There's a reason those burger places are not named "In-and-Out Conversation" or "Conversation King". You go there to get a burger, not to converse with food-preparation people.
In 2004 there was a discussion here at./ with the topic 12GB CompactFlash Cards Coming Soon. There somebody wrote:
Really, I know there are a few niche applications for that much space in compact flash, but where's the real market for these? Aren't most pros still using film, making the ammount of people willing to spend that much money on a CF card even smaller?
Discuss.
Of course it's in men's interest to keep women subordinate so they can be more easily exploited (and it would be in women's interest to do the same to men (...)).
I fail to see why - what has this to do with gender? Does your statement still make sense if we replace "men" or "women" with "people"? Do you believe that men are women are natural enemies?
Apparently you don't what astrology is either, if you think that horoscope is a synonym of astrology. Horoscopes are interpretations or charts of astrology and not necessarily "astrologic" if made in entertainment purpose. Horoscopes are (possibly) a product of astrology.
Other examples for clarification:
- excrement analyses are not synonymous with proctology
- notes are not synonymous with musicology
- Windows is not synonymous computer science
My point was rather that you cannot substitute astrology with horoscopes - they are a different thing. Many of those people that think that astrology is a science (I have not that opinion) would probably think that newspaper horoscopes and most horoscopes out there are pure entertainment (vs. real scientific horoscopes done by professional astrologists). Therefore the two questions produce such different answers - not because a third of the participants are dyslexic or have auditory processing disorders.
This has to do with discrimination: paying someone less than someone else for the same work simply because of the color of their skin.
Unproved assumption. The same fallacy often occurs, when non-caucasian people are discriminated against. I bet the the same thing would have happened, if the employee would have come from a Eastern European country. It's not about race, it's about money.
It is possible to have a network connection without having an Internet connection. So the mail can be sent to another computer on the local network, which fetches the page with wget and mails it back.
On the other hand, he doesn't say that hasn't a Internet connection - he just says that "I generally do not connect to web sites (...)".
You can twist anything to be undesirable by asking questions like that.
What's a car, besides a horse needing gasoline and which can't be eaten after it dies of old age?
What's a hoover, besides a brush needing electricity?
What's a house, besides a tent which cannot be moved as necessary?
But occassionally there some real malice, which is then easy to explain away with the rush. The FBI has a history of hiring cybercriminals as undercover agents (e.g. Kevin Poulsen, or the operators of DarkMarket, a cybercrime forum where the FBI had admin rights after getting the forum head to co-operate).
Exaggeration. Many companies provide 30 days of paid holidays but AFAIK only 25 is legally required. Of course there are several public holidays on top of the normal holiday (relating to Christianity) which do not exist in USA or many other, especially non-European, countries.
35 hours a week is also not a standard, I think 38-40 hours is more common in white-collar professions.
If you work in a big corporation and have to implement a feature for web site and have to support only a certain browser, for example IE 8 and get something done until 5 p.m in the allocated time., do you think that
a) what about the the users who have installed the other browsers? Should I spend the next four hours doing unpaid work to support those as well?
b) go home and spend time with my family/watch a movie/drink a beer/go to a bar
"I only had maybe five to ten T-shirts, a pair of jeans, and a pair of shorts (...)"
This means that he had several at least a couple of hours' periods when he was wearing just his underpants, waiting for his jeans to be washed or dried.
I think that's more an emotional factor. Like most people care more about a child murdered in the neighbourhood than thousands of children starving in some far-away land.
If you combine the suffering of all those people deprived of their £10, the suffering may amount to the same level as depriving one person of £750000. Of course there's no way to know.
I don't think there's a moral difference between scamming 10 pounds (or whatever unit of currency) from 75000 people and scamming one person 750000 pound. The damage is the same, just distributed differently.
Nice summary there, painting the CSIRO as some kind of patent troll. They never claimed that they had "[invented] the concept of wireless LAN", they claimed that they had developed some very clever algorithms dealing with rejecting interference and the like.
The frontpage of CSIRO says "Wireless LAN, CSIRO's #1 invention, is estimated to be in more than three billion devices worldwide.". That doesn't sound like they just invented some clever algorithms.
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There's a reason those burger places are not named "In-and-Out Conversation" or "Conversation King". You go there to get a burger, not to converse with food-preparation people.
In 2004 there was a discussion here at ./ with the topic 12GB CompactFlash Cards Coming Soon. There somebody wrote:
Really, I know there are a few niche applications for that much space in compact flash, but where's the real market for these? Aren't most pros still using film, making the ammount of people willing to spend that much money on a CF card even smaller?
Discuss.
