Each side needs to defend their cred, but one better turn out to be right, because these hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons are killing more and more people by the year.
Why does one or the other side have to be right. There are many positions that can be taken on the issue, and there is and always will be more to learn about it and how we can affect it, if we can at all.
This isn't a 'bipolar' issue with two sides. It's a complex issue that needs to be treated as such. There is more to it than consumers sending contributions to one political body or another. There is more to it than people making 'basic changes' to how we act.
However, there are opportunists all over the place, using the issue for various reasons.
Also, St. Patrick is venerated for 'driving the snakes out of Ireland.' Whereas, the snakes are symbolic for the druids. So he was a religious extremeist who worked to wipe out the indigenous pagan religion.
Everybody should be clear about this before deciding to celebrate his day or not.
My point, although you only seem to be able to think 'war crimes, war crimes, all the time war crimes' is that the US forces bent over backwards during the 'heavy' phases of the campaign to avoid destroying civillian areas, which include Mosques. Even though the terrorists made a practice at times of specifically hiding in mosques.
You have a serious need to stop arguing against your personal caricatures instead of the real people in the discussion. Otherwise you run the risk of remaining forever mired in your fantasy world of black/white.
People like you have the same stunted view of 'NeoCon' as the birchers did/do of 'Commies.' Look in a mirror, dude.
(there are even bombastic Democratic senators these days that seem a lot like Joe McCarthy in their approach)
I really liked Opera, back when one of the points they touted it with was that the installation binary for Windows would fit on a single floppy diskette.
It's still okay, but it's just another of the bloated pigs now.
didn't know it had tabs until I showed him a few days ago.
One of the weakest, most brain-dead things about Mozilla (or Firefox) is that the 'open a new tab' button disappears so easily disappear and requires extra work to get back. In my opinion, it should instead be an extra effort to disable the 'open a new tab' button. Clicking the 'x' on the right side of the tab bar when there is only one tab open should definitely NOT do away with the button.
Now, if I could find the IE source tarball, I would give it a try on this NetBSD system. Unfortunately (well, in a rhetorical sense) I haven't located said source tarball. There is probably some hideous method that could be used with Wine that would work to run the binary. Naw...
You miss a little, tiny bit of fact. You're on Slashdot. If you haven't ever done any kind of web development, WTF are you doing here?
Now, I admit I have composed plenty of web content, but what the hell??
I didn't know this nerd place had been taken over by IT types.
Here's a clue: 'IT geeks' are marginally nerd-like, in some instances. There are people here who actually know quite a bit about a lot of diverse topics. Being some IT dude is NOT the default at slashdot.org. Some of us (to paraphrase Steve Ciarcia) even write our best code in solder. (my favorite 'language' is still TTL)
'But they do it' was not my 'defense.' I maintain the 'Geneva Convetion' is irrelevant in this situation. And the US has taken the moral high ground. If they hadn't, there would not be a mosque standing in Iraq. The civilian casualty figures for the US Invasion (yes, it was an invasion, for better or for worse) is very low, in a historical context.
If you can't build a landmine out of grocery store materials you must have had sheltered teen years.
Fine. You can be another 'Unabomber' (*) and hand craft a rudimentary 'land mine' from stuff you get at the grocer's. That is a far cry from crates of sophisticated modern land mines being available at CostCo.
(* You can also, of course, go to prison for a long time.)
I have a pump in the field out back that right now is moving 220 gallons a minute (water problems on the land this time of the year). All I have to move is about 4 gallons a day to far, far exceed your workload. I call it 'working smarter.' heh
I just threw my 'massive' stainless steel case and band Gruen wristwatch onto a scale and it weights 5.3 ounces. And it's heavy and takes awhile to get used to wearing but is a wonderful basic 'analog' watch (and came with a 14 year warranty- what else can you buy at WalMart that comes with a 14 year warranty??)
I suspect, since this 7 ounce monster isn't as dense as a beefy stainless steel case and wristband analog watch, that it's not only heavy, it's probably also significantly bigger in dimensions.
