Maybe because they’re just not capable of being *that* evil, considering how on the German market, where they come from, they would be done and dead, if they dared to act like a US phone company.
I’m downright shocked by how you think you “got away” with wireless tethering. It’s a function of your phone, isn’t it? What gave anyone the idea that it is controllable or even acceptable to disable built-in functions that you’re STILL paying for. (You still pay for your bandwidth and for the hardware).
Seriously, if I had to move to the US, I would not make a single contract with *anyone*, unless I would have written it myself, including all the terms and conditions. Even if that would mean no phone, Internet, apartment or anything. I’m already wary of making contracts here in Germany. (I only have two contracts in total (apartment and phone/internet), and like to at least keep it that way, if not cancel the phone contract too.)
Remember that only because someone is stating something, that does not make it reality. Also a contract term is not a law. Not even remotely. For that to be the case, you first have to buy into their bullshit delusional reality. Secondly, sign that contract. And third, actually accept it as being a legal practice. (A contract term is still illegal when it’s not legal, even when you signed it!)
Protip (obviously): Don’t make such contracts. If that means no phone, no Internet, and no everything, then I suggest moving to a free country! ^^ (Really!)
3. The definition of “rule over” in rule 1, and of “life-form“, “right&” and “wrong”, is relative, and hence completely individual for every life-form.
Damn, do you even know that what we nowadays call “lobbying” and “donations” used to be called highly illegal treason, and punished like murder? And with good reason!
Nowadays, if someone still believes the parties are anything buy bought sock puppets, he does not deserve to vote or stay in the country! Seriously. How fuckin delusional must one be, to still believe that you live in a democracy? That’s like the Soviet Union people believing they lived in a communist society. (For that to happen, the “interim” government would first have had to dissolve itself.)
Goes to show how well the media brainwashes even people like you and me.:/
The only solution I have left, is to found a new state, based on only 5 rules: 1. No life-form shall ever rule over another life-form. 2. Everything is allowed, unless it’s going against rule 1. 3. The definition of “rule” “right” and “wrong“ is relative, and hence completely individual for every life-form. 4. In case of differences in definition, the life-forms who have the difference, and only them, shall resolve those differences, or they must go separate ways. 5. There is only one “punishment“: Separation.
That’s all that’s needed. From that, the individual senses of right and wrong (which replace the oppressive concept of a global set of laws) grow, and people start to group by mindsets.
...when their detector’s alarm goes off, and in big red letters displays the IP addresses of their own network as the main terror threat to the nation.;)
Well, depends on if you want your shell’s space and login time to be even more bloated as it is.
But considering how what the OP wanted already smells of bloat, I guess it does not matter anyway which version you choose. It’s always pretty pointless.;)
Actually I already used CSS 2.1 for print, and it is already very good. You just have to know how to use it, and use a browser with a clean implementation. Like Webkit or Opera.
NOT IE. At all. Ever.;)
Also, what I don’t get, is how my comment can even be considered a troll. Unless the moderator himself is a troll. Maybe that moderator should first clear his neuroses so he does not map his repressed anger from other situations onto my voice when reading my comments in his head. And maybe he should learn, that disagreement is not what the Troll moderation is meant to be used for. Oh well... gotta live with the dicks, even if they got mod points.;)
Hey moderators! PROTIP: If you disagree, that does on its own not make a comment a troll! Also, note the “^^” Which means, I’m pushing but not unfriendly. If I am proven wrong I have no problem accepting that, and am just as happy. But maybe you just can’t handle real men discussing an issue, without ten miles of padding and bubble wrap.;)
There is a way more significant flaw: You still vote for other life-forms (in this case humans)!
