How do you create an acronym and then pronounce it wrong?
How can you claim it's pronounced wrong? An acronym becomes a word in its own right, and much of English pronunciation is based on the characters around individual letters which ultimately means that acronyms often sound different than the words from which they are based.
Now excuse me while I go pour myself a glass of gin while I clean the kitchen with my jif.
Never knew that Scuba an acronym, however what is your argument?
I didn't either until I had to do "scba" training for work and asked how that compares to scuba. Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
His argument is that in scuba the middle letter is pronounced like the German ü, but the word underwater would be closer to the German "a" and thus the acronym sounds differently than the first letter of the words from which it came.
sounds more like he is trying to save money and get the government to foot the bill for moderating his and others websites.
Hardly. I don't see anything that would make it cheaper for Facebook there, especially not with reporting requirements. I see it as he wants a target to work against, rather than the ever moving target that is the general opinions on speech at large. "Don't censor terrorism, free speech!" "Some guy posted that he went in a manhole, Facebook should delete this blatent sexism".
Multiple moving targets can never be hit at once which is precisely why government regulation exists.
What shit? Who decides what is shit? Who decides what needs to be cleaned up? Are we okay letting terrorists throw recruitment ads on facebook? Okay with bullying? Okay with wrongthink, and the SJW definition of sexism?
There are calls to ban all of these. There are calls to let all of these on the platform. Regulating a wide range of different opinions on what is and isn't good for society is precisely a part of why governments exist.
This! Well partially anyway. By passing the buck to the government through clear guidelines the whole issue ceases to be a moving target. Dealing with a wide array of nutjobs who range from "Fixing my spelling mistakes is censorship" to "Why did Facebook let someone hurt my feelings" and from "damn Cambridge analytica hoovered up private data" to "I purposefully posted this publicly how dare someone can't see it" is difficult.
When you have a wide range of people to appease it would help if at some point someone draws a line in the sand for you the walk along. Being able to pass the buck to the government is kind of what the government is there for in the first place and that way when Congress come knocking, you can just throw your certificate of regulatory compliance in their face.
No I still don't understand. Are you now trying to say that all those places where plastic bag ban was put in place where plastic waste was reduced and sale of bio degradable alternatives has increased being all around better for the environment is accomplishing nothing?
Excessive taxation drives underground markets. So good luck with that.
That is a retarded argument. You clearly haven't seen the cost difference between a biodegradable bag and a standard plastic bag. There is no underground market opportunity to derive profit on something worth next to nothing.
I'll buy whatever is cheapest to do the job. Ebay direct from Shenzhen works for me.
Indeed but that's because you're don't externalise your costs. There will always be some arsehole putting convenience and direct cost above everything else (equal case with littering in the street), but there are enough people who actually care about this and by providing them a choice the problem is reduced. There are also enough people who now being put in a position to make the choice will make the right one.
Maybe we will soon need bag police at the borders.........
We have those. They are called regulations. Enjoy your bags while you can. God knows those extra $2 every 2 months will bankrupt you soon and you're going to be under a bridge burning garbage in an attempt to destroy the environment;-P
The EU loves heat we centrally heat everything. We also discovered that the science behind how to efficiently heat houses has progressed since the time of Edison.
No his brain works just fine. Humans are naturally arseholes. It's easier to take away that ability than to try and de-arsholeify the human race. Case in point: He made an observation, you replied with an insult. We can fix this by taking away your internet connection thus reducing the amount of shit posted on Slashdot.
Sounds like you're doing your best to make your job as difficult as possible. What's wrong with using the flexibility of the tools at your disposal. There's no reason to share screens when modern conferencing programs let you share individual windows or secondary desktops.
New York: laws against people — making life worse for the people there
I don't understand. It was New York that just did something positive for people by further improving the world they live in. Did you get those backwards? Or were you trying to make a point and ended up just sounding stupid?
So if stores stop giving them out, then I need to buy them instead.
Good. Then maybe you'll make an informed purchase and buy some bio-degradable bags or proper trash bags that don't break down into fine particles as soon as they see a sunny day unlike the shitty thin shopping bags that are given out at stores which are pretty much the worst for the environment.
but I don't think I've ever seen a set of earbuds that did not fit that description
How many earbuds have you seen that rely on a battery to operate?
Even the legendary 3,5mm jack equipped corded earbuds and headphones are a bitch to re-solder
None of my 3.5mm jacks or speakers have ever "worn out" after 2 years.
headphones in general are somewhere between a nightmare and impossible to (economically) repair.
Headphones in general will happy still work 20 years later. The only thing I've had to replace on any set of headphones in the past 20 years was the foam, and that was almost universally a click out / click in 1 minute job, even replacing the foam or rubber on earbuds is easy.
