I fly to and from Britain about 10 times a year and I actually lived in Scotland for 5 years. I get stopped quite often by those guys, probably on the ground that I'm quite fair skinned but have a bushy black beard and hair and look quite intellectualish-nerdish. Then I hand over my Italian passport and they start asking if I've been to Syria, Lebanon or Palestine or the Middle East.
I answer with my best possible Glasgwegian accent that no, i've never been there and that I'm a software developer living on the continent catching up with my dearest mates and girlfriend back in Maryhill and that mainland europe is terrible and i'm moving back the soonest, honest.
Then they laugh and let me go.
On the other side, when I go through border control wearing a palestinian kefiah they never stop me.
They're a leftover of the civil war in Ulster, apparently trained in remembering all the mugshots of IRA-affiliated people. Now they're a bit useless I guess.
How is teleporting people in front of NPC bots designed to enforce a safe zone instead of beating someone up yourself "playing correctly?"
It is since the zone is not flagged as "non-teleport", like we used to do with '80s technology in MUDs. The guy is playing by the rules and he's on infringing the EULA/whatever they have (else he would have been banned).
Well, I'm an Italian expat living in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland and, before coming here, I lived 4 years in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and before in Milan, Italy (don't move there).
I have the following commentary:
1: swiss people are really hard to make friends with (from my experience).
2: the average population is quite xenophobic. As in anti-non-swiss.
3: the average population is quite bigoted as well, except they drink a lot.
4: everything is really expensive (in relative terms). Food and rent first. My telco expenses are three times as much as in Britain but for inferior service.
5: also, you have to pay medical insurance (it's the law, you can't do without it).
And, other bits:
6: the F-19 doesn't really exist as such in NATO nomenclature. Your friend is possibly a liar, or F-19 is a name for a local plane.
7: Italy doesn't have any oceanic shores as the Mediterranean Sea, despite being nice and warm, is not an ocean. The nearest oceanic shores are in France or Germany.
Sure, demagogues are not inherent or exclusive to democracies. But a property of democracies is to elect officials based on public vote, and demagoues are good at exploiting scaremongering for electoral gain, and they will be elected because a portion of the polupation do fall for those trick, or simply agree.
Quote often in Europe the conservative propaganda is pretty much like "we'll lower taxes, and it's either us or the evil commies!!! beware!!!!".
I rest my case:)
Dictatorships are run by dictators.
Monarchies are run by monarchs.
Democracies are run by demagogues.
What did you expect? for the people to vote for the best candidate? no way.
They'll vote what appears to be better for them.
It's not like you can vote based on what you don't know...:)
That happens in unix when your used is deleted while you're logged on. Last time seen it when an idiot ex-cow-orker removed root on his NAS because "my distribution doesn't need it", despite me telling him that it was actually used to do important things for the OS.
Yep, that would be the norm.
But some European bypasses have ramps on the wrong side, such as Glasgow Cathedral Eastbound (UK, on the right) and Milan Linate Airport Southbound (Italy, on the left). This saves demolition of entire neighbourhoods and things like that.
The function has defined pre- and post- conditions, so it's not ambiguous.
You might have issues with the function name, but then it boils down to abstraction capability (or lack thereof).
By thwe way, chomp is used in the first code example in the book, and it doesn't ever leave you. Sorry, you can't claim to know Perl if you don't know what chomp does.
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That looks really simple? Sorry but it doesn't look to me.
You fail the reading test. It says "[it] does something that looks very simple [but it's not]".
Fact that there is to much f*cked up perl code, shows that it is an inferior language.
By this metric, just need to release crappy python code in the intertubes to make it inferior.
To who modded me as troll: I forgot to disclose that I worked for Thinkpad tech support and, sadly, it's not "trolling", it's just "stating the truth". Lenovo engineered laptops are, from my point of view of ex-technician, less sturdy, even if I can't really speak of failure rates (as I suppose they were fudged to appease Evil corporate Overlords).
No AC, IBM laptops were built by Lenovo for years (after they moved Laptop manufacturing from Greenock, UK) before they sold the home computing division.
This looks like it could collapse under its own weight if you pull it up from a side. It's a real shame that since Lenovo took over the thnkipad build qulity went down so much. Sure, IBM machines aren't perfect, but since the T-43 they just got as flimsy and non-durable as the competitors.
In democratic countries at least, the government serves at the pleasure of the people, not the corporations.
No, sorry, that's a tad wrong. Hookers serve at the pleasure of the people.
In a typical democracy elected officiers do (kinda) whatever they want, as they're not forced to do things for the "(pleasure|good|future|survival) of the (people|nation|children)".
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The EU is sooo going to stomp on Apple's ass.
I hope that Lucas keeps the heck away from the new movies.
Actually, 50% of the people have below-average intelligence (assuming a Gaussian distribution)
Actually, 50% of the population have below median intelligence. We can't really assume a gaussian distribution here.
