No one is forcing them to do drugs.
Indeed. But YOU and people like you are forcing the money they spend on drugs into criminal enterprises. Which was entirely the point.
I can already hear you now: "But, but if they did not DO the drugs in the first place, it would not be a problem."
Carry on with your naivete kind sir. Carry on.
I think you are not realizing exactly how long ago this was. Debian existed, yes. Debian had no safety rails at the time. No distributions did. This was when Slackware was still below version 2. I was upgrading (manually) to version 2.3 iirc. RPM for Redhat was still in its infancy as well.
Heh. Indeed. It is literally one of the reasons I became a diehard Linux fan. I could never have recovered like that in Windows.
Hm. I am not entirely certain that counts... but okay. It is more legitimate of a claim than any other assuming they can indeed prove an unbroken lineage.
I was scheduled to work from home today
Meh. You are just a fraction of a percent. A rounding error. In this new world of global dominance and market share, fractions of a percent do not count. That is what the MBA folks say anyways.
The climate is currently taking a 'hiatus' from warming due to the alleged storage of heat in the deep ocean.
I am not part of this Global Warming thing; either for or against. I believe in trying not to affect the environment as much as possible and I am aware of all of the yelling and screaming; however, heating the deep parts of the ocean scare me like building an atom bomb in my basement scares me.
Do you recall the huge tsunami that hit Indonesia, Thailand, etc? IIRC it was back in 2007 or so. That was nothing compared to what heating the depths of the ocean will do. The ocean is HUGE and the thermal inertia is just O.M.F.G. huge. Storing that much energy on the planet can only be a VERY bad thing. I have no idea what will happen because of that amount of energy being stored but it will not be good if it is not released again VERY slowly and carefully.
I remind him that Jesus founded the Catholic Church as His Church and thus it and the Pope speak for God; and it says so in the Bible
Say what? I have read through several versions of the christian bible and at no point do I recall Jesus founding the Catholic Church.
In Wikipedia terms: Citation Needed.
As long as the watermark does not interfere with the quality, I am 100% for watermarks. I fully and emphatically support the right of a creator to be acknowledged throughout all of time to be the creator and to possibly profit off of the piece that was created. The profit part implies some sort of copyright laws but it should be noted that I strongly and emphatically despise current copyright law.
In short, anything that does not affect the use by the person paying for the copyrighted work is fair game.
As for your "recorded half-way through" comment, it would be clear that the video didn't start at the beginning and that the cops arrived late at the scene. If a jury can't understand that, you're fucked anyway.
So you really are fucked anyway. Heh.
We are building turnkey police state infrastructure.
The last of my mod points expired yesterday. What a shame because this right here is decidedly very insightful and bears repeating. Sure, a lot of people feel safe and secure and think this will only be a good thing... until they find out that any good from it is an unintentional side effect. By then, it will be too late.
In short, you are a paranoid nutter... but you are right.
Hm. It is rare to see a +6 type of comment twice in a year but you nailed it. Hard. Google could indeed deliver the coup de grace to Microsoft today. Almost makes you wonder why they have refrained from doing so.
If you take a step back and look at the latest phones and tablets, the majority of them have tile interfaces in some form or another. So, it looks like some form of tiles will be here to stay.
Erm, a desktop is NOT used for the same things phones and tablets are used for. What makes you think that the interface should be anywhere near similar for all use cases? Does Maya have the same interface as Counter Strike? Does Eclipse have the same interface as Civilization V? Does Maya have the same interface as Eclipse?
Sure, they all use a mouse and keyboard, but they use them radically differently. How the hell is touch interface supposed to work with ANY of those programs that I listed? The only one that seems even vaguely capable of being touch related is Civilization V followed not closely at all by Maya.
Touch interfaces can be an extremely powerful and intuitive paradigm, but it is being done 100% wrong at the expense of the usefulness of the other interface devices such as a keyboard and possibly mouse.
Tiles are purely a menuing system. That is all. There are more efficient menus out there than touch enabled tiles.
A country where the Government gets to censor what we see and hear can't function as a democracy. Democracy relies on the citizens being able to freely communicate. That can't happen under censorship.
Removal of anonymity (ubiquitous surveillance) is just as much of a problem to a democratic form of government as censorship.
We'll likely be telling our grandkids with stories of hundreds of non-automated cars screaming down the highway piloted by fallible humans. Of course, they'll just roll their eyes at us, make an "uphill both ways in the snow" comment, and tell their RobotCar to take them to the mall.
The shame in all that is they will never be able to have their robot car take them past the edge of civilization as we can currently. I drive a lot in areas where there are no real roads. I get to see all sorts of interesting stuff. They will never be able to do so. "Car, drive forward, turn left, turn right, speed up, slow down" is not really going to work where there are no truly defined roads and destinations.
A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -- Thomas Jefferson
