Firstly, let me say I'm strictly talking about legal and not moral responsibility. If my GF got pregnant, I would feel an obligation to her because of my emotional attachment to her.
Quite simply, getting pregnant is a condition of a woman's body. If I have a peanut allergy and a woman slides me a bowl of peanuts, I'm not going to sue her because I eat them and get sick. There's no double standard there. And, there's also no way to prove how a woman gets pregnant; did she offer up a condom with holes pricked in it or did she fish a used condom out of a waste bin and get artificially inseminated with it? You think that's a joke, look up the rookie orientation lessons on groupies that pro athletes have to take.
We have a system that intrinsically thinks of women as sub-adults who can't possibly be responsible for their own actions. If a women gets knocked up out of wedlock, then she must've been seduced by some filthy man. So, any random guy getting any random woman pregnant is responsible for paying X% of his salary to her for 18 years. I have a friend-of-a-friend who hooked up with some random guy in a one-nighter and got pregnant. She was ~30, so should have been smarter about the situation. All she knew was his name and that he was from NY, so she got her lawyer's advice to start cold-calling and sending out letters to every same-named man they found (about 10) trying to get child support. If she was ever able to find the guy, I have no doubt he'd have had to pay her.
Say you've got 100 features to implement and 10 priority levels. Only permit 20% at each level. If you don't have some mechanism in place, your stakeholders are naturally going to call everything lvl 9-10.
These guys aren't conning idiots. Their contracts are obfuscated. And, even if the artist does get someone with skill the read the contract, you never know if they've decided to get together with the agent/producer/manager to screw the artist out of money. Some of these guys are surrounded by teams working to milk them for every time. Any time you hear about some artist/athlete blowing through millions, don't think they partied it all away or couldn't stop shopping.
Hell, sometimes the industry calculates that even if they DO get caught they can settle for a profit. This has been happening with the record industry shorting artists on royalties. They do it on purpose, then when/if they get caught they just settle for a fraction of of what they should have paid rather than tying up the artist in court for years.
And, what share of the profits does her family get? The music industry is notorious for ripping of artists. The story I always remember was the 90s group TLC that sold about $100 million on their debut album, but only took home about $200K each.
My dreams of a womanspeak translator implant are on the horizon. Now, if they can just develop the technology to translate "Leave me the fuck alone until the game is over." into a more palatable sentence...
NASA needs to knock off all the PR projects they know aren't going anywhere and start dumping some cash into next generation tech for robotic probes. It's ridiculous that we're still lobbing up satellites when we've got tech like solar sails and ion drives we can do right now. Yeah, yeah, need cash but man am I tired of having to wait 5-10 years for probes to get to their targets.
I'm a hard-core liberal, and it pisses me off what he's done. He's effectively censoring (not in the legal sense) debate because he doesn't like what someone has to say. Now that Santorum is a serious candidate, it's even worse since people are actively trying to inform themselves about the man and the first thing they're going to see is some childish prank.
Hungarian notation is this ingenious little recommendation for naming your variables to describe the expected contents of that variable when the type won't do. So, if you have a std::string field containing a hex version of a GUID, you might name it guidAsHexChars. Microsoft took Hungarian notation literally to mean naming it after the type. So, you've got a lot of redundantly named variables like guidString.
I don't know about Medicare, but Social Security runs on a surplus and has always run on a surplus. The problem is Congress "borrows" SS funds and calls it a deficit.
I'm assuming we're going to find the same kind of issue with the data that we did with polar snow fall. Yeah, it was higher at the poles because there was more snow melt and more humidity, but the overall there was a loss of snow.
That's the new "Internet News" media standard. Story titles will flat out lie if they have to get you to click that link. It's all about driving traffic. "A rips B" is a classic New Media headline. BTW, the HuffingtonPost is the worst at this. I used to read it regularly when it was a political site and before it turned into a tabloid Kardashian watch rag.
Only you know how much you care, so only you know how far to go to do something about it. If it were me, I'd look at the files to see if there was something interesting then go from there. Otherwise DBAN and deal with it.
I'm no advocate for some of the crap you have to deal with from women, but how about working on yourself? Even if you're not "handsome," if you're in good-great shape women are still going to be attracted to you. Do have have a good career? From my experience, the balance in the dating game starts to flip to guys after around 25-30 years of age if you've positioned yourself in a good place in life.. Having a pretty face isn't all that it takes to get an attractive woman (I'm looking at you Seal). Work on yourself first, and stop complaining about how Brad Pitt doesn't have to work for pussy.
Not to pick up, but to find women I know (especially from my college days) and to see how they describe themselves. It's very entertaining reading; best filed under "Fiction."
I'm an 80s movie fanatic, and so many movies that were R-rated that I remember watching have been hacked up so bad for TV play that some of the best scenes are incomprehensible; e.g. the "f*gs in the shower!" scene from Once Bitten. This happens even with some commercial-less cable movie channels as well with modern releases. And, if it's a flick very unlikely to be purchased or rented, it's almost like the original content has been lost to time.
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Unfortunately, this is what Slashdot has become. Twelve years ago, I visited the first time and was impressed with the expertise I found here. Now, every yahoo who's ever watched a Bill Nye episode wants to tell you your business.
I'd say that almost every class I've had after returning to school, most people I see are just screwing around on their laptops and maybe looking at lecture notes part of the time. Only in one class is the professor using our laptops as a teaching aid; having us set up our website. This naturally evolved during the semester and wasn't a forethought.
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Firstly, let me say I'm strictly talking about legal and not moral responsibility. If my GF got pregnant, I would feel an obligation to her because of my emotional attachment to her.
