When I was a teen, I had a car with the license plate RED SHFT. Most people saw it and thought, "Red car, stick shift, who cares?" but I did get that enthusiastic thumbs up of understanding from maybe one person in ten thousand.
The nice part about living in a democracy is that I can influence that democracy.
No, you live in a corporatist republic, which is not the same thing. Here, money talks. If you have it, you can buy influence. If you don't, you are nobody.
In the U.S. there is initiative and referendum in some place but not others, and even where it exists one must overcome ridiculous petition signature requirements that are designed to keep the meddlesome citizenry away from the legislative power that rightfully belongs to the elites.
All the abilities of every class in fact, focus on combat. Hack and Slash is fun and all, but it isn't the sole reason why I play rpgs. If I wanted that only, I'd just play a computer game.
Sure, the IT guys will spend some time in the command line, but you see the same thing in Windows administration.
Not when I was a Windows admin, although that was nearly ten years ago. At least at the time you could pass all the exams for MCSE and more or less do anything you needed to do without even knowing how to open up that strange, confusing chalkboard-looking thingie. It so happens that I did know it, and sure, it was occasionally useful, but it wasn't strictly necessary.
I understand what you're saying, but you might be surprised how high mobile phone penetration is in the developing world. In middle income countries they're ubiquitous, and even in the poorest countries they're far more common than computers.
We don't need a revolution, we need to uphold our constitution.
You mean scale the federal government back only to those things explicitly authorized in Article I, Section 8 minus those things prohibited by the Bill of Rights? If wouldn't be revolutionary, I don't know what would be!
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The kid probably cracked it.
As an e-commerce business owner, and a former web developer, I just tried Magento based on a suggestion from my designer. It's not for regular people.
Magento is for irregular people? I thought that was Milk of Magnesia? Learn something new every day....
Finally, a use for the downpressor man!
"Trust me."
The scary thing is is that Mandelson is a capable man in a house of incompetent loonies and he may just get his way with this.
Actually, I think I'd prefer a House full of Loonies to one that tries tricks like this.
Good idea! No namespace crash there. Everyone can just call it GPL for short, and... ...d'oh!
all from the dame binary file
This is an abbreviation for "same damn binary file", isn't it?
When I was a teen, I had a car with the license plate RED SHFT. Most people saw it and thought, "Red car, stick shift, who cares?" but I did get that enthusiastic thumbs up of understanding from maybe one person in ten thousand.
The nice part about living in a democracy is that I can influence that democracy.
No, you live in a corporatist republic, which is not the same thing. Here, money talks. If you have it, you can buy influence. If you don't, you are nobody.
That was the best Slashdot comment I have ever read.
much as zombie stories arise today from a plausible fear of Republicans
Republicans, you say?
"Hooooooooooooooooooope... Chaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaange...."
>> Suck it, Europe! What with Canada...
>> USA! FUCK YEAH!
> How's your education system going? Any improvements?
Not bad. How does yours compare?
In the U.S. there is initiative and referendum in some place but not others, and even where it exists one must overcome ridiculous petition signature requirements that are designed to keep the meddlesome citizenry away from the legislative power that rightfully belongs to the elites.
Papa bondye, jadie mwen sa pale kweyol isit! Sa ka fet moon Domnitjen!
All the abilities of every class in fact, focus on combat. Hack and Slash is fun and all, but it isn't the sole reason why I play rpgs. If I wanted that only, I'd just play a computer game.
You essentially are -- World of Warcraft.
You bet. In fact, my laptop came with XP on it and so that's exactly what I did.
Oh, I know. I meant freaks in this sense.
You will see Yahoo is still around, at second place after Google with 146 freaking million unique visitors.
Actually, I expect many of those unique visitors are normal, and that the freaks are going to places like redtube and adultfriendfinder....
and you'll shut up most of the people that are gonna bitch about it blowing up a killing us all
I doubt it. Many of those people seemed like the sort who are noisy regardless of whether or not they really have anything useful to say.
Sure, the IT guys will spend some time in the command line, but you see the same thing in Windows administration.
Not when I was a Windows admin, although that was nearly ten years ago. At least at the time you could pass all the exams for MCSE and more or less do anything you needed to do without even knowing how to open up that strange, confusing chalkboard-looking thingie. It so happens that I did know it, and sure, it was occasionally useful, but it wasn't strictly necessary.
but hey, I don't get paid to write this stuff. :-)
Oh, admit it -- sure you are, it's just that it's by an employer who doesn't realize that's what he's paying you to do. ;-)
Frankly, I wish Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart would just shut up about all that stuff.
I understand what you're saying, but you might be surprised how high mobile phone penetration is in the developing world. In middle income countries they're ubiquitous, and even in the poorest countries they're far more common than computers.
We don't need a revolution, we need to uphold our constitution.
You mean scale the federal government back only to those things explicitly authorized in Article I, Section 8 minus those things prohibited by the Bill of Rights? If wouldn't be revolutionary, I don't know what would be!
Then it was an interesting choice to post as AC....