The purpose of GIMPshop was to "replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop". Well, Adobe just told you themselves that the Photoshop UI sucks. So, clearly, redesigning Gimp to be more Photoshop-like would not have been a good way of improving it.
Bad logic. Just because Adobe's UI sucks doesn't mean The GIMP's doesn't suck more.
To make an analogy, just because what you thought was beef tenderloin is really hamburger doesn't make gristle tasty.
Even that's a little debatable - the amendment doesn't seem to set any limits on the number of times you can be elected VP and become President by resignation/impeachment, just on the number of times you can be elected President. Could Bill Clinton become VP and have the President step down on day 2?
Of course, that argument requires the assumption that we couldn't possibly make something with similar carrying capacity to the shuttle for cheaper than $500 million to $2.5 billion per launch.
The Saturn V had the ability to lift 118,000 kg to low earth orbit, to the Space Shuttle's 24,400 kg - and that at a similar cost per launch.
The Delta IV can lift up to about the Space Shuttle's capacity at $250 million a launch. The Russian Proton-M can lift a little less than the Shuttle at $100 million a launch. There are plenty of alternatives to the Shuttle for launching large payloads.
There are a couple vendors. They all charge roughly the same prices, offer roughly the same services, probably share customer support reps in some developing nation, own the same Congressmen, they're all charging us the 'regulatory fee reclamation' shit, etc.
I've had four different cell phone providers. There's little difference.
Google may make their money off advertisers, but they've proven themselves far more responsible, ethically minded, and consumer responsive than any of the cell phone companies. Sure, the advertisers pay their bills, but those advertisers won't exist without us consumers using their products and thus providing advertisers with eyeballs to purchase.
A duly ratified treaty carries the same weight of law as the Constitution itself. That's why the U.S. gets so wiggy about signing on to treaties that would allow prosecution of military personnel for war crimes, because doing so would circumvent any supposed protections in the Constitution, including but not limited to the 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
The same passage you cited includes laws passed by Congress, yet the Constitution trumps those laws. Why would this not also be the case with the treaties that come next in the sentence?
"She really is lucky they didn't shoot her." actually means "well, if killing a suspect MAY prevent something bad from happening, then shoot, and if it was a false alarm, well, he deserved it for doing whatever he was doing".
No, it means "having no common sense around twitchy people with guns is a dangerous combination".
There's a massive and powerful organisation entirely devoted to the Second Amendment, the NRA. They're likely better at it than the ACLU ever could be. In short, you can have your cake and eat it too - but now you're bitching that you get two cakes instead of one.
Now the 9th has a hard-earned reputation as avant-garde [nutjobs]. Correction: people have unfairly and incorrectly tarred them with a reputation as avant-garde [nutjobs].
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1184633750.shtml
let's look at how often the Supreme Court decides that the 9th got it wrong. Last term, the Supreme Court's reversal rate for 9th Circuit cases was 90.5 percent. Yikes--that's huge! But wait, for on-the-merits cases, the Supremes reversed the 3rd and 5th Circuits all of the time last term. Cases from state appellate courts fared no better: They also had a 100 percent reversal rate. Overall, this past term the Supreme Court reversed 75.3 percent of the cases they considered on their merits. The pattern holds true for the 2004 and 2005 terms as well, when the Supremes had overall reversal rates of 76.8 percent and 75.6 percent, respectively. For those years, the 9th was reversed 84 percent and 88.9 percent of the time, or about a case or two more each year than it would have been if it had conformed to the reversal rate of the other circuits. How do one or two cases a year add up to a court run amuck?
Any content management system that needs to replace wholesale the main content capability to be able to categorise content in more than one category (or more than two levels of categorisation) is fatally flawed. I was assigned to a project in Joomla and within a week was begging (successfully) to use anything else - WordPress, Drupal, anything.
