That aside, I don't see how any government can possibly take light pollution seriously. Too much investment to satisfy too small a group - who cares if it's world heritage.
Its actually safer for people walking (no light means there are no shadows a criminal could hide in) and less light means lower energy costs.
We have a 50MPH highway, 4 lane for some parts, 2 for others, which is about five miles long. To save money, the city is trying to turn off most of the lights along the route (the whole thing used to be lit). It hasn't seemed to cause any more problems than there already were, and I imagine it's saving quite a bit of money.
Somehow I doubt you have any real numbers; that's always the cope out here, "oh you're a troll." Well at least your consisent; judging someone by 24 out of 5000 posts that happens to have an Excellent karma rating.
But please, if you read this post your numbers. Or for that matter, please explain to me why I should pay for someone else's healthcare. Regardless of how I worded it, that's the heart of the matter (and the wording comes from being annoyed that I'm already paying too much in taxes and people want to steal more from me).
I wasn't insulting you by saying you care for your electronics, tool. I was implying that you ARE NOT part of the unwashed masses that smash their own feces in to the keypads of the cell phones.
I wasn't insulted by your comments; I was pointing out your mistaking your experiences for reality. You still don't seem to get it; you THINK that "unwashed masses that smash their own feces in to the keypads of the cell phones," but you offer no evidence this actually is the norm. Most people I see take great care not to damage their expensive electronics... simply because they are expensive. Of course, that's just my experience as well.... but it seems that the more expensive an item is, the more care is taken of it. It also makes sense... but until there's been some study either way, we're both just speculating, which is fairly useless.
I'm just a computer engineer that repairs small electronics as a job, what the hell would I know? If anything, I should be mad at you for not being my customer. I guess all I can tell you is I SEE poorly cared for electronic devices ALL DAY LONG EVERY DAY, and I'm sure what passes through my hands is 0.00000000000000001% of the total devices in need of service. Jerk."
Ya, exactly. You're in an exteremely poor place to make any kind of conclusion... you ONLY see the people that broke their phone. Ask a funeral home, and I'm sure they'll tell you people are dropping like flies. It's just like googling for negative feedback; the ones most likely to post anything are the people with a bad experence... so results are skewed negative. That much at least has been proven, and if you've been on/. long enough, you would have seen that story, and wouldn't have bothered posting your experiences.
Seriously, you're this dumb? Cell phones are desktop computers either, but they run Windows and Linux as well. My cable box is not a desktop computer, and it run Windows. My dads cable box runs Linux (which, oddly, seems to lockup from time to time).
Um, as soon as you reported your card stolen, they should have deactivated it, regardless of whether or not someone had the pin.
I think the moral to your story is 1) be careful who you take to your ATM and 2) check your bank balance daily. Most ATMs networks impose a $300 limit per withdrawl.
I RARELY see anyone take the slightest bit of care of their smaller electronics, no matter the cost. It sounds absurd, but is observably true.
Um, I really don't give a fuck what you SEE. Believe what you want, I don't care, and just because you see something different doesn't mean I'm an anomaly. It means you see what you want to see.
There's a reason there are several thousand of each current revision of portable game system that are destroyed by poor care (broken in half, smashed to bits, scratched to the point of lunacy) on eBay at any given time. Then imagine how many were under warranty and were returned.
Again, thanks for your observation... but it's meaningless.
And technology costs more the more you shrink it.
By that logic, my v3 razr should cost $500. Technologically speaking, the PSP Go so far sounds largely the same as the PSP, minus the UMD drive.
And now let's suppose she *did* accept the promotion, _someone_ would have to be hired for her old position, and that guy wouldn't have insurance.
So what? He chose a job that doesn't offer insurance.
The only way that would work is if everyone could be managers, but the FACT is that a manager can't do much without less paid people to manage.
And yet even in my company, everyone has the chance to buy healthcare, even the people at the bottom of the ladder. So maybe your guy from your previous example should think about that before accepting a job.
