Which war? You mean the secret one in Central America, the one his buddies sold weapons to Iran to fund? Or the Cold War, which wound down due to internal economic factors and political reforms in the USSR that made continued union impossible?
Oh, sorry, I forgot that the Gipper's speech about tearing down a wall and so forth was responsible for the end of a decades-long superpower confrontation.
Lots of disabled people don't use wheelchairs or crutches. Will they need some special tag/sign to wave at the driver?
Where I live (Portland, OR, USA) the bus stops every two blocks or so, but only if there's someone there. A couple routes have express buses. Walking 1/4 mile to the bus seems a little long, maybe stop every 1/4 mile (maximum 1/8 mile walk)?
The problem occurred last year on an Asus M2A-VM motherboard that is now fried. It was a kernel panic during the boot process; the bootloader worked fine. I couldn't find any information other than a suggestion to use a different keyboard, so I stuck with Gentoo. I'll try it again on my new board sometime.
I'd love to get rid of PS/2, but then I wouldn't be able to boot FreeBSD, since the 64-bit version freezes if you have a USB keyboard connected at boot. USB input devices have only been ubiquitous for about 10 years, so I'll cut them some slack.
Pretty sure there were air, water, animals and plants in the Americas and Australia before Europeans got there. I heard a legend once that there were even indigenous people!
No, I haven't tested the taskbar with IE, because I'm not a giant tool. I use IE to test my applications, and I open one page at a time.
And since when is fucking 30 a normal number of tabs? You know you can still use multiple windows, right?
Alt-tab could be a lot better. The aero show desktop (Win-Space) is good for viewing your desktop widgets (or whatever the fuck Windows calls them). The old show desktop (Win-D) works same as before.
And yes, I've been using OS X since 2002 and Compiz since it came out. I've never used KDE because it's fucking impossible to figure out and I hate the Settings menu.
I was kind of joking, but I was thinking of an older person who has a ton of expertise and knowledge about a company's core business, but is so bad with computers it hampers everyone else's ability to take advantage of that person's expertise. Such a person probably wouldn't get as much out of an Excel crash course as a general "this is a web browser, this is how you read email" computer skills course at the local community center.
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The 7 taskbar is also very intuitive. If an application has more than one window open, you see a little stack of tiles. if you hover over the stack, you get a bunch of live previews of that application's windows.
Seriously, if you are so bad at using computers that you need training to go from the "number of windows and window list" of XP to "stack of tiles and window thumbnails", you are an automaton who can and probably should be replaced by someone younger and more mentally flexible.
If you are valuable enough for your non-computer skills, then your company should pay to send you to a week-long computer skills course at the local community center. Shouldn't cost more than $100.
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I like Windows 7 a lot as well. I work for a cloud software company, and as a non-developer who had used prerelease versions of 7, I upgraded my machine as soon as it came out. Display hotplugging magically started working properly, and the Aero Snap feature is like a useful version of Tile from 3.1. The only issue I have is related to the Cisco VPN client, but that's because we won't pay to upgrade to the latest version.
Having spent the XP-Vista era in the Mac and Linux world, I was pleasantly surprised with 7. It doesn't seem to have all the terrible bug/features that everyone spent the 00's complaining about.
Incentives. It costs $X to keep an officer on the road for a day, and he/she can write Y tickets for $Z each. Or, it costs $A to put a machine on the side of the road, and it issues B tickets. If Y*Z - X B*Z - A, then use the machine (As long as there is due process and a mechanism for challenging tickets). If the officer it frees up can be investigating actual crimes, even better.
Now, if we can use the much higher enforcement rate to think intelligently about what the rules should be, we can get somewhere. A 55 mph limit with a 0.1% chance of getting a ticket for driving 65 is an acknowledgment that the rule is flawed, and getting a ticket feels unfair. A 65 mph limit with a 99% chance of getting a ticket for going over 70 sets much clearer expectations for everyone.
In many jurisdictions in the US (e.g. Oregon), the speed/red light camera also takes a photo of the driver. Unless you have an identical twin, that suffices to prove it was you. They mail the photo with the ticket.
