I really thought I'd upgrade from xp to 7 but MS seems to be hell bound to piss of their customer base. My kubuntu install will get even more usage then it already does. Nobody owns my own files but me.
No but, I live in the Netherlands that has the same tax scheme, here downloading is legal and uploading is not. So you have to be carefull with the software you are using. In emule I set an empty directory as shared. I'm not sure how things work with bittorrent since the software downloads and uploads at the same time. I do however remove the torrent when the download is finished. Someone might get pieces of a song but never the entire file. I don't know how tracable that is. Can you identify a song when all I'm sending is 10% of the file?
Here politicians have suggested everybody pay a small extra overall tax in return for legal free downloads. This tax would then be distributed in the same way the levy is now. I wouldn't mind that if it makes the downloads legal.
You crack me up. Who cares if you are doing nothing illegal. The government has no buisiness listening to you and your friend discussing burito's. You give away your freedom so easely it boggles the mind. The freedoms I enjoy were payed for in mostly US blood. Young american soldiers fighting the germans. So thanks to you americans I can look in freedom at you throwing it all away. You should be ashamed.
I'm sorry to disagree. Synthesizers didn't create a whole generation of talentles musicians. The record companies did, the public that bought the records did. A good composition isn't defined by the sounds you use. Composing is an art and no musical instrument be it a violin or a sampler will ever disguise lack of talent. I know.....I'd be rich and famous by know instead of producing pages and pages of php code and just playing in my own free time.
Linux has plenty of deep pockets. That's why we have to make sure thise deep pockets stay involved. You think IBM, with it's future certainly partly linked to linux, wants to see it comming under attack? Keep developing Linux and keep companies like IBM and Novel at the front. They will fight the battles if their company has a big enough stake in Linux. The more big companies like them get involved the harder it will be to attack Linux without some serieous risks atached to it.
" Libraries do not traditionally maintain collections of adult material"
Well your libraries are missing out on some outstanding novels written by great writers then. Lot's of great novels have sexualy explicit content. Besides our library has an adult section.....it also has a children and youth section. They are just vategories wich help readers to find suitable material for themselves or their children.
What is "adult material" anyway and who decides what falls under that category? Be carefull what you wish for.....I for one do not want politicians deciding what is culture and what is not, what is literature and what is not. I'm perfectly able to decide for myself and do not have the urge to force others to see it my way.
US politicians just use this to score with the christian extremists to get votes. I'll bet most of them do a lot of stuff considered "adult" when nobody is watching.
They are doing this to disturb your nice way of lving by terror. They want you to feel their reach by influencing decision making processes and changing the every day existence. By the looks of it it is working in the US where the term police state seems to become more apropriate every day.
you are saying. I've read the koran, I have it at home standing next to the bible and some books by krishnamurti. The koran is in general a more tolerant book then the bible. I'm not claiming to much knowledge because as the bible it is a hard book to read. But the general feeling I got was one of genuine worship and tolerance for all other believes.
I guess it's as with any faith..... it's the people that corrupt it. The crusades where never a christian idea... they were an idea from powerfull people wanting to be more powerfull. I gues all faiths have men like these.
I'm sorry for all muslims that are persecuted because of the deeds of a few extremists. We have our own problems here in the Netherlands and I basicaly think we should keep faith out of it.
There is a more fundamental issue. If you are a mulsim, jew, christian or budhist and you want to live here all you have to do is accept that my country has democratic values under wich you can be what ever your faith requires you to be. As long as you do not opose the rights of others to do the same thing. We are a tolerant country and if you do not like that fact that gays can get married here, that it is ok not to believe in any god, that it is ok to believe whatever you want as long as it's not hatefull to others.....you do not belong here and should leave or stay away.
If an embryo is human how about the egs...or for that matter seemen? I do not know about you but I'm a healthy man so I must confess that I occasionaly commit genocide....mostly at night just before falling a sleep. I could stop doing that but then again my body also does it when I'm not awake....it's called a wet dream. So basically you'd have to define at what stage this becomes human. I'd say at the stage where it becomes sentient. I do not think you can show embryo's to be sentient. I'm sure if we allow scientists to experiment with embryo's available because of abortions they will find a way to culture stemcells so we can begin to build a stock.
