WHEN THEY ACTUALLY SELL THE FUCKING THINGS TO PEOPLE
Maybe when I can order one and have it at my house in less than 6 months, then I'll give a fuck about what you can do with them. This may as well be one of the million other vaporware products that were always impossible to get.
It's 1:40 and you've hooked up with your last resort, you go back to your place but before you put yourselves at risk, take 5 minutes and show each other that you don't have HIV.
I understand that it's a business decision and I don't begrudge them that, I'm just not interested in taking a lot of my time to develop a presence on their social network only to have them decide that it's not making the kind of revenue they want and killing it.
1980 24.3 mpg. 2011 33.8 mpg. Please stop entertaining the falsehood that cars have not improved in mileage.
The stats that you quote are skewed because of electric vehicles, hybrids and the mileage "credits" that manufacturers are given for producing alternate fuel vehicles.
Come on, Gnome is written by a guy with a hard on for Bill Gates, what do you expect? Which part of Windows did they not try to implement?.Net, mono,.asp and other weirdass shit.
He did say he would love to work for Microsoft.
Since they wouldn't hire him, he is doing his best to turn Linux into Windows.
It would appear that KDE is as well. Perhaps without the Bill Gates gloryhole type comments, but look at what they've done to KDE...
Why would any end user care at all about the CLI? They want an easy to use interface, and a CLI is exactly not that, especially in the realm of mobile apps, possibly the largest growing sector of software development these days
People who know what the fuck they're doing are end users too. I'm a former Apple guy and I find the command line indispensable. I'd be furious if I had no choice about the matter.
Maybe that's because most PC manufacturers use Apple as an R&D department.
Style is not R & D. There's little question that Apple provides inspiration in the area of style, but their R & D is completely separate from every other company's.
Apple has taken the lead in bringing new technologies (usually developed by others) to the mainstream. Intel deployed USB as a part of their chipsets for years before Apple adopted the technology. When Apple started using USB, the industry followed suit. Apple was the first to make CD-ROM standard equipment in a home computer. Apple was the first major company to standardize on 3.5" floppies and later they were the first to eliminate them.
Apple's track record of bringing new technology to the mainstream is unrivaled, but that is not the same thing as Apple developing these technologies.
Seriously, other than IEEE 1394, what Apple developed standard has gotten mainstream acceptance? I assume that you'll come up with an example or two, but they'll be outliers that I just didn't think of. Not real ground-breaking developments in the IT world.
On average, cars were more fuel efficient 30 years ago. The problem is with pollution controls.
Engines attain maximum efficiency when they run hotter, the problem with hotter running engines is that they produce more nitrogen oxides and cause more smog. So, in the 1980s, they imposed pollution controls to reduce the nitrogen oxides and therefore smog. The only way car makers could meet this was to make engines run cooler, and in so doing reduced the efficiency of the engines.
Miles per gallon hasn't changed much in the average family sedan, but 30 years ago the cars were bigger and heavier and used a lot more steel.
Internships are such a fuzzy concept for most people. Among I.T. folks in particular, I've seen quite the battle cry lately for unpaid internships to be made flat-out illegal. That would be a foolish thing to do and here's why.
Unpaid internships were originally conceived by universities so that the student could come into a company, get a bit of training, and see how the business works from the inside. The company is supposed to derive no benefit from having the intern there. I've worked in places that did this and this kind of experience is very valuable for the student because it gives them a glimpse of the "real world" and hopefully informs their career choices.
Paid internships, in contrast, do have the intern doing real entry-level work and, for the most part, has all of the responsibilities of an employee.
Any company which brings in unpaid interns and has them doing actual work which directly or indirectly benefits the company is probably operating outside the law in most states. Any states which do not expressly prohibit this need to have their citizens stand up and make it so, but with the reason and clear-mindedness to not just make all unpaid internships flat-out illegal as you would propose.
When I was an undergrad I had a well paid internship at the company that's now my employer. There were several things that the company did right. First of all, the internship was open ended. I could continue to be an intern as long as I maintained full time college enrollment. They started me at a respectable entry level wage for someone without a college degree or a lot of experience in the field. Every semester that passed, I got a raise up to the maximum rate. I finished my internship making over $18.00/hr. I would have never considered an unpaid internship. It's amusing that people want to make them illegal, I'd flat out refuse to take one.
