In other words: Vote with your feet. While Europe and Canada certainly aren't free form this kind of bullshit, the USA proudly take the lead (and a pretty big one at that). If the conditions inside the USA are becoming unbearable, emigrate to a more friendly country. If enough of you do it you might form a noticable minority in your new country and get enough media attention to discourage local politicians from playing the control state card as well.
If you consider leaving, now is a good time. Yes, the rest of the world is expensive because the Dollar is on its way to becoming toy money. That makes your leave an especially strong statement: "I'll start with much less money in my new country but I don't care as long as I get out of here."
Just about the only thing that'd make most of the people consider something being amiss would be an emigration wave of people who are vocal about why they leave and who'd gladly choose a lower standard of living (if only temporary) over being subject to DHS and the like.
right and left wings refer to fascism and communism respectively.
Only in their extreme forms. The Republicans have a left wing but that doesn't mean that they have Communists. Right and left wings are simply optional parts of a political party that significantly diverge from the main party stance in either direction. Such wings can for example be formed when a party slowly shifts its position away from what it used to be about. This might end with those wings breaking off to form their own party or join established ones.
A good example for this is the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): The SPD started as a socialist worker's party and slowly drifted towards the center of the spectrum. Today it sits right at the center along with its main rival, the formerly conservative Union (the two sister parties CDU and CSU*), taking whichever stance they can to collect votes. This has frustrated their left wing, which finally split off and merged with the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism; legal successor of the SED, which was The Party for East Germany) to form The Left.
* The Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, respectively. The only difference is that the CSU operates in Bavaria and the CDU everywhere else.
As Windows doesn't support EFI I don't expect it to become available in consumer-level mainboards soon. As EFI isn't found in consumer-level mainboards and BIOS is able to boot Windows there's no reason for Microsoft to support it. Expect that part of your computer to stay compatible with the original IBM PC for the forseeable time.
Sorry, but the English language isn't formally defined and not nearly as unambiguous as you think it is. People use "Europe" to refer two three different things even though "Europe" only is the name of one of these. The same goes for America. People use it however they think it makes sense. I was wrong about the synonym, though; it's actually a synecdoche. My bad.
And, by the way, "America" is not the name of a country. "United States of America" is. Using "America" to refer to the country is a synecdoche. If we restrict us to only unambiguous nonrhetohrical meanings "America" has no geographic meaning at all because it's not the proper unambiguous name of anything. It doesn't denote the country (has a different name), it diesn't denote either continent (which one? Also, differnt name) and it doesn't denote both of them (plural form).
If you want people to only use unambiguous identifiers for everything you'd have to make up a new language (English is full of synonyms, established synecdoches etc.) and force everyone to not use it in a nonstandard way. I don't think that would work very well; even regulated languages evolve according to how people use them and people just aren't very interested in conceptual purity.
But - at least in the UK and most other English-speaking countries - cyclists use the road by right while motorists use it by license. The point about a license is you don't have a right - that it can be taken away from you.
However, in Germany you can lose your driver's license while riding a bicycle. The ratio is that someone who's unfit to operate a bicycle also is unfit to operate a car. Granted, you have to really screw up (like causing an accident while riding drunken) but being on a bicycle does not make you sacrosanct.
Notice the plural for when not referring to the United states or a specific continent (North/South)
You might be unaware of the concept of a synonym. A synonym is a word that has the same meaning as another word. Synonyms are interchangeable. As alien as this concept might be, it is possible to refer to one thing through more than one word. As Merriam-Webster lists "America" as a word that means "the Americas" I assume that it can be used as such.
Also: "The continent of America is divided into North America and South America. The narrow band joining North and South America is called Central America." [1]
Yes, some people define America as one continent (or as a "double continent"). But, most importantly, people use the term "America" to refer to the entirety of North, South and Central America.
So are you talking about the United States of America or the Americas in your statement "America is plagued by hurricanes"?
You keep missing my point. My entire point is that you can't just lump an entire continent together if you want to make something resembling an argument. You lump things together that don't belong together and you make your statement hard to understand - after all, what's Europe? The land mass west of the Ural Mountains? The European Union? The European Economic and Monetary Union? Those are all different.
