Comments by Touchý_1

Huzzah!

With complex software come a plethora of possible issues. My first port of call if I have any technical issues is to google it, it takes 5 seconds and is generally more succinct than listening to a person reading the lines from a script they don't understand. On the few occasions I've called tech support it's been because I exhausted all possible fixes at which point I'm asked 'Is it plugged in?' as though I was a witless fool.

I think unsourcing is probably a bad thing for the technologically semi-literate my parents, who are in their sixties, for instance wouldn't know how to phrase their problem either to tech support or as a google search, thankfully for them I can usually resolve their issues.

there is no debate moral objectivism is always wrong. Objectivism is absurd but then that's just one man's opinion.

Living in Istanbul I have found a fascinating Turkish word with no real English equivalent. 'kıyamam' it means something like 'never suffer'. It's used as an exclamation when a loved one is in pain or emotional distress. For example if I have a headache my girlfriend will say kıyamam or if she drops an ashtray I might say it. This is a word I often use when speaking English as my level of Turkish is very poor.

Fuck me. That's ridiculous, although the correspondent is correct that in Ireland for instance even wilful and continuous blasphemy is never punished despite a law forbidding it.

I monitor my own internet data usage, originally from Ireland, I would estimate I probably consume around 50GB per month of this the lion's share would be entertainment TV shows and movies (I can watch uninterrupted by advertisements or television schedules) music which I don't need to stack, sort or carry which is ımpossıble to misplace. I can read academic journals and access OECD data so when I'm shooting the shit with my friend's about politics or economics or social issues I can back my word and opinion with solid data. I can read books (I always buy fiction, hıstory and philosophy in a physical form)about a broad range of topics. I indulge in an occasional video game. I download computer programs for a near endless range of tasks. I can read The Irısh Tımes, The economist, The New York Tımes, The Guardıan, Slate magazıne, and occasıonally the FT. I can also make ınternatıonal calls on skype to keep ın touch wıth people.

@La contra if you downloaded 30GB of porn ın a month you would have to spend the entıre month watchıng ıt to see ıt all. As for facebook browsıng a websıte such as facebook ıs very data lıght if you did ıt for the entire month wıthout sleepıng lookıng at photos you mıght get as hıgh as 5GB. You are makıng a statement analogous to 'People make 30k a year they must spend ıt all on haır gel and condoms.'

@AB ve if anything the range and depth of available data will be much more than you touched on but you are absolutely rıght.

While it is entirely inappropriate to elect her to this position based solely on nationality to criticise her based on nationality is equally puerile.

My government paid me to go to university because in Europe we realise that a highly educated workforce will increase growth and pay for itself. This might not be strictly true of course given that youth unemployment has soared.

If any topic that is subjective is taught (i.e the humanities) the best we can hope for is to evaluate the concrete and praise ingenuity in mastering the critical skills required to discuss these topics. Placing the teaching incentive on test scores will inevitably lead to manipulation.

@ thore
As far as translating the Irish Prime Minister into English goes in Ireland we always say Taoiseach when speaking English. So there is an English speaking country which already uses Taoiseach as an English word.

Sic semper tyrannis.

I'd agree it's disingenuous to describe it as equivalent to Russia but it still sounds as though serious freedoms are at stake. Could this perhaps be a case where the Washington Times are lauding American freedom of speech in the face of a lot of opposition due to wikileaks? Don't mistake me here I do not support the actions of wikileaks but I wouldn't be surprised if I found that this was an ulterior motive.

I learned Irish for 14 years in primary and secondary school and I literally couldn't hold a broken conversation; the same is true of many of my friends most of whom hold masters degrees and can speak at least a little of the European language they learned from secondary school onwards. The central problem is that it has no utility unless you live in the Gaeltacht no one speaks it day to day on the street it's assumed the other person won't understand at least if you learn Latin you can read Virgil. Aside from that the teaching standard is horrendous and pupils resent the idea of being forced to study a dead language that has no great literature. It's just a memory of a peasant past.

That's sad. I remove my cloak of cynicism and say that in all sincerity. Terribly, terribly sad.

Avoid ugly constructions like this;

'if he fails to heed what anons call “the hive mind” in IRC conversations— the other OPs can lock him out of the chat. If any anon fails to be inspired by the target, she can remove her own computer from the volunteer botnet.'

Use a gender neutral pronoun i.e 'they'

The real problem in Ireland was caused by the innumeracy of our population. Much is being made of our government's role in this however their measure of control was severely limited with the ECB controlling interest rates at a low level for the German economy.

Right now Irish economy's foot is in a box the IMF has been put in a random box somewhere along the line that it seems to be approaching is causing a mass hysteria.

This is off topic so moderators feel free to remove it. I can't help but wonder if all the advertising spam has yielded any benefit for the advertisers.

Criminalisation does not prevent use. Is the aim to morally condemn those who take drugs or reduce the amount of harm they cause in society?

There is no debate of course it's Picard.