Right, and if the advertisers hadn't started making huge ads that made the page unreadable, flashing ads, and so on, nobody would ever have bothered with ad blocking.
I use AdBlock. Tasteful ads I just ignore, because it's not worth the bother of configuring it to block them. Every time there's an obnoxious ad, however, I block that ad and all others from the same source.
Face it, the advertisers are poisoning the well. Google understands this, which is why they keep such tight control over the format of Google ads.
If Sony actually wanted to increase demand, they'd have display units like Nintendo do. I'm sure as hell not going to buy a PSP until I've seen one, and to date I haven't seen one--just boxes locked away in cabinets.
I used hnb for a while, then realized I could do everything hnb does and more using TVO, the vim outliner, and not have to learn a new set of key bindings.
I'm not going to do research for you, because it's clear from your tone that you're not interested in the truth. Anyone who hasn't already adopted an ideologically rigid position can go search for studies on the effect of diversity on companies, and find out what effect it really has.
Family firms also outperform non-family firms. No doubt you'll howl that that's a lie too...
Well, I guess that means stuff like the geneva convention are a waste of time!
Hell, lets send the enemies people into death camps so the better our war machine!
Let us also get the captured enemy soldiers into labour camps too! Get those scum building our railways and what not!
Your argument might be a bit more convincing if the US hadn't decided to elect Bush in 2004, *after* he started a gratuitous war leading to the deaths of over a thousand Americans and untold Iraqi civilians, and *after* he signed off on the paperwork approving the use of torture on *suspected* (not convicted, innocent) terrorists. The fact that he was elected shows that Americans are, in fact, fine with what he has done.
A decent chunk of it is caused by politically correct bullshit like pushing for diversity over qualification, allowing people to sue merely for being offended rather than telling people to deal with it, the constant threat of corporate-to-corporate lawsuits over nothing and things of that nature.
You're wrong about diversity. Studies show that corporations with more diversity are more successful, not less. Go do some research.
In the case of "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Team America...", the cuts I cited were made purely for censorship reasons. The editors' job was to get the movie an R rating; no matter how well they "know their job", I do not feel that it is necessary or desirable to censor the movie the director(s) wanted to make, purely for commercial concerns.
In the case of "Lord of the Rings", the cuts were made because turning three long novels into three films is almost impossible without cutting out huge amounts of plot. I happen to like plot, more than I particularly like special effects. The extra material includes scenes that actually explain otherwise fairly inexplicable (to those who haven't read the books) parts of the movies.
So while it's true that a lot of deleted scenes are best deleted (particularly with comedies), there are plenty of exceptions where the edits are neither necessary or desirable... The love scene cut from "TRON" to make the movie kid-friendly. The scenes cut from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" purely because the special effects weren't ready in time. The ghastly theatrical ending to "Blade Runner'. The drastic cuts to "Brazil" to fit within the studio's arbitrary running time constraints. And so on.
Seriously, I know of no fancy graphical editor that can turn out a decent XHTML web page with style sheet. My usual test is to try to create a simple page with a heading, a few paragraphs, and a bulleted list, styled to taste. You'd be amazed how many supposed web editors fail that test--can't produce a heading, can't put together a complete HEAD element, can't apply CSS to lists, and so on.
So, get a content management system, and build your XHTML and CSS by hand. If you want, you can then use a web-based XHTML editor for editing the content that goes into the CMS.
When someone comes to me with a detailed analysis and then says, "Hey, I've run the numbers, and it doesn't work", then I'll sit up and pay attention.
The person you were replying to wasn't disputing whether it worked so much as he was disputing whether it was desirable.
"Fair"Tax would massively reduce the tax burden on the rich, and shunt more of the burden onto the poor. That is, poor and middle class people would pay a much bigger fraction of their income in taxes. If that's what you want, then yes, it would work.
According to the figures I've seen, the federal government can comfortly replace every income tax including corporate, as well as social security and medicare, with a [sales] 30% tax.
Do those figures account for the likely effect on the economy of a 20%+ price hike on everything?
For example, if you decided to release something you wrote under a licence that permitted anyone to alter it freely, what is to stop me or anyone else to alter what you wrote sop as to subvert your intent but kept your name attached to it.
What's to stop me making a version of emacs that wipes your files, leaving Stallman's name all over it, and releasing it? Nothing.
So, why is that freedom somehow important to software, and not to documentation?
I see you've copyrighted your web page so I assume you can see the wisdom of treating software and the written word differently.
The FSF uses copyright. The GPL is based on copyright law. You apparently have no idea what you're talking about.
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I shout loudly and tell the users to learn English.
(I keed, I keeed...)
Right, and if the advertisers hadn't started making huge ads that made the page unreadable, flashing ads, and so on, nobody would ever have bothered with ad blocking.
I use AdBlock. Tasteful ads I just ignore, because it's not worth the bother of configuring it to block them. Every time there's an obnoxious ad, however, I block that ad and all others from the same source.
Face it, the advertisers are poisoning the well. Google understands this, which is why they keep such tight control over the format of Google ads.
I'm guessing and hoping that Google is going to introduce the first viable micropayment system on the web. If anyone can do it, they can.
