The fossils originally called Brontosaurus show enough skeletal differences from other specimens of Apatosaurus thatthey rightfully belong to a different genus
So, yeah! And Pluto's a planet, too, you bastards!
I remember setting that fir tree picture as the desktop patterin in Windows 95 and thinking, "Thank god that flat shit is over." Well here we are:(
And why not list top 10 changes instead of top 5?
6. Make Google default search engine. 7. Make Chrome default browser. 8. What's this Coppy animation? Nooooooooooo! 9. Fix NSA backdoors. 10. You may not name your virtual currency "Coin(r)"
This is an early warning sign of encroaching European federalism. Your grand children will think of themselves as Europeans, pay homage to that government, and turn to it for legislation rather than France, or Germany, or Luxumburg, the New York, California, and Rhode Island of Europe.
What state do you live in? "I live in United Kingdom!"
Well good. Let's play off governments around the world against each other, as the fear of lagging the other guy strikes sufficient terror into the hearts of elected politicians to overcome their proud accomplishment of the glacially inertial regulatory state, requiring a decade of "donations" to move things along.
If people opted out and were still tracked, that's fair game for suing.
Now what's the damages? A government trying to duplicate Chrome + Google search engine could not do so, and you'd probably have been taxed a hundred pounds per taxpayer in a failed attempt to do so.
So I'd offer to settle to keep allowing you to use Chrome and Google for free, or get the hell off and go to IE and Bing.
The problem in requiring people to kneel and get permission from government to do things IS the primary problem differentiating economically powerful, free nations from those bogged down with kickbacks required for a dozen different actions per day.
It matters not why the government block occurs (good old corruption or Jesus appearing in the sky claiming how awesome-O the regulation is), economics are hindered.
If a free society wants some regulation, it should be from agencies more responsive than this. It's taken a freaking year for them to "permit" tthis, and that reflects massive popular pressure on elected officials. Remember the mantra of Obama's regulators when they took over: "Wedon't have to care about things like this. They were fucking proud of it.
This was indeed a mafia-like protection racket, but it did not subvert the democratic process. It subverted freedom. It was an example of the democratic process, which subverts freedom all the time.
I am not speaking of using it to form a more orderly society straying from anarchy. Rather, democracy's use in practice often involves setting up special favors that are the opposite of a free market.
"partly because the world has no clear process for expediting drug approvals."
The vast majority of drugs should be fast track. The number of deaths that occur with letting a drug out early (before full problems are realized) is vastly smaller than the numbers of deaths that occur because drugs are held up ten years.
The FDA is built on a mathematically false premise. But you konw, a dead guy from some drug, boy can those politicians decry "unconscionable profits".
How many are standing up to decry the ten million worldwide not saved becaise some good heart drug was delayed 6 years?
Such taxes are politically non-viable because they void the reason politicians seek power: to weild it, getting in the way or things, so they can get paid to get back out of the way, bribes legal (political donations) and illegal (kickbacks, hiring relatives, a hundred other things.)
Hell, for that matter, the US Congress is considering cleaning up the tax code by closing loopholes. Congress has done this several times in the past.
All it does is allow them to hand out the loopholes again in exchange for more "donations".
No, Libertarians piss off both the left and the right. That's how we know we are correct.
Your respective quasi-religions are laughable to us...if they weren't so dangerous to freedom.
As usual, what never enters into the conversation, or your mind, is the simple observation that there never is a "fair tax". No, not for the reasons your memetic programming is giving you an itchy typing finger at the moment.
Rather, pay their fair share" is a sliding goalpoast meme used to justify ever greater spending as the years and decades drag on.
You could set their "fair share", and some years from now another politician, coveteous of power bought by lavishing bread and circuses, will re-introduce it as argument to increase taxes yet again.
Nah, he spelt it right. But it's not really an upgrade to Windows, but to the NSA backdoors built into Windows via the NSA PPP(tm) Panopticon Partnership Program.
That would probably be the fastest way to shut down this idiotic legal threat -- "This is a breeding competition, not a cloning competition. That set of genes in a horse won in the past. Congratulations, good job, breeder! Let's see what the next generation product of these breeders yields.
"We just assumed a base historical background fact, no need to define it further because it's so obvious, of breeding horses as given, and no more foresaw cloning than a Star Trek teleporter creating a duplicate that someone might want to enter."
They are loaded with the "blood" of various champion animals through recorded provenance. They just don't want to allow clones into the competition, or for people to claim they are selling the genes of a horse which won, which didn't.
It's a breeding competition, not a cloning competition.
Slashdot Mirror
So, yeah! And Pluto's a planet, too, you bastards!
We mve at our own pace (and hence the resistance of the OP topic perhaps.)
I have just started Bester's The Stars My Destination for the first time, even though I've been reading sci-fi for over 40 years.
I remember setting that fir tree picture as the desktop patterin in Windows 95 and thinking, "Thank god that flat shit is over." Well here we are :(
And why not list top 10 changes instead of top 5?
