Better still is: http://slashdot.org/~hansreiser/foes/ "hansreiser (6963) loves everyone or plays their cards very close to their chest". Apparently not!
Hey, I called myself a normal person! Obviously I was using a generous definition. (I'll admit I was assuming that you're not a politician, serial killer or rapist. If I'm wrong, then I do retract my statement.)
Also I'm not sure what fat comment there was. Some sort of filesystem pun? It's still going over my head.
I dunno how true it is, but I heard that there's more people alive now than have ever died in the past (this was a couple of years ago — it might have changed since).
Hence:
(a) statistically less than fifty per cent of people die, so there's a good chance you won't.
(b) if no-one ever died up until this point there would still be only around twice the number of people. I'm assuming here that women continue to become infertile as they age. Also, I would strongly expect that if people never died they wouldn't have as many kids — plenty of evidence suggests that's true even when people do die.
Me? I was pleased I'd converted away from ReiserFS 3 around the time the murder came out and quickly decided I'd stop caring about Reiser4 because the lead developer was a murder. Not because code written by murderers is morally a bit dodgy — murderers are by and large normal people, like you and me, who've screwed up something major and need to sit the next few rounds out — but because, well, who's going to maintain it now? Hans Reiser was selfish, stupid and not as rational as he'd probably like to believe. He did a bad thing and the punishment fits the crime. His filesystem's are now a very poor choice. But he wasn't evil, and his code's not tainted.
No-one swaps keys for Dvorak. The whole point of using Dvorak is that you're touchtyping. I occasionally watch myself typing, and believe you me, it looks just as freaky and impossible for me as it does for anyone.
I've used a type 5c (with USB adaptor) and type 6 with OS X and they've worked perfectly fine. I can't imagine a type 7 would be any different. It's worth noting that like Mac keyboards they have real volume keys and the command (meta) key besides spacebar, so they're probably perfect for it. (You miss an eject key though, as it's replaced by power.)
Unfortunately the only Sun mice worth using was the type 5. It has space between the buttons to rest your fingers so that you don't accidentally click buttons when you're not clicking, but still moving the mouse around. I'm using one today. But ugly, no scroll wheel and not optical. I used it "just because" one day and I've been devoted ever since.
I used to have an MSN account signed up to a yahoo mail account, which I'd stopped using for various reasons (mostly spam). But people sent me email to that account and I never got it, so I got a new MSN account on my new yahoo address and switched. About six months after I'd finally managed to convince everyone I'd changed accounts, I'd decided I'd had enough spam and stopped checking that yahoo account. Excellent! Nowadays no-one ever sends me email anyway, so the spam doesn't matter.
This driver tries to run you down and you think it more likely than have the common sense to "pull over, or just drive very cautiously"? You obviously have more faith in humanity than me.
So I bashed off their side rearview mirror. I ripped it from the truck, and smashed at their truck over and over again while they watched in shock.... make install -not war
Hah!
You do realise of course that you were left with an angry, half-blind driver on the road, don't you? Not a very good recipe for safety.
It's really quite simple: independent states should generally be limited to about four or five million people or a single city plus enough land (but no other large towns or cities) for a decent amount of water. Anything larger than that and some begin to get too powerful. Obviously freedom of movement and trade should be retained or extended to cover greater regions; Australia's relationship with New Zealand is probably a good model to go for here — merely a holdover of the freedom of trade and movement that existed under the British Empire with London removed — rather than the EU's internal relationship.
As life spans have increased, so to have birth rates decreased to the point where some countries are propped up purely by immigration these days. So long as this isn't an instant phenomenon, that tomorrow everyone alive will never die, I doubt overpopulation will be a big deal. Anyway, in all probability this will be an expensive process so only rich bastards^W^Wthe most deserving people will be able to get it.
I resist new ideas because... it's fun to. Ain't no way something as trivial as immortality's gonna change that! But then, I'm not old yet, I just pretend to be.
Move to the city. You will be closer to where you work and able to walk a lot more (in fact you'll find you'll have to walk a lot more, because a quick trip to the shops would take longer to drive). If you live in one of those dodgy American cities where the city is cheap and unsafe at the moment, then either beat the trend — because with gas prices only going to rise, you better believe everyone who can afford to live in the city will — or move to a proper city.
