The thing about violence is when you take a normal person, being exposed to real violence makes you want to encounter it less. Halo is not real violence. Being in a crowd during a drive-by is.
A normal person exposed to pr0n, however, can be aroused and is more likely to become addicted to it and to have it change the way they perceive members of the opposite sex.
That's a really nice, long cureous post and I read much of it. It sounds like you initially point out a flaw in my reasoning - but then point out how I was using more general terms for real problems (EPA -> Endangered species act). Clamath Bason / Spotted Owl sort of stuff. Plus many state EPA-type agencies go way beyond what federales require.
Regarding the OSHA stuff, the problem is that unions/employees/employer all have an interest in workplace safety and that should be left to them and maybe some kind of charter organization like the Better Business Bureau. Also, OSHA does a lot of design-driven regulations rather than performance-driven regulations. They tell you HOW to do something rather than WHAT to accomplish. My professor on the subject is currently the director of consumer product safety - I can't remember all the details, but that is the jist of it.
Whomever the authors of the article are, they did a poor job explaining themselves. They let this question-begging sentance go unanswered
Accordingly, European refineries make more gasoline than they can use and it's cheaper for us to import that gasoline than to produce it here at home.
WHY is it cheaper to ship gasoline clear across the Atlantic? They do not answer that question.
They do address causes as to why there are less refineries now in a ceteris parabus sort of way which probably contributed to the net effect, but do you really think that the issues I list don't contribute at all to the refinery construction? With growing demand and rising prices, at some point you have to build a new refinery - why build them in Europe / Asia / S. America rather than over here?
Your post was way to long for me to read in entirety. But I will respond to one point
Why treat your enemy like your best friend when you know that all they see the employees as is a large item on the expense side of the balance sheet, instead of a value-adding asset?
That is a very retarded statement. If they firm didn't consider them as a value adding asset, they would fire them. Management/ownership is inherently smarter than the workers - lest they would be in reverse positions.
Further, just how do you think the employees view management/ownership? They typically see a pay check, nothing more. And those that do see more... well, they wind up in management.
But what are these oil companies doing to bring down the cost of oil and natural gas? They haven't built a refinery here in America since the 1970's.
How can he literally ask such a stupid, stupid question. He knows damn well why there hasn't been a refinery built. Let us review some of them:
NIMBY environmentalists on the local level.
Federal enviro regulators who have no idea how jobs or how exactly the money that gets direct deposited into their accounts every month is generated
Unions for treating investors like the enemy rather than their best friend
High taxes and workplace regulations.
Now, you may disagree with me on all of these as policies. I understand that./. is somewhere to the left of Mao. But what you can't disagree with is that these reasons are among the reasons that refineries have not been built here since the 1970s. And my point is that for Hastert to try to portray this as the oil industries FAULT is assinine. He knows better. Give any company a chance to make a profit by making someone happy and they will - that's the beauty of capitalism.
Handing down orders about how people live their lives outside school is something that is supposed to be done by government. The purpose of schools themselves is to guide and educate -- the only legitimate reason to suspend students is that they are causing a problem inside the school environment itself, or tarnishing its name by flaunting it outside, i.e. committing serious abuses while wearing school identification, slandering it openly, etc....
Your first sentence is incorrect - it's something that no one is supposed to do.
Reasons to suspend students - that's really not any of your business either. It's the parent's business. The school, since it is not a gov'ment institution, acts as an agent of the parent. If the parent is unsatisfied with the agent, it may fire it and put their kids in another school, home school them, or put them in a cesspool (public school).
Now, if you are generally commenting on this matter as someone within the school helping to make policy, there may have been a better solution. However, to go into some kind of 'IANAL BUT....' or free speech rant other attempts to come up with legal contortions on why this is a bad policy.... well, this is just an internet discussion board. Carry on.
Perhaps you should be fired from your fiduiary responsibility for not exercising due diligence in reading the article you seek to criticize.
The blogs in question had the boys photos and personal information, including where they attended school. This made them targets for predators, which was the principles concern (though apparently this was not really a concern of their parents who may have been ignorant of the blogs' existence).
