I was responsible for an accident 13 years ago, it doesn't affect my insurance prices at all (nothing beyond 5 years is considered), and I've driven about 60,000 miles since. Can't say I know many people who've never been in any sort of accident ever, either.
potentially pay out $325,000 in claims
... but more likely a few hundred dollars in claims per accident. Most accidents are not fatal, they're fender benders or leave a few scratches and dents. Many don't even result in a claim at all.
As long as most printers and wireless cards and such are windows-only, as long as people send you docx files, as long as there are non-standard behaviors in MSIE that have to be tested for, as long as netflix uses silverlight... the windows monopoly still causes the linux user some annoyance in every day life.
Whether you like it or not, facebook is a means for people to connect and communicate with other people. Some of those people will use it to spread knowledge, thus making facebook valuable. Most will use it to spread entertainment, which believe it or not poor people also like to have to make their lives feel less dreary.
Even in San Francisco a quick apartment search shows it's easy to find a $1200/mo apartment of your own. That's only $14,400/year. $10K can cover the rest of your expenses and you can be comfortable on $25K income... or less with roommates.
Facebook is about sharing ignorable static images with stupid captions, while G+ is about sharing huge obnoxious animated GIFs. The what's hot stream is usually like half animated GIFs.
Those shitstorms have been preventing the building of urban freeways for a long time now. For most of my childhood they were talking about putting in another freeway in the neighborhood where I grew up. There was too much resident anger for it to ever happen. It's not just the people whose land is being seized who care -- it's the nearby people who would have to deal with the noise.
Advertising is meant to make you equate cola with Coke, so that you'll spend twice as much for a coke as for a generic brand cola that tastes exactly the same. I don't have a problem with that, though -- if the consumer cares about their money they're perfectly capable to ignoring the brand advertising.
Seriously, why do you think he seized legislative powers? Because the courts dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood dominated legislature. Morsi would've been only too happy to let the legislature make the laws, if the legislature had been allowed to do that by the Mubarak-appointed judges.
Hardly. The more accurate analogy is if the supreme court nullified and dissolved congress and blocked the president from action, and the president responded by bypassing the court unconstitutionally. Technically anything a supreme court does is constitutional by definition, but the Egyptian supreme court was full of Mubarak appointees with an obvious agenda to stop the government, which they pursued by forcibly dissolving parliament.
Many of them at gitmo were captured in the vicinity of someone who was committing a crime, or cooking food for someone committing a crime, or providing shelter for them. That is not the same thing.
Relative to reality, of course. Reality does still exist.
Russian skew: Assad is a great popular hero battling western-funded terrorist cannibals bent on destroying civilization.
Western skew: Assad is a monster massacring unarmed pacifist protesters who reluctantly armed seeking only to defend themselves and would establish a fair peaceful democracy with no vengeance.
Reality: It's complicated, both sides are partially evil and partially well-intentioned, and there are no realistic resolutions that don't involve a bloodbath.
If you want objective news about your own country, a collection of foreign state broadcasters (some enemies some allies for balance) tends to be the best place to get it.
Bradley Manning has been tortured, but not pressured to confess anything. The USA just tortures for fun, not so much to force confessions like some other countries do.
Passenger trains can still be cheaper than planes at times. I took an amtrak train from Sacramento to Vancouver a few years ago, because it was a $198 round trip and a plane would've cost hundreds more. Granted that was 50+ hours in the train round trip, but when you're poor that's an acceptable trade off.
Perhaps government patents would be a solution. Let the government license its patents freely to education and research but take a percentage of profits for corporate use.
Only styling visiting links on the same domain would be breaking the feature. The point is to be able to read a page of links and see quickly which of the linked websites you've already been to (if you're working your way through a list or the like). That said, I don't this "exploit" should be fixed since all it can do it find out which of a small set of the most popular websites someone has been to... what can someone do with that, serve better targeted ads?
Though moving an icon around on the panel (you have to awkwardly add spacers and can never quite put things where you want them) and changing the panel background color (still haven't bothered to figure that out) are still unnecessarily more difficult today than they were in KDE ten years ago. I still use KDE but I'm disappointed by the little things like that.
Average linux users on a computer that has already been installed and set up don't use the command line or edit conf files either. Welcome to the 21st century.
As for customer service... they probably exist, but I don't know anybody who calls customer service for their PC. More likely they call a relative.
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I was responsible for an accident 13 years ago, it doesn't affect my insurance prices at all (nothing beyond 5 years is considered), and I've driven about 60,000 miles since. Can't say I know many people who've never been in any sort of accident ever, either.
potentially pay out $325,000 in claims
... but more likely a few hundred dollars in claims per accident. Most accidents are not fatal, they're fender benders or leave a few scratches and dents. Many don't even result in a claim at all.
