e.g. Churchill starved 14 million Bengalis to death during WW2
No, try 2.1 million. And apparently there's debate about whether it was his fault.
Debate over the specific cause or causes of the Bengali famine hinges on a series of interlinked questions: when the nature and scope of the disaster were recognized, whether enough food was available at the provincial or national level (or via international food aid arranged by Great Britain) to feed the population of Bengal, and whether the failure of the colonial rulers to alleviate the crisis was due to incompetence or insensitivity to Bengal's needs. [...]
The question of when the famine was or should have been recognised is relevant to a discussion of the unreliable crop statistics. The 1942–43 Annual Report of the Indian Statistical Institute (1945, p. 107) asserts that the lack of reliable crop output statistics left the government effectively uninformed about the state of agricultural output, precluding any timely response. Others, however, have expressed doubts that the government was naive or "caught napping" when it rejected those statistics out of hand.[354]
Heck they wouldnt have let Spain join if the Muslim in Spain had not been conveniently genocided. A spurned lover is the worst enemy. So when are we getting the movie about the Christians Genociding Muslims and Jews out of Spain? Bueller? Bueller?
You mean the expulsion of the Moors in the 1600s? About 300 years farther in the past, but okay, let's start arguing about the Crusades. That's always a fun topic:P
I am sure you are glad that Obama was term limited and Trump replaced him
On the other hand, Trump is term-limited too. And it's a constitutional amendment so the Republican-controlled legislature would need Democrat help to get to the 2/3rds mark to repeal it.
BTW Edogan was term limited as Prime Minister which is why he became President
Hey, kind of like Putin:P Could Erdogan just hop back to PM next election anyway? The difference being that apparently the Russian rule is contiguous terms, not terms ever like the U.S.
However, they traditionally let you disable that sort of thing via about:config. Apparently with Chrome you have to build it from source to disable it (basically what Chromium is)?
"A poll of 27,973 adults in 26 countries, including 14,306 Internet users,[3] conducted for the BBC World Service between 30 November 2009 and 7 February 2010 found that almost four in five Internet users and non-users around the world felt that access to the Internet was a fundamental right.[4] 50% strongly agreed, 29% somewhat agreed, 9% somewhat disagreed, 6% strongly disagreed, and 6% gave no opinion.[5]"
The phrase "percentage of the gross" was practically invented for this scenario.
Sounds like they (the hypothetical franchisees) should spin off a child company, license the licensed IPs to them, then claim that the overall gross was 17 dollars.
Still nothing compared to our ME machine. Whenever it didn't shut down properly you'd get ScanDisk which would run the next time you booted it up. But if you let ScanDisk run past 10% completion or so, it would just hang. So of course you powercycled it, which would result in a dirty shutdown...then next time you hit Cancel before the progress bar got too far.
In a few instances it actually booted directly to a BSOD. Impressive.
I agree with almost everything you wrote, but I think the above overlooks the real problem, which is that it is almost impossible to design a good UI for some tasks when you're constraining yourself to what works on small touchscreen devices.
I wish somebody would go give Microsoft and Mozilla noogies (substitute knee to the groin for larger values of disapproval) until they agreed to stop fucking around with their perfectly alright UIs.
Software projects seem universally doomed to achieve all their major goals, then suddenly realize they don't have an excuse to continue development and start fixing things that aren't broken.
Supposedly there isn't going to be a Windows 11. Instead, 10 will turn into some sort of bastardized rolling release thing that you'll be tricked into paying for eventually. After you've gotten used to the phone-home privacy invasion and anal probes.
And for anyone who wonders what the hell "LBRY" is:
What’s with the name LBRY? The very first question of newcomers is often, “How do you pronounce it?” Answer: library.
“Is it an acronym?” No.
“Then why confuse people with the all-caps and no vowels?”
First and foremost, LBRY is an internet protocol, just like HTTP. Content on LBRY is served to users via “LBRY names,” which look like this: lbry://itsawonderfullife. Very similar to the URL you type into your internet browser. LBRY is not just our branded name, but the character string we’ve chosen to lead our URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier).
