The United States Constitution is the most perfect document ever written. If you haven't read it do so.
Ever read the Magna Carta?
I have not discovered a better system of Government than that of the U.S.
Your last election didn't do anything to sway that view? How about the fact that such a small minority of people actually vote, and you don't vote your government in, you vote for the President?
Here (in Australia) people vote for the political party, and are a lot more able (and willing) to vote out someone in their seat who has performed badly, regardless of party preferences.
To say, I strongly disagree with you. One person (a President) does not a government make.
In Australia generally companies give two weeks notice if they want to fire you, and you must do the same. Them, being the holder of the purse string, can also fire you immediately, paying you for that two weeks "in lieu of giving notice" which isn't so bad, giving you time to start looking for work without dealing with a company you know doesn't want you around.
We do not monitor traffic until you surpass the specified amount with your package at the time of purchase in one months period of time. This does not apply to provision III, A, 3.
Which begs the question, how do they know if you've surpassed the amount allowed, if they don't start monitoring until you surpass it? A little chicken-and-egg?:-)
True, the issue at hand is the fact that current browser producers have such shocking CSS support that trying to use these elements is futile. If it worked fine, I'm sure people would stop using tables.
And, unfortunately, it's not a problem that can be solved with "Well, we'll put up a syntactically and conceptually correct website that's going to be rendered problematically, or not at all, on most of our client's browsers, in the hope this will encourage the producers to actually get it right"...
In which case a lot of people are "missing the point". Go into a newsgroup like comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (which is a story unto itself), and you'll see endless and pointless competition on people converting their sites to XHTML, just because it can be done. Or in many cases, can't.
...as in Lowest Common Denominator. To me XHTML is not a step forward in many senses, but a step back. Things like nested tables, and quite a few others (I'm not sure right now, I forgot!) are now "unavailable", as some Internet Devices may not be able to use them.
It's definitely a step towards device independant web browsing, but I think a better approach would be two streams. Some might think this an evil idea, but if this is the way W3C is going, with all its member companies dreaming of their own little 'devices', perhaps a stream for "feature rich" browsers and another for "feature poor" is appropriate...
Am I "stealing" your band-width ? No more than mine.
Difference is YOU choose to use yours. I had no input in your use of mine. I pay for mine. I choose to accept the overhead of PPP/ethernet. I DON'T choose to pay money for you to satisfy your curiosities.
Robert Jordan's thing for bondage, and "plumply pretty young women" is fairly easy to spot, but I've never noticed anything scatalogical.;)
For that matter, they never go to the toilet either! Ever! I haven't seen it once in nine books. There are a few references to menstruation, though. And I have too much spare time.
Only problem with your argument is that you still have a Playstation (assuming, because you still have the games), so you're not getting anything you couldn't anyway. And likewise, unless you've been buying your "growing collection of DVDs" without a player of some sort, you already have a player.
Unless you arrange a company to sponsor you, you won't have a lot of luck here. Why? Because the USA gives the arsehole to most other countries citizens applying for working visas (without sponsorship) because they seem to think they'll all pour in as illegal immigrants.
So, Australia, at the least, is doing the same back to the US. Other country's citizens will have no problem getting a working visa. If you're American, you will simply not get a working visa, period, without company sponsorship.
Nice principles. "I'm gonna onsell something I know to be shitty to someone who doesn't know better, so they can get fucked over just like I feel I was".
That's fine, as the US Constitution doesn't apply to me anyway. All new published works would enter the public domain, but there would definitely be a lot fewer thereof.
What - like the Sydney Olympics, where you could only pay for tickets by Visa (if you were using CC) and all games affiliated merchandising/food/etc outlets were only allowed to accept Visa as their CC?
How are you to know in advance that you're going to be framed for a crime, in order to use the services? Or are you gonna dole out $32 a day (say every 15 mins, 8 hours a day) on the chance that someone might in the future?
wget (well, any web-based mirroring tool) is problematic. Can't deal with Java, DBs, Javascript, etc. For anything more than a static site..., you need a proper mirroring setup.
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Ever read the Magna Carta?
