Really? I get up and get myself a soda or take a piss during commercials. I see them as convenient bio breaks provided for my benefit. Or, if I don't need to take a leak, I switch pages to read a short article or blog post. Kinda easy to avoid "paying" them.
I've about decided to remove CNN from among my news feeds
So, you already have a solution. What's your bitch, other than wanting something fed you according to your personal definition of free?
I expect my employees to [by] reasonably available, even after hours.
Unless you've stipulated this in your employer/ee contract and pay for the imposed time, you're not being reasonable.
Anything below emergency I typically email and expect to be done when convenient - typically the next work day.
Then send the email to their work mail address, otherwise you're just trying to get them to burn their own time to read it and then think about the solution.
We have business hours for a reason.
Which both actions mentioned indicate you try to get around.
As far as I'm concerned, if it's not something I'd do while outside work, why would I expect that from my employees?
Many business owners conflate how they view work related to the business they own to the work the employees do. They are not equivalent.
Or like I've done, develop tools that help you do things that are outside of the programming craft. Not only gives you the satisfaction of designing and programming something ~unique, but also something very personal.
No, of course we're not immune over a thirteen billion year span. Context. The discussion is about the now and you're point encompasses the entire span of life on Earth.
Your argument is disingenuous, as the entire concept is understood to revolve around human life, not other animals. You simply attempted a goal post movement by specifically excising the unspoken understanding.
But to work with your goal posts, the human mind does however, exist far earlier than most people believe (around the twelfth week of pregnancy). Would you then be against aborting a twelve week unborn child?
Two years ago on Scalzi's blog he had a screed about how this and that should be included in people's stories. In particular I found it amusing his take on using xir ad naus.
So, I published a comment that basically said "Write your stories the way you want. They're *your* stories. People will buy them or not." Within minutes I got comments like "So you don't want people to criticize your writing?"
Telling people *how to write* their stories is not criticizing, it's control. And that, in a nutshell, is what has been happening in SF.
You can only "simulate the universe" if you redefine the word 'universe'. And then, you're not "simulating the universe" but something else. That's the problem with all these highly doped up parlor seance talks.
No, I'm thinking that anyone applying fantasy to considerations of what the "raw odds" of what reality is should back up and look for empirical evidence. Otherwise, where do unicorn farts enter into it?
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Seriously, fuck 'em. As with so many others here, I shall mock them if they don't understand why it's got a capital.
That is simply a lie.
As you very aptly demonstrate.
He's also a man who spent a good portion of his life pursuing alchemy.
So, you already have a solution. What's your bitch, other than wanting something fed you according to your personal definition of free?
You're doing a helluva lot of conflating there.
Unless you've stipulated this in your employer/ee contract and pay for the imposed time, you're not being reasonable.
Then send the email to their work mail address, otherwise you're just trying to get them to burn their own time to read it and then think about the solution.
Which both actions mentioned indicate you try to get around.
Many business owners conflate how they view work related to the business they own to the work the employees do. They are not equivalent.
Said someone pretending they do.
Misandry is alive and well on the internet also. What's your point?
Or like I've done, develop tools that help you do things that are outside of the programming craft. Not only gives you the satisfaction of designing and programming something ~unique, but also something very personal.
If by "fair proportion" you mean most, you are correct. After he became renown, he cranked them out by the handful daily just for the bucks.
And it could easily not be.
That wasn't because such and such got elected, it was to avoid the draft. Both Dems and Reps oversaw that conflict.
No, of course we're not immune over a thirteen billion year span. Context. The discussion is about the now and you're point encompasses the entire span of life on Earth.
baby
n. pl. babies
a. A very young child; an infant.
b. An unborn child; a fetus.
c. The youngest member of a family or group.
d. A very young animal.
Not everyone agrees with your particular interpretation.
"My body, my choice" is so very scientific.
Your argument is disingenuous, as the entire concept is understood to revolve around human life, not other animals. You simply attempted a goal post movement by specifically excising the unspoken understanding.
But to work with your goal posts, the human mind does however, exist far earlier than most people believe (around the twelfth week of pregnancy). Would you then be against aborting a twelve week unborn child?
Some of the most serious science fiction is some of the worst science fiction.
"...when it's probably just the character."
Yet, you just about threw the book at the wall. Why so volatile about a fictional character's pov?
Two years ago on Scalzi's blog he had a screed about how this and that should be included in people's stories. In particular I found it amusing his take on using xir ad naus.
So, I published a comment that basically said "Write your stories the way you want. They're *your* stories. People will buy them or not." Within minutes I got comments like "So you don't want people to criticize your writing?"
Telling people *how to write* their stories is not criticizing, it's control. And that, in a nutshell, is what has been happening in SF.
The Hugos have always had how to vote cards. It's just now it's common knowledge.
My sound runs through my amp. They can't detect that. And no, I don't have to get up to adjust it.
It's called "getting a soda".
You can only "simulate the universe" if you redefine the word 'universe'. And then, you're not "simulating the universe" but something else. That's the problem with all these highly doped up parlor seance talks.
You mean the guy who didn't know that bats aren't blind?
No, I'm thinking that anyone applying fantasy to considerations of what the "raw odds" of what reality is should back up and look for empirical evidence. Otherwise, where do unicorn farts enter into it?