I'm looking at it on a 1280x1024 screen, in Mozilla 1.3, and I see none of the problems you describe (except for the colors in the lite site - that yellow needs to go). Perhaps it's time to upgrade your pre-1.0 Moz build?
I'd imagine the reason it goes to espn.go.com is the same reason all C|Net sites go to.com.com - so a single cookie can be used across multiple sites on their network.
"That's what you get when Europe's inability to act makes you be world policeman." What give us the right to be such?
What gives us the right to be world policeman? With no other superpower in the world, and Europe etc. unwilling to act, the US has a need and a responsibility to prevent the rise of Hitler v2.0 - not only to protect themselves, but to protect the world.
Remember we were founded by a PEOPLES revolt. Taking that, if another country (say iraq) doesn't want its rulership, let them rebel. If they can't, they don't want freedom enough.
Good thing the French didn't think like you during the American Revolution. Or have you forgotten your own origins, too? Just like Iraq now, the US was helped by a superpower - France - into her independence.
Come on... if you're going to use someone else's list, at least make sure their facts are straight. Most of these I can counter off the top of my head.
America was the country that was the primary "sponsor" - in terms of weapons, training and funding - of Osama Bin Laden and his fighters during the 1980s. Against what at the time appeared to be a far greater threat, the USSR.
American spokesman saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan in 1996. At the time, both sides were equally bad in the eyes of the US. The Taliban hadn't started supporting OBL's terrorist activites yet.
America unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001. As permitted by the treaty's conditions with a required notification period.
America is the world's biggest polluter. America is the world's biggest economy. Quelle surprise!
America was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history. Uh, no - 130 Marines were killed in Beiruit by a bomb in 1983, making it a whole 50 deaths larger!
America is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines. Because to do so would permit North Korea to roll across into peaceful South Korea.
America refuses to hand over a variety of indicted war criminals, terrorists and mass murderers - all residing within its borders - to Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti. When you promise immunity as a condition of exile, you can't go back on that - no one will trust you in the future.
America has provided approximately $110 billion in aid to a country [Israel] which has maintained a 34-year occupation of land in defiance of international law. Israel's existance is perfectly legal under international law. Hell - they got those territories from two illegal wars started by the Arab nations. Spoils of war.
America was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a 1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism. Probably because the resolution's definition of "international terrorism" was aimed at the Israeli state.
America refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions. The US is the UN's largest source of funding.
America was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s. Accused != guilty, at least not in a fair legal system.
America was the driving force behind the economic embargo on Iraq - responsible for the death of over half a million Iraqi children and described by one of its own legislators as "genocide masquerading as policy". No, Iraq's violations of the terms of the 1991 peace agreement are the driving force behind the embargo. That and the fact that Saddam routes money supposedly to be used for medicine and food to weapons.
America is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on twenty other countries since 1945. That's what you get when Europe's inability to act makes you be world policeman.
America is the only country in the world to have used all three types of "weapons of mass destruction" (chemical, biological and nuclear). Actually, France, Russia, and England have also done so. Perhaps you mean that the US is the only nation to use an atomic bomb on an enemy nation? If so, consider the fact that the bomb may have hastened the end of the war, saving millions of Japanese and American lives.
You'd have a valid point if Google didn't make you read this page prior to downloading the toolbar. They couldn't have made it any clearer, IMO.
"By using the Advanced Features version of the Google Toolbar, you may be sending information about the sites you visit to Google."
"Google will not sell or provide personally identifiable information to any third parties."
"We understand and respect your privacy concerns. By selecting this option, you will not have access to advanced functionality. However, no information about the sites you visit will be communicated to Google."
Hell, you can even install it without the monitoring - no need to block it with a firewall.
The way I understand it, it's for people who have a genuine desire to not visit these sites... and this is their way of shoring up their willpower. If they want to give in and surf porn, knowing that their best friend / spouse / etc. will see that could stop them.
One counterpoint does not disprove an argument. Perhaps the argument would have been better stated as "KDE/GNOME are copying lots of Windows characteristics" or something like that, though.
