Also, European Nationalism gave rise to the bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen, so tone it down.
Thanks for mixing Poland into the European (?) nationalism. Let's put it straight: it was German nationalism which started the war (NSDAP = NATZIONALSozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). Ever heard about Fall Weiss? Not really a Polish code name, is it.
I'd agree that the comment comes off as redundant and unscholarly, but there's nothing wrong with it from a grammar standpoint. "It" is the understood subject of the first clause...although there should really be a comma before "doesn't."
Just what is it that is supposed to make us think?
It should be blindingly obvious to anyone that it refers to the preceding summary. Reading between the lines, claims of falsified reports are supposed to make us think about how much mass recalls are due to hysteria vs. actual issues.
There are other problems with the summary, though. I did a double-take on
Lately, a lot of behind the scene conversations have been suggesting that perhaps the Note 7 battery explosion fiasco has been blown out of the proportion. There's no evidence of any of that, so we won't discuss it any further,
when I hit
but amid all of this, Samsung has confirmed that at least 26 explosion reports that circulated everywhere were hoaxes.
So there's no evidence of it being blown out of proportion...except for this evidence that we're showing you right now. And we "aren't discussing it" here, somehow?!
Normally I would never say this, but in this case the summary would be better off as just an ungarnished blockquote. So I suppose you're right.
And finally, there's the part where "we couldn't easily and immediately obtain proof it happened" somehow translates to "they were lying and it didn't happen." Wow.
How about you name any of them? I've been using Firefox on Android without any problems other than the somewhat unexpected conditions under which your browsing session isn't remembered.
While Clinton pardoned a large number (450)[3] of people compared with his immediate predecessor Republican George H. W. Bush, who only pardoned 75, the number of people pardoned by Clinton was comparable to Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Carter, who pardoned 406 and 566 respectively.[4]
You're saying the pardons he did on his last day were more than everybody else's last-day pardons?
Not sure I really see how much the timing matters. If nobody can veto the pardons regardless of whether the president is still in office...all that really changes is pardoning earlier gives their political opponents more time to get pissy about them.
A more charitable way to look at it would be to say he procrastinated.
The obvious solution is for them to stop overselling their network capacity, or expand their capacity. But of course that would cut into their profits so they don't.
How would we know if there was voter fraud without voter ID laws? How would you tell if someone voted for their family member who decided not to vote?
Just because the incidence of voter fraud after the laws are passed is low, does not indicate the incidence when there is no law.
We *already have* laws against vote fraud. These guys are trying to tighten them, which you seem to be in favor of despite us having basically no evidence it actually happens.
But even if it didn't, you can't cash a paycheck, get welfare, or even buy a beer without an ID, do you really think there is this huge population of voters with no IDs?
Do Nexuses not do that thing when you press one of the back/home/taskmanager buttons and it vibes once?
That said, I'd agree about liking physical buttons more. When the screen is 5.8" across (or whatever) and you want to remove the buttons to make it 5.95" it just seems silly.
Go watch the voter ID episode of Last Week Tonight.* IIRC he said there were TWELVE counts of voter fraud caught last year. And the politicians who are pushing for the tighter laws are the same guys who are caught on camera voting for absent representatives while they're in session.
And no, obviously it couldn't be about the Republicans trying to disenfranchise the large demographics that vote against them. That's crazy talk.
Those people speaking out against Voter ID laws are pretty terrible citizens. They don't care if people cheat in the elections, as long as it is their people who are benefiting from the cheating.
Blow it out your ear. Yes I do care.
*Apparently it's the July 31st episode but I'm having a hard time finding a link to the whole thing at the moment.
Anyway, what I'm taking from the comments on this article is that Mozilla really shouldn't read Slashdot, because most commenters here hold that Mozilla really cannot do anything right.
I was a huge fan of Firefox from 2.0 right up to the 4.0 release. But even 4.0 and on was tolerable because they'd always let you turn off the annoying stuff they added.
Somewhere along the way in the last year or two when they started removing the ability to disable stuff from about:config was when I really knew the Firefox I loved was gone.
it loads fast enough, but the whole browser freezes for ~10 sec when you scroll down; loading the same page in Konqueror (yes, there are some that use it) displays none of these problems. I have no idea why.
You think that's bad, for awhile loading the facebook mainpage would lock the entire OS for a literal minute while it waited for akamai or whatever to resolve.
Oh right, *SPOILER*. If you haven't seen it after 13 years you probably weren't going to before this post went up:)
Fair enough, but I was waiting for you to make an actual point with that instead of just dropping the detailed spoiler and otherwise contributing nothing to the conversation.
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Also, European Nationalism gave rise to the bloodiest conflict the world has ever seen, so tone it down.
Thanks for mixing Poland into the European (?) nationalism. Let's put it straight: it was German nationalism which started the war (NSDAP = NATZIONALSozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei). Ever heard about Fall Weiss? Not really a Polish code name, is it.
So basically you're agreeing with him...
I'd agree that the comment comes off as redundant and unscholarly, but there's nothing wrong with it from a grammar standpoint. "It" is the understood subject of the first clause...although there should really be a comma before "doesn't."
Just what is it that is supposed to make us think?
It should be blindingly obvious to anyone that it refers to the preceding summary. Reading between the lines, claims of falsified reports are supposed to make us think about how much mass recalls are due to hysteria vs. actual issues.
