Everything about Casinos and Video Poker is fraud. Yet it's completely legal for them to operate facilities that pump oxygen into the air to keep you awake longer, provide you with free drinks so you'll make poor decisions, design slot machines to be as loud as possible when dropping coins/tokens to give the false impression of larger winnings. They are in the very business of defrauding people. Gambling IS fraud. Good for these guys to be on the winning side for once.
Agreed, Bose makes terrible speakers. It's basically impossible to get good factory made speakers, but bose speakers are a notch bellow anything you can find at walmart. They just color their sound with the preamp to fool the ear of those with little understanding of what their music is supposed to sound like. If you want a good speaker, you need to build it yourself. It's not hard, it's just that each is unique and hard to do right on an assembly line.
Because these are individual atoms. Very hard to detect unless they are clumped together as a mass... as in the millions. The only way to know their position is to force them to be where you want them via a magnetic field... etc... which ruins your chances of measuring any gravitational effect which is unfathomably tiny at atomic scales. You could make a whole pile of them (very difficult indeed) so it would act more like classical matter... the problem there is that by the time you had that much, when it hit the bottom of your container you'd find out just exactly what e=mc2 is all about and likely need to start looking for a new research facility.
Yes, this is very old technology. No-one uses it because it fails... a lot. Any gun that has the potential to fail to fire will never sell. Ask anyone that re-loads. They may make their own rounds for practice and hunting, but they always put commercial rounds in their handguns for protection.
About 50 feet from me there's about 100 boxes of microfiche that represent billing records from the 1960s on back. I have no idea why we still keep them, but they're there sure enough.
OR... and I know this may be hard for a US "intelligence" analyst to grasp... but if our troops weren't in Afghanistan, it really wouldn't matter what kinds of fertilizers they make in Pakistan.
Then there's the whole idea that we're going to raise the price of food (if fertilizer costs more, food costs more) because of what? 2 IEDs in the entire history of the US? And less than 10 accidents? Total killed under a few hundred? How many people will die due to hunger because of the higher price of food? How many kids will go to school under-nourished to the point that it has lasting impacts on their education and future in life? And before anyone pipes up about hunger not being a problem in the US, don't say it, you're a fool. There are people dieing from starvation in this country every day, even if it's not covered by the news much. Look up the stats.
This is all security theater. This "invention" is simply a product produced to capitalize on the irrational public fear of a terrorist attack. Mental illness kills more people in this country than just about anything (suicide, drug addiction, eating disorders, etc...) lets focus on some real issues and stop trying to scare the public into expensive fixes for problems that don't exist.
Because in cases of Slashvertisement, you see some product we could give a shit less about, get a glowing story on slashdot, likely because they PAID slashdot to put the story up. In this case, it's a product a lot of readers here are interested in, and was likely posted just because people here are into this sort of thing, I doubt CCP paid anyone to post it.
Amex cards used to not have a limit when I had one. If you have good enough credit they just let you run up whatever bill you want. My father bought a house with one a long time ago due to some legal/work issues similar to this case. His employer was buying his previous house from him as part of an employee move, but the paperwork was taking too long and the new house had a 2nd offer. So he dropped it on his Amex and then paid off the bill a week later when the paperwork cleared. How he got money from the card to the sellers I do not know as I was a kid at the time and the story long ago turned into family legend. When I got older I got one and it didn't have a limit either, which I couldn't believe. I called them up and made them put a limit on it. Fast forward to last year my buddy got one and it had a limit just like a Visa. Go figure.
I know someone that went crazy in his 20's, killed someone with a hammer, I had to testify against him... he beat the rap but they were still after him for a bunch of other stuff so he fled to Mexico... he occasionally calls me just to say "hi!" is that good enough for you?
If he ever breaks into my house, there wont be any warning shots.
No, guns are a tool. A tool that I have a constitutional right to own. How dangerous or risky that tool is, is completely irrelevant. You think we live in a different world than existed in 1776... and by making that argument you do nothing more than prove to me exactly the opposite.
The reason gun ownership is constitutionally protected is NOT for home protection. The purpose of amendment is so the people can rise up and overthrow the government in the event we have a military coup or the government turns into a fascist regime (which is what's slowing happening now)
Thomas Jefferson quotes for those who are historically disabled:
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. " "When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. " "God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." "Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty." "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first." "The man who reads nothing at all is better than educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Except: Cameras don't prevent crime, they just aid in identifying criminals. No City/government cameras were used in the suspects apprehension. Government cameras would require no warrant and would almost assuredly be used in ways we've never even dreamed of in just a few short years.
enators are 'drafting separate bills' to include some CISPA provisions.
