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Here you go. Twenty one percent live below the poverty line, and that is in a country with a GDP per capita of below $3000. I'd say that is pretty darn low income. And 50 tons of shrimp sounds like a lot - but it's about 275 pounds a day, and that can be caught locally as warm-water shrimp or farmed in a pretty small area of about 5,000 square meters. Hmmm - catch shrimp at night/early morning, feed whale sharks in the day, earn lots of money (around $100 to $200 per tourist per day), seems like a great way to get out of proverty of making an average of less than $10 per day...

But a house built by an engineer should be torn down.

Some houses built by engineers can't be torn down.

Sorry, but it is NOT fake news. Clearly you Russians are now infiltrating slashdot.

That Pringles on display in Idaho is not a potato CHIP. It is a potato CRISP. A chip is a slice of a single potato. A crisp is basically mashed up potato molded into whatever shape and size they desire. It's the difference between a boneless chicken breast and a chicken nugget.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Lo...

I'm entirely speculating on what happened but in the many cases of these disputes like this I've seen: Client and professional agree on a quote for work. Client makes requests that increase the amount of work and is surprised the bill is higher in the end. Client and professional have a dispute about the bill which gets heated and the professional threatens legal action to get paid. Client pays the bill. The now unhappy client (under the assumed guise of anonymity) posts an negative review but changes key facts to make the professional look bad.

While not a mirror of this situation, this happens all the time in reviews. This story from an Irish hotel Doolin is one example. The review says that "the hotel staff and hotel is Deceitful" and that "Emma at the desk lied to me" among the other complaints about the price. The hotel's response was to point out that they believe their employee Emma made a mistake in billing which was corrected the next morning and the reviewer was never charged the amount they claim. They also take issue with the reviewer trying to publicly shame their employee.

Regal in my area is adapting quite well aiming for the older crowd. They've changed their seating out for reclinable seats. You can order your ticket online and reserve your seat, so no fighting in line to get the best seats, just order online a week in advance and you're guaranteed your spot. The Seats are huge. https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.... https://s3-media1.fl.yelpcdn.c...

A bit more expensive than I would like, but for the few times I go see the movies I'm okay paying ~$9.50 on a matinee ticket and ~$15 on 3D ticket when I know I'll be comfortable.

"#1 of 1 things to do in Leslie, GA"

In America, we call gootball "soccer", I think.

not so fast
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Sho...
https://instagram.com/explore/...
https://twitter.com/hashtag/go...
https://vine.co/tags/gootball

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.c...

Everywhere is relative. There are an estimated 5 trillion habitable planets in the known universe. We've mostly explored one. On our closest neighbors, we've done roughly the equivalent of checking your back yard and saying "There are no whales". Well, unless you happen to have whales in your yard, then we'll say "... no elephants". :)

If there is/was life on other planets, it is very likely not to be in our solar system. Even if there was an species that achieved space travel, and spent millions of years settling on millions of planets, it's *still* not very likely they'd be found on one in our solar system.

Even if we found one, would we know what we're looking at? Since rock seems to be pretty abundant in the tiny speck of space that we've explored, a sand and rock covered hull of a spacecraft would be reasonable. That would help protect from micro-meteors and other hazards. If one crashed on a neighboring planet even 10,000 years ago, would just look like rock. Heck, if one crashed on Earth, it would still look like a rock.

Is this space craft remains, or a natural formation?

No, I don't believe it's a crashed spaceship. It's just a rock. But since we don't exactly do thorough core samples on every large rock on the planet (and under the surface), we wouldn't know if it was.

It is just "Adam's Ark"

http://www.galactica.tv/main/what-is-battlestar-galactica.html

pay it no mind, it has been there forever and a day..

Everywhere is relative. There are an estimated 5 trillion habitable planets in the known universe. We've mostly explored one. On our closest neighbors, we've done roughly the equivalent of checking your back yard and saying "There are no whales". Well, unless you happen to have whales in your yard, then we'll say "... no elephants". :)

If there is/was life on other planets, it is very likely not to be in our solar system. Even if there was an species that achieved space travel, and spent millions of years settling on millions of planets, it's *still* not very likely they'd be found on one in our solar system.

Even if we found one, would we know what we're looking at? Since rock seems to be pretty abundant in the tiny speck of space that we've explored, a sand and rock covered hull of a spacecraft would be reasonable. That would help protect from micro-meteors and other hazards. If one crashed on a neighboring planet even 10,000 years ago, would just look like rock. Heck, if one crashed on Earth, it would still look like a rock.

