And you are a fool if you think there is any difference between them. Both sides want power, and job security. Neither side cares about health care or social security, since they have a better plan for themselves.
This is a such unmitigated bullshit. There are tremendous, meaningful differences between the parties. Romney and Ryan are campaigning on Ryan's plan to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher system which, by all accounts, will cover only a fraction of senior citizens' health care costs.
If you think there's no difference, it's because you're an egotistical little shit who doesn't give a flying fuck what happens to other people.
Oh, how is it that it carries a story about Japan? How is it that I am reading it in Hong Kong? Is this usw.slashdot.org or www.slashdot.org?
Are you seriously asking why a news website from one country would carry a story from another? Or how a news website from one country is accessible in another? Really?
Slashdot is an American website. Have you not noticed how much coverage goes to American politics, as compared to, say, German politics? It's globally available, just as the BBC is. When I read the BBC, I accept that they call soccer football, and when you read an American site, you'll need to accept little cultural quirks (like calling football soccer).
See the little quote things around the 911?
Yeah. Who are they quoting? No one in the story said that.
They're called scare quotes, and they're used to imply that the quoted phrase isn't quite right. Yes, it can be confusing, and maybe it would be better if we had a different punctuation mark for that usage. But even if we did, Slashdot wouldn't support that character, so it's a moot point regardless.
But at least the clubs used in our current legal system are metaphorical. I much prefer them over the very real clubs that would bludgeon me to death because some other tribe is mad that I picked berries on their side of the river.
So, if I were to give thirteen people a pill, and ten of them grew wings and flew away, you would complain that my study hasn't proven that my pills can make people grow wings?
I don't know or particularly care whether or not the study in the article is significant, but it's ridiculous to hold up sample size as the end-all-be-all of what determines significance.
The hole in the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K were all real problems that were solved because we did something about them.
The people saying the Apocalypse is coming on specific dates are loons who have NOTHING to do with the scientists predicting a man-made, dramatic shift in the climate.
But you know all that. You're just using a cynical, insulting debating tactic to shift the blame to the people trying to prevent the problem, and away from those who are making it worse.
Assange is facing extradition to Sweden for sex crimes. His "fear" of extradition is either a ruse to avoid punishment, or the product of his own paranoia.
If the US really wanted him, why would the UK send him to Sweden first? Part of this whole conspiracy theory is that the UK is just America's lap dog. So why didn't they just send him to the US as soon as he showed up?
Look, Assange did some really good stuff at Wikileaks. But sometimes people we respect in their public lives do bad things in their personal lives. Part of being an adult is understanding that flawed men can still do good things.
In real companies, even if you have customers lined up and asking for samples, you first check out at least a handful of the product on your end. It's better to disappoint people by delaying the product a couple weeks than it is to disappoint them by releasing a broken product.
However, given the target market and price point for this particular device, I think people will generally be forgiving of this sort of errata, and it won't really hurt RPi in the long run.
Maybe this is just my opinion, but NO ONE has the ability to strip his titles from him. Sure, the UCI can throw their own record books down the memory hole, and the twits at Wikipedia can gleefully go along with it, but hopefully society has not yet decayed to the point that we rewrite the history books whenever anyone tell us to.
So stereotyping is okay, so long as I spout off a thought terminating cliché afterwards? Cool, let me try!
Atheists are all arrogant pricks who pretend to be logical but are just as prone to fallacious thinking as the worst religious fundie. Hey, don't argue, sometimes a broad brush is the best tool for the job.
Yes, their "fuses" are technically thermistors, but everyone calls them resettable fuses or PTC fuses or polyfuses. It's not poor labeling.
It is, however, bad BOM selection. It took me thirty seconds on Newark just now to find a resettable fuse with 200 mA limit and just 650 mOhms max initial resistance. Sure, costs two cents more, and it lets through a bit more current. You know what lets through even more current? All the 1 ohm resistors and shorts that people are going to mod into their boards to fix this problem.
Mistakes happen, lord knows I've made enough myself, but did they not test the electrical specs on these boards before sending them out to customers?
If the US were really out to get him, why did they allow him to leave Sweden? Why wasn't he arrested in the UK prior to his arrival in the embassy? Why would the US want the UK to send him to Sweden, instead of sending him directly to the US?
