And while you're at it, could you respond by citing your own slashdot comments (as you often like to do)? After all, once you've already been demonstrated to be clueless on the ramifications of what you are asking for, nothing demonstrates your understanding of reality like citing yourself as a source of information!
You must not read many comments - or stories - here. The most frequently posted opinions on slashdot are far to the right of 99% of the world.
Libertarian on the philosophy charts is dead center
Not in the way that "libertarian" is applied in the US. Most libertarians in the US are just more conservatives who don't like the label conservative.
Since 71% of all firefighters in this country are volunteers it shows people are willing to put their lives on the line to help their fellow person without the gov't stepping in.
It is one thing to be willing to fight a fire, that isn't that difficult. What is really difficult is to fight a fire with no equipment. Try fighting a fire with no axe, oxygen tank, fire truck, fire hydrant, or water. Those supplies are provided by taxpayer funds in >>99% of all cases. And being as far-right crusaders like Ron Paul want to strip that money away to allow "free market solutions" to take over, it means that many people won't have volunteer fire depts to rely on.
Do you read anything other than freerepublic.com for news? Perhaps you should step outside your hermetically-sealed bubble and look at what people actually have to say about your idol. Just because a ton of people who think the same way you think (if it could really be counted as thought) claim that 103% of the world's population hates your idol with the heat of a thousand suns does not make it true.
Hell I happen to agree with your idol that the war in Iraq should end yesterday; I have opposed it since it was first proposed by GWB and company, and have opposed it consistently throughout. I just happen to think that your idol is wrong on pretty well every other thing he has ever suggested.
They do that as a safety precaution. If an actual zombie uprising happens to occur during the exercise, they need to be able to discern real zombies from fake ones, so they make the fake ones orange. It's standard emergency preparedness exercise protocol.
Can we still decapitate the orange ones, as an additional safety precaution? After all we could have a real zombie masquerading as a fake one...
Ron Paul would bring US troops home, the National Guard as well and would cut militarist costs by hundreds of billions and would cut 1 Trillion in spending in the first year with the goal of balancing the budget in 3 years and with the goal of getting rid of the Fed and restoring liberty.
Good job completely avoiding the topic at hand. How does your favorite candidate's plan to bring home the troops make any difference for emergency responders?
It's doesn't, of course. And being as Ron Paul would slash the emergency response budget as well, the responders are screwed over even more if Ron Paul is elected than if nothing changes.
The biggest hurdle in front of Ron Paul is not Borat Chubaka
Oh, how cute. Most conservative idiots just try to link Obama to the middle east or Islam. Instead you want people to think he is a Star Wars Wookie from Kazakhstan? Yeah, that makes perfect sense if you're on heavy drugs.
is a plant by the military industrial complex and by big pharma and by the banking and insurance industries
As opposed to what other president that we've had in the US in the past several decades?
One of (Bachmann, Perry, Romney, Jizzbucke.... Santorum, Gingrich, Cain) becoming POTUS
You forgot to mention the possibility* of Ron Paul becoming president, which is even more terrifying for the emergency responders. After all, Ron Paul would pretty well gut the civil emergency response systems, which would leave the responders - if any remained at that point - to then have to figure out which properties and people were properly covered for emergency assistance. They would spend more time trying to figure out whether or not to put out a fire than they would likely spend actually fighting said fire.
*Thankfully, we all know that Ron Paul doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Just because he gets enormous and highly vocal support on slashdot and other right-wing sites on the web doesn't mean that he could ever get the votes he needs to win a nomination, let alone the white house itself.
It doesn't matter what OWS wants, the entire system is moving towards more of a fascist state, not a Communist one, not that the difference is that important,
The difference is huge. Just because you are too entranced with conservative bullshit to see the rest of the world doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
in either case you'll lose all your liberties.
That is 100% wrong. Communism does not inherently take away all liberties, no matter how much you may want the opposite to be the case. The way communism has been sold in the real world bares almost no resemblance whatsoever to what Marx had called communism when he wrote the manifesto.
