Well the same priciple applies really. Their concern is maintaining respect for that symbol beyond "Health pack YAY" and "Jack the ambulance for bonus points!" Honestly, it kinda goes for both sides too, US military members need to have a healthy respect for what that cross means to them as well. That has sorta always bothered me about the Geneva Conventions. So many people scream bloody murder about thing that could even possibly considered violations (I'm not speaking of the POW/Torture debate at all) when the US is involved, but noone seems to give a rat's ass when the blatant violations are killing US/US friendly troops. Now even outside of the latest political fiasco with Iraq...the US supplies the lion's share of force in even the UN approved operations.
While I agree that it seems like they are being a tad selective...they certainly do have a point. Seeing Red Cross stuff in the more military games, it does tend to be represented more in the light of what it is.
Seeing Red Cross stuff in the array of FPS games out there, it is getting a little diluted...grab medkit...go blast everything that moves. The Red Cross isn't about patching up people and sending em back to the field. The Red Cross is pretty much strictly patching up people, since their protection applies to both allied and enemy forces. The military decides whether or not to send someone back to the battle field, or to send an enemy to prison...not the Red Cross. Red Cross is about saving lives, not about continuing the battle.
Seeing Red Cross stuff in the more iffy games (probably anything done by RockStar) is WAY different. You get extra points for killing a bunch of people...waiting for the ambulance to show up, and then killing the medics and stealing the van. I fully support the Red Cross going after these games. I don't have a problem with the games themselves, but honestly these games only hurt the argument that games aren't inherently bad. That and I sorta have a vested interest in that symbol being respected on the battlefield.
Honestly, I havn't tried the 1.9.X yet, but I would guess that those statements are largely CYA. You are dealing with financial software here, you don't want people to jump right in on the latest version and have it chew up important stuff. I imagine it probably is quite a bit more stable than they make it sound, but it certainly does warrant a great deal of caution when using it to deal with finances. If you are using it for personal finances its one thing, but if you are using it for professional/business stuff and it blows up...that can cause a world of hurt.
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I have been using GNUcash 1.8.X for some time and it has never crashed. I think the point is that 1.9.X is unstable because it has been converted to GTK2, not that the whole GNUcash application is unstable. The waiting part refers to the fact that everyone has been waiting for the GTK2 conversion to happen, since previously the project has stuck with GTK1. I would suggest doing some research and using the program before making such innane comments.
Honestly I have never really had a problem with the FUD. There are so many articles and studies surrounding Linux that its fairly simple to dig up better studies, or facts showing why the biased ones are biased. Or you can simply do demonstrations. The tricky one for me is the more experienced/educated users. Windows admins that have been doing it for some years are much harder to convince of the merits of any *nix based OS. I know alot of/. folks don't like to think about it...but there really are some very sharp people that only use Windows. Most of the ones I run into latch on to one little gem of Windows knowledge and tout they are experts, but I have run into quite a few that really do understand the ins and outs of that operating system very well and can get it to impressive things through registry manipulations and other things.
Well the problem that arises isn't so much the illegal arrest. When the goal is to remove the protestor from the event, you still achieved your goal even if you have a touchy subject to clean up afterwards. I don't really think most of this stuff is a huge conspiracy thing, I think most of the situation arises from opinionated enforcers. If the enforcers share the opinion of the protestors the are going to be significantly less likey to be arrested, and more likely to be dealt with in a quiet civil manner.
You are probably right about getting arrested, that was the point of a number of peacefull sit-ins and things. You are definetly right about the Chinese citizen getting arrested. There are still a great many things wrong with our legal and justice system, but we are certainly not that bad off. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others quote comes to mind.:)
He was probably just trying to capitolize on my very clever and original joke using Dragonball characters. Too bad funny doesn't count for karma so the joke is on him.
I wonder how far these things will go. I seriously doubt this trend is going to go away, and is likely to get much more prevalent. I also wonder how the "Get your Microsoft Certification now and make $70,000 a year" schools may start to drive this. The talented and experienced people are going to be in high demand, and its easier to take someone elses trained, experienced, and talented individuals than sorting through the pools of the certification mill hordes.
I am curious what will come from this in the OSS world. IBM seems to be pretty willing and able to play nice with the OSS world. IBM works with alot of *nix things and needs developers to build for this processor... I think throwing this thing, some good tools, and some documentation into the OSS crowd of geeks could definetly help jumpstart this thing. It would also be really interesting to see what kind of things come out of this. If this thing really turns out to be hot for high end graphical stuff it could definetly lead the way in new innovative desktop enviroments in the nix enviroment. Efficient 3D interfaces maybe?
