Yeah...there's no way in heck they'd get me to turn on my GPS. Considering that I have a relatively dumb phone, I literally have no reason whatsoever to use GPS other than if I get the sudden urge to be tracked.
It's also hard to fight all those other things because there are people with vested interest in their continuation, and the average person needs something that directly and noticeably endangers their or their family's personal health.
I have come to terms with the observation that apparently every food ever conceived of raises the risk of some disease or something in me by at least 0.004%. There is just way too much shit out there to be informed about all the time.
Too bad the Time Lords are sealed away so nobody can really give Doc a sense of hierarchy. (Well, there's the Shadow Proclamation...but face it, they're the U.N.)
I quite enjoyed Eccleston and Tennant, but the new Smith writers are terrible.
So wait...you're saying the GP is bad because only 'bad' people use facebook and his friends are on facebook, and people are judged on the quality of their friends? Isn't that circular logic?
Or are you saying he's somehow 'weak' for using available technology to contact the friends?
On the other hand, I feel like this conversation jumped the shark when he pulled out 'nutters.'
I didn't say anything about the ratio of nature to nurture. I'm just saying society sometimes tells me a term I use solely to describe a certain group of people--with no intention of implied connotations--is unacceptable because apparently society can't use any word to describe the group without someone considering it a slur. I'm a programmer. I call a duck a fucking duck.
wisnoskij says there's no such thing as race; you say race is an indicator for intelligence. I think I should put you two in a cage with polearms and wait until you've beaten each other senseless.
P.S: I'm talking about the United States. Slashdot is hosted in the U.S., is in English, and largely deals with U.S. issues. So bite me, European pedants.
That's a rather unfair characterization. From what I've read, the culture of TV broadcasting was very different back then. They taped over the old stuff because they didn't think anybody would really care. It was company policy.
Call me naive, but I don't think it had anything to do with copyright.
Plus, how quickly does lithium react with air normally? I remember the surface will oxidize, so if you have a chunk of it you want to react, you have to cut it or something.
Back in grade school, with the random printer we had and my bare eyes, I could read font size 2 printouts with just a bit of squinting. And there's OCR.
Protecting *all* of your users or shutting down to avoid betraying one of them has a philosophical elegance about it in my mind. After all, what good is your service if it's basically "we'll protect your data...unless the government tells us they feel like reading yours. Then you're SOL"?
Granted, it's debatable whether that was really the intent, but oh well.
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I would rather be legally convicted of something else than illegally convicted of the main thing.
Yeah...there's no way in heck they'd get me to turn on my GPS. Considering that I have a relatively dumb phone, I literally have no reason whatsoever to use GPS other than if I get the sudden urge to be tracked.
What exactly does 'failure' entail? Detaching and flying off at velocity while the copter is in flight? O__o
It's also hard to fight all those other things because there are people with vested interest in their continuation, and the average person needs something that directly and noticeably endangers their or their family's personal health.
I have come to terms with the observation that apparently every food ever conceived of raises the risk of some disease or something in me by at least 0.004%. There is just way too much shit out there to be informed about all the time.
I think the "semi" in that situation drops out around the 15th stab or so.
Well, technically he could have an identical twin, and this could be the twin that's dead...would a DNA test even catch that?
(But yes, for the vast majority of use cases, you'd be correct.)
Too bad the Time Lords are sealed away so nobody can really give Doc a sense of hierarchy. (Well, there's the Shadow Proclamation...but face it, they're the U.N.)
I quite enjoyed Eccleston and Tennant, but the new Smith writers are terrible.
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I wasn't aware that there is now a rule that we can only criticize our own demographics about anything.
Hopefully you didn't use words like "trisecting" and "confluence" in your directions...
Is that that 'that' that that 'that' refers to?
(And ending on a dangling preposition! :D )
Versus using a language that's less than 4 years old...what could possibly go wrong?
It was only the bills marked Hawaii and North Africa that cold be canceled upon invasion.
Inflation? What?
That would only work if we had efficient storage methods to keep the energy from degrading practically at all.
Just so you know, Newsweek is no longer being printed either; it's just online now. (I worked at the place that printed it a few months back.)
Also having a president who can declare war on anyone without the will of the rest of the country is not democracy it's despotism.
Legally, only Congress can declare war.
So wait...you're saying the GP is bad because only 'bad' people use facebook and his friends are on facebook, and people are judged on the quality of their friends? Isn't that circular logic?
Or are you saying he's somehow 'weak' for using available technology to contact the friends?
On the other hand, I feel like this conversation jumped the shark when he pulled out 'nutters.'
I didn't say anything about the ratio of nature to nurture. I'm just saying society sometimes tells me a term I use solely to describe a certain group of people--with no intention of implied connotations--is unacceptable because apparently society can't use any word to describe the group without someone considering it a slur. I'm a programmer. I call a duck a fucking duck.
wisnoskij says there's no such thing as race; you say race is an indicator for intelligence. I think I should put you two in a cage with polearms and wait until you've beaten each other senseless.
P.S: I'm talking about the United States. Slashdot is hosted in the U.S., is in English, and largely deals with U.S. issues. So bite me, European pedants.
Depending what diet you feed your kids and the physical activities you encourage them to do, sure. You can't, however, say, "Son...stop being black."
It's a way of describing certain concrete physical characteristics. I like having names for things.
Of course, then we go overboard and start assigning intelligence and other nurture things to them...
That's a rather unfair characterization. From what I've read, the culture of TV broadcasting was very different back then. They taped over the old stuff because they didn't think anybody would really care. It was company policy.
Call me naive, but I don't think it had anything to do with copyright.
Plus, how quickly does lithium react with air normally? I remember the surface will oxidize, so if you have a chunk of it you want to react, you have to cut it or something.
...and our justice system has demonstrated they will sign a warrant for anything the men in black ask for. 'MURICA!
Back in grade school, with the random printer we had and my bare eyes, I could read font size 2 printouts with just a bit of squinting. And there's OCR.
Protecting *all* of your users or shutting down to avoid betraying one of them has a philosophical elegance about it in my mind. After all, what good is your service if it's basically "we'll protect your data...unless the government tells us they feel like reading yours. Then you're SOL"?
Granted, it's debatable whether that was really the intent, but oh well.