I spelled science wrong since it's 3:20a. Not trying to margianalize scientific discovery...the significance of that island just seems considerably outweighed (as far as news is concerned) by nearly any criterion you would care to use.
And while you were writing this, another 45 people died for various reasons. You forgot to mention this...
Yeah but I didn't just post a news story about the thing that killed them, and focus on something that is non-unique, trivial sience instead.
The guy above this post though is 100% right..it would never have made it to slashdot, and it would have been better that way. It does say "news for nerds" not "nerd news for nerds" though. It's not like nerds (at least most of them) literally only care about tech and science news.
"About 10 times as many die from motor vehicle accidents each year in the US as died in the 911 attack. This doesn't warrant some traffic cop activity?"
"No."
And your reasoning is that it doesn't help save lives...I don't want people to jump over 4 lanes without signaling or looking, and yet I've seen that exact thing WITH cops. Same with running reds etc.
Every once in awhile I see one of them actually get one of those fuckers (instead of nailing poor people for no registration), and I feel like it probably discourages those behaviors. Those behaviors most certainly cause accidents.
I say "I feel," but there are most certainly studies that support that. However I don't feel like googling them for you.
" Smoking kills far more people than car accidents, but I don't see much of a public push to rid the world of that habit."
Haven't they been steadily adding increasingly ominous warnings to tobacco products for a few decades or so? What about the multi-billion dollar lawsuits?
Also it's the government weighing risk vs reward in that equation, so it's an unfair comparison. Of course they won't do anything - tobacco generated them (the government) $32 billion last year. The loss of life doesn't weigh very heavily against money since it also benefits the government unfortunately.
I'm not saying it should be illegalized just responding to a few cherrypicked points.
They are just giving Tesla free press in the end, and public sympathy. They are building up competition that will eventually be able to sell directly (so I hope since most people seem to be against it) to people, and eventually have a lower cost car that competes.
They helped get Tesla off the ground, and I think soon, Tesla is gonna mess their bottom line up quite a bit.
As a Texan I am absolutely disguisted by this. So having a conservative state legislature is bad for a lot of reasons. However, supposedly one of the benefits is keeping the government out of things it has no business in. So what the living fuck happened.
Forcing someone to use a middle man by law is pants-on-head retarded. If your model can't compete you're going to lose. This sounds an awful lot like RIAA/MPAA crap.
It's not like tesla is going to impact their bottom line heavily - hybrids and electrics are disliked by a lot of people. Not to mention most people don't have that kind of money to drop on a car.
This is just ridiculous. I hate people that bitch about "the corporations" at every possible chance, but this is almost certainly a result of our corporate overlords. So these dealers are entitled BY LAW to make money off someone's product? And you wonder why conservatives bitch about market regulation (even if they do hypocritically regulate the market anyways) well here's why. Regulation is good, but this isn't regulation this is bribery of our elected officials.
I would give so much to be able to catch these corrupt fucks in the act of accepting a bribe.
Not everyone is scientifically literate as I assume you are, and I believe I am. People who aren't scientifically literate frankly don't realize science isn't based on belief.
While I agree that those people are extremely annoying they have an equal right to post. I don't know if you realize this but there are most likely a LOT of individuals that dwarf your knowledge. What if they feel the same way, and don't want the "unwashed masses" like me and you posting in our ignorance.
I just don't like it when people are elitist.
After all that rant being said if someone is being pigheaded, and posting nothing but ad-hominem garbage without valid points, remove their comments. If they are regurgitating their agenda's talking points that's a hard one to judge. Some of those talking points may spawn intelligent discussion (trite though they are), some of them may even have a bit of validity.
Further, once you simply remove stuff for "regurgitating talk points" it can be used as a blanket excuse to get rid of any comments the mods don't like.
Keep in mind this may not be with the proprietor's permission, knowledge, or may even be contrary to what he/she wants.
