I, as an Israeli, for one, would like to welcome our finger-printing, photo-taking, data-basing overlords. Really, I would have liked to, but it's two late to welcome them now, they've been in power since I was born.
Disregarding the veracity of all your claims, I feel compelled to point out you made one basic error. The people ruling Israel are the same people running America. Hint: they are neither the populations of Israel nor of America. As an Israeli citizen, and one who is in total opposition to Israeli (and American) state policies, I resent the implication that somehow Israel as a whole (which include the entire populace) is to blame for the murderous, criminal behaviour of the people leading it. Israel could be such a warm, peaceful place if all those power-grabbing fascist politicians had let it be...
This has fuckall to do with Nazis forcing Jews to wear yellow stars.
This has everything to do with the yellow patches. In Israel, we give Palestinians green or orange ID cards (regular citizen is blue). This is a "second class citizen" card aimed to distinguish a real citizen from a non-person, just as the yellow patches were meant to do. If this database contains info on a persons religion and race (like Israeli ID's used to) this database could (and eventually would) be used in the same manner.
Every citizen of Israel, which is a Jewish country, will be included in the database, which is being built by the aforementioned Jewish country.
Interesting info: not all the people living in Israel are citizens, and not all Israeli citizens are Jewish.
This database will give the police and the army more power to identify and harass, not only the Palestinians, but people who disagree with the settlers and the ultra-Zionists.
Since this database is used for collecting data on Israeli citizens it is useless against Palestinians, since they are not citizens of Israel, nor of any other country.
This is useful only against criminals, Israeli Arabs (who seldom serve in the army, and therfore didn't get their photo and finger-prints taken already), and as you mentioned, most useful against political resistance. Keeping the Israeli populace ignorant of the atrocities Israel performs takes huge amounts of propaganda, censureship and such tactics. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is designed to track political ("extreme-left", "bleeding hearts", "arab-lovers") dissidents as well as other threats.
Full disclosure - I am Israeli.
Oh fuck. I just shot myself in the foot, didn't I?
It's been in the kernel since 2.26. You just have to enable it during kernel configuration. I had to use it because I my wi-fi card didn't have any OSS drivers. The RDF provides a nice workaround for all sorts of problems.
Actually, it would be a lot easier to break the glass without vibrato, assuming you hit the critical note dead on. If you have trouble keeping in tune, a vibrato might help as then you'd still hit resonance once in a while. but I'd imagine it would be much harder.
To add a repository go to System->Administration->"Software Sources". Go to "Third Party Software" tab, click "Add", copy from wherever and paste the deb line. That's the GUI way, anyway.
#define DO_HEREBY_AGREE "am forced by psychological and financial means"
#define SEA_ORGANIZATION "world-domination R US"
#define ETHICS_IN "medieval on"
#define PLANET "miserable human refuse"
#define AND_THE_UNIVERSE "including imaginary human refuse"
#define CONTRACT "grovel and prostrate"
#define NEXT_BILLION_YEARS "until you decide to terminate me"
It is interesting to note, that according to a Slashdot story that due to a duping accident came back in time from the future, the RIAA were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first up against the wall when the revolution came.
So I'm replying to a sig. So what? Don'l like it, mod me offtopic.
The content has become stupider, not the media. This is because people seem to want stupid fare, and that's not a phenomenon I know how to explain.
The content has and is becoming stupider by the minute, but I don't think it is because people want stupid fare, but because the selection is narrowing down, so that only stupid titles are left. As to why that happens, I have a theory. Intelligence, like lots of other natural properties, can be plotted on the bell curve. The stupider you can make your game, the bigger your potential audience can be. Of course, making it so stupid the people at the top of the curve get bored also cuts into profits, but if you also make your game exciting on some other level (violence, sex, more violence), that barrier can be sidestepped, and you can have a game everybody (of whatever intelligence) can play and enjoy, even if it is moronic.
A side-effect of this phenomenon is that because there is less and less intellectually stimulating content, there is less and less of a motivation to use and excercise the brain. This is where stuff starts to get nasty.
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You didn't read your own links, did you? From your Wikipedia link:
Psychopathy is a psychological construct describing immoral and antisocial behavior.[1] The term is often used interchangeably with sociopathy[2].
Actually, the difference between a politician and a serial killer is the amplitude of the mental disorder, not its type. Politicians obviously have it much harder.
