Good point. But who really cares whether shes in an office of in front of a flag? It doesn't really matter. And ah to heck with it, I'd be fine with a zoo zebra shopped onto a savannah; if you can't tell what's the difference?
At least with a MMO you pay far more over the months than for the original game; when they cut off service it saves you money. What does it matter if you play for a year or so then never really play it again or if they shut it down totally?
I'd draw the line at "is this even real". If someone photoshops a zebra into a picture of the savannah then that's obviously unacceptable. But playing with contrast and white balance and changing the background (not the subject) instead of bothering to buy a real flag, then that's fine.
Also she doesn't look younger at all. It's the same image; the one on the left is so horribly degraded that she looks older than she is.
Yeah but can you carry a gun to protect yourself? Europeans sure have the upper hand when it comes to reasonable controlled-substance laws and humane prisons, but America has freedom of expression cornered. And I'm not convinced that safe neighborhoods make up for not being able to recycle on sundays:P
Well yeah Left and Liberal aren't synonymous but in modern politics, almost everywhere in the world liberals have filled the Left side of the economic-politic spectrum while conservatives have traditionally been right-leaners.
I'm perfectly happy with Firefox 2. I dislike many things about FF3, like the new Bookmarks/History window, "Show in Sidebar" not being on the history menu, the ugly preferences and addons panels, the horrifyingly intuition-defying "awesome bar" that ALWAYS gets what I'm trying to type completely wrong, and the horribly ugly theme.
Anyway I don't want to upgrade so I shouldn't have to. How hard is it to backport security updates? It's not like gecko itself has security vulnerabilities.
I don't care if they mark FF3 stable, but my "emerge firefox" better not upgrade me.
Eh I'm not so sure. Everyone knows how rigorously the military requires software to be audited for flight control systems.. and this is the space shuttle. A bit of a step up. So it may be easier to write everything from scratch, testing rigorously as you go, instead of handing developers an unfamiliar codebase and making them try to make it meet code robustness requirements.
I love free software but I don't think volunteer developers in an anarchist programming environment have a place in the development of a $2 billion system at the absolute pinnacle of aerospace design complexity.
How about because it was wartime and the nation's press had been forced for years to hire nazi sympathizers and write pro-nazi content? The Allieds didn't want them printing nazi propoganda when Allied soldiers were risking their lives to keep people under control. Yeah it's a blatant violation of civil rights, but you have to give a certain amount of leeway to military forces or they can't do their job. If they thought controlling the local press was as important as air superiority and defending river crossings, then that's their prerogative, especially since GERMANY LOST and the winner in a war can do whatever they want. International politics is weird.
If you don't want another dictatorship then don't vote for another dictator. If neo-nazis would have "eaten western germany for breakfast" then that obviously means a majority of your population wanted nazi leaders, and that your government defends its power against the direct will of the people. How is that protecting democracy?
You can make rational arguments against the State and it's pretty irrational to argue against a race. That's the only difference- free speech (and more importantly, of course, free thought) is a basic "human right" and the ability to make any argument should be absolutely guaranteed, no matter how illogical. Keep in mind that racism was a major force in shaping our social landscape today. So was Christianity, and both defy logic. Strange theories have resulted in refined, better theories, so they shouldn't be treated with contempt just because some of us have moved on. We can't just retroactively outlaw every theory that's not in vogue, especially knowing that most of the things we believe today will be out of fashion in just decades. America at least is still a fairly sexist society, with gender roles firmly defined and transgenderism and (to a somewhat lesser degree) homosexuality widely viewed as a travesty. I suspect this will be utterly gone in a matter of 50 years, like upstanding 1950s citizens' passionate beliefs about women not wearing slacks. Does that mean we throw conservatives in prison? Of course not, just let them catch up, it won't take long. And who knows, maybe we'll move into a more conservative era instead of a more liberal one, and society will be wanting to throw slashdot in prison until we conform to them.
Also remember that while personal sacrifice for The Party occurs in a socialist context, Marxism is supposed to be about bringing the wealth to the people. It just didn't really work out in practice.
