The amount of people who watch too much Ally McBeal but don't hear so good never ceases to amuse me. It's Libel not liable... What exactly are they suppost to be liable for?
Personally as a web designer, I'm sick to death of every man and his dog trying to make everything look like aqua... Must bring a smile to Steve's face though:)
Hmm...if every car company doesn't comply then does that make it a standard? I think not! That's kind of like saying microsoft has a standards compliant browser.
ummm... maybe they're cars that don't comply to the standard???
According to your logic, a browser braking standards renders the standards nonexistant. I guess you should tell the good people over at the W3C that their work is for naught.
You're a dickhead mate. They ARE standardised, and it's an ISO standard. Not _EVERY_ car complies to the stardard of course, but there is a standard and 95% of cars built in the last 15 years comply to it...
What's the best Open Source browser that doesn't have mozilla dependencies? Konqueror? Or something I'm not aware of? I'd like something that can handle most html3 (nothing too crazy mind you) to embed to handle simple display stuff.
People want intelligent, thought-provoking, emotionally engaging music.
No. YOU want "intelligent, thought-provoking, emotionally engaging music". People, as a whole, want Britney Spears. Or to be more correct, they want the cd of the music they keep hearing on the radio / video hits. The big boys know this, and they love it. Whatever they feed us, we as a group eat up. Until this changes, the RIAA/MPAA will just tighten their grip on the public and their devices.
You forget. Technically, you don't have a _right_ to fair use. Fair use means that you can't be sued for doing it, but it doesn't mean that they can't do everything in their power to stop you.
Now if xenophobia is a natural part of us, please explain to me why this 5 year old kid had new friends both at school in his new neighbourhood almost instantly. His parents were still moving in, while he already played with his new friends.
Are my blue eyes not natural, because not everybody has them? Is it natural to be short, since I'm 6'2"? Xenophobia is a natural thing. Just not to everybody. It's to those different to us be it the colour of our skin, or if we met somebody with 3 arms. It has to do with evolution, it's a natural reaction to those different - in order to preserve our genes we only wish to mix with (read mate with) those that exhibit similar qualities to our own.
It's a huge problem. People who are not racists, are forced to do things against their better judgment, and when those people are in power, it costs the country that put them in power.
Take for example the Australian government. They detain people who enter the country illegally until it can be determined wether they are refugees or simply illegal aliens. Unfortunately this means that some refugees are detained.
Somebody yells "racist" in order to get their point across, and half the people around start yelling too, because they see that as the best way to avoid looking like a racist themselves. It's like homophobic name-calling. It's usually done by insecure males who are afraid of being labelled homosexual themselves. The fact is, that these people are allowed to have the opinion that all boat people are refugees and should be assimilated. I have the right to believe otherwise. And just because somebody labels my opinion as racist doesn't mean I should not be entitled to voice it.
Just because (almost) everybody in set A possesses attribute B, it doesn't mean everybody who possesses B falls within A.
The short of the matter is Xenophobia is a natural part of us. It's rational thought that allows us as a society to look past it.
This is not right at all. I know that (especially in America) people are afraid of being called a racist more than death itself, but that's beside the point. Every racist should be able to have his opinion, and he should be able to share it with his fellow racists.
The world is headed down a scary path, and this is just one of the early steps...
They stuffed up the anti-matter timeline, full kudos to the firs/.er to pick up the reference.
2205 Antimatter production station built in orbit around sun by Govcentral in an attempt to break the Edenist energy monopoly
2208 First antimatter drive starships operational.
2232 Conflict at Jupiter's trailing Trojan asteroid cluster between belt alliance ships and O'Neal Halo company hydrocarbon refinery. Antimatter used as a weapon; twenty-seven thousand people killed.
2238 Treaty of Deimos outlaws production and use of antimatter in the Sol system: signed by Govcentral, Lunar natio, asteroid alliance, and Edenists. Antimatter stations abandoned and dismantled.
2267-2270 Eight separate skirmishes involving use of antimatter among colony worlds. Thirteen million killed.
