How 'bout it? For the first several years, Slashdot was All Linux All The Time. That's what drew it's original audience. It was one of the best resources on the net for keeping up with every little Linux development.
Enlightenment and Debian were cornerstones, and were the drive to move me onto Debian in 2000.
I don't suppose we can take this as an example of why we shouldn't ever pay someone whose job is singing or acting or something else that doesn't matter enough money to fuck something like this up?
You realize this dumb bitch bidding up the price of a seat like this is going to force NASA to outbid her, costing the taxpayers (who provide NASA with the money they're going to need to spend to outbid her,) millions of dollars just so she can go play astronaut for a few days. There's a simple solution of course, and that is arrest her, charge her with... whatever, I'm sure she's done drugs at some point... and freeze or confiscate her assets, and then we (the People of the United States,) won't have to try to outbid her.
OR, just fine her the difference between what NASA ends up paying and what they would have paid. Solved.
It's called capitalism. Russia is a hotbed of capitalism.
If you don't like it in the communist states of america, start your own space program.
Wait until you guys discover doodling... Doodling is my secret competitive advantage.
And unlike mind mapping, you don't need some fancy software to do it with, I doodle my ideas on paper napkins, pizza boxes, and unopened envelopes all the time.
MS has been one of the main patent aggressors here. It's only a matter of time before they're smacked down as well.
I doubt it. Remember when windows phone 7 came out, and the fanboys harped on about how good it would be.
Now it's phone 8 instead. Microsoft are irellevent in this field, and increasingly so in most other fields. They should have bought RIM 5 years ago and had a crack at saving both companies.
The reality is that you'll be seriously injured anyway if you are hit by a car while driving a bicycle, helmet or not.
By the way, in the Netherlands (where as you might now cycling is very common on the roads) the person driving the car is always liable in a car-bicycle collision. It doesn't matter if the cyclist was running a red light, it doesn't matter if it was on the wrong side of the road: if a car hits a bicycle, it's the car's fault. Always. This makes motorist very aware of cyclists, so despite of everyone cycling everywhere, accidents involving cars aren't actually that common at all.
What happens if a cyclist rides into a stationary car?
It will be pay-per-view. This was just to test the waters, and there was less outcry than a "trouser malfunction", which leads to there being less outcry for pay-per-view executions vs pay-per-view porn.
If I were an airport owner, I'd declare them an illegal organization and remove them as I'd remove all persons engaging in illegal activity from my premises.
They'd revoke your certificate to operate, airlines would abandon you, and you'd go out of business.
I'm convinced these full body scanners are less about security and more about ensuring wealth doesn't leave the country. When the shit hits the fan, people wanting to leave and take their fortunes converted into say diamonds, will not be able to take them with them.
For years you could only take up to $10,000 in cash/valuables to a foreign country. Diamonds were the only way to take more. If these scanners proliferate that will be the end of that.
Food for thought in our future police state.
If you've got that much money you can hire a jet. Or take them across a land border.
It's the same if CNN of Fox news broadcast this type of stuff during election day (which I assume is illegal in America)
You would be assuming wrong. CNN or FOX can have a 24 hour presentation where they openly advocate for any candidates they want and say just about anything they want. The protections regarding political speech in the USA are very strong.
Interesting.
Certainly in the UK, once polling opens that's it for anything political. No exit polls, no party political broadcasts, and very guarded reporting from journalists.
But then we don't have a (broadcast) media that openly campaigns for specific parties. We don't have political advertising either, at least not monetary advertising (parties get fair broadcast time based on how "major" they are)
The newspaper industry often takes sides (It's the Sun wot won it), but the broadcast industry is a haven of impartiality compared with the U.S. media (but then our TV in general is much less eye-clawing)
Saying Google is responsible for the videos its users upload is the same thing as saying ISP's are responsible for piracy, auto manufacturers are responsible for accidents, and gun manufacturers are responsible for gun crime.
I love how the double standard comes out whenever it is convenient to support state control and leftism over progress.
If google didn't censor any videos, you'd be right.
However google censors a lot. Whether it's film trailers, or music videos, or comments by MPs.
