Actually, I find that after I've had Firefox open for a while in Windows, it becomes non-responsive and I have to kill it off.
I used to have that problem in Windows and Linux until I upgraded to the most recent version. It only presented itself up to v1.0.2 (were now at v1.0.6). It kept happening in Linux until I upgraded mplayerplug-in. It seems to me that these problems are fixed quite quickly in FF if you keep it upgraded. Upgrades don't install themselves.
My UID is even lower than yours. Hell, I even remember Slashdot before it had enough comments per day to require moderaters (other than CmdrTaco), let alone MetaModeration. I rule.
"Violence not as much, but theaters are required to turn children "under-the-age" away at the doors."
Actually, no. There're only required to turn away minors if a parent/guardian is not present or did not previously grant consent in person and sign a release. That last part is important. Without allowing releases to be used, a large (I'm talking 50%) part of many business's business will be gone. Specifcally, cybercafes and video/game rental stores will be destroyed. At least at movie theatres a parent can (legally, depends on theatre/time of day/etc) drop their kid off and let them watch without being there. Under this law, we are straight-up BARRED from serving minors (16 and under) with or without parental consent or presence. Sound ridiculous? Find a copy of the law and read it. It is.
Concerning parents using ratings, I seriously doubt parents even realize that there are ratings or, if they do, care. I have many parents come into my gaming center to check out what their kids were playing, and I have never had a parent ask about ratings. Instead, they actually play (or watch their kids play) to see if the games are appropriate. Often, the parents leave quite satisfied that their kids' experience is worthwhile and wholesome. The games I'm talking about are routinely rated-M: Counter-Stike Source, Unreal Tournament 2004, Half-Life 2. In fact, the only games parents seem to be concerned about are GTA:Hot Coffee, and Battlefield 2. The Hot Coffee mod thing is ridiculous because it's a third-party mod that's causing the rucus, not the game itself. But Battlefield 2 is the only game I've had parents say anything about, and it's rated-T!!! Obviously, ratings are meaningless.
And we're talking about the parents, in an extremely conservative area, who care enough to check where the kids hang out; if they're OK with their kids playing these games, then what's the problem with kids playing these games. I don't care about having to post the ratings and I wouldn't mind getting signed releases from parents, but straight-up PROHIBTION? I'm ardently against that.
Cola is type of beverage. The term has been generic since soda water's discovery (for the most part). I don't beleive the Coca-Cola Co. has ever had any claim to the word "cola". The Coca-Cola means cola made from coca which is exactly what it is: a cola with the extract of coca (sans cocaine in these days) and extracts of several other plants. The existance of the coca extract is what gives coke its unique and unreproducable flavor.
No, not when it takes six country's armies to kill a bunch of peasants. Seriously, a bunch of peasants defending themselves for 1.5 yr against six armies is an achievement that no other country or political system has ever come close to. I, of course, am refering to Spain.
In most forms of anarchy that people advocate (and are, in fact, anarchic), anyone who misrepresents a group can be instantly recalled by the people he's attempting to represent. Isn't that what Bruce is trying to do: remove a moron from his supposed position of representation and power for misrepresenting us. Bruce has made the call for us to rally to get this dude to stop misreprenting the majority of the opensource community; we should rally with Bruce for the cause.
"And Anarchy has a predictable and awful path: vandalism, then looting, then revenge killing, then 'ethnic cleansing', then the emergence of warlords, and ultimately the emergence of a dictator."
Bullshit. Every anarchy I can think of ended in bloody destruction by statists (for those of you who don't know, a statist believes in the existance of a state; an anarchist believes in the absense of authority). Think Spain in the 30s. It took a year and a half and six armies from neighboring states to defeat the anarchists, who were peaceful and cooperative with each other. Russia during its revolution also had anarchists who were all killed by the statists in Russia, who were more numerous and sneaky and than the anarchists.
I'm still trying to think of anarchy that devolved into chaos before being destroyed by statists. Nope, never happened.
He didn't say defend people that kill in the name of science; he said defend people talk about scientific research that benefits mankind that companies would rather keep to themselves for fun and profit. What's so wrong about defending on that front.
That really sucks that black cats aren't adopted as much. My family has two of them (or rather had, one ran away a little while ago. That really sucked.) and a white cat for a mix. The black one I named (who's the one that ran away after I left for college) is Hades, which is much better than Behemoth or Felix. Who wants a huge cat or an overused latin name. I prefer Hell.