Also, the new versions of Windows Media Player do this, too (but to WMA format instead). I personally would rather use my own ripping program and control all the options, be it on XP or KDE.
You left out the "???" step, which is the whole point of the steps joke.
Of course, in this case, ??? means: train your users for a couple months, spend lots of $ converting file formats, and boot into Windows most of the time to use your useful programs that don't run in Linux.:-p
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Collections of facts are copyrightable by the people who collect them. Different people can collect the same facts, as well.
Thus, the only way for him to have a case would be if they stole his collection of those facts from him w/o his permission. If they got them from elsewhere, or if the aggregated individual facts he gave them, they're fine legally.
His submission may actually have been in before yours - I've had "accepted" articles wait in the queue for up to 4 days before making it to the Slashdot front page.
I'm not sure why it takes so long, but it sometimes does.
If that's not what happened... well, lets just say that the editors like controversy - and this one's probably more likely to provoke flames, considering the religion flamebait in it.
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No more than already happens with LCD screens that have speakers built into the sides / bottom of the display.
It's just an acrylic panel over the front of the display, so it shouldn't affect the lifespan of the LCD at all.
I'm looking at it on a 1280x1024 screen, in Mozilla 1.3, and I see none of the problems you describe (except for the colors in the lite site - that yellow needs to go). Perhaps it's time to upgrade your pre-1.0 Moz build?
.com.com - so a single cookie can be used across multiple sites on their network.
I'd imagine the reason it goes to espn.go.com is the same reason all C|Net sites go to
Click the "Processes" tab and close the process there. That works no matter what.
"That's what you get when Europe's inability to act makes you be world policeman." What give us the right to be such?
What gives us the right to be world policeman? With no other superpower in the world, and Europe etc. unwilling to act, the US has a need and a responsibility to prevent the rise of Hitler v2.0 - not only to protect themselves, but to protect the world.
Remember we were founded by a PEOPLES revolt. Taking that, if another country (say iraq) doesn't want its rulership, let them rebel. If they can't, they don't want freedom enough.
Good thing the French didn't think like you during the American Revolution. Or have you forgotten your own origins, too? Just like Iraq now, the US was helped by a superpower - France - into her independence.
Come on... if you're going to use someone else's list, at least make sure their facts are straight. Most of these I can counter off the top of my head.
America was the country that was the primary "sponsor" - in terms of weapons, training and funding - of Osama Bin Laden and his fighters during the 1980s.
Against what at the time appeared to be a far greater threat, the USSR.
American spokesman saw "nothing objectionable" in the Taliban's seizure of power in Afghanistan in 1996.
At the time, both sides were equally bad in the eyes of the US. The Taliban hadn't started supporting OBL's terrorist activites yet.
America unilaterally withdrew from the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty in December 2001.
As permitted by the treaty's conditions with a required notification period.
America is the world's biggest polluter.
America is the world's biggest economy. Quelle surprise!
America was responsible for a car bomb which killed 80 civilians in Beirut in 1985, in a botched assassination attempt, thereby making it the most lethal terrorist bombing in modern Middle East history.
Uh, no - 130 Marines were killed in Beiruit by a bomb in 1983, making it a whole 50 deaths larger!
America is the only G7 country to have refused to sign the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty, forbidding the use of landmines.
Because to do so would permit North Korea to roll across into peaceful South Korea.
America refuses to hand over a variety of indicted war criminals, terrorists and mass murderers - all residing within its borders - to Cuba, Venezuela and Haiti.
When you promise immunity as a condition of exile, you can't go back on that - no one will trust you in the future.
America has provided approximately $110 billion in aid to a country [Israel] which has maintained a 34-year occupation of land in defiance of international law.
Israel's existance is perfectly legal under international law. Hell - they got those territories from two illegal wars started by the Arab nations. Spoils of war.
America was the only other country to join with Israel in opposing a 1987 General Assembly resolution condemning international terrorism.
Probably because the resolution's definition of "international terrorism" was aimed at the Israeli state.
America refuses to fully pay its debts to the United Nations yet reserves its right to veto United Nations resolutions.
The US is the UN's largest source of funding.
