WTF - you know, every other small business person thinks of this shit BEFORE they start. It's not hard, really. Quit pretending you're running a lemonade stand in your parents driveway.
Bullshit.
A lot of the folks running Kickstarters have "business plans" that amount to "distribute sweaters to homeless kittens". Should they realize that has tax implications? Well, perhaps, insofar as you can't fart without the IRS taking a sniff. But to blame people who seriously have a business plan of clothing cats, for not understanding cash-vs-accrual accounting? Seriously, go fuck yourself with your framed MBA, dude.
We wonder what has gone "wrong" with this country? TFA gives a pretty damned good example. Have a good idea? Have adequate funding? Ready to ship and create one of those new Small Businesses the talking heads always praise? Oops, FOAD friend! You forgot about your quarterly withholding on money that no sane entity would consider anything but a production expense - Silly bear, considering our government "sane"! What will you think of next?
For anyone seriously wanting to know the "right" answer to this issue - Move to one of America's few remaining unorganized territories (Maine, Florida, and Alaska have a ton of them); that relieves of you 99% of the "bullshit" burden, which rests solely with your most local taxing authority (the city/town/county), and reduces your nightmare to just the state and federal levels. Most states just want a cut of your AGI, so if you have no profit, nothing to report. The feds just want a schedule C and SE, and couldn't care less how else you officially organize your activities.
Now, if you happen to live in a hellhole like NYC where everyone from the city through your Block Captain to your Landlord to your old roommate from 1976 get to fuck you with taxes - Move, or abandon your dream. Seriously.
As the systemd people say: If you don't like it go use bsd or get a mac. You do not have a choice. It has been decided. SystemD wins.
How 'bout I stick with my nice stable Slackware, and you whipper-snappers can use whatever Windows-clone-oh-but-it-runs-Linux-under-the-hood you want? That do it for ya, plucky?
Pffft, arguing about changing something that hasn't broken. "Hey, my left arm works just fine, but I really think I should cut it off and get a shiny new model!"
Anyway, it's really not about you and whether you care, is it?
Well actually - Yeah, kinda. You already know your gender. Facebook only allows you to mention it because other people might want to know. If, therefore, you have no interest in answering the question honestly, just put "undisclosed", and call it good.
By giving you 50 possible answers, however, they may as well just put a freetext box so the frat-boys can answer "yes", the geeks can answer "wookie", and the feminists can answer "stop oppressing me you misogynistic pig!"
But hey, go ahead and make use of the "green fog of glitter" option, because y'know, honestly, it really does tell us soooo much about you!
/ Like to stay the hell away from you if we want a low-drama life. // Jus' saying'.
You'd really tell a post-op trans XY now-woman to use the men's room?
Keep in mind you prefaced that with "you can't immediately tell from how they are dressed whether they want the Gents or the Gals version"...
So yes. Yes, I'd ask. Rather than uselessly wave in some random direction while I awkwardly stammer something incoherent that somehow tries to include both genders in my answer like "well go that way, you'll come to the women's room first then the men's, but of course if you don't have the appropriate tackle, you can't fish there, right?".
Sorry, but as much as we may hear about rudeness in the modern world, our society has become polite to the point of complete impotence. We can't work up the courage to ask a blunt question required to meaningfully answer someone's question? Fuck that. "Sorry Pat, I can't read ya - You need a pisser or a stall?"
And if that offends you, hey, both genders can technically use the women's room. Have fun.
Offhand, I can think of only one situation that makes that possible - One of you makes a good amount of money, and one doesn't work.
Because if you both make around the same amount, stock up on lube. And by "around the same amount", well, during a bout of unemployment a few years ago, with my SO making six figures and me "making" $350 a week as a waste of flesh, we STILL would have lost money if we had filed as married.
Though in fairness, we own a house together, which makes a big difference - She can claim all the expenses and I can take the standard deduction - Which you can't legally do if married filing separately.
As a former firmware engineer myself, let me assure you that the rest of the coding world views us as the elites-of-the-elites. Yes, you need to know SQL and Javascript to get a job these days, but if you can pick those up (you can), you'll have a distinct edge over virtually everyone else applying for whatever job you want.
And in case you wondered - Yes, you do have it harder than the rest of the coding world. Shit, I could sleep through my 9-to-5 and still outperform most of my peers at writing user-space code. Like a cool breeze on a hot summer day, 80% of the pay for 5% of the frustration. You won't look back!
Just a warning, though... We tend to suck at GUI design. Fortunately, you'll have no trouble finding members of your "team" that actually want the "glamor" of arguing with management about typefaces and colors.;)
Sure... In the same way that "paying taxes" counts as a "perk" of civilization. You realize that getting married means you get to pay MORE in taxes, right?
