There must genetic markers defining any racial group that physically differs.
You'd think so, but it's not actually the case. e.g. Any two black Africans are no more likely to have common DNA than any black African and a white European. Sure, they're both going to have higher levels of enzymes that synthesize melanin, but that doesn't tell you anything you couldn't determine by looking at them. Race is an false concept invented out of ignorance and tribalism.
Do manufacturers still ship their own EULA that says if you don't accept the MS EULA, you must return the laptop (and pay the restock fee?).
I dunno, but if they tried to spring a EULA on me after taking my money, I'd sue them in small claims court for the cost of the restock fee. That should cost them more than the restock fee.
If that were the case, he'd be returning the laptop to Lenovo. Of course, IANAL, and there may be a good legal argument that NewEgg is not technically the warrantor. I'd like to see that argument if you can make it.
If I understand correctly, the Magnum Moss Warranty Act prohibits vendors from tying warranty coverage to branded components unless they can demonstrate that the failure was due to the third party component.
No warrantor of a consumer product may condition his written or implied warranty of such product on the consumerâ(TM)s using, in connection with such product, any article or service (other than article or service provided without charge under the terms of the warranty) which is identified by brand, trade, or corporate name; except that the prohibition of this subsection may be waived by the Commission ifâ" (1) the warrantor satisfies the Commission that the warranted product will function properly only if the article or service so identified is used in connection with the warranted product, and (2) the Commission finds that such a waiver is in the public interest. The Commission shall identify in the Federal Register, and permit public comment on, all applications for waiver of the prohibition of this subsection, and shall publish in the Federal Register its disposition of any such application, including the reasons therefor.
Abraham Lincoln destroyed what was left of the Jeffersonian model of the United States and left us with strict federalism. His complete disregard for the Constitution set the stage for the complete disregard that we see today. He was the first president to suspend Habeas Corpus, for instance.
Slavery was bad, but look at where we find ourselves today. We have more black men in shackles today than we did at the time of the Civil War. We gave up state sovereignty for...essentially nothing. And now any state that thinks it might be better off on its own doesn't have that option. That's not freedom.
Abraham Lincoln was the worst thing to happen to the US since Alexander Hamilton.
How do you know this is true? Is there evidence for this assertion? Availability of adult porn is associated with decreases in sexual assaults. I don't see any reason to assume that this would be different for child porn and sexual assaults of children. Do you have any data to support your assertion?
Do you think logging out really does you any good? Chances are you can be uniquely identified from your browser's user agent string. Google remembers your IP. Google remembers the searches you do from that IP. Google has a bug on just about every website out there.
If you want to avoid Google, you need to use it only from a deidentified browser, behind an anonymizing proxy. You need to reject all scripts from Google, and reject all cookies. If you do all this, it will be a pain in the ass to get any work done, and I'm still not sure they won't be able to figure out who you are.
We'll take sides across our battle lines, the Flatties over here, the Crumplers over there. Then there shall be WAR!!! And you untidy, undisciplined Crumpler sons of bitches will finally get what's coming to you!
Yes, I sleep with one nightly. The bed is perpetually unmade. This is not a problem for anyone.
It's not even about the work involved in making the bed. It's about having a brain that's not fundamentally broken. Caring about shit like bed making is a sign that your priorities are entirely screwed up.
Why do you want a girlfriend who is so impractical and demanding as to make bed making an issue in the relationship? If it's not useful, and you want to make me do it, then I probably don't want to be around you.
No, but it's worth trying first. Store brands are almost always of sufficient quality that it doesn't make economic sense to pay more for a marginal increase in quality. And a lot of the quality that people assign to name brands only exists in their heads. You tend to like what you're used to. If you get in the habit of trying generics often, you don't get used to more expensive brands that aren't actually any better.
And then sometimes it gets things just completely, absolutely wrong. I swear that at one point, my Droid was *convinced* that I was a gay black man with AIDS. Wrong on all counts save that yes, I am male. I don't even know how it came up with that - there is literally nothing I've done that would support that idea.
But the next time I did actually want to buy mouthwash, I went to the grocery store and was confronted with about half a dozen brands. Which one do I buy? Well, probably the one that is more familiar to me, the one I have seen advertised the most.
This is a poor heuristic to use. Chances are, if they have to spend on marketing, they're not delivering the best product for the best price. When presented with a choice of products and no further information, choose the one for which you don't remember seeing advertising.
I have never seen an ad on the web and seriously thought about clicking it, much less spending money on what was shown. Somehow web ads still seem to be profitable.
Yeah, you have to hit an extra hotkey. When I say delete, I mean delete. Any decent interface can be configured to behave this way. XFCE apparently cannot.
Oh and one final thing KDE team, learn that EVERY single app you build has a far superior solo version out there. I don't need a complete office suite with my desktop thank you very much.
This is very much the case. If you're going to invest a lot of effort into an office suite, why would you write one that most users of the platform aren't going to be able to use anyway? It would be great to have a third option for office on Linux, but if you have to install kdelibs and everything that comes with it, it's just too much bloat.
The UNIX philosophy is "Do one thing, do it well". That holds for GUIs as well.
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There must genetic markers defining any racial group that physically differs.
You'd think so, but it's not actually the case. e.g. Any two black Africans are no more likely to have common DNA than any black African and a white European. Sure, they're both going to have higher levels of enzymes that synthesize melanin, but that doesn't tell you anything you couldn't determine by looking at them. Race is an false concept invented out of ignorance and tribalism.
