I've not even looked at Win8 yet, I've had no urge to. What I've found with 7 as *the* feature to have, is what OSX has had since the year Tet: integrated taskbar/quicklaunch. Although, I do think with a little tweaking*, Microsoft have actually done a better job.
*By "tweaking", I've taken down the pretties so it's basically the Win2K look but maintained the taskbar/quicklaunch integration. Now I have three rows of buttons and instant access to every app on my laptop. I can't remember the last time I hit the start button. My wallpaper is clutter-free and I get to enjoy my Battlestar Galactica slideshow unimpeded by program icons.
I'll just go with what's in my Stanley blue steel cantilever toolbox (the plastic ones are absolute shite and don't like being stood on):
Stanley 99E retractable boxcutter w/5 spare blades 1 snipe nose plier/multitool 1 8" adjustable wrench 2 6" mole grips 2 sets Worx drill/driver bits (comes in a little box. 10 different HSS drill heads, 20 driver heads including Torx, Pozi, Philips, slotted and square and 1 1/4" socket adapter, and 1 extender) 1 set (usually comes in 20's) 1/4" Whitworth bi-Hex sockets in metric and imperial and 2 Neiko 1/4" ratcheting arms: one 6" and 1 10". 2 1/4" Gator Grips: 1 1" and 1 1/2" for those stripped heads 1 14oz claw hammer 1 Bondhus combination balldriver L-wrench set 1 bag case thumbscrews 1 bag chassis screws 1 set (32 pc) precision screwdrivers (better if you can get hold of the case hardened ones, they don't chew up if you hit a particularly hard screw) 1 Challenge 18V cordless drill/driver w/spare battery 1 butane blowtorch 1 can lithium grease 1 Cree LED anglepoise (yeah the arm is custom) 1 13-amp plug with earth pin connected to a wrist strap and two alligator clips 1 QTech PCI diagnostic card - and that just blew the budget on its own 1 QTech diagnostic CD/DVD/FD set 1 copy Knoppix LiveCD 1 CF-IDE module with Knoppix installed on a 16GB card, and several spare cards for recovery 1 bus powered USB DVD burner 1 80GB USB hard drive (custom cased low-drain job... Hitachi if I remember right)
Actually, yes there is. Speaking as an Englishman who requires a firearm for hunting (it's easier to carry then a longbow) and for home defence (it always helps to be better armed than your assailant), and someone of sound and sensible mind (it's always ALWAYS better to have and not need, than to need and not have).
Please remember, guns don't kill people, people kill people.
There's a photo floating around on Facebook which compares a radicalised anti-gun lobbyist (you probably know her, she's a senator who goes by the name Diane Feinstein) who is pictured with a LOADED AND COCKED AK-47 WITH HER FINGER INSIDE THE TRIGGER GUARD, WAVING IT AT A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE. She could take out the entire room with that C-mag she's got in there! The other side of the photograph is of a young lady with an M-16; she's holding it across her chest with the magazine out and the bolt back, breech open, and her trigger finger is parallel to the barrel. THAT GUN IS ABOUT AS DANGEROUS AS A STRIP OF WET CABBAGE.
Explanatory: Carbon dioxide reacts with water at standard temperature and pressure to form a weak acid and hydrogen ions (both in solution), adjusting pH *at saturation* from about 7.6-6.0. That it is known yet underreported that the world's oceans are the carbon sink to beat all others, puts lie to the CO2 problem and a simple classroom experiment with distilled water, a straw, sodium hydroxide solution and phenol indicator proves this.
Incidentally, for the carbon sink to fail would require the oceans to be heated to just below boiling. Not likely to happen yet for around 5 billion years.
In a televised address following 9/11 and immediately prior to the invasion of Afghanistan:
"You're either with us, or you're against us."