/ Not married. // Plan to stay that way. /// With the same woman for 20 years, and no plans to upgrade. //// Fix the damned CSS on Slashdot "Classic", Dice!
If you want to eat Cheerios instead of cardboard, well, that's going to require either 1) a job, or 2) a waiver based on medical hardship, inability to find a job, etc.
Clearly you missed the intro lecture to "Socialist Utopia 101", where we learn that everyone really wants to work a dirty, demeaning job, if only they didn't need to worry about where their next ultra-high-def TV will come from.
Why do you hate America? Don't you realize how much better we'd all have it if the 99% just stayed home eating Cheetos while the 1% pay for everything?
/ So, Slashdot has "heard" us, and will adapt Beta to our needs... By breaking the non-Beta site until we have no choice but to "voluntarily" come here (or leave entirely)? // Hey, you want suggestions? How about defaulting the goddamned subject line? Oh yeah, and don't let me forget, get rid of that goddamned Metro-style front page! /// BTW, since when has Slashdot - Somewhat famous for ONLY removing content because of court order - Added the concept of "flag this post"? Make no mistake, Beta pisses me off, but the first time a post of mine gets administratively deleted will count as the last time I visit Slashdot.Dice.com.
Because people want to know your gender for a reason, not just as an abstract set of meaningless adjectives you wish applied to you.
In most cases, I really don't care about your gender. If I bother to look it up or ask, though, I damned well want an answer like "male", "female", "indeterminate", or "undisclosed". And if I bother to inquire about it, I want your answer of "male" to mean the genotype XY, not "it's complicated but I tend to wear men's clothing and take top during sex". In that case, just go with "undisclosed".
And yes, before some pedant chimes in, I know the difference between genotype and social gender identity - I just don't care if your self-image involves referring to yourself as a translucent cloud of neon green glitter.
What utter bullshit, and the usual pro-Assange smears when this shit comes up.
You can make a (weak) case for him actually having "raped" Sofia Wilen as a technicality. The whole Arden situation, however, only makes this into a disturbingly laughable illustration of the reactionary misandry coded into Swedish law, with even Arden herself not accusing him of anything more than being a manipulative asshole - Yet prosecutors took the whole ball of wax and ran with it. If you don't to hear people complaining about "rape after the fact", Ny should limit her inquiry to just the one "real" charge.
But wait, this situation has no charges yet! We've had this whole circus going on just because Ny won't even talk to Assange remotely. At this point, the "threat" of him fleeing seems like a moot point; she needs to do her damned job, and either move the case forward or drop it.
Regardless of the facts of the situation, however, you can't seriously believe for even half a second that Assange has any chance whatsoever of getting a fair trial in Sweden.
As for whether or not Assange believes himself when he claims he fears extradition to the US - He only faced two years in a cushy Swedish prison. He has now lived trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy for four.
There is a reason why an employer likes to see the word a team player on a CV
Know how I can tell you come from academia and have absolutely no clue how the real world of business works?
Whenever they make a mistake they say "it's because of that idiot" behind the alleged idiots back.
I tend to say it in front of the idiot's face (in private), and then back it up. But I also find that trying to escalate that to the people signing your checks amounts to a complete waste of time. Me, I find "Here, go catch up on your *cough* technical skills and leave me the fuck alone for a few weeks while I do all the work and we both get paid 5x what the regular employees here make" will get you a hell of a lot farther than making a fuss. And for the idiots smart enough to know their shortcomings, you've just earned yourself free coffees for a month.
Like it or not, the real world has a lot more people getting paid to do work they have no right doing, than those paying them want to admit. I won't claim myself a superstar, but I've worked with more than a reasonably-proportional number of folks who could only pass as "engineers" in the "sanitation" sense - But, like it or not, HR can't tell someone who knows a lot of buzzwords from a real engineer (now if you want to discuss why HR tends to have so much influence in hiring for jobs they don't have the faintest clue about, we can continue that as a different topic). Oh yeah, and HR doesn't make mistakes. Just ask them about it.
Which pretty much sums up my advise to TFS' author - Suck it up. You can't "win" here, just make sure you get paid hourly; do your best to minimize the "expert's" damage; and document, document, document the idiocy in case everything goes to shit and you need to prove you held up your end of the log.
By using one ticket when you enter and another when you exit you are breaking the rules.
Right of first sale. I can do whatever the hell I want with my little slip of paper (or do they use cards there now?), and to hell with their "rules".
