You've swallowed the purple flavor-aid. Union members don't like slackers any more than anyone else. Nobody wants to have to work harder to make up for lazy turds riding on their coat-tails. Union members are no exception.
And union members also don't like over-achievers who make everyone else look bad. Everyone must march in lockstep, identical interchangable cogs in the machine.
This might be sensible. However, TFA talks about SEIU doing the organizing, and that union is the nastiest gang of evil ultra-violent thugs this side of MI13. (Video that sticks in my mind, a nearly spherical "union boss" toad in a $1000 suit, gesturing to the two thugs next to him, pointing to a black guy doing nothing but carrying a Right to Work sign, and they beat him nearly to death.)
Your obscene assertion that I am "sympathizing with the criminals who happened to be white" is racist to the core, through and through. I want the vile scum who shot up that AME church to fry, right next to that racist cop who shot a fleeing black man in the back and planted his tazer next to the body. I have no sympathy for those racists.... OR FOR YOU.
Well, Colin Ferguson didn't get a "hate crime" enhancement to his mass murder charges, even though he said his goal was to kill as many white people and Asians as possible. He did get over 300 year sentence, so I suppose anything else would be superfluous. Still, if his admittedly racially biased mass murder wasn't a "hate crime", the concept is irredeemably broken.
If any President attempts to pressure the FBI Director or Attorney General or any other official to obstruct justice, it is the duty of that official to take action. If none can be taken within the government, he should resign, and call a press conference to publicly say why.
Comey did not do his duty. The sequence of events he claims reflect very poorly on him, and show him to be someone not fit to be Director of the FBI, no matter what anyone may think of the Tangerine Troglodyte.
If I need to print something in color, I step out into meatspace and do it at a place that sells that service.
Printing photographs at Walgreens or Costco is so dang cheap, I have no plans to ever own a photo printer again. Just log in to the web page or send the photo from your phone via their app, then go to the store in an hour or so at your convenience and pick up the prints. I can't buy ink jet photo paper that cheap, and at the rate I print photos, the jets are all clogged up by the next time I want to print one.
The closest I've ever gotten to 'shrooms is a guy in my dorm back in the 70s... Not sure how many he ate, but his nickname was "Birdman" after he recovered from taking a trip out of a second (third? I forget) story window.
He wasn't trying to kill himself. It was more "Wow, everything's moving so slowly. (drops pencil) "Floats like a feather." (jumps up) Whoa, I'm floating! Gotta try this... (out the window) "Wow, I'm floating! Far out, man! Here comes the ground. I wonder if it will be friendl... OW OW OW OW OW!" To the hospital with a broken leg.
Bottom line, anything that alters your perception of reality is a potential hazard when reality doesn't alter to meet your altered perceptions.
Me, the only illegal drugs I've ever done was half a bottle of beer when I was 17.
The big problem with spoilers is when they reveal the punch line of a joke. One of the better jokes in the first "Men in Black" movie was the childbirth scene. The trailer reduced a "Whoa! ha ha ha!!" to "OK, there's that distinctive car in the trailer with all the tentacles coming out of it... wait for it... wait for it... yeah *yawn* there are the tentacles."
Come on, show me some evidence of the Godless Rooskies(TM) actually hacking the election, as in changing the count of the ballots, as opposed to accusations (likely correct) that they had some involvement in releasing emails from Her sooper-seekrit mail server in her very secure linen closet.
I mean, seriously, I didn't vote for that SOB either, but this hysteria sounds like Nixon justifying the Watergate break-in because "everybody knows" George McGovern is a commie.
It's a great book. Short bios of everybody known important to the history of science up until... oh, the mid 1970s, I think. I know my copy was 1974-ish, and I think there was an edition after that. And with Asimov's uniquely entertaining narrative skill.
In Isaac Asimov's "Biographical Encyclopedia of Science", he describes Bruno as basically doing everything possible to ensure his own conviction. Give Bruno some steam engines and SuperScience, and he could be a character in "Girl Genius." (word balloons) "I am RIGHT you pathetic FOOLS! You are deluded about EVERYTHING!! Bow before my MAGNIFICENT INTELLECT!!"
Giordano Bruno was also a Catholic monk, who advanced the "infinite universe" theory, and got burned at the stake by the Vatican for his trouble.