There is no room for interpretation or neutrality here. Bush Jr. represented a clear a present danger to the entire civilised world (which is shrinking faster than an ice diver's nutsack); I'm glad he's no longer the Voice of America yet his legacy remains. People are still dying out there, and now they're testing new unmanned weapons systems just to mitigate that slight feeling of guilt when one man murders another man he's never even met let alone know exactly why he's doing it. Now, it's a video game. He doesn't even see his victims.
how easily this is done, eh? Lovely example of this being done to influence policy, is the Lisbon Treaty. A few letters were changed and a single comma added, and it changed the entire meaning of the document. John Major did that, and from the moment he signed it signed away the UK's right to self govern but more importantly, to run its own Judiciary. That's treason, in my book.
It's not shooting the messenger, it's stealing his bicycle and shoes and cutting off his legs with a spoon, then standing back and laughing as he bleeds out.
The FBI are NOT above the Law! First and foremost, they are bound by the US Constitution. Secondly, they are bound by domestic Law, and for operation outside the borders, by International Law. Yes, they routinely break and violate and basically arserape all three jurisdictions, and they get away with it. Why? BECAUSE NOBODY IS SAYING TO THEM, "STOP! WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!"
Actually, Obama spent more, which puts lie to that. Half of Obama's Super PAC donations were of more than US$1m, while those of Romney's made up only a third of his total. So that puts lie to that as well.
Do your homework BEFORE posting nonsense, not after.
the FBI kept the investigation open. That they served the search warrant two years before they seized the computers stinks of entrapment, since it is an offence to destroy evidence pertinent to an investigation (it's called spoliation). MU didn't break the law in this case, the FBI did.
We're talking about two obsoleted technologies (breadboard computing and instamatic film) meeting to give us this bit of history. I don't know about anyone else, but while not overly significant, it is still pretty awesome. Think about where it came from as well. Triple whammy.
Maybe not, it uses an optical sensor but I do have to clean the gunk off the teflon riders and polish the ball every so often... it gets particularly annoying when I have to do it while playing World of Tanks.:x
Because while fresh urine is sterile, it does contain very high concentrations of salt. That can very quickly reach toxic levels if you do that. You need to distill the water out and collect it in another container before you can drink it. The salt residue can then be disposed of.
NASA and the other space agencies have been doing this for years.
they're already concentration camps, you don't need to do anything. Every classroom I've seen has every seat facing the same direction - towards a board that dominates. When classes are on, the blinds are drawn so the children can't see outside - focussing their attention. Striplights abound - which can and do cause epileptic seizures. Learning is by rote, critical thinking is discouraged, even punished with segregation (no, don't try and tell me that supersmart kids are encouraged in schools, I know that isn't true. They're segregated, socially isolated, and sit bored out of their skulls because the teachers are not smart enough to find them something to do. You'll sometimes find, as I did during my school years, that some supersmart kids are smarter than all the teachers combined.
Oh yeah, we now have local education authorities in the UK advertising for proofreaders to check school correspondence for spelling and grammatical errors before they go out. I bullshit you not.
Approved schools and secure units. We do still have those. Let's fucking use them. And pound-me-in-the-ass jail for those in positions of trust who by action or omission are found to have failed in their duty of care.
We don't need more laws, we already have them. Let's drop this PC "Think of the children!" bullshit and grow some fucking backbone.
USC DOES NOT APPLY outside the Territorial United States.
The United States stops at the Western fringe of the Atlantic Ocean, and with the exception of a few SMALL islands, the Eastern fringe of the Pacific Ocean.
Believe it or not there are about 6.7 billion people who are NOT United States citizens, who do NOT live in the United States, to whom this "USC" does NOT apply.
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I've not even looked at Win8 yet, I've had no urge to. What I've found with 7 as *the* feature to have, is what OSX has had since the year Tet: integrated taskbar/quicklaunch. Although, I do think with a little tweaking*, Microsoft have actually done a better job.
*By "tweaking", I've taken down the pretties so it's basically the Win2K look but maintained the taskbar/quicklaunch integration. Now I have three rows of buttons and instant access to every app on my laptop. I can't remember the last time I hit the start button. My wallpaper is clutter-free and I get to enjoy my Battlestar Galactica slideshow unimpeded by program icons.
