This article is about 15% facts and 85% speculation and opinions. Does anyone have an article a little more technical, and, well, news-ish? What is the power requirement? What sizes are available? Are there plans for private sale? I would rather carry a pocket-sized pain-gun than a little pepper sprayer.
Don't put words in my mouth. I was arguing with the assertion that arrests for "non-threating" crimes constitute a "police state," to use the original poster's words.
attempting to communicate to an open forum, with invitation to the public.
I am aware of no special legal status for "open forums." If someone invites you somewhere, such as to a press conference, you are allowed to be there until they ask you to leave--at that point you are trespassing and can be arrested continuing to trespass.
Have we lost all touch with our freedoms that we think we are living in a police state that one can be arrested and detained for a non-threatening reason?
Umm... Yes? But we haven't "lost touch with our freedoms." There are numerous "non-threatening" things we can do that warrant an arrest. Trespassing and harassment are two "non-threatening" crimes for which one can be arrested. Would it be OK if I pitch a tent on your front lawn and live there for a while? Or would you prefer I be arrested for this non-threatening action?
You are suggesting that being an only child predisposes children to become obsessed with games?
What is this basis for this connection?
Personally, I think people become obsessed with games or novels or jesus or whatever because they are unhappy with their lives and want to focus on something else and forget about the general malaise of the daily grind.
The real way to combat game addiction or whatever else obsession would be to sponsor and promote community sports and social functions (even bar and club scenes for singles).
You were fired for refusing to work excessive overtime? The unemployment rate in the US is like 5%, which is as low as it gets. It seems unlikely that, with these market conditions, a company would dump somebody over something like that.
Around here they are trying to keep people and hire within the company because it is hard to find IT workers in the market right now.
A few weeks ago there was a post about a programming competition sponsored by Microsoft in which students were expected to stay up for 24 hours straight and eat soda and junk food while coding.
People here are laughing about this guy because he neglected sleep and nutrition to compete in this contest. They are saying "darwin award." Where was this same sentiment when Microsoft caused students to do the same thing for a different contest?
Health should come before work and play, people! Your job is worthless if you are dead or ill from a terrible lifestyle. Don't let your boss force this behavior on you, and don't let companies like Microsoft force it on students.
Will people horde it underground? Will I be able to trade ETFs of it on the NYSE? Will the federal reserve bank be responsible for limiting the number of fibers laid in order to curb inflation?
Slightly OT: It always seemed ridiculous to me how people hoard metals underground waiting for global currency collapse, as if the they expect the demand for jewelry to go up a thousand-fold the day after world-wide economic apocalypse. Gold doesn't do anything but look kinda neat and conduct OK, you freaks! We spent all that effort mining the gold, and then we put 95% of it back underground intentionally!
Well, this wouldn't be a reading comprehension problem, but a vocabulary problem. The word "training" in "end of post doc training" suggested student-hood in my mind. If you say that's not what it means, I believe you. I got my BS in engineering and didn't even look at grad school because it doesn't correlate which much better pay for engineers. So, I'm not too hip to the jargon of the academic career track.
Salary... To put this in perspective, the median income in in the United States is $48000
You don't like your pay in the sciences? Perhaps the reason you are not paid more is your lack of reading comprehension skills. If you read the report you linked, you would see that the median income is actually closer to $37,000 (average of men and women salary).
The $48,000 number you listed is for HOUSEHOLD income, not salary. Since many households have two income earners, you overstated by quite a bit.
So, in reality, your numbers indicate that your school pays grad students about the median income for the country. Not bad, considering undergrad students actually have to pay to go to school, not the other way around. In addition, after grad students are done with school, they could eventually earn three times the average income, with better benefits than anyone else.
It's not as bad as you think once you compare it to the real numbers.
Can someone please tell me Why most Americans think that US law trumps other countries laws even inside those countries? I don't know whether you are intentionally misrepresenting the issue or you just don't understand the topic at hand, so I'll explain.
The citizens of the USA collectively allowed Yahoo to exist. If they so chose, they can destroy it (an accept the economic consequences). The citizens have not yet decided whether their companies should be allowed to perform reprehensible acts overseas.
Personally, I think companies which do things like selling human-sized ovens to Nazis should have their corporate charters dissolved. This issue is similar but less extreme. The article is about using the courts to make this decision. This isn't about telling foreign companies they must follow US law in their own countries. It's about telling US companies they must act ethically if they want the benefits of US incorporation.
I know being blindly anti-american is trendy in some places, but making obviously misleading statements like yours just makes you (and the moderators who gave you a boost) look stupid.
(And people have pointed out that the Internet is an example of the same phenomenon. It hasn't succeeded because it's such a great network. The IP/UDP/TCP/DNS/SMTP/HTTP/... protocols aren't all that good, actually. They're good enough to do the job, but anyone who knows them can tell you lots of ways to improve them. The reason for the Internet's success is mostly that all the specs have been published openly from the start. Anyone can download them for free, read them and implement them without legal restrictions. This gave the Internet a huge advantage over other privately-developed protocols that were often technically better but weren't available to any developer that was curious.) I hereby revoke your parentheses rights.
