So? Your forum will die a well-deserved death if moderation is abused. Trolling turns into an informational DOS by dropping the S/N ratio so low that you can't read comments, and you can't put up with it. If you want to keep a community, you have to kick out the jerks - and smart site owners don't classify "everyone who disagrees with me" as a jerk, because not all of them are.
Don't bother. The global death trolls never get satire, humor, lightheartedness, or anything else. You're all going to die from your use of electricity.
They want you to die, and me to die, just not them. Yet. And then Gaia will be perfect again.
Personally, I've always found anything that said that the Earth would die ridiculous. It might become totally unsuited to human life, but that's our own fault.
Well, you can post and ask, but you're vanishingly unlikely to get doctors' responses: not because we're so money-grubbing and tight-fisted with our knowledge, but because of liability. We are supposed to examine and interview a person before prescribing anything or offering specific medical advice, and failure to follow the rules leads to bad outcomes in court.
Incidentally, it doesn't bother me personally that you don't like doctors, though I do often wonder why some people are so distrustful. If you don't want my advice, and you aren't going to follow it, then why are you asking for it? It's not an issue I've seen much since medical school, however, because I'm an anesthesiologist. I find that when offered the choice between feeling their surgery and not feeling it, people overwhelmingly choose the latter.
They're not approved for anxiolysis, but they're not being given to relieve your anxiety - just to prevent you from showing the symptoms. Of course, medications don't need to be FDA-approved for a specific purpose in order for doctors to prescribe it for one; in the case of well-tested and fairly safe medications like beta blockers, almost all doctors would be happy to prescribe a short course for you (assuming there's no overwhelming reason you can't have them). I certainly would. (But, FYI, though IAAD, IAN*your*D, so be sure to ask yours before taking any new medications.)
I can't do a tenth as well as any of them, but the plan is an obvious one. Hence, my comment that McCain's campaign was asking his supporters to reach out on 1)political 2)blogs 3)that harbor a lot of disgruntled Hillary supporters. Were I McCain, I'd fire my campaign manager in a second if he weren't trying to reach out to those people somehow.
It's a call either way. I vote no; it's mostly a meta-blog, if you will, in that editors choose stories that are submitted.
To reinforce the point I was hinting at:/. readership is relatively young and tends pretty far to the left on social issues. Hillary voters - the people who, 30 years ago, were "Reagan Democrats" - are neither. She made a strong showing among traditional New Deal types, mostly older.
The life cycle of people changes their politics; ideas that seem great when you have little income, no kids, and no house often sound less great when you have more money, vulnerable children, and a large fixed asset to care for. Obama's rhetoric makes the former group happy; the latter tend to worry about it. Never forget the man's inexperience, either; he is an idiot for not sitting it out for another 8 years, letting some of his more toxic connections to Chicago politics age, and picking up some committee seats that would make people take him seriously.
As a Republican, I'm happy to watch the Democrats nominate mediocre candidate after mediocre candidate (I'm still not sure how Clinton made it through the Dem primary system; it tends to massacre those with sensible plans), but it really is amazing the sort of candidates that get put up. A freshman senator with no executive experience at all? The ideological purity tests are killing the party just like they killed the Republicans in the late 80s.
Slashdot is not on their suggested blogs list. Can't imagine why.
Because/. is neither primarily political, nor a blog, while the mentioned sites are both? Because there aren't a lot of disgruntled Hillary supporters here?
C'mon, Taco, you have lived through the careers of Lee Atwater, James Carville, Bill Clinton, and Karl Rove. Have you learned nothing about political strategy from the best in the business?
A better example of someone who might adjust would be an ancient Roman; they had the sort of outlook that would make living in the modern world fairly easy. I think a medieval European might simply disintegrate in the face of a world so utterly alien.
You know, I'm glad to see someone else bothered by that aspect of Psychonauts. It's a neat game, but modern games should never have a jump-miss-die-repeat play scheme, especially when the perspective keeps changing. It's difficult without being fun.
Really? What I said is valid in US and UK, and I would suspect in any common-law country. Others, maybe not so much, but what rights do you actually have over your property if you're not allowed to exclude others from it?
Now, it doesn't happen much that way, because it's bad for business. But they don't *have* to let you shop there - unless you can show that the only reason they're not letting you in is that they are discriminating illegally - e.g., based on race, disability, or national origin in the US. Nothing illegal about excluding people who won't open their bags.
No, he doesn't have the right to stop you. But, at the point that he stepped out of the way, he would have been fully within his rights to inform you that you were not permitted to shop there in the future, and that attempts to reenter the store would be treated as trespass.
No, they're not poverty foodstuffs; I'm explaining why I shop there, even as someone who has the money to shop elsewhere. And the basket chosen by the newspaper isn't perfect, and won't beat the CPI as a general measure. Still, WM does charge less now in absolute (not inflation-adjusted) prices for real poverty foods than I paid for them a decade ago in my own lean years, before they had groceries.
