But it is harder than running a java applet, and the original poster was suggesting this method should be used because applets are annoying. The whole point is that replacing them with something even more annoying is incredibly stupid.
I didn't claim that Americans like to drive huge, inefficient, Japanese-made SUVs any less than they like driving similarly efficient American vehicles. I didn't mean to insult Americans, just to point out that Americans don't want high speed passenger rail and it would be a waste of money to build it.
Roads are another story. People like roads. Spending more federal funds on improving roads and creating jobs in road improvement is a great idea. Spending money building a rail system no one will use is just stupid. You might as well just dump more money into saving Amtrack.
But it is the same thing as digging pointless trenches. Before you dig them, you don't have pointless trenches, and afterwards you do.
The fact is Americans like to drive big, inefficient cars, even if it means whining about the heavy traffic they're stuck in because everyone else likes to drive too, and the high gas prices because everyone else likes to drive gas-guzzling cars too. Widespread train travel isn't going to make a comeback.
Ok, apparently I didn't actually read the first sentence of the article. However, the article does say, several times, that he was "arrested."
In any case, an arrest does not imply that the suspect has been charged with a crime. In the United States, an arrest occurs when a police officer takes a person into custody, not when a person is charged with a crime.
The article doesn't mention him being in a mental institution, and it's certainly a violation of federal law to release to lawyers' marketing firms the names and addresses of people you transport to a hospital for medical treatment.
Well when Spanish becomes the most prevalent language in the US in the next century, will you learn it, or just keep whining that more recent immigrants and their decendants speak a different language than the one you prefer?
It was a figment of your imagination. Cable has always cost money, and has always carried channels with commercials. The premium movie channels have always cost more and been commercial free. Nothing has changed, except there are more channels now.
As for artifically limiting advertising supply, it won't work. If individual stations try to raise their rates too high for low-rated shows, they won't get any advertisers and they'll go out of business. If all of the stations conspire to raise advertising rates, the advertisers will collectively sue them for antitrust violations, after which their prices will be regulated by the government.
The fire station a block from my house sets off its civil defense siren at noon and 9:45PM every single day for some reason. If there was an actual attack coming, no one here would even notice it.
Not necessarily. An early version of the Unix login binary had a backdoor, and the cc binary had code in it that would both install the backdoor, and install the backdoor-installing hack into the compiler itself when it was compiled from "clean" source. So a sufficently paranoid person shouldn't necessarily trsut even open source.
The point is that just because something can possibly be used for purposes someone might have a problem with doesn't make it inherently "evil".
Because the BIOS will be capable of independent contacting of whatever entities have paid the BIOS manufacture enough.
What's your point? Your computer right now could be secretly sending data to anyone who paid the programmers of the OS enough money, and there's nothing you could do to stop it. Even if you're using an Open Source OS, unless you wrote the C compiler yourself in machine language and read the entire source of what you're compiling, you can't really be sure what exactly you're running. Better get a thicker tin foil hat.
While your low slashdot user id# impresses me oh-so-much, Oh Great One, I'm neither young nor inexperienced, and if you'd been using X11 since before Linux, KDE, and Gnome existed, like me, you'd know that "the whole world" doesn't do things the same. The former Windows users creating GUIs for former Windows users for the Intel boxes they bought with Windows on them rip off Windows to make their new GUIs more familiar. Traditional X11 window managers had less in common with Windows than the Mac does.
So on your Linux, BSD, and Solaris boxen, you use the same key combination (CTRL-C) to copy something as you do on a windows box? How do you send a SIGINT through standard input on these boxes you hacked to do thing the way "the rest of the world" does?
Laws don't have or need to have any money, so calling any law "poor" is, as you put it, a "misnomer". Please use a completely unambiguous word if you're going to be incorrectly pedantic. Here's a tip: you're going to have to make up an entirely new word, because you won't find one in English.
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But it is harder than running a java applet, and the original poster was suggesting this method should be used because applets are annoying. The whole point is that replacing them with something even more annoying is incredibly stupid.
Of course, they're grossly understating things. These machines can run literally an infinite number of java applications.
Roads are another story. People like roads. Spending more federal funds on improving roads and creating jobs in road improvement is a great idea. Spending money building a rail system no one will use is just stupid. You might as well just dump more money into saving Amtrack.
The fact is Americans like to drive big, inefficient cars, even if it means whining about the heavy traffic they're stuck in because everyone else likes to drive too, and the high gas prices because everyone else likes to drive gas-guzzling cars too. Widespread train travel isn't going to make a comeback.
Thanks! I was worried that opensource.apple.com was going to be slashdotted.
In any case, an arrest does not imply that the suspect has been charged with a crime. In the United States, an arrest occurs when a police officer takes a person into custody, not when a person is charged with a crime.
The article doesn't mention him being in a mental institution, and it's certainly a violation of federal law to release to lawyers' marketing firms the names and addresses of people you transport to a hospital for medical treatment.
If you're so smart, why isn't your username "cardsharp2001"?
Well when Spanish becomes the most prevalent language in the US in the next century, will you learn it, or just keep whining that more recent immigrants and their decendants speak a different language than the one you prefer?
As for artifically limiting advertising supply, it won't work. If individual stations try to raise their rates too high for low-rated shows, they won't get any advertisers and they'll go out of business. If all of the stations conspire to raise advertising rates, the advertisers will collectively sue them for antitrust violations, after which their prices will be regulated by the government.
If you don't want to speak Navaho, go back to England, you fucking immigrant!
The fire station a block from my house sets off its civil defense siren at noon and 9:45PM every single day for some reason. If there was an actual attack coming, no one here would even notice it.
It's just a matter of time before Target starts selling an exclusive iPod designed by Michael Graves, too.
The point is that just because something can possibly be used for purposes someone might have a problem with doesn't make it inherently "evil".
What's your point? Your computer right now could be secretly sending data to anyone who paid the programmers of the OS enough money, and there's nothing you could do to stop it. Even if you're using an Open Source OS, unless you wrote the C compiler yourself in machine language and read the entire source of what you're compiling, you can't really be sure what exactly you're running. Better get a thicker tin foil hat.
While your low slashdot user id# impresses me oh-so-much, Oh Great One, I'm neither young nor inexperienced, and if you'd been using X11 since before Linux, KDE, and Gnome existed, like me, you'd know that "the whole world" doesn't do things the same. The former Windows users creating GUIs for former Windows users for the Intel boxes they bought with Windows on them rip off Windows to make their new GUIs more familiar. Traditional X11 window managers had less in common with Windows than the Mac does.
Go away, troll.
Well let's see you port a huge Solaris app to Cocoa and then come back and tell us how trivial it was because of the API compatibilities.
Nothing says G5 quite like "boiled eggs"...
Umm... I hate to tell you this, but the male genitalia does not contain eggs. They're the female reproductive cells.
We're "usage" freedom fighters, not "grammar" freedom fighters, thank you very much.
Laws don't have or need to have any money, so calling any law "poor" is, as you put it, a "misnomer". Please use a completely unambiguous word if you're going to be incorrectly pedantic. Here's a tip: you're going to have to make up an entirely new word, because you won't find one in English.
Hey, be quiet... you're going to ruin my best excuse for not having anything remotely interesting on my webpage!
Oh, and if anyone come up with a grand unified theory, they shouldn't publish it, because just think of all the physics texts they'd have to update.
Yes and then the Victorians invented the time machine and went back and told Aristotle about it, causing him to write Categories.
Well, if Americans can throw away 200+ years of friendship with the French for no apparent reason, why can't Europe change their mind too?