"While working? You can angle your wrist around to see if it is nearly time for dinner without putting your tools/workpiece down, switching off the machine or crawling out from under something to unzip your overalls to reach your jeans' pocket."
Watches (on your wrist) are a safety hazard around machinery and an impediment to working in very close quarters such as on cars.
I don't wear one as I use expendable phones instead, but in pre-cell phone days I just tethered a cheap watch to a loop of 50/50 cord on my belt and it stayed in my pocket. My keyring is still kept that way.
People who worship jocks deserve to get viciously exploited for being craven fools. The taxpayers get fucked, but they relentlessly vote in people who in a decent society would be broken on the wheel for corruption.
I'd do what the Boss wants to ensure he owns the decision.
I don't get paid to fight dumb employer decisions. I get paid to follow orders, and unless I personally like the employer or company I don't give a fuck what happens to them.
So you renounce all war and revolution which involves violence? Good luck with that.
Pacifism wouldn't have freed the US from Britain, freed the slaves in the US Civil War, freed Europe from Hitler, or freed much of Asia from Hirohitos minions.
Also, it is better to be victor than vanquished. Not conforming to some arbitrary moral standard has no inherent cost. Being on the LOSING SIDE of a violent conflict demonstrably does.
"Or at least I hope so -- the evangelical dominionists don't have anything in their ideology remotely like what they have in Iran, where they can call you "mohareb" and just kill you."
They just don't have the POWER, yet. They are all "Fred Phelps" under the skin. Why do you think there are so FEW counter-protests when WBC show up to picket?
Let's see those fucking hypocrites drag their inbred polyester-clad arses out and SPEAK UP when someone professing to be "Christian" spouts "God Hates Fags" at the funeral of one of the troops they supposedly support.
That simple. Iranians (well, except the MEK) aren't dedicated enough for a protracted violent struggle, so their government will remain as it is.
The Viet Minh and later Viet Cong were willing to die, by the hundreds of thousands, to take power in their country. The Taliban have demonstrated the same will to fight over decades.
Either be willing to fight as a revolutionary or get the fuck out before Serious People eat you. The Mullonazis are Serious People. If you aren't willing to slaughter them, you don't really oppose them.
"Everyone else" benefits from the entire fossil fuel ecosystem and there is no "opt out".
It still requires massive Federal confiscation of private wealth and still ensures that only the US would be doing much of anything, and doing so at great economic disadvantage.
The alternative, AGW, is quite likely "better" since the changes it causes can be adapted to. Cities can be relocated (great portions are replaced anyway, relocation would speed eco-friendly replacement of infrastructure) and crops can be grown in different places.
US effort would be better spent adapting to AGW and looking to take geopolitical advantage of it.
"Unfortunately, commies get around anti-trust by not formally organizing as for-profit corporations. Then when they squeeze everything out of the market, they'll jack up the price just like a corporation does. Mark my words."
Not too smart about how Free and Open works, are we?
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Who the FUCK stares at their wallpaper and does nothing with their PC for hours on end?
A plain desktop just requires more keystrokes/mouse clicks.
"Anyone knows how long gorillas live?"
Depends on how much government protection they get.
Absent that, they'd all be bush meat and I don't mean Rosie O'Donnell.
Nearly all of us are posting from CHINESE computers.
"While working? You can angle your wrist around to see if it is nearly time for dinner without putting your tools/workpiece down, switching off the machine or crawling out from under something to unzip your overalls to reach your jeans' pocket."
Watches (on your wrist) are a safety hazard around machinery and an impediment to working in very close quarters such as on cars.
I don't wear one as I use expendable phones instead, but in pre-cell phone days I just tethered a cheap watch to a loop of 50/50 cord on my belt and it stayed in my pocket. My keyring is still kept that way.
"unsophisticated investors" = dumbfuck jock sniffers.
People who worship jocks deserve to get viciously exploited for being craven fools. The taxpayers get fucked, but they relentlessly vote in people who in a decent society would be broken on the wheel for corruption.
It's a Centrist circle jerk. There are no moderate Republicans left.
Ask RIchard Lugar.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/us/politics/lugar-loses-primary-challenge-in-indiana.html?pagewanted=all
You'll stay modded down, but you nailed it perfectly.
