So, let me get this straight. You would rather have 1 entity responsible for having the integrity to maintain truth and acuracy, than have an unlimited amount of resources maintaining that truth? Relying on the morals and ethics of one Truth Bearer sounds pretty primitive.
If I own a cybercafe, my house, my rules. Why would it be even remotely considered illegal to put up a few security cams?
I agree, but do you think it is legal that the government forces you to put up security cameras? I don't think a government should have the right to do so.
my folks have satelite t.v. through, who knows, DirectTV I think? They *definately* have problems with cloudy weather and rain. The fun of it all is trying to hear the severe weather warnings during something like a tornado watch/warning and you can't, no signal. Hmm, 3 tornados have touched down 7 miles away and we don't know where they are heading? Time to go to the basement...
you don't need fierce lightening storms, just cloud cover and a decent amount of rain it seems. tornado type weather will definately hose your transmission.
The USA does not have a "heriditary" head of state. The US president is elected through democratic elections, although there are some who argue that the process is too much vested in special interests, the rich, and is fraught with corruption.
Oh come on now. Sure it's not *really* hereditary, but think about this. How many public offices were won by people with the last name of Kennedy who had no relation to JFK at all? I'd wager dozens. I believe this is even historically documented, but I forget the specific example. Hopefully I remember the important parts well enough... A black man with the last name of Kennedy, or maybe he even changed his name to Kennedy, ran for election (mayor of some city?) and won, without even making a public appearance, solely on his last name being Kennedy. This was some time ago, I think, maybe in the 70s. What shock the people had when they realized the elected a black man.
If current GW Bush had any other name than George Bush, and any other parents, he would have had slim chances being where he is today.
a lot of the textbooks at the university libraries are on reserve only, or some similar name, which means you can only use it inside the library. you cannot check it out. furthermore, only textbooks made available in that manner by the professor get to the library in the first place. atleast that was the way it was back a few years.
You miss the point though. They want it to run and hide behind trees!!?? What kind of sissy, daffodil of a robot is this?! I want my robots to eat trees and then eat the target it was set to destroy.
hide behind trees... might as well stick a daisy in it's hair and give it a bong!
trees. humph.
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User interfaces should be well-designed and as simple to use as possible. Granted.
Yes, sell us a nipple! Most intuitive interface ever!
That little touch pad on the iPod's are pretty damn close. BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH!!
oh sure, and risk a mistake? something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/earth"? a giant laser beam would emerge from spirit and rewrite earths surface causing chaos and destruction.
Take any "general" population, and by general I assume you mean "on average", and you will find that they are dumb. Just because you, in your whatever country you are from, might be above the average American in intelligence does not mean the rest of your population is brilliant, above the average American, or even semi-intelligent. In general, your country's citizens are dumb too.
That being said, I doubt you raise the bar in your populations average intelligence.
f the XFree86 folks want to shoot themselves to foot and slowly bleed to death, it's their choice
wouldn't an X client have to request to the X server to be shot in the foot, wait a while for a gun to be rendered on the local display then be shot in the foot?
yeah, but it will be atleast a half-gen behind playstation when sony releases the next version of that. so the next playstation will be the first next-gen all over again.
this document may contain bassackwards looking statements.
I know you can barely use your computer but just think how secure you are from these nasty links!"
Not being able to use a computer out of lack of knowledge is COMPLETELY different than not being able to use your computer due to it being raped by adware, spyware, porn popups, and huge latency in GUI due to these factors.
Which is easier, walking someone through/etc plain text files, or walking someone through the windows registry?
When I've got 70 MB on the partition that has Windows, and plenty of space elsewhere, I should be able to patch, right? Just install IE on another partition. Turns out IE wants to install only on _that_ partition. As a result, I'm stuck with IE 4.
Maybe I'm behind the times, could someone explain precisely what they mean by an HTML executable file? That doesn't make sense to my "HTML is plain text" portion of knowledge.
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So, let me get this straight. You would rather have 1 entity responsible for having the integrity to maintain truth and acuracy, than have an unlimited amount of resources maintaining that truth? Relying on the morals and ethics of one Truth Bearer sounds pretty primitive.
If I own a cybercafe, my house, my rules. Why would it be even remotely considered illegal to put up a few security cams?
