I'm not trolling, I'm actually interested in why Gnome would have a splash screen. I can understand a general 'Linux' splashscreen when the OS starts up, and some of the larger applications having their own brief splash screen when they start up, but why would Gnome, a middle-man utility, have a splash screen?
Why would a user even need to know what Gnome is, let alone that it's starting up? It would be like Inetd putting up a splash screen when you booted up, or X Windows, or bash giving its own banner when you logged in. They're utilities, individual building-blocks of the system, that the user shouldn't need to know about, they're not the OS, they're not the apps, you don't see Windows or Mac OS putting up a second splash screen for the thing that does the taskbar and puts the icons on the background.
Also I wonder why out of all the important OSS projects, only Gnome, KDE and Firefox seem to get slashdot stories when they come up with a small update.
At least with Internet porn you're guaranteed something good-looking. You don't have to put up with small tits, obesity, stretch-marks, pubic hair, cellulite, saggy tits/arse, ugliness. The Internet filters out the cream of the crop. Also women on the Internet are much easier, they've no qualms with getting fucked in the arse by someone they've only just met.
Newspapers are far from gone. People want something they can read on the bus, and it doesn't matter too much it they forget it or it falls on the floor or gets stamped on. They want something they can take to work and leave it lying about on the shop floor without losing hundreds of pounds if their e-reader gets robbed. They want giant pages they can lie out on the table rather than a tiny screen. They want pictures they can cut out and stick on the wall without dragging a printer about.
I'm only seventeen, so I look toward my future with hope. I want to live the best that I can and I've found that having a positive attitude greatly enhances chances of success. I can't say that I've experienced the worst thing that will happen to me in my lifetime, but I also feel that I have yet to experience the most enjoyable.
A few years of unending failures and disappointments should put pay to that optimistic attitude. Once all your prospects and expectations have crumbled into nothing and your life becomes exponentially more miserable, you'll change your mind.
I think I'll take my chances with life, at least it's interesting.
Emotions aren't rational, they're chemical. As immensely stupid as it might sound, if you're not eating properly, sleeping well, and getting exercise, that might be a good place to start.
That's odd, because I get regular exercise, eat and sleep well, yet am still depressed. In fact, the increased stress and misery from exercise, and lack of pleasure from food, exagerates the depression even more.
Throw yourself off a cliff or bridge? You could land on the right section of ground and merely cripple yourself. You're not dead, but now you're mentally disabled and completely paralysed, a fate worse than death. Driving off a cliff is the same.
Skydiving? People have survived skydiving without a parachute, usually resulting in serious injury. Your best (worst?) bet is to land on soft peat or something.
Suppose your shot is slightly off and misses the heart, punctures the lung, meaning you get a lung removed, and for the suicide attempt you get sectioned? Now you're locked in a hellhole prison with a missing lung, you can never get out, and no-one listens to you because you're obviously mentally ill.
Seriously. If you are feeling suicidal then there is a problem with you as a person. You are week[sic].
Well thanks for that pearl of wisdom. There's me thinking that people who are suicidal don't have any problems. Weak? Yeah probably, people don't want to kill themselves because they're strong-willed and successful.
It is normal to ocasionaly[sic] be depressed or even think about how things would be if you werent[sic] around.
That's not what we're talking about. We're not talking about occasional depression, we're not talking about being 'a bit down' now and again, we're talking about permanent long-term depression.
If you cannot cope with what everyone else is dealing with, profesional[sic] help is probaly[sic] the only answer.
Of course, in this culture of greed, the answer to most problems is to give money to someone. There's always some 'professional' out to make money on people's misery.
So you're saying that you should live a life of constant misery so your selfish relatives can have a better life? I notice in your entire post you don't once mention the suffering your sister went through before she killed herself. Did you even consider that? Or are you more concerned with your own well-being?
It seems your family weren't there for her when she was alive, but now you're criticising her? You're saying that she should stay alive and suffer for your sake, but you don't have to do anything for her sake? Family-relationships work two ways, not just one.
If you hate her so much you'd kill her, why are you so bothered whether she's alive or not? Did you like her at all? If so, why are you more concerned with your own recent suffering rather than the suffering she was going through which caused it all in the first place?
No offence intended, but it seems you didn't really have very severe depression. You strike me as one of those people who has a few bad months, gets over it, and tells people who've been depressed for decades that they should just get over it as well.
Your advice seems very vague and not very useful to those of us who actually DO have depression, not a bit of a 'bad time' due to temporary circumstances (i.e. losing a job you didn't like anyway).
But shooting yourself IS painless and peaceful, for you at least. Messy, but only for whoever has to pick your skull fragments out of the curtains. Other methods carry far more risks.
