Unfortunately ethics and journalism are two words that almost have no place in today's world. And to put the two together, you might as well say you saw a Bandersnatch riding on a unicorn along side a yeti with an imp on it's shoulder, on their way from El Dorado to Shangri-La via the Yellow Brick road.
Using a complicated to crack password and writing on a piece of paper sticked to the monitor is 100 times more useful than using a password you can crack in 2 minutes even if you keep it only in your head.
Of course if you do such a thing at work in an open space environment well that's stupid.
For some reason there's a huge number of people who absolutely hate on people who are fat.
I can't say I really ever cared in the past. But my wife has MS and in the last few years has not been able to get around on her own. So we finally got a handicapped tag so I can park closer to the stores for her. But half the time there are no handicapped spots because apparently being fat now qualifies. And then if the stores have motorized chairs, most of the time they are all taken by fat people. So yeah, it's pretty damn annoying. Especially since parking closer to the store and not walking isn't helping their situation.
Not everyone has the ability to simply "work out and eat less" to lose weight. Sometimes there's medical or genetic reasons why it's difficult to go down in weight.
True, but that is not the case in most situations. It's pretty damn obvious that it's not genetic when I see people riding around in the motorized chairs stuffing their face with cookies and chips and a soda the size of a beer keg.
People should be able to feel good about themselves, not live in mental torture and anguish from the crazy people who spew hatred about some specific physical aspect of their body.
People who are actually handicapped should be able to use services that are in place for them. But they can't because of people who CHOOSE to weight what they do.
the dildo won't send your credit card info to hackers
I can't say I've ever been ass raped by a "dildo covered in fish hooks", but something tells me that in such a situation "at least hackers aren't getting my credit card information" will be very high on the list of things that will be going through my head. Perhaps you're different from me.
Shouldn't the name be changed to "Pac-Men"? Or is Ms. Pac-Man an option? So they should go with Pac-People.
Actually, shouldn't Pac-Man be banned? It's racist or color-phobic or something. Only the yellow things are represented as "good". And ghosts are all "bad". Plus it promotes an unrealistic body type and lifestyle. Pac-Man just eats and eats and never gains any weight. On top of that, all he eats are pills. So it promotes drug use. Are those pills certified organic or vegan? It doesn't say so, so they must not be. And we all know that anyone who eats meat is contributing more to global warming. So Pac-Man is a denier too. Anyone who isn't vegan also must be cruel to animals. I'm going to have to notify PETA as well.
How much funding and tax breaks are given to ethanol? I haven't bothered to look into the numbers to compare the two, but the amount of land and energy that goes into making ethanol probably makes fuel cells look a lot better. Plus hydrogen doesn't increase the price of food.
People in Silicon Valley are far less bigoted about sexual orientation than most other people. However, there aren't nearly enough women and minorities there.
It sounds like you are inferring that women and minorities are more bigoted about sexual orientation.
Citations for any of this? I don't have one so what I'm saying is no more believable, but I do recall a study that showed HUDs were more of a hindrance than a help.
I don't have any citations, but I do have one car that has a HUD. In all honesty, I thought it would be a stupid gimmicky thing, but I wish every car I owned had one now. Granted, mine is fairly simple, but well designed. It displays a digital reading of speed as the largest item. There's a bar graph of the tach across the top, bar graph for fuel along the right side, oil pressure and turn signals. What I found surprising is that the road is not as far in my peripheral vision when I glance at the HUD vs. the instrument panel. Plus, for me at least, my eyes don't really need to refocus (or not as much) to see the speed on the HUD. The numbers are large enough for me to see them.
I saw something on/. a few months ago that mentioned that the amount of information on a HUD can become a big distraction after a certain point. So I can see how it would be a problem if turn by turn directions are up there and radio information, etc. I would think anytime you need to actually read words, or need to more than glance at something, it's going to be an issue.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
To be fair, at the time a computer was little more than a vacuum tubed contraption the size of a small house that was little more than a glorified adding machine.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
Wasn't that one taken out of context? I believe he was referring to having a computer that automated all household functions.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 1981
It's debatable whether or not he actually said this. Most sources deny it was something that can be attributed to Mr. Gates. But this one can:
"Two years from now, spam will be solved."
