Terrorism is terrorism just as murder is murder. Terrorism that involves murder is both terrorism and murder.
Whether the crime is a hate crime or not does not depend on the race of the victim alone. A lynching with overtly racist motives ( ie a clear act of terrorism ) is different to quietly stabbing someone in a dark alley.
What does it take to qualify as a "population segment."
The point is not whether the victim is a member of the "population segment", but whether the attacker is committing an act of terror against a particular group.
Can't the category of "ex-girlfriends" be considered a population segment?
Bad example -- the attacker is targetting *their* ex-girlfriend. The murder is obviously non-random. Killers don't target "ex-girlfriends" ( though some may target women )
Isn't one person enough to qualify for a "segment?"
No, it isn't. Like terrorism, hate crimes target a particular group.
You mention social fabric and the media. The amount of media coverage determines the extent of the terror caused by a "hate" crime. Should a criminal be punished more severely if the media coverage is more intense?
This is a straw man. Whether or not an act constitutes terrorism does not depend on how many television cameras show up. Though a more severe act of terrorism does stand a better chance of pulling more cameras.
In ether one of those cases, the people are both dead.
"Hate crime" is not the best choice of words. "Hate crime" could be called "terrorism" -- it is an attack not just on the person but a group of people. Think of it as "terrorism + murder" if you like.
There both premeditated, There really isn't any more 'risk' involved. what about a black person killing a white person? is that a hate crime to??
Well it depends. If they did it to make an ( anti-white ) statement, then probably yes.
KDE are using their own html widget as the standard html widget -- for all KDE programs anyway. There already is a "libhtml" widget. ( libkhtml ). GNOME have also implemented a html widget. As for "reinventing the wheel", it hasn't happened -- if I've heard correctly, the gnome html widget usedcode from khtml.
My bet is that we'll have two "standard" html widgets -- KDE and GNOME. They will be more or less the same besides the different widget sets used. I don't think anyone feels comfortable counting on Mozilla. I've been using linux for over 2 years, and I feel as though Netscape has been falling short of the mark the whole time.
I hope to God that Konqueror will do one thing and one thing only: browse web pages.
That's pretty much all it does and all it ever will do. When it needs another application ( such as a mail client ), it invokes the appropriate KDE application. So you can still respond to a mailto: link, but the code is not leeched to the browser. Ditto regarding newsclients.
Konqueror isn't so much as a browser as it is a shared library ( ie a html widget ). That is, to write a "browser" in KDE, you (more or less) just shove the html widget into a window. The KDE libraries are released under the LGPL.
I don't know, but this article looks like anti-MS FUD to me. It's certainly prejudicial and premature to assume without proof that they are "up to dirty tricks".
How democratic was Germany during the facist era ? How democratic was the US during the McCarthy era ? During the segregation years ? Was South Africa a democracy during the apartheid years ?
The simple fact that millions try every year to immigrate to America (and over a million per year succeed), many of them fleeing China, says enough as it is.
Try talking to them. They immigrate because of the $$$. Most of them don't cite "democracy" as a major factor in moving.
In case you haven't noticed, $17,000 is a huge amount of money for most of the world. Per-capita annual income in many sub-Saharan countries and the likes of Bangladesh is under $100 per year. That is true, grinding poverty.
But you need to factor in the cost of living. You can live on $500- a year in China ( in fact most of the people do ). But it won't get you far in the US.
Still, you have a point to some degree. But there still *is* real poverty in the US ( ie youth homelessness for example )
Read the Amnesty International reports. Other countries are considerably worse than China. There is no comparison between, say China and Middle Eastern countries such as Iraq, who have prison staff whose full time job is to rape prisoners, and launch military attacks ( at times using chemical weapons ) on their own civillians. Or numerous other military/religious dictatorships.
Yes, China are not terribly good, but are they the worst ? Hell, no.
(1) "China" doesn't violate anyone's human rights. The Chinese government ( who are not chosen or elected by their citizens ) do. If linux can benefit ordinary Chinese people, this is a good thing. (2) Tibet is a bad example. (a) That Tibet is a seperate country is questionable from a historical point of view. It is also not clear that the monarchy in Tibet that preceded the Mao regime were substantially better than Mao ( and successors ) (b) It is not Tibet that is being oppressed, it is Tibetan seperatists and their sympathisers.