The mantra "people should work more to get better jobs" is plain stupid, 'cause it says that if everyone worked hard, no-one would work as a cashier, or constructions, etc.
Fine. Then you choose to go without. BTW, your claim is stupid, because we have exactly that situation now. People working as cashiers, and don't have insurance.
At the end of the day though, I don't really care. All I care about is healthcare for me and my family. Everyone else is on their own. I don't see why it should be my problem that someone else doesn't have insurance.
Sorry, it's just not practical. Even with record keeping, hospitals still eat a lot of cost. Eat some more, and they will soon have no money to pay doctors, nurses, buy equipment, medicine, non-latex gloves, etc. This is why socialized medicine is bad for everyone... it just costs a lot, and care doesn't improve.
Also, mistakes from NOT having accurate paper work can be worse than treating the patient.
Well, seeing what people were spending money on, insights into the personaly, daily life of people is probably interesting to people. I mean, we don't just look at the Coliseum, we try to get an idea of what the daily life of the average Roman was like.
Obviously this will present docters with patients without medical records. But better to be treated a bit worse than not at all.
Ya, until you go back to the hosipital and the next doctor on staff doesn't know the dosage of medication you were put on, and gives you something that shouldn't be combined with the previous medication.
Ok... so as an American, where's my motive to socialize healthcare? My sales tax is much lower, my income tax is much lower... and I have health insurance.
The only justification for socializing healthcare is so that I can foot the bill for someone that isn't working at all or has no drive to work up the ladder. I know someone, for example, works and doesn't have healthcare. To get it, she'd have to work up to being a manager at her store... but she doesn't want to. Instead, she thinks government should provide it for everyone... so pretty much her healthcare should be at my expense.
Wait, you think a $250 piece of electronics is a kids toy... and you call Sony out of touch? I have a PSP3000, and the screen, and everything else for that matter, is fine. I also keep it in a case when not in use (as my wife keeps her DS in a case too... which is handy when you want to play more than the one game current in the device).
As far as the "upscale male geek," maybe more hardcore gamers, because I think there are exactly zero games on the DS which interest me, but lots of money? The PSP I have cost 169. Why one with no moving parts and is smaller would cost more I can't imagine.
Were you performing a magic act, and this other person was in on it? If not, ya, I feel safe in assuming your intention was to cause harm. Even in boxing, where both people are choosing to enter the fight, they are attempting to harm each other. The OPs "edge case" is ridiculous, and without more information, so is yours.
Are you serious? You're trying to punch your opponent until they are unconscious to win the fight. Yes, they are trying to hurt each other... just within the confines of certain rules.
The law therefore could simply state: intentionally breaking someone's nose is illegal.
Well, I guess there goes boxing and UFC.
If I stumble or the target makes a sudden move, you could have dozens of witnesses seeing me break someone's nose seemingly without cause, while it was never actually my intent.
You don't swing your fist at someone without intent to cause harm. I'd argue here your intent is irrelevent, you assaulted someone while being aggressive.
No, management will see it as a cost, because the time spent on something WHICH ALREADY WORKS could be spent doing something else the company actually wants done. Are you really this dense? Did you miss all the posts where companies are refusing to allow newer browsers FOR THE SAME REASON I JUST STATED??
Perhaps you can look at the first line of my previous post. You know, the part where most people are running as administrators.
At any rate, the Uninstall being unavaible has nothing to do with file permissions. The button simply isn't there (and since I was running as an administrator, the file permission issue is non-existent).
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I'm lucky if I can see cyclists and pedestrians after sunset.
Perhaps cyclists and pedestrians should stay off of MOTORWAYS, or at the very least wear reflective gear.
That aside, I don't see how any government can possibly take light pollution seriously. Too much investment to satisfy too small a group - who cares if it's world heritage.
Its actually safer for people walking (no light means there are no shadows a criminal could hide in) and less light means lower energy costs.