Is this space craft remains, or a natural formation?

No, I don't believe it's a crashed spaceship. It's just a rock. But since we don't exactly do thorough core samples on every large rock on the planet (and under the surface), we wouldn't know if it was.

OMFG

This appears to be a legit (non-troll) review.

It looks truly horrendous.

Are
you
sure?

You were too fucking stupid to spend the ten seconds on Google it would have taken to avoid outing yourself as the biggest retard on Slashdot. Again.

You desperately want to refute me, but you can't. Instead, you will tuck your tail between your legs and slink away in shame.

Streissand effekt in effekt. 103 reviews and 1.5 as average.
http://www.tripadvisor.com/Res...

It seems we have a new business model if they can get 1k from each of those bad reviewers then they don't even need to open their doors anymore

Here's some TripAdvisor's reviews on that particular restaurant.

This was discussed already and the general conclusion was the restaurant had very poor service. Poor service will kill a reputation faster than anything else. I remember going to a restaurant that was short staffed. They were trying to accommodate people, and were nice about it. But after waiting 30 minutes for bread, we left. You can always expect bad reviews based on food, you can't please everyone.

Plus I don't think Google information can kill a place in just a few weeks. People have phones and call ahead to confirm hours, seating availability, location and even directions. I know I always call. It's lazy people who just browse Google and believe everything they see without confirmation.

Website: http://www.serbiancrown.com/

Yelp Reviews: http://www.yelp.com/biz/serbian-crown-restaurant-great-falls

Trip Advisor reviews: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurant_Review-g57783-d497915-Reviews-The_Serbian_Crown_Restaurant-Great_Falls_Fairfax_County_Virginia.html

Google Maps entry: https://www.google.com/maps/place/Serbian+Crown+Restaurant/@38.97349,-77.295876,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x89b6360d0a8fbba5:0x79a2bbe49b2f3a1e

Most of the reviews complain about very poor service. Waiters not checking up on the tables, one guest said they had to wander around to find a water pitcher and refill it themselves. People have waited 30+ minutes to receive the menu and bread. One guest claimed they were there for over 3 hours in total waiting for various courses. Guests would arrive only to find there was not host/hostess at the podium to seat them. Guests complained about rude staff both in person and over the phone. And these aren't recent complaints, they go back to 2010.

He's buried here..

You can go and hire Ms. Cleo and do a seance and complain to him since he sponsored the legislation.

See, even the trees opposed copyright extension.

He's buried here..

You can go and hire Ms. Cleo and do a seance and complain to him since he sponsored the legislation.

I find it revealing that the "was this review helpful" counter is near 700, when the other reviews have a count below 10... I, for one, clicked on it, in a futile attempt to teach that hotel about the Streisand effect and how not to treat customers. The hotel didn't even bother to reply to the review...

Here for reference : http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g155033-d183336-r158988363-L_hotel_Quebec-Quebec_City_Quebec.html

That is not the original review, this is : http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g155033-d183336-r158988363-L_hotel_Quebec-Quebec_City_Quebec.html

He hasn't taken it down. It is still online: http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g155033-d183336-r158988363-L_hotel_Quebec-Quebec_City_Quebec.html Therefore the summary is demonstrably wrong.

he should sue slashdot for libel, demand $96K and make a profit

... and when he refused to take it down, the chain of hotels sued him for $95,000. [quoted from the very first sentence of http://blog.sweetiq.com/2013/08/hotel-sues-guest-for-95k-over-bad-review/%5D

So the review is still there http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g155033-i134-k6703172-Bed_bugs_lawsuit_by_hotel_as_a_result_of_bad_review-Quebec_City_Quebec.html

Anyway, good job Hotel Quebec! Streisand effect at it's best ...

He hasn't taken it down. It is still online:

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g155033-d183336-r158988363-L_hotel_Quebec-Quebec_City_Quebec.html

Therefore the summary is demonstrably wrong.

Wow, the slashdot effect is at work. And the above link is not even on the TFA.

“Bed bugs in our bed”
Was this review helpful? 318

Other reviews = 1

If you look at the review site you will find a total of 28 reviews that grade the hotel as poor or terrible.Why only sue one reviewer?