Call me crass, but I see natural selection as the fundamental driving force behind the outcome of everything, and hence the judgment on the quality of a behavior or decision. If that is true, (which I am very sure it is), then a life-form either (directly or sometimes very indirectly) works solely for its own interests, or will die out pretty quickly. Especially when the resources must be fought for. Of course this seems pretty strange, when looking at people like Mother Theresa. But only if you don’t consider mindsets/ideas/philosophies another level of existence. (On the level of societies.) If you do accept it, after seeing how they behave exactly like life-forms, fighting, growing, dying, using resources and transforming them, then it becomes clear that what happens to Mother Theresa’s body was not important, since a mindset tried to survive here. (Which is just as good. [Disclaimer: I’m interested in both levels, and hence can understand her.])
But following from the above, it is clear that if you choose other life-forms to rule in your name, it is not very likely that they will also represent your interests if you happen to disagree. Simply because they are life-forms. This is not bad or good. It just is how it is.
Which means, that any system, democracy (trough a representation that somehow never represents your interests) just as well as communism (trough a interim government that somehow never ends), can not work how you expect it to work (shaping the community according your interests).
In tribal times, you were only 20-50 people. So this was a non-issue. You sat in the village center and resolved the differences. If not, you split and created your own village. In the last couple of thousand years, there was not much choice. If you had a choice at all, and were not just reigned by a stronger one, you either accepted the ruling from above, tried to gain power yourself, or had to go back to living in a tribal village. But often it was something in-between. Now we have huge, way too large societies. And somehow talked ourselves into the illusion that leaders (mindset radiators) would behave like servants (mindset absorbers), if we just believe hard enough that we chose them.;) Though some of us want to go back to villages again (communism). (Proven to work for ten thousands of years if it comes to that. But somehow it never gets that far.)
My suggestion would be, to replace our leaders by... Webs of trust, based on P2P networks. And their decisions by... our own decisions, with a (self-defined rule-based) fallback on how our trusted peers decided for decisions that we don’t care or don’t feel more competent about.
Of course that means that the point of the concept of a state vanishes again. It also means that there will be much disagreement having to be resolved, or people having to move. But see it like this: Right now we already have all those people who are forced to live together, despite their tons of unresolved strong disagreement. It’s the fault of the system we had, that those were not resolved. Not the fault of the system that finally opens the eyes again to start going back to normal.
One result of this would be e.g. the USA splitting into two groups. You know that a society should better be split up, when it’? so clear who those group are, that you don’t even have to mention them.;) And the only ones who would consider such split-ups to be a bad thing, are those who profit from them right now. But I’m sorry: There are people suffering from it, and they don’t care for your profits.;) (Although I’m not saying it’s abnormal for you to push your own interests. I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if they do the same.:)
Considering how we already had stories where TFS contained a Nazi reference right after the quote from TFA, I say you already lost that one.;) To beat that, you would have to either start with one, or just Godwin the thing right at the start of the headline.
So to anyone out there: If you manage to get a story on the front page, that starts with “Nazi...”, you win!;)
From experience, the only thing that is missing for the year of Linux on the Desktop, is webcam (audio/video) support for instant messengers in MSN/WLM and Yahoo. Everything else is “for idiots” already, according to a Jane Random that I recommended Ubuntu to. (So if you make it any simpler, it will become worse!)
Basically this is a complete list of what the average user requires: - File management (done) - Play audio/video (Linux is very good at this) - E-Mail & calendaring (e.g. Evolution or Thunderbird with Lightning) - Instant messaging with audio, video, and those stupid animated smilies and things like that, at minimum for MSN, Yahoo and ICQ (here it looks pretty bleak, as some work sometimes, but there is nothing that can do it all. Also it is hard to get working.) - Create documents (OpenOffice, still having the old MS-Office-like interface, already beats MS Office in this!!) - Surf the web, including YouTube and Flash games! [Yes. Flash is imperative and non-negotiable to them.] (Done. Works well, lots of choice.) - Their hardware needs to work. (Already very good, pretty close to perfect. Rare cases of non-working are caused by evil or cheap/lazy hardware companies. Which will end as soon as Linux gains enough market share. Which it can do with the current hardware support.)
