The MAD philosophy of the Cold War era worked - even with regimes which were not what we would consider the most stable.
Yes, it did work. And it worked because the men with access to "The Button" were aware of the real consequences of those actions and could think to the future to how those consequences would pay out. IE, the mindset of very very few teenage high schoolers.
If you want "hard data", look at the number of murders per 100,000 people in the US versus other western countries with stricter gun laws
You can't make good conclusions based on just that alone. You'd have to take into account societal factors, poverty, et all. The US is not a homogeneous country like many Western European countries are.
I'm not sure I understand your philosophy. You call taxation theft, claim that you can opt out of all government social contracts, so I would expect you'd be against government intervention in general. But the things you complain about afterwards are results of the free market in action. Private-sector entertainers make millions because people want to purchase their wares. Public-sector teachers scrape by. It takes a long time for the government to ban loud commercials, but this is a case of the government intervening in the private sector's affairs. If people don't like loud commercials, why don't they complain to the stations? Wouldn't that be the non-governmental way of handling this?
Yes. It's part of being in a civilized society. The standard "I don't want to live in that society" rebuttal is that you are free to leave the country.
And once he's old enough, who's going to hire him without an accredited degree, regardless of his abilities? How's do you think he'll get through any HR dept?
When it comes to high school education, all most HR departments will care about is whether you have a GED. And for jobs that require a college education, they have no interest where (or whether) you went to high school, kindergarden, 1st-8th, etc. No one puts it on a resume (doing so would raise eyebrows simply for strange it is) and no one asks. No one cares because it doesn't matter.
I hate to use the if you were legit then you wouldn't need a proxy argument. However If he was using email the way most services want you to use it, he wouldn't have a problem.
Email was meant for a Person to send a message to another person or a small group of people, usually with people that you have some connection too.
Then how do you send a message to a large group of subscribers (let's ignore the spam angle for now and say these people want the updates) notifying them of site updates, special offers, alerts, or whatnot. I don't think it's enough to say "well they should just go to the site and check it when they want to." First, I don't want to call up every web site I might have signed up with every day. I just don't want to go through that hassle. I would end up not doing it. Email is perfect for me, I can scan it quickly for things that interest, delete it all when done... no hassle for either myself or the services. What would you suggest to replace this that would work better?
The PCB contacts were scrubbed with sodium hydroxide (to remove oxidation) and isopropyl alcohol (to remove residue.) Took about five minutes per cart. Which is about 60 hours of labor. Not a whole lot, it just ensures that every game will turn on with your very first try, and you won't dirty up your SNES connector on these carts.
Not that I have the money to purchase this set, but would you have any recommendations for cleaning the inside connections of an SNES as well? Is that necessary, or are you likely to further damage/corrode the connections? I realize that since cartridges are external they're more likely to pick up dust and moisture, but I imagine after 20 years the inside of my SNES could probably use some work too.
I think his point was that there are so many -good- games out there that there's not enough time to enjoy them. Why waste the time with bad games? I don't think they have the same "so bad it's good" value as some bad movies do. Bad games are just frustrating.
If you want a Linux laptop with good graphics perfomance then one with a discrete Nvidia GPU is the obivious choice. Avoid this Optimus nonsense.
The traditional problem with nvidia gpus in laptops has been with cooling. I had an HP laptop with an on-board GeForce 9600M and a number of models of HPs were vulnerable to overheating problems. That particular chipset was notorious for being hard to keep cool, and many many laptops (including mine) burned out the graphics chipsets, making them useless. HP offered replacements (subject to the same flaw), but my laptop line was left out of the offer, even though it was subject to the same flaw.
Yeah, so... I don't buy HP laptops anymore, even though they were one of the better vendors out there for awhile.
This just proves that Slashdot's core (heavy handed) morality is worth about as much as RMS's toe jam.
Or maybe it shows that "slashdot" is not some unified hive mind like you make it out to be, but is composed of thousands of different users with many different philosophies represented.
