The only reason they are not, is so employers can play employees against each other and prevent them from teaming up and balancing the market.
There's nothing stopping my coworkers and me from discussing our salaries with each other and there would be potential benefits to us. But we don't. That tells me that our employer playing us isn't the only reason we don't all know we're all making.
Unless you are naive, you have to assume that anybody that you don't know (and a good number of people that you do know) will be willing to stab you in the back for a few bucks. Never forget that.
I refuse to live like that. Consequences be damned.
But the relationship that the girl thinks she has is fabricated.
So it's like an adoption?
Not remotely. There's no reason to lie to a child about whether they share blood with their parents. An adoptive relationship does not at all need to be based on falsehoods.
...while soldering properly is an art form, it is rather easy to learn. A couple of YouTube videos, and a little practice and you are there.
I found it useful to have a coach. I'd been soldering for years, but a few hours with a stereo microscope and an anal retentive trainer broke me of some bad habits that I wasn't aware of.
Or anyone engaging in nefarious activity "...who bought access to a VPN but didn't use it all the time..." I keep my VPN up permanently with a kill switch so that it fails safe. And I'm just a soft-core criminal who likes to download "Last Week Tonight" and "Game of Thrones" without having to deal with subscribing/dropping HBO via Comcast. (If it was easy to drop, I'd spring for it during GoT season, but Comcast makes adding channels easy and removing them a PITA. Requiring me to talk to a live human whose job is to discourage me is more than I'm willing to deal with.)
Even the Jews only think circumcision is appropriate for half the population. They don't consider women "subhuman if...[their] genitals are not mutilated". Whether they consider non-Jews "subhuman" I suppose is up to the individual Jew, but I'd hope that's a minority opinion. I don't know the political views of a typical Jew, but I'm pretty sure their politics are independent of how they handle their dicks.
Allow me to pick a nit. I think it's accurate to say, "there's a real relationship." But the relationship that the girl thinks she has is fabricated.
The guy would to be a real jackass to call it off at anytime.
Calling off the relationship would be heartless but, as an adult, I think the girl deserves to know the truth. Continuing to lie to her seems dishonest. Lying to her in the first place I feel was a mistake on the mother's part.
Can't remember the last time I was 99% sure of anything.
When I left for work this morning, I was 99%+ sure I'd make it to work alive. Not 100% sure, but sure enough to take the risk. I'm less sure that Rescam wouldn't sell my email address, but still beyond 99% because it makes that little sense to me.
Of course, an event being unlikely to occur does not guarantee it won't. But I decide on my actions based on perceived likelihood. If I think there's a 99% chance that Rescam will sell my email address to scammers, I won't use them. If I think there's a 1% chance (I think it's lower), I'll be much more inclined to use them. You can't go into every situation you encounter planning on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely. Well, you can, but I don't; you do you.
...music is somewhat a waste of time. I do really enjoy music...
I consider occasionally enjoying myself a good use of time. If you need to justify it, recognize that you're more productive when you're generally in a positive state of mind and that making time for leisure helps that.
The summary says that they'll reply using a "proxy e-mail address". TFA gives little details and I'm not going to explore their site at work. It's not clear whether there will be enough information in Rescam's reply for the scammer to identify where the original message was sent. Is it common to include your target's information in the body of your initial scam invitation?
TFA does acknowledge that their efforts will result in a lot of bots talking to other bots.
None, but it doesn't seem likely. Unless there are buyers looking specifically for the demographic of people that would forward spam to anti-scammers, there are much easier ways to harvest e-mail addresses. Any group that you share your email address with is subject to the risk of hacks or "rogue employees". We all set our own threshold for risk when we decide where to disclose our personal information. Developing a chat bot designed to frustrate scammers in an effort to collect data to sell to those scammers just seems like too bizarre a business model to worry about. Nothing to do with whether I trust them or not.
If you define efficiency according to the emissions from transporting the same number of people (1) the same distance (an obviously more useful metric), his scooter will outscore your car handily.
I think you mean the same people and cargo. If it takes three or four trips to the store to carry a week's worth of groceries with the scooter, which the car could have carried in one trip, then that means several times the emissions. Even if the scooter emits half as much per trip it still loses when you consider the entire job, and given the efficiency of modern cars and their tighter emissions controls the margin is probably much smaller. Not every trip will be like that, of course, but it's common enough to make it impractical to ditch the car—and if you do take the scooter somewhere and later discover that you need the car, any gains you might have otherwise made are more than offset by the extra trip to switch vehicles. That isn't even considering the safety factor, or the risk of inclement weather. Better, IMHO, to have a single reasonably efficient (30+ MPG) enclosed passenger+cargo vehicle that can handle 99% of all trips.
I wasn't trying to defend the scooter as the right idea. I was pointing out that it had lower total emissions than the car when used to commute 56 miles. Obviously, if your trip involves something the scooter isn't suited for, you wouldn't take the scooter.
...if you do take the scooter somewhere and later discover that you need the car, any gains you might have otherwise made are more than offset by the extra trip to switch vehicles...