That's exactly what is wrong with the world today. The people have become less important then some band of money grabbing modern robber barons. Wanna bet this would never happen to the son or daughter of a major shareholder?
Nice. Yet I believe that true libertarians are only a few small steps away from being egotists. You see being libertarian is fine as long as you belong to the class of people that have. If you belong to the class of people that have not.......living in a libertarian world can get pretty tough.
There are people in our society that need help. The sick, the old the needy. There has to be an authority that takes care of these groups to make sure true libertarians do not just take care of themselves and forget those that cannot do the same.
In this world we need to take care of the poor because if we do not they will come and visit us strapped with explosives and blow up stuff. You can ofcourse also lend a helping hand because yoou are a nice guy....either way you can not afford to let people die because you are to buisy taking care of yourself
And trade it for an OS that only has a core that is open source but will not allow anyone to get even close to the realy nice stuf. Darwin isn't OSX if you hadn't noticed, so no thank you. I see little difference between bill and steve in that regard. Can't get more closed than steve is.
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To the average user....nothing. This isn't so mucg about the media player being integrated as that it is about MS making suret heir mediapleyer has advantages not open to other mediaplayers.
the point is more a principal. You should not be forced to have something you do not want. When I buy an OS that's what I want.....an OS. How a browser suddenly becme a critical part of an OS beats me. How is watching a video or listening to music a critical part of the OS? I think microsoft should be free to bundle the mediaplayer just like suse is free to bundle an enourmous load of software with their linux distro.....on the side as an extra where I can decide to install it or not.
I'm sorry but I strongly disagree. Nuclear energy is not the problem....nuclear wast is. The reason nuclear power is not an alternative in many minds is because we haven't got a clue what to do about nuclear wast. There is at the moment no safe way of disposing of it and until there is it will not be a viable alternative
what's this obsession with having people learn something? I just want to do what I need to do and the rest I'm not interested in. Si when I installed Suse and my nvidia card did't work I learned what to do to get it working and that's about it.
Maybe the CLI is usedfull for setting up servers but maybe.....just maybe, a gui is apreciated so much by people because it is a damned good way of doing things. It's easier to learn how to use a gui so taht's what I want. I installed webmin and haven't looked back since. Got mysql and apache running like a dream and both are administered thruegh webmin.
Aahhh but.....now take chaos theory into account..... Your video camera will disturb the air suddenly somewhere a storm comes into existence because of the disturbance in airflow....a storm that originaly never happend.....reality was changed
Since that can not happen according to this theory you would not be able to even send a camera
If I go back and kill my grandfather I will not be born. I then could not go back to kill my grandfather so I will be born after all.........
The only way to get out of this loop is the theory about creating alternate realities. I kill my grandfather wich will spur a new reality in wich I will never be born, it will however not change my reality because of the loop.
Management has come up with the perfect weapon to combat this.....it's called software patents. The software patents will force you to work for the patent holder exclusively or get suid out of your mind. This means your cheap pc holding the tools of the trade are worthless since you can not use them without infringing on some stupid patent. Better make sure the boss is pleased again because he just got his stick back.
envious arent we. Maybe if everyone smoked a little more dope we would be able to see what a bad trip reality has become. Anything taking me out of the "real" world is good for me these days. Poverty, maniacs in office, war, terrorisme.....ok ok....SCO
pas the weed please.
In the Netherlands there already is a tax on cassete tapes, cd-r/cd-rw and I believe dvd-r/dvd-rw. If you want to put up a tax that's the sane one, if you can call it sane in any way, this is the one because you only target those that actualy do copy.
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I think you are right and that's why the probably choose the UK. I don't know about the UK but in The Netherlands cases can be stayed pending the outcome of littigation in another country. So going to court wouldn't do SCO much good here in holland.
Do UK courts have the same option? I also believe that here in the Netherlands the case would require SCO to put up proove a lot faster then the US courtts seem to require. I do not believe they could string the case along for a year without having to show they actually have a damned good reason to take up the courts time.
Would be interesting to see how the UK handles the delay tactics SCO seems so fond of.