... It's 2019 and you're using spinning media? What next? A complaint that it doesn't fit on less than 3200 floppy disks? Like seriously who has either a dvd drive or a blueray drive in their PC these days?
Not possible. Microsoft's update process is iterative with bug fixes brought forward. 1903 was built on 1809. If they didn't put the effort into fixing and releasing 1809 how would they find the bugs? It's not like they have a QA/QC team of their own. Skipping 1809 would just turn 1903 (now called 19H1 since MS can't keep to release dates) into the same shitshow.
No cloud saves No user profiles No review system No mod distribution No groups No item trading (for better or worse) No account sharing No streaming between devices No broadcasting No universal screenshotting
Metro Exodous is still on my wishlist on steam. I'm happy to pay for it but until it's available on Steam I guess I'll just have to rely on the guys from CPY who helped make the game less exclusive to the Epic Shitshow.
I especially like the comments from the people who depreciate these toys. When I apply the same approach to my headphones (top of the line Sennheisers) I get $3/month and everyone thought I was crazy for spending money on them in the first place. Those same people have these shitty things.
Now will people believe me when I say Right to Repair won't accomplish what they think it will?
That's a very certain comment about what people think and what will be achieved given that legislation has not been written. Are you a time traveler from the future? Tell us, did we end up destroying the planet or did we get a clue at some point?
that is under $7/month. They are disposable - who cares?
Holy shit. You're actually happy to pay as much for the hardware as an entire Spotify subscription? Look I get it. You're out of touch. Maybe when you finish parking your Ferrari in your 5 car garage in your wonderful mansion and are done pissing in a gold toilet you may want to consider how absurd your comment actually was. Do you also pay $7/month for typing on your keyboard? How about another $7/month for your mouse?
What other things that shouldn't wear out do you depreciate on a monthly basis to justify stupidity?
If I spent $200US for a burned-out lightbulb you bet you arse I'd be fixing it rather than throwing it away. Now go back to ruining the economy from your penthouse office you crappy 1%er.
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How do you create an acronym and then pronounce it wrong?
How can you claim it's pronounced wrong? An acronym becomes a word in its own right, and much of English pronunciation is based on the characters around individual letters which ultimately means that acronyms often sound different than the words from which they are based.
Now excuse me while I go pour myself a glass of gin while I clean the kitchen with my jif.
Never knew that Scuba an acronym, however what is your argument?
I didn't either until I had to do "scba" training for work and asked how that compares to scuba. Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus.
His argument is that in scuba the middle letter is pronounced like the German ü, but the word underwater would be closer to the German "a" and thus the acronym sounds differently than the first letter of the words from which it came.
Screw You Mark - take RESPONSIBILITY
How? Please list out the complete requirements. When you're done run it through congress once and the Zuck gets exactly what he asked for.
The .gov's responsibility is to thump you
For that to happen there needs to be rules in place, incidentally this is precisely what he asked for.
sounds more like he is trying to save money and get the government to foot the bill for moderating his and others websites.
Hardly. I don't see anything that would make it cheaper for Facebook there, especially not with reporting requirements. I see it as he wants a target to work against, rather than the ever moving target that is the general opinions on speech at large. "Don't censor terrorism, free speech!" "Some guy posted that he went in a manhole, Facebook should delete this blatent sexism".
Multiple moving targets can never be hit at once which is precisely why government regulation exists.
Clean up your own shit, Fuckerberg.
What shit? Who decides what is shit? Who decides what needs to be cleaned up? Are we okay letting terrorists throw recruitment ads on facebook? Okay with bullying? Okay with wrongthink, and the SJW definition of sexism?
There are calls to ban all of these. There are calls to let all of these on the platform. Regulating a wide range of different opinions on what is and isn't good for society is precisely a part of why governments exist.
This! Well partially anyway. By passing the buck to the government through clear guidelines the whole issue ceases to be a moving target. Dealing with a wide array of nutjobs who range from "Fixing my spelling mistakes is censorship" to "Why did Facebook let someone hurt my feelings" and from "damn Cambridge analytica hoovered up private data" to "I purposefully posted this publicly how dare someone can't see it" is difficult.
When you have a wide range of people to appease it would help if at some point someone draws a line in the sand for you the walk along. Being able to pass the buck to the government is kind of what the government is there for in the first place and that way when Congress come knocking, you can just throw your certificate of regulatory compliance in their face.
I don't see how removing the choice of plastic bags is going to solve anything
It's almost like you can make stuff out of something other than HDPE.
If I forget my shopping bag when I go shopping I get given paper bags.
No I still don't understand. Are you now trying to say that all those places where plastic bag ban was put in place where plastic waste was reduced and sale of bio degradable alternatives has increased being all around better for the environment is accomplishing nothing?
Really help me here, my math isn't very good.
Excessive taxation drives underground markets. So good luck with that.
