An Arabic or Chinese keyboard shouldn’t and doesn’t have to include weird foreign characters, just as you don’t have to be able to type characters that you can’t even read. And guess what: Those sites using those weird foreign [A-Za-z] caracters ARE off-limits to many that aren’t “native all-hail glorious America, JAWOHL, SIEG HEIL AMERICA!”
The answer is: Yes. Obviously. Put a roof above everything on the whole planet, essentially encapsulating it in a shell of solar panels, and the planet will freeze over. The same thing is true for wind. A wind turbine takes kinetic energy from the moving air, and transforms it into electrical energy. Hence the air loses kinetic energy. Hence it slows down. Because of the law of energy conservation. QED.
See, when you want to act smart, you have to check that what you want to present as a silly question, isn’t actually a valid one.
I hate it when people just give off statements, and expect us to blindly believe them without any arguments connecting it to a common set of paradigms. This is not about you being right or wrong. (I think you are right.) It is about the arrogance. Reminds my of the typical physician’s got complex.
I think you forgot that gravity works in both directions. Meaning that the moon has a small but significant gravity well too, just like earth. (After all that’s what causes the tides in the first place) And hence you would have to calculate that too. Including friction of the water in its tidal movement.
First rule of being an employee: Learn to say no. Second rule of being an employee: Learn to say no early.
Your dominance and hence value as an employee is defined by how much you can say no to. Contrary to popular opinion, who dominates is not predetermined. That’s only in our heads. The whole thing is a mind game. A power play: How much perceived value can you project? How much can the other side project?
If you don’t say no to things you don’t think are right or fair, then of course you will be treated unfairly and have to do wrong things. You have to teach your boss, what you will do for that money. And what you won’t do at all. But most of all: Never be needy. Always have at least one second option open. Even if it’s just a bluff.
Bonus tip: The exact same thing is true for dating women.:)
Protip: That is irrelevant. We still have “not guilty until proven otherwise”. There is a name for governments that drop basic laws and morales if it’s convenient for them or their views: Dictatorship.
I think it is easy to prove it, since it is true, and they should get in PMITA prison. But 1. That is what I think. Not a proper decision by a proper court, based on proper information. 2. Prove it, or GTFO.
Yes. But “refuse to do it, and sue the bastards who want to require you to do it for every crime applicable” is also a good option. Then go to your local tabloid, and let them portrait you as the hero who protected thousands of kids from sexual abuse and disgusting perversities. ^^
THEN “find somewhere else to work”, since if your school won’t be closed anyway, you don’t want to continue to work with those bastards.:)
It amazes me that the financial industry continually gets a free pass on matters that would result in public outrage towards any other industry that deals with people's livelihoods.
Uuum, and who gives the guys a free pass that give the financial industry a free pass? That would be: Us! So? What are your plans to stop that?
Oh, and very important: Let others pay you in a fixed value of whatever is going up right now. No if it’s going downwards, let your boss pay you in exactly X ounces of gold. This will become more and more expensive to him, when his money loses value. But you won’t notice any problems AT ALL.:) And then just exchange small amounts of gold with dollars when you go buy something.
Of course, now that things look like they could only go upwards, the opposite is right. Although not very realistic, since you can’t really buy stuff with gold or silver at your local mall.:/
Luckily there is a solution. It may be hard to accept, but actually it is quite easy: Don’t use their money!
Who cares if money devalues, when you own physical goods instead that keep their value regardless of what happens? No, our food did not get more expensive. It got cheaper. But the value of the money went down. If we had had it in gold back then before it went downwards, we could get seven times as many dollar bills with it right now.
And interestingly, this is exactly what a lot of rich people did. Why do you think Glenn Beck and friends advertise to sell their gold, now that we are deep down, and on the way up again? So some idiots buy the gold from them and they get that seven times the money they previously invested. At our expense!
And that’s why I think those guys got an incentive in killing the stock market.
Of course it’s not very realistic to stay away from money. But what you can do, is in case the value of money goes downwards, be sure to always have as little actual money anywhere as possible. And if it goes upwards, have as much of it as possible. Then you will be one of those that the wealth went to in this imaginary “economic crisis”. (As there is always someone where the wealth goes to, when “everybody” loses it.)
and it isn't good. Not just for us, but for the world.
I’m sorry?? Putting-our-heads-in-the-sand much?
Yes, what we will find, will not be good. THAT IS THE POINT!
