I think it's great having the option to always have the calendar up within the Gmail screen. It's something I've wanted for a long time.
The one really annoying piece for me is that the main window tooltips stay up too long (like the Refresh button). If you hover over an icon too long and move the cursor away, the tooltip stays up for over a second. Sounds short but it's way too long. The tooltips for the icons on the right side are timed correctly though.
I use the compact option with a dark theme so I don't see a lot of wasted space.
That's why they don't put privacy in the news. They get some great dirt on people thanks to the NSA,etc. and then turn around and report on it. Whatever you think about Trump, most of the Russia news came via leaks from government spy agencies. That should be concerning to everyone.
When do we get road neutrality? I'm tired of paying tolls on roads that are deemed "more important". I'm also tired of being told I can't drive in certain lanes due to the contents of my car (HOV lanes for those that don't understand the reference).
Are roads not considered to be a utility? Lack of road neutrality increases the costs for individual people driving as well as the costs of goods sold shipped over the roads.
Some roads are "free" (paid for by tax-payers) and some roads have tolls (also paid for by tax-payers...toll changes is just free money for the State). Some roads have "special" lanes that you can use for carpooling (charging people based on content being delivered) or pay above and beyond all the taxes people already pay. If you don't do either, the police will chase you down and ticket you.
Tolls are MUCH higher if you are a truck delivering goods to people (again, content based charging). The excuse is trucks cause more wear and tear on the roads so the money is needed for infrastructure. Sounds just like what ISPs tell us...
I just get tired of the political hypocrisy (both sides). Toll roads are fine but ISP tolls are bad. I guess companies cannot increase profits but it's perfectly fine the government gets richer and bigger.
Did Musk offer proof Jose was working for the UAW? The guy's LinkedIn profile doesn't show that: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo.... Just wondering if Musk is assuming the guy works for UAW or if he knows it.
This is exactly why we need to look at school vouchers or tax credits. People who don't want their kids to go to Government Schools should have the right not to pay twice for their school. If a parent wants all mention of God out of their school, so be it (go to a Government School). Otherwise, that parent should be able to spend their tax dollars on a school that holds their values. Not the values of the ACLU (you can't honestly say that the ACLU even has values). I just think it's odd that so many Slashdotters who hate America demand that proud Americans pay for schools that bash America.
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Before everyone starts panicking over all our "lost privacy and rights", just remember what most working people have to do every year in April. The data collected by the IRS and the power the IRS has over everyone is enormous! Remember, both Nixon and Clinton severely abused the IRS' power by auditing all their enemies. The government takes all the money it wants to before you get any of it. They then redistribute to whomever they want to buy votes from (be it Corporations or Unions - take your pick).
This is nothing new and it's nothing that only "evil right-wing" conservatives do either. So, before everyone blasts this bill, think about the IRS and the power they already have (and have had for decades).
Ex-CEO: "Yes, I know I left the Company's secret documents on my window sill that faces the sidewalk, but they had to press their face against the window to read it!"
I'm always at a loss when I hear or read someone stating how evil America is. I try to explain about all the good America has done such as helping to win WWI and WWII, feedding the needy, help promote freedom (America's true culture). But I never seem to be able to convince them.
After reading some comments here from a year ago and from now, I realized you can't convince some people. How do you convince someone in the KKK that it is wrong to hate a group based on race? How do you explain to a Nazis that you can't hate and kill people based on their religion? You can't. I've learned that the KKK, Nazis and the Hate America crowd are just too closed-minded and full of hatred. It is a sad life.
I remember buying baseball cards and other stuff through Prodigy years ago (before the Internet took off). You had to talk about "how many dead presidents" would an item cost since you weren't allowed to openly sell items on Prodigy. How is this different from what the patent tries to stipulate?
Doesn't this fall under prior use?
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Fine. Then let me at least take my hard earned tax dollars that go to government schools and let me put my kids in private schools. It's called school choice. But to the ACLU and others, that means less money going into unions' and other special interest groups' pockets.