So you have to remember 6 numbers to be able to perform a division giving you pi with 7 digits' accuracy. Seems like a poor deal.
Of course it's in men's interest to keep women subordinate so they can be more easily exploited (and it would be in women's interest to do the same to men (...)).
I fail to see why - what has this to do with gender? Does your statement still make sense if we replace "men" or "women" with "people"? Do you believe that men are women are natural enemies?
Apparently you don't what astrology is either, if you think that horoscope is a synonym of astrology. Horoscopes are interpretations or charts of astrology and not necessarily "astrologic" if made in entertainment purpose. Horoscopes are (possibly) a product of astrology. Other examples for clarification: - excrement analyses are not synonymous with proctology - notes are not synonymous with musicology - Windows is not synonymous computer science
My point was rather that you cannot substitute astrology with horoscopes - they are a different thing. Many of those people that think that astrology is a science (I have not that opinion) would probably think that newspaper horoscopes and most horoscopes out there are pure entertainment (vs. real scientific horoscopes done by professional astrologists). Therefore the two questions produce such different answers - not because a third of the participants are dyslexic or have auditory processing disorders.
But likewise, if you would ask random people
1. Is astronomy scientific?
OR
2. Are celestial maps scientific?
I bet the latter questions would get significantly less positive answers.
This has to do with discrimination: paying someone less than someone else for the same work simply because of the color of their skin.
Unproved assumption. The same fallacy often occurs, when non-caucasian people are discriminated against. I bet the the same thing would have happened, if the employee would have come from a Eastern European country. It's not about race, it's about money.
From a security stand-point it is not a good practice - if any of those non-essential services are compromised, so is the router.
Some do, some don't.
It is possible to have a network connection without having an Internet connection. So the mail can be sent to another computer on the local network, which fetches the page with wget and mails it back. On the other hand, he doesn't say that hasn't a Internet connection - he just says that "I generally do not connect to web sites (...)".
You can twist anything to be undesirable by asking questions like that. What's a car, besides a horse needing gasoline and which can't be eaten after it dies of old age? What's a hoover, besides a brush needing electricity? What's a house, besides a tent which cannot be moved as necessary?
But occassionally there some real malice, which is then easy to explain away with the rush. The FBI has a history of hiring cybercriminals as undercover agents (e.g. Kevin Poulsen, or the operators of DarkMarket, a cybercrime forum where the FBI had admin rights after getting the forum head to co-operate).
Pizza is eaten everywhere in the world, what's weird about that?
What is a "simple wipe"? Is there a "complex wipe"? There's no such thing - a wipe is a wipe, and if the software survived, there was no wipe.
Or the Insurance Companies may not give me the discounts I would deserve to have being a member of a gender causing less accidents.
Exaggeration. Many companies provide 30 days of paid holidays but AFAIK only 25 is legally required. Of course there are several public holidays on top of the normal holiday (relating to Christianity) which do not exist in USA or many other, especially non-European, countries. 35 hours a week is also not a standard, I think 38-40 hours is more common in white-collar professions.
It is entirley possible that the 93 % are right, if the worst 7 % are REALLY BAD drivers.
If you work in a big corporation and have to implement a feature for web site and have to support only a certain browser, for example IE 8 and get something done until 5 p.m in the allocated time., do you think that
a) what about the the users who have installed the other browsers? Should I spend the next four hours doing unpaid work to support those as well?
b) go home and spend time with my family/watch a movie/drink a beer/go to a bar
I think the answer is pretty clear.
Only for a very short time.
Interesting is that Simons says
"I only had maybe five to ten T-shirts, a pair of jeans, and a pair of shorts (...)"
This means that he had several at least a couple of hours' periods when he was wearing just his underpants, waiting for his jeans to be washed or dried.
I think that's more an emotional factor. Like most people care more about a child murdered in the neighbourhood than thousands of children starving in some far-away land. If you combine the suffering of all those people deprived of their £10, the suffering may amount to the same level as depriving one person of £750000. Of course there's no way to know.
I don't think there's a moral difference between scamming 10 pounds (or whatever unit of currency) from 75000 people and scamming one person 750000 pound. The damage is the same, just distributed differently.
Nice summary there, painting the CSIRO as some kind of patent troll. They never claimed that they had "[invented] the concept of wireless LAN", they claimed that they had developed some very clever algorithms dealing with rejecting interference and the like.
The frontpage of CSIRO says "Wireless LAN, CSIRO's #1 invention, is estimated to be in more than three billion devices worldwide.". That doesn't sound like they just invented some clever algorithms.
Like the parent said, time itself did not exist until the big bang, therefor, there is no "before" the big bang.
How do you know?