While what parent said is just obvious, it is much better than what the grand parent said, which is plain wrong. Well, maybe not plain wrong, but even an outright lie.
nvidia & ati are not. There's intel & unichrome chipsets out there. Not great for gaming, but neither's linux. Nowadays there are good native games for Linux, such as America's Army, the Dooms, the Quakes, etc. Also, wine runs a lot of games. Very complex monsters such as World of Warcraft run fine on wine.
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I like the Sylpheed mail client. Very lightweight and with a nice interface. I don't even know if it's got calendar, exchange functionality and etc, because I just don't use it.
For my spam needs, Sylpheed is easily integrated with bogofilter.
Here in Brazil, Sérgio Amadeu, head of ITI (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação, Portuguese for National Information Technology Institute), claimed that Microsoft tactics are those of a drug dealer: provide the stuff for free or nearly free, get the "customer" to be addicted, and then get money out of him. He was legally threatened by Microsoft for saying so. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7654.
I started writing about Linux because I was told I couldn't and the more people told me I couldn't, and particularly when they said "or else," the more the Linux dirty laundry became attractive to me. In short, if anyone bothers to look at the sequence of events, they will see that the Linux community pushed me down this path.
Complete lack of evidence. From the experience I have (helping people in mailing lists, and receiving help from them, and from Slashdot), people are quite open to criticism. In Slashdot, Windows fans get +4-5 comments all the time. In fact, it hugely irritates me to see the following kind of comment: 1)Criticize Linux. 2)Claim that one is going to be moderated down to Hell because of the Slashdot Linux bias. Make oneself look like a hero. Finish with "watch as this post is moderated down to Hell. There goes my Karma". 3)Get high moderation.
Nowadays, an easy recipe for high moderation is to claim that you will be moderated down because you are "speaking up". It is sad that moderators are gullible enough to fall for this.
It really seems to me that this guy just want to get some attention, and claiming oneself to be a "hero" that "dares to speak up" is an excellent way to do so.
Granted I didn't fight much, but I have this thing about cover-ups. I believe they can lead to disasters both within a company and across a nation; here in the U.S. this last point, whether it be Global Warming or Iraq, would seem self evident.
This was very cheap. He simply took a ride in the political climate of the U.S. The Iraq war isn't terribly relevant to his story, but mentioning it hugely helps to get support from people who oppose the war. Of course, it will have the opposite effect on people who support the war, but I think he prefers to have half of his reader to strongly support him than and the other half to oppose him than to have no strong support.
So this time I'd like to talk about the five things you can't talk about without being attacked by OSS supporters. I'll take the heat
Again, posing himself as a hero.
One: Is Linux a Myth?
This strikes me as both the most obvious and the least talked about. We talk about Linux like an operating system when we compare it against Windows
I think the most capable Linux advocates are aware that it is not an OS, but only a kernel.
we talk about it as a company when we compare it against Microsoft
I have never heard of anything like this.
, and when we describe its attributes it almost seems super-human or god like.
How exactly?
Linux isn't a thing, and it sure isn't a god. When we compare an operating system to another we should be comparing the specific distribution, which is a thing
When I compare a GNU/Linux distro to windows, I choose a particular distro, like Debian or Ubuntu or Red Hat. Actually, it is Microsoft that enjoys confusing the matters. Like when they compared the amount of bugs in Windows to the amount of bugs in all the GNU/Linux distros combined.
The reason Linux has been abstracted into a concept is so it doesn't have to compete on merit.
False. I have never seen a Linux advocate afraid to compare a specific distro like Debian or Red Hat to Windows.
This isn't to say Linux can't or doesn't win in real comparisons, only that the majority I've seen weren't real comparisons. As a ex-auditor I care less about who wins than I care about the process that determines the winner. I've seen too many instances where decisions were made on products, including proprietary products, based on what appears to be graft. One CIO even won a Mercedes Benz for making the "right choice" - we'll talk about that in a future post.
