...until you quote it, maybe?
I don't use ignore lists. As deggis said, they don't solve any problem. On top of that, even the most stupid forumer can from time to time say something intelligent, and the most intelligent one can say something stupid.
To me, a huge ignore list is just the symptom of a failure.
Panem et circenses, xaotik. I suppose I have no need to translate.
As you do, I won't look for political responsibility of the higher echelon. The higher echelon, in modern democracies, is just an expression of abilities and inabilities of the people who choose their leaders: the leaders are just us when we reach power, and thus they are perfectly representative. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a democracy...
As you do, I won't look for political responsibility of the higher echelon. The higher echelon, in modern democracies, is just an expression of abilities and inabilities of the people who choose their leaders: the leaders are just us when we reach power, and thus they are perfectly representative. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a democracy...
As citizen of a Country which has enormous faults when dealing with human rights issues, I agree completely.
As a grandchildren of people who fought these enormous faults risking their lives, I agree completely.
As a simple observer of human facts, not unbiased because I don't live in the States, I agree completely.
But then, again, there's the problem you're raising: why more often in the States? Is the problem systemic? If yes, where does it have its dark beginning? And, more important, is this just a symptom of something bigger?
As a form of consolation, I don't think history books will be generally kind with them. It may look like a little thing, but for people who struggle to be remembered as great men it isn't.
Okay, you don't like it, neither do I, but the enormous amount of idiots who keep posting homophobic, ignorant comments makes me believe I've made a huge mistake with you, and that's sad. You know what I mean.
I don't. I just wish him to be tried at Le Hague instead of being proposed as president of anything. No matter what you think about EU or its presidency, mine is a legitimate desire regarding a person who pretended he was able to fix a sewer and instead he broke all the seals. The stench is unbearable.
Same goes for Bush, sure, but as long as Blair (and companions) are allowed to walk the streets free of hassle I can't really hope US war criminals get jailed.
Edit: I forgot to say I signed the petition, not that I believe it will have any kind of effect, but I also have no problem in spending two minutes stating my opinion.
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He didn't generalise, although he's been more specific later. As for simpletons, I don't pretend everyone can understand even simple things. So...
Two answers:
Yes, if those who generalise are flamebaiting.
No, if they are simpletons.
Edit: XCNuse, your words are surprisingly similar to my signature, but I want to assume that's just a coincidence. In fact I feel more like him than like you, so I won't dismiss his non-rant.
Yes, if those who generalise are flamebaiting.
No, if they are simpletons.
Edit: XCNuse, your words are surprisingly similar to my signature, but I want to assume that's just a coincidence. In fact I feel more like him than like you, so I won't dismiss his non-rant.
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My favourite one, I always asked myself if it was fake or not, but if I reflect about my reactions to obnoxious outlaws who keep disturbing me I think it's perfectly real...
Working for call centers is a shitty job, sure, but I have no understanding at all for people who bug me when the law states they can't do it, so my answer to their abuse is sometimes extremely strong. They asked for it, they got it. Moreover they keep asking for my father who died three years ago... Such nuisances demand a harsh treatment.
This is true also in Italy and you're right, my example is valid primarily for urban areas where a limit is enforced because the probability of, as a simple example, a pedestrian crossing the street is much higher.
But all things considered a correct evaluation of speed is always up to the driver, regardless of the speed limit.
Road speed limits are crafted that way, especially for blind corners: they aren't calculated on the speed you can safely mantain without going off the road, they are conservatively calculated on visibility and supposed reaction times.
Some drivers are real idiots, and we know that. The Italian laws about driving state that if you fail to avoid an accident when you have the possibility to do so you're as guilty as the person who originally was at fault. I guess such rules are the same everywhere. It makes sense, it avoids people becoming idiots just to resist an illegal pass and teach a stupid lesson to someone.
No matter why you do it, reckless driving is just bad, and raising the amount of dangerous driving to answer to another reckless driver is an enormous act of stupidity that should be harshly punished.
