So does that mean that since some peoples lives are ruined by alcohol, drugs, porn, gambling and food we should ban it all...you know...just in case?
The US Government already tried this back in the '20s (as well as other countries, but the U.S. ban on alcohol and liquer was probably the best example for this case). Prohibition actually increased the danger of alcohol by forcing people to get it through illicit means, and it also subconsciously promoted alcohol as a means to rebel against the politicians in D.C. This, along with the huge fad of owning a car, was quite a deadly combination. You might want to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for a nice look into the idea of what Prohibition and the success of automobiles caused during the "Roaring Twenties" that led to the Great Depression.
Banning "abuseable" goods and services has generally had a negative outcome in the past, and to do something so extreme as to ban your previously mentioned goods would indeed be as radical and inane as you seem to be portraying in your satire.
The only porn you get is brutal, wham, bam, say thank you ma'am stuff. There's no exposure to sex between two people who love each other.
With the cost of producing porn rapidly reaching zero, the window of opportunity has opened for more than just "wham bam thank you ma'am" porn. The days of your typical well-known porn stars in a story-driven, 90 minute, bj+penetration pornographical films have been muddled by the huge library of available fetishes that can be fulfilled via plenty of online sites. There are indeed plenty of sites that deal with real couples that have sex on film, and that has been one of the very successful branches of pornography. In fact, it is easier for a real couple to get a porn movie done than it is for a single person to due to the supply and demand in the pornography field.
So, before you go off saying that porn is bad, you have to remember that there are hundreds of different categories of porn (some of which that does indeed fulfill some strange fetishes), many of which that include consenting adults that are in an ongoing relationship with each other at the time.
If you can't find anything good out of the available porn, go rent some high-class British porn.
I think that if MSFT tried to patent such common typography practices in a digital form, it'd probably end up being their own method of calculating it. You can be rest assured that Slashdot would dedicate another front page article to the fact that "Microsoft Patents Printing Press, Gutenberg Unavailable for Comments".
He'd be shocked because he patented "Stacking Flimsy Objects in a Tetrahedronal or Otherwise Pyramidal Form" back in patent 92,264 when he realised that he had a good system of organising the 92,263 patents he had to keep organised but readily available. Too bad the file cabinet system was patented back in patent 42,562, so he couldn't simply keep the patents in them without a sense of irony, eh?
When you find an online store that doesn`t over-price buying in bulk, get back to me.
+5 Funny? More like +5 Interesting
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Why FreeBSD
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So, uh, would BSD be like smooth peanut butter and GNU/Linux crunchy peanut butter? They both offer very similar things, but the two are different enough that you can have a preference. And both go good with jelly/jam (which could also be applied to this comparison). Some people are allergic to peanuts; I guess these people would be compared to those who cannot use Free software due to licensing restrictions?
We get news about Google everyday here; it's inevitable. In fact, I tried testing my theory by submitting an article about Google SMS going beta as there was an article about Google Scholar (which has already been out for a while).
No dice; you can't submit a dupe to the editor who put up the first article. Either that, or one of them is anti-multiple-announcements-regarding-Google.
Also, the news shouldn't be so slow on Sundays. Have you seen the size of a Sunday edition to a newspaper?:O
Give him a break. Haven't you noticed the recent/. fad is to announce every little thing Google does? If there hasn't been a story about what they're doing in at least 12 hours, a dupe is posted instead.
1. FlashGot I really don't see how this could cause a lawsuit; it's a download manager.
2. CustomizeGoogle Possibly, but Google seems to be pretty cool with Mozilla and such. They haven't spoken ill of CustomizeGoogle on their group for their extension.
3. Adblock Okay, I can definitely see the problem of including this, but without any filters and whatnot, who would try to sue Mozilla, let alone succeed?
4. NoScript This is a security extension. I think that Firefox should have white/black-listing for JavaScript (didn't they used to in Seamonkey?).
5. Forecastfox I wouldn't want to see this either as I find it just as pointless as when many OEMs come pre-installed with shit like WeatherBug.
Re:If they're going to bump it up that much...
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They've been working on it amazingly. I'm subscribed to all the active dependencies of that bug, and the most activity has been in the "object tags without type aren't renderred" bug (or something to that nature). I fully doubt that it will be implemented completely into Gecko until the post-1.5 trunk is in development, and with that you won't really be able to enjoy the better renderring due to the huge amount of bugs that get introduced by their idea of what the "trunk" really is.
Well, a jump from 1.3 to 1.5 would surely mean that they were branching to start a new development build (1.5.x), but this isn't the case. Mozilla doesn't follow the tried and true method of versioning, and they don't even follow your typical system of how trunks and branches work (they have it flip-flopped so that the branch is the stable build and the trunk is the development build). And due to this, I can't even follow the trunk builds considering it's always so damn unstable (with a lack of extensions to boot).
Nothing against the Mozilla Foundation, but I wish they were a little more practical in their development...
The problem with our political/media system is that the only people who tend to end up in positions of power are those who really want it (and are willing to do whatever it takes to get that power). Unfortunately, these are precisely the people you don't want in power.
This is why the President of the Universe is a hick with a bad memory who talks to his cat and amazes himself with a pencil and how it can write and erase.
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So does that mean that since some peoples lives are ruined by alcohol, drugs, porn, gambling and food we should ban it all...you know...just in case?
