Do people in foreign countries actually believe this? It's hilarious how some foreigners go to US websites and absorb US culture, but believe the most ridiculous anti-US propaganda at face value.
Wouldn't it be kind of weird to keep a large tank of gas in your bedroom? In case you needed to kill yourself? Maybe if you were on death's door anyway.
I think before it got to that I would just buy a gun.
There's plenty of zero coupon bonds which mature in 20+ years, which is basically the same thing as profit that won't be realized until the long term. With interest rates as low as they are now, if a company *knew* they could make a profit in 20 years, even a fairly middling profit, there are financial instruments which would allow them to build the reactor and immediately reap their financial rewards.
All I'm saying is the large majority of households already can play Netflix through their TV or some common device. Furthermore, there's already $50 devices that connect to your TV and do Netflix, you can buy them at Target new instead of 2nd hand at a Gamestop.
Normal people aren't going to want to use a PS3 controller to control Netflix. Only video game nerds would do that, and chances are they already own a video game system.
Re:Where was this caution with Wii U?
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That is a bit of passive aggressive video game rage. But just look at the facts: Wii U isn't selling and Mario is popular strictly with casuals. Super Mario World 3D isn't broadly popular enough to support an entire console, which is all I was saying. If you enjoy it, keep playing. Personally, I think all the Mario platformers are a good game, re-treaded to death.
This is silly. Netflix already comes standard with most TVs for the past few years, and pretty much every Blu Ray Player. It already comes with the PS3 and the Wii and the XBox. I doubt this will make any difference at all to Netflix.
Re:Where was this caution with Wii U?
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Super Mario 3D World So yeah, technically the Nintendo has games. However 98% of gamers don't feel a need to get this month's edition of Mario.
I realize it's a joke, but legally the government outside the IRS isn't allowed to look at your tax returns. If you are a pimp or a drug dealer, you must file taxes with your correct occupation, however these taxes are not admissible as evidence against you, and law enforcement doesn't have access to it to point you out as a drug dealer.
Theoretically anyway.
There's been some funny side effects to the law, such as a prostitute who argued that her services weren't as much as the government claimed and she didn't owe so many back taxes. Congress passed a law that only the cost of goods sold count against revenue for dealing drugs (you can't include the cost of advertising) - however breast implants are a legitimate tax deduction as long as they're so large that they're purely for professional good and not personal enjoyment. And of course Al Capone going to jail on tax evasion, of all things.
It's not rich frat bros using their money to push out the real developer, that's not what's being argued. The two central developers presented and developed the program for a class at Stanford University. The third guy (from the same frat) is arguing that he had a hand in further development, and that he came up with the old name of the business that's no longer in use. Whether that entitles him to a third of the business is a legal matter that relies on what contracts were signed or agreements were made, but that's hardly the narrative you're pushing.
Genghis Khan didn't break many social customs. He was a product of his culture, just more successful than others. He wasn't the first to create a Mongol confederation and attempt to take over the known world, his uncle had done the same thing.
The hidden tomb idea is a classic Chinese move (literally). Probably other cultures as well. But not a Mongol custom, which didn't have a large social structure of ditch diggers. He theoretically may have done it, but it seems likely it was just conflated with all the Chinese emperors who did the same thing.
Mongols wouldn't have done a sky burial, where the body is consumed by animals. That's a move of (modern) Tibetan Buddhism, and Genghis Khan was not a Tibetan Buddhist.
It is known that his tribe buried people in unmarked graves, and that this is what Genghis Khan asked for. It's likely what happened to him.
The idea that Genghis Khan came to power because he was the first Mongol not afraid of thunderstorms is infantile.
Have fun playing minecraft and freeciv and maybe a few emulators.
Re:I want Sony to win only so that Microsoft loses
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I don't think you should speak for "the majority of us." My impression is it's a vocal minority upset over things most of Slashdot doesn't particularly care about - they got rid of the Linux OS nobody was actually using, and they purchased BMG right after BMG added anti-piracy rootkits to CDs, 10 years ago.
I don't think PS4 will fuck over the user. Sony sells it as a game device and it seems to do just that.
You're making things up, there is no study on this. Anyway, a real bodybuilder is going to be using steroids enough to affect his lifespan.
Nobody's going to look anything like a bodybuilder at 6' 230 pounds, unless they've been using steroids. A non-steroid user would be lucky to look ripped at 6' 200 pounds.
Gamestop doesn't sell computer games anyway. As long as consoles remain popular and games come on a disk, I don't see them going away. And that seems like it's going to be true for at least the next seven years.
Calculator puts "light exercise" at "light exercise/sports 1-3 days/week." He's a journalist in his 20s and looks like a total hipster, he probably rides a fixie to the vinyl shop or what have you.
