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So...a letter writing campaign consisting of an anonymous 301 word bad-taste poem sent every 29 days would not be well received? Interesting...
This. Just....THIS. Patrick decided to foist KDE 4 on me in Slackware 13.0 and I hated it. I spent days trying to tweak and configure it to get back to what I had with KDE3 but couldn't. So much effort goes into trying to match Windows Vista/7 with fancy desktop widgets and yet it seems that there are a great number of disaffected KDE3-lovers who just want to be able to work the way they used to. I actually looked at a ticket on their bug tracking system for an issue that I was trying to solve. Other users obviously cared about it enough, but the opinion of the developers seemed to be: "It works like that now, get used to it. Submit a patch or STFU. If you post more comments, we'll ignore this bug completely." Nice attitude. I don't expect KDE devs to be at my beck-and-call, but one comment single-handedly destroyed any inclination I had to try and get KDE4 working for me. I thought about going back to KDE3, but there seemed to be too many hoops to jump through, so:
Are you for real? That doesn't make any sense. Though I appreciate they probably did so with the best intentions, it does not make any sense for WikiLeaks to ask. It is gross stupidity, of the highest fucking order, on the grounds that the answer they would get is so very very obvious. They only reason I can see, apart from stupidity, is so that they can tell the world that the Pentagon refused to help them, bolstering support. What? You think WikiLeaks incapable of playing the PRopaganda game? Similarly, it would not make any sense for the Pentagon to help. In doing so they could potentially endangering more lives.
Consider what would happen if the Pentagon agreed to help them, and then claimed that 75% of it must be redacted to protect "innocent" lives? Either a) Wikileaks agree, and redact that 75%, or b) they publish the whole thing, or c) they decide for themselves what they're going to leave in or redact. (Oh, options b & c are the options they have now, by the way). Now, WikiLeaks knows which 75% of the documents that the US government cares about most, who they want to protect, and who they don't. That, in itself, is very valuable information.
What guarantees do the U.S. government have that the names/information that they ask to be redacted won't be leaked, on top of the original documents? None. What guarantees do they have that WikiLeaks hasn't already been compromised by some nefarious third-party? None.
You don't agree? Ok, assuming WikiLeaks are on the straight and level, what guarantees do the U.S. government have that the names they tell them to redact will never find their way into "The Wrong Hands". None. No matter how secure they claim to be. One compromised server, one leak from within WikiLeaks who thinks they're not going far enough, one person with a sick aunt who needs a cash injection from anywhere to pay for an operation and BAM! even more information has been exposed, i.e. the names/information the U.S. government wants to protect most out of those documents.
Anything else that they, the U.S. Government, do from now on is damage limitation. Letting the world know which portions of those documents that they care about the most would be stupidity. Not to mention incredibly irresponsible. So, pretty much, the only option they have is to try and stop these other documents being published.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Now, I respect the work that WikiLeaks does, or tries to do, but if they're incapable of self-editing to protect "the innocent", then they have no business leaking those documents. No matter the response from the Pentagon, WikiLeaks will always be bound to release precisely whatever they think is important or they end up being toothless minions of the Pentagon. Are they going to take on a liaison from the Pentagon as an editor/"fact"-checker?
Their unease is their own fault. Either they stick to releasing OT documents from the Cult of $cientology or they play with the big boys and run the risk of getting innocent people killed. If they are that fucking uneasy about publishing the documents they should delete them, shred them, burn them. If they think the documents are that bloody toxic, even having them around is endangering those lives, whether they wind up releasing them eventually or not.
Durrell's vontsira is the first new carnivorous mammal discovered in Madagascar in 24 years.
Elsewhere in the article, twice, is this:
The first new carnivorous mammal to be discovered for 24 years
Was the last carnivorous mammal that was discovered, discovered 24 years ago in Madagascar? I don't know about anyone else, but I would infer from the qualifier "in Madagascar" that a carnivorous mammal was discovered less than 24 years ago somewhere else in the world.
In this case, I think "arbiter" would be a better fit than "arbitrator". And not just because I think "arbitrator" sounds clumsy:
arbitrate
1580s, from L. arbitratus, pp. of arbitrari "to give a decision," from arbiter (see arbiter). In modern usage, an arbiter makes decisions of his own accord and is accountable to no one but himself; an arbitrator (early 15c.) decides issues referred to him by the parties.
