Don't get me wrong, someone who would go to this extent and length to satirize chiropractic medicine on site like slashdot almost has to be a bit messed up. But brilliant, nonetheless.
And I'd argue based on the pure number of "perfect" flags of chiropractic quackery that Occam's Razor argues the opposite. If he's a nutjob he's one in a million... (but one can dream).
Brilliantly done, sir. I wish there was a "+1 Troll" option - you already hooked half a dozen... How long did you have to wait for a body scanner article to post this?
And for those who thought this was real, here are two other very real, very scary sites:
we're creating value for people — that's our job! It's not to do something that nobody's ever seen before. It's to do something that people love so much they're willing to give us money for
Wow, he's using almost the same argument for making DOOM 3 as the producers did to make DOOM the movie. Or Uwe Boll used for every movie he ever made. Say it ain't so, John!
The percentage of the population in the Bay Area that is minority other than Asian has decreased sginificantly
I just looked that data up. The facts just don't agree with you.
Example: San Mateo County Census Data 1970: 85% White, 5% Black, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian 1980: 71% White, 6% Black, 12% Hispanic, 10% Asian 1990: 59% White, 5% Black, 17% Hispanic, 17% Asian 2000: 50% White, 4% Black, 22% Hispanic, 22% Asian 2010: 42% White, 3% Black, 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian
Only one minority (Black) decreased in percentage, and it was 1) just a percentage decrease, not absolute residents, and 2) in close proportion to White percentage decrease, ie. the other race primarily consisting of US-born residents. The fact is diversity is way up in the Bay Area over 40 years, primarily due to immigration.
The Bay Area is not racially segregated, it's economically segregated. The cost of living in many areas is just plain unaffordable to many lower income families. That's no different from any other area with high cost of property/rent/living that tends to exclude lower incomes, it's just worse in the Bay Area because it has grown so quickly relative to other areas in recent years. It is true that income and race have some correlation, but if you want to call this racism you might as well call anyone that doesn't believe in universal healthcare racist.
You really might want to go look up the definition of "racism". It might surprise you, but it involves discrimination based on *race*.
I disagree, work has always been high-expertise, anything that's not high-expertise you can do yourself without hiring anybody else.
There are most definitely low "expertise" manufacturing jobs, they just rely more on centralizing production and capital to cheaply mass produce goods that you would not able to do yourself due to lack of the access to tools, machinery, supply chain, etc. Designing the product, factory, and process is high expertise; working at one station of that huge assembly line, not necessarily. If you can learn everything you need to know for your job in a week, it just plain isn't "high-expertise".
Also, there are plenty jobs that you don't do yourself not because it requires expertise, but because someone else will do it cheaply. It's opportunity cost - people don't hire someone to mow their lawn because it's too hard to figure out, they do it because they can get someone to do it for $10 an hour while they make many times that at their own job.
Except the Bay Area is also the most socially liberal and philanthropic regions of the country.
If you want rich conservatives look to Wall Street (which is in an even larger bubble than Silicon Valley right now). Even more impressively, they have been able to convince middle America (the ones hurting the most from the recession) that the government social programs that can and are helping them out right now are evil and should not be funded by those experiencing said economic bubbles.
"We have ported libdispatch, Apple's Grand Central Dispatch event and concurrency framework to FreeBSD." Apple open sourced a library under the Apache license, and it was ported to FreeBSD, among other platforms. That's what I said.
You keep making irrelevant insults that don't even bother to focus on what the thread was talking about...
Anyway, why would I even want to debate anything with you? From your comment history you are a/. troll who gets off on insulting other people more than making sense. Your arguments would probably be much more interesting if you didn't have to be such a dick. Since that's not why I read/. and for some reason I have now stooped to your level, I'm done. Have fun.
Bad example, that was not BSD modified code, it was a new library that was eventually ported to FreeBSD. No one said Apple doesn't release open source in general. It's obvious you need to learn better reading comprehension skills, but I'm not sure you are up to it.