But as I said, these demands read more like Communist Manifesto than Mein Kampf.
I don't know if you've read the latter, but I can confidently say you haven't read the former. It isn't a long read, you might want to try it some time and maybe you'll realize how full of shit you are.
In other English-speaking countries "industrial action" is what people in the US call a "strike"
I did not know that. That is interesting to see that in countries where employees still can strike - every year in the US more workers lose their right to strike - a longer term is used to describe the action that is called strike in the US. I guess that means the term and the action are simultaneously going away then.
Yes they are, because it gives slashdot editors and readers another chance to talk about how their favorite presidential candidate or political movement would handle this better than anyone else, anywhere, ever.
Though as others have pointed out, if you don't like it, don't read it. Nobody is forcing you to click on the link. You could submit something else to read or just not read slashdot at all.
The summary is calling it "Industrial action by union employees". Most news outlets are just calling it a "strike". The needlessly long and obtuse description used here on the front page could be read to mean intentional equipment sabotage instead...
A remote controlled aircraft armed with a shotgun fired by someone sitting comfortably in a chair. I think we heard of a similar program there some years ago that intended to "bring hunting to the disabled". Now they just changed the prey...
If their purpose was to show that good programming habits are hard to teach with Perl as a base, that makes sense because Perl is rather forgiving of things that other languages would flat out reject.
That, however, does not on its own make Perl "bad" or even "worse" than any other language as a whole. Tragically, that seems to be the message that the summary is trying to convey here.
Taking two programming languages - any combination of two languages - and trying to call one "good" and the other "bad" is idiotic at the very least. It is like setting a chainsaw next to a Glock and asking someone to tell you which one is bad and which one is good. Both are useful and you can't compare the two on just one dimension and expect to have meaningful results of that comparison.
The pictures show a Mercedes/AMG CL 2-seater hard top convertible. The article describes a "big Mercedes". The CL is big only in price, but not everyone would know that just by looking at it...
It's not hard to imagine that Boeing actually drove the delays - at least in part - themselves to try to find a way out of their labor contracts. They love to hate the workers up there, but the workers can't do much when the supply line isn't supplying.
Now all he has to do is put a bluetooth headset in the artificial hand.
Imagine, speaker embedded in the tip of the thumb, and mic embedded in the tip of the pinky finger.
That would look awesome!
Unfortunately that probably wouldn't count as "hands-free" in states where it is required, and you'd end up getting pulled over for talking into your (artificial) hand.
This has nothing to do with left and right. It has to do with the inevitable road to subservience that government control of social policy always leads to.
Sure looks like another case of government selling out to corporate interests to me. The government has shown for some time that they care very little what the people have to say, as long as their sponsors are happy. This bill is yet another act aimed at pleasing the sponsors.
If we elected politicians from more than one party in this country we might have less of this and more governance of substance.
The conservative democrats in charge of the senate drafted a scary but not terrifying bill. The conservative republicans in charge of the house responded by making a terrifying bill to rectify it with. That is what we get when we keep pushing all of our politicians further to the right. Next, President Lawnchair will proclaim this bill to be a great victory for the American people and sign it into law to show how he can work with his fellow conservative politicians in Washington DC.
XP took off when MS stopped offering any updates for (the only 1-year-older) win2k. Soon other companies followed suit and stopped supporting 2k for their software and it died abruptly while XP, with very few actual advantages beyond software support, took off.
I'm pretty sure XP took off long before July 2010, because that is when updates for Win2k stopped.
While security updates stopped in July 2010 for 2k, other updates such as directx, IE, and silverlight stopped long before then. Also long before 2010 was the end of support for adobe flash and many other non-MS products for 2k.
I remember when XP came out everyone was complaining about its online activation requirement. They said they would stay with Windows 2000, which didn't have that requirement. Nowadays, barring Windows 7, it's everyone's favorite OS. Funny how things change.