BMI was intended as a look at an overall population, however it's generally a good representation of people without really unique body types or lots of muscle.
If your friends had 100 pounds to lose, bringing up BMI worked well for him. BMI is a way of showing that he's what most people would consider obese. You wouldn't use it to decide whether to lose 5 pounds or not, but sure it's accurate to within 100 pounds.
Counting calories is a very effective way to lose/gain weight. Sure you don't know *exactly* how many your body is burning, but if you don't lose or gain weight at 3000 calories, and maintain the same lifestyle, you can be sure that you will lose about a pound a week at 2500 calories, or gain a pound a week at 3500 calories/day. Sure not everybody wants to or has to do that, but it works.
Dude is over six feet tall. There's no way his maintenance calories was only 1800, 2400 sounds right. For example, if he's a mildly active 170 pounder, this calculator says he should eat 2560 calories a day to break even. Sure maybe I'm guess wrong or he's not active or what have you, but 1800 isn't even in the realm of possibility.
Surely, it's that eating measured amounts of a controlled substance forced him to measure his calories accurately...study after study show that people wildly mis-represent how many calories they consume.
If you rent a lot, Netflix puts you as a lower-priority customer. Videos that would be available for a trial customer or an occasional renter are suddenly no longer available.
In the US, you can get pure plans and unlocked phones, too. Go to amazon.com and search "unlocked cell phone." Plenty of stores have them, even your local drug store. Any cell phone carrier offers plans without a phone bundled in. T-Mobile and many smaller carriers base their business around them. For instance, here is an advertisement: http://www.t-mobile.com/bring-your-own-phone.html
Right, one effectively got to choose who talked to the emperor and who the next emperor would be, and the other is a bunch of lower-middle-class Filipinos who screen people at airports and want some kind of increased defense after some wacko started shooting at them.
If a bunch of people hated computer programmers and there was a recent high-publicity incident where a computer programmers got shot at/killed purely for doing his job, I imagine the computer programmer union might want increased security. And that Slashdot wouldn't be doing "blame the victim" techniques where it's their fault they got killed, because there's way too many bugs in computer programs nowadays.
Slashdot Mirror
Do people in foreign countries actually believe this? It's hilarious how some foreigners go to US websites and absorb US culture, but believe the most ridiculous anti-US propaganda at face value.
AC, please read less science fiction.
Well to be fair corporations do pay taxes.
Wouldn't it be kind of weird to keep a large tank of gas in your bedroom? In case you needed to kill yourself? Maybe if you were on death's door anyway.
I think before it got to that I would just buy a gun.
Nausea
Vomiting
Tremors
Irregular breathing
Increased temperature
Increased heart rate
Chest pains
Seizures
Yeah that's how I'd want to go. In immense pain, permanently scarring the loved one who did this to me.
There's plenty of zero coupon bonds which mature in 20+ years, which is basically the same thing as profit that won't be realized until the long term. With interest rates as low as they are now, if a company *knew* they could make a profit in 20 years, even a fairly middling profit, there are financial instruments which would allow them to build the reactor and immediately reap their financial rewards.
All I'm saying is the large majority of households already can play Netflix through their TV or some common device. Furthermore, there's already $50 devices that connect to your TV and do Netflix, you can buy them at Target new instead of 2nd hand at a Gamestop.
Normal people aren't going to want to use a PS3 controller to control Netflix. Only video game nerds would do that, and chances are they already own a video game system.
That is a bit of passive aggressive video game rage. But just look at the facts: Wii U isn't selling and Mario is popular strictly with casuals. Super Mario World 3D isn't broadly popular enough to support an entire console, which is all I was saying. If you enjoy it, keep playing. Personally, I think all the Mario platformers are a good game, re-treaded to death.
This is silly. Netflix already comes standard with most TVs for the past few years, and pretty much every Blu Ray Player. It already comes with the PS3 and the Wii and the XBox. I doubt this will make any difference at all to Netflix.
Super Mario 3D World
So yeah, technically the Nintendo has games. However 98% of gamers don't feel a need to get this month's edition of Mario.
I realize it's a joke, but legally the government outside the IRS isn't allowed to look at your tax returns. If you are a pimp or a drug dealer, you must file taxes with your correct occupation, however these taxes are not admissible as evidence against you, and law enforcement doesn't have access to it to point you out as a drug dealer.
Theoretically anyway.
There's been some funny side effects to the law, such as a prostitute who argued that her services weren't as much as the government claimed and she didn't owe so many back taxes. Congress passed a law that only the cost of goods sold count against revenue for dealing drugs (you can't include the cost of advertising) - however breast implants are a legitimate tax deduction as long as they're so large that they're purely for professional good and not personal enjoyment. And of course Al Capone going to jail on tax evasion, of all things.
