Boy, aren't you glad that pilots don't stop giving a flying fuck about your ass after 10 hours of flying? Or that the doctor doesn't stop giving a flying fuck about you after you've been bleeding for 10 minutes and (s)he's all messy? Or that after a long double-shift the guy building your car and assembling the brakes doesn't stop giving a fuck after a long 12 hour shift?
I sure am. That's one reason that airline pilots, doctors, and even auto assembly line workers all get paid a lot more than package handlers.
My point: no matter the degree of the persons in charge of the freight, a way of motivating them to do a proper job is in the hands of the company - I fail to see how one can blame exclusively the handler and totally disregard the role of company.
That depends on whether the supply of package handlers exceeds the demand. If it does, then said package handler better figure out a way to get motivated, or find himself out of a job.
Um... this is Slashdot. Some people around here do geeky things for fun. Of course, as you've just demonstrated, other people around here post snarky adolescent comments that add nothing to the conversation. Takes all kinds, I suppose.
Reading about the Buran doesn't really surprise me. Back around '95, I was on a business trip in the (fairly new) Czech Republic, and one day on a drive between Hradec Kralove and Pardubice, we passed this junkyard, and it was full of scrapped tanks, and artillery pieces and such, and to cap it all off there were a few old MiGs (old, like -15s and -17s IIRC) strewn across the top of the pile. All just pleasantly rusting away in the Bohemian countryside...
"like Pearl Harbor"... Yea that worked out so well for Japan.
It worked brilliantly for Japan. Their mistake was not in attacking Pearl Harbor, but in assuming that the US's response would be to stay out of the Pacific. If they were smart, they would have invaded Hawaii and left us with no power base in the Pacific from which to regroup and counterattack.
I say we drop the treaty and let Japan have a full military again. They should be footing the bill for this, not us. Besides, they can help keep the pressure on China too.
Indeed. I wonder how many F-22s, F-35s, and Patriot batteries we could sell them right now?
For the Chinese the magic words are not "SS and Auschwitz" but "Unit 371 and Harbin". However, today the Chinese are being the aggressors - but only in an economic sense and it's not like they are the first to use the economic leverage they have. What is interesting is that fact that they're using those levers very early on in their ascendancy - which is making everyone else very nervous.
Well, it's not as though they haven't had plenty of examples to learn from, going back to the British Empire if not farther.
I've tried to parse your post multiple times and it appears to me that you are playing apologist for Japan's actions during WW2 and implying that moral responsibility in part extends beyond Japan and to the west.
I didn't read it that way. An attempt to explain Japan's motivations is not the same as justifying them, necessarily. Just as one might seek to explain, say, al-Qa'ida's motivations for 9/11 without suggesting that they were justified.
Meanwhile, you may disagree with the explanation presented, but that's another matter.
Did you read the parent post? It was suggesting that the appropriate government agencies could have helped the kid bring her operation up to code, i.e. preventing health problems. If done properly, this would have been a great way to encourage entrepreneurialism amongst our youth, which making people aware that there are still procedures to be followed, and how to go about it. Instead, the government looks like a bunch of fools that beat up on a little kid.
Evidence beyond hearsay might be nice. Just because I said I was doing 150 down the interstate doesn't mean I actually did.
He wasn't convicted on hearsay. The tip led to further investigation which led to further information, e.g. independent corroboration that someone driving the same car was indeed driving recklessly in that neighborhood.
As someone who owns a motorbike with similar performance to that M5 (though it's almost 10 times cheaper!), I have to say there really are times when 100KPH over the speed limit is still safe.
I don't know if these particular circumstances were safe...
The guy was in a dense residential area, near a school. There are no circumstances under which what he did could reasonably be considered safe.
And the whole world is not your damn jurisdiction for dealing out justice willy nilly, then fucking off and letting everyone else clean up your shit.
BURN!
Sending an email to the police is not "dealing out justice". The police, OTOH, act on tips from other people all the time. Are you suggesting that they should not do their jobs?
I think I learned that in an Itch & Scratchy cartoon once.
