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Sander Rossel wrote: Is this a free country or what!?
Of course it is (according to the normal definition of "free"). However, you still have strict rules (as do most countries) that most of us accept as necessary for the benefit of all. For example, there are rules regarding driving on a particular side of the road. They clearly limit the freedom of people who wish to drive on the other side, perhaps simply to get past a long queue that inconveniences them. Not many people would argue that those rules are unreasonable.
My point is that some rules are necessary and acceptable even if they sometimes seem arbitrary and restrictive. There will always be some measure of disagreement about where the line should be drawn between total freedom and necessary restriction. We need to be careful about claiming that some are just wrong because they don't meet our judgement about where the line should be drawn.
Phil
The opinions expressed in this post are not necessarily those of the author, especially if you find them impolite, inaccurate or inflammatory.
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Yeah, I'm not attacking having rules, but telling people they cannot go outside and giving them such ridiculous fines crosses a line.
Urging people to stay inside, fine.
Urging people not to visit friends and relatives, fine.
Bugging people about why they're outside when they're outside and urging them to go home, still fine.
Trespassing a private residence and giving out fines because a car is parked out front and you can see visitors through the window, crossing a line.
Giving out fines that people have to work months for to pay because they're cutting someone's hair who has agreed to that, crossing a line.
Allowing people to live together, but then giving them a fine when they go outside together, not only ridiculous, but also crossing a line.
Giving people a criminal record for being outside or visiting relatives, crossing that line like there is none!
It may be difficult to draw the line, but our government is certainly crossing it and we can only wonder if it's still for "the greater good".
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Ah simulations - like climate change. Let's take a very complex situation, put it on the internet, and further stampede the masses.
I recommend this: NUKEMAP by Alex Wellerstein[^]
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Smoking Meth and posting bible verses on Facebook does not make you a Methodist!
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
JaxCoder.com
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... jutht methed up?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Be nasty to a woman, defending it with bible verses, could make her a Metoodist.
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... it's old, but so appropriate: Social distance bar fight[^]
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Never seen that before but it is hilarious, thanks for pointing it out.
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Read the title, saw the link to YouTube, went in expecting to see a Shatner fight scene...
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"Relevance is not Relevant"
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is this where I can disagree?
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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Oh I'm sorry, is this a five minute disagreement, or the full half hour?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Quite a revaluation!
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
JaxCoder.com
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She hasn't realized what I've done yet, but the thyme is cumin.
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Drop her a card - a mom appreciates the warning. But you're a sage bloke, sesame - you'll know that already.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Or as Dylan would say..."The Thymes they are a changin"
When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know.
But if you listen, you may learn something new.
--Dalai Lama
JaxCoder.com
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I fell too often for that; it's hard to see if someone salted your sugar.
Salty coffee in the morning. Salty whipped cream once.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Wow.
I would never have mustard the curryage...
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Hah! I did that three weeks ago[^]!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant Anonymous
- The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine Winston Churchill, 1944
- Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. Mark Twain
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Yeah but you did it to your wife's spice rack and he did it to his mother's.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Stolen.
[Edit]
By me I mean, for future use...
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OK, so Windows Live Mail - my previous email app - is eight years old (and written by MS as a "cut-down" version of Outlook Express, remember - it's important) and Outlook 2019 is shiny, new, and obviously much, much better.
So ... while you are editing a message, why don't the CTRL+LEFT, CTRL+RIGHT keys do anything? In Live mail, and Word, (and notepad, and Chrome, and Edge, and ....) they move "One word Left" and "One word Right" which is really handy when your typing error rate is as poor as mine currently is ...
And not to be outdone, Outlook has an "Open in Browser" option for emails it's mangled beyond redemption by eliminating images (not that that's a problem, but sometimes you need to say "sod the security" and load images to make sense of what some companies are saying). Many apps do this: and they fall into two classes:
1) Apps which use the system default browser to open the new page.
2) Apps which always deliberately open Edge to view the new page.
And while (2) is annoying (and only some MS apps do this, not all are as rude) Outlook falls into neither category. Why not? Because it forces open IE11 even if you didn't know it was installed on your PC.
Come on MS, get your damn act together. Is it really necessary to roll your own text editor for every separate application? Do you really have to force us to use something your own company abandoned five years ago?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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modified 17-May-20 2:55am.
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It seems after all open source software not that bad...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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OriginalGriff wrote: ...Because it forces open IE11 even if you didn't know it was installed on your PC. Back in XP days ms "integrated" ie into the OS (started in NT but XP finished that work.)
and in ms: once something is in, it's in forever because everything uses it, even the OS itself.
- [only] bonus: dead easy for windows to run decades old apps, even those that 'belong' to older versions
- largest downside: easy for virii/trojans to exploit decades old loopholes
-- read any 'how did this virus work' and it's clear that's 95% of what they rely on)
all the baggage is in there and impossible to remove (because even the OS itself STILL relies on using it, i.e. anything that renders a text box or checkbox or...
outlook still uses the ie-11 rendering functionality for it's basic message display,
... sane people would suggest then bundle/dll that into the outlook app (until replaced),
not microsoft - many more other apps, hell the OS itself too still needs bits of it too.
- ever noticed that even though edge uses an entirely new caching method and storage, or you only uses say chrome, folders like "Temporary Internet Files," "Low," "content.ie5", "content.mso"... folders still keep appearing??
...often in in the most stupid places - they STILL don't even have proper data / app code / user files / temp file / cache / settings storage separation, heck they still got way too much of it (but not all by a long shot) in that registry, some in the <home>/local, some in the <home>/Roaming, some in the <home>/My Documents, some in the <home>, some STILL in C:\, some more in <windir>, more in <windir system32=""> .... settings, caches, data alike
.. oh, and also thus the real reason ms will never release their old OS sources - 90% of the old core is still very much in use.
only maybe 20% of windows 10 core is less than 10 years old - most of that being the gui DESIGN.
yeah sure, they have re-written/optimized parts: re-written it to do exactly the same thing with exactly the same intentional backdoors and loopholes (i.e. exposed should-be-private data because they themselves need to rely on that - then later [had to] add extra code to stop user apps (virii) exploiting purpose designed sillyness.
their entire "operating system" is still based, really solidly based at it's core on NT/XP.
From the outset their model was broken (no real separation of os / user space, no separation of os from hardware, hell, not even separation of os from the GUI), and they're still piling crap on top.
-- Sunday rant over --
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, CCP
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silly you.. you are supposed to be doing it in the Cloud..
Then, using your favorite browser (Edge of course), it all works fine. Even Ctrl-Right. At least it all works in Chromium.
I tested it carefully before going back to Thunderbird.
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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