Someone please provide links: I know that even now after the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska there is ongoing environmental damage and hardship for the people who live in the area.
The environmental damage from the oil industry will start to decline about 2 decades after you stop driving a car. The sooner you want the damage to stop, the sooner you start using the bus. No buses? Start walking - it's good for the heart!
Oh, you wanted an easy solution that didn't entail you having to change your lifestyle any? Try at the next kiosk - there may be a politician willing to lie to you at that one.
But we (the oil industry) are struggling hard to give you the cheap energy that you are demanding. What the fuck are you getting frustrated over now? You've got people literally killing themselves and other people to keep your gas tank full, and you want more?
I've always been taught to finish my plate, but some of the meal sizes in the U.S. are just ridiculous. I understand that I'm getting more value for money,
Are you? Is the quality of the ingredients as good as you'd have got if they'd made a smaller portion at the same price? Is the cook on minimum wage to pay for your "better value", and was that mayonnaise you just ate, or his pustulent semen? (Or, if you ordered pustulent semen, was it really Walmart mayonnaise?) As zen morotcycle repairman Pirsig (IIRC) questioned, "what is value"?
The reason why they have speed cameras is because they get lots of racing fans
So? Replace the speed cameras with a tripod mounted machine gun and a free-fire zone for any vehicles travelling faster than the posted speed limit. Leave the burned wreckage and mangled bodies to rot in the middle of the road. Other would-be speeders will soon get the message. Or become extinct.
There is a solution. Whether it is a politically acceptable one is a separate question.
You said British Petroleum is criminally negligent?
... for operating in a country with a criminally negligent government? Remember, BP may have requested for exemption from repairing the BOPs in February (that's standard "reduce costs, pay more to stock holders" business ethics), but it was the American government that granted the exemption (that's standard "protect the people from the ravages of untrammelled business ethics" governemnt ethics).
But then again, with a major politician telling them to "Drill, Baby, drill!" because the proles want cheap fuel for inefficient transport, what sort of government oversight would you expect? Oh, sorry, does that make you feel just a tiny bit concerned about your own actions in the years leading up to this mess? I'll see if I can find the world's smallest violin to play you a serenade on.
as is having everybody be sedated and tied to their seats.
Now why does that remind me of the line in the manual for "Elite" where the ease of the slave trading business was greatly helped by the slaves being provided in pre-packaged, dehydrated, suspended-animation-ed one-tonne containers.
Oh dear, have I given our lords and masters an idea?
Governor Haley Barber is skipping meetings about the problem and telling the media, "Come on in, the water's fine", comparing it to the light film of gasoline you sometimes see behind a motorboat when you get into the water to ski.
This is meant to be a recommendation? For water-skiing, or for the politician? Or just for going somewhere else?
They had one edition where they gave 35% in a review, right next to the game's advertisement.
Quite likely you'll find that the localised copy is written in one place by the employees of one company, and that the advertising is sold (and revenue received) by another company. True, both companies are themselves owned by an uber-company, but the system is designed to reduce conflicts of interest between the editorial side of the publication and the advertising side of the publication. If you're in a "small country", then it's fairly possible that the two companies are based in different countries. The local editorial content (reviews, consumer advocacy, blah) is generated by a fairly small staff, but the advertising, quite likely the printing, and possibly some of the more international content comes from the multinational uber-company.
Contrary to the cynicism that a lot of other readers punt, this structure has been widely adopted in the print media for decades, in no small part because over the longer term advertisers and editorial staff both recognise that customers tend to re-visit publications that put a high value on their editorial independence. This is not to deny that clashes do happen - they do - but to stress that more mature media have developed techniques for reducing the frequency and severity of such clashes, while recognising that they are inevitable and actually good for the publication in the longer run.
It's likely that 17,348 separate SlashDotters will reply and regale me with tales of their miserable experiences. None of them will have got as far as reading this, but I'll waste electrons writing it nonetheless : firstly, a significant part of the computer press is not particularly "mature", especially parts that have come from web back into print media. This applies to both publications and individual "journalists". Secondly, I'm describing the situation I know in Europe - I don't know (or care much) about the situation in other countries media - if you don't like the media you get in in your home country, either import stuff that you do like, or move out. If you don't have those options, then you've likely got bigger problems. (Caveat - I learned a lot about journalistic ethics and the "back room" organisation of news media from being friends with a British editor who spent a couple of decades in NZ and AU before returning to teach and practice journalism in Britain and Norway ; he tells me that the structures "down south" are broadly similar.)
As a result, the most personal information imaginable is available to anyone who takes the time to troll the database.
So, this complaint database contains the photographs of my genital warts, and the way I had them camouflaged by being tattooed in contrasting stripes of telephone-black and white-white. That's the most personal information that I can imagine. Maybe the submitter, summary writer, or original author has a particularly small and limited imagination based on a small and limited range of personal experiences. Or maybe they are desperate for hits.