If it was unconstitutional (and well-settled as you claim) there would be no challenge to the health care bill like Ken Cuccinelli is currently doing.
Unless Ken Cuccinelli were a political grandstander.
Many states used nullification successfully to ignore the provision of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and refused to capture or return escaped slaves, protecting them with their own state laws instead.
"Refusing to enforce" is not the same thing as "nullifying." Many states also attempted to use nullification to avoid desegregating their public schools. Federal court decisions supersede those by state courts.
When you say "brain dead fuckers who just want the government to give them stuff" you mean "conservatives," and by "free shit" you mean "tax cuts," right?
Wait, I know. you mean "defense contractors" and "lucrative no-bid contracts," right?
No, that's not it, it's gotta be "coal mining operations" and "license to remove the tops of Appalachian peaks and fill in waterways with toxic heavy metals."
I can imagine a reasonable argument that "The Congress shall have power to regulate commerce among the several States" refers only to commercial activity undertaken by multiple states, leaving alone commerce undertaken by citizens of those states. The consensus, however, seems to be that it refers to something like "commerce within the borders of the country" in the 21st century.
The Constitution is about process, not results. It's unfortunate sometimes, and often infuriating, but it pretty much lays out how things should work and lets the people get going. If we follow the process, the results are legitimate. Sometimes you get desegregated schools, and sometimes you get local governments seizing private property to build new shopping malls.
In any case, we need a new constitution. I would endorse a constitutional convention if I thought our current political institutions could get us a decent one.
Is it flash that is banned, or just software created through flash authoring tools?
A web browser that included a flash runtime would be ok, as long as it was authored using the correct tools (and didn't compete with Safari, blah blah blah. I don't have an iPhone or an iPad, and I'm not getting one because of their bullshit rules.)
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Delightful.
Obviously you've never seen Die Hard 2.
Which war? You mean the secret one in Central America, the one his buddies sold weapons to Iran to fund? Or the Cold War, which wound down due to internal economic factors and political reforms in the USSR that made continued union impossible?
Oh, sorry, I forgot that the Gipper's speech about tearing down a wall and so forth was responsible for the end of a decades-long superpower confrontation.
When did liberals start listening to comedians for their politics
About 40 years after conservatives started listening to a shitty actor for theirs.
Meh, I couldn't get YaST to work my 2 monitors properly. Fedora works.
Lots of disabled people don't use wheelchairs or crutches. Will they need some special tag/sign to wave at the driver?
Where I live (Portland, OR, USA) the bus stops every two blocks or so, but only if there's someone there. A couple routes have express buses. Walking 1/4 mile to the bus seems a little long, maybe stop every 1/4 mile (maximum 1/8 mile walk)?
The problem occurred last year on an Asus M2A-VM motherboard that is now fried. It was a kernel panic during the boot process; the bootloader worked fine. I couldn't find any information other than a suggestion to use a different keyboard, so I stuck with Gentoo. I'll try it again on my new board sometime.
I'd love to get rid of PS/2, but then I wouldn't be able to boot FreeBSD, since the 64-bit version freezes if you have a USB keyboard connected at boot. USB input devices have only been ubiquitous for about 10 years, so I'll cut them some slack.
Pretty sure there were air, water, animals and plants in the Americas and Australia before Europeans got there. I heard a legend once that there were even indigenous people!
federal income taxes != taxes
gas, state and local sales, state income, property, &c
thanks for playing
No, I haven't tested the taskbar with IE, because I'm not a giant tool. I use IE to test my applications, and I open one page at a time.
And since when is fucking 30 a normal number of tabs? You know you can still use multiple windows, right?
Alt-tab could be a lot better. The aero show desktop (Win-Space) is good for viewing your desktop widgets (or whatever the fuck Windows calls them). The old show desktop (Win-D) works same as before.
And yes, I've been using OS X since 2002 and Compiz since it came out. I've never used KDE because it's fucking impossible to figure out and I hate the Settings menu.
But thanks for your input.
I was kind of joking, but I was thinking of an older person who has a ton of expertise and knowledge about a company's core business, but is so bad with computers it hampers everyone else's ability to take advantage of that person's expertise. Such a person probably wouldn't get as much out of an Excel crash course as a general "this is a web browser, this is how you read email" computer skills course at the local community center.
