whatever the evil and vile Dutch overlords speak (we lubs you anyways)
How come we're the only ones that get to be evil and vile? And we speak dutch btw. And english. And german. And some of us even get along quite well in french, italian or spanish(mostly french though as a 4th language).
While we're at it, let's ban pointers as well since they're pointing to memory possibly containing copyrighted material. Which, I guess, means I'll never have to worry about C again.
And let's not even get started on...say, the phone book?;-)
Sorry, but I'm in your generation, and the tv is sitting downstairs gathering dust;-) I just don't feel plopping down and watching whatever happens to catch my interest is a worthy use of what little time there's left after work and running a household. I'll watch the Daily Show online in the morning before work, maybe some other shows on the web that I've heard or read about it, and that's pretty much it. If it weren't for the occasional guests or maybe a console in the living room for the nieces and nephews at some point i might toss the whole thing out.
The real point here is that if I stand on someone's right side they're more likely to do what I tell them.
This gets me one step closer to that volcano lair filled with minions.
Who cares about your volcano? Think on what this will mean for callcenters...:-)
Hey there sonny, why you got your headset on your left ear? Not feeling very cooperative today are we?
And any company where the receptionists have their headsets in their left ear automatically gets on the "never want to work there" list. Note to self: check reception on way out.
I think it has more to do with Libertarian political beliefs not being popular on this site at times.
Mwah, or perhaps with the fact that said beliefs, even though quite marginal, are spouted as though they are absolute laws of economics, nay, nature even, and the rest of us just haven't seen the light yet?
Remember the good old ideologists shouting "property is theft!"?
Now compare the/. libertarians ranting and raving about how the government is taking money from them by force and by holding a gun to their head. Anyway, if you pay attention you'll find out it's only a really small group of hardliners showing up in every discussion and one can easily apply their own (mental) filter.
And that's where Ahmadinejad got his 60% of the vote. It might be interesting to enable the 'intellectual elite' of Iran living in the big cities to make their displeasure known to the rest of the world. But as long as they have a semblance of a democratic system, their fundies are going to run the place.
It is not showing their displeasure that I find the most important, it is that as long as their mobile phones provide a direct link to the web, the government can't lay down the machinegun fire without every western news network showing it on tv 5 minutes later.
Which is exactly what amuses me so much about some of the arguments the 2nd amendment fanatics in the US trot out. That camera in your phone is 10 times more powerful a weapon than a handgun will ever be as a means of fighting the government.
Surely this is a way for government to clip the wings of a struggling section of the fourth estate? Governments - anyone in power - generally does not look all that kindly on aggressive newspapers that speak truth to power and hold governments to account.
Considering both the amount of political parties as well as the wide spread of political ideologies in our parliament, for every nutcase that would love the above there's an opposing nutcase to scream about it.
Our press is still free to make fun of the government, and whoever happens to be running the opposition loves it that way. Heck, where would Wilders be without the press? (Not gonna link the guy, his haircut is horribly NSFW or anywhere else)
The one place where internet coverage really really sucks is local coverage. Newspapers completely dominate that niche, even now. That's why small town newspapers are so pervasive: that news isn't available anywhere else, and even a weekly paper has far more actual content than the pathetic little 30 minute news spots the tv stations do...In my experience, the TV and radio stations tend to lift everything from the newspapers anyway (which is getting easier, now that the papers are putting things online so quickly.)
Considering the local newspaper, crappy as they may be, publishes news updates on their websites dozens of times a day...I'd say we've got a decent amount of synergy going on already. And this is in fact in the Netherlands btw.
The big advantage of the web is that I can have the website of my local newspaper and a website with inside information on the goings-on in Iran side by side, keeping track of both the backyard and the way over there at the same time, from the convenience of a lazy chair.
Jesus fucking christ on a pogo stick! What is it with you americans?
We're talking a city council here...either the people of said city want a surveillance society, in which case there is no issue, or they don't, in which case the council trying to implement one will result in said council not being reelected.
