Next you'l be claiming that a person must own an 80" XHD TV because the content producer has the right to display their content in the manner in which they intended. You're full of shit.
If they were supplying the internet connection, the computer, and the electricity, they still wouldn't have that right, because what happens in my home is my business, not theirs.
And in case you haven't noticed, people already have decided to "go elsewhere" when sites insist on blocking ad blockers (and most of the blocks are pitifully easy to get around) or putting stuff behind a paywall.
Anonymous Coward is a moron. Don't be like Anonymous coward. Don't be a moron.
Problem is, they can't produce a unique fingerprint for every user's browser. And ANY browser fingerprint can be mimicked - in the end it's just bits and bytes coming down the wire.
So what if they know you're faking the checksum if millions of other people are faking it as well, and giving different bogus checksums for every page load. Or returning all zeroes, along with millions of other people doing the same? No need for an add-on that produces the same fingerprint as all other users of that add-on. You're overthinking the problem. What are they going to do, block users who don't let their browsers return fingerprints? We saw how well that worked with paywalls and not allowing ad-blockers. People just go elsewhere.
It's the internet - it was designed to route around such brain-damage.
Trump is a comedian. Everything he does is tragic comedy, which is why the rest of the world, including Putin, is laughing at him. When Trump starts acting like a president, people will be so... oh wait, that's never going to happen as long as Fox News is on the air.
If it had been said by Trump, he would have forgotten it in 2.4 minutes, never mind 24 hours. Especially since Fox News would have self-censored it, and if it ain't on Fox, it didn't happen.
In any case, I have no sympathy. Angry millenial democrat bots have been filing complaints or resorting to violence for anything that offends their tender beliefs (see Berkeley).
The difference is that the FCC is a government agency.
For how much longer? They look to be on the endangered species list.
Nah, they were too busy cuckolding other people, then doing the whole teary-eyed "I have sinned and I have repented so you have to accept it" BS, then doing it again, because it works on their followers. Same thing with drug addiction, same-sex sex, incest, etc. They're so busy screwing over everyone they can to have time to call anyone a "cuck."
I've seen (okay, heard) people interviewed on the noon-time and 6 o'clock news using both "shit" and "fuck" without being bleeped out. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said "Fuck you" in the house of commons in 1971. When he later denied it, claiming he had said "fuddle duddle", people accepted it with a wink-wink nudge-nudge. The prevailing attitude was that anyone who continued to be outraged needed to get over themselves. Lots of "fuddle-duddle" t-shirts sold.
Nowadays? Most wouldn't blink. However, who the hell says "cock holster"? The phrase is more reminiscent of a jock strap than anything else. "Donald Trump's mouth is Putin's jock strap"... no *forbidden words" there, happy now?
Q: Why isn't Donald Trump circumsized?
A: Because there's no end to that prick.
Depends on whose cock. If it were Wall Street and the big banks, there are plenty of Dems who would agree, as we saw them doing the unthinkable and voting ABC (Anybody But Clinton) - including voting for Trump as the lesser of two evils.
So why did he just sign a religious freedom executive order that allows gays and lesbians, and their children, to be discriminated against? He's a cock-sucker of the religious right and the nra.
That's like saying that it's okay to discriminate against the children of same-sex couples (as his religious freedoms executive order allows because it allows daycares to refuse to accept children of same-sex couples) because at least they're not being stoned in public or thrown off roofs.
Gee whiz, they should be SO grateful that Trump is, as you say, "not personally anti-gay." He's just in favour of fundamentalist christian sharia law.
His signing an executive order (the Religious Freedom Restoration Act), allowing people to discriminate against same-sex couples, and their children, says otherwise. Obviously the last person he talked to that day was against same-sex marriage, and he always goes with the last person he talks to, or the latest thing he's seen on Fox News. He's a follower with ADD, not a leader.
His support of ANY rights except for the rich and powerful is certainly not "baked into" his character.
Waiting until the patent expires requires patience, but Linux has outlived a LOT of patents, and as more expire, expect to see more currently-patented tech offered in the base distribution instead of having to hunt down a repository (such as Pacman) that has them in another part of the world where the patent is already expired oir is otherwise legally allowed to be distributed.
