What you suggest is neither a rational nor sensible way to discredit a President candidate as unfit for the role. Calling a candidate a crazy moron and then making no effort to even describe in detail why is not even adult behavior, it's juvenile. As I said previously, it's ad hominem. Wikipedia defines it in some detail.
Using a single cussword doesn't completely invalidate a criticism, if in fact it really is just a terse critique. What does invalidate it is ad hominem. Since the cusswords at issue in Linus' comments were adjectives for the words "moron" and "crazy", which pretty obviously are ad hominem, the profanity is really irrelevant. It's odd that everyone is obsessed with the profanity and cares nothing about the ad hominem that it delivered.
Switzerland already has an opinion in the matter. It's legal to possess any copyrighted material when its use is strictly personal and not for profit. Have I misunderstood what I read? If it's true then Joel Tennenbaum couldn't have even been sued in Switzerland. Is Switzerland considered a socialist nation? That is certainly the most socialistic interpretation of fair use I've seen. I won't move there just because of that, but damn I wish my country was that reasonable about it.
This is precisely why Steve Wozniak is applying for Australian citizenship, as reported yesterday. You've restated what I've been saying for several years since the whole alleged "network neutrality" debate began; NONE of that debate has been about true neutrality, which can ONLY exist if the medium is publicly owned. The Australians, bless their otherwise imperfect hearts, figured that out.
In another millennium there wouldn't be any more fissile material left to burn. What, you wanna dig to the core and suck it from there? Yeah, that's a great way to prematurely shorten the habitable lifespan of the planet for future critters.
No. You would be attaching a heat sink to one side of this material if, as is most likely, you were going to use it to cool something by driving current through it. That works in reverse when you "flip it over". The most likely first commercial uses of it would be to replace current "Peltier" thermoelectric devices in computer component "coolers" and the portable electric "ice chests" that are actually capable of heating or cooling contents. If this is a more efficient conversion without being much more expensive, then it realizes a power savings for those devices.
The application TFS is describing for the material is analogous to turning a motor into a generator: instead of current being the input and a temperature gradient across the device being the output, temperature differential becomes the input and a generated current the output.
How exactly does anything to do with story submission fix the moderation of comments that follows? See, you're precisely the sort of shoot-from-the-hip knee-jerker that the moderation system should exclude. You would moderate before you think. What's done is then done, even if you do belatedly bring some introspection to bear; you can't change your mods. Well... you could if you posted in the discussion, but would we really wanna hear what you have to say after you shot from the hip in the first place?
Only it's not really the same "Slashdot" any more now, is it? It's like a sex slave being passed around from one plantation owner to another, but none of 'em likes her enough to cough up a weddin' ring.
You've haven't served on many criminal juries, have you? Jury nullification doesn't even get out of the gate when a judge deliberately stacks the jury box by making jury candidates explicitly agree not to thwart any applicable rules of law. Think I'm kidding? I've been in such a courtroom. It was a murder case with two defendants, which meant that the prosecutor intended to leverage the sickening so-called "felony murder rule", and the judge was ready to support him doing it. He did this by doing exactly what I described: demanding that each of us agree to apply that rule without hesitation. The judge wouldn't even describe the purpose of the rule or its history when I asked; so, unless we happened to already know what it was, he expected us to blindly affirm a "rule" (it's not even a true law AFAIK) we knew nothing about.
The goal of the judge was clear: if any juror refused to make this affirmation, that person would be ejected immediately; if any LIED to him and then later tried to nullify, he would slap them with contempt of court at the least. I got thrown off the jury.
I used to think our court system was still capable of serving as the impartial bastion it was intended to be, until I witnessed this. The misbehavior of our current Supreme Court doesn't stop at the doors of their chamber, it trickles all the way down to the bottom.
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What you suggest is neither a rational nor sensible way to discredit a President candidate as unfit for the role. Calling a candidate a crazy moron and then making no effort to even describe in detail why is not even adult behavior, it's juvenile. As I said previously, it's ad hominem. Wikipedia defines it in some detail.
Using a single cussword doesn't completely invalidate a criticism, if in fact it really is just a terse critique. What does invalidate it is ad hominem. Since the cusswords at issue in Linus' comments were adjectives for the words "moron" and "crazy", which pretty obviously are ad hominem, the profanity is really irrelevant. It's odd that everyone is obsessed with the profanity and cares nothing about the ad hominem that it delivered.