Round here - Scotland - they're normally "the Scum". Not meant in a good sense.
their support is firmly and unwaveringly on the side of the Tories.
s/Tories/right wing/ : again, the whole "New Labour" right wing political party has consistently had severe problems on the civilised side of Hadrian's Wall (we allow a waver for Geordies living within the metaphorical shadow of the Wall).
It must have been around for years - perhaps hidden in the FireFox source code using a Richie-login-like backdoor - because in all the years that I've been using FireFox on various platforms, I've never heard of this "Justin Bieber"
Kudos to the writer for hiding the code so well.
I suppose that I'll have to find out who Justin Bieber is now... ah, as I suspected, some useless musical non-entity. Well, that was a waste of electrons, wasn't it?
Since they didn't have any concept of "sustainability", it's very easy to imagine those wolves contributing to the birds' extinction.
The point is that there isn't any evidence of a dramatic increase in the population of wolves (or dingos, or marsupial lions, or whatever) coincident with the extinction of the Genyornis, while there is evidence of the human population increasing infinite-fold (from zero to a positive integer) at about the right time. This is all subject to uncertainty of dating - but the appearance of humans in Australia is approximately coincident with both extinction of most of the mega-fauna (big, possibly tasty, animals) and desertification of much of the country. Strangely the same happened, within dating error, when humans entered the Americas. And when humans arrived on the high seas (with the whales). And when humans arrived in New Zealand. And when humans arrived on numerous smaller islands such as the Reunion group and the Mauritius group.
Your species has form for destroying faunas on contact.
And if the Hindus are right and there is reincarnation, but you've wasted this life with Christian mumbo-jumbo rather than seeking to unify your atman with Brahman...?
I wondered where all those cockroaches came from. Where's the poison?
I no longer have a cellphone. -- (Disclaimer: I'm not a conspiracy theorist nut.)
By your standards, you are not a conspiracy theory nut, but by the important standards (those of the people who'll be following you in the black helicopters) you are a dangerous subversive conspiracy theory nut (and probably a drug-dealing paedophile too - they have clear-up rates to improve and you have genitals to electrocute). Doing anything that makes you stand out form the crowd is likely to get you clubbed back into line.
But it's the same McKesson that REQUIRES all PCs running app A to have Java 1.4.2 and nothing newer, even though another product (app b) needs to run on those same computers, and REQUIRES Java 1.6...
I believe that my previous "ominously... ominous" description has been adequately borne out.
Fight for your pay rises, laugh at the insanity of it all, and maintain a blog protected by multiple levels of plausible deniability where you poke fun at this weeks stupidities. As for the java problem - if they're desktops, would it be possible to put multiple small-ish hard drives in and connect them through a partition manager or boot manager? "Ghost" or an equivalent to manage disk images backup and restore, data stored out on the network and exchanged between applications in the same way. (You didn't say that both applications have to be active at the same time on the same machine ; also, you didn't say that the solution had to be neat, efficient or elegant. There are times that exposing the insanity of a situation and ridiculing it by that exposure is your best defence.)
If it's any consolation, you're doing a wonderful job of making this vendor's name stick in my memory, and I'd hope that my internal alarm bells will ring loud and strong if their name ever comes up for consideration at work. Not that it's likely, but the alarm has been set.
At least, I hope that you're doing your damnedest to make them an ex-vendor. A vendor that has ceased to be. A vendor which remains upright by virtue of being nailed to it's perch (they probably fit this criterion already). A vendor which has shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to join the Choir Immortal. An ex-vendor in every meaningful meaning of the word. I'm almost intrigued to find out who the soon-to-be-unemployed software house are? Would they be the ones who get multiple references to "Select the "Always install software from McKesson Information Solutions, LLC" radio button." when I search Google for "McKesson software IE6" ; the combination sounds ominously... well... ominous.
Doubly so. Your porn star, or his anatomy advisors, needs some advice on whale anatomy. Unless the whale in question has had a tracheostomy (which might well explain why the damned thing is dead on a beach), your actor probably gets closer to penetrating an orifice while riding the bus. A fairly empty bus. While he's wearing what he's wearing in the picture. By day.
Hmm, I almost have a temptation to search youTube for videos of sadomasochists using Tasers for a moderately extreme form of self stimulation. But formulating the image to describe the search cures me of the desire.
If you think eliminating everything from society that could possibly be used for a criminal purpose is a reasonable goal of government then you're basically volunteering to live in a police state.
By the time that you're in a police state, you've got so many policemen going around with access to equipment and techniques that are useful for crime, that you can just guess who the next set of crime lords are going to be. Some would claim that this has happened already.
