If we would open drilling even more in the US and more publicly support fracking, we could never use another drop of middle eastern oil again.
Don't you dumbasses realize that we're using their oil so that when it runs out we'll still have ours left? Leaving our oil in the ground for as long as possible gives us a strategic advantage, and squandering that for short-term economic gain isn't "conservative," it's just goddamn fucking stupid!
You'd think that a 2d image editor should be a fairly simple job, something handled mostly by standard libraries now.
Isn't that what they're trying to do? Last I heard, they were working on implementing a clean library, GEGL and then they were going to rewrite GIMP to use it.
(a)Making of Additional Copy or Adaptation by Owner of Copy.â"Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
Then, put a real firewall between the modem and your network.
Could you elaborate what you mean about this? What settings should be restricted (beyond the router default ones to protect the LAN from the Internet at large)?
On a basic economic-theory level, competition depends on the consumer being able to make a well-informed choice. Therefore, any attempt to hide information from the consumer is anti-competitive. IMO, it's also immoral. In other words, there is always a reason for the government to require it to be labeled because everything should be labeled by default!
Therefore, if you want to justify failing to label GMOs, you need an actual compelling reason why restricting that information is in the overriding public interest. (And neither "it hasn't been proven to be unsafe" nor even "we've proven it to be safe" are compelling reasons. Even if it's safe, what justifies withholding the information? Nothing!)
So did Babylon 5 have sound during in-cockpit scenes and silence (or background music, but nothing else) during exterior scenes? (One of these days I need to get around to watching Babylon 5...)
Having more kids going on to college looks better for the high school, so high-school guidance counselors might be motivated to recommend crap college degrees (instead of useful vocational training) to marginal students.
Any time you ask somebody for advice, you should first determine how and why they're getting paid. This applies to the retirement adviser at work (who is really a mutual fund -- or worse, annuity -- salesman), the real estate "buyer's agent" (who really just cares about getting the deal done, even at the expense of the buyer's best interests), the doctor (who prescribes the drugs whose manufacturers give him the best kickbacks), and everyone else, too.
I think I misspoke. I didn't mean to say that the Framers intended it, but rather that the first-past-the-post voting system allowed the two-party system to take hold and then gerrymandering and ballot-access rules allowed the two parties to solidify their position.
I reckon it's because your country is run by campaign contributions and lobbying.
It's because of the way our voting system was designed. You guys get proportional representation, so your anti-corruption fringe gets a voice. We have a system that's probably designed to marginalize all but two parties, so there's no check on corruption.
Considering that this was a system for processing immigration paperwork, you'd think it'd be the one thing that a firm like IBM would be motivated to be competent at!
And as far as war goes, we can beat them in a straight-up war. As Bill O'Reilly has said repeatedly, "General Patton could destroy all of ISIS in a week."
Only if Patton were fucking incompetent. Otherwise, nuclear weapons could do it in half an hour.
However, the trouble with that plan is that -- apparently unlike you and Bill O'Reilly -- some of us aren't genocidal sociopaths!
On the upside, the last time I had to do this with Comcast (Colorado), it was pretty painless. Just walked into the local Comcast storefront...
In other words, you as a CableCard user were treated as the second-class red-headed stepchild, by the fact that they forced you to actually go to one of their shitty stores and stand in line rather than mail you the device like they would for somebody asking for a set-top box.
There was nothing to stop [manufacturers] from putting cablecard slots into [devices]
Well, nothing except for the fact that the entire CableCard standard and hardware certification process was controlled by the cable cartel itself, which had a vested interest in making it as difficult as fucking possible to actually get devices approved (except for the devices which were intended to be rented from the cable companies, which sailed through the certification process despite being among the shittiest electronics ever designed).
Yes, I know. I guess I should have said something more like "AT&T started doing rollover minutes so long ago that they were still Cingular at the time."
Basically, just keep throwing out answers until they get bored and move on. never say, 'i dont know' or 'i cant.'
The last interview I had, one of the interviewers kept asking more and more esoteric questions with the specific goal of forcing me to say "I don't know." (I got the job, by the way.)
I think it recently expired. After all, Cingular started doing rollover minutes quite a while ago now.
However, I can't find a source to cite (other than a Yahoo Answers post asking about it), so maybe I'm wrong -- but even then, they at least had a trademark or something.
