Money, money, money. Is that the limit of your vision? Is that the only thing you care about, the only thing that matters in life?
Yes, if you love money more than anything else, fine. Live in a country with no taxes. I don't care. Just don't force me to do the same.
Meanwhile, I'll happily pay my taxes to the govt' of Canada, secure in the knowledge that that money pays for good public schools, great roads, and the best damn health care system on the planet, where even someone like me, a student from a lower-class family, can get life-saving health care without having to go into debt. And when I'm done college, I'll pay back every penny of my student loans so that some other lower-class kid can enjoy the same high quality of life that I do.
And I *am* working to better myself. Don't you dare accuse me of being lazy. I am studying hard at college so that I can get a good job. I simply believe in helping others in their times of need. Why is sharing such a difficult concept for some people to understand?
Wonderful! No more pesky FDA approval process! Now I can do what I've always wanted, get sick and then have completely untested drugs injected into my body!
You dimwit. I used to be a libertarian, too. Then I encountered this little thing called Reality.
Of course they post stuff that they think matters. It's their site! Do you pay for viewing Slashdot? Are you forced by law to read it? Is someone standing there with a gun to your head, forcing you to read it?
I believe you're referring to the Helms-Burton Act. There was a huge uproar in many countries, especially here in Canada, because we've got so many businesses that deal with both the US and Cuba. "I TRADE WITH CUBA" windshield stickers became popular in the border town where I live.:)
What a coincedence. You yanks elected a silly moron who can't speak English either.:) But yeah, I agree with you. Canada's federal election? That ain't nerd news at all, not even for us Canadian nerds.
The past is the past. It's already happened. People should stop worrying about how their ancestors did things and try to figure out the best way to do things now.
If Capcom simply named them in order that they were made, there would be as many number SF games as Emacs major releases... Hell, there would probably be as many as Emacs minor releases, too.
I like your.sig. I wish Lina Inverse was real. We could hire her to send Dragon Slave the greedy politicans and malicious lobbyists that plague US politics.
We're just as dumb when it comes to geography. It's more the fault of crappy public schools that don't think that geography is important as long as the high school hockey team gets enough money this year.
Hell, *I'd* never heard of them until I went hunting on a map a minute ago because of your comment, and I live in the Acadian peninsula, right next door. Does anyone actually live there?
If any comment in here deserves a (+5, Insightful) this is it.
That's what I always liked about English. It's a mix of features and phrases and structures from other languages, and despite beign a nightmare for non-native speakers to figure out, it's had a great deal of success at spreading itself. Sort of like the Perl of spoken languages.:)
That's good that you've got such a great language. Those of use who want to can borrow the good parts of all kinds of languages, including yours, and add those ideas to our own languages.
"Germanic harshness"? I think of English as a very versatile language. I would also argue that "harshness" depends on the voice of the individual speaker. I live in the Acadian peninsula of New Brunswick, Canada, so I know all about conficts between French and English.
And don't give me that nonsense about non-France French not being true French, it's French. I don't regard non-England English as not being true English. They're all just dialects.
>Photoshop allows for editable type using both
>Type 1 and TrueType ("scalable") fonts.
Gimp depends on X fonts, so whether or not you use Truetype fonts depends on X. I'm not complaining about your post, just pointing out what a blithering idiot the original poster is both ways.
I guess the birds are just as afraid of AOL as us humans. Maybe we should elevate them to "sentient" status along with (arguably) the dolphins and whales.
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Money, money, money. Is that the limit of your vision? Is that the only thing you care about, the only thing that matters in life?
Yes, if you love money more than anything else, fine. Live in a country with no taxes. I don't care. Just don't force me to do the same.
Meanwhile, I'll happily pay my taxes to the govt' of Canada, secure in the knowledge that that money pays for good public schools, great roads, and the best damn health care system on the planet, where even someone like me, a student from a lower-class family, can get life-saving health care without having to go into debt. And when I'm done college, I'll pay back every penny of my student loans so that some other lower-class kid can enjoy the same high quality of life that I do.
