Yeah it used to be the media only reported on stuff if they at least two credible, independent sources. Now they report what any idiot posts on twitter.
Maybe all the media used to say same thing because they were only reporting confirmed facts. Now that media reports opinions its a lot more diverse, but the only thing you can get from it is that opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and most of them are full of shit.
I already know that other people have different opinions from me, so just tell me the facts and stop wasting my time. I can look at twitter myself if I want to see what people's opinions are.
This is what they had to do in here in Canada. But Canada is weird in that we hate elections and we hate coalitions. Any parties that form a coalition to gain power will be screwed in the next elelction. And anyone that votes no confidence will also be screwed.
It works, but it doesn't stop them from acting childish. Oh well.
I don't know linux has some really good package management systems available, and those could be easily adapted to make malware difficult to install and run. You could set it up that executables are not allowed under/home and every.deb or.rpm has its MD5sum is checked against an approved software list. Or checked against a known malware list. If its not approved or is known to be malware the package manager refuses to install it.
Compare this to windows where most of software installs are done by clicking a setup.exe file. Yes there is the.msi windows installer available, but not everyone uses that. And if you tried to set the user profile directory to not allow executing file (is that even possible in windows?) a lot of apps wouldn't work because they install exe's there (eg. google chrome).
missing the point. All of the things that viruses do now in windows can be done on linux without having root. The virus only needs the ability to run services in the background and have internet access. I'm pretty sure your user account has permissions to do these things.
All of the examples you mentioned are three syllables or less. Most are two syllables. They are common words and easy to say. Diaspora is four syllables and not easy to say. Saying "can I get your facebook info" is easy. face and book are both words we use all the time. Saying "can I get your diaspora info" is hard to say and if someone hasn't heard of the website or is aware of the word diaspora, is going to think all sorts of weird things. Tell a hot woman you want her on your diaspora and you'll probably get a slap in the face.
Maybe we should ban all cameras everywhere. Make it illegal to own a camera because it is possible that someone someday may use it to violate someone's privacy. I mean if we allow cameras to exist its only a matter of time before they are recording our moves everywhere!
Dude, slippery slope arguments are stupid. You like to be able to go over the speed limit, and speed cameras make it difficult to do so. Just be honest and say that, don't make some stupid slippery slope argument about privacy.
ummmm they probably are happy because first they got some attention when they first announced the contest, a lot of people went out and bought the game so the could participate in the contest, and now they get a lot of articles written about the contest and the happy winner of the game. People reading those articles will think more positively about 2K Sports, and the baseball game. They aren't looking at it like they're giving away a million dollars, they're looking at it like they're paying a million dollars for a lot of good publicity.
They could have spent that money on ads that most people would ignore. But instead the spent a million dollars on a contest which gets articles written about it on websites like slashdot and have people discussing it.
What he's saying is that the good publicity they got was worth more to them than $1 millon.
The next version of the iPhone will use the microSIM. So they used it in the iPad so that it will be compatible with the iPhone going forward. It gives the people who bought the iPad an incentive to upgrade to a new iPhone.
The possibility of being raped and/or shanked while in prison probably makes it not so relaxed in there.
I think the right to privacy is the only right we need to take away from prisoners. Well other than the right to travel where you want, thats kinda a no-brainer. Fill the prison with cameras so that every single moment of an inmate's life is monitored. This would make it so prisoners will have to be law-abiding citizens while they're incarcerated and reduce the rapes/assaults/murders/drug-use/riots/etc. that occur in prison. Also this would make it pretty unpleasant to be in prison as nobody wants to be monitored 24/7, but it wouldn't be inhumane.
what you're talking about here is colonialism. The British Empire didn't collapse it just faded away. Why? Well the economies, culture and politics of their colonies developed enough that they didn't need the British around to run things for them. After WWII the British had problems of their own (namely rebuilding after the war) so when all their former colonies wanted independence they just let them go.
Contrast that with the French who tried to use military force to keep their colonies. What was the result of that? A real big mess in Algeria and Vietnam.
So you're wrong when you say that the British got overzealous. Yes there was some violence in India, but nothing of the likes of what happened in Algeria and Vietnam.
You should really read a little more about the British Empire. The changes that took place in the late 19th century and into the middle of the 20th really defined how a modern empire is run. The British Empire never collapsed, its just that after WWII, the British didn't have the resources to effectively run an empire. But the US did, so the Empire is still going today, just that its being run by Americans, not British. And we don't call it an empire officially because its important to be subtle about running an empire in the modern world.
