Interesting... Did you know that 85% of female bronies dislike or are at best neutral to the term "pegasister"? Bro is gender neutral in this day and age.
maybe they don't like it because it sounds retarded, not due to any gender identification.
Well you certainly know the Slashdot crowd well enough to know that when you add a little blurb about expecting to be modded down, it actually gives you a much better chance at being modded up.
Of course, because of the typical behavior of Slashdot mods, I expect to be modded down for pointing this out.
Regarding Star Wars titles, Knights of the Old Republic was great, part 2 was clearly rushed and unfinished, but still very enjoyable. Somebody (not EA) should put some effort into a part 3 (and not involve EA in any way whatsoever) and I'd buy that! (Did I mention I wouldn't buy it if EA had anything to do with it?)
It is great that this happened, but seriously, it is bad that 3 of our supreme court judges disagreed. I know I read the decisions for the exact reasons why, but I'm afraid of lawyer-speak infecting my brain and giving me an aneurysm.
That is a perfectly pragmatic viewpoint, and I would take it as well, if the world were sane. Actually, it doesn't only take stupid or crazy people to mess up a system like you describe, it just takes well-meaning people with messed up priorities.
There are already more laws than anybody could ever know about. We are already at the point where it is easy to be breaking multiple laws without knowing it. The police, even good police, like having this situation because it lets them arrest anyone they want at any time, if they can just figure out one of the many laws they are breaking, even if it is a stupid one. Of course they like this situation because it makes their jobs easier, and they think that their "gut feelings" are 100% correct 100% of the time.
Do you really want to live in that kind of world? Well, whatever your answer, you already do. But do you want to make it worse?
The way the universe works doesn't really depend, in any way, upon you finding physics "acceptable"
I can't wait for somebody to put this quote on a picture of you looking profound while sitting in a sea of stars then post it to an online imageboard dedicated to how awesome science is.
I find your well-reasoned and respectfully written response to be full of helpful counterpoints and useful references. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Presumably, there should have been some kind of safety system in place to deal with a relatively common natural phenomenon called lightning. Or, just the amazingly easy to predict general problem of power loss. But clearly, you are correct, the Chinese can do no wrong here.
I am not in favor of the innocent users becoming victims, but if this happened to any company, at least it happened to Sony. There are few companies that deserve this more than Sony.
Please, spare me your simplistic views of religion-hating. You just enjoy feeling superior to everyone that is in a religion, seeing them as stupid, and clearly don't think about it much beyond that.
The truth is, all major religions have had members who have committed atrocities. But that wasn't the purpose of the religions.
In real religions, the main goals are to help people in many ways. You might not agree with what is taught, but the intent is there to help and aid, and improve people's lives. Not to mention, all of their religious teachings are accessible by everyone.
On the other hand, scientology's entire purpose is to screw people over for money. That is what it was DESIGNED TO DO. Sure, people claiming to be Christians have screwed people over (for example), but they did it despite their religion, not because of it. They were't acting like Christians, and clearly learned nothing from the religion they claim to be in.
In scientology, ATROCITIES ARE THEIR CORE PRINCIPLES. If you can't see the difference between this cult and real religious teachings, you are just being willfully ignorant.
Now I will leave you to your fapping to thoughts of how much smarter you are than religious people.
It is hard to tell if you are being sarcastic, but eV is a unit of mass when you set c=1, which makes mass=energy. Particle physicists do all of the time to make the calculations easier. It is a problem of getting used to the notation and lingo.
Well, I didn't say that. I'd like to see them survive. I was just wondering what bad effects we would see if they stopped existing. Besides, lots of other species have gone extinct, and new ones come into existence. Why does this one matter?
No, I don't really feel bad about a retarded bird going extinct because of other people's mistakes. I'd like to see it survive, but I'm saving my empathy for things that matter.
Supposing that there is a practical and good reason to keep them around (other than helping soothe our conscience), such as genetic diversity, then that should be the point that conservationists START their rants with when they try to get people to help out. Listening to people tell me how bad humans suck, and how awful we are, and how we have to help some stupid bird because of it, gets people down. Trying to guilt people into helping fix a problem that they themselves did nothing to cause, well, that is a pretty dumb tactic for enlisting help.
Well, you didn't actually address my point. I was wondering why it would matter if they all die. All you did was give a reason why we should feel bad about it.
But after reading about the kakapo, it must be the stupidest, most pointless bird on the planet. Sure I guess it is good to study them to understand whatever needs to be understood, but these birds are pretty retarded. Because of their environment, they evolved into something that has practically no positive traits to help their survival. In fact, practically everything about them invites predators to them, or makes them completely helpless.
I suppose it would be bad for them to all die, but I'm not sure why, exactly.