He hasn't taken it down. It is still online: http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g155033-d183336-r158988363-L_hotel_Quebec-Quebec_City_Quebec.html Therefore the summary is demonstrably wrong.

...if anybody wants to read it and/or vote it up on the site in question: http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g155033-d183336-r158988363-L_hotel_Quebec-Quebec_City_Quebec.html

According to some (especially one near the bottom), tsunamis are very rare, but there is no place on any of the Maldives high enough to get away from one. So I suppose this would be no more dangerous than any other hotel in the region.

I'm not sure what's going on in the article, it seems more of an artsy-fartsy place than really rugged volcano-ey belly of the beast thingy. If you are looking to trek up, over and down into a hopefully-extinct volcano will take your breath away, that is accessible and is not overrun by tourists and access roads, here's the place:

http://www.flashearth.com/?lat=17.369741&lon=-62.80873&z=14.2&r=0&src=yh
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Liamuiga
http://www.peakware.com/peaks.html?pk=2174
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g147374-d147557-r157740414-Mount_Liamuiga-St_Kitts_St_Kitts_and_Nevis.html
http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/18/travel/climbing-a-st-kitts-volcano.html

Here's my suggestion: plan a night in the crater. Everyone should be in decent shape. The hike up the mountain is not too demanding and even pleasant if you make a 4-5 hour trek of it. Take at least 1-1/2 gallon drinking water per person, compact food for a couple good meals, mosquito repellent and light tents for shelter from bugs and rain. There is a lake in the crater that you might find drinkable. I did, it was the most delicious water I have ever tasted. Make sure everything is carried on your backs or can dangle comfortably, you will need both hands and feet for the final ~400' climb down into and out of the crater. It will be a careful scramble using both hands to cling to tree roots as you face the hillside and lower yourself, there are short lengths of rope left by previous climbers. Bring 50-100' of rope to use if existing ropes are in bad condition and to leave for future adventurers. It is rigorous but I do not recall that any part of the decent as terrifyingly vertical or overhanging.

Once you're down in the crater set up camp. There are a few active fumaroles along the rim, in places you can see faint steam rising and there is a faint odor of sulfur but the crater has good air circulation within it. As a common sense precaution site your camp on high ground within the crater, and if you are particularly nerdy you can bring a gas detector to check for H2S but it's probably not a big deal.

Regardless of the weather you will be in a place like no other and will consider yourself grateful to be alive. Framed by the circular crater rim's cliffs above you a sharp celestial bowl of stars might roll above you, untainted by light pollution. Or perhaps a light rain punctuated by echoing thunder and circle of lightning along the sharp peaks of the rim.

If you camp overnight have at least one good hands-free head mounted flashlight in the group in case of emergency, for someone would need to climb up to the crater's rim to call for help. Volcanic craters tend to have bad cellphone reception.

It is a little known fact that compatible and like-minded individuals are implicitly married as they descend into the crater of hopefully-extinct volcanoes so there is no need for pomp or ceremony. Just get on with it.

And this is how your home would look some 200 years ago, when security was a bigger issue. This is a typical home in Costa Rica today. And this is how a web server looked 200 years ago, It could withstand an attack from an army of 5 year olds! Just because you outsourced home security to the local police dept does not make your analogy a good one.

The more interesting part was the desert-sensible underground portion. From what I can see the two parts weren't anywhere near each other, just spliced together on film. From the igloo you could only see the berm around the atrium.

The rest of the house was actually the Hotel Sidi Driss...
http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g293756-d523724-r32974695-Hotel_Sidi_Driss-Matmata_Gabes_Governorate.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c3Mdk_di7Q

I live in a city with over 15 million people that looks like this:

http://wpjrnl.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/wpid1574-Buenos-Aires-aerial-view-at-night.jpg
http://www.congresstour.cl/destinos/ciudades/910-avenida-9-de-julio,-buenos-aires,-argentina.jpg

But our barbecues still look like this:

http://mw2.google.com/mw-panoramio/photos/medium/3043946.jpg
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/28/fc/83/asado-tipico-argentino.jpg
http://fotos-imagenes-gratuitas.com/carne-asada-asado-fotos/images/02.jpg

You don't need higher tech. Cut the meat properly (The cuts used in the US just plain suck), make a nice fire using actual wood, preferably quebracho (very hard wood) and light it the traditional way (using no flammable fluids or other fire starters). Let it consume, and when it's mostly ashes, cook it slowly for several hours. Serve hot with nothing but salt.

