What else am I supposed to do? Let him go right on doing it and wait for some teachable moment about not hitting the cat?
Does your cat have its claws? If so, the cat will provide his own damned teachable moment when it's good and ready, and when your kid doesn't expect it.
Though, in fairness to your two year old, I can see fifty coming up... and I think throwing toy trucks at cats is an entirely reasonable thing.
Cats are evil, pointless animals to have as pets.:-P
What is the point of putting kids in the middle of the forest if you can't beat them without anybody hearing? It was good enough for us, it ought to be good enough for these spoiled little kids.
Camp is there to weed out and identify the weak minded.
If you want to be coddled and understood, go to frickin' band camp.;-)
Do you seriously expect competency in the editors? Because that hasn't been true in years.
Being an editor on Slashdot must be a cushy job... you're not held to any standard of knowing the English language, fact checking, or even doing the barest checking for dupes.
They're just the monkeys who promote the stories, and people keep paying them.
Now suddenly the free market, with its rule of supply and demand, is bad?
First off, stop worshiping the free market, it's an abstraction, not some holy deity. It's a construct, nothing more.
Second off, your 'free market' is inherently amoral, and doesn't give a crap about good and bad. If it's profitable to sell women and children, someone will. Because the free market allows you to be a complete and utter douchebag if you can get away with it.
Which is precisely why the market doesn't achieve optimal outcomes, and only describes the mechanism.
The free market is a lie. You might as well worship entropy.
So how come the US government has not declared war on every tax haven around the world because those countries know exactly what they are doing
Because if the people who collectively make up the US government had it become public just how much money they have hidden in those tax havens it would be awkward.
See, if you are overtly helping people launder money or get around the law, it looks bad.
But if you can do it discretely, and in such a way as you may be doing more general banking for rich people... well, they'll let that slide.
You think all of those millionaire Senators and Congressmen actually declare and pay taxes on all that money?
Many of these guys have a direct stake in some companies which have been accused of some pretty shady dealings, and make huge profits from stuff like this.
Organized crime with a veneer of respectability can be glossed over, and frequently it is. And the system is corrupt, and only really helps out those with money and connections.
Wall Street and Washington are two of the biggest bunches of crooks you can imagine.
Help play a shell game to make $10,000,000,000,000 of crappy American junk debt look like AAA rated debt... too big to fail or be prosecuted.
I think we can take it as a given by the time you're heading a bank or a major financial corporation you're a complete crook and a swindler, and are pretty much immune from prosecution... in no small part because those in power probably profited from your crimes.
It's the little guys who the justice system is concerned with, the big fish operate with impunity and a wink.
Unlike an earlier simpler version of the system, the infrared curtain can also identify multi-touch gestures such as pinching and zooming.
I'm sorry, but pinching and zooming on a multi-touch display seems inherently incompatible with operating a motor vehicle. For a car, steering wheel mounted buttons, easily accessible knobs, and maybe voice control.
Mucking about with a touch screen? Not so much.
Do the people who make cars not actually keep tabs on things like traffic laws and common sense? Or are they just all trying to monetize your dashboard, and don't care?
I'm not sure this would legally comply with most hands free laws.
So, in this judges opinion, can we make a fake Instagram account for him or the police?
Or is this act of lying purely something they reserve for themselves?
Because, you know, maybe this judge should start sharing his fondness for sheep and Barbie dolls.
Oh, wait... if we did it, it would be a crime. And, I'm sorry, but if it's a crime for us, then you should have some form of prior authorization.
Otherwise this judge has said "we can commit crimes, you can't"... which will pretty much confirm that the law deems themselves above it. In which case this judge's new Instagram account should be interesting to see.
He called me a "miserable son of a bitch" and slammed the phone down.
It never ceases to amaze me how someone who is actively scamming you, and knows they're actively scamming you, somehow expects to be treated with respect.
I'm sorry, but do you think you deserve to be treated as anything but a lying sack of shit?
It isn't possible to run this scam without knowing you're scamming. So if you don't get a good response, you shouldn't be surprised at all.