What I meant was more that you wouldn't enjoy those new jazz pieces if you've never listened to jazz before. I know many people who have hated jazz until they were forced to listen to some for a period, and loved it ever since. And as much as everybody claims to dislike the Macarena, if you start humming it in a crowded subway station, someone's sure to join, since they heard it so many times it's imprinted in their brain. From where I stand, you can claim you dislike a certain piece of music all you like, but if you're humming it with the radio, it does speak to you, and you learn to like it even if on the conscious level you claim to hate it. I'll say it this way - after being stranded on a desert isle for forty years, you'd be thrilled to hear the Macarena. You'll even do the little dance.
It's simple: too many people abused their "right" to free speech by making it impossible to hold classes, being rowdy and loud in the halls, preventing people from passing into buildings, etc. In essence, depriving the students of the very thing they paid for.
If that's the problem your university is having, it's got a worse problem on its hands than "free speech zones" and surveillance. When I was in university, we had this thing called 'quiet'. If you couldn't be quiet, you were asked kindly to leave the classroom and allow the rest of the students to learn. If you couldn't sit quietly and learn, you would quickly find you can no longer visit classes, and thus fail (unless you're one of the people who don't need to go to classes to pass the exams, like me), thus ridding the university of any disruptive elements.
The only system in which this kind of polite policing is impossible is where most people aren't in it to learn, for example in schools where attendance is mandatory. In this type of places (like where I went to middle-school), you can't avoid people messing stuff up and generally disrupting the peace, since they feel that if they must be in class, they might as well have fun instead of studying. If this is the atmosphere in your university, maybe it should take a serious look at its policies concerning who gets to study there.
From both these points I conclude that a university that has to resort to policing and surveilling its student populace must have a real difficulty attracting people who earnestly want to learn, and has lots of students who feel they have nothing to gain by learning and feel obligated or threatened into studying. If this is true of your uni, you better look for another, since no amount of restricting the students' freedoms will help.
I usually don't comment much on/., since I find my comments often get their way into the discussion anyway without me, but your comment contains much of what I'm facing as a new musician (working on my 1st album:) ), and the decisions I will have to take, so I'd like to reply to some of your points.
When the internet was first taking off I thought it was going to crack the lid off of independent art......To some degree, this is all true. There's a lot of stuff out there, and most artists can find some fans. But in the end it hasn't practially changed much: being in an internet band is about as important as being in a high-school band. The difference is that the 100 people that love you can now be spread across the world instead of just the town.
It seems to me that to some people, this is true. For others, putting their stuff on the net has produced no effect at all, and for some, it has been just liked you hoped at the beginning, where they couldn't have achieved their success without the internet. So your hopes were true, but maybe it was unrealistic to expect it to happen to everybody.
I think that most listeners really don't want better stuff (even by their own standards): they'd rather listen to stuff that their friends listen to.
I actually have a little private theory about that effect. It seems to me that people's tastes in music are formed by the music they hear, and greater exposure to a genre of music will alter their tastes and preferences. So in effect there's little difference between the music one likes and the music one is exposed to. Good music is music you've already heard lots of times. As an example, I never imagined I would be listening to Indian Classical music before I went to India and undergone massive exposure to it. I like it now. Good music is the stuff you're used to, and if you're hanging with people who hear a certain type of music, you'll get exposed to it and start to like it, whether you'd like to or no:)
It's fun to be into popular music, and that's what most people do. They seek out popular music so that they can feel like they're part of something. I don't intend this as a put-down: they just want to enjoy life and I'll admit it's usually more fun to be into an okay-by-me-but-super-popular song than a more-to-your-liking-but-generally-unknown song. Because you can talk about it and play it at parties and people love it. Social interactions matter to music.
Music is a type of social interaction. Without that type of 'fun' nobody would be making or hearing music. Those social interactions you speak of are at the root of musical enjoyment. Yes, there's rhythm and harmony and melody and all that stuff, but the social face of the music weighs way more when it comes to its success and spread. A type of music that 'speaks' only to a small group with special social attitudes will become less influential/successful than one that 'speaks' to everybody. "Musicological Quality" (if there even is such a thing) doesn't come into it. That's for musicologists, not for the music fans.
Even people like myself, who are drawn to listen to less popular music -- there's just so much stuff I don't feel I need any more. I get all the media I can handle already. So overall as an artist I'm sort of accepting that the way the world functions doesn't financially support all the musical artists who want to be. It doesn't even support all the musical artists who could qualify as great. There's a lot of great artists out there, and only enough opportunity for a tiny fraction of them.
I kinda agree and kinda disagree with this. I too hear generally high-quality music coming from everywhere all the time (yes even on the radio). Yes, there's no possibility of having time to hear it all. On the other hand, truly massive musical revelations (like OK Computer or Space Oddity were to me) co
Wow. The first/. comment here that isn't "who listens to youtube anyway" or "anyone that posts to youtube is dumb". Good for you.
