By arguing for Mozilla to do this, we are effectively asking for the standard to be updated. Many of the Mozilla coders are involved in standards, and they are the stubborn *!&££*! who are preventing this feature from being implemented:-) 'Their way is always best'. Pah.
Sounds to me like one of many Mozilla standards zealot arguments.
A: Why doesn't Mozilla popup image ALT text as a tooltip? B: Because it's not meant to do that, the standard says so. A: But nearly every other browser does it! B: But the standard doesn't say you should. A: But many websites use this functionality anyway! B: But the standard doesn't say you should. A: These sites are *already using* this functionality! Why are you building a browser that doesn't work properly with a large number of websites, and when implementing this functionality wouldn't hurt anyone, and may even help accessibility?? B: Because the standard doesn't say you should. ad infinitum...
OK, this is clearly a troll/joke, but I still feel a rebuttal coming on.
1) You'd start talking funny, eh. Canadians sound positively normal compared to most Americans.
2) You'd have to use weird words - your dollar currency would be called a "Loonie" (there's a Loon on the dollar coin), and your two-dollar currency would be called a "Twoonie," eh. American currency is stupid, too. 'Nickel', 'dime', 'quarter'???? 25 cent piece??
3) You'd have to start making fun of people from Newfoundland ("Newfies"). I don't know why, you just would. Major problem there.
4) You'd have to pretend there's a really big cultural difference between Canadians and Americans. To everyone who asks, or doesn't ask. What?
5) You'd have to listen to Canadian radio and watch Canadian tv, which would basically be American radio and American tv if it weren't for Canadian laws which require a certain portion of broadcast content be native Canadian. Which means you get to hear a LOT of Loverboy, eh. So, you DON'T have to suffer American crap. Why's that bad?
6) You'd have to claim William Shatner as your own. Eh? Isn't shatner American? Anyway he's an idol to some (Trekkies);-)
7) You'd have to laugh at Jerry Lewis. Oh wait, that's France. Nevermind. Enough said.
8) Hockey. What?? Ice hockey is the BEST SPORT IN THE WORLD! Better than any American crap. God, at least I can actually understand how it's played! (as a Brit)
9) Curling. (and I don't mean irons) You don't have to watch it. Still, it's better than ad-infested money-grabbing American sport.
10) That stupid Labatt(sp?) Blue spokesbear. No idea what you're talking about there.
11) No littering or cursing allowed in Canada. I somehow doubt that noone curses in Canada. And no littering is bad, how?
12) If it weren't for Canada, all you Europeans would be speaking German right now! Oh, wait, that's America... If it weren't for America, thousands of Iraqis/Vietnamise/Americans would still be alive.
13) The inevitable McKenzie Brothers comeback movie, "Dude, Where's My Beer, Eh? (Hoser)" Not knowing Canadian culture much, I have no idea about this.
14) A pound of Canadian bacon a day keeps the doctor away, eh. And many people swear by the stuff.
15) All the nice imported American acid rain. Because it never falls in America.
16) Americans can't find your country on a globe or a map. I know, but I thought you were listing disadvantages?
17) That damned South Park song. South Park rules.
18) Having to bow and scrape to the "Queen of Canada." Except that Canada doesn't really recognise the Queen as the head of state anymore.
19) Your socialized health care means you get to wait a _very_ long time to see a doctor. (But at least you can afford it.) I doubt they have to wait as long as us Brits (our healthcare is a *joke*), or an American who can't afford healthcare.
20) Your money ain't worth shit. Eh? The exchange rate of a currency is totally irrelevant, unless it's collapsing (which Canadian $ aren't).
21) You'll develop very little sense of humour about your newfound (Newfie!) country, and lists like this one will really piss you off. Eh. Where's your evidence? Americans have no sense of humor.
22) When you get candy called "Smarties" at the local food jobber, you won't get the tasty treat you're used to in the U.S. Instead, you'll get a bunch of things that look like M&Ms. They don't, unfortunately, taste like M&Ms. They taste like *STALE* M&Ms. And that's the way they're supposed to taste. When an American brings up this fact, you have to pretend to like them, anyway. Hmm. Mewonders if that's the same as the smarties we're
his is an even bigger problem in the other germanic languages (German, Swedish, Icelandic, etc.), because they always write compounds like these together. Thus, there are literally (yes!) infinite combinations.
Actually, *takes deep breath*
Finite * finite cannot equal infinity. Infinite * finite will, as will infinite^2, but if the only numbers in the equation are finite, you cannot get an infinite answer.
May I refer you to this link? More background about this is here.
The most interesting thing about that story is how the SS managed to get his home and work address. If he's not ex-directory, he's an idiot. I don't put any personal information about myself on Slashdot or anything, but there's not much I can do about domain WHOIS records. Still, I don't go out of my way to make myself traceable.