XP took off when MS stopped offering any updates for (the only 1-year-older) win2k. Soon other companies followed suit and stopped supporting 2k for their software and it died abruptly while XP, with very few actual advantages beyond software support, took off.
I, for one, WANT a diesel car, but they don't sell one to my liking
You, me, and a lot of other people are in this boat together. The lack of diversity in Diesel cars in the US is a joke.
I want an Audi A6 or similar type car with a diesel and a manual transmission. So far, the only manual diesel sedans I have found have been VWs and I am not interested in a VW.
You do realize that Audi is owned by VW, and the most common Audis in the US are spiffed-up VWs, right? Granted the A6 is larger than the Passat, but a well dressed Passat is a very nice car in its own right.
Of course the VW Phaeton (closer to an A8 in size) has a Diesel option, but as usual, we can't get it here in the states.
I'm tired of getting warts frozen off the bottoms of my feet. Now that I work in a lab with access to liquid N2 I might just start freezing the bastards off my self.
Wow, I didn't think people as poorly informed as you would be able to finish the registration here on slashdot.
Oh, kindly fuck off. Most people grasp the concept of diesels just fine and most Americans know a hell of a lot more about cars than a bunch of Eurotrash morons.
Since you have already decided to be an asshole, I'll treat you like one.
Who the fuck do you think you're talking to, shithead? I live in the US and have my entire life. Your assumption of me being "eurotrash" is just as baseless as the rest of the shit you spew out.
We don't like diesels because they leave bad smells
Have you been around a Diesel that was made this century? No, you make it abundantly clear that you haven't. Otherwise you would know that your assumption of a bad smell is baseless.
You know what does smell bad, dickhead? Your own stupidity. Why on earth you came to slashdot to share your ignorance with the world we may never know.
the fuel goes bad in the tank
Bull. Shit. Diesel is easily more reliable in storage than gasoline. Diesel can easily sit a full year in a vehicle and run just fine. You cannot say that about gasoline. If you could, you wouldn't need to add fuel stabilizer to a lawnmower before putting it away in the winter.
and that the fuel is expensive and hard to find
Wrong again. Not a surprise coming from someone as reality-challenged as you. Diesel is often cheaper per mile driven than gasoline. Any city that gets goods delivered by truck - and that is every fucking city in the US - needs to have Diesel fuel available somewhere.
Drive across the country (note: this takes more than a few hours unlike European countries) and you have NO idea where to get reliable fuel and what you can get varies widely in quality
Hey dipshit. I already told you I live in the US. I have driven across this country and Diesel isn't hard to find. Just because you have no fucking clue what you are talking about doesn't make your bullshit make sense.
Moreover, the reason that diesels have such a bad rep among car guys is not because of the crap diesel Chevettes
Hey dumbfuck. Diesel Chevettes were rare. The common Diesels from the big three were the land yachts that got around 7mpg. Not only did they perform like ass, they were Diesel version of gas engines which lacked proper compression (amongst other things) to be decent Diesel engines anyways (and often were without turbos as well). Those were the cars that people saw the most and the ones that destroyed the Diesel reputation in this country.
cars like diesel Rabbit and almost any 70-80's-90's Mercedes diesel
Are still running.
white or silver Mercedes with the entire rear end coated with black soot, and pouring more out the tail pipe.
Where the fuck do you see that? I have seen far more American cars - primarily gas powered cars - that are guilty of your accusation.
So, to summarize, you know absolutely NOTHING about what are talking about, so STFU.
Like many other manufacturers, they assume that Americans are either too stupid to handle a Diesel
Not an american, but just wondering, why are Diesels more difficult to handle?
They aren't. In the US they developed a reputation as being unreliable, smelly, underperforming, poor fuel economy, etc. None of which were deserved. People convinced themselves that a Diesel couldn't be started in weather below 70F, even though that wasn't true either.
