LOL, fuck no. The US is pretty much a third world nation compared to other first world nations now a days (Australia, NZ, Canada, Europe, etc.) Lack of basic necessities like govt. health care, poor education, poor wages and such is really placing it low on the list.
I also recently spent a month in San Francisco this year, and well... great to visit friends, but no, would never live there, not in a million years. No, not even if you PAID me to live there.
Come to think of it, what we need is a Pirate Party of New Zealand to make sure this sort of crap doesn't happen; We are already well on the way to establishing the Pirate Party of Australia (http://ppau.info/).
I used to love XP. Not anymore. Once i installed Windows 7, i have no intention of going back to stupid XP. Windows 7 for me is more stable, faster and less crashing. Benefits: 1) Windows 7 installs faster and less intrusive than XP. 2) Windows 7 networking is far more advanced than the usual XP crap. 3) Display drivers crash do not cause a BSOD. Hell my nvidia beta driver crashed when i was running CoH:ToV. Windows 7 quietly told me the situation, restarted the driver and asked me if i wanted to roll back to previous version. I did. 4) Windows 7 is faster than XP in many ways. Multitasking, file operations, USB access, etc., all are much faster. 5) Device Manager shoots XP out of the water. I can pin point exact problems, roll back only those that are needed, and more.
For me, Windows 7 is a god-send. I haven't used Vista, but i love Windows 7 and would definitely pay good money for this.
1. Installs faster?! I don't think so.. 2. You get IPv6, sure, but you did under Vista too. Otherwise, I find Vista/7 more annoying. I hate not being able to get to my network interfaces easily; I always have to press WinKey+R and run ncpa.cpl. XP doesn't make me do this... infact, XP lets me have 'Network Connections' right on the start menu. It also let me have an icon PER network interface in the system tray. I liked this. Vista/7 won't let you. 3. I've never had an issue with display drivers crashing... um, maybe your video card is dodgy and unreliable and needs to be RMA'd or you using very alpha-ish drivers... if so, don't do that. 4. I find XP to be faster than Vista OR 7 in many many ways... its a lot smaller, lighter, and less bloated. It gets shit done. FAST! Blindingly FAST! 5. Maybe they improved device manager a bit, it looks the same to me. Your experiences were involving hardware and/or driver failures, which I haven't experienced under Vista or 7 yet.
Maybe XP seemed slow to you because you're running 32bit XP on high end hardware; give 64bit XP a go.
With all the service packs and updates rolled in, installation is a breeze.
I still install Windows XP everywhere.... Generally 64bit edition.
I've played with Windows 7 RC quite a bit on a lot of hardware, however:
1. It still has quite a few quirky bugs 2. It has plenty of compatibility issues. (Running their free XP in a VM fixes that..) 3. Windows 7 is nothing more than Vista SP2 + new theme. 4. Windows 7 is still dog slow compared to XP.
At the end of the day, Windows XP is not only champ, but the BEST windows release EVER.
The sad part is, is Microsoft refuses to sell XP. That just encourages its piracy. If they refuse to sell the customer what they want, the customer just finds alternate ways to get it.
We do not fucking want Vista, and giving it a new theme (aka 7) and marketting it as something new is no better.
Thing is, if she or one of the other students had overdosed on something, you and the rest of the slashcrowd would be saying the school staff were negligent and demanding the principal's head on a plate.
Absolutely not!
No one should be strip searching ANYONE, especially a fucking 13 year old girl, except for those who explicitly have the right, ie. the police, and have reason to do so.
Clarence Thomas, who 'asserted that the majority's finding second-guesses the measures that educators take to maintain discipline "and ensure the health and safety of the students in their charge."'
I can't imagine how forcing a 13-year old girl to strip ensures anyone's health and safety, especially since they were looking for IBUPROFIN, for heaven's sake.[/quote]
IMO, the fucking educators who conducted the strip search should be charged for child sexual abuse.
1. Everyone is entitled to as much healthcare and medical treatment as they can afford 2. Get hurt or sick and need money for treatment? That's what insurance is for. You can buy insurance from a private company. (Advice: might want to get that on your house and car too while you're at it) 3. Oh you don't have insurance? Well I guess that was pretty stupid of you not to get insurance, eh? 4. If you're too poor to pay for insurance or too stupid to buy it before you get sick, well then you can always go to a private charity or a church or something and maybe they'll help you out. 5. If they don't help you out, well then... guess it was really dumb not to get insurance?
Well, no, that's what insurance is for in a Third World Country (which the United States now is...) I don't care what its GDP is, the high level of people living in absolute poverty, the unemployment rate, the homelessness everywhere, the USA is now a Third World Country, period.