Apparently you missed that part. Let me translate: "Who gave this damned thing a name? All the hippies are up in arms over it again! Scrap it, pull the wording out and we'll introduce different parts of it at different times so they don't have an easy target to complain about. Also, we'll all be able to separately oppose parts of it while supporting others, there-by shift blame all over so no-one can target any of us directly when the they realize we passed it anyway."
Nice bullshit story. My gunsafe unlocks with a 4 digit code. I can release the gun in under a second and it drops open to a 45 degree angle grip out so you're ready to fire. It's loaded and ready to go.
Guns require a commitment by the owner. My kid doesn't touch guns. Period. If he sees one, anywhere, he tells an adult immediately. If you don't take your kids to swimming lessons and they fall in a lake (a much more likely scenario than them finding a gun) they are likely going to die. Gun safety should be a part of any kids upbringing just like swimming. And just like swimming, just because you don't own beach front property doesn't mean you should skip the training. If your kid hasn't had proper gun safety training, YOU are putting your child in danger, not the gun owners of the world.
You've obviously never had your home broken into. You need to understand that both side manipulate and distort stats to basically feed you lies. In most cases where a home owner defends his home with a gun, he doesn't shoot anyone. A relative of mine had someone break into his home in the middle of the night. He stepped into the hallway with a 12gauge shot gun, saw the intruder in the living room and fired one round into the floor. The intruder ran. The action with the gun was never recorded by police.
As the saying goes, guns make all men equal. a 60yr old man with a limp and a pistol is just as likely to win a fight as an equally armed 20yr old intruder.
Meanwhile, the owner of the construction firm in charge of the project, who's been bleeding the state for every last dime it could just shit himself as he looked up Elon Musks net worth and realized just how much more money he could make if he made the delays even more intolerable.
Even a small one. $1600 is pretty standard for a conference or even a basic class about database structure or project management. It all depends on what's there. If it's a yearly sales pitch, then yea, that's expensive. But if there's a bunch of people there that are doing crazy new stuff it's worth it just to mingle. Some of the stuff I work on is so proprietary to our industry there's just no info on the net about it, so these conferences can be a goldmine.
Having attended school in the south, I can explain exactly why there may have been some sort of educational gap. My family moved there from the north when I was in grade school and when I got to school, every single kid there was black (except me of course) I was kind of perplexed by this, especially when all of these kids started using racial slurs to refer to me and I started getting beaten on a daily basis.
So... I went home and asked my parents what the deal was. Was everyone that lived in this town black? "No" they said... they explained that it was illegal to segregate people based on race, that they used to do it but it was wrong. In this town however, old habits died hard. So they built a "private" school that was funded by those with money in town and whos rates were relatively low. The difference between it and the public school? The admissions process... If you were white you got in, if you were not, you went to public school. My parents found this appalling so I went to public school.
And, in case you were wondering, the public school was terrible. My science teacher told us we'd eventually lose our pinky toe because we don't use it for much. No lie.
Ok, that is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. It's a simple ticketing system just like any company has, but now it tracks the techs via GPS and watches what they do via webcam. I'm sure mentioning you use such a system will have potential employees jumping at the chance to let you track and video tape them throughout their workday. Whos idiotic idea was this?
Well, I'm not one for over-reacting, but there is a very serious threat of a pandemic happening. It's been well over 80 years since we had a really deadly outbreak and there wasn't mass transit like there is now. If we had an outbreak like that, today, it would be pretty devastating. I don't think there's much we can do about it other than invest heavily in more robust broad spectrum vaccines. If we're lucky, we'll find something before "The big one" strikes us. Of all the Crisis out there that the media blows out of proportion, a global pandemic is the one area they probably aren't that far off on. The only reason we shouldn't let it keep us up at night is because there basically nothing most of us can do about it.
Totally False.
There is plenty of interest. The legal hurdles are the real issue. Most of the nuclear industry is now focused on expansion and improvement of existing plants because it's a lot harder for Greenpeace and the like to get people worked up over something that's already been running without a problem in their back yard for several decades.
Nuclear does have a high up-front cost, but it is the only truly viable solution to reducing emissions at this point.
