When you change jobs, how do you remove the RFId chip from your bod? Foreign objects tend to wander around once under the skin. Is your former employer obligated to find and remove it? Do you really want your recently rejected employer digging around in your bod (again)?
...which would allow the United States to drastically reduce its dependence on foreign oil...
Editor doesn't know much 'Murkins, does he? This will be used to create higher-horsepower, heavier cars, not more efficient ones. Coming soon: The Hummer Canyonero-Magnum!
The apologist above said: Well, we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil in 6 years
I know you meant 5 years, but you're conveniently forgetting the anthrax attacks that killed people in 2002. Even today we still have buildings evacuated and businesses disrupted when white powder falls out of an envelope. When any plane accident occurs, the first question is, "Was it A-rab terrorists?". So, the logical conclusion is, we're still terrorized. A better leader who didn't depend on scaring the population before every national election would have cured us of that. I mean, Churchill said things like "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." When's the last time you heard something like that from the white house?
So Britain, Canada, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, etc. are all left-wing exteremists. Ok...
Gun control (other then hitting what your aiming at).
Six years of Republican rule, and we still have gun control. If this is such an extreme left-wing issue, how come they haven't done something about it?
BTU taxes, Koyoto treaty.
Actually, these are economic issues, not liberal: BTU taxes and Kyoto treaty is about paying for what you use. There is economic value to dumping your trash (waste, exhaust, etc) without having to pay for it. The above is about measuring and billing for what you dump.
World court. Loss of sovernty to the UN.
Sorry dude, but you're drinking some serious bunker koolaid there.
Hundreds of examples of isolated incidents? Try 90,000 voters illegally and without notice removed from the Florida voter rolls prior to the 2000 election.
90,000 > 100, even for large values of 100.
The rest of your logic makes no sense: of course Dem precincts complain about disenfranchisement in states with Republican-controlled voting systems (hello, Ohio, Florida).
Tell you what--I'll agree that dirty electioneer tricks are a wash when I see both parties having results that are statistically unexpected. When I see some Dem upset wins in the face of pre and post election polling, to go along with the slew of Repub "upsets", then I'll think its "jest business, y'know?" There haven't been any in a long, long time.
BTW, I do not mean an upset where a candidate started behind in the polls months before the election then came to a win, I mean one where the polls the weeks and days before the election say A wins by 5%, the exit polls say A wins, and yet B somehow squeaks through on the basis of late reporting results, always it's the late, late reporting precincts that push the poll-defying winner over the top.
Six years of one party rule has not been six years of peace and prosperity. I want to make be we can throw the bums out when they screw up, Dem or Repub.
On election fraud, you claim that both parties do it, so that's ok. So, we have one party that commits election fraud by overvoting, which dilutes the effect of every legitimate vote. The other party commits election fraud by flat-out denying selected citizens their right to vote.
Now, which is worse? Which is more corrosive to our republic, the sense that every citizen has a chance, is equal, and can make a difference?
I agree that the polarization is getting worse, but I don't think the Internet is to blame. I believe the traditional coalitions of "left" and "right" that once wanted similar things (and differed only on the details) are drifting further apart as the extremists take control of the respective major parties. In the past (past 30-40 years), it typically happened to only one party and the other captured the "center".
I'm familiar with right-wing extremism (non-stop elective war, dismantle social security, sell off national parks (Richard Pombo, R-CA), fuck the Geneva convention, spy on anyone, anytime, at the ruling party's whim). But what would the polarizing left-wing extremism be? I mean, Clinton was (is) a centrist. As far as I can tell Dems have been moving to the center in decades after they broke the back of segregation. I mean, the Republican party has controlled all three branches of goverment for the last six years--who's the cause of polarization then?
With the macbook pro I can confirm the shutdown, close the lid within a few seconds == crash bug. But, you can get rid of the boot bleat with StartupSoundPrefPane11b1.dmg .
You're being more than a bit of an ignorant asshole about this. I'll confine my comments to the sport of (american) football, since that is the only revenue sport I'm aware of Kent State's participation in. There is no minor league for football. You either play college football by NCAA rules, or you have no chance of entering the NFL. There is no choice. And believe me, a scholarship in a revenue sport is not a ride--you're an employee living in company housing eating at the company cafeteria and *you're* *not* *even* *allowed* *to* *take* *a* *regular* *job*.
As far as more relevant first amendment travesties, I think this one is rather nicely high-profile, and the Kent State administration is going to lose like the bunch of jumped-up high-school assistant principals they seem to be.
