Here in the UK, all respectable dealerships check vehicles over thoroughly and offer a warranty (if they do end up with a clunker on their hands, they send it off to auction rather than risk getting a bad name). Buying new is largely a status (or company fleet) thing; nearly-new second hand is the smart move.
Here's the thing: There's a supply and demand problem with nutjob violent white supremacists. They're always brought up in debates like this but the supply of them is just not big enough to satisfy it. Your response is typical of course, as is being in denial about the problem in general.
Well, let's see. Here in the UK there have been two terrorist killings in the last 10 years. One was an Islamist killing and one was a white supremacist killing. In the USA there's been the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, the Charleston church shooting, and if you count antisemitism with white supremacism you also have the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting and the Overland Park Jewish Community Centre shooting.
Yep, there's a supply and demand problem sure enough -- there's a massive oversupply.
If we're going to abuse statistics, it's worth pointing out that if only 1% of Muslims support Jihadists, that's still a good 10 million people.
And if just 1% of white people are nutjob violent white supremacists, that's 10 million of them. Are those of us in the USA and Europe as suspicious of white people as we are of Muslims?
No, I'm not living in the US, I'm living in London, England, which is about 12% Muslim. And my last workplace was in a predominantly Muslim part of the city, too.
The religion of Muslims is Islam, simple as that. The totalitarian ideology you describe does exist, but is usually described as "Islamism" to distinguish it from the non-evil (though arguably incorrect) religion that many millions follow.
I'm more interested in how people who call themselves Muslim actually live their lives than whether that conforms to someone else's understanding of what true Islam is. And none of the Muslims I know seem remotely interested in killing me - some of them have had plenty of opportunity, but clearly can't be bothered. Maybe I've been lucky in the Muslims I've met, but there does seem to be quite a divergence between (your) theory and practice.
The reason for accessing Facebook over TOR is noise. The more innocuous traffic on TOR, the harder it gets for anybody looking for the less innocuous stuff.
If they'd posted a link to something in English, more people would have realised that the article doesn't support their (incorrect) claim, and where's the fun in that?
It's not true. Paternity testing is legal in France, but it's regulated. What the linked article described as inconceivable in France was a mobile testing van that does the tests without either the mother's permission or a court order.
The posting was misleading. Paternity testing is not illegal in France, but it's regulated and needs either the consent of both (presumed) parents or a court order (which seems to be the same as where I am, in the UK). If there's a dispute over child support payments then a court order would be the way to go.
My problem is with the either/or thinking. Kids either have to do what's in the algebra 2 module or have to do what's in a stats module. Presumably the world would end if a new module were developed that took stuff that's useful in real life from a whole spectrum of maths disciplines. After all, we have to keep the artificial boundaries between disciplines policed, don't we?
According to the description, he's advocating scrapping the teaching of logarithms. Will the kids be taught that everything has a rectangular distribution?
"Die" is a good example of why blocking on words is too inaccurate. As well as the meaning related to death, it's also a forming tool and the singular of "dice". My kids encountered Suetonius's "The die is cast" ("alea iacta est") while still at primary school (although they didn't know at that stage it was Suetonius, only that it was said to Julius Caesar, who they thought was a character in the Asterix comic books). If you block on "die", you get too many false positives, if you don't block on "die" (and want to eliminate any mention of death - do none of these kids keep hamsters as pets?) you get too many false negatives.
Well, "Gay" used to be a fairly common given name, it's still a fairly common family name, and if the kids are old enough to be looking at classic texts they'll still see it used a lot to mean "happy" (kids are unlikely to be searching texts old enough to encounter earlier meanings). So even if you want to shelter them from the real world, filtering "gay" gives far too many false positives. "Lesbian" is going to give fewer false positives, but it is the correct adjective to describe a native of the island of Lesbos.
I'm sure they wouldn't, because they'd never know. But I also have a conscience, a wallet and a brain - the last of which reminds me that the Tories are the party of "family values", and it's not so long since they wanted a "return to Victorian values", which pretty much establishes their position on Porn. Labour, on the other hand, would never be able to decide whether to take a second-wave feminist, third-wave feminist or post-feminist approach, so it has a less determined position.
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And would we ever have heard of Shakespeare had he not done the same?
(They also spell humour wrongly).
Fixed that for ya.
Here in the UK, all respectable dealerships check vehicles over thoroughly and offer a warranty (if they do end up with a clunker on their hands, they send it off to auction rather than risk getting a bad name). Buying new is largely a status (or company fleet) thing; nearly-new second hand is the smart move.
