So, you're predicting that if Congress passes the bill TFA is talking about, Obama will refuse to sign it? Whether it's part of his "plan" or someone else's plan that he just decides to sign into law, any action Obama takes that results in taxes going up on the non-uber-wealthy is a breaking of his pledge.
So THAT's the top secret info Uncle Sam puts on SIPRnet hmm? People going through the trouble get get a government security clearance must be really disappointed.
When will America start using SI units as the standard? Pounds don't mean anything to me.
Translation: "I am too stupid to do unit conversions with Google."
But at least I've learned that whining about things not conforming to a more widespread system is a good way to get "insightful" mods. When will China start using the roman alphabet as the standard? Hanzi characters don't mean anything to me. When will Linux start using cmd.exe as the standard?/bin/bash doesn't mean anything to me.
The issue wasn't whether volcano monitoring is a useful activity for the federal government to be involved in, but whether it belongs in a bill to stimulate the economy. Now if a volcano monitoring program will somehow get the economy back on track better than, say, cutting capital gains taxes, I'd love to hear how. Otherwise it looks like there are a lot of people in this thread with more reason to "feel like a doof" than Jindal has.
Comparing Bush to a chimp is considered fair game. Comparing Obama to one is considered unacceptable. One president is afforded better treatment and respect because of the color of his skin, and somehow this is touted as preventing rather than exemplifying racism.
Anonymous sources are implicitly backed by the credibility of the journalist citing them. If I give a verifiable source, like "According to Steve Jobs's interview last Thursday, Apple will release a 1TB iPhone this month", and it doesn't happen, people will think Apple dropped the ball on that product. On the other hand, if I print "According to my sources, Apple will release a 1TB iPhone this month" and it doesn't happen, people will think my sources are crap and find a better outlet for their news.
This doesn't necessarily translate well to unmoderated anonymous speech not filtered through any kind of journalism. If I read on Slashdot that according to some AC, "In Soviet Russia, goatse guy gets disgusted by YOU!" it doesn't mean that CmdrTaco is backing the credibility of the statement with his professional reputation.
You seem to think that discussions here always wind up with the same old erroneous arguments. If that were the case, Slashdot would lose its common carrier status.
So, arbitrarily proclaim your own viewpoint on a controversial topic as "fact", dismiss all critics as "irrational", and slap a pejorative label on them ("denialists") to shut down any rational debate on the matter.
Let's see how your technique works for other topics: The term "heretics" is applied to those who irrationally deny accepted theological fact, like creationism. Oh, well that settles that then.
How about refuting skeptics (a much better term than "denialists") with reason instead of dogma? How about citing flaws with opposing viewpoints instead of just declaring that anything that undermines your argument must be "obviously fallacious" because you have already declared your conclusion to be "fact"?
Speaking of "obviously fallacious arguments", there's your "global warming... is due to human CO2 release". Wow, really? Events in a system as complex as a global ecosystem follow a simple one cause, one effect model? Maybe you should start by determining what portion of global warming can be attributed to human activity, because your implication that the climate never changed before humans began releasing CO2 isn't one that's particularly irrational to deny.
As true as the outcome may be, that still doesn't validate the necessity of a race to procure a speedier advancement. You don't think that if the USA And the USSR had worked together that we wouldn't have gotten there just as quick, if not quicker?
Working together in some bloated international bureaucracy got us the ISS. The competitive race approach got us Apollo. The historical record is pretty clear on which era of space exploration had "speedier advancement".
If you believe he's just another politician; if you believe he's going to be a big flop and disappoint and all that garbage, do yourself a favour and, more importantly, do everyone around you a favour and shut up. Keep your thoughts to yourself. You're allowed to have them and I won't take that away from you but, at a time when people are filled with hope and idealism, let them be.
Yes, because last time we had a new president being inaugurated, that's exactly what people who had reservations about their new head of state did. Quietly keeping to themselves. No calling him an idiot or comparing him to a chimpanzee or disparaging the electoral process that led to his election or just outright claiming "he's not MY president".
Not everyone likes Obama, agrees with his politics, or buys his "I am the personification of hope itself" message. I doubt everyone will suddenly waive their right to free speech just so you can have your illusion of unity and idealism. But you can take comfort that at least those not enamored with Obama will be more gracious and show more class about it than their counterparts from the last time around.
Physics is a subset of philosophy. No, it's really not.
For centuries, physics was a subset of natural philosophy, which was a subset of philosophy, and pondering how the natural world worked was done by philosophers like Aristotle.
From what I understand, it's almost impossible for people to have sex in Zero-G. Male Astronauts have apparently tried quite a bit, even with the help of drugs, but they -can't- get an erection. This makes sense since most of the blood in your body flows to your head when you're in Zero-G.
So NASA just needs to screen astronaut applicants for the ability to mastrubate while standing on their head...
This could send the wrong message. If you Use bootleg proprietary software and make a lot of money from it you will get Sued. Details of the reasons will fade just the face the proprietary software is considered to Risky for a corporate environment. You better off getting a License from GPL as you can choose to agree to the terms before hand, then going with a product which wile may be backed by a big company will have a bunch of people ready to pounce on you if you make this code successful.