Besides, no one is forcing kids to say the Pledge. But I think the schools should give students the chance to say it every morning. If you don't want to, fine. If you'd rather shend your time wishing you were living somewhere else, that's your business. Besides that, did you know that the ACLU helped expel a little school girl because she actually had the nerve to lead a few other willing children in saying Grace? What do you have to said about the ACLU were that is concerned?
Just so you know, I am actually an atheist, but I respect other people's right to practice their religion. But I guess you don't. You'd probably be happier in China or Cuba.
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I don't believe in your stupid fucking god and prefer that he not get brought up in conversations with me Given enought time, all idiots will expose themselves for who and what they are. I loved the line where you actually called me a "raving loonie". Hey, God Bless American and may God bless you too.
Ummm...didn't I say that I disagreed with what the FBI is doing? I just said that I understand why they took this step (fear of ACLU lawsuits, etc.) I believe the line, "Those who sacrific liberty for security will lose both".
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No, I am not a racism. I should have explained that profiling based solely on race is wrong. assuming that a black man in a nice car is a car thief. That's not racial profiling, that is a racist act. Racial profiling is actually ACLU speak. Profiling is using one's behavior and background to help limit the number of suspects (not increase it).
And no, the ACLU has not looked after my rights. They have made sure that no one say God Bless America on any public property. They have taken the Pledge of Allegence out of government schools. They have done far more damage the good.
If I am a racist, then I must be racist against EVERY race because I don't believe in profiling any one race. But hey, you just go on slandering those who dare think differently than you.
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I agree that the FBI is being given too much power. This is probably the one issue I will agree with the editors of Slashdot (I am a conservative). However, we will probably disagree on why the FBI was given braod surveillance powers. I believe it has to do with political correctness running out of control.
We have the ACLU who will sue the government if it ever tried to profile an ethnic group. So now the FBI says that we won't target any particular group, we'll target everyone. Now the ACLU says it doesn't like that either. So what's the FBI supposed to do? Believe all these soothsayers who say they predicted September 11th (just a few months too late)?
Now before everyone calls me a racist or slanders me in other ways, I am not just targeting Middle Eastern people. When we had the church bombers in African-American churches, I don't think we should have looked at everyone. We could probably profile the bombers as white males in their 20-40's. That's profiling. That's what the FBI needed and still needs to do.
I believe that Sun is trying to get additional revenue from companies who bought (cheap) used Sun hardware from the failed dot com companies. This is especially true for the high end servers. Personally I don't mind paying $249 for each of our SunFire 280Rs (when we decide to upgrade). If you don't want to pay the extra cost, you can stay on Solaris 8 for a long time.
I view Star Wars and Lord of the Ring series as Sagas. On going movies that carry a central story. I don't see that with Spider Man. There I see sequels coming out that very loosely tie previous movies together. For those who have seen Spider Man know the thin basis of the next movies. But Spider Man II will not carry an epic or a saga with it. It will just be a sequel. Personally, I liked Spider Man, but I like the saga of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings better. Just my $0.02 USD.
How about Sim Lob Missiles at Aspirin Factories to Side Step Scandals? Or Sim Do Nothing And Let The Terrorist Win? Or Sim Babble and Whine About Things I Cannot Possibly Understand Due To My Years of Taking Drugs.
I cannot believe in today's world there are people who don't understand that there are evil people out who want to kill all freedom loving people. You are truly a disgrace.
We gave peace a chance and it didn't work. Now it's time to give war a chance.
...you should be fighting against income taxes. There is no bigger threat to privacy that the governemnt knowing where you work, how much you make, who you donate money to, where you invest your money, etc... Isn't that an invasion of privacy? That offends me more than getting a couple of spams a day.
Of course, just the thought eliminating income taxes (versus a consumpion/sales tax only) makes the people at the ACLU or the Center for Democracy and Technology jump out of their skin. So I want to ask people (especially those who lean to the left), "If you care so much about privacy, don't yo uthink we should eliminate income taxes?"
