Then start school later on the dark days. Why is there such an opposition to businesses changing hours with the seasons, rather than changing the clocks?
Because they WON'T. And they never will. They just will NOT have different hours for different seasons, especially if you work in a corporate environment like any desk job.
This whole kerfuffle happens because yes, it actually IS easier to change society's entire concept of the hour of the day rather than have businesses change hours as daylight changes.
I'm not a fan of the Daylight/Standard switch-overs, but if the alternative is to go all Standard Time, all the time, I'll put up with the twice-yearly switchovers.
I'm guessing at what you're talking about, but there's this awesome thing called a covenant, you might want to look it up. It's the whole reason the Bible is divided into the Old and New Testament.
It's also a good way to prove that nazis melt when subjected to high temperatures.
Wouldn't that still be illegal? I mean, you can't ask about a person's marital status. Why should you be allowed to ask about their religious beliefs? Let the nutters raise the money on their own without using state funds.
You don't need to ask if the person volunteers his believe. Just have the interviewer start chatting casually about God while they walk, if the interviewee responds positively, maybe they're up for the next level of interviews. If they say they don't believe, or they don't say anything about it, they're out.
"We got a bad vibe from this candidate." "This guy seemed kindof creepy." "He just would have been a bad fit for the team." "Maybe he would have worked out in another position, but not for the one he was interviewing for, so we didn't hire." "We really appreciated the motivation the other candidate showed. A passion for the job."
Those dimensions were purposely misstated to test the faith of believers, like dinosaur bones, the myth of a spherical Earth & the apparent vastness of our universe when it is actually only a few hundred thousand miles across and centered around us./sarcasm
So it's God, not Satan, who is the ultimate deceiver?
Out of curiosity, did they wear clothes with mixed fabrics?
They always find ways to weasel out of that, telling you how it doesn't mean what you think it means, or that Jesus dissolved those old rules (but somehow just some) or that accumulation of vast amounts of wealth was totally fine and something that Jesus would have approved of.
and are mirrored by white country singers sparking white Americans to kick the shit out of anyone with a beard and turban shortly after 9/11
Which doubly-sucked, since most of the beard/turban types in the US are Sikh, not Muslim. Though the white country singer and his followers wouldn't even know that there was such a thing as a Sikh or that they were somehow different from Muslims.
Further, "Affirmative Action", when not so severe as it had been at its peak, is still a thing known as "Positive Discrimination", in which favoritism is given to a disadvantaged group. The main theory is that a certain group is not capable of thriving on its own merits, and so certain policies must be taken up to favor that group and, by extension, handicap others.
Wow, I dislike Affirmative Action and would love to see it go away completely, but even I know that is not the theory behind Affirmative Action or Positive Discrimination AT ALL. At no point is there the belief that a certain group is not capable of thriving on its own merits, that's the exact opposite of what most people in favor of AA believe. Instead, they are very much of the opinion that previous AND current discrimination is still holding a particular group down. IE, "we were racist and still are racist, and since we hold all the power we can subtly keep those other groups out by not giving them any of the breaks that we got."
But if you point out things by Mendel or a pope, it won't hold any weight either as these are imperfect Christians who have missed the truth in the eyes of the Protestant creationists.
Folks like Ken Ham love the militant protestants like Jack T Chick, who has argued that the Roman Catholic Church was started, organized, and is currently supported by none less than Satan himself.
People on the outside looking in might think RC Christian = Protestant Evangelical Christian, but it's like saying Sunni Muslim = Shiite Muslim. There are some deep, dark divides when you go into the boonies and start playing with the crazies.
There was no "winner" unless one of them was convinced by the others' arguments. This notion that you can "win" a debate through completely arbitrary means needs to die.
The goal of an organized debate is not to convince the other debater. It's to convince the audience. That's the whole point of it. NPR airs a program called Intelligence Squared which has a debate between two panels or two participants where a specific question or proposition is made, for example "Flexing American Muscles In The Middle East Will Make Things Worse." The audience is polled before and after the debate, and, Oxford-style, the team which sways more people to its side is declared the winner.