There are certainly shades of grey in most of these situations. There is a great dialog in Atlas Shrugged (I think) dealing with the reason government has so many innane laws is to be able to consider everyone a criminal. (along these lines anyways). I wouldn't say that we treat our political dissenters as criminals is absolutely wrong, but I wouldn't say its absolutely right either. A mass murderer and a shoplifter are both criminals, but get treated very differently. China tends to treat their dissenters more like mass murderers, where we have a tendancy to treat them more like shoplifters. I'm not saying all dissenters even get treated this way...but ultimately dissenters are people who upset the status quo and tend to get alot more scrutiny and unfair treatment.
Ok...I have had about enough of this spying nonsense. Lets just admit that its going to happen, noone is going to stop it and just deal with the future. First I propose that since the government is digging so deep into the telco world to spy on everyone, why don't they just deliver the final blow to the industry? Lets just go with government owned communications infrastructure.
We won't have to deal with these dirty money grubbing telcos anymore (see Bellsouth's behaviour over free wifi, or Verizon's wanting more money from the internet content providers)
We won't have service that is any worse. (Government work isn't typically much worse than what we get now)
The prices will go down. (No profit margins to maintain)
This way the government isn't crushing the smaller business for the big telcos by mandating wiretaps. Now its equal for everyone involved.
Disclaimer: This is not meant to be serious, I know some have a problem reading into things like this. Thank you.
Well the charges have already been dropped. They have already basically said "oops". That is what really bugs me about the whole thing. It wasn't long after the whole thing that they came back and said "oops our bad". Even though they have come back and apologized for the mess, it still indicates that there is a disturbing trend in the whole "You are either with me or against me" mentality. I'm sure she wore that tshirt knowing that it could spark some issues, but ultimately that is the double edged sword of free speech. Everyone has the right to voice their opinion, but you have to take that along with being offended by other peoples opinions.
Absolutely...however, you can't arrest me for trespassing if you don't tell me to leave first. In none of the stories about the incident have I seen anything about her refusing to leave. That is actually the main point of her lawsuit is that they forcibly removed her without asking her to leave, however they just asked the other woman to leave.
Well what really entertains me is the original post about Google etc being evil wasn't really meant to be all that serious, but more than a few have taken it a little beyond seriously.:) My original point is that Google is being blasted by the government for complying with the censorship thing, while Yahoo and MSN have been complying with the witch hunts in China for a while now. Compare how Yahoo and MSN play ball with the US government, how MS shells out big money in campaign donations, and how Google has told them the government to go stuff it with the search request stuff, and then think about why it hasn't been such a major issue in the past. I think helping law enforcment track down child predators and the like is an entirely different game than helping law enforcement track down thought criminals. At some point morals should take over the quest for money, but this isn't happening anywhere.
Warranties generally are meant to cover failing parts, not so much failing design. Safety recalls are supposed to handle the bad design problems (as is the case with Windows).
Insurance wasn't meant to cover manufacturing defects. Insurance is for operator error. Which isn't quite the same in this case, as while you can say part of the virus/spam/etc problem is operator error...there are plenty of nasties out there that don't require action from the user, other than turning the computer on, to cause a problem.
She was not arrested for trespassing. Shehan was an invited guest. The other woman with the pro soldier tshirt was the wife of a congressman. Shehan also says she was was never asked to remove or cover the shirt. Now regardless of your opinion of her being a pain in the ass, she wasn't doing anything illegal. The key difference is she was forcibly removed, and the other woman wasn't. I don't really agree with everything she says and does myself, but ultimately she has a right to express her opinion. In the past I believe she was found guilty of trespassing, but this time that is not the case at all. I imagine my mother would be just as vocal if I had not come back from Iraq. So, it is a little concerning to me that a soldier's mother is being treated like this after he gave his life for the country that is supposed to not stand for this kind of treatment.
Well like any job, you are getting paid to do things to ensure you continue getting paid. A normal job involves doing the work assigned to you, so you continue to get paid. Politics, however, involves convincing everyone you should be allowed to stay where you are and continue to get paid. So the unfortunate reality of the way the system works is, we are sorta paying them to edit wikipedia articles. Anything a politician actually gets done is generally a side effect of trying to convince people to let him keep getting paid.
I seem to remember that story (dunno if its simply urban legend or not) about Gates chastising the auto industry about how much farther computers have come in the previous years.
Imagine if the auto industry followed the same logic here...Are you willing to pay an extra $50/year to make sure your cars manufacturer fixes any safety issues? I imagine there are some auto industry leaders kicking themselves for not making safety recalls a subscription based service.
