Right about the time the Spanish conquistadors overran most of the new world nations and subsumed all their peoples collectively into the New World Spanish Empire.
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the ditty you have just posted about the spider-themed superhero who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are superheroes, and only a few of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Metropolis Daily Planet Crime Editor, Clark Joseph Kent (Mrs.)
Though to be fair, it was more their marketing campaign than their actual software. The effect of Apple on tech designers appears to be similar to the effect of LSD on the hippies--in both the positive and negative senses.
I worked for an engineering company who said they couldnt justify the 25 licenses of autocad civil3d they were pirating (but also said they needed them to maintain the workflow they had) and said that they didnt care about my liability in the matter being the only IT person in the company. I turned them in.
Well, I wouldn't care about your liability in the matter either because you are a untrustworthy, duplicitous sneak who consorts with the same.
Instead of doing the right thing--giving them your advice, and when they refused to follow it, politely saying you could no longer work for them--you administrated the illegal software, took their money for doing do, then turned right around to the BSA and took their money (offer) for ratting out your co-conspirators. You probably put an engineering company employing over 30 people out of business and got paid for doing so.
No wonder western economies are falling apart, when the only behaviour that is rewarded is underhanded double dealing like this.
The Sauron and Saruman presidential bid provided this country with the strong leadership it needed, backed with wisdom and experience. The Gandalf, Aragorn bid gave us a man on his last legs hitched to an unknown forest ranger from a state not even contiguous with the rest of Gondor!
Now, it's true that the Denethor administration left the country in a terrible way, in considerable debt, fighting losing wars on two fronts, and many were uncomfortable with the presidents stance on religious issues, especially funeral rituals. But that is no reason for people to turn away from strong leadership and a prosperous future, in favour of weed smoking, sound-bites about all the free peoples of Middle Earth, most of whom the majority of Gondorian's don't even know exist outside of legends!
I remind the house that in Mordorian society, there are no taxes, and no unnecessary labour or environmental protection, and all that is needed to succeed is drive, ambition, and a phalanx of orc mercenaries. The Sauruman bid allows us to partake in this forward looking society, abandon the failed liberal policies of Eldarianism, and return Gondor to the glories of its manifest destiny, as it was in the days of Ar-Pharazon!
Therefore, I urge citizen to cooperate with the new regime and offer up their young as orc feed as eagerly as I would offer up my own. Thank you, and God Bless Gondor.
I'm from Ireland and a US default would make a huge difference over here. In fact, a US default would probably save this country--Ireland that is.
If their financial holinesses in the US default on their debts, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and all the rest will have carte blanche to tell all their debtors to get stuffed. It will end the chaos and insanity of taxpayers coving the bad gambling debts of money men. This could potentially save a continent.
If I met a Tea Party representative right now I would shake their hand and tell them that they're doing great things for Ireland.
The idea may only need to be held by a small segment of the population; for example, the scientists in a specialised sub-discipline(~hundred or so people), the major media commentariat in a particular country of locality(~few hundred people), the academics in a wider field, e.g. economics (~few thousand people), or perhaps the opinions in a small sized nation.
I give you a good example: In Ireland (pop. ~4 million), the entire country went on a mad house buying binge, with the skeptics being ridiculed, ignored, or told by the nation's premier to go and commit suicide. Here's a retrospective blog post on the brazen insanity of those days. You'd kind of have to be from Ireland to get it all, but I think the Shamrock Island video explains itself.
Now, if you added up the people during the Celtic Tiger Boom who worked in the financial, construction, and property sectors, you'd pretty comfortably reach 400,000 people; ~10% of the population. And I can assure you that most of these people were indeed true believers in the idea that property prices would continue to grow forever. For any that weren't, the slack was picked up by overpaid public sector workers with property fetishes and the usual talking heads in the media. Ireland is a small country, so it was relatively easy to reach a 10% level in many sectors.
I stress that the eternal house price boom was a deeply held and virtually unassailable belief during the Celtic Tiger years. Skeptics were laughed at and ridiculed publically. Here's a quote from the article:
"The hyenas have stopped laughing . . . each and every one of them was wrong. Instead, the price and supply of housing units has continued to break records." --Mr Dunne addresses the Society of Chartered Surveyors dinner in 2006
This was a few months after the country's major bank, Bank of Ireland, introduced 100%+ mortgages for buyers, which revved prices upwards again after the beginning of a brief slowdown.