I'm sure that GPS on a phone is useful, but at the same time I think an overreliance on technology can be kind of scary. I already know people who are incapable of planning ahead - if they want to get a group of people together for a meal, for example, it involves countless last-minute phone calls and chaos. I imagine that once GPS phones become more pervasive, there will be a new group of people who are incapable of navigation without technology. These will be people who can't or won't read a map ahead of time, and who will be driving around town with half their attention directed towards a 3x5" screen in their hand.
I'm an irrelevant luddite, I know.:) I would like to see you get along with metalworking technology. Or language technology.
Adapt or die, my friend. The things you value so much are no longer valuable. Kids these days don't know how to ride horses, either.
Personally, I don't even care about the iPhone until it has GPS. As much as I hate the unresponsive and convoluted interface interface, the clumsy buttons, and the general ugliness of my iPaq, having GPS-enabled google maps in my pocket is now an absolutely mandatory requirement for me to even consider another mobile device.
You can't have compost heaps in apartments. Refrigerators don't stop bread from going moldy, milk from spoiling, and pasta sauce from growing mold. You fail.
I'm single, and food in the US is only sold in "family size" portions. That means 50% of the stuff I buy spoils or gets moldy before I have a chance to eat it. Today, this goes in the trash or garbage disposal. But once this sort of battery becomes common, we will just have sugar processors. Dump your moldy food in, and fuel cells come out for use in your phone, iPod, laptop, and whatever else.
It really is like the Mr. Fusion! Garbage powered devices!
And for the people saying this will lead to food shortages in poor countries: No, using food I would have otherwise thrown away is not going to affect them at all.
I have no evidence for this... I just think logically
Logic doesn't work unless you base it on evidence. Logic is a great tool, but it is useless when misapplied. It's a garbage-in, garbage-out sort of thing.
If you had actually studied logic, you would know that if you start from a false premise, you can arrive at completely absurd results using perfect logical reasoning. Without a basis in evidence, logic is worthless.
The garden of eden will be reinterpreted to mean "earth." Old references to the world will be reinterpreted to mean "galaxy." When Jesus said "four corners of the world" they will say that he meant parts of the galactic disk.
The non-fundamentalist churches have been reinterpreting for quite a while. If something in the bible contradicts with something else, one must be just a metaphor. When something in the bible contradicts with observable scientific fact, they say it is a bad translation because the ancients didn't have the proper terminology for dealing with scientific terms.
In reality, though, much of the strange stuff in the bible is simply borrowed directly from astrology.
The puritans have had two centuries longer to get over executing witches. I think 200 years makes a difference in fixing an ill culture.
And I am not aware of anyone being excommunicated from, say, the catholic church for publishing factual historical research in to its origins, or for proposing equal rights for women. In fact, the christian churches with which I am acquainted never really discourage you from asking questions. The LDS does exactly that. Today.
There are probably Muslim churches that do such things and worse, but the western world has progressed quite a bit. So no, you can't "make that claim of just about any church."
Slashdot doesn't have a blind spot on the drug war. I've seen decriminalization arguments in the comments here more than almost anywhere else on the net (that I frequent). There just aren't many stories on the subject because this is a technology site, so such stories are usually off-topic.
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This article is about 15% facts and 85% speculation and opinions. Does anyone have an article a little more technical, and, well, news-ish? What is the power requirement? What sizes are available? Are there plans for private sale? I would rather carry a pocket-sized pain-gun than a little pepper sprayer.
Don't put words in my mouth. I was arguing with the assertion that arrests for "non-threating" crimes constitute a "police state," to use the original poster's words.
You are suggesting that being an only child predisposes children to become obsessed with games?
What is this basis for this connection?
Personally, I think people become obsessed with games or novels or jesus or whatever because they are unhappy with their lives and want to focus on something else and forget about the general malaise of the daily grind.
The real way to combat game addiction or whatever else obsession would be to sponsor and promote community sports and social functions (even bar and club scenes for singles).
You were fired for refusing to work excessive overtime? The unemployment rate in the US is like 5%, which is as low as it gets. It seems unlikely that, with these market conditions, a company would dump somebody over something like that.
Around here they are trying to keep people and hire within the company because it is hard to find IT workers in the market right now.
A few weeks ago there was a post about a programming competition sponsored by Microsoft in which students were expected to stay up for 24 hours straight and eat soda and junk food while coding.
People here are laughing about this guy because he neglected sleep and nutrition to compete in this contest. They are saying "darwin award." Where was this same sentiment when Microsoft caused students to do the same thing for a different contest?
Health should come before work and play, people! Your job is worthless if you are dead or ill from a terrible lifestyle. Don't let your boss force this behavior on you, and don't let companies like Microsoft force it on students.
If Theo didn't want people copying his code and redistributing it under another license, he should have used the GPL...
