try looking at the facts... obama had NOTHING to do with taking bin laden out. in fact he would have stopped it from happening if he had more info and had a chance....
Yeah, it was George W Bush that killed Bin Laden. With his bare hands. But the goddamned liberal media spun it to be pro-minority, as always.
Under State law, I am required to stop the progress of a Felony by law, or be an accessory.
Cite? I'm quite familiar with this area of the law in several states, and I'm skeptical that Florida requires you to intervene.
People on slashdot are always saying that even the police don't have an obligation to intervene in a crime in the US, which is why they justify shooting intruders dead on the basis that they can't rely on the police to turn up and protect them, so I don't see how an ordinary citizen could be expected to.
One has to make a reasonable presentation of a serious, life threatning situation. A punch in the nose of itself would generally be insufficient.
Funny you say that, I know a guy (yes actually know him personally) who killed a man with one punch on the snoz. It wasn't the punch that killed the poor fellow but his head hitting the concrete from the fall after being knocked out instantly.
That's almost always how people die in fights without weapons. The Mike Tyson idea of whacking someone's nose back into their brain isn't how it goes.
But, more importantly, relatively few people die in fist fights anyway, because it's really, really, really hard to beat someone to death.
If you over-react to a bit of a slap by shooting someone dead, you have effectively ended two people's lives, as even in the absence of the death penalty, I would expect someone to go to jail for life for such a ridiculous over-reaction.
If you were an adult instead of an overgrown teenager, you would realise the absurdity of what you're saying. Your attitude would justify drawing your weapon and shooting anyone who even looked at you funny, on the basis that they might present a danger.
You don't understand: from the slashdot-libertarian's point of view, the very existence of NASA (government) creates a distortion of the pure free market. If it wasn't for socialism, we'd have been on the moon by during the reign of Queen Victoria in a cool steampunk style.
The interstellar space age isn't going to begin for humanity for several centuries at the earliest, barring some sort of breakthrough that allows us to travel between locations faster than light takes to travel between them.
I think we're all generally assuming that something will eventually be discovered, hopefully sooner rather then later.
It has been my experience (repeatedly) that if those coders can't Google a set of code online for the specific problem, copy it, and make trivial modifications to get it to apply, they don't know what to do. They can't write code
The only logical conclusion is that for most programming jobs you don't need to know how to write code. I find it hard to believe that companies are employing people who literally can't do their job. The truth is that most programming work is relatively low level nowadays, you certainly don't need to have a PhD in Computer Science to knock together a perfectly adequate program, however imperfect it may be, and however galling this may be to purists.
Unless you are a company whose competitive advantage is that you have brilliant programmers (e.g. Google) it self evidently doesn't make any difference for most jobs if you employ someone who is merely competent.
Everyone here seems to be a cheerleaer for the mighty free market. Until the point when it's their own jobs that have suddenly become minimum wage fodder.
It is simple to install one of the many free pdf readers/printers on Windows and print/save to pdf from any program. Most places where I've worked have done this, rather than buy Adobe Acrobat just to convert Word documents into pdf.
If there's one thing more pathetic intellectually than being a racist, sexist or (presumably) homophobe, it's judging someone by what fucking phone they have.
I don't think that studying the link between tobacco and cancer can reasonably be described as a "soft science", unless you say that medicine and biology are too.
I find these questions absolutely fascinating, and I'm quite certain about one thing: histrionics about racism every time someone asks them is not conducive to developing ANY understanding of the forces at play.
The best way to understand history is to forget about race, except as a weird fetish in the early/mid 20th Century.
It's not a place that would birth historically powerful, flourishing civilizations whose large-scale engineering feats would be regarded among the "wonders of the world" millennia later.
No, it's not. Any example?
The Egyptian pyramids, and the lighthouse of Alexandria were both considered to be Wonders of the World, and both are/were located in Africa.
The racists here have already explained that an Egyptian is No True African.
And a mammal's a mammal. A carbon lifeform is a carbon lifeform. Any self-organising structure subject to the rules du jour in Universe A is any self-organising structure in Universe A.
Sure.
As you of course know, the point is that we don't make up different fucking rules for different breeds of dogs. Also, we don't selectively breed human beings, with certain well known historical exceptions that I'm sure you're only too familiar with.
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try looking at the facts... obama had NOTHING to do with taking bin laden out. in fact he would have stopped it from happening if he had more info and had a chance....
Yeah, it was George W Bush that killed Bin Laden. With his bare hands. But the goddamned liberal media spun it to be pro-minority, as always.
Luckily, we'll always be at war with Eurasia.
Under State law, I am required to stop the progress of a Felony by law, or be an accessory.
Cite? I'm quite familiar with this area of the law in several states, and I'm skeptical that Florida requires you to intervene.
People on slashdot are always saying that even the police don't have an obligation to intervene in a crime in the US, which is why they justify shooting intruders dead on the basis that they can't rely on the police to turn up and protect them, so I don't see how an ordinary citizen could be expected to.
No.
One has to make a reasonable presentation of a serious, life threatning situation. A punch in the nose of itself would generally be insufficient.