More to the point, FTS: "But by swapping tickets in the city center, they could both pay for a short commute in each others' suburbs. But is that fair to other commuters?"
Fair? How does it count as in any way unfair? You have stops A, M, and Z, with M at the city center and A,Z two outlying suburbs. If they consider it just peachy that I can ride A-M-A or Z-M-Z all day every day for $5/trip, it costs the system not a penny more to take A-M-Z and Z-M-A, yet they think they can charge more to do it? The same trains/buses carry the same number of passengers the same distance. Fuck that.
And as for TFS's speculation that they implement differential pricing as a form of zoning / social policy - Geographic discriminatory pricing still discriminates. "Golly, we had no idea that higher fares to more distant (and purely coincidentally whiter) suburbs discourage poor black people from leaving their inner-city slums!". That pig just don't fly.
It just means that the FCC likes its money the same way all government agencies do.
If they license (aka "accept a bribe for monopoly use of a free public resource") a chunk of spectrum to your neighbor so he can run a Christian Rock radio station, you have absolutely no right to complain that your microwave, can opener, and dog fountain all buzz along non-stop to Petra's Greatest Hits.
If, however, your blender causes even the slightest bit of feedback for your neighbor's radio station, you can expect the feds to swoop in with guns drawn to confiscate and destroy every electronic device in your house.
I don't get it why they keep saying that "if 1 penny costs 2 pennies to mint then we shouldn't make them anymore".
In the case of pennies and nickels, this has nothing to do with the actual cost to make them so much as their inherent value in metal content.
Yes, melting down pennies to sell for scrap breaks the law. Now look at a random handful of pennies and see how many you can find that predate 1982 (when they went from pure copper to mostly zinc). If you don't think we have people scrapping them for copper, I have a bridge to sell you.
The same thing happened in 1964 when our dimes-and-up stopped containing any silver (nickels always used copper/nickel, except during WWII) . Although you'll occasionally (rarely!) get lucky and find one mixed in with your change, pre-1964 change has effectively ceased to exist in circulation.
That said, as far as I can tell the whole "costs more to make" arguments counts as just a rationalization. People hate pennies, and just want them gone. This has nothing to do with value or cost or the phase of the moon - Even in my youth, a few decades ago, a penny would only buy you a single piece of the crappiest candy. Today, even that crappy candy costs a quarter. So why the hell do we keep creating a coin that only has use in the aggregate? Ditch the worthless lump of zinc and stick with coins that have actual buying power.
People do two things with pennies - Kids thrown them in jars in the closet, and old ladies tie up the checkout line trying to make exact change. Factoid of the day: If you saw a parking lot covered in "free" pennies (say one per square foot), you would need to pick one up every five seconds just to make minimum wage. By comparison, doing crappy agricultural piecework like strawberry harvesting, if you could work at that same rate, you'd make 21x as much for the same type of effort.
What ever happened to the ubiqitous 47 C.F.R. 15.5? How did this building even find noncompliant lights to install, in the US? And weirder still, why the hell would a lighting system use 700MHz?
if the Finns have a law, then it's up to people in Finland - Finnish or not - to abide by it.
Which has what, exactly, to do with Wikipedia, a purely American company that hosts everything including the Finnish site) in CA?
If, as an American, I write a webpage in Russian condemning Putin and the Russian orthodox church, should I expect the "we don't call them KGB anymore" to swing by and throw me in a glass cage? If I draw a cartoon of Mohammed molesting little girls, should I expect Ali Khamenei to call down a Jihad on my ass? If I give a Nazi salute in public, with Merkel get her panties in a bunch?
If the Finns have a law, them it's up to the POLICE in Finland to know where their borders end. Simple as that.
Hence Dice decided to slash the site's budget from several millions to zero.
That doesn't say what you think it does: "Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero"
A ledger entry for "goodwill" means that Dice previously claimed that Slashdot had more real worth than its book value suggests, due to hard-to-measure aspects of the site (demographics, loyalty, reputation, etc). Usually a company will record that largely to justify to shareholders that they paid too much for an asset they "want" but that doesn't make sense on a purely financial level. Most importantly, it has nothing to do with "funding" of Slashdot.
That said, the page you link does mention something... Odd: "Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site"
I find that odd because Dice.com has no "user engagement". As far as I can tell, it doesn't even have many real job postings, with most of its listings nothing more than the HR equivalent of honeypots - Just tasting the waters and hoping to find out how much leverage they have to screw their current employees.
This is a rhetorical question. It would be similar to ask "why do we write books or manuals when we can just record a video"
You clearly haven't searched for even the most trivial of "How do I..." topics recently, have you?
