Both Violence / Gore and Sexual Themes are designed for the Mature Audiences ( hence the M rating ). {...} Understand what the M rating is and make the decision to let your kids play it or not.
While I don't disagree, I find the internal contradictions in the Slashdot zeitgeist amazing.
1. Be a parent! Censor what your kids do if you care about them. Lazy idiot parents!
2. What, you want to censor things for your kids?? That's a human right violation, not to mention technologically impossible, and stunts their mental and emotional growth, you idiot!
Not to mention the US's love of violence, both to their own people by the so-called justice system, and to other countries by its military thugs. The Swiss have a military for defense (other than the Swiss Guard) and incarcerate 1/20th as many people per unit of population as the USA, land of the "free."
And if the US was populated by almost 100% Swiss, we'd be about the same.
Get paid on friday, get $100 cash. Come Wednesday, when you're out of cash you quit spending.
or
Get paid on friday, put it in the bank. Buy everything with your credit card. Come end of the month, you can't cover your bills, end up paying 27% interest on your Starbucks double cappuccino mocha mint grande.
So use debit, not credit.
Put $X into savings and $Y into checking each month (easy to do with direct deposit). Make sure you don't agree to any of your bank's overdraft services.
Or, you know, just budget and pay attention to what you spend.
They see themselves as different to their European neighbors and closely guard those traditions which set them apart, such as languages, political system and currency.
Which is OK if the Swiss do it, but eeeeevil if Americans do it.
"Americans" includes inner city denizens giving their babies Pepsi in their bottles. And hordes of recent immigrants. (Oh dear, he said something true, smelling salts please!)
Comparing the dental condition of both lands within reasonably educated polite society... well, I'll go with what my eyes have seen.
(BTW, that's hilarious illustrating the article with royalty)
I feel like the beloved Raspberry Pi has caused the rise of Python. All these school kids are learning Python in school and they just think its the best language for everything after that.
It's why Steve Jobs gave Apple's to schools.;-) It works.
Python has been around since 1991. It has stood the test of time. Well, some time, anyway..
If they think their little Sally was corrupted by some evil that happened at school, and the school had the ability to stop it but did not, it's lawsuit time.
On the flip side, if you think that parents in 1960 were willing to let little Sally just wander any red light district in the world, I'd like some of what you are smoking.
The internet has changed everything, for good or for ill.
The agency in charge of collecting your taxes is not allowed to provide a portal where you can submit them your tax information, and instead you have to pay a company to fulfill your legal obligation to file taxes?
What a dystopian shit hole.
And yet, everybody keeps wanting to come here. Funny, that.
"How dare you even think about building a wall to keep us out of your 'dystopian shit hole'! It's a human rights violation to keep us out of there!"
Now as soon as you allow any deductions whatsoever to the flat tax, it's ruined as loopholes will immediately be added for the 1%, and the tax rate will neeed to double to bring in the same total. But if there were no deductions or exceptions of any kind? Golden.
You make sense there until you do your "1%" thing.
A huge percentage of Americans pay no federal income tax at all - they get it all back - and they ain't "the 1%".
Slashdot Mirror
Who knew it would be the leftists that would turn into a bunch of Puritans and try to impose their worldview on the rest of us.
A lot of us knew, decades ago. We were called nuts ...
Both Violence / Gore and Sexual Themes are designed for the Mature Audiences ( hence the M rating ). {...} Understand what the M rating is and make the decision to let your kids play it or not.
While I don't disagree, I find the internal contradictions in the Slashdot zeitgeist amazing.
1. Be a parent! Censor what your kids do if you care about them. Lazy idiot parents!
2. What, you want to censor things for your kids?? That's a human right violation, not to mention technologically impossible, and stunts their mental and emotional growth, you idiot!
If you're going to do something stupid or better yet illegal, don't record yourself.
"If you're going to do something stupid, do it intelligently?"
Crime in a nutshell, lol
The number of super genius criminals who outsmart everybody (like in the movies) is very, very small ...
Vishwanath Akuthota, the former student
Well I would certainly hope he's "former."
So that's where I left it!
If it does not like the topic of conversation, will it shut itself down for 30 days just to "teach you a lesson?"
No, it will just shadow ban you and you won't even be able to hear yourself.
