Zen Buddhism has been around for 1500 years or so. It focuses on the main teachings of the Buddha, which in themselves are not particularly mystical, at least in the sense of Gods and Heavens.

Buddhism by itself is an athiest religion - there is no such thing as God in a purely Buddhist worldview.

Often Buddhism is joined with another religion to meet that need for people. A couple of examples of this would be Bon in Tibetian Buddhism, and Shinto in the Japanese version.

For managing lots of Drupal sites (even across multiple servers) try the Aegir project, its close to a 1.0 release but is stable enough for production use now.

http://groups.drupal.org/aegir-hosting-system

Kind of related, check out Drush, which lets you manage drupal sites from a linux command line & drush_make which lets you create make files for drupal sites.

Drupal is very powerful, but its not for the faint-hearted.

Also, this move makes a lot of sense considering the upcoming Chrome OS will probably need some sort of VOIP capability.

I'm not sure I understand you post.

You've listed a set of classic public domain texts that have had non-public domain movies made out of them at various points. What are they evidence of?

I agree with the 14 years though. All for copyright reform.

I think this has been the most boring thread in Slashdot history. palegrey.net, I applaud you!

*sigh*

Its not about the profit made in the first year. Its about controlling culture.

If there was a massive public domain filled with all the cool movies made in the 80's, would we really bother to watch new ones as much?

Shorter copyright periods lead to less profit for these companies regardless.

That looks awesome. For $10 I'm gonna buy it. Also, fuck any person or business or business consortium who engages in frivolous lawsuits.

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Study the language dood.

makes sense. coming from australia, the sheer amount of water and trees blew my mind.

I guess in this case I do define 'advanced' as more like me, because i was talking about 2 ethnic groups trying to integrate into our society. By integrate i mean 'finding their place' as opposed to 'becoming white fellahs'. They need to adapt to modern life and become a successful, healthy people.

Advanced may have been a poor word selection as its a pretty loaded term.

With Aboriginal hip hop, I wasn't talking commmercial 'bling' hip hop. I meant it as a street level form of self expression and building self respect.

Watch the vid at http://www.indigenoushiphop.com/

I spent a bit of time during some touristy native american stuff while i was in canada and alaska last year, those tribes are (were) WAY more advanced than the Australian native peoples that the comparision just doesn't apply.

Native americans built full blown cabins where aborigionals largely still lived in caves and temporary shelter. They had a far better chance at integration.

Yeah its sad whats happened to the aussie abos, but at the end of the day they, as a people, need to save themselves - they have been given whatever resources they need. And perhaps they are making progress like alcohol bans in some towns up north, mon-fri boarding schools for children so they get proper rest at night, and pouring money into aborigional art and expression (hip-hop, dance and so on).

The biggest problem is that a large proportion of this and the next generation of aboriginal kids will be growing up with fetal alcohol syndrome. those kids dont have a chance.

Funny thing is your C levels must've gone cheapo in Bangalore as well - as Bangalore should most certainly be up at 3am to fix things. Most serious IT outsources run 2 to 3 shifts to give 24/7 cover. Hell, most hosting companies in the US do that.

Its always a sad thing to see a medium-large company die - so much hard work building it up sent straight down the drain.

and besides, victims of crime in the States are much more likely to be DEAD!

yeah i'd feel safer if i was packin' a glok.

by the way, those stats are coming from victims of crime so their perception is warped anyway.