I'm sorry, but really. I don't argue that the question "why?" shouldn't be asked, but it is not an appropriate question to ask until you "what". Speculating about "why" without knowing for sure you've got the "what" right is beyond meaningless.
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I'm not sure whether I should laugh or cry... but it reminds me of reading The Trial:)
Funny, I'm always finishing everything on my plate, and I'm still in the "probably already dead from starvation" category in all BMI tables. If you checked her website you'll see that customers actually seem to be in control of how much food they order ("Please be mindful of the amount of food you order") which makes this a non issue.
And yes, it's impossible to say in advance exactly how much you're gonna eat, but really, it's not that hard to give a decent estimate and then live with when it happens to be a tiny bit off.
Maybe teach creationism, ID AND evolution in school... teach them as the three most widely-accepted ideas on how the world started
Indeed. And while we're at it, let's, maybe, teach that the earth is a more or less spheric rock among balls of burning gas, also that it is flat, and then that it rests on the backs of giant elephants, all the way down... teach them as the three most widely-accepted ideas on earth's relation to the cosmos...
The difference is obviously that science has never claimed to be right. No scientists (worth his salt) has ever said "Now I've described this phenomenon perfectly. There is no more left to learn here". They always say, "Well, as far as I can see right now, it seems to work sort of like this". It's part of its very definition to be updated.
I am not a bookmark manager, but what the hell. Those folks actually spent a bit of time thinking about this shit, you know. If you're still confused after reading the FAQ, direct your question to GNU or FSF, not bloody slashdot.
Where I live people would be baffled if a corporation even kept track of the "race" of its workforce, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean. Is this something you folks actually keep on record? For what purposes, and what "races" are there?
Which particular EU country do you live in? I live in Sweden myself. I've never heard of anything similar, and it was pretty much an afterthought to inform the authorities that I would leave the country "indefinitely" (it ended up being about six months) when I moved to the UK for a while. I never inform anyone except my family and closest friends when I'm leaving my home, or the country for less than a few months. The thought of informing authorities about changed travel plans is as alien to me as I imagine it is to any US resident.
That said, there are a few other "common" privacy violations going on here, I admit that.. but what you're describing is nothing I recognize at all.
Then I suggest you take your 1983 Mercedes 300D turbo diesel and chicken race that train. In the unlikely event that you live, you may at least understand why (sane) car manufacturers don't consider "build the heaviest vehicle" the wisest crash safety strategy - something that, in fact, often involves thinking about two parties.
I have a hard time guessing if you're trolling or not. I'm assuming you are, but on the remote chance that your question really is sincere: The volumes involved are mind numbing. If sea levels rose even one foot, there'd be 10^14 cubic meters of water to handle.
I couldn't find a reference on the world's largest water tower, but the US largest (and those Americans do seem to like building big stuff) can hold "half a million gallons". So, if we built towers as big as that one, we'd still need about 5*10^10 of them - that would be about ten times as many as we have people in the world.
Good answer, thanks for taking the time to write it.
I remain unconvinced, but I certainly see where you're coming from:) I will have a look at Freemind though, hadn't heard of it before you mentioned it.
Interesting. One of the main reasons why I stick to, in my case Emacs, mutt & similar tools is the extra options storing everything as (more or less) plain text gives me. If I need to search for something in my mail, I can use the standard unix tools for it (vastly superior to gmail's search features). I can easily version control my documents and actually get useful diffs from (as opposed to the uninformative "well, the file changed" you get as a history when putting a binary document in an RCS). In the few cases when I have very specific needs, I can even write a small program to look at the stuff with relative ease - something that would have been incredibly hard had the stuff been stored in binary formats - and impossible when stored on a machine I don't have shell access to.
Do you ever miss these possibilities, or do you think that they're simply not worth the extra effort?
There's a lot of "If I don't need it, no one needs it" arrogance in the OS community.
That's pretty amazing. Precisely that attitude is one of the major reasons why I abandoned the proprietary world. I found that within OS, I could generally find at least someone that actually had somewhere near the problems I had, and had started trying to solve them.
I'm not saying you're wrong... but my experience is pretty much the diametrical opposite of what you're describing. Perhaps it's related to the exact problem set, rather than a general attitude, hmm?
Except that with a heat-pump, heat is not generated per se, but rather moved into the building, at an effeciency that actually is greater than 100% (meaning, you'll get more heat moved in than you would have gotten from just converting the electricity to heat through resistance) from a local (i.e. the building's) perspective.
Fair enough, and my apologies for the somewhat inflammatory remark.
Would you care to let me know what "communities" these are/were? I've never heard of such a thing, and find the idea curious, to say the least. Is/was the point of the requirement to fight internal threats (criminals) or external ones ("foreign" attackers)?