For all this points it is important, that their own favorite features, no matter how minute and irrelevant they seem, are implemented. Luckily, this also is already mostly done.
So we’re really close, the distance is measurable, and the very few remaining problems are fixable. (E.g. Pidgin 3.0 is supposed to have video/audio support. And Kopete already does it for everything but MSN, where it will soon work [again?].)
Well yes. But you still lose freedom and clarity. Consider your comment. I now use German grammar and English words to say the same: Germanworkknowing, the wordconstructioncreativityroomamountsize is clear.:D Note that this is also not normal German, and that you can cut any of the words is those large words out, and place them separately.
Err...Sorry for that typo. I meant to say “Your comment was insightful and funny, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.” The keys are like right next to each other...
You just added two assumptions that were not made in my comment. Hence your arguments are invalid to invalidating my arguments. But even with those assumptions added, and then obviously also considering them, you don’t get busted:
1. The assumption that there are open WiFis: There are no open WiFis around here anymore. Even WEP ones are pretty rare by now. I could not get into a single one here. And I used even techniques that usually can get into WEP in very short times. (Don’t worry. I am long past my cracker days. It’s nice to know you can, but don’t have to.)
2. The assumption that person got the data from a logged military system: Well, my friend, you got to be pretty dumb to know that they are military computers, and still do that yourself! I did not talk about military. I worked in a company where the local admin passwords were stored in a text file on a windows share on a server. Obscure but still easy to find. I could log in to about half the systems around me, and have full access to everything. So if I wanted to copy something from our main server, where everything was logged, I would just have logged in to another system, and created a script that would have done this to the system of someone I did not like. Which then would have done the actual transfer from the server to a free file share on the net. After that, both scripts would wipe all evidence of themselves from both systems. If you don’t have access, you can still stick a keylogger on those systems and remove it later. (Without leaving fingerprints and with it being a colleague, so that it would be normal to leave a hair or some dust from you there.) This then would also work for military offices. (Again, don’t worry. I don’t think it makes sense to wreck the company that’s paying for your life and that trusts you. If I hate a company that much, what am I doing, still working there in the first place?)
Then their clients must be pretty nice ones. Around here, such a system would be wrecked in the blink of an eye. The imaging does not happen because of security concerns. It happens because the users leave it in an unworkable state, and that means money loss.
Maybe you should think about adding a script to their systems that wrecks them at a random moment between 1-3 days after you have been there. And then sell them a imaging solution. You could make money, while doing good for their clients.;)
That if any Apple user would have heard anything about it, they would have preferred to keep the Trojan installed, so they could use it to sneak out of the walled garden once in a while.;) Also, fanbois wouldn’t be able to parrot how their system has no known viruses at all. And we all know that Apple relies nearly completely on...ehrm... viral marketing.;)
The thing is that solar companies are probably the only ones where I don’t mind a marketing push. Although I prefer the combination of solar thermal power plants and pumped-storage hydroelectricity (or other good storage forms) for the night, interconnected with HVDC lines.
It’s really true that with 400x400 km of those power plants (not counting the hydros) you could power the entire world. Which is especially great for the poor but sunny countries, since those power plants are dead cheap, simple and made of abundant losslessly recyclable materials.
Yes, maybe they thought “Hey, with that spill, it’s our time to get the governments to listen“. I’d have done the same.
Wind is only a theat to real solar cells. Because those cells still are expensive and since they contain rare materials, I don’t thing they will become cheaper. Mirrors pipes and pumps however beat the complex wind mills by a lot.
It does not suffice to be an emotional creature! (I hate to say it, but only on a geek site...;) It also requires people to not be dominant but passive. Meaning they don’t check anything for themselves and hence have to buy into the reality of others.
It is my opinion that modern social engineering was used to make people that passive. And that it was intentional, even if it was done unconsciously. But the bad food definitely and feeling of powerlessness in our way too large communities helped in making people lethargic.
It is also my opinion, that if they can do that, we can too. And we can even do it better than them, because we definitely would do it consciously and also they wouldn’t expect it.
