True, I guess. Though taken to its conclusion it does lead one down the path of thought towards Hitchhikers Guide absurdities such as tools growing on trees or wild mattresses.
But I am not STUPID enough to think that anytime soon the major parties we have will not be the ones in power.
To use another Simpsons reference, "Not with THAT attitude!".
The only reason the two major parties are the only ones in power is because people keep voting for them. People vote for one of those two because they think they are the only ones who stand a chance. Do you see the cyclic reasoning there?
That said, good on you for voting third-party. I was getting ready to call you part of the problem before I read that. Do you encourage others to vote third-party too, and not just your particular party of choice?
Oh my goodness. How can someone entirely miss the whole point of the Kang/Kodos election, or Douglas Adams' lizards? The point, which you appear to have somehow totally missed, is to highlight the folly of a two-party system.
The problem is not people voting for the wrong lizard, it is people voting for one of the two lizards IN THE FIRST PLACE.
So long as Democrats and Republicans continue to be rife with corruption, your civic duty is to vote third party.
I'd like to know if anyone here owns a smart watch made by anyone other than Samsung? The Sony one, for example, seems more capable and compatible with more devices than the Galaxy Gear but I don't know anyone who has actually bought one.
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No, dropdox isn't some kind of falling documentation.
I of course meant "dropdown box".
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Why would you need to remember what the parameters were named, when your code editor of choice will present you with a dropdox box of all the parameters when you type the function name?
Well of course they have the same responsibilities to obey the law. They are operating vehicles on public roads and must behave as such.
Find me someone here who does not advocate following road rules and I'll show you someone who should not be allowed anywhere near a public road. I'm sure they do exist (I have come across several of them myself over the years), but I think their prevalence is way over-stated either due to memory bias (you are more likely to remember people who annoy you) or a convenient strawman for anti-cycling agendas.
This sort of thing is what the Internet was designed for. File storage, email, caldav, etc can all be done on a basic home server and locked down suitably. No need to give it all up to some untrusted party.
Before 9/11? What the NSA was doing has been known, at least in academic circles, since the 1990's.
It was taught in my University classes circa 1995 that all Internet traffic in and out of the US is intercepted and analysed by the NSA.
It wasn't deplored or lamented - merely pointed out as fact, primarily to illustrate the folly of expecting privacy online. I believe the "treat every message as secure as a postcard" mantra was also taught at that time.
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2) NEVER talk to the police.
In what backwards dirtball nation does that rule apply?
In most of the developed world, cops actually help people. It's their job.
Sigh,
This is one of those situations that vorbis bitrate peeling was supposed to address. Sadly, it never got off the ground.
True, I guess. Though taken to its conclusion it does lead one down the path of thought towards Hitchhikers Guide absurdities such as tools growing on trees or wild mattresses.
It's comments like this that keep me coming back to Slashdot.
Android nightlies are available from their download page, so work is in progress in that regard.
"nobody uses it trolololo" is as fucking stupid as saying that nobody uses windows anymore.
Well to be fair Microsoft is working on that, too.
But I am not STUPID enough to think that anytime soon the major parties we have will not be the ones in power.
To use another Simpsons reference, "Not with THAT attitude!".
The only reason the two major parties are the only ones in power is because people keep voting for them. People vote for one of those two because they think they are the only ones who stand a chance. Do you see the cyclic reasoning there?
That said, good on you for voting third-party. I was getting ready to call you part of the problem before I read that. Do you encourage others to vote third-party too, and not just your particular party of choice?
Oh my goodness. How can someone entirely miss the whole point of the Kang/Kodos election, or Douglas Adams' lizards? The point, which you appear to have somehow totally missed, is to highlight the folly of a two-party system.
The problem is not people voting for the wrong lizard, it is people voting for one of the two lizards IN THE FIRST PLACE.
So long as Democrats and Republicans continue to be rife with corruption, your civic duty is to vote third party.
Otherwise you really are throwing your vote away.
And nearly 30 years ago by James Cameron.
Maybe he recently predicted what might be about to come of the US, and stopped talking...
I'd like to know if anyone here owns a smart watch made by anyone other than Samsung? The Sony one, for example, seems more capable and compatible with more devices than the Galaxy Gear but I don't know anyone who has actually bought one.
No, dropdox isn't some kind of falling documentation.
I of course meant "dropdown box".
Why would you need to remember what the parameters were named, when your code editor of choice will present you with a dropdox box of all the parameters when you type the function name?
Why, the same thing everyone else uses it for. Taking sponsorship dollars from Microsoft, of course!
It's what, along with Windows 8 tiles, is quickly replacing tobacco and cars as the most heavily pushed product placements in TV series and movies.
Well of course they have the same responsibilities to obey the law. They are operating vehicles on public roads and must behave as such.
Find me someone here who does not advocate following road rules and I'll show you someone who should not be allowed anywhere near a public road. I'm sure they do exist (I have come across several of them myself over the years), but I think their prevalence is way over-stated either due to memory bias (you are more likely to remember people who annoy you) or a convenient strawman for anti-cycling agendas.
To answer the last three questions:
Yes
No
No
Also:
"I can see my house from here."
- A Klingon being shown a holodeck in ST:Enterprise episode "Unexpected".
Do I lose karma for citing Enterprise?
Though there are power considerations. That's why it's important to factor the kWh/year in to the TCO and choose the hardware carefully.
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This sort of thing is what the Internet was designed for. File storage, email, caldav, etc can all be done on a basic home server and locked down suitably. No need to give it all up to some untrusted party.
Well, by necessity rather than by definition.
Otherwise I agree with you.
Want to stop the decline? Make a version of LibreOffice or another FOSS odt/odt editor that works on my tablets.
Surface tension in smaller channels requiring more energy/time?
Before 9/11? What the NSA was doing has been known, at least in academic circles, since the 1990's.
It was taught in my University classes circa 1995 that all Internet traffic in and out of the US is intercepted and analysed by the NSA.
It wasn't deplored or lamented - merely pointed out as fact, primarily to illustrate the folly of expecting privacy online. I believe the "treat every message as secure as a postcard" mantra was also taught at that time.
Actually, one damn thing we could do about it would be to stop leaving our data on other peoples computers (nowadays called "The Cloud").
Also stop voting for lizards but that's a much longer-term solution.