The only reason we don't have direct democracy is because it's never been tried because it's never been possible in the history of the world until now. The thundering herd would wise up after a few misteps at first. I'd way rather try direct democracy over the illusionist representative democracy we have now.
Why are there so many songs about raspberries
and what's on the other side?
Raspberries are visions, but only illusions,
and raspberries have nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
I know they're wrong, wait and see.
Someday we'll find it, the raspberry connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
Who said that every wish would be heard
and answered when wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that and someone believed it.
Look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us star gazing
and what do we think we might see?
Someday we'll find it, the raspberry connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
All of us under its spell. We know that it's probably magic.
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
Is this the sweet sound that called the young sailors.
The voice might be one and the same.
I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm supposed to be.
Someday we'll find it, the raspberry connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
Stick it in your ass, you fucking traitorous dog. Everything I used to like about Ron Paul was in that stuff he said he didn't actually write, so got nothing good to say about the guy. His pie in the sky Libertarian hallucination is nothng but antisocial selfishness. In no way is he worse than Romney, but he doesn't deserve any votes from anyone with a heart and an eye on the long game.
I'm voting for Obama for sure. He's done his best against the ridiculous Republicans. Not all perfect, but the best I've seen in my life. Don't buy into the Faux News lies.
This! Him skipping this vote make me put him firmly in the 'fuck this guy' pile. I used to really want him as president, back in my young impressionable years.
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens.
Just like how a speaker can be used as a microphone. It make noise when you run signal-carrying voltage through it, but also makes electricity when you scream into it.
> Destroying Flash, which is taking.NET with it, is about the best thing Apple has done in the last ten years.
Taking.NET with it? Huh? The new hot thing in the mobile development space is C#/Mono (Open source.NET) because it's the only language/platform that's available on iOS/Android/Windows (Is it also on BlackBerry? I don't know.) Phone. You write 95% of your mobile code in Mono/Ximian and then only need some native 'glue code' to hook the UI to the shareable code. How's the taking.NET with it?
Sure, you can take pot shots at Windows Phone, and I don't know how that is going to turn out, but Microsoft has not really began that battle yet, not until Windows 8 is ready. They may lose this time, but they've always been late to the game and then monstrously won over time.
But still Windows Phone is not the point. Apple killing Flash has nothing to do with killing.NET. HTML5 is killing Flash, and Silverlight, but it's not really Apple killing either one. It's that there's finally a working cross-platform HTML specification available.
Oh boo hoo ya big whiner. Just because it's not perfected to your standards the first day you think they shouldn't do it? You are teh dumb.
It's an awesome first step that opens the door to a lot of future games being made for Linux once the studios get slapped in the head with data proving that there actually are Linux users who will buy games.
The 302 thing usually signifies involvement by the 'church' of Scientology. For reasons unknown, 302 meant something significant to L Ron Hubbard. Read "Battlefield Earth" and pay attention to how many times the number 302 appears. It's kind of weird. Maybe he was a fan of Ford V8s?
I've been running MessageBase with a black background because of this exact reason since the late 1990s. Everyone told me it was a stupid idea and the power savings were negligable.
Think of all the power I've saved people! I've done my part.
I agree, I have used Paint.net exclusively for so many years that I am completely dumbfounded by the Photoshop UI these days. Paint.net's UI is as good as GIMPs UI is bad.
And how many people whining about the name GIMP know that it's an acronym (sorta re-recursive) for GNU Image Manipulation Program? People that are offended by this use of GIMP are probably just as offended by the word "Manipulation".
The 64 defaulted to 1 Mhz, but there was a trick by disabling the video handling you could kick the 6502 up to 2 MHz. You'd see this on some games where the screen border would get filled with quickly changing horizontal colored lines - that's what happens when the retrace handler (I think that was what it was called) was disabled to get the speed boost.
No, although with my bungled explanation of the balloon analogy I can see why you thought that.:)
There's apparently nothing outside the edge of the universe, so while it's not 'sucking the universe bigger', it's also not resisting:
All particles trying to reach an equilibrium as the average density of the universe constantly lessening (increasing universal volume, yet a static amount of mass.) seem to have something to do with the acceleration.
I have a hole in my understanding of why particles seek an equilibrium, whether air particles in a balloon or particles in the universe, but it definitely happens, so that's the base of my theory.
Slashdot Mirror
And besides HTTP, what do you see it needing? What can't be done with HTTP?
What are you babbling about? Come, come, elucidate!
Google "Sakka and Aang"
The only reason we don't have direct democracy is because it's never been tried because it's never been possible in the history of the world until now. The thundering herd would wise up after a few misteps at first. I'd way rather try direct democracy over the illusionist representative democracy we have now.
Why are there so many songs about raspberries
and what's on the other side?
Raspberries are visions, but only illusions,
and raspberries have nothing to hide.
So we've been told and some choose to believe it.
I know they're wrong, wait and see.
Someday we'll find it, the raspberry connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
Who said that every wish would be heard
and answered when wished on the morning star?
Somebody thought of that and someone believed it.
Look what it's done so far.
What's so amazing that keeps us star gazing
and what do we think we might see?
