I'm waiting for the drones to get more miniaturized, as my current drone defense system can handle sparrows and tits. He did bring in his first starling yesterday, but I doubt he'll ever get whatever poop bombardment device the drone in TFA is supposed to masquerade as.
I don't think a sysadmin who doesn't know about elinks is that hot, either.
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Please come to Poland and try visit a doctor then. Dissatisfaction guaranteed.
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That state-paid "nationwide health coverage" is something that threatens to bring life average back to Stone Age levels. As bad as the US system is, socialized medicine is far, far worse.
The US: doctors will require every possible diagnostic to cover their asses. Socialized medicine: doctors are not allowed to use basic diagnostics unless in quite life threatening situations, they will use the absolute minimum of procedures, and you can expect multi-month delays between every step. Hospitals have limits on treatments, beyond which they don't get paid. Every once in a while, you hear of some local government or some NGO sponsoring an expensive piece of equipment for a hospital, then even with judicious use the hospital runs out of the yearly cap by May, making that equipment gather dust. Doctors are staying idle because the government will not pay for treatments. They are criminally responsible and have to repay the costs if by some reasons you had papers proving you paid the (mandatory) social security tax not in order. Pharmacies are required by law to replace any prescribed drug that's partially refunded with a cheaper substitute, even if the substitute is nowhere close to the original -- but that's mostly moot as the list of refunded drugs has mostly went away.
One thing is common, though: you can be certain the doctor will prescribe you a drug whose name he has on his pen or on a lapel of his coat, even if it's obvious even to an outsider that the drug can't possibly be related to your condition.
I'm not aware of any close ally who's threatening to nuke anyone. If I read your allegations right, then Israel doesn't even admit having nuclear weapons, much less threatening anyone with it.
i think they should change their name to the IntellectualPropertyTheftBay
It's pretty hard to steal intellectual property, the few cases that succeeded are aptly-named AFACT and RIAA. Without means to deprive a rightful owner of their rights, the "worst" (best actually) the rest of us mere mortals can do is copy.
In Oct 2000, a regional tax office in Poland declared, and fined companies for tax evasion, that free software products are a gift, and thus users need to pay the gift tax, using "leading commercial products" as a basis for valuation. In that particular case, they valuated Linux based on Windows NT Server, and Star Office on Microsoft Office.
During appeals, the Ministry of Finance initially declined any explanations, then after a long time finally said that in this case no tax is due, yet any schemes of gratis distribution "need to be decided on a case by case basis".
Also, how exactly does using a pre-downloaded map on a smartphone differ from using the same map on a dedicated device?
Now change pre-downloaded map to one pulled live from OSM or Google. What's the difference?
I quite fail to see any point in looking at what else the device in question can do. If it's a map, it's a map -- it doesn't matter if it's on paper or AMOLED.
You're right here -- such hard work was the case for most of the population, too. However, the nobles or big fat priests never had to interact with fishwives. Whom they had a chance to talk to? Palace guards, who were ordered to use the high language. Palace servants, ditto. No one on the road -- carriages had curtains for a reason. But, what was the primary means of long-range transport those days? Ships. And aboard a ship, one-percenters had no real way to avoid meeting a certain class of uncultured commoners.
In those times, only the wealthy could afford education, leaving the rabble illiterate. Thus, what survived to our times? Impressions written by those well-to-do. And I guess the sailors did not swear any more than most -- they happened to be the only "real" commoners the wealthy had exposure to. And they probably didn't even intend to be unpolite -- any type of speech other than the fancy palace dialect was considered rough and uncouth. The word "vulgar" meant just "common" rather than "intentionally offensive".
By "dignity", I meant having to cradle an armrest, combined will all the ruckus involved with unstandard seating, and also drawing attention and bad looks to you.
The chair, and more importantly, your slice of the aircraft, weights far more than your lard.
I'd say it'd be more fair, and far simpler, to simply count seats actually needed to seat you. Ie, without trying to cram your fat ass while letting folds of flesh to spill over half of my seat. Having a few rows seat split into two rather than three seats would let your average American to pay for 1.5 rather than 2 seats, letting them travel more comfortably, and above all, pander to their dignity.
