"There are precisely 0 fundies that believe that."
Now that that's been corrected, we can write back and forth correctly
You should get your sense of humor checked every couple of years, as it seems to be on the fritz. Try again looking for the "b.c.e" vs "BC" joke. 100% of fundies know the calendar is based on the birth of Christ, not "current era".
strict Catholic parents with strict Baptist Grandparents
That sounds like a heck of a conversion there, or at least a heck of a story.
They haven't given up on their quest for domination, they're just waiting.
No doubt, but the tribal signalling changes over the generations. "Evilution" was the Boomers' windmill to tilt at. There will be some new rallying cry for all the disjoint fundie cults to unite around, since the real point is to signal each other they're all part of the same clan, not the belief itself.
Quite the opposite. I have quite a comfortable level of retirement savings, and while I can't actually retire just yet, I'll have no stress if I don't have a job for a few months (which would be unlikely as about 2 recruiters a week ping me, as my resume now has many interesting projects that actually shipped). After your first 10 years or so, the only way to stand out is to point to particularly good stuff you've delivered, so if you're not going to get a new cool project out of a year's work, you're just treading water.
Vaccination without consent is an assault. There is NO OTHER way to describe it. Its pure, full on tyranny of the masses. I like vaccinations, but i love Liberty more.
This is bullshit, but it's not flamebait, and shouldn't be modded down. Slashdot doesn't have an "idiot" mod, nor should it. We discuss ontopic ideas here, we don't censor.
BTW, I totally agree that "Vaccination without consent is an assault". Almost all medical procedures are considered assault in law, usually felonies, if a competent adult doesn't consent to the procedure. It works differently for kids, though, and parents don't always have to consent. Further, I'm totally OK with the police assaulting citizens in some circumstances - mostly those involving said citizen putting my life at risk. So, maybe to to make things clear, we should couple the forced vaccination of the kid with a police beatdown of the parent.
Liberty is not license, and while I think we're usually far too quick these days to say "you can't do that! it makes me uncomfortable, or hurt me in some trivial way!", this isn't one of those cases. You just don't have the right to spread contagious diseases.
Yes, yes it is. There isn't much where I'll agree with claims of "people should sacrifice for the common good", but contagious diseases are damn clear. Plus, the sacrifice is minimal and the benefit huge.
12 years into my career and I've never been fired it laid off. Maybe you need to rethink how good you think you are?
If you never fail, you aren't trying ambitious enough projects, or you're sandbagging. If you're not occasionally pissing off managers, you're not doing your job as a senior engineer. Sometimes you get a petty manager who only wants minions and finds an excuse to remove you. *shrug* If you're good, you move to a better job.
I do interesting project the right way, and I target aggressive schedules. I tell managers when they're full of shit. If that's not right for a company, I'll be leaving eventually, one way or another. Why work at a crap company?
A keylogger that runs on one VM to spy on anther is a huge deal, if true. A great many companies rely on VM isolation to keep customers separated cleanly on the same host. The entire "compute" cloud, for starters.
What makes you think the apps need to run on both machines to leak data? CPU cache snooping can see almost anything.
If a corporation can just increase profits from "age cuts, lay offs and customers" in response to a fine, without hurting the shareholders, the management must really be terrible not to do just that before there was any fine. Chances are the truth is more interesting, and less propaganda.
BTW, mangers can certainly go to jail for a wide variety of criminal actions - being an employee is no sort of shield for clearly criminal behavior, and may make it far worse with RICO laws. But you're probably talking about faulty products and the like, where IMO the goal in law should be "deterrence", by whatever system is likely to actually work to discourage such behavior. Putting a few employees in jail is a poor deterrent, as employees are disposable, but sufficiently large fines do punish the shareholders, and without the burden of evidence and intent needed for criminal prosecution.
For normal crimes - people commit those crimes, not corporations, and people go to jail for them. For crimes that only a company can really commit (incorporated or otherwise), there is "gross negligence" in the civil system. When a company deliberately puts people at risk, there's no real limit on the damages that can be awarded, such as $60 MM (or whatever it was) for serving coffee too hot for safety, because McDs knowingly put customers at risk.
