Ultra-nationalist, check! Idolize the military, check! Desire to purge "degenerative effects on culture" (e.g. gay marriage, non-English speakers, political correctness), check! Promote political violence (i.e. "second amendment solutions"), check! Support single party rule (putting a return to power over policy goals), check!
The only criterion they don't meet is that they sell out to the wealthy capitalists too often, but if they continue to embrace the Tea Party, they'll end up meeting that criterion as well.
The Republicans weren't always this way. Just five years ago, I'd never have accused them of being fascists. But today? Hell yes they are.
Because in modern society, the right-wing fascists have changed the definition of "communist" to "anything we don't like". It's a very effective means by which to control the large segment of the public who were brought up fearing nuclear war with an actual communist country.
No, he's an Independent. And it's not like he's independent in name only. He already screwed over the Dems and the country by joining the Repubs in filibustering a public option health care plan. That's why the trolls aren't out... because even the trolls know that he can't be attached to either party.
Oh, except for you. Congratulations! You are officially the stupidest troll on Slashdot! Quite an honor, I'd say, as the competition is very fierce.
Oh come on. You really think a politician could pass any of those laws without getting voted out? That goes beyond mere exaggeration to outright paranoia. If you believe what you wrote, you should seek counseling.
I understand the point of a contact sport. But usually contact sports involve padding so that the players don't receive any permanent, life-altering injuries. I see no reason to have a contact sport without protective gear, unless the goal of the sport is to satiate fans' bloodlust.
The thing with baseball is that, as you've said, you really need the whole park view to see the strategy involved. But at the same time, the TV angle lets you see the individual pitches so much better. It's so much cooler when you can actually see the movement on the breaking balls, or see the batter swing to early on a changeup. You miss out on that stuff if you go in person. There really doesn't seem to be an optimal way to view the games.
I only watched a few minutes of the first video, and that was pretty pathetic. Most of those hits aren't even as bad as a home plate collision in baseball.
But more importantly, why the fuck do you consider it a selling point that people get hit hard in a sport with no padding? If you just want to watch people get career ending broken bones and possibly fatal concussions, go watch MMA or boxing. Stop pretending you care about the skill and athleticism, and accept that you'd have been happier living in Roman times.
Hurr hurr, you sure are clever! Imagine that, people having words for things!
You know, I've heard cricket doesn't actually involve any crickets! They should call it "bunch of guys standing around on a field for weeks at a time ball"! See, I'm clever too!
Even if every single major league team in the Big 4 sports was the financial equivalent of the Yankees (which most don't even come close to), you'd be looking at less than 50 billion a year - an amount comparable to highway maintenance alone.
No, it's 0%. No one cares what a bunch of anarchist losers on Slashdot think. And even if they did, why apologize? Slashdotters will call for your death till the end of days for any slight, real or imagined. We'll still be seeing people get modded up for making jokes about CIQ's "rootkit" months from now. Just look around this thread. The company was falsely accused of making a rootkit, over-reacted, apologized, and you still get people insisting that heads roll for this.
It's extremism one-upsmanship. Everyone wants to prove that they're even more outraged than the other guy, because that's how you show how cool you are and get modded up.
So, is GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire series also considered illegal child pornography? A quick Google search says no. And yet the descriptions of sex involving people who'd be considered children by modern standards are numerous and far more graphic than anything in the Bible.
Oh, but I'm sorry, your point was to take a shot at religion, not to actually say anything true or interesting.
It's extra meaningless since the robot was allowed to map out the maze ahead of time. You might as well say "robot is capable of moving at x m/s where x = length of path / 3.921 s."
That's not a price war. The Kindle dropped their prices a while ago, not as part of some Black Friday promotion. And the iPad is in a completely different class of devices. I guess you might say that they're offering the sale to dissuade people from getting the Kindle Fire this Christmas, but the more likely scenario is that all of these are just standard Black Friday deals. This is less of a story and more like one of those snail mail sales flyers they spam out every week.
But hey, it will give all the fanboys a reason to argue over which device is best, which I suppose was the whole point.
I make the RF chips used in this sort of meter. The signal is very narrow band. The 20 dB bandwidth is under 2 MHz. They also only transmit in very short bursts. Plus, the power output is user configurable down to around -35 dBm, to help reduce interference even more. Your wireless mouse is noisier.
So what do you think is more likely... A narrow, low-power, low-duty cycle signal is causing major interference? Or a bunch of old people, who know that new-fangled smart meter just got installed, are suddenly noticing a bunch of new "problems"?
Character 1) *Stupid, baseless shit* Character 2) You're exaggerating! Character 1) Oh, really? Writer) *Repeats stupid, baseless shit* Reader) Oh, the writer said it twice, in two different ways? It must be true!
That comic is terrible, and if you think he's making a good point, you're a sucker. XKCD has good comics. That is not one of them. It supports willful ignorance, which is never a good thing. I'd expect anyone geeky enough to read xkcd to be smart enough to know that quality really does vary from one object to another.
