"The TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) found that torture was "routine" and was official policy – as were executions "without due process" at ANC detention camps particularly in the period of 1979–1989."
Mandela founded MK, because he thought the ANC was not militant enough.
I think he was right and just to do most of the things that he did. Brushing under the carpet military and terrorist tactics like most seem to do now, because he was on the right side, is unhelpful IMO.
It wasn't his words that influenced politics in South Africa, it was his actions, however unsavoury they were. Also, yes, I do know he was in prison when those attacks took place. The organisation he founded carried out the attacks.
Proud Phenom II user here. Awesome chip and I still use it on the gaming platform... from 2010?!
I'm sorry... no you don't.
I run a core 2 duo on a motherboard 8 years old, with a gtx460 (it was originally with an 8800GT, which I pensioned off) and I will guarantee you my PC outperforms most PCs sold today, gaming-wise. Do not believe the hype. Look at the numbers.
I used to run an athlon with a ti4200 for the same reason, and with the same result.
You wrote : Dunno about you, but I ain't gonna be excited by AMD's offerings anymore, and some other bumpf.
How exactly were you replying to the AC?
I know policy is to stick your comment as high as possible, if possible..... but you replied to someone who said "They love to gag on Polish sausages". You must have know that you weren't actually replying to them.
For that matter my inlaws were in a country run by the Nazis and would likely not have met either...and the US really didn't have to enter that war at all. Nor did they need to spend the money rebuilding the place.
The US did not decide to enter WW2. There was no "moral" decision to help "freedom", or fight the Nazis. The US stood by while Western Europe was overrun by the Nazis. The US was attacked by Japan, a couple of years after the war started. A couple of years after much of Europe had been invaded.
Personally... I think that perhaps, maybe, possibly, the US should have fucking said that the Nazis marching all over everywhere was a bad idea. They did not have the ultimate say... the USSR did, and the USSR also allied themselves with the Nazis early on.
Perhaps you should look at who fought a diabolical regime from the start, and why, and what it cost.
The accuracy of GPS is not the problem. The problem is places where GPS is useless.
To be honest, if I can order something and it be in my drive in about 1/2 an hour, that is good enough, where I am living now. I can keep an eye out for it. I live in the middle of nowhere, and there's no chance of it being picked up by someone else. I have lived in towns and cities, though. Some of my previous residences had hundreds of people walking by the front door every hour. GPS does not work there, and it never will, no matter how accurate it is.
No, GP is correct. 2 of my cars had pronounced lift off oversteer - my current car, an Integra type R, and an original mini. Both are very front heavy, and (especially the mini) exhibit lots of lift off oversteer. One advantage of both, though, is that they are front wheel drives... you can accelerate out of it easily.
I owned a Toyota MR2 series 2 a while back, which is mid engined RWD - that exhibited basically no lift off oversteer... power oversteer was easy, though.
This page is a list of confirmed native spiders which bite in the UK. None are deadly (apart from the possibility of anaphylactic shock), but they are poisonous.
Of the native species, I'd guess these four (here, here, here, and here) would be the ones to be most concerned about, because of distribution and severeness of bite. None are really nasty, though.
Sexual selection is natural selection in the sense that it is a type of selection and it is "natural" (i.e. part of nature), but the term "sexual selection" can refer to a type of selection that is distinct from "natural selection". This is in fact how Darwin treated it. Although many people treat sexual selection as a part of natural selection, this just means that we don;t have a good name for the "non-sexual" part of natural selection.
There is no "non-sexual" part of natural selection (at least in complex animals). Natural selection is entirely sexual selection.
I'm not sure where you are getting this from... Can you define how non-sexual natural selection might work?
If a number of different governments, or different government agencies get together (or even with other non government organisations) and develop software jointly, the individual cost will be much less...
Governments and governmental institutions are notoriously bad at software development. This has already cost every man, woman and child in the UK £200 each, with awful returns. No one wanted it in the first place, but that's beside the point.
It's not an open source/closed source problem... it's a "difficult problem" problem, which when selling a solution, people try to make look easier than it is.
That's only true if there is no social consequences for selfishness. As long as the altruism comes with other things like ostracism, shunning, etc, for the individuals found to be selfish, the group can do a pretty good job at surviving. As long as you are more likely to thrive in the society by cooperating than you are to be a cheater with risks of being caught and outed, then it makes sense to cooperate.
I said "If it were an advantage to be selfish, rather than altruistic, the species would become more selfish". I didn't say it is an advantage. In essence, I agree with you here.