Why write three quick and dirty sentence-fragments on how to do it, when you can record a 10 minute video and post it to YouTube? And I wish I meant this as hyperbole.
More seriously, I agree with you. We still code in text because no programming language will ever let me easily express "c^=0xdeadbeef" by drawing a line between two data objects. Yes, wizards have become reasonably adept at setting up the core functionality of any app not worth writing in the first place. But even when they do allow you to write a line of code such as I gave above, well... I can type that in about a tenth the time it would take me to click... drag... click... right-click... click (function) select (xor)... click (constant) type "0xdeadbeef"... whatmorondoesntaccepthexforafuckingbitwiseop??? backspace*10 "-559038737".
The comment system isn't finished yet, that's for sure -- but we've implemented a number of changes and improvements in response to the feedback from the October launch.
Honestly, the new comment systems seems like the BEST part of the redesign. It at least works on my tablet, something the current site doesn't manage (the moderation threshold sliders don't work in any browser I've tried). Now, if I could convince you to revert the comments to before the previous unwelcome redesign, we can talk.:)
My biggest complaint has more to do with the overall look and feel, as made most obvious right on the front page - It looks like Slashdot has fully embraced everything that makes people loathe the Win8 Metro interface. Jolly candy-like tiles, woo-hoo! I just can't understand why a site where 90% of its members mock Win8 would strive for that as an overall design aesthetic. Did Microsoft buy Dice and somehow I missed the announcement?
Let's start a sig campaign, prefix your's with [FUCK BETA]. This way you can stay on-topic and still protest.
As a first step, I suggest suffixing your normal link to Slashdot with "/?nobeta=1". At least until Slashdot decides to fully pull the plug and tell us all to go fuck ourselves, that will keep you from having to ever see the abomination they call the new beta site. And as a bonus, whether or not they care, they'll get the message loud and clear when 90% of their inbound traffic explicitly rejects their crappy beta.
That said, thanks for the idea - Though to hell with sigs, make it the start of your SUBJECT for every post. I will use it until they listen or make it a moot point - Though from past experience, I fully expect the latter, because they just don't care in the least about what we think.
Of course, at some point, they will tap into NHS (I'm assuming that this is UK), and send to everyone, regardless of whether they had opted-in or not.
If they ever make it anything but opt-in, the "victims" of these messages have a pretty simple way to fight back: Respond with pictures. Big ones.
No, you can't bankrupt your own government, but just watch the NHS try to justify a billion pounds a year in data overages to support a single unpopular program. "Next up on the budget chopping block..."
It's a case of where the "product" is at risk (viewer's eyeballs) in the eyes of the customer (advertisers) because viewers are turned off by what they see and it's not entertaining.
If you can buy wooden swords for 1 gold in the first town, and sell them for 1000 gold to the "collector" in the mid-game town, but only the Bard can get past the king's roadblock to get back to the first town... Do you blame the players who struggle through "useless bard" for half the game then multiclass with near-infinite money, thereby destroying the game's intended economy... Or do you blame the game designer for not realizing the obvious exploit in the price of goods?
Jeopardy could easily add a rule that you can' t pick any row with unanswered questions above it. They haven't. Suck it up, Alex.
What this guy does is probably "right" and "correct", but it makes for a boring and annoying game.
An individual player doesn't have the goal of entertaining you. An individual player has the goal of maximizing their overall take - Which Chu has decided means maximizing his wins if not necessarily his per-game take.
Jeopardy can change the rules if they want, but from the POV of an individual player, to hell with the "entertainment" value.
Americans don't like it,' the materials note, when the government relies heavily on classified sources
That doesn't mean you need to find a way to "fake" the chain of evidence. It means that Americans don't fucking like classified evidence, what with our constitution guaranteeing us the right to face our accusers. As in, our actual accusers, not some fictional "these guys who just happened to smell bomb-making chemicals on your breath" accusers.
You want to keep the public off your backs, quit playing all these bullshit "Big Brother knows best" games, and if you can't come out and say how you know something, keep it to yourselves.
I wonder how long America would last if the entire World declared war on America.
We wouldn't win, but we wouldn't exactly "lose", either.
Keep in mind that the "cold" war merely warmed up a few degrees... The world still contains enough nukes to render our ball of mud into an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland 10x over. And the US has a significant fraction of those (and possibly a majority of the functional ones, by most accounts of the state of the former USSR's stockpile).
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WTF - you know, every other small business person thinks of this shit BEFORE they start. It's not hard, really. Quit pretending you're running a lemonade stand in your parents driveway.
Bullshit.