Actually, Itchy appears to be able to live for quite a few seconds without his heart. In fact, it doesn't really seem to be a problem until he learns his heart is missing. Then things go rapidly downhill from there...
Win95 and Mac both had the same type of multitasking - cooperative. So you could format a floppy, copy files online, and type email on either of them. BUT if one of those tasks crash, it froze the whole OS.
Windows 98 gained preemptive tasking. OS 10 (2001) gained preemptive tasking.
Wrong. Win95 had pre-emptive multitasking, just as all MS 32-bit OSes have had since NT 3.1 back in 1993 (and even before that in OS/2 1.x, which was originally an MS-developed OS).
There's an Arabic saying that goes something like "Me and my brother would fight my cousin if he does us wrong, but if a stranger comes in, my cousin and I will team up".
Here, we call that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", and it hasn't worked out so well for us. It's why we cozied up to Saddam Hussein (because he was fighting with Iran) and to the mujahideen (because they were fighting the Russians) back in the '70s and '80s, and look how those situations turned out.
Of course, the whole reason why this exists is to encourage HAVING CHILDREN. Last time I checked, homosexuals lack both types of plumbing to pull this off. So why should they get the tax benefits of married people, if I, as an unmarried single person without kids cannot?
I guess you've never heard of adoption? Do you know how many abandoned, unloved children there are in this world, who would be infinitely better off as the adopted child of a gay couple than tossed into the foster-care system?
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Boy, aren't you glad that pilots don't stop giving a flying fuck about your ass after 10 hours of flying? Or that the doctor doesn't stop giving a flying fuck about you after you've been bleeding for 10 minutes and (s)he's all messy? Or that after a long double-shift the guy building your car and assembling the brakes doesn't stop giving a fuck after a long 12 hour shift?
I sure am. That's one reason that airline pilots, doctors, and even auto assembly line workers all get paid a lot more than package handlers.
My point: no matter the degree of the persons in charge of the freight, a way of motivating them to do a proper job is in the hands of the company - I fail to see how one can blame exclusively the handler and totally disregard the role of company.
That depends on whether the supply of package handlers exceeds the demand. If it does, then said package handler better figure out a way to get motivated, or find himself out of a job.
Does this mean I can no longer rely on my 6 character passwords?
Pfft. You fool; everyone knows that 6-character passwords are no good. You should use a 7-character password, like me!
Ian M. Banks in The Algebraist describes a 'slow' species, the Dwellers, who live so long that their personal houses evolve into museums of antiquity.
Or "The Great Slow Kings" by Roger Zelazny... (referenced page contains a link to the full text of the story, BTW)
Um... this is Slashdot. Some people around here do geeky things for fun. Of course, as you've just demonstrated, other people around here post snarky adolescent comments that add nothing to the conversation. Takes all kinds, I suppose.
Reading about the Buran doesn't really surprise me. Back around '95, I was on a business trip in the (fairly new) Czech Republic, and one day on a drive between Hradec Kralove and Pardubice, we passed this junkyard, and it was full of scrapped tanks, and artillery pieces and such, and to cap it all off there were a few old MiGs (old, like -15s and -17s IIRC) strewn across the top of the pile. All just pleasantly rusting away in the Bohemian countryside...
"like Pearl Harbor"... Yea that worked out so well for Japan.
It worked brilliantly for Japan. Their mistake was not in attacking Pearl Harbor, but in assuming that the US's response would be to stay out of the Pacific. If they were smart, they would have invaded Hawaii and left us with no power base in the Pacific from which to regroup and counterattack.
I say we drop the treaty and let Japan have a full military again. They should be footing the bill for this, not us. Besides, they can help keep the pressure on China too.
Indeed. I wonder how many F-22s, F-35s, and Patriot batteries we could sell them right now?
For the Chinese the magic words are not "SS and Auschwitz" but "Unit 371 and Harbin". However, today the Chinese are being the aggressors - but only in an economic sense and it's not like they are the first to use the economic leverage they have. What is interesting is that fact that they're using those levers very early on in their ascendancy - which is making everyone else very nervous.
Well, it's not as though they haven't had plenty of examples to learn from, going back to the British Empire if not farther.