3: require all men to own and carry a firearm in public. 4: require all women to own and carry a firearm in public (this will also reduce the rate of sexual assault).
So, that would be everybody? Any particular reason why you chose to explicitly mandate the same rule twice, for two equally large, arbitrarily chosen subsets of the population, or is it just some weird sexist tradition of yours?
I like how you love my freedom by wanting to force me to carry a pound of metal around whenever I leave my home, by the way.
The difference between text and speech is that you expect text to actually be correct. When you're quoting someone that does include things that aren't quite correct, you insert the "snide little [sic]". That's its function. Just because you called it "X Windows" that does not mean it was correct, nor, I hope, that it was what you actually wrote when you had to put it in text.
And, for what it's worth, I've been around since back in the day as well, and "we" simply called it "X".
What do you think will happen with a system like this in the hands of Anonymous or some group like them.
I don't know, but I certainly hope they will demonstrate it in full force on some deserving target[1] soon enough. With some luck, it will be horrible enough that the whole thing is cancelled.
[1] And yes, I know exactly how inane the idea of a deserving target is, given the topic of this sub thread, and grandparent post in particular. Take the phrase as tongue in cheek.
Additionally, regarding the well known history of Germany there is NO REASON to show, wear or use Nazi symbols other than for a) education (allowed) or b) propaganda for forces against the German democracy (disallowed)
That statement is, of course, proven false by the very topic of the story. One reason could be, say, a video game. I assume that in your eyes it's not a good reason - but a reason it is.
And for the record, I'm not trying to defend the nonsensical drivel in the post you replied to.
I'm assuming you mean that WWII did not start until Japan's attack on the USA? Well - the views differ. I've been through school long before Wikipedia existed (or was even considered), and all my history books talk about September 1939. I'm not going to claim to know what "historians" think of the matter - other than that they probably disagree, and that you're likely to see one opinion more strongly represented on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
That's a bit optimistic. Yes, one meaning of the Swedish word 'krona' can be translated to the English word 'crown'. That does not mean that all of meanings of the word can. Try the same trick with the Swedish word 'fil', and start talking about how your hard drive is full of soured milk, how you were eating lanes for breakfast, and that you're switching files on the freeway (yes, Swedish uses the exact same word for those three things).
It works both ways, by the way. The first that comes to mind is the English word 'cut', which can easily be translated to at least three different Swedish words, depending on context (whether the tool involved is a knife, scissors or an axe).
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That historian was an idiot.
I'm sorry, but really. I don't argue that the question "why?" shouldn't be asked, but it is not an appropriate question to ask until you "what". Speculating about "why" without knowing for sure you've got the "what" right is beyond meaningless.
I'm not sure whether I should laugh or cry... but it reminds me of reading The Trial :)
Funny, I'm always finishing everything on my plate, and I'm still in the "probably already dead from starvation" category in all BMI tables.
If you checked her website you'll see that customers actually seem to be in control of how much food they order ("Please be mindful of the amount of food you order") which makes this a non issue.
And yes, it's impossible to say in advance exactly how much you're gonna eat, but really, it's not that hard to give a decent estimate and then live with when it happens to be a tiny bit off.
Indeed. And while we're at it, let's, maybe, teach that the earth is a more or less spheric rock among balls of burning gas, also that it is flat, and then that it rests on the backs of giant elephants, all the way down... teach them as the three most widely-accepted ideas on earth's relation to the cosmos...
The difference is obviously that science has never claimed to be right. No scientists (worth his salt) has ever said "Now I've described this phenomenon perfectly. There is no more left to learn here". They always say, "Well, as far as I can see right now, it seems to work sort of like this". It's part of its very definition to be updated.
This is drastically different from theology.
I am not a bookmark manager, but what the hell. Those folks actually spent a bit of time thinking about this shit, you know. If you're still confused after reading the FAQ, direct your question to GNU or FSF, not bloody slashdot.
Big Media trying to badmouth a new information distribution medium because they can't control it and fear becoming obsolete?
Man, things were pretty bleak back then, good thing nothing like that happens these days....
Where I live people would be baffled if a corporation even kept track of the "race" of its workforce, whatever the fuck that's supposed to mean.
Is this something you folks actually keep on record? For what purposes, and what "races" are there?
Which particular EU country do you live in? I live in Sweden myself. I've never heard of anything similar, and it was pretty much an afterthought to inform the authorities that I would leave the country "indefinitely" (it ended up being about six months) when I moved to the UK for a while.
I never inform anyone except my family and closest friends when I'm leaving my home, or the country for less than a few months. The thought of informing authorities about changed travel plans is as alien to me as I imagine it is to any US resident.
That said, there are a few other "common" privacy violations going on here, I admit that.. but what you're describing is nothing I recognize at all.
The courts decide how you interpret your religion?
For what it's worth, I support your decision not to pirate anything, I just found that twist of the conversation strange...