All this said by a guy who doesn't particularly like NCAA football or its affect on academe, most especially after having a roid-boy next-door freshman year. Wanting to play a sport shouldn't stop one from enjoying the same social opportunities as everyone else at college. Being an asshole, on the other hand, does have a negative effect.
An undergrad scholarship is a four year commitment. Kent State isn't limiting this first amendment travesty to this fall's freshman class, but is limiting it to athletic scholarship--I don't think National Merit scholars are to be so restricted.
Yes, you can transfer out of Kent State, but NCAA rules impact your eligibility to play your sport after transferring, and changing coaches and programs will likely set back an athlete's progress towards professional success (in football, of course).
A simple question from a non-physicist, with some discrete math background: If String Theory can have 10^500 outcomes, what set of constraints can it NOT satisfy?
Rather than "improving" the content of the commercials I see, how about using the technology to recognize and mute commercials that I've previously flagged as either really, really annoying (eg. that oil company's talking cars, which is like being stuck on the subway listening to really stupid people talk about stupid things), or way too loud relative to the actual TV show, or simply shown too many times?
I, for one, would gladly pay $10 extra per month to have a button on my remote that when pressed kills the audio feed for the currently on-screen commercial now and whenever that commercial comes up again. I wouldn't even mind if a message was sent to the advertiser saying "Hey, somebody is actually paying not to hear your crap". Negative feedback can be a good thing.
"Hello, welcome to Microsoft Internet Explorer Seven phone support..."
"Press 1 to be told to reboot, press 2 to be told to reinstall IE7, press 3 to be told to reinstall the OS, press 4 to be told to apply next month's patches to the OS, press 5 to be told to contact the website's administrator for writing non-IE7 compliant HTML, press 8 to purchase Microsoft malware protection services..."
I'm curious. Just how does an unsubstantiated bald assertion get modded to 5 so quickly? And a wrong assertion at that--as another replier noted, capitol hill blue just reprinted a Scripps story. Yes, CHB is a muckraker site. But, well, there's a *lot* of muck in this administration and this congress (and the last congress, and the one before that...). Reporting on corruption, law-breaking, and personality defects of those in power does not make it untrue.
I strongly suspect we're seeing the usual "attack the messenger" defense here.
One simple feature for job sites: define the geographic region by area code. Not by city, not by euphemism (where does "peninsula" end and "south bay" begin?), but by fucking area code. Dice used to do this, was the only good thing about their site.
The way social security works is that people who are working pay
into the system and that money is used to pay benefits for people
who are retired.
That's not quite correct. Social security payouts are split approximately evenly into three portions: one-third to retirees, one-third to the permanently disabled, and one-third to spouses and family of the deceased (those who died while still of working age). And Socsec does it on an overhead of 20 basis points. 0.2% of money collected goes to overhead--there's no private industry firm that could do that, not even Vanguard (remember, there's a lot more recordkeeping and eligibility testing involved with the insurance aspects of social security).
Though we agree Social Security isn't broken: basically Bush is trying to claim that the government is going to default on the treasury bills used to secure the "borrowing" from the social security surplus but not default on any other treasury bills (including those that make up the bulk of his personal fortune, in a blind trust while he's president). Basically, it's a load of hooey. If the US Government defaults on social security it will be because in that year's budget they decide to spend the money elsewhere, not because of any structural constraint.
All money going to dems came from Indian tribes, not from Abramhoff, Scanlon, or their business. It is SOP for tribes buy the congressmen on committees that affect gaming. It does not mean that the Indians were laundering Abramhoff's tainted money (almost certainly not, since he was robbing them blind).
As far as blaming Clinton for the K-Street project, don't be ridiculous--K-street was about controlling access to ("lobbying") Congress, not the White House.
I think Slashdot is informal, and therefore typos don't matter that much.
Count the proportion of responses today which directly contradict this assertion of yours, and realize that the sloppy grammar and spelling are very important to the readers. Then quit the denial, and buy yourself a copy of Strunk & White, The Elements of Style. It's very short (65 pages!), and cheap ($5.95 retail!), and written in a manner that geeks can appreciate. In fact, I suspect the "Effective foo" books were modeled after its structure.
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When you change jobs, how do you remove the RFId chip from your bod? Foreign objects tend to wander around once under the skin. Is your former employer obligated to find and remove it? Do you really want your recently rejected employer digging around in your bod (again)?
from the blurb:
...which would allow the United States to drastically reduce its dependence on foreign oil...
Editor doesn't know much 'Murkins, does he? This will be used to create higher-horsepower, heavier cars, not more efficient ones. Coming soon: The Hummer Canyonero-Magnum!
