This is akin to saying "Juries shouldn't use the telephone or read a newspaper." In fact some of the restrictions are just that (the iPhone is a telephone).
Are these restrictions arbitrarily selecting modern communication methods? Or are these in addition to banning the use of landline telephones and newspapers?
Vista is substantially different to XP, and 7 is quite different to Vista.
is 7 substantially different to XP? Because I've found it to, for the most part, be fairly similar to XP. It has a few different quirks, but its clearly the same operating system that's simply been updated.
Also I found there to be almost no difference between 98 and XP. Except for the fact that XP didn't reboot every 5 minutes due to bugs. Now Windows 98 was substantially different to Windows 3.1
I used Linux for 6 months on fairly standard hardware. Ultimately I found it to be lacking in several areas so I bought a license for Windows XP (I know! I actually paid for the software I use. Shock horror!).
Linux is great. But I don't feel its quite ready for mainstream use just yet.
Really? In my high school we had 7 classes for years 7 to 10, with an indeterminate number of classes for years 11 and 12 (I left at this point). Each class on average would have had approximately 30 students, that's 840 + seniors for years 11 and 12.
Do you live in the country by any chance? Because I don't think my high school was unusually large for the western suburbs of Sydney.
So the police are a big gang protecting us from several other gangs (rather ineffectively at that). And because we can't stand up on our own, we have to bend over double for the police gang?
Nice. That sort of logic actually glorifies sending PEOPLE to prison to get raped.
Yeah, but the UK is filled with a bunch of piss-pots. At least according to such British television shows as Relocation, Relocation.
Not only is the local pub often just as important as the quality of the house someone is looking to buy, but almost every episode involves getting a drink. Such excuses are: * Finding out what the house-hunters want. * Talking about a house they've just visited. * Talking about making an offer for a house. * Waiting to find out if the offer has been accepted or rejected. * Celebrating getting a house. * Having a drink because the offer for the house was just rejected.
Now it may be that the hosts of the show are simply alcoholics, but it seems many of the guests are as well.
You survived with Bush as long as you legally could. I'm sure these guys will be much easier to live with. If not for you, then at least the rest of us. Obama hasn't advocated invading any more nations yet.
What I see is someone saying that the best way to deal with conspiracy extremists is to provide them the facts in a manner in which they are willing to evaluate said facts without dismissing them out of hand because they assume the source is tainted.
So I'm not allowed to judge the source of these so-called "facts"? I'm going to listen less to a scientist on the payroll for big oil about how global warming is a myth then I'll listen to a scientist on the payroll of big oil saying it is real and an imminent threat to our way of life.
Court testimony isn't given anonymously. The source of the information is revealed so that people can best judge the likelihood of that person lying.
Agreed, except when talking about the mentally unbalanced. People who are completely paranoid and suffering from mental illnesses need to be treated (not that Sunstein is talking about treatment which is rather disturbing). And yet some of those groups will say "the medical community are in league with the government in a massive conspiracy to silence us" and there are those who think that letting those people roam lose without treatment is the best course of action (ignoring the fact these people can have children, spouses, parents and siblings who care about their well-being).
Sweden bought 18 million doses, to a population of 9 million
How the hell did they justify this? Does Sweeden only count Sweedish citizens in that 9 million estimate? Do they see their entire population move through the country? Even so, would all of those people have needed the flu vaccine while in Sweeden? Were countries hoarding in case there was a shortage?
Seriously. How do you justify buying 2 vaccines for every single person living in your country?
Of course, they don't look at countries like Australia that does have a national health scheme but people are by and large not lazy.
I don't know about that. The hardest workers I've met are European immigrants. One of them was saving their sick-days for when they were actually sick! We had to educate her on the Australian way (go to work sick, have sick-days when you're healthy so you can actually enjoy them).
I've heard the rhetoric. I'm unpersuaded. Giving someone a fair go doesn't mean agreeing with them. It means listening to their arguments, and then drawing a conclusion.
The conclusion I've drawn is some Americans are bat-shit crazy when it comes to their insistence on not having universal health care.
It is business as usual. But the moment people start accepting reality is the moment we all give up. After all, what if people hadn't cared that your taxes went to some foreign king across the ocean that none of you would probably never see. What if they had said "such is life" and simply moved on with their lives? You'd still be part of the British Empire, or perhaps worse, part of some other country's empire that overthrew Britain in a world-spanning war.
The moment you go "eh, not surprising" is the moment the oppressors win.
