These properties of Pluto's atmosphere may be due to the presence of pure methane patches or of a methane-rich layer covering the dwarf planet's surface."
These properties may also be do to the presence of sheep on Pluto.
would you mind re-wording that a little; or at least using some punctuation?
Don't count on it. People are paid BIG money to make things sound confusing. They're paid even more money to make it sound like a vote for a pay decrease for the most valuable and inexpendable employees in a company is a good thing.
If someone is sucking your _____ until you _______, that's called sex.
Sex is the act of putting a penis in a vagina, as was stated by President Clinton, who is a lawyer.
And it's clearly inappropriate.
That's a value judgment.
Any other boss who made an employee get down on her knees would be charged with sexual harassment.
Although I wasn't there, my understanding is that President Clinton never forced the intern to suck on anything.
Don't try to pretend that the Big Boss ordering an intern to polish his knob is acceptable or "not sex".
The news reports stated that it was Monica Lewinsky that made the propositions, and that the CIA was trying to have Ms. Lewinski separated from the President as much as possible. I never heard any reports of Monaca charging the President with rape or harassment, or even suing him in a civil court.
So he called customer service for PayPal... [who] argued with me for 10 to 15 minutes. Like I had to prove that I didn't pump $81,400,836,908 in gas!
Yes, in the late 1990s I had trouble with PayPal. I emailed customer service about a dozen times and never got a response back. I have never considered using PayPal again.
>>>they fired her because she said she was unhappy about her job.
I can't believe that's legal. Lots of people are unhappy with their job, and say it out loud. That's no reason to fire them.
"That's no reason to fire them". It's not a good reason to fire them. I remember hearing about one company (can't remember the name) that was a retailer. In the employee lounge area they had a sign up, it said something like this "Don't forget to smile at the customer, or you'll be fired". So sometimes being "unhappy" isn't an option.
>>>It hasn't been an issue for people running for President.
Then why did Clinton say "I tried it but I didn't inhale."
Yes, everything is an issue when running for Office. It's all relative. Compared to getting a minimum wage job or even an education, it's obviously a lot easier to face the wrath of the electorate than the wrath of the HR department. As for Clinton, he never got sanctioned for not inhaling, he got sanctioned for not having sex. It appeared to me at least that smoking marijuana was more an issue with himself and his own hypocrisy (he signed into law draconian laws that denied student loans to pot smokers). The issue with Clinton was himself and his own dishonesty and hypocrisy. He should be ashamed and held accountable for that. Instead, like Bush, he gets re-elected into office. It's bizarre the way the American electorate behaves. And yes, if you haven't noticed, this is a class issue and it always has been. The anti-marijuana laws (in the USA) were originally meant to harass black people. Now they have it so poor people can't get student loans.
When your rich it doesn't matter what you do because if somebody leeks out an (embarrassing) sex or drug tape about you then you can just start your own reality TV show like Paris Hilton did. If you're a teen in a public school then you're likely to be charged with child pornography. Nothing is fair. But yes there are double standards. Being exposed isn't the real danger. Being poor is the real danger.
Heck, look what happened to the Congressman who supposedly prostituted for sex in a bathroom.
Sex is a different issue. Of course it's nobody's business, but there are laws and the electorate and the HR department to deal with. Life can be sucky that way. People need to learn to live with themselves.
The problem is that nothing disappears. If you admitted back in 1999, while you were an idiot college student, that you "experimented" with marijuana, do you really want that Slashdot post to reappear in a year 2020 Google search when you're trying to run for the State Legislature or Congress?
Why would this be an issue? It hasn't been an issue for people running for President. Why should it be an issue for people running for Congress. So far it has only been an issue for people trying to get student loans or jobs at Best Buy.
Anything could be an issue. If your parents post baby pictures of your circumcision, baptism or Bar Mitzvah then this could certainly be an issue, although people may argue that it shouldn't be. Anything could be made into an issue. If you talk about politics or religion on your Facebook account then this could be an issue. I've heard of one executive that was denied a promotion because of the style of belt he liked to wear. The clothes you wore could be an issue. If you were seen eating meat could be an issue.
