Yea, that's called an occupational hazard, not an excuse to not do your fucking job. Jesus, if underwater welders and fishermen (wo have far, far more life-threatening jobs than any LEO) were as whiny and pussified as cops, we'd have no oil or food.
Of course, if the detectives use their brains they can decrease their personal risk while still doing what they're paid to do. Of course that implies hiring people who actually have functioning brains... something many departments apparently have a policy against.
Just because YOU have wireless projectors doesn't mean that EVERYONE is doing the same thing as you. I've worked at Fortune 500 companies that not only use wired projectors, they also rent them rather than owning one.
'Granted I work for a company that install (wireless projectors)'
Well, you're a shitty salesman if your main pitch is 'but everyone else is buying them from me!'
A solid gold casing would be too soft to be practical.
Apple claim to somehow have found a way around that. From the product page: "Each has a watch case crafted from 18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold."
Ceramics are blended in with the gold.
Thus making the gold less pure, and therefore less valuable. FWIW, all gold was 24k, until it got mixed with something else. 18k isn't 18k anymore when it's been diluted with non-precious metals.
Because very few people will buy the gold edition, it will occupy the same collector market as some of the other early Apples.
Very few people bought a Microsoft Surface RT, but I highly doubt that makes the tablet a collectors item. Very few commercially made, mass produced items hold value the way you're assuming this watch will.
Maybe if they made it a limited edition, bit that doesn't really fit Apple's MO...
Actually, the best method for avoiding union interference is to not treat employees like shit, thus removing incentive to join a union.
On the other hand, I hear Walmart does quite well with their "burn anyone who so much as mentions the word 'union' alive" policy, so I could be way off base.
I've been helping run the family pawn shop since about November - we have had all of ONE PS4 come into our shop, whereas I've taken in at least a half-dozen Xbones.
Take from that anecdote what you will, but it seems to me that the PS4 is doing pretty good without any extra focus.
Also Sony makes killer DVD players and televisions. I hope they don't stop making that stuff, personally.
This could actually be useful for gun shops, since we have to meticulously catalog the serial numbers of all firearms that come in and go out. We often get older (like, 150 year older), used firearms where the serials are worn down and difficult to read, even with a jewelers loupe.
Or rather it would be useful for gun shops, if the process isn't as cost-prohibitive as I presume it will be.
Unlikely. As professional drivers they probably already knew the best line on the track. A theory would be that the marijuana intoxication relaxed them a bit, so they were calmer entering corners and thus, entered and left them faster, leading to overall faster times.
My question to you is, do you not understand this thing you're talking about because the only racing experience you have is playing Gran Turismo, or because you're attempting to demonize a different thing you don't understand, for some equally idiotic reason?
High drivers go right through red lights. I've been in the car with friends on a number of occasions where I had to yell at them to stop for a red light because they were either spaced out on their pot or they were paying attention the the next light over and not the one immediately in front of us.
So yeah. I'm calling bullshit on this "study". I know from first hand experience that pot affects people's ability to drive.
The alternative theory being that you hang out with inattentive morons. But that might say something negative about you ('birds of a feather' and all), so your mind automatically blocked it.
"More study is needed." Where have we heard that one before? Oh, right, they've been saying that about marijuana for almost a century, completely ignoring the mountains of scientific evidence that's been gathered over the same time period.
So if a media corporation were to steal someone else's art (like that YouTube rapper whose name escapes me), does that mean that under the TPP the board members of said media corporation would be doing hard time and paying millions in fines?
Or should I go ahead and create a craigslist ad for the Brooklyn Bridge?
"Linked To" does not equal "Definitely Causes." Cmon, this is slashdot, we're supposed to be smart and see through the weasel words.
Remember, these are the same people trying their damndest to convince the world vaporizers are just as bad or worse than tobacco, even with a complete lack of evidence.
Because that's not what ISIS wants - they want everyone to either join their cause, or die. Sacrificing the freedom we believe in for whatever reason is not helping them win, but it is helping us lose.
Side note, if you have that much of a problem with people getting entertainment from the suffering g of others, I suggest writing a sternly worded letter to the producers of the TV show "COPS."
Usually I like to correct people's misunderstanding of terms (like when they spell "Voila" W-A-L-L-A), but I think I'm going to let this one slide, considering the context...
Can't say I disagree with a "no kids on the internet" policy.
