Your rights are granted to you by society (i.e. the people, i.e. you).
Ha, that is most certainly not true. If it was, how do you justify saying "slavery was wrong"? Or don't you? Because if rights are only granted by society, then if society as a whole decides certain people don't deserve certain rights, then they don't get those rights and that is perfectly justified (if what you say is true). Perhaps you meant to add certain qualifiers.
You have to say there are certain rights that humans possess by being human. And then there are certain rights that society can grant later. Basic health care would be a good example: it isn't a basic human right, but it can be granted as a right by a society that passes a certain stage of wealth and medical technology.
You are both wrong because rights are not given or granted; they are taken from those who would deny them.
Want free speech? Speak freely and with no regard for those who would silence you.
Rights are a matter of opinion. The ones the majority agrees upon are the ones that are recognized. There are people who believe they have the right to kill and there are people who believe we don't have the right to say things that offend them. The only thing that makes both of them wrong is that they do not have the numbers to force the issue.
If you believe you have a right that is not recognized then find ways to convince others that you are correct. Racial equality and women's rights both got where they are because people protested, made noise, made arguments and gradually convinced the majority that they were right. Gay rights isn't there yet but is following the same model.
Also, what's with the stupid launch defaults? I close Firefox when I want a clean slate, not a glorified minimize. "Restore my windows and tabs from last time" is antithetical to the whole idea of closing all the tabs!
I've just spent 5 hours experimenting with customizing the installer for a company deployment and so I've repeatedly uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, deleting %appdata%\Mozilla each time. Every time I started it up, it would open about:home and nothing else. It puts a button at the bottom of that screen to restore your last session, but that's it.
Also, we live in an age of large LCD displays. I can spare a few pixels of screen space to keep the bookmarks and buttons I use all day long visible instead of burying them somewhere underneath gloss and shiny.
The bookmarks toolbar? Click the Bookmarks button and check View Bookmarks Toolbar. In the time you took to whine about it, you could have turned it on and off 20x.
One last gripe: Tools > Add-ons should take me to Extensions, not the "Wonderful World of Stuff You Could Bloat Your Firefox With."
Again, based on my work with the installer today, it only defaults to Get Add-ons if you don't have any already installed. If you have extensions, it goes there by default. If you don't, what would the point of going there be?
Speaking of which, can we finally make Firefox ask before allowing programs (like nearly every AV, Skype, whatever) to hang their useless (or worse, Google-search-invading) lampshade in Extensions?
This isn't the first time I've heard the "don't unsubscribe" wisdom. It's logical but doesn't reflect reality.
At my last job, I was asked frequently about the volume of spam. I got less than almost anyone else in the office despite having one of the most widely publicized email addresses. Why? Because I unsubscribed whenever I got something. When I was able to convince others to unsubscribe, they saw drastic decreases in spam.
This theory relies on the idea that spammers stop spamming people they don't get a reply from, and that's lunacy. The only time they give up on an address is if the email is rejected or if they cease operations. That being the case, there's no harm in trying to unsubscribe.
To address the initial question, if this company is so notorious why aren't they blocked at the SMTP server? Your IT people ought to be able to blacklist them with very little effort.
DarkPlaces Tenebrae ioquake3 World of Padman OpenArena Tremulous Space trader Smoking guns Urban terror (used to be a Q3 mod but made standalone with the source release)
Even a pacifistic Buddhist interpretation, would be the prez seems inevitably toward reincarnation as a dung beetle at best; most would consider being a dung beetle as an "injurious" condition for the prez.
...with Watchmen wasn't the ending. I think they should have kept the fake alien invasion and just not have used the giant candy space squid.
My main gripe was how much they cut or rushed so they could squeeze in action scenes. I felt like they lost the feel of the story in the process.
I'm not comfortable with the idea that basic geometric shapes can be copyrighted. I don't know if they can be or not, but they sure as hell shouldn't be. At least Mrs PacMan has a bow and some lipstick... PacMan is just a yellow circle.
I thought it was bullshit that Bizarre Creations enacted a takedown of Grid Wars a few years back, for example. The gameplay of both Geometry Wars and Grid Wars was done 25 years ago in Robotron and the "characters" are all basic geometric shapes. Grid Wars had a different (and superior) ruleset, so what exactly where they violating?
