I have seen this "issue" before, and every time I've seen it, it was because the load on the UPS was higher than it was rated for, and it was unable to handle the initial spike when it switched to its internal battery. Try using a Kill-a-watt or similar device to measure how much current all of your devices are actually pulling and make sure your UPS is designed to handle more than that.
the batteries need replacing every couple of years, and are difficult to dispose of.
Difficult? You drive a few miles to your nearest household hazardous waste disposal facility and hand it to them. You're already doing that for your fluorescent bulbs, right?
and the Wii forcefully removing dvd playback at a hardware level
I'm not sure where you're getting that from. The Wii didn't remove DVD playback "at a hardware level." Nintendo just didn't pay the licensing fees necessary for DVD playback in order to reduce the cost of the system, so they can't legally let you play DVDs on the Wii. If for some reason you don't have any other devices that can play DVDs, you can hack the Wii and install homebrew software that will play DVDs on it.
How do you know when you know somebody well enough to know that they wouldn't hide a camera? And if somebody is hiding a camera, how is it reasonable to expect the other person to search their surroundings thoroughly enough to discover that the camera is hidden?
Maybe a more reasonable solution is that it should just be illegal to take a picture of somebody in a private situation without their permission. It is not "stupidity" to expect other people to be decent and follow the law.
This would be a better argument if it weren't for the fact that the majority of the ten commandments are not actually illegal, so it's entirely fallacious to say our legal system is based on them.
I'm not argument against any particular position, I'm saying you are factually wrong. Henderson is referring specifically to the monument of the ten commandments that is at the Oklahoma capitol, which is an overtly Christian monument placed there by Christian politicians. He may have a bias against Christians, but just because he used the right word to describe the situation does not necessarily mean so.
It's because "majority rule" is not actually the law of the land; what you describe is the proverbial two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. That's not how a representative democracy works.
There are laws that regulate what the government is allowed to do, and one of those things is that they are not allowed to promote any particular religion. The "symbol" in question is only historically significant because of the religious principles it represents. Even if no taxpayer dollars were used, which I am questionable about -- who cleans it? what's the land it's on worth? -- if they allow it, they still have an obligation to allow anybody to display any religious symbol they want on government property; otherwise they are favoring one particular religion.
Please, don't be intentionally obtuse. The subject of discussion at hand is the tablet of the ten commandments displayed at the Oklahoma state capitol, and it is very definitely a specific set of them. Go look up pictures of it.
Islam does not accept the authority of the Bible (and therefore the ten commandments), and there are multiple versions of the commandments; the version on the tablet is not the version used in the Jewish Talmud.
So, I think it is safe to say that this particular monument is distinctly Christian.
To be fair, the author probably does have a particular problem with Christians, since it is Christian politicians who dominate US politics and establish displays like this. He probably would've said "Jewish" or "Muslim" if the government was predominantly Jewish or Muslim.
I'm a lapsed Catholic (all of the guilt and none of the Sunday social commitments!) and a militant agnostic (I don't know AND NEITHER DO YOU DAMMIT!)
Actually, a better description of your position would be agnostic atheism. Theism is a declaration of whether you worship a supernatural entity or not; clearly you do not, so you are an atheist. Gnosticism is a declaration of whether the existence of supernatural entities is knowable or not, so you are also agnostic. The two terms are compatible with one another.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that this isn't health care, this is health care insurance.
You pay the insurance company every month, and then if you need to go to the doctor or have an operation, you still have to pay for that, too. If you're lucky, the insurance company will cover some or most of it, but you'll still be paying. My wife had to have surgery earlier this year, and I'm on a fairly good insurance plan, but between all of the doctor's visits, tests, and the hospital stay and surgery itself, it easily cost us several hundred dollars. The insurance company covered several thousand, which is certainly nice, but it still wasn't cheap for us.
Fortunately, her surgeon managed to convince the insurance company that it was a mandatory procedure. Insurance companies also frequently pay little or nothing for procedures or drugs that they consider optional. My wife also has a pill she takes to prevent debilitating migraines, which they consider optional, so we get to pay a pretty good amount for that. We can afford it, but a poorer family definitely would not be able to.
Personally, I think having a health care system like Canada's would be great, but the ACA is far from that.
It's a bit disingenuous to say "It's illegal to sell Teslas in Texas." It's more accurate to say "Tesla refuses to follow the law in Texas."
The purpose of the law is to prevent car manufacturers from being able to own vertical monopolies, which is exactly what Tesla wants to do, and it's been around since long before Tesla existed. There is no reason why they can't follow the same rules as everybody else.
Sorry, the car only has 30 miles of charge left, going to the butcher would take 42 miles to get there and home.
