Hehe... SMS (i.e. "texting") has been the primary method of telecommunication for teens here in Finland for over 15 years now. And most of the adult population also use SMS more than voice (if measured in number of SMS vs. initiated calls).
Which is of course a flawed measure, because phone calls don't go like this: Person A calls person B: "Hello, how are you?" hangs up. Person B calls back person A: "I'm fine. How are you?" hangs up. Person A calls back person B: "I'm fine too. Shall we meet this evening?" hangs up. etc.
However, 'ng' is a single phoneme, and 'sch' is also a single phoneme. So 'ngstschr' is 8 letters, but only 5 consonants, both in Dutch and German.
In that case, the longest I can find in German is "Herbststrauß" with 7 consonants. In order to get on-topic agqain, I hereby suggest that the browser is renamed to "Herbststrauß":-)
No. What he said is that you should be allowed to even offer $0. You're of course not likely to get anyone to do the job for that wage, but that's your problem. The point I think the OP is making is that if you remove the need to work for living (through the reverse-taxation), then companies will no longer be able to offer wages below the worth of the work, because no one would take that job. People will only take the job if the wage offered is worth it.
Hint: where are your hands most comfortable on a keyboard?
I guess that depends on whether you touch-type or not. I'm not a touch-typer and I don't have the slightest problem typing Ctrl-anything, even with the Ctrl key being at the place it is on current keyboards. OTOH the modal interface of vi gives an additional error source because you always have to remember if you are in insert of command mode.
The whole point of Uzbl is its different design philosophy. Basing it on Firefox or Chrome would be as silly as basing a Microkernel OS design on Linux.
We Dutch have wonderful words with at least 8 in a row: "angstschreeuw" (cry of fear).
In German, that's "Angstschrei". Exactly the same sequence of 8 consonants (and I'd not be surprised if those are pronounced exactly the same way as well). You win the vowel competition, though.
In case of browser, this would mean, for example, that you use one utility that only knows how to download files via HTTP, and another one that only knows how to display them, piping output from the first into the second.
Well, the first one is there: wget. AFAIK there's no program which does nothing but render HTML.
This problem could be solved by breaking from the "the program that does the work is the program that provides the GUI" paradigm. Indeed, everything from COM to plugins are actually partial implementations of that needed split. And the much-hyped web apps have that split automatically (the program runs on a web server, the GUI is handled by the browser).
Until you want to implement something like a privacy button. It needs to clear the disk cache. It needs to clear the cookies. It needs to clear the autocomplete for the navigation bar. It has to delete the page history. But you don't want it to nuke your bookmark database, so you can't just make a "purge all". What's one thing for the user isn't one thing for the developer, which is why you end up building monolithical applications.
Actually, you also don't want any changes to bookmarks while surfing privately (because they would also reveal that you have visted the bookmarked site). Also, clearing the cookies and history is just a simple hack; what you actually want is that the state after surfing is exactly the same as the state before surfing (so you cannot tell anything about your surfing from the changes). Therefore a privacy script could simply copy the complete state when you start surfing privately, and restore it afterwards.
You forgot: The sun is the main cause of global warming. Take the sun away, and there will be no global warming at all, no matter how much CO2 you put into the atmosphere.
According to Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary, one of the meanings of "violence" is "the use of physical force in a way that harms a person or a person's property" (the other listed meanings are not applicable in this case). So unless you want to argue that damage to property doesn't harm it, you're clearly wrong.
So in theory they know how fast a reader you are, and more interestingly, they could see for any particular book if there are parts where a lot of readers get bogged down or give up at.
Or if you read a book about operating airplanes and skip the chapter about landing, some agents from Homeland Security might come to you...
Walmart exercises gender discrimination for promotions with surgical precision. They have been sued numerous times over the years for policies that make it difficult for women to come up in the ranks.
This may be true, but you can hardly hold capitalism responsible for that. WalMart doesn't get a single extra cent from preventing women's promotion. If it affects WalMart's profits at all, it does so negatively, because it reduces the chances that the best people (i.e. those who are most able to make decisions which increase WalMart's profits) get promoted.
Well, it's always valuable to re-test basic truths. After all, imagine the equation 15=3*5 would stop to be true. It would completely change our world view!
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Hehe... SMS (i.e. "texting") has been the primary method of telecommunication for teens here in Finland for over 15 years now. And most of the adult population also use SMS more than voice (if measured in number of SMS vs. initiated calls).
