This is total bullsh*t. How is this "deceptive?" And last I looked, I don't see most ads saying that they're ads. Slashdot Op Deals at the bottom of the page has ads for 6 items, none of them marked as ads. Same with ads on TV, the radio, and plenty of other web sites. Ads are obvious - even the slashvertisements.
It's certainly more doable. Don't have to worry about low gravity screwing with your health, there's plenty of oxygen and water that can be extracted from the CO2 and H2SO4 atmosphere, and the temperature in parts of the clouds is just right. It even has an induced magnetosphere.
Why don't you pay attention for a change? Times have changed. No small business has an excuse not to know how to delay or avoid a fatal update. If the computer is critical to their operations, they should either know how to maintain it or hire someone who does. Same as if they're dependent on a truck to make deliveries - better hire someone who knows how to drive and make sure that routine maintenance is done.
And you're so full of shit about fortune 1000 companies - why do you think that corporate users have the option to postpone the upgrade? Only a complete incompetent would allow such an upgrade without lots of testing in such an environment.
We also have the right to know how policies are reached. Secret cabinet meetings are bs. If anything, they should be the most transparent of all. No more saying one thing in public and another in private. Simple enough to enforce, too. Make any secret discussions a conspiracy against the national interests, and jail the lying bastards.
Why have secrets? Conduct your affairs in an open and transparent way, and you won't have these problems. Citizens have the right to know what government policies are, and how they came about. That other countries would also know is a bonus - they'd know to what extent you could be trusted. They would also know what bones of contention could be addressed by negotiations instead of guessing games. We're only one wrong guess from Armageddon.
Sorry that highly questionable claim about children in "food insecure households" even if true does not equal bread lines. Which were daily lines in the soviet union to obtain basic food stuffs. Even when adequate supplies existed the process and procedures to obtain the food items were inefficient and time consuming.
Go to your local food banks and you'll see the bread lines. Some distribute 1 or 2 days a week, some daily. Same as soup kitchens operate either a few days a week or daily. All depends on the resources available. Seniors are the most consistent users of food banks. And things have gotten worse since the study, which was done in 2010. Their food banks distributed more than 4 billion meals . And that doesn't count the food banks and soup kitchens that operate independently of Feed America. 46 million Americans depend on food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens.
This is common knowledge. Only someone who is willfully ignorant or is living in a bubble world doesn't know this. It's mentioned often on daytime TV, it's in the news (print, television, radio, internet). Go visit a food bank. There's one in almost every community in all 50 states.
An "interrogation facility" that does't keep records of who's in it, that relatives can't find them, that the occupants have been "disappeared" without a court order, and, as you yourself admit, employs forced labor, is a gulag. Next you'll be saying gitmo is just an "enhanced interrogation facility", instead of what it is - illegal imprisonment and torture that breeds more terrorists.
Google defines a gulag as a forced labor camp. Nothing more is needed to satisfy the criteria.
And with 16.7 million kids (and who knows how many adults) with insecure food sources, the line-ups a food banks certainly meet the definition of "bread lines."
Like various agencies un the US and UK aren't? Ubiquitous illegal spying on their own citizens - it's getting hard to tell the difference between the old USSR and today's western governments.
WTF do you think statistics are for? The frequency of forest fires has doubled. When your fire insurance doubles because of this, you're going to be concerned even if a forest fire didn't affect you directly.
Also, people ARE more concerned about things that happen more frequently. The frequency of terrorist attacks, the frequency with which Donald Trump shoots himself in the foot while shooting off his mouth, the frequency with which Clinton refuses to give direct answers, the frequency of bacterial outbreaks at Chipote, restaurants, the frequency of Samsung Note 7's bursting into flames... people notice through repitition, same as how they learn most things.
Because sometimes doing it the hard way produces better results and a better product. We have electronic fuel injection in cars, even though carburetors worked fine and were easier.
Also, doing it this way forces management to confront the fact that they don't really know how to measure productivity beyond time spent warming a seat and lines of code checked in.
why should I choose to let people work remotely when I can just as easily have them come into the office?
Now if you HAD good metrics, you'd be paying some remote workers more than their in-house equivalent because you'd have objective proof of who was better, and adjust pay accordingly. The fact that you beef about it shows you don't have an objective method to quantify productivity and are doing it by the seat of your ass, counting asses in other seats.
Duh, how long ago did that carbon get pulled out of the atmosphere? If the answer is less than millions of years it's carbon neutral.
His cellulose argument was totally unrelated bs that he threw in because obviously he didn't know that coal seams formed hundreds of millions of years ago, and play an important role in our understanding of evolution through the fossil outlines embedded in them, means that this is someone whose opinion is useless because it lacks basic knowledge of the subject matter - which is the carbon cycle.
And thanks about my dog. Had him for 13 years. Last week I was talking to someone else out walking their old dog, and I said that he probably wouldn't last the winter. He might have a week, a month, whatever, but he's an OLD dog, even if he doesn't act like it. He didn't even have a week. Just was no longer able to stand up without help, refused all food, but at least he didn't linger and suffer.
