Well those switches are quite different in Gemrany.
You are allowed to drink (beere and wine) with 16. And drive with 18. And the adult switch is off under 18 and on over 21 but in-between it is in super position. So it depends on your way of living.
People who live at home, will still be treaten as a teenager.
If he steals in a shop, as kid, he might got way with even less. If he wrecked a car, it would be just the same. At least he or his parent would have to pay to the damage.
Well this applies only if he gets cought for the first time. German penalties are not that hard compared to the US versions. And we have really low crime rates over here.
> Create a Worm, cripple thousands of businesses, > get convicted, no monitary fine, get a 2 year Jail > sentence and 30 Hours of Community service, do not > pass go.
German law
> Steal a Movie, get fined Thousands of dollars, go > to Jail for dozens of years, never expect to use a > computer or have any rights or freedoms again
US law
sorry couldn't resist:-) but the punishments here are not so tough than in the US.
A punishment should make clear to the convicted, that he/she made something wrong. Also the person should be reintegratable after that. And I think doing 30 hours of Community Service is much more usefull then sending him intao a prison for 21 month.
His record will not be cleared after 3 years. The fact will still be in his records. during these 3 years he should try to do any illegal thing.
Second, if companies start suing him, he can claim that he is poor enough so he has not to pay anything. Well he is 19 Years old. Don't forget that. And as far as I know from different sources, he is not rewarded with a job. (No german source is reporting this, but I could be wrong in this point).
1. The people going to our movies and eating McJunk are not the same people blowing up our fellow citizens. 2. The point is not what you think. The point is what they think. And they think exactly the way I described it. Before you start arguing with me, try to undestand that point of view. I know this is a difficult perspective.
Instead of watching CNN and Fox, watch Aljazeera. You will see the same events but from a totally different point.
> Islam is nothing but the negation of other > people's cultures till they all bow down in > the direction of Mecca
Well this is bullshit. I am a Christian, but have some friends around here which Muslims. And they do not negate my culture. Besides that, (well it is a qualified but not quanitified response) - Not all Muslims are Arabs - Not all Muslims run around and try to kill us - If people are murdered in Kashmir by Muslims, this does not justify bombing poeple in Iraq for instance and it make not all Muslims evil. In the same way that not all people in Western Countries are evil, just because Hitler and his fellow idiots murdered 60 million or Stalin who did quite the same in USSR.
> Come back to us then, when your mind is free > of the ignorance, hypocrisy, and/or > self-hatred so ambly disabled in your post.
+ I try not be ignorant, insted I try to understand other peoples point of view. + I do not hate my culture. Instead I love it to live here. Sometimes I am even impressed by good things, which happened lately (no sw-patents in EU and no unreadable pseudo constitution in Europe (thanks France & Nederlands)).
p.s. And no this is not a justification for murdering people in London or Madrid or New York or anywhere else.
Terrorism is bad. I think we all know that. Right? Even the person who posted the post you are repling to.
But the question is still. Why?
And the answer is quite simple. We did it first. We did it in Iran (19th century) and we helped the Sha. We did in Irak, in Lebanon, in Palestine. We support corrupt leaders in Saudi Arabia and in teh far east, we occupied Afghanistan.
On the other hand. We sold weapons to everyone (just for the profit). We trained these terrorists or their leaders. We gave them money and we still do business with their supporters.
We ignore the wish of most people in the near and middle east. And we negate their culture and try to encourage them to use our.
So it is very clear why their are angry and aswoon (hope that's the right word). So they try to express their anger and fear. And try to fight us. And they will continue, because they have nothing to loose.
JWZ is annoyed about the sound system in Linux. Well he is right about that. ALSA/OSS can have strange setups. And sometimes it refuses to work at all. But this only happens when using handmade kernels, distributions (gentoo) or certain releases of debian sarge and sid.
On the other hand. I've installed Linux the past couple of years on various machines without a problem. I'vs used SuSE Linux, Knoppix, ubuntu and debian.
All of these distributions had never a problem to detect the 3 button-wheelmouse. And even when changing the device with another mouse. Everything worked fine. The monitor setup was good (using the suse stuff it was perfect => better default than windowsXP/NT/98 on the same machine).
The sound worked on all machines out of the box by auto detection (except from my desktop machine, which uses a non-PNP ISA SB16).
So you can see, I cannot follow the argument. ALSA or OSS don't work. They might not work on all hardware. Or maybe some distributions are not that good in setting up ALSA correctly. But that makes not Linux (the kernel) a bad thing at all.