Nationalism should not be mandated. I agree 100%. School is for reading, writing and arithmetic (yeah throw history in there too). Government schools should be for education not indocrination.
Here's the rest of our example:
Teacher: Now Juan, why don't you get up and join us in our Pledge of Allegiance? Are you a communist or something?
Student: Yes I am.
Teacher: Good! I'm glad we have some "open minded" students here that know that Communism is better than Democracy. By the way class...tell your parents to vote of Al Gore. He will bring us one step closer to a Communist Utopia in America.
I know there's hypocrisy in both political camps. I just get tired of the news media always portraying liberals as the "good guys" and conservatives as "environment hating rasists". That's my biased perspective anyway.
School administrators have NEVER been unwilling to sacrifice freedom at the altar of a smoothly-run school
Fine, then ban the 48 pink triangles they have laying all around the school! If a school promotes one view, but does not allow the opposing view, then we have a problem. If you want proof, let's have schools have school prayers and the Ten Commandments on every wall. Oops, can't have that, some people don't like religion in school because they are worried that the government is mandating a religion. Kind of like schools mandating a "lifestyle". Both arguments don't make sense to me. But if schools follow one view point, they need to be consistent.
All those damn liberals are facists and liars, who don't want freedom for anyone but their friends, and only tolerate other liberals
No, but as a conservative I don't like the government mandating "politically correct thought". I see it every week based on observations at schools and city boards. Schools constantly tell students that guns are evil, you HAVE to accept the gay lifestyle 100% and that government schools should get every damn dollar they ask for (you have to be in Minnesota to appreciate the last two).
Too many decisions are being made based on emotions rather that logic. People cannot be free if the rule of law is based on emotions.
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I think it's great having the option to always have the calendar up within the Gmail screen. It's something I've wanted for a long time.
The one really annoying piece for me is that the main window tooltips stay up too long (like the Refresh button). If you hover over an icon too long and move the cursor away, the tooltip stays up for over a second. Sounds short but it's way too long. The tooltips for the icons on the right side are timed correctly though.
I use the compact option with a dark theme so I don't see a lot of wasted space.
That's why they don't put privacy in the news. They get some great dirt on people thanks to the NSA,etc. and then turn around and report on it. Whatever you think about Trump, most of the Russia news came via leaks from government spy agencies. That should be concerning to everyone.
When do we get road neutrality? I'm tired of paying tolls on roads that are deemed "more important". I'm also tired of being told I can't drive in certain lanes due to the contents of my car (HOV lanes for those that don't understand the reference).
Are roads not considered to be a utility? Lack of road neutrality increases the costs for individual people driving as well as the costs of goods sold shipped over the roads.
Some roads are "free" (paid for by tax-payers) and some roads have tolls (also paid for by tax-payers...toll changes is just free money for the State). Some roads have "special" lanes that you can use for carpooling (charging people based on content being delivered) or pay above and beyond all the taxes people already pay. If you don't do either, the police will chase you down and ticket you.
Tolls are MUCH higher if you are a truck delivering goods to people (again, content based charging). The excuse is trucks cause more wear and tear on the roads so the money is needed for infrastructure. Sounds just like what ISPs tell us...
I just get tired of the political hypocrisy (both sides). Toll roads are fine but ISP tolls are bad. I guess companies cannot increase profits but it's perfectly fine the government gets richer and bigger.
Did Musk offer proof Jose was working for the UAW? The guy's LinkedIn profile doesn't show that: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo.... Just wondering if Musk is assuming the guy works for UAW or if he knows it.
...for all the "found" ballots in King Country for the Democrat candidate.
You also need to consider you are getting StarOffice for that same $100/year.
This is exactly why we need to look at school vouchers or tax credits. People who don't want their kids to go to Government Schools should have the right not to pay twice for their school. If a parent wants all mention of God out of their school, so be it (go to a Government School). Otherwise, that parent should be able to spend their tax dollars on a school that holds their values. Not the values of the ACLU (you can't honestly say that the ACLU even has values). I just think it's odd that so many Slashdotters who hate America demand that proud Americans pay for schools that bash America.
