So what they're saying is the only way they can stop bad guys with guns is good guys with guns. Gee where have I heard that recently....
And so what you're saying is that the gun owners who were mapped and are now making threats are "bad guys". A gun is what makes the difference between a blowhard you can ignore and a real threat of death.
Copyright the name, contact ICANN and have the domains yanked.
It's impossible to "copyright" a name, even your own.
You might be able to trademark it, but that requires lawyers. Also, you'd have to trademark it in the country where the domain is hosted to have any effect.
How about we large scale terraform the Sahara or Gobi deserts here on earth first? Conditions are 100x more favorable than on some remote planet with little support from Earth.
If China's economy holds up, they'll probably reclaim the Gobi. They are now spending billions on trying to hold back desertification.
Anyway, why is there always this "Don't go into space until you solve every single problem on earth" attitude? How about "Don't start any more wars? Don't waste billions on junk food? Don't spend trillion putting every one in a private care and destroying the whole biosphere as a consequence? Why is it always "Don't go into space"?
They'd have to give a discount on food as well. At least in the US popcorn and a drink run you as much as the ticket.
I used to go the cinema a few times a month, never once bought any snacks or drinks there. I might take in a water bottle in my bag in hot weather. If it's the evening, I might be going to eat out after and don't want to be full of junk food. If you can't enjoy just watching the film, it isn't worth seeing at all.
2- You can shove your commie paper sizes up your "arse".
Fucking "Letter" page size default in every fucking installation of MS fucking Office I've used in the last 20 fucking years, and I've never even seen a piece of Letter size fucking paper.
Every country has traditional units. China, like Europe, uses metric in almost all engineering, building, legislation. You might buy vegetables in a street market in traditional units, though that's fast fading, but in the supermarket all the packages are marked in litres and grams. The road signs are in km. Your weight is in kgs.Your height in cm.
no new movie, has been made in the last 30 some years because of these copyright laws no new book has been written no new music made
You missed a major consequence: we don't see a lot of old movies, old books, old songs. Because no one knows who the copyright belongs to, so no one dares reissue or adapt them in case they get sued. Or the owner is known but doesn't think it's profitable to release, so no one else can ever do so either.
He complains about some jerk on Reddit who posted crap there, and then segues to Hitler and Stalin's pogroms.
The logic seems to be: This asshole anonymously trolled people on Reddit. Hitler was a genocidal asshole. Therefore, online anonymity leads to genocide. Did I miss a step? I did read the whole article.
I'd venture a guess that one of the main reasons that most smart TVs are used as plain TVs is because the people that bought them don't even know they are smart.
I visited my sister in law last week, she's had a Samsung "smart" TV for a few months. Was only using it to watch broadcast TV. The broadband router was right next to it, but never plugged in. So I plugged it in, looked up the manual online and tried to get it going. Main issue was that you had to use the incredibly clumsy arrow keys on the remote for input. So it took literally 2 minutes to type in "youtube.com" to test that out. The manual never mentioned that there are apps for smartphones that can act as touchpad remotes, Found that out later, so will try that next time I visit.
Google docs is great for a quick and dirty word processing or a collaborative project, but you shouldn't try to write a novel with it.
I'd say the exact opposite. I edit a lot of novels, and every single author now uses MS Word. Not one of them has a clue how to use any of its features. And really, to write a novel, you only need the simplest features. Business documents, with lists, bullets, tables, headings, etc, etc need more elaborate formatting. A novel is a stream of paragraphs. Maybe one or two heading styles, and block text (for things like quoted letters, poems), and a spellcheck. That's all you need and you can do that in any wordprocessor made in the last 25 years. It was a lot simpler back in the days of Wordstar 5 and WordPerfect 5.1.
Writers using Word have gotten less and less able to use it, compared to 20 years ago when people actually consulted a manual before trying. Now they just point and click and type, and so the vast majority just use it like a typewriter, and select text and style it from a button. That's it. They are clueless of and intimidated by the vast number of features and just give up and don't try to work out how to use any any of them. Then they somehow activate one of Word's wacky, "helpful" automated formatting tools and find all their text is in 24 pt red italic. Or they've somehow styled the entire MS as "Heading 1" and have to override its style every time. Writers start new pages not by inserting a pagebreak, but by pressing "enter" a few dozen times, or even worse, hundreds of spaces. I spend an hour or two cleaning up all that crap with every file I get. If I was working with them over a long period I might try to educate them, but few want to learn anything. People now want every program to "just work" without them having to learn anything.
Writers need a simpler wordprocessor. Word has been getting worse and worse as a tool for authors since about version 2 for Windows 3. Its development us pushed by claiming more and more features. Features that just get in the way of 95% of users. To disable all the crap you have to read up and tick off lots of little options. But it seems that also is just impossible for most users.
So, not having used GoogleDocs, I can't say if it really is better, but if it has fewer features it probably is. Can hardly be worse.
I might be the only/.er to have ever watched any of I, Claudius. But man what a unhistorical hatchet job to livia (olivia?) or whatever her name was who was portrayed as a mass murderess although no one else historically thinks so (other than a couple conspiracy theory cranks).
