Very well said. Additionally, creationism must be very convenient for those in the upper level of the food chain, like the folks you mention who venture into politics. It makes it easy to explain away awkward situations and facts. After all, if it was designed on purpose by your deity, who are you to complain?
On a lighter note:
Gravity is also "only a theory" but that doesn't mean you can fly if you don't "believe" in it.
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." (Douglas Adams)
I sync my mail (~ 2GB) from the server (courier) to my laptop with offlineimap. A number of years ago I used mairix and later nmzmail to index and search the Maildirs, but then I settled on mu. I find mu to be very fast, both when indexing and when searching.
Also, with mu I can integrate Emacs, org-mode, remember and mutt, which is the perfect combination for my needs. I use org-mode as a GTD-like task manager, and from within mutt I can create a new entry in my org file with a reference to the message in the Maildir.
A while back I was looking for software to play back audio at different speed and pitch, and I ran into play it slowly. It can play every file gstreamer does (even video), and its interface allows to change the options while playing a file. It also allows to loop over certain parts of a file, which can be handy in case the interviewee didn't speak very clearly. It is available under the GPLv3.
I found the "it's for your privacy"-part that has been touted by the current administration particularly funny - or irritating - for various reasons. On one hand, most Italian citizens don't need to worry about their troubles with the law ending up in the news. They are simply not under investigation, and if they were they aren't high profile enough, so the media couldn't care less about them. On the other hand, for the past years privacy has been taken from us step by step. I can't go to an internet cafe without having to show my identity card or passport, I can't access a wireless hotspot without having registered first (again, with ID), even if the usage of the hotspot self is free. Telecommunication providers are asked to keep logs for purposes other than billing. We can't buy a prepaid cellphone card without registering first (with ID). And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
This draft law has been written specifically to protect politicians and their business partners, and as orzetto has stated above, a large part of the opposition is quite fine with it.
On a related note, people from populations that don't consume dairy products on a regular basis tend to lack lactase, an enzyme required to properly metabolize lactose.
You wouldn't do that for very long. We have a similar system here in Italy. It is not in use everywhere, but in selected locations; you drive too fast, the traffic signal turns red. If you keep going, a picture is taken and you get a ticket for running a red traffic light. Take into account that you lose points for each traffic violation, and your driver's license can be revoked.
If you want to enable this behaviour in Gnome, launch gconf-editor, navigate to/apps/metacity/general and disable the setting "raise on click". I also prefer this.
Where do these greasy stains on the younger blonde's dress come from? Looks like someone couldn't keep their hands off her during the shooting of the video.
You can find some high quality images at http://iceman.eurac.edu/. You can see the whole body of Oetzi down to millimetric detail. You can also compare images taken with white light to images taken with a special UV light.
As a little side note: I live only about 30 km from the Oetzi museum where the mummy is kept. But whenever I went by the museum, people were lined up in an incredibly long queue in front of the entrance, so I haven't actually seen "the real thing" yet.
Unfortunately, in Italy, thanks to one of the so called laws against terrorism (in this case L155/2005) whoever offers public access to Internet, be it via a wireless hotspot or an Internet cafe or any other means, must first register the customer's data by requesting a valid ID card (or passport, driver's license) and then collect and preserve usage data (but not content).
Of course criminal organizations and terrorists are using the Internet, but so are millions of law-abiding citizens. And the same criminal organizations and terrorists have been using the telephone system for decades, but public pay phones do not require people to swipe an ID card. Yet.
Something along that line happened to an ex customer of mine. They hired a security consultant firm to have their network checked. When the consultants finally came back with their report, they stated that the network was absolutely secure and that they had been unable to get access to any machine from the outside. The report also stated what actions they had taken: They had looked up DNS information for the customer's domain name, found an entry "firewall", and from there on tried for various days to hack into it. Needless to say that the "firewall" entry was a leftover from who knows when and pointed to an unused IP address.
Yeah, but this story will show up as a dupe for a few times over the next year anyway, and then they don't even have to correct the title. Kind of visionary I'd say.
You may want to give ORSN and their public nameservers a try. I have used them in the past when my ISP had persistent dns problems, and haven't run into any issues. The ORSN root servers are located mostly in Europe, you may need to check whether the network latency is acceptable to you depending on where you connect from.
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In the first 1:30 of this video on youtube you see Kittinger's leap, and other videos show parts of the preparation. Truly impressive.
In the discussion following Dickinson's essay "Word Processors: One Writer's Retreat", reader coult already knew that ed would come next.
Very well said. Additionally, creationism must be very convenient for those in the upper level of the food chain, like the folks you mention who venture into politics. It makes it easy to explain away awkward situations and facts. After all, if it was designed on purpose by your deity, who are you to complain?
On a lighter note:
Gravity is also "only a theory" but that doesn't mean you can fly if you don't "believe" in it.