Why worry about these things when you have absolutely no control over the people placing judgment on you. Get drunk and be gay. If people don't like you for being you then you shouldn't be associating with those people. If you can't get a job because you are discriminated against then steal food to survive. Sometimes you've got to not only tell people to fuck off, but play the game as well. Like I tell people in China; if you don't like communism then either leave the country or assassinate its leaders.
I was with you through your point about pollution but why'd you have to go off the deep end with human-caused climate change?
It's interesting that some people can find issues where there are none. Like people looking for child porn can find it in Wikipedia articles, and religious preachers can find satanic messages when listening to Rock and Roll records backwards.
There will be no privacy in the future, and therefore no crime. Technology improvements in cameras, microphones, etc will keep on improving so much that we will eventually end up living in a technological and political Utopia. Do to genetic and behavioral profiling we will stop crime before it even happens.
Continuing political improvements and progress in the law and the technology to enforce the law means we will be safer, richer, and happier.
Yes, everyone is now opening up (including Apple), but it took a long time, and Apple had already established its dominant position. So why are book publishers doing the same thing?"
Because book publishers and record executives have the same types of personalities and intelligence that drives people into executive positions. They have the same token MBAs and Law degrees and lawyers that all "Business" people have. They all think-outside-of-the-box the same way.
Aside from the language laws (which is a divisive issue itself in Quebec), Quebec has always seemed to be fairly progressive when it comes to personal freedom. I doubt if the average Quebecois agrees with what one of its major corporations would want to do to its citizens. Quebec is far from being anything like the Bible Belt.
Translated, Quebecor argues in favour of certain instances of ISPs controlling content
Which is a continuing worldwide trend of companies and countries devolving from an open and worldwide Internet to a closed and insular Intranet. According to the pundits, if you aren't doing anything wrong then you should welcome suppression with open arms and arses. Of course the pundits are Trolls, but simple and weak arguments that are based on emotion and dishonesty usually win against logic and rationality. Nice ISP users finish last.
I'd be interested to see where you think you are going to go when you 'get off'. These things are in various stages of implementation all over the world. The same excuses are given everywhere too, national security,to stop terrorists, protect the children and prevent copyright infringement. Let us know when you find this libertarian paradise you intend to live in.
Take the blue pill. A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.
Maybe I should say that anybody on your side of the proxy can see what you're doing?
OK -:) My point is really that with the Internet trust is implicit (and necessary), but it is also as dubious as putting your money in a bank account.
You must trust your ISP, your proxy, your Web browser, your operating system, etc and so on. There are too many avenues for failure. Though the complexity of systems does help to provide security through obscurity, assuming that a consumer has an advantage over an adversary.
It's all pretty much an illusion though. Any dedicated and persistent attack will have an increasing probability of success over time.
Clearly governments need to get rid of their bad laws instead of introducing yet more bad government practices.
How crazy! Who would they appease by doing that?
Criminals. But the best way to get rid of crime is to legalize it. It would certainly make the self-righteous upset, which is a righteous goal in itself.
They want to eavesdrop to stop sex and drug use (according to the article). Clearly governments need to get rid of their bad laws instead of introducing yet more bad government practices. As for terrorism, that can be dealt with more effectively through political channels than through spying on your citizens.
Or youtube for that matter?, there are many times where I go on Youtube/just purely/ to listen to music.
The RIAA and its conduits have agreements/contracts with Youtube.
That being said, the RIAA is the Catholic Church of the new musical middle ages; they have far reaching powers beyond any political boarders, and they can ruin people. They can infiltrate and influence entire business sectors, and even entire governments.
Irma, which represents major music groups EMI, Sony-BMG, Warner and Universal, is to begin compiling lists of websites that it claims are damaging its business.
Reminds me of the Red-scare issue when activist groups were creating lists.
why is it so hard to then imagine that, given that the "browser" is doing everything that you can also do with desktop widget UI toolkits, why is it so hard to appreciate that you need the full range of OS technology to support that desktop^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrowser technology?
I have an operating system to run applications, that's why I don't need to run drive-bye applications on the Internet.
Slashdot Mirror
These properties of Pluto's atmosphere may be due to the presence of pure methane patches or of a methane-rich layer covering the dwarf planet's surface."
These properties may also be do to the presence of sheep on Pluto.
That's because management deserves it....
One of the more well written and believable Trolls. Well done.
what?
would you mind re-wording that a little; or at least using some punctuation?
