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In fact there's been a one-word short version of this around for centuries; the word is "puritan". I wonder why that word has dropped out of usage. I guess it's maybe something to do with the fact that the modern puritans are motivated merely by knee-jerk reactions, rather than trying to back those reactions up with warped theology. Sorry, just thinking out loud.
When you say the official Firefox website, surely you mean http://www.mozilla.com/firefox. Er, as of, um, about two hours ago it seems... why have they changed to.com?
The militants in the Middle East, right or wrong, is ABSOLUTELY, COMPLETELY, and TOTALLY in the middle of a political struggle with the West.
Absolutely correct, and it's very possible to feel ambivalent about the issue even in a first-world country. A couple of days ago in my country a TV programme was broadcast in which someone went onto the street trying to collect money "for charity" -- wearing a Palestinian-style headscarf and with a clear label on his collecting can saying in very large letters that he was collecting for Al Qaeda. The experiment was repeated in Nazi costume. The Nazis didn't get anything; Al Qaeda sure did.
Classical CDs very rarely have DRM of any kind whatsoever, so this doesn't really affect me. Not that I don't care that DRM exists; I'm just one of those people that has no need to get bogged down in working out what to do about it. If any label ever does start putting DRM on CDs that I buy, I am quite confident that it will be a kind of DRM that is obsolete by about a decade and therefore trivial to bypass. In any case some (not many, but enough) classical performers/conductors care more about open access than making money.
So what do we do in a few centuries when we start to notice that these 20-ton spacecraft are on a collision course for earth? Send up more spacecraft to deflect them? But then we'll have kazillions of these things up there, hovering around the solar system, just waiting for their chance to crash into us.... shriek!
Essentially what you're saying is it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, came out of a duck egg that was laid by a female duck, has the same genes as a duck, but under no circumstances must it ever be confused with a duck.
(Disclaimer: I'm agonstic, so don't flame the shit out of me for being a fundie.)
I'm not sure if that's supposed to read "agnostic" or "agonistic" -- either would work very nicely...:-)
However, I think the gp's point -- that if you're forced to bring ID into classrooms, it would certainly be a good idea to try and inculcate some basic skills in logical deduction so that it's not a complete waste of time -- is a great idea. If textbooks featuring ID all contained material like that, I might not be quite so hostile to it...
Undying is underrated. I certainly find it more enjoyable than Doom. But I felt it kind of trails off after a while: I thought the designers used up all their best material in the mansion at the start of the game. From the monastery onwards it basically transformed into a fairly straightforward shoot-em-up (albeit a high-quality one).
Mind you, there was nothing quite like that moment when you walked up to a mirror, thinking that you were looking at your own reflection, only to realise a moment later that someone was behind you... and scrying certain portraits hanging on the walls, or other objects, led to some *jump* moments for me that had nothing to do with anything leaping out at you.
Generally that might be an idea worth considering but the NZ government's economic and education policies are strongly encouraging universities to abolish all subjects other than economics and management.
In reply to your paragraph 1: it's frequent? Perhaps it is; I believe you, of course. It's not as if any one political faction has a monopoly on hawks.
Paragraph 2: my point was that you were making exactly the same kind of confusion between left-wing factions. NZ Greens are no more responsible for the actions of bolsheviks in London than the NZ ACT Party is for the actions of Enron/Andersen executives; they're unrelated. (At least, I hope they are, in both cases!)
Paragraph 3: this is true. I was thinking of libertarianism on a personal level, but I'd rather not get bogged down in a simple misunderstanding.
Paragraph 4: sorry, I don't know what you're referring to here. In any case I was making my assumption on the grounds that you were referring to an incident in London; my apologies for the error.
You shall be entitled to burn and export Products solely for personal, non-commercial use.
Any burning or exporting capabilities are solely an accommodation to you and shall not constitute a grant or waiver (or other limitation or implication) of any rights of the copyright owners of any content, sound recording, underlying musical composition or artwork embodied in any Product.
So you're allowed to burn and export products; but you don't get any copyright waiver, and there's no such thing as fair use in Oz, so you're not allowed to burn or export. So... are you allowed to burn CDs or not???
