Although its caused by management, I think these are the failure of an engineer living up to his professional responsibilities.
Don't people who go by the title "engineer" have legal requirements? As in if the thing they design explodes and kills people, they're liable? At least that's the case in some places, according to the completely unreliable rumors I've heard. So I hope these kids aren't actually signing things they know to be dangerous.
I don't know what season they're on now (24-ish?), but SG1 sucked hugely for the last couple of Richard Dean Anderson years, and they stumble every once in a while since then, but the writing quality has greatly improved lately. It's sometimes even funny again.
Atlantis has its ups and downs. If I didn't have 23 hours of unemployment to fill every day, I probably wouldn't bother with it either.
Really? Weir is your pet peeve? She's a bit breathy, but at least she's not quite as constantly pointlessly melodramatic as Tayla. She bothers you more than the fact that all primitive characters in the Stargate universe talk like Data, but with way less personality?
I refuse to use them because of the above-mentioned need for your single cotton ball to register as exactly.000001 ounces before it'll let you move on, as well as the equally annoying deafening voice telling me to scan my next item every damn time. Girl-that-lives-in-the-machine, I know where the frigging change is dispensed. And if you're so worried I won't see it, move the damn change dispensor, and stop yelling at me!
I know nothing about algae: How thick can you grow it? What's the biodiesel/ethanol yield per square mile in a layer of algae as compared to big sugar stalks? And can you grow it on dirt? If the people the government pays to grow corn can't grow it, it won't happen.
I'd like to think I'm "too smart for ads", but in truth, I'm not.
Ads, despite what advertisers themselves may believe, aren't about tricking you into things. They're about increasing brand or product recognition. You've seen Brand X on TV, you've never heard of Brand Y, you're going to buy Brand X. It's not about smart or stupid, it's about risk and comfort levels. You don't want to buy something shady, so you'll buy the thing you know. Without commercials, we'd have to rely on which box had the prettiest pictures, or, heaven forbid, product research. So commercials aren't that bad in themselves, they're just often done really badly.
Our own military personel are subject to a different standard than a civilian. I don't see why that standard isn't good enough for a suspected "non-uniformed" combatant.
If you were accused of being a deserter, and the question was whether or not you were the guy they think you are, the one who enlisted, I doubt that question would be answered by a military tribunal. What happens to you after it's established that you are is up to them, but until then, you'd probably have the usual civilian processes.
It must work - our murder rate is 1/3 the US rate.
I know someone will point out correlation isn't causation, but I think this does lend some support to my theory that everyone putting all of thier statements in the form of a question would help people get along better, eh?
A 250 mile range is absolutely no problem in a motorcycle where it takes 3 minutes to gas up, and it's fine in any case if you're just commuting, but 300 mile trips are not uncommon, and a multi-hour pit stop to charge the battery isn't going to work for most people.
When either the range is 1200 miles and hotels have recharging outlets or charging takes less than ten minutes is when these things become mass-buyable for the anyone at the Christmas and Easter environmentalist level.
I don't mean to be one of those people that craps on a chunk of science without knowing exactly what's going on, but I would think there would be some large advantages to building the research version in software. There's less soldering when you realize it's not quite right.
I think they'll probably wait until they start getting strangely high accuracies, then they'll start in with the cavity searches. Unless you think some psychic is going to cheat to seem normal.
How much time and money was just spent ignoring all the other needs so an oddball like this could get through?
Don't worry, nobody in Congress read anything but the bill title, and the vote just cut 15 minutes off nap time. The only person that lost any time on this was the intern that wrote it, and all he would have been doing otherwise was fetching someone a smoothie.
You know a way for the government to shut down a company without government involvement? If they break the law, the government kind of has to get involved.
Although my plan doesn't work anyway. It would make it very difficult for competitors entering the market to compete, so the price would have to be mandated to be an estimate on what the product would be sold at by an honest company and then have the additional profits funneled into road repair or government kickbacks, whatever the government does with its other money.
Unfortunately that would put a whole lot of people out of work, and 99% of what the government does is make sure there's a lot of jobs.
