Facetiousness is when you use the opposite of what you mean to mock the listener's understanding of what you mean. Sarcasm includes more than just facetiousness.
Irony is not merely the opposite of a thing; it's a strangeness related to the thing, often most easily obtained by rendering the opposite, although merely rendering the opposite may not suffice to be irony.
This week one of my machines updated IE9, which then broke Flash in IE9. So I updated Flash, but Adobe says that they don't yet support IE9 at 64 bits, though they do have a Beta version of 64-bit IE9 Flash that they'll download. So far, it hasn't crashed, but I'm checking for a non-Beta release frequently.
Nope. Google has verified the data. They're getting nothing from Libya. But I suspect that they don't include all.ly root servers in that, since bit.ly is still resolvable. The.ly root nodes that are still working are likely not actually in Libya. Google may understand this and not include traffic to them in their statistics.
If you look at the graph on the google page linked in the summary, and expand it to the left, it turns out that Libya's traffic was about 50% lower a few weeks ago, when the revolution started. It's been improving. The "flatline" is suspicious, especially since 3 of the 5.ly root servers are still up. It also falls in the area of data that's still being collected by Google, so it might be specious.
The fifth amendment doesn't apply here. Being identified by a co-conspirator is not incriminating yourself. You did that when you told the co-conspirator who you were.
The whole point of "free speech" is that there can't be any consequences for you.
No, the whole point of Free Speech is that you can criticize the government and the government can not use its power to prevent you from doing it or punish you for it.
There's a lot of other speech that you will face serious consequences for, from the government or from the public at large.
You need to hone up on both your history and law.
Now that is ironic.
Some states even protect anonymous speech explicitly and their own Supreme Courts will back it up....I think I will go read some of the Federalist Papers now.
Depends on what the speech contains. If it contains threats of violence, their Supreme Courts will hunt the speaker down themselves. Free Speech is not an absolute right and never was. Failure to understand the distinction between what is free and what is already controlled makes the part that is free vulnerable to abridgment by blanket lawmaking (reverting the First Amendment) promulgated to control speech that is already controlled by the law.
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Same reason I don't use an 8-bit operating system.
Nothing. That's generally what I do. Run FF for 99.5% of the web, and IE when FF can't find its ass with both hands.
Not sure how anyone got any other idea. I wasn't saying that I was crippled by the IE/Flash thing, just that I didn't like it.
Facetiousness is when you use the opposite of what you mean to mock the listener's understanding of what you mean. Sarcasm includes more than just facetiousness.
Irony is not merely the opposite of a thing; it's a strangeness related to the thing, often most easily obtained by rendering the opposite, although merely rendering the opposite may not suffice to be irony.
Ahuh. If I was on that machine I'd point out a few URIs that refuse to operate properly in Firefox, Safari, or Chrome, that show up fine in IE.
I don't take "beta" labels from Microsoft seriously. When Adobe does it, I worry.
This week one of my machines updated IE9, which then broke Flash in IE9. So I updated Flash, but Adobe says that they don't yet support IE9 at 64 bits, though they do have a Beta version of 64-bit IE9 Flash that they'll download. So far, it hasn't crashed, but I'm checking for a non-Beta release frequently.
Nope. Google has verified the data. They're getting nothing from Libya. But I suspect that they don't include all .ly root servers in that, since bit.ly is still resolvable. The .ly root nodes that are still working are likely not actually in Libya. Google may understand this and not include traffic to them in their statistics.
It's 60% still working, or up to 100%, if there's redundancy among them.
You might want to mouse-over the links in the summary...
Get a life.
Took you 200 words to fall into that irony.
If it can be released by a court order, the 5th Amendment didn't apply.
Interesting. Most BIOS I've seen have had too many features, leading to the slow booting that you noted.
If you look at the graph on the google page linked in the summary, and expand it to the left, it turns out that Libya's traffic was about 50% lower a few weeks ago, when the revolution started. It's been improving. The "flatline" is suspicious, especially since 3 of the 5 .ly root servers are still up. It also falls in the area of data that's still being collected by Google, so it might be specious.
fwiw, I can still browse to bit.ly.
I've been expecting Twitter to have a major conniption when Gaddafi inevitably shuts down the whole .ly TLD.
They'd never do that. Then they'd have no way to find you and punish you if you abused their TOS.
The fifth amendment doesn't apply here. Being identified by a co-conspirator is not incriminating yourself. You did that when you told the co-conspirator who you were.
The whole point of "free speech" is that there can't be any consequences for you.
No, the whole point of Free Speech is that you can criticize the government and the government can not use its power to prevent you from doing it or punish you for it.
There's a lot of other speech that you will face serious consequences for, from the government or from the public at large.
You need to hone up on both your history and law.
Now that is ironic.
Some states even protect anonymous speech explicitly and their own Supreme Courts will back it up. ...I think I will go read some of the Federalist Papers now.
Depends on what the speech contains. If it contains threats of violence, their Supreme Courts will hunt the speaker down themselves. Free Speech is not an absolute right and never was. Failure to understand the distinction between what is free and what is already controlled makes the part that is free vulnerable to abridgment by blanket lawmaking (reverting the First Amendment) promulgated to control speech that is already controlled by the law.
You might want to check with HB Gary on that.
That's not ironic, it's just sarcastic. It would be ironic if you forgot to check the box.
Remember when every new HP product, bar none, was excruciatingly cool?
This one makes my sphincter clench.
George Foreman Grill comes to mind.
Do I have to buy toner for my watch, now? Can't I just shake it occasionally until the display goes completely dim?
If someone ever does make an Android watch, they're going to have trademark problems.
But if anyone does it, it will probably be Fossil.
When you find a wind-up bluetooth chip, that joke will make sense.
A watch that is charged by light so that it never stops working:
http://www.citizenwatch.com/