You won't ever eat something more delicious.

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Restaurants-g36538-Peoria_Illinois.html

  y'll have to click pizza yourself-- but there are 9 listed, with chuck e cheese showing as dead last (restaurant #88 of 88 in Peoria in fact)

Really? With the train station in Kyoto? Seriously? I've been there, both in the train station and in the surrounding area. It's big, but it's not exactly skyline wrecking unless you happen to live in an apartment which directly faces it. There are plenty of other buildings nearby which are close to the same height and once you get about two blocks away, you can't even see it from the street. If you don't believe me, here's a picture from above which shows the surrounding area. Plenty of other 8+ story buildings in the area. Here's a view from the top of the hotel in the train station. What skyline is it that they're destroying exactly?

Kyoto is a lovely city. It has myriad beautiful temples and gardens and the nearby country-side is lovely. People flock to it to see the cherry trees when they are in bloom. But none of these things are very tall. Most of the famous temples aren't even visible when you're half a block away from them, nevermind part of the skyline. It does not now have an impressive skyline and if it ever did, it must have been centuries ago, and although the train station big enough to be clearly visible for a couple of blocks around, it's not exactly a sky-scraper. Honestly, its width and shininess stand out as much as its height. So, if the person writing the article thinks that the Kyoto train station (which has far more non-shinkansen platforms than shinkansen platforms) is too big or too shiny, then fine, but saying that it wrecks the skyline is just dumb.

Two more recommendation I didn't see on the list:
The SciFi museum and hall of Fame in Seattle: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60878-d493346-Reviews-Science_Fiction_Museum_and_Hall_of_Fame-Seattle_Washington.html
The Spy museum in D.C. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60878-d493346-Reviews-Science_Fiction_Museum_and_Hall_of_Fame-Seattle_Washington.html

Two more recommendation I didn't see on the list:
The SciFi museum and hall of Fame in Seattle: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60878-d493346-Reviews-Science_Fiction_Museum_and_Hall_of_Fame-Seattle_Washington.html
The Spy museum in D.C. http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60878-d493346-Reviews-Science_Fiction_Museum_and_Hall_of_Fame-Seattle_Washington.html

It's contradictory in the part where the computer says that the door was never actually shut, and both of their stories include shutting the door at some point.

However, doesn't pretty much every hotel door have the little hinged lock on the inside that physically locks the door so it can only open a few inches? (This kind.) If you flip that over while the door is open and then shut the door on it, the door can't shut all the way. Could that be what happened? It would explain why they both said the door was shut when it really wasn't, although you'd still think they might have noticed that.

Sorry, no Progress Bar, but there is a Progress Grill

I fucking HATE people like this, trading on desperation. They remind me of the Laetrile wackos in the 70's and 80's. It's no more legitimate than the frantically dying who spend their last few pennies going to Lourdes, or giving money to "doctors of healing of the Lord." My wife's mother did this when my wife was 12 and her description of the outright robbery by the assholes who run the place and the surrounding "guesthouses" made me nauseous.

He claims "in vivo" success, then spouts some BS anecdotal "I've seen miraculous Stage 4 cures" rubbish. You have proof of in vivo success in properly executed peer reviewed studies? Post the links or STFU. I'll bet you aren't interested in naysayers. Just the desperate with a checkbook.

He describes theoretical, early-stage research which MAY, one day, have some use, after it is peer reviewed and proven legitimate. Right now, I see nothing but the most early suggestions of biochemical ideas, and FAR from any "unified theory" by biochemists. That's just silly.

This boob is simply suggesting a variation on the long-discredited Induced Hypoglycemic Therapy bullshit, and doing it in a really inappropriate place. Hey Sparky, if low sugar starved cancer cells, why aren't diabetics cancer-free? BTW, neurons starved of glucose die way before any other cells. "Avoid sugar, not just HFCS." Pfffft. IHT is DANGEROUS.

Posting rubbish like you did in this thread is fucking ghoulish and if there is any real karma, you just burned a whole lot of it.

Because, they have PS3s just like you. They have flat screen HDTVs just like you. They have cars, one or two per house hold just like you. Their girls sport Louis Vuitton items, just like the American girl who saves up three or four paychecks to get one herself. They go to clubs, parks and museums, rock concerts and other outings just like you.

