Inconsistency in consent law is not just limited to the U.S. states, or even to New Zealand. Many legislative areas, such as the state of Queensland in my own Australia discriminatorily have different ages of consent for heterosexual, male-male homosexual and female-female homosexual intercourse - worldwide, it is generally male-male interaction which is singled out for a higher age.
This bothers the hell out of me, because it seems to be making a sweeping judgement on common sense / morality based on sexual identity - if anything, at least male-male contact is less likely to result in unwanted children, which I am told is one of the stated targets of such laws.
I stand by my original remark. OSX has it's own window manager that people can use, and you can use this to manage your X applications if you use the Apple X-Server. Alternatively, you can run an X-server and any of the window managing choices available to Linux users to manage your X applications. So from where I sit, OSX as a platform ( not the window manager ) offers more functionality because you have the additional option of the native window manager.
If it bothers you, just run X-Windows on top with a window manager of your choice. OSX window manager functionality is a superset of what's available on Linux.
Its actually ingenious when you think about, if more than a little counterproductive.
Nothing new though - topical lidocaine has been available for this purpose since *ponder* the late nineteen fifties, I believe ( first in creams, then sprays ). Of course, if they didn't mention they were putting benzocaine in the lubricant, they should be pegged out in the sun on an anthill - benzocaine, while in pretty wide use ( even in teething gels and stuff for infants ) has been known to invoke a contact dermatitis in susceptible individuals!
A pet peeve of mine, this. You can't have a partner "stolen" from you, because you don't own them in the first place. They're free to come and go as they choose.
The biggest problem to my mind with the Dreamcast is the coupling used between the mainboard and the power supply daughterboard. After Sega support went home to the land of wind and ghosts, I saw a lot of DC's up on eBay presenting the symptoms of this problem ( just keeps resetting over and over as the daughterboard heats up, expands and draws the pins away from the contacts ), which could have been fixed with about ten minutes and a set of screwdrivers if the owners understood what was wrong.
Ah, why doesn't anyone build for the ages anymore? I still have a working A500 in storage somewhere, and I bet there's a lot of old machinery in landfill that would probably still work fine if it wasn't covered with tonnes of banana peels.
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This is not exactly untrodden ground. I seem to recall a Sega Genesis game that covered this kind of territory, and there was the Games Workshops Blood Bowl tabletop game, now semi-retired. Someone should pick that license up and run with it.
It is sad, but it's not Canberra's fault. It's our fault. Section 17 of the FTA went pretty much unchallenged by the electorate, and this is our reward for falling asleep at the wheel. I wrote an article on this for Dissent ( you can read some of my scratchy notes I took for it here ) which is on the news-stands now, and even that was an exercise in futility - by the time I'd finished writing it, the deal was done.
Yup, I'm sure looking forward to taking down my DMCA-alike violating documents on January 1. As George Lowe was fond of saying, we got "Boned by the Master".
Yeah, "the west". My spoken chinese is shitty enough, let alone my written, which is non-existant. Judging from my experiences with English speaking OSS developers localising for other languages ( they generally don't ), I wouldn't hold my breath.
Evolutionary selection only endorses genes that produce a critter that can survive long enough to become sexually mature and then reproduce. I don't see what left handedness has to do with any of this, unless this is some oblique reference to those "Kiss me I'm Left Handed" T-Shirts.
Easy for you to say - I've never found a spelling engine that wouldn't flag my given name as an indecipherable misspelling unless it recognises capitalised words as proper nouns.
So Everyone Would Just Talk Like This, Unless You've Cracked The Natural Language Problem. ( For some strange reason, when I was learning to write, I put everything like this. )
( It is a very cool idea though.:-) )
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I like Chuck Palahniuk as much as the next burnt-out twenty-something office worker, but like Nietzsche, not everything he writes is an endorsement of what comes out of his pen, or for that matter, the gospel truth.
I find it highly dubious that this was marked flamebait when it's merely explaining a reference from the headline! I would make far unkinder comparisons than holding the GLF to the dot com bubble.