Very happy with Drupal now. The default install is bare-bones, by design, but you can duplicate all the Joomla functionality with a few of the modules on drupal.org and you're up and running, without the absurd restrictions, underpowered plugin hooks (something like nine in 1.x?) and godawful ugly outputted code.
Look, if an undercover cop asks you to sell him drugs and you do so, you go to jail. Doesn't matter that he didn't use the drugs. How is this different?
Alaska receives the least funding per-area of any state.
What a shocker! You're telling me all that tundra, mountains, and forest doesn't require substantial upkeep? Looking at Alaska's federal funding on a per-area basis is something that only a moron or an Alaskan would do.
Deliberately ignoring the FACT that Mars can never sustain an atmosphere because it doesn't have an Earth-like magnetosphere to prevent solar winds from ripping any atmosphere off into space.
Um, Mars has an atmosphere. That's how they get dust storms and clouds and the like.
From what I've heard, just about every major corporation has policies that ensure the next thing out of their reps' mouths after you say "I'm recording this call" is "Good bye".
I seem to remember pre-Xbox launch quotes from Microsoft stating that they expected to lose $10 billion or so entering the console market. It shouldn't be surprising - entering a market like the console market isn't going to be quickly profitable. They were selling Xboxes for a $100+ loss per unit on launch, quite openly.
The Windows and Office divisions are Microsoft's big earners. They can afford to lose ten billion dollars in a decade when they've got forty billion on hand for such things.
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The purpose of GIMPshop was to "replicate the feel of Adobe Photoshop". Well, Adobe just told you themselves that the Photoshop UI sucks. So, clearly, redesigning Gimp to be more Photoshop-like would not have been a good way of improving it.
Bad logic. Just because Adobe's UI sucks doesn't mean The GIMP's doesn't suck more.
To make an analogy, just because what you thought was beef tenderloin is really hamburger doesn't make gristle tasty.
Even that's a little debatable - the amendment doesn't seem to set any limits on the number of times you can be elected VP and become President by resignation/impeachment, just on the number of times you can be elected President. Could Bill Clinton become VP and have the President step down on day 2?
Of course, that argument requires the assumption that we couldn't possibly make something with similar carrying capacity to the shuttle for cheaper than $500 million to $2.5 billion per launch.
The Saturn V had the ability to lift 118,000 kg to low earth orbit, to the Space Shuttle's 24,400 kg - and that at a similar cost per launch.
The Delta IV can lift up to about the Space Shuttle's capacity at $250 million a launch. The Russian Proton-M can lift a little less than the Shuttle at $100 million a launch. There are plenty of alternatives to the Shuttle for launching large payloads.
So, you hang out with rich people, and this apparently gives you great insights into the plight of the poor?
Deamonte Diver died for lack of a $80 tooth extraction. See, there are anecdotes the other way, too.
Compete?
There are a couple vendors. They all charge roughly the same prices, offer roughly the same services, probably share customer support reps in some developing nation, own the same Congressmen, they're all charging us the 'regulatory fee reclamation' shit, etc.
I've had four different cell phone providers. There's little difference.
Google may make their money off advertisers, but they've proven themselves far more responsible, ethically minded, and consumer responsive than any of the cell phone companies. Sure, the advertisers pay their bills, but those advertisers won't exist without us consumers using their products and thus providing advertisers with eyeballs to purchase.
And are you under the impression that your money has the slightest effect on the way the cell phone companies operate?
A duly ratified treaty carries the same weight of law as the Constitution itself. That's why the U.S. gets so wiggy about signing on to treaties that would allow prosecution of military personnel for war crimes, because doing so would circumvent any supposed protections in the Constitution, including but not limited to the 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination.
The same passage you cited includes laws passed by Congress, yet the Constitution trumps those laws. Why would this not also be the case with the treaties that come next in the sentence?
"She really is lucky they didn't shoot her." actually means "well, if killing a suspect MAY prevent something bad from happening, then shoot, and if it was a false alarm, well, he deserved it for doing whatever he was doing".