Colbert: "“The only thing [Trump’s] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster,”
FCC: Hey, you can't say that on TV. Retract it!
Colbert: "Last night I said that the only thing Trump's mouth was good for is being Vladimir Putin's cock holster. I was wrong. Trump's mouth isn't good enough to be Vladimir Putin's cock holster."
And yet if you weren't around, they wouldn't have been speaking English, would they? It's quite common for a group of people whose native language is $PICK_A_LANGUAGE to switch to English as soon as a single English-speaking person shows up. They aren't doing it to communicate with each other better - they're doing it because a hell of a lot of people whose first language is English simply cannot be arsed to learn a second language, or simply have passed the stage where they CAN learn a second language with any sort of proficiency.
Bilingual people with Alzheimer's outperformed single-language speakers in short- and long-term memory tasks, even though scans showed more severe deterioration in brain metabolism among the bilingual participants, the scientists said.
The ability to speak two languages appears to provide the brain with more resilience to withstand damage from Alzheimer's, said lead researcher Dr. Daniela Perani, a professor of psychology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.
The more often a person swapped between two languages during their lifetime, the more capable their brains became of switching to alternate pathways that maintained thinking skills even as Alzheimer's damage accumulated, the researchers found.
Previous studies have shown that lifelong bilingualism can delay the onset of dementia by as much as five years, Perani said. However, no one has yet examined what causes that effect in the brain.
The bilingual people dramatically outscored monolingual speakers on memory tests, scoring three to eight times higher, on average.
Bilingual people achieved these scores even though scans of their brains revealed more signs of cerebral hypometabolism—a characteristic of Alzheimer's in which the brain becomes less efficient at converting glucose into energy.
The brain scans also provided a clue why this might be. People who were bilingual appeared to have better functional connectivity in frontal brain regions, which allowed them to maintain better thinking despite their Alzheimer's, Perani said.
Constantly using two languages appears to make the brain work harder. During a lifetime this causes structural changes to the brain, creating a "neural reserve" that renders the bilingual brain more resistant against aging, Perani said.
Bilingualism also sets up a person for better "neural compensation," in which the brain copes with its own degeneration and loss of neurons by finding alternative pathways through which to function, she said.
Maybe the decreased brain capabilities of unilingual people is a factor contributing to both Brexit and Trumpism? Certainly when people can communicate outside their local linguistic community they have more opportunities to be exposed to new ideas. Plus imagine the money that can be saved by delaying Alzheimers, if you need a financial incentive?
Like taking kids to cancer wards to discourage their smoking, maybe we can take them to old age homes to show the benefits of a second language. Old age homes are depressing enough - we should be doing what we can to delay entry just out of kindness.
Maybe it's time to bring back foreign language training as part of the core curriculum in both countries?
At the top of your link: "all such lists should be used with caution.":-)
12% of the Eu's 510 million people have French as their mother tongue. That's over 60 million. Throw in 7 million in Canada, most who speak Quebec French (a variant of French, same as English Quebecers speak Quebec English and there are various variants of English in the UK). Hait has 10 million people, with mother tongue divided between "French" French and Haitian Creole (a local variant of French). We're already just 3 million under your 80 million native speakers.
Are you seriously going to maintain that the other 50+ countries of the francofonie have a total population of only 3 million people whose mother tongue is French?
Methods don't have to be in English. Take the compiler or runtime source code and you can make all the keywords in any arbitrary language. And no, a properly made code translator does not get it wrong. I've done it.
And by the same token, you're inflating your count by including a significant number of people who THINK they speak a second language (including English) fluently, but don't.
The highest population growth is occurring in many of those countries. Population pressure plus environmental degradation are going to lead to mass migrations and wars that will, either directly or indirectly, affect everyone who isn't part of the 0.1%.
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Really screw them over. Fix it so that it thinks it's IE4.
Next you'l be claiming that a person must own an 80" XHD TV because the content producer has the right to display their content in the manner in which they intended. You're full of shit.
If they were supplying the internet connection, the computer, and the electricity, they still wouldn't have that right, because what happens in my home is my business, not theirs.
And in case you haven't noticed, people already have decided to "go elsewhere" when sites insist on blocking ad blockers (and most of the blocks are pitifully easy to get around) or putting stuff behind a paywall.
