I agree. God forbid that anyone would ever make fun of something serious.
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The sad part with people being offended by others' jokes is that they usually don't understand that the jokes are in fact... jokes. That somebody's saying something funny about something is not an indication that he does not understand, or care about it. It's just an indication that he's trying to brighten up your day, and you should be fortunate to be able to hear it.
If death is beyond your sense of humour, I feel sad for you, because it is indeed a topic horrible enough to need some brightening up every now and then.
Being a vhemt supporter I feel slightly disgusted to argue against anyone happy with reduced birth rates... but;
No, infertility does not happen because of overpopulation. Infertility is not Gods way of telling us we're too many. Infertility is not even natures way of telling us we're too many, no more than a broken bone is natures way of telling us that we should use them less.
Infertility is an injury, and all sorts of physical injuries are a tragedy, and should be fought by all means possible.
People should refrain from having children by choice, and not because they're forced to.
I would of course, be extremely happy if these people choose not to have kids of their own when they grow up. A great victory indeed.
And all these crimes in the enlightened 18:th century where tolerance towards cultural minority groups were abundant, society having an understanding attitude towards people with abnormal physique and politicians were all around good guys who cared about nothing but the general good of the masses.
The company where I work has embraced the XP model quite closely, and thus have a rather strict policy forcing their employees not to work overtime. It works great, and although it happens that I do 42 or 43 hours, 60 hour work weeks are very rare.
I live in Sweden, but I can't really say whether this is the standard for the country or not, I'm afraid. --
You jump to conclusions a bit too quickly. I work for a company whose primary business idea is providing services to online cars, and most of them tend to decrease the time spent driving. It's maps to help you navigate, information to help you avoid traffic jams, car pooling services that lets a number of people, X, share a number of cars, Y, where X is a figure significantly higher than Y, decreasing the need to build as many cars; etc etc.
I don't have a driver's license, and I always travel by bus or train, but I am still proud of the services I help develop, as they will decrease all the overhead that comes with car use.
Being a programmer who has lived an work in both Sweden and the UK, I can happily testify that the costs of living in the UK (at least close to Londond) are at least twice as high as in Sweden.
I haven't done any scientific research, it's just my general impression.
I did earn some 30-40% more while living in the UK though.
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You jump to conclusions pretty quickly. You saw someone who wrote a post that offended you, and thus you assume that this person, and most other frequenting this place to be "brats... lacking any amount of maturity and decency", ending your display by declaring death penalty to the person not sharing your taste of humour.
I must admit that I wonder who is at error here. The post you're replying to is in no way an indication of this person's maturity or decency, nor does it reflect his affiliation with the Open Source movement.
Even so, as have already been stated in another post (redundant here I come:), people make jokes about anything, all the time! This includes war, death, fatal accidents, betrayal heart aches and slapping eachother in the face with dead fish:) NO topic is too touchy to joke about. Some people may on some occasions be offended by certain jokes (obviously), but in that case I'd make a bet that it's usually the people offended that's the problem, and not the joke.
I'd argue that most smaller companies (sub 100 employees) can't afford that kind of security. For very small companies (sub 10 employees) it's right out ridiculous. There's absolutely no way to cover the costs.
The company I was referring to in my last post was named Lion Rampant. A brief description about the history of the game (Ars Magica) can be found here.
Considering a lot of the people I work with regularly, I'd say that even today "knowing just a few html tags and tricks [can] probably [get] you a job as a full-fledged Web designer".
I'm serious:(
The "possibly others" you so vaguely refer to is a certain Mr. Rein (blob) Hagen. It might be a name that rings a bell. You should definately be able to see it on the cover of Mage.
However, yes - a lot of what White Wolf has ever published is inspired by the same thoughts that were behind Ars Magica. This is, however, not very surprising as they share a couple of founding personalities.
And, for the record - the first edition of Ars Magica was published by a company which I have just forgotten the name of - but of which Mark Rein (blob) Hagen was a founder...
I (typically non yank) am also scared of a 1100 page book. Seriously, it's hell reading them. As soon as a book get more than some 500 pages they get all heavy, the pages will bulge too much making the line appear in a very non-straight way.
I'll probably try to get the US edition(s) even if it will probably be more expensive...
Another thing, carrying around a 1100 page book is hell, while a 300 page book is quite alright.
=)
I once spent two hours tracking down a bug in python which finally turned out to be a space at the beginning of a line where the indention used was 4-char tabs...
It says on the buttons what happens when you click on them. It doesn't say on the prompt what happens when you type something... actually, it usually doesn't even say what you can type at all.
Now, if you take this as any sort of advocacy towards GUI tools you're wrong. In essence, I agree with you - I just tried to answer your question
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And the difference, if he called him self John Doe (or whatever his real name is) would be... what, exactly?
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free market and all that
Interesting argument, considering that the reason for the boycott was that Amazon is impairing the free market--
I agree. God forbid that anyone would ever make fun of something serious.
