People will continue to argue, yell, insult, and generally be rude to each other. Besides half of the people believe that wikipedia is itself a tool for the other side to spread their message (that first half then sponsored conservapedia, naturally). So no, wikipedia won't teach us how to get along.
Oh, wait, are we talking about the slashdot sense of "us", or a greater collection of people?
lol i srsly googled their name to see if i can get in since this is my last year in highschool
If you haven't heard of them before now, then you probably aren't Stanford material. And I'm quite sure if you wrote your application essay (especially this late) like that, you would be laughed out of the admissions process.
To some students, it might be. Sadly enough I know someone who chose their undergraduate institution based on the ping times they got to their favorite gaming servers; he actually carried a notebook with him to each school he considered, and wrote down the ping times from each school to his favorite servers.
I'm sure you'll be shocked to know he graduated with less-than-stellar grades, and then took a rather mediocre job afterwards.
... is an explanation of why apparently no city employee in any function whatsoever could so much as even consider using OpenOffice for anything at all.
That's what happens when you tell the ticket agent, "Please don't lose my bags." Stop making such outrageous requests and they will let you sit with the rest of the passengers.
Don't lose my bags? I was talking about my carryon bags. The checked bag fees keep going up; I just fedex my larger bags before I leave now. I can fit enough supplies for most layovers and cancellations into my carryon - at least as long as I'm not trying to fly to Upstate New York in February.
They started talking about "first-class". I am not familiar with this at all. When I go to the airport, after I get strip searched the security guards usually duct tape me to my baggage and check me in steerage-class. I'm happy if I arrive at my destination.
Sure, they bought the plane for $40k (according to the video), but then they are paying $2 million to build the house. That is slightly more than what most people consider "reasonable" for the cost of a house.
The US system is wonderful if you have decent insurance
Except that every day in the US fewer people have decent insurance. Even those who manage to hold on to their existing insurance find it is no longer worth shit as more and more benefits are removed - while the cost simultaneously goes up.
I do dislike dealing with insurance companies though!
Tragically, nobody with any power to change the situation is willing to change that problem. We will continue to be raped by insurance companies for the forseeable future because apparently this is "the American way".
If someone just wanted to build something, why wouldn't they build something useful, instead of just profitable?
Yeah, you're right! Obviously those millions and millions of people on Facebook are just, I dunno... dups or something. I mean, it can't *possibly* be useful, 'cuz a Slashbot said so.
I don't pretend that slashdot is useful; most of the time it is just a massive time-suck for me. Facebook is much the same for those who are so inclined; it is just a way to waste a lot of time (ask any number of employers in this country). Much like slashdot, very little of what is on facebook is of any value whatsoever. Also much like slashdot there are better ways to get at the miniscule amount of meaningful information that is presented there.
Screw with it? It's not like it's particularly good or anything.
The US system? Indeed it isn't particularly good at anything.
My daughter attended a Canadian university. For three years she (we) had to pay extra for the university health plan because she (obviously) wasn't on the provincial health plan. This was despite the fact that she was covered by my US-based health insurance -- my insurance that covers her anywhere in the world
The Canadian health care system is intelligent enough to realize that most likely your insurance plan that claims to "cover her anywhere in the world" would either refuse payment or jerk them around to the point of them giving up on trying to obtain payment. In other words, the Canadians didn't want your health insurance plan to treat them the same way your plan treats American health care providers.
(And if, by some chance there was something that couldn't/wouldn't be covered in Canada, she was only a few hours away by car and could be brought home for treatment.)
That sounds easy but if you are talking about a true emergency situation bringing someone across the US/Canada border is not trivial. And if you have a disease that you want treated down here, good luck talking US CBP into letting you cross back in to the US.
Why? Because my plan doesn't have unlimited mental health coverage. A college student? For three years? Needs unlimited mental heath? She'd never had a need for mental health treatment before that.