No, it means "having no common sense around twitchy people with guns is a dangerous combination".
Most things are clunky, rickety, and expensive when first invented. There has to be a starting point.
There's a massive and powerful organisation entirely devoted to the Second Amendment, the NRA. They're likely better at it than the ACLU ever could be. In short, you can have your cake and eat it too - but now you're bitching that you get two cakes instead of one.
I'm going to go vandalise Metamucil on Wikipedia and say it's commonly used to poison unwanted older relatives.
(hey, if Nigerian scams work...)
http://www.volokh.com/posts/1184633750.shtml let's look at how often the Supreme Court decides that the 9th got it wrong. Last term, the Supreme Court's reversal rate for 9th Circuit cases was 90.5 percent. Yikes--that's huge! But wait, for on-the-merits cases, the Supremes reversed the 3rd and 5th Circuits all of the time last term. Cases from state appellate courts fared no better: They also had a 100 percent reversal rate. Overall, this past term the Supreme Court reversed 75.3 percent of the cases they considered on their merits. The pattern holds true for the 2004 and 2005 terms as well, when the Supremes had overall reversal rates of 76.8 percent and 75.6 percent, respectively. For those years, the 9th was reversed 84 percent and 88.9 percent of the time, or about a case or two more each year than it would have been if it had conformed to the reversal rate of the other circuits. How do one or two cases a year add up to a court run amuck?
Any content management system that needs to replace wholesale the main content capability to be able to categorise content in more than one category (or more than two levels of categorisation) is fatally flawed. I was assigned to a project in Joomla and within a week was begging (successfully) to use anything else - WordPress, Drupal, anything.
Very happy with Drupal now. The default install is bare-bones, by design, but you can duplicate all the Joomla functionality with a few of the modules on drupal.org and you're up and running, without the absurd restrictions, underpowered plugin hooks (something like nine in 1.x?) and godawful ugly outputted code.
Look, if an undercover cop asks you to sell him drugs and you do so, you go to jail. Doesn't matter that he didn't use the drugs. How is this different?
Their articles get a lot worse than that, too. Six lines of content and twice the advertising, for example.
The DMCA doesn't say, of course, that you'll likely incur millions in legal fees if you try to exercise those rights.
A quick google turns up 1.1 million links [google.com] for the phrase "chinese exploited workers"
Okay, but a Google for "harry potter" brings up 147 million, and we don't consider him real.
Alaska receives the least funding per-area of any state.
What a shocker! You're telling me all that tundra, mountains, and forest doesn't require substantial upkeep? Looking at Alaska's federal funding on a per-area basis is something that only a moron or an Alaskan would do.
Age isn't the only reason people can be morons. How, exactly, do you know your being 23 was what made you one?
You're assuming what he said in his troll posts indicated his true opinion and strategy. That seems a rather foolish assumption.
Deliberately ignoring the FACT that Mars can never sustain an atmosphere because it doesn't have an Earth-like magnetosphere to prevent solar winds from ripping any atmosphere off into space.
Um, Mars has an atmosphere. That's how they get dust storms and clouds and the like.
All this does is present an ever-changing face to the world that nobody can rely on.
Let's just outlaw elections, then! Heaven forbid our government represent the people.
Clinton tried to govern this way and it didn't work very well.
Bush tried to govern your way and it didn't work at all.
From what I've heard, just about every major corporation has policies that ensure the next thing out of their reps' mouths after you say "I'm recording this call" is "Good bye".
I seem to remember pre-Xbox launch quotes from Microsoft stating that they expected to lose $10 billion or so entering the console market. It shouldn't be surprising - entering a market like the console market isn't going to be quickly profitable. They were selling Xboxes for a $100+ loss per unit on launch, quite openly.
The Windows and Office divisions are Microsoft's big earners. They can afford to lose ten billion dollars in a decade when they've got forty billion on hand for such things.
Good luck making a Linux distro without GNU tools
What, they're going to revoke my existing GPL2 installations?