It also serves as a truncated form of “library,” which reflects our mission: every film, song, book, and app ever made – available anywhere. Our vision for LBRY is to create a massive media repository for the 21st century that is built on a decentralized network controlled by its users. LBRY is to a traditional library what Amazon is to a department store.
Is it an odd name? Perhaps. But we would kindly point to the success of brands like Hulu, Yahoo!, Etsy, Skype, Tumblr, and Zillow. In the end, a good company with a strong user base will be remembered regardless of its name. And a company with a brand as straightforward as Pets.com can still fail.
LBRY is working well as a brand so far. SEO is a top consideration for startup branding, and LBRY already dominates the search results for our brand name.
So apparently it's a protocol like torrents or something?
So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them
And how is this "irrevocable"? Somebody needs to do a lot more explaining about this LBRY thing instead of just namedropping it and expecting people to know what they're talking about.
Just pointing out that responding to "where's the evidence" with "oh we have evidence but you can't see it" really doesn't advance the conversation at all.
You don't cite an opinion if you're the one originally giving it. If you're going to be pigheaded about it, here's the citation: https://slashdot.org/comments....
What do you mean, "Citation, please"? The citation is the article in the summary. GP is interpreting its content, which I thought he was pretty upfront about.
since his reason for blocking Trump's travel ban basically came down to "Because I said so."
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e.g. Churchill starved 14 million Bengalis to death during WW2
No, try 2.1 million. And apparently there's debate about whether it was his fault.
Debate over the specific cause or causes of the Bengali famine hinges on a series of interlinked questions: when the nature and scope of the disaster were recognized, whether enough food was available at the provincial or national level (or via international food aid arranged by Great Britain) to feed the population of Bengal, and whether the failure of the colonial rulers to alleviate the crisis was due to incompetence or insensitivity to Bengal's needs. [...]
The question of when the famine was or should have been recognised is relevant to a discussion of the unreliable crop statistics. The 1942–43 Annual Report of the Indian Statistical Institute (1945, p. 107) asserts that the lack of reliable crop output statistics left the government effectively uninformed about the state of agricultural output, precluding any timely response. Others, however, have expressed doubts that the government was naive or "caught napping" when it rejected those statistics out of hand.[354]
Heck they wouldnt have let Spain join if the Muslim in Spain had not been conveniently genocided. A spurned lover is the worst enemy. So when are we getting the movie about the Christians Genociding Muslims and Jews out of Spain? Bueller? Bueller?
You mean the expulsion of the Moors in the 1600s? About 300 years farther in the past, but okay, let's start arguing about the Crusades. That's always a fun topic :P
I am sure you are glad that Obama was term limited and Trump replaced him
On the other hand, Trump is term-limited too. And it's a constitutional amendment so the Republican-controlled legislature would need Democrat help to get to the 2/3rds mark to repeal it.
BTW Edogan was term limited as Prime Minister which is why he became President
Hey, kind of like Putin :P Could Erdogan just hop back to PM next election anyway?
The difference being that apparently the Russian rule is contiguous terms, not terms ever like the U.S.
How would you go about verifying someone rating a movie has seen it?
However, they traditionally let you disable that sort of thing via about:config. Apparently with Chrome you have to build it from source to disable it (basically what Chromium is)?
Or maybe they leave for Pale Moon.
Er, GP said that. You know what I mean :P
You tell somebody to do something and then barely two sentences later admit that it's impossible.
Thanks. Very helpful.
Having internet access is a privilege and not a right.
UN thinks internet access is a human right
"A poll of 27,973 adults in 26 countries, including 14,306 Internet users,[3] conducted for the BBC World Service between 30 November 2009 and 7 February 2010 found that almost four in five Internet users and non-users around the world felt that access to the Internet was a fundamental right.[4] 50% strongly agreed, 29% somewhat agreed, 9% somewhat disagreed, 6% strongly disagreed, and 6% gave no opinion.[5]"
As soon as you take the groceries out of the basket and put them on the conveyor, they cease being fluid and become discrete "items".
How many discrete items are 1.5 pounds of grapes, sold by the pound?
