> 'a statistically significant' pattern where the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct.
The larger the precinct in geographical terms, the more spread out the population. The more spread out, the more rural, the more rural, the more Republicans per capita. Where's the problem here?
And she's relying on polls as the baseline.
Last election, lots of people realized they didn't want to talk to obama's cronies and told them to fuck off.
I am not seeing anything that screams voter fraud in KS. Shitcago on the other hand...
Votes are supposed to be secret, her assumption based on bullshit lies that something is wrong is not a good enough reason to let her see everybody's vote.
It seems to me that more and more people are exhibiting symptoms of being allergic to modern life and all its complexities, technology very much included. But in this case I'm thinking more and more that it's just the kid not wanting to go to school, so he latched on to this mysterious ailment (that he probably read about on the internet) and is playing it for all it's worth. His parents, being totally incapable of conceiving on their precious little snowflake actually faking anything like this, is going Great Guns over it. Or, perhaps, they're scumbags and are trying to cash in through litigation on something they sold their kid on. Either way: Occams' Razor.
Allergic? No.
Seeing everybody else whine about something and get coddled, rewarded, given money or status because of it... yes. I assume a lot of it is "let's get some money out of it using lawyers" or in the case of africa "let's get some money in hush money / bribes."
It's the rotting of integrity in modern culture, not allergies.
They don't care fuck about what you do in your country. They are doing it because your country (and the US) is doing things in their country.
If you are going to spout this stupid lie. Do it while not being an Anonymous Coward. It MIGHT get a little more traction then. As such, the muzzies themselves SAY why they are doing it and it's not "because meddling."
Wow, yet another Canadian who heartily enjoys looking down on Americans. You know, if I didn't know so many Canadians in real life, I'd think most of them were douchebags like you. You prejudiced types are very vocal and visible online, and it gives your country a bad name.
Hint: in the future, avoid the "citified" insult, it sounds a hell of a lot like you're racist against inner city African-Americans.
Look at a population map of America's hat sometime. They are all snuggled up (in their cities, I might add) next to the neighbor to the south they all say they despise.
The first thing any self-respecting car thief does is remove/replace the plates. So this pretty much is all about gathering data, and nothing to do with reducing crime.
...And what do they do then?
Put a stolen plate on it perhaps?
How long do you think they drive around without a plate?
If the lookups of plates includes listings of stolen plates (a slower reported, but just as common even if not moreso) then they'll get people who steal plates for their car to get the tags on them too.
Your cute little attempt at poking holes in things fails if you can't project a concept forward more than one step.
However, the PDE4B-inhibited mice also showed less recall of a fearful event after several days than ordinary mice
That would imply the mice have trouble learning not to play with cats. Not good for continued species survival.
It seems like it's not "smarter" it's "more optimistic."
If you are a mouse, making a mistake is often your last one. There's going to be lots of stuff in mouse behavior that makes them not do stuff that might be a mistake but also might be a benefit because the benefit is food, sex, or water or something and the mistake is death.
It might be an interesting data point to find out how humans with this gene behave verses ones that done have that gene.
Meanwhile, Real IT Pro's know there's a tremendous shortage of real Talent out there, and it has gotten so bad companies can only stumble upon people who know what they are doing. Everyone else just kinda passes as somewhat knowing what they are doing.
I am not surprised at all this tired old lie would show up as an anonymous first post in a thread like this.
Pay more, more will come. Very simple. Why would anybody bother to learn / earn experience for your shit-pay job? Your problem is YOU.
An old trick is to write the email and not send it, or send it to yourself. That way you get some catharsis, and can send a more civil email later (or no email at all, handle it politely in person).
Yup. This is a good strategy.
One minor point, REMOVE the email addresses from the "to" and "Cc" lines and then save it as a draft. That prevents accidental sending later (even months later.)
Most of the time, it's hard to get email messages right in tone, meaning and intent without a rant in it. Likewise, don't be stupid, that stuff hangs around forever and will be used against you more effectively than the rant could ever be...
If they spent their time keeping subscribers happier rather than cannibalizing subscribers of other types of service they wouldn't be losing so much.
The NUMBER ONE difference in cost between services comes from moving from one to another.