This is generic enough so that I cannot counter it, and he does not even makes a blatant jab at Linux, he merely says that some decisions are wrong. Which is probably corre
Not in this case. Everyone with half a brain knew what Kazaa made possible. It is not Kazaa's fault that people are stupid.
It wouldn't be moral to obligate Kazaa to put in their products warnings that most people would not like to see (people don't like reading warnings, and if there is a warning, you are almost obligated to read it, because it may be something very important, and you don't know until you read it) because someone is incredibly stupid.
Do I think that poisonous products should come with warnings? In most cases, yes.
Do I think that a chair should come with a warning "This object might cause injuries if thrown at a person"? Absolutely no.
I did stress that I hadn't read the article. And then, I have expressed an opinion (that people, parents and organizations should have the right to censor) that is independent of this particular case. And then, I wanted to post quickly while the discussion was still hot.
If the government sends someone to jail for saying something against the government, that's one thing. But if a private citizen or institution decides to punish someone for saying something against its principles, it is entirely different. For example, if you work at an animal rights NGO and you publicly say that animals should be tortured, the NGO should have the right to fire you. If you are a Ford executive and publicly say that Ford sucks and GM rules, Ford should have the right to fire you. The right to free speech does not (or at least should not) mean that people are not allowed to treat you accordingly to what you said. People sould have this right.
I have not yet RTFA, and these are just my 2 cents.
For most configurations, the combination of an AMD processor (specially if there are multiple processors, since HyperTransport rocks) and the right motherboard has better cost/benefit then a combination of an Intel chip and its (imorally expensive) motherboard.
If I understood it correctly, Rapier claims that using corn for alcohool would diminish American corn exports and cause the third world suffer from hunger.
Oh please... the USA has certainly done some nice things for the world. However, killing the local farmers from Africa with their subsidized food is not one of them.
Then why do millions of Brazillian cars burn ethanol? Nowadays, most new cars made in Brazil are "FlexFuel" (they can burn gasoline, ethanol or any mix of the two), and people many times choose ethanol, because it is cheaper (unless during certain periods when the sugar cane gets expensive), increases the power of the engine, and is less toxic.
Your numbers are strange, because: a) The U.S. does not have to replace every single gasoline engine with an ethanol one... if you can replace 10%, it is already a huge gain for the environment. b) You talk about burning ethanol to harvest corn, but AFAIK no one suggests replacing big Diesel engines with ethanol. In Brazil we use ethanol and gasoline in street cars, and Diesel on heavy vehicles and standalone engines (not street cars, because Diesel street cars are illegal in Brazil). c) You don't have to run on purely ethanol. The gasoline in Brazil is 20% (If I recall correctly) ethanol, so that even the gasoline cars are actually burning 20% ethanol. d) As I said before, nothing stops you from making a car that burns any mixture of gasoline and ethanol. We have a huge number of such cars in the streets, running, right now.
Of course we have different climates and we get ethanol from sugar cane instead of corn; I don't know how would all of this apply to the U.S.
But it does seem that your analysis is too simplistic. And I assure you, ethanol does work.
Updating my own post: I forgot to say that the polarization mismatch also counts. But then, the polarization mismatch is not affected by the directionality.
The article's writer says things like "this antenna has a good gain, and is quite directional".
However, the gain is the efficiency times the directivity, so a high gain implies a very directional antenna; and, the only parameter that matters (AFAIK) is the gain, because the gain alone is enough to specify how much power you get from a given electromagnetic wave (not counting the losses in the cable and the impedance mismatch, but these are not affected by the directionality of the antenna anyway).
I have switched from Ubuntu to Gentoo, so I think I can answer this.
I prefer Gentoo than Ubuntu, because of Gentoo's excelent forums and documentation*, customizability** and speed***. These three points are more or less important depending on how you use your computer. I still recomend Ubuntu to friends that want to try Linux. I know there are Gentoo-based distros that focus newbies, but I don't know them, so I'm just comparing Gentoo to Ubuntu.