The entire conspiracy theory is a bunch paranoid BS, invented by a very flawed individual who absolutely loves being in the spotlight.
It's a cost-benefit analysis. There is tremendous benefit in having passenger seats, to such an extent that it outweighs the cost of increased risk. The benefit of being able to text RIGHT NOW instead of ten minutes from now when you're safely at your destination, however....
Win 8 is an improvement over an already excellent Win7 with lots of cool new features. I'm running RTM Enterprise on a Dell E6520 laptop, and it's flawless. 5 minutes of training - some new shortcut keys, and I'm more productive than before.
I don't suppose those five minutes of training occurred in a conference room in Redmond, by any chance?
Fine, you can't call in a false bomb threat then. Plenty of present-day examples for that.
You probably can't falsely shout fire in a crowded theater either. I don't believe it's been tested. The decision in which the phrase originated was later overturned, but that not because shouting fire in a theater is okay.
The original decision said that protesting the draft was akin to shouting fire in a theater, since it would cause harm to the nation. The glaringly obvious flaw in that reasoning is the question of who decides that protesting the draft is harmful? But when it comes to inciting a stampede in a crowded place, it is obviously harmful.
That's a separate incident from the one I referred to. Here's a (low quality) video of what I was talking about. The fact that he once said Obama wasn't a Muslim does not mean that he wasn't embracing the hatred as a means to an end.
Furthermore, I did not stereotype at all. I said there were crazy members that have taken over the Republican party from within, and that since it seems to late to save the party, the remaining sane members should abandon ship and start a new one.
This is what happens when you sell your soul to the crazy extremists. The Republicans embraced and encouraged the deluded fringes of society by spreading lies about "government death panels" and what not. It got them a lot of votes in 2010. But it was a Faustian bargain. The crazies have taken over the party from within, and serious candidates like Gary Johnson and Jon Huntsman don't stand a chance. Instead, we get the likes of Gingrich and Trump and Santorum.
I'm reminded of a point in the 2008 campaigns. McCain was giving a speech, and mentioned Obama. The crowd went wild, screaming things like "Terrorist!" and "Kill Him!". McCain winced, having clearly heard and been bothered by the remarks. But did he speak up? Did he change his campaign, and drop the "terrorist sympathizer" rhetoric? No. In my mind, that marked the death of the GOP. What's left is akin to Old Yeller. Dangerous, violent, and needs to be put down for everyone's sake (figuratively -- we're talking about the party, not the people in it). Let the sane members form a new party. They're being forced out of office by teabagger primaries anyway, and I'm sure the Blue Dog Democrats would join them.
Step down off that high horse of yours. Anyone who so much as knows how to copy & paste an error message into Google will get asked for computer advice. That is, unless they're so full of themselves that they look down on someone who happens not to know some random bit of knowledge. Those people will drive away anyone who might otherwise ask them for help.
I think the GP's point is that the Fukushima plants were exposed to far worse conditions than the Chernobyl plant, and yet emerged much better, thus proving the efficacy of the safety devices and procedures in place.
For the requisite car analogy: Fukushima is a modern sedan in a head-on collision, from which the driver walks away. Chernobyl is a Pinto getting into a fender bender and exploding.
Nonsense. The news channels could easily explain it in thirty seconds. Something like:
"Radioactive exposure is measured in rems. The average American is exposed to 0.6 rems a year. People around Fukushima will be exposed to an extra 0.1 rems, which won't hurt them at all. Now, back to our coverage of the entire villages that were swept away by the actual disaster."
They choose to sensationalize and fan the fires of ignorance because it makes for more exciting news, which gets them better ratings, which gets them more money. Simple as that.
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to pull out the old "The US is just as bad" nonsense in response to the Pussy Riot trial. I never could have imagined that person would be so self-centered as to suggest that Russia's problems are our fault, as if the people over there are a bunch of children who couldn't possibly deal with their own problems and need a "grown-up" to come fix things. Yeah, I'm sure the world would be so much better off if the US had sent occupying forces over in the wake of the collapse of the USSR.
If the judge is allowed to use their discretion, in what way does that make the law more vulnerable to being exploited? And don't try to say bribery, since if we're assuming a bribed judge, it doesn't matter how clear the law is.
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And you are a fool if you think there is any difference between them. Both sides want power, and job security. Neither side cares about health care or social security, since they have a better plan for themselves.
