Well, at least in Germany, those 'unelected wankers' are boldly listed on the ballot (hence "list MPs"), so you can't really say you didn't vote for them. And you will have the same sort of problem in FPTP - the party brown-nosers and wankers just get put into so-called 'safe seats' by the party instead: In the US, no Democrat will ever win in Tennessee's 1st district; in the UK, even the most corrupt candidates are elected in West Ham as long as they are nominated by the Labour party.
List MPs are actually the opposite - the ones you don't elect. Constituent MPs are the ones you do. Backwards, I know.
Look at our current government. The major party is being led around by the nose by a party with less than 10% support
Presumably the minor party is politically compatible with two 'big' parties and can play the two off against each other? I still think that having the minority opinions represented is a better idea than having them disenfranchised (so that one of the parties with 30%-35% of potential votes can impose their will on everyone else on _all_ the issues).
No, the minor party is incompatible with almost every party in power (the minor party in this case is the far-far-far right wing), and cannot play two parties against each other. But they got just enough electorate votes (in rich areas, obviously) to get enough people in to form a coalition. So far, it's been an unmitigated disaster for the people of the country (the parties in power represent only corporate interests, but they offered tax cuts so the sheeple voted for them).
No, MMP makes FPP look good. In NZ, we have the majority of people in favour of electoral reform due to dissatisfaction with how MMP works (which we changed to in 1993 from FPP).
Look at our current government. The major party is being led around by the nose by a party with less than 10% support.
Also, MMP allows unelected wankers (called "List MPs") to get places in parliament regardless of their support.
True. The first part of your original statement is correct, that a... two thirds?... majority needs to agree. However the second part is not, that it cannot supercede the constitution. In fact, the US government has done it before to pass something previously struck down as unconstitutional.
I'm dragging a Firefox window over a dead RDP session right now. It's erasing the contents of the window. I've never, ever managed to do that on MacOS X and not often on Windows Vista.
For RDP that makes sense- compositing doesn't happen over Terminal Services. What normally happens on Windows, is that when the Window Manager (not Aero) detects that an application has stopped responding to WM_PAINT messages, it actually swaps out the window for a special one that looks just like the last known good copy of the windows display surface. If it can't for some reason, it just dumps a plain white window with loading cursor instead.
Actually, Australasia's the old name for the region now called Oceania (a name I hate so much I persist in calling it the old name, Australasia). It happens to be... shock horror... the exact same landmass as the continent.
We're not calling our damn continent after a country no one likes.
Actually, article six says that treaties become part of the "Supreme Law" regardless of whether they conflict or not, which is to say a treaty can supercede the Constitution simply because the article was badly written (or, after further research, apparently intentionally written that way to protect an existing peace treaty. Go figure).
That amendment in the 50s to fix that did not pass.
Actually, the continent is called "The Americas" as well, which means that if we persist in calling everyone from the continent of Europe "Europeans", then everyone from the continent of America is called an "American".
Every other method sucks more (except maybe Single Transferable Vote). MMP is a tremendous joke (it results in "coalitions" of parties that no-one wanted to win)
If you don't buy their product, they're not fucking with you. If you pirate their product, they're not fucking with you. You're just trying to rationalise the illegal copying of something someone else did.
Stop hiding behind DRM - the reality is you're just too cheap to buy it. If you really were refusing to buy based on ideology, you wouldn't pirate either.
The business case for implementing DRM is people like you pirating their product. Stop pirating, and then see them try use the excuse that "the filthy pirates make it necessary" when Big Champagne reports "actually, no one's downloading the movie either".
Thanks for proving to the film industry that they do indeed need restrictive DRM, because consumers really can't be trusted. Really, thanks.
If you don't like the terms under which they provide a product, don't buy their product. Don't pirate their product. Don't acquire their product in any way, shape, or form. Otherwise, you're just being a raging hypocrite, and proving to them the necessity of their bullshit.
I like how you made up half your story. Like the bit about everything needing activation. You know, no paid Microsoft developer tools need activation (developers may be the only group Microsoft treats relatively decently, but I digress).
Your stuff about ASP.NET is a lie too. Or rather, it takes as long to spin up the ASP.NET runtime as the Java or ColdFusion runtimes. Of course, ASP.NET isn't Open Source so clearly it's not good enough for you.
I don't really hate Exchange at all. I use it myself, and loathe all the constant bashing about "constant Exchange DB corruption" (seriously, I've never seen it happen). But you can't say (earlier version of) JET is a good format. I still reckon they should let you stick it in MSSQL databases.
Also, the SQLite was a joke, though OSS folks would I'm sure love to do that.
Heh. Only Americans would whine about unlimited (or even 250GB) downloading at 15Mb/s costing $70, when here in NZ we're paying $200 for 50GB of 4Mb/s downloading.
Actually, they DID. The EAS protocol has been publicly documented for two years. The EWS protocol since it's inception. There's nothing closed about the Exchange connectivity.
Not really, Exchange data is still in (ugly) JET databases on the server, and the OST is only the Offline Folders on the client (for when Cached Exchange Mode is enabled).
The Exchange RPC and EWS specs are open, so you could just implement those and dump the contents in an SQLite database or something instead.
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That's nothing. Just because of that song, I imagined David Caruso spouting that entire speech.
I'd be happy if they updated the Mac client to support Terminal Services Gateway, and that's been out for years!
I also note that Aero is only supported when the RDC client is running on Windows 7, even with compositing. Still.
Well, at least in Germany, those 'unelected wankers' are boldly listed on the ballot (hence "list MPs"), so you can't really say you didn't vote for them. And you will have the same sort of problem in FPTP - the party brown-nosers and wankers just get put into so-called 'safe seats' by the party instead: In the US, no Democrat will ever win in Tennessee's 1st district; in the UK, even the most corrupt candidates are elected in West Ham as long as they are nominated by the Labour party.