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Everything about Casinos and Video Poker is fraud. Yet it's completely legal for them to operate facilities that pump oxygen into the air to keep you awake longer, provide you with free drinks so you'll make poor decisions, design slot machines to be as loud as possible when dropping coins/tokens to give the false impression of larger winnings. They are in the very business of defrauding people. Gambling IS fraud. Good for these guys to be on the winning side for once.
Agreed, Bose makes terrible speakers. It's basically impossible to get good factory made speakers, but bose speakers are a notch bellow anything you can find at walmart. They just color their sound with the preamp to fool the ear of those with little understanding of what their music is supposed to sound like. If you want a good speaker, you need to build it yourself. It's not hard, it's just that each is unique and hard to do right on an assembly line.
Because these are individual atoms. Very hard to detect unless they are clumped together as a mass... as in the millions. The only way to know their position is to force them to be where you want them via a magnetic field... etc... which ruins your chances of measuring any gravitational effect which is unfathomably tiny at atomic scales. You could make a whole pile of them (very difficult indeed) so it would act more like classical matter... the problem there is that by the time you had that much, when it hit the bottom of your container you'd find out just exactly what e=mc2 is all about and likely need to start looking for a new research facility.
Yes, this is very old technology. No-one uses it because it fails... a lot. Any gun that has the potential to fail to fire will never sell. Ask anyone that re-loads. They may make their own rounds for practice and hunting, but they always put commercial rounds in their handguns for protection.
About 50 feet from me there's about 100 boxes of microfiche that represent billing records from the 1960s on back. I have no idea why we still keep them, but they're there sure enough.
OR... and I know this may be hard for a US "intelligence" analyst to grasp... but if our troops weren't in Afghanistan, it really wouldn't matter what kinds of fertilizers they make in Pakistan.
Then there's the whole idea that we're going to raise the price of food (if fertilizer costs more, food costs more) because of what? 2 IEDs in the entire history of the US? And less than 10 accidents? Total killed under a few hundred? How many people will die due to hunger because of the higher price of food? How many kids will go to school under-nourished to the point that it has lasting impacts on their education and future in life? And before anyone pipes up about hunger not being a problem in the US, don't say it, you're a fool. There are people dieing from starvation in this country every day, even if it's not covered by the news much. Look up the stats.
This is all security theater. This "invention" is simply a product produced to capitalize on the irrational public fear of a terrorist attack. Mental illness kills more people in this country than just about anything (suicide, drug addiction, eating disorders, etc...) lets focus on some real issues and stop trying to scare the public into expensive fixes for problems that don't exist.
Because in cases of Slashvertisement, you see some product we could give a shit less about, get a glowing story on slashdot, likely because they PAID slashdot to put the story up. In this case, it's a product a lot of readers here are interested in, and was likely posted just because people here are into this sort of thing, I doubt CCP paid anyone to post it.
Your reaction. Seriously...
Amex cards used to not have a limit when I had one. If you have good enough credit they just let you run up whatever bill you want. My father bought a house with one a long time ago due to some legal/work issues similar to this case. His employer was buying his previous house from him as part of an employee move, but the paperwork was taking too long and the new house had a 2nd offer. So he dropped it on his Amex and then paid off the bill a week later when the paperwork cleared. How he got money from the card to the sellers I do not know as I was a kid at the time and the story long ago turned into family legend. When I got older I got one and it didn't have a limit either, which I couldn't believe. I called them up and made them put a limit on it. Fast forward to last year my buddy got one and it had a limit just like a Visa. Go figure.
I think it'll be about 5yrs before every insurance company on the planet makes this mandatory. Which is this company true target market.
I know someone that went crazy in his 20's, killed someone with a hammer, I had to testify against him... he beat the rap but they were still after him for a bunch of other stuff so he fled to Mexico... he occasionally calls me just to say "hi!" is that good enough for you?
If he ever breaks into my house, there wont be any warning shots.
No, guns are a tool. A tool that I have a constitutional right to own. How dangerous or risky that tool is, is completely irrelevant. You think we live in a different world than existed in 1776... and by making that argument you do nothing more than prove to me exactly the opposite.
The reason gun ownership is constitutionally protected is NOT for home protection. The purpose of amendment is so the people can rise up and overthrow the government in the event we have a military coup or the government turns into a fascist regime (which is what's slowing happening now)
Thomas Jefferson quotes for those who are historically disabled:
"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it. "
"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. "
"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty."
"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better than educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Except:
Cameras don't prevent crime, they just aid in identifying criminals.
No City/government cameras were used in the suspects apprehension.
