I do believe that integrated pest management techniques are a valid approach, and that we are going to have a lot of trial and error before we come up with safe and effective approaches to using one species to control another like that. So the part about it failing doesn't really annoy me (and I live in Brooklyn). The part that kind of offends me is that this decision was made by a Community Board, rather than by trained professionals in the NYC or NYS DEPs.
Yep, slipped up on the handgun/other distinction, though my point would have been fine if I just removed "possessing." Even if there are loopholes for purchasing, it's not really correct to say there are more restrictions on minors purchasing virtual guns than real guns.
If this case involved credit card numbers, what would your suggestion be then? What about this case does not scream invasion of privacy, misuse of privileges, abuse of trust and numerous other things?
Are those crimes, though? "Lock him up!" "But he didn't commit a crime." "Would you make the same excuse if he HAD committed a crime?" "Huh?"
If I'm reading that correctly, that means that there are more de facto restrictions on minors purchasing virtual guns than there are on minors purchasing real guns.
Minors are prohibited by federal law from purchasing or possessing guns, so not sure how you read it that way.
I am utterly convinced that sitting in front of a computer as a pre-teen, staring at a computer for hours at a time trying to figure out how to get through infocom games has given me a huge mental payoff through my life.
"She wanted to be able to eat properly again and breathe"? This is Norway, were they working her at a unconscionable 40 hours a week? Only a month of vacation?
In cases of ID Theft, that is a totally unfair misrepresentation of circumstances (possibly enough to sue for defamation of character).
That's my point; the poster I was responding to had this grand plan of how to deal with their employer, and you see that a lot on slashdot: that you can be smart enough to outwit your employer and their lawyers if you say something. My quoted language was what a lawyer could say in a trial situation, and it was completely accurate, not defamatory (because it was the truth, and anyway litigants have qualified immunity from defamation claims for what they say in the course of a lawsuit).
Our founding ideals are not just that you have the right to publish what you want, but also that you have the right NOT to publish what you want. It's two sides of the same issue. You're saying rackspace deciding not to publish something they don't want to "say" is violating our ideals?
By who's definition of healthy? Low fat? Low carb? Vegetarian? Vegan? Kosher? How about we just serve what we all can agree on; Nothing.
There are a couple of foods that are by universal definition, healthy. Lettuce, spinach, low-mercury fish, most varieties of beans, cucumbers, zucchini, broccoli, olives (and olive oil), blueberries, almonds, and plenty more.
And gets to owe his soul to the company store. I do note that most of the people extolling the virtue of hard work and getting your hands dirty seem to always have done their hard work, and gotten their hands dirty, for brief periods during their teens and twenties in between school. I've never heard anyone who's spent their life doing backbreaking work arguing for its virtue, and just about all of them want their children to stay as far away from what they did as possible.
By which you mean, zero internal moving parts, and 4 external, right? The four external being: On/Off, Volume up/down rocker, home button, and orientation lock switch?
I meant metaphorically; too many complicated components I should have said. The moving parts are irrelevant, while in theory actual moving parts are supposed to break down more often, in practice I just haven't noticed that is the case. I've found it far more likely to have bad memory or other non-moving component go bad on a portable computer, than the hard drive, for example. Apple has a history of bad wiring. There will still be iPads working 10 years from now I'm sure, but they will be in the minority.
I have an ipod I got in 2003 that still works, but I still have to agree with the parent; something like an iPad won't make it that long, too complicated, too many moving parts, and knowing Apple there is some design flaw in there arising out of some aesthetic decision that will eventually cause the machine to break.
Ahhh, thanks, but I've been on Slashdot since '99, used to being yelled at. And honestly I am frequently a jerk to other people so I can't legitimately get too upset. It's funny though, there are soooo many things wrong with the US legal system, and the legal profession, but so many people on slashdot just hit the same simpleminded, overexaggerated ones again and again that it just becomes noise. As for the hatred of lawyers, I suspect the majority of people making these claims never actually dealt with one themselves, they're just going on water-cooler gossip and slashdot stories about hot-button cases.
Now a lot of lawyers really are greedy, but it's not an inherent character trait of lawyers; it's an inherent character trait of people who are greedy, who in the past few decades went to law school solely because they thought they could make money. My criticism of law schools for lying to people is not because I think I personally deserve some fantastic salary and I'm not getting it; actually I'm making more than I planned on making when I was in law school. But I'd take a 50% pay cut if I could do what I went to law school to do, and I had been basically lied to that it would be possible, which is what I resent.
A guy goes 39 years without a criminal record with anything more significant than a hacking charge on it.
Actually, 24 hacking charges.
And then he suddenly decides to become a rapist 2 weeks after releasing a cache of documents that embarrasses the world's most powerful government and threatening to release more?
Occam's razor. You're arguing that it's almost a certainty that instead he is the subject of an international conspiracy? That wouldn't prevent the release of further documents by wikileaks?
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We've given Australia plague after plague after plague. From rabbits to buffalo and from camels to toads.
Yeah but that was just to mess with them.
I do believe that integrated pest management techniques are a valid approach, and that we are going to have a lot of trial and error before we come up with safe and effective approaches to using one species to control another like that. So the part about it failing doesn't really annoy me (and I live in Brooklyn). The part that kind of offends me is that this decision was made by a Community Board, rather than by trained professionals in the NYC or NYS DEPs.
They're less likely to spread diseases to humans than rats, they're less likely to have rabies, and they are easier to catch and kill than rats.
Actually that was the premise behind the short story "The Magi" by Damien Broderick. Good story.