"The swamp with freeways state"?
Here's the thing: There's a supply and demand problem with nutjob violent white supremacists. They're always brought up in debates like this but the supply of them is just not big enough to satisfy it. Your response is typical of course, as is being in denial about the problem in general.
Well, let's see. Here in the UK there have been two terrorist killings in the last 10 years. One was an Islamist killing and one was a white supremacist killing. In the USA there's been the Wisconsin Sikh Temple shooting, the Charleston church shooting, and if you count antisemitism with white supremacism you also have the US Holocaust Memorial Museum shooting and the Overland Park Jewish Community Centre shooting.
Yep, there's a supply and demand problem sure enough -- there's a massive oversupply.
If we're going to abuse statistics, it's worth pointing out that if only 1% of Muslims support Jihadists, that's still a good 10 million people.
And if just 1% of white people are nutjob violent white supremacists, that's 10 million of them. Are those of us in the USA and Europe as suspicious of white people as we are of Muslims?
No, I'm not living in the US, I'm living in London, England, which is about 12% Muslim. And my last workplace was in a predominantly Muslim part of the city, too.
The religion of Muslims is Islam, simple as that. The totalitarian ideology you describe does exist, but is usually described as "Islamism" to distinguish it from the non-evil (though arguably incorrect) religion that many millions follow.
I'm more interested in how people who call themselves Muslim actually live their lives than whether that conforms to someone else's understanding of what true Islam is. And none of the Muslims I know seem remotely interested in killing me - some of them have had plenty of opportunity, but clearly can't be bothered. Maybe I've been lucky in the Muslims I've met, but there does seem to be quite a divergence between (your) theory and practice.
The reason for accessing Facebook over TOR is noise. The more innocuous traffic on TOR, the harder it gets for anybody looking for the less innocuous stuff.
If they'd posted a link to something in English, more people would have realised that the article doesn't support their (incorrect) claim, and where's the fun in that?
It's not true. Paternity testing is legal in France, but it's regulated. What the linked article described as inconceivable in France was a mobile testing van that does the tests without either the mother's permission or a court order.
The posting was misleading. Paternity testing is not illegal in France, but it's regulated and needs either the consent of both (presumed) parents or a court order (which seems to be the same as where I am, in the UK). If there's a dispute over child support payments then a court order would be the way to go.
The artist who drew the "artist's impression" of the planet clearly missed the bit about it being a gas giant.
Is there any computing standard or practice that hasn't already become a matter for religious wars?
My problem is with the either/or thinking. Kids either have to do what's in the algebra 2 module or have to do what's in a stats module. Presumably the world would end if a new module were developed that took stuff that's useful in real life from a whole spectrum of maths disciplines. After all, we have to keep the artificial boundaries between disciplines policed, don't we?
According to the description, he's advocating scrapping the teaching of logarithms. Will the kids be taught that everything has a rectangular distribution?
More to the point, how on Earth are people going to be able to do statistics without a good grasp of algebra?
That's what I get learning history from comic books.
"Die" is a good example of why blocking on words is too inaccurate. As well as the meaning related to death, it's also a forming tool and the singular of "dice". My kids encountered Suetonius's "The die is cast" ("alea iacta est") while still at primary school (although they didn't know at that stage it was Suetonius, only that it was said to Julius Caesar, who they thought was a character in the Asterix comic books). If you block on "die", you get too many false positives, if you don't block on "die" (and want to eliminate any mention of death - do none of these kids keep hamsters as pets?) you get too many false negatives.
I assume that censorship blocking on certain words is just a sneaky way to get the kids to learn a foreign language...
Well, "Gay" used to be a fairly common given name, it's still a fairly common family name, and if the kids are old enough to be looking at classic texts they'll still see it used a lot to mean "happy" (kids are unlikely to be searching texts old enough to encounter earlier meanings). So even if you want to shelter them from the real world, filtering "gay" gives far too many false positives. "Lesbian" is going to give fewer false positives, but it is the correct adjective to describe a native of the island of Lesbos.
This is Slashdot. Nobody believes any of us has a girlfriend.
I'm sure they wouldn't, because they'd never know. But I also have a conscience, a wallet and a brain - the last of which reminds me that the Tories are the party of "family values", and it's not so long since they wanted a "return to Victorian values", which pretty much establishes their position on Porn. Labour, on the other hand, would never be able to decide whether to take a second-wave feminist, third-wave feminist or post-feminist approach, so it has a less determined position.
... which has nothing at all with policy on porn age checks.