It could be that I'm extending the lifetime of my laptop's battery by using black backgrounds... I should try a few experiments some time to see if that works.
I hadn't even thought about laptop lifetime. Someone should do an extensive test to see if this really makes a significant difference. Every second counts as they say.
If you want a better story of how badly prioritised religion (esp in this case Christianity) can be, try reading Collapse by Jared Diamond. In it it points out how the Greenland Norse were hampered by their adhearance to Christian and Western European principles rather than adapting to their environment. Unlike the Inuit
Australia was an even worse case of sticking to inappropriate principles. That and it makes for great reading.
I think that is hypocritical as opposed to ironic. But it is a good point, that site decided to use a white background, why? Is there some simple asthetic reason why a site would choose white or lighter colours over dark? Or is it even simpler than that and no one has actually stopped to think about that.
Would this be different to Azuerus and the RSS reader extension using something like eztvefnet.org's RSS feeds? I use it to pick up the Daily Show and Colbert Report each day, I just turn on the client and later the shows are downloaded and ready. The RSS reader has a feature that ensures that only the new episodes are downloaded. And eztv only has one entry for each episode so you don't get hundreds of downloads for each show. I know it isn't a mobile access to your client but it might cover the problems you have.
Bad bad analogy. The Australian Prime Minister isn't subject to U.S policy. Perhaps not but Antigua seems to be even though it is outside of its jurisdiction.
Sorry to post another US policing the world comment but as it is related to online gambling it seems relevant.
I couldn't careless about the tech or survellance issues in this story. I am sitting here thinking "You have to pay to use the beach". Then I remember a Michael Moore's TV Nation where somewhere in the North Eastern US had private (district residents only) beaches, which is even worse. The land of the selfish seems to be a better motto.
I have the opposite problem to the one you want to know about (so not really that helpful, but anyway) My old MSI-KT4 Ultra (I think) mobo has two SATA raid ports which can be used for booting but they state that those ports only support hard disks. I haven't tried to see if optical drives do still work in them (as of course, I do not have an optical SATA drive) and this is a problem as I need a new DVD drive and want to buy SATA if that is the way things are going but I am not quite ready to fully upgrade everything.
Parliament, who is in the parliamant, MPs, MPs represent the people in their constituency Ahhh, how sweet it is to come into the world, so naïve, so innocent.
Really? You're telling me a video game based on a Vin Diesel movie is worth playing? Honestly? That's exactly what I thought but based on many comments above I might actually try it.
I think you have confused greater than with less than. In your example 25 years would be the later term so his family would have been catered for a quarter of a century after his death. More so than if he was alive (and has no other success) because of the tidal wave of interest following his death. The grandparent means that copyright would last for 25 years unless the artist has outlived that period, in which case, the copyright expires when he/she/they die.
Seperately, Japan's population density is really not that high. No, really. The greater metropolitan Tokyo area's population density is *absurdly* high, but the rest of the nation wouldn't look out of place if you grafted it onto England or next to Missouri. I believe that population density is misleading when refering to Japan and moreso Austraila (which other comments have mentioned). In that while the number of people across the whole area of the nation gives population density that figure does not give any clue as to how the populace is divided up into conerbations. In other words how many people are in cities of how big? Japan has a low pop dens but most of the country, between 70 and 80% forested (link) and not all of the remaining 20-30% is habitable (that which is, is) so most people are in densely populated areas. Austraila is even more extreme is this regard, the overall density is low but most people live in 5 large cities or very small hamlets. In both cases there are relatively low numbers of midsize towns. Compare this to Western Europe or the US where the populace is spread out into a more even distribution of large cities, small cities, large towns, small towns, large villages and hamlets.
Some of this info has been gleaned from Jared Diamond's Collapse which I finished last week, so appologies Jared if I have messed them up.
To be honest, I don't know much about the Ukraine without research but I am sure there are some good states in Eastern Europe now (perhaps the Baltic states, the Czech Republic). AFAIK the only downside to places such as Sweden are (apart from the cold, not to my tastes) the high prices of goods (and beer) and anyone who doesn't like being taxed probably wouldn't like it (but the taxes do support a very good welfare state so I am happy with that), but I think Sweden is a pretty attractive place which I would want to go to apart from the cold. As for the economy, well, fingers crossed!
Normal Russian citizens living in Moscow or wherever don't have the same problems. You can't have clicked on all the links otherwise you would have noticed that the link "and in this one" links to the MOSCOW theatre hostage crisis - it is always the capitals that are in most danger.