Some of your methods for culling the posts are good ideas. However, unfortunately, Web 2.0 is here to stay, and a lot of those techniques don't carry over. Setting it up so comments require moderator approval seems like a no-brainer, simple solution though.
I think it just comes down to them not wanting to pay personnel - which is a terrible, terrible excuse since getting solid volunteer moderators isn't particularly difficult.
So...thinking about your post and posting this has gotten me to the point to ask: why?
I'm not even remotely well-versed in these matter, and I know the above solutions would absolutely work. I know it, because I've seen them work, literally thousands of times. Anyone have a theory?
So I don't see any reason that this would live to "enthusiast computing" (I read this as stuff made at home), but I don't see any problem with the statement you quoted.
I'm assuming you're saying arsenide should be quoted as the entire compound, or that it should be gallium arsenide. It's not exactly an egregious error since it can be solved by adding an s to the end. If they had said "arsenides" it would have been correct - not far off.
I say arsenides would have been correct since IIRC they use several arsenide salts especially aluminum and gallium arsenide.
I sincerely dislike whoever voted you down. I would further extend contention 3 however, and say cronyism is human nature. Gamesmanship is an art practiced by many. No matter what system is I'm place corruption is going to happen.
At that point...no matter what syste...the gov is supposed to fix it. Unfortunately governments placing high value on wealth is not unique to capitalism.
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I spelled science wrong since it's 3:20a. Not trying to margianalize scientific discovery...the significance of that island just seems considerably outweighed (as far as news is concerned) by nearly any criterion you would care to use.
And while you were writing this, another 45 people died for various reasons. You forgot to mention this...
Yeah but I didn't just post a news story about the thing that killed them, and focus on something that is non-unique, trivial sience instead.
The guy above this post though is 100% right..it would never have made it to slashdot, and it would have been better that way. It does say "news for nerds" not "nerd news for nerds" though. It's not like nerds (at least most of them) literally only care about tech and science news.
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Cops cannot fire from a moving vehicle at any time...at least legally.
Just following orders? Where have I heard that before?
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And the opposing argument falls. Damn good response.
"About 10 times as many die from motor vehicle accidents each year in the US as died in the 911 attack. This doesn't warrant some traffic cop activity?"
"No."
And your reasoning is that it doesn't help save lives...I don't want people to jump over 4 lanes without signaling or looking, and yet I've seen that exact thing WITH cops. Same with running reds etc.
Every once in awhile I see one of them actually get one of those fuckers (instead of nailing poor people for no registration), and I feel like it probably discourages those behaviors. Those behaviors most certainly cause accidents.
I say "I feel," but there are most certainly studies that support that. However I don't feel like googling them for you.
" Smoking kills far more people than car accidents, but I don't see much of a public push to rid the world of that habit."
Haven't they been steadily adding increasingly ominous warnings to tobacco products for a few decades or so? What about the multi-billion dollar lawsuits?
Also it's the government weighing risk vs reward in that equation, so it's an unfair comparison. Of course they won't do anything - tobacco generated them (the government) $32 billion last year. The loss of life doesn't weigh very heavily against money since it also benefits the government unfortunately.
I'm not saying it should be illegalized just responding to a few cherrypicked points.
I'm glad you posted this response dripping with sarcasm. People who see that all as the same category are dicks.
They are just giving Tesla free press in the end, and public sympathy. They are building up competition that will eventually be able to sell directly (so I hope since most people seem to be against it) to people, and eventually have a lower cost car that competes.
They helped get Tesla off the ground, and I think soon, Tesla is gonna mess their bottom line up quite a bit.
As a Texan I am absolutely disguisted by this. So having a conservative state legislature is bad for a lot of reasons. However, supposedly one of the benefits is keeping the government out of things it has no business in. So what the living fuck happened.
I meant to say this is bribery of our elected officials in the guise of market regulation.
Forcing someone to use a middle man by law is pants-on-head retarded. If your model can't compete you're going to lose. This sounds an awful lot like RIAA/MPAA crap.