America was accused by a UN-sponsored truth commission of providing "direct and indirect support" for "acts of genocide" against the Mayan Indians in Guatemala during the 1980s.
Accused != guilty, at least not in a fair legal system.
America was the driving force behind the economic embargo on Iraq - responsible for the death of over half a million Iraqi children and described by one of its own legislators as "genocide masquerading as policy".
No, Iraq's violations of the terms of the 1991 peace agreement are the driving force behind the embargo. That and the fact that Saddam routes money supposedly to be used for medicine and food to weapons.
America is the only country in the world to have dropped bombs on twenty other countries since 1945.
That's what you get when Europe's inability to act makes you be world policeman.
America is the only country in the world to have used all three types of "weapons of mass destruction" (chemical, biological and nuclear).
Actually, France, Russia, and England have also done so. Perhaps you mean that the US is the only nation to use an atomic bomb on an enemy nation? If so, consider the fact that the bomb may have hastened the end of the war, saving millions of Japanese and American lives.
So, we should reprogram our HARM missiles to listen in on the signal they're homing in on for a while, to make sure it's not a Western reporter?
I suppose you've made a technological breakthrough in AI?
What's more, Apple would have not only a big marketshare of the software, but they'd have the hardware, too.
And people whine about the high costs of Apple hardware now...
You'd have a valid point if Google didn't make you read this page prior to downloading the toolbar. They couldn't have made it any clearer, IMO.
"By using the Advanced Features version of the Google Toolbar, you may be sending information about the sites you visit to Google."
"Google will not sell or provide personally identifiable information to any third parties."
"We understand and respect your privacy concerns. By selecting this option, you will not have access to advanced functionality. However, no information about the sites you visit will be communicated to Google."
Hell, you can even install it without the monitoring - no need to block it with a firewall.
For the same reason recovering drug users need the support of their friends and family.
The way I understand it, it's for people who have a genuine desire to not visit these sites... and this is their way of shoring up their willpower. If they want to give in and surf porn, knowing that their best friend / spouse / etc. will see that could stop them.
Just tested - progman.exe is in WinXP... nifty!
And it's no coincidence that RedHat users usually say that Linux isn't ready for the desktop yet while SuSE, Mandrake or Gentoo users say it is...
You're right. RedHat is the predominant business-oriented distribution, whilst the others are more hobbyist-oriented.
Ergo, the people who have average computer knowledge (most people) say it's not ready, whilst the hardcore techies say it is.
One counterpoint does not disprove an argument. Perhaps the argument would have been better stated as "KDE/GNOME are copying lots of Windows characteristics" or something like that, though.
Also, the new versions of Windows Media Player do this, too (but to WMA format instead). I personally would rather use my own ripping program and control all the options, be it on XP or KDE.
You left out the "???" step, which is the whole point of the steps joke.
:-p
Of course, in this case, ??? means: train your users for a couple months, spend lots of $ converting file formats, and boot into Windows most of the time to use your useful programs that don't run in Linux.
Posting a page that says
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is hardly good evidence.
Sense of humor transplant, stat!
Move along, folks, nothing to see here.
Self-defense is usually considered to extend to defense of your loved ones, as well.
Collections of facts are copyrightable by the people who collect them. Different people can collect the same facts, as well.
Thus, the only way for him to have a case would be if they stole his collection of those facts from him w/o his permission. If they got them from elsewhere, or if the aggregated individual facts he gave them, they're fine legally.
Facts aren't copyrightable.
Actually, if you shot someone while he was raping your girlfriend, it'd definitely be considered okay. Self-defense and all that.
His submission may actually have been in before yours - I've had "accepted" articles wait in the queue for up to 4 days before making it to the Slashdot front page.
I'm not sure why it takes so long, but it sometimes does.
If that's not what happened... well, lets just say that the editors like controversy - and this one's probably more likely to provoke flames, considering the religion flamebait in it.
Damn... I just used up my mod points this morning! :-(
Thanks for the laugh!
Oh, the issues brought up are certainly valid - I'm just curious about the timing.
Mozilla 1.3b (Windows) didn't run the ImportXML() test for me, either.