The ONLY purpose of this “possible” (but actually never happening) shelving is to win people like you over who are dumb enough to believe that “*cries* This time you won’t beat me after we’re back together, right? This time everything is going to be good! Promise me! *cries*”
I think everyone who votes for a party, that EVEN ONCE before lied (even if it was 50 years ago and “everything changed(TM)“), should be shot on sight. Because the obviously have no learning ability at all.
Sorry, but apparently you don’t know CSS very well. It is perfectly suited to layout print documents. Especially CSS 3. XML-FO is pretty much only a XML-typical annoyingly bloated variant of CSS.
Why does everything have to be XML? It’s a badly designed format that fell for the KISS fallacy and got simplified so much that it got harder again.
I prefer raw EBML. Which, when containing character data and with a small tag ID to tag name mapper can be converted to XML anyway. And RelaxNG’s C-like syntax. Finally something sane!
I’m a long-term professional, and if you are developing for any specific browser, you are a failure, and not a professional. The goal is to know the W3C standards by heart in every minute detail (yes, it can be done, since I did it for years without problems), and design to it. In a way that allows you to spot things where not you are wrong, but the browser is! You only add browser-specific quirks after you’re done. Separated from the main code wherever possible.
Otherwise you end up with a huge non-working mess as soon as you notice that your nice giant backbone of your webapp only works because of a quirk/bug/weirdness of that specific browser.
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Maybe because they’re just not capable of being *that* evil, considering how on the German market, where they come from, they would be done and dead, if they dared to act like a US phone company.
I’m downright shocked by how you think you “got away” with wireless tethering.
It’s a function of your phone, isn’t it? What gave anyone the idea that it is controllable or even acceptable to disable built-in functions that you’re STILL paying for. (You still pay for your bandwidth and for the hardware).
Seriously, if I had to move to the US, I would not make a single contract with *anyone*, unless I would have written it myself, including all the terms and conditions. Even if that would mean no phone, Internet, apartment or anything.
I’m already wary of making contracts here in Germany. (I only have two contracts in total (apartment and phone/internet), and like to at least keep it that way, if not cancel the phone contract too.)
Remember that only because someone is stating something, that does not make it reality. Also a contract term is not a law. Not even remotely.
For that to be the case, you first have to buy into their bullshit delusional reality. Secondly, sign that contract. And third, actually accept it as being a legal practice. (A contract term is still illegal when it’s not legal, even when you signed it!)
Protip (obviously): Don’t make such contracts.
If that means no phone, no Internet, and no everything, then I suggest moving to a free country! ^^ (Really!)
Dammit! A typo. I should not create rules for a state after having woken up in the afternoon with a hangover. ;)
On the other hand, that could also be the famous words uttered by big leaders when founding most new states. )
Ooops, a bug fix:
3. The definition of “rule over” in rule 1, and of “life-form“, “right&” and “wrong”, is relative, and hence completely individual for every life-form.
And you only found out about this now?
Damn, do you even know that what we nowadays call “lobbying” and “donations” used to be called highly illegal treason, and punished like murder? And with good reason!
Nowadays, if someone still believes the parties are anything buy bought sock puppets, he does not deserve to vote or stay in the country! Seriously. How fuckin delusional must one be, to still believe that you live in a democracy?
That’s like the Soviet Union people believing they lived in a communist society. (For that to happen, the “interim” government would first have had to dissolve itself.)
Goes to show how well the media brainwashes even people like you and me. :/
The only solution I have left, is to found a new state, based on only 5 rules:
1. No life-form shall ever rule over another life-form.
2. Everything is allowed, unless it’s going against rule 1.
3. The definition of “rule” “right” and “wrong“ is relative, and hence completely individual for every life-form.
4. In case of differences in definition, the life-forms who have the difference, and only them, shall resolve those differences, or they must go separate ways.
