Yeah, I'm getting pretty tired of random blogs "reporting" stories they steal from a major outlet and getting credited by Slashdot as the source, scoring a huge number of hits for their plaigiarism, and not infrequently, misrepresenting the story into the bargain..
I assume theyr'e using "free" in the not-as-beer sense, since there are plenty of free apps that can unrar , 7-Zip for example. True, these all seem to use code available from RAR that isn't "free" . E.g., from the 7-Zip licence:
unRAR restriction The decompression engine for RAR archives was developed using source code of unRAR program. All copyrights to original unRAR code are owned by Alexander Roshal.
RAR is pretty much the default foprmat on Usenet binary groups, for instance.
RTFA. She has-- TFA is on her own domain.. However, there are plenty of online communities one may wish to join (eg, even Slashdot) and prefer to use the same identity (e.g., login name). You have to be a member, with a name, to participate. And thus come under the control of the owners of that service.
I and they (though I'm not of their ranks) will give Obama credit for leaving when his term is over.
You don't have to love everything he's done. He's disappointed many of his supporters. Those who make up crap like this because they just hate a black man in the White House are the nuts I'm talking about.
I would like to see you explain evolution to humans 4000 years ago when they have no idea about genes.
Darwin didn't have any idea about genes. Well, he knew there was some method of inheritance, but not the chemistry. Evolution can be described, as he did, very simply, using the observations of existing animals, and how their qualities are inherited from one generation to the next, as farmers have observed, and used for breeding plants and animals for millennia. Dig up a few fossils too, and you could have made a case in ancient Greece in 500 BC. 4000 years ago? Maybe in Sumeria. They were pretty advanced then already.
No, it isn't what you're used to hearing. The "s" doesn't imply plural. It's probably from the terminal "s" of "mathematics". Regardless, it doesn't imply the speaker is an idiot.
Why don't you tell the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Melbourne University how dumb they are (http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/News/events.php?event_id=30). Google "maths site:.edu.aumaths" for 438,000 other idiots you should put right.
The new contraction had only gained wide usage after mid 90's.
ORLY? So when we used it in school in the 60s, in Australia, we were 30 years ahead of our time.
he other hand, if your income dictates a 12 month period of saving to get that $1,000, chances are that your window of opportunity for schooling has closed before you have the hardware.
As for me I had no idea is Obama was born in Hawaii or not. Hillary and Bill Clinton SAID he was a foreign national
Bullshit. Prove it: when and where did either say that?
Some of Hillary's campaigners may have done so; believe if you like that she encouraged this, but she never herself made the statement you ascribe to her.
How could Obama have offered HIllary a place in his cabinet if she had?
Well, Bin Laden had taken over Hitler's spot of "Evilest Guy Alive" for quite a few years
I'd hope so, since Adolf hasn't been alive since 1945.
I was pretty annoyed that Time Magazine wimped out on naming bin Laden as Man of the Year in 2001. The criterion are supposed to be:
Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year.
And obviously that was Bin Laden. Yet they named Giuliani. Who was a good mayor of a big city (I've heard), and but didn't change the WORLD the way bin Laden did. He set the USA's economy and political influence into a tailspin with one day's work, and got GWB re-elected into the bargain. He triggered the invasion of two nations.
If Time wants to give their cover to "Nice American guy of the year", they should change the criterion to say that and not pretend otherwise..
US: "Our troops will be on the ground in approximately 2 minutes and anyone in their way will be considered hostile If you have any comments, please leave them after the tone and our staff will get back to you. Have a nice day."
Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company is one of the leading manufacturers of manual typewriter in China. Weilv is located in Lvxiang Industrial Zone, Southwest of Shanghai City. We own a factory covering an area of more than 3,000 square meters and about 70 professional workers.
We have a history of making typewriters of more than 10 years. For all the key parts, we imported from foreign countries to ensure the quality and endurance of our products. That is why we are one of the top 3 suppliers of manual/mechanical typewriters in China.
It says that people who had been convicted of child porn offences found it stimulating. Well, duh, that's why they look at it. That's pretty much a tautology. the question is whether they go on to COMMIT acts of paedophilia, not just fantasise about it. Fantasising about sex or violence isn't actually the same thing as doing it. Michael Bay, Bret Easton Ellis, et al. would be in deep shit if it was. No to mention 98%* of males who use the Internet. (*Totally made up figure, same as your "facts".)
Your binary logic otherwise suits no one.
Your logic of making a bald statement and declaring it a fact and being offended when asked for the basis doesn't suit me, sorry.
Both are guilty. The incidence of people acting on sex-with-children fantasies are very high. Child molestation, especially incest, statistics in the US are high-- and elsewhere, too.
The logical course is to prevent the spread of child porn as people do in fact act on it.
Refreshingly free of any proof, citations to studies. Just THE FACTS. Because every right-thinking person knows this MUST be TRUE. And if you disagree, you're obviously a PEDOPHILE.
