No, there aren't many of what we would call rights in France. Freedom of Speech for example. They couldn't have a Led Zeppelin day on the radio for example, since a fixed percentage of the music must be in French. No, this is not a restraint on freedom of speech (which is guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights).
US radio stations can't broadcast songs with 'fuck' in the lyrics. So can I assume that you feel there aren't many of what you would call rights in the US?
French stations can -- and do -- broadcast songs with foul language in both French and English, during the daytime on mainstream shows.
if you try to use their language, and don't get the accent quite right, then take it as an insult! Bullshit.
I moved to France last Decemeber to learn French. I have not had a *single* experience of hostility from anyone here when speaking my terrible French to them, or at any other time.
The French I've met are friendly, warm, helpful, hardworking, practical and resourceful.
I had heard these stories about 'what the French are like' and in my experience the stories are just rubbish.
be gentle and polite, show interest in your partner, be sincere.
In my experience, this works with women who have had all the children they want (or are past childbearing age).
Younger women seem to me to be more interested in loud, self-centered bullies than 'nice guys'.
I've always been a thoughtful and considerate person and didn't do very well with women in my younger days. Now I'm approaching 40 and beating them off with a shitty stick (relatively speaking, anyway!).
This may be a local phenomenon, or I may have unwitting changed my behavior, or something else may be the cause. But it's my belief that women unwittingly want to breed with assholes.
My friend who is a Mac die hard tells me - but you need to fiddle with the UAC prompt when setting the clock! Well? Guess what - you do on the Mac as well.
I have no opinion on whether this is good or bad, but your statement is incorrect.
I just advanced the clock by a couple of hours on my Mac (running Leopard). I was not prompted for a password.
CCTV has done nothing in my city (Brighton) to curb drunken street violence. Parts of the city are no-go areas after dark. This problem is getting worse irrespective of CCTV cameras.
I have never heard a single anecdote about a crime in Brighton being solved or prevented by our extensive on-street/beach CCTV cameras.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
and the Brits do it at a commercial facility called THORP
Unfortunately, THORP is currently closed due to a large leak of radioactive material. It's now planned to be decommissioned (at the taxpayer's expense).
In any case, the financial and environmental benefits were massively overstated, and -- like the rest of the UK nuclear power industry -- has turned out to be a huge white elephant.
I'm in favour of nuclear power in principle, but in practice it has cost the UK taxpayer untold billions for little benefit.
We should have just burnt the money and used that to generate the steam!
you seem to see nothing wrong with (or have been conditioned over the years to accept) living in a police state where agents of that state (or their proxies, backed by the deadly force of the state) knock on your door, apparently demand entry without a warrant, and you let them in to your home to "inspect" your television apparatus. Don't you have an ACLU equivalent?!?!
Calm down dear; don't get your knickers in a twist. You are under no obligation to let them in! ScottyLad just chose to let them in to thumb his nose at them.
I have been harrassed by the TV licensing authority (I did not have a TV at the time). They didn't even ask to come in to look for a TV -- they just had to take my word for it.
The only person I know who has been prosecuted for non-payment of licence fee simply admitted it when challenged by the 'inspector'.
Weeelll.... It's not GPL, but RIAA members Warner Music appear to be using the linkware MojoFAQ without the required link on Enya.com (view the source, Luke).
So whilst it's not a GPL violation, it could well be THEFT*
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was inspired to write the epic poem Kubla Khan while asleep.
Hehehe. Coleridge's note (published with the poem) says: In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair...
That anodyne would have been laudanum -- opium mixed in alcohol.
If I remember correctly, presidents in the U.S. are elected by the people.
Nope. You remember incorrectly.
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As some of us will recall, the dominant paradigm in the mid-80's was global cooling. Global cooling in the '80s was as obvious and well-proven as global warming is today.
Then during the mid-80's you must have been uninformed. I learnt about global warming and the greenhouse effect in my O-level physics class. I took the exam in 1986.
