Sandler -could- make a good film. Punch Drunk Love was quite decent, but it was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson so you could expect as much. Will Smith turned down Django because Christoph Waltz was to have more lines. Smith's demand was that the character of Django be expanded (more than it was) to make him the clear star.
And he starred in After Earth because it's super-Scientologistic.
If you think that anyone would profit from even the average predicted scenario, you must be living comfortably on another planet. Droughts, floods, food shortages, heat waves, extreme weather patterns, economies destroyed? Where's "profit" in that, for any economy?
Devil's Advocate time! See, you are assuming that climate change is real, and that all those things will definitely happen. To understand him, you have to think like a conservative.
The conservative climate change denier/skeptic brings up the money to be made argument because he strongly believes: 1) That climate change is a fraud from people who have vested interests, and thus all of that drought/heat/economies destroyed stuff won't happen. 2) He sees agreements like the Kyoto accord, which is clearly intended to transfer wealth from the developed countries to the third world and developing countries. Now, if climate change is real, it makes sense for 1st-world polluters to clean up and assist the third world in skipping their ultra-messy coal/carbon phase of industrialization. If climate change is BS, then it's wealthy countries just paying for infrastructure to advance less wealthy countries at our expense. And unless we were the ones who bombed that country into the ground, it's something we tend not to do. 3) In tandem with #2, he will see it as unwelcome and unnecessary government control and intrusion. In particular, he'll see solar companies and wind and other "green" energy sources receive government funds and he'll start mumbling something about how the government shouldn't "pick winners and losers."
Sure, if the ecosystem collapses, we're all screwed. But if that won't happen, if rising temperatures don't seem as severe and we don't get the food shortages and floods and extreme weather, then there really is a lot of money to be made by those who are preparing for that event or seeking to prevent it.
I always wondered about actors like Rob Schneider and Nicholas Cage -- actors who seem to have a moderate amount of acting/humor talent... who then choose the absolutely worst projects to star in. Vaughn could be an actor with talent but no vision who reads a script and imagines it'll be better than it is after filming. Or passes on a project because he doesn't see the potential.
Roger Ebert had a theory about Nicholas Cage, that his acting career was a great experiment where he decided to only sign up for the best and worst projects, with nothing in between. He always praised the way Cage just threw himself entirely into every role with no fear or shame.
.ini files also defeat standard system tools like grep and sed. Parsing them without a dedicated parser is non-trivial, because the context changes based on the section.
I'm not the biggest fan of the ini-style files partially because they're not grepable, but look at what systemd files replace -- generic shell scripts. I don't think the init scripts I deal with are grepable at all, so systemd isn't a downgrade to me in that case. It strikes me that.ini files aren't as flexible, but without looking at it I'd have to assume otherwise.
Pandarens were mentioned in the lore before Kung Fu Panda, but that's about it. A mention. They certainly were not the childish fatsos they turned out to be... that happened AFTER Kung Fu Panda.
No... not really. They were featured in a few April Fool's Jokes, the most notable example being the Pandaran Express, announced in 2005 (modeled after the/pizza command in Everquest 2 which actually DOES order pizza from Pizza Hut). And then in Vanilla WoW (2004) there are several references to Chen Stormstout who searches foreign lands for ingredients he can use to brew beer and his alliance with Rexxar. You don't meet him, but talk to people who did, and his personality seems similar to that featured in Mists of Pandaria.
And to categorize all (or even most) Pandarans as childish fatsos would be quite ill-informed.
I don't get it. It sounds a lot like roads except far more expensive, harder to build out, and far more limiting in where you can go. I'm just not seeing the killer feature yet that would convince me it'd be wise to transition from cars to that.
There's no reason for houses to have the inflated cost they do these days
Other than supply and demand. Houses cost a lot because they require a lot of material, labor, and exacting regulations. The land they're on is usually not cheap. Then add on to that the demand for the area -- if you have more people who want to buy houses than there are houses to sell, home prices will drift up until they meet.
I think there might be a 2.5, or just a corollary to #2 there: that many people with power know that someone or some class WILL be in charge, and they think they will make better, even more benevolent decisions. I know that sounds like #3 a little bit, but it's focusing on the people with power instead of those without. They want a police state because their police state will be what benefits everyone. And then there are those few who have power and don't want a police state/dictatorship because, although they might have an enlightened rule, whomever succeeds them most certainly will not.
Charges rarely get "dropped". Cases simply don't get pressed.