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I really thought I'd upgrade from xp to 7 but MS seems to be hell bound to piss of their customer base. My kubuntu install will get even more usage then it already does. Nobody owns my own files but me.
No but, I live in the Netherlands that has the same tax scheme, here downloading is legal and uploading is not. So you have to be carefull with the software you are using. In emule I set an empty directory as shared. I'm not sure how things work with bittorrent since the software downloads and uploads at the same time. I do however remove the torrent when the download is finished. Someone might get pieces of a song but never the entire file. I don't know how tracable that is. Can you identify a song when all I'm sending is 10% of the file?
Here politicians have suggested everybody pay a small extra overall tax in return for legal free downloads. This tax would then be distributed in the same way the levy is now. I wouldn't mind that if it makes the downloads legal.
You crack me up. Who cares if you are doing nothing illegal. The government has no buisiness listening to you and your friend discussing burito's. You give away your freedom so easely it boggles the mind. The freedoms I enjoy were payed for in mostly US blood. Young american soldiers fighting the germans. So thanks to you americans I can look in freedom at you throwing it all away. You should be ashamed.
I'm sorry to disagree. Synthesizers didn't create a whole generation of talentles musicians. The record companies did, the public that bought the records did. A good composition isn't defined by the sounds you use. Composing is an art and no musical instrument be it a violin or a sampler will ever disguise lack of talent. I know.....I'd be rich and famous by know instead of producing pages and pages of php code and just playing in my own free time.
Linux has plenty of deep pockets. That's why we have to make sure thise deep pockets stay involved. You think IBM, with it's future certainly partly linked to linux, wants to see it comming under attack? Keep developing Linux and keep companies like IBM and Novel at the front. They will fight the battles if their company has a big enough stake in Linux. The more big companies like them get involved the harder it will be to attack Linux without some serieous risks atached to it.
" Libraries do not traditionally maintain collections of adult material" Well your libraries are missing out on some outstanding novels written by great writers then. Lot's of great novels have sexualy explicit content. Besides our library has an adult section.....it also has a children and youth section. They are just vategories wich help readers to find suitable material for themselves or their children. What is "adult material" anyway and who decides what falls under that category? Be carefull what you wish for.....I for one do not want politicians deciding what is culture and what is not, what is literature and what is not. I'm perfectly able to decide for myself and do not have the urge to force others to see it my way. US politicians just use this to score with the christian extremists to get votes. I'll bet most of them do a lot of stuff considered "adult" when nobody is watching.
They are doing this to disturb your nice way of lving by terror. They want you to feel their reach by influencing decision making processes and changing the every day existence. By the looks of it it is working in the US where the term police state seems to become more apropriate every day.
you are saying. I've read the koran, I have it at home standing next to the bible and some books by krishnamurti. The koran is in general a more tolerant book then the bible. I'm not claiming to much knowledge because as the bible it is a hard book to read. But the general feeling I got was one of genuine worship and tolerance for all other believes. I guess it's as with any faith..... it's the people that corrupt it. The crusades where never a christian idea... they were an idea from powerfull people wanting to be more powerfull. I gues all faiths have men like these. I'm sorry for all muslims that are persecuted because of the deeds of a few extremists. We have our own problems here in the Netherlands and I basicaly think we should keep faith out of it. There is a more fundamental issue. If you are a mulsim, jew, christian or budhist and you want to live here all you have to do is accept that my country has democratic values under wich you can be what ever your faith requires you to be. As long as you do not opose the rights of others to do the same thing. We are a tolerant country and if you do not like that fact that gays can get married here, that it is ok not to believe in any god, that it is ok to believe whatever you want as long as it's not hatefull to others .....you do not belong here and should leave or stay away.
If an embryo is human how about the egs...or for that matter seemen? I do not know about you but I'm a healthy man so I must confess that I occasionaly commit genocide....mostly at night just before falling a sleep. I could stop doing that but then again my body also does it when I'm not awake ....it's called a wet dream. So basically you'd have to define at what stage this becomes human. I'd say at the stage where it becomes sentient. I do not think you can show embryo's to be sentient. I'm sure if we allow scientists to experiment with embryo's available because of abortions they will find a way to culture stemcells so we can begin to build a stock.