Wow. How very intelligent you are. Genius-like really. The rapier-like wit of your post was almost Swift-ian. You're absolutely right of course, why do we even have a summary? Why not just list the relevant keywords so that we can all just Google them and piece together the story ourselves?
Hilarious? I feel sick. Names not changed to implicate the stupid:
Paul Diaz: Will What i Say is get a front page they say facebook down due to server's and we are working hard to fix it get free cash ?:)
Mouhssine Freedom Elmezyani It's very easy to rape facebook !! i know some friends can hack your compt through your electronic adress !& they hacked my compt several time in the pretext of kidding !!
Mauro Guberti I'd like to know what's the necessary qualifications to work like moderator.
And the one that prompted me to close the tab:
Joanne Bozik
The following link is the problem.........these people have been sending my name and pic to many stating that I purchased this product and I also in return am receiving the following link in my friends names......Please get after these people
You joke, but there was a news segment earlier this year about a guy who wanted to farm kiwis as food. His reasoning being, that cows, sheep and chicken will never become extinct. Start eating them, and farming them, and they will be saved...
FYI: The game in TFA is a game played with a stylus and is "impossible to play" because you're expected to hold one side with your left hand and the stylus in your right, with the DSi on it's side. Any discussion of the D-pad/buttons is a little OT. Oh, and as others have pointed out, the 2600 was on the right, but your other examples are correct.
What I don't understand is that I'm right-handed and when playing on a console controller, most of the time my left hand is doing all/most of the work, on the d-pad. The first time I played SMB on the NES I didn't just stand, static, or jumping up and down on the spot, hammering the buttons and, similarly, I doubt many left-handed people ran manically sideways into every goomba or falling down every hole, unable to gather the wherewithall to press "jump". Yet, as soon as you have to use a stylus, dangerously close to a...duh duh duuuuh....PEN the whole world comes tumbling down. I wonder why that is? The game in question doesn't even require drawing complex shapes, just click-dragging things (by the looks of it).
TFA could be summed up thus: "I've been coddled by games all my (short) life and this one doesn't suck my (left) thumb for me. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!". Many commenters on the article have pointed out that, while cumbersome, it shouldn't be impossible to play, and the writer does himself no favours, because at no point does he explain exactly why it would be impossible. As a concession to the barracking commenters, he posted two generic gameplay videos from Youtube, which still do nothing to illustrate his point.
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Only reason you didn't get an F was that 1) it isn't completely obvious that you were trolling, and B) because I suspect you may be using an unapproved electronic dictionary and/or a wifi-enabled graphing calculator.
From my experience taking exams in secondary school/university, list of things allowed in the exam room:
A watch
Stationery e.g. pens, pencils, ruler, eraser
Basic 4 function non-programmable calculator or a programmable calculator from the pre-approved list which will be reset to factory defaults before the exam begins by the invigilator/s
That's it. If it's open-book, they can obviously bring in text-books/notes. If your students need a dictionary, they should either have a dead-tree dictionary or an electronic dictionary from a pre-approved list so that you know it hasn't got wifi. Anything else should be left at home or in their bags at the front of the exam room.
I don't get why the dictionary is such a big deal either. How many new words come up in a Physics exam that they won't have come across before in the course of their studies. If they're looking up the Korean/Belgian/Spanish for "point mass", "frictionless surface" or "acceleration due to gravity" in their final exam, then I'll bet dollars to donuts that that's the least of their worries. Moreover, any dictionary will probably not help them with those phrases, unless it's a domain specific technical dictionary. Or perhaps you're a cruel bastard who uses Cougars, Comptrollers and Coelacanths sliding down inclined planes in your exam problems?:)
I think you'll find pretty much all of Europe appreciates the US war effort, we consider them liberators.
That may be true, but there is also more than a passing undercurrent of resentment in Europe toward the U.S. for the perceived delay prior to them entering the war, at least there is in the UK. I would imagine the same applies to other countries who resisted the Nazi war machine. Selfless or not, the U.S. allied with free Europe, when we needed them, for the good of ourselves, themselves and the free world.
As you say, any and all debate is irrelevant in the context of this discussion. This man has served his country and all free men. He deserves respect and a happy birthday. 4chan or not.
