>But like the controls on cars, once the manufacturers standardised, it meant anyone who could drive, could quickly adapt to any new model
That's true, the usability of an icon is determined by two numbers: N and M and their ratio, where N is the number of times where icon means what most people expect and M is the number of times where icon means something else. And for situation you've described:
>The current trend towards highly generic mono outline icons, different in nearly every program even on the same platform, is completely counter-productive.
N=1 and M is not.
Tip: use a tip (mouseover), that's what I do anyway. Without mouseover, to me the icons are just colorful decorative addition to the menu bars because the author was fond of Maya civilization.
Given that it is not illegal to own or purchase or transport radioactive materials (within limits for hobbyist use), should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?
That is not the right question to ask. The right question to ask is should government be allowed to do ANYTHING trumping citizen's rights that has been granted in 1776 in the name of security or any other names.
The question to ask is whether a country of free men, which US of A declares itself to be, "the most free country in the world", should continue a practice of "preventing" crime, from the one hand, and start fullfilling people's right to think and act within the limits of the law, no matter how close are they to those limits, and, from the other hand, should the aforementioned country start punishing people for crimes swiftly, without any delay, thus enforcing the responsibility of people for their action, which is the other obligatory immanent nondetachable side to the aforementioned rights.
That is the question.
As for the type of questions you have posed, they have been leading the country nowhere. Scratch that, they haven't been leading the country nowhere, they have been leading away from original rights of the people to lesser and lesser rights. They have been leading country away from its original state to 1984 state.
It's time to reverse Martin Noemuller fable back and instead of warning others about "what do you do when they will come for you?" it is time to call people "let's stop them from coming after anyone". It's time for stopping calling for "stopping" the process where it is now, because, face it, the point is rather arbitrary, isn't it? It's time for starting to call for reversal of the process back to the origins of the US
In every persistent ideology, that is the one that had existed for even only slightly longer than 236 years, there always have been restoration/revival movement and if this country wants to claim to have any ideology beside the animalistic ideology "compete and survive", it must prove itself by having this type of movement as well.
Wait... There was a number of people that were doing that all the time, actually, scratch that, I know exactly, what that number is, it is nine at any given time of recent history. Correction: they were supposed to be doing that in our name, on our behalf, but they have been failing to do that miserably and silly us, we made a mistake of giving them a total carte blanche to go with that with impunity by removing any accountability of their actions.
This is all theoretical and rhetorical, because, face it, there is no ideology left in US except the one I characterized.
So stop asking your silly questions like:
should the police be allowed to stop and search vehicles which show a slight level of radioactivity?
and move on. It does not matter if you actually have this local small most likely Pyrrhic victory in this particular case. Without the principle of following the principles, without people who are ready to sacrifice their 401k, their MTV, their suburban houses, and unltimately, and very essentially, their lives for those principles, you will be just going from question to question.
Do you know why people had more rights in the most despotic countries of the past? Of course, not because the despots respected their rights in any way.
People of the past had those rights because government could not technically stomp on them, they did not have the means, the force, the technology. Now the government respect those rights only superficially more than their despotic brethren of the past, in reality it systematically and slowly takes away all rights of people except the right for panem et circenses. Oh, that "right" to circenses is fulfilled on full blown scale. There should be some kind of Moore law for the number of "channels of shit".
This comment does not make sense. Both old and young people are using the icons the same way: the learn the meaning and then they recognize the icon in a different environemnt.
I am one of the older people, I knew what a floppy disk is and I knew what saving is, but when I first time saw a floppy disk icon, there is no way I could have figured out why on earth a "floppy disk" would mean saving a file.
Icons are conventions and it does not matter if recognize original object behind the convention.
What exactly justified it to be called super-Earth? The size is close to Earth (half order of magnitude), but it is close to Venus as well, and Venus is hotter.
>buildup of mis-folded proteins in the brains of mice with prion disease activated a natural defense mechanism in cells, which switches off the production of new proteins
> but in these ill mice the continued build-up of misshapen proteins keeps the switch turned off. This is the trigger point leading to brain cell death, because key proteins essential for cell survival are not made
So instead of dying of lack of the protein, mice will die of misfolded proteins' sedimentation?
The trend is in: politicians that are not offering concrete solutions for problems, offering instead promise of change. This motley group includes protest candidates, "process" candidates, "change" candidates (I am talking about you, Mr.President). They can have their pet peeve/cause du jour as well (never meant to be comprehensive platform): green party, now pirate party. They never meant to be actual leaders, they are meant to represent a vocal minority group that attract many other people as well by populist demagoguery (tautological emphasis mine), like "clean air", "internet freedom", etc.
Those a signs of systemic fatigue of a democratic process. In the past Western democracy was more driven my synthetic approach which was represented by charismatic leaders like Roosevelt, Nixon, Reagan or Thatcher. Now we have mediocrities like Blair, Merkel, Putin, Obama and Romney.
