...I believe, sir, that you will find a marvelous contraption called a "sink" that is also near your bathroom. It should feature running water, for convenient clean-up. Go with god, my son, reach for the stars.
Yeah, in fact, why even go to the bathroom? There's a perfectly good sink in the kitchen too.
I once went to a flat shared by several girls. I had to hold the seat up the whole time I was pissing, which doesn't improve the aim. When I commented that it looked like the toilet had been installed by a woman, they got angry!
The problem with the whole toilet thing is that sit-down toilets are not designed for men at all.
They are far too low for the height of an average man, which means we are pissing really far, and spray is almost inevitable now and again. Toilets are designed for the lowest common denominator: women and children. Both are shorter than men, and tend to sit.
The solution is simple: urinals should be installed as standard in homes. That way, men can piss in an appropriately masculine way without getting it everywhere, and only sit on the toilet to defecate. Women and children are welcome to keep sitting. The man of the house can keep his own urinal clean (much easier than cleaning a sit-down toilet), the toilet seat can be permanently down, and the bitch can shut up and stop her whining!
A convenient listing of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's calls to destroy Israel, including this gem that directly addresses 'map wiping':
"Israel must be wiped off the map... The establishment of a Zionist regime was a move by the world oppressor against the Islamic world... The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land." -- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, October 26, 2005
A brief glance reveals that the link you gave is not a list of calls to destroy Israel. Here is one of the quotations on the page: "They [the United States] think they are the absolute rulers of the world." Israel is not even mentioned. The list would be better described as a list of things said by Ahmedinejad that the Defamation League doesn't like. Now, you yourself came up with that URL, so you must have known of its contents. How should I interpret the discrepancy between what you claimed it was and what it actually is? The most obvious conclusion is that you are a bald-faced liar, but I might go with the maxim "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice" on this one.
Your quotation, if you care to pay attention, actually starts off with the same sentence that I quoted. The difference is that I quoted the original Persian with an accurate translation, whereas you quoted just a fanciful translation.
Let's read it again: "een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e Qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad." Where in there does the word "Israel" even appear? Only Qods ("Holy One", the Arabic/Persian name for Jerusalem) is mentioned. And, as already pointed out, there is no mention of maps or use of violent metaphors. The expression "wipe off the map" does not even exist in Persian.
It is no good finding dodgy websites that repeat, with many variations, fabricated quotations in English. Ahmedinejad does not speak English. He speaks Persian, and what he said in Persian means what it means. You can't make it mean something else just by repeating lies again and again.
You can't even claim accidental ambiguity, because the Iranian government has even stated that "[n]obody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding. [...] How is it possible to remove a country from the map? He is talking about the regime. We do not recognise legally this regime."
Now, you can find plenty of quotations from Ahmedinejad in which he severely criticises the racist state of Israel, and argues that it will inevitably end when the refugees return to their own lands and vote Israel away, removing it from the page of time. You will also find Ahmedinejad saying stupid stuff. What you will not find is any talk of Iranian military aggression against Israel.
You will, however, find plenty of talk in Israel and the US about military aggression against Iran. You will find out that the US has rehearsed attacks on Iran in the Gulf. You will find that the US has organised economic sanctions on Iran to hurt its people. You will also discover that the US has actually invaded the countries to either side of Iran and is currently occupying them, having murdered well over half a million citizens, and admitted that they plan to keep troops there for ever.
Ummm... maybe the reason is because Brazil never threatened to wipe a neighbo[u]ring country off the map, and people don't have a problem with the country?
Anonymous Cowards and people who begin arguments with "Ummm" don't deserve replies, but I'm feeling generous today.
Brazil is indeed not known to have threatened map-wiping in recent history, but then neither is Iran, so you have failed to make any point there. Perhaps you meant to insinuate, somewhat implausibly, that President Ahmedinejad's comments that "een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e Qods (this régime occupying Jerusalem) bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad (must [vanish from] the page of time)" meant that Israel ought to be bombed out of existence. Perhaps if someone said that the Republican party occupying Washington DC should vanish from the page of time, you would interpret that as the Democrats wanting to bomb America off the map.
So, "people don't have a problem" with Brazil? Excellent criterion! If people have a gripe with a country, it should be invaded. You do realise that by that principle every country in the world would be invaded, starting with the US?
