If the leader of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel says "build me a tunnel", do you have to option of saying "no sir, that stuff is BAD for people"?
I know, it's a mistake to second-guess a jury verdict that I know almost nothing about, but superficially, 14 years in prison for choosing the "I'll stay alive, thank you," option seems like a lot. It's almost enough to make me wonder how effective the US drug enforcement laws and policies are.
Almost. But not quite. When it's time, I'll just head back to the voting booth and vote the way the straight-talking folks in my political party have told me is best. Thank you, "vote by party" option!
You've got this backwards. The point is that humans are basically just like other mammals, with very slight differences that are due to having relatively enormous brains.
There are different courts... I imagine there might be different instructions for juries in Oregon's Federal courts than in the state/county courts. Are you saying the jury instructions in Oregon state courts directly contradict the Oregon constitution? (Any examples of this?)
Why Lightsquared thinks this scheme will work, and they won't be vilified in the press once GPS problems crop up, is something for the psychologists and sociologists to ponder.
Perhaps the bankers and economists would understand their motivation better than the psychologists and sociologists, then.
If you're willing to pay $20 for an "all you can eat" of a single meal, you're already in the super-premium billing range. That's far more expensive than what you would pay to eat the equivalent at home.
The Slashdot crowd, much like "the media", is eager to predict the future based on a inconclusive data. THAT is why "we" have decided Google+ was unsuccessful.
Similar analysis resulted in predictions of the death of Apple and the dominance of AMD in the processor market.
As an HP employee, I guess I should er, thanks I guess?
No seriously, why does "New HP" deserve to die? We still do some pretty cool things.
Crippling inkjets and holding the ink to ransom is not cool dude. Die, you evil turkeys! Die!!!
But, in defense of New HP, isn't that the same as Old HP?
And it might be annoying, but it's not that important. There are lots of competitors, and the (especially consumer) printing business is not as important as it was 10 years ago.
...the remaining 40% are people who don't mind that Google has created a platform that exchanges privacy for profit as a matter of design and policy, but prefer a different structure than Facebook offers.
Wait, which platform? Gmail? Google Calendar? Docs? G+? Latitude?
As it stands, it's just another attempt at Facebook; the TOS are odious, pretty much following in Facebook's footsteps.
It looks to me like Google trying to make a more generally appealing, manageable follow-on to the Google social media offering that preceeded Facebook.
Google+ users are most likely talking to each other, if they're talking at all.
This is true by definition, isn't it? Google+ was designed to facilitate communication among Google+ members, right?
The moment Google has to make licensing deals on patents, Android will cease to be free... and by that, I don't mean to companies, but to small developers just wanting to use it on homebrew devices. It'll become the Unix of the mobile OS world. Open source, but huge license fees to use so as to pay for the lawyers to protect it.
Furthermore, deals likethese have very similar effects to patent licensing for Google, though they seem potentially more protective of the small developers.
Parent is insightfully addressing the misleading question in the summary:
"should employees of a public university where the President's annual compensation exceeds $1 million receive a full state-funded pension for educating 16,000+ out-of-state students?"
This appears to be a deliberate attempt to undermine the idea of providing a pension system to state employees without providing any evidence that those employees haven't earned that pension.
This rhetorical attempt to represent the compensation of a university *president* as justification for reduce compensation for the majority of university employees is logically fallacious, and seems like an attack on those employees simply because they work for a state or a state education system..
The problem is on Slashdot the only weirdo who actually RTFA was Fnord666.
My hypothesis: You could post a dupe of any Slashdot story with an appropriately tweaked summary, and produce similar kneejerk response comments in the opposite direction of the first story.
Slashdot Mirror
If the leader of Mexico's most powerful drug cartel says "build me a tunnel", do you have to option of saying "no sir, that stuff is BAD for people"?
I know, it's a mistake to second-guess a jury verdict that I know almost nothing about, but superficially, 14 years in prison for choosing the "I'll stay alive, thank you," option seems like a lot. It's almost enough to make me wonder how effective the US drug enforcement laws and policies are.
Almost. But not quite. When it's time, I'll just head back to the voting booth and vote the way the straight-talking folks in my political party have told me is best. Thank you, "vote by party" option!
You've got this backwards. The point is that humans are basically just like other mammals, with very slight differences that are due to having relatively enormous brains.
There are different courts... I imagine there might be different instructions for juries in Oregon's Federal courts than in the state/county courts. Are you saying the jury instructions in Oregon state courts directly contradict the Oregon constitution? (Any examples of this?)
