Mod parent up. Thanks, Chirs: I'm not a coder, I don't "do" markup until I'm ready to typeset (for which I use a WYSIWIG platform such as OpenOffice), and that doesn't happen on a forum. Allcapping might be older than time but it is universally recognised as a form of emphasis. Those who complain, I have a message for you: I think you should get a life, or sit down and code up a WYSIWYG edit box for/. to make life more convenient for *you*.
...Project Gutenberg has had more money from me (a few hundred Pounds in donations by now, easily, plus time spent volunteering as a proofreader and space and bandwidth given over for distribution which has got to be worth something) than Amazon, B&N or any other major online publisher/distributor ever has. Why? Because their ebooks aren't locked down to fuckery.
Call me cynical, or a pirate, or whatever you want to call me, but I'm not about to buy something I can't use. IF DRM PREVENTS ME FROM TRANSFERRING FILES FROM AN OLD DEVICE TO A NEW ONE WITH NO FURTHER OUTLAY REQUIREMENT THEN I AM NOT INTERESTED.
it still hasn't recovered. Have you seen the price of prime cut lately? I have, but that's only because I went shopping yesterday. For comparison, a kilo of smoked wild atlantic salmon fillet is £23. A kilo of prime cut beef is £24. That's ASDA price. I shit ye not, a knot of beef the size of your fist will lighten your wallet by at least £10.
Way back when a beef dinner was an almost daily occurrence for me (1992), a kilo of prime cut could be had for change out of a fiver. On the bone was even cheaper. Then the whole BSE thing scared up and British beef disappeared completely, to be replaced with French beef at five times the price, and nothing on the bone. Out of principle (I believe that if you can source it locally, that is what you fucking do!) I stopped eating beef until the ban on British meat was lifted. That and discovering by observing (from ten days yumping through France), what the French feed their bovine stock.
If you can question your own sanity, chances are you're sane.
Since a cow cannot vocalise in a way that we humans can understand, we cannot tell if said cow is a: self aware or b: questioning the conditions of its own existence or simply c: it is calling to a potential mate or a calf; therefore we have to conclude that it is indeed, mad (by our standards).
the Home screen on my ZTE F930 utilises threshold velocities for scrolling screens. Drag the page slowly and it doesn't scroll. Flick it, and it scrolls.
it's not about winning in court, it's a war of attrition. When a small company/startup/individual runs out of money to fight the behemoths like MS in court over some ambiguous patent claim, then the guy with the larger coffer wins by default.
Is this familiar to anybody: "To no man will we sell or deny justice"?
It SHOULD BE for EVERYONE. It was one of the founding principles of one of the oldest legal documents in existence. What it means is that these legal wars of attrition are UNLAWFUL.
I could rant all day about how the system favours the guy with more money, but none of you fuckheads listen. Just remember when you find yourself at the blunt end of Microsoft Justice: the cunt on Slashdot was right!
theory has it that without some major eruptions in recent prehistory the planet would be a large ball of ice. (source: BBC Horizon: Snowball Earth (2001)). Volcanoes emit huge quantities of, among other things, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. All major greenhouse gases.
Like I said, not exhaustive... Iraq should be there near the bottom again, unless you account for the fact that the US has maintained a military presence there since the invasion of Kuwait... Gulf War II is just Gulf War I: The Sequel much like Kill Bill Volume 2 is the sequel to Kill Bill Vol. 1.
...I've just watched an episode of NCIS where someone placed a bug in a computer keyboard that used subsonic acoustics to determine which key had been pressed... Hollywood science?
I've still got two Spectrum +2's, a +3, a Spectrum+ 48K (well, two of those, actually - one with the rubber keys and one with a custom clicky board), a BBC Model A, Commodore 16K+, portable 8080 (a pre-x86 x86 with a SIX WEEK BATTERY LIFE!! Modern netbooks top off at ten hours, what's up with that!?), and a Casio FX 82S that I bought in 1990 for my high school exams. They all still work as well. One of these days I''m gonna hook 'em up and open a live museum in my garage.
am I missing something? Didn't they find the untouched passport of one of the 9/11 "terrorists" a block over? Tells me that having ID does not make one not a terrorist.