...is the thought that Malamanteau will ultimately end up with an article on Wikipedia anyway, only as part of an article on the international protest marches and riots that resulted as a result of the attempted creation of the original page.
They're emulating the Internet Explorer and Chrome interfaces. There's a lot of wasted horizontal space on your browser toolbar so they're taking the menus and lumping them in with the other toolbar buttons. There's no reason a browser needs a whole menu bar when a few toolbar buttons can do the job.
There's a checkbox labeled "Set Yahoo! as my default search engine and notify me of changes." Directly below that, in BOLD, it says "IMPORTANT: If you don't want to install the PDFCreator Browser Add On, then please unselect it on the next screen."
Nobody bothers to read, though, so they uncheck the first box for the search engine change, leave the toolbar enabled, and then bitch and whine about how PDFCreator bundles spyware. I've been using PDFCreator for 5 years now, have installed it on a few dozen computers, and I've never seen it install the toolbar when you opt-out.
I think we can all agree it sucks that it's even included, optional or not, but that's another issue.
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Your rights are granted to you by society (i.e. the people, i.e. you).
Ha, that is most certainly not true. If it was, how do you justify saying "slavery was wrong"? Or don't you? Because if rights are only granted by society, then if society as a whole decides certain people don't deserve certain rights, then they don't get those rights and that is perfectly justified (if what you say is true). Perhaps you meant to add certain qualifiers.
You have to say there are certain rights that humans possess by being human. And then there are certain rights that society can grant later. Basic health care would be a good example: it isn't a basic human right, but it can be granted as a right by a society that passes a certain stage of wealth and medical technology.
You are both wrong because rights are not given or granted; they are taken from those who would deny them.
Want free speech? Speak freely and with no regard for those who would silence you.
Rights are a matter of opinion. The ones the majority agrees upon are the ones that are recognized. There are people who believe they have the right to kill and there are people who believe we don't have the right to say things that offend them. The only thing that makes both of them wrong is that they do not have the numbers to force the issue.
If you believe you have a right that is not recognized then find ways to convince others that you are correct. Racial equality and women's rights both got where they are because people protested, made noise, made arguments and gradually convinced the majority that they were right. Gay rights isn't there yet but is following the same model.
Also, what's with the stupid launch defaults? I close Firefox when I want a clean slate, not a glorified minimize. "Restore my windows and tabs from last time" is antithetical to the whole idea of closing all the tabs!
I've just spent 5 hours experimenting with customizing the installer for a company deployment and so I've repeatedly uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, deleting %appdata%\Mozilla each time. Every time I started it up, it would open about:home and nothing else. It puts a button at the bottom of that screen to restore your last session, but that's it.
Also, we live in an age of large LCD displays. I can spare a few pixels of screen space to keep the bookmarks and buttons I use all day long visible instead of burying them somewhere underneath gloss and shiny.
The bookmarks toolbar? Click the Bookmarks button and check View Bookmarks Toolbar. In the time you took to whine about it, you could have turned it on and off 20x.
One last gripe: Tools > Add-ons should take me to Extensions, not the "Wonderful World of Stuff You Could Bloat Your Firefox With."
Again, based on my work with the installer today, it only defaults to Get Add-ons if you don't have any already installed. If you have extensions, it goes there by default. If you don't, what would the point of going there be?
Speaking of which, can we finally make Firefox ask before allowing programs (like nearly every AV, Skype, whatever) to hang their useless (or worse, Google-search-invading) lampshade in Extensions?
This was added in 8.0.
I hope you mean 1.25x. Getting paid a quarter of your normal salary to be a 24h slave is a shit deal.
This isn't the first time I've heard the "don't unsubscribe" wisdom. It's logical but doesn't reflect reality.
At my last job, I was asked frequently about the volume of spam. I got less than almost anyone else in the office despite having one of the most widely publicized email addresses. Why? Because I unsubscribed whenever I got something. When I was able to convince others to unsubscribe, they saw drastic decreases in spam.
