The thing is that they could, and most likely are misusing it and won't have to tell anyone. Also what's the deal with Guantanamo Bay. It's unbelievable the things that the US government seems to be just getting away with just now, violating basic human rights?
I'm from the UK, not the US. The americans here seem to think that their 'protests' are actually accomplishing things, when in fact they are not going to unless they actually get in someone's way (like a bunch of people crashing a party). I fail to see how an officially sanctioned peaceful protest is going to bother anyone. Real protests would cause problems for the government - hey can still be peaceful of course, but IMO they need to make someone sweat or they will be ignored.
Yep I'm aware they don't pay much, but it's one of the few things I've heard americans actually complain about in the last few years - just not enough to do anything about it. Probably because it is still pretty affordable right now..
I agree that this sounds like a great thing, though I hope they don't follow this line of reasoning too far. It shouldn't be something for the parents to decide, otherwise you may get parents that decide they don't want their children to experience any kind of rush when doing dangerous sports, or decide that they block some naturally occurring highs because they don't want little eating lots of sweets, or getting knocked up. That's when the world starts to get creepy!
Funny, if they kill whoever's in power then they've done quite a lot. Just think what would happen if all gun toting american civilians were suitably stirred up (and even moreso if the army agreed with them!). Just trying to point out that I don't consider an angry mob very angry if they just stand there waving banners, I'm talking about people being angry at something really important. I find it very strange that the patriot act was allowed to pass, I'd have a real problem with my government doing that if it went against the first or second amendment or whatever basic american principle it is that it goes against:P
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I didn't realise RTF was a Microsoft product.. for some reason I had considered it open just because I've seen it in most applications I've used. I recently told someone to use it when she got a new laptop that didnt have office on it, and needed to write an essay at short notice. Her teacher then added notes to it which didnt show up in Wordpad, but showed up when I opened the document in Word (which I then saved as HTML so that she could see the notes..!). Anyway, since I don't use any stuff like tracking document changes and that kind of crap, then I think RTF does the job for most documents... does graphics, tables, even lets you add in comments, yada yada.. personally I just use plain text in most files, but then I'm not some marketing droid who feels the need to make things look pretty..
Well I do tend to get distracted easily, I don't mean to ignore the rest of your post. I did only count about 5 links when I scanned back over your post too. I didn't consider that the mothers against guns thing had done any good because gun laws are still pretty liberal over there compared to most countries, yada yada. Yeah we don't need to get into a pissing match, though from what 'I hear', obviously still within my ignorance as I'm not a global economist, America's national debt is insane. I'm not sure if that's just the debt of individuals, or of the government, or it all put together or what, but I do get pissed off easily when people assume that the US is always the 'best'. Meh.
Sure it's an inconvenience and not an attrocity, but the French protested, bringing their whole country to a standstill, and the government caved. Sure, the USA is a lot bigger, it would have to be a MASSIVE protest to do the same thing, but the fact remains that this started because some "USA-rules"-type slagged the French off and I wanted to point out that they have *much* more backbone when it comes to keeping their government in check, moreso than any other country probably. Vive le revolution and all that (yeah I didn't do french, it's probably spelled wrong). I have always found politics pretty boring, especially American politics, which seem to me to be one big joke and morons slagging off stereotypical 'liberals' and 'republicans', a lot of my knowledge of America has come from news articles on/. Apologies if I'm being ignorant, I am trying to learn as well as rant;) I still don't think any of these 'protests' are doing anything productive though. As someone else pointed out, all the protests these days are legally sanctioned ones and aren't doing anything but giving people an excuse to party. They're not inconveniencing the government at all. They're not going to stop the war in Iraq, they're not going to repeal the patriot act, they're not going to cut the price of gas, they're not going to introduce some real choice into the political system. I can't say that things in the UK are much better though, seems we just copy you guys a lot of the time. I don't think you can vote one party into power and expect them to hold your best interests at heart for 4 years - I think the public needs to be brought into decision making a lot more than it is (yeah you can write letters of complaint and so on, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of way to provide positive input, like voting on major issues rather than just voting on the party. It would obviously be pretty difficult to implement a *reliable* nationwide voting system though..).