Seems the perfect solution - society doesn't have to worry about censoring content to appease shitty parents, shitty parents don't have to worry about the internet fucking up their kids, and can refocus their energy on the schools or whatever other scapegoat they use as an excuse for shitty parenting.
Parents don't control their children's access 24/7. Never have, never will. If you believe a parent can do so, you're living in a fantasyland.
Which is why it is the duty of their parents to teach them right and wrong, so they don't don't end up getting their sense of morality from shit they see on the internet.
If you're letting children browse the internet without supervision, they're going to be the ones who end up needing professional help.
Raising your kid the way you think is right is your job, not society's. If that includes shielding them from horrifying imagery, then shield them, but don't demand society shield everyone because you are too lazy/incompetent/whatever to rear a child properly with the assistance and cooperation of 7 billion other people.
And if you're worried about them seeing these things while outside your influence, might I suggest you do a better job teaching them right from wrong, so you won't have to worry about them getting their morality from YouTube videos.
Puff the magic dragon is not a "fairy tale dragon." Fairy tale dragons are draconian creatures from ancient tales designed to teach children safety and morals.
Puff the magic dragon is a mid-20th century allegory for getting high by smoking marijuana, written by hippies in the 1960s and set to music.
Censoring ISIS recruiting videos is very clearly not in favor of ISIS and the only freedom it removes is one's freedom to get brainwashed by Muslim extremists.
There is no slippery slope here. Ban all videos put out by an organization called ISIS that feature executions. Who (that was care about) would be harmed by this action?
Nothing on slashdot is censored - browse at -1 to see every comment regardless of moderation. Posting limits are ties to karma, and designed to limit trollbots (so we're not scrolling through 10,000 MyCleanPC and goatse posts on every thread), not censor discussions.
Your butthurt, though allowed and uncensored, is misplaced.
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Yea, that's called an occupational hazard, not an excuse to not do your fucking job. Jesus, if underwater welders and fishermen (wo have far, far more life-threatening jobs than any LEO) were as whiny and pussified as cops, we'd have no oil or food.
Of course, if the detectives use their brains they can decrease their personal risk while still doing what they're paid to do. Of course that implies hiring people who actually have functioning brains... something many departments apparently have a policy against.
Whining about Jeremy Clarkson "ruining" the reputation of electric cars is like whining that Jerry Seinfeld ruined the reputation of airline food.
They're fucking comedians, dude. The only people taking Clarkson's jokes seriously are people with no sense of humor.
Just because YOU have wireless projectors doesn't mean that EVERYONE is doing the same thing as you. I've worked at Fortune 500 companies that not only use wired projectors, they also rent them rather than owning one.
'Granted I work for a company that install (wireless projectors)'
Well, you're a shitty salesman if your main pitch is 'but everyone else is buying them from me!'
A solid gold casing would be too soft to be practical.
Apple claim to somehow have found a way around that. From the product page: "Each has a watch case crafted from 18-karat gold that our metallurgists have developed to be up to twice as hard as standard gold."
Ceramics are blended in with the gold.
Thus making the gold less pure, and therefore less valuable. FWIW, all gold was 24k, until it got mixed with something else. 18k isn't 18k anymore when it's been diluted with non-precious metals.
Because very few people will buy the gold edition, it will occupy the same collector market as some of the other early Apples.
Very few people bought a Microsoft Surface RT, but I highly doubt that makes the tablet a collectors item. Very few commercially made, mass produced items hold value the way you're assuming this watch will.
Maybe if they made it a limited edition, bit that doesn't really fit Apple's MO...
You realize that boxing isn't some new concept, right?
Actually, the best method for avoiding union interference is to not treat employees like shit, thus removing incentive to join a union.
On the other hand, I hear Walmart does quite well with their "burn anyone who so much as mentions the word 'union' alive" policy, so I could be way off base.
I've been helping run the family pawn shop since about November - we have had all of ONE PS4 come into our shop, whereas I've taken in at least a half-dozen Xbones.
Take from that anecdote what you will, but it seems to me that the PS4 is doing pretty good without any extra focus.
Also Sony makes killer DVD players and televisions. I hope they don't stop making that stuff, personally.
This could actually be useful for gun shops, since we have to meticulously catalog the serial numbers of all firearms that come in and go out. We often get older (like, 150 year older), used firearms where the serials are worn down and difficult to read, even with a jewelers loupe.
Or rather it would be useful for gun shops, if the process isn't as cost-prohibitive as I presume it will be.
