Unfortunately, incompetence and criminal negligence are two very different things. The end result may be the same, but we can't lock people up for being stupid (at least not until I'm dictator of Earth).
They had the obligatory white woman, the Asian man, and the black man in the original photo. Now you have a white woman, a white man, and an Asian man. The ethnicity is unbalanced! How will we know they treat all people equally? How will we feel safe in a world where we can't see diversity?!?! Real diversity comes from the colour of your skin, dammit!
Keep copies of all the software needed to play those video files *cough* vlc *cough*, and a means of running that program - maybe a whole OS in a raw hard disk image or something, so you can mount it in a virtual machine in 16 years. I'm sure some nerds will want to emulate x86 processors long after ARM has taken over.
To expand on what you said, if she's banned or pulled back because of her genetic condition, then you can probably expect your gold medal in the mail any day now. Treating people differently for their genetics has a very bad history so far, and sets a bad precedent for the future. Wake me up when the question is about whether someone genetically engineered to be better should compete in the same league as naturals. That's an interesting topic since genetic engineering could be construed as a performance enhancement.
Not enough to justify getting games up to 18 months after their release date, or paying $120 for a new game when the US$ price is about $60 and the exchange rate is up at roughly 80c. At least TV and movie producers have wised up. There was an article here a few years back saying how much of global piracy happened just in Australia, just because we got TV series and movies so late.
Unfortunately, ideology has little to do with biology (unless all people of faiths that frown on extramarital or premarital sex are adulterers), otherwise us immoral folk with no such inhibitions would have outcompeted them thousands of years ago.
It's amazing how every company seems to subscribe to this philosophy. I like to call it "FTSH", "Fuck the Southern Hemisphere". Usually it's done by doubling the price, or severely limiting availability of a product, not crippling features. Although no wallet-conscious person would buy Alienware anyway, this is a valid point to make: Compare Alienware's Australian prices to the American ones. Convert them to the same currency, and the Australian site still has them at almost double the price; sometimes with less powerful hardware, even.
Whether you divide by floors, or regions or whatever, just pick a franchise for each group. That way you can tell where a machine is by whether it has a Simpsons name, or a Star Wars one, or a Marvel or DC hero name or something. Make the servers villains, name the printers after those occasional heroes that show up for an episode and are never heard of again.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet... In The Belgariad, by David Eddings, Angarak gold has the curious effect of making people want more of it, no matter how much they have. I imagine minute amounts of coke leeching from the surface of contaminated notes would have much the same effect.
Should I pull out that Professor Frink quote? What? I took so long reading other comments and scrolling here someone might already have done it? Okay:(
I have no problem buying food in Imperial units (not that I have to, since I'm in Australia), since it works out the same in the end. I even say I'm 6 feet tall, despite it being all metric here. I just can't stand Imperial units in a scientific context. Mythbusters get points of starting out metric in their early days, but they lose them again for presumably caving to producers who decided Americans were too stupid to know what a Newton is.
I've never had an update break anything before - see how much like "lalala I'm not listening" anecdotal evidence can sound?
Also, the troll in Three Billy Goats Gruff was greedy and stupid. Nobody need ever have known if he'd just eaten the first goat and left it at that. In the light of that moral, which isn't the one children seem to draw from it, I'm eating the first goat... troll... whatever... The point is, I called the troll out on his blatant disregard for facts, no need for flaming.
I find it's less about superiority of the shell when I suggest a solution. Saying "Open the terminal and type..." is a lot easier than "See that thing there? Click on that, and then in the menu find..."
Idiot. I haven't had to go to the CLI at ALL in the past month. ONCE in the past year, and that was to do something just as simple in the GUI. It just so happens that sudo apt-get install is faster than opening Synaptic and searching when you want to install something. I'd tell you to stop talking out of your ass, but I'm not certain you even know where it is.
I wonder if the nice folks monitoring the Hubble telescope are above adding in a few blotches and claiming they're a probable enemy threat, so everyone can get their space station, and the Hubble folks get a big laser cannon courtesy of Boeing.
True, but they rely on electromagnetism to create the pressure waves. If speakers can screw with CRT TVs, they must have a reasonable magnetic field around them.
Forgive my ignorance (or don't, your call), but if he's got "electromagnetic hypersensitivity", why the fuck is he a DJ? Does he have ANY idea what speakers are? How they work?
Yes, I am a pedantic Grammar Nazi, and I anticipate a great modding down of this comment, but my need to say this is worse than any addict's craving for his next fix. There are few things I hate more than redundant words. "Co-conspirator" is about as redundant as it gets. A conspiracy is a group of people. People conspire to do something like this, and you call those people conspirators. What happens in a hundred years when we forget that "co-conspirator" was being used this way? Do we start saying "co-co-conspirator"?
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Unfortunately, incompetence and criminal negligence are two very different things. The end result may be the same, but we can't lock people up for being stupid (at least not until I'm dictator of Earth).
They had the obligatory white woman, the Asian man, and the black man in the original photo. Now you have a white woman, a white man, and an Asian man. The ethnicity is unbalanced! How will we know they treat all people equally? How will we feel safe in a world where we can't see diversity?!?! Real diversity comes from the colour of your skin, dammit!
