Why is it, that everytime evolutionary research hits the media, it is attacked by random fundamentalist christian groups? Im simply amazed that a modern western country, in all seriousness, is teaching 'intelligent design'. Lets play with this mindset alittle:
1) Evolution is true, and god is fiction.
2) God is real, evolution was created by god.
3) God is real, evidence of evolution was put here to confuse us.
If (1) is true, then all religions a like is pointless. There is no right or wrong, only consequences.
If (2) is true - whats the problem?
If (3) is true, god has a bad sense of humor.
Some interviews and articles i read about 'creationists' seem to attack science as something designed purely to corrupt their children and send them all straight to hell. Puh-lease.
The attack on science is also ridiculous, be it research in evolution or global warming, its always the argument 'but its just a theory!'. Well guess what? So is god.:)
In Denmark the hardest crime is murder, coldblooded murder gets life sentences, which means, after 16 years you get released from prison. 12 if you behave.
Unless -- certain murders are commited by pure psychopats, which is then admitted to a mental hospital untill the doctors feel they are secure to release (ie: never).
Giving a hacker 70 years for causing 900,000 USD of damage is ridiculous. Its just money and pride lost. No humans were harmed in the hacking of those computers. So why completely destroy this poor blokes life?
America always seems to throw the book really hard at people. If we look at it from a utalitarian view point, does it benefit society to lock up people in prisons, where the odds of them becoming even harder criminals once they get out skyrocket? I doubt it.
I agree, drupal is ok, but i use mambo too, and i cant get enough of all those high quality themes, extensions and the ultra easy setup. I run it on several production sites, and ive never had a problem with it. And the default mambo install feels more complete than drupal, last time i checked it out, i was left with a handfull of configs, and a somewhat running site. Mambo is much easier to manage imo.
About time it opened in the Scandinavian countries (hi Switzerland btw). We have been consistently ranked among the most net savyy since, well, forever. These are obvious demographics to try out direct online retailing like this.
Also -- i bought an ipod a year ago in anticipation it would be "right around the corner" for the European iTMS.. Well finally:)
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=2y&s=AAPL&l=on&z=m &q=l&c=msft
What would you have invested in the last 2 years? My money would have been on Apple. So they loose a few points, in the last year they have been very lucrative for me. And i have no doubt Apple will continue their growth, and now is just a good time to buy more AAPL:).
Correct - I was out on a call to fix a few servers at a shared office/medical building for a group of 12 doctors, they had a mixed windows/Netware setup still. Using windows 98 with the netware controlling all the file serving/printing. I was shocked and amazed at the little box running netware, it had been in use for as long as anyone could remember, and no one seemed to remember if it had ever been down.
Netware to me is still something of the best that was ever made. A little anecdote: A few years ago in Aarhus University, they bust down a wall to expand, and behind the wall stood a Novell Netware machine, that had been lost, but pingable, for six years:).
Its great to see governments spend their taxpayers money wisely. Also it helps their trade balance positively, it makes sense in so many levels to not use Microsoft software for every other country than America, so im surprised only Norway, Germany and Brazil are seriously rolling it out. And for the projects i heard about in Norway and Germany its just a few counties. But, 5, 10 and 15 years from now i would be very surprised if Microsoft had a dominance of even more than 70% of the shipped OSes.
How can a democracy have secret laws? It is absolutely unjustifiable, it goes against everything a democracy is. How can you justify the Patriot Act and this secret law? Oh, thats right, Terrorism. Great, a scapegoat! Remember what Hitler did when the Bundestag burned down? Remember what his first action was when he was elected after he rubbed it off on the jews? Now ofcourse, im not comparing united states to hitlers germany, but there is something going on that should not be. And only the people can stop it - but how can you? Arguing against the government would be defending terrorism.
Whats important is to have a school system where you learn to learn. The mission for a school should be to teach kids some general knowledge of how stuff works, and then give them the tools they need to apply to various problems. If you havent learned how to learn by the time your at university you have a problem.
