lol I can understand the pro gun point of view, but you have just called someone an idiot, while saying "Guns are not designed to kill". What else are they designed to do? Play chess?
If the software is in the repository, otherwise you have to track it down (as I had to with mythtv and fedora yesterday, for example).
For upgrading purposes you're right though, yum et al could do with a licencing key based server login (maybe they have them already) so a commercial installer could add lines to the config files of the yum equivilent, and it could then get you upgrades and security fixes for the commercial software ad infinitum - clearly it needs to be setup so that people who don't have licences for the software can't perform the same additions for upgrades.
About the same as you for the first of those tests. The second one dropped a bit (68 with quite a number of errors), partly because I found myself "correcting" the sentence structure naturally to the way I would write, rather than the way it was written, so kept missing things out, adding "have" in a sentence which sent me out of whack etc. Of course that left all the following words wrong so I had to miss one, adding more errors.
I think the point was that a lot of marketting is just to get the name out there, and McDonalds was mentioned (slogan at any rate). Clearly it doesn't work on me, but if you extend that argument we get back to the whole idea of popups not working on me either, so blocking them does indeed make no difference to companies in real terms.
McDonalds' advertising makes no real sense to me... we KNOW the place exists, you can't go anywhere without seeing one, does seeing an advert on TV for something you wouldn't want to eat if you were paid to do so really increasing your knowledge of the company's existance in a way that benefits them at all?
Clearly I don't understand advertising terribly well.
But that's because historically "He" would be used. As a species we are known as "man" afterall, woman being a variation on that. It's only these days where we feel bad that saying "He" all the time is sexist that hte problem arises.
No, the big difference is that this way the whole world knows what gigabyte means. At the current time, they don't, because different people (read: HD manufacturers, and some network people) treat it in different ways. If you redefine it, you have to choose a way to do it, the better way (for consistency) happens to suit the HD manufacturers... that's fine, because at least everyone can predict now.
The original definitions don't matter though, they always must be arbitrary. Excepting certain circumstances like time (where there are specific real world situations to match up to, that would really mess peoples minds up to decimalise) it is the relationships between the units that matter. We don't care how a metre is defined, only that you can conveniently convert between it and other measures.
Giving them a unit they can be honest with, you mean? Rather than using "kilobyte" to mean "1000 bytes" like HD manufacturers do now, just to confuse and con the public?
It is contradictory though. Disc manufacturers use different schemes to network and/or memory manufacturers. They use whichever version of "kilobyte" fits in the circumstances and suits their business. Noone seems sure what a "kilobit" is either, which doesn't help, they assume it's a power of two like kilobyte *usually* is, which is rare.
That was my point, yes. However by saying "might well [be]" I was including those people who can code already, just not knowing gimp code - although I would say that it is worth more in my time to learn gimp's code to that kind of level than to buy photoshop.
The time spent learning to code to an adequate level to fix the problems with gimp might well considerably more than the cost of paying for Photoshop. So though to those people it would be nice to have a free alternative, it's not so important to them that it's worth costing them more to achieve that goal.
You say that, but on the other hand, even with the heavy bias in the readergroup, because of the modding system, if you read the comments you end up with a more balanced view in many cases than do from any major news source.
That could be the case on domestic flights, but it certainly isn't on international flights. You'd certainly be arrested on landing in most of europe if you managed to get a gun on a plane.
:) Ok, not changed in a relevant way. Guns were more available for gun clubs etc, not for carrying around in a situation where you might be mugged.
Not quite sure what thugs throwing rocks tells you in the context... it is a problem though. It is those situations where personally I might like to have a gun, I have to admit. Not because it would make me feel safer around the thugs, but because I feel a bit of social cleansing would go down a treat.
Actually, another point I should mention is that 30 years ago crime rates were much higher in the US than in Britain. These days the opposite is true. However, gun ownership has not changed over that time. I make an assumption from that then that the major factor is nothing to do with gun ownership, but something entirely different, most likely underfunding of police forces or something similar.
You could rework those stats easily. Death per person operated on by gun or physician, say. A surgeon might treat 300 people a year (read: cut holes in), a gun owner will usually never get their gun out.
Much as your argument is reasonable (though I disagree with it) those particular statistics rate as the WORST statistics used to back up an argument that I have ever read.
Personally I'd happily see criminals getting shot more often, as long as they're guilty. That is a major caveat though. Either way the more likely situation appears to be that the victim will be shot by the cornered criminal, than the criminal being shot.
Certainly, but having a gun doesn't affect that state of preparation particularly.
I would be interested to see some statistics about rates of crime in areas with more gun control... have small areas changed their rules over time as distinct from the country as a whole? Therein might lie the problem of course, if one area has no guns, but the surrounding areas do, then of course crime is going to go up in those areas. In an area of London they relaxed the laws on cannabis posession... so what happened? Of course the levels of cannabis possession in surrounding areas went down.
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lol I can understand the pro gun point of view, but you have just called someone an idiot, while saying "Guns are not designed to kill". What else are they designed to do? Play chess?
But you can tell it not to upgrade the kernel, as you wouldn't upgrade the windows kernel.
If the software is in the repository, otherwise you have to track it down (as I had to with mythtv and fedora yesterday, for example).
