[-] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

I don't think money, or the lack of, defines anyone's ability to do (or to be) better as a person.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

There are people happy about what it is becoming*

Thx for helping me improve my lacking English. Much appreciated (I mean, really ;)

The EU is not a finished project :)

Are you sure about that?

I mean, looking at who people are actually voting for (here again, an existential grammar doubt if you don't mind me asking: should I instead say 'who they voted for' or 'who they vote for' as it's an ongoing and repetitive action but also an already finished task since, obviously, we can count their votes?) Back to what I was saying: people are voting not for the EU and have been voting not for the EU more and more openly. And to me votes is the only data worth considering when discussing politics, not what people may say out loud. Their vote is them being honest with themselves, not trying to look good.

Like with our dear US-friends swearing they hate on Trump and on his politics but still have elected the dude twice.

Should we think Trump is really just that, a sad accident that happened twice (almost) in a row in the history of the USA, or wouldn't it be safer to consider the possibility that, maybe, a majority of the US population is indeed supporting what they voted for twice and that they want their country to become exactly what it is becoming? And they want their leaders to treat the rest of the world like they're doing?

As a fervent EU proponent myself, I wish to see some meaningful election giving me hope we still have some common future as a Union, and not just because we share some common borders.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Have you had your health checked recently? If there is nothing wrong, maybe you're like me: I was getting bald at a relatively young age and then my hair started greying out.

Instead of fighting it, I decided to assume it and make it simpler to live with for me. I shaved myhead and have not looked back since then ;)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

A, this is why magic isn’t real

I don't think the question is about magic vs reality, we're talking vampires here, right?, but to know how if vampires were a thing, it would be possible (or not) for a vampire cop to enter a house without being invited by the home owner, even with a warrant.

B, the law can say whatever the fuck it wants it still can’t bend reality.

The law doesn't need to bend any reality, it never does. Law is not about scientific laws, it's about human behavior. At least modern laws as some older ones may have tried, and maybe some particularly stupid modern ones too, but their ability to bend said reality to their will is still to be demonstrated :p

The law is a contract, with a sanction of some sort when it is broken. Be it to pay a fine, or to be prevented to do certain activities in the future, or be forced to do some other ones, or to go to jail. Up to the death penalty, in some places.

The law is about making the citizens bent to its will, not the reality.

That will is, in theory at least, is the expression of the common will, also known as the agreed upon desire of all the citizens. Citizens don't define laws of physics (which would deal with 'reality') and no matter how hard they may want, the also can't alter them.

Speed limit is not about enforcing a certain speed over which the laws of physics would suddenly (and magically) crumble. It’s about punishing people not respecting that agreed upon speed limit. That’s also why it’s very possible to have different speed limits in different places. Physics doesn't change, our expectations do.

We will drive faster on a highway than, say, next to a school despite the car being the same, with the same driver and with the same laws of physics applying, why? The place is different and also how we are expected to behave in such a place which, near a school, should obviously be to slow down so we the drivers (aka old/adults enough to have our driving license and act responsibly) can compensate for kids being… kids, aka not always being attentive to what’s going on around them, or being silly.

A warrant, for example has nothing to do with giving its carrier some magical power to enter a place (say by moving through a closed door or through walls, or by teleporting there) but it has all to do with punishing the owner of the place for not letting the warrant carrier enter their house, even if they don’t want to.

So, all I was saying is that in that ‘fantasy’ world where vampire cops would be a thing, the law may as well be written so it makes it a ‘mandatory welcoming' for the home owner to let in the vampire-cop, any refusal to comply to said 'forced invitation to enter' being sanctioned by a more or less severe punishment… Which, btw, is not far from what a warrant is supposed to be doing in our (this time, real) world ;)

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

I meant: the warrant would equal an invitation to enter one's home, an invitation decided by the judge to which, as a law abiding citizen, the place owner would be forced to comply with.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But couldn't the law be written so that a warrant once seen by the home owner must legally be considered a mandatory invitation, making the cop legally allowed to enter the home?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

But it has kings and queens and knights, armies of pawns and thick towers to defend them during merciless battles. It also has bishops, but I much prefer the French name: les fous aka the crazy ones ;)

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

What are you looking for in such a guide? Like suggested, Mint installation guide is great to... install it and I needed not much beside that myself (but I was a Mac user, not Windows) ;)

Imho, what most people need is the willingness to give Linux a chance. And that, I'm afraid, no guide could give them.

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