You are referring to sexual selection, which is often an opposing force to natural selection. Natural selection selects for adaptability, while sexual selection can select for any number of ridiculous things like peacock feathers. Sexual selection is kept in check by natural selection, as you need to survive in order to reproduce.
Here's where I disagree with you. Sexual selection _is_ natural selection. That's how natural selection works, there can be no other way. Reproductive success is the be all and end all of evolution. I'm not sure how you can argue that it's not.
I don't see how this is fundamentally any different than other schemes that in some way level you faster, either in stats or gear.
It doesn't let you level faster, it lets you hoard more junk. Path of Exile has a pretty generous shared stash for your characters for free... I've filled it up already, with all kinds of crap. Buying extra space is tempting, because I hate throwing out stuff I may need later (I know I'm never going to need it, honestly).
Everything that is worth something can be stored very easily within the free storage, there are no hard decisions which could be helped by having more space.
People are allowed to sell cosmetics. Unfortunately it is such a successful business model that it's eliminated any motivation for a developer to incorporate mod support in to their game. Of course who are to blame? Gamers of course.
This game is free. There is no advantage to buying cosmetic or other stuff (except for expanded stashes... the free ones are massive, though, more than enough). How can you be angry at that model? What is it, exactly, that angers you?
You can play it now, for free. The people who are buying cosmetic stuff will pay for you.
Thanks, I needed a good laugh. I've been reading Slashdot basically since it started, and it's so far beyond a double standard it's not even funny.
My position is pretty simple... if you profit off of someone else's work (when they don't want you to, implicitly or explicitly), it's bad, mkay. It's _not_ that difficult. Torrenting a film to watch is considered different from torrenting a DVD to sell down the pub. Printing a picture found on the web for your wall is different from printing a picture and selling it.
It really is not that difficult to see the difference, is it? Can you see the difference?
It seems obvious that altruistic behaviour would be a result of the fact that a species that helps each other is more likely to survive.
Yes... but evolution does not work like that. If it were an advantage to be selfish, rather than altruistic, the species would become more selfish, even if this decreases the viability of the species. This can be seen with stable populations of animals that select largeness to some degree - larger males are in some species are more often selected for breeding than smaller males. However, this can lead to the species as a whole becoming more dependent upon the exact environment, less adaptable, and therefore more likely to be wiped out.
The ideal for males in these species is to be as large and powerful as possible, and survive. Being average, efficient and adaptable means that you won't reproduce.
The fact they're paid by our taxes is neither here nor there. I wouldn't expect someone whose job it is to manage the payroll for the DMV or who fixes potholes to be forced to be "visible all the time they are on the job".
Possibly - I'd expect them to be accountable. I pay for their wages directly, in the same way a company owner pays their employee's wages.
What matters is that we as a society give police special powers over non-police. That needs oversight.
I think this point is very pertinent, and is possibly the crux of the matter. I'd _love_ police to have cameras everywhere.
Because he dropped out of school. You'd be very lucky getting a job as a draftsman now without a degree, let alone not having other qualifications. Frank Lloyd Wright didn't graduate high school, yet still managed to get a job as a draftsman.
The Prada did not come to the market after the iPhone... how the fuck is a keynote relevant, anyway? Images of the Prada were already released the year before, and the Prada was on sale before the iPhone.
As soon as I read the summary I thought - of course it was criticized, it's Microsoft!
Oh, FFS. You are blind if you think the reason Microsoft have been criticised and are still criticised is because it's a knee-jerk reaction. Look at their track record.
I say this as a Vista user, and I quite like Vista. No, honestly, there is at least one. I admit I used Windows 8 for the first time today, and have since changed my opinion. Now I believe every operating system is the equivalent of beatifically joyful tears of unicorns, except for Windows 8.
the real question is why hasn't the Linux foundation (or any of the other free software foundations) gotten in on funding and providing courseware for high schoolers?
Are you for real? You want free software _foundations_ to fund high school courses?
Perhaps the companies that use free software could... you know, like Red Hat (oh... they do?), IBM (wait, they do too?), and Microsoft (wait a minute....).
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Mandela, ~ unlike all other hypocritical politicians all around the world, ~ is a dude who was TRUE TO HIS WORDS.
I think his actions speak louder.
"The TRC (Truth and Reconciliation Commission) found that torture was "routine" and was official policy – as were executions "without due process" at ANC detention camps particularly in the period of 1979–1989."
Mandela founded MK, because he thought the ANC was not militant enough.
I think he was right and just to do most of the things that he did. Brushing under the carpet military and terrorist tactics like most seem to do now, because he was on the right side, is unhelpful IMO.
