a selfish independent elitist geek? (translation, i dont have one, but i kinda want one)
Yesterday at the big box store i saw the ipad for the first time, and used it to search imdb for some movie reviews before buying a dvd, and the thing that massively annoyes me about the ipad is, that from a usability point of view, they got it right, it works very nicely for webbrowsing and such. The reason i still wont buy one, it runs iOS instead of OS-X, and thus is tied into apple's view of the world
Well, i'm not sure if there is a place where cops are as accountable as they should be, but the crap you americans face surely doesnt fly here in holland. Everytime a police weapon is fired it is national news, and full inquiries are started, no Tasers, no patriot act..
Sure i still hate cops, but down here they are much more toned down than your american one
The way i see it, cops here in holland mostly are incompetent, but mostly benign, rather then malevolent
I have an honest question for you: Why the fuck do you still live in that country?
Honestly, a place where cops are practically untouchable, the justice system amounts to "plea guilty and do a few years, or else...." and guilt is determined by your average group of mouthbreathers with an extremely mis-placed sense of justice on a power-trip. Why the hell would anyone want to live there?
why bother with a CD? you can buy a micro-SD card good for 16GB these days for a few tenners, the thing is smaller then a fingernail and can be hidden just about anywhere, even if you face X-ray scanners, all you really need to do is scrape some plastic from the case of your laptop/laptopbattery to make a big enough slit to put that thing in, screening it from X-rays by being a computercomponent hidden in a bunch of other computer components
You cant just send in a few teachers and expect the religious zealots to not see that as a threat, and deal with that while they still control the populace, even if you do insist on sending in teachers first (which i disagree with), keep them well-guarded
i'd say the first step is to spread some comfort around, build some tarmac roads (employ locals if they want too, do it yourself if the stigma on working with the occupying forces is still to large), sell some old cars, set up a few petrol stations, some supply routers bringing some creature comforts into the country, set up some basic TV infrastructure.
Once people start to think "gee, those guys might be the spawn of satan, but they sure build a nice flat road", they might become interested in working with you to build the next road..
I dont know what you are talking about, i never get any time-out issues this way... it is a pretty standard way of blocking stuff without all those fancy add-ons
well, i agree with you, but like the GP, whenever i see any hint of those mouse-over activated pop-ups, i will stop at nothing untill every single one of those add-servers is in my hosts file, redirected to good old 127.0.0.1.
Amazon recommendations are hardly in the same league as ads though..
We dont want to get to close to those wackey brits, next thing you know they'll be placing camera's on their coastline to monitor what we do!
In all seriousness, i dont know really, but i suspect all the easy stuff is done, most land we reclaimed was inside the original borders, and these days people get all upity when you want to pump a nature-reserve dry and put a bungalow-park in there...
Not to mention listening to adds, the proceeds of which are partly used to pay license fees for radio stations.
No, it doesnt concern an actual cash-flow, but given how annoying adds mostly are (and that they themselves add zero value to the listener most of the time), i would consider that paying for the music
bleh, i completely understand what you are saying (did so in the first place), and i dont suggest in any way dumb people should be actively removed from the gene-pool, i just frased it a bit more hastily, and thus came out wrong (also, english isnt my native language)
after extended hard braking the padds might have glazed, reducing performance, but that sounds very unlikely, since are talking race-track type use, for which a prius isnt really all that suitable
I could also have turned off the ignition, but I didn't need to.
That would also be a very risky plan, seeing how most new cars have a steering lock, even if you were to start the car up again, you will still be left without the ability to steer for a few seconds or so, it should only be used if other options fail
Most american cars are automatics, so they lack the clutch-pedal, the brake pedal in automatics here in europe is usually twice the normal size, given the american tendency to supersize whatever they put their hands on, it wouldnt surprise me to learn that american brake pedals are the size of a small european hatchback..
Here in europe, the toyota aygo is used as the base for the peugeot 107 and citroen C1, which are part-wise, 92% toyota (basically the interior, outer bodypannels and badges are different). One version of all three of these was issued a recall for possible gas-pedal problems, it only involved a slightly higher end model with some options, so not a whole lot of cars where impacted
saying dumb people should be removed from the gene-pool is perfectly compatible with demonstrating yourself (knowingly) to be dumb, one can certainly believe the world would be better off without one-self.
anyway, a 1 in 100.000 error rate, combined with some of those being documented false-positives to me means driver error, coupled with some opportunism, the most that should be done about this is educating drivers on how to handle this (hard braking, selecting neutral etc..), as these kind of failures can happen to loads of cars anyway
How the fuck does that matter? If this guy really is a RIAA CEO, he probably already has a huge house paid off, his stock options, savings and parting fee should be more then enough to live a happy life, even with a huge house to maintain and a fleet of cars.
And that assumes no new job, just living off built-up fortune, if the guy sets up a nice business of his own that he enjoys, that only helps.
Honestly, money is important and all, but saying he should forgo personal happiness and continue to screw things up is because it gets him more money...
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a selfish independent elitist geek? (translation, i dont have one, but i kinda want one)
Yesterday at the big box store i saw the ipad for the first time, and used it to search imdb for some movie reviews before buying a dvd, and the thing that massively annoyes me about the ipad is, that from a usability point of view, they got it right, it works very nicely for webbrowsing and such. The reason i still wont buy one, it runs iOS instead of OS-X, and thus is tied into apple's view of the world
proof once again that slashdot needs a "Sad but true" mod.
