Oh yeah. Before Woody finally got released after a couple years, Potato had been stuck with Mozilla Milestone 18 for an age, and everything else was pretty old as well. I'd been on Unstable for a while because I wanted the latest-and-greatest, but then a broken version of lilo got uploaded and I rebooted before a fix was issued - think I ended up reinstalling Potato then upgrading to Testing.
After that I was on Testing for my desktop PC until right after Sarge came out, whereupon I switched to Ubuntu anyway.
Well, you know, I'm that way myself. My body language was largely incompatible with the populace's, and much hilarity did (not) ensue.
It's still that way, just not as bad. Easier for me to communicate via time-delayed text than face-to-face - thank the Great Old Ones for the Internet, which is where I met my wife.
Having a friendly attitude != sucking up, necessarily.
I had to learn this the hard way, back when, so pay heed: politeness is a social lubricant. It gets in the areas where different peoples' rough edges would otherwise rub and create friction, and it costs nothing to be polite.
For example, a few months ago I opened a bug report with $LIBRE_PROJECT asking for help making a Windows build, or whether they'd be kind enough to start releasing Windows builds of the stable tree, rather than an occasional build from an unstable branch. After a bit of back and forth - the guys who weren't involved in making the Windows build were a bit rude - they eventually pointed me to the non-obvious way of compiling their code, and eventually their Windows guy started releasing regular semi-stable builds (the Win build isn't quite there yet).
A little politeness as social lubricant, and I might have helped some other poor schmuck who wanted a free Windows program that does what $PROJECT does.
Psh. The reason he got elected is because the GOP base as a body will mindlessly rally around whoever is chosen by the elites as their candidate; those people see politics as a sport and want nothing more than their team to win and the other team to lose.
He would have been chosen by the party elite because
* family connections
* rich white fundamentalist Christian
* easily manipulated (see also: Dick Cheney)
The previous is/not/ an endorsement of the Other Team, btw.
On the other hand, amending the Constitution requires a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress, plus 3/4 of the state legislatures.
Think about that a moment - at least 2/3 of senators and at least 3/4 of the state legislatures thought that having the senate represent the state legislatures was unsatisfactory. If those thought that way of doing things was any good at all, the 17th amendment would never have passed.
Most of us "basement dwellers" don't count the head of the CIA or a President of the United States as a parent, nor were we born into very rich families.
Race and homophobia as well. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" (god, guns, and gays) to get the knuckle-draggers out to vote Republican had a major effect as well.
Likewise Reagan's courting of the Religious Right in 1980.
What makes you think the Senate would be any better without the 17th Amendment? Why do you think state-house politics are any better than the sort they deal with now?
I rather suspect it was enacted because people could see that the senators were beholden to state-house politics, rather than being concerned with the people.
OMG NEW HIGHLY ANTICIPATED TITLE KILLZ0RZ YOUR COMPUTAR!!!
No, if your machine is crappy, this exposes that you've got cooling or power problems, or both. You should see that you fix these.
In '94 I had a 486SX-25 that would choke and die when playing Doom in multi-player from time to time. It wasn't that the game KILLZ0RED MY COMPUTAR, it was that the CPU couldn't keep up with everything. Sticking a DX2-50 Overdrive into the socket solved that problem.
The conservative base - the 30% who consistently backed Bush even at the end of his second term? Even after his "unitary executive" power grabs, torture, warrantless wiretapping, incompetence, lies to justify war, valuing personal loyalty above all, and utter economic irresponsibility (cutting taxes while in the middle of *two* wars and a massive increase in Medicare!)?
Yeah, I don't buy your viewpoint. Teabaggerism is partisanship.
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You'd have cared about Alaska not being Soviet if you'd paid attention to the Cold War.
Fuck Natalee Holloway.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2005/7/3/491/18474
OK, but how much of what he did after that gets excused by his service?
As Nancy Pelosi said of Obamacare
Thanks for letting me know that I can ignore your hyperbolic opinions.
That's judicial activism, don't you know.
Point of order: it's the judicial branch's job to interpret and review the law. The executive is charged with carrying out those laws.
You mean GZdoom, not Zdoom - G is the one with 3d acceleration and OpenGL stuff.
You could always go somewhere else where you want what they're selling.