You seem to be lumping two separate organisations in different countries and with different agenda that have "Green" in the title together as though they were somehow connected. I trust this is an error of judgment rather than a rhetorical ploy. Now, the NZ Green Party does refer to Greenpeace (or at least the NZ branch of Greenpeace) relatively infrequently -- still that's more than I would prefer. But in truth there doesn't seem to me to be any more unity between different organisations called "Green whatever" than between, say, two randomly picked right-wing organisations -- say, the BNP and a City bank (I'm guessing from your reference that you're a Brit).
I don't disagree with your criticism of the actions of the group in London. But the spectrum of opinions and attitudes you'll find among people who care about the environment humans inhabit is no smaller than, say, the spectrum of ideologies among writers of computer software (all the way from SCO to the FSF). Generally I think greenies in NZ tend to be political/libertarian rather than bolshevik/anarchist, and I think that's a good thing. Having observed demonstrations in London, though, I can see that more vocal people tend to attract more attention there.
Nandor has many times in the past praised OSS and advocated its use in government with well reasoned and thoughtful comment. He and I believe the rest of the NZ Green party are among the most technical savvy politicians we have in this country.
Too bad he's out of government now, eh? (Well, I know a number of people who think that's a very good thing...)
As near as I can tell, OpenOffice has reached feature-parity with MS Office for single-user purposes; I can't speak to its collaboration features. There are some aspects of its interface that I don't much like, but I suspect that's mostly a matter of familiarity. But it is a giant, shrieking, slow resource hog, and I wouldn't use it on anything other than a fairly recent machine. It is, moreover, slower than Office 2003.
On the whole I agree, though for most purposes I'm an OOo fan. Office 97 won't cut it for me for interoperability reasons (I want an open document format, not to lose access to all my files in a few years' time), though when I see a copy on the local equivalent of eBay I'm willing to put in a bid of $10 or so. AbiWord is also sub-optimal, in that I want much more control over styles than it allows me (plus it's irritating that I can't install plug-ins from the HDD and it can't see through my company's firewall -- so no plug-ins).
Nonetheless I'm probably going to switch to AbiWord for most purposes -- even on the 2 GHz Celeron box in my office, which is certainly overpowered for a glorified typewriter -- once AbiWord has OpenDocument support fully implemented.
No. That's not what PDFs are designed for. Even doing it in Acrobat can be a nightmare. As a workaround, it is possible in Acrobat Reader 7 to export a PDF to RTF.
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I jest, I jest. I know what you mean, but it's still a twisted thing to be pining for.
In fact there's been a one-word short version of this around for centuries; the word is "puritan". I wonder why that word has dropped out of usage. I guess it's maybe something to do with the fact that the modern puritans are motivated merely by knee-jerk reactions, rather than trying to back those reactions up with warped theology. Sorry, just thinking out loud.
When you say the official Firefox website, surely you mean http://www.mozilla.com/firefox. Er, as of, um, about two hours ago it seems ... why have they changed to .com?
I like that story too, but it had much more impact and shock effect before it came true.
Absolutely correct, and it's very possible to feel ambivalent about the issue even in a first-world country. A couple of days ago in my country a TV programme was broadcast in which someone went onto the street trying to collect money "for charity" -- wearing a Palestinian-style headscarf and with a clear label on his collecting can saying in very large letters that he was collecting for Al Qaeda. The experiment was repeated in Nazi costume. The Nazis didn't get anything; Al Qaeda sure did.
If I had mod points I'd mod you off-topic. That's not a comment on you, it's a comment on what the world is becoming.
Classical CDs very rarely have DRM of any kind whatsoever, so this doesn't really affect me. Not that I don't care that DRM exists; I'm just one of those people that has no need to get bogged down in working out what to do about it. If any label ever does start putting DRM on CDs that I buy, I am quite confident that it will be a kind of DRM that is obsolete by about a decade and therefore trivial to bypass. In any case some (not many, but enough) classical performers/conductors care more about open access than making money.
Oddly enough, I have an OGG-based player with FM tuner and access to DRM-less music (via ripped CDs and allofmp3.com). Works pretty well for me.
So what do we do in a few centuries when we start to notice that these 20-ton spacecraft are on a collision course for earth? Send up more spacecraft to deflect them? But then we'll have kazillions of these things up there, hovering around the solar system, just waiting for their chance to crash into us .... shriek!
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Essentially what you're saying is it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, came out of a duck egg that was laid by a female duck, has the same genes as a duck, but under no circumstances must it ever be confused with a duck.