Don't care if it's the only job you can find. You know you're ripping people off, so you deserve all the shit and abuse you get.
Please explain to the childish hamster brain why all the cars in Cuba were built during the Bautista administration.
It is not true that all the cars in Cuba were built during the Batista administration. It is true that all of the American cars predate the embargo.
But the Russian, Chinese and Korean cars which are all over the place? Not so much.
Again, do you know anything about Cuba?
Are you really going to make the claim that Cubans are better off now than they were during the Batista days?
As a matter of fact, I am... Batista was overthrown in 1959, and in the last 55 years a lot of incremental changes have happened in Cuba.
Do attribute that all to the glory of communism? Not really. Do I personally know numerous Cubans with educations, access to health care, and insights into their society who have talked to me about what life has been like over the last several decades and how it has changed? As a matter of fact, yes.
Under Batista, pretty much everything in Cuba was to benefit a ruling wealthy, and American businesses which were mostly ran by the US mafia. Everyone else pretty much got nothing at all. This wasn't some noble democracy with freedoms which was overthrown.
Back in power, Batista suspended the 1940 Constitution and revoked most political liberties, including the right to strike. He then aligned with the wealthiest landowners who owned the largest sugar plantations, and presided over a stagnating economy that widened the gap between rich and poor Cubans.[5] Batista's increasingly corrupt and repressive government then began to systematically profit from the exploitation of Cuba's commercial interests, by negotiating lucrative relationships with the American mafia, who controlled the drug, gambling, and prostitution businesses in Havana, and with large multinational American corporations that had invested considerable amounts of money in Cuba.[5][6] To quell the growing discontent amongst the populace--which was subsequently displayed through frequent student riots and demonstrations--Batista established tighter censorship of the media, while also utilizing his anti-Communist secret police to carry out wide-scale violence, torture and public executions; ultimately killing anywhere from 1,000 to 20,000 people.
Batista was a thug and a crook operating under the approval of America, so don't paint yourselves as the white knights here.
Cuba is much more complex and nuanced than your ridiculously reductionist view of it.
You seem to indicate you think it is OK to just take foreign property in your response.
Tell you what, if you ever find yourself as a small nation in which most property has been bought by foreign entities, and you essentially have no rights so you can make money for foreign owners... you decide if nationalization is a viable option.
Nobody said "go to any country you want and seize their stuff" -- that's what America was talking about with Iraqi oil in 2003 and the notion that stupid war would be paid for with oil revenues.
But when that foreign country essentially occupies yours and you have nothing? Well, if you think making yourself a serf in favor of foreign property ownership is a good choice, that's up to you.
Me, I would be inclined to think "fuck that".
So, please, when you know something about the topic, chime in. In the mean time, you're just another clueless idiot who doesn't know a damned thing about it.
You know, the "mean spiritedness" comes down to people rolling their eyes and thinking this story boils down to "Waaah, I took the wrong degree, and now I can't find a cool job, how do I get into the profession I didn't get a degree in?". Because that's exactly what I thought when I saw this.
Slashdot isn't your guidance counselor, or your parent. Slashdot certainly isn't even your friend. Slashdot is the collective snark and bile of thousands of people across the interwebs with questionable social skills.
Do you want us to offer him a warm cup of tea and see how he feels about his bad career choice? Do you think that will change anything?
I'm sorry, but if you want warm and fuzzy... you're in the wrong place. We mostly do caustic and bitter, with a side of "take responsibility for your own actions".
An English major who finds himself outside of the STEM field? Well, that's not exactly surprising to anybody, is it?
Nothing like a reminder that you live in the future. [imgur.com]
Hmmm... is that the now future, the later future, or the past future (which could be now)?
The now future when you typed that is in the past, so it's the past future. Now the now future is an ever changing thing, and isn't the same now future as when I started typing this.
The future future we haven't gotten to, but we will, eventually.
So, I'd say we live in the present, which in the future will be the past. The future now will have a future future, but that's not now, that's later.
Are you sure we live in the future? Seems as soon as you finish the thought it's already in the past, even though it seemed like like now.
