I believe both of you are using different, but correct, definitions for the term monocropping. Monocropping does not always mean inbreeding. Monocropping also refers to growing the same species, even if they are not genetically singular. By this definition, monocropping has both drawbacks and benefits. The disease susceptibility is not nearly as high as using genetically identical cultivars.
Debit != Credit.
Learn the difference and learn to read before commenting next time
Heed your own advice before being rude. Global Payments processes debit, credit, and gift cards. Debit and credit cards were exposed by the breech. Fraudulent activity has been reported on both.
Great post, with the exception of your use of term "fundamentalist". There is no such thing as a fundamentalist atheist. It is a derogatory term fabricated by secular people. You may be referring to antitheists. Within various religions, fundamentalism is not always synonymous with intolerance and violence. It merely means the person adheres to the fundamental beliefs of the religion. For example, fundamental Christians believe the bible has no errors and was inspired by God himself.
Since you stated it is illegal to *leave* the state religion. I'd also like to ask, "Would someone who doesn't want to be Islamic be allowed to leave the country under his or her own will?"
If you are creating a film and hiring actors or actresses, it seems that gender, age, and race would all be key qualifiers for the position. I have never seen an elderly white woman play the role of a young hispanic boy in a movie. Although, we've already seen males win lawsuits against Hooters bar and restaurant.
How about grief counselors? In certain situations gender is an important factor when a patient is talking to a psychologist.
How about detectives? For example, a woman who was a victim of rape may only feel comfortable speaking to another woman. Does this mean that the police department shouldn't be able to hire a woman specifically for this position?
I can go on and on here. Gender, age, and race can all be very important qualifiers for certain job positions. We are all different, and saying so doesn't equate to racism, sexism, or age discrimination.
Well, I have some friends who work for Starbucks, and apparently corporate policy is not to have visible tattoos. None of them seem to pay attention to it. I can see it being important in a customer-facing role, wanting to present a clean-cut image, but if you're never face to face with customers, then who cares?
They may be preparing for the possibility that said employee would end up working the counter if they were short staffed, or had an influx of customers. Unless the piercings cause a health risk, such as being caught on machinery, Starbucks is out of line by discriminating against appearance. Can Starbucks require someone with a unaesthetic physical deformity or hideous birthmark to cover it up? Nope.
That's just asinine. If it takes me an hour to get to work in the morning, then I leave an hour early. Not hiring me because of that is silly.
No it is not. I know of a few employers who ask this question. If an employee is needed on location within a certain amount of time after being notified, it is a valid question. This is very common for companies that have employees who are on call.
See, personally, I would deliberately not hire somebody who carries a concealed weapon. There's a chance they may bring it to work, and that is a bad thing.
You need to put more thought into that one. If someone has a concealed carry permit, they have already gone through background checks that someone without the permit has been subjected to. In many states a person may "open carry" without any permit. In any event, if someone wants to shoot up the office, I don't think they are going to go through the trouble of obtaining a concealed carry permit first. I'm pretty sure they aren't worried about whether or not they are legally carrying the firearm into the office to shoot someone.
You're right, but they won't. They want to keep the high price in other countries until the drug's patent expires. It is tough explaining to CountryA how you can afford to sell your drug 97% cheaper in CountryB. This situation in India is a win/win for Bayer, for the time being.
First of all, I don't think the bill to take Joe's land would actually pass.
That depends on how hard times got in the small farming village. Maybe it wasn't the best example, but the point was there. The same-sex marriage example requires no speculation. The majority of people polled in the USA consistently stated that same-sex marriage should be illegal. It doesn't make such a law fair.
At any rate, crowdsourcing proposed laws doesn't mean that you don't still have a legislature.
I realized this when I made the post. That's why I said "The laws that reach congress" in the first paragraph. So, even if the laws wouldn't pass. It would be a tremendous waste of time.
The fact is, that those possessing high intelligence, problem solving skills, and fairness are a minority. Outside of this little slashdot bubble, the majority of people are not capable of understanding problems, let alone solving them. They are incapable of making good decisions for themselves, let alone making decisions for everyone.
Crowdsourcing proposed laws will not work. The laws that reach congress will not respect the rights of minorities.
I'll provide gay marriage as a non-digital example. Majority rule would determine gay marriage to be illegal, based on the most recent surveys. That does not protect the rights of the minority of people prefer to enter into a same-sex marriage.