What scares me is the number of gun related deaths these people will accept, just so they can own guns; on the same note they are absolutely against universal health coverage - how Christian!
This is a great reason to stay away from the US!
We're not against universal health coverage. We're against government run healthcare.
Do you really think that a militia armed with small arms can have any effect against the US army ?
The only recourse you have is the same as any country, persuade the military to turn against the government, or recruit a foreign military to join your side and train and equip your troops (which is how the American war of Independence was won)
Look at Afghanistan and Iraq. Those men did a fair job against the US Military.
Here, in the US, we have many men who had been trained by that same military and have the advantage of the fact that some soldiers will not fire on fellow Americans.
You might have a gun, but I might have a sniper rifle.
And I can limit the effectiveness of your sniper rifle by only arranging to meet you in very public, densely populated places. Like the Starbucks downtown. In Starbucks, the technical superiority of your sniper rifle is trumped by the portability of my P94.
As much as the gun lobby loves to play up the "evening the playing field" argument, it only works only for certain situations, and then the criminals can still way out gun the average citizen.
And I out gun the average criminal.
Just as the micro-stamping was designed to only catch a certain cross-section of the criminal population, guns only help a certain cross-section of the crime victims.
You are incorrect about what micro-stamping is designed for.
> It will be the legal owner, who may not even know that his gun was stolen, who will have his door kicked in.
What's the matter? Mad you can't buy a bunch of shitty pistols down south and then come up to NYC and sell them to thugs for a profit? You SHOULD get your fucking door kicked in, asshole.
Oh, if you're so inclined you still can. And you can do so with no paper trail if you have a corrupt resident of the state in question to help you.
Rifling marks change over time and a new barrel throws it all out anyway.
Most of the technical ideas for tracking weapons are easily circumvented, particularly by organized criminal elements.
Or by people who know a lot about guns. A knowledgeable shooter can remove all of the forensic identifiers from his pistol on site and have a gun that can't be linked to a particular bullet before the police respond.
My gun ownership actually predates the widely held belief that the Second Amendment guarantees a personal right to own and carry.
So, you are either 250 years old or you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's always been understood(except by those who are trying to take it away) to be an individual right.
The second amendment's meaning is crystal clear. If you don't like it, gather your votes and try to repeal the amendment. You don't get to ignore the parts of the constitution that you don't like.
It will be the legal owner, who may not even know that his gun was stolen, who will have his door kicked in.
If someone has a gun stolen and they don't notice or report it, they probably deserve to have their door kicked in. They're responsible for it. Police aren't complete idiots anyway, if it's a suburban dad registered to a gun and the killing was drug related a thousand miles away, they will probably knock rather than kick the door down.
Depends on how badly that PD needed to get some face time on the news because contract ewnegotiations are just around the corner...
Exactly right. They're continuing the line out of a passion, not just for something to do. I'm very impressed with what they've done. I'm more impressed with their incremental improvements than I am with the revolutionary changes of KDE 4.x.
Rich greeks can just move to somewhere with lower taxes within the EU (more importantly so can spaniards and italians who can simply move one country to the east sort of thing), which reduces the tax base they have to work with. It's like slashing spending in california so schools suck so rich people move to Oregon so their kids get decent schooling but commute to california, robbing the tax base making them cut money on schools further.
That's very much what is happening in the US. The middle-class and wealthy are able to move out of highly taxed urban areas to live in suburban areas with lower taxes, less crime and better schools. How do the urban areas respond? By raising taxes! Which in turn drives more people out. I don't know what the solution to the problem is, but I know what the solution isn't.
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It is more that they don't want to slow down because they are being chased by something possibly deadly.
What is this deadly thing that is chasing humanity and necessitates the environmental destruction of the past 100-150 years?
Starvation. If we were to de-industrialize, we'd have even more people starving all over the planet.
LK
I don't do pre-orders. If someone doesn't have the item that I want in stock, I won't order.
If I can't have it in 3 days, I don't order.
I'm just getting really sick of these slashvertisements. If it's not in stock anywhere, it's vapor.
LK
WHEN THEY ACTUALLY SELL THE FUCKING THINGS TO PEOPLE
Maybe when I can order one and have it at my house in less than 6 months, then I'll give a fuck about what you can do with them. This may as well be one of the million other vaporware products that were always impossible to get.