* At least from my point of view, Ubuntu's documentation covers the necessary steps to get your system working, but if you want to know how your system works, or to customize it, Gentoo is better. For example, most people install Gentoo by hand, because Gentoo's excelent documentation makes it easy for you to do it and learn some things in the process (I don't even know if there is an official installer). This was just one example; Gentoo's documentation teach you how to do anything you want with your computer, in an easy (but not dumbed down) way. Gentoo's forums are also good.
** I think Gentoo is more customizable than Ubuntu in many ways. For instance, in Ubuntu, the package ubuntu-desktop depends on nearly everything, so you can't uninstall the default Ubuntu packages without uninstalling ubuntu-desktop. But if you uninstall ubuntu-desktop, Ubuntu will not handle upgrades as gracefully (AFAIK). In Gentoo, you don't have a package like this. Gentoo has other ways to handle upgrades, both by technological means, and by providing an awesome documentation. Also, Gentoo's documentation always provide you with many options, dicussing the benefits of each one. Other features of Gentoo that make it customizable are USE flags and CFlags.
*** Because of the customizability (my PC has only the features that I use, making it faster), and compiling everithing from source with machine-specific optimizations, my computer feels faster than it was with Ubuntu. People make jokes about the time a Gentoo box keeps compiling packages, but they are not founded (IMO). I install Openoffice and Firefox from binaries (which are included in Portage), because these packages take a lot of time and space to compile, and since I don't use them too much, the speed gains from compilation wouldn't be worth it. Of the packages that I compile from source, only gcc and X.org take a long time to compile; most packages compile in seconds or a couple of minutes (in my Athlon XP 2600+ 512 MB RAM). Packages like gcc and X.org are very rarely upgraded, and you can always let them compile while you are not using the computer (or let they compile in the background, though it may slow down your computer depending of what you are doing).
My experience was very different. When I submitted bug reports to Ubuntu, the Ubuntu guys answered really quickly. I was amazed. This was during the release candidate testing though, so maybe this doesn't happen all the time.
Anyway, I think this problem you are reporting is an exception. You can't judge a distro because of only one problem, specially without hearing the Ubuntu guys on the reasons for this.
Anyway, at least Ubuntu is not like certain big monopolist companies, that makes products with security holes that take years to be fixed...:)
Ps: Interestingly, I was a user of Ubuntu, but now I use Gentoo (the opposite of you). I still love Ubuntu though, and recommend it to anyone that wants to try Linux.
As has been said, the greatest problem is a company using the monopopy in one area to gain a monopoly in another. Google and Apple are differente companies. You don't know if Google pays Apple. But if it does, Microsoft could pay too. Also, the marketshares (Google 49%, Yahoo in the 22%, MSN 11%) suggest that choosing Google is a technical choice ; choosing MSN is a monopolistic choice. Google's market share is high enough that it is the indisputed leader but low enough that it is not a monopoly .
First: it wasn't the community as a whole who suggested this project. It was only one guy (or a coupe of guys ).
Second: There are three levels of warning you can give to a user that uses a program that you think he should not be using.
1) Gently warn him.
2) Warn him, but make him jump througn loops to access your page.
3) Forbid him from accessing your page.
There are plenty of sites that do 2) or 3) regarding IE. If some sites start doing 1) regarding Firefox, I don't think it is evil. I undersand you if you think differently, but you cannot say that this project is the same as Microsoft's actions. This guy does provide the tools for you to use even a level 3 warning, but the only person that (depending on one's point of view) could be evil or not is the one who uses it. And while I don't personally like level 3, level 1 is ok.IE-only sites do level 3. Also, this project's warnings only tell the truth, wich is a big difference. If there was a "Get the Facts" campaing about Firefox, with the same level of bullshit, then you would be right.