Hanging: get this one wrong, so the rope snaps or the support breaks, and you end up a vegetable lying on a bed for the rest of your life. Also very unpleasant suffocation or broken neck.
Slitting your wrists: generally doesn't work, just gives you embarassing scars.
Paracetamols: takes weeks of agonising pain as it dissolves you from the inside.
Jumping off a building: if it goes wrong you're crippled or a vegetable, too crippled to either kill yourself OR have a decent life, so you're stuck in even more misery, amplified by the knowledge that you can never end it because no-one will put you out of your miesry.
The best bet is either shooting yourself, and hoping the bullet doesn't deflect off your skull, or lethal injection.
Suicide is a permanent solution to suffering, but it also stops love, joy, etc.
People depressed enough to commit suicide generally don't have any love or joy in their lives, and no prospect of it. Depression isn't a temporary thing, it lasts for years, decades. When you've been completely miserable for years and years, without a single enjoyable memory or anything to look forward to, no friends, no relationships, no ambitions or expectations, then you can make an intelligent prediction that your life is never going to get better, or if it is going to get better, it would be so far in the future that living out the remaining misery in between isn't worth it.
In such a situtation, suicide is generally the intelligent option. It's not temporary, it's not a passing ailment like the flu or a broken limb, it's permanent. You're probably one of those people who hasn't been depressed, or who has been depressed for only a few months, or took some tablets and got over it, in which case you would find it hard to believe that some people's entire lives have been completely horrible.
Personally I've been depressed for the last 5 years, but I haven't killed myself yet. I've enough opportunity for change in my life that there's a decent prospect that my life could change for the better. It might do or it might not. At any rate, I'll give it another 5 years, and if the situation hasn't improved, then suicide will be the only available option.
Of course this plan goes down the shitter if it turn's out there's reincarnation and I have to go through it all again, or there's some malevolent god who sends people to hell for eternal torment if they commit suicide.
I believe that there is no situation in which suicide is a good option.
1. You've been captured by the Japanese in the Second World War and the only alternative is decades of torture. 2. You've been defeated in battle or committed a crime and suicide is the only way to regain your honour. 3. You're a spy who's been captured by Al-Qaeda and suicide is the only way that they won't be able to get information from you. 4. When your life is of a level of misery low enough that you'd prefer not to live at all.
Well you said it yourself, 'middle-class school', and even then you need involved parents. It's a much harder slog for someone in an inner-city schoolt that's falling apart, where the teachers are scared of the pupils and there's open gang-warfare on the corridors, and either both parents are working full-time, or you're in a single-parent family with a parent who works 60 hours a week just to pay the rent and medical bills.
To me it seems that the American private higher-education system is failing to be a meritocracy rather than an effective aristocracy.
Yeah it must be pretty demoralising for those nerds: they sit there fantasising over her all day doing engineering stuff with her, then she goes home and fucks the captain of the football team who doesn't know anything about engineering.
He/she's not really that muscled. Maybe compared to slashdotters who haven't lifted anything heavier than 3 lbs in their lifetime, but compared to REALLY big people, he/she isn't really too muscular. I think the slashdotters here are intimidated.
Has it occured to you the real difficulty in rigorously defining your terms? What is "real" information? What is "false"?
I think in this case, 'real' would be, the actual prices in the restaurant. 'False' would be inaccurate prices. I think that's pretty rigorous. Maybe you want something even more rigorous than that, but that's the best I can do.
People generally don't enjoy the programme, they just like watching the people in it. Just think, if instead of Jennifer Aniston they had some 300lb beast, and all the rest of the chars with ugly bastards, do you think anyone would watch it? No, because the programme doesn't stand up on its own, people just watch the people in it. Same goes for Desperate Housewives and the 'OC' etc. These days the TV and film industries are fueled by the cult of celebrity rather than quality.
The BBC chase ratings just like anyone else, notice how these days the BBC is full of crap ratings-grabbing programmes like Fame Academy and Eastenders rather than anything decent.
It doesn't matter how 'stupid' or 'naive' the customers are. False advertising is false advertising. It amuses me how some people here think that otherwise illegal activities are suddenly fine if they're done using a computer.
If as a business owner you don't like it, then the real solution, rather than to bitch and moan about those evil trade laws, is to advertise real information rather than false information. I mean, I can't think that any business anywhere has any excuse for knowingly advertising false information.
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Wow, you're a comic genius. You see, pounds are both a unit of weight and a currency. Will you be here all week?
So in other words, you're a big fat bastard who plays a homosexual's sport and nerd board games?
Also I thought the statue of the 'perfect body' was that one by Michaelangelo hundreds of years ago?