This all gets very complicated. If the future is now, but that now is already in the past... isn't the future the future past?
Now, I think in the future, you will look back on your past and wonder if you ever want to say we live in the future. Because by the time you said it it's already in the past, so therefore we're never actually in the future... in the future we will be, but since then it's now we'll never actually get there.
To implement an agenda of draconian regulation than use the "Sony Crisis" as an excuse.
So, you're saying this is a false flag operation by the shadow government to instill more fear in people, and to allow the passing of additional laws which expands their power and further justifies their abuse of the law and our rights?
I like your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your news letter.
The really scary thing is no matter how paranoid the scenario you come up with these days, reality might be trying even harder. What was batshit crazy stuff a decade ago is pretty much commonplace now after Snowden told us about it.
If the wireless cards don't have ample protection against copying of information and forging then the platform design is flawed.
Of course it's flawed. It's been flawed since it was introduced. This was introduced by credit/debit companies to make it more convenient so people would use it more so they'd collect more fees.
The first time I saw one I thought it was dangerous and idiotic. I largely still do because it's un-authenticated. Sadly, pretty much every card comes with it now.
When will people understand... companies who create these products don't give a damn about security, they care about getting people to use shiny new baubles. Security comes much later after it's been hacked.
We know all this. We discuss it every time this topic comes up. It's well traveled stuff around here.
But, dude, you're missing the big picture here... freakin' tinfoil pants. How awesome is that? I mean, now we can have an entire fashion line of tinfoil clothing so we can go out and look normal.
That styling cap I'm wearing? Yeah, it looks like a hipster fashion statement, 'cuz that's how I roll. Inside? Tinfoil hat bitches.
No more strange looks when I go grocery shopping. Now, all of your paranoid needs can be met while still remaining fashionable and discrete... which has the added benefit of remaining inconspicuous so they Aliens don't even notice you.
Hmmm... what's that van parked outside my house for?
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I shtink I've sholved the problem ... we had a working lunch and did some sh-sh-sh-shpit balling to come up with a creative sholooshn.
Moshtly we concluded you're a dick.
Shisherely, your shtaff.
How's that for "refined bitterness with a refreshing finish"?
Seriously, there's a massive amount of bad idea lurking in there somewhere.
Does your cat have its claws? If so, the cat will provide his own damned teachable moment when it's good and ready, and when your kid doesn't expect it.
Though, in fairness to your two year old, I can see fifty coming up ... and I think throwing toy trucks at cats is an entirely reasonable thing.
Cats are evil, pointless animals to have as pets. :-P
Doh, sorry, I've only just skimmed "Malfeasance for Dummies" and haven't yet finalized my plans, I'll make a note of that.
Well played. That summed things up nicely. ;-)
What is the point of putting kids in the middle of the forest if you can't beat them without anybody hearing? It was good enough for us, it ought to be good enough for these spoiled little kids.
Camp is there to weed out and identify the weak minded.
If you want to be coddled and understood, go to frickin' band camp. ;-)
Do you seriously expect competency in the editors? Because that hasn't been true in years.
Being an editor on Slashdot must be a cushy job ... you're not held to any standard of knowing the English language, fact checking, or even doing the barest checking for dupes.
They're just the monkeys who promote the stories, and people keep paying them.
So, Amazon is now the grammar police?
I'm sure there are hundreds (if not thousands) of books on Amazon which have absolutely shit grammar and punctuation.
To quote the author of the book ... what the actual fuck?
First off, stop worshiping the free market, it's an abstraction, not some holy deity. It's a construct, nothing more.
Second off, your 'free market' is inherently amoral, and doesn't give a crap about good and bad. If it's profitable to sell women and children, someone will. Because the free market allows you to be a complete and utter douchebag if you can get away with it.
Which is precisely why the market doesn't achieve optimal outcomes, and only describes the mechanism.
The free market is a lie. You might as well worship entropy.
Because if the people who collectively make up the US government had it become public just how much money they have hidden in those tax havens it would be awkward.
See, if you are overtly helping people launder money or get around the law, it looks bad.
