In addition, the integration of Flash also allows Chrome developers to do some neat tricks to better sandbox Flash
Can they do some neat tricks to stop Flash from stealing my keyboard and mouse focus? As soon as there is a browser/flash plugin combination that works with YouTube/Vimeo/FunnyOrDie and doesn't prevent me from using keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs or stop me from scrolling past a video, I'm using it, and I'm going to tell all my non-geek friends to use it as well.
It does not matter if the accused is a good or bad guy. It is completely irrelevant.
Got it? You're attacking someone who was wrongfully arrested and then prevented from seeing exculpatory evidence. The story is that he happened to have the smarts to discover and request the log file associated with that evidence. The story is that the police department lied about the continued existence of the video and audio recordings.
What a great country we live in. Be seen in a group with people doing something goofy while drunk, know your rights, and expect legal hassles, including the police department lying to you about the availability of exculpatory evidence and the case being dropped after thousands of dollars in legal fees. U-S-A! U-S-A!
Thank fuck for the ACLU and its state and local counterparts. Your mindset is far too prevalent today.
And a system where health insurance companies operate according to whatever increases their profit margin (actually, they would say whatever decreases the medical loss ration) is disgusting and inhumane and not helpful for anyone.
If someone has previously been sick, in the current system they can't get medical coverage for anything remotely related to their earlier medical problems without paying through the nose. If we as a society decide that people who have medical problems aren't inherently deserving of medical care, and that it's okay to bankrupt people for having the nerve to get sick, that's one thing.
So go ahead and call regulation "theft," but first tell me what is the alternative?
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You are a moron.
Why rush? they've only been talking about this for a year, let's keep debating it for another goddamn year. We've only talked about universal health care for about 80 years, and we've known how to design a cost-effective system with good results for about 50. There's only tens of thousands of people who die each year because of inadequate access to health care. What's the fucking rush?
And lord, it's going to affect 1/6 of the economy! Why is health care 1/6 of the economy? Because we've allowed our rate of medical inflation to stay far higher than any other developed country. And we're talking about regulations affecting companies that deal in that 1/6. It's not as if the government is nationalizing 1/6 of the economy.
Oh no, the bill has a lot of pages! Who gives a shit? First of all, legislative text is triple spaced, with 1.5 inch margins, so the bill is actually 400 pages of normal text. But so what? This is complicated stuff, and legal language is notoriously verbose and dense.
Let's just do what we can all agree on! OK, no denial of coverage based on preexisting conditions. But what if someone just goes without insurance until they need care? That's just going to make it more expensive for the rest of us. We'll have to mandate that everyone pay in. But what if some people can't afford it? I suppose we'll have to subsidize premiums for the poor. Well, what a coincidence, that pretty well describes the bill that's being debated in Congress! Weird.
By the way, the deals you're talking about? They're being removed in the packages being voted on in the coming week.
Take your warmed over Republican talking points and shove them up your disingenuous ass.
Yeah, sure does take a while to compile with GCC 2.95 on a P3. Shell out for a new computer. And since you're such a cheap bastard, allow me to suggest a computer for only 359 euro...
The most recent crop of Atom processors have 2 cores and are 64 bit capable. This computer has pretty much the same specs as my 2006 MacBook, which is still a perfectly capable machine. It's not great for gaming, but it allows window compositing on the desktop. If you're thinking, "I can't run 3D benchmarks or Half-Life 2," this computer isn't for you. It's a fully configured GNU/Linux desktop for a low price.
If they really intend to make a business out of selling these things, they should sell 100% free software compatible peripherals like webcams and printers and keyboards and mice and displays (people need to be told affirmatively that something works if you're a retailer, not just "try it and return it if it doesn't work). Then sell a bundle of all this for 600 euro or so. A geek should be able to say to a relative, "Buy your computer sruff from this website. It's a little more expensive than Dell, but they have better quality hardware and software and customer service." Geeks will scour for information on what works and then find the best price for what they want. Normal people like one-stop shopping, as long as they know they're not getting ripped off.
I don't know much about Greepeace's agenda, but I believe Al Gore wants a large reduction in carbon emissions, which means some combination of improved efficiency in the use of energy resources and exploitation of non-fossil sources of energy. Like nuclear.
Saying that the only way to stop destroying the environment and damaging natural climate cycles is to go back to a preindustrial economy betrays a surprising lack of faith in the progress of technology, especially for someone posting on a technology-centric website.
