I wonder if there are laws in the EU forbidding me from naming my son Seph1r0th M4s4mun3. It's sort of "hiding in plain site", since posts could be him, or the legions of MMO characters.
Have you considered that Google doesn't care if you use your real name or not? But chances are, if you use your real name you're not going to troll with racist, inane, idiotic, offensive, inflammatory, poorly spelled, quasi-literate trash which describes 99.9% of youtube posts.
You can still do it, but you have to be determined. If you care, and you want to remain anonymous and post, you can still do it. Chances are you are not one of those filling the place up with bullshit.
If I'm diagnosed with terminal cancer, I would like the option to end it up front, rather than spend all my savings and/or suffer for a long period of time. Yeah yeah "a miracle COULD happen", but I think I, and I alone should make that choice.
Suicide could be solved if we wanted to. The government could give people a quick, painless death provided they settle their financial affairs and responsibilities first. Although I do not have much faith in psychology (or any social science) as science, if we want to screen people who are merely depressed, that's something we can discuss, on the merits of the issue alone.
I do not think other people's emotional concerns should be paramount in this. Grown adults should have the capacity to handle the loss of loved ones, regardless of how it happened. All the government should provide for is to ensure it is done responsibly.
Since the dawn of the web, from the perspective of a user, it's been somewhat hit or miss whether any given website would work with the browser the user was using at the moment. Now we're just codifying it in terms of an un-standard. I'm not sure why it's a good idea to split with the standards group "because they're too slow" when it takes years to get full support in all browsers as it is.
Let's pretend pot does cause lung cancer. I'm not sure why it should be your choice to keep me from killing myself, as long as I am debt free and my children have reached majority. I think you get a say in the latter two cases because in that case my legacy DOES affect you. I understand there are some health-care corner cases, maybe a waiver needs signing. But as a responsible adult I think I ought to be able to ruin myself if I choose.
Actually this adds one more to my list: - Government prohibition against suicide. As far as I can tell this comes from religion.
That is a worthy notion, as we are just as bad about letting our dominant religion limit our freedom. Here in the US, our own dominant religious element has decided for us: - Prostitution will be illegal (mostly), in spite of the high demand - Alcohol is restricted, in some places illegal to sell at all times, in others illegal to sell at certain times (frequently Sunday mornings) - Same sex partners cannot have a legally binding marriage, with full benefits - You may be married to one, and only one person (who must be of the opposite sex) at any given time (granted, I don't think our legal system could handle the larger case, presently) - In some settings you may be limited about what you can say on certain topics (sex, evolution, religion, etc.) - "G.D." is a forbidden expression on television
It's true some of these things may HAVE BEEN democratic at one point or another, but are enshrined now. You can't, say, change alcohol laws without a small but vocal minority trying to get you unseated from government. It was democracy for our grandparents, but it's dictatorial for us.
Fear is a poor choice of word. They want the publicity of CC, and they can't help but make a showing. But they do understand that this crowd has particular likes and dislikes, one of which is around, what I hope, is actually a dislike of technology gimmicks for sales $$$ sake.
It's hard to understand sometimes, since 3D in particular, generates such an angry outcry, and these statements of "cheap TV movie" sound like knee-jerk ludditism. From the director's perspective, his boss wants these gimmicks in since it boosts revenue (particularly weekend gross numbers). From our perspective they are just cost adders that sometimes detract from our enjoyment (if 3D makes you sick). But that's not what ends up being put in the press, from the geek crew you just hear bitching about 3D being some sort of unformed evil being silently served in our cereal, and 48fps being a dark stormcloud on the horizon that will poison all our crops.
It's not unreasonable for him to want to avoid that, since he's more focused (I hope) on the movie content itself. All I know is if the movie makes me want to vomit due to technology, or just poor camera technique (i.e. "shakeycam"), I'm going to hold that against him. But 3D movies look just fine on my 2D bluray or dish network spigot. I suspect 48fps will manage to work just fine too.
I'm not sure I disagree with your brother, can you share an example of where not using apostrophes at all is confusing or misleading?
The only one I can think of is: Were not going to the park because its raining outside.
You would really have to be an idiot not to figure it out, but it does take a second to translate "Were" to "We're" since it doesn't sound the same. "Its" sounds identical, and our brains automatically fix it for us. So many people use "its" wrong that I don't think you can even argue that it takes longer to read correctly, we are all used to correcting it by now.
