[quote]It also stresses that harm from drinking is greater among poorer consumers than wealthier ones. [/quote]
This part above just reminds me of something from when I was much younger. For about a year or so I worked in a warehouse doing general labor crap. A few of the guys and I would go out and have a few drinks every Friday at the bar down the road. We only ever went for an hour or so as just sort of a cool down and hang out at the end of the week. Some would have money issues and excuse themselves from several of the hang outs, even though others would offer to buy a drink or two just to have the hang out time.
Then there would be 1 or 2 that were struggling to pay rent, fill their car with gas, etc.... and they'd finally get a break, or work overtime. Suddenly they'd go out and buy expensive drinks, appetizers, dessert, etc... and the next week complain about money again. I never understand the choices people make about money.
I like Chrome OS for what it is, basically a platform to run the Chrome browser on. But I couldn't use it for anything really serious, so I see it more like a mobile OS than a desktop/workstation.
Ignoring his second post here, I took the original post to mostly mean for regular everyday people. I assumed the qualifier was "family members who aren't good with computers." And it quickly makes me realize that this would likely best apply to my Mom, who was thinking of getting a new cheap computer soon-ish.
Thinking about it, I almost feel like I should just recommend her one because she only uses her home PC for rare youtube, email, and... I guess printing email? That, plus she keeps installing a 10-15 year old copy of Office from one of my aunts on every computer and uses it for almost nothing. Would simply need to get her to try Google Docs for the rare notes she might type.
The only issue I can think of is that she definitely prefers using a desktop to using a laptop.
I was going to comment the same thing. Apparently they want content moderators to filter the uploaded content before the content moderators filter the uploaded content.
I remember Microsoft announcing this, then never saw it again. Assumed they just abandoned it. Have they actually done anything with it aside from advertising ideas for it?
But on the other hand, there's the people that will always say we should never make killing machines/robots/etc no matter what because that's terrible and we need people making those decisions because people will be moral and robots won't. Not saying my opinion, just more of mentioning that this argument pops up against it all the time.
So their attempt to fight back against Trump was that if someone who disliked Muslims, etc, searched for them... they would find positive results? Not sure how this would affect the ban or someone who was already prejudiced. I doubt someone who hated Muslims would be like: "Oh look at this link telling me that immigration is good, time to read it and give it a good think and change my opinion!" They would instead just search more or look elsewhere.
one morning the company was split into two meetings, the folks being laid off, and everyone else, although we obviously only found this out at the meeting.
I remember this happening at a medical company I worked for. It was very awkward in the non laid off group. We had to stay shut in the meeting room until the people who were laid off were out of the building. So it was just kind of an awkward silence for 30 minutes of everyone feeling a little guilty and bad (and you could hear some of the ladies who had been laid off walking past the meeting room and crying).
it could be both dead and alive, until the box was opened and the cat's state measured. Now, two physicists have devised a modern version of the paradox by replacing the cat with a physicist doing experiments -- with shocking implications.
So now there is a living and dead physicist doing experiments inside the box? Are they trying to create zombie science?
So they have 29 people sit on a computer and move a figure towards laziness or activity, and that determines that mankind is hardwired towards inactivity? This study seems weird and kind of foolish to use as proof of how we are "hardwired."
young adults who wanted to improve the level of exercise in their lives
Also I wondered if this meant that they wanted to "lose weight and get healthier" but weren't doing a good job to / not committed to it. If that's true, shouldn't they also have mixed in people who were fit and worked out regularly along with committed couch potatoes? It sounds like their test group was the "I want to lose weight but I don't like to exercise and I love cake!~" crowd.
I'm sorry officer, I don't know how fast I was driving. My car was too busy offering me advertisements based on recent driving experiences. Oh hey - it's telling me about nearby lawyers right now!
On the other hand, i left the catering industry 3 years ago. Now if you want awful shift patterns, that's the job to have. I'd work split shift 11-3 and 5-10.
Ugh. This reminds me of when I was in college. I worked at a large mall in a retail store. I was complaining about my Black Friday hours of 11:30PM Thursday til 9AM Friday. I soon lost the need to complain as much as my friend (who worked as a supervisor at the Burger King in the food court) was telling me about his shift. It was something like:
9:45PM-1AM (getting there 2+ hours early to start warming up the broiler).
Breakfast rush? 6AM-10AM.
Late dinner and closing. 7PM-10PM.
One thing I've never understood, and this isn't a criticism/complaint from me, is why slashdotters are so upset about the copyright on Mickey Mouse. Is it literally just that it's a best / most recent example that people would recognize? I see people talking about how copyright ends up stifling creativity by making certain things off limits... but why would creativity need to use Mickey Mouse or any other copyrighted character/design?
I know that cholesterol in itself isn't bad, but I don't quite remember what her issue was. I'm assuming it was a high amount of the "bad cholesterol," but it might've been completely different. I mostly wanted to simplify it down to say that the guy had great results, and his wife was told "You need to stop," by the doctor basically.
