"Only about 5% of the world population is fluoridated and more than 50% of these people live in North America.
That may sort of explains the political mess in the US then doesn't it.
In most of western Europe, fluoride in water is banned; because they *do* actually read the research, such as the link that darkharlequin posted and don't just parrot others blindly.
So, someone from Syria who is demonstrably fleeing death and war, showing up in the UK should be sent back, because they happened to show up in the UK?
In the Netherlands the refugee procedures were often years long; this wasn't due to the refugees prolonging the procedure, it was due to the lawyers handling the application were paid per refugee, per month. So prolonging the procedure, meant more $$ for the lawyer handling the procedure. In some exceptional cases refugees were in limbo for 12 years. Unable to work, unable to develop themselves through education.
At the same time there were lots of dutch people who were actually misinformed and blamed the refugees for the huge expense of the cost of handling refugees, while all that time it was the incompetent bureaucracy and often greedy lawyers who were to blame.
I don't like Kim Dotcom, but Megaupload is in principle nothing different than Dropbox or OneDrive and even though he did not have to comply with the US DMCA law, he actually facilitated the US govt and removed things for which a take-down notice was issued.
At some point he was asked by the US government to retain files that were 'pirated' on Megaupload's servers, which was later used against him. Even though there is proof that this was done at the behest of the government.
The reason why Dropbox and OneDrive can exist is the fact that these are US companies. The US, not just the corporations, but its legal enforcer, the US government, will attempt stamp out any competition.
On top of that, sending a anti-terror squad to his house to arrest him, while a letter from the justice department telling him to come to the nearest police office, would have had a similar, but somewhat less dramatic effect.
He was meant to be made an example, with John Key sucking up to Obama and his RIAA/MPAA masters.
As a kiwi I hope he doesn't make progress with his damages suit, but if it does, they should present the bill to hair pulling, too sleazy to be a second card dealer, John Key.
It's different in the way that it does not leave any chemical traces or shrapnel that provides any information on who did it. Although if only one country is using these weapons and you find a heap of seared body parts, it's probably fairly clear who did it.
Undaunted, Eller set out to let others in on the flaw he had discovered
and how he had fixed it. He pulled in any random developer
he could find. He even pulled in Chairman Gates, whose office was just
down the hall.
"Bill, check this out," Eller said, pointing to his computer screen. "I
mean . . . who was the jerk who wrote this brain-dead piece of shit?"
Gates stared at the screen.
"See, now that's what I call a design flaw," Eller said. "Now check out
my new version. Pretty cool, eh?"
Gates nodded, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose.
"Does it work with really complicated things?" Gates asked.
"Sure," Eller told him. He proceeded to draw a complicated object and
flood-fill it.
"See? It works perfectly."
"Can you prove that this works all the time?"
"Uhh, well umm, kind of," Eller said. "I mean, I know it always works,
but I'm a mathematician. The word 'prove' conjures up really ugly ideas."
Gates told Eller his program was nice, then turned and walked back to
his office.
After Gates left, Whitten walked into Eller's office. He had heard the
entire conversation.
"Do you know who wrote the original flood-fill algorithm?" he said,
shaking his head.
"Ahhh, nope," Eller replied. "I don't believe I do."
Whitten paused, rubbed his finger on his left temple, and shook his head
again.
"Bill wrote it," he said. "Bill was the jerk who wrote this brain-dead
piece of shit."
Aimed at a crowd this weapon could certainly be classed as indiscriminate.
Not just indiscriminate, you may not notice you're being targeted until people around you start boiling.
As if hellfire missiles at weddings isn't enough, now there will be no signature whatsoever who did the deed.
It's quite likely that the number of incidents of spontaneous human combustion will go drastically up in the coming years
We're talking 60-90k a year and you can retire in 20 years
This is utter bullcrap. First builders don't make this sort of money. Second even without paying for any living expenses at all during these 20 years, earning the highest rate you've given, someone would have earned 1.8mill. Maybe enough to retire on on fairyland where people get huge interest rates on their savings and pay no living expenses, but not in the real world where people pay rent, get sick and raise children.
/ ironically, many "American" words that British people hate on, originated in Britain, they just fell out of common usage in Britain for a while.
Really? Which words would that be? Defense? Which comes from the english 'defence', which has the base word 'fence' in it, a word which in itself is still written the same way in US english strangely. Maybe 'organize' (or any other verb that uses a 'z' instead of an 's', even though when pronouncing it, one can actually hear an 's' sound, instead of a 'z' sound. Or maybe 'color', where again, one can actually hear the 'ou', instead of the short 'o', when the word 'colour' is pronounced.
It seems that a lot of americanisms are just lazy use of english and poor spelling really, which have somehow become the default way to write things in the US.
I'm all for choice, though, so I'm glad that there are non-systemd distros available. I'd like to think it would mollify the anti-systemd folks, but I'm sure they'll still reflexively foam at the mouth every time systemd is mentioned.
