Are there any responsbile [sic] operators out there?
Yes, you just don't hear about them because the news, "Power Plant that Has Operated Safely for More than a Decade Continues to Do So," isn't really news at all, and it certainly isn't sensationalistic enough to bait most folk into reading about it.
Though I will say, I've often found local newspapers to be great sources of stories like that, "Local Shipping Company's Great Safety Track Record is Nothing to Scoff At," and other such things. The big national news corps. very rarely seem to pick up stories like that though.
You want to know the single most convenient thing is about a business card? I can walk into a bar, chat to a cute girl, and slap my card on the bar with the words, "Rocket Scientist" in bold, black print right under an official company logo. Until I can do that with my cell phone, e-mails, or tweets business cards won't be going anywhere for me.
And contrary to popular Slashdot memes, chicks really do dig smart guys, especially ones that look officially smart by carrying around business cards.
How the fuck is a kid supposed to afford a lawyer to sue a bully? And if you expect the police to come in and save the day, do you mind giving me a link to the policing agency that has enough time/money/resources/interest to spend any portion of the day investigating a matter of teen/preteen bullying? Hell, half the cops I know in the town I grew up in were the bullies of their time, and they are stupid enough to laugh about stories of other kids getting harassed or beat up because they honestly think society should be run based on a paradigm of "only the strong survive." That's precisely why they became cops in the first place, actually.
My wife is Japanese and most of her family lived in that area,
I know it's not much, but you have my sympathy. I hope your wife's family is safe. My thoughts go out to you, them, and the thousands of other people this calamity has claimed. If you ever need to vent or talk, you can feel free to e-mail me, or track me down on facebook or something. I use this same pseudonym just about everywhere on the net these days.
Hello my northerly neighbors! I have a question for you all. I've been doing some research into the Canadian space industry and so far what I have found has impressed me. It seems that the space industry in Canada, while small, is quite ambitious and capable. You all have a well developed microsat industry. You have a good track record for space robotics (just look at all the stuff you added to the ISS). Hell, you even have a Canadian astronaut program, not many countries can claim that.
So, I've got a question for the locals up there. How much does your country seem to value the development of the space industry. Down here in the States, it seems like there is a very enthusiastic minority of folks here who value the space industry, but the majority of people just can't be bothered to give a damn. How much does Canada value its own space industry?
The implication is the poster would also consider not paying for any of it. Not the most persuasive of arguments.
Well that's not true. I've already paid for most of it already. I own the boxed sets of DVD's of many of the shows I listed. My problem is that no companies are funding the development of new content that I like. So I don't pay current companies money because they don't provide anything of value to me. In other words, I am not one of their customers. The point of my post was to illustrate that there is probably some market out there for folks like me that are willing to fork over cash for the development of certain types of content (cult classics). The fact that no company is currently creating that product is the only reason I am not spending money on it.
The content that Netflix currently provides is not worth the value of a subscription to me. If Netflix starts providing content that is more valuable to me, then I would start purchasing their content. I don't think my position is as unreasonable as you seem to make it out to be. Don't let that stop you from making shit up so that you have a soap box to rant from:
The implication is the poster would also consider not paying for any of it.
The implication of your post is that you are a pissed off, bitter, lonely person. See! I can make shit up too! Yay!
I don't have a Netflix account. I never had any motivation to get a Netflix account. But if Netflix bought up the rights to produce some new episodes of old cult classics such as Firefly, Stargate (SGU does not count as part of that series), Earth 2, Rugrats, Doug, Transformers cartoons, and, hell, maybe a new good Star Trek series, then I would seriously consider subscribing to an account.
In other words Netflix, current networks are broadcasting crap, crap, and more crap. Broadcast something not-crap, and you might get a few more subscribers.
Indeed, what an insult it is to we Slashdotters, Titans of Knowledge, Defenders of Pedantry, Keepers of the Sacred Nerd Ways to blemish our dear, pure website with the presences of such an intellectual peon. Surely we, the Leaders of the Free World of Intelligent Discourse deserve to not be distracted by such petty intellectual achievements.
Now we have an entire thread where we will have to discuss the merits of recognizing intelligence in youth, rather than addressing more important public concerns, like the appropriate temperature standard that should be applied to Natalie Portman's hot gritz, or the necessary calibration parameters of the lasers we have already mounted on sharks' heads.
