Joe Hazelwood may or may not have been drunk, but he was provably not on the bridge when the ship struck.
"My response to the charge of being drunk in charge of a ship is that (a) I wasn't drunk, and (b) even if I was, I was safely asleep in my cabin and therefore not in charge of the ship."
Right. But the headline said "is always", not "has always been". The word "is" denotes the present era. Currently any time you see it, it is 9:41. So to restate it:
It used to be that every time you saw it, it WAS always set to 9:42, but now, since the introduction of the iPad, it IS always set to 9:41.
I bet you enjoyed the "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" arguments at college.
It depends on where you come from - its natural here in the UK to use "are" for the collection, eg "Microsoft are..." rather than "Microsoft is..."
No, no this is slashdot. You have to say in full:
"Microsoft in the UK are evil, convicted monopolists who held back the progress of computing by three decades and are responsible for more deaths than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined".
Or:
"Microsoft in the US is an evil, convicted monopolist which has held back the progress of computing by three decades and is responsible for more deaths than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined".
Had any of you ever hear of this guy before? Now you have. And the review in question was not ALL bad.
It's possible he really believes he's trying to improve his reputation by getting rid of a bad review, but it seems more likely that he figures he can gain more publicity and exposure by becoming a news story.
Good point, the review pretty much said he was extremely talented but just needed to polish up in a few areas and not be quite as showy.
Is it really fair that when you search for info on 50yr old electrician bob (as you are considering giving him a job), the top story is one about his conviction for sex crimes when he (as an 18yr old boy) had sex with his 17yr old girlfriend?
You are putting a spin on this by choosing an non-crime that would only happen in the US and not (for instance) in most places in Europe. I couldn't care less whether an 18 and 17 year old had sex.
However, the point is clearer when you consider whether you would want to know that good old Bob had been convicted of raping a series of seven year olds.
Even if you don't have any kids yourself, I suspect you'd want to know that.
The winners rewriting the history books is a bad thing, period, the end. There are no exceptions.
If the Allies had lost the war, there would have been no Nuremberg Trials, but those responsible for the firebombing of Dresden and the A-bomb on Hiroshima would have been executed as war criminals.
It is a certain point of view, but the idea that the mainstream media actually follow this agenda is just a ridiculous smokescreen put up by racist, misogynist neo-fascists.
The Gates foundation makes investments for profit, and operates on the return
Because, of course, every other charity in the world is run so that it makes a loss on its investments each year.
It's practically a badge of honour to show in your annual accounts that you squandered the maximum amount of donations each year on poorly conceived, hopeless investments.
But if without having done "that bad thing" he wouldn't have the millions of dollars to give to charity, then it's relevant to the conversation.
The problem is the disproportionate view taken of the "badness" of Microsoft on sites like slashdot. He produced an inferior Operating System and for a while prevented Linux from taking off.
I always thought the parking in disabled areas thing was a more damning indication of his character.
I really don't give a crap about how much/little someone donates to charities, they shouldn't need to exist as alternatives to proper government spending in the first place. (Yeah, blah blah, socialism I know).
To me, a traditional marriage is where the partners stay together until death parts them -- gay/straight/otherwise.
You might want to take another look at that question. There are thousands of years (4k+) of recorded history of there being a particular set of sexes in marriage. Care to guess what it is? (spoiler at the bottom of post) The numbers may vary, the reason for the marriage might vary, but ultimately that set pattern holds true.
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* Man and woman are joined in marriage.
A classic conservative argument, which can best be refuted by pointing out that for thousands of years we also had slavery.
In monkeys homosexual acts increase in rate when there are few females around. I wouldn't be surprised if its the same with humans.
So the Churches should really be ensuring that all vulnerable young men are supplied with a steady supply of attractive young women in order to keep them from choosing the primrose path.
Anyone who refused to follow the way of the punani would presumably have to be tied down and raped by a gang of eager temple prostitutes.
As a bonus, I think church attendance would rocket amonst the under 21s.
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Bollocks. As mentioned by someone else, a Yorkshire carpenter made a perfectly adequate one 300 years ago
Aye, a proper wooden clock made out of two cricket bats owned by Geoffrey Boycott, not some namby pamby southern clock with girly springs.
Wow, who knew ... deriving longitude and latitude were an integral part of navigation.
Duh, I just use google maps on my smartphone.
Joe Hazelwood may or may not have been drunk, but he was provably not on the bridge when the ship struck.
"My response to the charge of being drunk in charge of a ship is that (a) I wasn't drunk, and (b) even if I was, I was safely asleep in my cabin and therefore not in charge of the ship."
I assume the Navy still have oars in the hold and cannons to fire when they arrive at their target?
Right. But the headline said "is always", not "has always been". The word "is" denotes the present era. Currently any time you see it, it is 9:41. So to restate it:
It used to be that every time you saw it, it WAS always set to 9:42, but now, since the introduction of the iPad, it IS always set to 9:41.
I bet you enjoyed the "how many angels can dance on the head of a pin" arguments at college.