Before everyone starts panicking over all our "lost privacy and rights", just remember what most working people have to do every year in April. The data collected by the IRS and the power the IRS has over everyone is enormous! Remember, both Nixon and Clinton severely abused the IRS' power by auditing all their enemies. The government takes all the money it wants to before you get any of it. They then redistribute to whomever they want to buy votes from (be it Corporations or Unions - take your pick).
This is nothing new and it's nothing that only "evil right-wing" conservatives do either. So, before everyone blasts this bill, think about the IRS and the power they already have (and have had for decades).
Just my $0.01 (after taxes).
Ex-CEO: "Yes, I know I left the Company's secret documents on my window sill that faces the sidewalk, but they had to press their face against the window to read it!"
Judge: "Idiot"
I'm always at a loss when I hear or read someone stating how evil America is. I try to explain about all the good America has done such as helping to win WWI and WWII, feedding the needy, help promote freedom (America's true culture). But I never seem to be able to convince them.
After reading some comments here from a year ago and from now, I realized you can't convince some people. How do you convince someone in the KKK that it is wrong to hate a group based on race? How do you explain to a Nazis that you can't hate and kill people based on their religion? You can't. I've learned that the KKK, Nazis and the Hate America crowd are just too closed-minded and full of hatred. It is a sad life.
God bless America.
Be careful, you might get a call from one of their many laywers!
I remember buying baseball cards and other stuff through Prodigy years ago (before the Internet took off). You had to talk about "how many dead presidents" would an item cost since you weren't allowed to openly sell items on Prodigy. How is this different from what the patent tries to stipulate?
Doesn't this fall under prior use?
Fine. Then let me at least take my hard earned tax dollars that go to government schools and let me put my kids in private schools. It's called school choice. But to the ACLU and others, that means less money going into unions' and other special interest groups' pockets.
Besides, no one is forcing kids to say the Pledge. But I think the schools should give students the chance to say it every morning. If you don't want to, fine. If you'd rather shend your time wishing you were living somewhere else, that's your business. Besides that, did you know that the ACLU helped expel a little school girl because she actually had the nerve to lead a few other willing children in saying Grace? What do you have to said about the ACLU were that is concerned?
Just so you know, I am actually an atheist, but I respect other people's right to practice their religion. But I guess you don't. You'd probably be happier in China or Cuba.
I don't believe in your stupid fucking god and prefer that he not get brought up in conversations with me
Given enought time, all idiots will expose themselves for who and what they are. I loved the line where you actually called me a "raving loonie". Hey, God Bless American and may God bless you too.
Ummm...didn't I say that I disagreed with what the FBI is doing? I just said that I understand why they took this step (fear of ACLU lawsuits, etc.) I believe the line, "Those who sacrific liberty for security will lose both".
No, I am not a racism. I should have explained that profiling based solely on race is wrong. assuming that a black man in a nice car is a car thief. That's not racial profiling, that is a racist act. Racial profiling is actually ACLU speak. Profiling is using one's behavior and background to help limit the number of suspects (not increase it).
And no, the ACLU has not looked after my rights. They have made sure that no one say God Bless America on any public property. They have taken the Pledge of Allegence out of government schools. They have done far more damage the good.
If I am a racist, then I must be racist against EVERY race because I don't believe in profiling any one race. But hey, you just go on slandering those who dare think differently than you.
I agree that the FBI is being given too much power. This is probably the one issue I will agree with the editors of Slashdot (I am a conservative). However, we will probably disagree on why the FBI was given braod surveillance powers. I believe it has to do with political correctness running out of control.
We have the ACLU who will sue the government if it ever tried to profile an ethnic group. So now the FBI says that we won't target any particular group, we'll target everyone. Now the ACLU says it doesn't like that either. So what's the FBI supposed to do? Believe all these soothsayers who say they predicted September 11th (just a few months too late)?