When people make generalizations on purpose they usually try to be as imprecise a possible. Did I mean a land, a continent, two continents? Hey, maybe I meant NAFTA. I can still decide when someone remarks that my statement was bullshit when applied to one of them.
People using this kind of rhethoric aren't rational. Don't try to get them to clarify because they don't want to. They made a statement and they will try to find some way to make it look right. Even if it's bullshit like "everyone in Europe is poor and repressed. Just look at Belarus!".
[1] Sally Wehmeier (editor) (2001) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 6th edition, 2nd impression. Oxford University Press. p. 37
So what you're telling me is that a name change has no effect on chip performance?
Intel also added "Type R" stickers and racing stripes to their CPU. I think VIA added two spoilers, though, which - as everyone knows - equals "pretty damn fast".
Maybe Intel can still win if they put a modkit on the Atom to make it look meaner. However, it still lacks out-of-order execution, which is crucial for drift-racing.
Perhaps if the post was made in German, you wouldn't need the English annoyances.
My point was essentially a variant of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ("The way we speak shapes the way we think."): The way we speak shapes the way we speak. Due to German not using the plural form when referring to both continents I think in the singular form and thus use that form. By the way, both Wikipedia and Merrian-Webster agree with me about "America" being a valid identifier for both continents at once so I don't think I need to use the plural form.
Lol.. Now your just being silly.
Yes, that would be the main point I was trying to make: Sweeping generalizations like "Europeans are poor" or "America is plagued by hurricanes" are inherently silly. You lump things together where it doesn't make sense and the result is an argument with at best a fleeting connection to reality. It's the same kind of broken logic as "you look Asian so you must know Kung-fu"
I'm not that amazed by the survival of various nations inhabitants in the face of natural disasters, though. We humans spread over the panet because we're quite adaptable. If I went down there during hurricane season I probably wouldn't last long (the natural disasters in my area being more inconvenient than dangerous) but the people there know how to deal with hurricanes and have adapted accordingly. Okay, you're right, it is amazing.
No programmatic method of generating Soviet Russia jokes an arbitrary topics has nearly the performance of the Slashdot crowd. I hear they sell those to third-rate stand-up comedians for a living.
Perhaps in the USA. Over here in Germany "America" is overloaded to mean either the USA, North America or North and South America. There is no plural form.
Besides, I was horribly overgeneralizing anyway. I didn't even bother to look up the conditions in the countries I mentioned. One country, two continents - where's the difference? It's all just a big island on the far side of the ocean, full of jungles, hurricanes and earthquakes. It's a wonder people can even survive over there.;)
Of course, we're often ridiculed for this; as if the preservation of rights were some absurd concept in need of ridicule.
Well, there are some idiots who decide that governments should only do a very small and arbitrarily defined set of things that happen to not include whatever the person wants. Then they end up arguing that, for example, there should be no environmental laws because the free market (often touted as the universal savior) would ensure that the companies start cleaning up the mess once that has become cheaper than continuing as before.
Unfortunately it's always the unreasonable people that stick in one's mind. There is some truth to the argument that the government should be kept small, but on the other hand there's also truth to the argument that without governmental intervention it's hard to get people to behave responsibly. The right balance is a delicate one and we neither reach it by advocating that the government should focus entirely on averting external military threats nor by demanding more laws for everything. But you try to expmain that to people...
Why on earth?!?!? Nobody in this forum seems to think Silicone is an excellent Latex replacement.
Silicone and LaTeX compliment each other and I think LaTeX only truly shines when brought together with Silicone. But one can't replace the other.
If you want a LaTeX replacement I'd suggest you look at PVC. It's nowhere near as flexible, but it doesn't need Silicone to shine and it's less of a hassle to work with. Then there's Rubber, which is essentially a more hardy variant of LaTeX; you retain most of the flexibility and lose some of the hassle but on the other hand you're going to have a hard time getting it to look as polished as LaTeX.
Also, all of the above technologies are incompatible with the Perspiration standard. If you want to combine LaTeX, PVC or Rubber with properly working Perspiration you will by definition end up with only partial coverage and your equipment might still run into cooling issues.
