You can't upgrade directly from 6.06 to 7.04. My 6.06 machine wouldn't even load the 7.04 CD (something about SATA drives, much discussed in the Ubuntu forums), but I did a fresh install of 6.10 and a seamless upgrade to 7.04 from there. There have been a lot of reports of problems installing 7.04, to be fair.
And if I write "Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of pet tanning parlors or the free exercise thereof," I'm not invoking the original?
It's an obvious reference to Martin Niemöller's statement, and the comparison is odious.
"I don't know, would you deny a plumber the right to make money every time you use your faucet or toilet, or would you want to pay an architect every time you opened your door to your house? How about "his" family after he's dead? Anyone can be an artist or writer and there is no certification or even skill required to produce it so why we would treat what would appear to be the least qualified people as though they were better than truly skilled and certified artisans is beyond me."
It's called "work for hire," and writers sign away their copyright all the time - every newspaper writer does it. The copyright is assigned to their employer. But that's the creator's choice. Plumbers could demand a contract demanding a cut every time the house changes hands, but not many people would go for it.
You really need to read Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis.
Falwell died a wealthy man. How did that happen? Pat Robertson, another of his ilk, is extremely wealthy. How does a pious Christian who cares only for others get to be rich? Mother Theresa, putting aside all the pompous bullshit spread about her, died fairly poor. Whazzup with that? Poor investment decisions?
I have discovered all sorts of programs through searching in synaptic. And, unlike in windows-world, I can install them being certain that they don't come bundled with spyware and riddled with nag screens. When I ran xp, I would take recommendations from PC mag and the like, only to find that the description was hopelessly hyperbolic and that I had installed total crap with tentacles of steel. Check out the shit that Kim Kommando flogs every week for a few examples.
Clarence Thomas is a sleazoid goofball who is grotesquely unfit to serve on the Supreme Court, a fact that has been borne out by his near-total silence in oral argument on important cases. He has served as nothing but a mini-Scalia for his entire term.
This deficiency was blinding apparent during his confirmation hearings. The fact that the media and Congress got sidetracked into the Anita Hill business is unforgivable because it prevented serious discussion of his judicial philosophy and actually generated public sympathy for the little twerp.
It's also one thing to fire all US attys at the start of a term and replace them with competent personnel. They fired these folks selectively, in mid-term, and replaced them with a bunch of Bible-spouting fruitloops from Jerry Falwell's "law school."
How about when you search for Walmart and see my "Boycott Walmart" ad? Obviously protected speech. But where do you draw the line between that and Bobmart's ad saying "Walmart's prices are higher than ours"?
My website traffic peaks Tuesday afternoons through Friday midday, drops dramatically on Sat and Sun. Gives me a warm feeling to be doing my part against the pointy-haired bosses..
Well, that's how health insurance works in the US, so why not? I'm sure our little libertarian pals will step in now to explain that this all creates a wonderful free-market opportunity for you to start your own cable service/telco....
Blame it on CNN -- they started the whole ruckus by taking a perfectly good word and twisting it.
"Factoid" is one of those rare words that were undeniably invented by an identifiable individual, in this case Norman Mailer, in his book "Marilyn," published in 1973. The Oxford Dictionary of New Words defines "factoid" thus: "A spurious or questionable fact; especially something that is supposed to be true because it has been reported (and often repeated) in the media, but is actually based on speculation or even fabrication." Norman Mailer himself defined "factoids" as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority."
Mailer invented the word by combining "fact" with "oid," a scientific suffix meaning "resembling or having the form of, but not identical to." Needless to say, "factoids" in Mailer's sense are the antithesis of serious reporting, and to accuse a journalist of trafficking in "factoids" was a grave insult, at least until CNN came along.
As far as Asperger's goes, meaning an inability to mingle, make small talk, make and sustain one-on-one friendships, initiate social activities, make eye contact (often), lack of emotional reciprocity and inability to judge other's emotional states, often interpreted by others as selfishness and coldness.
Not what one would call the life of the party.
Typing on a keyboard miles from anyone else, however, no problem.
"If you can post a comment like that, then you don't have a serious mental disorder. Period. Everyone always forgets that the DSM diagnostic criteria require the disorder to seriously affect the ability to do things like... post articulate messages on the Internet."
"Everyone always forgets" it because it isn't fucking true. Try again.
