The breakdown of votes is very different to what I'm used to seeing on Supreme Court cases – you've got Breyer, Roberts, Thomas, Alito, Sotomayor, and Kagan in the majority, and Scalia, Kennedy, and Ginsburg in dissent.
Actually, if you look at actual voting records, it's not unusual at all. 20122011. In 2012, of note is that the lowest affinity with the majority was Sotomayor at 82.5% (she was around 79% for 2011). This suggests all justices, regardless of political affiliation, agree more often than they disagree. If the breakdown was along conservative vs. liberal lines like the media would have you believe (hot Supreme Court catfights! more on TMZ!), you'd see a lot more clustering somewhere closer to 50% than 90%.
Also note that the links above are just for the opinions. Those are the ones that are supposed to be most controversial of all the SCOTUS hears!
Both CVS and Walgreens have their business model in "spend 30 minutes getting anything at the grocery store; spend 5 minutes getting it here [but pay more]."
I can run into HEB (the local grocery store chain in the better parts of Texas (suck it, Dallas)) and grab some Gatorade in about twenty minutes after parking way in the back of the huge parking lot, running across the huge store to the sports drink aisle, coming back to the register, waiting behind a bunch of people buying at minimum 15 items, and then cross the parking lot again to get to my car (while dodging tons of foot traffic and waiting in the driving lanes for minutes while some lazy bastard waits for some person who hasn't even started his car yet to back out so he can get the parking space about 20 feet closer to the entrance to the store.
Or I can go to Walgreens, pay $1 more for the drink, park right by the entrance, wait behind at most one or two people buying a mere couple items each, and walk out the door and there's my car. No one else is driving in the parking lot, so I'm in and out in five minutes.
Sometimes it's worth the extra $1 spent.
That is how Walgreens stays in business compared to the big grocery store. CVS is the same way down here.
K-Mart isn't in business anywhere around here, though. Maybe for the very reason you mentioned. The last K-Mart I saw closed about ten years ago in my hometown. I have not seen a K-Mart since then.
Regarding sports fields, that stuff is funded through ticket sales and boosters. You have a problem with that, complain to the parents of nerds who don't donate money to the school for new computers for the science club.
Because some of us don't mind being advertised to provided the advertisement is entertaining and useful. The nine Best Picture nominees are all excellent for different reasons, and the show itself was entertaining. I imagine Slashdot wants to hate Seth Macfarlane for Family Guy and other reasons, but he was a pretty funny host.
Who solves social problems? Hint: It's not the techies. We techies generally have no power to solve social problems. The evidence is all around us. It is how the world works. That power goes to the socialisers with their ass-kissing, smooth talk, pointless speeches, and the riches and charisma to reach positions of influence.
I really resent your implication that I am not a socializer with ass-kissing smooth talk and pointless speeches.
You are correct about not upgrading. I am general counsel for a tech company. We will not be upgrading Office on our employee-issued laptops, and I'll be using this as fodder to push that we move from Office altogether.
Further: If you're a rich American and left (and renounced US citizenship) to avoid paying taxes, you'd leave for Switzerland or somewhere like that, not corrupt and poor Belize. Any money he makes now is almost assuredly capital gains, which is taxed at one tenth or one twentieth of the US rate in Switzerland (depending on long-term vs short-term, tax bracket, etc.).
IMHO chrome has become too much of a behemoth. I'd migrate them to Firefox.
What? My experience is that Firefox is slower, uses more RAM, and has other problems Chrome does not. I switched from Opera to FF because Opera stopped handling Japanese input correctly. Then I switched from FF to Chrome because FF was so slow compared to Opera and Chrome was not.
One of many reasons why I am a devout evangelical atheist is because of all the Ten Commandments int he Bible, God chose not to outlaw rape.
Depending on the marital/betrothal status of the woman, rape violates either the proscription of adultery or theft in the Ten Commandments. Not revisionism. The Bible says raping a married woman carries the death penalty, and raping an unmarried, unbetrothed woman carries a substantial fine.
A couple caveats:
1. Rape was considered an offense against the owner of the woman (rape a married woman, you've offended the husband, and you die; rape an unmarried woman, you've offended the father, pay him a fine).
2. There is nothing in the Bible against raping your own wife.
The lack of understanding about the Bible is something I would expect from an atheist, so no harm no foul. Just amend your complaint next time.:)
Isn't that partly (wholly?) because Iceland has a language academy that regulates the Icelandic language (Like the Real Academia Española or L'Académie française) and it insists on coining proper Icelandic terms instead of using loan words? Sort of like how anyone born in Iceland is required to be given a name that must be approved before being introduced into the language (if it's not already an existing Icelandic name)?
