So many of my books only work on certain platforms:|
I can't read a bunch of my books on my glorious 4k screen because Amazon's treating Windows 8 like a second class citizen. Peter Thiel's new book? Nope. Half my machine learning books (eg Blondie24?) Nope. Most of my typesetting books? Nope.
Even stuff that works on Windows 7, or on Windows 8 Phone, ffs.
Toshiba is not legally required to honour OCZ's warranties
Who cares? If you buy a company that performs fraud, admit that the fraud happened, and refuse to make right, it is legitimate for the victim to warn other people away.
My RevoDrive failed in three weeks of light use, and they refused to honor the warranty.
Toshiba also refuses to honor the warranty, despite that they admit that the purchase was real and that the existing warranty was not honored, and despite that I am a standing Toshiba customer.
Therefore nothing has changed, and you do not want a RevoDrive.
For one, more plants would just spring up. Even if part of the buyout was "you may never go into coal again," someone else may. The economic structure of energy is why coal is still king, and buying out the current players won't change that.
For two, the cost of shutting that industry down does not cover the cost of starting new energy industries to replace it. Or were we just going to go without 37% of our electricity?
For three, coal works efficiently and predictably at far smaller scale than most energy technologies. Many of the locations coal services today cannot be practically services by other generation methods.
You do know that in Modern times the first decriminilazation of homosexual activity was en-acted under Napolean, in 1811?
Why, yes. I even said that, in my comment, though I named the country instead of the leader. Search my comment for France.
You spelled his name wrong, you got the wrong leader, and you got the year wrong. It was during the French Revolution, not under Napoleon; it was in 1791, not 1811; it was the Constituent Assembly, in replacing the penal code, not by a single leader..
NOTHING with regards to human rights started in the US.
Lol okay:).
You are so fucking ignorant you make Fox News seem informed.
Says the guy who tried to make a correction to a comment that already contained what he wanted to say, and in a single factual claim made three fundamental errors.
I mean you at least got which country it was right, at least.
This isn't Reddit. Generally slashdotters are expected to hold better behavior than this.
Did it ever occur to you that this might be more complicated than it seems from the outside, and that the politics going on here might not actually reflect the bulk of the population?
Would you like to tell us what country you're in, so that we can share with you how we feel about your country's choices?
The modern homosexual rights movement started in the United States, and has derived the vast bulk of its force from the United States. The United States has the first gay rights group, the first gay bookstore, the first gay bar, the first gay political group, the first gay autobiography in modern times, the first magazine openly for gays and about gay culture; we invented and performed the first sex reassignment (Sweden was the first to make that legal, but that's because it was never illegal here; we performed the first one seven years before anyone else made it legal;) we were the first to successfully fight discharge over orientation, though far from the first to allow gays in the military directly; we were the first modern Western country to have a gay leader at the senator level, though we have not yet hit the presidential level and Iceland has; if you remove France, who got it in the late 1700s, we were the first Western country to eliminate sodomy laws; we had the first gay kiss on a major magazine cover (probably first at all, but who can exhaustively search minor magazines?,) we started the transsexual rights movement, the first officially sanctioned university group for gay advocacy, we invented pride parades and hold them everywhere; we created gay as a protected class for discrimination, also trans, and we'll probably be the first to poly; we had the first gay ordained minister; we invented the rainbow flag (sorry, I wish it was less ugly) and thereby probably the first major pride symbol (but I can't exclude so maybe there's something earlier?,) we started the Gay Games, we missed the first statuory discrimination ban by months, we had the first city and first territory (state, thank you) to extend marriage benefits to gay partners, we came to terms with AIDS way ahead of the pack, we did gay adoption first, etc.
Are you sure Americans are anti-gay, and not just a country of a third of a billion people who have a handful of bad apples, a media system faking controversy to generate viewership, a slashdot reader who's forgotten what percentage of the internet is trolling, and a parochial political system pandering to margins to get voted in?
The phrase "utter fucking cunts" suggests the UK, and to look at Wikipedia's gay rights map, it looks like the US and the UK are world leaders, and that the US is ahead of the UK.
Looks like England is ahead of the US, but hey, California's ahead of England, and California is both larger than and nearly as populous as Britain, so I think that's the actual natural comparison. You guys don't have national gay marriage observation yet. We *do*. (We don't have national performance yet, but that's no big deal; just take a $200 trip to California. It's still binding in every hateful corner of the South. The UK has no such privilege.) North America is the only continent where this is wall to wall legally supported; Eastern Europe misses it by four countries (no illegal but four no recognition,) and South America by six (five no recognition, one illegal.)
Africa has only one country where gay marriage is legal, and Asia has only one (and shockingly it's not Japan) plus six more where it's not recognized.