Anonymous Coward is a moron. Don't be like Anonymous coward. Don't be a moron.
Problem is, they can't produce a unique fingerprint for every user's browser. And ANY browser fingerprint can be mimicked - in the end it's just bits and bytes coming down the wire.
So what if they know you're faking the checksum if millions of other people are faking it as well, and giving different bogus checksums for every page load. Or returning all zeroes, along with millions of other people doing the same? No need for an add-on that produces the same fingerprint as all other users of that add-on. You're overthinking the problem. What are they going to do, block users who don't let their browsers return fingerprints? We saw how well that worked with paywalls and not allowing ad-blockers. People just go elsewhere.
It's the internet - it was designed to route around such brain-damage.
Trump is a comedian. Everything he does is tragic comedy, which is why the rest of the world, including Putin, is laughing at him. When Trump starts acting like a president, people will be so ... oh wait, that's never going to happen as long as Fox News is on the air.
If it had been said by Trump, he would have forgotten it in 2.4 minutes, never mind 24 hours. Especially since Fox News would have self-censored it, and if it ain't on Fox, it didn't happen.
The difference is that the FCC is a government agency.
For how much longer? They look to be on the endangered species list.
Nah, they were too busy cuckolding other people, then doing the whole teary-eyed "I have sinned and I have repented so you have to accept it" BS, then doing it again, because it works on their followers. Same thing with drug addiction, same-sex sex, incest, etc. They're so busy screwing over everyone they can to have time to call anyone a "cuck."
I've seen (okay, heard) people interviewed on the noon-time and 6 o'clock news using both "shit" and "fuck" without being bleeped out. Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau said "Fuck you" in the house of commons in 1971. When he later denied it, claiming he had said "fuddle duddle", people accepted it with a wink-wink nudge-nudge. The prevailing attitude was that anyone who continued to be outraged needed to get over themselves. Lots of "fuddle-duddle" t-shirts sold.
Here's a cleaned up version. "Donald Trump's mouth is Putin's jockstrap." Every single word there is acceptable for daytime programming.
Nowadays? Most wouldn't blink. However, who the hell says "cock holster"? The phrase is more reminiscent of a jock strap than anything else. "Donald Trump's mouth is Putin's jock strap" ... no *forbidden words" there, happy now?
Q: Why isn't Donald Trump circumsized?
A: Because there's no end to that prick.
No more obscene than a lot of the stuff that's come out of Trump's mouth. So what's your point?
Plenty of Republican homosexuals would disagree with you
Well if you vote for a party that blatantly hates you, you're pretty much the poster child for irrationality. So, frankly, who cares?
... or Stockholm Syndrome.
I'm very Republican, and very proud to be gay.
Fuck you, and your narrative. We're not on your plantation anymore and you can't stand it.
Not proud enough to put your name to it though, Anonymous Coward. Is that closet really all that comfy?
Depends on whose cock. If it were Wall Street and the big banks, there are plenty of Dems who would agree, as we saw them doing the unthinkable and voting ABC (Anybody But Clinton) - including voting for Trump as the lesser of two evils.
So why did he just sign a religious freedom executive order that allows gays and lesbians, and their children, to be discriminated against? He's a cock-sucker of the religious right and the nra.
That's like saying that it's okay to discriminate against the children of same-sex couples (as his religious freedoms executive order allows because it allows daycares to refuse to accept children of same-sex couples) because at least they're not being stoned in public or thrown off roofs.
Gee whiz, they should be SO grateful that Trump is, as you say, "not personally anti-gay." He's just in favour of fundamentalist christian sharia law.
His signing an executive order (the Religious Freedom Restoration Act), allowing people to discriminate against same-sex couples, and their children, says otherwise. Obviously the last person he talked to that day was against same-sex marriage, and he always goes with the last person he talks to, or the latest thing he's seen on Fox News. He's a follower with ADD, not a leader.
His support of ANY rights except for the rich and powerful is certainly not "baked into" his character.
Waiting until the patent expires requires patience, but Linux has outlived a LOT of patents, and as more expire, expect to see more currently-patented tech offered in the base distribution instead of having to hunt down a repository (such as Pacman) that has them in another part of the world where the patent is already expired oir is otherwise legally allowed to be distributed.