That is a retarded argument. You clearly haven't seen the cost difference between a biodegradable bag and a standard plastic bag. There is no underground market opportunity to derive profit on something worth next to nothing.
I'll buy whatever is cheapest to do the job. Ebay direct from Shenzhen works for me.
Indeed but that's because you're don't externalise your costs. There will always be some arsehole putting convenience and direct cost above everything else (equal case with littering in the street), but there are enough people who actually care about this and by providing them a choice the problem is reduced. There are also enough people who now being put in a position to make the choice will make the right one.
Maybe we will soon need bag police at the borders.........
We have those. They are called regulations. Enjoy your bags while you can. God knows those extra $2 every 2 months will bankrupt you soon and you're going to be under a bridge burning garbage in an attempt to destroy the environment ;-P
The EU loves heat we centrally heat everything. We also discovered that the science behind how to efficiently heat houses has progressed since the time of Edison.
No his brain works just fine. Humans are naturally arseholes. It's easier to take away that ability than to try and de-arsholeify the human race. Case in point: He made an observation, you replied with an insult. We can fix this by taking away your internet connection thus reducing the amount of shit posted on Slashdot.
If I have to screen-share, I have a VM for that.
Sounds like you're doing your best to make your job as difficult as possible. What's wrong with using the flexibility of the tools at your disposal. There's no reason to share screens when modern conferencing programs let you share individual windows or secondary desktops.
New York: laws against people — making life worse for the people there
I don't understand. It was New York that just did something positive for people by further improving the world they live in. Did you get those backwards? Or were you trying to make a point and ended up just sounding stupid?
So if stores stop giving them out, then I need to buy them instead.
Good. Then maybe you'll make an informed purchase and buy some bio-degradable bags or proper trash bags that don't break down into fine particles as soon as they see a sunny day unlike the shitty thin shopping bags that are given out at stores which are pretty much the worst for the environment.
but I don't think I've ever seen a set of earbuds that did not fit that description
How many earbuds have you seen that rely on a battery to operate?
Even the legendary 3,5mm jack equipped corded earbuds and headphones are a bitch to re-solder
None of my 3.5mm jacks or speakers have ever "worn out" after 2 years.
headphones in general are somewhere between a nightmare and impossible to (economically) repair.
Headphones in general will happy still work 20 years later. The only thing I've had to replace on any set of headphones in the past 20 years was the foam, and that was almost universally a click out / click in 1 minute job, even replacing the foam or rubber on earbuds is easy.
So why shouldn't it be for a battery?
... It's 2019 and you're using spinning media? What next? A complaint that it doesn't fit on less than 3200 floppy disks? Like seriously who has either a dvd drive or a blueray drive in their PC these days?
. At least now I can log in without being online.
You were doing so well before you advertised to the world you have no idea how to setup a Windows computer.
Not possible. Microsoft's update process is iterative with bug fixes brought forward. 1903 was built on 1809. If they didn't put the effort into fixing and releasing 1809 how would they find the bugs? It's not like they have a QA/QC team of their own. Skipping 1809 would just turn 1903 (now called 19H1 since MS can't keep to release dates) into the same shitshow.
Makes nice round dots
Great theory but it's a bit more complicated than that in this case: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Scratching the surface much?
No cloud saves
No user profiles
No review system
No mod distribution
No groups
No item trading (for better or worse)
No account sharing
No streaming between devices
No broadcasting
No universal screenshotting
Metro Exodous is still on my wishlist on steam. I'm happy to pay for it but until it's available on Steam I guess I'll just have to rely on the guys from CPY who helped make the game less exclusive to the Epic Shitshow.
I especially like the comments from the people who depreciate these toys. When I apply the same approach to my headphones (top of the line Sennheisers) I get $3/month and everyone thought I was crazy for spending money on them in the first place. Those same people have these shitty things.
Idiots. Idiots everywhere.
Now will people believe me when I say Right to Repair won't accomplish what they think it will?
That's a very certain comment about what people think and what will be achieved given that legislation has not been written. Are you a time traveler from the future? Tell us, did we end up destroying the planet or did we get a clue at some point?
that is under $7/month. They are disposable - who cares?
Holy shit. You're actually happy to pay as much for the hardware as an entire Spotify subscription? Look I get it. You're out of touch. Maybe when you finish parking your Ferrari in your 5 car garage in your wonderful mansion and are done pissing in a gold toilet you may want to consider how absurd your comment actually was. Do you also pay $7/month for typing on your keyboard? How about another $7/month for your mouse?
What other things that shouldn't wear out do you depreciate on a monthly basis to justify stupidity?
If I spent $200US for a burned-out lightbulb you bet you arse I'd be fixing it rather than throwing it away. Now go back to ruining the economy from your penthouse office you crappy 1%er.