They censor these based on local laws, media pressure, and most often commercial reasons.
So really, what is it that bothers you so much about providing healthcare coverage?
I'll bite on this one. It's not the coverage, it's the way in which it was implemented. I know what I am paying for my healthcare at work, and I know what my company pays (it's a 25% / 75% split). So, take my plan (which, btw, is the most expensive one offered as my wife has asthma and we tend to need services more than others), and multiply that by 25 million (as my plan covers 2 people).
Anywhoodlidoodle, don't worry sir(or ma'am), you need not fear paying for check-ups, immunizations, and whatnot. You can simply wait and pay tons more for what could have been easily preventable emergency care. Just like Rand would have wanted.
Actually, ol' Ayn would have preferred they die in the street, assuming it's not a street she frequents.
No, I'm not saying PETA is right - I'm just saying that for every time PETA has lied to me, so has a corrupt politician.
PETA is a terrorist organisation, members of whom have made credible death threats to close friends of mine because PETA disagreed with the morality of the animal research that my friends where doing.
I do hold PETA activists in far lower esteem than I do your average corrupt politician, because the majority of them are dangerous lunatics.
Slashdot Mirror
How 'bout it? For the first several years, Slashdot was All Linux All The Time. That's what drew it's original audience. It was one of the best resources on the net for keeping up with every little Linux development.
Enlightenment and Debian were cornerstones, and were the drive to move me onto Debian in 2000.
I don't suppose we can take this as an example of why we shouldn't ever pay someone whose job is singing or acting or something else that doesn't matter enough money to fuck something like this up?
You realize this dumb bitch bidding up the price of a seat like this is going to force NASA to outbid her, costing the taxpayers (who provide NASA with the money they're going to need to spend to outbid her,) millions of dollars just so she can go play astronaut for a few days. There's a simple solution of course, and that is arrest her, charge her with... whatever, I'm sure she's done drugs at some point... and freeze or confiscate her assets, and then we (the People of the United States,) won't have to try to outbid her.
OR, just fine her the difference between what NASA ends up paying and what they would have paid. Solved.
It's called capitalism. Russia is a hotbed of capitalism.
If you don't like it in the communist states of america, start your own space program.
Slashdot discovers mind maps. News at 11.
Wait until you guys discover doodling... Doodling is my secret competitive advantage.
And unlike mind mapping, you don't need some fancy software to do it with, I doodle my ideas on paper napkins, pizza boxes, and unopened envelopes all the time.
What's wrong with opened envelopes?
MS has been one of the main patent aggressors here. It's only a matter of time before they're smacked down as well.
I doubt it. Remember when windows phone 7 came out, and the fanboys harped on about how good it would be.
Now it's phone 8 instead. Microsoft are irellevent in this field, and increasingly so in most other fields. They should have bought RIM 5 years ago and had a crack at saving both companies.
um... if security is so lax, why aren't all those terrorists out there taking advantage of these security lapses? something doesn't add up here.
Because there aren't thy many people willing to attack nuclear reactors for a cause, no matter what the media tells you
The reality is that you'll be seriously injured anyway if you are hit by a car while driving a bicycle, helmet or not.
By the way, in the Netherlands (where as you might now cycling is very common on the roads) the person driving the car is always liable in a car-bicycle collision. It doesn't matter if the cyclist was running a red light, it doesn't matter if it was on the wrong side of the road: if a car hits a bicycle, it's the car's fault. Always. This makes motorist very aware of cyclists, so despite of everyone cycling everywhere, accidents involving cars aren't actually that common at all.
What happens if a cyclist rides into a stationary car?
How long before executions are shown live?
It will be pay-per-view. This was just to test the waters, and there was less outcry than a "trouser malfunction", which leads to there being less outcry for pay-per-view executions vs pay-per-view porn.
Analogies are only allowed on slashdot if they involve a car
We ads on TV for 200gbit internet here in Sweden
No, you don't. You might have adverts for 200mbit internet, but not 200gbit.
Drive to mexico, fly from there.