Um, did I *sound* like I was blaming Google for this? Newspaper group sues Google for royalties, wins suit, Google reasonably decides rather than pay they remove all references to newspapers. Newspapers learn hilariously ironic lesson about greed.
So, having argued that it was the right decision, I nevertheless do think is was unfair and completely awful for those who were affected.
As another commenter said - some of these people could have made plans based on this information that would be very hard to reverse. Imagine you got a job offer, sold your house, bought one in another state, and the day before you started they retracted the offer. Pretty unfair. But it happens. Life isn't always fair...
So they thought that "pay us for using our content" meant "now you have to use our content and then pay us". Oops, maybe not!
It does sound like a particularly (French-)Belgian idea, though. Next we'll hear they are parking tractors on the Information Superhighway in protest...
Would it have been terrible to let in twice as many people this year
Probably not, but given that it would have had to go through Congress to amend the law that allowed it, the probable result (especially considering the Republicans now control the House) would have been that no one gets in...
Purely statistically (where "unfair" = "not the same odds") you are correct. But it's all irrelevant because the entire thing was a specific Act with *2* requirements: 1) 50,000 visas and 2) "strictly random". Given both those legal requirements, there really wasn't any other choice the Court could make anyway.
This wasn't a TV call-in prize, it was an act of Congress that allowed 50,000 visas awarded randomly among ALL applicants. Hence the Supreme Court decision, which was only concerned with following the law.
When election results are screwed up, they do a recount, they don't feel bad for the guy they mistakenly declared the winner and give him an extra position. Sometimes it sucks, but the law just isn't about making people feel better...
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Don't get me wrong, someone who would go to this extent and length to satirize chiropractic medicine on site like slashdot almost has to be a bit messed up. But brilliant, nonetheless.
And I'd argue based on the pure number of "perfect" flags of chiropractic quackery that Occam's Razor argues the opposite. If he's a nutjob he's one in a million... (but one can dream).
Brilliantly done, sir. I wish there was a "+1 Troll" option - you already hooked half a dozen... How long did you have to wait for a body scanner article to post this?
And for those who thought this was real, here are two other very real, very scary sites:
The Onion
Christwire
There's one thing Minecraft could really use - country ho-downs.
They should have simulated their server load on Second Life, as well...
Not for me ;)
Wow, I thought the DOOM movie was horrible. But I have to say at least I managed to finish it, unlike DOOM 3. And I paid a lot less for the movie...
we're creating value for people — that's our job! It's not to do something that nobody's ever seen before. It's to do something that people love so much they're willing to give us money for
Wow, he's using almost the same argument for making DOOM 3 as the producers did to make DOOM the movie. Or Uwe Boll used for every movie he ever made. Say it ain't so, John!
The percentage of the population in the Bay Area that is minority other than Asian has decreased sginificantly
I just looked that data up. The facts just don't agree with you.
Example: San Mateo County Census Data
1970: 85% White, 5% Black, 7% Hispanic, 3% Asian
1980: 71% White, 6% Black, 12% Hispanic, 10% Asian
1990: 59% White, 5% Black, 17% Hispanic, 17% Asian
2000: 50% White, 4% Black, 22% Hispanic, 22% Asian
2010: 42% White, 3% Black, 25% Hispanic, 25% Asian
Only one minority (Black) decreased in percentage, and it was 1) just a percentage decrease, not absolute residents, and 2) in close proportion to White percentage decrease, ie. the other race primarily consisting of US-born residents. The fact is diversity is way up in the Bay Area over 40 years, primarily due to immigration.
The Bay Area is not racially segregated, it's economically segregated. The cost of living in many areas is just plain unaffordable to many lower income families. That's no different from any other area with high cost of property/rent/living that tends to exclude lower incomes, it's just worse in the Bay Area because it has grown so quickly relative to other areas in recent years. It is true that income and race have some correlation, but if you want to call this racism you might as well call anyone that doesn't believe in universal healthcare racist.
You really might want to go look up the definition of "racism". It might surprise you, but it involves discrimination based on *race*.
Rohrer's "games" are about artistic expression, and challenging what it means to be a "game" by design - and he has won several awards for this.
