Wow. You must have either run across me, or the Caribbean drivers you're used to really are baked off their ass.
I drive like an Englishman, which to a lot of indecisive morons in Canada looks like aggression. But that's simply because being able to decide "I want the left lane to turn left up ahead, and I'm going to move into it, and the most effective and safest way to do that with current traffic is to put my foot to the floor and move into that gap two cars ahead of me" is so completely foreign to people who have been indoctrinated to think that hard acceleration = aggressive driving.
As an aside, I have driven in Cuba, although it was only for one day, 10 years ago, and most of it was off the beaten path, and sometimes completely off the road, so I didn't really run across a lot of native drivers. Although from what I remember, I wouldn't have described them as "baked off their ass.":)
Coming from an AC, that pathetic attempt at a put down means precisely jack.
Am I perfect? No.
But I have never:
1. Pulled a finger at someone who blasted me for cutting them off. 2. Run a red light, knowingly, completely ignoring all the horns and eye contact with any of the people who had to slam on brakes to avoid hitting your sorry ass. 3. Decided less than 5 carlengths from an intersection that I wanted to turn right, but was in the left hand lane, so quickly blasted across all lanes without signalling to get to where I wanted to go. 4. Sat at a green light without moving because I was more interested in the paperwork on my passenger seat than the fact that I was driving a lethal weapon.
I could go on, but suffice it to say, recognizing idiocy does not require you to be one yourself.
Um... actually the standard scientific unit is meters.
And 1 foot is 30.48 cm. By "scientific" I don't mean something that scientists around the world use for calculations. I mean something that has a defined, known size.
See that word? Public? They work for the public. That's you. And me. And technically, themselves.
That doesn't mean they answer directly to you, but the person doing the recording of employees in a traditional corporate environment probably isn't on the board of directors, either.
If you're being arrested illegally, it is within your rights to resist arrest, using whatever force necessary.
There was a guy in my city who was being arrested for possession of cocaine, or pot, or something. But the police had no reason to search him, and did so illegally. It might have been his car that was searched. Don't remember exactly. It ended up with this guy having a board broken off a fence with a few nails in the end, waving it at police and trying to hit them with it. Needless to say, he was charged with assaulting an officer, threatening an officer, resisting arrest, and piles of other crap.
Every single charge related to him resisting arrest was thrown out, and the police and crown (functionally equivalent to a DA in the US) were....shall we say....educated...by the judge, because they never had the authority to arrest him in the first place.
I'm pretty sure everything else was thrown out, too, as the evidence was obtained illegally.
You can do virtually the same thing with Windows XP and Office <= 2003, without the ribbon and scrolling menu. Even without a Windows key on the keyboard. Ctrl-Esc brings up the start menu, hit P for Programs, then press the first letter of whatever you're looking for. It'll scroll through, highlighting all the items that start with that letter with successive presses. When you find it, if it's an item, press enter, if it's a submenu, hit the right arrow to open it. When it's something that's not in the start menu, like msconfig, do Ctrl-Esc, R, msconfig, enter.
These methods work all the way back to Windows 95, so it's not like it's a new thing, either...
And if you don't know how to bring up menu highlighting and hotkeys in Office 2K3 with the Alt key, then I'd put you in the same class of people who don't know about Ctrl-F.
While we don't have such a system in my city (London, Canada), if you do 10km/h over the speed limit, you hit many more green lights. I think they're encouraging speeding to make more money off fines.
You can in every automatic I've ever driven. Are the transmissions so different in the states?
No. The drivers are so different in the states.:-/
I've driven in the US, Canada, and England.
Canadian roads are full of indecisive morons who can't figure out where they need to go, or how to get there. They also have no idea how a car works, as everything is automatic and done for them. US roads are full of inconsiderate asshats who think everybody else on the road should get off it, so that they can change 3 lanes at once with no signal, since they're too important to have to plan ahead. They mostly have no idea how a car works, as everything is just about as automatic as Canada. UK roads are full of speed demons who know where they need to be, and want to get there as quickly as possible. If you're going in the same direction as them, you'd better be moving fast enough to not hold them up. Other than that, they're quite refreshing.
yes because screw having a standard default port number in the same vein no webservers should also be run off a radomn port number and not 80/443/8080
Yes, because a webserver that's supposed to be accessible to the general public through a standard web browser, and remote administration that's only used by at most a handful of known users are exactly the same thing....
Because with this suggestion you've still got various workplaces starting work at different hours, as well as various areas of the world starting work at different hours. You've just added a whole layer of complexity for no reason whatsoever.
So what if i decide to set my cars clock to read 2 seconds for every 1 standard second. Now i go out and drive 80feet/sec(~55MPH using std seconds), but now since my car uses "cynyr seconds" I still am driving 80 Feet/second, and within the law right? right?
so yes they do sort of tell me what time scales to use
Yes i realize that this isn't really the point the GP is making, but it is still a bit valid.
