Actually, you've just hit another huge reason to frown on outsourcing transcription: fluency. What happens if someone in Pakistan or China isn't perfectly fluent in American medical terminology? (I'm leaving India out, since so much of their population speaks English.) As you pointed out, one typo could potentially kill a person.
Just curious, where do you propose that will leave us as a citizen of the planet?
Um, we're not citizens of the planet, we're citizens of the United States. And as long as there's no world government, there's no such thing as a citizen of the planet.
Everyone will fear us and do what we say? Do we want to bully everyone just because we believe we're right, and everyone else is 3rd world? Personally I'd rather have people "play nice" with us out of respect and admiration, rather than fear.
Ideally, I think you're right. However, people being as they are, "it is better to be feared than loved."
Could it be that Christians lifted the story of Hercules and retold it to fit their planned dogma.
You're probably right. Afterall, crucifiction and being burned alive are basically the same thing. Also, I'm sure it's possible to clean out horse stalls by reciting the Sermon on the Mount.
But when the first column of every table comes out in reverse-video when displayed in Word, and Word can't fix it, then there's something very wrong with what OO.o is doing.
Well, since the table isn't being displayed properly in Word, it sounds like there's something very wrong with what MSO is doing. Something like:
editor=check_editor() case editor in OO) display_tables_wrong();; MSO) work_properly();; esac
Not that Microsoft has ever been shown to use such underhanded tactics, I know.
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The couch potatoes go on to lead boring everyday lives where they just tread water.
Or get elected to the US Senate, followed by eight years as Vice President of the US. Nowhere near as exciting as being a teacher, I'm sure, but it ain't exactly treading water, either.
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Umm, you do realize He rose again on the third day, right? And there's nothing saying He didn't wander around the world, teaching others His lessons, after He had done so. He did say, afterall, He had "other sheep" that He would tend to. The challenge is, are the teachings that were passed down and supposedly attributed to Him contracdictory with other things He said in the Gospels? Most of the time, they are, which means it was probably someone else saying them and trying to cash in on His fame.
As for God following the rules of logic, I believe St. Paul answered this when he wrote that God's wisdom confounds the wise (that is, His reasoning is beyond our own, He does things for his own reasons and we may not understand them). Besides, there's more to being omnipotent than just doing whatever you want, when you want. God might have the ability to destroy the universe, but doing so would run counter to His character, for example.
Naa, Jesus would just walk out onto a lake and taunt Hercules until he had a heart attack. Or maybe turn all the water in Hercules' blood into wine, making him die from alcohol poisoning (though he was a Greek, so probably had a pretty high tolerance for wine).
It would have been a great occasion to show Jesus as an human with great ideas and a good philosophy, but this time, Mel failed to show this.
"The Passion of the Christ" was about the Passion of the Christ. Not His teachings, not His philosophy. It was strictly about His Passion. The last 12 hours of His life, during which He was brutalized and executed. As for whether anyone could survive the level of damage done to Jesus during his flogging, I don't know if a normal human could have done so. But Jesus willed it that He would survive the flogging, so that He would die on the cross as the prophets had foretold. Afterall, when you're God in the flesh, you can survive pretty much anything.
Say it with me, folks: Slashdot breaks up long lines, rendering most plaintext links more trouble than they're worth. And enclosing links in anchors is easy. Why, scientists have shown that even a monkey can enclose a link in anchors. Are you stupider than a monkey?
Having said that, I can't imagine that people will access web sites in fifty years (if there's even anything that still exists that's remotely analagous to a website by then) by typing text into an address bar.
Well, in all likelihood, they'll be too busy trying to survive day by day, while keeping on the run from the zombie horde that wants to eat their flesh.
Actually, if you buy something greater than X value (don't remember what X is), you have to declare it and pay customs fees on it.
Your best bet: check out the duty free shops at JFK airport. See if any of them sell laptops. If so, buying one there will save the sales tax, and the customs fees.
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
Don't misunderstand, I don't think he deserved to be screwed with. But it's not surprising that he was. Most people working in customer service, for some reason, think when you shout obscenities at them, you're actually insulting them and not the company for whom they work. I wish people on the other end of the phone would grow some thicker skin and learn how to say "I'm sorry you feel that way, but there's nothing I can do, it's policy."