I'm capable of planning the entire round trip when I leave home almost every time. If I need to run by the store on the way home, I can typically figure that out before I leave. If that's not the case for you, maybe a scooter isn't the right choice. The scooter's the wrong choice for me but for entirely different reasons.
On Facebook you're most likely doing "micro-interactions" - likes, smiles or very short, tweet-like comments, that take almost no intelligence to construct.
It's interesting that you know what I'm most likely to do. There's a lot of fluff on FB - The signal-to-noise is lower than/., like you say. That's not to say there's no noise on/. - There's plenty here too. The level of fluff depends entirely on your set of friends. My political discussions are centered more around FB than they are here and knowing the people I'm talking with changes the experience positively. The people that post "very short, tweet-like comments, that take almost no intelligence to construct" are people that I don't interact with. FB is what you make of it - Except for the ads it's entirely tunable. (Actually you can even tweak the ads you're presented.)/. is much less flexible and you're stuck largely unfiltered.
With Facebook the ROI is not just zero... it's negative!
Maybe your FB feed offers a negative ROI. Maybe you haven't figured out how to use FB constructively.
When organizing an event for more than a few people, FB offers several advantages over e-mail. It's not the only alternative, but it's a popular one. In this case, popularity helps.
Could every member of FB or Twitter suddenly drop their account, come in and post truly anonymously?
Some of my old pets have FB accounts. Not anonymous because they have to "friend" anyone they're going to interact with, but they can access FB without providing much information about their true identities. They're not real active - I created them to help me during a short-lived "Candy Crush" phase.
So based on the efficiency for per gallon of gas burned my car has less emissions than you scooter does.
Emissions per gallon is a pointless metric. What's important is emissions per person per mile. If you define efficiency according to how much mass gets moved per gallon, your car might outscore his scooter. But who cares? If you define efficiency according to the emissions from transporting the same number of people (1) the same distance (an obviously more useful metric), his scooter will outscore your car handily.
More mile per gallon doesn't necessarily mean less pollution.
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The only reason they are not, is so employers can play employees against each other and prevent them from teaming up and balancing the market.
There's nothing stopping my coworkers and me from discussing our salaries with each other and there would be potential benefits to us. But we don't. That tells me that our employer playing us isn't the only reason we don't all know we're all making.
Unless you are naive, you have to assume that anybody that you don't know (and a good number of people that you do know) will be willing to stab you in the back for a few bucks. Never forget that.
I refuse to live like that. Consequences be damned.
But the relationship that the girl thinks she has is fabricated.
So it's like an adoption?
Not remotely. There's no reason to lie to a child about whether they share blood with their parents. An adoptive relationship does not at all need to be based on falsehoods.
...you'd gimp your internet connection to do it.
I use PIA and it's fast enough to be transparent to me. GoT isn't the only reason to run a VPN.
...while soldering properly is an art form, it is rather easy to learn. A couple of YouTube videos, and a little practice and you are there.
I found it useful to have a coach. I'd been soldering for years, but a few hours with a stereo microscope and an anal retentive trainer broke me of some bad habits that I wasn't aware of.
Or anyone engaging in nefarious activity "...who bought access to a VPN but didn't use it all the time..." I keep my VPN up permanently with a kill switch so that it fails safe. And I'm just a soft-core criminal who likes to download "Last Week Tonight" and "Game of Thrones" without having to deal with subscribing/dropping HBO via Comcast. (If it was easy to drop, I'd spring for it during GoT season, but Comcast makes adding channels easy and removing them a PITA. Requiring me to talk to a live human whose job is to discourage me is more than I'm willing to deal with.)
maybe firemen could become hobby pyromaniacs in their spare time, and thus reduce the waiting time . . . ?
They already thought of that. About 100 firefighters a year are convicted as serial arsonists in North America.
Even the Jews only think circumcision is appropriate for half the population. They don't consider women "subhuman if...[their] genitals are not mutilated". Whether they consider non-Jews "subhuman" I suppose is up to the individual Jew, but I'd hope that's a minority opinion. I don't know the political views of a typical Jew, but I'm pretty sure their politics are independent of how they handle their dicks.
Your space is fake.
Myspace is real. It's just outdated.
...the relationship is real.
Allow me to pick a nit. I think it's accurate to say, "there's a real relationship." But the relationship that the girl thinks she has is fabricated.
The guy would to be a real jackass to call it off at anytime.
Calling off the relationship would be heartless but, as an adult, I think the girl deserves to know the truth. Continuing to lie to her seems dishonest. Lying to her in the first place I feel was a mistake on the mother's part.
Can't remember the last time I was 99% sure of anything.
When I left for work this morning, I was 99%+ sure I'd make it to work alive. Not 100% sure, but sure enough to take the risk. I'm less sure that Rescam wouldn't sell my email address, but still beyond 99% because it makes that little sense to me.
...some of US right considers you to be a subhuman if your dermis has the wrong color...
Right. Who's ever accused the Japanese culture of harboring racism? Not this gaijin!
...a sizeable chunk of US left *drumroll* considers you to be a subhuman if...your genitals are not mutilated.
Who the fuck are these left-wing nuts that you speak of requiring us all to modify our genitals? I've not encountered this "sizeable chunk."
