A lot of people are going to vote for her because she seems to be the only Democrat that is going to have a chance of winning...
Anyone who votes for her based on that logic is so stupid that they don't deserve to live, much less vote. Hillary being the Democrat nominee is the absolute best way of guaranteeing that we end up with a Republican president.
But I started with an LED light just a Happy Light in the morning. I found that if I was able to drag myself out of bed, make it to my computer desk, and flip on that light, within ten to fifteen seconds itâ(TM)d be better than a cup of coffee. And now I have the ability to get that very same effect without even leaving my bed.
You know, you could have just bought a $10 timer and used it to turn on the light too...
Swapping Caps and Escape has changed my life to the extent I would consider carrying little stickers around for all the keyboards I remap. Unsurprisingly, I'm a fairly heavy vim user...
If you swap caps with control, then in vim you can use Control-[ for escape, which is also a pretty good option. (That's what I do.)
On Gnome 3, I have recently switched from using xmodmap to setting org.desktop.gnome.input-sources.xkb-options to ['caps:swapescape'] in dconf-editor. Much easier.
The problem I had was I wanted to map the CapsLock key to Control, and the LeftCtrl key to Hyper. There are built-in xkb rules for doing both, but they don't work right when you try to combine them, and the documentation available for xkb is hard to understand, to say the least. I finally got it working by hacking one of the rules definitions in the system-provided definition files to do what I wanted -- I gave up trying to figure out how to do it the "right" way.
Unfortunately it's hard to get xmodmap to play nicely in cases like hotplugging keyboards or using Gnome, at least under Linux. There is a standard option for swapping caps lock and control (or escape, or several other similar options), but if you want a layout option that isn't built-in, then prepare yourself for a world of frustration.
I can I invest in a real alternate keyboard with a different layout...
You could also invest in a tool to remap the key next to 'A' to "Control," like God intended. You don't need to get a whole new keyboard. Write on the key with a marker if you're the kind of person that looks at key labels when you're typing.
If you click through to the "article," you'll get a long list of ten-word sentences formatted as tweets. When did this become an even remotely acceptable way of presenting something?
Good lord. If you work for Google, can't you figure out how to create a blog? My mother did it.
I think you mean "this legislation will ensure that Americans have no way of knowing they're being sold GMO food."
Unless for some bizarre reason you are purposefully trying to avoid non-GMO food, then you shouldn't care.
If you want to ensure that you are buying non-GMO food -- which is what the anti-GMO activists want -- then all you have to do is buy food that is so marked. This law doesn't change that at all.
Considering this, I find the fact that the numbers of spouses with the same college major is as low as it is -- 10% on average according to TFA -- to be a little surprising.
In chromium/chrome, you can save the file as "nobennett.user.js" and drag it from your file manager onto the chrome://extensions page; chrome will then give you a popup to ask you to confirm.
In firefox, you can install it using the Greasemonkey plugin.
There might be other options for other browsers; this was the first/only user script I've ever written, so I don't know all the tricks.
I was surprised to find this show up on the Slashdot front page,
and then realized that since the last time we had a Bennett post,
I had switched computers, and so my user script to block them
was no longer installed. Since I'd already seen it, though,
I figured I'd post a link to the script again:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3235db049b18699c082b#file-gistfile1-txt.
This article isn't as stupid as Bennett's normal tripe; at least he seems to
have identified a real issue here, although Slashdot is still allowing him
to use their website as his personal blog. One amusing thing, though: he's
complaining that United isn't responding to his emails about the hole. I've
asked Slashdot repeatedly (through both e-mail and comment threads) to make it
possible for us to block Bennett posts, or at least to comment on why they
won't. The Slashdot staff have, so far, completely ignored me. They have
apparently been too busy adding "share to TwitBook" buttons to the stories.
Look, if I start a soup kitchen for the poor in some predominantly black community, it doesn't mean I'm a racist who hates white people. It just means I only have the resources for one soup kitchen and because I live there or have ties to that community I wanted to help those people with my limited time and money.
The program under discussion isn't serving a predominately female community.
