@Frenzie You must be heavily a city person. You think when the worst stench and dirt from the cities is reducing, that the world is doing okay? Were you around 400 years ago to measure the pollution of the time? How far beyond the cities did it reach at the time?
I was born and grew up deep in the countryside. I have had little phases here and there, but basically I live at the same spot where I was born. The forests have been drastically reduced here in the past 20 years.
The urban effects on the countryside are global now. Maybe I am expressing myself too crudely, but I haven't seen any reliable measures of reduced pollution in the world. It's only increasing. Oil, plastics, and other poisons are not being given up - quite to the contrary. At the same time, there's a trend to present this or that pretty spot or project as "the way of the future", but it should be evident that those are just PR and marketing. All pretty spots in the world are monetised for tourism - and thus polluted.
1992? Amazing. This was still the Word Perfect era. The times when word processing machines were sold alongside with computers and typing machines still went on for years. I bought an electronic typing machine in 1995 and used it for six years.
I think proofreading in the right frame of mind is much more productive than distracting yourself with finishing touches while composing. But perhaps that's easy to say when you don't make many mistakes in the first place.
It's always easier to proofread someone else than oneself. At least this is how it seems to me professionally.
When you have LibreOffice with Language Tool, you already have the best. Only one thing is better: Train yourself to avoid mistakes. Of course, this is the hardest thing too.
As for me, I am happy enough to have gotten the common little Aspell working in Nano.
Let's show our expertise on this topic too to give our resident (or future) Buddhists also an opportunity to speak up
Is Buddhism a philosophy or religion? Is it scientific enough to be considered relevant or good for anything? Good in what way and for what specifically?
What about Buddhism's rapid spread in the West during the latter half of the last century? What are its causes? What are its effects?
What's a regular Buddhist like? What should a good Buddhist be like? Dalai Lama, Pesala, Steven Seagal, some ancient saint, self-immolators in Vietnam and China...
Military laws are one thing, civilian laws a different one. I suppose that the thread refers to death penalty regarding civilian societies. In such case, death penalty is never justifiable for the following reasons.
I agree with all the reasons you provide to reject the death penalty. However, I disagree with the generalisation that it's never justifiable and that military law and civilian law are strictly apart. Wars may last for years or decades, so the "order" under them is not so temporary or irrelevant to the discussion.
My generalisation is that death penalty looks impracticable in every way, no matter how well intended. Still, there are cases when it has an effect to deter a bigger evil. Granted, those cases are specific and limited. In general the death penalty is impracticable.
There used to be global warming deniers. Now that they changed the term to "climate change", there are climate deniers. Neither of the terms makes sense to me, but in either case deniers live on the principle "I deny, therefore I think."
This is a boring topic. There can only be two views: for and against. However, the nuances or reasons to support one or the other can make it interesting.
I think capital punishment is justifiable if it's propertionate to the crime, just, swift, and secure. To be proportionate, it must be applied only to murderers. For the punishment to be just, the murderer must have pre-meditated the act and show no signs of regret. To be secure, the convicted must be the actual murderer beyond any doubt. Also the legal system and courts of law must be free from delay, ill will and corruption.
Since all these aspects never come together, my answer is that death penalty is hardly ever justifiable. The courts and laws in my country are so corrupt that it's only right that the capital punishment is not applicable here.
I voted more beer. In 2030 there will be less clean water, probably critically little, and whatever liquid piss exists will be labelled attractively, such as "beer", and sold expensively.
In my view, inasmuch as the parts of the system don't act in unison, it's undescriptive to view them as a single unit with a single purpose or rule. It's not practical to state that Greek or Latin plurals are English, when they in fact only interfere with English plurals and are neither universally applied nor applicable the way native rules are.
Also, it's not practical to state that people can't break the law when the focus of all legal systems anywhere is to tell criminals from non-criminals and illegitimate rule from legitimate.
The bottom of our disagreement has been reached.
@some mod Is the latest span of posts in this thread grammatical mutterings, political mutterings, or some third kind of mutterings? It doesn't appear to be about agnosticism any more.
Of course, they are. As language being a product of people, each and every speaker - in every generation - participates in CREATING the language. Academically, English is a descriptive language - people rule it.
Your own posts speak against you. You pick on language implying that the rules are different from how people use the language here. In effect I was simply agreeing with you, even though in a way you don't like to be agreed with.
