Articles are not used in (current or former) Soviet Russia.
While true, that is irrelevant. We're talking about English usage. A Russian would say (in Russian) "I am going to cinema" but in English we say "I am going to the cinema". Whether it's a Russian cinema or not doesn't matter.
... onion has no nutritional label, so you can't use OCR...
Shake the phone. App measures momentum. Hold onion in same hand as phone. App measures momentum. Determine mass of onion.
Take picture of onion. App determines that onion is onion.
Cut off portion of onion and eat it.
Shake remaining onion plus phone again. Subtract, and log portion of onion eaten.
Profit!
Realise that the consumption of part of an onion can make no discernible difference to your intake of calories, nutrients or whatever for the day so give up and contemplate the futility of dieting by counting numbers.
Better, write a program that runs on beowulf that does something useful, such as predicting the orbits of Pluto's mini-moons, then sell it to NASA; they have deep pockets.
Wouldn't someone with a PhD in astronomy have done this already?
Well, at least finding the thirteen virgins on/. shouldn't be too difficult.
Eek, they could use that image as an anti-terrorist-recruitment poster.
The prospect of spending eternity surrounded by thirteen geeks discussing whether emacs is the best text editor should be enough to put anyone off becoming a suicide bomber.
Webcam shows are nothing new nowadays and the novelty of a person stuffing household items and small animals into every possible orifice wears off after you watch it a couple of times
I charge anywhere from $80 to $250 an hour for my time, and work about 10 hours a month on average outside my full-time job (in an unrelated field to my consulting).
If you can get $250 an hour for your part time work, does that mean you're earning more than that in your full time job?If not, why not?
40 hours a week at $250 an hour is $10,000 a week or half a million a year. I suppose that's possible, but you must be a bit of an outlier.
My kids go to the kindergarten, and they (boys and girls) go to the same bathroom, with no doors. They don't have these kind of problems. The problem is when you grow up and aquire fears.
My kids had to be taught about privacy. It's nothing to do with fear, it's about being civilised and recognising your own and other people's boundaries.
Funny you should mention stalls. I am quite a prude myself and have noticed a shocking trend that more men's bathrooms have no dividers between the urinals. I am made slightly uncomfortable by this, but I imagine that someone growing up in a world with no dividers would just be used to it.
In the UK (and as far as I remember in Europe mostly) stand-up urinals don't have dividers and have never had dividers. You're right, it doesn't bother me, it's something you grow up with.
Furthermore, I don't think bathroom stalls exist to protect privacy. I think they are there because no one wants to look at people shitting. They are not to keep people from getting to see you shit (although it does that too).
The thing is, even if the LAPD did cover up the fact that one of their officers beat up a suspect, it still does not excuse the disproportionate level of violence used by Dorner
Should the police only be able to drive 10mpg cars with a 30 mile range so that they can't abuse their authority?
Just put them on the street, walking. They get to know their little neighborhood, and vice-versa. The only need for cars is for traffic enforcement, and 99% of that is purest bullshit anyway.
How would that work in somewhere like Los Angeles where the only pedestrians are people who have just been thrown out of their vehicles at gunpoint by carjackers?
What do drone "operator(s)" get paid compared to a helicopter pilot?
The great thing about drone operators is that you can outsource the job to China or India. So probably not much.
That is one of the most retarded things on slashdot today, and as always there's fierce competition.
Do you seriously think that the US military would ever outsource their drone operators to China? if you don't see the problem, imagine if I said Russia or Iran instead.
they are cowards afraid of going up against anyone armed without absurdly superior numbers, body armor, and all kinds of other unfair advantages. Evil vicious cowards.
You could say exactly the same thing about anyone in the military. We don't fight wars by engaging in manly one-to-one combat you know.
The evil suspect-beating cops didn't shoot two people in cold blood. His retaliatory actions are far worse than those of the people he says were acting evilly in the first place.
An eye for an eye, remember? Even if you think he is entitled to his own form of extra-judicial action against these cops, it should only go as far as beating them up, not shooting them dead.
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Articles are not used in (current or former) Soviet Russia.
While true, that is irrelevant. We're talking about English usage. A Russian would say (in Russian) "I am going to cinema" but in English we say "I am going to the cinema". Whether it's a Russian cinema or not doesn't matter.
Why not tell us the name of the app?
It's probably something really embarrassing like an Astrology app.
Shake the phone. App measures momentum. Hold onion in same hand as phone. App measures momentum. Determine mass of onion. Take picture of onion. App determines that onion is onion. Cut off portion of onion and eat it. Shake remaining onion plus phone again. Subtract, and log portion of onion eaten. Profit!
Realise that the consumption of part of an onion can make no discernible difference to your intake of calories, nutrients or whatever for the day so give up and contemplate the futility of dieting by counting numbers.
