However the law needs improvements: currently it targets the disseminators (journalists) while the real targets should be the ones who let the information out in the first place (judges and their staff).
The fact that he "controls" the media is an urban myth. The public television is hostage of "currents" that aren't always sided with the government, actually the opposite most of the time. Most of the media isn't really friendly to the government, going from moderate to extreme opposition (but more than to him, to the political side he represents). Culture, teaching, etc. are by most of the opposite political spectrum. So where's the control of the media?
And if you say so that justice is impartial... well that only leads to cynicism. If you go and read through all that has been published, you'll notice that there is not a single, solid piece of evidence. All based on witness evidence. The same tht happened in other cases (not involving him at all), which were thrown out on the same basis. But this is a problem of the Italian justice system in general.
I blame the fall of the Communism. Seriously. The left wing parties are in a total identity crisis since then. With reformism being totally dead (for long time) there's not a coherent vision and parties are fragmented in different "currents" or ways of thinking. Most of them are numerically irrelevant, and usually leaders aren't strong-willed enough to gather the ranks and offer an alternative.
What does it prove? The "Legal scandals" ended up with exonerations (more than once), there is not a single case that has been proven in tribunal. Show me a single case that has merit. What was proven was just an excessive expenditure of public money targeting symbols (and it wasn't the first case: Giulio Andreotti, while being a very bad politician, was also accused in the same, but worse manner).
You may not like the man and you're free to do so, even strongly. But thinking that people are brainwashed for voting him means you do not understand democracy.
First: even "the newspaper of the brother's premier" has voiced concerns over the law - the decision not to go on strike was a move by its chief, Vittorio Feltri (who also criticized the law openly), who thought that shutting down information to prevent the shutdown of information was nonsensical.
Second: It was not the only newspaper who didn't go on strike. Others, such as "Libero", "Il Foglio", "Italia Oggi", were regularly in newsstands as well.
Third: the issue with wiretapping here it's that in the current law (the one being proposed) it's misguided - it targets journalists while the fault lies in judges and their collaborators, who like to "spread" news even before investigations are complete. This is mostly a problem for people outside investigations, that are by chance talking with the plaintiffs. Sometimes personal details (completely irrelevant to the matter) make it to the newspapers, tarnishing reputations.
Information is also checking your facts. This wasn't done.
I voted for him in good faith, and I'll do it again. Not everyone who votes "the person you don't like" is a brainwashed soulless drone. What's democracy? Voting for only the "optimates"?
Let's also add that when it's time to publish on a journal you really see the worst out of people, because they'll fight tooth and nail to get a name on that piece of (e-)paper. This adds to the stress with deadlines that shift continuously, and the long working times as you've already mentioned.
And that's not all. In some environments, having a mate, a family, a life outside the laboratory is seen as detrimental to productivity. I'm currently doing post-doc fellowships but I'm not sure how long I'll last.
Criticism on the KDE message boards is, for the most part, deleted by admins, so we have to go to other websites to vent and discuss why we don't like what the batty KDE devs are doing.
Interesting... I don't recall doing anything of the sort, nor anyone else of the administration/moderation staff. We only ask users to uphold the Code of Conduct. We don't delete messages if we disagree with them.
This is blatantly false. I'm one of the three KDE Community Forums administrators and we have never deleted messages just because we disagreed with them. In fact, we have even rarely locked threads. The only people that got reprimanded were the ones that violated the KDE Community Code of Conduct, which all forum members agree to uphold when they register.
Exactly, although it was 1989 and not 1987 (I even bought the "special edition" that came with a T-shirt). Aside from the audio, it was extremely famous for its 13 parallax level scrolling in the outworld areas (beaten only by the 15 levels of Wrath of the Demon - although it was much worse as a game).
So a dictatorship like Venezuela is fine (because it's a dictatorship) because it is against the US? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me (and I'm not living in the US nor a citizen of the US).
As one of the KDE Forums administrators, I strongly disagree. A working code of conduct is what helped us keep a constructive and non-insulting discussion (there are heated debates still, but with no name calling).
nice, clear, well documented PyKDE4 API. I'm sure there has to be one somewhere
Well, there is just one developer doing PyKDE4, and the API is auto-generated from the C++ API docs. What's missing are examples and tutorials: everyone is welcome to contribute (I did my little part, but I don't have that much time).
IMHO, RPGs, are the most time consuming type of game you can play and serve primarily to feed the the player's obsessive-compulsive instincts for very little, if any, tangible benefit.