I'm not sure if that's supposed to read "agnostic" or "agonistic" -- either would work very nicely ... :-)
However, I think the gp's point -- that if you're forced to bring ID into classrooms, it would certainly be a good idea to try and inculcate some basic skills in logical deduction so that it's not a complete waste of time -- is a great idea. If textbooks featuring ID all contained material like that, I might not be quite so hostile to it ...
Yet.
Undying is underrated. I certainly find it more enjoyable than Doom. But I felt it kind of trails off after a while: I thought the designers used up all their best material in the mansion at the start of the game. From the monastery onwards it basically transformed into a fairly straightforward shoot-em-up (albeit a high-quality one).
Mind you, there was nothing quite like that moment when you walked up to a mirror, thinking that you were looking at your own reflection, only to realise a moment later that someone was behind you ... and scrying certain portraits hanging on the walls, or other objects, led to some *jump* moments for me that had nothing to do with anything leaping out at you.
Generally that might be an idea worth considering but the NZ government's economic and education policies are strongly encouraging universities to abolish all subjects other than economics and management.
Totally unlike every other country. :-)
In reply to your paragraph 1: it's frequent? Perhaps it is; I believe you, of course. It's not as if any one political faction has a monopoly on hawks.
Paragraph 2: my point was that you were making exactly the same kind of confusion between left-wing factions. NZ Greens are no more responsible for the actions of bolsheviks in London than the NZ ACT Party is for the actions of Enron/Andersen executives; they're unrelated. (At least, I hope they are, in both cases!)
Paragraph 3: this is true. I was thinking of libertarianism on a personal level, but I'd rather not get bogged down in a simple misunderstanding.
Paragraph 4: sorry, I don't know what you're referring to here. In any case I was making my assumption on the grounds that you were referring to an incident in London; my apologies for the error.
According to this person's research into the Terms and Conditions, it's ambiguous whether buying a track from iTunes Oz grants you any CD burning privileges or not:
So you're allowed to burn and export products; but you don't get any copyright waiver, and there's no such thing as fair use in Oz, so you're not allowed to burn or export. So ... are you allowed to burn CDs or not???
For reference, the address to send feedback to Francis Till, the author of the NBR article, is ftill@nbr.co.nz.
Shame it isn't in the universities.
You seem to be lumping two separate organisations in different countries and with different agenda that have "Green" in the title together as though they were somehow connected. I trust this is an error of judgment rather than a rhetorical ploy. Now, the NZ Green Party does refer to Greenpeace (or at least the NZ branch of Greenpeace) relatively infrequently -- still that's more than I would prefer. But in truth there doesn't seem to me to be any more unity between different organisations called "Green whatever" than between, say, two randomly picked right-wing organisations -- say, the BNP and a City bank (I'm guessing from your reference that you're a Brit).
I don't disagree with your criticism of the actions of the group in London. But the spectrum of opinions and attitudes you'll find among people who care about the environment humans inhabit is no smaller than, say, the spectrum of ideologies among writers of computer software (all the way from SCO to the FSF). Generally I think greenies in NZ tend to be political/libertarian rather than bolshevik/anarchist, and I think that's a good thing. Having observed demonstrations in London, though, I can see that more vocal people tend to attract more attention there.
Too bad he's out of government now, eh? (Well, I know a number of people who think that's a very good thing ...)
Hmn, I guess you didn't see it ... :-)
On the whole I agree, though for most purposes I'm an OOo fan. Office 97 won't cut it for me for interoperability reasons (I want an open document format, not to lose access to all my files in a few years' time), though when I see a copy on the local equivalent of eBay I'm willing to put in a bid of $10 or so. AbiWord is also sub-optimal, in that I want much more control over styles than it allows me (plus it's irritating that I can't install plug-ins from the HDD and it can't see through my company's firewall -- so no plug-ins).
Nonetheless I'm probably going to switch to AbiWord for most purposes -- even on the 2 GHz Celeron box in my office, which is certainly overpowered for a glorified typewriter -- once AbiWord has OpenDocument support fully implemented.
No. That's not what PDFs are designed for. Even doing it in Acrobat can be a nightmare. As a workaround, it is possible in Acrobat Reader 7 to export a PDF to RTF.
Yes, but you must admit it's odd that the number of months in the year varies depending on what day it is.