If so, why don't you use your ISP's server as smarthost and relay through them?
I had to do this recently due to AOL refusing mail from my server (which is a BT business account, but not on a static IP).
Trouble is, BT's SMTP service is terrible -- earlier this year it was unavailable for over a week. That was unusual though; mainly it just drops out for an hour or so. I can handle this.
Now (as of last week) they have decided that if you send more than two emails in quick succession they will bounce the remaining mail. So if you've got say, three mails in your mail queue, when BT's SMTP server pops up again they will accept the first two mails, and bounce the third.
Of course, I will get round this when I get a bit of time by using my hosting company's SMTP server. But how long will it be before BT start snaffling all port 25 traffic and redirecting it to their own crappy server (NTL in the UK do this already)?
I find myself endlessly chasing my own tail to get the service that I used to have.
Win-win, surely?
Only if
My ISP's server was reliable
My ISP didn't arbitrarily decide to rate limit how many mails I can send (and at such an absurdly low rate)
I thought I could find an ISP that won't suddenly pull this kind of trick.
While people get all kinds of junk mail, nobody's calling for a "do not mail" list.
Why not? We have one here in the UK -- the Mailing Preference Service. If you sign up to it, direct mailers are forbidden to send you junk mail. The direct mailers have to pay its costs, and it's mostly effective.
They even have a 'baby mps' to stop bereaved mothers from receiving baby-related junk mail/samples.
Try scripting photoshop and filemaker in python or some other language.
Indeed. Why don't you try scripting Photoshop in Applescript? Photoshop doesn't support Applescript, except to open documents and let you fire off Photoshop actions. You can't get any data in or out through Applescript. You can't say (for example) if the image is wider than it is tall do this, otherwise do that.
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Seems like Arabic will be the official language of France before too long.
Seems unlikely, considering that France is the only Western European country with only one official language: French.
Only 2.05% of people speak Arabic in France at home before the age of 5. Source.
In comparison, 2.3% of people in Britain are French speakers. Source.
US radio stations can't broadcast songs with 'fuck' in the lyrics. So can I assume that you feel there aren't many of what you would call rights in the US?
French stations can -- and do -- broadcast songs with foul language in both French and English, during the daytime on mainstream shows.
I moved to France last Decemeber to learn French. I have not had a *single* experience of hostility from anyone here when speaking my terrible French to them, or at any other time.
The French I've met are friendly, warm, helpful, hardworking, practical and resourceful.
I had heard these stories about 'what the French are like' and in my experience the stories are just rubbish.
In my experience, this works with women who have had all the children they want (or are past childbearing age).
Younger women seem to me to be more interested in loud, self-centered bullies than 'nice guys'.
I've always been a thoughtful and considerate person and didn't do very well with women in my younger days. Now I'm approaching 40 and beating them off with a shitty stick (relatively speaking, anyway!).
This may be a local phenomenon, or I may have unwitting changed my behavior, or something else may be the cause. But it's my belief that women unwittingly want to breed with assholes.
Works here in France, so I guess the not-working-in-England thing is some contractual agreement with Channel 4.
I have no opinion on whether this is good or bad, but your statement is incorrect.
I just advanced the clock by a couple of hours on my Mac (running Leopard). I was not prompted for a password.
CCTV has done nothing in my city (Brighton) to curb drunken street violence. Parts of the city are no-go areas after dark. This problem is getting worse irrespective of CCTV cameras.
I have never heard a single anecdote about a crime in Brighton being solved or prevented by our extensive on-street/beach CCTV cameras.
Linky:
BBC: "CCTV systems 'fail to cut crime'"
BBC: "CCTV 'not a crime deterrent'"
From meto.gov:
This Evening and Tonight:
Scattered showers soon dying out then dry and largely clear [...]
See article 10 of the -- much maligned -- Human Rights Act:
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
Because it is?
This is not a dupe. It was Taiwanese scientists last time, this time it is Chinese scientists.