I think the warning message could be less annoing (should be smaller). And does it disappear after some secconds? That would be nice. I emailed the guy and suggested this. But anyway, I support this.
Well, there is a "Freedows" here in Brazil. It is a distro whose main purpose is to imitate windows. And it does it very well. It runs (or at least used to, when I read about it) IE under wine as its default browser. As root.
The fact that homossexualism is is condemned in Leviticus 18:22 does not prevent it from being condemned in other places.
Also, the Catholic church says that sex must only happen within the context of a family in order to have children, which is not possible with a gay couple. So it seems that this does not depend on Leviticus 18:22. It is a bigger issue. Men who have sex with prostitutes are sinners, as well as gay men.
Also, don't judge the Great Great Grandparent so badly (as a troll). Maybe he is just disconcerted (as I am) for the whole pressure put on the Church to endorse things like abortion, sex out of the marriage, etc. I mean, the Church does not obligate anyone to be part of it. One of the main points of a Church is to guide people. You should be part of it if you believe in it. So, logically speaking, what is the meaning of trying to change the Church to fit what you think? I you think differently, and don't want to change your viewpoint, then don't join it.
OTOH, I'm not American and I don't know know who Chapelle is, and it is the first time I heard of rev. Fallwell, so maybe I'm out of context.
Who (or what) told you that Leviticus 18:22 is the source of Christian's belief that homossexuality is bad? Do you have any base at all for saying that?
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Something like that happened to me too!
Since this was years ago, I don't remember the details, but I think I was running GNOME on Debian.
I think there was something misconfigured about my network, but I don't remember what.
May I suggest you to take this to the GNOME or Ubuntu mailing list?
Ubuntu people are amazingly helpful and friendly.
Good luck.
Or mod grand parent down.
While what parent said is just obvious, it is much better than what the grand parent said, which is plain wrong. Well, maybe not plain wrong, but even an outright lie.
Have you asked for help in the Ubuntu forums? They are very helpful and responsive. Don't hesitate.
Also, wine runs a lot of games. Very complex monsters such as World of Warcraft run fine on wine.
I like the Sylpheed mail client. Very lightweight and with a nice interface. I don't even know if it's got calendar, exchange functionality and etc, because I just don't use it.
For my spam needs, Sylpheed is easily integrated with bogofilter.
It is GTK.
Here in Brazil, Sérgio Amadeu, head of ITI (Instituto Nacional de Tecnologia da Informação, Portuguese for National Information Technology Institute), claimed that Microsoft tactics are those of a drug dealer: provide the stuff for free or nearly free, get the "customer" to be addicted, and then get money out of him. He was legally threatened by Microsoft for saying so. http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7654.
I started writing about Linux because I was told I couldn't and the more people told me I couldn't, and particularly when they said "or else," the more the Linux dirty laundry became attractive to me. In short, if anyone bothers to look at the sequence of events, they will see that the Linux community pushed me down this path.
Complete lack of evidence. From the experience I have (helping people in mailing lists, and receiving help from them, and from Slashdot), people are quite open to criticism. In Slashdot, Windows fans get +4-5 comments all the time. In fact, it hugely irritates me to see the following kind of comment:
1)Criticize Linux.
2)Claim that one is going to be moderated down to Hell because of the Slashdot Linux bias. Make oneself look like a hero. Finish with "watch as this post is moderated down to Hell. There goes my Karma".
3)Get high moderation.
Nowadays, an easy recipe for high moderation is to claim that you will be moderated down because you are "speaking up". It is sad that moderators are gullible enough to fall for this.
It really seems to me that this guy just want to get some attention, and claiming oneself to be a "hero" that "dares to speak up" is an excellent way to do so.
Granted I didn't fight much, but I have this thing about cover-ups. I believe they can lead to disasters both within a company and across a nation; here in the U.S. this last point, whether it be Global Warming or Iraq, would seem self evident.
