And I can't believe how many slashdotters are so disconnected from reality that they can't acknowledge that different cultures have inherent strengths, weaknesses, corruptions, and virtues.
What has that got to do with his post? He merely pointed out the folly of believing an A/C post claiming that it's "a comment going around from someone in the know".
Other than the boy-bonking thing, I suspect they're trying to preemptively avoid the embarrassment of having someone ask them for political asylum after leaking some government's secrets.
I believe this move will only further damage the Vatican's reputation.
Anyone who hasn't already kicked them to the curb, after what we know about endemic child molestation and the hierarchy's attempts to cover it up and limit liability, isn't going to be fazed in the least by this.
these 'discovery' images from New Horizons look great! [..] We're very excited to see Pluto and Charon as separate objects for the first time from New Horizons.
Not everone gets a boner from the same things that give an astronomer one.
I'm on GNOME 2 (Ubuntu 10.x), but I still use Sawfish and Balsa, and I used Galeon until a few years ago when Firefox's plugins finally caught it up (and passed it) in terms of desirable features.
I've upgraded Ubuntu to 12.x LTS on two laptops. One one I installed Mate and got things more or less working like I've had for a decade or more, though I'm not 100% happy with it. On the other the upgrade hosed itself, and I'm going to have to do a complete reinstall. For these reasons I haven't upgraded my main desktop machines at home and work, much as I'd like to get access to Steam.
Well for one thing what the article is about, the fact that the desktop is extensible with Javascript. We now have something for the GUI that can play a similar roleto shell scripts for the command line.
That was in GNOME 1's default WM, Sawfish.
One reason I dread system upgrades is that every change to GNOME makes it harder to get my old hypercustomized desktop back.
The crazy comes as a package deal, you don't get to pick and chose from God's Law
This is going to cause a lot of societal stress over the next few decades.
If your religion's foundational documents contain a story that's in conflict with what we know about biology and cosmology, and you don't want to reject evidence-based knowledge in favor of religious tradition, you can dismiss the story as poetry intended to credit it all to God.
But if your religion's foundational documents state flat out that homosexuality is a 'sin', and science shows that it's a biological outcome no different from (say) being left handed, that's a lot harder to dismiss. Plus, clinging to it makes you condemn a whole class of people to hell for their biology.
From a sociological perspective, this is going to be very interesting to watch.
Who demands tolerance for those who fight tolerance and propagate intolerance, has to be absolutely clueless about what tolerance really is, and what it is good for.
And has to be good at parsing complex sentences in order to understand your point.
What he's apparently observing, but not comprehending, is that the extremes of left and right "wrap around" and meet on the far side, at least on some issues.
There's the problem. The semi-sensible plan was eviscerated to get it past the Republicans and Blue Dogs in the relevant committees... who turned around and voted against it even after wringing all the concessions.
The problem, of course, is that a good system would handicap all the scalpers profiting off your misery right now. And when the scalpers trade shares on Wall Street, cutting them out of the loop isn't allowed.
In the USA there is a common view that personal and public health and wellbeing are a personal problem, but the financial wellbeing of rich people and corporations is something the government must protect.
You know, that doesn't sound like socialism at all.
In US political dialogue, "socialism" is just a vague term used to smear people or plans that you don't like. I suspect only a tiny minority of Americans could give a reasonably accurate definition.
Oddly, it has moved to fill the niches formerly occupied by both "communism" and "fascism".
Hence the state of their economy with several members of the EU on the brink of bankruptcy.
That's primarily because they don't have their own currency, and can't operate on debt the way normal countries do.
I read someone's analysis which said that the eurozone came about due to the reunification of Germany, and the resulting need to create a sense of community so that Poland and France wouldn't be nervous about being invaded again. So there was a bandwagon attempt to get everyone on board. The problem is that the system requires participating countries to operate in the black, but the aforesaid bandwagon brought in countries that have *never* operated in the black. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
And BTW, a number of eurozone countries have good healthcare and are *not* on the brink of bankruptcy. We need to set aside all the political scaremongering so that the USA can develop a sensible healthcare policy.
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This wikipedia article agrees with Gladwell to certain extent
That's not exactly the gold standard for reality checks.
makes lame golf analogy when car analogy would've been superior.
Isn''t that just a culture thing?
And I can't believe how many slashdotters are so disconnected from reality that they can't acknowledge that different cultures have inherent strengths, weaknesses, corruptions, and virtues.
What has that got to do with his post? He merely pointed out the folly of believing an A/C post claiming that it's "a comment going around from someone in the know".
If they can send you an email they can move their coins.
Just leave them on my answering machine, please.
It's so dull when a public figure resigns for reasons other than "to spend more time with my family".
Now it won't cost you so much to help them smuggle their vast fortune out of the country.
