wardrive & get people kicked off everywhere you can, cause an major public uproar, create a virus/trojan that downloads torrents behind people's back, hell, pipe the download to/dev/null, all you want is people getting kicked off.
Sure, you have a massive army, question is, do you really need it to be that massive?
Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there are countries with less inhabitants than your army has soldiers, not to mention bullets.
There are a lot of things about your nation that i find puzzling though, you have rampant spending on the military, yet I've heard some horror stories (here on slashdot even!) about your healthcare, public education and wellfare that could be solved with diverting a part of that budget towards these things.
Oh well, blame it on cultural differences
But with your policies i'm not stepping one foot in your country, random searches, the fact you can search my laptop or even confiscate it on a whim, not to mention the fingerprinting.... screw that, i'll stick to the rest of the world with a more friendy face.
All the ones yapping on about how Apple provides an xml file that allows one to access the library are being unreasonable.
iTunes is the 'preferred' way of managing your music on OSX, what they should provide is a way for a third party to create a plugin, driver or whatchamacallit that allows third parties to create an interface for their devices that works transparently for the end user, Apple is all about ease of use right? Why force the user to use multiple applications to do the same task?
I have no problem Palm solving this problem by spoofing an USB Vendor ID, hell, Apple should be glad that more people use their POS iTunes for music, it means more sales for them (if you swing that way, me personally, i wouldn't buy mp3's, i prefer the shiny thingies).
For the love of all that is good in this world, keep Microsoft away from AC/DC! I don't want them to turn them into the next Jonas Brothers...
(I can hear it already... the Young Brothers... *shudders*)
Assuming this is all true, this does not change the fact that us (as in humanity) getting our act together & actively reduce pollution is a good thing.
Having low (or none) CO2 emissions is not something that will inversely affect the planet or the ecology, it's been doing fine without our 'help' in that regard, but the opposite of this, us dumping huge amounts of previously trapped CO2 into the atmosphere might very well be messing up our own planet, and in case you haven't noticed, we don't have a backup of that one.
There is no argument to do nothing, except greed, but there are a lot of valid arguments for us starting to live 'greener' lives, if you don't believe global warming is a reality, well then do it for one of the other reasons, and if you truly believe there are no reasons, go sit in a pool of oil mixed with your own excrements and enjoy it.
How do you know that a degree in Creationism isn't as difficult as your field of study?
It's alot harder, it requires me to be learn how to shut down the logic & reasoning capabilities of my brain, something i've only been able to do with alcohol and other assorted mind altering drugs.
The ironic thing is the scientific method ultimately brings one back to the same sorts of mysteries that Creationism want to jump straight to. Parallel universes, etc. The "god story" doesn't sound so wierd once you get to the advanced levels of stuff.
Dude, no.
Creationism is plain & simple a 'god did it' without any further questioning what & where that god came from.
Creationism is the lazy man's science, instead of actually thinking about stuff they just shrug & say 'god did it'. Ask them who created god & their eyes glaze over.
Science = Gotta Wear A Darwin Fish on your car is kind of closed-minded as anything else. It's characterized by surrounding yourself by people who exclusively think like you already think, and not being challenged.
Again, no. You must be quite dense if you really believe this nonsense you just wrote, no sane person acts like that.
Lately i've been noticing an increase in java apps on the client too, a simple example is JUploader (to load up pictures to flickr & zoomer), and geotag, to tag pictures.
Those are just two examples i came across this week, i'm sure there's more.
The situation here in Belgium is alot different, over here, when a reseller or dealer sells something that's paid by visa (and i'm assuming mastercard also) they loose a certain percentage on the sale, plus a transaction fee, thus alot of places actually do not accept visa (especially if the margins are low).
Debit cards however, are common, they get used for just about everything, probably simular to how you use your visa, except the money gets transfered immediatly (less risk of overdrawing yourself there, you can even have a card set so you can't go into the red zone), the dealer only has the transaction fee, and you can't use them *WITHOUT* entering a pincode, so not only do you need to loose the card, you also need to loose the pincode together with the card.
Your last line strikes me as odd, and conflicts to how i remember visa cards here in Belgium, but then again, the last time some salesclerk tried to ram one through my troat is awhile ago now.
Cool, i've seen profitmargins lower than 3%!
Seriously, why creditcards are so popular on your side of the pond is beyond me, the only added value of a creditcard is to the company dispatching them.
The dealers get sacked, the users get sacked & the fat cats get fatter.
At work, where i do not have my gigabytes of mp3's i use last.fm to maintain my sanity, because there's no decent radio station in Belgium, well, none if you're not into the 50cents, Britneys and other crap.
Last.fm however, does provide excellent service, they have a community, a concert agenda, wiki pages about the bands & artists, loads & loads of small unknown bands just waiting to be discovered...
I love it!
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Hello DNA!
Suddenly, i feel like watching The Search For The Holy Grail
wardrive & get people kicked off everywhere you can, cause an major public uproar, create a virus/trojan that downloads torrents behind people's back, hell, pipe the download to /dev/null, all you want is people getting kicked off.
They'll just outlaw anonymous wifi
Everyone can be linked to Al Qaeda
You changed your name to Latrine?!