I am making the leap that they do not mind them - this is not the same as enjoys them. I suspect that the vast majority do not watch them and even fewer do more than skim the transcripts.
The post I referenced in my original reply that you objected to said:
Thousands of people watch those videos and seem to like them...
If your point is just that most people don't hate the videos enough to complain about them in the comment section, then there's no point arguing further, because we agree.
Roblimo made the claim that a sparse number of complaints is evidence that people like them. That seemed to be what you were defending as well, but if that's not the case, then it doesn't matter.
However, it is faulty logic to assume what you dislike is normative.
My post has nothing to do with an assumption that everyone shares my dislike.
My point is that Roblimo has absolutely no proof that thousands of people like these videos. Neither do you, unless you've got a stash of private communication from people that like them. You're making a leap that there is some silent majority that enjoys them, but doesn't talk about them, because otherwise you'd expect more negative comments.
You could be right. I think that's doubtful, given the reasons I've outlined already -- the total of your evidence seems to be that I should "rest assured" that you're right -- but short of taking a poll I can't prove it.
What you are leading yourself to believe does not seem to be important or factual. It does not even seem to be logical. Do you think that the folks who watch the video are going to come post, "I am glad that was in video format, I liked it!" Surely you do not believe that... We, as a group, do not post about what we like - we post about what we dislike. If you see a few posts complaining then you can reasonably guess that far more do not mind.
Or alternatively -- and just as reasonable a guess -- only the people who have an extreme dislike for the videos post complaining about them, and the far more who do not post on the subject just don't feel strongly enough about it to complain. I fall into that category; I haven't complained about the video, but I think that a video interview is an extremely poor medium for conveying information.
People come to Slashdot for the comment section. Presumably, if there actually existed a large number (thousands) of people that like these videos, then they would respond to some of the negative comments. That rarely happens.
The complainers have had a positive effect, by the way. Originally there were rarely transcripts of the videos, which made them useless to anyone who has better things to do with their lives than watch them. I doubt we would have ended up getting transcripts for most videos if it wasn't for the complaints.
Thousands of people watch those videos and seem to like them, while 5 or 10 complain.
I don't have a problem with linking to a video as long as you have a transcript, but the fact that "thousands" of people watched them without complaining doesn't prove anything about whether they liked them. In fact, every single comment I've seen about the sort of "webcam interview" videos which are nothing but somebody talking is negative, which leads me to believe that very few people actually like them.
This is as opposed to videos that actually show something graphically that you're not going to get from a simple transcript -- people seem to be mostly OK with those.
If you think a leap second is a pain, you should try switching to a new calendar. Some people can actually think past the next quarterly report.
There's a difference between not looking past the next quarterly report, and not worrying about a completely unrealistic scenario -- in this case, that my software will still be running 50,000 years from now when there actually is a disagreement in date between UTC and another standard.
Personally, I think leap seconds are a great idea because they expose shoddily made software and hardware.
Introducing pointless complexity to try to "catch" poor software or hardware is a bad idea. Engineering is a hard enough job without purposefully making it harder.
UTC is designed so that the sun will always be up during the day and down at night.
There have been 25 leap seconds since 1972. At that rate, it will take around 6000 years for UTC to be even an hour different from TAI. Leap seconds don't have any appreciable impact on the sun always being up during the day.
I don't think anyone really cares about whether we use UTC or some other system, though. The problem is that software/hardware vendors have all been using the wrong time standard -- nobody but astronomers actually has a reason to want UTC. We just need to get developers to use a different standard that doesn't have the stupid leap second problem.
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My vote goes to the person that I would most like to see elected, not the person that everyone says is going to win.
A lot of people are going to vote for her because she seems to be the only Democrat that is going to have a chance of winning...
Anyone who votes for her based on that logic is so stupid that they don't deserve to live, much less vote. Hillary being the Democrat nominee is the absolute best way of guaranteeing that we end up with a Republican president.