Since your explanations are comically inadequate, I'll stick to the hypothesis that Venezuela and Iran are under threat for the same reason Iraq was: they are sitting on natural resources and their governments (deeply flawed as they may be) refuse to obey the United States.
Media freedom groups and we their supporters obviously criticise all stifling of speech.
But that it not at issue. The matter in question is why I am seeing the most recent case splashed all over the media, including Slashdot, when most other cases are not given much attention. Is the difference that this case is recent? That doesn't explain anything. The real difference is that Venezuela is a US target at the moment. For the same reason, we hear a lot about Iran's plans for nuclear power stations, and nothing about Brazil's plans.
Just because the whole region is fucked for freedoms doesn't make it ok. No, it doesn't make it OK; it puts it in context. It shows that this issue is not about freedom. It is about the US using anything to put Chávez in a bad light, so that future terrorism or aggression against Venezuela will be more palatable to the public.
All operating systems should be as follows. The points are in decreasing order of importance.
1) No non-essential programs start on start-up by default, or even pressure you into adding them to the start-up.
2) All programs have an easily accessible (on the menu when you right-click on the program icon) option that allows you to have that program be loaded into RAM at start-up. The option is easily turned off at any time. Some complex programs (e.g. OpenOffice.org) allow at least one level of partial loading.
3) During the boot process, there is a point at which you can hit a key in order to bypass all pre-loading in order to have a faster boot. I imagine this could be worked into either the booting of the OS itself, or else be passed to the OS by a bootloader such as Grub. In fact, instead of just turning it off, you could choose from various profiles at this point. For example, you could tell it to pre-load absolutely everything (like Puppy Linux) or perhaps just all graphic design apps.
4) There is a wizard that analyses the amount of RAM and swap you have, as well as how often you run each application on your computer, and uses these data to put suggestions to you about what you might choose to pre-load.
I really need to learn how to code. That way I could just implement this stuff instead of making suggestions that nobody reads!
Hmm, good, except that at some point you will have to enter your pass code (the "Do_not_edit_this_subject_line_or_I_won't_receive_ your_email!" part) into a website so that the website can e-mail you, and then all the spammers have to do is build a database of addresses paired with codes.
So, your solution will work fine until a significant number of people are doing it and the spammers learn about it.
...Zango is in [the] right, and Spyware Doctor should at least [give] notice [of] what it is doing to its users.
Spyware Doctor does give notice of what it does: it removes software that its developers judge to be spyware. If the user opines that the tool comes up with too many false positives, then they may uninstall it at any time and use any of several other tools out there.
If you believe that there has been a false positive here, then write to the developers to suggest they change it. But don't support frivolous lawsuits.
I remember when I was 9 or 10 and the family computer could hold 10 gigs. That was nearly unfillable at the time.
You insensitive clod! I'm using one of those right now!
You jest, but I am seriously using a 20GB harddrive right now. This machine is not used for illegal downloads, so there is room for both Windows and Linux with several gigabytes to spare.
Back with my C64, I didn't store anything at first. But then I started recording the occasional thing onto audio cassette. I only used a small part of the tape. I never did get a disc drive.
I'm wondering where you're from that you think you'll probably never see an american nickel. I just haven't seen one in my 28 years, and don't see that changing.
No, they are talking about a Vulcan nickel of course, which is EXACTLY 1/8 inch thick, because that is the only logical measure of length. Well, then I approve whole-heartedly!
If the general sort of size of any coin was what was intended, then he should have put "coin", not "nickel". And the use of real units would still be preferable. Fake units are appropriate only for the chronically uneducated.
The article writer is indeed an idiot. If he is an American idiot, his "nickel" is (according to Wikipedia) 1.95mm thick. If he is a Canadian idiot, his "nickel" is 1.76mm thick.
I have never seen either of these coins and probably never will. Why can't these morons just say "about 2mm"? Oh, I forgot: if we use the metric system, the terrorists have won.
Or porn... but despite young men's fantasies, most young women are not into porn or gaming. They are obviously not as much into porn and games as the average (male, nerdy, pale, pimply) Slashdotter is, but I can tell you from experience that there are plenty of girls who don't mind a bit of computer fun of that type. Do you think that most of them will admit to you what they Google for when nobody is looking?
Thus a person may call a spectacular tragedy "awesome", even though the most common, spoken usage means "great". They may speak like that on Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, but no one I know uses "awesome" to mean anything but "awe-inspiring".