Well. Jobs loved state trappings. He did not like government intrusion however, and frequently rejected state authority over Apple's, Pixar's, or his personal affairs. His other traits far overwhelmed any belief in authority of the state, such as his much publicized disregard for handicapped parking and refusal to use license plates. Being a narcissist came first -- that's why he liked dining with Obama, not because he liked the Democratic party, or the president, or the government, but because he liked dining with trendy visionaries. It made him look good and feel good.
Maybe it seems that way because you aren't paying attention. People are about 10 times more likely to leave the US for medical tourism than to come to the US.
Yeah, but how much of that is seeking real medical treatment that they were denied, as opposed to disproven or unproven treatments denied here but allowed in more lax countries, like the coffee enemas Steve McQueen got in Mexico to try to cure his cancer?
I'll buy that a bunch of people cross the borders to buy cheap drugs in Canada or elsewhere though.
Of course there'd be one dumbass whose troll moderation finger is itchy. Hey retard, read the fucking argument (and this is OFF TOPIC).
Not the original moderator, but when you use phrases like "you are one dense motherfucker, aren't you?" then you're asking for a downmod. You are are correct, Troll is likely not the most appropriate moderation, "Flamebait" comes a little closer for needlessly insulting a poster who was honestly debating.
There's no need for personal insults here, please keep the discussions civil.
Many games use a matchmaking service like gamespy that may turn it off after whatever the contract period is.
Uuuuggghh. Getting Heroes of Might and Magic 3 working after the online services they partnered with went down was super-frustrating. Horrible Windows DirectX networking (yeah, there's a "Direct" network protocol) that was firewall-hostile, a Gamespy client that made a half-hearted attempt at using the defunct network protocol... I yearned for Diablo 2's direct TCP/IP option -- at least that was straightforward to poke holes in the firewall.
You just don't understand do you? It's not up to you if it's worth trying or not. It's HER life. She gets to decide if she wants to try leeches to cure her cancer.
If she wants to pay for her own leeches out of pocket, then by all means, leech away. However, if she wants someone else to help pay for it, whether that be insurance, single-payer, medicare, etcetc, then people paying the bills get a say in whether a treatment is nonsense and/or if it should be covered.
Translation: "I can't argue with what you just said, so instead I'll just construct an argument where 'everybody' would agree with me! In your face internet."
You didn't give him anything substantial to argue against! "You don't know the names of everyone on a watch list" somehow conflates to "the US is an oppressive regime." If you lived in a country which had an actually oppressive regime, you might change your definition a bit.
Still a lot more equal than the "Fuck off" you get in 'merica.
Do you live in the US? Do you know what rights registered domestic partners (gay or straight) get in that country? A hell of a lot more than "Fuck off."
Maybe some smaller companies don't but I think many companies do a background check before hiring someone. Something like that would stand out like a sore thumb.
Hey, Scott Thomson made it to the level of CEO of Yahoo before someone figured out his degree in computer science was actually a bachelor of accounting.
In fact, the downturn in the economy is proof that while temporary gains can be made in the blue-collar industry, you'll be competing with a larger number of potential applicants when the jobs become scarce and this is where a college degree can be advantageous. Not because you are magically bestowed with infinite knowledge, but because your competition is smaller in numbers.
I'm not so sure, that college degree can also become a liability. A great many places believe in the notion of "he's overqualified for the job" and that college degree can seriously narrow your job prospects to the ones covered by that degree. When many applicants are applying for a job, employers want the ones who are not only qualified, but won't quickly jump to a better job when it comes around.
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The MAD philosophy of the Cold War era worked - even with regimes which were not what we would consider the most stable.
Yes, it did work. And it worked because the men with access to "The Button" were aware of the real consequences of those actions and could think to the future to how those consequences would pay out. IE, the mindset of very very few teenage high schoolers.