The "disable advertising" checkbox has never made much sense. If you're reading Slashdot, you ought to be using an adblocker anyway
But I started with an LED light just a Happy Light in the morning. I found that if I was able to drag myself out of bed, make it to my computer desk, and flip on that light, within ten to fifteen seconds itâ(TM)d be better than a cup of coffee. And now I have the ability to get that very same effect without even leaving my bed.
You know, you could have just bought a $10 timer and used it to turn on the light too...
the GP to which I was responding was basically trolling.
No, the GP was making a joke. You saw the word "God" and immediately threw an off-topic temper tantrum.
Swapping Caps and Escape has changed my life to the extent I would consider carrying little stickers around for all the keyboards I remap. Unsurprisingly, I'm a fairly heavy vim user...
If you swap caps with control, then in vim you can use Control-[ for escape, which is also a pretty good option. (That's what I do.)
On Gnome 3, I have recently switched from using xmodmap to setting org.desktop.gnome.input-sources.xkb-options to ['caps:swapescape'] in dconf-editor. Much easier.
The problem I had was I wanted to map the CapsLock key to Control, and the LeftCtrl key to Hyper. There are built-in xkb rules for doing both, but they don't work right when you try to combine them, and the documentation available for xkb is hard to understand, to say the least. I finally got it working by hacking one of the rules definitions in the system-provided definition files to do what I wanted -- I gave up trying to figure out how to do it the "right" way.
Unfortunately it's hard to get xmodmap to play nicely in cases like hotplugging keyboards or using Gnome, at least under Linux. There is a standard option for swapping caps lock and control (or escape, or several other similar options), but if you want a layout option that isn't built-in, then prepare yourself for a world of frustration.
I can I invest in a real alternate keyboard with a different layout...
You could also invest in a tool to remap the key next to 'A' to "Control," like God intended. You don't need to get a whole new keyboard. Write on the key with a marker if you're the kind of person that looks at key labels when you're typing.
If you click through to the "article," you'll get a long list of ten-word sentences formatted as tweets. When did this become an even remotely acceptable way of presenting something?
Good lord. If you work for Google, can't you figure out how to create a blog? My mother did it.
I think you mean "this legislation will ensure that Americans have no way of knowing they're being sold GMO food."
Unless for some bizarre reason you are purposefully trying to avoid non-GMO food, then you shouldn't care.
If you want to ensure that you are buying non-GMO food -- which is what the anti-GMO activists want -- then all you have to do is buy food that is so marked. This law doesn't change that at all.
Considering this, I find the fact that the numbers of spouses with the same college major is as low as it is -- 10% on average according to TFA -- to be a little surprising.
The difference between those two examples, and why one is a problem, is hopefully obvious.
No, "why one is a problem" is only obvious to SJWs. The rest of us don't see that targeting advertising towards a particular demographic is a problem.
That said, I still can't see any good reason for doing this. "Management-imposed restraints" could mean anything.
Well, "management-imposed restraints" doesn't actually answer the question of why, so your question wasn't unreasonable.
Based on the trajectory of Slashdot after the Dice takeover, though, presumably the real answer for "why" is "because our managers are total morons."
From where exactly? Strange that you provide not a single source for this claim.
Perhaps this source will help.
In chromium/chrome, you can save the file as "nobennett.user.js" and drag it from your file manager onto the chrome://extensions page; chrome will then give you a popup to ask you to confirm.
In firefox, you can install it using the Greasemonkey plugin.
There might be other options for other browsers; this was the first/only user script I've ever written, so I don't know all the tricks.
I was surprised to find this show up on the Slashdot front page, and then realized that since the last time we had a Bennett post, I had switched computers, and so my user script to block them was no longer installed. Since I'd already seen it, though, I figured I'd post a link to the script again: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/3235db049b18699c082b#file-gistfile1-txt.
This article isn't as stupid as Bennett's normal tripe; at least he seems to have identified a real issue here, although Slashdot is still allowing him to use their website as his personal blog. One amusing thing, though: he's complaining that United isn't responding to his emails about the hole. I've asked Slashdot repeatedly (through both e-mail and comment threads) to make it possible for us to block Bennett posts, or at least to comment on why they won't. The Slashdot staff have, so far, completely ignored me. They have apparently been too busy adding "share to TwitBook" buttons to the stories.