Critiquing the game play of his games makes about as much sense as complaining that Picasso just doesn't know how to draw faces...
I disagree, work has always been high-expertise, anything that's not high-expertise you can do yourself without hiring anybody else.
There are most definitely low "expertise" manufacturing jobs, they just rely more on centralizing production and capital to cheaply mass produce goods that you would not able to do yourself due to lack of the access to tools, machinery, supply chain, etc. Designing the product, factory, and process is high expertise; working at one station of that huge assembly line, not necessarily. If you can learn everything you need to know for your job in a week, it just plain isn't "high-expertise".
Also, there are plenty jobs that you don't do yourself not because it requires expertise, but because someone else will do it cheaply. It's opportunity cost - people don't hire someone to mow their lawn because it's too hard to figure out, they do it because they can get someone to do it for $10 an hour while they make many times that at their own job.
Except the Bay Area is also the most socially liberal and philanthropic regions of the country.
If you want rich conservatives look to Wall Street (which is in an even larger bubble than Silicon Valley right now). Even more impressively, they have been able to convince middle America (the ones hurting the most from the recession) that the government social programs that can and are helping them out right now are evil and should not be funded by those experiencing said economic bubbles.
I want to hear more about this robot that makes grilled hamburgers!
"We have ported libdispatch, Apple's Grand Central Dispatch event and concurrency framework to FreeBSD." Apple open sourced a library under the Apache license, and it was ported to FreeBSD, among other platforms. That's what I said.
You keep making irrelevant insults that don't even bother to focus on what the thread was talking about...
Anyway, why would I even want to debate anything with you? From your comment history you are a /. troll who gets off on insulting other people more than making sense. Your arguments would probably be much more interesting if you didn't have to be such a dick. Since that's not why I read /. and for some reason I have now stooped to your level, I'm done. Have fun.
Bad example, that was not BSD modified code, it was a new library that was eventually ported to FreeBSD. No one said Apple doesn't release open source in general. It's obvious you need to learn better reading comprehension skills, but I'm not sure you are up to it.
Um, did I *sound* like I was blaming Google for this? Newspaper group sues Google for royalties, wins suit, Google reasonably decides rather than pay they remove all references to newspapers. Newspapers learn hilariously ironic lesson about greed.
So, having argued that it was the right decision, I nevertheless do think is was unfair and completely awful for those who were affected.
As another commenter said - some of these people could have made plans based on this information that would be very hard to reverse. Imagine you got a job offer, sold your house, bought one in another state, and the day before you started they retracted the offer. Pretty unfair. But it happens. Life isn't always fair...
So they thought that "pay us for using our content" meant "now you have to use our content and then pay us". Oops, maybe not!
It does sound like a particularly (French-)Belgian idea, though. Next we'll hear they are parking tractors on the Information Superhighway in protest...
Would it have been terrible to let in twice as many people this year
Probably not, but given that it would have had to go through Congress to amend the law that allowed it, the probable result (especially considering the Republicans now control the House) would have been that no one gets in...
Yeah, but using it as an argument that BSD isn't dead it like using you as an argument that your great-great grandfather isn't either ;)
Purely statistically (where "unfair" = "not the same odds") you are correct. But it's all irrelevant because the entire thing was a specific Act with *2* requirements: 1) 50,000 visas and 2) "strictly random". Given both those legal requirements, there really wasn't any other choice the Court could make anyway.
Yeah, there was this company called Sun that had some small server market share a ways back, using an OS based completely on BSD...
OS X isn't BSD, OS X is OS X. They haven't contributed crap to BSD in almost 10 years.
Yep - it's 100% of TSMC's business but just a few percent of Samsung's (at most)...
This wasn't a TV call-in prize, it was an act of Congress that allowed 50,000 visas awarded randomly among ALL applicants. Hence the Supreme Court decision, which was only concerned with following the law.
When election results are screwed up, they do a recount, they don't feel bad for the guy they mistakenly declared the winner and give him an extra position. Sometimes it sucks, but the law just isn't about making people feel better...