Comment Re:KISS (Score 1) 103
I bet the parent poster wishes he'd said that.
I bet the parent poster wishes he'd said that.
Well a Swiss guy would say that. Switzerland is one of the very few countries where the people themselves have a real-time veto on bad laws.
Their votes actually count. They aren't just voting for promises.
Wait, are you saying Spain is less observant of the sabbath that Dixie?
I live in Spain too (though I'm not Spanish) and Jesus is every freaking where. Although to be fair they don't stuff the religion down your throat.
Well, all except the Jehova's Witnesses. I've never seen so many as in Spain.
The same way the public gets them to pass all the other laws
It's a no-lose siituation for Europe then isn't it. If the referendum says stay in, the people have decided to shut the fuck up. If the referendum says get out, then they won't be around any more to bother you. What could possibly go wrong?
What exactly were the complaints about the Firefox interface? It was a tried and tested design and didn't lack any features I needed.
It's only a tool for browsing the Web for God's sake. Who are the people who asked it to do more than that?
Here's how an exception proving (testing) the rule works:
A swimming pool has a notice on the diving board that reads "Not for use by children under 8."
Anyone can therefore use the diving board with the exception of under-8s.
Along comes one such exception in the form of a 7 year-old kid. Lifeguard sees him and says "stay off the board, son!"
Rule proven.
Now just extend that to quasars and you're on a winner.
And why Should Facebook consider it a contract for life and have no facility for deleting an acount?
So people can bring my keys back to me if I lose them.
Just wondering which word it is you don't think means what I think it means.
Practically all the best known Baroque composers wrote formulaic and repetitive music: Bach, Vivaldi, Handel to name but three.
Maybe you hate baroque music too. No problem. You get to choose what you like.
Many if not all of my fellow musician friends actually stop being such fucking snobs as they mature and realize just how well conceived a lot of pop music is.
Then of course they would almost immediately get abbreviated to SRD and NNS because nobody wants to waste time writing or pronouncing long names.
As if we don't already have more initialisms that the human mind can reasonably deal with.
Kansas is like the Himalayas compared with Denmark.
Here's how the caption reads on Wikepedia's photo of Denmark’s highest hill, Møllehøj:
"Møllehøj seen from the tower on Ejer Bavnehøj The highest point is obscured by the farm buildings."
You want flat? That's flat.
Airport Name: Girona-Costa Brava. 100km northeast of Barcelona. Ryanair name: Barcelona North
Airport Name: Reus. 100km west of Barcelona. Ryanair name: Barcelona South
Airport name: Barcelona El Prat. Intercontinental airport 15km south of Barcelona centre. Ryanair name: Barcelona WHAT?
The Eurostar is one of the few services in Europe where there *is* a security check and a requirement to arrive 10-30 minutes beforehand (it's 10 with the expensive ticket, 30 otherwise, and they're actually very accommodating if you're late). California shouldn't need this, as there's no international / undersea borders.
For other trains, 2 minutes is a bit short. For a long-distance journey, I aim to be waiting at the correct platform 5 minutes before the scheduled departure time, or a bit more if it's an infrequent (>20m) service.
Every Spanish HST has a security check-through. And Spain is the most HST-intensive country in Europe.
Having said that, security checks like the Spanish ones I can handle. You practically have to wake the guy up to check you. And there's no requirement to arrive early, although it's clearly not advisable to wait till the last minute.
"Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core." -- Hannah Arendt.