The UK is full of effeminate cowardly cuckolds that want a police state. We should let it descend to the third world shit hole it is so desperately trying to become.
Technically, you still have to pay state sales tax on purchases made over the Internet. You just exploit the fact that the states can't force Internet retailers to collect those taxes and send them to the state as a way to skip out on paying your taxes.
There's no state sales tax on out of state purchases; that would be an unconstitutional tax on interstate transactions. There is a use tax on out of state purchases that you didn't pay sales tax on. I consider this "use tax" to be a transparently obvious evasion of the restriction on states taxing interstate commerce, and therefore invalid. Then I exploit the fact that the states can't force Internet retailers to collect those taxes to avoid getting into a dispute with the state over whether they are actually invalid.
Very, very many. The same as if you have asked 20 authors to write a chapter describing those algorithms, they'd never be word-for-word identical.
Prose is a lot less constrained than code. Nevertheless, I've written posts on FIDONET which were almost word-for-word identical with someone else's, and there's no way there was any copying going on because the posts crossed in the network. And it happened more than once. Sometimes two people just have similar styles and ways of looking at things. This is far more likely to happen with code than prose, and far more likely to happen with students in the same class than strangers on the net.
Exactly. When everyone's been going through the same curriculum with the same people and is getting the same assignments, you're going to have similar answers. Byte-for-byte identical is probably unusual, but the same down to the variable names probably happens often. Undergraduate classes are treading well-worn ground; it's not surprising many people end up in the same ruts.
Once the world can come to an agreement on that, then we can have a rational discussion. As long as threats are justified and ignored because "it's just trolls or people venting frustration" there there is no discussion; the defense of threats is wrong.
"It's just trolls" is not a defense. It's a claim that the offensive people are beneath notice.
As a person of color, I sometimes have to roll my eyes and accept the racism I see in the industry. Asians treated like technical workhorses who never get any advancement in management. Indian immigrants who are way underpaid and don't have the ease of just finding better employment if their companies mistreat them.
Yes, Indians and other Asians are treated like technical workhorses and never get any advancement in management. Like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Qi Lu, Amit Singhal, etc. Never got anywhere.
There is a group of people who see few women in high tech and think that there is a problem with that and that more women should be encouraged to join, the causes for few women should be discovered and possibly remedied, etc. Ie, the group sees this as a problem. However there is another group that sees few women in high tech and thinks "so what?" This other group is either apathetic, laissez-faire, denies that there is a problem, or just prefers the status quo.
There's a group who see few women in high tech and blame the men in high tech for driving them out. When some of those men foolishly object, they are berated for "mansplaining", "derailing" or told to "check their privilege". If they persist, they are told they are "part of the problem".
The following is not "harassment": 1) Political disgreement 2) Publicly questioning the credentials of one who has publicly asserted said credentials 3) Publicly calling someone else a liar about something they publicly said. 4) Arguing that something is or is not harassment 5) Arguing that something is or is not sexist 6) Arguing that something is or is not misogyny 7) Publicly questioning a claim someone made publicly 8) Criticizing someone who has been harassed 9) Claiming that someone has engaged in unethical behavior. 10) Changing the subject (some of these may be other sorts of bad behaviors besides harassment, but only conditionally)
Furthermore, and it should go without saying, but the opposite is an axiom for one side: What's good for the goose is what's good for the gander, and vice-versa, in nearly all cases. The gender-reversed version of bad behavior is bad behavior, and the gender-reversed version of acceptable behavior is acceptable behavior.
The greatly expanded version of "harassment" (generally applied to people with the wrong political beliefs only) that denies all of these things should not be "ended".
Going into a strip club and being "affronted" by the nudity is like going into a bar and being "affronted" by the sale and consumption of alcoholic beverages...
"I am shocked, shocked, to find there is nudity in here."
"As you can see here, I have postulated another particle which would leave exactly the same evidence as the Higgs, but would not be the Higgs. I call it the 'Madds' particle."
OK, that's unfair, but "techni-quarks" which could make up dark matter? William of Ockham is going to need to set up a factory in Shenzhen at this point.
Sure. According to one side, either you believe all male gamers are rapists (or at least overweight basement-dwelling misogynists), or you're aligning yourself with death threats and doxxing. Small wonder they're recruiting so many people to the so-called "death threats and doxxing" side.
Enjoy your tax freedom now, because if electrics really catch on they'll figure a way to tax you for it. Hopefully something simple and mileage-based rather than something requiring a government GPS unit in the car. In my area electricity is over 18c per kW, so you'd be paying more here.
Until then, hey, I don't mind. If there were charging stations around here I'd have considered the Tesla.
She never claimed that games turn people into misogynists
She does, in fact, claim that. She just uses more words to do it.
In other words, viewing media that frames women as objects or sexual playthings, profoundly impacts how real life women are perceived and treated in the world around us. And that is all without even taking into account how video games allow for the more participatory form of objectification that we've been discussing in this episode.
