As a rule I don't see that from government. They seem to be a bit clearer about its meaning.
I guess that might be considered true, since the government feels that the rules don't apply to them, and that "rule" would be no exception. Or you're ignorant of/ignoring the fact that these endless "anti-terrorist" laws are used more often in the clusterfuck that we call "the war on drugs" than against actual terrorists. And that we've already displayed that the government is happy to bypass the law entirely against "actual" terrorists, even if they're citizens, without even pretending or "plausible deniability" anymore.
Yeah... "As a rule", your observation here seems pretty divorced from reality.
You should try listening to both sides. It wasn't so much a change in philosophy as a change in teams. Before 2009, it was the republicans and their mass of toadies who were labeling anyone who disagreed with the federal clusterfuck as "anti-american", "traitors", etc... Now it's just the other team and the other set of toadies.
I do wonder about this concept of "the government did something good," though. Is that like one of those "Planetary Alignment" things that you read about, but never actually live long enough to witness?
I used to feel that way, until a last night coding session had me looking up to see a goddamn Clock Spider[0] on the wall above my bed. I left the room to get a shoebox to shuttle Stumpy outside, was gone all of 30 seconds. When I came back in, there was no sign of him.
Last known position: the vicinity of my pillow.
Slept in the living room that night, and first thing in the morning, I bug-bombed the shit out of the place. "Playing nice" is all well and good, but when it comes to laying eggs in my moist cranial openings, I'm not above taking the nuclear option.
[0] Not sure if it was a huntsman spider or not, but it was bigger than my hand, and missing a leg: probably had a run-in with a pit bull or a Volkswagon.
What makes you think that the "media content providers" (the MAFIAA et al pushing for this BS in the first place) want anything that even looks like "progress?" They want to keep the same crippled, luddite stranglehold with artificial scarcity that they've always had.
Even if other parties have -- at first -- no real chance of winning, having them at all might still make clear just exactly how similar the current major parties are.
You underestimate the extent of the rules in question. They pretty nearly completely ensure that the other parties don't have a chance of winning within the system, regardless of how many people realize D/R are two sides of the same turd.
But what [The Republicans] don't realize that if they did get their wish, that would give time to get more of the kinks out of Obama Care - make it better.
Apparently, the administration doesn't realize that, either. If there's one thing this whole half-assed pig-lipsticking clusterfuck needs, it's the kinks gotten out.
Why not? If the last 200-odd years has taught us anything (yeah, I know, we're American, so probably not) it's that our whole federal structure has some massive scalability issues.
Maybe I'm missing the point you're trying to make...
Reboots can be either cold (alternatively known as hard) whereby the power to the system is physically turned off and back on again, causing an initial boot of the machine, or warm...
... a cold boot is a boot process in which the computer starts from a powerless state
Did you mean this one line?
Microsoft Support article 102228[5] also confers that although the reset button is designed to perform a cold reboot, it may not disconnect the power to the motherboard
Because if you look at the article linked from the wiki, it's basically full of weasel words and arse covering from MS about the reset button "generally" being used for a cold reboot, but not "necessarily" cutting off the power. Which is to say, doing a warm reboot.
When everyone but Microsoft documentation is in agreement about a definition, it's not hard to guess which one's wrong.
If by "on reset" you mean "pushed the reset button on the case," then he's not, in fact, wrong. Before the ATX spec turned everything into soft power management (may they burn for it), the "reset" button *did* cut power to the system: ram wiped, fans stopped, etc. The only difference between the reset button and the power switch was that one was a momentary contact switch, and the other was a toggle. So booting from a reset was, in fact, booting from a powerless state.
As long as you would need to use both hands, your nose, and your, uh, um... other appendage in order to generate that non-maskable interrupt signal from the keyboard, you are unlikely to accidentally reboot.
Yeah, but think of how much worse the complaints about the lack of women in tech would be.
I've been looking, but I've yet to find a keyboard that has both buckling spring switches AND "gaming" design (lack/disable windows keys, double-digit rollover). If one exists, I know it probably costs through the nose, but given what the crappy gaming keyboards go for, I think it might be worth it at this point.