Where do you live that the nearest butcher is 21 miles away? For what matter, does your wife regularly have you drive an hour (assuming your drive to the butcher is not a straight shot with a >=60 mph speed limit and no traffic) just to go pick up an ingredient for dinner? You'll be spending more money on fuel that it costs to actually get a decent steak. It sounds to me like you need to optimize your grocery shopping habits a bit.
What I think a lot of people don't realize is, as long as an electric car's maximum range is far enough to get where you need to go and back, the charge time doesn't matter. It's not like a gasoline engine where you drain the tank gradually over the course of a week and then have to go to a refueling station; it's always plugged in when you're at home, and if you're not constantly going in-and-out, it will always be full when you leave.
The 85 kWh Tesla Model S, for example, has a 300 mile range. How often do you drive more than 300 miles in a row without stopping for a few hours at some point? For some people that's an issue, but most people do not make trips that long on a regular basis.
The Metacritic and Gameranking scores (67%-69%) suggest that the title you recommend isn't all that special.
Are we talking about the same Metacritic and Gameranking that gave Final Fantasy XIII an 83 and 84%, respectively? I'm not sure how much you should trust them if you think Square's games have been terrible for the last 16 years.
You're pretty ignorant of Christianity, I see, as are those who modded you up. It is by no means "hate the sinner, not the sin."
As the other person who already replied noted, I misspoke and meant "love" rather than "hate" there, but I know that concentrating on what I really meant makes it harder for you to reply.
I pointed out that being homosexual was no sin; that's how God made her
What gives you the authority to decide what is a sin and what's not? Has your friend read Romans 1:18-32?
And also, that your sins have been paid for in blood. The bad part is, every time you sin, Jesus gets hit with that cat-o-nine-tails again.
What I find really confusing is, why did your God feel the need to have his own son tortured to death for sins I have committed because of how he made me? Furthermore, why am I obligated to feel guilty because he had his son tortured to death? Considering that Jesus is theoretically reigning in heaven right now, was it really even a sacrifice on his part? If I do something that hurts somebody, I am perfectly capable of taking responsibility for my own actions.
So is your offensive slander.
You see, the very fact that you think saying something that you find offensive is deserving of punishment is why I can't take you seriously when you say "Christians are supposed to love everybody." I suppose it's ok because you believe somebody other than yourself will be doing the punishment and torture?
Only about 7% of all wars had religious motivations. They aren't "uncountable".
The funny thing is you say "only about 7%" as though that were a negligible number. I see that and think first "citation needed?", and then think that means roughly 1 in 15 wars were started because people believed their imaginary friend told them to go kill people rather than for tangible things like natural resources or freedom. That seems scarily high.
It's typically phrased "love the sinner, hate the sin", but given the context of your comment, I think you simply accidentally wrote "hate" instead of "love".
Oops, you're right. Darn Slashdot's lack of an edit button....
I'm sure you're aware that plenty of them (not all, of course) believe that homosexuality is a choice.
I know, but I prefer not to even entertain that line of thought when discussing things. It's usually not even possible to talk to the people who still have the "It's a choice!" mindset.
The "hate the sinner, not the sin" mentality is one of the biggest pieces of cognitive dissonance affecting modern Christianity. A person's sexuality is an integral part of their self; it is as much a part of them as the color of their skin. When you tell somebody "homosexuality is a sin," what you are actually saying to them is, "You are fundamentally wrong and deserve to be tortured eternally because of who you fall in love with. I believe society should oppress you and not allow you to have the same freedoms as heterosexual people."
You may say it with a smiling face, but it's still hatred.
Are you implying the site should be made more difficult to use so that people with poor educations can't get health insurance? Hmm, I think you might have a promising future as a Republican congressman...
* Lack of new IP's - Almost everything you publish is a remake of one of their core titles (Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, Kirby and Metroid in that order.) Many of these IP's are getting close to their 40's.
I don't think "remake" means what you think it means.
But that aside: Animal Crossing, Xenoblade / X, Wonderful 101, Professor Layton, Pikmin, Dillon's Rolling Western, Pushmo, HarmoKnight, Art Academy, Spirit Camera, Pilotwings, Golden Sun, just to name a few that have come out in the last few years... how many of those count as remakes of "40-year-old" IPs?
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I have seen this "issue" before, and every time I've seen it, it was because the load on the UPS was higher than it was rated for, and it was unable to handle the initial spike when it switched to its internal battery. Try using a Kill-a-watt or similar device to measure how much current all of your devices are actually pulling and make sure your UPS is designed to handle more than that.
the batteries need replacing every couple of years, and are difficult to dispose of.
Difficult? You drive a few miles to your nearest household hazardous waste disposal facility and hand it to them. You're already doing that for your fluorescent bulbs, right?