Quite simply, getting pregnant is a condition of a woman's body. If I have a peanut allergy and a woman slides me a bowl of peanuts, I'm not going to sue her because I eat them and get sick. There's no double standard there. And, there's also no way to prove how a woman gets pregnant; did she offer up a condom with holes pricked in it or did she fish a used condom out of a waste bin and get artificially inseminated with it? You think that's a joke, look up the rookie orientation lessons on groupies that pro athletes have to take.
We have a system that intrinsically thinks of women as sub-adults who can't possibly be responsible for their own actions. If a women gets knocked up out of wedlock, then she must've been seduced by some filthy man. So, any random guy getting any random woman pregnant is responsible for paying X% of his salary to her for 18 years. I have a friend-of-a-friend who hooked up with some random guy in a one-nighter and got pregnant. She was ~30, so should have been smarter about the situation. All she knew was his name and that he was from NY, so she got her lawyer's advice to start cold-calling and sending out letters to every same-named man they found (about 10) trying to get child support. If she was ever able to find the guy, I have no doubt he'd have had to pay her.
I was under the impression that we didn't have materials with the tension strength to build a space elevator?
Say you've got 100 features to implement and 10 priority levels. Only permit 20% at each level. If you don't have some mechanism in place, your stakeholders are naturally going to call everything lvl 9-10.
These guys aren't conning idiots. Their contracts are obfuscated. And, even if the artist does get someone with skill the read the contract, you never know if they've decided to get together with the agent/producer/manager to screw the artist out of money. Some of these guys are surrounded by teams working to milk them for every time. Any time you hear about some artist/athlete blowing through millions, don't think they partied it all away or couldn't stop shopping.
Hell, sometimes the industry calculates that even if they DO get caught they can settle for a profit. This has been happening with the record industry shorting artists on royalties. They do it on purpose, then when/if they get caught they just settle for a fraction of of what they should have paid rather than tying up the artist in court for years.
OK, so fuck the TLC analogy. How about the Stones and Beatles getting screwed out of huge chunks of their catalogs?
And, what share of the profits does her family get? The music industry is notorious for ripping of artists. The story I always remember was the 90s group TLC that sold about $100 million on their debut album, but only took home about $200K each.
My dreams of a womanspeak translator implant are on the horizon. Now, if they can just develop the technology to translate "Leave me the fuck alone until the game is over." into a more palatable sentence...
Why waste money on science that Americans will ignore anyway?
NASA needs to knock off all the PR projects they know aren't going anywhere and start dumping some cash into next generation tech for robotic probes. It's ridiculous that we're still lobbing up satellites when we've got tech like solar sails and ion drives we can do right now. Yeah, yeah, need cash but man am I tired of having to wait 5-10 years for probes to get to their targets.
I'm a hard-core liberal, and it pisses me off what he's done. He's effectively censoring (not in the legal sense) debate because he doesn't like what someone has to say. Now that Santorum is a serious candidate, it's even worse since people are actively trying to inform themselves about the man and the first thing they're going to see is some childish prank.
Hungarian notation is this ingenious little recommendation for naming your variables to describe the expected contents of that variable when the type won't do. So, if you have a std::string field containing a hex version of a GUID, you might name it guidAsHexChars. Microsoft took Hungarian notation literally to mean naming it after the type. So, you've got a lot of redundantly named variables like guidString.
I don't know about Medicare, but Social Security runs on a surplus and has always run on a surplus. The problem is Congress "borrows" SS funds and calls it a deficit.
I'm assuming we're going to find the same kind of issue with the data that we did with polar snow fall. Yeah, it was higher at the poles because there was more snow melt and more humidity, but the overall there was a loss of snow.
That's the new "Internet News" media standard. Story titles will flat out lie if they have to get you to click that link. It's all about driving traffic. "A rips B" is a classic New Media headline. BTW, the HuffingtonPost is the worst at this. I used to read it regularly when it was a political site and before it turned into a tabloid Kardashian watch rag.
Only you know how much you care, so only you know how far to go to do something about it. If it were me, I'd look at the files to see if there was something interesting then go from there. Otherwise DBAN and deal with it.
I'm no advocate for some of the crap you have to deal with from women, but how about working on yourself? Even if you're not "handsome," if you're in good-great shape women are still going to be attracted to you. Do have have a good career? From my experience, the balance in the dating game starts to flip to guys after around 25-30 years of age if you've positioned yourself in a good place in life.. Having a pretty face isn't all that it takes to get an attractive woman (I'm looking at you Seal). Work on yourself first, and stop complaining about how Brad Pitt doesn't have to work for pussy.
Not to pick up, but to find women I know (especially from my college days) and to see how they describe themselves. It's very entertaining reading; best filed under "Fiction."
Goatse Drive technology?
I'll be standing at the gates of the Playboy Mansion waiting for an avalanche of apocalypse sex
It's not the temperature, it's the rate.
I'm an 80s movie fanatic, and so many movies that were R-rated that I remember watching have been hacked up so bad for TV play that some of the best scenes are incomprehensible; e.g. the "f*gs in the shower!" scene from Once Bitten. This happens even with some commercial-less cable movie channels as well with modern releases. And, if it's a flick very unlikely to be purchased or rented, it's almost like the original content has been lost to time.
You mean Bobbi Sue and Billy Ray.
Unfortunately, this is what Slashdot has become. Twelve years ago, I visited the first time and was impressed with the expertise I found here. Now, every yahoo who's ever watched a Bill Nye episode wants to tell you your business.
I'd say that almost every class I've had after returning to school, most people I see are just screwing around on their laptops and maybe looking at lecture notes part of the time. Only in one class is the professor using our laptops as a teaching aid; having us set up our website. This naturally evolved during the semester and wasn't a forethought.