5. There is only one “punishment“: Separation.
That’s all that’s needed. From that, the individual senses of right and wrong (which replace the oppressive concept of a global set of laws) grow, and people start to group by mindsets.
...when their detector’s alarm goes off, and in big red letters displays the IP addresses of their own network as the main terror threat to the nation. ;)
Mirror mirror on the wall, who’s the biggest terrorist in the world? ;)
Dang! I just shattered like that...
Well, depends on if you want your shell’s space and login time to be even more bloated as it is.
But considering how what the OP wanted already smells of bloat, I guess it does not matter anyway which version you choose. It’s always pretty pointless. ;)
Yes, yes, don’t you think I know that?
I just wanted to keep it short, considering how I was strongly drunk and just came back from a party. ^^
Actually I already used CSS 2.1 for print, and it is already very good. You just have to know how to use it, and use a browser with a clean implementation. Like Webkit or Opera.
NOT IE. At all. Ever. ;)
Also, what I don’t get, is how my comment can even be considered a troll. Unless the moderator himself is a troll. Maybe that moderator should first clear his neuroses so he does not map his repressed anger from other situations onto my voice when reading my comments in his head. And maybe he should learn, that disagreement is not what the Troll moderation is meant to be used for. ;)
Oh well... gotta live with the dicks, even if they got mod points.
Hey moderators! PROTIP: ;)
If you disagree, that does on its own not make a comment a troll!
Also, note the “^^” Which means, I’m pushing but not unfriendly.
If I am proven wrong I have no problem accepting that, and am just as happy.
But maybe you just can’t handle real men discussing an issue, without ten miles of padding and bubble wrap.
There is a way more significant flaw: You still vote for other life-forms (in this case humans)!
Call me crass, but I see natural selection as the fundamental driving force behind the outcome of everything, and hence the judgment on the quality of a behavior or decision.
If that is true, (which I am very sure it is), then a life-form either (directly or sometimes very indirectly) works solely for its own interests, or will die out pretty quickly. Especially when the resources must be fought for.
Of course this seems pretty strange, when looking at people like Mother Theresa. But only if you don’t consider mindsets/ideas/philosophies another level of existence. (On the level of societies.) If you do accept it, after seeing how they behave exactly like life-forms, fighting, growing, dying, using resources and transforming them, then it becomes clear that what happens to Mother Theresa’s body was not important, since a mindset tried to survive here. (Which is just as good. [Disclaimer: I’m interested in both levels, and hence can understand her.])
But following from the above, it is clear that if you choose other life-forms to rule in your name, it is not very likely that they will also represent your interests if you happen to disagree. Simply because they are life-forms.
This is not bad or good. It just is how it is.
Which means, that any system, democracy (trough a representation that somehow never represents your interests) just as well as communism (trough a interim government that somehow never ends), can not work how you expect it to work (shaping the community according your interests).
In tribal times, you were only 20-50 people. So this was a non-issue. You sat in the village center and resolved the differences. If not, you split and created your own village. ;)
In the last couple of thousand years, there was not much choice. If you had a choice at all, and were not just reigned by a stronger one, you either accepted the ruling from above, tried to gain power yourself, or had to go back to living in a tribal village. But often it was something in-between.
Now we have huge, way too large societies. And somehow talked ourselves into the illusion that leaders (mindset radiators) would behave like servants (mindset absorbers), if we just believe hard enough that we chose them.
Though some of us want to go back to villages again (communism). (Proven to work for ten thousands of years if it comes to that. But somehow it never gets that far.)
My suggestion would be, to replace our leaders by... Webs of trust, based on P2P networks.
And their decisions by... our own decisions, with a (self-defined rule-based) fallback on how our trusted peers decided for decisions that we don’t care or don’t feel more competent about.
Of course that means that the point of the concept of a state vanishes again. It also means that there will be much disagreement having to be resolved, or people having to move.
But see it like this: Right now we already have all those people who are forced to live together, despite their tons of unresolved strong disagreement. It’s the fault of the system we had, that those were not resolved. Not the fault of the system that finally opens the eyes again to start going back to normal.