This theory relies on the idea that spammers stop spamming people they don't get a reply from, and that's lunacy. The only time they give up on an address is if the email is rejected or if they cease operations. That being the case, there's no harm in trying to unsubscribe.
To address the initial question, if this company is so notorious why aren't they blocked at the SMTP server? Your IT people ought to be able to blacklist them with very little effort.
a few examples...
DarkPlaces
Tenebrae
ioquake3
World of Padman
OpenArena
Tremulous
Space trader
Smoking guns
Urban terror (used to be a Q3 mod but made standalone with the source release)
Even a pacifistic Buddhist interpretation, would be the prez seems inevitably toward reincarnation as a dung beetle at best; most would consider being a dung beetle as an "injurious" condition for the prez.
Hinduist, not Buddhist
Don't forget the infamous, "Federal agents raid gun shop, find weapons".
...with Watchmen wasn't the ending. I think they should have kept the fake alien invasion and just not have used the giant candy space squid. My main gripe was how much they cut or rushed so they could squeeze in action scenes. I felt like they lost the feel of the story in the process.
The USA has hundreds of military basses
Are they ill-tempered?
Here ya go
Maybe he should change it to a fox that eats roosters while being pursued through a maze by a farmer and family. He can call it Cock Gobbler.
I'm not comfortable with the idea that basic geometric shapes can be copyrighted. I don't know if they can be or not, but they sure as hell shouldn't be. At least Mrs PacMan has a bow and some lipstick... PacMan is just a yellow circle.
I thought it was bullshit that Bizarre Creations enacted a takedown of Grid Wars a few years back, for example. The gameplay of both Geometry Wars and Grid Wars was done 25 years ago in Robotron and the "characters" are all basic geometric shapes. Grid Wars had a different (and superior) ruleset, so what exactly where they violating?
(they gave a false name and false state)
Actually, Pennsylvania is a real state; you're thinking of Wyoming (a Cheyenne word meaning 'dark void').
Ignoring that, I pretty much agree with you.
...is the thought that Malamanteau will ultimately end up with an article on Wikipedia anyway, only as part of an article on the international protest marches and riots that resulted as a result of the attempted creation of the original page.
World Wind existed before Google Earth was called such but Keyhole EarthViewer 3D was 3 years old when NASA made their first release.
I'm not sure why any of that matters in this discussion, though.
Here's Mike Allen of Popular Mechanics demonstrating what happens when you shift an automatic Camry into neutral with the gas pedal floored.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOMYjiCiTYg
It doesn't, in fact, prevent you from shifting to neutral as you can tell by the sound of the engine butting heads with the rev-limiter.
Try this if you want to have that sort of layout in Firefox.
My new personal goal is to get all of my neighbors to change their SSIDs to "we can hear you having sex" or something similar.
I was more or less with you until you used the word "fucktarded." You don't get to complain about word use anymore.
There's also the eniCycle created by Alexander Polutnik.
They're emulating the Internet Explorer and Chrome interfaces. There's a lot of wasted horizontal space on your browser toolbar so they're taking the menus and lumping them in with the other toolbar buttons. There's no reason a browser needs a whole menu bar when a few toolbar buttons can do the job.
There's a checkbox labeled "Set Yahoo! as my default search engine and notify me of changes." Directly below that, in BOLD, it says "IMPORTANT: If you don't want to install the PDFCreator Browser Add On, then please unselect it on the next screen."
Nobody bothers to read, though, so they uncheck the first box for the search engine change, leave the toolbar enabled, and then bitch and whine about how PDFCreator bundles spyware. I've been using PDFCreator for 5 years now, have installed it on a few dozen computers, and I've never seen it install the toolbar when you opt-out.
I think we can all agree it sucks that it's even included, optional or not, but that's another issue.
eharmony won't allow me to join with a message along the lines of "Unfortunately, we are not able to make our profiles work for you."
Did wonders for my self-esteem.
http://ed.agadak.net/2008/07/firefox-31-restricts-matches-keywords You can both stop crying now. Mozilla has a new glass of milk for you.
You also can put WINE on there and Ming on your windows machines for remote-Windows programs... The ideas are endless.
Could you explain this? The only "ming" I'm able to find is a SWF creation library.