The definition of terrorism is "using fear to achieve a politcal goal".
Thank you! It's so rare to see someone not defining it as "attacking civilians for political means" or worse yet just "attacking civilians." That's violent terrorism (or in the latter case just violence), but the defining feature of terrorism in general is that fear is a specific goal, whether as a means or an end.
I wonder who the REAL terrorists are here...?
If you think about how they operate, the WTO & co. are economic terrorists. They make you do stuff (if you're small) or you get shafted economically. Organisations like those enforce drug trades which prevent the prevention* the death of many, but it's not violent or motivated by religion, so who cares? Though I agree with your implications re governments too.
As an aside, I'll explain my position on two popular words at the moment; how I believe they should be applied & how important they are. The two words are "terrorism" & "innovation." Say the former in a negative light, & you suddenly get whatever you want. Say the latter in a positive light, & the same applies. Innovation is too widely applied... it's also given to much weight. It's not such a special thing. Terrorism on the other hand is nowhere near widely enough applied. It should be used for so much more - it too, though, is given far too much weight. The thing which makes al Qaeda worse than the WTO isn't that they're terrorists - both are. It's that they're vicious killers. Big difference.
* 'prevent the prevention' is an awkward phrase but 'cause' is not quite the same...
How do you do that? Seriously, I'd love to be able to do that...
My best idea for remembering a ridiculously long password was to not actually know it, just know a series of steps to derive it from information readily available - say, turn the hexidecimal representation of the UTF-8 of a song's lyrics backwards & use that for the key. Complex, but could be used for rarely-accessed yet hugely sensitive data. There's probably a terrible flaw in that, but it seems good to me so far.
Terrorists intentionally attack civilians for the purpose of creating fear.
No, violent terrorists intentionally attack civilians for the purpose of creating fear.
It's the "purpose of creating fear" part which makes a terrorist - think about the word. Violent terrorism happens to be in vogue at the moment, & is certainly the politically correct definition of the term, but that doesn't make it right. It's like communism - it's so often used incorrectly that many don't know what it really is. Although not so repugnant (or visible), economic or political terrorism are valid forms.
Everything else you said, I agree with completely, with the slight exception of money vs. control - I think it's both, myself.
Essentially, Sony are denying their artists a source of income to satisfy the needs of their consumer electronics department.
It's the other way around - they used to make good consumer electronics, but that branch is being screwed over by the content divisions. It was shortly after they aquired their music & movie divisions that the electronics got their DRM & crap.
Of course, the artists are still being screwed over as well... but it's the label part that's doing it.
The idea is good. However, the first build of MSNM they put that.pif filtering in was hilariously over-zealous: in a three-way chat or more, if anyone said ".pif" anywhere, it would throw you out of the conversation. So, to throw (potentially) everyone out of it, all you had to type was:
.pif
Unfortunately my friends tend not to update very often. I could've had a lot of fun, but I only got to throw myself out most of the time.
the vast majority of internet users are not idiots
I have to disagree. The majority of people in general are idiots. Why then can't the majority of people using the internet also be idiots?
I don't know if you're joking or not, but I seriously agree. Even though it makes me sound totally up myself. They're even worse if you get them in groups.
First, a man waves a chair at a girl, & she gets pregnant. Then a baby starts growing in her arse, & she gets a bubblebutt. After a long time, the baby crawls out of her arse, but leaves lots of other little babies behind, & they grow too. They get tangled, & only sometimes escape to crawl out too, & that's why the girls still have bubblebutts when they get old.
Or so I told my friend when she was being a smartarse & asked me where babies come from. 'Twas a bad move...
What are the rules? This isn't about copyright. If it was, you'd be spot on, but it's about monopolistic business practices & anti-trust regulation, a different kettle of fish entirely. South Korea is telling Microsoft to fix it's product in order to comply with competition laws.
Some religions are death-obsessed, but the Christian one, particularly as interpreted by myself & many others, is more about love. Hell is being separated utterly from God's love. Heaven is being with him. So it's about love in a positive light, & about fear of being alone in a negative one.