They're are probably more apps like Juris out there than people realize. My dad owns a chain of restaurants and he still uses the same accounting software that he got 15 years ago. Back then he ran it on a 286 with DOS 3.3 but later they released an upgrade so he had to get a 486 with DOS 6.2. Now he's using a Cyrix MX200 with the same HD from the 486 that he's had for something like 8 years. Four years ago the company that makes his accounting software was talking of releasing a Windows version but every one of their clients (supposedly) bitched because how could you enter data quickly if you have to use a mouse. My dad won't switch for that reason alone; instead, he pays $500 a year for updates on the taxforms and whatnot and $10000 every 5-7 years or so for major upgrades. Sounds insane but its the only software that allows a novice to enter 600 invoices in under 2 hours. Try tackling that one Microsoft.
I remember InterSex (or something like it). Some kid gave it to me in sixth grade. I ran it on my hand-me-down 286 (which I learned how to use in 6 months without a reference or a GUI three years earlier. Imagine learning DOS commands by randomly typing in command looking things. Took a month to figure out the filesystem structure and what dir and cd did by brute force. Man, that was a long time ago.) Unfortunately my mom found the game and threw the computer away. I was pissed as hell. Two weeks later, she bought me a top of the line 486 with 4MB RAM, 250MB HD, Win 3.1 and a ProAudioSpectrum 16 with onboard SCSI-1. I wish I hadn't sold that soundcard; it was best I have ever used.
I can ignore mine too, but mine doesn't usually get in the way. I have the smells-as-colors (and to a lesser extent, some others like smells-as-textures) synesthesia. I've had it since birth but I figured out something was different with me when I was young, around 6 or 7. Somebody asked me what something smelled like and I replied green. I couldn't describe it any other way. I still can't. My friends just think it's crazy or I'm making it up. It doesn't help that I'm somewhat colorblind (I don't how else to describe it, though I pass all those colorblindness tests. I can't tell what color certain things are at first, usually with darker colors like green and purple, red and orange. When I saw my car at first I thought it was purple, turns out it's hunter green. I can tell them apart with a reference color though. If I can't tell what color something is, I find something else that I know the color for and compare the two, I can usually figure it out like that. At one point, school kids thought I was gay because I had a comfortable purple shirt that I would wear; I thought it was black. The worst though, is resistors; for the life of me I can't identify them. I have to buy them individually and keep them separated because I can't tell what the colors are at all. Even references don't help because the lines are too small.
You're pretty much right about hallucinogens and bad trips and social trippers. I frequently trip socially on foxy methoxy (a synthetic and legal chemical closely related to psylocin and psylocybin, the active chemicals in mushrooms, which i've also done.). While most people recommend a trip sitter, I find that usually make things worse because they always wish they were tripping too. I find it best to trip really hardcore with three or four others and make sure they do as well. If the cops come while we're on it, I always do the talking. While the others in my group are usually more dominant, they're also morons when it comes to drugs. I, on the other hand, am very experienced so I do the talking. The cops never realize I'm even on drugs but they usually suspect the others are because they're so damn paranoid. After they're gone, I takes me a half-hour to calm everyone down so I can go back to tripping. Having an experienced tripper (usually me) on hand almost always works better than having a sober sitter. Those sober people always try to fuck with you too. Some try to mother you to death. But an experienced tripper can get everyone back on track when things go awry and then go back to introspection or whatever when his services and experience are no longer necessary.
Those logos aren't really ads. They don't tell you to go out buy something; they tell you that you bought something. They're just trying to differentiate their product from someone else's. Well, there are some exceptions to that, of course. New name-brand computers often have their stats glued to the cover to get others to buy this awesome box and mouse pads that they give you are also frequently gigantics ads. But those are exceptions, not the rule.
Oh Jesus, don't even get me started with that shit. When I was in high school, the CS department sucked royal ass. Other people had taken the liberty of starting a Linux club and managed to get Linux up on one computer. I went to it to check it out, and they'll get all pissy when I showed them how to get networking up, X to start and to use a buttload of bash commands in under 15 minutes. After that day, the computer nerds (!) started picking on me. The jocks and whatnot were actually my good friends and, oddly enough, most were actually smarter than the geeks and got much better grades. The AP Chemistry class was populated mainly by cheerleaders, football/hockey players and me. We all got 4s and 5s. That was one odd backwards situation. Actually knowing my shit, being a fat computer nerd and being shunned by the nerds and accepted by the jocks. Who would have thought.
