Wohnst du in Deutschland? This is one of the things I like most about Germany - you take your empty glass and plastics back to Aldi, you get a ticket stub for money off your groceries, and the state gets a society where people don't feel inclined to throw glass bottles every fucking where. Why is this not implemented in other countries?
Because all the insipid pandering to well defined pigeonholed demographics just makes the producers come off as bigoted pieces of shit that are only trying to cover their arse from the pc police anyway?
Ok then, would you be so kind sir as to altruistically pay a small stipend on the proceeds generated from the luxury item tea, so that our good king to be can have a new jacuzzi and polo field?
I've used Linux for years, and even though I don't make much of a concious effort to try and understand what's under the hood, I can usually fix it when it blows up -which is usually invariably, after a dist upgrade. But the one thing that I really wish, is that I could just pay for the thing, i.e. as in somewhere local and friendly before you say anything, and have a reliable, genuinely dedicated customer service team to shout at and fix it for me, because I am just tired of randomly fixing things that were decidedly in the 'aint broke' quantum superposition before someone decided to 'fix' it to make it hip and groovy.
I'm talking about being able to go to PC world, say "Can the gentleman fix this for me, and will you shine my boots while I am waiting young lad", without looking like an alien from outer space. And sadly, I don't think this is ever going to happen until the notion is in everyone's heads that windows is not the last word in computing. People need to be able to rely on specialists, it is just wasteful and naive to expect everyone to be a specialist at OS repair when the thing randomly fucks up. Which it will. Anything that can...
End user here. I love having the code. You fucking programmers get bored and go do something else, leaving everyone who needs to use your software up shit creek. At least if there is code in the wild, there is still hope!
Hello, its us Brits here! Now we rather don't like you bad mouthing Australians for what is essentially our doing.
It is important to note that the East India Company wanted nothing to do with colonising Australia, since there was no trade to be had and no modern conveniences. Well, how to solve this little problem and stop it falling into the hands of the French? Easy, round up some poor impoverished peasants from the backwoods who had committed petty crimes to stay alive, like stealing bread and hats and such, stick them all on boats destined for what was essentially an alien planet, put shovels in their hands and tell them to get cracking! God save the King and all that shit...
So, a man stands up for his beliefs, defies the will of the country with the most powerful military in the history of creation, one that can barely disguise its intentions to throw him in a dark hole never to be seen again, all while armed with nothing but a keyboard, and you call him a coward?
Interesting. What do you want him to do, Chuck Norris his way through the Pentagon?
There is no reverence of the Big Screen any more. I could go and watch a movie on the big screen, but I'll be robbed blind for food and drink, half to sit in a disgusting chewing gum encrusted chair after walking over a sticky, repulsively stained tired grey carpet in the dark to get to it, spend half an hour watching spastic trailers that give away every surprise to every upcoming new film and have to put up with obnoxious little shitbag teenagers who are convinced the entire cinema audience want to hear their running commentary all the way through the film when it finally starts.
Well, Greeks should... "idol" and "panic" are Greek words!
Nice.:).
To address your point, you might be out of luck. Smart people in historical times would use latin or greek words where none existed in their own language, but these people were also trained in latin or greek. Modern English students are all vaguely aware of the roots of those words, but don't have the context of the actual source language, unless they specialise. Unless Greek makes a comeback, its probably just going to get slowly, nauseatingly worse from your perspective, which I can only apologise for. I mean to me,archaeology basically is what Indiana Jones and Dr Daniel Jackson does...
I really like this idea. I personally couldn't give a crap if something I download has a watermark that identifies me, my home address, my cat's name and my best friends in order of preference, and I would be unlikely to want to share that with everyone on pirate bay. But back when PC games started getting all snarky and demanding CD keys, CD's in the drive for games I had full installed, once CD per multi player gamer etc, is exactly the same time that I started to enjoy gamecopyworld.com . Even though I still continued to buy and still have a 2 inch thick wallet of god's honest, real deal CD's.
If I am giving you money, I am going to use your stuff how I like, and frankly, fuck you, I am going to share it with my close friends too, because that's what I can do with my cd's, tapes, records, books, wax cylinders, daguerreotypes and priceless papyrus scrolls. Your last mistake will be getting in my way.
Heh, even though Amazon say they backtracked and changed their policy after that, this single stupid move did more to damage the reputation of ebooks than anyone who is against them could ever have possibly hoped to achieve. And with 1984, of all books....
I mean, up till then, the only concrete disadvantage I could see with ebook vs paper, is that if civilisation collapsed and humankind was no longer able to generate electricity at throwaway prices, then our entire written culture up to that moment would vanish instantly in a puff of magnetic bits. Or in other words, not exactly something anyone is planning on. But then Amazon pulled this clown bullshit...and MADE a problem where none should have existed!
Eric Arthur Blair would have a very smug look on his face if he could see this.
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For one thing, there isn't a lot of desert in Germany
Wohnst du in Deutschland? This is one of the things I like most about Germany - you take your empty glass and plastics back to Aldi, you get a ticket stub for money off your groceries, and the state gets a society where people don't feel inclined to throw glass bottles every fucking where. Why is this not implemented in other countries?
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Everyone else.
I find it a beautiful irony that the country that invented the gestapo and the stasi finds the nsa a little bit too much :)
Because all the insipid pandering to well defined pigeonholed demographics just makes the producers come off as bigoted pieces of shit that are only trying to cover their arse from the pc police anyway?
Don't sell yourself short, merca, you make some good tv that we like too.