Oh yeah. Before Woody finally got released after a couple years, Potato had been stuck with Mozilla Milestone 18 for an age, and everything else was pretty old as well. I'd been on Unstable for a while because I wanted the latest-and-greatest, but then a broken version of lilo got uploaded and I rebooted before a fix was issued - think I ended up reinstalling Potato then upgrading to Testing.
After that I was on Testing for my desktop PC until right after Sarge came out, whereupon I switched to Ubuntu anyway.
This is true - there's always a pathological case around to prove that rules are meant to be bent.
Well, you know, I'm that way myself. My body language was largely incompatible with the populace's, and much hilarity did (not) ensue.
It's still that way, just not as bad. Easier for me to communicate via time-delayed text than face-to-face - thank the Great Old Ones for the Internet, which is where I met my wife.
ROFL. Well done, sir.
Having a friendly attitude != sucking up, necessarily.
I had to learn this the hard way, back when, so pay heed: politeness is a social lubricant. It gets in the areas where different peoples' rough edges would otherwise rub and create friction, and it costs nothing to be polite.
For example, a few months ago I opened a bug report with $LIBRE_PROJECT asking for help making a Windows build, or whether they'd be kind enough to start releasing Windows builds of the stable tree, rather than an occasional build from an unstable branch. After a bit of back and forth - the guys who weren't involved in making the Windows build were a bit rude - they eventually pointed me to the non-obvious way of compiling their code, and eventually their Windows guy started releasing regular semi-stable builds (the Win build isn't quite there yet).
A little politeness as social lubricant, and I might have helped some other poor schmuck who wanted a free Windows program that does what $PROJECT does.
Psh. The reason he got elected is because the GOP base as a body will mindlessly rally around whoever is chosen by the elites as their candidate; those people see politics as a sport and want nothing more than their team to win and the other team to lose.
He would have been chosen by the party elite because
* family connections
* rich white fundamentalist Christian
* easily manipulated (see also: Dick Cheney)
The previous is /not/ an endorsement of the Other Team, btw.
Family ties (especially if one's family is as politically influential as the Bushes) will open doors that wouldn't otherwise be available.
On the other hand, amending the Constitution requires a 2/3 majority of both houses of Congress, plus 3/4 of the state legislatures.
Think about that a moment - at least 2/3 of senators and at least 3/4 of the state legislatures thought that having the senate represent the state legislatures was unsatisfactory. If those thought that way of doing things was any good at all, the 17th amendment would never have passed.
Most of us "basement dwellers" don't count the head of the CIA or a President of the United States as a parent, nor were we born into very rich families.
Race and homophobia as well. Nixon's "Southern Strategy" (god, guns, and gays) to get the knuckle-draggers out to vote Republican had a major effect as well.
Likewise Reagan's courting of the Religious Right in 1980.
What makes you think the Senate would be any better without the 17th Amendment? Why do you think state-house politics are any better than the sort they deal with now?
I rather suspect it was enacted because people could see that the senators were beholden to state-house politics, rather than being concerned with the people.
Hi, welcome to Slashdot!
For that matter, why doesn't Glenn Beck deny that he raped and murdered a young girl in 1990?
All we're asking for is proof.
Burning an ISO is dead easy in Windows 7 with the included tools.
OMG NEW HIGHLY ANTICIPATED TITLE KILLZ0RZ YOUR COMPUTAR!!!
No, if your machine is crappy, this exposes that you've got cooling or power problems, or both. You should see that you fix these.
In '94 I had a 486SX-25 that would choke and die when playing Doom in multi-player from time to time. It wasn't that the game KILLZ0RED MY COMPUTAR, it was that the CPU couldn't keep up with everything. Sticking a DX2-50 Overdrive into the socket solved that problem.
The conservative base - the 30% who consistently backed Bush even at the end of his second term? Even after his "unitary executive" power grabs, torture, warrantless wiretapping, incompetence, lies to justify war, valuing personal loyalty above all, and utter economic irresponsibility (cutting taxes while in the middle of *two* wars and a massive increase in Medicare!)?
Yeah, I don't buy your viewpoint. Teabaggerism is partisanship.
The Apple ][ series supported TVs at 40 columns. You had to buy an RGB monitor to get 80 columns.
Don't remember if my //c booted up in 80-column mode by default, or if you had to toggle the button at the keyboard's top-left.