I thought that about Jesus, but then I remembered being taught that Christ is a title, not a name. Jesus is permitted in the Islamic context, but not in the Christian. So, is it weird that Jesus Christ is on the list? Meh, not really. Oppressive? Fuck, yeah!
...The worst happens for advertisers and advertising companies that send bulk SMS and later find out that nothing has delivered!
If that really is the worst that happens, I applaud the Iranian government for their discovery of successful anti-spam measures. (However, I suspect that their censorship policy has worse effects than blocking advertising campaigns)
By the way, if you do find out, I'd be really interested to know. I've discovered, as I have come into middle age, that my broad mind and my narrow waist have traded roles.
OK then, if not "touch", how about "true"? $ l -ld/bin/true
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17864 Feb 24 2011/bin/true*
You're not going to try to tell me that "true" isn't that simple are you? It does one of two things - it exits with a zero return code, or prints a usage message and exits. There's no special processing for differently localized versions of truth, no feature creep, the only option accepted is "--help" (little more than a multiline "Hello World"), and still it tops 17K! WTF?
Are you absolutely sure you were never taught that? There are many ways of being taught. Perhaps it was not a conscious lesson, and perhaps it was not even the intent of the lesson. Infants have a tendency to experiment with things that make new sounds. If that new sound is "unpleasant" enough, you can be certain that any nearby adults will exhibit some sort of reaction. That reaction could be irritation, visibly blocking the ears, or even taking away the object that causes the sound. From such a reaction, the infant is bound to learn something from the experience.
Or perhaps the handling of polystyrene sounds very similar to a sound to which you have a learned response.
I hate stating something like this without any citation, but when I was reading some textbook for a class my girlfriend was taking back in college I was surprised that flight evolved separately multiple times according to the fossil record. Intermediate wings must provide a pretty statistically significant benefit.
This is why flight evolved independently multiple times.
Oh, come on! You just knew someone was going to do it.
Not a chance - The plan might fit, but the motive rules him out. Hat Guy could never do anything for the betterment of mankind no matter how much carnage it took.
The childrens work was confined to a single room? That room must have been a larder, where all the frozen mammoth meat was kept in times of plenty. It seems that proud parents have always put their kids' finger paintings up on the fridge.
So, being heavily influenced by the Spanish language, you Texans pronounce it "chee-lay", don't you?
By the way, I must apologise for my use of the word "always". It was careless of me to make an implied reference to Australia in the same paragraph that specifically mentioned Australia and "we" in both of its other sentences. It must have been confusing for y'all.
The past tense of breed is not spelled the same way as the stuff you use for sandwiches, it's bred.
At least it is here in Australia where we spell the hot pepper "chili" (sometimes "chilli"). As for the dish made with ground chilis, beef and sometimes beans, we usually refer to it by its longer name of chili con carne (literally chili with meat). However, when spelled with an "e" on the end, the word Chile is always a proper noun that refers to a country on the west coast of South America.
Y'know, it seems to me that you have entirely over-engineered your solution. You've remapped your keyboard in X and switched the keycaps around. You've physically rewired your calculator and re-labelled the keytops. And now you're on the hunt for rare devices that breach established convention. Because you want every keypad you use to work like a telephone keypad. Why? Because you use a phone to practice entering non-phone numbers.
Dude, UR doin' it wrong! That's like trying to write by holding a pencil still and moving the paper underneath it - it works, but there's an easier way. Decide how you will use the number you want to remember. If it's a phone number you are trying to remember, you should use a phone keypad to commit it to muscle memory. If it's a number that you will rarely, if ever have to enter into a phone, use a computer keypad or calculator to do the same, or if you have a smartphone, fire up your calculator app of choice and use that instead.
Of course, if you have a smartphone, you'll realise that most phone numbers aren't worth expending effort to remember, because your phone will do it for you. If a phone number is worth remembering, it's worth keeping in your phone's memory.
OK, perhaps you're not a native speaker of English. When used as an adjective, the term "brand-name" has come to mean "popular" or "well known". It does not mean that the item simply has a brand name.
I actually like the use it or lose it idea, but by incentive, rather than directly codified in law. My proposal for patent reform is based on the idea that an invention must be truly innovative and of clear benefit to the inventor to even consider a patent. I'm sure this would never see the light of day. It quite probably violates several points of law or clauses of the US constitution, but it's kinda nice to dream.
The actual numbers given here are simple examples.
Patents have a limited life. 10 Years.