Option 1 : Xbox notes removal of Natal that was functioning within specification and sends message to the men-in-black-helicopters suggesting that they activate their other bugs (there is no "you are not bugged" option). Option 2 : Xbox end of the connector is very stiff, so you need to apply both hands to the chassis ; high voltage capacitor starts charging. If you are successful in unplugging your Natal, your name becomes changed to "smoking debris in the living room". Feel free to pursue your liability claim from beyond the grave.
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The bicycle has been available for decades. A century even. Use it.
The environmental damage from the oil industry will start to decline about 2 decades after you stop driving a car. The sooner you want the damage to stop, the sooner you start using the bus. No buses? Start walking - it's good for the heart!
Oh, you wanted an easy solution that didn't entail you having to change your lifestyle any? Try at the next kiosk - there may be a politician willing to lie to you at that one.
But we (the oil industry) are struggling hard to give you the cheap energy that you are demanding. What the fuck are you getting frustrated over now? You've got people literally killing themselves and other people to keep your gas tank full, and you want more?
Are you? Is the quality of the ingredients as good as you'd have got if they'd made a smaller portion at the same price? Is the cook on minimum wage to pay for your "better value", and was that mayonnaise you just ate, or his pustulent semen? (Or, if you ordered pustulent semen, was it really Walmart mayonnaise?)
As zen morotcycle repairman Pirsig (IIRC) questioned, "what is value"?
So? Replace the speed cameras with a tripod mounted machine gun and a free-fire zone for any vehicles travelling faster than the posted speed limit. Leave the burned wreckage and mangled bodies to rot in the middle of the road. Other would-be speeders will soon get the message. Or become extinct.
There is a solution. Whether it is a politically acceptable one is a separate question.
... for operating in a country with a criminally negligent government?
Remember, BP may have requested for exemption from repairing the BOPs in February (that's standard "reduce costs, pay more to stock holders" business ethics), but it was the American government that granted the exemption (that's standard "protect the people from the ravages of untrammelled business ethics" governemnt ethics).
But then again, with a major politician telling them to "Drill, Baby, drill!" because the proles want cheap fuel for inefficient transport, what sort of government oversight would you expect? Oh, sorry, does that make you feel just a tiny bit concerned about your own actions in the years leading up to this mess? I'll see if I can find the world's smallest violin to play you a serenade on.
Parent:
GP:
Since you implicitly accept the GP's scenario, which part of "God, Deity" is non-fictional?
Now why does that remind me of the line in the manual for "Elite" where the ease of the slave trading business was greatly helped by the slaves being provided in pre-packaged, dehydrated, suspended-animation-ed one-tonne containers.
Oh dear, have I given our lords and masters an idea?
This is meant to be a recommendation? For water-skiing, or for the politician? Or just for going somewhere else?
Quite likely you'll find that the localised copy is written in one place by the employees of one company, and that the advertising is sold (and revenue received) by another company. True, both companies are themselves owned by an uber-company, but the system is designed to reduce conflicts of interest between the editorial side of the publication and the advertising side of the publication.
If you're in a "small country", then it's fairly possible that the two companies are based in different countries. The local editorial content (reviews, consumer advocacy, blah) is generated by a fairly small staff, but the advertising, quite likely the printing, and possibly some of the more international content comes from the multinational uber-company.
Contrary to the cynicism that a lot of other readers punt, this structure has been widely adopted in the print media for decades, in no small part because over the longer term advertisers and editorial staff both recognise that customers tend to re-visit publications that put a high value on their editorial independence. This is not to deny that clashes do happen - they do - but to stress that more mature media have developed techniques for reducing the frequency and severity of such clashes, while recognising that they are inevitable and actually good for the publication in the longer run.
It's likely that 17,348 separate SlashDotters will reply and regale me with tales of their miserable experiences. None of them will have got as far as reading this, but I'll waste electrons writing it nonetheless : firstly, a significant part of the computer press is not particularly "mature", especially parts that have come from web back into print media. This applies to both publications and individual "journalists". Secondly, I'm describing the situation I know in Europe - I don't know (or care much) about the situation in other countries media - if you don't like the media you get in in your home country, either import stuff that you do like, or move out. If you don't have those options, then you've likely got bigger problems.
(Caveat - I learned a lot about journalistic ethics and the "back room" organisation of news media from being friends with a British editor who spent a couple of decades in NZ and AU before returning to teach and practice journalism in Britain and Norway ; he tells me that the structures "down south" are broadly similar.)
So, this complaint database contains the photographs of my genital warts, and the way I had them camouflaged by being tattooed in contrasting stripes of telephone-black and white-white. That's the most personal information that I can imagine.
Maybe the submitter, summary writer, or original author has a particularly small and limited imagination based on a small and limited range of personal experiences. Or maybe they are desperate for hits.