The fact that Google is blanketing the area in free wifi probably has something to do with this decision.
Will people horde it underground? Will I be able to trade ETFs of it on the NYSE? Will the federal reserve bank be responsible for limiting the number of fibers laid in order to curb inflation?
Slightly OT: It always seemed ridiculous to me how people hoard metals underground waiting for global currency collapse, as if the they expect the demand for jewelry to go up a thousand-fold the day after world-wide economic apocalypse. Gold doesn't do anything but look kinda neat and conduct OK, you freaks! We spent all that effort mining the gold, and then we put 95% of it back underground intentionally!
Well, this wouldn't be a reading comprehension problem, but a vocabulary problem. The word "training" in "end of post doc training" suggested student-hood in my mind. If you say that's not what it means, I believe you. I got my BS in engineering and didn't even look at grad school because it doesn't correlate which much better pay for engineers. So, I'm not too hip to the jargon of the academic career track.
You don't like your pay in the sciences? Perhaps the reason you are not paid more is your lack of reading comprehension skills. If you read the report you linked, you would see that the median income is actually closer to $37,000 (average of men and women salary).
The $48,000 number you listed is for HOUSEHOLD income, not salary. Since many households have two income earners, you overstated by quite a bit.
So, in reality, your numbers indicate that your school pays grad students about the median income for the country. Not bad, considering undergrad students actually have to pay to go to school, not the other way around. In addition, after grad students are done with school, they could eventually earn three times the average income, with better benefits than anyone else.
It's not as bad as you think once you compare it to the real numbers.
The citizens of the USA collectively allowed Yahoo to exist. If they so chose, they can destroy it (an accept the economic consequences). The citizens have not yet decided whether their companies should be allowed to perform reprehensible acts overseas.
Personally, I think companies which do things like selling human-sized ovens to Nazis should have their corporate charters dissolved. This issue is similar but less extreme. The article is about using the courts to make this decision. This isn't about telling foreign companies they must follow US law in their own countries. It's about telling US companies they must act ethically if they want the benefits of US incorporation.
I know being blindly anti-american is trendy in some places, but making obviously misleading statements like yours just makes you (and the moderators who gave you a boost) look stupid.
I was quite surprised in 2004 when my SAA flight booted to a penguin and LILO. Linux on a plane's entertainment system is many years old.
I'm an irrelevant luddite, I know.
Adapt or die, my friend. The things you value so much are no longer valuable. Kids these days don't know how to ride horses, either.
Gee, and you're single you say? I never would have guessed. You have such a likeable disposition.
Thanks for adding so much to the conversation. I think I need to reiterate so that you can better understand my position, Mr. Coward.Good luck with that.
You fail.
You fail.
You fail.
Perhaps if you kept up with that crazy internet logo the kids these days use, you wouldn't look like such an anonymous fool.
Personally, I don't even care about the iPhone until it has GPS. As much as I hate the unresponsive and convoluted interface interface, the clumsy buttons, and the general ugliness of my iPaq, having GPS-enabled google maps in my pocket is now an absolutely mandatory requirement for me to even consider another mobile device.
I'm single, and food in the US is only sold in "family size" portions. That means 50% of the stuff I buy spoils or gets moldy before I have a chance to eat it. Today, this goes in the trash or garbage disposal. But once this sort of battery becomes common, we will just have sugar processors. Dump your moldy food in, and fuel cells come out for use in your phone, iPod, laptop, and whatever else.
It really is like the Mr. Fusion! Garbage powered devices!
And for the people saying this will lead to food shortages in poor countries: No, using food I would have otherwise thrown away is not going to affect them at all.
If you had actually studied logic, you would know that if you start from a false premise, you can arrive at completely absurd results using perfect logical reasoning. Without a basis in evidence, logic is worthless.
The garden of eden will be reinterpreted to mean "earth." Old references to the world will be reinterpreted to mean "galaxy." When Jesus said "four corners of the world" they will say that he meant parts of the galactic disk.
The non-fundamentalist churches have been reinterpreting for quite a while. If something in the bible contradicts with something else, one must be just a metaphor. When something in the bible contradicts with observable scientific fact, they say it is a bad translation because the ancients didn't have the proper terminology for dealing with scientific terms.
In reality, though, much of the strange stuff in the bible is simply borrowed directly from astrology.
The puritans have had two centuries longer to get over executing witches. I think 200 years makes a difference in fixing an ill culture.
And I am not aware of anyone being excommunicated from, say, the catholic church for publishing factual historical research in to its origins, or for proposing equal rights for women. In fact, the christian churches with which I am acquainted never really discourage you from asking questions. The LDS does exactly that. Today.
There are probably Muslim churches that do such things and worse, but the western world has progressed quite a bit. So no, you can't "make that claim of just about any church."
Slashdot doesn't have a blind spot on the drug war. I've seen decriminalization arguments in the comments here more than almost anywhere else on the net (that I frequent). There just aren't many stories on the subject because this is a technology site, so such stories are usually off-topic.