LK
Would you have sex with someone that you knew was HIV positive, even with a condom? I wouldn't.
So yeah, wear a condom anyway to protect against other things, but if you can take a cheap, fast and east HIV test. Do that too.
LK
in night club/bar bathrooms.
It's 1:40 and you've hooked up with your last resort, you go back to your place but before you put yourselves at risk, take 5 minutes and show each other that you don't have HIV.
I say this is all around win!
LK
I understand that it's a business decision and I don't begrudge them that, I'm just not interested in taking a lot of my time to develop a presence on their social network only to have them decide that it's not making the kind of revenue they want and killing it.
LK
1980 24.3 mpg. 2011 33.8 mpg. Please stop entertaining the falsehood that cars have not improved in mileage.
The stats that you quote are skewed because of electric vehicles, hybrids and the mileage "credits" that manufacturers are given for producing alternate fuel vehicles.
LK
Come on, Gnome is written by a guy with a hard on for Bill Gates, what do you expect? Which part of Windows did they not try to implement? .Net, mono, .asp and other weirdass shit.
He did say he would love to work for Microsoft.
Since they wouldn't hire him, he is doing his best to turn Linux into Windows.
It would appear that KDE is as well. Perhaps without the Bill Gates gloryhole type comments, but look at what they've done to KDE...
LK
Why would any end user care at all about the CLI? They want an easy to use interface, and a CLI is exactly not that, especially in the realm of mobile apps, possibly the largest growing sector of software development these days
People who know what the fuck they're doing are end users too. I'm a former Apple guy and I find the command line indispensable. I'd be furious if I had no choice about the matter.
LK
If you think it can be "invoked", then you don't understand Godwin's law.
LK
The entire point of EGR is to lower combustion temperatures to reduce nitrogen oxides.
LK
Maybe that's because most PC manufacturers use Apple as an R&D department.
Style is not R & D. There's little question that Apple provides inspiration in the area of style, but their R & D is completely separate from every other company's.
Apple has taken the lead in bringing new technologies (usually developed by others) to the mainstream. Intel deployed USB as a part of their chipsets for years before Apple adopted the technology. When Apple started using USB, the industry followed suit. Apple was the first to make CD-ROM standard equipment in a home computer. Apple was the first major company to standardize on 3.5" floppies and later they were the first to eliminate them.
Apple's track record of bringing new technology to the mainstream is unrivaled, but that is not the same thing as Apple developing these technologies.
Seriously, other than IEEE 1394, what Apple developed standard has gotten mainstream acceptance? I assume that you'll come up with an example or two, but they'll be outliers that I just didn't think of. Not real ground-breaking developments in the IT world.
LK
On average, cars were more fuel efficient 30 years ago. The problem is with pollution controls.
Engines attain maximum efficiency when they run hotter, the problem with hotter running engines is that they produce more nitrogen oxides and cause more smog. So, in the 1980s, they imposed pollution controls to reduce the nitrogen oxides and therefore smog. The only way car makers could meet this was to make engines run cooler, and in so doing reduced the efficiency of the engines.
Miles per gallon hasn't changed much in the average family sedan, but 30 years ago the cars were bigger and heavier and used a lot more steel.
LK
Internships are such a fuzzy concept for most people. Among I.T. folks in particular, I've seen quite the battle cry lately for unpaid internships to be made flat-out illegal. That would be a foolish thing to do and here's why.
Unpaid internships were originally conceived by universities so that the student could come into a company, get a bit of training, and see how the business works from the inside. The company is supposed to derive no benefit from having the intern there. I've worked in places that did this and this kind of experience is very valuable for the student because it gives them a glimpse of the "real world" and hopefully informs their career choices.
Paid internships, in contrast, do have the intern doing real entry-level work and, for the most part, has all of the responsibilities of an employee.
Any company which brings in unpaid interns and has them doing actual work which directly or indirectly benefits the company is probably operating outside the law in most states. Any states which do not expressly prohibit this need to have their citizens stand up and make it so, but with the reason and clear-mindedness to not just make all unpaid internships flat-out illegal as you would propose.
