Being conservative doesn't mean that you never move, always demanding more and more data without ever actually doing anything.
You understand that Al Gore didn't make up Global Warming in the early 2000s, right? This research has been going on since the seventies at least, I remember learning about it in elementary school. The question has been answered at this point.
Okay, this is ridiculous. I know that complaining is just one of the things that we do here, but it's April first and they announce a ridiculous new "feature" about reading stories out loud which turns out to be in morse code. I'd say that you all aren't getting the joke, but that would imply that you aren't hearing it, which would mean that you have no reason to complain in the first place.
What is with you folks? The rule has always been: if you don't like Slashdot on April first, don't come.
It's nice to see Defender's Quest there, even if it's in a weekly sale and not the main bundle. They've been snubbed by the Humble Bundle for quite a while, but it's really a great game with a heck of a lot to it.
I can EVs helping both sides. The left benefits because shifting to solar/wind power as the primary means of a vehicle's propulsion is better for the environment and gives less fossil fuel waste.
Not to take away from your point, but everyone benefits from this. The environment shouldn't be a left/right issue, and it's shameful that it's been turned into that.
Well I did say "religious establishment," - a church, baptismal font, or religious themed amusement park. My dream doesn't apply only to the Westboro Baptist Church, but most of the gospel of wealth churches, the scientologists, etc. But again: classifying churches as non-profits, rather than in their own category, is really about separating government and religion.
You say the current rules aren't difficult, and I'm sure that's true, but so what? I don't see the point that you're making there. The rules under my dream would be non-existent. Maybe your screwy religion doesn't have a congregation but believes in salvation through good works, and you do that through a soup kitchen somewhere. A soup kitchen which shouldn't have to be classified any differently from any other religious establishment.
I think you may have misunderstood the comment. What we have now is lack of separation - the state, usually the courts, decides what is and is not a religion or a religious establishment and consequently how it will be taxed.
What people are pushing for is an end to this practice - treat all non-profits the same way, including religions. This means that your weird cult will have to fill out a little more paperwork to get its tax exempt status, but you don't run the risk of some orthodox judge denouncing you as heretics. The catch is, and this is why people lobby against this, you would actually have to be a non-profit. There are criteria to be met, audits to pass. Some "churches," which are really just operating as scams, wouldn't qualify. The Westboro Baptist Church, for example, operates out of the family home (tax free) and claims the swimming pool as a baptismal font (tax free).
It's never forever, these agreements always have time limits on them. Usually ten years with the option for renewal. Here's the factsheet for the big auction from 2008, if you recall that one.
Those are fine specs, but they get less impressive in a monstrously large phone like this one. After all, even a very small laptop would blow this away for both storage and performance and I doubt that this would fit comfortably in a pocket.
That was a bunch of hooey. His whole argument seems to be that whenever Comcast, et. all, decides to degrade Netflix performance by neglecting Netflix's peering partners, then Netflix should just switch peering partners. See? It's clearly Netflix's fault.
This is incorrect. Artificial fertilizers account for about a third of crops worldwide nowadays, and they're made from natural gas.
Strictly speaking, this isn't required. You can make artificial fertilizers sustainably, the natural gas is just a cheap source of hydrogen, but as is usually the case the polluting route yields the greatest profits.
God, I would love a job like that. Why do all the negative examples that people are giving in this thread seem to me like delightful fantasies?
The first job I had out of college (not that long ago) was 45k, I worked 55-60 hours a week (though I was ostensibly working 9-5), my commute was an hour each way, and they treated me like shit. If I was in the bathroom for more than five minutes I got scolded, etc. Some part of that was just misfortune, but this whole thread feels like privileged people complaining that they're not privileged enough.
After a parting of ways with the New York Times after calling 50 out of 50 states right in the 2012 elections
I don't think it's nitpicking to point out that he actually called 49/49 states right. He had Florida as a toss-up, with a statistically insignificant lean towards Obama. This is an important distinction as it's one that constantly burns statisticians - that element of randomness is always there and eventually he's going to be wrong about something important, especially when people read a minuscule lean in one direction as a prediction. People are going to use that as a opportunity to dismiss him, since there's a political motivation there to do so, just as they dismissed him prior to the last election.
He had on interview on Colbert just before the Superbowl and I thought it was interesting to see just how careful was being not to make even the suggestion of a call about how the game was going to go.
Huh. Well thanks, that side of business has always seemed opaque to me. That's easier than I expected, I'll keep that in mind if I get a hunch one day.
Well I don't know about love, but I still think that he's been a pretty good president. Just not everything that I had hoped. Virtually all of the criticism against him hasn't stood up to scrutiny when I've taken the time to actually look into it.
They're not taxes on death, dying is free. They're taxes on inheritance. If you're unable to call them estate taxes then inheritance taxes is also acceptable.
Steam was worse when it was launched. I don't know if you remember, but Hlaf-Life 2 was unplayable back then. Not that I'm defending Origin either, I just hate Steam too.
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Being conservative doesn't mean that you never move, always demanding more and more data without ever actually doing anything.
You understand that Al Gore didn't make up Global Warming in the early 2000s, right? This research has been going on since the seventies at least, I remember learning about it in elementary school. The question has been answered at this point.
Okay, this is ridiculous. I know that complaining is just one of the things that we do here, but it's April first and they announce a ridiculous new "feature" about reading stories out loud which turns out to be in morse code. I'd say that you all aren't getting the joke, but that would imply that you aren't hearing it, which would mean that you have no reason to complain in the first place.
What is with you folks? The rule has always been: if you don't like Slashdot on April first, don't come.