Which is of course a flawed measure, because phone calls don't go like this:
Person A calls person B: "Hello, how are you?" hangs up.
Person B calls back person A: "I'm fine. How are you?" hangs up.
Person A calls back person B: "I'm fine too. Shall we meet this evening?" hangs up.
etc.
"Nothing typed with someone's thumbs has ever been important." -- Gin Rummy, "The Boondocks"
Don'ttouchtypiststypespaceswiththethumb?Iguesstheyarenotimportant,soI'llletthemoutfromnowon.
Install a system which automatically sends every kid on your lawn an SMS: "Get off my lawn" :-)
This is the problem with texting, facebook, myspace and the like. The illiterate mass together making poor spelling and grammar acceptable.
As opposed to talking to each other, where they always use perfectly correct English?
However, 'ng' is a single phoneme, and 'sch' is also a single phoneme. So 'ngstschr' is 8 letters, but only 5 consonants, both in Dutch and German.
In that case, the longest I can find in German is "Herbststrauß" with 7 consonants. In order to get on-topic agqain, I hereby suggest that the browser is renamed to "Herbststrauß" :-)
It's named after the god of bloodlust so why would you expect it to be safe?
No. What he said is that you should be allowed to even offer $0. You're of course not likely to get anyone to do the job for that wage, but that's your problem. The point I think the OP is making is that if you remove the need to work for living (through the reverse-taxation), then companies will no longer be able to offer wages below the worth of the work, because no one would take that job. People will only take the job if the wage offered is worth it.
Yeah, 99% of all malware simply won't run on Linux. :-)
You get a 100$ fine for using Firefox or Seamonkey? Man, it must suck to live at your place.
I guess that depends on whether you touch-type or not.
I'm not a touch-typer and I don't have the slightest problem typing Ctrl-anything, even with the Ctrl key being at the place it is on current keyboards. OTOH the modal interface of vi gives an additional error source because you always have to remember if you are in insert of command mode.
The whole point of Uzbl is its different design philosophy. Basing it on Firefox or Chrome would be as silly as basing a Microkernel OS design on Linux.
In German, that's "Angstschrei". Exactly the same sequence of 8 consonants (and I'd not be surprised if those are pronounced exactly the same way as well). You win the vowel competition, though.
Actually I use Ctrl-R for reloading.
Well, the first one is there: wget. AFAIK there's no program which does nothing but render HTML.
This problem could be solved by breaking from the "the program that does the work is the program that provides the GUI" paradigm. Indeed, everything from COM to plugins are actually partial implementations of that needed split. And the much-hyped web apps have that split automatically (the program runs on a web server, the GUI is handled by the browser).
Actually, you also don't want any changes to bookmarks while surfing privately (because they would also reveal that you have visted the bookmarked site). Also, clearing the cookies and history is just a simple hack; what you actually want is that the state after surfing is exactly the same as the state before surfing (so you cannot tell anything about your surfing from the changes). Therefore a privacy script could simply copy the complete state when you start surfing privately, and restore it afterwards.
You forgot: The sun is the main cause of global warming. Take the sun away, and there will be no global warming at all, no matter how much CO2 you put into the atmosphere.
I always thought the Holy Hand Grenade worked like this!
According to Webster's New Encyclopedic Dictionary, one of the meanings of "violence" is "the use of physical force in a way that harms a person or a person's property" (the other listed meanings are not applicable in this case). So unless you want to argue that damage to property doesn't harm it, you're clearly wrong.
Is there anything you can do on Mars which you cannot do on either Earth or Moon?
But even then, the seller cannot forcibly take it back from you. Only the police can.
No, there was no edit. The book always looked that way. Probably your paper copy was faked. Please kindle it immediately to prevent further harm.
Or if you read a book about operating airplanes and skip the chapter about landing, some agents from Homeland Security might come to you ...
This may be true, but you can hardly hold capitalism responsible for that. WalMart doesn't get a single extra cent from preventing women's promotion. If it affects WalMart's profits at all, it does so negatively, because it reduces the chances that the best people (i.e. those who are most able to make decisions which increase WalMart's profits) get promoted.
Well, it's always valuable to re-test basic truths. After all, imagine the equation 15=3*5 would stop to be true. It would completely change our world view!