Trivia is largely unnecessary today - ofcourse you need to know when the Berlin wall fell, but more importantly you need to know why it was there, and what it meant when it fell. You may not need to know the exact year Christopher Columbus discovered America, but know what it meant when he did.
Having studied in Denmark most of my life this is what i learned in our high school (theres only one, public) - ofcourse i had math, biology, chemistry and the other basic things needed to pursue university, but more importantly we focussed on how to to view things analytically, and understand what it means. The exams are not based on multiple choices anywhere, for example "The Large" history assignment is a final report you have to write, and are then orally examed in. You could write about the political climate in Europe after WW2 for example, theres alot of material to read there, knowing how to organise it and draw conclusions from it is critical.
A school system like the German one, where you are put into boxes at an early age, was abandoned in Denmark long time ago, because it doesent work, try asking a 14 year old kid what he wants to do, specialise in this or that? He will look puzzled, and his answer will probably rely solely on what his parents want him to do, rather than what wants to do. I enjoyed my time in high school, and what i learned has really helped me learn how to study at a university.
Thats civilised in my book. If you have any reason to ban profanity, nudity and other stuff from TV, please paste links to the research reports indicating it harms anyone. Otherwise, f'ck off.
The legal age of drinking in Denmark is 16, we got less alcoholics than restricted countries such as Sweden and Norway, that has state owned monopolies on alcohol. We got less teen pregnancies eventhough we educate people in sex from 6th grade, show them titties on TV etc.etc. Seems real education works better than advocating abstine And we got one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and the country in the world where people feel the safest. Why? We must be doing SOMETHING CIVILISED that works.
In Denmark we can say anything we want on TV, and we do - i hear the word 'fuck' & 'shit' daily when i watch 'Boogie' a music show for young ppl that runs around 4-6pm. Primettime for the kids to learn new words:).
And travelling around europe, this is how it works most places, maybe perhaps with the exception of Germany (i wouldent have understood it if they used profanity anyways)
I thought puritans died out with the last victorians - but they just sailed to America it seems, heh.
But seriously, cant you sue the FCC for violating the freedom of speech? It would seem obvious that they are enforcing censorship.
Its easy - my entire DVD collection is ripped onto my harddrives as image files & high bitrate rips, which i then watch under MythTV from my main fileserver, serving up music in wave format (why not, i had the space:P) and the dvds. So i dont have to change disks, risking i scratch them or something stupid like pouring cola/coffe/beer on them. I buy about 10 DVDs each month, so over time i accumulate quite alot of data:)
I actually currently fill over 1.5TB of storage - some of it is dupe files, but still. If i backed it up, which i should it took ages to rip, i would fill it twice. But 250gb drives are virtually costless nowadays, so i might do just that.
The banning of video game sales to minors is pretty dumb. The research reports i have read states that it does not make minors more violent. I understand banning the sale of cigarettes to minors, because we are very sure it is harmful. But banning because you have a "gut" feeling it might make people violent is just a scapegoat for the real problem. Social issues etc.
Welcome to America, Censor capital of the Western world: Now Just One step behind China!
Is ProPolice/SSP compatible with Windows? Are there similar compiler extensions for windows? Because it would be obvious to compile Firefox/Netscape with these to atleast harden them against overflows from malicious code. As far as i remember i compiled my firefox under Gentoo with -fstack-protector and it worked fine, but i wonder if i can cross-compile firefox to windows under Gentoo. Anyone knows anything about this?
Good for you, however, Atkins mainly work by emptying the carps stored in the muscles, which means you will se a high initial weight loss due to this, but it also means you will soon be exhausted.