I agree, but do you think it is legal that the government forces you to put up security cameras? I don't think a government should have the right to do so.
my folks have satelite t.v. through, who knows, DirectTV I think? They *definately* have problems with cloudy weather and rain. The fun of it all is trying to hear the severe weather warnings during something like a tornado watch/warning and you can't, no signal. Hmm, 3 tornados have touched down 7 miles away and we don't know where they are heading? Time to go to the basement...
you don't need fierce lightening storms, just cloud cover and a decent amount of rain it seems. tornado type weather will definately hose your transmission.
thankyou, master of the obvious... I'm well aware of the origins of the term.
Yeah, I quit reading the article right there.
The USA does not have a "heriditary" head of state.
The US president is elected through democratic elections, although there are some who argue that the process is too much vested in special interests, the rich, and is fraught with corruption.
Oh come on now. Sure it's not *really* hereditary, but think about this. How many public offices were won by people with the last name of Kennedy who had no relation to JFK at all? I'd wager dozens. I believe this is even historically documented, but I forget the specific example. Hopefully I remember the important parts well enough... A black man with the last name of Kennedy, or maybe he even changed his name to Kennedy, ran for election (mayor of some city?) and won, without even making a public appearance, solely on his last name being Kennedy. This was some time ago, I think, maybe in the 70s. What shock the people had when they realized the elected a black man.
If current GW Bush had any other name than George Bush, and any other parents, he would have had slim chances being where he is today.
are they a tax deductable?
a lot of the textbooks at the university libraries are on reserve only, or some similar name, which means you can only use it inside the library. you cannot check it out. furthermore, only textbooks made available in that manner by the professor get to the library in the first place. atleast that was the way it was back a few years.
the countries that the US is picking fights with lately are far behind us in robotic weapons technology
Yeah, those french robots... always smoking cigarettes and taunting me with their delicious cheese.
You miss the point though. They want it to run and hide behind trees!!?? What kind of sissy, daffodil of a robot is this?! I want my robots to eat trees and then eat the target it was set to destroy.
hide behind trees... might as well stick a daisy in it's hair and give it a bong!
trees. humph.
User interfaces should be well-designed and as simple to use as possible. Granted.
Yes, sell us a nipple! Most intuitive interface ever!
That little touch pad on the iPod's are pretty damn close. BUT NOT CLOSE ENOUGH!!
WE WANT NIPPLES!
glad to see that VeriSign didn't miss out on the honors. #67 i think it was.
oh sure, and risk a mistake? something like "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/earth"? a giant laser beam would emerge from spirit and rewrite earths surface causing chaos and destruction.
because Americans in general are dumb
Yay. I'll feed the troll I guess.
Take any "general" population, and by general I assume you mean "on average", and you will find that they are dumb. Just because you, in your whatever country you are from, might be above the average American in intelligence does not mean the rest of your population is brilliant, above the average American, or even semi-intelligent. In general, your country's citizens are dumb too.
That being said, I doubt you raise the bar in your populations average intelligence.
f the XFree86 folks want to shoot themselves to foot and slowly bleed to death, it's their choice
wouldn't an X client have to request to the X server to be shot in the foot, wait a while for a gun to be rendered on the local display then be shot in the foot?
having never read H2G2 i got to say now i whole lot more OSS and freeware product names make sense.
oh my god. what? come again?
I'm sorry, but the MBTI is severely outdated. Here is a much better series of personality tests
Most important, in no order is this, this, and this
"all your mars are belong to us" tagged across the red planet?
rule.
yeah, but you would break it. and I don't want to be responsible for seven years of bad luck for a broken mirror.
yeah, but it will be atleast a half-gen behind playstation when sony releases the next version of that. so the next playstation will be the first next-gen all over again.
this document may contain bassackwards looking statements.
not a bad idea, at all.
I know you can barely use your computer but just think how secure you are from these nasty links!"
/etc plain text files, or walking someone through the windows registry?
Not being able to use a computer out of lack of knowledge is COMPLETELY different than not being able to use your computer due to it being raped by adware, spyware, porn popups, and huge latency in GUI due to these factors.
Which is easier, walking someone through
I'll have to see that to believe it. Too bad laptop is at home.
Anyone else verifying this?
When I've got 70 MB on the partition that has Windows, and plenty of space elsewhere, I should be able to patch, right? Just install IE on another partition. Turns out IE wants to install only on _that_ partition. As a result, I'm stuck with IE 4.
here is a better patch for Internet Explorer
Seriously though, you are hardly stuck with IE.
in fact it is an HTML executable file.
Maybe I'm behind the times, could someone explain precisely what they mean by an HTML executable file? That doesn't make sense to my "HTML is plain text" portion of knowledge.