I'm general counsel for a consulting firm involved in the public sector. What you say is true based on my understanding, especially with so many troops returning home. A ton of things are being re-insourced, for lack of a better word. I just attended a talk given by contract officers in the military; they said there are going to be fewer opportunities for outside firms going forward because the military is taking over many functions again (combined with the current stress on the economy making budgets tighter).
And to respond to GP's point about how the Army should build missiles and such, the answer is similar to why companies operate on credit. Work needed is not flat and consistent; things fluctuate. It is SOP in business (and has been for decades) to outsource non-core functions of your business to take advantage of economies of scale and comparative advantage. Manufacturing missiles is no more a core function of the military than manufacturing radios or gunpowder is.
The military is not in the manufacturing business. It's in the de-manufacturing business (and defense, obviously).
Take your rose-colored glasses off re Digg. It is factually true that Digg had much bigger discussions, but they were awful. You can find any number of PhDs commenting regularly about niche topics on Slashdot, but that never happened on Digg. It was always college kids allcapsing their uninformed opinions.
Not sure if you're continuing the joke or not, but "aliterate" is a word that describes a person who is literate but chooses not to read.
You'll notice a few word trios that use an a- vs i-based prefix to have slightly different meanings. The most famous word trio that comes to mind is: (1) moral, (2) immoral, and (3) amoral.
Literate, aliterate, and illiterate is another trio.
I think you're trying to make some vaguely anti-Semitic remark, but "berg" is a generic German surname suffix. It is not even close to being a strictly Jewish surname suffix.
Much of the southern United States will be uninhabitable within our lifetimes if they do not secure another source of fresh water
Link to a good book on this for a Slashdotter who is smart and well-informed about general trends (i.e., I know about the impending water crises) but has not the time to read everything on every topic (i.e., I know not how bad, how soon, or where they will occur)?
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Actually, if you look at actual voting records, it's not unusual at all. 2012 2011. In 2012, of note is that the lowest affinity with the majority was Sotomayor at 82.5% (she was around 79% for 2011). This suggests all justices, regardless of political affiliation, agree more often than they disagree. If the breakdown was along conservative vs. liberal lines like the media would have you believe (hot Supreme Court catfights! more on TMZ!), you'd see a lot more clustering somewhere closer to 50% than 90%.
Also note that the links above are just for the opinions. Those are the ones that are supposed to be most controversial of all the SCOTUS hears!
I wouldn't say Roberts "crossed the line" with PPACA when his decision really came down to:
1. The commerce clause is overbroad and doesn't uphold PPACA. Fortunately,
2. Obama lied. It's a tax.
Both CVS and Walgreens have their business model in "spend 30 minutes getting anything at the grocery store; spend 5 minutes getting it here [but pay more]."
I can run into HEB (the local grocery store chain in the better parts of Texas (suck it, Dallas)) and grab some Gatorade in about twenty minutes after parking way in the back of the huge parking lot, running across the huge store to the sports drink aisle, coming back to the register, waiting behind a bunch of people buying at minimum 15 items, and then cross the parking lot again to get to my car (while dodging tons of foot traffic and waiting in the driving lanes for minutes while some lazy bastard waits for some person who hasn't even started his car yet to back out so he can get the parking space about 20 feet closer to the entrance to the store.
Or I can go to Walgreens, pay $1 more for the drink, park right by the entrance, wait behind at most one or two people buying a mere couple items each, and walk out the door and there's my car. No one else is driving in the parking lot, so I'm in and out in five minutes.
Sometimes it's worth the extra $1 spent.
That is how Walgreens stays in business compared to the big grocery store. CVS is the same way down here.
K-Mart isn't in business anywhere around here, though. Maybe for the very reason you mentioned. The last K-Mart I saw closed about ten years ago in my hometown. I have not seen a K-Mart since then.
Regarding sports fields, that stuff is funded through ticket sales and boosters. You have a problem with that, complain to the parents of nerds who don't donate money to the school for new computers for the science club.
Funny considering basically 100% of all private schooling and home schooling is done by Christians wishing to indoctrinate children into the faith.
