Finally -- a realistic slashdoter! The problem with so many posts here is that those who write them believe in the theoretical rights they perceive us to have, while, having never themselves ventured to try to assert those rights, fail to see that reality does not match theory.
I've had mod points 9 (yes, NINE) times in the last 4 weeks (unfortunately!)... and when I really need some, I don't have any. You've hit it on the head.
I had this same discussion with a Physicist recently, as I pointed out that a '1-dimensional dot' is really 3-dimensional. There really is no such thing as '1-dimensional' in the pure sense. That dot has a height on the paper and a width on the paper. In fact, it has a volume on the paper. But Physicists use a different standard, as do Statisticians: if something is 'close enough' to zero, for their paperwork, it IS zero.
No matter if they're on the sex offender list for petty "crimes" they did in college or heavy violent rape, they should do their time in prison, locked up for as long as the judge ordered and then they're free humans again.
This is true in theory, but not in practice. Analogues are, at least: misdemeanor records and credit scores. People are tagged at an early age, and that information never goes away. A mistake at a very early age will lead to punishments multiple and far beyond the reach of time.
Tell the Russians that 'cursive' is a "useless skill". If you can't find a Russian, learn the Cyrillic characters, then go to Russia and try to read anything.
In the US, we can get a credit report from each of the three major credit reporting agencies, but, usually only once per year (to my knowledge), and the score, which is a very important bit, is left out. Each agency maintains its own score and we must pay usually about $10 for each score. Add to the fun that each person looking at your score uses a different one of the three agencies, and you won't ever know in advance which that person is going for. So you'd better know all three...
Agreed. I can tell you first-hand that walking into Family Court or anything remotely like it (say, Divorce Court) with a penis is grounds for immediate imprisonment.
Ummm, he was referring to the fact that the poster wrote 'diety' in stead of 'deity'. Which, given the name of the deity in question, is pretty unintentionally funny.
I wrote a perl script to do just that for me. It is too difficult (for me anyway) to come up with these passwords that must meet 40 criteria, every single month, and no repeats in the last year, etc. So now every month my script generates a new one for me.
While it may seem stupid (and I agree with you, it does), it is apparently necessary for the particular suit to go forward, as GGP says. Usually, I would say this means the law needs to be changed; however, this law actually makes sense. This just happens to be a really strange application of that law.
A pilot will probably never have to safely ditch an airliner in the ocean at any point in their career. But there's no way in hell that I'm hiring one that doesn't know how to do it.
Hear, hear! That's all you needed to say, brother.
Have you ever been to court? The Judge is the Emperor, and (s)he says whatever the hell comes to his/her mind at any given time, often expressing great emotion. It can be pretty funny to watch, especially if your opponent in the matter is the object of the Judge's wrath.
These things are all just advertising and datamining traps.
In other news, I used FB briefly at the request of a friend. I had people coming out of the woodwork I had not heard from since high school (~15 years ago for me) sending me friend requests, but no messages. These were the same people who had paid me no attention in high school. Fools simply wanted to increase their friend counts. I de-activated my account after about five days, and guess what? That data does not belong to me and will never go away.
Despite my career as a coder, I prefer to keep a very small online footprint. Try to find me online somewhere (slashdot doesn't count)
This is what gets a '5 Insightful' nowadays: complete and utter bull****?
For those of you wondering, ALL religions fall under the following definition of 'cult' (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult):
"a great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work"
I'll leave as an exercise for the reader to figure out why.
Do your research, or, at a minimum, try to understand what the words you use mean before you use them.
Where on earth do you find one of these lawyers "for 150 dollars an hour"? Do they live in the same community as the jackalope, or do we have to wonder over to yeti territory?
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Do you think Economists have been ignoring this idea? If so, you haven't heard of, say, Gary Becker.
Despite his (at least) great work, it can be summed up this way:
I can calculate the motions of the heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.
-Isaac Newton
Finally -- a realistic slashdoter! The problem with so many posts here is that those who write them believe in the theoretical rights they perceive us to have, while, having never themselves ventured to try to assert those rights, fail to see that reality does not match theory.