In most cases the contraction has a unique spelling, with or without the aphostrophe. In the case of plurals vs possessives it is normally obvious from context, but I'm open to an example of where it is completely confusing.
There are many ways to troll the internet, one of them is to post about bad grammar, or the importance of grammar, or the decline of grammar education in grammar school.
I'm not sure that grammar has anything to do with thinking clearly, just expressing yourself clearly. I know some pretty bright people whose emails are a nightmare to behold.
Frosty Piss was unavailable to this poster as he has not reached OT$10M. His devotion is insufficiently funded, so he's basically darned to heck anyway.
Well most likely said immigrant was required to do the WORK for the patent, whether or not he was crucial to the viability of it. That's a double edged sword, without them it wouldn't have happened (or as many wouldn't have happened), but by using them we are training them to be innovators. They very shortly WILL be the key innovators, whether or not thye are now.
No they don't. At least during my last "embargo" training, simply suspecting that they plan to export to an embargoed country is a flag. You don't need proof to deny sales.
It is stupid, but nobody wants to be on the wrong side of it.
Last I heard nVidia wasn't keen on disclosing technical specs for their chips, even under NDA, so only nVidia can release Linux device drivers that stand a chance of working under pressure (yes I'm aware of Nouveau). This means Linus can't write the driver himself.
Anyway compared to ATI, nVidia has always been a breeze. Every time I've put an ATI card in, I've had a headache. And, at risk of offending Linus' sensibilities, ATI's driver quality hasn't been very good, for any OS, since they sent it all overseas and open sourced. These aren't trivial cards to work with, they're about as hard of a device driver model as you can possibly find in consumer gear.
You have an odd view of the subject. The hours, at least in technology, are caused by globalization and the need to be available for many timezones, worsened when your site manager refuses to allow people to work from home. So, in the name of efficiency, doing personal business at work makes sense.
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I think that's episode 4.
Also known as "Clever" and "The Retard". Which is which varies by person.
ou really need to get out of your mother's basement more often and find out by personal experience why there are two sexes.
Save you the trouble. It's because if a man gave us so much trouble, we'd just punch him in the nose.
You forgot "stabbing neuroscience researchers".
I wonder if there are laws in the EU forbidding me from naming my son Seph1r0th M4s4mun3. It's sort of "hiding in plain site", since posts could be him, or the legions of MMO characters.
Have you considered that Google doesn't care if you use your real name or not? But chances are, if you use your real name you're not going to troll with racist, inane, idiotic, offensive, inflammatory, poorly spelled, quasi-literate trash which describes 99.9% of youtube posts.
You can still do it, but you have to be determined. If you care, and you want to remain anonymous and post, you can still do it. Chances are you are not one of those filling the place up with bullshit.
If I'm diagnosed with terminal cancer, I would like the option to end it up front, rather than spend all my savings and/or suffer for a long period of time. Yeah yeah "a miracle COULD happen", but I think I, and I alone should make that choice.
Suicide could be solved if we wanted to. The government could give people a quick, painless death provided they settle their financial affairs and responsibilities first. Although I do not have much faith in psychology (or any social science) as science, if we want to screen people who are merely depressed, that's something we can discuss, on the merits of the issue alone.
I do not think other people's emotional concerns should be paramount in this. Grown adults should have the capacity to handle the loss of loved ones, regardless of how it happened. All the government should provide for is to ensure it is done responsibly.
Since the dawn of the web, from the perspective of a user, it's been somewhat hit or miss whether any given website would work with the browser the user was using at the moment. Now we're just codifying it in terms of an un-standard. I'm not sure why it's a good idea to split with the standards group "because they're too slow" when it takes years to get full support in all browsers as it is.
Let's pretend pot does cause lung cancer. I'm not sure why it should be your choice to keep me from killing myself, as long as I am debt free and my children have reached majority. I think you get a say in the latter two cases because in that case my legacy DOES affect you. I understand there are some health-care corner cases, maybe a waiver needs signing. But as a responsible adult I think I ought to be able to ruin myself if I choose.
Actually this adds one more to my list:
- Government prohibition against suicide. As far as I can tell this comes from religion.
That is a worthy notion, as we are just as bad about letting our dominant religion limit our freedom. Here in the US, our own dominant religious element has decided for us:
- Prostitution will be illegal (mostly), in spite of the high demand
- Alcohol is restricted, in some places illegal to sell at all times, in others illegal to sell at certain times (frequently Sunday mornings)
- Same sex partners cannot have a legally binding marriage, with full benefits
- You may be married to one, and only one person (who must be of the opposite sex) at any given time (granted, I don't think our legal system could handle the larger case, presently)
- In some settings you may be limited about what you can say on certain topics (sex, evolution, religion, etc.)
