I think you've just solved the Fermi paradox... All alien life has destroyed itself creating supernovae so that they could break 256 bit encryption. And now we're one step further, you fool!
The cameras they use to track you aren't the same as the ones that catch you speeding, you know that right? Anyone who drives knows where speed cameras are anyway, so people just slow down for a 40 yard stretch then resume normal speed. Utterly useless things.
Also, there has to be an election in the next couple of years (before June 2010 - wow, it feels weird that that's less than two years away). You may remember no one actually voted for our current prime minister to be prime minister, so the last election was for Blair back in may 2005.
Anyway, looking at the success of CCTV with regards to criminal convictions etc, I don't think we need to be panicking just yet.... I'm guessing when it actually gets intrusive, people will become more annoyed.
German != (Nazi) && American != (Homer Simpson, GWB, etc.)
Erm, these aren't even in the same league. The Nazi party died over 60 years ago (in Germany at least). Americans voted in GWB a few years ago, and choose to watch Homer Simpson every night. I'd say looking at who people vote for and what they watch at least gives you some idea about them, although obviously it would be moronic to claim all Americans like them. I don't see many Germans voting for the Nazi party or watching "The Hitlers" (cue Simpsons music) now. It is, to be honest, offensive when you compare them since it implies that Germans given half the chance would welcome Hitler back with open arms.
Georgia never gave any Russians permission to act as "peacekeepers" in South Ossetia. If there were any armed Russian "peacekeepers" in South Ossetia they were operating illegally within another country's borders.
Georgia is _entirely_ within its rights to police any province within its borders. None of the allegations of genocide etc have even remotely been substantiated. Russia invaded Georgian territory, that's all there is to it.
South Ossetia is basically a tiny place, ie nowhere near the size of Kosova. If my town (Colchester, which has about the same population as South Ossetia) had a referendum, we might vote for independence from the UK. We wouldn't get it though.
(60% to 5% (seriously) or lower (!) of next competing bid).
Ok... sorry. That doesn't tell you anything. You specify a range which you qualify at the start with the fact that usually the range is valid and then you say "or lower!" at the end. Imagine a chip which usually has the operating temperatures of 0-50 degrees C.... or lower! What temperature would you guess it was rated to?;P
Anyway, back on topic - One of the reasons Ryanair has had very good fares recently is because it bought very well in the aviation fuel futures market a few years ago. However, the good deals it got are now coming to an end - expect their prices to come more in line with other airlines soon.
No one in the UK uses the long scale system really. For example, traditional UK billions are _never_ used in governmental budgets, and no one points out that the "American" billion is being used. A billion is just 1E9 here, like just about everywhere else.
I guess some older people may be confused (what's new;)), but I'll wager a large proportion of the younger UK population don't even know what a traditional English billion is. I'm 30, and I've never used 1E12 as a billion, or even been taught it could be.
As an alternative experience, I tried to install Ubuntu the other night and got as far as partitioning. Turns out it doesn't see "fakeraid" partitions. I was lucky I knew a little about my partitions etc or I might have tried to continue the install, which I'm sure would have completely wiped my Windows partition. Anyway, I did a little research, got a little drunk, got to this page and gave up. I'll give it another go when I've got a bit of time on my hands.
Desktop installation of operating systems is not properly ready for the masses. My Windows Vista 64 installation didn't go right either, for entirely different reasons.
Personally, what I'd do is sit on top of your house with a sniper rifle and hit two nice headshots from long range. Alternatively, you could jack a cop car, lost your wanted level, then drive-by them with an uzi as they approach. Or you just crouch behind the sofa with your AK-47, and mow them down as they come through the door. All of these techniques you should have nailed by GTA8. Glad to help...
Only parasites and slavers fail to abide by this principle.
And old people too. They don't pay, they get a free bus pass. Oh wait, you're saying they're the parasites, right? And the bus drivers must be the slavers, because they don't pay either? Wait, wait, I'm getting confused... you can't have slavers without slaves - that makes US the slaves! God help us all...
Saddam had basically nothing to do with the war the US started against Iraq. He was just another dictator (hint - Pakistan was just another dictatorship until recently, but we're not going to invade them any time soon, right?). Iraq did not have a nuke program. It didn't have weapons of mass destruction. The reason given for the war was wrong.
Many, many more people have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion than would have died under Saddam's rule. Extremist religious groups are much more powerful now in Iraq than they were under Saddam's rule.
The old Iraqi government has never been meaningfully linked with any acts of terrorism against western nations. They had nothing to do with Al Quaida.
The US/Allied military invasion has killed far more civilians just in Iraq than terrorists have worldwide in the last 10 years.
