- The guys are fair and the prices are good - I know the people behind it personally: They really care (try it, ask for information over there) - It seems they offer free twitter updates, if you're into that
"But if we believe in free speech, we ought to keep control of the Internet away from foreign governments that value it far less than we do."
Oh. Sorry. Yeah, I forgot that for a moment. The last (and the current..) administration of the US of A certainly showed that they value freedom, and personal rights, on a really high level. Now - mod me troll for this all you want. I would always stand up against any single country claiming to be better (Yeah, it's not the country that claims the thing, it's just a lousy CS student). The whole idea is flawed. Who's right or wrong isn't a question that can be answered easily. The current model just "solves" this issue by favoring one country, for historical reasons. That doesn't change the fact that the decisions (from the article) taken are hard and that they are made arbitrary.
The whole point of the story is: If someone needs to arbitrary decide about the internet, it should be us (We have the First Amendment! Hail us!).
I argue that an international body would be less biased and more "free". Isn't that what the constitution over there is about?
The worst part for me (Disclaimer: Not from the US) is, that you just think of the protocol and law first. It seems you don't think about the effects, consequences and you seem to be consent. I (hard a hard time to resist writing "for one" after this) won't ever, in my whole life, visit a country that treats me as a criminal at the border. Yeah, I never visited the states and never will unless this is rectified. Funny sidenote: Israel is a borderline country regarding any rights. Boarding a plane to IL involves annoying people asking you for your intentions and connections to the country, reasons to travel there. Armed guards with UMPs guard the room after you check in (twice, because you have to work yourself through the usual checkin first and then the Israeli guys think they can do it better). Everything in your luggage is taken apart (most/all of it in front of you, though). My fingerprints and personal details aren't recorded though. See - I HATE going through that procedure and I wouldn't visit Israel if the job wouldn't require it. I feel insulted everytime I have to go through this. But - and here's the catch - the procedure doesn't involve me giving something unalterable personal details to strangers. US of A, you fail.
It's a poor "Alliance", where _offensive_ actions have to be backed up by all members of the treaty. See - there are good reasons to call that action "necessary", but about the same number of reasons to call this a major mistake. Sidenote: You DO understand that the NATO treaty is about _defense_, right? Invading a country for immoral/suspicious reasons is not covered. Sorry.
That @ is not useful. I don't want to use memes now, but I'm tempted to ask if "you are new here" and perhaps refer to your ID. More seriously though, since you seem to take it seriously anyway: You DO realize that we've tons of "Nerds don't get laid" comments here? Lots of humor using the male nerd stereotype? I pull the following numbers out of my ass, you decide: 80 %of the jokes here involve young male nerds living in a basement, no pubic but lots of facial/* hair never getting out and never even getting in touch with the opposite sex. 20 % are an amalgam of different stuff, one if it is the "There are no female geeks".
Really, stop being tightassed like that. Without knowing here I hope SHE can laugh here. In fact, most girls that are into nerdstuff are quite resistant to all those jokes. You're overprotective and don't need to protect here in the first place.
a) Either look at that part of the video or stop commenting: All screws are prepared already (i.e. loosened) and the part I was mocking is the one connecting the third screw/last two wires. She has no problems attaching the wire (the screw doesn't need to be loosened anymore) and turns the screw in the wrong direction afterwards. b) I know that this is "real". I was trying to be funny. You messed it up.
Well. Here I am trying to start fun. Yes, it's nitpicking and the video is nice. You're taking it too serious..
I mean.. Sorry for the pun. But look at the video, starting at 13": She's connecting two wires and then - well.. Sorry guys, this is FAKE. No Geek Girl exists, this is just an actor trying to play "I'm one of you".
Well, we're a federation like (assuming you're from the US) you are. Reading something about (actually I just looked this name up in wikipedia as well) "Wyoming" would cause the same effect here. But reading more about Wyoming it might have the same effect on US people that are glad to live elsewhere..;)
I'm from Germany and I _hate_ to carry my ID with me. I see valid reasons:
- Checking the age (pubs, clubs, etc) - Official stuff like "It's me, Ben. Let me cast my vote here." - Making the ID process for _my_ demands towards our government easier (Let's say I want to marry)
But, unfortunately, it is part of the german law that you are required to be always able to ID yourself with an official document. This already smells very badly, although I do have to admit that I was never checked by the police yet. Lots of immigrants are on a regular level, though.
