It's like how the fund the schools here with property tax. They don't do that to be fair. They do it so the rich don't have to pay for the poor's educations.
Except that's not why "poor" schools suck.
Michigan changed it's system... 20 years ago? To stop that, er, terrible injustice and equalize things.
So Detroit schools became better, right? What's that? No?
It's not the money. Leftist controlled school systems simply piss the money away. The more you give them, the worse they get.
I own my company, and no... I don't do this to my employees.
I have warned people who've abused the system (I had some casual employees who spent inordinate amounts of time on Facebook, and I've had to clamp down on music downloads that could have gotten me into trouble) but I generally use HR methods rather than technological methods to take action.
Kudos to you!
Just because something can be done doesn't mean that it should be. You could wiretap every phone call your employees make home ("they're MY phones!") but you don't, because you aren't an evil idiot.
I read TFA, but I'm still not clear on this...did the virus escape from the facility's biosecurity defenses and infect animals in the wild, or did the virus penetrate the biosecurity defenses from animals in the wild to infect the facility's animals?
My sister had the Merlin, but before that I had an LED football game, and I remember an auto racing game as well. I know those predated Merlin, and I'm not sure if the ones I had were "first" either.
I remember the LED football game; it was awesome:)
It really is all about the game, not the graphics!
I don't understand how trucks, which require much more fuel, and more driver time per load, have
so thoroughly replaced railroads for long hauls. Making trucks more efficient is a fine idea, but
it's only nibbling at the edges. Why not go back to trains for medium to long distances?
Same reason that cars win over public transit. You can be a heck of a lot more flexible with your routes with a truck than with a train.
The vast majority of web development positions need a guy who can select good Joomla components and write some bits of glue code, tweak some CSS here and some jQuery there.
Not the guy who thinks he needs to invent his own sorting routine every afternoon, and then brag about how his interfaces are so abstract that nobody, not even he, can figure out what the heck they are supposed to do...
Tell me again why college in the US costs sooooo much? It's not like you are getting a super special top notch education that is not comparable to top Canadian universities for example.
Because someone else is paying the bill, at least at the time of purchase.
Because it was never about pseudo-science. It was about feeling superior to the rubes. And your super organic fair trade alfalfa coffee can do that, if nothing else.
Using the elevator for transfer of goods - will work but the goods will get a huge dose of radiation
Using it for transfer of organic matter (i.e. humans) above LEO is not feasible due to the speed/shielding needed
Activating radiation? (i.e neutrons?) Or just electromagnetic radiation?
Because if the latter, awesome. Food irradiation built in!;)
... a tailor should have to make neo-nazi uniforms, if asked to?
... a sign company should have to make banners for dogfights, if asked to?
What's that, no? So businesses shouldn't have to serve anyone who walks in? Businesses can discriminate, so long as you and your tribe agree with their choices?
And that of course is why you received a "-1 flamebait" unjustly. Some moderators believe, mistakenly, that their job is to punish nonconformity in thinking.
Guess I made the mistake of saying something true:)
Anyway, I must have been wrong. I'm sure their government doctors would be skilled, compassionate, etc., nothing like the government doctors we already have and can see. Er, just because.
Just in case I didn't make it sufficiently clear, I was attempting sarcasm there. The 'good old days' weren't. Hence the heavy drinking and high levels of coercive violence.
Well, actually they were, on average and compared to the average now. By almost any measure you want.
Just because something seems counter intuitive to you doesn't make it not true.
Yet *another* reason not to serve in the military.
Um, your other choice is to do whatever your invaders happen to want you to do, which will likely also be dangerous and unpleasant. Possibly even more so...
Do you really think that the rest of the world would just leave your country alone, if it didn't have a military?
My father was a service connected disabled (both physical and mental) WW2 Vet and I would strongly disagree with this assessment. I took care of him for many years and struggled with the VA - although they did increase his pension towards the end.
The VA psych doctors were compassionless, unprofessional and bottom of the class grade doctors and I would often have to research the drugs they were prescribing and inform them of the side-effects and suitability to his condition. They eventually killed my father by over prescribing drugs like Haldol and other harsh psychotropics.
And yet, Slashdot in general lauds the takeover of medicine by government.
Because you're a human being and don't leave your humanity at the door when you show up for work. Yeah, I know that is a strange concept for americans, but in many other parts of the world, it is very much still alive.
Not strange for this American.
Just because you can do something technologically doesn't mean that you should do it.
I can plant a listening device in my boss's office. But I don't.
Be careful, you are dangerously close to implying that it is good employees and not obedient workers that are actually in demand.
Maybe a company that finds lots of hits to Dice, Monster, LinkedIn, etc. could learn from that information and try harder to make their employees happy.
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It's like how the fund the schools here with property tax. They don't do that to be fair. They do it so the rich don't have to pay for the poor's educations.
Except that's not why "poor" schools suck.
Michigan changed it's system ... 20 years ago? To stop that, er, terrible injustice and equalize things.
So Detroit schools became better, right? What's that? No?
It's not the money. Leftist controlled school systems simply piss the money away. The more you give them, the worse they get.
The memes are ideas like: 'No one should die because they cannot afford health care and no one should go broke because they get sick.
And yet the very thing it was promoting is now making health care less affordable.
Maybe Facebook could automate a sort of education thing ...
"It appears you are posting a complaint about losing your insurance or doctor. Would you like to see your earlier 'no one should' meme post?"