Uganda just recently worsened their practice to making homosexuality a capital offense. Cameroon, Iran, Nigeria, and Ethiopia all carry the death penalty (these are all nations in the Britain population range.)
The United States is vascillating over whether it's legal for a private business to choose to ask someone to leave over their preference. And we're so shocked by this that there's a national uproar.
We've had several states where this has been legal for decades, and our states are often the size of what you think of as small countries.
So slice it and dice it however you want, but I think the US is actually doing quite well with regards to homosexuality law, thanks.
Please don't blame me and my countryfolk for the things that happen on TV.
Nothing needs to be hacked to get that same estimate of revenue.
Just download their zone file and multiply by their annual. The zone file even tells you when they were registered and when they're registered until, allowing you to take account of public discounts for registration length.
It's still an upper bound; you don't know what other offers or freebies are in there. But still. It's a better upper bound than the hack ostensibly provides.
It's actually the heaviest use browser today, by a fair margin.
Please be more careful about your sources. Of *course* an extremely SEOed, low quality web tutorial source has an abnormal demographic. (And of *course* slashdot fell for this.)
Best estimate from Alexa numbers (500 top sites on the web = ~93% of traffic) is that IE is currently 39% of browsers, and that IE8 alone outweighs every other browser across all versions.
it is an insistence that Zimmerman's right to presumption of innocence be taken to absolutist heights of absurdity
Sorry, no. In the United States, if there is not proof, you are not guilty, no matter how often you might use begging words like "absurdity."
There is a legitimate, plausible alternative explanation, and the medical examiner said that Zimmerman was one or two skull-whacks from dead.
That *is* reasonable doubt, whether you agree or not, according to a jury of his peers..
Zimmerman's rights must be weighed against Martin's
RIghts weighting happens in civil cases. Never, ever in criminal cases..
Martin's right to life is treated in such relativist terms
You're just mis-using legal sounding words and waving your hands around. Court operates by strict rules. There was only one question on the docket: can we prove that Zimmerman did this? The answer came back "no."
There is no question of a dead man's right to life in a murder trial until intent is established..
Otherwise, we would have to conclude that courts can cherrypick when the different rights of people come into conflict.
My opinion is that you have shown no adequate logic which leads to this conclusion..
If he did attack Zimmerman and had lived, his sentence would have been what...
I'm guessing, since it depends on who prosecuted, what quality of job they did, whether Martin swayed them at all, whether the judge permitted the age to be taken into account, and probably most compellingly, just how bad the assault was.
Since the medical examiner said two more of those whacks and Zimmerman would be dead, I feel that it's quite likely that Zimmerman now has brain damage. Now I don't know about Florida, but I think in California that's an automatic upgrade to PC 245(a)(1) Assault with a Deadly Weapon, and then it's state felony $10k + 2-4 years per count (that is, every time he smashes his head into the ground, it's another 2-4 years) plus restitution (which, for brain injuries, can easily be six or seven figures.)
So what do you figure, four before Zimmerman got the gun pointed the right way? I mean, it's completely hypothetical.
But that's 8-16 for the head to concrete alone. Then there's all the other missteps along the way, and if they're out for blood, they'll charge each one.
The way the law reads, lethal force is allowed if a reasonable person in his position would think that their life is in danger.
I am not disputing you. However, I have never liked this; it legitimizes fear without evidence as a reason to attack, and lets after the fact judgment of others be an excuse for why.
Yes, I realize a hard line to be taken on this is impractical; how do you know whether you're stopping a rape or two consenting adults in edge play, etc.
But it still makes me uncomfortable, and seems almost certain in my opinion to cause far more harm than it prevents.
This should, in my opinion, fall under "I was being attacked and thought I was in self defense." That's really quite different than standing one's ground; Zimmerman was doing no such thing.
This means, for instance, that if someone has every appearance of intending to beat you to death, you have a right to use lethal force, regardless of what his actual plans were.
Someday, the tragic punchline to this sentence will be "Happy Halloween."
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Can too.
Oh stop being a paranoid dipshit. HEPA filters are well understood, aren't made by this guy, and have been being tested by hospitals for fourty years.
"OMFG he claims a hepa filter does what hepa filters do??!!?!? WHY SHOULD WE BELIEVE IT"
Because it's pretty obviously a sensible claim. Duh. Go to Target, spend the $20 it would take to try it yourself, and please grow up a little bit.
I mean seriously, what kind of person thinks putting an air filter in front of a fan doesn't actually filter air? Seriously.
This is nonsense. Computers generate programs they weren't designed to produce all the time.
There's a very beginner-approachable book on the topic called "Blondie24: Playing at the Edge of AI."
