The ideas of social darwinism used by the Nazis were not founded in science. They were not based on Darwins ideas and Darwin would have rolled over in his grave had he heard of such perversion of his work. Pro-science != (killing Jews|killing blacks|aryan supremacy).
The idea of evolution of species does not validate racism. In fact all races are the same species. Should we kill people with genetic imperfections? That is not evolution or natural selection, but artificial selection and simply immoral. I actually want to see the candidates' position on Creationism and I did not see it in TFA. I know Ron Paul has refused to answer the question on whether or not he believes in evolution or the flying spagetti monster.
I don't know about the systems in Europe, but decent University libraries in the states let you do a lot of ILL (interlibrary loan). You can get whatever book, video, media you want as long as another library in the system has it. What a great resource!
Perhaps predator avoidance is one of the purposes of sleep. However, animals which in nature generally have no predators like for instance a pride of lions (the group not a single lion) still sleep. Also after having seen my puppy try to devour a nest of sleeping mice he dug up, I'm not so sure sleep offers much of a predator avoidance advantage at all...
Jokes aside, rather than replace sleep with a snortable drug, a useful advantage for me would be able to replace non REM sleep with a period of sleep-eating, like a horse. That would save time during the day that I spend chewing and I'd be able to still gain the benefits of sleep. Also if I was asleep, hopefully I could trick myself into eating healthier foods:)
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It's all very clear if you look at the laws of hypercausality, quantum-doomliness and pay attention to your multiplicands and not just that showboating globetrotter math. If you are concerned about which double is the duplicate, simply slap a doom-o-meter on them and you will know which is the dupe and which is the original!
Couldn't be more straightforward! And if you don't understand it well you can kiss my doomed front-butt!
>I'm 99% sure that Ubuntu or Debian people can do similar things with DEBs. Of course, the >downside with the package approach is you have to have one package per distro (take a look at >Skype; skype isn't in any linux repositories, but it supplies 4-5 RPMs and a binary tarball).
Actually I type apt-get install skype, and I've got skype:)
They also distribute.DEB files from their website.
Debian based distro's can also make use of something called automatix2 (http://www.getautomatix.com/) which can be used to install Windows apps (via CodeWeavers) even. I would not necessarily recommend it, but it is certainly something for Joe-user and Michael Dell uses it too:)
Hmm I can't seem to recall that part of the Quran talking about how Mohammed was a mysogynistic bastard who raped 5 year olds. When you make wild claims, isn't it a good idea to cite a source?
I wonder if I'd get modded +5 for writing about why I think Christianity is bullshit, that Mary was no virgin but a slut, and since she never admitted it her son grew up with a complex, and he certainly never wrote any testaments. That was all "supposedly" written by people who claimed to know him, but we have very little historical proof of that. We do have proof of this guy named Paul who likely had his own agenda.
I personally do not buy into any of the major religion, but I try to respect the beliefs of others. Now I am not saying that fanatic Muslim idealogues should be embraced, but there are many people who practice Islam but believe in common sense. Is it equally acceptable to equate all of Christianity with killing gay people, blowing up the offices of abortion doctors and bombing mosques??
Why do you say muslims can only interpret the qu'ran literally? Are you a representative of all muslim people? Have you heard of the Progressive Muslim Union? http://www.pmuna.org/
As far as TFA is concerned, it may very well be true that less scientific journals are coming out of the middle east. In part it could be because the one country which allowed women to go to school and work (Iraq) has a university system that has been bombed into looking something like this http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/04/23/mn_iraq_car_bomb_2.jpg But really, how many peer reviewed scientific journals came out of the vatican?
I'd wager no small amount that there are some talented geophysicists in the middle east figureing out how to extract more oil tp feed volkswagens all over the world.
someone please mod parent up. This Lu Feng sounds like a real hero risking himself to stand against an oppressive corporation and corrupt bureaucracy for what ? Not for a huge cash settlement (face it $180 is nothing to microsoft) but for an apology and for an uninstall program. I didn't know/. was this international, but I say let/.ers help those who pursue justice in any country!
I have to admit that Midnight Commander was one of the programs that encouraged me to switch to Linux. With its Turbo-Pascal/Norton Commander like color scheme, it brought a level of comfort to this ex-DOS user. I must give credit Miguel for that. Even if it was many years ago, it was a great contribution. I still use midnight commander today!
