In English beer measure, which I learned is different from English ale measure (op. cit.), somewhere between a butt (1296 pints) and a tun (2268 pints).
Yes, exactly. Even economically they're not that far apart. In both cases there was massive economic planning. Some of the Nazis oldest supporters were industrialists so the Nazi economic policy wasn't about nationalisation, the original owners got to keep the industry. Whereas Russia was hopelessly backward when the Communists took over and they nationalized everything. But nationalization in a one party state just means that supporters of the party end up running industry, which is just like Nazi Germany.
The biggest difference would beantisemitism. Both Hitler and Stalin were anti semitic but Hitler obviously allowed his antisemitism to get completely out of control and jeopardise the state. E.g. in WWII German planning priortized the holocaust over defeating the Russians, even though a Russian invasion would certainly mean the end of the regime. But Stalin showed signs of growing antisemitism as he got older. The regime fabricated evidence of a Doctor's Plot where Jewsish Doctors were executed on trumped up charges and sinister talk of deporting Jews as had been done with other minorities.
Actually I found out another chilling similarity. It's well known that the Germans mistreated captured Russians, allowing millions of them to starve to death. What's less well known is how the Russians mistreated their German ethnic minority, essentially enslaving them even after the USSR had beaten Germany in World War II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_army#Russian_Germans
A notable category of labarmymen (German: Trudarmisten) were Russian Germans. In September, 1941 most Germans served in Soviet Army were demobilized and sent home. In 1942 eventually all male Germans of ages from 16 to 50 years and all female Germans of ages 16-45 without children younger than 3 years were conscripted to labor duty. Most of them worked at "NKVD objects" (i.e., basically in the same conditions as in Gulag prison camps; the Germans were supposed to be housed separate camps, but this was not always done), and in coal mining and petroleum industries, railroad construction, ammunition, general construction, and other industries. Many lost their lives in the labor army.
Basically the Labor army was dismissed in 1945, but Germans were held for much longer. In 1948 they were transferred to the status of "special settlers" and were not allowed to return home. In 1955, after the official visit of Chancellor of Germany Adenauer to the Soviet Union and signing a number of Soviet-German agreements, this status was abolished (the process of resettlement of Germans to Germany was started at this time as well). Still, the Germans that were initially deported from European and border regions (in particular, Volga Germans) were not allowed to return. So if anyone smugly points out that democracies like the US and the UK are no better than tyrannies due to their mistreatment of ethnic minorities from enemy countries in war time, its worth pointing out that tyrannies are much more ruthless.
Did they organize all farmers into Colletives? Did their government take over virtually all manufacturing enterprises (i.e. state own enterprise) ? No, but collectives were't socialism. Look at how many rights workers had in the UK in the 1970s or in France or Germany now, and compare it to the starve-at-gunpoint conditions workers experienced in a Stalin or Mao era collective farm. The fact that collectives were state owned doesn't make them socialism. They're more like feudalism or even Roman agricultural slavery with a socialist label slapped on top to fool naive foreigners.
I'm gonna go ahead and say that discrimination based on, you know, race is a better example of "racism". Discrimination based on national origin is called "nationalism". Note the common root words in both cases. Actually it's not even that. I'm not a US citizen and hence I don't have a right to be in the US. The US isn't being racist if it decides not to let me in. Just like China or Japan, or Chad wouldn't be racist in deciding not to let me in. I'm not from those countries and so I don't have a right to go to them.
If a US employer decides to hire someone from the US instead of me, that's also not racist. Maybe they want to avoid all the paperwork and expense of getting me a work permit. Or maybe they want to hire someone that can come in for an interview on short notice. No one would say that a California company was being regionalist in deciding to hire a local rather than someone from New York.
Also, Stalinist USSR _was_ a socialistic state - during Stalin's reign conditions of work and life rose above the pre-revolution levels. That's true, but it's also very misleading. Once the revolution occured there was civil war, collectivisation, mass starvation and so on. That went on almost up to WWII. In the Ukraine, the Nazis were actually greeted as liberators by the survivors of the Holodomor. They weren't of course, they had a Holodomor of their own planned to free up land for Aryan colonists but they didn't stay long enough to implement it. Now maybe during the war Stalin realised he needed to stop doing shit like this and so the economy recovered back to pre 1917 levels.