Of course there's still Leather, but that isn't flexible at all and lacks the level of polish of the above technologies. However, it goes slightly better with Perspiration and is not much of a hassle to work with. The real downside lies in the maintenance costs, however. Keeping Leather clean and in working order can be hideously expensive; especially disaster recovery usually means paying top dollar for a DryClean certified recovery service.
It's understandable that many casual users rely on a vanilla Fabric installation for day-to-day work. It works, it's simple and it's reliable. Just don't expect it to be too sexy.
What do they do to keep Canadians from buying cars in the US? Reimports are very common in Germany because it's cheaper to have your new VW shipped to Poland and back than to just buy it.
And Perl -- slashcode's language -- has been fully UTF-8 for years now. What's the excuse for not using it?
Last thing I heard was that there are some control characters and combining characters that could be used to mess with the site. The admins apparently decided that going not allowing Unicode characters and even HTML entities for just about everything outside Latin-15 is the best way to deal with that problem.
For the most part, European countries are socialist, technologically retarded (look up the term in Wikipedia, if you're offended), and its citizens generally live hand to mouth. So I would definitely say that they would be semi-First World, even according to your definition.
Same goes for America, which is nowhere near First World. Examples: Chile, Peru, Ecuador...
I think Australia qualifies as the only First World continent. The rest of us are poor savages.
Is there some kind of listing that compares the various video hosting services? Something where I'd find "audio compression" as a column in some matrix with values like "no", "yes, automatically" and "yes, user-configurable"?
I think this works very well to get the FSF's message across. Of course, this only holds true if the message is "The Free Software Foundation is a horde of trolls".
That's just like PETA members standing in front of the local supermarket's deli counter, yelling and cussing at people who dare buy dead animal parts. It's going to make people remember them, but not in a positive way.
"20.000" was supposed to mean "twenty thousand", not "very precisely twenty". Not every country has the same delimiters for decimal values and three-digit grous, respectively.
Except Batman doesn't inexplicably throw thousands of Robins at Catwoman after the Joker does something bad, while he sits back doing nothing
That would be pretty entertaining, though.
Joker: "Batman is rich and smart. You aren't. Why do you think YOU can stop me, Robin?"
Army of Robins: "Zerg rush! KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE!"
Catwoman: "AIEEEEE!"
Joker: "...That would be pretty scary if he was actually rushing the right person."
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In other words: Vote with your feet. While Europe and Canada certainly aren't free form this kind of bullshit, the USA proudly take the lead (and a pretty big one at that). If the conditions inside the USA are becoming unbearable, emigrate to a more friendly country. If enough of you do it you might form a noticable minority in your new country and get enough media attention to discourage local politicians from playing the control state card as well.
If you consider leaving, now is a good time. Yes, the rest of the world is expensive because the Dollar is on its way to becoming toy money. That makes your leave an especially strong statement: "I'll start with much less money in my new country but I don't care as long as I get out of here."
Just about the only thing that'd make most of the people consider something being amiss would be an emigration wave of people who are vocal about why they leave and who'd gladly choose a lower standard of living (if only temporary) over being subject to DHS and the like.
Only in their extreme forms. The Republicans have a left wing but that doesn't mean that they have Communists. Right and left wings are simply optional parts of a political party that significantly diverge from the main party stance in either direction. Such wings can for example be formed when a party slowly shifts its position away from what it used to be about. This might end with those wings breaking off to form their own party or join established ones.
A good example for this is the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): The SPD started as a socialist worker's party and slowly drifted towards the center of the spectrum. Today it sits right at the center along with its main rival, the formerly conservative Union (the two sister parties CDU and CSU*), taking whichever stance they can to collect votes. This has frustrated their left wing, which finally split off and merged with the PDS (Party of Democratic Socialism; legal successor of the SED, which was The Party for East Germany) to form The Left.
* The Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, respectively. The only difference is that the CSU operates in Bavaria and the CDU everywhere else.
As Windows doesn't support EFI I don't expect it to become available in consumer-level mainboards soon. As EFI isn't found in consumer-level mainboards and BIOS is able to boot Windows there's no reason for Microsoft to support it. Expect that part of your computer to stay compatible with the original IBM PC for the forseeable time.
