My bad, I meant those who have traditionally (and until very recently, overwhelmingly) dominated American politics and the public sphere: Caucasian males.
Please define "different"?
Sure: "of darker complexion". Though I'm sure tentacles and exoskeletons would fit into that category, too.
so who/what are these people that are so different that all Americans give them a hard time?
Did I say all? You don't need all people to give someone a hard time.
Did you do a survey in your room of all people with an IQ of less than 2 and 100% of responders think like this?
Now, that's just an unrealistically low IQ score; probably wouldn't even be measurable.
but the fact of the matter is that it's obvious you are the one who is prejudice since you've prejudged that attitudes of the entire country.
I can't be prejudiced against an entire country - I could be prejudiced against individuals from a country (though I do try to avoid doing that), with a country I can only have an opinion of the currently prevailing attitudes.
And yes, based on my experience, I don't believe extraterrestrial asylum seekers would do well here.
I don't know if that was meant to be tongue in cheek, but terrible seeking control is one of the reasons I never used VLC; it's very frustrating, even in non-porn situations.
Actually, the whole UI in VLC leaves a lot to be desired: it's oddly unresponsive, has the classic OS approach to design called "randomly pile as many options as possible into arbitrary menus", and is pretty damn unattractive.
Meh, to each their own, I guess. I like Media Player Classic - simple and fast, what more would you want?
Which means this whole "debate" is just so much pointless masturbation.
Do you not realize pretty much every other browser is based off one of the rendering engines used in those listed?
Ah yes, that was my mistake - I didn't account for the 500 browsers that make up the remaining 0.005% of the market.
Don't you think it's a little silly to be putting so much energy into debating standards that are not going to be supported by the browser used by 2/3rds of all users? Like it or not, IE is still the dominant browser, and a "standard" that's not supported by IE is still completely meaningless.
What content provider will think: "Well, we've got Chrome and Konqueror covered, so who cares about IE?"
And seriously, Opera is a "major browser vendor"? Don't you need to, I don't know, crack 1% to be called that?
Perhaps, but there's no evidence that the Voynich manuscript is a cypher in the traditional sense. A natural language isn't normally "decyphered", since it was never encrypted in the first place.
Not true. All of the analysis so far suggests that the Voynich is not plaintext (from what I remember the ridiculously low entropy is one of the primary indicators). People like the whole "phonetic alphabet for [insert your favorite obscure Asian language]" idea because it sounds cool, but there is no evidence for it.
Not sure I agree that we know vastly more about the people of Minoan Crete than those of 16th century Europe, though.
Especially problematic when the tape drive dies. How many tape drives do you have in stock?
The thing is, I can get new tape drives, as many as necessary, in fact. With hard drives, you pretty much get the one shot (or it becomes impractically expensive).
Of course, I'm not trying to deny that at all. I'm just saying that if it wasn't him, somebody else would've won the "superstardom" lottery, it's not like we'd end up with no music to listen to.
Many of those "earlier simpler life forms" are still around and doing fine. Bacteria, most notably.
Individual bacterial cells have very short "lifespans" - days or hours - before they either divide or die, so I'd say they take the whole aging thing to an extreme, rather than not age at all.
Your fear is of Iran, not nuclear weapons, and has more to do with the "they're different to us" Arab stereotyping than it does to any element of fact.
There's a non-trivial amount of irony in that admonition.
DAVIS: We are a benign species, opposed to interplanetary conflict, and believe in equal opportunity for all beings, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation or planet of origin STAN: That's nice. Look, let me start over, OK? I want you to tell me what the people on your planet are gonna do to make Stanley H Tweedle a happier man DAVIS: Is this right? PRINCE: Stick to the cards, Mr President. All possibilities have been anticipated. Do not deviate from the cards DAVIS: Congratulations on your birthday!
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While Brown seemingly lacks the scientific and academic background needed to write such fiction
Now, now, let's not leave out literary background from that list.
It seems much more like mathematics to me.
And you consider mathematics to be what, art?
Who is "US"?
My bad, I meant those who have traditionally (and until very recently, overwhelmingly) dominated American politics and the public sphere: Caucasian males.
Please define "different"?
Sure: "of darker complexion". Though I'm sure tentacles and exoskeletons would fit into that category, too.
so who/what are these people that are so different that all Americans give them a hard time?
Did I say all? You don't need all people to give someone a hard time.
Did you do a survey in your room of all people with an IQ of less than 2 and 100% of responders think like this?
Now, that's just an unrealistically low IQ score; probably wouldn't even be measurable.
but the fact of the matter is that it's obvious you are the one who is prejudice since you've prejudged that attitudes of the entire country.
I can't be prejudiced against an entire country - I could be prejudiced against individuals from a country (though I do try to avoid doing that), with a country I can only have an opinion of the currently prevailing attitudes.