I've tried to parse your post multiple times and it appears to me that you are playing apologist for Japan's actions during WW2 and implying that moral responsibility in part extends beyond Japan and to the west.
I didn't read it that way. An attempt to explain Japan's motivations is not the same as justifying them, necessarily. Just as one might seek to explain, say, al-Qa'ida's motivations for 9/11 without suggesting that they were justified.
Meanwhile, you may disagree with the explanation presented, but that's another matter.
Which is just symptomatic of the virtual disappearance of long-term thought and planning in our society.
Encouraging an entrepreneurial spirit among our children may be the very thing that saves this country.
Did you read the parent post? It was suggesting that the appropriate government agencies could have helped the kid bring her operation up to code, i.e. preventing health problems. If done properly, this would have been a great way to encourage entrepreneurialism amongst our youth, which making people aware that there are still procedures to be followed, and how to go about it. Instead, the government looks like a bunch of fools that beat up on a little kid.
Evidence beyond hearsay might be nice. Just because I said I was doing 150 down the interstate doesn't mean I actually did.
He wasn't convicted on hearsay. The tip led to further investigation which led to further information, e.g. independent corroboration that someone driving the same car was indeed driving recklessly in that neighborhood.
As someone who owns a motorbike with similar performance to that M5 (though it's almost 10 times cheaper!), I have to say there really are times when 100KPH over the speed limit is still safe.
I don't know if these particular circumstances were safe...
The guy was in a dense residential area, near a school. There are no circumstances under which what he did could reasonably be considered safe.
No, but you wouldn't even if you told it to the Nobel committees. Tell a cop you were speeding, on the other hand...
Yeah? And what do you think would happen? "Go away you annoying kid, I've got real police work to do."
You pleaded guilty in public. It came out of your metaphorical mouth. You basically incriminated yourself of your own free will.
Do you need any more evidence?
So, in other words, everything that anyone says on the Internet is true? OK, then - you're an idiot.
wtf is 'high rate of speed'? I didn't know high accelerations carried fines.
Oh, aren't you just so clever. Do you feel smarter now?
The road is not a race track.
And the whole world is not your damn jurisdiction for dealing out justice willy nilly, then fucking off and letting everyone else clean up your shit.
BURN!
Sending an email to the police is not "dealing out justice". The police, OTOH, act on tips from other people all the time. Are you suggesting that they should not do their jobs?
I think I learned that in an Itch & Scratchy cartoon once.
Actually, Itchy appears to be able to live for quite a few seconds without his heart. In fact, it doesn't really seem to be a problem until he learns his heart is missing. Then things go rapidly downhill from there...
Win95 and Mac both had the same type of multitasking - cooperative. So you could format a floppy, copy files online, and type email on either of them. BUT if one of those tasks crash, it froze the whole OS.
Windows 98 gained preemptive tasking.
OS 10 (2001) gained preemptive tasking.
Wrong. Win95 had pre-emptive multitasking, just as all MS 32-bit OSes have had since NT 3.1 back in 1993 (and even before that in OS/2 1.x, which was originally an MS-developed OS).
There's an Arabic saying that goes something like "Me and my brother would fight my cousin if he does us wrong, but if a stranger comes in, my cousin and I will team up".
Here, we call that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend", and it hasn't worked out so well for us. It's why we cozied up to Saddam Hussein (because he was fighting with Iran) and to the mujahideen (because they were fighting the Russians) back in the '70s and '80s, and look how those situations turned out.
Jupiter, Venus, Mars, Pluto.. all Greek mythology names, why? They were "it"** back in the day.
Those are Roman mythology names, not Greek. Which just goes to show, as the Romans were even more "it" than the Greeks.
Yes, but this one dials 10 chevrons.
Insert obvious goes-to-eleven joke here...
Of course, the whole reason why this exists is to encourage HAVING CHILDREN. Last time I checked, homosexuals lack both types of plumbing to pull this off. So why should they get the tax benefits of married people, if I, as an unmarried single person without kids cannot?
I guess you've never heard of adoption? Do you know how many abandoned, unloved children there are in this world, who would be infinitely better off as the adopted child of a gay couple than tossed into the foster-care system?