Eating carbs is good, from the right sources. Carbs from sugar is bad, carbs from potatoes and rice is good. The key to weight loss is increase in muscle mass (weightlifting) and excercise, and not so much how much food you eat. If you eat enough fruit and vegetables you dont feel hungry all the time, which you will on a high fat, high suger diet (think McDonalds with a sugary coke = hungry in an hour!). Ive lost 20 pounds now by doing cardio and weightlifting, because they complement each other, by burning off alot of calories in the cardio directly, and by increase in musclemass means im burning more calories than i would with a lower bodymass. Besides during the rest period between workouts im on an 'afterburner' because my muscles need to rebuild from the excersice, that energy has to come from somewhere, and if i restrict my diet, it has to come from my bodyfat.
Which means i have a sustained weight loss! Even when i stop restricting my diet as much. The only thing that ever worked is excercise and consuming less energy than the body can burn! Call it what you want to call it, but its the same thing Atkins does, just unhealthier.
Scream Prior Art! From the top of my lungs.. But then i remember, that thankfully the EU has not legalised software patents yet. And i sincerely hope Poland will knock some sense into our MEPs. I wrote a letter to my MEP yesterday and was surprised to get a responce (!). They say they too are worried about software patents, thats why they are voting for it (!?) - Something with settling on the middle, bleh.
Why are you proud as a citizen of a country when one citizen does something good? Why does it make you feel superior?
Come back when YOU do something good instead of just throwing flamebait around. I honestly dont care which country gave most, but if we look at money divided in number of citizens of each contry, "old" europe is still in the lead. But i think its good we all chipped in to help the victims of the Tsunami. So stop using it as a dickwaving contest.
Supporting Open Source software by not introducing software patents is the best thing we can do for our trade balance. By using more and more Open Source instead of paying overseas countries for commodity software like Operating Systems and Office suites the more likely it is that Europes own software packages sell more than we import from Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe etc.
That is a solid argument for the MEPs. Something they can understand.
Im all for copyright legislation because it protects Open Source aswell as commercial endeavours - that is very important, but patents on software algorithm and ideas should not be possible, next thing you know someone is patenting pi - or atleast the first five decimals:).
Please people, this is not for cold fusion use - its for starting a hot fusion process. That needs millions of degrees celcius, high material density and so forth. This is one promising solution for the hot fusion "spark plug". http://www.jet.efda.org/ The key to hot fusion is material density and temperature, containing the plasma is extremely hard.
Its old news that its possible to use soundwaves to create extremely high temperatures, however controlling it has been very hard, i first read about this about 10 years ago. You need a bubble that is almost a perfect sphere via evaporation and then apply the sound waves, this causes the material to implode very aggressively. Its great to se a promising method have developed further, because the
JET project (Joint European Torus) is not new at all, and with a proper "spark plug" hot fusion seems to be closer than ever.
We should take a good long look at MacOS X - its the ultimate in Operating Systems right now, userfriendly, yet powerful and secure. And its *NIX.
KDE or Gnome should really be looking good and hard on how they balance things in MacOS X. A bad Windows clone sucks, a bad MacOS X clone would probably still be better, and dont give me that "Well people are used to windows" well thats exactly the reason we should introduce a better design, yet easy to learn. Thats exactly what MacOS X accomplishes, why cant we?.
And that is good. Mandrakes margins are pretty high, a 1.4million profit from 5million revenue is a very very high profit margin. Microsoft has an even higher margin on windows and office, if it were not for their mega failure to profit on all other products they would probably post a 95% profit margin, which can only mean one thing - software is yet to be commoditized enough or too little competititon, i dont see anyother thing in this world except for software hold such an insanely high profit margin.
But its nice to see atleast one Linux vendor post profits:). I dont know why we clone windows looks in KDE and such, its too uninteresting to clone, we should clone MacOS X instead - Apple just posted 4x rise in earnings. Must be the sexappeal:)
We got to admit that for oil to reach the masses we have to push it through Standard Oil.
Your analogy is flawed. A convicted monopoly cannot be excused for such behavior. The best thing they could do was to fix their flawed software and thus choke that market by actually *gasp* improving their software security.