-Bill Gates, 2004
Also: we had multiple shuttle failures before orbiters had reached EOL, and there's a good argument that the system was nowhere near the reliability that it was claimed to have when it was designed. So an original "design life" is fairly meaningless compared to your actual track record and a real assessment of the condition of the vehicles.
The failures didn't really have much to do with the air frame though. The Columbia was caused by crap falling off of the booster tank during launch and damaging the heat shield. Challenger was due to an o-ring not sealing correctly in cold weather.
Still, the entire shuttle program was an enormous boondoggle. I just wish they would have been smarter and had a replacement before retiring the fleet. It's just embarrassing that we can't put our own astronauts on the space station.
So keeping a single shuttle in play would have exacerbated this problem and ended up making our per-flight cost go through the roof, and so it probably came down to an "all-or-nothing" sort of calculation. And nobody wanted to risk killing another crew because of trying to stretch an orbiter beyond its useful life.
The space shuttles were supposedly designed for 100 missions each. Discovery flew the most at 39. Atlantis launched 33 times and Endeavour just 25. They could have easily taken all three of them to 50 missions each and made Endeavour the workhorse of the three. It was as much political BS as anything that was behind the decision to not extend their mission.
That's a great idea. Only a terrorist would want to use encryption. Perhaps the the entire R/MIAA should be sent to Gitmo.
And I think we can make it revenue neutral, or even make a profit. We'll sell tickets to anyone who would like to waterboard them. After all, they must be hiding something on those disks. Why else would they encrypt them? Or people can pay to choose which song will be blasted in their cell. Kind of like a torture jukebox.
So a line from a British show written by a Briton and starring Britons for a British audience isn't a good example of correct English?
No it's not. How about "timey wimey"? That was also used in the show you mentioned. While it was certainly very funny, it doesn't lend much credence to Doctor Who being a paragon of the correct use of English.
Stop inflicting your shitty offshoot separatist colonial dialect on me saying that I, as a native, am wrong about what is correct in *my* language.
If you really want to go down that road, fine. I'll be happy to stop. Just as soon as you pay back this "shitty offshoot separatist colony" for bailing you out of two world wars. Oh, and for all of the shit in the middle east for the last 100 years, since your stupid-ass ancestors decided to carve it up the way you did after the fall of the Ottoman empire.
Doctor Who used it when the Master told the Toclafane to decimate the population.
The fact that you cite a Doctor Who episode makes for a really convincing argument. That's simply not what it means to most people these days. A few years ago I read that US English was closer to proper English than what is spoken in the UK these days. I'm not sure if I believe it, but I know I've had a little trouble with the slang when I've been there on more than one occasion.
I do chuckle anytime I hear the term "irregardless" used. According to Wikipedia, it was first used in print in 1795. I've read other places that it was used frequently on comedy radio programs in the 1930's. But at what point does a word become acceptable? When the majority of the population uses and understands it? Or when some English professor says it OK?
How do you use the term "awful"? It used to be an adjective to describe something to be in awe of. Now the accepted meaning is the opposite.
How do you use the term "Myriad"? When someone refers to a myriad of stars, do they mean exactly 10,000? If you use it as meaning any number other than 10,000, then that's technically incorrect.
This is an internet forum, not a grade/high/university school writing class. A lot of people seem to forget that here.
Congratulations! You know an older (mostly obsolete) definition of a word. Too bad it's usage in the English language has changed. Similar to how the word "gay" used to simply mean happy and had no bearing on someone's sexual orientation.
Actually armed robbery is pretty rare and can lead to someone dieing.
According to the FBI there were 325,802 robberies in the US in 2014. A firearm was used in 40.3% of those. So 131,298 armed robberies that used a firearm. That works out to 359 per day on average. Which works out to just about one every four minutes. Sorry, my pulled out my ass number was off by a factor of 2. So there are only half as many as I was guessing. If you go back 20 years, one every two minutes is pretty close. Not all, or even the majority of these ended in murder.
According to Wikipedia there were 32,703 fatalities in vehicles in 2013. That's almost 90 deaths per day. Should the police be able to monitor everyone's car real time too?
Here's a list of terrorist killings on US soil that list all deaths going back to 1865 If you are so inclined, I'd be interested in the number of deaths due to terrorism, though not enough to actually tally it myself. But at first glance, it looks like there are probably half the number of deaths on this list than a single year of auto accidents.
