However, one recent version of Kubuntu managed to mess up my father’s/home nonetheless. Separate partition, don’t touch anything, but most of his picture and document folders were simply gone. I managed to recover quite a bit, but the filenames and organization were lost.
The internet says that it also promotes christianity, using the same arguments. Within minutes you can research churches, bible groups and also contact them...
I should say that is even worse than researching Satanism.
If I, for one, were to be tied to a bed, whereupon a priest would be led into the room with me in order to sprinkle me with holy water(1) and pray at my side, I would find inhuman strength, curse in all languages I’ve ever encountered and attempt to kill the sanctimonious bastard. And I am not even obsessed.
(1) The version your perverted mind has just supplied would only make things worse, so whatever.
Or maybe some people know the computer wont be fixed by yelling at it. A kick is usually more effective.
I usually explain the difference between hardware and software thus: if you can kick it or smash it, it’s hardware; if you can only scream and curse it, it’s software.
Anyhow, I curse at the computer. Well, more specifically, I tend to curse at Flash, which is an evil, slow monstrosity. It is the gelatinous cube of software; it’s slow and it sucks.
That said, lottery tickets tend to be bought by the less affluent / educated, so it would be kind of mean. You'd essentially be subsidising your income with the efforts of the less well-off.
So? Lottery, like other forms of gambling, is primarily a voluntary tax on mathematical ignorance anyway.
The way I remember it... no, it wasn’t like that.
E16 was a feature-rich, but pretty bloated window manager. E17, when I first tried it some seven years ago, was very lean: I’d put it on a computer too underpowered for either Windows XP or the then-current version of either KDE or Gnome. All of them positively dragged.
E17 was not very stable, but it was small and fast, and its image viewer (AFAICT also discontinued) ran circles around GQview. Zooming huge photos in or out was instantaneous in E; GQview would take up to 10 seconds.
E17 has been a project where the developers insisted on doing things right, which I find very commendable. Everything that had proved to be sub-par, they’ve scrapped, replaced, redesigned. Being in a fairly small niche at least allows you to ignore dealing with deadlines and ship it when it’s done.
Today I have E17 running on my father’s ancient laptop. My stepmother can even play Zynga crap, the most resource-wasting Flash games I’ve ever seen, on a 1 GHz processor with 256 MB RAM. They are slow, but they actually load. Which they did not do under either Win XP or Kubuntu on the very same machine. E17 itself uses up around 30 MB RAM, no matter what kind of effects you load it up with. And it’s fast. Oh, it’s fast.
I’m a cartoon character as well. Richard, in fact.
At least one of my friends used to be Richard as well.
But that’s not the hard part. Oh no.
A number of my friends habitually change their names. To completely nonsensical stuff.
Even if I could guess who they are from their profile pictures, I’d fail to guess the name of the week.
I was thinking something along these lines as well.
Then I though a bit better about it.
Tax is usually related to the price, as a certain percentage thereof. In that case, free software would be off the hook.
If instead of tax there was some kind of levy unrelated to the price, the Land of the Free would practically outlaw free software. So the free software companies would have to move out from the US.
Unless the same kind of taxation was introduced throughout the world, that would pretty much mean the US cut itself off from the rest of the world. And if you want to know what turning inwards spells, observe China from two centuries ago until about a century ago.
Damn. I didn’t even know who APK was when he turned on me.
Took him a few days to lay off, mostly because I was having quite a good time baiting him.
I must try the AC baiting in the near future. No good reason for my fine karma to rot.
Indeed. In fact, English is considered to be so successful, among other things, because of its rather impure nature. As someone or other has said, defending the purity of the English language would be like defending the purity of a cribhouse whore.
Purity is stagnation. Or at least moving in a constant direction. Neither works in a changing world.
Languages evolve. And they pretty much resemble bacteria in the way that they do so: they exchange words, grammatical structures, and of course the underlying concepts. Now, you may keep an isolated strain, but whatever for?
China has the tendency to turn inwards, ignoring the rest of the world. That has already turned them from an advanced empire into a fallen giant once; this kind of attitude might do it again. In the long run, of course.
You cannot achieve greatness by ignoring everyone and everything else. English got where it is by being a language of Borg: assimilating everything and anything deemed necessary by its speakers. Rejecting everything deemed non-English would have resulted in much weaker penetration.
I don’t answer those questions simply because I am an egotistical, arrogant bastard and it strokes my ego immensely when you follow me around like an angry puppy.
Either that or the fact that every time you post this it is both off-topic and trolling. Take your pick.
Oh, dear. And to think I spent an apology for your incessant trolling on a simple link spam.
Are you growing tired of me? Are you going to dump me like all the others you’ve trolled and stalked so? *sob*
BTW, while we’re on the subject of grammar: English. And either are there (0 article) . . . forums or is there a(n) . . . forum. Really, it’s not that hard. I hear it’s even your native tongue.
