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It's doing the rounds again, because the idiot who claims to be an artist (but who produces no art) has managed to drum up enough (self-)publicity to result in questions being asked in the UN.
He'll be out banging his self-promotional drum again, this year -- because it beats the Hell out of doing any work, doesn't it?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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It does bother me, naive imperialism. If you go to another country respect their traditions! It isn't difficult. If you come into my house and complain that my thermostat is set too low and I am killing the environment, well I would pepper spray you too : )
( I kid around, I am in Florida, we have a stand your ground law so pepper spray isn't necessary)
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I thought Stand your ground was only for old people 
But what are the consequences from this law, has it had any benifits/major problems as a result of it? More shootings etc?
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I am sure there a lot of bad examples where the law is misused but here on the ground people think twice about starting a confrontation now. You don't pick a fight when someone can shoot you dead for doing so.
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Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote: You don't pick a fight when someone can shoot you dead for doing so.
Most people I know don't pick a fight cos they're not a violent a**hole.
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.” Bill Hicks
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So you have never been to Florida then?
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Let's say, just for discussion, that Zwarte Piet is black.
Let's say, just for discussion, that Zwarte Piet was a black slave.
I guess I'm wondering why it's important to wipe out any trace of slave history. I should think there would be some benefit - on some level - as a form of remembrance. I should think that we'd want to remember that we've a history of marginalizing people based upon their skin color.
My wife has an ancestor that was abducted off the cost of Scotland about 200 years ago.
He was forced to work as a white slave and he eventually earned his freedom.
Nobody I know would be offended if people celebrated that event by dressing up as a white shepherd who was abducted.
I think that would be pretty awesome.
So slavery for blacks is a part of history - it is a part of history that we should celebrate and keep in our traditions because to forget it is to forget two important things:
1: We often do horrible things to one another.
2: It is possible to change.
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Bloody well said.
You missed out one item, though:
3. Don't expect intelligent arguments from worthless self-publicists.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm mostly Irish. My people were disposable. (Aren't they still?)
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I should think the liquor industry views you as indispensable.
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Well, yesterday I got excited since I saw Win 8.1 is available for free inside my Win 8.0 store.
Download notice says that "you will be asked to accept the General Condigitions Aggreement" at some point during install.
Ok, so far, so good. Started download, came OK. Them it immediatly started to "Applying changes". And then came the status "Gathering info...".
And then, after a restart, to my surprise the old win 8.0 was back, saying I didn't aggree to General Conditions..."
How can you aggree to something when you are never asked for it??
After 3 times I got tired... (still takes some time to download). Have to retry it tonight to see if it works..
Did anybody here had the same kind of issue with Windows Upgrade??
The signature is in building process.. Please wait...
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Well, various problems were reported about Windows 8[^].
People becoming wiser in order to notice the stupid things they did back in the young days. This doesn't mean that they really stop doing those things. Wise people still do stupid things, only on purpose.
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No problem loading although SQLServer 2008 Browser is a goner now with a chargeable update to 2013.. looks like its back to Win7.
Brian
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It worked ok for me, but I am wondering why I bothered.
I heard about the return of the start button and got excited. What I didn't realise is that said button would merely do the same thing as pressing the start key. I was expecting a start menu like in Windows 7 when on the desktop.
So in fact, rather than moving your mouse to the bottom left and clicking, you can just move it to onto a start button area on the bottom left. Everything else stays the same.
The fact that it was a Windows Store update rather than a traditional Windows update narked me as well. I haven't updated my RT device, and reading the news today it's just as well.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Rob Philpott wrote: What I didn't realise is that said button would merely do the same thing as
pressing the start key
try right click on start button. You will get some more option. I know it's not same as old start button but bit more helpful then the 8.0
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Rob Philpott wrote: I heard about the return of the start button and got excited
Why ? I cannot see what feature were in the start button that you do not have in Win8 
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: I cannot see what feature were in the start button that you do not have in Win8
The ability to click the start button and type and have the search results show up in the start menu. With Win8, instead, you are forced to the full screen RT interface to do the search and also have to switch between categories (apps/settings). So its not nearly as smooth as it was in Win7 and the whole "forcing you to a full screen view" just to do a search can be annoying.
More generally, the full screen nature of the start screen is an issue. Why force me to occupy my entire screen just to pick a program?
Also, the start screen doesn't let you setup a multi-level folder hierarchy to organize things, its all one big flat list (with groups of course).
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Perfectly expressed - my sentiments exactly.
Regards,
Rob Philpott.
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Dave Calkins wrote: to switch between categories (apps/settings)
This one I don't get. When I search, I get all results in a single list, as formerly in the start menu.
Dave Calkins wrote: Why force me to occupy my entire screen just to pick a program?
That is a matter of taste. Why speaks again full screen ?
Dave Calkins wrote: Also, the start screen doesn't let you setup a multi-level folder hierarchy to organize things
Indeed, you have the groups structure. And the search makes the "folderizing" obsolete, IMO.
I think it is all a matter of taste, but not of functionality.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Having only groups and no folder hierarchy is definitely lost functionality not simply different taste.
Same thing for forcing full screen. You lose the context of whatever it was you were doing on the rest of the screen as you're thrown into a full screen environment to do something that doesn't at all require full screen. Its a functionality thing because its completely changing your environment just to do 1 task which in no way would require that.
And yes, the search when you type thing filters it by the category selected on the right. So unlike Win7 where you could just type a partial name of anything, now you have to now and select the category first. This is lost functionality imo.
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Dave Calkins wrote: And yes, the search when you type thing filters it by the category selected on the right. So unlike Win7 where you could just type a partial name of anything, now you have to now and select the category first. This is lost functionality imo.
That's no longer the case in Win8.1. You will however probably want to uncheck the box that says to combine local system searches with Bing searches.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Interesting; I just recently installed Win 8.1 but hadn't noticed that change.
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Also note that there's a company with an addon for Win8 which re-adds the Win7 start button (not the 8.1 start button but the real 7 start button). They have another addon which lets you run windows store apps in desktop windows.
So if you want, you can get the full start button back in Win8 and if you like the apps, you can run them in desktop windows and essentially not need to use the start screen at all then.
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See, that happens when you have good marketing. There is no "return of the start button." Their merely implemented a toggle button but they sell it as a start button.
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