Style depends on where you live and what conventions you follow. In Canada, we seem to be adopting American spellings and punctuation rules I think more as a result of the auto-correction features and misspelling underlines in Firefox et al than a desire to conform to your standard. Laziness (failing to employ Canadian English dictionaries etc.) results in homogeneity favouring (yes there's a 'u' in there) the culture that designed the tool.
Here's the breakdown on punctuation -- I happen to follow the British style myself.
Are you serious? Sure they'll send you a new one... and then another... and yet another, each time your brand new machine fails instead of doing good quality control at the outset. Then when you're one minute beyond the warranty period of the FIRST machine they sent you that was broken, you're SOL. The Internet is filled with Dell nightmares... here's mine:
Dell's Quality Control and Service is Total Crap
I'm an atheist, however:
"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
We spend approximately 21% of our budget on National Defense. Nearly half the budget is lost to entitlements. Bullshit. You are drinking the Koolaide if you believe that. It's more than double that by most estimates when the creative accounting isn't swallowed.
I agree with your position on pork and a lot of your other points, but to say that military spending isn't a problem is to be quite blind.
However that same military is the reason why we can bitch about the state of our country and the world with near impunity. We don't have to worry about tanks rolling over our demonstrations, we don't have to worry about family members being disappeared overnight because a relative spoke out in university, and we don't go to the market worried about some whacko with a bomb on his chest.
Do you really believe this? Didn't your military shoot people at a University? Hello -- Kent State? Oh, but that was a long time ago. I suppose your demonstrations now are all free of government interference right? Free Speech Zones... oh forgot about them. US Citizens being held in military installations for years without charge before being afforded the due process they are guaranteed by your constitution... oh... right.
I could go on and on, but I suppose my main point is that you seem to think that the armed instrument of your government is your main source of security and what allows you to live the life you do in America. I would argue that working hard to maintain good relations with one's neighbors, fair trade practices, tolerance and understanding of different cultures, the end of neo-colonialism and the exercise of soft power by way of example would serve America far better than a frightened, xenophobic populace hiding behind a massive military presence.
Interesting that your most poignant memory with regard to TV, in opposition to it, elicited scenes actually drawn from a television program. You will be assimilated... er it seems you already have been.
I suggest you read the book again. There are so many parallels in 1984 to today's world including ubiquitous surveillance that it's simply mind-blowing. You will be surprised by how wrong you are.
Sorry, but that page is poorly designed from a user experience perspective. The green headline just doesn't grab your attention. The first thing you see on that page is 'Documentation'... some blah blah blah that I don't want to read and then 'The Django Book' followed by 'The essential documentation', which is exactly where I would click, with no thought as to the version.
Mod me down if you must -- but I think the whole vitriolic treatment of ACs on Slashdot is a bunch of BS. Any time privacy issues are brought up, the Slashdot crowd goes into an apoplexy. They rant with much fervor bordering on the religious about how privacy is now gone and bemoan the current state of the world as applies to free speech etc.
Yet when anyone exercises their Slashdot granted rights of posting anonymously, suddenly they become pinko commie Windows lovers who buy Zunes and couldn't code a shopping list. You can't have it both ways folks.
Private citizens and corporations in Canada have a very hard time getting data that is easily obtained by anyone in the United States because of the privacy safeguards we have in place. This isn't to say that the data is not available... just not generally so. We are top in the world as far as these safeguards go... the US is near the bottom of the barrel. See this map for more info.
I have to say that I am extremely irritated about this as a Canadian. I have over 4000 songs on my iPod... every single one of them legal. I am sick of people using levies as an excuse to pirate -- it just gives lobby groups more ammunition to badger government to come up with more levies! I don't need to be paying for more money for products because of people who feel falsely entitled.
Ok, it's May 29th... where's my DRM-free EMI content on iTunes? I've been looking every day and I've yet to see any. They said in May... well they have 2 days.
What an absolute load of crap. This is exactly the attitude the rest of the world has had quite enough of thanks and is precisely the kind of BS thinking that speaks to the matter at hand in terms of the US position.
In my former job as a journalist I was of course required to type every day. In high school I had taken typing class but skipped most of it because it was deathly boring. Thus, I never learned proper technique and my skills were very weak indeed. Despite this, I got my work done -- but it wasn't pretty.
Then I started playing Everquest. People would quickly tire of talking to me in-game because my typing speed was lacking. Interest in the game forced me to teach myself proper technique as I wished to be an officer in my guild, and therefore it was necessary to be able to communicate swiftly and effectively.
Now I type between 60 and 70wpm... and this has of course had dramatic positive ffects on everything I do with the PC.
Thanks Everquest!
The reason the United States doesn't live in fear 24/7, like in some places of the world is that we have good guys with guns protecting us from the bad guys with guns who want to harm us for any number of reasons (not to start any flame wars on U.S. foreign policy, but by good, I mean the people who protect this country from invasion).
Since when did the United States not live in fear 24/7? I frankly can't remember a day since September 11, 2001.
There is no technical nor marketing reason you can't have a cell phone on board, if cell phones were a real danger then they would not be in carry on allowance anymore.
I think this is the most telling of all evidence that cell phones pose no danger to commercial airliners. If we aren't allowed freakin' nail clippers in our carry on luggage -- which I think everyone will agree pose next to zero threat to the safety of the plane, especially given the locked door to the cabin -- there's no way they'd allow a device you could secretly activate in your pocket which could interfere with the safe operation of the aircraft. Heck, onboard terrorists could all turn on their phones at once! It would be a catastrophe!