Is Twilight as good as Lord of the Rings? Is Will Smith's I, Robot as good as Blade Runner? Is Ke$ha as good as [insert top artist from your genre of choice]? Are spaghetti-o's as good as an actual pasta dinner? Is a microwaved gas station burrito as good as authentic Mexican?
Quality is real. Trying to be "above" quality, like you're too cool to have an opinion on beers or wines or foods, just makes you dull and ignorant. It's okay to have a preference. It doesn't make you a snob.
Self-publishing is an option. My quantum professor wrote his own modular textbook and distributed it as a series of PDF files on his website, and this was several years ago, back when kindle was a verb. No publishers required, and it was one of the better texts I had. Another professor at the school (in fluid dynamics, I think -- I had a friend in the class) did the same.
Now, of course those texts were only for his own students. He had us each bring in something like $20 for access to the files, plus an extra $10 if you wanted it all printed out. It would not have been easy to collect money if he had wanted to sell it to other classes at other schools, and it's an awful lot of work to just give away. Back then, if you wanted to really make money from your text, you needed to publish a traditional book. That's no longer strictly the case, but I admit I don't know how much work it is to go from a bundle of PDF documents on your harddrive to e-books for sale at Amazon and B&N. Perhaps publishers add enough convenience as to be worth it, but if nothing else the threat of self-publishing might get you some leverage.
Do the cops ever chat about planting drugs on victims (let's not call them suspects) over the radio? I'd assume that even the stupidest pig would know to keep that sort of thing between him and his partner.
At the start? Ease back on the rhetoric (calling it a rootkit, for example), and assign the blame where it's due. Odds are CIQ wouldn't have even cared if he hadn't set out to attack them.
Now? I don't know. The C&D letter is way too demanding to simply submit to. He picked a fight and he's got one. It's a shame he picked the wrong target.
Sure, but that's just their (improper) reaction to the initial wave of criticism. This guy decided to beat up on them for no good reason, and they fought back using dirty and immoral means. Neither side comes out smelling like roses here, and in the meantime we're all forgetting about the groups that are actually responsible for the whole thing.
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Let's see...
Ultra-nationalist, check!
Idolize the military, check!
Desire to purge "degenerative effects on culture" (e.g. gay marriage, non-English speakers, political correctness), check!
Promote political violence (i.e. "second amendment solutions"), check!
Support single party rule (putting a return to power over policy goals), check!
The only criterion they don't meet is that they sell out to the wealthy capitalists too often, but if they continue to embrace the Tea Party, they'll end up meeting that criterion as well.
The Republicans weren't always this way. Just five years ago, I'd never have accused them of being fascists. But today? Hell yes they are.
Because in modern society, the right-wing fascists have changed the definition of "communist" to "anything we don't like". It's a very effective means by which to control the large segment of the public who were brought up fearing nuclear war with an actual communist country.
No, he's an Independent. And it's not like he's independent in name only. He already screwed over the Dems and the country by joining the Repubs in filibustering a public option health care plan. That's why the trolls aren't out... because even the trolls know that he can't be attached to either party.
Oh, except for you. Congratulations! You are officially the stupidest troll on Slashdot! Quite an honor, I'd say, as the competition is very fierce.
No, they have fewer injuries because they don't hit as hard. They'd have even fewer injuries if they used padding.
You're confusing correlation with causation. It's a common error.
Oh come on. You really think a politician could pass any of those laws without getting voted out? That goes beyond mere exaggeration to outright paranoia. If you believe what you wrote, you should seek counseling.
I understand the point of a contact sport. But usually contact sports involve padding so that the players don't receive any permanent, life-altering injuries. I see no reason to have a contact sport without protective gear, unless the goal of the sport is to satiate fans' bloodlust.
The thing with baseball is that, as you've said, you really need the whole park view to see the strategy involved. But at the same time, the TV angle lets you see the individual pitches so much better. It's so much cooler when you can actually see the movement on the breaking balls, or see the batter swing to early on a changeup. You miss out on that stuff if you go in person. There really doesn't seem to be an optimal way to view the games.
I only watched a few minutes of the first video, and that was pretty pathetic. Most of those hits aren't even as bad as a home plate collision in baseball.
But more importantly, why the fuck do you consider it a selling point that people get hit hard in a sport with no padding? If you just want to watch people get career ending broken bones and possibly fatal concussions, go watch MMA or boxing. Stop pretending you care about the skill and athleticism, and accept that you'd have been happier living in Roman times.
Hurr hurr, you sure are clever! Imagine that, people having words for things!
You know, I've heard cricket doesn't actually involve any crickets! They should call it "bunch of guys standing around on a field for weeks at a time ball"! See, I'm clever too!
Ever heard of sabermetrics? The math that those people do as a hobby goes far, far beyond anything a computer nerd does.
Even if every single major league team in the Big 4 sports was the financial equivalent of the Yankees (which most don't even come close to), you'd be looking at less than 50 billion a year - an amount comparable to highway maintenance alone.
