I assume PETA believes the wild boars should be able to expand as needed unchecked as well.
I'll bet if someone released a few thousand boars onto Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, PETA, or rather their rich celebrity supporters, would suddenly have a change of heart...
Of course, rifle/slug hunters always go for the heart/lung shot, because all they care about is the head. If they were hunting for meat, they'd go for the head shot, where you get either a clean kill or a clean miss.
Never actually hunted, have you? Please don't. You'll hurt someone/thing.
Headshots are an idiotic meme that only makes sense in video games and assassin movies.
FWIW, I've never actually seen someone kill a deer with a headshot. What I have seen is several deer who died of starvation because some fucking moron thought, "hee hee, boom headshot' and destroyed the poor thing's mandible or punctured it's larynx.
I am a little skeptical of the stated concern. There are plenty of other things that will scare off game that have not had laws passed against them such at driving ATVs round......
People, especially other hunters, do not drive ATV's around during the hunt for the explicit purpose of chasing off game, and if they did, they'd be breaking the law (at least in my state, it's a crime to intentionally interfere with conservation efforts, which include hunting).
Assholes following people with flying toy robots serves no purpose other than the explicit interference of the hunt.
I suspect...
You suspect, yet you provide no evidence; in other words, you've tossed aside the more realistic circumstance, and substituted one that better fits your predilections.
Which means either you're a PETA supporter, or an idiot... not that there's a lot of actionable difference between the two, aside the fact that not all idiots support PETA.
comes first.. So how about a thread on how to teach your kids that science doesn't have to be *made* fun?.
Um, I'm pretty sure the submitter wasn't meaning "teach them about video games instead of teaching them about the real world...
So, they didn't ask the question you want an answer to; this is Slashdot, submit your own. Don't knock somebody else for having different interests, that's just childish.
I would take another of those vs this dribble about gaming
That's 'drivel,' not 'dribble.' And nobody's putting a gun to your head and forcing you to comment about it, are they? If yes blink twice, if no... quitcherbitchin.
When teaching them Linux, do you just download the latest stable Mint or Ubuntu release and let them take it from there? Do you track down a 20-year-old version of Slackware and show them how things used to be?
I don't need to track down a 20-year-old version of anything - just install the latest Debian build.
No, face book and google already demand your phone number. Are you faking your phone number? Because they send a text to it for confirmation.
I don't know if "demand" is the right word - I see the screen where it asks for it, but so far haven't had a problem clicking the "remind me later" button.
How are you spoofing those 5 times a day as moderators ban you over and over again?
Wait, what? Last post you were talking about SS numbers, now you jump to a completely different subject but keep going like it's what we've been talking about all along. That's a poor way to go about conversations, you know.
In response to this new question, as I said, you don't have to verify a phone number or anything at this point. Even if you did, believe me, there are plenty of ways to come up with a throw-away phone number for cheap-if-not-free. Google Voice, for instance.
In any case... its a bad idea that is being implemented under false pretenses.
I'm guessing the NSA had some juicy details about this judges private life.
I doubt it's that complex - just look at which circuit this guy is in charge of: New York, New York.
You know, that police city-state on the East Coast, the one where people are regularly shot by cops just for standing in the wrong place, assaulted with chemical weapons for speaking out against the corrupt government, stopped and searched without any regard to the 4th Amendment, arrested for expressing their 2nd Amendment right, and oh yea, tried to ban big fucking sodas.
Taking all that into account, I'd be surprised if the judge didn't decide in favor of the elite ruling class.
If its linked to your social security number or something then you're going to have a legitimately hard time spoofing that.
And probably be breakign some kind of federal law... so have fun with that.
I don't think you understand exactly what an SSN is, nor what it's for.
But that aside, if websites start demanding SSNs before letting people comment that will likely be the death of online commentary.
At least, intelligent commentary, since the only people I know who would be stupid enough to provide random websites with an SSN are not the kind of people who have functioning brain cells.
I've certainly plenty of skeletons in the closet. Never mind the political and religious views. 'Raven' isn't a name, it's a species identifier for a character I use in some adult roleplay settings to play all manner of perverse things, largely involving tentacles. Given I also have a job which involves working with children, a blackmailer could have a field day if they knew my real identity.