I'm afraid your code is buggy: it will conflate J with W, fails to handle uppercase, and so on. What you want is: tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (or just rot13, package "bsdgames"). On the other hand, while not recognizing rot13 on sight costs you some geek points, bothering to solve the cipher, even a substitution one, is worth more.
It's quite shocking to see how much worse the opinion Nazis get is worse than those of Soviets. The latter put a great deal of effort into propaganda, and had a chance to continue it for half a century after the former got defeated.
Nazis were evil, sure, but if you look around, most wars in the history of mankind revolved around "our tribe is good, their is bad, they don't deserve to exist, their belongings/land are rightful loot that should be ours". Try reading the Bible, you have an outright order from the tribe's god to genocide every living being, including even livestock, from a list of neighbours a prophet didn't like. Even in 21th century we have Tutsi vs Hutu, and so on. I'd say there is only one reason to consider Nazis more evil than the rest: Germany was one of the most civilised countries at the time, so such barbarous actions are more shocking than when done by Tutsi or some such. Doing something "for the good of your people" has at least a good intent, even if it's severely misguided. Hitler wanted to give Germans power, to let them expand to lands occupied by "lesser races", protect them from "evil plotting Jews", purge the race from the weak, get rid of "traitors" to the nation, etc.
On the other hand, Soviets had no good intentions whatsoever. Even before the revolution, "good of the working class" was an empty slogan. The actual source of their name "soviets", ie, workman councils, were immediately disbanded, and "dictatorship of the proletariat" was from the start a dictatorship of the Party. Unlike "Animal Farm", it was not a popular movement gone bad, it was planned to be bad.
In Nazi Germany, if you were an ethnic German, physically and mentally hale, and not a dissident, you were ok as long as you obeyed orders. On the other hand, in the Soviet Union, the very working class that was supposed to be the main benefactors of the revolution were also those hit the hardest. You don't go on mass murders of people you intent to fight for.
So even though there are no doubts Nazis were evil, Soviets and their offshots (Mao, Pol Pot, Kim) were a whole new class of evil that makes Hitler a mere naughty kindergarten kid in comparison.
Sadly, there's far more to GNOME3 failures than just the menu/panel. Even Cinnamon doesn't restore a good part of what worked well in GNOME2.. But oh well, there's Mate and, not as good, XFCE.
The part he left unsaid was "MariaDB is the future because that's where I will make my money".
Except that he put a lot of effort and money into organizing a team of developers for the last four years. Just compare what's going on in Oracle's land vs this fork.
Except that this bunker has an air reprocessing center. It's a whole underground complex, meant to house a part of NATO's command center in the event of a thermonuclear war.
On the other hand, cutting the network cable would indeed render the criminals inside nice and fluffy, with a self-inflicted prison sentence if they decide to refuse to go out. They already resisted police raids twice, including once by a SWAT team.
The right to a handheld explosive-powered projectile launcher is not a "natural" right, but the right to self-defense certainly is.
The concept of "natural" rights is a nonsense, but this right is something required for lasting freedom, at least without a thorough rethinking of how our society works. And that's a not new concept: for example, the original Sikh gurus realised the need, and disallowed their worshipper to go around without a sword. The gurus failed to envision the need for an upgrade clause, and worshippers follow the letter rather than the spirit, especially to comply with oppressive governments like, say, in the UK where they wear toys instead of functional weapons, but you can't deny the gurus' wisdom, in requiring people to have both the means and commandments to use weapons when needed.
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I'm waiting for the drones to get more miniaturized, as my current drone defense system can handle sparrows and tits. He did bring in his first starling yesterday, but I doubt he'll ever get whatever poop bombardment device the drone in TFA is supposed to masquerade as.
I don't think a sysadmin who doesn't know about elinks is that hot, either.
Please come to Poland and try visit a doctor then. Dissatisfaction guaranteed.
That state-paid "nationwide health coverage" is something that threatens to bring life average back to Stone Age levels. As bad as the US system is, socialized medicine is far, far worse.