Countries are expensive.
The alternative is to test how fast the robots can map the maze, since that's the part that's actually interesting.
No, it's 0%. No one cares what a bunch of anarchist losers on Slashdot think. And even if they did, why apologize? Slashdotters will call for your death till the end of days for any slight, real or imagined. We'll still be seeing people get modded up for making jokes about CIQ's "rootkit" months from now. Just look around this thread. The company was falsely accused of making a rootkit, over-reacted, apologized, and you still get people insisting that heads roll for this.
It's extremism one-upsmanship. Everyone wants to prove that they're even more outraged than the other guy, because that's how you show how cool you are and get modded up.
Oh look, an internet atheist ranting against a religion he has only a child-like understanding of. Never seen that before.
Hey, how about next time you at least read the first few paragraphs of the wikipedia article on hell before rattling off your favorite talking points?
So, is GRRM's Song of Ice and Fire series also considered illegal child pornography? A quick Google search says no. And yet the descriptions of sex involving people who'd be considered children by modern standards are numerous and far more graphic than anything in the Bible.
Oh, but I'm sorry, your point was to take a shot at religion, not to actually say anything true or interesting.
It's extra meaningless since the robot was allowed to map out the maze ahead of time. You might as well say "robot is capable of moving at x m/s where x = length of path / 3.921 s."
That's not a price war. The Kindle dropped their prices a while ago, not as part of some Black Friday promotion. And the iPad is in a completely different class of devices. I guess you might say that they're offering the sale to dissuade people from getting the Kindle Fire this Christmas, but the more likely scenario is that all of these are just standard Black Friday deals. This is less of a story and more like one of those snail mail sales flyers they spam out every week.
But hey, it will give all the fanboys a reason to argue over which device is best, which I suppose was the whole point.
I make the RF chips used in this sort of meter. The signal is very narrow band. The 20 dB bandwidth is under 2 MHz. They also only transmit in very short bursts. Plus, the power output is user configurable down to around -35 dBm, to help reduce interference even more. Your wireless mouse is noisier.
So what do you think is more likely... A narrow, low-power, low-duty cycle signal is causing major interference? Or a bunch of old people, who know that new-fangled smart meter just got installed, are suddenly noticing a bunch of new "problems"?
Character 1) *Stupid, baseless shit*
Character 2) You're exaggerating!
Character 1) Oh, really?
Writer) *Repeats stupid, baseless shit*
Reader) Oh, the writer said it twice, in two different ways? It must be true!
That comic is terrible, and if you think he's making a good point, you're a sucker. XKCD has good comics. That is not one of them. It supports willful ignorance, which is never a good thing. I'd expect anyone geeky enough to read xkcd to be smart enough to know that quality really does vary from one object to another.
Is Twilight as good as Lord of the Rings?
Is Will Smith's I, Robot as good as Blade Runner?
Is Ke$ha as good as [insert top artist from your genre of choice]?
Are spaghetti-o's as good as an actual pasta dinner?
Is a microwaved gas station burrito as good as authentic Mexican?
Quality is real. Trying to be "above" quality, like you're too cool to have an opinion on beers or wines or foods, just makes you dull and ignorant. It's okay to have a preference. It doesn't make you a snob.
Self-publishing is an option. My quantum professor wrote his own modular textbook and distributed it as a series of PDF files on his website, and this was several years ago, back when kindle was a verb. No publishers required, and it was one of the better texts I had. Another professor at the school (in fluid dynamics, I think -- I had a friend in the class) did the same.
Now, of course those texts were only for his own students. He had us each bring in something like $20 for access to the files, plus an extra $10 if you wanted it all printed out. It would not have been easy to collect money if he had wanted to sell it to other classes at other schools, and it's an awful lot of work to just give away. Back then, if you wanted to really make money from your text, you needed to publish a traditional book. That's no longer strictly the case, but I admit I don't know how much work it is to go from a bundle of PDF documents on your harddrive to e-books for sale at Amazon and B&N. Perhaps publishers add enough convenience as to be worth it, but if nothing else the threat of self-publishing might get you some leverage.
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Do the cops ever chat about planting drugs on victims (let's not call them suspects) over the radio? I'd assume that even the stupidest pig would know to keep that sort of thing between him and his partner.
First mod in the door goes for "insightful" rather than "funny". Meta-humor or anosognosia? You be the judge!
At the start? Ease back on the rhetoric (calling it a rootkit, for example), and assign the blame where it's due. Odds are CIQ wouldn't have even cared if he hadn't set out to attack them.
Now? I don't know. The C&D letter is way too demanding to simply submit to. He picked a fight and he's got one. It's a shame he picked the wrong target.
Sure, but that's just their (improper) reaction to the initial wave of criticism. This guy decided to beat up on them for no good reason, and they fought back using dirty and immoral means. Neither side comes out smelling like roses here, and in the meantime we're all forgetting about the groups that are actually responsible for the whole thing.