Working on learning Irish myself, spent over ten years learning it in school and never put any effort in, now I'm regretting it just months after I've finished:P. Worst part about these languages is the difficulty of finding people to talk with in them IMO, it seems easier to find a fluent Spanish/French/German in Ireland than an Irish speaker.
Have a higher, hidden tax burden (like southern US states with their high, regressive sales taxes)
Have materially lower living standards (like Ireland)
You can't get a modern civilization for pennies on the dollar.
Ireland doesn't have much lower taxes than elsewhere, income tax and VAT are quite average I believe, there's a very high tax on alcohol and cigarettes (Seriously, look at the prices of these here if you don't believe me, I doubt you'll find somewhere more expensive to drink and smoke in without some effort), as is, IIRC, tax on petrol. It's only really corporations that pay low tax, and it's made up for in many ways.
Also lower living standards? What the fuck comes to your mind when you think of Ireland, people living in mud houses rationing their years supply of potatoes and poitín? I'm sitting here in an apartment 50% paid for by the government, getting free 3rd level education (apart from a registration fee, which gets refunded to me by the government), and just waiting for my second of 3 cheques for over €1,000 from the government for simply going to college while not being rich. By what definition is this "lower living standards"?
I was in this very plant a year or two ago and seem to recall them saying that not even filtering was good enough, they actually had to distill the water they got because filtering won't remove all impurities (enough for most practical purposes, but I think the reason they need absolutely pure is because pure H2O doesn't conduct electricity, but the slightest impurity will).
I find it very hard to believe this same plant shut down because they didn't consider the possibility of their water supply (completely outdoors and unguarded) being contaminated somehow.
Same, my university has had the ISOs available to burn for weeks, as well as being able to download with student info on the MSDNAA site. So summary is only correct for certain values of "customer".
Being obviously smarter than those around you is, well, a major cause of huge ego syndrome.
Actually this has been studied, look up the "Downing effect" and you'll find that studies have shown that most intelligent people are likely to under-estimate their own intelligence, and most unintelligent people are likely to think that they're very smart.
Same goes for specific fields, people who do well and people who think they're great are usually not the same people. I've seen this myself when doing exams to be honest. People who come out of exams thinking they've aced it often end up getting worse marks than the people who came out worrying.
No, it's not, the constitution has been amended to remove all references to Catholicism as far as I know and it recognises many religions.
Although unofficially I guess Catholicism is the main religion (for example my school is supposedly non-denominational but we were still required to go to Mass at least once a year on school time, held by the local priest in the Gym), Catholicism isn't granted any legal benefits by the constitution or any laws, it's just biased judges you'd have to worry about I guess.
The Life of Brian was banned in Ireland when it came out too. For blasphemy. Although it wasn't technically a legal thing, the Film censors commision refused to rate it and it's illegal to sell unrated films in Ireland, though I think it's only happened with about 9 or 10 films ever.
Also Blasphemy is banned by the Irish constitution, so in a sense it was always illegal, it was just never really enforced. This bill as far as I know simply sets a maximum fine and formally defines blasphemy, so in a way it can actually be considered less restrictive than it was before. Though the problem is that very few people knew blasphemy was illegal and it was never enforced, so while this bill may make it less likely for an act to be considered blasphemy, it's a much more well known and defined law, so it's more likely someone will be charged and found guilty.
Actually it's no longer illegal to give information about it, and I think it's legal to go abroad for an abortion since about a decade ago.
Also some girl once won the right to have an abortion by threatening to kill herself if she had to go through with the pregnancy after being raped, because it's allowed if the mother's life is in danger and the judge took her threat seriously. I don't think the judges and government are as opposed to abortion as many people think, it's just that it can't be legalised without a referendum, and the last 2 times that's been tried it's been defeated, so you can blame the voting public.
My family background is Scots-Irish, so that means we got kicked out of two perfectly good countries (including, ironically, Ireland) because our particular brand of "Bible-thumping" wasn't compatible with what others believed in.
