I have a cat and have no sympathies for cat killers (and my comment was not really against you. I was pissed and lashed out against you, i'm sorry). I just can't believe that people organize around a video like that and ignore far worse cruelties done to humans. Reminds me of the episode of Bullshit when a PETA member was outraged at the notion of rescuing another human instead of her own dog.
Maybe people could use their brains and realize that killing kittens is not the worst thing in the world. All this outrage is ridiculous. Murder and rape in war torn countries, a okay, a kitten gets killed, lets all get together and catch the bastard.
considering we got less votes than the REP (pretty much a nazi organization) and Die Tierschutzpartei (a party devoted to rights of animals. Not that there are any other problems in the world, humans dying of hunger...) the 5% rule isn't that bad. It prevents fragmentation and make coalition building much easier.
Slashdot it a total joke on opera 6.63. Fetching new comments freezes it for about 10-20 seconds, logging in after writing a comment brings one to the main page (deleting everything written),.... web 2.0 fucking bullshit
"How is this a troll?" is really bad trolling. What a provocative statement. The GP is going over the top with his last few words but even that doesn't really make him a troll.
i don't know about Belgium but here in Germany i don't know anyone who ever got trouble because of capping. It used to be a real problem many years ago when there were few providers who sold ISDN flats but with DSL it is pretty much non existant.
I work for an ISP which offers 100/10 mbit without cab for 40 euros a month. You only have to be lucky enough to live where we deploy FTH/FTB and will be able to use this service as you please.
mouse gestures are great. I mainly use the keyboard to control my applications but even with vimperator mousegestures make sense since it's often the fastest way to do something when you have you hand on the mouse already
I would like to have a system like steam for really old games. I just bought the extension cd for battle isle 2 for 20 euros which is from 1994. The only reason i had to pay that much is because it isn't produced anymore and the few people who still have it either want to keep it to play it or are collectors. With a distribution system like steam it would be no problem to offer something like this for =5 euros.
But since we don't have something like this i'll create a torrent to spare others the effort i had to go through to get the game
same here in germany. There were high prices and no competition until we created a regulating body which forced the Deutsche Telekom to let competitors rent their lines. Now we have 18/1 mbit dsl for 30 euros
AOL. Vim is *really* powerfull if you know how to handle it. For example lets asume you download some show and want to have sane filenames. So i go to the directory of the show every few months and make a 'ls -1 > out; vim out'. In my vimrc i have this: let @m="0v$hyimv \"^[A\" \"\"^[hp0j"
With this i press @m and transform a line from
The.Daily.Show.2009.02.04.PDTV.XviD-aAF.[VTV].avi to
mv "The.Daily.Show.2009.02.04.PDTV.XviD-aAF.[VTV].avi" "The.Daily.Show.2009.02.04.PDTV.XviD-aAF.[VTV].avi" (usually something like 1000@m to cover the whole file). Then i record a macro which edits the last part of the mv command and use it on all lines with similar filenames (if you know what to use you can usually cover even slightly different filenames with the same macro) and save the file, execute it and voila, nice filenames.
It's a trivial example but vim makes stuff like that very easy because you have everything you need to do that already at your fingertips
They kinda can see up there if the earth has been wiped out... but other than that great idea, lets contact them and tell them of a horrible combination of SARS and mad cow disease;)
we have more than enough cores available as soon as USB 3 will be available so i don't think that it'll be a real problem for the vast majority of the users. At least this way some of the cores are used and don't idle away....
If 3 men rob a bank, and the SWAT team has to storm it, and innocent people die, do you blame the SWAT team, or the bank robbers? Any harm that comes to someone as a result of your criminal actions is your fault.
well, if the SWAT team goes in there and risks their live to rescue everyone else i wouldn't blame them if someone dies. But this is more akin to the SWAT team deciding that they really don't want to risk it, just throwing several grenades in the building and then telling everyone that they really didn't wanted to kill the innocent bystanders, they should have just not surrounded themselves with criminals Doesn't put the blame on the SWAT team for the initial incident but on their response to it
insightful? can someone please explain why this is insightful, not funny?
Besides the point, look how far we have to got to go to even create a robot which can walk properly. No extend that to a chaotic, hard to predict battle situation. Killbots are a long shot away, which is probably good. Because the "ethical" component of such a robot will not be like Asimov's 3 laws build into it, but a part of its software. And i don't belive that it will stay there for long when there is the chance of losing...
funny how everybody seems to see no problem in just killing those people without any trial etc.
i don't talk about those cases where you have to kill them to defend your life. but in the current debate noone ever questions if hijacking a boat and kidnapping the crew is a crime which deserves instant death.
i agree with you. I've said for a long time that we won't get back to full employment. A few years ago there was a public outcry in germany when we crossed the 3 million mark for unemployed people. People predicted the downfall of germany. Last month IIRC we got slightly below 3 million again and the press and politicians were enthusiastic. No one remembers the time this mark was seen as a catastrophe.
