Everything posted by Gorgon
- TV: Heroes
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CIA torture directives
Well yes, we, the 'civilized' ,whatever that means, don't use torture as a means of repression. I was just making an interjection that we should not tolerate it's use in the name of national security either.
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Installing Ubuntu
You can also go further up, say /. If you have patience and no one else answers, I can offer you a screenshot tomorrow. I press the '/' button, or type it into a command line..There are up and down arrows but they don't lead anywhere that shows the drives like the system dropdown menu. Maybe it's just that one application.
- TV: Heroes
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CIA torture directives
i would doubt that. during the inquisition, yes, but not so much now. there are obviously some who think that such methods work - right or wrong, plus some that are simply sadistic (particularly the ones that do "real torture" as the US defines it). taks I dunno, I think those people in government who sanction torture, whether we are talking torture light, or torture decaff, should undergo two week course on the receiving end. McCain at least was consistent in saying torture is torture and governments shouldn't do it, he didn't have any trouble with the definitions either.
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CIA torture directives
I missed my one liner, you bastard. It's funny how Fox thinks they are being controversial, and in reality Jack Bauer has turned into caricature of himself. I still remember when that show was good.
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How good can you make yours?
Actually random mouse mashing usually generates something just as good as something deliberately planned.
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CIA torture directives
The threat of torture and being 'disappeared' is probably very effective in ensuring cooperation. Actually pealing off nails and electrocuting genitals, I don't believe that gets you anywhere other than getting the subject to admit to whatever you want, being a witch, communist, al qaeda cell leader, part of the martian invasion recon force.
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Can torrent sites be prosecuted.
"The party participated in the 2006 Riksdag elections and gained 0.63% of the votes" That's pretty unimpressive.
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How good can you make yours?
0,0,0,64,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0 I call it 'Das Boot'
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How good can you make yours?
I don't get it. I feel like an elephant in a china shop.
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Installing Ubuntu
I joined 3 days after you. luls.
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Installing Ubuntu
One thing that has befuddled me is how the mini navigator you get when you open a file from within an application, for instance VLC player, you can't locate the physical drives, all you get is the file system where you can open a 'my documents' type folder.
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Annoying metadata in MP3 files.
It's all in the battery. It needs to be able to run a set of popper headphones. Those earplug things suck big time. Not only do they hurt my hears if I use them too long because of the way they fit. You aren't supposed to stick anything into your ears as it will interfere with the natural ear gunk balance and make your ears clog up.
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Installing Ubuntu
By the way where to I change the desktop environment into something other than the standard blood spattered paper theme.
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Americans can't do anything right
I'm seasonably fat. I gain about 10 kilograms in the winter and lose it again in the summer. right now I'm 96 kg, which would be around my normal non lardass weigh, I'm taller than most trees though.
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Installing Ubuntu
Yes, this is true. However the spell checker does not appear to function unless the program is itself is the Danish version.
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Installing Ubuntu
This time what i was trying to install was the danish language version of open office on ubuntu. I got this : OOo_3.0.1_LinuxIntel_install_da_deb.tar.gz It's an archive, unzipping it presents you with a bunch of folders. I don't know what to do with those.
- Hawking very ill in hospital
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Look out, ye bastids
It's summerish just across the water where I am right now. bring a coat though, better than wishing you had.
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[TV] Deadliest Warrior
My personal favourite is he chicken cannon. That's not even unique to the show, they rebuilt what they use to test ****pit windows on commercial planes.
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Americans can't do anything right
That would be attributed to the jury system, which reflects society, so it would be society and not the legal system which is sexist, and racist. No surprise there.
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Twitter
So, if you twitter regularly, does that make you a twit.
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Can torrent sites be prosecuted.
It all depends on how much you have to give, so it does not scale 1:1 with criminal damages for a rape victim.
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Can torrent sites be prosecuted.
Who's next, google. It's been pretty one sided so far with the copyright holders doing little more than throwing the odd sandbag in the general direction of a deluge. I dunno, I hope they don't win too big. I like the intarweb mostly lawless and wild as opposed to a neatly trimmed suburbia. It's pretty predictable though, whenever a file sharing initiative becomes too popular it inevitably dies. The massive popularity of The Pirate Bay is what generated the pressure for the Swedish government to do something about it.