It's like moving backwards from Pixar level CGI of puppetry towards Commedia dell'Arte.
Unless something new is discovered, it's probably just an unfortunate wording. Had Facebook not tried to be more clever than it is, the developer would just placed "You triggered a spam filter" in the comment, user would complain, and Facebook would work on the spam filter.
From the other hand, where were the hordes of Martin Niemoller quoters when the spam filtering was introduced in the first place? If were a Nazi I would first came for that guy, so he would not leave this quote.
>Maybe at this stage its a self fulfilling prophecy, everyone thinks politicians are lying greedy people, so only lying greedy people apply for the job.
One of basic rules of choosing next Khalifah (worldwide Islamic state leader) or any Amir (general ruler/commander/leader on any scale) is to stay away from people who apply for a job. It's the job for a person who understands that a lot of responsibility and tests come with the job, and his integrity will prevent him from enjoying any perks of the job.
It (as part of prediction by the Prophet, sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam) all down the typical dynasty mode after first 4 Khulafaah Raashideen because subsequent rulers abandoned it.
"Even if a child does see the content, it will most likely not hurt them, anyway"
How would you know?
I was exposed to strong language and sexuality by my peers (they were exposed by idiot adults) since age 7. Nothing good came out of it.
You know who you are? You are human waste, a parasite in a need of a good squash. The day scum like you will decorate the lampposts will be one of the happiest days of my life.
First they came for porn, but I do not watch porn, so I was silent, when people who watched porn were too shy to declare that. Then they came for people who read Inspire magazine (wait, they came for them first, with drones), so I was silent, when people who read Jihadi websites opted-in without shame.
How do you expect this beaten to the death quote to work in this case?
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>But like the controls on cars, once the manufacturers standardised, it meant anyone who could drive, could quickly adapt to any new model
That's true, the usability of an icon is determined by two numbers: N and M and their ratio, where N is the number of times where icon means what most people expect and M is the number of times where icon means something else. And for situation you've described:
>The current trend towards highly generic mono outline icons, different in nearly every program even on the same platform, is completely counter-productive.
N=1 and M is not.
Tip: use a tip (mouseover), that's what I do anyway. Without mouseover, to me the icons are just colorful decorative addition to the menu bars because the author was fond of Maya civilization.
That is not the right question to ask. The right question to ask is should government be allowed to do ANYTHING trumping citizen's rights that has been granted in 1776 in the name of security or any other names.
The question to ask is whether a country of free men, which US of A declares itself to be, "the most free country in the world", should continue a practice of "preventing" crime, from the one hand, and start fullfilling people's right to think and act within the limits of the law, no matter how close are they to those limits, and, from the other hand, should the aforementioned country start punishing people for crimes swiftly, without any delay, thus enforcing the responsibility of people for their action, which is the other obligatory immanent nondetachable side to the aforementioned rights.
That is the question.
As for the type of questions you have posed, they have been leading the country nowhere. Scratch that, they haven't been leading the country nowhere, they have been leading away from original rights of the people to lesser and lesser rights. They have been leading country away from its original state to 1984 state.
It's time to reverse Martin Noemuller fable back and instead of warning others about "what do you do when they will come for you?" it is time to call people "let's stop them from coming after anyone". It's time for stopping calling for "stopping" the process where it is now, because, face it, the point is rather arbitrary, isn't it? It's time for starting to call for reversal of the process back to the origins of the US
In every persistent ideology, that is the one that had existed for even only slightly longer than 236 years, there always have been restoration/revival movement and if this country wants to claim to have any ideology beside the animalistic ideology "compete and survive", it must prove itself by having this type of movement as well.
Wait... There was a number of people that were doing that all the time, actually, scratch that, I know exactly, what that number is, it is nine at any given time of recent history. Correction: they were supposed to be doing that in our name, on our behalf, but they have been failing to do that miserably and silly us, we made a mistake of giving them a total carte blanche to go with that with impunity by removing any accountability of their actions.
This is all theoretical and rhetorical, because, face it, there is no ideology left in US except the one I characterized.
So stop asking your silly questions like:
and move on. It does not matter if you actually have this local small most likely Pyrrhic victory in this particular case. Without the principle of following the principles, without people who are ready to sacrifice their 401k, their MTV, their suburban houses, and unltimately, and very essentially, their lives for those principles, you will be just going from question to question.
Do you know why people had more rights in the most despotic countries of the past? Of course, not because the despots respected their rights in any way.
People of the past had those rights because government could not technically stomp on them, they did not have the means, the force, the technology. Now the government respect those rights only superficially more than their despotic brethren of the past, in reality it systematically and slowly takes away all rights of people except the right for panem et circenses. Oh, that "right" to circenses is fulfilled on full blown scale. There should be some kind of Moore law for the number of "channels of shit".
