Bah, ignore the "only use technology when you're at work" trolls. They don't understand that some of use love to mix our technology with other hobbies. Perhaps they don't have the capability to do more than one thing at a time?
Great... They've chosen to give the theora video files the same.ogg extension as their audio format?
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Is Caps Lock Dead?
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I've never understood the 'need' people have to capitalize SQL. It's not case sensitive. If one has a decent syntax highlighting editor, then the capital's don't help at all! I think having so many cap's in my code is fugly too. I've been doing SQL for 5 years or so, and I've gotten into many arguments with DBA's over this...
Actually burning a worn-out flag is considered proper. At least by these folks. Not to mention many others.
"A lesser-known fact is that the proper way to dispose of an old and tattered flag is to burn it - something many citizens do not feel comfortable doing."
Ouch. Perhaps you shouldn't underestimate your importance either? Friends and family tend to like you for more than your money. Well, maybe not *you*, but most of us probably have people who truly care for us.
If we did, everyone would bitch about the inaction of America to 'right wrongs' et al.
It's one of those difficulties in being so powerful and the proliferation of the 'global economy'. Everyone wants a piece of us, we can't satisfy everyone. We can't return to an isolationist stand like pre-WW2 days, so we're pretty much guarenteed to piss somebody off. Sorry if it's you. But tough. I'm sure you'll learn to blame somebody else for your troubles at some point (maybe your *own* polititions? Nah, that would require you to do something. Much easier to bitch about the 'yanks' isn't it?
And my college assigns passwords with random characters for e-mail and enrollment. I'm sure it's so much more secure for me to write it down and carry it in my wallet than it would be to let me choose it myself.
Actually, it is. It's much easier to brute-force a login over the internet (typically) than it is to steal your wallet. And if somebody steals your wallet, you're likely to notice. And at this point you know your password (along with money, credit cards, etc) has been compromised so you change it.
Good reply. I didn't expect an actual lucid and clear response. No, I wasn't trolling, but most slashdotters think that everything that stops somebody from doing *anything* is a clear indication that the US is going to hell and that they are no longer free.
The bits you mention I do indeed fear. They're "temporary" at the moment, but lets hope they're not voted to be permanent. I don't want this country ruled by fear (from both sides).
Founding fathers would have taken the NYT statement as a compliment, I do.
Can you be so sure? Many just didn't like the idea of a hereditary government, but still believed in a strong central authority (John Adams, for one, thought the 'president' should have more power than he does).
So many people love to put words in the mouths of the 'founding fathers', yet rarely does anyone know anything about them...
You know, the US military didn't *have* to allow everyone (including it's enemies) to use GPS at all?
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Those reasons are pretty good ones to have such a system in place. If you're submitting to the kernel, you should be *sure* there is nothing that can come back and bite you in the ass.
How is this worse than "The Empire Strikes Back"? I think it's actually quite decent. Much better than the fscking "Attack of the Clones" (Why oh why they choose such a cheesy '50s "B" movie title over "The Clone Wars" is beyond me).
Hmm.. You're not going to believe this, but just today I ordered a BLT for lunch. The question I get? "Do you want lettuce and tomato on that?" I jokingly said 'No' (thinking it was a joke) and he served me Bacon, Cheese and mayo on bread.:-)
I now return you to your regularly scheduled doldrums...
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Bah, ignore the "only use technology when you're at work" trolls. They don't understand that some of use love to mix our technology with other hobbies. Perhaps they don't have the capability to do more than one thing at a time?
BEEP! Wrong!
I'm just guessing here, but do you *look* like the comic book guy from the Simpsons too?
Ideally it could be as normal to fill up your laptop at a petrol station (gas station for the US folk) as you would your eco-unfriendly SUV.
'Cuz we're all SUV driving, 10-gallon hat wearing cowboys out here, boy howdy! Yeehaw!
Racist comments aside, why would buying methanol be any more dangerous than buying gasoline or propane as we do currently?
... hi bingo ...