But I shudder to think of what the USA will be like in a couple of decades if things continue as they are now. Hopefully Americans will finally grow a brain at the voting booth. You're definitely right there, just remember that because things are better in the US than most of the world now, is no reason to get complacent and let those standards go simply because "no where else does this".
Not that I'm thinking of moving there, but how is Russia for immigration anyway? You'd have to learn the language of course, but other than that it seems like a fairly decent place to live. It's not like you'll have your head sawed off or be blown up by suicide bombers, like in other parts of the world. And it doesn't seem like they're terribly restrictive with freedom, from what little I've heard, unlike places like China.
Wouldn't it be ironic if people started moving to Russia in search of freedom? No, it would be stupid. Russia has real problems with organised crime (lots of it in the Kermlin), political and journalistic critics of the government end up dead (even if they are not in Russia). "Russia's population is actually decreasing because of catastrophic health problems" (Jared Diamond's words not mine). A quick look at this Human Rights Watch report is not exactly heartwarming.
As for the "no terrorism" claim, note that the overwhelming group in Chechnya are Sunni Muslims (the Afgan Taliban government was the only nation to recognise their independant state), and so I can't imagine any suicide bombers being sympathetic to attacking Russia. Oh wait, this with 344 civilan deaths due to Chechen and pro-Islamic fundamentalists. And in this one the Russians forces helped the terrorists kill over 100 civilians.
And if you want to know how Putin views freedom, he did consider the interview of George Tenet by Larry King "Torture", so I wouldn't worry about all the real torture going on. See the torture section of this report
Other than that I hear the Steppes are lovely this time of year.
RSN I plan on ordering a Macbook Pro, and when I do I'll also order av and firewall software. Get it with disk utilities, backup, diagnostic, and disaster recovery software, then I think I'll be pretty good to go. Now I need to find one or more good books on Mac admin, hacking, and security. I want to get as proficient with Macs as I can. The same goes with Linux.
You have outlined (almost exactly) my plans, I am also planning on a MacBook Pro (albeit not RSN) and everything pretty much as you have detailed. I guess it is no coincident that we both see complacency in Mac sales.
Thats funny but hopefully your friend was only dealing with some small org. Because really no decent organisation would just use the offical secrets act as authority to disclose secrets, for a start, that act just means that jail awaits those who disclose offical secrets. Signing it doesn't mean you get access to all offical classified information, the principle of "information only on a need to know basis" still overrides. It doesn't imply that the signatory has been vetted for whatever information you are about to reveal. Also the fact that literally millions of people have signed that act (all civil servants and military staff to begin with) has somewhat devalued it.
The biggest danger to Macs right now as I see it is complacency. When the Mac gets hacked (a headline virus or something), it will be a PR disaster for Apple and its vendors as they have spent so much time saying "it is immune" rather than "it is more secure". Not using an anti-virus program is one thing (it is a kind of reassurance that you haven't been done), but no firewall? I would have stopped talking to that worker straight away.
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Its NEW ZEALAND not Australia you moron. Look at a fucking map.
Sorry, I have a headache.
Well his show last Wednesday/Thursday certainly wouldn't as it attacked this very policy by insulting the New Zealand government using their footage.
Glad to help, just follow the instructions on eztv's RSS page
Yes, not even unruly crowds, just groups of people. I didn't know gatherings had to be subdued.
If you want a better story of how badly prioritised religion (esp in this case Christianity) can be, try reading Collapse by Jared Diamond. In it it points out how the Greenland Norse were hampered by their adhearance to Christian and Western European principles rather than adapting to their environment. Unlike the Inuit
Australia was an even worse case of sticking to inappropriate principles.
That and it makes for great reading.
I think that is hypocritical as opposed to ironic.
But it is a good point, that site decided to use a white background, why? Is there some simple asthetic reason why a site would choose white or lighter colours over dark?
Or is it even simpler than that and no one has actually stopped to think about that.
Would this be different to Azuerus and the RSS reader extension using something like eztvefnet.org's RSS feeds?
I use it to pick up the Daily Show and Colbert Report each day, I just turn on the client and later the shows are downloaded and ready. The RSS reader has a feature that ensures that only the new episodes are downloaded. And eztv only has one entry for each episode so you don't get hundreds of downloads for each show.
I know it isn't a mobile access to your client but it might cover the problems you have.
Sorry to post another US policing the world comment but as it is related to online gambling it seems relevant.
I couldn't careless about the tech or survellance issues in this story. I am sitting here thinking "You have to pay to use the beach". Then I remember a
Michael Moore's TV Nation where somewhere in the North Eastern US had private (district residents only) beaches, which is even worse. The land of the selfish seems to be a better motto.