"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." (Douglas Adams)
I sync my mail (~ 2GB) from the server (courier) to my laptop with offlineimap. A number of years ago I used mairix and later nmzmail to index and search the Maildirs, but then I settled on mu. I find mu to be very fast, both when indexing and when searching.
Also, with mu I can integrate Emacs, org-mode, remember and mutt, which is the perfect combination for my needs. I use org-mode as a GTD-like task manager, and from within mutt I can create a new entry in my org file with a reference to the message in the Maildir.
You could simply ask the Swiss and they might help, but I wouldn't hold my breath.
A while back I was looking for software to play back audio at different speed and pitch, and I ran into play it slowly. It can play every file gstreamer does (even video), and its interface allows to change the options while playing a file. It also allows to loop over certain parts of a file, which can be handy in case the interviewee didn't speak very clearly. It is available under the GPLv3.
I found the "it's for your privacy"-part that has been touted by the current administration particularly funny - or irritating - for various reasons. On one hand, most Italian citizens don't need to worry about their troubles with the law ending up in the news. They are simply not under investigation, and if they were they aren't high profile enough, so the media couldn't care less about them. On the other hand, for the past years privacy has been taken from us step by step. I can't go to an internet cafe without having to show my identity card or passport, I can't access a wireless hotspot without having registered first (again, with ID), even if the usage of the hotspot self is free. Telecommunication providers are asked to keep logs for purposes other than billing. We can't buy a prepaid cellphone card without registering first (with ID). And this is just the tip of the iceberg.
This draft law has been written specifically to protect politicians and their business partners, and as orzetto has stated above, a large part of the opposition is quite fine with it.
vigilatteism
Sounds like something you can get at Starbucks. :)
On a related note, people from populations that don't consume dairy products on a regular basis tend to lack lactase, an enzyme required to properly metabolize lactose.
You wouldn't do that for very long. We have a similar system here in Italy. It is not in use everywhere, but in selected locations; you drive too fast, the traffic signal turns red. If you keep going, a picture is taken and you get a ticket for running a red traffic light. Take into account that you lose points for each traffic violation, and your driver's license can be revoked.
> However, I'm not sure why a pat down is not an acceptable alternative.
Depends on the thoroughness of the pat down...
If you want to enable this behaviour in Gnome, launch gconf-editor, navigate to /apps/metacity/general and disable the setting "raise on click". I also prefer this.
Where do these greasy stains on the younger blonde's dress come from? Looks like someone couldn't keep their hands off her during the shooting of the video.
Seeing that you're not being rated highly enough, let's give people some background. :) Belgian girl's tattoo 'nightmare'
You can find some high quality images at http://iceman.eurac.edu/. You can see the whole body of Oetzi down to millimetric detail. You can also compare images taken with white light to images taken with a special UV light.
As a little side note: I live only about 30 km from the Oetzi museum where the mummy is kept. But whenever I went by the museum, people were lined up in an incredibly long queue in front of the entrance, so I haven't actually seen "the real thing" yet.
Unfortunately, in Italy, thanks to one of the so called laws against terrorism (in this case L155/2005) whoever offers public access to Internet, be it via a wireless hotspot or an Internet cafe or any other means, must first register the customer's data by requesting a valid ID card (or passport, driver's license) and then collect and preserve usage data (but not content).
Of course criminal organizations and terrorists are using the Internet, but so are millions of law-abiding citizens. And the same criminal organizations and terrorists have been using the telephone system for decades, but public pay phones do not require people to swipe an ID card. Yet.
Something along that line happened to an ex customer of mine. They hired a security consultant firm to have their network checked. When the consultants finally came back with their report, they stated that the network was absolutely secure and that they had been unable to get access to any machine from the outside. The report also stated what actions they had taken: They had looked up DNS information for the customer's domain name, found an entry "firewall", and from there on tried for various days to hack into it. Needless to say that the "firewall" entry was a leftover from who knows when and pointed to an unused IP address.
Yeah, but this story will show up as a dupe for a few times over the next year anyway, and then they don't even have to correct the title. Kind of visionary I'd say.
Actually, their promotions were secured by this boondoggle. Apparently you don't read Doonesbury.
Re your slight gripe: single clicking on the photo's caption will select it, clicking on the thumbnail will open it.
You may want to give ORSN and their public nameservers a try. I have used them in the past when my ISP had persistent dns problems, and haven't run into any issues. The ORSN root servers are located mostly in Europe, you may need to check whether the network latency is acceptable to you depending on where you connect from.
Sure, works well... :)
I appreciate you have listened to Henry Rollins' Airport Hell. The perfect soundtrack for this story.
It's not about the size, honey; size doesn't matter.
This week, a long-distance heart operation has been carried out. The operation was initiated and monitored in Boston, the surgery took place in Milan, Italy.