the list of things that is pushing people towards Firefox, after security, isn't tabbed browsing, but Adblock. FWIW, Opera 9, currently at "technical preview 2", also has a "content blocker" -- see here -- and though it's reportedly less powerful than Adblock, I for one am likely to find that Opera 9 will suit me better than Firefox does. (Yes yes I know that it's been possible to block content in Opera for ages, but it's never been very convenient.) The fact that it isn't Free gives me qualms, but only mild qualms.
Anyway, IE 7 may (may) turn out to be more secure than IE 6 (not difficult), but that's only one of the things that has been pushing people away from IE.
That and the fact that once you've had one security nightmare with IE, or one spate of never-ending-popups installing malware/adware, you never ever trust it again. IE 7 might possibly close the stable door (yeah, right), but the horse has already bolted...
Even more specifically the First Amendment says that you have no worry of retribution from Congress; I guess that means the Prez can do pretty much whatever the hell he likes
The response Google sent to me when I complained about their censoring google.co.nz because of US laws:
Thank you for writing to us about the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,
also known as the DMCA. Google has an established procedure for handling
complaints about alleged copyright infringement, which you can review at
http://www.google.com/dmca.html. Since Google is an American company, we
apply American copyright law to our global properties. Part of our
motivation behind this approach is to promote public knowledge and
discussion of DMCA notices and removals.
The e-mail continued with general information about the DMCA. They didn't specifically address the.co.nz (or.co.anywhere_else) question.
Google.fr, google.de, and google.cn also censor sites on the basis of the DMCA, in addition to censoring on the basis of local laws.
Actually, no, that isn't what I meant. I meant the favoured medium changes from age to age. I doubt anyone seriously thinks that we'll still be using CD ROMs in 100 years' time, which is the point the ggp was making. But I disagreed with the ggp about the idea that there is something more permanent about paper: there's always going to be another medium coming along.
The thing about the longevity of the actual substance is a separate point. Sure, sometimes people make jokes about clay tablets being the most permanent medium, but the fact is that clay tablets that have survived from 3000 years ago have only survived by astonishing flukes. Same thing with 2000-year-old papyrus and 1000-year-old parchment documents: it's almost miraculous when something that old is discovered. Clay tablets lasting millennia are very much the exception, not the norm; and when they have survived it's normally because the city they were in got burnt to the ground, thus baking the clay -- not a very good advertisement for how to make your medium-of-choice last a long time. Paper's the same: even acid-free paper isn't going to last forever. Sure it lasts longer than non-acid-free paper, but you still have to take care of it and store it properly (e.g. not in a damp basement). History shows that that tends not to happen: a given percentage is all that will survive, though it's true that that percentage is affected by things like the longevity of the material used.
Normally I'd use google.co.nz: but it's still censored according to US laws, and a US corporation is still collecting data about me and will probably be required to pass it all on directly to the US government by the end of the decade. I'd bet the same goes for google.de, google.fr, etc. -- unless you know something I don't:-)
It is subject to government scrutiny when you type something into Google.
And this is why I long for a search engine that isn't based in the US, and which isn't subject to US law.
It's weird that the DMCA controls what comes up in my search results in spite of the fact that I don't live in the US; but that's almost incidental in comparison to the truly dreadful notion that my internet searching habits are likely, over the next few years, to become more and more subject to the scrutiny of a foreign, hostile, government. It seems pretty obvious that this case is just one step along the way to the US government conducting surveillance on pretty much everyone in the world.
Can anyone recommend any non-US-based search engines? The only one that I've managed to find out anything about is one that hasn't actually debuted yet, Quaero; if there are others I'd love to know. I hope Quaero turns out to be half as good a search engine as Google (somehow I think that unlikely), but at least maybe it'll encourage the existence of non-US-based search engines.
I think that's right. The PS3 is effectively a trojan to get Blu-ray players into the house. And, to be honest, the PS3 is about the only edge Blu-ray has: the HDDVD really has the advantage financially and even in some ways technologically -- unless the PS3 performs quite spectacularly well. If they have even a quarter of the supply problems the 360 has had, I predict Blu-ray is dead.
This has wider implications than just the PS3. If they don't get the PS3 out in the USA by Christmas, then, I submit, that's the end of Blu-ray.