Now before everyone calls me a racist or slanders me in other ways, I am not just targeting Middle Eastern people. When we had the church bombers in African-American churches, I don't think we should have looked at everyone. We could probably profile the bombers as white males in their 20-40's. That's profiling. That's what the FBI needed and still needs to do.
I believe that Sun is trying to get additional revenue from companies who bought (cheap) used Sun hardware from the failed dot com companies. This is especially true for the high end servers. Personally I don't mind paying $249 for each of our SunFire 280Rs (when we decide to upgrade). If you don't want to pay the extra cost, you can stay on Solaris 8 for a long time.
I view Star Wars and Lord of the Ring series as Sagas. On going movies that carry a central story. I don't see that with Spider Man. There I see sequels coming out that very loosely tie previous movies together. For those who have seen Spider Man know the thin basis of the next movies. But Spider Man II will not carry an epic or a saga with it. It will just be a sequel. Personally, I liked Spider Man, but I like the saga of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings better. Just my $0.02 USD.
David
Sim Invading Iraq to Keep Approval Ratings High
How about Sim Lob Missiles at Aspirin Factories to Side Step Scandals? Or Sim Do Nothing And Let The Terrorist Win? Or Sim Babble and Whine About Things I Cannot Possibly Understand Due To My Years of Taking Drugs.
I cannot believe in today's world there are people who don't understand that there are evil people out who want to kill all freedom loving people. You are truly a disgrace.
We gave peace a chance and it didn't work. Now it's time to give war a chance.
...you should be fighting against income taxes. There is no bigger threat to privacy that the governemnt knowing where you work, how much you make, who you donate money to, where you invest your money, etc... Isn't that an invasion of privacy? That offends me more than getting a couple of spams a day.
Of course, just the thought eliminating income taxes (versus a consumpion/sales tax only) makes the people at the ACLU or the Center for Democracy and Technology jump out of their skin. So I want to ask people (especially those who lean to the left), "If you care so much about privacy, don't yo uthink we should eliminate income taxes?"
The kid wearing it was pretty clearly going out of his way to be an asshole, and he succeeded>/i>
Then are gays that wear "Gay Pride" shirts assholes too? Or are they just proud of their lifestyle? It works both ways.
Nationalism should not be mandated. I agree 100%. School is for reading, writing and arithmetic (yeah throw history in there too). Government schools should be for education not indocrination.
Here's the rest of our example:
Teacher: Now Juan, why don't you get up and join us in our Pledge of Allegiance? Are you a communist or something?
Student: Yes I am.
Teacher: Good! I'm glad we have some "open minded" students here that know that Communism is better than Democracy. By the way class...tell your parents to vote of Al Gore. He will bring us one step closer to a Communist Utopia in America.
OK. Maybe it's not quite THAT bad.
OK, OK, OK
I know there's hypocrisy in both political camps. I just get tired of the news media always portraying liberals as the "good guys" and conservatives as "environment hating rasists". That's my biased perspective anyway.
School administrators have NEVER been unwilling to sacrifice freedom at the altar of a smoothly-run school
Fine, then ban the 48 pink triangles they have laying all around the school! If a school promotes one view, but does not allow the opposing view, then we have a problem. If you want proof, let's have schools have school prayers and the Ten Commandments on every wall. Oops, can't have that, some people don't like religion in school because they are worried that the government is mandating a religion. Kind of like schools mandating a "lifestyle". Both arguments don't make sense to me. But if schools follow one view point, they need to be consistent.
All those damn liberals are facists and liars, who don't want freedom for anyone but their friends, and only tolerate other liberals
No, but as a conservative I don't like the government mandating "politically correct thought". I see it every week based on observations at schools and city boards. Schools constantly tell students that guns are evil, you HAVE to accept the gay lifestyle 100% and that government schools should get every damn dollar they ask for (you have to be in Minnesota to appreciate the last two).
Too many decisions are being made based on emotions rather that logic. People cannot be free if the rule of law is based on emotions.