Your argument is like saying we shouldn’t look at a criminal who murdered a hand full of people, because it isn’t good. Instead we should let him continue, because clearly “If we don’t see it, it ain’t happening”. Right? Right?
Sorry, but we can’t take someone serious, who censors himself. I mean: What the hell? Seriously? Not only do you approve of censorship... you also apply it to yourself. As if it were a totally normal thing to do. Next you tell me you rape and torture yourself, and also think that that is completely normal...
If you would at least back up any of your statements with actual arguments that connect it to any common paradigms, I may have thought about it. But this is just silly.
People in constant adrenaline rush, often on drugs, “dealing” imaginary values with imaginary money. It’s all just a mind game. Not 90% psychology. 100% psychology. (And then some.;) Do people believe in a value? Do they believe it to go “up” or “down’? Do they stop believing in it?
Sorry, but if you have any involvement in it, you deserve what you should have clearly seen coming to you. You can happily deal actual goods. And even placeholders backed by actual valuable goods. But Dollars are neither of those. And stocks are even less.
And this is not what I’m saying. It’s what leading economic researchers say: Since it is completely imaginary, it is bound to break every now and then, when people stop believing, and check what’s actual reality again.
I wish I had the wealth to create a new currency that is based on physical goods...
You may mod me Flamebait, but 99% of all/. users agree with me anyway. Hence it’s not a bait for anyone flaming. The remaining 1% is PHBs and 4channers who got lost and ended up here. They aren’t relevant anyway.
And that deal is where the delusion started. Since every “work” was bound to a physical container, people continued to treat it as physical objects. But information is not a physical object. Only the container is. Information is the uncontrollable, not ownable, losslessly cloneable result of a service.
Now with the Internet, that container isn’t necessary anymore, which blows the delusion’s cover... and blows away the whole set of business models and laws which are based on it.
Those times are over. Accept it. Take the distortion goggles off, and get with the times.
My god, you actually really believe that MAFIAA brainwashing??
I’ll say this once: INFORMATION CAN NOT BE OWNED! At ALL. EVER. Really. It is a physically impossible thing. You can’t. Asking who owns a piece of information, is like asking what happened before time itself. It makes no sense at all. See, let’s define ownership: 1. Something you have control over. 2. Something that can be taken away from you. 3. Something that in unique. Information does not fulfill a single one of those conditions. Since information can only be copied. Never moved. Only be overwritten. Never “deleted”.
And now let’s define stealing: > Taking something away from someone, so that you now own it, and he does not anymore. Nothing of that is the case for copying information. There is no loss. There is no control. There is no uniqueness. (There is only Zuul.;)
And all this shit comes from a single misunderstanding... the thought that bitspace would follow the same rules as meatspace... growing into a giant delusion by a tiny media reproduction and artist extortion industry, to keep up their status quo of ripping off their clients AND the artists. Sorry, but if you play their game for so much as a second, you are either mentally insane, or a sicko pervert. Don’t do it. Ok?
You are employing a logical fallacy. The results of a previous event do not say anything about how this one will turn out.
By the way: Using Facebook is still an epic failure in all regards, and still makes you into nothing more than a human battery from Matrix. A product. Cattle. And a fucking subhuman to me.
Also: GUI his what? How old are you? Your whole is of “examples” is filled with things where you act like they are obviously true, while they are just using straw-men or are completely false.
You could not possibly be any more wrong. I think you just lack imagination.
Oil is dead. It just floats there and ends up on whatever solid sucks it up.
Bacteria on the other hand are reproducing full life-forms. They can do so much more, it’s not even funny. Like growing so much from the oil, that their volume now is that of the oil PLUS that of some water and their own weight. And then they feed on everything that they can. Or in other words: A green goo plague scenario.
And it’s sad that you got so little spine that you buy into the reality of the enemy.
You are like that one person in every horror or war movie, that always screams “We’re all gonna die! We have no chance! We have already lost! They have won!”, where you just wish they would finally just fucking shoot that idiot so he shuts the fuck up!
I bet in a fight you have already lost in your head, before the fight even starts.
Slashdot Mirror
While every keyboard can type A-Za-z,
Extremely egocentric much?
An Arabic or Chinese keyboard shouldn’t and doesn’t have to include weird foreign characters, just as you don’t have to be able to type characters that you can’t even read.
And guess what: Those sites using those weird foreign [A-Za-z] caracters ARE off-limits to many that aren’t “native all-hail glorious America, JAWOHL, SIEG HEIL AMERICA!”
