There's a hint of taste corresponding to what the vodka was made of. But, yeah, most people do not perceive that.
Water and ethanol at it's best, where even the best companies' claim to fame is just how many times they've filtered it to get any and all taste out of it.
Try a good whiskey. I prefer bourbon, but any higher tier whiskey will do. I don't see how anyone would drink vodka except as random alcohol to pour into a juice when other spirits are available. If you don't like the whiskey, try a spiced rum instead. Don't like it as much as whiskey, but they're still enjoyable too.
To me whiskey tastes like alcohol which had a piece of old rotten wood immersed in it for months.
Another time I was in a friend's room reading a textbook, and this chick showed-up wearing nothing but a towel. I excused myself but she said, "No need to leave" and dropped the towel right in front of me.
Let me guess... You were using a t-shirt with a C= logo when that happened..
He committed a crime against the laws of the United States and against the United States.
That's my point: if you're not a US citizen, nor are you in US territory, US laws are irrelevant to you.
What makes extra-national laws (and international organizations) appliable is when a country formally recognizes those, otherwise they legally do not exist in such jurisdiction.
In cases such as Assange's, what matters in practice is political pressure, it's not really about laws.
The US government has already decided to destroy that man. What they're doing now it applying some legal dressing over it in order to legitimize that, so UK/Sweden won't be in a difficult political situation when cooperating with the US.
He's currently pissing off Sweden by not cooperating in what should be a simple police investigation in an unrelated matter.
I'm not sure about that.
The perfect timing and the way the investigation happened in Sweden so far makes that very suspicious.
He also broke an Australian law against doing what he did to Australia's allies. Which is another reason he's hiding in Europe and not in Australia.
I don't know australian laws, but your claim is too broad... Do you know which laws specifically he broke?
To me it looks quite obvious that Assange feared Australia being easily bound by US political pressure, since it's an official ally. But that, by itself, has nothing to do with laws.
Assange released a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been classified. But along with it he released a lot of stuff that should have been kept secret. He'll be punished for the latter.
Assange is not a US citizen, nor he did that in US soil.
And I don't remember electing the US administration as Earth government.
Unfortunately once urine is exposed to air, bacteria start to process that into something unpleasant.
Canned food is sterile too, but it will eventually rot if left opened.
Same goes for water.
What's your point?
Water get rotten/stinky few hours after being exposed to air? That's a new one.
My point is that even though urine is (in normal cases) sterile by itself, it does not behave like many people would expect from a sterile substance. That is, being completely inert. -- That is related to the comment above by someone claiming bathing in urine.
Unfortunately once urine is exposed to air, bacteria start to process that into something unpleasant.
Canned food is sterile too, but it will eventually rot if left opened.
Perhaps if Mr Assange wants to further his goal of preventing things being covered up, he might like to start with those nations that are actively and openly censoring their citizens' right to free speech and free access to information?
Agreed.
Hint: America is not very high up that list.
I'm not sure about that.
But it's very clear that the US government helps the the scum that runs several non-democratic governments, and it has a long history of interference and messing things up in legitimate governments around the globe.
Or maybe people in those countries don't send Wikileaks stuff to publish? They're not an investigation organization, they just publish them protecting the identity of the source.
Uh... Question here:
Is Wikileaks able to properly process documents written in a language other than English?
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Breaking up Ma Bell wasn't the best idea our friends in DC ever had.
I don't think that breaking Bell was bad. The problem was that the government let the companies to do whatever they wanted.
In Europe standardization is usually taken more seriously, thus avoiding each country doing whatever they want and things becoming a total mess. That should be easier to do in a single country, and it's really a shame the US has such problems.
I'm holding out for SCSI or an Amiga video slot. I want to track down a dusty Video Toaster 4000 card and do some genlockin'.
Amiga video slot for genlocking?
Uh... Are you aware how promiscuous the relevant signals are to the Amiga chipset (in order to simplify genlock design)?
That's a good analogy you used in English: "1" for "l", "o" for "0", "S" for "$" and so on.
Still, I find problematic to use non-ASCII characters in variable names for a number of reasons:
- Unless you're really, really sure only native speakers will maintain the code, I think that using anything except English is a bad idea (consider that I'm neither a native English speaker, nor I love that language -- I'm just being practical, unfortunately Esperanto is not widespread).