Not sure if you're being snarky, AC, or genuinely guessing, but you've nailed it. The intention back then was to avoid "fake login" keyloggers, basically bogus programs which would pop up on startup and display a phony login screen to capture login credentials.
Not so in GTA 5. You are required (as the player) to engage in gratuitous torture. We're not talking about mild depictions of something bad going on. This is you as the player being required to commit heinous virtual crimes. It is very explicit, and very graphic. Even many adults balk at that point in the game.
It's not "torture" if you're doing it for a "really, really" good reason ("goodness" to be decided by the interrogator), remember?
That's part of the reason I stopped using Ubuntu. Now every install has me spending more time removing bullshit than it took me to do the install itself. resolvconf (especially on servers? WTF), dash, social networking shit, some kind of file indexer that wants net access for some reason...
As an owner of one of the earlier Nook Color models, I can't speak much about the software (put CM on it the first chance I got), but the hardware is mostly pretty nice. It doesn't have a lot of beef to it, but I've never been a touchscreen gamer sort, so that doesn't bother me.
What does piss in my cheerios is those goddamn charge/sync cables. If spun sugar could conduct electricity, I'd swear those pieces of junk were woven from cotton candy. $15 for a new cable every 6 months, and knowing that eventually, they'll kill the line and you won't be able to get them anymore: priceless.
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As a rule I don't see that from government. They seem to be a bit clearer about its meaning.
I guess that might be considered true, since the government feels that the rules don't apply to them, and that "rule" would be no exception. Or you're ignorant of/ignoring the fact that these endless "anti-terrorist" laws are used more often in the clusterfuck that we call "the war on drugs" than against actual terrorists. And that we've already displayed that the government is happy to bypass the law entirely against "actual" terrorists, even if they're citizens, without even pretending or "plausible deniability" anymore.
Yeah... "As a rule", your observation here seems pretty divorced from reality.
Where did he say humans have to do with anything?
You should try listening to both sides. It wasn't so much a change in philosophy as a change in teams. Before 2009, it was the republicans and their mass of toadies who were labeling anyone who disagreed with the federal clusterfuck as "anti-american", "traitors", etc... Now it's just the other team and the other set of toadies.
I do wonder about this concept of "the government did something good," though. Is that like one of those "Planetary Alignment" things that you read about, but never actually live long enough to witness?
It's not dead. It was just in a torpor while it regenerated. And it remembers you...
I used to feel that way, until a last night coding session had me looking up to see a goddamn Clock Spider[0] on the wall above my bed. I left the room to get a shoebox to shuttle Stumpy outside, was gone all of 30 seconds. When I came back in, there was no sign of him.
Last known position: the vicinity of my pillow.
Slept in the living room that night, and first thing in the morning, I bug-bombed the shit out of the place. "Playing nice" is all well and good, but when it comes to laying eggs in my moist cranial openings, I'm not above taking the nuclear option.
[0] Not sure if it was a huntsman spider or not, but it was bigger than my hand, and missing a leg: probably had a run-in with a pit bull or a Volkswagon.
Erg. More coffee...
$s = "Practical Reporting and Extraction Language";
$s =~ 's/(Reporting) and (Extraction)/\2 and \1/';
Haha. Point taken. Come to think of it, the only language I can recall off-hand that is officially all-capitalized is BASIC, because it's an acronym.
"Practical Reporting and Extraction Language"
or
"Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister"
Yeah, they're backronyms, but still worth mentioning, if only to bring a grin to the other Perl-users in the audience. :)
What makes you think that the "media content providers" (the MAFIAA et al pushing for this BS in the first place) want anything that even looks like "progress?" They want to keep the same crippled, luddite stranglehold with artificial scarcity that they've always had.
Even if other parties have -- at first -- no real chance of winning, having them at all might still make clear just exactly how similar the current major parties are.
You underestimate the extent of the rules in question. They pretty nearly completely ensure that the other parties don't have a chance of winning within the system, regardless of how many people realize D/R are two sides of the same turd.
