The Africans turned a bounty of natural resources into abject poverty.
<sarcasm>Right, everyone knows that it all started when the Zulus sent an urgent plea to the DeBeers family, begging them to please come take all the diamonds and give them a few cents an hour and twice-daily cavity searches in return.</sarcasm>
The neo-con view explicitly describes itself - bizarrely - as "post History", and evidently its proponents and executives (Bush, Cheney, etc) believed this, or claimed to. It was one of the hallmarks of the...
... the Communist Parties of the USSR and China as well.
Like the mountain in South Dakota that bears an uncanny resemblance to former presidents...
You wouldn't by any chance be referring to Mount Rushmore, would you?
Yep, they carve up a mountain to look like a bunch of former US Presidents, and the mountain winds up looking like a bunch of former US Presidents. Who'd've thunk such a thing?
Don't forget to fix the odometer, and make sure the tires don't have any soil from the grounds of the old paper mill (easily recognised because of, I dunno, all the PCBs or whatever), etc,. etc.
The fact they're using a GPS doesn't mean that they've forgot how to do old-fashioned detective work.
Bredbandbolaget's prices are variable depending on the fastighetsägare
According to google translate, that means "property"...
There's a reason that Google Translate is a beta. Actually, it's the owner (ägare) of the property (fastighet).
Not a native speaker, but have lived in Sweden for the last 2 years and taken some language courses.
Back on topic: I live in Bagarmossen (south end of Stockholm, next-to-last T-bana station), and pay Bredbandsbolaget SEK 349/month for 24/3, including the phone line. Still a much better deal than what I had in Brisbane AU, where I paid Optus about 1.5 times that much for 3/1 connectivity -- and a 10 GB/month cap.
I still remember fondly when I rang B2 to get signed up and their response to my question about that last issue was, "What's a bandwidth cap? [*/me explains...*] Oh! [*chuckle*] But why would we do something like that?"
It's funny that you call it a 'frothing partisan political hackblogger'...
My guess is that M1rth took exception to the following paragraph in the blog post (emphasis added):
The fact is, those who know anything about computer security understand that it is the insiders who are, by far, the greatest threat to security on such systems, as even the phony, GOP-operative-created Baker/Carter National Election Reform Commission determined in its final report: "There is no reason to trust insiders in the election industry any more than in other industries."
The blogger does, upon further investigation, seem to have a tendency to... well... froth. However, we should not let this detract from the core issue here: Voting without transparency and verifiability cannot be trusted to return accurate results.
...the reason we don't have high speed everywhere in the US is because... people don't really want it that bad.
Two words: Doesn't matter.
In case you missed it, the telcos were paid good money -- TAX money -- to provide it, and they failed to deliver.
They should (a) deliver high-speed internet; (b) return the money they received from the US government or (c) face the music -- and criminal charges would not be inappropriate.
There was a slashdot story one month ago about this confused woman.
Yes, and it cited the same blog, and there has as yet been no independent confirmation that this anecdotal episode actually took place, has there? Which is why we refer to it as "anecdotal". "Anecdotal" is basically equivalent to "They say". And "they say" proves nothing.
Even so, it's true that there is a lot of ignorance and misinformation around when it comes to Linux and other FOSS.
Sounds like me and KDE since I upgrade to openSUSE 11.1, in which even KDE 3.5 is somewhat borked, and KDE 4.1 is just... somewhere in the Twilight Zone that lies between 'Makes me want to laugh' and 'Make me want to cry'. What's really annoying is that the graphics card in my laptop actually has a real driver of its own now that suppoedly supports 3D acceleration which means SUSE got installed with Compiz. Which keeps shutting itself down because my hardware is not supported, but... without it, KDE can't be bothered to supply toolbars and menubars for apps. WTF?
Thank $_DEITY_ openSUSE still ships with WindowMaker for those times when I just need to get work done and don't have time to wait on screen freezes and whatnot.
Much less time to sit around figuring out a way to get back the *stable* KDE 3.5 I had with openSUSE 10.2.
Okay, I realise that the KDE devs probably aren't the ones to blame. At this point, I really don't care. As a user, I am being forced to deal with having to upgrade because the version of my distro that I was using is no longer supported, and all the stuff I used to have that just worked is now just fucked.
The short version:
I have an fvwm configuration which I use for serious work. I keep going back to it when gnome annoys me too much.
Huh? We're talking about... I dunno... Maybe 15 or 20 minutes out of 6 or 7 hours?