Disclaimer: I just spent about 48 straight hours listening to Alex Jones, and that can make anyone sound a little tinfoil-hatty.
I went to youtube and searched for 'vaccine', I suggest you try it yourself. In return I've got nothing but mainstream media news clips (+ some Alex Jones again), saying these things about AIDS-infected vaccines and radioactive vaccines and so forth. No wonder so many people are afraid to get vaccinated in the US if you've got this sort of thing going on over there (god I hope they don't do that where I live. If I ever suspect they do, I'd think twice about getting my kids vaccinated).
Further, I haven't RTFA, for sure, but from the comments here it sounds like propaganda. "Don't believe those 'evil' youtube videos, vaccines are good for you!" Don't get me wrong. Old-fashioned vaccines, the ones that contain only dead or weakened forms of the specific bacteria or virus that cause the desease are one of the biggest achievemnts of sciense ever, but if posed with a choice to recieve a shot that can prevent me from ever catching polio, but also has a 1/10 chance of infecting me with AIDS, I think I would decline.
So is QE going to happen or is it just my poor grasp of the subject matter?
For the home user, not for a very long time. QE is used for key exchange only,because it has a pityful bandwidth (in bits/sec), and requires very specialized hardware, as well as extremely protected conditions. Also, unless Quantum Computing becomes widely available, there is absolutely no advantage of QE over regular (PGP, HTTPS etc.) encryption, if it's done right. Moreover, QE will only guarantee safe communications point-to-point, which means it would likely end at your local internet switch, which gives you very little protection. Taking all this into consideration I would say it will take several decades for QE to become as widespread as broadband currently is.
If they felt so excluded and miserable, maybe they should have found a fscking job! Really, the only reason compilers don't include them is because once they get in, they do absolutely NADA! Fsckin' leftists...
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I, as an Israeli, for one, would like to welcome our finger-printing, photo-taking, data-basing overlords. Really, I would have liked to, but it's two late to welcome them now, they've been in power since I was born.
Disregarding the veracity of all your claims, I feel compelled to point out you made one basic error. The people ruling Israel are the same people running America. Hint: they are neither the populations of Israel nor of America. As an Israeli citizen, and one who is in total opposition to Israeli (and American) state policies, I resent the implication that somehow Israel as a whole (which include the entire populace) is to blame for the murderous, criminal behaviour of the people leading it. Israel could be such a warm, peaceful place if all those power-grabbing fascist politicians had let it be...
Since this database is used for collecting data on Israeli citizens it is useless against Palestinians, since they are not citizens of Israel, nor of any other country.
This is useful only against criminals, Israeli Arabs (who seldom serve in the army, and therfore didn't get their photo and finger-prints taken already), and as you mentioned, most useful against political resistance. Keeping the Israeli populace ignorant of the atrocities Israel performs takes huge amounts of propaganda, censureship and such tactics. It wouldn't surprise me one bit if this is designed to track political ("extreme-left", "bleeding hearts", "arab-lovers") dissidents as well as other threats.
Full disclosure - I am Israeli.
Oh fuck. I just shot myself in the foot, didn't I?
It's been in the kernel since 2.26. You just have to enable it during kernel configuration. I had to use it because I my wi-fi card didn't have any OSS drivers. The RDF provides a nice workaround for all sorts of problems.
Works great. Don't know what I'd do without it.
What's this power efficiency rating? How much is 1.5 in God's honest Watts per Kelvin, or a simple percentage of power in/power out?
Actually, it would be a lot easier to break the glass without vibrato, assuming you hit the critical note dead on. If you have trouble keeping in tune, a vibrato might help as then you'd still hit resonance once in a while. but I'd imagine it would be much harder.
A bit OT, but helping a newbie is a noble cause ;)
To add a repository go to System->Administration->"Software Sources". Go to "Third Party Software" tab, click "Add", copy from wherever and paste the deb line. That's the GUI way, anyway.
I can has mah PREHENSILE tail nao?
K, THX!!!
#define DO_HEREBY_AGREE "am forced by psychological and financial means"
#define SEA_ORGANIZATION "world-domination R US"
#define ETHICS_IN "medieval on"
#define PLANET "miserable human refuse"
#define AND_THE_UNIVERSE "including imaginary human refuse"
#define CONTRACT "grovel and prostrate"
#define NEXT_BILLION_YEARS "until you decide to terminate me"
It sounds good until you take into account how hard space-walruses are to catch.
It is interesting to note, that according to a Slashdot story that due to a duping accident came back in time from the future, the RIAA were a bunch of mindless jerks who were the first up against the wall when the revolution came.
