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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(philosophy) "Ubuntu is an ethic or humanist philosophy focusing on people's allegiances and relations with each other. The word has its origin in the Bantu languages of Southern Africa. Ubuntu is seen as a classical African concept. " "An attempt at a longer definition has been made by Archbishop Desmond Tutu (1999): “ A person with Ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed. ” Archbishop Desmond Tutu further explained Ubuntu as follows (2008): “ One of the sayings in our country is Ubuntu - the essence of being human. Ubuntu speaks particularly about the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation. It speaks about our interconnectedness. You can't be human all by yourself, and when you have this quality - Ubuntu - you are known for your generosity. We think of ourselves far too frequently as just individuals, separated from one another, whereas you are connected and what you do affects the whole world. When you do well, it spreads out; it is for the whole of humanity." Nelson Mandela explained Ubuntu as follows; “ A traveller through a country would stop at a village and he didn't have to ask for food or for water. Once he stops, the people give him food, entertain him. That is one aspect of Ubuntu but it will have various aspects. Ubuntu does not mean that people should not address themselves. The question therefore is: Are you going to do so in order to enable the community around you to be able to improve? ” ---------------- "The "Ubuntu" distribution of the Linux computer operating system is inspired by the concept, based on the premise that it "brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world." ===================== ===================== All existing computer operating systems (for virtually all PCs in the world) are variants of either Windows (Microsoft's product), or Mac (Apple's product), or Linux. Windows and Mac are owned by single companies. If you want to deal with the O/S, you have one source only. Windows is the most widespread (thus, the most-owned and more programs are written for it), but is the least satisfactory of the 3 O/S' families in terms of stability, size, and so on. For those who want to free themselves of the one-company license system, there's Linux, or to be more specific, there's all the different "distros" of Linux. Some are owned by a company and that company offers support (like Fedora, whose freeware version is Red Hat, or Linspire, designed for Windows users, whose freeware version is Freespire). Some are specialized, like the tiny ones designed to use almost no space and fit on a pendrive. Ubuntu is a freeware Linux distro that's widespread, and designed for the average user to be able to understand it. That means the only advantages Windows has over it are familiarity-and anyone can learn Ubuntu- and number of compatible programs- although many programs DO have Ubuntu versions. A separate discussion is about programs designed to make programs for Windows work for Linux. (I don't know enough on the subject to say much that's useful about that.) So, about Ubuntu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu "Ubuntu (pronounced /uːˈbuːntuː/[3] oo-BOON-too),[4] is a computer operating system based on Debian GNU/Linux. Ubuntu's goals include providing an up-to-date, stable operating system for the average user, with a strong focus on usability and ease-of-installation. Ubuntu has been selected by readers of desktoplinux.com as the most popular Linux distribution for the desktop, claiming approximately 30% of their desktop installations in both 2006 and 2007.[5][6] Ubuntu is composed of multiple software packages distributed under free/open source licenses, especially the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) so that users are free to run, copy, distribute, study, change, develop and improve the software. Ubuntu is sponsored by the UK based company Canonical Ltd., owned by South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Instead of selling Ubuntu for profit, Canonical creates revenue by selling technical support and from creating several proprietary services tied to Ubuntu including Ubuntu One, Landscape and Launchpad. Canonical is yet to turn profitable, however. By keeping Ubuntu distribution itself free software and open source, Canonical is able to take advantage of the talents of outside developers in Ubuntu's constituent components without developing the entire operating system itself (which is based primarily on current Linux kernels)." http://www.ubuntu.com/ "Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and spreadsheet software, instant messaging and much more." " * Ubuntu will always be free of charge, including enterprise releases and security updates. * Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies around the world. * Ubuntu includes the very best translations and accessibility infrastructure that the free software community has to offer. * Ubuntu CDs contain only free software applications; we encourage you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on."

Ok, let's see.... It was called the Mousetrap... No, actually, it was "the Darkness and the Light". Since it was a Season 5'er, it is from later in the series. Ronald Moore especially liked that the characters didn't have that fake 180-degree turn and apologize. which is common in television. Kira does not feel sorry for her actions as a resistance fighter, and considers all Cardassians on Bajor "guilty", and meeting non-combatants didn't change her even a little. Your turn!