This "challenge" was passed by Claude Shannon in the 60s.
what you're looking for is called "reddit"
So many of my books only work on certain platforms :|
I can't read a bunch of my books on my glorious 4k screen because Amazon's treating Windows 8 like a second class citizen. Peter Thiel's new book? Nope. Half my machine learning books (eg Blondie24?) Nope. Most of my typesetting books? Nope.
Even stuff that works on Windows 7, or on Windows 8 Phone, ffs.
Who cares? If you buy a company that performs fraud, admit that the fraud happened, and refuse to make right, it is legitimate for the victim to warn other people away.
Not worth my time. It's far more cathartic, besides, to steer tens of thousands of potential customers away with public recitation.
There was none. They simply refused.
My RevoDrive failed in three weeks of light use, and they refused to honor the warranty.
Toshiba also refuses to honor the warranty, despite that they admit that the purchase was real and that the existing warranty was not honored, and despite that I am a standing Toshiba customer.
Therefore nothing has changed, and you do not want a RevoDrive.
As a matter of viewpoint, I see this quite differently.
I think science didn't actually reject the various religious ideas. They all get tolerated. They've all been tested. There's contrarian data.
I don't find it discriminatory to give something a chance, then learn from detail that it isn't correct.
I think science is actually wildly tolerant of bizarre ideas.
For one, more plants would just spring up. Even if part of the buyout was "you may never go into coal again," someone else may. The economic structure of energy is why coal is still king, and buying out the current players won't change that.
For two, the cost of shutting that industry down does not cover the cost of starting new energy industries to replace it. Or were we just going to go without 37% of our electricity?
For three, coal works efficiently and predictably at far smaller scale than most energy technologies. Many of the locations coal services today cannot be practically services by other generation methods.
Why, yes. I even said that, in my comment, though I named the country instead of the leader. Search my comment for France.
You spelled his name wrong, you got the wrong leader, and you got the year wrong. It was during the French Revolution, not under Napoleon; it was in 1791, not 1811; it was the Constituent Assembly, in replacing the penal code, not by a single leader. .
Lol okay :) .
Says the guy who tried to make a correction to a comment that already contained what he wanted to say, and in a single factual claim made three fundamental errors.
I mean you at least got which country it was right, at least.
This isn't Reddit. Generally slashdotters are expected to hold better behavior than this.
Did it ever occur to you that this might be more complicated than it seems from the outside, and that the politics going on here might not actually reflect the bulk of the population?
Would you like to tell us what country you're in, so that we can share with you how we feel about your country's choices?
The modern homosexual rights movement started in the United States, and has derived the vast bulk of its force from the United States. The United States has the first gay rights group, the first gay bookstore, the first gay bar, the first gay political group, the first gay autobiography in modern times, the first magazine openly for gays and about gay culture; we invented and performed the first sex reassignment (Sweden was the first to make that legal, but that's because it was never illegal here; we performed the first one seven years before anyone else made it legal;) we were the first to successfully fight discharge over orientation, though far from the first to allow gays in the military directly; we were the first modern Western country to have a gay leader at the senator level, though we have not yet hit the presidential level and Iceland has; if you remove France, who got it in the late 1700s, we were the first Western country to eliminate sodomy laws; we had the first gay kiss on a major magazine cover (probably first at all, but who can exhaustively search minor magazines?,) we started the transsexual rights movement, the first officially sanctioned university group for gay advocacy, we invented pride parades and hold them everywhere; we created gay as a protected class for discrimination, also trans, and we'll probably be the first to poly; we had the first gay ordained minister; we invented the rainbow flag (sorry, I wish it was less ugly) and thereby probably the first major pride symbol (but I can't exclude so maybe there's something earlier?,) we started the Gay Games, we missed the first statuory discrimination ban by months, we had the first city and first territory (state, thank you) to extend marriage benefits to gay partners, we came to terms with AIDS way ahead of the pack, we did gay adoption first, etc.
Are you sure Americans are anti-gay, and not just a country of a third of a billion people who have a handful of bad apples, a media system faking controversy to generate viewership, a slashdot reader who's forgotten what percentage of the internet is trolling, and a parochial political system pandering to margins to get voted in?
The phrase "utter fucking cunts" suggests the UK, and to look at Wikipedia's gay rights map, it looks like the US and the UK are world leaders, and that the US is ahead of the UK.
Looks like England is ahead of the US, but hey, California's ahead of England, and California is both larger than and nearly as populous as Britain, so I think that's the actual natural comparison. You guys don't have national gay marriage observation yet. We *do*. (We don't have national performance yet, but that's no big deal; just take a $200 trip to California. It's still binding in every hateful corner of the South. The UK has no such privilege.) North America is the only continent where this is wall to wall legally supported; Eastern Europe misses it by four countries (no illegal but four no recognition,) and South America by six (five no recognition, one illegal.)
Africa has only one country where gay marriage is legal, and Asia has only one (and shockingly it's not Japan) plus six more where it's not recognized.