Seriously, I'm sure the RIAA is doing most of this shit from their own networks with their own IP addresses. Just like that bullshit where they pollute p2p networks by putting out fake mp3s and trojan installers. On gnutella I've noticed that most of this shit comes from only a handfull of IPs all on the same network. I now have those IPs blocked because that network also appears to have a number non-Bullshit-RIAA clients on it to. If I webserver space, I would start hosting this list. Unfortunately, I don't (I also have no idea how to set up such a website, with all the scripts and whatnot that you would need to automate such an undertaking). Does anyone else want to try?
I just had a buddy get off after a cop solicited him for drugs and sold them to the cop. You see, if a cop initiates the deal (whether, its bying or selling), then its entrapment. If a perpetrator initiates a deal then it's against the law.
This whole "big guy" "little guy" thing could easily be made moot by asking the ACLU for help. They frequently provide legal advice, assistance and lawyers when someone's rights get trampled, such as in this case. I've had several friends, for different reasons, who've been helped by the ACLU. All you need to do is ask.
Michigan's actually pretty similar to Texas now with respect to gun laws. You can walk around with loaded shotguns and rifles as long as you don't aim them at anyone. You can carry concealled guns with the proper permit. When I turn 21 I intend on getting one of those CCWs so I can carry my Glock and possibly a couple other guns at the same time. It's also legal here to shoot a robber in the back as he leaves or while he's in your place as long he's in your house (or business) when the cops get there. Just last year, a dude in Grand Rapids shot some guy who tried to steel his TV. He had to chase him down, shoot him again and drag him 100m back to his house so he wouldn't be arrested when he called the cops. The only trouble he got in was with the media.
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I used to have that problem in Windows and Linux until I upgraded to the most recent version. It only presented itself up to v1.0.2 (were now at v1.0.6). It kept happening in Linux until I upgraded mplayerplug-in. It seems to me that these problems are fixed quite quickly in FF if you keep it upgraded. Upgrades don't install themselves.
My UID is even lower than yours. Hell, I even remember Slashdot before it had enough comments per day to require moderaters (other than CmdrTaco), let alone MetaModeration. I rule.
4 DIGITS ARE WAY BETTER THAN 5!
Actually, no. There're only required to turn away minors if a parent/guardian is not present or did not previously grant consent in person and sign a release. That last part is important. Without allowing releases to be used, a large (I'm talking 50%) part of many business's business will be gone. Specifcally, cybercafes and video/game rental stores will be destroyed. At least at movie theatres a parent can (legally, depends on theatre/time of day/etc) drop their kid off and let them watch without being there. Under this law, we are straight-up BARRED from serving minors (16 and under) with or without parental consent or presence. Sound ridiculous? Find a copy of the law and read it. It is.
Concerning parents using ratings, I seriously doubt parents even realize that there are ratings or, if they do, care. I have many parents come into my gaming center to check out what their kids were playing, and I have never had a parent ask about ratings. Instead, they actually play (or watch their kids play) to see if the games are appropriate. Often, the parents leave quite satisfied that their kids' experience is worthwhile and wholesome. The games I'm talking about are routinely rated-M: Counter-Stike Source, Unreal Tournament 2004, Half-Life 2. In fact, the only games parents seem to be concerned about are GTA:Hot Coffee, and Battlefield 2. The Hot Coffee mod thing is ridiculous because it's a third-party mod that's causing the rucus, not the game itself. But Battlefield 2 is the only game I've had parents say anything about, and it's rated-T!!! Obviously, ratings are meaningless.
And we're talking about the parents, in an extremely conservative area, who care enough to check where the kids hang out; if they're OK with their kids playing these games, then what's the problem with kids playing these games. I don't care about having to post the ratings and I wouldn't mind getting signed releases from parents, but straight-up PROHIBTION? I'm ardently against that.
Cola is type of beverage. The term has been generic since soda water's discovery (for the most part). I don't beleive the Coca-Cola Co. has ever had any claim to the word "cola". The Coca-Cola means cola made from coca which is exactly what it is: a cola with the extract of coca (sans cocaine in these days) and extracts of several other plants. The existance of the coca extract is what gives coke its unique and unreproducable flavor.