Funny you say that, I know a guy (yes actually know him personally) who killed a man with one punch on the snoz. It wasn't the punch that killed the poor fellow but his head hitting the concrete from the fall after being knocked out instantly.
That's almost always how people die in fights without weapons. The Mike Tyson idea of whacking someone's nose back into their brain isn't how it goes.
But, more importantly, relatively few people die in fist fights anyway, because it's really, really, really hard to beat someone to death.
Better to be judged by 12 then carried by 6
If you over-react to a bit of a slap by shooting someone dead, you have effectively ended two people's lives, as even in the absence of the death penalty, I would expect someone to go to jail for life for such a ridiculous over-reaction.
If you were an adult instead of an overgrown teenager, you would realise the absurdity of what you're saying. Your attitude would justify drawing your weapon and shooting anyone who even looked at you funny, on the basis that they might present a danger.
Someone punching me is enough for me to pull my weapon at the very least.
Then you, sir, are a coward.
In places like Florida, Stand Your Ground lets them legally shoot you dead for that.
So shoot him in the face instead of punching him. Whatever the legal rights and wrongs, if half his head's blown off he won't be shooting anyone dead.
You people with your quibbling lawyer-talk seem incapable of seeing the wood for the trees.
Best comment. +5 Informative, funny, and witty.
But sadly -5 Star Wars.
You don't understand: from the slashdot-libertarian's point of view, the very existence of NASA (government) creates a distortion of the pure free market. If it wasn't for socialism, we'd have been on the moon by during the reign of Queen Victoria in a cool steampunk style.
The interstellar space age isn't going to begin for humanity for several centuries at the earliest, barring some sort of breakthrough that allows us to travel between locations faster than light takes to travel between them.
I think we're all generally assuming that something will eventually be discovered, hopefully sooner rather then later.
You can't argue with cold, hard logic like that.
It has been my experience (repeatedly) that if those coders can't Google a set of code online for the specific problem, copy it, and make trivial modifications to get it to apply, they don't know what to do. They can't write code
The only logical conclusion is that for most programming jobs you don't need to know how to write code. I find it hard to believe that companies are employing people who literally can't do their job. The truth is that most programming work is relatively low level nowadays, you certainly don't need to have a PhD in Computer Science to knock together a perfectly adequate program, however imperfect it may be, and however galling this may be to purists.
Unless you are a company whose competitive advantage is that you have brilliant programmers (e.g. Google) it self evidently doesn't make any difference for most jobs if you employ someone who is merely competent.
It's lucky for all the ultra-free-market US libertarians out there that the government is there to safeguard at least some jobs.
The day will come when a citizen of the US can't buy an IT job, especially if he looks like a white American.
Oh please, it's an economic problem, not a racial one. But then if you're a racist, I suppose all problems are racial ones.
Everyone here seems to be a cheerleaer for the mighty free market. Until the point when it's their own jobs that have suddenly become minimum wage fodder.
That people are commenting on firefox 19.
Since this is slashdot, I kind of expected everybody to be on firefox 20+ (Aurora channel) or atleast the Beta channel.
Why? It's a fucking web browser, not a fantastic new game. Not everybody regards updating software as their main pleasure in life.
Glad I'm posting this with Mosaic. No worries about updates breaking my plugins every few weeks.
It's customary to say "Lynx" when you're making a post like that.
It is simple to install one of the many free pdf readers/printers on Windows and print/save to pdf from any program. Most places where I've worked have done this, rather than buy Adobe Acrobat just to convert Word documents into pdf.
IE10 is even faster than those two. I'm not joking. Although not an option if you run UNIX.
Couldn't you run it in Windows in a VM?
Also, we don't care. Many of us software developers make more than $65/hour "on the computer."
But software developers don't generally get paid just for masturbating in front of total strangers over the internet. It's more of a hobby.
If there's one thing more pathetic intellectually than being a racist, sexist or (presumably) homophobe, it's judging someone by what fucking phone they have.
I don't think that studying the link between tobacco and cancer can reasonably be described as a "soft science", unless you say that medicine and biology are too.
I find these questions absolutely fascinating, and I'm quite certain about one thing: histrionics about racism every time someone asks them is not conducive to developing ANY understanding of the forces at play.
The best way to understand history is to forget about race, except as a weird fetish in the early/mid 20th Century.
The Egyptians are related to the Arabs, not the blacks. The Tower of Alexandria is a feat of European engineering, not African engineering.
So in your race-befuddled mind, Egyptians and Arabs are European?
Interesting. In an "I've never seen anyone that stupid before" kind of way.
It's not a place that would birth historically powerful, flourishing civilizations whose large-scale engineering feats would be regarded among the "wonders of the world" millennia later.
No, it's not. Any example?
The Egyptian pyramids, and the lighthouse of Alexandria were both considered to be Wonders of the World, and both are/were located in Africa.
The racists here have already explained that an Egyptian is No True African.
And a mammal's a mammal. A carbon lifeform is a carbon lifeform. Any self-organising structure subject to the rules du jour in Universe A is any self-organising structure in Universe A.
Sure.
As you of course know, the point is that we don't make up different fucking rules for different breeds of dogs. Also, we don't selectively breed human beings, with certain well known historical exceptions that I'm sure you're only too familiar with.