That's exactly what is wrong with the world today. The people have become less important then some band of money grabbing modern robber barons. Wanna bet this would never happen to the son or daughter of a major shareholder?
Nice. Yet I believe that true libertarians are only a few small steps away from being egotists. You see being libertarian is fine as long as you belong to the class of people that have. If you belong to the class of people that have not.......living in a libertarian world can get pretty tough. There are people in our society that need help. The sick, the old the needy. There has to be an authority that takes care of these groups to make sure true libertarians do not just take care of themselves and forget those that cannot do the same. In this world we need to take care of the poor because if we do not they will come and visit us strapped with explosives and blow up stuff. You can ofcourse also lend a helping hand because yoou are a nice guy....either way you can not afford to let people die because you are to buisy taking care of yourself
And trade it for an OS that only has a core that is open source but will not allow anyone to get even close to the realy nice stuf. Darwin isn't OSX if you hadn't noticed, so no thank you. I see little difference between bill and steve in that regard. Can't get more closed than steve is.
To the average user....nothing. This isn't so mucg about the media player being integrated as that it is about MS making suret heir mediapleyer has advantages not open to other mediaplayers. the point is more a principal. You should not be forced to have something you do not want. When I buy an OS that's what I want.....an OS. How a browser suddenly becme a critical part of an OS beats me. How is watching a video or listening to music a critical part of the OS? I think microsoft should be free to bundle the mediaplayer just like suse is free to bundle an enourmous load of software with their linux distro.....on the side as an extra where I can decide to install it or not.
I'm sorry but I strongly disagree. Nuclear energy is not the problem....nuclear wast is. The reason nuclear power is not an alternative in many minds is because we haven't got a clue what to do about nuclear wast. There is at the moment no safe way of disposing of it and until there is it will not be a viable alternative
what's this obsession with having people learn something? I just want to do what I need to do and the rest I'm not interested in. Si when I installed Suse and my nvidia card did't work I learned what to do to get it working and that's about it. Maybe the CLI is usedfull for setting up servers but maybe.....just maybe, a gui is apreciated so much by people because it is a damned good way of doing things. It's easier to learn how to use a gui so taht's what I want. I installed webmin and haven't looked back since. Got mysql and apache running like a dream and both are administered thruegh webmin.
then, ofcourse, you were right on the money my friend.
Aahhh but.....now take chaos theory into account..... Your video camera will disturb the air suddenly somewhere a storm comes into existence because of the disturbance in airflow....a storm that originaly never happend.....reality was changed Since that can not happen according to this theory you would not be able to even send a camera
If I go back and kill my grandfather I will not be born. I then could not go back to kill my grandfather so I will be born after all......... The only way to get out of this loop is the theory about creating alternate realities. I kill my grandfather wich will spur a new reality in wich I will never be born, it will however not change my reality because of the loop.
Management has come up with the perfect weapon to combat this.....it's called software patents. The software patents will force you to work for the patent holder exclusively or get suid out of your mind. This means your cheap pc holding the tools of the trade are worthless since you can not use them without infringing on some stupid patent. Better make sure the boss is pleased again because he just got his stick back.
envious arent we. Maybe if everyone smoked a little more dope we would be able to see what a bad trip reality has become. Anything taking me out of the "real" world is good for me these days. Poverty, maniacs in office, war, terrorisme.....ok ok ....SCO
pas the weed please.
In the Netherlands there already is a tax on cassete tapes, cd-r/cd-rw and I believe dvd-r/dvd-rw. If you want to put up a tax that's the sane one, if you can call it sane in any way, this is the one because you only target those that actualy do copy.
I think you are right and that's why the probably choose the UK. I don't know about the UK but in The Netherlands cases can be stayed pending the outcome of littigation in another country. So going to court wouldn't do SCO much good here in holland.
Do UK courts have the same option? I also believe that here in the Netherlands the case would require SCO to put up proove a lot faster then the US courtts seem to require. I do not believe they could string the case along for a year without having to show they actually have a damned good reason to take up the courts time.
Would be interesting to see how the UK handles the delay tactics SCO seems so fond of.