Wow, it took reading 11 comments from the top to get to an actual pointless political comment that's completely off-topic! Considering the topic of the article, this might be a new high score on Slashdot.
It would be a funnier comment if it were true, but in fact, the iPad has pretty much performed as promised and hasn't been plagued by the "early-adopter" nightmares that sometimes come with buying the first-gen Apple products.
Yes. You're the dullard. But take comfort in the fact that you're not alone in being a dullard, and this particular joke seems to have been a good indicator of that.
Seriously? You really don't understand the difference between a parody of the O'Reilly Factor (Colbert) or a fictional character in a scripted series (DeVito), and the Glenn Beck show which claims to be news, or at the very least, an opinion show claiming basis in real-world facts?
How did this comment get marked insightful? You'd have to be thick as a brick to not see why this is maybe the worst analogy made on Slashdot today.
The bay area is extremely expensive to live in and unions in the area are fairly powerful. Wouldn't surprise me one bit to learn that the average toll collector is (was) making 70k/year, and that seems to be borne out by these numbers.
At 20k/year there, you're living in your car. And you wouldn't be able to afford gas.
You're only half right but I suspect you don't even know why. Fraternization CAN occur between two enlisted members, but generally only when there's a supervisor/subordinate relationship between the two, OR if there's such a huge difference in rank (e.g. the base's highest-ranking NCO starts dating a lowly E-3) that the relationship could be looked upon as affecting unit morale ("hey she only got that great EPR because she's banging the First Sergeant!" or something like that)
So, to sum up, an officer/enlisted relationship would pretty much always be fraternization for the same reason (in fact, I can't think of a situation offhand where it wouldn't be) - but for enlisted/enlisted relationships, the answer is, it depends.
Also an issue. It's not an issue when there's no supervisor/subordinate relationship and the two that get involved with each other are somewhat close together in rank. They don't even have to be the exact same rank.
Save space, or better use of existing space, whatever; isn't that "6 of one, half-dozen of other" territory you're nitpicking at? The bigger point remains the same: Google is not taking away your ability to be annoying on message boards. Especially not yours.
I agree. The level of disappointment was heightened, though, by the fact that Taco took this "google wants to control your CAPS" and ran with it as if it were fact (is he a dumbass or also trying to create a story?) and there were some 200+ posts that were debating the merits of Google doing this. Did it really go over that many people's heads?
You may not, but apparently everyone else needs to RTFA a little more closely. It appears to me that it's very likely that the reason for omitting caps-lock is just to save space, and a little joke about message board comments was taken a little too seriously by the so-called writer at Gizmodo. It also seems very likely that a double-tap on the shift key will toggle on caps-lock, as it does on the iPhone.
Really, how can you read that article and not come away with the feeling that the writer is a little clueless, or trying to create a story where there isn't one, or both?
I believe his point was that if Estonia eliminates the physical Euro so that all tranactions will be taxed/tracked, citizens will start using another currency (like the dollar) for their free market transactions that they don't wish to be tracked.
History teaches us this is likely if only because the US dollar was the black market currency of choice in Eastern Europe during pretty much the entire Cold War. You could exchange your dollars with the Communist government at a rate tilted ridiculously in their favor, or you could ask your taxi driver if he wanted to buy dollars, which he did, and you'd get around 3-5 times the "official" government exchange rate. Dollars were always in demand because they were so much more stable than the constantly inflating local currency.
Incorrect, see above in at least 2 posts. Anything over a year offers the opportunity for time off for good behavior. If the judge wanted to fuck him, he'd have given him exactly one year - and the kid would serve 1 year, regardless of good behavior.
A year and a day is actually hooking him up. An odd quirk of our legal system, but one that every defense attorney is intimately familiar with.
If we had a fiscally conservative, socially liberal third party to turn to, I'd turn to it, but if you're offering up the Tea Party ("more or less") as your alternative to the two parties we have, no thanks. Godwin's law beckons.
I find it ironic that the guy who brought up the "three strikes" thing was modded Offtopic, and yet dozens of people have responded to him, implying that his post was, at the very least, interesting to some.
Hell, even if you win the lottery, it turns out 80% of lottery winners end up filing for bankruptcy
And 95% of all statistics are pulled out of one's ass.
This oft-repeated pile of lottery urban legend deserves to be called out as BS whenever someone uses it to bolster any argument. Not that it changes the validity of your point; just saying, you look a tiny bit dumber when you do that.
