here in California a large fraction of drivers can't even read the signs, since they aren't in Spanish
The signs are designed so that way by shape and color you can understand them. Or did you not pay attention in Driver's Ed? Now, if you mean that they cannot know where their location is, you don't need to speak English to know: "New York" means "New York", and even if you miss the exit, this isn't a dangerous mistake.
Most likely (see Chinatown in Houston) immigrants think that because they don't speak English that they can get away with breaking the rules, not that they don't understand the signs. Making excuses like "oh, they don't speak the language" won't help solve the problem, because it keeps non-adversarial people blaming the system, rather than the immigrant flagrantly ignoring the rules.
I personally prefer my Averatec (read: cheapo brand) laptop's keyboard for its fast action. On the average keyboard, I can probably hit around 90 wpm, but on my laptop's keyboard, I can keep up a sustained 105+ wpm speed. I can't stand the old IBM keyboards -- I can't type fast enough on them. To me, that's all that matters. And before anyone says that I'm just some young whippersnapper who has only been using computers a short while...no. I cut my teeth on a Tandy 1000 when I was maybe 5 years old. I've used IBMs, Dells, Apples (these are by far the worst keyboards, the clear-and-white boards), and Logitechs. The Averatec laptop is by far the best in my experience, and it's not even a high-cost brand of laptop.
It all comes down to personal preference IMHO, and since there are a lot of old computer hands on/., it makes sense that many would love the old IBMs. I just don't, because it doesn't hold the nostalgia for me. I didn't touch an IBM until I was 12 or so years old.
Just a quick calculation to let people make their own decision about whether $750/song is fair or not (I'm not saying it one way or the other in this post) assuming a person leaves his computer on 5 hours a day with a P2P app on the entire time, maxing out the connection and only uploading one song at a time:
So, using 70 cents per track as a value of the song (based off some iTunes assumptions), the most a person will rack up under my assumptions is 750 dollars after a little over a week.
Please tell me what subset of "freedom" is not encompassed by "independence," as I'm a libertarian-leaning person, and would like to know what could be done to my philosophy to make it more popular.
freedom, something no political party (not even the Greens nor the Libertarians) are about
Care to explain how Libertarians aren't about freedom? I'm really curious. I mean, the only elected official I know of is Ron Paul (life member of the Libertarian party), and he consistently writes about freedom, and has voted a lot in favor of freedom (which includes freedom of spammers -- witness his vote against the CAN-SPAM Act).
I said Distinguished Eagle Scout. As in, required to have had 25 years of distinguished service to the community after becoming an Eagle Scout. Only 2000 people have ever received this award, and the list includes at least five US astronauts, Tom Clark (US Supreme Court Justice), Nobel Price winners (Herschbach--
You know what. I'll stop there, because I just remembered that Rummy was one, too. Fuck.
Well, in any case, I posted a list of a lot of things he's done right, not just that he was a Distinguished Eagle Scout. So no, it was not the deciding factor; but there sure were a damn lot of factors I posted.
president of Texas A&M University (where he has guided the university to high rankings in engineering)
Distinguished Eagle Scout
He may not be perfect (potential minor involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal), but he's a hell of a lot better than anyone we've had in a long time! Not to mention he's of the "realist" foreign policy camp, not the "idealist" foreign policy camp (of which Rummy and Cheney are proponents).
the Legislative (which happens to have the Congress and the Senate as its two main parts)
Ahahah! Way to be nitpicky, and then claim that the legislative branch is made up of the Congress and the Senate. I'm sure you meant to say the House of Representatives and the Senate, but it's still funny nonetheless.
Indeed. In Texas, we have over four hundred fucking amendments to the Constitution. I'm of the opinion that the constitution ought to be like Ring 0. Granted, the Texas Constitution is extremely restrictive in that government powers are only those specifically enumerated, so statutes alone cannot grant new state powers. This is the problem.
Interestingly enough, Ron Paul is a card-carrying lifetime member of the Libertarian party. He was also the 1988 Libertarian candidate for president./grew up in Ron Paul's district, knows someone who works for him, and got invited to his victory party tonight
I have nothing really to add to what Bob9113 has said, except that, as a law student, I can assert that this man knows what he is talking about re consideration and negotiability.
For about 3 years, I've been testing the Linux waters. I keep having to revert back to Windows because I know the OS well, and I've been changing life situations frequently (different field of study, different country, etc.). I have a laptop running XP and Ubuntu (after removing Gentoo from it -- compiling everything from source on a laptop is not a grand idea). I plan to remove my XP partition after backing up all my Opera settings and mail and other important files.
