he said he's american you dick. America-bashing has sadly come to be "the opium of the intellectual." (--Lee Harris, Dec 2002, Jan 2003 Policy Review) but in your case its wholly justified.
In simple terms the music is related to the differences in length of time between on and off. the guy listening to the music is a surgeon working on a patient on a table 1000km away. I want him looking at the television not the readout on the ping variations. The noise (presumably a sliding tone to indicate changes in ping will alert him to the time dimension of the visual feedback or otherwise that he is getting from the screen.
The use of sound and colour as supplements to numerical feedback is well known. But lets not bring powerpoint into the discussion yet.
I have a feeling you have no clue about what you are babbling about.
The FAQ says that dupes will get taken down unless the comments begin to roll but 90% (a scientifically chosen random number) of posts are just hahaha you dicks just posted a dupe don't the editors read their own stuff etc.
maybe there should be a general rule that comments like this is a dupe get no score even if they are funny (it hard to see such comments being interesting or insightful)
people come for the speed and the always on or at least leave dial up for the lack of speed and the repeated cue from the modem about another call tariff.
When they get to broadband those things arent a problem but look at the reason given by them as to what they like and its a product of speed and connectivity.
An academic researcher asks someone why they chose something(A) and what they like about the thing(B)and if A/=B suggest that it would be better to push B as the reason to swap. The point is that B is often a totally unknown thing to people choosing. They have no concept of B before they get there.
To a person on a crappy dialup connection who pays by the minute while they download complicated web pages that take for bloody ever to get there or flash animations that do nothing except say press here to enter the idea of not being concerned about wasting time online is an alien concept.
Its like heaven. Everybody wants to go there but noone wants to die. but equally no-one comes back because they don't like it.
maybe slightly ot but your comment about google being a source of news, i looked up the recent sabbath massacre there after the salon premium teaser on the 'truth' that was being hidden by american media and apart from the fact that it appeared that every other ocuntries media didn't tell the 'truth' almost every newspaper site had exactly the same wording to their lead story on the first few days.
they all took verbatim the wire service reports and put them out apparently unchanged.
Get a sense of humor man. Do you think if it had been the Stallman bros or the Torvalds brothers that did this there wouldn't have been jokes based on the coincidence of names.
And if you think the quoted comment is lashing out at MS you live a sheltered life.
Youre right. It closes down when you leave the site that is hosting it. Telstra in Australia had it for a while and I still see it at odd sites. Would you believe the host of fosi.da.ru was running it last night.
Its easy to detect, a little icon appears in your system tray area when it starts running. The icon disappears when you leave the website so I assume that it stops running. It looks like it just tracks movement through the site rather than any awful spying of your web wide activities. Of course someone will say "thats what they want you to think" to which there is no reply.
Tax is the way governments get the money they use to do stuff. What they do with the money might be offensive but most people will accept that there should be government and that tax is a way that government will raise general revenue. Discussion on either of those points will not be entered into in this forum.
Having accepted that as a premise, flat taxes have the beauty of simplicity especially if its a tax on everything with no exemptions.
General income levels can adjust to the new cost of living. Social welfare benefits can be adjusted for any disproportionate tax hit on lower incomes.
But even flat sales taxes have some non flat effects. Rich people buy $50,000 cars and pay $5,000 in tax and lower waged people buy $25,000 cars and only pay $2,500.
I sometimes use small and specialist lables to do this for me. Kill Rock Stars or Shock spring to mind but there are plenty others that pop into and out of existence all the time.
Run by people who like a particular genre or even band and so will put out stuff that they like but because their money is in it they won't put out stuff they don't think anyone else will like (or not often at least).
I don't have time to listen to every unsigned band to find the stuff I might like so I trust the small lable to have at least done the first round of eliminations for me.
Of course you have to listen to non-commercial radio to hear most of this stuff in the first place. I never watch MTV or listen to Clear equivalents but its so embedded into the culture and the background noise of the day to day that I recognize Britney and Beyonce et al without problem. Thats scary.
They are talking primarily about web sites that advocate violence and describe how such violence can be carried out. (the ball bearings for horses stuff)
On last point re cycling through both houses of parliament you may be incorrect as to it being a given.
The Senate is "controlled" by minor parties who have for example knocked back governemt extensions to ASIO (Australian CIA) surveliance and arrest powers.
Oh, and Laurence Springborg is the Shadow Minister and he is not at all pretty.