Actually Ireland was part of Great Britain until 1922, so really it was British law kicking them out of both countries, when they left one they shouldn't have gone to somewhere else in Great Britain for that reason. The Irish weren't immune to this nor were they the ones carrying it out, in fact there were many priests imprisoned or executed for teaching catholicism (and the Irish language).
Who the fuck really cares what a swede does, or votes for?
If they get elected to European parliament then the rest of Europe is obliged to care and must count their vote. That said, it's only one vote, but I'd be willing to bet that the other MEPs will hear a lot more about copyright, patent, FoI and privacy in the future.
In other news, car-jacking is to be called 'motor-car scrumping', hence making it seem socially acceptable.
If I download a song from the pirate bay a copy is made. If I steal a car then no copy is made, someone wakes up to find their car missing, and they can never use it again, they must replace it or find a new way to travel.
This is such a joke. What civil liberties and personal rights are you voting to protect?
Well stuff like net neutrality and the right to privacy for one. Perhaps you should go read their views on various issues, I think you'll find there's a bit more to it that "LOL I WANT NEW TOM CROOSE MOOVIES".
It's one seat only for sure, however, it's my understanding that if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified (shudder), this opens up extra seats one of which would go to PP.
Yes. However, since the EU bureaucracy seems to take the Lisbon treaty as a foregone conclusion (railroading much lately?)
Needs a referendum here (Ireland) and since the opposition to it (Mainly Libertas, a party that popped into existence just for the purpose of campaigning against Lisbon currently under investigating for having it's money appear out of thin air and refusing to explain, but that's only slightly related) seems to just be spreading blatant lies, claiming that it will bring back the death penalty, legalise abortion and double taxes, it seems unlikely to pass.
That said, I'm not saying the Lisbon treaty is an excellent treaty, I don't know that much about it to be honest, but it annoys me that it lost 53-47 in the first referendum, because I know if people weren't blatantly lied to it would have passed.
It seems to me this is poor coding on Mozillas part, as if their program ONLY looked for plugins in those locations, this becomes a non issue.
Then Windows Update would put the extensions in THERE, and it'd still be impossible to remove without Administrator privileges, because either way the files created would be created with same permissions.
Firefox provides a way to install extensions which cannot be uninstalled, and that's MS' fault for using it? Interesting.
Show me an application that can stop the administrator of the computer from changing any of it's settings while not even running and I'll accept that you're right. That is, if it's done without posing far more serious flaws (setuid root comes to mind).
And I did elaborate on how it could be done (admittedly not very well, but good enough to get the point across I would think, basically if installed by Administrator then User doesn't have permission to delete the files, kind of like every file on any operating system).
So lets speak about what has changed in 1 year? Firefox developers still didn't implement some sort of "If some extension installed behind my back (offline), ask user about it in next launch" functionality.
It DOES tell you when a new extension has been installed when you first run it, and then you're able to disable it, Microsoft seem to have made it un-uninstallable though, which is the problem, and one you probably can't blame on Firefox. Not sure HOW it was made hard to remove, whether that's a Firefox feature or whether it's a Windows thing, but for example you can install some Firefox extensions through the package manager on some Linux distros for all users, and they can't be uninstalled in Firefox by a user since they were installed as root, I'd imagine something similar is done on Windows, but you can disable the extension
This is simply false. I've never made such a mistake, not in 20 years of coding. When I'm the technical lead or architect for a project, there are no memory leaks in the project
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Working on learning Irish myself, spent over ten years learning it in school and never put any effort in, now I'm regretting it just months after I've finished :P.
Worst part about these languages is the difficulty of finding people to talk with in them IMO, it seems easier to find a fluent Spanish/French/German in Ireland than an Irish speaker.
Places with "low taxes" either:
You can't get a modern civilization for pennies on the dollar.