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Don't you dumbasses realize that we're using their oil so that when it runs out we'll still have ours left? Leaving our oil in the ground for as long as possible gives us a strategic advantage, and squandering that for short-term economic gain isn't "conservative," it's just goddamn fucking stupid!
No. People want to play media. They have no desire whatsoever to have it "protected" against them.
Isn't that what they're trying to do? Last I heard, they were working on implementing a clean library, GEGL and then they were going to rewrite GIMP to use it.
Damnit, you made me go look it up!
I'm talking about 17 U.S.C. section 117:
No, US copyright law has an explicit exception for that.
Could you elaborate what you mean about this? What settings should be restricted (beyond the router default ones to protect the LAN from the Internet at large)?
Weren't there (at least) two different TrueCrypt replacements? Did they get consolidated into VeraCrypt, or are there other choices still out there?
On a basic economic-theory level, competition depends on the consumer being able to make a well-informed choice. Therefore, any attempt to hide information from the consumer is anti-competitive. IMO, it's also immoral. In other words, there is always a reason for the government to require it to be labeled because everything should be labeled by default!
Therefore, if you want to justify failing to label GMOs, you need an actual compelling reason why restricting that information is in the overriding public interest. (And neither "it hasn't been proven to be unsafe" nor even "we've proven it to be safe" are compelling reasons. Even if it's safe, what justifies withholding the information? Nothing!)
So did Babylon 5 have sound during in-cockpit scenes and silence (or background music, but nothing else) during exterior scenes? (One of these days I need to get around to watching Babylon 5...)
Having more kids going on to college looks better for the high school, so high-school guidance counselors might be motivated to recommend crap college degrees (instead of useful vocational training) to marginal students.
Any time you ask somebody for advice, you should first determine how and why they're getting paid. This applies to the retirement adviser at work (who is really a mutual fund -- or worse, annuity -- salesman), the real estate "buyer's agent" (who really just cares about getting the deal done, even at the expense of the buyer's best interests), the doctor (who prescribes the drugs whose manufacturers give him the best kickbacks), and everyone else, too.
Mozilla Phoenix 0.5 was great. Firebird was pretty good too, as were the early versions of Firefox (maybe up to 1.5 or so).
You know, if office workers paid as much attention to their 401Ks as they do fantasy football, we wouldn't have a retirement crisis...
Yeah, nobody but their peers, parents, teachers, high-school guidance counselors, college financial aid office, and the Federal government.
I think I misspoke. I didn't mean to say that the Framers intended it, but rather that the first-past-the-post voting system allowed the two-party system to take hold and then gerrymandering and ballot-access rules allowed the two parties to solidify their position.
It's because of the way our voting system was designed. You guys get proportional representation, so your anti-corruption fringe gets a voice. We have a system that's probably designed to marginalize all but two parties, so there's no check on corruption.
Considering that this was a system for processing immigration paperwork, you'd think it'd be the one thing that a firm like IBM would be motivated to be competent at!
Only if Patton were fucking incompetent. Otherwise, nuclear weapons could do it in half an hour.
However, the trouble with that plan is that -- apparently unlike you and Bill O'Reilly -- some of us aren't genocidal sociopaths!
No kidding. Here's the only acceptable real solution: require that cable companies broadcast only in ClearQAM. Period.
If cable companies are given even an inch of DRM or hardware control, they find new and creative ways to fuck over everyone.
In other words, you as a CableCard user were treated as the second-class red-headed stepchild, by the fact that they forced you to actually go to one of their shitty stores and stand in line rather than mail you the device like they would for somebody asking for a set-top box.
Well, nothing except for the fact that the entire CableCard standard and hardware certification process was controlled by the cable cartel itself, which had a vested interest in making it as difficult as fucking possible to actually get devices approved (except for the devices which were intended to be rented from the cable companies, which sailed through the certification process despite being among the shittiest electronics ever designed).
FTFY. Until then, I'll tell my browser to interpret the data received however the fuck I want, thank you very much!
Yes, I know. I guess I should have said something more like "AT&T started doing rollover minutes so long ago that they were still Cingular at the time."
The last interview I had, one of the interviewers kept asking more and more esoteric questions with the specific goal of forcing me to say "I don't know." (I got the job, by the way.)
No offense, but why the hell would you want to work there without being an engineer and getting the stock options?
I think it recently expired. After all, Cingular started doing rollover minutes quite a while ago now.
However, I can't find a source to cite (other than a Yahoo Answers post asking about it), so maybe I'm wrong -- but even then, they at least had a trademark or something.