I REALLY want to go off on a rant here, but I think that sums it up pretty well. I'm fucking sick of the NIMBY crowd, I bet they don't even live in sight of the mountain.
one of these days I'm gonna have to put up my DOS games collection. I've got hundreds of them preloaded on virtual drives to run through MS-DOS 6.22 in a sandbox. In other words, NONE of them, apart from the CD-based ones which necessarily come with ISO images you have to mount on the VM manager, are in any way adulterated from the behaviour or system interaction of the original. Unlike the Archive.org software library which is basically rewritten to run in a Java sandbox, which is a HELL of a lot more involved than simply dumping the image into a folder.
The only time I actually download *anything* in the way of an executable such as a game is if I am assured I can store it offline and install it using that offline stored copy.
Example: I use Backstreet Browser (a bloody excellent site ripper) a LOT. I even paid for it AFTER gaining assurance from the publisher (who also happened to be the author) that I could store the registry file and the installer and reinstall it when needed without having to fork out for another licence or hunt down the website again. The bonus is that updates are free for life and the keyfile will (according to him) work, basically forever.
(yeah, fuckin' what?? A slashdot nerd who actually PAID for something!?)
I defend THE Swastika as a Hindi symbol of luck. As such, it's been around for five millennia and managed not to offend ANYBODY. The Turned Swastika is a bastardisation of both the symbol and the meaning (particularly since the Nazi Swastika is depicted in a white circle on a red background - I don't personally know the significance of the colours Hitler chose, only that it was influenced by his involvement with the Thule). That one, I don't defend either as a battle motif nor as a Marxist political rallying symbol. Hell, I still see people wearing the Swastika on their foreheads during such holidays as Diwali.
Microsoft got the snot beat out of them by the EU, they're still accruing fines for forcing opt (with both IE and Media Player, which is probably why (annoyingly!) they're dropping WMC in 10).
EU Directive 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic Communications deals with this, as does the maxim "Silence or lack of objection does not imply informed consent", to paraphrase Munby LJ in G (R on the application of) v Nottingham City Council [2008] EWHC 400 (Admin), para. 56.
That's not the point, there's a legal issue here. Actually, it's settled case law: opt outs are illegal. End of argument. The checkbox should default to clear (ie the default search engine should NOT be changed because someone forgot to uncheck the box).
I thought Venice-Budapest was part of the Orient Express route? OK it has to go through Vienna as well, but if it's split, wouldn't that be a logical place to do it and maintain a single-ticket route?
Source: have made precisely one itinerary for London-Istanbul, the entire journey taking the Orient Express over three days. There *might* have been a service change at Vienna and Venice (there was definitely one at Paris and one at Geneva - weird dogleg but it saved half a day over going the Strasbourg-Munich route), it was about four years ago.
ANPR (Automatic Numberplate Readers) cameras are already in use practically everywhere, this is just a litmus test as to whether anyone claiming a Constitutional violation might have a case. Asked then answered.
The big difference between Europe and the US: the US is about shareholders, which is why Amazon and the ilk are perceived as so massive - how massive would they be without all that shareohlder investment? Europe is about stakeholders. To clarify, a shareholder is interested solely in the appreciation of stock value, and the floor worker can take a wage hit to maintain the value of the stock - it makes zero difference to the shareholder but he will drag the company through the coals if it underperforms. A stakeholder can be an employee, hence if the company fails he's out a job so his interest isn't solely in stock appreciation, it's more about the performance of the company - the better the company performs, the more he can expect to be paid, which should be easier if there are no shareholders. Hence all employees are stakeholders, they are rarely if ever shareholders.
according to the Civil War Trust, the body count is 620,000 fighting men and an unknown number of noncombatants (including but not limited to women and children) that they say pushes the overall total to over one million. Just taking the combatant total of 620,000, that is still more American war dead than in any other American conflict *combined*. Taking wounded, captured or missing combatants into account as well but excluding civilians, the casualty count in the ACW exceeds 1.5 million.
Special note: those soldiers who suffered what is now referred to as PTSD, what was back then called "cowardice in the face of the enemy", and by WWII "shell shock", were summarily executed and not counted in the casualty lists. There were probably more coward executions at Gettysburg than there were civilian casualties.