If my monthly bill didn't slowly creep up after a couple of years, I wouldn't be forced to move to something else. Instead of whoring out for "new bundles", just offer a lower price. 99% of the people moving service don't want to or have to because of coverage, but do because they can save $60 a month with a new "introductory" bundle somewhere else.
Also there is this strange resistance to allowing users to pick what they want to watch and pay for only that. Believe it or not, some people don't want four channels of QVC, and they'd rather pay the $8 for the weather channel (or whatever) instead of $22 for a bunch of shit along with the weather channel.
Isn't Twitter itself providing "material support" to terrorists?
Twitter has a long track record of allowing or encouraging violence, threats, predictions of terrorism, etc. of all kinds, but seems to have a pretty strong anti-western and anti-lawful establishment to it.
It's not OK to say "n@@@er" at all, but somehow spike lee and thousands of re-tweeters can post direct threats and addresses people supposedly George Zimmerman's relatives all over twitter.
As "do no evil" goes, twitter completely fails. The government shouldn't NEED to be involved because Twitter is taking care of it.
Hint hint, Feds, just shut ALL of twitter down until they can behave.
We're not talking about playing Monday Morning Quarterback. There's a ton of revisionist history that happened after the war trying to pretend that everyone was in agreement about using nuclear weapons on cities and that it would have prevented millions of deaths from a ground war in the home islands with Japan.
How about you shut the fuck up right now and pick up a Japanese history book if you'd like to see white washing. You'll find no references of Japan being the aggressor or the lovely Unit 731 vivisecting live people.
In the words of my great uncle, a World War II vet who machine gunned Japanese boarders out of the water while he was a Marine, the only thing he and most of his people regretted is that they only had two bombs and not ten. Rei, I know you're a pussy, but seriously, sit back and put yourself in the time of a life or death war.
Yup.
The US should admit maybe the bombs weren't the best option when all of Japan admits what they did. ALL of it. I want pictures of the jap soldier holding his rifle aloft with the chinese baby impaled on the bayonet on the front page of every newspaper and website for a year. When that's done, we move on to other stuff.
Of course we can never know for sure if Japan would have surrendered without the bombs, but that in itself is a false dichotomy. A demonstration of the bomb, with Japanese military officials invited to see it, was considered by the US. It's hard to justify why that was not even tried first, before moving directly to the bombing of civilians.
If you only have one bomb, and you don't know if it's going to work the way you think it will, you don't put it in front of some leaders who are nigh-insane from a vastly different culture, and rely on logic and psychology to do your work for you.
The idea of a demonstration was a stupid one then, and is a stupid idea now.
To win a war, you have to remove the ability and will of the enemy to fight. The will of THIS enemy was creating kamikaze pilots, training civilians to fight to the death and sword wielding rushes into machine gun fire. A bomb in a harbor to show it to the crazies hoping they capitulate is NOT a good bet in light of an enemy with that kind of will.
That isn't so much sarcasm as it is simply wrong. What constitutes a war crime is determined by treaty and the customary laws of war. Threat of retaliation is a recognized means of encouraging compliance with the law of war by the enemy. The US has prosecuted its own service members for war crimes as well as war criminals from among the enemy.
Well then, you can cite the particular section, paragraph, and line where those treaties were broken. Right?
Make sure you use only ones that the US had already signed by 1945.
> The failures included, at a minimum, the apparent lack of procedure for doctors to directly notify the airline and pilot certification authority that they were revoking his medical
That is not allowed in Germany, because medical issues are strictly private there.
(There was that Adolf Hitler and his nazi regime. They used to gas the jews and the gipsy, as well as those considered unwanted for medical reasons at the time: homosexuals, the physically and mentally handicapped, etc. Because of that, the post-war new Germany wanted to make sure the state cannot obtain such data, in order to prevent a re-occurance of mass exterminations, ever.)
You may find that airlines suddenly stop using german pilots.
They specifically state that prime gets bumped in line during the picking, boxing, and shipping process. They can't speed the shipper, but they can let prime members pay for the research, tools, and people to get stuff out the door fast.
It's probably that the comments offer nothing of value, having become the bastion of old white hateful assholes.
Not point in visiting a news aggregator site where the user contributed content repels more than half your target audience.