- Different languages treat accented characters differently. For example: Portuguese considers accented letters the same letters for "letter naming" and of sorting (even cedilla is considered a variant of "c"). Spanish (Castillan) consider certain accented letters distinct, while not others. Polish consider accented letters diffently and even clusters of letters are characters on their own (like "rz", "szcz" etc).
- Certain - completely different - accents looks too alike, or are simply confusing for non-speakers (like Romainian cedilla-like accents, or Slovak soft "L" which looks like a "l"+apostrophe.
- You can produce the same accented letter using different Unicode code sequences.
- Certain characters from different scripts look alike, if not exactly the same: Cyrillic "N" and Latin "H" for example.
- You may even understand the script, but are you able to type that? I can type French easily with my keymap, but a french keymap is useless for me, for example.
Don't you find amusing how they perverted the meaning of "G" (meaning "generation")?
It's sort like saying "a 0.75 order of magnitude" or "we released our 2.4932154nd product".
But they're going to hire me because there's a better chance that my writing and communication skills are superior. You don't learn how to deal with people by teaching yourself to code and your writing skills probably need some work (ever wonder why English 101 is required for your university degree?)
Don't delude yourself... They will probably hire you because:
- The CVs will be filtered by a non-technical HR employee who will blindly search for buzz words and academic qualifications.
- Then those filtered CVs will be reviewed by someone who don't want the hassle of trying to find a "hidden gem", so that person will pick the safer options (academic qualifications and formal experience with the exact very technologies they want you to work with) for interview.
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Vodka, even "good" vodka, is lifeless.
There's a hint of taste corresponding to what the vodka was made of. But, yeah, most people do not perceive that.
Water and ethanol at it's best, where even the best companies' claim to fame is just how many times they've filtered it to get any and all taste out of it.
Try a good whiskey. I prefer bourbon, but any higher tier whiskey will do. I don't see how anyone would drink vodka except as random alcohol to pour into a juice when other spirits are available. If you don't like the whiskey, try a spiced rum instead. Don't like it as much as whiskey, but they're still enjoyable too.
To me whiskey tastes like alcohol which had a piece of old rotten wood immersed in it for months.
Apparently the virus is Windows specific and targets industrial control systems manufactured by Siemens.
Why the hell Siemens is running Windows for such kind of application, to begin with?
And finally... Why the heck are our friends at Siemens selling systems to the Iranians?
Friends?
Neither companies nor government have friends, they have interests.
Another time I was in a friend's room reading a textbook, and this chick showed-up wearing nothing but a towel. I excused myself but she said, "No need to leave" and dropped the towel right in front of me.
Let me guess... You were using a t-shirt with a C= logo when that happened..
He committed a crime against the laws of the United States and against the United States.
That's my point: if you're not a US citizen, nor are you in US territory, US laws are irrelevant to you.
What makes extra-national laws (and international organizations) appliable is when a country formally recognizes those, otherwise they legally do not exist in such jurisdiction.
In cases such as Assange's, what matters in practice is political pressure, it's not really about laws.
The US government has already decided to destroy that man. What they're doing now it applying some legal dressing over it in order to legitimize that, so UK/Sweden won't be in a difficult political situation when cooperating with the US.
He's currently pissing off Sweden by not cooperating in what should be a simple police investigation in an unrelated matter.
I'm not sure about that.
The perfect timing and the way the investigation happened in Sweden so far makes that very suspicious.
He also broke an Australian law against doing what he did to Australia's allies. Which is another reason he's hiding in Europe and not in Australia.
I don't know australian laws, but your claim is too broad... Do you know which laws specifically he broke?
To me it looks quite obvious that Assange feared Australia being easily bound by US political pressure, since it's an official ally. But that, by itself, has nothing to do with laws.
Assange released a lot of stuff that shouldn't have been classified. But along with it he released a lot of stuff that should have been kept secret. He'll be punished for the latter.
Assange is not a US citizen, nor he did that in US soil.
And I don't remember electing the US administration as Earth government.
NoMachine has always been a bit possessive with their (definitely impressive) technology.
To be fair, it's not like NX appeared from nowhere: it's a fork from DXPC.
From the installation instructions:
ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso
So this CR-48 is just a x86 notebook with a custom firmware. I was expecting something based on ARM instead.
Meh.
Dunno... The heat death of the internet?
