"I'd take 51.1% total tax in a heartbeat to have really good government services."
Rejoice, you've found the answer! Move to Sweden.
Very tempting, but difficult with kids coming up to exams. In the UK with tax, NI, fuel duty and VAT I am paying over 51% tax without good government services (By Swedish standards, much better than US of course),
Those bombs are fucking dangerous - when they go off, you have acid going in all directions - yeah, you might not kill people, but it will take your eyes out...
To be pedantic you have boiling concentrated caustic soda (also known as lye or caustic soda), a very strong and dangerous alkali, splashing all over the place. The vigorous reaction with aluminium gives off hydrogen as well as heating the solution to boiling point. When I was at school that sort of thing would have got you a suspension, but I think that with today's safety culture an expulsion could be on the cards.
Love seeing all the old fogies retire and a bunch of hipster faggots replace them. We can see technology moving backwards as expected.
The fucking iPhone soft keyboard is the shittiest piece of shit ever. The fact they don't scroll the text input dialog until you stop typing was added to increase the annoyance and to ensure backwards movement in usability.
The summary on this story sums it all up. Sounds like a total fucking cluster fuck just to put some novelty e-waste shovel-ware garbage on the market.
You go to such great fucking lengths to improve the input capabilities, and it's still shit. Maybe you should go back to the fucking drawing board. Better yet, through the fucker out because a "smart watch" is a stupid idea as long as it's taking input from a fucking hacked up keyboard.
NO FUCKING WAY! Captcha: teletype
So to sumarise: Someone improved something that you don't want and don't use and that didn't impress you.
Well the calorific value of cheese would give us a virtually limitless energy supply. With a supply of liquid oxygen burning cheese could probably be used to power moon to mars missions.
You mean environmentalists are using wishful thinking when saying we'll run out of oil and we'll have to switch to renewable energy sources, even though the evidence now points to there being plenty of oil? Both sides are guilty of wishful thinking and selective reading of the evidence.
If this is in response to Cornwallis' link you have it totally wrong. The link is saying that claims that we will never run out of oil are wrong
EFF never said "Trust Twitter — Not Apple Or Verizon — To Protect Your Privacy"
Typical slashdot summary. It should be clear that this only refers to responses to law enforcement and government requests, and does not look at data security, what they do with the data themselves, or what they pass on to third parties in commercial deals
...how often do we get to make fun of Germany for making a boneheaded decision regarding technology?
From the summary, scrapping the PCs cost 190,000 Euros, and removing the virus cost £130,000 Euros. Given that activities like virus removal tend to overrun, and that there is a chance if it being ineffective that is at most 60,000 Euros for a lower risk.
Also, they probably took the opportunity to replace the servers with newer hardware, delaying the next hardware refresh cycle. If so this could just be another (annoying) example of German efficiency
or you have the supermarket, where everything from beer and wine and bread to meat and frozen goods and ice cream and baking supplies and pet food and household supplies (and sometimes, clothing, home appliances, etc) are bundled together under the same roof.
In some states.
I spent an age walking around a supermarket in Maryland looking for the booze before I twigged.
Ha - I did the same in Salt Lake City, Utah... I really should have known better
What's that "supermarket" thing you're talking about? Outside the US we have regular shops every second corner: I live in the suburbs yet there's six grocery shops I can get to crossing a street at most once, two of them fairly large (for Polish rather than US standards)
I live in the UK, semi-rural. There is a store in a village high-street a mile away, but it is very expensive and except in good weather a mile each way is too far to stop me getting in my car anyway - at which point I would go on the 3.5 miles to the supermarket.
Some stores offer delivery after you pay at the register. They just cart your bags away to a refrigerator and then deliver it within an hour or two. Obviously not optimal for hot foods or bread. You can walk to the store.
I haven't seen that offered locally, it would be useful though
Yes. Use any of the various image search engines and if the owner can be traced within first 1000 results, due diligence was not performed.
I think that due diligence would depend on the size of the company, as it does now. If a Google or Microsoft want to use an image in a campaign that costs millions then sure they should check tractability in at least the first 1000 results. If a mom & pop guesthouse puts an image on their website that has a total budget of $50 a year then checking the first page of results would probably do.