But put that way, it doesn't sound as socialist does it? Socialism in Western Europe usually means high taxes, high public spending and moving power from employers to employees. Sending the militia out to confiscate grain from peasants until millions of them starve is not really socialism. More to the point collectivisation, the policy that Stalin killed millions to implement essentially turned the peasants back into serfs or even slaves, forced to work on land they didn't own. They didn't work very hard of course, hence the gunpoint confiscation of grain and animals. Essentially the workers lost rights, which is why they resisted so hard.
In the UK the workers formed unions and the unions formed the Labour Party which granted the unions more rights. The Labour Party in government was actually very hostile to the USSR model.
So the question is, from what I understand, if you turn off all the extras, Vista is not that bad. I don't suppose I can get an unbiased assessment on slashdot, though. Is it really that buggy? More than XP?
There are a handful of people here on Slashdot who actually like Vista and admit it. I'm one of them.
I haven't turned off any of the extras. Regarding the eye candy, they did an awesome job. It's a slick looking user interface. Regarding performance, it runs beautifully on my Acer laptop (1.6 GHz dual core, 2 GB RAM, GeForce Go7300).
The biggest annoyance for me is the automatic horizontal scrolling in the folder pane of Windows Explorer. I absolutely hate it and want to turn it off, but there is no option.
I've only encountered two actual bugs, and they were both extremely minor. One of them I only encountered once, and can't actually remember what it is right now. The other is just a small bug that occurs when you create a new folder and then try to rename it too quickly.
Overall, I'm happy with it.
I have it on an Asus G1S and it works pretty well, probably better than XP would run judging by the dual boot threads I've read.
China isn't any more communist than for example the UK, Canada or Australia. There's a school of thought that says that German Nazism in WWII and Russian Communism were essentially two identical versions of the same system which just claimed to be different. Of course Hitler and Stalin had different hate groups, but the actual systems they built were in practice very similar.
So it's quite possible for a Communist country like China to change their official ideology to Han Chinese nationalism and corporate state/slave labour capitalism and still be just as far from the UK, Canada or Australia.
So don't be fooled that they given up on 'Communism'. The PRC was never very socialist anyway, most European democracies went much farther down that path.
You know I heard a great story about IT in the UK.
Everyone goes out to lunch at some horrible food place and sits there in sullen silence. New hire, eager to prove he knows his stuff babbles about his experience. One of the non new people shouts "SHOP". Someone else explains that it's not welcome to talk about work at lunch. Then everyone eats in sullen silence.
Later on in the office, if the new guy asks any questions someone shouts "SHOP" and everyone turns to watch the look of congnitive dissonance. After that everyone is friendly, at least by geek standards.
I work at Apple to and I must disagree with the parent.
They keep me chained to a radiator making iPods in return for a bowl of rice a day. If I forget to check post anonymously the Apple police will hunt me down and kill me for Thinking Different.
I think the Chinese would be really smart if, instead of making outright counterfeits, started making "improved versions" of Apple's products: things that look much like Apple's stuff, but has all the same features and functionality, and maybe more. For instance, how hard would it be to make something like the iPhone, but which has a removable SIM card and can be used on any GSM network? I don't know about other people, but I'd be happy to buy something like this, because I like the way the iPhone works, but there's no way in hell I'm paying that much for a phone just to locked into some provider's proprietary network.
Then again, this probably won't work, since frequently the most recognizable things about Apple products, such as the iPod's click-wheel, are patented. Other companies have made excellent competitors to the iPod, with more and better features (like Ogg support, FM radio, voice recording, etc. which my iRiver H330 has), and none of them have done very well in the marketplace against the iPod. China is still unfortunately a country full of wage slaves working for cruel communist bosses.
Mind you Taiwan, the non communist, democratic part of China is doing exactly what you say. Taiwanese ODMs do most of the design work for American and European brands. The actual manufacturing is done in China.
But if you look at HTC and similar Taiwanese companies they have "own brand" equivalents of branded stuff.
But it's not as slick as the branded stuff. Actually electronics these days is a bit like cosmetics. You could buy the ingredients for cosmetics and mix them together yourself, but it wouldn't be the same as Channel Number 5 or whatever.