Now the
This comment does not make sense. Both old and young people are using the icons the same way: the learn the meaning and then they recognize the icon in a different environemnt.
I am one of the older people, I knew what a floppy disk is and I knew what saving is, but when I first time saw a floppy disk icon, there is no way I could have figured out why on earth a "floppy disk" would mean saving a file.
Icons are conventions and it does not matter if recognize original object behind the convention.
I read somewhere that giving up US citizenship to avoid taxes is illegal.
"That's why I am proud to be an American" (Anger Management)
Americans do not use wallpaper much.
encrypt, encrypt and encrypt.
Now the question is: what can we do to mess up those drones from the ground?
i want this in my local Giant as well. Many people go to bars to actually listen to damnboxes, but nobody goes to Gian to listen to their muzak.
Another application of iPhone-based voting: where should the drone fly and where to drop. Like crane game in arcades.
if only one could invent something to prevent people from going to such bars.
I meant misfolded proteins of the kind that "infects" 3d structures of other proteins of the same kind.
What exactly justified it to be called super-Earth? The size is close to Earth (half order of magnitude), but it is close to Venus as well, and Venus is hotter.
ugly, overpriced abomination that should die, die, die.
The problem of misfolded proteins never goes away. It's a mutation.
It's not the formula I am allergic to, it's the lousy make up
>buildup of mis-folded proteins in the brains of mice with prion disease activated a natural defense mechanism in cells, which switches off the production of new proteins
> but in these ill mice the continued build-up of misshapen proteins keeps the switch turned off. This is the trigger point leading to brain cell death, because key proteins essential for cell survival are not made
So instead of dying of lack of the protein, mice will die of misfolded proteins' sedimentation?
The trend is in: politicians that are not offering concrete solutions for problems, offering instead promise of change. This motley group includes protest candidates, "process" candidates, "change" candidates (I am talking about you, Mr.President). They can have their pet peeve/cause du jour as well (never meant to be comprehensive platform): green party, now pirate party. They never meant to be actual leaders, they are meant to represent a vocal minority group that attract many other people as well by populist demagoguery (tautological emphasis mine), like "clean air", "internet freedom", etc.
Those a signs of systemic fatigue of a democratic process. In the past Western democracy was more driven my synthetic approach which was represented by charismatic leaders like Roosevelt, Nixon, Reagan or Thatcher. Now we have mediocrities like Blair, Merkel, Putin, Obama and Romney.
It's like moving backwards from Pixar level CGI of puppetry towards Commedia dell'Arte.
Unless something new is discovered, it's probably just an unfortunate wording. Had Facebook not tried to be more clever than it is, the developer would just placed "You triggered a spam filter" in the comment, user would complain, and Facebook would work on the spam filter.
From the other hand, where were the hordes of Martin Niemoller quoters when the spam filtering was introduced in the first place? If were a Nazi I would first came for that guy, so he would not leave this quote.
>Maybe at this stage its a self fulfilling prophecy, everyone thinks politicians are lying greedy people, so only lying greedy people apply for the job.
One of basic rules of choosing next Khalifah (worldwide Islamic state leader) or any Amir (general ruler/commander/leader on any scale) is to stay away from people who apply for a job. It's the job for a person who understands that a lot of responsibility and tests come with the job, and his integrity will prevent him from enjoying any perks of the job.
It (as part of prediction by the Prophet, sal Allahu 'alaihi wa sallam) all down the typical dynasty mode after first 4 Khulafaah Raashideen because subsequent rulers abandoned it.
Besides, where's JDL when we need it on the asses of Holocaust trivializers?
That's not continuation of the progression "first they came to me".
Why everybody is abusing the analogy?
First they called a bad word homosexuals, then they burned alive violin players.
It's a a complete lack of reason I am shocked about, not the attitude of people to censoring.
"Even if a child does see the content, it will most likely not hurt them, anyway"
How would you know?
I was exposed to strong language and sexuality by my peers (they were exposed by idiot adults) since age 7. Nothing good came out of it.
You know who you are? You are human waste, a parasite in a need of a good squash. The day scum like you will decorate the lampposts will be one of the happiest days of my life.
Go to Hell, asshole.
So, I will opt-in for terrorism, hate speech, extremism, copyright infringement.
Who is coming for me?
How would imagine it working?
First they came for porn, but I do not watch porn, so I was silent, when people who watched porn were too shy to declare that.
Then they came for people who read Inspire magazine (wait, they came for them first, with drones), so I was silent, when people who read Jihadi websites opted-in without shame.
How do you expect this beaten to the death quote to work in this case?
>didn't die immediately after being wounded."
>a shoulder wound found ..and that implies that the shoulder of our ancestor did not have vital organs, like heart or brain.