Sadly that is a very good point. After I get married, this fine desktop will probably be going wireless. Luckily when I want to play Warcraft, she'll probably be out, and I can get out my CAT5 cable.
Any libertarian who supports is an idiot. If war isn't market control preventing your holy grail of free market I don't know what is. That article wasn't worth the electrons I received
It is very difficult to estimate the number of people in a very large group. 150,000 would be an at least figure for melbourne at those protests. There was at least 175,000 in Brisbane on that same date and many more across the world on that first weekend before the Iraq war. Protests are always a percentage, some people cannot physically get up and onto the streets, some will be fired or whatnot if they do. You will always get less than 100%. If you have 5% of a country in protest it means there is something seriously wrong and the government has really cocked up, any more than that and you are looking at resignations and overthrows. The reason is for every one on the street there are 10 who agree with the protest just not as strongly as to take to the streets. This is a pretty recognised fact around the world in most societies.
Well said. You raise the most important point, protesting does nothing if it doesn't in some way affect society. YouTube is too easy to ignore. I ignore 911 conspiracy theorists and rebels without a backbone one youtube every day. If people don't stop and think the protest hasn't worked. I know I'm going to come up against alot of apathy here but protesting does work. I'm an Australian and I am at constant disagreement with the present government. I've been to some very successful protests where we changed not only national but international opinion by keeping the issue in the media. One example of this is the immigration policy of manditory detention, I was at Woomera and Baxter detention centres 4 times. Each time made national and international news, each time reminded Joe Blow that we still have this policy through making mainstream media every time. Protesting works, web protests don't. Protest is an approach that works, we have hundreds of years of it working. Web protesting in the form outlined in the article is pointless, you will change a few bored geeks minds at best. YouTube is still useful in protests the most recent example is uploading videos showing police brutality, but it is not a protest in itself. The only way you will get a government changed in an undemocratic country is a few million people on the streets. Real change always comes from below.
You know there are solutions to keyboards, many are however immature but that shouldn't be a reason to halt a design in the small direction. What about voice imput, or slide keyboards, or muscle sensors, or Brain wave readers, or even nerve signal decoders. As soon as you put a limit on anything it limits what solutions could be. Personally I'm waiting for voice recognition software to improve so I could run a headless and inputless wearable PC, speak to it, it speaks back. If you don't think about what is possible you will always be one step behind.
If thats the best way they can think of locking the desktop they need a hard kick in the noggin. Anything is better than having to go through more than one menu to unlock a PDA.
Well in biology you generally go alot lower than leaves to learn how trees work. Also once you know how one plant or animal works at a cellular level you can generally work out how most releted plants or animals work. If you don't look under the metaphysical compiled bonnet and call yourself a programmer may I suggest sticking with.NET.
I'm sorry I was new here it won't happen again. I won't publish a joke that was many decades old I promise, sir. No one on slashdot would ever make a stupid mistake like that twice.
Screw that I'm filing a patent on lodging patents. I'll make millions as gullible companies try to protect their "original" ideas. This guy will be required to pay me a fee for filing that patent.
India is the largest democracy in the world. It is definately a crazy regime that is punishing many social and ethnic groups. It is a regime interested in maintaining a caste system. Democracy doesn't scale well with so many different groups and needs. Take a look at some Indian elections to see this, they literally do say different things to different areas.
Playing by the rules is supporting them. If google is helping crazy regimes stay in power that is a very bad thing. Just like in war you have a choice whether to pull the trigger. You may be killed (metaphorically or physically) for your decision but you can't sit on the fence it's yes or no.
This coming from an anonymous COWARD. Seriously it's taken more balls for mainland europe and new zealand (yay for new zealand) to resist the US on the war in Iraq than it took than the lapdogs and money grabbers that followed it. You don't have to fight to be brave, you don't have to wave your penis about, you don't have to do what you are told. Hicks fight in the street does that make them worthy of the honour? Real humans can solve all problems with words.
The chaser http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/ is actually humour to be enjoyed. I know Chris and Julian personally and tehy are really funny guys. Julian got arrested for streaking through a streakers trial, you can't get much funnier than that. Also for anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about most of the episodes are available freely from the site I linked.
Just to dispell a myth no one in Australia actually drinks fosters. Honestly I've lived heere for 21 years and most of those years I was drunk and I've never seen anyone drink fosters. XXXX, tooheys, VB, boags, coopers and Gulf are beers Australians actually drink. Fosters is an export beer for gullible foreigners.
