By the way, how is the government going to keep corporations from treading on Citizens' Rights without taxes? Because that's what this whole "debate" is about. The government wants to collect taxes, and you libertarian-anarchists are screaming that it's an assault on freedom.
Okay, you dislike corporations. I understand. With all their wealth, sometimes the people at the top manage to skate out of responsibility for accidents or malicious behavior. Now imagine a corporation so large and invasive that the only way to escape it is to flee your home country, it can change the very laws at a whim, has agents in every state that can imprison you or forcibly confiscate your property and even has a standing army. That "corporation" is the United States Government. Money is power. Fuck no I don't want to give them any more.
Corporations haven't killed people? How fucking clueless can you be?
I am adept at sums and governments have killed a lot more people than corporations. It's an orders of magnitude kind of situation.
A pound or an ounce are "just" an expression of mass as well, not weight.
Are you claiming the average American doesn't know what a slug is?;)
I have enjoyed working in both systems and personally, my only problem with switching to the metric system is that some of the units aren't as friendly to the world we actually live in as in the Imperial system. The foot is a damn nice unit of measure and there isn't a nice analogue in the SI because of that power of 10 thing; you jump straight from the useful centimeter straight up to the meter. It's also a petty gripe but I hate to lose some of the interesting unit names like Slug, Pound, Ton, Inch, Foot, Mile, Stone(!). Joules and Newtons sound pretty sweet though.
Would someone like to disabuse them of the belief that you can hand locked content and content keys to the consumers without giving them the unlocked content? (My reverse engineering of flash apps just isn't up to snuff). Then there would only be legitimate technical considerations like injecting advertising streams and site controlled caching before moving away from flash.
Holy fuck, you think that electing a massive douchebag who campaigned with the slogan "I drive a truck!" is people waking from their slumber?
Holy fuck, you think "I drive a truck!" was the centerpiece of Brown's campaign and not just giddy disbelief at the fact that his opponents thought that pointing out that he drove a truck might disqualify him from the "governing class"?
Welfare is a really tiny portion of our total expenses.
Let me demonstrate how wrong you are. A reasonable definition of Welfare is the government giving you money that you did not earn to ensure you fare well in life. Social Security had an unfunded obligation of $13.6 trillion in 2008. That is the shortfall between how much Social Security has agreed to pay people and how much money they have on hand plus are planning to take in from taxes. That means that without economy crushing increases in payroll taxes Social Security plans to give people $13.6 trillion more than people pay in to ensure their welfare. The US gov is going to have to pick up that tab otherwise people won't be getting "their" retirement. That makes a large chunk of Social Security meet my reasonable definition of Welfare. And that leaves aside the subtle wealth transfer (Welfare) inherent in SS due to pay-out not being proportional to pay-in. While that 13.6 trillion is over many years I have no doubt that the yearly Social Security Welfare is quite a large number. No wonder Social Security is kept "off budget". It makes sure defense is that scary big chunk of the budget pie.
While Social Security is a behemoth, it is just one program I decided to pick on. Any government program that helps select people by giving them something they did not earn is in essence Welfare.
You still end up with web pages where the fonts are super tiny because they were specified in "px" increments.
In the case of high-res monitors the web browser should virtualize the pixels and treat them the way units like inches and em's are until the web specs realize the futility of using pixel offsets (maybe they already have?) to do layouts across the range of devices web pages are to be viewed on. It might work to redefine 1px to be a whole number of pixels closest to 1/96th or 1/72nd of an inch on the output device. Then sites that use px for layout and font sizes would still align in most cases but would scale up for hi res monitors.
Now that I think about it, I'm fairly sure Firefox must virtualize the px value to do it's entire web page zooming thing. I don't think Firefox is picking up and using the system dpi value to change the default px value and font size "un-zoomed" though, which would be nice.
Because there is more to look at than fonts... like the 16x16 icons everywhere.
If you choose a dpi setting that a "reasonable" multiple of the windows system standard 96 dpi the icon scaling is "acceptable". For instance, windows suggests 120 dpi as a next step up which is 1.25 * 96 dpi. I would try 1.5 * 96 or 2.0 * 96 for a very hi res monitor and the guys with the coke bottle glasses because things definitely look better with a font drawn larger at the screens native resolution.
The cost of freedom is responsibility for ones self. The Venezuelans stopped paying and I'm afraid we are making only minimum payments ourselves. Fuck.
You will complain. You will whine. And in the end you will buy all three within days of their release.