Your cellphone's cpu has more raw processing power, but has pitiful I/O compared to the 'big iron in the 70's' system, which performed useful tasks for thousands. So consider it like comparing a bonfire (your cellphone) to a Ferarri engine (the 'big iron'.) The bonfire might be consuming and discharging far more energy, but almost none of that power is well-coupled to a mechanism. It's wasted cycles, for the most part.
I agree that $30 is a good reasonable charge for a powerful and useful app on the closed platforms. I have a collection of tools (Textpad, Getright, an eBay sniping tool, etc.) that I registered years ago and make good use of on Windows. However, $30 is still infinitely more than free, and the binary only nature of the shareware binds you to a platform.
But I agree in putting in a good word or two for shareware. It's one of the ways for us to get good software tools without having to involve middle managers, beancounters, and the corporations that have assimilated them. There is no 'one perfect license' and the people who make such a claim are frightening.
No it's not. You have to reach into Photoshop with 'javascript' in order to get any use of it at all. With imagemagick the whole toolset is a collection of standalone executables, which you can write scripts for in any imaginable scripting language.
It's a significant difference.
Further, I can download and build imagemagick from source on any of the various machines I have in my posession that I run NetBSD on. The Adobe product is binary only for two fairly limiting platforms.
If you open it unlayered and add no layers, it should quietly save it unlayered. As the granparent said, there are rough edges that are frustratingly obvious. It's like there is a firewall between usability testers and the UI designers.
Probably, there is a very arrogant and entrenched bureaucracy. Most 'mature' companies develop such a thing.
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Each side needs to defend their cred, but one better turn out to be right, because these hurricanes/cyclones/typhoons are killing more and more people by the year.
Why does one or the other side have to be right. There are many positions that can be taken on the issue, and there is and always will be more to learn about it and how we can affect it, if we can at all.
This isn't a 'bipolar' issue with two sides. It's a complex issue that needs to be treated as such. There is more to it than consumers sending contributions to one political body or another. There is more to it than people making 'basic changes' to how we act.
However, there are opportunists all over the place, using the issue for various reasons.
It's amazing how fully you understand the conservative point of view without even asking any of them.
I would say "I don't think you get it" but you already used up that line.
No, I don't fully embrace one 'side' or the other. I think, however, that polarizing dogmatists like you make the discussion worse.
Namecalling? I parsed throught the GP comment and couldn't find an instance.
But now we're _both_ trafficing in distracting side issues...
So does Pepsi. So what's your point?
Also, St. Patrick is venerated for 'driving the snakes out of Ireland.' Whereas, the snakes are symbolic for the druids. So he was a religious extremeist who worked to wipe out the indigenous pagan religion.
Everybody should be clear about this before deciding to celebrate his day or not.
-Mass produced beers don't attract a gaggle of shallow buffoons that judge people by what they drink.
It's better than that. 'Mass produced' beers repel that type of cretin.
My point, although you only seem to be able to think 'war crimes, war crimes, all the time war crimes' is that the US forces bent over backwards during the 'heavy' phases of the campaign to avoid destroying civillian areas, which include Mosques. Even though the terrorists made a practice at times of specifically hiding in mosques.
You have a serious need to stop arguing against your personal caricatures instead of the real people in the discussion. Otherwise you run the risk of remaining forever mired in your fantasy world of black/white.
People like you have the same stunted view of 'NeoCon' as the birchers did/do of 'Commies.' Look in a mirror, dude.
(there are even bombastic Democratic senators these days that seem a lot like Joe McCarthy in their approach)
I really liked Opera, back when one of the points they touted it with was that the installation binary for Windows would fit on a single floppy diskette.
It's still okay, but it's just another of the bloated pigs now.
didn't know it had tabs until I showed him a few days ago.
One of the weakest, most brain-dead things about Mozilla (or Firefox) is that the 'open a new tab' button disappears so easily disappear and requires extra work to get back. In my opinion, it should instead be an extra effort to disable the 'open a new tab' button. Clicking the 'x' on the right side of the tab bar when there is only one tab open should definitely NOT do away with the button.
I really don't have a reason to use FireFox.
Now, if I could find the IE source tarball, I would give it a try on this NetBSD system. Unfortunately (well, in a rhetorical sense) I haven't located said source tarball. There is probably some hideous method that could be used with Wine that would work to run the binary. Naw...