Someday we'll find it, the raspberry connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
All of us under its spell. We know that it's probably magic.
Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?
I've heard them calling my name.
Is this the sweet sound that called the young sailors.
The voice might be one and the same.
I've heard it too many times to ignore it.
It's something that I'm supposed to be.
Someday we'll find it, the raspberry connection.
The lovers, the dreamers and me.
No, I do stupid shit all the time that has no inherent value beyond the entertainment factor, like copying others' posts on the internet.
Stick it in your ass, you fucking traitorous dog. Everything I used to like about Ron Paul was in that stuff he said he didn't actually write, so got nothing good to say about the guy. His pie in the sky Libertarian hallucination is nothng but antisocial selfishness. In no way is he worse than Romney, but he doesn't deserve any votes from anyone with a heart and an eye on the long game.
I'm voting for Obama for sure. He's done his best against the ridiculous Republicans. Not all perfect, but the best I've seen in my life. Don't buy into the Faux News lies.
This! Him skipping this vote make me put him firmly in the 'fuck this guy' pile. I used to really want him as president, back in my young impressionable years.
Fuck RON PAUL!!
Just like income taxes are 'voluntary'...
There are those who believe that life here began out there, far across the universe, with tribes of humans who may have been the forefathers of the Egyptians, or the Toltecs, or the Mayans. That they may have been the architects of the great pyramids, or the lost civilizations of Lemuria or Atlantis. Some believe that there may yet be brothers of man who even now fight to survive somewhere beyond the heavens.
True, but making a decent product very significantly increases the odds of making a second sale.
Don't worry about it. I had zero trouble reading it and English is my first and only language other than programming languages.
What confused/confuses me was what the guy meant by "duff link", WTF is a duff link?
Just like how a speaker can be used as a microphone. It make noise when you run signal-carrying voltage through it, but also makes electricity when you scream into it.
> Destroying Flash, which is taking .NET with it, is about the best thing Apple has done in the last ten years.
Taking .NET with it? Huh? The new hot thing in the mobile development space is C#/Mono (Open source .NET) because it's the only language/platform that's available on iOS/Android/Windows (Is it also on BlackBerry? I don't know.) Phone. You write 95% of your mobile code in Mono/Ximian and then only need some native 'glue code' to hook the UI to the shareable code. How's the taking .NET with it?
Sure, you can take pot shots at Windows Phone, and I don't know how that is going to turn out, but Microsoft has not really began that battle yet, not until Windows 8 is ready. They may lose this time, but they've always been late to the game and then monstrously won over time.
But still Windows Phone is not the point. Apple killing Flash has nothing to do with killing .NET. HTML5 is killing Flash, and Silverlight, but it's not really Apple killing either one. It's that there's finally a working cross-platform HTML specification available.
Oh boo hoo ya big whiner. Just because it's not perfected to your standards the first day you think they shouldn't do it? You are teh dumb.
It's an awesome first step that opens the door to a lot of future games being made for Linux once the studios get slapped in the head with data proving that there actually are Linux users who will buy games.
Infinity
The 302 thing usually signifies involvement by the 'church' of Scientology. For reasons unknown, 302 meant something significant to L Ron Hubbard. Read "Battlefield Earth" and pay attention to how many times the number 302 appears. It's kind of weird. Maybe he was a fan of Ford V8s?
Very true, very true. Damn thing never caught on...
Why is the question? Was it the black background?
I've been running MessageBase with a black background because of this exact reason since the late 1990s. Everyone told me it was a stupid idea and the power savings were negligable.
Think of all the power I've saved people! I've done my part.
I agree, I have used Paint.net exclusively for so many years that I am completely dumbfounded by the Photoshop UI these days. Paint.net's UI is as good as GIMPs UI is bad.
And how many people whining about the name GIMP know that it's an acronym (sorta re-recursive) for GNU Image Manipulation Program? People that are offended by this use of GIMP are probably just as offended by the word "Manipulation".
You're only running Windows 11? I'm running Windows 98!! ;)
But what if it's Valentine Michael Smith?
I am only an egg...
> They maintain one of the largest armies on the planet.
Look how stupid you are... Largest? Seriously? You expect us to believe that? One of the largest as in "not the smallest"?
The 64 defaulted to 1 Mhz, but there was a trick by disabling the video handling you could kick the 6502 up to 2 MHz. You'd see this on some games where the screen border would get filled with quickly changing horizontal colored lines - that's what happens when the retrace handler (I think that was what it was called) was disabled to get the speed boost.
In the beginning, there was nothing, which exploded... :)
(Who said that? Douglas Adams?)
No, although with my bungled explanation of the balloon analogy I can see why you thought that. :)
There's apparently nothing outside the edge of the universe, so while it's not 'sucking the universe bigger', it's also not resisting:
All particles trying to reach an equilibrium as the average density of the universe constantly lessening (increasing universal volume, yet a static amount of mass.) seem to have something to do with the acceleration.
I have a hole in my understanding of why particles seek an equilibrium, whether air particles in a balloon or particles in the universe, but it definitely happens, so that's the base of my theory.