The words "crumbling," "decrepit" and "poorly run" are pretty loaded, especially referring to levels of tritium around half the limit found on site, and no detectable levels off site.
I guess the question is where to draw the line in the law, since people will call things whatever they want. In history, brands have become genericized because the name became synonymous with the product due to lack of a descriptive name. Kleenex is still legally protected as a trademark because it is a brand of facial tissues. Escalators seem to have lost trademark status because they weren't called moving staircases.
Most people in the southern US refer to sweetened carbonated beverages as "coke." Would you be in favor of the legal genericide of that particular trademark?
I personally think that trademarks are important for consumer protection, so that the standard of that product can be maintained and assured. Vintners in Champagne have been vigilant over the last few hundred years that products sold as Champagne be of a consistent quality. Some of this can be chalked up to snootiness on the part of the makers of the wine, but if you have no influence over the quality, would you want another producer to be able to sell a product with a brand you have maintained for your entire life?
Incidentally, I never realized how wonderful Parmigiano was until I tried it for reals. I grew up thinking Parmesan was ho-hum because Kraft can sell their shitty dairy product and lead people to believe that's what cheese is.
The product called Champagne comes from Champagne, just as the product Bordeaux comes from Bordeaux. The product sparkling white wine can be made anywhere, as can the product Cabernet Sauvignon. This genericization is disliked by champagnoises as well as Californian and other American producers of sparking white wine, because what distinguishes Champagne is its origin. Just because lots of people recognize a double-decker burger with lettuce, onions, cheese, pickles and a weird pinkish-orangish sauce as a Big Mac, doesn't mean that anyone should be able to sell a Big Mac.
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Google seems to.
A dancing baloney that doesn't make the cooling fan in my laptop spin up is superior to one that does.
In addition, the integration of Flash also allows Chrome developers to do some neat tricks to better sandbox Flash
Can they do some neat tricks to stop Flash from stealing my keyboard and mouse focus? As soon as there is a browser/flash plugin combination that works with YouTube/Vimeo/FunnyOrDie and doesn't prevent me from using keyboard shortcuts to switch tabs or stop me from scrolling past a video, I'm using it, and I'm going to tell all my non-geek friends to use it as well.
I'll say it very slowly.
It
does
not
matter
if
the
accused
is
a
good
or
bad
guy.
It
is
completely
irrelevant.
Got it? You're attacking someone who was wrongfully arrested and then prevented from seeing exculpatory evidence. The story is that he happened to have the smarts to discover and request the log file associated with that evidence. The story is that the police department lied about the continued existence of the video and audio recordings.
What a great country we live in. Be seen in a group with people doing something goofy while drunk, know your rights, and expect legal hassles, including the police department lying to you about the availability of exculpatory evidence and the case being dropped after thousands of dollars in legal fees. U-S-A! U-S-A!
Thank fuck for the ACLU and its state and local counterparts. Your mindset is far too prevalent today.
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Ernesto Miranda was a rapist, but we require the police and the judicial system to follow protocol no matter what someone is accused of.
At least, we did until 2001.
Yeah, I just bought 2 x 1.5TB drives for $110 each.
Yeah, they just print them out and leave them in the lobby.
Why would you go out of your way to call the recipient of extensive physical and psychological bullying defective?
And a system where health insurance companies operate according to whatever increases their profit margin (actually, they would say whatever decreases the medical loss ration) is disgusting and inhumane and not helpful for anyone.
If someone has previously been sick, in the current system they can't get medical coverage for anything remotely related to their earlier medical problems without paying through the nose. If we as a society decide that people who have medical problems aren't inherently deserving of medical care, and that it's okay to bankrupt people for having the nerve to get sick, that's one thing.
So go ahead and call regulation "theft," but first tell me what is the alternative?
You are a moron.
Why rush? they've only been talking about this for a year, let's keep debating it for another goddamn year. We've only talked about universal health care for about 80 years, and we've known how to design a cost-effective system with good results for about 50. There's only tens of thousands of people who die each year because of inadequate access to health care. What's the fucking rush?
And lord, it's going to affect 1/6 of the economy! Why is health care 1/6 of the economy? Because we've allowed our rate of medical inflation to stay far higher than any other developed country. And we're talking about regulations affecting companies that deal in that 1/6. It's not as if the government is nationalizing 1/6 of the economy.