Compounding the problem is the widespread belief that, despite all the evidence, exposure to media has no real world impact. While it may be comforting to think we all have a personal force field protecting us from outside influences, this is simply not the case. Scholars sometimes refer to this type of denial as the âoethird person effectâ, which is the tendency for people to believe that they are personally immune to media's effects even if others may be influenced or manipulated. Paradoxically and somewhat ironically, those who most strongly believe that media is just harmless entertainment are also the ones most likely to uncritically internalize harmful media messages.
In short, the more you think you cannot be affected, the more likely you are to be affected.
Your definition of "middle class" is probably a bit too broad on the low end. Outside major cities, and even within many of them (such as Philadelphia), many of the poor own cars. And to them, price of gas is very significant.
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People drive more, buy less-efficient vehicles, thus buying more gas and increasing gas tax revenue. What was the problem again?
Reported.
Not sensitive, just pedantic. The first Siamese satellite launched in December 1993.
Uncorrected reads do not indicate a drive will fail. They indicate the drive has _already_ failed.
The number one predictor is probably power-on time, they go into that in an earlier post.
There's no state sales tax on out of state purchases; that would be an unconstitutional tax on interstate transactions. There is a use tax on out of state purchases that you didn't pay sales tax on. I consider this "use tax" to be a transparently obvious evasion of the restriction on states taxing interstate commerce, and therefore invalid. Then I exploit the fact that the states can't force Internet retailers to collect those taxes to avoid getting into a dispute with the state over whether they are actually invalid.
Prose is a lot less constrained than code. Nevertheless, I've written posts on FIDONET which were almost word-for-word identical with someone else's, and there's no way there was any copying going on because the posts crossed in the network. And it happened more than once. Sometimes two people just have similar styles and ways of looking at things. This is far more likely to happen with code than prose, and far more likely to happen with students in the same class than strangers on the net.
Exactly. When everyone's been going through the same curriculum with the same people and is getting the same assignments, you're going to have similar answers. Byte-for-byte identical is probably unusual, but the same down to the variable names probably happens often. Undergraduate classes are treading well-worn ground; it's not surprising many people end up in the same ruts.
"It's just trolls" is not a defense. It's a claim that the offensive people are beneath notice.
Yes, Indians and other Asians are treated like technical workhorses and never get any advancement in management. Like Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, Qi Lu, Amit Singhal, etc. Never got anywhere.
There's a group who see few women in high tech and blame the men in high tech for driving them out. When some of those men foolishly object, they are berated for "mansplaining", "derailing" or told to "check their privilege". If they persist, they are told they are "part of the problem".
The following is not "harassment":
1) Political disgreement
2) Publicly questioning the credentials of one who has publicly asserted said credentials
3) Publicly calling someone else a liar about something they publicly said.
4) Arguing that something is or is not harassment
5) Arguing that something is or is not sexist
6) Arguing that something is or is not misogyny
7) Publicly questioning a claim someone made publicly
8) Criticizing someone who has been harassed
9) Claiming that someone has engaged in unethical behavior.
10) Changing the subject
(some of these may be other sorts of bad behaviors besides harassment, but only conditionally)
Furthermore, and it should go without saying, but the opposite is an axiom for one side: What's good for the goose is what's good for the gander, and vice-versa, in nearly all cases. The gender-reversed version of bad behavior is bad behavior, and the gender-reversed version of acceptable behavior is acceptable behavior.
The greatly expanded version of "harassment" (generally applied to people with the wrong political beliefs only) that denies all of these things should not be "ended".
Film at 11, after it goes through the Propaganda Minister's office for review.
They sure as hell aren't sentient when I eat them.
"I am shocked, shocked, to find there is nudity in here."
Only Claude Rains could pull that off.
What is this "date night"? Does not every night have a date?
Which might mean something, if its location at the time had anything to do with its history; it did not; the wall never divided Silicon Valley.
Is there some reason you'd expect the Sonaran Desert to be anythng like Miami Beach? Aside from both having sand, anyway.
"As you can see here, I have postulated another particle which would leave exactly the same evidence as the Higgs, but would not be the Higgs. I call it the 'Madds' particle."
OK, that's unfair, but "techni-quarks" which could make up dark matter? William of Ockham is going to need to set up a factory in Shenzhen at this point.
Sure. According to one side, either you believe all male gamers are rapists (or at least overweight basement-dwelling misogynists), or you're aligning yourself with death threats and doxxing. Small wonder they're recruiting so many people to the so-called "death threats and doxxing" side.
Enjoy your tax freedom now, because if electrics really catch on they'll figure a way to tax you for it. Hopefully something simple and mileage-based rather than something requiring a government GPS unit in the car. In my area electricity is over 18c per kW, so you'd be paying more here.
Until then, hey, I don't mind. If there were charging stations around here I'd have considered the Tesla.
She does, in fact, claim that. She just uses more words to do it.
but Anita Sarkeesian swears it does!
Oh, wait, no, that's sexism, not violence. I'm sure it's completely different.
US law derives from English common law, so 1000 years is about right.
Your definition of "middle class" is probably a bit too broad on the low end. Outside major cities, and even within many of them (such as Philadelphia), many of the poor own cars. And to them, price of gas is very significant.
That's either a new name for industrial espionage or a contradiction in terms. Can't see any trade secrets being sold on Slashdot, so....