Even just restricting it to graffiti, cities do stupid things like declaring chalk is graffiti - even though it washes away with rain.
Even temporary vandalism can have an effect on property values and, assuming the broken window theory holds (which I myself am uncertain of), possibly crime rates. So, it makes sense to prosecute those creating images with chalk without the authorization of whoever owns or manages the surface they are covering.
graffiti artists are the people responsible for those really cool murals; [google.com]
You know what's really cool? Getting the permission of the owner of a property (or local government) before practicing one's art. The painting can be as whizbang as one can imagine, but without that authorization from whoever owns or manages the wall, "cool" is not the word for it.
Hebrew is an Akkadian dialect, and comes from further east than the Canaanites.
Hebrew is in fact one of the Cannanite languages, which in turn is part of the Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic family. Akkadian, on the other hand, belongs to a different branch of Semitic, namely East Semitic. See here for the subgrouping under Semitic, which has been the mainstream for many decades now.
Since pan-European operators like Orange or Vodaphone are actually made up of many individual companies registered at the national level, would the use of an Orange network in country A by a customer from country B not result in at least some added accounting expense, as these individual companies have to coordinate their records?
Print is hidden under a sun icon or a gear, or something -- with no known way to open the menu from the keyboard
Besides the fact that Print is accessible, like everywhere else, through Ctrl-P, the "gear" menu can be opened with the keyboard by hitting Tab until the focus goes to the toolbar, then using the arrow-keys to move focus to the gear icon, then hitting Return. I am not a big fan of Gnome and am deeply unhappy with many of their changes, but getting where you need to go with the keyboard remains fairly easy to figure out in most applications.
Do you need to back up all your movies and music? Either it is all ripped from discs you still have or is pirate and can be downloaded again.
Not everything pirated can be easily downloaded again. There are lots of torrents that only have a single seeder, who might disappear halfway through your download. Often it is hard to find the content in a lossless format -- most films can be had from The Pirate Bay, but only as <1GB.avi files, while tracking down a DVD9 or Bluray image of some titles requires a painstaking search and a lot of luck.
So, backup what you get, because you might not ever see it again.
Hungary was deprived of an important step in the development of today's Europe: fascism.
Hungary had a fascist-led government around World War II just like many other countries.
The ruling party quite openly supports pogroms against gypsies.
Can you cite this, please? I would be very surprised to hear this from Fidesz, as it sounds like an exclusively Jobbik thing. Many people outside of Hungary with only a cursory understanding of the country's dour political situation tend to confuse Fidesz and Jobbik, but the latter party does not have much power (yet).
I can personally guarantee* (*worth nothing, not redeemable for anything) that sound studios will not start producing multiple mixes just for the audiophiles.
They already have started, in fact. It's very common for the vinyl edition of an album to be less of a loudness wars catastrophe than the CD or MP3 digital downloads because vinyl customers tend to overlap with audiophiles. Two albums I can name off the top of my head where this was done are R.E.M.'s Accelerate and Rush's Clockwork Angels. After buying the CDs and hearing how they were brickwalled, I was happy to have supported the artist by buying at least something, but then I went to a torrent site, downloaded a vinyl rip and now play that exclusively on my home stereo.
also when I get on the bus each day, I see each and every one of them starring into their smartphones, no longer interacting with one another, mindless wasting their lives in games and Facebook shit.
Before smartphones, commuters were staring into books (which contained less information than an Internet-connected device can provide), doing crosswords or simply looking out the window. In my considerable experience of commuter transportation around the world, I have never seen people on their way to the daily grind "interacting with one another" to any significant degree.
It has nothing to do with the products, and everything to do with how existing companies see workers(especially tech workers) as "cost centers". We're kind of reaping the results of a system that views employees as "at will temporary work power" through massive layoffs at the earliest convenience.
And you think this isn't a problem with smaller companies as well? Loads of startups will let half of their staff go once they find they aren't able to monetize a product as easily as they thought.
The submitter appears to live in South Africa. After all, he wrote:
"Last week my 4-week old Moto G phone was stolen while getting onto the train at Salt River in Cape Town, South Africa. That in itself is no big deal. Cellphone theft is a huge problem here in South Africa and I've had at least two previous cellphones stolen.
There's no suggestion that he is an American who has ever had to to deal with "the TSA". Slashdot has had a global readership since forever.
Merry Old England would have rounded up the Founding Fathers using "just metadata" (who called whom, and when) and therefore they would have forbidden its collection to government without a proper warrant.