I don't hear from Him (as in "definite Voice of The Almighty) as much as I would like. I know it's not a matter of MY will, which was how it was defined in twi by making it "a manifestation". cg even dropped the word "may" from his version of the definition, making it COMPULSORY for God to answer if you're operating it: "The manifestation of word of knowledge is your operation of the God-given ability whereby you [may] receive from God, by His Spirit, certain truths or facts unknown to you by the 5 senses." His rationale was that the manifestation either works or it isn't. If he'd said it to me, my response would have been- at the time I first heard it- that I can will the manifestation- I can speed-dial God Almighty directly- but if God does not CHOOSE to tell me, He will NOT tell me. Since I cannot FORCE Him to tell me, it is "may." The analogy of "reaching up into Daddy's cookie jar" made it obvious to me. "Sometimes there's a cookie there, sometimes there isn't." That's how asking God for an answer gets. Sometimes He chooses to answer you, sometimes He does not.

Ever consider switching up to IE7 if you're going to use IE? It really is a lot better than IE6. Some websites will actually tell you something like "you're using IE6 and this website won't look right to you." Not all of us are ready to switch to more stable Linux distros from Windows XP 3. But Vista had me serious enough about it to get an Ubuntu disk. I'm not ready to try to convert various XP programs I like to try to run in WINE. I think a lot of the casual users, especially at the GSC, might benefit more from Ubuntu or Red Hat or something, because they're using only programs that have Linux versions (firewall, antivirus, emailer, browser, IM, graphics editor, office suite.)

So, next movie. "All right Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up."

"Blazing Saddles." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinking_badges This is fresh in my memory, since "Treasure of the Sierra Madre" was on TV a few days ago, and I looked up the quote from that movie then, which was "Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinkin' badges!"

IIRC, the only divergence we ever discussed hasn't come up in a while.... That vpw, in pfal, insisted that "Eli, Eli lamana shabachthani" could not POSSIBLY be a question because one of the words (I forget if it was "lemana" or "shabachthani") was NEVER used in a question, only in declarative statements..... ....but the twi Aramaic Interlinear renders it a rhetorical QUESTION.

"You know the Rules of Acquisition?" "I am a graduate of Starfleet Academy. I know many things." "That's one." "I believe she was killed by a remat detonator -- a device programmed to scramble a transporter beam during rematerialization. They're typically no more than two cubic millimeters in size, so it may have been hidden in her clothes or even injected under her skin." "That device is typically used by the Romulans. However, they're also sold on the black market." "She was always so afraid... afraid that she'd be caught and executed. But she never stopped. I once told her I thought she was braver than the rest of us, because she had to live with fear every day." "That's two." "That's three." "It doesn't sound natural." "No kidding." "I mean, I know they're using some kind of scrambler to disguise the voice, but there's something else the rhythms don't sound natural... more like a composite of words from different speeches put together." "You can tell that through all the distortion? "It's the lobes. The intonation and phrasing are just slightly off." "I make it a policy never to argue with someone's lobes." "Okay... let's say these are composite messages. Does that help us?" "Maybe. Since the first word in all three messages is the same, let's assume that it's simply been copied three times. That gives me a reference to begin screening out the electronic interference." "None of you should've been on Bajor! It wasn't your world. For fifty years you raped our planet and killed our people. You lived on our land and took the food from our mouths, so I don't care if you held a phaser in your hand or ironed shirts for a living. You were all guilty and you were all legitimate targets!" "And that's what makes you a murderer. Indiscriminate killing... no sense of morality... no thought given to the consequences of your action. That's what makes us different." "I was a soldier. You're just a bitter old man out for revenge." "I am bringing the guilty to justice. And unlike you, I take care to protect the innocent." ------ "Since she was an informant, it stands to reason that Fala was killed for providing information to the Resistance... information that the Shakaar used to plan an attack on a Cardassian target. The killer is probably someone either injured or who lost a family member or friend in that attack." "We planned dozens of attacks based on Fala's information. It could be any of them." "Not any. we're dealing with an operation in which you played a prominent part. Perhaps you could make a list of all the attacks by the Shakaar that you participated in... ?" --------

"Its not the pale moon that excites me, That thrills and delights me"

G.A, I hope you're thinking of the movie that was actually said, and not the movie where it was ALMOST said. (That's 2 different movies...)

Titanic. "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' "

Although "Give us your money, then leave" would be a more honest statement from the "board of directors", we're not going to hear that level of candor.