If you want "hard data", look at the number of murders per 100,000 people in the US versus other western countries with stricter gun laws
You can't make good conclusions based on just that alone. You'd have to take into account societal factors, poverty, et all. The US is not a homogeneous country like many Western European countries are.
* - Where do companies get their money to pay taxes? Hint: it's not growing on the trees that are growing outside their offices.
I take it you've never heard of orchards.
They grow money trees?
I need to plant one of those!
I'm not sure I understand your philosophy. You call taxation theft, claim that you can opt out of all government social contracts, so I would expect you'd be against government intervention in general. But the things you complain about afterwards are results of the free market in action. Private-sector entertainers make millions because people want to purchase their wares. Public-sector teachers scrape by. It takes a long time for the government to ban loud commercials, but this is a case of the government intervening in the private sector's affairs. If people don't like loud commercials, why don't they complain to the stations? Wouldn't that be the non-governmental way of handling this?
Yes. It's part of being in a civilized society. The standard "I don't want to live in that society" rebuttal is that you are free to leave the country.
And once he's old enough, who's going to hire him without an accredited degree, regardless of his abilities? How's do you think he'll get through any HR dept?
When it comes to high school education, all most HR departments will care about is whether you have a GED. And for jobs that require a college education, they have no interest where (or whether) you went to high school, kindergarden, 1st-8th, etc. No one puts it on a resume (doing so would raise eyebrows simply for strange it is) and no one asks. No one cares because it doesn't matter.
I hate to use the if you were legit then you wouldn't need a proxy argument. However If he was using email the way most services want you to use it, he wouldn't have a problem.
Email was meant for a Person to send a message to another person or a small group of people, usually with people that you have some connection too.
Then how do you send a message to a large group of subscribers (let's ignore the spam angle for now and say these people want the updates) notifying them of site updates, special offers, alerts, or whatnot. I don't think it's enough to say "well they should just go to the site and check it when they want to." First, I don't want to call up every web site I might have signed up with every day. I just don't want to go through that hassle. I would end up not doing it. Email is perfect for me, I can scan it quickly for things that interest, delete it all when done... no hassle for either myself or the services. What would you suggest to replace this that would work better?
The PCB contacts were scrubbed with sodium hydroxide (to remove oxidation) and isopropyl alcohol (to remove residue.) Took about five minutes per cart. Which is about 60 hours of labor. Not a whole lot, it just ensures that every game will turn on with your very first try, and you won't dirty up your SNES connector on these carts.
Not that I have the money to purchase this set, but would you have any recommendations for cleaning the inside connections of an SNES as well? Is that necessary, or are you likely to further damage/corrode the connections? I realize that since cartridges are external they're more likely to pick up dust and moisture, but I imagine after 20 years the inside of my SNES could probably use some work too.
why are you playing bad games?
The same reason you play any game: entertainment.
I think his point was that there are so many -good- games out there that there's not enough time to enjoy them. Why waste the time with bad games? I don't think they have the same "so bad it's good" value as some bad movies do. Bad games are just frustrating.
How many of the employees are now white and in their 50s? 60s? 70s? That's new.
That was pretty common when I worked at McDonalds 20 years ago.
If you want a Linux laptop with good graphics perfomance then one with a discrete Nvidia GPU is the obivious choice. Avoid this Optimus nonsense.
The traditional problem with nvidia gpus in laptops has been with cooling. I had an HP laptop with an on-board GeForce 9600M and a number of models of HPs were vulnerable to overheating problems. That particular chipset was notorious for being hard to keep cool, and many many laptops (including mine) burned out the graphics chipsets, making them useless. HP offered replacements (subject to the same flaw), but my laptop line was left out of the offer, even though it was subject to the same flaw.
Yeah, so... I don't buy HP laptops anymore, even though they were one of the better vendors out there for awhile.
This just proves that Slashdot's core (heavy handed) morality is worth about as much as RMS's toe jam.
Or maybe it shows that "slashdot" is not some unified hive mind like you make it out to be, but is composed of thousands of different users with many different philosophies represented.