However, my laptop is a sub-$1000 Averatec job. Athlon XP-M 2000+, 512MB RAM, 12.1" screen, 4 lbs. It's been very good to me, but is starting to show its wear (and it's only 2 years old). The case also creaks where the LCD meets the rest of the body. Also, the fan gets real loud now.
I sit in my law classes, surrounded by 100 MacBook laptops which make no sound that I can hear, and are built quite sturdily (indeed, isn't this one of the selling points of Macs, that they are constructed well?). UT Law also offers a financial aid plan, where I can buy a laptop that meets certain minimum requirements, and I will receive a loan repayable after graduation for the cost of the laptop.
Buying a MacBook Pro (after MacWorld next semester) and putting Linux (with Compiz/XGL???) on it is looking pretty nice right about now.
Ahahahahaha. Absolutely not. Every work is automatically copyrighted by default (even without a (C) anywhere), and it's extremely difficult (read: nearly impossible on the internet) to just BAM make something public domain, according to Prof. Larry Lessig (law prof at Stanford and founder of the Creative Commons). Yes, in our fucked up copyright world, we've taken away the artist's right to make something public domain.
In any case, yes, thanks to the artists for giving us this music to listen to. A big "fuck you" to all those poser nerds, who ain't 1337 enough to respect nerdcore. You're all just frontin', yo!
So now the question remains: will I be modded "informative" for the first paragraph, "funny" for the second, "troll" for the second, or will the FBI just raid my house and take my computer? (I do listen to nerdcore)
Opera's RSS reader (since at least version 8) lets you search RSS feed entries, and does so instantaneously through some caching database technique. I mean, I read the list of "things IE7 has that are great":
I think IE7 is the first browser with integrated real-time anti-phishing functionality, with an RSS platform and support for Simple List Extensions (see below), with "QuickTabs," with support for OpenSearch, and with shrink-to-fit printing on by default. In Windows Vista with Protected Mode, IE7 is the first browser to "put itself into a sandbox" and run with low privileges.
I thought FF had the anti-phishing thing already. Opera will have it incredibly soon (next release, I think; I mean, it was just on/. this week). Opera's native RSS platform is really good, and I've never had a problem with Sage on FF (though I do prefer Opera's).
Oh. My. God. I'm so impressed: really? IE7 has shrink-to-fit printing on by default. How incredibly fucking revolutionary!
I would live in England (for the culture) or Japan (I speak the language). If I did not have to have a job, I'd live in Japan. I couldn't put up with working in Japan, though. Norway would be nice, too, because of their freedom of the press and low government corruption.
What's stopping me is that someone has to stay in the US and fight for what's right. If everyone who was against the direction America is going, America (which has so friggin many nukes) would go into the ground and eventually be run by war-mongerers and idiots, with no chance of ever replacing them at the polls.
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Most likely (see Chinatown in Houston) immigrants think that because they don't speak English that they can get away with breaking the rules, not that they don't understand the signs. Making excuses like "oh, they don't speak the language" won't help solve the problem, because it keeps non-adversarial people blaming the system, rather than the immigrant flagrantly ignoring the rules.
I personally prefer my Averatec (read: cheapo brand) laptop's keyboard for its fast action. On the average keyboard, I can probably hit around 90 wpm, but on my laptop's keyboard, I can keep up a sustained 105+ wpm speed. I can't stand the old IBM keyboards -- I can't type fast enough on them. To me, that's all that matters. And before anyone says that I'm just some young whippersnapper who has only been using computers a short while...no. I cut my teeth on a Tandy 1000 when I was maybe 5 years old. I've used IBMs, Dells, Apples (these are by far the worst keyboards, the clear-and-white boards), and Logitechs. The Averatec laptop is by far the best in my experience, and it's not even a high-cost brand of laptop.
/., it makes sense that many would love the old IBMs. I just don't, because it doesn't hold the nostalgia for me. I didn't touch an IBM until I was 12 or so years old.
It all comes down to personal preference IMHO, and since there are a lot of old computer hands on
Just a quick calculation to let people make their own decision about whether $750/song is fair or not (I'm not saying it one way or the other in this post) assuming a person leaves his computer on 5 hours a day with a P2P app on the entire time, maxing out the connection and only uploading one song at a time:
$750 * 1song/$.70 * 5MB/1song * 1024KB/1MB * 1s/40KB * 1hr/3600s * 1dy/5hr = 7.6 days.
So, using 70 cents per track as a value of the song (based off some iTunes assumptions), the most a person will rack up under my assumptions is 750 dollars after a little over a week.