As long as most printers and wireless cards and such are windows-only, as long as people send you docx files, as long as there are non-standard behaviors in MSIE that have to be tested for, as long as netflix uses silverlight... the windows monopoly still causes the linux user some annoyance in every day life.
Whether you like it or not, facebook is a means for people to connect and communicate with other people. Some of those people will use it to spread knowledge, thus making facebook valuable. Most will use it to spread entertainment, which believe it or not poor people also like to have to make their lives feel less dreary.
Says something about you that you consider it character assassination to discuss someone's [already known] transgender desires.
That wasn't a sense of shame, that was a sense of better-make-a-deal-to-avoid-prosecution.
Even in San Francisco a quick apartment search shows it's easy to find a $1200/mo apartment of your own. That's only $14,400/year. $10K can cover the rest of your expenses and you can be comfortable on $25K income... or less with roommates.
Facebook is about sharing ignorable static images with stupid captions, while G+ is about sharing huge obnoxious animated GIFs. The what's hot stream is usually like half animated GIFs.
Those shitstorms have been preventing the building of urban freeways for a long time now. For most of my childhood they were talking about putting in another freeway in the neighborhood where I grew up. There was too much resident anger for it to ever happen. It's not just the people whose land is being seized who care -- it's the nearby people who would have to deal with the noise.
Advertising is meant to make you equate cola with Coke, so that you'll spend twice as much for a coke as for a generic brand cola that tastes exactly the same. I don't have a problem with that, though -- if the consumer cares about their money they're perfectly capable to ignoring the brand advertising.
People are just wondering how you're planning a marriage at your funeral.
Seriously, why do you think he seized legislative powers? Because the courts dissolved the Muslim Brotherhood dominated legislature. Morsi would've been only too happy to let the legislature make the laws, if the legislature had been allowed to do that by the Mubarak-appointed judges.
Hardly. The more accurate analogy is if the supreme court nullified and dissolved congress and blocked the president from action, and the president responded by bypassing the court unconstitutionally. Technically anything a supreme court does is constitutional by definition, but the Egyptian supreme court was full of Mubarak appointees with an obvious agenda to stop the government, which they pursued by forcibly dissolving parliament.
Both of you are wrong. A 48.4% plurality of Americans voted for Gore, 47.9% for Bush. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2000
Many of them at gitmo were captured in the vicinity of someone who was committing a crime, or cooking food for someone committing a crime, or providing shelter for them. That is not the same thing.
Relative to reality, of course. Reality does still exist.
Russian skew: Assad is a great popular hero battling western-funded terrorist cannibals bent on destroying civilization.
Western skew: Assad is a monster massacring unarmed pacifist protesters who reluctantly armed seeking only to defend themselves and would establish a fair peaceful democracy with no vengeance.
Reality: It's complicated, both sides are partially evil and partially well-intentioned, and there are no realistic resolutions that don't involve a bloodbath.
If you want objective news about your own country, a collection of foreign state broadcasters (some enemies some allies for balance) tends to be the best place to get it.
Bradley Manning has been tortured, but not pressured to confess anything. The USA just tortures for fun, not so much to force confessions like some other countries do.
Passenger tickets are $1. Air is $50 a pound extra if you want any.
Passenger trains can still be cheaper than planes at times. I took an amtrak train from Sacramento to Vancouver a few years ago, because it was a $198 round trip and a plane would've cost hundreds more. Granted that was 50+ hours in the train round trip, but when you're poor that's an acceptable trade off.
Don't forget those of us who are unhealthy underweight twinkie-eaters.
Perhaps government patents would be a solution. Let the government license its patents freely to education and research but take a percentage of profits for corporate use.
Only styling visiting links on the same domain would be breaking the feature. The point is to be able to read a page of links and see quickly which of the linked websites you've already been to (if you're working your way through a list or the like). That said, I don't this "exploit" should be fixed since all it can do it find out which of a small set of the most popular websites someone has been to... what can someone do with that, serve better targeted ads?
Though moving an icon around on the panel (you have to awkwardly add spacers and can never quite put things where you want them) and changing the panel background color (still haven't bothered to figure that out) are still unnecessarily more difficult today than they were in KDE ten years ago. I still use KDE but I'm disappointed by the little things like that.
Average linux users on a computer that has already been installed and set up don't use the command line or edit conf files either. Welcome to the 21st century. As for customer service... they probably exist, but I don't know anybody who calls customer service for their PC. More likely they call a relative.
NASA may not, but the ESA has Venus Express sending back loads of data so there may be no need for NASA to duplicate ESA work.