What version of the 6600GT is it? PCI Express? AGP? I still think you are a fluke. If you have to walk into some arcane shop to find it and it's not on pricewatch, then the price doesn't exist.
I'm guessing that the type of people who have $399 to impulsively spend on a video game, aren't the type who would be shopping in WalMart. They're probably aiming for kids whose parents are in there shopping. They want the kids to start begging their parents for one for Christmas.
Your guessing is very wrong. I knew I was getting one before the price was even determined. There are no WMts around where I live but when I visit my family I always know I am going there at least once: either for grocieries (it is a 24/7 supercenter) or to buy the shaving gel I forgot to pack - and while I'm there I always check out the electronics section. It's practically an EB in there with a wide selection of PC and console games.
The Xbox 360 isn't going to compete with the PS3 when it is released - there isn't much point in discussing them head to head for market performance purposes.
The Xbox 360 will be competing with the PS2, however. And is anyone predicting that there will be more Xbox 360 games sold in than PS2 games sold in the time before the release of the PS3? Or at least in the time before the end of the 05 holiday shopping season?
Perhaps the sales of games will tilt a little more in favor of the Xbox brands and the PS2 sales > xbox 360 + xbox sales won't be as overwhelming as the PS2 sales > xbox sales were in the earlier days.
Rather than focusing on trashing a yet to be released console, I hope MS realizes that on their release day, their nemesis is still the PS2.
Why doesn't the 'Escapist', who can't manage to get enough funding to make a print edition yet seems to think they know the best business practices for a $10 billion industry, try to unionize it's own writers and then let us know how splendidly that improved things.
Further, software jobs shifting overseas are transitioning into not existing anymore for anyone but will be automated.
The future of human endeavor is in three fields - science, engineering, and art - all fields that lend themselves to entreprenurialism and international markets.
So is MS SQL file based? All the files for each database is in a single file? I think your comm skills are getting in the way of what you are trying to say.
The article mentions that Origin had already instituted it's own "sweatshop" working conditions prior to EA's acquasition, and their doctricne was "Sleep is for the weak."
This is a huge mistake and one that I have learned many times over. A programmer without sleep gradually looses so much productivity and is far more error prone as he goes longer and longer without sleep that it makes sense to make sure your programmers get their 40 winks.
I have spent three or four sleepless days working on a project, only to go home, get rested, come back, throw out everything I had done and go from scratch to finish within a couple of hours.
Lack of sleep can not only make you much less productive, but you can even become a net negative. Get your rest.
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A normal person exposed to pr0n, however, can be aroused and is more likely to become addicted to it and to have it change the way they perceive members of the opposite sex.
Regarding the OSHA stuff, the problem is that unions/employees/employer all have an interest in workplace safety and that should be left to them and maybe some kind of charter organization like the Better Business Bureau. Also, OSHA does a lot of design-driven regulations rather than performance-driven regulations. They tell you HOW to do something rather than WHAT to accomplish. My professor on the subject is currently the director of consumer product safety - I can't remember all the details, but that is the jist of it.
Accordingly, European refineries make more gasoline than they can use and it's cheaper for us to import that gasoline than to produce it here at home.
WHY is it cheaper to ship gasoline clear across the Atlantic? They do not answer that question.
They do address causes as to why there are less refineries now in a ceteris parabus sort of way which probably contributed to the net effect, but do you really think that the issues I list don't contribute at all to the refinery construction? With growing demand and rising prices, at some point you have to build a new refinery - why build them in Europe / Asia / S. America rather than over here?
Why treat your enemy like your best friend when you know that all they see the employees as is a large item on the expense side of the balance sheet, instead of a value-adding asset?
That is a very retarded statement. If they firm didn't consider them as a value adding asset, they would fire them. Management/ownership is inherently smarter than the workers - lest they would be in reverse positions.
Further, just how do you think the employees view management/ownership? They typically see a pay check, nothing more. And those that do see more... well, they wind up in management.
