On the minus side, the public will never really know for sure that the use of the mental health resources prevented mass killings (though for me personally, I have no doubt that they would).
People who get the help and don't kill anyone may not have killed anyone anyways. And then there's the fact that certain individuals who need the help won't get it, either by slipping through the cracks or by deliberately avoiding getting help, and the mass killings will likely continue for these people regardless. So then the public perception is that the mental health resources are not doing anything.
That's true that distance can be a factor, but if you're determined, you can find a compromise between driving part-way and cycling part-way.
I used to cycle 21km (13 miles) one-way to and from work everyday, but then at the end of the season I moved out to a place twice the distance. Because I loved cycling I looked into it and found that my city offers free "park-and-cycle" parking at various places throughout the city. So now I drive to one of these lots and cycle the rest of the way.
The amazing part is that it takes the same time as taking the bus (my winter mode of travel), but I don't have to pay the $150/month parking, nor do I have to pay the $110/month bus pass. It's less gas money than driving the whole way, less wear and tear on my vehicle than driving the whole way AND I'm getting exercise without taking any extra time out of my day (than taking the bus).
The date notation you use isn't the date notation everyone uses. Also, using the slash as a separator with the year at the end, can be ambiguous on its own, since it can mean dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy, depending on your region. Therefore, you shouldn't base the date of the holiday on date notation. Instead, it makes the most sense to match up larger quantifier in the date with the larger quantifier in the number, so month=3, day=14.
That said, it's just an excuse to make a day more fun. So, if it makes you happier to argue that it shouldn't happen, then it's fulfilling its purpose anyway!
You are absolutely right about how adding an 's' to a verb doesn't pluralize it. But, neither did I suggest the poster knew exactly what they were doing.
The concept of making the verb plural is still sound despite the fact that they went about it the wrong way. Perhaps he/she didn't know how to conjugate this verb to make it plural so they just added an 's'?
I still maintain that they deserve more patience and respect for the simple fact that they're trying.
Assuming the parent poster is French because of the reference to France, these pluralization mistakes aren't so far fetched for a Francophone. In French, verbs are conjugated to match whether or not the subject is plural. So, he/she has the word "they" so naturally because this is a plural word, to him/her, "suck" should be pluralized to match. They also make a similar mistake later with "laws" and "does".
Really, these mistakes show good his/her grammar in his/her native tongue.
You should give him/her a break, because learning a language is already one of the hardest things to do. Adding humiliation to the mix just makes it that much harder.
Thanks for your explanation, it was really good. Also, your example really helped me put the differences between the earth's mass and an asteroid's mass into perspective!
An honest question here: If Earth gains mass because of this industry, wouldn't that affect earth's attraction to the sun? It seems to me that this would definitely make the Earth's and the Sun's attraction towards each other stronger. And if this is true, earth's speed around the Sun would need to increase to maintain a stable orbit, or else the Earth would need to move further away from the sun... Wouldn't it?
I've been using it for a while, and since I am patient, I put up with its problems. But, I honestly feel that this isn't production ready because of the amount of bugs I run into while using it.
Perhaps the status of the site should be moved to "beta" and a clear way for users to report bugs should be added so that the issues can be addressed.
Here are a few of the things that are happening to me:
- Scrolling up/down is not as responsive as scrolling in any other app on my phone (I would describe it as laggy, but I realize that the processing for this is most likely all on the client end).
- I actually love that there's a notifications section, but when you click on it and it brings up a list of notifications, the list is ordered by date in ascending order, not descending, so if you want to see the latest notification and you've had a lot them in the past, it won't show your unread notification even if you scroll all the way down. Instead, you need to scroll down, click "view all", which loads up the notifications in a new screen, then scroll all the way down again. Then, let's say this notification is on a comment you made (ie. comment reply), you have a link to your comment, but when you click on it, it only brings up the article, rather than your comment. So you are left to scroll through the hundreds of comments to find your own all over again. This is a long and frustrating process.