Yet, pilot schemes running in Nottingham schools (primary and secondary) mandate the fingerprinting of children as young as 5 not only for access to class but to eat lunch! No parental permission required... hell, you don't get to find out unless your kids tell you, because the LEA isn't volunteering the information. This is all being done under the radar.
As for a Bill of Rights, we already have one of those. It was signed by William of Orange in 1688 and passed into Law in 1689. Too bad it's ignored by those in whom we are expected to place our trust, and further bastardised by those who we expect to know and enforce by decree, the Law of the Land.
I don't know about you but I feel personally fucking betrayed.
The point is, we did. We not only had the Anglo-French Concorde, the Russians also developed the Tupolev TU-144, AKA "Concordski". OK, Concordski only completed just over a hundred commercial flights but it was still in use by NASA (among others) as test platforms, until 1999. Boeing started (but did not complete) two prototypes for its 2707 SST project. A-F Concorde had only three times the fuel running costs per passenger than the Boeing 747-400, which isn't a big deal when you consider that there were people willing to pay for the privilege of flying very fast between London, Paris, Edinburgh and New York. It did, in fact, make an operating profit of £750million over its service life; that's after paying off the purchase subsidy to the British and French Governments for the airframes themselves.
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Mod parent up. Thanks, Chirs: I'm not a coder, I don't "do" markup until I'm ready to typeset (for which I use a WYSIWIG platform such as OpenOffice), and that doesn't happen on a forum. Allcapping might be older than time but it is universally recognised as a form of emphasis. Those who complain, I have a message for you: I think you should get a life, or sit down and code up a WYSIWYG edit box for /. to make life more convenient for *you*.
...Project Gutenberg has had more money from me (a few hundred Pounds in donations by now, easily, plus time spent volunteering as a proofreader and space and bandwidth given over for distribution which has got to be worth something) than Amazon, B&N or any other major online publisher/distributor ever has. Why? Because their ebooks aren't locked down to fuckery.
Call me cynical, or a pirate, or whatever you want to call me, but I'm not about to buy something I can't use. IF DRM PREVENTS ME FROM TRANSFERRING FILES FROM AN OLD DEVICE TO A NEW ONE WITH NO FURTHER OUTLAY REQUIREMENT THEN I AM NOT INTERESTED.
you think the industry cares about that?
If there's a less expensive way to raise meatstock then that's what's gonna happen. They only say "oops!" when someone gets caught.
Never let the facts get in the way of an interesting debate.
it still hasn't recovered. Have you seen the price of prime cut lately? I have, but that's only because I went shopping yesterday. For comparison, a kilo of smoked wild atlantic salmon fillet is £23. A kilo of prime cut beef is £24. That's ASDA price. I shit ye not, a knot of beef the size of your fist will lighten your wallet by at least £10.
Way back when a beef dinner was an almost daily occurrence for me (1992), a kilo of prime cut could be had for change out of a fiver. On the bone was even cheaper. Then the whole BSE thing scared up and British beef disappeared completely, to be replaced with French beef at five times the price, and nothing on the bone. Out of principle (I believe that if you can source it locally, that is what you fucking do!) I stopped eating beef until the ban on British meat was lifted. That and discovering by observing (from ten days yumping through France), what the French feed their bovine stock.
If you can question your own sanity, chances are you're sane.
Since a cow cannot vocalise in a way that we humans can understand, we cannot tell if said cow is a: self aware or b: questioning the conditions of its own existence or simply c: it is calling to a potential mate or a calf; therefore we have to conclude that it is indeed, mad (by our standards).
ISTR a slashdot article talking about this. Samsung are the bright fuckers pushing it.
Have they found a use for this terrestrially rare element that would justify such a venture?
w00t!
the Home screen on my ZTE F930 utilises threshold velocities for scrolling screens. Drag the page slowly and it doesn't scroll. Flick it, and it scrolls.
it's not about winning in court, it's a war of attrition. When a small company/startup/individual runs out of money to fight the behemoths like MS in court over some ambiguous patent claim, then the guy with the larger coffer wins by default.