I actually agree with Dreams. If Americans can force this companies to start acting ethically, I think that'd be great. Of course it would probably spell the end of all activity within China which could very likely destroy both the American and Chinese economies. But hey, principles are worth fighting for (no sarcasm in that comment. I actually believe you should fight for principles). Your country was founded on principles. Perhaps not all of the people agreed on which principles, perhaps there were some who simply wanted more money and power, but there would have been, at one point, idealists who fought the good fight.
Of course, your so much more intelligent then me or Dreams because you're able to bring up bullshirt word-play arguments that truly show how superior you are in comparison with our feeble minds. Go you. You truly contributed to this conversation you coward.
It's like Britain and Canada insulting the US for not offering it's people the right of socialized medicine.
Us Australians, at the very least, actually do this. We think a certain segment of the American population is nuts for championing the current state of your so called hospitals and medical care. Anytime the topic comes up we simply shake our heads and thank god we don't live in America.
Are Australians just horribly intolerant? Or do the British and Canadians do the same thing?
Apple doesn't sell an Operating System. They sell "an experience." I'm not interested in "an experience" when I turn on my computer. I want a fucking OS that lets me do what I want to do on the hardware I chose. Linux is great, but isn't ready for wide-scale use. I gave Ubuntu a try and after 6 months willingly chose to buy Windows XP. Not because I was ignorant, forced or tricked into buying it. But because I had made an informed decision after trying the alternative.
Ratliff mostly stopped using anonymizers and tunnels because they were annoyingly slow and this ultimately got him caught.
More like Ratliff wanted his life back and decided what he was getting paid wasn't worth it and so he deliberately left more and more clues as to where he was so he could go back to his life.
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This is akin to saying "Juries shouldn't use the telephone or read a newspaper." In fact some of the restrictions are just that (the iPhone is a telephone).
Are these restrictions arbitrarily selecting modern communication methods? Or are these in addition to banning the use of landline telephones and newspapers?
Vista is substantially different to XP, and 7 is quite different to Vista.
is 7 substantially different to XP? Because I've found it to, for the most part, be fairly similar to XP. It has a few different quirks, but its clearly the same operating system that's simply been updated.
Also I found there to be almost no difference between 98 and XP. Except for the fact that XP didn't reboot every 5 minutes due to bugs. Now Windows 98 was substantially different to Windows 3.1
I used Linux for 6 months on fairly standard hardware. Ultimately I found it to be lacking in several areas so I bought a license for Windows XP (I know! I actually paid for the software I use. Shock horror!).
Linux is great. But I don't feel its quite ready for mainstream use just yet.
Really? In my high school we had 7 classes for years 7 to 10, with an indeterminate number of classes for years 11 and 12 (I left at this point). Each class on average would have had approximately 30 students, that's 840 + seniors for years 11 and 12.
Do you live in the country by any chance? Because I don't think my high school was unusually large for the western suburbs of Sydney.
it doesn't matter to Microsoft as they still get paid for non-existent software.
Untrue. Microsoft has always said "we'd rather people steal our product then use a competitors product."
Just think of how much worse it could have gotten under mccain/palin
That's the standard? "Better then the really awful person X"? Wow. No wonder Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize
Yeah, but Obama's changed all that. Since the saviour came into power and rescued us from the evil republicans Gitmo has been destroyed. Right?
So the police are a big gang protecting us from several other gangs (rather ineffectively at that). And because we can't stand up on our own, we have to bend over double for the police gang?
Nice. That sort of logic actually glorifies sending PEOPLE to prison to get raped.
Yeah, but the UK is filled with a bunch of piss-pots. At least according to such British television shows as Relocation, Relocation.
Not only is the local pub often just as important as the quality of the house someone is looking to buy, but almost every episode involves getting a drink. Such excuses are:
* Finding out what the house-hunters want.
* Talking about a house they've just visited.
* Talking about making an offer for a house.
* Waiting to find out if the offer has been accepted or rejected.
* Celebrating getting a house.
* Having a drink because the offer for the house was just rejected.
Now it may be that the hosts of the show are simply alcoholics, but it seems many of the guests are as well.
Clearly it wasn't D&D that had issues, but you. I know quite a lot of adults who play and yet somehow manage to get along just fine in the real world.
Taking a public domain character and inserting them into a story, or being forced to come up with something new - and possibly better - instead?
Dunno. Let's look at Disney classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and compare it with one of their latest, Bolt.