Ireland doesn't have much lower taxes than elsewhere, income tax and VAT are quite average I believe, there's a very high tax on alcohol and cigarettes (Seriously, look at the prices of these here if you don't believe me, I doubt you'll find somewhere more expensive to drink and smoke in without some effort), as is, IIRC, tax on petrol.
It's only really corporations that pay low tax, and it's made up for in many ways.
Also lower living standards? What the fuck comes to your mind when you think of Ireland, people living in mud houses rationing their years supply of potatoes and poitín?
I'm sitting here in an apartment 50% paid for by the government, getting free 3rd level education (apart from a registration fee, which gets refunded to me by the government), and just waiting for my second of 3 cheques for over €1,000 from the government for simply going to college while not being rich.
By what definition is this "lower living standards"?
I was in this very plant a year or two ago and seem to recall them saying that not even filtering was good enough, they actually had to distill the water they got because filtering won't remove all impurities (enough for most practical purposes, but I think the reason they need absolutely pure is because pure H2O doesn't conduct electricity, but the slightest impurity will).
I find it very hard to believe this same plant shut down because they didn't consider the possibility of their water supply (completely outdoors and unguarded) being contaminated somehow.
Same, my university has had the ISOs available to burn for weeks, as well as being able to download with student info on the MSDNAA site.
So summary is only correct for certain values of "customer".
Being obviously smarter than those around you is, well, a major cause of huge ego syndrome.
Actually this has been studied, look up the "Downing effect" and you'll find that studies have shown that most intelligent people are likely to under-estimate their own intelligence, and most unintelligent people are likely to think that they're very smart.
Same goes for specific fields, people who do well and people who think they're great are usually not the same people.
I've seen this myself when doing exams to be honest.
People who come out of exams thinking they've aced it often end up getting worse marks than the people who came out worrying.
The state religion is Catholicism
No, it's not, the constitution has been amended to remove all references to Catholicism as far as I know and it recognises many religions.
Although unofficially I guess Catholicism is the main religion (for example my school is supposedly non-denominational but we were still required to go to Mass at least once a year on school time, held by the local priest in the Gym), Catholicism isn't granted any legal benefits by the constitution or any laws, it's just biased judges you'd have to worry about I guess.
The Life of Brian was banned in Ireland when it came out too. For blasphemy.
Although it wasn't technically a legal thing, the Film censors commision refused to rate it and it's illegal to sell unrated films in Ireland, though I think it's only happened with about 9 or 10 films ever.
Also Blasphemy is banned by the Irish constitution, so in a sense it was always illegal, it was just never really enforced. This bill as far as I know simply sets a maximum fine and formally defines blasphemy, so in a way it can actually be considered less restrictive than it was before.
Though the problem is that very few people knew blasphemy was illegal and it was never enforced, so while this bill may make it less likely for an act to be considered blasphemy, it's a much more well known and defined law, so it's more likely someone will be charged and found guilty.
Actually it's no longer illegal to give information about it, and I think it's legal to go abroad for an abortion since about a decade ago.
Also some girl once won the right to have an abortion by threatening to kill herself if she had to go through with the pregnancy after being raped, because it's allowed if the mother's life is in danger and the judge took her threat seriously.
I don't think the judges and government are as opposed to abortion as many people think, it's just that it can't be legalised without a referendum, and the last 2 times that's been tried it's been defeated, so you can blame the voting public.
It's pronounced "Fall" and not "Fail"... Though on second thought I guess that's not a huge improvement.
My family background is Scots-Irish, so that means we got kicked out of two perfectly good countries (including, ironically, Ireland) because our particular brand of "Bible-thumping" wasn't compatible with what others believed in.
Actually Ireland was part of Great Britain until 1922, so really it was British law kicking them out of both countries, when they left one they shouldn't have gone to somewhere else in Great Britain for that reason.
The Irish weren't immune to this nor were they the ones carrying it out, in fact there were many priests imprisoned or executed for teaching catholicism (and the Irish language).
Oh, well then he still didn't own the site.
