The duopoly that results (sorry, Sprint and Clearwire are dying)...
I don't see why that should be the case; as a customer of both, I think Virgin Mobile (a Sprint subsidiary) is great and Clearwire is, well, better than Comcast or AT&T DSL.
No, people with guns ate more. There are good reasons for that.
...chief among them being that people with guns (let's call them "armies") were able to subjugate and dominate those without guns (we'll call them "peasants"), taking their goods (like food, for instance).
Indeed. So the real question is, if such a disaster occurred, would you rather be in the army, or a peasant?
I ask all of this because I meet a lot of people, and in conversations over the years, almost *everyone* has the same idea you expressed, in various forms - get out into the woods with weapons and supplies, and proceed to live off the land in some sort of post-apocalyptic yet romanticized fashion. Seems almost safer to hunker down in town, what with everyone else migrating out to the woods...
Everyone you've had a conversation with has had the same idea. But that doesn't mean the towns will be empty; they'll still be filled with all the other people to whom it never occurred to have such a conversation.
Until greed comes along. What gay partners want is not recognition, they are after the pensions and tax benefits that were created for families. It's one thing to give a tax break so you can pay for your kids education, it's a totally different thing to give a tax break so you can sustain a grown man who should be working for himself.
Except the tax breaks aren't for families; married couples without children are eligible for them too. That makes it an issue of fairness, not greed.
Also, by the way, some gays reject the compromise of "civil unions." They, at least, do want recognition.
Given that >=5 digit UIDs make up over 95% of the Slashdot population, if you filtered them all out you'd probably have a really hard time following the conversation (you might as well shut off nested display mode too).
While multiple dishwashers is obviously a somewhat wasteful plan, I can't help but think that multiple trays might be a workable idea, with sliding them in and out of the dishwasher.
Perhaps some sort of system right next to the dishwasher, where you can pull out a shelf and lay the dishwasher tray on it, and then grab another shelf and stick that in.
I always thought a clever idea would be to have trays for specific things, with the ability to just have that single tray washed in the dishwasher. A segmented dishwasher, if you will, or even a bunch of single dishwashers designed to do one thing.
That already exists, except for the part about designing each section to hold a specific type of dish.
If the kids were at home -- or really, if they were anywhere except campus, the bus stop, or a sanctioned event/field trip -- then they should be assumed to be in the custody of their parents.
You keep talking about "in loco parentis," but the real problem here is that your interpretation of in loco parentis goes way too fucking far! So the Facebook post was about the teacher -- so what? The kid didn't do the posting at school; the account wasn't created at the request of the teacher or as part of some kind of school project; the account wasn't officially sanctioned or associated with the school in any way. Screw issues of due process; the principal was out of line because the act in question was never in the school's "jurisdiction" (for lack of a better word) to begin with!
There's no such thing as "in loco parentis" when the parents are there themselves!
The problem with that is that the shares are filtered though so many layers of mutual funds and derivatives and hedge funds and private equity and TLAs and who knows what else that the majority of the shareholders don't even realize that they even are shareholders at all!
But the difference with Anonymous is that anyone can claim to be the the leader at any time, and none of the others can tell the difference because they're all -- wait for it -- anonymous!
Keep in mind, this is not the same thing as a group keeping the identities of its leaders secret from outsiders; Anonymous keeps the identities of its leaders secret from itself.
It's a no-contract phone, so you have to buy it outright. However, it's not really a case of subsidized vs. unsubsidized; this phone is the same price ($200, give-or-take getting it on sale like I did) whether you buy it from Virgin Mobile without a contract or Sprint (Virgin Mobile's parent company; same network) with one!
So to recap, the choices are: buy a phone from a first-tier carrier (e.g. Sprint) for $200 with a $70/month 2-year contract, or buy the same phone with (substantially) the same service for $200 and $40/month prepaid with no contract. The only difference is that Virgin Mobile supposedly uses a slower "revision 0" of whatever the broadband protocol is -- that, and you don't have the "prestige" of being able to say you're getting fleeced by Sprint!
Here in America you can get unlimited data + 300 minutes for $25/month (or data + 1200 minutes for $40/month, which is what I have). Nobody seems to notice since not from one of the first-tier carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile, Sprint) though.
T-mobile will do that with their "even more plus" plans, which are $10/month cheaper than their "even more" plans that include a contract and phone. However, Virgin Mobile (which doesn't even offer contract plans) is a hell of a lot better deal.