Thank you--dunno why I attributed that to Churchill.
The apologist above said: Well, we haven't had a terrorist attack on our soil in 6 years
I know you meant 5 years, but you're conveniently forgetting the anthrax attacks that killed people in 2002. Even today we still have buildings evacuated and businesses disrupted when white powder falls out of an envelope. When any plane accident occurs, the first question is, "Was it A-rab terrorists?". So, the logical conclusion is, we're still terrorized. A better leader who didn't depend on scaring the population before every national election would have cured us of that. I mean, Churchill said things like "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." When's the last time you heard something like that from the white house?
Socialised med.
So Britain, Canada, Italy, Germany, France, Denmark, the Netherlands, Spain, etc. are all left-wing exteremists. Ok...
Gun control (other then hitting what your aiming at).
Six years of Republican rule, and we still have gun control. If this is such an extreme left-wing issue, how come they haven't done something about it?
BTU taxes, Koyoto treaty.
Actually, these are economic issues, not liberal: BTU taxes and Kyoto treaty is about paying for what you use. There is economic value to dumping your trash (waste, exhaust, etc) without having to pay for it. The above is about measuring and billing for what you dump.
World court. Loss of sovernty to the UN.
Sorry dude, but you're drinking some serious bunker koolaid there.
Hundreds of examples of isolated incidents? Try 90,000 voters illegally and without notice removed from the Florida voter rolls prior to the 2000 election.
90,000 > 100, even for large values of 100.
The rest of your logic makes no sense: of course Dem precincts complain about disenfranchisement in states with Republican-controlled voting systems (hello, Ohio, Florida).
Tell you what--I'll agree that dirty electioneer tricks are a wash when I see both parties having results that are statistically unexpected. When I see some Dem upset wins in the face of pre and post election polling, to go along with the slew of Repub "upsets", then I'll think its "jest business, y'know?" There haven't been any in a long, long time.
BTW, I do not mean an upset where a candidate started behind in the polls months before the election then came to a win, I mean one where the polls the weeks and days before the election say A wins by 5%, the exit polls say A wins, and yet B somehow squeaks through on the basis of late reporting results, always it's the late, late reporting precincts that push the poll-defying winner over the top.
Six years of one party rule has not been six years of peace and prosperity. I want to make be we can throw the bums out when they screw up, Dem or Repub.
On election fraud, you claim that both parties do it, so that's ok. So, we have one party that commits election fraud by overvoting, which dilutes the effect of every legitimate vote. The other party commits election fraud by flat-out denying selected citizens their right to vote.
Now, which is worse? Which is more corrosive to our republic, the sense that every citizen has a chance, is equal, and can make a difference?
I agree that the polarization is getting worse, but I don't think the Internet is to blame. I believe the traditional coalitions of "left" and "right" that once wanted similar things (and differed only on the details) are drifting further apart as the extremists take control of the respective major parties. In the past (past 30-40 years), it typically happened to only one party and the other captured the "center".
I'm familiar with right-wing extremism (non-stop elective war, dismantle social security, sell off national parks (Richard Pombo, R-CA), fuck the Geneva convention, spy on anyone, anytime, at the ruling party's whim). But what would the polarizing left-wing extremism be? I mean, Clinton was (is) a centrist. As far as I can tell Dems have been moving to the center in decades after they broke the back of segregation. I mean, the Republican party has controlled all three branches of goverment for the last six years--who's the cause of polarization then?
With the macbook pro I can confirm the shutdown, close the lid within a few seconds == crash bug. But, you can get rid of the boot bleat with StartupSoundPrefPane11b1.dmg .
Wi nøt trei a høliday in India this yer?
See the løveli lakes
The wonderful visual radiø
No discussion of the Physics of Superman is complete without this analysis of why Superman can't have sex.
You're being more than a bit of an ignorant asshole about this. I'll confine my comments to the sport of (american) football, since that is the only revenue sport I'm aware of Kent State's participation in. There is no minor league for football. You either play college football by NCAA rules, or you have no chance of entering the NFL. There is no choice. And believe me, a scholarship in a revenue sport is not a ride--you're an employee living in company housing eating at the company cafeteria and *you're* *not* *even* *allowed* *to* *take* *a* *regular* *job*.
As far as more relevant first amendment travesties, I think this one is rather nicely high-profile, and the Kent State administration is going to lose like the bunch of jumped-up high-school assistant principals they seem to be.
All this said by a guy who doesn't particularly like NCAA football or its affect on academe, most especially after having a roid-boy next-door freshman year. Wanting to play a sport shouldn't stop one from enjoying the same social opportunities as everyone else at college. Being an asshole, on the other hand, does have a negative effect.
