George Michael is one of those guys who was crazy talented, but never really reached his full potential. I always wanted him to join Queen after Freddie Mercury died, and his performance of Someone to Love shows what might have been.
However, this isn't the first comment I've read whose first response was along the lines of "It's okay, we have CGI" or "I hope they digitised here before she died".
I mean, seriously? Carrie Fisher- the real-life human being- has died.
I think those comments, or some of them at least, are sarcastic. They refer to our trend of never letting (important) people die; their image will continue to be reused.
Third. dead-naming or not, it's cowardly not to address the issue of being trans directly instead of deleting crap on twitter. That's not demonstrating leadership. It's just encouraging people to do it over and over because, when you delete it, they know it gets your goat. Great way to feed the trolls.
Also, if she can't handle a trans question on Slashdot, no way is she able to withstand an actual election where reporters will ask her questions.
She doesn't have Trump's "I can lie about anything and get away with it" machismo.
I do. I do see a trend. Its you working backwards to rationalize your conclusions. Its de riguer for gamergaters, and really all bigots.
He's not rationalizing, industry buzz is that Ghostbusters was a flop. Not a super-box-office bomb, but an underperformer nonetheless. It was neither funny nor scary, two things the original had going for it, and it broke most of the rules for whether you should do a remake.
What _else_ do you call somebody who uses fear to achieve political ends besides a Terrorist?
Fearmongering.
Fearmongering is not terrorism. Not even close. It's not terrorism when the Republicans say the Democrats will bankrupt the country, just like it's not terrorism if Microsoft reps claim Linux use will hurt your company, the GPL is a "viral" license, etcetc. It's FUD. FUD is not terrorism.
Why? Because you're a liberal faggot who wants to see the "other team" dead from errant self-driving cars?
Don't worry, the market will correct it! The invisible hand of Adam Smith will reach in and fix all the problems with pedestrians getting run over. No need for regulation, accidents and payouts are clearly the better option.
As one poster very accurately pointed out, this whole autonomous car thing actually makes no business sense. Uber has to buy the cars, get the autonomous driving stuff put in, pay for maintenance and insurance
It feels like a company that has a very successful core business, then just got distracted by a total tangent to that.
Two decades after the original artist's/etc demise would be fair. Perpetual copyright doesn't protect dead originators, and to make copyright perpetual changes it dramatically.
But the copyright is PROPERTY. Property they can pass on to their family. The government can't take property away and deprive families of their rightful possessions.
$7 million for 1000 jobs over 10 years, about $700 per job per year...
Sounds like we are going to need to build up a new office to give out these $700/yr/worker tax breaks. That's a big undertaking, because I'm sure many businesses will come, hat in hand, looking for a handout from the government. After all, why would Carrier be special? If we favor them, but not others who rattle sabers about shifting jobs overseas, then the government is playing favorites.
I don't often agree with Sarah Palin, but she put it fairly well: "When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent. [...] Republicans oppose this, remember? Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail.” That's not inconsistent with her earlier statements, she was one of the ones railing against the government "picking winners and losers."
in a TAX CUT not spending
A tax cut IS spending. It reduces the incoming budget receipts but not the rest of government, so this ends up going onto the national debt, just like any other government expenditure (though I believe in this case, it's a state expenditure).
Now they can do a whole order's drinks all autonomously, at least for the drive thrus. You can see it when you drive up, there's a machine that automatically drops a cup onto a conveyer, adds ice, then fills the drink and has it ready for the attendant to put a lid on and hand it out.
Oh, I know what you mean, that's the machine we had in 1993. You could file 7 orders from various terminals, and the machine would drop the cup, fill it with the necessary amount of ice (you could specify no ice, light ice, or extra ice as well) and you'd go to the machine and all 7 would be there ready for the lid. My understanding was that this was a test installation at the time.
When I worked in McDonalds in 1993, they already had drink machines that automatically poured drinks when an order was placed. I would hope that technology has gotten better in the 23 years since!
The 1991 Gulf War was a huge jolt to the PLA. They realized that their strategy of overwhelming a technologically superior enemy with huge numbers was NOT going to work in an era of drones and precision munitions. They began reducing the number of grunts, and putting way more resources into tech.
The big lesson from 1991 is that you're not going to overwhelm a technologically-superior army with a larger, "traditional" army. Traditional army tactics and movements are out of vogue. Now it's all about hiding among civilians, guerrilla tactics, and bleeding the enemy and making him suffer a death by a thousand cuts. Most western countries consider killing civilians anathema now, so the enemy adapts by using human shields. Russia has shown a willingness to not play that game in Aleppo, a rarity compared to the US's and Europe's tactics. The Russians saw how much the US spent, and how little they got accomplished in Afghanistan and Iraq post-2003, and decided that if they completely destroy a town, they can kill all the radicals in the town that way.
here's a clue: Irish Nationalism is deeply rooted in religious identity.
