The problem with the one line idea is that stores will invariably understaff the checkout counters to save money. Your lost time is irrelevant to them (See: "Voice Mail Hell"). Thus, the odds of more than one issue creating delays at most or all of the pathetically low number of open cashier stations ensures that everybody suffers. With multiple lines, there's at least a chance that people in one or two lines might luck out.
Excellent thought! All that lovely PR work the RIAA has done to convince people what total pricks they are would really come back to haunt them. I can see it now: "Change to Visa. We don't sue 8-year-old kids and their grandmothers".
I wonder how many thousands of snipped-up credit cards (along with a final payment, if necessary)it would take to persuade MasterCard that they are being stupid. I wish I could say I used them so I could be one of them.
I may be wrong, but it appears that when you try to delete your account, they don't actually get rid of the information, they just make it inaccessible to you. I guess they'd prefer not to offend all the advertisers they whored your personal information out to.
"I'm not sure that more than a very small percentage of medical research is ever likely to lead to major improvements in clinical outcomes and quality of life."
I'm not surprised that this is true even of well-conducted research and well-written papers. How many baby steps had to be taken between the discovery of a disease and development of a way to cure it or control it? Every one of those baby steps would be a paper that had no real effect on clinical outcomes.
As far as I can see, the most important thing is to get the disproved and superceded papers out of circulation. The internet and a good database would probably be useful, but many medical doctors tend to be reluctant to embrace technology outside their expertise.
I wish that "ethical hacker" clown had kept his head down and his mouth shut. Given how far down the road the UK has already gone toward a society like Big Brother's wet dream, relatively easy access to Wi-Fi without some government snoop leaning over your shoulder might be one of the few remaining freedoms.
Let's suspend the "Redundant" mod for this particular occasion. This is really, really beautiful work, and if a bunch of Slashdotters offer Anh all kinds of applause for this mod, he deserves every bit of it.
This stupid thing would have accurately reported the age of the universe as 6,000 years (give or take a little) if only they hadn't launched it with a rocket (Satan's Gravity Sled).
Obviously shooting it off into space like that wrecked its sensors. They should have done it the way god said...by having Jesus throw it toward the dinosaur Adam and Eve were riding to church and letting it use its tail to blast it on its way like Babe Ruth done with them baseballs.
Who says us Creation Science people don't know what we're talking about!
As a native-born Canadian who is the product of an English father and American mother (both of whom chose to become Canadian citizens), I can tell you with no doubt whatsoever what the stream of binary actually means. It is a brilliant synopsis of a far more extensive and far more profound multi-cultural national ethos that explains what it is to be truly Canadian. Perhaps most important, it embodies a deeply Canadian reality: across much of the country, for a significant part of the year, the roads are chancy due to weather...and stores that sell beer are never where you want them. So here's the translation:
"If you're going to drop in unannounced, you'd better have a two-four of beer under your arm, buddy."
Well, since the star's only 20 light years away and the previous post noted that the Aussies are testing "Space Beer", you can sign me up for the trip. Maybe by the time we get back the Toronto Maple Leafs will have won the Stanley Cup.
If this had happened at my workplace, where there's an asshole who can't wait to prey on whatever other people have brought for lunch, things could have got ugly.
If there's a single insurance company lawyer who doesn't have several fake profiles up on Facebook so they can track plaintiffs to whatever extent they can get away with, I'd be very surprised.
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The birds were hit by emanations from the Arkansas school system, and promptly forgot how to fly.
The problem with the one line idea is that stores will invariably understaff the checkout counters to save money. Your lost time is irrelevant to them (See: "Voice Mail Hell"). Thus, the odds of more than one issue creating delays at most or all of the pathetically low number of open cashier stations ensures that everybody suffers. With multiple lines, there's at least a chance that people in one or two lines might luck out.
Excellent thought! All that lovely PR work the RIAA has done to convince people what total pricks they are would really come back to haunt them. I can see it now: "Change to Visa. We don't sue 8-year-old kids and their grandmothers".