I base my claims on the comments you have previously made in this thread, amongst others. You might have do dig a bit to find your comments there, as many of them have been modded troll, but your position regarding anonymity is there for all to see. There were a few other threads in your comment history where I found similar positions taken, that anonymity is useless to most people other than criminals, but I really can't be bothered to dig through your comment history just because you are suffering a case of amnesia.
Do you have any numbers whatsoever to back up your claim that most anonymous entities are criminals, trolls, or murderers? Or are you just making shit up to back up the same position that you have taken numerous times in previous threads regarding anonymity, blair1q? Because if I recall correctly (and I do), you have made claims in the past that are basically along the lines of "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear."
For those of us with a sense of privacy, and who are a bit schooled in history, we realize just how silly and dangerous such a position is. So please, blair1q, before you go spewing more opinionated bile around Slashdot, could you back up some of your claims that:
Most people who use it do so to commit crimes, from trolling to murder.
Mind you, I count such practices as keeping sexual orientation, religious beliefs, political stances, and thoughts regarding your opinion of coworkers and/or bosses secret a form of anonymity, in the sense that you are keeping your personal details regarding those matters anonymous in the eyes of the public.
So, your final point is that free (as in libre) transportation to any location is difficult? Or maybe you just think we should all ride horses? Or was your point that Hitler disliked horses?
I guess if you institute it slowly enough, people just bend over and take it.
Well, all the books I've read about anal sex suggest starting slowly to help loosen things up before picking up pace and really having some fun. So it seems that most of our government leaders are just keen fans of, "The Complete Guide to Getting it On," and the like.
NASA needs to get their shit together, and develop their own damned spacecraft so we don't have to borrow Russia's ships.
You try getting your shit together when your mission, mandate, creed, materials list, allowed technology, and half of your design are handed down to you from on high by a bunch of technologically clueless dipshits that spent their high school years playing the popularity game rather than learning calculus.
You want NASA to build it's own damned spacecraft that isn't a bloated, over budget, expensive piece of shit? Get their funding out of the hands of the petty, squabbling, corrupt retards that are on the Congressional science and budget committees. Until they are given a wad of cash that doesn't have 100 riders and 30 pieces of pork attached to it, the folks at NASA won't be able to design a damned thing worth designing.
It's funny because John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are pretty much nothing but professional wise-asses, and yet they seem to be celebrated for such actions. Quite frankly, I consider wise-asses to be some of the foremost defenders of civil liberties. Satire is their sword. Humor is their bow. The First Amendment (or equivalent in whatever country they exist in) is supposed to be their armor.
Well, I didn't vote GOP or Libertarian. But I also didn't vote Democrat during the last election cycle. See, the Democrats around here have some odd positions. They have been waging a continual war on anyone that doesn't want to send money to Hollywood. They have a great track record of dismantling the agricultural industry (one of the larges industries in my state). They detest on of the cleanest, greeenest, most efficient forms of power generation that we know of today. They seem to think that everyone in my state can afford to live an upper-middle class lifestyle, and seek to regulate which items we can and cannot purchase in order to impose that lifestyle on us. And there are a few other grievances I have.
So I didn't vote GOP. I didn't vote Libertarian. I didn't vote Democrat. Who the fuck should I have voted for? (For the record, I pretty much voted for local Indpendents and wrote in some intelligent folk for the higher-up offices).
Who needs a logical argument when reality is involved? Those two folks that the parent discussed do believe those things, and they have held high public offices, and it's very possible that they, or more people like them, will hold high public offices again. Frankly, I don't care if an argument is logical, illogical, or some bastardization in-between if there is hard evidence backing it up.
Or, alternatively, folks could buck up a bit more cash so that we actually pay for all the shit we've been begging the government to give us.... (whether you want rich folks, poor folks, or in-between folks to buck up more cash is irrelevant, the point is, cutting away services is not the only way to reduce a deficit).
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Are there any responsbile [sic] operators out there?
Yes, you just don't hear about them because the news, "Power Plant that Has Operated Safely for More than a Decade Continues to Do So," isn't really news at all, and it certainly isn't sensationalistic enough to bait most folk into reading about it.