Sure, of course. But all the UPSes in the world aren't going to help when a capacitor on that particular system's motherboard pops.
and the Wii forcefully removing dvd playback at a hardware level
I'm not sure where you're getting that from. The Wii didn't remove DVD playback "at a hardware level." Nintendo just didn't pay the licensing fees necessary for DVD playback in order to reduce the cost of the system, so they can't legally let you play DVDs on the Wii. If for some reason you don't have any other devices that can play DVDs, you can hack the Wii and install homebrew software that will play DVDs on it.
Linode is comparable. Better in some ways, worse in others, but overall about on par.
How do you know when you know somebody well enough to know that they wouldn't hide a camera? And if somebody is hiding a camera, how is it reasonable to expect the other person to search their surroundings thoroughly enough to discover that the camera is hidden?
Maybe a more reasonable solution is that it should just be illegal to take a picture of somebody in a private situation without their permission. It is not "stupidity" to expect other people to be decent and follow the law.
There are multiple versions of the ten commandments, and the version on display on the monument at the Oklahoma capitol is a Christian version.
And even if it wasn't, so what?
This would be a better argument if it weren't for the fact that the majority of the ten commandments are not actually illegal, so it's entirely fallacious to say our legal system is based on them.
I'm not argument against any particular position, I'm saying you are factually wrong. Henderson is referring specifically to the monument of the ten commandments that is at the Oklahoma capitol, which is an overtly Christian monument placed there by Christian politicians. He may have a bias against Christians, but just because he used the right word to describe the situation does not necessarily mean so.
It's because "majority rule" is not actually the law of the land; what you describe is the proverbial two wolves and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. That's not how a representative democracy works.
There are laws that regulate what the government is allowed to do, and one of those things is that they are not allowed to promote any particular religion. The "symbol" in question is only historically significant because of the religious principles it represents. Even if no taxpayer dollars were used, which I am questionable about -- who cleans it? what's the land it's on worth? -- if they allow it, they still have an obligation to allow anybody to display any religious symbol they want on government property; otherwise they are favoring one particular religion.
Please, don't be intentionally obtuse. The subject of discussion at hand is the tablet of the ten commandments displayed at the Oklahoma state capitol, and it is very definitely a specific set of them. Go look up pictures of it.
Islam does not accept the authority of the Bible (and therefore the ten commandments), and there are multiple versions of the commandments; the version on the tablet is not the version used in the Jewish Talmud.
So, I think it is safe to say that this particular monument is distinctly Christian.
To be fair, the author probably does have a particular problem with Christians, since it is Christian politicians who dominate US politics and establish displays like this. He probably would've said "Jewish" or "Muslim" if the government was predominantly Jewish or Muslim.
This is not a failure of SSDs; it is a failure of the vendor you bought your SSDs from. HDDs could just as easily suffer from firmware bugs.
I'm a lapsed Catholic (all of the guilt and none of the Sunday social commitments!) and a militant agnostic (I don't know AND NEITHER DO YOU DAMMIT!)
Actually, a better description of your position would be agnostic atheism. Theism is a declaration of whether you worship a supernatural entity or not; clearly you do not, so you are an atheist. Gnosticism is a declaration of whether the existence of supernatural entities is knowable or not, so you are also agnostic. The two terms are compatible with one another.
One thing you have to keep in mind is that this isn't health care, this is health care insurance.
You pay the insurance company every month, and then if you need to go to the doctor or have an operation, you still have to pay for that, too. If you're lucky, the insurance company will cover some or most of it, but you'll still be paying. My wife had to have surgery earlier this year, and I'm on a fairly good insurance plan, but between all of the doctor's visits, tests, and the hospital stay and surgery itself, it easily cost us several hundred dollars. The insurance company covered several thousand, which is certainly nice, but it still wasn't cheap for us.
Fortunately, her surgeon managed to convince the insurance company that it was a mandatory procedure. Insurance companies also frequently pay little or nothing for procedures or drugs that they consider optional. My wife also has a pill she takes to prevent debilitating migraines, which they consider optional, so we get to pay a pretty good amount for that. We can afford it, but a poorer family definitely would not be able to.
Personally, I think having a health care system like Canada's would be great, but the ACA is far from that.
It's a bit disingenuous to say "It's illegal to sell Teslas in Texas." It's more accurate to say "Tesla refuses to follow the law in Texas."
The purpose of the law is to prevent car manufacturers from being able to own vertical monopolies, which is exactly what Tesla wants to do, and it's been around since long before Tesla existed. There is no reason why they can't follow the same rules as everybody else.
Sorry, the car only has 30 miles of charge left, going to the butcher would take 42 miles to get there and home.
