Your terms are flawed. An invasion is no determinant of the stability of democracy in a country, and the U.S. civil war, for instance, was not a threat to democracy.
The third-party vote is a waste unless your state is pretty much decided (such as Massachusetts). The reason for this is that we don't use preferential voting (with the Condorcet method of election), which would mean you could effectively vote according to your actual preferences, rather than for one of the two front-runners. In our current flawed system, though, a third-party vote is rather a waste.
Yes, you can own a machine gun or a semi-automatic weapon, it's just not legal. And in saying that it is the nature of Canada, in contrast of the U.S. to need guns, you ignore that most of the U.S. is rural, where hunting is usual.
Are you kidding? Debian automates the installation more than any other distribution. You can upgrade from one major release to the next without rebooting, while you sit back and browse the Web or play a game. Yes, the configuration of certain things is inferior to that of many other distributions. If you mean the first installation, aside from the fact that it's something you only have to do once, because of the aforementioned easy upgrade (I know people who have installed in 1997 and haven't reinstalled ever), it's not that hard. Aside from partitioning (and that, too if you've already partitioned in Windows), you can literally sit back and just keep pressing enter. It provides a lot of options for configuration, but the defaults are sensible.
You do agree that new experiences are beneficial to the human mind, right? And the altered consciousness from taking a drug can be one of the most novel and enlightening experiences that informs your perspective on the world even when not under the influence of the drug. As for the direct and temporary effects, I would not go so far as to say blankly that it "improves your brain" but rather that it opens doorways to different modes of thought that can make one more capable at doing certain things.
I can very easily not use a cell phone or credit card. Depending on where you live, it might be nearly impossible to go places without a car. "Going places" should not be opt-in like cell phones and credit cards.
It's still very much an inappropriate use. It's the edge or boundary of something physical like a wall or the horizon, not of some release time. When used in "on the verge" it is of something towards which there is progress or tendency, the point at which something begins.
C is often called a mid-level language because it's lower than pretty much every other language except assembly. You know there is something between the words "high" and "low".
XFCE seems like a middle-ground to me, and it has more UI functionality than Windows 95, with virtual desktops and so forth. Even Enlightenment with all the bells and whistles turned off does fairly well.
Personally, I have a 433MHz machine running openbox and fbpanel. openbox is a light-weight window manager originally based on blackbox and fbpanel is a customizable panel at the bottom of the screen. I've customized it to have a pager, a show desktop button, 4 "quick launch" buttons, a task bar, and the date. If XFCE, Enlightenment, or fvwm2 don't suit your fancy, there are so many interchangeable options out there that it is easy to have a nice setup by putting together the components you want. With very little effort I could make it functionally and aesthetically similar to Windows 95. It is faster than Windows 95. Of course, running Mozilla on it isn't faster than running the old Netscape on 95, and so forth, but in terms of the "desktop", it's faster and doesn't use much memory.
uhmm...you don't have to purchase more RAM to run the OS. Why are you distorting things? The parent was just saying if you wanted to run the latest and greatest stuff with flashy graphics, you'll have to get more RAM. Follow what he said above that with Debian or Gentoo and you'll have no problem without increasing RAM. I've had no problem with 486's and 32MB of RAM with Debian, so something with better specs, like you say you have, will do just fine. fluxbox and xfce are light environments for X. On my current system with Debian, if I'm not in X it takes up less than 12MB of RAM with several services running.
And none of those are in the timeline of the television show to which the parent was referring: ST:Enterprise. The parent was asserting that the continuity flaws in the plot of the show Enterprise were a result of the time travel of the movie First Contact. Your evidence above is simply beside the point.
Forcing the user to kill or steal wouldn't make much sense. The major cause of people stealing to support their addiction is to avoid the undesirable effects. These undesirable effects are still in the game, and it is still the player's decision to relieve those effects or not, whether they might steal. It would be more interesting and realistic if, while under the drug, words and movements were looser. For instance, if the drug were like alcohol, it might cause the user to move "very close" to an attractive player without them commanding it, thus prompting whatever might ensue. This may require finer real-world accuracy in the system, though.
America is not an agent with a will or emotions, and the generalization is insulting. I don't see how "America" could get irritated with New Zealand. Possibly you mean the government, but that is also a flawed generalization, as the legislature did not pass any "statement of irritation with New Zealand". Instead, I think you mean as follows: "The relations between the Bush administration and the government of New Zealand indicated irritation by powerful members of the administration", but even that might be too powerful. etc. for other instances.