- When posting a comment, there isn't a preview option, so the odd time that I've forgot to add HTML to format my text, I didn't realize until I'm looking at the posted comment. But, if I may make a request, since writing HTML is not easy on a smart phone (with all of the clicking extra buttons to get to the special characters) could the comment field be a WYSIWYG field?
- While I'm making requests, could there be an option to turn off showing the slashdot polls at the top of the main screen? I usually don't care about these, so to have to scroll through them every time I'm looking at the stories, is annoying.
- Since this latest release I've been having some troubles where the top navigation back button is disappearing when going into articles. The only way to go back after this happens is to close the app and relaunch it, or click on a link that's at the footer of the page.
- As mentioned by other people, it's slow and either doesn't register any screen taps, or else it registers them when I'm not trying to tap on the screen but I'm trying to scroll.
- This is just cosmetic, but when pulling down the main screen to refresh, the graphics on this look weird. Things, such as the "Most Discussed" link, appear overtop the pull-down section.
So, as mentioned, there are a lot of bugs, and this isn't even an exhaustive list from reading through the other comments on here. But I feel that if these things get sorted out, it would be a superior experience to the regular site, so I do hope that the developers keep at it.
What if (and this is perhaps a big "if", depending on your personal beliefs), the religion that you believe in didn't start as an institution of man, but as an institution of God? In this scenario, I see the possibility of the two systems not conflicting with each other.
Full disclosure: I don't believe in a personal God either.
Thus creating the appearance of a business relationship with them (you called them), and giving them your cell phone number to add to their list of spammable valid phone numbers. You're not winning the game, you're handing them the football on your own 1 yard line and walking away.
As mentioned, normally I am given a fake number. Probably because I'm asking them for their home phone number, not the business phone. Only once did I get a valid phone number, in fact, and it was some random other person's number not affiliated with the telemarketers. But, just for argument's sake, let's say that they do in fact give me a business phone number, I when I call it I'm giving them my cell phone number, it seems to me that I'll be getting more telemarketer calls. This scenario actually isn't so bad for me either because, as I mentioned, I now look forward to playing the game.
Probably unsurprisingly, since I've started up this hobby, my calls from telemarketers have drastically decreased. It's almost as if they're black listing me!
For telemarketers, I make it a game of 'first person to hang up loses'. I try to keep them on the phone for as long as possible, never really committing to anything, asking for more information. Sometimes I ask for the exact information they know about me, such as my address, phone number, etc. Then I ask for that same information from them to "level the playing field". I often get a phone number from them, which I'll immediately call with my cell phone, to find out that it's a fake number. So, I call them out on it. It's all quite a lot of fun.
But I tell ya, now that it's a game and I'm winning, I actually look forward to telemarketer calls.
Robocalls, on the otherhand; I just hang up, there's no fun in that.
In a democratic nation, the only tyranny to worry about is the tyranny of the majority. The US's constitutional framework has safeguards against such actions, however (see Constitution Framework Safeguards Against Tyranny).
I see how disarming a population has been a good sign in the past of the beginnings of a tyrannical rule. I should point out, however, that all of these times were in countries with a different constitution (even the Civil War, which could be considered caused by a tyranny of the majority, was not under the current constitution). And as I just mentioned, America now has safeguards against such a tyranny by the majority.
From the arguments I'm reading, you would think that guns in the hands of the public are the only way a populace can keep its government from automatically turning sour. Yet, there are numerous countries who aren't oppressing their populace but who also have stricter gun regulations. And, I might add, these countries also have fewer deaths involving firearms... which is the whole point.
If this were to happen and the neighborhood choose to raise arms to stop the goons, I'm sure this neighborhood would just end up with a lot of arrested individuals. And those who used their guns would either get killed by more goons or have worse sentences than those who did not. And this is all assuming that the rest of the neighborhood would care enough about what is happening to their neighbors to risk their own necks, which I think is a stretch nowadays (but that's another issue).
How easily would a government get reelected if it started doing such things? Probably not well, so they'd be shooting themselves in the foot, unless a majority of the population felt the same way about mass kidnappings and murder of ethnic or religion minorities. But, if this is the case, then we have a majority of the population with their own arms to resist the minority who would resist the government. So, again, what's the point?