Don't count on it. People are paid BIG money to make things sound confusing. They're paid even more money to make it sound like a vote for a pay decrease for the most valuable and inexpendable employees in a company is a good thing.
If someone is sucking your _____ until you _______, that's called sex.
Sex is the act of putting a penis in a vagina, as was stated by President Clinton, who is a lawyer.
And it's clearly inappropriate.
That's a value judgment.
Any other boss who made an employee get down on her knees would be charged with sexual harassment.
Although I wasn't there, my understanding is that President Clinton never forced the intern to suck on anything.
Don't try to pretend that the Big Boss ordering an intern to polish his knob is acceptable or "not sex".
The news reports stated that it was Monica Lewinsky that made the propositions, and that the CIA was trying to have Ms. Lewinski separated from the President as much as possible. I never heard any reports of Monaca charging the President with rape or harassment, or even suing him in a civil court.
So he called customer service for PayPal... [who] argued with me for 10 to 15 minutes. Like I had to prove that I didn't pump $81,400,836,908 in gas!
Yes, in the late 1990s I had trouble with PayPal. I emailed customer service about a dozen times and never got a response back. I have never considered using PayPal again.
>>>they fired her because she said she was unhappy about her job.
I can't believe that's legal. Lots of people are unhappy with their job, and say it out loud. That's no reason to fire them.
"That's no reason to fire them". It's not a good reason to fire them. I remember hearing about one company (can't remember the name) that was a retailer. In the employee lounge area they had a sign up, it said something like this "Don't forget to smile at the customer, or you'll be fired". So sometimes being "unhappy" isn't an option.
>>>It hasn't been an issue for people running for President.
Then why did Clinton say "I tried it but I didn't inhale."
Yes, everything is an issue when running for Office. It's all relative. Compared to getting a minimum wage job or even an education, it's obviously a lot easier to face the wrath of the electorate than the wrath of the HR department. As for Clinton, he never got sanctioned for not inhaling, he got sanctioned for not having sex. It appeared to me at least that smoking marijuana was more an issue with himself and his own hypocrisy (he signed into law draconian laws that denied student loans to pot smokers). The issue with Clinton was himself and his own dishonesty and hypocrisy. He should be ashamed and held accountable for that. Instead, like Bush, he gets re-elected into office. It's bizarre the way the American electorate behaves. And yes, if you haven't noticed, this is a class issue and it always has been. The anti-marijuana laws (in the USA) were originally meant to harass black people. Now they have it so poor people can't get student loans.
When your rich it doesn't matter what you do because if somebody leeks out an (embarrassing) sex or drug tape about you then you can just start your own reality TV show like Paris Hilton did. If you're a teen in a public school then you're likely to be charged with child pornography. Nothing is fair. But yes there are double standards. Being exposed isn't the real danger. Being poor is the real danger.
Heck, look what happened to the Congressman who supposedly prostituted for sex in a bathroom.
Sex is a different issue. Of course it's nobody's business, but there are laws and the electorate and the HR department to deal with. Life can be sucky that way. People need to learn to live with themselves.
The problem is that nothing disappears. If you admitted back in 1999, while you were an idiot college student, that you "experimented" with marijuana, do you really want that Slashdot post to reappear in a year 2020 Google search when you're trying to run for the State Legislature or Congress?
Why would this be an issue? It hasn't been an issue for people running for President. Why should it be an issue for people running for Congress. So far it has only been an issue for people trying to get student loans or jobs at Best Buy.
Anything could be an issue. If your parents post baby pictures of your circumcision, baptism or Bar Mitzvah then this could certainly be an issue, although people may argue that it shouldn't be. Anything could be made into an issue. If you talk about politics or religion on your Facebook account then this could be an issue. I've heard of one executive that was denied a promotion because of the style of belt he liked to wear. The clothes you wore could be an issue. If you were seen eating meat could be an issue.
Why worry about these things when you have absolutely no control over the people placing judgment on you. Get drunk and be gay. If people don't like you for being you then you shouldn't be associating with those people. If you can't get a job because you are discriminated against then steal food to survive. Sometimes you've got to not only tell people to fuck off, but play the game as well. Like I tell people in China; if you don't like communism then either leave the country or assassinate its leaders.
