Posts by Graham Dawson

Re: Crud generators.

Twilight, you're assuming that the wiring in your older building will be up to the required standard. Often it isn't. I could tell you horror stories about the wiring in ostensibly refurbished old buildings and I can tell you right now that none of them would have supported any sort of PLT installation. Wireless repeaters would be more reliable. Given the cost of having to strip and replace all the wiring to make PLT reliable you'd be as well to just install cat5/6 alongside anyway. You'd get a more reliable, higher bandwidth signal and more scope for modification in future if you leave in enough redundancy. Plus you can run phones down it.

Re: Originality?

Originality died with Homer. Everything since then has been fanfiction.

Re: running on a Mac which was itself running an Android emulator

Ah, you can't fool me, it's VMs all the way down!

Re: "You are all individuals!"

Shh!

Given the speeds involved it's unlikely they even felt it.

@Burb Re: I was in bed last night fantasizing away....

And yet they're still both negative. This isn't a semantic argument, it's the scientific meaning of the words. Acids are acids, bases are bases. If you are reducing your basic content you aren't "acidifying", you are debasing or neutralising. You only acidify something when you pass neutral.

besides it's all moot anyway. If the oceans warm they can't hold as much CO2 even with a higher partial pressure of CO2 in the atmosphere. This "acidification" of the oceans and global warming are mutually exclusive events.

Re: More Leach tripe.

New variation on "if you've nothing to hide" hmm?

Re: Next stop: A language based on either Elvish or Klingon

Elvish? Klingon? Old hat. Go look up FiM++ if you want real crazy.

Also, I feel I should long point that Arabic odds disconnect from OPs complained-about languages in that it is not constructed, but add-on actual, living tongue.

Re: The Right to Free Speech

How, exactly, do words oppress someone?

The right to free speech is precisely what it says: the right to speak. You may exercise responsibility along with that right if you wish, but the right itself is nothing more or less than what it is: we have vocal cords, we can use them. It has no moral or ethical dimension, it is simply an acknowledgement of the natural state of the world. Codified in law, it becomes a requirement that the state not interfere with that right.

Free speech is one of the natural rights (or god-given rights if you're so inclined), also known as negative rights. A negative right has no requirement that others give up their rights to support yours. I can speak freely all day without anyone having to give up anything in order to support that right. No sacrifice of another's rights must be made to grant me my freedom of speech.

Re: Efficiently on par with real plants

Plants are passé. You can't make a big "We're saving the world!" splash just by waving a tree at people, you have to be technological about it.

It's all a sop to green investment funds and politicians looking to shovel more subsidy at anything that looks even remotely environmentalist, and never mind the consequences. Or the costs. Or anything.

Re: Touch

Oddly enough, the greasy finger marks don't show up so clearly on a matte screen.

Re: F**k Opera

In settings, check "pinch to reflow text" and there you go. Maybe it's only in ff beta, I don't use anything else.

Re: Voice of the balls

"Brain the size of a planet and you're using me to ask about the weather. Windows were invented for a reason you know. Next you'll be asking me when you should breathe in and out. Humans seem so pointless sometimes."

@strum Re: Plan B? Plan C?

American? Shows what you know strum.

Perhaps you should go and read up a little on the natural rights of man.

Re: Woohoo!

The voltage difference between each end will be rather impressive. You could probably prevent most of the issues you're thinking of by using it as a power source.

Re: @Graham Dawson @John Deeb

That logic doesn't even remotely follow. Blaming the judicial system for being the causative agent of his depression is constructive in that it identifies the most likely source of his illness. His parents and his family were not acting in ways that could trigger depression; they were passive participants at best, and unaware of his mental state. The judges and the judicial system were active participants in the events and did not need to be aware of his mental state in order to cause it.

That's the difference.

That's why the judicial system can be asked to shoulder responsibility for the outcome.

As much as any other ISS module. They have a special radiation shelter for a reason.

Re: ASUS have a winner for me anyway ...

If the windows can be replaced with a linux distro I'll be all over that thing like a rash.

Re: They haven't yet..

Bacon fried in butter, one boiled egg and a pile of roasted almonds will cure that hangover right off. Guaranteed.

Re: Can't be.

Good choice.

Re: needs shake-up in own apps

The shutter control.

Re: @But do we actually need all this progress?

Except, of course, the little problem that is never acknowledged: the European economies had begun making all of the changes necessary to bring about this new peaceful era in the aftermath of world war 2, before even the Coal and Steel union between France and Germany was put into place, never mind the EU, which wouldn't be implemented until the mid 90s. The EU was late to the party, claimed credit for something it had nothing to do with, and in the end spent most of its time fighting over which of its presidents would get to hold the prize certificate and who'd pocket the cash.

The EU and the EEC before it did nothing to create peace in Europe. They rode on the post-war economic boom that was brought about by rapid (and necessary) cooperation and integration between the nations of Europe, then claimed they were responsible for it, when in reality they've done the most to rein it in and crush it with their constant regulation.

And the nobel peace prize wasn't meant to be awarded to organisations anyway. It's right there in the charter for the damn thing.

Re: Two thumbs up

You forgot apple.

I was goig to say "you forgot mirosoft" too, but nobody likes Microsoft.

Legitimising systematic abuse of your population through legislation does not make it good.

Re: Guess these subsibers are feeling like those who ...

Perhaps someone said they didn't like paying the licence fee.