As far as Moonlight and OOXML go. I think that Miguel is entitled to opt to use this software and develop for it (if Microsoft allows him) and have Novell-Microsoft grant rights to use Microsoft stuff (which they can revoke at anytime). However, I don't think we want it in our non Novell/Microsoft Linux distros (ODF please)! I will never willingly extend myself into Microsofts embrace.
Yes we all know that the American military is not responsible for any crimes and American military doctrine has not resulted in genocide of indigineous peoples or wars of aggression. What rules of engagement did the armed forces follow when they slew Al-Jazeera *reporters* in Iraq?
I agree with you completely! Every time I wanted to watch Futurama it was preempted by a football game. Eventually, the best storytelling of our time was supplanted by King of the Hill. Honestly I'd rather have my splanctic ganglion tickled by mechanical midgets than watch that. Maybe I am weak and womanly like Kif, but the one about ressurecting Fry's dolemite-fast-fossilized dog actually made me cry.
"It will be one hell of a bowel movement..... he'll be lucky if he has any organs left!"
and another famous professor (mis)quote:
"To hell with not changing history mister I'm my own grandfather!"
Now time to get to work so you all bite my glorious golden ass!
Who modded this nitwit informative? Anarchists don't blow up factories. Those are nihilists and luddites not anarchists! Anarchists believe in establishing a decentralized structure so that the profits of the factory go to the workers and all decisions are made by consensus!
You fail to grasp the concepts of peace, love and anarchy! So, you are hardly qualified to use them in your comparisons!
Spammers pay real money for botnets/phishing websites etc, but their return is higher than their expenses so they continue to plague us. Our spamfiltering solutions may diminish their return, but apparently not enough.
One interesting approach (from MIT Spam Conference) was these guys (SPAMALOT), who basically interact with the spammer as much as possible.
I really think its a good idea. If a spammer is trying to get a credit card, give them 50000 phonies. Imagine what would happen to spammers if everyone responded to all their spam? The only probem I see is it might make it easy for malicious people to DOS real web stores, by sending out spam for those stores.
Alexander Wolfe has been writing anti-linux fud for sometime. He has no technical qualifications at all. From TFA talking about kernel forking: "It's also true that the few deviations that can fairly be called forks are very valuable, in that they are patches or shell add-ons (the latter are not really forks) to support real time and load balancing."
I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't know my kernel had any shell at all let alone a shell "to support real time and load balancing"...
I don't know what his credentials are. Honestly I don't think he's qualified to say anything about tech, and we should do our best to discredit him before he causes more damage and spreads too much misinformation.
welcome our new gadget overlords. i look forward to serving under their superior intelligence and memorization abilities and will focus my attention as directed. i just hope they hold a soft spot in their digital hearts for us as we were the creators (of the first models anyways when we could still remember how to do stuff).
One vendor in particular (namely Falconstor), have modified the code of Samba, distributed binaries to us (we were their unhappy customers), and *REFUSED* to provide source code to their changes. We are no longer a Falconstor customer and no longer want to see what changes they made to our smbd. But what can/is/should be done about GPL-violating vendors?
that sucks! I love diesel engines because they can burn biodiesel or be rigged
to burn straight-vegetable-oil! Are you sure about this diesel ban? My 2000
Jetta TDI qualifies as a ULEV, and the last time I visited the dealership (in Connecticut),
they were selling the 2006 model. A 40 mpg gasoline Smart certainly is not a big win for
US consumers or the environment.
I agree! Well Cygwin is not that hard to setup, adding/removing/updating packages should
be as easy as using the commandline. Also is there any chance WinLibre or Cygwin will
ever run on Vista?
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The ideas of social darwinism used by the Nazis were not founded in science. They
were not based on Darwins ideas and Darwin would have rolled over in his grave had
he heard of such perversion of his work. Pro-science != (killing Jews|killing
blacks|aryan supremacy).
The idea of evolution of species does not validate racism. In fact all races are the
same species. Should we kill people with genetic imperfections? That is not evolution
or natural selection, but artificial selection and simply immoral. I actually want to
see the candidates' position on Creationism and I did not see it in TFA. I know Ron Paul
has refused to answer the question on whether or not he believes in evolution or the
flying spagetti monster.
Long live the Pastafarian faith!
Is documented in Berke Breathed's latest comic:
http://www.comics.com/wash/opus/archive/opus-20071230.html
I don't know about the systems in Europe, but decent University libraries in the states let you do a lot of ILL (interlibrary loan). You can get whatever book, video, media you want as long as another library in the system has it. What a great resource!
