You seem to be the only one here making that claim. But yes, I suppose I'm the one with the problem. Sorry, but no, you're the one going around telling people they have problems; I'm pointing out that, in your specific case -- because you have presented a pattern of doing this -- that you may actually have a problem. Me doing it once is very different from you presenting a pattern, my friend. Of course, I'm not qualified to diagnose, this is not medical advice, blah blah blah and all that, but your therapist, should you choose to see one, might come to a different conclusion about you than the therapist I saw after 3 years of being gaslighted by an abusive ex, who determined after a handful of visits that I have nothing to gain from therapy.
You've already pointed this out and by following you as an ideal example of a human being henceforth, I shall rid myself of all these maladies you describe. Thank you so much! I am SO grateful for you! Otherwise I would be lost forever.
To be honest, I could go on like this until comments on this story get locked, and I would really and truly love to (no, seriously, look at my comment history, I would), but I have work to do today.
That is probably a very wise thing to do. I wouldn't want you to get fired over a trivial matter like this. By the way, you may want to investigate the topic of obsessive compulsive disorder, because it doesn't seem to take much to compel you to obsess over something.:) I've enjoyed meeting you. Best wishes to you, brother!
Wow... so you're clairvoyant then? You can read my mind? That is SO impressive. I wish I could learn how to do that. I'm afraid you afford too much cleverness. I am terrible at sarcasm. I see people weave sarcasm in such clever ways all the time but despite my best efforts, I am no good at doing it nor am I good at parsing it. I thank you for the complement though. I will try to aspire to your level of intelligence. You've really given me something to shoot for and I thank you so much for that. I really mean that from the bottom of my heart. I don't know why you can't just accept a genuine complement and gratitude. You seem to one to be confrontational towards me even though I'm extending the warmest regards in your direction. I am not sure why that is but rest assured. I'm so glad that I ran across you in my brief existence because you have affected me in such a positive way, I can't even begin to thank you enough.
I think you would have to qualify this a little better. Sure, the up front cost is substantial. However, being that a logistics company would not have to pay for drivers at CDL hourly rates anymore, eventually it would pay for itself and then pay dividends.
As someone who has had an (abysmally bad) driver determine that their home was a valid roadway... I question the value of your choice.
I'm not sure I follow your logic there, it seems to be nonsense. First of all, if you want to objectively make a claim the my choice of working from home is less valuable than commuting, then by all means lay out a claim and supporting logic and evidence for the claim. If your claim is subjective, meaning that you would not find my choice valuable, then we just agree to disagree because what is good for you is not necessarily good for me and vice versa but we should respect each other.
If there's no action which can be taken, there's no action to be taken.
That is a nonsense statement. That is like saying, if you post to slashdot, you post to slashdot. What is your actual claim here? Clearly because some action was taken, by definition there was an action to be taken. Can you clarify your position so we can understand you better?
This seems like a solution to people who hate the idea of mass transit and transporting goods by trains. Self-driving cars and trucks and hyperloops!
I really hope this is not the primary driver behind this technology. If this is true, the idea is to eliminate the cost of CDL drivers and making the most dangerous vehicles on the road automatically driven. Why couldn't they just have a series of underground tunnels specifically for transporting commercial goods where all the automatic transport vehicles could be driven? That way, if an "error" occurs, it doesn't injure anyone? It's probably because it costs too much to do that I'm guessing... (facepalm)
Rather than direct action on the offending party, this ruling assumes to force the cost of enforcement onto innocent third parties.
This implies that there was some action that could be taken against the offending party but that a malevolent choice was opted for against innocent people. That's inaccurate. The reason the action was taken is because there was no logical action that could be taken against the offending party due to the circumstances. Do you disagree?
Thank oh wise internet guru. I have seen the light. I shall now use your consciousness as a model for my existence so that I may be right with the universe once again. Thank you so much.
It could be an outbound issue, like a DNS server. That would also explain why the outage covers multiple regions.
It was only certain sites. Sites that had their own CDN's like Facebook and Steam were fine. It may have been a Level 3 issue. There were two interesting things reported via twitter:
Nearly all students are eligible to receive federal loans (regardless of credit score or other financial issues). Federal student loans are not priced according to any individualized measure of risk, nor are loan limits determined based on risk. Rather, pricing and loan limits are politically determined by Congress. Undergraduates typically receive lower interest rates, but graduate students typically can borrow more. This lack of risk-based pricing has been criticized by scholars as contributing to inefficiency in higher education.
