Since when is Wikipedia an unbiased source? I trust them even less than the New York Times, for Pete's sake. It does a decent enough job at dry facts, but it's rather infamous for being terrible at anything remotely controversial.
In addition, I can't load the site, as it's blocked. Wikipedia itself isn't blocked, but the F-G term is.
If the Scientologists tried to overthrow the government, they would have nobody but themselves to blame if the government moved to protect its own existence. F-G is rather like Scientology, it makes sense on the outside, but the closer you move in, the more nutso the practitioners get.
It's not a dictatorship. Hu Jintao has nothing like the power of a Mugabe, Jong-Il, or Hussein. It's actually quite difficult for the central party to get the regional and local leaders to follow central dictates.
Neither is it fascist, it's the polar opposite, communist.
Even from the biased Western press you can get these facts, Jack.
#1 is blocked because it's google cache. #2 loads fine. #3 I'm not even going to click on. #4 is blocked. I notice you didn't provide any links to Chinese-language sites...how typically self-centered. The Chinese are not too terribly interested in blocking English-language sites, and other languages receive almost zero attention.
Incidentally, Falun Gong is a weirdo cult like Scientology. It's funny how everyone in the West thinks they're some kind of counterculture heroes. Guess what, you've only heard one side of the story from the biased media.
Wow, it's amazing how you injected politics into a discussion that had nothing to do about them. You must be a left-wing nutcase.
I went on about it because I don't exactly have a lot of anecdotes about soccer. My only other one was when the Japanese team played the Chinese team in the Asian Cup final, and the Japanese cheated and won. I was sitting in China with my Japanese gf watching the game. Not exactly germane to the discussion, but an interesting story nonetheless.
Since when is a 2-0 score "domination"? There were only two scores the entire game! Soccer is boring, people.
I actually take pride in the fact that the U.S. sucks at soccer. We have bigger fish to fry, than to try to dominate yet another sport. Let the Euros have their fun! I live overseas, and a few months ago some guy tried to needle me about the fact that America didn't win the World Cup. I just gave him a blank look. It's on the same level as making fun of a child because his handwriting is so poor.
What I should have come back with is, STFU, within two World Cups the U.S. will be in the final, the women's team took it all once already, and you Euros will have another thing to riot about. It'll cost Starbuck's and McDonald's a fortune in new plate glass when it happens.
No, you slashdot moron. Heaven is a Japanese wife, Chinese food, a British salary and an American house. Hell is a Japanese house, Chinese salary, British food and an American wife.
No shit! I played Ultima V for a while, got to the point at which you got to the underworld, and pretty much quit playing after that. The hostile, desolate landscape full of potent monsters scared me off. At one point, I just decided to see how far I could go, eluding monsters all the way. I went pretty freaking far and didn't really get anywhere.
Years later, I saw a map that someone had made of the underworld, by taking successive screen shots. It's FARKING HUGE!#@!#! Jesus did I ever make the right decision to quit when I did.
Thailand? Hell no. Too many loser whoremonger foreigners there.
I was going back and forth between the factory in China and my place in Japan. Half a page for the Japanese re-entry permit (my visa status didn't qualify for multiple-reentry, I got real used to the fastest way to reach the garbage incinerator in Shinagawa), and a full page for the four entry/exit stamps. Plus a full page whenever my Chinese visa needed renewing.
I really should get a new passport before the RFID thing comes along, but my current one is so nicely battered, it's tough to give it up.
Speak for yourself, buddy. I had to get more pages added to mine, because over a year I filled out the initial 20 pages. Waiting in huge lines to go in and out of immigration is not fun. If they can reduce the passport-stamping time from 1 minute per person to 15-30 seconds, that's a huge win, as it halves the amount of time you spend in line.
Magstripes are easy to reproduce. Part of the reason they're going to RFID is to put Abdul's E-Z Forged Passport Drive-Thru out of business.