This will be the first time in decades that I haven't had at least one large dog. And he was smart - I was able to teach him how to be a guide dog without even a harness, which came in handy a year later when I lost my vision for a few months. He was 8 when he learned, so yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks. The idea that they have to be started as puppies is demonstrably bs.
Actually, I did. I was a science freak in grade school. Read everything I could get my hands on. So yes, I knew that coal was laid down hundreds of millions of years ago. But this was also all covered in 1st year High School Geography class, along with adiabatic cooling for cloud formation, the different types of rocks and how they are formed, etc. Grade school covered things like experiments with oxidation of iron and other fun stuff (which I took further by passing large currents though aluminium foll to watch it burn baby burn with a bang).
I guess your country has a shitty education system if they don't teach basic science.
Already been thought of. Trees are a bulky way to store carbon by burying in a mine, and burying them at too shallow a depth just means they rot and produce methane.
So you make a house out of trees. The house burns. You're no further ahead. Or you build a bridge. If you don't tear it down and dispose of it at some point, that bridge will collapse into the rive, the timbers will rot, and that will produce methane, 25 to 100x worse than CO2. Hydro projects that flood forested valleys are a huge contributor to greenhouse gas.
>The only solution, both short and long term, is to stop burning stuff.
So basically you are advocating either the death of the majority of our species
Yep. And the longer we don't act, the more of a mess it will be when the crunch hits, and the less likely that it will be reversable in time to save the species. There is no other solution. Even nuclear only has enough supplies to meet needs for a century at our rate of increase in demand.
Don't act, and billions of people die. Wars have always been fought over resources - territory, food, land, water, minerals, etc. That isn't going to change, and along with war is pestilence, famine, and the pale rider - death.
Humans are at the top of the food chain for one reason - try to find any other species that commits aggressive acts on the scale we do.
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Bull crap. Don't you DARE try to move the goal posts. There are bread lines and food lines in every state.
You crippled? Just do a search for food banks. Fucking moron.
This is total bullsh*t. How is this "deceptive?" And last I looked, I don't see most ads saying that they're ads. Slashdot Op Deals at the bottom of the page has ads for 6 items, none of them marked as ads. Same with ads on TV, the radio, and plenty of other web sites. Ads are obvious - even the slashvertisements.
It's certainly more doable. Don't have to worry about low gravity screwing with your health, there's plenty of oxygen and water that can be extracted from the CO2 and H2SO4 atmosphere, and the temperature in parts of the clouds is just right. It even has an induced magnetosphere.
We invented Facebook.
That should be enough to get people running screaming to go off-planet.
Why don't you pay attention for a change? Times have changed. No small business has an excuse not to know how to delay or avoid a fatal update. If the computer is critical to their operations, they should either know how to maintain it or hire someone who does. Same as if they're dependent on a truck to make deliveries - better hire someone who knows how to drive and make sure that routine maintenance is done.
And you're so full of shit about fortune 1000 companies - why do you think that corporate users have the option to postpone the upgrade? Only a complete incompetent would allow such an upgrade without lots of testing in such an environment.
Microsoft refused to give a direct answer as to whether Windows 10 was HIPAA compliant. There's no guarantee, even with the Enterprise edition, that things you locked down will stay locked down forever, and this doesn't protect from human error. Even a dentist's office using Windows 10 can easily fall afoul of the law. The EULA clearly violates HIPAA.
Something as simple as turning on Cortana is a serious violation. How many people are aware of that when they bring home work from the office?
We also have the right to know how policies are reached. Secret cabinet meetings are bs. If anything, they should be the most transparent of all. No more saying one thing in public and another in private. Simple enough to enforce, too. Make any secret discussions a conspiracy against the national interests, and jail the lying bastards.
Why have secrets? Conduct your affairs in an open and transparent way, and you won't have these problems. Citizens have the right to know what government policies are, and how they came about. That other countries would also know is a bonus - they'd know to what extent you could be trusted. They would also know what bones of contention could be addressed by negotiations instead of guessing games. We're only one wrong guess from Armageddon.
Sorry that highly questionable claim about children in "food insecure households" even if true does not equal bread lines. Which were daily lines in the soviet union to obtain basic food stuffs. Even when adequate supplies existed the process and procedures to obtain the food items were inefficient and time consuming.
Go to your local food banks and you'll see the bread lines. Some distribute 1 or 2 days a week, some daily. Same as soup kitchens operate either a few days a week or daily. All depends on the resources available. Seniors are the most consistent users of food banks. And things have gotten worse since the study, which was done in 2010. Their food banks distributed more than 4 billion meals . And that doesn't count the food banks and soup kitchens that operate independently of Feed America. 46 million Americans depend on food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens.
This is common knowledge. Only someone who is willfully ignorant or is living in a bubble world doesn't know this. It's mentioned often on daytime TV, it's in the news (print, television, radio, internet). Go visit a food bank. There's one in almost every community in all 50 states.
Of if you're feeling lazy, just google for it.