You survived with Bush as long as you legally could. I'm sure these guys will be much easier to live with. If not for you, then at least the rest of us. Obama hasn't advocated invading any more nations yet.
What I see is someone saying that the best way to deal with conspiracy extremists is to provide them the facts in a manner in which they are willing to evaluate said facts without dismissing them out of hand because they assume the source is tainted.
So I'm not allowed to judge the source of these so-called "facts"? I'm going to listen less to a scientist on the payroll for big oil about how global warming is a myth then I'll listen to a scientist on the payroll of big oil saying it is real and an imminent threat to our way of life.
Court testimony isn't given anonymously. The source of the information is revealed so that people can best judge the likelihood of that person lying.
Agreed, except when talking about the mentally unbalanced. People who are completely paranoid and suffering from mental illnesses need to be treated (not that Sunstein is talking about treatment which is rather disturbing). And yet some of those groups will say "the medical community are in league with the government in a massive conspiracy to silence us" and there are those who think that letting those people roam lose without treatment is the best course of action (ignoring the fact these people can have children, spouses, parents and siblings who care about their well-being).
Sweden bought 18 million doses, to a population of 9 million
How the hell did they justify this? Does Sweeden only count Sweedish citizens in that 9 million estimate? Do they see their entire population move through the country? Even so, would all of those people have needed the flu vaccine while in Sweeden? Were countries hoarding in case there was a shortage?
Seriously. How do you justify buying 2 vaccines for every single person living in your country?
Of course, they don't look at countries like Australia that does have a national health scheme but people are by and large not lazy.
I don't know about that. The hardest workers I've met are European immigrants. One of them was saving their sick-days for when they were actually sick! We had to educate her on the Australian way (go to work sick, have sick-days when you're healthy so you can actually enjoy them).
What this world needs is a good secular church
Get to it then. Or are you just like all those other atheists. All talk and no action?
I've heard the rhetoric. I'm unpersuaded. Giving someone a fair go doesn't mean agreeing with them. It means listening to their arguments, and then drawing a conclusion.
The conclusion I've drawn is some Americans are bat-shit crazy when it comes to their insistence on not having universal health care.
It is business as usual. But the moment people start accepting reality is the moment we all give up. After all, what if people hadn't cared that your taxes went to some foreign king across the ocean that none of you would probably never see. What if they had said "such is life" and simply moved on with their lives? You'd still be part of the British Empire, or perhaps worse, part of some other country's empire that overthrew Britain in a world-spanning war.
The moment you go "eh, not surprising" is the moment the oppressors win.
I actually agree with Dreams. If Americans can force this companies to start acting ethically, I think that'd be great. Of course it would probably spell the end of all activity within China which could very likely destroy both the American and Chinese economies. But hey, principles are worth fighting for (no sarcasm in that comment. I actually believe you should fight for principles). Your country was founded on principles. Perhaps not all of the people agreed on which principles, perhaps there were some who simply wanted more money and power, but there would have been, at one point, idealists who fought the good fight.
Of course, your so much more intelligent then me or Dreams because you're able to bring up bullshirt word-play arguments that truly show how superior you are in comparison with our feeble minds. Go you. You truly contributed to this conversation you coward.
It's like Britain and Canada insulting the US for not offering it's people the right of socialized medicine.
Us Australians, at the very least, actually do this. We think a certain segment of the American population is nuts for championing the current state of your so called hospitals and medical care. Anytime the topic comes up we simply shake our heads and thank god we don't live in America.
Are Australians just horribly intolerant? Or do the British and Canadians do the same thing?
Addiction of all sorts needs to be treated as a medical problem, not a criminal one.
I'm addicted to shooting people in the face. Please don't send me to jail.
I use all three, for different tasks, and I don't see any way in which OSX is "an experience" over XP
Its the rubbish people are fed to explain why Apple doesn't allow you to use their software on the hardware of your choice.
Apple doesn't sell an Operating System. They sell "an experience." I'm not interested in "an experience" when I turn on my computer. I want a fucking OS that lets me do what I want to do on the hardware I chose. Linux is great, but isn't ready for wide-scale use. I gave Ubuntu a try and after 6 months willingly chose to buy Windows XP. Not because I was ignorant, forced or tricked into buying it. But because I had made an informed decision after trying the alternative.
Ratliff mostly stopped using anonymizers and tunnels because they were annoyingly slow and this ultimately got him caught.
More like Ratliff wanted his life back and decided what he was getting paid wasn't worth it and so he deliberately left more and more clues as to where he was so he could go back to his life.