Even if they do get it out by Christmas, there's the possibility of supply problems: if there are only half of the problems the 360 had, that too could well be enough to spell the end of Blu-ray.
Thanks for the "interesting" mod, but to deserve it I really should have added some tangible examples of irreconcilable inconsistencies between the various canonical accounts of Jesus. This site provides a few examples of inconsistencies that devout fundamentalists have tried to play down, but which are genuinely contradictory. Note the line "Even if there were genuine inconsistencies on one or two details, you must still deal with the general reliability of the gospels" -- in spite of the multitude of contradictions between the gospels, the page insists there is some kind of reliability there nonetheless. There is none.
Free speech cannot realistically be restricted anymore in the West. What, they're going to shut down slashdot? Whatever.
I think you forget many instances when various governments have confiscated servers; perhaps most notably the Indymedia case, where servers in Europe were confiscated at the order of the US government... you also forget who controls the backbone, who controls ICANN, who controls pretty much everything...
The reality is that those peace loving civs that you talk about really did stagnate and would have collapsed from internal issues even without neighbors.
Yeah, the stagnant Ottoman Empire collapsed pretty quickly after 1450.
You probably mean "predates the death of Saul in Rome in 66 CE", rather than predating his transformation earlier in his career (which was almost certainly prior to the establishment of any Christian community in Rome);
Wikipedia has the gospel of Mark dated to between 65-80 CE, which is probably still too specific but not a bad ballpark date; so I suspect
what you're thinking of is not the date of the gospel of Mark itself, but the hypothetical Q document on which a lot of people think it was based.
Please do clarify if I have in fact mistaken the scope of your research.
Slashdot Mirror
Pretty much every English translation of Nietzsche ever translates Übermensch as "superman" or "super-man".
They are.
I should certainly hope they do: I've found some real gems via links from /. Sites that are linked to from Slashdot should, I think, play a role in pagerank. So ... up in the rankings goes Kinderstart. All thanks to Slashdot!
I'm afraid so. When the USA enters into any kind of trade agreement with another country, it's not just about taxes and tariffs: especially in recent years, the USA puts pressure on the other country to "harmonise" its laws with the USA in various respects, including intellectual property laws. This happened especially prominently with the free trade agreement between the USA and Australia (details courtesy of Wikipedia), when Australia agreed to extend copyright to life-plus-70-years and introduce legislation to enforce the use of DRM.
Well, that's the progaganda, -- but what on earth kind of "community" would want to have anything to do with this? What "community", anywhere, is dedicated to donating free labour to Hallibu^H^H^H^H^H^H^HGeorge Bush? Everyone loses. It's not as if anyone's going to get kickbacks for this.
There's no difference.
I don't think that sig means what you think it means. To illustrate: what it actually means is, "Big brother -- hey, you lot, take a look!" If you want it to mean what I think you want it to mean, try "magnus frater te spectat."
I would think -- based on my own experience and observations -- that number two on the list of things that is pushing people towards Firefox, after security, isn't tabbed browsing, but Adblock. FWIW, Opera 9, currently at "technical preview 2", also has a "content blocker" -- see here -- and though it's reportedly less powerful than Adblock, I for one am likely to find that Opera 9 will suit me better than Firefox does. (Yes yes I know that it's been possible to block content in Opera for ages, but it's never been very convenient.) The fact that it isn't Free gives me qualms, but only mild qualms.
Anyway, IE 7 may (may) turn out to be more secure than IE 6 (not difficult), but that's only one of the things that has been pushing people away from IE.
That and the fact that once you've had one security nightmare with IE, or one spate of never-ending-popups installing malware/adware, you never ever trust it again. IE 7 might possibly close the stable door (yeah, right), but the horse has already bolted ...
Even more specifically the First Amendment says that you have no worry of retribution from Congress; I guess that means the Prez can do pretty much whatever the hell he likes
Mxyzptlk.
Sorry, sorry, sorry ... [runs away and hides]
I wouldn't mind having 20 GB RAM in my main box ...
Sorry, just another afterthought: if you could effect a change, your readers' affect might be more pleasing.
Your sig comes across as a bit affected -- it's a troubling effect.
