What have you been smoking? You can never change your opinions. You can never give in to the other side. And you can never ever ever refer to people you disagree with as anything other than idiotic, terroristic fear-mongers.
Blowing shit up is a good old fashioned American past time. And it's not generally illegal to blow your own stuff up. I recommend checking with your local fire department first though. Ours wants us to let them know whenever we will be playing with combustibles or setting things on fire.
The idea of having your own place is relatively new. Used to be EVERYONE lived with their parents. Now kids get pissy if you want them to share a room with their sibling.
We had work done in our basement recently. We were doing the final walk through with the owner and we found about 5 nice spot lamps so asked him if they were his since they weren't ours. He responded with "No wonder my crews are always complaining about not having any lamps!" It's easy to forget things when you don't have to pay to replace them:P
Electricity does not appear as if by magic in your electrical wires. It is transmitted there after being mined out of the ground, refined, trucked to the power plant, and burned.
Unless it explodes en route.
The vast majority of electricity in the US currently comes from coal. Thus, you are trading a gas burning car for a coal burning car:). The advantage is that if we ever bother to get serious about nuclear or something better than coal an electric car will automatically accept the new fuel source.
The prenatal test is not reliable. All it says is that there is an x percent change of a baby with Down syndrome. Also note, amniocentesis CAUSES a miscarriage in about 1 in 250 women. When I was pregnant with my son my doctor sat in front of me with a straight face and said "There is a 1 in 300 chance your baby has trisonomy 13. Should we do an amniocentesis to confirm?" I was more likely to miscarry from the test than actually have an effected baby... Why would I run that test?
ALL the down syndrome and other genetic disorder tests they offered me only had about a 60% accuracy rate. Prenatal testing is a joke.
You can call code bad while still being respectful to the person who wrote it.
Would you rather me say "Your solution doesn't work and this is why" or "You're a fucking moron and your code is crap." One of those comments is what we like to call "constructive" and the other is "hostile". One of them encourages the other person to do better and tells them what they did wrong. The other just tries to make them feel bad.
We have decided that in polite society we should be respectful to others. It's not about "kissing ass", it's about recognizing that people don't like to be bullied. People like people who are nice. It is also about recognizing that by treating people poorly you do not motivate them to do better, you motivate them to leave. Corporate America is not "professional" because we are sissies. We are "professional" because it easier to encourage dialog when people are not afraid.
Torvalds believes that he doesn't have to play by the rules because he is some Linux god and the rest of us can suck it. This is only true as long as the rest of us let him. People continue to be assholes and harass others as long as we sit here silent and take it.
That is where the US was just over 50 years ago. We had a male labor shortage during the world wars and when the men came home and the fighting stopped, the women didn't go home. They started attending college for home economics so they could get jobs as teachers, decorators, party planners, institution management, and other "soft" jobs.
Once the fighting stops and the men go home, you won't see things go back to the way they were. Societies do not change overnight. You do not wake up one morning and redefine an entire social structure. It took us the better part of a century and we can expect it to take them just as long.
BTW, there are plenty of people in the U.S. "filing afternoons while the children are at school" and the money those companies make is not pretend. You can knock things like wedding planning all you want, but the reality is that brides are willing to pay people thousands of dollars to show up for an afternoon's work. You and I may think the work is stupid and silly, but the money is real. A friend of mine's wife is a wedding planner and it is insane how much money she gets paid just for in-law wrangling.
You don't store the email unless it is 'interesting'. You store the metadata about the email in order to establish relationships. Facebook does this kind of processing and even provides an API to access their graphs. I think you vastly over estimate how hard this is.
Also, Galileo is actually wrong. The force of gravity between two objects is a function of BOTH objects' mass. It just so happens that the planet masses so much more than a person that we tend to set the person's mass to 0.
Um... so your emails don't go through the internets? How does that work? Even though you tell the server to delete it, it still passes through the server...
My 3 year old daughter picked up a stick and started attacking the dragon hiding in the lilies the other day. I'm fairly certain kids of all generations will find something to beat with a stick:).
On the other hand, prior to the rise of easy access porn, sexual behaviour was a lot different. So, the question is if watching sexual activity influences our own ideas and mores about sexual practices, is it that far of a stretch to expect that it does likewise to other mores and values including violence?
Because the sexual moors of the early 20th century and prior are something we want to return to? Because droit du seigneur is somehow better than modern sexual behavior? As was the inability of a man to rape his wife? Oddly, we have easy to porn and yet women appear to have more rights and be more highly valued than ever before. Just because the Victorian era shoved a stick up everyone's but and told us sex is bad, doesn't mean that Victorian men (and women) were any less kinky. It means people didn't talk about it. Granted, they didn't have access to jumper cables, but I doubt that has anything to do with porn. I'm also pretty sure bukaki has been around way longer than the internet.
It is a port town. That means it is next to (both vertically and horizontally) the ocean. It would be a pretty crappy port if it was not next to the ocean. When you live within a couple feet of the normal high tide position and you are looking at a storm surge of a couple feet, the results are pretty predictable.
They then went and dug these handy tunnels all over the city that are... below the city.
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Don't worry, we will just ban it cause we can't let all the farmers go out of business.
I'm pretty sure not much helps in that scenario.
So are these keys you cant get a copy made at Wal-Mart? Cause I'm pretty sure the minimum wage Wal-Mart employee doesn't care.
What have you been smoking? You can never change your opinions. You can never give in to the other side. And you can never ever ever refer to people you disagree with as anything other than idiotic, terroristic fear-mongers.