I see your point on occupation, but I fail to see how this is related to 'public owning guns==no oppressive government'. From what I can tell, your occupation point still holds even if the general public doesn't own guns.
Upholding the second amendment already has a problem, though. As I understand the common interpretation of the second amendment, the main reason behind the right to bear arms is for the public to defend against their own government. To realize this purpose, however, the arms between the government and the average resident must be roughly equal. When the government can roll in with tanks, drones, WMDs, and any number of other things that are much more deadly than guns, the 'I need a gun so that I can protect myself from the government' argument falls short. So unless we're going to make owning weapons such as these legal, then what 'government turning on the public' scenario does this amendment actually help prevent?
I believe that in reality most gun owners, who aren't hunters, are keeping their weapons not to protect themselves from the government, but instead to protect themselves from the 'bad guys'. Now that there are so many guns out there, they're so easy for the criminals to obtain, so this argument actually makes more sense (to me anyway).
By that logic, we should be encouraging other nations to develop nuclear weapons... after all, they would allow a weak country to protect itself from the strong, or from the many.
Apparently, scientists think that they don't die of old age.
I saw this first on a documentary, but here's a wikipedia article on it.
So, unless these guys are supposed to grow bigger-than-blue-whale big but they just do it super slowly, and these Anemone scientists were wrong about the 'forever' thing, but instead it's just 'a really, really long time', wouldn't this conflict with their theory?
Thanks for sticking up for me, by the way. I didn't, in fact, mean "in orbit" as the AC suggested I meant (thereby making me look like a bit of an idiot), I was talking about the same thing that you were trying to explain.
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On the minus side, the public will never really know for sure that the use of the mental health resources prevented mass killings (though for me personally, I have no doubt that they would).
People who get the help and don't kill anyone may not have killed anyone anyways. And then there's the fact that certain individuals who need the help won't get it, either by slipping through the cracks or by deliberately avoiding getting help, and the mass killings will likely continue for these people regardless. So then the public perception is that the mental health resources are not doing anything.
The interesting thing here is that if you didn't already know about the story of Lazarus from the Bible, you wouldn't be offended.
That's true that distance can be a factor, but if you're determined, you can find a compromise between driving part-way and cycling part-way.
I used to cycle 21km (13 miles) one-way to and from work everyday, but then at the end of the season I moved out to a place twice the distance. Because I loved cycling I looked into it and found that my city offers free "park-and-cycle" parking at various places throughout the city. So now I drive to one of these lots and cycle the rest of the way.
The amazing part is that it takes the same time as taking the bus (my winter mode of travel), but I don't have to pay the $150/month parking, nor do I have to pay the $110/month bus pass. It's less gas money than driving the whole way, less wear and tear on my vehicle than driving the whole way AND I'm getting exercise without taking any extra time out of my day (than taking the bus).
The date notation you use isn't the date notation everyone uses. Also, using the slash as a separator with the year at the end, can be ambiguous on its own, since it can mean dd/mm/yyyy or mm/dd/yyyy, depending on your region. Therefore, you shouldn't base the date of the holiday on date notation. Instead, it makes the most sense to match up larger quantifier in the date with the larger quantifier in the number, so month=3, day=14.
That said, it's just an excuse to make a day more fun. So, if it makes you happier to argue that it shouldn't happen, then it's fulfilling its purpose anyway!
When the number of jokes surpasses the number of non-joke posts, that's when you know it's a really good article.
Wouldn't this only matter if we had an exhaustive fossil record?
The thing that makes me sad is that it's only an evolutionary dead end if you kill the bugger before it's done any reproducing in its lifespan.
And... Is more likely to get killed by the human who feels it bite :)
You are absolutely right about how adding an 's' to a verb doesn't pluralize it. But, neither did I suggest the poster knew exactly what they were doing.
The concept of making the verb plural is still sound despite the fact that they went about it the wrong way. Perhaps he/she didn't know how to conjugate this verb to make it plural so they just added an 's'?