If you were to read the data on mental health situations, you would find that young adults are particularly susceptible to mental health issues and mental health crises. They are standing on solid ground insisting that all students have unlimited mental health coverage, regardless of their past. Just because your little Johnny or Sue had a spotless record as a teenager does not mean he or she will do so well as a young adult.
And any time she actually needed health care, getting to see a doctor was a three-plus hour ordeal. No appointments -- walk-in only.
It is not the fault of the system that your daughter did not know how to use it. Someone unfamiliar with the US system would face the same situation their first time through as well.
Oh, and the stories her friends told a general shortages of doctors because every Canadian that earns an MD leaves. I used to laugh at the billboards on the I81 leading to Canada advertising (begging) for MDs to come work in Canada.
I have driven various parts of I81 - including near the NY/Ontario border - a few times over the past several years and have not seen the billboards you refer to. Where abouts did you see these begging billboards?
Conservatives in Canada rise to power, and start squelching science funding. Anyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been paying attention... anywhere. Many scientists in Canada saw this coming a while ago and have been working on diversifying their funding to insulate themselves from the inevitable cuts.
Fortunately, the conservatives in Canada are at least smart enough to know better than to screw with the health care system (at least too much).
Anytime a political figure is being used to express support (or coming out against) something, it is inherently political, even if most or all people agree with the President's mission.
I disagree. The president can say some things without them being inherently political. If the president says "seat belts can save your life in a car crash", does that mean that only democrats support seat belts? If the president says "object dropped accelerate towards earth under the effects of gravitational pull", does that mean that republicans oppose gravity?
If Obama appeared on Fox News for an interview, would that mean that republicans would have to start opposing Fox News?
Here I disagree not at all with the message but the view that the president is something that we should look up to and take his word seriously.
I agree that Obama is not inherently an expert on science. However as POTUS he does have some power in terms of how well science is (or isn't) funded on the national level here in the US. If you want to doubt all presidential statements, I agree that a healthy dose of skepticism is... healthy. Although I'm not sure why you would view his appearing on a TV show as a directive to "look up to [him]".
It does, after all, have a web browser. I use it all the time. You can rather painlessly switch between the Netflix streaming app (for watching movies) and the web browser (for searching for movies to stream).
This article is, for some unclear reason, tagged "politics". Just because a politician shows up somewhere does not make an event political; the Easter Egg Hunt every year at the whitehouse is not automatically a "democratic" or "republican" event just because the POTUS is one or the other.
Unless, of course, the people who are tagging this science event "politics" are stating that the democrats are pro-science and the republicans are anti-science, which is at least partially true.
The notion that software development is hindered by, as the summary states:
and the fierce ideology of the open-source community at large
Is total bullshit. Just because Linux developers want to see open source software does not in any way prevent closed-source software from going there. Indeed for several important industries there already is active development and release of for-profit, closed-source software for Linux. Nothing inherent to the Linux model forbids or inhibits the release of such software. There are many software developers who are making money developing and releasing Linux software; just because Microsoft and Adobe chose not to be in those ranks does not mean there is no money there.
Toyota has already done an all-electric Rav4. Those of us who have seen Who Killed The Electric Car remember it being featured on there (though not as prominently as the GM EV1).
The only real question here is why they are working with Tesla. There are plenty of good opportunities for conspiracy theorists on this one...
I'm from Upstate NY -- we don't stop our normal routine for anything short of whiteout blizzard conditions
You wouldn't know by the traffic status what the weather is in Upstate; people there flip their cars over on bright clear sunny days. The only difference is that they don't stop driving when they run out of traction; leading to even more exciting accidents.
Slashdot Mirror
Since ICANN has already committed to start selling gTLDs to anyone with enough money.
a tool for easily opening application
Really? The dock - which requires a whole one click of the mouse to start an application - is too difficult? Does the new tool read your mind?
People will continue to argue, yell, insult, and generally be rude to each other. Besides half of the people believe that wikipedia is itself a tool for the other side to spread their message (that first half then sponsored conservapedia, naturally). So no, wikipedia won't teach us how to get along.