But at the same time Nearly everyone in Switzerland has a gun, and crime rates are also low. We own tons of guns here in Canada too... but they are LONG guns, not hand guns... mostly for hunting gophers etc. on farms.
High levels of gun ownership in Switzerland is due to the small standing army and the reliance on militia which requires most men to maintain weapons at home. Unlike the United States however, there are strict gun control laws in Switzerland which mean that all these guns are registered and have strict conditions on their storage etc. They just aren't generally on hand for the heat-of-the-moment gunplay that seems to plague our southern neighbors.
Slashdot Mirror
This post couldn't be more American if it tried.
Style depends on where you live and what conventions you follow. In Canada, we seem to be adopting American spellings and punctuation rules I think more as a result of the auto-correction features and misspelling underlines in Firefox et al than a desire to conform to your standard. Laziness (failing to employ Canadian English dictionaries etc.) results in homogeneity favouring (yes there's a 'u' in there) the culture that designed the tool. Here's the breakdown on punctuation -- I happen to follow the British style myself.
Are you serious? Sure they'll send you a new one... and then another... and yet another, each time your brand new machine fails instead of doing good quality control at the outset. Then when you're one minute beyond the warranty period of the FIRST machine they sent you that was broken, you're SOL. The Internet is filled with Dell nightmares... here's mine: Dell's Quality Control and Service is Total Crap
I'm an atheist, however: "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."
Do you really believe this? Didn't your military shoot people at a University? Hello -- Kent State? Oh, but that was a long time ago. I suppose your demonstrations now are all free of government interference right? Free Speech Zones... oh forgot about them. US Citizens being held in military installations for years without charge before being afforded the due process they are guaranteed by your constitution... oh... right.
I could go on and on, but I suppose my main point is that you seem to think that the armed instrument of your government is your main source of security and what allows you to live the life you do in America. I would argue that working hard to maintain good relations with one's neighbors, fair trade practices, tolerance and understanding of different cultures, the end of neo-colonialism and the exercise of soft power by way of example would serve America far better than a frightened, xenophobic populace hiding behind a massive military presence.
That's exactly what it's called. See Praeteritio
Interesting that your most poignant memory with regard to TV, in opposition to it, elicited scenes actually drawn from a television program. You will be assimilated... er it seems you already have been.
I suggest you read the book again. There are so many parallels in 1984 to today's world including ubiquitous surveillance that it's simply mind-blowing. You will be surprised by how wrong you are.
Sorry, but that page is poorly designed from a user experience perspective. The green headline just doesn't grab your attention. The first thing you see on that page is 'Documentation'... some blah blah blah that I don't want to read and then 'The Django Book' followed by 'The essential documentation', which is exactly where I would click, with no thought as to the version.
Mod me down if you must -- but I think the whole vitriolic treatment of ACs on Slashdot is a bunch of BS. Any time privacy issues are brought up, the Slashdot crowd goes into an apoplexy. They rant with much fervor bordering on the religious about how privacy is now gone and bemoan the current state of the world as applies to free speech etc. Yet when anyone exercises their Slashdot granted rights of posting anonymously, suddenly they become pinko commie Windows lovers who buy Zunes and couldn't code a shopping list. You can't have it both ways folks.
All I can say is ewwwwww: Hughes Satellite Internet Pricing Plans in Canada
Private citizens and corporations in Canada have a very hard time getting data that is easily obtained by anyone in the United States because of the privacy safeguards we have in place. This isn't to say that the data is not available... just not generally so. We are top in the world as far as these safeguards go... the US is near the bottom of the barrel. See this map for more info.
Crud actually Sturgeon's Law
I have to say that I am extremely irritated about this as a Canadian. I have over 4000 songs on my iPod... every single one of them legal. I am sick of people using levies as an excuse to pirate -- it just gives lobby groups more ammunition to badger government to come up with more levies! I don't need to be paying for more money for products because of people who feel falsely entitled.
Um... have you looked at who's your main supplier of oil among other things?
Oh yeah... he's the next J.S. Bach for sure. Genius? Hardly.
Ok, it's May 29th... where's my DRM-free EMI content on iTunes? I've been looking every day and I've yet to see any. They said in May... well they have 2 days.
What an absolute load of crap. This is exactly the attitude the rest of the world has had quite enough of thanks and is precisely the kind of BS thinking that speaks to the matter at hand in terms of the US position.
1999...
though apparently I still make typos... 'effects'. damn.
In my former job as a journalist I was of course required to type every day. In high school I had taken typing class but skipped most of it because it was deathly boring. Thus, I never learned proper technique and my skills were very weak indeed. Despite this, I got my work done -- but it wasn't pretty. Then I started playing Everquest. People would quickly tire of talking to me in-game because my typing speed was lacking. Interest in the game forced me to teach myself proper technique as I wished to be an officer in my guild, and therefore it was necessary to be able to communicate swiftly and effectively. Now I type between 60 and 70wpm... and this has of course had dramatic positive ffects on everything I do with the PC. Thanks Everquest!
Since when did the United States not live in fear 24/7? I frankly can't remember a day since September 11, 2001.
I think this is the most telling of all evidence that cell phones pose no danger to commercial airliners. If we aren't allowed freakin' nail clippers in our carry on luggage -- which I think everyone will agree pose next to zero threat to the safety of the plane, especially given the locked door to the cabin -- there's no way they'd allow a device you could secretly activate in your pocket which could interfere with the safe operation of the aircraft. Heck, onboard terrorists could all turn on their phones at once! It would be a catastrophe!