Especially at these local levels democratic processes work fine, and if they don't then people need to stop bitching on the web and start bitching on the street in front of the council where the camera's can pick it up.
Stop acting like bloody victims, will you? There's more to democracy then placing your vote and then spending an entire term bitching one way or the other.
We call it something else when someone steals money from you, and then uses your stolen money to buy something, and then sets up shop in opposition to those in civil society, i.e. those who only ask for your money, and don't take it from you at gunpoint.
Weeeeeeh, foam at the mouth libertarian alarm! The way you describe it, we call it paranoid delusion.
It's a municipal government, and 3/4's of the people in said municipality think it's a good idea. Oh, and the guys in civil society plain out refused to set up shop in the first place.
Off you go, back to dreaming about your Randian paradise(Somalia).
Logic like this is very dangerous. Stick to the original question: What is the monentary benefit from legalization of marijuana (private sector profits, revenue from taxation, cost benefits from ending law enforcement) versus the monentary cost -- health care, loss of productivity, and secondary effects (crime, addiction, etc).
Let's see, in countries where pot is legal/condoned, actual use is typically lower than in countries where it's illegal. So the results of legalizing pot would be: - No more need for law enforcement to chase pot smokers/dealers.(won't save any money though, plenty of other stuff for them to go after). - Income from taxes - Less pot smokers in general
And no, I'm not going to dig up studies for you. And I'd love to hear your really good arguments, especially if they're actually backed by facts.
It isn't surround sound, but who the hell has a 5.1 surroundset for gaming anyway?
Ehmm, you ever see those sets with a woofer and 5 or 7 small speakers? Don't cost a whole lot either...there's a reason pretty much all soundcards these days are 7.1
My daughter Leila, still an avid gamer, mentioned to me that in the last GTA she got, there's a dope dealer named "Osama". It seems to me that the designers are censoring themselves, and pushing politically correct themes (like dope dealers being terrorists) and their snideness is hurting both their art and the quality of the games themselves.
Despite not being much of a GTA fan, my experience with the series so far has been that the developers have a pretty decent sense of humor and throw in a lot of small jokes. I think you're seeing a deeper meaning that isn't there in this particular case.
Try running 32 bit applications on Win64 and see how well that works.
I've been using the 64 bit version of XP for...dunno how long, since i built my previous PC, so let's make it 3 years. I've yet to encounter a single application that ran any differently. Sure, some old software won't run perfectly off the bat and requires that you enable 98/ME compatibility mode but that applies to the 32 bit version as well.
Have you got any specific examples of applications you came across that failed to work while they do work well under the equivalent 32 bit OS?
From what I understand, in some countries you can take indefinite "sick" leave, without doctor's note nor explanation. After your regular leave is up, you then earn 50%. After a period, the gov't pays it. When you're "better", you can just show back up to work, and they're obliged to give you either your original position back, or a comparable one. I knew someone like that. He suffered from depression, didn't leave the house for 2 years, and was still getting paid. He went back to work for a few months, and then the "depression" started up again. I think it was more that he was abusing the system, but there are plenty of people who do that. I prefer to work for pay. I don't feel society owes me anything, unless I do something for them in return.
In the Netherlands it works a *bit* like that, except that there is a separate institution with independant doctors, and after a certain amount of time or a certain amount of sickdays over a year you have to check in with one of those. Said doctor is is still bound by doctor-patient confidentiality, so they're not allowed to tell your employer what is wrong with you, but they will try to bust you if you're gaming the system.
They'll also try to advice the company on what measures might be taken to mediate the issue and if the problem is/might be work-related(yay for bacterial colonies growing in the airco of a callcenter).
I don't feel society owes me anything, unless I do something for them in return.
Ahhhh. Let me guess. You're a single guy?
You are doing something for society. It's called paying taxes. Think of it as an insurance policy for a civilization.
Usually either your bank/car dealership financial office(check the small print) or one of the big 3 credit record places.
I used to maintain a snailmail catalog list, my boss was frequently considering buying access to lists of buyers of related product X or readers of related magazine Y.
