We're talking religious zealot nut cases that think dying for their deity is glorious and expected.
ooohh... Sounds scary, until you realize it is basically the same thing as patriotic nutcases that think dying for their country is glorious and expected.
I believe that what you actually mean is, you can remember a time when you were completely unaware of civil rights violations all around you. I also remember such a time. Life was wonderful when I was five years old, and my greatest achievements included learning to ride a two-wheeled bike, and passing the test to get into first grade.
This makes North Korea.sound like utopia!
Get a life dude.
Yeah, automatically accuse people of lying when their anecdotal experience does not match your ideological beliefs.
Look, I've installed Linux on dozens of machines. The newer the hardware, the more cumbersome it is to get it working, unless you're using bleeding edge distros. I don't use bleeding edge distros, for my own sanity.
If I'm a fanboy at all, I'd be a fanboy of Debian stable. Any time saved by using another disto would eventually be evened out by the "cost of maintenance" of using things like *Unity*, *GNOME 3*.
In 1998 you spent two weeks to get it half working if there's actually a driver for your hardware -- or two months to write the damn driver yourself. These days you spend 2-3 days to find, install and config the latest kernel and drivers, because your 6 month old distro release (using a year old kernel) probably won't have the drivers for your newer hardware.
You know, bourgeoisie capitalism and all that shit.
The only alternative to burning money is to burn time.
- Linux: Expect around 2-3 days of hunting for audio and display drivers and tweaking with the configs until it works.
- Windows: Expect around 2-3 days of trying to clean your system of malware and converting your old machine settings to the new one. (or just accept that you have to fight daily battles against the OS to be productive with the computer)
I'm currently using a Linux machine at home. Yet the thought of spending a day or two messing with the OS instead of doing something more interesting/productive makes me dread my next computer hardware upgrade. I had more time on my hands back when I bought my current machine.
It really depends on whether you really want to do self-repair. I have a hard disk with bad sectors, and I'm procrastinating to fix it (running on backup drives now), even though I could easily spend an afternoon to buy a new disk and migrate the data over.
Life is short. Time is precious. To each their own
Think of the young women and girls!! You don't want to dissuade them from pursuing a career in carrying out legalized killings!
Your *government* is a master. (Well, unless you're Obama with a funny slashdot nickname).
Deng Xiao-ping would be rolling in his grave to know that Hong Kong, where English is still one of the official languages, is still part of the British Empire.
In other news, it may be a surprise to you that not everyone in Britain speaks English as a first language. Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II would probably object strongly to alienating their status as British subjects.
I guess most Asians don't understand English that well to feel strongly about it. (And on that point, since you're Googling, I suppose if you searched in the native language of the country you're researching you'll have more results)
And generally the expectation of privacy is not so culturally important as in Europe. When some anonymous something far far away across the pacific ocean is alleged to maybe have tapped on your communications, it doesn't register as something to be obviously outraged about.
Perhaps something about Asians living in relatively crowded cities instead of quiet suburbs gives the secure feeling of being in a crowd and not having the feeling of possibly singled out. I just made that up, but I suppose it does make sense.
Who did the Chinese ask or pay before starting Baidu?
You first get the government to create a firewall to block your competitors....
They can (and do) run their own DNS if they so please.
So the GFW of China was actually a good idea?
More like, US have captured the world's imagination
5 steps to "capture the world's imagination":
1. Hype up values of freedom and democracy
2. Fail to live up to what you preach
3. Make glamorous Hollywood films about them
4. Accuse others of acting "against universal human values" when they decide to block you
5. We've captured the world's imagination [smirk]
if the USA government were to suddenly renounce the use of the word freedom, you would deem it as a kind of progress
Yes it is. It means they would have the moral ground to look at what they did and fix things, instead of having to pretend they can't do wrong.
Perhaps you can enlighten me by linking to some report?
You catch a student cheating. The student puts on a smirk and says: "What's the big deal? Everyone else is doing it -- prove me wrong."
And of course you can't prove a negative.
God help those who do not help themselves. -- Wilson Mizner