You can't twist the rules any way you like. I mean, you can, but this is language game, not proper language. I know Russian and I can twist it so that it breaks your heart. This would stop your liberal-mindedness about grammar, but I don't want to break your tender heart.
@Josh This is the situation you get in two cases: 1. In case of a rampantly invasive lingua franca 2. In case of low prestige of home language absorbing foreign elements.
The first case is lingua franca, which I don't really identify as a language. It can be twisted too much as situations require, which is not possible with a true language. For the speakers of a lingua franca of course they are perfectly positive they have a language, so I mostly just silently disagree, even though the reasons are solid.
The second is the case of a dying language, a language being replaced, assimilated into another.
To me language equals grammar. Grammar is rules. The rules are not fluid. They only appear fluid when there are parallel rules having an effect on each other. In your examples, the rules are perfectly well documented as originating in different languages. They organically belong to their respective languages and only have occasional use in English through direct immediately traceable borrowing.
How should I explain it to you? There's a difference between a language and a language game.
I don't. I have launched Otter browser only a few times to find that not much is there yet. If I had interaction with the guy, I would present my requests for the interface and features. Qt5 is just an obscure dependency that I don't even look at.
"What's your morning like?" <--- this is how the sentence makes some sense for non-russkies. Or maybe, "What do you do in the mornings?"
My mornings are unfortunately different on different days, because my main work has shifts, then I have other occasional jobs too, plus family and friends and other concerns. I strongly prefer a strictly regular lifestyle, but I could only achieve it temporarily for a while when I was unemployed.
Admittedly it's evident that Jung the psychologist was highly interested in quantum mechanics, and became informed of physics in general during the correspondence, but as to any detectable/citable contribution from classical physics to his theories, there's no evidence of such. Whereas Pauli the quantum physicist, if you consider QM physics, learned a lot on the problems I already linked to earlier. Note that they are closely philosophical problems (problem of measurement, mind-body problem, consciousness and subconsciousness), not strictly science problems, and none of these is really a physics problem, yet they have entered physics (quantum mechanics, specifically) via psychology and philosophy.
The interaction of ideas in the book is between psychology, philosophy, mythology, and quantum physics as a continuum theory. Relativity theory is discussed in the same spirit. Newton is only discussed as an alchemist. I am not exaggerating when I say that the influence is exactly in one direction.
If you're talking about apt-get, you can always use --no-install-recommends. Not that the rest of what you wrote inspires any confidence in this "Miro" thing.
Indeed, the Miro thing was on my machine for max fifteen minutes. I am not looking for any clever ways to get it back. There are enough workable video players around. I only tried Miro and wrote about it because Linux.com ranked it high once upon a time. My trust for their criteria sank a bunch.
If you use it to create bootable USB sticks, isn't it enough to do it as per instructions here?
If you want to erase the existing data, sure. If you want only one OS on your USB drive, sure. Also, can you properly use it as a USB stick afterwards on all operating systems or would that need yet another format?
I don't know any other operating systems any more besides Linux You are right, multiple partitions on the USB device may be desirable, but I haven't needed it. Maybe GParted can do something in this area?
1. KDE + VLC is no happy marriage. I mean, VLC works as usual for everything, but so does KDE. Namely, I have the desktop lock automatically timed and the lock works even when VLC is playing full screen, which is when it shouldn't work. I have spent hours going patiently through settings both in VLC and KDE and tweaked and tried some to no effect The only solution is to use some other media player that is more KDE native.
2. When wrestling with the above problem, I ran into a nice-looking media player Kaffeine, whose project looks unfortunately have had a short life. On the surface it contains some versatile promises (something to do with TV) that I am looking forward to try out. At least DVD plays okay.
3. Another media player that was recommended on the interwebz is called Miro. I got suspicious when I saw that its required dependencies bear names like geoip and such. Those are apparently required for its torrent function. I installed it anyway to give it a fair chance.
At first launch Miro asks permission to auto-launch at system startup and sniff for media files all over the home directory. It contains a webkit-based browser that is necessary to browse its media-sharing website, embedded in the interface, sign-up required. The top news on the site was a lengthy request for donations.
Then, before I had a chance to do anything with it, Miro caused a hickup of the desktop environment on my little Packard Bell Intel Atom dual core netbook for two minutes or so. After the hickup was over, mouse pointer had vanished. Keyboard still worked. So I uninstalled Miro right there, before I rebooted to get the mouse pointer back. That's about it on this piece of software.
The only solution is to use some other media player that is more KDE native.