This was very cheap. He simply took a ride in the political climate of the U.S. The Iraq war isn't terribly relevant to his story, but mentioning it hugely helps to get support from people who oppose the war. Of course, it will have the opposite effect on people who support the war, but I think he prefers to have half of his reader to strongly support him than and the other half to oppose him than to have no strong support.
So this time I'd like to talk about the five things you can't talk about without being attacked by OSS supporters. I'll take the heat
Again, posing himself as a hero.
One: Is Linux a Myth?
This strikes me as both the most obvious and the least talked about. We talk about Linux like an operating system when we compare it against Windows
I think the most capable Linux advocates are aware that it is not an OS, but only a kernel.
we talk about it as a company when we compare it against Microsoft
I have never heard of anything like this.
, and when we describe its attributes it almost seems super-human or god like.
How exactly?
Linux isn't a thing, and it sure isn't a god. When we compare an operating system to another we should be comparing the specific distribution, which is a thing
When I compare a GNU/Linux distro to windows, I choose a particular distro, like Debian or Ubuntu or Red Hat. Actually, it is Microsoft that enjoys confusing the matters. Like when they compared the amount of bugs in Windows to the amount of bugs in all the GNU/Linux distros combined.
The reason Linux has been abstracted into a concept is so it doesn't have to compete on merit.
False. I have never seen a Linux advocate afraid to compare a specific distro like Debian or Red Hat to Windows.
This isn't to say Linux can't or doesn't win in real comparisons, only that the majority I've seen weren't real comparisons. As a ex-auditor I care less about who wins than I care about the process that determines the winner. I've seen too many instances where decisions were made on products, including proprietary products, based on what appears to be graft. One CIO even won a Mercedes Benz for making the "right choice" - we'll talk about that in a future post.
This is generic enough so that I cannot counter it, and he does not even makes a blatant jab at Linux, he merely says that some decisions are wrong. Which is probably corre
Not in this case. Everyone with half a brain knew what Kazaa made possible.
It is not Kazaa's fault that people are stupid.
It wouldn't be moral to obligate Kazaa to put in their products warnings that most people would not like to see (people don't like reading warnings, and if there is a warning, you are almost obligated to read it, because it may be something very important, and you don't know until you read it) because someone is incredibly stupid.
Do I think that poisonous products should come with warnings? In most cases, yes.
Do I think that a chair should come with a warning "This object might cause injuries if thrown at a person"? Absolutely no.
I did stress that I hadn't read the article. And then, I have expressed an opinion (that people, parents and organizations should have the right to censor) that is independent of this particular case. And then, I wanted to post quickly while the discussion was still hot.
Didn't know it was public.
If the school is public, the situation gets more complicated. I don't have a formed opinion on that.
If the government sends someone to jail for saying something against the government, that's one thing. But if a private citizen or institution decides to punish someone for saying something against its principles, it is entirely different. For example, if you work at an animal rights NGO and you publicly say that animals should be tortured, the NGO should have the right to fire you. If you are a Ford executive and publicly say that Ford sucks and GM rules, Ford should have the right to fire you. The right to free speech does not (or at least should not) mean that people are not allowed to treat you accordingly to what you said. People sould have this right.
I have not yet RTFA, and these are just my 2 cents.
Well, they should call it something logical, such as Skype or Lotus...
...), unlike you. You know, it's a matter of taste.
It amazes me why people complain that free software packages like Ekiga have "illogical" names but they like names like "Quattro Pro".
To me (not a native English speaker either) it is just the same.
And, I think the names sound cool (Breezy Badger, Dapper Drake
For most configurations, the combination of an AMD processor (specially if there are multiple processors, since HyperTransport rocks) and the right motherboard has better cost/benefit then a combination of an Intel chip and its (imorally expensive) motherboard.
If I understood it correctly, Rapier claims that using corn for alcohool would diminish American corn exports and cause the third world suffer from hunger.