That first guy exemplifies a very common misconception about free speech, that because you have the right to say what you want (true), you have the right to force other people to provide you a forum for that speech, publish that speech, etc. (false). The principle of free speech says you should have as much right as CmdrTaco to create a Web site to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about, not that you should be able to hijack someone else's.
If McCain had showed up at the DNC and told them they had to give him the floor for an hour to tell everyone why Obama is a lousy candidate, the convention organizers would rightfully tell him, "Your convention is next week, talk about whatever you want there but at this one we have a liberal, pro-Obama message". It's also why spam blocking is not a free speech issue like the spammers try to paint it as. You have the right to say whatever you want about your product, but not the right to force me to receive or read your messages.
It's really just a case of your right to swing your fist ending where the other guy's face begins.
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Yes, it is September 10th again. You are caught in a time loop. The last time through, the world was destroyed by a black hole. This time, you have again failed to stop the activation, so the same thing will happen. At this point you will wake up 24 hours before the LHC is activated, and realize that you alone can save humanity. To do so you must get to the Swiss/French border and blow the thing to smithereens before it can be turned on.
The presence of this post is of course a major plot hole / deus ex machina, but is necessary to move the storyline along and keep you from going through the time loop fifty times before figuring it all out, as this would make your adventure far too long and repetitive for the people of my alternate universe to enjoy watching footage of.
Patents (in the broken U.S. system) have nothing to do with what you have invented or can build. People patent whatever they think someone else might want to build in the next 20 years, so as to be able to hit them up for royalties when they do.
My understanding is that "Troll" in the context Slashdot uses it derives from the fishing term. It refers to a technique of using a lure to bait the fish, with the lure in this case being a trouble-instigating post. The fact that the mythical creatures (popularized by Tolkien, Treasure Trolls, Warcraft, etc.) share the same name is coincidental, and not an attempt to disparage them. The fishing term comes from Middle English and Anglo-French, whereas the creature name is of Danish/Norwegian/Old Norse origins.
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President Obama does not control state sales tax.
So, you're predicting that if Congress passes the bill TFA is talking about, Obama will refuse to sign it? Whether it's part of his "plan" or someone else's plan that he just decides to sign into law, any action Obama takes that results in taxes going up on the non-uber-wealthy is a breaking of his pledge.
97 of Top 100 Classified Sites are Craigslist
So THAT's the top secret info Uncle Sam puts on SIPRnet hmm? People going through the trouble get get a government security clearance must be really disappointed.
Well, he can't go in the American toilet, he can't go in the Russian one. Sounds like he has to boldly go where no man has gone before.
When will America start using SI units as the standard? Pounds don't mean anything to me.
Translation: "I am too stupid to do unit conversions with Google."
But at least I've learned that whining about things not conforming to a more widespread system is a good way to get "insightful" mods. When will China start using the roman alphabet as the standard? Hanzi characters don't mean anything to me. When will Linux start using cmd.exe as the standard? /bin/bash doesn't mean anything to me.
I read the entire review and I still don't know if the reviewer ever found out exactly how old speed is.
15 years. Though it's really not Keanu's best work.
The issue wasn't whether volcano monitoring is a useful activity for the federal government to be involved in, but whether it belongs in a bill to stimulate the economy. Now if a volcano monitoring program will somehow get the economy back on track better than, say, cutting capital gains taxes, I'd love to hear how. Otherwise it looks like there are a lot of people in this thread with more reason to "feel like a doof" than Jindal has.
Comparing Bush to a chimp is considered fair game. Comparing Obama to one is considered unacceptable. One president is afforded better treatment and respect because of the color of his skin, and somehow this is touted as preventing rather than exemplifying racism.
Anonymous sources are implicitly backed by the credibility of the journalist citing them. If I give a verifiable source, like "According to Steve Jobs's interview last Thursday, Apple will release a 1TB iPhone this month", and it doesn't happen, people will think Apple dropped the ball on that product. On the other hand, if I print "According to my sources, Apple will release a 1TB iPhone this month" and it doesn't happen, people will think my sources are crap and find a better outlet for their news.
This doesn't necessarily translate well to unmoderated anonymous speech not filtered through any kind of journalism. If I read on Slashdot that according to some AC, "In Soviet Russia, goatse guy gets disgusted by YOU!" it doesn't mean that CmdrTaco is backing the credibility of the statement with his professional reputation.
You seem to think that discussions here always wind up with the same old erroneous arguments. If that were the case, Slashdot would lose its common carrier status.
So, arbitrarily proclaim your own viewpoint on a controversial topic as "fact", dismiss all critics as "irrational", and slap a pejorative label on them ("denialists") to shut down any rational debate on the matter.
Let's see how your technique works for other topics: The term "heretics" is applied to those who irrationally deny accepted theological fact, like creationism. Oh, well that settles that then.
How about refuting skeptics (a much better term than "denialists") with reason instead of dogma? How about citing flaws with opposing viewpoints instead of just declaring that anything that undermines your argument must be "obviously fallacious" because you have already declared your conclusion to be "fact"?