It would be a bunch of shitty Zelda clones in 1996, with Nintendo having way less motivation to work on a Majora's Mask or a Twilight Princess.
It's not rich frat bros using their money to push out the real developer, that's not what's being argued. The two central developers presented and developed the program for a class at Stanford University. The third guy (from the same frat) is arguing that he had a hand in further development, and that he came up with the old name of the business that's no longer in use. Whether that entitles him to a third of the business is a legal matter that relies on what contracts were signed or agreements were made, but that's hardly the narrative you're pushing.
Genghis Khan didn't break many social customs. He was a product of his culture, just more successful than others. He wasn't the first to create a Mongol confederation and attempt to take over the known world, his uncle had done the same thing.
The hidden tomb idea is a classic Chinese move (literally). Probably other cultures as well. But not a Mongol custom, which didn't have a large social structure of ditch diggers. He theoretically may have done it, but it seems likely it was just conflated with all the Chinese emperors who did the same thing.
Mongols wouldn't have done a sky burial, where the body is consumed by animals. That's a move of (modern) Tibetan Buddhism, and Genghis Khan was not a Tibetan Buddhist.
It is known that his tribe buried people in unmarked graves, and that this is what Genghis Khan asked for. It's likely what happened to him.
The idea that Genghis Khan came to power because he was the first Mongol not afraid of thunderstorms is infantile.
Have fun playing minecraft and freeciv and maybe a few emulators.
I don't think you should speak for "the majority of us." My impression is it's a vocal minority upset over things most of Slashdot doesn't particularly care about - they got rid of the Linux OS nobody was actually using, and they purchased BMG right after BMG added anti-piracy rootkits to CDs, 10 years ago.
I don't think PS4 will fuck over the user. Sony sells it as a game device and it seems to do just that.
You're making things up, there is no study on this. Anyway, a real bodybuilder is going to be using steroids enough to affect his lifespan.
Nobody's going to look anything like a bodybuilder at 6' 230 pounds, unless they've been using steroids. A non-steroid user would be lucky to look ripped at 6' 200 pounds.
Gamestop doesn't sell computer games anyway. As long as consoles remain popular and games come on a disk, I don't see them going away. And that seems like it's going to be true for at least the next seven years.
Calculator puts "light exercise" at "light exercise/sports 1-3 days/week." He's a journalist in his 20s and looks like a total hipster, he probably rides a fixie to the vinyl shop or what have you.
BMI was intended as a look at an overall population, however it's generally a good representation of people without really unique body types or lots of muscle.
If your friends had 100 pounds to lose, bringing up BMI worked well for him. BMI is a way of showing that he's what most people would consider obese. You wouldn't use it to decide whether to lose 5 pounds or not, but sure it's accurate to within 100 pounds.
Counting calories is a very effective way to lose/gain weight. Sure you don't know *exactly* how many your body is burning, but if you don't lose or gain weight at 3000 calories, and maintain the same lifestyle, you can be sure that you will lose about a pound a week at 2500 calories, or gain a pound a week at 3500 calories/day. Sure not everybody wants to or has to do that, but it works.
Dude is over six feet tall. There's no way his maintenance calories was only 1800, 2400 sounds right. For example, if he's a mildly active 170 pounder, this calculator says he should eat 2560 calories a day to break even. Sure maybe I'm guess wrong or he's not active or what have you, but 1800 isn't even in the realm of possibility.
Surely, it's that eating measured amounts of a controlled substance forced him to measure his calories accurately...study after study show that people wildly mis-represent how many calories they consume.
If you rent a lot, Netflix puts you as a lower-priority customer. Videos that would be available for a trial customer or an occasional renter are suddenly no longer available.
In the US, you can get pure plans and unlocked phones, too.
Go to amazon.com and search "unlocked cell phone."
Plenty of stores have them, even your local drug store.
Any cell phone carrier offers plans without a phone bundled in.
T-Mobile and many smaller carriers base their business around them. For instance, here is an advertisement: http://www.t-mobile.com/bring-your-own-phone.html
Commas don't combine sentences unless followed by for, and, not, but, or, yet, or so. A semi-colon would be perfectly appropriate.
Right, one effectively got to choose who talked to the emperor and who the next emperor would be, and the other is a bunch of lower-middle-class Filipinos who screen people at airports and want some kind of increased defense after some wacko started shooting at them.
If a bunch of people hated computer programmers and there was a recent high-publicity incident where a computer programmers got shot at/killed purely for doing his job, I imagine the computer programmer union might want increased security. And that Slashdot wouldn't be doing "blame the victim" techniques where it's their fault they got killed, because there's way too many bugs in computer programs nowadays.