When I looked through some of the options you could get from, say, Experian, I was rather amazed. Recently graduated nurses or lawyers in practice for 10+ years. Age x to y, married or not, kids or no kids, own home/renting, bought a luxury/economy car this year, household income in 5k increments, how many times they'd moved.
The good old US, where you have to have a creditcard if you ever want to apply for a loan on something big, and the moment you get one the big 3 sell you out to these kind of guys.
You know, some of them pinko commie countries have laws about what companies are allowed to do with your personal data...and this kinda crap isn't on the list.
What I found is that one of the cornerstones in good relations to non-technical staff is clear communication on THEIR terms - you have to remember that even if you strive to modest about it, you are in fact far cleverer than the rest of them, and they feel that keenly.
Ehmm, no. You're more knowledgeable in your particular field of expertise. Just like the guy in accounting who needs 500MB extra storage space is mostly likely more knowledgeable in his than you are.
From the point of view of a user...you're the guy that provides the hammer I use to do my job. If the hammer breaks and I have to start using a screwdriver to hammer nails into boards...yeah, I'm gonna moan and complain, that's what people do:-)
Part of getting respect for your job performance is paying respect to other people for theirs.
Ok, let's hear your theories about why Obama is still wasting so much money over there. As the other poster said, the entire NASA yearly budget is spent in Iraq every two weeks. What return are we getting on our investment?
None whatsoever. The reason to remain there is because you caused a fucking mess over there and now it's up to you to clean it up before you pack your bags and leave.
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I know the perfect planet for them to demonstrate their power on...
Jita IV will do nicely, thank you.
whatever the evil and vile Dutch overlords speak (we lubs you anyways)
How come we're the only ones that get to be evil and vile? And we speak dutch btw. And english. And german. And some of us even get along quite well in french, italian or spanish(mostly french though as a 4th language).
And we lube you too :-)
Nah, sitting on a gate waiting for the wartarget to undock that you just spent 25 jumps flying towards ;-)
Heh, you guys have actual physical cards?
Here they just punch a button and a ticket with a number you can use to increase pre-pay credit rolls out.
While we're at it, let's ban pointers as well since they're pointing to memory possibly containing copyrighted material. Which, I guess, means I'll never have to worry about C again.
And let's not even get started on...say, the phone book? ;-)
Sorry, but I'm in your generation, and the tv is sitting downstairs gathering dust ;-) I just don't feel plopping down and watching whatever happens to catch my interest is a worthy use of what little time there's left after work and running a household. I'll watch the Daily Show online in the morning before work, maybe some other shows on the web that I've heard or read about it, and that's pretty much it. If it weren't for the occasional guests or maybe a console in the living room for the nieces and nephews at some point i might toss the whole thing out.
Does it matter?
The real point here is that if I stand on someone's right side they're more likely to do what I tell them.
This gets me one step closer to that volcano lair filled with minions.
Who cares about your volcano? Think on what this will mean for callcenters... :-)
Hey there sonny, why you got your headset on your left ear? Not feeling very cooperative today are we?
And any company where the receptionists have their headsets in their left ear automatically gets on the "never want to work there" list. Note to self: check reception on way out.
I think it has more to do with Libertarian political beliefs not being popular on this site at times.
Mwah, or perhaps with the fact that said beliefs, even though quite marginal, are spouted as though they are absolute laws of economics, nay, nature even, and the rest of us just haven't seen the light yet?
Remember the good old ideologists shouting "property is theft!"?
Now compare the /. libertarians ranting and raving about how the government is taking money from them by force and by holding a gun to their head. Anyway, if you pay attention you'll find out it's only a really small group of hardliners showing up in every discussion and one can easily apply their own (mental) filter.
And that's where Ahmadinejad got his 60% of the vote. It might be interesting to enable the 'intellectual elite' of Iran living in the big cities to make their displeasure known to the rest of the world. But as long as they have a semblance of a democratic system, their fundies are going to run the place.
