And Quayle wasn't vilified. He was the butt of many jokes, but he deserved to be the butt of all those jokes for being so damned stupid. Recognizing someone's stupidity isn't the same as vilifying them.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and I can assure you that my company's project names are no less ridiculous.
The only difference is that my company's products aren't open source, so the public almost never gets to see the project names and all the other silly things that show up in the comments of the code.
I don't know why anyone would think it's a good idea, but it's become so common among bloggers that there's actually a Firefox extension that does nothing but turn grey text into black text.
You do know that you're arguing that the Wright brothers' glider could have had the same amenities as a Boeing Airbus A380, right? Because that's the comparison the person you're responding to was making.
In America we have free speech. it is against the constitution for them to censor speech in such a way.
You need to re-read the constitution. It's against the constitution for the US government to censor speech. The first amendment does not apply to communication channels provided by a corporation like Valve.
I want to write an article about Google failing because it'll get a lot of page hits.
Crap, they're growing by 20% every year? How the hell am I supposed make that sound bad. Hmm...
Oh, I've got it. They're growing by 20% every year, but the growth rate isn't increasing exponentially. I can say that the growth rate is 'flat' which sounds bad!
We have too many redundant frameworks. Sadly, systemd is the only effort to unify them that seems to have traction.
Because lots of different redundant efforts to unify lots of redundant frameworks is clearly be the best way to solve the problem of lots of different redundant frameworks!
Only the literal pedant thinks fairy tale dragons are about actual large beasts. They are metaphors for evil, and indeed instruct that evil exists and must be opposed, which children do not already know.
So... Puff the Magic Dragon isn't actually Jackie Paper's childhood friend who Jackie forgets about as he grows older? And it's all a metaphor for how imaginary childhood friends are evil and must be opposed by adults because kids don't know they should be fighting them rather than befriending them?
Of course not. That's stupid.
Fairy tales aren't always metaphors or allegories. Sometimes they're just entertaining stories that we tell kids. To paraphrase something Freud may or may not have said... sometimes a dragon is just a dragon.
First, you don't hit the target with the EMP device. You detonate the device overhead and let the EMP hit the target. It doesn't require nearly as much accuracy as landing a shell on the ship does. It's the difference between firing a bullet at someone and landing a grenade in their general vicinity.
Second, you're assuming it's only used against a single ship. In reality, an EMP device would be best used against groups of ships. Being able to take out an entire carrier group in one shot would massively shift the balance of a naval battle.
Third, the goal of winning a battle is to win the battle, not rack up the highest kill count. Disabling your opponents ships takes them out of the battle just as effectively as singing them. Disabling may even be preferable since your opponent is likely to spend resources rescuing the people on the ships, leaving them with less to use in their defenses against your attacks.
Fourth, if you are out for kill count, it's much easier to kill a bunch of disabled ships than a group that's actively firing back and making evasive course adjustments and trying to kill you in return.
HOWEVER... most ships are already hardened against EMP (at least in the US fleet). I have no idea just how effective the hardening is (and I doubt the military is ever going to release details on that), but the whole idea of using an EMP device may be a moot point.
By your fucked-up logic, anyone who does something illegal in front of witnesses is simply defending himself if he hires someone to kill the witnesses.
"In hindsight, I can see I should have been more strict. My idealism was my downfall because I tried to see the best in people - I was convinced they would behave as they were treated, so I treated everyone kindly."
"Though Sarah, my general manager, was present, she refused to get involved because she didn't want to be the 'bad cop'."
The failure had nothing to do with the fact that they were women. It had to do with the fact that management didn't manage the employees. Example after example of offenses that would get you fired in any other company are given, yet there's nothing about anyone getting fired.
Put together an all male company and refuse to discipline anyone for bad behavior and not doing their job and you'll get almost identical results. The only difference is that the fights will be about sports instead of handbags.
I work a job that expects me to be in the office 6-7 days a week for 12+ hours.... I am moody, have low energy, have low focus, am easily distracted, am losing motivation, have low libido, am tired, am stressed, and am starting to feel run down.
Stress causes testosterone levels to drop. Get a job that doesn't require working 72-84 hours a week and your testosterone levels will probably go back to normal on their own without adding to your risk of strokes, heart attacks and blood clots.
Sure. Banks incur fines all the time. The trick is that the amount of the fine is rarely more than a rounding error for them, so they don't give a shit and write it off as part of the cost of doing business.
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but when Dan Quayle only accepted a different spelling of potato at a spelling bee, he was vilified
That's not what happened. The kid actually spelled potato correctly and Dan Quayle 'corrected' him into spelling it wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
And Quayle wasn't vilified. He was the butt of many jokes, but he deserved to be the butt of all those jokes for being so damned stupid. Recognizing someone's stupidity isn't the same as vilifying them.
Voltaire said he'd defend your right to say what you have to say, not that he'd take care of publishing and distributing it for you.
No, he's right. The V does imply that it's the fifth installment. It's not the fifth installment, but the V still implies that it is.
I work for a Fortune 500 company and I can assure you that my company's project names are no less ridiculous.
The only difference is that my company's products aren't open source, so the public almost never gets to see the project names and all the other silly things that show up in the comments of the code.
I don't know why anyone would think it's a good idea, but it's become so common among bloggers that there's actually a Firefox extension that does nothing but turn grey text into black text.
They could have an untrustworthy mobile hidden in an orifice. Best don the latex and do a thorough cavity search!
