Telefonica (the Spanish group who also owns Terra, some banks and more) is probably yhe largest Brazilian phone company nowadays. They also own the most popular broadband service, Speedy. Until last year their service contract stated you couldn't use VoIP because "it consumed too much band".
If the judges started aplying this rule, in the first week half of the American lawyers would find themselves disbarred. In two weeks 90% of the remaining lawyers would discover that, excluded frivolous lawsuits, they don't have work anymore. Soon the number of practincing lawyers would fall back to manageable levels, say one for every rat in the sewers...
Since when does joking about something make one a supporter, or even tolerant, of it in real life?
Or do you think it is ok to make racist jokes about jews or black people or bigot jokes about gays and lesbians because, after all, you are "just joking"?
That's my definition of just -- everyone is treated equally
Does your definition of just include any historical perspective? If it does, then it is very similar to my definition of just.
Those countries who now command most of the World's economy and profits are the ones who contributed most for the present climate situation. During the 19th century, at the height of the second Industrial Revolution, Europe was the World's top polluter while India, China and Brazil were little more than big farms. After the Civil War the US quickly joined the pack, to surpass Europe after WWI. Meanwhile, China, India and Brazil were still little more than big farms.
The industrialization in those three countries will only start for real during and after WWII.
So there: to treat everybody equally, those who polluted more in the past should be responsible for larger reductions.
Regardless of proof, the top poster point is that the odds of winning a lottery by buying 120 tickets is so much larger than the odds of finding an Earthlike planet by examining 120 near planets from afar that it is not even worth discussing.
As Douglas Adams once said about the Universe: "Area: Infinite. The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here."
Findind specific things in such a big place can be hard...
"Having a low id just means you were unemployed and bored before the dotcom crash"
Not quite - a 4 digit id in/. probably means the holder had quite a good knowledge of the Web before the dotcom BOOM (that was before search engines worth the name even existed). Employment situation will vary - I was quite well employed, thank you, and sat for more hours than I cared for behind a couple of T1s. But I think most low-iders had access from college at that time. And it is you who is giving it a "733t" meaning, I was just using it to frame time...
Although your user id is an order of magnitude greater than mine, it is still quite old - I would have an enormous difficult to choose the "worst" story Slashdot ever posted, but there were quite a few worst than this one. This is just a harmless joke, Slashdot has on occasion posted "news" later proved wrong or false that caused real harm to real people for a time (the many false GPL breaches accusations come to mind).
Zappa, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, Nancy Sinatra and Joan Baez are certainly 60's references. Donna Summer is 70's.
J. Edgar Hoover, on the other hand, qualifys as a 20th century reference: he was there in the same spot from the end of First World War to the end of Hippie movement.
What really happened, IMHO, is that at this particular moment Brazilians were ready to jump into it - they liked the invitation and networking mechanism more than other people and answered by inviting everybody they knew, creating something the world hasn't yet saw, an international Internet application where the Americans are not the majority.
I don't know how many languages you can curse in, but from my experience Americans, French, Polish and Mexican (and mostly every other nationalyty) online players are just as annoying. I am yet to see a group of tennagers that can not be described as "Rude, arrogant, xenophobic, obnoxious", Americans most of all. I left the "racist" out because I believe it is out of place, specially for Brazilians (unless you believe "American" is a separate race - "gringo" means mostly "American" but can also be used for "foreigner").
So I am not the only person who had bad experiences with Plone? Good to know it was not my own dumbness alone that led me to the conclusion Zope would be a good idea if the Zope people stopped having revolutionary ideas and sat down to document and clean up what they already have...:)
A basketball game akin to random chess pieces stating places would be to randomly choose the place for each the basket just before the game starts. It would prevent the same things Fischer wants to prevent, the use of long established defence and attack formations. Imagine a basketball game with the two baskets side by side at the middle of the court.
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Telefonica (the Spanish group who also owns Terra, some banks and more) is probably yhe largest Brazilian phone company nowadays. They also own the most popular broadband service, Speedy. Until last year their service contract stated you couldn't use VoIP because "it consumed too much band".
my girlfriend gets "Roxanne" from the Police...Which she doesn't appreciate for some reason
Yeah, that can get you in trouble. My wife was mildly unamused when I set her calls to "Mission: Impossible"...
If I type "movie:Lord of the Rings type=torrent" will it bring up links to the torrents along with the reviews?
Do you know the difference between a sewer rat and a lawyer?
One is a dark creature that crawls in filthy dejects and spreads panic and pain wherever it shows. The other is a small rodent.
In rural areas you usually find field rats. I was thinking about the urban sewer rats.