This shows how the expectations have changed. But people still believe it's a reasonable goal to work towards full employment.
With growing automation and a workforce split between highly qualified experts and a growing pool of people who are just not able to qualify for the jobs needed today this will not happen.
There is much potential there to use education to get more people to qualify for high-tech jobs but the important question is what to do with the people with an iq of 90 and below? Currently you can get those people a job as a cashier - rfid will take care of that. Some kind of work in a factory, in the agricultural sector - how long until we're able to build machines who can do the work faster, without sick time, 24x7?
1 euro jobs aren't the solution. I think the way to go is something called the Buergergeld here. It's an idea that every german citizen gets something like 600 euros each month and has to pay 50% tax on every euro he earns. You can opt out and pay 25% tax instead. Every other kind of social welfare is removed including all the bureaucracy around it.
Unemployment will be the norm for some part of the people. We have to create systems which can deal with it to keep social peace.
same here from Germany.
McCain by himself wouldn't have been to bad, but since he lost his spine and acted as a puppet for the right wing of the republican party pretty much everyone i know here hoped that Barack wins.
2000 was seen as a mistake, 2004 startled people here. Another win for the republican party after the last 8 years would have made the damage to the american image permanent
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I have a cat and have no sympathies for cat killers (and my comment was not really against you. I was pissed and lashed out against you, i'm sorry). I just can't believe that people organize around a video like that and ignore far worse cruelties done to humans. Reminds me of the episode of Bullshit when a PETA member was outraged at the notion of rescuing another human instead of her own dog.
Maybe people could use their brains and realize that killing kittens is not the worst thing in the world. All this outrage is ridiculous. Murder and rape in war torn countries, a okay, a kitten gets killed, lets all get together and catch the bastard.
considering we got less votes than the REP (pretty much a nazi organization) and Die Tierschutzpartei (a party devoted to rights of animals. Not that there are any other problems in the world, humans dying of hunger ...) the 5% rule isn't that bad. It prevents fragmentation and make coalition building much easier.
We need affirmative action to address this imbalance. To get the ball rolling, I propose a 12 month minimum sentence for parking across 2 bays.
+5, Insightful. Funny moderation or moderators on crack
Slashdot it a total joke on opera 6.63. Fetching new comments freezes it for about 10-20 seconds, logging in after writing a comment brings one to the main page (deleting everything written), .... web 2.0 fucking bullshit
yeah you moderators really rock.
"How is this a troll?" is really bad trolling. What a provocative statement. The GP is going over the top with his last few words but even that doesn't really make him a troll.
BS. They have won because of our stupid security procedures at airports and the equally stupid laws we make.
Reacting to this is absolutely reasonable. It is a restricted flight zone and if there are any then one is right to worry.
Until late 2010 then, be ready for a stream of "how stupid can the British Government get?" stories.
You mean something like getting out of a car while holing secret documents in plain view to be photographed?
i don't know about Belgium but here in Germany i don't know anyone who ever got trouble because of capping. It used to be a real problem many years ago when there were few providers who sold ISDN flats but with DSL it is pretty much non existant.
I work for an ISP which offers 100/10 mbit without cab for 40 euros a month. You only have to be lucky enough to live where we deploy FTH/FTB and will be able to use this service as you please.
mouse gestures are great. I mainly use the keyboard to control my applications but even with vimperator mousegestures make sense since it's often the fastest way to do something when you have you hand on the mouse already
I would like to have a system like steam for really old games. I just bought the extension cd for battle isle 2 for 20 euros which is from 1994. The only reason i had to pay that much is because it isn't produced anymore and the few people who still have it either want to keep it to play it or are collectors. With a distribution system like steam it would be no problem to offer something like this for =5 euros.
