While you might be used to SMSs arriving instantly, they very often do not.
This, too, seems to be a peculiarly US problem. I've heard of many many more lost and delayed SMSs in the US than in Europe. Perhaps that's because Europe has been making significant use of text messaging for far longer, so the systems there are now more reliable?
Perhaps US users just have lower expectations, so cell networks can get away with such things?
Certainly Europe has been using SMS in particular and GSM in general for considerably longer than the USA, but I suspect that there is another significant complicating factor - AIUI, in the US the cost of an SMS falls on the recipient, not on the sender. There was a lot of fuss about this one or two elections ago when one or other or all three of the ultra-right wing candidates started stealing from millions of their potential voters by sending out masses of SMS messages. I can't remember if they were trying to credit their own candidate, or to discredit their opponents, buy I do recall there was a lot of complaint about it. Actually, in Europe this can happen too, if a message goes between two service providers who don't have appropriate billing arrangements. But I can't recall that having happened for a number of years now.
Using dice in bed can be good fun, depending on what instructions you put on the dice, and how many you use. Being told (by dice #2 ) to give her a backrub while in the Mongolian-Sheep position (dice #1) without having permission to uncouple can result in some quite interesting contortions (think "screw you!" in a rather more literal sense than it is normally used).
We really need to get those free-fall hotels going.
Good call on not kneeling on the 4-sided dice though. not that you'd want to be restricted to just 4 positions in one session. Poor guy must be either seriously disabled or lacking in imagination.
So you know what, fuck you Manulife. You are in no situation to reverse a doctors' diagnosis based on some pictures you found on the internet.
Quiet at the front there, or you'll affect their profit margin. And in this capitalist world we live in, that is, as you know, an act of sedition. Off to Gitmo for you, if you don't get back in line!
I can't really say what makes the difference, just that when there is a smoker's machine with gunk in it, it is bad.
Is that an anecdote, or a statistic ? That is, did you get a record of every customer's smoking habits before you opened up the machine, and then perform a correlation on the thickness of debris against the (pre-recorded) smoking habits ; or did you open up a particularly dirty machine and say "must be a smoker's". Which would be a classic example of a "confirmation bias". Like this post's GP, I used to be a fairly heavy smoker, at the desktop, building up and tearing down machine after machine. Yes, I did notice a moderate amount of tar and dust (fluff) in the machines, but nothing excessive. I'd notice similar amounts of dust and gunge when I got a machine from Peet, who is an aggressive "if you're lighting that, I'm leaving the bar" non-smoker and a moderately severe asthmatic. Machines from houses with a cat or dog though... really mucky. The printer with the dead mouse in it, we never asked if the mouse was a smoker or non-smoker. Possibly the dirtiest computers come from smoking households with a dog and no cats to keep the mice down. But I'd hesitate to assert that the correlation was a causality until I'd done a lot more work than the topic justifies. Apple are evil liars ; quelle surprise!
Interesting info on the lead mining. It's not one of the more popular metals for historical topics.
Aye. But it's been important for a long time. Serious proposals have had it that lead (via drinking water sub-clinical poisoning) was largely responsible for the gibbon-like "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Whether they're strictly correct, I'd doubt ; but they do make a good case for plumbosis having had an effect on families who could afford to live with plumbing. On the other hand... how many legions would have died before even getting to barracks for training if they didn't have plumbing? What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts.
The few times I was actually forced to do some homework it usually raised my results up to about 80 - 85%.
From a "fail" to a "barely acceptable".
Also later, in my college days, I had experienced cases where simple lack of practice caused me to perform much below expectations on exams - even though I knew how to do something,
Which is one of the main points of the homework.
I simply wasn't fast enough to complete it and other assignments in a given time.
Well, that's another important life-skill that you've missed out on.
Maybe so, but I was in fourth grade so I didn't realize that at the time. Remember, I had trouble with them.
Which is part of the point of doing homework. Wondered when you'd get that.
But that was still way too much work for kid that age.
If I knew what age "4th grade" was in your country, I might agree. Guessing on it meaning about 9, that's not unreasonable. 2 to 3 hours work. If you want to make it shorter, then you get smarter. Again, that's part of the point of homework.
Here in the US, we tend to not care about such trivial things as which languages someone opts to teach their child.
I'm sorry, you sure you're from the same US I'm from? Where growing up learning only Spanish becomes a serious barrier in life? And many people are xenophobic and arrogant when it comes to languages?