But if you can do it discretely, and in such a way as you may be doing more general banking for rich people ... well, they'll let that slide.
You think all of those millionaire Senators and Congressmen actually declare and pay taxes on all that money?
Many of these guys have a direct stake in some companies which have been accused of some pretty shady dealings, and make huge profits from stuff like this.
Organized crime with a veneer of respectability can be glossed over, and frequently it is. And the system is corrupt, and only really helps out those with money and connections.
Wall Street and Washington are two of the biggest bunches of crooks you can imagine.
Help play a shell game to make $10,000,000,000,000 of crappy American junk debt look like AAA rated debt ... too big to fail or be prosecuted.
I think we can take it as a given by the time you're heading a bank or a major financial corporation you're a complete crook and a swindler, and are pretty much immune from prosecution ... in no small part because those in power probably profited from your crimes.
It's the little guys who the justice system is concerned with, the big fish operate with impunity and a wink.
I'm sorry, but pinching and zooming on a multi-touch display seems inherently incompatible with operating a motor vehicle. For a car, steering wheel mounted buttons, easily accessible knobs, and maybe voice control.
Mucking about with a touch screen? Not so much.
Do the people who make cars not actually keep tabs on things like traffic laws and common sense? Or are they just all trying to monetize your dashboard, and don't care?
I'm not sure this would legally comply with most hands free laws.
So, in this judges opinion, can we make a fake Instagram account for him or the police?
Or is this act of lying purely something they reserve for themselves?
Because, you know, maybe this judge should start sharing his fondness for sheep and Barbie dolls.
Oh, wait ... if we did it, it would be a crime. And, I'm sorry, but if it's a crime for us, then you should have some form of prior authorization.
Otherwise this judge has said "we can commit crimes, you can't" ... which will pretty much confirm that the law deems themselves above it. In which case this judge's new Instagram account should be interesting to see.
It never ceases to amaze me how someone who is actively scamming you, and knows they're actively scamming you, somehow expects to be treated with respect.
I'm sorry, but do you think you deserve to be treated as anything but a lying sack of shit?
It isn't possible to run this scam without knowing you're scamming. So if you don't get a good response, you shouldn't be surprised at all.
Don't care if it's the only job you can find. You know you're ripping people off, so you deserve all the shit and abuse you get.
In other words, it's voodoo mysticism which isn't useful for anything, and the author may or may not be reaching to make his theory look sound?
Because the GP kinda makes it sound like healing crystals, and generally not very useful at all.
When there is "much work to do" on your pet theory before it can explain a lightbulb, maybe your theory is worthless?
I learned from that text, and only just unpacked it onto a shelf the other day.
When I eventually grokked (some) calculus it was via his book.
Peace out, James Stewart.
Later. Now. Continuously. Maybe.
It is not true that all the cars in Cuba were built during the Batista administration. It is true that all of the American cars predate the embargo.
But the Russian, Chinese and Korean cars which are all over the place? Not so much.
Again, do you know anything about Cuba?
As a matter of fact, I am ... Batista was overthrown in 1959, and in the last 55 years a lot of incremental changes have happened in Cuba.
Do attribute that all to the glory of communism? Not really. Do I personally know numerous Cubans with educations, access to health care, and insights into their society who have talked to me about what life has been like over the last several decades and how it has changed? As a matter of fact, yes.
Under Batista, pretty much everything in Cuba was to benefit a ruling wealthy, and American businesses which were mostly ran by the US mafia. Everyone else pretty much got nothing at all. This wasn't some noble democracy with freedoms which was overthrown.
Batista was a thug and a crook operating under the approval of America, so don't paint yourselves as the white knights here.
Cuba is much more complex and nuanced than your ridiculously reductionist view of it.
Tell you what, if you ever find yourself as a small nation in which most property has been bought by foreign entities, and you essentially have no rights so you can make money for foreign owners ... you decide if nationalization is a viable option.
Nobody said "go to any country you want and seize their stuff" -- that's what America was talking about with Iraqi oil in 2003 and the notion that stupid war would be paid for with oil revenues.
