As one of my (black) friends so eloquently put it to me: "You know when they're talking about the N*****s up at G******d, they're talking 'bout you, too."
Yeah, it was so eloquant you had to star out 2 words and I can't figure out what the hell it's supposed to mean. If you're frightened of saying nigger, why didn't you post the uncensored version as an AC?
Here's a group that got really (rather over-) powerful through basically numbers and popular support: the NRA. How did they do it, and how can we emulate it? Is there just something hard-wired into a bunch of people's skulls that makes them emphatically support guns? I doubt it, because in a load of European countries, guns are largely banned and the people are happy about it.
To get rid of a monarchy peacefully, you need to get lucky and have one benevolent dictator.
To get rid of the US system, you need to get a majority of corrupt assholes in the senate, house, and presidency to reform a corrupt system that rewards corrupt assholes. Ironically, the monarchy is far easier to reform than a system that calls itself democratic.
It should be completely predictable. I've said before many times that the US is totally fucked until you somehow overhaul your entire political process. The first step is making people realize this needs to happen, and as long as the people keep calling the US "a democracy", that step hasn't been fulfilled.
We can't even get this done in California, where the Initiative Process lets anything get on the ballot. How can we possibly get this idea passed at the Federal level?
If you, westerners, were worth a dime of your own beliefs you would fought tooth and nail to incorporate the following article in your man-made "constitutions"
Don't lump all of us together. We'd break off and create a sane country if we could.
I'm getting more and more unhappy with the FF development process.
Give it up, the UX team took things over a long time ago, with their insistent copying of the Chrome interface. Criticize them and they tell you to piss off. Now all that matters is looking new and shiny, to people who don't really care about using a browser on a day-to-day basis.
Indeed, 'cards' as a throwback from the 90s and it's a shame they're still widespread. I've been thinking for a while now that instead of issuing you with a 'card', the banks should switch to issuing you with something akin to an RSA SecurID tag. You attach it to your keyring and it has a number that changes every 30 seconds or something, which you must supply to login to online banking or make online transactions. For physical transactions, RFID could be used combined with a PIN. Lose the thing and you phone up and cancel it immediately. This should stop a lot of the fraud that happens, and in theory there's no way to defeat it unless that bank's system themselves are compromised.
Well I contacted ARIA, and they said "Oh thats in the US, we cant help you". So I contacted the RIAA and they said "Your australians, we are not really interested sorry."
EPP group coordinator Daniel Caspary (DE, EPP), explained that EPP MEPs had voted against referring ACTA to the EU Court of Justice as "at the moment there is no need to do so, it because the file will anyway go to the court - according to intentions announced by the European Commission".
Unfortunately it looks like the unelected buerocrats in the European Commission can push this for court review despite the will of the democratic parliament. This is exactly why people hate the EU. Get rid of the European Commission and we'll talk.
Good luck with that, assholes. I've already started looking for a replacement to Slashdot.
I agree. Slashdot is such bullshit now, it was way better a year ago. And did I tell you, the other day I was delayed a whole 15 damn MINUTES on my flight before I could put my chair back and get to sleep.
I understand their intentions, they want to have an easier time fighting copycats like, say, Mugbook or Assbook or Pornbook
But isn't the point that they shouldn't be able to fight them on the basis of trademark? Owing to their DIFFERENT NAMES, I know they're not fucking Facebook.
I couldn't agree with you/more/. ASCII typesetting is a *beautiful* thing, with several major advantages:
- It's easy to read - It requires _fewer_ characters to be entered than HTML typesetting * You can easily come up with new typesetting styles on-the-fly and their meaning is usually obvious... o ***Tradition, tradition***.
^ I wish more posters would return to the good old days for these reasons.
You do understand the difference between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear power plant, right? Yes? Good, whew. Thought you were going to say something sounding really dumb there.
Computer gaming is literally the only reason I still have a Windows-based system... everything else I do can easily be replicated on numerous Linux distros
There's one big (actually, make that VAST) thing keeping our business with Windows - Visual Studio. The whole VS ecosystem with C#,.NET, developing stuff for and easily deploying stuff on Windows servers can not be replicated by any Linux distro. I take it you use PHP or Ruby or Python instead? Indeed, if it weren't for Visual Studio, I could make a good business case for dropping Windows.
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Another favorite type of magical thinking is empathy.
How does empathy count as 'magical thinking'?
In regards to funding such efforts, Neil deGrasse Tyson recently said:
"Without it, we might as well slide back to the cave, because that's where we're headed right now - broke."
I don't know about space exploration, but Neil deGrasse Tyson's English sure is in bad shape.
We have alcoholic cider, too. It's popular.