One result of this would be e.g. the USA splitting into two groups. You know that a society should better be split up, when it’? so clear who those group are, that you don’t even have to mention them. ;) ;) :)
And the only ones who would consider such split-ups to be a bad thing, are those who profit from them right now.
But I’m sorry: There are people suffering from it, and they don’t care for your profits.
(Although I’m not saying it’s abnormal for you to push your own interests. I’m just saying, don’t be surprised if they do the same.
Considering how we already had stories where TFS contained a Nazi reference right after the quote from TFA, I say you already lost that one. ;)
To beat that, you would have to either start with one, or just Godwin the thing right at the start of the headline.
So to anyone out there: If you manage to get a story on the front page, that starts with “Nazi...”, you win! ;)
From experience, the only thing that is missing for the year of Linux on the Desktop, is webcam (audio/video) support for instant messengers in MSN/WLM and Yahoo.
Everything else is “for idiots” already, according to a Jane Random that I recommended Ubuntu to. (So if you make it any simpler, it will become worse!)
Basically this is a complete list of what the average user requires:
- File management (done)
- Play audio/video (Linux is very good at this)
- E-Mail & calendaring (e.g. Evolution or Thunderbird with Lightning)
- Instant messaging with audio, video, and those stupid animated smilies and things like that, at minimum for MSN, Yahoo and ICQ (here it looks pretty bleak, as some work sometimes, but there is nothing that can do it all. Also it is hard to get working.)
- Create documents (OpenOffice, still having the old MS-Office-like interface, already beats MS Office in this!!)
- Surf the web, including YouTube and Flash games! [Yes. Flash is imperative and non-negotiable to them.] (Done. Works well, lots of choice.)
- Their hardware needs to work. (Already very good, pretty close to perfect. Rare cases of non-working are caused by evil or cheap/lazy hardware companies. Which will end as soon as Linux gains enough market share. Which it can do with the current hardware support.)
For all this points it is important, that their own favorite features, no matter how minute and irrelevant they seem, are implemented. Luckily, this also is already mostly done.
So we’re really close, the distance is measurable, and the very few remaining problems are fixable. (E.g. Pidgin 3.0 is supposed to have video/audio support. And Kopete already does it for everything but MSN, where it will soon work [again?].)
Well yes. But you still lose freedom and clarity. :D
Consider your comment. I now use German grammar and English words to say the same:
Germanworkknowing, the wordconstructioncreativityroomamountsize is clear.
Note that this is also not normal German, and that you can cut any of the words is those large words out, and place them separately.
Err...Sorry for that typo. I meant to say “Your comment was insightful and funny, and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.”
The keys are like right next to each other...
So that is how you in not only a +5 Informative, but also a +5 Funny? By insulting people and then taking it back?
Wait, I can do that too:
YOU ALL SUCK DICK
You just added two assumptions that were not made in my comment. Hence your arguments are invalid to invalidating my arguments. But even with those assumptions added, and then obviously also considering them, you don’t get busted:
1. The assumption that there are open WiFis:
There are no open WiFis around here anymore. Even WEP ones are pretty rare by now.
I could not get into a single one here. And I used even techniques that usually can get into WEP in very short times.
(Don’t worry. I am long past my cracker days. It’s nice to know you can, but don’t have to.)
2. The assumption that person got the data from a logged military system:
Well, my friend, you got to be pretty dumb to know that they are military computers, and still do that yourself! I did not talk about military.
I worked in a company where the local admin passwords were stored in a text file on a windows share on a server. Obscure but still easy to find. I could log in to about half the systems around me, and have full access to everything.
So if I wanted to copy something from our main server, where everything was logged, I would just have logged in to another system, and created a script that would have done this to the system of someone I did not like. Which then would have done the actual transfer from the server to a free file share on the net. After that, both scripts would wipe all evidence of themselves from both systems.
