I couldn't agree more, it would definitely be much better to be blown up by polytheistic Theo-Fascist mass-murdering Psycho-Cults.
More gods, more bang, I'm sure that helps.
Reducing a nuanced point of view down to a fatuous one-liner is generally a display of bigotry.
While I support your general statement, in this special case "forgiveness has no place in Christianity" might have given you a clue as to the seriousness of said "fatuous one-liner".
At least I hope he wasn't serious.
Given that the EU forced Microsoft to include a browser choice and keeping in mind their recent dealings with Google, it will be interesting what they have to say about this.
You're right, of course, but it's very limited in scope.
I actually hadn't thought of it, but now that you mention it, I still don't think it matters in terms of noise prevention.
Most vehicles are bought (I think/guess/believe) without giving a second thought (iaw shit) about the noise they cause.
They're bought because of price / space / availability / whatever. If that behaviour stays the same and cars overall get more quiet, there will be less noise. That's cool with me.
People who buy Harleys will continue to do so. Those machines are bought, as you wrote, because of their image (getting bitches all wet). They are cool, great, fantastic and they will get bought. AFAIK, Porsche invested quite some money to *keep* the sound of the 911 the way it was when they switched from air cooling (VW Beetle! proud former owner of a 1302 speaking) to water cooling (which is far more efficient) in the second half of the nineties. If the majority of cars will be less noisy, I shall be pleased.
The same argument was made every time a new generation of cars became more quiet than the previous one.
I do not fear that regulations will force cars to be louder than necessary, at least not for long.
Reason: People will get used to and appreciate quiet cars. Politicians will do so as well. And even if cars are forced to produce some noise - which I don't think will last for a long time - a more or less even humming is far more tolerable (at least to me) than the ugly whining of engines revving up and down and the tank-like grunting of broken exhaust pipes. YMMV (SCNR).
And after all, you still have tire noise, that's unlikely to go away anytime soon.
So I agree with GP: It's far easier to add noise to a silent car than to silence a noisy car. At least I will not miss the noise and I do not think that the blind people you mentioned will either.
I think GP wants to use Owncloud as Dropbox replacement, just redirecting a dropbox client to his owncloud via hosts file or something like that so that he could continue to use the dropbox client he's already using. Assumptions and speculation of course.
I assume it could have been the following: Spurs are on their way to auschwitz
Hitler's gonna gas em again
We can't stop them
The yids from tottenham
The yids from white hart lane
I don't know whether I want that to be illegal but I want the motherfucker to be struck by lightning while sitting on the shithouse.
The inconsistent criteria are really rather obnoxious, I agree. Some examples that cought my eye while looking at the map and data:
I think that 976 for Austria is correct, as that's the first mention of Ostarrichi, although not as independent country. For Hungary as well, the dates are the ones that should be taken into account, as this was the time when the magyars moved into the territory of what is now Hungary.
To give 1871 as "birthdate" for Germany is of course ridiculous, that should be 843 as in the case of France.
Therefore, if we already use dates like 976 for Austria, we can only stare in disbelief at the fact that Croatia should be only 22 years old and Serbia only 7.
Turkey will certainly be interested why only the modern state after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the following war with Greece has been given credit. I think we can safely assume at least 1453 (conquest of Constantinople), or even an older date, if we take into account that most of Anatolia had been undeer turkish rule far before that.
At last, not to get too eurocentric (I'm austrian, so Europe's what I'm most familiar with), Rwanda was a kingdom (or several closely related kingdoms) with a distinct culture and language long before becoming a (german, then belgian) colony and gaining independence in 1962.
Also, we should think again about whether we really need that round thingie, the wheel.
Sure, it's really useful, but considering how much harm can be wrought with it... better leave it uninvented.
At least in Austria, and it may well be similar in many EU countries, even the (permanent) filming, e.g. via dashboard camera,
is illegal (text in German, Google translation here).
There are exceptions for, say, helmet cameras the recordings of which serve as a souvenir of some sporting activity, but in general, permanent recording is illegal at least in Austria.
I don't know about other countries of the European Union but I wouldn't be surprised if it were similar.
Are they doing business in the EU? If so, they may have to.
I can't be bothered to look it up right now, but there was a case of a student from Vienna forcing facebook to give their users full access to whatever information they had collected on them. Impossible to tell of course, whether they did fully comply.
Still, that might be funny.
MariaBD will replace MySQL
After wikipedia (on *. yesterday) and of course my revered Slackware, MariaDB really seems to be getting traction.
Maybe time to have a look...
Worst thing that could happen is probably some kind of 'Do you want to install Bing or Google as default earch thingie" search-engine choice, like Microsoft had to provide for IE / FF / Opera etc. and I doubt it'll go even that far.
Slashdot Mirror
whoosh
They're lucky they're not trying to meet a parallel commenter.
I couldn't agree more, it would definitely be much better to be blown up by polytheistic Theo-Fascist mass-murdering Psycho-Cults. More gods, more bang, I'm sure that helps.
Reducing a nuanced point of view down to a fatuous one-liner is generally a display of bigotry.
