Then we'll be right back where we started! Let's instead genetically engineer them to eat grizzlies and the problem will take care of itself the first time they try it.
Well, it's coming out at the end of September, so play that during November and pick the other two up for like a dollar during the Christmas sale in December. Take it from me: if you time things right you can afford all sorts of games that you'll never have time to actually play.
I'm sure the comment I replied to was meant as a joke, but it's important to keep in mind that female circumcision does in fact exist. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I consider it to be the same operation when there's really nothing in that article that even suggests it has valid medical applications. In fact the tiny excerpt you quoted is probably the least ghastly description of the practice—the article frankly just gets more and more horrifying the further you read.
The argument here is that male circumcision, while obviously not as invasive and not done for the same despicable reasons, also has no medical value. You might disagree with that (which would be a reasonable position to take, since the American Academy of Pediatrics obviously holds the same opinion), but that doesn't make the comparison invalid.
I've got a HL-4070CDW I got around the same time and I wholeheartedly second this endorsement. Brother just makes solid, no-bullshit printers. I stuck it on my network and haven't had to mess with it since. The toner cartridges are about $50 each, and each color is independently replaceable, as is the drum unit. I think I've replaced them two or maybe three times. The drivers (assuming the OS doesn't have one already—it speaks PostScript and PCL) are 3MB, and there's versions that go all the way back to Windows 2000 and Mac OS 10.2, plus 64-bit drivers for Windows XP and later. There's apparently even one for Android.
Its only Achilles heel is that the paper doesn't feed straight through, so it mangles the crap out of envelopes. I would assume they fixed that in later models, but if I were in the market for a printer today it's something I'd look out for.
I'd vote for him just to see what the talking heads would do when he delivers the State of the Union address and then the Vice President shows up to deliver the same address again two hours later.
I'm sure that the person making these claims thinks they are all that and a bag of chips, but let him design a real program and see how smart he is. Give him a project that would take a real programmer a week. By the end of the week, you would start hearing the asshole complain about how the systems are all broken, probably even providing faked statistics to show everyone how the compilers are at fault.
Forget about his programming chops—nobody with any sense would expect someone with no experience to be able to write anything non-trivial their first week. The more damning thing is that the guy's actual job is motivating people, and he's so inept at it that he thinks making them feel disposable and unessential will make them work faster. What a choad.
It's 2012. Broadband has been commonly available for fifteen years and the best we can manage is only 15% of us have service faster than 10MB?
I wish the people who were creating all the make-work projects for the economic stimulus a few years back had been a little more forward-thinking and put people to work running fiber to as many homes as we could as a public utility. Lease bandwidth on it to anyone who wants to provide service, and use the proceeds to maintain and build out the network. If we did that, maybe come 2025 we won't be reading an an article about how awesome it is that all of 15% of us have service faster than 15MB.
That's good for you and me, but normal people have enough trouble choosing a strong password without their bank actively encouraging them to use their damn dog's name.
I trust NoScript and Adblock, I sure as shit do not trust "we won't track you, we promise!"
You trust NoScript? I don't. Not since that incident a few years ago when the author deliberately crippled AdBlock for the express purpose of showing you content from the very ad networks you're worrying about here.
I was interested in one, once, but you can get a much more powerful Android phone for the same price as a Pi
Really? Without a contract? I wouldn't mind a link to one.
I was curious about this as well and his claim actually isn't as far off as you might think. Amazon's got prepaid phones that support HDMI output starting around $220. Personally I've got about $90 into my Pi, counting the SD Card and case. If you also want WiFi that's another twenty bucks, plus another $13 for a powered USB hub since the Pi itself can't put out enough juice. A phone's still more expensive, but isn't too much more when you consider it'd also have a built-in display, battery, and GSM or CDMA radio.
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Then we'll be right back where we started! Let's instead genetically engineer them to eat grizzlies and the problem will take care of itself the first time they try it.
Well, it's coming out at the end of September, so play that during November and pick the other two up for like a dollar during the Christmas sale in December. Take it from me: if you time things right you can afford all sorts of games that you'll never have time to actually play.
