I tend to agree, it is kludge at best. The only part I like about it is the ability to select and copy text out of PDFs even when the PDF author explicitly turned that ability off. Some would view that as a bug, but people should be able to quote a portion of a PDF without having to retype the whole paragraph.
You mean as huge as when Eric Holder stone walled the Legislative branch regarding Fast and Furious documents, and didn't arrest himself for contempt of congress?
It used to be a reliable rolling release that you could just count on to work if you updated it once in a while (quarterly was fine).
Lately it can't be trusted to work after any given update. Some updates just fail to do anything, at least leaving you with a running system. But quite a few of the last several break things and leave you with something you have to hand patch at the console.
I've pretty much taken my data partitions from my Arch servers, and moved them to a LTS release of Ubuntu server edition.
There are checks and balances, but it doesn't mean the Executive can always take their ball and go home. Federal officers swear to uphold the Constitution, not serve Barack Obama or Eric Holder in an extralegal fashion.
Please explain that to This Guy. He seems not to care about your checks and balances. He seems to be laughing at you while singing and dancing to a song made popular by This Guy.
Have you been asleep for the last 3.5 years? These petitions have been systematically ignored, on all sorts of issues that the Administration does not want to deal with. Hundreds of them! Occasionally some vapid dismissive reply is posted, but most are simply ignored. Its a huge joke. Made for people like you who feel clicking a button counts as "doing something".
It is far more effective to bitch on the net, showing people what a two-faced government we have than it is to buy into the system and click some feel good button.
The only petition that counts is the one handed to you as you enter the voting booth.
I know this is the way our government works, tacking on all sorts of stupid shit but it still seems absurd.
These are just tactics to poison the bill without having to be seen vote against it. Load it down with enough dung and pretty soon even a Rose Parade float full of scantily clad women smells like, well, bull.
The bill is getting exactly the treatment it deserves.
Watch this be ignored as well. Obama is above the law, and the Appeals court is powerless to do anything to force the TSA's hand. How many divisions of bailiffs can the Appeals Court muster?
The only solution to this is to get rid of the Security Theater senators and congressmen and start cutting budgets and repealing ill conceived panic legislation put in place a decade ago.
. If she's emotionally involved then she is not an impartial judge any more.
Exactly. She needs to step aside, because she's hopelessly compromised in this fight. The announced well before the trial began that Samsung couldn't prevail. Someone needs to follow the money here, (and maybe look inside here purse to see what she's carrying in there as her phone.)
When you get a click, don't you get the IP of the visitor as well, since they actually visit your site?
No you don't. At least not without digging through your web logs and trying to match referer info, which is notoriously unreliable and deliberately obfuscated be click fraud tools.
Well, after that devastating/lib to/usr/lib cutover last month which bricked so many Arch machines I'm more than a little suspicious of some of Arch's commitment to either vanilla or integrity.
Right click your desktop some time. I run XFCE on Arch, so I can't speak with authority, but I suspect Arch chose the option that hides activities all along.
As long as they are only optional modules, sure. But tying cross-platform apps to KDE-specific features seems stupid.
I have no problem with better integration of cross platform apps. When you work all day in KDE, and have some apps pop up with a look and feel that is so jarringly different and non-standard (kde standard) you feel like you stepped into a time warm to the past each time you launch them.
I wonder what percentage of Linux users even work cross platform? I suspect a large percentage of them only know an app is cross platform because it says so, not because they have an Apple computer sitting next to KDE.
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I tend to agree, it is kludge at best.
The only part I like about it is the ability to select and copy text out of PDFs even when the PDF author explicitly turned that ability off. Some would view that as a bug, but people should be able to quote a portion of a PDF without having to retype the whole paragraph.
Why, yes, I always stop working when handed a Nerf tool.
But the fallout from that would be huge.
You mean as huge as when Eric Holder stone walled the Legislative branch regarding Fast and Furious documents, and didn't arrest himself for contempt of congress?
That huge?
[snicker]
By a democratic congress?
In an election year?
Are you Daft?
It used to be a reliable rolling release that you could just count on to work if you updated it once in a while (quarterly was fine).
Lately it can't be trusted to work after any given update. Some updates just fail to do anything, at least leaving you with a running system. But quite a few of the last several break things and leave you with something you have to hand patch at the console.
I've pretty much taken my data partitions from my Arch servers, and moved them to a LTS release of Ubuntu server edition.