Postscript: Compiling casualty figures for Civil War soldiers is a complex process. Indeed, it is so complex that even 150 years later no one has, and perhaps no one will, assemble a specific, accurate set of numbers, especially on the Confederate side.
A true accounting of the number of men in the armies can be approached through a review of three primary documents: enlistment rolls, muster rolls, and casualty lists. Following any of these investigative methods one will encounter countless flaws and inconsistencies--the records in question are little sheets of paper generated and compiled 150 years ago by human beings in one of the most stressful and confusing environments to ever exist. Enlistment stations were set up in towns and cities across the country, but for the most part only those stations in major northern cities can be relied upon to have preserved records. Confederate enlistment rolls are virtually non-existent. Hence, the numbers quoted here are subject to immediate correction.
GPT (telecommunications equipment), Boots (pharma), Brushworks (motors, locomotives and rail track), Hawker-Siddely (aerospace) (I don't know who owns them now), Bombardier (coachworks and ground dynamics), Imperial Tobacco (they do a lot more than roll cigarettes), BOC (gases), ICI (industrial chemicals), BP (petrochemicals)...
Boots have been going for 155 years purely off the back of innovative strides and some of the most amazing breathroughs in pharmaceuticals the world has ever seen:
Ibruprofen Compound multivitamins The modern cash prescription system Vat-grown penicillin Porcine insulin
To name just a few out of many. I'm pretty sure most readers have heard of Boots The Chemist? Founded in Nottingham, England, in or around 1860 when Jesse was just ten. Still headquartered in Nottingham, England.
because kids want their $27,000 Hyundai. Beats the snot out of $12,000 American "Muscle" that puts out half the horsepower for twice the weight and a fifth the fuel economy.::shaking my head::
Slashdot Mirror
I worship giant mirrors, you insensitive clod!
should be fucking outlawed.
I REALLY want to go off on a rant here, but I think that sums it up pretty well. I'm fucking sick of the NIMBY crowd, I bet they don't even live in sight of the mountain.
I don't WANT Windows 10. No Media Center? Fucking forget it!
one of these days I'm gonna have to put up my DOS games collection. I've got hundreds of them preloaded on virtual drives to run through MS-DOS 6.22 in a sandbox. In other words, NONE of them, apart from the CD-based ones which necessarily come with ISO images you have to mount on the VM manager, are in any way adulterated from the behaviour or system interaction of the original. Unlike the Archive.org software library which is basically rewritten to run in a Java sandbox, which is a HELL of a lot more involved than simply dumping the image into a folder.
This. Meatspace for the win.
The only time I actually download *anything* in the way of an executable such as a game is if I am assured I can store it offline and install it using that offline stored copy.
Example: I use Backstreet Browser (a bloody excellent site ripper) a LOT. I even paid for it AFTER gaining assurance from the publisher (who also happened to be the author) that I could store the registry file and the installer and reinstall it when needed without having to fork out for another licence or hunt down the website again. The bonus is that updates are free for life and the keyfile will (according to him) work, basically forever.
(yeah, fuckin' what?? A slashdot nerd who actually PAID for something!?)
I defend THE Swastika as a Hindi symbol of luck. As such, it's been around for five millennia and managed not to offend ANYBODY. The Turned Swastika is a bastardisation of both the symbol and the meaning (particularly since the Nazi Swastika is depicted in a white circle on a red background - I don't personally know the significance of the colours Hitler chose, only that it was influenced by his involvement with the Thule). That one, I don't defend either as a battle motif nor as a Marxist political rallying symbol. Hell, I still see people wearing the Swastika on their foreheads during such holidays as Diwali.
Happy Tree Friends already did it.
Microsoft got the snot beat out of them by the EU, they're still accruing fines for forcing opt (with both IE and Media Player, which is probably why (annoyingly!) they're dropping WMC in 10).
EU Directive 2002/58 on Privacy and Electronic Communications deals with this, as does the maxim "Silence or lack of objection does not imply informed consent", to paraphrase Munby LJ in G (R on the application of) v Nottingham City Council [2008] EWHC 400 (Admin), para. 56.
maybe try turning safe search back on and not searching with such ambiguous keyword combinations as "giant cock"?
