But will it show gifs properly, this is the question./. looks particularly stoopid with all these little black blobs all over it. Or am I the only one who had trouble with 4.7 on NT?
It's interesting to note that, if anything, Ireland, for so long the strongest bastion of far-right Catholicism in Western Europe, is now sliding the other way. We are currently enjoying a huge backlash against the church and to a smaller extent, the Establishment in general. We have the youngest (and amongst the best educated) population in Europe and nowadays there seems to be a healthy air of don't-give-a-fuck when it comes to most things related to sexuality.
But I wonder, if you consider that demographically Ireland seems to be in its own time-zone (we're only just getting our first genuine boatloads of immigrants fresh from Africa, E.Europe and other exotic non-Christian/caucasian lands now), if we're also going to just follow the States (in our own good time) and come full-circle, from the unrepressed super-liberalism of the Love Generation, many of whom are now the same far-right bible-thumpers, to what my American brethren are dealing with today?
Re the whole porn on the Net issue, average Irish 40+ knows less than nothing about computers and is at an even earlier stage where they can't imagine accomplishing anything on one, so how could surfing for porn (or anything else) be easy?. A great little story was flying around not so long ago about a woman on a phone-in show whose husband and deserted her and gone off to be with someone he met in a chat-room: within minutes the lines were hopping with said 40+'s demanding to know where these 'chat rooms' were and that they be burnt to the ground. Us, an IT portal? Sure, but you may have to introduce involuntary euthanasia first...:] Now if I told my mum the whole www.randomdirtyword.com trick and she told her friends, the shit would then hit the fan.
Those of us who are computer literate really don't give a monkey's one way or the other.
You could also, I'd imagine, use a two-hole Zorb for that purpose; you'd get a lot wetter but because the Zorb floats...
Just a second...picture this: two hole Zorb rolling around in the water, and one hole goes below the surface. Water will pour in the submerged hole and Zorb and owner will sleep with the fishes because the only thing that keeps the Zorb afloat normally is air pressure on the inside, which is now being conveniently relieved by the other hole!
I reckon you need a way of completely sealing (and re-opening:) )it from the inside - no holes at all. You wouldn't even have to get yourself wet then and, punctures notwithstanding, you certainly wouldn't sink.
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But will it show gifs properly, this is the question. /. looks particularly stoopid with all these little black blobs all over it. Or am I the only one who had trouble with 4.7 on NT?
It's interesting to note that, if anything, Ireland, for so long the strongest bastion of far-right Catholicism in Western Europe, is now sliding the other way. We are currently enjoying a huge backlash against the church and to a smaller extent, the Establishment in general. We have the youngest (and amongst the best educated) population in Europe and nowadays there seems to be a healthy air of don't-give-a-fuck when it comes to most things related to sexuality.
But I wonder, if you consider that demographically Ireland seems to be in its own time-zone (we're only just getting our first genuine boatloads of immigrants fresh from Africa, E.Europe and other exotic non-Christian/caucasian lands now), if we're also going to just follow the States (in our own good time) and come full-circle, from the unrepressed super-liberalism of the Love Generation, many of whom are now the same far-right bible-thumpers, to what my American brethren are dealing with today?
Re the whole porn on the Net issue, average Irish 40+ knows less than nothing about computers and is at an even earlier stage where they can't imagine accomplishing anything on one, so how could surfing for porn (or anything else) be easy?. A great little story was flying around not so long ago about a woman on a phone-in show whose husband and deserted her and gone off to be with someone he met in a chat-room: within minutes the lines were hopping with said 40+'s demanding to know where these 'chat rooms' were and that they be burnt to the ground. Us, an IT portal? Sure, but you may have to introduce involuntary euthanasia first...:] Now if I told my mum the whole www.randomdirtyword.com trick and she told her friends, the shit would then hit the fan.
Those of us who are computer literate really don't give a monkey's one way or the other.
You could also, I'd imagine, use a two-hole Zorb for that purpose; you'd get a lot wetter but because the Zorb floats...
:) )it from the inside - no holes at all. You wouldn't even have to get yourself wet then and, punctures notwithstanding, you certainly wouldn't sink.
Just a second...picture this: two hole Zorb rolling around in the water, and one hole goes below the surface. Water will pour in the submerged hole and Zorb and owner will sleep with the fishes because the only thing that keeps the Zorb afloat normally is air pressure on the inside, which is now being conveniently relieved by the other hole!
I reckon you need a way of completely sealing (and re-opening
There was an article "In the beginning their sic was a command line" by Neal Stephenson (sorry, don't have the URL on me!)
:)
No point recommending it if the URL is lacking
It's http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html for the record and it is worth the read.