In a First World Country you have Public Health Care for all citizens.
You also get unemployment benefits.
There are many great First World Countries out there.
What's wrong with Cold Fusion? Hot Fusion is a money pit, whereas Cold Fusion is cheap, simple, and researchers now have evidence [slashdot.org] that nuclear reactions are indeed taking place.
Fusion works and every star in the sky is evidence. Cold fusion does not work.
We need to solve the world's energy problems, and as much as we all love green solar and wind its never going to scale to the levels needed to power the entire world like Fusion would.
I've always gone for bluetooth since, well, everything has bluetooth inbuilt now and you don't need to plug in proprietary usb receivers into laptops, netbooks, etc.
I can't comment on how they compare to the propeiety wireless usb receiver types since I have never used on.
Makes me so glad I am leaving the mess that is Australia behind (Stephen Conroy and his blacklist and all his lies) and moving to New Zealand, a sensible country.
I want to know why he continues lying saying that the list published on wikileaks is not the actual list when it has been proven several times that it is infact the real list.
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Just please don't move to America.
LOL, fuck no. The US is pretty much a third world nation compared to other first world nations now a days (Australia, NZ, Canada, Europe, etc.) Lack of basic necessities like govt. health care, poor education, poor wages and such is really placing it low on the list.
I also recently spent a month in San Francisco this year, and well... great to visit friends, but no, would never live there, not in a million years. No, not even if you PAID me to live there.
Come to think of it, what we need is a Pirate Party of New Zealand to make sure this sort of crap doesn't happen; We are already well on the way to establishing the Pirate Party of Australia (http://ppau.info/).
We only just got rid of this laughably insane idea in Australia... here the ISP's refused to co-operate.
Actually, no, sorry, a few did co-operate, just so they could show the govt how laughably infeasible it was!
And now New Zealand introduces internet filtering, just before I plan to move there :(
Compuserve was shut down? It was still up!?
Those of us who live outside of the US are vaguely aware of its existance...
For the record, I *only* use 64bit XP, 64bit 2003, 64bit Vista, and 64bit 7.
Nobody should be running a 32bit OS in this day.. unless you're running it on old non-64bit hardware.
I used to love XP.
Not anymore.
Once i installed Windows 7, i have no intention of going back to stupid XP.
Windows 7 for me is more stable, faster and less crashing.
Benefits:
1) Windows 7 installs faster and less intrusive than XP.
2) Windows 7 networking is far more advanced than the usual XP crap.
3) Display drivers crash do not cause a BSOD. Hell my nvidia beta driver crashed when i was running CoH:ToV. Windows 7 quietly told me the situation, restarted the driver and asked me if i wanted to roll back to previous version. I did.
4) Windows 7 is faster than XP in many ways. Multitasking, file operations, USB access, etc., all are much faster.
5) Device Manager shoots XP out of the water. I can pin point exact problems, roll back only those that are needed, and more.
For me, Windows 7 is a god-send. I haven't used Vista, but i love Windows 7 and would definitely pay good money for this.
1. Installs faster?! I don't think so..
2. You get IPv6, sure, but you did under Vista too. Otherwise, I find Vista/7 more annoying. I hate not being able to get to my network interfaces easily; I always have to press WinKey+R and run ncpa.cpl. XP doesn't make me do this... infact, XP lets me have 'Network Connections' right on the start menu. It also let me have an icon PER network interface in the system tray. I liked this. Vista/7 won't let you.
3. I've never had an issue with display drivers crashing... um, maybe your video card is dodgy and unreliable and needs to be RMA'd or you using very alpha-ish drivers... if so, don't do that.
4. I find XP to be faster than Vista OR 7 in many many ways... its a lot smaller, lighter, and less bloated. It gets shit done. FAST! Blindingly FAST!
5. Maybe they improved device manager a bit, it looks the same to me. Your experiences were involving hardware and/or driver failures, which I haven't experienced under Vista or 7 yet.
Maybe XP seemed slow to you because you're running 32bit XP on high end hardware; give 64bit XP a go.
With all the service packs and updates rolled in, installation is a breeze.
I still install Windows XP everywhere.... Generally 64bit edition.
I've played with Windows 7 RC quite a bit on a lot of hardware, however:
1. It still has quite a few quirky bugs
2. It has plenty of compatibility issues. (Running their free XP in a VM fixes that..)
3. Windows 7 is nothing more than Vista SP2 + new theme.
4. Windows 7 is still dog slow compared to XP.
At the end of the day, Windows XP is not only champ, but the BEST windows release EVER.
