For those that don't know the reason that the federal government is allowed to block people in states with medical marijuana laws from growing their own pot is a far reaching interpretation of the interstate commerce clause
To be fair, it's an interpretation that has existed for a good 90 years, when the federal government decided it had the power to make certain substances illegal. It really is bullshit, but there you go.
If you don't like "this country" as you put it, why don't you just GO?
Personally, I plan to. I love this country, I love the ideals it was founded on. But the people are fucking morons. But in the years that remain before I do leave, what exactly is wrong with pointing out the flaws. Flaws which the great majority of Americans don't seem to even notice, perhaps because they've never even traveled overseas.
Furthermore, Avalon and Indigo are developer features. I'm sure they're nice, but they do nothing directly for the end user (or for developers, such as myself, who need to support platforms <=Win2k).
What actual features are there to play with for the user or administrator? Real package management, like every Linux distro has, would be very nice.
Um, don't you think it would have been nice to mention that the Beethoven downloads were free, while Sgt. Pepper's on iTunes obviously isn't? The comparison is worthless.
The fact that studies say whether it's going up or down conflict each other, so they cancel all meaning either of them have.
Spoken like someone who has had no decent science education. The methodology of the study is critical. For example, one of the studies might have a very small sample size, in which case it's probably inaccurate.
I usually said "no thanks" but at one point I went off the deep end and cussed her (the caller) out, much to the entertainment of the other people in my room.
Yeah, I went through something similar a few years ago. For my first 1.5 years of college, I had credit card companies CONSTANTLY calling. I would just hang up. Finally, one day my girlfriend, my roommate and I all happened to be napping when I got a call. Expecting something important, I answered, but of course it was another damn credit card offer. After I finished yelling at them, I very clearly said "I'm not interested; please stop calling." Happily, they did.
their "theft" of Daniel Robbins, the former chief architect of Gentoo Linux
This is the stupidest goddamn thing I've ever heard. Look, I'm a Gentoo dev. The simple truth is that drobbins hasn't been involved in Gentoo development for more than a year. There was no "theft" or "hiring away" here. He was already gone.
Very well said. For me, UO is still the pinnacle of MMORPGs. Nearly everything after has been "Everquest with more shiny things". I want a game that's fun, not merely addictive.
My thoughts exactly. Electronegativity, atom size, and orbitals have very definite trends in the usual periodic table. Changing the table without preserving these relationships removes useful information.
There are reports and artciles of people in 3rd world countries who get paid to do nothing but farm gold in WoW.
Seems to me that it would be far more economical to pay a small team of programmers to create a nice bot to play WoW automatically. It's not like these MMORPGs require deep thought and complex strategy.
That was kinda my point, wasn't it? Macs won't support a lot of hardware, but they stuff that they do support works very well.
BTW, my Ethernet adapter is an onboard one (Intel motherboard, of course), and works fine once an additional driver has been installed. Linux has had the appropriate driver built-in for many years.
Can I please kill everyone who feels the need to add "gate" to the end of every scandal? "Whitewatergate" was kinda cute, but everything else is nonsensical and annoying. Maybe I'll start adding dome instead.
I think you're misinterpreting the GP. Quality control isn't about picking the hardware so much as supporting it. There's a good reason why Apple has succeeded at plug+play while Windows XP still doesn't recognize my very generic Intel PRO/100 Ethernet adapter. If you only support a small range of hardware, it's much easier to support it well. This is perhaps the most important reason that OS X won't run on generic Intels: not some conspiracy by Apple, but the simple lack of hardware drivers.
Exactly. Of course a good portion of studies, even when conducted properly, produce inaccurate results. That's the whole purpose of peer review; doing further research tends to filter out the bad stuff.
True. OotP was a letdown in a lot of ways. I was really surprised that Sirius didn't tell Harry more about the Order and fighting Voldemort. It contradicted everything we knew and were told about him.
Also, Harry's ludicrous reactions to Cho crying bothered me. It wasn't at all realistic (come on, man, comforting a girl who likes you is a great way to get into her pants!). I was pretty shy as a teenager, but even I wasn't as clueless and awkward around girls.
And the big revelation, the prophecy at the end? How predictable. Hopefully JKR has realized that she only has two books left to tie it up, answer questions, and plug the plot holes.
It's subpar fanfic, at least the stuff that's been popping up on The Pirate Bay.
But I gather that when previous HP books came out, there were all sorts of impostor versions around.
Yeah. It wasn't until maybe 12 hours after the official release that I found a hastily-scanned copy of the real deal (OotP) on Usenet. I was kinda surprised it didn't show up earlier, because there had been leaks prior to the release.
