It might be interesting to see how a company does when it's run by somebody who tells his customers exactly how things really are without any sugar coating, rather than a typical lying bastard.
I for one would be delighted to find myself dealing with a company like that.
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Ctrl space sounds good - how do you remap keys?
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It's highly ergonomic, and easy to use
I tend to use vi more than other editors but the one thing that really bugs me is having to move my hands to reach the Esc key all the time. Does anybody here know of an alternative? Some combination with Alt or Ctrl maybe?
Hey, I object to that, the English have some pretty good beer, I think you just have to be English to appreciate it.
And as for stout - it's a shame you can't try the old Imperial Russian Stout although it died in the 80's, for which Courage's management should have been shot. It was live bottled and matured nicely so it was still available in some pubs (tucked away at the back of a shelf) until the late 80's at least (but I can't remember the exact date the last time I drank it).
I do remember it was in a pub in Morden which I think was called "The Sun" and still had a sign on the door saying "No Blacks or Irishmen" which sticks in my mind because it was exceptional even then, seems hard to believe now . . . times do change!
Sorry, please forgive this little trip down memory lane, I've just made myself quite nostalgic (understand that I'm not implying approval of the sign).
Face it, you don't make jokes at someone's expense if you feel they're beneath you. You do it to cut them down to your size
That's absolutely wrong, a complete reversal of the truth. Just look at the subgroups which are the common but of jokes in various countries.
America - Polish, Mexican
Britain - Irish
Canada - Newfoundlanders
In each case the butt of jokes tends to be a low status group. Do you really think that Americans feel inferior to Mexicans or the English feel inferior to the Irish?
It's a well known fact that America was discovered by Erik the Red.
Furthermore Columbus was a moron who miscalculated the size of the world by 50% and wouldn't listen to the vast majority of the European Scientific Community who knew perfectly well that he was wrong. Concluded that a journey to Asia the "wrong" way round the world was possible for the ships of that era (it wasn't) and even when he did accidentally stumble across a continent without the vaguest resemblance to what was widely known about Japan, still thought that was were he was.
I switched to privoxy a year or so ago because it's that much more sophisticated but I've always liked proxomitron. Its wonderfully easy to tinker with.
It's going to cut out the "local loop" i.e. the copper telephone cables which keep most customers tied to the old national suppliers. This is massively important if you've got wireless access and skype why pay line rental, etc.
Security guards are generally of very low capability and the same applies to the Police, but you've got to remember that there are different standards of police. Sure the average flatfoot is not particularly bright but you don't have to go too far up the ranks to find someone switched on.
Everybody knows downloading music that you haven't purchased or been given permission by the copyright holder is illegal
Is it? And I thought downloading was perfectly legal and uploading (distributing) which was the problem. I think you should contact the RIAA and tell them they've been suing the wrong people!
Also I thought that copyright infringement was a civil matter and therefore not against the law (except under certain special circumstances). But hey - I forgot . . . "Everybody knows . . . etc"
Survival guides tend to prioritze the basic necessities as:
Warmth / Shelter
Clean water
Signalling
Food
Food last because you can survive for a long time without it. But the area is now past the point where basic survival is the problem, rebuilding infrastructure is another matter. What would you put first in a prioritised list of infrastructure? Personally I'd say sewerage then electrical power.
Why should the average person understand how their cell phone works?
It depends what you mean by "understand". It is necessary to have a basic understanding of the principles of how things work at an elementary level to know how they should be used.
In the case of a cell phone, user should understand the basics of radio communication so they understand why they need to turn them off in hospitals, etc. So they don't panic every time there's some stupid health scare about cell phones cooking your brain. And so on and on and on.
The example you give of a digital camera is a good example "the light falls on a CCD and the pictures end up in flash memory" probably is all users generally need to know - the problem is many don't even know that. Tell them digital cameras emit dangerous radiation to "see" the picture and (if you're convincing) many will probably believe you.
It's usually the swim bladders that cause the problem (not lungs) because the gas in them expands, liquids are usually incompressible (nearly). If squid have swim bladders I don't know - probably.
