Posts by deadlockvictim 1395 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
I think that he's thinking of a dutchman back in 1933.
The fire there helped an Austrian fellow who was having difficulties with troublesome politicians.
He got the support of the nobility and he was able to defeat the lefties and other troublemakers.
Personally, I would set fire to Lord Snowdon.
Let me get this right: The new Samsung Note is for those who missed the exorbitant price of the iPhone, for those missed the incredible lack of repairability of the iPhone, for those who miss all of the ports that iPhones don't have, for those who feel that Apple software mollycoddles you too much, for those who want to feel the warm embrace of Google's slurp. The new Samsung-buyer says that this has been well through.
KMcC: In truth, though, the most awful part of the whole experience was how everyone in the coffee shop, save two guys who came and talked to me afterwards, chose to ignore the whole thing and wouldn't even make eye contact afterwards. Cowards, I muttered under my breath.
First of all, condolences on such a traumatic experience. This sort of thing just adds years to your life. I hope that you are keeping an eye on Craigslist?
Secondly, have you thought about what you would do if you were working away to a deadline when such an event would happen? Would you leave your expensive laptop alone to chase some bugger and become a part of somebody else's problem? I'd like to say I would but I'm not sure I would though.
As a final thought, if such risks are more commonplace, I wonder if an old laptop would be a better option. For example, I just bought myself an old 17" PowerBook G4 to play games like Civilization in the train on for the equivalent of $50. Something like this would make a great work laptop for relatively light work like word-processing.
Are emoji context-sensitive or do they have a fixed meaning (aubergines/eggplants aside)?
If it's the latter, then a good manual is all the discerning autist needs. Surely the explicit nature of emoji should be an aid.
I still have my Kanji book (Hadamitzky & Spahn) but I find the brush-written Chinese characters to be a thing of beauty.
I have lived in the Far East and have no problem with the concept of ideographs. One can read texts much faster with them. My problem is more one of age. Kawaisugiru ne?
If I start using emoji now, it reeks desperately of trying to be down wif da yuuf. It seems as appropriate to me as if I were to start writing little love-hearts instead of dots over the letters i and j.
My pre-teen daughters like emoji and I have no problem with that. In fact, I'm using them to translate the subtle (or not so subtle) nuances in messages.
I feel sorry for my wife (who is also new to them and not especially enthralled by them) but is nonetheless obliged by social norms to understand them and use them more.
My knowledge of Judaism is limited so please correct me here if I am wrong. I may be guilty of generalising and of stereotypes here.
Is it possible for a gentile to become a member of the Jewish faith? I thought that one had to have a Jewish mother.
I mention this because the name Byrne is very Irish and the Irish in America are famously Catholic.
I just found it a bit odd that someone with a very Irish name would have a rabbi.
Katrinab: Sign up for a heterosexual dating site
Katrinab: Buy a pregnancy testing kit
Aren't you a self-proclaimed soft butch lesbian or am I mis-remembering?
Google has long known when you'll need either, both or neither of the aforementioned items, so I wouldn't worry. Just tell Google that you're feeling lucky...
His base voted him in order to throw a spanner in the works of the U.S. Government (which, is, anyway, a BAD THING) and he is doing as they hoped.
And while he may need a second term to fully wreck the U.S. economy, he is off to a promising start.
What I don't really understand is why Fox News and The President are bringing such publicity to the Gang of Four. It's almost as if they want Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez to be president in 2024. Because once the backlash to Trump occurs, the U.S. voting public will go for the diametric opposite of Trump and she is being greatly publicised at the moment.
MS: But killing off the floppy? Nope.
The iMac was the first public statement that the floppy's time had come. It was the first time (that I know of) that a popular selling computer *didn't* have a floppy drive. It was the beginning of the end.
And having had to install Office 98 from 45 floppies at the same time, I was glad that about this signal. CD-ROMs & CD-Burners were the way forward.
I have used a cartridge pen (a Rotring ArtPen EF, too. It's lovely to write with) for the last 20 years and not one person has ever asked to borrow it nor has it ever gone walkies. I think people have memories of ink-stains and frustration from early in primary school and the very sight of it brings back disagreeable memories.
Article: "A free society cannot allow social media giants to silence the voices of the people. That is why I’ve asked my administration to explore every possible regulatory and legislative solution because you have to have free speech."
The candidates in the Democratic Party now have their funding for the next presidential campaign sorted.
Rounded corners have been around in tech for quite a while, almost 40 years at least and maybe longer,
Steve Jobs was convincing Bill Atkinson about them back in 1981!
The link is from Andy Herzfeld's wonderful archive.org:
http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_Everywhere.txt
katrinab: That's easy:
• Heterosexual dating sites
• Pregnancy related stuff
• Nursery schools
• Vetinary equipment for cows
• Blockchains
• Ambulance chasers
There is a good film based on this list, I'm just try to work out the sequence of events. If one follows from the other, I'm curious to see the jump between «Nursery Schools» and what follows.