So I'm replying to a sig. So what? Don'l like it, mod me offtopic.
A side-effect of this phenomenon is that because there is less and less intellectually stimulating content, there is less and less of a motivation to use and excercise the brain. This is where stuff starts to get nasty.
Hey, I like Madonna you insensitive clod!
What I meant was more that you wouldn't enjoy those new jazz pieces if you've never listened to jazz before. I know many people who have hated jazz until they were forced to listen to some for a period, and loved it ever since. And as much as everybody claims to dislike the Macarena, if you start humming it in a crowded subway station, someone's sure to join, since they heard it so many times it's imprinted in their brain. From where I stand, you can claim you dislike a certain piece of music all you like, but if you're humming it with the radio, it does speak to you, and you learn to like it even if on the conscious level you claim to hate it. I'll say it this way - after being stranded on a desert isle for forty years, you'd be thrilled to hear the Macarena. You'll even do the little dance.
The only system in which this kind of polite policing is impossible is where most people aren't in it to learn, for example in schools where attendance is mandatory. In this type of places (like where I went to middle-school), you can't avoid people messing stuff up and generally disrupting the peace, since they feel that if they must be in class, they might as well have fun instead of studying. If this is the atmosphere in your university, maybe it should take a serious look at its policies concerning who gets to study there.
From both these points I conclude that a university that has to resort to policing and surveilling its student populace must have a real difficulty attracting people who earnestly want to learn, and has lots of students who feel they have nothing to gain by learning and feel obligated or threatened into studying. If this is true of your uni, you better look for another, since no amount of restricting the students' freedoms will help.
It seems to me that to some people, this is true. For others, putting their stuff on the net has produced no effect at all, and for some, it has been just liked you hoped at the beginning, where they couldn't have achieved their success without the internet. So your hopes were true, but maybe it was unrealistic to expect it to happen to everybody.
I actually have a little private theory about that effect. It seems to me that people's tastes in music are formed by the music they hear, and greater exposure to a genre of music will alter their tastes and preferences. So in effect there's little difference between the music one likes and the music one is exposed to. Good music is music you've already heard lots of times. As an example, I never imagined I would be listening to Indian Classical music before I went to India and undergone massive exposure to it. I like it now. Good music is the stuff you're used to, and if you're hanging with people who hear a certain type of music, you'll get exposed to it and start to like it, whether you'd like to or no :)
Music is a type of social interaction. Without that type of 'fun' nobody would be making or hearing music. Those social interactions you speak of are at the root of musical enjoyment. Yes, there's rhythm and harmony and melody and all that stuff, but the social face of the music weighs way more when it comes to its success and spread. A type of music that 'speaks' only to a small group with special social attitudes will become less influential/successful than one that 'speaks' to everybody. "Musicological Quality" (if there even is such a thing) doesn't come into it. That's for musicologists, not for the music fans.
I kinda agree and kinda disagree with this. I too hear generally high-quality music coming from everywhere all the time (yes even on the radio). Yes, there's no possibility of having time to hear it all. On the other hand, truly massive musical revelations (like OK Computer or Space Oddity were to me) co
Taxation is violence to the same extent as armed robbery is.
Wow. The first /. comment here that isn't "who listens to youtube anyway" or "anyone that posts to youtube is dumb". Good for you.
Disclaimer: I just spent about 48 straight hours listening to Alex Jones, and that can make anyone sound a little tinfoil-hatty.
I went to youtube and searched for 'vaccine', I suggest you try it yourself. In return I've got nothing but mainstream media news clips (+ some Alex Jones again), saying these things about AIDS-infected vaccines and radioactive vaccines and so forth. No wonder so many people are afraid to get vaccinated in the US if you've got this sort of thing going on over there (god I hope they don't do that where I live. If I ever suspect they do, I'd think twice about getting my kids vaccinated).
Further, I haven't RTFA, for sure, but from the comments here it sounds like propaganda. "Don't believe those 'evil' youtube videos, vaccines are good for you!" Don't get me wrong. Old-fashioned vaccines, the ones that contain only dead or weakened forms of the specific bacteria or virus that cause the desease are one of the biggest achievemnts of sciense ever, but if posed with a choice to recieve a shot that can prevent me from ever catching polio, but also has a 1/10 chance of infecting me with AIDS, I think I would decline.
I'm using Vista, you insensitive clod!
That does not make any sense.
You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.
I'm afraid the only thing that'd work is wipe and a clean install.
If they felt so excluded and miserable, maybe they should have found a fscking job! Really, the only reason compilers don't include them is because once they get in, they do absolutely NADA! Fsckin' leftists...