There's probably a reason my plan is faulty, too, but I'd much rather see any company guilty of price fixing lose the right to set its own prices. You do it, you give the government 200 grand a year to pay for a group of three guys (or however much and many is necessary for your company size) to continuously audit you and set your prices for you at some mandated lowered profit level for X years. Though I imagine there are loopholes there that could be closed but wouldn't be because lawmakers are just too busy to make changes to make sure things work as intended.
I have to wonder why you think you can out-logic a belief.
You'll probably never logic away a belief in God, if that's what you think I'm trying to do, and I wouldn't want to, but someone believing that free will prevents God from doing something outside the womb that he clearly has no problem doing inside is a bit hard for me to fathom, and I don't think I'm alone in that, even among Christians.
Even if the confrontational nature of Slashdot prevents that guy from changing his mind, there are others that might agree with him that aren't personally invested in it that might change their minds. It's how mine got changed, so I know it works in at least rare cases.
That, and I didn't have anything else to be doing right then.
All your post can do is get you karma points on the scoreboard only you can see.
I wish. I'm not smart enough to figure out how to see points. I can only get a description of my scoreboard. It's just not the same.
We freely chose to sex, and God (we're taking for granted) thwarted the baby-making there. Do God's baby-prevention force fields only work within the confines of a uterus? Are the Lord's powers limited to just the vagina?
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Although its caused by management, I think these are the failure of an engineer living up to his professional responsibilities.
Don't people who go by the title "engineer" have legal requirements? As in if the thing they design explodes and kills people, they're liable? At least that's the case in some places, according to the completely unreliable rumors I've heard. So I hope these kids aren't actually signing things they know to be dangerous.
I don't know what season they're on now (24-ish?), but SG1 sucked hugely for the last couple of Richard Dean Anderson years, and they stumble every once in a while since then, but the writing quality has greatly improved lately. It's sometimes even funny again.
Atlantis has its ups and downs. If I didn't have 23 hours of unemployment to fill every day, I probably wouldn't bother with it either.
Really? Weir is your pet peeve? She's a bit breathy, but at least she's not quite as constantly pointlessly melodramatic as Tayla. She bothers you more than the fact that all primitive characters in the Stargate universe talk like Data, but with way less personality?
Did those make anyone else really sad? I was feeling pretty good a minute ago, but now I think I'm going to go lay down for a while.
I refuse to use them because of the above-mentioned need for your single cotton ball to register as exactly .000001 ounces before it'll let you move on, as well as the equally annoying deafening voice telling me to scan my next item every damn time. Girl-that-lives-in-the-machine, I know where the frigging change is dispensed. And if you're so worried I won't see it, move the damn change dispensor, and stop yelling at me!
I know nothing about algae: How thick can you grow it? What's the biodiesel/ethanol yield per square mile in a layer of algae as compared to big sugar stalks? And can you grow it on dirt? If the people the government pays to grow corn can't grow it, it won't happen.
The Brazillians can make it work because their climate and soil favor sugar cane in a way that ours doesn't
Speaking of which (out of my bum, of course), Monsanto, where the hell's the cold-growing sugar cane? Get on it.
I'd like to think I'm "too smart for ads", but in truth, I'm not.
Ads, despite what advertisers themselves may believe, aren't about tricking you into things. They're about increasing brand or product recognition. You've seen Brand X on TV, you've never heard of Brand Y, you're going to buy Brand X. It's not about smart or stupid, it's about risk and comfort levels. You don't want to buy something shady, so you'll buy the thing you know. Without commercials, we'd have to rely on which box had the prettiest pictures, or, heaven forbid, product research. So commercials aren't that bad in themselves, they're just often done really badly.
Our own military personel are subject to a different standard than a civilian. I don't see why that standard isn't good enough for a suspected "non-uniformed" combatant.
If you were accused of being a deserter, and the question was whether or not you were the guy they think you are, the one who enlisted, I doubt that question would be answered by a military tribunal. What happens to you after it's established that you are is up to them, but until then, you'd probably have the usual civilian processes.
Or at least I hope to God that's how it works.