Correlation is not causation. He was heretical on quite a few issues and if his only heresy would have been his scientific work, my guess would be that he would have lived a lot longer. Case in point — how many did the Church burn because of scientific work? I am not aware of any such definite case.
Someone pointed out another Catholic personality, a few years before Bruno, who taught an infinite universe, other worlds, likely inhabited... All the stuff that Bruno was supposedly burned at the stake for.
The Catholic Church made that guy a Cardinal.
As you said, Bruno's actual problem was those other "quite a few issues". He basically went through the Nicene Creed denying (in insulting terms) every single bit of it.
My main criterion for a phone is that Seidio makes a case for it. I love their case and belt clip combination. I don't get the whole "make it so very very thing" nonsense, either.
I don't know if this applies to the S8, as I haven't touched one, but as much as I like Samsung Galaxy phones, they make them out of the slipperiest substance this side of greased teflon. It's easier to hold onto a wet bar of soap. That's another reason I want a case for them. I've had no trouble holding onto my S3 or S6 since I got the Seidio case. It's a much more "grippy" type of plastic.
This is very, very incorrect. Try driving in the Sacrament/Placer County areas.
Try I-280 between Wolfe Road and 85. The first time I took the RV on this stretch of washboard, I thought I'd lost a tire. I had to keep the RV below 45 or it would have shaken apart. I've driven it cross-country, and there was an obvious improvement in highway quality as I passed the Nevada, Arizona, or Oregon borders. And "What the heck just happened... Oh. California." when coming back.
And, instead of engaging with 0123456's perspective, The Usual Suspects pile on with "-1 Disagree" and "-1 Triggered" comment moderation. Thus, giving evidence to back up 0123456's point.
Erdogan, alas, ended Kemal Ataturk's enforced secular state in Turkey. The way I've heard Kemalist Turkey described, the military's duty was to enforce a secular state. If an Islamist government was elected, as soon as they started to govern as Islamists, the military would overthrow the government, shoot as many Islamists as seemed appropriate to them... then, remarkably for this sort of military coup, as soon as things had cooled down enough, hold new elections. "Try to choose more wisely this time. If not... we'll do it again." And they would.
Erdogan was canny enough to get enough of his own people in power in the military, and purge enough of the Kemalists, and the remaining Kemalists didn't catch on soon enough, so... interesting times.
Not to say that Kemal Ataturk's system didn't have a whole lot of glaring problems, of course.
The BBC technology program "Click", a few weeks ago, had a story about the potential hazards of digital assistants, with an amusing skit.
Guy turns in for the night. The phone rings. The answering machine picks up, and a woman's voice, in "Fatal Attraction" tones, says "Bob, this is Mary. Pick up the phone. I know you think I'm crazy, but I'm not crazy. We need to talk. Bob... Hm... what's the name of that stupid computer thing of yours? Norman, turn the porch lights on. Ah, yes. Norman, unlock the front door. Exxxxcelent." Front door opens, knife-wielding woman enters.
>If you're rich and can afford to drive everywhere because you don't mind more nights in hotels and there's no limit to the time you can be away, I understand why you don't fly. But when you look down on jetsetters, you're being an insensitive snob.
Heh... I remember a time when "jetsetters" were the rich folks who looked down on the poor slobs who had to drive.
I bring this up because it seems to me a possible better approach to this nonsense is to simply state that if you miss your flight due to no fault of the airline, you will be charged the fare
Um, they already do that. For decades now, you have to pay a huge fee to have your ticket be transferable.
Or.... fly Southwest. They have a reasonable charge for changing flights. (You can't just not show up for the flight and expect any refund, of course.)
(No connection to Southwest Airlines whatsoever, other than preferring to fly with them whenever possible.)
Heh... I'd never heard of "coal rolling" before. Yeah, it's stupid to modify an engine to do that, and ought to be illegal.
My (unmodified) old 1986 Volvo Turbo Diesel did a pretty good job of "coal rolling" if I punched it and wound up the turbocharger. I didn't to that to tick off Prius drivers (I replaced it with a Prius when Diesel hit $5/gallon back in 2008); I'd only do it with malicious intent when some tailgater started riding my bumper. Made them back way off. I don't think "that kind of Diesel engine" is legal any more. Not on new cars, anyway.
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Nice clear post, well reasoned argument.
Indeed.
So how did something like that get onto Slashdot?