The Australian Constitution was written to specify the power of the new Federal Government and the States over various heads of government eg Fed gets Defence and Foreign Affairs, Customs, and Post and Telegraphs, States keep Education, Health, Transport etc. It deals with matters of Government only.
Australia was six colonies of England in one continent. There was no need for a totally new constitutional basis of government like in the US after the Revolution. So none of those basic rights were needed to be established in law, they were (or weren't) already in law or could be put there by the continuing state.
That some haven't suggests that either there was felt no need to have them enshrined in legislation or something entirely more sinister. I'll go with the former.
All I can say is that even without many of the enshrined rights it is a reasonably good place to live. I don't think it is absolutely necessary to have enshrined rights if you have a functioning society, a strong common law and accept the rule of law.
Why do you presume that once the leaders and the armour are gone the troops will go home or the war will be over. That assumes that the troops and the populace were not interested in the outcome.
And that now all of a sudden without armour or military leaders they will "bend to your will". I suspect you will need incinerate a few selected peasants from the crowd occasionally to convince the rest that their subservience to "your will" is a "worthy end" and the alternative is cinder city.
Unless of course the last half of your post was ironic. Its difficult sometimes to tell. So often you think Americans are being screamingly funny until you realize they are being absolutely serious.
The two reasons people want to live in America are
1. If they are coming from developed countries, its because the Americans seem to pay lots of money for doing fuck all really and why shouldn't we take advantage of that, or
2. If they are from lesser developed countries, it because Americans are supporting the fuckers who are trying to kill them at home but if they go to America they might be reasonably safe from that.
Hardly a ringing endorsement. The fact is that out of the 6billion people in the world 250million live in America, 50million tops want to live there and the rest (I make that 95%) are happy where they are thank you.
The bomb was dropped on the post office in the centre of town. What were they doing , posting the guns and ships to the troops.
And what's provocation? If tensions are rising for whatever reasons between two powers for a period of time and it gets to the stage that their armed forces are at hightened states of alert (or should be in the case of the Pacific Fleet in 1942) then the first strike can't really be called unprovoked. Unexpected maybe.
bin ladens mob have had at least two strikes against US targets prior to Sept 11, USS Cole and the African Embassies. So WTC wasn't exactly a surprise first strike in an undeclared war.
No, I'm not a supporter of terrorism in any form or anti-american even if I don't accept totally the american viewpoint on everything. I believe bin Laden has absolutely no right to act the way he does. That does not mean he might not have a legitimate complaint against the US but I reject totally his way of pressing that complaint.
It is frustrating to see so many Americans who do not or cannot even consider the idea that there is anything that America has ever done that could possibly be used as part of a reason for the terrorists dislike of America. Ever. Anything. That everything that America has done anywhere in the Middle East over the last 50 years has been good for everyone concerned and that is plainly so to any right thinking person. To say anything otherwise is to agree with the terrorist that they are justified in their attacks on civilians on US soil.
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he said he's american you dick. America-bashing has sadly come to be "the opium of the intellectual." (--Lee Harris, Dec 2002, Jan 2003 Policy Review) but in your case its wholly justified.
You did it for the warm inner glow from helping people and in the case of farscape, from seeing another ep of a show you like.
If you want to own some of it you would need to put some real money at risk, not small donations.
The use of sound and colour as supplements to numerical feedback is well known. But lets not bring powerpoint into the discussion yet.
I have a feeling you have no clue about what you are babbling about.
maybe there should be a general rule that comments like this is a dupe get no score even if they are funny (it hard to see such comments being interesting or insightful)
When they get to broadband those things arent a problem but look at the reason given by them as to what they like and its a product of speed and connectivity.
An academic researcher asks someone why they chose something(A) and what they like about the thing(B)and if A/=B suggest that it would be better to push B as the reason to swap. The point is that B is often a totally unknown thing to people choosing. They have no concept of B before they get there.
To a person on a crappy dialup connection who pays by the minute while they download complicated web pages that take for bloody ever to get there or flash animations that do nothing except say press here to enter the idea of not being concerned about wasting time online is an alien concept.
Its like heaven. Everybody wants to go there but noone wants to die. but equally no-one comes back because they don't like it.
I was on the edge of my seat till the end.
Someone will make a film of it I'm sure.
then click through from the front page.
No, but the American Intelligence Community is up to the task if thats what they have to do to secure the homeland.
they all took verbatim the wire service reports and put them out apparently unchanged.
makes you wonder where the real power lies.
And if you think the quoted comment is lashing out at MS you live a sheltered life.
the size of the vagina is related to the expected size of the head coming out not that going in.