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Hillary, like Joe Lieberman and Tipper Gore, is very socially conservative.
To be fair, it's an interpretation that has existed for a good 90 years, when the federal government decided it had the power to make certain substances illegal. It really is bullshit, but there you go.
Personally, I plan to. I love this country, I love the ideals it was founded on. But the people are fucking morons. But in the years that remain before I do leave, what exactly is wrong with pointing out the flaws. Flaws which the great majority of Americans don't seem to even notice, perhaps because they've never even traveled overseas.
What actual features are there to play with for the user or administrator? Real package management, like every Linux distro has, would be very nice.
Sure they do. They're not popular, but they do have their AMD64 clones, called EM64T.
Um, don't you think it would have been nice to mention that the Beethoven downloads were free, while Sgt. Pepper's on iTunes obviously isn't? The comparison is worthless.
Spoken like someone who has had no decent science education. The methodology of the study is critical. For example, one of the studies might have a very small sample size, in which case it's probably inaccurate.
Yeah, I went through something similar a few years ago. For my first 1.5 years of college, I had credit card companies CONSTANTLY calling. I would just hang up. Finally, one day my girlfriend, my roommate and I all happened to be napping when I got a call. Expecting something important, I answered, but of course it was another damn credit card offer. After I finished yelling at them, I very clearly said "I'm not interested; please stop calling." Happily, they did.
This is the stupidest goddamn thing I've ever heard. Look, I'm a Gentoo dev. The simple truth is that drobbins hasn't been involved in Gentoo development for more than a year. There was no "theft" or "hiring away" here. He was already gone.
Very well said. For me, UO is still the pinnacle of MMORPGs. Nearly everything after has been "Everquest with more shiny things". I want a game that's fun, not merely addictive.
A-fucking-men. Will the Democrats ever learn that inching further and further to the right has done them no good? I hope so.
My thoughts exactly. Electronegativity, atom size, and orbitals have very definite trends in the usual periodic table. Changing the table without preserving these relationships removes useful information.
You're being ridiculous. There are plenty of nice suburban high schools. Pick a decent neighborhood, get a decent school.
Seems to me that it would be far more economical to pay a small team of programmers to create a nice bot to play WoW automatically. It's not like these MMORPGs require deep thought and complex strategy.
Fallout.
That was kinda my point, wasn't it? Macs won't support a lot of hardware, but they stuff that they do support works very well.
BTW, my Ethernet adapter is an onboard one (Intel motherboard, of course), and works fine once an additional driver has been installed. Linux has had the appropriate driver built-in for many years.
It works 100% on Linux with the e100 module.
Can I please kill everyone who feels the need to add "gate" to the end of every scandal? "Whitewatergate" was kinda cute, but everything else is nonsensical and annoying. Maybe I'll start adding dome instead.
I think you're misinterpreting the GP. Quality control isn't about picking the hardware so much as supporting it. There's a good reason why Apple has succeeded at plug+play while Windows XP still doesn't recognize my very generic Intel PRO/100 Ethernet adapter. If you only support a small range of hardware, it's much easier to support it well. This is perhaps the most important reason that OS X won't run on generic Intels: not some conspiracy by Apple, but the simple lack of hardware drivers.
Come on. No sane person believes that Gore meant he did the technical work. It was a verbal slip, a poor phrasing; nothing more.
No they're not. They're covalently bonded, not ionically. They are simply hydrogen atoms, which happen to be sharing electrons with an oxygen atom.
Exactly. Of course a good portion of studies, even when conducted properly, produce inaccurate results. That's the whole purpose of peer review; doing further research tends to filter out the bad stuff.
True. OotP was a letdown in a lot of ways. I was really surprised that Sirius didn't tell Harry more about the Order and fighting Voldemort. It contradicted everything we knew and were told about him.
Also, Harry's ludicrous reactions to Cho crying bothered me. It wasn't at all realistic (come on, man, comforting a girl who likes you is a great way to get into her pants!). I was pretty shy as a teenager, but even I wasn't as clueless and awkward around girls.
And the big revelation, the prophecy at the end? How predictable. Hopefully JKR has realized that she only has two books left to tie it up, answer questions, and plug the plot holes.
It's subpar fanfic, at least the stuff that's been popping up on The Pirate Bay.
But I gather that when previous HP books came out, there were all sorts of impostor versions around.
Yeah. It wasn't until maybe 12 hours after the official release that I found a hastily-scanned copy of the real deal (OotP) on Usenet. I was kinda surprised it didn't show up earlier, because there had been leaks prior to the release.
No, the crime against humanity was writing that dialogue. The greatest actor in the world couldn't have made those lines any less awful.