If you're ultra-conservative and you can vote dem, repub or green--start voting green. Until they actually start winning elections, all you are doing is showing support for the alternative parties.
If you're voting, you're showing your support for a sham democratic system (sorry, but it is) that throws away roughly 50% (sometimes more) of voters' preferences, even making the huge assumption that their vote actually reflects their true preferences.
Not voting at all may be a better solution. Voting rates are at an all-time low. If they drop to below 20% or even 10%, the current corrupt 'system' will have trouble justifying its existence. That may be the only way to push a half-decent democratic system thru in the US. Until then it'll all be about the stuff you hate, ultimately catering only to the plutocracy.
Yeah. How great would it be to come out of your chamber, and look out at the cities destroyed by nuclear holocaust? Or into the street where you're implanted with a microchip and permenantly monitored by the World Government henceforth, and any breach of international law results in torture and death?
Why do people assume the future will always be a wonderful place? This world needs more pessamists.:-)
Does Vim still default to starting in command mode? I suppose it does. For me, this is the biggest damn problem with it. It's a text editor, it should start in insert mode like every other editor. Pressing some key to start typing is bloody annoying, then pressing Esc to insert commands is also annoying. Ctrl-sequences are much better, and the default insert mode means I can do simple text editing and slowly learn other commands of the editor. To be honest, I also find Vim's shortcuts extremely unintuative. Want to go to the end of the document? 99% of editors, Ctrl-end. Vim, G. Sorry, that's retarded. Maybe it's based in the days of legacy terminals that didn't have arrow keys or even control sequences, but we're not in those days anymore; it's the text editor equivalent of still using a green-on-black text-only monitor.
What pisses me off is the dumbass law in this country (and no doubt some others) that, if there's no cycle lane, riders must use the road instead of the pavement. To my mind that is utterly stupid. Everyone's safer if they use the pavement. Bikers can much more easily avoid pedestrians (as long as it's not very busy, of course) than car drivers bikers.
Could anyone explain to me why freenode in particular has been so useful for OSS projects? I'm not saying it's a bad network, but there were hundreds of other IRC networks before freenode and still are. If it died, they could and would skip to EFNET or something. Yeah maybe it has a few netsplits, but I'm sure you could find more reliable ones if that really bothers you.
Religious types believe that your soul passes on to another place when your body dies in this world. Presumably it makes more sense to them than to actually say you are dead.
Hang on. Please tell me your OS does not allow 3rd party software to write a large file on the hard drive that causes system files to be overwritten. If so, I suggest you get in touch with the OS vendor as it sounds like a pretty serious vulnerability.
I wouldn't be too bothered about people knowing my name. It's like someone knowing your IP address, it's just an identifier. So what? There're thousands of other people with the same name as me, anyway.
If you pollute the atmosphere in a habitation bubble on Mars, the air will get dirty so quickly you'll either all die, find a way to filter it out, or stop polluting. I'm guessing one of the latter two.
On Earth, pollution can keep happening until the whole enormous bubble that is the atmosphere is really polluted and there's bugger all you can do about it. At least that can't happen on Mars.:-S
Exactly what I was gonna say. If the user was using Ubuntu, they'd contact Ubuntu support. If they were using Redhat, Redhat. Suse, Suse. etc.
The GP post is a complete strawman argument; any company who offered support for 'any' Linux distro deserves what it gets. It's like offering support for 'any' Windows distro.
If you want to blame someone, blame the people in your age group for driving like idiots.
Well maybe Mrs. 75 year old should 'blame the people in her age group for not understanding contracts so well', hmm? Wasn't the point that that was a stupid assumption because people are individuals and not necessarily all the same as their 'group'?
If you have a better way of judging relative risk, start your own insurance company, or just submit your proposal as an application for the Nobel prize for economics. It'll be a shoe-in.
How about ONLY using an individual's personal actions as a factor in determining the charge?
We get cheaper insurance because, gee, we don't fuck up as much.
Then you don't get to sign up for this service because, gee, your age group is too retarded. Oh, was that another dumb rampant generalization?
