Think that's a small group? Urban legend here in New Zealand says that 75% of the complaints recieved by the Broadcasting Standards Authority come from the same three people.
See, back when I was working on an internet helpdesk, if people kept ringing over and over and over with the same complaints and problems, we were instructed to stop helping them. These three people waste everyone else's money, so why not apply the same policy? Here and in the US.
And in regard to ninjas, - this guy knows about them. Remember the arse kicking circle. Ninja beats pirate beats robot beats clown beats ninja. Every seen a ninja fighting a clown? Now you know why
"The earth's magma leaks into the sea in a few spots near the bottom of the ocean"
These "spots" of super heated water occur around what are called black smokers. The magma, or more accurately, mantle, is drawn up at mid ocean ridges due to the top-cooled convection of which plate tectonics is a direct result.
Mid Ocean Ridges rarely heat water beyond 400 degress C, but even so there could be potential there, since it's already heated to a great degree, requiring less energy investment. Plus, there's tens of thousands of kms worth of MORs on Earth.
If I had the ability I would mod your post to -10^100 frustratingly redundant.
Read the manual and discover the power and wonder of virtual desktops.
GIMP IS a viable alternative to PS, but not if you're so stubborn to belive that PS is where every such application should be.
Here's a challenge, come up with one problem with GIMP that isn't the skipping record of UI complaints (which are, in my opinion, due to a mix of ignorance and stupidity) or lack of CYMK (which is a patent issue).
I want the good old Photoshop/Illustrator/Dreamweaver layout, without having to shuffle 4 floating tool windows about that do different stuff.
Then drag the tools you want into the tool window. You have all the tools in one window and your image in another. It's a far superior layout to that of PS.
Has anyone noticed just how tiny the cartsare? I thought the GBA was pushing the size envelope in terms of making carts so small they'd get lost anywhere, but I was obviously wrong.
I mean, they're half the size of the GBA cart, you could swallow one of those things without much trouble!
If people started living on the north pole, should we do everything to warm it up?
No need, the US is doing a good enough job as it is. Who needs climate regulating ice when you have jobs?
Oh, and here's an interesting piece of information, people do live near the North pole, or rather, in the arctic circle.You may know them as Inuits, or Eskimos, and they're very pissed off with the industrialised world's disregard towards their very existence.
This article describes some of the hardships currently being indured by these people, and the Bush administration "acknowledging for the first time that climate change is real and unavoidable". Here's another story from Boing Boing.
That's not the point, the point here is if we continue alone the path we're on, your investments and the American, nay, the world economy won't mean shit.
If that filthy cheat of a president had any ability to plan for the future, he'd have signed the Kyoto Protocol the second he stepped into office.
I wonder what his opinion will be when hurricane season in the Caribbean is so intense and relentless that the economy of the South East of the US effectively has to shut down for 4 months every year. Let's how many jobs that'll cost, and how your precious investments fare.
I once saw a BBC report from a journalist in North Korea. His statement was simple; "You can tell how poor these people are. There is no smoke rising from the chimneys, yet the temperature outside is well below freezing".
Fourth largest army in the world. Though mostly due to the fact that being in the army is the best way to survive. You have to wonder how many NK personnel would defect if it came to combat.
" I for one think my country (the US) is far to[o] egocentric and it needs to have more international laws and agreements in place."
I agree. Although they have a lot of respect to earn, considering your country has basically ignored international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol and continues to stomp around like it owns the place.
Most Americans I've met are top class people, but your country's image outside your borders is less than stellar.
But getting back to the issue at hand, if laws like this WHOIS thing are to succeed on the internet (which is a global project), then the whole world needs to agree.
There's a UN Security Council (which needs to be overhauled), why not set up a functional international internet council within the UN?
If those people did vote, however, you'd bring an end to this stupid two party system the US has and bring a wider spectrum of political opinion to the US.
Political diversity can only be good for a country like the US.
Ask your bank for a second Credit Card with a few hundred dollar limit. Use that to buy stuff online, and if someone steals it, it won't cost you that much.
Open Office features anti-aliasing on all of my fonts. Perhaps it's the fonts you're using, or your setup, or something else. Fact is, it works for me, so I'd look for the problem outside of OO.
Well, there are many fields of geology. I'm most interested in Tectonics and Volcanism - the two areas with huge things smashing together and exploding. Sedimentology and Petrology are a little less interesting.
And yeah, it does take a certain type of person, we're a weird, very hard working bunch with unique perspectives on deadlines : )
I used to buy games and never play them. It was due to being a reasonably well paid sys admin, with geek friends, no girlfriend and an interest in gaming.
Now I'm a poor student and I really have no desire to buy games anymore, for some reason. Maybe it's just being too tired to play due to the huge workload of being a geology student, but I think I may, and believe me this is difficult to say, I may no longer be entertained by games.
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See, back when I was working on an internet helpdesk, if people kept ringing over and over and over with the same complaints and problems, we were instructed to stop helping them. These three people waste everyone else's money, so why not apply the same policy? Here and in the US.