Oddly, I seem to recall hearing of a few studies about somehow cholesterol even aids a lot in some muscle building and recovery? Good luck in that ever getting much attention.
It would be silly to think that it is for everyone - because it may not be since there are variations in how people's bodies respond.
Bingo. Low carb has potential to work great for some, but it doesn't do great for everyone. The most recent example I can think of is a friend of mine who is fairly healthy and works out often, but has always had a few extra pounds he couldn't get rid of. He and his wife both went low carb. Ate the same meals for pretty much everything. It worked great for him, meanwhile she had to stop for some health related reason I don't recall. I've also known of someone else who had cholesterol issues when doing the diet. I briefly did low carb a while back and had no issues, I quit that though because I'd rather not ban certain foods from myself. I do eat LESS carbs than I used to - just definitely not a "low carb diet." It also depends what my current workout goals are, as well.
Over the past 7ish years I've worked at 3 different places. All 3 places had almost every employee (except me and a very small number of others) go out for fast food pretty much every single day. Maybe it's changing for some.... but definitely not enough.
Still, killing yourself seems to be a good way to increase the value of your 'art'.
I'll always remember an "art piece" where some guy had a camera set up on a tripod and had someone shoot him in the arm with a gun. This was to get his doctorate in art I think.
I was mostly wondering why it even bothered with the "To give Tesla a run for it's money" line. It's like someone just needed to have the article related to Tesla somehow.
I mean I guess they are the electric car only company, but still seems a bit silly to go ahead and say that.
My main surprise is that I haven't really seen anyone on/. yet say how dismayed they are that Google was worried about the presidency for "moral reasons" instead of their ability to sell people's information and privacy.
Indeed, it has been. Its times like this that I'm grateful that the president actually isn't as powerful as all his supporters expect him to be.
This reminds me of how I always thought it was odd that some people who were afraid of him winning thought he would have limitless power. Thinking he'd truly be able to ban everyone of the Muslim religion. Thinking he'd reinstate slavery (and not in the sense of more people in prison, but literally thinking he'd have full on slavery back within the first year). Fear that there would be concentration camps for anyone that wasn't a straight white male..... He wasn't being elected into godhood. I figured he'd waste a ton of time and anything crazy would get blocked by the rest of the government. I told someone this once and was told that I was a racist and hated nonwhite for it????
Slashdot Mirror
Proof for the Flat Earthers that the Earth is flat. "Only a flat disc could wobble when people jump on it!"
This does remind me of some video game communities being really mad that there weren't more fat action hero characters.
I also apparently don't understand using HTML on /.
This part above just reminds me of something from when I was much younger. For about a year or so I worked in a warehouse doing general labor crap. A few of the guys and I would go out and have a few drinks every Friday at the bar down the road. We only ever went for an hour or so as just sort of a cool down and hang out at the end of the week. Some would have money issues and excuse themselves from several of the hang outs, even though others would offer to buy a drink or two just to have the hang out time.
Then there would be 1 or 2 that were struggling to pay rent, fill their car with gas, etc.... and they'd finally get a break, or work overtime. Suddenly they'd go out and buy expensive drinks, appetizers, dessert, etc... and the next week complain about money again. I never understand the choices people make about money.
I like Chrome OS for what it is, basically a platform to run the Chrome browser on. But I couldn't use it for anything really serious, so I see it more like a mobile OS than a desktop/workstation.
Ignoring his second post here, I took the original post to mostly mean for regular everyday people. I assumed the qualifier was "family members who aren't good with computers." And it quickly makes me realize that this would likely best apply to my Mom, who was thinking of getting a new cheap computer soon-ish.
Thinking about it, I almost feel like I should just recommend her one because she only uses her home PC for rare youtube, email, and... I guess printing email? That, plus she keeps installing a 10-15 year old copy of Office from one of my aunts on every computer and uses it for almost nothing. Would simply need to get her to try Google Docs for the rare notes she might type.
The only issue I can think of is that she definitely prefers using a desktop to using a laptop.
He's a pain.
I was going to comment the same thing. Apparently they want content moderators to filter the uploaded content before the content moderators filter the uploaded content.
My gut sense is tingling!
I remember Microsoft announcing this, then never saw it again. Assumed they just abandoned it. Have they actually done anything with it aside from advertising ideas for it?
But on the other hand, there's the people that will always say we should never make killing machines/robots/etc no matter what because that's terrible and we need people making those decisions because people will be moral and robots won't. Not saying my opinion, just more of mentioning that this argument pops up against it all the time.
So their attempt to fight back against Trump was that if someone who disliked Muslims, etc, searched for them... they would find positive results? Not sure how this would affect the ban or someone who was already prejudiced. I doubt someone who hated Muslims would be like: "Oh look at this link telling me that immigration is good, time to read it and give it a good think and change my opinion!" They would instead just search more or look elsewhere.
one morning the company was split into two meetings, the folks being laid off, and everyone else, although we obviously only found this out at the meeting.
