Comment Re:Bring your own ride (Score 1) 86
Also, learn Russian.
Submission + - The Crime Problem of Occupy-Wall-Street (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: One underreported aspect of the "Occupy Wall Street" movement is the seemingly rampant crime problem which the movement itself seems to see as rather embarrassing. One branch even told rape victims not to go to the police and offered counseling — for the rapists.
Comment Re:It's human nature. (Score 2, Interesting) 1105
As a person who believes in "capitalistic" things like reason and science, I can only see how "global warming" is becoming a religion.
Do you think that Obama is caring about what happens after the 2012 election? Does any politician except maybe Ron Paul? *Only* the capitalist part of our culture cares about the future because only the capitalist part can inherit it to their children. The socialist part (i.e. state) is taking up huge debts, causing huge ecological damage and in general does not really care much about anything beyound the next election. Why? Because why should a president solve a problem that will emerge when another president is in office? Nope.
But don't worry, we will run out of oil anyway. Chances are, you are much more likely to freeze to death when the oil becomes too expensive for heating than anything about "climate change".
Comment Re:Occupy is the worst possible model to use (Score 1) 594
the "occupy" movement. First off, what do they stand for?
Well, they stand for Obama, Bernanke and 99% of bankers, billionaires and politicians.
Comment Re:Doughnuts? (Score 1) 535
Who knows, gobal warming may be good for world peace.
Submission + - Space Shuttle was expensive and dangerous vehicle (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: The Space Shuttle is an engineering masterpiece but at the same time an example of incredible waste, stupidity and decadence.
The combination of completely senseless requirements (for example horizontal landing — why?) with a naive-romantic basic concept (apparently the Space Shuttle should have become a "miniature Enterprise" from Star Trek: Commanders, pilots, chain-of-command, etc.) lead to a much too expensive and dangerous vehicle for space tourism.
The combination of completely senseless requirements (for example horizontal landing — why?) with a naive-romantic basic concept (apparently the Space Shuttle should have become a "miniature Enterprise" from Star Trek: Commanders, pilots, chain-of-command, etc.) lead to a much too expensive and dangerous vehicle for space tourism.
Comment The Trouble is that NASA has become a PR-outfit (Score 1) 131
In pretty much every NASA press release I read buzzwords and phrases like "applications on earth", etc.
Some pundits even argue that the Space Shuttle was only a wasteful form of space tourism. (I.e.: What is "payload specialist" and political science major Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud doing on the Space Shuttle?)
Now, after the Space Shuttle is history and one probe after another gets cancelled, it's not even space tourism anymore, it's purely PR.
Comment Re:Im confused (Score 1) 305
Mozilla foundation has become crazy, maybe IceCat can become a full fork of Firefox?
After reading this article I think maybe they want to destroy Firefox on purpose.
Submission + - Firefox 7 delayed, Fork proposed (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: Firefox 7 has been delayed (Article in german), and there are already proposals to fork Firefox
Comment Firefox 7 delayed (Score 1) 309
Mozilla-Foundation failed again: (sorry, in German)
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Update-auf-Firefox-7-verschoben-1351616.html
There are also desperate cries for a fork:
http://in-other-news.com/2011/The_problem_with_Firefox_and_how_it_could_be_fixed
Comment Let's dump the Mozilla-foundation (Score 2) 452
Firefox is open-source, if debian/Icecat or someone else takes over, the problems can be fixed - and fixed easily.
Firefox is pretty much a finished product (I don't care what Mozilla says) and we need at least one stable browser.
Comment Debian should take over (Score 1) 452
Exactly, but fortunately there is something that can be done:
http://in-other-news.com/2011/The_problem_with_Firefox_and_how_it_could_be_fixed
Submission + - Why debian/Icecat should take over Firefox (in-other-news.com)
RStonR writes: When you combine the release-policy of Chrome with Firefox, you gain not a single advantage, but the extension-system no longer works reliably, because when Firefox gets updated from a major revision to the next, all extensions have to be retested and released anew. Therefore a lot of things break even when Firefox-management refuses to admit it.
The good news is that Firefox is free software, which means that Firefox management does not own the codebase, but only the name "Firefox" (plus artwork, etc.). For example the "IceCat" browser from the debian project (which is a Linux-distribution) is a rebranded version of Firefox with some minor changes which could grow into a real fork, if the IceCat-developers want (and also put out a version for Windows).
The good news is that Firefox is free software, which means that Firefox management does not own the codebase, but only the name "Firefox" (plus artwork, etc.). For example the "IceCat" browser from the debian project (which is a Linux-distribution) is a rebranded version of Firefox with some minor changes which could grow into a real fork, if the IceCat-developers want (and also put out a version for Windows).