You've swallowed the purple flavor-aid. Union members don't like slackers any more than anyone else. Nobody wants to have to work harder to make up for lazy turds riding on their coat-tails. Union members are no exception.
And union members also don't like over-achievers who make everyone else look bad. Everyone must march in lockstep, identical interchangable cogs in the machine.
This might be sensible. However, TFA talks about SEIU doing the organizing, and that union is the nastiest gang of evil ultra-violent thugs this side of MI13. (Video that sticks in my mind, a nearly spherical "union boss" toad in a $1000 suit, gesturing to the two thugs next to him, pointing to a black guy doing nothing but carrying a Right to Work sign, and they beat him nearly to death.)
Your obscene assertion that I am "sympathizing with the criminals who happened to be white" is racist to the core, through and through. I want the vile scum who shot up that AME church to fry, right next to that racist cop who shot a fleeing black man in the back and planted his tazer next to the body. I have no sympathy for those racists.... OR FOR YOU.
Well, Colin Ferguson didn't get a "hate crime" enhancement to his mass murder charges, even though he said his goal was to kill as many white people and Asians as possible. He did get over 300 year sentence, so I suppose anything else would be superfluous. Still, if his admittedly racially biased mass murder wasn't a "hate crime", the concept is irredeemably broken.
If any President attempts to pressure the FBI Director or Attorney General or any other official to obstruct justice, it is the duty of that official to take action. If none can be taken within the government, he should resign, and call a press conference to publicly say why.
Comey did not do his duty. The sequence of events he claims reflect very poorly on him, and show him to be someone not fit to be Director of the FBI, no matter what anyone may think of the Tangerine Troglodyte.
Oooo, burn!
If I need to print something in color, I step out into meatspace and do it at a place that sells that service.
Printing photographs at Walgreens or Costco is so dang cheap, I have no plans to ever own a photo printer again. Just log in to the web page or send the photo from your phone via their app, then go to the store in an hour or so at your convenience and pick up the prints. I can't buy ink jet photo paper that cheap, and at the rate I print photos, the jets are all clogged up by the next time I want to print one.
The closest I've ever gotten to 'shrooms is a guy in my dorm back in the 70s... Not sure how many he ate, but his nickname was "Birdman" after he recovered from taking a trip out of a second (third? I forget) story window.
He wasn't trying to kill himself. It was more "Wow, everything's moving so slowly. (drops pencil) "Floats like a feather." (jumps up) Whoa, I'm floating! Gotta try this... (out the window) "Wow, I'm floating! Far out, man! Here comes the ground. I wonder if it will be friendl... OW OW OW OW OW!" To the hospital with a broken leg.
Bottom line, anything that alters your perception of reality is a potential hazard when reality doesn't alter to meet your altered perceptions.
Me, the only illegal drugs I've ever done was half a bottle of beer when I was 17.
I'd never listen to even the first few seconds of these -- A quick glance at the results of Google's voice-to-text would tell me all I need to know.
I mean, what would this have meant for the career of Milton Berle?
The big problem with spoilers is when they reveal the punch line of a joke. One of the better jokes in the first "Men in Black" movie was the childbirth scene. The trailer reduced a "Whoa! ha ha ha!!" to "OK, there's that distinctive car in the trailer with all the tentacles coming out of it... wait for it... wait for it... yeah *yawn* there are the tentacles."
Come on, show me some evidence of the Godless Rooskies(TM) actually hacking the election, as in changing the count of the ballots, as opposed to accusations (likely correct) that they had some involvement in releasing emails from Her sooper-seekrit mail server in her very secure linen closet.
I mean, seriously, I didn't vote for that SOB either, but this hysteria sounds like Nixon justifying the Watergate break-in because "everybody knows" George McGovern is a commie.
It's a great book. Short bios of everybody known important to the history of science up until ... oh, the mid 1970s, I think. I know my copy was 1974-ish, and I think there was an edition after that. And with Asimov's uniquely entertaining narrative skill.
In Isaac Asimov's "Biographical Encyclopedia of Science", he describes Bruno as basically doing everything possible to ensure his own conviction. Give Bruno some steam engines and SuperScience, and he could be a character in "Girl Genius." (word balloons) "I am RIGHT you pathetic FOOLS! You are deluded about EVERYTHING!! Bow before my MAGNIFICENT INTELLECT!!"