I wasn't parroting, and I wasn't joking. The point is that just because someone is elected doesn't mean he couldn't possibly be the biggest scumbag to ever have walked the Earth. Wake up. I wasn't replying to you, but to the idiot who replied to you.
...as he talked, there were reports of car-burnings in the suburbs and trouble flaring in Lyon, with police firing flashballs after skirmishes between leftwing activists and Sarkozy supporters.
Slashdot Mirror
...I believe, sir, that you will find a marvelous contraption called a "sink" that is also near your bathroom. It should feature running water, for convenient clean-up. Go with god, my son, reach for the stars.Yeah, in fact, why even go to the bathroom? There's a perfectly good sink in the kitchen too.
Remind me not to visit your place any time. ;-)
I once went to a flat shared by several girls. I had to hold the seat up the whole time I was pissing, which doesn't improve the aim. When I commented that it looked like the toilet had been installed by a woman, they got angry!
The problem with the whole toilet thing is that sit-down toilets are not designed for men at all.
They are far too low for the height of an average man, which means we are pissing really far, and spray is almost inevitable now and again. Toilets are designed for the lowest common denominator: women and children. Both are shorter than men, and tend to sit.
The solution is simple: urinals should be installed as standard in homes. That way, men can piss in an appropriately masculine way without getting it everywhere, and only sit on the toilet to defecate. Women and children are welcome to keep sitting. The man of the house can keep his own urinal clean (much easier than cleaning a sit-down toilet), the toilet seat can be permanently down, and the bitch can shut up and stop her whining!
"Israel must be wiped off the map
A brief glance reveals that the link you gave is not a list of calls to destroy Israel. Here is one of the quotations on the page: "They [the United States] think they are the absolute rulers of the world." Israel is not even mentioned. The list would be better described as a list of things said by Ahmedinejad that the Defamation League doesn't like. Now, you yourself came up with that URL, so you must have known of its contents. How should I interpret the discrepancy between what you claimed it was and what it actually is? The most obvious conclusion is that you are a bald-faced liar, but I might go with the maxim "Never assume malice when stupidity will suffice" on this one.
Your quotation, if you care to pay attention, actually starts off with the same sentence that I quoted. The difference is that I quoted the original Persian with an accurate translation, whereas you quoted just a fanciful translation.
Let's read it again: "een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e Qods bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad." Where in there does the word "Israel" even appear? Only Qods ("Holy One", the Arabic/Persian name for Jerusalem) is mentioned. And, as already pointed out, there is no mention of maps or use of violent metaphors. The expression "wipe off the map" does not even exist in Persian.
It is no good finding dodgy websites that repeat, with many variations, fabricated quotations in English. Ahmedinejad does not speak English. He speaks Persian, and what he said in Persian means what it means. You can't make it mean something else just by repeating lies again and again.
You can't even claim accidental ambiguity, because the Iranian government has even stated that "[n]obody can remove a country from the map. This is a misunderstanding. [...] How is it possible to remove a country from the map? He is talking about the regime. We do not recognise legally this regime."
Now, you can find plenty of quotations from Ahmedinejad in which he severely criticises the racist state of Israel, and argues that it will inevitably end when the refugees return to their own lands and vote Israel away, removing it from the page of time. You will also find Ahmedinejad saying stupid stuff. What you will not find is any talk of Iranian military aggression against Israel.
You will, however, find plenty of talk in Israel and the US about military aggression against Iran. You will find out that the US has rehearsed attacks on Iran in the Gulf. You will find that the US has organised economic sanctions on Iran to hurt its people. You will also discover that the US has actually invaded the countries to either side of Iran and is currently occupying them, having murdered well over half a million citizens, and admitted that they plan to keep troops there for ever.
Anonymous Cowards and people who begin arguments with "Ummm" don't deserve replies, but I'm feeling generous today.
Brazil is indeed not known to have threatened map-wiping in recent history, but then neither is Iran, so you have failed to make any point there. Perhaps you meant to insinuate, somewhat implausibly, that President Ahmedinejad's comments that "een rezhim-e ishghalgar-e Qods (this régime occupying Jerusalem) bayad az safheh-ye ruzgar mahv shavad (must [vanish from] the page of time)" meant that Israel ought to be bombed out of existence. Perhaps if someone said that the Republican party occupying Washington DC should vanish from the page of time, you would interpret that as the Democrats wanting to bomb America off the map.
