And just because I can, and I love pissing off Mensa members and the Billy-G Blowjob Team:
"And if we didn't have to wade through the crap that trolls like you post on a regular basis, the overall IQ of Slashdot would jump high enough to qualify everyone here for Mensa."
I have to wonder about all of those features in word processors. When I'm writing (books, articles, whatever) I tend to write in plain text (kedit, gedit, kwrite) and only bother with 'professional' formating when the text is completed. At that point I usually drop it into AbiWord or OpenOffice and do whatever I need to do with it - which usually isn't very much, just double-spacing, page numbering, the addition of name/article tag at the top, etc. I certainly don't need, nor can see a use for, 95% of the so-called features of most word processors.
Unless you're using them to distract the reader from the fact that you can't actually write. Then it all begins to make sense....
But really: you can write an entire book, complete with footnotes, endnotes, appendices, glossaries, whatever with just about any word processor out there, and make it all print nice and pretty if that's what you need. Most of the features seem to be fluff or ways to divert the boss's attention from the fact that you flunked high school English.
I think Iraq was one of the most fucked-up moves America has made in the last fifty years. I think my president is not just a moron, but a dangerous moron - hence my sig. Kerry's a fucking dick and no better than the slimiest of used car salesman, but with him in office the government will deadlock for at least four years. Works for me.
What I object to is a bunch of European assholes who still think that their countries - or perhaps all them put together in the form of the EU - somehow amount to a world power that can 'force' the U.S. to act in certain ways. There is no way in hell or on Earth that Europe will ever be able to 'force' America to do anything. Those days ended not long after 1783, and they aren't coming back.
Ever.
America will never bow down before Europe, in any guise. America will never be second to Europe. That's simply the way it is. To pretend that your nation or nations are still somehow mighty Great Powers is just plain pathetic, as well as annoying.
That doesn't mean that America will always be the greatest power. I don't think it will. But it won't be Europe recapturing lost glory, it'll be countries in Asia collectively taking the flag of world domination and running with it.
Europe was. America is. Asia will be.
Oh, and by the way, I'm copyrighting that, here and now. Just because I love twisting the DMCA all out of shape.
Otherwise, you'd not be so cavalier about saying the rest of the world doesn't matter
I didn't say that. I said France doesn't matter, and the rest of Europe isn't far behind.
Canada matters. Japan matters. Korea matters. Russia matters. China matters. Even Taiwan matters.
But Europe? I don't think so. Nearly all of Europe opposed our invasion of Iraq, excepting Britain. Did that stop the invasion? Did it even slow down the invasion? Do you think the average American gave a rats ass what Europe thought about the invasion. The answers here are no, no and no.
As for USA being able to do whatever it wants, that's a nice dream. USA can do whatever it wants as long as the EU doesn't care.
What bullshit. The EU isn't capable of doing much in the way of harm to the U.S., and in fact any widespread embargo would harm Europe far more than it would America.
The delusion here is that you think that your has-been nation will somehow regain it's lost glory through the creation of the EU. It won't and it never will.
And why would we bother invading Europe? Like I said, outside of Europe your power is minimal at best, and it's not like you're going to be able to stop us from doing anything we like, any time we like. You have neither the strength nor the backbone.
No, they have not. Bush was set on going into Iraq regardless; Americans were going to come home in body bags no matter what France did.
The end result of France's actions were nothing more than the buzzing of an irritating fly. Hell, do you honestly think we expected the *French* to send any actual troops to Iraq? Yeah, sure, feed me some more horseshit.
What's French approval or disapproval over the war in Iraq worth? Absolutely nothing, because the opinion of the French doesn't matter worth a damn where the war is concerned.
In case you haven't noticed, when you're the only superpower in the world you can do pretty much any fucking thing you like, any time you like. It's a measure of American RESTRAINT that we haven't done more, not fear of the opinion of a bunch of has-been former Great Powers.
but with free speech being used to attempt to defend any action from responsibility these days
That's where 'reason' comes in. We assume that along with free speech comes a mind capable of weighing the evidence and making its own judgements about what it hears. You may not like the speech or the judgements being made, but if you don't you have no legal recourse to squelch either. Your only recourse is to exercise YOUR right to free speech to change the minds of others.
If you're incapable of doing so, that's just tough.
the usual US bullying that work with small countries doesn't work with France and the EU
In case you haven't noticed our government generally doesn't give a shit what France thinks, or the EU for that matter. That's pretty much been Bush's stick for the past four years.