But since we don't have something like this i'll create a torrent to spare others the effort i had to go through to get the game
same here in germany. There were high prices and no competition until we created a regulating body which forced the Deutsche Telekom to let competitors rent their lines. Now we have 18/1 mbit dsl for 30 euros
AOL. Vim is *really* powerfull if you know how to handle it. For example lets asume you download some show and want to have sane filenames. So i go to the directory of the show every few months and make a 'ls -1 > out; vim out'. In my vimrc i have this: let @m="0v$hyimv \"^[A\" \"\"^[hp0j"
With this i press @m and transform a line from
The.Daily.Show.2009.02.04.PDTV.XviD-aAF.[VTV].avi to
mv "The.Daily.Show.2009.02.04.PDTV.XviD-aAF.[VTV].avi" "The.Daily.Show.2009.02.04.PDTV.XviD-aAF.[VTV].avi"
(usually something like 1000@m to cover the whole file).
Then i record a macro which edits the last part of the mv command and use it on all lines with similar filenames (if you know what to use you can usually cover even slightly different filenames with the same macro) and save the file, execute it and voila, nice filenames.
It's a trivial example but vim makes stuff like that very easy because you have everything you need to do that already at your fingertips
I thought less of him.
i pretty much admire him more now. Being able to smoke pot and doing all this awfull tiring swimming ...
http://www.adimpact.com/cgi-bin/webapp/nph-demo.cgi/000000A/http/slashdot.org as provided by Chrisq (894406) works fine here on opera + privoxy.
They kinda can see up there if the earth has been wiped out ... but other than that great idea, lets contact them and tell them of a horrible combination of SARS and mad cow disease ;)
if the company didn't inform her then she'll be able to return the bought good indefinitely. It's a very convinient law for customers.
we have more than enough cores available as soon as USB 3 will be available so i don't think that it'll be a real problem for the vast majority of the users. At least this way some of the cores are used and don't idle away ....
If 3 men rob a bank, and the SWAT team has to storm it, and innocent people die, do you blame the SWAT team, or the bank robbers? Any harm that comes to someone as a result of your criminal actions is your fault.
well, if the SWAT team goes in there and risks their live to rescue everyone else i wouldn't blame them if someone dies.
But this is more akin to the SWAT team deciding that they really don't want to risk it, just throwing several grenades in the building and then telling everyone that they really didn't wanted to kill the innocent bystanders, they should have just not surrounded themselves with criminals
Doesn't put the blame on the SWAT team for the initial incident but on their response to it
same here. And since i think your interpretation of the title is more fun:
battle isle 2 in dosbox
Brilliant round based strategy game, quite hard but works flawless in dosbox. Available at http://www.abandonia.com/de/games/10608/Battle+Isle+2.html
The extension is not available though, which is quite sad
insightful? can someone please explain why this is insightful, not funny?
...
Besides the point, look how far we have to got to go to even create a robot which can walk properly. No extend that to a chaotic, hard to predict battle situation. Killbots are a long shot away, which is probably good. Because the "ethical" component of such a robot will not be like Asimov's 3 laws build into it, but a part of its software. And i don't belive that it will stay there for long when there is the chance of losing
funny how everybody seems to see no problem in just killing those people without any trial etc.
i don't talk about those cases where you have to kill them to defend your life. but in the current debate noone ever questions if hijacking a boat and kidnapping the crew is a crime which deserves instant death.
i agree with you. I've said for a long time that we won't get back to full employment. A few years ago there was a public outcry in germany when we crossed the 3 million mark for unemployed people. People predicted the downfall of germany. Last month IIRC we got slightly below 3 million again and the press and politicians were enthusiastic. No one remembers the time this mark was seen as a catastrophe.
This shows how the expectations have changed. But people still believe it's a reasonable goal to work towards full employment.
With growing automation and a workforce split between highly qualified experts and a growing pool of people who are just not able to qualify for the jobs needed today this will not happen.
There is much potential there to use education to get more people to qualify for high-tech jobs but the important question is what to do with the people with an iq of 90 and below? Currently you can get those people a job as a cashier - rfid will take care of that. Some kind of work in a factory, in the agricultural sector - how long until we're able to build machines who can do the work faster, without sick time, 24x7?
1 euro jobs aren't the solution. I think the way to go is something called the Buergergeld here. It's an idea that every german citizen gets something like 600 euros each month and has to pay 50% tax on every euro he earns. You can opt out and pay 25% tax instead. Every other kind of social welfare is removed including all the bureaucracy around it.
Unemployment will be the norm for some part of the people. We have to create systems which can deal with it to keep social peace.
same here from Germany. McCain by himself wouldn't have been to bad, but since he lost his spine and acted as a puppet for the right wing of the republican party pretty much everyone i know here hoped that Barack wins. 2000 was seen as a mistake, 2004 startled people here. Another win for the republican party after the last 8 years would have made the damage to the american image permanent
Cartman?