The Conservatives are the best at it. The Liberals, and the NDP, and the Bloc, and... well the Greens haven't really had a chance to prove one way or the other yet, but anyway they all love saying one thing while doing another, it's just that most people in the other parties here are monumentally bad at it.
For example, if the Liberals did this, they wouldn't put up any site at all, but still claim that they did. When corrected, they would say "it's coming up soon" and it never would. Also they would chalk up $5 million in expenses to the site.
$5 million in expenses, which would go to a guy who lives in the same neighbourhood as the Prime Minister. And even though he's a used car salesman (albeit a very successful one), they will still claim he's the best person they could find for the job.
So what you're saying is, it's Harpers fault the Liberals either don't have a spine or principles? Just want to be sure I'm following what passes for logic from you...
And that isn't irrational, how? "I'm trying to sell someone on a deal, the only problem is, the trip is about 3 times longer than anyone is willing to risk on a blue-water venture. I know! I'll lie about it, and as long as we get lucky, it'll all work out!" Fortunately for him, he was lucky. Hit a few islands, got to resupply, found some people with skin a different color than his and called them Indians.
IPv6 addresses should be like MAC addresses for people. Issued at birth, and tattooed onto your ass.
Actually I hope the RIAA aren't reading this. It will give them ideas.
Yeah, I can see it now... Cashier: And how will you be paying? (Probably ugly) Customer: The usual. *Drops pants* Cashier: Of course. *sigh* Whose idea was that anyway...
I read a book where it was called an 'aeolian solo'. The creatures engaging in such were non-human (obviously!), but I'll leave it as a trivia game for you to find the book.
I think we can all agree that the one-click patent was bogus. 2 hours of any reasonably talented software team would have come up with that. Things like the LZW compression algorithm and the RSA encryption algorithm are a different animal altogether, and should be used as the test of what is reasonable for patents. Quaint things like totaling columns, and doing something people have been doing for over a century "over the internet" shouldn't receive patents even under the current law. And once we've found something that is actually innovative in the software world, we should limit the patents to something reasonable.
I think patents last about the right length, but stupid crap shouldn't be patentable
If patents were the right length, then the PNG format wouldn't have been created. It was primarily created to bypass the patented LZW compression algorithm (which is a valid software patent, and one of the few ones) which was owned by Unisys. IMO, that patent held back that area of the graphics world for about 15 years. If a patent is so long that people would rather intentionally create a method that doesn't use the patented method, and spend up to a decade doing such, then the purpose of patents (limited monopoly to provide an idea to the general public) hasn't been met. My personal opinion is actually pretty close to yours, but I think patents and copyrights should have different durations for different fields. Let's be honest here, anything in the software world that's more than 5 years old is pretty much a done idea. Why give patents on software that are longer than that?
Not to mention all the stuff other people have said about availability, etc., but there's also the fact that it's not a consumable. So you don't go to the well every time you use your car, you just go there every time you make a car (or specifically, make more batteries than what has been recycled). The dependence is therefore much lower, if you can call something so small compared to oil an actual dependence.
As a solution to this problem, and the first step in moving away from coal as a power source, I suggest we use knee-jerk environmentalists as a fuel source. "Of course my computer is green - it runs on environmentalists!"
Never mind that the frequencies being selected have one of the primary criteria of not being absorbed well by the atmosphere - the goal, after all, is to get the energy to the receiving station.
When Bono said "fucking brilliant" at the Golden Globes, it was clear to any reasonable person that he meant the word as an adjective to brilliant, not as a sexual reference.
Until you discover that his girlfriend's nickname is Brilliant.
Blah blah blah, whine whine whine. You bitch and whine about the poor 1.3 million American military who died in the span of over two centuries for either a paycheck or whatever they believed in, while 6 MILLION Jews died due to an accident of birth and location in less than a decade. And where was the vaunted American military during most of that tragedy? Or, you could accept that it's a big world and if we're going to have a day for everything that's important to some group of people, we just might have to share some of those days. Just be glad it's something like this and not something diametrically opposed to the theme of Memorial Day. And now that I've Godwin'd your thread, I expect you to do the right thing and not reply.
Or you could, you know, buy the CDs from Amazon and sell them to your fans at the show. Sure, you pay full price, but you'll get a 40% kickback, but you can sell them for less than Amazon and still make a profit, and it will be cheaper than doing a small press run.
