Stay at a better hotel. We have Charmin just like everybody else. (and even staying at EasyHotel in London, which can be $15/night, they didn't try to pull cheap toilet paper on us. Where the fuck were you staying?)
U.S.->U.K. transplant here: In my experience, some of the DVDs I brought over work, and some don't. The Playstation 2 I brought with me will happily play all the "some don't" ones, though.
There's the key. It is insanely trivial to get google to not index something. If they really weren't happy with what google was doing, they could just say "google, don't do that anymore", and google wouldn't do that anymore. (If I were google, I'd just respond by no longer indexing them, until they specifically request it.)
This is clearly just a try for a quick easy payoff.
Why isn't this the standard method for/all/ virus scanning? Remote scans are the only method which has ever seemed sane to me.. why would you run software to detect if the software you're running has been compromised? That's why I don't run virus scanners: it's pointless.
Give me a program that I can run on a "known good" system (for example, a system which boots off write-once media) and which monitors the local network for suspicious activity. I'll run that one.
The point is he was basically fired and immediately offered a re-hire at a much lower and unrelated position (though with the same rate of pay). It was his boss, not him, trying to game the system by doing this through a "change in responsibilities" rather than actually firing the staff he didn't want and hiring the staff he did want. Sure, he would receive the/money/ from his employer, but everything else he took the job for (a snazzy resume, ability to use his skills, etc) was taken away.
but we have enough trouble with people doing direct rips of our site/without/ providing the source code.
Yeah, I know that GPL uses copyright law too, but the problem is we're dealing all the time with people who don't respect copyright law. Exposing our code would just make it easier for people to rip us off.
Most I can push for at work is "Let's not actively obfuscate anything we're sending over anyway".
writing code in your free time with no professional experience whatsoever is a lot more likely to get you a job [from someone else who writes code] than having years of "professional" experience but never touching a computer outside of work.
There are/plenty/ of reasons to say "why bother with anything?" without bringing up free will. You know about entropy, right?
If you require things like "free will" and "my choices will have an effect on the eventual outcome", the universe is a pretty shitty place to be. Get over it. Have fun.
There is no evidence that anything other than "now" exists in some sort of magical ideal timeless suspension. There isn't even any evidence that "now" itself exists in a timeless suspension (and a lot of evidence to the contrary).
Timelines are just things we draw on pieces of paper because they are a useful model for organizing thoughts. This in no way means anything even remotely similar to "this is what the universe actually looks like".
Flatland is/fiction/ presented as a metaphor for "okay, this is going to sound crazy, but just listen here for a minute, because you'd tell a fictional man from an impossible world the same sort of things I'm telling you now if/you/ were part of a fictional and impossible world too!"
Fiction is also just something we write down on pieces of paper to help us organize our thoughts.
the subsidies go towards corn itself. Farmers could move to crops other than corn, but corn (as a food) is considered more important to promote the growth of than fuel-crops.
This is due to a combination of two factors:
- We've had food shortages in the past, while there have never been any fuel shortages, ever
- Food is vital to the survival, while Fuel is an unimportant luxury
The corn subsidies aren't to keep corn farmers "happy", it's to prevent the type of massive food shortage of the type which could easily happen if people only grew "as much as they needed to".
Grow "only as much as you need" (as any sensible businessman would do) Subtract "as much as is wiped out due to an unexpected event" and you have:
"less than as much as you need"
Same logic as banks which stopped paying into FDIC when "the interest in there is enough to cover what we would be paying in anyway!".
Sometimes you have too much. Ideally, you/usually/ have too much. It's the unusual situations that one takes out an insurance policy to protect against.
So your argument is: "Why should farmers grow something which they can sell, when they could be dedicating the same amount of time/energy/labor/resources towards growing so much excess that they have no choice but to give it away?"
That is what you're saying, right? just so we're clear.
Maybe an amalgamation of megapixels and the ratio between the maximum and minimum depth of field, using mis-applied and spurious logic, the industry will agree on "Absolute Focal Perspective" (This camera has AFP of 59380!). Whatever it is, it will be just as meaningless as it is cheap to double it every 6 months.
Why should a web browser be so monolithic / try to do everything? There's really no reason at all for the same application to handle, for example, interacting with a web page AND bookmarking that page
I'd love to see state laws written, or a federal constitutional amendment, which forbid local districts from independently allocating money seized through fines. Ideally, any money seized through fines should just be burned, to do its small part towards deflation. But just filtering it up to a national level may do enough to prevent abuses on a local level.
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what country could possibly look at a drop in overall internet usage as a good thing?
Stay at a better hotel. We have Charmin just like everybody else. (and even staying at EasyHotel in London, which can be $15/night, they didn't try to pull cheap toilet paper on us. Where the fuck were you staying?)
U.S.->U.K. transplant here: In my experience, some of the DVDs I brought over work, and some don't. The Playstation 2 I brought with me will happily play all the "some don't" ones, though.
