Debian hasn't packaged 1.2 yet, these are third-party packages.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585409

Apparently one of the issues why the newer versions can't be packaged is that the maintainer wants to package and upload all versions between the last one and 1.4 in order. Since nobody has the time to do so, there isn't any progress towards packaging the newer ones.

I've passed with a 500ml bottle of liquid through the security. They detected it, warned me about it, and told me "If you want to drink it before you board, I might let you in with that, but you can't bring it with you on the plane".

So if the security person is in the mood, you might bring your dangerous liquids with less iterations.

That's not a solution.

What about the people who live there? Should they simply leave? Unlike you, the mere visitor, they are living constantly there under the treat of the regime. Even if they are hostile towards visitors, there's less risk for you because your visit will be temporary, while an inhabitant is permanently there. A visitor to Iran, especially if they do their research before visiting, ought to be safer than a random member of their society right now. Many of them might choose to leave, but for most that's not an option. Neither the people who left, nor the people who decided not to visit, decrease the number of victims of the regime. It changes nothing.

And as for you, personally? You're unlikely to be the target. No need to be paranoid when you're safer than the people who live there. It's not worth to completely ignore a country because you are too afraid to go there. And, you know, the presence of visitors might somehow help.

Because it is a free operating system, and the only one free operating system that has any chance of being on the desktop these days. Regardless of where you stand on the issue, you'd still have to admit that a capable free operating system on the desktop is a good and quite possibly an important thing. For starters, it would promote more open standards and less vendor lock-in.

Unfortunately, the Windows version of LibreOffice also tends to warn you several times about the lack of Java while its loading, and halts loading when it's waiting for you to click OK. Which means that "runs fine without Java" is misleading. It runs, if you have the nerve to give it your attention for a minute each time it loads. It's also not clear which Java versions are supported, so you'd end up installing at least a couple until it accepts one. I've had to install four until it stopped complaining.

kill -9 $$ # does the job pretty well

Not completely. The main difference is that probably there is some correlation between using anonymity and terrorism. And the biggest problem is that even then, such tests don't make sense.

The reason that the correlation doesn't matter is because it's a useless for any classificiation due to the extremely small number of terrists and the extremely large number of people doing these things without being terrorists. Even if the test can tell terrorists well, it is practically useless. The classical example given in statistical textbooks is a cancer test with a small false negative and false positive rate (a few percent) - it still leads to way more false detections than true detections, several orders of magnitude in fact. For terrorists even an excellent test is completely useless. If there are a million people ready to blow something up in a terrorist act, and the test has 1% false positives and false negatives, this would still lead to 9 out of 10 wrong terrorist detections.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confusion_of_the_inverse

It's exactly like racism - maybe a certain race statistically carries certain negative traits, whether it's due to their culture, past segragation or genetical differences, but applying that to individuals is extremely offensive, stupid and produces no real results besides making it difficult for people of the given race.

Port racism!

Copyrighted materials as in almost any materials produced in the last several decades? Everything is copyrighted. Even your post might be copyrighted even though blindly copying words such as "copyrighted" should push it below the threshold of originality.

It's news to me that there is a definition for death.

There's a medical definition for death, and even that can vary from time to time. But that definition is completely arbitrary and people have been healed after being "dead", so it's not very accurate either. Its sole purpose is to ensure that doctors follow the same legal standard when choosing when to abandon a patient, and it does that job well, but it's not a good general definition in any way.

The dead/alive distinction is also a false dichotomy.

Neither the biological processes nor your personality seizes to exist in a single moment.

The biological processes in your body stop slowly. Sure, with no blood circulation most of them stop pretty fast, but the fact that you can recover from that means that you're not dead immediately.

Your mind, personality, memories die much slowly. They are physically stored in your brain. People have survived after their brain activity had seized. The only reason we consider those people dead is because medical science haven't discovered a way to bring them back, but you can think that at least some of the people that are getting buried at still alive (in the sense that they can be healed, we just don't know how).

Both are gradual processes, so whatever definition you consider, dying is not binary.

So the energy wants to be free then.

What you say is true in theory. Each and every thing that you buy is produced by someone who has done something worth boycotting.

That's not the point, though. One of the reasons that this happens too much is that they are never penalized for it. Not by the government, not by their customers. They simply get away with it with no losses. And while you can't change that by simply not buying from those that are guilty of something, you should by all means take the chance to use the bad publicity surrounding the GoDaddy's move to support SOPA to send them a message that their customers this. And these customers happened to be exactly the people who SOPA will hurt.

It was a small thing and a drop in the ocean, but at least to some point they were aware that their SOPA support hurt them their bottom line, even by a bit. That's something. And other registrars know that supporting such legislation would also hurt them.

And if people reacted like this more often, you'd even force corporations to do less questionable things. It's not a boycott of a bad company, it's a boycott against a single bad policy to discourage it. If people boycotted companies "selectively" more often, some would use this as an advantage to gain customers over one of their policies, next over the other, and eventually push their competition to do the same.

Kucinich appears to be good at first, but he doesn't believe in science (opposes nuclear power, Yucca mountain, genetically modified organisms, etc.) and is also a supporter of gun control. He's also not running.