Yep I was thinking the same as you have stated in your last paragraph, but I didn't know how to say it in such a way that I wouldn't get flamed into virtual hell.. it's tragic what happened, and the minor inconveniences that have resulted aren't that much of an issue, but when you place it all together, a lot more disruption has taken place because of the government rather than anything any terrorists have done. I thought that it was all as a result of 9/11 and that the US wasn't really concerned about terrorists before, but now that I've seen Die Hard I know I was mistaken there.. still, even though I don't think there's any more threat of terrorism than there was before (there's probably even less because you'd have to be monumentally stupid/suicidal to poke the enraged bull now), everyone is acting like there is. Even worse it's like people believe that kicking Afghan/Iraqi ass is going to help things. Countries don't do terrorism (though in my opinion the US probably has the rest of the world terrified at what it could do next), you only need a small group of people to perform terrorist acts. Hell, you could be a terrorist all by yourself if you were so inclined *waves to the CIA terror-scanbots
Hmm yep that rings a bell, have heard people saying that before, but had forgotten about it. It's not really a protest any more, is it? It's like a shepherd with a bunch of sheep.. and it's not going to accomplish anything if it's not causing an inconvenience for the government. No doubt you'll have your revolution someday, but it doesn't seem like it will be anytime soon!;)
So 4 or 5 protests in 30 years - did they actually accomplish anything? Also, no protests since 2000 about the things that I personally feel are intrusive, even though I'm not an American - the Patriot Act and just the way that America is being let off with Invading Iraq even though it is blatantly just for control of resources rather than a benevolent attempt at 'freeing' the people. China is a pretty super power IMO.. I also read here on/. that the UK has enough Nukes to wipe out the USA without too much problems, etc etc. I agree that I'm ignorant on a lot of things, I dont know what things thought because I'm ignorant of them. I do have a pretty decent grasp of the general american attitude towards a lot of things from here on/. though. Believe it or not I actually have more respect for America since reading/. as it seems that not everyone is a gun toting "woo! yeah! let's go out and screw the world over!" type, though I've seen a couple of those here too, and they'll no doubt have mod points today.. hehe. I'm just amazed that there haven't been any massive protests about fuel prices considering all the complaining that was going on about it in the last few years.. personally I still think your gas prices are insanely cheap though, they're over £1 a litre here.. eek.
The PS3 can't use PS2 controllers that I'm aware (I dont have one, but my uncle does and I couldn't see any PS2 ports.. he had a PS2 right next to the Bravia and PS3 anyway, the man likes his Sony products:p ). I know it's backwards comptatability, but it's also a very smart move, they didnt really need to include that option, but it makes sense if they have a load of Gamecube controllers already designed and built.
Yep, Functional MRI (fMRI) was developed at the University of Aberdeen, where I studied (sure I was studying Computer Science and not biology or whatever, but it's still pretty cool). Sad thing is how the first poster seems to think that smart people only exist in the US, either that or he thinks that having zillions of dollars is all that it takes for advancement (sure it helps a *lot*, throwing money at problems always tends to help, but good education is also very important)
I did mean since Vietnam really, Vietnam protests were the most recent that I could find, but it does appear there have been maybe 2 or 3 in the last decade.. none that seem to have affected things at all though. All this terrorist crap is getting out of hand, causing far more damage through fearmongering and near martial-law than the actual damage that 9/11 itself caused. Yes it's horrific that an attack took place at all, but the reaction to it seems to have been far too extreme... incredibly stupid things like not being able to take liquids onto planes.. got to wonder what kind of misinformed loonies are making all these decisions..
It's a benefit when you want your OS to be flexible. For example as plenty of people point out, you can run Linux on anything from a washing machine to a supercomputer without too much messing about, because of its modular nature and the amount of people out there that do work to improve or customise it, often just for fun.. a world without choice quickly goes stale.. look at what was happening with IE until Firefox got big, and what was happening with Intel until AMD got their Athlons out the door:)
Yeah! Real Patriots would never question the USAPATRIOT Act! Funny that you've been marked as a troll, some people just want to ignore the fact that they're losing all of their beloved freedom..:/
You can get command line style inputs in GUIs just by going to the properties for a program, or a shortcut, and there is a scheduler in Windows (haven't tried scheduling tasks in Linux, apart from on startup, where I just added the task to one of the many many startup scripts, one of the rclocal ones or whatever they're called)
Thanks for that. Yep, I don't really follow the news much in my own country, but when something major like a protest happens then people talk.. it seems that forming a protest in America is awkward just because of the sheer scale, and because each state basically is a small country, meaning that it would be pretty difficult to get a decent protest coordinated, and in fact when laws do change for the worse, it may only happen a state at a time and therefore doesn't get the whole nation into an uproar?
Yeah, because they didn't spend aaaany money when they were developing those titles initially, did they? But it is a very good capitalisation on older products, in the same way that you can use Gamecube controllers and games directly on the Wii. Great thinking on Nintendo's part:)
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The thing is that they could, and most likely are misusing it and won't have to tell anyone. Also what's the deal with Guantanamo Bay. It's unbelievable the things that the US government seems to be just getting away with just now, violating basic human rights?