The Internet does set prices on valuable goods where shipping is a small fraction of total cost, but food is always going to have a significant local component if only for liquids. And discount clubs are nice - if you can afford the membership and the large minimum purchase size. (There's a Sam's on my city bus routes, so they're actually accessible if hard to get to.)
Incidentally, my original point is the one I felt most strongly about: the people who hate WM aren't the ones shopping there, which means that hating their corporate techniques isn't going to get you anywhere. Rural, blue-collar towns around here LOVE a Wal-Mart, because it's open all the time and carries a far wider selection than the stores it replaces.
The USA has a huge number of gun deaths because Americans like murder. We're at (often significantly) lower risk for almost every other major crime, but we love to kill, and we do it often. (The little historical data I've seen - which I don't have at hand - suggests this is true across time; the US has always had a fairly high murder rate compared to other developed countries, though not a particularly high other-crime rate.)
You can kill corporations. You're just not going to kill Wal-Mart, because the people who hate it are almost exclusively those who've never been too poor to shop elsewhere nor been trapped in a small town with lackluster retail offerings. I shop there most weeks for staples, though I can afford to shop elsewhere, because you simply cannot beat their prices. Their selection, yes. Their quality, absolutely - for that it's the ethnic markets and the boutique grocery store near my house. But for stuff like Diet Coke and paper towels? No way.
You can bemoan mom-and-pop store losses, and rail against Wal-mart for mediocre benefits - I might even agree with you sometimes. But those mom-and-pop stores mostly weren't paying benefits, and they definitely weren't open on Sundays. My local newspaper surveyed four different grocery stores around town for prices on 15 or 20 different common products. Wal-Mart had the lowest price on all but 3.
Ah, but Louisiana didn't have the Senate clout to bring it home. Mississippi has a long habit of electing relatively young senators and keeping them in office for 30 or 40 years (or more - Stennis was in the Senate for 50). I'd be surprised if other small-population states did any different; given Senate seniority rules, it's the major way less-populous states make their presence felt (vs the House, where big-state delegations rule the day).
This seems as appropriate a spot to comment upon as any other, so I'll take it.
I've a question I'd like to ask of someone who lives there: in regard to this article, do British police actually tolerate public drunkenness? In the US this is generally a very quick ticket to get a cab home (if you're harmless appearing and not doing anything particularly bad) or go to the city jail overnight. You'll be fine if you can maintain a normal attitude, but rowdiness will be clamped down on hard and fast.
OT, the drug use question depends on specialty. I'm an anesthesiologist, so I ask about cocaine/crack, methamphetamine, ecstasy, PCP, and heroin/morphine/OxyContin. The first three will make you dead if I don't know about them. The last two I just use to estimate doses.
And I always preface it with: "I'm not the cops, and I don't really care, but I have to know."
So which ones actually work? I ponied up for the USB->PS/2 adapter that actually works for the Model M; I'm not afraid to drop a little extra on a serial adapter that does the same.
Ah, so you actually meant it in a very classical sense. Yes, in that way I would definitely agree they're conservative, though by that definition I'm a liberal - which, on the American political scale, I'm generally not.
Okay, I know Pacifica runs left... but you're calling NPR conservative? I'll agree they're not very liberal; they run pretty much along the NY Times line. But that's a long damned way from conservative.
You want conservative, try these guys (and yes, despite the creepy-looking domain, it's a radio station).
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In a totally ironic turn, that phrase is originally from the LAPD.
So? Your forum will die a well-deserved death if moderation is abused. Trolling turns into an informational DOS by dropping the S/N ratio so low that you can't read comments, and you can't put up with it. If you want to keep a community, you have to kick out the jerks - and smart site owners don't classify "everyone who disagrees with me" as a jerk, because not all of them are.
Eccentrica Gallumbits to the rescue!
Don't bother. The global death trolls never get satire, humor, lightheartedness, or anything else. You're all going to die from your use of electricity.
They want you to die, and me to die, just not them. Yet. And then Gaia will be perfect again.
Personally, I've always found anything that said that the Earth would die ridiculous. It might become totally unsuited to human life, but that's our own fault.
Wrong Bush, dude. Airport's named after his dad.
Incidentally, it doesn't bother me personally that you don't like doctors, though I do often wonder why some people are so distrustful. If you don't want my advice, and you aren't going to follow it, then why are you asking for it? It's not an issue I've seen much since medical school, however, because I'm an anesthesiologist. I find that when offered the choice between feeling their surgery and not feeling it, people overwhelmingly choose the latter.
They're not approved for anxiolysis, but they're not being given to relieve your anxiety - just to prevent you from showing the symptoms. Of course, medications don't need to be FDA-approved for a specific purpose in order for doctors to prescribe it for one; in the case of well-tested and fairly safe medications like beta blockers, almost all doctors would be happy to prescribe a short course for you (assuming there's no overwhelming reason you can't have them). I certainly would. (But, FYI, though IAAD, IAN*your*D, so be sure to ask yours before taking any new medications.)
