When the "scientists" say that there is no evidence for warming, but we should believe in it anyway, I'd say it's a religion.
Actually I'm a bit between the tables as I believe that higher CO2 levels might make for a slightly warmer climate, but I don't subscribe to the "Florida will be gone" doomsday scenarios.
Indeed, it looks like we have already reached the plateau - We have warmer weather than we had 40 years ago, but it doesn't seem to get any warmer.
Too bad, I guess I will be modded down by both sides now...
As crazy as that may sound, it may actually be true. After all we talk about the medieval optimum (= warm, peace and progress) and the "little ice age" (= cold, wars and misery)
The "discriminatory laws" don't seem to have any influence - or are blacks in L.A. (where there was never slavery and never discriminatory laws) any better off than blacks in Alabama?
Actually the blacks in L.A. are in the process of being ethnically cleansed by Latinos which is much worse than having a grandfather who had to sit in the back of the bus.
The New York Times is the most system-friendly newspaper in the US. When they print anything you can be sure that it is not contrary to the money-interests.
And there was nothing new in the wikileaks documents.
Keynes is widely misunderstood. He once said that it would be better to build totally useless pyramids than to have high unemployment, but he wasn't actually suggesting that we should do that.
Yeah, he said we should bury money in bottles so that the "private sector" should dig them out.
Most "IP numbers" host many websites. In fact the chance that a webserver hosts just one domain name is pretty slim, even companies often use many internal Domainnames on one server. What you are suggesting is not even remotely practicable.
IP-Address corresponds to physical location, domain name corresponds to information on a website.
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Nah, Obama and Bernanke are 99%, the overwhelming majority who is against bank bailouts is 1%.
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While Microsoft stock is not going up, it is unclear why.
Not really. In the 1990s it looked like Microsoft is going to take overy everything from PDAs to Servers. Then Linux happened (or became so big that it got on the radar), therefore all the nice dreams about 100% Microsoft from cellphone to server-room have popped and people expect less growth (or no growth at all) from Microsoft - the higher revenues seem to be not enough to outweight the missing big bucks in lost future server/cellphone/whatever sales.
Actually, there were a lot of antiwar-demonstrations against Bush and I don't recall anybody calling him a "war hero". (Can you cite a source for that outrageous claim?)
In fact it's completely reverse: Bush's illegal wars get critizised (and rightly so) and of course he lied about them. Obama on the other hand does not get critizised and doesn't even bother to tell about it.
OK, so Obama (just to pick an example) pushed to end military discrimination against homosexuals, and that didn't impress you, but now that comcast can't charge you a little extra to view google, THAT impresses you? Come on, man...get your priorities straight. Are you only impressed when there's something in it for you?
Yeah, I will get modded down for saying that, but there are good reasons why we should not want homosexuals in the military.
I understand that this annoys some people. But both Chrome and Firefox do it now, and benefits and detriments are well known. It's not a perfect approach, but it does have its advantages. I don't think both Google and Mozilla are 'insane';)
If I wanted Firefox to be like Chrome, I would use Chrome.
If you try to get 100% of users you will end up getting nobody. In other words: Do things differently than Chrome when it is about things that "are not perfect, but have some advantages".
The main reason for Chrome and Firefox doing this is to get improvements faster to users. Rapid releases allow that.
Breaking extensions is not an improvement. I understand that they have to be broken sometime, but that should be maybe very 5 years or so, not 5 times a year.
We are working very hard on those issues. If you try this release, I think you'll see significant improvements on both issues, and there are even more in the pipeline for the versions coming up afterwards.
So then the answer is "yes". The "I refuse to adapt to change" crowd gets a new poster boy.
Do you think you'll still be using Firefox 3.6 in 10 years? If not, then what's stopping you from upgrading now? Would it be easier to adapt going from XP to Vista to Win7 to Win8, or from XP straight to Win8?
That does not make the slightest sense.
I'll upgrade when I think the advantages outweight the cost and disadvantages. Fact is that Firefox 3.6 is doing everything I need, I don't know of any feature in Firefox 7-8-9-whatever that I really want and I've been burnt with the old "the new version is faster"-lie too often.
Yes, I will probably try a new version because AND ONLY BECAUSE I want optimizations and performance. But I'm not really looking forward to it, so I will wait until the potential benefits outweight the costs and hassle.
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When the "scientists" say that there is no evidence for warming, but we should believe in it anyway, I'd say it's a religion.
Actually I'm a bit between the tables as I believe that higher CO2 levels might make for a slightly warmer climate, but I don't subscribe to the "Florida will be gone" doomsday scenarios.
Indeed, it looks like we have already reached the plateau - We have warmer weather than we had 40 years ago, but it doesn't seem to get any warmer.
Too bad, I guess I will be modded down by both sides now...
Canada can barely manage with two languages.
This concept of yours is based on...?
You should really read this text, it describes the situation in Canada as civil war with juridical means.
First of all, remember that the R has to do with Restrictions, no more no less.
No, no! You got it all wrong!
The R means Rights, DRM gives you rights! How could we ever live without it!
As crazy as that may sound, it may actually be true. After all we talk about the medieval optimum (= warm, peace and progress) and the "little ice age" (= cold, wars and misery)
You don't understand the religion of political correctness.
