Thanks for the correction. It's interesting, and particularly that you have the genetic variation. So how do you feel about the human race being modified by science to emulate your genes?;)
Point of clarity for the OP, though - his point about placebos still doesn't stand.
I mean, its not as if you need to have a license to drive or anything like that.
So the suggestion is that there should be a licence to play games? What exactly would they test? Shows no increased sign of wanting to kill people after playing Doom for an hour? Unless that's your proposal then your counter to the OP makes no sense at all.
You've reminded me of a place I worked where the naming convention was heavenly bodies. We had, I kid you not, Pluto, Mars, Mercury, Saturn and Elle (Macpherson). Ah, that was fun.
Not only that, but names can help you remember which server is for what purpose. My four computers at one employer were 'Sadism', 'Masochism', 'Bondage' and 'Discipline'. I got away with that for nearly half a year before my team leader noticed. Anyway, Bondage was for all my admin stuff, emails, etc. Discipline was my test rig. Masochism my build scripts, et al. Sadism actual development. I was stretching the definitions a fair bit for some of those, but it did make sense to me. And was no suprise at all to those who knew me.;)
I set mine to Yahoo ages ago. They're actually very good now, except for the bizarrely paternalistic and unwanted "this site not approved by Yahoo" that sometimes comes up.
Sadly, using Yahoo caused me to miss all the fun.:( Oh well, maybe they'll break next.:)
Hey now! I had a friend who used to work as a phone sex operator (genuinely). She was not unattractive. She did, however, read clothing catalogues whilst conducting phone sessions. Presumably a let down to know she was choosing cardigans whilst you got off.
Thanks. I already have 4.1, so there's little to lose by moving to 4.2 and some things to gain, apparently. I'll try and find a way to do the multiple desktops. Thanks for the pointer.
it also packs some features that went missing from KDE 3.5 like auto panel hiding, which is always good.
Does it let me set different wallpapers for different desktops again. I waited six months to let KDE4.0 settle down a bit before installing and I was prepared for problems and missing features. But if I'd known I couldn't have different wallpapers, I would have held off longer. So what's the status now? Can I make different desktops look different again, yet? If so, I'll be much happier.
I don't know. Screen scrapers can be pretty fucking irritating. Particularly in the parallel case of support forums. It's a problem when you want to search for a problem with some code or a database and the first eight hits are all the same post on different "forums", (usually all ripped off Usenet). How do you know if the replies are the same on all threads. What if *you* want to reply? Which site do you use? And they obscure different answers just through drowning them out. Ideally, I want a Google or Yahoo search engine plugin which will let me exclude all the scrapers.
Heh. Not in comparison to Firefox, but my copy of Konqueror on KDE leaves both of them in its dust.
But aside from resource demands (and I'll wait until I can try it properly before I make any judgements), IE8 looks quite nice. I'd certainly be willing to try it out if they made a version for non-Windows systems. How about it Microsoft - fancy branching out?:)
There was a case late last year when a reputable reporter recognized a police officer she had talked to in amongst the protestors at an anti-war demonstration trying to incite people to breach police lines and physically harass officers.
That's a very serious allegation. Could you post a reputable source?
The original article from the Daily Mail has now expired but you can find an account of the incident in numerous places if you search for it. The reporter was Yasmin Whittaker-Khan who writes for the Daily Mail, one of the UK's largest papers. The story washere and the incident took place on the 15th June '08 during protests against George Bush. The reporter recognised a particularly loud and agitating protestor who was trying to get people to charge the police lines, trying to get people chanting "kill the pigs" and in one instance showed a protestor how to decouple the police barricade and got him to help throw it at an officer. She had actually talked to him at a press function where he had been representing them on some subject (I forget what). She confronted him, he admitted who he was. The officer's name was "Chris Dreyfus." If you want to know how reputable this story is, a UK MP wrote to the police about this. The MP's letter is here and contains further details.
I have more anecdotal and second-hand evidence from people, but this is the only established source I can provide in the UK (there are plenty of incidents verified in other countries also). However, it's pretty clear from the above that this takes place and it is a very serious matter.