That's kind of like saying you can run Corel Office for windows using Wine. Actually, the binary emulation is OK and works for several apps, but it is not perfect.
You'd be a terrible person to work with. Suppose we'd be writing a report together.
If you're writing a report together and you need to use mathematica, then you are probably both using TeX. If you are writing a document that has a lot of math in it, a conventional word processor is not up to the task ( not even close ). People who are writing the report need to use a decent tool for the job. People who are merely reading the report can use a PS or PDF viewer.
... or something like that. I keep three passwords at a given time.
A password for accounts that require me to submit over an insecure channel ( telnet, internet )
A password that is used for all of my user accounts that I get a secure connection to (ssh ). This password is never sent in the clear ( if I need to send it plain text, I change it immediately )
The root password for the machine I admin. Only submitted over secure channels
I tend to rotate them, ie root password->user password->insecure password->trash can.
If I get a new password , I immediately "rehearse" by typing it several times ( or logging in and out ), until it's "burnt into" my fingers. Once it's "burnt in", my fingers remember it even if I don't.
The problem with Tibet is that it depends on the outside for food and many other basic commodities because the climate there is so harsh. This is further agravated by the fact that transportation in and out of and within the country is next to impossible ( snow during the winter, mudslides in summer ). China are apparently giving people such as school teachers financial incentive to go there ( because the Tibetan population have a shortage of such people ) but the mainland population aren't enthusiastically immigrating there.
If Tibet was really in such good shape economically , the Chinese would be dying to move there ( in the same manner that they immigrate en masse to the US ), but it's not, hence they're not.
Re-read my post. I didn't say they had a great record on human rights. I just pointed out that they weren't substantially worse than their neighbours in say Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia et al. As for "oppression in Tibet", the problem with Tibet is the crackdown on political dissent (seperatism) there, more than anything else. The Tibetan economy would die without China because Tibet is severely disadvantaged geographically. The Western media likes to make noise about Tibet because the US want it to break away so they can put military bases there.
You miss my point entirely. I am not saying that the Chinese government's humann rights record is "good" , or even "acceptable". My point is that they aren't substantially worse than other countries ( including those supported by the US ) and it is wrong to single them out for criticism ( as opposed to criticising them, *along with all the other countries that are just as bad * )
As for the new religious group , yes, they've already begun a campaign of media propoganda and slander about the group, and they are cracking down on it. But that is orthogonal to my point.
... well not as bad as they're made out to be. China *has* changed somewhat since Tianamen, and they are not constantly massaccaring their people. While their human rights are not terribly good, they are not substantially worse than several other countries ( including several governments supported by the US ), and to single them out for criticism *while* holding up the US as a shining example of human rights is mildly hypocritical.
Read the amnesty international reports for China and compare them with other developing countries in Asia (or better, the arab nations ), and decide for yourself whether they are substantially different from the others.
However, they needed to be posted due to the enormous number of people using Communism (and its stigma)
It's not surprising that "communism" is a dirty word in the home of McCarthyism. Outside the US, "communism" is not a four letter word. Still, it's foolish to say that linux intrinsically belongs to *any* political movement.
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It's not as simple as that. The fact that a white person murders a black person doesn't make it a hate crime. Doesn't even come close
Whether the crime is a hate crime or not does not depend on the race of the victim alone. A lynching with overtly racist motives ( ie a clear act of terrorism ) is different to quietly stabbing someone in a dark alley.
The point is not whether the victim is a member of the "population segment", but whether the attacker is committing an act of terror against a particular group.
Can't the category of "ex-girlfriends" be considered a population segment?
Bad example -- the attacker is targetting *their* ex-girlfriend. The murder is obviously non-random. Killers don't target "ex-girlfriends" ( though some may target women )
Isn't one person enough to qualify for a "segment?"
No, it isn't. Like terrorism, hate crimes target a particular group.