Well, one of the reasons, people who don't want system-D foam at the mouth is that initially this choice was taken away. Quite a lot of people had to put in a lot of work to make sure that there was a choice, something pro-system-D people didn't appear to actually give one shit about when they were pushing hard to move all distros to use system-D.
It's funny that, people getting upset because they have to do (a lot of) extra work, just because some other group of people push their agenda and don't give a damn about the consequences for anyone else as long as they benefit themselves. Who could have imagined that would upset people.
So, nobody else has any benefit from the EU being in economic trouble, like dealing with refugee streams coming through Libya and from Syria?
Right, it's Russia again. It's not like the EU is the largest competitor to the US, next to China... right?
So who was it again, that bombed Libya back to the stone-age, and who was supporting the head-chopping moderate rebels in Syria? That was Russia! O wait, no it wasn't.
Sure, because the only reason why people are dicks or behave stupidly is under the influence of drugs.
Or do you think it may be more likely that the same percentage of the population that are dicks and idiots AND use drugs, actually behave like a dick or an idiot while on drugs?
As a taxpayer, I'm okay with risking an unscheduled wakeup, if it means my local high school gets an arts program.
Problem is probably that your tax money does not go to either the arts programme, nor improving security, but is spent on security theatre, with police being 'tough on crime' and picking up people for jay-walking, walking through a park after 10PM or person use of cannabis instead.
Also the CIA already knew that the rebels had access to Sarin; again certain information is cherry picked to suit the narrative that suits the government.
Maybe instead of stopping to research the matter the minute you find something that corroborates your opinion, you should investigate a bit further. Just the fact that you don't read about these bits of news in the US media, does not mean there is no information available.
If you believe that Assad would initiate a gas attack while he is winning the war already means you must be gullible indeed.
The first gas attack in Ghouta in 2013 was confirmed by the UN to be initiated by the (US backed) rebels.
O wait, you wound up with Trump as president, you already knew that.
Slashdot Mirror
Start reading research on the topic, idiot.
Slashdot used to be full of smart people, what happened?
People have been drinking too much tap water all their lives. Their brain development may be hampered, but their teeth are shiny white.
http://www.fluoridation.com/c-... From the link:
"Only about 5% of the world population is fluoridated and more than 50% of these people live in North America.
That may sort of explains the political mess in the US then doesn't it. In most of western Europe, fluoride in water is banned; because they *do* actually read the research, such as the link that darkharlequin posted and don't just parrot others blindly.
So, someone from Syria who is demonstrably fleeing death and war, showing up in the UK should be sent back, because they happened to show up in the UK?
In the Netherlands the refugee procedures were often years long; this wasn't due to the refugees prolonging the procedure, it was due to the lawyers handling the application were paid per refugee, per month. So prolonging the procedure, meant more $$ for the lawyer handling the procedure. In some exceptional cases refugees were in limbo for 12 years. Unable to work, unable to develop themselves through education.
At the same time there were lots of dutch people who were actually misinformed and blamed the refugees for the huge expense of the cost of handling refugees, while all that time it was the incompetent bureaucracy and often greedy lawyers who were to blame.
Proof? Who needs proof. As long as you repeat a lie loud and long enough, that becomes the truth.
This is bullshit.
I don't like Kim Dotcom, but Megaupload is in principle nothing different than Dropbox or OneDrive and even though he did not have to comply with the US DMCA law, he actually facilitated the US govt and removed things for which a take-down notice was issued.
At some point he was asked by the US government to retain files that were 'pirated' on Megaupload's servers, which was later used against him. Even though there is proof that this was done at the behest of the government.
The reason why Dropbox and OneDrive can exist is the fact that these are US companies. The US, not just the corporations, but its legal enforcer, the US government, will attempt stamp out any competition.
On top of that, sending a anti-terror squad to his house to arrest him, while a letter from the justice department telling him to come to the nearest police office, would have had a similar, but somewhat less dramatic effect.
He was meant to be made an example, with John Key sucking up to Obama and his RIAA/MPAA masters.
As a kiwi I hope he doesn't make progress with his damages suit, but if it does, they should present the bill to hair pulling, too sleazy to be a second card dealer, John Key.
How many heads do you think you're going to explode before people decide to go inside at a fairly brisk pace?
Depends on how many heads in the crowd line up neatly to the line of fire of he laser probably.
Not 'my' book, but yes, it's an interesting and entertaining read...
It's different in the way that it does not leave any chemical traces or shrapnel that provides any information on who did it. Although if only one country is using these weapons and you find a heap of seared body parts, it's probably fairly clear who did it.