I have the opposite problem to the one you want to know about (so not really that helpful, but anyway)
My old MSI-KT4 Ultra (I think) mobo has two SATA raid ports which can be used for booting but they state that those ports only support hard disks. I haven't tried to see if optical drives do still work in them (as of course, I do not have an optical SATA drive) and this is a problem as I need a new DVD drive and want to buy SATA if that is the way things are going but I am not quite ready to fully upgrade everything.
I think you have confused greater than with less than.
In your example 25 years would be the later term so his family would have been catered for a quarter of a century after his death. More so than if he was alive (and has no other success) because of the tidal wave of interest following his death.
The grandparent means that copyright would last for 25 years unless the artist has outlived that period, in which case, the copyright expires when he/she/they die.
Japan has a low pop dens but most of the country, between 70 and 80% forested (link) and not all of the remaining 20-30% is habitable (that which is, is) so most people are in densely populated areas. Austraila is even more extreme is this regard, the overall density is low but most people live in 5 large cities or very small hamlets. In both cases there are relatively low numbers of midsize towns.
Compare this to Western Europe or the US where the populace is spread out into a more even distribution of large cities, small cities, large towns, small towns, large villages and hamlets.
Some of this info has been gleaned from Jared Diamond's Collapse which I finished last week, so appologies Jared if I have messed them up.
I prefer the iPwn.
To be honest, I don't know much about the Ukraine without research but I am sure there are some good states in Eastern Europe now (perhaps the Baltic states, the Czech Republic). AFAIK the only downside to places such as Sweden are (apart from the cold, not to my tastes) the high prices of goods (and beer) and anyone who doesn't like being taxed probably wouldn't like it (but the taxes do support a very good welfare state so I am happy with that), but I think Sweden is a pretty attractive place which I would want to go to apart from the cold.
As for the economy, well, fingers crossed!
But I shudder to think of what the USA will be like in a couple of decades if things continue as they are now. Hopefully Americans will finally grow a brain at the voting booth.
You're definitely right there, just remember that because things are better in the US than most of the world now, is no reason to get complacent and let those standards go simply because "no where else does this".
I don't blame you and it is another case of the MAFIAA tactics punishing those who DO actually obey the law. WGA being another example.
Wouldn't it be ironic if people started moving to Russia in search of freedom?
No, it would be stupid.
Russia has real problems with organised crime (lots of it in the Kermlin), political and journalistic critics of the government end up dead (even if they are not in Russia). "Russia's population is actually decreasing because of catastrophic health problems" (Jared Diamond's words not mine). A quick look at this Human Rights Watch report is not exactly heartwarming.
As for the "no terrorism" claim, note that the overwhelming group in Chechnya are Sunni Muslims (the Afgan Taliban government was the only nation to recognise their independant state), and so I can't imagine any suicide bombers being sympathetic to attacking Russia. Oh wait, this with 344 civilan deaths due to Chechen and pro-Islamic fundamentalists. And in this one the Russians forces helped the terrorists kill over 100 civilians.
And if you want to know how Putin views freedom, he did consider the interview of George Tenet by Larry King "Torture", so I wouldn't worry about all the real torture going on. See the torture section of this report
Other than that I hear the Steppes are lovely this time of year.
RSN I plan on ordering a Macbook Pro, and when I do I'll also order av and firewall software. Get it with disk utilities, backup, diagnostic, and disaster recovery software, then I think I'll be pretty good to go. Now I need to find one or more good books on Mac admin, hacking, and security. I want to get as proficient with Macs as I can. The same goes with Linux.
You have outlined (almost exactly) my plans, I am also planning on a MacBook Pro (albeit not RSN) and everything pretty much as you have detailed. I guess it is no coincident that we both see complacency in Mac sales.Thats funny but hopefully your friend was only dealing with some small org. Because really no decent organisation would just use the offical secrets act as authority to disclose secrets, for a start, that act just means that jail awaits those who disclose offical secrets. Signing it doesn't mean you get access to all offical classified information, the principle of "information only on a need to know basis" still overrides. It doesn't imply that the signatory has been vetted for whatever information you are about to reveal. Also the fact that literally millions of people have signed that act (all civil servants and military staff to begin with) has somewhat devalued it.
The biggest danger to Macs right now as I see it is complacency. When the Mac gets hacked (a headline virus or something), it will be a PR disaster for Apple and its vendors as they have spent so much time saying "it is immune" rather than "it is more secure". Not using an anti-virus program is one thing (it is a kind of reassurance that you haven't been done), but no firewall? I would have stopped talking to that worker straight away.
And your going to have a better chance in court when you appeal Mr Hamza. It was just appearances that let you down in court.