So how many children did you save today by not doing anything?
Besides, it's not like BG cares about getting more money... he's got more than he knows what to do with.
One of my teachers refused to read my exam paper and said she "had never learnt how to decipher hieroglyphs". Truth to be said my handwriting is close to unreadable, and typing on a keyboard instead of writing by hand is only making it worse. I have seen this happen with many other people. Time to be worried?
You nailed it. And because of this, if I were MS I'd simply disregard all this idiocy and sell my OS all the same. What would they do, stop me? Make MS software illegal or worse free? As if it weren't 98% pirated anyway.
Then again as a European I'm all for milking foreign companies; but I know I won't see a dime of the many billions the gov't is stealing from MS, so meh.
My main complaint is that everyone's bitching and whining about competition, yet most markets are over-regulated and some draconian protectionist measures have been taken recently - now it costs me MORE to buy stuff from the USA than from the EU, even now that the dollar is so weak, all because of import taxes. I look at prices on something.com and compare them to the ones here... and I cringe. No one has the balls to admit that real competition is not compatible with defending the interests of an individual, a country or the European economic system.
Well, the "select few" would be the ones who bothered to sign up at the national register of election officers and, come election time, are actually called. You yourself say "you just need to apply". I had understood that in your country people simply walked in on a whim and started messing around with the ballots. Very democratic but a bit unmanageable...
Not my problem anymore though, I am unsubscribing from the list. But instead of hitting reply I have to walk to the election office and talk to nasty little ladies and mingle with many humans:). Quite a PITA.
WTF? In your country you let *random people* wander in and help with the counting? I understand letting them observe, but not touch the ballots. Even then, I've had the misfortune to be an election officer a few times: once, we had to physically put one of the inspectors out of the door because all his snooping around and messing with stuff was preventing us from getting the job done and going home early. I cannot even begin to imagine what the situation would be like if random guys from the street just came in and offered a helping hand...
There's the whole Performance Monitor for that: you can save the value of many different parameters, such as CPU utilization, every n seconds, and generate reports based on those.
One could always do their searches and browsing without logging into Google first. Don't you think? I don't particularly like Google's personalized portal, so even though I have an account there I never use it. But even if I liked it, I wouldn't be doing searches and the like while logged in.
Same goes for GMail.
If we become used to loading random pieces of code from 3rd parties and injecting it into legitimate web pages, how long will it be before someone skeaks in a nice password sniffer or some such? I can already envision it: "This favelet makes logging into your bank so much easier" yeah right *for them*.
Besides, this stuff does not support Opera well.
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My other reply? This was my only post in this thread... As for whacking my kids with anything, well, first I'd have to produce some, I think.
Oh well. Pretty much everyone I know has received occasional smacking during their childhood/teen years, yet they grew up as quite normal adults. It's quite obvious that knocking out your son's teeth goes beyond the definition of "occasional smacking".
Any more unsubstantiated trolling based on distortion of words left to do today?
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Receiving a smack on the head because you're playing with a stingray has nothing with living in a violent home or being abused anyway. You should inform yourself about child abuse and get some perspective. Do you consider your childhood as having been spent under constant abuse? I guess not. Have you ever been smacked? It would surprise to hear "no".
Uhm, you know there *are* laws out there regulating pretty much everything, right? Guns, various substances, even the right to have babies in some countries, cars & planes, most specialized machinery... And you get upset about the internet?
Um yeah you're right, come to think of it, my ISP should probably just go all the way and silently reroute my connections to the destination they think fits me better... It's not like the end user knows what he's doing.
*megatokyo CTRL+ENTER*
*out pops www.wanna buy a house at house.com? you fit the demographic perfectly. you probably wanted to buy a house, right? you didn't really want to read your favourite webcomic*
OK, OK, but that doesn't excuse spreading FUD. In my experience, people who feel passionate about issues tend to BS their way through rather than sticking to the absolute minimum factual proof needed to drive their point home. In doing so, they usually lie or cheat in some way. This loses them my approval.
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So how many children did you save today by not doing anything?
Besides, it's not like BG cares about getting more money... he's got more than he knows what to do with.
One of my teachers refused to read my exam paper and said she "had never learnt how to decipher hieroglyphs". Truth to be said my handwriting is close to unreadable, and typing on a keyboard instead of writing by hand is only making it worse. I have seen this happen with many other people. Time to be worried?