The sad part is, is Microsoft refuses to sell XP. That just encourages its piracy. If they refuse to sell the customer what they want, the customer just finds alternate ways to get it.
We do not fucking want Vista, and giving it a new theme (aka 7) and marketting it as something new is no better.
Glad I don't live in the US.
That place is FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDDDD!
Lameness filter, blah blah blah.
If you've been living in NZ for 15 years, surely you are permanent resident, if not a citizen!
If you are a permanent resident, you are in when it comes to Australia.
If you are a citizen, we can't get rid of you even if we wanted to!
So, um, yeah.
Thing is, if she or one of the other students had overdosed on something, you and the rest of the slashcrowd would be saying the school staff were negligent and demanding the principal's head on a plate.
Absolutely not!
No one should be strip searching ANYONE, especially a fucking 13 year old girl, except for those who explicitly have the right, ie. the police, and have reason to do so.
This is fucking child exploitation.
[quote]
Clarence Thomas, who 'asserted that the majority's finding second-guesses the measures that educators take to maintain discipline "and ensure the health and safety of the students in their charge."'
I can't imagine how forcing a 13-year old girl to strip ensures anyone's health and safety, especially since they were looking for IBUPROFIN, for heaven's sake.[/quote]
IMO, the fucking educators who conducted the strip search should be charged for child sexual abuse.
No fucking questions asked.
This is just disgusting.
This is just fucking ridiculous.
I'm glad I'm leaving Australia.
Supposedly this means WoW will be banned, too.
Oh, and somewhere else on this story someone posted that syncing home is the incorrect thing to do, and I just about lost it.
What do you MEAN syncing home is the wrong thing? My home dir is nothing BUT data and I need everything in there.
Every time I reinstall I move that stuff back into place, and then install apps and i'm ready to go.
Not having a full backup and sync in place for your home dir is the insanity...
This is what I do.
All my windows machines rsync C:\Users\myhomedir\ to my ZFS Solaris box. Snapshots. And other tasty salty goodness.
Couldn't live without ZFS+Rsync.
1. Everyone is entitled to as much healthcare and medical treatment as they can afford
2. Get hurt or sick and need money for treatment? That's what insurance is for. You can buy insurance from a private company. (Advice: might want to get that on your house and car too while you're at it)
3. Oh you don't have insurance? Well I guess that was pretty stupid of you not to get insurance, eh?
4. If you're too poor to pay for insurance or too stupid to buy it before you get sick, well then you can always go to a private charity or a church or something and maybe they'll help you out.
5. If they don't help you out, well then... guess it was really dumb not to get insurance?
Well, no, that's what insurance is for in a Third World Country (which the United States now is...) I don't care what its GDP is, the high level of people living in absolute poverty, the unemployment rate, the homelessness everywhere, the USA is now a Third World Country, period.
In a First World Country you have Public Health Care for all citizens.
You also get unemployment benefits.
There are many great First World Countries out there.
What's wrong with Cold Fusion? Hot Fusion is a money pit, whereas Cold Fusion is cheap, simple, and researchers now have evidence [slashdot.org] that nuclear reactions are indeed taking place.
Fusion works and every star in the sky is evidence. Cold fusion does not work.
Hot Fusion, not Cold Fusion that is.
We need to solve the world's energy problems, and as much as we all love green solar and wind its never going to scale to the levels needed to power the entire world like Fusion would.
Wow. You make a snarky comment and add me as a foe.
How rude.
A lot of Indian's seem to be posting here, sooo.... any single Indian females by any chance? :)
(Yup, I'm gonna be modded down to hell, I just know it, but you can't blame a guy for trying !)
Work Experience for sure.
And you should be getting some NOW.
But if you want to hang around uni, maybe become an academic, then sure, do your Masters.
I've always gone for bluetooth since, well, everything has bluetooth inbuilt now and you don't need to plug in proprietary usb receivers into laptops, netbooks, etc.
I can't comment on how they compare to the propeiety wireless usb receiver types since I have never used on.
So by downloading Integard you are breaking the law, because it contains 'the list' ?
Makes me so glad I am leaving the mess that is Australia behind (Stephen Conroy and his blacklist and all his lies) and moving to New Zealand, a sensible country.
I want to know why he continues lying saying that the list published on wikileaks is not the actual list when it has been proven several times that it is infact the real list.
Australian's, Start Mirroring that list!
I just putted it up on my website, hosted here in Adelaide: http://www.diskiller.net/ I guess the AFP will be paying me a visit? lulz.