I remember this happening at a medical company I worked for. It was very awkward in the non laid off group. We had to stay shut in the meeting room until the people who were laid off were out of the building. So it was just kind of an awkward silence for 30 minutes of everyone feeling a little guilty and bad (and you could hear some of the ladies who had been laid off walking past the meeting room and crying).
it could be both dead and alive, until the box was opened and the cat's state measured. Now, two physicists have devised a modern version of the paradox by replacing the cat with a physicist doing experiments -- with shocking implications.
So now there is a living and dead physicist doing experiments inside the box? Are they trying to create zombie science?
young adults who wanted to improve the level of exercise in their lives
Also I wondered if this meant that they wanted to "lose weight and get healthier" but weren't doing a good job to / not committed to it. If that's true, shouldn't they also have mixed in people who were fit and worked out regularly along with committed couch potatoes? It sounds like their test group was the "I want to lose weight but I don't like to exercise and I love cake!~" crowd.
I'm sorry officer, I don't know how fast I was driving. My car was too busy offering me advertisements based on recent driving experiences. Oh hey - it's telling me about nearby lawyers right now!
On the other hand, i left the catering industry 3 years ago. Now if you want awful shift patterns, that's the job to have. I'd work split shift 11-3 and 5-10.
Ugh. This reminds me of when I was in college. I worked at a large mall in a retail store. I was complaining about my Black Friday hours of 11:30PM Thursday til 9AM Friday. I soon lost the need to complain as much as my friend (who worked as a supervisor at the Burger King in the food court) was telling me about his shift. It was something like:
9:45PM-1AM (getting there 2+ hours early to start warming up the broiler).
Breakfast rush? 6AM-10AM.
Late dinner and closing. 7PM-10PM.
One thing I've never understood, and this isn't a criticism/complaint from me, is why slashdotters are so upset about the copyright on Mickey Mouse. Is it literally just that it's a best / most recent example that people would recognize? I see people talking about how copyright ends up stifling creativity by making certain things off limits... but why would creativity need to use Mickey Mouse or any other copyrighted character/design?
I know that cholesterol in itself isn't bad, but I don't quite remember what her issue was. I'm assuming it was a high amount of the "bad cholesterol," but it might've been completely different. I mostly wanted to simplify it down to say that the guy had great results, and his wife was told "You need to stop," by the doctor basically.
Oddly, I seem to recall hearing of a few studies about somehow cholesterol even aids a lot in some muscle building and recovery? Good luck in that ever getting much attention.
It would be silly to think that it is for everyone - because it may not be since there are variations in how people's bodies respond.
Bingo. Low carb has potential to work great for some, but it doesn't do great for everyone. The most recent example I can think of is a friend of mine who is fairly healthy and works out often, but has always had a few extra pounds he couldn't get rid of. He and his wife both went low carb. Ate the same meals for pretty much everything. It worked great for him, meanwhile she had to stop for some health related reason I don't recall. I've also known of someone else who had cholesterol issues when doing the diet. I briefly did low carb a while back and had no issues, I quit that though because I'd rather not ban certain foods from myself. I do eat LESS carbs than I used to - just definitely not a "low carb diet." It also depends what my current workout goals are, as well.
Over the past 7ish years I've worked at 3 different places. All 3 places had almost every employee (except me and a very small number of others) go out for fast food pretty much every single day. Maybe it's changing for some.... but definitely not enough.
Still, killing yourself seems to be a good way to increase the value of your 'art'.
I'll always remember an "art piece" where some guy had a camera set up on a tripod and had someone shoot him in the arm with a gun. This was to get his doctorate in art I think.
I was mostly wondering why it even bothered with the "To give Tesla a run for it's money" line. It's like someone just needed to have the article related to Tesla somehow.
I mean I guess they are the electric car only company, but still seems a bit silly to go ahead and say that.
My main surprise is that I haven't really seen anyone on /. yet say how dismayed they are that Google was worried about the presidency for "moral reasons" instead of their ability to sell people's information and privacy.
Indeed, it has been. Its times like this that I'm grateful that the president actually isn't as powerful as all his supporters expect him to be.
This reminds me of how I always thought it was odd that some people who were afraid of him winning thought he would have limitless power. Thinking he'd truly be able to ban everyone of the Muslim religion. Thinking he'd reinstate slavery (and not in the sense of more people in prison, but literally thinking he'd have full on slavery back within the first year). Fear that there would be concentration camps for anyone that wasn't a straight white male..... He wasn't being elected into godhood. I figured he'd waste a ton of time and anything crazy would get blocked by the rest of the government. I told someone this once and was told that I was a racist and hated nonwhite for it????
No, it has to be full time employment.