Teaching isn't exactly a market at all. You have government controlled schools, catholic and other religious controlled schools, a handful of independant schools and schools controlled by nutcases who would have been better off in the third reich or Prof. Tim Leary's grad classes. The problem with this proposal is the same as the problems plaguing the IT industry. You get alot of unskilled, incompetent, mornons who are just there because their school councillor/family/man in the street told them there is lots of money here. Teachers usually teach because they love the job, that's the only sort of teacher you should ever try and attract. Teachers unions have a point like nurses (required university qualification in Australia) are underpaid and undervalued. If you have incompetent teachers who don't really want to be there your country will suffer alot more than if your corn farmers don't have a subsidy.
I can honestly say I've had more hardware problems in windows than linux. And I used gentoo to boot. It is very difficult to track down random hardware crashes with windows especially things like RAID, network errors, pci cards falling out, RAM failing, etc. I've had all of the same things happen in linux and it didn't even reset. If it happens in windows reinstalling is usually the shortest way to fix those problems. Run some no standard hardware, dodgy connectors, randomly plug and unplug things and windows will die, linux will not. End of story.
Our censorship laws have been getting alot easier and better over the last 15 years (although with the recent rise of a christian right they are starting to ban alot more). It's not censorship that slows it is advertising and show cost prices.
Alright I don't know who these leftists you are referring to are but as a socialist I haven't heard anyone defend China or Soviet Russia in the last 20 years. Cuba is a different story becasue not everything is bad. Some is good, some is bad, such is life. The good doesn't negate the bad and the bad doesn't negate the good. As for your original question who can honestly say why anyone believed anything in the past. Memory is biased, history is most certainly biased. You have absolutely no way of possibly ever knowing why people believed anything unless of course you were there and one of those people. Anything else is pure speculation and you should know it sir.
It may come as news to you but the rich and powerful have always dictated public policy since the year dot. It does not matter whether it is legal, moral, whatever this has always been the case. The industral revolution changed the makeup of the ruling class slightly but it is still the rich and powerful in control. If you seriously believe democracy is actually control to the people I want whatever you are on. There isn't one country in the world that doesn't listen to "economic interests" or "business leaders" first and the voting public second. Lobbying is just the new way of doing the same old business. Please read up on the history of this fair planet of ours before looking suprised this are still the same as they always were.
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I use a bike you insensitive clod, that is what's wrong with them!
Any libertarian who supports is an idiot. If war isn't market control preventing your holy grail of free market I don't know what is. That article wasn't worth the electrons I received
It is very difficult to estimate the number of people in a very large group. 150,000 would be an at least figure for melbourne at those protests. There was at least 175,000 in Brisbane on that same date and many more across the world on that first weekend before the Iraq war. Protests are always a percentage, some people cannot physically get up and onto the streets, some will be fired or whatnot if they do. You will always get less than 100%. If you have 5% of a country in protest it means there is something seriously wrong and the government has really cocked up, any more than that and you are looking at resignations and overthrows. The reason is for every one on the street there are 10 who agree with the protest just not as strongly as to take to the streets. This is a pretty recognised fact around the world in most societies.
Well said. You raise the most important point, protesting does nothing if it doesn't in some way affect society. YouTube is too easy to ignore. I ignore 911 conspiracy theorists and rebels without a backbone one youtube every day. If people don't stop and think the protest hasn't worked. I know I'm going to come up against alot of apathy here but protesting does work. I'm an Australian and I am at constant disagreement with the present government. I've been to some very successful protests where we changed not only national but international opinion by keeping the issue in the media. One example of this is the immigration policy of manditory detention, I was at Woomera and Baxter detention centres 4 times. Each time made national and international news, each time reminded Joe Blow that we still have this policy through making mainstream media every time. Protesting works, web protests don't. Protest is an approach that works, we have hundreds of years of it working. Web protesting in the form outlined in the article is pointless, you will change a few bored geeks minds at best. YouTube is still useful in protests the most recent example is uploading videos showing police brutality, but it is not a protest in itself. The only way you will get a government changed in an undemocratic country is a few million people on the streets. Real change always comes from below.
You know there are solutions to keyboards, many are however immature but that shouldn't be a reason to halt a design in the small direction. What about voice imput, or slide keyboards, or muscle sensors, or Brain wave readers, or even nerve signal decoders. As soon as you put a limit on anything it limits what solutions could be. Personally I'm waiting for voice recognition software to improve so I could run a headless and inputless wearable PC, speak to it, it speaks back. If you don't think about what is possible you will always be one step behind.
If thats the best way they can think of locking the desktop they need a hard kick in the noggin. Anything is better than having to go through more than one menu to unlock a PDA.