You have to be subtle when running your empire, because no one wants to be a colony of a foreign super-power. Most world leaders know the situation, but don't really talk about it much. But every now and then you get someone like Hugo Chavez who bucks up against the foreign empire, valuing his country's independence over peace and stability.
But really, being pragmatic, its better to just go along with the empire. Sometimes there's a superpower that controls most of the world. It kinda sucks, but it sucks even more when there isn't a superpower. When there is no superpower, you have a lot of regional powers fighting to dominate each other. But its good to have some rebels out there to keep the empire from getting too arrogant. Its a balancing act. An empire has to keep things under control but has to allow their colonies to have enough freedom so they'll stay happy and not rebel.
Of course oil is the most strategic resource out there so the American Empire keeps as much control over the oil-rich colonies as they can. And these are the colonies that are rebelling. But if the don't keep control over strategic resources, then they will go the way of the British and someone else will be running things (maybe the Chinese). So you're going to keep having Hugo Chavezes, Osama bin Ladens, Ayatollah Khomeini's, and Saddam Husseins popping up every now and then. It was no different from when the British ran things and the had the likes of George Washington and Ghandi rebelling against them. Just the cost of running an empire.
Oh and the US never refunded the British for their investment in developing the American colonies. The US confiscated stuff from those loyal to the British Empire and never gave it back. Makes it a little ironic when Americans bitch about their colonies rebelling and taking stuff from them. I guess Americans like to think that they themselves are the rebels, and can't understand that they are the empire.
Its very difficult to make chrome use the native window decorations. First you have to right click the chrome windobar, then select "Use system title bar and borders". This is for advanced users only.
Iron Man and The Dark Knight are different kinds of movies, so its unfair to compare them. The only thing they have in common is they are both based on comic books.
Iron Man was a fun comic book movie and TDK was more like a psychological thriller. Comparing them is like comparing "Silence of the Lambs" to "The Hangover"
ACPI works better under Linux than MacOS X for me. Don't understand how apple could screw up something so simple, but if I power off the laptop and close the lid before its completely shut off, it goes to suspend. Next time I open the lid, I'm greeted with a half dead battery, before it remembers that I told it to shut down before I closed the lid, so then it shuts off.
It seems to work properly under linux and even windows.
Actually I don't think Mozilla actually requested debian to change the name, debian changed it themselves because firefox was trademarked and debian want to be free of intellectual property issue.
Mozilla trademarked firefox because if they didn't, anyone could redistribute it filled with malware and destroy the firefox brand. And there wouldn't be anything mozilla could do about it since FF is open source. With the trademark, if someone tries to distribute a crappy version, mozilla can make them change the name.
Whether Mozilla allows them to use the firefox name largely depends on the quality of their changes. if this add-on makes firefox buggy or slow then they'll ask them to change the name.
Maybe they should just make games that require more skills than a bot is capable of. It is really difficult to build a "bot" that can beat a good chess player, and chess doesn't have very many variables to deal with.
Also not all games are competitive. Many building games (sim city, transport tycoon, etc) are not competitive, but would be more awesome if you could cooperate with your friends on building stuff. And these types of games are very popular.
prices don't have anything to do with cost in a monopoly. So you're sort of right. In a competitive industry price has everything to do with cost.
But yeah, taxing microsoft means they lose profit. They aren't going to raise prices because they are already charging the maximum price they can already.
Good luck with that. I'm an experienced Linux user and I got a mac. Used MacOS for three months exclusively... never could get used to it. The thing is MacOS is designed to be intuitive, but not user friendly.
The thing is you don't have to tinker with configuration files in linux. Yes its there, but you don't have to do it. Have you actually tried just using the default Ubuntu install and not messing around with GUI settings? It's actually quite nice. The problem is you've gotten used to doing things a different way over the years and you know you can make things work the way you want it to if you find the right configuration file.
All MacOS does is remove the configuration options. So it forces you to get used it. Unfortunately, I never could. I usually have several things opened at once and switch between them. Under MacOS I have to push the F9, watch the pretty expose animation look around the screen, and then click on the app I want. Every time I push F9 apps are in a different spot. Under Ubuntu I just click on the item in the taskbar which is always on the screen and the task is always in the same spot (unless I reorder it by dragging it to a different spot in the taskbar). In MacOS I can cut and paste files to move them to a new folder. I can't set keyboard shortcuts to change songs in iTunes, I have to use the little remote control (which I've lost). etc, etc.
Under MacOS you are forced to do things the way Steve Jobs wants you to do them. With Linux you can do things whatever way you want to do them.