Because some of us don't mind being advertised to provided the advertisement is entertaining and useful. The nine Best Picture nominees are all excellent for different reasons, and the show itself was entertaining. I imagine Slashdot wants to hate Seth Macfarlane for Family Guy and other reasons, but he was a pretty funny host.
That might be a relevant point if he weren't directly responding to the assertion that plastic bags "aren't actually a threat to our ecosystem."
I really resent your implication that I am not a socializer with ass-kissing smooth talk and pointless speeches.
You are correct about not upgrading. I am general counsel for a tech company. We will not be upgrading Office on our employee-issued laptops, and I'll be using this as fodder to push that we move from Office altogether.
Further: If you're a rich American and left (and renounced US citizenship) to avoid paying taxes, you'd leave for Switzerland or somewhere like that, not corrupt and poor Belize. Any money he makes now is almost assuredly capital gains, which is taxed at one tenth or one twentieth of the US rate in Switzerland (depending on long-term vs short-term, tax bracket, etc.).
US citizens living abroad still must pay US income tax. So I don't think it's that.
John Huntsman waves "hello" from his little tip of the GOP iceberg, having been prematurely and foolishly jettisoned by the rest of the pack.
Hmm,
-Office
-Visual Studio
-Bing (Bing Travel is actually really useful)
-DOS
-SharePoint
I love how the summary of the article doesn't tell me how the Wayback Machine is related to this at all, but it's mentioned in the title!
What? My experience is that Firefox is slower, uses more RAM, and has other problems Chrome does not. I switched from Opera to FF because Opera stopped handling Japanese input correctly. Then I switched from FF to Chrome because FF was so slow compared to Opera and Chrome was not.
Depending on the marital/betrothal status of the woman, rape violates either the proscription of adultery or theft in the Ten Commandments. Not revisionism. The Bible says raping a married woman carries the death penalty, and raping an unmarried, unbetrothed woman carries a substantial fine.
A couple caveats:
1. Rape was considered an offense against the owner of the woman (rape a married woman, you've offended the husband, and you die; rape an unmarried woman, you've offended the father, pay him a fine).
2. There is nothing in the Bible against raping your own wife.
The lack of understanding about the Bible is something I would expect from an atheist, so no harm no foul. Just amend your complaint next time. :)
Isn't that partly (wholly?) because Iceland has a language academy that regulates the Icelandic language (Like the Real Academia Española or L'Académie française) and it insists on coining proper Icelandic terms instead of using loan words? Sort of like how anyone born in Iceland is required to be given a name that must be approved before being introduced into the language (if it's not already an existing Icelandic name)?
Thank you for that informative post that has not been posted on every Slashdot conversation ever in the history of the Internet.
I'm general counsel for a consulting firm involved in the public sector. What you say is true based on my understanding, especially with so many troops returning home. A ton of things are being re-insourced, for lack of a better word. I just attended a talk given by contract officers in the military; they said there are going to be fewer opportunities for outside firms going forward because the military is taking over many functions again (combined with the current stress on the economy making budgets tighter).
And to respond to GP's point about how the Army should build missiles and such, the answer is similar to why companies operate on credit. Work needed is not flat and consistent; things fluctuate. It is SOP in business (and has been for decades) to outsource non-core functions of your business to take advantage of economies of scale and comparative advantage. Manufacturing missiles is no more a core function of the military than manufacturing radios or gunpowder is.
The military is not in the manufacturing business. It's in the de-manufacturing business (and defense, obviously).
Take your rose-colored glasses off re Digg. It is factually true that Digg had much bigger discussions, but they were awful. You can find any number of PhDs commenting regularly about niche topics on Slashdot, but that never happened on Digg. It was always college kids allcapsing their uninformed opinions.
Not sure if you're continuing the joke or not, but "aliterate" is a word that describes a person who is literate but chooses not to read.
You'll notice a few word trios that use an a- vs i-based prefix to have slightly different meanings. The most famous word trio that comes to mind is: (1) moral, (2) immoral, and (3) amoral.
Literate, aliterate, and illiterate is another trio.
None. Punctuation usage is not a grammatical topic. It's an orthographical topic.
Exactly. Be robust in the input you accept, but strict in what you output.
I think you're trying to make some vaguely anti-Semitic remark, but "berg" is a generic German surname suffix. It is not even close to being a strictly Jewish surname suffix.
Link to a good book on this for a Slashdotter who is smart and well-informed about general trends (i.e., I know about the impending water crises) but has not the time to read everything on every topic (i.e., I know not how bad, how soon, or where they will occur)?