Could it be that Gmail simply allows uses that the other services moved to the paid service? I have all mail from my domain to to my gmail account, then I 'pop' it out with fetchmail. Yahoo and Hotmail disabled that feature for non-paying customers. Since my Palm III is in my desk drawer, I don't really need to sync my calendar and address book with my Yahoo account. I see no compelling reason to use my 7 year old Yahoo account.
Just because almost everyone who uses it on the desktop happens to have a neckbeard doesnt make it a bad desktop distro.
I'm not capable of growing a beard [actually, the thought of it is terrifying], but I use Slackware at home as both a desktop and server distro. What the hell is a neckbeard?
I don't understand the complaints about countries like France, Australia and Canada and probably others with compulsory domestic and/or language minimums. Sure Canadian popular music may be crap, but so is popular music from most other places. Since most people cannot tell "good" music from "bad" music, they might as well hear "bad" music from artists who are somewhat local along with the artists on the multinational labels.
From what I understand, the World Series is called that because the Boston World sponsored it a gazillion years ago +/- a gazillion. However, calling the World Series winners World Champions is a bit arrogant since there are^H^H^His only two^H^H^Hone Major League Baseball teams^H outside the US. I'd like to see a Japanese team knock the shinola out of the World Series Champion.
I didnt see anything about how they determine if the files are illegal. I'd be mighty pissed if it went and nuked my collection of mp3.com, itunes, and personal CD rips.
Then don't put them on a computer you are not the administrator of.
Because this is a democracy, where majority rules.
Incorrect. We live in a Republic, which means we have Representatives that make policy. Our form of government was set up specifically to avoid the tyranny of the majority. Are you really unaware of this?
I don't know if it's due to the major I had in university or if it is the fact that I work in a government of what some people might say is a nifty North American country, but, I have never understood people who think a republican form of government and democratic governments are different or opposite.
The US is a republic. There is no queen of the USA. The US is a liberal democracy, a presidental democracy. You vote for your president, your houses of whatever the equivalent to Parliament is down there. You do the same thing for the state. You even elect judges and sheriffs. Referenda are popular down there. I love watching tv adverts on US channles asking people to vote "Yes" on Proposition H...
Many Americans are not happy with the manifestation of the democracy in the US, but it remains a democracy. It seems that everything is codified. Mechanisms have been put in place to protect minorities from the majority, 2 senators for each state vs. dispersion of Congress-type people at a rate of approximately 1 rep per half-million people. Other protections have been written into the constitutions of countries, like Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The mechanisms added to governments do not change its nature or being a republic or not, but may have an impact on its perception of being responsible to the citizens of a country.
The UK is also a liberal democracy, a Parliamentary democracy. It's also a constitutional monarchy, rather than a republic. The Queen exists and is head of state, but real authority is exercised by a democratically elected Parliament. The constitution is unwritten and based on principles and conventions, but
Most complex societies use representatives to proxy preferences. It produces results that may seem undemocratic. For example, Red v. Blue states in the US. There are conservatives in Mass-o-choosits and there are liberals in Tay-haz. Hopefully, the numbers balance out.
Both monarchies and republics can be authoritarian or free. Monarchies and republics can be/seem distant or close from the population. In reality, in countries where the monarchy is not strong, there is no real difference between living in a republic and a constitutional monarchy, except maybe the fact that in a monarchy, you have the possibility of haveing a living person on the money.
Warning! Car analogy coming!
The statement that we(meaning Americans) live in a republic, not a democracy is as illogical as saying "I have a Mazda, not a car with manual transmission." I do happen to have a Mazda with automatic transmission, but that is beside the point. The manufacturer has nothing to do with type of transmission since most car companies sell vehicles with manuals and automatics.
As far as your main point goes. What year is this? Why is this an issue in the 21st century? I'm sure if G!d was a smart guy (and existed), he'd probably not appreciate speculation about what he has done to substitute for examining and discussing what the evidence has shown, for example, hundreds of years of scientific research.
I don't know what's worse. On a couple of Rogers owned stations, maybe others, here in Canada. In place of adverts on US programmes, they often run short information pieces with some ditz who talks for 30-90 seconds about some obscure news item. I don't know what is worse, excessive advverts or that.
I learned the difference when I was in grade 5. I had some English homework that my dad was checking. He came across a wrongly placed "it's". He wanted to know what it was, so I said "It's a contraction." His response was "If you do that again, I'll contract you!"