A patent holder may choose to expire any of their patents early.
Patents are non-transferable.
Individuals or companies may hold patents.
Company-held patents are licensed at a very high annual fee. $1,000,000/yr
No annual fee is charged on individual-held patents but there shall be a ceiling on number of patents an individual may hold - say 10
Companies may hold as many patents as they can afford.
Patent applications carry a significant filing fee which is refunded only if the patent is granted - $10,000.
Upon filing, patents will be thoroughly investigated prior to being granted, not just rubber-stamped.
Business methods or software cannot be patented. They can be protected by copyright - or even trade secret.
Individuals are discouraged from patent squatting by the low ceiling. Companies are discouraged from squatting by the high licensing fee. It is impractical to place a ceiling on a companies' number of patents, as the company could spin off new companies to get around the ceiling. Furthermore, companies are discouraged from employing individuals as patent holders by the high fee and non-transferability. Individuals employed as patent holders for company inventions would know that their 10 free patent slots are worth $10M per annum to the company and even then, the company would not own the IP in those 10 patents - the employee would. Patents that were frivolous, obvious, or clearly based on prior art would disappear because of the potential for loss of the filing fee. Also, the revenue from licensing fees could be used to conduct thorough investigation prior to granting a patent. Early expiry for companies allows inventions that are not making money to be retired.
One of our cats likes to play fetch - usually with something like a rubber band - but when she tires of returning the toy to me she will drop it in my wife's lap as if to say "Your turn now". The other one is bone lazy and likes nothing more than to sit on my shoulder, like a parrot (there! I got back on topic.)
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No. Linux always runs better because it's not trying to prevent Lotus 1-2-3, PageMaker, WordPerfect, CorelDraw and 100 other programs from working properly. You wouldn't believe the hideous workarounds required to pull that off.
Dude, you forgot VisiCalc, WordStar, Turbo Pascal, Norton Utilities, and SideKick! Or are they among the "100 other programs" that MS is still quite worried about in 2011?
If you are suggesting I might not be able to tell the difference between a turtle and something furry, then yes, I'm sure. Now, I may not be quite so sure it's not a rock, but yes, I really am sure it's not just some furry.
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I thought that about Jesus, but then I remembered being taught that Christ is a title, not a name. Jesus is permitted in the Islamic context, but not in the Christian. So, is it weird that Jesus Christ is on the list? Meh, not really. Oppressive? Fuck, yeah!
If that really is the worst that happens, I applaud the Iranian government for their discovery of successful anti-spam measures. (However, I suspect that their censorship policy has worse effects than blocking advertising campaigns)
By the way, if you do find out, I'd be really interested to know. I've discovered, as I have come into middle age, that my broad mind and my narrow waist have traded roles.
Amounts to the same thing.
The cynic in me agrees with your assessment - and everyone else seems to have gone quiet.
Better? That is a lovely shade of black you are wearing, Mr. Pot.
That's Vyvyan, you poo-faced git!
$ l -ld
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17864 Feb 24 2011
You're not going to try to tell me that "true" isn't that simple are you? It does one of two things - it exits with a zero return code, or prints a usage message and exits. There's no special processing for differently localized versions of truth, no feature creep, the only option accepted is "--help" (little more than a multiline "Hello World"), and still it tops 17K! WTF?
Are you absolutely sure you were never taught that? There are many ways of being taught. Perhaps it was not a conscious lesson, and perhaps it was not even the intent of the lesson. Infants have a tendency to experiment with things that make new sounds. If that new sound is "unpleasant" enough, you can be certain that any nearby adults will exhibit some sort of reaction. That reaction could be irritation, visibly blocking the ears, or even taking away the object that causes the sound. From such a reaction, the infant is bound to learn something from the experience.
Or perhaps the handling of polystyrene sounds very similar to a sound to which you have a learned response.
If I delete an e-book off my reader, I actually destroy matter? And no energy is released in its stead?
It seems that E != mc^2 after all!
Boring others is permissible - boring him is not.
I hate stating something like this without any citation, but when I was reading some textbook for a class my girlfriend was taking back in college I was surprised that flight evolved separately multiple times according to the fossil record. Intermediate wings must provide a pretty statistically significant benefit.
This is why flight evolved independently multiple times.
Oh, come on! You just knew someone was going to do it.
Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (gopher) isn't associated with any program.
Really? Maybe you're just not trying hard enough.