No, they really fucking don't. How did this get modded up? The Chinese market isn't just useless because of the vast poverty of the overwhelming majority of its citizens, you can't even sell to them, without partnering up with the party *cough* a local business, and one of the rules of entering the Chinese market is that you have to hand over whatever technological IP you might have. Still on the plus side, trade unions are starting to take hold there after the Foxconn mess, and they will be forced to compete fairly on the international market with the value of their currency. Alternately they can try to sell to Chinese people instead of rich Americans and find out rather rapidly about how keeping most of your workforce at subsistence levels means you're cutting your own nose off to spite your face.

Sure, the robot can fold the towel. But can it make it into a swan?

darn blockquote fail :)

I know I picked it out - what about it?

I didn't pick it out to specifically make Resynthesizer fail - it's image #2 on images.google.com for 'person in field' (sans quotes).

For an example that does work with Resynthesizer, try:
http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/0f/33/e2/so-cool.jpg

Select the top-left dark thing, run the Resynthesizer script-fu - voila... dark thing removed, and sky filled in pretty well.

The problem is that this is entirely hit-or-miss.. and it's far more often miss than hit.. and then -when- it is a miss, it's a spectacular miss (as in that person-in-field image).

using water to create logic gates

I'll second this - Our local science museum ("Science World" in Vancouver) has a water table that the kids just love, with all kinds of gates in it - Every time my toddler rushes towards it I think "Logic Gates."

I don't have a picture of the one in our city to hand, but it looks something like this, so I assume it's a standard item available for purchase by Science Museums:

http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/18/3d/8a/water-table-is-good-for.jpg

It's at least 20 feet long.

'PyroMosh purchased the Deluxe 12" Ass-Ramming Dildo from Anal Enterprises'

Have you been reading my facebook? I have to remember to set that to private.

Seriously, though I gravely misunderstood what this beacon was. I thought it was just some API hooks that would let advertisers run queries against facebook posts presumably to deliver targeted ads or some other such nonsense. I had no idea it was what it was.

That said, from what I understand, it uses a cookie to identify one's ID. Since the cookie only contains user ID data, and logging in is not necessary, would it not have been possible (even trivial) to forge activity history for any arbitrary facebook user? As long as you know their ID, you can have them purchase the 'Deluxe 12" Ass-Ramming Dildo from Anal Enterprises' as many times as you please.

Too bad this beacon thing isn't around any more.

I agree, but if you have to, just stay in a hotel with computers included, for example the City Inn Westminster has iMacs with Internet access in most rooms.

But a beer costs six Euros, so it evens out

http://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowTopic-g189852-i233-k635713-Beer_Price_in_Stockholm-Stockholm.html

Serious point - you can cherry pick individual items that are more expensive or cheaper over different countries, but just comparing one item means you are totally out of context. Then you throw in fluctuating exchange rates as well, and the comparison isn't worth that much.

Disclaimer for those with mod points: This post is NOT intended as a flame or flamebait.

If you want good karma, stop worrying about karma. And never use the word "troll" or "flamebait" because your post will be modded "troll" or "flamebait" (I think I just got modded... never mind). Try for insightful and you'll get "funny" (no mod points). Try for "funny" and likely as not you will be modded "interesting".

More on topic, yes, there a lot more Top Cat's than there are McDonalds Corporations, but there are enough Giant corporations that CAN afford this tech. Those that can't afford it don't matter; at least, in the context of this conversation.

Should they stop selling Ferrarris just because I can't afford one?

-mcgrew

spelling maybe? I got the first two results for Parklane park as:

Tree at Parklane Park on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Parklane Park - Portland - Reviews of Parklane Park - TripAdvisor

Portland Parks & Recreation :: Parklane Park

And that is without any quotes or anything. Or were you looking for some other Parklane park?

Not what you were actually searching for?

I wouldn't say any . And I think astroturfing and paid reviews are pretty obvious to even the moderately savvy.

In the later case, of developing in IE, and not checking with Firefox, does anybody know what the most common things that break are?

In the IE features category, I have seen one thing that IE does really well that Firefox does not do: Image transition filters such as the fade in/out effect when you switch photos. Are there other things the you as a developer want, but are only implemented in IE?

I know on the other side, that I want rounded corners on divs and alpha transparency in pngs to be properly implemented in IE.