No. The price of oil is high. Here in Australia where our dollar is buying in excess of 95 US cents — compared with 50 cents at the turn of the century — the price of oil is around $1.65/L (around $US6/gallon) and going up substantially every time you fill up — the opposition is trying to get a 5 or 10 c reduction in excise, which would reduce the cost of petrol by a week or two. Australia is traditionally a cheap oil nation, with very few apartments in most cities and very extensive suburbs.
Take a look at Australia for a quick contrast. Like America there's no shortage of land — we have the third lowest population density of any independent country according to Wikipedia — but housing is still unaffordable. If in this climate of an overheated economy and soaring interest rates the simple cost of house and land is unaffordable, then there's something wrong with your thesis. (And probably more wrong with local policy.)
As far as I know, it's still a criminal offence in the UK to sell food by the pound or soft drinks in a pub by the pint.
Is it okay to sell them by the 570 mL glass? Is it okay to give the glass a name, kinda like McDonald's regular/medium/large, only more trademarky, perhaps, I dunno, maybe "fint" or "pind" or... "pint"?
And that you called it "my country's linux" is very very revealing.
You should see the way Samba gets covered down here in Australia... But then again, most of our profitable exports are sold to or owned by Chinese government owned companies, so maybe we've got more in common than just that.
It's also far slower than other methods.. so is only better if your time is worth nothing.
Not remotely true. With tv shows it generally doesn't matter when you've got it, as long as you've got it reasonably timely. (Well, if it took six months to download, I might as well just wait for it to be shown down here rather than pirating it, but any quicker than that and I'm in front. Of course for those who live in countries where these media actually come from, presumably it's quicker than waiting for a rerun or the DVD release which explains why you're trying to pirate it.) And you don't need to spend a heap of time babysitting it. All you do is say "Start downloading" and then you can go away and earn money, have fun with your friends or family, eat cheese, or do whatever it is you'd do with the extra time.
There's plenty of problems with Bittorrent — forcing us to upload as well as download makes it a lot more expensive than just "free" to us who have to pay for uploads. But the time itself is rarely the problem, because it's usually far, far quicker (on the order of months) to pirate via Bittorrent than to obey the law.
Oil gets its energy from the sun, and has stored it there for a few more centuries than I've been alive for. And we do use this source more directly, although nothing beats the infrustructure built up over millenia.
Is it? From here it looks like all the crap Britain does is the doing of the Commons and the Cabinet. Speaking as someone who comes from a free country that doesn't have anything remotely resembling a bill of rights, freedom and good governance come from the expectation of freedom and good governance, not from any particular structure.
They have apologized many times, however poorly, and Japan is not elegant in international relations.
Heh, you should watch Australia and Japan in our current relations. From my perspective as an Australian, Japan's doing pretty well and Australia's suffering from foot in mouth. The new Prime Minister of Australia just pointed out in defending the fact that it took him over six months to visit Japan (but only two or three to visit China) that "in the period since his Government came in, how many Japanese ministers have visited Australia? None." (Not a literal quote, but that's the same expression.) Sounded like a child defending himself.
Yet the Japanese expression of displeasure has mostly been made known via leaks and it makes it almost look they're not really that displeased y'know. Much more elegant even if they are unhappy. I think I'm quite displeased about how the Australian government's handled it.
But even more black letter law, the Geneva Conventions only apply if the person captured is a soldier in the military service of a SIGNATORY country. AQ isn't and has no plans to be.
I might be wrong, but it was my understanding that people organising spontaneously for the defence of their country (regardless of whether they're in uniform) as well as rebel groups who operate like a regular military service — i.e. hierarchical, uniformed — in spite of not being officially recognised by any country, are also covered, so long as they generally operate in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
So I don't know how Al Qaeda operate, but if they have uniforms and a hierarchy, they're not necessarily not covered.
This is of course to protect people who wish to defend themselves against perceived evil overlords, something Americans, whose country has been through two civil wars/revolutions, and who regularly defend the right to bear arms, should fully understand.
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Better still is: http://slashdot.org/~hansreiser/foes/ "hansreiser (6963) loves everyone or plays their cards very close to their chest". Apparently not!