Sure, you have a massive army, question is, do you really need it to be that massive? Hell, I wouldn't be surprised if there are countries with less inhabitants than your army has soldiers, not to mention bullets. There are a lot of things about your nation that i find puzzling though, you have rampant spending on the military, yet I've heard some horror stories (here on slashdot even!) about your healthcare, public education and wellfare that could be solved with diverting a part of that budget towards these things. Oh well, blame it on cultural differences
You do know what births out of graboids right? Ass Blasters!
I'll jump onto Blu-ray as soon as it's easilly playable on linux
Compact Disk is actually a Phillips invention (in the Belgian branch no less)
But with your policies i'm not stepping one foot in your country, random searches, the fact you can search my laptop or even confiscate it on a whim, not to mention the fingerprinting.... screw that, i'll stick to the rest of the world with a more friendy face.
All the ones yapping on about how Apple provides an xml file that allows one to access the library are being unreasonable. iTunes is the 'preferred' way of managing your music on OSX, what they should provide is a way for a third party to create a plugin, driver or whatchamacallit that allows third parties to create an interface for their devices that works transparently for the end user, Apple is all about ease of use right? Why force the user to use multiple applications to do the same task? I have no problem Palm solving this problem by spoofing an USB Vendor ID, hell, Apple should be glad that more people use their POS iTunes for music, it means more sales for them (if you swing that way, me personally, i wouldn't buy mp3's, i prefer the shiny thingies).
For the love of all that is good in this world, keep Microsoft away from AC/DC! I don't want them to turn them into the next Jonas Brothers... (I can hear it already... the Young Brothers... *shudders*)
If only i had modpoints... Someone mod this Funny! (For the stupid amongst us, love is like oxygen is a song by The Sweet)
GTA? Wait, i'm reading about FreeSpace?
Assuming this is all true, this does not change the fact that us (as in humanity) getting our act together & actively reduce pollution is a good thing.
Having low (or none) CO2 emissions is not something that will inversely affect the planet or the ecology, it's been doing fine without our 'help' in that regard, but the opposite of this, us dumping huge amounts of previously trapped CO2 into the atmosphere might very well be messing up our own planet, and in case you haven't noticed, we don't have a backup of that one.
There is no argument to do nothing, except greed, but there are a lot of valid arguments for us starting to live 'greener' lives, if you don't believe global warming is a reality, well then do it for one of the other reasons, and if you truly believe there are no reasons, go sit in a pool of oil mixed with your own excrements and enjoy it.
So that's why i get migraines!
Is that you Rimmer?
How do you know that a degree in Creationism isn't as difficult as your field of study?
It's alot harder, it requires me to be learn how to shut down the logic & reasoning capabilities of my brain, something i've only been able to do with alcohol and other assorted mind altering drugs.
The ironic thing is the scientific method ultimately brings one back to the same sorts of mysteries that Creationism want to jump straight to. Parallel universes, etc. The "god story" doesn't sound so wierd once you get to the advanced levels of stuff.
Dude, no.
Creationism is plain & simple a 'god did it' without any further questioning what & where that god came from.
Creationism is the lazy man's science, instead of actually thinking about stuff they just shrug & say 'god did it'. Ask them who created god & their eyes glaze over.
Science = Gotta Wear A Darwin Fish on your car is kind of closed-minded as anything else. It's characterized by surrounding yourself by people who exclusively think like you already think, and not being challenged.
Again, no. You must be quite dense if you really believe this nonsense you just wrote, no sane person acts like that.
What is it with religious zealots that makes them bumber then a rock with a lobotomy?
The smarter mankind seems to get, the more idiots that crawl out of the woodwork.
Lately i've been noticing an increase in java apps on the client too, a simple example is JUploader (to load up pictures to flickr & zoomer), and geotag, to tag pictures.
Those are just two examples i came across this week, i'm sure there's more.
The situation here in Belgium is alot different, over here, when a reseller or dealer sells something that's paid by visa (and i'm assuming mastercard also) they loose a certain percentage on the sale, plus a transaction fee, thus alot of places actually do not accept visa (especially if the margins are low).
Debit cards however, are common, they get used for just about everything, probably simular to how you use your visa, except the money gets transfered immediatly (less risk of overdrawing yourself there, you can even have a card set so you can't go into the red zone), the dealer only has the transaction fee, and you can't use them *WITHOUT* entering a pincode, so not only do you need to loose the card, you also need to loose the pincode together with the card.
Your last line strikes me as odd, and conflicts to how i remember visa cards here in Belgium, but then again, the last time some salesclerk tried to ram one through my troat is awhile ago now.
Cool, i've seen profitmargins lower than 3%! Seriously, why creditcards are so popular on your side of the pond is beyond me, the only added value of a creditcard is to the company dispatching them. The dealers get sacked, the users get sacked & the fat cats get fatter.
At work, where i do not have my gigabytes of mp3's i use last.fm to maintain my sanity, because there's no decent radio station in Belgium, well, none if you're not into the 50cents, Britneys and other crap. Last.fm however, does provide excellent service, they have a community, a concert agenda, wiki pages about the bands & artists, loads & loads of small unknown bands just waiting to be discovered... I love it!