I'll never forget that and I have been careful with my use of the apostrophe ever since.
Maybe Sweden should adopt the Euro then. It will only be 58 Euros and you can brag about how much more your currency is worth than the US, then sulk because the game will cost in Euros what it costs in dollars in the US. Actually, ignore that, I am not making any sense today. Keep the Swedish crown and be happy that you will be a millionaire long before people in the pound, euro and dollar countries will be. And give us back our Swedish hockey players when the hockey lockout ends. I miss Daniel Alfredsson and his cheesy bling-bling adverts on TV.
I did support back in the dialup days 1998-2000. I would get those calls too. I always used to laugh at the lawsuit threats. You know they are full of crap and it's hard to feel sorry for them. I'd rather have spent 45 minutes on the phone helping an old lady set up her email than deal with one of these clowns.
It's also a place for nutters to rant and be ignored. I used to read Ottawa Indymedia, but the signal to noise ratio is so low that I can get a better idea of what going on in the city by looking at the posters on hydro poles. The "local newswire" has been abused by neo-nazis, obnoxious christians, spammers, whiners and american "progressives". (Since when is North Carolina local?) The features are updated infrequently and in the past, the service was down as much as it was up.
I assume that not all indymedias are run this poorly, but I really don't care what is going on in other cities, so I have nothing to compate it to.
How many of these fargin iceholes think that they are doing anything wrong? I doubt it is that many. They have a message and a means to distribute it. We have mailboxes. I'm sure to most of them, it is no different than junk mail in our postal mail box.
I understand that we pay for their junk through bandwidth costs and ISP server upgrades etc. How sophistcated are these guys? Are they wrong? Yes. Should they be forgiven? Maybe, but only after their sentence and spam is something talked about as a nuisance of the past, kinda like cigarette smoke indoors in public places.
Hmmm, now upon second thought, these guys everything to break spam filters, steal bandwidth and hide their identities. Maybe they know what they are doing is wrong afterall.
He's worth 60 cent CDN, so he may be more popular in Canada. At the time when the Canadian Dollar was worth only 62 cents US a few years ago, he would have been 80 cent CDN, so his popularity is shrinking here.
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Because the Euro symbol does not show up.
Too late! I saw it on BBC Canada. I laughed, I cringed.
I always thought pogey was unemployment insurance and if someone has worked long enough to qualify for benefits, then they are welcome to them.
Canadians like to sneak across the US border for cheap booze and Indian cigarettes.
Could it be that Gmail simply allows uses that the other services moved to the paid service? I have all mail from my domain to to my gmail account, then I 'pop' it out with fetchmail. Yahoo and Hotmail disabled that feature for non-paying customers. Since my Palm III is in my desk drawer, I don't really need to sync my calendar and address book with my Yahoo account. I see no compelling reason to use my 7 year old Yahoo account.
Wasn't the office licence amended to allow users to only run office on Windows, not through an emulator?
Just because almost everyone who uses it on the desktop happens to have a neckbeard doesnt make it a bad desktop distro. I'm not capable of growing a beard [actually, the thought of it is terrifying], but I use Slackware at home as both a desktop and server distro. What the hell is a neckbeard?
I don't understand the complaints about countries like France, Australia and Canada and probably others with compulsory domestic and/or language minimums. Sure Canadian popular music may be crap, but so is popular music from most other places. Since most people cannot tell "good" music from "bad" music, they might as well hear "bad" music from artists who are somewhat local along with the artists on the multinational labels.
That pompous American is Homer J. Simpson.
Further south, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina?
From what I understand, the World Series is called that because the Boston World sponsored it a gazillion years ago +/- a gazillion. However, calling the World Series winners World Champions is a bit arrogant since there are^H^H^His only two^H^H^Hone Major League Baseball teams^H outside the US. I'd like to see a Japanese team knock the shinola out of the World Series Champion.
Try http://www.aircanada.ca/.
I didnt see anything about how they determine if the files are illegal. I'd be mighty pissed if it went and nuked my collection of mp3.com, itunes, and personal CD rips. Then don't put them on a computer you are not the administrator of.
Incorrect. We live in a Republic, which means we have Representatives that make policy. Our form of government was set up specifically to avoid the tyranny of the majority. Are you really unaware of this?