I agree that death obsessions are unhealthy (& on a side note so are the sexual obsessions you mention), but an obsession with companionship doesn't seem to be. From an atheist's point of view, craving (at least some) companionship is a natural part of human existence.
I like Brianism's idea of preserving intelligence, BTW... I hold that ideal in very high esteem. It's just not going to replace Jesus for me.
Think about the fact he wrote 'true morality.' I'm guessing by that he meant whatever morality his particular sect espouses - your morality & mine would therefore not qualify as 'true' morality. It's very likely that you have to basically adhere to his particular version of religion to have the same morality.
Obviously he's still wrong. 'Moral relativism' is only a problem to those who see the world in black & white - i.e. morons.
People are sure to show up & claim the Berne Convention disallows this, but I'm not sure... this would be OK under that provided the law does the same for all copyright, including S. Korean, right?
By the same token, they could make copyright confiscable as a penalty in court, provided it applies to everything. Then the confiscated stuff would be fair - it could only happen if you broke the law. Like MS have. Handy, huh?
To be frank, if the BC doesn't allow that sort of thing, it's worthless, because it would hold countries hostage regardless of their soveriegn status. As long as they do the same thing to their own, it's still fair.
Evolution undermines their entire *religion*, not their god.
Correct. There's a difference between religion & faith - most of the various Christian denominations actually follow different religions, if you think about it. Their doctrine differs a lot. But they all follow the same faith. The idea that God is there & all that isn't undermined.
If mankind evolved and there was no Adam and Eve, then there was no Fall, so there's no original sin, so there was nothing for Jesus to save us all from.
Here's where I disagree, in part. This is true for the fundamentalists, who of course are the ones who garner the most attention. But not all Christians think that every little bit has to be literal. With evolution you can still have the first humans God chose to infuse with a soul being Adam & Eve, then you can have the Fall, then Jesus can save us. It's obviously heresy, but every Christian is a heretic to some other Christian somewhere. The basic faith doesn't have to change with science, just the stuff which was a step-in replacement in light of our lack of scientific understanding.
Couldn't they administer it as punishment for shirking responsibility after found guilty of anti-trust (i.e. for pulling out instead of removing WMP or whatever it is this time)? Then it's not arbitrary, & would be undone if they complied with whatever they were told to do. Also it seems that reciprocality would require any derecognition of Korean copyrights to be similarly punishment for not complying in court.
On a side note, though I understand how these treaties work (basically do what we say or else - i.e achieve goals via inducing fear - ring a bell?), I don't understand why people treat them as being intrinsically more important than the will of the people (in any given nation).
The definition of each dialog window is kept in a separate.ui file, which is also used to generate the corresponding widget initialisation source code. This allows you to reuse existing dialog windows with new applications without having to scoop out and dissect the interface.
This sounds like the way the Mac interface is done... can't really remember, I've only read about it.
Anyway thanks, I'll have to check it out some time.
I'm not totally sure what you mean, but are you basically saying that the US should give the DNS to the UN in order to lend the UN more credibility & clout, & thus reduce it's inefficiency & ineffectiveness?
If so, I have to fundamentally disagree: the UN is unelected, so they don't have any authority, in my eyes at least. It was designed as an international forum, not as an international government. Even if they were elected, they still wouldn't be able to represent their constituents properly, because the scope is too wide, so you'd still have the same ineffectiveness.
FFDShow can't do Quicktime, RealMedia or WMV, but it can decode pretty much all types of MPEG. If you're looking for another codec pack, steer clear of almost all, including K-Lite. K-Lite is just a bundler - it doesn't change the default settings or anything, so nothing works together. It's also got a lot of stuff you will never need, & more that's redundant.
Personally I like this one: the Combined Community Codec Pack. It's made by a bunch of anime fansubbers, so they know what they're doing, but it's not anime-only. You need to install separate codecs for Quicktime, RealMedia, & WMV, but once they're installed (just install the players) it'll play back anything you throw at it. It's the only codec pack I know of that'll do that; all the others mess with your system & fail sporadically. K-Lite doesn't screw up the system any more, so it's one of the best, but it's still just a bundle of unconfigured pieces rather than an integrated whole.