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Why is it, that everytime evolutionary research hits the media, it is attacked by random fundamentalist christian groups? Im simply amazed that a modern western country, in all seriousness, is teaching 'intelligent design'. Lets play with this mindset alittle:
:)
1) Evolution is true, and god is fiction.
2) God is real, evolution was created by god.
3) God is real, evidence of evolution was put here to confuse us.
If (1) is true, then all religions a like is pointless. There is no right or wrong, only consequences.
If (2) is true - whats the problem?
If (3) is true, god has a bad sense of humor.
Some interviews and articles i read about 'creationists' seem to attack science as something designed purely to corrupt their children and send them all straight to hell. Puh-lease.
The attack on science is also ridiculous, be it research in evolution or global warming, its always the argument 'but its just a theory!'. Well guess what? So is god.
In Denmark the hardest crime is murder, coldblooded murder gets life sentences, which means, after 16 years you get released from prison. 12 if you behave. Unless -- certain murders are commited by pure psychopats, which is then admitted to a mental hospital untill the doctors feel they are secure to release (ie: never). Giving a hacker 70 years for causing 900,000 USD of damage is ridiculous. Its just money and pride lost. No humans were harmed in the hacking of those computers. So why completely destroy this poor blokes life?
America always seems to throw the book really hard at people. If we look at it from a utalitarian view point, does it benefit society to lock up people in prisons, where the odds of them becoming even harder criminals once they get out skyrocket? I doubt it.
I agree, drupal is ok, but i use mambo too, and i cant get enough of all those high quality themes, extensions and the ultra easy setup. I run it on several production sites, and ive never had a problem with it. And the default mambo install feels more complete than drupal, last time i checked it out, i was left with a handfull of configs, and a somewhat running site. Mambo is much easier to manage imo.
About time it opened in the Scandinavian countries (hi Switzerland btw). We have been consistently ranked among the most net savyy since, well, forever. These are obvious demographics to try out direct online retailing like this.
:)
Also -- i bought an ipod a year ago in anticipation it would be "right around the corner" for the European iTMS.. Well finally
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/bc?t=2y&s=AAPL&l=on&z=m &q=l&c=msft
What would you have invested in the last 2 years? My money would have been on Apple. So they loose a few points, in the last year they have been very lucrative for me. And i have no doubt Apple will continue their growth, and now is just a good time to buy more AAPL :).
Correct - I was out on a call to fix a few servers at a shared office/medical building for a group of 12 doctors, they had a mixed windows/Netware setup still. Using windows 98 with the netware controlling all the file serving/printing. I was shocked and amazed at the little box running netware, it had been in use for as long as anyone could remember, and no one seemed to remember if it had ever been down.
:).
Netware to me is still something of the best that was ever made. A little anecdote: A few years ago in Aarhus University, they bust down a wall to expand, and behind the wall stood a Novell Netware machine, that had been lost, but pingable, for six years
Its great to see governments spend their taxpayers money wisely. Also it helps their trade balance positively, it makes sense in so many levels to not use Microsoft software for every other country than America, so im surprised only Norway, Germany and Brazil are seriously rolling it out. And for the projects i heard about in Norway and Germany its just a few counties. But, 5, 10 and 15 years from now i would be very surprised if Microsoft had a dominance of even more than 70% of the shipped OSes.
How can a democracy have secret laws? It is absolutely unjustifiable, it goes against everything a democracy is. How can you justify the Patriot Act and this secret law? Oh, thats right, Terrorism. Great, a scapegoat! Remember what Hitler did when the Bundestag burned down? Remember what his first action was when he was elected after he rubbed it off on the jews? Now ofcourse, im not comparing united states to hitlers germany, but there is something going on that should not be. And only the people can stop it - but how can you? Arguing against the government would be defending terrorism.
"Either your with us, or against us"...
Whats important is to have a school system where you learn to learn. The mission for a school should be to teach kids some general knowledge of how stuff works, and then give them the tools they need to apply to various problems. If you havent learned how to learn by the time your at university you have a problem.