If you don’t have access, you can still stick a keylogger on those systems and remove it later. (Without leaving fingerprints and with it being a colleague, so that it would be normal to leave a hair or some dust from you there.)
This then would also work for military offices.
(Again, don’t worry. I don’t think it makes sense to wreck the company that’s paying for your life and that trusts you. If I hate a company that much, what am I doing, still working there in the first place?)
Then their clients must be pretty nice ones. Around here, such a system would be wrecked in the blink of an eye. The imaging does not happen because of security concerns. It happens because the users leave it in an unworkable state, and that means money loss.
Maybe you should think about adding a script to their systems that wrecks them at a random moment between 1-3 days after you have been there. And then sell them a imaging solution. You could make money, while doing good for their clients. ;)
That if any Apple user would have heard anything about it, they would have preferred to keep the Trojan installed, so they could use it to sneak out of the walled garden once in a while. ;) ;)
Also, fanbois wouldn’t be able to parrot how their system has no known viruses at all. And we all know that Apple relies nearly completely on...ehrm... viral marketing.
The thing is that solar companies are probably the only ones where I don’t mind a marketing push.
Although I prefer the combination of solar thermal power plants and pumped-storage hydroelectricity (or other good storage forms) for the night, interconnected with HVDC lines.
It’s really true that with 400x400 km of those power plants (not counting the hydros) you could power the entire world. Which is especially great for the poor but sunny countries, since those power plants are dead cheap, simple and made of abundant losslessly recyclable materials.
Yes, maybe they thought “Hey, with that spill, it’s our time to get the governments to listen“. I’d have done the same.
Wind is only a theat to real solar cells. Because those cells still are expensive and since they contain rare materials, I don’t thing they will become cheaper. Mirrors pipes and pumps however beat the complex wind mills by a lot.
At least IMHO.
It does not suffice to be an emotional creature! (I hate to say it, but only on a geek site...;)
It also requires people to not be dominant but passive. Meaning they don’t check anything for themselves and hence have to buy into the reality of others.
It is my opinion that modern social engineering was used to make people that passive. And that it was intentional, even if it was done unconsciously. But the bad food definitely and feeling of powerlessness in our way too large communities helped in making people lethargic.
It is also my opinion, that if they can do that, we can too. And we can even do it better than them, because we definitely would do it consciously and also they wouldn’t expect it.
And ride my new pony! That doesn’t sound as bad, except that it’s 300 FEET TALL and COVERED IN CHAINSAWS!
Ain’t gonna happen. Ever!
You wish!
The ONLY purpose of this “possible” (but actually never happening) shelving is to win people like you over who are dumb enough to believe that “*cries* This time you won’t beat me after we’re back together, right? This time everything is going to be good! Promise me! *cries*”
I think everyone who votes for a party, that EVEN ONCE before lied (even if it was 50 years ago and “everything changed(TM)“), should be shot on sight. Because the obviously have no learning ability at all.
Sorry, but apparently you don’t know CSS very well. It is perfectly suited to layout print documents. Especially CSS 3.
XML-FO is pretty much only a XML-typical annoyingly bloated variant of CSS.
Why does everything have to be XML? It’s a badly designed format that fell for the KISS fallacy and got simplified so much that it got harder again.
I prefer raw EBML. Which, when containing character data and with a small tag ID to tag name mapper can be converted to XML anyway.
And RelaxNG’s C-like syntax. Finally something sane!
I’m a long-term professional, and if you are developing for any specific browser, you are a failure, and not a professional.
The goal is to know the W3C standards by heart in every minute detail (yes, it can be done, since I did it for years without problems), and design to it. In a way that allows you to spot things where not you are wrong, but the browser is!
You only add browser-specific quirks after you’re done. Separated from the main code wherever possible.
Otherwise you end up with a huge non-working mess as soon as you notice that your nice giant backbone of your webapp only works because of a quirk/bug/weirdness of that specific browser.
Things like http://code.google.com/p/ie7-js/ greatly help with this. :)