Oh please... the USA has certainly done some nice things for the world. However, killing the local farmers from Africa with their subsidized food is not one of them.
Then why do millions of Brazillian cars burn ethanol?
Nowadays, most new cars made in Brazil are "FlexFuel" (they can burn gasoline, ethanol or any mix of the two), and people many times choose ethanol, because it is cheaper (unless during certain periods when the sugar cane gets expensive), increases the power of the engine, and is less toxic.
Your numbers are strange, because:
a) The U.S. does not have to replace every single gasoline engine with an ethanol one... if you can replace 10%, it is already a huge gain for the environment.
b) You talk about burning ethanol to harvest corn, but AFAIK no one suggests replacing big Diesel engines with ethanol. In Brazil we use ethanol and gasoline in street cars, and Diesel on heavy vehicles and standalone engines (not street cars, because Diesel street cars are illegal in Brazil).
c) You don't have to run on purely ethanol. The gasoline in Brazil is 20% (If I recall correctly) ethanol, so that even the gasoline cars are actually burning 20% ethanol.
d) As I said before, nothing stops you from making a car that burns any mixture of gasoline and ethanol. We have a huge number of such cars in the streets, running, right now.
Of course we have different climates and we get ethanol from sugar cane instead of corn; I don't know how would all of this apply to the U.S.
But it does seem that your analysis is too simplistic. And I assure you, ethanol does work.
Updating my own post:
I forgot to say that the polarization mismatch also counts. But then, the polarization mismatch is not affected by the directionality.
The article's writer says things like "this antenna has a good gain, and is quite directional".
However, the gain is the efficiency times the directivity, so a high gain implies a very directional antenna; and, the only parameter that matters (AFAIK) is the gain, because the gain alone is enough to specify how much power you get from a given electromagnetic wave (not counting the losses in the cable and the impedance mismatch, but these are not affected by the directionality of the antenna anyway).
PS: Forgive my bad English, I'm not American.
I have switched from Ubuntu to Gentoo, so I think I can answer this.
I prefer Gentoo than Ubuntu, because of Gentoo's excelent forums and documentation*, customizability** and speed***. These three points are more or less important depending on how you use your computer. I still recomend Ubuntu to friends that want to try Linux. I know there are Gentoo-based distros that focus newbies, but I don't know them, so I'm just comparing Gentoo to Ubuntu.
* At least from my point of view, Ubuntu's documentation covers the necessary steps to get your system working, but if you want to know how your system works, or to customize it, Gentoo is better. For example, most people install Gentoo by hand, because Gentoo's excelent documentation makes it easy for you to do it and learn some things in the process (I don't even know if there is an official installer). This was just one example; Gentoo's documentation teach you how to do anything you want with your computer, in an easy (but not dumbed down) way. Gentoo's forums are also good.
** I think Gentoo is more customizable than Ubuntu in many ways. For instance, in Ubuntu, the package ubuntu-desktop depends on nearly everything, so you can't uninstall the default Ubuntu packages without uninstalling ubuntu-desktop. But if you uninstall ubuntu-desktop, Ubuntu will not handle upgrades as gracefully (AFAIK). In Gentoo, you don't have a package like this. Gentoo has other ways to handle upgrades, both by technological means, and by providing an awesome documentation.
Also, Gentoo's documentation always provide you with many options, dicussing the benefits of each one.
Other features of Gentoo that make it customizable are USE flags and CFlags.
*** Because of the customizability (my PC has only the features that I use, making it faster), and compiling everithing from source with machine-specific optimizations, my computer feels faster than it was with Ubuntu. People make jokes about the time a Gentoo box keeps compiling packages, but they are not founded (IMO). I install Openoffice and Firefox from binaries (which are included in Portage), because these packages take a lot of time and space to compile, and since I don't use them too much, the speed gains from compilation wouldn't be worth it. Of the packages that I compile from source, only gcc and X.org take a long time to compile; most packages compile in seconds or a couple of minutes (in my Athlon XP 2600+ 512 MB RAM). Packages like gcc and X.org are very rarely upgraded, and you can always let them compile while you are not using the computer (or let they compile in the background, though it may slow down your computer depending of what you are doing).