Probably he (she? It? They? WGAF?) does ; you both live in a US where, in the interest of protecting a non-existent privacy and "free speech", you allow child abuse. (I did actually notice that the professor was talking about teaching the child while it was in it's first language acquisition phase ; he didn't say that it was the only language that he was going to teach the child. Astonishingly (to some), it's perfectly plausible to have children growing up simultaneously fluent in at least three languages. Two is easy - my wife's friends intend little Vasili to grow up fluent in English and Russian. I'd expect them to start on his French or Spanish or German when he's about 8.
Everybody knows that there were no such diseases before the modern industrial food complex started shoveling processed crap down our throats. Ancient Egyptians were practically immortal. I mean, everything you ate back then was organic, there was no fluoride in the water and the ozone layer was fully intact.
Just to inject a note of boring reality into your moderately-well-founded sarcastic diatribe, did you know that the Greenland icesheet includes layers that document (amongst other things) the development and expansion of the lead-mining industry in Europe. Under the Romans. Our pre-industrial ancestors were perfectly capable of shitting in their (and other people's) backyards. They were just less effective at it than we are. Actually - calling the Romans "pre-industrial" is just a bit on the cheeky side, isn't it. They did a lot of things on an industrial scale. I wonder how long it would take our squaddies to replicate Hadrian's wall?
Pretty funny, right? Not according to Morrison: 'I've had three from young people saying they were contemplating committing suicide. I've had two from women contemplating killing their children and themselves.
Just Think Of It As Evolution In Action. They die, they take their retarded genes with them as well as the consequences of their no-doubt atrocious schooling and probably their religion. And the downsides are.... nope, I don't see any, as long as they're hygienic about it. They take their children with them on a one-way trip to decomposition... even better. Genes gone, schooling costs down, dumb-fuck ideas gone. We should be building suicide booths with easily-emptied meat lockers to encourage them.
If my memory serves correctly, one Vlad Tepes one got annoyed at self-righteously officious bureaucrats who refused to take their hats off when visiting him. So he had their hats attached to their heads, with nails. Long nails, I hope.
I suspect that the Liberian government could come up with a mutually agreeable solution... something like "you give up the copyright claim and we'll remove the obligation on copyright holders to be liver donors."
i volunteer to impregnate these women... It's for the good of the gene pool!
You have some evidence to support your unstated assumption that your genes are better for the gene pool than those of some randomly-selected guy?
And of course - there's no reason to believe that same-sex couples who make an active choice to produce a kid are going to take random genes for their child (children) ; if they exercise any significant degree of choice, then you're really unlikely to get any action at all from this argument. You may be setting yourself up to be excluded from the gene pool, on the basis that you can't see the blindingly obvious.
The trouble with your proposal to just track "key" roads is that it encourages traffic to do rat-runs along secondary roads. I experienced this personally when tolling was brought in on a freeway near my house; the alternative routes were suddenly jam-packed with traffic, particularly at off-peak times when they were previously quiet.
The house I've lived in for 16-and-a-bit years is within sight of two solutions to this problem : the roads that could be linked up to make a rat run around the local congestion point are blocked off by bollards, so that cars can't drive around them ; more recently, the roads have had "speed humps" added to them which make driving at more than 25km/h an exhaust- and underpan- scraping exercise. Which pretty effectively stops rat-running. From my front door to the "open road" is 11 sets of bumps one way and 13 the other (shorter) way.
Needless to say, when I brought a GPS (well, technically, the wife brought it for my birthday) navigation system for the car, with a year's updates to the mapping of road obstructions and speed cameras, the device insists on directing me down these roads that have been blocked-off for at least 17 years. Which was not a surprise. So, now you know what level of accuracy to expect from "Road Angel" mapping. We call the squawking voice from the dashboard the "deranged crack addict", on the grounds of it's degree of connection with reality.
Don't forget Europe is a lair of faggie, liberal, nanny-state, tree-hugging, pot-smoking, smelly-hippies commies.
Huh, whuzzat? you calling me?
Everybody knows commies have babies for breakfast.
Yeah sure. Lightly fried in hash oil. Can't beat them. Well, shouldn't have to ; should be tender enough already. But that last shipment of babies which you sent - good capitalist pig that you are - was decidedly below standard. Tendons all stringy, guts not properly hosed through. Really poor stuff. If you don't get your baby kidnapping business together and improve your quality control, we'll go to another supplier.