Wow. I think I know why I got modded as troll. It would appears that the overly sensitive liberal crowd interpreted my statement possibly as deportation. Talk about cognitive bias. What I was referring is the reality TV show "Survivor" where at regular intervals there would be a tribe meeting whereby the tribe would decide who would stay on the island or who would leave. I was applying that metaphor to Slashdot. If, we, the readers of Slashdot collectively felt (measured by polling) that one of the editors was of poor enough quality that we would like them to no longer be editors, we could do it in this manner.
For those that don't know, this was a common practice in Ancient Greek civilization. If the people of Plato's time felt that you no longer deserved to be a citizen, you could have your citizenship revoked by the collective and thus be banished from civilization and treated as if you were dead.
I've always been under the impression that the purpose of college was to instill strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Unfortunately, greed has pretty much destroyed that notion.
I'm not sure if you're being serious or being a troll but anyone who has attended a university knows that only some majors would actually involve that. Literature, History, Art, etc. don't really afford that specifically as a discipline. STEM majors certainly focus on strong problem solving as do business and legal majors.
Could this sentence be written more poorly? Does msmash have a 2 year old’s mastery of English?
I actually made my first formal complaint to Slashdot about this. If an idea for Slashdot, why don't you start some polls so in the case of poor editors, we can "vote them off the island" as it were.
Education is no longer about advancing human knowledge or you making a contribution to that unless you started out independently wealthy. Getting a higher education is largely about being more valuable in the job marketplace to obtain more income. The value proposition of a PhD or a Doctorate in this context is suffering due to the Law of Diminishing returns. The cost of college education has increased dramatically due to the high availability of student loans and the amount of additional income you get from having such a credential is not proportional to the cost. It seems to me, some people depending on their needs consider a Bachelors Degree or an MBA to be the sweet spot in terms of garnering the income for their life's needs.
And you know... college is not the uber source of knowledge. If what you really seek is knowledge, you will always learn more from self-directed, focused study on the areas that you want to know more about. College is actually not the best source of information in my experience. Those with self drive will accumulate more knowledge faster without the college curriculum getting in their way.
If the TV no longer works as advertised, then in my book it's broken and should be repaired if under warranty or exchanged. If it broke after warranty, no recourse other than bad reputation for the product.
Well, you see, it doesn't particularly matter what your opinion or mine is on that. Two things matter: 1) How the FTC views the issue in the context of the law and 2) As long as the details of the product are made clear to consumers, the free market will sort it out. If no one likes the products, there will be no demand and thus it would be irrational for the producer to continue producing a product for which there is no demand. As has been stated many times on this site, vote with your wallet.
Personally, I read several reviews on products, especially more expensive ones, to ensure that I have the knowledge to make an informed purchase because my money is valuable to me. I don't rely on someone else to make me informed, I take responsibility for myself being informed. I find that this works quite well in our system and I don't see a problem with that. You just need to learn how to play the game. Once you get pretty decent at it, you will make things work for you. If you keep waiting for someone to do that for you, I'm afraid you'll for a long time and be perpetually disappointed but the choice is yours. It's your life.
Now, sure, some might say "Hey, I still use vowels, they're really useful when you're trying to distinguish between two words that have the same consonants, but a different sound joining them, like "cat" and "cut"", but that's old thinking, as leaving a gap is perfectly fine and should be good enough for everyone. Who cares if you were using lots of cheap old consonants? They're inefficient and completely unnecessary. So cat at out.
Here on Marklar we refer to all people, places and things as Marklar
The government is not your parent and you are not an infant. If you agree to get a discounted or even free TV set in exchange for inserted advertisements, it is your choice and you should be free to make it or decline.
Correct, but the key point is that the terms and conditions of the TV are presented at the time of sale in a way that allows the consumer to make an informed choice. If this is not done, it's considered fraud.
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You seem to be the only one here making that claim. But yes, I suppose I'm the one with the problem. Sorry, but no, you're the one going around telling people they have problems; I'm pointing out that, in your specific case -- because you have presented a pattern of doing this -- that you may actually have a problem. Me doing it once is very different from you presenting a pattern, my friend. Of course, I'm not qualified to diagnose, this is not medical advice, blah blah blah and all that, but your therapist, should you choose to see one, might come to a different conclusion about you than the therapist I saw after 3 years of being gaslighted by an abusive ex, who determined after a handful of visits that I have nothing to gain from therapy.
You've already pointed this out and by following you as an ideal example of a human being henceforth, I shall rid myself of all these maladies you describe. Thank you so much! I am SO grateful for you! Otherwise I would be lost forever.
