The political compass separates the traditional left/right line into a plane -- the horizontal axis is left/right which indicates to what extent you believe government should control/regulate the economy, and the vertical axis is authoritarian/libertarian which indicates to what extent you believe governement should control people's behaviour.
It seems to me (I Am Not An American) that Americans regard their left/right line as running from top-left to bottom-right (left is authoritarian, right is libertarian), whereas in many other countries, the line is seen to run from bottom-left to top-right.
Obviously I've exaggerated the slope of the lines somewhat!
(None of which explains what religion has to do with it.)
Disclaimer: Slightly left of center, libertarian, atheist, British.
Obviously a great deal of time has passed since Episode III
Only thirty-something years, I believe.
Barely long enough for the outer systems of the Empire to come to terms with living in the Empire before they suddenly have to come to terms with not living in an Empire any more.
I have an old box which I intend to "one day" put to "good use", and had every intention of underclocking it as parent^2 suggested.
I had intended to remove both fan and heatsink (I mentally tie them together -- in my head it's a single unit which is either present or absent).
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The problem with "richer digital content" is that it takes frigging ages to load.
And it's a pain in the arse to navigate. For some reason the ("we're not dumbing down") BBC thing that the population can't handle typing something like "601" (it's got numbers in -- so it must be complicated, right?), so we have to press "down down down select down select right right right" instead.
It purports to be a 50 year old article, but 50 years ago no-one used "needed" as an adjective, they used "necessary". They didn't arbitrarily begin sentences with "Also", and they would have hyphenated "not yet invented technology" correctly.
It's good, but you missed out my favorite (in the sense of not-at-all-favorite) words:
Envision - A nice catch-all which replaces 'see', 'visualize', 'envisage', 'imagine', etc.
Leveraging - 'Leverage' is a noun in my book ('Collins Concise English Dictionary', since you ask). The verb is 'to lever', so presumably for 'leveraging', I should read 'levering', which usually doesn't make any sense at all.
Utilize - What's wrong with 'use', for fuck's sake?!!
Off of - Musn't really complain about this. I've learnt from/. that this is standard American usage, so to criticize would be flamebait.
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Although we all hate spam, at least we can engage in some harmless macho posturing re the amount of it that we get.
I'm a mere minnow in comparison to your good self: Just 57 per day, on average.
IANAL, but I suspect that here in the UK, this would qualify as "Unauthorised modification of computer material", and hence be an offence under the Computer Misuse act, 1990.
Now, if you thought VC++ 6's for loop scoping bug was annoying (and having fixed numerous bits of code broken in that way that failed on other compilers, I promise you it can be very annoying)
"We Americans Are Too Good To Care for Your Puny Details"
I think you've hit the nail on the head here: That's exactly the attitude that is conveyed, even if it's not intended, and the reason why offence is taken.
It's all very well talking about oppressive governments, and freedom of speech, but consider: If I flew the Strips And Stars (or whatever you call it) upside down, and corrected my error without any hint of an apology, it's likely to be construed by many Americans as offensive even if it was just a genuine error on my part.
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Dude; you've just said something Not Good about Linux.
The only question now remaining is do you end up as -1:Flamebait, or -1:Troll?
You young whippersnapper.
I have a collection of silent radio plays.
I have 12 gmail accounts
Why?
Multiple personality disorder?
... is legalize everything. Not murder or theft ...
Your definition of 'everything' is contrary to that agreed upon by the rest of the English-speaking world.
Best. Slashdot Post. Ever.
That, sir, deserves modding up. A lovely bit of tangential thinking.
Either it's too deep in the hierarchy to get noticed, or the mods got confused by the whistling sound it made as it flew over their heads.
One mobile phone = about 2cm x 5cm x 10cm = about 100 sq cm.
Help me! I'm trapped in the third dimension.
As a father of six,
That's very young to be a father, you know.
What's the world coming to, I ask myself.
I blame the parents.
Describing your merchandise as "shit" is an interesting sales technique!
Reminds me of this bloke.
With an email address like that, sir, you _deserve_ an invite.