No I Won't. I was playing Diablo II with a friend recently and bought the expansion pack. Looking at the catalog that came with it, I considered trying World of Warcraft and then realized that to get the "full game" I would have to buy 1)World of Warcraft, 2)The Burning Crusade Expansion, and 3)Wrath of the Lich King Expansion. Then I start paying a monthly fee. I thought the monthly fee was to develop more content. How come I have to buy expansions then? I suspected Blizzard was getting greedy and with the Starcraft 2 announcement, I am now sure of it.
Let me be clear, I can afford the outlay but feeling I am being ripped off takes away from my enjoyment. If they put the Entire Game in one reasonably priced box I might try WOW but not before.
The only possible alternative is to do what SSH does: exchange keys on the first connection, and just assume that you're probably on a trusted network the first time you log in. Then you get a security warning if the server's public key changes. Most of the time this is good enough, but when it comes to online banking, I'd rather be sure.
I think the DNS records ought to return a public key to start a secure connection to each site. Of course that would require a safe, trusted DNS system so....#@!$!!
I figure it at just over 25 seconds (without any protocol overhead) to approach their cap. I don't think my HD can lay down 300GiBs that fast though. I would however like to try.
Everyone using that ISP could set up a script to download BigPond Office over and over when their machine is idle.;) Bah, it would probably violate their T.O.S. and lag out the network for everyone else.
I hereby revoke your apology on behalf of all people who have not replaced their sense of humor with hyper-sensitive guilt. Differences between groups are almost always funny. Especially if the stereotype stems from truth (as opposed to something made up to demean a group) as is the case with Japanese people having trouble differentiating between r and l sounds. So have a little chuckle at the funny foreigners, for laughter will help you live longer, and give the funny foreigners more time to laugh at you.
"Telkom [was tasked with] connect[ing] the large parts of South Africa that had been neglected under apartheid....Instead...raised Telkom's prices to be among the highest in the world."
So a company that had to build a bunch of new infrastructure to places likely to have a low volume of subscribers to subsidize said infrastructure has high prices. How is this surprising exactly?
That said, I have no doubt there was some ripping off done; I've never experienced an honest telco. But giving them a monopoly was just begging for gouging.
I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone that this whole electronic voting fiasco is the result of asking the government to solve a small problem. Please for the sake of all that good don't ask them to solve a big problem!!!
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By the way, how is the government going to keep corporations from treading on Citizens' Rights without taxes? Because that's what this whole "debate" is about. The government wants to collect taxes, and you libertarian-anarchists are screaming that it's an assault on freedom.
Okay, you dislike corporations. I understand. With all their wealth, sometimes the people at the top manage to skate out of responsibility for accidents or malicious behavior. Now imagine a corporation so large and invasive that the only way to escape it is to flee your home country, it can change the very laws at a whim, has agents in every state that can imprison you or forcibly confiscate your property and even has a standing army. That "corporation" is the United States Government. Money is power. Fuck no I don't want to give them any more.
Corporations haven't killed people? How fucking clueless can you be?
I am adept at sums and governments have killed a lot more people than corporations. It's an orders of magnitude kind of situation.
"The truth has a well-known liberal bias", as they saying goes...
According to the government office of acceptable thoughts and sayings.
A pound or an ounce are "just" an expression of mass as well, not weight.
Are you claiming the average American doesn't know what a slug is? ;)
I have enjoyed working in both systems and personally, my only problem with switching to the metric system is that some of the units aren't as friendly to the world we actually live in as in the Imperial system. The foot is a damn nice unit of measure and there isn't a nice analogue in the SI because of that power of 10 thing; you jump straight from the useful centimeter straight up to the meter. It's also a petty gripe but I hate to lose some of the interesting unit names like Slug, Pound, Ton, Inch, Foot, Mile, Stone(!). Joules and Newtons sound pretty sweet though.
Direct2D is for Vista and Win7 only. Which begs the question: what the hell was GDI for?
Would someone like to disabuse them of the belief that you can hand locked content and content keys to the consumers without giving them the unlocked content? (My reverse engineering of flash apps just isn't up to snuff). Then there would only be legitimate technical considerations like injecting advertising streams and site controlled caching before moving away from flash.
Holy fuck, you think that electing a massive douchebag who campaigned with the slogan "I drive a truck!" is people waking from their slumber?
Holy fuck, you think "I drive a truck!" was the centerpiece of Brown's campaign and not just giddy disbelief at the fact that his opponents thought that pointing out that he drove a truck might disqualify him from the "governing class"?
Apple keeps using that phrase. I do not think it means what they think it means.
Welfare is a really tiny portion of our total expenses.
