Generally I've found a good rule of thumb is that any republic that includes "People's" in the title is almost always the repressive one.
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) vs Republic of Korea (South Korea)
People's Republic of China (Mainland China) vs Republic of China (Taiwan)
Space exploration is to sea exploration like
There's (forgive the pun) astronomically less chance of surviving a fuckup in space.
Not a fair comparison. What you should have said is along the lines of Space exploration is to sea exploration like a hard vacuum is to many hundreds or thousands of PSI of water pressure crushing you. Either way, you're stuffed if something serious goes wrong.
If you are renting would the landlord be targetted?
Don't know if they would get targeted, but are you kidding? Landlords aren't held liable for anything. They just make risk-free money from rent.
Are you kidding? Unless the landlord is operating a dump he intends to fill with people who have no other options, a landlord is taking a huge risk that a tenant may:-
* Not pay the rent. (not all landlords own the property outright and many have a fairly hefty mortgage on it)
* Cause significant damage to the property and (in the case of multiple occupancy dwellings) others that the landlord *will* be left holding the bag on if the tenants disappear
I think the idea is to force all porn sites across to the
What rules are applied to this domain? If (for example) someone registers something like universal.xxx, would Universal Studios be able to challenge the validity of this domain in the same way as if someone registered universal_studios.com?
The problem is a lack of rapid transit. Cars alone cannot deal with the traffic of a large, dense city.
But of course, American's would never do something as sensible as vote to build rapid, socialist, transit, when highly subsidised roads, gas, etc.. are so free market.
I was over in California in April/May this year for a holiday and it amazed me just how fragmented and confusing the public transportation was. San Francisco was okay (even if BART was ear-splittingly loud) but LA was atrocious. Different fare structures for just about everything, seemingly no attempt whatsoever to match bus and "train" services and as often as not, two or three separate operators at the edge of coverage zones.
I still think Melbourne's public transport system isn't that great - it's fairly expensive and anywhere between 10-20% of services run late or get cancelled. But for a city that's about three times the size of Melbourne, Los Angeles' public transportation is a bad joke.
An yet several companies have the word apple in them...
You don't need to even have the word "apple" in your business name to have Apple come after you. Woolworths in Australia changed their logo to one that resembles apple peel, and Apple went after them.
when it's not broken, do not fix it.
I would have said that given the overhaul of the UI in FireFox 4.0, that when it's not broken, don't fix it again.
That's all well and good, but when you go four years between releases, that creates unnecessary problems with old software. Ubuntu does not have this issue. Even if you stick to the LTS releases, their software isn't so old as to cause serious incompatibilities with software you may need to install that aren't in the repositories.
Most netbooks are 32-bit x86 (i386.) It's not safe to assume x64 is universal among PC's yet.
It's pretty close to entirely safe to assume these processors are at least 486 or 586 based - if not 686. After all, the first processors to support the i686 instruction set were released in November 1995!
Enterprises don't use Ubuntu. RHEL (and thus CentOS) are still 'in favour'.
Absolutely not true. I've worked for three companies now that used Ubuntu. Often times, they stuck to the LTS release for extra stability and longevity, but they're still using Ubuntu. CentOS is very often a long way behind - after all, CentOS 5.0 was released over four years ago. I've had trouble maintaining an ageing MediaWiki site running on CentOS since MediaWiki have recently dropped support for PHP 4 - which is still the only version of PHP available in the main repositories for CentOS 4.
Sticking with older software versions (patched with security updates) isn't a bad thing - letting them decay so that admins are forced to rely on third-party repos with unknown compatibility issues or conflicts is something else entirely.
Especially since Windows 7 is just a vista service pack...
Windows 7 is a Vista service pack in the same way that XP was a service pack for 2000 - there were significant visual and under-the-hood changes. The visual changes were more noticible in XP since they introduced themes, but if you turned them off, XP looked about as similar to 2000 as 7 does to Vista.
In other words, they're more than just a service pack. Granted, not much more, but your statement is an oversimplification. In the case of Windows 7, it made an unusable OS something that didn't make you want to smash your computer into thousands of pieces.
That is a bad thing. It prevents natural selection.
I personally don't want someone even close to me, who would eat a electronics device otherwise! Would you?
Never mind the iPod nibbler, I don't want to be near the guy who tries to stop a chainsaw with his genitals...
Chewing on an iPod touch isn't so far-fetched. Some people have the habit of absent-mindedly putting small stuff they're carrying into their mouth.
Never mind that, I used to work with a guy who regularly used to stick things in his ears.
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