Look, if I start a soup kitchen for the poor in some predominantly black community, it doesn't mean I'm a racist who hates white people. It just means I only have the resources for one soup kitchen and because I live there or have ties to that community I wanted to help those people with my limited time and money.
The program under discussion isn't serving a predominately female community.
I am making the leap that they do not mind them - this is not the same as enjoys them. I suspect that the vast majority do not watch them and even fewer do more than skim the transcripts.
The post I referenced in my original reply that you objected to said:
Thousands of people watch those videos and seem to like them...
If your point is just that most people don't hate the videos enough to complain about them in the comment section, then there's no point arguing further, because we agree.
Roblimo made the claim that a sparse number of complaints is evidence that people like them. That seemed to be what you were defending as well, but if that's not the case, then it doesn't matter.
However, it is faulty logic to assume what you dislike is normative.
My post has nothing to do with an assumption that everyone shares my dislike.
My point is that Roblimo has absolutely no proof that thousands of people like these videos. Neither do you, unless you've got a stash of private communication from people that like them. You're making a leap that there is some silent majority that enjoys them, but doesn't talk about them, because otherwise you'd expect more negative comments.
You could be right. I think that's doubtful, given the reasons I've outlined already -- the total of your evidence seems to be that I should "rest assured" that you're right -- but short of taking a poll I can't prove it.
What you are leading yourself to believe does not seem to be important or factual. It does not even seem to be logical. Do you think that the folks who watch the video are going to come post, "I am glad that was in video format, I liked it!" Surely you do not believe that... We, as a group, do not post about what we like - we post about what we dislike. If you see a few posts complaining then you can reasonably guess that far more do not mind.
Or alternatively -- and just as reasonable a guess -- only the people who have an extreme dislike for the videos post complaining about them, and the far more who do not post on the subject just don't feel strongly enough about it to complain. I fall into that category; I haven't complained about the video, but I think that a video interview is an extremely poor medium for conveying information.
People come to Slashdot for the comment section. Presumably, if there actually existed a large number (thousands) of people that like these videos, then they would respond to some of the negative comments. That rarely happens.
The complainers have had a positive effect, by the way. Originally there were rarely transcripts of the videos, which made them useless to anyone who has better things to do with their lives than watch them. I doubt we would have ended up getting transcripts for most videos if it wasn't for the complaints.
I think you mean that it must be the world capital of bad murderers. I mean, the drivers aren't even trying.
Thousands of people watch those videos and seem to like them, while 5 or 10 complain.
I don't have a problem with linking to a video as long as you have a transcript, but the fact that "thousands" of people watched them without complaining doesn't prove anything about whether they liked them. In fact, every single comment I've seen about the sort of "webcam interview" videos which are nothing but somebody talking is negative, which leads me to believe that very few people actually like them.
This is as opposed to videos that actually show something graphically that you're not going to get from a simple transcript -- people seem to be mostly OK with those.
It will apparently also be filled with fact-free posts by conspiracy nuts who think that everyone who disagrees with them must have been paid off.
If you think a leap second is a pain, you should try switching to a new calendar. Some people can actually think past the next quarterly report.
There's a difference between not looking past the next quarterly report, and not worrying about a completely unrealistic scenario -- in this case, that my software will still be running 50,000 years from now when there actually is a disagreement in date between UTC and another standard.
Personally, I think leap seconds are a great idea because they expose shoddily made software and hardware.
Introducing pointless complexity to try to "catch" poor software or hardware is a bad idea. Engineering is a hard enough job without purposefully making it harder.
UTC is designed so that the sun will always be up during the day and down at night.
There have been 25 leap seconds since 1972. At that rate, it will take around 6000 years for UTC to be even an hour different from TAI. Leap seconds don't have any appreciable impact on the sun always being up during the day.
I don't think anyone really cares about whether we use UTC or some other system, though. The problem is that software/hardware vendors have all been using the wrong time standard -- nobody but astronomers actually has a reason to want UTC. We just need to get developers to use a different standard that doesn't have the stupid leap second problem.