The answer is: Yes. Obviously.
Put a roof above everything on the whole planet, essentially encapsulating it in a shell of solar panels, and the planet will freeze over.
The same thing is true for wind. A wind turbine takes kinetic energy from the moving air, and transforms it into electrical energy. Hence the air loses kinetic energy. Hence it slows down. Because of the law of energy conservation. QED.
See, when you want to act smart, you have to check that what you want to present as a silly question, isn’t actually a valid one.
I hate it when people just give off statements, and expect us to blindly believe them without any arguments connecting it to a common set of paradigms.
This is not about you being right or wrong. (I think you are right.)
It is about the arrogance.
Reminds my of the typical physician’s got complex.
I think you forgot that gravity works in both directions. Meaning that the moon has a small but significant gravity well too, just like earth. (After all that’s what causes the tides in the first place) And hence you would have to calculate that too. Including friction of the water in its tidal movement.
Informed comments? On MY Slashdot?? ;)
Sounds exactly like one of their episodes. ;)
Of course there would have to be a giant earth-shattering kaboom at the end.
First rule of being an employee: Learn to say no.
Second rule of being an employee: Learn to say no early.
Your dominance and hence value as an employee is defined by how much you can say no to. Contrary to popular opinion, who dominates is not predetermined. That’s only in our heads.
The whole thing is a mind game. A power play: How much perceived value can you project? How much can the other side project?
If you don’t say no to things you don’t think are right or fair, then of course you will be treated unfairly and have to do wrong things. You have to teach your boss, what you will do for that money. And what you won’t do at all.
But most of all: Never be needy. Always have at least one second option open. Even if it’s just a bluff.
Bonus tip: The exact same thing is true for dating women. :)
Protip: That is irrelevant. We still have “not guilty until proven otherwise”. There is a name for governments that drop basic laws and morales if it’s convenient for them or their views: Dictatorship.
I think it is easy to prove it, since it is true, and they should get in PMITA prison. But
1. That is what I think. Not a proper decision by a proper court, based on proper information.
2. Prove it, or GTFO.
Yes. But “refuse to do it, and sue the bastards who want to require you to do it for every crime applicable” is also a good option. Then go to your local tabloid, and let them portrait you as the hero who protected thousands of kids from sexual abuse and disgusting perversities. ^^
THEN “find somewhere else to work”, since if your school won’t be closed anyway, you don’t want to continue to work with those bastards. :)
I know people who say that about crack and heroine too. ;)
It amazes me that the financial industry continually gets a free pass on matters that would result in public outrage towards any other industry that deals with people's livelihoods.
Uuum, and who gives the guys a free pass that give the financial industry a free pass?
That would be: Us!
So? What are your plans to stop that?
Oh, and very important: Let others pay you in a fixed value of whatever is going up right now. No if it’s going downwards, let your boss pay you in exactly X ounces of gold. This will become more and more expensive to him, when his money loses value. But you won’t notice any problems AT ALL. :)
And then just exchange small amounts of gold with dollars when you go buy something.
Of course, now that things look like they could only go upwards, the opposite is right. Although not very realistic, since you can’t really buy stuff with gold or silver at your local mall. :/
Luckily there is a solution. It may be hard to accept, but actually it is quite easy:
Don’t use their money!
Who cares if money devalues, when you own physical goods instead that keep their value regardless of what happens?
No, our food did not get more expensive. It got cheaper. But the value of the money went down.
If we had had it in gold back then before it went downwards, we could get seven times as many dollar bills with it right now.
And interestingly, this is exactly what a lot of rich people did. Why do you think Glenn Beck and friends advertise to sell their gold, now that we are deep down, and on the way up again? So some idiots buy the gold from them and they get that seven times the money they previously invested. At our expense!
And that’s why I think those guys got an incentive in killing the stock market.
Of course it’s not very realistic to stay away from money. But what you can do, is in case the value of money goes downwards, be sure to always have as little actual money anywhere as possible. And if it goes upwards, have as much of it as possible. Then you will be one of those that the wealth went to in this imaginary “economic crisis”. (As there is always someone where the wealth goes to, when “everybody” loses it.)
and it isn't good. Not just for us, but for the world.
I’m sorry?? Putting-our-heads-in-the-sand much?
Yes, what we will find, will not be good. THAT IS THE POINT!
