Last night my wife accidentally erased an email she was typing with Undo (from a contextual menu, trying to use spellcheck on a Mac). Naturally, she only complained to me about it after getting annoyed and closing the window, too late to learn about the wonders of Redo.
Most of them are easily curable with antibiotics or not deadly. HPV is the other big deadly sexually-transmitted virus, and there are parents who refuse to get their daughters vaccinated for the same reason.
Considering the narcotic + acetaminophen mixtures have been on the market for far longer than the FDA knew (or at least publicly admitted it knew) that acetaminophen was at all damaging to the liver, this seems really unlikely.
He doesn't know what he's talking about. Any random Slashdot poster can understand any arbitrarily complex patent and explain why it's invalid because a common household item is prior art.
"Intelligent Design is still a hot topic, as evidenced by recent legislation mandating that it be taught in school."
Umm, the linked article says nothing about ID being mandated, it talks about legislation that would allow schools to teach it, not require them to do so. It's dumb legislation, but attacking intellectual dishonesty with more intellectual dishonesty doesn't really help your case.
Sure, but no one petty dictator has all that much influence over a given UN agency. A system subject to the whims of some random county judge can't be significantly better than a system subject to regulations reached by international consensus, even if a lot of the countries reaching that consensus (most of which, really, probably don't really care much about domain name squabbles) aren't all that admirable.
"Average computer users" don't read Slashdot and have no idea what "beta" means. They probably think Google's founders were in the same fraternity at Stanford.
Well, obviously after Leader Kibo replaced all of Usenet with HappyNet things seemed to go downhill for all you poor deluded souls who kept using Usenet. HappyNet is still as good as ever.
But it's a state issue. You'd need to lobby your state government to do it.
That would be the same state government that drew the horrible districts in the first place. Good luck with that. Especially since no state's going to want to be the first to do it, since the party currently in control of the state government would end up losing power on the national level. The only real way to accomplish something like that would to make it nationwide all at once, which would probably require a Constitutional amendment. Which would, of course, fail, since undoubtedly one of the two major parties would gain congressional seats in the first "fair" redistricting, and when it became clear which would benefit the other party would easily prevent the amendment from passing based on the short-term damage it would do to them.
Yes, it's a republic, like China and Cuba, and unlike the UK and Sweden.
Perhaps whether or not a country has a monarch isn't really all that relevant in discussing its form of government these days? "democracy" and "republic" aren't mutually exclusive.
Where do I go to vote on expanding the scope of Wikipedia and lowering the notability standards? It's supposed to be a community project after all...
I recommend first writing your Congressman and asking for a revision of section 501(c)(3) of the revenue code to replace the word "educational" with "educational or entertaining" to start with.
Encyclopedias aren't primary or secondary sources, they're tertiary sources. They're just summaries of other sources, sources you should find and read yourself.
Or, in Wikipedia's case, often summaries of stuff the person writing the article just made up, without citing any sources. Of course, the majority of people here will label you an evil Deletionist for suggesting that an article be deleted just because there are no sources.
Considering it took 100 years to make such discrimination illegal, I hardly think you can credit the North winning the civil war with the federal government stepping in to try to stop discrimination.
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To be fair, when Virginia gets 2 inches of snow they have to shut down the entire state.
Last night my wife accidentally erased an email she was typing with Undo (from a contextual menu, trying to use spellcheck on a Mac). Naturally, she only complained to me about it after getting annoyed and closing the window, too late to learn about the wonders of Redo.
Most of them are easily curable with antibiotics or not deadly. HPV is the other big deadly sexually-transmitted virus, and there are parents who refuse to get their daughters vaccinated for the same reason.
Unfortunately, memes don't spread entirely through reproduction.
No, because parents will refuse to let their children get vaccinated because that would encourage them to have premarital sex.
Considering the narcotic + acetaminophen mixtures have been on the market for far longer than the FDA knew (or at least publicly admitted it knew) that acetaminophen was at all damaging to the liver, this seems really unlikely.
Before the first iMac too, or was I just trolled?
He doesn't know what he's talking about. Any random Slashdot poster can understand any arbitrarily complex patent and explain why it's invalid because a common household item is prior art.
Well even if you are a good driver, chances are not everyone around you is
Duh... that's why you should always drive over 85 miles per hour so you can pass all of the unsafe drivers.
I'm still waiting for the XBox 370.
That would make the endorsement of the Fraternal Order of Police rather less coveted if we could keep them all from voting.
Umm, the linked article says nothing about ID being mandated, it talks about legislation that would allow schools to teach it, not require them to do so. It's dumb legislation, but attacking intellectual dishonesty with more intellectual dishonesty doesn't really help your case.
Duh, so his friends can contact him when his cellphone is off.
Sure, but no one petty dictator has all that much influence over a given UN agency. A system subject to the whims of some random county judge can't be significantly better than a system subject to regulations reached by international consensus, even if a lot of the countries reaching that consensus (most of which, really, probably don't really care much about domain name squabbles) aren't all that admirable.
russia, perma member of the council, and has veto power. and, run by a mafia mob.
And if the UN controlled ICANN you just *know* decisions on domain names would be brought before the Security Council.
"Average computer users" don't read Slashdot and have no idea what "beta" means. They probably think Google's founders were in the same fraternity at Stanford.
Why yes, yes there is. It can randomly spurt out false positives, subjecting people to random stops and questioning.
I know I'm glad a human watching people go past has a 0% false positive rate.
And wouldn't it be great when the eBay people complained that Google Auctions was unfairly not allowing PayPal?
Well, obviously after Leader Kibo replaced all of Usenet with HappyNet things seemed to go downhill for all you poor deluded souls who kept using Usenet. HappyNet is still as good as ever.
But it's a state issue. You'd need to lobby your state government to do it.
That would be the same state government that drew the horrible districts in the first place. Good luck with that. Especially since no state's going to want to be the first to do it, since the party currently in control of the state government would end up losing power on the national level. The only real way to accomplish something like that would to make it nationwide all at once, which would probably require a Constitutional amendment. Which would, of course, fail, since undoubtedly one of the two major parties would gain congressional seats in the first "fair" redistricting, and when it became clear which would benefit the other party would easily prevent the amendment from passing based on the short-term damage it would do to them.
Perhaps whether or not a country has a monarch isn't really all that relevant in discussing its form of government these days? "democracy" and "republic" aren't mutually exclusive.
Where do I go to vote on expanding the scope of Wikipedia and lowering the notability standards? It's supposed to be a community project after all...
I recommend first writing your Congressman and asking for a revision of section 501(c)(3) of the revenue code to replace the word "educational" with "educational or entertaining" to start with.
Encyclopedias aren't primary or secondary sources, they're tertiary sources. They're just summaries of other sources, sources you should find and read yourself.
Or, in Wikipedia's case, often summaries of stuff the person writing the article just made up, without citing any sources. Of course, the majority of people here will label you an evil Deletionist for suggesting that an article be deleted just because there are no sources.
Considering it took 100 years to make such discrimination illegal, I hardly think you can credit the North winning the civil war with the federal government stepping in to try to stop discrimination.
The LHC? Destroy the planet? Turn in your geek card.
Yeah... everyone knows it's going to create a new Big Bang and destroy the entire universe; stop getting hung up on one insignificant planet.