90% of the games I buy are RPGs. Not only because I like the genre, but also because they tend to last more than other genres. If I pay a lot of money to get a game, I expect it to last at least two weeks of 1-2hr sessions per day (and this is becomning increasingly rare with titles that last 8 hours or less...). If it's less, it's not worth it. And I don't care that much for the multiplayer aspect.
Unfortunately where you publish *does* matter, especially if you need funding like with large grants (EU grants, for example). And this is the issue of the "impact factor" that influences an opinion (that can be one of a reviewer) whether it's worth or not.
That said, it's been my experience that those who are "basically shut out" are almost invariably kooks with ideas that do not stand up to serious scrutiny or who think their ideas are better and/or more important than they actually are.
Yes and no, in my own experience. Indeed, "fancy" theories will probably get rejected outright. But if you want to publish in a high-profile journal (Nature*, Science*) then politics really make their appearance. Of course this doesn't mean that if you write total crap you'll get published: but that for two identical valuable contributions, politics may favor one with respect to another. At least, I've seen this recently more than once in life sciences.
And politics suck, especially when they trump good science.
if all online games start to require such, it's really inconvenient.
FWIW, other MMOs have started to use this as well. Final Fantasy XI users can use a token like this (I do, in fact), and the same token will also be used for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV. It's not mandatory, though.
In Italy les than 50% of the pepoles have an acces to the Internet
That's the effect of having a country-run monopoly for years. SIP, and later Telecom Italia (ex-monopolist for phone lines, for the foreign people reading) has still got the majority of copper wires around, and is not playing by the market rules.
The extreme of that fear, in turn, created a closed group that is essentially a clique of a selected elite that has none, or very little, accountability. I wonder why people here, even Italians, are tying this judgment with the government, since this so-called clique is all but in support of the current government.
Not saying that people judgment is correct, but that fear caused the exact opposite. There is a dire need for some middle ground.
This is for US/UK people, to clarify things: the Corte di Cassazione (aka the Italian Supreme Court) is indeed the maximum level of interpretation of the law, but its decisions do *not* set precedents. They are mostly used as a guidance, but judges/prosecutors aren't forced to follow such an interpretation (i.e., there is some kind of discretionality).
It is worth to know here that the same court rejected an accusation on the grounds of copyright infringement because there was no profit involved.
And no, this has nothing to do with the government. The judicial system is definitely of different views with regards to the government.
The response is likely too much, but please don't forget that on Israeli grounds there have been a lot of terrorist attacks. You may disagree with the reasons that brought to this situation, but they are in a state of siege.
There's a branch of KWin dedicated to adding tiling support. It couldn't be merged as there wasn't enough time to properly test and integrate it, but chances are very likely that it'll appear with KDE SC 4.5.
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Cyborgs. The squad in 009 has artificial bodies, but human brains.
I am not a shill. I fully believe what I wrote. I am capable of free thought, you know. And this is why moderation a la slashdot doesn't work.
However the law needs improvements: currently it targets the disseminators (journalists) while the real targets should be the ones who let the information out in the first place (judges and their staff).
Check what happened in the two years of the Prodi government before him, and you'll see a good example.
The fact that he "controls" the media is an urban myth. The public television is hostage of "currents" that aren't always sided with the government, actually the opposite most of the time. Most of the media isn't really friendly to the government, going from moderate to extreme opposition (but more than to him, to the political side he represents). Culture, teaching, etc. are by most of the opposite political spectrum. So where's the control of the media?
And if you say so that justice is impartial... well that only leads to cynicism. If you go and read through all that has been published, you'll notice that there is not a single, solid piece of evidence. All based on witness evidence. The same tht happened in other cases (not involving him at all), which were thrown out on the same basis. But this is a problem of the Italian justice system in general.
I blame the fall of the Communism. Seriously. The left wing parties are in a total identity crisis since then. With reformism being totally dead (for long time) there's not a coherent vision and parties are fragmented in different "currents" or ways of thinking. Most of them are numerically irrelevant, and usually leaders aren't strong-willed enough to gather the ranks and offer an alternative.
What does it prove? The "Legal scandals" ended up with exonerations (more than once), there is not a single case that has been proven in tribunal. Show me a single case that has merit. What was proven was just an excessive expenditure of public money targeting symbols (and it wasn't the first case: Giulio Andreotti, while being a very bad politician, was also accused in the same, but worse manner).
You may not like the man and you're free to do so, even strongly. But thinking that people are brainwashed for voting him means you do not understand democracy.
kdawson, you reallly love trolling, don't you?
First: even "the newspaper of the brother's premier" has voiced concerns over the law - the decision not to go on strike was a move by its chief, Vittorio Feltri (who also criticized the law openly), who thought that shutting down information to prevent the shutdown of information was nonsensical.