But when that foreign country essentially occupies yours and you have nothing? Well, if you think making yourself a serf in favor of foreign property ownership is a good choice, that's up to you.
Me, I would be inclined to think "fuck that".
So, please, when you know something about the topic, chime in. In the mean time, you're just another clueless idiot who doesn't know a damned thing about it.
You know, the "mean spiritedness" comes down to people rolling their eyes and thinking this story boils down to "Waaah, I took the wrong degree, and now I can't find a cool job, how do I get into the profession I didn't get a degree in?". Because that's exactly what I thought when I saw this.
Slashdot isn't your guidance counselor, or your parent. Slashdot certainly isn't even your friend. Slashdot is the collective snark and bile of thousands of people across the interwebs with questionable social skills.
Do you want us to offer him a warm cup of tea and see how he feels about his bad career choice? Do you think that will change anything?
I'm sorry, but if you want warm and fuzzy ... you're in the wrong place. We mostly do caustic and bitter, with a side of "take responsibility for your own actions".
An English major who finds himself outside of the STEM field? Well, that's not exactly surprising to anybody, is it?
Why does Steve Carell keep getting to make films?
What is the sound of one hand clapping? ;-)
Bah, breaking eggs is easy, and requires very little dexterity. ;-)
Keeping the yolk intact and not getting egg everywhere? A lot of people with two arms haven't mastered that yet. :)
And, really, if the man has been without arms for 40 years ... I'm pretty sure any additional independence is very welcome.
Hmmm ... is that the now future, the later future, or the past future (which could be now)?
The now future when you typed that is in the past, so it's the past future. Now the now future is an ever changing thing, and isn't the same now future as when I started typing this.
The future future we haven't gotten to, but we will, eventually.
So, I'd say we live in the present, which in the future will be the past. The future now will have a future future, but that's not now, that's later.
Are you sure we live in the future? Seems as soon as you finish the thought it's already in the past, even though it seemed like like now.
This all gets very complicated. If the future is now, but that now is already in the past ... isn't the future the future past?
Now, I think in the future, you will look back on your past and wonder if you ever want to say we live in the future. Because by the time you said it it's already in the past, so therefore we're never actually in the future ... in the future we will be, but since then it's now we'll never actually get there.
You say that like it's a bad thing. :-P
No, you're doing it wrong.
They should dynamically reconfigure. Switch from a hand to a ratchet, become scissors, turn into a hammer or a clamp, or just the big bashing fist.
All with super cool sound effects.
Suddenly the amputee is the cool guy at the party, and the women are whispering about what else it can turn into.
So, you're saying this is a false flag operation by the shadow government to instill more fear in people, and to allow the passing of additional laws which expands their power and further justifies their abuse of the law and our rights?
I like your ideas, and would like to subscribe to your news letter.
The really scary thing is no matter how paranoid the scenario you come up with these days, reality might be trying even harder. What was batshit crazy stuff a decade ago is pretty much commonplace now after Snowden told us about it.
Of course it's flawed. It's been flawed since it was introduced. This was introduced by credit/debit companies to make it more convenient so people would use it more so they'd collect more fees.
The first time I saw one I thought it was dangerous and idiotic. I largely still do because it's un-authenticated. Sadly, pretty much every card comes with it now.
When will people understand ... companies who create these products don't give a damn about security, they care about getting people to use shiny new baubles. Security comes much later after it's been hacked.
We know all this. We discuss it every time this topic comes up. It's well traveled stuff around here.
But, dude, you're missing the big picture here ... freakin' tinfoil pants. How awesome is that? I mean, now we can have an entire fashion line of tinfoil clothing so we can go out and look normal.
That styling cap I'm wearing? Yeah, it looks like a hipster fashion statement, 'cuz that's how I roll. Inside? Tinfoil hat bitches.
No more strange looks when I go grocery shopping. Now, all of your paranoid needs can be met while still remaining fashionable and discrete ... which has the added benefit of remaining inconspicuous so they Aliens don't even notice you.
Hmmm ... what's that van parked outside my house for?