Here is an easier example: Joe from Juniper bought and owns 100 acres of land. The other 9 residents of Juniper have only 1/2 acre of land each. A crowdsourced bill may be introduced requiring Joe to divide his land evenly among the other residents. It is likely everyone except Joe will vote up the up. While the bill may accurately express the desires of the majority of Juniper residents, a law requiring Joe to surrender his land would be wrong.
If the two items in bold below were not true, then they would shut down the DNS servers immediately.
FTFA:
Earlier this month [...] The company said more than 3 million systems worldwide — 500,000 in the United States — remain infected with the Trojan, and that at least one instance of the Trojan was still running on computers at 50 percent of Fortune 500 firms and half of all U.S. government agencies.
Gotta keep everything running for the good ol' boys.
Slashdot and GPL zealots rant and rave all the time about how awesome it is to use OSS because you can 'fork it'... funny how any time the situation arises where forking would get you right back to the state you desire... no one wants to do it.
You may want to look into the software projects MariaDB and LibreOffice.
Virtual desktops are great for organization of your open windows. Having everything on one desktop, gives you no logical grouping of applications. Indeed, the keyboard shortcuts for switching between open applications are different if those applications are on separate desktops.
For example, one may have the following:
Desktop1: console
Desktop2: todo list, notes, and time tracking for billing
Desktop3: Gimp and all of its toolbars, file browsers
Desktop4: Gvim or editor of choice
Desktop5: Web browser(s)
Desktop6: Music player
Once you become consistent, you know that you can use a keyboard shortcut to switch to any of these windows, without having to Alt+Tab cycle through them. This is a great reason to keep Gimp on it's own virtual desktop, since there is an application window created for the main program, each open file, and each toolbar. The same can be said for browsers and their developer plugins. Applications which are related, logically, and that you switch between often can be on the same desktop. YMMV.
* My car has a bigger lifetime carbon footprint than yours!
The initial production of an electric vehicle produces more carbon, but the lifetime carbon footprint for any electric vehicle is lower than a gasoline or diesel vehicles.
For anyone managing a large amount of domains, an SRS Plus partner account from Network Solutions would be the way to go. There are two benefits:
1) The prices are cheaper.
2) They are not GoDaddy
With a partner account you have access to change contact information, DNS servers, request auth codes, etc...
Oh, and like xombo said about internet.bs below, SRS Plus also has an API.
I'm the opposite. I loathe smart phones. I always have a notebook and Internet access.
However, it isn't long before someone complains that they can't post to their blog, or upload photos to their forum, or remove items from their cart, etc... from their "smart phone". Now I need them just to see how web apps function on them. I long for the days when my only worry was IE compatibility.
What about when someone violates facebook's TOS and uploads a photo of someone else without their consent? Is the photo removed then? I know people who don't even have facebook accounts, yet have had photos uploaded of themselves. When asked, the photo was removed. Since facebook doesn't actually remove the data, but instead just removes it from the display. This person may still be photographed and tagged in facebook's archive of data.
Verizon is no better. When the Motorola Razor was a big deal, it had a bug which would keep the data connection open upon receiving a picture message. Countless customers had data usage charges tacked onto their monthly bill because of this. I did. I called Verizon several times, at 40 minutes plus per call. They customer service representative told me I must have been surfing the web. I told him I was at work (at an ISP), in front of a computer, and was not surfing the web during those hours. Each time coincided with when I received a picture message. They had hundreds of dollars tacked onto my bill. I told one rep to do a simple Google search for the bug in the Razor. He said they would credit my account. He didn't. He left bad notes in whatever call logging system they had. Finally, about 1 month later, I got someone with brains. This rep said they were aware of the problem and applied a credit immediately.
Long hold times. Poor customer services. Lies. Getting hung up on. I've had the same issues with Verizon, ATT, and the latest venture Simple Mobile.
I swore I'd never go back to Verizon, but they are the only one with any service near my house.
Customer service sucks with all cell phone carriers. I've tried them all and have stories for each.
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I believe both of you are using different, but correct, definitions for the term monocropping. Monocropping does not always mean inbreeding. Monocropping also refers to growing the same species, even if they are not genetically singular. By this definition, monocropping has both drawbacks and benefits. The disease susceptibility is not nearly as high as using genetically identical cultivars.
Debit != Credit. Learn the difference and learn to read before commenting next time
Heed your own advice before being rude. Global Payments processes debit, credit, and gift cards. Debit and credit cards were exposed by the breech. Fraudulent activity has been reported on both.