Except the study was about action games, and the improvement was in speed, not accuracy.
And I wasn't trying to support the study, just mentioning as a side point I gained a lot from computer games. Conversations evolve, my friend.
Yep, slipped up on the handgun/other distinction, though my point would have been fine if I just removed "possessing." Even if there are loopholes for purchasing, it's not really correct to say there are more restrictions on minors purchasing virtual guns than real guns.
If this case involved credit card numbers, what would your suggestion be then? What about this case does not scream invasion of privacy, misuse of privileges, abuse of trust and numerous other things?
Are those crimes, though? "Lock him up!" "But he didn't commit a crime." "Would you make the same excuse if he HAD committed a crime?" "Huh?"
If I'm reading that correctly, that means that there are more de facto restrictions on minors purchasing virtual guns than there are on minors purchasing real guns.
Minors are prohibited by federal law from purchasing or possessing guns, so not sure how you read it that way.
I am utterly convinced that sitting in front of a computer as a pre-teen, staring at a computer for hours at a time trying to figure out how to get through infocom games has given me a huge mental payoff through my life.
Plus, if this did happen, the tantrum is perfectly consistent with Jobs' personality.
In that post he also expresses dislike for the American style of politics in which he will now be able to participate directly.
Then move back to Finland.
"She wanted to be able to eat properly again and breathe"? This is Norway, were they working her at a unconscionable 40 hours a week? Only a month of vacation?
In cases of ID Theft, that is a totally unfair misrepresentation of circumstances (possibly enough to sue for defamation of character).
That's my point; the poster I was responding to had this grand plan of how to deal with their employer, and you see that a lot on slashdot: that you can be smart enough to outwit your employer and their lawyers if you say something. My quoted language was what a lawyer could say in a trial situation, and it was completely accurate, not defamatory (because it was the truth, and anyway litigants have qualified immunity from defamation claims for what they say in the course of a lawsuit).
Or, alternately, don't add burglars as facebook friends.
"Defendant claimed it was a case of mistaken identity, but refused to cooperate until he was restored to his salaried job."
Rackspace has just violated our founding ideals.
Our founding ideals are not just that you have the right to publish what you want, but also that you have the right NOT to publish what you want. It's two sides of the same issue. You're saying rackspace deciding not to publish something they don't want to "say" is violating our ideals?
By who's definition of healthy? Low fat? Low carb? Vegetarian? Vegan? Kosher? How about we just serve what we all can agree on; Nothing.
There are a couple of foods that are by universal definition, healthy. Lettuce, spinach, low-mercury fish, most varieties of beans, cucumbers, zucchini, broccoli, olives (and olive oil), blueberries, almonds, and plenty more.
And gets to owe his soul to the company store. I do note that most of the people extolling the virtue of hard work and getting your hands dirty seem to always have done their hard work, and gotten their hands dirty, for brief periods during their teens and twenties in between school. I've never heard anyone who's spent their life doing backbreaking work arguing for its virtue, and just about all of them want their children to stay as far away from what they did as possible.
By which you mean, zero internal moving parts, and 4 external, right? The four external being: On/Off, Volume up/down rocker, home button, and orientation lock switch?
I meant metaphorically; too many complicated components I should have said. The moving parts are irrelevant, while in theory actual moving parts are supposed to break down more often, in practice I just haven't noticed that is the case. I've found it far more likely to have bad memory or other non-moving component go bad on a portable computer, than the hard drive, for example. Apple has a history of bad wiring. There will still be iPads working 10 years from now I'm sure, but they will be in the minority.
I have an ipod I got in 2003 that still works, but I still have to agree with the parent; something like an iPad won't make it that long, too complicated, too many moving parts, and knowing Apple there is some design flaw in there arising out of some aesthetic decision that will eventually cause the machine to break.
As expected from what prior evidence?
Isn't that the point? They don't have evidence, so they're trying this out to see what happens.
The truly sad part is some unemployed guy who plays video games all day ends up getting AP coverage thereby legitimizing his unproductive ways.
I try not to hold unemployment against anybody right now in this economy, when even minimum wage jobs get more applications than there are openings.
Ahhh, thanks, but I've been on Slashdot since '99, used to being yelled at. And honestly I am frequently a jerk to other people so I can't legitimately get too upset. It's funny though, there are soooo many things wrong with the US legal system, and the legal profession, but so many people on slashdot just hit the same simpleminded, overexaggerated ones again and again that it just becomes noise. As for the hatred of lawyers, I suspect the majority of people making these claims never actually dealt with one themselves, they're just going on water-cooler gossip and slashdot stories about hot-button cases.
Now a lot of lawyers really are greedy, but it's not an inherent character trait of lawyers; it's an inherent character trait of people who are greedy, who in the past few decades went to law school solely because they thought they could make money. My criticism of law schools for lying to people is not because I think I personally deserve some fantastic salary and I'm not getting it; actually I'm making more than I planned on making when I was in law school. But I'd take a 50% pay cut if I could do what I went to law school to do, and I had been basically lied to that it would be possible, which is what I resent.
And Imperialism, is that somehow novel? How did those empires fare?
Pretty damn good actually.
A guy goes 39 years without a criminal record with anything more significant than a hacking charge on it.
Actually, 24 hacking charges.
And then he suddenly decides to become a rapist 2 weeks after releasing a cache of documents that embarrasses the world's most powerful government and threatening to release more?
Occam's razor. You're arguing that it's almost a certainty that instead he is the subject of an international conspiracy? That wouldn't prevent the release of further documents by wikileaks?