You do know that you're arguing that the Wright brothers' glider could have had the same amenities as a Boeing Airbus A380, right? Because that's the comparison the person you're responding to was making.
basically its just "OMG DRONESSSS"
That should be "OMG DRONIES!!!!" and it should be in giant pink letters with animated sparkles like this.
In America we have free speech. it is against the constitution for them to censor speech in such a way.
You need to re-read the constitution. It's against the constitution for the US government to censor speech. The first amendment does not apply to communication channels provided by a corporation like Valve.
ROFLMAO at your Naivete.
People are copying our software!
That's piracy and they should be charged with such. A few cases of piracy going through and that shit will stop real fast.
People are driving drunk.
That's drunk driving and they should be charged with such. A few cases of drunk driving going through and that shit will stop real fast.
People are murdering other people!
That's murder and they should be charged with such. A few cases of murder going through and that shit will stop real fast.
Nowhere in the entire history of mankind has a few people being punished for a crime stopped others from committing the same crime.
But hey, you're an optimist so you've got that going for you. And that's nice.
Let me translate the article for you.
I want to write an article about Google failing because it'll get a lot of page hits.
Crap, they're growing by 20% every year? How the hell am I supposed make that sound bad. Hmm...
Oh, I've got it. They're growing by 20% every year, but the growth rate isn't increasing exponentially. I can say that the growth rate is 'flat' which sounds bad!
3. Profit.
Disposable income is what's left over after i pay all my bills, right?
No, that's discretionary income. Disposable income is what you have after you deduct taxes, but haven't paid for anything else.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
We have too many redundant frameworks. Sadly, systemd is the only effort to unify them that seems to have traction.
Because lots of different redundant efforts to unify lots of redundant frameworks is clearly be the best way to solve the problem of lots of different redundant frameworks!
Redundancy is awesome!
Only the literal pedant thinks fairy tale dragons are about actual large beasts. They are metaphors for evil, and indeed instruct that evil exists and must be opposed, which children do not already know.
So... Puff the Magic Dragon isn't actually Jackie Paper's childhood friend who Jackie forgets about as he grows older? And it's all a metaphor for how imaginary childhood friends are evil and must be opposed by adults because kids don't know they should be fighting them rather than befriending them?
Of course not. That's stupid.
Fairy tales aren't always metaphors or allegories. Sometimes they're just entertaining stories that we tell kids. To paraphrase something Freud may or may not have said... sometimes a dragon is just a dragon.
The circlejerk?
Then we have the problem of generating an EMP.
Only works with nukes ignited in very high atmosphere, you know.
You're wrong, you know.
You're ignoring a few things.
First, you don't hit the target with the EMP device. You detonate the device overhead and let the EMP hit the target. It doesn't require nearly as much accuracy as landing a shell on the ship does. It's the difference between firing a bullet at someone and landing a grenade in their general vicinity.
Second, you're assuming it's only used against a single ship. In reality, an EMP device would be best used against groups of ships. Being able to take out an entire carrier group in one shot would massively shift the balance of a naval battle.
Third, the goal of winning a battle is to win the battle, not rack up the highest kill count. Disabling your opponents ships takes them out of the battle just as effectively as singing them. Disabling may even be preferable since your opponent is likely to spend resources rescuing the people on the ships, leaving them with less to use in their defenses against your attacks.
Fourth, if you are out for kill count, it's much easier to kill a bunch of disabled ships than a group that's actively firing back and making evasive course adjustments and trying to kill you in return.
HOWEVER... most ships are already hardened against EMP (at least in the US fleet). I have no idea just how effective the hardening is (and I doubt the military is ever going to release details on that), but the whole idea of using an EMP device may be a moot point.
Bastardation? I think you mean bastardization.
You're not helping.
By your fucked-up logic, anyone who does something illegal in front of witnesses is simply defending himself if he hires someone to kill the witnesses.
"In hindsight, I can see I should have been more strict. My idealism was my downfall because I tried to see the best in people - I was convinced they would behave as they were treated, so I treated everyone kindly."
"Though Sarah, my general manager, was present, she refused to get involved because she didn't want to be the 'bad cop'."
The failure had nothing to do with the fact that they were women. It had to do with the fact that management didn't manage the employees. Example after example of offenses that would get you fired in any other company are given, yet there's nothing about anyone getting fired.
Put together an all male company and refuse to discipline anyone for bad behavior and not doing their job and you'll get almost identical results. The only difference is that the fights will be about sports instead of handbags.
Dammit! Just look at this comment! Slashdot has reached a new low!
I work a job that expects me to be in the office 6-7 days a week for 12+ hours. ...
I am moody, have low energy, have low focus, am easily distracted, am losing motivation, have low libido, am tired, am stressed, and am starting to feel run down.
Stress causes testosterone levels to drop. Get a job that doesn't require working 72-84 hours a week and your testosterone levels will probably go back to normal on their own without adding to your risk of strokes, heart attacks and blood clots.
The 11% is out of the amount that Spotify pays the label, not the 9.99 that Spotify charges the user.
"Major labels keep hold of 73% of payouts from the likes of Spotify."
The 73/16/11 split is of what Spotify pays the label, not what Spotify charges the user.
Sure. Banks incur fines all the time. The trick is that the amount of the fine is rarely more than a rounding error for them, so they don't give a shit and write it off as part of the cost of doing business.