12 divides evenly by 2,3,4,6 and 60 is divisible by just about every integer in the book. Base 10 just because humans have 10 fingers? That's embarrassingly anthropomorphic. It's as ridiculous as setting your measurement system as a lump of metal instead of an abstract unit. Oops...
I read a story about a man who ate death caps and survived. He said they were unexpectedly bland. Fugu is pretty bland, too, and expensive. I went to the cheapest place I could find, $45 per person...which of course means they had the least-skilled chef there. Eek.
I always see this, and it never stops getting less stupid. I'm an American living abroad, and I switched over to the metric system about five years ago. You know the last time I needed to know how many centimeters in a kilometer? Never. It doesn't happen. This so-called advantage is nothing but. Humans respond well to whole numbers. 12 is a more round number than 10, and 60 is more round than 100.
Use the right unit for the right job. Nobody ever has to convert units. You know how many feet in a mile? Nobody cares. One is for measuring small distances, and the other for large distances.
Story time: after I started really using the metric system, I once met a group of Europeans on the street. Seeing that I was a fellow foreigner, they stopped to ask me directions to a nearby venue. I said, "Oh, it's about a hectometer that way," only to get blank stares. It was like I just stepped out of an alien spaceship. I had to explain to them that a hectometer was 100 meters. They had no idea despite using the metric system since birth.
Yes, the petty tribalism of Holder's Justice Department is doing great harm. He refers to "his people" as those who share his skin color, and screw the rest of Americans. What are you doing to get him out of office?
Nah. The stats show that 90-95% of the website visitors never click on the comments. Your premise is false. The redesign is for this majority of users. The comments aren't important to most Slashdot readers. They never read them, and don't care.
Look, child molesters are child molesters for life. It's a sexual preference. Having sex with other adults is just boring. They will continue to molest children forever. In many, many previous cases, the molester moves to a new community and the people there don't know about him. He then proceeds to molest more children, and again and again people said, "If we only had known about him, we could have kept our kids safe!" Then the democratic process took hold and people passed laws to protect themselves. There is a good reason we have these laws, even though I'm sure it feels wonderful to get all self-righteous about it.
Excellent! Then we can reduce the amount of money spent, because they obviously don't need it any more. What's that you say? Not an option? Error...error...logic error...does not compute...
Try this: Change "African" to "trailer park resident" and watch all those "let 'em die for all I care" sentiments pile up on the best kind of Progressive websites. Calling it racism is just playing the race card.
The "do nothing" argument is because no matter how much money we throw at the problem, it never ever gets better. If any progress was admitted, then the sense of crisis would ease and everyone would think they didn't have to give more money. This would obviously have a negative effect of the budgets of NGOs that make money from African problems.
In America, honking your car horn is an expression of anger. It is calling the other driver out that he is doing something unsafe or stupid. If someone doesn't move when a light turns green, you have to "bip" your horn by tapping lightly. A full-on honk might make the other driver get out and try to kick your ass.
Overseas, it's different. Honking the horn just says, "I'm here." It's an auditory announcement of where you are. This is very important, as other drivers frequently don't watch where they're going. When you pass, you need to honk the horn so the other driver doesn't suddenly decide to change lanes into your car. I ride an electric moped, and my electric piezo horn is my most important safety device other than the brakes. It announces my presence so people don't hit me. Taxis honk when they pass me - it doesn't mean they're mad, it just means "I'm here."
I've been a loyal Opera user since version 3. It was awesome using tabbed browsing on dialup. I'd click to open windows in the background and finish reading the page I was on, and then close it and go on to the already-loaded page. I remember all the brouhaha about IE's slow page loading, and wonder what all the fuss was about. But, now that Opera is over (don't even talk to me about the "new Opera", a dysfunctional skin of Chrome), I'm wondering what to do next. The last version of Opera will last another 6-12 months, I think, before it stops working with new websites. What browser is for me?
Chrome? Nope. I don't like it, plus Google's gone evil.
IE? Nope.
Firefox? Well, I'd really prefer a different answer. I hate adding plugin after plugin, only to have them all go incompatible when FF does an upgrade. Opera just worked and had every feature I wanted. Plus, FF is just sluggish on my system, a laptop from 2012.
What else is out there that a diehard Opera user will love?
The worst part about this entire thing is the flood of hatred from the pro-drug faction who read my comment and drew their own conclusions. That's not the way to help your side. For the record, I rather like drugs myself.
But for the last 40 years we have had it drilled into our heads that men and women are equal. Gender is just a social construct. I trust feminists on this one. Now you're saying that's all a lie? Women are unstable emotional beings? Sorry, but that's a sexist bag of shit. Why is this not modded down to -1?
It's really disturbing how an idealogical conformity is expected and anything out of that narrow range is immediately slapped with a label so it can be safely discarded without examination. Remember kids, don't disagree with the ruling party!
See, ignorance is half our problem. This has long been a practice of the US government, and people these days...it's like they're Rip van Winkle and have no idea what the political situation has been like.
Moreover there is substantial support for what you might call the "USA = worse than Nazi Germany" attitude. It's not true but a certain subset really enjoys saying it and never grows tired of repeating it.
Wow, did you really not just notice the tremendous irony in your black-and-white portrayal of the situation...in an article that says black-and-white portrayals are precisely the problem?
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12 divides evenly by 2,3,4,6 and 60 is divisible by just about every integer in the book. Base 10 just because humans have 10 fingers? That's embarrassingly anthropomorphic. It's as ridiculous as setting your measurement system as a lump of metal instead of an abstract unit. Oops...
I read a story about a man who ate death caps and survived. He said they were unexpectedly bland. Fugu is pretty bland, too, and expensive. I went to the cheapest place I could find, $45 per person...which of course means they had the least-skilled chef there. Eek.
