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Thinking in terms of nations is something for peasants. The ruling elites don't care about nations. They care about class war. And they are winning it.

Don't know what his argument was.

Mine is: You're probably a troll and nobody should feed you.

I like this Wolfram guy. Blogging about Leibniz and the first sentence is obiously about stuff "he made" that now makes the world a better place.

Yeah yeah, Leibniz, Newton, Einstein and Wolfram. What a team!

Or something really classy:

http://www.eterna.ch/de/1948/1948-date

I upvoted him/her. Because parent posted bullshit.

but seriously, do we hate our government so much that we are willing to cheer when another government subverts it?

Probably not, but your government hates YOU so much that they are willing to spy on you on every occasion.

Just a guess, but probably silver:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_uses_of_silver#Water_pu...

He got so many things wrong, it's hard to even start criticizing him. Well, I won't. I had the same ideas when I was 16. Then I started reading books.

Also: Why in Xolotl's name is this on Hacker News?!?

Religious discussions aside, wtf do you mean with "getting off of this planet"? Whereto? There's nothing around for TRILLIONS of klicks!

First fuck up the planet, then leave, does not appear to be a trait of highly developed civilisations. More one of perishing ones.

No, it's not.

This look great! Will give it a try. On Windows I've been using WinPython

http://winpython.sourceforge.net

which has the additional advantage of being a portable installation. If i'm not mistaken, the same people are behind WinPython and PythonXY.

those people certainly don't know their latin. just kidding.

Both? The parents (or whoever shot that video) are obvious assholes.

Yeah, @retube has a political agenda. Why even bother with those shills?

So with a handful of out of context citations and some rather retarded points of view (Greenspun WTF?) you are trying to convince people? Really? At least give it _some_ effort. This way it is rather boring...

Another tool which does a good job is Mailstore, free for home users:

http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home.aspx

You might want to reflect on the concept of legality. I know, thinking hurts sometimes, but it's totally worth it!

the windows console sucks, but there are a couple of tools that keep you from throwing your workstation out of the window:

readline completion à la bash: http://code.google.com/p/clink/

nice console emulator with tabs: http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/

gnu tools on windows without cygwin: https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki

not perfect, but actually usable...

Especially here in Nerdghanistan. It really is a nice collection of Fachidioten.

A first, rather easy solution would be to pay decently. What? Capitalists can't do this? Because other capitalists will drive them out of business? My my, isn't the system really fucked! Time for some radical architectural changes.

You probably should reconsider the choice of your tools. I certainly would.

alright, i was (kinda) joking. but i don't think that the guitar playing was the unique selling value of nirvana. the song writing was stellar though.

also the atrocious guitar playing and constant mumbling helped a lot in that department. but we digress. on the topic: i like comic sans. it looks friendly. there, i said it.

minor nitpick: it's thrash metal, from thrashing. not trash as in garbage.

right. why fix the system, when you can be part of an elite?

are you busy trying to learn the newest web application development framework?

The real question is: douchebags or losers? I'm going for a combination of both.

You could say that about every service in rural areas.

If you tried to go all the way with your argument, only a few urban centres would be left with decent infrastructure. And of course infrastructure needed to support those (parasitic) centres (what with food and the like).

A rather gloomy picture of society, if you asked me.

In which Java basically has taken over the world of enterprise programming. Contrary to fringe languages like Haskell and the like.

I think some points of clarification are in order:

I do not compare Iran to Nazi Germany, this would mean to deny the uniqueness of the holocaust in human history.

I meant, as a German I have a moral obligation to support Israel in its fight for existance. If officials of another country talk about wiping Israel from the map, i get suspicious. You don't? I hope not.

To state, that Israels political system is built on the subjugation of a people is really rather shallow and a grave simplification. What you, Wrap, say, sounds like you think that the "palestinian people" (whatever that is or was) are the victims in that case and have done nothing to nobody. That is just wrong and i advise you to read up on the whole story.

Also, from my point of view, the right of existance of Israel is not a topic of discussion anymore. Maybe it was unfortunate to found it where it's been founded after WW2, but that is not something that can be changed now in any sensible way.

And, come on, Wrap, the Jews where "emigrating" from Europe to "kill and drive a people off their own land and claim it as their own"??? That is just ridiculous. Please get an education.

Last point about Irans political system: It does not have "major problems", it is basically run by sad men greedy for power that use religion as means of suppression. The one thing you have to give them, is that Iran/Persia was not a very aggressive country in the past. But that's it. They do oppress their people (~80 million) which you really can not say of Israel. Also they throw threats all around, and I do not think they do this just for funsies.