"Superman:the Movie." "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"

My comment- "YOU ARE DISPOSABLE AT THE WAY" was meant as a more accurate reflection of twi than its once-motto: "You are welcome at the Way". That twi's leadership sees twi as a COMPANY should scare the heck out of the remaining people. Jesus said the shepherd gives his life for the sheep- and the word "pastor" is from the same concept and word as "shepherd." REAL pastors try to help people in their care. twi just wants the no-maintenance people. HELP people? Not twi.

twi's Aramaic interlinear was made during the late 1980s, along with a Word-Study Concordance as a companion. "What's the HRV?" Gotta follow the links... http://www.seekgod.ca/trfactor2.htm "James Trimm's Hebrew Roots Version (HRV) title page stated he translated Ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts for his New Testament. "A translation of the "New Testament" taken from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts." James Trimm announced various times on various forums, such as his SANJ forum at Yahoo: # 411 From: James Trimm <jstrimm@n...> Date: Wed Apr 30, 2003 0:49pm Subject: HRV Bible Coming Soon ... The HRV translation of the New Testament is translated out of the ORIGINAL HEBREW AND ARAMAIC and is taken from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic Manuscripts NOT THE GREEK.... # 411 From: James Trimm <jstrimm@n...> Date: Wed Apr 30, 2003 1:27pm Subject: Restoring Original Hebrew/Aramaic NT ....Unlike most translations this edition is not rooted in a Greek Hellenistic text. Instead this translation seeks to understand the text of the New Testament from the languages in which it was originally written. This is important because there are some passages in the NT which do not make sense at all in Greek, but only begin to make sense when we look at them in Hebrew and Aramaic:.." 1 James Trimm also stated that for the New Testament he used, " the Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts rather than the Greek. The HRV reaches back to the original text of the Tanak by making use not only of the Masoretic Text, but of the Massorah, the Aramaic Pedangta Tanak, the Hebrew Samaritan Pentateuch, the Greek Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls." And , "The HRV "New Testament" text is taken from ancient Hebrew and Aramaic manuscripts. (Shem Tob, DuTillet and Muster Hebrew Matthew; Munster Hebrew Hebrews; The Old Syriac Aramaic Gospels; The Aramaic Pedangta NT and the Crawford Aramaic Revelation.) and has over 1,700 footnotes. "...The HRV Tanak it translated primarily from the Hebrew Masoretic Text contains many footnotes giving important alternate readings from the Dead Sea Scroll manuscripts; the Samaritan Pentateuch; the Greek Septuagent; the Aramaic Pedangta Tanak and the Aramaic Targums." 2 Trimm posted a page of Sources which supposedly revealed where he obtained his documentation. 3 After consulting with professors regarding James Trimm's stated Sources for "translating" the HRV, it was stated to this writer, that it is obvious that in order to even read/utilize the listed source texts one would have to know, "at a minimum, Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek (to be able to judge the accuracy of the Hebrew and/or Syriac translation of the Greek NT)." These are the opinions, collectively, of real professors who head Religious Departments in major Universities, who have doctorates in Middle East studies and so on. These are the academics who know what would be needed in order to translate a Bible and also be able to utilize the resources James Trimm claims to have used. It's been stated by people fluent in Aramaic and Hebrew that James is not in the least fluent in those languages. Some have posted various writings and asked him to translate on the spot, and he has been unable to. Nor can he dialogue in those languages. What James failed to list in his translation resources was The Way International Bible. James Trimm also neglected to mention that in 1993 he put out a request on the internet, for a copy of that Version."

*reads* The guy claims a doctorate, but his "doctorate" is from an uncredited source. In other words, I'm twice the doctor he is, because 2 different Greasespotters declared me one. Hey, if one uncredited source is considered to count, then they all should count... :) Guy gets a doctorate from a degree mill, then plagiarizes the work of others and sells it. Why is twi disapproving of this? It supposedly was just FINE when vpw did both- in fact, he based his entire career on plagiarizing the work of others, probably moreso than this new guy. You'd think they'd consider this guy vpw's REAL successor...

Are you sure it's IE6 you're still using, and not IE7? IE 6 was before MS finally followed Mozilla's lead and added a pop-up blocker. (That would mean you get lots of advertising windows popping up.)

No, that wouldn't be a description of this episode. I'm not sure which one you're referencing, But that wouldn't apply to this one.

You are disposable at the Way.