My experience was very different. When I submitted bug reports to Ubuntu, the Ubuntu guys answered really quickly. I was amazed. This was during the release candidate testing though, so maybe this doesn't happen all the time.
:)
Anyway, I think this problem you are reporting is an exception. You can't judge a distro because of only one problem, specially without hearing the Ubuntu guys on the reasons for this.
Anyway, at least Ubuntu is not like certain big monopolist companies, that makes products with security holes that take years to be fixed...
Ps: Interestingly, I was a user of Ubuntu, but now I use Gentoo (the opposite of you). I still love Ubuntu though, and recommend it to anyone that wants to try Linux.
Specially from a user point of view, but also for servers and supercomputers, how do Linux and Solaris compare?
I know there isn't an easy answer to this, but a knowledgeable person could shed some light on us.
As has been said, the greatest problem is a company using the monopopy in one area to gain a monopoly in another. Google and Apple are differente companies. You don't know if Google pays Apple. But if it does, Microsoft could pay too.
Also, the marketshares (Google 49%, Yahoo in the 22%, MSN 11%) suggest that choosing Google is a technical choice ; choosing MSN is a monopolistic choice. Google's market share is high enough that it is the indisputed leader but low enough that it is not a monopoly .
First: it wasn't the community as a whole who suggested this project. It was only one guy (or a coupe of guys ).
Second: There are three levels of warning you can give to a user that uses a program that you think he should not be using.
1) Gently warn him.
2) Warn him, but make him jump througn loops to access your page.
3) Forbid him from accessing your page.
There are plenty of sites that do 2) or 3) regarding IE. If some sites start doing 1) regarding Firefox, I don't think it is evil. I undersand you if you think differently, but you cannot say that this project is the same as Microsoft's actions. This guy does provide the tools for you to use even a level 3 warning, but the only person that (depending on one's point of view) could be evil or not is the one who uses it. And while I don't personally like level 3, level 1 is ok.IE-only sites do level 3.
Also, this project's warnings only tell the truth, wich
is a big difference. If there was a "Get the Facts" campaing about Firefox, with the same level of bullshit, then you would be right.
I think the warning message could be less annoing (should be smaller). And does it disappear after some secconds? That would be nice. I emailed the guy and suggested this. But anyway, I support this.
Well, there is a "Freedows" here in Brazil. It is a distro whose main purpose is to imitate windows. And it does it very well. It runs (or at least used to, when I read about it) IE under wine as its default browser. As root.
The fact that homossexualism is is condemned in Leviticus 18:22 does not prevent it from being condemned in other places.
Also, the Catholic church says that sex must only happen within the context of a family in order to have children, which is not possible with a gay couple. So it seems that this does not depend on Leviticus 18:22. It is a bigger issue. Men who have sex with prostitutes are sinners, as well as gay men.
Also, don't judge the Great Great Grandparent so badly (as a troll). Maybe he is just disconcerted (as I am) for the whole pressure put on the Church to endorse things like abortion, sex out of the marriage, etc. I mean, the Church does not obligate anyone to be part of it. One of the main points of a Church is to guide people. You should be part of it if you believe in it. So, logically speaking, what is the meaning of trying to change the Church to fit what you think? I you think differently, and don't want to change your viewpoint, then don't join it.
OTOH, I'm not American and I don't know know who Chapelle is, and it is the first time I heard of rev. Fallwell, so maybe I'm out of context.
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Who (or what) told you that Leviticus 18:22 is the source of Christian's belief that homossexuality is bad? Do you have any base at all for saying that?