OK, so maybe this is the hard-core libertarian in me talking but...
Slashdot moderation is among the best (or perhaps just least bad) of all the sites I regularly visit.
Same here.
Of course, considering that the only comment sites I frequent are Slashdot, Yahoo News, and my local Gannett publication, that's not really saying a whole lot.
People moderate because there is power in moderation. The moderator has the power to help control what people read, they can push their own agenda, and smack down some trolls too.
Oh, is that the idea?
I guess that means I should stop doing my meta-mods blindfolded, huh?
From what I can tell, the "packages are weeks late" is a very different problem from "last minute buying surge overwhelms capacity", which is what TFA is about. And for TFA, "dur, shoulda shipped it sooner" is an appropriate response.
The "weeks late" problem is IMO far more interesting. Did the retailers lie about shipping them? Did UPS/Fedex lose or damage them? This is a sign of a serious structural problem somewhere.
Were I to wager a guess, I'd say the "last minute buying surge" didn't actually happen, but rather is UPS's nonsense excuse for failure, considering how many people are still waiting on deliveries of stuff they ordered months ago.
On that, how handy to have such a convenient scapegoat as last-minute shoppers!
In a worst-case scenario, an attacker pushes the "check for updates" bit after they've stolen the Tesla server in DNS, and bricks a bunch of cars.
That's a bad-case scenario, but I wouldn't call it 'worst.'
Imagine someone compromising the whole system, and, say, cycling the batteries until they overhead and rupture. Or over-riding the braking system and locking the throttle at 100%.
On every single Tesla on the planet, simultaneously.
If that's what's keeping you from electric, I guess you're going to have to stay driving gas.
It's probably going to keep me in older vehicles; even gas car makers are starting to get into the whole 'let's put shitloads of remotely-accessible software in these things' mentality.
No, what's keeping me out of electrics is the fact that they aren't practical vehicles for me at this time.
That's one of the things that term entails, yes. You're leaving out quite a bit, tho.
But capitalism has nothing to do with manners, and it doesn't mean you can be an asshole to the delivery guy - who, in the original quote, was simply stating the facts - either in person or on an internet forum.
Uh, did you actually read the quote? He's not "simply stating facts" - he's whining about the expectations his employer has of him. Expectations he's known and accepted for 20 years. For example:
"... everyone who moves your package is working and doesn't get the Xmas experience you get, Be thankful for that."
If he was a slave, working for free? Yea, I might feel bad for him.
But he's not, he's actually a pretty well paid dude, probably makes more money than me. Do you see me pissing and moaning and attacking my customers (yes, attacking, unless you have another idea about why the dickhead tells us, "be thankful for that.") because I had to work on Christmas Eve? No. Why? A couple reasons: one, I'm not a selfish bitch. Two, I know damn good and well what's expected of me, and if I have a problem with it, I know where the door is.
Personally, if I were this UPS driver's boss? We'd be having a little pow-wow after I read this comment, one that would likely end with the driver's termination.
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I assume PETA believes the wild boars should be able to expand as needed unchecked as well.
I'll bet if someone released a few thousand boars onto Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, PETA, or rather their rich celebrity supporters, would suddenly have a change of heart...
Of course, rifle/slug hunters always go for the heart/lung shot, because all they care about is the head. If they were hunting for meat, they'd go for the head shot, where you get either a clean kill or a clean miss.
Never actually hunted, have you? Please don't. You'll hurt someone/thing.
Headshots are an idiotic meme that only makes sense in video games and assassin movies.
FWIW, I've never actually seen someone kill a deer with a headshot. What I have seen is several deer who died of starvation because some fucking moron thought, "hee hee, boom headshot' and destroyed the poor thing's mandible or punctured it's larynx.
peta cares about animals (does that mean they don't care about humans?)
PETA puts animal welfare above that of humans
So they claim, but remember that PETA supporters are the people that call you a monster and mutilator for having your pets spayed and neutered.
Nevermind the fact that spaying and neutering is essential to keeping pet populations in check.
I am a little skeptical of the stated concern. There are plenty of other things that will scare off game that have not had laws passed against them such at driving ATVs round......