Trivia is largely unnecessary today - ofcourse you need to know when the Berlin wall fell, but more importantly you need to know why it was there, and what it meant when it fell. You may not need to know the exact year Christopher Columbus discovered America, but know what it meant when he did.
Having studied in Denmark most of my life this is what i learned in our high school (theres only one, public) - ofcourse i had math, biology, chemistry and the other basic things needed to pursue university, but more importantly we focussed on how to to view things analytically, and understand what it means. The exams are not based on multiple choices anywhere, for example "The Large" history assignment is a final report you have to write, and are then orally examed in. You could write about the political climate in Europe after WW2 for example, theres alot of material to read there, knowing how to organise it and draw conclusions from it is critical.
A school system like the German one, where you are put into boxes at an early age, was abandoned in Denmark long time ago, because it doesent work, try asking a 14 year old kid what he wants to do, specialise in this or that? He will look puzzled, and his answer will probably rely solely on what his parents want him to do, rather than what wants to do. I enjoyed my time in high school, and what i learned has really helped me learn how to study at a university.
Thats civilised in my book. If you have any reason to ban profanity, nudity and other stuff from TV, please paste links to the research reports indicating it harms anyone. Otherwise, f'ck off.
The legal age of drinking in Denmark is 16, we got less alcoholics than restricted countries such as Sweden and Norway, that has state owned monopolies on alcohol.
We got less teen pregnancies eventhough we educate people in sex from 6th grade, show them titties on TV etc.etc. Seems real education works better than advocating abstine
And we got one of the lowest crime rates in the world, and the country in the world where people feel the safest. Why? We must be doing SOMETHING CIVILISED that works.
Ah, America - Home of the puritans.
:).
In Denmark we can say anything we want on TV, and we do - i hear the word 'fuck' & 'shit' daily when i watch 'Boogie' a music show for young ppl that runs around 4-6pm. Primettime for the kids to learn new words
And travelling around europe, this is how it works most places, maybe perhaps with the exception of Germany (i wouldent have understood it if they used profanity anyways)
I thought puritans died out with the last victorians - but they just sailed to America it seems, heh.
But seriously, cant you sue the FCC for violating the freedom of speech? It would seem obvious that they are enforcing censorship.
Well, I never choked under pressure... Du-uhhh wait..
Its easy - my entire DVD collection is ripped onto my harddrives as image files & high bitrate rips, which i then watch under MythTV from my main fileserver, serving up music in wave format (why not, i had the space :P) and the dvds. So i dont have to change disks, risking i scratch them or something stupid like pouring cola/coffe/beer on them. I buy about 10 DVDs each month, so over time i accumulate quite alot of data :)
I actually currently fill over 1.5TB of storage - some of it is dupe files, but still. If i backed it up, which i should it took ages to rip, i would fill it twice. But 250gb drives are virtually costless nowadays, so i might do just that.
The banning of video game sales to minors is pretty dumb. The research reports i have read states that it does not make minors more violent. I understand banning the sale of cigarettes to minors, because we are very sure it is harmful. But banning because you have a "gut" feeling it might make people violent is just a scapegoat for the real problem. Social issues etc.
Welcome to America, Censor capital of the Western world: Now Just One step behind China!
Is ProPolice/SSP compatible with Windows? Are there similar compiler extensions for windows? Because it would be obvious to compile Firefox/Netscape with these to atleast harden them against overflows from malicious code. As far as i remember i compiled my firefox under Gentoo with -fstack-protector and it worked fine, but i wonder if i can cross-compile firefox to windows under Gentoo. Anyone knows anything about this?
Good for you, however, Atkins mainly work by emptying the carps stored in the muscles, which means you will se a high initial weight loss due to this, but it also means you will soon be exhausted.