1) Posters to Slashdot don't give their name and address. Slashdot can purge IP addy logs, so *they don't know* user info and *can't tell* the RIAA. 2) Many Slashdot posters don't live in the US, so tough shit RIAA. 3) How is posting a *COMMENT* on a *WEBSITE* possibly illegal? The day they take someone to court for that is the day US citizens truly lose their right to free speech.
Yes. If they get $10,000 per lawsuit (and that's assuming the victims settle out of court, it could be a lot more otherwise), they'll make quite a lot of money out of this. It's very sustainable.
Mmm but hang on, Verizon we just being bad guys by pulling out on providing Broadband to Pennyslvania, so they kind of deserve this as payback for that:-)
So, even if you have never downloaded a copywritten mp3, the RIAA (if they wake up one morning and decide that they feel like it) can legally demand information about you from your ISP.
They can demand it but they won't get it. I'm not a US citizen;-)
More along the lines of reality, what about tivo's commercial blocking?
You do realise that if everyone blocked TV ads with Tivo, you'd have to:
1) Pay for that station 2) Pay more than currently for that station 3) Have ads delivered to you in another way
, right? Companies pay for adverts on TV because they think people watch them, not just for the novelty of it. If ad response rates go down, they aint gonna pay anymore.
I hope you don't mean The Guardian newspaper (or its website). It's the most absurdely left-wing paper *in the UK*. Please, stop reading it, and maybe it will die someday.
He once said: ÑWeÇre not in the business of providing news and information. WeÇre not in the business of providing well-researched music. WeÇre simply in the business of selling our customers products.â
Christ, can't he learn how to format his HTML properly??
Some print newspapers run bogus classified ads so they can detect a competitor trying to bulk up their own classified section.
Heh. And what do they do when they find out? Classified ads are hardly gonna be copyrighted material. Even if they were, I can't see the advertiser being anything other than happy about the free advertising in an extra newspaper.
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Wouldn't it be quicker to make a list of labels that you SHOULD buy music from?
By arguing for Mozilla to do this, we are effectively asking for the standard to be updated. Many of the Mozilla coders are involved in standards, and they are the stubborn *!&££*! who are preventing this feature from being implemented :-) 'Their way is always best'. Pah.
Sounds to me like one of many Mozilla standards zealot arguments.
A: Why doesn't Mozilla popup image ALT text as a tooltip?
B: Because it's not meant to do that, the standard says so.
A: But nearly every other browser does it!
B: But the standard doesn't say you should.
A: But many websites use this functionality anyway!
B: But the standard doesn't say you should.
A: These sites are *already using* this functionality! Why are you building a browser that doesn't work properly with a large number of websites, and when implementing this functionality wouldn't hurt anyone, and may even help accessibility??
B: Because the standard doesn't say you should.
ad infinitum...
OK, this is clearly a troll/joke, but I still feel a rebuttal coming on.
;-)
1) You'd start talking funny, eh.
Canadians sound positively normal compared to most Americans.
2) You'd have to use weird words - your dollar currency would be called a "Loonie" (there's a Loon on the dollar coin), and your two-dollar currency would be called a "Twoonie," eh.
American currency is stupid, too. 'Nickel', 'dime', 'quarter'???? 25 cent piece??
3) You'd have to start making fun of people from Newfoundland ("Newfies"). I don't know why, you just would.
Major problem there.
4) You'd have to pretend there's a really big cultural difference between Canadians and Americans. To everyone who asks, or doesn't ask.
What?
5) You'd have to listen to Canadian radio and watch Canadian tv, which would basically be American radio and American tv if it weren't for Canadian laws which require a certain portion of broadcast content be native Canadian. Which means you get to hear a LOT of Loverboy, eh.
So, you DON'T have to suffer American crap. Why's that bad?
6) You'd have to claim William Shatner as your own.
Eh? Isn't shatner American? Anyway he's an idol to some (Trekkies)
7) You'd have to laugh at Jerry Lewis. Oh wait, that's France. Nevermind.
Enough said.
8) Hockey.
What?? Ice hockey is the BEST SPORT IN THE WORLD! Better than any American crap. God, at least I can actually understand how it's played! (as a Brit)
9) Curling. (and I don't mean irons)
You don't have to watch it. Still, it's better than ad-infested money-grabbing American sport.
10) That stupid Labatt(sp?) Blue spokesbear.
No idea what you're talking about there.
11) No littering or cursing allowed in Canada.
I somehow doubt that noone curses in Canada. And no littering is bad, how?
12) If it weren't for Canada, all you Europeans would be speaking German right now! Oh, wait, that's America...
If it weren't for America, thousands of Iraqis/Vietnamise/Americans would still be alive.
13) The inevitable McKenzie Brothers comeback movie, "Dude, Where's My Beer, Eh? (Hoser)"
Not knowing Canadian culture much, I have no idea about this.
14) A pound of Canadian bacon a day keeps the doctor away, eh.
And many people swear by the stuff.
15) All the nice imported American acid rain.
Because it never falls in America.
16) Americans can't find your country on a globe or a map.
I know, but I thought you were listing disadvantages?
17) That damned South Park song.