It is not showing their displeasure that I find the most important, it is that as long as their mobile phones provide a direct link to the web, the government can't lay down the machinegun fire without every western news network showing it on tv 5 minutes later.
Which is exactly what amuses me so much about some of the arguments the 2nd amendment fanatics in the US trot out. That camera in your phone is 10 times more powerful a weapon than a handgun will ever be as a means of fighting the government.
Wait, what? Where can I trade in 3 Peugeots for a thousand Jaguars? Sounds profitable :-)
Surely this is a way for government to clip the wings of a struggling section of the fourth estate? Governments - anyone in power - generally does not look all that kindly on aggressive newspapers that speak truth to power and hold governments to account.
Considering both the amount of political parties as well as the wide spread of political ideologies in our parliament, for every nutcase that would love the above there's an opposing nutcase to scream about it.
Our press is still free to make fun of the government, and whoever happens to be running the opposition loves it that way. Heck, where would Wilders be without the press? (Not gonna link the guy, his haircut is horribly NSFW or anywhere else)
The one place where internet coverage really really sucks is local coverage. Newspapers completely dominate that niche, even now. That's why small town newspapers are so pervasive: that news isn't available anywhere else, and even a weekly paper has far more actual content than the pathetic little 30 minute news spots the tv stations do...In my experience, the TV and radio stations tend to lift everything from the newspapers anyway (which is getting easier, now that the papers are putting things online so quickly.)
Considering the local newspaper, crappy as they may be, publishes news updates on their websites dozens of times a day...I'd say we've got a decent amount of synergy going on already. And this is in fact in the Netherlands btw.
The big advantage of the web is that I can have the website of my local newspaper and a website with inside information on the goings-on in Iran side by side, keeping track of both the backyard and the way over there at the same time, from the convenience of a lazy chair.
Jesus fucking christ on a pogo stick!
What is it with you americans?
We're talking a city council here...either the people of said city want a surveillance society, in which case there is no issue, or they don't, in which case the council trying to implement one will result in said council not being reelected.
Especially at these local levels democratic processes work fine, and if they don't then people need to stop bitching on the web and start bitching on the street in front of the council where the camera's can pick it up.
Stop acting like bloody victims, will you? There's more to democracy then placing your vote and then spending an entire term bitching one way or the other.
We call it something else when someone steals money from you, and then uses your stolen money to buy something, and then sets up shop in opposition to those in civil society, i.e. those who only ask for your money, and don't take it from you at gunpoint.
Weeeeeeh, foam at the mouth libertarian alarm! The way you describe it, we call it paranoid delusion.
It's a municipal government, and 3/4's of the people in said municipality think it's a good idea. Oh, and the guys in civil society plain out refused to set up shop in the first place.
Off you go, back to dreaming about your Randian paradise(Somalia).
Doesn't matter! Gubmint bad! Gubmint bad! I read it on slashdot and my daddy keeps screaming it at the tv while watching Fox so it must be true!
Ahh, to be young, idealistic and utterly stupid again. Those were the days.
Logic like this is very dangerous. Stick to the original question: What is the monentary benefit from legalization of marijuana (private sector profits, revenue from taxation, cost benefits from ending law enforcement) versus the monentary cost -- health care, loss of productivity, and secondary effects (crime, addiction, etc).
Let's see, in countries where pot is legal/condoned, actual use is typically lower than in countries where it's illegal. So the results of legalizing pot would be:
- No more need for law enforcement to chase pot smokers/dealers.(won't save any money though, plenty of other stuff for them to go after).
- Income from taxes
- Less pot smokers in general
And no, I'm not going to dig up studies for you. And I'd love to hear your really good arguments, especially if they're actually backed by facts.
I miss hypnodisc...first time I saw that beast go to work...damn! What a monster.
It isn't surround sound, but who the hell has a 5.1 surroundset for gaming anyway?
