Re:Google maps / mouse scroll wheel annoyance
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Dear Google, please stop using the scroll wheel to zoom in/out in Google Maps. It drives me nuts every time I use it. Better yet, give us an option to use the wheel to pan (which would be the logical mapping of that function) instead of zoom.
The scroll wheel maps to only two directions. Would you to choose east-west or north-south for the scroll wheel panning? Either way, you'd end up with a completely different type of action to pan east-west than north-south. And what do you do on machines without a scroll wheel? Sorry CmdrPorno (IF t, I reckon Google got this one right.
Maybe 90%... you wouldn't want to operate machinery
I can tell you've never hung out with machinists. Smoking pot doesn't affect your ability to operate machinery any more than it affects your ability to play Street Fighter or Call of Duty.
Maybe so, maybe not - but it sure does affect the desire to operate machinery (isn't that what operagost said?).
You mean, like when I was watching some show over at my friend's the other day and all of the cans on the table were turned so the labels were facing the camera and they kept mentioning the brand of their cell phone like ten times while sitting on the sofa in front of the camera?
Fortunately, I think content like that is going to be shortly lived, because people are smart enough to know when they're being directly marketed to like that and find it distasteful.
A wise man with no name to speak of once said "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it!".
It's called "product placement", and it's not at all short lived - it's been happening for decades. The current form in which a character mentions a product ad nauseam is, surprisingly, a little subtler than the original form. Radio plays from as early as the 1920's were sponsored by companies as an advertising vehicle for their product, a strategy first successfully employed a brand of laundry soap (hence the term "soap opera"). You can bet the characters in those shows asked each other how they got their whites so fresh and clean with rather unnatural frequency.
It's not going to go away, because people are dumb enough to fall for it. Advertising works, sad to say.
Someone who genuinely is distributing kiddie porn could reasonably expect to be raided at any time. If he really had been guilty of downloading "thousands of images at 11:30 last night", he might have wondered how they found out, but he'd have had warning by his awarness of his own illegal activities. On the other hand, the guy who is not doing anything illegal, does not have that sword of Damocles hanging over his head. The cops bust down this guy's door without even telling him they had a warrant, let alone showing it to him. He could reasonably have assumed it was a burglary or a criminal home invasion. In fact, it very nearly was a criminal home invasion - even though the homeowner is not pressing charges.
Grab your partner and look her in the eye,
Push her to the right if you're lookin' t'ward at the sky
Pass her to the left if your eyes are looking low.
Lather, rinse, repeat folks - Do Si Do.
Well, "performant" is a word in French and in Dutch, and it exactly means what you'd think it means.
Are you so stupid that I really need to remind you that the article was not written in either French or Dutch? It was written in English. I'll accept that perhaps the author is not well-versed in English, and makes a few gramatical errors. But only a fool would suggest that because a similar word exists in another language, English speakers might understand it. For a very simple example, the German word "doktor" does not really mean what most English speakers would think.
I doubt that people subject to such testing regimes would live in constant fear - that is, unless they are actually doing drugs in violation of whatever agreement left them subject to such testing. It's true, some perfectly legal, innocent activities would trigger positive results on initial screening tests, but further testing can tell the difference between that sort of false positive and genuine drug use. There's no way you'll hide a drug habit behind claims of a visit to the optometrist and there's no way that a weakness for poppy seed bagels will land you in rehab.
We've pretty much never known true freedom in the West, despite what propaganda and jingoism will tell you. Freedom, forsooth. I can't own a ferret. I can't take a leak outside on my property. I can't walk down the street with a beer in hand.
Oh, joy, I can't be discriminated against for my race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, creed... Err, wait. At will employment. Wink wink, nudge nudge, we're firing you. Just firing you. K, thx, bye.
I can't fly without having my papers inspected by Comrade Commissar. I can be shot up with cancer-causing radiation or sexually molested. If I went around irradiating people or groping their junk, they'd put me away.
Freedom.
Meh. Meh indeed, sir, meh indeed. Meh.
Well fancy that! I would have thought it an oxymoron, but you sir, are vehemently apathetic.
Oh, don't be silly. "Middle Eastern Country" is merely the PC way of "Bunch of heathen Muslim swine' without coming off sounding like a bigoted idiot. Everyone knows that Israel is not really a "Middle Eastern Country", it's a little piece of USA that happens to be located in the Middle East.
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Yes, but we had great music, like A Flock of Seagulls.
That is why I spent the 80s drunk.
Godwinned in one post. I'm impressed!
Dear Google, please stop using the scroll wheel to zoom in/out in Google Maps. It drives me nuts every time I use it. Better yet, give us an option to use the wheel to pan (which would be the logical mapping of that function) instead of zoom.
The scroll wheel maps to only two directions. Would you to choose east-west or north-south for the scroll wheel panning? Either way, you'd end up with a completely different type of action to pan east-west than north-south. And what do you do on machines without a scroll wheel? Sorry CmdrPorno (IF t, I reckon Google got this one right.
Maybe 90%... you wouldn't want to operate machinery
I can tell you've never hung out with machinists. Smoking pot doesn't affect your ability to operate machinery any more than it affects your ability to play Street Fighter or Call of Duty.