Bah.. Old people don't mind getting cheaper car insurance because they're old, but go on about discrimination when it suits them. Be consistent, and against sexism/ageism/etc. in all aspects of business or shut up.
Depressingly true. I fear the pathetic new 2.0 theme will turn a lot of users off. I don't really know why they released it for beta review; huge numbers of testers are just telling them to revert and they seem determined to sleepwalk into disaster anyway.:-(
Unfortunately the chain in the UK usually goes something like:
1) One tragic incident happens. 2) Red-top tabloids blow it up and whip the public up into a frenzied hysteria (there's a paedophile round every corner!!!!) 3) Worried Mother(s) find a 'target' that is to blame for said tragic incident, that must be banned. 4) Worried Mother(s) whinge and whinge and whinge and go to court / 10 Downing Street 5) Parliament / Labour government caves in because it will play well with the Red-top tabloids 6) Stupid law is passed that criminalizes stuff that shouldn't be. 7) ?? 8) Profit!! (More votes)
I'm just hoping that Labour get MANY FEWER votes at the next election. In fact, I'm counting on it. Blair's pushed his wave of popularity waaaaay too far. Now people just see him for the git that he is.
The whole point of steganography is that the data is hidden inside another seemingly benign piece of data. You tell them you don't have 'hidden' stuff. How are they gonna find out?
Yeah, it's sneaky, but the authorities in this country are nosy bastards and if people start resorting to this, I think they're getting what they deserve.
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Ever thought of,
"Sorry, never heard of that one. You'll have to go ask $LIN_DISTRO support about it."
?
If you're ultra-conservative and you can vote dem, repub or green--start voting green. Until they actually start winning elections, all you are doing is showing support for the alternative parties.
If you're voting, you're showing your support for a sham democratic system (sorry, but it is) that throws away roughly 50% (sometimes more) of voters' preferences, even making the huge assumption that their vote actually reflects their true preferences.
Not voting at all may be a better solution. Voting rates are at an all-time low. If they drop to below 20% or even 10%, the current corrupt 'system' will have trouble justifying its existence. That may be the only way to push a half-decent democratic system thru in the US. Until then it'll all be about the stuff you hate, ultimately catering only to the plutocracy.
Um, no. Retirement until world fills up with more people than it can sustain, at which point mass death occurs, probably including you. Sorry.
Yeah. How great would it be to come out of your chamber, and look out at the cities destroyed by nuclear holocaust? Or into the street where you're implanted with a microchip and permenantly monitored by the World Government henceforth, and any breach of international law results in torture and death?
:-)
Why do people assume the future will always be a wonderful place? This world needs more pessamists.
Does Vim still default to starting in command mode? I suppose it does. For me, this is the biggest damn problem with it. It's a text editor, it should start in insert mode like every other editor. Pressing some key to start typing is bloody annoying, then pressing Esc to insert commands is also annoying. Ctrl-sequences are much better, and the default insert mode means I can do simple text editing and slowly learn other commands of the editor. To be honest, I also find Vim's shortcuts extremely unintuative. Want to go to the end of the document? 99% of editors, Ctrl-end. Vim, G. Sorry, that's retarded. Maybe it's based in the days of legacy terminals that didn't have arrow keys or even control sequences, but we're not in those days anymore; it's the text editor equivalent of still using a green-on-black text-only monitor.
What pisses me off is the dumbass law in this country (and no doubt some others) that, if there's no cycle lane, riders must use the road instead of the pavement. To my mind that is utterly stupid. Everyone's safer if they use the pavement. Bikers can much more easily avoid pedestrians (as long as it's not very busy, of course) than car drivers bikers.
Could anyone explain to me why freenode in particular has been so useful for OSS projects? I'm not saying it's a bad network, but there were hundreds of other IRC networks before freenode and still are. If it died, they could and would skip to EFNET or something. Yeah maybe it has a few netsplits, but I'm sure you could find more reliable ones if that really bothers you.
Religious types believe that your soul passes on to another place when your body dies in this world. Presumably it makes more sense to them than to actually say you are dead.