An undergrad scholarship is a four year commitment. Kent State isn't limiting this first amendment travesty to this fall's freshman class, but is limiting it to athletic scholarship--I don't think National Merit scholars are to be so restricted.
Yes, you can transfer out of Kent State, but NCAA rules impact your eligibility to play your sport after transferring, and changing coaches and programs will likely set back an athlete's progress towards professional success (in football, of course).
In what possible world would statistical methods have emerged from studying a sample of size one?
A simple question from a non-physicist, with some discrete math background: If String Theory can have 10^500 outcomes, what set of constraints can it NOT satisfy?
Rather than "improving" the content of the commercials I see, how about using the technology to recognize and mute commercials that I've previously flagged as either really, really annoying (eg. that oil company's talking cars, which is like being stuck on the subway listening to really stupid people talk about stupid things), or way too loud relative to the actual TV show, or simply shown too many times?
I, for one, would gladly pay $10 extra per month to have a button on my remote that when pressed kills the audio feed for the currently on-screen commercial now and whenever that commercial comes up again. I wouldn't even mind if a message was sent to the advertiser saying "Hey, somebody is actually paying not to hear your crap". Negative feedback can be a good thing.
"Hello, welcome to Microsoft Internet Explorer Seven phone support..."
"Press 1 to be told to reboot, press 2 to be told to reinstall IE7, press 3 to be told to reinstall the OS, press 4 to be told to apply next month's patches to the OS, press 5 to be told to contact the website's administrator for writing non-IE7 compliant HTML, press 8 to purchase Microsoft malware protection services..."
I'm curious. Just how does an unsubstantiated bald assertion get modded to 5 so quickly? And a wrong assertion at that--as another replier noted, capitol hill blue just reprinted a Scripps story. Yes, CHB is a muckraker site. But, well, there's a *lot* of muck in this administration and this congress (and the last congress, and the one before that...). Reporting on corruption, law-breaking, and personality defects of those in power does not make it untrue.
I strongly suspect we're seeing the usual "attack the messenger" defense here.
Ranking "Dark Crystal" above "Princess Bride" marks you a fooking maroon. Or are you merely a GOUS (Geek Of Unusual Stupidity)?
One simple feature for job sites: define the geographic region by area code. Not by city, not by euphemism (where does "peninsula" end and "south bay" begin?), but by fucking area code. Dice used to do this, was the only good thing about their site.
Parent said:
Social security is broken.
The way social security works is that people who are working pay
into the system and that money is used to pay benefits for people
who are retired.
That's not quite correct. Social security payouts are split approximately evenly into three portions: one-third to retirees, one-third to the permanently disabled, and one-third to spouses and family of the deceased (those who died while still of working age). And Socsec does it on an overhead of 20 basis points. 0.2% of money collected goes to overhead--there's no private industry firm that could do that, not even Vanguard (remember, there's a lot more recordkeeping and eligibility testing involved with the insurance aspects of social security).
Though we agree Social Security isn't broken: basically Bush is trying to claim that the government is going to default on the treasury bills used to secure the "borrowing" from the social security surplus but not default on any other treasury bills (including those that make up the bulk of his personal fortune, in a blind trust while he's president). Basically, it's a load of hooey. If the US Government defaults on social security it will be because in that year's budget they decide to spend the money elsewhere, not because of any structural constraint.
Two better words:
Vexatious Litigant
Look it up...you'll find it works almost as well as
Disbarred Assholes
All money going to dems came from Indian tribes, not from Abramhoff, Scanlon, or their business. It is SOP for tribes buy the congressmen on committees that affect gaming. It does not mean that the Indians were laundering Abramhoff's tainted money (almost certainly not, since he was robbing them blind).
As far as blaming Clinton for the K-Street project, don't be ridiculous--K-street was about controlling access to ("lobbying") Congress, not the White House.
I think Slashdot is informal, and therefore typos don't matter that much.
Count the proportion of responses today which directly contradict this assertion of yours, and realize that the sloppy grammar and spelling are very important to the readers. Then quit the denial, and buy yourself a copy of Strunk & White, The Elements of Style. It's very short (65 pages!), and cheap ($5.95 retail!), and written in a manner that geeks can appreciate. In fact, I suspect the "Effective foo" books were modeled after its structure.
hope it isn't redundant.
No, you'll just be mod-bombed to -1, like all the other posters in this threadlet who've pointed out this supreme irony. Mod-Abuse, thy name is Taco.