My job pays $49/hour, which is a touch below average for my experience and qualifications in this area *without* a clearance.
Are you in a scientific profession? One that pays well in the civilian world? Snowden was an analyst (entry level at that), which I would imagine is a profession that doesn't pay as well in the civilian world.
That word "unreasonable" makes all the difference. If the government thinks it is reasonable to gobble up everything while investigating possibile terrorists, they will do so. Whether it is truly unreasonable won't need to be determined until the evidence is brought into a court of law.
Way back when, the definition of net neutrality was not "the proposition that internet providers should allow equal access to all content rather than give certain applications favored status or block others."
When I first heard the term in the 1990s, net neutrality meant that the main trunks all processed data the same for every provider and end user. They could certainly make the decision to route some data packets before others, such as video before text. The problem is that the ISPs are now also providers, and have decided that their video is more important than another provider's video. So Comcast is fucking with Netflix, claiming Netflix pushes out too much data. But if I am Comcast's customer, I don't want them disrupting my video feed just because they want more money than they already gouge from their customers.
Do the golfers, reviewers and tournament officers have to take every single call from a spectator seriously?
Pretty much, yes. Players have been penalized and even disqualified because a TV watcher called in and reported a violation they saw.
Or does it count if some random tosser calls in and gives their opinion?
I don't know how many random tossers troll golf tournaments. But if one does call in, the officials certainly would listen, check the footage for the player the tosser is claiming has an infraction, and decide if it's a prank or not.
Because if the latter does count, then yes, science has that level of scrutiny. Because we see on Slashdot and in the media, every idiot can comment on Slashdot or appear on or call in to a show and give their opinion on scientific research, regardless of how educated or knowledgeable they are in the area. Everything from string theory to dark matter/energy to AGW to nuclear power or renewable energy.
Really? Because it seems that anyone who disagrees with the consensus is insulted and ignored. The dissenters are "not scientists" so their uninformed thoughts mean nothing. Nobody checks their claims, until the clamor builds to a roar. Are you surprised that so many people have a problem with so much of the science today? Are you surprised that the golfing world has much less controversy?
Like smoking, if you didn't know it wasn't good for you, you deserve to die anyway.
Yeah yeah, blame the uneducated for their poor decisions in life, people with no empathy for their fellow man just makes me sick. Looking forward to the day you make a mistake through your own ignorance or "weakness", lets see how you handle a taste of your own medicine.
You say that like many of us don't make mistakes all the time, and trudge through them just fine without asking you to give a shit about us at all.
If I die from doing something we all know is stupid, please don't feel the need to send a card.
And yet it's still other scientists who are pushing back against the bad studies and bought results. Scientists are mere mortals, but science is still the major, if not only, area of life where that introspection happens.
You should talk to some golf players and fans. Someone watching a golf match on TV can call in and challenge a player's actions during the tournament. Let's see science match that level of scrutiny.
I know this isn't talking about a lawsuit. But my question back then was based on the way the industry (including bakeries) manipulates products, and claims their high-sugar snacks are healthy.
When the tobacco industry was sued years ago, and was forced to pay millions in damages, I asked someone when do we go after the sugar industry as well. I think I even sent a message to my state rep, just to see what the response would be.
No, my reading comprehension is just fine. Your comment of "The funny thing is that I didn't know we were miserable." is not contrary to my position that you were "showing how hard you had it". I didn't think we had it bad either, at the time. But looking back now, I had it worse than any other person I have personally spoken to from my generation. I know that others had it worse, and still do to this day, with the ones who are completely homeless at the top of the list.
But to compare my experience to yours, where your mom was happy with a clothes dryer. And you went for a few weeks having to heat water on the stove until your dad could afford another water heater. Yeah, you are trying to show how hard you had it growing up, whether you realized it then or not. You tried to show your history was equal to either mine or the AC's above.