Not to mention the US's love of violence, both to their own people by the so-called justice system, and to other countries by its military thugs. The Swiss have a military for defense (other than the Swiss Guard) and incarcerate 1/20th as many people per unit of population as the USA, land of the "free."
And if the US was populated by almost 100% Swiss, we'd be about the same.
Get paid on friday, get $100 cash. Come Wednesday, when you're out of cash you quit spending. or Get paid on friday, put it in the bank. Buy everything with your credit card. Come end of the month, you can't cover your bills, end up paying 27% interest on your Starbucks double cappuccino mocha mint grande.
So use debit, not credit.
Put $X into savings and $Y into checking each month (easy to do with direct deposit). Make sure you don't agree to any of your bank's overdraft services.
Or, you know, just budget and pay attention to what you spend.
Swiss here. I typically carry cash for small purchases - why mess with anything else to buy your lunch? Cash is simpler.
Simpler than debit? Stick a card in, type a number code? Vs. fumble with bills and coins, and getting bills and coins back as change?
Cash has many benefits and I don't want to see it go away, but "simpler" at the point of purchase is not one of them.
They see themselves as different to their European neighbors and closely guard those traditions which set them apart, such as languages, political system and currency.
Which is OK if the Swiss do it, but eeeeevil if Americans do it.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne...
"Americans" includes inner city denizens giving their babies Pepsi in their bottles. And hordes of recent immigrants. (Oh dear, he said something true, smelling salts please!)
Comparing the dental condition of both lands within reasonably educated polite society ... well, I'll go with what my eyes have seen.
(BTW, that's hilarious illustrating the article with royalty)
Humans are omnivores as far back as anyone can detect, and not brushing or flossing at all is not a strategy for dental health.
An anecdote in a blog comment notwithstanding.
Yes, comrade. It is okay-ski to let the police watch for the deviants among us.
After all, we fine people have nothing to hide.
Sleep tight.
What's funny about that is that the only time the cool kids loved Russia was when it was communist.
It's bad enough they are playing ads at the gas pumps now.
Can there be no space free of ads?
I tip my hat to that joke sir. Well done.
... Python was released in 1991. I don't think we can call it a fad anymore.
I feel like the beloved Raspberry Pi has caused the rise of Python. All these school kids are learning Python in school and they just think its the best language for everything after that.
It's why Steve Jobs gave Apple's to schools. ;-) It works.
Python has been around since 1991. It has stood the test of time. Well, some time, anyway ..
+1 Insightful
Everything about the list screamed "fashionable".
Everything? Python was released in 1991.
Guido is "fashionable"?
the benefit was it gives megaphone to those who support cute niche flash-in-the-pan fad languages
Python was released in 1991.
And I support a chicken in every pot ...
But anyway, how is this better than a 2D video conference? Or for that matter, just Luddite text?
Of course growth slows. How could it not? They grew fast and they are giant.
What, do they need to take over 150% of ecommerce or something? Nothing can grow forever.
For all the people that say both parties are the same, here's a clear difference in policy.
Unless you're against Net Neutrality, don't vote for the GOP next cycle
Good thing there's only one issue!
Oh wait, there's about a bazillion others, and the Democrats are on the wrong side of most of them. Dang.
If they think their little Sally was corrupted by some evil that happened at school, and the school had the ability to stop it but did not, it's lawsuit time.
On the flip side, if you think that parents in 1960 were willing to let little Sally just wander any red light district in the world, I'd like some of what you are smoking.
The internet has changed everything, for good or for ill.
The agency in charge of collecting your taxes is not allowed to provide a portal where you can submit them your tax information, and instead you have to pay a company to fulfill your legal obligation to file taxes? What a dystopian shit hole.
And yet, everybody keeps wanting to come here. Funny, that.
"How dare you even think about building a wall to keep us out of your 'dystopian shit hole'! It's a human rights violation to keep us out of there!"
Now as soon as you allow any deductions whatsoever to the flat tax, it's ruined as loopholes will immediately be added for the 1%, and the tax rate will neeed to double to bring in the same total. But if there were no deductions or exceptions of any kind? Golden.
You make sense there until you do your "1%" thing.
A huge percentage of Americans pay no federal income tax at all - they get it all back - and they ain't "the 1%".