Eating carbs is good, from the right sources. Carbs from sugar is bad, carbs from potatoes and rice is good. The key to weight loss is increase in muscle mass (weightlifting) and excercise, and not so much how much food you eat. If you eat enough fruit and vegetables you dont feel hungry all the time, which you will on a high fat, high suger diet (think McDonalds with a sugary coke = hungry in an hour!). Ive lost 20 pounds now by doing cardio and weightlifting, because they complement each other, by burning off alot of calories in the cardio directly, and by increase in musclemass means im burning more calories than i would with a lower bodymass. Besides during the rest period between workouts im on an 'afterburner' because my muscles need to rebuild from the excersice, that energy has to come from somewhere, and if i restrict my diet, it has to come from my bodyfat.
Which means i have a sustained weight loss! Even when i stop restricting my diet as much. The only thing that ever worked is excercise and consuming less energy than the body can burn! Call it what you want to call it, but its the same thing Atkins does, just unhealthier.
Scream Prior Art! From the top of my lungs.. But then i remember, that thankfully the EU has not legalised software patents yet. And i sincerely hope Poland will knock some sense into our MEPs. I wrote a letter to my MEP yesterday and was surprised to get a responce (!). They say they too are worried about software patents, thats why they are voting for it (!?) - Something with settling on the middle, bleh.
Why are you proud as a citizen of a country when one citizen does something good? Why does it make you feel superior?
Come back when YOU do something good instead of just throwing flamebait around. I honestly dont care which country gave most, but if we look at money divided in number of citizens of each contry, "old" europe is still in the lead. But i think its good we all chipped in to help the victims of the Tsunami. So stop using it as a dickwaving contest.
Supporting Open Source software by not introducing software patents is the best thing we can do for our trade balance. By using more and more Open Source instead of paying overseas countries for commodity software like Operating Systems and Office suites the more likely it is that Europes own software packages sell more than we import from Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe etc.
:).
That is a solid argument for the MEPs. Something they can understand.
Im all for copyright legislation because it protects Open Source aswell as commercial endeavours - that is very important, but patents on software algorithm and ideas should not be possible, next thing you know someone is patenting pi - or atleast the first five decimals
Please people, this is not for cold fusion use - its for starting a hot fusion process. That needs millions of degrees celcius, high material density and so forth. This is one promising solution for the hot fusion "spark plug". http://www.jet.efda.org/
The key to hot fusion is material density and temperature, containing the plasma is extremely hard.
Its old news that its possible to use soundwaves to create extremely high temperatures, however controlling it has been very hard, i first read about this about 10 years ago. You need a bubble that is almost a perfect sphere via evaporation and then apply the sound waves, this causes the material to implode very aggressively. Its great to se a promising method have developed further, because the JET project (Joint European Torus) is not new at all, and with a proper "spark plug" hot fusion seems to be closer than ever.
If i walk outside my bluetooth radius, i become scared and confused.
We should take a good long look at MacOS X - its the ultimate in Operating Systems right now, userfriendly, yet powerful and secure. And its *NIX.
KDE or Gnome should really be looking good and hard on how they balance things in MacOS X. A bad Windows clone sucks, a bad MacOS X clone would probably still be better, and dont give me that "Well people are used to windows" well thats exactly the reason we should introduce a better design, yet easy to learn. Thats exactly what MacOS X accomplishes, why cant we?.
And that is good. Mandrakes margins are pretty high, a 1.4million profit from 5million revenue is a very very high profit margin. Microsoft has an even higher margin on windows and office, if it were not for their mega failure to profit on all other products they would probably post a 95% profit margin, which can only mean one thing - software is yet to be commoditized enough or too little competititon, i dont see anyother thing in this world except for software hold such an insanely high profit margin.
:). I dont know why we clone windows looks in KDE and such, its too uninteresting to clone, we should clone MacOS X instead - Apple just posted 4x rise in earnings. Must be the sexappeal :)
But its nice to see atleast one Linux vendor post profits
We got to admit that for oil to reach the masses we have to push it through Standard Oil.
Your analogy is flawed. A convicted monopoly cannot be excused for such behavior. The best thing they could do was to fix their flawed software and thus choke that market by actually *gasp* improving their software security.