Though I will say, I've often found local newspapers to be great sources of stories like that, "Local Shipping Company's Great Safety Track Record is Nothing to Scoff At," and other such things. The big national news corps. very rarely seem to pick up stories like that though.
Yeah, I'm hoping they find Eezo there too.
Look how utterly green it is. That's pretty slick...
You want to know the single most convenient thing is about a business card? I can walk into a bar, chat to a cute girl, and slap my card on the bar with the words, "Rocket Scientist" in bold, black print right under an official company logo. Until I can do that with my cell phone, e-mails, or tweets business cards won't be going anywhere for me.
And contrary to popular Slashdot memes, chicks really do dig smart guys, especially ones that look officially smart by carrying around business cards.
Damn. Well, thanks for the response.
How the fuck is a kid supposed to afford a lawyer to sue a bully? And if you expect the police to come in and save the day, do you mind giving me a link to the policing agency that has enough time/money/resources/interest to spend any portion of the day investigating a matter of teen/preteen bullying? Hell, half the cops I know in the town I grew up in were the bullies of their time, and they are stupid enough to laugh about stories of other kids getting harassed or beat up because they honestly think society should be run based on a paradigm of "only the strong survive." That's precisely why they became cops in the first place, actually.
My wife is Japanese and most of her family lived in that area,
I know it's not much, but you have my sympathy. I hope your wife's family is safe. My thoughts go out to you, them, and the thousands of other people this calamity has claimed. If you ever need to vent or talk, you can feel free to e-mail me, or track me down on facebook or something. I use this same pseudonym just about everywhere on the net these days.
Good luck.
Hello my northerly neighbors! I have a question for you all. I've been doing some research into the Canadian space industry and so far what I have found has impressed me. It seems that the space industry in Canada, while small, is quite ambitious and capable. You all have a well developed microsat industry. You have a good track record for space robotics (just look at all the stuff you added to the ISS). Hell, you even have a Canadian astronaut program, not many countries can claim that.
So, I've got a question for the locals up there. How much does your country seem to value the development of the space industry. Down here in the States, it seems like there is a very enthusiastic minority of folks here who value the space industry, but the majority of people just can't be bothered to give a damn. How much does Canada value its own space industry?
The implication is the poster would also consider not paying for any of it. Not the most persuasive of arguments.
Well that's not true. I've already paid for most of it already. I own the boxed sets of DVD's of many of the shows I listed. My problem is that no companies are funding the development of new content that I like. So I don't pay current companies money because they don't provide anything of value to me. In other words, I am not one of their customers. The point of my post was to illustrate that there is probably some market out there for folks like me that are willing to fork over cash for the development of certain types of content (cult classics). The fact that no company is currently creating that product is the only reason I am not spending money on it.
The content that Netflix currently provides is not worth the value of a subscription to me. If Netflix starts providing content that is more valuable to me, then I would start purchasing their content. I don't think my position is as unreasonable as you seem to make it out to be. Don't let that stop you from making shit up so that you have a soap box to rant from:
The implication is the poster would also consider not paying for any of it.
The implication of your post is that you are a pissed off, bitter, lonely person. See! I can make shit up too! Yay!
I don't have a Netflix account. I never had any motivation to get a Netflix account. But if Netflix bought up the rights to produce some new episodes of old cult classics such as Firefly, Stargate (SGU does not count as part of that series), Earth 2, Rugrats, Doug, Transformers cartoons, and, hell, maybe a new good Star Trek series, then I would seriously consider subscribing to an account.
In other words Netflix, current networks are broadcasting crap, crap, and more crap. Broadcast something not-crap, and you might get a few more subscribers.
...doesn't exactly merit a ./ nod.
Indeed, what an insult it is to we Slashdotters, Titans of Knowledge, Defenders of Pedantry, Keepers of the Sacred Nerd Ways to blemish our dear, pure website with the presences of such an intellectual peon. Surely we, the Leaders of the Free World of Intelligent Discourse deserve to not be distracted by such petty intellectual achievements.
Now we have an entire thread where we will have to discuss the merits of recognizing intelligence in youth, rather than addressing more important public concerns, like the appropriate temperature standard that should be applied to Natalie Portman's hot gritz, or the necessary calibration parameters of the lasers we have already mounted on sharks' heads.
