You didn't get it. My point was that "This is what the liberals have done for us, can't you see this?" theme of the "Joe" post was overdone. Liberals didn't make my water clean and, belive it or not, the suggestion that they've done anything to protect me from taking a chance on a bad doctor... nothing could be further from the truth. Liberal policy in health care will bring us closer and closer to Canada's situation, where a mass exodous of doctors is crippling their government's ability to provide health care soon after it started.
now grow up, use your mind a little bit, and look at both sides calmly and with some humility, instead of indulging yourself with all the imaginary slights and burdens that society has foisted upon you
You are pretty condescending for someone who can't be bothered with details like starting a sentence with a capital letter... "grow up"? "some humility"? Check yourself.
I accidentally managed to get the text box to submit, but I think I've made my point. Diehard political wanks will always take far more credit for claims they make about positive changes than they really deserve.
I'm sick of politics. Liberal or conservative, the only real difference between the two is how they attempt to redistribute wealth and at what ammounts. The changes they claim credit for simply reflect the way money gets spent. I'm paying for my clean water, medicine, health coverage, social security... Politics only determine how much I get back and how much money I can keep of what I earn.:P
"He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards."
I'm sure that the vast majority of the $40 per month I pay on my water bill goes to quality control.
"His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised."
Goodness knows that libreals know more about prescribing safe medicine than my doctor does.
"All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too."
Yeah, because if that wasn't the case, my employer would have to divert money from my paycheck into a health insurance plan.
Sorry to clue in an AC, but SpamAssassin is used in far more government and business e-mail servers than your typical IT brass would like to admit, and it is now part of the Apache Software Foundation.
"You can even produce a lot of data to turn heads, i'm sure 99.9% of all illegal software distributed around the world in the past 10 years was sent via FTP "...
That's a really poor assumption, and statistically, I'm sure it's way off the mark. Not trying take away from your point (there's other basis to do that), but then again, I've heard much worse. At the very least, IE's support for the FTP protocol is horrendous, far worse than what most pirates of 99.9% of illegally distributed software would realistically put up with. Then, there's the vast quantities of illegal software, music, and video making the rounds via CD-R in many eastern countries.... No reason to bother with downloading out there.
Yet they are looking at giving out All-Around Male Gymnastics double gold because Judged accidentally knocked a tenth of a point from the starting score of a gymnast.
...no *real* scientific studies back them up *AFAIK*.
Let me get this straight... You are claiming that fend-shui is fake because science doesn't back it up, then you disclaim that claim by saying you don't really know if science backs it up or not. Ok.
SPAM eat's like *what was it* 60-80% of the total broadband (world wide) now?!
This recent article says that about 80% of the e-mail in the US is SPAM... but e-mail is just a small portion of all internet traffic, less than 5% in many locations such as univiersities and major corporations. In other words, you probably should have placed a disclaimer saying "I really have no proof or statistics to cite, so I made them up, thanks for reading my post!"
It looks like much of the spam I'm recieving today consits of either nearly-blank or e-mails containing news articles that seem to be designed to pass trough content filters just so users can send them back to their admins as spam, essentially making it easier for bayesian filters and such to mark legitimate e-mail as spam.... though honestly, it's more of annoyance for me, as it makes it easier for users to say "The spam filter isn't working, what are you doing wrong?"
Well, right or wrong, he was seriously investigated for manslaughter charges in the past. That's enough to make other criminals and thugs on that list to say "Whoa.... Heavy."
After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, resulting in the death of one of his aides. This event has haunted his entire career, is the reason you'll see far-right activits show up to his events wearing life preservers, and is recognized as the single most important reason he has not nor ever will run for President of the United States. Check out Wikipedia's entry on Ted Kennedy, as it contains far more about the situation than it does on his career.
This is not Karma farming... I don't need it anymore, and I realize that the vast majority of summer/. readers probably don't know this, and the joke went way over their heads.
"I've seen the increasing drumbeat of anti-GOP protestors everywhere, clearly building towards a childish orgy of vandalism and street violence. It is monumentally naive."
Actually, 3d games have no problem already....
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· Score: 3, Informative
Most of the games out there that use OpenGL or DirectX can rely on stereographic support from video card drivers and such. This is already used with 3D glasses, and I doubt there's any need to change much of that when switching to a monitor.
"For example, 83% of the experts said e-voting is less or much less secure against election tampering than paper ballots, compared with just 19% of the general public."
Misread that statement as "more or less".... for once I thought maybe somebody saw the light.:)
It's not necessarilly that the experts think that e-voting is secure.... rather, they probably see far more security problems with paper ballot voting than the general public does. The public perception isn't helped by the fact that most security problems with paper ballot voting probably goes undiscovered or underreported.