6. Make Google default search engine.
7. Make Chrome default browser.
8. What's this Coppy animation? Nooooooooooo!
9. Fix NSA backdoors.
10. You may not name your virtual currency "Coin(r)"
This is an early warning sign of encroaching European federalism. Your grand children will think of themselves as Europeans, pay homage to that government, and turn to it for legislation rather than France, or Germany, or Luxumburg, the New York, California, and Rhode Island of Europe.
What state do you live in? "I live in United Kingdom!"
Here's a better April Fool's submission: "Slashdot reader has sex!"
"Allow me to have 57 words with you..."
I always assumed there were people who did this for Windows. to search for spy data streams of one type or another. Is there?
Speaking of long, boring trips, finally! No more one-handed driving!
Well good. Let's play off governments around the world against each other, as the fear of lagging the other guy strikes sufficient terror into the hearts of elected politicians to overcome their proud accomplishment of the glacially inertial regulatory state, requiring a decade of "donations" to move things along.
It's sad it has to come down to this.
"I should have known when the instructions told me to give him £50 out of my wallet, too."
Man, porn is driving the craziest shit.
If people opted out and were still tracked, that's fair game for suing.
Now what's the damages? A government trying to duplicate Chrome + Google search engine could not do so, and you'd probably have been taxed a hundred pounds per taxpayer in a failed attempt to do so.
So I'd offer to settle to keep allowing you to use Chrome and Google for free, or get the hell off and go to IE and Bing.
I was trying to figure out what this had to do with Slashdot, then it hit me.
Of course. Fat Man.
The problem in requiring people to kneel and get permission from government to do things IS the primary problem differentiating economically powerful, free nations from those bogged down with kickbacks required for a dozen different actions per day.
It matters not why the government block occurs (good old corruption or Jesus appearing in the sky claiming how awesome-O the regulation is), economics are hindered.
If a free society wants some regulation, it should be from agencies more responsive than this. It's taken a freaking year for them to "permit" tthis, and that reflects massive popular pressure on elected officials. Remember the mantra of Obama's regulators when they took over: "Wedon't have to care about things like this. They were fucking proud of it.
Lois on couch: Peter, it was like that time you participated in Talk Like A Pirate Day.
Cut-Away Peter: G'day, mate! I'll have some beer and backbacon, eh?
Peter on Couch, sad: I...I don't know how Icelanders talk.
Sigh. A refresher course on terminology.
This was indeed a mafia-like protection racket, but it did not subvert the democratic process. It subverted freedom. It was an example of the democratic process, which subverts freedom all the time.
I am not speaking of using it to form a more orderly society straying from anarchy. Rather, democracy's use in practice often involves setting up special favors that are the opposite of a free market.
The vast majority of drugs should be fast track. The number of deaths that occur with letting a drug out early (before full problems are realized) is vastly smaller than the numbers of deaths that occur because drugs are held up ten years.
The FDA is built on a mathematically false premise. But you konw, a dead guy from some drug, boy can those politicians decry "unconscionable profits".
How many are standing up to decry the ten million worldwide not saved becaise some good heart drug was delayed 6 years?
Such taxes are politically non-viable because they void the reason politicians seek power: to weild it, getting in the way or things, so they can get paid to get back out of the way, bribes legal (political donations) and illegal (kickbacks, hiring relatives, a hundred other things.)
Hell, for that matter, the US Congress is considering cleaning up the tax code by closing loopholes. Congress has done this several times in the past.
All it does is allow them to hand out the loopholes again in exchange for more "donations".
No, Libertarians piss off both the left and the right. That's how we know we are correct.
Your respective quasi-religions are laughable to us...if they weren't so dangerous to freedom.
As usual, what never enters into the conversation, or your mind, is the simple observation that there never is a "fair tax". No, not for the reasons your memetic programming is giving you an itchy typing finger at the moment.
Rather, pay their fair share" is a sliding goalpoast meme used to justify ever greater spending as the years and decades drag on.
You could set their "fair share", and some years from now another politician, coveteous of power bought by lavishing bread and circuses, will re-introduce it as argument to increase taxes yet again.
Your soiled underpants are showing, dude.
Nah, he spelt it right. But it's not really an upgrade to Windows, but to the NSA backdoors built into Windows via the NSA PPP(tm) Panopticon Partnership Program.
That would probably be the fastest way to shut down this idiotic legal threat -- "This is a breeding competition, not a cloning competition. That set of genes in a horse won in the past. Congratulations, good job, breeder! Let's see what the next generation product of these breeders yields.
"We just assumed a base historical background fact, no need to define it further because it's so obvious, of breeding horses as given, and no more foresaw cloning than a Star Trek teleporter creating a duplicate that someone might want to enter."
They are loaded with the "blood" of various champion animals through recorded provenance. They just don't want to allow clones into the competition, or for people to claim they are selling the genes of a horse which won, which didn't.
It's a breeding competition, not a cloning competition.
No, but I'm fine with them listening in to public microphones people voluntarily step up to and yabber into.
You'll be ok as long as you don't name it the Mycroft 3000.
Strike that. Please name it the Mycroft 3000.
Well, you can't wait for people to actually be harmed because at that point it's a rat race to sign them up, and your law firm probably won't win.
No, by preemptively suing for damages because you are so scared you might be hacked, they are playas!