How can he literally ask such a stupid, stupid question. He knows damn well why there hasn't been a refinery built. Let us review some of them:
Now, you may disagree with me on all of these as policies. I understand that. /. is somewhere to the left of Mao. But what you can't disagree with is that these reasons are among the reasons that refineries have not been built here since the 1970s. And my point is that for Hastert to try to portray this as the oil industries FAULT is assinine. He knows better. Give any company a chance to make a profit by making someone happy and they will - that's the beauty of capitalism.
Your first sentence is incorrect - it's something that no one is supposed to do.
Reasons to suspend students - that's really not any of your business either. It's the parent's business. The school, since it is not a gov'ment institution, acts as an agent of the parent. If the parent is unsatisfied with the agent, it may fire it and put their kids in another school, home school them, or put them in a cesspool (public school).
Now, if you are generally commenting on this matter as someone within the school helping to make policy, there may have been a better solution. However, to go into some kind of 'IANAL BUT....' or free speech rant other attempts to come up with legal contortions on why this is a bad policy.... well, this is just an internet discussion board. Carry on.
The blogs in question had the boys photos and personal information, including where they attended school. This made them targets for predators, which was the principles concern (though apparently this was not really a concern of their parents who may have been ignorant of the blogs' existence).
Please tender your resignation. Thanks.
Actually, most of the books Yahoo intends to put up do not required anyone's permission because the protections on them have exprired.
My reading of this project sounds a lot like Project Gutenberg, but with the ability to search within the texts (something PG does not have).
What version of the 6600GT is it? PCI Express? AGP? I still think you are a fluke. If you have to walk into some arcane shop to find it and it's not on pricewatch, then the price doesn't exist.
zactly. Out of his mind.
Re-read it again. He is right and you mis-read it.
Very clever thinking! Mod up!
Your guessing is very wrong. I knew I was getting one before the price was even determined. There are no WMts around where I live but when I visit my family I always know I am going there at least once: either for grocieries (it is a 24/7 supercenter) or to buy the shaving gel I forgot to pack - and while I'm there I always check out the electronics section. It's practically an EB in there with a wide selection of PC and console games.
That's strange. It's actually cheaper in the US than what you are paying.
The Xbox 360 will be competing with the PS2, however. And is anyone predicting that there will be more Xbox 360 games sold in than PS2 games sold in the time before the release of the PS3? Or at least in the time before the end of the 05 holiday shopping season?
Perhaps the sales of games will tilt a little more in favor of the Xbox brands and the PS2 sales > xbox 360 + xbox sales won't be as overwhelming as the PS2 sales > xbox sales were in the earlier days.
Rather than focusing on trashing a yet to be released console, I hope MS realizes that on their release day, their nemesis is still the PS2.
NDT and Ender stuff aren't really comparible. Space Oprah versus a single-character centered narrative.
Why doesn't the 'Escapist', who can't manage to get enough funding to make a print edition yet seems to think they know the best business practices for a $10 billion industry, try to unionize it's own writers and then let us know how splendidly that improved things.
I gave up on submitting stories to /. a while back. Besides, if I want the real 'news for nerds. stuff that matters' I go to Fark.
Slow news day?
Further, software jobs shifting overseas are transitioning into not existing anymore for anyone but will be automated.
The future of human endeavor is in three fields - science, engineering, and art - all fields that lend themselves to entreprenurialism and international markets.
So is MS SQL file based? All the files for each database is in a single file? I think your comm skills are getting in the way of what you are trying to say.
So you are suggesting it is a total myth?
The linked article as advertisements! BOOO! DOWN WITH CAPITALISM!!
This is a huge mistake and one that I have learned many times over. A programmer without sleep gradually looses so much productivity and is far more error prone as he goes longer and longer without sleep that it makes sense to make sure your programmers get their 40 winks.
I have spent three or four sleepless days working on a project, only to go home, get rested, come back, throw out everything I had done and go from scratch to finish within a couple of hours.
Lack of sleep can not only make you much less productive, but you can even become a net negative. Get your rest.
There is nothing about Greek Fire that was out of reach technology-wise in Archimedes day. Napalm - way out of reach.