Government cameras would require no warrant and would almost assuredly be used in ways we've never even dreamed of in just a few short years.
enators are 'drafting separate bills' to include some CISPA provisions.
Apparently you missed that part. Let me translate: "Who gave this damned thing a name? All the hippies are up in arms over it again! Scrap it, pull the wording out and we'll introduce different parts of it at different times so they don't have an easy target to complain about. Also, we'll all be able to separately oppose parts of it while supporting others, there-by shift blame all over so no-one can target any of us directly when the they realize we passed it anyway."
Nice bullshit story. My gunsafe unlocks with a 4 digit code. I can release the gun in under a second and it drops open to a 45 degree angle grip out so you're ready to fire. It's loaded and ready to go.
Guns require a commitment by the owner. My kid doesn't touch guns. Period. If he sees one, anywhere, he tells an adult immediately. If you don't take your kids to swimming lessons and they fall in a lake (a much more likely scenario than them finding a gun) they are likely going to die. Gun safety should be a part of any kids upbringing just like swimming. And just like swimming, just because you don't own beach front property doesn't mean you should skip the training. If your kid hasn't had proper gun safety training, YOU are putting your child in danger, not the gun owners of the world.
You've obviously never had your home broken into. You need to understand that both side manipulate and distort stats to basically feed you lies. In most cases where a home owner defends his home with a gun, he doesn't shoot anyone. A relative of mine had someone break into his home in the middle of the night. He stepped into the hallway with a 12gauge shot gun, saw the intruder in the living room and fired one round into the floor. The intruder ran. The action with the gun was never recorded by police.
As the saying goes, guns make all men equal. a 60yr old man with a limp and a pistol is just as likely to win a fight as an equally armed 20yr old intruder.
Meanwhile, the owner of the construction firm in charge of the project, who's been bleeding the state for every last dime it could just shit himself as he looked up Elon Musks net worth and realized just how much more money he could make if he made the delays even more intolerable.
Even a small one. $1600 is pretty standard for a conference or even a basic class about database structure or project management. It all depends on what's there. If it's a yearly sales pitch, then yea, that's expensive. But if there's a bunch of people there that are doing crazy new stuff it's worth it just to mingle. Some of the stuff I work on is so proprietary to our industry there's just no info on the net about it, so these conferences can be a goldmine.
Having attended school in the south, I can explain exactly why there may have been some sort of educational gap. My family moved there from the north when I was in grade school and when I got to school, every single kid there was black (except me of course) I was kind of perplexed by this, especially when all of these kids started using racial slurs to refer to me and I started getting beaten on a daily basis.
So... I went home and asked my parents what the deal was. Was everyone that lived in this town black? "No" they said... they explained that it was illegal to segregate people based on race, that they used to do it but it was wrong. In this town however, old habits died hard. So they built a "private" school that was funded by those with money in town and whos rates were relatively low. The difference between it and the public school? The admissions process... If you were white you got in, if you were not, you went to public school. My parents found this appalling so I went to public school.
And, in case you were wondering, the public school was terrible. My science teacher told us we'd eventually lose our pinky toe because we don't use it for much. No lie.
I think the majority of Los Angeles would disagree with you on that one.
When "people violate a law all the time and don't even realize it" it's called "untenable" and the law should be struck down.
Ok, that is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. It's a simple ticketing system just like any company has, but now it tracks the techs via GPS and watches what they do via webcam. I'm sure mentioning you use such a system will have potential employees jumping at the chance to let you track and video tape them throughout their workday. Whos idiotic idea was this?
Well, I'm not one for over-reacting, but there is a very serious threat of a pandemic happening. It's been well over 80 years since we had a really deadly outbreak and there wasn't mass transit like there is now. If we had an outbreak like that, today, it would be pretty devastating. I don't think there's much we can do about it other than invest heavily in more robust broad spectrum vaccines. If we're lucky, we'll find something before "The big one" strikes us. Of all the Crisis out there that the media blows out of proportion, a global pandemic is the one area they probably aren't that far off on. The only reason we shouldn't let it keep us up at night is because there basically nothing most of us can do about it.
Totally False.
There is plenty of interest. The legal hurdles are the real issue. Most of the nuclear industry is now focused on expansion and improvement of existing plants because it's a lot harder for Greenpeace and the like to get people worked up over something that's already been running without a problem in their back yard for several decades.
Nuclear does have a high up-front cost, but it is the only truly viable solution to reducing emissions at this point.