The young, college-educated Chinese make up a tiny fraction of China's 1,300,000,000 people. The ones who speak English are an even smaller fraction of that, and consist mostly of those who have chosen careers in export trade. Let me guess, you were an English teacher. No surprise there...such a cloistered environment. Businessmen in manufacturing, like me, get out to the factories in the countryside and see the real deal.
You don't get it. When have the outcries of people on the internet ever accomplished anything?
It was scheduled for removal in the last feature list I saw. Now that I finally downloaded Opera (thank opera.com's idiotic.pl script that redirects you to a mirror instead of just linking there...when opera.com is hosed, the mirrors are hosed too...great design there that totally defeats the purpose of a mirror) I see that the re-open closed window feature is missing from the pull-down menus, and needs to be re-enabled from an obscure customization page that's buried in the preferences.
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Oh, yeah, sure, they'd pay attention then. Haha. I dare you to report a bug.
Sure there is. It's been there for years. It's not on the F12 menu, as it's not something you really need to change on the fly.
The "infinitely flexible Gecko plugin system" takes far too much work and customization. But hey, if you like tinkering with the browser instead of getting work done with the browser, who am I to disagree? You've got different priorities. I don't regard my browser as a toy to play with or a hotrod to tune and buy spoilers for.
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Hahaha. Yeah, right. Report the bug. I tried doing that, once, on Opera's NNTP server, about a different problem. Was told that they had "other development priorities", or some such. Report the bug...that's a good one.
It's the only application that crashes. No problems with anything else. Of course, by Opera developer standards, I must be imagining things. Not to single out Opera, most developers are like that.
Who implements the adblocker in the browser? There are other products that do a better job.
Popup blocking and adblocking are two different jobs. Opera was the first, with "Block all popups", but it took them an annoyingly long time to implement "Block unrequested popups", and I'm pretty sure they only added it because Mozilla was beating them over the head with it.
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Yeah...I've been a loyal user since version 3, but ever since they rewrote the entire browser from scratch, it's kinda sucked. I mean, come on, an IRC client? It's a freaking web browser. And 7.54 crashes when I have more than ~15 windows open and keep opening new ones. I know it'll crash, so I have to finish a few, open a few more, etc.
Here's hoping Opera 8 works well...(crosses fingers)
Firefox doesn't do that out of the box? Jeez, I thought it was modern.
Opera has a "quick preferences" box where you can enable/disable plugins, java,.GIF animation, javascript, etc. F12-u disables plugins, including flash. On the occasion that flash is needed, F12-u and reload the page. Whenever I forget to re-disable plugins, this is quickly brought to my attention by irritating advertisements, and I wonder how anyone browses the web without this feature.
I think Dan Rather is a *bit* more famous than you, and yet he perpetrated a much larger lie. Well-respected community leaders have lied about much smaller things. Some people have a need to be percieved as war heroes, and lie about their military service. All these people are much larger than some programmer in a small community that really doesn't meet that often anyway.
I hope that now you realize just how silly your "I stand by my story" defense sounds.
It's better to use a swap partition, as swap partitions use tmpfs. Swap files on disk use ufs, which is not preferred due to additional overhead. However, when your gig of ram and all your swap partitions are full, you do what you have to to keep the system running.
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In addition, I can't load the site, as it's blocked. Wikipedia itself isn't blocked, but the F-G term is.
If the Scientologists tried to overthrow the government, they would have nobody but themselves to blame if the government moved to protect its own existence. F-G is rather like Scientology, it makes sense on the outside, but the closer you move in, the more nutso the practitioners get.
Neither is it fascist, it's the polar opposite, communist.
Even from the biased Western press you can get these facts, Jack.
Incidentally, Falun Gong is a weirdo cult like Scientology. It's funny how everyone in the West thinks they're some kind of counterculture heroes. Guess what, you've only heard one side of the story from the biased media.
I went on about it because I don't exactly have a lot of anecdotes about soccer. My only other one was when the Japanese team played the Chinese team in the Asian Cup final, and the Japanese cheated and won. I was sitting in China with my Japanese gf watching the game. Not exactly germane to the discussion, but an interesting story nonetheless.