I've not harassed him, and his problem probably has a lot less to do with/.'ers and average people harassing him as much as it is the ammount of short-lived press he is getting. If there's an iota of truth on his website... if you have a wife and kid and admit to living in somebody else's house that is only valued at $30,000.... you've got bigger problems than name recognition and harrassment. He would have seen situations that are far uglier than the current one.
Call me a spoiled kid with a big TV, but Nintendo's systems since SNES have had the capability to support s-video cables, and I love it on my TV. Great picture quality... Even on NES, I can't be bothered with using anything but A/V out, and have successfully rewired my Atari 2600 to support A/V cables.
As for the merits, I don't really like this mod. I wouldn't call it "The Ultimate Nintendo Console", that's for sure.
For what it's worth, none of the GNOME developers I am familiar with look at differences and competition between KDE and GNOME and analyze it to determine how their work should progress. Rather, they have design goals laid out early on in the fashion that they see fit, and spend months or years on implementation. If another project in GNOME "competes" with it, and it is aiming for inclusion with the larger GNOME Desktop releases, then the user community and release team decide which project deserves to be included several months before the release.
KDE is, most of the time, a non-issue to GNOME developers.
".we guarantee your saftey locally and internationally,on the completion of this contract and will not hesitate to disclose our men in your country to you and as well render our service if needed or on request"
Tell you guys what. If you are going to guarantee my safety locally and internationally, just give me the name of the person I'm going to have to contact just in case something goes wrong and I have to collect on that guarantee. Then it's a deal.
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if i were to start my sentences with capital letters, would i have the credentials to be condescending?
;)
Yes.
You didn't get it. My point was that "This is what the liberals have done for us, can't you see this?" theme of the "Joe" post was overdone. Liberals didn't make my water clean and, belive it or not, the suggestion that they've done anything to protect me from taking a chance on a bad doctor... nothing could be further from the truth. Liberal policy in health care will bring us closer and closer to Canada's situation, where a mass exodous of doctors is crippling their government's ability to provide health care soon after it started.
now grow up, use your mind a little bit, and look at both sides calmly and with some humility, instead of indulging yourself with all the imaginary slights and burdens that society has foisted upon you
You are pretty condescending for someone who can't be bothered with details like starting a sentence with a capital letter... "grow up"? "some humility"? Check yourself.
I accidentally managed to get the text box to submit, but I think I've made my point. Diehard political wanks will always take far more credit for claims they make about positive changes than they really deserve.
:P
I'm sick of politics. Liberal or conservative, the only real difference between the two is how they attempt to redistribute wealth and at what ammounts. The changes they claim credit for simply reflect the way money gets spent. I'm paying for my clean water, medicine, health coverage, social security... Politics only determine how much I get back and how much money I can keep of what I earn.
"He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water quality standards."
I'm sure that the vast majority of the $40 per month I pay on my water bill goes to quality control.
"His medications are safe to take because some liberal fought to insure their safety and work as advertised."
Goodness knows that libreals know more about prescribing safe medicine than my doctor does.
"All but $10.00 of his medications are paid for by his employers medical plan because some liberal union workers fought their employers for paid medical insurance, now Joe gets it too."
Yeah, because if that wasn't the case, my employer would have to divert money from my paycheck into a health insurance plan.
Sorry to clue in an AC, but SpamAssassin is used in far more government and business e-mail servers than your typical IT brass would like to admit, and it is now part of the Apache Software Foundation.
"You can even produce a lot of data to turn heads, i'm sure 99.9% of all illegal software distributed around the world in the past 10 years was sent via FTP "...
That's a really poor assumption, and statistically, I'm sure it's way off the mark. Not trying take away from your point (there's other basis to do that), but then again, I've heard much worse. At the very least, IE's support for the FTP protocol is horrendous, far worse than what most pirates of 99.9% of illegally distributed software would realistically put up with. Then, there's the vast quantities of illegal software, music, and video making the rounds via CD-R in many eastern countries.... No reason to bother with downloading out there.
Since XP Service Pack 2 came out, it's not like any of those Windows machines can connect to the internet anyway....
To the 1st post, a word of warning: With or without protection, you'll go blind anyway.
"....cameras that take 1000 images per second."
Yet they are looking at giving out All-Around Male Gymnastics double gold because Judged accidentally knocked a tenth of a point from the starting score of a gymnast.
...no *real* scientific studies back them up *AFAIK*.