Spoken like a true Republican.
If Sony actually wanted to increase demand, they'd have display units like Nintendo do. I'm sure as hell not going to buy a PSP until I've seen one, and to date I haven't seen one--just boxes locked away in cabinets.
I used hnb for a while, then realized I could do everything hnb does and more using TVO, the vim outliner, and not have to learn a new set of key bindings.
Samsung is the Sony of the 21st Century.
They now make the quality, well-designed products that Sony used to make until the mid-90s.
(I just wish they'd make Bluetooth phones.)
Now on Wikipedia with additional linkage (and the obligatory bashing from wingnuts)
I got it from Slashdot, in fact. Did some basic fact-checking, and it looked good.
I'm not going to do research for you, because it's clear from your tone that you're not interested in the truth. Anyone who hasn't already adopted an ideologically rigid position can go search for studies on the effect of diversity on companies, and find out what effect it really has.
Family firms also outperform non-family firms. No doubt you'll howl that that's a lie too...
Not that I disagree that the guy you're replying to was pretty much trolling, but...
I happen to have a list which illustrates that the USA is a warmongering nation.
Countries the US has bombed since WW II
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Belgian Congo 1964
Guatemala 1964
Dominican Republic 1965-66
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Lebanon 1982-84
Grenada 1983-84
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1981-92
Nicaragua 1981-90
Libya 1986
Iran 1987-88
Libya 1989
Panama 1989-90
Iraq 1991-2005
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1992-94
Croatia 1994 (of Serbs at Krajina)
Bosnia 1995
Iran 1998 (airliner)
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Afghanistan 2001-02, 2004-2005
I want something about A5 size, 14x21cm. The size of a trade paperback. No keyboard built in, but an option to plug in any old USB keyboard.
It should have Acrobat Reader equivalent and a decent web browser, and wifi. I also don't care what OS it runs so long as it isn't Windows.
Cut it out, Mr President.
Your argument might be a bit more convincing if the US hadn't decided to elect Bush in 2004, *after* he started a gratuitous war leading to the deaths of over a thousand Americans and untold Iraqi civilians, and *after* he signed off on the paperwork approving the use of torture on *suspected* (not convicted, innocent) terrorists. The fact that he was elected shows that Americans are, in fact, fine with what he has done.
You're wrong about diversity. Studies show that corporations with more diversity are more successful, not less. Go do some research.
Current sales taxes are under 10%. The proposed system involves a 30% sales tax. Therefore, the gross price of everything would be hiked by about 20%.
It depends on why the cut was made.
In the case of "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Team America...", the cuts I cited were made purely for censorship reasons. The editors' job was to get the movie an R rating; no matter how well they "know their job", I do not feel that it is necessary or desirable to censor the movie the director(s) wanted to make, purely for commercial concerns.
In the case of "Lord of the Rings", the cuts were made because turning three long novels into three films is almost impossible without cutting out huge amounts of plot. I happen to like plot, more than I particularly like special effects. The extra material includes scenes that actually explain otherwise fairly inexplicable (to those who haven't read the books) parts of the movies.
So while it's true that a lot of deleted scenes are best deleted (particularly with comedies), there are plenty of exceptions where the edits are neither necessary or desirable... The love scene cut from "TRON" to make the movie kid-friendly. The scenes cut from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" purely because the special effects weren't ready in time. The ghastly theatrical ending to "Blade Runner'. The drastic cuts to "Brazil" to fit within the studio's arbitrary running time constraints. And so on.
Because lots of ordinary people want to maintain web sites, and for ordinary people XHTML and CSS are a bit beyond them.
I wouldn't have recommended hand-coding with vim for an ordinary person, but the guy specifically said he's a programmer, so...
Yeah, I can believe that more people trust Microsoft than the FBI.
But then again, I've watched "Waco: The Rules Of Engagement". Anyone dumb enough to trust the FBI really needs to watch that movie.
Of course it is; how else are your legal team going to justify their salaries?
Seriously, I know of no fancy graphical editor that can turn out a decent XHTML web page with style sheet. My usual test is to try to create a simple page with a heading, a few paragraphs, and a bulleted list, styled to taste. You'd be amazed how many supposed web editors fail that test--can't produce a heading, can't put together a complete HEAD element, can't apply CSS to lists, and so on.
So, get a content management system, and build your XHTML and CSS by hand. If you want, you can then use a web-based XHTML editor for editing the content that goes into the CMS.
The person you were replying to wasn't disputing whether it worked so much as he was disputing whether it was desirable.
"Fair"Tax would massively reduce the tax burden on the rich, and shunt more of the burden onto the poor. That is, poor and middle class people would pay a much bigger fraction of their income in taxes. If that's what you want, then yes, it would work.
Do those figures account for the likely effect on the economy of a 20%+ price hike on everything?
Now that's what I call splitting hairs!
What's to stop me making a version of emacs that wipes your files, leaving Stallman's name all over it, and releasing it? Nothing.
So, why is that freedom somehow important to software, and not to documentation?
The FSF uses copyright. The GPL is based on copyright law. You apparently have no idea what you're talking about.