It wasn't his words that influenced politics in South Africa, it was his actions, however unsavoury they were. Also, yes, I do know he was in prison when those attacks took place. The organisation he founded carried out the attacks.
Proud Phenom II user here. Awesome chip and I still use it on the gaming platform ... from 2010?!
I'm sorry... no you don't.
I run a core 2 duo on a motherboard 8 years old, with a gtx460 (it was originally with an 8800GT, which I pensioned off) and I will guarantee you my PC outperforms most PCs sold today, gaming-wise. Do not believe the hype. Look at the numbers.
I used to run an athlon with a ti4200 for the same reason, and with the same result.
AC wrote : They love to gag on Polish sausages.
You wrote : Dunno about you, but I ain't gonna be excited by AMD's offerings anymore, and some other bumpf.
How exactly were you replying to the AC?
I know policy is to stick your comment as high as possible, if possible..... but you replied to someone who said "They love to gag on Polish sausages". You must have know that you weren't actually replying to them.
The images of the ancient texts are marked "Copyright Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana".
Copyright is seriously out of control. People don't even know what it is any more.
For that matter my inlaws were in a country run by the Nazis and would likely not have met either...and the US really didn't have to enter that war at all. Nor did they need to spend the money rebuilding the place.
The US did not decide to enter WW2. There was no "moral" decision to help "freedom", or fight the Nazis. The US stood by while Western Europe was overrun by the Nazis. The US was attacked by Japan, a couple of years after the war started. A couple of years after much of Europe had been invaded.
Personally... I think that perhaps, maybe, possibly, the US should have fucking said that the Nazis marching all over everywhere was a bad idea. They did not have the ultimate say... the USSR did, and the USSR also allied themselves with the Nazis early on.
Perhaps you should look at who fought a diabolical regime from the start, and why, and what it cost.
The accuracy of GPS is not the problem. The problem is places where GPS is useless.
To be honest, if I can order something and it be in my drive in about 1/2 an hour, that is good enough, where I am living now. I can keep an eye out for it. I live in the middle of nowhere, and there's no chance of it being picked up by someone else. I have lived in towns and cities, though. Some of my previous residences had hundreds of people walking by the front door every hour. GPS does not work there, and it never will, no matter how accurate it is.
No, GP is correct. 2 of my cars had pronounced lift off oversteer - my current car, an Integra type R, and an original mini. Both are very front heavy, and (especially the mini) exhibit lots of lift off oversteer. One advantage of both, though, is that they are front wheel drives... you can accelerate out of it easily.
I owned a Toyota MR2 series 2 a while back, which is mid engined RWD - that exhibited basically no lift off oversteer... power oversteer was easy, though.
This page is a list of confirmed native spiders which bite in the UK. None are deadly (apart from the possibility of anaphylactic shock), but they are poisonous.
Of the native species, I'd guess these four (here, here, here, and here) would be the ones to be most concerned about, because of distribution and severeness of bite. None are really nasty, though.
Sexual selection is natural selection in the sense that it is a type of selection and it is "natural" (i.e. part of nature), but the term "sexual selection" can refer to a type of selection that is distinct from "natural selection". This is in fact how Darwin treated it. Although many people treat sexual selection as a part of natural selection, this just means that we don;t have a good name for the "non-sexual" part of natural selection.
There is no "non-sexual" part of natural selection (at least in complex animals). Natural selection is entirely sexual selection.
I'm not sure where you are getting this from... Can you define how non-sexual natural selection might work?
If a number of different governments, or different government agencies get together (or even with other non government organisations) and develop software jointly, the individual cost will be much less...
Governments and governmental institutions are notoriously bad at software development. This has already cost every man, woman and child in the UK £200 each, with awful returns. No one wanted it in the first place, but that's beside the point.
It's not an open source/closed source problem... it's a "difficult problem" problem, which when selling a solution, people try to make look easier than it is.
That's only true if there is no social consequences for selfishness. As long as the altruism comes with other things like ostracism, shunning, etc, for the individuals found to be selfish, the group can do a pretty good job at surviving. As long as you are more likely to thrive in the society by cooperating than you are to be a cheater with risks of being caught and outed, then it makes sense to cooperate.
I said "If it were an advantage to be selfish, rather than altruistic, the species would become more selfish". I didn't say it is an advantage. In essence, I agree with you here.
You are referring to sexual selection, which is often an opposing force to natural selection. Natural selection selects for adaptability, while sexual selection can select for any number of ridiculous things like peacock feathers. Sexual selection is kept in check by natural selection, as you need to survive in order to reproduce.