Obviously, that doesn't mean the discussion is over, because people are not computers. You can't just plug in a set of conditions and just have that be someone's new reality. People need to be convinced, often many times.
Therefore there is no longer a need to distinguish the two, and anything else is just crippling the product
Copyright has always been about crippling what the non-copyright-holder can do with a product. That's its entire purpose, and has been that way for hundreds of years. It's not new compared to digital media.
Who really earned the hundreds of millions? Was it the guy who wrote the software, the manager who thought up and approved the project, the marketer who figured out how to sell it, the salesman who found the big customers? There's a lot of people who had a critical contribution and even with something as singular as an comic book there's a lot more cooks than you realize.
This is Slashdot. Slashdotters will often only cherish the people doing the actual end content creation and dismiss all those other people as leeches or unimportant middle-men because their business model is obsolete and Internet and etcetc.
I'd love a pension, but I've seen too often that it plays out with the company raiding the pension fund and then going bankrupt.
The pension system is broken. Flat-out broken by design. Always always assume that the pension money will not be there when you retire, and you have enough saved up through other means to live comfortably. If you can't... you might want to consider another line of work. Preferably to a job or profession that doesn't feature pensions.
If they want to scare her they wake her up in the middle of the night with 4 people in her bedroom and quietly tell her that if she keeps it up bad things might happen. Then they proceed to make themselves visible at times, for example show up and do the same thing to their mother, let her see them talking to someone she cares about, etc.. It's far more intimidating, far more effective and completely deniable. She doesn't listen and she ends up in a "car accident" or commits "suicide".
It is true that at least some 20-year *nix admins don't want to learn anything new.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they're not interested in learning new things or that they're not curious or they're stuck in the past or anything like that. Just that they don't like the idea of systemd and for some folks, once they've made that decision, having to learn/use is it a fairly painful process.
My husband is like this. He might have decided that he doesn't want to do "activity X" anymore, which could be something as simple as, say... online gaming. Something he really really enjoyed a few weeks ago now becomes an ordeal because he had decided he was 'done,' but because he got roped into it, it just felt worse and worse and worse the longer it continued.
I'm not really trying to compare sysadmins to cats, but to use my old cat as an example... he liked being picked up and held.. sometimes. Eventually he'd start squirming. If I held on, he'd start growling, then thrashing and fighting and yowling so loudly you'd think he was being tortured to death. But he wasn't in any physical discomfort at all. By that point, having to go through it and not have the choice of it greatly outweighed the actual positives or negatives of the experience itself. I think it's very common in people too; to mentally work yourself up continuously against something such that the actual experience would no longer matter.
The only way that you can make this sort of a promise is if you give up control. For example, in your Terms of Service, you can't have any clause, sadly standard now, that says you can change the terms at any time. You can't have wiggle room in your ToS to allow for either changing the service itself, or just changing the terms. Just think about how rare this is for an "online service," the vast majority are rules by fiat -- you agree to what changeable rules are given to you, or you don't use the service at all.
It's like assigning your code the GPL license and giving ownership to the FSF. It closes down the possibility that you -could- close source the code after the fact. Now a server is a different kettle of fish -- it requires uptime, maintenance, bandwidth, while an open-source project could live forever floating around from maintainer to maintainer. So while Ello -could- remain ad-free, they could also just go bankrupt and shut everything down, leaving all contacts stranded and having to use other services to reconnect.
Seriously, you think 20 year unix->linux veterans are daunted by the idea of "learning systemd"?
Yes. Absolutely. Positively. Yes, again and again. Mostly because they don't WANT to learn systemd, so the very process of doing so is agonizing enough that they don't get very far.
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Then start school later on the dark days. Why is there such an opposition to businesses changing hours with the seasons, rather than changing the clocks?
Because they WON'T. And they never will. They just will NOT have different hours for different seasons, especially if you work in a corporate environment like any desk job.
This whole kerfuffle happens because yes, it actually IS easier to change society's entire concept of the hour of the day rather than have businesses change hours as daylight changes.
I'm not a fan of the Daylight/Standard switch-overs, but if the alternative is to go all Standard Time, all the time, I'll put up with the twice-yearly switchovers.