- "G.D." is a forbidden expression on television
It's true some of these things may HAVE BEEN democratic at one point or another, but are enshrined now. You can't, say, change alcohol laws without a small but vocal minority trying to get you unseated from government. It was democracy for our grandparents, but it's dictatorial for us.
Fear is a poor choice of word. They want the publicity of CC, and they can't help but make a showing. But they do understand that this crowd has particular likes and dislikes, one of which is around, what I hope, is actually a dislike of technology gimmicks for sales $$$ sake.
It's hard to understand sometimes, since 3D in particular, generates such an angry outcry, and these statements of "cheap TV movie" sound like knee-jerk ludditism. From the director's perspective, his boss wants these gimmicks in since it boosts revenue (particularly weekend gross numbers). From our perspective they are just cost adders that sometimes detract from our enjoyment (if 3D makes you sick). But that's not what ends up being put in the press, from the geek crew you just hear bitching about 3D being some sort of unformed evil being silently served in our cereal, and 48fps being a dark stormcloud on the horizon that will poison all our crops.
It's not unreasonable for him to want to avoid that, since he's more focused (I hope) on the movie content itself. All I know is if the movie makes me want to vomit due to technology, or just poor camera technique (i.e. "shakeycam"), I'm going to hold that against him. But 3D movies look just fine on my 2D bluray or dish network spigot. I suspect 48fps will manage to work just fine too.
I'm not sure I disagree with your brother, can you share an example of where not using apostrophes at all is confusing or misleading?
The only one I can think of is:
Were not going to the park because its raining outside.
You would really have to be an idiot not to figure it out, but it does take a second to translate "Were" to "We're" since it doesn't sound the same. "Its" sounds identical, and our brains automatically fix it for us. So many people use "its" wrong that I don't think you can even argue that it takes longer to read correctly, we are all used to correcting it by now.
In most cases the contraction has a unique spelling, with or without the aphostrophe. In the case of plurals vs possessives it is normally obvious from context, but I'm open to an example of where it is completely confusing.
There are many ways to troll the internet, one of them is to post about bad grammar, or the importance of grammar, or the decline of grammar education in grammar school.
I'm not sure that grammar has anything to do with thinking clearly, just expressing yourself clearly. I know some pretty bright people whose emails are a nightmare to behold.
Tweet, or tweet not, there is no grammar.
For what this thing costs I'm going to have to use it until it biodegrades!
Frosty Piss was unavailable to this poster as he has not reached OT$10M. His devotion is insufficiently funded, so he's basically darned to heck anyway.
I'm pin crazy to, I pin to the start menu. I always have so many applications open I need the taskbar space to identify them
Ribbons, unity...start menu. I think we're devolving UIs so that we can fix them back later, and charge twice.
Well most likely said immigrant was required to do the WORK for the patent, whether or not he was crucial to the viability of it. That's a double edged sword, without them it wouldn't have happened (or as many wouldn't have happened), but by using them we are training them to be innovators. They very shortly WILL be the key innovators, whether or not thye are now.
No they don't. At least during my last "embargo" training, simply suspecting that they plan to export to an embargoed country is a flag. You don't need proof to deny sales.
It is stupid, but nobody wants to be on the wrong side of it.
I ain't paid to reason, I paid to go to meetin's.
Last I heard nVidia wasn't keen on disclosing technical specs for their chips, even under NDA, so only nVidia can release Linux device drivers that stand a chance of working under pressure (yes I'm aware of Nouveau). This means Linus can't write the driver himself.
Anyway compared to ATI, nVidia has always been a breeze. Every time I've put an ATI card in, I've had a headache. And, at risk of offending Linus' sensibilities, ATI's driver quality hasn't been very good, for any OS, since they sent it all overseas and open sourced. These aren't trivial cards to work with, they're about as hard of a device driver model as you can possibly find in consumer gear.
You have an odd view of the subject. The hours, at least in technology, are caused by globalization and the need to be available for many timezones, worsened when your site manager refuses to allow people to work from home. So, in the name of efficiency, doing personal business at work makes sense.
60+ hour work weeks.
Unless they were given the software by the chip vendor, and all they had to do was customize it.