So if you're the police and you want to seize some organization's computers and / or logs, just post a death threat on their site. I'm not saying that's what happened in this instance, just pointing out a vulnerability. In the UK, it's been established that the police have had members go undercover in protest movements to encourage violence and act extreme in order to justify a crack down. There was a case late last year when a reputable reporter recognized a police officer she had talked to in amongst the protestors at an anti-war demonstration trying to incite people to breach police lines and physically harass officers. Taking such methods online is a natural step.
Use blackboards or interactive white boards. Teach basic subjects. IT as a subject in British schools is deeply flawed. Teach English, not Microsoft Word. Teach maths, not Excel spreadsheets. IT is a nightmare to teach to unwilling kids in a school and relatively pointless. So children really need lessons on Word?
Well I'm not saying this is the case, but a theory would be that if everyone else is in trouble, even if IBM is not, then demand for IBM's services will go down. My sympathy to anyone who has lost their job though.
"Evil" often comes from being beyond consequences. And Microsoft had unassailable power it seemed for a while. But now you have Google and a resurgent Apple laying into them. Maybe MS have started to realise the benefits of good relations with their customer base and other players in the IT world, e.g. they're complying with standards.
So perhaps it would be fairer to say that 17,000 downloads only equals 5,000 lost sales, for example. Would that be sufficient grounds for concern? It's ludicrous to take the statement that 17,000 downloads doesn't equal 17,000 lost sales (well, duh!) and then swing to the other extreme and use it as an argument to say that piracy isn't causing lost sales. I know few people these days that actually pay for music or movies, but they certainly would if they couldn't download them. They'll say so themselves quite openly!
And what of the people who do pay for music? Are they happy to be subsidizing all the others that do not?
Patients should have their health records under their control. They can then allow people to look at them (e.g. their doctor) or not as they choose. Some records will have to be kept on the doctor's side, e.g. prescriptions for controlled medications such methadone, but many records need not be.
This also reminds me of a comic book called The Invisibles, in which one character explains to another that their universe is in fact a hologram created by the interaction of two realities. The overlap with this story in terms of general concept and terminology is surprising.
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At last, a wedding ring you can make notes with! There will be a lot of happy girls this year.
Milla Jovavich is carved out of Boron? I don't believe it!
Thanks for the correction. It's interesting, and particularly that you have the genetic variation. So how do you feel about the human race being modified by science to emulate your genes?
Point of clarity for the OP, though - his point about placebos still doesn't stand.
It's HIV, not a headache. Would a placebo really make that much difference to whether someone starts producing antibodies to fight it?
So the suggestion is that there should be a licence to play games? What exactly would they test? Shows no increased sign of wanting to kill people after playing Doom for an hour? Unless that's your proposal then your counter to the OP makes no sense at all.
You've reminded me of a place I worked where the naming convention was heavenly bodies. We had, I kid you not, Pluto, Mars, Mercury, Saturn and Elle (Macpherson). Ah, that was fun.
Not only that, but names can help you remember which server is for what purpose. My four computers at one employer were 'Sadism', 'Masochism', 'Bondage' and 'Discipline'. I got away with that for nearly half a year before my team leader noticed. Anyway, Bondage was for all my admin stuff, emails, etc. Discipline was my test rig. Masochism my build scripts, et al. Sadism actual development. I was stretching the definitions a fair bit for some of those, but it did make sense to me. And was no suprise at all to those who knew me.
I set mine to Yahoo ages ago. They're actually very good now, except for the bizarrely paternalistic and unwanted "this site not approved by Yahoo" that sometimes comes up.
Sadly, using Yahoo caused me to miss all the fun.
No you get John Connor. Sorry.
Hey now! I had a friend who used to work as a phone sex operator (genuinely). She was not unattractive. She did, however, read clothing catalogues whilst conducting phone sessions. Presumably a let down to know she was choosing cardigans whilst you got off.
Thanks. I already have 4.1, so there's little to lose by moving to 4.2 and some things to gain, apparently. I'll try and find a way to do the multiple desktops. Thanks for the pointer.
H.