I wish I could find a cross between K-Lite & the CCCP... basically I want the CCCP to include the Quicktime etc. codecs. That's the only advantage K-Lite has over the CCCP. You could theoretically use K-Lite first to install just those codecs then put the CCCP over the top to get the proper configuration it gives.
However, it acts as though it's a fledgling world government at times, and polititians sometimes defer to it as though it was. IMO, this is what causes the hatred so many feel for it.
What is it about Trolltech's Qt designer which makes it so good? I've never used a form designer which was actually nice to work with, but the one in VS.NET seems pretty good. I'd love to play around with something better.
I tend to agree with your parent, but there are two obvious differences:
He contracted. That's a promise to pay. They built the house at his request under the impression, & on his word, that he would pay them. If I download a Smashing Pumpkins track (to copy someone else's example), I never gave them any indication I'd buy it - they just hoped I would.
The contractors can't then go & offer the house to someone else. There's only one. The Smashing Pumpkins can sell CDs to hundreds of other people.
In short, this analogy is also flawed.
Analogies are for explanation, not argument. — Someone, but I don't remember who. Sorry.
On a spaceship, those things could be a pain in the arse, & what if someone forgot to use them, or they broke? Onboard abortions don't seem a nice (or practical) idea. I thought about condoms etc., but too many things could go wrong. You really want a 0% chance of pregnancy.
It's odd, but KDE seems to be going the other way. Everything else I know of is doing as you say, getting slower, but KDE gets a little faster on the same hardware each release lately.
Even stranger given it's history. Maybe they learnt from it.
Thanks, I didn't realise the recovery console worked - I assumed it wouldn't be able to run the necessary exes, due to the association problem. Last known good config didn't. I gave up after a good while. Pressed Enter by mistake editing permissions, then couldn't add back SYSTEM's permissions even 30 seconds or whatever it was later.
That's my only problem with the registry, really. Windows shouldn't be able to cut off it's own access to something so vital. It seems like an accident waiting to happen, & I can't see any reason you'd want to do it deliberately.
I'd also like to know when the last time someone had the registry on an 2k,XP,2k3 machine corrupt as people seem to suggest.
Permissions are inherited by default in the registry's ACLs. Try setting HKCR to have no permissions whatsoever, i.e. deleting them. It's not a recoverable state, I don't believe. I couldn't do it anyway.
Obviously this is not a situation you're likely to get into without user input, but still, it was impossible to even start the default shell. When Windows can't read it's associations, it can't do anything.
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Thank you! It's so rare to see someone not defining it as "attacking civilians for political means" or worse yet just "attacking civilians." That's violent terrorism (or in the latter case just violence), but the defining feature of terrorism in general is that fear is a specific goal, whether as a means or an end.
If you think about how they operate, the WTO & co. are economic terrorists. They make you do stuff (if you're small) or you get shafted economically. Organisations like those enforce drug trades which prevent the prevention* the death of many, but it's not violent or motivated by religion, so who cares? Though I agree with your implications re governments too.
As an aside, I'll explain my position on two popular words at the moment; how I believe they should be applied & how important they are. The two words are "terrorism" & "innovation." Say the former in a negative light, & you suddenly get whatever you want. Say the latter in a positive light, & the same applies. Innovation is too widely applied... it's also given to much weight. It's not such a special thing. Terrorism on the other hand is nowhere near widely enough applied. It should be used for so much more - it too, though, is given far too much weight. The thing which makes al Qaeda worse than the WTO isn't that they're terrorists - both are. It's that they're vicious killers. Big difference.
* 'prevent the prevention' is an awkward phrase but 'cause' is not quite the same...
How do you do that? Seriously, I'd love to be able to do that...
My best idea for remembering a ridiculously long password was to not actually know it, just know a series of steps to derive it from information readily available - say, turn the hexidecimal representation of the UTF-8 of a song's lyrics backwards & use that for the key. Complex, but could be used for rarely-accessed yet hugely sensitive data. There's probably a terrible flaw in that, but it seems good to me so far.
No, violent terrorists intentionally attack civilians for the purpose of creating fear.