But keep being a prick and lamenting the fall of/. , by all means.
See, the thing is, if you don't call someone an asshole for no reason all the time, they have somewhere to fall.
Once you do, being an asshole has no cost. I already am one. I am white, middle age, have a job, never been on welfare, never sucked another man's dick, never smoked crack, and never went to a hip-hop rave, I am not a fat ghetto hog with more children than rooms in my section 8 apartment.
I have NOTHING TO LOSE by being a asshole to some twat that comes oozing menstral thoughts onto slashdot berating me for being too white or too manly (a very preposterous thought on a NERD SITE.)
I am an asshole by what I AM by my very NATURE according to you twats.
Combine that with a steady stream of the same old shit as other sites, the same logic contorting and logic violating reasons for posting stupid stories about shit the productive audience (you don't count in that) doesn't want to discuss.
What you SJWs don't understand is left alone, the discussion gets intellectual and interesting and stays out of those concepts you don't like. At which time, you can participate in that culture too. We USED to have some cool discussions here 10 years ago. Here, nobody knows who the fuck you are, no avatar, no required sig, no required USERNAME for fucks-sake it's impossible to not be hiding if you just ignore it. If someone thinks you are a butch-assed female, is because you stated such. Lastly, Slashdot will ultimately fail at the new media ideals as other sites are better suited and populated for it. Ultimately slashdot will fail.
Nobody has any reason not to engage in stupid squabble fights and get out artistic haiku about your cunt anymore. That's the only entertainment that happens here now.
Peter Gibbons: Well those are whole pennies, right? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here. But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.
My wife and I were in a very similar situation yesterday, stopped about 1/2 a car-length behind a stopped truck. When she realized we were about to be rear-ended, she gunned it to bring us a few inches behind the truck. We weren't hit. The video doesn't indicate that the google car tried anything like that.
The problem with that approach is SOMETIMES you will avoid the crash (you did), however the rest of the time you are now in the middle of the chain of crashes. That both damages your vehicle more, and makes your insurance payout and court problems much worse. "We both hit the truck" is different than "that guy hit me and fortunately I didn't hit the truck" in court.
Cops will even give tickets out to everybody in line except the first one and now the court battle is "get your insurance payout and shut up" rather than "sue that guy's insurance because he screwed up"
And why didn't Lucas do what he did for aliens in the original trilogy: Either make them speak some alien language with subtitles, or give them some not-easily-identified accent? Jabba didn't speak like an Italian guy - he spoke in Huttese. Greedo spoke in his own tongue. Chewbacca had his growls that Han and C3P-O translated. Aliens that spoke English (Yoda, Ackbar, etc) did so without any obvious dialect. You didn't have Ackbar shouting "It's a trap!" with a French accent. Yoda didn't speak with a stereotypical Indian accent. The original Star Wars trilogy did alien-speak right, why couldn't the prequels? (Not saying that this would have fixed all of the prequels' problems. Their issues go far deeper than offensive alien accents. Still, it would have been one less thing to cringe at.)
The target audience of the newer movies is a lot younger.
The folks that buy toys and games and collector cups and all that.
Do you think Star Wars (a new hope) was targeted toward kids originally? It wasn't, but it turned out to have tremendous appeal to kids. One they couldn't count on reproducing.
So they had to put in some slapstick comedy to keep the interest (or so they thought), they couldn't use other languages and count on the audience reading subtitles fast (because they aren't that good at reading), and they had to put in obvious game leading sequences like the robot factory and the pod race to kick off the video games.
Those awful aspects of the newer movies were put there because Lucas thought he could make more money with them there. Why risk being accused of racism by doing racist stuff? What we are seeing is incidental changes as the result of making the movies more marketable to KIDS because kids will spend more MONEY on the stupid shit.
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> 'a statistically significant' pattern where the percentage of Republican votes increase the larger the size of the precinct.
The larger the precinct in geographical terms, the more spread out the population. The more spread out, the more rural, the more rural, the more Republicans per capita. Where's the problem here?
And she's relying on polls as the baseline.
Last election, lots of people realized they didn't want to talk to obama's cronies and told them to fuck off.
I am not seeing anything that screams voter fraud in KS. Shitcago on the other hand...