Ehmm, you ever see those sets with a woofer and 5 or 7 small speakers? Don't cost a whole lot either...there's a reason pretty much all soundcards these days are 7.1
My daughter Leila, still an avid gamer, mentioned to me that in the last GTA she got, there's a dope dealer named "Osama". It seems to me that the designers are censoring themselves, and pushing politically correct themes (like dope dealers being terrorists) and their snideness is hurting both their art and the quality of the games themselves.
Despite not being much of a GTA fan, my experience with the series so far has been that the developers have a pretty decent sense of humor and throw in a lot of small jokes. I think you're seeing a deeper meaning that isn't there in this particular case.
Try running 32 bit applications on Win64 and see how well that works.
I've been using the 64 bit version of XP for...dunno how long, since i built my previous PC, so let's make it 3 years. I've yet to encounter a single application that ran any differently. Sure, some old software won't run perfectly off the bat and requires that you enable 98/ME compatibility mode but that applies to the 32 bit version as well.
Have you got any specific examples of applications you came across that failed to work while they do work well under the equivalent 32 bit OS?
From what I understand, in some countries you can take indefinite "sick" leave, without doctor's note nor explanation. After your regular leave is up, you then earn 50%. After a period, the gov't pays it. When you're "better", you can just show back up to work, and they're obliged to give you either your original position back, or a comparable one. I knew someone like that. He suffered from depression, didn't leave the house for 2 years, and was still getting paid. He went back to work for a few months, and then the "depression" started up again. I think it was more that he was abusing the system, but there are plenty of people who do that. I prefer to work for pay. I don't feel society owes me anything, unless I do something for them in return.
In the Netherlands it works a *bit* like that, except that there is a separate institution with independant doctors, and after a certain amount of time or a certain amount of sickdays over a year you have to check in with one of those. Said doctor is is still bound by doctor-patient confidentiality, so they're not allowed to tell your employer what is wrong with you, but they will try to bust you if you're gaming the system.
They'll also try to advice the company on what measures might be taken to mediate the issue and if the problem is/might be work-related(yay for bacterial colonies growing in the airco of a callcenter).
I don't feel society owes me anything, unless I do something for them in return.
Ahhhh. Let me guess. You're a single guy?
You are doing something for society. It's called paying taxes. Think of it as an insurance policy for a civilization.
ok - what happens with 6 miles of high tensile wire comes crashing down?
It's been a long time, but if I remember correctly you use it to set a bunch of killer sunflowers on fire?
Usually either your bank/car dealership financial office(check the small print) or one of the big 3 credit record places.
I used to maintain a snailmail catalog list, my boss was frequently considering buying access to lists of buyers of related product X or readers of related magazine Y.
When I looked through some of the options you could get from, say, Experian, I was rather amazed. Recently graduated nurses or lawyers in practice for 10+ years. Age x to y, married or not, kids or no kids, own home/renting, bought a luxury/economy car this year, household income in 5k increments, how many times they'd moved.
The good old US, where you have to have a creditcard if you ever want to apply for a loan on something big, and the moment you get one the big 3 sell you out to these kind of guys.
You know, some of them pinko commie countries have laws about what companies are allowed to do with your personal data...and this kinda crap isn't on the list.
What I found is that one of the cornerstones in good relations to non-technical staff is clear communication on THEIR terms - you have to remember that even if you strive to modest about it, you are in fact far cleverer than the rest of them, and they feel that keenly.
Ehmm, no. You're more knowledgeable in your particular field of expertise. Just like the guy in accounting who needs 500MB extra storage space is mostly likely more knowledgeable in his than you are.
From the point of view of a user...you're the guy that provides the hammer I use to do my job. If the hammer breaks and I have to start using a screwdriver to hammer nails into boards...yeah, I'm gonna moan and complain, that's what people do :-)
Part of getting respect for your job performance is paying respect to other people for theirs.
Ok, let's hear your theories about why Obama is still wasting so much money over there. As the other poster said, the entire NASA yearly budget is spent in Iraq every two weeks. What return are we getting on our investment?
None whatsoever. The reason to remain there is because you caused a fucking mess over there and now it's up to you to clean it up before you pack your bags and leave.