It really depends on why the cases are "dropped." If the case is dropped because a person was innocent and the police catch the perpetrator of the crime, the innocent person will have a much higher chance of having their identification wiped and record cleared than if someone is released because the prosecution was unable to collect enough evidence to make a strong case against him.
You're dismissal of this article out of hand, with no explanation other than the fact that you don't seem to like him, is weak and suggestive of google shilling
People on Slashdot (and Internet forums in general, I guess) really need to stop seeing dismissing a person's retarded behavior as shilling from the other side. "You disagree with me! You must be paid by the opposition company to do so, no reasonable person would disagree with my behavior!" Until recently, I've only seen the Church of Scientology make those claims on a regular basis. Now every troll on Slashdot seems to do so.
Is it not possible that some things are over-regulated, while others are under-regulated.
Possible, but not bloody likely in today's "I'm a congressman, please buy me!" environment.
You are assuming that business will always encourage relaxation of regulations, but cagey lobbyists can encourage the crafting of regulations that benefit (or don't harm) their clients, but do but their clients' competitors at a disadvantage.
But I do support fully, the labelling requirements so that the US consumer has the option of where to spend their $$'s....if they want GMO, fine. Just make it easier to make an informed decision.
I much more support "GMO-free" labeling, like we have "organic" labeling.
GMO is a useless term since it's so vague. It can mean everything from plants with built-in pesticide to a change in a chromosome that leaves the end-food unaltered but increases yield. We've been "genetically modifying plants for thousands of years, and there's nothing wrong with GMO on the face of it, but there could be something wrong with specific genetic modifications.
Its been nothing but downhill since TBC. Diablo 3 was a continuation of a lack of understanding of who they're actually selling to. MoP took WoW down the Diablo 3 route too.
I disagree... mostly. I felt Wrath and Cataclysm definitely hurt of the game, but MoP is definitely the best the game has been for a number of years. Maybe even better than TBC, only time will tell that much.
I like the skill system in Diablo3, but the free respecs made it way too easy to try all the builds I was interested in and then get bored. The item system in Diablo3 is just horrid, and since the series at its core is an item hunt with items fueling character progression, that's a big part of the game that is broken. That the upper reaches of the game are fueled by the auction house is a big mistake; Blizzard devs called the auction house an experiment that didn't pan out.
Why do you want Linux to be like Windows 95 just because you don't upgrade your hardware?
Because Linux's standards should be a little higher. It's unacceptable for a desktop environment to use so many resources when 'idle.' It shouldn't be the end user's job to throw money at hardware to work around developer hubris/laziness/ineptitude.
Doesn't matter your thoughts on th policy - the science behind it is with a 5-sigma degree of certainty FACT. (6 sigma is almost undeniable, but 5-sigma is damned close.)
And that is something ill-educated people such as yourself cannot fathom - the rules and regulations the REAL scientists have set forth.
Policy means SHIT in the face of fact.
Facts/science informs policy. You can still be against policy even if you're for the science.
Is the Earth heating up? That's a question of science. Is the heating caused by human activity? That's a question of science. In what ways and to what degree should human activities be modified to prevent this? This is both science and politics. Who should implement this? Who should pay for this? Those are questions purely of politics, not science. The Kyoto Accords address all of the above. I don't think most conservatives actually object to the science-based provisions, though they are suspicious of them. They object to the politics-based ones, especially the ones which place no binding targets on developing countries and allow emissions to grow with development needs. So.. more coal-burning, more clear-cutting, etc. The developed world can pay to reduce the developing world's emissions in lieu of reducing their own by the same amount. The more.... "conspiracy-minded" conservatives like to point to this as evidence that the UN is trying to transfer power and wealth out of the United States (and, I suppose, Canada) and redistribute it to the rest of the world.
Whether a rational-minded person believes in that stuff or not, there are more than pure-science questions at work there.
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Sandler -could- make a good film. Punch Drunk Love was quite decent, but it was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson so you could expect as much.
Will Smith turned down Django because Christoph Waltz was to have more lines. Smith's demand was that the character of Django be expanded (more than it was) to make him the clear star.
And he starred in After Earth because it's super-Scientologistic.
So what if you go to a website and it's serving javascript with an embedded and encrypted child porn jpeg?
Your lawyer will have to do one fantastic job to convince a jury of that.
If you think that anyone would profit from even the average predicted scenario, you must be living comfortably on another planet. Droughts, floods, food shortages, heat waves, extreme weather patterns, economies destroyed? Where's "profit" in that, for any economy?