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And while you're at it, could you respond by citing your own slashdot comments (as you often like to do)? After all, once you've already been demonstrated to be clueless on the ramifications of what you are asking for, nothing demonstrates your understanding of reality like citing yourself as a source of information!
I wouldn't say /. is right wing at all
You must not read many comments - or stories - here. The most frequently posted opinions on slashdot are far to the right of 99% of the world.
Libertarian on the philosophy charts is dead center
Not in the way that "libertarian" is applied in the US. Most libertarians in the US are just more conservatives who don't like the label conservative.
Since 71% of all firefighters in this country are volunteers it shows people are willing to put their lives on the line to help their fellow person without the gov't stepping in.
It is one thing to be willing to fight a fire, that isn't that difficult. What is really difficult is to fight a fire with no equipment. Try fighting a fire with no axe, oxygen tank, fire truck, fire hydrant, or water. Those supplies are provided by taxpayer funds in >>99% of all cases. And being as far-right crusaders like Ron Paul want to strip that money away to allow "free market solutions" to take over, it means that many people won't have volunteer fire depts to rely on.
Do you read anything other than freerepublic.com for news? Perhaps you should step outside your hermetically-sealed bubble and look at what people actually have to say about your idol. Just because a ton of people who think the same way you think (if it could really be counted as thought) claim that 103% of the world's population hates your idol with the heat of a thousand suns does not make it true.
Hell I happen to agree with your idol that the war in Iraq should end yesterday; I have opposed it since it was first proposed by GWB and company, and have opposed it consistently throughout. I just happen to think that your idol is wrong on pretty well every other thing he has ever suggested.
They do that as a safety precaution. If an actual zombie uprising happens to occur during the exercise, they need to be able to discern real zombies from fake ones, so they make the fake ones orange. It's standard emergency preparedness exercise protocol.
Can we still decapitate the orange ones, as an additional safety precaution? After all we could have a real zombie masquerading as a fake one...
Ron Paul would bring US troops home, the National Guard as well and would cut militarist costs by hundreds of billions and would cut 1 Trillion in spending in the first year with the goal of balancing the budget in 3 years and with the goal of getting rid of the Fed and restoring liberty.
Good job completely avoiding the topic at hand. How does your favorite candidate's plan to bring home the troops make any difference for emergency responders?
It's doesn't, of course. And being as Ron Paul would slash the emergency response budget as well, the responders are screwed over even more if Ron Paul is elected than if nothing changes.
The biggest hurdle in front of Ron Paul is not Borat Chubaka
Oh, how cute. Most conservative idiots just try to link Obama to the middle east or Islam. Instead you want people to think he is a Star Wars Wookie from Kazakhstan? Yeah, that makes perfect sense if you're on heavy drugs.
is a plant by the military industrial complex and by big pharma and by the banking and insurance industries
As opposed to what other president that we've had in the US in the past several decades?
One of (Bachmann, Perry, Romney, Jizzbucke.... Santorum, Gingrich, Cain) becoming POTUS
You forgot to mention the possibility* of Ron Paul becoming president, which is even more terrifying for the emergency responders. After all, Ron Paul would pretty well gut the civil emergency response systems, which would leave the responders - if any remained at that point - to then have to figure out which properties and people were properly covered for emergency assistance. They would spend more time trying to figure out whether or not to put out a fire than they would likely spend actually fighting said fire.
*Thankfully, we all know that Ron Paul doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of winning. Just because he gets enormous and highly vocal support on slashdot and other right-wing sites on the web doesn't mean that he could ever get the votes he needs to win a nomination, let alone the white house itself.
Based on what I see in the news, is it safe to assume that all Zombies from Ohio are orange instead of the usual green?
It doesn't matter what OWS wants, the entire system is moving towards more of a fascist state, not a Communist one, not that the difference is that important,
The difference is huge. Just because you are too entranced with conservative bullshit to see the rest of the world doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
in either case you'll lose all your liberties.
