Bad people will always use religion to justify their actions. To deny that they are happening helps no one. To accept that they are happening, and need to change is a step on the road to tolerance.
I do not believe that the majority of Islam's current followers do not want violence or to oppress those who do not agree with them (so long as THEY aren't trying to impose their views on them), however so long as the Vocal Minority of people willing to pervert or subvert religion (whatever that religion) in pursuit of their own goals is all that people see in the media, their view of that religion will BE perverted and subverted.
This happened in the 80's/90's with the Evangelical movement when preacher after preacher kept showing up in tabloid and scandal after scandal. It happened in the 90's/00's with the Catholic religion when the main thing people saw in the news was the abuse of underage parishioners by clergy. We're see ing it now in the 00's/10's with Islam where the radical Imams and their followers. Hopefully the non-radical element will gain strength, support, and a larger voice.
It's beside the point but I feel like piling on: a doctor killed for performing abortions by religious fundamentalists is also a pretty strained example of someone being killed for their religious beliefs.
However the killers being prosecuted for murder, in a country that is still majority Christian (predominantly Catholic and Protestant), does point toward separation of church and state.
That sir is not a full collective pitch 3d capable helicopter.
I thought one of the advantages of a Tri/Quad copter over the traditional collective pitch Helicopter design was that the multi-blade copter allowed for greater stability in the platform?
Isn't that a "good thing" from the perspective of having a wider user base, since it would allow a lower skilled operator (even leaving aside the whole concept of turning one into a UAV).
Except that the big barrier to entry is the buried fiber optic cable (which was overlaid in the 90's and 00's and snached up as dark fiber recently), and in the copper cabling running the "last mile".
Less building space at each of the nodes of those networks is nice, since it means theoretically others could Co-Locate and compete... IF they had equal access to those same critical, non-duplicatable, infrastructure components.
To be fair, they call it an SUV, but it looks more like a Mini-Van/Station wagon. Its much lower than most SUVs I've seen, and the third row of seat CAN be useful if you have a large enough family.
Besides, the main complaint people have with SUVs are that they tend to be gas guzzlers. Why so much hate for an all electric SUV?
Because their founder has a lot of money to keep them afloat while they build up their technology and product line, and they are busy selling their drive-trains to companies such as Toyota.
While continuing to do novel things (like the all-wheel drive train of the Model-X using two electric motors).
I see them sort of as Xerox PARC, except dealing with the automotive industry instead of computers, and they actually produce things you can buy.
But it does take on premium utility vehicles with three rows of seating for up to seven, bettb |rer[sic] maneuverability than a Mini Cooper, and a 0-60 mph time of just 4.4 seconds - that's faster than a Porsche 911, Musk jeered.
I know that "bettb |rer maneuverability" is just what I'm looking for in my next vehicle. (kinda like "bettb |rer proofreading" in my next SlashDot article)
Outsourced coders tend to code much more to spec, not using their brain and being sensible, and if automated judging of code quality results in an increase of payments, they will add 10 lines of comments to a x+=1 if the automated judgement likes that.
If it gets Outsourced coders to use comments, then I'm all for it. Too often that tends to be the thing they skip the most. They are too involved in writing the code, too green, or under too much pressure to write and be done, that comments often are thrown under the bus.
Personally, I liked the one about 'diverting' power from the home's electrical system to power the thermostat. You mean like every electrical appliance in existence?
As long as they aren't up to diverting power from "Life Support" things can't be too critical yet.
I agree with what you say somewhat but one nuclear space weapon would take the whole thing out. So it doesn't seem like a threat to us, but hey the Chinese need to get ready to police the world now that we no longer can due to corporate welfare. Let them waste some time and money doing that AFAIC.
If you think the Chinese mentality is to Police the world, then I'm afraid you are in for a rude awakening.
Conquer (militarily, culturally, monetarily), is more in line with the predominant cultural beliefs than police.
I got tired of flakey service from my Cable company (TimeWarner), where they had to send a tech out four times in a month, and decided to fire them and keep the TiVo.
Since the changeover to digital signals, I've got a better signal than before (in one of the largest, but traditionally worst OTA markets).
Now getting TV exclusively from Over The Air signals, Hulu, and Amazon Video downloads. Could throw in NetFlix too, and I'd still be paying less than I used to. Just dropping Cable, switching to DSL, and signing up for Hulu saves me $100 a month, more than enough to buy a season or two of a premium cable show each month and still come out ahead.
