The parents are fine, because they were all vaccinated when they were kids. It's their children who are made to suffer their stupidity. If anything, a special child-abuse team should be set up to ascertain whether the parents have learned from their mistake and are willing to make changes to their beliefs, or if they are still a danger to the future health of their children.
A better strategy, that might actually result in sub-trillion-dollar deficits, would be to reward government entities that don't spend their entire budget. Tell the financial controllers to send 99% of the "underspend" back to Washington, and personally pocket the other 1%. Suddenly you will see massive underspends appearing all over the place!
No. You'd see people gaming the system to get the maximum budget (over what they need) so they could have the most unspent. These sorts of "obvious" solutions are almost always ridiculous if you put in a little thought.
There is no rule that says the left lane is for speeding. The left lane is NOT a speeding lane. It is not you personal driving lane. It is not their responsibility that you can't drive legally.
Suck it up and stop causing accident, you jerk.
Righteous indignation is stronger that the fucking "slower traffic keep right" signs and laws, I guess. BTW, the posted speed limits are always 5-10 MPH LESS than the speed that is considered safe for any road. The "cheat" is built into the system. Anyone who insists on staying under the posted limit and feels it their duty to slow down traffic behind them should seriously consider changing their meds.
Burning Man stands for absolutely nothing other than privileged, usually white people who want to go waste a lot of time while being very conscious of the fact that this supposedly makes them cool.
Ah, that must be it, based on what, a few photos that you've seen on the web and your own insecurities about anyone different?
The Burning Man people that I know are generally hippie types who go to oggle naked people, run around naked, and do lots of hallucinogens. I've never seen anything about privilege, only general weirdness.
The real issue is why does it matter so much? Do we really have to get an exact 50/50 gender split in every discipline before people will stop banging on about it? We should strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity regardless of gender (or race, or whatever else) but that is as far as our collective responsibility needs to go. After that you leave it to the individuals, and if fewer women show an interest in a particular area, so be it. Study that, if you find it interesting, but don't assume something must be amiss (or amister).
The problem is that rarely is there equal treatment, equal incentive, and equal opportunities in ANY profession for any number of reasons, be it gender, race, or other. This is a discussion of what might be at issue in this case. To stick your head in the sand and go "la la la" shows pig headed ignorance. Let me guess, white middle class male, right?
fair enough. I can't argue with that; although, there have been a number of analysis done which showed that without the support of people who happened to be living in the San Francisco bay area, and the liberal support of the University of California system, Silicon Valley could not have happened. Attempts to replicate it have failed due to a lack of the right people or lack of economic support.
It's a mostly forgotten fact that the Sun in Sun Microsystems was from Stanford University Network.
The real question is, was Timothy told to put the story up by his bosses, i.e. Slashdot is consciously trying to stick in advertising, or he he JUST THAT STUPID.
Microsoft were always the cheap, crap option. DOS over Unix, Windows over Unix or Mac. I can't think of a single 'really cool thing' they've ever done.
Word for Macintosh? Not that Office afterthought crap, but the original.
Its amazing that people still talk about Microsoft being a monopoly. The boogeyman of the late 90's and early 2000's is long gone.
Markets Microsoft currently controls:
Desktop Operating Systems
Office Suites
The monopoly just doesn't exist anymore.
You just pointed out that the monopoly DOES still exist. The fact that Microsoft has not been able to abuse that power like they did under Gates is an indication not of them losing power, but Ballmer not understanding how to use it. Gates is absolutely vicious. He'll rip the throat out of a company while shaking hands at the same time. Ballmer is just a big doofus bully who's threats mean nothing. Under someone as power/money obsessed as Gates, Microsoft could very well go back to its old ways. They still have the desktop and office suites, as you pointed out, which means that they still control business.
Obviously, there needs to be some more political will to regulate things closer to the top of the chain, I just wonder how many people need to die in order to generate that will.
But not having cheap disposable labor means less profit for the executives and board to hoard. The days of government taking care of the workers is well in the past.
