> If I recall correctly it starts with "We the People of the United States...", which, to me anyways, > indicates that the only people bound by it are those who happen to be citizens of the United States
The Constitution creates, authorizes, empowers, and "binds" the government, not the people. The people retain all their rights, merely granting the government powers (not rights) over those rights. The people retain the right to pull that power back away again, at their discretion.
I got news for you. Your wife's contract with you ain't airtight, either. In fact, the only airtight thing last night was her wet kissy-lips clamped down...
> Heck, if you insist on being a brute, at least be smart > enough to do it outside where people aren't filming you!
Au contraire, if I were police, I'd prefer everything I do besides eating donuts in the car be on film. "Police brutality" complaints are legion, and film helps keep police honest, and, more importantly, allows them to defend themselves against claims of abuse.
I recall a video from a few years ago where a hippie got arrested, and claimed assault by the police. Unbeknownst to him, someone was filming it, and he clearly threw the first punch.
Freedom to speak your mind does not include monopolizing a forum long past when the organizers have asked you to stop and let someone else speak. They reserve the right to kick you out, thanksforplaying!
1. I do insert them. Something along the downstream chain removes them, or refuses to display them.
2. I am aware of the reasoning.
3. The reasoning is faulty. Without an intelligent stream formatter, there's no way to tell the difference between a normal space after a period and the extra space useful for the eye between sentences.
4. In practice, text renderers are not intelligent, stream formatters. Hence they just use the built-in kerning for a period followed by a space, which is decidedly not the same as what is desirable for space between sentences. The kerning concept just can't handle it since it is limited to a pairwise table of characters with extra pixel spacing pads.
Yes, proportional fonts should have their own intra-sentence spacing definition a little wider than a normal space. I do not see that in actual practice; they just use the normal dot-followed-by-normal-space setup. I suppose if there's a beef here, it's that the choice is removed from me because of the auto-stripping of the extra space, while the system as a whole doesn't even bother to add any extra space, which completely misses the whole point.
"You, the geniuses who invent and improve the RAM capacities, shall sell them only in a manner we, the angry, scientifically illiterate, power hungry, charismatic savages in government, with armed thugs under our thrall, permit you to."
We now return you to your regularly scheduled world of curtains with pretty pictures projected on them.
> Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro fine imposed by the European Commission
Thatcher: Charles, I happen to know this little enterprise of yours cost you 497 million Euros last year.
Kane: Yes, Mr. Thatcher, I did lose 497 million Euros last year. I expect to lose 497 million Euros this year. I expect to lose 497 million Euros next year. You know what, Mr. Thatcher? At 497 milliion Euros a year, I'll have to close this place...in one hundred and twenty years.
Tallfellows and Great Lovers -- Slashdot readers love to play various fantasy races and classes like this in their "emporgs" when getting away from their mundane lives.
> Congress is considering a 'Voter Confidence and Increased Accountability Act of 2007,' > which would mandate 'voter-verified' paper audit trails
Well, don't feel too bad. At least this is an improvement on the previous act, Computerized Overtally Undertaking Program, which itself was an improvement over the Automated Secure-Selection Field Unit Computerized Keyboard,
The butterfly also alters the world, and just as much in the long run. A few years, if not just months, down the road, weather patterns are different, people are mating at different times than they otherwise would, and completely different sets of people are being born.
If Hitler had never existed, my parents would, but I would almost certainly not be here, and even if I were, I'd probably be very different person.
No Hitler, no WWII. No WWII, no Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe. No Warsaw Pact, no cold war. No cold war...then what?
Slower tech, such that we'd be lucky to be using Trash-80's at the moment? Or faster, since many engineers and scientists would be developing other stuff? Worse planes and rockets, but better cars? Would FDR have lost the 1940 election with no pending war to help rescue him? Continued social advances? Benefit or slow down the economy?
Personally, I'm pissed off neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented the steam engine. We'd have been on the moon 2000 years ago. In fact, society could have been so advanced by now, nobody would die, and would have 100% immersive virtual reality. Which could look no different from the world......around you. Blue pill! Blue pill! I want to remember nothing. Nothing!
Not is only the logic flawed, but the premises are false, too. It's poop on top of poop.
"MS made the GUI popular" -- Whatever, Microsoft. You saw the popularity elsewhere, then cobbled it on top of DOS to prevent a competitor from arising.
