I have to disagree. The only thing I miss about my dasKeyboard professional (which is basically a Cherry keyboard in disguise) is the big ENTER key. Precisely because half the time I hit backslash when I slam the enter key thoughtlessly.
I guess keyboard makers can't win on this one. It's up to us to press ENTER carefully.
But either way clicky keys are a must when typing blind. Whether it is about touch typing or when entering long passwords, the feedback is very helpful.
While the "War on Drugs" has had only limited success, and is of questionable value, this is largely due to both a lack of focus (wasting time on Marijuana users and growers) and the high volume of individuals willing to purchase illicit drugs
Sure, and the fall of the Soviet Union was due to an incomplete implementation of the communist ideal.
Those task forces may be after the real crime rings, meanwhile local police use these laws to arrest teen girls for phonecamming their own tits, and try to get them on the sex-offender registry for life. (plenty of links further down in the thread so I won't add one here.)
Laws against child pornography are an easy route to power
It's also difficult to oppose a law against child pornography without sounding like you're endorsing child abuse, especially when you're a public figure, so these measures usually are passed without much opposition.
Easy, keep the crime illegal, but treat depictions of the crime like we do depictions of all other crimes, as evidence of a crime and not as a seperate crime.
"I was under the impression that the reason for child pornography laws was to protect children from exploitation. "
No. They're there to pander to the braying mob and instill a climate of fear. This does nothing other than having police chasing shadows, diverting their attention from real abuse cases. Very counterproductive.
It may not be possible to prosecute the people [for committing crime X] if they are in a foreign country, but you can help to reduce their market by prosecuting the people who buy their products.
This tactic was a roaring success in the war on drugs. In fact all drug dealers went broke during the first Reagan administration, and now there are no drugs to be had anymore.
Yeah, odd that. US military stationed in "all parts of the globe." Why can't they stay on their own soil? They call themselves a defense force after all.
Just to add to that to answer your question, iBank 3 looks to me simple but solid, but I've only been testing it for about two weeks. Money is getting there too, and the developer promptly replied to my bug report with an "I'll try to have that fixed by next weeks update".
But I really want Gnucash, partly out of habit but also because it has grown into a decent piece of software over the years.
For me, an easy to install OSX version of GnuCash would be preferable to all of the above.
An by "easy" I mean that you can install it without sacrificing live goats to the Lord of Darkness.
Actually most of us are Slashdotters. We tolerate you humans on our site, but only barely.
Statistically we are four times as likely to get first post than you twoarmers, but breaking in on underseas cables is a pain in the suckers.
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May your tentacles catch many turtles.
The one thing I liked in the video was "Onward!" instead of the boring old "Continue" on one of the buttons of the letter writing wizard.
I think that would be a definite interface improvement.
You could probably run a car on the stray emissions of a city.
But running one car per city is mostly useless. There would be fights over who'd get to sit up front.
Did I mention ALOT of the marijuana dispensaries look more like a club or a coffee shop and less like a pharmacy?
For Shame! It's a scientifically proven fact that medicine is more effective when sold by people in white coats with stern expressions. At least they are reaping huge profits, so in that way they are exactly like real pharmacists.
Illuminati headquarters in Bavaria have been informed of this and the matter will soon be under control. No one will stop our glorious undertaking of flooding the world with Scarlett Johansson lookalikes.
Project "one Scarlett for every lonely geek" is still on schedule.
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I have to disagree. The only thing I miss about my dasKeyboard professional (which is basically a Cherry keyboard in disguise) is the big ENTER key. Precisely because half the time I hit backslash when I slam the enter key thoughtlessly.
I guess keyboard makers can't win on this one. It's up to us to press ENTER carefully.
But either way clicky keys are a must when typing blind. Whether it is about touch typing or when entering long passwords, the feedback is very helpful.
-Keep the law out of people's private lives until there is a direct conflict that isn't solved through extended negotiation.
-Prosecute people for the result of their actions and not for their intent.
-Stop confusing justice and revenge.
Just a couple of suggestions.
Your (in my opinion blind) belief in the "legal process" and how you allow it to intrude on mostly private matters is a bit frightening to me.