Of course the Asus EEE is Taiwanse branded but has managed to get Apple like levels of cachet, at least amongst geeks. If you look at Japan, they've managed to climb the slippery slope from low wage manufacturing hell hole to high wage design paradise. Korea and Taiwan are trying. My money is on Taiwan doing though, because it's not as dominated by large inefficient quasi government controlled big companies like Korea is. That seems to me to be something that Japan succeeded despite rather than because it did.
Someday I'll get over cringing when people use the word pimp positively. Yo' cracka. Some of the badest pimps and gangstas I know are crackas workin' in a data centre. Like the AnimeCrackaz in Minnesota. Hardcore fuckin' gangstaz. So give 'em props. Datacentre posse in da muthafuckin' house!!!
i am very disapointed by the lack of tact in a lot of these posts. I know this is slashdot, but a man died after fighting with a killer for 7 long years. if you are going to make a crude comment here, at least make it +5 funny, not the -1 stupid i have been seeing so far.
Stan, you will be missed.
Your skill and imagination were an inspiration to me through the years. It's the Internet. People are anonymous and discussing someone that they don't know personally and that tends to make them tactless.
Yes. By "take care" I meant terminate. The twist is that Sarah was a Terminator all along and is fixing all the bad scifi in Cyberdyne's blueray collection from the past. That makes John a machine-human hybrid, but not to worry; Starbuck will fly into a star and go back in time to Earth and kill him. Switch to decaf.
No wait, that might be unsafe. Stay on regular coffee but drink it from a cup rather than injecting it into a vein. Gradually cut down. E.g from a hundred cups per day now down to 50 next month, 25 the month after and so on.
Aim to switch to decaf once you get down to one cup a day.
Google Sync though, it made it easy to keep all my systems in umm... sync. Google sync is spyware. If you check with ethereal it quite clearly sends details of your bookmarks to a Google server.
You have 24 hours to download it. If you want to download it at 1 AM your time, you can do so. If you want to download it at 11 PM your time, you can also do so. In fact, I'd daresay that you can download it at any time you want!
But what if you live in Asia. It's already June 18th there. So they can't download it on Firefox download day, June 17th because that day has already gone.
Leaving out the obvious fact that English pubs still serve beer in pints,
Yeah, they do. But if they switched over to metric and served half litres that would be smaller, since UK pints are bigger than US ones.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint#Definitions
The imperial pint is equal one eighth of an imperial gallon.[1] It is used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, though mostly replaced by metric units. 568.26125 millilitres The US pint is smaller, around 473ml.
They haven't switched, at least the last time I was there.
But I was really joking about stoners claiming dope was safe whilst showing clear signs of paranoia and whatever speech disorder makes you say 'man' and 'like' regularly. Verbal wait state syndrome perhaps. It reminds me of a bad real time system where sound or video stutters because some software component can't get buffers filled fast enough. Not something you'd want to happen to your brain anyway.
That's cuz metric is a plot by the Government, man. You know in England when they switched to metric in bars they went from getting a pints to half litres and the price went up, man. Half litre is like way less than a pint, man. The bars sell you less beer and the price goes UP. Bar makes more money and the government stops people drinking.
Mind you, people should stop drinking. That shit makes you paranoid. You're better off sticking with dope.
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The story will be repeated and repeated until no one snarks it?
In English beer measure, which I learned is different from English ale measure (op. cit.), somewhere between a butt (1296 pints) and a tun (2268 pints).
It goes: pint, quart, pottle, gallon, firkin, kilderkin, barrel, hogshead, butt, tun.
There's also a 'buttload' (a lot) and a 'fucktun' (a fucking lot)The biggest difference would beantisemitism. Both Hitler and Stalin were anti semitic but Hitler obviously allowed his antisemitism to get completely out of control and jeopardise the state. E.g. in WWII German planning priortized the holocaust over defeating the Russians, even though a Russian invasion would certainly mean the end of the regime. But Stalin showed signs of growing antisemitism as he got older. The regime fabricated evidence of a Doctor's Plot where Jewsish Doctors were executed on trumped up charges and sinister talk of deporting Jews as had been done with other minorities.