A lot of the folks running Kickstarters have "business plans" that amount to "distribute sweaters to homeless kittens". Should they realize that has tax implications? Well, perhaps, insofar as you can't fart without the IRS taking a sniff. But to blame people who seriously have a business plan of clothing cats, for not understanding cash-vs-accrual accounting? Seriously, go fuck yourself with your framed MBA, dude.
We wonder what has gone "wrong" with this country? TFA gives a pretty damned good example. Have a good idea? Have adequate funding? Ready to ship and create one of those new Small Businesses the talking heads always praise? Oops, FOAD friend! You forgot about your quarterly withholding on money that no sane entity would consider anything but a production expense - Silly bear, considering our government "sane"! What will you think of next?
For anyone seriously wanting to know the "right" answer to this issue - Move to one of America's few remaining unorganized territories (Maine, Florida, and Alaska have a ton of them); that relieves of you 99% of the "bullshit" burden, which rests solely with your most local taxing authority (the city/town/county), and reduces your nightmare to just the state and federal levels. Most states just want a cut of your AGI, so if you have no profit, nothing to report. The feds just want a schedule C and SE, and couldn't care less how else you officially organize your activities.
Now, if you happen to live in a hellhole like NYC where everyone from the city through your Block Captain to your Landlord to your old roommate from 1976 get to fuck you with taxes - Move, or abandon your dream. Seriously.
As the systemd people say: If you don't like it go use bsd or get a mac. You do not have a choice. It has been decided. SystemD wins.
How 'bout I stick with my nice stable Slackware, and you whipper-snappers can use whatever Windows-clone-oh-but-it-runs-Linux-under-the-hood you want? That do it for ya, plucky?
Pffft, arguing about changing something that hasn't broken. "Hey, my left arm works just fine, but I really think I should cut it off and get a shiny new model!"
Anyway, it's really not about you and whether you care, is it?
// Jus' saying'.
Well actually - Yeah, kinda. You already know your gender. Facebook only allows you to mention it because other people might want to know. If, therefore, you have no interest in answering the question honestly, just put "undisclosed", and call it good.
By giving you 50 possible answers, however, they may as well just put a freetext box so the frat-boys can answer "yes", the geeks can answer "wookie", and the feminists can answer "stop oppressing me you misogynistic pig!"
But hey, go ahead and make use of the "green fog of glitter" option, because y'know, honestly, it really does tell us soooo much about you!
/ Like to stay the hell away from you if we want a low-drama life.
You'd really tell a post-op trans XY now-woman to use the men's room?
Keep in mind you prefaced that with "you can't immediately tell from how they are dressed whether they want the Gents or the Gals version"...
So yes. Yes, I'd ask. Rather than uselessly wave in some random direction while I awkwardly stammer something incoherent that somehow tries to include both genders in my answer like "well go that way, you'll come to the women's room first then the men's, but of course if you don't have the appropriate tackle, you can't fish there, right?".
Sorry, but as much as we may hear about rudeness in the modern world, our society has become polite to the point of complete impotence. We can't work up the courage to ask a blunt question required to meaningfully answer someone's question? Fuck that. "Sorry Pat, I can't read ya - You need a pisser or a stall?"
And if that offends you, hey, both genders can technically use the women's room. Have fun.
Offhand, I can think of only one situation that makes that possible - One of you makes a good amount of money, and one doesn't work.
Because if you both make around the same amount, stock up on lube. And by "around the same amount", well, during a bout of unemployment a few years ago, with my SO making six figures and me "making" $350 a week as a waste of flesh, we STILL would have lost money if we had filed as married.
Though in fairness, we own a house together, which makes a big difference - She can claim all the expenses and I can take the standard deduction - Which you can't legally do if married filing separately.
As a former firmware engineer myself, let me assure you that the rest of the coding world views us as the elites-of-the-elites. Yes, you need to know SQL and Javascript to get a job these days, but if you can pick those up (you can), you'll have a distinct edge over virtually everyone else applying for whatever job you want.
;)
And in case you wondered - Yes, you do have it harder than the rest of the coding world. Shit, I could sleep through my 9-to-5 and still outperform most of my peers at writing user-space code. Like a cool breeze on a hot summer day, 80% of the pay for 5% of the frustration. You won't look back!
Just a warning, though... We tend to suck at GUI design. Fortunately, you'll have no trouble finding members of your "team" that actually want the "glamor" of arguing with management about typefaces and colors.
Sure... In the same way that "paying taxes" counts as a "perk" of civilization. You realize that getting married means you get to pay MORE in taxes, right?
// Plan to stay that way.
/// With the same woman for 20 years, and no plans to upgrade.
//// Fix the damned CSS on Slashdot "Classic", Dice!