It depends on where you come from - its natural here in the UK to use "are" for the collection, eg "Microsoft are..." rather than "Microsoft is..."
No, no this is slashdot. You have to say in full:
"Microsoft in the UK are evil, convicted monopolists who held back the progress of computing by three decades and are responsible for more deaths than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined".
Or:
"Microsoft in the US is an evil, convicted monopolist which has held back the progress of computing by three decades and is responsible for more deaths than Hitler, Stalin and Mao combined".
Anything can be a weapon if placed in the right hands in the right situation.
I'd still rather have murderous psycopaths with lumps of rock than nuclear weapons.
No "let's just say I didn't ask for a twelve inch pianist" jokes here.
The so-called "right to be forgotten" is not a right. It's a demand that others limit their rights of free speech and freedom of expression.
And who says that free speech and freedom of expression are "rights"?
They weren't found carved in stone by god. They're just concepts invented by human beings to improve life.
We could equally agree on a "right to be forgotten" without breaking the fabric of space-time.
Had any of you ever hear of this guy before? Now you have. And the review in question was not ALL bad.
It's possible he really believes he's trying to improve his reputation by getting rid of a bad review, but it seems more likely that he figures he can gain more publicity and exposure by becoming a news story.
Good point, the review pretty much said he was extremely talented but just needed to polish up in a few areas and not be quite as showy.
Hardly a critical mauling.
Is it really fair that when you search for info on 50yr old electrician bob (as you are considering giving him a job), the top story is one about his conviction for sex crimes when he (as an 18yr old boy) had sex with his 17yr old girlfriend?
You are putting a spin on this by choosing an non-crime that would only happen in the US and not (for instance) in most places in Europe. I couldn't care less whether an 18 and 17 year old had sex.
However, the point is clearer when you consider whether you would want to know that good old Bob had been convicted of raping a series of seven year olds.
Even if you don't have any kids yourself, I suspect you'd want to know that.
The winners rewriting the history books is a bad thing, period, the end. There are no exceptions.
If the Allies had lost the war, there would have been no Nuremberg Trials, but those responsible for the firebombing of Dresden and the A-bomb on Hiroshima would have been executed as war criminals.
The winners always rewrite the history books.
It is a certain point of view, but the idea that the mainstream media actually follow this agenda is just a ridiculous smokescreen put up by racist, misogynist neo-fascists.
They're capitalists, other than on cultural issues, where they are strictly marxist.
You appear to be using "marxist" in the way that school playground bullies use "gay".
The Gates foundation makes investments for profit, and operates on the return
Because, of course, every other charity in the world is run so that it makes a loss on its investments each year.
It's practically a badge of honour to show in your annual accounts that you squandered the maximum amount of donations each year on poorly conceived, hopeless investments.
By small I might point out that Forbes lists his net worth as $76B for 2014(1). So that $500M donation is roughly equivalent to 0.7% of his net worth.
Yes, 0.7% of his total net worth, not 0.7% of his salary/earnings in one year.
Big difference.
In fact he has utterly wasted so many hours of so many people that calling him a "mass murderer" becomes reasonable.
Talk about a fucking First World Problem.
Ooh, I had to reboot my computer to complete the installation of a piece of software. Literally Hitler.
Even his "charity" can be bloody and harmful. The guy put $50M for a campaign to promote genital mutilation.
Source?
But if without having done "that bad thing" he wouldn't have the millions of dollars to give to charity, then it's relevant to the conversation.
The problem is the disproportionate view taken of the "badness" of Microsoft on sites like slashdot. He produced an inferior Operating System and for a while prevented Linux from taking off.
He didn't massacre babies for fun.
Money may not solve all problems, but it makes most of them a lot easier.
I really don't give a crap about how much/little someone donates to charities, they shouldn't need to exist as alternatives to proper government spending in the first place. (Yeah, blah blah, socialism I know).
Seriously the gay community could have it a lot worse then not being able to marry.
The good old "you're still better off than in Nazi Germany/North Korea" argument.
Sodomy means any sexual act not designed to conceive a child. So it even includes coitus interruptus.
Only by some weird legislatures in the US.
In the rest of the world, "sodomy" means anal penetrative sex.
To me, a traditional marriage is where the partners stay together until death parts them -- gay/straight/otherwise.
You might want to take another look at that question. There are thousands of years (4k+) of recorded history of there being a particular set of sexes in marriage. Care to guess what it is? (spoiler at the bottom of post) The numbers may vary, the reason for the marriage might vary, but ultimately that set pattern holds true.
.
.
* Man and woman are joined in marriage.
A classic conservative argument, which can best be refuted by pointing out that for thousands of years we also had slavery.
In monkeys homosexual acts increase in rate when there are few females around. I wouldn't be surprised if its the same with humans.
So the Churches should really be ensuring that all vulnerable young men are supplied with a steady supply of attractive young women in order to keep them from choosing the primrose path.
Anyone who refused to follow the way of the punani would presumably have to be tied down and raped by a gang of eager temple prostitutes.
As a bonus, I think church attendance would rocket amonst the under 21s.