But again, in music, quality is in the ear of the listener. As for quality and the iPad, the form factor has to count for something - if you've never actually held one and fooled around on it, you should. It fills a hole between smartphone and laptop that no products before it (or currently, as far as I can tell) have filled nearly as well. I don't need one myself, but I had to admire the size, shape and weight of the thing. For a lot of people, it's perfect. Are some people buying it just because it's "cool" and they have money to burn? Probably, but it's ridiculous to dismiss millions of people as falling into that category just because you don't like/need one.
While I share your assessment of those three "artists" and their musical "talent", that doesn't mean that those millions of other people are fools. They just don't share your (or my) taste in music. This goes back to the GP post - just because an iPad isn't for you, doesn't mean it can't fit the needs of millions of other people, who may be "fools" in your opinion, but in the end, that's just your opinion, and it would be supremely arrogant to state it as fact.
Yeah, a planned leak that involved a leaker who's either willingly going to jail for helping "plan" the leak or who unwittingly leaked ONLY the stuff the government didn't mind him leaking, because they somehow only gave him access to that info and successfully predicted he would leak it all to WIkileaks. You may be thinking more and more about it but you're not thinking very hard.
Those salary caps you cited are completely out in the open and agreed upon by the owners and the players' associations. Without those players' unions, the players would be making far, far less money than they do under the current salary caps (and they did make far less, in the old days). If these current allegations are true, it's a completely different set of circumstances - companies secretly agreeing not to poach in order to hold down salaries is what we don't like. If there were unions for these employees and they agreed upon caps that were tied to the revenue of those companies (like the NHL does) that would be different.
This situation is more akin to the old days of baseball, when players could not be signed by a different team, and the owners kept almost all of the money that their teams made. It's all just a fight over who gets what percentage. The owners in this case (Google, Apple execs, etc) are pushing to keep more money for shareholders and give less to the talent. The talent wants more of the profits to be directed to their salaries. That's fine as long as the methods are out in the open. Secret collusion is what's illegal, not salary caps.
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This really should be modded up "Informative"
Sounds like he would really give a shit about parties where the likes of you attend.
Wow, it took reading 11 comments from the top to get to an actual pointless political comment that's completely off-topic! Considering the topic of the article, this might be a new high score on Slashdot.
If you read the article,.
That should be +5 Funny by itself.
It would be a funnier comment if it were true, but in fact, the iPad has pretty much performed as promised and hasn't been plagued by the "early-adopter" nightmares that sometimes come with buying the first-gen Apple products.
Yes. You're the dullard. But take comfort in the fact that you're not alone in being a dullard, and this particular joke seems to have been a good indicator of that.
Good lord, it seems every single responder to you deserves a giant WOOSH
mod parent up funny please, as many readers seem to need that as an indicator of sarcasm.
Seriously? You really don't understand the difference between a parody of the O'Reilly Factor (Colbert) or a fictional character in a scripted series (DeVito), and the Glenn Beck show which claims to be news, or at the very least, an opinion show claiming basis in real-world facts?
How did this comment get marked insightful? You'd have to be thick as a brick to not see why this is maybe the worst analogy made on Slashdot today.
20k/year? Try 70k a year, average.
The bay area is extremely expensive to live in and unions in the area are fairly powerful. Wouldn't surprise me one bit to learn that the average toll collector is (was) making 70k/year, and that seems to be borne out by these numbers.
At 20k/year there, you're living in your car. And you wouldn't be able to afford gas.
Don't remind me, I'm stuck with Windows 97. I don't foresee buying anything anytime soon to replace the ol' Pentium 120MHz, though.
You're only half right but I suspect you don't even know why. Fraternization CAN occur between two enlisted members, but generally only when there's a supervisor/subordinate relationship between the two, OR if there's such a huge difference in rank (e.g. the base's highest-ranking NCO starts dating a lowly E-3) that the relationship could be looked upon as affecting unit morale ("hey she only got that great EPR because she's banging the First Sergeant!" or something like that)
So, to sum up, an officer/enlisted relationship would pretty much always be fraternization for the same reason (in fact, I can't think of a situation offhand where it wouldn't be) - but for enlisted/enlisted relationships, the answer is, it depends.
Also an issue. It's not an issue when there's no supervisor/subordinate relationship and the two that get involved with each other are somewhat close together in rank. They don't even have to be the exact same rank.
Save space, or better use of existing space, whatever; isn't that "6 of one, half-dozen of other" territory you're nitpicking at? The bigger point remains the same: Google is not taking away your ability to be annoying on message boards. Especially not yours.