That analogy might have swayed people decades ago when Americans all had rosy views of the benevolence of the Founding Fathers, but from the better informed perspective of Americans today, maybe it would have been better had the British authorities been able to nip the Revolution in the bud. The Commonwealth countries show that staying a colony for another century would not have been a bad thing at all, and stopping the Revolutionaries would have saved America's Tories from having their houses burned down by self-appointed "guardians of liberty", being looted of their possessions and driven off to Canada just for wanting to stay with the mother country.
Assuming we even believe it's just metadata being gathered - what informed citizen actually believes it's a non-concern?
While I don't align with the politics, I occasionally dip into Charles Johnson's blog Little Green Footballs because in its 12-year history it has had an interesting dramatic arc (highly influential right-wing site in the wake of 9/11, then massively dropping in importance after Johnson turned his back on the right and presumably most of his readers as well). One thing that surprised me is how quick Johnson has been to excuse the NSA's activity, saying it is just "metadata", and collecting just "metadata" harms no one; in fact, revealing the collection of "metadata" has harmed our national security. Johnson processes news all day long and posts his own thoughts on the issues of the day as a profession, and here he is being adamant that it is a non-issue. There must be more news junkies out there who don't feel it's something to protest.
The current decline in anonyminity isn't driven by government. It's driven by corporate interests.
It is also driven by content creators who are sick of seeing the space they set aside for reader comments torn apart by trolls and Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory rudeness. A site admin dropping in a Facebook-authenticated comment system isn't doing so in order to make lots of money for Facebook in selling your data, he's doing it because he's heard that forcing a modicum of self-identification cuts down in flame wars.
You don't and can't, and if that's a problem for you, you don't use Gogle services.
Google collects data (and potentially passes it on to the US government) on more than just those who choose to use its services, as Google Analytics is included in the Javascript package of a great many sites, one might send an e-mail to a gmail.com address, etc. Telling something that they are safe if they don't use Google services is essentially telling someone to give up on use of the internet entirely.
Governments can ask, and Google will say "No, please come back with an order."
How do you know Google will say, "No, please come back with an order?" What if Google only tells the public that it insists on the government presenting a lawfully issued court order, but in fact it secretly gives the government whatever information wants? Speculation that Google is deeply implicated with the US government has been going around for over a decade now.
Sure, the data might be safe from a government's prying eyes, but will it be safe from a government who kindly asks for the data, with the company acquiescing between it wants to maintain its lucrative business links with the authorities?
Everything we know about physics points this way; nothing points the way you suggest. It's simply not the way to bet. What you're talking about has basis only in mythology at this point in time.
Dualism has in fact made something of a comeback in the last few years. Although Richard Swinburne might have started this wave with publications arising from his interest in philosophy of religion, many of his students and other thinkers who are continuing this line of inquiry are not theists. "Basis only in mythology"? Someone here doesn't keep up with philosophy.
Firmware updates have brought improving PDF support. It is a complex format to handle, and I have run into bugs with certain PDF files that were then fixed in the next firmware update.
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Even temporary vandalism can have an effect on property values and, assuming the broken window theory holds (which I myself am uncertain of), possibly crime rates. So, it makes sense to prosecute those creating images with chalk without the authorization of whoever owns or manages the surface they are covering.
You know what's really cool? Getting the permission of the owner of a property (or local government) before practicing one's art. The painting can be as whizbang as one can imagine, but without that authorization from whoever owns or manages the wall, "cool" is not the word for it.
Hebrew is in fact one of the Cannanite languages, which in turn is part of the Northwest Semitic branch of the Semitic family. Akkadian, on the other hand, belongs to a different branch of Semitic, namely East Semitic. See here for the subgrouping under Semitic, which has been the mainstream for many decades now.
How do you know that? I think it is pretty obvious that, say, more customers from Orange Romania visit the territory of Orange France than vice-versa.
And this new legislation will change nothing of the way that operators are legally registered.
Since pan-European operators like Orange or Vodaphone are actually made up of many individual companies registered at the national level, would the use of an Orange network in country A by a customer from country B not result in at least some added accounting expense, as these individual companies have to coordinate their records?
Nice try, but Emacs users wouldnâ(TM)t advocate use of arrow-keys.
Besides the fact that Print is accessible, like everywhere else, through Ctrl-P, the "gear" menu can be opened with the keyboard by hitting Tab until the focus goes to the toolbar, then using the arrow-keys to move focus to the gear icon, then hitting Return. I am not a big fan of Gnome and am deeply unhappy with many of their changes, but getting where you need to go with the keyboard remains fairly easy to figure out in most applications.