It was pretty popular in Australia. I'll have to give it another look, it was almost 40 years ago I last saw it. All based on the (brilliant) Robert Graves novels. And that in turn based on scurrilous contemporary "histories" by people with axes to grind. Anyway, it was a drama, not a documentary, As well to criticise Shakespeare for historical liberties.
I've been looking at Roman history recently, and it was a pretty extreme and bloody time. Nero, for instance, didn't fiddle while Rome burned, but he did like playing the lyre, and he did have his mother, brothers and sisters and a couple of wives executed or just murdered -- in many cases, because they were plotting the same for him.
. What was nice was a certain air of realism, sci-fi that didn't rely on tricks and alien tech to move the story forward. Good writing with the dues ex machina.
Realism? As a teenager and SF fan at the time, I found the stories embarrassingly stupid in almost every respect. The moon wildly flying from one solar system to another each week for no reason at all (except to meet up with the next batch of "aliens of the week") being a major one.
For most mass murders, the issue is not the individual weapon but a captive group of victims insufficiently armed to overcome their attacker{s}. If you can't kill schoolchildren with a knife you are an incompetent murderer and a gun probably won't help you much.
And yet, in the US, there are no mass murders with knives and uncountable ones with guns..
Crack and meth addicts aren't know for the logic, and you seriously under-estimate the cost of a pistol on the blackmarket.
So, these crack and meth addicts carefully plot out burglaries using Google maps?
And it's a lot less risky to steal an iPad or some credit cards and use the proceeds to buy a gun than break into a place where you KNOW there is a gun owner just itching for an excuse to justify his permit. And if he's not there a registered owner is more likely to have it looked up and inaccessible anyway. If you find one on the bed table while you're turning the place over, sure, take it. But guns aren't worth enough to be worth the trouble.
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So what they're saying is the only way they can stop bad guys with guns is good guys with guns. Gee where have I heard that recently....
And so what you're saying is that the gun owners who were mapped and are now making threats are "bad guys". A gun is what makes the difference between a blowhard you can ignore and a real threat of death.
Looks more like confirmation that gun nuts are a danger to the community.
Copyright the name, contact ICANN and have the domains yanked.
It's impossible to "copyright" a name, even your own.
You might be able to trademark it, but that requires lawyers. Also, you'd have to trademark it in the country where the domain is hosted to have any effect.
How about we large scale terraform the Sahara or Gobi deserts here on earth first? Conditions are 100x more favorable than on some remote planet with little support from Earth.
If China's economy holds up, they'll probably reclaim the Gobi. They are now spending billions on trying to hold back desertification.
Anyway, why is there always this "Don't go into space until you solve every single problem on earth" attitude? How about "Don't start any more wars? Don't waste billions on junk food? Don't spend trillion putting every one in a private care and destroying the whole biosphere as a consequence? Why is it always "Don't go into space"?
I know this is slashdot, and people don't want to read the article
Correct, I don't, because it's clearly a Slashvertisement.
It's a sad day when SEO assholery is celebrated at Slashdot.
the company that she got a job with is not mentioned in the article
Unless you Google her name, which is what 99% of people reading this probably did, to see if it actually worked.
"... that she credits with helping her land a digital advertising job in New York." Her first task: get herself and her company some Slashdot hits.
They'd have to give a discount on food as well. At least in the US popcorn and a drink run you as much as the ticket.
I used to go the cinema a few times a month, never once bought any snacks or drinks there. I might take in a water bottle in my bag in hot weather. If it's the evening, I might be going to eat out after and don't want to be full of junk food. If you can't enjoy just watching the film, it isn't worth seeing at all.
Printers are prone to default to letter size paper at the most inconvenient of moments.
"PC LOAD LETTER"? What the fuck does that mean?
A message I saw often on my LJII, even though it had an A4 tray and I was trying to print an A4 document.
There would be so much to change that the cost would prevent it - just think of how many road signs there are for example.
You're just trolling, right? No one is that dumb.
2- You can shove your commie paper sizes up your "arse".
Fucking "Letter" page size default in every fucking installation of MS fucking Office I've used in the last 20 fucking years, and I've never even seen a piece of Letter size fucking paper.
No. Read the link. China has it's own units.
Every country has traditional units. China, like Europe, uses metric in almost all engineering, building, legislation. You might buy vegetables in a street market in traditional units, though that's fast fading, but in the supermarket all the packages are marked in litres and grams. The road signs are in km. Your weight is in kgs.Your height in cm.
no new movie, has been made in the last 30 some years because of these copyright laws
no new book has been written
no new music made
You missed a major consequence: we don't see a lot of old movies, old books, old songs. Because no one knows who the copyright belongs to, so no one dares reissue or adapt them in case they get sued. Or the owner is known but doesn't think it's profitable to release, so no one else can ever do so either.
I read the summary, I read TFA. Still no idea what "FourSquare" is. A "check in service"? For hotels? Airlines? Hats?
The logic seems to be: This asshole anonymously trolled people on Reddit. Hitler was a genocidal asshole. Therefore, online anonymity leads to genocide. Did I miss a step? I did read the whole article.