This is a such unmitigated bullshit. There are tremendous, meaningful differences between the parties. Romney and Ryan are campaigning on Ryan's plan to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher system which, by all accounts, will cover only a fraction of senior citizens' health care costs.
If you think there's no difference, it's because you're an egotistical little shit who doesn't give a flying fuck what happens to other people.
Oh, how is it that it carries a story about Japan? How is it that I am reading it in Hong Kong? Is this usw.slashdot.org or www.slashdot.org?
Are you seriously asking why a news website from one country would carry a story from another? Or how a news website from one country is accessible in another? Really?
Slashdot is an American website. Have you not noticed how much coverage goes to American politics, as compared to, say, German politics? It's globally available, just as the BBC is. When I read the BBC, I accept that they call soccer football, and when you read an American site, you'll need to accept little cultural quirks (like calling football soccer).
See the little quote things around the 911?
Yeah. Who are they quoting? No one in the story said that.
They're called scare quotes, and they're used to imply that the quoted phrase isn't quite right. Yes, it can be confusing, and maybe it would be better if we had a different punctuation mark for that usage. But even if we did, Slashdot wouldn't support that character, so it's a moot point regardless.
But at least the clubs used in our current legal system are metaphorical. I much prefer them over the very real clubs that would bludgeon me to death because some other tribe is mad that I picked berries on their side of the river.
So, if I were to give thirteen people a pill, and ten of them grew wings and flew away, you would complain that my study hasn't proven that my pills can make people grow wings?
I don't know or particularly care whether or not the study in the article is significant, but it's ridiculous to hold up sample size as the end-all-be-all of what determines significance.
You can't determine statistical significance by looking solely at the sample size. There's actual math involved, and they did that math.
The hole in the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K were all real problems that were solved because we did something about them.
The people saying the Apocalypse is coming on specific dates are loons who have NOTHING to do with the scientists predicting a man-made, dramatic shift in the climate.
But you know all that. You're just using a cynical, insulting debating tactic to shift the blame to the people trying to prevent the problem, and away from those who are making it worse.
Assange is facing extradition to Sweden for sex crimes. His "fear" of extradition is either a ruse to avoid punishment, or the product of his own paranoia.
If the US really wanted him, why would the UK send him to Sweden first? Part of this whole conspiracy theory is that the UK is just America's lap dog. So why didn't they just send him to the US as soon as he showed up?
Look, Assange did some really good stuff at Wikileaks. But sometimes people we respect in their public lives do bad things in their personal lives. Part of being an adult is understanding that flawed men can still do good things.
In real companies, even if you have customers lined up and asking for samples, you first check out at least a handful of the product on your end. It's better to disappoint people by delaying the product a couple weeks than it is to disappoint them by releasing a broken product.
However, given the target market and price point for this particular device, I think people will generally be forgiving of this sort of errata, and it won't really hurt RPi in the long run.
Maybe this is just my opinion, but NO ONE has the ability to strip his titles from him. Sure, the UCI can throw their own record books down the memory hole, and the twits at Wikipedia can gleefully go along with it, but hopefully society has not yet decayed to the point that we rewrite the history books whenever anyone tell us to.
So stereotyping is okay, so long as I spout off a thought terminating cliché afterwards? Cool, let me try!
Atheists are all arrogant pricks who pretend to be logical but are just as prone to fallacious thinking as the worst religious fundie. Hey, don't argue, sometimes a broad brush is the best tool for the job.
Poor British people. Everyone's got such a hate-on for America, that no one ever gives the UK credit for their plots!
Yes, their "fuses" are technically thermistors, but everyone calls them resettable fuses or PTC fuses or polyfuses. It's not poor labeling.
It is, however, bad BOM selection. It took me thirty seconds on Newark just now to find a resettable fuse with 200 mA limit and just 650 mOhms max initial resistance. Sure, costs two cents more, and it lets through a bit more current. You know what lets through even more current? All the 1 ohm resistors and shorts that people are going to mod into their boards to fix this problem.
Mistakes happen, lord knows I've made enough myself, but did they not test the electrical specs on these boards before sending them out to customers?
If the US were really out to get him, why did they allow him to leave Sweden? Why wasn't he arrested in the UK prior to his arrival in the embassy? Why would the US want the UK to send him to Sweden, instead of sending him directly to the US?