That's not the point, there's a legal issue here. Actually, it's settled case law: opt outs are illegal. End of argument. The checkbox should default to clear (ie the default search engine should NOT be changed because someone forgot to uncheck the box).
Was nice while it lasted.
Going back to Opera Mini.
I thought Venice-Budapest was part of the Orient Express route? OK it has to go through Vienna as well, but if it's split, wouldn't that be a logical place to do it and maintain a single-ticket route?
Source: have made precisely one itinerary for London-Istanbul, the entire journey taking the Orient Express over three days. There *might* have been a service change at Vienna and Venice (there was definitely one at Paris and one at Geneva - weird dogleg but it saved half a day over going the Strasbourg-Munich route), it was about four years ago.
...laugh all you want, it's finished.
one word:
PATRIOT.
Thank you, come again.
ANPR (Automatic Numberplate Readers) cameras are already in use practically everywhere, this is just a litmus test as to whether anyone claiming a Constitutional violation might have a case. Asked then answered.
does their combined debt exceed the GDP of the entire Union?
*shouldn't.
New keyboard. Needs breaking in.
^^And this, folks, is why you sholdn't use Bing Translate.
The fuck did I just read??
The big difference between Europe and the US: the US is about shareholders, which is why Amazon and the ilk are perceived as so massive - how massive would they be without all that shareohlder investment? Europe is about stakeholders. To clarify, a shareholder is interested solely in the appreciation of stock value, and the floor worker can take a wage hit to maintain the value of the stock - it makes zero difference to the shareholder but he will drag the company through the coals if it underperforms. A stakeholder can be an employee, hence if the company fails he's out a job so his interest isn't solely in stock appreciation, it's more about the performance of the company - the better the company performs, the more he can expect to be paid, which should be easier if there are no shareholders. Hence all employees are stakeholders, they are rarely if ever shareholders.
according to the Civil War Trust, the body count is 620,000 fighting men and an unknown number of noncombatants (including but not limited to women and children) that they say pushes the overall total to over one million. Just taking the combatant total of 620,000, that is still more American war dead than in any other American conflict *combined*. Taking wounded, captured or missing combatants into account as well but excluding civilians, the casualty count in the ACW exceeds 1.5 million.
Special note: those soldiers who suffered what is now referred to as PTSD, what was back then called "cowardice in the face of the enemy", and by WWII "shell shock", were summarily executed and not counted in the casualty lists. There were probably more coward executions at Gettysburg than there were civilian casualties.
Postscript: Compiling casualty figures for Civil War soldiers is a complex process. Indeed, it is so complex that even 150 years later no one has, and perhaps no one will, assemble a specific, accurate set of numbers, especially on the Confederate side.
A true accounting of the number of men in the armies can be approached through a review of three primary documents: enlistment rolls, muster rolls, and casualty lists. Following any of these investigative methods one will encounter countless flaws and inconsistencies--the records in question are little sheets of paper generated and compiled 150 years ago by human beings in one of the most stressful and confusing environments to ever exist. Enlistment stations were set up in towns and cities across the country, but for the most part only those stations in major northern cities can be relied upon to have preserved records. Confederate enlistment rolls are virtually non-existent. Hence, the numbers quoted here are subject to immediate correction.
GPT (telecommunications equipment), Boots (pharma), Brushworks (motors, locomotives and rail track), Hawker-Siddely (aerospace) (I don't know who owns them now), Bombardier (coachworks and ground dynamics), Imperial Tobacco (they do a lot more than roll cigarettes), BOC (gases), ICI (industrial chemicals), BP (petrochemicals)...
Boots have been going for 155 years purely off the back of innovative strides and some of the most amazing breathroughs in pharmaceuticals the world has ever seen:
Ibruprofen
Compound multivitamins
The modern cash prescription system
Vat-grown penicillin
Porcine insulin
To name just a few out of many. I'm pretty sure most readers have heard of Boots The Chemist? Founded in Nottingham, England, in or around 1860 when Jesse was just ten. Still headquartered in Nottingham, England.
because kids want their $27,000 Hyundai. Beats the snot out of $12,000 American "Muscle" that puts out half the horsepower for twice the weight and a fifth the fuel economy. ::shaking my head::
last time I did any serious coding IT WAS ALL IN UPPERCASE. ZX81 BASIC for the win!