Literally the first thing that sprang into mind when reading the headline:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you can't afford to pay your workers, who can afford you product when you are near the bottom rung of services.....
Long Live Jack-in-the-box. Meat the new Jack-in-the-box
As a former Navy Nuke, I've always been partial to SL-1 since it was a (thankfully) small but spectacular fuck-up. It's macabre, but where else do you have to read as a lessons-learned was that a man was impaled upon the ceiling for improper maintenance?
I do agree that the technology has vastly improved and we need new designs to pull the clunkers from the '70s from operation. Outright ban them or build them; no more half measures.
This will be usable for a few years, then you'll eventually have some plausible deniablity when it it over used
I also know from experience that a 50ml pot of SmartWater is enough to chemically mark every PC or electrical item in a school several times a year and last several years.
It's also very good for equipment recovery. It basically guarantees identification / return of stolen property if it comes into police hands. but with SmartWater once it's in police possession even the smallest tiny speck of SmartWater (which can be deployed even on hard-to-cleanse areas like across the PCB's of (unpowered) motherboards) or similar will link it to it's owner.
If this stuff spreads with the ease that TFA describes, it's going to get everywhere. How many law enforcement agencies do you think are going to take Joe Blow's word that they "only touched something that was touched by someone else, who I shook hands with?
Experiment: Spill some powered detergent with color safe bleach. Leave it in a public space for a day. Use a UV light to track its spread. Count how many people are now "marked" that were not the original spilling "criminal".
Yes, this product is uniquely identified, and easily indiscriminately spread. Just use Monsanto as an example of a unique item is being spread by the wind to people being accused of stealing.
Their policies store to store also hastened their demise. Their prices were on the steeper side, but there used to be a store on a couple of blocks away on my way home from work. Convenience did balance out price.
After moving to new location, for about a year, I tried to rent a game console so I could try before I bought an Xbox for Halo 2. I was told I had to put down a deposit that was more than the current selling price of the Xbox because I had only done 60 rentals with that store on a blockbuster account with nearly a thousand rentals (over many years). The associate acknowledged the prolific Blockbuster rentals, but that was store policy. I haven't been in a Blockbuster since.
I finally got them to stop trying to get me to come back when I explained that a local chain was always 3/4 to 1/2 Blockbuster's prices.
Or the Navy does a similar PR shoot. The Wrong Panel was in the screen shot, and we have to stop using the phrase "in excess of 400 foot", because the legible gauge was very much so "in excess".
Is it possible that this laser is so powerful that it could power additional pages of Wicked Powered? Could it be used to lase at least one more story arc?
We've probably done similiar if not sillier shit in our childhoods.
Most of us hopefully stopped doing such things long before we were 14...
Hopefully some of us are still doing such things long after we were 14... with a life-lesson that you don't tape it unless you really want to share it.
The gold plated, low oxygen copper cables to connect you Monster Battery, well if you have to ask how much those cost... you can't afford them. But Best Buy will be happy to sell them to you!
Does this mean that Steve Martin would have to make a sequel for "The Man with Two Brains"? Wasn't his whole dilemma that his brain to cranial cavity ratio was some ratio greater than one?
And Tax-achusetts is doing soooo well with it's superior roads and schools. Must be something up when the only visible tax is property tax, and the visible use of taxes (roads and schools) are doing better. Or that with no sales taxes, the malls just over the boarder have more cars with Mass plates than NH (even with the price increase that comes with passing property taxes on to the consumer). The Pheasant Lane mall is mostly in Tyngsboro, but the main office is in Nashua, and the mall tenants only pay for property tax, no sales tax.
Or how the Mass Pike was supposed to abolish tolls once it "broke even"? For the Pike west of Worcester, I've only seen worse roads in NY.
He broke the letter of the law by passing classified information, and therefore should be sent to trial. In the spirit of the law all the nitty-gritty details of his mitigating situation needs to come out on open record.
An the process continued for any other persons demonstrated as having performing illegal acts. "It's not illegal when the president does it" is not a legal justification for Constitution violations, no matter if you like or dislike the last two president actively caught doing so.
What I wouldn't mind occasionally seeing is Google using is power of Bully Pulpit (as indirectly granted by the millions of people viewing their websites), and doing a redirect from Youtube to a message page (if even for just a single hour).
The ISP associated with your IP believes that it is due compensation for delivering this content to you. The content has already been paid for by the included advertising, thus making it free to the end user. If you believe you received this message in error because you have already paid for access to the internet, you are encouraged to contact your ISP, or if necessary, your local elected government official.
Link to ISP's website. Link to ISP's customer service. Link to a List of Elected Officials for your area. Link to list of Service Providers for your area.
If Google wanted to play hardball, it already has most everyone's (somewhat)undivided attention.
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Literally the first thing that sprang into mind when reading the headline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... If you can't afford to pay your workers, who can afford you product when you are near the bottom rung of services..... Long Live Jack-in-the-box. Meat the new Jack-in-the-box
As a former Navy Nuke, I've always been partial to SL-1 since it was a (thankfully) small but spectacular fuck-up. It's macabre, but where else do you have to read as a lessons-learned was that a man was impaled upon the ceiling for improper maintenance? I do agree that the technology has vastly improved and we need new designs to pull the clunkers from the '70s from operation. Outright ban them or build them; no more half measures.
Modded off-topic? Bizarre. Grammar jokes are the heart and soul of Slashdot.