You know what's really rare, except for a few outliers? Death by terrorists. That's what the Stingray is supposed to be used for. It's one thing to trample on peoples rights when you have reasonable suspicion of an attack that could kill dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people. But to do so for crimes like this is inexcusable.
Actually you might want to read the story.
1. They actually got a court order.
2. It was an armed robbery. AKA at gunpoint.
Does not seem so crazy evil anymore.
Yes it does. While I agree that armed robbers need to be apprehended and tried, this particular tool is not something that should be used like this. What about the rights of everyone else in the area who got their calls rerouted through this thing? Stingrays are meant to be used against terrorist threats. You know, things like dirty bombs and 9-11 type stuff. Not a crime that probably happens every 2 minutes somewhere in the US.
It depends on they type of crash. I had a friend who was driving a 65 T-bird when a driver going the other way fell asleep and crossed over and hit him head on. The other car was a Chevy Beretta, which had a 5 star head on rating crash at the time. My friend was fine, other than being shaken up. The other driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
I hit deer on four separate occasions in that Cadillac. The worst thing that happened was that I had to pull some fur out of the grill. Another friend of mine was killed in a deer collision.
Even so, judging by how distracted everyone is when they are driving these days, I think my reactions in that old Cadillac would be be on par in most cases. It had buttons and dials for everything. Touch screens in cars in recent years make things like turning on the AC something that requires you to take your eyes off of the road. And whom ever thought having multiple pages on a touch screen dash in a car was a good idea should be removed from the gene pool.
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ethics in journalism.
Unfortunately ethics and journalism are two words that almost have no place in today's world. And to put the two together, you might as well say you saw a Bandersnatch riding on a unicorn along side a yeti with an imp on it's shoulder, on their way from El Dorado to Shangri-La via the Yellow Brick road.
Using a complicated to crack password and writing on a piece of paper sticked to the monitor is 100 times more useful than using a password you can crack in 2 minutes even if you keep it only in your head.
Of course if you do such a thing at work in an open space environment well that's stupid.
That's why I use ROT13, twice.
For some reason there's a huge number of people who absolutely hate on people who are fat.
I can't say I really ever cared in the past. But my wife has MS and in the last few years has not been able to get around on her own. So we finally got a handicapped tag so I can park closer to the stores for her. But half the time there are no handicapped spots because apparently being fat now qualifies. And then if the stores have motorized chairs, most of the time they are all taken by fat people. So yeah, it's pretty damn annoying. Especially since parking closer to the store and not walking isn't helping their situation.
Not everyone has the ability to simply "work out and eat less" to lose weight. Sometimes there's medical or genetic reasons why it's difficult to go down in weight.
True, but that is not the case in most situations. It's pretty damn obvious that it's not genetic when I see people riding around in the motorized chairs stuffing their face with cookies and chips and a soda the size of a beer keg.
People should be able to feel good about themselves, not live in mental torture and anguish from the crazy people who spew hatred about some specific physical aspect of their body.
People who are actually handicapped should be able to use services that are in place for them. But they can't because of people who CHOOSE to weight what they do.
Apparently you lot that hate Apple talk more about them than the fans do.
I seem to have fallen into a parallel universe, or something. ;-)
If you bought before a price drop, deal with it.
No kidding. I wonder what a stock broker would tell you if you tried that.
Correction: will not be very high on the list...
the dildo won't send your credit card info to hackers
I can't say I've ever been ass raped by a "dildo covered in fish hooks", but something tells me that in such a situation "at least hackers aren't getting my credit card information" will be very high on the list of things that will be going through my head. Perhaps you're different from me.
Each person controls a Pac-Man
Shouldn't the name be changed to "Pac-Men"? Or is Ms. Pac-Man an option? So they should go with Pac-People.
Actually, shouldn't Pac-Man be banned? It's racist or color-phobic or something. Only the yellow things are represented as "good". And ghosts are all "bad". Plus it promotes an unrealistic body type and lifestyle. Pac-Man just eats and eats and never gains any weight. On top of that, all he eats are pills. So it promotes drug use. Are those pills certified organic or vegan? It doesn't say so, so they must not be. And we all know that anyone who eats meat is contributing more to global warming. So Pac-Man is a denier too. Anyone who isn't vegan also must be cruel to animals. I'm going to have to notify PETA as well.