I actually take pride in the fact that the U.S. sucks at soccer. We have bigger fish to fry, than to try to dominate yet another sport. Let the Euros have their fun! I live overseas, and a few months ago some guy tried to needle me about the fact that America didn't win the World Cup. I just gave him a blank look. It's on the same level as making fun of a child because his handwriting is so poor.
What I should have come back with is, STFU, within two World Cups the U.S. will be in the final, the women's team took it all once already, and you Euros will have another thing to riot about. It'll cost Starbuck's and McDonald's a fortune in new plate glass when it happens.
No, you slashdot moron. Heaven is a Japanese wife, Chinese food, a British salary and an American house. Hell is a Japanese house, Chinese salary, British food and an American wife.
Years later, I saw a map that someone had made of the underworld, by taking successive screen shots. It's FARKING HUGE!#@!#! Jesus did I ever make the right decision to quit when I did.
I was going back and forth between the factory in China and my place in Japan. Half a page for the Japanese re-entry permit (my visa status didn't qualify for multiple-reentry, I got real used to the fastest way to reach the garbage incinerator in Shinagawa), and a full page for the four entry/exit stamps. Plus a full page whenever my Chinese visa needed renewing.
I really should get a new passport before the RFID thing comes along, but my current one is so nicely battered, it's tough to give it up.
Magstripes are easy to reproduce. Part of the reason they're going to RFID is to put Abdul's E-Z Forged Passport Drive-Thru out of business.
You can connect to the regular telephone network. This is important for me, as I live in China and the international charges are outrageous.
You don't get it. When have the outcries of people on the internet ever accomplished anything?
It was scheduled for removal in the last feature list I saw. Now that I finally downloaded Opera (thank opera.com's idiotic .pl script that redirects you to a mirror instead of just linking there...when opera.com is hosed, the mirrors are hosed too...great design there that totally defeats the purpose of a mirror) I see that the re-open closed window feature is missing from the pull-down menus, and needs to be re-enabled from an obscure customization page that's buried in the preferences.
Oh, yeah, sure, they'd pay attention then. Haha. I dare you to report a bug.
That feature was in Opera 7, but has been removed in Opera 8. Thank the developers!
F11.
The "infinitely flexible Gecko plugin system" takes far too much work and customization. But hey, if you like tinkering with the browser instead of getting work done with the browser, who am I to disagree? You've got different priorities. I don't regard my browser as a toy to play with or a hotrod to tune and buy spoilers for.
It's the only application that crashes. No problems with anything else. Of course, by Opera developer standards, I must be imagining things. Not to single out Opera, most developers are like that.
Popup blocking and adblocking are two different jobs. Opera was the first, with "Block all popups", but it took them an annoyingly long time to implement "Block unrequested popups", and I'm pretty sure they only added it because Mozilla was beating them over the head with it.
Here's hoping Opera 8 works well...(crosses fingers)
You don't have to go to sixteen download sites with 120-character URLs to get the stuff. It's all there already, hit F12.
Yes, it's a good thing that banks *always* obey the law, especially when it's inconvenient or unprofitable to do so.
Opera has a "quick preferences" box where you can enable/disable plugins, java, .GIF animation, javascript, etc. F12-u disables plugins, including flash. On the occasion that flash is needed, F12-u and reload the page. Whenever I forget to re-disable plugins, this is quickly brought to my attention by irritating advertisements, and I wonder how anyone browses the web without this feature.
I hope that now you realize just how silly your "I stand by my story" defense sounds.
You can turn the swapfile off in Windows, but it's not recommended, as even with huge amounts of free memory, Windows always swaps. Who knows why?
It's better to use a swap partition, as swap partitions use tmpfs. Swap files on disk use ufs, which is not preferred due to additional overhead. However, when your gig of ram and all your swap partitions are full, you do what you have to to keep the system running.