If I were an airport owner, I'd declare them an illegal organization and remove them as I'd remove all persons engaging in illegal activity from my premises.
They'd revoke your certificate to operate, airlines would abandon you, and you'd go out of business.
... that should have no place on slashdot.
There are lots of things that have no place on slashdot.
Increasingly, I realize I refer to myself.
No! If Anonymous Coward leaves, who'll entertain us with decent trolls?
the constitution always trumps federal law in the view of the Supreme Court, should there be discrepancies.
Aren't you being a little naive?
I'm convinced these full body scanners are less about security and more about ensuring wealth doesn't leave the country. When the shit hits the fan, people wanting to leave and take their fortunes converted into say diamonds, will not be able to take them with them.
For years you could only take up to $10,000 in cash/valuables to a foreign country. Diamonds were the only way to take more. If these scanners proliferate that will be the end of that.
Food for thought in our future police state.
If you've got that much money you can hire a jet. Or take them across a land border.
It's the same if CNN of Fox news broadcast this type of stuff during election day (which I assume is illegal in America)
You would be assuming wrong. CNN or FOX can have a 24 hour presentation where they openly advocate for any candidates they want and say just about anything they want. The protections regarding political speech in the USA are very strong.
Interesting.
Certainly in the UK, once polling opens that's it for anything political. No exit polls, no party political broadcasts, and very guarded reporting from journalists.
But then we don't have a (broadcast) media that openly campaigns for specific parties. We don't have political advertising either, at least not monetary advertising (parties get fair broadcast time based on how "major" they are)
The newspaper industry often takes sides (It's the Sun wot won it), but the broadcast industry is a haven of impartiality compared with the U.S. media (but then our TV in general is much less eye-clawing)
Saying Google is responsible for the videos its users upload is the same thing as saying ISP's are responsible for piracy, auto manufacturers are responsible for accidents, and gun manufacturers are responsible for gun crime.
I love how the double standard comes out whenever it is convenient to support state control and leftism over progress.
If google didn't censor any videos, you'd be right.
However google censors a lot. Whether it's film trailers, or music videos, or comments by MPs.
They censor these based on local laws, media pressure, and most often commercial reasons.
Don't you mean Google users?
Youtube isn't a common carrier, it censors a lot of stuff.
It's the same if CNN of Fox news broadcast this type of stuff during election day (which I assume is illegal in America)
So really, what is it that bothers you so much about providing healthcare coverage?
I'll bite on this one. It's not the coverage, it's the way in which it was implemented. I know what I am paying for my healthcare at work, and I know what my company pays (it's a 25% / 75% split). So, take my plan (which, btw, is the most expensive one offered as my wife has asthma and we tend to need services more than others), and multiply that by 25 million (as my plan covers 2 people).
So what happens if you lose your job?
Anywhoodlidoodle, don't worry sir(or ma'am), you need not fear paying for check-ups, immunizations, and whatnot. You can simply wait and pay tons more for what could have been easily preventable emergency care. Just like Rand would have wanted.
Actually, ol' Ayn would have preferred they die in the street, assuming it's not a street she frequents.
Who pays to clear the bodies away?
If we ever lose a war and the occupying force actually giives a damn about the convention
The convention doesn't cover "unlawful combatants", they'll claim to obey the convention, but claim it doesn't apply to you.
I've had mine for 10 years - http://www.geekculture.com/geekculturestore/webstore/firstpost.html
Which way does the Pisa tower lean?
Sideways. Apart from when Evil Superman fixes it.
My work requires av to be installed. No mention that it's files can't be chmod 000ed though :)
Cutlery provided on flights these days is plastic... try again.
What planes do you fly on? Sure you don't get a steak knife, but cutlery on the plane and in the airport is metal.
No, I'm not saying PETA is right - I'm just saying that for every time PETA has lied to me, so has a corrupt politician.
PETA is a terrorist organisation, members of whom have made credible death threats to close friends of mine because PETA disagreed with the morality of the animal research that my friends where doing.
I do hold PETA activists in far lower esteem than I do your average corrupt politician, because the majority of them are dangerous lunatics.
Unlike politicians that start wars?