Actually I found out another chilling similarity. It's well known that the Germans mistreated captured Russians, allowing millions of them to starve to death. What's less well known is how the Russians mistreated their German ethnic minority, essentially enslaving them even after the USSR had beaten Germany in World War II
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_army#Russian_Germans A notable category of labarmymen (German: Trudarmisten) were Russian Germans. In September, 1941 most Germans served in Soviet Army were demobilized and sent home. In 1942 eventually all male Germans of ages from 16 to 50 years and all female Germans of ages 16-45 without children younger than 3 years were conscripted to labor duty. Most of them worked at "NKVD objects" (i.e., basically in the same conditions as in Gulag prison camps; the Germans were supposed to be housed separate camps, but this was not always done), and in coal mining and petroleum industries, railroad construction, ammunition, general construction, and other industries. Many lost their lives in the labor army.
Basically the Labor army was dismissed in 1945, but Germans were held for much longer. In 1948 they were transferred to the status of "special settlers" and were not allowed to return home. In 1955, after the official visit of Chancellor of Germany Adenauer to the Soviet Union and signing a number of Soviet-German agreements, this status was abolished (the process of resettlement of Germans to Germany was started at this time as well). Still, the Germans that were initially deported from European and border regions (in particular, Volga Germans) were not allowed to return. So if anyone smugly points out that democracies like the US and the UK are no better than tyrannies due to their mistreatment of ethnic minorities from enemy countries in war time, its worth pointing out that tyrannies are much more ruthless.
I'm gonna go ahead and say that discrimination based on, you know, race is a better example of "racism". Discrimination based on national origin is called "nationalism". Note the common root words in both cases. Actually it's not even that. I'm not a US citizen and hence I don't have a right to be in the US. The US isn't being racist if it decides not to let me in. Just like China or Japan, or Chad wouldn't be racist in deciding not to let me in. I'm not from those countries and so I don't have a right to go to them.
If a US employer decides to hire someone from the US instead of me, that's also not racist. Maybe they want to avoid all the paperwork and expense of getting me a work permit. Or maybe they want to hire someone that can come in for an interview on short notice. No one would say that a California company was being regionalist in deciding to hire a local rather than someone from New York.
Secret service tip: Poster is not in the US and is joking about Ted Kennedys ineffectuality, not making a threat.
I am not the terrorist you are looking for [handwave]
But put that way, it doesn't sound as socialist does it? Socialism in Western Europe usually means high taxes, high public spending and moving power from employers to employees. Sending the militia out to confiscate grain from peasants until millions of them starve is not really socialism. More to the point collectivisation, the policy that Stalin killed millions to implement essentially turned the peasants back into serfs or even slaves, forced to work on land they didn't own. They didn't work very hard of course, hence the gunpoint confiscation of grain and animals. Essentially the workers lost rights, which is why they resisted so hard.
In the UK the workers formed unions and the unions formed the Labour Party which granted the unions more rights. The Labour Party in government was actually very hostile to the USSR model.
There are a handful of people here on Slashdot who actually like Vista and admit it. I'm one of them.
I haven't turned off any of the extras. Regarding the eye candy, they did an awesome job. It's a slick looking user interface. Regarding performance, it runs beautifully on my Acer laptop (1.6 GHz dual core, 2 GB RAM, GeForce Go7300).
The biggest annoyance for me is the automatic horizontal scrolling in the folder pane of Windows Explorer. I absolutely hate it and want to turn it off, but there is no option.
I've only encountered two actual bugs, and they were both extremely minor. One of them I only encountered once, and can't actually remember what it is right now. The other is just a small bug that occurs when you create a new folder and then try to rename it too quickly.
Overall, I'm happy with it.
I have it on an Asus G1S and it works pretty well, probably better than XP would run judging by the dual boot threads I've read."go back"? I'm still waiting for a compelling reason to upgrade from 2K to XP. Seriously.
How about "Oh my God, there's a Microsoft License Compliance officer in my office with a *flamethrower*". Is that compelling enough for you?So it's quite possible for a Communist country like China to change their official ideology to Han Chinese nationalism and corporate state/slave labour capitalism and still be just as far from the UK, Canada or Australia.
So don't be fooled that they given up on 'Communism'. The PRC was never very socialist anyway, most European democracies went much farther down that path.
You know I heard a great story about IT in the UK.
