I think we can rest easy in the confidence both this policy and Beazley will be long gone and forgotten by the time the ALP win government. Have you seen the polls lately?
Clerk:
There's no such thing as a bloody PC license. Customer:
I bleeding got one, look! What's that then? Clerk:
This is a TV license with the word 'TV' crossed out and 'PC' written in in crayon. Customer:
The man didn't have the right form. Clerk:
What man? Customer:
The man from the PC detector van. Clerk:
The loony detector van you mean. Customer:
Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
I too studied linguistics once upon a time.:) In a way, grandparent has it arse about..
English used to be far more inflected, i.e. words themselves contained meta-data in the form of affixes (such as word endings) that conveyed grammatical information (such as case), and word order didn't matter nearly as much.
Contact with Old Norse via the Vikings that set up shop in the north of England caused English to become far less inflected -- Old English and Old Norse are very similar languages in terms of vocabulary, but different in terms of grammar, word endings in particular. In order to make themselves mutually intelligible, word endings were phased out in favour of using word order to convey meaning.
So, in a sense, "simplifying" English made it easier, not more difficult, for people to get meaning out of a sentence.:)
Eddie: This is a sex shop isn't it? Assistant: Yes. Eddie: I'll have five quid's worth then! Assistant: Very droll, sir. I've never heard that one before. Eddie: Haven't you? Shall I tell it again? Assistant: No thank you sir, I'd rather have a pineapple inserted violently into my rectum. Eddie: You've been working here too long mate.
After grace, Bitar resumed with his vision of bloodless warfare. Hostage situations would be as easy as hosing down a whole group of people with the lightning gun, and "then you could separate them out: hostages and non-hostages," he said.
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<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
English isn't the official language of the US, although it's become the de facto standard, and it sure as hell isn't a native language (Cherokee, Cheyenne, etc.).
However, it is _much_ (several times) slower to load (they have a splash engine now).
That's just the session manager (new for 4.2) starting up.
I disable it by editing/etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc and commenting out that line that checks whether it's installed, though there is likely a better way to do this.
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How is babby formed? How girl get pragnent?
Don't read too much into it, the pro-business incumbent party (think Republican) are just trying to establish their green credentials.
Fuck I hate sickly cunts. You know the kind, always sickly. To them I say: FUCK YOU WEAKLING
PCs are dead!
Bonzi Buddy, CoolWebSearch, anything and everything from Gator/Claria. Best of all it's all free!
It's not so much the shoddy keyboard as having to operate the computer with your left hand while cranking furiously with your right..
I think we can rest easy in the confidence both this policy and Beazley will be long gone and forgotten by the time the ALP win government. Have you seen the polls lately?
Clerk: There's no such thing as a bloody PC license.
Customer: I bleeding got one, look! What's that then?
Clerk: This is a TV license with the word 'TV' crossed out and 'PC' written in in crayon.
Customer: The man didn't have the right form.
Clerk: What man?
Customer: The man from the PC detector van.
Clerk: The loony detector van you mean.
Customer: Look, it's people like you what cause unrest.
A couple days worth of crack rocks and some Fiddy Cent CDs to listen to on a portable boom box.
I too studied linguistics once upon a time. :) In a way, grandparent has it arse about..
:)
English used to be far more inflected, i.e. words themselves contained meta-data in the form of affixes (such as word endings) that conveyed grammatical information (such as case), and word order didn't matter nearly as much.
Contact with Old Norse via the Vikings that set up shop in the north of England caused English to become far less inflected -- Old English and Old Norse are very similar languages in terms of vocabulary, but different in terms of grammar, word endings in particular. In order to make themselves mutually intelligible, word endings were phased out in favour of using word order to convey meaning.
So, in a sense, "simplifying" English made it easier, not more difficult, for people to get meaning out of a sentence.
Eddie: This is a sex shop isn't it?
Assistant: Yes.
Eddie: I'll have five quid's worth then!
Assistant: Very droll, sir. I've never heard that one before.
Eddie: Haven't you? Shall I tell it again?
Assistant: No thank you sir, I'd rather have a pineapple inserted violently into my rectum.
Eddie: You've been working here too long mate.
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<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is.
English isn't the official language of the US, although it's become the de facto standard, and it sure as hell isn't a native language (Cherokee, Cheyenne, etc.).
I'm guessing you mean The Andromeda Strain, not Hercules in Space. :)
I believe this feature is planned for the 4.4 release. In the meantime you can use rox-filer or nautilus.
I disable it by editing
These guys are working on an open source hardware and GPL'd software solution comprising a PCI KVM card, console manager and KVM over IP manager. Won't be so useful for your laptop though.
Or grab XFCE 4.0.4 if you can live without the bloat.