Split-screen co-op is a sociable way to spend an evening with a mate or two (drop in a few beers too, of course).
I recall a not-so-distant past when three of us would crowd in front of one keyboard playing ClanBomber. OK, that was neither split-screen nor co-op, but it was great fun.
Isn't anyone going to stand up and say that preventing children from accidentally coming across pornography has absolutely NO benefit? Pornography is not amoral. Pornography is normal. Accidentally stumbling across pornography is exactly as bad as accidentally stumbling across a lolcat.
"Think of the children"? Okay, I think the children will not be warped by seeing some porn. Not wanting children to take part in pornography is one thing. Not wanting children to spend all day looking at pornography is one thing. Not wanting children to accidentally stumble on porn is ridiculous.
Pornography itself does not cause anything bad.
Now, this is deduction from pure introspection, YMMV and $disclaimer. However, I should think that a child who stumbles across some porn either has no interest in it and doesn’t understand it, or it did in fact search for it. In neither case is there any damage.
While I’ve heard of childhood trauma caused by running into your parents having sex, it can only happen at an age when it is imprudent to leave kids online on their own anyway.
I don't think we have to prepare ourselves to tolerate child porn in such a way. Child porn is already illegal in it's own right and should be dealt with using the laws we have available for it's removal from society.
And as we can see, that includes cartoons. At least in some puritan countries.
I think when a politicians ask the question, "Can we have a filter?", your answer should be, "Ah, you mean like China and Iran..."
The impact to civil liberty is more clearly understood in that context.
Agreed. Spread the meme.
I apologize in advance for the behavior of my AC stalker.
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So, Gnome is rediscovering Enlightenment?
However, one recent version of Kubuntu managed to mess up my father’s /home nonetheless. Separate partition, don’t touch anything, but most of his picture and document folders were simply gone. I managed to recover quite a bit, but the filenames and organization were lost.
Still, it’s generally a good thing.
The internet says that it also promotes christianity, using the same arguments. Within minutes you can research churches, bible groups and also contact them...
I should say that is even worse than researching Satanism.
If I, for one, were to be tied to a bed, whereupon a priest would be led into the room with me in order to sprinkle me with holy water(1) and pray at my side, I would find inhuman strength, curse in all languages I’ve ever encountered and attempt to kill the sanctimonious bastard. And I am not even obsessed.
(1) The version your perverted mind has just supplied would only make things worse, so whatever.
ur mum's face seem to be remind me of the Borg.
cower in my shadow behind your chosen compression algorithm based pseudonym some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.
Thank you for your insight. It is completely $adjective.
cower in my shadow behind your chosen semitic pseudonym some more, feeb.
you're completely pathetic.
You seem to be saying that a lot.
Your conversational skills remind me of the Borg.
actually, that could be interpreted as pro-life
Yeah, maybe. But I’m pro-choice.
Or maybe some people know the computer wont be fixed by yelling at it. A kick is usually more effective.
I usually explain the difference between hardware and software thus: if you can kick it or smash it, it’s hardware; if you can only scream and curse it, it’s software.
Anyhow, I curse at the computer. Well, more specifically, I tend to curse at Flash, which is an evil, slow monstrosity. It is the gelatinous cube of software; it’s slow and it sucks.
It's fun, but it's not ethical. Someone spent time putting those strawmen up. Is it our place to go around burning other peoples flimsy strawmen?
Since you feel the need to ask that question, the answer is... nah, fsck it. The answer is: hell, yeah.
Isn't burning strawmen fun?
Since you feel the need to ask that question, the answer is no.
That said, lottery tickets tend to be bought by the less affluent / educated, so it would be kind of mean. You'd essentially be subsidising your income with the efforts of the less well-off.
So? Lottery, like other forms of gambling, is primarily a voluntary tax on mathematical ignorance anyway.
The way I remember it... no, it wasn’t like that.
E16 was a feature-rich, but pretty bloated window manager. E17, when I first tried it some seven years ago, was very lean: I’d put it on a computer too underpowered for either Windows XP or the then-current version of either KDE or Gnome. All of them positively dragged.
E17 was not very stable, but it was small and fast, and its image viewer (AFAICT also discontinued) ran circles around GQview. Zooming huge photos in or out was instantaneous in E; GQview would take up to 10 seconds.
E17 has been a project where the developers insisted on doing things right, which I find very commendable. Everything that had proved to be sub-par, they’ve scrapped, replaced, redesigned. Being in a fairly small niche at least allows you to ignore dealing with deadlines and ship it when it’s done.