2271 Avon summit between all planetary leaders. Treat of Avon, banning the manufacture and use of antimatter thoughout inhabited space. Formation of Human Confederation to police agreement. Contrusction of confederation Navy begins.
2350 War between Novska and Hilversum. Novska bombed with antimatter. Confederation Navy prevents retaliatory strike against Hilversum.
It's simple. Let's say apple release OSX on intel. Forget their hardware sales, forget support problems. This would be the future:
1) Office is no longer available on any apple lines, neither is Explorer.
2) Office XP++ doesn't write in any format office X can read.
3) Office was never available for OSX on intel.
4) Microsoft tells Dell, HP, etc that if they want to offer OSX then windows wil cost $$$$ more per copy.
which leaves apple going steadily bankrupt, and the masses with no options if they want user-friendly but don't want Bill....
I'd love it, I'd be first in line to buy it, but it ain't gonna happen
Well you've proved my point. In Australia if you tailgate me and I slam my brakes, then you're fucked unless you're nigel mansell, because legally with the exception of mechanical failure you have no excuse for running up the ass of somebody. If you hit me I can sue you, and you've gotta pay for both our cars.
Scene: Patty and Selma's loungeroom. In the corner sits a robot Pierce Brosnan with a coat over the top and a sign reading "out of order". The television is on.
Patty: MacGyver is quitting stargate! He's abandoning us!
Selma: I'll never watch this program again!
Patty: Thank god for our collectors edition of MacGyver on DVD (fetches a disk and slaps it in).
Hehehe, the original gameboy wasn't huge... I remember back in the day being glad my gameboy wasn't as big as a gamegear, and my mate with the gamegear was glad it was nowhere near as big as a lynx:-)
So basically, if you purchase his software and mis-type the code, the programmer decides it's ok to damage your real-world property? What a cockhead. I'd buy it mis-type the code and sue to prove a point.
Do you wear glasses? Do you know somebody who does?
Perhaps they should do without, because evolution didn't intend them to be able to see. For the record, I'm almost legally blind without glasses. I'm utterly helpless, barely able to walk on my own. With glasses, my vision is 20/20. Should I stop wearing them because they're not natural?
How about diabetics? Maybe we should just let them die without insulin.
Kids with asthma? Screw 'em. Let's see how they do without their inhalers.
And.... What the fuck does this have to do with the article? One is to fix somebody's bad eyesight / lungs / whatever. Another is to create life where it would not have otherwise existed.
I'm so far from a luddite it's not funny, but are we sure we should be doing this? I mean most of us here are pretty firm believers in Darwinism, whether god started it or just luck (I believe luck, but I digress) - I mean if you medically can't have children, perhaps there's a reason? I know there's disease, accidents, and botched surgery that can cause these things, but I'm just uncomfortable with the idea.
I think we need to get away from the notion that every person out there has an automatic right to have children. Some people just shouldn't. Or how about adoption? There are a lot of kids out there in foster homes.
First of all, sometimes I do, depends on what it's for. But when I don't, it's for one of these reasons:
1. I need it _right_ now
2. It's too expensive for what it does (remember double everything cause I'm in.au)
3. I'm only going to use it once, I'm sure not coughing up $60 to pay for it.
It's usually a time thing. It's always some sort of disk utility, or a hack-into-a-dll program, or something like that, that I need on the spot for the next 10 minutes and then never again.
Except there was no whiskey rebellion to me, since I'm australian, and you can't distill your own alcahol because too many people were fscking themselves up. It's perfectly legal to brew beer here and I assure you we drink more beer than spirits in Australia (NT drinks more beer/capita than anywhere in the world, yes including germany), so the tax argument doesn't hold up.
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The amount of people who watch too much Ally McBeal but don't hear so good never ceases to amuse me. It's Libel not liable... What exactly are they suppost to be liable for?