Which is, you know, what I said.
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Is your company Icelandic? Or possibly Welsh?
The 7 taskbar is also very intuitive. If an application has more than one window open, you see a little stack of tiles. if you hover over the stack, you get a bunch of live previews of that application's windows.
Seriously, if you are so bad at using computers that you need training to go from the "number of windows and window list" of XP to "stack of tiles and window thumbnails", you are an automaton who can and probably should be replaced by someone younger and more mentally flexible.
If you are valuable enough for your non-computer skills, then your company should pay to send you to a week-long computer skills course at the local community center. Shouldn't cost more than $100.
I like Windows 7 a lot as well. I work for a cloud software company, and as a non-developer who had used prerelease versions of 7, I upgraded my machine as soon as it came out. Display hotplugging magically started working properly, and the Aero Snap feature is like a useful version of Tile from 3.1. The only issue I have is related to the Cisco VPN client, but that's because we won't pay to upgrade to the latest version.
Having spent the XP-Vista era in the Mac and Linux world, I was pleasantly surprised with 7. It doesn't seem to have all the terrible bug/features that everyone spent the 00's complaining about.
Democracy is no way to run a society.
Incentives. It costs $X to keep an officer on the road for a day, and he/she can write Y tickets for $Z each. Or, it costs $A to put a machine on the side of the road, and it issues B tickets. If Y*Z - X B*Z - A, then use the machine (As long as there is due process and a mechanism for challenging tickets). If the officer it frees up can be investigating actual crimes, even better.
Now, if we can use the much higher enforcement rate to think intelligently about what the rules should be, we can get somewhere. A 55 mph limit with a 0.1% chance of getting a ticket for driving 65 is an acknowledgment that the rule is flawed, and getting a ticket feels unfair. A 65 mph limit with a 99% chance of getting a ticket for going over 70 sets much clearer expectations for everyone.
In many jurisdictions in the US (e.g. Oregon), the speed/red light camera also takes a photo of the driver. Unless you have an identical twin, that suffices to prove it was you. They mail the photo with the ticket.
Nullification is the entire purpose of our right to trial by jury
What the fuck are you talking about?
If it was unconstitutional (and well-settled as you claim) there would be no challenge to the health care bill like Ken Cuccinelli is currently doing.
Unless Ken Cuccinelli were a political grandstander.
Many states used nullification successfully to ignore the provision of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, and refused to capture or return escaped slaves, protecting them with their own state laws instead.
"Refusing to enforce" is not the same thing as "nullifying." Many states also attempted to use nullification to avoid desegregating their public schools. Federal court decisions supersede those by state courts.
When you say "brain dead fuckers who just want the government to give them stuff" you mean "conservatives," and by "free shit" you mean "tax cuts," right?
Wait, I know. you mean "defense contractors" and "lucrative no-bid contracts," right?
No, that's not it, it's gotta be "coal mining operations" and "license to remove the tops of Appalachian peaks and fill in waterways with toxic heavy metals."
I can imagine a reasonable argument that "The Congress shall have power to regulate commerce among the several States" refers only to commercial activity undertaken by multiple states, leaving alone commerce undertaken by citizens of those states. The consensus, however, seems to be that it refers to something like "commerce within the borders of the country" in the 21st century.
The Constitution is about process, not results. It's unfortunate sometimes, and often infuriating, but it pretty much lays out how things should work and lets the people get going. If we follow the process, the results are legitimate. Sometimes you get desegregated schools, and sometimes you get local governments seizing private property to build new shopping malls.
In any case, we need a new constitution. I would endorse a constitutional convention if I thought our current political institutions could get us a decent one.
Nullification is unconstitutional. This is pretty well-settled constitutional law.
I'm pretty sure that if Sharia specified a language to be used, I'm pretty sure it would be Arabic, smart guy.
Is it flash that is banned, or just software created through flash authoring tools?
A web browser that included a flash runtime would be ok, as long as it was authored using the correct tools (and didn't compete with Safari, blah blah blah. I don't have an iPhone or an iPad, and I'm not getting one because of their bullshit rules.)