/ Not married.
If you want to eat Cheerios instead of cardboard, well, that's going to require either 1) a job, or 2) a waiver based on medical hardship, inability to find a job, etc.
// Hey, you want suggestions? How about defaulting the goddamned subject line? Oh yeah, and don't let me forget, get rid of that goddamned Metro-style front page!
/// BTW, since when has Slashdot - Somewhat famous for ONLY removing content because of court order - Added the concept of "flag this post"? Make no mistake, Beta pisses me off, but the first time a post of mine gets administratively deleted will count as the last time I visit Slashdot.Dice.com.
Clearly you missed the intro lecture to "Socialist Utopia 101", where we learn that everyone really wants to work a dirty, demeaning job, if only they didn't need to worry about where their next ultra-high-def TV will come from.
Why do you hate America? Don't you realize how much better we'd all have it if the 99% just stayed home eating Cheetos while the 1% pay for everything?
/ So, Slashdot has "heard" us, and will adapt Beta to our needs... By breaking the non-Beta site until we have no choice but to "voluntarily" come here (or leave entirely)?
Because people want to know your gender for a reason, not just as an abstract set of meaningless adjectives you wish applied to you.
In most cases, I really don't care about your gender. If I bother to look it up or ask, though, I damned well want an answer like "male", "female", "indeterminate", or "undisclosed". And if I bother to inquire about it, I want your answer of "male" to mean the genotype XY, not "it's complicated but I tend to wear men's clothing and take top during sex". In that case, just go with "undisclosed".
And yes, before some pedant chimes in, I know the difference between genotype and social gender identity - I just don't care if your self-image involves referring to yourself as a translucent cloud of neon green glitter.
Ah, math fail on my part. I just did 2014 - 2010. Good catch.
Wow... So that BS went on for almost two years before Assange holed up in London? Funny how fast the wheels of justice turn, sometimes.
What utter bullshit, and the usual pro-Assange smears when this shit comes up.
You can make a (weak) case for him actually having "raped" Sofia Wilen as a technicality. The whole Arden situation, however, only makes this into a disturbingly laughable illustration of the reactionary misandry coded into Swedish law, with even Arden herself not accusing him of anything more than being a manipulative asshole - Yet prosecutors took the whole ball of wax and ran with it. If you don't to hear people complaining about "rape after the fact", Ny should limit her inquiry to just the one "real" charge.
But wait, this situation has no charges yet! We've had this whole circus going on just because Ny won't even talk to Assange remotely. At this point, the "threat" of him fleeing seems like a moot point; she needs to do her damned job, and either move the case forward or drop it.
Regardless of the facts of the situation, however, you can't seriously believe for even half a second that Assange has any chance whatsoever of getting a fair trial in Sweden.
As for whether or not Assange believes himself when he claims he fears extradition to the US - He only faced two years in a cushy Swedish prison. He has now lived trapped in the Ecuadorian embassy for four.
There is a reason why an employer likes to see the word a team player on a CV
Know how I can tell you come from academia and have absolutely no clue how the real world of business works?
Whenever they make a mistake they say "it's because of that idiot" behind the alleged idiots back.
I tend to say it in front of the idiot's face (in private), and then back it up. But I also find that trying to escalate that to the people signing your checks amounts to a complete waste of time. Me, I find "Here, go catch up on your *cough* technical skills and leave me the fuck alone for a few weeks while I do all the work and we both get paid 5x what the regular employees here make" will get you a hell of a lot farther than making a fuss. And for the idiots smart enough to know their shortcomings, you've just earned yourself free coffees for a month.
Like it or not, the real world has a lot more people getting paid to do work they have no right doing, than those paying them want to admit. I won't claim myself a superstar, but I've worked with more than a reasonably-proportional number of folks who could only pass as "engineers" in the "sanitation" sense - But, like it or not, HR can't tell someone who knows a lot of buzzwords from a real engineer (now if you want to discuss why HR tends to have so much influence in hiring for jobs they don't have the faintest clue about, we can continue that as a different topic). Oh yeah, and HR doesn't make mistakes. Just ask them about it.
Which pretty much sums up my advise to TFS' author - Suck it up. You can't "win" here, just make sure you get paid hourly; do your best to minimize the "expert's" damage; and document, document, document the idiocy in case everything goes to shit and you need to prove you held up your end of the log.
By using one ticket when you enter and another when you exit you are breaking the rules.
Right of first sale. I can do whatever the hell I want with my little slip of paper (or do they use cards there now?), and to hell with their "rules".
More to the point, FTS: "But by swapping tickets in the city center, they could both pay for a short commute in each others' suburbs. But is that fair to other commuters?"