According to this article, Yahoo! News had 3,500 sources mid-2003: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/2239521
I highly doubt that Yahoo! found an additional 70,000+ sources in 9 months, leaving Google in the dust. Somehow, I doubt Google was unable to get more than 4,500 if Yahoo was able to get 75,000. I highly doubt that there are even 75,000 news sources in the world, online.
Well, whether they have 75,000 news sources or not, they only put stories from a few of the same sources on every page. Looking through the news stories, it looks like a good 80% of the stories at least are all from AP and Reuters. What good is 75,000 news sources (and that seems like an unreasonably high number) if they only use a couple?
current front page Yahoo! News: 8 AP, 6 Reuters, 1 USAToday
current front page Google News: 3 Reuters, 1 Bloomberg, 3 Washington Post, 1 GEO, 1 ABN CBS, 1 Guardian, 1 NY Times, 1 Voice of America, 1 InfoWorld, 1 ConsoleWire.com, 1 E! Online, and none of them happen to be from the AP Wire (via aforementioned sources).
This is only the top 15 stories, and not to mention the many more top stories and the many links to alternate sources you get for each story. Yahoo is paltry.
"Prostitute" is a pretty straightforward word for someone who offers his or her body to sexual activities for hire. It is derogatory by virtue of what this means, not by virtue of the additional meaning by epithet that the word "whore" holds. One who does not find the practice disgusting would not find the word "prostitute" to be derogatory as it is a precise description of the practice which they do not find worthy of derogation, whereas "whore" is derogatory and also implies an extra lewdness and will likely be considered derogatory no matter how benign or pleasant one considers sex for hire
"Escort" and "companion" are, as you say, euphemisms: a substitution of a comparatively favorable word for a more precise and less favorable word. These euphemisms may be less derogatory, but because they are not accurate descriptors.
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Your terms are flawed. An invasion is no determinant of the stability of democracy in a country, and the U.S. civil war, for instance, was not a threat to democracy.
Well, it's also useful for upgrading a system while retaining configuration without going through the whole install process again.
I suppose he meant technically arbitrary, that is, there is no technical reason for it.
The third-party vote is a waste unless your state is pretty much decided (such as Massachusetts). The reason for this is that we don't use preferential voting (with the Condorcet method of election), which would mean you could effectively vote according to your actual preferences, rather than for one of the two front-runners. In our current flawed system, though, a third-party vote is rather a waste.
No, the Attorney General is charged with enforcing the laws and ensuring public order, which applies to all citizens.
That's not what the word "consumer" means, and I fail to see how it's a more appropriate term than simply saying "our citizens".
Yes, you can own a machine gun or a semi-automatic weapon, it's just not legal. And in saying that it is the nature of Canada, in contrast of the U.S. to need guns, you ignore that most of the U.S. is rural, where hunting is usual.
Are you kidding? Debian automates the installation more than any other distribution. You can upgrade from one major release to the next without rebooting, while you sit back and browse the Web or play a game. Yes, the configuration of certain things is inferior to that of many other distributions. If you mean the first installation, aside from the fact that it's something you only have to do once, because of the aforementioned easy upgrade (I know people who have installed in 1997 and haven't reinstalled ever), it's not that hard. Aside from partitioning (and that, too if you've already partitioned in Windows), you can literally sit back and just keep pressing enter. It provides a lot of options for configuration, but the defaults are sensible.
You do agree that new experiences are beneficial to the human mind, right? And the altered consciousness from taking a drug can be one of the most novel and enlightening experiences that informs your perspective on the world even when not under the influence of the drug. As for the direct and temporary effects, I would not go so far as to say blankly that it "improves your brain" but rather that it opens doorways to different modes of thought that can make one more capable at doing certain things.
That's not strictly true. Some college graduates have a lot of experience and skills which would warrant two or more pages.
I can very easily not use a cell phone or credit card. Depending on where you live, it might be nearly impossible to go places without a car. "Going places" should not be opt-in like cell phones and credit cards.
It's still very much an inappropriate use. It's the edge or boundary of something physical like a wall or the horizon, not of some release time. When used in "on the verge" it is of something towards which there is progress or tendency, the point at which something begins.
Then why isn't it on by default?
C is often called a mid-level language because it's lower than pretty much every other language except assembly. You know there is something between the words "high" and "low".
They were outraged about women suffering.
