Where in the world, except in the book "1984", the government decides what I am allowed to see? it only decides the media, anyhow: child pornography or else will not stop...
So you are saying you watch adults have sex with children, but only in a live setting?
Honestly, I don't know how else to parse that particular statement.
If you can manage to physically do that yourself, 24 hours a day for a week, I'll give you a check for a million dollars.*
Note: Of course the check will never clear, but you'll have a great thing to grumble about in the asylum where you would end up. Sleep deprivation is a bitch.
I'm a sort of pizza snob. I want at least four different color toppings on my pizza. The sauce and cheese don't count.
In fact I prefer to have bell peppers as one of the toppings, even though I don't actually like bell peppers. But without them, the pizza doesn't taste nearly as good.
Thaylin has the right point of this argument. The emails do not say "Terminate the contract". I don't even know if email is officially recognized as a legal notice of intent to terminate. I don't accept it as legally binding. In the contracts I have with customers, the termination clause specifies either a printed-on-paper notice or face-to-face meeting. Nothing fancy -- a single sentence with proper signature, or a five second verbal exchange would suffice (and has sufficed).
But an email in 2005 saying that the customer "does not want to pursue an agreement" does not terminate an agreement that is already in effect, and not due to expire for another year, in 2006.
Show me a letter that was typed, printed, and mailed to MediaNet saying "Terminate Amy Mann's contract please", and I will agree that that is a termination letter. Sorry for being a stickler, but they aren't hollywood celebrities breaking up with someone over Twitter. They are businesses and lawyers discussing legal matters. "But I thought..." doesn't cut it.
But I still think that posting news about a trivial update on/. is a waste of time and space.
Yet here you are wasting our time and space griping about it.
I for one am happy to hear about this service pack, even though it is for a previous version of Office. Mainly because Office 2013 is a horrible eyesore, and I recommend to my customers they stick with 2010, or upgrade to it if they are running something older still on a PC that we are replacing.
So news of the update is welcome for me, regardless of where I hear about it. And, no, I am not going to troll through Microsoft's pages every day looking for update news.
If Modern Society increases your chances of survival, you are evolutionary better fitted than those nearly-perfect, intelligent people who died in an outbreak of a disease.
This asinine crap was modded as Insightful? That people who are dependent on others are better fitted for evolution than those who are not?
Since evolution depends on passing genes down to offspring, we must look at the next generation produced from those two groups. The offspring of people who can't take care of themselves in modern society will be even less able to do so. The offspring of intelligent people will have a much higher chance of being able to take care of themselves, and then passing their own genes on.
Whether a few intelligent people "died from an outbreak of disease" has no bearing on that, considering it is counterbalanced by the hundreds of incapable people who are killed by members of their own group, who find that that is their only way to survive the urban jungle they are not capable of escaping.
To say that one group was less fit for continuing evolution because some members died, would mean that alpha male wolves and lions are less fit because they eventually are killed by a younger male. That would be ignoring the fact they they had produced many offspring while leading their groups.
Hearing about changes like that is why I never have read the son's Dune stories. It's one thing to flesh out a family story, but another to change some of the basic 'facts' because they don't fit what he wants to write.
I've read one of Brian Herbert's other books, 'Sudanna, Sudanna', and enjoyed it for what it was. But if he wants to carry on his father's story, he should keep to the story first.
While I am glad you have a solution that works for you, it would not work for me. I am sorry that the fact there are people different from you makes you so angry.
Your software sucks, then. Use one that allows for multiple arbitrary bookmarks and multiple windows.
You misunderstood. I don't use ebook readers/software. I use service manual pdfs for those particular jobs. For all other reading, I still use printed on paper books.
And I can grep for "last time character X was mentioned on the same page as character Y".
And where did I say that the situation I look for was the last time for anything. The search would have to be for all instances. Flipping back a couple hundred pages is quicker. Especially since, as I mentioned, I can usually go to the page I need, or a page either side of it. That's not bragging or lying, that's simply what I do, and it is quicker than what you do.
No need to flip around, but if I did, there is a scroll bar with print version page numbers.
You must have missed the point that I don't know the page number I want. I know the point in the book I want. That doesn't translate to a scroll bar with page numbers.
So, again, I am happy you have a good method to read, and it works for you. But please take you condescension and anger to another thread. I don't feel like being the target of it.
I like being able to move with only stuff that fits into the trunk of a car. Not quite Fight Club style, but close enough.
