An individual can act more evolved than the average, and entire populations of people can be just wonderful -- so long as everything is going well for them, there's no problems, and everyone has everything they want or need. But you put populations under stress? The animals that we are inside our skins comes out and you find out what we're really like.
Or to put it another way: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
SCREW your little wizard children, Rickman is LORD OF EVIL INCARNATE IN TIME BANDITS!
No, that was David Warner, a.k.a. the Master Control Program and Chancellor Gorkon. Their voices have a similar quality, which is probably why you confused them.
Pretty much. Although I got a cool Google Voice number and I only signed up last fall. No I'm not telling you what it is, but the entire number spells a two-word phrase relevant to one of my primary hobbies.
I don't like Trump. I don't like Sanders. I'd take either of them in a heartbeat over "more of the same"! (Cruz looks less crazy than I'd figured - maybe it's just the contrast with Trump but I'm re-considering him).
I would not vote any at all. If I am asked to choose to eat one of different kind of poo, why should I pick one to eat if I am also allowed to pick none of them? It is stupid to "must pick" one if you can simply "not do it" instead.
Because someone's getting elected whether you vote or not. In your analogy, you have to eat something. Are you going to let everyone else determine what that is for you, when the most popular option so far is poo?
The end users may disable the telemetry component of Clear Linux OS for Intel Architecture or even redirect where records go if they wish to collect for themselves.
Trump is just running interference for Hillary, and having a good time trolling the GOP base at the same time. Why doesn't anyone understand that? Any one of us would do the same, in his position.
I'm about 90% sure this is what's going on. It's the most logical explanation, having been a supporter of Hillary historically.
I take offense at your suggestion I'd do the same in his position - I do have principles.
The great thing about solar farms is 50 foot of trees at the edge of the property completely hides them from ground level.
If you live in a region where 50 foot trees grow naturally, then they are a reasonable sight block. In parts of the world, those trees would require assistance to survive, possibly using water that isn't available locally.
I think by "50 foot of trees" GP meant a buffer area measuring 50 feet across, containing trees. Tree height was not specified, although presumably they'd need to be taller than the panels.
Basically anything with sophisticated Javascript or AJAX. Most Google sites (Maps started reverting to a dumbed-down html version before Google forced the new Maps), Facebook, bank websites, T-Mobile's website, etc. etc. Many, many different websites would show messages along the lines of "upgrade to a modern browser to use this site." It was also really slow and unresponsive especially with many tabs open. (PC is Win7 Pro 64-bit, Core i7 with 16GB RAM, SSD).
The final straw for Opera Chromium was that it stopped handling common MIME types: e.g. you couldn't have it open a PDF with an app (much less in-browser), it forced you to download everything.
So Vivaldi is potentially the best of both worlds - the ethos and usability of Opera Presto, with the speed and compatibility of Blink/V8. I like it so far.
I've been following the snapshot diligently, and as a huge fan of Presto Opera, it's almost everything that I've been missing (still currently using Opera w/Blink). The one deal-breaker for me is the fact that a few of my absolutely extensions don't work properly.
This. People here don't seem to realize that Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to Opera Presto, which was beloved by its fans in part for the features it offered. When Opera became just another simple Chrome clone, it lost that which made it special.
I hung onto Opera 12.xx as long as possible (until the major websites actively started blocking its user agent), and was so disappointed by Opera Chromium I went to Pale Moon. I've been using Vivaldi occasionally since early preview releases, and lately it's become so stable that it's been my default browser for the last month or two. Performance-wise, it seems faster than most other browsers, taking advantage of Chromium's excellent rendering and Javascript engines.
Features and settings have been constantly added in over time, but you have to remember that it's been in alpha until just now, and as such, is remarkably well-rounded. I expect many of the features people here need (flash blocking etc.) to appear over time, as well as the power features traditional Opera users love.
I could see it being a useful feature in companies that have switched from Outlook to GMail (although I don't work for such a company and use Firefox at home).
There's an app for that! It's called Thunderbird. Chrome, with two tabs open (Gmail & calendar): 9 processes, 585MB of memory Thunderbird with integrated Gmail, calendar, and chat: 1 process, 230MB of memory
The eternal lynchpin of this discussion is the definition of art, and certainly some video games meet the dictionary definition. Two examples that immediately leap to mind are Grim Fandango (from 1998) and Limbo (2010). Both indisputably works of art in my mind.