Convenience is definitely worth something, but if I order a book on-line, and select standard UPS shipping, it is usually at my door within 2-3 days.
That hardly seems like an exhorbitant time to have to wait for a book. If I MUST have it today, and it is not carried in my local bookstore, then I suppose digital is my only option, but that seems to imply poor planning (or being way to use to immediate gratification), rather than any huge convenience factor.
If you're a reader, then you usually have at least a few books you are in the middle of, as well as a stack you are working through. As long as you remember to replenish the stack as you go, its not a problem.
That's leaving aside the whole "have you checked out this thing called a library" or "have you started a lending library with friends"? both of which amp up the convenience and lower the cost.
One more huge thumbs up for www.webscriptions.net !
Baen also has monthly bundles (going back to 1999 when they started publishing eBooks if I remember correctly).
Each "WebScriptions" bundle costs ~10-18$ (depending on the year) and contains ~6 books. Basically, everything in that months "Monthly drop" including a "new hardcover" or two, a few "soft cover releases" and the rest filling out from the back catalogue.
Its a great way to fill out an eLibrary if you're into Sci-Fi/Fantasy. As an added bonus, check out the CDs they distribute with some of their books that usually contain all of an author's back-catalogue, along with some other stories for variety.
Oh, and did I mention that all the files Baen publishes are DRM Free and in several formats?
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That's a false equivalency. You might as well argue that creating Tang was morally equivalent to weaponizing anthrax.
how come we don't have a Russian icon. A samovar with Putin's face worked into it? A double eagle with Putin's face worked into it? Anything with Putin's face worked into it?
Regardless, come to think of it class action probably wouldn't be appropriate anyways (they haven't harmed the consumer, they violated FCC regulations.)
Class action on behalf of the American people?
Since government doesn't seem to be able/willing to hold corporate interests accountable to itself, is there any way for the people at large to force the issue?
I would assume that the merging of a company doing essentially the same thing, and covering the same service area would probably require a substantial reduction in overall personnel (all the overlapping stores, a lot of the overlapping service technicians).
The jobs ostensibly being created were supposed to be Call Center jobs, which probably were on par with the majority of the Storefront and Customer service jobs being "destroyed", but probably less technical than most of the maintenance/technical jobs lost.
{rant} You're right. It is sub-optimal to maintain multiple cellular networks competing for bandwidth and services. But I'm not sure that these jobs should be "Destroyed in the first place". The main loss of jobs is probably overlapping job pools for both companies. So long as you have two companies competing in the same space, you have redundancies, that is one of the costs of a free market.
In an ideal world the infrastructure would be owned and operated by the Government (along with the Freq), with individual Cell Phone companies leasing space on the wireless "backbone" and competing with each other there.
This would minimize the infrastructure overhead/maintenance, level the playing field for new entrants (to promote competition), and, hopefully, allow profits from the infrastructure to go towards upgrading the infrastructure.
The Gov would then make sure the Infrastructure kept growing and maturing, the Cell Phone companies would be focusing on handsets, alternative uses (Portable Hot Spots, Burglar Alarm Notification, Tablets?)
They would be eliminating one of their main competitors, laying off way more than 5000 (more skilled!) workers, and opening the way to raising their prices by grabbing a customer base with even less choice and jacking up their rates.
Are you implying that AT&T employees are less skilled than T-Mobile employees?
No, I was implying that the jobs created were lower skilled than the jobs destroyed.
Are you implying that AT&T would deliberately INCREASE the skill level of its workers?
A failure of the deal puts T-Mobile in a difficult position. It's struggling to compete with the larger carriers, and owner Deutsche Telekom AG has said it's not willing to invest more in the venture.
However, AT&T has promised T-Mobile $3 billion in cash if the deal doesn't go through, plus spectrum rights and agreements that could be worth billions more.
Huh? If the deal DOESN'T go through, AT&T is giving T-Mobile money and spectrum?
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citation needed. Besides, the Quran specifically says forced conversion is forbidden (2:256)
Citation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_conversion#Islam_2
Bad people will always use religion to justify their actions. To deny that they are happening helps no one. To accept that they are happening, and need to change is a step on the road to tolerance.
I do not believe that the majority of Islam's current followers do not want violence or to oppress those who do not agree with them (so long as THEY aren't trying to impose their views on them), however so long as the Vocal Minority of people willing to pervert or subvert religion (whatever that religion) in pursuit of their own goals is all that people see in the media, their view of that religion will BE perverted and subverted.