Not a chance - The plan might fit, but the motive rules him out. Hat Guy could never do anything for the betterment of mankind no matter how much carnage it took.
The childrens work was confined to a single room? That room must have been a larder, where all the frozen mammoth meat was kept in times of plenty. It seems that proud parents have always put their kids' finger paintings up on the fridge.
So, being heavily influenced by the Spanish language, you Texans pronounce it "chee-lay", don't you?
By the way, I must apologise for my use of the word "always". It was careless of me to make an implied reference to Australia in the same paragraph that specifically mentioned Australia and "we" in both of its other sentences. It must have been confusing for y'all.
The past tense of breed is not spelled the same way as the stuff you use for sandwiches, it's bred.
At least it is here in Australia where we spell the hot pepper "chili" (sometimes "chilli"). As for the dish made with ground chilis, beef and sometimes beans, we usually refer to it by its longer name of chili con carne (literally chili with meat). However, when spelled with an "e" on the end, the word Chile is always a proper noun that refers to a country on the west coast of South America.
This is not Blubrick. This is Mrs Blubrick. You are suffering from Cranio-rectal impaction.
Y'know, it seems to me that you have entirely over-engineered your solution. You've remapped your keyboard in X and switched the keycaps around. You've physically rewired your calculator and re-labelled the keytops. And now you're on the hunt for rare devices that breach established convention. Because you want every keypad you use to work like a telephone keypad. Why? Because you use a phone to practice entering non-phone numbers.
Dude, UR doin' it wrong! That's like trying to write by holding a pencil still and moving the paper underneath it - it works, but there's an easier way. Decide how you will use the number you want to remember. If it's a phone number you are trying to remember, you should use a phone keypad to commit it to muscle memory. If it's a number that you will rarely, if ever have to enter into a phone, use a computer keypad or calculator to do the same, or if you have a smartphone, fire up your calculator app of choice and use that instead.
Of course, if you have a smartphone, you'll realise that most phone numbers aren't worth expending effort to remember, because your phone will do it for you. If a phone number is worth remembering, it's worth keeping in your phone's memory.
A what laptop? WTF is a Clevo?
OK, perhaps you're not a native speaker of English. When used as an adjective, the term "brand-name" has come to mean "popular" or "well known". It does not mean that the item simply has a brand name.
I actually like the use it or lose it idea, but by incentive, rather than directly codified in law. My proposal for patent reform is based on the idea that an invention must be truly innovative and of clear benefit to the inventor to even consider a patent. I'm sure this would never see the light of day. It quite probably violates several points of law or clauses of the US constitution, but it's kinda nice to dream.
The actual numbers given here are simple examples.
Individuals are discouraged from patent squatting by the low ceiling. Companies are discouraged from squatting by the high licensing fee. It is impractical to place a ceiling on a companies' number of patents, as the company could spin off new companies to get around the ceiling. Furthermore, companies are discouraged from employing individuals as patent holders by the high fee and non-transferability. Individuals employed as patent holders for company inventions would know that their 10 free patent slots are worth $10M per annum to the company and even then, the company would not own the IP in those 10 patents - the employee would. Patents that were frivolous, obvious, or clearly based on prior art would disappear because of the potential for loss of the filing fee. Also, the revenue from licensing fees could be used to conduct thorough investigation prior to granting a patent. Early expiry for companies allows inventions that are not making money to be retired.
One of our cats likes to play fetch - usually with something like a rubber band - but when she tires of returning the toy to me she will drop it in my wife's lap as if to say "Your turn now". The other one is bone lazy and likes nothing more than to sit on my shoulder, like a parrot (there! I got back on topic.)
No. Linux always runs better because it's not trying to prevent Lotus 1-2-3, PageMaker, WordPerfect, CorelDraw and 100 other programs from working properly. You wouldn't believe the hideous workarounds required to pull that off.
Dude, you forgot VisiCalc, WordStar, Turbo Pascal, Norton Utilities, and SideKick! Or are they among the "100 other programs" that MS is still quite worried about in 2011?
The bitcoins will help offset the energy consumption I'm almost sure.
The poster's boss pays for the electricity, the poster keeps the bitcoins... it's the perfect victimless crime.
Not quite, bitcoin mining is perfectly legal. I think what we have here is a crimeless victim.
If you are suggesting I might not be able to tell the difference between a turtle and something furry, then yes, I'm sure. Now, I may not be quite so sure it's not a rock, but yes, I really am sure it's not just some furry.