Who the fuck really cares what a swede does, or votes for?
If they get elected to European parliament then the rest of Europe is obliged to care and must count their vote. That said, it's only one vote, but I'd be willing to bet that the other MEPs will hear a lot more about copyright, patent, FoI and privacy in the future.
In other news, car-jacking is to be called 'motor-car scrumping', hence making it seem socially acceptable.
If I download a song from the pirate bay a copy is made. If I steal a car then no copy is made, someone wakes up to find their car missing, and they can never use it again, they must replace it or find a new way to travel.
This is such a joke. What civil liberties and personal rights are you voting to protect?
Well stuff like net neutrality and the right to privacy for one. Perhaps you should go read their views on various issues, I think you'll find there's a bit more to it that "LOL I WANT NEW TOM CROOSE MOOVIES".
voted to block the lesser of the two evils like we have to do in the USA.
Finally, an American who'll admit it.
Freedom of Information and Privacy are their stated goals, and that with regards to both online and offline activities.
So it's limited, but not nearly as limited as JUST copyright and patent reform.
ThePirateBay is owned by a right wing racist millionaire.
No, a right wing racist millionaire made a donation to the site several years ago.
It's one seat only for sure, however, it's my understanding that if the Lisbon Treaty is ratified (shudder), this opens up extra seats one of which would go to PP.
Yes. However, since the EU bureaucracy seems to take the Lisbon treaty as a foregone conclusion (railroading much lately?)
Needs a referendum here (Ireland) and since the opposition to it (Mainly Libertas, a party that popped into existence just for the purpose of campaigning against Lisbon currently under investigating for having it's money appear out of thin air and refusing to explain, but that's only slightly related) seems to just be spreading blatant lies, claiming that it will bring back the death penalty, legalise abortion and double taxes, it seems unlikely to pass.
That said, I'm not saying the Lisbon treaty is an excellent treaty, I don't know that much about it to be honest, but it annoys me that it lost 53-47 in the first referendum, because I know if people weren't blatantly lied to it would have passed.
... [snip] .. It's just "[snip] nobody needs to make money after 5 years anyway".
If you quit your job today you'd expect to still be getting paid 5 years from now I assume?
It seems to me this is poor coding on Mozillas part, as if their program ONLY looked for plugins in those locations, this becomes a non issue.
Then Windows Update would put the extensions in THERE, and it'd still be impossible to remove without Administrator privileges, because either way the files created would be created with same permissions.
Firefox provides a way to install extensions which cannot be uninstalled, and that's MS' fault for using it? Interesting.
Show me an application that can stop the administrator of the computer from changing any of it's settings while not even running and I'll accept that you're right.
That is, if it's done without posing far more serious flaws (setuid root comes to mind).
And I did elaborate on how it could be done (admittedly not very well, but good enough to get the point across I would think, basically if installed by Administrator then User doesn't have permission to delete the files, kind of like every file on any operating system).
So lets speak about what has changed in 1 year? Firefox developers still didn't implement some sort of "If some extension installed behind my back (offline), ask user about it in next launch" functionality.
It DOES tell you when a new extension has been installed when you first run it, and then you're able to disable it, Microsoft seem to have made it un-uninstallable though, which is the problem, and one you probably can't blame on Firefox.
Not sure HOW it was made hard to remove, whether that's a Firefox feature or whether it's a Windows thing, but for example you can install some Firefox extensions through the package manager on some Linux distros for all users, and they can't be uninstalled in Firefox by a user since they were installed as root, I'd imagine something similar is done on Windows, but you can disable the extension
The spec doesn't say HOW it should be done AFAIK, just that it must be done.
This is simply false. I've never made such a mistake, not in 20 years of coding. When I'm the technical lead or architect for a project, there are no memory leaks in the project
I lol'd, hard.
I've been programming in non-garbage-collected languages for 20+ years, written decidedly non-trivial programs, and I've never once had a memory leak.
I lol'd