Here's where I disagree with you. Sexual selection _is_ natural selection. That's how natural selection works, there can be no other way. Reproductive success is the be all and end all of evolution. I'm not sure how you can argue that it's not.
I don't see how this is fundamentally any different than other schemes that in some way level you faster, either in stats or gear.
It doesn't let you level faster, it lets you hoard more junk. Path of Exile has a pretty generous shared stash for your characters for free... I've filled it up already, with all kinds of crap. Buying extra space is tempting, because I hate throwing out stuff I may need later (I know I'm never going to need it, honestly).
Everything that is worth something can be stored very easily within the free storage, there are no hard decisions which could be helped by having more space.
You want plot in a Diablo clone? Really?
People are allowed to sell cosmetics. Unfortunately it is such a successful business model that it's eliminated any motivation for a developer to incorporate mod support in to their game. Of course who are to blame? Gamers of course.
This game is free. There is no advantage to buying cosmetic or other stuff (except for expanded stashes... the free ones are massive, though, more than enough). How can you be angry at that model? What is it, exactly, that angers you?
You can play it now, for free. The people who are buying cosmetic stuff will pay for you.
Thanks, I needed a good laugh. I've been reading Slashdot basically since it started, and it's so far beyond a double standard it's not even funny.
My position is pretty simple... if you profit off of someone else's work (when they don't want you to, implicitly or explicitly), it's bad, mkay. It's _not_ that difficult. Torrenting a film to watch is considered different from torrenting a DVD to sell down the pub. Printing a picture found on the web for your wall is different from printing a picture and selling it.
It really is not that difficult to see the difference, is it? Can you see the difference?
It seems obvious that altruistic behaviour would be a result of the fact that a species that helps each other is more likely to survive.
Yes... but evolution does not work like that. If it were an advantage to be selfish, rather than altruistic, the species would become more selfish, even if this decreases the viability of the species. This can be seen with stable populations of animals that select largeness to some degree - larger males are in some species are more often selected for breeding than smaller males. However, this can lead to the species as a whole becoming more dependent upon the exact environment, less adaptable, and therefore more likely to be wiped out.
The ideal for males in these species is to be as large and powerful as possible, and survive. Being average, efficient and adaptable means that you won't reproduce.
The fact they're paid by our taxes is neither here nor there. I wouldn't expect someone whose job it is to manage the payroll for the DMV or who fixes potholes to be forced to be "visible all the time they are on the job".
Possibly - I'd expect them to be accountable. I pay for their wages directly, in the same way a company owner pays their employee's wages.
What matters is that we as a society give police special powers over non-police. That needs oversight.
I think this point is very pertinent, and is possibly the crux of the matter. I'd _love_ police to have cameras everywhere.
Because he dropped out of school. You'd be very lucky getting a job as a draftsman now without a degree, let alone not having other qualifications. Frank Lloyd Wright didn't graduate high school, yet still managed to get a job as a draftsman.
Here is an announcement, here is an image. Both of these date from 2006.
The Prada did not come to the market after the iPhone... how the fuck is a keynote relevant, anyway? Images of the Prada were already released the year before, and the Prada was on sale before the iPhone.
Why not operate off donations? They're not a for-profit corporation, they don't have investors or shareholders, etc.
Well, their expenses for software development in 2012 were almost $150,000,000. Their expenses for branding and marketing were almost $30,000,000.
Now, if you can find enough people to make those donations, good luck.
You could (and probably should) argue that their expenses should not be that high, but they're never going to hit that revenue with donations.
Which is shitty. Frank Lloyd Wright could never have become an architect now, for example, no one would employ him.
As soon as I read the summary I thought - of course it was criticized, it's Microsoft!
Oh, FFS. You are blind if you think the reason Microsoft have been criticised and are still criticised is because it's a knee-jerk reaction. Look at their track record.
I say this as a Vista user, and I quite like Vista. No, honestly, there is at least one. I admit I used Windows 8 for the first time today, and have since changed my opinion. Now I believe every operating system is the equivalent of beatifically joyful tears of unicorns, except for Windows 8.
the real question is why hasn't the Linux foundation (or any of the other free software foundations) gotten in on funding and providing courseware for high schoolers?
Are you for real? You want free software _foundations_ to fund high school courses?
Perhaps the companies that use free software could... you know, like Red Hat (oh... they do?), IBM (wait, they do too?), and Microsoft (wait a minute....).
If everything Apple designed was so obvious, then why is it that no one made the iPhone before Apple did?
LG Prada. Go look it up. Look what it looks like.