I have not discovered a better system of Government than that of the U.S.
Your last election didn't do anything to sway that view? How about the fact that such a small minority of people actually vote, and you don't vote your government in, you vote for the President?
Here (in Australia) people vote for the political party, and are a lot more able (and willing) to vote out someone in their seat who has performed badly, regardless of party preferences.
To say, I strongly disagree with you. One person (a President) does not a government make.
Hardly. Canada, France, Australia. Three countries I've been to where I'd disagree.
(all Scottish, too)...
In Australia generally companies give two weeks notice if they want to fire you, and you must do the same. Them, being the holder of the purse string, can also fire you immediately, paying you for that two weeks "in lieu of giving notice" which isn't so bad, giving you time to start looking for work without dealing with a company you know doesn't want you around.
Unless slashdot is hosted there, and agreed to the TOS, they don't exactly have anything to worry about :)
Which begs the question, how do they know if you've surpassed the amount allowed, if they don't start monitoring until you surpass it? A little chicken-and-egg? :-)
"But Lynx CAN display images. I run it in an X-window, and have it configured to fire up xv for each image on the page."
To be polite, why the fuck would you do this?
And, unfortunately, it's not a problem that can be solved with "Well, we'll put up a syntactically and conceptually correct website that's going to be rendered problematically, or not at all, on most of our client's browsers, in the hope this will encourage the producers to actually get it right"...
In which case a lot of people are "missing the point". Go into a newsgroup like comp.infosystems.www.authoring.html (which is a story unto itself), and you'll see endless and pointless competition on people converting their sites to XHTML, just because it can be done. Or in many cases, can't.
I was more referring to XHTML's bitching about nesting of tables, frames, functionality...
Some browser detection is necessary due to implementation, though I think many can be over-anal about it.
It's definitely a step towards device independant web browsing, but I think a better approach would be two streams. Some might think this an evil idea, but if this is the way W3C is going, with all its member companies dreaming of their own little 'devices', perhaps a stream for "feature rich" browsers and another for "feature poor" is appropriate...
I think you're trying to park in his driveway, not on the public road.
You, or your PC, is the one that addressed them. That "common carrier" thing, remember?
Difference is YOU choose to use yours. I had no input in your use of mine. I pay for mine. I choose to accept the overhead of PPP/ethernet. I DON'T choose to pay money for you to satisfy your curiosities.
How many times has slashdot been cracked now?
Robert Jordan's thing for bondage, and "plumply pretty young women" is fairly easy to spot, but I've never noticed anything scatalogical. ;)
For that matter, they never go to the toilet either! Ever! I haven't seen it once in nine books. There are a few references to menstruation, though. And I have too much spare time.
Only problem with your argument is that you still have a Playstation (assuming, because you still have the games), so you're not getting anything you couldn't anyway. And likewise, unless you've been buying your "growing collection of DVDs" without a player of some sort, you already have a player.
2. "Run by the geeks"? Oh, so Dalvenjah has stopped his tyranny ("/akill * You all suck", anyone?)
So, Australia, at the least, is doing the same back to the US. Other country's citizens will have no problem getting a working visa. If you're American, you will simply not get a working visa, period, without company sponsorship.
Nice principles. "I'm gonna onsell something I know to be shitty to someone who doesn't know better, so they can get fucked over just like I feel I was".
That's fine, as the US Constitution doesn't apply to me anyway. All new published works would enter the public domain, but there would definitely be a lot fewer thereof.
What - like the Sydney Olympics, where you could only pay for tickets by Visa (if you were using CC) and all games affiliated merchandising/food/etc outlets were only allowed to accept Visa as their CC?
No, as in it's my work and *I*, not *you* will decide the terms of the copyright.
How are you to know in advance that you're going to be framed for a crime, in order to use the services? Or are you gonna dole out $32 a day (say every 15 mins, 8 hours a day) on the chance that someone might in the future?
wget (well, any web-based mirroring tool) is problematic. Can't deal with Java, DBs, Javascript, etc. For anything more than a static site..., you need a proper mirroring setup.