Today I have E17 running on my father’s ancient laptop. My stepmother can even play Zynga crap, the most resource-wasting Flash games I’ve ever seen, on a 1 GHz processor with 256 MB RAM. They are slow, but they actually load. Which they did not do under either Win XP or Kubuntu on the very same machine. E17 itself uses up around 30 MB RAM, no matter what kind of effects you load it up with. And it’s fast. Oh, it’s fast.
I’m a cartoon character as well. Richard, in fact.
At least one of my friends used to be Richard as well.
But that’s not the hard part. Oh no.
A number of my friends habitually change their names. To completely nonsensical stuff.
Even if I could guess who they are from their profile pictures, I’d fail to guess the name of the week.
Moronic. Completely.
I was thinking something along these lines as well.
Then I though a bit better about it.
Tax is usually related to the price, as a certain percentage thereof. In that case, free software would be off the hook.
If instead of tax there was some kind of levy unrelated to the price, the Land of the Free would practically outlaw free software. So the free software companies would have to move out from the US.
Unless the same kind of taxation was introduced throughout the world, that would pretty much mean the US cut itself off from the rest of the world. And if you want to know what turning inwards spells, observe China from two centuries ago until about a century ago.
I'm not so sure there will be holonovels or flying cars here after the Sun swells to a red giant and engulfs us.
Wasn’t Sun bought up by Oracle so that it wouldn’t happen?
Damn. I didn’t even know who APK was when he turned on me.
Took him a few days to lay off, mostly because I was having quite a good time baiting him.
I must try the AC baiting in the near future. No good reason for my fine karma to rot.
Checking through my spam a few months ago, I did find a Nigerian scam in Chinese.
You were saying?
Indeed. In fact, English is considered to be so successful, among other things, because of its rather impure nature. As someone or other has said, defending the purity of the English language would be like defending the purity of a cribhouse whore.
Purity is stagnation. Or at least moving in a constant direction. Neither works in a changing world.
Languages evolve. And they pretty much resemble bacteria in the way that they do so: they exchange words, grammatical structures, and of course the underlying concepts. Now, you may keep an isolated strain, but whatever for?
China has the tendency to turn inwards, ignoring the rest of the world. That has already turned them from an advanced empire into a fallen giant once; this kind of attitude might do it again. In the long run, of course.
You cannot achieve greatness by ignoring everyone and everything else. English got where it is by being a language of Borg: assimilating everything and anything deemed necessary by its speakers. Rejecting everything deemed non-English would have resulted in much weaker penetration.
I don’t answer those questions simply because I am an egotistical, arrogant bastard and it strokes my ego immensely when you follow me around like an angry puppy.
Either that or the fact that every time you post this it is both off-topic and trolling. Take your pick.
Trekkies are probably used to that. Hell, that's probably the metric that defines their level of success.
I should think Klingons would use Imperial measures. They are an empire, after all.
Oh, dear. And to think I spent an apology for your incessant trolling on a simple link spam.
Are you growing tired of me? Are you going to dump me like all the others you’ve trolled and stalked so? *sob*
BTW, while we’re on the subject of grammar: English. And either are there (0 article) . . . forums or is there a(n) . . . forum. Really, it’s not that hard. I hear it’s even your native tongue.
Split-screen co-op is a sociable way to spend an evening with a mate or two (drop in a few beers too, of course).
I recall a not-so-distant past when three of us would crowd in front of one keyboard playing ClanBomber. OK, that was neither split-screen nor co-op, but it was great fun.
Isn't anyone going to stand up and say that preventing children from accidentally coming across pornography has absolutely NO benefit? Pornography is not amoral. Pornography is normal. Accidentally stumbling across pornography is exactly as bad as accidentally stumbling across a lolcat. "Think of the children"? Okay, I think the children will not be warped by seeing some porn. Not wanting children to take part in pornography is one thing. Not wanting children to spend all day looking at pornography is one thing. Not wanting children to accidentally stumble on porn is ridiculous.
Pornography itself does not cause anything bad.
Now, this is deduction from pure introspection, YMMV and $disclaimer. However, I should think that a child who stumbles across some porn either has no interest in it and doesn’t understand it, or it did in fact search for it. In neither case is there any damage.
While I’ve heard of childhood trauma caused by running into your parents having sex, it can only happen at an age when it is imprudent to leave kids online on their own anyway.
I don't think we have to prepare ourselves to tolerate child porn in such a way. Child porn is already illegal in it's own right and should be dealt with using the laws we have available for it's removal from society.
And as we can see, that includes cartoons. At least in some puritan countries.
I think when a politicians ask the question, "Can we have a filter?", your answer should be, "Ah, you mean like China and Iran..."
The impact to civil liberty is more clearly understood in that context.
Agreed. Spread the meme.
I apologize in advance for the behavior of my AC stalker.
Delishus copy pasta. OMNOMNOM. U maek urself? U mad, APK?
It’s English, not english.
Please provide proof of basic literacy. KTHXBAI.