I did some checking around, and it turns out we're both wrong. While there is some dispute, the most likely origin of '$' is from a shorthand way of writing 'pesos', 'ps' (the 's' should be superscript). As time went on, it evolved into '$'.
So, I retract my previous statement. And since '$' isn't derived from 'US', there's nothing wrong with other countries using that symbol for their currency, or with denoting the country of origin. I apologize for my wrong statements. I still think the editors should've switched which currency was being referrenced in the blurb, since this is a mainly US site, and it's to be expected that all currencies, unless stated, are in US dollars.
Yeah, but the blurb is on an American site, you'd think the editors would convert the amounts into US dollars and leave it at that.
Nevermind that other countries shouldn't be using "$" for their currency to start with (the origin of that symbol was writing a "U" over an "S", doesn't really make sense for other countries to us it, huh?)
pissed off everyone at SBC. I cursed everyone with every foul word you could ever dream up, and I didn't talk to the flunkies, everytime I called I demanded to talk to a supervisor and I kept going up the ladder, pissing on shoes all the way up..
Hmm, hard to imagine why the starting jacking with your bill, then.
You're quite right. When I worked at Oldsmobile the stock advice for getting ahead was to wreck a company car.
The company inadvertently encouraged its employees to wreck the cars it had assigned them, thereby increasing costs and reducing profits? Well, that certainly explains things.
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I can't remember when I ate anything that was as good as the ads.
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Yeah, well, that was one of her other problems. ;)
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There should be a subcategory of "Porn" under each and every one of those.
You are a sick, sick man.
Actually, you've just hit another huge reason to frown on outsourcing transcription: fluency. What happens if someone in Pakistan or China isn't perfectly fluent in American medical terminology? (I'm leaving India out, since so much of their population speaks English.) As you pointed out, one typo could potentially kill a person.
In Europe this would have never ever happened: our laws are very strong regarding to personal data and privacy.
Interesting. Do you also have strong laws against murder, rape, and arson? Guess those never happen, either.
Linux (and Pizza) is like a Blowjob, no matter how bad it is, its still pretty good!
You've apparently never gotten a blowjob from my ex-girlfriend.
Just curious, where do you propose that will leave us as a citizen of the planet?
Um, we're not citizens of the planet, we're citizens of the United States. And as long as there's no world government, there's no such thing as a citizen of the planet.
Everyone will fear us and do what we say? Do we want to bully everyone just because we believe we're right, and everyone else is 3rd world? Personally I'd rather have people "play nice" with us out of respect and admiration, rather than fear.
Ideally, I think you're right. However, people being as they are, "it is better to be feared than loved."
You people need to learn what "passion" means. In this context, it has nothing to do with emotion.
Could it be that Christians lifted the story of Hercules and retold it to fit their planned dogma.
You're probably right. Afterall, crucifiction and being burned alive are basically the same thing. Also, I'm sure it's possible to clean out horse stalls by reciting the Sermon on the Mount.
But when the first column of every table comes out in reverse-video when displayed in Word, and Word can't fix it, then there's something very wrong with what OO.o is doing.
Well, since the table isn't being displayed properly in Word, it sounds like there's something very wrong with what MSO is doing. Something like:
editor=check_editor()
case editor in
OO) display_tables_wrong();;
MSO) work_properly();;
esac
Not that Microsoft has ever been shown to use such underhanded tactics, I know.
The couch potatoes go on to lead boring everyday lives where they just tread water.
Or get elected to the US Senate, followed by eight years as Vice President of the US. Nowhere near as exciting as being a teacher, I'm sure, but it ain't exactly treading water, either.
Yet another person stupider than a monkey. (For an explanation, see this post.)
Most. Redundant. Ever.
The link is right in the middle of the review, fer cryin' out loud.
So much about dying on the cross ...
Umm, you do realize He rose again on the third day, right? And there's nothing saying He didn't wander around the world, teaching others His lessons, after He had done so. He did say, afterall, He had "other sheep" that He would tend to. The challenge is, are the teachings that were passed down and supposedly attributed to Him contracdictory with other things He said in the Gospels? Most of the time, they are, which means it was probably someone else saying them and trying to cash in on His fame.