For example — how long do you think was required for the following sequence of events?:
Walk along beach - See pelican land on beach about 5 metres away from me - Whip out mobile phone - tap Menu - tap Kamera - aim - click Take photo - tap Mer tap Skicka - tap Till: - taptaptaptap p-q-r-S taptaptap m-n-O (first 2 letters of gf's name) - tap Anvánda - tap Fortsátt... *SKICKAT* - Drop mobile back in shirt pocket.
Well... Y'know... I did have other things to do at the beach besides time with a stopwatch exactly how long it took me to take a photo and share it with someone who couldn't be there, but I'm pretty sure it was 1 minute or less. No need to sit down just to do that, either.
Computers routinely include wireless technology to plug into the ever-present worldwide network, providing reliable, instantly available, very-high-bandwidth communication.
Wrong, we don't have ever-present worldwide network. Even finding 'hot-spots' are hard.
I beg to differ. Two weeks ago today, I stood on a beach in Australia — at Hat Head, which, for the curious, is a small and fairly unremarkable seaside town in New South Wales, about 500 km from the nearest large city — where I had no trouble using my Swedish mobile phone/SIM to
send a photo I'd just taken of a pelican using my mobile to my girlfriend (who, at the time, was in a small town in Spain that happens to be about as close to the middle of nowhere as you can get and still be on the Iberian Peninsula)
upload a photo of my daughter holding a hermit crab she'd just caught to my website, which (last I heard) is hosted in Texas, so my parents (in Florida and North Carolina) could see it (this required popping the memory card out of the camera and into the phone, too bad the camera doesn't support Bluetooth)
respond to a text message from a friend of mine who runs a café in Stockholm
look up the Swedish words for "pelican" and "hermit crab" in an online dictionary
ring a friend of mine in Thailand to let her know I'd had to change my plans and would be returning to Europe via Singapore rather than Bangkok
Fired off scripts on my two laptops — one at my ex's place in Kempsey (35 km inland) and the other back in my flat in Stockholm, both using WiFi connections — to update my MySQL server repos and do new builds
update my status on Facebook
Now... You were saying something about the lack of world-wide wireless connectivity...?:)
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The Africans turned a bounty of natural resources into abject poverty.
<sarcasm>Right, everyone knows that it all started when the Zulus sent an urgent plea to the DeBeers family, begging them to please come take all the diamonds and give them a few cents an hour and twice-daily cavity searches in return.</sarcasm>
The neo-con view explicitly describes itself - bizarrely - as "post History", and evidently its proponents and executives (Bush, Cheney, etc) believed this, or claimed to. It was one of the hallmarks of the...
... the Communist Parties of the USSR and China as well.
Whoosh yourself. :)
Like the mountain in South Dakota that bears an uncanny resemblance to former presidents...
You wouldn't by any chance be referring to Mount Rushmore, would you?
Yep, they carve up a mountain to look like a bunch of former US Presidents, and the mountain winds up looking like a bunch of former US Presidents. Who'd've thunk such a thing?
Don't forget to fix the odometer, and make sure the tires don't have any soil from the grounds of the old paper mill (easily recognised because of, I dunno, all the PCBs or whatever), etc,. etc.
The fact they're using a GPS doesn't mean that they've forgot how to do old-fashioned detective work.
Funny. I always thought the RIAA has an open and blatant bias against Fair Use.
No, they just define the "Fair" part of it as "Lining our pockets".
Bredbandbolaget's prices are variable depending on the fastighetsägare
According to google translate, that means "property"...
There's a reason that Google Translate is a beta. Actually, it's the owner (ägare) of the property (fastighet).
Not a native speaker, but have lived in Sweden for the last 2 years and taken some language courses.
Back on topic: I live in Bagarmossen (south end of Stockholm, next-to-last T-bana station), and pay Bredbandsbolaget SEK 349/month for 24/3, including the phone line. Still a much better deal than what I had in Brisbane AU, where I paid Optus about 1.5 times that much for 3/1 connectivity -- and a 10 GB/month cap.
I still remember fondly when I rang B2 to get signed up and their response to my question about that last issue was, "What's a bandwidth cap? [*/me explains...*] Oh! [*chuckle*] But why would we do something like that?"
It's funny that you call it a 'frothing partisan political hackblogger'...
My guess is that M1rth took exception to the following paragraph in the blog post (emphasis added):
The fact is, those who know anything about computer security understand that it is the insiders who are, by far, the greatest threat to security on such systems, as even the phony, GOP-operative-created Baker/Carter National Election Reform Commission determined in its final report: "There is no reason to trust insiders in the election industry any more than in other industries."