Well. Jobs loved state trappings. He did not like government intrusion however, and frequently rejected state authority over Apple's, Pixar's, or his personal affairs. His other traits far overwhelmed any belief in authority of the state, such as his much publicized disregard for handicapped parking and refusal to use license plates. Being a narcissist came first -- that's why he liked dining with Obama, not because he liked the Democratic party, or the president, or the government, but because he liked dining with trendy visionaries. It made him look good and feel good.
Are you talking about crazy people or eccentric people? And is eccentricity necessarily craziness?
A small house in San Francisco costs a lot more than that small fortune.
Maybe it seems that way because you aren't paying attention. People are about 10 times more likely to leave the US for medical tourism than to come to the US.
Yeah, but how much of that is seeking real medical treatment that they were denied, as opposed to disproven or unproven treatments denied here but allowed in more lax countries, like the coffee enemas Steve McQueen got in Mexico to try to cure his cancer?
I'll buy that a bunch of people cross the borders to buy cheap drugs in Canada or elsewhere though.
Of course there'd be one dumbass whose troll moderation finger is itchy. Hey retard, read the fucking argument (and this is OFF TOPIC).
Not the original moderator, but when you use phrases like "you are one dense motherfucker, aren't you?" then you're asking for a downmod. You are are correct, Troll is likely not the most appropriate moderation, "Flamebait" comes a little closer for needlessly insulting a poster who was honestly debating.
There's no need for personal insults here, please keep the discussions civil.
Many games use a matchmaking service like gamespy that may turn it off after whatever the contract period is.
Uuuuggghh. Getting Heroes of Might and Magic 3 working after the online services they partnered with went down was super-frustrating. Horrible Windows DirectX networking (yeah, there's a "Direct" network protocol) that was firewall-hostile, a Gamespy client that made a half-hearted attempt at using the defunct network protocol... I yearned for Diablo 2's direct TCP/IP option -- at least that was straightforward to poke holes in the firewall.
Acupuncture has no, absolutely no medicinal value beyond placebo.
I'm fine with prescribing placebos as long as they're (very) cheap.
You just don't understand do you? It's not up to you if it's worth trying or not. It's HER life. She gets to decide if she wants to try leeches to cure her cancer.
If she wants to pay for her own leeches out of pocket, then by all means, leech away.
However, if she wants someone else to help pay for it, whether that be insurance, single-payer, medicare, etcetc, then people paying the bills get a say in whether a treatment is nonsense and/or if it should be covered.
Translation: "I can't argue with what you just said, so instead I'll just construct an argument where 'everybody' would agree with me! In your face internet."
You didn't give him anything substantial to argue against! "You don't know the names of everyone on a watch list" somehow conflates to "the US is an oppressive regime." If you lived in a country which had an actually oppressive regime, you might change your definition a bit.
Still a lot more equal than the "Fuck off" you get in 'merica.
Do you live in the US? Do you know what rights registered domestic partners (gay or straight) get in that country? A hell of a lot more than "Fuck off."
Maybe some smaller companies don't but I think many companies do a background check before hiring someone. Something like that would stand out like a sore thumb.
Hey, Scott Thomson made it to the level of CEO of Yahoo before someone figured out his degree in computer science was actually a bachelor of accounting.
You can get what you need from a college without getting a diploma
Steve Jobs is another example -- he dropped out of college.... but kept attending classes.
In fact, the downturn in the economy is proof that while temporary gains can be made in the blue-collar industry, you'll be competing with a larger number of potential applicants when the jobs become scarce and this is where a college degree can be advantageous. Not because you are magically bestowed with infinite knowledge, but because your competition is smaller in numbers.
I'm not so sure, that college degree can also become a liability. A great many places believe in the notion of "he's overqualified for the job" and that college degree can seriously narrow your job prospects to the ones covered by that degree. When many applicants are applying for a job, employers want the ones who are not only qualified, but won't quickly jump to a better job when it comes around.