Personally as a web designer, I'm sick to death of every man and his dog trying to make everything look like aqua... Must bring a smile to Steve's face though :)
Hmm...if every car company doesn't comply then does that make it a standard? I think not! That's kind of like saying microsoft has a standards compliant browser.
ummm... maybe they're cars that don't comply to the standard???
According to your logic, a browser braking standards renders the standards nonexistant. I guess you should tell the good people over at the W3C that their work is for naught.
You're a dickhead mate. They ARE standardised, and it's an ISO standard. Not _EVERY_ car complies to the stardard of course, but there is a standard and 95% of cars built in the last 15 years comply to it...
When I first read "gauss gun" I thought it was instructions for a rocket launcher. Too much syndicate for me!
What's the best Open Source browser that doesn't have mozilla dependencies? Konqueror? Or something I'm not aware of? I'd like something that can handle most html3 (nothing too crazy mind you) to embed to handle simple display stuff.
Yeah, turns out the Manhattan Project was in truth originally just a really early beta of Mortal Kombat.
People want intelligent, thought-provoking, emotionally engaging music.
No. YOU want "intelligent, thought-provoking, emotionally engaging music". People, as a whole, want Britney Spears. Or to be more correct, they want the cd of the music they keep hearing on the radio / video hits. The big boys know this, and they love it. Whatever they feed us, we as a group eat up. Until this changes, the RIAA/MPAA will just tighten their grip on the public and their devices.
You forget. Technically, you don't have a _right_ to fair use. Fair use means that you can't be sued for doing it, but it doesn't mean that they can't do everything in their power to stop you.
Now if xenophobia is a natural part of us, please explain to me why this 5 year old kid had new friends both at school in his new neighbourhood almost instantly. His parents were still moving in, while he already played with his new friends.
Are my blue eyes not natural, because not everybody has them? Is it natural to be short, since I'm 6'2"? Xenophobia is a natural thing. Just not to everybody. It's to those different to us be it the colour of our skin, or if we met somebody with 3 arms. It has to do with evolution, it's a natural reaction to those different - in order to preserve our genes we only wish to mix with (read mate with) those that exhibit similar qualities to our own.
It's a huge problem. People who are not racists, are forced to do things against their better judgment, and when those people are in power, it costs the country that put them in power.
Take for example the Australian government. They detain people who enter the country illegally until it can be determined wether they are refugees or simply illegal aliens. Unfortunately this means that some refugees are detained.
Somebody yells "racist" in order to get their point across, and half the people around start yelling too, because they see that as the best way to avoid looking like a racist themselves. It's like homophobic name-calling. It's usually done by insecure males who are afraid of being labelled homosexual themselves. The fact is, that these people are allowed to have the opinion that all boat people are refugees and should be assimilated. I have the right to believe otherwise. And just because somebody labels my opinion as racist doesn't mean I should not be entitled to voice it.
Just because (almost) everybody in set A possesses attribute B, it doesn't mean everybody who possesses B falls within A.
The short of the matter is Xenophobia is a natural part of us. It's rational thought that allows us as a society to look past it.
This is not right at all. I know that (especially in America) people are afraid of being called a racist more than death itself, but that's beside the point. Every racist should be able to have his opinion, and he should be able to share it with his fellow racists.
The world is headed down a scary path, and this is just one of the early steps...
Here Here!!
It's "Hear Hear", as in you hear what he's saying....
They stuffed up the anti-matter timeline, full kudos to the firs /.er to pick up the reference.
2205 Antimatter production station built in orbit around sun by Govcentral in an attempt to break the Edenist energy monopoly
2208 First antimatter drive starships operational.
2232 Conflict at Jupiter's trailing Trojan asteroid cluster between belt alliance ships and O'Neal Halo company hydrocarbon refinery. Antimatter used as a weapon; twenty-seven thousand people killed.
2238 Treaty of Deimos outlaws production and use of antimatter in the Sol system: signed by Govcentral, Lunar natio, asteroid alliance, and Edenists. Antimatter stations abandoned and dismantled.
2267-2270 Eight separate skirmishes involving use of antimatter among colony worlds. Thirteen million killed.