Suprisingly the same does not apply to my GF:P
You can't fit her in the trunk of your car? That's ok, just leave her on the curb with your books and cd's. Someone will pick her up and make good use of her.;^)
Big deal, I do that on my laptop with HP printer manual PDFs all the time. The thing is, the "other parts that need to be removed" are all links at the start of the section for whatever part I am looking to replace, such as the Engine Controller Unit. Links to removing the right-side cover, left-side cover, rear cover, fuser, etc. Then it tells how to remove the various gears, fans, cables, etc. that are still in the way of the ECU. All clickable and easily navigable.
But what about when I'm reading a novel, that doesn't have links to previous points in the storyline? With a printed book, if something is a bit confusing, and follows on something from the previous chapter, or even from five chapters earlier, I can flip back to the area, find the paragraph that sets up the current situation, read it, then return to where I was at. I'm sure I'm not the only one that can, for example, be reading a 500 page book, and from page 385 flip back to within a page or two of the previous scene I need to re-read that is on page 129. This is without knowing what page that previous scene is on, but knowing where in the storyline it was at.
Besides that, a laptop disassembly manual could be done in about 10 pages. There's not a lot of interconnected parts, other than dozens of screws.
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I don't understand that statement. I am proud I voted for "the alternative".
My chosen alternative was the Green Party.
Where in the world, except in the book "1984", the government decides what I am allowed to see? it only decides the media, anyhow: child pornography or else will not stop ...
So you are saying you watch adults have sex with children, but only in a live setting?
Honestly, I don't know how else to parse that particular statement.
This brings up a curious point.
How many people here that are complaining about the government's actions voted for President Obama? How many voted for him twice?
Of those who voted for him, especially in 2012, how do you like what he's doing to your rights under the Constitution?
Oh god no!
I would choose the waterboarding over those whores anytime.
And after a couple near-drowning incidences as a kid, I don't like having my face under water unless I'm in complete control.
I didn't say it wasn't possible. I predicted what the end result would be.
There was at least one case I have heard of. It wasn't so nice for the guy who did it.
I'm not the one that suggested striping on the Intenet. But if it had to happen, I would assume it would include parity.
My mistake. I glossed over that digit in reading.
In my defense, suggesting parity would seem the more logical response than simply trashing the idea that seems more like a joke response anyway.
No, not a movie. It would have to be a show on cable. USA if there's just a hint of gore, TNT for more gore, or HBO for boobies.
Each week we watch another group of bot makers get taken out in a manner related to their binary creations.
And his calling card could be a poker card with a pic of a robot on the back, like the one in Windows Solitaire game.
lol
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PSYCH!
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If you can manage to physically do that yourself, 24 hours a day for a week, I'll give you a check for a million dollars.*
Note: Of course the check will never clear, but you'll have a great thing to grumble about in the asylum where you would end up. Sleep deprivation is a bitch.
I'm a sort of pizza snob. I want at least four different color toppings on my pizza. The sauce and cheese don't count.
In fact I prefer to have bell peppers as one of the toppings, even though I don't actually like bell peppers. But without them, the pizza doesn't taste nearly as good.
Someone needs to write a RAID 0 style encrypted 'driver' that stores your data striped on Google Drive, Skydrive and Dropbox (and what ever else).
To give you 1/3 the reliability of storing it on a single provider and making your data completely inaccessible if any of them go down?
You've never heard of parity?
Thaylin has the right point of this argument. The emails do not say "Terminate the contract". I don't even know if email is officially recognized as a legal notice of intent to terminate. I don't accept it as legally binding. In the contracts I have with customers, the termination clause specifies either a printed-on-paper notice or face-to-face meeting. Nothing fancy -- a single sentence with proper signature, or a five second verbal exchange would suffice (and has sufficed).
But an email in 2005 saying that the customer "does not want to pursue an agreement" does not terminate an agreement that is already in effect, and not due to expire for another year, in 2006.
Show me a letter that was typed, printed, and mailed to MediaNet saying "Terminate Amy Mann's contract please", and I will agree that that is a termination letter. Sorry for being a stickler, but they aren't hollywood celebrities breaking up with someone over Twitter. They are businesses and lawyers discussing legal matters. "But I thought..." doesn't cut it.
Does that mess up the way comments are displayed? Especially trying to show all the 0 and -1 posts?
I use NoScript, and I think that was a issue at first.
But I still think that posting news about a trivial update on /. is a waste of time and space.
Yet here you are wasting our time and space griping about it.