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Well the same priciple applies really. Their concern is maintaining respect for that symbol beyond "Health pack YAY" and "Jack the ambulance for bonus points!" Honestly, it kinda goes for both sides too, US military members need to have a healthy respect for what that cross means to them as well. That has sorta always bothered me about the Geneva Conventions. So many people scream bloody murder about thing that could even possibly considered violations (I'm not speaking of the POW/Torture debate at all) when the US is involved, but noone seems to give a rat's ass when the blatant violations are killing US/US friendly troops. Now even outside of the latest political fiasco with Iraq...the US supplies the lion's share of force in even the UN approved operations.
While I agree that it seems like they are being a tad selective...they certainly do have a point. Seeing Red Cross stuff in the more military games, it does tend to be represented more in the light of what it is.
Seeing Red Cross stuff in the array of FPS games out there, it is getting a little diluted...grab medkit...go blast everything that moves. The Red Cross isn't about patching up people and sending em back to the field. The Red Cross is pretty much strictly patching up people, since their protection applies to both allied and enemy forces. The military decides whether or not to send someone back to the battle field, or to send an enemy to prison...not the Red Cross. Red Cross is about saving lives, not about continuing the battle.
Seeing Red Cross stuff in the more iffy games (probably anything done by RockStar) is WAY different. You get extra points for killing a bunch of people...waiting for the ambulance to show up, and then killing the medics and stealing the van. I fully support the Red Cross going after these games. I don't have a problem with the games themselves, but honestly these games only hurt the argument that games aren't inherently bad. That and I sorta have a vested interest in that symbol being respected on the battlefield.
Honestly, I havn't tried the 1.9.X yet, but I would guess that those statements are largely CYA. You are dealing with financial software here, you don't want people to jump right in on the latest version and have it chew up important stuff. I imagine it probably is quite a bit more stable than they make it sound, but it certainly does warrant a great deal of caution when using it to deal with finances. If you are using it for personal finances its one thing, but if you are using it for professional/business stuff and it blows up...that can cause a world of hurt.
I have been using GNUcash 1.8.X for some time and it has never crashed. I think the point is that 1.9.X is unstable because it has been converted to GTK2, not that the whole GNUcash application is unstable. The waiting part refers to the fact that everyone has been waiting for the GTK2 conversion to happen, since previously the project has stuck with GTK1. I would suggest doing some research and using the program before making such innane comments.
Microsoft Money?
Honestly I have never really had a problem with the FUD. There are so many articles and studies surrounding Linux that its fairly simple to dig up better studies, or facts showing why the biased ones are biased. Or you can simply do demonstrations. The tricky one for me is the more experienced/educated users. Windows admins that have been doing it for some years are much harder to convince of the merits of any *nix based OS. I know alot of /. folks don't like to think about it...but there really are some very sharp people that only use Windows. Most of the ones I run into latch on to one little gem of Windows knowledge and tout they are experts, but I have run into quite a few that really do understand the ins and outs of that operating system very well and can get it to impressive things through registry manipulations and other things.
If my memory is correct it went something like this...
a = b
a^2 = b^2
a^2 - a^2 = 0
a^2 - b^2 = 0
(a+b)(a-b)= 0
(a+b) = 0
a = 0
Well the problem that arises isn't so much the illegal arrest. When the goal is to remove the protestor from the event, you still achieved your goal even if you have a touchy subject to clean up afterwards. I don't really think most of this stuff is a huge conspiracy thing, I think most of the situation arises from opinionated enforcers. If the enforcers share the opinion of the protestors the are going to be significantly less likey to be arrested, and more likely to be dealt with in a quiet civil manner.
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You are probably right about getting arrested, that was the point of a number of peacefull sit-ins and things. You are definetly right about the Chinese citizen getting arrested. There are still a great many things wrong with our legal and justice system, but we are certainly not that bad off. Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others quote comes to mind.
He was probably just trying to capitolize on my very clever and original joke using Dragonball characters. Too bad funny doesn't count for karma so the joke is on him.
I wonder how far these things will go. I seriously doubt this trend is going to go away, and is likely to get much more prevalent. I also wonder how the "Get your Microsoft Certification now and make $70,000 a year" schools may start to drive this. The talented and experienced people are going to be in high demand, and its easier to take someone elses trained, experienced, and talented individuals than sorting through the pools of the certification mill hordes.
I am curious what will come from this in the OSS world. IBM seems to be pretty willing and able to play nice with the OSS world. IBM works with alot of *nix things and needs developers to build for this processor... I think throwing this thing, some good tools, and some documentation into the OSS crowd of geeks could definetly help jumpstart this thing. It would also be really interesting to see what kind of things come out of this. If this thing really turns out to be hot for high end graphical stuff it could definetly lead the way in new innovative desktop enviroments in the nix enviroment. Efficient 3D interfaces maybe?
In the DragonBall Z cartoon Gohan is the one who killed Cell.
I was wondering how I got a +1 interesting on that.
