hey, don't get turned away by that - you can always participate in mapping parties, collect minor data (did your region really have all post boxes & fire hydrants ?;) ), update things that change (new/closed roads, shops opening/closing etc).
also, in some regions so called "armchair mapping" is actually welcome - that is, mapping areas where you might have never been on the ground, from imagery. most notably that could help in the usa, outside cities.
imports from other datasets can be a huge problem as well - unless they are very, very carefully cleaned up and verified. also, the point is to actually involve the local community, not just to import some government or other data - we want the map to be up to date, and that can not be done by importing. local users know what's happening, they care about their surroundings and update things very, very quickly.
major bridge that was opened in my region appeared in osm on the same day. it took more than 3 years for it to appear on google maps. go locals:)
which country is that ? (north-eastern europe here) i have reported several car break-ins. "are you sure you want to report it ? maybe it wasn't very important ? well, we can't arrive very quickly, are you sure you want to wait ? we probably can't find them anyway" i have reported several garage/barn breakins. "are you sure you want to report it ? maybe it wasn't very important ? well, we can't arrive very quickly, are you sure you want to wait ? was anything actually taken ? we probably can't find them anyway. was it really something expensive ?"
of course, nobody has ever been caught. i suspect that if i reported 10 dead bodies in my garage, they would go "well, can't you dispose of them in some fashion ? we probably can't do anything about it anyway. were they expensive ?"
No, they sue if you have an unnaturally large number of the transgene present, which is to say, when someone knowingly selects for the transgene (the morality of which is somewhat debatable, but lets not act as if it simply happens by accident). Can you show me a single case where they sued someone for simple cross pollination?
not a farmer here, not involved in the industry. but...
if i was a farmer, and some variety of a crop started growing near the border of my property, and i would plant the resulting seeds from them next year. would you say i should somehow be responsible for wherever that plant came from ?
given the human history and selection of plants, animals etc, i just can't see how an ethical person could claim that.
i've read the book. fully. carefully, word by word. it was given to me as a present fro a person who i would claim to be fairly smart, and they said it convinced them of religion.
unfortunately, the book only left a childish impression on me - it was using false logic, skipped thinking steps and arrived to conclusions without examining way more plausible explanations.
it was like a fairytale that tried to mask as logic and said something like "i don't know how morality could have appeared so it must be from god".
while one could try to explain parts of that logic with "it was back then", the extreme naivety and the fact that it wasn't really that long ago made me take the book more like a person having mental capability decrease at the second part of their life than anything else.
around here, local language version (latvian) of 'nigger' is just that - a regional/race distinguishing term, pretty much like 'asian'. the transition of communication to english suddenly makes this word taboo - and yes, i am bothered by that. maybe i am partially bothered because in our language, "jew" is a no-no word. you're supposed to say 'hebrew', always, despite 'jew' being centuries old nation/race description. if we continue this way, we will run out of words eventually. you can make any word sound offensive by using it that way, and if we just keep on banning some words... let's see. "you're a goddamn bucket". "you are a stupid towel". where did the "american way" of allowing any speech and opposing it openly go ? confront the racist idiots, expose them for what they are - but don't shovel the racial differences under the PC carpet. it will blow up later.
if you came to/. and claimed that santa claus really exists, goes down the chimneys and doesn't violate any laws of physics, would you really expect - and demand - counter points ? you would be be rightfully downmodded as an insane one, or maybe upmodded as funny, if the way you put it was silly enough.
and people with reasoning based thinking have the same opinion on religion. now try to figure out why they do not really differentiate between those two imaginary persons.
Put two fish of the same species in a proper environment and safe from predators and after one year you have 10000 of them. Put two elephants in an equivalent scenario and after one year you have two elephants.
wow. how do you do that ? i mean, shortening elephant pregnancy in half is mighty impressive.
on a slightly more serious note, yes, godaddy seems to be quite some bit too evil to deal with.
you must work as a team member. that doesn't mean chatting with everybody constantly or some other bullshit like that. it means that your work is helping the team to work. if you are a coder, that means writing maintainable code, commenting it, writing sensible commit messages and so on.
you are completely fine to do that in some isolation and silence somewhere. interact via electronic means only. but if your communication skills suck so much you can't have anybody else understand your code because it's undocumented mess, and your commit messages never exceed 3 words, that's when you have failed being a team member.
clem is cute, although there are some rough edges. like not changing track information in collection & playlist if you edit it =) it's also missing some features compared to amarok 1.4 (filter wizard comes to mind), but at least it's improving.