Votes are supposed to be secret, her assumption based on bullshit lies that something is wrong is not a good enough reason to let her see everybody's vote.
It seems to me that more and more people are exhibiting symptoms of being allergic to modern life and all its complexities, technology very much included. But in this case I'm thinking more and more that it's just the kid not wanting to go to school, so he latched on to this mysterious ailment (that he probably read about on the internet) and is playing it for all it's worth. His parents, being totally incapable of conceiving on their precious little snowflake actually faking anything like this, is going Great Guns over it. Or, perhaps, they're scumbags and are trying to cash in through litigation on something they sold their kid on. Either way: Occams' Razor.
Allergic? No.
Seeing everybody else whine about something and get coddled, rewarded, given money or status because of it... yes. I assume a lot of it is "let's get some money out of it using lawyers" or in the case of africa "let's get some money in hush money / bribes."
It's the rotting of integrity in modern culture, not allergies.
As long as they are planning on having some OTHER company do it.
They don't care fuck about what you do in your country. They are doing it because your country (and the US) is doing things in their country.
If you are going to spout this stupid lie. Do it while not being an Anonymous Coward. It MIGHT get a little more traction then. As such, the muzzies themselves SAY why they are doing it and it's not "because meddling."
Wow, yet another Canadian who heartily enjoys looking down on Americans. You know, if I didn't know so many Canadians in real life, I'd think most of them were douchebags like you. You prejudiced types are very vocal and visible online, and it gives your country a bad name.
Hint: in the future, avoid the "citified" insult, it sounds a hell of a lot like you're racist against inner city African-Americans.
Look at a population map of America's hat sometime. They are all snuggled up (in their cities, I might add) next to the neighbor to the south they all say they despise.
Canada. America's pet Brit.
The first thing any self-respecting car thief does is remove/replace the plates. So this pretty much is all about gathering data, and nothing to do with reducing crime.
...And what do they do then?
Put a stolen plate on it perhaps?
How long do you think they drive around without a plate?
If the lookups of plates includes listings of stolen plates (a slower reported, but just as common even if not moreso) then they'll get people who steal plates for their car to get the tags on them too.
Your cute little attempt at poking holes in things fails if you can't project a concept forward more than one step.
TFS:
However, the PDE4B-inhibited mice also showed less recall of a fearful event after several days than ordinary mice
That would imply the mice have trouble learning not to play with cats. Not good for continued species survival.
It seems like it's not "smarter" it's "more optimistic."
If you are a mouse, making a mistake is often your last one. There's going to be lots of stuff in mouse behavior that makes them not do stuff that might be a mistake but also might be a benefit because the benefit is food, sex, or water or something and the mistake is death.
It might be an interesting data point to find out how humans with this gene behave verses ones that done have that gene.
Meanwhile, Real IT Pro's know there's a tremendous shortage of real Talent out there, and it has gotten so bad companies can only stumble upon people who know what they are doing. Everyone else just kinda passes as somewhat knowing what they are doing.
I am not surprised at all this tired old lie would show up as an anonymous first post in a thread like this.
Pay more, more will come. Very simple. Why would anybody bother to learn / earn experience for your shit-pay job? Your problem is YOU.
On the other hand, the SEO scammers "we'll get you lots of traffic" are going to love this.
An old trick is to write the email and not send it, or send it to yourself. That way you get some catharsis, and can send a more civil email later (or no email at all, handle it politely in person).
Yup. This is a good strategy.
One minor point, REMOVE the email addresses from the "to" and "Cc" lines and then save it as a draft. That prevents accidental sending later (even months later.)
Most of the time, it's hard to get email messages right in tone, meaning and intent without a rant in it. Likewise, don't be stupid, that stuff hangs around forever and will be used against you more effectively than the rant could ever be...
If they spent their time keeping subscribers happier rather than cannibalizing subscribers of other types of service they wouldn't be losing so much.
The NUMBER ONE difference in cost between services comes from moving from one to another.
If my monthly bill didn't slowly creep up after a couple of years, I wouldn't be forced to move to something else. Instead of whoring out for "new bundles", just offer a lower price. 99% of the people moving service don't want to or have to because of coverage, but do because they can save $60 a month with a new "introductory" bundle somewhere else.