Oh, I screwed up the invented syntax, didn't I? So what do we call it, anyway? Senglish?
Second, what makes you think that copyright is inherently capitalist that having liberal copy laws makes that country socialist?
I don't think that, but millions of other people would.
The ARSTechnica article would have been where I read about Switzerland. Thanks for remembering it.
Switzerland already has an opinion in the matter. It's legal to possess any copyrighted material when its use is strictly personal and not for profit. Have I misunderstood what I read? If it's true then Joel Tennenbaum couldn't have even been sued in Switzerland. Is Switzerland considered a socialist nation? That is certainly the most socialistic interpretation of fair use I've seen. I won't move there just because of that, but damn I wish my country was that reasonable about it.
This is precisely why Steve Wozniak is applying for Australian citizenship, as reported yesterday. You've restated what I've been saying for several years since the whole alleged "network neutrality" debate began; NONE of that debate has been about true neutrality, which can ONLY exist if the medium is publicly owned. The Australians, bless their otherwise imperfect hearts, figured that out.
... hang up the drones, and dust of the ICBMs.
How you hang up dust? You're way more talented than I am.
You should fire your bolter, Captain Titus, instead of just squealing like a piggie.
This ignores the expense of laying out a new processor design BY HAND rather than algorithm.
Can't we just harvest it from the beach addicts and ski bums?
Freedom of peach? I prefer freedom of spinach.
In another millennium there wouldn't be any more fissile material left to burn. What, you wanna dig to the core and suck it from there? Yeah, that's a great way to prematurely shorten the habitable lifespan of the planet for future critters.
There's that quality-versus-quantity tug-of-war again.
No. You would be attaching a heat sink to one side of this material if, as is most likely, you were going to use it to cool something by driving current through it. That works in reverse when you "flip it over". The most likely first commercial uses of it would be to replace current "Peltier" thermoelectric devices in computer component "coolers" and the portable electric "ice chests" that are actually capable of heating or cooling contents. If this is a more efficient conversion without being much more expensive, then it realizes a power savings for those devices.
The application TFS is describing for the material is analogous to turning a motor into a generator: instead of current being the input and a temperature gradient across the device being the output, temperature differential becomes the input and a generated current the output.
That's what I'll be doing. I won't have my time and expertise squandered again.
... 'Determined To Start a Population On Mars'
Worker drones.
Yeah. I'll share the YouTube video later when my therapist thinks I can handle it.
Maybe it's the urban concentration of London that made it work for you... or maybe you had a talented charismatic organizer.
I started a local Slashdot Meetup (meetup.com) years ago, but I guess the interaction with real people was too much because it fizzled in six months.
And now we Google Plus with real IDs to fix all those disjointed accounts!
*ducks*
*ducks lower*
How exactly does anything to do with story submission fix the moderation of comments that follows? See, you're precisely the sort of shoot-from-the-hip knee-jerker that the moderation system should exclude. You would moderate before you think. What's done is then done, even if you do belatedly bring some introspection to bear; you can't change your mods. Well... you could if you posted in the discussion, but would we really wanna hear what you have to say after you shot from the hip in the first place?
Only it's not really the same "Slashdot" any more now, is it? It's like a sex slave being passed around from one plantation owner to another, but none of 'em likes her enough to cough up a weddin' ring.
Actually the economically advantaged are the ones buying the organic everything; the disadvantaged are the ones growing their own "organic".
FTFY... again!
You've haven't served on many criminal juries, have you? Jury nullification doesn't even get out of the gate when a judge deliberately stacks the jury box by making jury candidates explicitly agree not to thwart any applicable rules of law. Think I'm kidding? I've been in such a courtroom. It was a murder case with two defendants, which meant that the prosecutor intended to leverage the sickening so-called "felony murder rule", and the judge was ready to support him doing it. He did this by doing exactly what I described: demanding that each of us agree to apply that rule without hesitation. The judge wouldn't even describe the purpose of the rule or its history when I asked; so, unless we happened to already know what it was, he expected us to blindly affirm a "rule" (it's not even a true law AFAIK) we knew nothing about.
The goal of the judge was clear: if any juror refused to make this affirmation, that person would be ejected immediately; if any LIED to him and then later tried to nullify, he would slap them with contempt of court at the least. I got thrown off the jury.
I used to think our court system was still capable of serving as the impartial bastion it was intended to be, until I witnessed this. The misbehavior of our current Supreme Court doesn't stop at the doors of their chamber, it trickles all the way down to the bottom.