So, "people don't have a problem" with Brazil? Excellent criterion! If people have a gripe with a country, it should be invaded. You do realise that by that principle every country in the world would be invaded, starting with the US?
Since your explanations are comically inadequate, I'll stick to the hypothesis that Venezuela and Iran are under threat for the same reason Iraq was: they are sitting on natural resources and their governments (deeply flawed as they may be) refuse to obey the United States.
Media freedom groups and we their supporters obviously criticise all stifling of speech.
But that it not at issue. The matter in question is why I am seeing the most recent case splashed all over the media, including Slashdot, when most other cases are not given much attention. Is the difference that this case is recent? That doesn't explain anything. The real difference is that Venezuela is a US target at the moment. For the same reason, we hear a lot about Iran's plans for nuclear power stations, and nothing about Brazil's plans.
Amarok has its flaws, but with Moodbar enabled, it is seriously sweeeet.
All operating systems should be as follows. The points are in decreasing order of importance.
1) No non-essential programs start on start-up by default, or even pressure you into adding them to the start-up.
2) All programs have an easily accessible (on the menu when you right-click on the program icon) option that allows you to have that program be loaded into RAM at start-up. The option is easily turned off at any time. Some complex programs (e.g. OpenOffice.org) allow at least one level of partial loading.
3) During the boot process, there is a point at which you can hit a key in order to bypass all pre-loading in order to have a faster boot. I imagine this could be worked into either the booting of the OS itself, or else be passed to the OS by a bootloader such as Grub. In fact, instead of just turning it off, you could choose from various profiles at this point. For example, you could tell it to pre-load absolutely everything (like Puppy Linux) or perhaps just all graphic design apps.
4) There is a wizard that analyses the amount of RAM and swap you have, as well as how often you run each application on your computer, and uses these data to put suggestions to you about what you might choose to pre-load.
I really need to learn how to code. That way I could just implement this stuff instead of making suggestions that nobody reads!
I've just visited using XP and PCLinuxOS and the page looks exactly the same. There is no mention of Ubuntu.
Hmm, good, except that at some point you will have to enter your pass code (the "Do_not_edit_this_subject_line_or_I_won't_receive_ your_email!" part) into a website so that the website can e-mail you, and then all the spammers have to do is build a database of addresses paired with codes.
So, your solution will work fine until a significant number of people are doing it and the spammers learn about it.
It certainly was not. It was pronounced /knixt/, and now it is pronounced /nait/. You actually tripled the number of syllables there.
...Zango is in [the] right, and Spyware Doctor should at least [give] notice [of] what it is doing to its users.Spyware Doctor does give notice of what it does: it removes software that its developers judge to be spyware. If the user opines that the tool comes up with too many false positives, then they may uninstall it at any time and use any of several other tools out there.
If you believe that there has been a false positive here, then write to the developers to suggest they change it. But don't support frivolous lawsuits.
You insensitive clod! I'm using one of those right now!
You jest, but I am seriously using a 20GB harddrive right now. This machine is not used for illegal downloads, so there is room for both Windows and Linux with several gigabytes to spare.
Back with my C64, I didn't store anything at first. But then I started recording the occasional thing onto audio cassette. I only used a small part of the tape. I never did get a disc drive.
If the general sort of size of any coin was what was intended, then he should have put "coin", not "nickel". And the use of real units would still be preferable. Fake units are appropriate only for the chronically uneducated.
The article writer is indeed an idiot. If he is an American idiot, his "nickel" is (according to Wikipedia) 1.95mm thick. If he is a Canadian idiot, his "nickel" is 1.76mm thick.
I have never seen either of these coins and probably never will. Why can't these morons just say "about 2mm"? Oh, I forgot: if we use the metric system, the terrorists have won.
Let me guess... he's a monolingual American, right?
Yeah. Just try entering Greek or Chinese. This really sucks.
Take your tinfoil hat off.
I really don't see why they can't make arguments up to the last minute. I wouldn't have minded it from Sarkozy either.
Furthermore, her prediction was quite accurate.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2073832, 00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
...as he talked, there were reports of car-burnings in the suburbs and trouble flaring in Lyon, with police firing flashballs after skirmishes between leftwing activists and Sarkozy supporters.