In fact, most Americans don't really give a shit what the EU thinks either. And really, why should we? It's not as if you boys are capable of causing us any real trouble if we happen to do something you don't like. Just look how effective you've been so far.
Then Yahoo should just block all requests from.fr from any portion of their site that might deal with Nazi paraphernalia. Problem solved.
From the articles it doesn't seem to me that this would satisfy the French government. Seems to me they want Yahoo to pull these items, forever, regardless of which country they're sold in. Which is clearly beyond the jurisdiction of the French government, even if they're collectively suffering from the same delusions that de Gaul did.
And what if those t-shirts were being used to incite a whole new generation of Osamas to finish what he started? Wouldn't that upset you just a little?
The entire concept behind 'free speech' is that you defend the right even if - especially if - you happen to disagree with that speech. But since you're a Brit in LA, as you said, I don't expect you to grasp that concept as easily as an American would.
Why not just forget about having a business unit in France? The French can still use Yahoo and buy goods via Yahoo by doing so from American sites. Then the problem isn't theirs anymore and French law doesn't apply.
This seems to be the most cost-effective move. It's not as if the French will suddenly stop purchasing goods through Yahoo if Yahoo isn't physically in France. And if they aren't physically in France then what the French government does or does not want is irrelevent.
Actually it's quite workable. You use a whitelist for your real email address, and then a throwaway webmail account (yahoo, gmail) for everything else. It's how I work it and it isn't inconvenient in the slightest.
I only get the mail that I want at my real email address, and every once in awhile I check my throwaway account to see if anything interesting has shown up from someone not on the whitelist.
...just how evil a single company can be. Microsoft seems to be completely committed to the singular goal of destroying everyone and everything that might ever compete with it, using whatever tactics (legal or not) it can come up with. The quirky thing about MS's antics are that unlike IBM making money doesn't seem to be the primary goal, but rather establishing control dominance. MS acts more like a government yearning for dictatorship than a for-profit institution.
It's crap like this that makes me think a well-placed nuke is going to be the only way to stop MS from acting like a cheap cyber version of Ghenghis Khan.
And if we didn't have to wade through the crap that trolls like you post on a regular basis, the overall IQ of Slashdot would jump high enough to qualify everyone here for Mensa.
...it's the parents who need this book, not the kids. The older the user, the more likely that user is to be completely and utterly clueless.
When I was teaching kids computers, aside from the occasional porn background image (like farts, it never seems to get old to teenage boys) they weren't the ones I had to worry about. It was the teachers and administrative staff that continually fucked up the system.
...I can spend real money on a virtual bitch who never, ever puts out, or I can download more porn than I can shake my stick at, for free, off the internet.
Kinda confused over who's going to be stupid enough to fall for this racket. Perhaps people who can't get a girlfriend and are nauseated by the very idea of sex? Just how large a segment of the population can this be, seeing as how evolution is working against them in so many ways?
Ah, fastseduction.com! Completely forgot about those dorks. I figured they abandoned their tripe and got into the 'penis enlargement' game, where the REAL money is made.
Hey, any socially-inept twit can do the mental convolutions to make himself think he's actually a stud, but your dick - well, no matter what you do with the ruler, if your 'raging manhood' is only four inches long then you've got very little to rage away with. And there fastseduction.com isn't going to be any help at all, especially when your date starts to snigger over the abnormally small size of your equipment.
The last thing any guy wants to hear is "is it in yet?"
In contrast they couldn't call it Free Software and get away with this crap because Free Software disdanes the pragmatic crap associated with Open Software (eg Linus' famous "Bitkeeper" defence.
All open source means is that the source is open. How this could be called "pragmatic crap" - in fact, how any form of pragmatism could be called "crap" - is beyond me.
Maybe some hippie weanie who "disdanes(sic)" money couls explain it to me.
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And just because I can, and I love pissing off Mensa members and the Billy-G Blowjob Team:
"And if we didn't have to wade through the crap that trolls like you post on a regular basis, the overall IQ of Slashdot would jump high enough to qualify everyone here for Mensa."
Max
Notepad has a serious size limit.
In Win98, not Win2000.
I have to wonder about all of those features in word processors. When I'm writing (books, articles, whatever) I tend to write in plain text (kedit, gedit, kwrite) and only bother with 'professional' formating when the text is completed. At that point I usually drop it into AbiWord or OpenOffice and do whatever I need to do with it - which usually isn't very much, just double-spacing, page numbering, the addition of name/article tag at the top, etc. I certainly don't need, nor can see a use for, 95% of the so-called features of most word processors.