Of course, an event being unlikely to occur does not guarantee it won't. But I decide on my actions based on perceived likelihood. If I think there's a 99% chance that Rescam will sell my email address to scammers, I won't use them. If I think there's a 1% chance (I think it's lower), I'll be much more inclined to use them. You can't go into every situation you encounter planning on the worst possible outcome, however unlikely. Well, you can, but I don't; you do you.
...music is somewhat a waste of time. I do really enjoy music...
I consider occasionally enjoying myself a good use of time. If you need to justify it, recognize that you're more productive when you're generally in a positive state of mind and that making time for leisure helps that.
The summary says that they'll reply using a "proxy e-mail address". TFA gives little details and I'm not going to explore their site at work. It's not clear whether there will be enough information in Rescam's reply for the scammer to identify where the original message was sent. Is it common to include your target's information in the body of your initial scam invitation?
TFA does acknowledge that their efforts will result in a lot of bots talking to other bots.
What guarantee do you have that they won't?
None, but it doesn't seem likely. Unless there are buyers looking specifically for the demographic of people that would forward spam to anti-scammers, there are much easier ways to harvest e-mail addresses. Any group that you share your email address with is subject to the risk of hacks or "rogue employees". We all set our own threshold for risk when we decide where to disclose our personal information. Developing a chat bot designed to frustrate scammers in an effort to collect data to sell to those scammers just seems like too bizarre a business model to worry about. Nothing to do with whether I trust them or not.
I also don't have an account with Google
And I never signed up for Equifax, so I guess we're both good. Is it still called an "account" if it was created without your consent?
If you define efficiency according to the emissions from transporting the same number of people (1) the same distance (an obviously more useful metric), his scooter will outscore your car handily.
I think you mean the same people and cargo. If it takes three or four trips to the store to carry a week's worth of groceries with the scooter, which the car could have carried in one trip, then that means several times the emissions. Even if the scooter emits half as much per trip it still loses when you consider the entire job, and given the efficiency of modern cars and their tighter emissions controls the margin is probably much smaller. Not every trip will be like that, of course, but it's common enough to make it impractical to ditch the car—and if you do take the scooter somewhere and later discover that you need the car, any gains you might have otherwise made are more than offset by the extra trip to switch vehicles. That isn't even considering the safety factor, or the risk of inclement weather. Better, IMHO, to have a single reasonably efficient (30+ MPG) enclosed passenger+cargo vehicle that can handle 99% of all trips.
I wasn't trying to defend the scooter as the right idea. I was pointing out that it had lower total emissions than the car when used to commute 56 miles. Obviously, if your trip involves something the scooter isn't suited for, you wouldn't take the scooter.
...if you do take the scooter somewhere and later discover that you need the car, any gains you might have otherwise made are more than offset by the extra trip to switch vehicles...
I'm capable of planning the entire round trip when I leave home almost every time. If I need to run by the store on the way home, I can typically figure that out before I leave. If that's not the case for you, maybe a scooter isn't the right choice. The scooter's the wrong choice for me but for entirely different reasons.
I admit it; that's one I didn't think of.
When you engage in a discussion you are obliged to come back and back-up your views, lest you not do a disservice to this community.
What an interesting view from an AC.
On Facebook you're most likely doing "micro-interactions" - likes, smiles or very short, tweet-like comments, that take almost no intelligence to construct.
It's interesting that you know what I'm most likely to do. There's a lot of fluff on FB - The signal-to-noise is lower than /., like you say. That's not to say there's no noise on /. - There's plenty here too. The level of fluff depends entirely on your set of friends. My political discussions are centered more around FB than they are here and knowing the people I'm talking with changes the experience positively. The people that post "very short, tweet-like comments, that take almost no intelligence to construct" are people that I don't interact with. FB is what you make of it - Except for the ads it's entirely tunable. (Actually you can even tweak the ads you're presented.) /. is much less flexible and you're stuck largely unfiltered.
With Facebook the ROI is not just zero... it's negative!
Maybe your FB feed offers a negative ROI. Maybe you haven't figured out how to use FB constructively.
When organizing an event for more than a few people, FB offers several advantages over e-mail. It's not the only alternative, but it's a popular one. In this case, popularity helps.
I don't even read replies on slashdot, because i really don't care to argue with people on the internet.
I often have interesting replies to my /. comments. My FB comments too. If every reply you get is an argument, maybe you're doing it wrong.
Could every member of FB or Twitter suddenly drop their account, come in and post truly anonymously?
Some of my old pets have FB accounts. Not anonymous because they have to "friend" anyone they're going to interact with, but they can access FB without providing much information about their true identities. They're not real active - I created them to help me during a short-lived "Candy Crush" phase.
So based on the efficiency for per gallon of gas burned my car has less emissions than you scooter does.
Emissions per gallon is a pointless metric. What's important is emissions per person per mile. If you define efficiency according to how much mass gets moved per gallon, your car might outscore his scooter. But who cares? If you define efficiency according to the emissions from transporting the same number of people (1) the same distance (an obviously more useful metric), his scooter will outscore your car handily.
More mile per gallon doesn't necessarily mean less pollution.
In most situations, yes it does.