It's more a case that the lie dissuades helicopter parents from wasting hospital resources on diagnosing what's obviously chickenpox by visual inspection. Doctors don't exist to do exactly what you want all the time, surprisingly.
I don't rant specifically at you, but every american who calls these laws up when dismissing europe from a privacy standpoint. Let's say there's a law used to stop people from gdressing as nazis and chanting "burn all the jews", or a cleric preaching "die infidels, death to the west" to a mob*.
Please provide an example where something like this has been abused in europe. Compare this to america, where people get vanished every day for protesting peacefully outside "free speech" zones.
* If you think that people should have a right to say this under free speech, go shout fire in a crowded theatre then get back to me.
I think the problem that a lot of vocal people on slashdot have is that artwork X is "unfairly" pimped out for the purposes of making money, fatiguing the market and making "better" artworks suffer because originality isn't profitable. See for example futurama and firefly vs. american idol or celebrity love island or big brother or... etc.
It's not so entirely clear-cut as "just don't pirate it if you don't want to watch it" if it's all that is available after the monopoly squashed the competition and jacked up the price.
I salute you, sir, for making a first post on slashdot containing mostly antisemitic ranting, and wrapping it in the required context to get +5 insightful.
here in the UK employees are usually pretty well protected but some companies have a scummy arrangement where where all the employees are actually contracted from a small temping organisation that only serves that particular company. Thus, the company can "fire" whoever they want whenever they want by just going "we don't want to offer you any more shifts" and the person is SOL.
An incident I'll never forget is when someone was in front of me for an interview with company X, talking to the receptionist about why their swipecard didn't work. It turns out, they were talking to a taxman or something and gave thier job description as "packing in factory", i.e. putting things in boxes*. Now, here in the uk, to "pack something in" means to quit, so that could at a stretch be interpreted as "I'm going to quit my job". The taxman happened to know the HR person at company X, called them up, said the guy was quitting, and they just wiped him off the system. The exchange with him went something like "we can't offer you any more shifts, you're unreliable" based on total BS. Because it was easier to hire someone else, they just told him to get lost! Needless, I decided that putting sandwiches in boxes wasn't a career that would benefit me and went on to become a reseach scientist instead.
It's only a problem of scale, we can't simulate quantum systems here because... the laws of physics don't allow it, sneaky bastards, but we can certainly simulate other systems with emergent behaviour that could be scaled up to the point of simple "living" organisms, if the earth's entire mass were converted into computers.
Memory rewriting in what's a basic particle physics simulator? Emergent systems are hard to screw with at the best of times... You could revert to snapshots, I suppose.
Slashdot started in 1997. Back then MS Windows NT Server and IIS sucked worse than a $2 hooker. Apache was king and all the rest were expensive, or sucked or both. Linux and Apache could take a daily slashdotting...
So what you're saying is that slashdot was designed to withstand a slashdotting? Now that's forward thinking!
And if someone isn't a threat to society but still needs to be punished? That's where jail overcrowding comes from. Remember that these "cruel and unusual" punishments are an alternative to spending 5 years in a box.
Cue the endless hyperbolic posts about 17-18 couples with grudge-holding parents, or guys who get pulled up on public urination to meet a sex offender quota.. Yes, I'm sure some people have been unfairly branded with this label. I'm also sure some people on death row are innocent. Tell me, which ones?
Consider a stretch of our evolutionary history where our diet contains the same amount of a particular vitamin, as we generate internally. Organisms who stop manufacturing the vitamin expend less energy as a result, and have a slight evolutionary advantage (and thus the population loses the ability to manufacture this vitamin). Then, our diet changes and we suffer (it is very easy for a mutation to disable an enzyme; almost impossible for the reverse to happen). This is considered a reasonably sound scientific theory behind the reasons why some animals manufacture vitamins internally and some need to eat them (for example, only humans and guinea pigs need dietary vitamin C; all other animals make it internally. Perhaps we spent a few millenia hanging out in an orange grove...)
And now, my personal 2p. It sounds like compounds in cannabis might have the same function. Obviously prehistoric monkeys didn't have bongs, but as you say the seeds aren't unpalatable as such.
Although slashdot is better than most news discussion sites in terms of legibility and intelligence of posts, there's one phenomenon we see a lot in here, and in threads about piracy. Below, and above us, are dozens of eloquently written replies about international markets, the ethics of outsourcing, convincing arguments about why valve are knob jockeys. Not because the poster has a valid point to make, but because they're pissed they couldn't save money. Same with all the long diatribes in the piracy-is-ethical threads.
I will say that valve should allow deregistering of these products, though. Maybe for a $10 rebate? That might be too much to ask...
In the developer commentary, they mention that this was made impossible to stop people being afraid of portals - it'll just squeeze you out of the portal you're standing in when you move/close it or the other one.
Who finds it ironic that, given that the illness was caused by poisonous vapours from the crater, the publicity photo consists of people standing right next to it?
It's not that we relish them, it's just that if we have a choice between getting hot and bothered about the way things "should" be, or playing the damn game, we play.
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It's more a case that the lie dissuades helicopter parents from wasting hospital resources on diagnosing what's obviously chickenpox by visual inspection. Doctors don't exist to do exactly what you want all the time, surprisingly.
I can't help but find it ironic you make a wank joke that depends on circumcision, about the egyptians. Because those guys just love israel.
under the guise of 'hate speech' laws
I don't rant specifically at you, but every american who calls these laws up when dismissing europe from a privacy standpoint. Let's say there's a law used to stop people from gdressing as nazis and chanting "burn all the jews", or a cleric preaching "die infidels, death to the west" to a mob*.
