JPEGs weren't searchable last time I looked. And I can't stand pdf files. Personally, I don't usually use my own styles unless a webpage is really hideous and keeps blinking a red background at me.
What I have been saying for a long time is that there is no good reason to try to reinvent what has been developed and optimized by human usage over millennia just because computers are a new medium. This goes for mice vs. pen and tablet format as well as typesetting and graphics vs. CSS standardization. Computers are general purpose machines. To get bogged down in trying to standardize them says more about the worldview of the programmers than it does about the medium. Imagine some organization trying to standardize books. They would be laughed out of existence.
As William Burroughs suggested, the goal of the Aftosa Commission is not to rid the world of bovine aftosa. It's goal is to justify its existence and continue to enlarge its budget and its manpower until the world understands that bovine aftosa is such a critical issue that there needs to be a cabinet level Office of Bovine Aftosa with a budget only surpassed by that of the military. No one in government ever does anything that could conceivably put them out of business. This is why relying on the military and the "defense" contractors to bring peace is such a dangerous activity.
The guy I know from work who shops there consistently does it for one reason and one reason only. It's cheap. This guy would buy groceries on eBay if he could. So the answer to the question is, anybody who puts price ahead of everything else.
What exactly did you expect from a company run by 80-year-old billionaires fronting for Chinese manufacturers? Neither side of this equation has any stake in free exchange of anything.
As for Target, all I can say is the atmosphere in their stores is so much more positive than Wal-Mart. The first time I walked into a Wal-Mart I honestly wondered to myself if I had somehow been transported to a post-nuclear America.
As for the guy who thought that Wal-Mart's employees are well treated, you may want to free your head from your behind before you walk into something.
I tried CSS. It wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with text, typefaces, and headings. I am a former printer and I am trying to write a book online, and presentation is important to me. I don't need some idiotic system written by some geek who only reads technical manuals and paperback science fiction telling me how I can and cannot lay out my pages. I went back to good old HTML.
Good idea, and I actually did the same thing myself. Well, actually, I set up a website and used their 999 available email addys to do something similar. The only problem I've noticed is that AOL likes to block emails from my domain, so I have to use my real isp email to talk to those folks who are stupid enough to still use AOL.
Unlike most politicians, lawyers, and idiots in clerical robes, I will give you the following answer: Yes, you may kill the fucker. I, for one, will applaud you, though I cannot guarantee that agents of the current illegitimate government will not try to arrest you.
Actually, if you read the story you will find that they fell victim to their own spyware on their company computers, as did more than one of their corporate partners. It was basically downhill from there. The lawsuit is just the final act.
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"Climate change is driven by carbon dioxide emissions
"Prove it - this planet had climate change long before carbon dioxide swings - especially those caused by cars."
That's a bald faced assumption. You don't KNOW what kind of CO2 changes occurred before the rise of Egypt. You don't even know what kind of technology they had. Widespread shipping in the Stone Age is still controversial because the boats rotted and disappeared. In fact, there was a widespread climate change at the end of the 4th Millennium BCE, just about the time of the rise of the river valley civilizations. You don't suppose that was triggered by all those farmers burning stuff?
I have migraine disease, which is triggered by the ingestion of foods that contain fungi or products of fungi (yeast, cheese, vinegar, wine, dried milk, ad nauseum), and I can assure you that there is nothing unusual about food causing symptoms in all parts of the body. Keep in mind that the blood circulates once every 10 seconds. And I will second the statement that modern 10-minute "burger-style" medicine is virtually worthless if you have anything other than the most common of ailments. Add to this the corporate superstructure of many practices these days and you might as well be living in Uganda and consulting the local witch doctor. And the arrogant little prigs actually get prissy with you if you dare to question their 5-minute diagnoses.
So what does he think makes him president, then? If it's just a goddamned piece of paper, then he's just a goddamned loony from Texas who just *thinks* he's president. I have to say, the capacity of the American people to swallow this nonsense is positively staggering, even to a perpetual cynic like me.
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You don't suppose that dropping cluster bombs on civilians deprives them of their rightful access to information, do you?