Also there is this strange resistance to allowing users to pick what they want to watch and pay for only that. Believe it or not, some people don't want four channels of QVC, and they'd rather pay the $8 for the weather channel (or whatever) instead of $22 for a bunch of shit along with the weather channel.
Isn't Twitter itself providing "material support" to terrorists?
Twitter has a long track record of allowing or encouraging violence, threats, predictions of terrorism, etc. of all kinds, but seems to have a pretty strong anti-western and anti-lawful establishment to it.
It's not OK to say "n@@@er" at all, but somehow spike lee and thousands of re-tweeters can post direct threats and addresses people supposedly George Zimmerman's relatives all over twitter.
As "do no evil" goes, twitter completely fails. The government shouldn't NEED to be involved because Twitter is taking care of it.
Hint hint, Feds, just shut ALL of twitter down until they can behave.
How about you shut the fuck up right now and pick up a Japanese history book if you'd like to see white washing. You'll find no references of Japan being the aggressor or the lovely Unit 731 vivisecting live people.
In the words of my great uncle, a World War II vet who machine gunned Japanese boarders out of the water while he was a Marine, the only thing he and most of his people regretted is that they only had two bombs and not ten. Rei, I know you're a pussy, but seriously, sit back and put yourself in the time of a life or death war.
Yup.
The US should admit maybe the bombs weren't the best option when all of Japan admits what they did. ALL of it. I want pictures of the jap soldier holding his rifle aloft with the chinese baby impaled on the bayonet on the front page of every newspaper and website for a year. When that's done, we move on to other stuff.
Of course we can never know for sure if Japan would have surrendered without the bombs, but that in itself is a false dichotomy. A demonstration of the bomb, with Japanese military officials invited to see it, was considered by the US. It's hard to justify why that was not even tried first, before moving directly to the bombing of civilians.
If you only have one bomb, and you don't know if it's going to work the way you think it will, you don't put it in front of some leaders who are nigh-insane from a vastly different culture, and rely on logic and psychology to do your work for you.
The idea of a demonstration was a stupid one then, and is a stupid idea now.
To win a war, you have to remove the ability and will of the enemy to fight. The will of THIS enemy was creating kamikaze pilots, training civilians to fight to the death and sword wielding rushes into machine gun fire. A bomb in a harbor to show it to the crazies hoping they capitulate is NOT a good bet in light of an enemy with that kind of will.
That isn't so much sarcasm as it is simply wrong. What constitutes a war crime is determined by treaty and the customary laws of war. Threat of retaliation is a recognized means of encouraging compliance with the law of war by the enemy. The US has prosecuted its own service members for war crimes as well as war criminals from among the enemy.
Well then, you can cite the particular section, paragraph, and line where those treaties were broken. Right?
Make sure you use only ones that the US had already signed by 1945.
> The failures included, at a minimum, the apparent lack of procedure for doctors to directly notify the airline and pilot certification authority that they were revoking his medical
That is not allowed in Germany, because medical issues are strictly private there. (There was that Adolf Hitler and his nazi regime. They used to gas the jews and the gipsy, as well as those considered unwanted for medical reasons at the time: homosexuals, the physically and mentally handicapped, etc. Because of that, the post-war new Germany wanted to make sure the state cannot obtain such data, in order to prevent a re-occurance of mass exterminations, ever.)
You may find that airlines suddenly stop using german pilots.
They specifically state that prime gets bumped in line during the picking, boxing, and shipping process. They can't speed the shipper, but they can let prime members pay for the research, tools, and people to get stuff out the door fast.
It's probably that the comments offer nothing of value, having become the bastion of old white hateful assholes.
Not point in visiting a news aggregator site where the user contributed content repels more than half your target audience.
But keep being a prick and lamenting the fall of /. , by all means.
See, the thing is, if you don't call someone an asshole for no reason all the time, they have somewhere to fall.
Once you do, being an asshole has no cost. I already am one. I am white, middle age, have a job, never been on welfare, never sucked another man's dick, never smoked crack, and never went to a hip-hop rave, I am not a fat ghetto hog with more children than rooms in my section 8 apartment.