While I support your general statement, in this special case "forgiveness has no place in Christianity" might have given you a clue as to the seriousness of said "fatuous one-liner". At least I hope he wasn't serious.
Brilliant.
There is nothing wrong with cold coffee.
Warm beer on the other hand should be considered a crime against humanity.
Given that the EU forced Microsoft to include a browser choice and keeping in mind their recent dealings with Google, it will be interesting what they have to say about this.
You're right, of course, but it's very limited in scope.
I actually hadn't thought of it, but now that you mention it, I still don't think it matters in terms of noise prevention.
Most vehicles are bought (I think/guess/believe) without giving a second thought (iaw shit) about the noise they cause.
They're bought because of price / space / availability / whatever. If that behaviour stays the same and cars overall get more quiet, there will be less noise. That's cool with me.
People who buy Harleys will continue to do so. Those machines are bought, as you wrote, because of their image (getting bitches all wet). They are cool, great, fantastic and they will get bought. AFAIK, Porsche invested quite some money to *keep* the sound of the 911 the way it was when they switched from air cooling (VW Beetle! proud former owner of a 1302 speaking) to water cooling (which is far more efficient) in the second half of the nineties.
If the majority of cars will be less noisy, I shall be pleased.
The same argument was made every time a new generation of cars became more quiet than the previous one.
I do not fear that regulations will force cars to be louder than necessary, at least not for long.
Reason: People will get used to and appreciate quiet cars. Politicians will do so as well. And even if cars are forced to produce some noise - which I don't think will last for a long time - a more or less even humming is far more tolerable (at least to me) than the ugly whining of engines revving up and down and the tank-like grunting of broken exhaust pipes. YMMV (SCNR).
And after all, you still have tire noise, that's unlikely to go away anytime soon.
So I agree with GP: It's far easier to add noise to a silent car than to silence a noisy car. At least I will not miss the noise and I do not think that the blind people you mentioned will either.
When you're sick enough to (feel you) need medication, stay at home.
Don't spread germs all over the workplace / auditorium / public mass transport.
I think GP wants to use Owncloud as Dropbox replacement, just redirecting a dropbox client to his owncloud via hosts file or something like that so that he could continue to use the dropbox client he's already using.
Assumptions and speculation of course.
I assume it could have been the following:
Spurs are on their way to auschwitz
Hitler's gonna gas em again
We can't stop them
The yids from tottenham
The yids from white hart lane
I don't know whether I want that to be illegal but I want the motherfucker to be struck by lightning while sitting on the shithouse.
doch freudenhäuser müssen raus
What's your problem with atheism?
There's even some rather stupid "law of headlines" that says so (it has to be right at least sometimes).
BTW: That is not limited to Japanese AIs.
go back to your cave.
The inconsistent criteria are really rather obnoxious, I agree. Some examples that cought my eye while looking at the map and data:
I think that 976 for Austria is correct, as that's the first mention of Ostarrichi, although not as independent country. For Hungary as well, the dates are the ones that should be taken into account, as this was the time when the magyars moved into the territory of what is now Hungary.
To give 1871 as "birthdate" for Germany is of course ridiculous, that should be 843 as in the case of France.
Therefore, if we already use dates like 976 for Austria, we can only stare in disbelief at the fact that Croatia should be only 22 years old and Serbia only 7.
Turkey will certainly be interested why only the modern state after the fall of the Ottoman Empire and the following war with Greece has been given credit. I think we can safely assume at least 1453 (conquest of Constantinople), or even an older date, if we take into account that most of Anatolia had been undeer turkish rule far before that.
At last, not to get too eurocentric (I'm austrian, so Europe's what I'm most familiar with), Rwanda was a kingdom (or several closely related kingdoms) with a distinct culture and language long before becoming a (german, then belgian) colony and gaining independence in 1962.
Also, we should think again about whether we really need that round thingie, the wheel.
Sure, it's really useful, but considering how much harm can be wrought with it... better leave it uninvented.
At least in Austria, and it may well be similar in many EU countries, even the (permanent) filming, e.g. via dashboard camera, is illegal (text in German, Google translation here).
There are exceptions for, say, helmet cameras the recordings of which serve as a souvenir of some sporting activity, but in general, permanent recording is illegal at least in Austria.
I don't know about other countries of the European Union but I wouldn't be surprised if it were similar.
AR goggles for an enhanced splash screen?
Looks like they have: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acxiom
Are they doing business in the EU? If so, they may have to.
I can't be bothered to look it up right now, but there was a case of a student from Vienna forcing facebook to give their users full access to whatever information they had collected on them. Impossible to tell of course, whether they did fully comply.
Still, that might be funny.
MariaBD will replace MySQL
After wikipedia (on *. yesterday) and of course my revered Slackware, MariaDB really seems to be getting traction.
Maybe time to have a look...
Put LSD in the bread.
Worst thing that could happen is probably some kind of 'Do you want to install Bing or Google as default earch thingie" search-engine choice, like Microsoft had to provide for IE / FF / Opera etc. and I doubt it'll go even that far.