When I was an undergrad I had a well paid internship at the company that's now my employer. There were several things that the company did right. First of all, the internship was open ended. I could continue to be an intern as long as I maintained full time college enrollment. They started me at a respectable entry level wage for someone without a college degree or a lot of experience in the field. Every semester that passed, I got a raise up to the maximum rate. I finished my internship making over $18.00/hr. I would have never considered an unpaid internship. It's amusing that people want to make them illegal, I'd flat out refuse to take one.
LK
My current health insurance is run by a non-profit corporation. It's pretty good.
LK
You are perfectly right!
What scares me is the number of gun related deaths these people will accept, just so they can own guns; on the same note they are absolutely against universal health coverage - how Christian!
This is a great reason to stay away from the US!
We're not against universal health coverage. We're against government run healthcare.
LK
Do you really think that a militia armed with small arms can have any effect against the US army ?
The only recourse you have is the same as any country, persuade the military to turn against the government, or recruit a foreign military to join your side and train and equip your troops (which is how the American war of Independence was won)
Look at Afghanistan and Iraq. Those men did a fair job against the US Military.
Here, in the US, we have many men who had been trained by that same military and have the advantage of the fact that some soldiers will not fire on fellow Americans.
LK
You might have a gun, but I might have a sniper rifle.
And I can limit the effectiveness of your sniper rifle by only arranging to meet you in very public, densely populated places. Like the Starbucks downtown. In Starbucks, the technical superiority of your sniper rifle is trumped by the portability of my P94.
As much as the gun lobby loves to play up the "evening the playing field" argument, it only works only for certain situations, and then the criminals can still way out gun the average citizen.
And I out gun the average criminal.
Just as the micro-stamping was designed to only catch a certain cross-section of the criminal population, guns only help a certain cross-section of the crime victims.
You are incorrect about what micro-stamping is designed for.
LK
> It will be the legal owner, who may not even know that his gun was stolen, who will have his door kicked in.
What's the matter? Mad you can't buy a bunch of shitty pistols down south and then come up to NYC and sell them to thugs for a profit? You SHOULD get your fucking door kicked in, asshole.
Oh, if you're so inclined you still can. And you can do so with no paper trail if you have a corrupt resident of the state in question to help you.
LK
Rifling marks change over time and a new barrel throws it all out anyway.
Most of the technical ideas for tracking weapons are easily circumvented, particularly by organized criminal elements.
Or by people who know a lot about guns. A knowledgeable shooter can remove all of the forensic identifiers from his pistol on site and have a gun that can't be linked to a particular bullet before the police respond.
LK
My gun ownership actually predates the widely held belief that the Second Amendment guarantees a personal right to own and carry.
So, you are either 250 years old or you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. It's always been understood(except by those who are trying to take it away) to be an individual right.
The second amendment's meaning is crystal clear. If you don't like it, gather your votes and try to repeal the amendment. You don't get to ignore the parts of the constitution that you don't like.
LK
It will be the legal owner, who may not even know that his gun was stolen, who will have his door kicked in.
If someone has a gun stolen and they don't notice or report it, they probably deserve to have their door kicked in. They're responsible for it. Police aren't complete idiots anyway, if it's a suburban dad registered to a gun and the killing was drug related a thousand miles away, they will probably knock rather than kick the door down.
Depends on how badly that PD needed to get some face time on the news because contract ewnegotiations are just around the corner...
LK
Exactly right.
They're continuing the line out of a passion, not just for something to do. I'm very impressed with what they've done. I'm more impressed with their incremental improvements than I am with the revolutionary changes of KDE 4.x.
LK
I use KDE 3.5.11 courtesy of the trinity project. I never liked gnome and I despise KDE 4.x.
LK
Rich greeks can just move to somewhere with lower taxes within the EU (more importantly so can spaniards and italians who can simply move one country to the east sort of thing), which reduces the tax base they have to work with. It's like slashing spending in california so schools suck so rich people move to Oregon so their kids get decent schooling but commute to california, robbing the tax base making them cut money on schools further.
That's very much what is happening in the US. The middle-class and wealthy are able to move out of highly taxed urban areas to live in suburban areas with lower taxes, less crime and better schools. How do the urban areas respond? By raising taxes! Which in turn drives more people out. I don't know what the solution to the problem is, but I know what the solution isn't.
LK