I think you misspelled "grammer".
Nope, he got it right. You got it wrong :)
I believe that Whoosh jokes are also part of the afore mentioned heart and soul jokes!
This will be usable for a few years, then you'll eventually have some plausible deniablity when it it over used
I also know from experience that a 50ml pot of SmartWater is enough to chemically mark every PC or electrical item in a school several times a year and last several years.
It's also very good for equipment recovery. It basically guarantees identification / return of stolen property if it comes into police hands. but with SmartWater once it's in police possession even the smallest tiny speck of SmartWater (which can be deployed even on hard-to-cleanse areas like across the PCB's of (unpowered) motherboards) or similar will link it to it's owner.
If this stuff spreads with the ease that TFA describes, it's going to get everywhere. How many law enforcement agencies do you think are going to take Joe Blow's word that they "only touched something that was touched by someone else, who I shook hands with?
Experiment: Spill some powered detergent with color safe bleach. Leave it in a public space for a day. Use a UV light to track its spread. Count how many people are now "marked" that were not the original spilling "criminal".
Yes, this product is uniquely identified, and easily indiscriminately spread. Just use Monsanto as an example of a unique item is being spread by the wind to people being accused of stealing.
Their policies store to store also hastened their demise. Their prices were on the steeper side, but there used to be a store on a couple of blocks away on my way home from work. Convenience did balance out price.
After moving to new location, for about a year, I tried to rent a game console so I could try before I bought an Xbox for Halo 2. I was told I had to put down a deposit that was more than the current selling price of the Xbox because I had only done 60 rentals with that store on a blockbuster account with nearly a thousand rentals (over many years). The associate acknowledged the prolific Blockbuster rentals, but that was store policy. I haven't been in a Blockbuster since.
I finally got them to stop trying to get me to come back when I explained that a local chain was always 3/4 to 1/2 Blockbuster's prices.
I don't know, my watch has been working just fine with the same motion, minus the grip of death.
That would be a shit load.
Metric or Imperial?
Would it work for multiple copies of Crysis? Say on a couple dozen VT220s?
Won't somebody please think of the Froggies!
...and the lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats and large chu..
...Skip a bit, Brother...
Or the Navy does a similar PR shoot. The Wrong Panel was in the screen shot, and we have to stop using the phrase "in excess of 400 foot", because the legible gauge was very much so "in excess".
I would maybe buy it as long as it's Gregg ruled.
But $10 says that it'll be available for $59.99 USD
Would that make you a "bad analogy" for BadAnalogyGuy?
[ponders for a moment] *head explodes*
Is it possible that this laser is so powerful that it could power additional pages of Wicked Powered?
Could it be used to lase at least one more story arc?
Damn our minimum wages, safe working conditions, evironmental laws and employee protection laws!
When profit is used as the only motivation, I do believe we've damned ourselves.
We've probably done similiar if not sillier shit in our childhoods.
Most of us hopefully stopped doing such things long before we were 14...
Hopefully some of us are still doing such things long after we were 14... with a life-lesson that you don't tape it unless you really want to share it.
The gold plated, low oxygen copper cables to connect you Monster Battery, well if you have to ask how much those cost... you can't afford them. But Best Buy will be happy to sell them to you!
Obligatory XKCD
http://xkcd.com/670/
Does this mean that Steve Martin would have to make a sequel for "The Man with Two Brains"?
Wasn't his whole dilemma that his brain to cranial cavity ratio was some ratio greater than one?
Let me give you a hint..
It involves advanced interrogation techniques and water.
He swears that it's not torture! But only if you really, really believe!
Occam's Razer
As does spelling not applying on Slashdot.
The simplest explanation might be that is a lowly typing error
Disclaimer: I grew up in NH.
And Tax-achusetts is doing soooo well with it's superior roads and schools. Must be something up when the only visible tax is property tax, and the visible use of taxes (roads and schools) are doing better. Or that with no sales taxes, the malls just over the boarder have more cars with Mass plates than NH (even with the price increase that comes with passing property taxes on to the consumer). The Pheasant Lane mall is mostly in Tyngsboro, but the main office is in Nashua, and the mall tenants only pay for property tax, no sales tax.
Or how the Mass Pike was supposed to abolish tolls once it "broke even"? For the Pike west of Worcester, I've only seen worse roads in NY.
He broke the letter of the law by passing classified information, and therefore should be sent to trial. In the spirit of the law all the nitty-gritty details of his mitigating situation needs to come out on open record.
An the process continued for any other persons demonstrated as having performing illegal acts. "It's not illegal when the president does it" is not a legal justification for Constitution violations, no matter if you like or dislike the last two president actively caught doing so.
...Don't ta-a-a-a-ase me bro-o-o-o-o-ooo!
What I wouldn't mind occasionally seeing is Google using is power of Bully Pulpit (as indirectly granted by the millions of people viewing their websites), and doing a redirect from Youtube to a message page (if even for just a single hour).
The ISP associated with your IP believes that it is due compensation for delivering this content to you. The content has already been paid for by the included advertising, thus making it free to the end user. If you believe you received this message in error because you have already paid for access to the internet, you are encouraged to contact your ISP, or if necessary, your local elected government official.
Link to ISP's website.
Link to ISP's customer service.
Link to a List of Elected Officials for your area.
Link to list of Service Providers for your area.
If Google wanted to play hardball, it already has most everyone's (somewhat)undivided attention.