We have a 50MPH highway, 4 lane for some parts, 2 for others, which is about five miles long. To save money, the city is trying to turn off most of the lights along the route (the whole thing used to be lit). It hasn't seemed to cause any more problems than there already were, and I imagine it's saving quite a bit of money.
Yes... it shows how low our education standards have fallen. :-)
Somehow I doubt you have any real numbers; that's always the cope out here, "oh you're a troll." Well at least your consisent; judging someone by 24 out of 5000 posts that happens to have an Excellent karma rating.
But please, if you read this post your numbers. Or for that matter, please explain to me why I should pay for someone else's healthcare. Regardless of how I worded it, that's the heart of the matter (and the wording comes from being annoyed that I'm already paying too much in taxes and people want to steal more from me).
Well, you're free to have your opinion, no matter how stupid it is.
I wasn't insulting you by saying you care for your electronics, tool. I was implying that you ARE NOT part of the unwashed masses that smash their own feces in to the keypads of the cell phones.
I wasn't insulted by your comments; I was pointing out your mistaking your experiences for reality. You still don't seem to get it; you THINK that "unwashed masses that smash their own feces in to the keypads of the cell phones," but you offer no evidence this actually is the norm. Most people I see take great care not to damage their expensive electronics... simply because they are expensive. Of course, that's just my experience as well.... but it seems that the more expensive an item is, the more care is taken of it. It also makes sense... but until there's been some study either way, we're both just speculating, which is fairly useless.
I'm just a computer engineer that repairs small electronics as a job, what the hell would I know? If anything, I should be mad at you for not being my customer. I guess all I can tell you is I SEE poorly cared for electronic devices ALL DAY LONG EVERY DAY, and I'm sure what passes through my hands is 0.00000000000000001% of the total devices in need of service. Jerk."
Ya, exactly. You're in an exteremely poor place to make any kind of conclusion... you ONLY see the people that broke their phone. Ask a funeral home, and I'm sure they'll tell you people are dropping like flies. It's just like googling for negative feedback; the ones most likely to post anything are the people with a bad experence... so results are skewed negative. That much at least has been proven, and if you've been on /. long enough, you would have seen that story, and wouldn't have bothered posting your experiences.
Seriously, you're this dumb? Cell phones are desktop computers either, but they run Windows and Linux as well. My cable box is not a desktop computer, and it run Windows. My dads cable box runs Linux (which, oddly, seems to lockup from time to time).
Um, as soon as you reported your card stolen, they should have deactivated it, regardless of whether or not someone had the pin.
I think the moral to your story is 1) be careful who you take to your ATM and 2) check your bank balance daily. Most ATMs networks impose a $300 limit per withdrawl.
I RARELY see anyone take the slightest bit of care of their smaller electronics, no matter the cost. It sounds absurd, but is observably true.
Um, I really don't give a fuck what you SEE. Believe what you want, I don't care, and just because you see something different doesn't mean I'm an anomaly. It means you see what you want to see.
There's a reason there are several thousand of each current revision of portable game system that are destroyed by poor care (broken in half, smashed to bits, scratched to the point of lunacy) on eBay at any given time. Then imagine how many were under warranty and were returned.
Again, thanks for your observation... but it's meaningless.
And technology costs more the more you shrink it.
By that logic, my v3 razr should cost $500. Technologically speaking, the PSP Go so far sounds largely the same as the PSP, minus the UMD drive.
And now let's suppose she *did* accept the promotion, _someone_ would have to be hired for her old position, and that guy wouldn't have insurance.
So what? He chose a job that doesn't offer insurance.
The only way that would work is if everyone could be managers, but the FACT is that a manager can't do much without less paid people to manage.
And yet even in my company, everyone has the chance to buy healthcare, even the people at the bottom of the ladder. So maybe your guy from your previous example should think about that before accepting a job.
The mantra "people should work more to get better jobs" is plain stupid, 'cause it says that if everyone worked hard, no-one would work as a cashier, or constructions, etc.