The phrase "percentage of the gross" was practically invented for this scenario.
Sounds like they (the hypothetical franchisees) should spin off a child company, license the licensed IPs to them, then claim that the overall gross was 17 dollars.
What? Hollywood Accounting works both ways, right?
(I wish)
Where is it written that a government *MUST* tax sales?
It's the paragraph before where it states all websites must run ads to make money :P
As for the rest of your post, interesting proposition but I'm not sure where to take it. Congrats on your +5, surprisingly :)
I'm sorry, are you complaining that I posted an informative comment?
so you cannot do a "takedown" on content that is uploaded with that parameter set without destroying the whole system.
Well now we're just giving them ideas :P
It's a nice sentiment, though. I wish them luck.
Still nothing compared to our ME machine. Whenever it didn't shut down properly you'd get ScanDisk which would run the next time you booted it up. But if you let ScanDisk run past 10% completion or so, it would just hang. So of course you powercycled it, which would result in a dirty shutdown...then next time you hit Cancel before the progress bar got too far.
In a few instances it actually booted directly to a BSOD. Impressive.
I agree with almost everything you wrote, but I think the above overlooks the real problem, which is that it is almost impossible to design a good UI for some tasks when you're constraining yourself to what works on small touchscreen devices.
I wish somebody would go give Microsoft and Mozilla noogies (substitute knee to the groin for larger values of disapproval) until they agreed to stop fucking around with their perfectly alright UIs.
Software projects seem universally doomed to achieve all their major goals, then suddenly realize they don't have an excuse to continue development and start fixing things that aren't broken.
Supposedly there isn't going to be a Windows 11. Instead, 10 will turn into some sort of bastardized rolling release thing that you'll be tricked into paying for eventually. After you've gotten used to the phone-home privacy invasion and anal probes.
And for anyone who wonders what the hell "LBRY" is:
What’s with the name LBRY?
The very first question of newcomers is often, “How do you pronounce it?” Answer: library.
“Is it an acronym?” No.
“Then why confuse people with the all-caps and no vowels?”
First and foremost, LBRY is an internet protocol, just like HTTP. Content on LBRY is served to users via “LBRY names,” which look like this: lbry://itsawonderfullife. Very similar to the URL you type into your internet browser. LBRY is not just our branded name, but the character string we’ve chosen to lead our URIs (Uniform Resource Identifier).
It also serves as a truncated form of “library,” which reflects our mission: every film, song, book, and app ever made – available anywhere. Our vision for LBRY is to create a massive media repository for the 21st century that is built on a decentralized network controlled by its users. LBRY is to a traditional library what Amazon is to a department store.
Is it an odd name? Perhaps. But we would kindly point to the success of brands like Hulu, Yahoo!, Etsy, Skype, Tumblr, and Zillow. In the end, a good company with a strong user base will be remembered regardless of its name. And a company with a brand as straightforward as Pets.com can still fail.
LBRY is working well as a brand so far. SEO is a top consideration for startup branding, and LBRY already dominates the search results for our brand name.
So apparently it's a protocol like torrents or something?
So We Irrevocably Mirrored Them
And how is this "irrevocable"? Somebody needs to do a lot more explaining about this LBRY thing instead of just namedropping it and expecting people to know what they're talking about.
Free speech covers between you and the government. Your employer is a whole 'nother thing.
Just pointing out that responding to "where's the evidence" with "oh we have evidence but you can't see it" really doesn't advance the conversation at all.
Could do without the snark, too, Sparky.
she says she has
Does she or doesn't she have them? I can say I have a pet unicorn in my back yard, too.
(It's a double-twist since I have neither a unicorn nor, in fact, a back yard.)
You don't cite an opinion if you're the one originally giving it. If you're going to be pigheaded about it, here's the citation: https://slashdot.org/comments....
What do you mean, "Citation, please"? The citation is the article in the summary. GP is interpreting its content, which I thought he was pretty upfront about.
since his reason for blocking Trump's travel ban basically came down to "Because I said so."
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
- Thomas Jefferson
Do you really believe that NSA has done anything else than what they were told?
Well then they damn well shouldn't have told them to do so.