Maybe I'm missing something, but at 1 AUD = 0.70 USD, wouldn't 0.99 USD = 1.41 AUD (.99/.7~=1.41)? At that exchange rate, a 1.29 AUD app would be 0.90 USD. So the 1.49 is actually only a 4.3% markup over the equivalent USD price.
If you look at the chart in the second link, you can see that if the AUD and USD are at parity, the old AUD price markup over USD ranged from 22% to 30%, but at $1 AU = $0.70 US, the markup of the new prices ranges from about 4% to 17%, which actually is closer to equivalent. Sucks for Australians, but US app developers will earn closer to the same amount per sale.
Basically, at old AUD prices, Australian app purchasers were getting hosed when their dollar was strong, a deal when it became weak, and will be closer to even after the increase.
I'm not French, but that's not fair. They did a lot of underground work to undermine the nazis. If you're talking about the policy of appeasement, then Neville Chamberlain -and thus the UK- is more culpable than France.
That's true. Plus the quick French defeat at the start of the war was more due to strategic errors than lack of effort. They relied on the imperviousness of the Maginot Line, the impenetrability of the Ardennes forest, and the neutrality of Belgium to protect their eastern border, and Germany invaded Belgium anyway and went through the Ardennes, rendering the Maginot Line basically useless.
"Largest Birdlike Dinosaur Ever" seems a more apt description.
I'd argue that's more misleading. Although the technical definition of "dinosaur" excludes pterosaurs, it's worth nothing that there were some rather large ones, notably Quetzalcoatlus which had a ~35 ft. wingspan, but wasn't feathered - it had wings of a thin fleshy membrane, like a bat.
So "dinosaur with birdlike wings and feathers" is an important distinction.
Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together.
"Intolerant" is defining "intolerant" as: "Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together"...
No,it's not. It is intolerant to say to someone that you are not as important, not worthy of the same consideration as anyone else. How else would you define intolerant?
Forcing someone to act in violation of their personal convictions just because YOU think you are right is intolerance. Not accepting that somebody's views may differ from yours and deciding to make an issue about it to force them into submission to your view (no matter how right) is intolerance.
Tolerance is recognizing that others can be wrong and it's not your job to correct them; that you can choose to just walk away and let them be as wrong as they like, even if it's inconvenient for you. That's tolerance...
And it's important to remember that some intolerance is good: we as a civilized society do not tolerate murder or injustice for example (at least that's our goal - we often fall short but not for lack of trying). So "intolerance" should not be used an automatically dirty word; if an intolerant position is bad, it's not enough to label it so - you have to demonstrate why.
We as a free society NEED to tolerate differences of opinion, especially on important matters. It's sort of a prerequisite.
Say you sign up with a company when their T&C says they won't use your phone number for marketing, but then they change their T&C to state the opposite. Now they have your phone number. Are they bound by the T&C they stated when you signed up? But even if they are, what is a customer's recourse?
I imagine the legal route is: they can change the T&C and you have to agree *if you continue to use their service*. If you do not continue to use their service they don't have your agreement to the new T&C and therefore can't act on it.
I don't know about Paypal, but many TOS include a clause that the TOS may change at any time, and you agree to be bound by future changes (the "Vader clause"). The purpose of this is presumably to avoid having to keep track of which users have agreed to updated terms: even if simply visiting a site constitutes agreement (which most TOS say does) they'd still have to keep track of who's visited the site when. The danger of such an open-ended contract should be obvious (Lando knows), and as far as I know is untested in court.
Legally, it's probably valid, but I can't imagine people signing a mortgage with language in it like "you agree that we can change the terms of this contract at any time in any way without notice to you and you are still bound by them." Somehow people don't give TOS the same weight, they just click whatever button is necessary to allow them to upload bathroom selfies for the whole world to see.
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From TFA:- "the campaign raised £5,936" = approx $8500, so the summary used the right number, but the wrong currency symbol.
Ehhhh, it's just a unit error. When has an incorrect unit ever caused a serious problem?
That never happens.
An individual can act more evolved than the average, and entire populations of people can be just wonderful -- so long as everything is going well for them, there's no problems, and everyone has everything they want or need. But you put populations under stress? The animals that we are inside our skins comes out and you find out what we're really like.
Or to put it another way: "A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals, and you know it."
SCREW your little wizard children, Rickman is LORD OF EVIL INCARNATE IN TIME BANDITS!
