By city you mean village, and many years ago since which presidents had shook his hand. Oh and the collateral damage involved in taking out he dictator has been several hundred times that of the village. Also, the country had stabilized in recent years even if it was still a dictatorship. But your rescuing them has plunged the place into chaos and death. Not that saddam wasn't a prick, but you sir, need to start thinking about numbers and results before you look like evevn more of a dumb ass... oh wait.
I think you might be surprised by the pull Google would have. A data-center of google magnitude means a lot of revenue + IT benefits + any immigrants will be well educated. The bandwidth however is a problem, I think they should put it in Scandinavia personally. Though I don't know how much more expensive electricity could be there. Atleast they have a land connection, plenty of icy water and easy to deal with governments.
Conservatives are often linked with libertarians. Libertarians whole heartedly do not care about the public good. So i don't see why the assertion is so wrong. Also what he said was socialists are for the common good... seems obvious with a name like SOCIAList. (Also feel free to note CAPITAList has not to do with a big city but capital as in money).
I think you make a good point even if its not being taken seriously. Bell is directly blocking our governments news outlet. It would be the same as delivery boys nation wide cutting information about the government out before delivery. It would be shocking and condemned by every level of government. But since people arent all/.ers they don't realize it (yet anyways, i have some faith it'll find its way to parliament). I hope this gets Bell whipped into shape though. I take it as welcome news they are pissing off people that actually have the authority to do something about it.
You'd have to convince game makers and other legitimate coders to purposely make a program they know wont work in many places. While i'm sure alot of coders are strongly for net-neutrality I think you would be hard pressed to find one that would break their own work for it. Also, most people will assume its your fault that things are going slowly since the rest of the net is working fine. They might leave on the basis that you have shitty service, even though thats not the case. Grandma wouldn't even notice or just quit.
They decrease over time to 24~ pretty fast though. Not that i'm saying thats bad, i normally don't listen to >10hours of music without being near my laptop or my house. I'll bitch when it drops below 6hrs life (i'm going to guess in about 2years)
I totally agree, i just think the scale is on the wrong side of where it should be atm. When less than 1/3 of the population participated in the 2004 election (an important race) vs 44% of the population that watched the superbowl... That shows fairly accurately where peoples priorities are. I'm not saying people should all know about the latest coup in africa. I'm saying they should be able to name both contenders in elections at least 2 pieces of policy and 1 foreign leader. A significant % of the population cannot do that.
Agreed that 'about:config' is a little strange and not widely known... BUT once you get there it is a pretty easy interface... Theres a searchbar and most things are true/false. Which may be a bit intimidating for regular users, but anyone posting on/. should be fine. Also, try to remember these are EXTRA options, the normal options work fine for regular users. In a closed source application you would NOT get the option to change anything thats found in about:config. If all these options were stuck in the tool bar it would be overwhelming for everyday use.
Agreed w/ almost every word. BUT swear words exist for a reason. You need a way to be rude in society. If someone is a real jerk to you being able to say "fuck off asshole" gives it weight. If there were no swear-words or they were used without notice they could not serve this purpose.
... The religions of the year 2000AS(After Shatner) are going to be even more awesome than the ones of today. Instead of just raining fire and turning people to salt, sex with daughters. We'll have raining lasers, turning people to androids and sex with aliens. Not to mention worshiping an unreachable FTL spaceship that can bend time itself.... And i just realized that this already was put in an episode of trek (voyager i think) man theres too many episodes of that show.
His dad is wealthy and retired aka paying into the system which is why it is working for him. So he's not stealing your munnies. As for why you should be like other countries thats a good point. So long as you know preventable deaths in the US are higher than almost all 1st world countries. Its also worse than almost all 1st world countries in preventable diseases, quality of health, life expectancy of minorities and so on... So long as you are aware of this and comfortable with it I'm ok with your point. But i won't accept it when americans think they have the best of everything because they are the super-power. And simply deny their lack of caring for the poor and sick.
Since when did important mean 'celebrity does drugs' or 'american idol 2342 is starting'. Rather than election processes and international rights violations? Whats important to the majority of people is NOT IMPORTANT.
Glad you noticed the flaw in his thinking. The media is NOT playing to the lowest common denominator, its playing to the average. Here at/. we find it hard to admit to ourselves that the average person sucks THAT much. In the UK the top shows are soaps, in the US its football followed by soaps and reality TV (American Idol the biggest show since '04). People just DO NOT CARE about important things in the world. As much as i hate the mass media... and i really hate the mass media. On occasion some news has to slip in to keep up appearances. This is sadly better than a 'social filter' where you can be guaranteed that nothing of value will reach the bottom. With news there is just the one filter, coming through a social circle it would be like playing a game of telephone where each person removes a bit of information. ie. 'Brad pitt visits Afghanistan to support the rebuilding process and...' --> 'Omg bradd pit is like totally hhotty.'