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I don't see why that should be the case; as a customer of both, I think Virgin Mobile (a Sprint subsidiary) is great and Clearwire is, well, better than Comcast or AT&T DSL.
Indeed. So the real question is, if such a disaster occurred, would you rather be in the army, or a peasant?
Everyone you've had a conversation with has had the same idea. But that doesn't mean the towns will be empty; they'll still be filled with all the other people to whom it never occurred to have such a conversation.
Except the tax breaks aren't for families; married couples without children are eligible for them too. That makes it an issue of fairness, not greed.
Also, by the way, some gays reject the compromise of "civil unions." They, at least, do want recognition.
Or, less cynically, Federalism.
(Sometimes having jurisdictions not share information is a good thing!)
That's what replies are for.
Given that >=5 digit UIDs make up over 95% of the Slashdot population, if you filtered them all out you'd probably have a really hard time following the conversation (you might as well shut off nested display mode too).
No, he used wildcards so that it would match "crap" and "crud." He should have written "cr??" though.
That already exists, except for the part about designing each section to hold a specific type of dish.
What part of "should" do you not understand?! The statement is a goddamn opinion, so take your "citation needed" and FUCK OFF.
Somehow I always thought ass was measured by weight, not by volume. I learned something new today!
If the kids were at home -- or really, if they were anywhere except campus, the bus stop, or a sanctioned event/field trip -- then they should be assumed to be in the custody of their parents.
So, you're saying that society's insane predilection for witch hunts is the kids' fault?!
You keep talking about "in loco parentis," but the real problem here is that your interpretation of in loco parentis goes way too fucking far! So the Facebook post was about the teacher -- so what? The kid didn't do the posting at school; the account wasn't created at the request of the teacher or as part of some kind of school project; the account wasn't officially sanctioned or associated with the school in any way. Screw issues of due process; the principal was out of line because the act in question was never in the school's "jurisdiction" (for lack of a better word) to begin with!
There's no such thing as "in loco parentis" when the parents are there themselves!
The problem with that is that the shares are filtered though so many layers of mutual funds and derivatives and hedge funds and private equity and TLAs and who knows what else that the majority of the shareholders don't even realize that they even are shareholders at all!
So why not just buy a new battery, then?
It is possible to take it too far, you know. After all, an old laptop would be equally free but take up much less space and use much less power.
That's what Japan thought too, and look what's happened to them....
In Windows, I accidentally resize windows I'm trying to move much more often than I resize a window on purpose.
But the difference with Anonymous is that anyone can claim to be the the leader at any time, and none of the others can tell the difference because they're all -- wait for it -- anonymous!
Keep in mind, this is not the same thing as a group keeping the identities of its leaders secret from outsiders; Anonymous keeps the identities of its leaders secret from itself.
It's a no-contract phone, so you have to buy it outright. However, it's not really a case of subsidized vs. unsubsidized; this phone is the same price ($200, give-or-take getting it on sale like I did) whether you buy it from Virgin Mobile without a contract or Sprint (Virgin Mobile's parent company; same network) with one!
So to recap, the choices are: buy a phone from a first-tier carrier (e.g. Sprint) for $200 with a $70/month 2-year contract, or buy the same phone with (substantially) the same service for $200 and $40/month prepaid with no contract. The only difference is that Virgin Mobile supposedly uses a slower "revision 0" of whatever the broadband protocol is -- that, and you don't have the "prestige" of being able to say you're getting fleeced by Sprint!
You lose out on the "accrue $100 in purchases, get 10 cents/gallon off gas" deal that way, unless you use the same random phone number every time.
I had for a while considered getting a Motorola FONE F3, which used to be available from Amazon for $30 unlocked. Now that was a dumb phone!
(I ended up using a hand-me-down C139 instead, until I got a Virgin Mobile Android smartphone.)
Here in America you can get unlimited data + 300 minutes for $25/month (or data + 1200 minutes for $40/month, which is what I have). Nobody seems to notice since not from one of the first-tier carriers (AT&T, Verizon, T-mobile, Sprint) though.
T-mobile will do that with their "even more plus" plans, which are $10/month cheaper than their "even more" plans that include a contract and phone. However, Virgin Mobile (which doesn't even offer contract plans) is a hell of a lot better deal.