Even worse: Since some month our passports now are forced to include 2 fingerprints in digital form. I feel like a criminal when I only think about it. What for? I see not a single valid usecase for my fingerprints here. I boldly claim that there is none. I therefor got me a new passport 2 weeks before the fingerprints were required.. It is valid for ten years (unless some dumbed down government over here thinks that those without fingerprints in their passport need to buy(..) a new one) and I'm already careful to avoid - travelling to much internationally (because as soon as most pages of the passport are filled with stamps you have to replace it) - travel to one of the "Are you nuts" countries like the US, where they want to rape me in terms of privacy anyway
Quite bad for my business, but for now my employee has no problem with my "No, sorry. Cannot go there" answers.
Agreed. I rarely post here, but this got my attention:
I only recently purchased the orange box, mostly because I wanted to play/buy Portal and got tricked to buy the whole package (You know the situation: You don't need it, but somehow the mere existence of something makes you want it. Right now).
I didn't finish HL2 yet. That's odd for me, because usually I even have to remind myself to eat during play-sessions. But HL2 is really, really disappointing. So far there really _IS_ no story. I'd say "Spoiler ahead", but there's nothing to spoil.
- Get of a train, bullied by combine soldiers - See a so-called friend who mumbles something about "you need to get out here" (this sentence sums up the whole story, imo) - Run around clueless - End up running away from the combine - Ultimately get caught, no matter what - Meet the female main char, fail to be teleported - Run/Shoot* - Get a boat - Drive/Shoot - Play with a gravity gun, meet at least _some_ talking characters that don't start with "Gordon! You need to get out of here" - Run/Shoot (Zombies/Mutants! Yay! HL Source in HL2?) - Get a buggy - Drive/Shoot
Okay, I'm a little ahead of that point and stopped (although it got a little more interesting with this Nova facility/the rescue mission), but really.. Yes, this is a FPS game and built to fight/shoot your way out. But so far there really IS NO STORY whatsoever imo. Not at all. This feels like Serious Sam, only without the funny comments and with some physic engine demonstrations.
Not sure if I'll finish HL2 at all so far.
*) Several "You need to get out of here" dialogs included
The anonymous guy already answered the "are you correct" part, but let me comment on the other interesting parts of your post here.
"The continent generalized in the news and as EU" - well.. That's really far off.
Some points to help you out: - You can buy/smoke Cannabis in NL while it's illegal in lots of/most countries on this continent. - The UK still has its pound, both as currency and a representation for its unit system (read: miles, inches, whatever). - Switzerland, albeit small, is on the continent (more or less even in the center of it) and neither in the EU nor using the Euro. - Communication between us is usually limited to english, a language that is non-native to most of the EU countries.. - Traffic is _completely different_. While every country but Germany has global speed limits those vary quite a lot. The UK even drives on the wrong side..:) - While I don't claim to know a lot about the political situation in all EU countries: Those that I know are _completely_ different in terms of voting and their organisation of the government. Apart from obvious things like (pseudo-)monarchy Yes/No (Yes for several here, in case you didn't know) it's imo absolutely different/incompatible between every country here.
Reading your post (and I know that you just state a prejudice and don't claim that it's right) it seems like you're comparing the EU to your federation of states, while this is wrong anyway and probably ignores the fact that quite some countries over here are a composition of federal states already anyway. Germany and Switzerland, for example.
No, thinking of the EU countries of being dependent on each other or hard to distingish/hold apart is completely wrong. But interesting and fascinating in a way. It supports the (wrong?) prejudice that americans usually have no clue about Europe, ask if Hitler's still alive and cannot point to any given european country on a worldmap ("Tell me where norway is" - "Uhhhhmm.."). Sorry about that - no offense intended. It's just plain weird to read about the EU like that..
Still, they need to be told what they did wrong, and given the tools necessary to not have it happen again. Get raped? Fine. Go to martial arts training and kick the shit out of the next guy who tries to rape you. Got your bike stolen? lock it the hell up.
Well.. You don't exactly help with this statement. Comparing a rape with a stolen bike and at the same time implying, that the victim did something wrong shows, that you probably have that kind of morale that Jack Idiot blames on computer games.
"Got raped? Why didn't you train matial arts in the first place?"
Sorry, but even if this discussion is filled with emotions: Apply some sense and think before you post.
It's not about being fast. It's about creative ways to do things that interfaces weren't intentended for. Your idea would work out as soon as you have a way to replace artists with computers.
Slashdot Mirror
I'd recommend solomo (https://www.solomo.de):
- The guys are fair and the prices are good
- I know the people behind it personally: They really care (try it, ask for information over there)
- It seems they offer free twitter updates, if you're into that
"But if we believe in free speech, we ought to keep control of the Internet away from foreign governments that value it far less than we do."
Oh. Sorry. Yeah, I forgot that for a moment. The last (and the current..) administration of the US of A certainly showed that they value freedom, and personal rights, on a really high level. Now - mod me troll for this all you want. I would always stand up against any single country claiming to be better (Yeah, it's not the country that claims the thing, it's just a lousy CS student). The whole idea is flawed. Who's right or wrong isn't a question that can be answered easily.