It must work - our murder rate is 1/3 the US rate.
I know someone will point out correlation isn't causation, but I think this does lend some support to my theory that everyone putting all of thier statements in the form of a question would help people get along better, eh?
Because the best thing a person who has issues with torture can do is to make sure one of the few groups that does it has no dissenting voices.
The current quibble is whether this ammendment applies to non-citizens as it does to citizens.
It's pretty sad that the only thing apparently keeping the government from torturing us is that some people have a right not to be tortured.
I don't know how a person could choose between Mike and Joel. They're both the maximum amount of good.
Good call.
A 250 mile range is absolutely no problem in a motorcycle where it takes 3 minutes to gas up, and it's fine in any case if you're just commuting, but 300 mile trips are not uncommon, and a multi-hour pit stop to charge the battery isn't going to work for most people.
When either the range is 1200 miles and hotels have recharging outlets or charging takes less than ten minutes is when these things become mass-buyable for the anyone at the Christmas and Easter environmentalist level.
I don't mean to be one of those people that craps on a chunk of science without knowing exactly what's going on, but I would think there would be some large advantages to building the research version in software. There's less soldering when you realize it's not quite right.
I think they'll probably wait until they start getting strangely high accuracies, then they'll start in with the cavity searches. Unless you think some psychic is going to cheat to seem normal.
This alone would collapse any business with variable costs, R&D, or any other nonstatc drain on their bottom line
Why? The team of guys you're being forced to pay for are there to look at those things and adjust for them. That's what they're there for.
Your system requires a new branch of government that would set 'fair prices'.
Yup. But only applicable to companies convicted of price fixing and paid for by the criminal. You'd have a hard time convincing me that's bad.
How much time and money was just spent ignoring all the other needs so an oddball like this could get through?
Don't worry, nobody in Congress read anything but the bill title, and the vote just cut 15 minutes off nap time. The only person that lost any time on this was the intern that wrote it, and all he would have been doing otherwise was fetching someone a smoothie.
Ah I don't agree with more government involvement
You know a way for the government to shut down a company without government involvement? If they break the law, the government kind of has to get involved.
Although my plan doesn't work anyway. It would make it very difficult for competitors entering the market to compete, so the price would have to be mandated to be an estimate on what the product would be sold at by an honest company and then have the additional profits funneled into road repair or government kickbacks, whatever the government does with its other money.
Unfortunately that would put a whole lot of people out of work, and 99% of what the government does is make sure there's a lot of jobs.
There's probably a reason my plan is faulty, too, but I'd much rather see any company guilty of price fixing lose the right to set its own prices. You do it, you give the government 200 grand a year to pay for a group of three guys (or however much and many is necessary for your company size) to continuously audit you and set your prices for you at some mandated lowered profit level for X years. Though I imagine there are loopholes there that could be closed but wouldn't be because lawmakers are just too busy to make changes to make sure things work as intended.
I have to wonder why you think you can out-logic a belief.
You'll probably never logic away a belief in God, if that's what you think I'm trying to do, and I wouldn't want to, but someone believing that free will prevents God from doing something outside the womb that he clearly has no problem doing inside is a bit hard for me to fathom, and I don't think I'm alone in that, even among Christians.
Even if the confrontational nature of Slashdot prevents that guy from changing his mind, there are others that might agree with him that aren't personally invested in it that might change their minds. It's how mine got changed, so I know it works in at least rare cases.
That, and I didn't have anything else to be doing right then.
All your post can do is get you karma points on the scoreboard only you can see.
I wish. I'm not smart enough to figure out how to see points. I can only get a description of my scoreboard. It's just not the same.
omnipotence implies omniscience. For if he was truly omnipotent, he could give himselves the ability to be omniscient.
...and if he didn't like spinach, it wouldn't exist.
Could, but doesn't have to.
Unless He liked the idea of a world where spinach was allowed to exist more than He disliked the spinach itself.
We freely chose to sex, and God (we're taking for granted) thwarted the baby-making there. Do God's baby-prevention force fields only work within the confines of a uterus? Are the Lord's powers limited to just the vagina?