And in regard to ninjas, - this guy knows about them. Remember the arse kicking circle. Ninja beats pirate beats robot beats clown beats ninja. Every seen a ninja fighting a clown? Now you know why
These "spots" of super heated water occur around what are called black smokers. The magma, or more accurately, mantle, is drawn up at mid ocean ridges due to the top-cooled convection of which plate tectonics is a direct result.
Mid Ocean Ridges rarely heat water beyond 400 degress C, but even so there could be potential there, since it's already heated to a great degree, requiring less energy investment. Plus, there's tens of thousands of kms worth of MORs on Earth.
Lying on the counch just staring there at you
If I was young it didn't stop you coming through
They took the bandwidth and sold it for low cost you see
The internet burst in with and gave me kickass p2p
And now my TV suffers it's redundancy
I blog my life, bro. Why do I share so?
Digital killed the video star
Digital killed the video star
In my mind, and in my car
We outdo rewind with our PVRs
You're not the first one. You're not the last one.
Digital killed the video star
Digital killed the video star
In my mind, and in my car
We outdo rewind with our PVRs
The web it came, and copyrights it bent
So get all your media through a bittorrent.
That's a bit mean.
Read the manual and discover the power and wonder of virtual desktops.
GIMP IS a viable alternative to PS, but not if you're so stubborn to belive that PS is where every such application should be.
Here's a challenge, come up with one problem with GIMP that isn't the skipping record of UI complaints (which are, in my opinion, due to a mix of ignorance and stupidity) or lack of CYMK (which is a patent issue).
Then drag the tools you want into the tool window. You have all the tools in one window and your image in another. It's a far superior layout to that of PS.
I mean, they're half the size of the GBA cart, you could swallow one of those things without much trouble!
We now need:
Cheney to get locked in his coffin as he sleeps after feeding on the blood of the living as I've been told he does on a daily basis.
Bush to go for a world pretzel eating record, choking in the process.
Rumsfield to get bitten by a rabid dog, contracting rabies and going slowing and humorously insane.
If that were true, the US would be falling in line with the countries who are seriously looking at, or actually implementing Kyoto. i.e, the MAJORITY.
No need, the US is doing a good enough job as it is. Who needs climate regulating ice when you have jobs?
Oh, and here's an interesting piece of information, people do live near the North pole, or rather, in the arctic circle.You may know them as Inuits, or Eskimos, and they're very pissed off with the industrialised world's disregard towards their very existence.
This article describes some of the hardships currently being indured by these people, and the Bush administration "acknowledging for the first time that climate change is real and unavoidable". Here's another story from Boing Boing.
If that filthy cheat of a president had any ability to plan for the future, he'd have signed the Kyoto Protocol the second he stepped into office.
I wonder what his opinion will be when hurricane season in the Caribbean is so intense and relentless that the economy of the South East of the US effectively has to shut down for 4 months every year. Let's how many jobs that'll cost, and how your precious investments fare.
Zelda was and currently is mine. Many, many others would agree.
Fourth largest army in the world. Though mostly due to the fact that being in the army is the best way to survive. You have to wonder how many NK personnel would defect if it came to combat.
If there's a law passed in the US banning such hardware; import.
I agree. Although they have a lot of respect to earn, considering your country has basically ignored international agreements like the Kyoto Protocol and continues to stomp around like it owns the place.
Most Americans I've met are top class people, but your country's image outside your borders is less than stellar.
But getting back to the issue at hand, if laws like this WHOIS thing are to succeed on the internet (which is a global project), then the whole world needs to agree.
There's a UN Security Council (which needs to be overhauled), why not set up a functional international internet council within the UN?
Political diversity can only be good for a country like the US.
The aforementioned term springs from the same mindset from which the term "World Series" is applied to a US-only baseball league.
Worldwide GameCube and Xbox are still level pegging.
Playstation2 first Perhaps you're forgetting #deep breath#; N64, SNES, NES, Dreamcast, Saturn, Genisis, Master System, Jaguar, St, 7800, 2600, Commodore 64, Collecovision, CDi, and a hundred other consoles, successful and unsuccessful since 1970.
They do their best work when they come in second and steal someone else's idea.
IE and Windows are perfect examples of their best work : )
Ask your bank for a second Credit Card with a few hundred dollar limit. Use that to buy stuff online, and if someone steals it, it won't cost you that much.
Open Office features anti-aliasing on all of my fonts. Perhaps it's the fonts you're using, or your setup, or something else. Fact is, it works for me, so I'd look for the problem outside of OO.
Slackware is a Linux distro for Linux people, like Gentoo is a Linux distro for people who like fine tuning and fucking around with configs (like me).
Don't want to compile or recompile a kernel? Use Suse, Fedora or Mandrake.
On a different note, you seem really, really angry for no reason other than people saying they don't like Word. Calm down.
And yeah, it does take a certain type of person, we're a weird, very hard working bunch with unique perspectives on deadlines : )
Now I'm a poor student and I really have no desire to buy games anymore, for some reason. Maybe it's just being too tired to play due to the huge workload of being a geology student, but I think I may, and believe me this is difficult to say, I may no longer be entertained by games.
Excuse me while I go and cry in the corner.
And to add to that, "bitchx" seems to work fine and gives you screens of people talking and talking and talking : )