1.4.10. with a couple of tiny patches. but yeah, amarok 1.4 was/is THE music player.
currently i'm using clementine as my primary player as it's sort-of-amarok-1.4, but amarok 1.4 is still... better:) i guess that tells something about the quality of 1.4. and yes, i tried amarok 2 - i used it for several months, but gave up in the end.
hmm ? rowan was used to scare off bad spirits. young birch trees were used to decorate houses in summer solstice. and spruce/fir was used to decorate houses in winter solstice... not sure where your concept of paganism might come from, doesn't seem to come from pagans;)
what you might think about is significant, monumental trees, stones and other things that were honoured and simbolysed the deities. but that was far from making everybody an over extreme version of super-vegans who wouldn't cut grass.
browser blocking usually is easier to control, modify and transfer between multiple systems. there aren't really nice tools (user level) for this on lower levels. not to mention that browser can also give you immediate feedback that something actually is blocked on the page
oh, please, please, i hope the address bar has been revamped to what it was before... without that stupid url parameter de-lighting in annoying, barely readable grey font
he's like the only person there who isn't a greedy fucking bastard... spot how they all are surprised and if i recall correctly, it was the host who went like "oh, usually everybody agrees here on these things..."
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hey, don't get turned away by that - you can always participate in mapping parties, collect minor data (did your region really have all post boxes & fire hydrants ? ;) ), update things that change (new/closed roads, shops opening/closing etc).
also, in some regions so called "armchair mapping" is actually welcome - that is, mapping areas where you might have never been on the ground, from imagery. most notably that could help in the usa, outside cities.
imports from other datasets can be a huge problem as well - unless they are very, very carefully cleaned up and verified.
also, the point is to actually involve the local community, not just to import some government or other data - we want the map to be up to date, and that can not be done by importing. local users know what's happening, they care about their surroundings and update things very, very quickly.
major bridge that was opened in my region appeared in osm on the same day. it took more than 3 years for it to appear on google maps. go locals :)
right. how could EVER plants migrate to a nearby meadow. that's just not possible. only humans can do that. from the airplanes.
which country is that ?
(north-eastern europe here)
i have reported several car break-ins. "are you sure you want to report it ? maybe it wasn't very important ? well, we can't arrive very quickly, are you sure you want to wait ? we probably can't find them anyway"
i have reported several garage/barn breakins. "are you sure you want to report it ? maybe it wasn't very important ? well, we can't arrive very quickly, are you sure you want to wait ? was anything actually taken ? we probably can't find them anyway. was it really something expensive ?"
of course, nobody has ever been caught. i suspect that if i reported 10 dead bodies in my garage, they would go "well, can't you dispose of them in some fashion ? we probably can't do anything about it anyway. were they expensive ?"
No, they sue if you have an unnaturally large number of the transgene present, which is to say, when someone knowingly selects for the transgene (the morality of which is somewhat debatable, but lets not act as if it simply happens by accident). Can you show me a single case where they sued someone for simple cross pollination?
not a farmer here, not involved in the industry. but...
if i was a farmer, and some variety of a crop started growing near the border of my property, and i would plant the resulting seeds from them next year. would you say i should somehow be responsible for wherever that plant came from ?
given the human history and selection of plants, animals etc, i just can't see how an ethical person could claim that.
that surely is the chromium we all knew for a long time :)
http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/
i've read the book. fully. carefully, word by word.
it was given to me as a present fro a person who i would claim to be fairly smart, and they said it convinced them of religion.
unfortunately, the book only left a childish impression on me - it was using false logic, skipped thinking steps and arrived to conclusions without examining way more plausible explanations.
it was like a fairytale that tried to mask as logic and said something like "i don't know how morality could have appeared so it must be from god".
while one could try to explain parts of that logic with "it was back then", the extreme naivety and the fact that it wasn't really that long ago made me take the book more like a person having mental capability decrease at the second part of their life than anything else.
right. maybe we should make her commissioner for competition
which "he" ? you surely aren't referring to the steely neelie...
