Are you really this stupid, or does it just switch on when you hit slashdot?

And, once again, Martin demonstrates his learned discourse and debating skills.

Are you really this much of an asshole, or is it just on Slashdot?

Oh, and since I never actually said anything about criminal law or free speech, as usual, I'll treat what you say as gibberish.

Yes. It always amazes me, but it seems to actually be the norm.

Have you ever spoken with someone outside the US? Or just in the echo chamber of "we're Murica, we're #1"?

So when someone from the UK gets on me for free speech or criminal law, I laugh a lot but I don't count it as credible.

That's OK, I'm not from the UK, and I don't you overly credible either.

So, are you saying that the data is "encrypted" in such a way as to be readable by anything which is running as your user?

Because, basically that would mean that it's not really encrypted in any meaningful way, because you inherently trust every single process to access your passwords.

Quite frankly, that sounds pretty dumb, because it means you explicitly make this available to every single process. So, Adobe could read your passwords if you read a PDF?

That's pretty weak if I understand what you said. And precisely why I don't trust applications to remember my passwords.

Oh right so now we need to segregate language based on how people react?

No, you're quite free to continue to be an asshole if it pleases you. I don't give a damn if you do. Just own it if you offend the wrong person.

I don't believe in the right to not be offended. I also don't believe that someone won't respond to you in a way you might not like.

The question was: why is it offensive? You'll note I said nothing at all about censorship.

Do you work for the Chinese government?

Do you still screw your mother?

You seem to think yourself quite clever, I'm sorry to disappoint you.

I'm a big fan of google right now, but let's see how long "don't be evil" lasts once Larry and Sergey have moved on, and MBA brain damage is calling the shots.

Some of us would argue they gave up on "don't be evil" quite some time ago.

I don't disagree, however, that a future Google will be even more evil.

Out of curiosity, have you ever heard Pakistan actually mentioned in conversation without it being a negative reference, anyway?

Oddly enough, I've known many people from Pakistan over the years.

They're all nice, normal people, with jobs and families and lives. Not a single one has blown themselves up or anything.

Out of curiosity, have you ever heard America referenced in conversation without it being a negative reference? The best thing I've heard is they have lots of guns and shoot one another quite often. Maybe I've never heard it used any way other than negatively for a reason; maybe every time they were brought up, it was to make a complaint.

See what I did there?

TWC: "Surely only Comcast can save us! Please allow the merger!"
Government: "Well golly gee, what a great idea!"

Comcast: Mwuhahahaha ... no data caps(*), bitches.

(*) You can buy all the data you want like suckers, and we'll keep getting away with crap like this once we're the only game in town.

I, for one, would love to know if spacetime is lumpier than expected, regardless of what you care to call it.

LOL .... lumpy? Why am I suddenly hearing "timey wimey" and a Cup O Soup metaphor from the Doctor?

But, thanks for putting more context to this ... because my initial response was "really? We're taking that seriously now?"

Oh shut the fuck up already.

LOL ... go fuck yourself, asshole.

Oh, wait, was that an offensive term? My bad.

Oh, I don't know, how about we ask some Pakistanis how they feel about it instead of Australians?

Just because someone doesn't think their use of the term is offensive, it doesn't mean that it isn't.

The people who use the term about other people are the last people you ask if it is an offensive term.

Like the N-word, if you're not in the group, it's not a term you get to use and say "oh, it's just a word, it's not offensive".

Please tell us what is the good brand then.

I'm sure we'd all love to know ... but the quality of the HP consumer products has been in decline for years now.

Their printers used to be absolutely awesome, now I rank them as right around the cheap Kodak printers you buy.

They're simply not a go-to brand any more.

How is "Pakis" offensive? It is clearly an abbreviation of "Pakistanis", and I assume you don't find the full word offensive.

Because, as far as I've ever heard it, it's only ever used as a pejorative term, and definitely not as an endearing shortening of the word.

I have never heard it as anything but derogatory.

It's offensive, because that's how it's used.

I've been noticing this for several years now ... what the hell is up with URLs at HP?

It's like they've designed their website so nobody could ever actually find anything.

I mean "http://h30434.www3.hp.com/" is one of the most strangely formed URLs I've seen, what is it, the virtual host or something?

Or grooves would work maybe? If you had your rope as one large loop you could wrap it around the whole block a couple of times and then pull the rope from the top - the tension in the rope should hold the cradles in place and you can just pull continuously on the rope to move the blocks. If you were being really clever you could presumably put a second smaller roller in front with the same setup repeated to gain some mechanical advantage.