Another point is: MacOS X work fine (almost). Except the network printing over ipp. It generates the worng URI for the printer. Because it assumes that the correct URI is: http://host:631/ipp/PRINTER-NAME or ipp://HOST/ipp/PRINTER-NAME
Well, on most installations of cups. The correct path would be ipp://HOST/printers/PRINTER-NAME
Even on other MacOS X machines. So this is a serious bug in Mac OS X.
But you can fix it. And to be honest, iCal is really cool. And the other nifty things are cool too. e.g. iPhoto which is just easier to use then gthumb or the KDE equivialent.
So I can see, that someone might just get a Mac so he or she can work a little more efficient than on Linux or Windows. No problem.
But I really don't know why it is so important that jwz is stopped using Linux as desktop-OS. Is he some sort of prophet of the Linux-Religion? Or is he a fallen angle? Nope. He is just a man. And if he stopped using certain open source software. Well why should we care?
The gap between the poor in the US and the rich is getting bigger and bigger. Especially in the last couple of years. The same happens to most European Contries. And as far as I know the overall planet wide gap is increasing too.
The US has one of the worst education systems especially when it comes to schools. The difference between careers of poor children and rich children is very high. See the latest PISA results if you don't believe me. There are only a few countires worse. For example Mexico and Germany.
you're not quite right. Socialism does not imply no money in general. But money is reduced to a intertade tool.
Star Trek describes a society which got rid of most of our bad habbits. Profit over life, overreaching egoism, war, hate, racism etc.
But yes, ST is utopistic. (flying too)
My first thought after reading this article was: "What an idiot!" But he has a point about some aspects of the series. On the other hand ST was allways a mirror of the global situation on earth from a more or less liberal (but western) viewpoint.
TNG discussed hundreds of social and philosophical themes and ideas. Also it refelcted some bad human habbits.
DS9 for instance developed the Ferengi as a raw model of capitalists. But even so they pointed out, that humans were even worse in the past (which is our today more or less).
OSC claims, that one of ST's drawbacks is, that there is no real story line through all episodes.
1. This is correct in most parts.
2. This is one of ST's advantages. It allows to watch the show even when missed some episodes.
the next point is, that the charactes do not develop. They do at least in TNG. And there are feature episodes in the show to develop some characters even more. For example "Data's day" or a lot of "Picard"-episodes.
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Well those switches are quite different in Gemrany. You are allowed to drink (beere and wine) with 16. And drive with 18. And the adult switch is off under 18 and on over 21 but in-between it is in super position. So it depends on your way of living. People who live at home, will still be treaten as a teenager.
If he steals in a shop, as kid, he might got way with even less. If he wrecked a car, it would be just the same. At least he or his parent would have to pay to the damage. Well this applies only if he gets cought for the first time. German penalties are not that hard compared to the US versions. And we have really low crime rates over here.
> Create a Worm, cripple thousands of businesses,
:-) but the punishments here are not so tough than in the US.
> get convicted, no monitary fine, get a 2 year Jail
> sentence and 30 Hours of Community service, do not
> pass go.
German law
> Steal a Movie, get fined Thousands of dollars, go
> to Jail for dozens of years, never expect to use a
> computer or have any rights or freedoms again
US law
sorry couldn't resist
A punishment should make clear to the convicted, that he/she made something wrong. Also the person should be reintegratable after that. And I think doing 30 hours of Community Service is much more usefull then sending him intao a prison for 21 month.
His record will not be cleared after 3 years. The fact will still be in his records. during these 3 years he should try to do any illegal thing. Second, if companies start suing him, he can claim that he is poor enough so he has not to pay anything. Well he is 19 Years old. Don't forget that. And as far as I know from different sources, he is not rewarded with a job. (No german source is reporting this, but I could be wrong in this point).
1. The people going to our movies and eating McJunk are not the same people blowing up our fellow citizens.
2. The point is not what you think. The point is what they think. And they think exactly the way I described it. Before you start arguing with me, try to undestand that point of view. I know this is a difficult perspective.
Instead of watching CNN and Fox, watch Aljazeera. You will see the same events but from a totally different point.
> Islam is nothing but the negation of other
> people's cultures till they all bow down in
> the direction of Mecca
Well this is bullshit. I am a Christian, but have some friends around here which Muslims. And they do not negate my culture. Besides that, (well it is a qualified but not quanitified response)
- Not all Muslims are Arabs
- Not all Muslims run around and try to kill us
- If people are murdered in Kashmir by Muslims, this does not justify bombing poeple in Iraq for instance and it make not all Muslims evil. In the same way that not all people in Western Countries are evil, just because Hitler and his fellow idiots murdered 60 million or Stalin who did quite the same in USSR.