Rule 1: All races are equal
Rule 2: Whites and only Whites are evil, bad and must be eliminated
That's what Orwell called doublethink.
You are fooling yourself.
The "discriminatory laws" don't seem to have any influence - or are blacks in L.A. (where there was never slavery and never discriminatory laws) any better off than blacks in Alabama?
Actually the blacks in L.A. are in the process of being ethnically cleansed by Latinos which is much worse than having a grandfather who had to sit in the back of the bus.
Actually only people who planted bombs, robbed banks or murdered people were imprisioned. You know, people like Nelson Mandela.
The New York Times is the most system-friendly newspaper in the US. When they print anything you can be sure that it is not contrary to the money-interests.
And there was nothing new in the wikileaks documents.
You forget that water does not hydrate
Keynes is widely misunderstood. He once said that it would be better to build totally useless pyramids than to have high unemployment, but he wasn't actually suggesting that we should do that.
Yeah, he said we should bury money in bottles so that the "private sector" should dig them out.
I'd rather have Pyramids than that.
Most "IP numbers" host many websites. In fact the chance that a webserver hosts just one domain name is pretty slim, even companies often use many internal Domainnames on one server. What you are suggesting is not even remotely practicable.
IP-Address corresponds to physical location, domain name corresponds to information on a website.
Nah, Obama and Bernanke are 99%, the overwhelming majority who is against bank bailouts is 1%.
Clearly the "Occupy" meme is being abused now.
Come on, clearly you don't know what occupy is about.
I mean, Obama and Bernanke as part of the 99%? Is there anybody who believes this nonsense?
If you look for somebody who is hated by the 1% and unfairly treated and ignored by the media, look at Ron Paul.
While Microsoft stock is not going up, it is unclear why.
Not really. In the 1990s it looked like Microsoft is going to take overy everything from PDAs to Servers. Then Linux happened (or became so big that it got on the radar), therefore all the nice dreams about 100% Microsoft from cellphone to server-room have popped and people expect less growth (or no growth at all) from Microsoft - the higher revenues seem to be not enough to outweight the missing big bucks in lost future server/cellphone/whatever sales.
The roads in the Roman empire were perfectly straight and mostly ignored the terrain - and they were certainly not built to be seen from orbit.
The problem is that there is no benefit in using IPv6 as long as there are no IPv6-only services.
Therefore, it is unlikely that IPv6 can be rolled out successfully.
Are you living in a reality-distortion field?
Actually, there were a lot of antiwar-demonstrations against Bush and I don't recall anybody calling him a "war hero". (Can you cite a source for that outrageous claim?)
In fact it's completely reverse: Bush's illegal wars get critizised (and rightly so) and of course he lied about them. Obama on the other hand does not get critizised and doesn't even bother to tell about it.
There are many reasons to impeach Obama, or Bush, or Clinton, or HW Bush...
I guess a presidency without impeachable crimes is too much to ask.
I'm impressed. The first time in 3 years I've been impressed, so the bar is pretty low. But good going Obama.
Really? Getting rid of Ghadafi at very minimal cost and with 0 US lives lost didn't impress you?
Well, yes it does impress me, but not in a good way
OK, so Obama (just to pick an example) pushed to end military discrimination against homosexuals, and that didn't impress you, but now that comcast can't charge you a little extra to view google, THAT impresses you? Come on, man...get your priorities straight. Are you only impressed when there's something in it for you?
Yeah, I will get modded down for saying that, but there are good reasons why we should not want homosexuals in the military.
Exactly. It's probably a distraction from his criminal behaviour and corruption.
I understand that this annoys some people. But both Chrome and Firefox do it now, and benefits and detriments are well known. It's not a perfect approach, but it does have its advantages. I don't think both Google and Mozilla are 'insane' ;)
If I wanted Firefox to be like Chrome, I would use Chrome.
If you try to get 100% of users you will end up getting nobody. In other words: Do things differently than Chrome when it is about things that "are not perfect, but have some advantages".
The main reason for Chrome and Firefox doing this is to get improvements faster to users. Rapid releases allow that.
Breaking extensions is not an improvement. I understand that they have to be broken sometime, but that should be maybe very 5 years or so, not 5 times a year.
We are working very hard on those issues. If you try this release, I think you'll see significant improvements on both issues, and there are even more in the pipeline for the versions coming up afterwards.
I will wait for a LTS-version.
So then the answer is "yes". The "I refuse to adapt to change" crowd gets a new poster boy.
Do you think you'll still be using Firefox 3.6 in 10 years? If not, then what's stopping you from upgrading now? Would it be easier to adapt going from XP to Vista to Win7 to Win8, or from XP straight to Win8?
That does not make the slightest sense.
I'll upgrade when I think the advantages outweight the cost and disadvantages. Fact is that Firefox 3.6 is doing everything I need, I don't know of any feature in Firefox 7-8-9-whatever that I really want and I've been burnt with the old "the new version is faster"-lie too often.
Yes, I will probably try a new version because AND ONLY BECAUSE I want optimizations and performance. But I'm not really looking forward to it, so I will wait until the potential benefits outweight the costs and hassle.
The sad thing is that I'm not sure weather you are joking or not.
Maybe debian can take over Firefox.