Sometimes completeness gets in the way of clarity.
The Bard said it best.
From Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1602:
LORD POLONIUS
This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.
If you had linked to this far earlier in your rants against Adblock Plus and done a less offensively-formatted and/calm/ justification of why your application is better, I'd probably have already downloaded it by now.
But every time I bring up Adblock Plus, you go on this tirade about how hosts files are better never once mentioning(AFAICT) that you've written automation for this. Maybe you did mention it, but it was buried in excessive formatting and voluminous posts.
Take what I said above seriously, and people will respect you more.
I'm going to download your application and try it.
*looks again*
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/VISTA/Windows 7/Server 2008 (possibly beyond):
>So, go on: Make me "STFU", since I certainly have essemtially shut "you & yours" up, lmao, easily!
Ok, so you asked for it:
If I maintain a custom Hosts file all by my lonesome, I do all the heavy lifting myself. Before Adblock, I had been using "ad blocking hosts files" for years that were maintained by "someone else" after maintaining my own manual Hosts file,
The difference that I get with Adblock Plus is that it updates automagically for me and I don't have to schedule cron jobs to fetch new lists or manually edit/etc/hosts. And then I can still add stuff manually should I need to, but that is exceedingly rare.
You may have nothing better to do than edit/etc/hosts with TECO, but I have other things to do. I suspect that the vast majority of people also have this POV.
There are those in broadcasting that still view the Internet as "the enemy" and that even program listings somehow deserve "copyright" - even after 31 years of TCP/IP Internet.
-- BMO
(I deliberately didn't include pre-tcp/ip Arpanet/Tymnet, etc.)
I use Adblock Plus and Noscript. Not because I have something in particular against advertising in general, but because I've personally seen more than enough abusive practices to put an end to it myself.
Ya know, like drive-by malware through ad networks.
Until the industry adopts some real standards and actively polices them, then you, IAB and everyone else, can fuck right off.
People are dumb. The amount of dumbth is directly proportional to the crowd size.
Some of us are old enough to remember the Rolling Stones concert with the Hell's Angels drunken "security" detail and the Who concert with "festival" seating.
I think that many, many writers and artists are only able to devote time to their work because copyright allows them to charge for access to their work
Because deceased authors are always putting out more new works since we've extended copyright past the natural lifetime of the author and not at all for rent-seeking by the heirs/descendents/scumbags.
Right?
-- BMO
As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years.
Have we ever sent a person where it was certain, and known to them, that they could die?
Fixed.
And yes, all the time.
In the illuminating conversation posted online on the CPA Australia website, Armstrong revealed how he thought his mission, Apollo 11, only had a 50% chance of landing safely on the moon's surface and said it was "sad" that the current US government's ambitions for Nasa were so reduced compared with the achievements of the 1960s.
And living here in New England, I have to say that plenty of people took their chances coming here in the early 17'th century, abandoning their old support networks and society without the promise of even making it through the next winter.
At some point it will require a license to purchase and own machine tools too.
Today I can go out and buy a used lathe and milling machine and manufacture everything from the keys mentioned in this article to fine quality guns that fire actual bullets much more reliably than you can get out of a Dimension 3D printer. Indeed, even before the existence of printers such as the Dimension printer and its kind, where was the outcry?
There is no licensing of machine tools because "how much do you want to cripple the economy" by putting up barriers to capital equipment?
its all part of the plan to get 3D printers heavily regulated, if not outright banned.
The AC above you mentioned Bridgeport milling machines. These have been around since before WWII (the first #1 was made in 1936). If you think 3D printing will be "heavily regulated, if not outright banned" why isn't it illegal to go and buy a used Bridgeport off of Ebay?
The founding fathers never foresaw global megacorporations with concentrations of wealth and power that exceeds that of some actual countries.
I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country.
After all, which Windows should they train to use? Windows XP? Windows 8? By the time they hit the market Windows 10 might be the current MS standard, and people may well be using operating systems targeted to non-desktop form factors as much or more than Windows.
This can't be said enough. Like the guy up there that said he used a typewriter in HS.
Technology changes. Teaching specific technology and not the principles behind such is setting up people for failure. My skills in manual drafting are not lost in CAD.
It's not news that tidal forces can keep moons from freezing solid. Io is one of them and we've known about that since we saw vulcanism from Voyager 1.
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I strive for COMPLETE accurate information
Sometimes completeness gets in the way of clarity.
The Bard said it best.
From Shakespeare's Hamlet, 1602:
LORD POLONIUS
This business is well ended.
My liege, and madam, to expostulate
What majesty should be, what duty is,
Why day is day, night night, and time is time,
Were nothing but to waste night, day and time.
Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit,
And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes,
I will be brief: your noble son is mad:
Mad call I it; for, to define true madness,
What is't but to be nothing else but mad?
But let that go.
--
BMO
I keep running into this:
http://i.imgur.com/toJen6I.png
Hrmf.
Architecture: Intel Atom
OS: Win7 with updates
RAM: 4GB
Don't know why.
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BMO
What's the SITES.txt file for?
Your personal whitelist?
Because looking at the contents, I can't tell what the common thread is.
Thanks in advance.
(it's running, on 7).
--
BMO
Update:
>Wine
Nope.
--
BMO
>The next time I'm on a Windows box, I'll try it.
Correction, I'm going to see what this does in Wine.
--
BMO
And I completely failed at closing my italics tags. :-P
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BMO
>hosts file application
That's fine. You still have a problem:
If you had linked to this far earlier in your rants against Adblock Plus and done a less offensively-formatted and /calm/ justification of why your application is better, I'd probably have already downloaded it by now.