You might not want to admit it but THAT is the sad reality of social filtering for the majority of people.
There is a VAST difference between achieving independence and BEING INVADED AND OCCUPIED BY A FOREIGN POWER. Achieving independance = bloody revolution or coup or betrayal, power changing hands in any direction is brutal. Don't think achieving independance is a fun thing where everyone agrees and they peacefully quit.
Or do you have a different "works both ways" argument for them? Nope, Taiwan should stay separate unless....
The only rule that I can think of is WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE WANT. Which is what i fully agree with, You go right ahead and hold an full and impartial vote in tibet. Hence the use of my shittier rule of who's owned the place longest. Also it is the only exception, if Taiwan voted to join China obviously it would be allowed. Oh a stipulation I might add though is that it would have to pass with 60% or so, 50%+1 seems harsh for all the crap that goes with changing nations. Although i would be comfortable with 50% since it is easy to slide from 60% to... 90% which i would not want.
I can't understand these posts. Now normally i'd assume that the spam was from bots. Being all the nerds there are on/. one sick guy would spam goatse crap all the time. But someone dissing nerds? Either its a self hating bot-maker nerd in denial. Or real human beings are posting this which would be an order of magnitude worse.
Not to sound overly harsh but... CHILL THE FUCK OUT. Arresting people for having fun? Anyone who has had a childhood knows that nerfguns are BIG, NEON and shoot 3 inch long bright SPONGES. Danger of getting hit by a sponge vs outlawing a game that sounds pretty awesome. This is ridiculous, I hate watching universities cave to every little whim, taking absolutely no risks. One nice example, some schools aren't allowed to play anime at all, since they find it bothersome to verify whether or not every rule is being followed for ownership and playing. I wish people would show some backbone over this kind of thing. But then again, the police would probably have any students doing sit-ins forcibly removed http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/03/21/campus-protest.html?ref=rss....
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By city you mean village, and many years ago since which presidents had shook his hand. Oh and the collateral damage involved in taking out he dictator has been several hundred times that of the village. Also, the country had stabilized in recent years even if it was still a dictatorship. But your rescuing them has plunged the place into chaos and death. Not that saddam wasn't a prick, but you sir, need to start thinking about numbers and results before you look like evevn more of a dumb ass ... oh wait.
Since when was germany worse than china when it came to rights... Wait, godwin is that you???
I think you might be surprised by the pull Google would have. A data-center of google magnitude means a lot of revenue + IT benefits + any immigrants will be well educated. The bandwidth however is a problem, I think they should put it in Scandinavia personally. Though I don't know how much more expensive electricity could be there. Atleast they have a land connection, plenty of icy water and easy to deal with governments.
Conservatives are often linked with libertarians. Libertarians whole heartedly do not care about the public good. So i don't see why the assertion is so wrong. Also what he said was socialists are for the common good ... seems obvious with a name like SOCIAList. (Also feel free to note CAPITAList has not to do with a big city but capital as in money).
I think you make a good point even if its not being taken seriously. Bell is directly blocking our governments news outlet. It would be the same as delivery boys nation wide cutting information about the government out before delivery. It would be shocking and condemned by every level of government. But since people arent all /.ers they don't realize it (yet anyways, i have some faith it'll find its way to parliament). I hope this gets Bell whipped into shape though. I take it as welcome news they are pissing off people that actually have the authority to do something about it.
You'd have to convince game makers and other legitimate coders to purposely make a program they know wont work in many places. While i'm sure alot of coders are strongly for net-neutrality I think you would be hard pressed to find one that would break their own work for it. Also, most people will assume its your fault that things are going slowly since the rest of the net is working fine. They might leave on the basis that you have shitty service, even though thats not the case. Grandma wouldn't even notice or just quit.
They decrease over time to 24~ pretty fast though. Not that i'm saying thats bad, i normally don't listen to >10hours of music without being near my laptop or my house. I'll bitch when it drops below 6hrs life (i'm going to guess in about 2years)
WTF does china have to do with this?
You kidding? He lets anyone and everyone see what hes hiding under his frontend, exposing himself like that.
Actually incompetent doctors generate business for lawyers too. 'If someone does something, a lawyer profits' - Stella's Law ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v._McDonald's_Restaurants
I totally agree, i just think the scale is on the wrong side of where it should be atm. When less than 1/3 of the population participated in the 2004 election (an important race) vs 44% of the population that watched the superbowl... That shows fairly accurately where peoples priorities are. I'm not saying people should all know about the latest coup in africa. I'm saying they should be able to name both contenders in elections at least 2 pieces of policy and 1 foreign leader. A significant % of the population cannot do that.