That is 100% wrong. Communism does not inherently take away all liberties, no matter how much you may want the opposite to be the case. The way communism has been sold in the real world bares almost no resemblance whatsoever to what Marx had called communism when he wrote the manifesto.
But as I said, these demands read more like Communist Manifesto than Mein Kampf.
I don't know if you've read the latter, but I can confidently say you haven't read the former. It isn't a long read, you might want to try it some time and maybe you'll realize how full of shit you are.
In other English-speaking countries "industrial action" is what people in the US call a "strike"
I did not know that. That is interesting to see that in countries where employees still can strike - every year in the US more workers lose their right to strike - a longer term is used to describe the action that is called strike in the US. I guess that means the term and the action are simultaneously going away then.
...and political strikes are tech news how?
Yes they are, because it gives slashdot editors and readers another chance to talk about how their favorite presidential candidate or political movement would handle this better than anyone else, anywhere, ever.
Though as others have pointed out, if you don't like it, don't read it. Nobody is forcing you to click on the link. You could submit something else to read or just not read slashdot at all.
The summary is calling it "Industrial action by union employees". Most news outlets are just calling it a "strike". The needlessly long and obtuse description used here on the front page could be read to mean intentional equipment sabotage instead...
A remote controlled aircraft armed with a shotgun fired by someone sitting comfortably in a chair. I think we heard of a similar program there some years ago that intended to "bring hunting to the disabled". Now they just changed the prey...
If their purpose was to show that good programming habits are hard to teach with Perl as a base, that makes sense because Perl is rather forgiving of things that other languages would flat out reject.
That, however, does not on its own make Perl "bad" or even "worse" than any other language as a whole. Tragically, that seems to be the message that the summary is trying to convey here.
Taking two programming languages - any combination of two languages - and trying to call one "good" and the other "bad" is idiotic at the very least. It is like setting a chainsaw next to a Glock and asking someone to tell you which one is bad and which one is good. Both are useful and you can't compare the two on just one dimension and expect to have meaningful results of that comparison.
The pictures show a Mercedes/AMG CL 2-seater hard top convertible. The article describes a "big Mercedes". The CL is big only in price, but not everyone would know that just by looking at it...
It's not hard to imagine that Boeing actually drove the delays - at least in part - themselves to try to find a way out of their labor contracts. They love to hate the workers up there, but the workers can't do much when the supply line isn't supplying.
Now all he has to do is put a bluetooth headset in the artificial hand.
Imagine, speaker embedded in the tip of the thumb, and mic embedded in the tip of the pinky finger. That would look awesome!
Unfortunately that probably wouldn't count as "hands-free" in states where it is required, and you'd end up getting pulled over for talking into your (artificial) hand.
This has nothing to do with left and right. It has to do with the inevitable road to subservience that government control of social policy always leads to.
Sure looks like another case of government selling out to corporate interests to me. The government has shown for some time that they care very little what the people have to say, as long as their sponsors are happy. This bill is yet another act aimed at pleasing the sponsors.
If we elected politicians from more than one party in this country we might have less of this and more governance of substance.
The conservative democrats in charge of the senate drafted a scary but not terrifying bill. The conservative republicans in charge of the house responded by making a terrifying bill to rectify it with. That is what we get when we keep pushing all of our politicians further to the right. Next, President Lawnchair will proclaim this bill to be a great victory for the American people and sign it into law to show how he can work with his fellow conservative politicians in Washington DC.
XP took off when MS stopped offering any updates for (the only 1-year-older) win2k. Soon other companies followed suit and stopped supporting 2k for their software and it died abruptly while XP, with very few actual advantages beyond software support, took off.
I'm pretty sure XP took off long before July 2010, because that is when updates for Win2k stopped.
While security updates stopped in July 2010 for 2k, other updates such as directx, IE, and silverlight stopped long before then. Also long before 2010 was the end of support for adobe flash and many other non-MS products for 2k.
The "borg" Bill Gates was much better than just the Microsoft name.