Second: It was not the only newspaper who didn't go on strike. Others, such as "Libero", "Il Foglio", "Italia Oggi", were regularly in newsstands as well.
Third: the issue with wiretapping here it's that in the current law (the one being proposed) it's misguided - it targets journalists while the fault lies in judges and their collaborators, who like to "spread" news even before investigations are complete. This is mostly a problem for people outside investigations, that are by chance talking with the plaintiffs. Sometimes personal details (completely irrelevant to the matter) make it to the newspapers, tarnishing reputations.
Information is also checking your facts. This wasn't done.
I voted for him in good faith, and I'll do it again. Not everyone who votes "the person you don't like" is a brainwashed soulless drone. What's democracy? Voting for only the "optimates"?
Let's also add that when it's time to publish on a journal you really see the worst out of people, because they'll fight tooth and nail to get a name on that piece of (e-)paper. This adds to the stress with deadlines that shift continuously, and the long working times as you've already mentioned.
And that's not all. In some environments, having a mate, a family, a life outside the laboratory is seen as detrimental to productivity. I'm currently doing post-doc fellowships but I'm not sure how long I'll last.
Interesting... I don't recall doing anything of the sort, nor anyone else of the administration/moderation staff. We only ask users to uphold the Code of Conduct. We don't delete messages if we disagree with them.
Let's not spread disinformation here.
Exactly, although it was 1989 and not 1987 (I even bought the "special edition" that came with a T-shirt). Aside from the audio, it was extremely famous for its 13 parallax level scrolling in the outworld areas (beaten only by the 15 levels of Wrath of the Demon - although it was much worse as a game).
So a dictatorship like Venezuela is fine (because it's a dictatorship) because it is against the US? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me (and I'm not living in the US nor a citizen of the US).
As one of the KDE Forums administrators, I strongly disagree. A working code of conduct is what helped us keep a constructive and non-insulting discussion (there are heated debates still, but with no name calling).
Well, there is just one developer doing PyKDE4, and the API is auto-generated from the C++ API docs. What's missing are examples and tutorials: everyone is welcome to contribute (I did my little part, but I don't have that much time).
90% of the games I buy are RPGs. Not only because I like the genre, but also because they tend to last more than other genres. If I pay a lot of money to get a game, I expect it to last at least two weeks of 1-2hr sessions per day (and this is becomning increasingly rare with titles that last 8 hours or less...). If it's less, it's not worth it. And I don't care that much for the multiplayer aspect.
Unfortunately where you publish *does* matter, especially if you need funding like with large grants (EU grants, for example). And this is the issue of the "impact factor" that influences an opinion (that can be one of a reviewer) whether it's worth or not.
Yes and no, in my own experience. Indeed, "fancy" theories will probably get rejected outright. But if you want to publish in a high-profile journal (Nature*, Science*) then politics really make their appearance. Of course this doesn't mean that if you write total crap you'll get published: but that for two identical valuable contributions, politics may favor one with respect to another. At least, I've seen this recently more than once in life sciences. And politics suck, especially when they trump good science.
FWIW, other MMOs have started to use this as well. Final Fantasy XI users can use a token like this (I do, in fact), and the same token will also be used for the upcoming Final Fantasy XIV. It's not mandatory, though.
That's the effect of having a country-run monopoly for years. SIP, and later Telecom Italia (ex-monopolist for phone lines, for the foreign people reading) has still got the majority of copper wires around, and is not playing by the market rules.
The extreme of that fear, in turn, created a closed group that is essentially a clique of a selected elite that has none, or very little, accountability. I wonder why people here, even Italians, are tying this judgment with the government, since this so-called clique is all but in support of the current government. Not saying that people judgment is correct, but that fear caused the exact opposite. There is a dire need for some middle ground.
This is for US/UK people, to clarify things: the Corte di Cassazione (aka the Italian Supreme Court) is indeed the maximum level of interpretation of the law, but its decisions do *not* set precedents. They are mostly used as a guidance, but judges/prosecutors aren't forced to follow such an interpretation (i.e., there is some kind of discretionality).
It is worth to know here that the same court rejected an accusation on the grounds of copyright infringement because there was no profit involved.
And no, this has nothing to do with the government. The judicial system is definitely of different views with regards to the government.
The response is likely too much, but please don't forget that on Israeli grounds there have been a lot of terrorist attacks. You may disagree with the reasons that brought to this situation, but they are in a state of siege.
There's a branch of KWin dedicated to adding tiling support. It couldn't be merged as there wasn't enough time to properly test and integrate it, but chances are very likely that it'll appear with KDE SC 4.5.