These are facts... onto subjective opinion.... You are a true moron if you think that all Iranians believe the west "satan". Honestly, I hope you do not believe that Iranians hate the west and want a uniform Islamic world, because that would show absolute ignorance of Iran. The "they" you talk about are essentially a creation - "they" do not exist.
Also, how is North Korea an example of how terrorists operate? I mean, how on earth do you figure out that North Korea is a bastion of terrorism?
Basically, my advice to you is quit being so scared. These places you demonise are not actually inhabited by demons. They're just generally ordinary people.
I don't know which client you're using, but most BT clients allow you to specify file priorities now (I use uTorrent). Seriously, if you can't prioritise individual files within your client, it's time to get a new client.
I did no tweaking at all. I posted my system specs above, so I won't go over them again. I was talking about boot time from MBR, not from power on as well (my system takes over 20 seconds to get to the MBR). I'm also running Vista64... not sure if that makes a difference.
I'm gonna go install Ubuntu on my set aside partition now...
When I said decent, I meant good. It's a new(ish) computer I built myslf. Core 2 duo 3 ghz, 9800GT, 4gb RAM and (probably most importantly for fast boot times) it is booting off of 2*500gb SATA2 drives RAID striped.
However, I also have win2k installed on this system, albeit on another much slower HD, and that takes forever to boot up. It doesn't recognise the RAID disks either, but then I wasn't really expecting it to.
I currently have a good working Vista system, but it was a PITA to get it where it is now. Firstly, Vista 64 _will not_ install or run on an nVidia chipset motherboard with more than 4gb of RAM, which is what I have. There is a hotfix you can download after a successful installation of Vista:P (solution = pull 2gb out for the install, get it up, get and run the hotfix, stick the 2gb back in again. Wonderful for "it just works" users). Secondly, it took ages getting my wireless right. Thirdly, copying to and from network shares just doesn't work right (robocopy, a command line tool seems to circumvent this).
Basically, I'm trying to show I am not a MS shill or apolagist. If people had to install their own operating system, Linux would be a hell of a lot more popular than it is now. However, when you get Vista running right on a good system, it is fast, usable and a decent OS. To be honest now it's closer to 20 seconds boot time because of the crap I've installed presumably (though it's still under 20s)
Amusingly enough I put Vista on a 683Gb partition, and thought "I'll never fill that up". 6 months later and I've filled over 1/2 of it. Yes, that is more than a third of a terabyte that has just magically appeared to fill the space.
Who's loosing credibility? I need some of that action!
No, seriously, I do. All of us grammar Nazis gonna get in a huddle and lap up the loosed credibility. We's gonna hunt down all that there loosed credibility. And there ain't nobody gonna stop us.
Yes, this may be informative... but did you not notice GP actually showed the thing he was asking how to show in his post? Anyway, how did you get < to show? I only managed to get it here because I copy-pasted yours.
One litre is a 10cm (4 inches) cube. If it's water, it weighs one kilogram (2.2 lbs). Say what you want about the metric system, but at least the units generally relate to one another pretty well.
I think we're more screwed in the UK than anywhere else - we've just got a mix of everything at the moment. Yesterday I saw a lorry with a container on it that had a sticker which read : "Warning! 9'6" high. 2.5m wide."
My Vista installation boots from the MBR to using Firefox in about 15 seconds. Seriously, there's something wrong with your install if it takes a _long_ time (though I do admit I have a decent system). It sounds like your problem is with HP, not Vista.
A large solar and wind farm _do not_ have the capability to replace the energy generated from a small coal plant on a still cloudy day, and that is your problem right there. I guess you could invest in some _really_ big batteries. Seriously, anyone who has seriously looked into green energy has found just this one huge drawback (there are others which I will not go into now) insurmountable for large scale operation.
You're focussing on one use of swear words, and ignoring far more common uses. "I fucked up in my exam today", "Shit!" (after stubbing a toe), "He's a fucking nice bloke", and indeed the subject of TFA "What the fuck" _all_ are not intended to demean or insult anyone. I'd personally say that 99% or more of the times I use swear words, I do not intend offence. Anyway, insults without swear words are often far more entertaining. I hope you get locked in a cell with an eight foot tall sexually crazed ogre with a foot long penis and a penchant for you. You see;).
p.s. That last insult was not intended as one at all, it was an example and a possibly vain attempt to be humerous. The demands of clarity and all that....
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I think you've just solved the Fermi paradox... All alien life has destroyed itself creating supernovae so that they could break 256 bit encryption. And now we're one step further, you fool!
The cameras they use to track you aren't the same as the ones that catch you speeding, you know that right? Anyone who drives knows where speed cameras are anyway, so people just slow down for a 40 yard stretch then resume normal speed. Utterly useless things.