Everyone goes out to lunch at some horrible food place and sits there in sullen silence. New hire, eager to prove he knows his stuff babbles about his experience. One of the non new people shouts "SHOP". Someone else explains that it's not welcome to talk about work at lunch. Then everyone eats in sullen silence.
Later on in the office, if the new guy asks any questions someone shouts "SHOP" and everyone turns to watch the look of congnitive dissonance. After that everyone is friendly, at least by geek standards.
Kind of funny.
Could be worse, imagine if your script was called -fr
I work at Apple to and I must disagree with the parent.
They keep me chained to a radiator making iPods in return for a bowl of rice a day. If I forget to check post anonymously the Apple police will hunt me down and kill me for Thinking Different.
Then again, this probably won't work, since frequently the most recognizable things about Apple products, such as the iPod's click-wheel, are patented. Other companies have made excellent competitors to the iPod, with more and better features (like Ogg support, FM radio, voice recording, etc. which my iRiver H330 has), and none of them have done very well in the marketplace against the iPod. China is still unfortunately a country full of wage slaves working for cruel communist bosses.
Mind you Taiwan, the non communist, democratic part of China is doing exactly what you say. Taiwanese ODMs do most of the design work for American and European brands. The actual manufacturing is done in China.
But if you look at HTC and similar Taiwanese companies they have "own brand" equivalents of branded stuff.
But it's not as slick as the branded stuff. Actually electronics these days is a bit like cosmetics. You could buy the ingredients for cosmetics and mix them together yourself, but it wouldn't be the same as Channel Number 5 or whatever.
Of course the Asus EEE is Taiwanse branded but has managed to get Apple like levels of cachet, at least amongst geeks. If you look at Japan, they've managed to climb the slippery slope from low wage manufacturing hell hole to high wage design paradise. Korea and Taiwan are trying. My money is on Taiwan doing though, because it's not as dominated by large inefficient quasi government controlled big companies like Korea is. That seems to me to be something that Japan succeeded despite rather than because it did.
Stan, you will be missed.
Your skill and imagination were an inspiration to me through the years. It's the Internet. People are anonymous and discussing someone that they don't know personally and that tends to make them tactless.
No wait, that might be unsafe. Stay on regular coffee but drink it from a cup rather than injecting it into a vein. Gradually cut down. E.g from a hundred cups per day now down to 50 next month, 25 the month after and so on.
Aim to switch to decaf once you get down to one cup a day.
Opera has the same thing. Highlight a phrase, right click and you can search.
Yeah, damn right. Like I want to read about work when I'm web surfing at work.
Guiness isn't a beer it is a stout. It would not be classed as a beer under the German Beer Law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot
And yes, I am a beer Nazi.
But what if you live in Asia. It's already June 18th there. So they can't download it on Firefox download day, June 17th because that day has already gone.You have 24 hours to download it. If you want to download it at 1 AM your time, you can do so. If you want to download it at 11 PM your time, you can also do so. In fact, I'd daresay that you can download it at any time you want!
>Half litre is like way less than a pint, man.
Leaving out the obvious fact that English pubs still serve beer in pints,
Yeah, they do. But if they switched over to metric and served half litres that would be smaller, since UK pints are bigger than US ones.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pint#Definitions The imperial pint is equal one eighth of an imperial gallon.[1] It is used in the United Kingdom and other Commonwealth countries, though mostly replaced by metric units.
568.26125 millilitres The US pint is smaller, around 473ml.
They haven't switched, at least the last time I was there.
But I was really joking about stoners claiming dope was safe whilst showing clear signs of paranoia and whatever speech disorder makes you say 'man' and 'like' regularly. Verbal wait state syndrome perhaps. It reminds me of a bad real time system where sound or video stutters because some software component can't get buffers filled fast enough. Not something you'd want to happen to your brain anyway.
That's cuz metric is a plot by the Government, man. You know in England when they switched to metric in bars they went from getting a pints to half litres and the price went up, man. Half litre is like way less than a pint, man. The bars sell you less beer and the price goes UP. Bar makes more money and the government stops people drinking.
Mind you, people should stop drinking. That shit makes you paranoid. You're better off sticking with dope.
It puts the Linux kernel into 'enterprise server' mode. Good to run on a production server via ssh just before you log out.