Now to your "I didn't call him a liar just because I said he was lying" claim. I can read your words just fine. The AC claimed to have grown up in a house with dirt floors, in the US. You make the bold claim that "A house with a dirt floor is a violation of code almost everywhere." Which is meaningless for a host of reasons. You conclude that the person is "being less than truthful", which in any context means you claimed he is lying. The "I suspect" part is just a bit of CYA in case the AC proves his story is true. For all you know, the AC could be a current member of the US Supreme Court.
As I previously said, it hits close to home for me because ignorant pricks have called me a liar for stating one aspect of my history, no hot water, and used the same "building code" bullshit to justify their ignorance. You want to insult my reading comprehension when you fall into that same ignorant group?
Where I come from, the dairy farm across the road had inspectors visit it periodically. They even pulled one farmer's license for having poultry in the same barn as his cows. The only government officials I routinely saw on our property were the animal control officers who came to pick up the bodies of dogs that dad shot for raiding our chickens. We had to call the county sheriff's office to send their team out, because they had to test the dogs for rabies, just in case. Otherwise we would have just buried them in the garden. They never once asked if we had hot water, or even dirt floors, in our house. So, at least where I come from, inspections are for buildings occupied by livestock, not people.
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Because the NRA manual says they do.
Is that because they don't have thumbs?
Obviously, you've never used a MacBook in defense of your home planet.
Do cameramen own the copyrights to Hollywood movies?
Do you masturbate in public?
Because it's on the same level as releasing a sex tape for the world to see.
If you see a movie scene that shows a guy's head being hacked off, do you believe it really happened?
If you see a movie scene that shows a guy sucking a woman't breast, do you believe it really happened?
I agree that Americans are prudes, but don't pretend the two situations are the same.
But what about other entertainment? Watching people kill each other is sad too. Go meet someone real and kill them.
Been there, done that, got the bloody gloves to prove it. Too damn bad they don't fit no more.
- OJ Simson.
People dying while using the Tesla Autopilot is certainly bad publicity.
Another failure of our Saturday morning lack of cartoons.
You nin-cow-poop.
He only gets to be both is he wears a dorky smiling mask.
My job pays $49/hour, which is a touch below average for my experience and qualifications in this area *without* a clearance.
Are you in a scientific profession? One that pays well in the civilian world? Snowden was an analyst (entry level at that), which I would imagine is a profession that doesn't pay as well in the civilian world.
That word "unreasonable" makes all the difference. If the government thinks it is reasonable to gobble up everything while investigating possibile terrorists, they will do so. Whether it is truly unreasonable won't need to be determined until the evidence is brought into a court of law.
Way back when, the definition of net neutrality was not "the proposition that internet providers should allow equal access to all content rather than give certain applications favored status or block others."
When I first heard the term in the 1990s, net neutrality meant that the main trunks all processed data the same for every provider and end user. They could certainly make the decision to route some data packets before others, such as video before text. The problem is that the ISPs are now also providers, and have decided that their video is more important than another provider's video. So Comcast is fucking with Netflix, claiming Netflix pushes out too much data. But if I am Comcast's customer, I don't want them disrupting my video feed just because they want more money than they already gouge from their customers.
You think it's stupid to not want you to shed a tear for my own mistakes?
Fine. I've made mistakes in my life, and need your help. Please send $5 to me as PO Box 12345, in Spokane Wahhhhshington.
Do the golfers, reviewers and tournament officers have to take every single call from a spectator seriously?
Pretty much, yes. Players have been penalized and even disqualified because a TV watcher called in and reported a violation they saw.
Or does it count if some random tosser calls in and gives their opinion?
I don't know how many random tossers troll golf tournaments. But if one does call in, the officials certainly would listen, check the footage for the player the tosser is claiming has an infraction, and decide if it's a prank or not.