no, we just don't have a distinction like that. and the second one doesn't seem to be extremely popular in english, now is it ?
around here, local language version (latvian) of 'nigger' is just that - a regional/race distinguishing term, pretty much like 'asian'.
the transition of communication to english suddenly makes this word taboo - and yes, i am bothered by that.
maybe i am partially bothered because in our language, "jew" is a no-no word. you're supposed to say 'hebrew', always, despite 'jew' being centuries old nation/race description.
if we continue this way, we will run out of words eventually. you can make any word sound offensive by using it that way, and if we just keep on banning some words... let's see. "you're a goddamn bucket". "you are a stupid towel".
where did the "american way" of allowing any speech and opposing it openly go ? confront the racist idiots, expose them for what they are - but don't shovel the racial differences under the PC carpet. it will blow up later.
Hitchens was right, religeon poisons everything.
including spelling.
note that i find your post disturbingly enlightening and useful, just couldn't let the chance go wasted :)
if you came to /. and claimed that santa claus really exists, goes down the chimneys and doesn't violate any laws of physics, would you really expect - and demand - counter points ? you would be be rightfully downmodded as an insane one, or maybe upmodded as funny, if the way you put it was silly enough.
and people with reasoning based thinking have the same opinion on religion. now try to figure out why they do not really differentiate between those two imaginary persons.
ah, sorry about that - re-reading it, the sentence indeed is correct, i just got confused by it :)
Put two fish of the same species in a proper environment and safe from predators and after one year you have 10000 of them.
Put two elephants in an equivalent scenario and after one year you have two elephants.
wow. how do you do that ? i mean, shortening elephant pregnancy in half is mighty impressive.
on a slightly more serious note, yes, godaddy seems to be quite some bit too evil to deal with.
you must work as a team member. that doesn't mean chatting with everybody constantly or some other bullshit like that.
it means that your work is helping the team to work. if you are a coder, that means writing maintainable code, commenting it, writing sensible commit messages and so on.
you are completely fine to do that in some isolation and silence somewhere. interact via electronic means only. but if your communication skills suck so much you can't have anybody else understand your code because it's undocumented mess, and your commit messages never exceed 3 words, that's when you have failed being a team member.
clem is cute, although there are some rough edges. like not changing track information in collection & playlist if you edit it =)
it's also missing some features compared to amarok 1.4 (filter wizard comes to mind), but at least it's improving.
1.4.10. with a couple of tiny patches. but yeah, amarok 1.4 was/is THE music player.
currently i'm using clementine as my primary player as it's sort-of-amarok-1.4, but amarok 1.4 is still... better :)
i guess that tells something about the quality of 1.4. and yes, i tried amarok 2 - i used it for several months, but gave up in the end.
i need a t-shirt with "amarok 1.4" ;)
there's actually a huge amount of internal reports of, well, theater of election.
for you, http://cifidiol.livejournal.com/1600.html?thread=25664 might be interesting - maybe google translate helps for others
Do that and you just gutted much of the business of the cartels, put many of the street gangs and lowlife dealers out of business
which is why the opponents of the legalisation more and more seem to be actually paid by drug cartels :)
hmm ? ;)
rowan was used to scare off bad spirits. young birch trees were used to decorate houses in summer solstice. and spruce/fir was used to decorate houses in winter solstice...
not sure where your concept of paganism might come from, doesn't seem to come from pagans
what you might think about is significant, monumental trees, stones and other things that were honoured and simbolysed the deities. but that was far from making everybody an over extreme version of super-vegans who wouldn't cut grass.
browser blocking usually is easier to control, modify and transfer between multiple systems. there aren't really nice tools (user level) for this on lower levels. not to mention that browser can also give you immediate feedback that something actually is blocked on the page
try right clicking anything and choosing "inspect element", i believe that gives you the dev tools (dragonfly)
oh, please, please, i hope the address bar has been revamped to what it was before... without that stupid url parameter de-lighting in annoying, barely readable grey font
they're cool. check out barlow speaking at eG8 : http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/05/barlow/
he's like the only person there who isn't a greedy fucking bastard... spot how they all are surprised and if i recall correctly, it was the host who went like "oh, usually everybody agrees here on these things..."