Irish nationalism is deeply rooted in being Irish. They were their own united country (despite Norman conquest) until the Tudors conquered Ireland once again in the 1500s. Until around that point, England was fully Catholic, but a political falling out between Henry VIII and the Pope resulted in Henry forking Catholicism, setting himself up as the head of the Church of England. Further struggles over the following century divided Ireland between the traditionalists who didn't accept the English king, and the Northern Irish who were in large part settlers from England and had loyalty to the King instead of the Irish Parliament. Ever since, there has been a clash between those who wanted to keep Northern Ireland in the Union, and those who wished the island of Ireland to be reunited.
Irish are Catholic because everyone in both countries used to be Catholic before King Henry's power grab.
I believe it's the gun registry database but the R/Trump national voter list is probably more comprehensive if such a thing is accessible to little ol' you.
How are they supposed to know who voted for Trump when votes are private?
I don't know a single thumper that thinks forced conversions will get anybody into heaven. They are crazy, but not that dumb.
I don't know, our new Vice President seems to believe we should force folks into conversion therapy. Many Christians in the US still believe in the medieval zaniness of "death bed conversions." As if you can do whatever shit you want to during life, and as long as you say you love Jesus while dying, heaven is a given. Because Jesus instantly forgives them for anything, soo...... that's a pretty big technicality.
I sincerely believe Muslims need to spend a century or two more, kicking the fight out of each other. Then they will be ready for civilization.
Islam now is in the position Christianity was during the Middle Ages. However, I worry that too much vile shit is actually codified into their holy book.
Read Leviticus. People are citing Leviticus to oppose homosexuality (although it says nothing about lesbians). Leviticus also has the death penalty for adultery, and says that gays should be killed.
Leviticus also gives stoning punishments to relatively minor offenses.
Whomever wrote that shit book was having a pretty bad day.
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It's nerd culture. It's more relevant to Slashdot than many things posted here.
George Michael is one of those guys who was crazy talented, but never really reached his full potential. I always wanted him to join Queen after Freddie Mercury died, and his performance of Someone to Love shows what might have been.
Of course. George Michael was interesting. Most gang-bangers are not.
it's not a matter of hate, it's a matter of being realistic about a 1-hit actress.
When someone dies and people are mourning the loss, what sort of person makes it his mission to shout "eh, she wasn't all that! Overrated!"
Someone a bit fucked up in the head.
The way to beat overpopulation is to not have children, not kill children/adults.
However, this isn't the first comment I've read whose first response was along the lines of "It's okay, we have CGI" or "I hope they digitised here before she died".
I mean, seriously? Carrie Fisher- the real-life human being- has died.
I think those comments, or some of them at least, are sarcastic. They refer to our trend of never letting (important) people die; their image will continue to be reused.
Third. dead-naming or not, it's cowardly not to address the issue of being trans directly instead of deleting crap on twitter. That's not demonstrating leadership. It's just encouraging people to do it over and over because, when you delete it, they know it gets your goat. Great way to feed the trolls.
Also, if she can't handle a trans question on Slashdot, no way is she able to withstand an actual election where reporters will ask her questions.
She doesn't have Trump's "I can lie about anything and get away with it" machismo.
While Trump did his share of bitching, it would be an enormous mistake to think that's the only thing he had going for him in the election.
> Do you see a trend here?
I do. I do see a trend. Its you working backwards to rationalize your conclusions. Its de riguer for gamergaters, and really all bigots.
He's not rationalizing, industry buzz is that Ghostbusters was a flop. Not a super-box-office bomb, but an underperformer nonetheless. It was neither funny nor scary, two things the original had going for it, and it broke most of the rules for whether you should do a remake.
I'm very offended at your virtue-signal mocking!
Everyone, don't you see how offended I am being?
What _else_ do you call somebody who uses fear to achieve political ends besides a Terrorist?
Fearmongering.
Fearmongering is not terrorism. Not even close.
It's not terrorism when the Republicans say the Democrats will bankrupt the country, just like it's not terrorism if Microsoft reps claim Linux use will hurt your company, the GPL is a "viral" license, etcetc. It's FUD. FUD is not terrorism.
Arizona has a high percentage of very old, and otherwise handicapped, drivers. A reasonable SDC implementation would be just what they're looking for.
But then you'll have to substantially change the plot of the Driving Miss Daisy remake.
Why? Because you're a liberal faggot who wants to see the "other team" dead from errant self-driving cars?
Don't worry, the market will correct it! The invisible hand of Adam Smith will reach in and fix all the problems with pedestrians getting run over. No need for regulation, accidents and payouts are clearly the better option.
As one poster very accurately pointed out, this whole autonomous car thing actually makes no business sense. Uber has to buy the cars, get the autonomous driving stuff put in, pay for maintenance and insurance
It feels like a company that has a very successful core business, then just got distracted by a total tangent to that.
Two decades after the original artist's/etc demise would be fair. Perpetual copyright doesn't protect dead originators, and to make copyright perpetual changes it dramatically.