There are other problems with the summary, though. I did a double-take on
Lately, a lot of behind the scene conversations have been suggesting that perhaps the Note 7 battery explosion fiasco has been blown out of the proportion. There's no evidence of any of that, so we won't discuss it any further,
when I hit
but amid all of this, Samsung has confirmed that at least 26 explosion reports that circulated everywhere were hoaxes.
So there's no evidence of it being blown out of proportion...except for this evidence that we're showing you right now. And we "aren't discussing it" here, somehow?!
Normally I would never say this, but in this case the summary would be better off as just an ungarnished blockquote. So I suppose you're right.
And finally, there's the part where "we couldn't easily and immediately obtain proof it happened" somehow translates to "they were lying and it didn't happen." Wow.
inb4 every single driver caught doing this goes with option number 2.
What's supposed to be wrong with it? Other than the extra "the" at the end, it looks perfectly correct to me.
Well okay, I'd hyphenate "behind-the-scenes" as well, but I don't see anything deserving of mocking their language skills.
You say *applied,* I say practically nothing gets across the patent officers' desks without getting blindly rubberstamped these days.
There's no money in the budget for training. They only use untrained carrots.
Inferior to Chrome in every way but one
How about you name any of them? I've been using Firefox on Android without any problems other than the somewhat unexpected conditions under which your browsing session isn't remembered.
Yay anecdata!
While Clinton pardoned a large number (450)[3] of people compared with his immediate predecessor Republican George H. W. Bush, who only pardoned 75, the number of people pardoned by Clinton was comparable to Republican Ronald Reagan and Democrat Jimmy Carter, who pardoned 406 and 566 respectively.[4]
You're saying the pardons he did on his last day were more than everybody else's last-day pardons?
Not sure I really see how much the timing matters. If nobody can veto the pardons regardless of whether the president is still in office...all that really changes is pardoning earlier gives their political opponents more time to get pissy about them.
A more charitable way to look at it would be to say he procrastinated.
The country from whom the US took the concept of pardons is a monarchy
The United Kingdom is still a monarchy.
Heck, even Iceland wouldn't be bad: it's a small, remote island with only about 250k people
Population
1 January 2016 estimate 332,529
Geez, we have 56 cities in the U.S. with individually bigger populations than their entire country.
How many times to we have to tell these assholes: No means NO.
No, you can't do "just the tip."
No, you can't do it just in these special circumstances.
No, you can't do it if you ask really nicely.
Fuck off and stop asking!
The obvious solution is for them to stop overselling their network capacity, or expand their capacity. But of course that would cut into their profits so they don't.
Voting: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
How would we know if there was voter fraud without voter ID laws? How would you tell if someone voted for their family member who decided not to vote?
Just because the incidence of voter fraud after the laws are passed is low, does not indicate the incidence when there is no law.
We *already have* laws against vote fraud. These guys are trying to tighten them, which you seem to be in favor of despite us having basically no evidence it actually happens.
But even if it didn't, you can't cash a paycheck, get welfare, or even buy a beer without an ID, do you really think there is this huge population of voters with no IDs?
Yes: illegal immigrants.
Do Nexuses not do that thing when you press one of the back/home/taskmanager buttons and it vibes once?
That said, I'd agree about liking physical buttons more. When the screen is 5.8" across (or whatever) and you want to remove the buttons to make it 5.95" it just seems silly.
Go watch the voter ID episode of Last Week Tonight.* IIRC he said there were TWELVE counts of voter fraud caught last year. And the politicians who are pushing for the tighter laws are the same guys who are caught on camera voting for absent representatives while they're in session.
And no, obviously it couldn't be about the Republicans trying to disenfranchise the large demographics that vote against them. That's crazy talk.
Those people speaking out against Voter ID laws are pretty terrible citizens. They don't care if people cheat in the elections, as long as it is their people who are benefiting from the cheating.
Blow it out your ear. Yes I do care.
*Apparently it's the July 31st episode but I'm having a hard time finding a link to the whole thing at the moment.
If you spoke that sentence, you'd put a brief pause between "every" and "day." Let's just be consistent and write it that way as well.
Anyway, what I'm taking from the comments on this article is that Mozilla really shouldn't read Slashdot, because most commenters here hold that Mozilla really cannot do anything right.
I was a huge fan of Firefox from 2.0 right up to the 4.0 release. But even 4.0 and on was tolerable because they'd always let you turn off the annoying stuff they added.
Somewhere along the way in the last year or two when they started removing the ability to disable stuff from about:config was when I really knew the Firefox I loved was gone.
No, the adverb form is "every day."
it loads fast enough, but the whole browser freezes for ~10 sec when you scroll down; loading the same page in Konqueror (yes, there are some that use it) displays none of these problems. I have no idea why.
You think that's bad, for awhile loading the facebook mainpage would lock the entire OS for a literal minute while it waited for akamai or whatever to resolve.
You mean like systemd should have done?
You don't get to break everything in the main tree and then tell me if I want to fix it I should fork and fix everything you broke.
Well, when you're systemd you apparently do.
Oh right, *SPOILER*. If you haven't seen it after 13 years you probably weren't going to before this post went up :)
Fair enough, but I was waiting for you to make an actual point with that instead of just dropping the detailed spoiler and otherwise contributing nothing to the conversation.
Except for all those comic books they've been doing since then...
"Space zombies"? Isn't a prerequisite for something being a zombie being dead at some point?
A zombie (Haitian French: zombi, Haitian Creole: zonbi) is a fictional undead being created through the reanimation of a human corpse.
Reavers aren't reanimated; they're just regular humans who went crazy.
Well somebody's getting rather defensive over a joke. Take a chill pill, man.