Blowing shit up is a good old fashioned American past time. And it's not generally illegal to blow your own stuff up. I recommend checking with your local fire department first though. Ours wants us to let them know whenever we will be playing with combustibles or setting things on fire.
Why not just open the blinds before bedtime
But then you can't sleep naked...
The idea of having your own place is relatively new. Used to be EVERYONE lived with their parents. Now kids get pissy if you want them to share a room with their sibling.
Or keep the spare toilet paper in a basket on top the tank.
Or... don't submit stupid patents and you don't have to worry about wasting money getting them rejected/invalidated :P
Ever tried lobster without the butter? Can you think of anything that is not yummy when drenched in butter?
It depends on if you are exempt or non-exempt. If you are not a hourly worker the company can ask you to do things on your own time and not pay you.
We had work done in our basement recently. We were doing the final walk through with the owner and we found about 5 nice spot lamps so asked him if they were his since they weren't ours. He responded with "No wonder my crews are always complaining about not having any lamps!" It's easy to forget things when you don't have to pay to replace them :P
You are connected to a terrorist!
Electricity does not appear as if by magic in your electrical wires. It is transmitted there after being mined out of the ground, refined, trucked to the power plant, and burned.
Unless it explodes en route.
The vast majority of electricity in the US currently comes from coal. Thus, you are trading a gas burning car for a coal burning car :). The advantage is that if we ever bother to get serious about nuclear or something better than coal an electric car will automatically accept the new fuel source.
Because the guys that pass the bill will be hired by the firm that makes the plates and get a cut from every plate sold.
The prenatal test is not reliable. All it says is that there is an x percent change of a baby with Down syndrome. Also note, amniocentesis CAUSES a miscarriage in about 1 in 250 women. When I was pregnant with my son my doctor sat in front of me with a straight face and said "There is a 1 in 300 chance your baby has trisonomy 13. Should we do an amniocentesis to confirm?" I was more likely to miscarry from the test than actually have an effected baby... Why would I run that test?
ALL the down syndrome and other genetic disorder tests they offered me only had about a 60% accuracy rate. Prenatal testing is a joke.
You can call code bad while still being respectful to the person who wrote it.
Would you rather me say "Your solution doesn't work and this is why" or "You're a fucking moron and your code is crap." One of those comments is what we like to call "constructive" and the other is "hostile". One of them encourages the other person to do better and tells them what they did wrong. The other just tries to make them feel bad.
We have decided that in polite society we should be respectful to others. It's not about "kissing ass", it's about recognizing that people don't like to be bullied. People like people who are nice. It is also about recognizing that by treating people poorly you do not motivate them to do better, you motivate them to leave. Corporate America is not "professional" because we are sissies. We are "professional" because it easier to encourage dialog when people are not afraid.
Torvalds believes that he doesn't have to play by the rules because he is some Linux god and the rest of us can suck it. This is only true as long as the rest of us let him. People continue to be assholes and harass others as long as we sit here silent and take it.
That is where the US was just over 50 years ago. We had a male labor shortage during the world wars and when the men came home and the fighting stopped, the women didn't go home. They started attending college for home economics so they could get jobs as teachers, decorators, party planners, institution management, and other "soft" jobs.
Once the fighting stops and the men go home, you won't see things go back to the way they were. Societies do not change overnight. You do not wake up one morning and redefine an entire social structure. It took us the better part of a century and we can expect it to take them just as long.
BTW, there are plenty of people in the U.S. "filing afternoons while the children are at school" and the money those companies make is not pretend. You can knock things like wedding planning all you want, but the reality is that brides are willing to pay people thousands of dollars to show up for an afternoon's work. You and I may think the work is stupid and silly, but the money is real. A friend of mine's wife is a wedding planner and it is insane how much money she gets paid just for in-law wrangling.
You don't store the email unless it is 'interesting'. You store the metadata about the email in order to establish relationships. Facebook does this kind of processing and even provides an API to access their graphs. I think you vastly over estimate how hard this is.
Also, Galileo is actually wrong. The force of gravity between two objects is a function of BOTH objects' mass. It just so happens that the planet masses so much more than a person that we tend to set the person's mass to 0.
Um... so your emails don't go through the internets? How does that work? Even though you tell the server to delete it, it still passes through the server...
My 3 year old daughter picked up a stick and started attacking the dragon hiding in the lilies the other day. I'm fairly certain kids of all generations will find something to beat with a stick :).
On the other hand, prior to the rise of easy access porn, sexual behaviour was a lot different. So, the question is if watching sexual activity influences our own ideas and mores about sexual practices, is it that far of a stretch to expect that it does likewise to other mores and values including violence?
Because the sexual moors of the early 20th century and prior are something we want to return to? Because droit du seigneur is somehow better than modern sexual behavior? As was the inability of a man to rape his wife? Oddly, we have easy to porn and yet women appear to have more rights and be more highly valued than ever before. Just because the Victorian era shoved a stick up everyone's but and told us sex is bad, doesn't mean that Victorian men (and women) were any less kinky. It means people didn't talk about it. Granted, they didn't have access to jumper cables, but I doubt that has anything to do with porn. I'm also pretty sure bukaki has been around way longer than the internet.
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It is a port town. That means it is next to (both vertically and horizontally) the ocean. It would be a pretty crappy port if it was not next to the ocean. When you live within a couple feet of the normal high tide position and you are looking at a storm surge of a couple feet, the results are pretty predictable.
They then went and dug these handy tunnels all over the city that are... below the city.
New York DID get flooded.
That's what happens when you live below sea level.