Undaunted, Eller set out to let others in on the flaw he had discovered and how he had fixed it. He pulled in any random developer he could find. He even pulled in Chairman Gates, whose office was just down the hall. "Bill, check this out," Eller said, pointing to his computer screen. "I mean . . . who was the jerk who wrote this brain-dead piece of shit?" Gates stared at the screen. "See, now that's what I call a design flaw," Eller said. "Now check out my new version. Pretty cool, eh?" Gates nodded, pushing his glasses up the bridge of his nose. "Does it work with really complicated things?" Gates asked. "Sure," Eller told him. He proceeded to draw a complicated object and flood-fill it. "See? It works perfectly." "Can you prove that this works all the time?" "Uhh, well umm, kind of," Eller said. "I mean, I know it always works, but I'm a mathematician. The word 'prove' conjures up really ugly ideas." Gates told Eller his program was nice, then turned and walked back to his office. After Gates left, Whitten walked into Eller's office. He had heard the entire conversation. "Do you know who wrote the original flood-fill algorithm?" he said, shaking his head. "Ahhh, nope," Eller replied. "I don't believe I do." Whitten paused, rubbed his finger on his left temple, and shook his head again. "Bill wrote it," he said. "Bill was the jerk who wrote this brain-dead piece of shit."
Aimed at a crowd this weapon could certainly be classed as indiscriminate. Not just indiscriminate, you may not notice you're being targeted until people around you start boiling. As if hellfire missiles at weddings isn't enough, now there will be no signature whatsoever who did the deed. It's quite likely that the number of incidents of spontaneous human combustion will go drastically up in the coming years
We're talking 60-90k a year and you can retire in 20 years
This is utter bullcrap. First builders don't make this sort of money. Second even without paying for any living expenses at all during these 20 years, earning the highest rate you've given, someone would have earned 1.8mill. Maybe enough to retire on on fairyland where people get huge interest rates on their savings and pay no living expenses, but not in the real world where people pay rent, get sick and raise children.
If I have to make a guess from your grammar, would that three letter agency be the FSB?
If you think hiring professionals is expensive, wait until you've hired some amateurs.
/ ironically, many "American" words that British people hate on, originated in Britain, they just fell out of common usage in Britain for a while.
Really? Which words would that be? Defense? Which comes from the english 'defence', which has the base word 'fence' in it, a word which in itself is still written the same way in US english strangely. Maybe 'organize' (or any other verb that uses a 'z' instead of an 's', even though when pronouncing it, one can actually hear an 's' sound, instead of a 'z' sound. Or maybe 'color', where again, one can actually hear the 'ou', instead of the short 'o', when the word 'colour' is pronounced.
It seems that a lot of americanisms are just lazy use of english and poor spelling really, which have somehow become the default way to write things in the US.
I'm all for choice, though, so I'm glad that there are non-systemd distros available. I'd like to think it would mollify the anti-systemd folks, but I'm sure they'll still reflexively foam at the mouth every time systemd is mentioned.
Well, one of the reasons, people who don't want system-D foam at the mouth is that initially this choice was taken away. Quite a lot of people had to put in a lot of work to make sure that there was a choice, something pro-system-D people didn't appear to actually give one shit about when they were pushing hard to move all distros to use system-D.
It's funny that, people getting upset because they have to do (a lot of) extra work, just because some other group of people push their agenda and don't give a damn about the consequences for anyone else as long as they benefit themselves. Who could have imagined that would upset people.
Just in case you do come back to check your handy work.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/uk-backed-syrian-rebels-behead-8451881
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/us-president-elect-donald-trump-support-assad-putin-syria-remove-rebel-backing-a7413346.html
Sure. It's all fake news. I must be an evil Russian sitting behind my keyboard in the Kremlin... this never happened.
You're a fucking moron.
So, nobody else has any benefit from the EU being in economic trouble, like dealing with refugee streams coming through Libya and from Syria?
Right, it's Russia again. It's not like the EU is the largest competitor to the US, next to China... right?
So who was it again, that bombed Libya back to the stone-age, and who was supporting the head-chopping moderate rebels in Syria? That was Russia! O wait, no it wasn't.
You obviously haven't met some of the business analysts I've had to work with in the past...
That Adidas trainers were rubbish.
Why would you want to replicate an entire desktop when a single window will do?
It seems like were going backwards technologically in certain areas.
Sure, because the only reason why people are dicks or behave stupidly is under the influence of drugs.
Or do you think it may be more likely that the same percentage of the population that are dicks and idiots AND use drugs, actually behave like a dick or an idiot while on drugs?
Problem is probably that your tax money does not go to either the arts programme, nor improving security, but is spent on security theatre, with police being 'tough on crime' and picking up people for jay-walking, walking through a park after 10PM or person use of cannabis instead.
That's why the lead investigator at the UN mentioned that the Ghouta attack in 2013 was most likely done the rebels then.
http://www.reuters.com/article...
Also the CIA already knew that the rebels had access to Sarin; again certain information is cherry picked to suit the narrative that suits the government.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/s...
Maybe instead of stopping to research the matter the minute you find something that corroborates your opinion, you should investigate a bit further. Just the fact that you don't read about these bits of news in the US media, does not mean there is no information available.
If you believe that Assad would initiate a gas attack while he is winning the war already means you must be gullible indeed. The first gas attack in Ghouta in 2013 was confirmed by the UN to be initiated by the (US backed) rebels. O wait, you wound up with Trump as president, you already knew that.
I don"t need to document my code. My code is the documentation.