Giordano Bruno was also a Catholic monk, who advanced the "infinite universe" theory, and got burned at the stake by the Vatican for his trouble.
Correlation is not causation. He was heretical on quite a few issues and if his only heresy would have been his scientific work, my guess would be that he would have lived a lot longer. Case in point — how many did the Church burn because of scientific work? I am not aware of any such definite case.
Someone pointed out another Catholic personality, a few years before Bruno, who taught an infinite universe, other worlds, likely inhabited... All the stuff that Bruno was supposedly burned at the stake for.
The Catholic Church made that guy a Cardinal.
As you said, Bruno's actual problem was those other "quite a few issues". He basically went through the Nicene Creed denying (in insulting terms) every single bit of it.
My main criterion for a phone is that Seidio makes a case for it. I love their case and belt clip combination. I don't get the whole "make it so very very thing" nonsense, either.
I don't know if this applies to the S8, as I haven't touched one, but as much as I like Samsung Galaxy phones, they make them out of the slipperiest substance this side of greased teflon. It's easier to hold onto a wet bar of soap. That's another reason I want a case for them. I've had no trouble holding onto my S3 or S6 since I got the Seidio case. It's a much more "grippy" type of plastic.
"Roads like glass".
This is very, very incorrect. Try driving in the Sacrament/Placer County areas.
Try I-280 between Wolfe Road and 85. The first time I took the RV on this stretch of washboard, I thought I'd lost a tire. I had to keep the RV below 45 or it would have shaken apart. I've driven it cross-country, and there was an obvious improvement in highway quality as I passed the Nevada, Arizona, or Oregon borders. And "What the heck just happened... Oh. California." when coming back.
Mod parent up.
And, instead of engaging with 0123456's perspective, The Usual Suspects pile on with "-1 Disagree" and "-1 Triggered" comment moderation. Thus, giving evidence to back up 0123456's point.
Erdogan, alas, ended Kemal Ataturk's enforced secular state in Turkey. The way I've heard Kemalist Turkey described, the military's duty was to enforce a secular state. If an Islamist government was elected, as soon as they started to govern as Islamists, the military would overthrow the government, shoot as many Islamists as seemed appropriate to them ... then, remarkably for this sort of military coup, as soon as things had cooled down enough, hold new elections. "Try to choose more wisely this time. If not... we'll do it again." And they would.
Erdogan was canny enough to get enough of his own people in power in the military, and purge enough of the Kemalists, and the remaining Kemalists didn't catch on soon enough, so ... interesting times.
Not to say that Kemal Ataturk's system didn't have a whole lot of glaring problems, of course.
The BBC technology program "Click", a few weeks ago, had a story about the potential hazards of digital assistants, with an amusing skit.
Guy turns in for the night. The phone rings. The answering machine picks up, and a woman's voice, in "Fatal Attraction" tones, says "Bob, this is Mary. Pick up the phone. I know you think I'm crazy, but I'm not crazy. We need to talk. Bob... Hm... what's the name of that stupid computer thing of yours? Norman, turn the porch lights on. Ah, yes. Norman, unlock the front door. Exxxxcelent." Front door opens, knife-wielding woman enters.
>If you're rich and can afford to drive everywhere because you don't mind more nights in hotels and there's no limit to the time you can be away, I understand why you don't fly. But when you look down on jetsetters, you're being an insensitive snob.
Heh... I remember a time when "jetsetters" were the rich folks who looked down on the poor slobs who had to drive.
Um, they already do that. For decades now, you have to pay a huge fee to have your ticket be transferable.
Or.... fly Southwest. They have a reasonable charge for changing flights. (You can't just not show up for the flight and expect any refund, of course.)
(No connection to Southwest Airlines whatsoever, other than preferring to fly with them whenever possible.)
Heh... I'd never heard of "coal rolling" before. Yeah, it's stupid to modify an engine to do that, and ought to be illegal.
My (unmodified) old 1986 Volvo Turbo Diesel did a pretty good job of "coal rolling" if I punched it and wound up the turbocharger. I didn't to that to tick off Prius drivers (I replaced it with a Prius when Diesel hit $5/gallon back in 2008); I'd only do it with malicious intent when some tailgater started riding my bumper. Made them back way off. I don't think "that kind of Diesel engine" is legal any more. Not on new cars, anyway.