People, especially other hunters, do not drive ATV's around during the hunt for the explicit purpose of chasing off game, and if they did, they'd be breaking the law (at least in my state, it's a crime to intentionally interfere with conservation efforts, which include hunting).
Assholes following people with flying toy robots serves no purpose other than the explicit interference of the hunt.
I suspect...
You suspect, yet you provide no evidence; in other words, you've tossed aside the more realistic circumstance, and substituted one that better fits your predilections.
Which means either you're a PETA supporter, or an idiot... not that there's a lot of actionable difference between the two, aside the fact that not all idiots support PETA.
Any movement away from a Microsoft dominated software market is probably a step in the right direction.
Sure, but that's not what's happening; RTFS:
unveil systems that simultaneously run two different operating systems, both Windows and the Android OS
There was no TV or video games in my house when I was growing up. I'm pretty sure I'm not mentally under-developed as a result.
Oh, that unawareness is most certainly an effect of the affliction...
I keed, I keed.
Personally, I have great memories of endless afternoons playing chess on a picnic table with my old man...
Good times.
comes first.. So how about a thread on how to teach your kids that science doesn't have to be *made* fun?.
Um, I'm pretty sure the submitter wasn't meaning "teach them about video games instead of teaching them about the real world...
So, they didn't ask the question you want an answer to; this is Slashdot, submit your own. Don't knock somebody else for having different interests, that's just childish.
I would take another of those vs this dribble about gaming
That's 'drivel,' not 'dribble.' And nobody's putting a gun to your head and forcing you to comment about it, are they? If yes blink twice, if no... quitcherbitchin.
When teaching them Linux, do you just download the latest stable Mint or Ubuntu release and let them take it from there? Do you track down a 20-year-old version of Slackware and show them how things used to be?
I don't need to track down a 20-year-old version of anything - just install the latest Debian build.
Feels pretty much the same.
No, face book and google already demand your phone number. Are you faking your phone number? Because they send a text to it for confirmation.
I don't know if "demand" is the right word - I see the screen where it asks for it, but so far haven't had a problem clicking the "remind me later" button.
How are you spoofing those 5 times a day as moderators ban you over and over again?
Wait, what? Last post you were talking about SS numbers, now you jump to a completely different subject but keep going like it's what we've been talking about all along. That's a poor way to go about conversations, you know.
In response to this new question, as I said, you don't have to verify a phone number or anything at this point. Even if you did, believe me, there are plenty of ways to come up with a throw-away phone number for cheap-if-not-free. Google Voice, for instance.
In any case... its a bad idea that is being implemented under false pretenses.
That I cannot disagree with.
I don't think you understand exactly what an SSN is, nor what it's for.
Actually, you haven't displayed any understanding either, only snark.
I'm not the one who brought it up.
I'm guessing the NSA had some juicy details about this judges private life.
I doubt it's that complex - just look at which circuit this guy is in charge of: New York, New York.
You know, that police city-state on the East Coast, the one where people are regularly shot by cops just for standing in the wrong place, assaulted with chemical weapons for speaking out against the corrupt government, stopped and searched without any regard to the 4th Amendment, arrested for expressing their 2nd Amendment right, and oh yea, tried to ban big fucking sodas.
Taking all that into account, I'd be surprised if the judge didn't decide in favor of the elite ruling class.
If its linked to your social security number or something then you're going to have a legitimately hard time spoofing that.
And probably be breakign some kind of federal law... so have fun with that.
I don't think you understand exactly what an SSN is, nor what it's for.
But that aside, if websites start demanding SSNs before letting people comment that will likely be the death of online commentary.
At least, intelligent commentary, since the only people I know who would be stupid enough to provide random websites with an SSN are not the kind of people who have functioning brain cells.
Maybe OP's not ashamed of how stupid he is.
Maybe he doesn't know.
No, they just think they only have to ban them once.
That only works on trolls who also happen to be quite dense.
I've certainly plenty of skeletons in the closet. Never mind the political and religious views. 'Raven' isn't a name, it's a species identifier for a character I use in some adult roleplay settings to play all manner of perverse things, largely involving tentacles. Given I also have a job which involves working with children, a blackmailer could have a field day if they knew my real identity.