I agree. The level of disappointment was heightened, though, by the fact that Taco took this "google wants to control your CAPS" and ran with it as if it were fact (is he a dumbass or also trying to create a story?) and there were some 200+ posts that were debating the merits of Google doing this. Did it really go over that many people's heads?
You may not, but apparently everyone else needs to RTFA a little more closely. It appears to me that it's very likely that the reason for omitting caps-lock is just to save space, and a little joke about message board comments was taken a little too seriously by the so-called writer at Gizmodo. It also seems very likely that a double-tap on the shift key will toggle on caps-lock, as it does on the iPhone.
Really, how can you read that article and not come away with the feeling that the writer is a little clueless, or trying to create a story where there isn't one, or both?
Man if that link doesn't deserve a +5 Funny I don't know what does.
I believe his point was that if Estonia eliminates the physical Euro so that all tranactions will be taxed/tracked, citizens will start using another currency (like the dollar) for their free market transactions that they don't wish to be tracked.
History teaches us this is likely if only because the US dollar was the black market currency of choice in Eastern Europe during pretty much the entire Cold War. You could exchange your dollars with the Communist government at a rate tilted ridiculously in their favor, or you could ask your taxi driver if he wanted to buy dollars, which he did, and you'd get around 3-5 times the "official" government exchange rate. Dollars were always in demand because they were so much more stable than the constantly inflating local currency.
Incorrect, see above in at least 2 posts. Anything over a year offers the opportunity for time off for good behavior. If the judge wanted to fuck him, he'd have given him exactly one year - and the kid would serve 1 year, regardless of good behavior.
A year and a day is actually hooking him up. An odd quirk of our legal system, but one that every defense attorney is intimately familiar with.
If we had a fiscally conservative, socially liberal third party to turn to, I'd turn to it, but if you're offering up the Tea Party ("more or less") as your alternative to the two parties we have, no thanks. Godwin's law beckons.
I find it ironic that the guy who brought up the "three strikes" thing was modded Offtopic, and yet dozens of people have responded to him, implying that his post was, at the very least, interesting to some.
Hell, even if you win the lottery, it turns out 80% of lottery winners end up filing for bankruptcy
And 95% of all statistics are pulled out of one's ass.
This oft-repeated pile of lottery urban legend deserves to be called out as BS whenever someone uses it to bolster any argument. Not that it changes the validity of your point; just saying, you look a tiny bit dumber when you do that.
But again, in music, quality is in the ear of the listener. As for quality and the iPad, the form factor has to count for something - if you've never actually held one and fooled around on it, you should. It fills a hole between smartphone and laptop that no products before it (or currently, as far as I can tell) have filled nearly as well. I don't need one myself, but I had to admire the size, shape and weight of the thing. For a lot of people, it's perfect. Are some people buying it just because it's "cool" and they have money to burn? Probably, but it's ridiculous to dismiss millions of people as falling into that category just because you don't like/need one.
While I share your assessment of those three "artists" and their musical "talent", that doesn't mean that those millions of other people are fools. They just don't share your (or my) taste in music. This goes back to the GP post - just because an iPad isn't for you, doesn't mean it can't fit the needs of millions of other people, who may be "fools" in your opinion, but in the end, that's just your opinion, and it would be supremely arrogant to state it as fact.
Yeah, a planned leak that involved a leaker who's either willingly going to jail for helping "plan" the leak or who unwittingly leaked ONLY the stuff the government didn't mind him leaking, because they somehow only gave him access to that info and successfully predicted he would leak it all to WIkileaks. You may be thinking more and more about it but you're not thinking very hard.
Those salary caps you cited are completely out in the open and agreed upon by the owners and the players' associations. Without those players' unions, the players would be making far, far less money than they do under the current salary caps (and they did make far less, in the old days). If these current allegations are true, it's a completely different set of circumstances - companies secretly agreeing not to poach in order to hold down salaries is what we don't like. If there were unions for these employees and they agreed upon caps that were tied to the revenue of those companies (like the NHL does) that would be different.
This situation is more akin to the old days of baseball, when players could not be signed by a different team, and the owners kept almost all of the money that their teams made. It's all just a fight over who gets what percentage. The owners in this case (Google, Apple execs, etc) are pushing to keep more money for shareholders and give less to the talent. The talent wants more of the profits to be directed to their salaries. That's fine as long as the methods are out in the open. Secret collusion is what's illegal, not salary caps.