This post is getting a little parochial, but to bring this back to the topic, I remind everyone that Ireland is now a bankrupted state in IMF hands, devastated by a massive property bust and credit crunch, with 5 out of 6 banks nationalised. This instance of "true believers" tipping over public opinion lead to the ruination of an entire country. I think its a good example of how the spread of ideas and ideologies can be damaging to societies, and why it's so important to challenge this spread in the early stages, because believe me, it's impossible to reverse things once the wildfire takes hold of the wider population.
Well, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on an SSD. The boot time is subdivided as follows:
1) ~10 seconds for the BIOS to load and start grub 2) ~10 seconds for Ubuntu to get to the login screen 2.5) Optional 2 hour wait if Ubuntu decides to fsck all partitions again 3) Upon login, ~30 second wait while the Nvidia driver try to configure the HDMI video.
Overall, I can just about live with it. Unfortunately though, hibernate and suspend no longer work, so things could be a lot better.
The question to ask is why now? Its not like he was doing some Dr Jeckel and Mr Hyde thing and was a sweet little old lady up until last month or so. He's pretty much consistently been himself for longer than the entire "scandal". Who benefits in money or power by it blowing up RIGHT now? I don't really know.
It is most likely that Murdoch, Snr and Jnr, Brooks-Wade, Coulson, et al are all on the receiving end of a pretty well orchestrated operation by British state forces to finally remove them from their positions. It is likely that senior figures in the British establishment--which clearly did not include the Prime Minister--decided that News International had become an over-mighty threat to the state and needed to be dealt with.
While there were certainly a number of factors and influences in this decision (not least the hacking of the royal household phones), the likely precipitating event was the Vince Cable sting operation and resignation last December 2010. The entrapment and deposement of the Business Secretary, the last remaining obstacle to total NI control of BSkyB, was clearly a step too far for the comfort of the people in charge of Whitehall, who could see a time coming when no scalp would be safe from the media's baleful eye. The experience of the MP Tom Watson was probably also a big factor; the MP was all put placed under interdict by Brookes, apparently for him having rebuffed one of her political requests.
Essentially, News International had grown over-mighty, and simultaneously too close to the reigns of power. The company and its executives liked to think that they were somehow separate form the maelstrom of political forces they were unleashing, and which they chose to unleash to benefit themselves. Fortunately for the British public, if not the wider world, there are still people in the public service who can see when the feathers of over-mighty Barons, media or otherwise, need to be clipped for the good of all.
Actually the MIss USA candidates had a very wide range of views and opinions on evolution, ranging the depressingly ignorant, to the extremely well informed. The majority of candidates actually appeared to be on the side of teaching evolution, though admittedly many advocated teaching both evolution and creationism.
In fact, as a non American, I found this video to be the most informative sampling of US public opinion towards evolution that I have yet seen. Admittedly the sample had inherent bias, but nevertheless I think the views expressed across the video were broad and representative of the US as a whole.
Read a response from a professional advertisement and marketing agency? Why don't we just throw the idea of objective assessment out the window altogether.
If the Brown dwarf had some transverse velocity to the direction that you wanted to go,you could use it as a gravitational slingshot to gain speed and hence time with minimal or even possibly no fuel usage.
It is fantastically hard to admit to mistakes when you've got a socking great organisation set up to perpetuating them. At this stage, even if the man at the top knows that he's on the wrong course, a significant percentage of the people he's working with won't accept that.
The man on top is paid enormous sums of money to make difficult decisions. Or well, he used to be. These days he's paid enormous sums of money to not make any decisions at all it would seem.
What kind of nonsense is this? People don't endure rapes and sexual assualts; they suffer them. Enduring someone who is poor in bed, and not articulating what you do/do not want them to do, does not constitute a sexual assault.
This case is groundless unless the alleged victim had a serious reason for "not articulating" herself properly, that is, fear for her safety if she did so. That would make the case a sexual assault, and that is a common feature of assaults. Being "badgered" into sex is not grounds enough.
Rape laws are for victims who did not consent to sex with another individual before or during the act. They are not for people who afterwards decided that they shouldn't have consented. It's unfortunate that a case of the latter kind should become so prominent, to the detriment of victims in the former, far more serious cases.
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Right about the time the Spanish conquistadors overran most of the new world nations and subsumed all their peoples collectively into the New World Spanish Empire.