I'd rather be ass-raped with a dildo covered in fish hooks than use Windows on my phone.
I admire your resolve. But given a choice between the two, Windows phone sounds pretty good to me.
How much funding and tax breaks are given to ethanol? I haven't bothered to look into the numbers to compare the two, but the amount of land and energy that goes into making ethanol probably makes fuel cells look a lot better. Plus hydrogen doesn't increase the price of food.
People in Silicon Valley are far less bigoted about sexual orientation than most other people. However, there aren't nearly enough women and minorities there.
It sounds like you are inferring that women and minorities are more bigoted about sexual orientation.
Citations for any of this? I don't have one so what I'm saying is no more believable, but I do recall a study that showed HUDs were more of a hindrance than a help.
I don't have any citations, but I do have one car that has a HUD. In all honesty, I thought it would be a stupid gimmicky thing, but I wish every car I owned had one now. Granted, mine is fairly simple, but well designed. It displays a digital reading of speed as the largest item. There's a bar graph of the tach across the top, bar graph for fuel along the right side, oil pressure and turn signals. What I found surprising is that the road is not as far in my peripheral vision when I glance at the HUD vs. the instrument panel. Plus, for me at least, my eyes don't really need to refocus (or not as much) to see the speed on the HUD. The numbers are large enough for me to see them.
I saw something on /. a few months ago that mentioned that the amount of information on a HUD can become a big distraction after a certain point. So I can see how it would be a problem if turn by turn directions are up there and radio information, etc. I would think anytime you need to actually read words, or need to more than glance at something, it's going to be an issue.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
To be fair, at the time a computer was little more than a vacuum tubed contraption the size of a small house that was little more than a glorified adding machine.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
Wasn't that one taken out of context? I believe he was referring to having a computer that automated all household functions.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 1981
It's debatable whether or not he actually said this. Most sources deny it was something that can be attributed to Mr. Gates. But this one can:
"Two years from now, spam will be solved." -Bill Gates, 2004
They should have had Sigourney Weaver demo it.
They did, but she kept yelling, "get away from her you bitch!" every time she got in the damn thing.
Also: we had multiple shuttle failures before orbiters had reached EOL, and there's a good argument that the system was nowhere near the reliability that it was claimed to have when it was designed. So an original "design life" is fairly meaningless compared to your actual track record and a real assessment of the condition of the vehicles.
The failures didn't really have much to do with the air frame though. The Columbia was caused by crap falling off of the booster tank during launch and damaging the heat shield. Challenger was due to an o-ring not sealing correctly in cold weather.
Still, the entire shuttle program was an enormous boondoggle. I just wish they would have been smarter and had a replacement before retiring the fleet. It's just embarrassing that we can't put our own astronauts on the space station.
So keeping a single shuttle in play would have exacerbated this problem and ended up making our per-flight cost go through the roof, and so it probably came down to an "all-or-nothing" sort of calculation. And nobody wanted to risk killing another crew because of trying to stretch an orbiter beyond its useful life.
The space shuttles were supposedly designed for 100 missions each. Discovery flew the most at 39. Atlantis launched 33 times and Endeavour just 25. They could have easily taken all three of them to 50 missions each and made Endeavour the workhorse of the three. It was as much political BS as anything that was behind the decision to not extend their mission.
Holy crap that sucks. A talent-less hack getting my by flaunting her ass.
Agreed. But sadly she has had 8 number one singles on the billboard dance club charts. It doesn't say much for peoples taste in music these days.
DVDFab is made by a Chinese company and you know just how much of a fuck China gives about this.
I believe that can be answered in a song.
That's a great idea. Only a terrorist would want to use encryption. Perhaps the the entire R/MIAA should be sent to Gitmo.
And I think we can make it revenue neutral, or even make a profit. We'll sell tickets to anyone who would like to waterboard them. After all, they must be hiding something on those disks. Why else would they encrypt them? Or people can pay to choose which song will be blasted in their cell. Kind of like a torture jukebox.
So a line from a British show written by a Briton and starring Britons for a British audience isn't a good example of correct English?
No it's not. How about "timey wimey"? That was also used in the show you mentioned. While it was certainly very funny, it doesn't lend much credence to Doctor Who being a paragon of the correct use of English.