As for God following the rules of logic, I believe St. Paul answered this when he wrote that God's wisdom confounds the wise (that is, His reasoning is beyond our own, He does things for his own reasons and we may not understand them). Besides, there's more to being omnipotent than just doing whatever you want, when you want. God might have the ability to destroy the universe, but doing so would run counter to His character, for example.
Hercules could probably beat Jesus in a fight
Naa, Jesus would just walk out onto a lake and taunt Hercules until he had a heart attack. Or maybe turn all the water in Hercules' blood into wine, making him die from alcohol poisoning (though he was a Greek, so probably had a pretty high tolerance for wine).
It would have been a great occasion to show Jesus as an human with great ideas and a good philosophy, but this time, Mel failed to show this.
"The Passion of the Christ" was about the Passion of the Christ. Not His teachings, not His philosophy. It was strictly about His Passion. The last 12 hours of His life, during which He was brutalized and executed. As for whether anyone could survive the level of damage done to Jesus during his flogging, I don't know if a normal human could have done so. But Jesus willed it that He would survive the flogging, so that He would die on the cross as the prophets had foretold. Afterall, when you're God in the flesh, you can survive pretty much anything.
Not with that broken link, you can't.
Say it with me, folks: Slashdot breaks up long lines, rendering most plaintext links more trouble than they're worth. And enclosing links in anchors is easy. Why, scientists have shown that even a monkey can enclose a link in anchors. Are you stupider than a monkey?
Having said that, I can't imagine that people will access web sites in fifty years (if there's even anything that still exists that's remotely analagous to a website by then) by typing text into an address bar.
Well, in all likelihood, they'll be too busy trying to survive day by day, while keeping on the run from the zombie horde that wants to eat their flesh.
Man, this documentary really freaked me out.
Actually, if you buy something greater than X value (don't remember what X is), you have to declare it and pay customs fees on it.
Your best bet: check out the duty free shops at JFK airport. See if any of them sell laptops. If so, buying one there will save the sales tax, and the customs fees.
From the Slashdot FAQ:
Slashdot seems to be very U.S.-centric. Do you have any plans to be more international in your scope?
Slashdot is U.S.-centric. We readily admit this, and really don't see it as a problem. Slashdot is run by Americans, after all, and the vast majority of our readership is in the U.S. We're certainly not opposed to doing more international stories, but we don't have any formal plans for making that happen. All we can really tell you is that if you're outside the U.S. and you have news, submit it, and if it looks interesting, we'll post it.
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Don't misunderstand, I don't think he deserved to be screwed with. But it's not surprising that he was. Most people working in customer service, for some reason, think when you shout obscenities at them, you're actually insulting them and not the company for whom they work. I wish people on the other end of the phone would grow some thicker skin and learn how to say "I'm sorry you feel that way, but there's nothing I can do, it's policy."
I did some checking around, and it turns out we're both wrong. While there is some dispute, the most likely origin of '$' is from a shorthand way of writing 'pesos', 'ps' (the 's' should be superscript). As time went on, it evolved into '$'.
y mbols/dollarsign.
See http://www.pballew.net/dollar.html and http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/faq/abouts
So, I retract my previous statement. And since '$' isn't derived from 'US', there's nothing wrong with other countries using that symbol for their currency, or with denoting the country of origin. I apologize for my wrong statements. I still think the editors should've switched which currency was being referrenced in the blurb, since this is a mainly US site, and it's to be expected that all currencies, unless stated, are in US dollars.
Yeah, but the blurb is on an American site, you'd think the editors would convert the amounts into US dollars and leave it at that.
Nevermind that other countries shouldn't be using "$" for their currency to start with (the origin of that symbol was writing a "U" over an "S", doesn't really make sense for other countries to us it, huh?)
pissed off everyone at SBC.
I cursed everyone with every foul word you could ever dream up, and I didn't talk to the flunkies, everytime I called I demanded to talk to a supervisor and I kept going up the ladder, pissing on shoes all the way up..
Hmm, hard to imagine why the starting jacking with your bill, then.
You're quite right. When I worked at Oldsmobile the stock advice for getting ahead was to wreck a company car.
The company inadvertently encouraged its employees to wreck the cars it had assigned them, thereby increasing costs and reducing profits? Well, that certainly explains things.
I can't remember when I ate anything that was as good as the ads.
Then you haven't tried this site yet.