Teenage Kicks, by The Undertones, of which Sharkey was a founding member was such an incredibly ground-breaking record. It is perfection. I stop whatever I'm doing just to listen to it whenever I hear it. However, Feargal Sharkey has tainted that experience for me, as I'm always reminded of his protectionist bullshit. Campaigning against the future to try and protect the status quo. So sad. Thom Yorke needs to smack him upside the head with some facts.
I don't know whether to be happy or sad that the very first thing I thought of when I read the title "The Best Video Games On Awful Systems", was Alien Vs. Predator on the Jaguar. Happy memories of playing the game but sad to think of the Jaguar as an "awful" system. I'd still own it today if I hadn't fried it by plugging in the wrong wall-wart.:(
So get off MSFT as the exclusive enemy of "Open Source"
Oh shush you. You big drama-queen. Firstly, Steve Ballmer isn't reading our criticisms and sobbing himself to sleep every night, so don't feel like you have to come to his defence. And no-one's saying they are the only enemy of Free/Open Source software. The reason people have been hopping all over them lately is that for the past 10 years they've been painting the GPL and FOSS as worse problems than AIDS and Cancer combined. They have engaged in some despicable, underhanded and, at times illegal, practices in order to further their own agenda and prevent Free/Open Source software from gaining in-roads. They've been fined millions of dollars by the EU for their monopolistic practices.
Now, recently, for reasons the article attempts to fathom, they've radically changed their public position on Open Source software and are now stating that they L.O.V.E. love it. Looking at their past actions, it's hard to believe that this isn't just Classic Microsoft telling a blatant, cynical lie in order embark on a campaign of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Time will tell.
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You've got to admit, it's pretty frustrating when there are two meanings for a phrase and the meanings are contradictory. I suppose it's happened before(...)
Like: "I could care less"? I cringe, then shout loudly, when I hear that one.
I'm planning on doing exactly that in 40-50 years time. Sure I'll be living in a regular non-green abode until then, but in the grand scheme of things, 40 or 50 years is nothing considering I'll be living underground until the planet goes cold after that.
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So...a letter writing campaign consisting of an anonymous 301 word bad-taste poem sent every 29 days would not be well received? Interesting...
This. Just....THIS. Patrick decided to foist KDE 4 on me in Slackware 13.0 and I hated it. I spent days trying to tweak and configure it to get back to what I had with KDE3 but couldn't. So much effort goes into trying to match Windows Vista/7 with fancy desktop widgets and yet it seems that there are a great number of disaffected KDE3-lovers who just want to be able to work the way they used to. I actually looked at a ticket on their bug tracking system for an issue that I was trying to solve. Other users obviously cared about it enough, but the opinion of the developers seemed to be: "It works like that now, get used to it. Submit a patch or STFU. If you post more comments, we'll ignore this bug completely." Nice attitude. I don't expect KDE devs to be at my beck-and-call, but one comment single-handedly destroyed any inclination I had to try and get KDE4 working for me. I thought about going back to KDE3, but there seemed to be too many hoops to jump through, so:
$ xwmconfig # Select xinitrc.xfce, OK
false blocks of harmless sites like foxnews.com
Mostly harmless.
Are you for real? That doesn't make any sense. Though I appreciate they probably did so with the best intentions, it does not make any sense for WikiLeaks to ask. It is gross stupidity, of the highest fucking order, on the grounds that the answer they would get is so very very obvious. They only reason I can see, apart from stupidity, is so that they can tell the world that the Pentagon refused to help them, bolstering support. What? You think WikiLeaks incapable of playing the PRopaganda game? Similarly, it would not make any sense for the Pentagon to help. In doing so they could potentially endangering more lives.
Consider what would happen if the Pentagon agreed to help them, and then claimed that 75% of it must be redacted to protect "innocent" lives? Either a) Wikileaks agree, and redact that 75%, or b) they publish the whole thing, or c) they decide for themselves what they're going to leave in or redact. (Oh, options b & c are the options they have now, by the way). Now, WikiLeaks knows which 75% of the documents that the US government cares about most, who they want to protect, and who they don't. That, in itself, is very valuable information.
What guarantees do the U.S. government have that the names/information that they ask to be redacted won't be leaked, on top of the original documents? None. What guarantees do they have that WikiLeaks hasn't already been compromised by some nefarious third-party? None.