Oh, I doubt I would fire myself, but thank you for the concern.
Yes, you are better than me and everyone else. We concede this. Does that make you happy with yourself?
To be honest, I could go on like this until comments on this story get locked, and I would really and truly love to (no, seriously, look at my comment history, I would), but I have work to do today.
That is probably a very wise thing to do. I wouldn't want you to get fired over a trivial matter like this. By the way, you may want to investigate the topic of obsessive compulsive disorder, because it doesn't seem to take much to compel you to obsess over something. :) I've enjoyed meeting you. Best wishes to you, brother!
Oooh, nice sarcasm, expertly done
Wow... so you're clairvoyant then? You can read my mind? That is SO impressive. I wish I could learn how to do that. I'm afraid you afford too much cleverness. I am terrible at sarcasm. I see people weave sarcasm in such clever ways all the time but despite my best efforts, I am no good at doing it nor am I good at parsing it. I thank you for the complement though. I will try to aspire to your level of intelligence. You've really given me something to shoot for and I thank you so much for that. I really mean that from the bottom of my heart. I don't know why you can't just accept a genuine complement and gratitude. You seem to one to be confrontational towards me even though I'm extending the warmest regards in your direction. I am not sure why that is but rest assured. I'm so glad that I ran across you in my brief existence because you have affected me in such a positive way, I can't even begin to thank you enough.
Which is exactly what GP said.
Can you read? The GP said:
So, basically what you're saying is, Toyota is the anti-Tesla.
What I said is not logically equivalent to that in any universe.
underground tunnels cost way more then truckers
I think you would have to qualify this a little better. Sure, the up front cost is substantial. However, being that a logistics company would not have to pay for drivers at CDL hourly rates anymore, eventually it would pay for itself and then pay dividends.
>This is why I work from home.
As someone who has had an (abysmally bad) driver determine that their home was a valid roadway... I question the value of your choice.
I'm not sure I follow your logic there, it seems to be nonsense. First of all, if you want to objectively make a claim the my choice of working from home is less valuable than commuting, then by all means lay out a claim and supporting logic and evidence for the claim. If your claim is subjective, meaning that you would not find my choice valuable, then we just agree to disagree because what is good for you is not necessarily good for me and vice versa but we should respect each other.
If there's no action which can be taken, there's no action to be taken.
That is a nonsense statement. That is like saying, if you post to slashdot, you post to slashdot. What is your actual claim here? Clearly because some action was taken, by definition there was an action to be taken. Can you clarify your position so we can understand you better?
I hope your loved ones don't get harmed by this newfound laziness hiding behind flashy, imperfect technology.
This is why I work from home. :) It's also better for the environment...
This seems like a solution to people who hate the idea of mass transit and transporting goods by trains. Self-driving cars and trucks and hyperloops!
I really hope this is not the primary driver behind this technology. If this is true, the idea is to eliminate the cost of CDL drivers and making the most dangerous vehicles on the road automatically driven. Why couldn't they just have a series of underground tunnels specifically for transporting commercial goods where all the automatic transport vehicles could be driven? That way, if an "error" occurs, it doesn't injure anyone? It's probably because it costs too much to do that I'm guessing... (facepalm)
The summary states, "it's clear engineers at the company care more about getting things right than they do about being first."
So, basically what you're saying is, Toyota is the anti-Tesla.
No, Toyota is being responsible instead of going for a quick short-term money grab due to hype.
Rather than direct action on the offending party, this ruling assumes to force the cost of enforcement onto innocent third parties.
This implies that there was some action that could be taken against the offending party but that a malevolent choice was opted for against innocent people. That's inaccurate. The reason the action was taken is because there was no logical action that could be taken against the offending party due to the circumstances. Do you disagree?
It's filled with people. Obligatory Dilbert.
Thank oh wise internet guru. I have seen the light. I shall now use your consciousness as a model for my existence so that I may be right with the universe once again. Thank you so much.
Even worse. Rather than direct action on the offending party, this ruling assumes to force the cost of enforcement onto innocent third parties.
The offending party is outside of US Jurisdiction. They can't touch her and I seriously doubt Putin would extradite her.
It could be an outbound issue, like a DNS server. That would also explain why the outage covers multiple regions.
It was only certain sites. Sites that had their own CDN's like Facebook and Steam were fine. It may have been a Level 3 issue. There were two interesting things reported via twitter:
Comcast indicating "external network issue": https://twitter.com/comcastcar...
Level 3 indicating "our network experienced a disruption affecting some IP customers due to a configuration error": https://twitter.com/Level3NOC/...