No, it's not valid. Not at all. How long a second is has nothing to do with what your clock is set to. A standard second is a standard scientific unit. A standard foot is a standard scientific unit. Therefore 80 ft/sec is a speed measured by standard scientific units. It's obvious that this is what speed limits mean, and suing some food company because you heated your oven to 600 degrees for 6 hours to bake your cupcakes, which is equivalent to your own "units" at 325 and 15 minutes, thereby causing lots of smoke damage to your house, is going to get laughed out of court.
We have generally accepted conventions. It's convenient to follow them. There's nothing to say we have to, but if we don't, and we screw up in the conversion somewhere, it's our own damned fault.
We're not doing it because it's retarded. Somehow the submitter thinks this will help people who travel for business. Excuse me?
When you land, you've got to say to yourself: "Ok...at home, I started work at 3AM, which was after the sun came up, so here, I have to get to work at....wait....what time does the sun rise here? 5PM? WTF?"
Depreleave will wash away your depression, anxiety, fear, hate, love and all other emotions after just one simple pill. Side effects may include death.
A bullet is cheaper. Quicker, too.
Although probably a bit more mess for someone else to clean up afterwards.....
You mean like the guy who has the B&W laser as his default printer, because it's cheaper to run, and then sets up a document that needs to be printed on the expensive colour printer? They get all the formatting set up, make sure it looks perfect, then change the printer to the colour one, and.....word salad?
Keep in mind this is on the same computer, with obviously the same version of Word, same patch level, etc. The only difference is the printer used.
Why does this happen? Why would Microsoft do something so retarded as to make formatting dependent on the printer driver currently used by the document? And then, why would they continue to do the same retarded thing for 15 years? Surely this has caused more frustration for people than any document conversion between MSO and OOo/LO.
Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
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You thought Canadian drivers were aggressive?
Wow. You must have either run across me, or the Caribbean drivers you're used to really are baked off their ass.
I drive like an Englishman, which to a lot of indecisive morons in Canada looks like aggression. But that's simply because being able to decide "I want the left lane to turn left up ahead, and I'm going to move into it, and the most effective and safest way to do that with current traffic is to put my foot to the floor and move into that gap two cars ahead of me" is so completely foreign to people who have been indoctrinated to think that hard acceleration = aggressive driving.
As an aside, I have driven in Cuba, although it was only for one day, 10 years ago, and most of it was off the beaten path, and sometimes completely off the road, so I didn't really run across a lot of native drivers. Although from what I remember, I wouldn't have described them as "baked off their ass." :)
Coming from an AC, that pathetic attempt at a put down means precisely jack.
Am I perfect? No.
But I have never:
1. Pulled a finger at someone who blasted me for cutting them off.
2. Run a red light, knowingly, completely ignoring all the horns and eye contact with any of the people who had
to slam on brakes to avoid hitting your sorry ass.
3. Decided less than 5 carlengths from an intersection that I wanted to turn right, but was in the left hand lane, so quickly blasted across all lanes without signalling to get to where I wanted to go.
4. Sat at a green light without moving because I was more interested in the paperwork on my passenger seat than the fact that I was driving a lethal weapon.
I could go on, but suffice it to say, recognizing idiocy does not require you to be one yourself.
Um... actually the standard scientific unit is meters.
And 1 foot is 30.48 cm.
By "scientific" I don't mean something that scientists around the world use for calculations. I mean something that has a defined, known size.
Whoosh.
Just. Fucking. Whoosh.
The government consists of public employees.
See that word? Public?
They work for the public. That's you. And me. And technically, themselves.
That doesn't mean they answer directly to you, but the person doing the recording of employees in a traditional corporate environment probably isn't on the board of directors, either.
Canadian courts have said the same thing.
If you're being arrested illegally, it is within your rights to resist arrest, using whatever force necessary.
There was a guy in my city who was being arrested for possession of cocaine, or pot, or something. But the police had no reason to search him, and did so illegally. It might have been his car that was searched. Don't remember exactly.
It ended up with this guy having a board broken off a fence with a few nails in the end, waving it at police and trying to hit them with it.
Needless to say, he was charged with assaulting an officer, threatening an officer, resisting arrest, and piles of other crap.
Every single charge related to him resisting arrest was thrown out, and the police and crown (functionally equivalent to a DA in the US) were....shall we say....educated...by the judge, because they never had the authority to arrest him in the first place.
I'm pretty sure everything else was thrown out, too, as the evidence was obtained illegally.
Sique: How do you know they're terrorists?
ChrisMaple: Because they're terrorists!
Some great logic you've got there.
Now if only we can get privacy in pubic places at the airport...
I'm having a difficult time figuring out whether that's a typo, or exactly what you meant to say...
Ok. So that just means we know this Hazma guy didn't discover it. So who did he steal it from?
than 'Brasileiro' ('-eiro' suffix indicates someone who performs a given action).
So people from Brazil are people who perform Brazilians.
Well, on a second though, that's not interesting at all.
I don't know what planet you're from, but I find that very interesting, indeed...
Wait....what?