Devil's Advocate time! See, you are assuming that climate change is real, and that all those things will definitely happen. To understand him, you have to think like a conservative.
The conservative climate change denier/skeptic brings up the money to be made argument because he strongly believes:
1) That climate change is a fraud from people who have vested interests, and thus all of that drought/heat/economies destroyed stuff won't happen.
2) He sees agreements like the Kyoto accord, which is clearly intended to transfer wealth from the developed countries to the third world and developing countries. Now, if climate change is real, it makes sense for 1st-world polluters to clean up and assist the third world in skipping their ultra-messy coal/carbon phase of industrialization. If climate change is BS, then it's wealthy countries just paying for infrastructure to advance less wealthy countries at our expense. And unless we were the ones who bombed that country into the ground, it's something we tend not to do.
3) In tandem with #2, he will see it as unwelcome and unnecessary government control and intrusion. In particular, he'll see solar companies and wind and other "green" energy sources receive government funds and he'll start mumbling something about how the government shouldn't "pick winners and losers."
Sure, if the ecosystem collapses, we're all screwed. But if that won't happen, if rising temperatures don't seem as severe and we don't get the food shortages and floods and extreme weather, then there really is a lot of money to be made by those who are preparing for that event or seeking to prevent it.
I always wondered about actors like Rob Schneider and Nicholas Cage -- actors who seem to have a moderate amount of acting/humor talent... who then choose the absolutely worst projects to star in. Vaughn could be an actor with talent but no vision who reads a script and imagines it'll be better than it is after filming. Or passes on a project because he doesn't see the potential.
Roger Ebert had a theory about Nicholas Cage, that his acting career was a great experiment where he decided to only sign up for the best and worst projects, with nothing in between. He always praised the way Cage just threw himself entirely into every role with no fear or shame.
In that case, maybe they should hire security guards to keep all those thieves and vandals at bay.
Sounds like the BSA/MPAA/RIAA/etc.
.ini files also defeat standard system tools like grep and sed. Parsing them without a dedicated parser is non-trivial, because the context changes based on the section.
I'm not the biggest fan of the ini-style files partially because they're not grepable, but look at what systemd files replace -- generic shell scripts. I don't think the init scripts I deal with are grepable at all, so systemd isn't a downgrade to me in that case. It strikes me that .ini files aren't as flexible, but without looking at it I'd have to assume otherwise.
I couldn't decide whether Fosters was the Aussie version of Budweiser or Pabst Blue Ribbon (PBR)
Presumably, the guy at the ticket counter
Unless that's Gamon.
Though he has his own troubles these days.
Pandarens were mentioned in the lore before Kung Fu Panda, but that's about it. A mention. They certainly were not the childish fatsos they turned out to be... that happened AFTER Kung Fu Panda.
No... not really. They were featured in a few April Fool's Jokes, the most notable example being the Pandaran Express, announced in 2005 (modeled after the /pizza command in Everquest 2 which actually DOES order pizza from Pizza Hut). And then in Vanilla WoW (2004) there are several references to Chen Stormstout who searches foreign lands for ingredients he can use to brew beer and his alliance with Rexxar. You don't meet him, but talk to people who did, and his personality seems similar to that featured in Mists of Pandaria.
And to categorize all (or even most) Pandarans as childish fatsos would be quite ill-informed.
I don't get it. It sounds a lot like roads except far more expensive, harder to build out, and far more limiting in where you can go.
I'm just not seeing the killer feature yet that would convince me it'd be wise to transition from cars to that.
There's no reason for houses to have the inflated cost they do these days
Other than supply and demand. Houses cost a lot because they require a lot of material, labor, and exacting regulations. The land they're on is usually not cheap. Then add on to that the demand for the area -- if you have more people who want to buy houses than there are houses to sell, home prices will drift up until they meet.
I think there might be a 2.5, or just a corollary to #2 there: that many people with power know that someone or some class WILL be in charge, and they think they will make better, even more benevolent decisions. I know that sounds like #3 a little bit, but it's focusing on the people with power instead of those without. They want a police state because their police state will be what benefits everyone. And then there are those few who have power and don't want a police state/dictatorship because, although they might have an enlightened rule, whomever succeeds them most certainly will not.
but why would inserting the word "medically" in front of "private data" make it more important?
Because different laws medical data than regular data.
"That's what I've heard" though, so your mileage may vary.
Charges rarely get "dropped". Cases simply don't get pressed.