But what [The Republicans] don't realize that if they did get their wish, that would give time to get more of the kinks out of Obama Care - make it better.
Apparently, the administration doesn't realize that, either. If there's one thing this whole half-assed pig-lipsticking clusterfuck needs, it's the kinks gotten out.
Why not? If the last 200-odd years has taught us anything (yeah, I know, we're American, so probably not) it's that our whole federal structure has some massive scalability issues.
Maybe I'm missing the point you're trying to make...
Reboots can be either cold (alternatively known as hard) whereby the power to the system is physically turned off and back on again, causing an initial boot of the machine, or warm...
... a cold boot is a boot process in which the computer starts from a powerless state
Did you mean this one line?
Microsoft Support article 102228[5] also confers that although the reset button is designed to perform a cold reboot, it may not disconnect the power to the motherboard
Because if you look at the article linked from the wiki, it's basically full of weasel words and arse covering from MS about the reset button "generally" being used for a cold reboot, but not "necessarily" cutting off the power. Which is to say, doing a warm reboot.
When everyone but Microsoft documentation is in agreement about a definition, it's not hard to guess which one's wrong.
If by "on reset" you mean "pushed the reset button on the case," then he's not, in fact, wrong. Before the ATX spec turned everything into soft power management (may they burn for it), the "reset" button *did* cut power to the system: ram wiped, fans stopped, etc. The only difference between the reset button and the power switch was that one was a momentary contact switch, and the other was a toggle. So booting from a reset was, in fact, booting from a powerless state.
As long as you would need to use both hands, your nose, and your, uh, um... other appendage in order to generate that non-maskable interrupt signal from the keyboard, you are unlikely to accidentally reboot.
Yeah, but think of how much worse the complaints about the lack of women in tech would be.
I've been looking, but I've yet to find a keyboard that has both buckling spring switches AND "gaming" design (lack/disable windows keys, double-digit rollover). If one exists, I know it probably costs through the nose, but given what the crappy gaming keyboards go for, I think it might be worth it at this point.
Not sure if you're being snarky, AC, or genuinely guessing, but you've nailed it. The intention back then was to avoid "fake login" keyloggers, basically bogus programs which would pop up on startup and display a phony login screen to capture login credentials.
Not so in GTA 5. You are required (as the player) to engage in gratuitous torture. We're not talking about mild depictions of something bad going on. This is you as the player being required to commit heinous virtual crimes. It is very explicit, and very graphic. Even many adults balk at that point in the game.
It's not "torture" if you're doing it for a "really, really" good reason ("goodness" to be decided by the interrogator), remember?
Yet, oddly enough, paying yelp to remove negative reviews doesn't seem to fall under those headers.
Maybe the NSA has some Wunderwaffen in their pockets, like V-3s and V-4s
Nah, they're just happy to see you.
Yeah.
That's part of the reason I stopped using Ubuntu. Now every install has me spending more time removing bullshit than it took me to do the install itself. resolvconf (especially on servers? WTF), dash, social networking shit, some kind of file indexer that wants net access for some reason...
Gnome got on that whole horrible "Tablet UI on a desktop PC" kick before Windows 8 was even in testers' hands.
Credit where it's due: That failure was all Linux, there's no MS blame to be had there.
As an owner of one of the earlier Nook Color models, I can't speak much about the software (put CM on it the first chance I got), but the hardware is mostly pretty nice. It doesn't have a lot of beef to it, but I've never been a touchscreen gamer sort, so that doesn't bother me.
What does piss in my cheerios is those goddamn charge/sync cables. If spun sugar could conduct electricity, I'd swear those pieces of junk were woven from cotton candy. $15 for a new cable every 6 months, and knowing that eventually, they'll kill the line and you won't be able to get them anymore: priceless.
Same can be said of any school shooting or similar that you'd care to mention.
Okay... Let's see.
"Boston bombing."
One without the other would not really be a problem.
Yep, because crazies can't kill people without a gun.