Because if the latter does count, then yes, science has that level of scrutiny. Because we see on Slashdot and in the media, every idiot can comment on Slashdot or appear on or call in to a show and give their opinion on scientific research, regardless of how educated or knowledgeable they are in the area. Everything from string theory to dark matter/energy to AGW to nuclear power or renewable energy.
Really? Because it seems that anyone who disagrees with the consensus is insulted and ignored. The dissenters are "not scientists" so their uninformed thoughts mean nothing. Nobody checks their claims, until the clamor builds to a roar. Are you surprised that so many people have a problem with so much of the science today? Are you surprised that the golfing world has much less controversy?
Oh, boohoo.
Like smoking, if you didn't know it wasn't good for you, you deserve to die anyway.
Yeah yeah, blame the uneducated for their poor decisions in life, people with no empathy for their fellow man just makes me sick. Looking forward to the day you make a mistake through your own ignorance or "weakness", lets see how you handle a taste of your own medicine.
You say that like many of us don't make mistakes all the time, and trudge through them just fine without asking you to give a shit about us at all.
If I die from doing something we all know is stupid, please don't feel the need to send a card.
And yet it's still other scientists who are pushing back against the bad studies and bought results. Scientists are mere mortals, but science is still the major, if not only, area of life where that introspection happens.
You should talk to some golf players and fans. Someone watching a golf match on TV can call in and challenge a player's actions during the tournament. Let's see science match that level of scrutiny.
I know this isn't talking about a lawsuit. But my question back then was based on the way the industry (including bakeries) manipulates products, and claims their high-sugar snacks are healthy.
When the tobacco industry was sued years ago, and was forced to pay millions in damages, I asked someone when do we go after the sugar industry as well. I think I even sent a message to my state rep, just to see what the response would be.
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who reads. :^)
I'll just wait for the giants to come talk to us now.
How is this even modded +1.
One word: Bodycount.
To deny any of this is hate all women, even if, or especially if, you have no women in your life whatsoever.
How do you reconcile your statement with the women who oppose abortion?
No, my reading comprehension is just fine. Your comment of "The funny thing is that I didn't know we were miserable." is not contrary to my position that you were "showing how hard you had it". I didn't think we had it bad either, at the time. But looking back now, I had it worse than any other person I have personally spoken to from my generation. I know that others had it worse, and still do to this day, with the ones who are completely homeless at the top of the list.
But to compare my experience to yours, where your mom was happy with a clothes dryer. And you went for a few weeks having to heat water on the stove until your dad could afford another water heater. Yeah, you are trying to show how hard you had it growing up, whether you realized it then or not. You tried to show your history was equal to either mine or the AC's above.
Now to your "I didn't call him a liar just because I said he was lying" claim. I can read your words just fine. The AC claimed to have grown up in a house with dirt floors, in the US. You make the bold claim that "A house with a dirt floor is a violation of code almost everywhere." Which is meaningless for a host of reasons. You conclude that the person is "being less than truthful", which in any context means you claimed he is lying. The "I suspect" part is just a bit of CYA in case the AC proves his story is true. For all you know, the AC could be a current member of the US Supreme Court.
As I previously said, it hits close to home for me because ignorant pricks have called me a liar for stating one aspect of my history, no hot water, and used the same "building code" bullshit to justify their ignorance. You want to insult my reading comprehension when you fall into that same ignorant group?
Where I come from, the dairy farm across the road had inspectors visit it periodically. They even pulled one farmer's license for having poultry in the same barn as his cows. The only government officials I routinely saw on our property were the animal control officers who came to pick up the bodies of dogs that dad shot for raiding our chickens. We had to call the county sheriff's office to send their team out, because they had to test the dogs for rabies, just in case. Otherwise we would have just buried them in the garden. They never once asked if we had hot water, or even dirt floors, in our house. So, at least where I come from, inspections are for buildings occupied by livestock, not people.
I didn't know that Japan was in Europe. I guess we learn something new every day.
And you are saying you are a moron with an agenda.