Oh, wait, are we talking about the slashdot sense of "us", or a greater collection of people?
The codes were found by some idiot wannabe cowboy in Texas? Wait, the supreme court did exactly that in 2001, and we still survived.
lol i srsly googled their name to see if i can get in since this is my last year in highschool
If you haven't heard of them before now, then you probably aren't Stanford material. And I'm quite sure if you wrote your application essay (especially this late) like that, you would be laughed out of the admissions process.
To some students, it might be. Sadly enough I know someone who chose their undergraduate institution based on the ping times they got to their favorite gaming servers; he actually carried a notebook with him to each school he considered, and wrote down the ping times from each school to his favorite servers.
I'm sure you'll be shocked to know he graduated with less-than-stellar grades, and then took a rather mediocre job afterwards.
the wilderness of New Jersey
We all know there is no such place.
... is an explanation of why apparently no city employee in any function whatsoever could so much as even consider using OpenOffice for anything at all.
That's what happens when you tell the ticket agent, "Please don't lose my bags." Stop making such outrageous requests and they will let you sit with the rest of the passengers.
Don't lose my bags? I was talking about my carryon bags. The checked bag fees keep going up; I just fedex my larger bags before I leave now. I can fit enough supplies for most layovers and cancellations into my carryon - at least as long as I'm not trying to fly to Upstate New York in February.
They started talking about "first-class". I am not familiar with this at all. When I go to the airport, after I get strip searched the security guards usually duct tape me to my baggage and check me in steerage-class. I'm happy if I arrive at my destination.
Sure, they bought the plane for $40k (according to the video), but then they are paying $2 million to build the house. That is slightly more than what most people consider "reasonable" for the cost of a house.
You think your life is a train-wreck? Well, my house is a plane crash!
That was actually (a rather lame attempt at) a joke. After all, who would want some two thousand partitions?
The US system is wonderful if you have decent insurance
Except that every day in the US fewer people have decent insurance. Even those who manage to hold on to their existing insurance find it is no longer worth shit as more and more benefits are removed - while the cost simultaneously goes up.
I do dislike dealing with insurance companies though!
Tragically, nobody with any power to change the situation is willing to change that problem. We will continue to be raped by insurance companies for the forseeable future because apparently this is "the American way".
If someone just wanted to build something, why wouldn't they build something useful, instead of just profitable?
Yeah, you're right! Obviously those millions and millions of people on Facebook are just, I dunno... dups or something. I mean, it can't *possibly* be useful, 'cuz a Slashbot said so.
I don't pretend that slashdot is useful; most of the time it is just a massive time-suck for me. Facebook is much the same for those who are so inclined; it is just a way to waste a lot of time (ask any number of employers in this country). Much like slashdot, very little of what is on facebook is of any value whatsoever. Also much like slashdot there are better ways to get at the miniscule amount of meaningful information that is presented there.
Can't we just split it into nice little 540MB partitions like we did back in the day?
Screw with it? It's not like it's particularly good or anything.
The US system? Indeed it isn't particularly good at anything.
My daughter attended a Canadian university. For three years she (we) had to pay extra for the university health plan because she (obviously) wasn't on the provincial health plan. This was despite the fact that she was covered by my US-based health insurance -- my insurance that covers her anywhere in the world
The Canadian health care system is intelligent enough to realize that most likely your insurance plan that claims to "cover her anywhere in the world" would either refuse payment or jerk them around to the point of them giving up on trying to obtain payment. In other words, the Canadians didn't want your health insurance plan to treat them the same way your plan treats American health care providers.
(And if, by some chance there was something that couldn't/wouldn't be covered in Canada, she was only a few hours away by car and could be brought home for treatment.)
That sounds easy but if you are talking about a true emergency situation bringing someone across the US/Canada border is not trivial. And if you have a disease that you want treated down here, good luck talking US CBP into letting you cross back in to the US.