Speaking of "obviously fallacious arguments", there's your "global warming ... is due to human CO2 release". Wow, really? Events in a system as complex as a global ecosystem follow a simple one cause, one effect model? Maybe you should start by determining what portion of global warming can be attributed to human activity, because your implication that the climate never changed before humans began releasing CO2 isn't one that's particularly irrational to deny.
As true as the outcome may be, that still doesn't validate the necessity of a race to procure a speedier advancement. You don't think that if the USA And the USSR had worked together that we wouldn't have gotten there just as quick, if not quicker?
Working together in some bloated international bureaucracy got us the ISS. The competitive race approach got us Apollo. The historical record is pretty clear on which era of space exploration had "speedier advancement".
and share their hope to keep working with Sugar developer Walter Bender, who left OLPC last year
I anticipate Bender will tell them to bite his shiny metal ass.
If you believe he's just another politician; if you believe he's going to be a big flop and disappoint and all that garbage, do yourself a favour and, more importantly, do everyone around you a favour and shut up. Keep your thoughts to yourself. You're allowed to have them and I won't take that away from you but, at a time when people are filled with hope and idealism, let them be.
Yes, because last time we had a new president being inaugurated, that's exactly what people who had reservations about their new head of state did. Quietly keeping to themselves. No calling him an idiot or comparing him to a chimpanzee or disparaging the electoral process that led to his election or just outright claiming "he's not MY president".
Not everyone likes Obama, agrees with his politics, or buys his "I am the personification of hope itself" message. I doubt everyone will suddenly waive their right to free speech just so you can have your illusion of unity and idealism. But you can take comfort that at least those not enamored with Obama will be more gracious and show more class about it than their counterparts from the last time around.
Physics is a subset of philosophy. No, it's really not.
For centuries, physics was a subset of natural philosophy, which was a subset of philosophy, and pondering how the natural world worked was done by philosophers like Aristotle.
From what I understand, it's almost impossible for people to have sex in Zero-G. Male Astronauts have apparently tried quite a bit, even with the help of drugs, but they -can't- get an erection. This makes sense since most of the blood in your body flows to your head when you're in Zero-G.
So NASA just needs to screen astronaut applicants for the ability to mastrubate while standing on their head...
To me hiring this man comes awful close to breaking a promise of not lobbyist in his administration..
Obama's already backpedalling big time on that one.
This could send the wrong message. If you Use bootleg proprietary software and make a lot of money from it you will get Sued. Details of the reasons will fade just the face the proprietary software is considered to Risky for a corporate environment. You better off getting a License from GPL as you can choose to agree to the terms before hand, then going with a product which wile may be backed by a big company will have a bunch of people ready to pounce on you if you make this code successful.
I'm shocked too... that the most merchandised Japanese character isn't Hello Kitty.
That's what Goatse.cx is for.
That first guy exemplifies a very common misconception about free speech, that because you have the right to say what you want (true), you have the right to force other people to provide you a forum for that speech, publish that speech, etc. (false). The principle of free speech says you should have as much right as CmdrTaco to create a Web site to talk about whatever it is you want to talk about, not that you should be able to hijack someone else's.
If McCain had showed up at the DNC and told them they had to give him the floor for an hour to tell everyone why Obama is a lousy candidate, the convention organizers would rightfully tell him, "Your convention is next week, talk about whatever you want there but at this one we have a liberal, pro-Obama message". It's also why spam blocking is not a free speech issue like the spammers try to paint it as. You have the right to say whatever you want about your product, but not the right to force me to receive or read your messages.
It's really just a case of your right to swing your fist ending where the other guy's face begins.
Yes, it is September 10th again. You are caught in a time loop. The last time through, the world was destroyed by a black hole. This time, you have again failed to stop the activation, so the same thing will happen. At this point you will wake up 24 hours before the LHC is activated, and realize that you alone can save humanity. To do so you must get to the Swiss/French border and blow the thing to smithereens before it can be turned on.
The presence of this post is of course a major plot hole / deus ex machina, but is necessary to move the storyline along and keep you from going through the time loop fifty times before figuring it all out, as this would make your adventure far too long and repetitive for the people of my alternate universe to enjoy watching footage of.
Patents (in the broken U.S. system) have nothing to do with what you have invented or can build. People patent whatever they think someone else might want to build in the next 20 years, so as to be able to hit them up for royalties when they do.
My understanding is that "Troll" in the context Slashdot uses it derives from the fishing term. It refers to a technique of using a lure to bait the fish, with the lure in this case being a trouble-instigating post. The fact that the mythical creatures (popularized by Tolkien, Treasure Trolls, Warcraft, etc.) share the same name is coincidental, and not an attempt to disparage them. The fishing term comes from Middle English and Anglo-French, whereas the creature name is of Danish/Norwegian/Old Norse origins.
At least now you know what the other 98% of the white liquid is.
Second, a fair number of the ones who aren't funny will use gags sufficiently cheap (memes, particularly) to boost their popularity...
In Korea, only old people rely on memes.
In Soviet Russia, memes rely on YOU!