You mention social fabric and the media. The amount of media coverage determines the extent of the terror caused by a "hate" crime. Should a criminal be punished more severely if the media coverage is more intense?
This is a straw man. Whether or not an act constitutes terrorism does not depend on how many television cameras show up. Though a more severe act of terrorism does stand a better chance of pulling more cameras.
"Hate crime" is used to mean an act of terrorism. So the answer to your question is "no".
I am not sure that this "wise consensus" of yours is wise or consensus.
(1) is an act of murder, (2) is an act of murder and an act of terrorism, so they are not precisely the same.
"Hate crime" is not the best choice of words. "Hate crime" could be called "terrorism" -- it is an attack not just on the person but a group of people. Think of it as "terrorism + murder" if you like.
There both premeditated, There really isn't any more 'risk' involved. what about a black person killing a white person? is that a hate crime to??
Well it depends. If they did it to make an ( anti-white ) statement, then probably yes.
My bet is that we'll have two "standard" html widgets -- KDE and GNOME. They will be more or less the same besides the different widget sets used. I don't think anyone feels comfortable counting on Mozilla. I've been using linux for over 2 years, and I feel as though Netscape has been falling short of the mark the whole time.
That's pretty much all it does and all it ever will do. When it needs another application ( such as a mail client ), it invokes the appropriate KDE application. So you can still respond to a mailto: link, but the code is not leeched to the browser. Ditto regarding newsclients.
How democratic was Germany during the facist era ? How democratic was the US during the McCarthy era ? During the segregation years ? Was South Africa a democracy during the apartheid years ?
Not all facist countries are poor economically
Try talking to them. They immigrate because of the $$$. Most of them don't cite "democracy" as a major factor in moving.
But you need to factor in the cost of living. You can live on $500- a year in China ( in fact most of the people do ). But it won't get you far in the US.
Still, you have a point to some degree. But there still *is* real poverty in the US ( ie youth homelessness for example )
Yes, China are not terribly good, but are they the worst ? Hell, no.
(2) Tibet is a bad example.
(a) That Tibet is a seperate country is questionable from a historical point of view. It is also not clear that the monarchy in Tibet that preceded the Mao regime were substantially better than Mao ( and successors )
(b) It is not Tibet that is being oppressed, it is Tibetan seperatists and their sympathisers.
That's kind of like saying you can run Corel Office for windows using Wine. Actually, the binary emulation is OK and works for several apps, but it is not perfect.
If you're writing a report together and you need to use mathematica, then you are probably both using TeX. If you are writing a document that has a lot of math in it, a conventional word processor is not up to the task ( not even close ). People who are writing the report need to use a decent tool for the job. People who are merely reading the report can use a PS or PDF viewer.
I tend to rotate them, ie root password->user password->insecure password->trash can.
If I get a new password , I immediately "rehearse" by typing it several times ( or logging in and out ), until it's "burnt into" my fingers. Once it's "burnt in", my fingers remember it even if I don't.
I tend to start by logging in and out about 10 times. That usually "burns it in" to my fingers. No paper required.
If Tibet was really in such good shape economically , the Chinese would be dying to move there ( in the same manner that they immigrate en masse to the US ), but it's not, hence they're not.
Sure it is, but i never claimed that.
Re-read my post. I didn't say they had a great record on human rights. I just pointed out that they weren't substantially worse than their neighbours in say Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia et al. As for "oppression in Tibet", the problem with Tibet is the crackdown on political dissent (seperatism) there, more than anything else. The Tibetan economy would die without China because Tibet is severely disadvantaged geographically. The Western media likes to make noise about Tibet because the US want it to break away so they can put military bases there.
As for the new religious group , yes, they've already begun a campaign of media propoganda and slander about the group, and they are cracking down on it. But that is orthogonal to my point.
Read the amnesty international reports for China and compare them with other developing countries in Asia (or better, the arab nations ), and decide for yourself whether they are substantially different from the others.
However, they needed to be posted due to the enormous number of people using Communism (and its stigma)
It's not surprising that "communism" is a dirty word in the home of McCarthyism. Outside the US, "communism" is not a four letter word. Still, it's foolish to say that linux intrinsically belongs to *any* political movement.