I remember when XP came out everyone was complaining about its online activation requirement. They said they would stay with Windows 2000, which didn't have that requirement. Nowadays, barring Windows 7, it's everyone's favorite OS. Funny how things change.
XP took off when MS stopped offering any updates for (the only 1-year-older) win2k. Soon other companies followed suit and stopped supporting 2k for their software and it died abruptly while XP, with very few actual advantages beyond software support, took off.
I, for one, WANT a diesel car, but they don't sell one to my liking
You, me, and a lot of other people are in this boat together. The lack of diversity in Diesel cars in the US is a joke.
I want an Audi A6 or similar type car with a diesel and a manual transmission. So far, the only manual diesel sedans I have found have been VWs and I am not interested in a VW.
You do realize that Audi is owned by VW, and the most common Audis in the US are spiffed-up VWs, right? Granted the A6 is larger than the Passat, but a well dressed Passat is a very nice car in its own right.
Of course the VW Phaeton (closer to an A8 in size) has a Diesel option, but as usual, we can't get it here in the states.
I'm tired of getting warts frozen off the bottoms of my feet. Now that I work in a lab with access to liquid N2 I might just start freezing the bastards off my self.
Oh, kindly fuck off. Most people grasp the concept of diesels just fine and most Americans know a hell of a lot more about cars than a bunch of Eurotrash morons.
Since you have already decided to be an asshole, I'll treat you like one.
Who the fuck do you think you're talking to, shithead? I live in the US and have my entire life. Your assumption of me being "eurotrash" is just as baseless as the rest of the shit you spew out.
We don't like diesels because they leave bad smells
Have you been around a Diesel that was made this century? No, you make it abundantly clear that you haven't. Otherwise you would know that your assumption of a bad smell is baseless.
You know what does smell bad, dickhead? Your own stupidity. Why on earth you came to slashdot to share your ignorance with the world we may never know.
the fuel goes bad in the tank
Bull. Shit. Diesel is easily more reliable in storage than gasoline. Diesel can easily sit a full year in a vehicle and run just fine. You cannot say that about gasoline. If you could, you wouldn't need to add fuel stabilizer to a lawnmower before putting it away in the winter.
and that the fuel is expensive and hard to find
Wrong again. Not a surprise coming from someone as reality-challenged as you. Diesel is often cheaper per mile driven than gasoline. Any city that gets goods delivered by truck - and that is every fucking city in the US - needs to have Diesel fuel available somewhere.
Drive across the country (note: this takes more than a few hours unlike European countries) and you have NO idea where to get reliable fuel and what you can get varies widely in quality
Hey dipshit. I already told you I live in the US. I have driven across this country and Diesel isn't hard to find. Just because you have no fucking clue what you are talking about doesn't make your bullshit make sense.
Moreover, the reason that diesels have such a bad rep among car guys is not because of the crap diesel Chevettes
Hey dumbfuck. Diesel Chevettes were rare. The common Diesels from the big three were the land yachts that got around 7mpg. Not only did they perform like ass, they were Diesel version of gas engines which lacked proper compression (amongst other things) to be decent Diesel engines anyways (and often were without turbos as well). Those were the cars that people saw the most and the ones that destroyed the Diesel reputation in this country.
cars like diesel Rabbit and almost any 70-80's-90's Mercedes diesel
Are still running.
white or silver Mercedes with the entire rear end coated with black soot, and pouring more out the tail pipe.
Where the fuck do you see that? I have seen far more American cars - primarily gas powered cars - that are guilty of your accusation.
So, to summarize, you know absolutely NOTHING about what are talking about, so STFU.
My words to you exactly.
Like many other manufacturers, they assume that Americans are either too stupid to handle a Diesel
Not an american, but just wondering, why are Diesels more difficult to handle?
They aren't. In the US they developed a reputation as being unreliable, smelly, underperforming, poor fuel economy, etc. None of which were deserved. People convinced themselves that a Diesel couldn't be started in weather below 70F, even though that wasn't true either.