No. The polite alternative for the person you are describing would be antitheist, as I previously mentioned.
Great post, with the exception of your use of term "fundamentalist". There is no such thing as a fundamentalist atheist. It is a derogatory term fabricated by secular people. You may be referring to antitheists. Within various religions, fundamentalism is not always synonymous with intolerance and violence. It merely means the person adheres to the fundamental beliefs of the religion. For example, fundamental Christians believe the bible has no errors and was inspired by God himself.
Since you stated it is illegal to *leave* the state religion. I'd also like to ask, "Would someone who doesn't want to be Islamic be allowed to leave the country under his or her own will?"
I've used both Zoneminder and Bluecherry DVR v2 with analog and network cameras.
If you are creating a film and hiring actors or actresses, it seems that gender, age, and race would all be key qualifiers for the position. I have never seen an elderly white woman play the role of a young hispanic boy in a movie. Although, we've already seen males win lawsuits against Hooters bar and restaurant.
How about grief counselors? In certain situations gender is an important factor when a patient is talking to a psychologist.
How about detectives? For example, a woman who was a victim of rape may only feel comfortable speaking to another woman. Does this mean that the police department shouldn't be able to hire a woman specifically for this position?
I can go on and on here. Gender, age, and race can all be very important qualifiers for certain job positions. We are all different, and saying so doesn't equate to racism, sexism, or age discrimination.
Well, I have some friends who work for Starbucks, and apparently corporate policy is not to have visible tattoos. None of them seem to pay attention to it. I can see it being important in a customer-facing role, wanting to present a clean-cut image, but if you're never face to face with customers, then who cares?
They may be preparing for the possibility that said employee would end up working the counter if they were short staffed, or had an influx of customers. Unless the piercings cause a health risk, such as being caught on machinery, Starbucks is out of line by discriminating against appearance. Can Starbucks require someone with a unaesthetic physical deformity or hideous birthmark to cover it up? Nope.
That's just asinine. If it takes me an hour to get to work in the morning, then I leave an hour early. Not hiring me because of that is silly.
No it is not. I know of a few employers who ask this question. If an employee is needed on location within a certain amount of time after being notified, it is a valid question. This is very common for companies that have employees who are on call.
See, personally, I would deliberately not hire somebody who carries a concealed weapon. There's a chance they may bring it to work, and that is a bad thing.
You need to put more thought into that one. If someone has a concealed carry permit, they have already gone through background checks that someone without the permit has been subjected to. In many states a person may "open carry" without any permit. In any event, if someone wants to shoot up the office, I don't think they are going to go through the trouble of obtaining a concealed carry permit first. I'm pretty sure they aren't worried about whether or not they are legally carrying the firearm into the office to shoot someone.
Are you confusing sarcasm with ignorance? For the OP's sake, I hope so.
Bayer could just lower the price to match NATCO
You're right, but they won't. They want to keep the high price in other countries until the drug's patent expires. It is tough explaining to CountryA how you can afford to sell your drug 97% cheaper in CountryB. This situation in India is a win/win for Bayer, for the time being.
First of all, I don't think the bill to take Joe's land would actually pass.
That depends on how hard times got in the small farming village. Maybe it wasn't the best example, but the point was there. The same-sex marriage example requires no speculation. The majority of people polled in the USA consistently stated that same-sex marriage should be illegal. It doesn't make such a law fair.
At any rate, crowdsourcing proposed laws doesn't mean that you don't still have a legislature.
I realized this when I made the post. That's why I said "The laws that reach congress" in the first paragraph. So, even if the laws wouldn't pass. It would be a tremendous waste of time.
The fact is, that those possessing high intelligence, problem solving skills, and fairness are a minority. Outside of this little slashdot bubble, the majority of people are not capable of understanding problems, let alone solving them. They are incapable of making good decisions for themselves, let alone making decisions for everyone.
Crowdsourcing proposed laws will not work. The laws that reach congress will not respect the rights of minorities.
I'll provide gay marriage as a non-digital example. Majority rule would determine gay marriage to be illegal, based on the most recent surveys. That does not protect the rights of the minority of people prefer to enter into a same-sex marriage.
Here is an easier example: Joe from Juniper bought and owns 100 acres of land. The other 9 residents of Juniper have only 1/2 acre of land each. A crowdsourced bill may be introduced requiring Joe to divide his land evenly among the other residents. It is likely everyone except Joe will vote up the up. While the bill may accurately express the desires of the majority of Juniper residents, a law requiring Joe to surrender his land would be wrong.