But every time I bring up Adblock Plus, you go on this tirade about how hosts files are better never once mentioning(AFAICT) that you've written automation for this. Maybe you did mention it, but it was buried in excessive formatting and voluminous posts.
Take what I said above seriously, and people will respect you more.
I'm going to download your application and try it.
*looks again*
Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003/VISTA/Windows 7/Server 2008 (possibly beyond):
What, no Gahnoo Linux?
>written in Borland Delphi
That takes me back a few years.
The next time I'm on a Windows box, I'll try it.
--
BMO
>So, go on: Make me "STFU", since I certainly have essemtially shut "you & yours" up, lmao, easily!
Ok, so you asked for it:
If I maintain a custom Hosts file all by my lonesome, I do all the heavy lifting myself. Before Adblock, I had been using "ad blocking hosts files" for years that were maintained by "someone else" after maintaining my own manual Hosts file,
The difference that I get with Adblock Plus is that it updates automagically for me and I don't have to schedule cron jobs to fetch new lists or manually edit /etc/hosts. And then I can still add stuff manually should I need to, but that is exceedingly rare.
You may have nothing better to do than edit /etc/hosts with TECO, but I have other things to do. I suspect that the vast majority of people also have this POV.
Now shut the fuck up and sit the fuck down.
--
BMO
FTFS: "glow in the dark cats"
"Captain Peacock, have you seen my pussy?"
--
BMO
There are those in broadcasting that still view the Internet as "the enemy" and that even program listings somehow deserve "copyright" - even after 31 years of TCP/IP Internet.
--
BMO
(I deliberately didn't include pre-tcp/ip Arpanet/Tymnet, etc.)
Four Words, APK:
Shut. The. Fuck. Up.
--
BMO
"They asked for more time to comply."
And this is why we should have gone to a Single Payer Health System a long time ago.
--
BMO
>When are the people of NY gonna vote that jack ass Bloomberg out of office?
He's term limited. He's out after this term.
It would help if you googled instead of getting angry for no reason.
--
BMO
I use Adblock Plus and Noscript. Not because I have something in particular against advertising in general, but because I've personally seen more than enough abusive practices to put an end to it myself.
Ya know, like drive-by malware through ad networks.
Until the industry adopts some real standards and actively polices them, then you, IAB and everyone else, can fuck right off.
--
BMO
People are dumb. The amount of dumbth is directly proportional to the crowd size.
Some of us are old enough to remember the Rolling Stones concert with the Hell's Angels drunken "security" detail and the Who concert with "festival" seating.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert
I was a wee tyke when this happened, but I remember the news story.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/eleven-people-killed-in-a-stampede-outside-who-concert-in-cincinnati-ohio
-- /christmas_story
BMO - "You'll put your eye out!"
It is not satisfactory
Tough Bananas. Deal With It.
--
BMO
I think that many, many writers and artists are only able to devote time to their work because copyright allows them to charge for access to their work
Because deceased authors are always putting out more new works since we've extended copyright past the natural lifetime of the author and not at all for rent-seeking by the heirs/descendents/scumbags.
Right?
--
BMO
As a general rule, for works created after January 1, 1978, copyright protection lasts for the life of the author plus an additional 70 years.
http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-duration.html
Have we ever sent a person where it was certain, and known to them, that they could die?
Fixed.
And yes, all the time.
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/may/23/neil-armstrong-accountancy-website-moon-exclusive
And living here in New England, I have to say that plenty of people took their chances coming here in the early 17'th century, abandoning their old support networks and society without the promise of even making it through the next winter.
--
BMO
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
Filter error: Don't use so many caps. Filter error: Don't use so many caps. Filter error: Don't use so many caps.
At some point it will require a license to purchase and own machine tools too.
Today I can go out and buy a used lathe and milling machine and manufacture everything from the keys mentioned in this article to fine quality guns that fire actual bullets much more reliably than you can get out of a Dimension 3D printer. Indeed, even before the existence of printers such as the Dimension printer and its kind, where was the outcry?
There is no licensing of machine tools because "how much do you want to cripple the economy" by putting up barriers to capital equipment?
You're nuts.
--
BMO
And we have this other lovely bit of paranoia.
its all part of the plan to get 3D printers heavily regulated, if not outright banned.
The AC above you mentioned Bridgeport milling machines. These have been around since before WWII (the first #1 was made in 1936). If you think 3D printing will be "heavily regulated, if not outright banned" why isn't it illegal to go and buy a used Bridgeport off of Ebay?
Take off the tinfoil. It's too tight.
--
BMO
The founding fathers never foresaw global megacorporations with concentrations of wealth and power that exceeds that of some actual countries.
--
BMO
After all, which Windows should they train to use? Windows XP? Windows 8? By the time they hit the market Windows 10 might be the current MS standard, and people may well be using operating systems targeted to non-desktop form factors as much or more than Windows.
This can't be said enough. Like the guy up there that said he used a typewriter in HS.
Technology changes. Teaching specific technology and not the principles behind such is setting up people for failure. My skills in manual drafting are not lost in CAD.
--
BMO
It's not news that tidal forces can keep moons from freezing solid. Io is one of them and we've known about that since we saw vulcanism from Voyager 1.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanology_of_Io.
And we've calculated that Enceladus should also be similarly kneaded.
It's news that we're able to see the tidal distortion "directly."
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BMO
Ernie Ranglin is better ska.
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BMO
P.S. I need to see him live before he dies.