The current model just "solves" this issue by favoring one country, for historical reasons. That doesn't change the fact that the decisions (from the article) taken are hard and that they are made arbitrary.
The whole point of the story is: If someone needs to arbitrary decide about the internet, it should be us (We have the First Amendment! Hail us!).
I argue that an international body would be less biased and more "free". Isn't that what the constitution over there is about?
The worst part for me (Disclaimer: Not from the US) is, that you just think of the protocol and law first. It seems you don't think about the effects, consequences and you seem to be consent.
I (hard a hard time to resist writing "for one" after this) won't ever, in my whole life, visit a country that treats me as a criminal at the border. Yeah, I never visited the states and never will unless this is rectified.
Funny sidenote: Israel is a borderline country regarding any rights. Boarding a plane to IL involves annoying people asking you for your intentions and connections to the country, reasons to travel there. Armed guards with UMPs guard the room after you check in (twice, because you have to work yourself through the usual checkin first and then the Israeli guys think they can do it better). Everything in your luggage is taken apart (most/all of it in front of you, though). My fingerprints and personal details aren't recorded though.
See - I HATE going through that procedure and I wouldn't visit Israel if the job wouldn't require it. I feel insulted everytime I have to go through this.
But - and here's the catch - the procedure doesn't involve me giving something unalterable personal details to strangers. US of A, you fail.
It's a poor "Alliance", where _offensive_ actions have to be backed up by all members of the treaty.
See - there are good reasons to call that action "necessary", but about the same number of reasons to call this a major mistake.
Sidenote: You DO understand that the NATO treaty is about _defense_, right? Invading a country for immoral/suspicious reasons is not covered. Sorry.
Sorry..
"Citation needed".
Your opinion is _vastly_ different from mine: Military intervention is almost never useful at all.
Neither is backed up yet.
That @ is not useful.
I don't want to use memes now, but I'm tempted to ask if "you are new here" and perhaps refer to your ID.
More seriously though, since you seem to take it seriously anyway: You DO realize that we've tons of "Nerds don't get laid" comments here? Lots of humor using the male nerd stereotype? I pull the following numbers out of my ass, you decide:
80 %of the jokes here involve young male nerds living in a basement, no pubic but lots of facial/* hair never getting out and never even getting in touch with the opposite sex.
20 % are an amalgam of different stuff, one if it is the "There are no female geeks".
Really, stop being tightassed like that. Without knowing here I hope SHE can laugh here. In fact, most girls that are into nerdstuff are quite resistant to all those jokes. You're overprotective and don't need to protect here in the first place.
Uhm.. A WHOOOOSH might be necessary here.
a) Either look at that part of the video or stop commenting: All screws are prepared already (i.e. loosened) and the part I was mocking is the one connecting the third screw/last two wires. She has no problems attaching the wire (the screw doesn't need to be loosened anymore) and turns the screw in the wrong direction afterwards.
b) I know that this is "real". I was trying to be funny. You messed it up.
Well. Here I am trying to start fun. Yes, it's nitpicking and the video is nice. You're taking it too serious..
I mean.. Sorry for the pun.
But look at the video, starting at 13": She's connecting two wires and then - well..
Sorry guys, this is FAKE. No Geek Girl exists, this is just an actor trying to play "I'm one of you".
So - go ahead and do it.
Well, we're a federation like (assuming you're from the US) you are. Reading something about (actually I just looked this name up in wikipedia as well) "Wyoming" would cause the same effect here. But reading more about Wyoming it might have the same effect on US people that are glad to live elsewhere.. ;)
You just have to love this evil plot:
1) Let a fresh-grad lawyer attack wikileak in your name
2) Post the story to slashdot
3) Profi.. - uhm - Site down, content protected.
Marvelous.
This comment of yours is probably a hidden lisp "Hello world", right?
Let me guess: You don't have a girlfriend, right?
Ah, forgot that this is Slashdot for a moment. Nevermind, move along.
OpenSuse, install. See that this statement of yours is complete and utter crap.
Please try it before you
a) respond
b) moderate
Thank you.
(Sitting in front of two 22" IIyama Monitors)
0 - 0.5 years : Eccentricity
0.5 - 10 years : Scam
10 - 100 years : Cult
100 - 5,000 years : Genuine theology that reflects the true nature of being and the foundation of our civilization
5,000 - 6,000 years : Myth
6,000+ years : Heresy There, fixed that for you..
I'm from Germany and I _hate_ to carry my ID with me. I see valid reasons:
- Checking the age (pubs, clubs, etc)
- Official stuff like "It's me, Ben. Let me cast my vote here."