For those who don't follow UK politics, it is very important to remember who is in power to understand laws being introduced. What party is in power? One of the three corrupt ones. There are also only really three parties so it really doesn't matter.
The only reason the minor parties are not corrupt is that nobody thinks it worth bribing them... if they ever did get in power they'd be just as bad
Can't a corporation take a newly public domain work that only they have access to, make some minor edits and copyright that though. Are they under any obligation to make the original public domain work accessible. If you can't get the public domain work verbatim then it doesn't do you any good to have it declared public domain.
I've found that if you murder people, they stop emitting CO2 almost entirely. So really, serial killers are the best environmentalists.
If they don't dispose carefully though they can increase methane emissions, which is even worse. Seriously these serial killers should investigate the environmental impacts of acid baths, cremation, etc. My gut feeling says that using the bodies for livestock feed or eating them yourself is the most environmentally sound approach
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much.
Therefore you need to go much more often and that you'll rarely buy any heavy goods.
I used to live a quarter of a mile from a supermarket, and going every other day worked well. Now my closest supermarket is 3.5 miles away and the closest expensive convenience store 1 mile I use the car a lot more.
Delivery is OK but I think you get a worse selection of fresh produce than if you go and pick in person. You also miss the special offers that you see round the store
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"I'd take 51.1% total tax in a heartbeat to have really good government services." Rejoice, you've found the answer! Move to Sweden.
Very tempting, but difficult with kids coming up to exams. In the UK with tax, NI, fuel duty and VAT I am paying over 51% tax without good government services (By Swedish standards, much better than US of course),
"Warning: Predator drone detec---"
I hope so. The last thing we want is something cheap that can help the muslim terrorists escape
Those bombs are fucking dangerous - when they go off, you have acid going in all directions - yeah, you might not kill people, but it will take your eyes out...
To be pedantic you have boiling concentrated caustic soda (also known as lye or caustic soda), a very strong and dangerous alkali, splashing all over the place. The vigorous reaction with aluminium gives off hydrogen as well as heating the solution to boiling point. When I was at school that sort of thing would have got you a suspension, but I think that with today's safety culture an expulsion could be on the cards.
Anyone who has used JQuery will know how their power exceeds the original intention
Don't associate your device with your org's Exchange server, if you don't want your employer to be able to wipe it.
My employer can attach my arse to their exchange server. Wipe that if you want motherfuckers
Huh? Are you talking about this? I'm sure they'll retrieve the black boxes and figure it out. This is a fully modern aircraft that crashed on land.
Maybe the pilot was a Muzzy
The "Patent Extortion Letter Protocol"?
Unfortunately you don't have to look far to find prior art
Love seeing all the old fogies retire and a bunch of hipster faggots replace them. We can see technology moving backwards as expected.
The fucking iPhone soft keyboard is the shittiest piece of shit ever. The fact they don't scroll the text input dialog until you stop typing was added to increase the annoyance and to ensure backwards movement in usability.
The summary on this story sums it all up. Sounds like a total fucking cluster fuck just to put some novelty e-waste shovel-ware garbage on the market.
You go to such great fucking lengths to improve the input capabilities, and it's still shit. Maybe you should go back to the fucking drawing board. Better yet, through the fucker out because a "smart watch" is a stupid idea as long as it's taking input from a fucking hacked up keyboard.
NO FUCKING WAY! Captcha: teletype
So to sumarise: Someone improved something that you don't want and don't use and that didn't impress you.
We'll never run out of oil - fish oil, whale oil, peanut oil, vegetable oil. It doesn't have to be crude.
If used sustainably they count as renewables.
What if the moon is made of cheese?
Well the calorific value of cheese would give us a virtually limitless energy supply. With a supply of liquid oxygen burning cheese could probably be used to power moon to mars missions.
You mean environmentalists are using wishful thinking when saying we'll run out of oil and we'll have to switch to renewable energy sources, even though the evidence now points to there being plenty of oil? Both sides are guilty of wishful thinking and selective reading of the evidence.
