Someone needs to write a "Newbies Guide to Advanced KDE Features For Intermediate Users", or something like that. There's an awful lot of these tiny one line tips that need to be collected all in one place.
No, I didn't miss the joke, but I was sure that others would.
You see, I was at a party once minding my own business, when a friend let slip the news that I was a libertarian. Suddenly people started to edge away from me warily. A bit annoyed at this, asked one what the hell she was doing, because not just five minutes earlier she was ranting about the need for more tolerance in the world. Turns out she did indeed fear that I would start preaching the evils of altruism and advocate personal ownership of nukes. When I managed to convince her that I was not an objectivist, she seemed fascinated. It had never dawned on her that libertarians weren't all lockstep clones of Ayn Rand.
To most Kerry supporters, anything that doesn't promise a slow painful death for the incumbent seems biased towards Bush.
The poster probably took the test and discovered a 12% score with Bush. Instead of taking heart with a 92% Kerry score, he's panicking that his black-and-white world has some grays in it.
My how times have changed! Back when I was attending UCSD things were much different. The Koala was a parody newspaper whose most obscene moment was drawing a phallus on a photo of the sun god. And back then the Che Cafe most certainly WAS supporting terrorism.
And that trust manages that property for it's owner, the State of California. Arnold Scharzenegger is actually one of the Regents of the University of California.
Last time, the differences between the two main candidates weren't so obvious, but the choice is pretty stark here.
If you think there's any signficant differences between Bush and Kerry, then you really have been brainwashed. There are differences on specific issues, but with hundreds of issues, that's hardly surprising. But when it comes to their underlying philosophy of governance, there ain't a dime's worth of difference between the two.
Just because Libertarians can be really annoying at parties doesn't mean that they shouldn't have a voice in political debates.
Not all libertarians are annoying at parties. Some are like Linux geeks eager to "sell" their lifestyle to random party participants. Others have recently discovered objectivism and are actively proselytizing for their new religion. Others just have no social life. But most of us are just like anyone else. We go to parties to have a good time, and NOT to talk politics.
Now, all I have to do is figure out a way from keeping them from bringing up Ayn Rand at my next party
If they're bringing up Ayn Rand, then they are not bringing up libertarianism. Most objectivists are libertarians but most libertarians are not objectivists.
Maybe I haven't played it often enough, but Catan feels like "Civilization for Pre-schoolers on Valium".
There are significant disadvantages to Civilization. First it takes 6+ hours to play to completion. Second if you fall behind one turn you're behind forever and might as well go home because you've lost. Third, there is no randomness to position, so that every game is much like every other game (imagine playing CivIII with only one possible map and starting positions).
On the other hand, Cataan can be played in as short as one or two hours, the outcome is never assured, and every game is different.
One person's car can make a difference. Like my Earth First friend who used to drive an aging Toyota that burned oil faster than a two-stroke. I would yell at him to fix his car but he would just ignore me. "It's a Japanese car, man, it's envirnonmentally friendly," he would say staring at me with his stoned pupils, "not like your ameriKan gas guzzler!" (my "gas guzzler" got 32 mpg).
He would park right next to the storm drain that had the sign "no dumping, flows to the bay", and then when he left there would be this oil slick dripping down into the drain and out to the bay...
That single Toyota did more damage to the environment than a dozen SUVs combined. Thankfully it completely broke down and he had to abandon it.
If he's only been doing this for five to eight years, then he doesn't have enough data to warrant a conclusion. That's because there hasn't been enough time to measure a general increase in temperature. While one summer may have a hotter peak the the summer before, the climate is too chaotic for this to happen every year. Also global warming will case the weather to shift, so that many locales will actually get cooler. So in this short of time span, he could *NOT* have have seen a general increase in warming in every one of his plots.
In short, his prediction has too few samples collected over too short of time.
The real purpose of fingerprints on drivers licenses is simply to put them in a database. That way if we find fingerprints at the scene of a murder, we can cross check them with the DMV. Linking them to other databases is just a side benefit for the authoritarians. That the cheapass thumbprint is pretty much useless for criminology is another matter...
Everyone who works with children has had to sumbit full and complete fingerprints to the FBI for decades. But no one ever stopped to think that mandatory fingerprinting was wrong until it affected them. Sigh.
Everyone's missing my basic point. I'm not an *advanced* user. But neither am I a brand new user straight out of Windows land. Apparently to GNOME, this means I am a nobody and deserve to fall between the cracks.
No, only the brainless secretaries at work like HTML mail, because it let's them send email with floral backgrounds and blinking text.
Most people just don't care enough to turn it off. Going through my email trash, about 95% of HTML email doesn't use any formatting at all, so the use of HTML is wasted.
the Gconf editor is not meant to be something that you use on anything resembling a regular basis
Yet whenever someone complains about an option being removed from the main config dialogs, the standard response is, "use GConf." So what is it? Are we supposed to use GConf or not?
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Someone needs to write a "Newbies Guide to Advanced KDE Features For Intermediate Users", or something like that. There's an awful lot of these tiny one line tips that need to be collected all in one place.
Any poll or questionnaire such as this is biased.
Well duh! My point was that the previous poster needn't foam at the mouth when he discovers bias.
It's against the law in the UK to buy a 35p item with pennies? OMG! That's so stupid it boggles the mind!
No, I didn't miss the joke, but I was sure that others would.