This isn't a built-in structural flaw of capitalist democracies. You might consider it a structural flaw of voting.
XFCE seems like a middle-ground to me, and it has more UI functionality than Windows 95, with virtual desktops and so forth. Even Enlightenment with all the bells and whistles turned off does fairly well.
Personally, I have a 433MHz machine running openbox and fbpanel. openbox is a light-weight window manager originally based on blackbox and fbpanel is a customizable panel at the bottom of the screen. I've customized it to have a pager, a show desktop button, 4 "quick launch" buttons, a task bar, and the date. If XFCE, Enlightenment, or fvwm2 don't suit your fancy, there are so many interchangeable options out there that it is easy to have a nice setup by putting together the components you want. With very little effort I could make it functionally and aesthetically similar to Windows 95. It is faster than Windows 95. Of course, running Mozilla on it isn't faster than running the old Netscape on 95, and so forth, but in terms of the "desktop", it's faster and doesn't use much memory.
uhmm...you don't have to purchase more RAM to run the OS. Why are you distorting things? The parent was just saying if you wanted to run the latest and greatest stuff with flashy graphics, you'll have to get more RAM. Follow what he said above that with Debian or Gentoo and you'll have no problem without increasing RAM. I've had no problem with 486's and 32MB of RAM with Debian, so something with better specs, like you say you have, will do just fine. fluxbox and xfce are light environments for X. On my current system with Debian, if I'm not in X it takes up less than 12MB of RAM with several services running.
And, just incidentally, anyone with access to the system can determine where and when you travel anywhere.
And none of those are in the timeline of the television show to which the parent was referring: ST:Enterprise. The parent was asserting that the continuity flaws in the plot of the show Enterprise were a result of the time travel of the movie First Contact. Your evidence above is simply beside the point.
Forcing the user to kill or steal wouldn't make much sense. The major cause of people stealing to support their addiction is to avoid the undesirable effects. These undesirable effects are still in the game, and it is still the player's decision to relieve those effects or not, whether they might steal. It would be more interesting and realistic if, while under the drug, words and movements were looser. For instance, if the drug were like alcohol, it might cause the user to move "very close" to an attractive player without them commanding it, thus prompting whatever might ensue. This may require finer real-world accuracy in the system, though.
America is not an agent with a will or emotions, and the generalization is insulting. I don't see how "America" could get irritated with New Zealand. Possibly you mean the government, but that is also a flawed generalization, as the legislature did not pass any "statement of irritation with New Zealand". Instead, I think you mean as follows: "The relations between the Bush administration and the government of New Zealand indicated irritation by powerful members of the administration", but even that might be too powerful. etc. for other instances.
According to this article, Yahoo! News had 3,500 sources mid-2003: http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php /2239521
I highly doubt that Yahoo! found an additional 70,000+ sources in 9 months, leaving Google in the dust. Somehow, I doubt Google was unable to get more than 4,500 if Yahoo was able to get 75,000. I highly doubt that there are even 75,000 news sources in the world, online.
Well, whether they have 75,000 news sources or not, they only put stories from a few of the same sources on every page. Looking through the news stories, it looks like a good 80% of the stories at least are all from AP and Reuters. What good is 75,000 news sources (and that seems like an unreasonably high number) if they only use a couple?
current front page Yahoo! News: 8 AP, 6 Reuters, 1 USAToday
current front page Google News: 3 Reuters, 1 Bloomberg, 3 Washington Post, 1 GEO, 1 ABN CBS, 1 Guardian, 1 NY Times, 1 Voice of America, 1 InfoWorld, 1 ConsoleWire.com, 1 E! Online, and none of them happen to be from the AP Wire (via aforementioned sources).
This is only the top 15 stories, and not to mention the many more top stories and the many links to alternate sources you get for each story. Yahoo is paltry.
"Prostitute" is a pretty straightforward word for someone who offers his or her body to sexual activities for hire. It is derogatory by virtue of what this means, not by virtue of the additional meaning by epithet that the word "whore" holds. One who does not find the practice disgusting would not find the word "prostitute" to be derogatory as it is a precise description of the practice which they do not find worthy of derogation, whereas "whore" is derogatory and also implies an extra lewdness and will likely be considered derogatory no matter how benign or pleasant one considers sex for hire
"Escort" and "companion" are, as you say, euphemisms: a substitution of a comparatively favorable word for a more precise and less favorable word. These euphemisms may be less derogatory, but because they are not accurate descriptors.