Where do you live that the nearest butcher is 21 miles away? For what matter, does your wife regularly have you drive an hour (assuming your drive to the butcher is not a straight shot with a >=60 mph speed limit and no traffic) just to go pick up an ingredient for dinner? You'll be spending more money on fuel that it costs to actually get a decent steak. It sounds to me like you need to optimize your grocery shopping habits a bit.
What I think a lot of people don't realize is, as long as an electric car's maximum range is far enough to get where you need to go and back, the charge time doesn't matter. It's not like a gasoline engine where you drain the tank gradually over the course of a week and then have to go to a refueling station; it's always plugged in when you're at home, and if you're not constantly going in-and-out, it will always be full when you leave.
The 85 kWh Tesla Model S, for example, has a 300 mile range. How often do you drive more than 300 miles in a row without stopping for a few hours at some point? For some people that's an issue, but most people do not make trips that long on a regular basis.
The Metacritic and Gameranking scores (67%-69%) suggest that the title you recommend isn't all that special.
Are we talking about the same Metacritic and Gameranking that gave Final Fantasy XIII an 83 and 84%, respectively? I'm not sure how much you should trust them if you think Square's games have been terrible for the last 16 years.
Thanks for being one of the people who didn't buy NieR, thus encouraging Square to stop producing games with complex characters and deep narratives.
No, there's no way to undo the damage, Mark Shuttleworth. Your hand 's been played and you cannot take the cards back.
Exactly what damage was done? As far as I can tell, the net result of all of this is that some peoples' feelings got hurt.
You're pretty ignorant of Christianity, I see, as are those who modded you up. It is by no means "hate the sinner, not the sin."
As the other person who already replied noted, I misspoke and meant "love" rather than "hate" there, but I know that concentrating on what I really meant makes it harder for you to reply.
I pointed out that being homosexual was no sin; that's how God made her
What gives you the authority to decide what is a sin and what's not? Has your friend read Romans 1:18-32?
And also, that your sins have been paid for in blood. The bad part is, every time you sin, Jesus gets hit with that cat-o-nine-tails again.
What I find really confusing is, why did your God feel the need to have his own son tortured to death for sins I have committed because of how he made me? Furthermore, why am I obligated to feel guilty because he had his son tortured to death? Considering that Jesus is theoretically reigning in heaven right now, was it really even a sacrifice on his part? If I do something that hurts somebody, I am perfectly capable of taking responsibility for my own actions.
So is your offensive slander.
You see, the very fact that you think saying something that you find offensive is deserving of punishment is why I can't take you seriously when you say "Christians are supposed to love everybody." I suppose it's ok because you believe somebody other than yourself will be doing the punishment and torture?
Only about 7% of all wars had religious motivations. They aren't "uncountable".
The funny thing is you say "only about 7%" as though that were a negligible number. I see that and think first "citation needed?", and then think that means roughly 1 in 15 wars were started because people believed their imaginary friend told them to go kill people rather than for tangible things like natural resources or freedom. That seems scarily high.
It's typically phrased "love the sinner, hate the sin", but given the context of your comment, I think you simply accidentally wrote "hate" instead of "love".
Oops, you're right. Darn Slashdot's lack of an edit button....
I'm sure you're aware that plenty of them (not all, of course) believe that homosexuality is a choice.
I know, but I prefer not to even entertain that line of thought when discussing things. It's usually not even possible to talk to the people who still have the "It's a choice!" mindset.
Why does hate for others have to enter into it?
The "hate the sinner, not the sin" mentality is one of the biggest pieces of cognitive dissonance affecting modern Christianity. A person's sexuality is an integral part of their self; it is as much a part of them as the color of their skin. When you tell somebody "homosexuality is a sin," what you are actually saying to them is, "You are fundamentally wrong and deserve to be tortured eternally because of who you fall in love with. I believe society should oppress you and not allow you to have the same freedoms as heterosexual people."
You may say it with a smiling face, but it's still hatred.
They really are setting the bar high in Kentucky.
Are you implying the site should be made more difficult to use so that people with poor educations can't get health insurance? Hmm, I think you might have a promising future as a Republican congressman...
* Lack of new IP's - Almost everything you publish is a remake of one of their core titles (Mario, Pokemon, Zelda, Kirby and Metroid in that order.) Many of these IP's are getting close to their 40's.
I don't think "remake" means what you think it means.
But that aside: Animal Crossing, Xenoblade / X, Wonderful 101, Professor Layton, Pikmin, Dillon's Rolling Western, Pushmo, HarmoKnight, Art Academy, Spirit Camera, Pilotwings, Golden Sun, just to name a few that have come out in the last few years... how many of those count as remakes of "40-year-old" IPs?