OK, so maybe this is the hard-core libertarian in me talking but...
Right on, brotha. More power to ya.
Slashdot moderation is among the best (or perhaps just least bad) of all the sites I regularly visit.
Same here.
Of course, considering that the only comment sites I frequent are Slashdot, Yahoo News, and my local Gannett publication, that's not really saying a whole lot.
People moderate because there is power in moderation. The moderator has the power to help control what people read, they can push their own agenda, and smack down some trolls too.
Oh, is that the idea?
I guess that means I should stop doing my meta-mods blindfolded, huh?
Who rattled your kennel? I don't remember inviting you to the conversation.
Aww poor baby. I didn't know I needed your approval to show just how THICK you are.
Troll much?
Because you suck at it, FYI.
Feel free to just assume that you are THICK whatever you say from now on. It's a given.
Ha! Man, do I love it when someone who can't even write a coherent sentence tries to insult my intellect; tragic irony really cracks me up.
So it can play Breakout, big deal.
Wake me when it's giving the checkers-playing chicken a run for her money.
You know, insults are the vestige of the simple-minded.
Intelligent people make rational arguments. All you've done here is call names.
Yea, one person in this discussion is making themselves look stupid, alright, but it isn't me.
P.S. If you're going to be a child, flinging about playground jabs because you don't have anything valid or on-topic to say, I'm going to ignore you.
From what I can tell, the "packages are weeks late" is a very different problem from "last minute buying surge overwhelms capacity", which is what TFA is about. And for TFA, "dur, shoulda shipped it sooner" is an appropriate response.
The "weeks late" problem is IMO far more interesting. Did the retailers lie about shipping them? Did UPS/Fedex lose or damage them? This is a sign of a serious structural problem somewhere.
Were I to wager a guess, I'd say the "last minute buying surge" didn't actually happen, but rather is UPS's nonsense excuse for failure, considering how many people are still waiting on deliveries of stuff they ordered months ago.
On that, how handy to have such a convenient scapegoat as last-minute shoppers!
In a worst-case scenario, an attacker pushes the "check for updates" bit after they've stolen the Tesla server in DNS, and bricks a bunch of cars.
That's a bad-case scenario, but I wouldn't call it 'worst.'
Imagine someone compromising the whole system, and, say, cycling the batteries until they overhead and rupture. Or over-riding the braking system and locking the throttle at 100%.
On every single Tesla on the planet, simultaneously.
If that's what's keeping you from electric, I guess you're going to have to stay driving gas.
It's probably going to keep me in older vehicles; even gas car makers are starting to get into the whole 'let's put shitloads of remotely-accessible software in these things' mentality.
No, what's keeping me out of electrics is the fact that they aren't practical vehicles for me at this time.
This isn't market where you get to haggle.
Are you kidding? This is exactly the market you haggle in! At least, it is if you're a civil litigation lawyer.
This is about facts, and they don't leave any room for guessing.
OK, the fact is Telsa issued a software fix.
You don't issue software fixes unless you think something is broken, right?
Capitalism means you have a choice of suppliers.
That's one of the things that term entails, yes. You're leaving out quite a bit, tho.
But capitalism has nothing to do with manners, and it doesn't mean you can be an asshole to the delivery guy - who, in the original quote, was simply stating the facts - either in person or on an internet forum.
Uh, did you actually read the quote? He's not "simply stating facts" - he's whining about the expectations his employer has of him. Expectations he's known and accepted for 20 years. For example:
"... everyone who moves your package is working and doesn't get the Xmas experience you get, Be thankful for that."
If he was a slave, working for free? Yea, I might feel bad for him.
But he's not, he's actually a pretty well paid dude, probably makes more money than me. Do you see me pissing and moaning and attacking my customers (yes, attacking, unless you have another idea about why the dickhead tells us, "be thankful for that.") because I had to work on Christmas Eve? No. Why? A couple reasons: one, I'm not a selfish bitch. Two, I know damn good and well what's expected of me, and if I have a problem with it, I know where the door is.
Personally, if I were this UPS driver's boss? We'd be having a little pow-wow after I read this comment, one that would likely end with the driver's termination.