I have NOTHING TO LOSE by being a asshole to some twat that comes oozing menstral thoughts onto slashdot berating me for being too white or too manly (a very preposterous thought on a NERD SITE.)
I am an asshole by what I AM by my very NATURE according to you twats.
Combine that with a steady stream of the same old shit as other sites, the same logic contorting and logic violating reasons for posting stupid stories about shit the productive audience (you don't count in that) doesn't want to discuss.
What you SJWs don't understand is left alone, the discussion gets intellectual and interesting and stays out of those concepts you don't like. At which time, you can participate in that culture too. We USED to have some cool discussions here 10 years ago. Here, nobody knows who the fuck you are, no avatar, no required sig, no required USERNAME for fucks-sake it's impossible to not be hiding if you just ignore it. If someone thinks you are a butch-assed female, is because you stated such. Lastly, Slashdot will ultimately fail at the new media ideals as other sites are better suited and populated for it. Ultimately slashdot will fail.
Nobody has any reason not to engage in stupid squabble fights and get out artistic haiku about your cunt anymore. That's the only entertainment that happens here now.
So your complaint with this place is YOU.
Fuck off.
Get a screwdriver and just pry the damn thing off the keyboard.
Same with the windows and menu keys. You can still press them by poking something in there (often a pinky works).
Along those lines but better done. "Manufactured Landscapes" is a documentary that in part, contains lots of shots of factories in China.
Preview on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
This is just a new way to make a very slow, very crappy network connection via unexpected hardware.
"Hacking" has SOME meaning ya dummies. It implies that there isn't a willful participant at one end and the data breech happened anyway.
Whatever this is... it isn't 'hacking'.
Peter Gibbons: Well those are whole pennies, right? I'm just talking about fractions of a penny here. But we do it from a much bigger tray and we do it a couple a million times.
Like Superman III.
My wife and I were in a very similar situation yesterday, stopped about 1/2 a car-length behind a stopped truck. When she realized we were about to be rear-ended, she gunned it to bring us a few inches behind the truck. We weren't hit. The video doesn't indicate that the google car tried anything like that.
The problem with that approach is SOMETIMES you will avoid the crash (you did), however the rest of the time you are now in the middle of the chain of crashes. That both damages your vehicle more, and makes your insurance payout and court problems much worse. "We both hit the truck" is different than "that guy hit me and fortunately I didn't hit the truck" in court.
Cops will even give tickets out to everybody in line except the first one and now the court battle is "get your insurance payout and shut up" rather than "sue that guy's insurance because he screwed up"
(also - the Wailin' Jennys' version of "Old Man" is far superior to Neil Young's own...)
No.
Neil Young's new version "Old Man Yells at Cloud" seems to be a bit better I think.
And why didn't Lucas do what he did for aliens in the original trilogy: Either make them speak some alien language with subtitles, or give them some not-easily-identified accent? Jabba didn't speak like an Italian guy - he spoke in Huttese. Greedo spoke in his own tongue. Chewbacca had his growls that Han and C3P-O translated. Aliens that spoke English (Yoda, Ackbar, etc) did so without any obvious dialect. You didn't have Ackbar shouting "It's a trap!" with a French accent. Yoda didn't speak with a stereotypical Indian accent. The original Star Wars trilogy did alien-speak right, why couldn't the prequels? (Not saying that this would have fixed all of the prequels' problems. Their issues go far deeper than offensive alien accents. Still, it would have been one less thing to cringe at.)
The target audience of the newer movies is a lot younger.
The folks that buy toys and games and collector cups and all that.
Do you think Star Wars (a new hope) was targeted toward kids originally? It wasn't, but it turned out to have tremendous appeal to kids. One they couldn't count on reproducing.
So they had to put in some slapstick comedy to keep the interest (or so they thought), they couldn't use other languages and count on the audience reading subtitles fast (because they aren't that good at reading), and they had to put in obvious game leading sequences like the robot factory and the pod race to kick off the video games.
Those awful aspects of the newer movies were put there because Lucas thought he could make more money with them there. Why risk being accused of racism by doing racist stuff? What we are seeing is incidental changes as the result of making the movies more marketable to KIDS because kids will spend more MONEY on the stupid shit.