> Come back to us then, when your mind is free
> of the ignorance, hypocrisy, and/or
> self-hatred so ambly disabled in your post.
+ I try not be ignorant, insted I try to understand other peoples point of view.
+ I do not hate my culture. Instead I love it to live here. Sometimes I am even impressed by good things, which happened lately (no sw-patents in EU and no unreadable pseudo constitution in Europe (thanks France & Nederlands)).
p.s. And no this is not a justification for murdering people in London or Madrid or New York or anywhere else.
Terrorism is bad. I think we all know that. Right? Even the person who posted the post you are repling to.
But the question is still. Why?
And the answer is quite simple. We did it first. We did it in Iran (19th century) and we helped the Sha. We did in Irak, in Lebanon, in Palestine. We support corrupt leaders in Saudi Arabia and in teh far east, we occupied Afghanistan.
On the other hand. We sold weapons to everyone (just for the profit). We trained these terrorists or their leaders. We gave them money and we still do business with their supporters.
We ignore the wish of most people in the near and middle east. And we negate their culture and try to encourage them to use our.
So it is very clear why their are angry and aswoon (hope that's the right word). So they try to express their anger and fear. And try to fight us.
And they will continue, because they have nothing to loose.
JWZ is annoyed about the sound system in Linux. Well he is right about that. ALSA/OSS can have strange setups. And sometimes it refuses to work at all. But this only happens when using handmade kernels, distributions (gentoo) or certain releases of debian sarge and sid. On the other hand. I've installed Linux the past couple of years on various machines without a problem. I'vs used SuSE Linux, Knoppix, ubuntu and debian. All of these distributions had never a problem to detect the 3 button-wheelmouse. And even when changing the device with another mouse. Everything worked fine. The monitor setup was good (using the suse stuff it was perfect => better default than windowsXP/NT/98 on the same machine). The sound worked on all machines out of the box by auto detection (except from my desktop machine, which uses a non-PNP ISA SB16). So you can see, I cannot follow the argument. ALSA or OSS don't work. They might not work on all hardware. Or maybe some distributions are not that good in setting up ALSA correctly. But that makes not Linux (the kernel) a bad thing at all. Another point is: MacOS X work fine (almost). Except the network printing over ipp. It generates the worng URI for the printer. Because it assumes that the correct URI is: http://host:631/ipp/PRINTER-NAME or ipp://HOST/ipp/PRINTER-NAME Well, on most installations of cups. The correct path would be ipp://HOST/printers/PRINTER-NAME Even on other MacOS X machines. So this is a serious bug in Mac OS X. But you can fix it. And to be honest, iCal is really cool. And the other nifty things are cool too. e.g. iPhoto which is just easier to use then gthumb or the KDE equivialent. So I can see, that someone might just get a Mac so he or she can work a little more efficient than on Linux or Windows. No problem. But I really don't know why it is so important that jwz is stopped using Linux as desktop-OS. Is he some sort of prophet of the Linux-Religion? Or is he a fallen angle? Nope. He is just a man. And if he stopped using certain open source software. Well why should we care?
A freind of mine has a child (boy) an is an (software) engineer. But his wife is a nurse. So, how does that fit into this new theory?
The gap between the poor in the US and the rich is getting bigger and bigger. Especially in the last couple of years. The same happens to most European Contries. And as far as I know the overall planet wide gap is increasing too. The US has one of the worst education systems especially when it comes to schools. The difference between careers of poor children and rich children is very high. See the latest PISA results if you don't believe me. There are only a few countires worse. For example Mexico and Germany.
you're not quite right. Socialism does not imply no money in general. But money is reduced to a intertade tool. Star Trek describes a society which got rid of most of our bad habbits. Profit over life, overreaching egoism, war, hate, racism etc. But yes, ST is utopistic. (flying too)
My first thought after reading this article was: "What an idiot!" But he has a point about some aspects of the series. On the other hand ST was allways a mirror of the global situation on earth from a more or less liberal (but western) viewpoint. TNG discussed hundreds of social and philosophical themes and ideas. Also it refelcted some bad human habbits. DS9 for instance developed the Ferengi as a raw model of capitalists. But even so they pointed out, that humans were even worse in the past (which is our today more or less). OSC claims, that one of ST's drawbacks is, that there is no real story line through all episodes. 1. This is correct in most parts. 2. This is one of ST's advantages. It allows to watch the show even when missed some episodes. the next point is, that the charactes do not develop. They do at least in TNG. And there are feature episodes in the show to develop some characters even more. For example "Data's day" or a lot of "Picard"-episodes.