You can do virtually the same thing with Windows XP and Office <= 2003, without the ribbon and scrolling menu. Even without a Windows key on the keyboard. Ctrl-Esc brings up the start menu, hit P for Programs, then press the first letter of whatever you're looking for. It'll scroll through, highlighting all the items that start with that letter with successive presses. When you find it, if it's an item, press enter, if it's a submenu, hit the right arrow to open it.
When it's something that's not in the start menu, like msconfig, do Ctrl-Esc, R, msconfig, enter.
These methods work all the way back to Windows 95, so it's not like it's a new thing, either...
And if you don't know how to bring up menu highlighting and hotkeys in Office 2K3 with the Alt key, then I'd put you in the same class of people who don't know about Ctrl-F.
Damned kids. GET OFF MY LAWN!!!
(Filter error: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
No shit. It's supposed to be yelling. That's the whole point.
STUPID FILTERS!!!)
http://portableapps.com/apps/development/geany_portable
Doesn't require installation, as it's portable, and I'd guess it runs a lot faster than a browser-based version.
It also supports Python, plus a whole bunch more languages.
While we don't have such a system in my city (London, Canada), if you do 10km/h over the speed limit, you hit many more green lights. I think they're encouraging speeding to make more money off fines.
No.... When your engine breaks, you use no fuel. It's pretty obvious, really.
You can in every automatic I've ever driven. Are the transmissions so different in the states?
No. The drivers are so different in the states. :-/
I've driven in the US, Canada, and England.
Canadian roads are full of indecisive morons who can't figure out where they need to go, or how to get there. They also have no idea how a car works, as everything is automatic and done for them.
US roads are full of inconsiderate asshats who think everybody else on the road should get off it, so that they can change 3 lanes at once with no signal, since they're too important to have to plan ahead. They mostly have no idea how a car works, as everything is just about as automatic as Canada.
UK roads are full of speed demons who know where they need to be, and want to get there as quickly as possible. If you're going in the same direction as them, you'd better be moving fast enough to not hold them up. Other than that, they're quite refreshing.
Weird. Slashdot lets positive contributors disable ads, but not financial contributors.
That's because if they did, you could simply pay for the right to be an asshole.
(I know, I know....you can still be an asshole with ads.....)
yes because screw having a standard default port number
in the same vein no webservers should also be run off a radomn port number and not 80/443/8080
Yes, because a webserver that's supposed to be accessible to the general public through a standard web browser, and remote administration that's only used by at most a handful of known users are exactly the same thing....
Idiot.
Because with this suggestion you've still got various workplaces starting work at different hours, as well as various areas of the world starting work at different hours. You've just added a whole layer of complexity for no reason whatsoever.
So what if i decide to set my cars clock to read 2 seconds for every 1 standard second. Now i go out and drive 80feet/sec(~55MPH using std seconds), but now since my car uses "cynyr seconds" I still am driving 80 Feet/second, and within the law right? right?
so yes they do sort of tell me what time scales to use
Yes i realize that this isn't really the point the GP is making, but it is still a bit valid.
No, it's not valid. Not at all.
How long a second is has nothing to do with what your clock is set to. A standard second is a standard scientific unit. A standard foot is a standard scientific unit. Therefore 80 ft/sec is a speed measured by standard scientific units.
It's obvious that this is what speed limits mean, and suing some food company because you heated your oven to 600 degrees for 6 hours to bake your cupcakes, which is equivalent to your own "units" at 325 and 15 minutes, thereby causing lots of smoke damage to your house, is going to get laughed out of court.
We have generally accepted conventions. It's convenient to follow them. There's nothing to say we have to, but if we don't, and we screw up in the conversion somewhere, it's our own damned fault.
Don't be an idiot.
We're not doing it because it's retarded. Somehow the submitter thinks this will help people who travel for business. Excuse me?
When you land, you've got to say to yourself: "Ok...at home, I started work at 3AM, which was after the sun came up, so here, I have to get to work at....wait....what time does the sun rise here? 5PM? WTF?"
Depreleave will wash away your depression, anxiety, fear, hate, love and all other emotions after just one simple pill. Side effects may include death.
A bullet is cheaper.
Quicker, too.
Although probably a bit more mess for someone else to clean up afterwards.....
You mean like the guy who has the B&W laser as his default printer, because it's cheaper to run, and then sets up a document that needs to be printed on the expensive colour printer?
They get all the formatting set up, make sure it looks perfect, then change the printer to the colour one, and.....word salad?
Keep in mind this is on the same computer, with obviously the same version of Word, same patch level, etc. The only difference is the printer used.
Why does this happen? Why would Microsoft do something so retarded as to make formatting dependent on the printer driver currently used by the document? And then, why would they continue to do the same retarded thing for 15 years? Surely this has caused more frustration for people than any document conversion between MSO and OOo/LO.
leading to a partial electrocution.
Whoo-hoo-hoo, look who knows so much. It just so happens that your friend here is only MOSTLY dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
You gotta--I say you gotta hear that whoosh over your head, boy. Whoosh, that is.
All of which begs the question:
Is the point at which explaining this is going to do any good long past?