I can save you some money if you do the following: Instead of forcing yourself into doing things the way Steve Jobs wants you to do them, why not force yourself into doing things the way Mark Shuttleworth wants you to them? Install Ubuntu and keep the default GUI settings. Just resist the urge to tinker. I've found Ubuntu to have a better thought out user interface than MacOS.
Typing this from a MacBook Pro with Ubuntu. Just wish it had a pgdown, pgup, home, end, a second mouse button, more USB ports, a working audio in port, and especially DELETE key. I guess Steve Jobs never has to delete stuff that comes after the cursor so the Macbook Pro doesn't need it.
Maybe the US is unleadable. If a liberal says something then conservatives automatically declare it to be completely wrong and goes against American values. If a conservative says anything, liberals declare it to be completely wrong and suspect that its part of some hidden agenda to bring about fascism.
How do you lead a country like this? You suggest improving healthcare and you have people arming themselves and willing to fight to the death against the evil socialist government. WTF? People in the US pick a team, either liberal or conservative and are absolutely against whatever the other team is saying.
Congress is completely broken, they can't make changes even when they have a super-majority. What can the executive branch do when the legislative branch is so fucked up (other than start wars) ? How can you lead a country where half the population is going to disagree with what you say, just because it was you that said it?
I don't think it will be a requirement for single player, but I could be wrong. I think the confusion comes from the fact that you can log in to battle.net when playing single player so that you can see when you're friends come online and maybe chat with them while playing the single player campaign.
Where does the article say i the national geographic article that the poles would freeze?
from the examiner article on Vancouver's no snow:
If one follows the logic of conservative media the Vancouver Olympics provide proof that global warming is real. Of course the scholars of climate science argue that neither example is proof of anything. Instead they would point to longer terms trends showing a gradual warming of the whole earth over the last thirty years.
The article is just making fun of conservative idiots that try to use weather to disprove climate models. I know that because they clearly said so in the last paragraph.
It's no wonder you can't understand climate change you are really lacking in reading comprehension. Or did you think no one would read your links?
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Yeah it used to be the media only reported on stuff if they at least two credible, independent sources. Now they report what any idiot posts on twitter.
Maybe all the media used to say same thing because they were only reporting confirmed facts. Now that media reports opinions its a lot more diverse, but the only thing you can get from it is that opinions are like assholes, everyone has one and most of them are full of shit.
I already know that other people have different opinions from me, so just tell me the facts and stop wasting my time. I can look at twitter myself if I want to see what people's opinions are.
This is what they had to do in here in Canada. But Canada is weird in that we hate elections and we hate coalitions. Any parties that form a coalition to gain power will be screwed in the next elelction. And anyone that votes no confidence will also be screwed.
It works, but it doesn't stop them from acting childish. Oh well.
Except for the Americans in New Orleans.
I don't know linux has some really good package management systems available, and those could be easily adapted to make malware difficult to install and run. You could set it up that executables are not allowed under /home and every .deb or .rpm has its MD5sum is checked against an approved software list. Or checked against a known malware list. If its not approved or is known to be malware the package manager refuses to install it.
Compare this to windows where most of software installs are done by clicking a setup.exe file. Yes there is the .msi windows installer available, but not everyone uses that. And if you tried to set the user profile directory to not allow executing file (is that even possible in windows?) a lot of apps wouldn't work because they install exe's there (eg. google chrome).
missing the point. All of the things that viruses do now in windows can be done on linux without having root. The virus only needs the ability to run services in the background and have internet access. I'm pretty sure your user account has permissions to do these things.
All of the examples you mentioned are three syllables or less. Most are two syllables. They are common words and easy to say. Diaspora is four syllables and not easy to say. Saying "can I get your facebook info" is easy. face and book are both words we use all the time. Saying "can I get your diaspora info" is hard to say and if someone hasn't heard of the website or is aware of the word diaspora, is going to think all sorts of weird things. Tell a hot woman you want her on your diaspora and you'll probably get a slap in the face.
Yay lets all slide down the Slippery Slope!
Maybe we should ban all cameras everywhere. Make it illegal to own a camera because it is possible that someone someday may use it to violate someone's privacy. I mean if we allow cameras to exist its only a matter of time before they are recording our moves everywhere!
Dude, slippery slope arguments are stupid. You like to be able to go over the speed limit, and speed cameras make it difficult to do so. Just be honest and say that, don't make some stupid slippery slope argument about privacy.
ummmm they probably are happy because first they got some attention when they first announced the contest, a lot of people went out and bought the game so the could participate in the contest, and now they get a lot of articles written about the contest and the happy winner of the game. People reading those articles will think more positively about 2K Sports, and the baseball game. They aren't looking at it like they're giving away a million dollars, they're looking at it like they're paying a million dollars for a lot of good publicity.