2 cubed = 2*2*2 = 4*2 = 8 != 16
"people are easily swayed by things other than facts"
I just wish that wasn't so true.
What in the living piss are you talking about with your flamebait?
Bullshit, those lines on the road are like 25 feet long. Get out sometime and look. (or maybe they're fifty feet, i don't remember)
No, not when it takes six country's armies to kill a bunch of peasants. Seriously, a bunch of peasants defending themselves for 1.5 yr against six armies is an achievement that no other country or political system has ever come close to. I, of course, am refering to Spain.
In most forms of anarchy that people advocate (and are, in fact, anarchic), anyone who misrepresents a group can be instantly recalled by the people he's attempting to represent. Isn't that what Bruce is trying to do: remove a moron from his supposed position of representation and power for misrepresenting us. Bruce has made the call for us to rally to get this dude to stop misreprenting the majority of the opensource community; we should rally with Bruce for the cause.
"And Anarchy has a predictable and awful path: vandalism, then looting, then revenge killing, then 'ethnic cleansing', then the emergence of warlords, and ultimately the emergence of a dictator."
Bullshit. Every anarchy I can think of ended in bloody destruction by statists (for those of you who don't know, a statist believes in the existance of a state; an anarchist believes in the absense of authority). Think Spain in the 30s. It took a year and a half and six armies from neighboring states to defeat the anarchists, who were peaceful and cooperative with each other. Russia during its revolution also had anarchists who were all killed by the statists in Russia, who were more numerous and sneaky and than the anarchists.
I'm still trying to think of anarchy that devolved into chaos before being destroyed by statists. Nope, never happened.
He didn't say defend people that kill in the name of science; he said defend people talk about scientific research that benefits mankind that companies would rather keep to themselves for fun and profit. What's so wrong about defending on that front.
Smoking is like that crazy music video that looks like a computer game from the late 80s:
"Can't stop. Can't stop. Can't stop the beat. Won't stop. Won't stop. Won't stop the beat." (Squirrel takes four shots of tequila.)
That really sucks that black cats aren't adopted as much. My family has two of them (or rather had, one ran away a little while ago. That really sucked.) and a white cat for a mix. The black one I named (who's the one that ran away after I left for college) is Hades, which is much better than Behemoth or Felix. Who wants a huge cat or an overused latin name. I prefer Hell.
They're are probably more apps like Juris out there than people realize. My dad owns a chain of restaurants and he still uses the same accounting software that he got 15 years ago. Back then he ran it on a 286 with DOS 3.3 but later they released an upgrade so he had to get a 486 with DOS 6.2. Now he's using a Cyrix MX200 with the same HD from the 486 that he's had for something like 8 years. Four years ago the company that makes his accounting software was talking of releasing a Windows version but every one of their clients (supposedly) bitched because how could you enter data quickly if you have to use a mouse. My dad won't switch for that reason alone; instead, he pays $500 a year for updates on the taxforms and whatnot and $10000 every 5-7 years or so for major upgrades. Sounds insane but its the only software that allows a novice to enter 600 invoices in under 2 hours. Try tackling that one Microsoft.
I remember InterSex (or something like it). Some kid gave it to me in sixth grade. I ran it on my hand-me-down 286 (which I learned how to use in 6 months without a reference or a GUI three years earlier. Imagine learning DOS commands by randomly typing in command looking things. Took a month to figure out the filesystem structure and what dir and cd did by brute force. Man, that was a long time ago.) Unfortunately my mom found the game and threw the computer away. I was pissed as hell. Two weeks later, she bought me a top of the line 486 with 4MB RAM, 250MB HD, Win 3.1 and a ProAudioSpectrum 16 with onboard SCSI-1. I wish I hadn't sold that soundcard; it was best I have ever used.