From TFA:
Harbin is very much in China.
Unfortunately, THORP is currently closed due to a large leak of radioactive material. It's now planned to be decommissioned (at the taxpayer's expense).
In any case, the financial and environmental benefits were massively overstated, and -- like the rest of the UK nuclear power industry -- has turned out to be a huge white elephant.
I'm in favour of nuclear power in principle, but in practice it has cost the UK taxpayer untold billions for little benefit.
We should have just burnt the money and used that to generate the steam!
Calm down dear; don't get your knickers in a twist. You are under no obligation to let them in! ScottyLad just chose to let them in to thumb his nose at them.
I have been harrassed by the TV licensing authority (I did not have a TV at the time). They didn't even ask to come in to look for a TV -- they just had to take my word for it.
The only person I know who has been prosecuted for non-payment of licence fee simply admitted it when challenged by the 'inspector'.
Police state... Deadly force... Hehehehe...
System Requirements
I've sucessfully used Firefox on Linux and Safari on OS X.
The first system (about 2000 or so) required you to download a windows-only binary, but now it's all browser based and very easy to use too.
Weeelll.... It's not GPL, but RIAA members Warner Music appear to be using the linkware MojoFAQ without the required link on Enya.com (view the source, Luke).
So whilst it's not a GPL violation, it could well be THEFT*
Puts 'em in the scuppers with a hosepipe on 'em!
*(c) RIAA
Samuel Taylor Coleridge was inspired to write the epic poem Kubla Khan while asleep.
Hehehe. Coleridge's note (published with the poem) says:
In consequence of a slight indisposition, an anodyne had been prescribed, from the effects of which he fell asleep in his chair...
That anodyne would have been laudanum -- opium mixed in alcohol.
Nope. You remember incorrectly.
Then during the mid-80's you must have been uninformed.
I learnt about global warming and the greenhouse effect in my O-level physics class. I took the exam in 1986.
Try here on the page about metadata.
You post as AC, and sign it?
You've gotta stop smoking that stuff during the day...
One of these.
Screwdriver/Torx bits, dip-switch setting thing, corkscrew, pliers. What else do you need?
Just the 29, I reckon. 41 is a bit on the big side.
Plenty of big iron boxes like Crays and IBM are obviously more powerful machines. The ad contains a blatently FALSE sataement.
Which is why it said "the world's fastest, most powerful personal computer".
I had to do this recently due to AOL refusing mail from my server (which is a BT business account, but not on a static IP).
Trouble is, BT's SMTP service is terrible -- earlier this year it was unavailable for over a week. That was unusual though; mainly it just drops out for an hour or so. I can handle this.
Now (as of last week) they have decided that if you send more than two emails in quick succession they will bounce the remaining mail. So if you've got say, three mails in your mail queue, when BT's SMTP server pops up again they will accept the first two mails, and bounce the third.
Of course, I will get round this when I get a bit of time by using my hosting company's SMTP server. But how long will it be before BT start snaffling all port 25 traffic and redirecting it to their own crappy server (NTL in the UK do this already)?
I find myself endlessly chasing my own tail to get the service that I used to have.Only if
Why not? We have one here in the UK -- the Mailing Preference Service.
If you sign up to it, direct mailers are forbidden to send you junk mail. The direct mailers have to pay its costs, and it's mostly effective.
They even have a 'baby mps' to stop bereaved mothers from receiving baby-related junk mail/samples.
Indeed. Why don't you try scripting Photoshop in Applescript?
Photoshop doesn't support Applescript, except to open documents and let you fire off Photoshop actions. You can't get any data in or out through Applescript. You can't say (for example) if the image is wider than it is tall do this, otherwise do that.
The Mac Classic (released after the modular Mac II's) was the only ROM-bootable mac.
The software on the boot ROM only takes up 357k (System version 6.0.3).
Other than this nifty feature, what were Apple thinking? 8MHz in 1990?