My argument for a minimum wage is largely a moral one, because it rewards work and workers, thus making them less likely to require a handout from the state and hence more self reliant. Arguably, below a certain earning threshold, the money has to come from somewhere, or those workers will starve or live in poverty ( which as a secular humanist I oppose ) - but I'd rather see it come out of the corporation which has a relationship with them than the government. I think I mentioned some of my political beliefs are a little arbitary.;-)
I apologize if I sound aggressive, I just feel very strongly about this since my brother just lost his job to outsourcing.
No need to apologise - the point you raise is quite valid: minimum wage laws could be rigged in such a way as to make employing people a losing proposition. However, in such a situation, I personally would encourage the employer to shed the employee ( yup, sucks to be the employee too ), and replace them with someone with a better potential to make them some money. My condolences to your brother - I hope he's able to find rewarding work again soon.
Those individual freedoms are generally considered to extend to business practice, and hence, Libertarianism in principle endorses free market capitalism, enterprise bargaining, etc etc. There are however, "compassionate libertarians", "social libertarians" or a variety of other banners ( "Liberalatarians" is my favourite ) who espouse the Libertarian view of personal freedom, while still maintaining some leftist economic and social ideas.
I myself am in this group, and I'm the first to admit it entails some contradictions and arbitary choices. Inflexibility is the hobgoblin of small minds. My view is that while government programs, minimum wage, etc are all good things, the government should not intercede in the life of Citizen N unless asked to do so explicitly by Citizen N.
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Inconsistency in consent law is not just limited to the U.S. states, or even to New Zealand. Many legislative areas, such as the state of Queensland in my own Australia discriminatorily have different ages of consent for heterosexual, male-male homosexual and female-female homosexual intercourse - worldwide, it is generally male-male interaction which is singled out for a higher age. This bothers the hell out of me, because it seems to be making a sweeping judgement on common sense / morality based on sexual identity - if anything, at least male-male contact is less likely to result in unwanted children, which I am told is one of the stated targets of such laws.
I stand by my original remark. OSX has it's own window manager that people can use, and you can use this to manage your X applications if you use the Apple X-Server. Alternatively, you can run an X-server and any of the window managing choices available to Linux users to manage your X applications. So from where I sit, OSX as a platform ( not the window manager ) offers more functionality because you have the additional option of the native window manager.
Did that make sense?
If it bothers you, just run X-Windows on top with a window manager of your choice. OSX window manager functionality is a superset of what's available on Linux.
Yeah, I had some trouble with the NTLM authent in earlier editions - perhaps I will give it a go again now!
If it's the IAS proxy that requires NTML authentication, you can always pipe requests through this python rewriting proxy.
YLFINothing new though - topical lidocaine has been available for this purpose since *ponder* the late nineteen fifties, I believe ( first in creams, then sprays ). Of course, if they didn't mention they were putting benzocaine in the lubricant, they should be pegged out in the sun on an anthill - benzocaine, while in pretty wide use ( even in teething gels and stuff for infants ) has been known to invoke a contact dermatitis in susceptible individuals!
A pet peeve of mine, this. You can't have a partner "stolen" from you, because you don't own them in the first place. They're free to come and go as they choose.
YLFIThe biggest problem to my mind with the Dreamcast is the coupling used between the mainboard and the power supply daughterboard. After Sega support went home to the land of wind and ghosts, I saw a lot of DC's up on eBay presenting the symptoms of this problem ( just keeps resetting over and over as the daughterboard heats up, expands and draws the pins away from the contacts ), which could have been fixed with about ten minutes and a set of screwdrivers if the owners understood what was wrong.
Ah, why doesn't anyone build for the ages anymore? I still have a working A500 in storage somewhere, and I bet there's a lot of old machinery in landfill that would probably still work fine if it wasn't covered with tonnes of banana peels.