I wonder how many thousands of snipped-up credit cards (along with a final payment, if necessary)it would take to persuade MasterCard that they are being stupid. I wish I could say I used them so I could be one of them.
I may be wrong, but it appears that when you try to delete your account, they don't actually get rid of the information, they just make it inaccessible to you. I guess they'd prefer not to offend all the advertisers they whored your personal information out to.
I've got some mod points, but I can't use them here, unfortunately. Yours is the funniest remark I've read in quite a while.
Thanks for the morning laugh.
I guess that's what they call it when somebody brings the state library's book back.
They have data centres in Texas?
The government and internal security forces of the Peoples' Republic of China wish to thank all of you for your help. Much appreciated.
If they can teach it to fetch beer and find the remote, I'll pay whatever they want for one.
"I'm not sure that more than a very small percentage of medical research is ever likely to lead to major improvements in clinical outcomes and quality of life."
I'm not surprised that this is true even of well-conducted research and well-written papers. How many baby steps had to be taken between the discovery of a disease and development of a way to cure it or control it? Every one of those baby steps would be a paper that had no real effect on clinical outcomes.
As far as I can see, the most important thing is to get the disproved and superceded papers out of circulation. The internet and a good database would probably be useful, but many medical doctors tend to be reluctant to embrace technology outside their expertise.
I wish that "ethical hacker" clown had kept his head down and his mouth shut. Given how far down the road the UK has already gone toward a society like Big Brother's wet dream, relatively easy access to Wi-Fi without some government snoop leaning over your shoulder might be one of the few remaining freedoms.
Yeah, you're right...I've just been too lazy to change it.
Badger whatchoo diggin' there/With your bum up in the air?
Shaft!
Why you movin' body parts/Skulls and legs and even hearts?
Shaft!
You say that mine shaft's a badger house?
Shut yo' mouth!
Gonna dig it!
Let's suspend the "Redundant" mod for this particular occasion. This is really, really beautiful work, and if a bunch of Slashdotters offer Anh all kinds of applause for this mod, he deserves every bit of it.
This stupid thing would have accurately reported the age of the universe as 6,000 years (give or take a little) if only they hadn't launched it with a rocket (Satan's Gravity Sled).
Obviously shooting it off into space like that wrecked its sensors. They should have done it the way god said...by having Jesus throw it toward the dinosaur Adam and Eve were riding to church and letting it use its tail to blast it on its way like Babe Ruth done with them baseballs.
Who says us Creation Science people don't know what we're talking about!
As a native-born Canadian who is the product of an English father and American mother (both of whom chose to become Canadian citizens), I can tell you with no doubt whatsoever what the stream of binary actually means. It is a brilliant synopsis of a far more extensive and far more profound multi-cultural national ethos that explains what it is to be truly Canadian. Perhaps most important, it embodies a deeply Canadian reality: across much of the country, for a significant part of the year, the roads are chancy due to weather...and stores that sell beer are never where you want them. So here's the translation:
"If you're going to drop in unannounced, you'd better have a two-four of beer under your arm, buddy."
If I had a mod point, I'd give it to you.
Well, since the star's only 20 light years away and the previous post noted that the Aussies are testing "Space Beer", you can sign me up for the trip. Maybe by the time we get back the Toronto Maple Leafs will have won the Stanley Cup.
OK, OK, I'm kidding about the Leafs.
"The study...found that across cultural divides young, tall and long armed women were considered the most attractive."
"Unt zee gymungous getitzenhooters alzo ve haf found to be zort uff nice.
Herr Professor Lance Wagstaffenstein, University of Norbnokkerschweet at Munchen
If this had happened at my workplace, where there's an asshole who can't wait to prey on whatever other people have brought for lunch, things could have got ugly.
LOL...really. Thanks for a good laugh. You nailed it. And realistically, what company wouldn't think it's going to happen sooner rather than later?
Within 10 minutes of this thing going on sale to the public, somebody's gonna have their dick in it.
If there's a single insurance company lawyer who doesn't have several fake profiles up on Facebook so they can track plaintiffs to whatever extent they can get away with, I'd be very surprised.