I'm from the UK, not the US. The americans here seem to think that their 'protests' are actually accomplishing things, when in fact they are not going to unless they actually get in someone's way (like a bunch of people crashing a party). I fail to see how an officially sanctioned peaceful protest is going to bother anyone. Real protests would cause problems for the government - hey can still be peaceful of course, but IMO they need to make someone sweat or they will be ignored.
Yep I'm aware they don't pay much, but it's one of the few things I've heard americans actually complain about in the last few years - just not enough to do anything about it. Probably because it is still pretty affordable right now..
ah, that was meant to say "little [insert-name-here]", but I'd used angle brackets so it got stripped out :/
I agree that this sounds like a great thing, though I hope they don't follow this line of reasoning too far. It shouldn't be something for the parents to decide, otherwise you may get parents that decide they don't want their children to experience any kind of rush when doing dangerous sports, or decide that they block some naturally occurring highs because they don't want little eating lots of sweets, or getting knocked up. That's when the world starts to get creepy!
His "wildly making shit up" is what people round my parts call "joke".
Funny, if they kill whoever's in power then they've done quite a lot. Just think what would happen if all gun toting american civilians were suitably stirred up (and even moreso if the army agreed with them!). Just trying to point out that I don't consider an angry mob very angry if they just stand there waving banners, I'm talking about people being angry at something really important. I find it very strange that the patriot act was allowed to pass, I'd have a real problem with my government doing that if it went against the first or second amendment or whatever basic american principle it is that it goes against :P
I didn't realise RTF was a Microsoft product.. for some reason I had considered it open just because I've seen it in most applications I've used. I recently told someone to use it when she got a new laptop that didnt have office on it, and needed to write an essay at short notice. Her teacher then added notes to it which didnt show up in Wordpad, but showed up when I opened the document in Word (which I then saved as HTML so that she could see the notes..!). Anyway, since I don't use any stuff like tracking document changes and that kind of crap, then I think RTF does the job for most documents... does graphics, tables, even lets you add in comments, yada yada.. personally I just use plain text in most files, but then I'm not some marketing droid who feels the need to make things look pretty..
Ah - so the rumours about it having poor floating point compatibility were true?
Ah. I've been doing that my whole life!
Yep irl I'd be travelling a lot slower, more sensibly, and on the 'right' side of the road ;)
Well I do tend to get distracted easily, I don't mean to ignore the rest of your post. I did only count about 5 links when I scanned back over your post too. I didn't consider that the mothers against guns thing had done any good because gun laws are still pretty liberal over there compared to most countries, yada yada. Yeah we don't need to get into a pissing match, though from what 'I hear', obviously still within my ignorance as I'm not a global economist, America's national debt is insane. I'm not sure if that's just the debt of individuals, or of the government, or it all put together or what, but I do get pissed off easily when people assume that the US is always the 'best'. Meh.
/. Apologies if I'm being ignorant, I am trying to learn as well as rant ;) I still don't think any of these 'protests' are doing anything productive though. As someone else pointed out, all the protests these days are legally sanctioned ones and aren't doing anything but giving people an excuse to party. They're not inconveniencing the government at all. They're not going to stop the war in Iraq, they're not going to repeal the patriot act, they're not going to cut the price of gas, they're not going to introduce some real choice into the political system. I can't say that things in the UK are much better though, seems we just copy you guys a lot of the time. I don't think you can vote one party into power and expect them to hold your best interests at heart for 4 years - I think the public needs to be brought into decision making a lot more than it is (yeah you can write letters of complaint and so on, but there doesn't seem to be a lot of way to provide positive input, like voting on major issues rather than just voting on the party. It would obviously be pretty difficult to implement a *reliable* nationwide voting system though..).
Sure it's an inconvenience and not an attrocity, but the French protested, bringing their whole country to a standstill, and the government caved. Sure, the USA is a lot bigger, it would have to be a MASSIVE protest to do the same thing, but the fact remains that this started because some "USA-rules"-type slagged the French off and I wanted to point out that they have *much* more backbone when it comes to keeping their government in check, moreso than any other country probably. Vive le revolution and all that (yeah I didn't do french, it's probably spelled wrong). I have always found politics pretty boring, especially American politics, which seem to me to be one big joke and morons slagging off stereotypical 'liberals' and 'republicans', a lot of my knowledge of America has come from news articles on
Yep I was thinking the same as you have stated in your last paragraph, but I didn't know how to say it in such a way that I wouldn't get flamed into virtual hell.. it's tragic what happened, and the minor inconveniences that have resulted aren't that much of an issue, but when you place it all together, a lot more disruption has taken place because of the government rather than anything any terrorists have done. I thought that it was all as a result of 9/11 and that the US wasn't really concerned about terrorists before, but now that I've seen Die Hard I know I was mistaken there.. still, even though I don't think there's any more threat of terrorism than there was before (there's probably even less because you'd have to be monumentally stupid/suicidal to poke the enraged bull now), everyone is acting like there is. Even worse it's like people believe that kicking Afghan/Iraqi ass is going to help things. Countries don't do terrorism (though in my opinion the US probably has the rest of the world terrified at what it could do next), you only need a small group of people to perform terrorist acts. Hell, you could be a terrorist all by yourself if you were so inclined *waves to the CIA terror-scanbots
What do you mean by opting out? Moving away?
