The thing is that the law should be whatever the majority of the populace consider it to be? I'm a Christian myself, so I don't object to children learning about creationism, but the majority of people in my city (98% I think it is) have no Christian ties whatsoever, so if there were a vote on the issue, then the general result would probably be that children should be educated about all religions equally (or perhaps not at all, who knows). The only law issue I care about at the momen is speeding, because I was stopped recently for speeding, when most of the population does it. There are idiots out there, but there are also those who have a good standard of driving, and their vehicles are capable of travelling in safety at higher speeds than those of 40 years ago when the current speed limits were put in place.. (I agree with the limit of 30mph in an area of habitation btw, I'm just talking about speeds out on country roads and inter-city roads). The governent makes assloads of money off of speeding fines at the moment though so I don't see the system changing anytime soon unless the public actually gets a say in the issue. I hate when people (generally those who have no driving license, and possibly those who get scared shitless when driving at the actual speedlimit) assume that driving 1mph over the speedlimit automatically means you are going to kill someone, it's a mockery of what it means to be a safe driver - ie you need to be attentive, be able to stop within the distance you see to be clear, and have directional control of your vehicle, so in some cases it may be better to be doing less that the speed limit, but in some cases it may be fine to be over it. Anyway, I'm just ranting now. But I think this is one case where the public, and those who are in the know about driving (for example Police driving or 'Advanced driving' instructors) should get to have their say, and the limits should be revised to suit current standards of vehicles, road surfaces and driving standards.:/ A lot of the hoi polloi generally aren't even going to be bothered enough to vote anyway, so it will only be those who care that will be making the decisions:P
Thankyou. I can see this is a very complicated and in-depth system, which is why I don't get it. It must be kind of boring having only 2 kinds of people in the US?:p >_>
Well, in europe I guess you either have to go to the UK if you want to be able to speak english all the time, but it's kind of less 'glamorous' than the USA. Alternatively you could go to one of those more flamboyant European countries like France, Germany or Spain, but then you'd probably have to learn a new language to fit in properly and get a decent job..:p I quite like it here in Scotland for some reason.. it's not too special, but it's not so bad either!
Plus, I'm a Christian and I certainly don't think Bush's warmongering actions are justifiable from a Christian point of view.. I like that there are still some Christian values left in the US (though most/.ers probably don't consider that a good thing), but a lot of it is just tradition these days rather than anything meaningful. It's the same in the UK, Christian (and therefor what I'd think of as 'family') values are going down the toilet.. everyone is becoming way more liberal in their thinking and just doing whatever they want, when they want, resulting in paper thin marriages, single parent families, yada yada yada.. very sad. Wow, maybe I do have a political view, but it's kind of only when it comes to 'moral' issues rather than the percentage of funds devoted to health/education/transportation and that kind of thing.
The libertarian stuff does sound pretty good (compared to the others). Though it does conflict with the idea of a National Health Service, which althought ours is probably flawed, is still preferable to having 'health insurance' IMO. It probably costs more if you have nothing wrong with you, but when it does come to needing surgery or other treatment, it's great. *sheds a little tear*
How the fuck do you expect voting for one of two parties is going to represent the majority of your views? I live in the UK, and I'm fed up of random slashdotters flaming republican this, democrat that, can you please explain what the actual difference is? I've seen more than one person point out that there is none, and I wouldn't find that hard to believe. I think as far as democracy is concerned, people should be able to vote on invidual laws and such (if they consider that law important) rather than vote one party every few years and expect to have things go the way they're wanting them to. Does it really matter whether this guy is Republican or Democrat? I'm sure there are plenty of idiots in both parties..
Apologies for the slightly trollish nature of my post, but it's really pissing me off seeing this inane republican vs democrat stuff, it's like racism or something, except the fairly arbitrary divide being which set of self-important morons you vote for instead of place of birth/skin colour. Admittedly you do have a choice who to vote for, but in the end there are always gonna be problems no matter who you vote for, under the current system at least.
pretty easy to pick out the person engaged in either transmitting or downloading violent scenes of rape, molestation Would that also mean monitoring someone downloading, say.. The Sopranos, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, any hentai whatsoever.. and so on and so forth?:P
The English that I've spoken to or seen on TV, alllll pronounce the k. Not too sure about the geordies actually, I think they jus say n instead of ng:P Guess you're right with the west country folk, it's just that I've never spoken to any of them because they tend to drive tractors rather than work in oil companies[/blatant stereotyping]
You don't have to, you could just have a library that maps the hardware functions to library calls.. you could call it something like VeryDirectX or something.. meh, nevermind..:P
English people tend not to be great at pronouncing rs (and they also pronounce ng as ngk, which is extremely annoyingk to me:P ), but Scots and Irish would pronounce it I'm sure.. I'm a Scot and I say nee-oo-clee-urr (but faster:P )
Nah it was just simple stuff like using firefox, and changing the desktop background. Maybe I installed too many needless packages and didn't have much swap space or something. The desktop menu bar thingy seemed pretty buggy as well, I lost it completely after moving it around the screen sides a coupla times:P I'd never used YDL before, maybe Ubuntu would work a bit better (I used YDL because someone at work had already downloaded it). I did read here recently that FF is a pig on Linux.. hmm..