Look at most "ghetto" folk in the US. It doesn't matter where they're from. Most normal Americans can't understand a damn word those people are saying. Even the ones who have made something of themselves, be it in sports or music, are nearly impossible to understand. It's one thing to use slang now and then. But when you hear them talk in TV interviews, you might actually understand a small handful of the words they're saying. And this is coming from people born to American parents, and raised in American cities like Detroit, LA, NYC, and Atlanta.
Well, here's our winner of the Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink Award for Racist Blather today. Poor thing just can't understand all those, um, athletes. From, you know, Detroit.
While it's quite possible his age had something to do with this, it's also very likely he is guilty as charged. It would be a sensible thing for an employer to put a close eye on someone approaching retirement with pension, in the hopes that they screw up enough to justify termination, this saves the company money. This is not necessarily a bad thing....
Whoa, Generation iPod has spoken, and it is cold. Nineteen years at a mind-numbing job. He must have been a pretty solid employee, but since he's so close to the finish line and redeeming that pension promise we made, let's cook up a bullshit reason to fatten our bottom line, eh? Wish I could be there when it happens to you, boyo.
And you're an expert on ptsd because you experienced it... where? Combat? Video game? And he apparently wasn't "chocking his chicken," just trying to distract himself during down time after visiting the Wall. Ever been there? Recognize any names?
IBM deserves to lose, and every bit of bad publicity they get out of trying to screw a vet out of his pension.
Now imagine that the cars were your computer and all the other zombie machines out there, the home garage was a simple NAT router or decent software firewall or the repair shop was a software package that contained malware, and the bridge was any major server or router that a decent-sized portion of the internet population relies on for day-to-day electronic transactions.
Damn. For a minute there I thought you were working up a great analogy about neutering house pets.
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You can't upgrade directly from 6.06 to 7.04. My 6.06 machine wouldn't even load the 7.04 CD (something about SATA drives, much discussed in the Ubuntu forums), but I did a fresh install of 6.10 and a seamless upgrade to 7.04 from there. There have been a lot of reports of problems installing 7.04, to be fair.
And if I write "Congress shall make no law regarding the establishment of pet tanning parlors or the free exercise thereof," I'm not invoking the original?
It's an obvious reference to Martin Niemöller's statement, and the comparison is odious.
Yes, it's the Holocaust all over again.
That's an offensively stupid comparison you've got there. Try a car analogy.
"I don't know, would you deny a plumber the right to make money every time you use your faucet or toilet, or would you want to pay an architect every time you opened your door to your house? How about "his" family after he's dead? Anyone can be an artist or writer and there is no certification or even skill required to produce it so why we would treat what would appear to be the least qualified people as though they were better than truly skilled and certified artisans is beyond me."
It's called "work for hire," and writers sign away their copyright all the time - every newspaper writer does it. The copyright is assigned to their employer. But that's the creator's choice. Plumbers could demand a contract demanding a cut every time the house changes hands, but not many people would go for it.
You really need to read Elmer Gantry by Sinclair Lewis.
Falwell died a wealthy man. How did that happen? Pat Robertson, another of his ilk, is extremely wealthy. How does a pious Christian who cares only for others get to be rich? Mother Theresa, putting aside all the pompous bullshit spread about her, died fairly poor. Whazzup with that? Poor investment decisions?
Falwell was a con artist, not a pious Christian.
I have discovered all sorts of programs through searching in synaptic. And, unlike in windows-world, I can install them being certain that they don't come bundled with spyware and riddled with nag screens. When I ran xp, I would take recommendations from PC mag and the like, only to find that the description was hopelessly hyperbolic and that I had installed total crap with tentacles of steel. Check out the shit that Kim Kommando flogs every week for a few examples.
That makes a lot more sense if the rabbit says "Yes."
Clarence Thomas is a sleazoid goofball who is grotesquely unfit to serve on the Supreme Court, a fact that has been borne out by his near-total silence in oral argument on important cases. He has served as nothing but a mini-Scalia for his entire term.
This deficiency was blinding apparent during his confirmation hearings. The fact that the media and Congress got sidetracked into the Anita Hill business is unforgivable because it prevented serious discussion of his judicial philosophy and actually generated public sympathy for the little twerp.
It's also one thing to fire all US attys at the start of a term and replace them with competent personnel. They fired these folks selectively, in mid-term, and replaced them with a bunch of Bible-spouting fruitloops from Jerry Falwell's "law school."
