>In hindsight I kick myself for asking for things like a Nintendo for X-mas now that I realize how much extra my father had to work to be able to afford that non-essential luxury.
Don't worry too much about that.
9 out of 10 times, that much money wouldn't make that much of a difference, it did make you parents happy that they could supply you with non-essential things and it did make you happy as a child.
And, now that you are older and if you still can, you can return the favour to your parents. Somehow.
>The simple solution is to let the people decide what they want...
This is the simple solution.
>but eventually the people will revolt in such huge numbers the government can't do anything about it...
Um.. no? If everyone broke the speed limit, you can be the government would gladly do something about it, in tickets and fines. You want to have something? Fine, the government will just fine/tax/make it so difficult that it wouldn't be worth it.
>Isn't our business model 'The strong survive, the weak parish?'
Yes, but its money that makes you strong, not mass. Corporations are strong, people (in non-large amounts) are weak. Corporations have an interest in getting alot of money and feel they can do this my limiting P2P.
Really, both have great documentaries, good world and local news and nice radio stations. BBC has/had The Office, but CBC has/had Hockey Night in Canada.
>I suppose that if we saw somebody looking suspicious, and suspiciously bulky around the middle, we could shoot first and ask
There are solders in Israel on the look out for "suspicious" people and they still get hit. Bombs are in backpacks, briefcases, shopping bags, not noticable signs.
Don't forget, a suicide bomber hit the US Army mess tent. With professional solders around. In a known danger zone.
>Outside the big cities,
Suicide bombers don't strike small places in Israel, so I'm not sure why they would in the US.
Unless you are only hiring doctorates/post-doctorates, you really have an artificial limit.
What about cheaters? What about people who knew people from previous years and had access to older problem sets? What about communication skills? What about those 3.0-3.5 who have no life? What about those that "worked the system" to get their marks (eg take really easy courses)? What about different difficulties in schools/professors/graders?
I don't put my GPA my resume because its as relevent to me now as a fresh graduate putting down his grade 4 grades.
>Given the nearly infinite arbitrary possiblitilities for defining a religion or faith, the odds that any given one is true is practically nil. Therefore, a person who believes in nothing is likely to be closer to the truth than someone who randomly chooses an arbitrary faith.
I really hate when people warp math and logic like that.
Given the nearly infinite arbitrary possibilities for what will happen to me in the next week, I could justify any action I choose such as sitting at home and watch tv, become a monk or rob a bank.
> but the way the write-up puts it makes things seem as though things are a lot more outrageous than they are
How much responsibility do the slashdot editors have when it comes to this?
If you read the write up, it implies something ("eBay unfair and against charitable works!") yet if you read the link (or do a search on google) its a totally different story ("Charitable works not done properly.") Even once sentence at the end "Ebay has a policy to prevent fraud in a charity name, autions are planned to be reposted at a later date." would have made the story more balanced.
Considering how many people will not read comments, don't the editors have a responsiblity to be more reflective of the truth and not being so... tabloid-like?
>The honorable thing here would be to back this guy up and applaud his efforts.
1. Its a policy not to have regular individuals have an action in the name of a charity (Red Cross). A good one at that, as it prevent fraud, when a buyer expects the money to go somewhere but it might not. Even Joe Harden admits thats its a good policy. 2. The auctions are/going to be up again ""I purposely left a few tidbits in the very vague "new" auctions that hopefully will perk some eyebrows and buyers can investigate why this Auction mentions my name, the Tsunami, and Stratics," he said."
>The letter of your rule states that you can't sell virtual goods.
>How dare you compare a few people around the world "feeling bad for america after 9/11" with America reaching out
The rest of the world did things for America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellow_Ri bb on
And, if I recall correctly, European countries and Israel offered their services in going through the building ruins for survivors, since they have experience doing that sort of thing.
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So if I code, I'm trustworthy and if I don't I'm not trustworthy?
Torvalds says this and its the TRUTH for the masses.
Gates says this and its LIES for the masses.
>In hindsight I kick myself for asking for things like a Nintendo for X-mas now that I realize how much extra my father had to work to be able to afford that non-essential luxury.
Don't worry too much about that.
9 out of 10 times, that much money wouldn't make that much of a difference, it did make you parents happy that they could supply you with non-essential things and it did make you happy as a child.
And, now that you are older and if you still can, you can return the favour to your parents. Somehow.
>"How do you play WoW with your wife?"
>2 computers, 2 accounts, 1 room, broadband, switch, couple of network cables.
There is a joke in there somewhere.
The person in question is doing that.
Its just not "obvious" on how to access that code.
Specifically, how does this fail in terms of being Free?
I think its one of those things you would risk and balance to gain a level of security.
I could recreate certain data but it would not be as painful as if someone else gained that information.
>The simple solution is to let the people decide what they want...