The fact that I just ordered the computer as my primary work computer, then installed XP on it, helps too:P But I'd buy a MacBook Pro with my own hard earned (well.. earned) cash anyday.
I'm not an elitist, it's just that I've used all 3 OSes, and I'm pretty sure I've never had to edit any configuration files in any version of Mac OS I've ever used (started using a Classic when I was about 8, and I'm now 24 with OS X). Well, apart from the preferences for Quake but I don't think that counts:P I didn't think I'd even heard of plists before, though it is starting to ring a bell. I learned to shutdown properly when I was 8 though as I said (though I remember having to use that funky hard reset button a few times on my pre-OS X Macs), so I've never dealth with pfiles. I have used the terminal, but that was just for C development and playing MUDs:P
Well.. I know what a conf file and a registry is.. all together I've probably edited files like that several thousand times - but I've never even heard of a plist;) Admittedly I haven't done too much on OSX apart from web browsing, watching movies, listening to music, installing control panel extensions, a little bit of C development, installing the GIMP and a trial of parallels just because I could, plugging into a HDTV.. well none of them would require editing conf files apart from the HDTV probably. Oh and in Windows/Linux I'd probably need to install codecs to watch certain types of movie file..
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The thing is that the law should be whatever the majority of the populace consider it to be? I'm a Christian myself, so I don't object to children learning about creationism, but the majority of people in my city (98% I think it is) have no Christian ties whatsoever, so if there were a vote on the issue, then the general result would probably be that children should be educated about all religions equally (or perhaps not at all, who knows). The only law issue I care about at the momen is speeding, because I was stopped recently for speeding, when most of the population does it. There are idiots out there, but there are also those who have a good standard of driving, and their vehicles are capable of travelling in safety at higher speeds than those of 40 years ago when the current speed limits were put in place.. (I agree with the limit of 30mph in an area of habitation btw, I'm just talking about speeds out on country roads and inter-city roads). The governent makes assloads of money off of speeding fines at the moment though so I don't see the system changing anytime soon unless the public actually gets a say in the issue. I hate when people (generally those who have no driving license, and possibly those who get scared shitless when driving at the actual speedlimit) assume that driving 1mph over the speedlimit automatically means you are going to kill someone, it's a mockery of what it means to be a safe driver - ie you need to be attentive, be able to stop within the distance you see to be clear, and have directional control of your vehicle, so in some cases it may be better to be doing less that the speed limit, but in some cases it may be fine to be over it. Anyway, I'm just ranting now. But I think this is one case where the public, and those who are in the know about driving (for example Police driving or 'Advanced driving' instructors) should get to have their say, and the limits should be revised to suit current standards of vehicles, road surfaces and driving standards. :/ A lot of the hoi polloi generally aren't even going to be bothered enough to vote anyway, so it will only be those who care that will be making the decisions :P
Thankyou. I can see this is a very complicated and in-depth system, which is why I don't get it. It must be kind of boring having only 2 kinds of people in the US? :p >_>
Well, in europe I guess you either have to go to the UK if you want to be able to speak english all the time, but it's kind of less 'glamorous' than the USA. Alternatively you could go to one of those more flamboyant European countries like France, Germany or Spain, but then you'd probably have to learn a new language to fit in properly and get a decent job.. :p I quite like it here in Scotland for some reason.. it's not too special, but it's not so bad either!
Yarr, I've seen compasses like those before, with Nazi's and Socialists being at the far right and left etc. Thanks
I doubt all republicans support ID? :P
/.ers probably don't consider that a good thing), but a lot of it is just tradition these days rather than anything meaningful. It's the same in the UK, Christian (and therefor what I'd think of as 'family') values are going down the toilet.. everyone is becoming way more liberal in their thinking and just doing whatever they want, when they want, resulting in paper thin marriages, single parent families, yada yada yada.. very sad. Wow, maybe I do have a political view, but it's kind of only when it comes to 'moral' issues rather than the percentage of funds devoted to health/education/transportation and that kind of thing.