It's the "purpose of creating fear" part which makes a terrorist - think about the word. Violent terrorism happens to be in vogue at the moment, & is certainly the politically correct definition of the term, but that doesn't make it right. It's like communism - it's so often used incorrectly that many don't know what it really is. Although not so repugnant (or visible), economic or political terrorism are valid forms.
Everything else you said, I agree with completely, with the slight exception of money vs. control - I think it's both, myself.
It's the other way around - they used to make good consumer electronics, but that branch is being screwed over by the content divisions. It was shortly after they aquired their music & movie divisions that the electronics got their DRM & crap.
Of course, the artists are still being screwed over as well... but it's the label part that's doing it.
The idea is good. However, the first build of MSNM they put that .pif filtering in was hilariously over-zealous: in a three-way chat or more, if anyone said ".pif" anywhere, it would throw you out of the conversation. So, to throw (potentially) everyone out of it, all you had to type was:
.pif
Unfortunately my friends tend not to update very often. I could've had a lot of fun, but I only got to throw myself out most of the time.
I don't know if you're joking or not, but I seriously agree. Even though it makes me sound totally up myself. They're even worse if you get them in groups.
I already know where babies really come from!
First, a man waves a chair at a girl, & she gets pregnant. Then a baby starts growing in her arse, & she gets a bubblebutt. After a long time, the baby crawls out of her arse, but leaves lots of other little babies behind, & they grow too. They get tangled, & only sometimes escape to crawl out too, & that's why the girls still have bubblebutts when they get old.
Or so I told my friend when she was being a smartarse & asked me where babies come from. 'Twas a bad move...
I keep seeing jokes about Starcraft - is it really that big over there? Or is it just a handy stereotype?
What are the rules? This isn't about copyright. If it was, you'd be spot on, but it's about monopolistic business practices & anti-trust regulation, a different kettle of fish entirely. South Korea is telling Microsoft to fix it's product in order to comply with competition laws.
Some religions are death-obsessed, but the Christian one, particularly as interpreted by myself & many others, is more about love. Hell is being separated utterly from God's love. Heaven is being with him. So it's about love in a positive light, & about fear of being alone in a negative one.
I agree that death obsessions are unhealthy (& on a side note so are the sexual obsessions you mention), but an obsession with companionship doesn't seem to be. From an atheist's point of view, craving (at least some) companionship is a natural part of human existence.
I like Brianism's idea of preserving intelligence, BTW... I hold that ideal in very high esteem. It's just not going to replace Jesus for me.
Think about the fact he wrote 'true morality.' I'm guessing by that he meant whatever morality his particular sect espouses - your morality & mine would therefore not qualify as 'true' morality. It's very likely that you have to basically adhere to his particular version of religion to have the same morality.
Obviously he's still wrong. 'Moral relativism' is only a problem to those who see the world in black & white - i.e. morons.
People are sure to show up & claim the Berne Convention disallows this, but I'm not sure... this would be OK under that provided the law does the same for all copyright, including S. Korean, right?
By the same token, they could make copyright confiscable as a penalty in court, provided it applies to everything. Then the confiscated stuff would be fair - it could only happen if you broke the law. Like MS have. Handy, huh?
To be frank, if the BC doesn't allow that sort of thing, it's worthless, because it would hold countries hostage regardless of their soveriegn status. As long as they do the same thing to their own, it's still fair.
Correct. There's a difference between religion & faith - most of the various Christian denominations actually follow different religions, if you think about it. Their doctrine differs a lot. But they all follow the same faith. The idea that God is there & all that isn't undermined.
Here's where I disagree, in part. This is true for the fundamentalists, who of course are the ones who garner the most attention. But not all Christians think that every little bit has to be literal. With evolution you can still have the first humans God chose to infuse with a soul being Adam & Eve, then you can have the Fall, then Jesus can save us. It's obviously heresy, but every Christian is a heretic to some other Christian somewhere. The basic faith doesn't have to change with science, just the stuff which was a step-in replacement in light of our lack of scientific understanding.