Um, if your passwords are on that slip of paper in your wallet
Oh, yeah, I forgot that the "you" in the parent comment was "you the retard who puts personally identifiable information into his wallet and who richly deserves being burgled, ID thieved, set up as Osama bin Laden's #3 operative for the 2010 attacks, and probably fingered for paying child support for the Octomum's trampling hoard.", and not me personally.
As the sub-title says, what is, indeed, wrong with an "encrypted-plain-text-file-on-a-stick". Since you're going to have to have access to a computer to use the password(s), then you're set up. OK, you're potentially vulnerable to "rubber hose cryptography", but how, precisely does that change your situation from what it was 30 seconds before the memory stick was found? They've got you ; you're in deep trouble ; film at eleven ; cattle prods at six o'clock.
Then after you get circumcision outlawed, you can work on getting the practice of forcibly puncturing holes into the arms and legs of children who did not agree for the purpose of injecting diseases into them.
This I take it is a dig against vaccination?
If it is, then you're missing an important part of the social contract : you get your health care free at the point of use regardless of whether you pay taxes for it in return for your cooperation in controlling the spread of diseases. That means not shitting in the drinking water reservoirs, not spitting your TB-laden sputum into the faces of passers-by, and in this case, exposing your children to a controlled low risk of various mild diseases so that my children (if I had any) are not exposed to the uncontrolled horrible diseases that your children are likely to catch and transmit before they die (slowly and in pain).
If you ask me, parents like you should be free to not have their children vaccinated ; but by opting out of the social contract like this, the parents should themselves lose the right to healthcare, education, policing, etc. (The children being innocent of wrongdoing in this should of course retain full rights.)
What do you mean, you don't have health care in your country? I thought SlashDot only accepted submissions from the civilised world.
Epic fail yourself, they can trace where your iPhone was,
Which proves where your iPhone was (using radio signal triangulation, or whatever). As an extra step, they have to prove that you were in the same location as your iPhone.
That begs a question - assuming that an iPhone has a "switch off all radios, I'm on a plane" mode which really does switch off all radios, both transmitters and receivers, can the phone then be subject to beacon triangulation? I'd hope not, but you never know if "off" means "off" with these things.
... discovering unarguably intelligent alien life would be the intra-religion schisms that it would provoke between the different human theological camps. Watching the "designed in Bog's own image" bandits would also be entertaining, as they try to come up with an image of a Bog which can simultaneously have humans and the BugBlatter Beast of Traal as images. The one result, theologically, that would be really disturbing (I say this in the spirit of Popperian falsifiability, not because I think it's probable) would be if our alien friends with the 7-fold rotational symmetry (or whatever form they have) turned out to have a religion that was directly translatable into, say, the tales of the Norse Pantheon.
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This, too, seems to be a peculiarly US problem. I've heard of many many more lost and delayed SMSs in the US than in Europe. Perhaps that's because Europe has been making significant use of text messaging for far longer, so the systems there are now more reliable?
Perhaps US users just have lower expectations, so cell networks can get away with such things?
Certainly Europe has been using SMS in particular and GSM in general for considerably longer than the USA, but I suspect that there is another significant complicating factor - AIUI, in the US the cost of an SMS falls on the recipient, not on the sender. There was a lot of fuss about this one or two elections ago when one or other or all three of the ultra-right wing candidates started stealing from millions of their potential voters by sending out masses of SMS messages. I can't remember if they were trying to credit their own candidate, or to discredit their opponents, buy I do recall there was a lot of complaint about it.
Actually, in Europe this can happen too, if a message goes between two service providers who don't have appropriate billing arrangements. But I can't recall that having happened for a number of years now.
Using dice in bed can be good fun, depending on what instructions you put on the dice, and how many you use. Being told (by dice #2 ) to give her a backrub while in the Mongolian-Sheep position (dice #1) without having permission to uncouple can result in some quite interesting contortions (think "screw you!" in a rather more literal sense than it is normally used).
We really need to get those free-fall hotels going.
Good call on not kneeling on the 4-sided dice though. not that you'd want to be restricted to just 4 positions in one session. Poor guy must be either seriously disabled or lacking in imagination.
I think you'll find that "nuisance" is spelt "danger" in this usage.