List MPs are actually the opposite - the ones you don't elect. Constituent MPs are the ones you do. Backwards, I know.
Look at our current government. The major party is being led around by the nose by a party with less than 10% support
Presumably the minor party is politically compatible with two 'big' parties and can play the two off against each other? I still think that having the minority opinions represented is a better idea than having them disenfranchised (so that one of the parties with 30%-35% of potential votes can impose their will on everyone else on _all_ the issues).
No, the minor party is incompatible with almost every party in power (the minor party in this case is the far-far-far right wing), and cannot play two parties against each other. But they got just enough electorate votes (in rich areas, obviously) to get enough people in to form a coalition. So far, it's been an unmitigated disaster for the people of the country (the parties in power represent only corporate interests, but they offered tax cuts so the sheeple voted for them).
No, MMP makes FPP look good. In NZ, we have the majority of people in favour of electoral reform due to dissatisfaction with how MMP works (which we changed to in 1993 from FPP).
Look at our current government. The major party is being led around by the nose by a party with less than 10% support.
Also, MMP allows unelected wankers (called "List MPs") to get places in parliament regardless of their support.
True. The first part of your original statement is correct, that a ... two thirds? ... majority needs to agree. However the second part is not, that it cannot supercede the constitution. In fact, the US government has done it before to pass something previously struck down as unconstitutional.
I'm dragging a Firefox window over a dead RDP session right now. It's erasing the contents of the window. I've never, ever managed to do that on MacOS X and not often on Windows Vista.
For RDP that makes sense- compositing doesn't happen over Terminal Services. What normally happens on Windows, is that when the Window Manager (not Aero) detects that an application has stopped responding to WM_PAINT messages, it actually swaps out the window for a special one that looks just like the last known good copy of the windows display surface. If it can't for some reason, it just dumps a plain white window with loading cursor instead.
That's actually intentional.
Correct you are, it actually is two continents collectively called the Americas.
Actually, Australasia's the old name for the region now called Oceania (a name I hate so much I persist in calling it the old name, Australasia). It happens to be... shock horror... the exact same landmass as the continent.
We're not calling our damn continent after a country no one likes.
Actually, article six says that treaties become part of the "Supreme Law" regardless of whether they conflict or not, which is to say a treaty can supercede the Constitution simply because the article was badly written (or, after further research, apparently intentionally written that way to protect an existing peace treaty. Go figure).
That amendment in the 50s to fix that did not pass.
Actually, the continent is called "The Americas" as well, which means that if we persist in calling everyone from the continent of Europe "Europeans", then everyone from the continent of America is called an "American".
Every other method sucks more (except maybe Single Transferable Vote). MMP is a tremendous joke (it results in "coalitions" of parties that no-one wanted to win)
Australia is a country. Australasia is the continent.
If you don't buy their product, they're not fucking with you. If you pirate their product, they're not fucking with you. You're just trying to rationalise the illegal copying of something someone else did.
Stop hiding behind DRM - the reality is you're just too cheap to buy it. If you really were refusing to buy based on ideology, you wouldn't pirate either.
The business case for implementing DRM is people like you pirating their product. Stop pirating, and then see them try use the excuse that "the filthy pirates make it necessary" when Big Champagne reports "actually, no one's downloading the movie either".
You say I'm pathetic, yet...
Irony.
Thanks for proving to the film industry that they do indeed need restrictive DRM, because consumers really can't be trusted. Really, thanks.
If you don't like the terms under which they provide a product, don't buy their product. Don't pirate their product. Don't acquire their product in any way, shape, or form. Otherwise, you're just being a raging hypocrite, and proving to them the necessity of their bullshit.
No, no, they really aren't. They're as funny as RMS-bath jokes, which is to say not.
I like how you made up half your story. Like the bit about everything needing activation. You know, no paid Microsoft developer tools need activation (developers may be the only group Microsoft treats relatively decently, but I digress).
Your stuff about ASP.NET is a lie too. Or rather, it takes as long to spin up the ASP.NET runtime as the Java or ColdFusion runtimes. Of course, ASP.NET isn't Open Source so clearly it's not good enough for you.
I don't really hate Exchange at all. I use it myself, and loathe all the constant bashing about "constant Exchange DB corruption" (seriously, I've never seen it happen). But you can't say (earlier version of) JET is a good format. I still reckon they should let you stick it in MSSQL databases.
Also, the SQLite was a joke, though OSS folks would I'm sure love to do that.
I clicked your Gopher link in Chrome, and no shit - it wanted to open it in Internet Explorer. Apparently, Internet Explorer still supports Gopher.
Then I tried it in Windows 7, and it told me to piss off :(
Heh. Only Americans would whine about unlimited (or even 250GB) downloading at 15Mb/s costing $70, when here in NZ we're paying $200 for 50GB of 4Mb/s downloading.
Actually, they DID. The EAS protocol has been publicly documented for two years. The EWS protocol since it's inception. There's nothing closed about the Exchange connectivity.
It's more common than you think.
No, it's because PST is of no value. In Microsoft's opinion, "disk is cheap. Give your users bigger mailboxes already".
Not really, Exchange data is still in (ugly) JET databases on the server, and the OST is only the Offline Folders on the client (for when Cached Exchange Mode is enabled).
The Exchange RPC and EWS specs are open, so you could just implement those and dump the contents in an SQLite database or something instead.
...They also (the last time I checked) offer you the ability to select which plug-ins you'd like installed...
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No they don't.