It's really great that games like second-life can allow physically impaired people to "be on an equal playing field for once" But it would also be nice if these games offered people a choice of physical impairments. I might like to have a quadraplegic or deaf alter-ego but I can't do that in game-world.
"Paypal themselves don't want to be considered a real bank"
Jeez, I wonder why not. Could it have anything to do with the very serious and costly IT procedures demanded by Federal & State governments?
Someone refresh my memory on this one...
The existence of the LZW compression patent was common knowledge. Right?
Was it a case that the submitter to the GIF standards body patented it without telling anyone?
Did the standards body have rules regarding submitting patented technologies?
You're assuming that US Citizens trust their legal system and judges as much as the British do. We don't. In jurisprudence and many other areas of government, US citizens heavily favor formal rules-based approaches. The British tend to favor a more informal approach that gives the executors more discretion.
Then they are a bunch of pussies. In 1950's America black men and women were willing to suffer a whole lot worse whilst standing up for their rights. They openly defied unjust laws and accepted the consequences. America was a captialist society back then too.
Yea. It's pretty damned hard to argue that stealing a luxury good constitutes civil disobience instead of plain-old fucking theft. Especially when the actors go through so much effort to hide their identities.
Real civil disobience usually requires the actors to be willing to accept the consequences of an unjust situation whilst fighting for erradication. I don't see a whole lot of music pirates that are daring the RIAA or ASCAP to sue them.
Turn Firefox into an automated research tool. I want to be able to submit a set of questions or parameters that define a problem or research objective. Firefox should then autonomously search a set of defined sources for information related to my request. The information should be sorted, categorized, and summarized. I should be also be able to review and refine results while the process is running. I want to be able to mark particularly good sources or clusters of sources for periodic refreshing of results. The system should use my marking of what I consider to be good sources or clusters to learn about how I want information presented, sorted, categorized and summarized.
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No. He just means it requires a shit-load of coffee.
It's really great that games like second-life can allow physically impaired people to "be on an equal playing field for once" But it would also be nice if these games offered people a choice of physical impairments. I might like to have a quadraplegic or deaf alter-ego but I can't do that in game-world.
Thankyou for not procreating
Smoothbores are for sissies. I used the gears from the tech sets to build in rifiling. Tore the crap out the grapes I used for ammo though.
Good'ole Trash-80
Good times
If you think that Mozilla is standards-compliant then you are living in a dream world.
"Paypal themselves don't want to be considered a real bank" Jeez, I wonder why not. Could it have anything to do with the very serious and costly IT procedures demanded by Federal & State governments?
Someone refresh my memory on this one... The existence of the LZW compression patent was common knowledge. Right? Was it a case that the submitter to the GIF standards body patented it without telling anyone? Did the standards body have rules regarding submitting patented technologies?
You're assuming that US Citizens trust their legal system and judges as much as the British do. We don't. In jurisprudence and many other areas of government, US citizens heavily favor formal rules-based approaches. The British tend to favor a more informal approach that gives the executors more discretion.
Then they are a bunch of pussies. In 1950's America black men and women were willing to suffer a whole lot worse whilst standing up for their rights. They openly defied unjust laws and accepted the consequences. America was a captialist society back then too.
Yea. It's pretty damned hard to argue that stealing a luxury good constitutes civil disobience instead of plain-old fucking theft. Especially when the actors go through so much effort to hide their identities.
Real civil disobience usually requires the actors to be willing to accept the consequences of an unjust situation whilst fighting for erradication. I don't see a whole lot of music pirates that are daring the RIAA or ASCAP to sue them.
Turn Firefox into an automated research tool. I want to be able to submit a set of questions or parameters that define a problem or research objective. Firefox should then autonomously search a set of defined sources for information related to my request. The information should be sorted, categorized, and summarized. I should be also be able to review and refine results while the process is running. I want to be able to mark particularly good sources or clusters of sources for periodic refreshing of results. The system should use my marking of what I consider to be good sources or clusters to learn about how I want information presented, sorted, categorized and summarized.