Let me demonstrate how wrong you are. A reasonable definition of Welfare is the government giving you money that you did not earn to ensure you fare well in life. Social Security had an unfunded obligation of $13.6 trillion in 2008. That is the shortfall between how much Social Security has agreed to pay people and how much money they have on hand plus are planning to take in from taxes. That means that without economy crushing increases in payroll taxes Social Security plans to give people $13.6 trillion more than people pay in to ensure their welfare. The US gov is going to have to pick up that tab otherwise people won't be getting "their" retirement. That makes a large chunk of Social Security meet my reasonable definition of Welfare. And that leaves aside the subtle wealth transfer (Welfare) inherent in SS due to pay-out not being proportional to pay-in. While that 13.6 trillion is over many years I have no doubt that the yearly Social Security Welfare is quite a large number. No wonder Social Security is kept "off budget". It makes sure defense is that scary big chunk of the budget pie.
While Social Security is a behemoth, it is just one program I decided to pick on. Any government program that helps select people by giving them something they did not earn is in essence Welfare.
You still end up with web pages where the fonts are super tiny because they were specified in "px" increments.
In the case of high-res monitors the web browser should virtualize the pixels and treat them the way units like inches and em's are until the web specs realize the futility of using pixel offsets (maybe they already have?) to do layouts across the range of devices web pages are to be viewed on. It might work to redefine 1px to be a whole number of pixels closest to 1/96th or 1/72nd of an inch on the output device. Then sites that use px for layout and font sizes would still align in most cases but would scale up for hi res monitors.
Now that I think about it, I'm fairly sure Firefox must virtualize the px value to do it's entire web page zooming thing. I don't think Firefox is picking up and using the system dpi value to change the default px value and font size "un-zoomed" though, which would be nice.
Because there is more to look at than fonts... like the 16x16 icons everywhere.
If you choose a dpi setting that a "reasonable" multiple of the windows system standard 96 dpi the icon scaling is "acceptable". For instance, windows suggests 120 dpi as a next step up which is 1.25 * 96 dpi. I would try 1.5 * 96 or 2.0 * 96 for a very hi res monitor and the guys with the coke bottle glasses because things definitely look better with a font drawn larger at the screens native resolution.
The cost of freedom is responsibility for ones self. The Venezuelans stopped paying and I'm afraid we are making only minimum payments ourselves. Fuck.
You will complain. You will whine. And in the end you will buy all three within days of their release.
No I Won't. I was playing Diablo II with a friend recently and bought the expansion pack. Looking at the catalog that came with it, I considered trying World of Warcraft and then realized that to get the "full game" I would have to buy 1)World of Warcraft, 2)The Burning Crusade Expansion, and 3)Wrath of the Lich King Expansion. Then I start paying a monthly fee. I thought the monthly fee was to develop more content. How come I have to buy expansions then? I suspected Blizzard was getting greedy and with the Starcraft 2 announcement, I am now sure of it.
Let me be clear, I can afford the outlay but feeling I am being ripped off takes away from my enjoyment. If they put the Entire Game in one reasonably priced box I might try WOW but not before.
The only possible alternative is to do what SSH does: exchange keys on the first connection, and just assume that you're probably on a trusted network the first time you log in. Then you get a security warning if the server's public key changes. Most of the time this is good enough, but when it comes to online banking, I'd rather be sure.
I think the DNS records ought to return a public key to start a secure connection to each site. Of course that would require a safe, trusted DNS system so....#@!$!!
EA - It's in the Game*
* Subject to feature availability at code freeze. Does not imply that marketed feature is in the game.
tee-hee!
Patriotism is akin to racism only if love is akin to hate!
I figure it at just over 25 seconds (without any protocol overhead) to approach their cap. I don't think my HD can lay down 300GiBs that fast though. I would however like to try.
Everyone using that ISP could set up a script to download BigPond Office over and over when their machine is idle. ;) Bah, it would probably violate their T.O.S. and lag out the network for everyone else.
I hereby revoke your apology on behalf of all people who have not replaced their sense of humor with hyper-sensitive guilt. Differences between groups are almost always funny. Especially if the stereotype stems from truth (as opposed to something made up to demean a group) as is the case with Japanese people having trouble differentiating between r and l sounds. So have a little chuckle at the funny foreigners, for laughter will help you live longer, and give the funny foreigners more time to laugh at you.
Make sure to charge the radio station with 'distribution'. Better yet, just outlaw radios and radio stations.
I prefer buckazoids.
So a company that had to build a bunch of new infrastructure to places likely to have a low volume of subscribers to subsidize said infrastructure has high prices. How is this surprising exactly?
That said, I have no doubt there was some ripping off done; I've never experienced an honest telco. But giving them a monopoly was just begging for gouging.
I want to take this opportunity to remind everyone that this whole electronic voting fiasco is the result of asking the government to solve a small problem. Please for the sake of all that good don't ask them to solve a big problem!!!
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No internet for four days!?!