Eh, I was forced to use a Mac at work and I don't get where this "better interface" claim is coming from. I've found OS X to be cumbersome and annoying, and probably one of the worst ones on a modern OS. I've used many different interfaces on many, many different operating systems, and I always get used to them and use all of the ways to efficiently do things like using keyboard shortcuts. But when I use OS X, I feel like I'm slowly sloshing through, and the interface seems to always just get in the way, and everything I do feels like it takes forever. Also the interface is most definitely not consistent; in fact I've found it to be even less consistent than pretty much every version of Windows ever. I'd have to say that I actually prefer Windows 7 to OS X, and coming from me, that is saying a lot.
It is understandable that a human being will inevitably screw up something, eventually. Put them in a high stress environment like that, and you make it more likely. How on earth is that not "understandable"? I never said it was something we should ignore or was fine, it is just part of the human experience.
Screwups and mistakes are inevitable and inherently a part of nursing, when they are training new nurses. You just hope their supervisor catches anything that matters. Nursing school doesn't really prepare you for working in a hospital. New nurses screw up constantly and take a lot of resources to train. That is a big reason why hospitals really don't want new nurses. They are practically useless. (Yes, now go on a tirade and say that's not how it should be. Yes, that's nice, and we all know. Yawn.)
Since you are so high and mighty about this, how about you do the ethical thing and not just watch everyone suffer, and play armchair moralist, but go out and be an activist for proper treatment of nurses?
Also, I laughed so hard at your "screw up and go to jail" comment. Have fun getting nurses into the field when that policy goes into effect. You would get the nurses that don't need the job quitting just because they don't want to risk it, this increasing the workload for everyone else. You are an idiot.
Yes, refusing to work is the ethical thing, just like when you are starving in the street, it is the ethical thing to not steal that bread and instead starve to death. So what?
You are also assuming there is a standard ethical workload for nurses, defined in law somewhere. There isn't.
Sure, in fantasy land you can refuse to work, they can fire you, you can sue. And you would be in the right. But in the meantime, you need money to eat, and you need money to deal with a lawsuit. Where is this money supposed to come from, your ass?
In the real world, they fire you, and immediately replace you with someone who needs the money just as much as or even more than you. Not only that, but someone with years of experience, and who doesn't need much training, so there is little lost in getting rid of you. Plus if you want more than a settlement for "mental distress" or whatever, have fun figuring out what laws they are breaking. This isn't exactly the kind of thing the average overworked nurse has time to figure out, or would even know where to start.
Your black and white world is so nice and simple. I wish it existed somewhere beside your mind.
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Interesting... Did you know that 85% of female bronies dislike or are at best neutral to the term "pegasister"? Bro is gender neutral in this day and age.
maybe they don't like it because it sounds retarded, not due to any gender identification.
...and "Bronies" doesn't sound retarded? Really?
Well you certainly know the Slashdot crowd well enough to know that when you add a little blurb about expecting to be modded down, it actually gives you a much better chance at being modded up.
Of course, because of the typical behavior of Slashdot mods, I expect to be modded down for pointing this out.
Regarding Star Wars titles, Knights of the Old Republic was great, part 2 was clearly rushed and unfinished, but still very enjoyable. Somebody (not EA) should put some effort into a part 3 (and not involve EA in any way whatsoever) and I'd buy that! (Did I mention I wouldn't buy it if EA had anything to do with it?)
It is great that this happened, but seriously, it is bad that 3 of our supreme court judges disagreed. I know I read the decisions for the exact reasons why, but I'm afraid of lawyer-speak infecting my brain and giving me an aneurysm.
That is a perfectly pragmatic viewpoint, and I would take it as well, if the world were sane. Actually, it doesn't only take stupid or crazy people to mess up a system like you describe, it just takes well-meaning people with messed up priorities.
There are already more laws than anybody could ever know about. We are already at the point where it is easy to be breaking multiple laws without knowing it. The police, even good police, like having this situation because it lets them arrest anyone they want at any time, if they can just figure out one of the many laws they are breaking, even if it is a stupid one. Of course they like this situation because it makes their jobs easier, and they think that their "gut feelings" are 100% correct 100% of the time.
Do you really want to live in that kind of world? Well, whatever your answer, you already do. But do you want to make it worse?
The way the universe works doesn't really depend, in any way, upon you finding physics "acceptable"
I can't wait for somebody to put this quote on a picture of you looking profound while sitting in a sea of stars then post it to an online imageboard dedicated to how awesome science is.
You are missing the point of the article. 192KHz is not 192kbps.
I find your well-reasoned and respectfully written response to be full of helpful counterpoints and useful references. I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Presumably, there should have been some kind of safety system in place to deal with a relatively common natural phenomenon called lightning. Or, just the amazingly easy to predict general problem of power loss. But clearly, you are correct, the Chinese can do no wrong here.
I am not in favor of the innocent users becoming victims, but if this happened to any company, at least it happened to Sony. There are few companies that deserve this more than Sony.
The best thing is that when they check the time they are also getting an eyeful of porn.
Please, spare me your simplistic views of religion-hating. You just enjoy feeling superior to everyone that is in a religion, seeing them as stupid, and clearly don't think about it much beyond that.