Hmm yep that rings a bell, have heard people saying that before, but had forgotten about it. It's not really a protest any more, is it? It's like a shepherd with a bunch of sheep.. and it's not going to accomplish anything if it's not causing an inconvenience for the government. No doubt you'll have your revolution someday, but it doesn't seem like it will be anytime soon! ;)
So 4 or 5 protests in 30 years - did they actually accomplish anything? Also, no protests since 2000 about the things that I personally feel are intrusive, even though I'm not an American - the Patriot Act and just the way that America is being let off with Invading Iraq even though it is blatantly just for control of resources rather than a benevolent attempt at 'freeing' the people. China is a pretty super power IMO.. I also read here on /. that the UK has enough Nukes to wipe out the USA without too much problems, etc etc. I agree that I'm ignorant on a lot of things, I dont know what things thought because I'm ignorant of them. I do have a pretty decent grasp of the general american attitude towards a lot of things from here on /. though. Believe it or not I actually have more respect for America since reading /. as it seems that not everyone is a gun toting "woo! yeah! let's go out and screw the world over!" type, though I've seen a couple of those here too, and they'll no doubt have mod points today.. hehe. I'm just amazed that there haven't been any massive protests about fuel prices considering all the complaining that was going on about it in the last few years.. personally I still think your gas prices are insanely cheap though, they're over £1 a litre here.. eek.
The PS3 can't use PS2 controllers that I'm aware (I dont have one, but my uncle does and I couldn't see any PS2 ports.. he had a PS2 right next to the Bravia and PS3 anyway, the man likes his Sony products :p ). I know it's backwards comptatability, but it's also a very smart move, they didnt really need to include that option, but it makes sense if they have a load of Gamecube controllers already designed and built.
Yep, Functional MRI (fMRI) was developed at the University of Aberdeen, where I studied (sure I was studying Computer Science and not biology or whatever, but it's still pretty cool). Sad thing is how the first poster seems to think that smart people only exist in the US, either that or he thinks that having zillions of dollars is all that it takes for advancement (sure it helps a *lot*, throwing money at problems always tends to help, but good education is also very important)
I did mean since Vietnam really, Vietnam protests were the most recent that I could find, but it does appear there have been maybe 2 or 3 in the last decade.. none that seem to have affected things at all though. All this terrorist crap is getting out of hand, causing far more damage through fearmongering and near martial-law than the actual damage that 9/11 itself caused. Yes it's horrific that an attack took place at all, but the reaction to it seems to have been far too extreme... incredibly stupid things like not being able to take liquids onto planes.. got to wonder what kind of misinformed loonies are making all these decisions..
It's a benefit when you want your OS to be flexible. For example as plenty of people point out, you can run Linux on anything from a washing machine to a supercomputer without too much messing about, because of its modular nature and the amount of people out there that do work to improve or customise it, often just for fun.. a world without choice quickly goes stale.. look at what was happening with IE until Firefox got big, and what was happening with Intel until AMD got their Athlons out the door :)
Yeah! Real Patriots would never question the USAPATRIOT Act! Funny that you've been marked as a troll, some people just want to ignore the fact that they're losing all of their beloved freedom.. :/
You can get command line style inputs in GUIs just by going to the properties for a program, or a shortcut, and there is a scheduler in Windows (haven't tried scheduling tasks in Linux, apart from on startup, where I just added the task to one of the many many startup scripts, one of the rclocal ones or whatever they're called)
Thanks for that. Yep, I don't really follow the news much in my own country, but when something major like a protest happens then people talk.. it seems that forming a protest in America is awkward just because of the sheer scale, and because each state basically is a small country, meaning that it would be pretty difficult to get a decent protest coordinated, and in fact when laws do change for the worse, it may only happen a state at a time and therefore doesn't get the whole nation into an uproar?
Yeah, because they didn't spend aaaany money when they were developing those titles initially, did they? But it is a very good capitalisation on older products, in the same way that you can use Gamecube controllers and games directly on the Wii. Great thinking on Nintendo's part :)