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Exactly 4 meters full of junk, and it was a good day. Part of the long bench is occupied by junk too (a Momo and a monitor are visible). Anyway that's a just a pretty room in my basement. I use it as a lab, and each time I do a major cleanup friends worry about my mental health. They're used to see that room as part of my personality.
I wouldn't say oversensitive... I'd say flamebaiting. This thread was free from stereotypes about nationalities until you decided to flame Brits
... But in a thing you're right: comments qualify single persons. You've qualified yourself.
Neither do I, the only unfortunate stereotyping I see in this page doesn't come from Europe. I just hope people won't learn the hard way that a road is no less public just because it seems empty.
It doesn't really make me angry, it makes me smile. All things considered you never know what's around a G25, don't you?
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Get daddy to buy an s2 license too then, it shouldn't be a problem. It hasn't been for me, and I drive an old 1995 Peugeot 106 that my daddy bought.
As I stated in a previous edit of mine as an alternative reason.
As for the forum in RSC, the usernames obviously are not synced with lfs.net.
No, I don't think so as of now, but I can't figure out a good reason in 2003 for having a demo account registered on lfs.net, if not for wanting to buy S1 since in 2003 there was no forum. That must be why the first users are all licensed.
I understand that, but still I have to note that the first users in the list are either s1 or s2 licensed, and this forum was created in 2005, after the release of S1. No demo users, except one who posted in the thread I linked with a demo account since he couldn't change his name.
So there are a few options:
1) All the first lfs.net account holders eventually got an s1 or s2 license.
2) There has been a cleanup of demo users.
If there's been a cleanup, either initially or later, only licensed accounts remain at the start.
Edit: I've browsed only the first 20 users or so, so my conclusions are partial.
Re-edit: Scirocco is right, my reasoning is flawed. But what was the main reason, at the time, for registering at LFS.net? There was no LFS forum and probably (I don't know for sure since I knew about LFS later) no statistics for demo users, so I assume that the only good reason was the intention to buy S1, which I recognise is not the same as buying S1. Or, alternatively, one could have had the intention to reserve a user name for future use.
So there are a few options:
1) All the first lfs.net account holders eventually got an s1 or s2 license.
2) There has been a cleanup of demo users.
If there's been a cleanup, either initially or later, only licensed accounts remain at the start.
Edit: I've browsed only the first 20 users or so, so my conclusions are partial.
Re-edit: Scirocco is right, my reasoning is flawed. But what was the main reason, at the time, for registering at LFS.net? There was no LFS forum and probably (I don't know for sure since I knew about LFS later) no statistics for demo users, so I assume that the only good reason was the intention to buy S1, which I recognise is not the same as buying S1. Or, alternatively, one could have had the intention to reserve a user name for future use.
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Were demo users accounts originally imported to the LFS forum users database when the forum was created? If not, vari may well have been one of the first (if not the first) licensed users.
I know. From a popular point of view, paraphrasizing Celine out of context, I might just be building needles to sodomize flies.
Or - from my own point of view - I'm stating that I've grown tired of polls that flatten everything to some well known border or beaten track. Don't ask us the word that squares each side of our formless soul, wrote Eugenio Montale.
I'd classify him under post-techno and glitch, or click. Carsten Nicolai has been the purest glitch/click artist up to date, at least in his solo efforts. But I already said elsewhere in this forum that taxonomies in music are always imperfect.
To be precise, I'm relating more to artists such as Pernaiachi (two CDs in a long compositional career, Ora being a two hours silent masterpiece) or Sukora (Tower was hard to find at an acceptable price). However, everything is related to John Cage's opinion about the inexistence of absolute silence from a purely perceptional point of view.
There's a lot more stuff in lowercase than dirty silence, however
Edit: maybe this is just a complicated way to say I won't ever vote in such poll...
Less useless != useful.
As a simple example, where's lowercase? That's what I particularly dig in the last few days.
As a simple example, where's lowercase? That's what I particularly dig in the last few days.
FGED GREDG RDFGDR GSFDG