Let me get this straight... You are claiming that fend-shui is fake because science doesn't back it up, then you disclaim that claim by saying you don't really know if science backs it up or not. Ok.
SPAM eat's like *what was it* 60-80% of the total broadband (world wide) now?!
This recent article says that about 80% of the e-mail in the US is SPAM... but e-mail is just a small portion of all internet traffic, less than 5% in many locations such as univiersities and major corporations. In other words, you probably should have placed a disclaimer saying "I really have no proof or statistics to cite, so I made them up, thanks for reading my post!"
It looks like much of the spam I'm recieving today consits of either nearly-blank or e-mails containing news articles that seem to be designed to pass trough content filters just so users can send them back to their admins as spam, essentially making it easier for bayesian filters and such to mark legitimate e-mail as spam.... though honestly, it's more of annoyance for me, as it makes it easier for users to say "The spam filter isn't working, what are you doing wrong?"
Well, right or wrong, he was seriously investigated for manslaughter charges in the past. That's enough to make other criminals and thugs on that list to say "Whoa.... Heavy."
After a party on Chappaquiddick Island in 1969, Kennedy drove his car off a bridge, resulting in the death of one of his aides. This event has haunted his entire career, is the reason you'll see far-right activits show up to his events wearing life preservers, and is recognized as the single most important reason he has not nor ever will run for President of the United States. Check out Wikipedia's entry on Ted Kennedy, as it contains far more about the situation than it does on his career.
/. readers probably don't know this, and the joke went way over their heads.
This is not Karma farming... I don't need it anymore, and I realize that the vast majority of summer
"I've seen the increasing drumbeat of anti-GOP protestors everywhere, clearly building towards a childish orgy of vandalism and street violence. It is monumentally naive."
Oh, you must be new to the democratic party.
(Relax, it's Wednesday....)
That's almost what I was thinking....
"Japan allows far lighter cars on the road and yet, has only 60% of the fatal accidents per 10,000 vehicles"
Is that percentage supposed to change with 20,000 vehicles? What's the percentage per 10 vehicles?
On the desktop, GNOME Games has a very nice, scalable minesweeper. I haven't seen any other minesweepers, online or not, that come close.
(Note: I am hideously biased.)
Most of the games out there that use OpenGL or DirectX can rely on stereographic support from video card drivers and such. This is already used with 3D glasses, and I doubt there's any need to change much of that when switching to a monitor.
Crud
:)
"For example, 83% of the experts said e-voting is less or much less secure against election tampering than paper ballots, compared with just 19% of the general public."
Misread that statement as "more or less".... for once I thought maybe somebody saw the light.
It's not necessarilly that the experts think that e-voting is secure.... rather, they probably see far more security problems with paper ballot voting than the general public does. The public perception isn't helped by the fact that most security problems with paper ballot voting probably goes undiscovered or underreported.
I've not harassed him, and his problem probably has a lot less to do with /.'ers and average people harassing him as much as it is the ammount of short-lived press he is getting. If there's an iota of truth on his website... if you have a wife and kid and admit to living in somebody else's house that is only valued at $30,000.... you've got bigger problems than name recognition and harrassment. He would have seen situations that are far uglier than the current one.
Call me a spoiled kid with a big TV, but Nintendo's systems since SNES have had the capability to support s-video cables, and I love it on my TV. Great picture quality... Even on NES, I can't be bothered with using anything but A/V out, and have successfully rewired my Atari 2600 to support A/V cables.
As for the merits, I don't really like this mod. I wouldn't call it "The Ultimate Nintendo Console", that's for sure.
For what it's worth, none of the GNOME developers I am familiar with look at differences and competition between KDE and GNOME and analyze it to determine how their work should progress. Rather, they have design goals laid out early on in the fashion that they see fit, and spend months or years on implementation. If another project in GNOME "competes" with it, and it is aiming for inclusion with the larger GNOME Desktop releases, then the user community and release team decide which project deserves to be included several months before the release.
KDE is, most of the time, a non-issue to GNOME developers.
Found this entry on a blog at svg.org, a nice look at the shortcomings of Macromedia Flex's SVG coverage. Odd timing (Posted July 1), but it fits.
".we guarantee your saftey locally and internationally,on the completion of this contract and will not hesitate to disclose our men in your country to you and as well render our service if needed or on request"
Tell you guys what. If you are going to guarantee my safety locally and internationally, just give me the name of the person I'm going to have to contact just in case something goes wrong and I have to collect on that guarantee. Then it's a deal.
I don't know how it is outside the US, but since when did the general population over the age 40 count as being "nearly nobody" ...?