It's no less stupid than "mouse gestures"
There's the key. It is insanely trivial to get google to not index something. If they really weren't happy with what google was doing, they could just say "google, don't do that anymore", and google wouldn't do that anymore. (If I were google, I'd just respond by no longer indexing them, until they specifically request it.)
This is clearly just a try for a quick easy payoff.
no shit?
you almost got it. Unfortunately, you were too busy trying to prove to everyone how smart you were, so you completely missed the point.
why should he modify his language in support of idiots who mis-use terms, especially when the site name (wikivs.com) is right next to the link?
Why not just BUNDLE SOME FUCKING PLUGINS, rather than ignoring the whole plugin-based architecture you've set up?
If you could do it just fine as a plugin, bundle the thing instead of removing the feature of not having it
Why isn't this the standard method for /all/ virus scanning? Remote scans are the only method which has ever seemed sane to me.. why would you run software to detect if the software you're running has been compromised? That's why I don't run virus scanners: it's pointless.
Give me a program that I can run on a "known good" system (for example, a system which boots off write-once media) and which monitors the local network for suspicious activity. I'll run that one.
The point is he was basically fired and immediately offered a re-hire at a much lower and unrelated position (though with the same rate of pay). It was his boss, not him, trying to game the system by doing this through a "change in responsibilities" rather than actually firing the staff he didn't want and hiring the staff he did want. /money/ from his employer, but everything else he took the job for (a snazzy resume, ability to use his skills, etc) was taken away.
Sure, he would receive the
but we have enough trouble with people doing direct rips of our site /without/ providing the source code.
Yeah, I know that GPL uses copyright law too, but the problem is we're dealing all the time with people who don't respect copyright law. Exposing our code would just make it easier for people to rip us off.
Most I can push for at work is "Let's not actively obfuscate anything we're sending over anyway".
Firefox supports doing it easily- greasemonkey
not to mention, most "abnormalities" would be seen as miscounts.
writing code in your free time with no professional experience whatsoever is a lot more likely to get you a job [from someone else who writes code] than having years of "professional" experience but never touching a computer outside of work.
of course "all possible outcomes occur". That doesn't mean they're related.
There are /plenty/ of reasons to say "why bother with anything?" without bringing up free will. You know about entropy, right?
If you require things like "free will" and "my choices will have an effect on the eventual outcome", the universe is a pretty shitty place to be. Get over it. Have fun.
There is no evidence that anything other than "now" exists in some sort of magical ideal timeless suspension. There isn't even any evidence that "now" itself exists in a timeless suspension (and a lot of evidence to the contrary).
Timelines are just things we draw on pieces of paper because they are a useful model for organizing thoughts. This in no way means anything even remotely similar to "this is what the universe actually looks like".
Flatland is /fiction/ presented as a metaphor for "okay, this is going to sound crazy, but just listen here for a minute, because you'd tell a fictional man from an impossible world the same sort of things I'm telling you now if /you/ were part of a fictional and impossible world too!"
Fiction is also just something we write down on pieces of paper to help us organize our thoughts.
the subsidies go towards corn itself. Farmers could move to crops other than corn, but corn (as a food) is considered more important to promote the growth of than fuel-crops.
This is due to a combination of two factors:
- We've had food shortages in the past, while there have never been any fuel shortages, ever
- Food is vital to the survival, while Fuel is an unimportant luxury
The corn subsidies aren't to keep corn farmers "happy", it's to prevent the type of massive food shortage of the type which could easily happen if people only grew "as much as they needed to".
Grow "only as much as you need" (as any sensible businessman would do)
Subtract "as much as is wiped out due to an unexpected event"
and you have:
"less than as much as you need"
Same logic as banks which stopped paying into FDIC when "the interest in there is enough to cover what we would be paying in anyway!".
Sometimes you have too much. Ideally, you /usually/ have too much. It's the unusual situations that one takes out an insurance policy to protect against.
So your argument is: "Why should farmers grow something which they can sell, when they could be dedicating the same amount of time/energy/labor/resources towards growing so much excess that they have no choice but to give it away?"
That is what you're saying, right? just so we're clear.
Maybe an amalgamation of megapixels and the ratio between the maximum and minimum depth of field, using mis-applied and spurious logic, the industry will agree on "Absolute Focal Perspective" (This camera has AFP of 59380!). Whatever it is, it will be just as meaningless as it is cheap to double it every 6 months.
Why should a web browser be so monolithic / try to do everything?
There's really no reason at all for the same application to handle, for example, interacting with a web page AND bookmarking that page
I'd love to see state laws written, or a federal constitutional amendment, which forbid local districts from independently allocating money seized through fines. Ideally, any money seized through fines should just be burned, to do its small part towards deflation. But just filtering it up to a national level may do enough to prevent abuses on a local level.
but they don't, really.
a set of laws, sure. But a single law? Only a handful of people. No reason to throw it out, right?