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If the two items in bold below were not true, then they would shut down the DNS servers immediately.
FTFA:
Earlier this month [...] The company said more than 3 million systems worldwide — 500,000 in the United States — remain infected with the Trojan, and that at least one instance of the Trojan was still running on computers at 50 percent of Fortune 500 firms and half of all U.S. government agencies.
Gotta keep everything running for the good ol' boys.
Slashdot and GPL zealots rant and rave all the time about how awesome it is to use OSS because you can 'fork it' ... funny how any time the situation arises where forking would get you right back to the state you desire ... no one wants to do it.
You may want to look into the software projects MariaDB and LibreOffice.
I don't think alloy is the appropriate term for this material.
Virtual desktops are great for organization of your open windows. Having everything on one desktop, gives you no logical grouping of applications. Indeed, the keyboard shortcuts for switching between open applications are different if those applications are on separate desktops.
For example, one may have the following:
Desktop1: console
Desktop2: todo list, notes, and time tracking for billing
Desktop3: Gimp and all of its toolbars, file browsers
Desktop4: Gvim or editor of choice
Desktop5: Web browser(s)
Desktop6: Music player
Once you become consistent, you know that you can use a keyboard shortcut to switch to any of these windows, without having to Alt+Tab cycle through them. This is a great reason to keep Gimp on it's own virtual desktop, since there is an application window created for the main program, each open file, and each toolbar. The same can be said for browsers and their developer plugins. Applications which are related, logically, and that you switch between often can be on the same desktop. YMMV.
* My car has a bigger lifetime carbon footprint than yours!
The initial production of an electric vehicle produces more carbon, but the lifetime carbon footprint for any electric vehicle is lower than a gasoline or diesel vehicles.
For anyone managing a large amount of domains, an SRS Plus partner account from Network Solutions would be the way to go. There are two benefits:
1) The prices are cheaper.
2) They are not GoDaddy
With a partner account you have access to change contact information, DNS servers, request auth codes, etc...
Oh, and like xombo said about internet.bs below, SRS Plus also has an API.
I'm the opposite. I loathe smart phones. I always have a notebook and Internet access.
However, it isn't long before someone complains that they can't post to their blog, or upload photos to their forum, or remove items from their cart, etc... from their "smart phone". Now I need them just to see how web apps function on them. I long for the days when my only worry was IE compatibility.
What about when someone violates facebook's TOS and uploads a photo of someone else without their consent? Is the photo removed then? I know people who don't even have facebook accounts, yet have had photos uploaded of themselves. When asked, the photo was removed. Since facebook doesn't actually remove the data, but instead just removes it from the display. This person may still be photographed and tagged in facebook's archive of data.
Some historic examples: Frisbee, Hackey Sack, Kleenex, Sawzall, Rolodex, Rollerblade, etc...
The product may change, but the ignorance of the general population remains.
Zero Day is undoubtedly one of the most idiotic labels in the computing sector.
Yes, thank you. It is still in contention with "real time", though.
Nah, you could get away with the first one. I don't know how many times I've gotten syntax errors in MySQL for using ==. Force of habit.
Verizon is no better. When the Motorola Razor was a big deal, it had a bug which would keep the data connection open upon receiving a picture message. Countless customers had data usage charges tacked onto their monthly bill because of this. I did. I called Verizon several times, at 40 minutes plus per call. They customer service representative told me I must have been surfing the web. I told him I was at work (at an ISP), in front of a computer, and was not surfing the web during those hours. Each time coincided with when I received a picture message. They had hundreds of dollars tacked onto my bill. I told one rep to do a simple Google search for the bug in the Razor. He said they would credit my account. He didn't. He left bad notes in whatever call logging system they had. Finally, about 1 month later, I got someone with brains. This rep said they were aware of the problem and applied a credit immediately.
Long hold times. Poor customer services. Lies. Getting hung up on. I've had the same issues with Verizon, ATT, and the latest venture Simple Mobile.
I swore I'd never go back to Verizon, but they are the only one with any service near my house.
Customer service sucks with all cell phone carriers. I've tried them all and have stories for each.
Buying two desktops for 20% of users and one for everyone else would probably cost more than buying laptops for everyone these days.
Maybe, but buying desktops for 80% of the users, and laptops for the other 20% would be the most sensible and cost efficient.