Unless you're using them to distract the reader from the fact that you can't actually write. Then it all begins to make sense....
But really: you can write an entire book, complete with footnotes, endnotes, appendices, glossaries, whatever with just about any word processor out there, and make it all print nice and pretty if that's what you need. Most of the features seem to be fluff or ways to divert the boss's attention from the fact that you flunked high school English.
Max
I see you just don't get it.
I think Iraq was one of the most fucked-up moves America has made in the last fifty years. I think my president is not just a moron, but a dangerous moron - hence my sig. Kerry's a fucking dick and no better than the slimiest of used car salesman, but with him in office the government will deadlock for at least four years. Works for me.
What I object to is a bunch of European assholes who still think that their countries - or perhaps all them put together in the form of the EU - somehow amount to a world power that can 'force' the U.S. to act in certain ways. There is no way in hell or on Earth that Europe will ever be able to 'force' America to do anything. Those days ended not long after 1783, and they aren't coming back.
Ever.
America will never bow down before Europe, in any guise. America will never be second to Europe. That's simply the way it is. To pretend that your nation or nations are still somehow mighty Great Powers is just plain pathetic, as well as annoying.
That doesn't mean that America will always be the greatest power. I don't think it will. But it won't be Europe recapturing lost glory, it'll be countries in Asia collectively taking the flag of world domination and running with it.
Europe was. America is. Asia will be.
Oh, and by the way, I'm copyrighting that, here and now. Just because I love twisting the DMCA all out of shape.
Max
Otherwise, you'd not be so cavalier about saying the rest of the world doesn't matter
I didn't say that. I said France doesn't matter, and the rest of Europe isn't far behind.
Canada matters. Japan matters. Korea matters. Russia matters. China matters. Even Taiwan matters.
But Europe? I don't think so. Nearly all of Europe opposed our invasion of Iraq, excepting Britain. Did that stop the invasion? Did it even slow down the invasion? Do you think the average American gave a rats ass what Europe thought about the invasion. The answers here are no, no and no.
Max
As for USA being able to do whatever it wants, that's a nice dream. USA can do whatever it wants as long as the EU doesn't care.
What bullshit. The EU isn't capable of doing much in the way of harm to the U.S., and in fact any widespread embargo would harm Europe far more than it would America.
The delusion here is that you think that your has-been nation will somehow regain it's lost glory through the creation of the EU. It won't and it never will.
And why would we bother invading Europe? Like I said, outside of Europe your power is minimal at best, and it's not like you're going to be able to stop us from doing anything we like, any time we like. You have neither the strength nor the backbone.
Max
No, they have not. Bush was set on going into Iraq regardless; Americans were going to come home in body bags no matter what France did.
The end result of France's actions were nothing more than the buzzing of an irritating fly. Hell, do you honestly think we expected the *French* to send any actual troops to Iraq? Yeah, sure, feed me some more horseshit.
What's French approval or disapproval over the war in Iraq worth? Absolutely nothing, because the opinion of the French doesn't matter worth a damn where the war is concerned.
In case you haven't noticed, when you're the only superpower in the world you can do pretty much any fucking thing you like, any time you like. It's a measure of American RESTRAINT that we haven't done more, not fear of the opinion of a bunch of has-been former Great Powers.
Max
but with free speech being used to attempt to defend any action from responsibility these days
That's where 'reason' comes in. We assume that along with free speech comes a mind capable of weighing the evidence and making its own judgements about what it hears. You may not like the speech or the judgements being made, but if you don't you have no legal recourse to squelch either. Your only recourse is to exercise YOUR right to free speech to change the minds of others.
If you're incapable of doing so, that's just tough.
Max
the usual US bullying that work with small countries doesn't work with France and the EU
In case you haven't noticed our government generally doesn't give a shit what France thinks, or the EU for that matter. That's pretty much been Bush's stick for the past four years.
In fact, most Americans don't really give a shit what the EU thinks either. And really, why should we? It's not as if you boys are capable of causing us any real trouble if we happen to do something you don't like. Just look how effective you've been so far.
Max
Then Yahoo should just block all requests from .fr from any portion of their site that might deal with Nazi paraphernalia. Problem solved.