South Park rules.
18) Having to bow and scrape to the "Queen of Canada."
Except that Canada doesn't really recognise the Queen as the head of state anymore.
19) Your socialized health care means you get to wait a _very_ long time to see a doctor. (But at least you can afford it.)
I doubt they have to wait as long as us Brits (our healthcare is a *joke*), or an American who can't afford healthcare.
20) Your money ain't worth shit.
Eh? The exchange rate of a currency is totally irrelevant, unless it's collapsing (which Canadian $ aren't).
21) You'll develop very little sense of humour about your newfound (Newfie!) country, and lists like this one will really piss you off. Eh.
Where's your evidence? Americans have no sense of humor.
22) When you get candy called "Smarties" at the local food jobber, you won't get the tasty treat you're used to in the U.S. Instead, you'll get a bunch of things that look like M&Ms. They don't, unfortunately, taste like M&Ms. They taste like *STALE* M&Ms. And that's the way they're supposed to taste. When an American brings up this fact, you have to pretend to like them, anyway.
Hmm. Mewonders if that's the same as the smarties we're
... the worst cover art I've ever seen is this.
his is an even bigger problem in the other germanic languages (German, Swedish, Icelandic, etc.), because they always write compounds like these together. Thus, there are literally (yes!) infinite combinations.
Actually, *takes deep breath*
Finite * finite cannot equal infinity. Infinite * finite will, as will infinite^2, but if the only numbers in the equation are finite, you cannot get an infinite answer.
Japanese textbooks used common English words?! What Japanese textbook was he reading; The Engrish Book Of Spare Parts?
They can purge logs, but do they?
:-)
:-)
Probably not. But they bloody well should
Many are outside the US, but most aren't.
Sucks to be American, eh?
May I refer you to this link? More background about this is here.
The most interesting thing about that story is how the SS managed to get his home and work address. If he's not ex-directory, he's an idiot. I don't put any personal information about myself on Slashdot or anything, but there's not much I can do about domain WHOIS records. Still, I don't go out of my way to make myself traceable.
1) Posters to Slashdot don't give their name and address. Slashdot can purge IP addy logs, so *they don't know* user info and *can't tell* the RIAA.
2) Many Slashdot posters don't live in the US, so tough shit RIAA.
3) How is posting a *COMMENT* on a *WEBSITE* possibly illegal? The day they take someone to court for that is the day US citizens truly lose their right to free speech.
Yes. If they get $10,000 per lawsuit (and that's assuming the victims settle out of court, it could be a lot more otherwise), they'll make quite a lot of money out of this. It's very sustainable.
It's the mob mentality: democracy at its very worst.
And having a political system where rich corporations can buy the laws they want isn't?
Mmm but hang on, Verizon we just being bad guys by pulling out on providing Broadband to Pennyslvania, so they kind of deserve this as payback for that :-)
So, even if you have never downloaded a copywritten mp3, the RIAA (if they wake up one morning and decide that they feel like it) can legally demand information about you from your ISP.
;-)
They can demand it but they won't get it. I'm not a US citizen
Why are we?
We should support these types of politicians and ignore the rest. Remember, the best way to kill a politician is to ignore them.
Hmm... I would've thought a sawn-off shotgun would work more effectively.
Wait until your cable service is capped at 3GB transfer/month. It might persuade you to reconsider that DSL.
Although today's nuclear weapons are much more powerful.
Yes. So your above passage about nuclear bombs not being that strong is looking rather incorrect now.
Real Lego artists build from molecules.
More along the lines of reality, what about tivo's commercial blocking?
You do realise that if everyone blocked TV ads with Tivo, you'd have to:
1) Pay for that station
2) Pay more than currently for that station
3) Have ads delivered to you in another way
, right? Companies pay for adverts on TV because they think people watch them, not just for the novelty of it. If ad response rates go down, they aint gonna pay anymore.
public opinion is on the march. Some in-house pollster should awaken President Bush to a bipartisan sleeper issue that could blindside him next year.
Are you mad? The sooner Bush goes, the better. No, um, he didn't say that Mr. President! Corporate power for America! Yeaaahhhhh!!!
I hope you don't mean The Guardian newspaper (or its website). It's the most absurdely left-wing paper *in the UK*. Please, stop reading it, and maybe it will die someday.
He once said: ÑWeÇre not in the business of providing news and information. WeÇre not in the business of providing well-researched music. WeÇre simply in the business of selling our customers products.â
Christ, can't he learn how to format his HTML properly??
Since when were most newspapers unbiased? If anything, Slashdot is usually a lot LESS biased.
Some print newspapers run bogus classified ads so they can detect a competitor trying to bulk up their own classified section.
Heh. And what do they do when they find out? Classified ads are hardly gonna be copyrighted material. Even if they were, I can't see the advertiser being anything other than happy about the free advertising in an extra newspaper.
Was I was meaning was why do you need to replace *anything* with a 'freenet'? What's wrong with Freenet over TCP/IP as it is now?