It's not like tesla is going to impact their bottom line heavily - hybrids and electrics are disliked by a lot of people. Not to mention most people don't have that kind of money to drop on a car.
This is just ridiculous. I hate people that bitch about "the corporations" at every possible chance, but this is almost certainly a result of our corporate overlords.
So these dealers are entitled BY LAW to make money off someone's product? And you wonder why conservatives bitch about market regulation (even if they do hypocritically regulate the market anyways) well here's why. Regulation is good, but this isn't regulation this is bribery of our elected officials.
I would give so much to be able to catch these corrupt fucks in the act of accepting a bribe.
45 people died, but the news story is about a new not-island less than the size of a football field. Nice.
Exactly there are inappropriate venues and appropriate venues. It seems like a comment section is an appropriate venue.
I'm mixed on this...certain sites don't need comment sections. Wtf would JSTOR or NIMH be like with comments.
Not everyone is scientifically literate as I assume you are, and I believe I am. People who aren't scientifically literate frankly don't realize science isn't based on belief.
While I agree that those people are extremely annoying they have an equal right to post. I don't know if you realize this but there are most likely a LOT of individuals that dwarf your knowledge. What if they feel the same way, and don't want the "unwashed masses" like me and you posting in our ignorance.
I just don't like it when people are elitist.
After all that rant being said if someone is being pigheaded, and posting nothing but ad-hominem garbage without valid points, remove their comments. If they are regurgitating their agenda's talking points that's a hard one to judge. Some of those talking points may spawn intelligent discussion (trite though they are), some of them may even have a bit of validity.
Further, once you simply remove stuff for "regurgitating talk points" it can be used as a blanket excuse to get rid of any comments the mods don't like.
Keep in mind this may not be with the proprietor's permission, knowledge, or may even be contrary to what he/she wants.
Some of your methods for culling the posts are good ideas. However, unfortunately, Web 2.0 is here to stay, and a lot of those techniques don't carry over. Setting it up so comments require moderator approval seems like a no-brainer, simple solution though.
I think it just comes down to them not wanting to pay personnel - which is a terrible, terrible excuse since getting solid volunteer moderators isn't particularly difficult.
So...thinking about your post and posting this has gotten me to the point to ask: why?
I'm not even remotely well-versed in these matter, and I know the above solutions would absolutely work. I know it, because I've seen them work, literally thousands of times. Anyone have a theory?
I agree 100%...the only time I want an article on evolution or global warming is if new evidence is discovered - on either side.
This.
So I don't see any reason that this would live to "enthusiast computing" (I read this as stuff made at home), but I don't see any problem with the statement you quoted.
I'm assuming you're saying arsenide should be quoted as the entire compound, or that it should be gallium arsenide. It's not exactly an egregious error since it can be solved by adding an s to the end. If they had said "arsenides" it would have been correct - not far off.
I say arsenides would have been correct since IIRC they use several arsenide salts especially aluminum and gallium arsenide.
Or I missed something.
No, that would hurt small companiess more than the above.
I sincerely dislike whoever voted you down. I would further extend contention 3 however, and say cronyism is human nature. Gamesmanship is an art practiced by many. No matter what system is I'm place corruption is going to happen.
At that point...no matter what syste...the gov is supposed to fix it.
Unfortunately governments placing high value on wealth is not unique to capitalism.
Well the summary was apparently written with the authors testicles. It hurts my brain.
This scenario is insane..agreed. What business is it of paypal's?
However anyone who has encountered bank of America's "risk department" knows they make paypal look like troll jr. And they are a bank.
Lbc is great for sure. Simple escrows (like lbc) have done a lot for my faith in BTC.
Yes lets choose the most moronic possible advocacy. If millions all of a sudden refused to pay or collect taxes on the other hand...
Smoking and drinking are degenerate behaviorm. Glad the guy running this study wasn't my dad.
Perhaps they needed to prepare a new instrument and it was reported on incompetently in the interim.
Probably willful deception...just saying coukd be the reporters.