Your argument is like saying we shouldn’t look at a criminal who murdered a hand full of people, because it isn’t good. Instead we should let him continue, because clearly “If we don’t see it, it ain’t happening”. Right? Right?
Acceptance is a b&^%*& sometimes...
Sorry, but we can’t take someone serious, who censors himself .
I mean: What the hell? Seriously? Not only do you approve of censorship... you also apply it to yourself. As if it were a totally normal thing to do.
Next you tell me you rape and torture yourself, and also think that that is completely normal...
If you would at least back up any of your statements with actual arguments that connect it to any common paradigms, I may have thought about it. But this is just silly.
Seriously: How is any of that surprising.
People in constant adrenaline rush, often on drugs, “dealing” imaginary values with imaginary money. It’s all just a mind game. Not 90% psychology. 100% psychology. (And then some. ;)
Do people believe in a value? Do they believe it to go “up” or “down’? Do they stop believing in it?
Sorry, but if you have any involvement in it, you deserve what you should have clearly seen coming to you.
You can happily deal actual goods. And even placeholders backed by actual valuable goods. But Dollars are neither of those. And stocks are even less.
And this is not what I’m saying. It’s what leading economic researchers say: Since it is completely imaginary, it is bound to break every now and then, when people stop believing, and check what’s actual reality again.
I wish I had the wealth to create a new currency that is based on physical goods...
You may mod me Flamebait, but 99% of all /. users agree with me anyway. Hence it’s not a bait for anyone flaming.
The remaining 1% is PHBs and 4channers who got lost and ended up here. They aren’t relevant anyway.
And that deal is where the delusion started. Since every “work” was bound to a physical container, people continued to treat it as physical objects. But information is not a physical object. Only the container is. Information is the uncontrollable, not ownable, losslessly cloneable result of a service.
Now with the Internet, that container isn’t necessary anymore, which blows the delusion’s cover... and blows away the whole set of business models and laws which are based on it.
Those times are over. Accept it. Take the distortion goggles off, and get with the times.
My god, you actually really believe that MAFIAA brainwashing??
I’ll say this once: INFORMATION CAN NOT BE OWNED! At ALL. EVER.
Really. It is a physically impossible thing. You can’t. Asking who owns a piece of information, is like asking what happened before time itself. It makes no sense at all.
See, let’s define ownership:
1. Something you have control over.
2. Something that can be taken away from you.
3. Something that in unique.
Information does not fulfill a single one of those conditions.
Since information can only be copied. Never moved. Only be overwritten. Never “deleted”.
And now let’s define stealing: ;)
> Taking something away from someone, so that you now own it, and he does not anymore.
Nothing of that is the case for copying information.
There is no loss. There is no control. There is no uniqueness. (There is only Zuul.
And all this shit comes from a single misunderstanding... the thought that bitspace would follow the same rules as meatspace... growing into a giant delusion by a tiny media reproduction and artist extortion industry, to keep up their status quo of ripping off their clients AND the artists.
Sorry, but if you play their game for so much as a second, you are either mentally insane, or a sicko pervert.
Don’t do it. Ok?
See, that’s the thing. You spanked the monkey! And that only makes it worse. ;)
Well, stepping into one at least feels like traveling back in time.
Also, it’s bigger on the outside. ^^
And cleaner...
You are employing a logical fallacy. The results of a previous event do not say anything about how this one will turn out.
By the way: Using Facebook is still an epic failure in all regards, and still makes you into nothing more than a human battery from Matrix. A product. Cattle. And a fucking subhuman to me.
Also: GUI his what? How old are you? Your whole is of “examples” is filled with things where you act like they are obviously true, while they are just using straw-men or are completely false.
Go back to your pot cave, idiot!
opium den. ;)
Seriously... are all those “cloud” circle-jerkers on drugs?
You could not possibly be any more wrong. I think you just lack imagination.
Oil is dead. It just floats there and ends up on whatever solid sucks it up.
Bacteria on the other hand are reproducing full life-forms. They can do so much more, it’s not even funny.
Like growing so much from the oil, that their volume now is that of the oil PLUS that of some water and their own weight. And then they feed on everything that they can. Or in other words: A green goo plague scenario.
No thanks.
And it’s sad that you got so little spine that you buy into the reality of the enemy.
You are like that one person in every horror or war movie, that always screams “We’re all gonna die! We have no chance! We have already lost! They have won!”, where you just wish they would finally just fucking shoot that idiot so he shuts the fuck up!
I bet in a fight you have already lost in your head, before the fight even starts.