JPEGs weren't searchable last time I looked. And I can't stand pdf files. Personally, I don't usually use my own styles unless a webpage is really hideous and keeps blinking a red background at me.
What I have been saying for a long time is that there is no good reason to try to reinvent what has been developed and optimized by human usage over millennia just because computers are a new medium. This goes for mice vs. pen and tablet format as well as typesetting and graphics vs. CSS standardization. Computers are general purpose machines. To get bogged down in trying to standardize them says more about the worldview of the programmers than it does about the medium. Imagine some organization trying to standardize books. They would be laughed out of existence.
As William Burroughs suggested, the goal of the Aftosa Commission is not to rid the world of bovine aftosa. It's goal is to justify its existence and continue to enlarge its budget and its manpower until the world understands that bovine aftosa is such a critical issue that there needs to be a cabinet level Office of Bovine Aftosa with a budget only surpassed by that of the military. No one in government ever does anything that could conceivably put them out of business. This is why relying on the military and the "defense" contractors to bring peace is such a dangerous activity.
The guy I know from work who shops there consistently does it for one reason and one reason only. It's cheap. This guy would buy groceries on eBay if he could. So the answer to the question is, anybody who puts price ahead of everything else.
What exactly did you expect from a company run by 80-year-old billionaires fronting for Chinese manufacturers? Neither side of this equation has any stake in free exchange of anything.
As for Target, all I can say is the atmosphere in their stores is so much more positive than Wal-Mart. The first time I walked into a Wal-Mart I honestly wondered to myself if I had somehow been transported to a post-nuclear America.
As for the guy who thought that Wal-Mart's employees are well treated, you may want to free your head from your behind before you walk into something.
I tried CSS. It wouldn't let me do what I wanted to do with text, typefaces, and headings. I am a former printer and I am trying to write a book online, and presentation is important to me. I don't need some idiotic system written by some geek who only reads technical manuals and paperback science fiction telling me how I can and cannot lay out my pages. I went back to good old HTML.
Good idea, and I actually did the same thing myself. Well, actually, I set up a website and used their 999 available email addys to do something similar. The only problem I've noticed is that AOL likes to block emails from my domain, so I have to use my real isp email to talk to those folks who are stupid enough to still use AOL.
Unlike most politicians, lawyers, and idiots in clerical robes, I will give you the following answer: Yes, you may kill the fucker. I, for one, will applaud you, though I cannot guarantee that agents of the current illegitimate government will not try to arrest you.
Actually, if you read the story you will find that they fell victim to their own spyware on their company computers, as did more than one of their corporate partners. It was basically downhill from there. The lawsuit is just the final act.
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"Climate change is driven by carbon dioxide emissions
"Prove it - this planet had climate change long before carbon dioxide swings - especially those caused by cars."
That's a bald faced assumption. You don't KNOW what kind of CO2 changes occurred before the rise of Egypt. You don't even know what kind of technology they had. Widespread shipping in the Stone Age is still controversial because the boats rotted and disappeared. In fact, there was a widespread climate change at the end of the 4th Millennium BCE, just about the time of the rise of the river valley civilizations. You don't suppose that was triggered by all those farmers burning stuff?
I have migraine disease, which is triggered by the ingestion of foods that contain fungi or products of fungi (yeast, cheese, vinegar, wine, dried milk, ad nauseum), and I can assure you that there is nothing unusual about food causing symptoms in all parts of the body. Keep in mind that the blood circulates once every 10 seconds. And I will second the statement that modern 10-minute "burger-style" medicine is virtually worthless if you have anything other than the most common of ailments. Add to this the corporate superstructure of many practices these days and you might as well be living in Uganda and consulting the local witch doctor. And the arrogant little prigs actually get prissy with you if you dare to question their 5-minute diagnoses.
So what does he think makes him president, then? If it's just a goddamned piece of paper, then he's just a goddamned loony from Texas who just *thinks* he's president. I have to say, the capacity of the American people to swallow this nonsense is positively staggering, even to a perpetual cynic like me.
You don't suppose they've been slashdotted, do you?