A person has a right to think and to speak. It doesn't matter if you like it or not. It doesn't matter if it's convenient or not
I've always believed that the test if someone really believes in free speech comes when they finally find someone saying something they don't like. In this country at the moment (the UK) there are a lot of people saying "I believe in free speech but we can't let people encourage muslims to support terrorism". . . Sorry, but if you think that then you don't believe in free speech, there is a word for it however: hypocracy! If you support free speech then you have to support people praising terrorism and pedophiles campaigning for a change in the age of consent - if you don't like it, TOUGH.
When you break the law stealing from a store, you're still breaking the law violating copyright.
No . . . breaking the law usually means a criminal action, violating copyright is not (in this context) criminal. Another common example: its not against the law to breach a contract, legally you're allowed to do this - you can't be prosecuted for it (per se). The other party in the contract might be able to sue you but that's just a matter of squaring the accounts, not jail time.
This is the difference between Criminal Law which concerns itself with crimes and Civil Law which concerns itself with tort. You can't be prosecuted for a tort only sued - basically it's a private matter between you and another individual. A crime is between you and the state (state as in country).
Turkey is interesting in being a rare example of a democracy with an appalling record on human rights, which only goes to show there's more to being civilised than any one political system.
Then I'll say it:
Islamic principles do not lend themselves to democracy.
"because the Koran rejects the distinction between religious and political authority, Islamic civilization cannot easily coexist with democracy."(Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1996).
"mass suffrage, elections, and representation are "profoundly alien to the Muslim political tradition." (Elie Kedourie, Democracy and Arab Political Culture, London, Frank Cass, 1994)
I wouldn't be the least surprised if any of the countries you just mentioned were to invade somewhere in the future. How you can so confidently assert that the answer to the question "will country X invade someone" is "NO", I do not understand. In fact I suspect that a Spanish invasion of British Territory (specifically Gibraltar) sometime in the future is odds on.
On a somewhat lighter note: the British Army invaded Spain relatively recently.http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe /02/18/britain.marines/
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It might be interesting to see how a company does when it's run by somebody who tells his customers exactly how things really are without any sugar coating, rather than a typical lying bastard. I for one would be delighted to find myself dealing with a company like that.
Ctrl space sounds good - how do you remap keys?
I tend to use vi more than other editors but the one thing that really bugs me is having to move my hands to reach the Esc key all the time. Does anybody here know of an alternative? Some combination with Alt or Ctrl maybe?
That's the worst idea in the entire history of bad ideas . . . can you imagine the mess 1000 /.ers would make of an article.
Irrelevant whether the English actually are superior to the Irish (which is obvious nonsense) only perception is relevant in this context.
And as for stout - it's a shame you can't try the old Imperial Russian Stout although it died in the 80's, for which Courage's management should have been shot. It was live bottled and matured nicely so it was still available in some pubs (tucked away at the back of a shelf) until the late 80's at least (but I can't remember the exact date the last time I drank it).
I do remember it was in a pub in Morden which I think was called "The Sun" and still had a sign on the door saying "No Blacks or Irishmen" which sticks in my mind because it was exceptional even then, seems hard to believe now . . . times do change!
Sorry, please forgive this little trip down memory lane, I've just made myself quite nostalgic (understand that I'm not implying approval of the sign).
That's absolutely wrong, a complete reversal of the truth. Just look at the subgroups which are the common but of jokes in various countries.
In each case the butt of jokes tends to be a low status group. Do you really think that Americans feel inferior to Mexicans or the English feel inferior to the Irish?
It's a well known fact that America was discovered by Erik the Red.
Furthermore Columbus was a moron who miscalculated the size of the world by 50% and wouldn't listen to the vast majority of the European Scientific Community who knew perfectly well that he was wrong. Concluded that a journey to Asia the "wrong" way round the world was possible for the ships of that era (it wasn't) and even when he did accidentally stumble across a continent without the vaguest resemblance to what was widely known about Japan, still thought that was were he was.
The man was a complete d*ckhead.
I switched to privoxy a year or so ago because it's that much more sophisticated but I've always liked proxomitron. Its wonderfully easy to tinker with.
It's going to cut out the "local loop" i.e. the copper telephone cables which keep most customers tied to the old national suppliers. This is massively important if you've got wireless access and skype why pay line rental, etc.