The US Government already tried this back in the '20s (as well as other countries, but the U.S. ban on alcohol and liquer was probably the best example for this case). Prohibition actually increased the danger of alcohol by forcing people to get it through illicit means, and it also subconsciously promoted alcohol as a means to rebel against the politicians in D.C. This, along with the huge fad of owning a car, was quite a deadly combination. You might want to read The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald for a nice look into the idea of what Prohibition and the success of automobiles caused during the "Roaring Twenties" that led to the Great Depression.
Banning "abuseable" goods and services has generally had a negative outcome in the past, and to do something so extreme as to ban your previously mentioned goods would indeed be as radical and inane as you seem to be portraying in your satire.
I guess the Democrats are trying to increase their "pro-family" ratings.
See Also: Hilary Clinton
The only porn you get is brutal, wham, bam, say thank you ma'am stuff. There's no exposure to sex between two people who love each other.
With the cost of producing porn rapidly reaching zero, the window of opportunity has opened for more than just "wham bam thank you ma'am" porn. The days of your typical well-known porn stars in a story-driven, 90 minute, bj+penetration pornographical films have been muddled by the huge library of available fetishes that can be fulfilled via plenty of online sites. There are indeed plenty of sites that deal with real couples that have sex on film, and that has been one of the very successful branches of pornography. In fact, it is easier for a real couple to get a porn movie done than it is for a single person to due to the supply and demand in the pornography field.
So, before you go off saying that porn is bad, you have to remember that there are hundreds of different categories of porn (some of which that does indeed fulfill some strange fetishes), many of which that include consenting adults that are in an ongoing relationship with each other at the time.
If you can't find anything good out of the available porn, go rent some high-class British porn.
I think that if MSFT tried to patent such common typography practices in a digital form, it'd probably end up being their own method of calculating it. You can be rest assured that Slashdot would dedicate another front page article to the fact that "Microsoft Patents Printing Press, Gutenberg Unavailable for Comments".
He'd be shocked because he patented "Stacking Flimsy Objects in a Tetrahedronal or Otherwise Pyramidal Form" back in patent 92,264 when he realised that he had a good system of organising the 92,263 patents he had to keep organised but readily available. Too bad the file cabinet system was patented back in patent 42,562, so he couldn't simply keep the patents in them without a sense of irony, eh?
When you find an online store that doesn`t over-price buying in bulk, get back to me.
So, uh, would BSD be like smooth peanut butter and GNU/Linux crunchy peanut butter? They both offer very similar things, but the two are different enough that you can have a preference. And both go good with jelly/jam (which could also be applied to this comparison). Some people are allergic to peanuts; I guess these people would be compared to those who cannot use Free software due to licensing restrictions?
...and others are fun to lick.
Wait, what?
We get news about Google everyday here; it's inevitable. In fact, I tried testing my theory by submitting an article about Google SMS going beta as there was an article about Google Scholar (which has already been out for a while).
:O
No dice; you can't submit a dupe to the editor who put up the first article. Either that, or one of them is anti-multiple-announcements-regarding-Google.
Also, the news shouldn't be so slow on Sundays. Have you seen the size of a Sunday edition to a newspaper?
Give him a break. Haven't you noticed the recent /. fad is to announce every little thing Google does? If there hasn't been a story about what they're doing in at least 12 hours, a dupe is posted instead.
Don't tell me I was the only one who thought this was a Nintendo-bashing joke.
Here's mine:
deadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeefdeadbeef
Technically, America is the bastard child of England, so it's "for the parents".
1. FlashGot
I really don't see how this could cause a lawsuit; it's a download manager.
2. CustomizeGoogle
Possibly, but Google seems to be pretty cool with Mozilla and such. They haven't spoken ill of CustomizeGoogle on their group for their extension.
3. Adblock
Okay, I can definitely see the problem of including this, but without any filters and whatnot, who would try to sue Mozilla, let alone succeed?
4. NoScript
This is a security extension. I think that Firefox should have white/black-listing for JavaScript (didn't they used to in Seamonkey?).
5. Forecastfox
I wouldn't want to see this either as I find it just as pointless as when many OEMs come pre-installed with shit like WeatherBug.
Are you new here?
They've been working on it amazingly. I'm subscribed to all the active dependencies of that bug, and the most activity has been in the "object tags without type aren't renderred" bug (or something to that nature). I fully doubt that it will be implemented completely into Gecko until the post-1.5 trunk is in development, and with that you won't really be able to enjoy the better renderring due to the huge amount of bugs that get introduced by their idea of what the "trunk" really is.
Well, a jump from 1.3 to 1.5 would surely mean that they were branching to start a new development build (1.5.x), but this isn't the case. Mozilla doesn't follow the tried and true method of versioning, and they don't even follow your typical system of how trunks and branches work (they have it flip-flopped so that the branch is the stable build and the trunk is the development build). And due to this, I can't even follow the trunk builds considering it's always so damn unstable (with a lack of extensions to boot).
Nothing against the Mozilla Foundation, but I wish they were a little more practical in their development...
Nah, Sun Java. ;P
They're going to use really strong 802.11xxx connections for your empornium needs!
Finally breaking the 1 Mbps barrier that broadband has been facing. ;)
But things would be split into 10-hour periods: ...
AM
BM
CM
DM
And after that, we'll be using a calendar based on how many seconds have passed since a purely arbitrary moment in time!
Oh...
Or like Valentine's Day and Sweetest's Day.
The problem with our political/media system is that the only people who tend to end up in positions of power are those who really want it (and are willing to do whatever it takes to get that power). Unfortunately, these are precisely the people you don't want in power.
This is why the President of the Universe is a hick with a bad memory who talks to his cat and amazes himself with a pencil and how it can write and erase.