I don't know if it's due to the major I had in university or if it is the fact that I work in a government of what some people might say is a nifty North American country, but, I have never understood people who think a republican form of government and democratic governments are different or opposite.
The US is a republic. There is no queen of the USA. The US is a liberal democracy, a presidental democracy. You vote for your president, your houses of whatever the equivalent to Parliament is down there. You do the same thing for the state. You even elect judges and sheriffs. Referenda are popular down there. I love watching tv adverts on US channles asking people to vote "Yes" on Proposition H...
Many Americans are not happy with the manifestation of the democracy in the US, but it remains a democracy. It seems that everything is codified. Mechanisms have been put in place to protect minorities from the majority, 2 senators for each state vs. dispersion of Congress-type people at a rate of approximately 1 rep per half-million people. Other protections have been written into the constitutions of countries, like Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The mechanisms added to governments do not change its nature or being a republic or not, but may have an impact on its perception of being responsible to the citizens of a country.
The UK is also a liberal democracy, a Parliamentary democracy. It's also a constitutional monarchy, rather than a republic. The Queen exists and is head of state, but real authority is exercised by a democratically elected Parliament. The constitution is unwritten and based on principles and conventions, but
Most complex societies use representatives to proxy preferences. It produces results that may seem undemocratic. For example, Red v. Blue states in the US. There are conservatives in Mass-o-choosits and there are liberals in Tay-haz. Hopefully, the numbers balance out.
Both monarchies and republics can be authoritarian or free. Monarchies and republics can be/seem distant or close from the population. In reality, in countries where the monarchy is not strong, there is no real difference between living in a republic and a constitutional monarchy, except maybe the fact that in a monarchy, you have the possibility of haveing a living person on the money.
Warning! Car analogy coming!
The statement that we(meaning Americans) live in a republic, not a democracy is as illogical as saying "I have a Mazda, not a car with manual transmission." I do happen to have a Mazda with automatic transmission, but that is beside the point. The manufacturer has nothing to do with type of transmission since most car companies sell vehicles with manuals and automatics.
As far as your main point goes. What year is this? Why is this an issue in the 21st century? I'm sure if G!d was a smart guy (and existed), he'd probably not appreciate speculation about what he has done to substitute for examining and discussing what the evidence has shown, for example, hundreds of years of scientific research.
I don't know what's worse. On a couple of Rogers owned stations, maybe others, here in Canada. In place of adverts on US programmes, they often run short information pieces with some ditz who talks for 30-90 seconds about some obscure news item. I don't know what is worse, excessive advverts or that.
crossover cable maybe?
What's stopping you?
What letter set did hey use before 1880? I'm confsed....I hought they always used latin characters.
I'll never forget that and I have been careful with my use of the apostrophe ever since.
United States, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Portugal and the United Kingdom.
Are you sure it isn't on the list?
Maybe Sweden should adopt the Euro then. It will only be 58 Euros and you can brag about how much more your currency is worth than the US, then sulk because the game will cost in Euros what it costs in dollars in the US. Actually, ignore that, I am not making any sense today. Keep the Swedish crown and be happy that you will be a millionaire long before people in the pound, euro and dollar countries will be. And give us back our Swedish hockey players when the hockey lockout ends. I miss Daniel Alfredsson and his cheesy bling-bling adverts on TV.
I did support back in the dialup days 1998-2000. I would get those calls too. I always used to laugh at the lawsuit threats. You know they are full of crap and it's hard to feel sorry for them. I'd rather have spent 45 minutes on the phone helping an old lady set up her email than deal with one of these clowns.
I assume that not all indymedias are run this poorly, but I really don't care what is going on in other cities, so I have nothing to compate it to.
I understand that we pay for their junk through bandwidth costs and ISP server upgrades etc. How sophistcated are these guys? Are they wrong? Yes. Should they be forgiven? Maybe, but only after their sentence and spam is something talked about as a nuisance of the past, kinda like cigarette smoke indoors in public places.
Hmmm, now upon second thought, these guys everything to break spam filters, steal bandwidth and hide their identities. Maybe they know what they are doing is wrong afterall.
He's worth 60 cent CDN, so he may be more popular in Canada. At the time when the Canadian Dollar was worth only 62 cents US a few years ago, he would have been 80 cent CDN, so his popularity is shrinking here.