It only has to happen ONCE to YOU for it to a real big PITA.
And then the terrorists ^H^H^H^Hgovernment have won.
You can always come up with a worst case scenario to justify doing what you feel like doing anyway. "I don't want to wear seatbelts because this guy got caught when he crashed and burnt up in the car". It's easy to cherry pick anecdotes that support your position. Much harder to fight that tendency and look at the risk vs benefits rationally. Of course, if you don't care about the freedom being lost here, then you'll be unwilling to take any risk at all.
Postscript: I realised that this story required both the porn downloader and the cops to be idiots. Which is why I didn't believe anything like this could happen in real life -- shows you should never underestimate the stupidity of either cops or criminals. )
Just the _risk_ of this happening, even if it's about the same as winning lotto
Yep, better to never assert your rights. The police don't like it when you do that. ll it takes is one cautionary tale. Even though the feds admitted they were wrong and apologised.
You don't think child porn consumers use their own connections do you?
Only if they're not idiots. If you're going to download something HIGHLY ILLEGAL, don't leech your neighbour's connection and get busted, as the guy in this case did. . Keep your porn to yourself. Learn to use proxies and encryption.
"then-Senator Al Gore Jr. introduced it at a 1978 meeting of computer industry folk"
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) cites usage of this term in three periodicals:
the January 3, 1983 issue of Newsweek...
Gates hated the whole idea of the Internet, because he didn't control it. That's why you had to use third-party software to connect Windows to the Internet for years -- Trumpet Winsock, Netscape browser, Eudora mail.
, *after* my door has been kicked in and my gear confiscated!
Yeah, because that happens every day. We've had ubiquitous wifi for a decade or more. Open wifi points everywhere. How many people have had their doors kicked in as a result? Can you name one? Can you spell FUD? I've only ever heard of a handful of people charged with some bogus "hacking" offence for USING an open wifi point.
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Yeah, I'm getting pretty tired of random blogs "reporting" stories they steal from a major outlet and getting credited by Slashdot as the source, scoring a huge number of hits for their plaigiarism, and not infrequently, misrepresenting the story into the bargain..
PS: It'd be real news if there was a free app to CREATE RAR archives.
RAR is pretty much the default foprmat on Usenet binary groups, for instance.
All owners of a service are under control of the customers
I've been screwed over by several such services. Not a damn thing I could do to "control" them, except walk away.
buy your own domain.
RTFA. She has-- TFA is on her own domain.. However, there are plenty of online communities one may wish to join (eg, even Slashdot) and prefer to use the same identity (e.g., login name). You have to be a member, with a name, to participate. And thus come under the control of the owners of that service.
I and they (though I'm not of their ranks) will give Obama credit for leaving when his term is over.
You don't have to love everything he's done. He's disappointed many of his supporters. Those who make up crap like this because they just hate a black man in the White House are the nuts I'm talking about.
the president was left outside the loop because he was so hesitant
And he was born in Kenya. Yeah, whatever. It's not like the Tea Party/Birthers are going to give Obama credit for anything he does.
I would like to see you explain evolution to humans 4000 years ago when they have no idea about genes.
Darwin didn't have any idea about genes. Well, he knew there was some method of inheritance, but not the chemistry. Evolution can be described, as he did, very simply, using the observations of existing animals, and how their qualities are inherited from one generation to the next, as farmers have observed, and used for breeding plants and animals for millennia. Dig up a few fossils too, and you could have made a case in ancient Greece in 500 BC. 4000 years ago? Maybe in Sumeria. They were pretty advanced then already.
it is also wrong.
No, it isn't what you're used to hearing. The "s" doesn't imply plural. It's probably from the terminal "s" of "mathematics". Regardless, it doesn't imply the speaker is an idiot.
Why don't you tell the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Melbourne University how dumb they are (http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/News/events.php?event_id=30). Google "maths site:.edu.aumaths" for 438,000 other idiots you should put right.
The new contraction had only gained wide usage after mid 90's.
ORLY? So when we used it in school in the 60s, in Australia, we were 30 years ahead of our time.
he other hand, if your income dictates a 12 month period of saving to get that $1,000, chances are that your window of opportunity for schooling has closed before you have the hardware.
Or, buy a used 2-year-old laptop for $200.
As for me I had no idea is Obama was born in Hawaii or not. Hillary and Bill Clinton SAID he was a foreign national
Bullshit. Prove it: when and where did either say that?
Some of Hillary's campaigners may have done so; believe if you like that she encouraged this, but she never herself made the statement you ascribe to her.
How could Obama have offered HIllary a place in his cabinet if she had?
Well, Bin Laden had taken over Hitler's spot of "Evilest Guy Alive" for quite a few years
I'd hope so, since Adolf hasn't been alive since 1945.