I'll just go with what's in my Stanley blue steel cantilever toolbox (the plastic ones are absolute shite and don't like being stood on):
Stanley 99E retractable boxcutter w/5 spare blades
1 snipe nose plier/multitool
1 8" adjustable wrench
2 6" mole grips
2 sets Worx drill/driver bits (comes in a little box. 10 different HSS drill heads, 20 driver heads including Torx, Pozi, Philips, slotted and square and 1 1/4" socket adapter, and 1 extender)
1 set (usually comes in 20's) 1/4" Whitworth bi-Hex sockets in metric and imperial and 2 Neiko 1/4" ratcheting arms: one 6" and 1 10".
2 1/4" Gator Grips: 1 1" and 1 1/2" for those stripped heads
1 14oz claw hammer
1 Bondhus combination balldriver L-wrench set
1 bag case thumbscrews
1 bag chassis screws
1 set (32 pc) precision screwdrivers (better if you can get hold of the case hardened ones, they don't chew up if you hit a particularly hard screw)
1 Challenge 18V cordless drill/driver w/spare battery
1 butane blowtorch
1 can lithium grease
1 Cree LED anglepoise (yeah the arm is custom)
1 13-amp plug with earth pin connected to a wrist strap and two alligator clips
1 QTech PCI diagnostic card - and that just blew the budget on its own
1 QTech diagnostic CD/DVD/FD set
1 copy Knoppix LiveCD
1 CF-IDE module with Knoppix installed on a 16GB card, and several spare cards for recovery
1 bus powered USB DVD burner
1 80GB USB hard drive (custom cased low-drain job... Hitachi if I remember right)
Actually, yes there is. Speaking as an Englishman who requires a firearm for hunting (it's easier to carry then a longbow) and for home defence (it always helps to be better armed than your assailant), and someone of sound and sensible mind (it's always ALWAYS better to have and not need, than to need and not have).
Please remember, guns don't kill people, people kill people.
There's a photo floating around on Facebook which compares a radicalised anti-gun lobbyist (you probably know her, she's a senator who goes by the name Diane Feinstein) who is pictured with a LOADED AND COCKED AK-47 WITH HER FINGER INSIDE THE TRIGGER GUARD, WAVING IT AT A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE. She could take out the entire room with that C-mag she's got in there! The other side of the photograph is of a young lady with an M-16; she's holding it across her chest with the magazine out and the bolt back, breech open, and her trigger finger is parallel to the barrel. THAT GUN IS ABOUT AS DANGEROUS AS A STRIP OF WET CABBAGE.
WHO IS THE DANGEROUS ONE?
narcissistic? Really, you're projecting. You lose.
my bad, I meant the Maastricht Treaty.
stirring system? What, you mean like the TIDES?
slashdot please fix the unicode. This is getting annoying.
here is the experiment
For clarity, the formulas should read something like:
CO2(aq) + H2O(l) H+(aq) + HCO3–(aq) [distilled water reaction]
2NaOH(aq) + CO2(g) -> Na2CO3(aq) + H2O(l) [sodium hydroxide reaction]
CO2(aq) + H2O(l) H+(aq) + HCO3–(aq) [distilled water reaction]
2NaOH(aq) + CO2(g) Na2CO3(aq) + H2O(l) [sodium hydroxide reaction]
Explanatory:
Carbon dioxide reacts with water at standard temperature and pressure to form a weak acid and hydrogen ions (both in solution), adjusting pH *at saturation* from about 7.6-6.0. That it is known yet underreported that the world's oceans are the carbon sink to beat all others, puts lie to the CO2 problem and a simple classroom experiment with distilled water, a straw, sodium hydroxide solution and phenol indicator proves this.
Incidentally, for the carbon sink to fail would require the oceans to be heated to just below boiling. Not likely to happen yet for around 5 billion years.
In a televised address following 9/11 and immediately prior to the invasion of Afghanistan:
"You're either with us, or you're against us."