Sorry, but the English language isn't formally defined and not nearly as unambiguous as you think it is. People use "Europe" to refer two three different things even though "Europe" only is the name of one of these. The same goes for America. People use it however they think it makes sense. I was wrong about the synonym, though; it's actually a synecdoche. My bad.
And, by the way, "America" is not the name of a country. "United States of America" is. Using "America" to refer to the country is a synecdoche. If we restrict us to only unambiguous nonrhetohrical meanings "America" has no geographic meaning at all because it's not the proper unambiguous name of anything. It doesn't denote the country (has a different name), it diesn't denote either continent (which one? Also, differnt name) and it doesn't denote both of them (plural form).
If you want people to only use unambiguous identifiers for everything you'd have to make up a new language (English is full of synonyms, established synecdoches etc.) and force everyone to not use it in a nonstandard way. I don't think that would work very well; even regulated languages evolve according to how people use them and people just aren't very interested in conceptual purity.
In North Germany that'd be considered a rather high hill. People from Holland would feel humbled by the colossal mountain before them.
However, in Germany you can lose your driver's license while riding a bicycle. The ratio is that someone who's unfit to operate a bicycle also is unfit to operate a car. Granted, you have to really screw up (like causing an accident while riding drunken) but being on a bicycle does not make you sacrosanct.
Neither do I. I respect the fact that cars are much heavier and deadlier than me, so they always go first. I have found that to be a very sane policy.
No, it's cool. We just need enough corners with chars people can sit in the whole evening.
You might be unaware of the concept of a synonym. A synonym is a word that has the same meaning as another word. Synonyms are interchangeable. As alien as this concept might be, it is possible to refer to one thing through more than one word. As Merriam-Webster lists "America" as a word that means "the Americas" I assume that it can be used as such.
Also: "The continent of America is divided into North America and South America. The narrow band joining North and South America is called Central America." [1]
Yes, some people define America as one continent (or as a "double continent"). But, most importantly, people use the term "America" to refer to the entirety of North, South and Central America.
You keep missing my point. My entire point is that you can't just lump an entire continent together if you want to make something resembling an argument. You lump things together that don't belong together and you make your statement hard to understand - after all, what's Europe? The land mass west of the Ural Mountains? The European Union? The European Economic and Monetary Union? Those are all different.
When people make generalizations on purpose they usually try to be as imprecise a possible. Did I mean a land, a continent, two continents? Hey, maybe I meant NAFTA. I can still decide when someone remarks that my statement was bullshit when applied to one of them.
People using this kind of rhethoric aren't rational. Don't try to get them to clarify because they don't want to. They made a statement and they will try to find some way to make it look right. Even if it's bullshit like "everyone in Europe is poor and repressed. Just look at Belarus!".
[1] Sally Wehmeier (editor) (2001) Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary, 6th edition, 2nd impression. Oxford University Press. p. 37
Intel also added "Type R" stickers and racing stripes to their CPU. I think VIA added two spoilers, though, which - as everyone knows - equals "pretty damn fast".
Maybe Intel can still win if they put a modkit on the Atom to make it look meaner. However, it still lacks out-of-order execution, which is crucial for drift-racing.
My point was essentially a variant of the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis ("The way we speak shapes the way we think."): The way we speak shapes the way we speak. Due to German not using the plural form when referring to both continents I think in the singular form and thus use that form. By the way, both Wikipedia and Merrian-Webster agree with me about "America" being a valid identifier for both continents at once so I don't think I need to use the plural form.
Yes, that would be the main point I was trying to make: Sweeping generalizations like "Europeans are poor" or "America is plagued by hurricanes" are inherently silly. You lump things together where it doesn't make sense and the result is an argument with at best a fleeting connection to reality. It's the same kind of broken logic as "you look Asian so you must know Kung-fu"
I'm not that amazed by the survival of various nations inhabitants in the face of natural disasters, though. We humans spread over the panet because we're quite adaptable. If I went down there during hurricane season I probably wouldn't last long (the natural disasters in my area being more inconvenient than dangerous) but the people there know how to deal with hurricanes and have adapted accordingly. Okay, you're right, it is amazing.