Quiet at the front there, or you'll affect their profit margin. And in this capitalist world we live in, that is, as you know, an act of sedition. Off to Gitmo for you, if you don't get back in line!
Is that an anecdote, or a statistic ? ... really mucky. The printer with the dead mouse in it, we never asked if the mouse was a smoker or non-smoker. Possibly the dirtiest computers come from smoking households with a dog and no cats to keep the mice down. But I'd hesitate to assert that the correlation was a causality until I'd done a lot more work than the topic justifies.
That is, did you get a record of every customer's smoking habits before you opened up the machine, and then perform a correlation on the thickness of debris against the (pre-recorded) smoking habits ; or did you open up a particularly dirty machine and say "must be a smoker's". Which would be a classic example of a "confirmation bias".
Like this post's GP, I used to be a fairly heavy smoker, at the desktop, building up and tearing down machine after machine. Yes, I did notice a moderate amount of tar and dust (fluff) in the machines, but nothing excessive. I'd notice similar amounts of dust and gunge when I got a machine from Peet, who is an aggressive "if you're lighting that, I'm leaving the bar" non-smoker and a moderately severe asthmatic. Machines from houses with a cat or dog though
Apple are evil liars ; quelle surprise!
Aye. But it's been important for a long time. Serious proposals have had it that lead (via drinking water sub-clinical poisoning) was largely responsible for the gibbon-like "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire". Whether they're strictly correct, I'd doubt ; but they do make a good case for plumbosis having had an effect on families who could afford to live with plumbing. ... how many legions would have died before even getting to barracks for training if they didn't have plumbing? What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts.
On the other hand
Similar experience with SiteGround (who may or may not be a Bluehost reseller, whoever bluehost are.)
Just burning a backup of my server to take down to a friend's celler. Offsite backup - tick.
OK, I admit to skipping my "closing blockquote" homework as well as the entire "preview button" class.
From a "fail" to a "barely acceptable".
Which is one of the main points of the homework.
Which is part of the point of doing homework. Wondered when you'd get that.
If I knew what age "4th grade" was in your country, I might agree. Guessing on it meaning about 9, that's not unreasonable. 2 to 3 hours work. If you want to make it shorter, then you get smarter. Again, that's part of the point of homework.
Probably he (she? It? They? WGAF?) does ; you both live in a US where, in the interest of protecting a non-existent privacy and "free speech", you allow child abuse.
(I did actually notice that the professor was talking about teaching the child while it was in it's first language acquisition phase ; he didn't say that it was the only language that he was going to teach the child.
Astonishingly (to some), it's perfectly plausible to have children growing up simultaneously fluent in at least three languages. Two is easy - my wife's friends intend little Vasili to grow up fluent in English and Russian. I'd expect them to start on his French or Spanish or German when he's about 8.
Not a very important cop then? Most politicians like to be seen glad handing the Chief Constable.
All been stolen by those thieving bastards from [insert housing estate of choice]?
Just to inject a note of boring reality into your moderately-well-founded sarcastic diatribe, did you know that the Greenland icesheet includes layers that document (amongst other things) the development and expansion of the lead-mining industry in Europe. Under the Romans.
Our pre-industrial ancestors were perfectly capable of shitting in their (and other people's) backyards. They were just less effective at it than we are.
Actually - calling the Romans "pre-industrial" is just a bit on the cheeky side, isn't it. They did a lot of things on an industrial scale. I wonder how long it would take our squaddies to replicate Hadrian's wall?
Just Think Of It As Evolution In Action. .... nope, I don't see any, as long as they're hygienic about it. They take their children with them on a one-way trip to decomposition ... even better. Genes gone, schooling costs down, dumb-fuck ideas gone.
They die, they take their retarded genes with them as well as the consequences of their no-doubt atrocious schooling and probably their religion. And the downsides are
We should be building suicide booths with easily-emptied meat lockers to encourage them.
I call Godwin!
- Hitler has only got one ball ;
Goering has two, but very small.
- Your mouse has only one ball.
- Therefore, your mouse is Hitler, and you've been a Hitler-massaging Nazi Party member for a significant time.
- Q.E.D. Civilised argument is over and we can get down to the rioting. Pass me the Molotov Cocktail.
No, you fool, the unlit one.
If my memory serves correctly, one Vlad Tepes one got annoyed at self-righteously officious bureaucrats who refused to take their hats off when visiting him. So he had their hats attached to their heads, with nails. Long nails, I hope.