Please provide an example where something like this has been abused in europe. Compare this to america, where people get vanished every day for protesting peacefully outside "free speech" zones.
* If you think that people should have a right to say this under free speech, go shout fire in a crowded theatre then get back to me.
I think the problem that a lot of vocal people on slashdot have is that artwork X is "unfairly" pimped out for the purposes of making money, fatiguing the market and making "better" artworks suffer because originality isn't profitable. See for example futurama and firefly vs. american idol or celebrity love island or big brother or ... etc.
It's not so entirely clear-cut as "just don't pirate it if you don't want to watch it" if it's all that is available after the monopoly squashed the competition and jacked up the price.
scratch that
That's what the walmart staff are for!
should you become lightheaded from thirst, feel free to pass out.
I salute you, sir, for making a first post on slashdot containing mostly antisemitic ranting, and wrapping it in the required context to get +5 insightful.
here in the UK employees are usually pretty well protected but some companies have a scummy arrangement where where all the employees are actually contracted from a small temping organisation that only serves that particular company. Thus, the company can "fire" whoever they want whenever they want by just going "we don't want to offer you any more shifts" and the person is SOL.
An incident I'll never forget is when someone was in front of me for an interview with company X, talking to the receptionist about why their swipecard didn't work. It turns out, they were talking to a taxman or something and gave thier job description as "packing in factory", i.e. putting things in boxes*. Now, here in the uk, to "pack something in" means to quit, so that could at a stretch be interpreted as "I'm going to quit my job".
The taxman happened to know the HR person at company X, called them up, said the guy was quitting, and they just wiped him off the system. The exchange with him went something like "we can't offer you any more shifts, you're unreliable" based on total BS. Because it was easier to hire someone else, they just told him to get lost! Needless, I decided that putting sandwiches in boxes wasn't a career that would benefit me and went on to become a reseach scientist instead.
* no, it wasn't a fudge factory, you sick bastard
It's only a problem of scale, we can't simulate quantum systems here because ... the laws of physics don't allow it, sneaky bastards, but we can certainly simulate other systems with emergent behaviour that could be scaled up to the point of simple "living" organisms, if the earth's entire mass were converted into computers.
Memory rewriting in what's a basic particle physics simulator? Emergent systems are hard to screw with at the best of times... You could revert to snapshots, I suppose.
The power of voodoo, duh.
Can't risk scaring off a big tech backer like, say, intel, now, can we?
a rare form of airborne contagious cancer
That's me, wanna meet in person and give me the cash? *cough* *spray*
Slashdot started in 1997. Back then MS Windows NT Server and IIS sucked worse than a $2 hooker. Apache was king and all the rest were expensive, or sucked or both. Linux and Apache could take a daily slashdotting...
So what you're saying is that slashdot was designed to withstand a slashdotting? Now that's forward thinking!
I'm seriously tired of small-minded, chip-on-the-shoulder Scottish-Nazism.
Don't you mean "deep-fried-mars-bar-on-the-shoulder Scottish-Nazism"?
Didn't the dollar drop by more than 10% in value in the last year?
And if someone isn't a threat to society but still needs to be punished? That's where jail overcrowding comes from. Remember that these "cruel and unusual" punishments are an alternative to spending 5 years in a box.
Cue the endless hyperbolic posts about 17-18 couples with grudge-holding parents, or guys who get pulled up on public urination to meet a sex offender quota.. Yes, I'm sure some people have been unfairly branded with this label. I'm also sure some people on death row are innocent. Tell me, which ones?
Consider a stretch of our evolutionary history where our diet contains the same amount of a particular vitamin, as we generate internally. Organisms who stop manufacturing the vitamin expend less energy as a result, and have a slight evolutionary advantage (and thus the population loses the ability to manufacture this vitamin). Then, our diet changes and we suffer (it is very easy for a mutation to disable an enzyme; almost impossible for the reverse to happen). This is considered a reasonably sound scientific theory behind the reasons why some animals manufacture vitamins internally and some need to eat them (for example, only humans and guinea pigs need dietary vitamin C; all other animals make it internally. Perhaps we spent a few millenia hanging out in an orange grove...)
And now, my personal 2p. It sounds like compounds in cannabis might have the same function. Obviously prehistoric monkeys didn't have bongs, but as you say the seeds aren't unpalatable as such.
Although slashdot is better than most news discussion sites in terms of legibility and intelligence of posts, there's one phenomenon we see a lot in here, and in threads about piracy. Below, and above us, are dozens of eloquently written replies about international markets, the ethics of outsourcing, convincing arguments about why valve are knob jockeys. Not because the poster has a valid point to make, but because they're pissed they couldn't save money. Same with all the long diatribes in the piracy-is-ethical threads.
I will say that valve should allow deregistering of these products, though. Maybe for a $10 rebate? That might be too much to ask...
I've tried to do that and it always "squeezed" me through and I fell off the wall, I assumed it was made impossible but I'll keep on trying.
In the developer commentary, they mention that this was made impossible to stop people being afraid of portals - it'll just squeeze you out of the portal you're standing in when you move/close it or the other one.
Who finds it ironic that, given that the illness was caused by poisonous vapours from the crater, the publicity photo consists of people standing right next to it?
Anyone remember Red Faction? Where you could blow up the walls. What ever happen to that idea?
Software patents.
It's not that we relish them, it's just that if we have a choice between getting hot and bothered about the way things "should" be, or playing the damn game, we play.