Also, there has to be an election in the next couple of years (before June 2010 - wow, it feels weird that that's less than two years away). You may remember no one actually voted for our current prime minister to be prime minister, so the last election was for Blair back in may 2005.
Anyway, looking at the success of CCTV with regards to criminal convictions etc, I don't think we need to be panicking just yet.... I'm guessing when it actually gets intrusive, people will become more annoyed.
German != (Nazi) && American != (Homer Simpson, GWB, etc.)
Erm, these aren't even in the same league. The Nazi party died over 60 years ago (in Germany at least). Americans voted in GWB a few years ago, and choose to watch Homer Simpson every night. I'd say looking at who people vote for and what they watch at least gives you some idea about them, although obviously it would be moronic to claim all Americans like them. I don't see many Germans voting for the Nazi party or watching "The Hitlers" (cue Simpsons music) now. It is, to be honest, offensive when you compare them since it implies that Germans given half the chance would welcome Hitler back with open arms.
Georgia never gave any Russians permission to act as "peacekeepers" in South Ossetia. If there were any armed Russian "peacekeepers" in South Ossetia they were operating illegally within another country's borders.
Georgia is _entirely_ within its rights to police any province within its borders. None of the allegations of genocide etc have even remotely been substantiated. Russia invaded Georgian territory, that's all there is to it.
South Ossetia is basically a tiny place, ie nowhere near the size of Kosova. If my town (Colchester, which has about the same population as South Ossetia) had a referendum, we might vote for independence from the UK. We wouldn't get it though.
(60% to 5% (seriously) or lower (!) of next competing bid).
Ok... sorry. That doesn't tell you anything. You specify a range which you qualify at the start with the fact that usually the range is valid and then you say "or lower!" at the end. Imagine a chip which usually has the operating temperatures of 0-50 degrees C.... or lower! What temperature would you guess it was rated to? ;P
Anyway, back on topic - One of the reasons Ryanair has had very good fares recently is because it bought very well in the aviation fuel futures market a few years ago. However, the good deals it got are now coming to an end - expect their prices to come more in line with other airlines soon.
legs open when the should be closed? minus 0.03
Wait, wait, wait... now they're bringing morality into gymnastics?
No one in the UK uses the long scale system really. For example, traditional UK billions are _never_ used in governmental budgets, and no one points out that the "American" billion is being used. A billion is just 1E9 here, like just about everywhere else.
I guess some older people may be confused (what's new ;)), but I'll wager a large proportion of the younger UK population don't even know what a traditional English billion is. I'm 30, and I've never used 1E12 as a billion, or even been taught it could be.
FRY : Help me! For God's sake, help me!
FARNSWORTH : Oh, don't worry, Fry. I too once spent a nightmare-ish time in a robot asylum. But now it's nearly over. So long.
As an alternative experience, I tried to install Ubuntu the other night and got as far as partitioning. Turns out it doesn't see "fakeraid" partitions. I was lucky I knew a little about my partitions etc or I might have tried to continue the install, which I'm sure would have completely wiped my Windows partition. Anyway, I did a little research, got a little drunk, got to this page and gave up. I'll give it another go when I've got a bit of time on my hands.
Desktop installation of operating systems is not properly ready for the masses. My Windows Vista 64 installation didn't go right either, for entirely different reasons.
I agree completely, I mean who in their right mind would object to anyone snorting coke on their desk?
Personally, what I'd do is sit on top of your house with a sniper rifle and hit two nice headshots from long range. Alternatively, you could jack a cop car, lost your wanted level, then drive-by them with an uzi as they approach. Or you just crouch behind the sofa with your AK-47, and mow them down as they come through the door. All of these techniques you should have nailed by GTA8. Glad to help...
Only parasites and slavers fail to abide by this principle.
And old people too. They don't pay, they get a free bus pass. Oh wait, you're saying they're the parasites, right? And the bus drivers must be the slavers, because they don't pay either? Wait, wait, I'm getting confused... you can't have slavers without slaves - that makes US the slaves! God help us all...
Saddam had basically nothing to do with the war the US started against Iraq. He was just another dictator (hint - Pakistan was just another dictatorship until recently, but we're not going to invade them any time soon, right?). Iraq did not have a nuke program. It didn't have weapons of mass destruction. The reason given for the war was wrong.
Many, many more people have died in Iraq as a result of the invasion than would have died under Saddam's rule. Extremist religious groups are much more powerful now in Iraq than they were under Saddam's rule.
The old Iraqi government has never been meaningfully linked with any acts of terrorism against western nations. They had nothing to do with Al Quaida.
The US/Allied military invasion has killed far more civilians just in Iraq than terrorists have worldwide in the last 10 years.