The wheels of justice do indeed run slowly and they tend to grind down all who get caught between them, guilty and innocent alike.
The system is meant to serve the people, not the other way around.
While the "War on Drugs" has had only limited success, and is of questionable value, this is largely due to both a lack of focus (wasting time on Marijuana users and growers) and the high volume of individuals willing to purchase illicit drugs
Sure, and the fall of the Soviet Union was due to an incomplete implementation of the communist ideal.
Those task forces may be after the real crime rings, meanwhile local police use these laws to arrest teen girls for phonecamming their own tits, and try to get them on the sex-offender registry for life. (plenty of links further down in the thread so I won't add one here.)
Laws against child pornography are an easy route to power
It's also difficult to oppose a law against child pornography without sounding like you're endorsing child abuse, especially when you're a public figure, so these measures usually are passed without much opposition.
Even more strange, what if the perpetrator is the 'victim'?
Okay, Solomon, how do we settle this one?
Easy, keep the crime illegal, but treat depictions of the crime like we do depictions of all other crimes, as evidence of a crime and not as a seperate crime.
"I was under the impression that the reason for child pornography laws was to protect children from exploitation. "
No. They're there to pander to the braying mob and instill a climate of fear. This does nothing other than having police chasing shadows, diverting their attention from real abuse cases. Very counterproductive.
It may not be possible to prosecute the people [for committing crime X] if they are in a foreign country, but you can help to reduce their market by prosecuting the people who buy their products.
This tactic was a roaring success in the war on drugs. In fact all drug dealers went broke during the first Reagan administration, and now there are no drugs to be had anymore.
Read the headline. This is about top tech breakthroughs, not top tech breakdowns.
Yeah, odd that. US military stationed in "all parts of the globe." Why can't they stay on their own soil? They call themselves a defense force after all.
Reader MirrororriM points out other DHS news that they're thinking about monitoring blogs for information on terrorists.
Dude, I totally saw Bin Laden at the local supermarket yesterday.
Just to add to that to answer your question, iBank 3 looks to me simple but solid, but I've only been testing it for about two weeks. Money is getting there too, and the developer promptly replied to my bug report with an "I'll try to have that fixed by next weeks update". But I really want Gnucash, partly out of habit but also because it has grown into a decent piece of software over the years.
For me, an easy to install OSX version of GnuCash would be preferable to all of the above. An by "easy" I mean that you can install it without sacrificing live goats to the Lord of Darkness.
Actually most of us are Slashdotters. We tolerate you humans on our site, but only barely. Statistically we are four times as likely to get first post than you twoarmers, but breaking in on underseas cables is a pain in the suckers.
--
May your tentacles catch many turtles.
After working with it for 48 hours I woke up in the middle of the night, convinced that computer was programming me.
...When CS4 runs natively on 64bit Linux. Some of us need that shit for our education/jobs you know?
The one thing I liked in the video was "Onward!" instead of the boring old "Continue" on one of the buttons of the letter writing wizard. I think that would be a definite interface improvement.
You could probably run a car on the stray emissions of a city. But running one car per city is mostly useless. There would be fights over who'd get to sit up front.
Did you really think that Microsoft Bob could be killed that easily?
Did I mention ALOT of the marijuana dispensaries look more like a club or a coffee shop and less like a pharmacy?
For Shame! It's a scientifically proven fact that medicine is more effective when sold by people in white coats with stern expressions.
At least they are reaping huge profits, so in that way they are exactly like real pharmacists.
Visher's anthem.
When you vish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you
Illuminati headquarters in Bavaria have been informed of this and the matter will soon be under control.
No one will stop our glorious undertaking of flooding the world with Scarlett Johansson lookalikes.
Project "one Scarlett for every lonely geek" is still on schedule.
Ewige Blumenkraft-Ewige Schlangenkraft.
PS.
Samzenpus your gold is in the mail.
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The '60s/'70s term "Acapulco Gold" went out of style way back in the early 1980s.
So this story might literally be "older than the internet"
but the unintended consequence is a lot of people are taking medications that aren't medically necessary
What makes you think this is an unintended consequence?
So it's just his chair that's visiting Canada then?
I hope he has a spare to use in the meantime.