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Comment on Creating Relative Shortcuts in Windows by jdk

jdk — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:45:53 +0000

thanks for the flashdrive shortcut tip with batch files.
it worked great.
instead of the compiler, I made 6 batch files, put them in a folder and then created shortcuts to the batch files and changed the icon to the actual program icon.

Comment on Urban Terror and ALSA in Ubuntu 9.10 by Adam

Adam — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:09:11 +0000

I can't remember seeing that message when I installed the PulseAudio libs, but I guess apt knows best.

Let me know how it goes.

Comment on Urban Terror and ALSA in Ubuntu 9.10 by Donny Viszneki

Donny Viszneki — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 02:39:01 +0000

apt-get and aptitude both tell me that removing libsdl1.2debian-alsa is a consequence of installing libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio. That message follows:

donny@donny-desktop:~/UrbanTerror$ sudo aptitude install libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
Initializing package states… Done
Writing extended state information… Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libsdl1.2debian-pulseaudio
The following packages will be REMOVED:
libsdl1.2debian-alsa{a}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/211kB of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]

Comment on This is the New Year by Imerson

Imerson — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:29:56 +0000

Happy new year and happy birthday! We pretty much have the same resolutions, well, except for the miscellaneous part.

Comment on Urban Terror and ALSA in Ubuntu 9.10 by Ignacio

Ignacio — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:39:52 +0000

Thanks! Didn't even have to reboot.

Comment on Urban Terror and ALSA in Ubuntu 9.10 by c-x

c-x — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 19:28:04 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on The Ethics Of "Whale Wars" by Adam

Adam — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:45:29 +0000

Thanks for your comment, mp3phile.

I would of course agree that Animal Planet doesn't support the actions of the MV Steve Irwin explicitly. Heck, they even have a disclaimer before the show stating that they do not endorse the crew's opinions.

However, by showing the danger that the crew faces (even when the whalers aren't around), Animal Planet subtly encourages it's viewers to think of them as heroes of some sort. After all, look at all the hardships and trials the crew is enduring on their quest! They must be on the side of the good guys!

Furthermore, the fact that Animal Planet informs us of the Japanese condemnations is even better, because now our 'heroes' are triumphing over adversity!

So I guess I both agree and disagree with you. From one perspective, showing all the danger and condemnations may seem to be fair and even-handed. But from another perspective, it could be serving to solidify support for the environmentalists.

Comment on The Ethics Of "Whale Wars" by mp3phile

mp3phile — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 20:24:03 +0000

I have to disagree with your assertion that Animal Planet itself presents the actions of the Steve Irwin in a positive light. The narration and/or editing plainly shows what transpires, and does not try to hide the fact that what the whale lovers do is fairly dangerous for all parties involved (they show the stupid things that endanger only their own lives, a-la the episode where they go through an ice field, or when they accidentally swamp one of the little pontoon boats). The narration also regularly highlights the fact that the Steve Irwin is regularly condemned by Japanese, Australian, and other government bodies. A Japanese viewpoint is not presented, but most likely because of the logistics involved, and the fact that the Japanese want to limit exposure of their whaling industry to a wider audience.

That aside, I believe your thought experiment is interesting, but it ignores one fact, both the Steve Irwin, and the Japanese, are zealots. They both have positions that are mutually irreconcilable, and also immutable. An interesting corollary would be that of the more extreme pro-lifers and pro-choicers in the US. Even though a common ground exists (make abortion safe but rare by increasing access to sex education and contraception, thereby reducing unwanted pregnancies), both sides see any sort of compromise as losing.