Its easy to detect, a little icon appears in your system tray area when it starts running. The icon disappears when you leave the website so I assume that it stops running. It looks like it just tracks movement through the site rather than any awful spying of your web wide activities. Of course someone will say "thats what they want you to think" to which there is no reply.
Having accepted that as a premise, flat taxes have the beauty of simplicity especially if its a tax on everything with no exemptions.
General income levels can adjust to the new cost of living. Social welfare benefits can be adjusted for any disproportionate tax hit on lower incomes.
But even flat sales taxes have some non flat effects. Rich people buy $50,000 cars and pay $5,000 in tax and lower waged people buy $25,000 cars and only pay $2,500.
Run by people who like a particular genre or even band and so will put out stuff that they like but because their money is in it they won't put out stuff they don't think anyone else will like (or not often at least).
I don't have time to listen to every unsigned band to find the stuff I might like so I trust the small lable to have at least done the first round of eliminations for me.
Of course you have to listen to non-commercial radio to hear most of this stuff in the first place. I never watch MTV or listen to Clear equivalents but its so embedded into the culture and the background noise of the day to day that I recognize Britney and Beyonce et al without problem. Thats scary.
They are talking primarily about web sites that advocate violence and describe how such violence can be carried out. (the ball bearings for horses stuff)
The Senate is "controlled" by minor parties who have for example knocked back governemt extensions to ASIO (Australian CIA) surveliance and arrest powers.
Oh, and Laurence Springborg is the Shadow Minister and he is not at all pretty.
Australia was six colonies of England in one continent. There was no need for a totally new constitutional basis of government like in the US after the Revolution. So none of those basic rights were needed to be established in law, they were (or weren't) already in law or could be put there by the continuing state.
That some haven't suggests that either there was felt no need to have them enshrined in legislation or something entirely more sinister. I'll go with the former.
All I can say is that even without many of the enshrined rights it is a reasonably good place to live. I don't think it is absolutely necessary to have enshrined rights if you have a functioning society, a strong common law and accept the rule of law.
Isn't freedon of spell enough for you people.
And that now all of a sudden without armour or military leaders they will "bend to your will". I suspect you will need incinerate a few selected peasants from the crowd occasionally to convince the rest that their subservience to "your will" is a "worthy end" and the alternative is cinder city.
Unless of course the last half of your post was ironic. Its difficult sometimes to tell. So often you think Americans are being screamingly funny until you realize they are being absolutely serious.
or so admits the Peoples Popular Front for the Liberation of Judea (Trotskyist Faction)
Do you think that if UCI thought that the p2p traffic was educational they would be throttling it like this.
How many users have contacted them to ask for exemptions or allowances based on their educational use of p2p.
I wish more people were stupid enough to quit their jobs just on principle. Then there might be less unprincipled actions by business.
A good /.er never lets the facts get in the way of a good argument.
1. If they are coming from developed countries, its because the Americans seem to pay lots of money for doing fuck all really and why shouldn't we take advantage of that, or
2. If they are from lesser developed countries, it because Americans are supporting the fuckers who are trying to kill them at home but if they go to America they might be reasonably safe from that.
Hardly a ringing endorsement. The fact is that out of the 6billion people in the world 250million live in America, 50million tops want to live there and the rest (I make that 95%) are happy where they are thank you.
And what's provocation? If tensions are rising for whatever reasons between two powers for a period of time and it gets to the stage that their armed forces are at hightened states of alert (or should be in the case of the Pacific Fleet in 1942) then the first strike can't really be called unprovoked. Unexpected maybe.
bin ladens mob have had at least two strikes against US targets prior to Sept 11, USS Cole and the African Embassies. So WTC wasn't exactly a surprise first strike in an undeclared war.
No, I'm not a supporter of terrorism in any form or anti-american even if I don't accept totally the american viewpoint on everything. I believe bin Laden has absolutely no right to act the way he does. That does not mean he might not have a legitimate complaint against the US but I reject totally his way of pressing that complaint.
It is frustrating to see so many Americans who do not or cannot even consider the idea that there is anything that America has ever done that could possibly be used as part of a reason for the terrorists dislike of America. Ever. Anything. That everything that America has done anywhere in the Middle East over the last 50 years has been good for everyone concerned and that is plainly so to any right thinking person. To say anything otherwise is to agree with the terrorist that they are justified in their attacks on civilians on US soil.
I just can't accept that. Sorry.