This is the simple solution.
>but eventually the people will revolt in such huge numbers the government can't do anything about it...
Um.. no? If everyone broke the speed limit, you can be the government would gladly do something about it, in tickets and fines. You want to have something? Fine, the government will just fine/tax/make it so difficult that it wouldn't be worth it.
>Isn't our business model 'The strong survive, the weak parish?'
Yes, but its money that makes you strong, not mass. Corporations are strong, people (in non-large amounts) are weak. Corporations have an interest in getting alot of money and feel they can do this my limiting P2P.
I believe you missed the point of the OP.
These are not serious Mozilla bugs, yet. IE didn't have these problems right away. Just like Mozilla are not having these problems, right away.
Exactly what does BBC have that CBC doesn't?
Really, both have great documentaries, good world and local news and nice radio stations. BBC has/had The Office, but CBC has/had Hockey Night in Canada.
>I suppose that if we saw somebody looking suspicious, and suspiciously bulky around the middle, we could shoot first and ask
There are solders in Israel on the look out for "suspicious" people and they still get hit. Bombs are in backpacks, briefcases, shopping bags, not noticable signs.
Don't forget, a suicide bomber hit the US Army mess tent. With professional solders around. In a known danger zone.
>Outside the big cities,
Suicide bombers don't strike small places in Israel, so I'm not sure why they would in the US.
>Those goofy Westerns who cant even figure out how to use a non-western toilet in the rest of the world!
Video at 10:00
Ummm.. I would hate to be exposed to video of people failing at using a squat toilet.
> 48 six-foot by 4-foot cabinets
>Now I can hold a TB in one hand...
>I like this decade better.
Because you are now on steroids?
Nice. Thank you.
Loyalty != Blind slavery to a corporation.
Unless you are only hiring doctorates/post-doctorates, you really have an artificial limit.
What about cheaters? What about people who knew people from previous years and had access to older problem sets? What about communication skills? What about those 3.0-3.5 who have no life? What about those that "worked the system" to get their marks (eg take really easy courses)? What about different difficulties in schools/professors/graders?
I don't put my GPA my resume because its as relevent to me now as a fresh graduate putting down his grade 4 grades.
>The vaginal contractions at 0.8s intervals would be very difficult to fake also.
Spoken like a true nerd.
>Given the nearly infinite arbitrary possiblitilities for defining a religion or faith, the odds that any given one is true is practically nil. Therefore, a person who believes in nothing is likely to be closer to the truth than someone who randomly chooses an arbitrary faith.
I really hate when people warp math and logic like that.
Given the nearly infinite arbitrary possibilities for what will happen to me in the next week, I could justify any action I choose such as sitting at home and watch tv, become a monk or rob a bank.
The only reason why you posted this to shamelessly collect is Karma points! :)
If you mean Intellegent Design, as in purposeful Creation by God: Mod - Insightful
If you mean intelligent design, as in purposeful creation by programmers, analysts and end-users: Mod - Funny
Maybe he just wanted to see if anyone would notice.
http://www.zug.com/pranks/credit/
> but the way the write-up puts it makes things seem as though things are a lot more outrageous than they are
... tabloid-like?
How much responsibility do the slashdot editors have when it comes to this?
If you read the write up, it implies something ("eBay unfair and against charitable works!") yet if you read the link (or do a search on google) its a totally different story ("Charitable works not done properly.") Even once sentence at the end "Ebay has a policy to prevent fraud in a charity name, autions are planned to be reposted at a later date." would have made the story more balanced.
Considering how many people will not read comments, don't the editors have a responsiblity to be more reflective of the truth and not being so
Did you even read the article?
>The honorable thing here would be to back this guy up and applaud his efforts.
1. Its a policy not to have regular individuals have an action in the name of a charity (Red Cross). A good one at that, as it prevent fraud, when a buyer expects the money to go somewhere but it might not. Even Joe Harden admits thats its a good policy.
2. The auctions are/going to be up again ""I purposely left a few tidbits in the very vague "new" auctions that hopefully will perk some eyebrows and buyers can investigate why this Auction mentions my name, the Tsunami, and Stratics," he said."
>The letter of your rule states that you can't sell virtual goods.
This has nothing to do with why it was pulled.
Lives are on the line today with telecom networks, this robotics situation wouldn't be anything new.
911 calls is one example.
"Next thing you know, telecoms will be liable for medical malpractice if the network connections fail during remote robotic surgery."
Telecoms usually have a clause for any business loss due network disruptions. I think that would apply here.
>How dare you compare a few people around the world "feeling bad for america after 9/11" with America reaching out
i bb on
The rest of the world did things for America.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Yellow_R
And, if I recall correctly, European countries and Israel offered their services in going through the building ruins for survivors, since they have experience doing that sort of thing.