"If you continuously prophesy gloom, you will eventually be correct".
"If you continuously prophesy spoon, you will eventually be correct".
"If you continuously prophesy loom, you will eventually be correct".
Get over it. Lean to tell the difference between a prediction based on evidence and a prophesy based on wishful thinking.
This is a joke, but it would be great if it were true. This would represent some kind of oversight at least.
If I'm not mistaken, this is basically how the British police have managed to keep corruption levels so low - one district polices another.
NO, two hours after they're dead, it's pointless - they're dead. They're not going to get better.
Yes... This is what I said, what are you going on about?
No, it claims that it can't be done two hours after they're dead.
It's nice to see Defender's Quest there, even if it's in a weekly sale and not the main bundle. They've been snubbed by the Humble Bundle for quite a while, but it's really a great game with a heck of a lot to it.
I can EVs helping both sides. The left benefits because shifting to solar/wind power as the primary means of a vehicle's propulsion is better for the environment and gives less fossil fuel waste.
Not to take away from your point, but everyone benefits from this. The environment shouldn't be a left/right issue, and it's shameful that it's been turned into that.
Well I did say "religious establishment," - a church, baptismal font, or religious themed amusement park. My dream doesn't apply only to the Westboro Baptist Church, but most of the gospel of wealth churches, the scientologists, etc. But again: classifying churches as non-profits, rather than in their own category, is really about separating government and religion.
You say the current rules aren't difficult, and I'm sure that's true, but so what? I don't see the point that you're making there. The rules under my dream would be non-existent. Maybe your screwy religion doesn't have a congregation but believes in salvation through good works, and you do that through a soup kitchen somewhere. A soup kitchen which shouldn't have to be classified any differently from any other religious establishment.
I think you may have misunderstood the comment. What we have now is lack of separation - the state, usually the courts, decides what is and is not a religion or a religious establishment and consequently how it will be taxed.
What people are pushing for is an end to this practice - treat all non-profits the same way, including religions. This means that your weird cult will have to fill out a little more paperwork to get its tax exempt status, but you don't run the risk of some orthodox judge denouncing you as heretics. The catch is, and this is why people lobby against this, you would actually have to be a non-profit. There are criteria to be met, audits to pass. Some "churches," which are really just operating as scams, wouldn't qualify. The Westboro Baptist Church, for example, operates out of the family home (tax free) and claims the swimming pool as a baptismal font (tax free).
It's never forever, these agreements always have time limits on them. Usually ten years with the option for renewal. Here's the factsheet for the big auction from 2008, if you recall that one.
Those are fine specs, but they get less impressive in a monstrously large phone like this one. After all, even a very small laptop would blow this away for both storage and performance and I doubt that this would fit comfortably in a pocket.
That was a bunch of hooey. His whole argument seems to be that whenever Comcast, et. all, decides to degrade Netflix performance by neglecting Netflix's peering partners, then Netflix should just switch peering partners. See? It's clearly Netflix's fault.
What a bunch of bunk.
This is incorrect. Artificial fertilizers account for about a third of crops worldwide nowadays, and they're made from natural gas.
Strictly speaking, this isn't required. You can make artificial fertilizers sustainably, the natural gas is just a cheap source of hydrogen, but as is usually the case the polluting route yields the greatest profits.
In a society that cannot bring itself to punish its worst criminals by execution, people are inevitably going to come up with ideas like this.
She explicitly said that death wasn't severe enough, she was trying to come up with a punishment worse than death. At least read the summary.
God, I would love a job like that. Why do all the negative examples that people are giving in this thread seem to me like delightful fantasies?
The first job I had out of college (not that long ago) was 45k, I worked 55-60 hours a week (though I was ostensibly working 9-5), my commute was an hour each way, and they treated me like shit. If I was in the bathroom for more than five minutes I got scolded, etc. Some part of that was just misfortune, but this whole thread feels like privileged people complaining that they're not privileged enough.
Well I stand corrected. My mistake.
I don't see that it would be an issue, I'm sure that's a big part of why they picked Ubuntu - SteamOS is Ubuntu based.
After a parting of ways with the New York Times after calling 50 out of 50 states right in the 2012 elections
I don't think it's nitpicking to point out that he actually called 49/49 states right. He had Florida as a toss-up, with a statistically insignificant lean towards Obama. This is an important distinction as it's one that constantly burns statisticians - that element of randomness is always there and eventually he's going to be wrong about something important, especially when people read a minuscule lean in one direction as a prediction. People are going to use that as a opportunity to dismiss him, since there's a political motivation there to do so, just as they dismissed him prior to the last election.
He had on interview on Colbert just before the Superbowl and I thought it was interesting to see just how careful was being not to make even the suggestion of a call about how the game was going to go.
Huh. Well thanks, that side of business has always seemed opaque to me. That's easier than I expected, I'll keep that in mind if I get a hunch one day.
Rats were mostly the companions of European explorers, not the islanders who extinguished the Moa.
Well I don't know about love, but I still think that he's been a pretty good president. Just not everything that I had hoped. Virtually all of the criticism against him hasn't stood up to scrutiny when I've taken the time to actually look into it.
They're not taxes on death, dying is free. They're taxes on inheritance. If you're unable to call them estate taxes then inheritance taxes is also acceptable.
So how did you go about selling the pens that you had? I realize that it's not the relevant part of the story, but you've gotten me all curious.
Steam was worse when it was launched. I don't know if you remember, but Hlaf-Life 2 was unplayable back then. Not that I'm defending Origin either, I just hate Steam too.