If the judges started aplying this rule, in the first week half of the American lawyers would find themselves disbarred. In two weeks 90% of the remaining lawyers would discover that, excluded frivolous lawsuits, they don't have work anymore. Soon the number of practincing lawyers would fall back to manageable levels, say one for every rat in the sewers...
Or a fishless school? A shipless starfleet nearby?
Seriously, a galaxy is a collection of stars. A starless galaxy is not a galaxy, else I have a starless galaxy in my drawer.
Since when does joking about something make one a supporter, or even tolerant, of it in real life?
Or do you think it is ok to make racist jokes about jews or black people or bigot jokes about gays and lesbians because, after all, you are "just joking"?
That's my definition of just -- everyone is treated equally
Does your definition of just include any historical perspective? If it does, then it is very similar to my definition of just.
Those countries who now command most of the World's economy and profits are the ones who contributed most for the present climate situation. During the 19th century, at the height of the second Industrial Revolution, Europe was the World's top polluter while India, China and Brazil were little more than big farms. After the Civil War the US quickly joined the pack, to surpass Europe after WWI. Meanwhile, China, India and Brazil were still little more than big farms.
The industrialization in those three countries will only start for real during and after WWII.
So there: to treat everybody equally, those who polluted more in the past should be responsible for larger reductions.
POP3 blocking?
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Another cause KISS loses to "cute"...
Regardless of proof, the top poster point is that the odds of winning a lottery by buying 120 tickets is so much larger than the odds of finding an Earthlike planet by examining 120 near planets from afar that it is not even worth discussing.
As Douglas Adams once said about the Universe:
"Area: Infinite.
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite".
Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big
that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here."
Findind specific things in such a big place can be hard...
They refused to promote me to management.
Rule Number One - never post your press releases to Slashdot if you aren't sure your servers will handle it...
"Having a low id just means you were unemployed and bored before the dotcom crash"
/. probably means the holder had quite a good knowledge of the Web before the dotcom BOOM (that was before search engines worth the name even existed). Employment situation will vary - I was quite well employed, thank you, and sat for more hours than I cared for behind a couple of T1s. But I think most low-iders had access from college at that time. And it is you who is giving it a "733t" meaning, I was just using it to frame time...
Not quite - a 4 digit id in
Although your user id is an order of magnitude greater than mine, it is still quite old - I would have an enormous difficult to choose the "worst" story Slashdot ever posted, but there were quite a few worst than this one. This is just a harmless joke, Slashdot has on occasion posted "news" later proved wrong or false that caused real harm to real people for a time (the many false GPL breaches accusations come to mind).
I never intended to compare Hoover 20th century "refenceness" with his 60's "referenceness" - I was saying he was not a 80's or 90's reference.
As for Zappa, someone else answered that - he had some great albuns after the 70's, but he was always viewed as a 60's man.
As for "Hippie movement', you are right, I should have said "almost the end of the Vietnam War" or something like that when refering to Hoover.
Zappa, Jerry Garcia, Timothy Leary, Nancy Sinatra and Joan Baez are certainly 60's references. Donna Summer is 70's.
J. Edgar Hoover, on the other hand, qualifys as a 20th century reference: he was there in the same spot from the end of First World War to the end of Hippie movement.
A community to discuss socks and post cat pictures. Would you like join?
What really happened, IMHO, is that at this particular moment Brazilians were ready to jump into it - they liked the invitation and networking mechanism more than other people and answered by inviting everybody they knew, creating something the world hasn't yet saw, an international Internet application where the Americans are not the majority.
His comment was probably wrong in trying to attribute one trait to a whole people, but this is quite different from racism.
Nevertheless, there are definite differences of average behaviour among people from different countries and racism has nothing to do with it.
It would be "chuta os gringos de merda".
I don't know how many languages you can curse in, but from my experience Americans, French, Polish and Mexican (and mostly every other nationalyty) online players are just as annoying. I am yet to see a group of tennagers that can not be described as "Rude, arrogant, xenophobic, obnoxious", Americans most of all. I left the "racist" out because I believe it is out of place, specially for Brazilians (unless you believe "American" is a separate race - "gringo" means mostly "American" but can also be used for "foreigner").
I memory serves me well, I believe we won the last World Cup...
So I am not the only person who had bad experiences with Plone? Good to know it was not my own dumbness alone that led me to the conclusion Zope would be a good idea if the Zope people stopped having revolutionary ideas and sat down to document and clean up what they already have... :)
A basketball game akin to random chess pieces stating places would be to randomly choose the place for each the basket just before the game starts. It would prevent the same things Fischer wants to prevent, the use of long established defence and attack formations. Imagine a basketball game with the two baskets side by side at the middle of the court.