I've had mod points 9 (yes, NINE) times in the last 4 weeks (unfortunately!) ... and when I really need some, I don't have any. You've hit it on the head.
Yeah, well, one time I threw my shoe at a goo (se). So there!
Let he among us who has never wasted a moment at work throw the first CD ...
I believe at times that very unintelligent people have it easier than very intelligent people -- they don't know what they are missing!
Similarly, people with very high IQs should be considered as 'handicapped' as people with very low IQs.
Clearly I am getting them all :(. I am now on my 5th batch of mod points in 2 weeks. grrr ...
I had this same discussion with a Physicist recently, as I pointed out that a '1-dimensional dot' is really 3-dimensional. There really is no such thing as '1-dimensional' in the pure sense. That dot has a height on the paper and a width on the paper. In fact, it has a volume on the paper. But Physicists use a different standard, as do Statisticians: if something is 'close enough' to zero, for their paperwork, it IS zero.
No matter if they're on the sex offender list for petty "crimes" they did in college or heavy violent rape, they should do their time in prison, locked up for as long as the judge ordered and then they're free humans again.
This is true in theory, but not in practice. Analogues are, at least: misdemeanor records and credit scores. People are tagged at an early age, and that information never goes away. A mistake at a very early age will lead to punishments multiple and far beyond the reach of time.
I wonder if a blind person were driven to an ATM by a sighted friend, if the blind person could make use of said ATM without the braille?
Mod parent up! (and me, since I was nice enough to suggest it) :)
Tell the Russians that 'cursive' is a "useless skill". If you can't find a Russian, learn the Cyrillic characters, then go to Russia and try to read anything.
In the US, we can get a credit report from each of the three major credit reporting agencies, but, usually only once per year (to my knowledge), and the score, which is a very important bit, is left out. Each agency maintains its own score and we must pay usually about $10 for each score. Add to the fun that each person looking at your score uses a different one of the three agencies, and you won't ever know in advance which that person is going for. So you'd better know all three ...
Agreed. I can tell you first-hand that walking into Family Court or anything remotely like it (say, Divorce Court) with a penis is grounds for immediate imprisonment.
Ummm, he was referring to the fact that the poster wrote 'diety' in stead of 'deity'. Which, given the name of the deity in question, is pretty unintentionally funny.
I wrote a perl script to do just that for me. It is too difficult (for me anyway) to come up with these passwords that must meet 40 criteria, every single month, and no repeats in the last year, etc. So now every month my script generates a new one for me.
While it may seem stupid (and I agree with you, it does), it is apparently necessary for the particular suit to go forward, as GGP says. Usually, I would say this means the law needs to be changed; however, this law actually makes sense. This just happens to be a really strange application of that law.
A pilot will probably never have to safely ditch an airliner in the ocean at any point in their career. But there's no way in hell that I'm hiring one that doesn't know how to do it.
Hear, hear! That's all you needed to say, brother.
Have you ever been to court? The Judge is the Emperor, and (s)he says whatever the hell comes to his/her mind at any given time, often expressing great emotion. It can be pretty funny to watch, especially if your opponent in the matter is the object of the Judge's wrath.
Here, here!
These things are all just advertising and datamining traps.
In other news, I used FB briefly at the request of a friend. I had people coming out of the woodwork I had not heard from since high school (~15 years ago for me) sending me friend requests, but no messages. These were the same people who had paid me no attention in high school. Fools simply wanted to increase their friend counts. I de-activated my account after about five days, and guess what? That data does not belong to me and will never go away.
Despite my career as a coder, I prefer to keep a very small online footprint. Try to find me online somewhere (slashdot doesn't count)
;)
This is what gets a '5 Insightful' nowadays: complete and utter bull****?
For those of you wondering, ALL religions fall under the following definition of 'cult' (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cult):
"a great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work"
I'll leave as an exercise for the reader to figure out why.
Do your research, or, at a minimum, try to understand what the words you use mean before you use them.
no, please no! i never wanted to hear that name again, and yet, there it be :(
Where on earth do you find one of these lawyers "for 150 dollars an hour"? Do they live in the same community as the jackalope, or do we have to wonder over to yeti territory?
Hear, hear!
I'd like to have this question answered for math books.