:-)
Bingo. Bingo the *clown-o*.
Thus, I'm afraid to tell you that there'll be lots of disturbing elements in your relationship...
That'll be the physicists, right?
You mean like VRML?
Great... They've chosen to give the theora video files the same .ogg extension as their audio format?
I've never understood the 'need' people have to capitalize SQL. It's not case sensitive. If one has a decent syntax highlighting editor, then the capital's don't help at all! I think having so many cap's in my code is fugly too. I've been doing SQL for 5 years or so, and I've gotten into many arguments with DBA's over this...
Actually burning a worn-out flag is considered proper. At least by these folks. Not to mention many others.
"A lesser-known fact is that the proper way to dispose of an old and tattered flag is to burn it - something many citizens do not feel comfortable doing."
Ouch. Perhaps you shouldn't underestimate your importance either? Friends and family tend to like you for more than your money. Well, maybe not *you*, but most of us probably have people who truly care for us.
If we did, everyone would bitch about the inaction of America to 'right wrongs' et al.
It's one of those difficulties in being so powerful and the proliferation of the 'global economy'. Everyone wants a piece of us, we can't satisfy everyone. We can't return to an isolationist stand like pre-WW2 days, so we're pretty much guarenteed to piss somebody off. Sorry if it's you. But tough. I'm sure you'll learn to blame somebody else for your troubles at some point (maybe your *own* polititions? Nah, that would require you to do something. Much easier to bitch about the 'yanks' isn't it?
And my college assigns passwords with random characters for e-mail and enrollment. I'm sure it's so much more secure for me to write it down and carry it in my wallet than it would be to let me choose it myself.
Actually, it is. It's much easier to brute-force a login over the internet (typically) than it is to steal your wallet. And if somebody steals your wallet, you're likely to notice. And at this point you know your password (along with money, credit cards, etc) has been compromised so you change it.
Good reply. I didn't expect an actual lucid and clear response. No, I wasn't trolling, but most slashdotters think that everything that stops somebody from doing *anything* is a clear indication that the US is going to hell and that they are no longer free.
The bits you mention I do indeed fear. They're "temporary" at the moment, but lets hope they're not voted to be permanent. I don't want this country ruled by fear (from both sides).
Am I not free because I'm not allowed to kick you in the nuts?
Yet another foreigner clambering for the US to fix all his problems.
Get off your ass and fix your own troubles. We're busy right now.
I think it's funny to watch people exercising their right to speech talking about how un-free they are...
Exactly how are you no longer "free?"
Founding fathers would have taken the NYT statement as a compliment, I do.
Can you be so sure? Many just didn't like the idea of a hereditary government, but still believed in a strong central authority (John Adams, for one, thought the 'president' should have more power than he does).
So many people love to put words in the mouths of the 'founding fathers', yet rarely does anyone know anything about them...
Since the developers went and got all selfish about things like 'eating' and 'clothes'?
If the USA had a national team that was respected in a "world standard" sport such as football, then perhaps 9/11 wouldn't have happened.
What?!?! Do you really believe this crap?
Ungrateful runt.
You know, the US military didn't *have* to allow everyone (including it's enemies) to use GPS at all?
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
Then they don't donate code. I thought that was obvious.
Those reasons are pretty good ones to have such a system in place. If you're submitting to the kernel, you should be *sure* there is nothing that can come back and bite you in the ass.
We could compare ourselves to the UK. How many cameras in the UK watch people on a daily basis?
Why do people act like these things only happen in the US?
How is this worse than "The Empire Strikes Back"? I think it's actually quite decent. Much better than the fscking "Attack of the Clones" (Why oh why they choose such a cheesy '50s "B" movie title over "The Clone Wars" is beyond me).
Hmm.. You're not going to believe this, but just today I ordered a BLT for lunch. The question I get? "Do you want lettuce and tomato on that?" I jokingly said 'No' (thinking it was a joke) and he served me Bacon, Cheese and mayo on bread. :-)
I now return you to your regularly scheduled doldrums...