Article» Well, the Association of National Advertisers (ANA) hates it because it would make the process for gathering and using user data opt-in. This is a critical distinction and one that privacy advocates are fully in favor of: companies would be required to get users to say Yes to having their information stored, rather than gather the information and require them to figure out how to say No.
The Browser Act's opt-in approach is "vague and confusing" according to the ANA and will "bombard consumers with annoying consent notices." You won't be surprised to hear that the ANA has created its own "privacy self-regulatory program to assure and enhance this type of oversight."
I understand that the bill's proponent has a disreputable past but what it proposes would be a good thing, wouldn't it? Fazal Majid's point is taken but more privacy-protection is still better than the current state of affairs. After reading the article, I'm not really sure why there is hate for it, other than the usual partisan antagonism.
Unless, of course, the proposition of the bill is a polite way of asking tech giants like Google and Facebook for massive campaign contributions...
But you don't and you haven't.
Could it be that the technology isn't so easy and that you are deluding yourself?
Suggestion:
Scrounge together enough money to make an impressive proof-of-concept. As an example, Steve Jobs sold his bus to get Apple going back in the mid-1970s.
Since the technology is easy, it shouldn't be too hard to make one. Once you have displayed this impressive proof-of-concept to all and sundry, start up a Kickstarter or Patreon to get more serious funding.
If the technology is as easy as you claim, then there will be many on this site at least who will be, very, very interested.
Well, to be fair to the arty dudes (and, in my experience, they are always dudes) in the Colouredy Pencil office, they are using Macs.
These may have played nicely with non-Mac servers but not all sysadmins are well versed in the, em, peculiarities of getting them to play nicely with the rest of the network. Trevor Potts wrote about this many years' ago. So, often the macs and their attendant hardware are left separated.
Added to that, it is not uncommon that they want/need expensive hardware (I've seen very pricey scanners from Scitex, for example, in my time), so I feel their pain.
You see, I don't think that you are. A troll doesn't necessarily believe what he/she posts and posts purely to irritate the initial poster.
You, I believe, passionately believe in all that you post and are trying your damndest to convince us. When you post that you are THE expert, I believe that you believe that you are correct and write this without malice. From what I have seen of your posts, I would tend more towards you being Aspie rather than you being a troll. However, I may be wrong.
Ilya» I'm the expert, you need no others.
What is the opposite of a troll? Proselytiser, perhaps?
I. Geller passionately believes in all that he writes yet still ends up writing like a troll.
Personally, I consider the consumption of news akin to the consumption of food. If you want to binge on American cable-networks, the fast-food outlets of the news world, then you can expect bad things to happen to you down the road. One needs a balanced diet. You know what is good for you — quality journalism from respected news outlets and you need to consume a wide range of news outlets.
If your information comes only from one source and is almost impossible to corroborate, then the chance of being fake is quite high.
I make use of them as educational tools. I put the person from "Microsoft" on speakerphone, call my daughter over and tell her that this is a phisher. That they are people who are trying to get you to install malicious software onto your computer so that they can access it. We then go through the pre-written spiel until they hang up.
They are starting to either use or spoof numbers from the U.K. (0044) these days. I miss the Indian numbers (0091).
Noting that grabbing womens' genitals will get you elected president in the U.S., maybe a reverse pyschology is needed in order to get into the U.S.
Those with no Twitter account are immediately suspect. Those with no disrespectful comments will be immediately disrepected. And those who say that they would like to practice the Second Amendment rights on cloth-heads will get them slapped on the back?
And because it's slightly on-topic: Foils, Arm & Hogg:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjab8fanzHc
Are you concerned about the lack of regularity of the reports or the infrequency thereof?
How often something happens and how regularly it happens are not necessarily the same thing.
Halley's comet comes regularly but not often — regular but not frequent.
It rains in April frequently but not regularly — not regular but frequent.
I don't mind ads per se but with a few important caveats (caveant?)
1. I loathe tracking and personalisation. I am not unhappy to receive random ads.
2. I loathe ads that suck up bandwidth and screen-space. Ads that are not obtrusive are OK.
3. I don't want ads loading last — and I'm looking here at you Bing — which cause me to click on the ad rather than the first returned entry. It just makes me annoyed.
4. I don't want third-party websites knowing that I'm visting your site. I don't care about fancy typefaces and I do care about having my usage data harvested. As with point 1, I don't want to be profiled and I intend to make it as hard as I can for those who want to do it.
5. I regard third-party scripts as creepy men jotting down who is attending where and when. Kafka and Communist East Germany spring to mind.
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