These are facts... onto subjective opinion.... You are a true moron if you think that all Iranians believe the west "satan". Honestly, I hope you do not believe that Iranians hate the west and want a uniform Islamic world, because that would show absolute ignorance of Iran. The "they" you talk about are essentially a creation - "they" do not exist.
Also, how is North Korea an example of how terrorists operate? I mean, how on earth do you figure out that North Korea is a bastion of terrorism?
Basically, my advice to you is quit being so scared. These places you demonise are not actually inhabited by demons. They're just generally ordinary people.
OT here I come.
I don't know which client you're using, but most BT clients allow you to specify file priorities now (I use uTorrent). Seriously, if you can't prioritise individual files within your client, it's time to get a new client.
I did no tweaking at all. I posted my system specs above, so I won't go over them again. I was talking about boot time from MBR, not from power on as well (my system takes over 20 seconds to get to the MBR). I'm also running Vista64... not sure if that makes a difference.
I'm gonna go install Ubuntu on my set aside partition now...
When I said decent, I meant good. It's a new(ish) computer I built myslf. Core 2 duo 3 ghz, 9800GT, 4gb RAM and (probably most importantly for fast boot times) it is booting off of 2*500gb SATA2 drives RAID striped.
However, I also have win2k installed on this system, albeit on another much slower HD, and that takes forever to boot up. It doesn't recognise the RAID disks either, but then I wasn't really expecting it to.
I currently have a good working Vista system, but it was a PITA to get it where it is now. Firstly, Vista 64 _will not_ install or run on an nVidia chipset motherboard with more than 4gb of RAM, which is what I have. There is a hotfix you can download after a successful installation of Vista :P (solution = pull 2gb out for the install, get it up, get and run the hotfix, stick the 2gb back in again. Wonderful for "it just works" users). Secondly, it took ages getting my wireless right. Thirdly, copying to and from network shares just doesn't work right (robocopy, a command line tool seems to circumvent this).
Basically, I'm trying to show I am not a MS shill or apolagist. If people had to install their own operating system, Linux would be a hell of a lot more popular than it is now. However, when you get Vista running right on a good system, it is fast, usable and a decent OS. To be honest now it's closer to 20 seconds boot time because of the crap I've installed presumably (though it's still under 20s)
Amusingly enough I put Vista on a 683Gb partition, and thought "I'll never fill that up". 6 months later and I've filled over 1/2 of it. Yes, that is more than a third of a terabyte that has just magically appeared to fill the space.
No it's not. A pound is 454 grams, a pint is 568ml. And it's vaguely embarrassing and annoying that I know this without having to look it up.
Who's loosing credibility? I need some of that action!
No, seriously, I do. All of us grammar Nazis gonna get in a huddle and lap up the loosed credibility. We's gonna hunt down all that there loosed credibility. And there ain't nobody gonna stop us.
Yes, this may be informative... but did you not notice GP actually showed the thing he was asking how to show in his post? Anyway, how did you get < to show? I only managed to get it here because I copy-pasted yours.
ps. ;)
One litre is a 10cm (4 inches) cube. If it's water, it weighs one kilogram (2.2 lbs). Say what you want about the metric system, but at least the units generally relate to one another pretty well.
I think we're more screwed in the UK than anywhere else - we've just got a mix of everything at the moment. Yesterday I saw a lorry with a container on it that had a sticker which read : "Warning! 9'6" high. 2.5m wide."
Funny, I said almost exactly the same thing about XP when it came out.
My Vista installation boots from the MBR to using Firefox in about 15 seconds. Seriously, there's something wrong with your install if it takes a _long_ time (though I do admit I have a decent system). It sounds like your problem is with HP, not Vista.
62 million megabytes, 62 thousand gigabytes, 62 terabytes (approximately - it's not base 10). Your counting is off...
A large solar and wind farm _do not_ have the capability to replace the energy generated from a small coal plant on a still cloudy day, and that is your problem right there. I guess you could invest in some _really_ big batteries. Seriously, anyone who has seriously looked into green energy has found just this one huge drawback (there are others which I will not go into now) insurmountable for large scale operation.
You're focussing on one use of swear words, and ignoring far more common uses. "I fucked up in my exam today", "Shit!" (after stubbing a toe), "He's a fucking nice bloke", and indeed the subject of TFA "What the fuck" _all_ are not intended to demean or insult anyone. I'd personally say that 99% or more of the times I use swear words, I do not intend offence. Anyway, insults without swear words are often far more entertaining. I hope you get locked in a cell with an eight foot tall sexually crazed ogre with a foot long penis and a penchant for you. You see ;).
p.s. That last insult was not intended as one at all, it was an example and a possibly vain attempt to be humerous. The demands of clarity and all that....