(no, not that i'm a terrorist, but this perfectly illustrates the american stance towards anyone opposed to these "protections of freedom")
Well, i'm not sure if there is a place where cops are as accountable as they should be, but the crap you americans face surely doesnt fly here in holland. Everytime a police weapon is fired it is national news, and full inquiries are started, no Tasers, no patriot act..
Sure i still hate cops, but down here they are much more toned down than your american one
The way i see it, cops here in holland mostly are incompetent, but mostly benign, rather then malevolent
I have an honest question for you: Why the fuck do you still live in that country?
Honestly, a place where cops are practically untouchable, the justice system amounts to "plea guilty and do a few years, or else...." and guilt is determined by your average group of mouthbreathers with an extremely mis-placed sense of justice on a power-trip. Why the hell would anyone want to live there?
well true, but a memory card can be brought in completely undetected, and you would need only one trip to cover 4 DVDs or 22 CDs worth of data
I do find the music CD + lip-syncing very clever though, kudos to him!
why bother with a CD? you can buy a micro-SD card good for 16GB these days for a few tenners, the thing is smaller then a fingernail and can be hidden just about anywhere, even if you face X-ray scanners, all you really need to do is scrape some plastic from the case of your laptop/laptopbattery to make a big enough slit to put that thing in, screening it from X-rays by being a computercomponent hidden in a bunch of other computer components
You cant just send in a few teachers and expect the religious zealots to not see that as a threat, and deal with that while they still control the populace, even if you do insist on sending in teachers first (which i disagree with), keep them well-guarded
i'd say the first step is to spread some comfort around, build some tarmac roads (employ locals if they want too, do it yourself if the stigma on working with the occupying forces is still to large), sell some old cars, set up a few petrol stations, some supply routers bringing some creature comforts into the country, set up some basic TV infrastructure.
Once people start to think "gee, those guys might be the spawn of satan, but they sure build a nice flat road", they might become interested in working with you to build the next road..
That is really rather interesting, did the russians release all ICBM targetting info post-soviet-era?
I'd be very curious what type of ICBM/warhead(s, yours probably wasnt MIRVed) was designated to wipe out my town.
Do you have any specifics? is there a list somewhere? (curious about western europe)
I dont know what you are talking about, i never get any time-out issues this way... it is a pretty standard way of blocking stuff without all those fancy add-ons
You do know that seeing hot-girls on your screen has been available since before glossy screens right?
well, i agree with you, but like the GP, whenever i see any hint of those mouse-over activated pop-ups, i will stop at nothing untill every single one of those add-servers is in my hosts file, redirected to good old 127.0.0.1.
Amazon recommendations are hardly in the same league as ads though..
We dont want to get to close to those wackey brits, next thing you know they'll be placing camera's on their coastline to monitor what we do!
In all seriousness, i dont know really, but i suspect all the easy stuff is done, most land we reclaimed was inside the original borders, and these days people get all upity when you want to pump a nature-reserve dry and put a bungalow-park in there...
Free rubber-thingy?
Cue mental image of an iphone in a condom...
Well you cant exactly ask the phone companies for their numbers and give them a call now can you?
super-umbrella organisation
Instant resident-evil flashback, Umbrella-corporation, what could go wrong?
Not to mention listening to adds, the proceeds of which are partly used to pay license fees for radio stations.
No, it doesnt concern an actual cash-flow, but given how annoying adds mostly are (and that they themselves add zero value to the listener most of the time), i would consider that paying for the music
Small correction, we dried it out with pumps, powered by windmills
But yeah, half the country is below sea-level, if you have any sort of land/see issue, we are the guys to see.
bleh, i completely understand what you are saying (did so in the first place), and i dont suggest in any way dumb people should be actively removed from the gene-pool, i just frased it a bit more hastily, and thus came out wrong (also, english isnt my native language)
and WTF, flamebait?
You sir, made my day, and in lieu of a mod point, have this coupon, good for one free internets!
damn, if only i hadnt pissed away my mod points earlier today..
after extended hard braking the padds might have glazed, reducing performance, but that sounds very unlikely, since are talking race-track type use, for which a prius isnt really all that suitable
I could also have turned off the ignition, but I didn't need to.
That would also be a very risky plan, seeing how most new cars have a steering lock, even if you were to start the car up again, you will still be left without the ability to steer for a few seconds or so, it should only be used if other options fail
Most american cars are automatics, so they lack the clutch-pedal, the brake pedal in automatics here in europe is usually twice the normal size, given the american tendency to supersize whatever they put their hands on, it wouldnt surprise me to learn that american brake pedals are the size of a small european hatchback..
Here in europe, the toyota aygo is used as the base for the peugeot 107 and citroen C1, which are part-wise, 92% toyota (basically the interior, outer bodypannels and badges are different). One version of all three of these was issued a recall for possible gas-pedal problems, it only involved a slightly higher end model with some options, so not a whole lot of cars where impacted
saying dumb people should be removed from the gene-pool is perfectly compatible with demonstrating yourself (knowingly) to be dumb, one can certainly believe the world would be better off without one-self.
anyway, a 1 in 100.000 error rate, combined with some of those being documented false-positives to me means driver error, coupled with some opportunism, the most that should be done about this is educating drivers on how to handle this (hard braking, selecting neutral etc..), as these kind of failures can happen to loads of cars anyway
How the fuck does that matter? If this guy really is a RIAA CEO, he probably already has a huge house paid off, his stock options, savings and parting fee should be more then enough to live a happy life, even with a huge house to maintain and a fleet of cars.
And that assumes no new job, just living off built-up fortune, if the guy sets up a nice business of his own that he enjoys, that only helps.
Honestly, money is important and all, but saying he should forgo personal happiness and continue to screw things up is because it gets him more money...