But the copyright is PROPERTY. Property they can pass on to their family. The government can't take property away and deprive families of their rightful possessions.
No kidding, that's the argument now.
It will be if they are all landing in the middle east.
This may be the stupidest fucking thing said here all day. And this is Slashdot, that takes some doing.
$7 million for 1000 jobs over 10 years, about $700 per job per year...
Sounds like we are going to need to build up a new office to give out these $700/yr/worker tax breaks. That's a big undertaking, because I'm sure many businesses will come, hat in hand, looking for a handout from the government. After all, why would Carrier be special? If we favor them, but not others who rattle sabers about shifting jobs overseas, then the government is playing favorites.
I don't often agree with Sarah Palin, but she put it fairly well: "When government steps in arbitrarily with individual subsidies, favoring one business over others, it sets inconsistent, unfair, illogical precedent. [...] Republicans oppose this, remember? Instead, we support competition on a level playing field, remember? Because we know special interest crony capitalism is one big fail.” That's not inconsistent with her earlier statements, she was one of the ones railing against the government "picking winners and losers."
in a TAX CUT not spending
A tax cut IS spending. It reduces the incoming budget receipts but not the rest of government, so this ends up going onto the national debt, just like any other government expenditure (though I believe in this case, it's a state expenditure).
Now they can do a whole order's drinks all autonomously, at least for the drive thrus. You can see it when you drive up, there's a machine that automatically drops a cup onto a conveyer, adds ice, then fills the drink and has it ready for the attendant to put a lid on and hand it out.
Oh, I know what you mean, that's the machine we had in 1993. You could file 7 orders from various terminals, and the machine would drop the cup, fill it with the necessary amount of ice (you could specify no ice, light ice, or extra ice as well) and you'd go to the machine and all 7 would be there ready for the lid. My understanding was that this was a test installation at the time.
When I worked in McDonalds in 1993, they already had drink machines that automatically poured drinks when an order was placed. I would hope that technology has gotten better in the 23 years since!
The 1991 Gulf War was a huge jolt to the PLA. They realized that their strategy of overwhelming a technologically superior enemy with huge numbers was NOT going to work in an era of drones and precision munitions. They began reducing the number of grunts, and putting way more resources into tech.
The big lesson from 1991 is that you're not going to overwhelm a technologically-superior army with a larger, "traditional" army. Traditional army tactics and movements are out of vogue. Now it's all about hiding among civilians, guerrilla tactics, and bleeding the enemy and making him suffer a death by a thousand cuts. Most western countries consider killing civilians anathema now, so the enemy adapts by using human shields. Russia has shown a willingness to not play that game in Aleppo, a rarity compared to the US's and Europe's tactics. The Russians saw how much the US spent, and how little they got accomplished in Afghanistan and Iraq post-2003, and decided that if they completely destroy a town, they can kill all the radicals in the town that way.
"There's no Muslim countries where non Muslims have religious freedom" ....Except [...] Pakistan [...] Turkey, Indonesia...
So.. none of these countries have abhorrent things like blasphemy laws that will get Christians or Atheists into trouble, right?
here's a clue: Irish Nationalism is deeply rooted in religious identity.
Irish nationalism is deeply rooted in being Irish. They were their own united country (despite Norman conquest) until the Tudors conquered Ireland once again in the 1500s. Until around that point, England was fully Catholic, but a political falling out between Henry VIII and the Pope resulted in Henry forking Catholicism, setting himself up as the head of the Church of England. Further struggles over the following century divided Ireland between the traditionalists who didn't accept the English king, and the Northern Irish who were in large part settlers from England and had loyalty to the King instead of the Irish Parliament. Ever since, there has been a clash between those who wanted to keep Northern Ireland in the Union, and those who wished the island of Ireland to be reunited.
Irish are Catholic because everyone in both countries used to be Catholic before King Henry's power grab.
I believe it's the gun registry database but the R/Trump national voter list is probably more comprehensive if such a thing is accessible to little ol' you.
How are they supposed to know who voted for Trump when votes are private?
I don't know a single thumper that thinks forced conversions will get anybody into heaven. They are crazy, but not that dumb.
I don't know, our new Vice President seems to believe we should force folks into conversion therapy.
Many Christians in the US still believe in the medieval zaniness of "death bed conversions." As if you can do whatever shit you want to during life, and as long as you say you love Jesus while dying, heaven is a given. Because Jesus instantly forgives them for anything, soo...... that's a pretty big technicality.
I sincerely believe Muslims need to spend a century or two more, kicking the fight out of each other. Then they will be ready for civilization.
Islam now is in the position Christianity was during the Middle Ages. However, I worry that too much vile shit is actually codified into their holy book.
Read Leviticus. People are citing Leviticus to oppose homosexuality (although it says nothing about lesbians). Leviticus also has the death penalty for adultery, and says that gays should be killed.
Leviticus also gives stoning punishments to relatively minor offenses.
Whomever wrote that shit book was having a pretty bad day.