You miss a little, tiny bit of fact. You're on Slashdot. If you haven't ever done any kind of web development, WTF are you doing here?
Now, I admit I have composed plenty of web content, but what the hell??
I didn't know this nerd place had been taken over by IT types.
Here's a clue: 'IT geeks' are marginally nerd-like, in some instances. There are people here who actually know quite a bit about a lot of diverse topics. Being some IT dude is NOT the default at slashdot.org. Some of us (to paraphrase Steve Ciarcia) even write our best code in solder. (my favorite 'language' is still TTL)
'But they do it' was not my 'defense.' I maintain the 'Geneva Convetion' is irrelevant in this situation. And the US has taken the moral high ground. If they hadn't, there would not be a mosque standing in Iraq. The civilian casualty figures for the US Invasion (yes, it was an invasion, for better or for worse) is very low, in a historical context.
I'm just applying common sense to the situation.
If you can't build a landmine out of grocery store materials you must have had sheltered teen years.
Fine. You can be another 'Unabomber' (*) and hand craft a rudimentary 'land mine' from stuff you get at the grocer's. That is a far cry from crates of sophisticated modern land mines being available at CostCo.
(* You can also, of course, go to prison for a long time.)
The Geneva Convention is also framed as a reciporical arrangment that two warring parties generally agree to.
So has 'the other side' in Iraq stopped kidnapping torturing and killing civillians yet, let alone soldiers?
Think of it as a modern wrist-worn contraceptive that has few, if any, medical side effects.
(I meant, four gallons of gasoline)
I have a pump in the field out back that right now is moving 220 gallons a minute (water problems on the land this time of the year). All I have to move is about 4 gallons a day to far, far exceed your workload. I call it 'working smarter.' heh
I just threw my 'massive' stainless steel case and band Gruen wristwatch onto a scale and it weights 5.3 ounces. And it's heavy and takes awhile to get used to wearing but is a wonderful basic 'analog' watch (and came with a 14 year warranty- what else can you buy at WalMart that comes with a 14 year warranty??)
I suspect, since this 7 ounce monster isn't as dense as a beefy stainless steel case and wristband analog watch, that it's not only heavy, it's probably also significantly bigger in dimensions.
Doesn't sound practical enough to me.
And I am using his metaphor.
Just be careful not to become what you oppose. Your initial comment sounded like a death threat, kinda.
Your cellphone's cpu has more raw processing power, but has pitiful I/O compared to the 'big iron in the 70's' system, which performed useful tasks for thousands. So consider it like comparing a bonfire (your cellphone) to a Ferarri engine (the 'big iron'.) The bonfire might be consuming and discharging far more energy, but almost none of that power is well-coupled to a mechanism. It's wasted cycles, for the most part.
You do know whose company you are keeping with a 'rub out those who I disagree with' attitude, right?
Just thought someone should call you on it.
I agree that $30 is a good reasonable charge for a powerful and useful app on the closed platforms. I have a collection of tools (Textpad, Getright, an eBay sniping tool, etc.) that I registered years ago and make good use of on Windows. However, $30 is still infinitely more than free, and the binary only nature of the shareware binds you to a platform.
But I agree in putting in a good word or two for shareware. It's one of the ways for us to get good software tools without having to involve middle managers, beancounters, and the corporations that have assimilated them. There is no 'one perfect license' and the people who make such a claim are frightening.
No it's not. You have to reach into Photoshop with 'javascript' in order to get any use of it at all. With imagemagick the whole toolset is a collection of standalone executables, which you can write scripts for in any imaginable scripting language.
It's a significant difference.
Further, I can download and build imagemagick from source on any of the various machines I have in my posession that I run NetBSD on. The Adobe product is binary only for two fairly limiting platforms.
If you open it unlayered and add no layers, it should quietly save it unlayered. As the granparent said, there are rough edges that are frustratingly obvious. It's like there is a firewall between usability testers and the UI designers.
Probably, there is a very arrogant and entrenched bureaucracy. Most 'mature' companies develop such a thing.
They released a 'beta' version of FrameMaker for Linux, then cancelled the product before a formal release. That's sort of an official position.