This happened in the 80's/90's with the Evangelical movement when preacher after preacher kept showing up in tabloid and scandal after scandal. It happened in the 90's/00's with the Catholic religion when the main thing people saw in the news was the abuse of underage parishioners by clergy. We're see ing it now in the 00's/10's with Islam where the radical Imams and their followers. Hopefully the non-radical element will gain strength, support, and a larger voice.
It's beside the point but I feel like piling on: a doctor killed for performing abortions by religious fundamentalists is also a pretty strained example of someone being killed for their religious beliefs.
However the killers being prosecuted for murder, in a country that is still majority Christian (predominantly Catholic and Protestant), does point toward separation of church and state.
That sir is not a full collective pitch 3d capable helicopter.
I thought one of the advantages of a Tri/Quad copter over the traditional collective pitch Helicopter design was that the multi-blade copter allowed for greater stability in the platform?
Isn't that a "good thing" from the perspective of having a wider user base, since it would allow a lower skilled operator (even leaving aside the whole concept of turning one into a UAV).
Except that the big barrier to entry is the buried fiber optic cable (which was overlaid in the 90's and 00's and snached up as dark fiber recently), and in the copper cabling running the "last mile".
Less building space at each of the nodes of those networks is nice, since it means theoretically others could Co-Locate and compete ... IF they had equal access to those same critical, non-duplicatable, infrastructure components.
To be fair, they call it an SUV, but it looks more like a Mini-Van/Station wagon. Its much lower than most SUVs I've seen, and the third row of seat CAN be useful if you have a large enough family.
Besides, the main complaint people have with SUVs are that they tend to be gas guzzlers. Why so much hate for an all electric SUV?
Think the Model V (for delivery Van).
Because their founder has a lot of money to keep them afloat while they build up their technology and product line, and they are busy selling their drive-trains to companies such as Toyota.
While continuing to do novel things (like the all-wheel drive train of the Model-X using two electric motors).
I see them sort of as Xerox PARC, except dealing with the automotive industry instead of computers, and they actually produce things you can buy.
From the Slashdot summary.
But it does take on premium utility vehicles with three rows of seating for up to seven, bettb |rer[sic] maneuverability than a Mini Cooper, and a 0-60 mph time of just 4.4 seconds - that's faster than a Porsche 911, Musk jeered.
I know that "bettb |rer maneuverability" is just what I'm looking for in my next vehicle.
(kinda like "bettb |rer proofreading" in my next SlashDot article)
Outsourced coders tend to code much more to spec, not using their brain and being sensible, and if automated judging of code quality results in an increase of payments, they will add 10 lines of comments to a x+=1 if the automated judgement likes that.
If it gets Outsourced coders to use comments, then I'm all for it. Too often that tends to be the thing they skip the most. They are too involved in writing the code, too green, or under too much pressure to write and be done, that comments often are thrown under the bus.
Personally, I liked the one about 'diverting' power from the home's electrical system to power the thermostat. You mean like every electrical appliance in existence?
As long as they aren't up to diverting power from "Life Support" things can't be too critical yet.
Not so much a profession as as a psychological disorder
Can we go so far as to call it a Pathological condition?
At least finish the full quote:
"Oh bother said Pooh. Load photon torpedoes. Lock phasers on the Hephalump. Piglet, meet me in Transporter room 1." :P
I agree with what you say somewhat but one nuclear space weapon would take the whole thing out. So it doesn't seem like a threat to us, but hey the Chinese need to get ready to police the world now that we no longer can due to corporate welfare. Let them waste some time and money doing that AFAIC.
If you think the Chinese mentality is to Police the world, then I'm afraid you are in for a rude awakening.
Conquer (militarily, culturally, monetarily), is more in line with the predominant cultural beliefs than police.
Oddly I went the other way.
I got tired of flakey service from my Cable company (TimeWarner), where they had to send a tech out four times in a month, and decided to fire them and keep the TiVo.
Since the changeover to digital signals, I've got a better signal than before (in one of the largest, but traditionally worst OTA markets).
Now getting TV exclusively from Over The Air signals, Hulu, and Amazon Video downloads.
Could throw in NetFlix too, and I'd still be paying less than I used to.
Just dropping Cable, switching to DSL, and signing up for Hulu saves me $100 a month, more than enough to buy a season or two of a premium cable show each month and still come out ahead.
Convenience is definitely worth something, but if I order a book on-line, and select standard UPS shipping, it is usually at my door within 2-3 days.