Plus, I'm a Christian and I certainly don't think Bush's warmongering actions are justifiable from a Christian point of view.. I like that there are still some Christian values left in the US (though most
Yep, but I don't tend to see the difference over here either :P It all just seems like a pack of lies and hollow promises[/jaded cynicism]
Thanks :)
The libertarian stuff does sound pretty good (compared to the others). Though it does conflict with the idea of a National Health Service, which althought ours is probably flawed, is still preferable to having 'health insurance' IMO. It probably costs more if you have nothing wrong with you, but when it does come to needing surgery or other treatment, it's great. *sheds a little tear*
Yeah, because they all knew what he was going to do in advance? Gimme a break :0
*jaunts along to rot13.com* ARGH, MEIN AUGEN!!! :s
How the fuck do you expect voting for one of two parties is going to represent the majority of your views? I live in the UK, and I'm fed up of random slashdotters flaming republican this, democrat that, can you please explain what the actual difference is? I've seen more than one person point out that there is none, and I wouldn't find that hard to believe. I think as far as democracy is concerned, people should be able to vote on invidual laws and such (if they consider that law important) rather than vote one party every few years and expect to have things go the way they're wanting them to. Does it really matter whether this guy is Republican or Democrat? I'm sure there are plenty of idiots in both parties..
Apologies for the slightly trollish nature of my post, but it's really pissing me off seeing this inane republican vs democrat stuff, it's like racism or something, except the fairly arbitrary divide being which set of self-important morons you vote for instead of place of birth/skin colour. Admittedly you do have a choice who to vote for, but in the end there are always gonna be problems no matter who you vote for, under the current system at least.
Uhh.. you can just hit Shift and lowercase s.. don't need to press shift 4 to get a capital S. Are you related to Twitter by any chance?
Uh oh, someone sent me Rape Me by Nirvana on Windows Live a few months ago... am I going to go to jail?
The English that I've spoken to or seen on TV, alllll pronounce the k. Not too sure about the geordies actually, I think they jus say n instead of ng :P Guess you're right with the west country folk, it's just that I've never spoken to any of them because they tend to drive tractors rather than work in oil companies[/blatant stereotyping]
You don't have to, you could just have a library that maps the hardware functions to library calls.. you could call it something like VeryDirectX or something.. meh, nevermind.. :P
I thought the submitter had noticed that there are comments under the videos on YouTube
I didn't actually, I was thinking more along the line of internet memes :)
English people tend not to be great at pronouncing rs (and they also pronounce ng as ngk, which is extremely annoyingk to me :P ), but Scots and Irish would pronounce it I'm sure.. I'm a Scot and I say nee-oo-clee-urr (but faster :P )
Hehe that's weird.. my car has seat heaters and I said heat seaters quite a few times when I first got it :P
Now say this really fast!
I'm not the pheasant plucker;
I'm the pheasant plucker's son.
I'm only plucking pheasants
Till the pheasant plucker comes
Nah it was just simple stuff like using firefox, and changing the desktop background. Maybe I installed too many needless packages and didn't have much swap space or something. The desktop menu bar thingy seemed pretty buggy as well, I lost it completely after moving it around the screen sides a coupla times :P I'd never used YDL before, maybe Ubuntu would work a bit better (I used YDL because someone at work had already downloaded it). I did read here recently that FF is a pig on Linux.. hmm..
Thanks for the link! I hadn't noticed that article.. too busy working or something :)
I don't mind - I have a job.
:P But I'd buy a MacBook Pro with my own hard earned (well.. earned) cash anyday.
The fact that I just ordered the computer as my primary work computer, then installed XP on it, helps too
I'm not an elitist, it's just that I've used all 3 OSes, and I'm pretty sure I've never had to edit any configuration files in any version of Mac OS I've ever used (started using a Classic when I was about 8, and I'm now 24 with OS X). Well, apart from the preferences for Quake but I don't think that counts :P I didn't think I'd even heard of plists before, though it is starting to ring a bell. I learned to shutdown properly when I was 8 though as I said (though I remember having to use that funky hard reset button a few times on my pre-OS X Macs), so I've never dealth with pfiles. I have used the terminal, but that was just for C development and playing MUDs :P
Well.. I know what a conf file and a registry is.. all together I've probably edited files like that several thousand times - but I've never even heard of a plist ;) Admittedly I haven't done too much on OSX apart from web browsing, watching movies, listening to music, installing control panel extensions, a little bit of C development, installing the GIMP and a trial of parallels just because I could, plugging into a HDTV.. well none of them would require editing conf files apart from the HDTV probably. Oh and in Windows/Linux I'd probably need to install codecs to watch certain types of movie file..