Keep copies of all the software needed to play those video files *cough* vlc *cough*, and a means of running that program - maybe a whole OS in a raw hard disk image or something, so you can mount it in a virtual machine in 16 years. I'm sure some nerds will want to emulate x86 processors long after ARM has taken over.
To expand on what you said, if she's banned or pulled back because of her genetic condition, then you can probably expect your gold medal in the mail any day now. Treating people differently for their genetics has a very bad history so far, and sets a bad precedent for the future. Wake me up when the question is about whether someone genetically engineered to be better should compete in the same league as naturals. That's an interesting topic since genetic engineering could be construed as a performance enhancement.
Not enough to justify getting games up to 18 months after their release date, or paying $120 for a new game when the US$ price is about $60 and the exchange rate is up at roughly 80c. At least TV and movie producers have wised up. There was an article here a few years back saying how much of global piracy happened just in Australia, just because we got TV series and movies so late.
Unfortunately, ideology has little to do with biology (unless all people of faiths that frown on extramarital or premarital sex are adulterers), otherwise us immoral folk with no such inhibitions would have outcompeted them thousands of years ago.
It's amazing how every company seems to subscribe to this philosophy. I like to call it "FTSH", "Fuck the Southern Hemisphere". Usually it's done by doubling the price, or severely limiting availability of a product, not crippling features. Although no wallet-conscious person would buy Alienware anyway, this is a valid point to make: Compare Alienware's Australian prices to the American ones. Convert them to the same currency, and the Australian site still has them at almost double the price; sometimes with less powerful hardware, even.
Whether you divide by floors, or regions or whatever, just pick a franchise for each group. That way you can tell where a machine is by whether it has a Simpsons name, or a Star Wars one, or a Marvel or DC hero name or something. Make the servers villains, name the printers after those occasional heroes that show up for an episode and are never heard of again.
I can't believe nobody has mentioned this yet... In The Belgariad, by David Eddings, Angarak gold has the curious effect of making people want more of it, no matter how much they have. I imagine minute amounts of coke leeching from the surface of contaminated notes would have much the same effect.
Should I pull out that Professor Frink quote? What? I took so long reading other comments and scrolling here someone might already have done it? Okay :(
I have no problem buying food in Imperial units (not that I have to, since I'm in Australia), since it works out the same in the end. I even say I'm 6 feet tall, despite it being all metric here. I just can't stand Imperial units in a scientific context. Mythbusters get points of starting out metric in their early days, but they lose them again for presumably caving to producers who decided Americans were too stupid to know what a Newton is.
As it's booting, if you see a logo that reminds you of Simon at all, chances are it's enslaved in a bot net. Daaamnnn yooouuuu Hasssbrooooo!!!!!
I've never had an update break anything before - see how much like "lalala I'm not listening" anecdotal evidence can sound?
Also, the troll in Three Billy Goats Gruff was greedy and stupid. Nobody need ever have known if he'd just eaten the first goat and left it at that. In the light of that moral, which isn't the one children seem to draw from it, I'm eating the first goat... troll... whatever... The point is, I called the troll out on his blatant disregard for facts, no need for flaming.
I find it's less about superiority of the shell when I suggest a solution. Saying "Open the terminal and type..." is a lot easier than "See that thing there? Click on that, and then in the menu find..."
Idiot. I haven't had to go to the CLI at ALL in the past month. ONCE in the past year, and that was to do something just as simple in the GUI. It just so happens that sudo apt-get install is faster than opening Synaptic and searching when you want to install something. I'd tell you to stop talking out of your ass, but I'm not certain you even know where it is.
The risk of those nearby when so many redundant phrases finally make you snap?
I wonder if the nice folks monitoring the Hubble telescope are above adding in a few blotches and claiming they're a probable enemy threat, so everyone can get their space station, and the Hubble folks get a big laser cannon courtesy of Boeing.
True, but they rely on electromagnetism to create the pressure waves. If speakers can screw with CRT TVs, they must have a reasonable magnetic field around them.
Forgive my ignorance (or don't, your call), but if he's got "electromagnetic hypersensitivity", why the fuck is he a DJ? Does he have ANY idea what speakers are? How they work?
That's probably something to do with the relaxation of certain muscles. I plan on wearing adult-size pullups if I anticipate my imminent death.
Alternatively, you could say the whole disk is "used" by the filesystem. Files rent space from it.
I can't remember clearly, but did that way involve curved fiberoptic cabling?
Yes, I am a pedantic Grammar Nazi, and I anticipate a great modding down of this comment, but my need to say this is worse than any addict's craving for his next fix. There are few things I hate more than redundant words. "Co-conspirator" is about as redundant as it gets. A conspiracy is a group of people. People conspire to do something like this, and you call those people conspirators. What happens in a hundred years when we forget that "co-conspirator" was being used this way? Do we start saying "co-co-conspirator"?
I think it would be ironic if everyone were made of iron...
Om nom hapless adventurer nom. What? He didn't pay the bridge toll!