Perhaps predator avoidance is one of the purposes of sleep. However, animals which in nature generally have no predators like for instance a pride of lions (the group not a single lion) still sleep. Also after having seen my puppy try to devour a nest of sleeping mice he dug
:)
up, I'm not so sure sleep offers much of a predator avoidance advantage at all...
Jokes aside, rather than replace sleep with a snortable drug, a useful advantage for me would
be able to replace non REM sleep with a period of sleep-eating, like a horse. That would save time during the day that I spend chewing and I'd be able to still gain the benefits of sleep. Also if I was asleep, hopefully I could trick myself into eating healthier foods
emacs XOR vi ?
---dont-readthis if you hate spoilers---
---dont-readthis if you hate spoilers---
---dont-readthis if you hate spoilers---
---dont-readthis if you hate spoilers---
---dont-readthis if you hate spoilers---
It's all very clear if you look at the laws of hypercausality, quantum-doomliness and pay
attention to your multiplicands and not just that showboating globetrotter math.
If you are concerned about which double is the duplicate, simply slap a doom-o-meter on them
and you will know which is the dupe and which is the original!
Couldn't be more straightforward! And if you don't understand it well you can kiss my
doomed front-butt!
Actually the Mongol empire did not reach its peak until after Genghis Khan. Why isn't an MBA an education?
put them in there do not put them in there!
>I'm 99% sure that Ubuntu or Debian people can do similar things with DEBs. Of course, the >downside with the package approach is you have to have one package per distro (take a look at >Skype; skype isn't in any linux repositories, but it supplies 4-5 RPMs and a binary tarball).
Actually I type apt-get install skype, and I've got skype
They also distribute
Debian based distro's can also make use of something called automatix2 (http://www.getautomatix.com/) which can be used to install Windows apps (via CodeWeavers) even. I would not necessarily recommend it, but it is certainly something for Joe-user and
Michael Dell uses it too
If you are in a hurry, don't shutdown your system. Simply do a "pmi action suspend"
"and i for one, welcome our new hybrid overlords..."
What is this Rush Limbaugh's blog?
Hmm I can't seem to recall that part of the Quran talking about how Mohammed was a mysogynistic bastard who raped 5 year olds. When you make wild claims, isn't it a good idea to cite a source?
I wonder if I'd get modded +5 for writing about why I think Christianity is bullshit, that Mary was no virgin but a slut, and since she never admitted it
her son grew up with a complex, and he certainly never wrote any testaments. That was all "supposedly" written by people who claimed to know him, but we have very little historical proof of that. We do have proof of this guy named Paul who likely had his own agenda.
I personally do not buy into any of the major religion, but I try to respect the beliefs of others. Now I am not saying that fanatic Muslim idealogues should be embraced, but there are many people who practice Islam but believe in common sense. Is it equally acceptable to equate all of Christianity with killing gay people, blowing up the offices of abortion doctors and bombing mosques??
Why do you say muslims can only interpret the qu'ran literally?
Are you a representative of all muslim people?
Have you heard of the Progressive Muslim Union? http://www.pmuna.org/
As far as TFA is concerned, it may very well be true that less scientific journals
are coming out of the middle east. In part it could be because the one country which allowed women to go to school and work (Iraq) has a university system
that has been bombed into looking something like this http://sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/04/23/mn_iraq_car_bomb_2.jpg
But really, how many peer reviewed scientific journals came out of the vatican?
I'd wager no small amount that there are some talented geophysicists in the middle east figureing out how to extract more oil tp feed volkswagens all over the world.
someone please mod parent up. This Lu Feng sounds like a real hero risking himself to stand against an oppressive corporation and corrupt bureaucracy for what ? Not for a huge cash settlement (face it $180 is nothing to microsoft) but for an apology and for an uninstall program. I didn't know /. was this international, but I say let /.ers help those who pursue justice in any country!
I have to admit that Midnight Commander was one of the programs that encouraged
me to switch to Linux. With its Turbo-Pascal/Norton Commander like color scheme, it
brought a level of comfort to this ex-DOS user. I must give credit Miguel for that. Even if
it was many years ago, it was a great contribution. I still use midnight commander today!