Dear Sir,
I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about the ditty you have just posted about the spider-themed superhero who wears women's clothes. Many of my best friends are superheroes, and only a few of them are transvestites.
Yours faithfully,
Metropolis Daily Planet Crime Editor, Clark Joseph Kent (Mrs.)
P.S.
I never kissed Perry White.
Really? I though we were talking about online anonymity. I don't see why the two concepts should be conflated.
Mother of God.... It's FORKING!!!
Mmwwaa ha ha ha-ha ha!!
The maxim is that it's EASIER to ask for forgiveness than for permission. Whether its better or not depends on how much forgiveness you're asking for.
Actually, a lot of people--and even some website and interface designers, weren't actually "around" in those days. Around as in, surfing the web.
Apple.
Though to be fair, it was more their marketing campaign than their actual software. The effect of Apple on tech designers appears to be similar to the effect of LSD on the hippies--in both the positive and negative senses.
Well, I wouldn't care about your liability in the matter either because you are a untrustworthy, duplicitous sneak who consorts with the same.
Instead of doing the right thing--giving them your advice, and when they refused to follow it, politely saying you could no longer work for them--you administrated the illegal software, took their money for doing do, then turned right around to the BSA and took their money (offer) for ratting out your co-conspirators. You probably put an engineering company employing over 30 people out of business and got paid for doing so.
No wonder western economies are falling apart, when the only behaviour that is rewarded is underhanded double dealing like this.
The Sauron and Saruman presidential bid provided this country with the strong leadership it needed, backed with wisdom and experience. The Gandalf, Aragorn bid gave us a man on his last legs hitched to an unknown forest ranger from a state not even contiguous with the rest of Gondor!
Now, it's true that the Denethor administration left the country in a terrible way, in considerable debt, fighting losing wars on two fronts, and many were uncomfortable with the presidents stance on religious issues, especially funeral rituals. But that is no reason for people to turn away from strong leadership and a prosperous future, in favour of weed smoking, sound-bites about all the free peoples of Middle Earth, most of whom the majority of Gondorian's don't even know exist outside of legends!
I remind the house that in Mordorian society, there are no taxes, and no unnecessary labour or environmental protection, and all that is needed to succeed is drive, ambition, and a phalanx of orc mercenaries. The Sauruman bid allows us to partake in this forward looking society, abandon the failed liberal policies of Eldarianism, and return Gondor to the glories of its manifest destiny, as it was in the days of Ar-Pharazon!
Therefore, I urge citizen to cooperate with the new regime and offer up their young as orc feed as eagerly as I would offer up my own. Thank you, and God Bless Gondor.
I'm from Ireland and a US default would make a huge difference over here. In fact, a US default would probably save this country--Ireland that is.
If their financial holinesses in the US default on their debts, Ireland, Greece, Portugal and all the rest will have carte blanche to tell all their debtors to get stuffed. It will end the chaos and insanity of taxpayers coving the bad gambling debts of money men. This could potentially save a continent.
If I met a Tea Party representative right now I would shake their hand and tell them that they're doing great things for Ireland.
The idea may only need to be held by a small segment of the population; for example, the scientists in a specialised sub-discipline(~hundred or so people), the major media commentariat in a particular country of locality(~few hundred people), the academics in a wider field, e.g. economics (~few thousand people), or perhaps the opinions in a small sized nation.
I give you a good example: In Ireland (pop. ~4 million), the entire country went on a mad house buying binge, with the skeptics being ridiculed, ignored, or told by the nation's premier to go and commit suicide. Here's a retrospective blog post on the brazen insanity of those days. You'd kind of have to be from Ireland to get it all, but I think the Shamrock Island video explains itself.
Now, if you added up the people during the Celtic Tiger Boom who worked in the financial, construction, and property sectors, you'd pretty comfortably reach 400,000 people; ~10% of the population. And I can assure you that most of these people were indeed true believers in the idea that property prices would continue to grow forever. For any that weren't, the slack was picked up by overpaid public sector workers with property fetishes and the usual talking heads in the media. Ireland is a small country, so it was relatively easy to reach a 10% level in many sectors.
I stress that the eternal house price boom was a deeply held and virtually unassailable belief during the Celtic Tiger years. Skeptics were laughed at and ridiculed publically. Here's a quote from the article:
This was a few months after the country's major bank, Bank of Ireland, introduced 100%+ mortgages for buyers, which revved prices upwards again after the beginning of a brief slowdown.