How about when you search for Walmart and see my "Boycott Walmart" ad? Obviously protected speech. But where do you draw the line between that and Bobmart's ad saying "Walmart's prices are higher than ours"?
use flashblock and they'll never bother you.
My website traffic peaks Tuesday afternoons through Friday midday, drops dramatically on Sat and Sun. Gives me a warm feeling to be doing my part against the pointy-haired bosses..
I nominate this for the official motto of Slashdot.
Well, that's how health insurance works in the US, so why not? I'm sure our little libertarian pals will step in now to explain that this all creates a wonderful free-market opportunity for you to start your own cable service/telco....
Yeah. Could be. I say we waterboard Bob Parsons and get the truth.
http://www.word-detective.com/101800.html#factoid
Blame it on CNN -- they started the whole ruckus by taking a perfectly good word and twisting it.
"Factoid" is one of those rare words that were undeniably invented by an identifiable individual, in this case Norman Mailer, in his book "Marilyn," published in 1973. The Oxford Dictionary of New Words defines "factoid" thus: "A spurious or questionable fact; especially something that is supposed to be true because it has been reported (and often repeated) in the media, but is actually based on speculation or even fabrication." Norman Mailer himself defined "factoids" as "facts which have no existence before appearing in a magazine or newspaper, creations which are not so much lies as a product to manipulate emotion in the Silent Majority."
Mailer invented the word by combining "fact" with "oid," a scientific suffix meaning "resembling or having the form of, but not identical to." Needless to say, "factoids" in Mailer's sense are the antithesis of serious reporting, and to accuse a journalist of trafficking in "factoids" was a grave insult, at least until CNN came along.
My wife taught me that when someone says "How are you?", it's important to say "Fine, how are you?" rather than just "Fine."
I remember to do this about 60% of the time. It's not that I don't care about people; it's that they sorta scare me.
As far as Asperger's goes, meaning an inability to mingle, make small talk, make and sustain one-on-one friendships, initiate social activities, make eye contact (often), lack of emotional reciprocity and inability to judge other's emotional states, often interpreted by others as selfishness and coldness.
Not what one would call the life of the party.
Typing on a keyboard miles from anyone else, however, no problem.
Autism is a neurological developmental, not psychiatric, disorder.
You, however, could use a good shrink.
"If you can post a comment like that, then you don't have a serious mental disorder. Period. Everyone always forgets that the DSM diagnostic criteria require the disorder to seriously affect the ability to do things like... post articulate messages on the Internet."
"Everyone always forgets" it because it isn't fucking true. Try again.
Look at most "ghetto" folk in the US. It doesn't matter where they're from. Most normal Americans can't understand a damn word those people are saying. Even the ones who have made something of themselves, be it in sports or music, are nearly impossible to understand. It's one thing to use slang now and then. But when you hear them talk in TV interviews, you might actually understand a small handful of the words they're saying. And this is coming from people born to American parents, and raised in American cities like Detroit, LA, NYC, and Atlanta.
Well, here's our winner of the Nudge, Nudge, Wink, Wink Award for Racist Blather today. Poor thing just can't understand all those, um, athletes. From, you know, Detroit.
While it's quite possible his age had something to do with this, it's also very likely he is guilty as charged. It would be a sensible thing for an employer to put a close eye on someone approaching retirement with pension, in the hopes that they screw up enough to justify termination, this saves the company money. This is not necessarily a bad thing....
Whoa, Generation iPod has spoken, and it is cold. Nineteen years at a mind-numbing job. He must have been a pretty solid employee, but since he's so close to the finish line and redeeming that pension promise we made, let's cook up a bullshit reason to fatten our bottom line, eh? Wish I could be there when it happens to you, boyo.
And you're an expert on ptsd because you experienced it ... where? Combat? Video game? And he apparently wasn't "chocking his chicken," just trying to distract himself during down time after visiting the Wall. Ever been there? Recognize any names?
IBM deserves to lose, and every bit of bad publicity they get out of trying to screw a vet out of his pension.
Now imagine that the cars were your computer and all the other zombie machines out there, the home garage was a simple NAT router or decent software firewall or the repair shop was a software package that contained malware, and the bridge was any major server or router that a decent-sized portion of the internet population relies on for day-to-day electronic transactions.
Damn. For a minute there I thought you were working up a great analogy about neutering house pets.
No, no, it means really, really ultimate. On Planet Cool.