I still maintain that they deserve more patience and respect for the simple fact that they're trying.
Assuming the parent poster is French because of the reference to France, these pluralization mistakes aren't so far fetched for a Francophone. In French, verbs are conjugated to match whether or not the subject is plural. So, he/she has the word "they" so naturally because this is a plural word, to him/her, "suck" should be pluralized to match. They also make a similar mistake later with "laws" and "does".
Really, these mistakes show good his/her grammar in his/her native tongue.
You should give him/her a break, because learning a language is already one of the hardest things to do. Adding humiliation to the mix just makes it that much harder.
I do believe, sir, that you should win this contest.
Thanks for your explanation, it was really good. Also, your example really helped me put the differences between the earth's mass and an asteroid's mass into perspective!
An honest question here:
If Earth gains mass because of this industry, wouldn't that affect earth's attraction to the sun? It seems to me that this would definitely make the Earth's and the Sun's attraction towards each other stronger. And if this is true, earth's speed around the Sun would need to increase to maintain a stable orbit, or else the Earth would need to move further away from the sun... Wouldn't it?
I've been using it for a while, and since I am patient, I put up with its problems. But, I honestly feel that this isn't production ready because of the amount of bugs I run into while using it.
Perhaps the status of the site should be moved to "beta" and a clear way for users to report bugs should be added so that the issues can be addressed.
Here are a few of the things that are happening to me:
- Scrolling up/down is not as responsive as scrolling in any other app on my phone (I would describe it as laggy, but I realize that the processing for this is most likely all on the client end).
- I actually love that there's a notifications section, but when you click on it and it brings up a list of notifications, the list is ordered by date in ascending order, not descending, so if you want to see the latest notification and you've had a lot them in the past, it won't show your unread notification even if you scroll all the way down. Instead, you need to scroll down, click "view all", which loads up the notifications in a new screen, then scroll all the way down again. Then, let's say this notification is on a comment you made (ie. comment reply), you have a link to your comment, but when you click on it, it only brings up the article, rather than your comment. So you are left to scroll through the hundreds of comments to find your own all over again. This is a long and frustrating process.
- When posting a comment, there isn't a preview option, so the odd time that I've forgot to add HTML to format my text, I didn't realize until I'm looking at the posted comment. But, if I may make a request, since writing HTML is not easy on a smart phone (with all of the clicking extra buttons to get to the special characters) could the comment field be a WYSIWYG field?
- While I'm making requests, could there be an option to turn off showing the slashdot polls at the top of the main screen? I usually don't care about these, so to have to scroll through them every time I'm looking at the stories, is annoying.
- Since this latest release I've been having some troubles where the top navigation back button is disappearing when going into articles. The only way to go back after this happens is to close the app and relaunch it, or click on a link that's at the footer of the page.
- As mentioned by other people, it's slow and either doesn't register any screen taps, or else it registers them when I'm not trying to tap on the screen but I'm trying to scroll.
- This is just cosmetic, but when pulling down the main screen to refresh, the graphics on this look weird. Things, such as the "Most Discussed" link, appear overtop the pull-down section.
So, as mentioned, there are a lot of bugs, and this isn't even an exhaustive list from reading through the other comments on here. But I feel that if these things get sorted out, it would be a superior experience to the regular site, so I do hope that the developers keep at it.
I'm on an iPhone 5, and I use Safari to browse.
What if (and this is perhaps a big "if", depending on your personal beliefs), the religion that you believe in didn't start as an institution of man, but as an institution of God? In this scenario, I see the possibility of the two systems not conflicting with each other.
Full disclosure: I don't believe in a personal God either.
Thus creating the appearance of a business relationship with them (you called them), and giving them your cell phone number to add to their list of spammable valid phone numbers. You're not winning the game, you're handing them the football on your own 1 yard line and walking away.