For upgrading purposes you're right though, yum et al could do with a licencing key based server login (maybe they have them already) so a commercial installer could add lines to the config files of the yum equivilent, and it could then get you upgrades and security fixes for the commercial software ad infinitum - clearly it needs to be setup so that people who don't have licences for the software can't perform the same additions for upgrades.
About the same as you for the first of those tests. The second one dropped a bit (68 with quite a number of errors), partly because I found myself "correcting" the sentence structure naturally to the way I would write, rather than the way it was written, so kept missing things out, adding "have" in a sentence which sent me out of whack etc. Of course that left all the following words wrong so I had to miss one, adding more errors.
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Should learn to read and type I think
Or more accurately, I would suggest. People like that think you have a two party system, and are the reason why you in practice do.
I think the point was that a lot of marketting is just to get the name out there, and McDonalds was mentioned (slogan at any rate). Clearly it doesn't work on me, but if you extend that argument we get back to the whole idea of popups not working on me either, so blocking them does indeed make no difference to companies in real terms.
McDonalds' advertising makes no real sense to me... we KNOW the place exists, you can't go anywhere without seeing one, does seeing an advert on TV for something you wouldn't want to eat if you were paid to do so really increasing your knowledge of the company's existance in a way that benefits them at all?
Clearly I don't understand advertising terribly well.
In fact, you're saving companies like doubleclick money by not using their bandwidth, so really, you're doing the world a favour :)
0% of your kids who had no foreskins had problems with their foreskins? I think that part was stating the obvious ;)
You should. It's not only something that happens, it's something that happens frequently.
But that's because historically "He" would be used. As a species we are known as "man" afterall, woman being a variation on that. It's only these days where we feel bad that saying "He" all the time is sexist that hte problem arises.
No, the big difference is that this way the whole world knows what gigabyte means. At the current time, they don't, because different people (read: HD manufacturers, and some network people) treat it in different ways. If you redefine it, you have to choose a way to do it, the better way (for consistency) happens to suit the HD manufacturers... that's fine, because at least everyone can predict now.
It's only deception if you hide it from people.
The original definitions don't matter though, they always must be arbitrary. Excepting certain circumstances like time (where there are specific real world situations to match up to, that would really mess peoples minds up to decimalise) it is the relationships between the units that matter. We don't care how a metre is defined, only that you can conveniently convert between it and other measures.
Giving them a unit they can be honest with, you mean? Rather than using "kilobyte" to mean "1000 bytes" like HD manufacturers do now, just to confuse and con the public?
It is contradictory though. Disc manufacturers use different schemes to network and/or memory manufacturers. They use whichever version of "kilobyte" fits in the circumstances and suits their business. Noone seems sure what a "kilobit" is either, which doesn't help, they assume it's a power of two like kilobyte *usually* is, which is rare.
That was my point, yes. However by saying "might well [be]" I was including those people who can code already, just not knowing gimp code - although I would say that it is worth more in my time to learn gimp's code to that kind of level than to buy photoshop.
The time spent learning to code to an adequate level to fix the problems with gimp might well considerably more than the cost of paying for Photoshop. So though to those people it would be nice to have a free alternative, it's not so important to them that it's worth costing them more to achieve that goal.
You say that, but on the other hand, even with the heavy bias in the readergroup, because of the modding system, if you read the comments you end up with a more balanced view in many cases than do from any major news source.
That could be the case on domestic flights, but it certainly isn't on international flights. You'd certainly be arrested on landing in most of europe if you managed to get a gun on a plane.
:) Ok, not changed in a relevant way. Guns were more available for gun clubs etc, not for carrying around in a situation where you might be mugged.
Not quite sure what thugs throwing rocks tells you in the context... it is a problem though. It is those situations where personally I might like to have a gun, I have to admit. Not because it would make me feel safer around the thugs, but because I feel a bit of social cleansing would go down a treat.
Actually, another point I should mention is that 30 years ago crime rates were much higher in the US than in Britain. These days the opposite is true. However, gun ownership has not changed over that time. I make an assumption from that then that the major factor is nothing to do with gun ownership, but something entirely different, most likely underfunding of police forces or something similar.
You could rework those stats easily. Death per person operated on by gun or physician, say. A surgeon might treat 300 people a year (read: cut holes in), a gun owner will usually never get their gun out.
Much as your argument is reasonable (though I disagree with it) those particular statistics rate as the WORST statistics used to back up an argument that I have ever read.
Personally I'd happily see criminals getting shot more often, as long as they're guilty. That is a major caveat though. Either way the more likely situation appears to be that the victim will be shot by the cornered criminal, than the criminal being shot.
Certainly, but having a gun doesn't affect that state of preparation particularly.
I would be interested to see some statistics about rates of crime in areas with more gun control... have small areas changed their rules over time as distinct from the country as a whole? Therein might lie the problem of course, if one area has no guns, but the surrounding areas do, then of course crime is going to go up in those areas. In an area of London they relaxed the laws on cannabis posession... so what happened? Of course the levels of cannabis possession in surrounding areas went down.
Strictly Britain (Great Britain) is England Scotland and Wales. The British Isles also includes Ireland.
You are right that United Kingdom is the political name though. "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Island"