I fly to and from Britain about 10 times a year and I actually lived in Scotland for 5 years. I get stopped quite often by those guys, probably on the ground that I'm quite fair skinned but have a bushy black beard and hair and look quite intellectualish-nerdish. Then I hand over my Italian passport and they start asking if I've been to Syria, Lebanon or Palestine or the Middle East. I answer with my best possible Glasgwegian accent that no, i've never been there and that I'm a software developer living on the continent catching up with my dearest mates and girlfriend back in Maryhill and that mainland europe is terrible and i'm moving back the soonest, honest. Then they laugh and let me go. On the other side, when I go through border control wearing a palestinian kefiah they never stop me. They're a leftover of the civil war in Ulster, apparently trained in remembering all the mugshots of IRA-affiliated people. Now they're a bit useless I guess.
In Glasgow we had 300 in a week... :)
Or simply use a net.
How is teleporting people in front of NPC bots designed to enforce a safe zone instead of beating someone up yourself "playing correctly?"
It is since the zone is not flagged as "non-teleport", like we used to do with '80s technology in MUDs. The guy is playing by the rules and he's on infringing the EULA/whatever they have (else he would have been banned).
Well, I'm an Italian expat living in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland and, before coming here, I lived 4 years in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and before in Milan, Italy (don't move there). I have the following commentary: 1: swiss people are really hard to make friends with (from my experience). 2: the average population is quite xenophobic. As in anti-non-swiss. 3: the average population is quite bigoted as well, except they drink a lot. 4: everything is really expensive (in relative terms). Food and rent first. My telco expenses are three times as much as in Britain but for inferior service. 5: also, you have to pay medical insurance (it's the law, you can't do without it). And, other bits: 6: the F-19 doesn't really exist as such in NATO nomenclature. Your friend is possibly a liar, or F-19 is a name for a local plane. 7: Italy doesn't have any oceanic shores as the Mediterranean Sea, despite being nice and warm, is not an ocean. The nearest oceanic shores are in France or Germany.
The trains dock (basically at full speed), and lock together.
That's not a dock, that's a trainwreck.
Sure, demagogues are not inherent or exclusive to democracies. But a property of democracies is to elect officials based on public vote, and demagoues are good at exploiting scaremongering for electoral gain, and they will be elected because a portion of the polupation do fall for those trick, or simply agree. :)
Quote often in Europe the conservative propaganda is pretty much like "we'll lower taxes, and it's either us or the evil commies!!! beware!!!!".
I rest my case
Dictatorships are run by dictators. Monarchies are run by monarchs. Democracies are run by demagogues. What did you expect? for the people to vote for the best candidate? no way. They'll vote what appears to be better for them. It's not like you can vote based on what you don't know... :)
That happens in unix when your used is deleted while you're logged on. Last time seen it when an idiot ex-cow-orker removed root on his NAS because "my distribution doesn't need it", despite me telling him that it was actually used to do important things for the OS.
Yep, that would be the norm. But some European bypasses have ramps on the wrong side, such as Glasgow Cathedral Eastbound (UK, on the right) and Milan Linate Airport Southbound (Italy, on the left). This saves demolition of entire neighbourhoods and things like that.
You simply knee in front of a womand and start praying in a stentorian voice. This won't get you laid tho; do you know why? Prayers don't work
Except the look and feel, the PIP, the monsters, the environment, the gore, the soundtrack, the senseless violence.
The function has defined pre- and post- conditions, so it's not ambiguous. You might have issues with the function name, but then it boils down to abstraction capability (or lack thereof). By thwe way, chomp is used in the first code example in the book, and it doesn't ever leave you. Sorry, you can't claim to know Perl if you don't know what chomp does.
That looks really simple? Sorry but it doesn't look to me.
You fail the reading test. It says "[it] does something that looks very simple [but it's not]".
Fact that there is to much f*cked up perl code, shows that it is an inferior language.
By this metric, just need to release crappy python code in the intertubes to make it inferior.
chomp is not ambiguous. RTFM and stop crying.
expensive solar pannels which have to be replaced regularly and block all the light from the ground below them making it useless for much else
Well, Arecibo radiotelescope opponents said the same and, lo and behold, under the reflector panels there's a bloody jungle.
To who modded me as troll: I forgot to disclose that I worked for Thinkpad tech support and, sadly, it's not "trolling", it's just "stating the truth". Lenovo engineered laptops are, from my point of view of ex-technician, less sturdy, even if I can't really speak of failure rates (as I suppose they were fudged to appease Evil corporate Overlords).
No AC, IBM laptops were built by Lenovo for years (after they moved Laptop manufacturing from Greenock, UK) before they sold the home computing division.
This looks like it could collapse under its own weight if you pull it up from a side. It's a real shame that since Lenovo took over the thnkipad build qulity went down so much. Sure, IBM machines aren't perfect, but since the T-43 they just got as flimsy and non-durable as the competitors.
is is not USSR anymore
There are non-socialist totalitarian states in the world, you know...
We should address the real issue here and provide sex to all students!
Corrected for you.
In democratic countries at least, the government serves at the pleasure of the people, not the corporations.
No, sorry, that's a tad wrong. Hookers serve at the pleasure of the people. In a typical democracy elected officiers do (kinda) whatever they want, as they're not forced to do things for the "(pleasure|good|future|survival) of the (people|nation|children)".