What is the problem with reading the sub-titles on the screen? I remember silent film characters "sounding" a lot better in my head before voice acting started. This is especially relevant for the teletubbies. I guess I don't mind in an action movie if the characters are voice acted so that it doesn't tear you away from the action but for the teletubbies and slower programs I'd much prefer to just read the script.
I completely agree with your point, but I think your first sentence might be biting the troll(/dumb cunt). It sounds like you're now the underdog trying to get back in power... not giving you shit.. ok.. I'm actually agreeing with your point. I'm Australian and have also noticed the trend with American sitcoms etc with the dopey husbands i.e. everyone loves raymond, and that king of queens guy, and it's a bit dumb. Even going back to 'Home improvement' that was the same shit. (Also the Simpsons, I'm sure there are further previous examples too)
There's good intentions... I see it similar to 'affirmative action', which I think is a good thing that most people don't really understand, either that or I've got my own idea of it. The way I see it is the scales need to be tipped way over to the other side for a little while to balance other things out overall (not be even atm!). This doesn't make things fair at the moment, it's about long term change, most people miss this point, they see it as some set rule forever which misses the point.
But anyway, back on topic from the little I know about American law it's time to treat men a little bit better in the family court. From the little I know that I've read so far, the American laws are quite fucking ridiculous. Things such a wife ending up with great benefits for divorcing (this I've read from actual cases). The fact that it's as acceptable to display on another sitcom such as 2.5 men with the bitchy wife is fucking ridiculous. Alimony? Paying for her own personal shit, wtf??
I also agree with your final point, I think it does confuse 'the kids' a bit. I think both sexes should definitely be treated equally, but the default bagging given to chaps does create problems for some people. The sexes deserve equal rights, but there's no need to pretend that out personalities are the same and we should divide jobs 50/50. I'm yet to meet a good female in IT and male in nursing. Doesn't mean they don't exist, but we have natural predispositions to certain areas based on millions of years of evolution.
Luckily us allies it's are unliely to get invaded by land in an old skool style war (at the moment), cause we're getting really fucking soft compared toto 'the others'.
Quite a lot of internet terminals in airports and around the place now use a network booted OS image. As soon as a user is finished and logs out, the system reboots and boots up off a read-only image on the network.
Stick to these types of internet cafes and there's less risk, as users aren't able to fiddle with the OS.
They are usually run by larger companies or are part of a franchise as well, and often coin operated, therefore don't have a flow of short-term staff coming through.
Also if the computer has a regular keyboard on a cable (not bolted into the desk) check the cable for hardware key logging devices...
Sometimes the smaller internet cafes and youth hostels simply just have unsecured windows boxes, pretty dodgy. I remember a couple of years back I was in a hostel in Madrid and was using the computer to book my next hostel in the next city I was traveling too. I put the first digit of my visa card in (they all start with 4) and the form auto-complete feature displayed every visa card that had been entered in the past. As Garth would say "that's not good, i'm not happy". I didn't book obviously.
Every seat is fitted with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port that lets passengers access documents carried on a thumb drive or portable hard disk. The port can also be used to connect a USB keyboard or mouse, making it easier for business travellers to create and edit documents without having to dig out their laptops and power cords, Tong said.
knowing what most people seem to get webcams for from connecting to random mofos on things like iphone and netmeeting, i don't think i'll be doing this anytime soon.
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What is the problem with reading the sub-titles on the screen? I remember silent film characters "sounding" a lot better in my head before voice acting started. This is especially relevant for the teletubbies. I guess I don't mind in an action movie if the characters are voice acted so that it doesn't tear you away from the action but for the teletubbies and slower programs I'd much prefer to just read the script.
Your typo ruined my day :(
I completely agree with your point, but I think your first sentence might be biting the troll(/dumb cunt). It sounds like you're now the underdog trying to get back in power... not giving you shit.. ok .. I'm actually agreeing with your point. I'm Australian and have also noticed the trend with American sitcoms etc with the dopey husbands i.e. everyone loves raymond, and that king of queens guy, and it's a bit dumb. Even going back to 'Home improvement' that was the same shit. (Also the Simpsons, I'm sure there are further previous examples too)
There's good intentions... I see it similar to 'affirmative action', which I think is a good thing that most people don't really understand, either that or I've got my own idea of it. The way I see it is the scales need to be tipped way over to the other side for a little while to balance other things out overall (not be even atm!). This doesn't make things fair at the moment, it's about long term change, most people miss this point, they see it as some set rule forever which misses the point.