No, that was David Warner, a.k.a. the Master Control Program and Chancellor Gorkon. Their voices have a similar quality, which is probably why you confused them.
Pretty much. Although I got a cool Google Voice number and I only signed up last fall. No I'm not telling you what it is, but the entire number spells a two-word phrase relevant to one of my primary hobbies.
Even more complaints then!
I don't like Trump. I don't like Sanders. I'd take either of them in a heartbeat over "more of the same"! (Cruz looks less crazy than I'd figured - maybe it's just the contrast with Trump but I'm re-considering him).
I would not vote any at all. If I am asked to choose to eat one of different kind of poo, why should I pick one to eat if I am also allowed to pick none of them? It is stupid to "must pick" one if you can simply "not do it" instead.
Because someone's getting elected whether you vote or not. In your analogy, you have to eat something. Are you going to let everyone else determine what that is for you, when the most popular option so far is poo?
The first paragraph there says the end user can disable it.
Clear Linux also comes packaged with spyware
From the 1st paragraph at that link:
Oh yeah sure, lots of churches have gymnasiums.
My church has a community center with a gymnasium. In fact, many churches have associated schools which have gyms.
Trump is just running interference for Hillary, and having a good time trolling the GOP base at the same time. Why doesn't anyone understand that? Any one of us would do the same, in his position.
I'm about 90% sure this is what's going on. It's the most logical explanation, having been a supporter of Hillary historically.
I take offense at your suggestion I'd do the same in his position - I do have principles.
The great thing about solar farms is 50 foot of trees at the edge of the property completely hides them from ground level.
If you live in a region where 50 foot trees grow naturally, then they are a reasonable sight block. In parts of the world, those trees would require assistance to survive, possibly using water that isn't available locally.
I think by "50 foot of trees" GP meant a buffer area measuring 50 feet across, containing trees. Tree height was not specified, although presumably they'd need to be taller than the panels.
Basically anything with sophisticated Javascript or AJAX. Most Google sites (Maps started reverting to a dumbed-down html version before Google forced the new Maps), Facebook, bank websites, T-Mobile's website, etc. etc. Many, many different websites would show messages along the lines of "upgrade to a modern browser to use this site." It was also really slow and unresponsive especially with many tabs open. (PC is Win7 Pro 64-bit, Core i7 with 16GB RAM, SSD).
The final straw for Opera Chromium was that it stopped handling common MIME types: e.g. you couldn't have it open a PDF with an app (much less in-browser), it forced you to download everything.
So Vivaldi is potentially the best of both worlds - the ethos and usability of Opera Presto, with the speed and compatibility of Blink/V8. I like it so far.
is vivaldi based on webkit or it's own engine?
It uses Blink, which is itself derived from WebKit. Blink is used by Chrome and Opera Chromium.
I've been following the snapshot diligently, and as a huge fan of Presto Opera, it's almost everything that I've been missing (still currently using Opera w/Blink). The one deal-breaker for me is the fact that a few of my absolutely extensions don't work properly.
This. People here don't seem to realize that Vivaldi is the spiritual successor to Opera Presto, which was beloved by its fans in part for the features it offered. When Opera became just another simple Chrome clone, it lost that which made it special.
I hung onto Opera 12.xx as long as possible (until the major websites actively started blocking its user agent), and was so disappointed by Opera Chromium I went to Pale Moon. I've been using Vivaldi occasionally since early preview releases, and lately it's become so stable that it's been my default browser for the last month or two. Performance-wise, it seems faster than most other browsers, taking advantage of Chromium's excellent rendering and Javascript engines.
Features and settings have been constantly added in over time, but you have to remember that it's been in alpha until just now, and as such, is remarkably well-rounded. I expect many of the features people here need (flash blocking etc.) to appear over time, as well as the power features traditional Opera users love.
Besides which, I think you can actually use Outlook for Gmail.
I could see it being a useful feature in companies that have switched from Outlook to GMail (although I don't work for such a company and use Firefox at home).
There's an app for that! It's called Thunderbird.
Chrome, with two tabs open (Gmail & calendar): 9 processes, 585MB of memory
Thunderbird with integrated Gmail, calendar, and chat: 1 process, 230MB of memory
The eternal lynchpin of this discussion is the definition of art, and certainly some video games meet the dictionary definition. Two examples that immediately leap to mind are Grim Fandango (from 1998) and Limbo (2010). Both indisputably works of art in my mind.