As far as Moonlight and OOXML go. I think that Miguel is entitled to opt to use this software and develop for it (if Microsoft allows him) and have Novell-Microsoft grant rights to use Microsoft stuff (which they can revoke at anytime). However, I don't think we want it in our non Novell/Microsoft Linux distros (ODF please)! I will never willingly extend myself into Microsofts embrace.
another unfortunate thing about alzheimers is it could often :(
be misdiagnosed. Since we don't test for CJD in this country,
we will never know
I wonder if the occurence of Alzheimer's is lower in countries that
do test (like England).
Both diseases are awful, but it appears there is some relationship:
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0107-07.htm
Yes we all know that the American military is not responsible for any crimes
and American military doctrine has not resulted in genocide of indigineous peoples or wars of aggression. What rules of engagement did the armed forces follow when they slew Al-Jazeera *reporters* in Iraq?
I agree with you completely! Every time I wanted to watch Futurama it was preempted by a football game. Eventually, the best
storytelling of our time was supplanted by King of the Hill. Honestly I'd rather have my splanctic ganglion tickled by mechanical midgets than watch that. Maybe I am weak and womanly like Kif, but the one about ressurecting Fry's dolemite-fast-fossilized dog actually made me cry.
"It will be one hell of a bowel movement..... he'll be lucky if he has any organs left!"
and another famous professor (mis)quote:
"To hell with not changing history mister I'm my own grandfather!"
Now time to get to work so you all bite my glorious golden ass!
Who modded this nitwit informative?
Anarchists don't blow up factories. Those are nihilists and luddites not anarchists! Anarchists believe in establishing a decentralized structure so that the profits of the factory go to the workers and all decisions are made by consensus!
You fail to grasp the concepts of peace, love and anarchy! So, you are hardly qualified to use them in your comparisons!
Spammers pay real money for botnets/phishing websites etc, but their return is higher
than their expenses so they continue to plague us. Our spamfiltering solutions may
diminish their return, but apparently not enough.
One interesting approach (from MIT Spam Conference) was these guys (SPAMALOT), who basically interact with the spammer as much as possible.
http://acm.cs.uic.edu/~lszyba1/
I really think its a good idea. If a spammer is trying to get a credit card, give them 50000 phonies. Imagine what would happen to spammers if everyone responded to all their spam? The only probem I see is it might make it easy for malicious people to DOS real web stores, by sending out spam for those stores.
Any other ideas?
Alexander Wolfe has been writing anti-linux fud for sometime. He has no technical qualifications at all. From TFA talking about kernel forking:
/ 2007/07/ubuntu_aftermat.html "Ubuntu: puncturing the urban legend"
/ 2007/07/ubuntu_linux_ai.html "ubuntu: linux aint as easy as dell"
"It's also true that the few deviations that can fairly be called forks are very valuable, in that they are patches or shell add-ons (the latter are not really forks) to support real time and load balancing."
I don't know about anyone else, but I didn't know my kernel had any shell at all let alone a shell "to support real time and load balancing"...
In the past few days he has written two anti-Ubuntu FUD articles:
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives
In which he makes various assertions including reporting that you need to install gcc and compile laTeX to get it
working on Ubuntu
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives
in which he claims that ubuntu is too for him to install, so the Dell preinstalled ubuntu pcs must be bad
I don't know what his credentials are. Honestly I don't think he's qualified to say anything about tech, and we should do our best to discredit him before he causes more damage and spreads too much misinformation.
welcome our new gadget overlords. i look forward to serving under their superior intelligence and memorization abilities and will focus my attention as directed. i just
hope they hold a soft spot in their digital hearts for us as we were the creators (of the first models anyways when we could still remember how to do stuff).
One vendor in particular (namely Falconstor), have modified the code of Samba, distributed binaries to us (we were their unhappy customers), and *REFUSED* to provide source code to their changes. We are no longer a Falconstor customer and no longer want to see what changes they made to our smbd. But what can/is/should be done about GPL-violating vendors?
that sucks! I love diesel engines because they can burn biodiesel or be rigged to burn straight-vegetable-oil! Are you sure about this diesel ban? My 2000 Jetta TDI qualifies as a ULEV, and the last time I visited the dealership (in Connecticut), they were selling the 2006 model. A 40 mpg gasoline Smart certainly is not a big win for US consumers or the environment.
The CDI (diesel Smartcar) gets nearly 80 mpg. I certainly hope it is available in the US.
I agree! Well Cygwin is not that hard to setup, adding/removing/updating packages should be as easy as using the commandline. Also is there any chance WinLibre or Cygwin will ever run on Vista?