As one of my (black) friends so eloquently put it to me: "You know when they're talking about the N*****s up at G******d, they're talking 'bout you, too."
Yeah, it was so eloquant you had to star out 2 words and I can't figure out what the hell it's supposed to mean. If you're frightened of saying nigger, why didn't you post the uncensored version as an AC?
Yes yes, you're not the norm says you, posting from your exclusive mass-market Apple device.
Here's a group that got really (rather over-) powerful through basically numbers and popular support: the NRA. How did they do it, and how can we emulate it? Is there just something hard-wired into a bunch of people's skulls that makes them emphatically support guns? I doubt it, because in a load of European countries, guns are largely banned and the people are happy about it.
To get rid of a monarchy peacefully, you need to get lucky and have one benevolent dictator.
To get rid of the US system, you need to get a majority of corrupt assholes in the senate, house, and presidency to reform a corrupt system that rewards corrupt assholes. Ironically, the monarchy is far easier to reform than a system that calls itself democratic.
Fucking goddamn, this pisses me off.
It should be completely predictable. I've said before many times that the US is totally fucked until you somehow overhaul your entire political process. The first step is making people realize this needs to happen, and as long as the people keep calling the US "a democracy", that step hasn't been fulfilled.
We can't even get this done in California, where the Initiative Process lets anything get on the ballot. How can we possibly get this idea passed at the Federal level?
Judge Dredd?
Where's my circus? Marijuana is illegal.
So then the operative part of the sentence becomes: "melting point that is well above operating spec" for the containment units.
If you, westerners, were worth a dime of your own beliefs you would fought tooth and nail to incorporate the following article in your man-made "constitutions"
Don't lump all of us together. We'd break off and create a sane country if we could.
I'm getting more and more unhappy with the FF development process.
Give it up, the UX team took things over a long time ago, with their insistent copying of the Chrome interface. Criticize them and they tell you to piss off. Now all that matters is looking new and shiny, to people who don't really care about using a browser on a day-to-day basis.
(BBC is rather liberal usually)
Except when it comes to the drug war, the monarchy, police powers, free speech...
Indeed, 'cards' as a throwback from the 90s and it's a shame they're still widespread. I've been thinking for a while now that instead of issuing you with a 'card', the banks should switch to issuing you with something akin to an RSA SecurID tag. You attach it to your keyring and it has a number that changes every 30 seconds or something, which you must supply to login to online banking or make online transactions. For physical transactions, RFID could be used combined with a PIN. Lose the thing and you phone up and cancel it immediately. This should stop a lot of the fraud that happens, and in theory there's no way to defeat it unless that bank's system themselves are compromised.
Well I contacted ARIA, and they said "Oh thats in the US, we cant help you". So I contacted the RIAA and they said "Your australians, we are not really interested sorry."
Why did you offer them australians?
Unfortunately it looks like the unelected buerocrats in the European Commission can push this for court review despite the will of the democratic parliament. This is exactly why people hate the EU. Get rid of the European Commission and we'll talk.
At least they know what a smartphone looks like.
Good luck with that, assholes. I've already started looking for a replacement to Slashdot.
I agree. Slashdot is such bullshit now, it was way better a year ago. And did I tell you, the other day I was delayed a whole 15 damn MINUTES on my flight before I could put my chair back and get to sleep.
I understand their intentions, they want to have an easier time fighting copycats like, say, Mugbook or Assbook or Pornbook
But isn't the point that they shouldn't be able to fight them on the basis of trademark? Owing to their DIFFERENT NAMES, I know they're not fucking Facebook.
I couldn't agree with you /more/. ASCII typesetting is a *beautiful* thing, with several major advantages:
- It's easy to read
- It requires _fewer_ characters to be entered than HTML typesetting
* You can easily come up with new typesetting styles on-the-fly and their meaning is usually obvious...
o ***Tradition, tradition***.
^ I wish more posters would return to the good old days for these reasons.
You do understand the difference between a nuclear bomb and a nuclear power plant, right? Yes? Good, whew. Thought you were going to say something sounding really dumb there.
That option exists, they just decided to call it "Windows 7".
It sounds like I need to buy another Windows 7 machine while they are still available
A Windows 7 machine is alternatively known as a PC, a Linux machine, and potentially, a Windows 8 machine.
Computer gaming is literally the only reason I still have a Windows-based system... everything else I do can easily be replicated on numerous Linux distros
There's one big (actually, make that VAST) thing keeping our business with Windows - Visual Studio. The whole VS ecosystem with C#, .NET, developing stuff for and easily deploying stuff on Windows servers can not be replicated by any Linux distro. I take it you use PHP or Ruby or Python instead? Indeed, if it weren't for Visual Studio, I could make a good business case for dropping Windows.