Well in biology you generally go alot lower than leaves to learn how trees work. Also once you know how one plant or animal works at a cellular level you can generally work out how most releted plants or animals work. If you don't look under the metaphysical compiled bonnet and call yourself a programmer may I suggest sticking with .NET.
I'm sorry I was new here it won't happen again. I won't publish a joke that was many decades old I promise, sir. No one on slashdot would ever make a stupid mistake like that twice.
...lower amounts of oxygen to stop server fires if it wasn't for dell laptops.
Screw that I'm filing a patent on lodging patents. I'll make millions as gullible companies try to protect their "original" ideas. This guy will be required to pay me a fee for filing that patent.
India is the largest democracy in the world. It is definately a crazy regime that is punishing many social and ethnic groups. It is a regime interested in maintaining a caste system. Democracy doesn't scale well with so many different groups and needs. Take a look at some Indian elections to see this, they literally do say different things to different areas.
Playing by the rules is supporting them. If google is helping crazy regimes stay in power that is a very bad thing. Just like in war you have a choice whether to pull the trigger. You may be killed (metaphorically or physically) for your decision but you can't sit on the fence it's yes or no.
This coming from an anonymous COWARD. Seriously it's taken more balls for mainland europe and new zealand (yay for new zealand) to resist the US on the war in Iraq than it took than the lapdogs and money grabbers that followed it. You don't have to fight to be brave, you don't have to wave your penis about, you don't have to do what you are told. Hicks fight in the street does that make them worthy of the honour? Real humans can solve all problems with words.
The chaser http://www.abc.net.au/tv/chaser/ is actually humour to be enjoyed. I know Chris and Julian personally and tehy are really funny guys. Julian got arrested for streaking through a streakers trial, you can't get much funnier than that. Also for anyone who doesn't know what I'm on about most of the episodes are available freely from the site I linked.
Just to dispell a myth no one in Australia actually drinks fosters. Honestly I've lived heere for 21 years and most of those years I was drunk and I've never seen anyone drink fosters. XXXX, tooheys, VB, boags, coopers and Gulf are beers Australians actually drink. Fosters is an export beer for gullible foreigners.
Strewth, that's what you get for not buying rust resistant Australian.
Australian spell checkers won't add the symbols, pure uncensored cursing is english here, we don't spell shit with an octothorpe.
Teaching isn't exactly a market at all. You have government controlled schools, catholic and other religious controlled schools, a handful of independant schools and schools controlled by nutcases who would have been better off in the third reich or Prof. Tim Leary's grad classes. The problem with this proposal is the same as the problems plaguing the IT industry. You get alot of unskilled, incompetent, mornons who are just there because their school councillor/family/man in the street told them there is lots of money here. Teachers usually teach because they love the job, that's the only sort of teacher you should ever try and attract. Teachers unions have a point like nurses (required university qualification in Australia) are underpaid and undervalued. If you have incompetent teachers who don't really want to be there your country will suffer alot more than if your corn farmers don't have a subsidy.
I can honestly say I've had more hardware problems in windows than linux. And I used gentoo to boot. It is very difficult to track down random hardware crashes with windows especially things like RAID, network errors, pci cards falling out, RAM failing, etc. I've had all of the same things happen in linux and it didn't even reset. If it happens in windows reinstalling is usually the shortest way to fix those problems. Run some no standard hardware, dodgy connectors, randomly plug and unplug things and windows will die, linux will not. End of story.
Our censorship laws have been getting alot easier and better over the last 15 years (although with the recent rise of a christian right they are starting to ban alot more). It's not censorship that slows it is advertising and show cost prices.
Alright I don't know who these leftists you are referring to are but as a socialist I haven't heard anyone defend China or Soviet Russia in the last 20 years. Cuba is a different story becasue not everything is bad. Some is good, some is bad, such is life. The good doesn't negate the bad and the bad doesn't negate the good. As for your original question who can honestly say why anyone believed anything in the past. Memory is biased, history is most certainly biased. You have absolutely no way of possibly ever knowing why people believed anything unless of course you were there and one of those people. Anything else is pure speculation and you should know it sir.
Your treatment is progressing as expected. This one is now well again.
It may come as news to you but the rich and powerful have always dictated public policy since the year dot. It does not matter whether it is legal, moral, whatever this has always been the case. The industral revolution changed the makeup of the ruling class slightly but it is still the rich and powerful in control. If you seriously believe democracy is actually control to the people I want whatever you are on. There isn't one country in the world that doesn't listen to "economic interests" or "business leaders" first and the voting public second. Lobbying is just the new way of doing the same old business. Please read up on the history of this fair planet of ours before looking suprised this are still the same as they always were.