But anyway, back on topic from the little I know about American law it's time to treat men a little bit better in the family court. From the little I know that I've read so far, the American laws are quite fucking ridiculous. Things such a wife ending up with great benefits for divorcing (this I've read from actual cases). The fact that it's as acceptable to display on another sitcom such as 2.5 men with the bitchy wife is fucking ridiculous. Alimony? Paying for her own personal shit, wtf??
I also agree with your final point, I think it does confuse 'the kids' a bit. I think both sexes should definitely be treated equally, but the default bagging given to chaps does create problems for some people. The sexes deserve equal rights, but there's no need to pretend that out personalities are the same and we should divide jobs 50/50. I'm yet to meet a good female in IT and male in nursing. Doesn't mean they don't exist, but we have natural predispositions to certain areas based on millions of years of evolution.
Luckily us allies it's are unliely to get invaded by land in an old skool style war (at the moment), cause we're getting really fucking soft compared toto 'the others'.
they pulled their tool
huhuhhuh
Sweden stayed neutral during WW2, but have caved to the *AA type mofos. Therefore *AA mofos = worse than the nazis? Indeed, it is to ponder.
Richard Dawkins talks about ants doing this kind of stuff in his book: The Selfish Gene.
It's an awesome book to read if you want to learn more about the world you're living in and also reasoning behind a lot of human behaviour.
Can someone please tell me how to change the font when I'm typing a document in microsoft?
Like this guy? http://www.theonion.com/content/node/28694
I disagree. I think people should use a swap size that is wrong for them.
That was the worst video ever.
Quite a lot of internet terminals in airports and around the place now use a network booted OS image. As soon as a user is finished and logs out, the system reboots and boots up off a read-only image on the network.
Stick to these types of internet cafes and there's less risk, as users aren't able to fiddle with the OS.
They are usually run by larger companies or are part of a franchise as well, and often coin operated, therefore don't have a flow of short-term staff coming through.
Also if the computer has a regular keyboard on a cable (not bolted into the desk) check the cable for hardware key logging devices...
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=ps2+keylogger&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2
Sometimes the smaller internet cafes and youth hostels simply just have unsecured windows boxes, pretty dodgy. I remember a couple of years back I was in a hostel in Madrid and was using the computer to book my next hostel in the next city I was traveling too. I put the first digit of my visa card in (they all start with 4) and the form auto-complete feature displayed every visa card that had been entered in the past. As Garth would say "that's not good, i'm not happy". I didn't book obviously.
Hitoshi, is that you?
There's a good episode of 'Penn and Teller: Bullshit!' about this subject.
Season 2 episode 10: Profanity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Penn_%26_Teller:_Bullshit!_episodes#Season_2:_2004
Yeah I recently had 2 portable USB drives (different brands) doing the clicking thing, lost the filesystem index on one (managed to restore my data).
I think the problem was a dodgy power outlet they were plugged into. Both drives are working fine now after being formatted.
yep.
it's this way. *cyber-points*
Sounds like they will let you plug things in...
Every seat is fitted with a USB (Universal Serial Bus) port that lets passengers access documents carried on a thumb drive or portable hard disk. The port can also be used to connect a USB keyboard or mouse, making it easier for business travellers to create and edit documents without having to dig out their laptops and power cords, Tong said.
I've just been through the process of applying for jobs, and most of the recruitment companies I dealt with wanted it in .doc format rather than PDF.
The reason was that their databases couldn't import/index PDFs.
Is it just me, or does the little arrow in current 'order by' column point the wrong way?
Shouldn't it work the same as 'greater than' and 'less than' ?
This annoyed me in the old version and it's still the same in 2.0.
knowing what most people seem to get webcams for from connecting to random mofos on things like iphone and netmeeting, i don't think i'll be doing this anytime soon.