"Brought Internet into the home" -- Whatever, Microsoft. You saw the popularity skyrocketting, on connections that had nothing to do with your OS (indeed, it fought against it) and browsers that had nothing to do with your company or OS, and foresaw a virtual computer/desktop running in a browser window making your OS unnecessary. So you completely shifted your corporate course, again, to keep from getting Left Behind like Al Sharpton at the Rapture.
They are practicing busting into their own home, to then sell "bust-in kits" to other people who will then bust into your home. Or sell or give the info to people who will make such kits.
Oh, sure, not this particular researcher. He's clean as the windblown snow, without doubt, including nothing but honorable intentions.
> and the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition.
Try as I might, I never could quite 1-shot the undead guy in the second encounter near the end of the game in KotoR II. Technically if I re-loaded enough, and all my flurries crit'd, it would have, but I never took it that far. 1-almost and a second quick whack, that's enough.
He also wasn't a drunk, didn't do cocain binges, and probably didn't smoke pot regularly. Especially not in the 1970's.
He was also arguably the only scientifically literate president since Thomas Jefferson, which is extremely sad. The others, every last one, a whiz kid at manipulating people.
I never forget that scene at the beginning of "Beaches", where the little girl, destined to be a snobby, if good-hearted, lawyer, walks up to another kid building a sand castle, then leaves saying, "I'll be back to check on your work later!"
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> If I recall correctly it starts with "We the People of the United States...", which, to me anyways,
> indicates that the only people bound by it are those who happen to be citizens of the United States
The Constitution creates, authorizes, empowers, and "binds" the government, not the people. The people retain all their rights, merely granting the government powers (not rights) over those rights. The people retain the right to pull that power back away again, at their discretion.
I got news for you. Your wife's contract with you ain't airtight, either. In fact, the only airtight thing last night was her wet kissy-lips clamped down...
"...and green Rearedon metal is crappy, too! We know it!"
> Heck, if you insist on being a brute, at least be smart
> enough to do it outside where people aren't filming you!
Au contraire, if I were police, I'd prefer everything I do besides eating donuts in the car be on film. "Police brutality" complaints are legion, and film helps keep police honest, and, more importantly, allows them to defend themselves against claims of abuse.
I recall a video from a few years ago where a hippie got arrested, and claimed assault by the police. Unbeknownst to him, someone was filming it, and he clearly threw the first punch.
> like the freedom to speak your mind.
Freedom to speak your mind does not include monopolizing a forum long past when the organizers have asked you to stop and let someone else speak. They reserve the right to kick you out, thanksforplaying!
Cold as ice? If it's been in the sun near Earth's orbit for months, it should be well above boiling.
Where's this "cold as ice" stuff coming from?
1. I do insert them. Something along the downstream chain removes them, or refuses to display them.
2. I am aware of the reasoning.
3. The reasoning is faulty. Without an intelligent stream formatter, there's no way to tell the difference between a normal space after a period and the extra space useful for the eye between sentences.
4. In practice, text renderers are not intelligent, stream formatters. Hence they just use the built-in kerning for a period followed by a space, which is decidedly not the same as what is desirable for space between sentences. The kerning concept just can't handle it since it is limited to a pairwise table of characters with extra pixel spacing pads.
Yes, proportional fonts should have their own intra-sentence spacing definition a little wider than a normal space. I do not see that in actual practice; they just use the normal dot-followed-by-normal-space setup. I suppose if there's a beef here, it's that the choice is removed from me because of the auto-stripping of the extra space, while the system as a whole doesn't even bother to add any extra space, which completely misses the whole point.
"You, the geniuses who invent and improve the RAM capacities, shall sell them only in a manner we, the angry, scientifically illiterate, power hungry, charismatic savages in government, with armed thugs under our thrall, permit you to."
We now return you to your regularly scheduled world of curtains with pretty pictures projected on them.
> Microsoft has lost its appeal against a record 497m euro fine imposed by the European Commission
Thatcher: Charles, I happen to know this little enterprise of yours cost you 497 million Euros last year.
Kane: Yes, Mr. Thatcher, I did lose 497 million Euros last year. I expect to lose 497 million Euros this year. I expect to lose 497 million Euros next year. You know what, Mr. Thatcher? At 497 milliion Euros a year, I'll have to close this place...in one hundred and twenty years.