I suspect that the Liberian government could come up with a mutually agreeable solution ... something like "you give up the copyright claim and we'll remove the obligation on copyright holders to be liver donors."
You have some evidence to support your unstated assumption that your genes are better for the gene pool than those of some randomly-selected guy?
And of course - there's no reason to believe that same-sex couples who make an active choice to produce a kid are going to take random genes for their child (children) ; if they exercise any significant degree of choice, then you're really unlikely to get any action at all from this argument. You may be setting yourself up to be excluded from the gene pool, on the basis that you can't see the blindingly obvious.
The house I've lived in for 16-and-a-bit years is within sight of two solutions to this problem : the roads that could be linked up to make a rat run around the local congestion point are blocked off by bollards, so that cars can't drive around them ; more recently, the roads have had "speed humps" added to them which make driving at more than 25km/h an exhaust- and underpan- scraping exercise. Which pretty effectively stops rat-running. From my front door to the "open road" is 11 sets of bumps one way and 13 the other (shorter) way.
Needless to say, when I brought a GPS (well, technically, the wife brought it for my birthday) navigation system for the car, with a year's updates to the mapping of road obstructions and speed cameras, the device insists on directing me down these roads that have been blocked-off for at least 17 years. Which was not a surprise.
So, now you know what level of accuracy to expect from "Road Angel" mapping. We call the squawking voice from the dashboard the "deranged crack addict", on the grounds of it's degree of connection with reality.
Huh, whuzzat? you calling me?
Yeah sure. Lightly fried in hash oil. Can't beat them. Well, shouldn't have to ; should be tender enough already. But that last shipment of babies which you sent - good capitalist pig that you are - was decidedly below standard. Tendons all stringy, guts not properly hosed through. Really poor stuff. If you don't get your baby kidnapping business together and improve your quality control, we'll go to another supplier.
Oh, yeah, I forgot that the "you" in the parent comment was "you the retard who puts personally identifiable information into his wallet and who richly deserves being burgled, ID thieved, set up as Osama bin Laden's #3 operative for the 2010 attacks, and probably fingered for paying child support for the Octomum's trampling hoard.", and not me personally.
As the sub-title says, what is, indeed, wrong with an "encrypted-plain-text-file-on-a-stick". Since you're going to have to have access to a computer to use the password(s), then you're set up. OK, you're potentially vulnerable to "rubber hose cryptography", but how, precisely does that change your situation from what it was 30 seconds before the memory stick was found? They've got you ; you're in deep trouble ; film at eleven ; cattle prods at six o'clock.
This I take it is a dig against vaccination?
If it is, then you're missing an important part of the social contract : you get your health care free at the point of use regardless of whether you pay taxes for it in return for your cooperation in controlling the spread of diseases. That means not shitting in the drinking water reservoirs, not spitting your TB-laden sputum into the faces of passers-by, and in this case, exposing your children to a controlled low risk of various mild diseases so that my children (if I had any) are not exposed to the uncontrolled horrible diseases that your children are likely to catch and transmit before they die (slowly and in pain).
If you ask me, parents like you should be free to not have their children vaccinated ; but by opting out of the social contract like this, the parents should themselves lose the right to healthcare, education, policing, etc. (The children being innocent of wrongdoing in this should of course retain full rights.)
What do you mean, you don't have health care in your country? I thought SlashDot only accepted submissions from the civilised world.
Don't give Hormel ideas.
Which proves where your iPhone was (using radio signal triangulation, or whatever). As an extra step, they have to prove that you were in the same location as your iPhone.
That begs a question - assuming that an iPhone has a "switch off all radios, I'm on a plane" mode which really does switch off all radios, both transmitters and receivers, can the phone then be subject to beacon triangulation? I'd hope not, but you never know if "off" means "off" with these things.
... discovering unarguably intelligent alien life would be the intra-religion schisms that it would provoke between the different human theological camps.
Watching the "designed in Bog's own image" bandits would also be entertaining, as they try to come up with an image of a Bog which can simultaneously have humans and the BugBlatter Beast of Traal as images.
The one result, theologically, that would be really disturbing (I say this in the spirit of Popperian falsifiability, not because I think it's probable) would be if our alien friends with the 7-fold rotational symmetry (or whatever form they have) turned out to have a religion that was directly translatable into, say, the tales of the Norse Pantheon.