You should try Analysing Sentences, it's a great book and starts from the absolute basics.
Security guards are generally of very low capability and the same applies to the Police, but you've got to remember that there are different standards of police. Sure the average flatfoot is not particularly bright but you don't have to go too far up the ranks to find someone switched on.
Is it? And I thought downloading was perfectly legal and uploading (distributing) which was the problem. I think you should contact the RIAA and tell them they've been suing the wrong people!
Also I thought that copyright infringement was a civil matter and therefore not against the law (except under certain special circumstances). But hey - I forgot . . . "Everybody knows . . . etc"
- Warmth / Shelter
- Clean water
- Signalling
- Food
Food last because you can survive for a long time without it. But the area is now past the point where basic survival is the problem, rebuilding infrastructure is another matter. What would you put first in a prioritised list of infrastructure? Personally I'd say sewerage then electrical power.It depends what you mean by "understand". It is necessary to have a basic understanding of the principles of how things work at an elementary level to know how they should be used.
In the case of a cell phone, user should understand the basics of radio communication so they understand why they need to turn them off in hospitals, etc. So they don't panic every time there's some stupid health scare about cell phones cooking your brain. And so on and on and on.
The example you give of a digital camera is a good example "the light falls on a CCD and the pictures end up in flash memory" probably is all users generally need to know - the problem is many don't even know that. Tell them digital cameras emit dangerous radiation to "see" the picture and (if you're convincing) many will probably believe you.
Or build an aquarium 3000ft high.
It's usually the swim bladders that cause the problem (not lungs) because the gas in them expands, liquids are usually incompressible (nearly). If squid have swim bladders I don't know - probably.
Perhaps she just smelled like a squid.
I've always believed that the test if someone really believes in free speech comes when they finally find someone saying something they don't like. In this country at the moment (the UK) there are a lot of people saying "I believe in free speech but we can't let people encourage muslims to support terrorism". . . Sorry, but if you think that then you don't believe in free speech, there is a word for it however: hypocracy! If you support free speech then you have to support people praising terrorism and pedophiles campaigning for a change in the age of consent - if you don't like it, TOUGH.
No . . . breaking the law usually means a criminal action, violating copyright is not (in this context) criminal. Another common example: its not against the law to breach a contract, legally you're allowed to do this - you can't be prosecuted for it (per se). The other party in the contract might be able to sue you but that's just a matter of squaring the accounts, not jail time.
This is the difference between Criminal Law which concerns itself with crimes and Civil Law which concerns itself with tort. You can't be prosecuted for a tort only sued - basically it's a private matter between you and another individual. A crime is between you and the state (state as in country).
I think Beowulf had a sword - a magical sword no less.
Turkey is interesting in being a rare example of a democracy with an appalling record on human rights, which only goes to show there's more to being civilised than any one political system.
Then I'll say it: Islamic principles do not lend themselves to democracy. "because the Koran rejects the distinction between religious and political authority, Islamic civilization cannot easily coexist with democracy."(Samuel Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of the World Order, New York, Simon and Schuster, 1996). "mass suffrage, elections, and representation are "profoundly alien to the Muslim political tradition." (Elie Kedourie, Democracy and Arab Political Culture, London, Frank Cass, 1994)
I wouldn't be the least surprised if any of the countries you just mentioned were to invade somewhere in the future. How you can so confidently assert that the answer to the question "will country X invade someone" is "NO", I do not understand. In fact I suspect that a Spanish invasion of British Territory (specifically Gibraltar) sometime in the future is odds on. On a somewhat lighter note: the British Army invaded Spain relatively recently.http://archives.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/europe /02/18/britain.marines/
This is an old joke - but it might be new to some of you colonials.
An Irishman is walking down the Falls Road when suddenly another man in a balaclava pull him into an alleyway and presses a gun to his head.
"Are you a catholic or a protestant" he demands.
"Oh Shit!" thinks the Irishman "I'm stuffed, how do I know which is right?"- then he has a moment of inspiration and answers "Actually I'm Jewish".
"No kidding!" says the man in the balaclava "I must be the luckiest arab in Belfast".