I bet that they've done away with that old, humanoid overrated feature of being able to walk and chew gum at the same time too.
Round here - Scotland - they're normally "the Scum". Not meant in a good sense.
s/Tories/right wing/ : again, the whole "New Labour" right wing political party has consistently had severe problems on the civilised side of Hadrian's Wall (we allow a waver for Geordies living within the metaphorical shadow of the Wall).
... implying that he's a sheep in wolf's clothing?
It must have been around for years - perhaps hidden in the FireFox source code using a Richie-login-like backdoor - because in all the years that I've been using FireFox on various platforms, I've never heard of this "Justin Bieber"
Kudos to the writer for hiding the code so well.
I suppose that I'll have to find out who Justin Bieber is now ... ah, as I suspected, some useless musical non-entity. Well, that was a waste of electrons, wasn't it?
I believe that Israel is getting into the piracy business (again). They could try getting work there.
The point is that there isn't any evidence of a dramatic increase in the population of wolves (or dingos, or marsupial lions, or whatever) coincident with the extinction of the Genyornis, while there is evidence of the human population increasing infinite-fold (from zero to a positive integer) at about the right time.
This is all subject to uncertainty of dating - but the appearance of humans in Australia is approximately coincident with both extinction of most of the mega-fauna (big, possibly tasty, animals) and desertification of much of the country.
Strangely the same happened, within dating error, when humans entered the Americas. And when humans arrived on the high seas (with the whales). And when humans arrived in New Zealand. And when humans arrived on numerous smaller islands such as the Reunion group and the Mauritius group.
Your species has form for destroying faunas on contact.
I wondered where all those cockroaches came from.
Where's the poison?
Ah, the old "Robin Hood"/ "Friar Tuck" trick. That's so 1970s.
By your standards, you are not a conspiracy theory nut, but by the important standards (those of the people who'll be following you in the black helicopters) you are a dangerous subversive conspiracy theory nut (and probably a drug-dealing paedophile too - they have clear-up rates to improve and you have genitals to electrocute).
Doing anything that makes you stand out form the crowd is likely to get you clubbed back into line.
I believe that my previous "ominously ... ominous" description has been adequately borne out.
Fight for your pay rises, laugh at the insanity of it all, and maintain a blog protected by multiple levels of plausible deniability where you poke fun at this weeks stupidities.
As for the java problem - if they're desktops, would it be possible to put multiple small-ish hard drives in and connect them through a partition manager or boot manager? "Ghost" or an equivalent to manage disk images backup and restore, data stored out on the network and exchanged between applications in the same way. (You didn't say that both applications have to be active at the same time on the same machine ; also, you didn't say that the solution had to be neat, efficient or elegant. There are times that exposing the insanity of a situation and ridiculing it by that exposure is your best defence.)
If it's any consolation, you're doing a wonderful job of making this vendor's name stick in my memory, and I'd hope that my internal alarm bells will ring loud and strong if their name ever comes up for consideration at work. Not that it's likely, but the alarm has been set.
FTFY
At least, I hope that you're doing your damnedest to make them an ex-vendor. A vendor that has ceased to be. A vendor which remains upright by virtue of being nailed to it's perch (they probably fit this criterion already). A vendor which has shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to join the Choir Immortal. An ex-vendor in every meaningful meaning of the word. ... well ... ominous.
I'm almost intrigued to find out who the soon-to-be-unemployed software house are? Would they be the ones who get multiple references to "Select the "Always install software from McKesson Information Solutions, LLC" radio button." when I search Google for "McKesson software IE6" ; the combination sounds ominously
Doubly so.
Your porn star, or his anatomy advisors, needs some advice on whale anatomy.
Unless the whale in question has had a tracheostomy (which might well explain why the damned thing is dead on a beach), your actor probably gets closer to penetrating an orifice while riding the bus. A fairly empty bus. While he's wearing what he's wearing in the picture. By day.
Hmm, I almost have a temptation to search youTube for videos of sadomasochists using Tasers for a moderately extreme form of self stimulation. But formulating the image to describe the search cures me of the desire.
By the time that you're in a police state, you've got so many policemen going around with access to equipment and techniques that are useful for crime, that you can just guess who the next set of crime lords are going to be.
Some would claim that this has happened already.
Option 1 : Xbox notes removal of Natal that was functioning within specification and sends message to the men-in-black-helicopters suggesting that they activate their other bugs (there is no "you are not bugged" option).
Option 2 : Xbox end of the connector is very stiff, so you need to apply both hands to the chassis ; high voltage capacitor starts charging. If you are successful in unplugging your Natal, your name becomes changed to "smoking debris in the living room". Feel free to pursue your liability claim from beyond the grave.