Fair? How does it count as in any way unfair? You have stops A, M, and Z, with M at the city center and A,Z two outlying suburbs. If they consider it just peachy that I can ride A-M-A or Z-M-Z all day every day for $5/trip, it costs the system not a penny more to take A-M-Z and Z-M-A, yet they think they can charge more to do it? The same trains/buses carry the same number of passengers the same distance. Fuck that.
And as for TFS's speculation that they implement differential pricing as a form of zoning / social policy - Geographic discriminatory pricing still discriminates. "Golly, we had no idea that higher fares to more distant (and purely coincidentally whiter) suburbs discourage poor black people from leaving their inner-city slums!". That pig just don't fly.
It just means that the FCC likes its money the same way all government agencies do.
If they license (aka "accept a bribe for monopoly use of a free public resource") a chunk of spectrum to your neighbor so he can run a Christian Rock radio station, you have absolutely no right to complain that your microwave, can opener, and dog fountain all buzz along non-stop to Petra's Greatest Hits.
If, however, your blender causes even the slightest bit of feedback for your neighbor's radio station, you can expect the feds to swoop in with guns drawn to confiscate and destroy every electronic device in your house.
Really quite a great scam!
I don't get it why they keep saying that "if 1 penny costs 2 pennies to mint then we shouldn't make them anymore".
In the case of pennies and nickels, this has nothing to do with the actual cost to make them so much as their inherent value in metal content.
Yes, melting down pennies to sell for scrap breaks the law. Now look at a random handful of pennies and see how many you can find that predate 1982 (when they went from pure copper to mostly zinc). If you don't think we have people scrapping them for copper, I have a bridge to sell you.
The same thing happened in 1964 when our dimes-and-up stopped containing any silver (nickels always used copper/nickel, except during WWII) . Although you'll occasionally (rarely!) get lucky and find one mixed in with your change, pre-1964 change has effectively ceased to exist in circulation.
That said, as far as I can tell the whole "costs more to make" arguments counts as just a rationalization. People hate pennies, and just want them gone. This has nothing to do with value or cost or the phase of the moon - Even in my youth, a few decades ago, a penny would only buy you a single piece of the crappiest candy. Today, even that crappy candy costs a quarter. So why the hell do we keep creating a coin that only has use in the aggregate? Ditch the worthless lump of zinc and stick with coins that have actual buying power.
People do two things with pennies - Kids thrown them in jars in the closet, and old ladies tie up the checkout line trying to make exact change. Factoid of the day: If you saw a parking lot covered in "free" pennies (say one per square foot), you would need to pick one up every five seconds just to make minimum wage. By comparison, doing crappy agricultural piecework like strawberry harvesting, if you could work at that same rate, you'd make 21x as much for the same type of effort.
What ever happened to the ubiqitous 47 C.F.R. 15.5? How did this building even find noncompliant lights to install, in the US? And weirder still, why the hell would a lighting system use 700MHz?
if the Finns have a law, then it's up to people in Finland - Finnish or not - to abide by it.
Which has what, exactly, to do with Wikipedia, a purely American company that hosts everything including the Finnish site) in CA?
If, as an American, I write a webpage in Russian condemning Putin and the Russian orthodox church, should I expect the "we don't call them KGB anymore" to swing by and throw me in a glass cage? If I draw a cartoon of Mohammed molesting little girls, should I expect Ali Khamenei to call down a Jihad on my ass? If I give a Nazi salute in public, with Merkel get her panties in a bunch?
If the Finns have a law, them it's up to the POLICE in Finland to know where their borders end. Simple as that.
Hence Dice decided to slash the site's budget from several millions to zero.
That doesn't say what you think it does: "Therefore, $7.2 million of intangible assets and $6.3 million of goodwill related to Slashdot Media were reduced to zero"
A ledger entry for "goodwill" means that Dice previously claimed that Slashdot had more real worth than its book value suggests, due to hard-to-measure aspects of the site (demographics, loyalty, reputation, etc). Usually a company will record that largely to justify to shareholders that they paid too much for an asset they "want" but that doesn't make sense on a purely financial level. Most importantly, it has nothing to do with "funding" of Slashdot.
That said, the page you link does mention something... Odd: "Slashdot Media was acquired to provide content and services that are important to technology professionals in their everyday work lives and to leverage that reach into the global technology community benefiting user engagement on the Dice.com site"
I find that odd because Dice.com has no "user engagement". As far as I can tell, it doesn't even have many real job postings, with most of its listings nothing more than the HR equivalent of honeypots - Just tasting the waters and hoping to find out how much leverage they have to screw their current employees.