But all that is an aside: the canard that "corporations are people" is a propaganda tool, the truth is that "tightly held corporations are partnerships".
Why in FSM's name are the Ubuntu version hardware specs lower?
I'd bet: price. Once you pay the Windows tax, you might as well up the HW a bit at that pricepoint ($149), while the Linux version comes quite a bit cheaper ($89). There's a lot to be said for coming in under $100.
Prices according to the first duckduckgo hit, accepted blindly as true.
It's an overly-broad stereotype, as there are a great many fundies who don't believe in any of the Young Earth stuff these days, but are clearly still fundies as they believe the important thing about their religion is the scripture (or some creative interpretation thereof), not the church.
Denying evolution and astronomy used to be a key social signal for fundies, back in the day, but that's gradually fading, and was never "all fundies" as there are more weird cult beliefs than you can shake a stick at.
You are as likely to change these people's minds about vaccines as you are to convince a fundamentalist Christian that the world wasn't created in 4004 b.c.e.
There are precisely 0 fundies that believe that. They know the world was created BC, none of this liberal progressive "bce" bullshit. More seriously, that's a over-broad stereotype and about as funny as a racist joke.
...that this law has a somewhat serious contender for the republican presidential nomination behind it. I'll let others commenting on this to debate the individual merits of Rand Paul. I know they will.
Rand Paul: mostly sane. Actually, his father makes sense 95% of the time, but he really brings the crazy when he goes off the rails, and he seems to like the white power groups.
But he's not a serious GOP candidate, as he's a dove on foreign policy, and the base really wants a hawk, between ISIS and a nuclear Iran.
Just to be clear: I claim that in almost every search where the dog doesn't "indicate" on it's own, the cop signals the dog to do so, so that the cops can almost always get their search.
You seem to be saying "they wouldn't do that, it would hurt the credibility of the process" (I hope I have that right). To which I reply: the cops simply don't care as it doesn't hurt them in any way: even if 99% of the time there's no drugs when they search, no one in power will ever call them on it. But it won't be 99%, it will be closer to half, because the cop's intuition isn't terrible and lots of people in fact carry pot.
But it would be interesting to see what changes in places where pot is legal, as far fewer people (who have cars) carry other drugs.
Sure, but many people are carrying pot in this day and age, and in the many, many cases where no drugs are found, the cops just shrug and move on. Doesn't hurt them any.
So one party gets 5 Justices in the bag, and imprisons the entire opposition in one swell foop? Nice. Now they can impeach the other 4 Justices w/o opposition, and we become a one-party state. Well done, sir.
Even a dog with a good nose will be trained to also "indicate" in response to a subtle signal from his handler. The dog is the placebo here, making people not protest blatant violation of their rights because they didn't understand the scam.
How would you possibly know how many false positives there have been at traffic stops? How often the cop's instinct was right in the first place? Hard to make a study of this.
Considering that legal personhood is granted to corporations
Don't believe every political rant you read. Corporations are restricted by the same laws that restrict people. Would you rather they weren't? A tightly-held corporation is treated the same way as a partnership: as a group of people owning a business together.
Says the common wisdom of successful real-estate investors. Remember, real estate (in this sense) isn't day-traded. People often buy rental properties in anticipation of market changes several years out. The 100-month rule of thumb is a guardrail to remind you that while, yes, maybe things will change in your favor, but past a certain point it's a casino bet, not investment. A lesson learned the hard way by many in the recent real estate crash.
It's all about return on investment. How much was gained by each $1 loaned to a given company. For Soylendra, it was pure corruption - the loan was pocketed, and nothing of value was gained. For Tesla, if a loan of $X both gets created and results in jobs paying $X or more a year, that's a good result, even risk-adjusted. Most bailouts are terrible investments, because they're going to companies that are terrible in the first place.
That does not make any sense. How could a 1.8 billion light-year supervoid be anyone's mother? Furthermore how could it be a mother of someone on Earth?
Obviously, it's couldn't be most people's mom. This is about your mom, XxtraLarGe!
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"There are precisely 0 fundies that believe that."