And there you have it folks. The reason that the Linux desktop has never taken off in just eight condescending little words.
I'm sure the comment I replied to was meant as a joke, but it's important to keep in mind that female circumcision does in fact exist. I'm not sure where you got the idea that I consider it to be the same operation when there's really nothing in that article that even suggests it has valid medical applications. In fact the tiny excerpt you quoted is probably the least ghastly description of the practice—the article frankly just gets more and more horrifying the further you read.
The argument here is that male circumcision, while obviously not as invasive and not done for the same despicable reasons, also has no medical value. You might disagree with that (which would be a reasonable position to take, since the American Academy of Pediatrics obviously holds the same opinion), but that doesn't make the comparison invalid.
Female circumcision is unfortunately a real thing.
I've got a HL-4070CDW I got around the same time and I wholeheartedly second this endorsement. Brother just makes solid, no-bullshit printers. I stuck it on my network and haven't had to mess with it since. The toner cartridges are about $50 each, and each color is independently replaceable, as is the drum unit. I think I've replaced them two or maybe three times. The drivers (assuming the OS doesn't have one already—it speaks PostScript and PCL) are 3MB, and there's versions that go all the way back to Windows 2000 and Mac OS 10.2, plus 64-bit drivers for Windows XP and later. There's apparently even one for Android.
Its only Achilles heel is that the paper doesn't feed straight through, so it mangles the crap out of envelopes. I would assume they fixed that in later models, but if I were in the market for a printer today it's something I'd look out for.
I'd vote for him just to see what the talking heads would do when he delivers the State of the Union address and then the Vice President shows up to deliver the same address again two hours later.
Which in turn sounds better than "we fucked over all of our employees."
I have one. It isn't as good as it sounds. It's just a regular armchair with a caption glued to it.
It'd be less depressing if there were ever any messages there. :(
Forget about his programming chops—nobody with any sense would expect someone with no experience to be able to write anything non-trivial their first week. The more damning thing is that the guy's actual job is motivating people, and he's so inept at it that he thinks making them feel disposable and unessential will make them work faster. What a choad.
I guess the definition of "wrong" depends on what answer the person who commissioned the poll was looking for.
Maybe, but at least we'd have enough bandwidth to televise it.
"Yes." -Runic
It's 2012. Broadband has been commonly available for fifteen years and the best we can manage is only 15% of us have service faster than 10MB?
I wish the people who were creating all the make-work projects for the economic stimulus a few years back had been a little more forward-thinking and put people to work running fiber to as many homes as we could as a public utility. Lease bandwidth on it to anyone who wants to provide service, and use the proceeds to maintain and build out the network. If we did that, maybe come 2025 we won't be reading an an article about how awesome it is that all of 15% of us have service faster than 15MB.
That's good for you and me, but normal people have enough trouble choosing a strong password without their bank actively encouraging them to use their damn dog's name.
They were already pointless. A backdoor password into my account that is REQUIRED to be something people can just Google about me? Genius.
You trust NoScript? I don't. Not since that incident a few years ago when the author deliberately crippled AdBlock for the express purpose of showing you content from the very ad networks you're worrying about here.
The movie was plenty depressing, just in that "O God Ashton Kutcher is trying to act" kind of way.
You have to pay a little more for one that can write fancy words like "paraphrase."
I was curious about this as well and his claim actually isn't as far off as you might think. Amazon's got prepaid phones that support HDMI output starting around $220. Personally I've got about $90 into my Pi, counting the SD Card and case. If you also want WiFi that's another twenty bucks, plus another $13 for a powered USB hub since the Pi itself can't put out enough juice. A phone's still more expensive, but isn't too much more when you consider it'd also have a built-in display, battery, and GSM or CDMA radio.
Have you considered the possibility that your dad is Val Kilmer?
I bought a hundred-dollar pen because I always lose pens and I was sick of not caring.
Why on Earth should he even have to find the skip button?
I guess this is what happens when your design language is about typography instead of about... you know... actually doing stuff.