He's basically saying that you're a racist for arguing that a certain society can show different traits than another one.
So basically you're saying that they want to be helped but not pay the price. Oh well, it figures.
Hey, it's *their* country after all.
You're right, debtors shouldn't be jailed, they should be fined instead... oh wait.
You nailed it. And because of this, if I were MS I'd simply disregard all this idiocy and sell my OS all the same. What would they do, stop me? Make MS software illegal or worse free? As if it weren't 98% pirated anyway.
Then again as a European I'm all for milking foreign companies; but I know I won't see a dime of the many billions the gov't is stealing from MS, so meh.
My main complaint is that everyone's bitching and whining about competition, yet most markets are over-regulated and some draconian protectionist measures have been taken recently - now it costs me MORE to buy stuff from the USA than from the EU, even now that the dollar is so weak, all because of import taxes. I look at prices on something.com and compare them to the ones here... and I cringe. No one has the balls to admit that real competition is not compatible with defending the interests of an individual, a country or the European economic system.
This is so simple, yet escapes so many people...
Maybe it's because the don't really care?
This is no different from stores, restaurants, hotels, and other public accomodations being required to X
Which is just as idiotic.
You're right, it's impossible to be more than 100% foolish.
The keyword here being "public". My private website is like my private house - love it or leave it.
Well, the "select few" would be the ones who bothered to sign up at the national register of election officers and, come election time, are actually called. You yourself say "you just need to apply". I had understood that in your country people simply walked in on a whim and started messing around with the ballots. Very democratic but a bit unmanageable... :). Quite a PITA.
Not my problem anymore though, I am unsubscribing from the list. But instead of hitting reply I have to walk to the election office and talk to nasty little ladies and mingle with many humans
WTF? In your country you let *random people* wander in and help with the counting? I understand letting them observe, but not touch the ballots. Even then, I've had the misfortune to be an election officer a few times: once, we had to physically put one of the inspectors out of the door because all his snooping around and messing with stuff was preventing us from getting the job done and going home early. I cannot even begin to imagine what the situation would be like if random guys from the street just came in and offered a helping hand...
There's the whole Performance Monitor for that: you can save the value of many different parameters, such as CPU utilization, every n seconds, and generate reports based on those.
One could always do their searches and browsing without logging into Google first. Don't you think? I don't particularly like Google's personalized portal, so even though I have an account there I never use it. But even if I liked it, I wouldn't be doing searches and the like while logged in.
Same goes for GMail.
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If we become used to loading random pieces of code from 3rd parties and injecting it into legitimate web pages, how long will it be before someone skeaks in a nice password sniffer or some such? I can already envision it: "This favelet makes logging into your bank so much easier" yeah right *for them*.
Besides, this stuff does not support Opera well.
My other reply? This was my only post in this thread... As for whacking my kids with anything, well, first I'd have to produce some, I think.
Oh well. Pretty much everyone I know has received occasional smacking during their childhood/teen years, yet they grew up as quite normal adults. It's quite obvious that knocking out your son's teeth goes beyond the definition of "occasional smacking".
Any more unsubstantiated trolling based on distortion of words left to do today?
Receiving a smack on the head because you're playing with a stingray has nothing with living in a violent home or being abused anyway. You should inform yourself about child abuse and get some perspective. Do you consider your childhood as having been spent under constant abuse? I guess not. Have you ever been smacked? It would surprise to hear "no".
Yes, UltraEdit handles the job quite well. Live editing FTW!
Uhm, you know there *are* laws out there regulating pretty much everything, right? Guns, various substances, even the right to have babies in some countries, cars & planes, most specialized machinery... And you get upset about the internet?
I looooooooove arguing
I would have *never* guessed ^_^
Um yeah you're right, come to think of it, my ISP should probably just go all the way and silently reroute my connections to the destination they think fits me better... It's not like the end user knows what he's doing.
*megatokyo CTRL+ENTER*
*out pops www.wanna buy a house at house.com? you fit the demographic perfectly. you probably wanted to buy a house, right? you didn't really want to read your favourite webcomic*
OK, OK, but that doesn't excuse spreading FUD. In my experience, people who feel passionate about issues tend to BS their way through rather than sticking to the absolute minimum factual proof needed to drive their point home. In doing so, they usually lie or cheat in some way. This loses them my approval.