... we've found some heresy - we the larger society, that is.
Let's hound them and shame them, because that shows how modern and tolerant we are.
And it makes us feel so deliciously superior ...
I own my company, and no... I don't do this to my employees.
I have warned people who've abused the system (I had some casual employees who spent inordinate amounts of time on Facebook, and I've had to clamp down on music downloads that could have gotten me into trouble) but I generally use HR methods rather than technological methods to take action.
Kudos to you!
Just because something can be done doesn't mean that it should be. You could wiretap every phone call your employees make home ("they're MY phones!") but you don't, because you aren't an evil idiot.
I read TFA, but I'm still not clear on this...did the virus escape from the facility's biosecurity defenses and infect animals in the wild, or did the virus penetrate the biosecurity defenses from animals in the wild to infect the facility's animals?
If it was clear it wouldn't be on /., silly :)
My sister had the Merlin, but before that I had an LED football game, and I remember an auto racing game as well. I know those predated Merlin, and I'm not sure if the ones I had were "first" either.
I remember the LED football game; it was awesome :)
It really is all about the game, not the graphics!
I don't understand how trucks, which require much more fuel, and more driver time per load, have so thoroughly replaced railroads for long hauls. Making trucks more efficient is a fine idea, but it's only nibbling at the edges. Why not go back to trains for medium to long distances?
Same reason that cars win over public transit. You can be a heck of a lot more flexible with your routes with a truck than with a train.
How much "game-changing functionality" can you really work into a fucking coffee machine?
Ask Bunn ... pour the water in. The second you close the lid, hot water comes out. No waiting. Pure genius :)
The vast majority of web development positions need a guy who can select good Joomla components and write some bits of glue code, tweak some CSS here and some jQuery there.
Not the guy who thinks he needs to invent his own sorting routine every afternoon, and then brag about how his interfaces are so abstract that nobody, not even he, can figure out what the heck they are supposed to do ...
Tell me again why college in the US costs sooooo much? It's not like you are getting a super special top notch education that is not comparable to top Canadian universities for example.
Because someone else is paying the bill, at least at the time of purchase.
Because it was never about pseudo-science. It was about feeling superior to the rubes. And your super organic fair trade alfalfa coffee can do that, if nothing else.
So you're fine with black people being denied service where ever they go, right? Freedom of fucking association and all that?
I must have missed your answers to my questions ...
... then raise the pay.
Using the elevator for transfer of goods - will work but the goods will get a huge dose of radiation Using it for transfer of organic matter (i.e. humans) above LEO is not feasible due to the speed/shielding needed
Activating radiation? (i.e neutrons?) Or just electromagnetic radiation?
Because if the latter, awesome. Food irradiation built in! ;)
... a tailor should have to make neo-nazi uniforms, if asked to?
... a sign company should have to make banners for dogfights, if asked to?
What's that, no? So businesses shouldn't have to serve anyone who walks in? Businesses can discriminate, so long as you and your tribe agree with their choices?
"there's this book..."
You don't have to be a creationist to have doubts about this kind of dating.
It's pretty much the poster child of something that can't be confirmed by experiment.
And that of course is why you received a "-1 flamebait" unjustly. Some moderators believe, mistakenly, that their job is to punish nonconformity in thinking.
Guess I made the mistake of saying something true :)
Anyway, I must have been wrong. I'm sure their government doctors would be skilled, compassionate, etc., nothing like the government doctors we already have and can see. Er, just because.
Just in case I didn't make it sufficiently clear, I was attempting sarcasm there. The 'good old days' weren't. Hence the heavy drinking and high levels of coercive violence.
Well, actually they were, on average and compared to the average now. By almost any measure you want.
Just because something seems counter intuitive to you doesn't make it not true.
Yet *another* reason not to serve in the military.
Um, your other choice is to do whatever your invaders happen to want you to do, which will likely also be dangerous and unpleasant. Possibly even more so ...
Do you really think that the rest of the world would just leave your country alone, if it didn't have a military?
My father was a service connected disabled (both physical and mental) WW2 Vet and I would strongly disagree with this assessment. I took care of him for many years and struggled with the VA - although they did increase his pension towards the end.
The VA psych doctors were compassionless, unprofessional and bottom of the class grade doctors and I would often have to research the drugs they were prescribing and inform them of the side-effects and suitability to his condition. They eventually killed my father by over prescribing drugs like Haldol and other harsh psychotropics.
And yet, Slashdot in general lauds the takeover of medicine by government.
Why are you searching for URLs?
Because ... he wanted to?
I personally do it most often because I want to find out about a server before I enable it in NoScript.
Why shouldn't we be able to?
Because employees should expect a company to keep tabs on all data/traffic going across their network - like all good companies should.
To quote myself elsewhere ...
Because you're a human being and don't leave your humanity at the door when you show up for work. Yeah, I know that is a strange concept for americans, but in many other parts of the world, it is very much still alive.
Not strange for this American.
Just because you can do something technologically doesn't mean that you should do it.
I can plant a listening device in my boss's office. But I don't.
... but I learned early on as a parent that jumping on everything I find my kids doing just teaches them to hide things better.
Be careful, you are dangerously close to implying that it is good employees and not obedient workers that are actually in demand.
Maybe a company that finds lots of hits to Dice, Monster, LinkedIn, etc. could learn from that information and try harder to make their employees happy.