The US: doctors will require every possible diagnostic to cover their asses. Socialized medicine: doctors are not allowed to use basic diagnostics unless in quite life threatening situations, they will use the absolute minimum of procedures, and you can expect multi-month delays between every step. Hospitals have limits on treatments, beyond which they don't get paid. Every once in a while, you hear of some local government or some NGO sponsoring an expensive piece of equipment for a hospital, then even with judicious use the hospital runs out of the yearly cap by May, making that equipment gather dust. Doctors are staying idle because the government will not pay for treatments. They are criminally responsible and have to repay the costs if by some reasons you had papers proving you paid the (mandatory) social security tax not in order. Pharmacies are required by law to replace any prescribed drug that's partially refunded with a cheaper substitute, even if the substitute is nowhere close to the original -- but that's mostly moot as the list of refunded drugs has mostly went away.
One thing is common, though: you can be certain the doctor will prescribe you a drug whose name he has on his pen or on a lapel of his coat, even if it's obvious even to an outsider that the drug can't possibly be related to your condition.
I'm not aware of any close ally who's threatening to nuke anyone. If I read your allegations right, then Israel doesn't even admit having nuclear weapons, much less threatening anyone with it.
cue the "my dinosaur is the fastest growing on earth: it grows 9 inches per second" jokes.
Full length in a quarter second? Impressive!
This is not a good reason to do so: a corrupt and oppressive law is still law, you can work around it by using a different TLD.
A good reason to abandon current DNS scheme is ICANN's recent TLD idea.
i think they should change their name to the IntellectualPropertyTheftBay
It's pretty hard to steal intellectual property, the few cases that succeeded are aptly-named AFACT and RIAA. Without means to deprive a rightful owner of their rights, the "worst" (best actually) the rest of us mere mortals can do is copy.
In Oct 2000, a regional tax office in Poland declared, and fined companies for tax evasion, that free software products are a gift, and thus users need to pay the gift tax, using "leading commercial products" as a basis for valuation. In that particular case, they valuated Linux based on Windows NT Server, and Star Office on Microsoft Office.
During appeals, the Ministry of Finance initially declined any explanations, then after a long time finally said that in this case no tax is due, yet any schemes of gratis distribution "need to be decided on a case by case basis".
Sources (in Polish): 1, 2.
Also, how exactly does using a pre-downloaded map on a smartphone differ from using the same map on a dedicated device?
Now change pre-downloaded map to one pulled live from OSM or Google. What's the difference?
I quite fail to see any point in looking at what else the device in question can do. If it's a map, it's a map -- it doesn't matter if it's on paper or AMOLED.
You're right here -- such hard work was the case for most of the population, too. However, the nobles or big fat priests never had to interact with fishwives. Whom they had a chance to talk to? Palace guards, who were ordered to use the high language. Palace servants, ditto. No one on the road -- carriages had curtains for a reason. But, what was the primary means of long-range transport those days? Ships. And aboard a ship, one-percenters had no real way to avoid meeting a certain class of uncultured commoners.
In those times, only the wealthy could afford education, leaving the rabble illiterate. Thus, what survived to our times? Impressions written by those well-to-do. And I guess the sailors did not swear any more than most -- they happened to be the only "real" commoners the wealthy had exposure to. And they probably didn't even intend to be unpolite -- any type of speech other than the fancy palace dialect was considered rough and uncouth. The word "vulgar" meant just "common" rather than "intentionally offensive".
GNOME 3 is probably going to be great one day
Microsoft says the same about Metro. And for both, it's hard to find a fitting comment without making sailors blush.
By "dignity", I meant having to cradle an armrest, combined will all the ruckus involved with unstandard seating, and also drawing attention and bad looks to you.
The chair, and more importantly, your slice of the aircraft, weights far more than your lard.
I'd say it'd be more fair, and far simpler, to simply count seats actually needed to seat you. Ie, without trying to cram your fat ass while letting folds of flesh to spill over half of my seat. Having a few rows seat split into two rather than three seats would let your average American to pay for 1.5 rather than 2 seats, letting them travel more comfortably, and above all, pander to their dignity.