And I *am* working to better myself. Don't you dare accuse me of being lazy. I am studying hard at college so that I can get a good job. I simply believe in helping others in their times of need. Why is sharing such a difficult concept for some people to understand?
>In space, people have yet to mass-produce the
>weapons that can take out a station.
I don't know about that...
Preach it, brother canuck. But I have to wonder just how many people here got the Stock joke...
Wonderful! No more pesky FDA approval process! Now I can do what I've always wanted, get sick and then have completely untested drugs injected into my body!
You dimwit. I used to be a libertarian, too. Then I encountered this little thing called Reality.
Of course they post stuff that they think matters. It's their site! Do you pay for viewing Slashdot? Are you forced by law to read it? Is someone standing there with a gun to your head, forcing you to read it?
No?
Then what are you complaining about?
I believe you're referring to the Helms-Burton Act. There was a huge uproar in many countries, especially here in Canada, because we've got so many businesses that deal with both the US and Cuba. "I TRADE WITH CUBA" windshield stickers became popular in the border town where I live. :)
From the picture, it looks pretty close. Anyone live in Seattle who's got a measuring tape and too much time on their hands?
Some people don't know the difference between reality and fiction. They scare me.
What a coincedence. You yanks elected a silly moron who can't speak English either. :) But yeah, I agree with you. Canada's federal election? That ain't nerd news at all, not even for us Canadian nerds.
The past is the past. It's already happened. People should stop worrying about how their ancestors did things and try to figure out the best way to do things now.
They began with a Star Trek writer.
Also:
2.2-alpha-3
2.2-ex-2-plus
2.2-ex-3
If Capcom simply named them in order that they were made, there would be as many number SF games as Emacs major releases... Hell, there would probably be as many as Emacs minor releases, too.
I like your .sig. I wish Lina Inverse was real. We could hire her to send Dragon Slave the greedy politicans and malicious lobbyists that plague US politics.
We're just as dumb when it comes to geography. It's more the fault of crappy public schools that don't think that geography is important as long as the high school hockey team gets enough money this year.
Hell, *I'd* never heard of them until I went hunting on a map a minute ago because of your comment, and I live in the Acadian peninsula, right next door. Does anyone actually live there?
If any comment in here deserves a (+5, Insightful) this is it.
:)
That's what I always liked about English. It's a mix of features and phrases and structures from other languages, and despite beign a nightmare for non-native speakers to figure out, it's had a great deal of success at spreading itself. Sort of like the Perl of spoken languages.
That's good that you've got such a great language. Those of use who want to can borrow the good parts of all kinds of languages, including yours, and add those ideas to our own languages.
"Germanic harshness"? I think of English as a very versatile language. I would also argue that "harshness" depends on the voice of the individual speaker. I live in the Acadian peninsula of New Brunswick, Canada, so I know all about conficts between French and English.
And don't give me that nonsense about non-France French not being true French, it's French. I don't regard non-England English as not being true English. They're all just dialects.
Dammit, I meant "I'm not disuputing". Stupid me.
As a non-Amiga-knowing-person-type, I'm sorta wondering about this. I'm disputing the moderation, I'm just curious what this is about.
You mean the basic framework of the Web. The Web is not the entirety of the Internet.
>Photoshop allows for editable type using both
>Type 1 and TrueType ("scalable") fonts.
Gimp depends on X fonts, so whether or not you use Truetype fonts depends on X. I'm not complaining about your post, just pointing out what a blithering idiot the original poster is both ways.
I meant overall. Pretty healthy majority. Too bad I hate Cretien's Liberals.
Yeah. We seem to do quite well using ballots marked with X's.
'Course, it helps speed the process when one party completely whupped the other four and almost no recounts were necessary...
I guess the birds are just as afraid of AOL as us humans. Maybe we should elevate them to "sentient" status along with (arguably) the dolphins and whales.
C'mon, haven't any of you moderators read "Mostly Harmless"? Killjoys.