Unlikely. As professional drivers they probably already knew the best line on the track. A theory would be that the marijuana intoxication relaxed them a bit, so they were calmer entering corners and thus, entered and left them faster, leading to overall faster times.
My question to you is, do you not understand this thing you're talking about because the only racing experience you have is playing Gran Turismo, or because you're attempting to demonize a different thing you don't understand, for some equally idiotic reason?
High drivers go right through red lights. I've been in the car with friends on a number of occasions where I had to yell at them to stop for a red light because they were either spaced out on their pot or they were paying attention the the next light over and not the one immediately in front of us.
So yeah. I'm calling bullshit on this "study". I know from first hand experience that pot affects people's ability to drive.
The alternative theory being that you hang out with inattentive morons. But that might say something negative about you ('birds of a feather' and all), so your mind automatically blocked it.
http://time.com/1248/surgeon-g...
"More study is needed." Where have we heard that one before? Oh, right, they've been saying that about marijuana for almost a century, completely ignoring the mountains of scientific evidence that's been gathered over the same time period.
So if a media corporation were to steal someone else's art (like that YouTube rapper whose name escapes me), does that mean that under the TPP the board members of said media corporation would be doing hard time and paying millions in fines?
Or should I go ahead and create a craigslist ad for the Brooklyn Bridge?
Why can't it be both?
"Linked To" does not equal "Definitely Causes." Cmon, this is slashdot, we're supposed to be smart and see through the weasel words.
Remember, these are the same people trying their damndest to convince the world vaporizers are just as bad or worse than tobacco, even with a complete lack of evidence.
An Argument For Not Taking Down Horrific Videos
Freedom of speech.
There done. Issue solved. Next?
Freedom of speech doesn't mean providing someone a soap box.
True, but it does mean that you have a right to provide someone a soapbox regardless of how much someone else might not want to hear them.
Because that's not what ISIS wants - they want everyone to either join their cause, or die. Sacrificing the freedom we believe in for whatever reason is not helping them win, but it is helping us lose.
Side note, if you have that much of a problem with people getting entertainment from the suffering g of others, I suggest writing a sternly worded letter to the producers of the TV show "COPS."
Also, every Japanese game show ever.
...completely no-holes-barred...
Usually I like to correct people's misunderstanding of terms (like when they spell "Voila" W-A-L-L-A), but I think I'm going to let this one slide, considering the context...
Can't say I disagree with a "no kids on the internet" policy.
Seems the perfect solution - society doesn't have to worry about censoring content to appease shitty parents, shitty parents don't have to worry about the internet fucking up their kids, and can refocus their energy on the schools or whatever other scapegoat they use as an excuse for shitty parenting.
Parents don't control their children's access 24/7. Never have, never will. If you believe a parent can do so, you're living in a fantasyland.
Which is why it is the duty of their parents to teach them right and wrong, so they don't don't end up getting their sense of morality from shit they see on the internet.
If you're letting children browse the internet without supervision, they're going to be the ones who end up needing professional help.
Raising your kid the way you think is right is your job, not society's. If that includes shielding them from horrifying imagery, then shield them, but don't demand society shield everyone because you are too lazy/incompetent/whatever to rear a child properly with the assistance and cooperation of 7 billion other people.
And if you're worried about them seeing these things while outside your influence, might I suggest you do a better job teaching them right from wrong, so you won't have to worry about them getting their morality from YouTube videos.
Gotta love that "I can't control what my toddler sees on the internet but DON'T CALL ME A SHITTY PARENT!" mentality.
Puff the magic dragon is not a "fairy tale dragon." Fairy tale dragons are draconian creatures from ancient tales designed to teach children safety and morals.
Puff the magic dragon is a mid-20th century allegory for getting high by smoking marijuana, written by hippies in the 1960s and set to music.
Wrong.
Censoring ISIS recruiting videos is very clearly not in favor of ISIS and the only freedom it removes is one's freedom to get brainwashed by Muslim extremists.
There is no slippery slope here. Ban all videos put out by an organization called ISIS that feature executions. Who (that was care about) would be harmed by this action?
When did Goebbels create a slashdot account?
Nothing on slashdot is censored - browse at -1 to see every comment regardless of moderation. Posting limits are ties to karma, and designed to limit trollbots (so we're not scrolling through 10,000 MyCleanPC and goatse posts on every thread), not censor discussions.
Your butthurt, though allowed and uncensored, is misplaced.