You don't agree? Ok, assuming WikiLeaks are on the straight and level, what guarantees do the U.S. government have that the names they tell them to redact will never find their way into "The Wrong Hands". None. No matter how secure they claim to be. One compromised server, one leak from within WikiLeaks who thinks they're not going far enough, one person with a sick aunt who needs a cash injection from anywhere to pay for an operation and BAM! even more information has been exposed, i.e. the names/information the U.S. government wants to protect most out of those documents.
Anything else that they, the U.S. Government, do from now on is damage limitation. Letting the world know which portions of those documents that they care about the most would be stupidity. Not to mention incredibly irresponsible. So, pretty much, the only option they have is to try and stop these other documents being published.
"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
Now, I respect the work that WikiLeaks does, or tries to do, but if they're incapable of self-editing to protect "the innocent", then they have no business leaking those documents. No matter the response from the Pentagon, WikiLeaks will always be bound to release precisely whatever they think is important or they end up being toothless minions of the Pentagon. Are they going to take on a liaison from the Pentagon as an editor/"fact"-checker?
Their unease is their own fault. Either they stick to releasing OT documents from the Cult of $cientology or they play with the big boys and run the risk of getting innocent people killed. If they are that fucking uneasy about publishing the documents they should delete them, shred them, burn them. If they think the documents are that bloody toxic, even having them around is endangering those lives, whether they wind up releasing them eventually or not.
Well, if you'd get down from there he might stop harping on about it...
Durrell's vontsira is the first new carnivorous mammal discovered in Madagascar in 24 years.
Elsewhere in the article, twice, is this:
The first new carnivorous mammal to be discovered for 24 years
Was the last carnivorous mammal that was discovered, discovered 24 years ago in Madagascar? I don't know about anyone else, but I would infer from the qualifier "in Madagascar" that a carnivorous mammal was discovered less than 24 years ago somewhere else in the world.
arbitrate
1580s, from L. arbitratus, pp. of arbitrari "to give a decision," from arbiter (see arbiter). In modern usage, an arbiter makes decisions of his own accord and is accountable to no one but himself; an arbitrator (early 15c.) decides issues referred to him by the parties.
- Source
Wow. How very intelligent you are. Genius-like really. The rapier-like wit of your post was almost Swift-ian. You're absolutely right of course, why do we even have a summary? Why not just list the relevant keywords so that we can all just Google them and piece together the story ourselves?
Paul Diaz: Will What i Say is get a front page they say facebook down due to server's and we are working hard to fix it get free cash ?:)
Mouhssine Freedom Elmezyani It's very easy to rape facebook !! i know some friends can hack your compt through your electronic adress !& they hacked my compt several time in the pretext of kidding !!
Mauro Guberti I'd like to know what's the necessary qualifications to work like moderator.
And the one that prompted me to close the tab:
Joanne Bozik The following link is the problem.........these people have been sending my name and pic to many stating that I purchased this product and I also in return am receiving the following link in my friends names......Please get after these people
http://www.facebook.com/facebook?v=wall#!/note.php?note_id=431441338919&id=9445547199&ref=mf
(note, the link is the link to the explanation for the outage)
"Nasty bits"? Do you mean 1s or 0s?
You joke, but there was a news segment earlier this year about a guy who wanted to farm kiwis as food. His reasoning being, that cows, sheep and chicken will never become extinct. Start eating them, and farming them, and they will be saved...
UFOs != Alien intelligence
A more likely explanation is that it was/is a foreign gov. Or even someone on the home-team...
FYI: The game in TFA is a game played with a stylus and is "impossible to play" because you're expected to hold one side with your left hand and the stylus in your right, with the DSi on it's side. Any discussion of the D-pad/buttons is a little OT. Oh, and as others have pointed out, the 2600 was on the right, but your other examples are correct.
What I don't understand is that I'm right-handed and when playing on a console controller, most of the time my left hand is doing all/most of the work, on the d-pad. The first time I played SMB on the NES I didn't just stand, static, or jumping up and down on the spot, hammering the buttons and, similarly, I doubt many left-handed people ran manically sideways into every goomba or falling down every hole, unable to gather the wherewithall to press "jump". Yet, as soon as you have to use a stylus, dangerously close to a...duh duh duuuuh.... PEN the whole world comes tumbling down. I wonder why that is? The game in question doesn't even require drawing complex shapes, just click-dragging things (by the looks of it).