Stop inflicting your shitty offshoot separatist colonial dialect on me saying that I, as a native, am wrong about what is correct in *my* language.
If you really want to go down that road, fine. I'll be happy to stop. Just as soon as you pay back this "shitty offshoot separatist colony" for bailing you out of two world wars. Oh, and for all of the shit in the middle east for the last 100 years, since your stupid-ass ancestors decided to carve it up the way you did after the fall of the Ottoman empire.
Oh, and learn to fucking spell as well.
Sod off, you stupid git.
Doctor Who used it when the Master told the Toclafane to decimate the population.
The fact that you cite a Doctor Who episode makes for a really convincing argument. That's simply not what it means to most people these days. A few years ago I read that US English was closer to proper English than what is spoken in the UK these days. I'm not sure if I believe it, but I know I've had a little trouble with the slang when I've been there on more than one occasion.
I do chuckle anytime I hear the term "irregardless" used. According to Wikipedia, it was first used in print in 1795. I've read other places that it was used frequently on comedy radio programs in the 1930's. But at what point does a word become acceptable? When the majority of the population uses and understands it? Or when some English professor says it OK?
How do you use the term "awful"? It used to be an adjective to describe something to be in awe of. Now the accepted meaning is the opposite.
How do you use the term "Myriad"? When someone refers to a myriad of stars, do they mean exactly 10,000? If you use it as meaning any number other than 10,000, then that's technically incorrect.
This is an internet forum, not a grade/high/university school writing class. A lot of people seem to forget that here.
His claims were utterly decimated before, .
They were reduced by 1/10th?
Congratulations! You know an older (mostly obsolete) definition of a word. Too bad it's usage in the English language has changed. Similar to how the word "gay" used to simply mean happy and had no bearing on someone's sexual orientation.
Actually armed robbery is pretty rare and can lead to someone dieing.
According to the FBI there were 325,802 robberies in the US in 2014. A firearm was used in 40.3% of those. So 131,298 armed robberies that used a firearm. That works out to 359 per day on average. Which works out to just about one every four minutes. Sorry, my pulled out my ass number was off by a factor of 2. So there are only half as many as I was guessing. If you go back 20 years, one every two minutes is pretty close. Not all, or even the majority of these ended in murder.
According to Wikipedia there were 32,703 fatalities in vehicles in 2013. That's almost 90 deaths per day. Should the police be able to monitor everyone's car real time too?
Here's a list of terrorist killings on US soil that list all deaths going back to 1865 If you are so inclined, I'd be interested in the number of deaths due to terrorism, though not enough to actually tally it myself. But at first glance, it looks like there are probably half the number of deaths on this list than a single year of auto accidents.
You know what's really rare, except for a few outliers? Death by terrorists. That's what the Stingray is supposed to be used for. It's one thing to trample on peoples rights when you have reasonable suspicion of an attack that could kill dozens, hundreds, or thousands of people. But to do so for crimes like this is inexcusable.
Actually you might want to read the story. 1. They actually got a court order. 2. It was an armed robbery. AKA at gunpoint. Does not seem so crazy evil anymore.
Yes it does. While I agree that armed robbers need to be apprehended and tried, this particular tool is not something that should be used like this. What about the rights of everyone else in the area who got their calls rerouted through this thing? Stingrays are meant to be used against terrorist threats. You know, things like dirty bombs and 9-11 type stuff. Not a crime that probably happens every 2 minutes somewhere in the US.
It depends on they type of crash. I had a friend who was driving a 65 T-bird when a driver going the other way fell asleep and crossed over and hit him head on. The other car was a Chevy Beretta, which had a 5 star head on rating crash at the time. My friend was fine, other than being shaken up. The other driver was pronounced dead at the scene.
I hit deer on four separate occasions in that Cadillac. The worst thing that happened was that I had to pull some fur out of the grill. Another friend of mine was killed in a deer collision.
Even so, judging by how distracted everyone is when they are driving these days, I think my reactions in that old Cadillac would be be on par in most cases. It had buttons and dials for everything. Touch screens in cars in recent years make things like turning on the AC something that requires you to take your eyes off of the road. And whom ever thought having multiple pages on a touch screen dash in a car was a good idea should be removed from the gene pool.