This post is getting a little parochial, but to bring this back to the topic, I remind everyone that Ireland is now a bankrupted state in IMF hands, devastated by a massive property bust and credit crunch, with 5 out of 6 banks nationalised. This instance of "true believers" tipping over public opinion lead to the ruination of an entire country. I think its a good example of how the spread of ideas and ideologies can be damaging to societies, and why it's so important to challenge this spread in the early stages, because believe me, it's impossible to reverse things once the wildfire takes hold of the wider population.
Well, I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 on an SSD. The boot time is subdivided as follows:
1) ~10 seconds for the BIOS to load and start grub
2) ~10 seconds for Ubuntu to get to the login screen
2.5) Optional 2 hour wait if Ubuntu decides to fsck all partitions again
3) Upon login, ~30 second wait while the Nvidia driver try to configure the HDMI video.
Overall, I can just about live with it. Unfortunately though, hibernate and suspend no longer work, so things could be a lot better.
Dear madhatter256
Yes We Did. Please Stop Using The Laptop On The John.
Yours
The Pan-Googtlicon
It is most likely that Murdoch, Snr and Jnr, Brooks-Wade, Coulson, et al are all on the receiving end of a pretty well orchestrated operation by British state forces to finally remove them from their positions. It is likely that senior figures in the British establishment--which clearly did not include the Prime Minister--decided that News International had become an over-mighty threat to the state and needed to be dealt with.
While there were certainly a number of factors and influences in this decision (not least the hacking of the royal household phones), the likely precipitating event was the Vince Cable sting operation and resignation last December 2010. The entrapment and deposement of the Business Secretary, the last remaining obstacle to total NI control of BSkyB, was clearly a step too far for the comfort of the people in charge of Whitehall, who could see a time coming when no scalp would be safe from the media's baleful eye. The experience of the MP Tom Watson was probably also a big factor; the MP was all put placed under interdict by Brookes, apparently for him having rebuffed one of her political requests.
Essentially, News International had grown over-mighty, and simultaneously too close to the reigns of power. The company and its executives liked to think that they were somehow separate form the maelstrom of political forces they were unleashing, and which they chose to unleash to benefit themselves. Fortunately for the British public, if not the wider world, there are still people in the public service who can see when the feathers of over-mighty Barons, media or otherwise, need to be clipped for the good of all.
Actually the MIss USA candidates had a very wide range of views and opinions on evolution, ranging the depressingly ignorant, to the extremely well informed. The majority of candidates actually appeared to be on the side of teaching evolution, though admittedly many advocated teaching both evolution and creationism.
In fact, as a non American, I found this video to be the most informative sampling of US public opinion towards evolution that I have yet seen. Admittedly the sample had inherent bias, but nevertheless I think the views expressed across the video were broad and representative of the US as a whole.
And it looks like Google is in turn inviting a whole heap of future troubles to its own doorstep.
Read a response from a professional advertisement and marketing agency? Why don't we just throw the idea of objective assessment out the window altogether.
They will be fined, possibly up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. What greater deterrent could there be?
How do we know you didn't? You are the MS whipping boy after all?
If the Brown dwarf had some transverse velocity to the direction that you wanted to go,you could use it as a gravitational slingshot to gain speed and hence time with minimal or even possibly no fuel usage.
The man on top is paid enormous sums of money to make difficult decisions. Or well, he used to be. These days he's paid enormous sums of money to not make any decisions at all it would seem.
Well, it has to keep an eye on your back in order to stab the knife in correctly.
You forgot step 0:
Hire target obsessed management looking to make performance short term related bonuses.
What kind of nonsense is this? People don't endure rapes and sexual assualts; they suffer them. Enduring someone who is poor in bed, and not articulating what you do/do not want them to do, does not constitute a sexual assault.
This case is groundless unless the alleged victim had a serious reason for "not articulating" herself properly, that is, fear for her safety if she did so. That would make the case a sexual assault, and that is a common feature of assaults. Being "badgered" into sex is not grounds enough.
Rape laws are for victims who did not consent to sex with another individual before or during the act. They are not for people who afterwards decided that they shouldn't have consented. It's unfortunate that a case of the latter kind should become so prominent, to the detriment of victims in the former, far more serious cases.