So which major defense contractor has the multibillion dollar contract to implement this? I won't worry. It'll get over budget and behind schedule so fast (due to no actual work being done) that it will be axed before anywhere near completion.
Donate to the EFF right now. Do not wait. Donate this very minute.
How long before we have a story about how the EFF is shutting down since it can no longer maintain its integrity due to the NSA demanding all documents and correspondences? I'll give it a month. A year ago I'd call it paranoid fantasy. Right now, I'll put money on it.
Yes, it is all on him. Bush is gone forever. He'll be languishing in obscurity painting mediocre pictures for the rest of his life.
If languishing is enjoying the billions that he and his cronies stole and shipped to Dubai, then I'd love to languish too. Especially in that hotel in the middle of the desert with the flooded lobby where you have to take a gondola to the front desk.
Very simply food manufacturers removed the fat in the 70's and replaced it with huge amounts of sugar. The problem with sugar is the brain doesn't see it as nutrition thus it doesn't suppress your appetite when you eat sugar filled foods.
Please. I am so sick of the fat deniers. This is one of the myths that's causing the problem. Sure sugar can make you fatter, but guess what, eating fat makes you fat faster because, here's the kicker, it's already fat! So you think your body converts sugar to fat, but fat to what, muscle? Argh! This is just an excuse to keep eating the foods you like and maybe lose a couple of pounds because you've cut your calories slightly.
Look people. The medical community doesn't want to get to the source of the issue because it can lead to people massively abusing the drugs that work. Mod me down, call me crazy, but here is the real issue. Feeling good. People overeat because it releases dopamine that makes them feel good. Some people are naturally depressed, and it's their way of coping. Some use it as a crutch to get through daily problem. "I was upset so I went home and at a pint of ice cream."
What drug is pretty much guaranteed to help you lose weight? Wellbutrin. Why? Is increases dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain to help people with depression. And you know what? They eat less, because they no longer need that bag of chips or pint of ice cream to help them when they are feeling blue.
So why not just give everyone dopamine drugs? Because people would abuse them. They will take the drugs, and still overeat, and feel that much happier! The reason that diets fail is that people get depressed when they don't have that dopamine rush from food. What foods? First is fatty foods. Second is sugary foods.
Richard Simmons got this right a long time ago. The trick to losing weight is to improve your mood. Some exercise helps, and it's more than burning calories through activity. Social interactions help. If you go back to abusing food to get your dopamine fix, you'll slide right back into over eating.
I'm not saying that everyone can be skinny. There are exomorphs and endomorphs. There are Masai and Samoans. I'm talking about maintaining a healthy weight, not being "model" thin. Sure, keep a few extra pounds on. That's not unhealthy. But people are 40, 50, hell 100 pounds overweight, and we overlook it.
So keep eating your fat burgers without the buns to keep your mood up. I know I can't convince you that you are wrong, since that would mean taking away your happy pills. I've seen people act violently when I suggest that they should not eat that last piece of pizza. But maybe I can convince a few people that you are a lying bastard in denial.
The real question is what are we going to do about it? I'm getting increasingly interested in the political process - I've written my MP and the opposite candidate about my views on these things. I've told them my vote is contingent on a roll-back on policies such as this (along with airport scanners).
All that accomplished was to push you up the list of subversives to keep an eye on. This is why Lenin and Alexander Hamilton used pseudonyms.
I have ordered items (non-food) on Amazon and had the option to pay....... $3.99!..... for "Same Day Delivery" in the Washington, DC area. I have no idea how they actually paid for the courier to drive from Virginia to Maryland, since it certainly cost more than $3.99 in gas, but I ordered at 10 AM and had the item by 5 PM.
They are taking a loss early to build up their empire. They have the cash to burn, and can take the loss, until they have complete control. Then the cost will skyrocket. The thing about having many small stores is that there is competition. The thing about have one huge outlet as your only option is that they can charge whatever they like.
3. Copyright terms either need to be severely reduced, or there needs to be an exception clause for archivists, museums, libraries and the like to let them complete and create as complete collections of works as possible, lest our entire culture from the fifties and onward disappear.