Aha! But the sentence doesn't parse with that interpretation :) :P
(I didn't read your selective quoting because it was just what I wrote in the first place.)
Hey, I called myself a normal person! Obviously I was using a generous definition. (I'll admit I was assuming that you're not a politician, serial killer or rapist. If I'm wrong, then I do retract my statement.)
Also I'm not sure what fat comment there was. Some sort of filesystem pun? It's still going over my head.
I dunno how true it is, but I heard that there's more people alive now than have ever died in the past (this was a couple of years ago — it might have changed since).
Hence:
(a) statistically less than fifty per cent of people die, so there's a good chance you won't.
(b) if no-one ever died up until this point there would still be only around twice the number of people. I'm assuming here that women continue to become infertile as they age. Also, I would strongly expect that if people never died they wouldn't have as many kids — plenty of evidence suggests that's true even when people do die.
Me? I was pleased I'd converted away from ReiserFS 3 around the time the murder came out and quickly decided I'd stop caring about Reiser4 because the lead developer was a murder. Not because code written by murderers is morally a bit dodgy — murderers are by and large normal people, like you and me, who've screwed up something major and need to sit the next few rounds out — but because, well, who's going to maintain it now? Hans Reiser was selfish, stupid and not as rational as he'd probably like to believe. He did a bad thing and the punishment fits the crime. His filesystem's are now a very poor choice. But he wasn't evil, and his code's not tainted.
No-one swaps keys for Dvorak. The whole point of using Dvorak is that you're touchtyping. I occasionally watch myself typing, and believe you me, it looks just as freaky and impossible for me as it does for anyone.
I've used a type 5c (with USB adaptor) and type 6 with OS X and they've worked perfectly fine. I can't imagine a type 7 would be any different. It's worth noting that like Mac keyboards they have real volume keys and the command (meta) key besides spacebar, so they're probably perfect for it. (You miss an eject key though, as it's replaced by power.)
Unfortunately the only Sun mice worth using was the type 5. It has space between the buttons to rest your fingers so that you don't accidentally click buttons when you're not clicking, but still moving the mouse around. I'm using one today. But ugly, no scroll wheel and not optical. I used it "just because" one day and I've been devoted ever since.
I used to have an MSN account signed up to a yahoo mail account, which I'd stopped using for various reasons (mostly spam). But people sent me email to that account and I never got it, so I got a new MSN account on my new yahoo address and switched. About six months after I'd finally managed to convince everyone I'd changed accounts, I'd decided I'd had enough spam and stopped checking that yahoo account. Excellent! Nowadays no-one ever sends me email anyway, so the spam doesn't matter.
This driver tries to run you down and you think it more likely than have the common sense to "pull over, or just drive very cautiously"? You obviously have more faith in humanity than me.
So I bashed off their side rearview mirror. I ripped it from the truck, and smashed at their truck over and over again while they watched in shock. ...
make install -not war
Hah!
You do realise of course that you were left with an angry, half-blind driver on the road, don't you? Not a very good recipe for safety.
It's really quite simple: independent states should generally be limited to about four or five million people or a single city plus enough land (but no other large towns or cities) for a decent amount of water. Anything larger than that and some begin to get too powerful. Obviously freedom of movement and trade should be retained or extended to cover greater regions; Australia's relationship with New Zealand is probably a good model to go for here — merely a holdover of the freedom of trade and movement that existed under the British Empire with London removed — rather than the EU's internal relationship.
As life spans have increased, so to have birth rates decreased to the point where some countries are propped up purely by immigration these days. So long as this isn't an instant phenomenon, that tomorrow everyone alive will never die, I doubt overpopulation will be a big deal. Anyway, in all probability this will be an expensive process so only rich bastards^W^Wthe most deserving people will be able to get it.
I resist new ideas because ... it's fun to. Ain't no way something as trivial as immortality's gonna change that! But then, I'm not old yet, I just pretend to be.
Move to the city. You will be closer to where you work and able to walk a lot more (in fact you'll find you'll have to walk a lot more, because a quick trip to the shops would take longer to drive). If you live in one of those dodgy American cities where the city is cheap and unsafe at the moment, then either beat the trend — because with gas prices only going to rise, you better believe everyone who can afford to live in the city will — or move to a proper city.