Maybe so, maybe not - but it sure does affect the desire to operate machinery (isn't that what operagost said?).
Yep. At least until you've mined it out, and this guy has kept his secret for some 27 years - until now.
Yeah, and carpenters are responsible for building abortion clinics. Wake up, people! Carpenters are murderers!
Y'know... Come to think of it, wasn't Jesus a carpenter?
You mean, like when I was watching some show over at my friend's the other day and all of the cans on the table were turned so the labels were facing the camera and they kept mentioning the brand of their cell phone like ten times while sitting on the sofa in front of the camera?
Fortunately, I think content like that is going to be shortly lived, because people are smart enough to know when they're being directly marketed to like that and find it distasteful.
A wise man with no name to speak of once said "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky animals, and you know it!".
It's called "product placement", and it's not at all short lived - it's been happening for decades. The current form in which a character mentions a product ad nauseam is, surprisingly, a little subtler than the original form. Radio plays from as early as the 1920's were sponsored by companies as an advertising vehicle for their product, a strategy first successfully employed a brand of laundry soap (hence the term "soap opera"). You can bet the characters in those shows asked each other how they got their whites so fresh and clean with rather unnatural frequency.
It's not going to go away, because people are dumb enough to fall for it. Advertising works, sad to say.
You sound like you must be really scared of this internet thing.
Nah, it's just a fad - it'll pass.
Not hard to come by that figure, really. $50,000 for the house + land, $950,000 to STFU.
...it is how I think.
Is there any chance you German are?
Does it even matter which is which, if they're in league with each other?
Someone who genuinely is distributing kiddie porn could reasonably expect to be raided at any time. If he really had been guilty of downloading "thousands of images at 11:30 last night", he might have wondered how they found out, but he'd have had warning by his awarness of his own illegal activities. On the other hand, the guy who is not doing anything illegal, does not have that sword of Damocles hanging over his head. The cops bust down this guy's door without even telling him they had a warrant, let alone showing it to him. He could reasonably have assumed it was a burglary or a criminal home invasion. In fact, it very nearly was a criminal home invasion - even though the homeowner is not pressing charges.
You have a point, but that's the beauty of the metric system, you can always use different units* to eliminate it.
...and a touch of rounding)
You could order a 30 centimetre sub, a 3 decimetre sub if you're on a diet, or if you're REALLY hungry, you can go for the 300 mm unit.
The decimal system gives you such wonderful choices!
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Hollywood?
HOLLYWOOD?
Gimme your Geek Card...
NOW mister!
Grab your partner and look her in the eye,
Push her to the right if you're lookin' t'ward at the sky
Pass her to the left if your eyes are looking low.
Lather, rinse, repeat folks - Do Si Do.
"Performant" is not even a word.
Well, "performant" is a word in French and in Dutch, and it exactly means what you'd think it means.
Are you so stupid that I really need to remind you that the article was not written in either French or Dutch? It was written in English. I'll accept that perhaps the author is not well-versed in English, and makes a few gramatical errors. But only a fool would suggest that because a similar word exists in another language, English speakers might understand it. For a very simple example, the German word "doktor" does not really mean what most English speakers would think.
I doubt that people subject to such testing regimes would live in constant fear - that is, unless they are actually doing drugs in violation of whatever agreement left them subject to such testing. It's true, some perfectly legal, innocent activities would trigger positive results on initial screening tests, but further testing can tell the difference between that sort of false positive and genuine drug use. There's no way you'll hide a drug habit behind claims of a visit to the optometrist and there's no way that a weakness for poppy seed bagels will land you in rehab.
Up the arse of spy's what?
This in a thread titled "English, motherfucker! Do you speak it?" - Irony, thou art a merciless bitch!
Have we entered the age of "Meh, Freedom"?
Thanks to the lawl, I can't own a ferret.
A ferret, FFS.
We've pretty much never known true freedom in the West, despite what propaganda and jingoism will tell you. Freedom, forsooth. I can't own a ferret. I can't take a leak outside on my property. I can't walk down the street with a beer in hand.
Oh, joy, I can't be discriminated against for my race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, creed... Err, wait. At will employment. Wink wink, nudge nudge, we're firing you. Just firing you. K, thx, bye.
I can't fly without having my papers inspected by Comrade Commissar. I can be shot up with cancer-causing radiation or sexually molested. If I went around irradiating people or groping their junk, they'd put me away.
Freedom.
Meh. Meh indeed, sir, meh indeed. Meh.
Well fancy that! I would have thought it an oxymoron, but you sir, are vehemently apathetic.
Songwriters?
Justin...Fuck'n...Bieber?
Say it ain't so, Joe! Say it ain't so!
Hey kid - don't look now, but you're on my lawn!
Oh, don't be silly. "Middle Eastern Country" is merely the PC way of "Bunch of heathen Muslim swine' without coming off sounding like a bigoted idiot. Everyone knows that Israel is not really a "Middle Eastern Country", it's a little piece of USA that happens to be located in the Middle East.
I am not in a restrictive country, however my phone lines are tapped on a regular basis since i deal with defendants.
Y'know, if the second part of that statement really is true, you might just want to re-think the first.
Rule 34 - we meet again!
No, the people who are very good at math are the tax collectors.