They could have spent that money on ads that most people would ignore. But instead the spent a million dollars on a contest which gets articles written about it on websites like slashdot and have people discussing it.
What he's saying is that the good publicity they got was worth more to them than $1 millon.
I have an even better one: www.bankofamerica.com
It has an algorithm that increases my taxes and deposits the money into their executive bonus pool.
Everyone knows that the possibility of successfully navigating an asteroid field is approximately 3,720 to 1!
The next version of the iPhone will use the microSIM. So they used it in the iPad so that it will be compatible with the iPhone going forward. It gives the people who bought the iPad an incentive to upgrade to a new iPhone.
The possibility of being raped and/or shanked while in prison probably makes it not so relaxed in there.
I think the right to privacy is the only right we need to take away from prisoners. Well other than the right to travel where you want, thats kinda a no-brainer. Fill the prison with cameras so that every single moment of an inmate's life is monitored. This would make it so prisoners will have to be law-abiding citizens while they're incarcerated and reduce the rapes/assaults/murders/drug-use/riots/etc. that occur in prison. Also this would make it pretty unpleasant to be in prison as nobody wants to be monitored 24/7, but it wouldn't be inhumane.
what you're talking about here is colonialism. The British Empire didn't collapse it just faded away. Why? Well the economies, culture and politics of their colonies developed enough that they didn't need the British around to run things for them. After WWII the British had problems of their own (namely rebuilding after the war) so when all their former colonies wanted independence they just let them go.
Contrast that with the French who tried to use military force to keep their colonies. What was the result of that? A real big mess in Algeria and Vietnam.
So you're wrong when you say that the British got overzealous. Yes there was some violence in India, but nothing of the likes of what happened in Algeria and Vietnam.
You should really read a little more about the British Empire. The changes that took place in the late 19th century and into the middle of the 20th really defined how a modern empire is run. The British Empire never collapsed, its just that after WWII, the British didn't have the resources to effectively run an empire. But the US did, so the Empire is still going today, just that its being run by Americans, not British. And we don't call it an empire officially because its important to be subtle about running an empire in the modern world.
You have to be subtle when running your empire, because no one wants to be a colony of a foreign super-power. Most world leaders know the situation, but don't really talk about it much. But every now and then you get someone like Hugo Chavez who bucks up against the foreign empire, valuing his country's independence over peace and stability.
But really, being pragmatic, its better to just go along with the empire. Sometimes there's a superpower that controls most of the world. It kinda sucks, but it sucks even more when there isn't a superpower. When there is no superpower, you have a lot of regional powers fighting to dominate each other. But its good to have some rebels out there to keep the empire from getting too arrogant. Its a balancing act. An empire has to keep things under control but has to allow their colonies to have enough freedom so they'll stay happy and not rebel.
Of course oil is the most strategic resource out there so the American Empire keeps as much control over the oil-rich colonies as they can. And these are the colonies that are rebelling. But if the don't keep control over strategic resources, then they will go the way of the British and someone else will be running things (maybe the Chinese). So you're going to keep having Hugo Chavezes, Osama bin Ladens, Ayatollah Khomeini's, and Saddam Husseins popping up every now and then. It was no different from when the British ran things and the had the likes of George Washington and Ghandi rebelling against them. Just the cost of running an empire.
Oh and the US never refunded the British for their investment in developing the American colonies. The US confiscated stuff from those loyal to the British Empire and never gave it back. Makes it a little ironic when Americans bitch about their colonies rebelling and taking stuff from them. I guess Americans like to think that they themselves are the rebels, and can't understand that they are the empire.
Its very difficult to make chrome use the native window decorations. First you have to right click the chrome windobar, then select "Use system title bar and borders". This is for advanced users only.
The Big Lebowski?
Yeah but if they were limited to real physics and technology available today it would be a really boring movie.
Iron Man and The Dark Knight are different kinds of movies, so its unfair to compare them. The only thing they have in common is they are both based on comic books.
Iron Man was a fun comic book movie and TDK was more like a psychological thriller. Comparing them is like comparing "Silence of the Lambs" to "The Hangover"
ACPI works better under Linux than MacOS X for me. Don't understand how apple could screw up something so simple, but if I power off the laptop and close the lid before its completely shut off, it goes to suspend. Next time I open the lid, I'm greeted with a half dead battery, before it remembers that I told it to shut down before I closed the lid, so then it shuts off.