What have ovals got to do with anything?
I'm not trolling, I'm actually interested in why Gnome would have a splash screen. I can understand a general 'Linux' splashscreen when the OS starts up, and some of the larger applications having their own brief splash screen when they start up, but why would Gnome, a middle-man utility, have a splash screen?
Why would a user even need to know what Gnome is, let alone that it's starting up? It would be like Inetd putting up a splash screen when you booted up, or X Windows, or bash giving its own banner when you logged in. They're utilities, individual building-blocks of the system, that the user shouldn't need to know about, they're not the OS, they're not the apps, you don't see Windows or Mac OS putting up a second splash screen for the thing that does the taskbar and puts the icons on the background.
Also I wonder why out of all the important OSS projects, only Gnome, KDE and Firefox seem to get slashdot stories when they come up with a small update.
At least with Internet porn you're guaranteed something good-looking. You don't have to put up with small tits, obesity, stretch-marks, pubic hair, cellulite, saggy tits/arse, ugliness. The Internet filters out the cream of the crop. Also women on the Internet are much easier, they've no qualms with getting fucked in the arse by someone they've only just met.
Newspapers are far from gone. People want something they can read on the bus, and it doesn't matter too much it they forget it or it falls on the floor or gets stamped on. They want something they can take to work and leave it lying about on the shop floor without losing hundreds of pounds if their e-reader gets robbed. They want giant pages they can lie out on the table rather than a tiny screen. They want pictures they can cut out and stick on the wall without dragging a printer about.
I'm only seventeen, so I look toward my future with hope. I want to live the best that I can and I've found that having a positive attitude greatly enhances chances of success. I can't say that I've experienced the worst thing that will happen to me in my lifetime, but I also feel that I have yet to experience the most enjoyable.
A few years of unending failures and disappointments should put pay to that optimistic attitude. Once all your prospects and expectations have crumbled into nothing and your life becomes exponentially more miserable, you'll change your mind.
I think I'll take my chances with life, at least it's interesting.
For now, at least.
Emotions aren't rational, they're chemical. As immensely stupid as it might sound, if you're not eating properly, sleeping well, and getting exercise, that might be a good place to start.
That's odd, because I get regular exercise, eat and sleep well, yet am still depressed. In fact, the increased stress and misery from exercise, and lack of pleasure from food, exagerates the depression even more.
Throw yourself off a cliff or bridge? You could land on the right section of ground and merely cripple yourself. You're not dead, but now you're mentally disabled and completely paralysed, a fate worse than death. Driving off a cliff is the same.
Skydiving? People have survived skydiving without a parachute, usually resulting in serious injury. Your best (worst?) bet is to land on soft peat or something.
Your 'assured' methods don't assure death at all.
Suppose your shot is slightly off and misses the heart, punctures the lung, meaning you get a lung removed, and for the suicide attempt you get sectioned? Now you're locked in a hellhole prison with a missing lung, you can never get out, and no-one listens to you because you're obviously mentally ill.
Seriously. If you are feeling suicidal then there is a problem with you as a person. You are week[sic].
Well thanks for that pearl of wisdom. There's me thinking that people who are suicidal don't have any problems. Weak? Yeah probably, people don't want to kill themselves because they're strong-willed and successful.
It is normal to ocasionaly[sic] be depressed or even think about how things would be if you werent[sic] around.
That's not what we're talking about. We're not talking about occasional depression, we're not talking about being 'a bit down' now and again, we're talking about permanent long-term depression.
If you cannot cope with what everyone else is dealing with, profesional[sic] help is probaly[sic] the only answer.
Of course, in this culture of greed, the answer to most problems is to give money to someone. There's always some 'professional' out to make money on people's misery.
So you're saying that you should live a life of constant misery so your selfish relatives can have a better life? I notice in your entire post you don't once mention the suffering your sister went through before she killed herself. Did you even consider that? Or are you more concerned with your own well-being?
It seems your family weren't there for her when she was alive, but now you're criticising her? You're saying that she should stay alive and suffer for your sake, but you don't have to do anything for her sake? Family-relationships work two ways, not just one.
If you hate her so much you'd kill her, why are you so bothered whether she's alive or not? Did you like her at all? If so, why are you more concerned with your own recent suffering rather than the suffering she was going through which caused it all in the first place?
No offence intended, but it seems you didn't really have very severe depression. You strike me as one of those people who has a few bad months, gets over it, and tells people who've been depressed for decades that they should just get over it as well.
Your advice seems very vague and not very useful to those of us who actually DO have depression, not a bit of a 'bad time' due to temporary circumstances (i.e. losing a job you didn't like anyway).