There are checks and balances, but it doesn't mean the Executive can always take their ball and go home. Federal officers swear to uphold the Constitution, not serve Barack Obama or Eric Holder in an extralegal fashion.
Please explain that to This Guy. He seems not to care about your checks and balances. He seems to be laughing at you while singing and dancing to a song made popular by This Guy.
My god you are naive.
Who put that rule in place? hint.
Have you been asleep for the last 3.5 years?
These petitions have been systematically ignored, on all sorts of issues that the Administration does not want to deal with. Hundreds of them! Occasionally some vapid dismissive reply is posted, but most are simply ignored. Its a huge joke. Made for people like you who feel clicking a button counts as "doing something".
It is far more effective to bitch on the net, showing people what a two-faced government we have than it is to buy into the system and click some feel good button.
The only petition that counts is the one handed to you as you enter the voting booth.
And who will follow that order?
I guess it's up to this guy.
And who does he report to?
Why, lo and behold its This Guy
Who in turn reports to This Guy.
Now do you see the problem?
Obama has had 3.5 years.
Its long since time to stop blaming Bush.
With that line of reasoning its easy to see why you post as AC.
I know this is the way our government works, tacking on all sorts of stupid shit but it still seems absurd.
These are just tactics to poison the bill without having to be seen vote against it. Load it down with enough dung and pretty soon even a Rose Parade float full of scantily clad women smells like, well, bull.
The bill is getting exactly the treatment it deserves.
Bush is not in office, and couldn't control the TSA if he wanted to.
This is CLEARLY Obama's problem, and the TSA is acting EXACTLY as he has directed them to.
Exactly.
So many people here think this administration is playing by the rules.
Oh yes we could, but Oh no we won't.
"The Court does not have the power of arrest."
How is it then that people go to jail for contempt of court?
Because law enforcement from the executive branch arrest them.
Do you see Eric Holder sending out anyone to arrest the head of the TSA?
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You mean the guys who take their orders form Obama and Eric Holder? Those US Marshals?
Cute. Now run along home, sonny, your mom has your lunch ready.
but at least the petition system at whitehouse.gov will require *some* action from the administration.
REQUIRE?
Are you Daft?
There is nothing that requires any action, unless you consider totally ignoring the petition to be an "action".
TSA can't ARREST you, but they sure as hell can detain you, and order an airport shutdown the minute you walk past them.
I would love to see some bench warrants going out on this stuff!
Who would execute those warrants?
The Executive Branch?
Your naivete is so cute.
You don't have to arrest the entire TSA. Just one or two people will get attention.
The Court does not have the power of arrest.
The key people in the TSA have armed security details.
Just WHO were you expecting to arrest these people? The same people who appointed them?
Oh, this ought to work wonderfully.
Watch this be ignored as well.
Obama is above the law, and the Appeals court is powerless to do anything to force the TSA's hand. How many divisions of bailiffs can the Appeals Court muster?
The only solution to this is to get rid of the Security Theater senators and congressmen and start cutting budgets and repealing ill conceived panic legislation put in place a decade ago.
. If she's emotionally involved then she is not an impartial judge any more.
Exactly. She needs to step aside, because she's hopelessly compromised in this fight. The announced well before the trial began that Samsung couldn't prevail. Someone needs to follow the money here, (and maybe look inside here purse to see what she's carrying in there as her phone.)
When you get a click, don't you get the IP of the visitor as well, since they actually visit your site?
No you don't. At least not without digging through your web logs and trying to match referer info, which is notoriously unreliable and deliberately obfuscated be click fraud tools.
Well, after that devastating /lib to /usr/lib cutover last month which bricked so many Arch machines I'm more than a little suspicious of some of Arch's commitment to either vanilla or integrity.
Right click your desktop some time.
I run XFCE on Arch, so I can't speak with authority, but I suspect Arch chose the option that hides activities all along.
As long as they are only optional modules, sure. But tying cross-platform apps to KDE-specific features seems stupid.
I have no problem with better integration of cross platform apps. When you work all day in KDE, and have some apps pop up with a look and feel that is so jarringly different and non-standard (kde standard) you feel like you stepped into a time warm to the past each time you launch them.
I wonder what percentage of Linux users even work cross platform? I suspect a large percentage of them only know an app is cross platform because it says so, not because they have an Apple computer sitting next to KDE.