Don't bother. If you've got your smartphone out to use as a remote, just use it to watch the Youtube videos.
On a 2" screen, as opposed to 46"?
I'd venture a guess that one of the main reasons that most smart TVs are used as plain TVs is because the people that bought them don't even know they are smart.
I visited my sister in law last week, she's had a Samsung "smart" TV for a few months. Was only using it to watch broadcast TV. The broadband router was right next to it, but never plugged in. So I plugged it in, looked up the manual online and tried to get it going. Main issue was that you had to use the incredibly clumsy arrow keys on the remote for input. So it took literally 2 minutes to type in "youtube.com" to test that out. The manual never mentioned that there are apps for smartphones that can act as touchpad remotes, Found that out later, so will try that next time I visit.
Sounds like you're building a strawman to me.
Sounds like you don't read the news.
Hi, I'm a burglar.
No, you're a gun nut who thinks everyone is either afraid of, or envious of, his penile substitute.
Google docs is great for a quick and dirty word processing or a collaborative project, but you shouldn't try to write a novel with it.
I'd say the exact opposite. I edit a lot of novels, and every single author now uses MS Word. Not one of them has a clue how to use any of its features. And really, to write a novel, you only need the simplest features. Business documents, with lists, bullets, tables, headings, etc, etc need more elaborate formatting. A novel is a stream of paragraphs. Maybe one or two heading styles, and block text (for things like quoted letters, poems), and a spellcheck. That's all you need and you can do that in any wordprocessor made in the last 25 years. It was a lot simpler back in the days of Wordstar 5 and WordPerfect 5.1.
Writers using Word have gotten less and less able to use it, compared to 20 years ago when people actually consulted a manual before trying. Now they just point and click and type, and so the vast majority just use it like a typewriter, and select text and style it from a button. That's it. They are clueless of and intimidated by the vast number of features and just give up and don't try to work out how to use any any of them. Then they somehow activate one of Word's wacky, "helpful" automated formatting tools and find all their text is in 24 pt red italic. Or they've somehow styled the entire MS as "Heading 1" and have to override its style every time. Writers start new pages not by inserting a pagebreak, but by pressing "enter" a few dozen times, or even worse, hundreds of spaces. I spend an hour or two cleaning up all that crap with every file I get. If I was working with them over a long period I might try to educate them, but few want to learn anything. People now want every program to "just work" without them having to learn anything.
Writers need a simpler wordprocessor. Word has been getting worse and worse as a tool for authors since about version 2 for Windows 3. Its development us pushed by claiming more and more features. Features that just get in the way of 95% of users. To disable all the crap you have to read up and tick off lots of little options. But it seems that also is just impossible for most users.
So, not having used GoogleDocs, I can't say if it really is better, but if it has fewer features it probably is. Can hardly be worse.
I might be the only /.er to have ever watched any of I, Claudius. But man what a unhistorical hatchet job to livia (olivia?) or whatever her name was who was portrayed as a mass murderess although no one else historically thinks so (other than a couple conspiracy theory cranks).
It was pretty popular in Australia. I'll have to give it another look, it was almost 40 years ago I last saw it. All based on the (brilliant) Robert Graves novels. And that in turn based on scurrilous contemporary "histories" by people with axes to grind. Anyway, it was a drama, not a documentary, As well to criticise Shakespeare for historical liberties.
I've been looking at Roman history recently, and it was a pretty extreme and bloody time. Nero, for instance, didn't fiddle while Rome burned, but he did like playing the lyre, and he did have his mother, brothers and sisters and a couple of wives executed or just murdered -- in many cases, because they were plotting the same for him.
. What was nice was a certain air of realism, sci-fi that didn't rely on tricks and alien tech to move the story forward. Good writing with the dues ex machina.
Realism? As a teenager and SF fan at the time, I found the stories embarrassingly stupid in almost every respect. The moon wildly flying from one solar system to another each week for no reason at all (except to meet up with the next batch of "aliens of the week") being a major one.
Many more people killed, not the same at all.
Thank god for some perspective. Riots, genocide, war aren't what this is about.
"I'm in Australia"
And there has never been a similar school massacre in Australia. Or a knife massacre, for that matter.
For most mass murders, the issue is not the individual weapon but a captive group of victims insufficiently armed to overcome their attacker{s}. If you can't kill schoolchildren with a knife you are an incompetent murderer and a gun probably won't help you much.
And yet, in the US, there are no mass murders with knives and uncountable ones with guns..
Crack and meth addicts aren't know for the logic, and you seriously under-estimate the cost of a pistol on the blackmarket.
So, these crack and meth addicts carefully plot out burglaries using Google maps? And it's a lot less risky to steal an iPad or some credit cards and use the proceeds to buy a gun than break into a place where you KNOW there is a gun owner just itching for an excuse to justify his permit. And if he's not there a registered owner is more likely to have it looked up and inaccessible anyway. If you find one on the bed table while you're turning the place over, sure, take it. But guns aren't worth enough to be worth the trouble.