Maybe I'm missing something, but at 1 AUD = 0.70 USD, wouldn't 0.99 USD = 1.41 AUD (.99/.7~=1.41)? At that exchange rate, a 1.29 AUD app would be 0.90 USD. So the 1.49 is actually only a 4.3% markup over the equivalent USD price.
If you look at the chart in the second link, you can see that if the AUD and USD are at parity, the old AUD price markup over USD ranged from 22% to 30%, but at $1 AU = $0.70 US, the markup of the new prices ranges from about 4% to 17%, which actually is closer to equivalent. Sucks for Australians, but US app developers will earn closer to the same amount per sale.
Basically, at old AUD prices, Australian app purchasers were getting hosed when their dollar was strong, a deal when it became weak, and will be closer to even after the increase.
Or I forgot how to math.
I'm not French, but that's not fair. They did a lot of underground work to undermine the nazis. If you're talking about the policy of appeasement, then Neville Chamberlain -and thus the UK- is more culpable than France.
That's true. Plus the quick French defeat at the start of the war was more due to strategic errors than lack of effort. They relied on the imperviousness of the Maginot Line, the impenetrability of the Ardennes forest, and the neutrality of Belgium to protect their eastern border, and Germany invaded Belgium anyway and went through the Ardennes, rendering the Maginot Line basically useless.
Thunderbird + Lightning Extension + Davmail replaces Outlook in Exchange Server environments.
Thunderbird ships with the Lightning add-on enabled by default as of June.
"Largest Birdlike Dinosaur Ever" seems a more apt description.
I'd argue that's more misleading. Although the technical definition of "dinosaur" excludes pterosaurs, it's worth nothing that there were some rather large ones, notably Quetzalcoatlus which had a ~35 ft. wingspan, but wasn't feathered - it had wings of a thin fleshy membrane, like a bat.
So "dinosaur with birdlike wings and feathers" is an important distinction.
Come on, people.
POSSESSIVE: my, your, his/her/its, our, your, their
CONTRACTIONS: I'm, you're, he's/she's/it's, we're, you're, they're
Put a sticky note on your monitor, tattoo this on the back of your hand, whatever it takes...
Loose tweets sink fleets?
Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together.
"Intolerant" is defining "intolerant" as: "Intolerant is baking a cake for a person that's on their fourth marriage while refusing to bake one for a lesbian couple that is finally able to marry after twenty years together"...
No,it's not. It is intolerant to say to someone that you are not as important, not worthy of the same consideration as anyone else. How else would you define intolerant?
Forcing someone to act in violation of their personal convictions just because YOU think you are right is intolerance. Not accepting that somebody's views may differ from yours and deciding to make an issue about it to force them into submission to your view (no matter how right) is intolerance.
Tolerance is recognizing that others can be wrong and it's not your job to correct them; that you can choose to just walk away and let them be as wrong as they like, even if it's inconvenient for you. That's tolerance...
And it's important to remember that some intolerance is good: we as a civilized society do not tolerate murder or injustice for example (at least that's our goal - we often fall short but not for lack of trying). So "intolerance" should not be used an automatically dirty word; if an intolerant position is bad, it's not enough to label it so - you have to demonstrate why.
We as a free society NEED to tolerate differences of opinion, especially on important matters. It's sort of a prerequisite.
Say you sign up with a company when their T&C says they won't use your phone number for marketing, but then they change their T&C to state the opposite. Now they have your phone number. Are they bound by the T&C they stated when you signed up? But even if they are, what is a customer's recourse?
I imagine the legal route is: they can change the T&C and you have to agree *if you continue to use their service*. If you do not continue to use their service they don't have your agreement to the new T&C and therefore can't act on it.
I don't know about Paypal, but many TOS include a clause that the TOS may change at any time, and you agree to be bound by future changes (the "Vader clause"). The purpose of this is presumably to avoid having to keep track of which users have agreed to updated terms: even if simply visiting a site constitutes agreement (which most TOS say does) they'd still have to keep track of who's visited the site when. The danger of such an open-ended contract should be obvious (Lando knows), and as far as I know is untested in court.
Legally, it's probably valid, but I can't imagine people signing a mortgage with language in it like "you agree that we can change the terms of this contract at any time in any way without notice to you and you are still bound by them." Somehow people don't give TOS the same weight, they just click whatever button is necessary to allow them to upload bathroom selfies for the whole world to see.