But shooting yourself IS painless and peaceful, for you at least. Messy, but only for whoever has to pick your skull fragments out of the curtains. Other methods carry far more risks.
Hanging: get this one wrong, so the rope snaps or the support breaks, and you end up a vegetable lying on a bed for the rest of your life. Also very unpleasant suffocation or broken neck.
Slitting your wrists: generally doesn't work, just gives you embarassing scars.
Paracetamols: takes weeks of agonising pain as it dissolves you from the inside.
Jumping off a building: if it goes wrong you're crippled or a vegetable, too crippled to either kill yourself OR have a decent life, so you're stuck in even more misery, amplified by the knowledge that you can never end it because no-one will put you out of your miesry.
The best bet is either shooting yourself, and hoping the bullet doesn't deflect off your skull, or lethal injection.
Suicide is a permanent solution to suffering, but it also stops love, joy, etc.
People depressed enough to commit suicide generally don't have any love or joy in their lives, and no prospect of it. Depression isn't a temporary thing, it lasts for years, decades. When you've been completely miserable for years and years, without a single enjoyable memory or anything to look forward to, no friends, no relationships, no ambitions or expectations, then you can make an intelligent prediction that your life is never going to get better, or if it is going to get better, it would be so far in the future that living out the remaining misery in between isn't worth it.
In such a situtation, suicide is generally the intelligent option. It's not temporary, it's not a passing ailment like the flu or a broken limb, it's permanent. You're probably one of those people who hasn't been depressed, or who has been depressed for only a few months, or took some tablets and got over it, in which case you would find it hard to believe that some people's entire lives have been completely horrible.
Personally I've been depressed for the last 5 years, but I haven't killed myself yet. I've enough opportunity for change in my life that there's a decent prospect that my life could change for the better. It might do or it might not. At any rate, I'll give it another 5 years, and if the situation hasn't improved, then suicide will be the only available option.
Of course this plan goes down the shitter if it turn's out there's reincarnation and I have to go through it all again, or there's some malevolent god who sends people to hell for eternal torment if they commit suicide.
I believe that there is no situation in which suicide is a good option.
1. You've been captured by the Japanese in the Second World War and the only alternative is decades of torture.
2. You've been defeated in battle or committed a crime and suicide is the only way to regain your honour.
3. You're a spy who's been captured by Al-Qaeda and suicide is the only way that they won't be able to get information from you.
4. When your life is of a level of misery low enough that you'd prefer not to live at all.
Good business tactic? It got them denied a place at the university they wanted to go to, so it's not a very good tactic I don't think.
Well you said it yourself, 'middle-class school', and even then you need involved parents. It's a much harder slog for someone in an inner-city schoolt that's falling apart, where the teachers are scared of the pupils and there's open gang-warfare on the corridors, and either both parents are working full-time, or you're in a single-parent family with a parent who works 60 hours a week just to pay the rent and medical bills.
To me it seems that the American private higher-education system is failing to be a meritocracy rather than an effective aristocracy.
Yeah it must be pretty demoralising for those nerds: they sit there fantasising over her all day doing engineering stuff with her, then she goes home and fucks the captain of the football team who doesn't know anything about engineering.
He/she's not really that muscled. Maybe compared to slashdotters who haven't lifted anything heavier than 3 lbs in their lifetime, but compared to REALLY big people, he/she isn't really too muscular. I think the slashdotters here are intimidated.
Has it occured to you the real difficulty in rigorously defining your terms? What is "real" information? What is "false"?
I think in this case, 'real' would be, the actual prices in the restaurant. 'False' would be inaccurate prices. I think that's pretty rigorous. Maybe you want something even more rigorous than that, but that's the best I can do.
People generally don't enjoy the programme, they just like watching the people in it. Just think, if instead of Jennifer Aniston they had some 300lb beast, and all the rest of the chars with ugly bastards, do you think anyone would watch it? No, because the programme doesn't stand up on its own, people just watch the people in it. Same goes for Desperate Housewives and the 'OC' etc. These days the TV and film industries are fueled by the cult of celebrity rather than quality.
The BBC chase ratings just like anyone else, notice how these days the BBC is full of crap ratings-grabbing programmes like Fame Academy and Eastenders rather than anything decent.
It doesn't matter how 'stupid' or 'naive' the customers are. False advertising is false advertising. It amuses me how some people here think that otherwise illegal activities are suddenly fine if they're done using a computer.
If as a business owner you don't like it, then the real solution, rather than to bitch and moan about those evil trade laws, is to advertise real information rather than false information. I mean, I can't think that any business anywhere has any excuse for knowingly advertising false information.
No, I mean that it would be cash in hand, i.e. you wouldn't have to declare any income.