You see, I was at a party once minding my own business, when a friend let slip the news that I was a libertarian. Suddenly people started to edge away from me warily. A bit annoyed at this, asked one what the hell she was doing, because not just five minutes earlier she was ranting about the need for more tolerance in the world. Turns out she did indeed fear that I would start preaching the evils of altruism and advocate personal ownership of nukes. When I managed to convince her that I was not an objectivist, she seemed fascinated. It had never dawned on her that libertarians weren't all lockstep clones of Ayn Rand.
Holy Shit! They are supporting Kerry! I'm going to have to apologize to my John Birch friends for calling them paranoid nutbags...
To most Kerry supporters, anything that doesn't promise a slow painful death for the incumbent seems biased towards Bush.
The poster probably took the test and discovered a 12% score with Bush. Instead of taking heart with a 92% Kerry score, he's panicking that his black-and-white world has some grays in it.
(Pioneered by WindowMaker?)
Last I checked, Windowmaker was under the GPL, which would be the opposite of a DWTFYW license.
My how times have changed! Back when I was attending UCSD things were much different. The Koala was a parody newspaper whose most obscene moment was drawing a phallus on a photo of the sun god. And back then the Che Cafe most certainly WAS supporting terrorism.
And that trust manages that property for it's owner, the State of California. Arnold Scharzenegger is actually one of the Regents of the University of California.
Last time, the differences between the two main candidates weren't so obvious, but the choice is pretty stark here.
If you think there's any signficant differences between Bush and Kerry, then you really have been brainwashed. There are differences on specific issues, but with hundreds of issues, that's hardly surprising. But when it comes to their underlying philosophy of governance, there ain't a dime's worth of difference between the two.
Just because Libertarians can be really annoying at parties doesn't mean that they shouldn't have a voice in political debates.
Not all libertarians are annoying at parties. Some are like Linux geeks eager to "sell" their lifestyle to random party participants. Others have recently discovered objectivism and are actively proselytizing for their new religion. Others just have no social life. But most of us are just like anyone else. We go to parties to have a good time, and NOT to talk politics.
Now, all I have to do is figure out a way from keeping them from bringing up Ayn Rand at my next party
If they're bringing up Ayn Rand, then they are not bringing up libertarianism. Most objectivists are libertarians but most libertarians are not objectivists.
Yet according to this map the US isn't producing 25% of the pollution...
Maybe I haven't played it often enough, but Catan feels like "Civilization for Pre-schoolers on Valium".
There are significant disadvantages to Civilization. First it takes 6+ hours to play to completion. Second if you fall behind one turn you're behind forever and might as well go home because you've lost. Third, there is no randomness to position, so that every game is much like every other game (imagine playing CivIII with only one possible map and starting positions).
On the other hand, Cataan can be played in as short as one or two hours, the outcome is never assured, and every game is different.
I'm astounded that there are people so anti-social that they boggle over the existance of others that don't know what "ORM" stands for...
I'm guessing that not only does the poster live in his parent's basement, he lives in a padlocked CLOSET in his parent's basement.
Slashdot editors don't read books older than themselves. They've probably never heard of Jules Verne.
One person's car can make a difference. Like my Earth First friend who used to drive an aging Toyota that burned oil faster than a two-stroke. I would yell at him to fix his car but he would just ignore me. "It's a Japanese car, man, it's envirnonmentally friendly," he would say staring at me with his stoned pupils, "not like your ameriKan gas guzzler!" (my "gas guzzler" got 32 mpg).
He would park right next to the storm drain that had the sign "no dumping, flows to the bay", and then when he left there would be this oil slick dripping down into the drain and out to the bay...
That single Toyota did more damage to the environment than a dozen SUVs combined. Thankfully it completely broke down and he had to abandon it.
If he's only been doing this for five to eight years, then he doesn't have enough data to warrant a conclusion. That's because there hasn't been enough time to measure a general increase in temperature. While one summer may have a hotter peak the the summer before, the climate is too chaotic for this to happen every year. Also global warming will case the weather to shift, so that many locales will actually get cooler. So in this short of time span, he could *NOT* have have seen a general increase in warming in every one of his plots.
In short, his prediction has too few samples collected over too short of time.
Wonderful unbiased news source you have there. Left-biased media interviewing anonymous person claiming unbiased coverage is wrong.
Next!
The real purpose of fingerprints on drivers licenses is simply to put them in a database. That way if we find fingerprints at the scene of a murder, we can cross check them with the DMV. Linking them to other databases is just a side benefit for the authoritarians. That the cheapass thumbprint is pretty much useless for criminology is another matter...
Everyone who works with children has had to sumbit full and complete fingerprints to the FBI for decades. But no one ever stopped to think that mandatory fingerprinting was wrong until it affected them. Sigh.
Um, neither Firefox or GIMP are GNOME applications. Just as not everything that uses Qt is a KDE app, not everything that uses GTK+ is a GNOME app.
The Fry's I went to last week had SuSE, Fedora, Mandrake, Linspire, FreeBSD, and NetBSD.
Everyone's missing my basic point. I'm not an *advanced* user. But neither am I a brand new user straight out of Windows land. Apparently to GNOME, this means I am a nobody and deserve to fall between the cracks.
Open Source without that prickly feelings!
No, only the brainless secretaries at work like HTML mail, because it let's them send email with floral backgrounds and blinking text.
Most people just don't care enough to turn it off. Going through my email trash, about 95% of HTML email doesn't use any formatting at all, so the use of HTML is wasted.
the Gconf editor is not meant to be something that you use on anything resembling a regular basis
Yet whenever someone complains about an option being removed from the main config dialogs, the standard response is, "use GConf." So what is it? Are we supposed to use GConf or not?