PETA to endorce the butchers' union?
They have already been fined for operating a mass butchering outfit without a license. And they kill over 90% of healthy pets they receive (source).
I'm afraid your code is buggy: it will conflate J with W, fails to handle uppercase, and so on. What you want is: tr a-zA-Z n-za-mN-ZA-M (or just rot13, package "bsdgames"). On the other hand, while not recognizing rot13 on sight costs you some geek points, bothering to solve the cipher, even a substitution one, is worth more.
It's quite shocking to see how much worse the opinion Nazis get is worse than those of Soviets. The latter put a great deal of effort into propaganda, and had a chance to continue it for half a century after the former got defeated.
Nazis were evil, sure, but if you look around, most wars in the history of mankind revolved around "our tribe is good, their is bad, they don't deserve to exist, their belongings/land are rightful loot that should be ours". Try reading the Bible, you have an outright order from the tribe's god to genocide every living being, including even livestock, from a list of neighbours a prophet didn't like. Even in 21th century we have Tutsi vs Hutu, and so on. I'd say there is only one reason to consider Nazis more evil than the rest: Germany was one of the most civilised countries at the time, so such barbarous actions are more shocking than when done by Tutsi or some such. Doing something "for the good of your people" has at least a good intent, even if it's severely misguided. Hitler wanted to give Germans power, to let them expand to lands occupied by "lesser races", protect them from "evil plotting Jews", purge the race from the weak, get rid of "traitors" to the nation, etc.
On the other hand, Soviets had no good intentions whatsoever. Even before the revolution, "good of the working class" was an empty slogan. The actual source of their name "soviets", ie, workman councils, were immediately disbanded, and "dictatorship of the proletariat" was from the start a dictatorship of the Party. Unlike "Animal Farm", it was not a popular movement gone bad, it was planned to be bad.
In Nazi Germany, if you were an ethnic German, physically and mentally hale, and not a dissident, you were ok as long as you obeyed orders. On the other hand, in the Soviet Union, the very working class that was supposed to be the main benefactors of the revolution were also those hit the hardest. You don't go on mass murders of people you intent to fight for.
So even though there are no doubts Nazis were evil, Soviets and their offshots (Mao, Pol Pot, Kim) were a whole new class of evil that makes Hitler a mere naughty kindergarten kid in comparison.
Sadly, this is not the case. Wheezy has the blighter in both full CD and netinst.
Sadly, there's far more to GNOME3 failures than just the menu/panel. Even Cinnamon doesn't restore a good part of what worked well in GNOME2.. But oh well, there's Mate and, not as good, XFCE.
The part he left unsaid was "MariaDB is the future because that's where I will make my money".
Except that he put a lot of effort and money into organizing a team of developers for the last four years. Just compare what's going on in Oracle's land vs this fork.
It's another case of OpenOffice vs LibreOffice.
The law enforcement came, and since these guys brag about the cops trying to break in, I assume they had a warrant.
The biggest DDoS in history, for one.
Except that this bunker has an air reprocessing center. It's a whole underground complex, meant to house a part of NATO's command center in the event of a thermonuclear war.
On the other hand, cutting the network cable would indeed render the criminals inside nice and fluffy, with a self-inflicted prison sentence if they decide to refuse to go out. They already resisted police raids twice, including once by a SWAT team.
The right to a handheld explosive-powered projectile launcher is not a "natural" right, but the right to self-defense certainly is.
The concept of "natural" rights is a nonsense, but this right is something required for lasting freedom, at least without a thorough rethinking of how our society works. And that's a not new concept: for example, the original Sikh gurus realised the need, and disallowed their worshipper to go around without a sword. The gurus failed to envision the need for an upgrade clause, and worshippers follow the letter rather than the spirit, especially to comply with oppressive governments like, say, in the UK where they wear toys instead of functional weapons, but you can't deny the gurus' wisdom, in requiring people to have both the means and commandments to use weapons when needed.
It boggles my mind that no one bothered to link to an actual high score chart.