- Making the ID process for _my_ demands towards our government easier (Let's say I want to marry)
But, unfortunately, it is part of the german law that you are required to be always able to ID yourself with an official document. This already smells very badly, although I do have to admit that I was never checked by the police yet. Lots of immigrants are on a regular level, though.
Even worse: Since some month our passports now are forced to include 2 fingerprints in digital form. I feel like a criminal when I only think about it. What for? I see not a single valid usecase for my fingerprints here. I boldly claim that there is none.
I therefor got me a new passport 2 weeks before the fingerprints were required.. It is valid for ten years (unless some dumbed down government over here thinks that those without fingerprints in their passport need to buy(..) a new one) and I'm already careful to avoid
- travelling to much internationally (because as soon as most pages of the passport are filled with stamps you have to replace it)
- travel to one of the "Are you nuts" countries like the US, where they want to rape me in terms of privacy anyway
Quite bad for my business, but for now my employee has no problem with my "No, sorry. Cannot go there" answers.
http://www.alfresco.com/
Agreed.
I rarely post here, but this got my attention:
I only recently purchased the orange box, mostly because I wanted to play/buy Portal and got tricked to buy the whole package (You know the situation: You don't need it, but somehow the mere existence of something makes you want it. Right now).
I didn't finish HL2 yet. That's odd for me, because usually I even have to remind myself to eat during play-sessions. But HL2 is really, really disappointing. So far there really _IS_ no story. I'd say "Spoiler ahead", but there's nothing to spoil.
- Get of a train, bullied by combine soldiers
- See a so-called friend who mumbles something about "you need to get out here" (this sentence sums up the whole story, imo)
- Run around clueless
- End up running away from the combine
- Ultimately get caught, no matter what
- Meet the female main char, fail to be teleported
- Run/Shoot*
- Get a boat
- Drive/Shoot
- Play with a gravity gun, meet at least _some_ talking characters that don't start with "Gordon! You need to get out of here"
- Run/Shoot (Zombies/Mutants! Yay! HL Source in HL2?)
- Get a buggy
- Drive/Shoot
Okay, I'm a little ahead of that point and stopped (although it got a little more interesting with this Nova facility/the rescue mission), but really.. Yes, this is a FPS game and built to fight/shoot your way out. But so far there really IS NO STORY whatsoever imo. Not at all. This feels like Serious Sam, only without the funny comments and with some physic engine demonstrations.
Not sure if I'll finish HL2 at all so far.
*) Several "You need to get out of here" dialogs included
The anonymous guy already answered the "are you correct" part, but let me comment on the other interesting parts of your post here.
:)
"The continent generalized in the news and as EU" - well.. That's really far off.
Some points to help you out:
- You can buy/smoke Cannabis in NL while it's illegal in lots of/most countries on this continent.
- The UK still has its pound, both as currency and a representation for its unit system (read: miles, inches, whatever).
- Switzerland, albeit small, is on the continent (more or less even in the center of it) and neither in the EU nor using the Euro.
- Communication between us is usually limited to english, a language that is non-native to most of the EU countries..
- Traffic is _completely different_. While every country but Germany has global speed limits those vary quite a lot. The UK even drives on the wrong side..
- While I don't claim to know a lot about the political situation in all EU countries: Those that I know are _completely_ different in terms of voting and their organisation of the government. Apart from obvious things like (pseudo-)monarchy Yes/No (Yes for several here, in case you didn't know) it's imo absolutely different/incompatible between every country here.
Reading your post (and I know that you just state a prejudice and don't claim that it's right) it seems like you're comparing the EU to your federation of states, while this is wrong anyway and probably ignores the fact that quite some countries over here are a composition of federal states already anyway. Germany and Switzerland, for example.
No, thinking of the EU countries of being dependent on each other or hard to distingish/hold apart is completely wrong. But interesting and fascinating in a way. It supports the (wrong?) prejudice that americans usually have no clue about Europe, ask if Hitler's still alive and cannot point to any given european country on a worldmap ("Tell me where norway is" - "Uhhhhmm..").
Sorry about that - no offense intended. It's just plain weird to read about the EU like that..
Well.. You don't exactly help with this statement. Comparing a rape with a stolen bike and at the same time implying, that the victim did something wrong shows, that you probably have that kind of morale that Jack Idiot blames on computer games.
"Got raped? Why didn't you train matial arts in the first place?"
Sorry, but even if this discussion is filled with emotions: Apply some sense and think before you post.
You're wrong here.
It's not about being fast. It's about creative ways to do things that interfaces weren't intentended for.
Your idea would work out as soon as you have a way to replace artists with computers.