Why? Because my plan doesn't have unlimited mental health coverage. A college student? For three years? Needs unlimited mental heath? She'd never had a need for mental health treatment before that.
If you were to read the data on mental health situations, you would find that young adults are particularly susceptible to mental health issues and mental health crises. They are standing on solid ground insisting that all students have unlimited mental health coverage, regardless of their past. Just because your little Johnny or Sue had a spotless record as a teenager does not mean he or she will do so well as a young adult.
And any time she actually needed health care, getting to see a doctor was a three-plus hour ordeal. No appointments -- walk-in only.
It is not the fault of the system that your daughter did not know how to use it. Someone unfamiliar with the US system would face the same situation their first time through as well.
Oh, and the stories her friends told a general shortages of doctors because every Canadian that earns an MD leaves. I used to laugh at the billboards on the I81 leading to Canada advertising (begging) for MDs to come work in Canada.
I have driven various parts of I81 - including near the NY/Ontario border - a few times over the past several years and have not seen the billboards you refer to. Where abouts did you see these begging billboards?
cant wrap their head around the idea that someone might build something because they like building things.
If someone just wanted to build something, why wouldn't they build something useful, instead of just profitable?
Conservatives in Canada rise to power, and start squelching science funding. Anyone who didn't see this coming hasn't been paying attention ... anywhere. Many scientists in Canada saw this coming a while ago and have been working on diversifying their funding to insulate themselves from the inevitable cuts.
Fortunately, the conservatives in Canada are at least smart enough to know better than to screw with the health care system (at least too much).
Anytime a political figure is being used to express support (or coming out against) something, it is inherently political, even if most or all people agree with the President's mission.
I disagree. The president can say some things without them being inherently political. If the president says "seat belts can save your life in a car crash", does that mean that only democrats support seat belts? If the president says "object dropped accelerate towards earth under the effects of gravitational pull", does that mean that republicans oppose gravity?
If Obama appeared on Fox News for an interview, would that mean that republicans would have to start opposing Fox News?
Here I disagree not at all with the message but the view that the president is something that we should look up to and take his word seriously.
I agree that Obama is not inherently an expert on science. However as POTUS he does have some power in terms of how well science is (or isn't) funded on the national level here in the US. If you want to doubt all presidential statements, I agree that a healthy dose of skepticism is ... healthy. Although I'm not sure why you would view his appearing on a TV show as a directive to "look up to [him]".
It does, after all, have a web browser. I use it all the time. You can rather painlessly switch between the Netflix streaming app (for watching movies) and the web browser (for searching for movies to stream).
This article is, for some unclear reason, tagged "politics". Just because a politician shows up somewhere does not make an event political; the Easter Egg Hunt every year at the whitehouse is not automatically a "democratic" or "republican" event just because the POTUS is one or the other.
Unless, of course, the people who are tagging this science event "politics" are stating that the democrats are pro-science and the republicans are anti-science, which is at least partially true.
and the fierce ideology of the open-source community at large
Is total bullshit. Just because Linux developers want to see open source software does not in any way prevent closed-source software from going there. Indeed for several important industries there already is active development and release of for-profit, closed-source software for Linux. Nothing inherent to the Linux model forbids or inhibits the release of such software. There are many software developers who are making money developing and releasing Linux software; just because Microsoft and Adobe chose not to be in those ranks does not mean there is no money there.
Toyota has already done an all-electric Rav4. Those of us who have seen Who Killed The Electric Car remember it being featured on there (though not as prominently as the GM EV1).
The only real question here is why they are working with Tesla. There are plenty of good opportunities for conspiracy theorists on this one...
I'm from Upstate NY -- we don't stop our normal routine for anything short of whiteout blizzard conditions
You wouldn't know by the traffic status what the weather is in Upstate; people there flip their cars over on bright clear sunny days. The only difference is that they don't stop driving when they run out of traction; leading to even more exciting accidents.