That hardly seems like an exhorbitant time to have to wait for a book. If I MUST have it today, and it is not carried in my local bookstore, then I suppose digital is my only option, but that seems to imply poor planning (or being way to use to immediate gratification), rather than any huge convenience factor.
If you're a reader, then you usually have at least a few books you are in the middle of, as well as a stack you are working through. As long as you remember to replenish the stack as you go, its not a problem.
That's leaving aside the whole "have you checked out this thing called a library" or "have you started a lending library with friends"? both of which amp up the convenience and lower the cost.
One more huge thumbs up for www.webscriptions.net !
Baen also has monthly bundles (going back to 1999 when they started publishing eBooks if I remember correctly).
Each "WebScriptions" bundle costs ~10-18$ (depending on the year) and contains ~6 books. Basically, everything in that months "Monthly drop" including a "new hardcover" or two, a few "soft cover releases" and the rest filling out from the back catalogue.
Its a great way to fill out an eLibrary if you're into Sci-Fi/Fantasy. As an added bonus, check out the CDs they distribute with some of their books that usually contain all of an author's back-catalogue, along with some other stories for variety.
Oh, and did I mention that all the files Baen publishes are DRM Free and in several formats?
Brought to you by(tm).... the internet... a DARPA/(Military industrial complex) sponsored project....
Made possible by (tm).. Xray litography... another child of a military sponsored project...
That's a false equivalency. You might as well argue that creating Tang was morally equivalent to weaponizing anthrax.
Have you actually tried Tang? ~
how come we don't have a Russian icon. A samovar with Putin's face worked into it? A double eagle with Putin's face worked into it? Anything with Putin's face worked into it?
How about a picture of Sean Connery?
With Putin's face worked into it?
How is Amazon Prime's free streaming library?
Last I checked they didn't seem to have much to offer.
Yeah, but isn't it in PAL over there?
Regardless, come to think of it class action probably wouldn't be appropriate anyways (they haven't harmed the consumer, they violated FCC regulations.)
Class action on behalf of the American people?
Since government doesn't seem to be able/willing to hold corporate interests accountable to itself, is there any way for the people at large to force the issue?
Funny.
Arguing about Endless September ... in September.
Its only been 18 Years ... that's what? 512 Years in Internet Time?
(yeah ... I know the article calls it "Eternal September", but I like Endless better ... there's the hope it might yet end)
I'm not sure.
I would assume that the merging of a company doing essentially the same thing, and covering the same service area would probably require a substantial reduction in overall personnel (all the overlapping stores, a lot of the overlapping service technicians).
The jobs ostensibly being created were supposed to be Call Center jobs, which probably were on par with the majority of the Storefront and Customer service jobs being "destroyed", but probably less technical than most of the maintenance/technical jobs lost.
{rant}
You're right. It is sub-optimal to maintain multiple cellular networks competing for bandwidth and services. But I'm not sure that these jobs should be "Destroyed in the first place". The main loss of jobs is probably overlapping job pools for both companies. So long as you have two companies competing in the same space, you have redundancies, that is one of the costs of a free market.
In an ideal world the infrastructure would be owned and operated by the Government (along with the Freq), with individual Cell Phone companies leasing space on the wireless "backbone" and competing with each other there.
This would minimize the infrastructure overhead/maintenance, level the playing field for new entrants (to promote competition), and, hopefully, allow profits from the infrastructure to go towards upgrading the infrastructure.
The Gov would then make sure the Infrastructure kept growing and maturing, the Cell Phone companies would be focusing on handsets, alternative uses (Portable Hot Spots, Burglar Alarm Notification, Tablets?)
Of course thats just an opinion. {/rant}
They would be eliminating one of their main competitors, laying off way more than 5000 (more skilled!) workers, and opening the way to raising their prices by grabbing a customer base with even less choice and jacking up their rates.
Are you implying that AT&T employees are less skilled than T-Mobile employees?
No, I was implying that the jobs created were lower skilled than the jobs destroyed.
Are you implying that AT&T would deliberately INCREASE the skill level of its workers?
A failure of the deal puts T-Mobile in a difficult position. It's struggling to compete with the larger carriers, and owner Deutsche Telekom AG has said it's not willing to invest more in the venture.
However, AT&T has promised T-Mobile $3 billion in cash if the deal doesn't go through, plus spectrum rights and agreements that could be worth billions more.
Huh? If the deal DOESN'T go through, AT&T is giving T-Mobile money and spectrum?
I don't get it.