You forgot to add Episode I one last time at the end because the third time you watch the films, it's about Jar Jar.
In that case, can I have your user ID?
I'd like to point out that there are many people who don't know what "lolikon" is. It is basically Japanese comics with children naked or having sex.
Please tell me what subset of "freedom" is not encompassed by "independence," as I'm a libertarian-leaning person, and would like to know what could be done to my philosophy to make it more popular.
Care to explain how Libertarians aren't about freedom? I'm really curious. I mean, the only elected official I know of is Ron Paul (life member of the Libertarian party), and he consistently writes about freedom, and has voted a lot in favor of freedom (which includes freedom of spammers -- witness his vote against the CAN-SPAM Act).
I'm sorry, I feel for your plight. But I just couldn't resist the recently-dethroned Ted Stevens reference.
I said Distinguished Eagle Scout. As in, required to have had 25 years of distinguished service to the community after becoming an Eagle Scout. Only 2000 people have ever received this award, and the list includes at least five US astronauts, Tom Clark (US Supreme Court Justice), Nobel Price winners (Herschbach--
You know what. I'll stop there, because I just remembered that Rummy was one, too. Fuck.
Well, in any case, I posted a list of a lot of things he's done right, not just that he was a Distinguished Eagle Scout. So no, it was not the deciding factor; but there sure were a damn lot of factors I posted.
- Air Force service during Vietnam War
- intelligence officer in the CIA
- nine years on the National Security Council
- highly decorated for his service
- president of Texas A&M University (where he has guided the university to high rankings in engineering)
- Distinguished Eagle Scout
He may not be perfect (potential minor involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal), but he's a hell of a lot better than anyone we've had in a long time! Not to mention he's of the "realist" foreign policy camp, not the "idealist" foreign policy camp (of which Rummy and Cheney are proponents).Considering that Rumsfeld had offered his resignation twice, and Bush had told him, "No," I find a lack of truthiness on someone's part (not yours).
Indeed. In Texas, we have over four hundred fucking amendments to the Constitution. I'm of the opinion that the constitution ought to be like Ring 0. Granted, the Texas Constitution is extremely restrictive in that government powers are only those specifically enumerated, so statutes alone cannot grant new state powers. This is the problem.
I have nothing really to add to what Bob9113 has said, except that, as a law student, I can assert that this man knows what he is talking about re consideration and negotiability.
For about 3 years, I've been testing the Linux waters. I keep having to revert back to Windows because I know the OS well, and I've been changing life situations frequently (different field of study, different country, etc.). I have a laptop running XP and Ubuntu (after removing Gentoo from it -- compiling everything from source on a laptop is not a grand idea). I plan to remove my XP partition after backing up all my Opera settings and mail and other important files.
However, my laptop is a sub-$1000 Averatec job. Athlon XP-M 2000+, 512MB RAM, 12.1" screen, 4 lbs. It's been very good to me, but is starting to show its wear (and it's only 2 years old). The case also creaks where the LCD meets the rest of the body. Also, the fan gets real loud now.
I sit in my law classes, surrounded by 100 MacBook laptops which make no sound that I can hear, and are built quite sturdily (indeed, isn't this one of the selling points of Macs, that they are constructed well?). UT Law also offers a financial aid plan, where I can buy a laptop that meets certain minimum requirements, and I will receive a loan repayable after graduation for the cost of the laptop.
Buying a MacBook Pro (after MacWorld next semester) and putting Linux (with Compiz/XGL???) on it is looking pretty nice right about now.
That should tell you what is wrong with people who care little about this issue.
Wow. You're at 5 Funny. Apparently only 5 people think it won't happen!
In any case, yes, thanks to the artists for giving us this music to listen to. A big "fuck you" to all those poser nerds, who ain't 1337 enough to respect nerdcore. You're all just frontin', yo!
So now the question remains: will I be modded "informative" for the first paragraph, "funny" for the second, "troll" for the second, or will the FBI just raid my house and take my computer? (I do listen to nerdcore)
Oh. My. God. I'm so impressed: really? IE7 has shrink-to-fit printing on by default. How incredibly fucking revolutionary!
I would live in England (for the culture) or Japan (I speak the language). If I did not have to have a job, I'd live in Japan. I couldn't put up with working in Japan, though. Norway would be nice, too, because of their freedom of the press and low government corruption.
What's stopping me is that someone has to stay in the US and fight for what's right. If everyone who was against the direction America is going, America (which has so friggin many nukes) would go into the ground and eventually be run by war-mongerers and idiots, with no chance of ever replacing them at the polls.