(Cue horns: wah wah wah wah waaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...)
> Wasn't he a Corsican?
I've yet to see a Slashdot article that doesn't eventually mention Star Wars!
Who can forget their favorite passage, updated?
Darth Vader. Bipedal. The distance light travels in a vacuum in two 1/299,792,458ths of a second tall.
Tallfellows and Great Lovers -- Slashdot readers love to play various fantasy races and classes like this in their "emporgs" when getting away from their mundane lives.
> or until such time as you show the adequate remorse necessary
How do you define "adequate"? Sorry to be lawyerly here, but you can't leave it so vague. Do you have a metric?
> Congress is considering a 'Voter Confidence and Increased Accountability Act of 2007,'
> which would mandate 'voter-verified' paper audit trails
Well, don't feel too bad. At least this is an improvement on the previous act, Computerized Overtally Undertaking Program, which itself was an improvement over the Automated Secure-Selection Field Unit Computerized Keyboard,
The butterfly also alters the world, and just as much in the long run. A few years, if not just months, down the road, weather patterns are different, people are mating at different times than they otherwise would, and completely different sets of people are being born.
...around you. Blue pill! Blue pill! I want to remember nothing. Nothing!
If Hitler had never existed, my parents would, but I would almost certainly not be here, and even if I were, I'd probably be very different person.
No Hitler, no WWII. No WWII, no Soviet invasion of Eastern Europe. No Warsaw Pact, no cold war. No cold war...then what?
Slower tech, such that we'd be lucky to be using Trash-80's at the moment? Or faster, since many engineers and scientists would be developing other stuff? Worse planes and rockets, but better cars? Would FDR have lost the 1940 election with no pending war to help rescue him? Continued social advances? Benefit or slow down the economy?
Personally, I'm pissed off neither the Greeks nor the Romans invented the steam engine. We'd have been on the moon 2000 years ago. In fact, society could have been so advanced by now, nobody would die, and would have 100% immersive virtual reality. Which could look no different from the world...
No kidding! I only wish we had developed socialized computer and software development. Imagine how far ahead we'd be today!
Not is only the logic flawed, but the premises are false, too. It's poop on top of poop.
"MS made the GUI popular" -- Whatever, Microsoft. You saw the popularity elsewhere, then cobbled it on top of DOS to prevent a competitor from arising.
"Brought Internet into the home" -- Whatever, Microsoft. You saw the popularity skyrocketting, on connections that had nothing to do with your OS (indeed, it fought against it) and browsers that had nothing to do with your company or OS, and foresaw a virtual computer/desktop running in a browser window making your OS unnecessary. So you completely shifted your corporate course, again, to keep from getting Left Behind like Al Sharpton at the Rapture.
He funded it, "so in a sense, I invented the Internet", sounds pretty much like it to me.
Awesome!
Make that 124...
Comics...drawn out...paneful...get it?
Begin the unnecessarily slow dipping mechanism!
www.shhhh.com
dot org
Except that that's not true, either.
They are practicing busting into their own home, to then sell "bust-in kits" to other people who will then bust into your home. Or sell or give the info to people who will make such kits.
Oh, sure, not this particular researcher. He's clean as the windblown snow, without doubt, including nothing but honorable intentions.
Battletech on Sega Genesis, on hard, was one of the truly hard games I've played.
Judge: I hereby sentence you to 20 years in a minimum security prison, to include but not be limited to daily "personal infringements" via "bullying".
> and the Star Wars Roleplaying Game Saga Edition.
Try as I might, I never could quite 1-shot the undead guy in the second encounter near the end of the game in KotoR II. Technically if I re-loaded enough, and all my flurries crit'd, it would have, but I never took it that far. 1-almost and a second quick whack, that's enough.
Yeah, "hard" was a joke, but sheesh.
He also wasn't a drunk, didn't do cocain binges, and probably didn't smoke pot regularly. Especially not in the 1970's.
He was also arguably the only scientifically literate president since Thomas Jefferson, which is extremely sad. The others, every last one, a whiz kid at manipulating people.
I never forget that scene at the beginning of "Beaches", where the little girl, destined to be a snobby, if good-hearted, lawyer, walks up to another kid building a sand castle, then leaves saying, "I'll be back to check on your work later!"