This is not exactly untrodden ground. I seem to recall a Sega Genesis game that covered this kind of territory, and there was the Games Workshops Blood Bowl tabletop game, now semi-retired. Someone should pick that license up and run with it.
Not so sure I agree, I recall playing Mister Minters wonderful Llamatron as a young man on the Amiga 500.
YLFIAustralian Copyright Commission Information Sheet G23 states that this will not be the case - see "Key Point" #5. Screw their linking policy.
What part of in-game do you not understand? :-P
It is sad, but it's not Canberra's fault. It's our fault. Section 17 of the FTA went pretty much unchallenged by the electorate, and this is our reward for falling asleep at the wheel. I wrote an article on this for Dissent ( you can read some of my scratchy notes I took for it here ) which is on the news-stands now, and even that was an exercise in futility - by the time I'd finished writing it, the deal was done.
Yup, I'm sure looking forward to taking down my DMCA-alike violating documents on January 1. As George Lowe was fond of saying, we got "Boned by the Master".
Yeah, "the west". My spoken chinese is shitty enough, let alone my written, which is non-existant. Judging from my experiences with English speaking OSS developers localising for other languages ( they generally don't ), I wouldn't hold my breath.
Evolutionary selection only endorses genes that produce a critter that can survive long enough to become sexually mature and then reproduce. I don't see what left handedness has to do with any of this, unless this is some oblique reference to those "Kiss me I'm Left Handed" T-Shirts.
Easy for you to say - I've never found a spelling engine that wouldn't flag my given name as an indecipherable misspelling unless it recognises capitalised words as proper nouns.
So Everyone Would Just Talk Like This, Unless You've Cracked The Natural Language Problem. ( For some strange reason, when I was learning to write, I put everything like this. )
( It is a very cool idea though. :-) )
Hahaha, cmon. Nobody actually saw that, right? Right?
YLFII like Chuck Palahniuk as much as the next burnt-out twenty-something office worker, but like Nietzsche, not everything he writes is an endorsement of what comes out of his pen, or for that matter, the gospel truth.
YLFI,a beautiful and unique snowflake
I find it highly dubious that this was marked flamebait when it's merely explaining a reference from the headline! I would make far unkinder comparisons than holding the GLF to the dot com bubble.
YLFISay hello to the new boss, same as the old boss.
YLFIYou learn something new every day! Thanks Tepples. :-)
More correctly, some dreamcasts could do this. Some versions of the hardware cannot.
My argument for a minimum wage is largely a moral one, because it rewards work and workers, thus making them less likely to require a handout from the state and hence more self reliant. Arguably, below a certain earning threshold, the money has to come from somewhere, or those workers will starve or live in poverty ( which as a secular humanist I oppose ) - but I'd rather see it come out of the corporation which has a relationship with them than the government. I think I mentioned some of my political beliefs are a little arbitary. ;-)
I apologize if I sound aggressive, I just feel very strongly about this since my brother just lost his job to outsourcing.No need to apologise - the point you raise is quite valid: minimum wage laws could be rigged in such a way as to make employing people a losing proposition. However, in such a situation, I personally would encourage the employer to shed the employee ( yup, sucks to be the employee too ), and replace them with someone with a better potential to make them some money. My condolences to your brother - I hope he's able to find rewarding work again soon.
YLFIAhahahahahahaha!
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Ahahahahahaha!
YLFIThose individual freedoms are generally considered to extend to business practice, and hence, Libertarianism in principle endorses free market capitalism, enterprise bargaining, etc etc. There are however, "compassionate libertarians", "social libertarians" or a variety of other banners ( "Liberalatarians" is my favourite ) who espouse the Libertarian view of personal freedom, while still maintaining some leftist economic and social ideas.
I myself am in this group, and I'm the first to admit it entails some contradictions and arbitary choices. Inflexibility is the hobgoblin of small minds. My view is that while government programs, minimum wage, etc are all good things, the government should not intercede in the life of Citizen N unless asked to do so explicitly by Citizen N.
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