I can ignore mine too, but mine doesn't usually get in the way. I have the smells-as-colors (and to a lesser extent, some others like smells-as-textures) synesthesia. I've had it since birth but I figured out something was different with me when I was young, around 6 or 7. Somebody asked me what something smelled like and I replied green. I couldn't describe it any other way. I still can't. My friends just think it's crazy or I'm making it up. It doesn't help that I'm somewhat colorblind (I don't how else to describe it, though I pass all those colorblindness tests. I can't tell what color certain things are at first, usually with darker colors like green and purple, red and orange. When I saw my car at first I thought it was purple, turns out it's hunter green. I can tell them apart with a reference color though. If I can't tell what color something is, I find something else that I know the color for and compare the two, I can usually figure it out like that. At one point, school kids thought I was gay because I had a comfortable purple shirt that I would wear; I thought it was black. The worst though, is resistors; for the life of me I can't identify them. I have to buy them individually and keep them separated because I can't tell what the colors are at all. Even references don't help because the lines are too small.
You're pretty much right about hallucinogens and bad trips and social trippers. I frequently trip socially on foxy methoxy (a synthetic and legal chemical closely related to psylocin and psylocybin, the active chemicals in mushrooms, which i've also done.). While most people recommend a trip sitter, I find that usually make things worse because they always wish they were tripping too. I find it best to trip really hardcore with three or four others and make sure they do as well. If the cops come while we're on it, I always do the talking. While the others in my group are usually more dominant, they're also morons when it comes to drugs. I, on the other hand, am very experienced so I do the talking. The cops never realize I'm even on drugs but they usually suspect the others are because they're so damn paranoid. After they're gone, I takes me a half-hour to calm everyone down so I can go back to tripping. Having an experienced tripper (usually me) on hand almost always works better than having a sober sitter. Those sober people always try to fuck with you too. Some try to mother you to death. But an experienced tripper can get everyone back on track when things go awry and then go back to introspection or whatever when his services and experience are no longer necessary.
Those logos aren't really ads. They don't tell you to go out buy something; they tell you that you bought something. They're just trying to differentiate their product from someone else's. Well, there are some exceptions to that, of course. New name-brand computers often have their stats glued to the cover to get others to buy this awesome box and mouse pads that they give you are also frequently gigantics ads. But those are exceptions, not the rule.
You do have to choose a gun for the CCW but nothing says you can't have more than one.
Oh Jesus, don't even get me started with that shit. When I was in high school, the CS department sucked royal ass. Other people had taken the liberty of starting a Linux club and managed to get Linux up on one computer. I went to it to check it out, and they'll get all pissy when I showed them how to get networking up, X to start and to use a buttload of bash commands in under 15 minutes. After that day, the computer nerds (!) started picking on me. The jocks and whatnot were actually my good friends and, oddly enough, most were actually smarter than the geeks and got much better grades. The AP Chemistry class was populated mainly by cheerleaders, football/hockey players and me. We all got 4s and 5s. That was one odd backwards situation. Actually knowing my shit, being a fat computer nerd and being shunned by the nerds and accepted by the jocks. Who would have thought.
Seriously, I'm sure the RIAA is doing most of this shit from their own networks with their own IP addresses. Just like that bullshit where they pollute p2p networks by putting out fake mp3s and trojan installers. On gnutella I've noticed that most of this shit comes from only a handfull of IPs all on the same network. I now have those IPs blocked because that network also appears to have a number non-Bullshit-RIAA clients on it to. If I webserver space, I would start hosting this list. Unfortunately, I don't (I also have no idea how to set up such a website, with all the scripts and whatnot that you would need to automate such an undertaking). Does anyone else want to try?
I just had a buddy get off after a cop solicited him for drugs and sold them to the cop. You see, if a cop initiates the deal (whether, its bying or selling), then its entrapment. If a perpetrator initiates a deal then it's against the law.
This whole "big guy" "little guy" thing could easily be made moot by asking the ACLU for help. They frequently provide legal advice, assistance and lawyers when someone's rights get trampled, such as in this case. I've had several friends, for different reasons, who've been helped by the ACLU. All you need to do is ask.
Michigan's actually pretty similar to Texas now with respect to gun laws. You can walk around with loaded shotguns and rifles as long as you don't aim them at anyone. You can carry concealled guns with the proper permit. When I turn 21 I intend on getting one of those CCWs so I can carry my Glock and possibly a couple other guns at the same time. It's also legal here to shoot a robber in the back as he leaves or while he's in your place as long he's in your house (or business) when the cops get there. Just last year, a dude in Grand Rapids shot some guy who tried to steel his TV. He had to chase him down, shoot him again and drag him 100m back to his house so he wouldn't be arrested when he called the cops. The only trouble he got in was with the media.