The result will be the opposite. All works will be owned in perpetuity by corporate masters. Libraries will be closed since paper books will be non-viable. All books in private ownership will be collected and destroyed because they violate copyright of the new owners. All future media will be pablum and propaganda, carefully controlled and disseminated. You will not have the option to purchase. It will be required.
And third, why would anybody reasonably want to be unfrozen, when the world is massively changed and everybody they knew and cared about is gone? There are a few SF books that use long-term "storage" as punishment for the criminal, and they have it right.
What a sickeningly xenophobic statement. Some people enjoy learning about new cultures, such as a westerner spending time in China or Japan. How would this be any different? I find the prospect exciting!
That said, this is a blatant rip off on par with the scientologists. So I guess I'll pass.
Talked to other developers, same experience. Some knew they had a few things in there against the guidelines (custom springboards, views not conform with the UI guidelines) and hoped to get through. Sometimes they managed, sometime not, so they also got the feeling that the Q&A for the App store is somewhat like tax declaration. They don't seem to have enough time/ressources to check all, so if you something that is against the guidelines, you have to hope that you are one who doesn't get checked thoroughly.
It sounds like someone is rubber stamping apps, and not doing his job.
They might not have the computer knowledge you have, but I wouldn't be so ignorant to call anyone a moron because he is not savvy in one partical field or is simply not interested in becoming more savvy, as the way he operates the internet until know worked for him and he does not have the need or interest to expand his knowledge there.
You can safely ignore anyone who throws around terms like moron and stupid. I think we all know why.
Slashdot Mirror
Think of it as evolution in action.
The parents are fine, because they were all vaccinated when they were kids. It's their children who are made to suffer their stupidity. If anything, a special child-abuse team should be set up to ascertain whether the parents have learned from their mistake and are willing to make changes to their beliefs, or if they are still a danger to the future health of their children.
A better strategy, that might actually result in sub-trillion-dollar deficits, would be to reward government entities that don't spend their entire budget. Tell the financial controllers to send 99% of the "underspend" back to Washington, and personally pocket the other 1%. Suddenly you will see massive underspends appearing all over the place!
No. You'd see people gaming the system to get the maximum budget (over what they need) so they could have the most unspent. These sorts of "obvious" solutions are almost always ridiculous if you put in a little thought.
There is no rule that says the left lane is for speeding.
The left lane is NOT a speeding lane. It is not you personal driving lane. It is not their responsibility that you can't drive legally.
Suck it up and stop causing accident, you jerk.
Righteous indignation is stronger that the fucking "slower traffic keep right" signs and laws, I guess. BTW, the posted speed limits are always 5-10 MPH LESS than the speed that is considered safe for any road. The "cheat" is built into the system. Anyone who insists on staying under the posted limit and feels it their duty to slow down traffic behind them should seriously consider changing their meds.
Burning Man stands for absolutely nothing other than privileged, usually white people who want to go waste a lot of time while being very conscious of the fact that this supposedly makes them cool.
Ah, that must be it, based on what, a few photos that you've seen on the web and your own insecurities about anyone different?
The Burning Man people that I know are generally hippie types who go to oggle naked people, run around naked, and do lots of hallucinogens. I've never seen anything about privilege, only general weirdness.
The real issue is why does it matter so much? Do we really have to get an exact 50/50 gender split in every discipline before people will stop banging on about it? We should strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity regardless of gender (or race, or whatever else) but that is as far as our collective responsibility needs to go. After that you leave it to the individuals, and if fewer women show an interest in a particular area, so be it. Study that, if you find it interesting, but don't assume something must be amiss (or amister).
The problem is that rarely is there equal treatment, equal incentive, and equal opportunities in ANY profession for any number of reasons, be it gender, race, or other. This is a discussion of what might be at issue in this case. To stick your head in the sand and go "la la la" shows pig headed ignorance. Let me guess, white middle class male, right?