As mentioned, normally I am given a fake number. Probably because I'm asking them for their home phone number, not the business phone. Only once did I get a valid phone number, in fact, and it was some random other person's number not affiliated with the telemarketers. But, just for argument's sake, let's say that they do in fact give me a business phone number, I when I call it I'm giving them my cell phone number, it seems to me that I'll be getting more telemarketer calls. This scenario actually isn't so bad for me either because, as I mentioned, I now look forward to playing the game.
Probably unsurprisingly, since I've started up this hobby, my calls from telemarketers have drastically decreased. It's almost as if they're black listing me!
For telemarketers, I make it a game of 'first person to hang up loses'. I try to keep them on the phone for as long as possible, never really committing to anything, asking for more information. Sometimes I ask for the exact information they know about me, such as my address, phone number, etc. Then I ask for that same information from them to "level the playing field". I often get a phone number from them, which I'll immediately call with my cell phone, to find out that it's a fake number. So, I call them out on it. It's all quite a lot of fun.
But I tell ya, now that it's a game and I'm winning, I actually look forward to telemarketer calls.
Robocalls, on the otherhand; I just hang up, there's no fun in that.
In a democratic nation, the only tyranny to worry about is the tyranny of the majority. The US's constitutional framework has safeguards against such actions, however (see Constitution Framework Safeguards Against Tyranny).
I see how disarming a population has been a good sign in the past of the beginnings of a tyrannical rule. I should point out, however, that all of these times were in countries with a different constitution (even the Civil War, which could be considered caused by a tyranny of the majority, was not under the current constitution). And as I just mentioned, America now has safeguards against such a tyranny by the majority.
From the arguments I'm reading, you would think that guns in the hands of the public are the only way a populace can keep its government from automatically turning sour. Yet, there are numerous countries who aren't oppressing their populace but who also have stricter gun regulations. And, I might add, these countries also have fewer deaths involving firearms... which is the whole point.
If this were to happen and the neighborhood choose to raise arms to stop the goons, I'm sure this neighborhood would just end up with a lot of arrested individuals. And those who used their guns would either get killed by more goons or have worse sentences than those who did not. And this is all assuming that the rest of the neighborhood would care enough about what is happening to their neighbors to risk their own necks, which I think is a stretch nowadays (but that's another issue).
How easily would a government get reelected if it started doing such things? Probably not well, so they'd be shooting themselves in the foot, unless a majority of the population felt the same way about mass kidnappings and murder of ethnic or religion minorities. But, if this is the case, then we have a majority of the population with their own arms to resist the minority who would resist the government. So, again, what's the point?
I see your point on occupation, but I fail to see how this is related to 'public owning guns==no oppressive government'. From what I can tell, your occupation point still holds even if the general public doesn't own guns.
Upholding the second amendment already has a problem, though. As I understand the common interpretation of the second amendment, the main reason behind the right to bear arms is for the public to defend against their own government. To realize this purpose, however, the arms between the government and the average resident must be roughly equal. When the government can roll in with tanks, drones, WMDs, and any number of other things that are much more deadly than guns, the 'I need a gun so that I can protect myself from the government' argument falls short. So unless we're going to make owning weapons such as these legal, then what 'government turning on the public' scenario does this amendment actually help prevent?
I believe that in reality most gun owners, who aren't hunters, are keeping their weapons not to protect themselves from the government, but instead to protect themselves from the 'bad guys'. Now that there are so many guns out there, they're so easy for the criminals to obtain, so this argument actually makes more sense (to me anyway).
By that logic, we should be encouraging other nations to develop nuclear weapons... after all, they would allow a weak country to protect itself from the strong, or from the many.
Apparently, scientists think that they don't die of old age.
I saw this first on a documentary, but here's a wikipedia article on it.
So, unless these guys are supposed to grow bigger-than-blue-whale big but they just do it super slowly, and these Anemone scientists were wrong about the 'forever' thing, but instead it's just 'a really, really long time', wouldn't this conflict with their theory?
Thanks for sticking up for me, by the way. I didn't, in fact, mean "in orbit" as the AC suggested I meant (thereby making me look like a bit of an idiot), I was talking about the same thing that you were trying to explain.
In space, you don't have to be as strong as you do on Earth to lift heavy things.