Actually, I also prefer the mouthful over a racial slur. vpw would have been just as much a sanitary napkin had he come from any other nationality. Using a racial slur fogs the issue, IMHO. (Not to say I don't think there's worthy discussion in whether or not vpw was a Nazi sympathizer, or admired Hitler's "Final Solution", or whether the Holocaust/the Shoah was faked, and so on.) We have good points to make, and making posts all about the language takes away from the points. Garth, I thought your points, honestly, were LESS effective when you used a racial slur. You have a lot more to offer discussion here than an insult here and there. On the other hand, that posters have a lot of latitude in what they want to say is one of the selling-points of the GSC. We CAN "disagree without being disagreeable." Some things may be tolerated without an issue made of them, but that's different than saying they're "PROMOTED". The phrasings sometimes get a bit crude or "locker-room", but I'd prefer people's legitimate voices- when they're not pushing harmful ideas- than a board that's sanitized beyond the human experience.

YES! I was getting desperate for quotes.

"You know the Rules of Acquisition?" "I am a graduate of Starfleet Academy. I know many things." "That's one." "I believe she was killed by a remat detonator -- a device programmed to scramble a transporter beam during rematerialization. They're typically no more than two cubic millimeters in size, so it may have been hidden in her clothes or even injected under her skin." "That device is typically used by the Romulans. However, they're also sold on the black market." "She was always so afraid... afraid that she'd be caught and executed. But she never stopped. I once told her I thought she was braver than the rest of us, because she had to live with fear every day." "That's two." "That's three." "It doesn't sound natural." "No kidding." "I mean, I know they're using some kind of scrambler to disguise the voice, but there's something else the rhythms don't sound natural... more like a composite of words from different speeches put together." "You can tell that through all the distortion? "It's the lobes. The intonation and phrasing are just slightly off." "I make it a policy never to argue with someone's lobes." "Okay... let's say these are composite messages. Does that help us?" "Maybe. Since the first word in all three messages is the same, let's assume that it's simply been copied three times. That gives me a reference to begin screening out the electronic interference." "None of you should've been on Bajor! It wasn't your world. For fifty years you raped our planet and killed our people. You lived on our land and took the food from our mouths, so I don't care if you held a phaser in your hand or ironed shirts for a living. You were all guilty and you were all legitimate targets!" "And that's what makes you a murderer. Indiscriminate killing... no sense of morality... no thought given to the consequences of your action. That's what makes us different." "I was a soldier. You're just a bitter old man out for revenge." "I am bringing the guilty to justice. And unlike you, I take care to protect the innocent."

"I'm glad I have someone looking out for me." "I'm looking out for ME. You punch really hard during those bad dreams." "What happens to these people in their last moments, it really matters." "Have you ever heard of a antique-related emergency?" "Um, uh, no." "You run an antique shop in Grandview, isn't that right?" "Yes." "And you're an amateur psychiatrist in your off hours?" "I'm beginning to feel like a travel agent who's never been on a plane." "Was that a date?" "Did it feel like a date?" "Well, she left before dinner arrived, so, roughly, I'd say yes." "I've seen them weep for joy, I've felt their peace.You just have to have a little faith, it's that simple.You're not alone, and all of this was meant to be and the only thing I know for sure is that there is love there, love like you have never known here and you can't just turn away from that." "What if she doesn't remember me?" "I've never given birth but from what I've heard it's not something you forget." "I feel like I'm living in a John Carpenter film." "In order to tell you my story, I have to tell you theirs." "Wait, didn't you say that kid Dylan was playing with him? Well, how could he see him?" "Kids can almost always see spirits. Where do you think imaginary friends come from?" "See these rings, they mean you and I are bound together, your problems are my problems, so talk to me." "Retro Fright Night. 'Psycho', 'Hell House', 'I Know What You Did Last Summer'…" "Wait, how is that retro? Jennifer Love Hewitt starred in 'I Know What You Did Last Summer.'"

Ok, let's see. IE 6 came out in August 27, 2001. IE 7 came out in October 18, 2006. Opera 8 came out in April 19, 2005. Opera 9 came out in June 20, 2006. Opera 9.5 came out in June 12, 2008. If IE 7 is fine for the new forum (Microsoft design, released in 2006), then Opera 9.0 should probably be fine for the new forum (non-Microsoft design, released in 2006), and Opera 9.5 should be better than either for the new forum (non-Microsoft design, released in 2008.) For Firefox, everything from 2.0 on (October 24, 2006) should be fine, too.