The entire conspiracy theory is a bunch paranoid BS, invented by a very flawed individual who absolutely loves being in the spotlight.
It's a cost-benefit analysis. There is tremendous benefit in having passenger seats, to such an extent that it outweighs the cost of increased risk. The benefit of being able to text RIGHT NOW instead of ten minutes from now when you're safely at your destination, however....
Win 8 is an improvement over an already excellent Win7 with lots of cool new features. I'm running RTM Enterprise on a Dell E6520 laptop, and it's flawless. 5 minutes of training - some new shortcut keys, and I'm more productive than before.
I don't suppose those five minutes of training occurred in a conference room in Redmond, by any chance?
Fine, you can't call in a false bomb threat then. Plenty of present-day examples for that.
You probably can't falsely shout fire in a crowded theater either. I don't believe it's been tested. The decision in which the phrase originated was later overturned, but that not because shouting fire in a theater is okay.
The original decision said that protesting the draft was akin to shouting fire in a theater, since it would cause harm to the nation. The glaringly obvious flaw in that reasoning is the question of who decides that protesting the draft is harmful? But when it comes to inciting a stampede in a crowded place, it is obviously harmful.
That's a separate incident from the one I referred to. Here's a (low quality) video of what I was talking about. The fact that he once said Obama wasn't a Muslim does not mean that he wasn't embracing the hatred as a means to an end.
Furthermore, I did not stereotype at all. I said there were crazy members that have taken over the Republican party from within, and that since it seems to late to save the party, the remaining sane members should abandon ship and start a new one.
This is what happens when you sell your soul to the crazy extremists. The Republicans embraced and encouraged the deluded fringes of society by spreading lies about "government death panels" and what not. It got them a lot of votes in 2010. But it was a Faustian bargain. The crazies have taken over the party from within, and serious candidates like Gary Johnson and Jon Huntsman don't stand a chance. Instead, we get the likes of Gingrich and Trump and Santorum.
I'm reminded of a point in the 2008 campaigns. McCain was giving a speech, and mentioned Obama. The crowd went wild, screaming things like "Terrorist!" and "Kill Him!". McCain winced, having clearly heard and been bothered by the remarks. But did he speak up? Did he change his campaign, and drop the "terrorist sympathizer" rhetoric? No. In my mind, that marked the death of the GOP. What's left is akin to Old Yeller. Dangerous, violent, and needs to be put down for everyone's sake (figuratively -- we're talking about the party, not the people in it). Let the sane members form a new party. They're being forced out of office by teabagger primaries anyway, and I'm sure the Blue Dog Democrats would join them.
Step down off that high horse of yours. Anyone who so much as knows how to copy & paste an error message into Google will get asked for computer advice. That is, unless they're so full of themselves that they look down on someone who happens not to know some random bit of knowledge. Those people will drive away anyone who might otherwise ask them for help.
Were you really? Why?
I think the GP's point is that the Fukushima plants were exposed to far worse conditions than the Chernobyl plant, and yet emerged much better, thus proving the efficacy of the safety devices and procedures in place.
For the requisite car analogy: Fukushima is a modern sedan in a head-on collision, from which the driver walks away. Chernobyl is a Pinto getting into a fender bender and exploding.
Nonsense. The news channels could easily explain it in thirty seconds. Something like:
"Radioactive exposure is measured in rems. The average American is exposed to 0.6 rems a year. People around Fukushima will be exposed to an extra 0.1 rems, which won't hurt them at all. Now, back to our coverage of the entire villages that were swept away by the actual disaster."
They choose to sensationalize and fan the fires of ignorance because it makes for more exciting news, which gets them better ratings, which gets them more money. Simple as that.
Apocalyptic?
I was wondering how long it would take for someone to pull out the old "The US is just as bad" nonsense in response to the Pussy Riot trial. I never could have imagined that person would be so self-centered as to suggest that Russia's problems are our fault, as if the people over there are a bunch of children who couldn't possibly deal with their own problems and need a "grown-up" to come fix things. Yeah, I'm sure the world would be so much better off if the US had sent occupying forces over in the wake of the collapse of the USSR.
How does ambiguity allow an exploit?
If the judge is allowed to use their discretion, in what way does that make the law more vulnerable to being exploited? And don't try to say bribery, since if we're assuming a bribed judge, it doesn't matter how clear the law is.