From the articles it doesn't seem to me that this would satisfy the French government. Seems to me they want Yahoo to pull these items, forever, regardless of which country they're sold in. Which is clearly beyond the jurisdiction of the French government, even if they're collectively suffering from the same delusions that de Gaul did.
Max
And what if those t-shirts were being used to incite a whole new generation of Osamas to finish what he started? Wouldn't that upset you just a little?
The entire concept behind 'free speech' is that you defend the right even if - especially if - you happen to disagree with that speech. But since you're a Brit in LA, as you said, I don't expect you to grasp that concept as easily as an American would.
Max
but perhaps that had something to do with oil for food
Or the billions in loans the French made to Hussein's government, which they'll probably never see paid back now.
Nah, those French stood up to the U.S. for 'enlightened' reasons, I'm sure. Money had nothing to do with it.
Max
Why not just forget about having a business unit in France? The French can still use Yahoo and buy goods via Yahoo by doing so from American sites. Then the problem isn't theirs anymore and French law doesn't apply.
This seems to be the most cost-effective move. It's not as if the French will suddenly stop purchasing goods through Yahoo if Yahoo isn't physically in France. And if they aren't physically in France then what the French government does or does not want is irrelevent.
Max
What wit the two of you possess. It seems all that time in your parents' basement has honed your sense of humor to a razors edge.
Max
Actually it's quite workable. You use a whitelist for your real email address, and then a throwaway webmail account (yahoo, gmail) for everything else. It's how I work it and it isn't inconvenient in the slightest.
I only get the mail that I want at my real email address, and every once in awhile I check my throwaway account to see if anything interesting has shown up from someone not on the whitelist.
It's not rocket science, boys.
Max
...just how evil a single company can be. Microsoft seems to be completely committed to the singular goal of destroying everyone and everything that might ever compete with it, using whatever tactics (legal or not) it can come up with. The quirky thing about MS's antics are that unlike IBM making money doesn't seem to be the primary goal, but rather establishing control dominance. MS acts more like a government yearning for dictatorship than a for-profit institution.
It's crap like this that makes me think a well-placed nuke is going to be the only way to stop MS from acting like a cheap cyber version of Ghenghis Khan.
Max
And if we didn't have to wade through the crap that trolls like you post on a regular basis, the overall IQ of Slashdot would jump high enough to qualify everyone here for Mensa.
Max
t's only a little more useful than a manual whitelist when it comes to avoiding spam.
Last I checked, a whitelist-only approach was 100% effective at avoiding spam.
Max
...it's the parents who need this book, not the kids. The older the user, the more likely that user is to be completely and utterly clueless.
When I was teaching kids computers, aside from the occasional porn background image (like farts, it never seems to get old to teenage boys) they weren't the ones I had to worry about. It was the teachers and administrative staff that continually fucked up the system.
Max
What they write DOES work.
Suuuuure it does. It works as well as the penis enlargement pills do.
Max
Gee, guys still worry about the size of their dicks, yet women have said time and again they don't care.
They're trying to spare your feelings.
Max
...I can spend real money on a virtual bitch who never, ever puts out, or I can download more porn than I can shake my stick at, for free, off the internet.
Kinda confused over who's going to be stupid enough to fall for this racket. Perhaps people who can't get a girlfriend and are nauseated by the very idea of sex? Just how large a segment of the population can this be, seeing as how evolution is working against them in so many ways?
Max
Ah, fastseduction.com! Completely forgot about those dorks. I figured they abandoned their tripe and got into the 'penis enlargement' game, where the REAL money is made.
Hey, any socially-inept twit can do the mental convolutions to make himself think he's actually a stud, but your dick - well, no matter what you do with the ruler, if your 'raging manhood' is only four inches long then you've got very little to rage away with. And there fastseduction.com isn't going to be any help at all, especially when your date starts to snigger over the abnormally small size of your equipment.
The last thing any guy wants to hear is "is it in yet?"
Max
We should apply the "good spelling" rule to /. posts.
Then the editors would never be able to append their 'insightful' commentary to slashdot stories.
Max
If Microsoft wants to "bury the hatchet"
they could start by planting it in Steve Balmer's head.
Max
In contrast they couldn't call it Free Software and get away with this crap because Free Software disdanes the pragmatic crap associated with Open Software (eg Linus' famous "Bitkeeper" defence.
All open source means is that the source is open. How this could be called "pragmatic crap" - in fact, how any form of pragmatism could be called "crap" - is beyond me.
Maybe some hippie weanie who "disdanes(sic)" money couls explain it to me.
Max