Not everything pirated can be easily downloaded again. There are lots of torrents that only have a single seeder, who might disappear halfway through your download. Often it is hard to find the content in a lossless format -- most films can be had from The Pirate Bay, but only as <1GB .avi files, while tracking down a DVD9 or Bluray image of some titles requires a painstaking search and a lot of luck.
So, backup what you get, because you might not ever see it again.
Hungary had a fascist-led government around World War II just like many other countries.
Can you cite this, please? I would be very surprised to hear this from Fidesz, as it sounds like an exclusively Jobbik thing. Many people outside of Hungary with only a cursory understanding of the country's dour political situation tend to confuse Fidesz and Jobbik, but the latter party does not have much power (yet).
They already have started, in fact. It's very common for the vinyl edition of an album to be less of a loudness wars catastrophe than the CD or MP3 digital downloads because vinyl customers tend to overlap with audiophiles. Two albums I can name off the top of my head where this was done are R.E.M.'s Accelerate and Rush's Clockwork Angels. After buying the CDs and hearing how they were brickwalled, I was happy to have supported the artist by buying at least something, but then I went to a torrent site, downloaded a vinyl rip and now play that exclusively on my home stereo.
The product in question uses FLAC, so that pretty much means that there will be gapless playback.
Before smartphones, commuters were staring into books (which contained less information than an Internet-connected device can provide), doing crosswords or simply looking out the window. In my considerable experience of commuter transportation around the world, I have never seen people on their way to the daily grind "interacting with one another" to any significant degree.
And you think this isn't a problem with smaller companies as well? Loads of startups will let half of their staff go once they find they aren't able to monetize a product as easily as they thought.
The submitter appears to live in South Africa. After all, he wrote:
There's no suggestion that he is an American who has ever had to to deal with "the TSA". Slashdot has had a global readership since forever.
That analogy might have swayed people decades ago when Americans all had rosy views of the benevolence of the Founding Fathers, but from the better informed perspective of Americans today, maybe it would have been better had the British authorities been able to nip the Revolution in the bud. The Commonwealth countries show that staying a colony for another century would not have been a bad thing at all, and stopping the Revolutionaries would have saved America's Tories from having their houses burned down by self-appointed "guardians of liberty", being looted of their possessions and driven off to Canada just for wanting to stay with the mother country.
While I don't align with the politics, I occasionally dip into Charles Johnson's blog Little Green Footballs because in its 12-year history it has had an interesting dramatic arc (highly influential right-wing site in the wake of 9/11, then massively dropping in importance after Johnson turned his back on the right and presumably most of his readers as well). One thing that surprised me is how quick Johnson has been to excuse the NSA's activity, saying it is just "metadata", and collecting just "metadata" harms no one; in fact, revealing the collection of "metadata" has harmed our national security. Johnson processes news all day long and posts his own thoughts on the issues of the day as a profession, and here he is being adamant that it is a non-issue. There must be more news junkies out there who don't feel it's something to protest.
It is also driven by content creators who are sick of seeing the space they set aside for reader comments torn apart by trolls and Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory rudeness. A site admin dropping in a Facebook-authenticated comment system isn't doing so in order to make lots of money for Facebook in selling your data, he's doing it because he's heard that forcing a modicum of self-identification cuts down in flame wars.
Google collects data (and potentially passes it on to the US government) on more than just those who choose to use its services, as Google Analytics is included in the Javascript package of a great many sites, one might send an e-mail to a gmail.com address, etc. Telling something that they are safe if they don't use Google services is essentially telling someone to give up on use of the internet entirely.
How do you know Google will say, "No, please come back with an order?" What if Google only tells the public that it insists on the government presenting a lawfully issued court order, but in fact it secretly gives the government whatever information wants? Speculation that Google is deeply implicated with the US government has been going around for over a decade now.
Geez, "between it wants" should read "because it wants".
Sure, the data might be safe from a government's prying eyes, but will it be safe from a government who kindly asks for the data, with the company acquiescing between it wants to maintain its lucrative business links with the authorities?
Just to be more clear, when I wrote "dualism", I mean very specifically substance dualism.
Dualism has in fact made something of a comeback in the last few years. Although Richard Swinburne might have started this wave with publications arising from his interest in philosophy of religion, many of his students and other thinkers who are continuing this line of inquiry are not theists. "Basis only in mythology"? Someone here doesn't keep up with philosophy.
This explains so well your later point:
So you don't ever walk or hike anywhere, lardo?
Firmware updates have brought improving PDF support. It is a complex format to handle, and I have run into bugs with certain PDF files that were then fixed in the next firmware update.