No. The price of oil is high. Here in Australia where our dollar is buying in excess of 95 US cents — compared with 50 cents at the turn of the century — the price of oil is around $1.65/L (around $US6/gallon) and going up substantially every time you fill up — the opposition is trying to get a 5 or 10 c reduction in excise, which would reduce the cost of petrol by a week or two. Australia is traditionally a cheap oil nation, with very few apartments in most cities and very extensive suburbs.
Take a look at Australia for a quick contrast. Like America there's no shortage of land — we have the third lowest population density of any independent country according to Wikipedia — but housing is still unaffordable. If in this climate of an overheated economy and soaring interest rates the simple cost of house and land is unaffordable, then there's something wrong with your thesis. (And probably more wrong with local policy.)
As far as I know, it's still a criminal offence in the UK to sell food by the pound or soft drinks in a pub by the pint.
... "pint"?
Is it okay to sell them by the 570 mL glass? Is it okay to give the glass a name, kinda like McDonald's regular/medium/large, only more trademarky, perhaps, I dunno, maybe "fint" or "pind" or
And that you called it "my country's linux" is very very revealing.
You should see the way Samba gets covered down here in Australia... But then again, most of our profitable exports are sold to or owned by Chinese government owned companies, so maybe we've got more in common than just that.
As a desktop admin, there is nothing harder than... Even worse is...
You really should take the time to think before you write. Or even after you've written, but before you've previewed!
It's also far slower than other methods.. so is only better if your time is worth nothing.
Not remotely true. With tv shows it generally doesn't matter when you've got it, as long as you've got it reasonably timely. (Well, if it took six months to download, I might as well just wait for it to be shown down here rather than pirating it, but any quicker than that and I'm in front. Of course for those who live in countries where these media actually come from, presumably it's quicker than waiting for a rerun or the DVD release which explains why you're trying to pirate it.) And you don't need to spend a heap of time babysitting it. All you do is say "Start downloading" and then you can go away and earn money, have fun with your friends or family, eat cheese, or do whatever it is you'd do with the extra time.
There's plenty of problems with Bittorrent — forcing us to upload as well as download makes it a lot more expensive than just "free" to us who have to pay for uploads. But the time itself is rarely the problem, because it's usually far, far quicker (on the order of months) to pirate via Bittorrent than to obey the law.
Oil gets its energy from the sun, and has stored it there for a few more centuries than I've been alive for. And we do use this source more directly, although nothing beats the infrustructure built up over millenia.
Is it? From here it looks like all the crap Britain does is the doing of the Commons and the Cabinet. Speaking as someone who comes from a free country that doesn't have anything remotely resembling a bill of rights, freedom and good governance come from the expectation of freedom and good governance, not from any particular structure.
They have apologized many times, however poorly, and Japan is not elegant in international relations.
Heh, you should watch Australia and Japan in our current relations. From my perspective as an Australian, Japan's doing pretty well and Australia's suffering from foot in mouth. The new Prime Minister of Australia just pointed out in defending the fact that it took him over six months to visit Japan (but only two or three to visit China) that "in the period since his Government came in, how many Japanese ministers have visited Australia? None." (Not a literal quote, but that's the same expression.) Sounded like a child defending himself.
Yet the Japanese expression of displeasure has mostly been made known via leaks and it makes it almost look they're not really that displeased y'know. Much more elegant even if they are unhappy. I think I'm quite displeased about how the Australian government's handled it.
But even more black letter law, the Geneva Conventions only apply if the person captured is a soldier in the military service of a SIGNATORY country. AQ isn't and has no plans to be.
I might be wrong, but it was my understanding that people organising spontaneously for the defence of their country (regardless of whether they're in uniform) as well as rebel groups who operate like a regular military service — i.e. hierarchical, uniformed — in spite of not being officially recognised by any country, are also covered, so long as they generally operate in accordance with the Geneva Convention.
So I don't know how Al Qaeda operate, but if they have uniforms and a hierarchy, they're not necessarily not covered.
This is of course to protect people who wish to defend themselves against perceived evil overlords, something Americans, whose country has been through two civil wars/revolutions, and who regularly defend the right to bear arms, should fully understand.