TFA could be summed up thus: "I've been coddled by games all my (short) life and this one doesn't suck my (left) thumb for me. THIS IS AN OUTRAGE!". Many commenters on the article have pointed out that, while cumbersome, it shouldn't be impossible to play, and the writer does himself no favours, because at no point does he explain exactly why it would be impossible. As a concession to the barracking commenters, he posted two generic gameplay videos from Youtube, which still do nothing to illustrate his point.
E--
Only reason you didn't get an F was that 1) it isn't completely obvious that you were trolling, and B) because I suspect you may be using an unapproved electronic dictionary and/or a wifi-enabled graphing calculator.
That's it. If it's open-book, they can obviously bring in text-books/notes. If your students need a dictionary, they should either have a dead-tree dictionary or an electronic dictionary from a pre-approved list so that you know it hasn't got wifi. Anything else should be left at home or in their bags at the front of the exam room.
:)
I don't get why the dictionary is such a big deal either. How many new words come up in a Physics exam that they won't have come across before in the course of their studies. If they're looking up the Korean/Belgian/Spanish for "point mass", "frictionless surface" or "acceleration due to gravity" in their final exam, then I'll bet dollars to donuts that that's the least of their worries. Moreover, any dictionary will probably not help them with those phrases, unless it's a domain specific technical dictionary. Or perhaps you're a cruel bastard who uses Cougars, Comptrollers and Coelacanths sliding down inclined planes in your exam problems?
You weren't before?
I think you'll find pretty much all of Europe appreciates the US war effort, we consider them liberators.
That may be true, but there is also more than a passing undercurrent of resentment in Europe toward the U.S. for the perceived delay prior to them entering the war, at least there is in the UK. I would imagine the same applies to other countries who resisted the Nazi war machine. Selfless or not, the U.S. allied with free Europe, when we needed them, for the good of ourselves, themselves and the free world.
As you say, any and all debate is irrelevant in the context of this discussion. This man has served his country and all free men. He deserves respect and a happy birthday. 4chan or not.
Teenage Kicks, by The Undertones, of which Sharkey was a founding member was such an incredibly ground-breaking record. It is perfection. I stop whatever I'm doing just to listen to it whenever I hear it. However, Feargal Sharkey has tainted that experience for me, as I'm always reminded of his protectionist bullshit. Campaigning against the future to try and protect the status quo. So sad. Thom Yorke needs to smack him upside the head with some facts.
I don't know whether to be happy or sad that the very first thing I thought of when I read the title "The Best Video Games On Awful Systems", was Alien Vs. Predator on the Jaguar. Happy memories of playing the game but sad to think of the Jaguar as an "awful" system. I'd still own it today if I hadn't fried it by plugging in the wrong wall-wart. :(
Oooohh...you're for it now! Filing lawsuit against "elrous1" in 3, 2, 1....
So get off MSFT as the exclusive enemy of "Open Source"
Oh shush you. You big drama-queen. Firstly, Steve Ballmer isn't reading our criticisms and sobbing himself to sleep every night, so don't feel like you have to come to his defence. And no-one's saying they are the only enemy of Free/Open Source software. The reason people have been hopping all over them lately is that for the past 10 years they've been painting the GPL and FOSS as worse problems than AIDS and Cancer combined. They have engaged in some despicable, underhanded and, at times illegal, practices in order to further their own agenda and prevent Free/Open Source software from gaining in-roads. They've been fined millions of dollars by the EU for their monopolistic practices.
Now, recently, for reasons the article attempts to fathom, they've radically changed their public position on Open Source software and are now stating that they L.O.V.E. love it. Looking at their past actions, it's hard to believe that this isn't just Classic Microsoft telling a blatant, cynical lie in order embark on a campaign of Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. Time will tell.
Seriously?
If I had mod points left for today you would get one. I literally played this game so much that I developed blisters.
You've got to admit, it's pretty frustrating when there are two meanings for a phrase and the meanings are contradictory. I suppose it's happened before(...)
Like: "I could care less"? I cringe, then shout loudly, when I hear that one.
I'm planning on doing exactly that in 40-50 years time. Sure I'll be living in a regular non-green abode until then, but in the grand scheme of things, 40 or 50 years is nothing considering I'll be living underground until the planet goes cold after that.