Do manufacturers still ship their own EULA that says if you don't accept the MS EULA, you must return the laptop (and pay the restock fee?).
I dunno, but if they tried to spring a EULA on me after taking my money, I'd sue them in small claims court for the cost of the restock fee. That should cost them more than the restock fee.
Torrents of Windows disks should never ever be trusted
Windows itself should never be trusted. Anything of value should be done on UNIX, whether that Linux, BSD, or OSX.
If that were the case, he'd be returning the laptop to Lenovo. Of course, IANAL, and there may be a good legal argument that NewEgg is not technically the warrantor. I'd like to see that argument if you can make it.
Whenever I buy something, it seems like there's no way to get it without Windows. This means that I am paying for something I don't want.
The Windows EULA requires the vendor to refund the cost of the license if you decline the agreement.
If I understand correctly, the Magnum Moss Warranty Act prohibits vendors from tying warranty coverage to branded components unless they can demonstrate that the failure was due to the third party component.
Abraham Lincoln destroyed what was left of the Jeffersonian model of the United States and left us with strict federalism. His complete disregard for the Constitution set the stage for the complete disregard that we see today. He was the first president to suspend Habeas Corpus, for instance.
Slavery was bad, but look at where we find ourselves today. We have more black men in shackles today than we did at the time of the Civil War. We gave up state sovereignty for...essentially nothing. And now any state that thinks it might be better off on its own doesn't have that option. That's not freedom.
Abraham Lincoln was the worst thing to happen to the US since Alexander Hamilton.
taking away all CP...does help discourage it.
How do you know this is true? Is there evidence for this assertion? Availability of adult porn is associated with decreases in sexual assaults. I don't see any reason to assume that this would be different for child porn and sexual assaults of children. Do you have any data to support your assertion?
Yes, the predator-prey relationship is constantly evolving.
Do you think logging out really does you any good? Chances are you can be uniquely identified from your browser's user agent string. Google remembers your IP. Google remembers the searches you do from that IP. Google has a bug on just about every website out there.
If you want to avoid Google, you need to use it only from a deidentified browser, behind an anonymizing proxy. You need to reject all scripts from Google, and reject all cookies. If you do all this, it will be a pain in the ass to get any work done, and I'm still not sure they won't be able to figure out who you are.
All I use Google for is search. I'd gladly pay for a non ad infested version. Google serves too many masters to be a decent search engine anymore.
We'll take sides across our battle lines, the Flatties over here, the Crumplers over there. Then there shall be WAR!!! And you untidy, undisciplined Crumpler sons of bitches will finally get what's coming to you!
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On Debian at least, Fluxbox uses the system menu which is automatically updated by dpkg.
Yes, I sleep with one nightly. The bed is perpetually unmade. This is not a problem for anyone.
It's not even about the work involved in making the bed. It's about having a brain that's not fundamentally broken. Caring about shit like bed making is a sign that your priorities are entirely screwed up.
That's a great way to teach your kids that authority figures are frequently disingenous.
Why do you want a girlfriend who is so impractical and demanding as to make bed making an issue in the relationship? If it's not useful, and you want to make me do it, then I probably don't want to be around you.
Look at Linux
This is a great example. If I paid attention to marketing, I'd be using some inferior product.
Hell, sometimes marketing even goes so far as to convince you that you have a problem you really don't have.
All the more reason to do the opposite of what marketing tells me to do.
No, but it's worth trying first. Store brands are almost always of sufficient quality that it doesn't make economic sense to pay more for a marginal increase in quality. And a lot of the quality that people assign to name brands only exists in their heads. You tend to like what you're used to. If you get in the habit of trying generics often, you don't get used to more expensive brands that aren't actually any better.
And then sometimes it gets things just completely, absolutely wrong. I swear that at one point, my Droid was *convinced* that I was a gay black man with AIDS. Wrong on all counts save that yes, I am male. I don't even know how it came up with that - there is literally nothing I've done that would support that idea.
You were hacked by the GNAA.
Now, when you right-click a file or directory, it'll give the option to "really delete"
I want it to delete when I hit delete. That's not too much to ask.
I'm using XFCE terminal v0.4.4, and I can highlight-middleclick to copy and paste from the terminal to an editor/browser/anything
Yes, but the selection buffer is not the clipboard.
But the next time I did actually want to buy mouthwash, I went to the grocery store and was confronted with about half a dozen brands. Which one do I buy? Well, probably the one that is more familiar to me, the one I have seen advertised the most.
This is a poor heuristic to use. Chances are, if they have to spend on marketing, they're not delivering the best product for the best price. When presented with a choice of products and no further information, choose the one for which you don't remember seeing advertising.
I have never seen an ad on the web and seriously thought about clicking it, much less spending money on what was shown. Somehow web ads still seem to be profitable.
It's not the vulgarity that's offensive. It's the complete lack of any sense of humor. Genuine funniness absolves all.
Yeah, you have to hit an extra hotkey. When I say delete, I mean delete. Any decent interface can be configured to behave this way. XFCE apparently cannot.
Oh and one final thing KDE team, learn that EVERY single app you build has a far superior solo version out there. I don't need a complete office suite with my desktop thank you very much.
This is very much the case. If you're going to invest a lot of effort into an office suite, why would you write one that most users of the platform aren't going to be able to use anyway? It would be great to have a third option for office on Linux, but if you have to install kdelibs and everything that comes with it, it's just too much bloat.
The UNIX philosophy is "Do one thing, do it well". That holds for GUIs as well.