The blogger does, upon further investigation, seem to have a tendency to... well... froth. However, we should not let this detract from the core issue here: Voting without transparency and verifiability cannot be trusted to return accurate results.
Open source, like closed source, typically relies more or less on trust.
Open source = trust your text editor, compiler, and knowledge.
Closed source = trust the provider of the binary.
This as we all know is a relatively trivial difference, so yes, you're more or less correct.
Do you think radar detectors for vehicles are illegal?
Granted this is a minor point, but in some places they are very illegal.
I don't think the EU is really the target market for this version.
...the reason we don't have high speed everywhere in the US is because ... people don't really want it that bad.
Two words: Doesn't matter.
In case you missed it, the telcos were paid good money -- TAX money -- to provide it, and they failed to deliver.
They should (a) deliver high-speed internet; (b) return the money they received from the US government or (c) face the music -- and criminal charges would not be inappropriate.
And they would like their principality back.
And just how to you propose to regulate, police and enforce the production of Linux distributions?
This obviously calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence!
There was a slashdot story one month ago about this confused woman.
Yes, and it cited the same blog, and there has as yet been no independent confirmation that this anecdotal episode actually took place, has there? Which is why we refer to it as "anecdotal". "Anecdotal" is basically equivalent to "They say". And "they say" proves nothing.
Even so, it's true that there is a lot of ignorance and misinformation around when it comes to Linux and other FOSS.
Parent is more Insightful than funny IMO.
So you're agreeing with yourself? How nice for you.
Nuke it from orbit -- it's the only way to be sure.
(There goes my karma, but someone had to say it.)
Sounds like me and KDE since I upgrade to openSUSE 11.1, in which even KDE 3.5 is somewhat borked, and KDE 4.1 is just... somewhere in the Twilight Zone that lies between 'Makes me want to laugh' and 'Make me want to cry'. What's really annoying is that the graphics card in my laptop actually has a real driver of its own now that suppoedly supports 3D acceleration which means SUSE got installed with Compiz. Which keeps shutting itself down because my hardware is not supported, but... without it, KDE can't be bothered to supply toolbars and menubars for apps. WTF?
Thank $_DEITY_ openSUSE still ships with WindowMaker for those times when I just need to get work done and don't have time to wait on screen freezes and whatnot.
Much less time to sit around figuring out a way to get back the *stable* KDE 3.5 I had with openSUSE 10.2.
Okay, I realise that the KDE devs probably aren't the ones to blame. At this point, I really don't care. As a user, I am being forced to deal with having to upgrade because the version of my distro that I was using is no longer supported, and all the stuff I used to have that just worked is now just fucked.
The short version:
I have an fvwm configuration which I use for serious work. I keep going back to it when gnome annoys me too much.
s/fvwm/WindowMaker/; s/Gnome/KDE/
Life in the electric chair!
(BTW, I tagged this story "scostillhaveassetsquestionmark".)
Huh? We're talking about... I dunno... Maybe 15 or 20 minutes out of 6 or 7 hours?
For example — how long do you think was required for the following sequence of events?:
Walk along beach - See pelican land on beach about 5 metres away from me - Whip out mobile phone - tap Menu - tap Kamera - aim - click Take photo - tap Mer tap Skicka - tap Till: - taptaptaptap p-q-r-S taptaptap m-n-O (first 2 letters of gf's name) - tap Anvánda - tap Fortsátt ... *SKICKAT* - Drop mobile back in shirt pocket.
Well... Y'know... I did have other things to do at the beach besides time with a stopwatch exactly how long it took me to take a photo and share it with someone who couldn't be there, but I'm pretty sure it was 1 minute or less. No need to sit down just to do that, either.
10 years ago, I would never have guessed that I'd receive a Troll mod for a misplaced modifier.
Note to sorry excuse for moderator: "I don't agree" != "Troll".
Computers routinely include wireless technology to plug into the ever-present worldwide network, providing reliable, instantly available, very-high-bandwidth communication.
Wrong, we don't have ever-present worldwide network. Even finding 'hot-spots' are hard.
I beg to differ. Two weeks ago today, I stood on a beach in Australia — at Hat Head, which, for the curious, is a small and fairly unremarkable seaside town in New South Wales, about 500 km from the nearest large city — where I had no trouble using my Swedish mobile phone/SIM to
Now... You were saying something about the lack of world-wide wireless connectivity...? :)
...the emergency of digital objects...
Quoth the NYT article:
Another good solution to the too-big-to-fail problem is to break up any institution that becomes too big to fail.
Methinks this might be relevant to institutions in other, non-financial realms.