This is a rhetorical question. It would be similar to ask "why do we write books or manuals when we can just record a video"
You clearly haven't searched for even the most trivial of "How do I..." topics recently, have you?
Why write three quick and dirty sentence-fragments on how to do it, when you can record a 10 minute video and post it to YouTube? And I wish I meant this as hyperbole.
More seriously, I agree with you. We still code in text because no programming language will ever let me easily express "c^=0xdeadbeef" by drawing a line between two data objects. Yes, wizards have become reasonably adept at setting up the core functionality of any app not worth writing in the first place. But even when they do allow you to write a line of code such as I gave above, well... I can type that in about a tenth the time it would take me to click... drag... click... right-click... click (function) select (xor)... click (constant) type "0xdeadbeef"... whatmorondoesntaccepthexforafuckingbitwiseop??? backspace*10 "-559038737".
The comment system isn't finished yet, that's for sure -- but we've implemented a number of changes and improvements in response to the feedback from the October launch.
:)
Honestly, the new comment systems seems like the BEST part of the redesign. It at least works on my tablet, something the current site doesn't manage (the moderation threshold sliders don't work in any browser I've tried). Now, if I could convince you to revert the comments to before the previous unwelcome redesign, we can talk.
My biggest complaint has more to do with the overall look and feel, as made most obvious right on the front page - It looks like Slashdot has fully embraced everything that makes people loathe the Win8 Metro interface. Jolly candy-like tiles, woo-hoo! I just can't understand why a site where 90% of its members mock Win8 would strive for that as an overall design aesthetic. Did Microsoft buy Dice and somehow I missed the announcement?
Let's start a sig campaign, prefix your's with [FUCK BETA]. This way you can stay on-topic and still protest.
As a first step, I suggest suffixing your normal link to Slashdot with "/?nobeta=1". At least until Slashdot decides to fully pull the plug and tell us all to go fuck ourselves, that will keep you from having to ever see the abomination they call the new beta site. And as a bonus, whether or not they care, they'll get the message loud and clear when 90% of their inbound traffic explicitly rejects their crappy beta.
That said, thanks for the idea - Though to hell with sigs, make it the start of your SUBJECT for every post. I will use it until they listen or make it a moot point - Though from past experience, I fully expect the latter, because they just don't care in the least about what we think.
Of course, at some point, they will tap into NHS (I'm assuming that this is UK), and send to everyone, regardless of whether they had opted-in or not.
If they ever make it anything but opt-in, the "victims" of these messages have a pretty simple way to fight back: Respond with pictures. Big ones.
No, you can't bankrupt your own government, but just watch the NHS try to justify a billion pounds a year in data overages to support a single unpopular program. "Next up on the budget chopping block..."
It's a case of where the "product" is at risk (viewer's eyeballs) in the eyes of the customer (advertisers) because viewers are turned off by what they see and it's not entertaining.
If you can buy wooden swords for 1 gold in the first town, and sell them for 1000 gold to the "collector" in the mid-game town, but only the Bard can get past the king's roadblock to get back to the first town... Do you blame the players who struggle through "useless bard" for half the game then multiclass with near-infinite money, thereby destroying the game's intended economy... Or do you blame the game designer for not realizing the obvious exploit in the price of goods?
Jeopardy could easily add a rule that you can' t pick any row with unanswered questions above it. They haven't. Suck it up, Alex.
What this guy does is probably "right" and "correct", but it makes for a boring and annoying game.
An individual player doesn't have the goal of entertaining you. An individual player has the goal of maximizing their overall take - Which Chu has decided means maximizing his wins if not necessarily his per-game take.
Jeopardy can change the rules if they want, but from the POV of an individual player, to hell with the "entertainment" value.
Americans don't like it,' the materials note, when the government relies heavily on classified sources
That doesn't mean you need to find a way to "fake" the chain of evidence. It means that Americans don't fucking like classified evidence, what with our constitution guaranteeing us the right to face our accusers. As in, our actual accusers, not some fictional "these guys who just happened to smell bomb-making chemicals on your breath" accusers.
You want to keep the public off your backs, quit playing all these bullshit "Big Brother knows best" games, and if you can't come out and say how you know something, keep it to yourselves.
I wonder how long America would last if the entire World declared war on America.
We wouldn't win, but we wouldn't exactly "lose", either.
Keep in mind that the "cold" war merely warmed up a few degrees... The world still contains enough nukes to render our ball of mud into an uninhabitable radioactive wasteland 10x over. And the US has a significant fraction of those (and possibly a majority of the functional ones, by most accounts of the state of the former USSR's stockpile).