There is no room for interpretation or neutrality here. Bush Jr. represented a clear a present danger to the entire civilised world (which is shrinking faster than an ice diver's nutsack); I'm glad he's no longer the Voice of America yet his legacy remains. People are still dying out there, and now they're testing new unmanned weapons systems just to mitigate that slight feeling of guilt when one man murders another man he's never even met let alone know exactly why he's doing it. Now, it's a video game. He doesn't even see his victims.
how easily this is done, eh? Lovely example of this being done to influence policy, is the Lisbon Treaty. A few letters were changed and a single comma added, and it changed the entire meaning of the document. John Major did that, and from the moment he signed it signed away the UK's right to self govern but more importantly, to run its own Judiciary. That's treason, in my book.
It's not shooting the messenger, it's stealing his bicycle and shoes and cutting off his legs with a spoon, then standing back and laughing as he bleeds out.
don't give them ideas!
Saying that, it'd work about as well as gun bans. <voice style="Gene_Wilder">Tell me again, how criminals obey the law?< />
The FBI are NOT above the Law! First and foremost, they are bound by the US Constitution. Secondly, they are bound by domestic Law, and for operation outside the borders, by International Law. Yes, they routinely break and violate and basically arserape all three jurisdictions, and they get away with it. Why? BECAUSE NOBODY IS SAYING TO THEM, "STOP! WE HAVE HAD ENOUGH!"
Actually, Obama spent more, which puts lie to that. Half of Obama's Super PAC donations were of more than US$1m, while those of Romney's made up only a third of his total. So that puts lie to that as well.
Do your homework BEFORE posting nonsense, not after.
Don't mind him, he's America != Everyone Else. :p
Probably couldn't even point to DC on a map.
the FBI kept the investigation open. That they served the search warrant two years before they seized the computers stinks of entrapment, since it is an offence to destroy evidence pertinent to an investigation (it's called spoliation). MU didn't break the law in this case, the FBI did.
they're the Federal Bureau* of Investigation. They are an office of the Government. Ergo, they are the Government.
*From the French, literally office.
We're talking about two obsoleted technologies (breadboard computing and instamatic film) meeting to give us this bit of history. I don't know about anyone else, but while not overly significant, it is still pretty awesome. Think about where it came from as well. Triple whammy.
I use a Logitech trackball. Does that count?
Maybe not, it uses an optical sensor but I do have to clean the gunk off the teflon riders and polish the ball every so often... it gets particularly annoying when I have to do it while playing World of Tanks. :x
Because while fresh urine is sterile, it does contain very high concentrations of salt. That can very quickly reach toxic levels if you do that. You need to distill the water out and collect it in another container before you can drink it. The salt residue can then be disposed of.
NASA and the other space agencies have been doing this for years.
they're already concentration camps, you don't need to do anything. Every classroom I've seen has every seat facing the same direction - towards a board that dominates. When classes are on, the blinds are drawn so the children can't see outside - focussing their attention. Striplights abound - which can and do cause epileptic seizures. Learning is by rote, critical thinking is discouraged, even punished with segregation (no, don't try and tell me that supersmart kids are encouraged in schools, I know that isn't true. They're segregated, socially isolated, and sit bored out of their skulls because the teachers are not smart enough to find them something to do. You'll sometimes find, as I did during my school years, that some supersmart kids are smarter than all the teachers combined.
Oh yeah, we now have local education authorities in the UK advertising for proofreaders to check school correspondence for spelling and grammatical errors before they go out. I bullshit you not.
Approved schools and secure units. We do still have those. Let's fucking use them. And pound-me-in-the-ass jail for those in positions of trust who by action or omission are found to have failed in their duty of care.
We don't need more laws, we already have them. Let's drop this PC "Think of the children!" bullshit and grow some fucking backbone.
USC DOES NOT APPLY outside the Territorial United States.
The United States stops at the Western fringe of the Atlantic Ocean, and with the exception of a few SMALL islands, the Eastern fringe of the Pacific Ocean.
Believe it or not there are about 6.7 billion people who are NOT United States citizens, who do NOT live in the United States, to whom this "USC" does NOT apply.
Naked force has resolved more conflicts than any method of diplomacy in history. That is a fact.
However, that does not necessarily make it right. And sometimes people die.