They usually don't. But, enlightened individuals that many Slashdot users are, we do not feel the need to rip apart good things done by bad people. We will look for motive, yes, but we will also accept the good that they do.
It can be less impractical that something that gets in the way a lot, or something that's prone to losing stones. So, not practical as you're thinking about it, but practical when compared to other rings.
Lucky for you that Slashdot didn't have any trouble. You might have lost your post, and all the fame, fortune, and women that it has no doubt brought you would be with other people.
I'll give you that they basically invented grid computing. I'll even admit that there could be some as yet unknown far reaching benefits to gathering all this data. But just because electricity grew to be more than just a novelty, doesn't mean that we should ignore this modern-day version of Pasteur's vaccine research. We know that one of these projects is going to help change the face of modern medicine, and we know nothing at all about the other. Right now, SETI is just as much a fool's game as the lottery, more so if we consider that we at least know that there's a prize at the end of the lottery.
Diminishing returns. After a certain point, it's pointless to continue pouring resources into a project. Really, the best way to go is to spread your resources into several things.
Now, clothing and shelter are important. They may not be important enough to justify all the resources that are poured into them, but they have use and value. Can you name a single benefit of SETI? Out of all the CPU cycles that have been thrown at radio signals, have any of them been of use? Folding@home has at least produced results, and promises more to come. Far be it from me to tell you to change, but to suggest that SETI@home is just as valid as Folding@home is as crazy as if I were to suggest that my hobby of playing Team Fortress 2 is as useful as the guy who created MythTV in his spare time.
Feh. I've worked places where the best thing I could do for the company would be to burn it down, so that they could do it right when they rebuilt using the insurance money. Most glaringly, there is a difference between a server room and a closet with a leaky ceiling. Completely serious.
How about "There's a study that's only available to cocaine users. You get paid $1000, and we keep supplying the cocaine for the period of the study. If the other drug we're injecting you with works, there's a chance that you'll become immune to the effects of cocaine."
I think most of the cocaine users I know would leap at a chance to sign a piece of paper that had the above written on it. Free coke, and they get money too? That's worth the chance that they might not be able to get high from cocaine anymore.
Suppose that I got scammed or hacked, and 10,000 Lindenbucks went from me to Joe Hacker. Now suppose that I paid Joe Hacker 10,000 Lindenbucks to write some program, and we just used Second Life as an alternative to PayPal. In both cases, 10k Lindenbucks went from me to Joe, and in both cases I did not gain anything in the Second Life environment. Linden Labs has wisely chosen not to be the arbiter of such things, as doing so would either crash the economy or allow a brand new variety of swindles.
I have no issue with both sides being taught in schools, as long as we make sure that only the one that conforms to the scientific method gets called science. Intelligent design can go in a religion or philosophy class.
I have a job that requires me to travel a fair amount. The last thing I feel like doing is buying a few days worth of groceries so that I can cook in the hotel room. So, I eat out. Partial servings is a good way to spread out a steak across two meals instead of one, especially when an 8 oz steak might cost only a couple dollars less than a 16 oz steak, if the 8 oz is available at all.
No such thing as bad publicity? You think Sony didn't suffer from reports of rootkits or exploding batteries? You think Geek Squad enjoys the news of their agents rooting around in their customers hard drives? How about Verizon not knowing the difference between.002 dollars and.002 cents?
Bad publicity is quite real, and is becoming more so all the time.
It's the U.S. analog to the Canadian SIN, and it's not really good for much other than being stolen, and taking your identity with it. Originally, it was intended to only be given to employers, so that they could appropriately give your money to the government, with the promise that it would be given back when you were retired. In fact, it was expressly stated that the SSN was not to be used as it is now being used, but like so many other things, this has been ignored more and more over the years.
Yes, it is a brain dead country. Yes, there are better ways to do this. No, we will not change, because Social Security reform has been turned into a horrendously controversial topic that overwhelms any petty concerns about identity theft.
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They usually don't. But, enlightened individuals that many Slashdot users are, we do not feel the need to rip apart good things done by bad people. We will look for motive, yes, but we will also accept the good that they do.
Yeah, that'll work out well. It only takes one major lawsuit to put an end to physical destruction of peoples goods.
It might not be words, it might be pictures of naked kids. Think of the children.
Right now I'm on XP, but I use MEPIS on my laptop. When they port TF2 to Linux, I may finally switch the last Windows computer I have.