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The sad part with people being offended by others' jokes is that they usually don't understand that the jokes are in fact... jokes. That somebody's saying something funny about something is not an indication that he does not understand, or care about it. It's just an indication that he's trying to brighten up your day, and you should be fortunate to be able to hear it.
If death is beyond your sense of humour, I feel sad for you, because it is indeed a topic horrible enough to need some brightening up every now and then.
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No, infertility does not happen because of overpopulation. Infertility is not Gods way of telling us we're too many. Infertility is not even natures way of telling us we're too many, no more than a broken bone is natures way of telling us that we should use them less.
Infertility is an injury, and all sorts of physical injuries are a tragedy, and should be fought by all means possible.
People should refrain from having children by choice, and not because they're forced to.
I would of course, be extremely happy if these people choose not to have kids of their own when they grow up. A great victory indeed.
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And all these crimes in the enlightened 18:th century where tolerance towards cultural minority groups were abundant, society having an understanding attitude towards people with abnormal physique and politicians were all around good guys who cared about nothing but the general good of the masses.
What a jerk!
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I thought we were boycotting Amazon ;)
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The company where I work has embraced the XP model quite closely, and thus have a rather strict policy forcing their employees not to work overtime. It works great, and although it happens that I do 42 or 43 hours, 60 hour work weeks are very rare.
I live in Sweden, but I can't really say whether this is the standard for the country or not, I'm afraid.--
"It's not a PC, but rather a microcomputer"
Silly me, I always thought the PC was a microcomputer.
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Try the little box with the button beside it saying 'search'.
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And exactly how much dev license money do you think they'll manage to squeeze out of the developers if they don't sell any devices?
You jump to conclusions a bit too quickly. I work for a company whose primary business idea is providing services to online cars, and most of them tend to decrease the time spent driving. It's maps to help you navigate, information to help you avoid traffic jams, car pooling services that lets a number of people, X, share a number of cars, Y, where X is a figure significantly higher than Y, decreasing the need to build as many cars; etc etc.
I don't have a driver's license, and I always travel by bus or train, but I am still proud of the services I help develop, as they will decrease all the overhead that comes with car use.
Being a programmer who has lived an work in both Sweden and the UK, I can happily testify that the costs of living in the UK (at least close to Londond) are at least twice as high as in Sweden.
I haven't done any scientific research, it's just my general impression.
I did earn some 30-40% more while living in the UK though.
You jump to conclusions pretty quickly. You saw someone who wrote a post that offended you, and thus you assume that this person, and most other frequenting this place to be "brats... lacking any amount of maturity and decency", ending your display by declaring death penalty to the person not sharing your taste of humour.
I must admit that I wonder who is at error here. The post you're replying to is in no way an indication of this person's maturity or decency, nor does it reflect his affiliation with the Open Source movement.
Even so, as have already been stated in another post (redundant here I come:), people make jokes about anything, all the time! This includes war, death, fatal accidents, betrayal heart aches and slapping eachother in the face with dead fish :)
NO topic is too touchy to joke about. Some people may on some occasions be offended by certain jokes (obviously), but in that case I'd make a bet that it's usually the people offended that's the problem, and not the joke.
I'd argue that most smaller companies (sub 100 employees) can't afford that kind of security. For very small companies (sub 10 employees) it's right out ridiculous. There's absolutely no way to cover the costs.
Have you ever tried to make gasoline explode?
The company I was referring to in my last post was named Lion Rampant. A brief description about the history of the game (Ars Magica) can be found here.
Considering a lot of the people I work with regularly, I'd say that even today "knowing just a few html tags and tricks [can] probably [get] you a job as a full-fledged Web designer". I'm serious :(
The "possibly others" you so vaguely refer to is a certain Mr. Rein (blob) Hagen. It might be a name that rings a bell. You should definately be able to see it on the cover of Mage. However, yes - a lot of what White Wolf has ever published is inspired by the same thoughts that were behind Ars Magica. This is, however, not very surprising as they share a couple of founding personalities. And, for the record - the first edition of Ars Magica was published by a company which I have just forgotten the name of - but of which Mark Rein (blob) Hagen was a founder...
I (typically non yank) am also scared of a 1100 page book. Seriously, it's hell reading them. As soon as a book get more than some 500 pages they get all heavy, the pages will bulge too much making the line appear in a very non-straight way. I'll probably try to get the US edition(s) even if it will probably be more expensive...
Another thing, carrying around a 1100 page book is hell, while a 300 page book is quite alright. =)
You use the engine to index a specific site(s). Such as e.g. your intranet.
Such as WinNT for "mission critical appliacations"?
Having spent the last three years of my life coding website for the MS platform, that idea leaves me completely baffled...You didn't phrase a question. You made a bunch of (quite ridiculous) statements.
I once spent two hours tracking down a bug in python which finally turned out to be a space at the beginning of a line where the indention used was 4-char tabs...
It says on the buttons what happens when you click on them. It doesn't say on the prompt what happens when you type something... actually, it usually doesn't even say what you can type at all.
Now, if you take this as any sort of advocacy towards GUI tools you're wrong. In essence, I agree with you - I just tried to answer your question
...then quit.
Ain't harder than that.