It seems to work properly under linux and even windows.
Actually I don't think Mozilla actually requested debian to change the name, debian changed it themselves because firefox was trademarked and debian want to be free of intellectual property issue.
Mozilla trademarked firefox because if they didn't, anyone could redistribute it filled with malware and destroy the firefox brand. And there wouldn't be anything mozilla could do about it since FF is open source. With the trademark, if someone tries to distribute a crappy version, mozilla can make them change the name.
Whether Mozilla allows them to use the firefox name largely depends on the quality of their changes. if this add-on makes firefox buggy or slow then they'll ask them to change the name.
Maybe they should just make games that require more skills than a bot is capable of. It is really difficult to build a "bot" that can beat a good chess player, and chess doesn't have very many variables to deal with.
Also not all games are competitive. Many building games (sim city, transport tycoon, etc) are not competitive, but would be more awesome if you could cooperate with your friends on building stuff. And these types of games are very popular.
Get ready for farmville in 3d hahaha.
prices don't have anything to do with cost in a monopoly. So you're sort of right. In a competitive industry price has everything to do with cost.
But yeah, taxing microsoft means they lose profit. They aren't going to raise prices because they are already charging the maximum price they can already.
Good luck with that. I'm an experienced Linux user and I got a mac. Used MacOS for three months exclusively... never could get used to it. The thing is MacOS is designed to be intuitive, but not user friendly.
The thing is you don't have to tinker with configuration files in linux. Yes its there, but you don't have to do it. Have you actually tried just using the default Ubuntu install and not messing around with GUI settings? It's actually quite nice. The problem is you've gotten used to doing things a different way over the years and you know you can make things work the way you want it to if you find the right configuration file.
All MacOS does is remove the configuration options. So it forces you to get used it. Unfortunately, I never could. I usually have several things opened at once and switch between them. Under MacOS I have to push the F9, watch the pretty expose animation look around the screen, and then click on the app I want. Every time I push F9 apps are in a different spot. Under Ubuntu I just click on the item in the taskbar which is always on the screen and the task is always in the same spot (unless I reorder it by dragging it to a different spot in the taskbar). In MacOS I can cut and paste files to move them to a new folder. I can't set keyboard shortcuts to change songs in iTunes, I have to use the little remote control (which I've lost). etc, etc.
Under MacOS you are forced to do things the way Steve Jobs wants you to do them. With Linux you can do things whatever way you want to do them.
I can save you some money if you do the following: Instead of forcing yourself into doing things the way Steve Jobs wants you to do them, why not force yourself into doing things the way Mark Shuttleworth wants you to them? Install Ubuntu and keep the default GUI settings. Just resist the urge to tinker. I've found Ubuntu to have a better thought out user interface than MacOS.
Typing this from a MacBook Pro with Ubuntu. Just wish it had a pgdown, pgup, home, end, a second mouse button, more USB ports, a working audio in port, and especially DELETE key. I guess Steve Jobs never has to delete stuff that comes after the cursor so the Macbook Pro doesn't need it.
Maybe the US is unleadable. If a liberal says something then conservatives automatically declare it to be completely wrong and goes against American values. If a conservative says anything, liberals declare it to be completely wrong and suspect that its part of some hidden agenda to bring about fascism.
How do you lead a country like this? You suggest improving healthcare and you have people arming themselves and willing to fight to the death against the evil socialist government. WTF? People in the US pick a team, either liberal or conservative and are absolutely against whatever the other team is saying.
Congress is completely broken, they can't make changes even when they have a super-majority. What can the executive branch do when the legislative branch is so fucked up (other than start wars) ? How can you lead a country where half the population is going to disagree with what you say, just because it was you that said it?
I don't think it will be a requirement for single player, but I could be wrong. I think the confusion comes from the fact that you can log in to battle.net when playing single player so that you can see when you're friends come online and maybe chat with them while playing the single player campaign.
Where does the article say i the national geographic article that the poles would freeze?
from the examiner article on Vancouver's no snow:
If one follows the logic of conservative media the Vancouver Olympics provide proof that global warming is real. Of course the scholars of climate science argue that neither example is proof of anything. Instead they would point to longer terms trends showing a gradual warming of the whole earth over the last thirty years.
The article is just making fun of conservative idiots that try to use weather to disprove climate models. I know that because they clearly said so in the last paragraph.
It's no wonder you can't understand climate change you are really lacking in reading comprehension. Or did you think no one would read your links?