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Comment Re:Says you... (Score 1) 473

And actually, I initiate conversation IRL too. The problem is that some guys get unnerved by it or make judgments about what kind of girl we might be, so we get reluctant about making the first move.

And, would you be interested in guys who make such judgements about what of a girl you might be? :)

(I'm hinting the answer is 'no')

Comment Re:Rapid Release - a Tradeoff (Score 1) 415

The grandparent is a dick. I understand that this is a transitional period for Firefox extensions authors. That's not my problem. My problem is the direction the browser is heading.

I was a happy 3.6 user. I skipped 4 and upgraded to 5. First thing I notice is that the status bar is gone and replaced with a line that hovers at the bottom of the page, showing the URL.

That's the noob's way. That's how Safari and Chrome do it because they don't want to bother their users. Good for them, but I'm a power user and I want a power browser. I like being in control of my web experience.

The status bar is a part of any sane application. It is intuitive. It gives feedback on what's happening. It's not that you gave us the choice of disabling it, we could already do that ages ago. You simply took it away from us.

I know I can bring it back with an extension but that's not the point. This change was indicative of where Firefox is going. It's becoming a noob browser. If I wanted a noob browser I would use Safari or Chrome. I use Firefox because I want to have all the power extensions that allow me to control how things happen in my browser.

Comment Re:Not that surprising from Belarus (Score 1) 111

"Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victim may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

-- C.S. Lewis

Comment Re:bullshit (Score 1) 147

Your friend was dealing with sour people. If you nice, you don't usually (repeat, usually) get a PI following you. It's natural that he felt sour for people in general. But not all people are like that.

What I mean to say is that the type of your job effects your opinion on lots of things.

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