Agreed that 'about:config' is a little strange and not widely known ... BUT once you get there it is a pretty easy interface... Theres a searchbar and most things are true/false. Which may be a bit intimidating for regular users, but anyone posting on /. should be fine. Also, try to remember these are EXTRA options, the normal options work fine for regular users. In a closed source application you would NOT get the option to change anything thats found in about:config. If all these options were stuck in the tool bar it would be overwhelming for everyday use.
Agreed w/ almost every word. BUT swear words exist for a reason. You need a way to be rude in society. If someone is a real jerk to you being able to say "fuck off asshole" gives it weight. If there were no swear-words or they were used without notice they could not serve this purpose.
... The religions of the year 2000AS(After Shatner) are going to be even more awesome than the ones of today. Instead of just raining fire and turning people to salt, sex with daughters. We'll have raining lasers, turning people to androids and sex with aliens. Not to mention worshiping an unreachable FTL spaceship that can bend time itself. ... And i just realized that this already was put in an episode of trek (voyager i think) man theres too many episodes of that show.
His dad is wealthy and retired aka paying into the system which is why it is working for him. So he's not stealing your munnies. As for why you should be like other countries thats a good point. So long as you know preventable deaths in the US are higher than almost all 1st world countries. Its also worse than almost all 1st world countries in preventable diseases, quality of health, life expectancy of minorities and so on ... So long as you are aware of this and comfortable with it I'm ok with your point. But i won't accept it when americans think they have the best of everything because they are the super-power. And simply deny their lack of caring for the poor and sick.
Uh "they are a scam ... which promotes itself as a religion." What's your definition of a religion?
"If the news is that important, it will find me."
Since when did important mean 'celebrity does drugs' or 'american idol 2342 is starting'. Rather than election processes and international rights violations? Whats important to the majority of people is NOT IMPORTANT.
Glad you noticed the flaw in his thinking. The media is NOT playing to the lowest common denominator, its playing to the average. Here at /. we find it hard to admit to ourselves that the average person sucks THAT much. In the UK the top shows are soaps, in the US its football followed by soaps and reality TV (American Idol the biggest show since '04). People just DO NOT CARE about important things in the world. As much as i hate the mass media... and i really hate the mass media. On occasion some news has to slip in to keep up appearances. This is sadly better than a 'social filter' where you can be guaranteed that nothing of value will reach the bottom. With news there is just the one filter, coming through a social circle it would be like playing a game of telephone where each person removes a bit of information. ie. 'Brad pitt visits Afghanistan to support the rebuilding process and ...' --> 'Omg bradd pit is like totally hhotty.'
You might not want to admit it but THAT is the sad reality of social filtering for the majority of people.
I sooo earned an I-told-you-so.
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/27/1957209
Achieving independance = bloody revolution or coup or betrayal, power changing hands in any direction is brutal. Don't think achieving independance is a fun thing where everyone agrees and they peacefully quit.
Or do you have a different "works both ways" argument for them? Nope, Taiwan should stay separate unless....
The only rule that I can think of is WHAT DO THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE WANT. Which is what i fully agree with, You go right ahead and hold an full and impartial vote in tibet. Hence the use of my shittier rule of who's owned the place longest. Also it is the only exception, if Taiwan voted to join China obviously it would be allowed. Oh a stipulation I might add though is that it would have to pass with 60% or so, 50%+1 seems harsh for all the crap that goes with changing nations. Although i would be comfortable with 50% since it is easy to slide from 60% to... 90% which i would not want.
Japanese has no L, only has the R sound. So he's doing a reverse Japanese accent or something.
Partially On Topic: Is it only me that hears 'weather control' adds station and pictures duels where hands are removed?
Yes, yes it can. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4223156.stm
I can't understand these posts. Now normally i'd assume that the spam was from bots. Being all the nerds there are on /. one sick guy would spam goatse crap all the time. But someone dissing nerds? Either its a self hating bot-maker nerd in denial. Or real human beings are posting this which would be an order of magnitude worse.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse on second thought, perhaps a plane wouldn't be the best place to use one.
Not to sound overly harsh but... CHILL THE FUCK OUT. Arresting people for having fun? Anyone who has had a childhood knows that nerfguns are BIG, NEON and shoot 3 inch long bright SPONGES. Danger of getting hit by a sponge vs outlawing a game that sounds pretty awesome. This is ridiculous, I hate watching universities cave to every little whim, taking absolutely no risks. One nice example, some schools aren't allowed to play anime at all, since they find it bothersome to verify whether or not every rule is being followed for ownership and playing. I wish people would show some backbone over this kind of thing. But then again, the police would probably have any students doing sit-ins forcibly removed http://www.cbc.ca/canada/toronto/story/2008/03/21/campus-protest.html?ref=rss ....