I'm guessing at what you're talking about, but there's this awesome thing called a covenant, you might want to look it up. It's the whole reason the Bible is divided into the Old and New Testament.
It's also a good way to prove that nazis melt when subjected to high temperatures.
God said we couldn't eat pork or wear blended fabrics, then Jesus died for our sins so we can have bacon and spandex. Read more here.
But homosexuality, banned in the same section as pork and polyester is, is still bad.
"Sorry! We came to 'evolutionary dead end!'" *coaster smashes into a wall*
Wouldn't that still be illegal? I mean, you can't ask about a person's marital status. Why should you be allowed to ask about their religious beliefs? Let the nutters raise the money on their own without using state funds.
You don't need to ask if the person volunteers his believe. Just have the interviewer start chatting casually about God while they walk, if the interviewee responds positively, maybe they're up for the next level of interviews. If they say they don't believe, or they don't say anything about it, they're out.
"We got a bad vibe from this candidate."
"This guy seemed kindof creepy."
"He just would have been a bad fit for the team."
"Maybe he would have worked out in another position, but not for the one he was interviewing for, so we didn't hire."
"We really appreciated the motivation the other candidate showed. A passion for the job."
Those dimensions were purposely misstated to test the faith of believers, like dinosaur bones, the myth of a spherical Earth & the apparent vastness of our universe when it is actually only a few hundred thousand miles across and centered around us. /sarcasm
So it's God, not Satan, who is the ultimate deceiver?
otherwise "perfect" liberals such as Bill Maher
Yeah, keep whacking that strawman, buddy. I guess the exercise will really do you some good.
Out of curiosity, did they wear clothes with mixed fabrics?
They always find ways to weasel out of that, telling you how it doesn't mean what you think it means, or that Jesus dissolved those old rules (but somehow just some) or that accumulation of vast amounts of wealth was totally fine and something that Jesus would have approved of.
and are mirrored by white country singers sparking white Americans to kick the shit out of anyone with a beard and turban shortly after 9/11
Which doubly-sucked, since most of the beard/turban types in the US are Sikh, not Muslim. Though the white country singer and his followers wouldn't even know that there was such a thing as a Sikh or that they were somehow different from Muslims.
Further, "Affirmative Action", when not so severe as it had been at its peak, is still a thing known as "Positive Discrimination", in which favoritism is given to a disadvantaged group. The main theory is that a certain group is not capable of thriving on its own merits, and so certain policies must be taken up to favor that group and, by extension, handicap others.
Wow, I dislike Affirmative Action and would love to see it go away completely, but even I know that is not the theory behind Affirmative Action or Positive Discrimination AT ALL. At no point is there the belief that a certain group is not capable of thriving on its own merits, that's the exact opposite of what most people in favor of AA believe. Instead, they are very much of the opinion that previous AND current discrimination is still holding a particular group down. IE, "we were racist and still are racist, and since we hold all the power we can subtly keep those other groups out by not giving them any of the breaks that we got."
But if you point out things by Mendel or a pope, it won't hold any weight either as these are imperfect Christians who have missed the truth in the eyes of the Protestant creationists.
Folks like Ken Ham love the militant protestants like Jack T Chick, who has argued that the Roman Catholic Church was started, organized, and is currently supported by none less than Satan himself.
People on the outside looking in might think RC Christian = Protestant Evangelical Christian, but it's like saying Sunni Muslim = Shiite Muslim. There are some deep, dark divides when you go into the boonies and start playing with the crazies.
There was no "winner" unless one of them was convinced by the others' arguments. This notion that you can "win" a debate through completely arbitrary means needs to die.
The goal of an organized debate is not to convince the other debater. It's to convince the audience. That's the whole point of it.
NPR airs a program called Intelligence Squared which has a debate between two panels or two participants where a specific question or proposition is made, for example "Flexing American Muscles In The Middle East Will Make Things Worse." The audience is polled before and after the debate, and, Oxford-style, the team which sways more people to its side is declared the winner.
Obviously, that doesn't mean the discussion is over, because people are not computers. You can't just plug in a set of conditions and just have that be someone's new reality. People need to be convinced, often many times.
Conservatives don't like Jefferson, or most of his writings, or most of the laws he passed. So there's that.