Other than the boy-bonking thing, I suspect they're trying to preemptively avoid the embarrassment of having someone ask them for political asylum after leaking some government's secrets.
I believe this move will only further damage the Vatican's reputation.
Anyone who hasn't already kicked them to the curb, after what we know about endemic child molestation and the hierarchy's attempts to cover it up and limit liability, isn't going to be fazed in the least by this.
these 'discovery' images from New Horizons look great! [..] We're very excited to see Pluto and Charon as separate objects for the first time from New Horizons.
Not everone gets a boner from the same things that give an astronomer one.
Could part of this be the cost of college here in the States?
I think the percentage of college students who major in a technical field such as CS or engineering has been decreasing.
I'm on GNOME 2 (Ubuntu 10.x), but I still use Sawfish and Balsa, and I used Galeon until a few years ago when Firefox's plugins finally caught it up (and passed it) in terms of desirable features.
I've upgraded Ubuntu to 12.x LTS on two laptops. One one I installed Mate and got things more or less working like I've had for a decade or more, though I'm not 100% happy with it. On the other the upgrade hosed itself, and I'm going to have to do a complete reinstall. For these reasons I haven't upgraded my main desktop machines at home and work, much as I'd like to get access to Steam.
Well for one thing what the article is about, the fact that the desktop is extensible with Javascript. We now have something for the GUI that can play a similar roleto shell scripts for the command line.
That was in GNOME 1's default WM, Sawfish.
One reason I dread system upgrades is that every change to GNOME makes it harder to get my old hypercustomized desktop back.
Well personally I ran screaming in horror after the first two hours of flailing around trying to regain something approaching my old workflow.
So you're one of those old fashioned types who thinks computers are supposed to be useful for something?
GNOME 3 is a disaster. Hell, KDE4 was too for that matter
And Windows 8.
I think our planet is passing through a cloud of gas or region of space that makes developers want to crank up the stupid in user interfaces.
The crazy comes as a package deal, you don't get to pick and chose from God's Law
This is going to cause a lot of societal stress over the next few decades.
If your religion's foundational documents contain a story that's in conflict with what we know about biology and cosmology, and you don't want to reject evidence-based knowledge in favor of religious tradition, you can dismiss the story as poetry intended to credit it all to God.
But if your religion's foundational documents state flat out that homosexuality is a 'sin', and science shows that it's a biological outcome no different from (say) being left handed, that's a lot harder to dismiss. Plus, clinging to it makes you condemn a whole class of people to hell for their biology.
From a sociological perspective, this is going to be very interesting to watch.
Mobile Alabama is already adjacent to the sea.
Plus it's mobile, so it can just move inland if the sea rises.
That toxic waste is not gone if the sea washes over it. it merely disperses in the food chain.
See, he's just an altruist wanting to share his with everyone else.
Ender's Game will be remembered as a great book.
No, a good short story. The book-length version was boring.
Who demands tolerance for those who fight tolerance and propagate intolerance, has to be absolutely clueless about what tolerance really is, and what it is good for.
And has to be good at parsing complex sentences in order to understand your point.
What he's apparently observing, but not comprehending, is that the extremes of left and right "wrap around" and meet on the far side, at least on some issues.
They didn't send it to Greenland to test it, they just got their feet and meters mixed up again.
Why would a Democrat postpone ObamaCare?
To implement a sensible single payer system?
There's the problem. The semi-sensible plan was eviscerated to get it past the Republicans and Blue Dogs in the relevant committees... who turned around and voted against it even after wringing all the concessions.
The problem, of course, is that a good system would handicap all the scalpers profiting off your misery right now. And when the scalpers trade shares on Wall Street, cutting them out of the loop isn't allowed.
In the USA there is a common view that personal and public health and wellbeing are a personal problem, but the financial wellbeing of rich people and corporations is something the government must protect.
You know, that doesn't sound like socialism at all.
In US political dialogue, "socialism" is just a vague term used to smear people or plans that you don't like. I suspect only a tiny minority of Americans could give a reasonably accurate definition.
Oddly, it has moved to fill the niches formerly occupied by both "communism" and "fascism".
Hence the state of their economy with several members of the EU on the brink of bankruptcy.
That's primarily because they don't have their own currency, and can't operate on debt the way normal countries do.
I read someone's analysis which said that the eurozone came about due to the reunification of Germany, and the resulting need to create a sense of community so that Poland and France wouldn't be nervous about being invaded again. So there was a bandwagon attempt to get everyone on board. The problem is that the system requires participating countries to operate in the black, but the aforesaid bandwagon brought in countries that have *never* operated in the black. And now the chickens are coming home to roost.
And BTW, a number of eurozone countries have good healthcare and are *not* on the brink of bankruptcy. We need to set aside all the political scaremongering so that the USA can develop a sensible healthcare policy.
All my mod points. All of them.
It's time for the GP to retire...