Uganda just recently worsened their practice to making homosexuality a capital offense. Cameroon, Iran, Nigeria, and Ethiopia all carry the death penalty (these are all nations in the Britain population range.)
The United States is vascillating over whether it's legal for a private business to choose to ask someone to leave over their preference. And we're so shocked by this that there's a national uproar.
We've had several states where this has been legal for decades, and our states are often the size of what you think of as small countries.
So slice it and dice it however you want, but I think the US is actually doing quite well with regards to homosexuality law, thanks.
Please don't blame me and my countryfolk for the things that happen on TV.
No.
Kicking puppies is awesome.
Nothing needs to be hacked to get that same estimate of revenue.
Just download their zone file and multiply by their annual. The zone file even tells you when they were registered and when they're registered until, allowing you to take account of public discounts for registration length.
It's still an upper bound; you don't know what other offers or freebies are in there. But still. It's a better upper bound than the hack ostensibly provides.
It's actually the heaviest use browser today, by a fair margin.
Please be more careful about your sources. Of *course* an extremely SEOed, low quality web tutorial source has an abnormal demographic. (And of *course* slashdot fell for this.)
Best estimate from Alexa numbers (500 top sites on the web = ~93% of traffic) is that IE is currently 39% of browsers, and that IE8 alone outweighs every other browser across all versions.
Nye is as well. Trap vs trap. If you watch the two men, I think you'll notice a pretty significant skill disparity. .
Or the opportunity to take away their positive image.
This isn't Nye's first time taking one of these people apart. He'll be fine.
They burned too many customers with "enterprise" devices that'd fail almost immediately, then treating the customers like shit when they did.
They bet too heavily on high performance, while not maintaining the kind of behavior that would bring back the customers who want devices like that.
The reason Dell and HP can get away with burning customers is simple: there's always another person who needs a cheap laptop.
Not many people need a new PCIe SSD.
Good riddance.
Generally speaking, if you call the host and say "I need a line without caps, can you quote me a price," they will.
Oftentimes you'll have to call it a business line though.
Verizon FIOS caps are so far in the sky that you're unlikely ever to hit them.
Would be nice if they'd work on getting their service working instead.
Six months of having to use Google DNS because they can't run a goddamned DNS server.
Frustratingly, the same thing can be said of the law which started this whole mess in the first place.
If this was self defense rather than "stand your ground," the whole thing would have been far simpler.
Sorry, no. In the United States, if there is not proof, you are not guilty, no matter how often you might use begging words like "absurdity."
There is a legitimate, plausible alternative explanation, and the medical examiner said that Zimmerman was one or two skull-whacks from dead.
That *is* reasonable doubt, whether you agree or not, according to a jury of his peers. .
RIghts weighting happens in civil cases. Never, ever in criminal cases. .
You're just mis-using legal sounding words and waving your hands around. Court operates by strict rules. There was only one question on the docket: can we prove that Zimmerman did this? The answer came back "no."
There is no question of a dead man's right to life in a murder trial until intent is established. .
My opinion is that you have shown no adequate logic which leads to this conclusion. .
I'm guessing, since it depends on who prosecuted, what quality of job they did, whether Martin swayed them at all, whether the judge permitted the age to be taken into account, and probably most compellingly, just how bad the assault was.
Since the medical examiner said two more of those whacks and Zimmerman would be dead, I feel that it's quite likely that Zimmerman now has brain damage. Now I don't know about Florida, but I think in California that's an automatic upgrade to PC 245(a)(1) Assault with a Deadly Weapon, and then it's state felony $10k + 2-4 years per count (that is, every time he smashes his head into the ground, it's another 2-4 years) plus restitution (which, for brain injuries, can easily be six or seven figures.)
So what do you figure, four before Zimmerman got the gun pointed the right way? I mean, it's completely hypothetical.
But that's 8-16 for the head to concrete alone. Then there's all the other missteps along the way, and if they're out for blood, they'll charge each one.
It doesn't really matter if Zimmerman is credible.
Innocent until proven guilty. It's a pithy slogan until you have to apply it; then it's gut wrenching to stay austere.
Can you prove guilt?
I am not disputing you. However, I have never liked this; it legitimizes fear without evidence as a reason to attack, and lets after the fact judgment of others be an excuse for why.
Yes, I realize a hard line to be taken on this is impractical; how do you know whether you're stopping a rape or two consenting adults in edge play, etc.
But it still makes me uncomfortable, and seems almost certain in my opinion to cause far more harm than it prevents.
This should, in my opinion, fall under "I was being attacked and thought I was in self defense." That's really quite different than standing one's ground; Zimmerman was doing no such thing.
Someday, the tragic punchline to this sentence will be "Happy Halloween."