Now that that's been corrected, we can write back and forth correctly
You should get your sense of humor checked every couple of years, as it seems to be on the fritz. Try again looking for the "b.c.e" vs "BC" joke. 100% of fundies know the calendar is based on the birth of Christ, not "current era".
strict Catholic parents with strict Baptist Grandparents
That sounds like a heck of a conversion there, or at least a heck of a story.
They haven't given up on their quest for domination, they're just waiting.
No doubt, but the tribal signalling changes over the generations. "Evilution" was the Boomers' windmill to tilt at. There will be some new rallying cry for all the disjoint fundie cults to unite around, since the real point is to signal each other they're all part of the same clan, not the belief itself.
Quite the opposite. I have quite a comfortable level of retirement savings, and while I can't actually retire just yet, I'll have no stress if I don't have a job for a few months (which would be unlikely as about 2 recruiters a week ping me, as my resume now has many interesting projects that actually shipped). After your first 10 years or so, the only way to stand out is to point to particularly good stuff you've delivered, so if you're not going to get a new cool project out of a year's work, you're just treading water.
Vaccination without consent is an assault. There is NO OTHER way to describe it. Its pure, full on tyranny of the masses. I like vaccinations, but i love Liberty more.
This is bullshit, but it's not flamebait, and shouldn't be modded down. Slashdot doesn't have an "idiot" mod, nor should it. We discuss ontopic ideas here, we don't censor.
BTW, I totally agree that "Vaccination without consent is an assault". Almost all medical procedures are considered assault in law, usually felonies, if a competent adult doesn't consent to the procedure. It works differently for kids, though, and parents don't always have to consent. Further, I'm totally OK with the police assaulting citizens in some circumstances - mostly those involving said citizen putting my life at risk. So, maybe to to make things clear, we should couple the forced vaccination of the kid with a police beatdown of the parent.
Liberty is not license, and while I think we're usually far too quick these days to say "you can't do that! it makes me uncomfortable, or hurt me in some trivial way!", this isn't one of those cases. You just don't have the right to spread contagious diseases.
Yes, yes it is. There isn't much where I'll agree with claims of "people should sacrifice for the common good", but contagious diseases are damn clear. Plus, the sacrifice is minimal and the benefit huge.
12 years into my career and I've never been fired it laid off. Maybe you need to rethink how good you think you are?
If you never fail, you aren't trying ambitious enough projects, or you're sandbagging. If you're not occasionally pissing off managers, you're not doing your job as a senior engineer. Sometimes you get a petty manager who only wants minions and finds an excuse to remove you. *shrug* If you're good, you move to a better job.
I do interesting project the right way, and I target aggressive schedules. I tell managers when they're full of shit. If that's not right for a company, I'll be leaving eventually, one way or another. Why work at a crap company?
A keylogger that runs on one VM to spy on anther is a huge deal, if true. A great many companies rely on VM isolation to keep customers separated cleanly on the same host. The entire "compute" cloud, for starters.
What makes you think the apps need to run on both machines to leak data? CPU cache snooping can see almost anything.
If a corporation can just increase profits from "age cuts, lay offs and customers" in response to a fine, without hurting the shareholders, the management must really be terrible not to do just that before there was any fine. Chances are the truth is more interesting, and less propaganda.
BTW, mangers can certainly go to jail for a wide variety of criminal actions - being an employee is no sort of shield for clearly criminal behavior, and may make it far worse with RICO laws. But you're probably talking about faulty products and the like, where IMO the goal in law should be "deterrence", by whatever system is likely to actually work to discourage such behavior. Putting a few employees in jail is a poor deterrent, as employees are disposable, but sufficiently large fines do punish the shareholders, and without the burden of evidence and intent needed for criminal prosecution.
For normal crimes - people commit those crimes, not corporations, and people go to jail for them. For crimes that only a company can really commit (incorporated or otherwise), there is "gross negligence" in the civil system. When a company deliberately puts people at risk, there's no real limit on the damages that can be awarded, such as $60 MM (or whatever it was) for serving coffee too hot for safety, because McDs knowingly put customers at risk.
But all that is an aside: the canard that "corporations are people" is a propaganda tool, the truth is that "tightly held corporations are partnerships".