Israel survives by being the Mouse that Roars.
It roars because it has a huge lion behind it.
Lion leaves, mouse is gone.
Unfortunately once urine is exposed to air, bacteria start to process that into something unpleasant.
Canned food is sterile too, but it will eventually rot if left opened.
Same goes for water. What's your point?
Water get rotten/stinky few hours after being exposed to air? That's a new one.
My point is that even though urine is (in normal cases) sterile by itself, it does not behave like many people would expect from a sterile substance. That is, being completely inert. -- That is related to the comment above by someone claiming bathing in urine.
Unfortunately once urine is exposed to air, bacteria start to process that into something unpleasant.
Canned food is sterile too, but it will eventually rot if left opened.
They certainly didn't traumatize me.
Some people may disagree.
Perhaps if Mr Assange wants to further his goal of preventing things being covered up, he might like to start with those nations that are actively and openly censoring their citizens' right to free speech and free access to information?
Agreed.
Hint: America is not very high up that list.
I'm not sure about that.
But it's very clear that the US government helps the the scum that runs several non-democratic governments, and it has a long history of interference and messing things up in legitimate governments around the globe.
Or maybe people in those countries don't send Wikileaks stuff to publish? They're not an investigation organization, they just publish them protecting the identity of the source.
Uh... Question here:
Is Wikileaks able to properly process documents written in a language other than English?
That's a fundamental truth:
it's easy to have ideals, until it starts costing you.
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Well... That does not sound very open to me.
Still in demand and it will not die.
Any particular dialect?
I would suggest the newer one, from 1962 A.D.
Breaking up Ma Bell wasn't the best idea our friends in DC ever had.
I don't think that breaking Bell was bad. The problem was that the government let the companies to do whatever they wanted.
In Europe standardization is usually taken more seriously, thus avoiding each country doing whatever they want and things becoming a total mess. That should be easier to do in a single country, and it's really a shame the US has such problems.
I'm holding out for SCSI or an Amiga video slot. I want to track down a dusty Video Toaster 4000 card and do some genlockin'.
Amiga video slot for genlocking?
Uh... Are you aware how promiscuous the relevant signals are to the Amiga chipset (in order to simplify genlock design)?
Oracle survives (and well) thanks to PHBs who believe that Oracle's DB is the only one able to do the job.
Agreed.
Sun is dead, there's no longer a political reason to keep using Java in LivreOffice.
That's a good analogy you used in English: "1" for "l", "o" for "0", "S" for "$" and so on.
Still, I find problematic to use non-ASCII characters in variable names for a number of reasons:
- Unless you're really, really sure only native speakers will maintain the code, I think that using anything except English is a bad idea (consider that I'm neither a native English speaker, nor I love that language -- I'm just being practical, unfortunately Esperanto is not widespread).
- Different languages treat accented characters differently. For example: Portuguese considers accented letters the same letters for "letter naming" and of sorting (even cedilla is considered a variant of "c"). Spanish (Castillan) consider certain accented letters distinct, while not others. Polish consider accented letters diffently and even clusters of letters are characters on their own (like "rz", "szcz" etc).
- Certain - completely different - accents looks too alike, or are simply confusing for non-speakers (like Romainian cedilla-like accents, or Slovak soft "L" which looks like a "l"+apostrophe.
- You can produce the same accented letter using different Unicode code sequences.
- Certain characters from different scripts look alike, if not exactly the same: Cyrillic "N" and Latin "H" for example.
- You may even understand the script, but are you able to type that? I can type French easily with my keymap, but a french keymap is useless for me, for example.
You may try the mysql version instead.
Don't you find amusing how they perverted the meaning of "G" (meaning "generation")?
It's sort like saying "a 0.75 order of magnitude" or "we released our 2.4932154nd product".
But they're going to hire me because there's a better chance that my writing and communication skills are superior. You don't learn how to deal with people by teaching yourself to code and your writing skills probably need some work (ever wonder why English 101 is required for your university degree?)
Don't delude yourself... They will probably hire you because:
- The CVs will be filtered by a non-technical HR employee who will blindly search for buzz words and academic qualifications.
- Then those filtered CVs will be reviewed by someone who don't want the hassle of trying to find a "hidden gem", so that person will pick the safer options (academic qualifications and formal experience with the exact very technologies they want you to work with) for interview.