Further evidence of outage, outage statistics from DownDetector:
http://downdetector.com/status...
http://downdetector.com/status...
It's a distorted market influenced by easy money from government backed loans.
This precisely. For reference:
Nearly all students are eligible to receive federal loans (regardless of credit score or other financial issues). Federal student loans are not priced according to any individualized measure of risk, nor are loan limits determined based on risk. Rather, pricing and loan limits are politically determined by Congress. Undergraduates typically receive lower interest rates, but graduate students typically can borrow more. This lack of risk-based pricing has been criticized by scholars as contributing to inefficiency in higher education.
We can "vote them off the island" as it were.
Wow. I think I know why I got modded as troll. It would appears that the overly sensitive liberal crowd interpreted my statement possibly as deportation. Talk about cognitive bias. What I was referring is the reality TV show "Survivor" where at regular intervals there would be a tribe meeting whereby the tribe would decide who would stay on the island or who would leave. I was applying that metaphor to Slashdot. If, we, the readers of Slashdot collectively felt (measured by polling) that one of the editors was of poor enough quality that we would like them to no longer be editors, we could do it in this manner.
For those that don't know, this was a common practice in Ancient Greek civilization. If the people of Plato's time felt that you no longer deserved to be a citizen, you could have your citizenship revoked by the collective and thus be banished from civilization and treated as if you were dead.
I've always been under the impression that the purpose of college was to instill strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills. Unfortunately, greed has pretty much destroyed that notion.
I'm not sure if you're being serious or being a troll but anyone who has attended a university knows that only some majors would actually involve that. Literature, History, Art, etc. don't really afford that specifically as a discipline. STEM majors certainly focus on strong problem solving as do business and legal majors.
Could this sentence be written more poorly? Does msmash have a 2 year old’s mastery of English?
I actually made my first formal complaint to Slashdot about this. If an idea for Slashdot, why don't you start some polls so in the case of poor editors, we can "vote them off the island" as it were.
Education is no longer about advancing human knowledge or you making a contribution to that unless you started out independently wealthy. Getting a higher education is largely about being more valuable in the job marketplace to obtain more income. The value proposition of a PhD or a Doctorate in this context is suffering due to the Law of Diminishing returns. The cost of college education has increased dramatically due to the high availability of student loans and the amount of additional income you get from having such a credential is not proportional to the cost. It seems to me, some people depending on their needs consider a Bachelors Degree or an MBA to be the sweet spot in terms of garnering the income for their life's needs.
And you know... college is not the uber source of knowledge. If what you really seek is knowledge, you will always learn more from self-directed, focused study on the areas that you want to know more about. College is actually not the best source of information in my experience. Those with self drive will accumulate more knowledge faster without the college curriculum getting in their way.
If the TV no longer works as advertised, then in my book it's broken and should be repaired if under warranty or exchanged. If it broke after warranty, no recourse other than bad reputation for the product.
Well, you see, it doesn't particularly matter what your opinion or mine is on that. Two things matter: 1) How the FTC views the issue in the context of the law and 2) As long as the details of the product are made clear to consumers, the free market will sort it out. If no one likes the products, there will be no demand and thus it would be irrational for the producer to continue producing a product for which there is no demand. As has been stated many times on this site, vote with your wallet.
Personally, I read several reviews on products, especially more expensive ones, to ensure that I have the knowledge to make an informed purchase because my money is valuable to me. I don't rely on someone else to make me informed, I take responsibility for myself being informed. I find that this works quite well in our system and I don't see a problem with that. You just need to learn how to play the game. Once you get pretty decent at it, you will make things work for you. If you keep waiting for someone to do that for you, I'm afraid you'll for a long time and be perpetually disappointed but the choice is yours. It's your life.
Now, sure, some might say "Hey, I still use vowels, they're really useful when you're trying to distinguish between two words that have the same consonants, but a different sound joining them, like "cat" and "cut"", but that's old thinking, as leaving a gap is perfectly fine and should be good enough for everyone. Who cares if you were using lots of cheap old consonants? They're inefficient and completely unnecessary. So cat at out.
Here on Marklar we refer to all people, places and things as Marklar
because: http://gs.statcounter.com/brow...
The government is not your parent and you are not an infant. If you agree to get a discounted or even free TV set in exchange for inserted advertisements, it is your choice and you should be free to make it or decline.
Correct, but the key point is that the terms and conditions of the TV are presented at the time of sale in a way that allows the consumer to make an informed choice. If this is not done, it's considered fraud.