I was with you through your point about pollution but why'd you have to go off the deep end with human-caused climate change?
It's interesting that some people can find issues where there are none. Like people looking for child porn can find it in Wikipedia articles, and religious preachers can find satanic messages when listening to Rock and Roll records backwards.
There will be no privacy in the future, and therefore no crime. Technology improvements in cameras, microphones, etc will keep on improving so much that we will eventually end up living in a technological and political Utopia. Do to genetic and behavioral profiling we will stop crime before it even happens.
Continuing political improvements and progress in the law and the technology to enforce the law means we will be safer, richer, and happier.
Yes, everyone is now opening up (including Apple), but it took a long time, and Apple had already established its dominant position. So why are book publishers doing the same thing?"
Because book publishers and record executives have the same types of personalities and intelligence that drives people into executive positions. They have the same token MBAs and Law degrees and lawyers that all "Business" people have. They all think-outside-of-the-box the same way.
Aside from the language laws (which is a divisive issue itself in Quebec), Quebec has always seemed to be fairly progressive when it comes to personal freedom. I doubt if the average Quebecois agrees with what one of its major corporations would want to do to its citizens. Quebec is far from being anything like the Bible Belt.
From the article:
Translated, Quebecor argues in favour of certain instances of ISPs controlling content
Which is a continuing worldwide trend of companies and countries devolving from an open and worldwide Internet to a closed and insular Intranet. According to the pundits, if you aren't doing anything wrong then you should welcome suppression with open arms and arses. Of course the pundits are Trolls, but simple and weak arguments that are based on emotion and dishonesty usually win against logic and rationality. Nice ISP users finish last.
Why not just monitor them? Keep track of who visits www.kiddieporn.com or whatever.
Can't. It seems to be slashdotted ATM. I guess the anti-kiddie-porn people will be asking Slashdot for it's member list and logs.
I'd be interested to see where you think you are going to go when you 'get off'. These things are in various stages of implementation all over the world. The same excuses are given everywhere too, national security,to stop terrorists, protect the children and prevent copyright infringement. Let us know when you find this libertarian paradise you intend to live in.
Take the blue pill. A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down.
Maybe I should say that anybody on your side of the proxy can see what you're doing?
OK -:)
My point is really that with the Internet trust is implicit (and necessary), but it is also as dubious as putting your money in a bank account.
You must trust your ISP, your proxy, your Web browser, your operating system, etc and so on. There are too many avenues for failure. Though the complexity of systems does help to provide security through obscurity, assuming that a consumer has an advantage over an adversary.
It's all pretty much an illusion though. Any dedicated and persistent attack will have an increasing probability of success over time.
This "voluntary" and "recommended system" doesn't seem to be very voluntary all of a sudden. Why doesn't this surprise me?
Proxies are great for "fooling" the guy at the other end.
Proxies are also useful for man-in-the-middle attacks and government sponsored honeypots.
Criminals. But the best way to get rid of crime is to legalize it. It would certainly make the self-righteous upset, which is a righteous goal in itself.
They want to eavesdrop to stop sex and drug use (according to the article). Clearly governments need to get rid of their bad laws instead of introducing yet more bad government practices. As for terrorism, that can be dealt with more effectively through political channels than through spying on your citizens.
Do these conspiracy theories ever come true?
Where have you been for the past 10 years? Haven't you ever heard of the banking industry?
Or youtube for that matter?, there are many times where I go on Youtube /just purely/ to listen to music.
The RIAA and its conduits have agreements/contracts with Youtube.
That being said, the RIAA is the Catholic Church of the new musical middle ages; they have far reaching powers beyond any political boarders, and they can ruin people. They can infiltrate and influence entire business sectors, and even entire governments.
Irma, which represents major music groups EMI, Sony-BMG, Warner and Universal, is to begin compiling lists of websites that it claims are damaging its business.
Reminds me of the Red-scare issue when activist groups were creating lists.
What moron modded me troll?
Troll is the new Funny.
why is it so hard to then imagine that, given that the "browser" is doing everything that you can also do with desktop widget UI toolkits, why is it so hard to appreciate that you need the full range of OS technology to support that desktop^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbrowser technology?
I have an operating system to run applications, that's why I don't need to run drive-bye applications on the Internet.