The truth is, all major religions have had members who have committed atrocities. But that wasn't the purpose of the religions.
In real religions, the main goals are to help people in many ways. You might not agree with what is taught, but the intent is there to help and aid, and improve people's lives. Not to mention, all of their religious teachings are accessible by everyone.
On the other hand, scientology's entire purpose is to screw people over for money. That is what it was DESIGNED TO DO. Sure, people claiming to be Christians have screwed people over (for example), but they did it despite their religion, not because of it. They were't acting like Christians, and clearly learned nothing from the religion they claim to be in.
In scientology, ATROCITIES ARE THEIR CORE PRINCIPLES. If you can't see the difference between this cult and real religious teachings, you are just being willfully ignorant.
Now I will leave you to your fapping to thoughts of how much smarter you are than religious people.
Your response was in no way helpful in answering his question.
Does anyone else besides me hate that term?
It is hard to tell if you are being sarcastic, but eV is a unit of mass when you set c=1, which makes mass=energy. Particle physicists do all of the time to make the calculations easier. It is a problem of getting used to the notation and lingo.
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Well, I didn't say that. I'd like to see them survive. I was just wondering what bad effects we would see if they stopped existing. Besides, lots of other species have gone extinct, and new ones come into existence. Why does this one matter?
No, I don't really feel bad about a retarded bird going extinct because of other people's mistakes. I'd like to see it survive, but I'm saving my empathy for things that matter.
Supposing that there is a practical and good reason to keep them around (other than helping soothe our conscience), such as genetic diversity, then that should be the point that conservationists START their rants with when they try to get people to help out. Listening to people tell me how bad humans suck, and how awful we are, and how we have to help some stupid bird because of it, gets people down. Trying to guilt people into helping fix a problem that they themselves did nothing to cause, well, that is a pretty dumb tactic for enlisting help.
Also thanks for acting like a pretentious prick.
Well, you didn't actually address my point. I was wondering why it would matter if they all die. All you did was give a reason why we should feel bad about it.
But after reading about the kakapo, it must be the stupidest, most pointless bird on the planet. Sure I guess it is good to study them to understand whatever needs to be understood, but these birds are pretty retarded. Because of their environment, they evolved into something that has practically no positive traits to help their survival. In fact, practically everything about them invites predators to them, or makes them completely helpless. I suppose it would be bad for them to all die, but I'm not sure why, exactly.
Eh, I was forced to use a Mac at work and I don't get where this "better interface" claim is coming from. I've found OS X to be cumbersome and annoying, and probably one of the worst ones on a modern OS. I've used many different interfaces on many, many different operating systems, and I always get used to them and use all of the ways to efficiently do things like using keyboard shortcuts. But when I use OS X, I feel like I'm slowly sloshing through, and the interface seems to always just get in the way, and everything I do feels like it takes forever. Also the interface is most definitely not consistent; in fact I've found it to be even less consistent than pretty much every version of Windows ever. I'd have to say that I actually prefer Windows 7 to OS X, and coming from me, that is saying a lot.
You are correct. Han was never a rogue because he couldn't temporarily take Luke's powers by touching him.
It is understandable that a human being will inevitably screw up something, eventually. Put them in a high stress environment like that, and you make it more likely. How on earth is that not "understandable"? I never said it was something we should ignore or was fine, it is just part of the human experience.
Screwups and mistakes are inevitable and inherently a part of nursing, when they are training new nurses. You just hope their supervisor catches anything that matters. Nursing school doesn't really prepare you for working in a hospital. New nurses screw up constantly and take a lot of resources to train. That is a big reason why hospitals really don't want new nurses. They are practically useless. (Yes, now go on a tirade and say that's not how it should be. Yes, that's nice, and we all know. Yawn.)
Since you are so high and mighty about this, how about you do the ethical thing and not just watch everyone suffer, and play armchair moralist, but go out and be an activist for proper treatment of nurses?
Also, I laughed so hard at your "screw up and go to jail" comment. Have fun getting nurses into the field when that policy goes into effect. You would get the nurses that don't need the job quitting just because they don't want to risk it, this increasing the workload for everyone else. You are an idiot.
Yes, refusing to work is the ethical thing, just like when you are starving in the street, it is the ethical thing to not steal that bread and instead starve to death. So what?
You are also assuming there is a standard ethical workload for nurses, defined in law somewhere. There isn't.
Sure, in fantasy land you can refuse to work, they can fire you, you can sue. And you would be in the right. But in the meantime, you need money to eat, and you need money to deal with a lawsuit. Where is this money supposed to come from, your ass?
In the real world, they fire you, and immediately replace you with someone who needs the money just as much as or even more than you. Not only that, but someone with years of experience, and who doesn't need much training, so there is little lost in getting rid of you. Plus if you want more than a settlement for "mental distress" or whatever, have fun figuring out what laws they are breaking. This isn't exactly the kind of thing the average overworked nurse has time to figure out, or would even know where to start.
Your black and white world is so nice and simple. I wish it existed somewhere beside your mind.