Hang on. Please tell me your OS does not allow 3rd party software to write a large file on the hard drive that causes system files to be overwritten. If so, I suggest you get in touch with the OS vendor as it sounds like a pretty serious vulnerability.
I always said you could send the internets down tubes. Always.
I wouldn't be too bothered about people knowing my name. It's like someone knowing your IP address, it's just an identifier. So what? There're thousands of other people with the same name as me, anyway.
Once outed, what would they have left to loose through association[?]
Certain fluids....
If you pollute the atmosphere in a habitation bubble on Mars, the air will get dirty so quickly you'll either all die, find a way to filter it out, or stop polluting. I'm guessing one of the latter two.
:-S
On Earth, pollution can keep happening until the whole enormous bubble that is the atmosphere is really polluted and there's bugger all you can do about it. At least that can't happen on Mars.
Exactly what I was gonna say. If the user was using Ubuntu, they'd contact Ubuntu support. If they were using Redhat, Redhat. Suse, Suse. etc.
The GP post is a complete strawman argument; any company who offered support for 'any' Linux distro deserves what it gets. It's like offering support for 'any' Windows distro.
Hmm, the release of Vista isn't ready? At least it should go well with Firefox 2.0.
My heart goes out to his family.
Which is more than you can say for his.
Cheaper car insurance is about as discriminatory as people living in flood plains having to pay higher house/disaster insurance.
No, it's much more discriminatory because you get to choose whether you live in a flood plain, but not your age or gender.
Discriminatory would be barring them insurance just because they are young.
It would also be charging them, as an individual, more or less because of certain of their demographics.
If you want to blame someone, blame the people in your age group for driving like idiots.
Well maybe Mrs. 75 year old should 'blame the people in her age group for not understanding contracts so well', hmm? Wasn't the point that that was a stupid assumption because people are individuals and not necessarily all the same as their 'group'?
If you have a better way of judging relative risk, start your own insurance company, or just submit your proposal as an application for the Nobel prize for economics. It'll be a shoe-in.
How about ONLY using an individual's personal actions as a factor in determining the charge?
We get cheaper insurance because, gee, we don't fuck up as much.
Then you don't get to sign up for this service because, gee, your age group is too retarded. Oh, was that another dumb rampant generalization?
Speaking for everyone over 30, BITE ME.
Bah.. Old people don't mind getting cheaper car insurance because they're old, but go on about discrimination when it suits them. Be consistent, and against sexism/ageism/etc. in all aspects of business or shut up.
But I read in another story that you can actually meet girlies you meet on WoW in real life, and maybe get it on with them...
Depressingly true. I fear the pathetic new 2.0 theme will turn a lot of users off. I don't really know why they released it for beta review; huge numbers of testers are just telling them to revert and they seem determined to sleepwalk into disaster anyway. :-(
Who needs Expression? I have a text editor.
If you enjoy looking at those kind of images, you'll quickly find you are the only one who doesn't think you are sick.
Utter nonsense. Now stop judging other people WHO AREN'T HARMING YOU OR SOCIETY. Idiot.
Unfortunately the chain in the UK usually goes something like:
1) One tragic incident happens.
2) Red-top tabloids blow it up and whip the public up into a frenzied hysteria (there's a paedophile round every corner!!!!)
3) Worried Mother(s) find a 'target' that is to blame for said tragic incident, that must be banned.
4) Worried Mother(s) whinge and whinge and whinge and go to court / 10 Downing Street
5) Parliament / Labour government caves in because it will play well with the Red-top tabloids
6) Stupid law is passed that criminalizes stuff that shouldn't be.
7) ??
8) Profit!! (More votes)
I'm just hoping that Labour get MANY FEWER votes at the next election. In fact, I'm counting on it. Blair's pushed his wave of popularity waaaaay too far. Now people just see him for the git that he is.
The whole point of steganography is that the data is hidden inside another seemingly benign piece of data. You tell them you don't have 'hidden' stuff. How are they gonna find out?
Yeah, it's sneaky, but the authorities in this country are nosy bastards and if people start resorting to this, I think they're getting what they deserve.