It's your friends in the Department Of Relativistic Kinematics who I really feel sorry for.
a fairly pedestrian (but effective) mark-sweep-and-compact algorithm
Hey! Who are you calling pedestrian?
The political compass separates the traditional left/right line into a plane -- the horizontal axis is left/right which indicates to what extent you believe government should control/regulate the economy, and the vertical axis is authoritarian/libertarian which indicates to what extent you believe governement should control people's behaviour.
It seems to me (I Am Not An American) that Americans regard their left/right line as running from top-left to bottom-right (left is authoritarian, right is libertarian), whereas in many other countries, the line is seen to run from bottom-left to top-right.
Obviously I've exaggerated the slope of the lines somewhat!
(None of which explains what religion has to do with it.)
Disclaimer: Slightly left of center, libertarian, atheist, British.
Obviously a great deal of time has passed since Episode III
Only thirty-something years, I believe.
Barely long enough for the outer systems of the Empire to come to terms with living in the Empire before they suddenly have to come to terms with not living in an Empire any more.
Since this is turning into a MS Word Survival Tips thread, I'll offer mine:
1) Type away, without worrying about the formatting.
2) Sort out the formatting in one go after you've got the content in place.
It works for me. YMMV.
Thanks for that, you've probably saved my P150!
I have an old box which I intend to "one day" put to "good use", and had every intention of underclocking it as parent^2 suggested.
I had intended to remove both fan and heatsink (I mentally tie them together -- in my head it's a single unit which is either present or absent).
The problem with "richer digital content" is that it takes frigging ages to load.
And it's a pain in the arse to navigate. For some reason the ("we're not dumbing down") BBC thing that the population can't handle typing something like "601" (it's got numbers in -- so it must be complicated, right?), so we have to press "down down down select down select right right right" instead.
Of course it's a fake; read the caption:
It purports to be a 50 year old article, but 50 years ago no-one used "needed" as an adjective, they used "necessary". They didn't arbitrarily begin sentences with "Also", and they would have hyphenated "not yet invented technology" correctly.
Our mission was getting these plates to the customer fast enough so that they could keep their multi-million presses running 24/7.
24/7, no less. I've always wondered what 3.428571 had to do with anything.
Wouldn't "24*7" be (slightly) more logical?
It's good, but you missed out my favorite (in the sense of not-at-all-favorite) words:
/. that this is standard American usage, so to criticize would be flamebait.
Envision - A nice catch-all which replaces 'see', 'visualize', 'envisage', 'imagine', etc.
Leveraging - 'Leverage' is a noun in my book ('Collins Concise English Dictionary', since you ask). The verb is 'to lever', so presumably for 'leveraging', I should read 'levering', which usually doesn't make any sense at all.
Utilize - What's wrong with 'use', for fuck's sake?!!
Off of - Musn't really complain about this. I've learnt from
Although we all hate spam, at least we can engage in some harmless macho posturing re the amount of it that we get.
I'm a mere minnow in comparison to your good self: Just 57 per day, on average.
Me off to stuff a pair of socks into my pants...
Yeah. Waste of money: He was ineligible to stand for president anyway.
What with being 17-years-dead, and all.
IANAL, but I suspect that here in the UK, this would qualify as "Unauthorised modification of computer material", and hence be an offence under the Computer Misuse act, 1990.
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http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_1990
In my world, the inch is an obsolete unit of measurement, retrodefined to be 25.4mm.
You're welcome to join me here.
Now, if you thought VC++ 6's for loop scoping bug was annoying (and having fixed numerous bits of code broken in that way that failed on other compilers, I promise you it can be very annoying)
#define for if(false);else for
Enjoyed. Thanks.
...' link.
That's the first time this century that I've found a long comment interesting enough to click the 'Read the rest
"We Americans Are Too Good To Care for Your Puny Details"
I think you've hit the nail on the head here: That's exactly the attitude that is conveyed, even if it's not intended, and the reason why offence is taken.
It's all very well talking about oppressive governments, and freedom of speech, but consider: If I flew the Strips And Stars (or whatever you call it) upside down, and corrected my error without any hint of an apology, it's likely to be construed by many Americans as offensive even if it was just a genuine error on my part.