Thanks for spewing your nonsense, AC.
See? You have free speech after all.
Therefore there is no longer a need to distinguish the two, and anything else is just crippling the product
Copyright has always been about crippling what the non-copyright-holder can do with a product. That's its entire purpose, and has been that way for hundreds of years. It's not new compared to digital media.
Shill for Microsoft much?
Can't you just answer the question?
Who really earned the hundreds of millions? Was it the guy who wrote the software, the manager who thought up and approved the project, the marketer who figured out how to sell it, the salesman who found the big customers? There's a lot of people who had a critical contribution and even with something as singular as an comic book there's a lot more cooks than you realize.
This is Slashdot. Slashdotters will often only cherish the people doing the actual end content creation and dismiss all those other people as leeches or unimportant middle-men because their business model is obsolete and Internet and etcetc.
Maybe, maybe not.
Maybe that $75k/yr worker is overpaid instead.
I'd love a pension, but I've seen too often that it plays out with the company raiding the pension fund and then going bankrupt.
The pension system is broken. Flat-out broken by design.
Always always assume that the pension money will not be there when you retire, and you have enough saved up through other means to live comfortably. If you can't... you might want to consider another line of work. Preferably to a job or profession that doesn't feature pensions.
If they want to scare her they wake her up in the middle of the night with 4 people in her bedroom and quietly tell her that if she keeps it up bad things might happen. Then they proceed to make themselves visible at times, for example show up and do the same thing to their mother, let her see them talking to someone she cares about, etc.. It's far more intimidating, far more effective and completely deniable. She doesn't listen and she ends up in a "car accident" or commits "suicide".
Oh dude, like the Dark Crusaders did to Dave Chappelle to make him quit his show!
Dave Chappelle Conspiracy Theory
Might be my favorite conspiracy theory of all time.
It is true that at least some 20-year *nix admins don't want to learn anything new.
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not saying they're not interested in learning new things or that they're not curious or they're stuck in the past or anything like that. Just that they don't like the idea of systemd and for some folks, once they've made that decision, having to learn/use is it a fairly painful process.
My husband is like this. He might have decided that he doesn't want to do "activity X" anymore, which could be something as simple as, say... online gaming. Something he really really enjoyed a few weeks ago now becomes an ordeal because he had decided he was 'done,' but because he got roped into it, it just felt worse and worse and worse the longer it continued.
I'm not really trying to compare sysadmins to cats, but to use my old cat as an example... he liked being picked up and held.. sometimes. Eventually he'd start squirming. If I held on, he'd start growling, then thrashing and fighting and yowling so loudly you'd think he was being tortured to death. But he wasn't in any physical discomfort at all. By that point, having to go through it and not have the choice of it greatly outweighed the actual positives or negatives of the experience itself. I think it's very common in people too; to mentally work yourself up continuously against something such that the actual experience would no longer matter.
The only way that you can make this sort of a promise is if you give up control. For example, in your Terms of Service, you can't have any clause, sadly standard now, that says you can change the terms at any time. You can't have wiggle room in your ToS to allow for either changing the service itself, or just changing the terms. Just think about how rare this is for an "online service," the vast majority are rules by fiat -- you agree to what changeable rules are given to you, or you don't use the service at all.
It's like assigning your code the GPL license and giving ownership to the FSF. It closes down the possibility that you -could- close source the code after the fact. Now a server is a different kettle of fish -- it requires uptime, maintenance, bandwidth, while an open-source project could live forever floating around from maintainer to maintainer. So while Ello -could- remain ad-free, they could also just go bankrupt and shut everything down, leaving all contacts stranded and having to use other services to reconnect.
Seriously, you think 20 year unix->linux veterans are daunted by the idea of "learning systemd"?
Yes. Absolutely. Positively. Yes, again and again. Mostly because they don't WANT to learn systemd, so the very process of doing so is agonizing enough that they don't get very far.
Such as?
Dude, it's going to suuuuck. It's going to SUUUUUCCCKK!!
Haven't you been listening? It's going to SUUUUUCCCKKK!!!!
If you need more convincing, look at point 1 and 2 above.