I was pretty annoyed that Time Magazine wimped out on naming bin Laden as Man of the Year in 2001. The criterion are supposed to be:
Since 1927, TIME Magazine has chosen a man, woman, or idea that "for better or worse, has most influenced events in the preceding year.
And obviously that was Bin Laden. Yet they named Giuliani. Who was a good mayor of a big city (I've heard), and but didn't change the WORLD the way bin Laden did. He set the USA's economy and political influence into a tailspin with one day's work, and got GWB re-elected into the bargain. He triggered the invasion of two nations.
If Time wants to give their cover to "Nice American guy of the year", they should change the criterion to say that and not pretend otherwise..
US: "Our troops will be on the ground in approximately 2 minutes and anyone in their way will be considered hostile If you have any comments, please leave them after the tone and our staff will get back to you. Have a nice day."
Product placement for Lex Luthor's next real estate plot.
If the machine is damaged somehow during installation, then yes, it will tick off IT.
If it doesn;t work, take out the RAM, wipe off your fingerprints, and reboot.
If it's still dead, you call IT and say the PC died. You get a new PC. Are they gong to look for DNA on the motherboard?
I assume that this is the last *manual* typewriter factory.
No.
Well, they may "mean" that, but it's not true either. There are several of those in China at least.
http://chinatypewriter.en.alibaba.com/
Shanghai Weilv Mechanism Company is one of the leading manufacturers of manual typewriter in China. Weilv is located in Lvxiang Industrial Zone, Southwest of Shanghai City. We own a factory covering an area of more than 3,000 square meters and about 70 professional workers.
We have a history of making typewriters of more than 10 years. For all the key parts, we imported from foreign countries to ensure the quality and endurance of our products. That is why we are one of the top 3 suppliers of manual/mechanical typewriters in China.
Here's one: http://www.camh.net/Research/Research_publications/Newsletter/child_pornography_pedophilia.html
It says that people who had been convicted of child porn offences found it stimulating. Well, duh, that's why they look at it. That's pretty much a tautology. the question is whether they go on to COMMIT acts of paedophilia, not just fantasise about it. Fantasising about sex or violence isn't actually the same thing as doing it. Michael Bay, Bret Easton Ellis, et al. would be in deep shit if it was. No to mention 98%* of males who use the Internet. (*Totally made up figure, same as your "facts".)
Your binary logic otherwise suits no one.
Your logic of making a bald statement and declaring it a fact and being offended when asked for the basis doesn't suit me, sorry.
Both are guilty. The incidence of people acting on sex-with-children fantasies are very high. Child molestation, especially incest, statistics in the US are high-- and elsewhere, too. The logical course is to prevent the spread of child porn as people do in fact act on it.
Refreshingly free of any proof, citations to studies. Just THE FACTS. Because every right-thinking person knows this MUST be TRUE. And if you disagree, you're obviously a PEDOPHILE.
It only has to happen ONCE to YOU for it to a real big PITA.
And then the terrorists ^H^H^H^Hgovernment have won.
You can always come up with a worst case scenario to justify doing what you feel like doing anyway. "I don't want to wear seatbelts because this guy got caught when he crashed and burnt up in the car". It's easy to cherry pick anecdotes that support your position. Much harder to fight that tendency and look at the risk vs benefits rationally. Of course, if you don't care about the freedom being lost here, then you'll be unwilling to take any risk at all.
Postscript: I realised that this story required both the porn downloader and the cops to be idiots. Which is why I didn't believe anything like this could happen in real life -- shows you should never underestimate the stupidity of either cops or criminals. )
Just the _risk_ of this happening, even if it's about the same as winning lotto
Yep, better to never assert your rights. The police don't like it when you do that. ll it takes is one cautionary tale. Even though the feds admitted they were wrong and apologised.
You don't think child porn consumers use their own connections do you?
Only if they're not idiots. If you're going to download something HIGHLY ILLEGAL, don't leech your neighbour's connection and get busted, as the guy in this case did. . Keep your porn to yourself. Learn to use proxies and encryption.
If you can provide a cite, edit it in.
"Information superhighway" was something coined by Bill Gates in one of his books.
Bullshit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
"then-Senator Al Gore Jr. introduced it at a 1978 meeting of computer industry folk"
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) cites usage of this term in three periodicals: the January 3, 1983 issue of Newsweek...
Gates hated the whole idea of the Internet, because he didn't control it. That's why you had to use third-party software to connect Windows to the Internet for years -- Trumpet Winsock, Netscape browser, Eudora mail.
, *after* my door has been kicked in and my gear confiscated!
Yeah, because that happens every day. We've had ubiquitous wifi for a decade or more. Open wifi points everywhere. How many people have had their doors kicked in as a result? Can you name one? Can you spell FUD? I've only ever heard of a handful of people charged with some bogus "hacking" offence for USING an open wifi point.
I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.