Better, write a program that runs on beowulf that does something useful, such as predicting the orbits of Pluto's mini-moons, then sell it to NASA; they have deep pockets.
Wouldn't someone with a PhD in astronomy have done this already?
Well, at least finding the thirteen virgins on /. shouldn't be too difficult.
Eek, they could use that image as an anti-terrorist-recruitment poster.
The prospect of spending eternity surrounded by thirteen geeks discussing whether emacs is the best text editor should be enough to put anyone off becoming a suicide bomber.
Webcam shows are nothing new nowadays and the novelty of a person stuffing household items and small animals into every possible orifice wears off after you watch it a couple of times
Speak for yourself.
I charge anywhere from $80 to $250 an hour for my time, and work about 10 hours a month on average outside my full-time job (in an unrelated field to my consulting).
If you can get $250 an hour for your part time work, does that mean you're earning more than that in your full time job?If not, why not?
40 hours a week at $250 an hour is $10,000 a week or half a million a year. I suppose that's possible, but you must be a bit of an outlier.
Now I have a few thousand rounds here, and no zombies to kill.
Gosh, who'd have thought?
But there are, for instance, states (29 I believe) where you can be fired for being or appearing to be gay.
That's why sane countries have laws that limit absolute freedom of speech/action so as to avoid discrimination as far as possible.
My kids go to the kindergarten, and they (boys and girls) go to the same bathroom, with no doors. They don't have these kind of problems. The problem is when you grow up and aquire fears.
My kids had to be taught about privacy. It's nothing to do with fear, it's about being civilised and recognising your own and other people's boundaries.
No, I'm Spartacus...
Funny you should mention stalls. I am quite a prude myself and have noticed a shocking trend that more men's bathrooms have no dividers between the urinals. I am made slightly uncomfortable by this, but I imagine that someone growing up in a world with no dividers would just be used to it.
In the UK (and as far as I remember in Europe mostly) stand-up urinals don't have dividers and have never had dividers. You're right, it doesn't bother me, it's something you grow up with.
Furthermore, I don't think bathroom stalls exist to protect privacy. I think they are there because no one wants to look at people shitting. They are not to keep people from getting to see you shit (although it does that too).
Amen to that.
You're not on the Internet? Then how are you reading Slashdot?
Mind meld.
In 30 years i'll either be dead or part of singularity, no one is going to give a shit i was the beer garden last saturday night.
1. Most people don't die at the age of 45, so you should be OK.
2. If the singularity happens, why do you think humans will be allowed to stay around?
I also try and vary my writing style, here I'm literate.
Isn't that sticking your head above the parapet?
Change your name to be the same as that of a famous actor who is the same sex and a similar in age & appearance as you.
Except that everyone will assume you are a wanker or a stalker or both.
It's also important to keep in mind that the murdered cops may have threatened Dorner's life.
They may have done all sorts of things. Unfortunately, the fucknut Dorner has removed their ability to comment on any of them.
The thing is, even if the LAPD did cover up the fact that one of their officers beat up a suspect, it still does not excuse the disproportionate level of violence used by Dorner
Just put them on the street, walking. They get to know their little neighborhood, and vice-versa. The only need for cars is for traffic enforcement, and 99% of that is purest bullshit anyway.
How would that work in somewhere like Los Angeles where the only pedestrians are people who have just been thrown out of their vehicles at gunpoint by carjackers?
A great thing about outsourcing drone operator jobs to China or India is that they have no compunction against firing on American civilians.
Or American military targets, you utter imbecile.
What do drone "operator(s)" get paid compared to a helicopter pilot?
The great thing about drone operators is that you can outsource the job to China or India. So probably not much.
That is one of the most retarded things on slashdot today, and as always there's fierce competition.
Do you seriously think that the US military would ever outsource their drone operators to China? if you don't see the problem, imagine if I said Russia or Iran instead.
You're in danger of spoiling the daily Slashdot Five Minute Hate against the UK CCTV surveillance nightmare.
they are cowards afraid of going up against anyone armed without absurdly superior numbers, body armor, and all kinds of other unfair advantages. Evil vicious cowards.
You could say exactly the same thing about anyone in the military. We don't fight wars by engaging in manly one-to-one combat you know.
Is it evil to seek justice?
The evil suspect-beating cops didn't shoot two people in cold blood. His retaliatory actions are far worse than those of the people he says were acting evilly in the first place.
An eye for an eye, remember? Even if you think he is entitled to his own form of extra-judicial action against these cops, it should only go as far as beating them up, not shooting them dead.
He's not an evil cop- he tried to report an evil cop who kicked a suspect in the face. The rest of the cops, who were also evil, kicked him out.
Even if that's true, it doesn't excuse murdering other people in revenge, and most especially not women and children who aren't even cops.