But yeah, if some of you were to take turns punching the Kardashians in the face, then we probably would be greatly amused.
Ok then, would you be so kind sir as to altruistically pay a small stipend on the proceeds generated from the luxury item tea, so that our good king to be can have a new jacuzzi and polo field?
Bla bla bla 'Like omaigaaaawd this is so FAAAAIR'
depends on your definition of success mate. p.s., don't speak for me or I'll fuck you in the face.
Yes, but they probably wont start hacking their arms and legs of with pangas, so they wont get as bad a rap as us.
http://www.kongo-kinshasa.de/dokumente/lekture/crime_of_congo.pdf
The ipad is also an example of a restrictive device. Wow, this is complicated.
Don't feel bad mate. In the UK, the only sensible option is to emigrate to Kazakhstan...
I've used Linux for years, and even though I don't make much of a concious effort to try and understand what's under the hood, I can usually fix it when it blows up -which is usually invariably, after a dist upgrade. But the one thing that I really wish, is that I could just pay for the thing, i.e. as in somewhere local and friendly before you say anything, and have a reliable, genuinely dedicated customer service team to shout at and fix it for me, because I am just tired of randomly fixing things that were decidedly in the 'aint broke' quantum superposition before someone decided to 'fix' it to make it hip and groovy.
I'm talking about being able to go to PC world, say "Can the gentleman fix this for me, and will you shine my boots while I am waiting young lad", without looking like an alien from outer space. And sadly, I don't think this is ever going to happen until the notion is in everyone's heads that windows is not the last word in computing. People need to be able to rely on specialists, it is just wasteful and naive to expect everyone to be a specialist at OS repair when the thing randomly fucks up. Which it will. Anything that can...
Well, it makes people rich, at which point they naturally gravitate to being self assured pricks with a natural sense of entitlement
End user here. I love having the code. You fucking programmers get bored and go do something else, leaving everyone who needs to use your software up shit creek. At least if there is code in the wild, there is still hope!
Hello, its us Brits here! Now we rather don't like you bad mouthing Australians for what is essentially our doing.
It is important to note that the East India Company wanted nothing to do with colonising Australia, since there was no trade to be had and no modern conveniences. Well, how to solve this little problem and stop it falling into the hands of the French? Easy, round up some poor impoverished peasants from the backwoods who had committed petty crimes to stay alive, like stealing bread and hats and such, stick them all on boats destined for what was essentially an alien planet, put shovels in their hands and tell them to get cracking! God save the King and all that shit...
So, a man stands up for his beliefs, defies the will of the country with the most powerful military in the history of creation, one that can barely disguise its intentions to throw him in a dark hole never to be seen again, all while armed with nothing but a keyboard, and you call him a coward?
Interesting. What do you want him to do, Chuck Norris his way through the Pentagon?
I was making a joke on the 'gateway drug' theory, you know, because... oh nevermind
I'm actually addicted to Claire Perry, but I worry that it might lead to me wanting Anne Widdecombe
There is no reverence of the Big Screen any more. I could go and watch a movie on the big screen, but I'll be robbed blind for food and drink, half to sit in a disgusting chewing gum encrusted chair after walking over a sticky, repulsively stained tired grey carpet in the dark to get to it, spend half an hour watching spastic trailers that give away every surprise to every upcoming new film and have to put up with obnoxious little shitbag teenagers who are convinced the entire cinema audience want to hear their running commentary all the way through the film when it finally starts.
Why in fucks name does anyone still do this?
Yes he does, the ability to instantly conjure any conceivable bat-item of bat-convenience on his bat-belt at any bat-time!
Well, Greeks should... "idol" and "panic" are Greek words!
Nice. :).
To address your point, you might be out of luck. Smart people in historical times would use latin or greek words where none existed in their own language, but these people were also trained in latin or greek. Modern English students are all vaguely aware of the roots of those words, but don't have the context of the actual source language, unless they specialise. Unless Greek makes a comeback, its probably just going to get slowly, nauseatingly worse from your perspective, which I can only apologise for. I mean to me,archaeology basically is what Indiana Jones and Dr Daniel Jackson does...
Ok, that's an exaggeration, but you get my point.
Sorry :/
I really like this idea. I personally couldn't give a crap if something I download has a watermark that identifies me, my home address, my cat's name and my best friends in order of preference, and I would be unlikely to want to share that with everyone on pirate bay. But back when PC games started getting all snarky and demanding CD keys, CD's in the drive for games I had full installed, once CD per multi player gamer etc, is exactly the same time that I started to enjoy gamecopyworld.com . Even though I still continued to buy and still have a 2 inch thick wallet of god's honest, real deal CD's.
If I am giving you money, I am going to use your stuff how I like, and frankly, fuck you, I am going to share it with my close friends too, because that's what I can do with my cd's, tapes, records, books, wax cylinders, daguerreotypes and priceless papyrus scrolls. Your last mistake will be getting in my way.
And it's only going to get worse.... before things improve?
Heh, even though Amazon say they backtracked and changed their policy after that, this single stupid move did more to damage the reputation of ebooks than anyone who is against them could ever have possibly hoped to achieve. And with 1984, of all books....
I mean, up till then, the only concrete disadvantage I could see with ebook vs paper, is that if civilisation collapsed and humankind was no longer able to generate electricity at throwaway prices, then our entire written culture up to that moment would vanish instantly in a puff of magnetic bits. Or in other words, not exactly something anyone is planning on. But then Amazon pulled this clown bullshit...and MADE a problem where none should have existed!
Eric Arthur Blair would have a very smug look on his face if he could see this.