2271 Avon summit between all planetary leaders. Treat of Avon, banning the manufacture and use of antimatter thoughout inhabited space. Formation of Human Confederation to police agreement. Contrusction of confederation Navy begins.
2350 War between Novska and Hilversum. Novska bombed with antimatter. Confederation Navy prevents retaliatory strike against Hilversum.
It's simple. Let's say apple release OSX on intel. Forget their hardware sales, forget support problems. This would be the future:
1) Office is no longer available on any apple lines, neither is Explorer.
2) Office XP++ doesn't write in any format office X can read.
3) Office was never available for OSX on intel.
4) Microsoft tells Dell, HP, etc that if they want to offer OSX then windows wil cost $$$$ more per copy.
which leaves apple going steadily bankrupt, and the masses with no options if they want user-friendly but don't want Bill....
I'd love it, I'd be first in line to buy it, but it ain't gonna happen
Well you've proved my point. In Australia if you tailgate me and I slam my brakes, then you're fucked unless you're nigel mansell, because legally with the exception of mechanical failure you have no excuse for running up the ass of somebody. If you hit me I can sue you, and you've gotta pay for both our cars.
Scene: Patty and Selma's loungeroom. In the corner sits a robot Pierce Brosnan with a coat over the top and a sign reading "out of order". The television is on.
Patty: MacGyver is quitting stargate! He's abandoning us!
Selma: I'll never watch this program again!
Patty: Thank god for our collectors edition of MacGyver on DVD (fetches a disk and slaps it in).
Patty and Selma (lighting up): Aaaaaaaaah
Hehehe, the original gameboy wasn't huge... I remember back in the day being glad my gameboy wasn't as big as a gamegear, and my mate with the gamegear was glad it was nowhere near as big as a lynx :-)
So basically, if you purchase his software and mis-type the code, the programmer decides it's ok to damage your real-world property? What a cockhead. I'd buy it mis-type the code and sue to prove a point.
Do you wear glasses? Do you know somebody who does?
Perhaps they should do without, because evolution didn't intend them to be able to see. For the record, I'm almost legally blind without glasses. I'm utterly helpless, barely able to walk on my own. With glasses, my vision is 20/20. Should I stop wearing them because they're not natural?
How about diabetics? Maybe we should just let them die without insulin.
Kids with asthma? Screw 'em. Let's see how they do without their inhalers.
And.... What the fuck does this have to do with the article? One is to fix somebody's bad eyesight / lungs / whatever. Another is to create life where it would not have otherwise existed.
I'm so far from a luddite it's not funny, but are we sure we should be doing this? I mean most of us here are pretty firm believers in Darwinism, whether god started it or just luck (I believe luck, but I digress) - I mean if you medically can't have children, perhaps there's a reason? I know there's disease, accidents, and botched surgery that can cause these things, but I'm just uncomfortable with the idea.
I think we need to get away from the notion that every person out there has an automatic right to have children. Some people just shouldn't. Or how about adoption? There are a lot of kids out there in foster homes.
Top marks for the pure science involved tho!
If you read the last 2 paragraphs, replace Arnold Schwarzenegger with John Katz it makes a bit more sense.
It's Melony, and she wants me to see her live now on webcam.
First of all, sometimes I do, depends on what it's for. But when I don't, it's for one of these reasons:
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1. I need it _right_ now
2. It's too expensive for what it does (remember double everything cause I'm in
3. I'm only going to use it once, I'm sure not coughing up $60 to pay for it.
It's usually a time thing. It's always some sort of disk utility, or a hack-into-a-dll program, or something like that, that I need on the spot for the next 10 minutes and then never again.
Except there was no whiskey rebellion to me, since I'm australian, and you can't distill your own alcahol because too many people were fscking themselves up. It's perfectly legal to brew beer here and I assure you we drink more beer than spirits in Australia (NT drinks more beer/capita than anywhere in the world, yes including germany), so the tax argument doesn't hold up.