The vast majority of the titles existed long before the election - some before hubby Bill entered office.
Colbert: "“The only thing [Trump’s] mouth is good for is being Vladimir Putin’s cock holster,”
FCC: Hey, you can't say that on TV. Retract it!
Colbert: "Last night I said that the only thing Trump's mouth was good for is being Vladimir Putin's cock holster. I was wrong. Trump's mouth isn't good enough to be Vladimir Putin's cock holster."
And yet if you weren't around, they wouldn't have been speaking English, would they? It's quite common for a group of people whose native language is $PICK_A_LANGUAGE to switch to English as soon as a single English-speaking person shows up. They aren't doing it to communicate with each other better - they're doing it because a hell of a lot of people whose first language is English simply cannot be arsed to learn a second language, or simply have passed the stage where they CAN learn a second language with any sort of proficiency.
It's a shame, because being able to communicate in two or more languages helps protect against the ravages of Alzheimers
Bilingual people with Alzheimer's outperformed single-language speakers in short- and long-term memory tasks, even though scans showed more severe deterioration in brain metabolism among the bilingual participants, the scientists said.
The ability to speak two languages appears to provide the brain with more resilience to withstand damage from Alzheimer's, said lead researcher Dr. Daniela Perani, a professor of psychology at Vita-Salute San Raffaele University in Milan.
The more often a person swapped between two languages during their lifetime, the more capable their brains became of switching to alternate pathways that maintained thinking skills even as Alzheimer's damage accumulated, the researchers found.
Previous studies have shown that lifelong bilingualism can delay the onset of dementia by as much as five years, Perani said. However, no one has yet examined what causes that effect in the brain.
The bilingual people dramatically outscored monolingual speakers on memory tests, scoring three to eight times higher, on average.
Bilingual people achieved these scores even though scans of their brains revealed more signs of cerebral hypometabolism—a characteristic of Alzheimer's in which the brain becomes less efficient at converting glucose into energy.
The brain scans also provided a clue why this might be. People who were bilingual appeared to have better functional connectivity in frontal brain regions, which allowed them to maintain better thinking despite their Alzheimer's, Perani said.
Constantly using two languages appears to make the brain work harder. During a lifetime this causes structural changes to the brain, creating a "neural reserve" that renders the bilingual brain more resistant against aging, Perani said.
Bilingualism also sets up a person for better "neural compensation," in which the brain copes with its own degeneration and loss of neurons by finding alternative pathways through which to function, she said.
Maybe the decreased brain capabilities of unilingual people is a factor contributing to both Brexit and Trumpism? Certainly when people can communicate outside their local linguistic community they have more opportunities to be exposed to new ideas. Plus imagine the money that can be saved by delaying Alzheimers, if you need a financial incentive?
Like taking kids to cancer wards to discourage their smoking, maybe we can take them to old age homes to show the benefits of a second language. Old age homes are depressing enough - we should be doing what we can to delay entry just out of kindness.
Maybe it's time to bring back foreign language training as part of the core curriculum in both countries?
At the top of your link: "all such lists should be used with caution." :-)
12% of the Eu's 510 million people have French as their mother tongue. That's over 60 million. Throw in 7 million in Canada, most who speak Quebec French (a variant of French, same as English Quebecers speak Quebec English and there are various variants of English in the UK). Hait has 10 million people, with mother tongue divided between "French" French and Haitian Creole (a local variant of French). We're already just 3 million under your 80 million native speakers.
Are you seriously going to maintain that the other 50+ countries of the francofonie have a total population of only 3 million people whose mother tongue is French?
The figure is full of shit.
Methods don't have to be in English. Take the compiler or runtime source code and you can make all the keywords in any arbitrary language. And no, a properly made code translator does not get it wrong. I've done it.
And by the same token, you're inflating your count by including a significant number of people who THINK they speak a second language (including English) fluently, but don't.
The highest population growth is occurring in many of those countries. Population pressure plus environmental degradation are going to lead to mass migrations and wars that will, either directly or indirectly, affect everyone who isn't part of the 0.1%.