It really depends on why the cases are "dropped." If the case is dropped because a person was innocent and the police catch the perpetrator of the crime, the innocent person will have a much higher chance of having their identification wiped and record cleared than if someone is released because the prosecution was unable to collect enough evidence to make a strong case against him.
There is nothing in the AC's post that deserved a downmod to -1.
You're dismissal of this article out of hand, with no explanation other than the fact that you don't seem to like him, is weak and suggestive of google shilling
People on Slashdot (and Internet forums in general, I guess) really need to stop seeing dismissing a person's retarded behavior as shilling from the other side. "You disagree with me! You must be paid by the opposition company to do so, no reasonable person would disagree with my behavior!" Until recently, I've only seen the Church of Scientology make those claims on a regular basis. Now every troll on Slashdot seems to do so.
Is it not possible that some things are over-regulated, while others are under-regulated.
Possible, but not bloody likely in today's "I'm a congressman, please buy me!" environment.
You are assuming that business will always encourage relaxation of regulations, but cagey lobbyists can encourage the crafting of regulations that benefit (or don't harm) their clients, but do but their clients' competitors at a disadvantage.
No, Monsanto is a Poison company that started getting into the food business.
Ooooo, poison! Scary, Scary word!
But I do support fully, the labelling requirements so that the US consumer has the option of where to spend their $$'s....if they want GMO, fine. Just make it easier to make an informed decision.
I much more support "GMO-free" labeling, like we have "organic" labeling.
GMO is a useless term since it's so vague. It can mean everything from plants with built-in pesticide to a change in a chromosome that leaves the end-food unaltered but increases yield. We've been "genetically modifying plants for thousands of years, and there's nothing wrong with GMO on the face of it, but there could be something wrong with specific genetic modifications.
lettuce see how long we can drag this out
Stop! Stop! STOOOOOOOPPPP!!
If aliens ever blow up this planet, they will likely point out this thread as justification.
The technically adept people (read R&D dept) are the bane of our existence, as they constantly need changes made / make changes without consulting us.
Only because you insist on having control.
If you're there to take the fall without having control over your work, then that job has a disfunctional design at that company.
Its been nothing but downhill since TBC. Diablo 3 was a continuation of a lack of understanding of who they're actually selling to. MoP took WoW down the Diablo 3 route too.
I disagree... mostly. I felt Wrath and Cataclysm definitely hurt of the game, but MoP is definitely the best the game has been for a number of years. Maybe even better than TBC, only time will tell that much.
I like the skill system in Diablo3, but the free respecs made it way too easy to try all the builds I was interested in and then get bored.
The item system in Diablo3 is just horrid, and since the series at its core is an item hunt with items fueling character progression, that's a big part of the game that is broken.
That the upper reaches of the game are fueled by the auction house is a big mistake; Blizzard devs called the auction house an experiment that didn't pan out.
Why do you want Linux to be like Windows 95 just because you don't upgrade your hardware?
Because Linux's standards should be a little higher. It's unacceptable for a desktop environment to use so many resources when 'idle.'
It shouldn't be the end user's job to throw money at hardware to work around developer hubris/laziness/ineptitude.
Arggh. How did anyone ever think those graphics were a good idea.
Ugggghhh!! It's like the return of Geocities.
Doesn't matter your thoughts on th policy - the science behind it is with a 5-sigma degree of certainty FACT. (6 sigma is almost undeniable, but 5-sigma is damned close.)
And that is something ill-educated people such as yourself cannot fathom - the rules and regulations the REAL scientists have set forth.
Policy means SHIT in the face of fact.
Facts/science informs policy. You can still be against policy even if you're for the science.
Is the Earth heating up? That's a question of science.
Is the heating caused by human activity? That's a question of science.
In what ways and to what degree should human activities be modified to prevent this? This is both science and politics.
Who should implement this? Who should pay for this? Those are questions purely of politics, not science.
The Kyoto Accords address all of the above. I don't think most conservatives actually object to the science-based provisions, though they are suspicious of them. They object to the politics-based ones, especially the ones which place no binding targets on developing countries and allow emissions to grow with development needs. So.. more coal-burning, more clear-cutting, etc. The developed world can pay to reduce the developing world's emissions in lieu of reducing their own by the same amount. The more.... "conspiracy-minded" conservatives like to point to this as evidence that the UN is trying to transfer power and wealth out of the United States (and, I suppose, Canada) and redistribute it to the rest of the world.
Whether a rational-minded person believes in that stuff or not, there are more than pure-science questions at work there.