The response Google sent to me when I complained about their censoring google.co.nz because of US laws:
The e-mail continued with general information about the DMCA. They didn't specifically address the .co.nz (or .co.anywhere_else) question.
Google.fr, google.de, and google.cn also censor sites on the basis of the DMCA, in addition to censoring on the basis of local laws.
Actually, no, that isn't what I meant. I meant the favoured medium changes from age to age. I doubt anyone seriously thinks that we'll still be using CD ROMs in 100 years' time, which is the point the ggp was making. But I disagreed with the ggp about the idea that there is something more permanent about paper: there's always going to be another medium coming along.
The thing about the longevity of the actual substance is a separate point. Sure, sometimes people make jokes about clay tablets being the most permanent medium, but the fact is that clay tablets that have survived from 3000 years ago have only survived by astonishing flukes. Same thing with 2000-year-old papyrus and 1000-year-old parchment documents: it's almost miraculous when something that old is discovered. Clay tablets lasting millennia are very much the exception, not the norm; and when they have survived it's normally because the city they were in got burnt to the ground, thus baking the clay -- not a very good advertisement for how to make your medium-of-choice last a long time. Paper's the same: even acid-free paper isn't going to last forever. Sure it lasts longer than non-acid-free paper, but you still have to take care of it and store it properly (e.g. not in a damp basement). History shows that that tends not to happen: a given percentage is all that will survive, though it's true that that percentage is affected by things like the longevity of the material used.
And they even have a Firefox searchbar plugin. Great, thanks for that!
Normally I'd use google.co.nz: but it's still censored according to US laws, and a US corporation is still collecting data about me and will probably be required to pass it all on directly to the US government by the end of the decade. I'd bet the same goes for google.de, google.fr, etc. -- unless you know something I don't :-)
Random dude 1000 years ago: "But there will always be parchment."
Random dude 2000 years ago: "But there will always be papyrus."
Random dude 3000 years ago: "But there will always be clay tablets."
Hmmm.
And this is why I long for a search engine that isn't based in the US, and which isn't subject to US law.
It's weird that the DMCA controls what comes up in my search results in spite of the fact that I don't live in the US; but that's almost incidental in comparison to the truly dreadful notion that my internet searching habits are likely, over the next few years, to become more and more subject to the scrutiny of a foreign, hostile, government. It seems pretty obvious that this case is just one step along the way to the US government conducting surveillance on pretty much everyone in the world.
Can anyone recommend any non-US-based search engines? The only one that I've managed to find out anything about is one that hasn't actually debuted yet, Quaero; if there are others I'd love to know. I hope Quaero turns out to be half as good a search engine as Google (somehow I think that unlikely), but at least maybe it'll encourage the existence of non-US-based search engines.
I think that's right. The PS3 is effectively a trojan to get Blu-ray players into the house. And, to be honest, the PS3 is about the only edge Blu-ray has: the HDDVD really has the advantage financially and even in some ways technologically -- unless the PS3 performs quite spectacularly well. If they have even a quarter of the supply problems the 360 has had, I predict Blu-ray is dead.
This has wider implications than just the PS3. If they don't get the PS3 out in the USA by Christmas, then, I submit, that's the end of Blu-ray.
Even if they do get it out by Christmas, there's the possibility of supply problems: if there are only half of the problems the 360 had, that too could well be enough to spell the end of Blu-ray.
As of now, I think, HD-DVD is winning.
Thanks for the "interesting" mod, but to deserve it I really should have added some tangible examples of irreconcilable inconsistencies between the various canonical accounts of Jesus. This site provides a few examples of inconsistencies that devout fundamentalists have tried to play down, but which are genuinely contradictory. Note the line "Even if there were genuine inconsistencies on one or two details, you must still deal with the general reliability of the gospels" -- in spite of the multitude of contradictions between the gospels, the page insists there is some kind of reliability there nonetheless. There is none.
I think you forget many instances when various governments have confiscated servers; perhaps most notably the Indymedia case, where servers in Europe were confiscated at the order of the US government ... you also forget who controls the backbone, who controls ICANN, who controls pretty much everything ...
Yeah, the stagnant Ottoman Empire collapsed pretty quickly after 1450.
Check your sources:
Please do clarify if I have in fact mistaken the scope of your research.