Does it let me set different wallpapers for different desktops again. I waited six months to let KDE4.0 settle down a bit before installing and I was prepared for problems and missing features. But if I'd known I couldn't have different wallpapers, I would have held off longer. So what's the status now? Can I make different desktops look different again, yet? If so, I'll be much happier.
I don't know. Screen scrapers can be pretty fucking irritating. Particularly in the parallel case of support forums. It's a problem when you want to search for a problem with some code or a database and the first eight hits are all the same post on different "forums", (usually all ripped off Usenet). How do you know if the replies are the same on all threads. What if *you* want to reply? Which site do you use? And they obscure different answers just through drowning them out. Ideally, I want a Google or Yahoo search engine plugin which will let me exclude all the scrapers.
The police should buy their own damn drugs like everybody else.
Heh. Not in comparison to Firefox, but my copy of Konqueror on KDE leaves both of them in its dust.
But aside from resource demands (and I'll wait until I can try it properly before I make any judgements), IE8 looks quite nice. I'd certainly be willing to try it out if they made a version for non-Windows systems. How about it Microsoft - fancy branching out?
My scale goes down to -11. -11 !
The original article from the Daily Mail has now expired but you can find an account of the incident in numerous places if you search for it. The reporter was Yasmin Whittaker-Khan who writes for the Daily Mail, one of the UK's largest papers. The story was here and the incident took place on the 15th June '08 during protests against George Bush. The reporter recognised a particularly loud and agitating protestor who was trying to get people to charge the police lines, trying to get people chanting "kill the pigs" and in one instance showed a protestor how to decouple the police barricade and got him to help throw it at an officer. She had actually talked to him at a press function where he had been representing them on some subject (I forget what). She confronted him, he admitted who he was. The officer's name was "Chris Dreyfus." If you want to know how reputable this story is, a UK MP wrote to the police about this. The MP's letter is here and contains further details.
I have more anecdotal and second-hand evidence from people, but this is the only established source I can provide in the UK (there are plenty of incidents verified in other countries also). However, it's pretty clear from the above that this takes place and it is a very serious matter.
So if you're the police and you want to seize some organization's computers and / or logs, just post a death threat on their site. I'm not saying that's what happened in this instance, just pointing out a vulnerability. In the UK, it's been established that the police have had members go undercover in protest movements to encourage violence and act extreme in order to justify a crack down. There was a case late last year when a reputable reporter recognized a police officer she had talked to in amongst the protestors at an anti-war demonstration trying to incite people to breach police lines and physically harass officers. Taking such methods online is a natural step.
Use blackboards or interactive white boards. Teach basic subjects. IT as a subject in British schools is deeply flawed. Teach English, not Microsoft Word. Teach maths, not Excel spreadsheets. IT is a nightmare to teach to unwilling kids in a school and relatively pointless. So children really need lessons on Word?
And we shall call this new O/S... Cossux!
Well I'm not saying this is the case, but a theory would be that if everyone else is in trouble, even if IBM is not, then demand for IBM's services will go down. My sympathy to anyone who has lost their job though.
"Evil" often comes from being beyond consequences. And Microsoft had unassailable power it seemed for a while. But now you have Google and a resurgent Apple laying into them. Maybe MS have started to realise the benefits of good relations with their customer base and other players in the IT world, e.g. they're complying with standards.
So perhaps it would be fairer to say that 17,000 downloads only equals 5,000 lost sales, for example. Would that be sufficient grounds for concern? It's ludicrous to take the statement that 17,000 downloads doesn't equal 17,000 lost sales (well, duh!) and then swing to the other extreme and use it as an argument to say that piracy isn't causing lost sales. I know few people these days that actually pay for music or movies, but they certainly would if they couldn't download them. They'll say so themselves quite openly!
And what of the people who do pay for music? Are they happy to be subsidizing all the others that do not?
Patients should have their health records under their control. They can then allow people to look at them (e.g. their doctor) or not as they choose. Some records will have to be kept on the doctor's side, e.g. prescriptions for controlled medications such methadone, but many records need not be.
This also reminds me of a comic book called The Invisibles, in which one character explains to another that their universe is in fact a hologram created by the interaction of two realities. The overlap with this story in terms of general concept and terminology is surprising.