I for one am happy to hear about this service pack, even though it is for a previous version of Office. Mainly because Office 2013 is a horrible eyesore, and I recommend to my customers they stick with 2010, or upgrade to it if they are running something older still on a PC that we are replacing.
So news of the update is welcome for me, regardless of where I hear about it. And, no, I am not going to troll through Microsoft's pages every day looking for update news.
If Modern Society increases your chances of survival, you are evolutionary better fitted than those nearly-perfect, intelligent people who died in an outbreak of a disease.
This asinine crap was modded as Insightful? That people who are dependent on others are better fitted for evolution than those who are not?
Since evolution depends on passing genes down to offspring, we must look at the next generation produced from those two groups. The offspring of people who can't take care of themselves in modern society will be even less able to do so. The offspring of intelligent people will have a much higher chance of being able to take care of themselves, and then passing their own genes on.
Whether a few intelligent people "died from an outbreak of disease" has no bearing on that, considering it is counterbalanced by the hundreds of incapable people who are killed by members of their own group, who find that that is their only way to survive the urban jungle they are not capable of escaping.
To say that one group was less fit for continuing evolution because some members died, would mean that alpha male wolves and lions are less fit because they eventually are killed by a younger male. That would be ignoring the fact they they had produced many offspring while leading their groups.
Oh my god. How many midichlorians does he have in his blood?
Hey now. Don't be talking shit about National Treasure. That is a classic in my house.
The second one I could do without though. (How could they take two of the sexiest women in movies, and turn them both into bitchy shrews?)
Dune would have been better if it was actually Dune. There were so many idiotic choices and changes that didn't have to be made.
Who the fuck is "kohn"???
Hearing about changes like that is why I never have read the son's Dune stories. It's one thing to flesh out a family story, but another to change some of the basic 'facts' because they don't fit what he wants to write.
I've read one of Brian Herbert's other books, 'Sudanna, Sudanna', and enjoyed it for what it was. But if he wants to carry on his father's story, he should keep to the story first.
Do you mind if I ask how much it cost?
I only ask because I like to brag out my first copy of it. I found it at a used book store for $1, and had to decide between it and breakfast.
I was hungry all morning.
While I am glad you have a solution that works for you, it would not work for me. I am sorry that the fact there are people different from you makes you so angry.
Your software sucks, then. Use one that allows for multiple arbitrary bookmarks and multiple windows.
You misunderstood. I don't use ebook readers/software. I use service manual pdfs for those particular jobs. For all other reading, I still use printed on paper books.
And I can grep for "last time character X was mentioned on the same page as character Y".
And where did I say that the situation I look for was the last time for anything. The search would have to be for all instances. Flipping back a couple hundred pages is quicker. Especially since, as I mentioned, I can usually go to the page I need, or a page either side of it. That's not bragging or lying, that's simply what I do, and it is quicker than what you do.
No need to flip around, but if I did, there is a scroll bar with print version page numbers.
You must have missed the point that I don't know the page number I want. I know the point in the book I want. That doesn't translate to a scroll bar with page numbers.
So, again, I am happy you have a good method to read, and it works for you. But please take you condescension and anger to another thread. I don't feel like being the target of it.
I like being able to move with only stuff that fits into the trunk of a car. Not quite Fight Club style, but close enough.
Suprisingly the same does not apply to my GF :P
You can't fit her in the trunk of your car? That's ok, just leave her on the curb with your books and cd's. Someone will pick her up and make good use of her. ;^)
Big deal, I do that on my laptop with HP printer manual PDFs all the time. The thing is, the "other parts that need to be removed" are all links at the start of the section for whatever part I am looking to replace, such as the Engine Controller Unit. Links to removing the right-side cover, left-side cover, rear cover, fuser, etc. Then it tells how to remove the various gears, fans, cables, etc. that are still in the way of the ECU. All clickable and easily navigable.
But what about when I'm reading a novel, that doesn't have links to previous points in the storyline? With a printed book, if something is a bit confusing, and follows on something from the previous chapter, or even from five chapters earlier, I can flip back to the area, find the paragraph that sets up the current situation, read it, then return to where I was at. I'm sure I'm not the only one that can, for example, be reading a 500 page book, and from page 385 flip back to within a page or two of the previous scene I need to re-read that is on page 129. This is without knowing what page that previous scene is on, but knowing where in the storyline it was at.
Besides that, a laptop disassembly manual could be done in about 10 pages. There's not a lot of interconnected parts, other than dozens of screws.