An "interrogation facility" that does't keep records of who's in it, that relatives can't find them, that the occupants have been "disappeared" without a court order, and, as you yourself admit, employs forced labor, is a gulag. Next you'll be saying gitmo is just an "enhanced interrogation facility", instead of what it is - illegal imprisonment and torture that breeds more terrorists.
Google defines a gulag as a forced labor camp. Nothing more is needed to satisfy the criteria.
And with 16.7 million kids (and who knows how many adults) with insecure food sources, the line-ups a food banks certainly meet the definition of "bread lines."
"The Russians are trying to hack everything."
Like various agencies un the US and UK aren't? Ubiquitous illegal spying on their own citizens - it's getting hard to tell the difference between the old USSR and today's western governments.
I talked about coal, stupid threw in cellulose, which has nothing to do with coal. Again, fuck off troll.
WTF do you think statistics are for? The frequency of forest fires has doubled. When your fire insurance doubles because of this, you're going to be concerned even if a forest fire didn't affect you directly.
Also, people ARE more concerned about things that happen more frequently. The frequency of terrorist attacks, the frequency with which Donald Trump shoots himself in the foot while shooting off his mouth, the frequency with which Clinton refuses to give direct answers, the frequency of bacterial outbreaks at Chipote, restaurants, the frequency of Samsung Note 7's bursting into flames ... people notice through repitition, same as how they learn most things.
Guide dog. Hahaha.
Because sometimes doing it the hard way produces better results and a better product. We have electronic fuel injection in cars, even though carburetors worked fine and were easier.
Also, doing it this way forces management to confront the fact that they don't really know how to measure productivity beyond time spent warming a seat and lines of code checked in.
why should I choose to let people work remotely when I can just as easily have them come into the office?
Now if you HAD good metrics, you'd be paying some remote workers more than their in-house equivalent because you'd have objective proof of who was better, and adjust pay accordingly. The fact that you beef about it shows you don't have an objective method to quantify productivity and are doing it by the seat of your ass, counting asses in other seats.
Duh, how long ago did that carbon get pulled out of the atmosphere? If the answer is less than millions of years it's carbon neutral.
His cellulose argument was totally unrelated bs that he threw in because obviously he didn't know that coal seams formed hundreds of millions of years ago, and play an important role in our understanding of evolution through the fossil outlines embedded in them, means that this is someone whose opinion is useless because it lacks basic knowledge of the subject matter - which is the carbon cycle.
And thanks about my dog. Had him for 13 years. Last week I was talking to someone else out walking their old dog, and I said that he probably wouldn't last the winter. He might have a week, a month, whatever, but he's an OLD dog, even if he doesn't act like it. He didn't even have a week. Just was no longer able to stand up without help, refused all food, but at least he didn't linger and suffer.
This will be the first time in decades that I haven't had at least one large dog. And he was smart - I was able to teach him how to be a guide dog without even a harness, which came in handy a year later when I lost my vision for a few months. He was 8 when he learned, so yes, you can teach an old dog new tricks. The idea that they have to be started as puppies is demonstrably bs.
Also, you're exhibit one (among millions) that the US education system is broken.
Actually, I did. I was a science freak in grade school. Read everything I could get my hands on. So yes, I knew that coal was laid down hundreds of millions of years ago. But this was also all covered in 1st year High School Geography class, along with adiabatic cooling for cloud formation, the different types of rocks and how they are formed, etc. Grade school covered things like experiments with oxidation of iron and other fun stuff (which I took further by passing large currents though aluminium foll to watch it burn baby burn with a bang).
I guess your country has a shitty education system if they don't teach basic science.
Already been thought of. Trees are a bulky way to store carbon by burying in a mine, and burying them at too shallow a depth just means they rot and produce methane.
Duh, how long ago did that carbon get pulled out of the atmosphere? If the answer is less than millions of years it's carbon neutral.
It was way more than millions of years, so it's not carbon neutral. Give it up.
So you make a house out of trees. The house burns. You're no further ahead. Or you build a bridge. If you don't tear it down and dispose of it at some point, that bridge will collapse into the rive, the timbers will rot, and that will produce methane, 25 to 100x worse than CO2. Hydro projects that flood forested valleys are a huge contributor to greenhouse gas.
Eh? This is the 20th century, no one uses e-mail anymore, grandpa!
This is the 21st century, not the 20th. Wake up, Rumpelstiltskin. The world didn't come to an end December 31st, 1999 at midnight.
Come off it - we're not all products of the American education system.
>The only solution, both short and long term, is to stop burning stuff.
So basically you are advocating either the death of the majority of our species
Yep. And the longer we don't act, the more of a mess it will be when the crunch hits, and the less likely that it will be reversable in time to save the species. There is no other solution. Even nuclear only has enough supplies to meet needs for a century at our rate of increase in demand.
Don't act, and billions of people die. Wars have always been fought over resources - territory, food, land, water, minerals, etc. That isn't going to change, and along with war is pestilence, famine, and the pale rider - death.
Humans are at the top of the food chain for one reason - try to find any other species that commits aggressive acts on the scale we do.
Then they're too stupid to know that when you're jammed up on a problem, the best thing to do is walk away from the keyboard of a while.