One-party rule will be a disaster for our nation. Detroit was ruled by one party for 30 years, and look where it got them.
I always see this, and it never stops getting less stupid. I'm an American living abroad, and I switched over to the metric system about five years ago. You know the last time I needed to know how many centimeters in a kilometer? Never. It doesn't happen. This so-called advantage is nothing but. Humans respond well to whole numbers. 12 is a more round number than 10, and 60 is more round than 100.
Use the right unit for the right job. Nobody ever has to convert units. You know how many feet in a mile? Nobody cares. One is for measuring small distances, and the other for large distances.
Story time: after I started really using the metric system, I once met a group of Europeans on the street. Seeing that I was a fellow foreigner, they stopped to ask me directions to a nearby venue. I said, "Oh, it's about a hectometer that way," only to get blank stares. It was like I just stepped out of an alien spaceship. I had to explain to them that a hectometer was 100 meters. They had no idea despite using the metric system since birth.
That's not true at all, otherwise Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would be ostracized instead of valued White House guests.
And this has what to do with irreproducible results, exactly? Is your argument really "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN?"
Yes, the petty tribalism of Holder's Justice Department is doing great harm. He refers to "his people" as those who share his skin color, and screw the rest of Americans. What are you doing to get him out of office?
Tyrannical laws should be disobeyed on principle. The government should be humiliated by jailing the offenders. Fuck Finland.
Nah. The stats show that 90-95% of the website visitors never click on the comments. Your premise is false. The redesign is for this majority of users. The comments aren't important to most Slashdot readers. They never read them, and don't care.
That's pretty rich. The New York Times, of all newspapers, criticizing another newspaper for political bias.
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
Look, child molesters are child molesters for life. It's a sexual preference. Having sex with other adults is just boring. They will continue to molest children forever. In many, many previous cases, the molester moves to a new community and the people there don't know about him. He then proceeds to molest more children, and again and again people said, "If we only had known about him, we could have kept our kids safe!" Then the democratic process took hold and people passed laws to protect themselves. There is a good reason we have these laws, even though I'm sure it feels wonderful to get all self-righteous about it.
Because Mississippi and the South in general are well-known as bastions of lily-white culture.
In reality there's a gap between "not helping" and "we're done".
Yes, it's called "reduce" or did you not read that part and jumped to a conclusion that supported your pre-existing mental state?
Don't get all butthurt. It's not always about you all the time. Northern Europe is a tiny part of the globe and can safely be ignored.
Excellent! Then we can reduce the amount of money spent, because they obviously don't need it any more. What's that you say? Not an option? Error...error...logic error...does not compute...
The "do nothing" argument is because no matter how much money we throw at the problem, it never ever gets better. If any progress was admitted, then the sense of crisis would ease and everyone would think they didn't have to give more money. This would obviously have a negative effect of the budgets of NGOs that make money from African problems.
In America, honking your car horn is an expression of anger. It is calling the other driver out that he is doing something unsafe or stupid. If someone doesn't move when a light turns green, you have to "bip" your horn by tapping lightly. A full-on honk might make the other driver get out and try to kick your ass.
Overseas, it's different. Honking the horn just says, "I'm here." It's an auditory announcement of where you are. This is very important, as other drivers frequently don't watch where they're going. When you pass, you need to honk the horn so the other driver doesn't suddenly decide to change lanes into your car. I ride an electric moped, and my electric piezo horn is my most important safety device other than the brakes. It announces my presence so people don't hit me. Taxis honk when they pass me - it doesn't mean they're mad, it just means "I'm here."
I've been a loyal Opera user since version 3. It was awesome using tabbed browsing on dialup. I'd click to open windows in the background and finish reading the page I was on, and then close it and go on to the already-loaded page. I remember all the brouhaha about IE's slow page loading, and wonder what all the fuss was about. But, now that Opera is over (don't even talk to me about the "new Opera", a dysfunctional skin of Chrome), I'm wondering what to do next. The last version of Opera will last another 6-12 months, I think, before it stops working with new websites. What browser is for me?
Chrome? Nope. I don't like it, plus Google's gone evil.
IE? Nope.
Firefox? Well, I'd really prefer a different answer. I hate adding plugin after plugin, only to have them all go incompatible when FF does an upgrade. Opera just worked and had every feature I wanted. Plus, FF is just sluggish on my system, a laptop from 2012.
What else is out there that a diehard Opera user will love?
> "One side says drugs are cool"
Ever read erowid.org? Overwhelmingly positive.
The worst part about this entire thing is the flood of hatred from the pro-drug faction who read my comment and drew their own conclusions. That's not the way to help your side. For the record, I rather like drugs myself.
But for the last 40 years we have had it drilled into our heads that men and women are equal. Gender is just a social construct. I trust feminists on this one. Now you're saying that's all a lie? Women are unstable emotional beings? Sorry, but that's a sexist bag of shit. Why is this not modded down to -1?
It's really disturbing how an idealogical conformity is expected and anything out of that narrow range is immediately slapped with a label so it can be safely discarded without examination. Remember kids, don't disagree with the ruling party!
See, ignorance is half our problem. This has long been a practice of the US government, and people these days...it's like they're Rip van Winkle and have no idea what the political situation has been like.
Moreover there is substantial support for what you might call the "USA = worse than Nazi Germany" attitude. It's not true but a certain subset really enjoys saying it and never grows tired of repeating it.
Wow, did you really not just notice the tremendous irony in your black-and-white portrayal of the situation...in an article that says black-and-white portrayals are precisely the problem?
I've never heard of a base jumper who robbed his mother to get money to buy a parachute.