Why in FSM's name are the Ubuntu version hardware specs lower?
I'd bet: price. Once you pay the Windows tax, you might as well up the HW a bit at that pricepoint ($149), while the Linux version comes quite a bit cheaper ($89). There's a lot to be said for coming in under $100.
Prices according to the first duckduckgo hit, accepted blindly as true.
It's an overly-broad stereotype, as there are a great many fundies who don't believe in any of the Young Earth stuff these days, but are clearly still fundies as they believe the important thing about their religion is the scripture (or some creative interpretation thereof), not the church.
Denying evolution and astronomy used to be a key social signal for fundies, back in the day, but that's gradually fading, and was never "all fundies" as there are more weird cult beliefs than you can shake a stick at.
You are as likely to change these people's minds about vaccines as you are to convince a fundamentalist Christian that the world wasn't created in 4004 b.c.e.
There are precisely 0 fundies that believe that. They know the world was created BC, none of this liberal progressive "bce" bullshit. More seriously, that's a over-broad stereotype and about as funny as a racist joke.
...that this law has a somewhat serious contender for the republican presidential nomination behind it. I'll let others commenting on this to debate the individual merits of Rand Paul. I know they will.
Rand Paul: mostly sane. Actually, his father makes sense 95% of the time, but he really brings the crazy when he goes off the rails, and he seems to like the white power groups.
But he's not a serious GOP candidate, as he's a dove on foreign policy, and the base really wants a hawk, between ISIS and a nuclear Iran.
Just to be clear: I claim that in almost every search where the dog doesn't "indicate" on it's own, the cop signals the dog to do so, so that the cops can almost always get their search.
You seem to be saying "they wouldn't do that, it would hurt the credibility of the process" (I hope I have that right). To which I reply: the cops simply don't care as it doesn't hurt them in any way: even if 99% of the time there's no drugs when they search, no one in power will ever call them on it. But it won't be 99%, it will be closer to half, because the cop's intuition isn't terrible and lots of people in fact carry pot.
But it would be interesting to see what changes in places where pot is legal, as far fewer people (who have cars) carry other drugs.
Sure, but many people are carrying pot in this day and age, and in the many, many cases where no drugs are found, the cops just shrug and move on. Doesn't hurt them any.
So one party gets 5 Justices in the bag, and imprisons the entire opposition in one swell foop? Nice. Now they can impeach the other 4 Justices w/o opposition, and we become a one-party state. Well done, sir.
Even a dog with a good nose will be trained to also "indicate" in response to a subtle signal from his handler. The dog is the placebo here, making people not protest blatant violation of their rights because they didn't understand the scam.
How would you possibly know how many false positives there have been at traffic stops? How often the cop's instinct was right in the first place? Hard to make a study of this.
The best is !wa (Wolfram Alpha search), which blows Google calculator away. Hooray for integral solvers and simple graphing.
duckduckgo for the win, as always.
Considering that legal personhood is granted to corporations
Don't believe every political rant you read. Corporations are restricted by the same laws that restrict people. Would you rather they weren't? A tightly-held corporation is treated the same way as a partnership: as a group of people owning a business together.
... both gets *repaid and results in ...
No, no, a Clown Tank is totally different.
Says the common wisdom of successful real-estate investors. Remember, real estate (in this sense) isn't day-traded. People often buy rental properties in anticipation of market changes several years out. The 100-month rule of thumb is a guardrail to remind you that while, yes, maybe things will change in your favor, but past a certain point it's a casino bet, not investment. A lesson learned the hard way by many in the recent real estate crash.
It's all about return on investment. How much was gained by each $1 loaned to a given company. For Soylendra, it was pure corruption - the loan was pocketed, and nothing of value was gained. For Tesla, if a loan of $X both gets created and results in jobs paying $X or more a year, that's a good result, even risk-adjusted. Most bailouts are terrible investments, because they're going to companies that are terrible in the first place.
That does not make any sense. How could a 1.8 billion light-year supervoid be anyone's mother? Furthermore how could it be a mother of someone on Earth?
Obviously, it's couldn't be most people's mom. This is about your mom, XxtraLarGe!