Is this familiar to anybody: "To no man will we sell or deny justice"?
It SHOULD BE for EVERYONE. It was one of the founding principles of one of the oldest legal documents in existence. What it means is that these legal wars of attrition are UNLAWFUL.
I could rant all day about how the system favours the guy with more money, but none of you fuckheads listen. Just remember when you find yourself at the blunt end of Microsoft Justice: the cunt on Slashdot was right!
There fucking SHOULD BE!
theory has it that without some major eruptions in recent prehistory the planet would be a large ball of ice. (source: BBC Horizon: Snowball Earth (2001)). Volcanoes emit huge quantities of, among other things, carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide. All major greenhouse gases.
yep, 'cos volcanic ash is very abrasive. Not to mention thixotropic when wet. Stuff turns to very dense mud at the merest sniff of moisture.
could be something to do with the unbelievably fertile soil that usually parks itself around the base of the cone?
Like I said, not exhaustive... Iraq should be there near the bottom again, unless you account for the fact that the US has maintained a military presence there since the invasion of Kuwait... Gulf War II is just Gulf War I: The Sequel much like Kill Bill Volume 2 is the sequel to Kill Bill Vol. 1.
...I've just watched an episode of NCIS where someone placed a bug in a computer keyboard that used subsonic acoustics to determine which key had been pressed... Hollywood science?
Since WWII the US Government has sanctioned entire economies and betold woes on those who would deal with them.
What, you want a list?
(note: this is by no means exhaustive. Just the ones that actually made the news. Source: own research)
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia - Serbia 1999
Afghanistan 2001
Libya 2011
I've still got two Spectrum +2's, a +3, a Spectrum+ 48K (well, two of those, actually - one with the rubber keys and one with a custom clicky board), a BBC Model A, Commodore 16K+, portable 8080 (a pre-x86 x86 with a SIX WEEK BATTERY LIFE!! Modern netbooks top off at ten hours, what's up with that!?), and a Casio FX 82S that I bought in 1990 for my high school exams. They all still work as well. One of these days I''m gonna hook 'em up and open a live museum in my garage.
mind's eye conjured up the scene in Family Guy:
"Penis recognition validated. Welcome, Mr. President."
"Hey, Quagmire, how'd you know that would work?"
"I didn't. I jut shoved it in and broke it."
am I missing something? Didn't they find the untouched passport of one of the 9/11 "terrorists" a block over? Tells me that having ID does not make one not a terrorist.
"Eureka", Rotterdam, 1991.
Awesome video.
Yet, pilot schemes running in Nottingham schools (primary and secondary) mandate the fingerprinting of children as young as 5 not only for access to class but to eat lunch! No parental permission required... hell, you don't get to find out unless your kids tell you, because the LEA isn't volunteering the information. This is all being done under the radar.
As for a Bill of Rights, we already have one of those. It was signed by William of Orange in 1688 and passed into Law in 1689. Too bad it's ignored by those in whom we are expected to place our trust, and further bastardised by those who we expect to know and enforce by decree, the Law of the Land.
I don't know about you but I feel personally fucking betrayed.
get back to shovelling chips, you greasebag fucking oxygen drain.
The point is, we did. We not only had the Anglo-French Concorde, the Russians also developed the Tupolev TU-144, AKA "Concordski". OK, Concordski only completed just over a hundred commercial flights but it was still in use by NASA (among others) as test platforms, until 1999. Boeing started (but did not complete) two prototypes for its 2707 SST project. A-F Concorde had only three times the fuel running costs per passenger than the Boeing 747-400, which isn't a big deal when you consider that there were people willing to pay for the privilege of flying very fast between London, Paris, Edinburgh and New York. It did, in fact, make an operating profit of £750million over its service life; that's after paying off the purchase subsidy to the British and French Governments for the airframes themselves.