I'm guessing it won't take long for these phones to be outlawed in the EU though.
Yeah, legal prohibition is an excellent way to prevent people from using something. It works so fantastically well for drugs, guns and pirated music/movies.
Don't forget hookers. I think it's illegal to mention drugs and guns without mentioning hookers. And just to be safe, let's mention blackjack.
Windows hasn't crashed on me since before XP. Ever. Never frozen... nothing. I'm currently on 7, spent a year and a half on Vista, and the rest of the decade on XP (after it was released).
Then you're not trying. I crashed just last week. Win XP SP 3, standard config except for dual screen. Ironically, I suspect it's an open source app that's causing the problems, or interacting negatively with something else that's installed.
All people are different, including tolerance for cleanliness. This includes infants. My oldest would refuse to eat another bite until his face was cleaned. My second child would have food on his face from chin to eyes after eating, and we'd have to stop him from running off like that after eating. This is not dissimilar to other evolutionary pressures - sometimes it's more advantageous to be able to tolerate poor conditions in order to pass on your genes. That probably explains the bar life I've seen on occasion.
How does this have any relevance with what I said? Moreover, where did I say this EVA was less dangerous than going outside the ISS to turn a nut, for instance? What I said was that the fact they're moving 17,000mph relative to the surface of the planet is almost (only almost) as relevant as how fast they're moving relative to the sun or the centre of the galaxy. It's just a big number to make the layperson say "Oooh."
And my sarcastic point was that the sarcastic point you made earlier seems to be the strategy used by far too many large accounting firms in the last few years. Certainly something we don't need more of. I'd just reply with a 'whoosh', but I was either too subtle (seems implausible) or just not funny.
to 99% of the population it is a pretty foreign term.
I'm afraid that in this day and age 99% of the population has no clue about the meaning of prefixes, suffixes, root words, or their origins (often Greek and Latin). If they did, they'd have a good clue of what metadata is just from being able to read it.
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His being in in power is the voters' fault, his being spineless in his own.
The Conservatives are the best at it. The Liberals, and the NDP, and the Bloc, and... well the Greens haven't really had a chance to prove one way or the other yet, but anyway they all love saying one thing while doing another, it's just that most people in the other parties here are monumentally bad at it.
For example, if the Liberals did this, they wouldn't put up any site at all, but still claim that they did. When corrected, they would say "it's coming up soon" and it never would. Also they would chalk up $5 million in expenses to the site.
$5 million in expenses, which would go to a guy who lives in the same neighbourhood as the Prime Minister. And even though he's a used car salesman (albeit a very successful one), they will still claim he's the best person they could find for the job.
So what you're saying is, it's Harpers fault the Liberals either don't have a spine or principles? Just want to be sure I'm following what passes for logic from you...
#1 would be an under performer in my books.
And that isn't irrational, how? "I'm trying to sell someone on a deal, the only problem is, the trip is about 3 times longer than anyone is willing to risk on a blue-water venture. I know! I'll lie about it, and as long as we get lucky, it'll all work out!" Fortunately for him, he was lucky. Hit a few islands, got to resupply, found some people with skin a different color than his and called them Indians.
Now if only it was possible for people to make multiple copies of my car and park them in front of meters, so the analogy would be complete.
IPv6 addresses should be like MAC addresses for people.
Issued at birth, and tattooed onto your ass.
Actually I hope the RIAA aren't reading this. It will give them ideas.
Yeah, I can see it now...
Cashier: And how will you be paying?
(Probably ugly) Customer: The usual. *Drops pants*
Cashier: Of course. *sigh* Whose idea was that anyway...
Sperm doesn't have mitochondria - that's why you inherit it from your mother.
Go back to grade 9 science.
I read a book where it was called an 'aeolian solo'. The creatures engaging in such were non-human (obviously!), but I'll leave it as a trivia game for you to find the book.
I think we can all agree that the one-click patent was bogus. 2 hours of any reasonably talented software team would have come up with that. Things like the LZW compression algorithm and the RSA encryption algorithm are a different animal altogether, and should be used as the test of what is reasonable for patents. Quaint things like totaling columns, and doing something people have been doing for over a century "over the internet" shouldn't receive patents even under the current law. And once we've found something that is actually innovative in the software world, we should limit the patents to something reasonable.