Sun Microsystems has decided to include the Gohan chip to combat IBM's Cell chips.
There are certainly shades of grey in most of these situations. There is a great dialog in Atlas Shrugged (I think) dealing with the reason government has so many innane laws is to be able to consider everyone a criminal. (along these lines anyways). I wouldn't say that we treat our political dissenters as criminals is absolutely wrong, but I wouldn't say its absolutely right either. A mass murderer and a shoplifter are both criminals, but get treated very differently. China tends to treat their dissenters more like mass murderers, where we have a tendancy to treat them more like shoplifters. I'm not saying all dissenters even get treated this way...but ultimately dissenters are people who upset the status quo and tend to get alot more scrutiny and unfair treatment.
Ok...I have had about enough of this spying nonsense. Lets just admit that its going to happen, noone is going to stop it and just deal with the future. First I propose that since the government is digging so deep into the telco world to spy on everyone, why don't they just deliver the final blow to the industry? Lets just go with government owned communications infrastructure.
We won't have to deal with these dirty money grubbing telcos anymore (see Bellsouth's behaviour over free wifi, or Verizon's wanting more money from the internet content providers)
We won't have service that is any worse. (Government work isn't typically much worse than what we get now)
The prices will go down. (No profit margins to maintain)
This way the government isn't crushing the smaller business for the big telcos by mandating wiretaps. Now its equal for everyone involved.
Disclaimer: This is not meant to be serious, I know some have a problem reading into things like this. Thank you.
Well the charges have already been dropped. They have already basically said "oops". That is what really bugs me about the whole thing. It wasn't long after the whole thing that they came back and said "oops our bad". Even though they have come back and apologized for the mess, it still indicates that there is a disturbing trend in the whole "You are either with me or against me" mentality. I'm sure she wore that tshirt knowing that it could spark some issues, but ultimately that is the double edged sword of free speech. Everyone has the right to voice their opinion, but you have to take that along with being offended by other peoples opinions.
Absolutely...however, you can't arrest me for trespassing if you don't tell me to leave first. In none of the stories about the incident have I seen anything about her refusing to leave. That is actually the main point of her lawsuit is that they forcibly removed her without asking her to leave, however they just asked the other woman to leave.
Well what really entertains me is the original post about Google etc being evil wasn't really meant to be all that serious, but more than a few have taken it a little beyond seriously. :) My original point is that Google is being blasted by the government for complying with the censorship thing, while Yahoo and MSN have been complying with the witch hunts in China for a while now. Compare how Yahoo and MSN play ball with the US government, how MS shells out big money in campaign donations, and how Google has told them the government to go stuff it with the search request stuff, and then think about why it hasn't been such a major issue in the past. I think helping law enforcment track down child predators and the like is an entirely different game than helping law enforcement track down thought criminals. At some point morals should take over the quest for money, but this isn't happening anywhere.
Warranties generally are meant to cover failing parts, not so much failing design. Safety recalls are supposed to handle the bad design problems (as is the case with Windows).
Insurance wasn't meant to cover manufacturing defects. Insurance is for operator error. Which isn't quite the same in this case, as while you can say part of the virus/spam/etc problem is operator error...there are plenty of nasties out there that don't require action from the user, other than turning the computer on, to cause a problem.
She was not arrested for trespassing. Shehan was an invited guest. The other woman with the pro soldier tshirt was the wife of a congressman. Shehan also says she was was never asked to remove or cover the shirt. Now regardless of your opinion of her being a pain in the ass, she wasn't doing anything illegal. The key difference is she was forcibly removed, and the other woman wasn't. I don't really agree with everything she says and does myself, but ultimately she has a right to express her opinion. In the past I believe she was found guilty of trespassing, but this time that is not the case at all. I imagine my mother would be just as vocal if I had not come back from Iraq. So, it is a little concerning to me that a soldier's mother is being treated like this after he gave his life for the country that is supposed to not stand for this kind of treatment.
Well like any job, you are getting paid to do things to ensure you continue getting paid. A normal job involves doing the work assigned to you, so you continue to get paid. Politics, however, involves convincing everyone you should be allowed to stay where you are and continue to get paid. So the unfortunate reality of the way the system works is, we are sorta paying them to edit wikipedia articles. Anything a politician actually gets done is generally a side effect of trying to convince people to let him keep getting paid.
I seem to remember that story (dunno if its simply urban legend or not) about Gates chastising the auto industry about how much farther computers have come in the previous years.
Imagine if the auto industry followed the same logic here...Are you willing to pay an extra $50/year to make sure your cars manufacturer fixes any safety issues? I imagine there are some auto industry leaders kicking themselves for not making safety recalls a subscription based service.
Because Don Gates said so...and if yous don't pay up, well...yous knows whattle happen...