You'd best be trolling. The left wing is famous for preserving personal freedoms and forcing businesses to follow policies that favor the people. The right wing is concerned with safety and financial stability and leeway at the national-corporate level, at the cost of many civil rights.
stereotypically, in rough order: Left wing = environmentalists, civil rights advocates, poor people, young people, gay people, anti-war protesters
Right wing = rich people, conservative/traditional (usually older) people, religious people, business owners/executives
Basically you have it completely backwards. The far extreme right is called fascism and the far extreme left is called socialism. The thing about prophets was defended by left-wingers concerned with free speech, and the thing about undermining freedoms for the common cause was fascist italy/germany killing jews and gypsies.
Well of course; laws saying that you can't discriminate when hiring don't undermine free speech, though that same employer should be able to have a ferociously racist personal blog. But the point lukas84 is making is that anti-racist-speech laws violate free speech and are bad laws.
But wikipedia.de (which presumably is the one that the general public of Germany is familiar with) doesn't, and it's not even allowed to link to de.wikipedia.org
I want to know who these judges are that keep granting absurd injunctions. Is it really enough to just ask to take down any site you want? Wikileaks, and now wikipedia itself? Has anyone checked if this judge is still alive and it's not just his clerk rubber stamping a signature on every piece of paper that lands in his inbox? If he is alive I'd like to see him sitting in a defendant's chair intead of pompously in his dubious majesty up on the big throne.
Did you say there's only 6 hours of battery life, you can't answer calls, and you can't type anything? Is this an actual product that they sell for money?
See the posts above.
A NAT provides a common gateway that all home devices can connect to. You don't need to configure PPPoE modem drivers for each client; all you need is a simple IP stack. And of course there's no reason to use more than one IP address if one will do.
The PPPoE driver argument is most convincing IMO. There's no reason clients on a home network should have to worry about what's going on outside the gateway.
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Don't tag this suddenoutbreakofcommonsense! Some poor teacher was just convicted of a misdemeanor for something that she had no control over.
Good point. But who really cares whether shes in an office of in front of a flag? It doesn't really matter. And ah to heck with it, I'd be fine with a zoo zebra shopped onto a savannah; if you can't tell what's the difference?
At least with a MMO you pay far more over the months than for the original game; when they cut off service it saves you money. What does it matter if you play for a year or so then never really play it again or if they shut it down totally?
Battle.net ran on a central server; bnetd solved that.
I'd draw the line at "is this even real". If someone photoshops a zebra into a picture of the savannah then that's obviously unacceptable. But playing with contrast and white balance and changing the background (not the subject) instead of bothering to buy a real flag, then that's fine.
Also she doesn't look younger at all. It's the same image; the one on the left is so horribly degraded that she looks older than she is.
SpiderMonkey.
Yeah but can you carry a gun to protect yourself? Europeans sure have the upper hand when it comes to reasonable controlled-substance laws and humane prisons, but America has freedom of expression cornered. And I'm not convinced that safe neighborhoods make up for not being able to recycle on sundays :P
Well yeah Left and Liberal aren't synonymous but in modern politics, almost everywhere in the world liberals have filled the Left side of the economic-politic spectrum while conservatives have traditionally been right-leaners.
I'm perfectly happy with Firefox 2. I dislike many things about FF3, like the new Bookmarks/History window, "Show in Sidebar" not being on the history menu, the ugly preferences and addons panels, the horrifyingly intuition-defying "awesome bar" that ALWAYS gets what I'm trying to type completely wrong, and the horribly ugly theme.
Anyway I don't want to upgrade so I shouldn't have to. How hard is it to backport security updates? It's not like gecko itself has security vulnerabilities.
I don't care if they mark FF3 stable, but my "emerge firefox" better not upgrade me.
Eh I'm not so sure. Everyone knows how rigorously the military requires software to be audited for flight control systems.. and this is the space shuttle. A bit of a step up. So it may be easier to write everything from scratch, testing rigorously as you go, instead of handing developers an unfamiliar codebase and making them try to make it meet code robustness requirements.
I love free software but I don't think volunteer developers in an anarchist programming environment have a place in the development of a $2 billion system at the absolute pinnacle of aerospace design complexity.