I'm not a 'feminine dude'. I wouldn't even say I'm a feminist, insofar as I expect that men and women should be treated the same...
Then you are a feminist. Or do you think it means something different?
fair enough. I can't argue with that; although, there have been a number of analysis done which showed that without the support of people who happened to be living in the San Francisco bay area, and the liberal support of the University of California system, Silicon Valley could not have happened. Attempts to replicate it have failed due to a lack of the right people or lack of economic support.
It's a mostly forgotten fact that the Sun in Sun Microsystems was from Stanford University Network.
This is an advert.
The real question is, was Timothy told to put the story up by his bosses, i.e. Slashdot is consciously trying to stick in advertising, or he he JUST THAT STUPID.
Like what? DOS?
Microsoft were always the cheap, crap option. DOS over Unix, Windows over Unix or Mac. I can't think of a single 'really cool thing' they've ever done.
Word for Macintosh? Not that Office afterthought crap, but the original.
Its amazing that people still talk about Microsoft being a monopoly. The boogeyman of the late 90's and early 2000's is long gone.
Markets Microsoft currently controls:
The monopoly just doesn't exist anymore.
You just pointed out that the monopoly DOES still exist. The fact that Microsoft has not been able to abuse that power like they did under Gates is an indication not of them losing power, but Ballmer not understanding how to use it. Gates is absolutely vicious. He'll rip the throat out of a company while shaking hands at the same time. Ballmer is just a big doofus bully who's threats mean nothing. Under someone as power/money obsessed as Gates, Microsoft could very well go back to its old ways. They still have the desktop and office suites, as you pointed out, which means that they still control business.
Obviously, there needs to be some more political will to regulate things closer to the top of the chain, I just wonder how many people need to die in order to generate that will.
But not having cheap disposable labor means less profit for the executives and board to hoard. The days of government taking care of the workers is well in the past.
"Maker" is a non-concept.
"Maker" and "cloud" are two words that make me cringe whenever I read/hear them. Don't get me started on "meme."
People said the same thing about personal computers (vs mainframes) back in the 70s/80s.
FTFY
This is as poignant and germane as any revolutionary war document. I'd vote for Manning as a member of the new constitutional congress.
So which major defense contractor has the multibillion dollar contract to implement this? I won't worry. It'll get over budget and behind schedule so fast (due to no actual work being done) that it will be axed before anywhere near completion.
Donate to the EFF right now. Do not wait. Donate this very minute.
How long before we have a story about how the EFF is shutting down since it can no longer maintain its integrity due to the NSA demanding all documents and correspondences? I'll give it a month. A year ago I'd call it paranoid fantasy. Right now, I'll put money on it.
Yes, it is all on him. Bush is gone forever. He'll be languishing in obscurity painting mediocre pictures for the rest of his life.
If languishing is enjoying the billions that he and his cronies stole and shipped to Dubai, then I'd love to languish too. Especially in that hotel in the middle of the desert with the flooded lobby where you have to take a gondola to the front desk.
Very simply food manufacturers removed the fat in the 70's and replaced it with huge amounts of sugar. The problem with sugar is the brain doesn't see it as nutrition thus it doesn't suppress your appetite when you eat sugar filled foods.
Please. I am so sick of the fat deniers. This is one of the myths that's causing the problem. Sure sugar can make you fatter, but guess what, eating fat makes you fat faster because, here's the kicker, it's already fat! So you think your body converts sugar to fat, but fat to what, muscle? Argh! This is just an excuse to keep eating the foods you like and maybe lose a couple of pounds because you've cut your calories slightly.
Look people. The medical community doesn't want to get to the source of the issue because it can lead to people massively abusing the drugs that work. Mod me down, call me crazy, but here is the real issue. Feeling good. People overeat because it releases dopamine that makes them feel good. Some people are naturally depressed, and it's their way of coping. Some use it as a crutch to get through daily problem. "I was upset so I went home and at a pint of ice cream."