Oh no, the bill has a lot of pages! Who gives a shit? First of all, legislative text is triple spaced, with 1.5 inch margins, so the bill is actually 400 pages of normal text. But so what? This is complicated stuff, and legal language is notoriously verbose and dense.
Let's just do what we can all agree on! OK, no denial of coverage based on preexisting conditions. But what if someone just goes without insurance until they need care? That's just going to make it more expensive for the rest of us. We'll have to mandate that everyone pay in. But what if some people can't afford it? I suppose we'll have to subsidize premiums for the poor. Well, what a coincidence, that pretty well describes the bill that's being debated in Congress! Weird.
By the way, the deals you're talking about? They're being removed in the packages being voted on in the coming week.
Take your warmed over Republican talking points and shove them up your disingenuous ass.
I thought burned optical discs started to degrade after a few years. Have they solved this problem?
Yeah, sure does take a while to compile with GCC 2.95 on a P3. Shell out for a new computer. And since you're such a cheap bastard, allow me to suggest a computer for only 359 euro...
It doesn't sound like this computer is for you. Maybe you shouldn't buy it.
Then it would be a piece of notepaper, with a drawing of a computer on it, and a bundled PCLinuxOS CD.
FTFY
The most recent crop of Atom processors have 2 cores and are 64 bit capable. This computer has pretty much the same specs as my 2006 MacBook, which is still a perfectly capable machine. It's not great for gaming, but it allows window compositing on the desktop. If you're thinking, "I can't run 3D benchmarks or Half-Life 2," this computer isn't for you. It's a fully configured GNU/Linux desktop for a low price.
If they really intend to make a business out of selling these things, they should sell 100% free software compatible peripherals like webcams and printers and keyboards and mice and displays (people need to be told affirmatively that something works if you're a retailer, not just "try it and return it if it doesn't work). Then sell a bundle of all this for 600 euro or so. A geek should be able to say to a relative, "Buy your computer sruff from this website. It's a little more expensive than Dell, but they have better quality hardware and software and customer service." Geeks will scour for information on what works and then find the best price for what they want. Normal people like one-stop shopping, as long as they know they're not getting ripped off.
I looked around for 10 minutes, then I had to do a web search to figure out how to format a hard drive on Windows 7, and I use it every day for work.
You know, you can use those keys for other things...
I don't know much about Greepeace's agenda, but I believe Al Gore wants a large reduction in carbon emissions, which means some combination of improved efficiency in the use of energy resources and exploitation of non-fossil sources of energy. Like nuclear.
Saying that the only way to stop destroying the environment and damaging natural climate cycles is to go back to a preindustrial economy betrays a surprising lack of faith in the progress of technology, especially for someone posting on a technology-centric website.
The words "crumbling," "decrepit" and "poorly run" are pretty loaded, especially referring to levels of tritium around half the limit found on site, and no detectable levels off site.
I bet you can configure gentoo to do this on top of another distro. I used to have a gentoo tree built in my OS X home directory.
I guess the question is where to draw the line in the law, since people will call things whatever they want. In history, brands have become genericized because the name became synonymous with the product due to lack of a descriptive name. Kleenex is still legally protected as a trademark because it is a brand of facial tissues. Escalators seem to have lost trademark status because they weren't called moving staircases.
Most people in the southern US refer to sweetened carbonated beverages as "coke." Would you be in favor of the legal genericide of that particular trademark?
I personally think that trademarks are important for consumer protection, so that the standard of that product can be maintained and assured. Vintners in Champagne have been vigilant over the last few hundred years that products sold as Champagne be of a consistent quality. Some of this can be chalked up to snootiness on the part of the makers of the wine, but if you have no influence over the quality, would you want another producer to be able to sell a product with a brand you have maintained for your entire life?
Incidentally, I never realized how wonderful Parmigiano was until I tried it for reals. I grew up thinking Parmesan was ho-hum because Kraft can sell their shitty dairy product and lead people to believe that's what cheese is.
The product called Champagne comes from Champagne, just as the product Bordeaux comes from Bordeaux. The product sparkling white wine can be made anywhere, as can the product Cabernet Sauvignon. This genericization is disliked by champagnoises as well as Californian and other American producers of sparking white wine, because what distinguishes Champagne is its origin. Just because lots of people recognize a double-decker burger with lettuce, onions, cheese, pickles and a weird pinkish-orangish sauce as a Big Mac, doesn't mean that anyone should be able to sell a Big Mac.
I dunno. It's likely spurious, but my point was summarized pretty well in my title, "Not copyright."