Then I suggest you take your 1983 Mercedes 300D turbo diesel and chicken race that train. In the unlikely event that you live, you may at least understand why (sane) car manufacturers don't consider "build the heaviest vehicle" the wisest crash safety strategy - something that, in fact, often involves thinking about two parties.
I have a hard time guessing if you're trolling or not. I'm assuming you are, but on the remote chance that your question really is sincere:
The volumes involved are mind numbing. If sea levels rose even one foot, there'd be 10^14 cubic meters of water to handle.
I couldn't find a reference on the world's largest water tower, but the US largest (and those Americans do seem to like building big stuff) can hold "half a million gallons". So, if we built towers as big as that one, we'd still need about 5*10^10 of them - that would be about ten times as many as we have people in the world.
Are you beginning to see the problem?
Good answer, thanks for taking the time to write it.
I remain unconvinced, but I certainly see where you're coming from :)
I will have a look at Freemind though, hadn't heard of it before you mentioned it.
Interesting. One of the main reasons why I stick to, in my case Emacs, mutt & similar tools is the extra options storing everything as (more or less) plain text gives me. If I need to search for something in my mail, I can use the standard unix tools for it (vastly superior to gmail's search features). I can easily version control my documents and actually get useful diffs from (as opposed to the uninformative "well, the file changed" you get as a history when putting a binary document in an RCS). In the few cases when I have very specific needs, I can even write a small program to look at the stuff with relative ease - something that would have been incredibly hard had the stuff been stored in binary formats - and impossible when stored on a machine I don't have shell access to.
Do you ever miss these possibilities, or do you think that they're simply not worth the extra effort?
That's pretty amazing. Precisely that attitude is one of the major reasons why I abandoned the proprietary world. I found that within OS, I could generally find at least someone that actually had somewhere near the problems I had, and had started trying to solve them.
I'm not saying you're wrong... but my experience is pretty much the diametrical opposite of what you're describing. Perhaps it's related to the exact problem set, rather than a general attitude, hmm?
Except that with a heat-pump, heat is not generated per se, but rather moved into the building, at an effeciency that actually is greater than 100% (meaning, you'll get more heat moved in than you would have gotten from just converting the electricity to heat through resistance) from a local (i.e. the building's) perspective.
Fair enough, and my apologies for the somewhat inflammatory remark.
Would you care to let me know what "communities" these are/were? I've never heard of such a thing, and find the idea curious, to say the least. Is/was the point of the requirement to fight internal threats (criminals) or external ones ("foreign" attackers)?
So, that would be everybody? Any particular reason why you chose to explicitly mandate the same rule twice, for two equally large, arbitrarily chosen subsets of the population, or is it just some weird sexist tradition of yours?
I like how you love my freedom by wanting to force me to carry a pound of metal around whenever I leave my home, by the way.
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Or, you know, remember them :)
The difference between text and speech is that you expect text to actually be correct. When you're quoting someone that does include things that aren't quite correct, you insert the "snide little [sic]". That's its function.
Just because you called it "X Windows" that does not mean it was correct, nor, I hope, that it was what you actually wrote when you had to put it in text.
And, for what it's worth, I've been around since back in the day as well, and "we" simply called it "X".
I don't know, but I certainly hope they will demonstrate it in full force on some deserving target[1] soon enough. With some luck, it will be horrible enough that the whole thing is cancelled.
[1] And yes, I know exactly how inane the idea of a deserving target is, given the topic of this sub thread, and grandparent post in particular. Take the phrase as tongue in cheek.
As far as praise goes, this one is pretty hilarious.
That statement is, of course, proven false by the very topic of the story. One reason could be, say, a video game. I assume that in your eyes it's not a good reason - but a reason it is.
And for the record, I'm not trying to defend the nonsensical drivel in the post you replied to.
I'm assuming you mean that WWII did not start until Japan's attack on the USA?
Well - the views differ. I've been through school long before Wikipedia existed (or was even considered), and all my history books talk about September 1939. I'm not going to claim to know what "historians" think of the matter - other than that they probably disagree, and that you're likely to see one opinion more strongly represented on either side of the Atlantic Ocean.
That's a bit optimistic. Yes, one meaning of the Swedish word 'krona' can be translated to the English word 'crown'. That does not mean that all of meanings of the word can.
Try the same trick with the Swedish word 'fil', and start talking about how your hard drive is full of soured milk, how you were eating lanes for breakfast, and that you're switching files on the freeway (yes, Swedish uses the exact same word for those three things).
For Swedish speakers: http://lexin2.nada.kth.se/cgi-bin/sve-eng?krona
It works both ways, by the way. The first that comes to mind is the English word 'cut', which can easily be translated to at least three different Swedish words, depending on context (whether the tool involved is a knife, scissors or an axe).