Couldn't they administer it as punishment for shirking responsibility after found guilty of anti-trust (i.e. for pulling out instead of removing WMP or whatever it is this time)? Then it's not arbitrary, & would be undone if they complied with whatever they were told to do. Also it seems that reciprocality would require any derecognition of Korean copyrights to be similarly punishment for not complying in court.
On a side note, though I understand how these treaties work (basically do what we say or else - i.e achieve goals via inducing fear - ring a bell?), I don't understand why people treat them as being intrinsically more important than the will of the people (in any given nation).
This sounds like the way the Mac interface is done... can't really remember, I've only read about it.
Anyway thanks, I'll have to check it out some time.
I'm not totally sure what you mean, but are you basically saying that the US should give the DNS to the UN in order to lend the UN more credibility & clout, & thus reduce it's inefficiency & ineffectiveness?
If so, I have to fundamentally disagree: the UN is unelected, so they don't have any authority, in my eyes at least. It was designed as an international forum, not as an international government. Even if they were elected, they still wouldn't be able to represent their constituents properly, because the scope is too wide, so you'd still have the same ineffectiveness.
FFDShow can't do Quicktime, RealMedia or WMV, but it can decode pretty much all types of MPEG. If you're looking for another codec pack, steer clear of almost all, including K-Lite. K-Lite is just a bundler - it doesn't change the default settings or anything, so nothing works together. It's also got a lot of stuff you will never need, & more that's redundant.
Personally I like this one: the Combined Community Codec Pack. It's made by a bunch of anime fansubbers, so they know what they're doing, but it's not anime-only. You need to install separate codecs for Quicktime, RealMedia, & WMV, but once they're installed (just install the players) it'll play back anything you throw at it. It's the only codec pack I know of that'll do that; all the others mess with your system & fail sporadically. K-Lite doesn't screw up the system any more, so it's one of the best, but it's still just a bundle of unconfigured pieces rather than an integrated whole.
I wish I could find a cross between K-Lite & the CCCP... basically I want the CCCP to include the Quicktime etc. codecs. That's the only advantage K-Lite has over the CCCP. You could theoretically use K-Lite first to install just those codecs then put the CCCP over the top to get the proper configuration it gives.
However, it acts as though it's a fledgling world government at times, and polititians sometimes defer to it as though it was. IMO, this is what causes the hatred so many feel for it.
What is it about Trolltech's Qt designer which makes it so good? I've never used a form designer which was actually nice to work with, but the one in VS.NET seems pretty good. I'd love to play around with something better.
I tend to agree with your parent, but there are two obvious differences:
In short, this analogy is also flawed.
Analogies are for explanation, not argument. — Someone, but I don't remember who. Sorry.
On a spaceship, those things could be a pain in the arse, & what if someone forgot to use them, or they broke? Onboard abortions don't seem a nice (or practical) idea. I thought about condoms etc., but too many things could go wrong. You really want a 0% chance of pregnancy.
It's odd, but KDE seems to be going the other way. Everything else I know of is doing as you say, getting slower, but KDE gets a little faster on the same hardware each release lately.
Even stranger given it's history. Maybe they learnt from it.
Thanks, I didn't realise the recovery console worked - I assumed it wouldn't be able to run the necessary exes, due to the association problem. Last known good config didn't. I gave up after a good while. Pressed Enter by mistake editing permissions, then couldn't add back SYSTEM's permissions even 30 seconds or whatever it was later.
That's my only problem with the registry, really. Windows shouldn't be able to cut off it's own access to something so vital. It seems like an accident waiting to happen, & I can't see any reason you'd want to do it deliberately.
Permissions are inherited by default in the registry's ACLs. Try setting HKCR to have no permissions whatsoever, i.e. deleting them. It's not a recoverable state, I don't believe. I couldn't do it anyway.
Obviously this is not a situation you're likely to get into without user input, but still, it was impossible to even start the default shell. When Windows can't read it's associations, it can't do anything.
The watermark is unique, yes? So if you can get two or three rips, you can compare them, work out what's watermark & what's not.
This puts a dampener on one-man outfits, but organised ripping groups still have a decent chance.