I can't do a tenth as well as any of them, but the plan is an obvious one. Hence, my comment that McCain's campaign was asking his supporters to reach out on 1)political 2)blogs 3)that harbor a lot of disgruntled Hillary supporters. Were I McCain, I'd fire my campaign manager in a second if he weren't trying to reach out to those people somehow.
To reinforce the point I was hinting at: /. readership is relatively young and tends pretty far to the left on social issues. Hillary voters - the people who, 30 years ago, were "Reagan Democrats" - are neither. She made a strong showing among traditional New Deal types, mostly older.
The life cycle of people changes their politics; ideas that seem great when you have little income, no kids, and no house often sound less great when you have more money, vulnerable children, and a large fixed asset to care for. Obama's rhetoric makes the former group happy; the latter tend to worry about it. Never forget the man's inexperience, either; he is an idiot for not sitting it out for another 8 years, letting some of his more toxic connections to Chicago politics age, and picking up some committee seats that would make people take him seriously.
As a Republican, I'm happy to watch the Democrats nominate mediocre candidate after mediocre candidate (I'm still not sure how Clinton made it through the Dem primary system; it tends to massacre those with sensible plans), but it really is amazing the sort of candidates that get put up. A freshman senator with no executive experience at all? The ideological purity tests are killing the party just like they killed the Republicans in the late 80s.
Because /. is neither primarily political, nor a blog, while the mentioned sites are both? Because there aren't a lot of disgruntled Hillary supporters here?
C'mon, Taco, you have lived through the careers of Lee Atwater, James Carville, Bill Clinton, and Karl Rove. Have you learned nothing about political strategy from the best in the business?
Such as the ones they never lived long enough to get? Bacterial infections are reality everywhere.
The only thing modern medicine could help is infant mortalityDon't forget that it's not just babies who die: it's mothers too. Historical estimates are around 1% of births resulting in maternal death.
A better example of someone who might adjust would be an ancient Roman; they had the sort of outlook that would make living in the modern world fairly easy. I think a medieval European might simply disintegrate in the face of a world so utterly alien.
You know, I'm glad to see someone else bothered by that aspect of Psychonauts. It's a neat game, but modern games should never have a jump-miss-die-repeat play scheme, especially when the perspective keeps changing. It's difficult without being fun.
Now, it doesn't happen much that way, because it's bad for business. But they don't *have* to let you shop there - unless you can show that the only reason they're not letting you in is that they are discriminating illegally - e.g., based on race, disability, or national origin in the US. Nothing illegal about excluding people who won't open their bags.
No, he doesn't have the right to stop you. But, at the point that he stepped out of the way, he would have been fully within his rights to inform you that you were not permitted to shop there in the future, and that attempts to reenter the store would be treated as trespass.
Incidentally, my original point is the one I felt most strongly about: the people who hate WM aren't the ones shopping there, which means that hating their corporate techniques isn't going to get you anywhere. Rural, blue-collar towns around here LOVE a Wal-Mart, because it's open all the time and carries a far wider selection than the stores it replaces.
The USA has a huge number of gun deaths because Americans like murder. We're at (often significantly) lower risk for almost every other major crime, but we love to kill, and we do it often. (The little historical data I've seen - which I don't have at hand - suggests this is true across time; the US has always had a fairly high murder rate compared to other developed countries, though not a particularly high other-crime rate.)
You can bemoan mom-and-pop store losses, and rail against Wal-mart for mediocre benefits - I might even agree with you sometimes. But those mom-and-pop stores mostly weren't paying benefits, and they definitely weren't open on Sundays. My local newspaper surveyed four different grocery stores around town for prices on 15 or 20 different common products. Wal-Mart had the lowest price on all but 3.
I always thought the issue with that election wasn't Nixon votes going missing, it was Kennedy ones being found.
Ah, but Louisiana didn't have the Senate clout to bring it home. Mississippi has a long habit of electing relatively young senators and keeping them in office for 30 or 40 years (or more - Stennis was in the Senate for 50). I'd be surprised if other small-population states did any different; given Senate seniority rules, it's the major way less-populous states make their presence felt (vs the House, where big-state delegations rule the day).
I've a question I'd like to ask of someone who lives there: in regard to this article, do British police actually tolerate public drunkenness? In the US this is generally a very quick ticket to get a cab home (if you're harmless appearing and not doing anything particularly bad) or go to the city jail overnight. You'll be fine if you can maintain a normal attitude, but rowdiness will be clamped down on hard and fast.
And I always preface it with: "I'm not the cops, and I don't really care, but I have to know."
So which ones actually work? I ponied up for the USB->PS/2 adapter that actually works for the Model M; I'm not afraid to drop a little extra on a serial adapter that does the same.
Ah, so you actually meant it in a very classical sense. Yes, in that way I would definitely agree they're conservative, though by that definition I'm a liberal - which, on the American political scale, I'm generally not.
You want conservative, try these guys (and yes, despite the creepy-looking domain, it's a radio station).