How about because it was wartime and the nation's press had been forced for years to hire nazi sympathizers and write pro-nazi content? The Allieds didn't want them printing nazi propoganda when Allied soldiers were risking their lives to keep people under control. Yeah it's a blatant violation of civil rights, but you have to give a certain amount of leeway to military forces or they can't do their job. If they thought controlling the local press was as important as air superiority and defending river crossings, then that's their prerogative, especially since GERMANY LOST and the winner in a war can do whatever they want. International politics is weird.
If you don't want another dictatorship then don't vote for another dictator. If neo-nazis would have "eaten western germany for breakfast" then that obviously means a majority of your population wanted nazi leaders, and that your government defends its power against the direct will of the people. How is that protecting democracy?
You can make rational arguments against the State and it's pretty irrational to argue against a race. That's the only difference- free speech (and more importantly, of course, free thought) is a basic "human right" and the ability to make any argument should be absolutely guaranteed, no matter how illogical. Keep in mind that racism was a major force in shaping our social landscape today. So was Christianity, and both defy logic. Strange theories have resulted in refined, better theories, so they shouldn't be treated with contempt just because some of us have moved on. We can't just retroactively outlaw every theory that's not in vogue, especially knowing that most of the things we believe today will be out of fashion in just decades. America at least is still a fairly sexist society, with gender roles firmly defined and transgenderism and (to a somewhat lesser degree) homosexuality widely viewed as a travesty. I suspect this will be utterly gone in a matter of 50 years, like upstanding 1950s citizens' passionate beliefs about women not wearing slacks. Does that mean we throw conservatives in prison? Of course not, just let them catch up, it won't take long. And who knows, maybe we'll move into a more conservative era instead of a more liberal one, and society will be wanting to throw slashdot in prison until we conform to them.
Also remember that while personal sacrifice for The Party occurs in a socialist context, Marxism is supposed to be about bringing the wealth to the people. It just didn't really work out in practice.
You'd best be trolling. The left wing is famous for preserving personal freedoms and forcing businesses to follow policies that favor the people. The right wing is concerned with safety and financial stability and leeway at the national-corporate level, at the cost of many civil rights.
stereotypically, in rough order:
Left wing = environmentalists, civil rights advocates, poor people, young people, gay people, anti-war protesters
Right wing = rich people, conservative/traditional (usually older) people, religious people, business owners/executives
Basically you have it completely backwards. The far extreme right is called fascism and the far extreme left is called socialism. The thing about prophets was defended by left-wingers concerned with free speech, and the thing about undermining freedoms for the common cause was fascist italy/germany killing jews and gypsies.
You mean like "lol look at that guy's uid" oh wait :(
Well of course; laws saying that you can't discriminate when hiring don't undermine free speech, though that same employer should be able to have a ferociously racist personal blog. But the point lukas84 is making is that anti-racist-speech laws violate free speech and are bad laws.
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But wikipedia.de (which presumably is the one that the general public of Germany is familiar with) doesn't, and it's not even allowed to link to de.wikipedia.org
I don't think anyone's really surprised that this came out of Germany. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_Federal_Republic_of_Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Germany#Freedom_of_Speech
It's scary really. I said only a few days ago that I would never visit or stop over in Germany.
I want to know who these judges are that keep granting absurd injunctions. Is it really enough to just ask to take down any site you want? Wikileaks, and now wikipedia itself? Has anyone checked if this judge is still alive and it's not just his clerk rubber stamping a signature on every piece of paper that lands in his inbox? If he is alive I'd like to see him sitting in a defendant's chair intead of pompously in his dubious majesty up on the big throne.
Did you say there's only 6 hours of battery life, you can't answer calls, and you can't type anything? Is this an actual product that they sell for money?
See the posts above. A NAT provides a common gateway that all home devices can connect to. You don't need to configure PPPoE modem drivers for each client; all you need is a simple IP stack. And of course there's no reason to use more than one IP address if one will do.
Wait, what? Your heater connected to the internet? By any chance, might this new initiative be called SkyNet?
The PPPoE driver argument is most convincing IMO. There's no reason clients on a home network should have to worry about what's going on outside the gateway.