What drug is pretty much guaranteed to help you lose weight? Wellbutrin. Why? Is increases dopamine and norepinephrine in the brain to help people with depression. And you know what? They eat less, because they no longer need that bag of chips or pint of ice cream to help them when they are feeling blue.
So why not just give everyone dopamine drugs? Because people would abuse them. They will take the drugs, and still overeat, and feel that much happier! The reason that diets fail is that people get depressed when they don't have that dopamine rush from food. What foods? First is fatty foods. Second is sugary foods.
Richard Simmons got this right a long time ago. The trick to losing weight is to improve your mood. Some exercise helps, and it's more than burning calories through activity. Social interactions help. If you go back to abusing food to get your dopamine fix, you'll slide right back into over eating.
I'm not saying that everyone can be skinny. There are exomorphs and endomorphs. There are Masai and Samoans. I'm talking about maintaining a healthy weight, not being "model" thin. Sure, keep a few extra pounds on. That's not unhealthy. But people are 40, 50, hell 100 pounds overweight, and we overlook it.
So keep eating your fat burgers without the buns to keep your mood up. I know I can't convince you that you are wrong, since that would mean taking away your happy pills. I've seen people act violently when I suggest that they should not eat that last piece of pizza. But maybe I can convince a few people that you are a lying bastard in denial.
The real question is what are we going to do about it? I'm getting increasingly interested in the political process - I've written my MP and the opposite candidate about my views on these things. I've told them my vote is contingent on a roll-back on policies such as this (along with airport scanners).
All that accomplished was to push you up the list of subversives to keep an eye on. This is why Lenin and Alexander Hamilton used pseudonyms.
But why is this on Slashdot? This isn't a discussion on the engineering of the gas or the dispursement methods used, just a news article.
Because "nerds" want the stories that the major news outlets will not carry or will gloss over for more entertainment and sports coverage.
I have ordered items (non-food) on Amazon and had the option to pay ....... $3.99! ..... for "Same Day Delivery" in the Washington, DC area. I have no idea how they actually paid for the courier to drive from Virginia to Maryland, since it certainly cost more than $3.99 in gas, but I ordered at 10 AM and had the item by 5 PM.
They are taking a loss early to build up their empire. They have the cash to burn, and can take the loss, until they have complete control. Then the cost will skyrocket. The thing about having many small stores is that there is competition. The thing about have one huge outlet as your only option is that they can charge whatever they like.
3. Copyright terms either need to be severely reduced, or there needs to be an exception clause for archivists, museums, libraries and the like to let them complete and create as complete collections of works as possible, lest our entire culture from the fifties and onward disappear.
The result will be the opposite. All works will be owned in perpetuity by corporate masters. Libraries will be closed since paper books will be non-viable. All books in private ownership will be collected and destroyed because they violate copyright of the new owners. All future media will be pablum and propaganda, carefully controlled and disseminated. You will not have the option to purchase. It will be required.
And third, why would anybody reasonably want to be unfrozen, when the world is massively changed and everybody they knew and cared about is gone? There are a few SF books that use long-term "storage" as punishment for the criminal, and they have it right.
What a sickeningly xenophobic statement. Some people enjoy learning about new cultures, such as a westerner spending time in China or Japan. How would this be any different? I find the prospect exciting!
That said, this is a blatant rip off on par with the scientologists. So I guess I'll pass.
Talked to other developers, same experience. Some knew they had a few things in there against the guidelines (custom springboards, views not conform with the UI guidelines) and hoped to get through. Sometimes they managed, sometime not, so they also got the feeling that the Q&A for the App store is somewhat like tax declaration. They don't seem to have enough time/ressources to check all, so if you something that is against the guidelines, you have to hope that you are one who doesn't get checked thoroughly.
It sounds like someone is rubber stamping apps, and not doing his job.
They might not have the computer knowledge you have, but I wouldn't be so ignorant to call anyone a moron because he is not savvy in one partical field or is simply not interested in becoming more savvy, as the way he operates the internet until know worked for him and he does not have the need or interest to expand his knowledge there.
You can safely ignore anyone who throws around terms like moron and stupid. I think we all know why.