Fine. Then you choose to go without. BTW, your claim is stupid, because we have exactly that situation now. People working as cashiers, and don't have insurance.
At the end of the day though, I don't really care. All I care about is healthcare for me and my family. Everyone else is on their own. I don't see why it should be my problem that someone else doesn't have insurance.
Indeed. It would be nice to thin out the stupid, unless, leeches of society so that those of us that actually WANT to try to make our own living can.
Sorry, it's just not practical. Even with record keeping, hospitals still eat a lot of cost. Eat some more, and they will soon have no money to pay doctors, nurses, buy equipment, medicine, non-latex gloves, etc. This is why socialized medicine is bad for everyone... it just costs a lot, and care doesn't improve.
Also, mistakes from NOT having accurate paper work can be worse than treating the patient.
Well, seeing what people were spending money on, insights into the personaly, daily life of people is probably interesting to people. I mean, we don't just look at the Coliseum, we try to get an idea of what the daily life of the average Roman was like.
Obviously this will present docters with patients without medical records. But better to be treated a bit worse than not at all.
Ya, until you go back to the hosipital and the next doctor on staff doesn't know the dosage of medication you were put on, and gives you something that shouldn't be combined with the previous medication.
Ok... so as an American, where's my motive to socialize healthcare? My sales tax is much lower, my income tax is much lower... and I have health insurance.
The only justification for socializing healthcare is so that I can foot the bill for someone that isn't working at all or has no drive to work up the ladder. I know someone, for example, works and doesn't have healthcare. To get it, she'd have to work up to being a manager at her store... but she doesn't want to. Instead, she thinks government should provide it for everyone... so pretty much her healthcare should be at my expense.
No thanks.
Well, you gotta pay for socialized healthcare somehow, right?
Wait, you think a $250 piece of electronics is a kids toy... and you call Sony out of touch? I have a PSP3000, and the screen, and everything else for that matter, is fine. I also keep it in a case when not in use (as my wife keeps her DS in a case too... which is handy when you want to play more than the one game current in the device).
As far as the "upscale male geek," maybe more hardcore gamers, because I think there are exactly zero games on the DS which interest me, but lots of money? The PSP I have cost 169. Why one with no moving parts and is smaller would cost more I can't imagine.
Were you performing a magic act, and this other person was in on it? If not, ya, I feel safe in assuming your intention was to cause harm. Even in boxing, where both people are choosing to enter the fight, they are attempting to harm each other. The OPs "edge case" is ridiculous, and without more information, so is yours.
If that's what you think, back up your claim. Show me where others on the committee were complaining that MS was holding up the process purposefully.
Just stop it already; I'm tired of OSS jerkoffs blaming their failures on MS all the time.
Are you serious? You're trying to punch your opponent until they are unconscious to win the fight. Yes, they are trying to hurt each other... just within the confines of certain rules.
Well if it's really that fucking important, maybe it should have been in the specs to begin with, don't ya think?
Irrelevent; judges WOULD read the preamble.
The law therefore could simply state: intentionally breaking someone's nose is illegal.
Well, I guess there goes boxing and UFC.
If I stumble or the target makes a sudden move, you could have dozens of witnesses seeing me break someone's nose seemingly without cause, while it was never actually my intent.
You don't swing your fist at someone without intent to cause harm. I'd argue here your intent is irrelevent, you assaulted someone while being aggressive.
No, management will see it as a cost, because the time spent on something WHICH ALREADY WORKS could be spent doing something else the company actually wants done. Are you really this dense? Did you miss all the posts where companies are refusing to allow newer browsers FOR THE SAME REASON I JUST STATED??
Perhaps you can look at the first line of my previous post. You know, the part where most people are running as administrators.
At any rate, the Uninstall being unavaible has nothing to do with file permissions. The button simply isn't there (and since I was running as an administrator, the file permission issue is non-existent).