What a shallow and pedantic story this is indeed!
Well kid, two wrongs don't make a right...
Maybe you missed the memo, but the world got more complicated than that after kindergarten.
I base my claims on the comments you have previously made in this thread, amongst others. You might have do dig a bit to find your comments there, as many of them have been modded troll, but your position regarding anonymity is there for all to see. There were a few other threads in your comment history where I found similar positions taken, that anonymity is useless to most people other than criminals, but I really can't be bothered to dig through your comment history just because you are suffering a case of amnesia.
For those of us with a sense of privacy, and who are a bit schooled in history, we realize just how silly and dangerous such a position is. So please, blair1q, before you go spewing more opinionated bile around Slashdot, could you back up some of your claims that:
Most people who use it do so to commit crimes, from trolling to murder.
Mind you, I count such practices as keeping sexual orientation, religious beliefs, political stances, and thoughts regarding your opinion of coworkers and/or bosses secret a form of anonymity, in the sense that you are keeping your personal details regarding those matters anonymous in the eyes of the public.
So, your final point is that free (as in libre) transportation to any location is difficult? Or maybe you just think we should all ride horses? Or was your point that Hitler disliked horses?
I guess if you institute it slowly enough, people just bend over and take it.
Well, all the books I've read about anal sex suggest starting slowly to help loosen things up before picking up pace and really having some fun. So it seems that most of our government leaders are just keen fans of, "The Complete Guide to Getting it On," and the like.
NASA needs to get their shit together, and develop their own damned spacecraft so we don't have to borrow Russia's ships.
You try getting your shit together when your mission, mandate, creed, materials list, allowed technology, and half of your design are handed down to you from on high by a bunch of technologically clueless dipshits that spent their high school years playing the popularity game rather than learning calculus.
You want NASA to build it's own damned spacecraft that isn't a bloated, over budget, expensive piece of shit? Get their funding out of the hands of the petty, squabbling, corrupt retards that are on the Congressional science and budget committees. Until they are given a wad of cash that doesn't have 100 riders and 30 pieces of pork attached to it, the folks at NASA won't be able to design a damned thing worth designing.
Thank you Captain Hindsight!
Wanna hang out?
It's funny because John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are pretty much nothing but professional wise-asses, and yet they seem to be celebrated for such actions. Quite frankly, I consider wise-asses to be some of the foremost defenders of civil liberties. Satire is their sword. Humor is their bow. The First Amendment (or equivalent in whatever country they exist in) is supposed to be their armor.
Aren't most hackerspaces already registered as nonprofits? I know the one in Santa Barbara, California is.
So you'd never shake another man's hand? How do I know I can trust you if I can't tell whether or not there's a dagger up your sleeve?
Then again, if you're twitchy enough to punch someone just for touching you, then you probably aren't all that trustworthy anyways...
Well, I didn't vote GOP or Libertarian. But I also didn't vote Democrat during the last election cycle. See, the Democrats around here have some odd positions. They have been waging a continual war on anyone that doesn't want to send money to Hollywood. They have a great track record of dismantling the agricultural industry (one of the larges industries in my state). They detest on of the cleanest, greeenest, most efficient forms of power generation that we know of today. They seem to think that everyone in my state can afford to live an upper-middle class lifestyle, and seek to regulate which items we can and cannot purchase in order to impose that lifestyle on us. And there are a few other grievances I have.
So I didn't vote GOP. I didn't vote Libertarian. I didn't vote Democrat. Who the fuck should I have voted for? (For the record, I pretty much voted for local Indpendents and wrote in some intelligent folk for the higher-up offices).
Who needs a logical argument when reality is involved? Those two folks that the parent discussed do believe those things, and they have held high public offices, and it's very possible that they, or more people like them, will hold high public offices again. Frankly, I don't care if an argument is logical, illogical, or some bastardization in-between if there is hard evidence backing it up.
Or, alternatively, folks could buck up a bit more cash so that we actually pay for all the shit we've been begging the government to give us.... (whether you want rich folks, poor folks, or in-between folks to buck up more cash is irrelevant, the point is, cutting away services is not the only way to reduce a deficit).