Or Elric. Or Rand al'Thor. Wizards with swords really aren't all that uncommon in fantasy literature.
Because they kept shaking the Magic 8-Ball until they got the results they wanted.
It can be less impractical that something that gets in the way a lot, or something that's prone to losing stones. So, not practical as you're thinking about it, but practical when compared to other rings.
Lucky for you that Slashdot didn't have any trouble. You might have lost your post, and all the fame, fortune, and women that it has no doubt brought you would be with other people.
Gold is only toxic if you get it fine enough. It is still a heavy metal.
Is that the one where you fight with a pistol in one hand, and a sword in the other?
Linux is free, and can run on even very old hardware.
I don't actually watch the Simpsons. I know that line because it is heavily used on Slashdot.
I'll give you that they basically invented grid computing. I'll even admit that there could be some as yet unknown far reaching benefits to gathering all this data. But just because electricity grew to be more than just a novelty, doesn't mean that we should ignore this modern-day version of Pasteur's vaccine research. We know that one of these projects is going to help change the face of modern medicine, and we know nothing at all about the other. Right now, SETI is just as much a fool's game as the lottery, more so if we consider that we at least know that there's a prize at the end of the lottery.
Diminishing returns. After a certain point, it's pointless to continue pouring resources into a project. Really, the best way to go is to spread your resources into several things.
Now, clothing and shelter are important. They may not be important enough to justify all the resources that are poured into them, but they have use and value. Can you name a single benefit of SETI? Out of all the CPU cycles that have been thrown at radio signals, have any of them been of use? Folding@home has at least produced results, and promises more to come. Far be it from me to tell you to change, but to suggest that SETI@home is just as valid as Folding@home is as crazy as if I were to suggest that my hobby of playing Team Fortress 2 is as useful as the guy who created MythTV in his spare time.
In America, we recognize a Simpsons quote when we see it.
Feh. I've worked places where the best thing I could do for the company would be to burn it down, so that they could do it right when they rebuilt using the insurance money. Most glaringly, there is a difference between a server room and a closet with a leaky ceiling. Completely serious.
How about "There's a study that's only available to cocaine users. You get paid $1000, and we keep supplying the cocaine for the period of the study. If the other drug we're injecting you with works, there's a chance that you'll become immune to the effects of cocaine."
I think most of the cocaine users I know would leap at a chance to sign a piece of paper that had the above written on it. Free coke, and they get money too? That's worth the chance that they might not be able to get high from cocaine anymore.
Suppose that I got scammed or hacked, and 10,000 Lindenbucks went from me to Joe Hacker. Now suppose that I paid Joe Hacker 10,000 Lindenbucks to write some program, and we just used Second Life as an alternative to PayPal. In both cases, 10k Lindenbucks went from me to Joe, and in both cases I did not gain anything in the Second Life environment. Linden Labs has wisely chosen not to be the arbiter of such things, as doing so would either crash the economy or allow a brand new variety of swindles.
I have no issue with both sides being taught in schools, as long as we make sure that only the one that conforms to the scientific method gets called science. Intelligent design can go in a religion or philosophy class.
I have a job that requires me to travel a fair amount. The last thing I feel like doing is buying a few days worth of groceries so that I can cook in the hotel room. So, I eat out. Partial servings is a good way to spread out a steak across two meals instead of one, especially when an 8 oz steak might cost only a couple dollars less than a 16 oz steak, if the 8 oz is available at all.
No such thing as bad publicity? You think Sony didn't suffer from reports of rootkits or exploding batteries? You think Geek Squad enjoys the news of their agents rooting around in their customers hard drives? How about Verizon not knowing the difference between .002 dollars and .002 cents?
Bad publicity is quite real, and is becoming more so all the time.
It's the U.S. analog to the Canadian SIN, and it's not really good for much other than being stolen, and taking your identity with it. Originally, it was intended to only be given to employers, so that they could appropriately give your money to the government, with the promise that it would be given back when you were retired. In fact, it was expressly stated that the SSN was not to be used as it is now being used, but like so many other things, this has been ignored more and more over the years.
Yes, it is a brain dead country. Yes, there are better ways to do this. No, we will not change, because Social Security reform has been turned into a horrendously controversial topic that overwhelms any petty concerns about identity theft.
Someone mentioned clickbotting the minicity links to get those cities shut down for fraud.
Maybe they like the euphoria. Maybe dexies have other benefits other than delaying the need for sleep.