And yes, based on my experience, I don't believe extraterrestrial asylum seekers would do well here.
Yeah, we just fucking love aliens here in the US. Also, everyone who looks different from us.
(reading comp.std.c++, and WG papers [open-std.org])
Hmm, I didn't know C++ was classified as a Sexually Transmitted Disease, but it kinda makes sense.
It's not on slashdot, it's on idle.
In the US, you tend to get your two weeks and that's about it.
It's OK, we make up for it by being hideously inefficient most of the rest of the time.
That's how real men use the internet.
I don't know if that was meant to be tongue in cheek, but terrible seeking control is one of the reasons I never used VLC; it's very frustrating, even in non-porn situations.
Actually, the whole UI in VLC leaves a lot to be desired: it's oddly unresponsive, has the classic OS approach to design called "randomly pile as many options as possible into arbitrary menus", and is pretty damn unattractive.
Meh, to each their own, I guess. I like Media Player Classic - simple and fast, what more would you want?
IE won't use either.
Which means this whole "debate" is just so much pointless masturbation.
Do you not realize pretty much every other browser is based off one of the rendering engines used in those listed?
Ah yes, that was my mistake - I didn't account for the 500 browsers that make up the remaining 0.005% of the market.
Don't you think it's a little silly to be putting so much energy into debating standards that are not going to be supported by the browser used by 2/3rds of all users? Like it or not, IE is still the dominant browser, and a "standard" that's not supported by IE is still completely meaningless.
What content provider will think: "Well, we've got Chrome and Konqueror covered, so who cares about IE?"
And seriously, Opera is a "major browser vendor"? Don't you need to, I don't know, crack 1% to be called that?
Apple and Google favor H.264 while Mozilla and Opera favor Ogg Theora.
Right, while convenient, that doesn't strike me as a very comprehensive list of "major browser vendors".
Hieroglyphs, dammit; 'hieroglyphic' is an adjective.
Perhaps, but there's no evidence that the Voynich manuscript is a cypher in the traditional sense. A natural language isn't normally "decyphered", since it was never encrypted in the first place.
Not true. All of the analysis so far suggests that the Voynich is not plaintext (from what I remember the ridiculously low entropy is one of the primary indicators). People like the whole "phonetic alphabet for [insert your favorite obscure Asian language]" idea because it sounds cool, but there is no evidence for it.
Not sure I agree that we know vastly more about the people of Minoan Crete than those of 16th century Europe, though.
Especially problematic when the tape drive dies. How many tape drives do you have in stock?
The thing is, I can get new tape drives, as many as necessary, in fact. With hard drives, you pretty much get the one shot (or it becomes impractically expensive).
It's surprising that there's not a single really overweight person commenting here, considering that 90% of overweight (by BMI) are simply fat.
Since you asked: I'm really overweight; BMI is bullshit. These two things are not related.
The idea that body shape is irrelevant in determining "ideal" weight is somewhat bizarre.
By the way, great job coming up with that 90% figure - it's fun to make shit up, isn't it?
Of course, I'm not trying to deny that at all. I'm just saying that if it wasn't him, somebody else would've won the "superstardom" lottery, it's not like we'd end up with no music to listen to.
Michael Jackson was a fairly formative musical influence to a lot of modern music. The importance of "Thriller" can't really be overestimated.
Well, I suppose that depends on how you estimate the importance of modern music, doesn't it?
Many of those "earlier simpler life forms" are still around and doing fine. Bacteria, most notably.
Individual bacterial cells have very short "lifespans" - days or hours - before they either divide or die, so I'd say they take the whole aging thing to an extreme, rather than not age at all.
'We can also see this tendency when people use the phone, most will naturally hold it to their right ear.'
Right, that couldn't possibly have anything to do with the fact that most people are right handed, could it?
Your fear is of Iran, not nuclear weapons, and has more to do with the "they're different to us" Arab stereotyping than it does to any element of fact.
There's a non-trivial amount of irony in that admonition.
So I take it this thing also hates grammar?
I wouldn't call it backing up when the comment came from the CTO of Alfresco.
I wouldn't call "indistinguishable from SharePoint" an endorsement.
its inability to actually exist for any period of time on the human scale
That makes no sense, why would it need to exist on the "human scale" to actually exist? Most of physics doesn't work on the human scale.
Fuck me, Tarkovsky's Solaris was "dull"? What, not enough car chases for you?
DAVIS: We are a benign species, opposed to interplanetary conflict, and believe in equal opportunity for all beings, regardless of age, race, gender, sexual orientation or planet of origin
STAN: That's nice. Look, let me start over, OK? I want you to tell me what the people on your planet are gonna do to make Stanley H Tweedle a happier man
DAVIS: Is this right?
PRINCE: Stick to the cards, Mr President. All possibilities have been anticipated. Do not deviate from the cards
DAVIS: Congratulations on your birthday!