No programmatic method of generating Soviet Russia jokes an arbitrary topics has nearly the performance of the Slashdot crowd. I hear they sell those to third-rate stand-up comedians for a living.
Perhaps in the USA. Over here in Germany "America" is overloaded to mean either the USA, North America or North and South America. There is no plural form.
;)
Besides, I was horribly overgeneralizing anyway. I didn't even bother to look up the conditions in the countries I mentioned. One country, two continents - where's the difference? It's all just a big island on the far side of the ocean, full of jungles, hurricanes and earthquakes. It's a wonder people can even survive over there.
Well, there are some idiots who decide that governments should only do a very small and arbitrarily defined set of things that happen to not include whatever the person wants. Then they end up arguing that, for example, there should be no environmental laws because the free market (often touted as the universal savior) would ensure that the companies start cleaning up the mess once that has become cheaper than continuing as before.
Unfortunately it's always the unreasonable people that stick in one's mind. There is some truth to the argument that the government should be kept small, but on the other hand there's also truth to the argument that without governmental intervention it's hard to get people to behave responsibly. The right balance is a delicate one and we neither reach it by advocating that the government should focus entirely on averting external military threats nor by demanding more laws for everything. But you try to expmain that to people...
Truth to be told, the movie just wasn't that good. There's a reason why Nazis prefer Boyz n the Hood.
Silicone and LaTeX compliment each other and I think LaTeX only truly shines when brought together with Silicone. But one can't replace the other.
If you want a LaTeX replacement I'd suggest you look at PVC. It's nowhere near as flexible, but it doesn't need Silicone to shine and it's less of a hassle to work with. Then there's Rubber, which is essentially a more hardy variant of LaTeX; you retain most of the flexibility and lose some of the hassle but on the other hand you're going to have a hard time getting it to look as polished as LaTeX.
Also, all of the above technologies are incompatible with the Perspiration standard. If you want to combine LaTeX, PVC or Rubber with properly working Perspiration you will by definition end up with only partial coverage and your equipment might still run into cooling issues.
Of course there's still Leather, but that isn't flexible at all and lacks the level of polish of the above technologies. However, it goes slightly better with Perspiration and is not much of a hassle to work with. The real downside lies in the maintenance costs, however. Keeping Leather clean and in working order can be hideously expensive; especially disaster recovery usually means paying top dollar for a DryClean certified recovery service.
It's understandable that many casual users rely on a vanilla Fabric installation for day-to-day work. It works, it's simple and it's reliable. Just don't expect it to be too sexy.
What do they do to keep Canadians from buying cars in the US? Reimports are very common in Germany because it's cheaper to have your new VW shipped to Poland and back than to just buy it.
Last thing I heard was that there are some control characters and combining characters that could be used to mess with the site. The admins apparently decided that going not allowing Unicode characters and even HTML entities for just about everything outside Latin-15 is the best way to deal with that problem.
However, we Europeans aren't used to not being allowed to speak our mind except in "free speech zones". Black much, kettle?
Fact is all governments are crapping all over their citizens' freedom right now. It's the trendy thing to do.
Same goes for America, which is nowhere near First World. Examples: Chile, Peru, Ecuador...
I think Australia qualifies as the only First World continent. The rest of us are poor savages.
Is there some kind of listing that compares the various video hosting services? Something where I'd find "audio compression" as a column in some matrix with values like "no", "yes, automatically" and "yes, user-configurable"?
I think this works very well to get the FSF's message across. Of course, this only holds true if the message is "The Free Software Foundation is a horde of trolls".
That's just like PETA members standing in front of the local supermarket's deli counter, yelling and cussing at people who dare buy dead animal parts. It's going to make people remember them, but not in a positive way.
I should have used a comma, though. That is the proper delimiter in virtually all English-speking countries, after all.
"20.000" was supposed to mean "twenty thousand", not "very precisely twenty". Not every country has the same delimiters for decimal values and three-digit grous, respectively.
That would be pretty entertaining, though.
Joker: "Batman is rich and smart. You aren't. Why do you think YOU can stop me, Robin?"
Army of Robins: "Zerg rush! KEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKEKE!"
Catwoman: "AIEEEEE!"
Joker: "...That would be pretty scary if he was actually rushing the right person."