I think patents last about the right length, but stupid crap shouldn't be patentable
If patents were the right length, then the PNG format wouldn't have been created. It was primarily created to bypass the patented LZW compression algorithm (which is a valid software patent, and one of the few ones) which was owned by Unisys. IMO, that patent held back that area of the graphics world for about 15 years.
If a patent is so long that people would rather intentionally create a method that doesn't use the patented method, and spend up to a decade doing such, then the purpose of patents (limited monopoly to provide an idea to the general public) hasn't been met.
My personal opinion is actually pretty close to yours, but I think patents and copyrights should have different durations for different fields. Let's be honest here, anything in the software world that's more than 5 years old is pretty much a done idea. Why give patents on software that are longer than that?
Not to mention all the stuff other people have said about availability, etc., but there's also the fact that it's not a consumable. So you don't go to the well every time you use your car, you just go there every time you make a car (or specifically, make more batteries than what has been recycled). The dependence is therefore much lower, if you can call something so small compared to oil an actual dependence.
As a solution to this problem, and the first step in moving away from coal as a power source, I suggest we use knee-jerk environmentalists as a fuel source. "Of course my computer is green - it runs on environmentalists!"
Yes, since the world ends in 2012 anyway this claim is ridiculous.
Exactly. This is the failsafe device. ;-)
Never mind that the frequencies being selected have one of the primary criteria of not being absorbed well by the atmosphere - the goal, after all, is to get the energy to the receiving station.
When Bono said "fucking brilliant" at the Golden Globes, it was clear to any reasonable person that he meant the word as an adjective to brilliant, not as a sexual reference.
Until you discover that his girlfriend's nickname is Brilliant.
Blah blah blah, whine whine whine. You bitch and whine about the poor 1.3 million American military who died in the span of over two centuries for either a paycheck or whatever they believed in, while 6 MILLION Jews died due to an accident of birth and location in less than a decade. And where was the vaunted American military during most of that tragedy?
Or, you could accept that it's a big world and if we're going to have a day for everything that's important to some group of people, we just might have to share some of those days. Just be glad it's something like this and not something diametrically opposed to the theme of Memorial Day.
And now that I've Godwin'd your thread, I expect you to do the right thing and not reply.
There go my plans for a moon casino.
Or you could, you know, buy the CDs from Amazon and sell them to your fans at the show. Sure, you pay full price, but you'll get a 40% kickback, but you can sell them for less than Amazon and still make a profit, and it will be cheaper than doing a small press run.
I'm guessing it won't take long for these phones to be outlawed in the EU though.
Yeah, legal prohibition is an excellent way to prevent people from using something. It works so fantastically well for drugs, guns and pirated music/movies.
Don't forget hookers. I think it's illegal to mention drugs and guns without mentioning hookers. And just to be safe, let's mention blackjack.
Windows hasn't crashed on me since before XP. Ever. Never frozen... nothing. I'm currently on 7, spent a year and a half on Vista, and the rest of the decade on XP (after it was released).
Then you're not trying. I crashed just last week. Win XP SP 3, standard config except for dual screen. Ironically, I suspect it's an open source app that's causing the problems, or interacting negatively with something else that's installed.
All people are different, including tolerance for cleanliness. This includes infants. My oldest would refuse to eat another bite until his face was cleaned. My second child would have food on his face from chin to eyes after eating, and we'd have to stop him from running off like that after eating.
This is not dissimilar to other evolutionary pressures - sometimes it's more advantageous to be able to tolerate poor conditions in order to pass on your genes. That probably explains the bar life I've seen on occasion.
How does this have any relevance with what I said? Moreover, where did I say this EVA was less dangerous than going outside the ISS to turn a nut, for instance? What I said was that the fact they're moving 17,000mph relative to the surface of the planet is almost (only almost) as relevant as how fast they're moving relative to the sun or the centre of the galaxy. It's just a big number to make the layperson say "Oooh."
And my sarcastic point was that the sarcastic point you made earlier seems to be the strategy used by far too many large accounting firms in the last few years. Certainly something we don't need more of.
I'd just reply with a 'whoosh', but I was either too subtle (seems implausible) or just not funny.
to 99% of the population it is a pretty foreign term.
I'm afraid that in this day and age 99% of the population has no clue about the meaning of prefixes, suffixes, root words, or their origins (often Greek and Latin). If they did, they'd have a good clue of what metadata is just from being able to read it.