The majority of a group are those who matter, while the rest are merely enablers.
The TeaPublicans are little more than religious fanatics, and relentlessly demonstrate that by their choice of politicians.
I'd do what the Boss wants to ensure he owns the decision.
I don't get paid to fight dumb employer decisions. I get paid to follow orders, and unless I personally like the employer or company I don't give a fuck what happens to them.
That worked SO WELL the first time.....
Central control is bad, and world government is a terrible idea since it must seek to please the lowest common denominator.
"more subtle advertising like paid stories on Ask Slashdot, sponsored polls and their jobs site."
I ignore and reject those too. Fuck 'em.
They are welcome to try a paywall.
Just think, "Baby Boomer Immortality"!
We shall be with you, forever.
To the modern West, law is a suicide pact. If we can't win and be Politically Correct, we should die.
China, having been around MUCH longer than Stupid White Men, takes the historic Chinese view of enemies and doesn't fuck around.
So you renounce all war and revolution which involves violence? Good luck with that.
Pacifism wouldn't have freed the US from Britain, freed the slaves in the US Civil War, freed Europe from Hitler, or freed much of Asia from Hirohitos minions.
Also, it is better to be victor than vanquished. Not conforming to some arbitrary moral standard has no inherent cost. Being on the LOSING SIDE of a violent conflict demonstrably does.
"What about the Uighurs? Everyone admits they aren't guilty of any crimes, and yet many are still stuck in Gitmo after nearly a decade."
Hand them to Beijing.
"Or at least I hope so -- the evangelical dominionists don't have anything in their ideology remotely like what they have in Iran, where they can call you "mohareb" and just kill you."
They just don't have the POWER, yet. They are all "Fred Phelps" under the skin. Why do you think there are so FEW counter-protests when WBC show up to picket?
Let's see those fucking hypocrites drag their inbred polyester-clad arses out and SPEAK UP when someone professing to be "Christian" spouts "God Hates Fags" at the funeral of one of the troops they supposedly support.
That's what religion begets and that's what superstitionists DESERVE.
Religion is literally mental illness, a delusion, so I can only wish their situation to get worse that it may provoke collapse.
Morality is absolute, not relative. Either be perfect or kill yourself.
That simple. Iranians (well, except the MEK) aren't dedicated enough for a protracted violent struggle, so their government will remain as it is.
The Viet Minh and later Viet Cong were willing to die, by the hundreds of thousands, to take power in their country. The Taliban have demonstrated the same will to fight over decades.
Either be willing to fight as a revolutionary or get the fuck out before Serious People eat you. The Mullonazis are Serious People. If you aren't willing to slaughter them, you don't really oppose them.
...sold the hardware with INSTRUCTIONS in a story form.
Why a story? Because fiction is usually protected speech. See "The Turner Diaries" for a right-wing agitprop example.
If you want a Hackintosh you had better be competent to load software anyway.
"Everyone else" benefits from the entire fossil fuel ecosystem and there is no "opt out".
It still requires massive Federal confiscation of private wealth and still ensures that only the US would be doing much of anything, and doing so at great economic disadvantage.
The alternative, AGW, is quite likely "better" since the changes it causes can be adapted to. Cities can be relocated (great portions are replaced anyway, relocation would speed eco-friendly replacement of infrastructure) and crops can be grown in different places.
US effort would be better spent adapting to AGW and looking to take geopolitical advantage of it.
"Unfortunately, commies get around anti-trust by not formally organizing as for-profit corporations. Then when they squeeze everything out of the market, they'll jack up the price just like a corporation does. Mark my words."
Not too smart about how Free and Open works, are we?
The social controls required for the US to reduce its emissions meaningfully must result in an eco-police state with massive Federal micromanagement.
Other countries can and will take every advantage of this. So would I.
"You can do that for free. It's called a developer preview."
There's no reason not to do it for "free" anyway, except that new Windows releases aren't exciting enough to bother with.
There's every reason to ignore it for a few years until it's sorted out.
Thank you!
That post was of more value than the rest of the thread.
Now I'll have some fun looking for skeumorphism.