Why Lightsquared thinks this scheme will work, and they won't be vilified in the press once GPS problems crop up, is something for the psychologists and sociologists to ponder.
Perhaps the bankers and economists would understand their motivation better than the psychologists and sociologists, then.
... then of course why I even waste my breath is beyond me.
I'm guessing that the Slashdot post isn't a big breath-user, but your fingers probably need the exercise, anyway.
In any case, your post made me smile, so I think it was worthwhile.
If you're willing to pay $20 for an "all you can eat" of a single meal, you're already in the super-premium billing range. That's far more expensive than what you would pay to eat the equivalent at home.
Well played. I wish you well with your greasy new 1000 dollars.
The Slashdot crowd, much like "the media", is eager to predict the future based on a inconclusive data. THAT is why "we" have decided Google+ was unsuccessful.
Similar analysis resulted in predictions of the death of Apple and the dominance of AMD in the processor market.
I thought with offshoring everything you wouldn't run into these problems.
"Offshoring" doesn't make this a problem for people who buy hard drives Using a single source/vendor makes this a problem.
Yeah, man. I used to play 90125 when I had trouble sleeping.
Science has mere "practical" or "real world" value. The unmeasurable cosmic power of Spaghetti, on the other hand, is theologically tenable.
As an HP employee, I guess I should er, thanks I guess?
No seriously, why does "New HP" deserve to die? We still do some pretty cool things.
Crippling inkjets and holding the ink to ransom is not cool dude. Die, you evil turkeys! Die!!!
But, in defense of New HP, isn't that the same as Old HP?
And it might be annoying, but it's not that important. There are lots of competitors, and the (especially consumer) printing business is not as important as it was 10 years ago.
In parts of North America, this need is addressed (in summertime, anyway) by a plant known as "bumwad maple" or more formally, striped maple.
Rest of the year, people would need to get more creative.
...the remaining 40% are people who don't mind that Google has created a platform that exchanges privacy for profit as a matter of design and policy, but prefer a different structure than Facebook offers.
Wait, which platform? Gmail? Google Calendar? Docs? G+? Latitude?
As it stands, it's just another attempt at Facebook; the TOS are odious, pretty much following in Facebook's footsteps.
It looks to me like Google trying to make a more generally appealing, manageable follow-on to the Google social media offering that preceeded Facebook.
Google+ users are most likely talking to each other, if they're talking at all.
This is true by definition, isn't it? Google+ was designed to facilitate communication among Google+ members, right?
If someone hires a lawyer to do something mean, the root cause of the problem is NOT the lawyer.
they don't sell it commercially
But... that's likely to change imminently.
The moment Google has to make licensing deals on patents, Android will cease to be free... and by that, I don't mean to companies, but to small developers just wanting to use it on homebrew devices. It'll become the Unix of the mobile OS world. Open source, but huge license fees to use so as to pay for the lawyers to protect it.
Furthermore, deals like these have very similar effects to patent licensing for Google, though they seem potentially more protective of the small developers.
Parent is insightfully addressing the misleading question in the summary:
"should employees of a public university where the President's annual compensation exceeds $1 million receive a full state-funded pension for educating 16,000+ out-of-state students?"
This appears to be a deliberate attempt to undermine the idea of providing a pension system to state employees without providing any evidence that those employees haven't earned that pension.
This rhetorical attempt to represent the compensation of a university *president* as justification for reduce compensation for the majority of university employees is logically fallacious, and seems like an attack on those employees simply because they work for a state or a state education system..
I expect better. Yes, even from Slashdot.
Some people want or need social networking for their work.
Dear Anonymous, I think DeadCatX2's is implying a recommendation for the United States (the consumer), not Mexico (the producer). Don't you think so?
Mmmm... Yes. Facebook is definitely the service for you're looking for. <Jedi hand wave> There is no Google+.
The people at risk of developing cancer from airport scanners are the TSA employees. Just to be clear.
...the Earth's average temperature has increased from 288.0K to 288.8 over the last 150 years.
Citation, please.
The problem is on Slashdot the only weirdo who actually RTFA was Fnord666.
My hypothesis: You could post a dupe of any Slashdot story with an appropriately tweaked summary, and produce similar kneejerk response comments in the opposite direction of the first story.
No, the legislature is chosen by the people of the state by means of voting.
Note also that laws passed in the state can be overturned by new laws passed in the state.
It's not the cost of the tax. It's the complexity of collecting that the on-line retailers don't want. Handling shipping charges is simple.