If this is in response to Cornwallis' link you have it totally wrong. The link is saying that claims that we will never run out of oil are wrong
EFF never said "Trust Twitter — Not Apple Or Verizon — To Protect Your Privacy"
Typical slashdot summary. It should be clear that this only refers to responses to law enforcement and government requests, and does not look at data security, what they do with the data themselves, or what they pass on to third parties in commercial deals
...how often do we get to make fun of Germany for making a boneheaded decision regarding technology?
From the summary, scrapping the PCs cost 190,000 Euros, and removing the virus cost £130,000 Euros. Given that activities like virus removal tend to overrun, and that there is a chance if it being ineffective that is at most 60,000 Euros for a lower risk.
Also, they probably took the opportunity to replace the servers with newer hardware, delaying the next hardware refresh cycle. If so this could just be another (annoying) example of German efficiency
But could someone explain how BSD package management compares to .rpm and .deb?
or you have the supermarket, where everything from beer and wine and bread to meat and frozen goods and ice cream and baking supplies and pet food and household supplies (and sometimes, clothing, home appliances, etc) are bundled together under the same roof.
In some states.
I spent an age walking around a supermarket in Maryland looking for the booze before I twigged.
Ha - I did the same in Salt Lake City, Utah ... I really should have known better
What's that "supermarket" thing you're talking about? Outside the US we have regular shops every second corner: I live in the suburbs yet there's six grocery shops I can get to crossing a street at most once, two of them fairly large (for Polish rather than US standards)
I live in the UK, semi-rural. There is a store in a village high-street a mile away, but it is very expensive and except in good weather a mile each way is too far to stop me getting in my car anyway - at which point I would go on the 3.5 miles to the supermarket.
Some stores offer delivery after you pay at the register. They just cart your bags away to a refrigerator and then deliver it within an hour or two. Obviously not optimal for hot foods or bread. You can walk to the store.
I haven't seen that offered locally, it would be useful though
Excuse, me, but there is no such a thing as UK "citizen" Her Majesty Elizabeth II
Wrong, since the British Nationality act of 1981 we have been citizens. I may have been born a subject but I will die a citizen.
Yes. Use any of the various image search engines and if the owner can be traced within first 1000 results, due diligence was not performed.
I think that due diligence would depend on the size of the company, as it does now. If a Google or Microsoft want to use an image in a campaign that costs millions then sure they should check tractability in at least the first 1000 results. If a mom & pop guesthouse puts an image on their website that has a total budget of $50 a year then checking the first page of results would probably do.
For those who don't follow UK politics, it is very important to remember who is in power to understand laws being introduced. What party is in power? One of the three corrupt ones. There are also only really three parties so it really doesn't matter.
The only reason the minor parties are not corrupt is that nobody thinks it worth bribing them ... if they ever did get in power they'd be just as bad
Can't a corporation take a newly public domain work that only they have access to, make some minor edits and copyright that though. Are they under any obligation to make the original public domain work accessible. If you can't get the public domain work verbatim then it doesn't do you any good to have it declared public domain.
That's where lawyers come in ... with somewhat contradictory results
They're old farts, only know Cobol and Ada. It's impossible.
Bah .. steer away from those new-fangled languages and stick with good old autocode
CaN brain-dead numbnuts quit quoting "Betteridge's law of headlines"?
Well by applying Betteridge's law the answer is obviously .... Oh wait!
I've found that if you murder people, they stop emitting CO2 almost entirely. So really, serial killers are the best environmentalists.
If they don't dispose carefully though they can increase methane emissions, which is even worse. Seriously these serial killers should investigate the environmental impacts of acid baths, cremation, etc. My gut feeling says that using the bodies for livestock feed or eating them yourself is the most environmentally sound approach
If you go there by foot or by bike, it means you cannot buy much. Therefore you need to go much more often and that you'll rarely buy any heavy goods.
I used to live a quarter of a mile from a supermarket, and going every other day worked well. Now my closest supermarket is 3.5 miles away and the closest expensive convenience store 1 mile I use the car a lot more.
Delivery is OK but I think you get a worse selection of fresh produce than if you go and pick in person. You also miss the special offers that you see round the store